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SIXTH DIVISION OF PROFITS. CLERICAL, MEDICAL, and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, S 9, Great Bass*ll-street, Bloomsbury, London. SPECIAL NOTICE. _ _ _ All Persons who assure on the Participating Scale before June 30th, 1856, will be entitled to a share of the SIXTH BONUS, witch will be declared in the January following. Proposals should be forwarded to the office before June let next. The Thirty-first Annual Report (just issued) can be obtained of the Society's Agents, or of GEO. H. PINCKARD, Resideat Secretary. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LAY& :Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith: THIS 7 V ENIWG, .110 T A nID JUDGE. lo conclude with HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE 4 dr, Harlequin King Nonsense and the Seven Ages of Man. THEATRE ROYAL. HAYMARKET. 1711ler the Management of Mr. Buckst THIS EVENING, THE EVIL GENIUS. Followed by THE LITTLE TREA.ITRE. After which, LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. After which the New Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled THE RUTTERFLY'S BALL AND THE GRASSHOPPER'S FEAST; or. Harlequin and the Genius of the Spring. ROYAL PR111C634'3 THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Linda the Management of Mr. Cuirass UAL THIS EVENING. KING SletritY THE EIGIETH. Queen Katharine. Mrs. C. Kean; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean. After which, gigr,FATTIN AND THE AT 4.ED AND THE MAGPEE ; or, the Fairy Paradisa and Hanky Panky, the Enchanter. ilarlegnln, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Hague ; Pantaloon, Mr r „no ; and Columhlne, Miss Caroline Adams. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. FLEXIIORE'S BENEFIT. In nonsegnence of the destruction of Covent Garden Theatre, Mr. FLEX WORE her; to inform his pa'ron—the Public—that .is Benefit will take place at the above Theatre on WEDNES DAY, March 1?, and that cards of admission, price is., 25., 35., 45., and 55., may to hal at 66, Hercules-Balldings, Lambeth. TIMATRE ROYAL ADIMPIII. P:oprietor, Mt. E. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. TRES EVENING. BETSY BAKER. To be followed by THAT BLESSED BABT. To conclude with a ACE AND THE BEAN STALK : or, Harlequin and Mother Goose at Home Again. In which Memi. J. Bland, P. Bedford, Madam Celeste, less Wyndham. and Miss E. Arden will ap,enr. ROYAL OLY WPIC THEATRE. Lessee and ManaTer. Mr. Alfrel Wigan. Tnis EVENING. FULL WATERS RUN DEEP. After which will be produced a New aet doubly-moral, though eXcossively old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled rag ONCREF,r the Three Glass In which Messrs. Emery, F. Robson, 11. Cooper, Miss Marston , and Miss Ifaskell will appear, ROYAL SU:ItiEV THEA.TIIE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creewick. THIS EVENING JASPER LANGTON; or. A Duel to the Death. Foßowel by BROTHER 888, To oonclnde w.th PARIS IN 1792. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPLIITREATRX. Lewoo and `soarer. Mr. Wm. Cooke. TIIII zrvilso, (The Last Week before Easter), THE ARAB OF THE DESERT AND HIS FAITHFUL STEED. The hone, whose wonderful performance has been the universal tople of conversation, trainel by :Kr William Cooke. After which, the EQUESTRIAN SCENES In the CIRCLE. Also, the miraculous and incredible ascent of the Elephant from the rim to the stage. T conclude with a screanalng Farce, called MR. AND MR e, WHITE. Boz-oMce open from F.leven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. P:questrien Director. tdr. W. Cooke, tun. EMMA STANLEY'S' BENEFIT. FRIT) Vf Evening next, the 14th instant, Miss Emma Stanley's Benefit. On SkTURDAY. the 15th, a Day Performance (the last of her first brilliant season). The Second Season of t)e fashionable and popular Lyric Entertain ment, THE SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN, will commence on MON DAY, the 24th instant, at SAINT MARTIN'S I'm:L. Long-acre. Stalls Chairs, 35.; Centre seats, 2s. ; Back Seats. Is. No performance during Passion Week, MiS3 E. Stanley being engaged for four nights at Sadler's Wells Theatm. HIGiFI WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. TEM DAY—darn. 37 min. aft. 4—Evening 16 min. aft. 5 TA-MORROW—Morn. 31 min. aft. 5 —Evening 55 min. aft. 5 THE WEA.THER—STN Orval!, MARoa 11. TIIERNOMETER, IN TEM SHADE. 74 -highest eines noon yesterday. 42 -lowest this morning and Oor'..ng the night. 44 -thin dal , at noon. BAROMETER, 3014. WIND, E. to E.S.E.—Frash, with bitter cold, dul weather. r • ~~~~~c LONDON, TUESDAY, AIAIICH 11, 1856. The Counties and Boroughs Police Bill last night received its second reading in the House of Commons, by a large majority. Concessions were made by the Home Secretary, which remove some, although by no means all, of the grave objections to the measure. The changes are in the sth and 6th clauses. In the former, the Right Honour able Gentleman has pledged himself to give up the power of making regulations for the employ ment of the police jointly with the local magis tracy—or, in other words, of engaging them in any transactions that might be considered suitable for the occupation of their spare time. We need not say to how great an extent this privilege might be carried. It would, practically, vest the whole control and management of the local con stabulary in the Crown, and would in a very short time erect the great object of centralisa tion. The straightforward and manly opposi tion of the municipal bodies has, however, prevailed, and, thanks to their strenuous exertions, the obnoxious clause is, or rather will be, so modified as to remove the greater portion of its sting, and render it comparatively innocu ous. The town councils will now be allowed to determine exclusively the extra duties of the police. There will be no divided authority—no power to send down orders which must be obeyed without any reference to the legitimate authorities. We shall not have the police engaged in serving processes, or perhaps acting as deputies to the sheriff-officers--a course which was some time since attempted in one of the eastern counties, and attracted the attention and umnitig,Yated re probation of the Lord Chief-Justice of the Com mon Pleas. The sixth clause originally authorised the Home Secretary to make rules for the pay, clothing, accoutrements, be., of the local c ons t a b ulary. This had also, and we think judiciously, b een objected to. It was not so much its real opera tion, as the appearance that was complained of, inasmuch as it, in a matter apparently trivial, inflicts a heavy blow on the principle of self government, so dear to every English heart. The precedent might easily be extended, and carried to a very formidable point. This has also been waived, and the obuexious clause is to be omitted in committee. The proposal to make the bill ccrnpulsory in counties is also withdrawn, so that much of the vines is removed by the emasculation of the measure. There cau ha little doubt of the end and object with which it was framed. It was to substitute the management of the Home Secretary for that of the magistracy —an introduction of the sharp end of the wedge that would speedily produce extract dinary results. The cautious vigilance of the municipal authorities, however, defeated the chief provisions of this " Trinity-House" bill— tf») introduction, or rather the enlargement, of the Coburg-Germania system that has for som• time past been ai me d at. ~ y lishmel 1, however, have no desire to see the f wise CZ utments of the truly great ALFRED changed. Like tlteir forefathers at Runnymede, they are pre pared to abide by their time-honoured Constitu tion, a cid to resist with all their energies every encroachment. Let the Crown enjoy all its legi timate prerogatives. We do not seek to impair its power or authority, but, and particularly, while the Gernnanic influence is so prevalent, we cannot consent to its undue extension. Evils may possibly ar i s e far worse than those which are to be counter acted. Collisions have taken place—and are still possible----and regarding the people as the undoubted source of legitimate authority, and the prerogatives of the Crown solely exercised for their laenefit, we cannot consent to the enlarge ment of tile former at the expense of the popular rights and privileges. These views may not be suited to German or Muscovite feelings ; but we address ourselves to English auditors—to those who have firmly stood by their franchises, and whose forefathers have freely shed their heart's blood in resisting any approximation to despotism. The approaches may be cautiously and secretly made, but every outwork is worth defending to the last ; and whether the attack be put forward in the shape of a summary conviction or a police bill, in whatever way the interests of centrali sttion are to be promoted, the same jealousy must still be exhibited that rendered our Constitution what it is. The creation of a life Peerage may be a very trifling matter, as well as the prescribing of rules for the pay and accoutrements of the local police, or the power of indicating their extra duties. But they are all movements in the wrong direction, which should be closely watched, and care taken that they should not in any way be constituted into precedents that may impair or disturb the well-established safeguards of the liberties and privileges of the United Kingdom and its inhabitants. From what occurred last night, notwithstanding the large majority, we be lieve that the measure under notice will be so purified as to prevent any considerable danger in the event of its ultimately receiving the legisla tive sanction. It is announced in a little semi-official para graph now going the rounds of the public journals that the miserable pittance of 251. per annnns, recently bestowed upon the late Mr. JOSEPH HAYDN, has actually been continued—these are the literal words of the paragraph—" to his un fortunate widow." Unfortunate, indeed, the poor lady must in truth appear in the eyes of any sane observer possessed of the smallest modicum of sensibility. But unfortunate in a very different sense, we suspect, from that implied by the com miserative phrase of the Treasury penny-a-liner. Unfortunate beyond the common human cala mity indicated by her widow's-weeds. Un fortunate in being the witness of the petty insult offered directly to her (since then departed) husband while lying prostrate upon his death-bed--and now posthumously reiterated in directly ley its renewal to herself as the relict of that poor dead man-of-letters I The insult of a beggarly pension of 251. a-year —a pension al ready analysed in these columns as one securing to its recipient the munificent alms of just ls. and 41d. a day What tends very considerably to enhance the poignancy of this insult, (levelled gratuitously, and, as it appears to us in the instance immediately re ferred to, most wantonly and most cruelly, against the aggregated interests of Literature), is the fact that, at the very time when a pauper-dole of 251. a-year is awarded in the first instance to Mr. JOSEPH HAYDN, and, in the second, to his " unfortunate widow"—as a tribute to scholar ship, mark that ! as a tribute to scholarship--it is mooted as a grievance among military men that the widow of a Brigadier-General recently deceased should become entitled to a ponaion from the State of merely from 2000 to 3001. p r annum, instead of one the champions of her cause are sticklers for, namely, a pension of actually from 4001. to 5001. sterling ! For the relict of a scholar, a beggarly pittance of 251. a-year is deemed something munificent—for the widow of an officer, one of 2501. per annum is considered something deplorably inadequate. Ah, well ! it is not to-day we have to learn how marvellously better Captain SWORD fares among us than his luckless half-brother Captain PEN. The one clad in scarlet and gold—the other occ4• sionally out-at-elbows, sometimes may be even nowadays as in the times when Grub-street had not yet foreshadowed the Row, hid away iu a garret, trembling at the possible advent of a milk score. The contrast is still at intervals some thingdeplorable—that presented, we mean, by the diametrically opposite estimate of the scholar and of the soldier, formed lay our very enlightened rulers and our very civilised Government. " swells" who appear to have as wholesome a horror of mere authors as that enter tained by the aristocratic BYRON against-- Fellows In foolscap uniform turned up with ink." For them, BUCEPHALUS might lie up in clover and fatten through old age into an hoioured grave—PwAsus starving the while ignobly in the parish pound, thence to be carted away in good time to the knacker's yard for cat's-meat. Good old AUSTIN CAXTON, for them, might famish upon a wretched 25/. a year over the growing folios of his " History of Human Error "—Captain Ro- LAND simultaneously twirling his moustache at his club window in Pall-mall, with his plump cob round the corner somewhere at livery, and his keen sword hung up over his easy chair at home, red with rust in an obsolete scabbard. Honour still, say we, to the warrior, whether in life or in death, respect and sympathy and solace still b• the lot of his weeping relict, when the rewards of his long services have come at last in duo season to be his only posthumously. But something better than insult let us accord in GOD'S name to the scholar, and the scholar's widow. Some fitter recompence to the Soldier of Thought than the alms thrown to a beggar in the kennel, than the handful of coppers doled out grudgingly as a Maundy offering to some pitiful type of parochial mendicancy. ANOTHER JOSEPH ADY.—A man named West, about sixty years of age, who described himself as a commer cial al,ent, was brought before Mr. A'Beckett, at the )uthwark Police-court, charged with fraudulently ob taining sums of money from several persons by repre senting himself as an officer of the Cuurt of Chaucer' . Ile was remanded for a week. THE GOLD ROUBERT.—JOIIII Hall, charged with hay. ing received a large quantity of the gold dust st.den in its transit from London to the continent, was placed at the bar of the Niansion-hous e yesterday, and again re manded till Saturday. There is no probability of M. Manteuffel visiting Paris at prevent, as stated by sotto journals. The posi tion of Prussia in regard to the W estern Power: remains as it was. 1 I ATTEMPTED BURGLARY.—Henry li n g penny wax yes. terday charged at Guildhall with hurglariously attempt ing to enter the premises of Messrs. Mar,indale, ware housemen in Aldermaubury. He was remanded. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, March 10:—The two gold medals given annually by his Royal Highness the Chan cellor to the two commencing bachelors of arts who, having obtained senior optitnes at least, show themselves t h e g r e at rgt proficients in classical learning, have been adjudged to E. L. Brown, Trinity College, and T. B. Rowe, St. John's College. MINISTERS' MONEY (IRELAND.--Mr. Fagan and Mr. Beamish have brought in a bill to amend the act 17th and 18th of Victoria, chap. 11, with a view to the total abolition of the taz thereby imposed in lieu of " Nl nibters' !Annoy " in Ireland., -~ ...+~~ ~~irr.~~---~ THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EvENiNa, MARCH. 11, 1856. ness's state since the morning. The improvement continues." " 9th, 7 p.m.—Tbe indications furnished by the stethoscope are favourablo. The improvement con tinues." This morning the following bulletin was issued at the Palais Royal : "10th, 8 a.m.—His Imperial Highness has not passed so good a night as the preceding one, his cough having proved troublesome. There is not, however, any fever." A. decree in the Moniteur confirms the nomina tion to the ranks of Knights of the Legion of Honour of MM. Aubry, Duval, and Teghem, in spectors and director of the telegraph ha the Crimea, which had been provisionally made by Marshal Pelissier. M. Barbarous, Councillor of State, has been named member of the Consultative Committee of the Colonies, in the room of the Marquis de Fleury, appointed to other functions. BOURSE, March 10.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. a. End of Month. 4} per Cents c3 75 —f. —c. 3 per Cents 7l 60 72 ' 10 New Loan 72 10 Bank Shares 3,450 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,550 Austrian Belgian Fives. ..... .. 96i— Spanish Throes — Piedmontese (5) — Home Debt 3E3i LATEST NEWS. MARSEILLES, TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 8.37 A.m. The Euphrate has arrived, with advices from Ccrnstantinople of the 3d, and from the Crimea of the Ist inst. The despatches leave at 9 a.m. The White Works at Sebastopol were blown up on the 28th of February. General Timoieff, Martimprey, Windham, and Colonel Pettiti, met yesterday at Traktir-bridge. The three latter presented conditions for an armistice agreed upon by the Commandera-in.- Chief. General Timoieff transmitted them to General Ludere. The health of the troops is excellent. The bad weather is over. BERLIN, MONDAY EVENING. A rumour is current that M. de Manteuffel is on the point of starting for Paris. The New Prussian Gazette announces, but with out guaranteeing the statement, that Prince Peter of Oldenburg bas been named GoVernor of the Russian provinces of the Baltic. The President of Police, Herr Von Hinckelday, was this morning shot in a duel by Herr Von Rochow, whom he had felt obliged to challenge. COBLENTZ, MARCH 9. The statement that Russian vessels of war have quitted Sweaborg is formally contradicted by a. despatch from St. Petersburg in reply to one from Berlin. HAMBURG, MARCH 9. A commercial crisis has taken place in Norway. It is asserted at our Exchange that in the city of Bergen alone twenty-two commercial houses have stopped payment. MARSEILLES, MARCH 9. The Austrian frigate Radetski had arrived at Constantinople, bringing au Austrian Colonel with propositions relative to the Prineipalities. The Patriarchs have been convoked by the Dewan and ordered to carry the late reforms into immediate execution. The Minister of Finance has made an appeal to the merchants to terminate the present crisis. Omer Pasha is expected at Constantinople, to give an account of his conduct. The Sultan Ills decorated M. Cibrario, the Sardinian Minister, and Admiral Albini, with the order of Medjidie. The Allies continue building hut-barracks on both b tuks of Constantinople. The English are sur veying ground for the formation of a camp in Asia. OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. GRAND MILITARY REVIEW. CAMP, SEBASTOPOL, Feb. 26.—The review of a large portion of the British infantry, which bad been expected for some weeks past, but which had been postponed on account of unfavourable weather, took place on the 24th inst., and offered a magni ficent sight to a vast concourse of French and Sar dinian officers and soldiers, and perhaps among other spectators to not a few Russians. The site chosen for the parade and inspection was the brow of a hill behind the Guards' camp, and must have beenplainly visible from the Mackenzie heights. All the six divisions of the army were represented on the occasion, lout many of the troops of each must have been absent on duty and in camp. Only one brigade of the Bighland Division was present, the other being required to guard the position beyond Kantara, in n conjuncti _ wt h a l ho acai weMLs ac isataklava were not required to attend. Without these however, there cou ld no t h ave b een less than 25,000 men on the ground, all in the most effective condition of health and strength. The Commander of the Forces, Sir Wm. Codrington, arrived about 1 o'clock, with a large staff, and was received by the divisions in line. The troops sub sequent].i marched past in half distance celumu, each division being headed by its general and staff. Each brigade, in like manner, was preceded by its brigadier-general and staff, who, after saluting, wheeled round and fell out to swell the brilliant cor tege which surrounded the Commander of the Forces. The bands of the several regiments forming each brigade were massed together, and played under one leader, while the brigade was marching past. This combination produced a flue and powerful effect, and prevented the confusion of sounds which would have arisen from the band of each succeed ing battalion playing its own march. The ap pearance of the troops as they moved past was as favourable as could well be imagined, and the whole scene was remarkably brilliant and exciting. The vigorous frames, healthy countenances, and elastic tread of the soldiers, could not fail to strike the at tention as the gay uniforms attracted the eyes of the spectators. The officers and men of the French and Sardinian armies who were present evidently looked on with admiration. The Guards brigade, And the Highlanders in their picturesque costume, only the kilted regiment being present, especially attracted notice ; and the Light Division, which marched past with trailed arms as light troops, together with the two battalions of the Ride Brigade, while the rest carried their arms with bayonets fixed, came in for its share of attention. Marshal Pelissier was present in his carriage, and seemed to examine each regiment as it went by with scrutinising closeness. There were also several French general officers on the field ; among others General Eipinasse, who had only arrived a few days before in the Crimea, and a very large body of other officers, both on horseback and foot, who ma nifested great interest in the proceedings. The Sardinian officers attended numerously, though not appearing very conspicuous among the crowd of French and others who formed the lines of spec tators. After the divisions had marched past the first time General Codrington took up a position lower down, and the troops again marched past, in the same order as before, but in quarter dis tance column. General Sir Colin Campell was on the ground. Ti,e weather was, on the whole, very favourable for the review. The atmosphere was clear and dry, and, although the sky was overcast with clouds, the atm broke out from time to time with great bril liancy. The wind came from the north, but was at no time high, and the cold wag agreeably tem pered by the sun's warmth. AUSTRIA. Accounts from Vienna of the 6th, in the Post Ampt Gazette, state :—" The reports sent lately by Count Buol say, we are assured, that it is doubtful if the treaty of peace can be signed this month, but that th• conclusion of peace appears certain. It is stated that it will be impossible to regulate the Bessarabian frontier without despatching a com mission to the spot. In fact, the topographical details at hand are very incomplete, and the pro jected frontier of Chotym to the Lake Sasik is neither marked by a stream of water nor a moun tain chaiß. France, it is said, has already fixed on her commissioner, who will be General Letang— Austria, England, and Russia are on the point of naming theirs. Sardinia will not be represented in this commission." A letter from Vienna, in the Borsen Gazette, says : " It is certain that the ordonnances respecting a new reduction of our army are prepared, but will not yet be made public. The intelligence is con firmed that M. de Fonton will be named ambassa dor at Constantinople, in the event of peace." FRANCE PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The Congress has held the seventh sitting to-day. The Emperor gave an audience yesterday to Mgr. Sacconi, the Papal Nuncio, who delivered to his Majesty a letter from the Pope. Baron Mander strom, the Swedish Minister, also delivered letters from the King and Queen of Sweden. The followiag bulletins have been published in the Aioniteur on the subject of the illness of Prince Jerome : "Orb, 8 a.m.—His Imperial Highness has passed a good night, and his state is satisfactory." " 9th, noon.—No change in his Imperial High• ' RAILWAYS-MI CASII. fr. C. Orleans ... 1,275 Western 875 Northern Lyons ...... 1,243 75 New Ditto Bl7 50 Mediterranean 1,450 Grand Central 650 Lyons Geneva 755 Teste Cette RUSSIA. "We persist," says Le Nord, "in believing that the negotiations are nearly at an end ; France and Russia sincerely desire peace ; Turkey and Pied mont are not opposed to it ; the subtleties of Austria and the obstinacy of England may somewhat re tard, but will not prevent it." We read in the Gazette de Silesie—" It will be remembered that the noblesse of Silesia lately pre sented an address to the Emperor Alexander 11., thanking him for the readiness he had manifested to effect a peace. Each of the signers of this docu ment has received a copy of the following letter : "I thank you, gentlemen, for the sentiments and kind wishes that you express to me in your address, not only in your own name, but in that of all Prussians in whose hearts the Christian and pacific spirit of their Royal Master is dear and sacred. I, too, desire the speedy restoration and the pe-mlnent assurance of peace, and trust that the God of Grace will hear the prayers that I and others who think and feel with ree put up to Him. I beg all of you, gentlemen, whose honoured names I have with sincere pleasure read at the foot of the address, to receive the assurance of my special esteem. "ALEXANDER. " St. Petersburg, Feb. 4,185 g." A Government journal contains an invitation to contractors to bid for the carriage of several mil lions of poods (1 pood equals 401b5.) of copper, iron, lead, tin, and other raw produce, from the Siberian mines on the Don, the Wolga, and the Dnieper to Nicolaieff, " for the use of the superin tendent of the Black Sea fleet." The preparations making everywhere for a fresh campaign are car ried on with a degree of energy and spirit hitherto unknown in Russia. Our readers will doubtless not hare forgotten a very remarkable letter of admonition, issued by the Grand Duke Constantine, as High Admiral, to the various officials connected with the administration of the Marine, in which the necessity of sincerity and a love of truth in their connections with the Go vernment were inculcated. Some further particulars will doubtless be interesting. The letter is addressed to Vice-Admiral von Wrangel, and is dated Nov. 25 (Dec. 7), 1855. After alluding to the circum stances of difficulty in which Russia found herself at the time, and pointing out the causes that had led to them, the Grand Duke proceeds : " The immense variety of forms with us paralyses the elasticity of administrative action, and serves as a cloak of impunity for the official lie so common with us. Cast a glance at the annual reports and accounts, and you will find that every where the greatest possible amount of work has been executed, in every direction progress has been made, everywhere have the prescribed works advanced, if not with excessive haste, yet at least in due relation to the exigencies of the case. " But when you come to look closer at the actual state of things, to examine into them, to divest them of all false colouring, to separate what really is from what only appears to be, to distinguish the true from the false, or the only half true, and there will seldom any positive and beneficial result be left. On the surface speciousness ; beneath it, corruption. Among the products of our official phrageology the truth finds no place ; it is concealed and stifled under the diction, and where is the official reader that knows how to ex tract it! " I beg your Excellenei to communicate these truth ful words to all the bureaux and all the employes of the Ministry of Marine, from whom we have to expect at the beginning of the new year their annual reports of what has taken place in the past, and re peat to them that in the aforesaid reports I do not I.lnlr u.O zn e truth, and above all, a frank statement that goes to the pith of the matter, both as regards what may be inadequate in any branch of the administration, and of the errors that may have been committed in it. Tell them further, that all the reports in which I shall have to read between the lines I shall most certainly return. I request your excellency to communicate copies of this letter to all the bureaux and afore-mentioned employes. " CONSTANTIN, High Admiral.,, THE BALTIC. A private letter from Kiel, of the 6th inst., sys:— "It was generally believed here that the English ships of war which lately arrived would remain some time in our port. To the great di-appointment of our provision vendors, who, for the last two years, have derived con siderable profits franc that trade, Commodore Watson gave orders to-day to weigh anchor to all the ships of his squadron in consequence of directions received in the morning from the Admiralty. Those ships were for some days ready to put to sea, having all taken in a fresh supply of coal. We have also heard that the com manders of the other ships, stationed at Elsinore, bad likewise received sailing orders, and that the entire squa'lro i is to rendezvous on some central point the Baltic, to resume the blockade of the Russian harbours, interrupted on the approach of winter. Ac cording to my information, the squadron of Conunodore Wat-ion is to take up its station, pi.° temp,orc, at the island of Bornholm." We read in the Independanee Beige, under date Hamburg, 7th inst.:— "Our navigators are of opinion that the English ships of war which left Kiel yesterday, for the Baltic, may, without any serious obstacle, advance as far as the Swedish island of Gotliland, and wait the breaking up of the ice at Wisby. The English possess on that small island large depots of cDal, and the merchants of Wisby, who rendered the allies so many services during the two last campaigns, will not allow the squadron of Commodore Watson to want for provisions. This en trance for the third time of the English fleet into the Baltic, with the avowed intention of blockading the Russian ports, alarms our merchants, who anticipate the suspension of their commercial relations in that sea. Those apprehensions are also very general in the Meck lenburg harbours, and i❑ the city of Lubeck, which are situate nearer the Russian territory." PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin of the 6th says :—" Prince Federick William, only son of the Prince of Prussia, and heir presumptive to the crown, will pay a new visit to England in May next, and it will be of some duration. It is thought that the projects of alliance between our royal family and that of Eng land, which wero formed'a lops time ago, will be realised on this occasion." DENMARK: A letter from Copenhagen of the 3d says " Every one will remember the motive which led the Government to dismiss Pritce Ferdinand, the uncle of the King and the heir-presumptive to the Crown, from the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Danish troops. That motive was the refusal of the Prince to affix his signature and to take the oath to the general constitution of all parts of the monarchy. Article sof that constitution imposes on the Sovereign, before he ascends the throne, the obligation of taking an oath to maintain and to faithfully execute the fundamental law, of the king dom. The Prince Royal founded his refusal on the constitutive laws of our ancient monarchy ; and the Ministry, on its side, insisted on the dismissal of th e Prince, to whi c h th e King was compelled to consent. This was at first followed by a misunderstanding be tween the King and his uncle, but at the time of the visit of General Canrobert, the two august re latives were reconciled ; and now, thanks to the intervention of the King, a recent decision of the Government has led to a definitive understanding between his privy councillors hnd his uncle, Prince Ferdinand. It is in consequence of the King's exertions that the decision has bean come to to re lease the Prince Royal front the oath in question." SPAIN. MADRID, March B.—The Grand Central Com pany has to-day obtained the concession of the railway from Madrid to Saragossa, with a grant from the Government of 55,000 f. per kilometre (five-eighths of a mile.) The same company, con jointly with the house of Rothschild, has purchased from M. de Salamanca the railway from Alicant to Madrid. These two railways will form one line from the south to the north of Spain. The Go vernment has presented fresh customs tariffs, which are favourable to Catalonian manufactures. CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY.—Monday March 10.—Admissions on payment, 942 ; ditto by sea• lOU tickets, 2f2. Total Tisitors, 1,44. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. The Royal Mail - steam-ship Canada, Captain W. J. C. Lang, has arrived. Her mail bags were landed this evening at nine o'clock, an d t h e vesse l herself is expected at midnight. She left Boston on the 27th ult. and Halifax on th e 29 t h, w i t h the usual mails ?rem British North America. (She has been detained some hours at the Bar for want of water.) Besides the mails, she has brought 45 pa• , sen&,Yers, but no specie. The Royal Mail steamship America, from hence on the 16th of Feb., was passed going into Halifax on the 29th ; at one p.m., on the 9th inst., passed the Persia 37 west of Frastnel Light. The steam-ships Arctic and Alabama have re turned, after cruising in search of the Pacific, bringing no tidings of her. They could not proceed northward of Cape Race, owing to immense fields of ice. The Atlantic and Asia arrived at New York on Feb. 21. In the United States Senate, on the 25th of Feb., Mr. Mason, chairman of the committee on foreign affairs, offered a resolution, which was adopted, calling for all correspondence that had passed re• specting the E❑glish Government enlistment diffi culty. At the National Presidential. Convention held at Philadelphia, only two names, those of George Law and Millard Fillmore, are yet announced. The 124th anniversary of Washington's birthday was celebrated with great eclat at New York on the 22d Feb. California advices to Feb. 25, per Daniel Web ster, at Now Orleans, reports half a million dollars en route. There is no important news. Havanna dates to Feb. 17 contain nothing BOW. Accounts from Gonaves, Hayti; state that Soulouque had dis banded his army, azld that an invasion of Dominica was abandoned. Accounts from Mexico state that the revolt of Haro y Tamirez would prove a failure. The new tariff went into operation Jan. 1. Money at New York was exceedingly abundant. Its value on call was 6to 7 per cent. There was a good demand for first-class paper, which was scarce. The stock market was irregular under the influence of the Asia's news, with tendency downwards. The cotton market was unsettled on account of the foreign advices. Breadstuffs were dull, and the demand chiefly for home consumption, and prices rather lower. There was a fair demand for provisions. Freights to England were tolerably active at steady rates. Exzhange on London unchanged, 1081 to 1091 ; Paris, 5.221. The United States steamer Washington arrived at Cowes on her way to Bremen yesterday. She left New York on the 23d ult. According to the New York Herald emigration to Nicaragua has become a passion with young Americans of family and position. The Senate had ordered the printing of 10,000 maps of Central America, 'copies of those prepared by the Coast Survey, all the maps of that - regiOti - ilow in use being of British origin. In Kansas a pro-slavery movement is afoot to procure southern emigrants to aid in combating abolitionists. The Herald of Freedom, published at Lawrence, gives an account of the preparations making there for the civil war expected on or about March 4. It says " Generals Robinson and Lane have adopted pre-nu tionary measures, and organised a regiment, and pla , ed the several forts in charge of suitable persons, and these are being guarded night and day to prevent a surpri , e. In the meantime munitions of war are being collected, and will be held in readiness for instant service. We understand that an attack is also expected at Topeka, and that our friends there are also preparing for defence. The friends of freedom in the East may be prepared at any time to hear of the blow being struck. When the war shall be opened again in Kansas it will be under different auspices than on former occasions ; it will be a struggle in earnest, and we appeal to our friends in the North and East to hold themselves in readiness to march at a moment's notica to our rescue. They may rest assured that the people of Kansas will stand upon the right, and that they will die before they will surren• der." LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, March 11.—Wind this day at noon, N.E. ; fresh breeze and cloudy. FALMOUTH, March 10.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Duarto, from Oporto. Sailed—Theodere Diil, for Antwerp. LIVERPOOL, March 10.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived.— Pontida, from Par.ibri. Sailed—Fidget, for Gibraltar ; Blackburn, Calcutta ; Ilenriette and Rebecca, St. Thomas ; Ces'ne, Cuba; Three Sisters, Marseilles. _ _ _ CLYDE, .March lA—Arrived—Horatio, from Matanzas ; Alan Ker, New Orleans; _Swift, St. Michael's. Sailed— Three Bells, for Melbourne ; Priam, Batavia and Singa pore; Isabella K.r, Demerara; Marmion, Trinidad ; Corra Linn, New York. SHIELDS, March 10.—Wind N. Arrived. Emilie, from Drontheim. Sailed—Cairo and Lidskolf, for Con stantinople; Richard Reynolds, Carthagena; Edward Bilton, Bareelona.• Shakso r are, St. Domingo ! Tr, Ault,., relissier, Messina ; Lindisfarne, Constantin,iple ; Liba, Malta ; Penelope and 'Wilberforce, Carthagena. LOWESTOFT, March 10.—Wind N.N. W.—Arrived— Admiral Napier, from London, for Thurso, with loss of jib-boom, &c., and anchor and chain, having been in con tact with the Gratitude, of Whitby. PORTSMOUTH, March lo.—Wind W. to N.—Arrive,l— from Waterford ; Helvoetian Pisco, Cowes ; rial (s. tpt.), Deptford. Sailed—Harlingen (s. tpt,), for Southampton. LYCEUM THEATRE. MR ELECTRIC TELECIR_APH.I SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning. Arrived.—Wonder, steamer, from Jersey; LA Rule, Cherbourg; Elizabath, Cardiff. Sailed.—Despatch, steamer, for Jersey ; Express, steamer, Havre. LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning. Wind S. Arrived.—Stetson, from New Orleans ; Perseverance, Charleston. Sailed.—Conquest, for Halifax. QUEENSTOWN, March 9. Arrived.—Normas Morrison, from Manilla; Bella Par tena, Mazagan ; Maria, Christiansand. BY HuItiIARINE 4.Nlts AttITESH I'ELEGRAPTI.I GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 10.5 a.m. Wind E. ; tide, six hours' Lbb, cloudy. Arrived, March 11.—Geo. Sverden, from Bergen ; Os prey and Waterwiteh, St. Michael's ; Pear and Urania, Antwerp ; Jantiva, Groningen ; Ileleue, Greetsiel. DEAL, Tuesday, 10 a.m. Wind E.S.E., moderate. Anchored.—Archer, from Calcutta, f,r London -107 day passage,_ i'L;sed.- -- --Merse, from China, for London ; Mclancthen, from Newcastle, for A leo ; Vic3-Admiral Lucas, from London, for Constantinople. DEATH BY A CrICKET BILL.—Oa Saturday Henry Simpson, aged nine years, , on of Mr. Joseph Sampson, inf=pector of ways, was on Parker'sliieue, looking on at a game at cricket, when he was struck on the right ear by a ball from the tat of Mr. Hernington, of Pembroke College, with such force as to produce insensibility. He was conveyed home, and every care bestowed upon him, but he diet on Tuesday !nor-ling. A jury has since re turned a verdict of accidental death.—Cambridge Inde• pendent. - SOUTH AUSTRALIS.—Our papers by this mail are to the 20th of Nov. The Council was still in session. The chief topic of interest in their proceedings was an at tempt to raise the salary of the Governor from 2,0001. per annum to 4,0001., with 1,500/. for contingencies, but the house refused to go into committee thereon. A com mittee has been appointed, at a public meeting, to watch over the progress of the New Constitution Bill. The electric telegraph, between the port and the city of Adelaide, was in course of erection, and a prospectus of a railway from Adelaide to Glenelg has been published. The new arrangement for the collection of the cu , toms duties on the Murray came into operation on the let of Nov., and had given general satisfaction. A Select Committee of the Council has been appointed to inquire into the expediency of appointing an agent in England in place of Mr. Barnard, the Ageet-General—some members of the Council being of opinion that such sup plies as the Government might, from time to time, re quire, could be best procured by tenders in the c)lony. The prospects of the forthcoming harvest were abun dant, bat breadstuffs ruled high.—o-Australian. and New Zealand Gazette. THE BURNOPFIELD MURDER.—SINGULAR DREAM.— In reference to this case, we have to place on record_ a circumstance 'of a very remarkable and even affecting nature, which, however it may be accounted for or dis believed, is nevertheless perfectly true. Mr. Stirling's parents, who, it will be remembered, reside near Dum barton, on the Clyde, having been in Durham. during the assizes, attending the court for the purpose of hearing the trial of the alleged murderers of their son, and the statement which we subjoin is from Mr. Stirling himself. On the night of the let of November, the day on which the murder was committed, Mrs. Stirling hart a remark able, and what she termed a fearful dream. She dreamt that some persons were about the house intending to break into it. In a short time a man, with a dark ccm plexion and dark dress looked in upon her at the win dow, presented a gun, and discharged it at her. At this • juncture, she awoke in great alarm and trepidation; and since then, the dream—most strongly impreeseil upon her mind, by the fact of her son's murder, intelligence of which would not reach her until 6 or 7 days later than the dream—has ever been vivid in her recollection. Mrs. Stirling accompanied her husband to Durham, for the purpose, as we have said, of being present at the trial. She expressed a great desire to see the two men accused of the murder ; and, for that purpose, visited the prison en Wednesday. Several men were walking in the yard at the time, including Cein Rayne, a turnkey, a n d t h ree or four others. Immediately on perceiving Rayne, with out being told the names of any of the men, she recog nised in hire the features of the roan whom she saw in her dream fire throueli the window at her, pointed him out, and burst into tears. Mrs. Stirling still expresses her positive conviction with respect to Rayne. The cir cumstances we have mentioned may appear strange, but, we may repeat, they are perfectly correct. They brine vividly to mind the Red Barn murder, in which Corder, the murderer, was brought to justice through a remarkable dream of the mother of the murdered young woman. In the present case the dream is no lets re reerkable, though it cannot 113,70 a similar effect • • MR. E. P. HINGSTON'S BENEFIT. This evening there will he something worth witnessing at the Lyceum. Mr. E. P. Hingston, the popular and respected secretary to Professor Anderson, and la-t treasurer of Covent garden Theatre, also the author of the celebrated Green Bonnet bill, which attracted so much attention at the time, takes his benefit. The well-known courtesy of the excellent beneflciaire ought to insure a bumper. But to make assurance doubly sure, he has put for ward a truly attractive bill of fare. After the celebrated judgment scene from the "Merchant of Venice," in which he will have the valuable aid of Mr. Stuart arid Mrs. Stammers. Mr. Leigh Murray will appear in " His First Champagne." The next attraction will be a grand vocal and instru mental concert, by Madame Caradori, Miss Lucy Escott, Miss Emma Stanley, Madame Marietta, Mr. Henry Haigh, Herr Jonglnans, and many other justly cele brated artistes. "Monsieur Jacques," with Benjamin Barnett as the hero. "Box and Cox"—Box being re presented by Mr. Hingstan, and his co-lodger by a r - nowned, although anonymous, performer. "L'Atelier de Canova," in which Harry Boleno will give his cele brated imitations. S gnor Silvani, and the inimitable. F exmore, and Marine. Aurio! in the "Ballet of Beauty." It would be difficult to find a better selection of enter tainments. Mr. Hingston has afforded additional evi dence of the tact and judgment for which he is so pre eminently distinguished. We earnestly commend the performance to the notice of all who have an evening and a few shillings to spare. We venture to predict that they will not regret the outlay. MR. FLEX SORE'S BENEFIT. To-morrow evening the inimitable Flexmore, the Prince of Clowns, takes his benefit at this convenient theatre. 'We need scarcely say that he offers an admir able selection to his kind friends and patrons who have so often and so liberally responded to his call. The lovers of the Terpsichorean art will have a rich treat pro vided for their delectation in the Spanish Dancers, and the comic scenes of the G,.and Pantomime of (unfortu nately) the late Covent-garden Theatre, La Petite Leon, who :astounded the juveniles at tho morning per formances, will again be produced frem`the inexhaustible pocket. There will also be an admirable concert The Great Wizard has kindly volunteered his ser vices, and .will appear as William, in " Black Eyed Susan," the heroine being enacted by Miss Murray, With all these attractions, and Mr. Leigh Murray in his " First Champagne," the most inordinate craving for gratification will be satisfied. To all who wish for full value for their time and money, such as they cannot easily obtain, we earnestly commend the programme of the genuine clown, on whom the mantle of Grimaldi has descanded with double power. The recent destruc tion of Covent-garden will add to the interest that must be felt in all who have been au fferers by that deplorable and almost national calamity. THE APPROACHING IMPERIAL BIRTH. 'We read in a French vnedical journal, the Gazette Hebdomadaii•e de Medecine et de Chirurgie : " Public curiosity is alive to know if the Empress will or will not be subjected to the action of chloroform during her accoucheinent. We believe no decision has yet been taken upon this delicate matter, and that ail will depend upon the circumstances of the delivery. We wish we could answer another question of far more importance—will the Empress give birth to a son or a daughter ? We declare ourselves unable to give an opinion on a subject up in which no serious scientific fact can be invoked. Beti may he laid upon it, but reasonable conjectures are impossible. We are nut aware, however, that many people be lieve themselves much bitter informed than we upo❑ this point, and that the pretence of foretelling the sex of an infant is often set, up in circles where medical studies are unkelown. It is doubtless because we are situated i❑ different circumstances that we speak with more reserve. If, however, we were compelled to offer an opinion, we should say very modestly that the chances at least are equal, and that if a very slight dif ference exists, it is in favour of the birth of a son, since, as regards numbers, snore boys are born into the world than girls. In a few days the question will be decided by Providence. Let us patiently await that sovereig❑ decision." It is expected that an official intimation of the birth of an heir to the throne of France being received by the British Cet,ivernment a general royal salute will be ordered to be fired by the fleet (with BSipl dressed and yards manned) at Portsmou h and elsewhere. We nreleretaad that the Surrey Gardens Company has obtained her Majesty's patronage, and the cool any has, consequently, been registered as " The Royal Surrey Gardens Company ;" the contractors for the music hall are Messrs. Scctt and Cornwall, and Mr. Forrest, many years landscape gardener to the late ..e canu rrom where design the magnificent couservatory at Sion House was erected), is superintending the garden improvements. The eaten sive buildings and alterations are progressing rapidly, and the committee are certain of being able to avail themselves of the coining season. Fox CLUB.—The second meeting of the Fox Club this season took place on Saturday evening, at Brooks's. Present—The Marquis Tow nshend, Mr. J. H. Langston, M.P., Mr. John Cotes, Mr. E. A. Sanford, the Earl' of Go. ford, Col. R. A. Shaft() Adair, M.P., the Hon. Ha milton H. Duncan, Mr. Frederick Dundas, M.P., Lord Sudeley, Mr. H. F. Stepliensoe, Viscount Milton, M.P., the Right Hon. Lord Marcus Hill, M.P., the Right Hon. J. W. Fitzpatrick, Col. Sir Henty Ferguson Davie Bart., M.P., the Hon. Charles Cleme n t s , L or d S a y e and Sele, the Hon. George Brig, M.P., Viscount Ebrirgton, M.P., Cot Lonadale Boldere, Sir G. R. Philips, Bart., Field-Marshal the Earl of Strafford, the Hon. T. C. H. Tracy, Lord Charles Fox Russell, M.P., Col, Robert Ferguson, M.P., and Mr. Edward Ellice, jun., M.P. THE PACIFIC--THE CANADA.—LIVERPOOL, March 10. —The greatest anxiety continut s to pervade all ranks in reference to the fate of the United States mail steam ship Pacific ; and as soon as the Canada, British and North American royal mail steam-ship, was telegraphed by the semaphore as off the port, Mr. Court, the secre tary to the Underwriters' Association, causes a commu nication to be made—" Can the Canada tell whether the Pacific has arrived out 1" This plain-enough ques tion was seemingly not understood by those on board tae Canada, and to the mortification of Mr. Court, he received for answer, " Off Point Lynes, at 3 o'clock ;" evidently meaning the Canada herself. THE MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, March 10. The Reyat Mail steam-ship Avon, Capt. Hevett, sailed this afternoon for Lisbon, '-Madeira, Ttneriffe, St. Vincent, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Monte Video, and Buenos Ayres, taking out 74 paseengerse among whom are the Hon. R. Marsham and M. Le Baron de Meat zinger ; 77,640/. specie, 4,2321. jewellery, and a lull general cargo. The Plata, Capt. Weller, with the next West India ar.d Pacific mails, is expected about the 15th inst. The Magdalena, Capt. Abbott, is preparing to convey the outward West India and Pacific mails on Monday next. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Madrid, Capt. Bradshaw. with the mails from Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, is expected about the 14th Met. The outward Peninsular mails of the 17th inst. will be conveyed by the Sultan, Capt. Cook. The United States' mail steam-ship Fulton, Capt. Wotton, will leave on Wednesday, the 12th inst., with the French and English mails, passengers, and cargo, for New York. GENERAL SCREW STEAM COMPANY.—Thin company have intimated to their shareholders that the Board of Trade are prepared to recommend the grant of the sup. plemental charter requisite to authorise the proposed turn of 3/, per share of the capital, upon condition of an audit being previously taken, and that immediately upon the completion of this audit the repayment will be effected. A circular has been issued by the manager of the General Screw Company to the shareholders of that undertaking, stating that while the company consider themselves by their present policy precluded from en tering into new engagements, such as would be involved in tends ring for the contract now invited for an Au. , .- tralian mail service, several members of the hoard have determined to make an offer for it. They consider that they have ascertained the best route, and that the voyage to and from Australia direct, without touching at any intermediate port, may he made in a shorter time than has ever yet been accomplished by any line. sleruld the contract he obtai ne d, it wi ll b e proposed to raise a capital of 500,000/. EXCURSIoN TICKETS. —On Saturday in the Southwark County Court, au action was brought against the South western Railway Company by Mr. Mogg, a gentleman residing in Albion-street, Hyde-park, to recover the sum of 51. under the following circumstances :—The plaintiff stated that, on the 15th of August lae, he took a firet class ticket at the Waterloo Station by the Southampton Railway throughout to Paris, vitf Southampton and Havre, for which lee paid the advertised price (281.), his intention being to witness the reception by the Emperor of the Queen of England. When the train arrived at Southampton thorn was no conveyance provided by the company to take him to the steam-boat, and he was obliged to pay for the omnibus himself. When ho got on board the vessel, be found it so crowded that there was no bed for him, and though the steward offered bins a mattress on the floor, he could not lie in such a place, and went on deck, where he stayed all night in one of the boats. This gave him a severe illness, and compel led him, when arriving at Havre, to stay two days at the hotel there before he could proceed to Paris. On the French side of the water he was also obliged to pay for the conveyance of himself and luggage to the railway station. For these various diebureemente, want of ac commodation, trouble and annoyance he had been put to, he brought the action to recover 51., which he was justly entitled to ; his hotel expenses at Havre amounted to 11. His Honour said that the case was one of vast importance to the public. He thought the railway company were bound to take the passengers throughout to Paris, ac cording to their contract, and there should be no outlay on the pert of the passengers for travelling expenses be yond the 2S s. Whether every passenger was entitled to a bed he could not say, but certainly every one was en• titled to proper shelter ; and, under alt the circum stances, he should give a verdict for the plaintiff for the whole amount claimed, WARWICK RACES.—(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) TWO-YEAR OLD STAKES. Apathy ... Nine ran, 501. HANDICAP PLATE. Sir R. Trenchard •• •• Redstone R.)ving Betsy Six ran. Sir Rowiand Trenchard objected to. There is a complete stagnation in trade in Braila and Galatz. The captains of the vessels have offered to re• duce their prices to 154. per quarter for English por% and 13g. 6d. for continental places, but the dealers are resolved to hold back their corn for a time. The depth of water on the bar of the lulina is now 10i E n glish feet. A letter from St. Petersburg of the 29th Februori , in the National Gazette of Berlin, say's :—" The Russian embassy at Teheran has done nothing to withdraw Persia from her neutrality towards Turkey. But it boo received orders to see that Persia does not suffer froel the attempts of Dost Mahomed." A letter from Copenhagen, in the Hamburg Correspos• dent, states :—"The Supreme Council has decided to day on the establishment of a journal to give short-MA d reports of the proceedings, and the admission of the puu • lic to the sitting. The speeches will be reported i n the language in which they are delivered." PRUSSIA AND RUSSIA.—The Bourse Gazette of Berii l3 ' o the 29th ult., says :—"An important proposition bas just been presented to the Chamber of Di puties, 0 034 ; rating from M. Gruner a n d t hi r t y other members, o°' .s to the following effect :—' The Chamber of Deputies expresses to the Government its hope that it will 0 1 every effort lo have proper a'tention paid to the legit'• mate complaints which have been raised for mantyea L t i past, particularly in the eastern p rov i nces, aga i ns t the charges resulting from the Russian prohibitive systems and from the closing of the Russian frontiers, and t / bring aliout a state of things better suited to the ne o e B ' sities of the commerce of the two countries.' According to the Caucasus, all the Turkish pi ;Liners, consisting of 14 superior officers and 800 privates, left Tiflis on Feb. 4. under the escort of Sub-Lieut. Chow ftzki, with a detachment of the Tanga. Regiment of Try fantry : their route was taken for NoveeTscherkaok - Gen. Williams bad at that date recovered from his ill' ness, and was preparing to set out for Russia. MILITARY SAYINGS' BANKS.—An account pubiSh .a yesterday shows that the total amount of the fund f( 31 : Military Savings' Banks, up to the date of this sccoil o b (Feb. 28), irre.nective of dividends received after the B t h of January, 1855, is 172,1471. The amount of 50°3_4 withdrawn by deposit"rs during the year 1853 syn 83,4621., against 72,8401. received, plus 5,398/. interest, and plus 146,2871., the amount of balance due by the public at the end of March, 1853, which was 146,2 87 e, The amount of bal an c e d uo y thepublic on the 31st °' March. 1854, amounted to 148,0591., the number of de pceitors then being 10,314. ASSAULTS ON WOMEN AND CHILDREN.--A re turn of convictions and sentences in 1854 and 1855, under the act 16th and 17th of Victoria, chap. 30, for the better prevention and punishment of aggravated assaults 00 women and children, has been published by order O f the House of Commons, on the motion of Mr. Dillevyn, M.P. It appears that at Bow -street 41 ruffians were convicted of such cowardly outrages, all of whom (gnu s one) were committed to prison for periods varying froen three weeks to six months ; th e exce pti ona l one was fined 151. At Clerken well Police-office there were 134 convi°' • tions ; at Greenwich and Woolwich, 66 ; at Hammer' smith, 45 ; at Lambeth, 30 ; at Marlborough-street, 7 0 ; at Marylebone-office, 40 ; at South wark, 49 ; at th e Thames Police-court, 118 ; a t W es t m i nster, 48 ; an d sw , Worship-street, 209. These convictions took place 1854 and 1855. Toe o ff ences are not p rec i se ly d e fined , except at Hammersmith, where 27 persons were On' victed of assaulting their wives, 1 person of assaulting his sister, 3 of assaulting children, and 14 of assaulting strangers. " JENKINS " IN THE UNITED STATES.—The formal r e : port of a recent ball in New York contains the following passages of fashionable fudge fr om th e pen o f some Ant' ricandisciple of Jenkins In one corner of the ream sat the lovely and accomplished Miss D., who a ttracted, the attention of all beholders, and won th e h e arts °I many of the brave men around her. Mrs. G. had mail admirers. Her conversation was charmi ng , an d it nee de d an introduction alone to become he r wors hipp e r. T h e youthful and coquettish Miss W., dressed in the WI expensive manner, exceeded in brilliancy the diamonds which were clustered around her lovely neck. A ring of admirers listened eagerly to ev er y wor d which 10 1 l from the lips of one of Eve'e most charming daughter s ' Then there was the admirable Mrs. S., w h o occu pied a very prominent position in the beau monde several year s ago, and still, retaining many of her personal as well sg mental attractions, formed a very agreeable ac quaint" ance for gentlemen not over fond of the Terpsichorea n art. Miss M. promenaded the room with all the grace and elegance of a countess, and would, had it not bees for her betrothal to the talented Mr. W., h ave had a host of ardent suitors. How unfortunate it is to be en" I gaged when seeking for pleasure in a ball-room I The belle of the evening, however, was the charming Mi ss , T., before whom all bowed in homage. Lucky was till" Many sreeeeeoeseseei Inviting Miss T. to dance. Many were they who craved the favour, but few were rewarded. If this lady is not the cause of a serious duel before the end of the next week we are much UM' taken, for the favoured few she permitted to attend her were the envy of all the beaux in the room. Miss was dressed in the most costly style." After this, surelf the English Jenkins must bide his head. BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES IN SCOTLAND..." . The first annual report of the Registrar-General of births , deaths, and marriages iu Scotland was published yester day. It comprises a few pages of statistical tables, whence it is ascertained that the population of Scotland amounted in 1851 to 2,888,742 ; the total number ef births registered in the year 1856 amounted to 93,498-- viz , 47,872 births of males, and 45,626 of female s : The marriages amounted in number to ]9,639, of which the larger number were sclernnised in June (2.8 11 )' November (2,003), and December (2,979). In July the number was only 1,814 ; in August, 1,260 ; in Septerne her, 1,112 ; in March, 1,118 ; and in May (the prover bially unlucky month for marrying), only 1,048. T h e : total number of death s i n 1855 was 62,154—viz., 3 0 , 70 e of males, and 31,395 of females, so that Scotland la st year acquired a net increase of population amounting to 31,344. The largest number of deaths occurred in t he month of February (generally the most unhealthy 00 : . in the year), when th ey amounted to 7,227, agnilli 5,977 in January, 6,481 i n M arc h , a b out 5,300 in April and May, 4,627 in June, 4,480 i n J u l y, 4,461 in Augu st ' 4,047 in September. 4,388 in October, 4,378 in Novenl" ber, and 5.403 in December. THE CATASTROPHE AT COVENT -GARDEN.—A. theatrical masquerade is a saturnalia of all the fast and the loose people about town. It is an assemblage of all the scamps, the blackguards, and the harlots who can beg , borrow, or steal the admission money. We will not sal that a man of a better sort may not be found among them, because we all know curiosity will draw some people anywhere and everywhere ; but we mean to ell that no worthless subject of either sex will willingly be absent from a public masquerade. It is the revelry, or we shonid rather say devilry, in which they above all bad things delight. And had the accident at Covent' garden happened two hours earlier, when the house was full, London would now be bereft of all the flower of its profligacy and harlotry, every family d ep l or i ng t h e l in' timely loss of its scamp, fond mothers weeping for their precious scapegraces, the detective police suddenly 1 1 ' duced to a sinecure, its occupation gone. A little ear lier and Tartarus would have been anticipated. As it was, 200 of this worshipful company were, as the phrase goes for such occasions, "keeping it up" at five o'clock, when Mr. Anderson perceiving the gaiety to flag (whic h ; being interpreted, signifies that the drunkenness cal et' dead was predominating over riot), gave the signal for the finale of "God save the Queen," for the strange compliment is paid to her Majesty of considering the loyal anthem the appropriate termination of o rgies al revolting to good taste as to all sobriety and modesty. I While the fuddled or drunken creatures were listening to the sounds preluding their return to their dens and stews, down came the fire, raining upon them as if front Heaven, and a rout like that of Coning' crew ensued. They were only 200, the last, the very dregs of the congregated vice and folly of the night; but, few an they were, their escape was difficult, p ar tly f rom the condition of their besotted senses, partly from the intense selfishness proper to their worthlessness, which mad° each for himself or herself, without the slightest care or thought for another. And so they struggled forth, affronting the light of day with their debauched figures and unseemly mummeries. They looked like the devils belonging to the scene of devastation, and doubtless they were little better than they looked.—Enaminea EXECUTION OF TRAITORS IN SOMERSETSHIRS TWO CRS . TURIES AGO.—Apropos to the placing of heads on Tern' plc-bar, as detailed by Mr. P. Cunningham, we cite the following legal document, issued by the sheriffof Somerset shire to the high constable of Bath. in 1685 :—" Somer setshire ; Edward Hobbs, Esq., eherreife of ye countle aforesaid, to the constables and others, his Majestys' officers of the cittie and borough of B ath, greeting.- - ; Whereas, I have received a warrant under the banes arid seal of the Right Hon. Lord Jeffreys for the execus tine of several resells within your said cittie. These are therefore to will and require yen, immediately on sigh t hereof, to erect a gallows in the most public place of your said cittie, to hang the said traytors on, and that You provide halters to hang teem with, a sufficient number of faggots to borne the bowells of four iraytors, and a furnace or cauldron to boil their heads and quer' teas, and salt to boil therewith, half a bushel( to ett, lii tray tr - a and tarr to tarr them with, and a sufficient nurn er of spears and pules to fix and p'ac, their beads and quarters ; and that you when the owners of folder oxen to be ready eith a dray and Wayne, and the said tower oxen at the time hereafter mentioned for execu tion, and you yourselves, together with a guard of fordo able men, at the least, be present on Wednesday morns log next, by eight of the clock, to be aiding and assisting to inc or my deputie, to see the said rebel's executed. Given under my seal k f office this 16th day of Novem ber, A. I. Jacobi S?.cunr i 1685. EDWARD HOBBEM. You are alsoe to provide an axe and a cleaver for the quartering the said rebells " The steam gunboat Angler, commenc id on the 4th of December at the Devonport Dockyard, was launched on Saturday. Her engines are all o iroplete and fitted. Toe sister gun-boat, Ant, will be launched about the 22d in-t ,if her engines should be rea ly. The gun-boats Decoy and Wrangler, in Ham t oaxe, will be placed , in dock tomorrow to be coppered. lvioli COM The Livi quietly, yet Prices of al] estimated a Wien on ai num and A 6 id. to Ga 1,000 Surat amount of let, but pr day. Europe,:. Weekly T aek h it.l e sytt c nr o ekes m etts til l aidered favi Elvineed to I kilned to c Me rcantile q trade v li nPortant c larger byl, 15 7,138 do] the importE 1)293,629 e egrap 141r iee8 ha 4411ouneiw ( i l . c elarred ti" i'or For market. 1)1 c1 962 7 't -I' : .:4241. 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