The Sun. — London, England, 1861-03-01 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT -GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. 'THIS EVENING, LE DOMINO NOIR. Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Thirlwall, Miss Leer. Messrs. H. Haigh, H. Core, A. St. Altyn, and Hortic ffl astle To conclude with a Divertissement. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Seven. EA 'FR RO Y AL, H A YMARKET. Lowe. Mr. J. B. Baokstone. THP , 1.117EN1N(,, the nertorraancec will commence with SRN' STOOPS TO CONQUER Miss Nardcastle, by Miss F ann y Stirling ; Tony Lumpkin, by Mr. Buckstone. 'Atter which, a new Pantomime, QUEEN LADYBIRD AND HER CHILDREN. The Pantomimists by the un rivalled Leclercqs, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright. Commence at 7. 1/OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the Farce of A.S.S. - -- - To be followed by DON CASA R DE BAZAN. Don Cmsar. Mr. Fechter. Supported by Messrs. Basil Potter, F. Matthews, J. G. Shore, Miss M. Harris, Miss C. Leclercq rind Mrs. Weston. After which, a new christmas comical pantomime, entitled ROBINSON CRTJSOE ; or, Harlequin Friday, and the Ring of the Caribbe Islands : in which Monsieur Espinosa and Mdlle. Marie Dumilatre, of the principal cantinental theatres will appear. Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest. THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM. Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING the new drama, THE HOUSE ON THE BRIDGE OF NOTRE DAME. Principal characters bY Mr. G. Vining, Mr. J. Johnstone , M r. Villiers, r. Cliffor man, d, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. Forrester , Mr. Morris • Miss Celeste. M.Te Miss K. Saville, Miss L. Thompson, and M adame Alter which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic Extravaganza, CRYSTA BELLE ; or, The Rose I without a ThoFADING rn A, T EVE, showing THE VISIO NI OF A ROSE, TS AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR. To conclude with anew Divertissement. Miss Annie and Miss Marie Collinsonn, &c. A DgLPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster. THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J. L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E. horne. Alter which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Bouoicault, D. Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and %Ts. Chatterley. To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled BLUE BEARD FROM A NEW POINT OF HUE. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford. C. J. Smith; Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and E. Thorne. • - Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. Box-oflice open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, Al. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Ss. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- ri and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTT. Immense success of " Turpin's Ride to York." sth appearance of Mons. Hillier, the Greatest 'Equestrian of the day, who has just arrived from Lisbon. THIS EVENING. will be reproduced TURPIN'S RIDE TO YORK AtiD THE DEATH OF BLACK BESS in which the Brothers , Edwin will appear with their celebra , ted Steed Black Bess. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by talented Parisian and British Artistes. Concluding, with Batty's Prize Equestian Comic Panto mime, for Good Little Boys and Girls, by T. L. Greenwood, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE WONDERFUL HORSE ,• or, Percinet and Grociosa, the Ugly Duchess and the Greedy King, produced with Gorgeous Scenery, by Mr. Cuthbert, new Costumes and Appointments, and introducing in the comic scenes Batty's Prize Equestrian Harlequinade, and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley Box-ofiloe open daily from 11 ti 1 1 .4 Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. Commence at 7. CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS !! ! Westminster-road. Proprietor ........C. Morton. A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera, IL CORSARO, (This opera has never been produced in this or any other country, except at these Concerts), having met with that de cided success which charactise the most popular works of this grPat 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, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonrhmsns. 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. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS. In consequence of Its Great Success, THE ENCHANTED HASH EVERY EVENING, The whole of the Characters ndFßELL by Messrs. E. MARSHALL a. . HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tau DAY.—Morning, 4h. 42m.—Afternoon, sh. sm. To-moßitow.-Morning, sh. 27m.—Afternoon, 513.43 m. THE WEATHER.—Eirx OFFICE, M►RcH 1, Is6l. I THERMOHNTER, IN THE EIHADR. 50—highest since loon yesterday. 39—lowest this morning and during the night. 51—this day at noon. BA.Rourrzu-29.70. WIND—South -Westerly ; fresh and squally, with some rain. It must be stormy in the Channel. 14 * kl ..7. , , r • M,. 4 'l': : 4:4 4 " : HI - - -.." 4 . . ~c - ,', - - - . .< 1 ;74 ••.4 - 1 . . . , .* - - .‹.. . • % f,';' ''' ' '' e - 7' .-20 --, 1, 'l'• % 1 _ . 1 , ,: i1 e0p„ .. .... , A , -- , -...104...L... ,t ta-.7.....LL.1.,..: : i. , 43,747,,,L,... '±', THE SUN. :A LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1881 The greatest of the PLANTAGENETS was mastered by a priest, and had to do penance, and to bear the lash on his naked shoulders before his shrine. Our great ally, therefore, must not be too restive beneath the lash of words, though sometimes it must be confessed as hard to bear as that of the cat-o'. nine-tails. Very unpleasant indeed must it be to the master of the half million pretorians and legionaries to be in one sentence both ridiculed and cursed before the joke-enjoying Parisians, and the superstitious provincials. And, which of these will annoy the EMPEROR most, it is hard to say. To hear the hearty laugh of all the places of entertainment in Paris at the new title bestowed on his MAJESTY —to hear that PONTIUS PILATE is likely, for some time to come, to be understood as meaning a gen tleman who a few years ago was Louis NAPOLEON, but who now is known as his Majesty the EMPEROR, must tax even Imperial patience to the uttermost. We question whether the rustic belief in the impiety of all denounced as impious by a bishop is worse to put up with than the laugh of the cafés. And the worst of it is, that the bishop has the best of it. Louis NAPOLEON is at Rome by right of conquest, the same right which made PONTIUS PILATE supreme in Judea. But Louis NAPOLEON is there with professedly very pious intentions, the very culmination of his piety being, his tender care for the Holy Father. Then, to the Bishop of POITIERS and to all staunch Catholics, and, of course, to Louis the Pious, the POPE is CHRIST'S vicar, his representative on earth —to deliver him up is about the nearest thing possible to the crime of PILATE. LOUIS the Pious, no doubt, kept his army in Rome for Imperial pur poses only, but that has not been his profession. He went , there, and has kept there as the POPE'S patron—a patron of the Vicar of CHRIST—yet he has so managed that he is obliged to give up his patronage at last. Europe is get ting tired of it—England especially reminds him that non-intervention is the acknow ledged and agreed on policy between them. Italy says we can take care of our POPE and our capital without you. The Pious Louis must be deeply grieved with all this, but what can he do ? The world will not allow him to domineer at Rome for ever. He has done what he could to make POPE and Cardinals a little reasonable ; he certainly desired roost sincerely to keep Italy divided, and therefore to have the POPE as one of his Princes, but he has got into a false position. Events are against him, as the chief priests and their mob were against PILATE, and he is at his wit's end to know how he shall quit Rome with credit, and without incurring the maledictions of his Bishops. We must give entire the picture drawn of the EMPEROR by him of PoITIERs : "PILATE, finding that he gained nothing, that, on the contrary, the exactions of those around him increas ingwere and becoming imperious, and understanding tha though he had yielded to every demand o f the multitude he was on the point of being led on to the last act of wea k ness, ordered water to be brought him. He washed his hands, and said, 'I am innocent of the blood of this just man,' and having scourged JESUS, he delivered Him over to the Jews to be crucified. But has posterity ratified the sort of absolution which P ILA T u gave to hiaoelf? And the washing ofb.ishands, did did it make him innocent with ages to come ? Listen 1 For 18 centuries there exists a profession of faith in 12 articles, which every Christian lip recites daily. In this summary of our faith, drawn up with conciseness by the Apostles, appear, besides the three adorable names of the divine persons, the name, a thousand times blessed, of the woman who gave birth to the Sox of GOD, and the name, a thousand times accursed, of the man who delivered Him to death! And the man thus branded as the God-mur derer—the man thus nailed to the pillory of our symbol, who is he? This man is not HEROD, nor CAIEHAS, not JUDAS, ner any of the Roman or Jewish executioners. This man is Pontius Pilate ? It is but just. HEROD, CAIPHAS, JUDAS, and the others had their part in the crime ; but without PILATE nothing would have been done. PILATE could have saved CHRIST ; and without PILATE C HRI ST could not have been put to death. From him only could the signal come. 'lt is not lawful for us to put this man to death,' said the Jews. Wash thy hands, oh, PILATE I Declare thyself innocent of the death of CHRIST I But our answer, day and night, to the most remote pos terity, shall be, 'I believe in JESUS CHRIST, the only Sox of the FATHER, conceived by the HOLY GHOST,' born of the VIRGIN MARY, and who suffered and was put to death under PONTIUS PILATE I" It is fair, however, to remind the Bishop of POITIERS that if no mention is made of the Jewish Bishops of that day, it is not because of their less de linquency. And, that the pious EMPEROR may well reply—Even if I be the PONTIUS PILATE, you and yours are the Caiaphases and Chief Priests who have stirred up the people to demand that I shall deliver, not CHRIST, but the temporal POPE—Ei small difference—into their hands. The Foreign Secretary insisted last evening in ;he House of Commons upon the expediency of the French occupation of Syria being speedily brought to an end. The pre-arranged period of six months set apart for that occupation now expiring, no reasonable pretext is left for the continuance there any longer of the Gallic expedition. Any indefi nite prolongation of the time originally defined by the terms of the Convention could not possibly be regarded as other than most suspicious under the circumstances. The hon. gentleman the member for Horsham intimated this not one jot more plainly than did Lord JOHN RUSSELL himself in his very lucid and outspoken reply during the cursory discussion of these matters in the House of Commons yesterday, Her MAJESTY'S Foreign Minister, indeed, closed his remarks upon the subject with this formal and volunteered assurance— an assurance addressed by him to the country at large through Imperial Parliament. " I will cer thinly use my best endeavours," he said, " to put an end to this occupation. I believe it was useful at the beginning, not only in the places I have men tioned, but in other parts of the Turkish Empire, when there was a notion that but for it mss• sacres might have occurred which would have been attended with dreadful consequences to Turkey itself. Now, however, the danger and the occasion have passed away, and I wish to see the occupation at an end." It had been previously announced by the noble Lord that, unlike himself, that unlike the British Government, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, the French Government, deems the danger of the crisis in Syria not to have yet terminated. That of itself is suspicious. And so—regarding the situation of things in some of the late deplorable massacres the French Minister aforesaid does distinctly propose (as we have so long had a suspicion that when the stipulated half year drew towards its conclusion he would propose), the French Government does dis tinctly propose that the original period of six months should be extended, and that—as yet—for the time being—as everybody on this side of the Channel has been all along conjecturing would be the ease—Syria should not be evacuated by the French soldiery ! When the conference met very recently, Lord JOHN RUSSELL now explains, " the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, on the autho rity of his official despatches, stated that serio apprehensions of another outbreak were entertained in Syria—of another outbreak the moment the French troops were removed. That statement having been laid before the conference, the Turkish Ambassador said, on the other hand, that he believed the tranquillity of the district to have been restored, that the Turkish power was quite sufficient to maintain it, and that he saw no reason why the occupation should not end at the time appointed." Precisely. That, as we have said, is just to the very letter what has all along been foreseen. France insists—now that the period for her troops leaving Syria has arrived—that the peril those troops went thither to put an end to has not yet quite terminated. Turkey—who it should be especially borne in mind most " runs the risk" in the contingency of that peril really not having actually closed— Turkey, whose opinion therefore ought to be re garded as of some value in the matter, seeing how the compliance with that opinion must prove to herself of the most vital importance—Turkey, in direct opposition to France, maintains at this moment, just as England herself maintains through the lips of her Foreign Secretary, that the peril referred to has absolutely in the main, so far as human judgment can understand the matter at issue, terminated, and terminated, so far as we can see, definitively. So regarding the past, the present, and the future of Syria, the Ottoman power declines to accede to the proposal of France for the extension of the original period of her occupation of the lately disturbed and blood deluged province. It is the Austrian diplo matist—actually no other than the Austrian diplomatist—who throws out at the Con ference the amiable hint of a compromise ! Suggesting that the Ist of May should be fixed as the period until which the French troops should remain in Syria, by which time the Lebanon might be expected (even by France) to be in a reasonable state of tranquillity. "There the matter rests" — says Lord JOHN RUSSELL. The decision of the Otto man Porte, the decision of the European Conference has yet to be learnt in regard to this plan for the pro longation of the French occupation of Syria unti 1 next Mayday. Upon the understanding that then at least, that upon that Ist of May, and not one single day later, the French soldiers shall absolutely quit the Syrian soil and recross the Mediterranean, the extension by two months additional of the pre arranged interval of half•a year may be quietly tolerated as a matter of European convenience. Meanwhile—however Turkey, however England, however Europe may act in regard to this particu lar (Austrian) suggestion of a compromise —it is in the highest degree satisfactory to note and to bear sedulously in remembrance the fact that Lord Join has, in words in every way worthy of him, insisted not only upon the expediency but upon the imperative necessity of speedily, if not immediately bringing to a close this purely temporary occupation of Syria by a French military expedition. The resolutions of Sir J. ELPHINSTONE— aIthough, as one tray say, introduced into the House of Commons last evening only for the purpose of being withdrawn—so far did good service in a great cause, inasmuch as they helped once more to ven tilate, effectually, the whole question of our mari time administration. These resolutions, it will be recognised upon the merest glance at them, in volved no less daring a design than the reconstruc tion of the entire framework of that maritime Administration. And audacious though any such project cannot but appear in itself, it cannot at the same time be regarded as altogether so very extra ordinary or extravagant under the circumstances, TErIE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1861. remembering hop t egregious is the anomaly pre sented to 'view by the Board of Admiralty as at preser 1t constructed. The curiosity felt by' V.ttle OLIVER TWIST, in his early childb ood as to what a " Board " could pos sibly be, m v, in simple truth, be only likened in its intensity' to the marvel of any rational adult in these isle finds when he comprehends fully what the particular Board referred to last evening by the hon. Baronet, the member for Portsmouth, in his bold and comprehensive resolutions, really and actually is. Boards might, by the cynical philosophers of our day, by critics like CARLYLE for example, be generally defined as what their names might almost seem to suggest etymologically—things essentially wooden-headed ! But the Board of Admiralty— the Board especially set apart with a View to the better construction and preservation of the wooden walls of Old England! That Board in particular might, without much exaggeration, be especially designated as in this way facile princeps among all he various Boards familiar to Englishmen. It is no such exceeding wonder, therefore, 'after all, it is not in any way so excessively marvel lous, recollecting the past history of this amazing Board of Admiralty, to find a mem ber of the House of Commons like Sir J. ELPHIN STONE propounding to the House a distinct plan for its abolition and for its replacement by some totally different scheme of administration. The resolutions of the hon. member for Portsmouth, numbering in all " eleven," proposed, among other daring schemes of a reconstructive character, to secure, as the first essential for the good ad ministration of the Royal Navy henceforth, that personal responsibility which is wholly awanting in our present Board of Admiralty, composed of professional and unprofessional Lords Commis sioners. According to Sir J. ELPHINSTONE'S plan, and as the readiest means of ensuring this guarantee of good government henceforth in our maritime department, there might be substituted for the Board of Admiralty a Minister of Marine, with a Secretary of the department, chosen from among the number of the popular representatives. Pos sibly—probably indeed—we may in the fulness of time obtain this Minister of Marine, as well as our long talked of and long hoped for Minister of Justice. But in the meantime, before any such sweeping measure of reconstruction or absolute transformation ca►n be seriously thought of or de cided upon by the Legislature—there are changes, modifications, improvements of the most various kind being perpetually introduced at the Admi ralty by the mere pressure of events, by the mere necessity of the times, by means of which many of the more flagrant anomalies of the Board are rendered, to a considerable extent, innocuous : those benefi cent changes, modifications, and improvements happily taking place simultaneously with another and more material " Reconstruction of the Navy" —a reconstruction brought about in the dockyards of Old England by the hammer and the adze of her shipwrights. Those who may chance to be still in doubt as to the extent of the good progress already made, and still resolutely making, at the Admiralty and in the dockyards of this country with a view to the reconstruction and rehabilitation in a very great measure of the whole soul and body of our Maritime Power, will do well to turn for a moment to the frank, sailor-like words addressed last evening to the British House of Commons by the noble and gallant lord, the Admiralty Secretary. It will be there seen how cheerily, and with what infinite good humour Lord CLARENCE PAGET snaps his fingers in the pale face of the Alarmist. The launch of the Black Prince reminds us that the wooden walls of old England are becoming matter of history. We must remember them only with an antiquarian sigh. Through their good help we have continued to enjoy immunity from conquest, and from anything like serious invasion for eight hundred years, and the want of them was the cause of successful invasion in earlier days. We must now, however, drink to the memory of our wooden walls, and with all convenient speed ensconce ourselves behind our iron wails. Heart of oak has been hitherto unsurpassed, but heart of iron is certainly better ; and be it remembered, if oak be British, iron is pre-eminently so. No country in the world is such an iron country as ours. Nowhere else do the iron ores, and the coals which convert them into iron, lie in such close proximity ; nowhere else do the requisite capital and the timber of skilled mechanics and adjacency of water render so facile the building and the launching of the largest iron fabrics. Our readers will peruse with interest the account of the Black Prince, launched at Glasgow last Wednesday—the sister ship in almost every re spect to the Warrior. They will be the more in terested if they remember that these must be the future models, only, of course, improving on them, of our Navy. It may be, and it is mortifying, that after the enor mous expense we have incurred for the new navy which Sir JOHN PAKINGTON began to build, we should now be called on to build a new iron fleet in its place ; but there is no help for it. The great change has taken place. It has become as certain that a fleet of wooden ships could be destroyed almost with impunity by a fleet of iron ones, as that a fleet of old sailing vessels would have been at the mercy of a fleet of screw steamers. The wooden ships will also still be of use for a long time to come, where they will not be matched against iron ; but they will no longer be our reliance on our own coasts and in the Mediterranean. ' It is possible, too, that some of the wooden ships will be capable of bearing a covering, more or less, of iron plates, and serve in our ports as blockships. It will, however, be observed that two such practical men as Mr. LINDSAY and Sir MORTON PETo both declared the day of wooden ships of war to be over, and agree on the necessity of replacing them by iron ones as speedily as possible. One very con solatory view of the matter was given by Sir M. PETO ; that ultimately iron ships would be the more economical. And he would seem to be right —for, as he observed, an iron ship was as good fifty years after she was built as ever; he knew from experience that the wear of iron under such cir cumstances was scarcely appreciable. It is cer_ tainly not subject to dry rot or any of the other ills that timber is heir to—while we know but too well that a wooden ship is soon out of repair. In 1859, Sir B. WALKER reported that there was scarcely a ship, unless she had been built recently, that could go to sea without " extensive repairs." Sir MORTON PETO laid his finger on the cause of the evil—that of persevering in building wooden ships after the only nation with whom we can come into competition had ceased to build them—when he told the Government that they did not act like men of business. The latter would not think of going on building and spending on an antiquated and exploded system, but the Government had got its dockyards all arranged f for building with wood, its mechanics all trained to work in it ; and if the Government constructed iron vessels their occupa tion would be gone—but this was not to be a reason why the millions of the country were to be wasted on building what could no longer be of use for its defence, nor so permanent as the new iron ships. It will be seen what splendid specimens of iron shipbuilding as the Warrior and the Black Prince are—for Mr. LINDSAY had been on board both the Warrior and La Gloire, and said that speaking with a sailor's eye, he should not be afraid on board the Warrior to fight two La Gloires—yet, iron ships will be still susceptible of considerable improve ment. Another 1,000 tons would have enabled the Warrior to have borne the weight of iron plates covering her completely from stem to stern, But the greatest improvement of all will be that of building the ships of iron entirely. Now, they have a wooden casing inside, of twenty-two inches of teak ; but, !with drawing this, and making suitable arrange ments to enable the iron to bear the concussion, and consequent vibration, and starting of rivets, caused by the impact of shot, the iron plates might be another inch thicker, in which case they would be' perfectly invulnerable. One thing perhaps, the most important of all, is the illustration afforded by the launch of the Black Prince from a private yard of our real sources of strength. Happily on the prospect of any emergency we have something better than Government Dock yards to rely on, in which the mechanics and their masters can only work in wood. The Messrs. NAPIER have launched this splendid vessel in only one year and two days, since the first plates of her keel • were laid. And this same yard could complete three such vessels, if necessary, now, in one year ! ! All the shipbuilding yards in the hands of private firms in France altogether could not, probably, complete one in a year. We ques tion whether the Government yards could do as much. While, therefore, we must not go to sleep, we certainly have no reason to fear the mperial shipbuilder. ADMIRAL FITZROY'S P.ROGNOSTI- CATIONS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In the Times of this day it is stated : " Her Majesty's troopship Dee was yesterday hauled out of basin at Woolwich, laden with a cargo of steam gear for Plymouth and Glasgow, the heavy portion of her freight being necessarily on deck. Before the Dee left the basin information was re ceived from Lloyd's of Admiral Fitzroy's prognos tications (hitherto found to be exceedingly truth ful), indicating an approaching gale, and a caution to that effect was transmitted round the coast. The Dee, however, is a good sea vessel, and is commanded by a cautions and most experienced body of officers, well accustomed to the dangers of the voyage, who expressed no disinclination to proceed. She con sequently sailed from Woolwich at 4 p.m." I feel it a duty to lose no time in saying, that no such " prognostications" were made by me—that " Lloyd's " did not send any such to Woolwich or elsewhere—and that officers in her Majesty's ser vice do not hesitate to obey lawful orders, rather than their own inclinations. Here I might stop—but the opportunity of offer ing a caution may excuse another sentence. Persons who profess to know, intuitively, more than real philosophers, and the most experienced men have learned —have " prognosticated," or, as some say, " prophesied" changes, or storms, at definite times, upon some vague ideas of " lunar" influence, or (so-called) " Astro-meteorology." Perhaps the Alchemists and Astrologers of old were wiser in their generation than these prophets. ROBT. FITZROY. DEATH OF THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND. TRENTHAM, FRIDAY MORNING. The Duke of Sutherland died last night, at Trentham, at twenty minutes past nine, in the 75th year of his age. The deceased nobleman was born Bth August, 1786 ; suc ceeded his father as second Duke 19th July, 1833; inherited the Scotch honours upon the decease of his mother in 1839; married 27th May, 1823, Harriet-Elizabeth-Georgians, third daughter of George, sixth Earl of Carlisle, and has left issue three sons and four daughters. The deceased nobleman is succeeded in his titles and estates by the Marquis of Stafford, who was born on the 19th of Decem ber, 1828, and married 27th June, 1849, Anne, only child of the late John Hay-Mackenzie, Esq., of Newhall and Cromarty, and has issue two sons and a daughter. The late duke was summoned to Parliament in the lifetime of his father as Baron Gower. He was high steward of Staf ford, lord lieutenant of the county of Sutherland, and cus tos-rotulorum of Staffordshire. By the elevation of the Marquis of Stafford to the peer age, a vacancy occurs in the House of Commons for the county of Sutherland, HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Mr. Wallace's new opera, " The Amber Witch," was produced last night with complete success. The principal singers, Madame Sherrington, Miss Huddart, Messrs. Santley, Patey, and Sims Reeves, the composer, and the manager, were recalled after every act ; and at the end of the opera a similar compliment was paid to Mr. Charles Halle, the conductor. The music is almost as complicated as it is beautiful, and too much praise can hardly be ac corded to the orchestra and chorus under Mr. Halle's con trol—both, by the way, having been materially reinforced for the occasion. The house was enthusiastic in its demon strations of approval, and the applause was incessant. The performance did not terminate till nearly midnight. LAriEF N EWS. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. THE FRENCH FUNDS. PARIS, FRIDAY, 12.20 r.m. Three per Cent. Rentes, 68f. 05c., 68f. 10c. Inanimate—rather firm. NAPLES, FEB. 27. The hieghts commanding the citadel of Messina have been occupied by the Sardinian troops. The representatives of the foreign Powers have protested to the commaider of the citadel of Messina against any damage being caused to the city. The Neapolitan Minister of War has notified that all foreign soldiers who may have belonged to the Bourbon army, or been in the military service of the Pope, and who should join the reactionary bands in Southern Italy, will, if made prisoners, not be treated as soldiers, but will be punished with the greatest severity. CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB. 23; The Levant Herald says : " The Porte intends a new issue of 100,000,000 kiames. A change in the Ministery is expected. Aali Pasha, it is said, will be Grand Vizier, and Achmed Veffik Effendi Minister for Foreign Affairs." DRURY LANE 211EAT_RE. Last night Mr. Charles Kean terminated his engagement at this house with a performance for the benefit of himself and Mrs. Kean, and took leave of the public in the now rarely-played tragedy of " Richard III." The house was crowded in every part, and the applause that burst forth on Mr. Kean's first entrance lasted for some minutes. But this was as nothing compared with the acclamations that followed the conclasion of the play, and summoned both him and Mrs. Kean to the footlights. After a long pause, during which he seemed quite overpowered by his feelings, Mr. Kean, in the most impressive manner, delivered the following speech : " Ladies and Gentlemen,--I feel almost too much ex hausted to avail myself of the opportunity thus afforded of expressing in Mrs. Kean's name and my own our warmest gratitude for the enthusiastic reception and the brilliant suc cess which have attended our return to this theatre—the cradle of my professional life. The years that have passed appear like a dream since in my boyhood, with a trembling heart, I first sought your suffrages on this stage, whence my father's genius had shot like a meteor through the theatrical horizon before the upturned wondering eyes of mortals.' I feel like the wanderer returned to his long absent home, once more breathing his native air. Allow me to state that circumstances have induced me to defer our intended farewell visit to America, and consequently I have accepted Mr. Smith's offer to return here next winter for a limited number of nights, until which period, ladies and gentlemen, permit me respectfully and gratefully to bid you farewell." SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE. Shakespeare's tragedy of " Julius Cesar" has been pro duced here with very great success. Although this fine composition is looked upon by the best Shakesperian scholars as a masterpiece of dramatic skill, yet it is not so frequently performed as could be wished for. Assuredly a better display of the actor's art does not exist. Mr. l'helps sustained the part of Brutus with great effect and power ; Mr. H. Marston gave to the part of Cassius all that fire and energy for which he is so celebrated; and Mr. Hermann Vezin, as Mark Antony, enraptured the audience by the beauty of his elocution in the oration ever the dead bedy of Closer, near the termination of the fourth act. He received the honour of a unanimeus "call" before the curtain. The other parts of the tragedy were ably supported by Mr. Barratt, Mr. Harold, and Miss Atkinson. THE DERRYMACASH OUTRAGE.—The Attorney General, assisted by the Solicitor General and the ordinary Crown prosecutors for the county, will prosecute in person, at Armagh, the Orangemen charged with participation in the murderous outrage in Derrymacash on the 12th July last. The Armagh assizes commence on Saturday morn ing, and Baron Fitzgerald will be the presiding judge. THE BISHOP OF DURHAM• — The Hon. and Right Rev. Dr. H. Montagu Villiers held an ordination at Auck land Castle, on Sunday last, when he admitted into the order of deacon his son, the Rev. Henry Montagu Villiers, B.A , of Christ Church, Oxford, and afterwards presented him to the curacy of Bishop Wearmouth, on the nomina tion of the Rev. John Patrick Eden, M.A., the present rector. Bishop Wearmouth is one of the valuable livings in the gift of the Bishop of Durham, the rector's gross in come being, according to Crualorcl's Clerical Dir:ctory, £1,620 per annum. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY. The discussion of the project of address :com menced yesterday in the Senate. The Marquis of Larochejacquelin and Count Heckeren spoke in favour of the temporal power of the Pope. Senator Pi etri, formerly Prefect of Police and the late Imperial Commissioner in Italy, in his speech said : " The temporal power of the Pope is lost. We must confine ourselves to the preservation of his spiritual power. We must consider the attitude of the reaction which has again raised its head, and must determine our line of conduct. Italy has an army of 300,000 men, which she will place on our side in the conflict with which we are threatened." PRUSSIA. Count Perponcher, who was the Prussian repre sentative at the Court of the ex-King of Naples, has left Berlin for Rome. bearer of a letter of King William to the ex-King, in reply to his letter of congratulations on King William's accession to the throne of Prussia. In making the above announcement, the Neue Preussische Zeitung says:— " This mission is simply one of courtesy, and has no political signification whatever." BOURSE, February 28.—The reponse de primes option) was made at 68f, at which price most of the primes were abandoned. The market has been rather more buoyant, and the business done, though limited in amount, has been at an improvement on the quotations of yesterday. Threes, which opened at 67f 85c, are now at 68f sc. Railway market quiet, but firm. The following are the last quotations :- 4i per per Cents ... 98 Credit Foneier Do. end month.... 98 Belgian 4f 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 15 1 Roman Bank Shares 2885 —1 Austrian .. 6B 25 Credit Mobilier 665 —lSpanish Threes.... 48 Do. Account 666 2511-Lome Debt *AMWAY& Cash. Account. Orleans l4lO .. 1410 Northern New ditto 892 50 .. 891 25 Lyons and Mediterranean 941 25 .. 942 50 Geneva.. — .. 377 50 Southern 526 25 .. 527 50 Western .... 562 50 .. 560 Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lorcbard TILE NAVY. The Pigeon, 5, screw despatch gunvessel, having completed fitting at Chatham for the steam reserve ordinary, was undocked yesterday afternoon, and will proceed to join the third-class steam reserve under Capt. C. F. Schomberg. The Isis, 44, sailing ship, having been completed, was undocked at Chatham yesterday afternoon and hauled out into the harbour opposite the dockyard. She has been commissioned by Capt. Barnard, and as soon as she has obtained her crew and received her stores on board she will proceed to Ascension and Sierra Leone, at the latter of which places she will be stationed. Since she has been in dock she has undergone the most complete repairs and has been strengthened throughout. She has also been newly coppered, and the whole of her interior de voted to the stowage of coals lined with thick sheet iron. The Gloucester, 50, which was partially fitted some time since as a receiving hulk for harbour service at Chatham, is now ordered to be com pleted for that service in lieu of the Hussar, which goes into dock at Chatham to be fitted for a target ship for the disposal of the Admiralty, and stationed at Shoeburyness or any other place at which experiments and trials are being made with Whitworth and Armstrong guns. The Hussar is to be strengthened, and will, it is understood, be covered with iron plates, which will be ranged over her sides to protect her from the shots. The Flying Fish, screw, Commander Charles W. Hope, steamed into Portsmouth harbour yesterday from Spithead, and berthed alongside the Malabar depot, to fill up coal. Letters received by our Portsmouth correspon dent announce the arrival at Madeira, on the Bth of February, of the Desperate, 8, screw, Commander Ross, after a passage of 20 days from Plymouth Sound, under canvass, experiencing tremendous weather, and would require some six or seven days' stay at Madeira for a refit before proceeding on to Bermuda. The Barracouta made the passage to the island in nine days under steam, and had left again for Bermuda prior to the Desperate's arrival. The Icarus, 11, screw, Commander Nowell Sal mon, V.C. is nearly cleared out alongside Ports mouth dockyard. Portions of her lining will be removed, and the spaces between her timbers, &c., examined and cleansed out, for the purpose of as certaining whether any local causes exist on board that may have caused or assisted the sickness which prevailed on board to such a fearful degree while the ship was on the West India station. One of the officers of this vessel is absent from her under very mysterious circumstances, the Paymaster, Mr. G. Teait, having obtained leave ashore for 24 hours on the 14th of February, and has not since returned on board. A board of officers have examined the missing officer's accounts and papers, but every thing has been found in the most perfect order. Mr. Teait, while the vessel was in the Rio de la Plata, was for some time in hospital, and since his return to his duty has been observed by his brother officers to have become of a decided misanthropical disposition, and it is believed that a species of tem porary derangement is the cause of the absence of Mr. Teait from his ship and his duties. The Ad miralty have appointed Mr. G. Grandidier, a gentle man lately serving in the office of the Commander in-Chief at Portsmouth, to succeed Mr. Teait as paymaster of the ship. The Princess Royal, 91, screw, Capt. Fellowes, flag of Rear-Admiral Smart, Ka., is receiving her final coat of outside paint in Portsmouth harbour. She will adjust her compasses at the moorings of the steam ordinary guardship on Tuesday next, prior to going out to Spithead. The Cossack, 20, screw, Capt. R. Moorman, at Portsmouth, is getting up her lower rigging and stays alongside the sheer jetty. • The Euryalus, 51, screw, completed roasting in the steam basin at Portsmouth yesterday, and has been taken in hand by the riggers to complete for the first class reserve. Her lower rigging and stays will be of wire. The keel and a portion of the floor timbers of a new 17 gun screw corvette, to be named the Harle quin, and from the same drawings as the Rinaldo and Chanticleer, have been laid down in No. 2 slip at Portsmouth. The greater part of her frame will be of Italian oak. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—James Sangster, chief engineer to the Asia, for service in the Retributio n ; Wm. Wotton, first-class assist-engineer to the Asia, as supernumerary, for hospital treatment ; Charles P. Turner, first-class assist.-engineer to the Icarus; Wm. H. Rundle, first-class assist.-engineer to the Asia, for charge , of the Rinaldo; William C. Brewer, third-class assist.-engineer to the Asia, as super numerary, for hospital treatment; Matthew Coates, assist.-surgeon, to the Recruit ; Edward Olive, acting assist.-surgeon, to the St. Jean d'Acre ; and Arthur C. Wells, master's assistant, to the Her•. TILE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH AND THE BISHOP OF POITIERS, Should the Emperor of. the French ever ask what he has gained by establishing himself in Rome, and becoming master of the situation, he may now accept an answer on sacred authority. It is that he may become the Pontius Pilate in the last drama, the last trial, the last agony, and abandonment of the Cimrch. When he sent his legions to Rome a foolish vanity per suaded him, perhaps, that he was securing the power which he might henceforth use to his advantage. He could not be far wrong in the Capi tol. Holding in his hands the very key of the posi tion, he might admit or exclude as he listed, giving laws and dominion at his pleasure. No doubt, the situation is one to gratify a mind with the least in stinct of ambition. It was for the time to be Empe ror of the West, and all that is implied in that noble denomination. Yet a time must come when Rome must be either retained or relinquished; and when it will be necessary to determine in favour of the one out of the many possible uses to which it might be applied. When that time comes, as indeed many suppose that it has come, what shall the Em peror set down as the fruit of a policy that has brought on him so many jealous reviews and un , friendly criticisms ? The Bishop of Poitiers informs the faithful in France that their Emperor has done all this simply to do what nobody else could do, and to give up Pio Nono to his enemies at the very mo ment when the game was about to be triumphantly concluded. The Bishop has made it a labour of love. The Emperor had chosen, for his own convenience, to express his views of the situation in an anony mous pamphlet. No doubt, he found it much easier to inspire, or even to indite, Rome, la France, et l'ltalie, under the name of M, Lagueronniere, than to state his intentions and offer explanations under his own name, and in a direct manner. But if the domino is convenient to him, so also is it to those who differ from him and deprecate his policy. They may attack the shadow with blows that reach him ; and what is really a personal assault can in that case only be reached and punished for its intrinsic wrong. Hence we are favoured with a specimen of political audacity to which no Bishop, or any other subject, would be equal in this country. The good Bishop luxuriates in the parallel. He omits no detail that may establish the closest iden tity between the Pontius Pilate of the first century and of the nineteenth. He proves the grandeur of the crime and the supreme character of the infamy. It is the Emperor who after scrupulous hesitation has yieldedtothe demands of a besotted people. It is the Emperor who has finally disregarded the warnings of his wife to do nothing to that just man. It is the Emperor who has weakly attempted to wash his hands, first of Francis 11., then of Pio IX. It is the Emperor who has absolved himself in vain. So he is " God-murderer." His name will ever stand among the highest and greatest ; and the fact will be recorded in the very articles of the Creed In vain does he apologize and explain. In vain does he attempt to throw the blame on neighbours, on nations, on princes, on his own people, on priests, on all the world. The Creed makes no mention of Annas and Caiphas, of Herod, of Judas, of Phari sees and soldiers; so also is it below the dignity of the subject to insist on the crimes of Sardinia and other actors or ministers of wrong. By his own doing Louis Napoleon has been the chief personage in the drama, and he must bear all the burden. The others are but ciphers and counters. They have done as they were bid, or as nature and circum stances led them. Not so the Emperor of the French. He has assumed the responsibility of the Italian Kingdom. Like Pilate, he has come for ward. He has wished to save the victim of popular injustice. He has invited the attention of the world to his humane endeavours, his lofty justice, his self-vindication. He has ordered the water to be brought, and then with all the pomp of inno cence he has renounced any share in the cr ime. Yet he has permitted it, as he alone could permit, and the Bishop of Poitiers accordingly gives him a niche in the hagiology of crime. There stands Napoleon 111., a recreant among the faithful, a murderer among the saints, a self-banished apostle. Tied to the skirts of Pontius Pilate, he will pass with him through the mouths of true be lievers, and go wherever Pilate will go. The Emperor is very naturally indignant at the new species of honour provided for him by the fathers of the Gallican Church. We are accus tomed to hear Sovereigns compared to David, to Solomon, to Josiah, to Hezekiah, and such other good Royal names, if there be any, in the Bible. An official document,a mandemen t,addressed by a Bishop to his flock, and commended to the study of all the clergy, elevates Napoleon 111. to the dignity of the Roman Governor of whom the tradition is that he wandered over the earth, asking the mountains to fall upon him, and found apparently what he wished, far away from Jerusalem aivl Rome itself, in the mountains of Helvetia. We may pardon the indig nation of the Imperial pamphleteer on being answered, not with argument, or with a trial, but with summary condemnation. The bishop instals the Emperor in a gloss upon the Apostles' creed. In this country there are those who would smile at the atrocity of the parallel. Indeed, Englishmen feel that when a man compares an antagonist to Judas Iscariot, or Pilate, or Herod, or Simon Magus, or any other objectionable Scriptural character, the charge answers itself, and there is no occasion to reply to the man who proclaims his own folly and shame by the very language he employs. In France it is evident there is a very different estimate of persons, of things, and of words. The Emperor, or the faithful guardians of his name, tremble for the consciences of the citizens. It is declared necessary to protect the innocent French mind from offensive allusions and improper ideas. The Council of State is charged with the trial of this transgression, and the precedents will have to be ransacked for the right way of dealing with the episcopal fanatic. Meanwhile the crime has been committed, and has been stamped indelibly on the recollection of France. The Bishop of Poitiers' parallels will be read at least as much as " Rome, France, and Italy." It is indeed much easier to call a great man a bad name, and pull d own his reputation to the level of a miscreant than to prove the error of his policy. Under these circumstances we are pro mised an edifying conflict between the civil and religious authorities. Liberty and plain speaking are not extinguished in France. The newspapers may not always say what they please, but the Emperor may be lampooned in every church of a diocess, at the same hour, at the most solemn act of worship. We of this country have too much respect either for Sovereigns or for churches to gibbet the one in the other; and of all odious things a sermon of personalities, or even a personal denunciation in the guise of a charitable prayer, is here the most odious. The Bishop of Poitiers, therefore, will have few friends in this country, and the value of his observations, if any, will de pend, not on the man or the office, but on the statements themselves.—Times. PAIRS FOR CHURCH BATES. FOR SECOND READING. AGAINST SECOND READING Lord Grosvenor Sir Watkin Wynn Mr. Rich Mr. Joliffe Mr. O'Connell Mr. Powys Mr. Esmonde Earl of Bectivo Mr. Cobden Mr. Way Mr. Walter Mr. Hume Mr. Brocklehurat Lord Ehnley Mr. Herbert Mr. Whiteside Lord R. Clinton Sir Charles Burrell Colonel Powell Mr. George The O'Connor Don Sir R. Gore Booth Mr. M. Dunne Captain Bunbury Mr. Mackie Mr. Hornby Colonel French Mr. Hans Hamilton Sir J. Matheson Mr. Bruen Mr. Ellice Sir E. B. Lytton Mr. S. Gurney Mr. Walter Long Mr. Mostyn Mr. Hope Johnstone Mr. Danby Seymour Mr. A. H. Baring Mr. Cogan Colonel Somerset Dr. Lyons Hon. Colonel Bernard Mr. M. T. Smith Mr. Astell Ten conservative, or " liberal conservative" members voted for the bill :—E. Ball, E. C. Egerton, Sir J. D. Elphinstone, W. H. Gregory, Lord A. Hervey, D. Pugh, Lord Stanley, S. Tomline, Sir H. Willoughby, and C. G. Wynne. Ten liberals, on the other hand, voted against the bill : viz., Hon. Capt. Anson, Lord G. Cavendish (who voted against church rates in 1855), Col. Dickson, Lord Elcho, Mr. W. E. Gladstone, Mr. Hassard, Sir Peel, Mr. F. Peel, C. W. Puller, and W. P . Thornhill. GLOUCESTER AND WAKEFIELD.—Mr. T. Dun combs, M.P., intends to renew his motion to try the,ballot in Gloucester and Wakefield. This motion will precede and is wholly independent of Mr. Berkeley's motion to make the vote by ballot the law of the land. THE MURDER OF AN AMERICAN CAPTAIN.—Yes terday the inquest on the body of Captain Pyke, who was murdered on board the American ship General Parkhill, off Point Lynas on Monday evening, as reported by us yes terday, was opened before the Liverpool borough coroner, P. F. Curry, Esq. Mr. Deighton, solicitor, appeared to watch the case on behalf of the American Consul. The coroner, in opening the proceedings, explained the difficulties which ho laboured under on account of international law, and stated that he had consulted some of the most reliable authorities on that question, and they were of opinion that it was his duty to hold an inquest, and he had accordingly determined to do so. He should, however, only ask the jury to view the body that day, and then adjourn the ease until Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. The case was then adjourned. The first mate (Cunningham Campbell), who , was stabbed so severely, is progressing favourably to con valescence, STORMS IN THE BLACK SEA. A Constantinople letter gives some details of the grounding of the Sully and of the loss of the Henri V. in the Black Sea, as already briefly men- tioned The Metidjiah, expected from Trebizond, ar rived in the Golden Horn on the 7th without having sustained any injury, and bringing news which but too truly confirms the fears already occasioned by the incessant storms which have swept over the Black Sea during the last few days. Three Turkish vessels and an Austrian Lloyd's boat had succeeded in getting into refuge, and up to the very latest news of them there was nothing to justify fears on their account. But the Messageries Imperiales, whose departures had not once been interrupted, has to deplore an accident and a calamity—one to the Sully, on the coast near Trebizond, and the other to the Henri IV., at Amastra. Of this latter catastrophe, all that is known amounts to this. The Telemaque, which started on Monday to look for the missing ships, and if necessary to render them assistance, on the night of the 4-sth met the Metidjiah, and announced to her captain that the Henri IV. had been wrecked :at Amastra, but that her crew and passengers had been saved, and were on board the Telemaque. The state of the sea permitting the two vessels to remain within hail for only a few minutes, these few words were all that could be interchanged. The Sully was at anchor on the 25th ultimo, in the Trebizond roads, with two anchors down, and with steam up, in conse quence of the state of the sea. But there was no reason whatever to expect the ter rible and sudden tempest which all at once burst upon her. In an instant both cables were snapped, and notwithstanding that the en gines immediately worked, in spite of every effort to save her, she was flung with irresistible violence on to the shore, close by the mouth of the river Dermen-dere. Her forepart is embedded in the sand : the after part is free. The state of the sea was such that the landing of those on board occupied two days ; many were wounded, and all reached Trebizond half frozen. The Metidjiah - went four times from her anchorage at Platana to Trebizond in the hope, always disappointed, of rendering help to the Sully. The Ottoman steamer Malakoff, also moored at Platana, made similar efforts, but with no better suc cess. The agent of the Austrian Lloyds' offered his services to the agent of the Messageries, as soon as the vessels which he (the former) ex pected should arrive. Such is the latest news brought by the Metidjiah. It consequently is not yet known what may have been the final result of the aid rendered to the Sully by the Malakoff and the Austrian Lloyd's boat, should the weather have later permitted them to effect what the Metid jiah had failed in. The money groups and other objects of value had been saved. We should add that the greatest zeal and interest had been dis played at Trebizond. The French Consul and the Pasha were not content with sending men to help in saving what could be saved, but themselves went to direct the efforts made. The Marquis de Lavalette, also, as soon as the news of the Sully's wreck arrived here, at once authorised the de spatch of the French corvette Roland to the scene of the calamity to render all possible assistance. The Roland takes with her everything that can be of use. Capitaine de fregate Guichun ' in the service of the Messageries, goes with the Roland to Trebizond, where also the company's inspector, Mr. Poirson, who had been on board the Henri IV., now is. Lloyd's agent at Trebizond has also sent the following, which, it will be seen, differs slightly from the above with reference to the pre cautions taken by the Sully before the occurrence of the squall which occasioned her destruction : " The winter on this side of the Black Sea is unusually severe. Owing to the depth of snow which has been accumulating for 10 days past, inland communication has been interrupted. At eight o'clock on the night of the 25th ult., the French steamer Sully, Cora. Audibert, belonging to the Messageries Imperiales, which arrived from Constantinople a few hours previously, with, very fortunately, a small cargo on hoard, was totally wrecked in this roadstead. She was laying at single anchor, with her fire not sufficiently in an advanced state so as to give steam, when a violent gust of westerly wind caused the chain to snap; in two minutes after the vessel was a wreck. She is waterlogged, and embedded in the sand, and no hopes are entertained of her being extricated. The crew was saved, but the little cargo on board is lost. After the gale abated some cabin furniture, sails, and other trifles were landed in safety. The Sully was of French construction, and entirely equipped in France. Only 20 casks of sugar of her cargo was insured in England. THE PROCTORIAL SYSTEM IN CAMBRIDGE.-- An meats arising out of the attempted exercise of the proc torial powers in Cambridge took place on Tuesday night. The Rev. J. W. Pieters, of St. John's College, one of the pro-proctors, was going his rounds, accompanied by his attendants or "bull dogs," when they met two well-known courtesans, one at least of whom is possessed of consider able &Ale capabilities. It should be mentioned that since the action " Kemp v. Neville," and various others, have been pending, no girls have been taken to the spinning house, the proctors confining their attention to the gowns men alone. The rencontre took place a little before eight o'clock, near the post-office, and the proctor demanded the girl's names. The first gave hers " Sally Crowe," but the second would give no other but " Loo." The proctor cautioned them, and was passing on, but irritated by some offensive expression from Crowe, turned and ordered the men to take the girls to the spinning house. The "bull dogs" laid hands upon the girls, who, however, turned upon them like a pair of mountain cats, and a most edifying battle-royal ensued. This raged for some time with varying success, and in the course of it the girls' clothes suffered considerably, their crinolines being reduced to mere skeletons. It ended, however, in it being appa rent that victory favoured the girls, for Crowe had her man " in limbo," and was knocking his head against the shutters, while " Loo's" opponent was hors de combat. By this time a concourse of more than 500 persons had assem bled, and it was evident that their sympathies were with the girls. Mr. Pieters, who had been looking on, here called upon a policeman for assistance, but the officer was ordered not to interfere by a well-known surgeon and member of town council, who was present. This encouraged, the people who had been shouting and hallooing encouragement to the girls, commenced hustling the proctor and his men, and what was a row would speedily have become a riot, had not Mr. Pieters prudently withdrawn his forces, leaving the girs in possession of the field. - FATAL SIIIPWRECK.—The Rev. Richard Tyacke, vicar of Padstow, and hon. secretary of that branch of the National Lifeboat Institution, thus reports a lamentable shipwreck, with loss of eight lives, off that port on Wed nesday last :—" Padstow, Thursday.—Yesterday, the 27th inst., about half-past seven o'clock in the evening, a large Greek brig, from Cardiff, laden with coals, anchored off Pentire Head. A boat with a Branch pilot immediately boarded her, and, pointing out to the captain the very dan gerous position he had selected, the pilot begged of him to get under weigh and have his vessel placed in a safe an chorage. The Greek captain, however, was deaf to all ad vice, and almost rudely drove the pilot from the ship. A very heavy gale soon sprang up, and the crew of the lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution immediately assembled and remained by the boat the greater part of the sight. They could not, however, render any assistance to the vessel, the gale having become so furious, and during the night both her chain cables parted, and within ten minutes afterwards she was literally beaten into fragments, and eight out of eleven of her crew drowned. The Padstow lifeboat has often been instrumental in saving life from wrecks during the last four years. Her coxswain, Daniel Shea, chief boatman of the Coast Guard, who has been off in her on every such occasion, is one of the most daring and active coxswains iu the service of the National Lifeboat Institution. If, therefore, it had in any way been I possible to contend with the terrific gale that blew during Wednesday night, he would have launched his lifeboat. Photographs are simply the effect of Light on lodide of Silver. Defects of manipulation have been remedied, and perfection produced. 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