The Sun. — London, England, 1856-04-03 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.- It Is respectfully announced that her MAJEbTY'ti THE4TRE will RE-OPEN early in May. Engazgments. of great interest.hava been effected both in Opera and Ban, and the best exertions used, to make the arrangements worthy of the °Cession. _ • The prospectus-will shortly be issued. .EPTA,L. DRURY-LA3M . Leone% Mr.S. T. Ranh. THIS rxzwrt. a; • • THS BOHEMIAN GIRL. .. • • • •'1 a e . utelnde wttli TOE DA:SORTER 'OF THE REGIMEN' C. THRATHR ROYAL, HAyMAIIKRT. Hader the Management of Mr. Buckstene. THIS EVENING, THE EVIL (WEIS. • -Rearmed hy FL GAMBUS/NO + • or The MexLpfita-GOdSgekg -, +, wtdeh PER Xi and the Spanish Dancers will appear. After whiolly, LEND ME. FIVE ISM - LUNG% To conclude with A DAT.7OIIT4R TO MARRY. .~A JROI4A.T. FRusagsws TEIEATRR, oxpoßD4TßiczT. Code the Ilitnagement of Mr. CiUutLs. ILhAh. Ting ITVENTTNG, • • ITENWT = pieta -Katherine. Yrs. C. Kota; Caritial Woisey, Kr. C. Kean. ' After whieb, THE VICTOR VA,NQUISIIRD. - To conele.de with , • ' • . A PRINCE FOR Ali HOUR. . • ,E4rlZ 10 ADZIIPHI. • , PrQDriator, Mr. B. Weheter.--Diroctreas, Madittlie TIIER gVgNING; . 4-, ; : h t is • • . . TARTUFFE. -—; , e To conclude with _• s ZLCK AND I;Ett-r sTA.I".% itaria,o,l42 An d : mother Poosee.t.,Liome Main. /n which Memoirs. J. Bland. P. Bedford, Madame Celeste), Miss Wyndham; and Miss E. Arden'will appear:... ROYAL OLY ANC THEATRt. Lessen and Manuer. Mr. Arti•ed Wigan. TUN EVENING STILL WATERS RUN DEEP. After which will be produced a New and-deOly-moral. though e tcessively.old, Melodramatic fait* Extravaganza, entitled THE DISCREET PRINCES%; er, the. Throe Glass Distaffs. Is which Messrs. Emery, F. Robson, ii. Cooper, Miss Marston, and Mrss e ifaskell will appear.. • BOYAR SIT3REY TTIZATRt. teisiee, Messrs. Stieplierd and Creswick. THIS EVENING,' WM be performed a new Drama, entitled HOW - WE LIVE IN THE WORLD . OF LONDON: • Followed by TTIFFIXHIIISEN; or, TileLaryer's Legend. To cone-lade-with VHF: CORBLRR ANI) TAILOR. _ , ABTLEY'S ROYAL AMI'IIITRRATRZ. Lessee and Manager. Mr. Wm. Cooke. Glorious Impress of public approbation! THIS EVENING, The most extraordinary and exciting exhibition. that ever was represented—an English Steeplechase, with all its incidents, from the starting to the winning post. The.oerforlearie,es commence w:th THE A.RAII OF TITE DESERT ANI) YiTB FAITHFUL STEED. The acting horse, trained tiyAir. William Cooke. Double Tight Rope, the Misses DaecY• SCENES in the CIRCLE, and the Postgean's Knock. Drame Equestre. with ENIL AND'S HARVEST HOME an'i NATIONAL ENGLISH STEEPLECHASE. Box-office open trona.. Eleven till Four. Stage Miniver, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director. SU' gr. Cook", inn. ROYAL MARYLRBONE tIitgATRE. Under the ➢fanagement of Mr. FAward threat sue:;eSi of the new management and pieces, scenery, Ace. VHS EVENING (Thursday, April 3, .1856)•_, the new drama LOST, .£30,000, sunportecl by Messrs. Stuart, Stirling, Belford, Mlss An 'erten, Morel!, &e. After which, BOOTS AT THE SWAN'. Mr. Lewis'Ball, of the Theatre Royal, Sadler's Wells. To conclude with a grand Ballet Dlvertisement, by Mr. Harvey, entitled, THE DUMB PO;TILLION. Tne inimitable Charles Mathews hat heed engaged for 5 n , Aits only, and will appear on Monday, April Tth, 1856. . E 1131,1 STANGICY'S "SEVC:sT AGE 3 or V7 ° 0311.7. n " -- SecondSeavon. Thls Lyric Entertainment hal been crowned bi the Unanimous approbation of ALL Tilr. LON'DON JOURNALS --- -. As the gre %test artistical triumph of the day:lt constitutes an Opera. Comely, and Vaudeville. With a host of charact,rs In Correct COs tames ; wad Songs in SIX DIFFERENT LANGUAGES,; Never attempted by any other artiste. • Evening performances on Mondays, Tnesdays, Thursdays, and F-Idays, at S. Morning performanees on Wednesdays and Saturdays at half.past two, precisely. Admission--Chairs, 3s. ; Centre Seats, 25.; Back Seats, Is. SAINT MARTIN'S HALL, Long-acre. . WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. MTH DAY—Miirn. 12 min. aft. 12--Evening 39 min.aft. 19 Tn-Nronsow—Morn. 3 min. aft. 1 --Evening.26 rain, aft. 1 THE WE A.THEa—SUN OFFIdg, AI IL 3. THERMOIIRTER, IN TRIP. SEIADE. 63 highest since noon yextorday. 48 —(,went this morning and during th. night. 51.--this day at noon. . BAROMETER, 21.88 WIND, S.W.—Fresh and squally, with dark scudding clouds, charged with rain. Last evening, we had a slight sprinkling of rain. 12 o'CLocK.—Sil &lit rain ; more coming. Tr-Th ••, i ; * Mfl LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1856. Notwithstanding the Treaty, so hastily and im providently concluded, there is more work for the British Plenipotentiaries at Paris. On Tuesday evening the Marquis of LANSDOWNE was unable to state " on what day the noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs would be in England !" There are, we believe, many arrangements of paramount importance standing over, which may not finally be disposed of for a very censiderable_time. AL present,. and until the /signatures of the contract ing parties had been' definitively attached to the all-important document, the representatives of. Russia were all concession and amiability. Any reasonable request was promptly and gracefully acceded to, and they could_ confidently appeal to their conciliatory demeanour as the best guara.ntee for their future conduct. But the motive is 12Qw .They d remove may _fe el assured that, whatever quibbles or prevarications may be resorted to, war will not again be pro claimed, and we may therefore expect that , every vexatious impediment will be' opposed to the fair and legit unate results of t he bases agreed On being ever obtained from . the unwilling hands of RUssia. It was ; to- say the least of it, an act of singular imprudence to surrender the hold we had od Eds . - sia until every matter had been 4.nally concluded —more. especially until the frontier questions both in Europe and Asia had been settled beyond the possibility of dispute or doubt. There were,- however, reasons for this unseemly and injudicious haste. The .people of England might become impatient,. and insist ' on s ome as to very inconvenient explanation s . The armistice . was expire on the 31st March. That; -however might easily be extended. But, still worse, thea,:te r recess would terminate on that - day, and the re presentatives of the people might possibly exhibit some very untoward and perplexing interrogatoriea to Ministers. It is true that up to this time there have not 'been any demonstrations of insuboidination. Many: Honourable Gentlenaen, of whom better things 'might have-been antici pated, were contented to hug - their collars under the Ministerial manger, and to let the negotiations, proceed as if they had no interest whatsoever in the resalt• But such extraordinary forbearance could not 'always be anticipated. The charm might be dissolved at any moment, and with very unpleaeant consequences to the occupants of the Treasury B enc h e s. Besides, according to the new-fangled' G er man system, which is (if possible) to be substituted for the old British constitutional practice, every s h a d ow of pow er was to be, trans ferred from theLegi l slative branches to the Execu tive. It could scarc ely he supposed tha t the chesen representatives- f the people would have acquiesced without resistance in 'this abnegation of their functions, and even the hereditary Legislator s had lately a ff orded a striking proof of their unflitLeh ing determination to support their owu priviliages against, an . y i n yasion. It was, therefore, desirable to avoid- the possibility of a coroi c t i n w hich Germ:alien mig ht blow and receive a heavy grea t discouragement, and from which it could scarcely hope to oseaPe unscathed. We should, net, there fore, feel greatly su r F ised if instructiiiritiiid tr TH_E _SUN, LONDQN,_THURSDAY EVENINei s z_A:P_RIL is, 1856 to the people has been for a very problematical advantage to our foreign trade. The limes declares that, "as we require gold to meet balanc9s of. debt to foreign nations at periods When our exports have not been fully suf-, &lent_ to pay , for our imports, we must have some . means of converting our.. circulation into this material." And this is, in fact, the sole argument that can be urged for our complicated and ruinous monetary systema foundation , that will, by DO , means sustain the elaborate:superstructure that has been erected thereon.- We Contend that this <provision would: be adequately made by leaving the supply`to private enterprise, and rendering gold, as it. ought to be, purely an article of mer chandise:, Of course, the A'atienal Bank, for the purpose of sustaining the value of its notes, would, although not ' required to do so by law, keep • a certain supply' of the pre cious metal , in its coffers, or, 'possibly, what would'-answer, the purpose of keeping the exchange favourable to England just as well;' might hold a certain amount a securities easily convertible] at the principal foreign exchanges. But in addition, there would be capitalists always ready to deal in matter that offered a reasonable prospect of gain. The contracts for the purchase of foreign commoditiesmighti if ne i civary, be made payable In so many ounces of gold or silver bullion,'Or. in money coined for the express purpose of foreign „ - trade, and the purchaser.wonld have nogreater risk in calculitine-the preMium, •if any, which he might be coulpepedt6 Pay,-lhan he Would at pre sent, to estitnate the possible increase in the -Mi nimum rate of discount, on the enhanced difficulty of obtaining money on any terms whatever. The fact is the foreign trade is a mere " raw head and bloody bones," a bugbear raised for the mere purpose of " frightening the isle from its _propriety," and inducing the people who will not take the trouble to think for them selves to" commit their interests into the . hands of the currency quacks, who reap golden harvests [-from their credulity and, apathy. It is time that a stop should be put to this system; and that a National . Bank, with National Notes of 11., 21., and 31., should' prevent that fluctuatilan n the value of money; and in ih - O rate' of interest, which has been " more injurious to the nation (teste RICHARD COBDEN) than the. failure =of all the Banks of Issue that have ever yet stopped paYment." Lat the ..Monetary: Re formers give for this all-important point " a long pull, a strong► pull, and a pull altogether,"' and they may be assured of speedy aid complete suc cess, that will place the welfare and prosperity of the nation on a firm and enduring basis. , The French Fire-Insurance invasion, to which we so early called attention, has compelled the defenders of the national revenue to appeal at last to the House of CommonS. The Chancellor of the Exeliequer *as very confident at first that Englishmen would not rely on a French guarantee against loss or damage by fire." Experience has taught him better. The War and the Alli ance have at ,leait -„given us increased confidence in our neighbour ; and, with reasonable reliance on her business associations,, it is not in human nature to pay 125 per cent. more, for the same advantage, tb an; `English thdn to a French-cons- pang. AmthigstoAT own circle this, at least, i§ not the case, .for , we known of I. : 4dy-cla'y -cies being talien in. Le FriiNcu. We eairtiof ddubt that, if the present duty were continued, and the French companies' operations; in England not ren.: dered it muss issue in our largest insur ance companies dissolving themselves, and be coming reconstituted am French offices. It will be, hOwever, matter of regret if the affair does not „bring the subject of Fire limn auce Duty fully under consideration: The pre sent rate of the tax is absurdly' exorbitant ;` fully 200 per cent. on the first-class risks I.—a rate' of duty wholly at variance with our present corny , mereial and fiscal principles. We , do not deny that equal taxation for insurance'on English property, whether the insurance be granted by an English or a French Company, is a fair free-trade arrangement, since it specially , favours neither country ; but the other great principle of commercial taxes that of moderate diities, as distinguished from duties which seriously check consumption, , is flagrantly contravened, by such . an anomalous Govern- , ment ' charge. The only Secretary of a Fire Company, so far as we remember, who has'a seat in the }louse of Commons, denied, indeed; - the probability of a large,: increase ' of insurance lausi neSs, by a'reductiou of the duty front three shil , lingS toone-shilling - per cent. Insurers in his ()Ice will probably think the _worthy Secretary had an eye rather to the five per cent. received by his office =from Government for collecting the dirty than to the interests of the awured. A worthy Tory of the' last generation, a kind of Insur ance ELDON,: his experience of byegone times bears but little upon the views and habits of the present day. The two facts that in France, where there is no duty 4 seven-eighths of the pro perty is insured, ,and ,in England only one-third, are clear evidence of the effect of the duty, for it will lacier , be as.serted; we presume, that English men are less provident than their volatile neigh bours. perty. We belielie fully as much. incendiarism, on 1 the whole, occur in regard to other- property-m . l in ,regard to farming stock,: and there- is!not, there-' -• The injurious working of the duty is very much due to the - fact that Fire Iniurance is a dead" charge 1 in the vast majority of cases, not a penny of what is paid comes back to the insurer In any shape. If he lays out hjs money - ;in life 'insurance he receives it again, in the reversion he secures for those most dear to htm ; if he . invests- it in articles of core meree which pay duty. he still gets a profit npon them." but Fire Insuiance is simply'provision against a loss—a loss which, it is true, if it oc curred, Might beggar hiir—but a loss which it is, say, thirteen hundred to one whether it will occur in a first-class risk, .andperhaps a hundred to one even in,thonaost hazardous risks. Hence thou sandg will not pay - an' exorbitant Government' duty lor mern,proteckion--againSt.' a possible loss - The offices' charge is tio small that any one - Would rune inpur that than' haiard theo f a possibility • serious loss. lb is the pi+ovoking extortion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer which persons resent, and too frequently to their own erabarrassaient Or even nun. TR - EA - TBIOAL GOSSIP. Several-of the London papers deny on authority ; that Miss Charlotte Cushman has taken the lease of,the Haymarkpt Theatre.:' All the gasconade o a City paper is 'conneOtion with this subject has been thrown away. Among other felicitous things 'it , was stated that Miss. Cushman intended visiting New York for the purpose of making engagements —the artists •hete being far superior to those in London. On the strength of this item all the little varieties of the profession have been airing themselves, and commisserating the London, ma nagers in a truly ludicrous Manner. No one fa miliar with the. English stage need be told that the sta.temerN is sihiply ritliculons. There are some excellent actors here, but they can lie counted up on the tips of ,the fingers, and are driven ; into obscurity by, the mention .of such names as Compton, Benjamin Webster; Howe, Buckstone,. Keeley, Leigh Murray, Harley, Chippendale, Farren, W. Lacey, Robson, Wigan,.C. Mathews, and Wright ; or, amongst.- the. ladies, Miss Rey nolds, Mrs. Keeley, Mts. Stirling, or the new Lon don actress, Miss Blanche Fane, and a score of others we could c mention. &Me very bad samples of English actors have'arrived in this country, it is true-, but the reason is, obvious—really good artists are better paid, there than here. Now, if Miss Cushman really did want to make arrange ments in this city, she could only find three gentle men who WOuld make an impression on a London audien3e. We i . refer , t to John Brougham, .Rarry Placide, and William Burton, actors so admirable and so infinitely, above anrother artists, - comic or sentimental, An., . this city,.. that we :are almost ashamed to chip; theni - into'. a disciision . of this character.—From a New York Paper, ,of Tuesday, 18th March laot. • - fore, any excuse fur permanent exemption of landed produce on that score Now, therefore, is the time to petition. Every one who has a hundred pounds' worth of property is interested in doing it. All who are actually insured, conStituting , as they do the great body of the electors, are of course directly concerned in the repeal, or large reduction of, this semi-bar barous duty. Insurers in other countries are not disgraced and punished for prudence in this way. Were insurance here, as it ought to be, duty free, and were it heavily taxed in France or Russia, we may imagine the, self-complacent censures our Hon. Members and Chancellors of the Exchequer would deliver on the rude fiscal devices of those countries. As it is, even Mr. GLADSTONE and Sir C. LEWIS must own that their compeers in Paris and St. Petersburg can still teach them something: 6T, "!, .As we observed very recently, the unfairness of the tax, as a class tax, ought also tobe insisted on,. Land and landed produce wholly escape it: Owners of =combustible property, farmers excepted, pay the whole of the insurance duty. The lords of the soil, as such, enjoy either natural or legal imnann for 'the soil anti its produce. The en tire incidence of the tax falls where it is hardest to be bOine.: Landlordilai% by this a sum more than equal.: to the entire: ,fire insurance duty. - We v f °lll 4PO:th4 attention of Mr. ITADvan, R'lngutsox,, Mr. HANKii and all the members who 4)te' • • - a, ted the ,interests of the non-agrioul. 7 tural community on Tuesday night, to this •im -IPanrdt a e - d n' c ree7ety i, sei i r ijra t They should ask that - b® ri - umjct to an annual charge of 3s. per cent: `on iti - Valne, if the fire insurance duty l ..."; 4 t B 4 llB d) and oi course that farming pro :petty should pay the duty paid by all. other , forwarded to Paris to hurry on the _conclusion, even at the cost of leaving many paints standing emit. for future consideration. We trust, how ever, that. full explanations will be demanded, aye ; and firmly enforced, that neither House , of Parliament will submit patiently ,to the contu melious treatment to which it has iseen subjected. The magnificent Fleet now assembled at Spit head, complete in every respect, would have acted as A perpetual memento to the People, and have kept the irritating sore open. There are now no less than sixteen sail of, the line, seven steam-, frigates,' eight steam-sloops, eight. steam -gun-, vessels, 'And. seventy steam gun-boatr, lyingin the Vicinity Of Portsmouth, all ready ler immediate' action, exclusive of the formidable squadron at Plymouth. .Had these gun-boats been available in 1864, ",or even in . 1855, what might not have : been effected! , CHARLIE POT would then have have had no excluie for his inaction. A. good ac count should have , been rendered not merely of Bemarsund, but also of Sweaborg, and He/sing fors,' of Revel, and Hango. Even the quasi iMpregriable Cronstadt might not have afforded adequate protection to the skulking cowards who had their blood-stained buntings under its bat: 'toles. But so long as JAMIE Krirriin presided over the Admiralty, and the Philo-Muscovite GLAD§TOHE held the seals of the ExChequer, there was but little chance of- obtaining what • was essential for - the viiorous and energetic conduct of the *Tar.. But now that they have been obtained, cui bone ? The expense has been^ incurred properly, and wisely incurred, but for whOse advantage ? Not that of the British People ? They see with regret and indignation the terms which they were in a condition to enforce frittered away until they have no- . thing but their victories and undiminished 're sources as their own , reward—while they have the satisfaction (?) of knowing that Russia has suffered neither loss nor humilation beyond the severe and decisfve defeats wh i ch, her troops have sustained on every occasion when they were op posed to the gallant soldiers of France or England. This was ,not what the British People bargained for. It is not a fair equivalent fOr the liv es of their brethren so uselessly. sacrificed or for the tens of millions lavishly squandered in obtaining a - result in.every respect so paltry aud so con temptible. On Thesday-night the Chancellor of the Exche quer obtained leave to bring in a bill to continue 'certain corerositions payable to bankers, who had ceased to issue bank notes. This power would cease and determine on the Ist of August next, thus clearly indicating the intention of Parlia ment than the Bank Charter Act of 1844 should not continue in - operation beyond the time therein fixed, 'Viz., 12 Mont from the Ist of Angust, 1855. Sir G. C. LEWIS has asked for an exten sion of time, until the Ist of August, 1857. rre has thus virtually bound himself .to legislate within the present session, so as to be prepared to give the' necessary notice of that to the Bank of England before the Ist ,of August next And, indeed . , as we last.week' pointed out, he has no possible excuse, now' that the treaty of Peace (!) has been "_signed, for delaying . that full and complete discussion which, according' even to the bullionist organ ; "cannot be arranged too soon.', It is, therefore, high time for the Jgone tary Reformers to bestir themselves zealously and efficiently. , They have energetic and wily Oppo nents to encounter, men who have realised im mense profits from the existing state of- afnirs, and who' will not, withent a determined contest, relinquish the hold which they have, and the control which they exercise over the trade, com merce, and manufacture of the country. A con fliet is inevitable, and if , they let slip the golden opportunity,' many years must elapse' before such another can possibly arise. It is by no means improbable that . Sir G. C. LEWIS may introduce a distinct measure; without' ` any preliminary inquiry. 'lle 'has, in , faCt, all the materials for legislation, and, with the assist-' ance of Mr. JAMES WILsoN, may be enabled to deal with the all-important question in a liberal and comprehensive spirit. But the latter Gentle man has, since . his accession to the Treasury Benches, maintained an ominous silence on this interesting question, and even the Economist has cautiously. avoided alhision to what was once, par excellence, its favourite tOpid. We cannot there fore judge to what extent the views of <the Hon. Gentleman may have been modified by the as- . sumption of Ministerial glasses--; and even if rightly.disposed, as-- , we hope and believe may be she case, it is of paramount importance that his hands :Should be strengthened by a distinct ;ld -unequivocal expression of public opinion. The great points to be enforced are, the establishment of a really National Bank of Issue, d.nd eoneurrentlytherewitb, so far as practicable, " free trade in money." 'There is no possible prerogatives 'of the reason why one of _the chief Crown should be delegated to a trading and irre sponsible corporation, however wealthy or re• spectahle. Experience has proved beyond the possibility of doubt that its interests are frequently Conflicting with those of the working opulation or the eauntry;.and it follows, that the directors will look rather to the benefit of their immediate constifuents_ than of the community at, large. Such extraordinary power with respeeL,to the re gulation of the currency, " the life-blood of na tional industry,"' should only be entrusted to parties appointed by or responsible to the Govern ment or the Parliament, and the issues of notes should—he regularly deeided in. the Q 1.1.39 of._Com mons as that of Exchequer Bills is under the existing system. There could be no possible question as to the security and efficiency of a Government note for all domestic purposes. They would p9ssess the same guarantee for their redemption that Consols now have, with the additional point in their favour that they would be receivable in payment of all thities and taxes, and every claim that could be P ut forward on behalf of the Governinent. It vr6llld. learcoly be necessary to exact that ' the y abi:;oid qinstittite a legal tender, for none vronld dram of , would carry with refusing that which receive in exchange for' a n y which, any merchant, it " .a purchasing power,"' and . , or tradesman would gladly he dealt, simply .because; he the e b lr e • a commodity in which would feel "a perfect assurance that he .could at a3ay moment . it • away at the_verY rate Or price ' at Which hpayh had received it. Indeed the organ of . The u i . onist,s has cotteeded this undoubted.fact. Tunes of the 26th October last contains this remarkable p assage : "Supposing this," (i.e., the Paper 6, . citlation of the country), to be required solely for internal commerce, no necessity could exist fo r gold beinyheld against any portion of it. A d,_ posit of Government-Stock, or the fact of its being receivable for duties, Would at eel times keep it tfrom -fluctuations‘ in value." After this unequi vocal admission cadit qnestio. There can be no.. necessity for , arguing a point that has been dis tinctly conceded. 'by the adversary. For all domestic, purposes, then, the national notes of • convenient . denominations from IL upwards,. • iould_ -ibe _ all , that.: could .be required, and '.aal tlifilalareist 'and low, and auffoript.ocoaßioned- ' A... - a THE MISSING STEAMER PACIFIC. A letter received - at Lloyd's, to-day, from their agent at Figueira, dated 24th Mkrch, siya : " The Skipwith, arrived here from Newfound land, fell in with ice to the distance of 200 miles from the land, and 'saw the lights of a steamer in the ice.' " The Skipwith left St. John's,' Newfoundland, 13th February. - - - - - THE MILITARY BOARD OF INQUIRY. (Meeting This Day.) The board of military officers appointed to inquire into the conduct of those officers inculpated in the report of Sir J. I'Neil and Colonel Tulloch, actually commenced their Unties this morning in the Great Hall, Chelsea, which had been conveniently and comfortably fitted up for the accommodation, not only of the persons mere immediately connected with the inquiry, the officers whose conduct is to be inquired into, and the witnesses . to be examined, bnt also the public. The arrangements for the press are excellent. A body of police waa present, under Superintendent Gibbs, to maintain order and prevent inconvenience, should eager crowds assemble to witness the e proceed ings. The inquiry was fixed to commence at 11 o'clock, but, probably owing to the many times the public have been disappointed as to the exact day when the commis sion would sit, the small number of persons present this _morning is to be attributed. At half-past 11 o'clock the filloming general offi , , , ,ers, forming the board, dressed in full regimentals, and with their various decorations, entered the ball, and took their seats at the table :—Sir. Alex. Woodford, Lord Deauchamp, General Rowan, Sir John Bell, General Peel, M.P., General Knollys, and General - Sir George Berkeley. Sir Alerinder Woodford took th? chair, as president of the Board of Inquiry. , The Judge-Advocate (the Right Hon. C. P. Villier 4.P.) read the Royal warrant appointing the . Board, and stating the purposes for which it had been consti tuted ; .and, next, a letter from Lord Palmerston to Lord, Panmure, informing him officially of the appoint ment of the commission and the scope and nature of the inquiry. The President inquired of the Judge-Advocate if he could inform the Court the names of the officers who had been inculpated by the report in question, and who had complained in consequence ? The Judge-Advocate said that, before he received the Royal warrant, he applied to the ComMander-in-Cisief for the names, of the officers whose conduct had beep, in culpated by the report, and who had complained to him in consequence, and also a similar letter to the Hone Guards, and he received in reply the names of Earl Lucan, Earl Cardigan, Sir R. Airey, and Lieutenant Colonel Gordon. The President handej to the Judge-Advocate the form of proceedings for.tbe Court. The Judge-Advocate then read the regulations, which- . 'stated that the proceedings of the Board would be con ducted, as near as possible, with the practice of Ordinary, military courts of inquiry. Evidence might be given in writing or orally, The Court was not empowered to examine witnesses on oath. Every military witness would be at liberty to decline making any statement that might af4rwards be 'made the subject of a charge for a court-martial' against hint, but that having, done so it might be used against' him. Tue cases of persons whose conduct bad to be inquired into would be taken sepiv rately. The Judge-Advocate then asked the 13.vird to con=' sider what docdraent try evidence they wished to be brought befoiethem ? • General Berkeley, asked if any summonses had been issued ? The Jadge-Advocate replied no, because summonses could only be issued 'under the direction of the Boar I. Tee officers whose names had been mentioned had haa. no official notice of the meeting of the Board that day. communicated to them. They could only know of the meeting -officially by the ;surnnionies, which would be issued to them under the direction of the B 'ark!. ` General Berkeley—Are all these officers in town ? The Judge Advocate could not say. He thought that by Monday next there would be time enough for every person interested in this inquiry to be summoned. The Board than deciled that copies of all papers that had been laid before Parliament relating to the officers id question should be laid before the Board. The, Judge-Advocate said that all papers bearing on this inquiry, if for - warded to the Judge-Advocate-offiep, ,hould be laid before the B tard. The Board, after a short consultation, decided that the. Earl of Lucan's case should be taken first, and di rected that summonses should be hrthwith sent to him and his witnesses, requiring his attendance on &Londny next. The Judge-Advocate asked if the 13 , 3ard would require, in the first instance, the name/ of the witnesses to be examined ? The President replied in the affirmative, and added that the officers who wished to call witnesses ha', better have them in relliness to be produced when called„ upon. The Judge-Advocate said--Then, it is decided that this inquiry shall commence on ➢Monday next with the nese of the Earl of, Lucan, and proceed afterwards with the officer next in rank to him, and observe that course t iroughout the sittings of the Court ? The President—Yes. The Judge-Advocate—Then, do I understand the Board to direct that no summonses shall be issued to `no other persona than those whose names I have read ? The Preshlent—Yes, The-Judge-Advocate aaid,,Then -the Board will wait, for fresh applications from persons who think they ought to appear before the Beard The President—Yes. The Judge•Advocate—Until other persons appear complaining, you are unwilling to isine summonses to them l• The President—:Yes. The Judge Advocate—ls it your wish, as a matter of °courtesy, that some notification should be made to Sir J. M'Neil and Colonel Tulle* that their report is to be called into question by this inquiry. I am not aware where they are,to be found, but I suppose there will be na diffieulty in finding them out by applying . at the -Horse Guards ? The President —Ye g , The Board then decided that the court would sit daily after Monday next from eleven a.m, until four p.m. The court then adjourned to Monday next at eleven o'clock,.when the court will proceed with the case of Earl Lucan. The Earl of Eglinton entertained a large party of officers of the 1-t Life Guards, and other friends, or A . Tuesday evening, in St. James's square. There were present Viscount Powerscourt, Viscount Elmley, Via count and Viscountess Ingestre,_ Sir A. Hay and the . Misses Hay, Col. Park er , Col. Hogg, Capt. Bateson, Capt. the Hon. W. E. Duncombe, M.P., Mr. Biddulph, Capt. Wyndham, Mr. Patten, Mr. North, Mr. Grosve nor, Capt. De Winton, and Mr. K. Fraser, &c. The Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Emma Stanley are expected in town to -day from Knowsley. Viscount and Viscountess Sylney are ,expected _in town to-dajr from Frognal, Kent; , ly iNlars Wood has issued cards, for a reception on Wednesda y, marriage of 9 the Ladythinst.l e t dl Russell miralty The w ra JameS'Wandesford Butler is fixed to take plae t i.thi s morning, at St. Peter's Church. The Right Hon. R. Vernon , Smith, M.P., gave a dinner, last evening, to his colleagues in the Cabinet. 'All the Ministers attended except the Earl Granville and the Earl of Clarendon — the latter being absent in Paris; and the foinacr.' we regret to learn, too unwell to attend. Col. Sir g. K. C. 13., has been appointed to succeed o eedG f tenhe.!tSiait rrd rG i l:o ia no c c o k mp as a o ny n . e ihe nominated ,THE.-fifrkiOUS PRICE r TO THVEDITOIEOF TILE BM , 77 SIR,—I am glad to see the tone you taken on this premature and dishonourable peace ' • at least that one member of our ' firesi stands up for what is true and bonest 7 -not that I expect that anything can turn our countrymen to what'is due to. themselves. Germanism, as you call it, is paramount. The influence behind the Throne is all the more powerful becauie it , can act in the Moist profound searesy, and without the slightest respon sibility. There his doubtless been a secret understanding for some time past "between our Court and Lot* Na poleon, and the preasurii that the Coburgs could not and dare not bring directly upon our Cabinet in the matter of peace, torus, &c., bad been: done through Louis Na poleon, Ertfiaking intim name of France. The'Gorman alliance has bee•n the curse of this country.' If the Queen had not had a German husband,.Aberdeen would never haie been Premier. If Aberdeen had not been,Premier we should not have had the Russian war, ,so that the matrimonial connection with Germany , has cost the: country in the last two years thi r ty thousand, precious lives, ald 50 millions of money. But John Bull is' a contemptible animal •be will stand anythiag. If you vrAot a proof, look here : 'By an overwhelming majority tif the House of Commons Aberdeen was ousted; and stigmatised as the - author of our calamities. - Within tvio months of that time A , bt rdeen, branded by the House of Conimons and public opinion, is rewarded by Germanism With the Order of the 'Gantt% The House of Commons saynothing, and:*he country hardly murmurs. I almost - begin to fancy that Bright was right after all ; And, as war wasnt ver intended o, advance either the h ono ur of England or the liberty-of the orld, it would have beep better to have isaved our Sons antrour money. cording to the Tim 4 dde are tcilavei the' pleasure of pay. ingthe income tax ;flit two years longef. - As for the oountry not standi4lt, that's all nonsense; _ they will stand anything. We are now, it secins, alsnto be involved in an addi tional German tie by the Prussian marriage. ~ Another herie for. John Bulli•Jo: that if the reigning.faiuily of Prtissia get into trell ' hte we shall be called on•to defend theln, not in the na'ineof theTrincess Royal—no, crafty dogs—it will be for the'defence of Protestant principles att4cked in the plrson Prussia; but as a nation vie desprve it withn4tA murmur ; we accept the'diotuni that no Englishman fs 6 toocl enough for any of the Royal ]or the present Aberdeen's views are carried out and , , we ishall have a truceierhaps for 20 years ; but there are those probably living who will remember and rue the dayi when, to use yotmown-expressive.words, .“ The fight that was a cross wat,oloseel-hy Peace ,that= was a Sell." Ai opt O in shame I ng to subscribe myself, yours, +t Aril - AN ENGLISHMAN, 2, 1 1h5 3 e I I THE DEATH- OF A 311 S i 1 1 ,11 { i irMT -77P----- ~ • -', <; 1 TO TEMEDITOR Or THE SON.' `.• : ' 1 , , , Spt,---In your paper of the 28th of F§brnary, an arti cle ]appeared, headhd' . ":self:Starvation—peath of a `igider," wherein it was' stated that nearly the whole of his property had been let to ' the Eookbindtrs' Alms ' beuses. I beg to inform you this is an error, the society bldg much in debt, it may possibly mislead, and cause parties to whom it is indebted to think the society in a , phsition to liquidate:their claims (which, unfortunately, it iq not). A correction _of the error in your ialu a bl e journal will giiiistollige the Committee of the Bo*. t. lyiniiers' Asylum ome y. : f''' T. JEFFREY, S e cretary.. ; . 1 ! 1 r `1 ER MAJECSTIONTIiqATRE. understand that Mr; 'Tinley, wholitri - Wow at Paris, has secured the "Cot. 'fikirl)," which has had,a greater success than 'any balldt f.he last 20 years, and still continues nightly to at. traa crowded houses.';" Malanie Rosati; the heroine of tote Corsaire," has been engaged for her Majesty's Tll(;,atre. 'Mr. Buchanan, formerly_ Anaerican Minister in Lon,. chin; is at present at .the Hague, where a great diplo. frratic dinner was given in- his honour by M. Btilmont, the ?American Minister in Holland. • 'MADRID AND SARAGOSSA RAILWAY.--"The Itfadriti , Gazette says that the Grand Central Railway Company of Frapce has ceded half -fif its concession of the Madrid to Sa'ragossa Railway to M. Weiswiller and M. Bawer. LATEST NEWS. 1 5 1A,MBURGH,' APRIL 2. , .1 , -; The rilgrii - cr(iveruree n t has transmitted order s by the telegzaph to Commodore Watsen, to quit the, Baltic and to return to England with his squadron. ST. -PETERSBURG, kratL 1. An Imperial manifesto has been published to announce that peace has been concluded—the Aject 'Of the. war having • been attained by the guarantee of the — recognised rights of the Chris tians. The manifesto adds that it will be necessary to readjust the frontier -line of Bessarabia,' in order to avoid all risk Of collision. ?' .. •S n BERLIN, APRIL 2. The French, English, Sardinian, and Turkish diplomatic agent yesterday visited the Russian Ambassador. On Saturday a grand fete will be given at the Rtiasian Einbassy on the occasion of the conclusion of peace. All the diplomatic corps kaVC been invited. • - • Our advicefi frotn .. .the Danubian Principalities slate that tle Russ ians had allowed 163 vessels Vlach had 'been detained in the Danube to leave. TUR4.EY. A letter 'from Constantinople, in the. Siecle, dwells on the Opposition which, it declares, is made by all classegin.that city to the Hatti-Scheriff of the .18th Feb'. The Turkish functionaries," it says, "join very freely in this opposition, at, the head of which isa man who has played an important. part in the history of these late years, and who has passed in. ihe:eyes of Europe tor a reformer. I allokle to the et-grand-vizier Richard Pacha." A letter frorn;Constantinople of the 20th, in the Posit Ampt Gafttte, s ays Tho. Porte has it in, contemplation to send in a short, time to all the friendly powers a memorandumzelative to the at-. titude which Montenegro has hitherto assumed to- wards Turkey ? and in which, note' she threatena to again send troops to variotis points round Montenegro, as was done in . 1852. • This plan is said to be a favourite olib Of Omer Pacha." FRANCE. YARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Emperor yesterday received answers from the =King of Wurtemburg and the Swiss Confe deration to the notification of the birth of the Prince Imperials. _ :By decrees in the k► Moniteur the, Emperor has made two proinitiong to the Crank of officer and 14 nominations of Knight in the Legion of Honour, and! granted 13 military medals to efficers,..nont commissioned officers, and privateS for distinguished services, principally in Algeria. . - Aali-Pacha Will give a grand ball on the 10th, which the Emperor of the French, it is thought, will'honour with hispreseince, as the Sultan did the ball of M..Thouirenel, at Constantinople. The invitations, 800 in niimberwill be issued on the model of those of the Empress at the Tuileries. Count d'Appony, the new Austrian Ambassador ale Codir . of St. James's, has . paid his diplo 4tc visits previous to his departure for London. 'Boum; April 2.-4 he folloWing were the clos ing quotations . oath. tre e. li'per Cents “ 93 75 3 pet Cents 1,4 72 70 New' Loan 73 50 End of Month. —f. —O. • 73 55 .- Bank Shares 3,500 t Roman Credit Mobilier." „.1,660 Austrian Belgian Fives' Spanish Threes Piedmontest (5). - - BAILWAYS—FOB CASH. rg. Orleans tiorthern 1,005 Strasburg [goes ..... 1,275 New Ditto F3O Mediterranean 1,675 Grand Central Lyons Geneva BO5 Teel Cette 750 Austrian'Com...,... :420 _ , 1 APSTRIA. A letter from Vienna of the 29th nit., in the Post Ampt Gaiette qt - Frankfort, says':— " The Emperor, on the l6th, sanctioned the regula tions of the mortgage-section created in the-National Bank of Austria. This section will commence opera: tfOni on the Ist of Forty tnillions of florins (0(400,000f ) in bank 'notes and all the sums resniting . frOm , loarwupon-security-form its capital. Loans will Only,be effected upon half of the property mortgaged, and etwAipaJil. either- in ready money or in certiti catesi' of loan, as may b e agreed on by the parties. The amount of interest and mode of repayment are also left to pi. vats agreement. The mortgage-section may issue certificates of to ..n to five times the amount of its capi tal, but the sum total.of certificates issued must not ex- . ceed that of the mortgages. The National Bank is au thorised to discount the certificates, and to wlvance money upon third. The certificates may be quoted and read at the Exchange. The directors of the Bank are to, fir;(4le interestt of the sums which they advance." 11tUSSIA. At the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of PrusSia on the 29th ult., the affair of the stolen, despatches was brought on the tapis, d propos to the 'vote for the expenses of the secret , police. The Left demanded that the credit should be re duced by one-half, but this proposition was nega tfved- M. 4 :ie Oatlach, the-chief of the Extreme ight, who has l a t e ly ma de strong complaints a g ainst the conduct - of the police, voted with the ft on the ocSiiion.. - , As to the complaints of M. - de Garlach, they sill perhaps be never fully known, for thdreporecurrent at Berlin is that the breach of trast'committed 'to his detriment will not be made thgisubject or any criminal prosecu , tfOn; whatever may be the wishes of the principals, interested. - - ; . , On Tuesday night, (April 1) Cardinal Wise man en 7 1 ;tertaineda.uumerous party_of the Catholic clergy-at hie': hciu,ie in Yorkplac-s. Thirteen English Catholic bishops were presentr - Ticco i -the-hlind - Sardinian minstrel, was: Eingal,ed to perform there. . .. -• - --•ArsTBALIA.—By way of Panama and New York, aeecnints are said, to have been received from Sydney, 'Mei South Wales, in". 45 days. The Australian: markets. were dull and provisions heavy. In Melbourne oodles& '044, 8,000 tons of flour aml wheat had been -stored' for ,1...4tht of sale, whilst several'eargoes were on the way `The ,irnport trade of Melbourne was dull, ' .;;The Anglo-9aliforniAn Gold Mining CoMpany has received advice Inp,to: ; the 19th February, accompanied . brA remittance of 129,0 z. of gold obtained from quartz Whioh was selected as' the worst, and stamped_up fur the purpose of giving solidity to the beds of the _EGYPT. stamps rather than , With a. view to obtain gold., The.. .:, : ALEXANDRIA, MARCH 23. Machinery worked Admirably. Th . _ , : ~. e India and China , mails' arrived at Suez on . TWo ECLIPSES. -;-There will b e two- eclipses this 'Month, one of the stint (tot A) on S a tu r d ay ne xt, ; t he sth Vie 18th, and at Alexandria on the 21st. The irsit4 of-the the other the nioon ( partial ) Sunday, the EuXitie, with the Southampton mail of the 4th of . 2911 i inst. B.)th will'` invisibl e at G reenwich. Mareli,ltrrived ofithis harbour on the morning of; ~. Nnw PHILHARMONIC SOCIETT.--rThis , soel e ty corn-. the 20th ; but in cons e quenCe of very stormy wea 10need their fifth season last night, at the Hao.over-. tber", did not get in before the' 21st. , • soh re It •oms. The programme included two new and . The Alhambra, with the overland mail of the intPqrtant wor k s by Mezirt, never b efo r e heard in this ],Otte of March, due 'bete from Marseilles . on the , :country, Beethoven a emptier/ in B flat, Mendelssohn's 19th, has not he` arrived, and the steamer at Suez planhforte concerto in G minor, ano several other works. ii a*aiting hei: 'arrival. _ , '' ' • Or the highest merit': The-, principal vocalists , were Al French - Ma fame and Miss Rudersdorff, Mr. G. Penes ,; Herrsiestas, leaves to-day for Malta and Marseilles. 'Greggorio, and Ht•rriltotitanski ; the solo inStrumen. - tatiste M. Sainton, • Mr, H. Blagrove, and Herr Hand; The Viceroy Said Pashai has gone up to Cairo to' and Dr. Henry Wyldeewas the co n d uc t or , ' take possessiolL9f a palace on the Nile he has just 'ROYAL COLLEGE OF BllRGEOsS.—The.followiiig gentle, bought from One of his nephews. ': , • men; having undergone'the necessary examinations for ' The deepening of the bed 'of the canal which con. the dijilOma, were admitted Members of the college at netts Alexandria with the Nile, and which was to the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 31st ult. : have been done in February, has by order of the -Messrs. W. Pownei, Fowey, Cornwall ; E. Dairies' ' ' -Viceroy been put' off i n d e fi n it e ly,. a lth o u g h in the Wrexham ;C. Willi ams, Dolgelly, North Wales ; Cr. beginning of this mouth several thousand Egyptians Teniperley, . NorthOmberland ;W. 4bbott s Smith, had been collected - there and the necessary prepare- Southarn, Warwickshire ;J. G. M. TyAl c k,'Atatiriti l A ; tions made to oitiity out the work. - -The plea given. D; T. Edwards, Cardiff ; C. Langstaff, Andover, Hants _ , ) for this sudden ch ange is that there is still Vic, much and S. G. Johnson, Sepney. "'and that it would cause great, ': water in the canal - The subscripti on i n l b e h alf of the Misses Brandon is • 1 Morta ity among the people working at it ; but this we are happy to hear, receiving. many kindecintribution: the Duke of Bedford having sent 10 of in aid of might "have lbeen foreseen; and, if. 'really a good the fund. These ladies, the - dauhters - of the late well- reason, the peasants should not have been dragged kilofrom their own field - work' just at the time of "known James. Brandon, who -fora period of forty-years ' away was:the box•keeper of CoVent=garden Theatre* have lost gathering in their crops , and . made to bring their their entiritiiropor:. ty,.,hy tbe late calarnitoue'fire- Mr, own , provisions from great distances . , , to. be told Surinan, one Of - th e proprietors of the. theatre, Mi. that' they were now to return to their villages as •Mitehell, and Mr. Bartley, have kindly. undertaken to well as they cad,' and that they will have to come receive subscriptio ns , w hi c h a t *sent,. we hear, amount , back to the canal in the course of !he. SlP:liner. • tce2,7o/. It is hoped this sad; case will receive much The' canal in question is 'of vital , importance to urtr aid.i : Aleiaudria and the trade of Egypt, as by, it all the - E AMERICAN MMES;—tisiiittoot, Wearies la y . — produce is brought down from!' the interior. It haa 'PlieUnited States ;mail steanieship Baltic;'Capt. James b • tuai Ciiinstgek, sailedi ' ' -th M this rem. e . ersey is mornin g Janus but still now een-Aur ly:close4 since : J . , . .... , Said, Pasha does not Seem to flunk it of any conse o'clock, . for New York, with the wire,' mails for ihe' Uniltd States and I3ritish North American ' • queue ;er'hor-doesilte,consider the sufferings he thus. possessione, 56 passengers , and a full cargo of merchandise on froight• heaps upon Ili' s e poor inhabitants., Th Etre. i s , no Time Unit e d S tates Mail steati - ship Hermann , Capt. Hig- dOuht that the wprk , might have been effected ju s t gips; and the F renc h steamer Barceloone, Capt. Morin, DOWi and that with a little precaution and some , the former for Breinen and the latter for Havre, were attention to the wants - of tiler men there would` • ' to leave New York on the 22d ult. - The Hermann will not have been any particular call-at Southampt o n t o l an d ma il s an d'passengers, and them. Mortality among will likely arrive there on Friday. The, next outward The works of the line otrailway from Alexan maiii 'will be codieyed by Oh Africa;' Capt.. Shannon, dria to Mareotis, 17 miles in the Desert to the vqiieh will sail from; this port on Saturday morning next,. I westward of the town, bare been begun. The ..• the EXTEN ' aIVE Finp' ! —Last night a fire broke I engineer of thetlairo and Suez . Railroad and some out On the premises Of Messrs . Marlborough and So.. . I . of his staff have been ordered away from that im tbe extensive Newts Agent.,; No. 4, Ave-Maria Lame i.portant line to attend .to - * the Mareotis RailwaY, The! premises were iotal destroyed ; but having, a strong room, all their accLit-books are faved, and by 1 Which will nesre4 an extra or di nary effort all their parcels:were got off by in all probability s be of use to the country, and will .y ,be' abandoned on Said Pasha' tl 4 .e ,morain g mails a n ii the business will be carried on; death, as it l ea d s to an u ninhabited, uncultivated ,. uutd the buildi ngs are res t o red, at their other extensive ; and' Useless sp o t. It is thus that a large 'sum of pre tees, N. 30, Gracechurea-street., . „ HighneSs, on the 114.3 a of a 1 money will be literal's) , thrown away; while his A Snip Viihnoiin)irTian.—Advices *ere received ' deficienc of revenue, at. Ltoyd's yesterday 'Of the total loss by fire of the ship has cut down by' one , ` quarter the : salaries of all Nonpareil, ;Cant cirell , of Dartmouth, while on her ~- •.., those who in his service. voyage •awn London - 6 Balaklava with a cargo apatent No: are . . publicliotice has been taken here as yet of Etna fuel. The dieaster took place on the Bth ult,, the the -' 'ta * b the . Sultan .: f the ' ' vessel being about 90 - miles off Cape Matapan. All the offi cial . aCeeip nce y IL° proposi- L . endeavour s of the =few to stop the fiery element were tutus in the fourth point of, of the Peace Conferences without avail. trildcii these ci . :cuinstancee they were. and of the Imperial decree 9f the 18th of February. 'compelled to take to !the boats, and were fortunately Perhaps Said Paisha'is waiting that it may be offi.- 60011 after discovered, by . the ship Jessie Miller, Capt. 'cially co mmunicated to him from Co ns t an ti n ople. Taylor, which vessel immediately bore down, took them Meh eme t Ali in his time. had the intelligence. to see OA Mann, and landed thelf atllieFirtenionthe pal sit. that his existence and pOwer depended in a great measure upon the good opinion of Euro* and the general principles laid down ii, the Imperial decree have long been tacitly recognised in Egypt. _The Christiansbave not been subjected fun:jure iikorousi laws than the Ma,homedans i and many of them are in - the army: - No, difficulties have been made with regard to the possession of landed property by Europeans, though the latter bitherto have felt some Uncertainty' as to "their titleS. 'Christian churches-have been raised in Egypt wherever they were required without molestation, and Mehemet . Ali generally, made a gift of the ground for their erection. The English Protestant church occupies a most prominent position in the great square of Alexandria,the Roman Catholics have two churches, and the 'Greeks- have just completed a' very 'fine large church, and all toil their own bells. The English. Consul of . Alexandria,, backed by our Oonsul7General, has recently refused , to marry a Protestant English girl to a Mahomedan Egyptian, though both are anxious to be united: The plea given is that- the Egyptian is not subject-to the. Authority of the British Consul, and therefore by the laws of his own country he might divorce his English,wife_ the day after marriage, or take other wives besides herself, and the C o ns u l w ou ld h ave no po w er to protect the girl. But independently of thii reason 'our 'Consuls are animated with the desire ofdisconntenancing the marriage of English women with.natives.of this country, for--they - lead to misery and disappointment on the part of the wives. The Egyptians who are sent to England , for their education are generally taken from the lower; elesSes, and, though liberally prOvided for while in England, - on their return to this country they have to begin life on a very low scale, with a pittance.of seldomimore than 60/. yearly. some parents in England,: seeing ; the Egyptians abun dantly supplied with everything, imagine they tenet hold high rank in their own country, and do not hesitate giling them their daughters in niafriage. nut these marriages, though binding on the part of the ivomenif are not binding on the part of the -. Egyptians ) .who are subject only to the laws of their own country ; and the men, though they may have imbibed some civilised' ideas while in England, soon return to their atural propensities, and ne gliact their English 'wives, or do not heSitate to make additions to their harem, and the wives bit terly regret the step they have taken. - , M. Alphonse ,de Rothschild, of Paris arrived here from Constantinople , on the 13th, and throiigh the influenCe of the French Consul the Viceroy has placed a steamer' at his disposal to visit the upper country: Mosi of the travellers who have spent the winter in Upper Egypt , have returned- to Cairo, and are leaving for Syria, either by way of the Desert or by se3 from Alexandria to Jaffa. Lord Portarlington has been making a protracted stay at Ipsamboul, in Nubia, excavating anticittities. Lord G. Paulet is gone to the Crimea, on a visit to his brother. Lady Pirie embarks for Jaffa by. the French steamer to-morrow. Trade is particularly dull in Alexandria. Ves sels go away empty, or get miserably low freights-- 3s. to 4s. per quarter—as there is little or no pro duce in the place for shipment ; the canal being closed, none can be brought down. Cotton is almslit the only article in tolerable abundance, as it is biought down from Atfeh and across from . Rosetta on camels' backs. Exchange keeps up at 100" piasters per pound sterling, and, the sovereign being worth 101 t, does not answer to import - specie, the expenses on which amounts to 2i per tent. Letters from Jerusalem state that the now Pasha of that province_is animated with the most liberal sentiments, and is thoroughly carrying out the principles`lately adopted at Constantinople of libe rality :towards all creeds and denominations , of people with a desire to ameliorate the condition of the inhabitants. The Pasha of Jerusalem hand his suite attende d divine service in the English church on Epiphany Sunday,'and visited the English hospital and the English' sehool, leaving handsome donations for each. • Some disturbances, attended with bloodshed, having occurred in the district , of Nablous,. in consequence of the Governor of the district being . very obnoxious to the inhabitants, the Pasha of Jerusalem deposed the- Governor, who was a Turk, and installed a native iu his stead, which has given general satisfaction. The Pasha has been visiting• the villages and towns under his authority —a thing wh ss ic(h r,. w as never done before by any of his prede ceA good deal of rain had fallen in Syria; go that the crars will not suffer so much as was anticipated from the drought in the early part of the winter:, TI e Greeks. are .oultivating land, to a great ex- • tent ii . abd abiqt Jerusalem, plantin ) l olive and mulberry trees, and building silk-mills. They have latVy made a very good road to the Convent of the Orme, which has been almost rebuilt, and where they have a college. Almost all travellers now succeed in visiting the Great Mosque of Omer, the site of the Temple, though they have to make large presents for the privilege. The Jews, however, are still unwilling to enter the Temple, from fear of defiling it, be cause they believe that the Ark of the Covenant, containing the two Tables of Stone, was buried on that spot by Jeremiah when Judah was carried away captive to Babylon... The excavations under the city of Jerusalem are also frequently explored ; but the entrance, being exceedingly narrow and low, is very difficult. These excavations -are of great extent, and are formed into vast arched cbambers, which seem to- have been used as quarry to supply the materials for the walls of the Temple.' LLOY'D'S''SHIPPING.-(This Day.) LONDON, April 3.—Wind this day at noon, E. fresh breeze and cloudy.: PLYMOUTH, April 2.—Wind S.W.-,-Sailed—H.M.S. Scourge, for the west coast of Africa; Protector (s.), Rio Janeiro. .POUTSMOUTH, April 2.—Wind S.S.E. to S.S.W.—Ar rived—lda, from New Orleans; H.M.Str, Esk, Sheer ness ; 11.M.Str. James Watt, Devonport ; H.M.Str. Reels, westward, with two gnn-boats in tow. Sailed-- 11,11.5. Resolute, for the Crimea; H. 111.8; Magicianne, Milford. FALHOUTII, April 2.--Wind S., strong.—Arrived— Castine Segundo, front Monte 'Video.;- Laineste, Bahia, both for Havre ; ljniethr and Seline, New Orleans. fonx, April I.—Wind S.E.— Arrived —Jessy, from Barbsdoes. - CowEs t .441 S.—Airivetl--Betti and Jo• hanna, for China ; Masonic, New Orleane. .PILL, April 2.—Wind. S.g. —Sailed —Dnibrody, for Quebec. LOSDONDERRIZI Ayr]ll.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Arrea. times from New Orleans ; a brig, with mahogany, St. Do mingo. LOWESTOFT, April 2. —The Robert and Mary, of and from Sundetland, has put in with damage from , collision. with the Leo, of Jersey. SWANSEA, April'2.—Wind Ogilby, front Coquimho. •Htir.i., April 2.—Wind S.W. -- Arrived -- PrineeNS .• Royal, frau - Rio Grande. , (PEE RLEOTRIO TELEGRAPH.) LIVERTVOL, Thursday Morning. Wind t: Arrived —Kestral, from Islay; Imperial, Mobile; 131eugy Cbirique ; Mary Stewart, Alexandria ' • Magician, Puerta Cabello ; York, Mobile ; Tamaulipas, Malta; Redbreast, Mszagan; Lotus, New Orleans; Quiz, Jersey, QUEENSrOWN, April'l. • Wind S. Arrived —Pandaro from Alexaadria; itothean Pef nan2boco; Chase, Paraiba ; Jess ,v Barbadea; Starlight, Manilla ; Lizzy Brindley, - Rio Grande- CholeiV Porto Rico; Eleanor Grace, Syra. (81' SUBMARINE AND SSITIjH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday, 10.34 CIL 4 Wind S.W., tide half flood; fine. "ailed—Black Friar, for Madras; Alarionpol, Constan tinople ; Euphemia Fullerton, Genoa ; Bemerton, Ham burg. DEAL, Thursday, 10.22 a.m. Wind S.W., moderate. Passed.—Adelaide, from Terceira ; Charles Kean, Rio , Grande ; Avalanche, Colombo ; Madawaskis Callao ; • Africa, New Orleans.; Linda New York _; 'Lady Ca therine Bayham, Jamaica ; 'Lloyd's and Nile, from Calcutta; Runnymede and Foam, from 'Whs.:ono& ' • Star of Peace from Bideford ; St. Michael, from St. M itt's ; all for andon; Braddro ' London, Jersey; W. B. E cran t o s, vv Charleston, Bremen ; Seraphine, Pernambuco, Bremen; Vulture, screwasteamer, London, Cardiff. Anchored—Penope, from London, for Genoae ROYAL DISPENSARY FOR DISEASES OF THE EAB.--" Yesterday the animal meeting of this institution 'was held at the dispensary, Dean-street, Soho • ^ the' Riv. Davis Lamb in the chair. The reportstated that during tbe past year 1,089 patiente.had been *admitted 0:1. the books, 376 were discharged cnired, 184 were relieved by Mr. Hawey, the surgeon --consisting of clerks in-ofEce," domestic servants, artisans, soldiers, and police. Tbe funds were inadequate for the increasing number of ap plicants. The report having been adopted, the thank!! of the meeting were given to Mr. Hasroy, the surgeon, and to the chairman, and the meeting separated. At the Liverpool assizes yesterday morning John Fergasson was indicted for the 'Wilful murder of Sally Drummond (the cousin of his mother), with whom be cohabited, in Prinee William-street, Toxteth-park. The crime was committed on the 21st January last during * quarrel and struggle on the flOor, and the prisoner out her throat with a knife. The prisoner was found guilty of manslaughter, and was sentenced to transportation for life. •THZ TICIUT-01P-LtAVE SYSTZH.—Ytitterdity a return ordered by the House of Lords was issued, showing the .operation of the ticket - of•lesve system. The informs 'tion afforded is of some importance at the present period. The number of convicts who 'since the passing of the act 16 and 17 Viet., c. 99, have received orders of licence is 5 ,152, of which 447 have, after receiving such orders, been convicted or charged with subsequent offences. The number of licences revoked is 179, and the number otOtonviets whose licences have beea refused or withheld fox misconduct is HI: MO The I, with a 1 being dis per lb. d lb. were Were • un ( heat Weste rth•Weste K_ i w di : vy este l iouth rl g ' • Cal edo .aater qre at ela n • La North, 14: e l*thire a t r i ti n t e h l eat lie lter a4(l 1 t 4 st L 411(1 North Stair° EdnnhGen( 'T reat ur,h Vest'l 80r,, e 14 , —4 ° Ll.ea 'Lark e . re a i i , e l It 14 d of o otne ea, earr e d . _ s 0 me othe r llli -•• li en flg a `l"rieu ka rrtatt 1 Lo Do Auri 'ent. 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