The Sun. — London, England, 1861-05-13 00:00:00

HEATRE-ROYAL, _ HAYMARKET, Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buokstone. TH IS EvEITING, the performanoes will comm ends w i th a new and original Comedy, entitled BLACK SHEEP. Mr. Suokstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, (to, ; Mrs. Wilkins Mrs. Charles Young, Miss Lovell, &c. , After which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery and effects, and all the original music by the late Sir Henry -Bishop, the melodrama of THE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore, Meadows, Garden, and Miss C. Leclercq. Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Feel-ter. Sup ported by Hermann Vezln, Ryder, Meadows, &c. ; Misses Reath, Elsworthy, and R. Leelercq. N EW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL— Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Reproduction of "The Colleen Bawn. " The Adelphi "Census " every Evening. THIS EVENING, 13th time of a new Farce, entitled A TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford. After which (178th time), TIIE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. D. Boucieault, D. Fisher, Biliington, Falconer, Stephenson, 'C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boueleault, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS. Messrs. J. t,. Toole, Eburne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss Kate Kelly, Miss E. ihorne, and Mrs. Chatterley. Doors open at half past B—Commence at 7. CANTERBURY - HAL I, CONCERTS AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera, UN B.ALLO IN MASCIIEItA , (First produced in England at this Establishment), With a Chorus of Forty 'Vo ices ' Also, Verdi's IL CORSARO, never performed at any other Concerts. Solos on the Cornet-a-0 8 ton , by STr. Levy. The Comic Department comprises the Brothers Conrad (i n their new and inimitable entertainments), Mr. Wood and his talented little Son, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Blanchard, Mr. Hol lingsworth, and Miss Rose Howard. Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGTIMANS. TH E ... r •0X F 0 R 6, OXFORD-STREET, Mr. LEVY, undoubtedly the best performer of the day on the Cornet-a-Piston—Grand Selectirms (on the most complete scale) from Dinorah, Martha, Stradella, ttc., and other vocal and instrumental music, by Miss Russell, the Misses Stuart, and Miss Ernst, Messrs. Charles Greville, Fornari. Kimber ley, Bernard, Beaumont, Bervon, linish, Signor Tivoli, and Hotry Herbert, with full band and powerful and selected chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans.—The following Comic talent, Messrs. W. Randall, J. Blanchard, W. 11. Wie land, Hollingsworth, E. Marshall, Harvey, and French, and the Brothers Conrad in their latest and best entertainment, every evening. Admission, Hall, sixpence; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 4gm.—Afternoon, 4h. 7m. To -MORROW.-Morning, ih. 24m.—Afternoon, 4h. 44m. THE WEATHER.—SUN Ornca, MAY 12, Is6l, THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 50—highest since noon yesterday. 44—lowest this morning and during the night. 56—this day at noon. BAROI ETER-29.78. WlND — North-Easterly —with fine weather. MAY 13. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 58—highest since noon yesterday. 41—lowest this morning and during the night. 50—this day at noon. BAnomyrEu-30.24; rising. WIND—N.-N.-Easterly —with dull, but fine, weather. r i eglP. . .t. ~.. • ~,...,..z ,.4 , ,,,,,, .1,1--. , , gl.7t r :e le h.,, ~. r. ~t • -' -, ~~ic", THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1881. What will they do to-night in the House of Commons? Often as that question has been asked at intervals during the present session, it has never had a more pointed application than to the sitting of the national representatives this evening down at Westminster. The political situation arrived at —just as it may chance to be viewed from the side of the Opposition or from the side of the Govern ment—is either " the beginning of the end," or the end of the beginning. Fel?ruary has gone by— and March—and April. We are getting sharp on into the middle of May. Next Wednesday fort night is to be the Derby Day—the national feast day set apart for what Lord PAL3IERSTON has called the Olympic Games of England, the festival chosen for the struggle for that great prize Mr. DISRAELI wittily dubbed the Blue Ribbon of the Turf. So far as that arewe on in the Merry Month of May : so that June will be here before we can well look about us—Whitsuntide is already less than a week off —and but a very brief interval will have elapsed consequently before the freshness of Spring will have given place to the glow and the glare of Midsummer. Insomuch has the Session already advanced that Members, at any rate, may say (if Ministers cannot)—" Half of our heavy task is done." Upwards of " three" months of the annual session of " six," or thereabouts, we have seen flit by—and now that we have reached the 13th of May, we may ask, without something like wistful dismay, under the circumstances, "IN HAT has yet been done in the way of practical legislation, whether good, bad, or indifferent, by Imperial Par. liament ? Well, about the only headway has been made in the direction of the reform of the laws relating to Bankruptcy. And even there the warmth of our exultation is in a manner chilled by the recollection that the Bankruptcy Bill has been referred, in the Lords, to a Select Committee. So that even in re spect to that, one supposed Ministerial achievement of the session, there has come in mid-course a tan talising moment of interruption. As to the efforts at legislation made out of the pale of the Administration—the efforts made, that is to say, by private members, with the open countenauce or covert assistance of her MAJESTY'S Government —we all know how one after another, with the very rarest exception only, those well intentioned en deavours have come t o gr i e f : un til t h e open aays, the days especially set apart for these un official labours in the ,way of legislation have come to be mentioned simply in derision the session of 1861 being already designated ludic rously enough, and accurately enough for th a t matter, as the Session of Abortive Wednesdays In the meagre ministerial banq ue t set before the Lords and Commons of England in Parliament assembled, at the commencement of this extraor dinary do-nothing session of the Legislature —set before them as ceremoniniously as the blackbird pie before the King in the old nursery apologue- the Financial enterprise, the Fiscal undertakings, in one Comprehensive word the Budget was what may be called (literally by the way) the " piece de resistance!" Such it has certainly proved to be, and that, too, i n a manner the most unex pected. When originally submitted to the House of Comm ons in a speech of more than ordinary ability an d brilliancy, the Finan cial Statement was welcomed e i ther with words of praise of kith respectful silence e.a 1.„.., —ttrae a scheme and an oration Nv..1.12y, certainly, each or them, b y their exceeding cleverness, if our present Ch ltheelior of the Exchequer, the member as yet of the Uni versity of Oxford, the member soon to he for ti l , southern division of Lancashire. Since then, bow. ever, since that still memorable night of Mr. GLAD_ STONE'S last great rhetorical demonstration, hardly anything practical has been done in the way of either resolutely securing or appreciably advancing his fiscal and financial arrangements. Not , without one moment's question, but that there has been one grand field day, or rather field night, when a division was taken in a pore than ordinarily large house, and when the result of that division gave a clear majority of Seventeen to her Majesty's Government. saving and excepting that one advantage, the financial policy of the Cabinet is still, even up to this moment, dubiously before the Legislature, The Administration has undoubtedly gained for itself in regard to its Budget a certain visible and compre hensibleprestige by reason of that signal advantage gained by it over a resolute and daring Opposition. And so far there is in one sense an advance made by Ministers in the Financial Arrangements. But —only so far : not one jot further. To-night comes " the tug of war" coute qui coute--and upon the course taken to-night by the House of Commons will depend the success of Mr. GLADSTONE'S Budget, and througn that the triumph and continuance of the PALMERSTON Government. The resolutions have passed through the Committee of Ways and Means ; they have been embodied in a Bill—that Bill has been printed and read a first time—to-night it comes on for the second reading. It rests with the House of Commons to decide very simply—Ha ve we no t h a d already something too much of this ? Shall we just for once, and for all, Have Done with a discussion which, unless summarily put an end to thus, threatens, in a manner, to become interminable ? We have decided upon having an income tax this year of Ninepence. We have rejected the proposition to diminish the war tax of ls. 5d in the lb. upon tea, in preferende to the abolition, altogether, of the Excise and Customs duties hitherto levied upon paper. Our Financier tells us plainly that he has an odd million or so even then to spare—that if we remit very nearly one million he will still, at the end of the financial year, accord ing to what he himself regards (and he is perfectly alive, we may be sure of that, to his own personal and ministerial responsibility), he assures us, we say that even if we remit very nearly a million of money, as he asks us to remit it! he will yet have a balance in his favour amounting, as nearly as can be calculated, to £IOO,OOO ster ling ! Shall we, the House of Commons— having settled the Income-tax for the current year at Ninepence, having decided upon the con tinuance of the war taxes upon Tea and Sugar— shall we, under these circumstances, refuse to abolish the impost our own financier asks to abolish, namely, the duty upon paper; shall we, in other words, give him more money than he assures us he shall require ? And all this because the abolition of the tax he proposes to get rid of has been loudly advocated by a popular member, whose very popularity has called down upon him from the creme de la creme the invidious designation of De magogue? That, we take it, is really about the English of it after all. That, we cannot but think, is the argument the members of the House of Com mons generally will to-day have put to themselves. The decision they will arrive at in consequence, we shall not have long to wait for. The accounts from America which arrived this morning are, we think, more important than they appear at first sight—and their importance is on the right side. The South appears to be somewhat cowed. Prompt and desperate counsels are its hope. Delay exposes its weakness both in argu ment and in physical force ; hence the haste to make sure of secession before the vigour of a LINCOLN should supersede the tacit aid of a BUCHANAN. Hence the attempts to provoke the North to the first attack, culminating in the capture of Fort Sumpter. Hence also the wish, and we have no doubt whatever, the plotting too, to seize the capital itself. The South has been first and forward in everything, and has thus endeavoured by energy and rapidity of action to make up for what it wanted in military strength and resources. It was also its object to demonstrate to the Border Slave States that it would be for their interest to join the con federation which was fighting successfully for slavery. By the Niagara we learn, however, that this for ward zeal is obliged to cry halt. The capital, first and chiefly, situated in a Slave State, Maryland, is placed in safety, and its communications with the half of the Union, of which it is the real capital, are now perfectly open. Maryland herself has voted for keeping in the Union by a majority of thirty eight. The brutal mob of Baltimore are no longer triumphant, and the Federal fleg flies on the Custom House of the city. The Federal troops, whether Maryland wished or not, determined to use her ter ritory as legitimately belonging to the Union, but it is clear that the respectable portion of the com munity, headed by the Governor himself, always saw that it was for the interest of Maryland not to secede. Not more than one-seventh of her popula tion are slaves, and these were running off fast to the North ; the course of prudence on her part therefore could not be doubtful. But the strategic gain to Mr. LINCOLN and the North is very great. It clears the line of defence for him up to the capital and the river Potomac, and Virginia on the other side of the river becomes the first State in open and armed rebellion. We judge by these last accounts also, that Vir ginia does not like this position. By the last advices a considerable Southern force was reported to be at her capital, Richmond, and JEFFERSON DAVIS to be there himself contemplating a Coup de main on Washington. Now, we are informed, that the Governor of Virginia orders " all military compa nies to remain at their homes until ordered out by the competent authorities." Also that he has notified the President that he would allow no con federate troops to pass through Virginia for tha in vasion of Washington. Either this must be re garded as a magnanimous offer to prevent what could now be of no use to the Southerns, the city being too well protected to fear them, or as a de vice to lull suspicion at the North. It is most likely the former, the Virginians being desirous to save their brethren a useless humiliation, and moreover to take care of themselves ; President LINCOLN having given them an intimation that if they allowed any movements of Confederate troops north of Richmond their capital, he sh ou ld a tt ac k Rich mond and th e por t o f N orfolk. The Virginians accordingly show that they have no wish to see their State become the first theatre of war. Yet this would certainly result from its proximity to Washington, and from Maryland having, through fear of the same contingency, thrown herself upon the old Union. Both North and South the arming continues vigo have passed a seces rously, and Tennessee i s sa i d - to sion ordinance. But, the facts w© have mentioned look as if the South was somewhat cowed at the sight of an aroused North. President DAVIS, in a message, declares that " the South will resist subjugation to the direst extremity," which is pro bably true enough. Still the South in Virginia Practically beats a retreat ; while LINCOLN mov es southward by declaring a blockade of the ports of know, l ong Nor th Carolina and Vi rg i n i a . The South, we set of sh op k eep cheri s h e d th e no ti on t h a t the North, " a farmers, Would ers, mechanics, manufacturers, and never fight the "S ou th ern c hivalry.'' They are pr e tt y much undeceived now by the en thusiastic response to Mm,e that LINCOLN'S fo r e m ig t h l mild na p l o l c i o l proclama tion; oaf tion; and must begin tils whiter, with four millions of slaves on their backs, to fight nineteen millions of freemen, w ith all the resources o f long prosperity to support them, will be a hopeless attempt. The possibility of any attack from the South seems now, therefore, to have vanished. The South will only endeavour to defend its own, 1h their 11;11,1; peopled country of swamps and forests this, in a military sense, will be easy. But the South is not self-competent. It does not grow enough food for itself, and it imports almost everything else. A blockade of its ports will tell fearfully on its pecuniary resources, on its comforts, and on its means of subsistence itself. If it gets over a year or two of rebellion it may become self - supporting, in a miserable way however, but it must suffer severely if the United States Navy can do its work. Whether any of the border Slave States will be provoked to attack the Northern border States or vice versa, remains to be seen. We should not think it likely. Ohio is doubly as strong as Kentucky, and Missouri would more than find her match in the West. We may, therefore, on the whole, rather hope now for an armed truce for a while, and possibly the dreaded general colli sion may even never come. This, however, is like hoping against hope. At the Mansion House Lord ELGIN pointed out the advantages which he felt pretty confident would result from our having an embassy at Pekin. He illustrated it by what had just occurred in Japan in many respects so similar. After the murder of the American, the Foreign authorities withdrew from the capital, and retired to a point where they 'ould have the protection of the guns of a British ship. The Court took fright immediately, and entreated them to return, promising redress and protection. The probability of a war with the European powers was brought home to their fears by the mere retreat of the Consul. Lord ELGIN predicts a similar result from having an Ambassador at Pekin. The Court and the Ministers will then know our views, and appreciate our intentions by direct communication with us ; and he has a strong belief that this direct intercourse, superseding the deceptive and deluding representations received at the capital, through local governors, will be an effective means of preventing future wars. This far Lord- ELGIN appears to have judged quite rightly. Instead of the predicted impossibi lity of maintaining a resident ambassador at Pekin; instead of its being, as we were told, a point on which the Chinese would fight rather than sub mit, they appear, not only submissively and by coercion, but with good will, to have entered into the new arrangement. They have gone so far as to create a Board of Foreign Affairs at Pekin ! The foreign ambassadors are to have a branch of the administration specially constituted for their convenience ; a Chinese Foreign-office, in fact, in compliment to the now acknowledged foreign Re sident Representatives. There is little doubt that ignorance, as well as the pride of old traditions, was one of the chief reasons which made the Chinese authorities so in different to trading with foreigners. While our soldiers were yet at Pekin, the vast customs' re venue which had been faithfully secured by the foreigners at Shanghae, and accounted for to the Imperial Government, struck Prince LUNG with astonishment. He was evidently not aware of it. And we may be quite sure that the less intelligent members of the Royal circle were equally ignorant. Now they see what may be made of us, and perhaps see that a foreigner is a safer tax-collector than a local Mandarin ; they appear actually, and, of course, quite spontaneously, to have pressed on Mr. LAY the collection of the entire foreign customs, and to have invested him with the fullest powers for doing it ! What a mar vellous revolution does all this imply in Chinese views of foreigners. A revolution of opinion which gives we hope the best of guarantees, that no more Chinese wars will upset the Budget cal culations of our English Chancellor of the Ex chequer, and almost create a war in England between the Commons and the Lords. The voyage up the Yang-tse appears also to have been quite successful. The vast emporium of Hang-kow was reached with ease, and the Tae-pings were found, as might be expected, even more amicably disposed towards us than the Impe rialists had ever been, till we first thrashed them and then paid them their dues. The Tae-pings, however, from their religious views, look on the Christian nations as brethren, though at first they thought the Catholics idolators, to whom, like Jews and Mahommedans, they could show no mercy, they being very earnest Iconoclasts. The destruction of many places is quite falsely laid to their charge. It has been the defeated Imperialists who have de stroyed _the greater part of the cities when driven out of them. Both Imperialists and Tae-pings are now become anxious to trade with us, and it may be hoped we shall never be guilty of the crime and folly of taking part directly or indirectly with either party. Neither, now, will molest us. Both prefer to get rather what they can by traffic with us ; and as military revolution is the only form of party contest in China, the only way of obtaining redress of grievances —we have no more right to interfere, than Chinese would have to interfere with our party battle on the Budget. If foreigners in China behave as they ought, they have the pro spect before them of a splendid trade. Their Excellencies the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess d'Apponyi entertained a distinguished party at dinner on Saturday evening, at Chandos House. The countess received company after dinner. The Earl and Countess Vane have arrived in Own. His lordship has taken a residence in Prince's-gate for the season. Lord and Lady Camoys and family have arrived in town from Stonor Park for the season. Sir Victor Brooke has arrived at the Brunswick, Jermyn-street, on a visit to General and Mrs. Basil Brooke. The Hon. H. P. Stanley Monek and Mr. West have also arrived at the same establishment. Count and Countess Baptiste Metaxa and family have arrived at the Hyde-park Hotel for the season. Sir Philip and Lady Pauncefort Duncombe have arrived at 4, tionnauglt •place. Lady Llanover left London last week for South Wales. Her ladyship will not return to town until after the Whitsuntide holidays. Their Excellencies Baron and Baroness Brunow entertained at dinner on Saturday night, at Chcsham house, his Excellency the Persian Ambassador, Mirza Djaffer Khan, who was accompanied by Mirza Hafsan Khan and Mahomed Aly Aga. ARRIVAL OF THE SALAMANCA TROOP SHIP.— The transport Salamanca, Captain Livesey, belonging to Messrs. Dunbar, arrived this morning in the Charnel, with 200 rank and file, in charge of Captain Venables, 97th; Lieut. Graham, 6th ; Fisher, 82d, and Dr. Thistleton. Also Lieut. Lampen, 34th, and Messrs. White and Blunt. One cabin passenger jumped overboard, and was drowned. BAZAAR. IN AID OF DESTITUE CHILDREN.—The leading members of the Roman Catholic body are about to appeal to the charitable of all classes in aid of an object which cannot fail to excite the sympathy of every right minded person—the support and education of destitute Catholic children in London. A bazaar, at the St. James's is the mode which has been adopted by thoactiveleaders mthisraoat praiseworthy movement for the collection of funds and the days on which it will take place are Tuesday, Wednes day, and Thursday next. There is scarcely an eminent name n co o n t n to ec b t e ed fo w un it d h o t n ho th le e a l d is i nt g o fßpoamtraonnsCaantdhoplaictrofanmeislsleess2wahnidcht the stalls will be presided over by many distinguished mem bers of that body. Among others may be mentioned her Excellency the Countess Apponyi, the Marchioness of Lothian, the Countess of N ew b urgh, the Lady Georg i ana F u llerton, the Viscountess Bury, the Viscountess Castle rosse, the Lady Camoys, the Lady Petre, the Lady Dormer, the Hon. Mrs. Scott Murray, Mrs. Washington Hibbert, Mrs. John Townley, and the " Enfants de Marie," embrac ing the daughters of many Catholic gentlemen resident in or near London. The bazaar will be unusually well fur nished, almost all the crowned heads of Europe having for warded contributions on the part of themselves and their families. The doors be will open to the public at 2 o'clock Q A Tuesday, 4114 at /19013 oa the I' 9ll o'6 ll g claYsi ~`. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 13, 1861, iLATEST NEWS. TURIN, MAY 13, The Gazetta di Torino of to-day announces that Signor de Martino will leave on Thursday next for Naples as Lieutenant-General of the King. VIENNA,-MONDAY, MAir 13, A report is current, which, however, requires confirmation, that the Polish and Czech members will leave the Reichsrath on account of the discus sion on Saturday last -on the Address in reply to the Emperor's speech. Another report asserts that Croatia has deter mined to send representatives to the Reichsrath. VIENNA, MAY 12. The Chamber of Deputies, in its sitting of yes terday, voted the address in reply to the Emperor's speech, after a most animated discussion of eight hours. The Czechs, Poles, and the aristocratic party of great landed proprietors, proposed amendments in favour of a federal system. Theso amendments were rejected by a majority VIENNA, MAY 11. Both Houses of the Reichsrath sat to-day. Baron_Schmerling, Minister of State, presented 14 bills, among which were a new Press law, a matrimonial law, and a law decreeing the inviola bility of the persons and the irresponsibility of speech of the members of the Reichsrath and the deputies to the Diet. PESTH, MAY 12, Negotiations have been commenced with Croatia relative to the future position of the military f'ron- tier. TURIN, MAY 11. The majority of the select committees in the Chamber of Deputies are favourable to the pro jected loan. Advices from Perugia state that a violent shock of earthquake was felt in that territory on Wed nesday last. Several persons were killed. BERNE, MAY 11. The town of Glarus has, with the the exception of a few houses been completely burnt down. The members of the Government of Geneva have tendered their resignation in a body, on ac count of the ill-treatment sustained by James Fazy, chief of the Government of the canton of Geneva, not having been found by the jury to constitute a violation of his official dignity. MADRID, MAY 11. It is asserted here that England is about to send a squadron to Gibraltar. Solyman, the brother of the Emperor of Morocco, with some Kabyle tribes, are said to oppose the payment of the war indemnity to Spain. The Emperor, however, shows himself firmly resolved to pay it. MADRID, MAY 12. It is likewise reported that the Moors have humbly explained the difficulty they will have in paying the portion of the indemnity due at the end of May, and offer to pay as much as lies in their power. PARIS, MAY 12. The Pattie of this evening says It is as serted that the Austrian Government has deter mined that, in the event of the adoption of the address proposed by M. Deak, one last effort would still be made by Austria for an arrangement with Hungary. Should this attempt fail, the Austrian Government would dissolve the Hungarian Diet." In yesterday's sitting of the Senate a discussion ook place on a petition demanding the revision of .he maritime convention between England and France. The committee proposed to refer the petition to the Ministers for Foreign Affairs, Marine, and Commerce, which proposition was supported by Admiral Ceci!e, and opposed by M. Michel Che valier and M. Baroche. THE WEST INDIA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 13. The Royal Mail steamship La Plata arrived here at 9.15 a.m., with the above mails. She brings 196 passengers, 423,230 dols. in specie, and 1,800 packages of cargo. By the earthquake at Mendoza 8,000 lives were lost. Whole families were swept into eternity, and those who escaped arc left homeless and starving. The catastrophe cast a gloom over the whole of Chili, as mans of the leading families of Santiago, who had gone to reside at Mendoza for political reasons, have perished. The commercial community of Valparaiso will suffer heavy losses, as a large trade was carried on between the two places. The commerce of Valparaiso is recovering from the recent heavy failures, but confidence is far from being restored. The news from Bolivia is discouraging, the country having been very unsettled since the de parture of Linarez. Peru was in an exceedingly unsettled and dis organised state. A revolution was hourly expected :0 break out. Business was dull in Lima and Callao. The difficulty of procuring exchange caused great trouble to merchants. American gold was selling at :la per cent. premium, and drafts on England were not to be had. In Valparaiso her bar copper was quoted 18 . dols. Exchange on London, GO to 90 days, 44d. Freights, 675. to 755. The ship Marco Polo, hound from Australia to England, with 200 passengers and G,ooooz. of gold dust, put into Valparaiso, on the 2d of April, in a very badly damaged state. She was struck by an iceberg, which dismasted her and caused other damage. At Jamaica, the Cotton Growing Company had determined to plant several thousand acres imme diately, so that the crop might be in Manchester before the close of the year. The Legislature had been prorogucd by pro clamation to the 28th of May. Trade was exeeediugly dull. Coffee was quoted 425. to 445. ; sugar, 13s. to 20s. Exchange, 90, 60, and 30 days' sight, 1,1, and per cent. prem. At Demerara the weather wasifine for the crops. The market remained much in the same state as at the last mail. The Clairmont and Red Riding Hood had arrived from China with nearly GOO emigrants. The weather at Barbadoes continued wet, retard ing the reaping of the old cane crop. The market was well supplied with breadstuffs. Exchange on London, 30 days' sight, 490 dole. AUSTRIA. The Sentinella Bresciana of the 7th describes the strictness of the passport system along the frontier of the Mincio as extremely inconvenient. The Aus trian authorities persist in not recognising the pass ports delivered in the name of the King of Italy. Travellers who are provided with them are subjected tQ the minutest scrutiny, twd treated with rudocoo by the officials. The passports are retained, and a provisional paper is delivered, only available for a short period. The same paper states that a few days ago, while musket practice was going on in the camp near Vicenza, an officer and three sergeants fell down mortally wounded. This created great alarm ; the strictest inquiry was instituted as to the cause of the disaster, but nothing was elicited. The camp has since been broken up. FRANCE. BOURSE, May 11.—The market continues buoyant and prices further improved. Threes, which opened at 69f 40c, are now at 69f 50c. Railway Shares in demand. The following were the last quotations :- 4f per per Cents ... 96 201 Credit Fonder 990 Do end month.... 96 20' Belgian 41 — 3 per Ccnts Do. end month 69 45 , Roman -- Bank Shares 2880 I Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 710 —1 Spanish Threes — —, Do.'Account 712 50 : Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1357 50 .. 1356 25 Northern New ditto 9OO .. 900 Lyons and Mediterranean 932 50 .. 931 25 Geneva.. Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard 498 75 .. 497 50 AMERICA. NEW YORK, Aram 30. (PER NIAGARA, VIA. QUEENSTOWN.) The telegraphic communication between New York and Washington has been re-established. Eighteen thousand armed troops are now in Washington, and the capital is said to be perfectly secure. The prospects of an immediate collision have diminished. A reactionary feeling is displayed in Baltimore. The Federal flag has been hoisted on the Custom House. The test vote in the Maryland Legislature showed a majority of 38 against Secession. The levy of troops, and war preparations con tiuues with great zeal throughout the Northern and Southern States. The Governor of Virginil had issued a proclama tion ordering all military companies to remain at their homes until ordered out by competent autho rity. Washington advices state that he had informed President Lincoln that he would allow no Confede rate troops to pass through Virginia for the inva sion of Washington. President Lincoln has issued a proclamation de claring a blockade of the ports of Virginia and North Carolina. It is rumoured that the Tennessee Convention has passed a secession ordinance. It is expected that martial law will be proclaimed in the district of Columbia in a faw days. Authen tic reports state that President Lincoln has in formed the Governor of Virginia that should any more movements of Confederate troops take place North of Richmond, an immediate attack would be made by Federal troops on Norfolk and Richmond. The New York Herald publishes a letter from San Domingo, stating that the Government of Hayti had proteited against the action of Spain in seizing Domingo. The Adriatic has arrived oat, and the Arabia at Halifax. The Bremen went ashore last night at Coney Island, but was got off, and arrived here safe this morning. (LATEST BY TELEGRAPH, VIA HALIFAX.) NEW YORK, MAY 2. The Secretary of the Treasury has decided upon calling for a loan of fourteen millions of dollars. There is no apprehension of an attack on Wash ington. Jefferson Davis's message to the Montgomery Congress was delivered on the 29th April. It states that the South will resist subjugation to the direst extremity. The City of Manchester has arrived out. NEW YORK, MAY 2. Exchange on London 105. Stocks dull. New York Central 72, Erie 19j, Illinois 581. Cotton dull ; middling upland 14e. Breadstuffs quiet. Provisions heavy. Pork and lard lower. NEW ORLEANS, MAY 1. In cotton only small sales have been effected. Middling is quoted 101 e. to 11c. Exchange is nominal. QUEENSTOWN, SUNDAY. The Royal mail steamship Niagara left Boston on the Ist, and Halifax on the 3d of May. She arrived here at 1.40 p.m., and brought 98 passen gers and 1,200 dole. for England. She landed all mails except those for Liverpool, and proceeded at 2 p.m. All well. The Royal mail steamship Persia arrived here at 7 a.m., embarked the mails, passengers, and the latest telegrams, and proceeded for New York at 4 p.m. All well. BANK OF FRANCE. The following is the account for the month end. ing Friday, May 10: ASSETS. r. c. 111,978,041 52 .. 280,921,483 -- Cash and ingots Cash at the branch-banks Bills due to he paid to:day.. '917;345 63 Bills becoming due in Paris, of which 55,017,483f.120c. are from the branch- banks .. .. 234,811,160 97 Bills in the branch-banks 263,349,261 Advances on coin and ingots .. 32,702,179 62 Do. in the branch-banks • .. 10,813,900 Do. on French securities • • .. 18,328,600 Do. in the branch-banks 9,797,550 *Do. on railway shares and bonds .. 42,534,500 Do. in the branch-banks • . 19,045,100 Do. on Cridit Foncier Bonds .. 560,000 Do. in the branch-banks • . 191,400 Do. to State by treaty, 1848 .. 60,000,000 Rentes of the reserve-fund 12,980,750 14 Rentes, disposable funds 53 708 828 13 Rentes immobilised (law of June, 1857) .. 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank .. .. 4,000,000 Real property of branch-banks .. 6,111,286 Expenses of administration 1,537,844 23 Sundries •• •• •• 5 ) 636 ) 790 78 1,269,926,025 67 LIABILITIES. Capital New Capital Reserve-fund New Reserve _ _ Reserve-immobiliere • • • • • • Profits to be added to Capital (Art. 8 of law June 9, 1857) • • • • Notes to bearer in circulation in Paris and the branch-banks • • Do. to order (Post-bills) Bills payable at sight • • Acc. cur. of Treasury Creditor .. Various accounts current .. Do. branch-banks Dividends to be paid Arrears of values deposited Discount, interest, and expenses Re-discounts of the last half-year Sundrios .. 91,250,000 .. 91,250,000 - •• •• • 12,980,750 14 •• :: 9,125,000 - 000;000 - 2,251,119 40 .. 744,378,975 - •• • • 4,373,129 24 ** 10,500,400 -- 120,848,800 1 ▪ 125,342,554 63 30,148,941 - •• • • 812,527 75 • 3,970,456 70 • 12,492,028 80 • 1 ,820,678 65 . • 4,377,664 25 • 1,269,926,025 57 The first thing that attracts attention in those returns is a considerable augmentation in the dis count•accommodation, the advance being 28 mil lions in Paris and 15/ millions in the provinces. The metallic reserve has increased 15 millions, there an augmentation of 38 millions in Paris and a di minution of 23 in the branch•establishments. Ad vances on French stock and bullion have varied so little as scarcely to be worth notice ; but advances on railway securities are 9 millions more in Paris and of a million more in the departments. On the side of the liabilities, the notes in circulation have increased 12.1 millions. The account-current of the Treasury shows an augmentation of 406 mil lions. Private accounts-current have advancedl3l millions in Paris, and fallen off 12 millions in the provinces. The whole amount of the metallic re serve at present is 3921 millions to 748, 1 ,- millions notes in circulittion, THE MAZER COLOURISTS. A second visit to the East (5), and West (53) of Pall-mall, has doubtless enabled us to form a more accurate opinion, to arrive at probably a more judicious, certainly a more deliberate estimate of the varied merits and demerits visible during this sea son upon the walls of our two popular Water Colour Exhibitions. Seniores priores—and therefore we now cross the threshold first of—. THE OLD SOCIETY. Here, as usual every springtime, are distributed round the four sides of the apartment, and upon the sides too of the four screens still further ad • miring it, as nearly as possible three hundred sepa rate productions. There are for the present year 295 pictures altogether. And as we saunter round the gallery, catalogue in hand, we care not much to turn over the leaves of the latter —recognising among the miscellaneous paintings on the walls the familiar tints and touches constituting the distinc tive style of many an old favourite. Yonder— Frederick Tayler, the Society's President, with his picturesque hunters and sinewy dogs of the chase. Yonder—Joseph J. Jenkins, the Secretary—agree ably reminiscent in the alliterative initials of his name of the well remembered " J.J." of Mr. Thacke ray's .2Veteconzes—j. J. Jenkins with his rustic lasses and their pretty fair-haired children. Here, Topham, with his Irish peasantry. Here, Bran white, with his refrigerating snow-scenes—his name almost a pun upon his reputation, for the frost that drops from his brush is ever fresh and ever new. Now, we are almost " enhaling" the fragrance of the flowers, scattered about by Margaret Gillies and Valentine Bartholomew. Now, our mouth is almost watering with a zestful relish as we look upon the marvellous fruit, still pouring out annually from W. Hunt's inexhaustible cornucopia. The sunlight of Fripp, the delicious river views of Evans of Eton, the exquisite little woodland glimpses of Birket Foster, the wonderful archi tectural glimpses of Carl Haag —are we not all intimately acquainted with them by this time, and yet are they not, if only for that very reason, all the more 'welcome to us, when we revisit their familiar haunts each returning season to scan their contri butions to the new year's collection ? We have scarcely entered the Gallery when John Callow has carried us far out on the windy waters (No. 11), we are there in "The Chops of the Chan nel," watching the sailors signalling for a pilot. In the little oblong, numbered 15, and called " Bab el-Machgaming," Carl Haag portrays for us with a luminous pencil the " Gate of Justice at Jerusalem." Further on in the Gallery (No. 83) is a noble pen cilling from the same hand, another peep into the architectural mysteries of the capital of Palestine, a subterranean view it is, "The Ancient Vestibule to the Southern Entrance beneath the Temple Area," with some marvellous time-worn pillars of gigantic girth dwindling away in perspective. Carl Haag has further adorned the room, in No. 105, with a vivid and poetic delineation of " The Acropolis of Athens," a glorious pyramidal cluster of reddish ruins with the purple hills spread ing around it in the background. Upon the fourth screen, marked No. 284, the same artist has an admirable group of Oriental figures, entitled " A Rehearsal—Cairo," though why so entitled it were difficult to conjecture. What possibly can we say of A. P. Newton's (No. 24) " A View of Menton" recently ceded to France by the Prince of Monaco ? What ? but that the green, blue violet, purple sea rippling up on the beach is, in the literal meaning of the word, more than any passage of music we have ever heard—chro matic. F. W. Topham's (No. 25) " The Angel's - Whisper," illustrative of that pretty little poem of Samuel Lover's, so often suggestive be fore now of pictures upon pictures, though charm ingly fanciful in its three divisions, would have been all the more charming—because all the more natural—if " Dermot returning" had been less of a smooth-faced boy, and more of a bronzed and hardy fisherman. Worthy of W. Evans, of Eton, is (No. 40), " Windsor from Dornly Common,"—with the flock dusting up tho road in the foreground. Plea sant, too, to look upon is (No. 45), C. Davidson's " Sussex Farmhouse " in early spring, with its old ricks half sliced away, and the young budding foliage. S. P. Jackson, in (No. 70) "St. lye's Pier and Bay," has limned with admirable truthfulness the washing-up of the tide upon the level sands. As to Samuel Read's (No. 129) " High Altar in the Church of St. Augustine, Antwerp," we are left to wonder what possible rite can be in course of celebration, seeing that there is but a thurifer visi ble, with his smoking thurible. Frederick Tayler's happiest work this season is (No. 137) " Game keeper's Cottage on the Ist of October." We should have been all the more pleased with Walter Goodall's (No. 149) " Le Chapelet," but that the incidents upon either side of the young mother, in the centre of the picture, spinning, are too exactly balanced—here, the little child playing with the baby; there, the cat gambolling with th t , /Rio A large framework, containing within it (duly numbered) 30 clever little vignettes from the hand of Joseph Nash, will be found worthy of par ticular examination. They would have gladdened the eyes and heart of old John Bunyan, could he have seen them—being illustrations of as many scenes in his incomparable allegory of " The Pilgrim's Progress"—Christian appearing, of course, as the hero of each scene throughout. This elaborate contribution will be found mentioned in detail a N 0.162 in the catalogue. A little further on (No. 169 is " Winter—The Ice-cart," an admirable Bran white. A beautiful thought, very happily expressed by the pencil, is No. 174," The First from Him," by F. Smallfield—a fair young maiden in her night dress reading her earliest love-letter at her bed room lattice by moonlight. Breathing freshly of " Spring" (the title of the picture) is No. 204, by G. Rosenberg, with its litter of lilac, appleblossoms, eggo, and laburnum. We long for akeen-bladed dessert-knife when we pause before No. 238, W. Hunt's " Pineapple." And what can we say suffi ciently in praise of the underside of that currant leaf in his other fruit piece (No. 255), " Grapes, &c."P The same artist has, upon the opposite screen, two or three pictures of a very different character ; one of them (No. 258), " A Chick," a wonderful little gem, " one of a series painted for J. Ruskin, Esq., to be presented to schools of art ;" the other (No. 259) the " Study of a Head"- .-a young mulatto. One of the most vigorous heads in the whole gallery, moreover, ,is upon the same screen, and loses nothing of its power by that dangerous juxta position. It is No. 275, " AM. 1660—The Old Ironcide," by Frederic W. Burton—a buff-coated Puritan who is just reading his bible, and is look ing up from it thoughtfully. The Secretary's (No. 287) " N'aie pas pour," would have been all tho more commendable but that it is a repetition of a better picture illustrative of identically the same incident—a mother cautioning her little bairn to tread bravely after her, over the stream, upon some stepping -stones. John Gilbert has several careless but gracefully pencilled works reflecting, as usual, more credit upon his hand than upon his brain : the most ambitious of these being No. 248, " The Return from the Expedition." Birket Foster re v eals to us in (No. 237), his peep amongst "Burnham Beeches"--the slow and gor geous burning out of autumn. Alfred Fripp, in (No: 241)—a blithe little portraiture of a Boy-Tar —giving to view a happily selected symbol of Young England. Bat, our diminishing space warns us that we are 13 loitering too long in the Eastern Gallery among the Old Water Colourists. We must hasten Westwards, therefore, without more ado, and take another glimpse, however cursory, of the THE NEW SOCIETY. Here—whether because of larger space or greater industry, of higher hanging or of smaller pictures upon the average, we know not—the contributions are more numerous than in the rival collection. Counting those upon the walls and those upon the screens there are as many as 339 altogether. Seve- ral of the artist-members having been singularly industrious—instanbe Thos. Rowbotham, who has thirteen, hires Fahey, who has fifteen, J. Chase, who has sixteen, and D. H. 31Tewan, who has no iess than seventeen. Not of course that mere num- ber can be taken as the sole attestation of an artisVo incluotry. Who absurdity of accepting which evidence as a suffic ien t criterion in such matters being intimated to us, if by nothing else, by the mere recollection of Holman Hunt's marvellous picture of the " Finding of our Saviour in the Temple," a painting upon which it is well known that that master of the school of the pre-Raphaelites was engaged for fully six years—of course, inter mittently. Here, again, upon crossing the threshold of the New Society of Water Colourists, as swiftly as we were borne away to the Chan nel upon passing the doorway of The Old, our imagination is carried away captive almost in stantaneously. It is upon casting a casual glance at (No. 15) by Carl Werner—" The Bridge of Sighs over the Canal San Mario." The quotation upon the catalogue is, of course— " A Palace and a Prison on each hand." Byron. The luminous ripple upon the canal surface, the glorious sunset halo, the shadowed buildings upon either side—all are admirably delineated. It is an exquisite picture. L. Haghe's (No. 63) " The Artist's Studio"—with its orderly confusion of artis tic litter, its costumes, its antique furniture, its busts, its paintings, its books, its living model " in gorgeous array," its gleaming armour, and above all its self-limning of the artist at work at his easle in the distance, at the other extremity of the ateliers, will be examined with peculiar interest by those who have long learnt to admire L. Haghe, and to appreciate his rare abilities as an artist winning fame and fortune under extraordinary physical difficulties. It will startle some, for the first time, doubtless, to see how the painter has depicted him self at his easle—at once left handed and single handed. What is this, actually in (No. 88)-- "Elaine ?" Yes, really and truly another Elaine. We have already had Messrs. Charles Goldie and Brewer's ingenious representation of the incident described in glowing verse by the Laureate. This, it will be remembered, was in the Suffolk-street Gallery. We have since then had Mr. Wallis's clever picture upon the same theme, now on view at the Royal Academy. And now in the New Society of Water Colourists—it is Edward H. Corbould who depicts, in radiant colours, " The Lily Maid of Astolat," as sung in melodious verse by Alfred Tennyson. It is a vigorous and beautiful delinea tion—but we are beginning to tire of the scene : and so pass on. We pause before (No. 98), by John Absolon—pause, more with a sense of disgust than of horror. Mdlle. de Sombreuil is about to save her father's life in the Reign of Ter ror, by drinking a glass of warm human blood—an incident described (and for the sake of humanity, we console ourselves by believing also simply imagined) by M. de Lamartine. The representation of this apocryphal horror is here—. as visibly revealed to us by Mr. Absolon's brush— merely loathsome. It has not anywhere discern able about it one touch of tragic passion or one soli tary line of beauty. We turn away, sickening, from a painting that art and nature would alike seem to protest ought never to have been produced. Sketchy though the picture is in itself (No:109), " Genevieve," by Henry Tidey, is especially welcome to us, for inasmuch as it realises with a grace and tenderness not unworthy of the scene depicted—the innermost core, the very heart of hearts of one of the most exquisitely beautiful minor poems in the whole range of English Literature ! That culminating stanza of " Love," sung in delicious accents by the poet of Christabel : "She half embraced me with her arms, She pressed me with a meek embrace, And bending back her head, looked up And gazed upon my face." Coleridge. An incident from Sir Walter Scott's Talisman is celebrated by G. H. Laporte in (No. 116), the en counter between " Sir Kenneth and Saladin." Aft, later on in the catalogue, it will be perceived that J. M. Topling (observe, not Frank Vance, R. A. !) portrays the features of Sophy Waife, the child heroine of Sir Edward Lytton's What will he Do with it? we question very much whether anything in the way of a delineation from rustic life could well be more ridiculous, or, for that matter, could well be more unlikely, we had almost said impossible and utterly preposterous, than G.B.Campion'slarge sized and elaborated picture of an " English Harvest Home—' The Last Load " (No. 118)—with these extremely absurd reapers dancing a deliberate pas de deux right in front of the loaded wain! The wheels of which, by the way, are throwing up such clouds of dust that the team of cart herself must certainly be carrying it onward at the ratio of ten miles an hour—a pace that must involve by inevitable necessity the certain destruction of those, slowly twirling votaries of Terpsichore ! About this most charming contribution in the whole collection this season of the New Society of Water Colourists is, to our thinking, Augustus Bouvier's (No. 14a) " The Princess Elizabeth Prisoner in the Tower ♦ lss4"—the prettiest little incident imaginable, sug gested to the artist, so says the catalogue, by sa passage in Miss Strickland's noble biography of Queen Elizabeth. A little girl having found BOW, keys—a diminutive bunch of keys more suitable for jewel-boxes than for prison doors—runs aft'!" the fair-haired young Princess while she is walking in the gardens of the grim old Tower of London, and plucking her by the skirt, and standing eagerly on tiptoe while she (the child) is holding up her glittering prize prattles inno cently to Elizabeth—"she had brought her the keys now, so she needs not always stay there, butt might unlock the gates and go abroad !" The con ception of the scene is not more graceful or more bewitching in its pathetic naturalness, howeven, than the artistic reali3ation of it as a work of arit, is, both in colour and drawing, entitled to our highest admiration. There are other works fror the same fruitful easle, noticeable elsewhere upo the walls of the gallery, but this is by far the most ambitious, and for that matter also, the most indubitably successful. A minor work of Augustus Bouvier's, a little cabinet picture hanging upon one of the screens, we should be ungrateful if we passed by without one casual word of commendation —so sweet a glimpse is it of rustic beauty peeping• coyly from her lattice. The picture (numbered 299) appearing in the Catalogue as "The Nut Browne Mayde"— Fair maid with lawn kerchief and bright cherry bows, With lips red as sorrel and eyes black as sloes." —W . . Charles Kent. It has been remarked that among all the numerous paintings now on view at the Royal Academy Ex hibition the only nude subjects are those contri, equal truth, we b e li eve, that the only buted by W. E. Frost the Associate. It may be m season after season upon a rke walls semi-nude of the Wate r C o l our G allery, are those subjects visible u r theremarked w it h visible in the classic themes selected by Augustus Bouvier. Instance this year (No. 176) " Lesbia"— not the "Lesbia hath a beaming eye" of Tom Moore, but the sparrow-loving Lesbia of Catullus. Instance, also, from the same hand (No. 6), the voluptuous form of " Olympia." We must hasten onwards, however—if only to note in passing Carl %Verner's (No. 189) powerful symbolism of," Venice in her Pride," that awful revelation of the Secret Tribunal of The Three sitting in Judgment. Edmund Warren has in (No. 212) " Rest in the Cool and Shady Wood" a marvellous vista, in truth, of sylvan shadows and sylvan coolness. It is a work of such singular merit and careful elaboration, that wo arc hardly surprised to find it marked at £4OO. Looking at it, we cannot but marvel why the artist did not obliterate that long line of the sweep ing branch rendering almost odious the upper part of this otherwise delicious shadow ing forth of the English Greenwoods ! Upon either side of Mr. Warren's woodland scene there is a picture painted by command of her most gra cious Majesty. These are companion illustrations (by Edward H. Corbould) to Adam Bede, George Elict's masterpiece. One (No. 218) is a bewitch- Dinah" as she app eare d w h en ing delineation of preaching from the cart to the villagers. The other (No. 206) is a d eli neation (intended, doubt less, to be yet more bewitching, though, to our mind, it is not nearly as bewitching) of Hetty as she appeared in Mrs. Poyser's Dairy when making butter to the great admiration of Captain Donni thorne. They are two really charming pro. ductions, and are tolerably Certain, we may presume, to be sooner or later engraved. Porthole (No, 238) is another lovely i Vi E at