The Sun. — London, England, 1861-04-22 00:00:00

THEATRE -ROYAL, • HAYMARKET. Lame, Mr. J. B. Baokstone. THIS EVENING, the performances will oommense with new and original Comedy, entitled BLACK SHEEP. Mr. Buokatone, Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, its. ; Mrs. Willdns, Mrs. Charles Young, Miss• Lovell, Ac. Atter which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery and effects, and all the original music hy the ate Sir Henry Bishop, the melodrama or rHE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Commenoe at 7. _ ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE...— Leeßee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore, Meadows, Garden, and Miss C. Leclercq. Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Pechter. Sup ported by Hermann Vezin, Ryder, Meadows, dze.; Misses Heath, Elaworthy, and R. Leclereq. NEW THEATRE -ROYAL, ADELPHI.— Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, the new drama, MAGLIORE, THE PRESTIGITATOR. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, D. Fisher, dro.; Miss K. Kelly, Miss H. Simms, &c. To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Eburne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss Sate Kelly, Miss E. Thorne, and Mrs. Chatterley. After which, THE FOOL OF THE FAMILY. Mr. Paul Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eb urne , Mi ss L a idl a w, an d Mi ss J u li a Daly. Dom open at half put 6—Commenee at 7. CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERT S !! Westminster-road. Proprietor ........C. Morton. A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera, IL CORSARO, (This opera has never been produced in this or any other countrY, except at these Concerts), having met with that de cided success which charactise3 the most popular works of this great Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ; !osether with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI CIENTO, by Donizettl, Principal Artistes—Mist Russell, Madame Maria, Miss Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and C. W. Bernard. Director, Kr. F. Jong_Mhmans. The Comic Department comprises essrs. E. Marshall, A . B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard. F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and the Brothers Conrad. John Martin's Three celebrated Pictures will remain on view a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the Establishment. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tina DAY.—Morning, llh. 46 m. —Afternoon, h. m. To-Moscow.-Morning, 12h. 10m.—Afternoon, 12h. 34m. II THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, APRIL 21, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 50—highest since noon yesterday. 32 —lowest this morning and during the night; freez tag bard. 53—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.90 ; falling. WlND—Northerly in the night and morning ; now N.- Westerly—light ; with dull weather. Sunshiny till noon . APRIL 22. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 53—highest since noon yesterday. 37—lowest this morning and during the night. 60—this day at noon. BARouzTzu-29.92. WIND--North-Westerly—rather fresh and cold ; with dry weather. There was some rain in the morning early, and sprinkling last evening. 5/ , ' '• 44. , E€ - t • ;10 • UP iThfr 4 THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1881. If ever Poland has had a chance, it is now. Never since what may be termed the threefold perpetra tion of her triple partition has the tocsin rung more distinctly for the sons of her soil, summoning them to arise and reassert their independence. It is an extraordinary circumstance that the opportunity should have occurred in consequence of an enor mous crime committed in the name of the CZAR, immediately after that Prince had accomplished a work of pure beneficence, so wonderful as the eman cipation, by a single stroke from his pen, of twenty millions of the human race. Wonderful, absolutely marvellous, though the incongruity of those two occurrences such has actually been the case. Scarcely has ALEXANDER IL emblazoned his name in luminous characters upon the latest (yet unfilled) page of the world's history, when he almost blots out the luminous record with the blood of the massacres wantonly perpetrated by his representa tive in the Imperial Russian (formerly the Royal Polish) city of Warsaw. As GARIBALDI has power fully put it in his remarkable communication to the great Muscovite exile HERZEN—" It is not long since the announcement of the emancipation of the serfs in Russia was received in Europe with admiration and gratitude. The Prince, initiator of the great work, took his place by this act alone beside the most illustrious benefactors of humanity. And now—l say it with sorrow—the work of beneficence has been stained by the blood of an innocent population ; and it is the duty of those who applauded the benefaction to raise their voices against the consummation of this most de testable of crimes." Having said which, GARIBALDI, addressing himself still to HERZEN, has written, "Let your journal, justly appreciated throughout the great Empire, convey aword of sympathy from the Italian nation to unfortunate and heroic Poland —a word of gratitude to the brave soldiers of the Russian army, who, like PAPOFF, have broken their swords rather than dye them in the blood of the people —and a cry of reprobation from the sister nations of Europe against the authors of this frightful mas sacre." Now, these words of GARIBALDI constitute far more than simply a protest. They are to the Polish nation we insist more than a cry of sym pathy, they are—a reminder ! GARIBALDI speaks, recollect, in the name of Italy—in the name, that is of a nation just Trung anew into existence, a nation of from 22,000,000 to 24,000,000 ! And so speaking in the name of some twenty-three:million Italians, GARIBALDI recalls to the recollection of I tho Poles in that mere fact of his so speaking, an event replete to the Polish nation--(buried alive though it still is under the deadening despotism of the Triple alliance, the alliance of Russia, Austria, and Prussia)—an incident replete for the Polish nation, we say, with the most sublime encouragement. If Italy has— against such odds—yet contrived to conquer her independence : Why not Poland ? Particularly, Why not Poland, when Poland is midway between Italy already emancipated and Hungary ripe for emancipation. Italy has certainly had GARIBALDI gary, mor e to lead her on to her triumph. Hun over, can direct her hopes confidingly to KOSSUTH as her statesman, and to KLAPKA as her soldier, But if Poland is without a KOSSUTH, is without a GARIBALDI—has she not still her ZAMOYSKI And at Paris has she not yet, as she has possessed them for so protracted an interval, has not Poland still to this moment at Paris, in that metropolis of continental Europe, a venerable and powerful advocate in the person of her beloved and revered Prince ADAM CZARTORISKI ? Besides—prove to the BONAPARTE now in power in that great capital, as the ruler of 40,000,000 Frenchmen, as the Captain of 600,000 French soldiers--prove to him that his own selfish interests may be subserved by his championship of the 11 ° 1 es, and his puissant sword will as surely be at their service now, as a couple of years ago it was at the servic e of the Italians in the northern provinces of the Roman Peninsula. Poland has but to play the cards, n ow in her hands, cleverly and the game is her own. The voice that calls her is as literally as the voice that spoke through CEIATEAUBRIA ND'S posthumous autobiograpy—LY °tare Tombe ! It is her own voice —speaking from the grave in which she has been lying buried alive now during three or four s uccessive generations. Upon her national escutc h eo n ever since the date of her thi r d and final partition t h e re has beenlegiblo—ot to sp ea k it profanely — clea rl y and disti nctly legibl e . , even so that " those who run could read it" —Resurgam. And tie period of that political resurrection we to be very imminent. cannot but deem The now telegram from Cracow tells us "The state of thin gs at Warsaw remains unaltered," And, it addst " The soldiers continue to offer violence and provo cation to the people." It says further, " Accord ing to a secret report addressed to the Govel n ment the number of killed, on the Bth April, was 240. Among the wounded were 80 who have since died. The Government insists on the payment of the war contribution which had been levied upon the city." These were the last tidings, by way of Cracow. And then comes to us a yet later tele gram, dated Thorn (only yesterday), which says, " A proclamation of the Governor, Prince GORTS CHAKOFF, states that no assemblage of people for political discussion will be tolerated, and that order can only be maintained by the civil officers of the State, with the assistance of the military, but nowhere by delegates of the citizens." There is hardly room there for a patch up for any mere compromise. The' Polish people are beginning to recognise before them nothing more clearly than the threatening bayonets and muzzles carried by the Cossack soldiery— hearing distinctly at the same time from Hungary and from Italy inspiriting cries of encouragement. The Commons of England cowards ! Who says so ? Whoever he be let him be brought before the House, interrogated at its bar, and if he confess let him be reprimanded by Mr. SPEAKER, and ad monished that if he so offend again some severer punishment awaits him. Old General BENEDER is likely to get into hot water with the Hungarian Upper House for calling its magnates in a letter to the army " dastards." Even GARIBALDI had to explain when it was thought he styled the representatives of Italy "lackeys." What then can be too bad for the man who votes " Gentlemen of the House of Commons " cowards. Nothing—let him lose his electoral vote if he has one. If he be a member of the House, let him be expelled and declared incapable of entering it again. Honourable members will all agree that these penalties would be but moderate. But we must check ourselves—members of the House of Commons have already, by the hundred, we are sorry to say, voted themselves cowards. The cowards have, indeed, outnumbered the brave ; and, of course, the minority_ could not expel the majority, let the latter degrade themselves as much as they pleased. The House of Commons is no Agincourt or Cressy—numbers are the victory there ; and victors by the force of numbers are very apt to forget that they may have behaved themselves like cowards, each and all. We expect to see this exemplified again, as it has been exem plified before, to-morrow evening. We expect, we cannot say how many, some two or three hun dred, possibly, to pass a certain gentleman into what, on this occasion, we shall take leave to call the Coward's Lobby, and to say to him in passing, " Write me down Coward." Moralists and Divines have told us, from the days of the earliest sages, of the blinding power of cus tom. Our own custom—the custom of others—we must open our eyes a little wider than usual to see its real character. But it cannot be, surely that Englishmen can play the coward without a twinge or a blush. A regiment of cowards would each be ashamed of himself as well as of his regiment. Yet we are quite certain that a pretty large regiment of the House of Commons do keep one another in coun tenance, and confess their want of courage with out a blush.! Each sex and profession has its point of honour. Woman has hers ; man has his ; the Judge has his ; the soldier his. What is the candidate's point of honour ? Is it simply to get in—rightly if he can, if not by any means whatever? But acts against bribery—commissions of inquiry —Wakefield pro secutors—at least reply—" We dare not say so. Candidates do not tell the electors publicly that they have the longest purse; or, can get them most places; or Government contracts; or that they can get most tenants who do not vote for them into hot water with their landlords, perhaps even served with a notice to quit ; or, that they have influence with the holders of their mort gages, or with their bankers. They never speak on the hustings, or at public meetings, of such things as their proudest distinction, or as their best title to confidence. What they do say is, that with their views and opinions they can most fittingly represent the electors in the Senate of the nation. Well, now, follow this up. Why make such ap peals ? There can be but one reply. Because a man who claims to be our representative instinctively feels that his opinions ought to be the same as ours. This needs no argument. Representative Govern ment is a farce, or any other assumption. It is the assumption of every hustings, of every election address. From this it obviously follows that, for a candidate to mis-state his opinions, in order to gain an election, or to bribe or coerce others to vote for him, in opposition to their own opinions, are equally dishonourable. By one crime the candidate tells a lie himself ; by the other he induces another man to vote a lie; The point of honour with a candidate, therefore, is—both to be a fitting person to represent the opi nions of any constituency ; and, to be returned by the electors because he is held by them to be so. So runs the formula from the mouth of every Eng lishman who proposes a candidate—"l propose Lord FITZ NORMAN, or Mr. Alderman COTTON, as as aft and proper person to represent the county of -- or the borough of --," as the case may be ! Why is representative fitness mentioned if that is not the point on which the electoral jury is to give a verdict ? why is their verdict asked on this point, unless they are to give it honestly and truly and to the best of their belief and judgment ? Premising these undoubted facts, we affirm that every member of Parliament who votes against the Ballot is an electoral coward, and votes himself a coward. If he have manly confidence in two things —in his fitness to represent the opinions of any con stituency, and in his having convinced the electors of his fitness—he would exult in the Ballot as the unanswerable proof of the fact. But if at the hust ings he spurns the Ballot, if in the House he votes against the Ballot, he confes ses hi s fear; he dreads the elector's uncontrolled, unbiassed judgment. "'Tis conscience that makes cowards of us all," and 'tis consciousness that the electors will judge him unfit to be their member, that makes him shudder at the thought of the ballot-box when he stands before them, and when its name is mentioned in the Rouse of Commons. He blusters against secresy, and reiterates all that kind of cant, while he knows that secret intimidations or secret purchases are the means by which he has gained a position to vote in Parlia ment against a secret suffrage at the polling booth. Does any sane man doubt that cowardice — inward terror at the thought of facing perfectly independent electors will not be the sole motive actuating the expected majority against Mr. BERKELEY'S motion ? Both theory and prac- tics show that the Ballot would so reduce the ex pense of elections and so improve their morality, that every candidate, both from pecuniary and social considerations, would naturally prefer it. Few in deed wish to spend money needlessly; few are so bad as to prefer corrupting their fellow men. But they quail before the terrible idea of independent voting ! They have hitherto relied on corrupting by fear and cupidity. They have sapped the electors' ITlrtue, and then asked their votes. They dare not face free men. They know they dare not. We challenge THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 1861. them to do it. The Austrian soldiers in the Alps did not dread GARIBALDI more than Members who vote against the Ballot dread the fearless, the honest votes of the electors who have hitherto returned them. Yet hitherto these runaways have had the im pudence :to charge the man who asks for the Ballot with cowardice !! The dependent elector who asks for the shield of secrecy in his battle with the man who can ruin him—he is the coward ! But the man who uses the shield of secrecy to cover his bribery, or to veil the irresistible influence he brings to bear on a tenant at will—he dares to talk as if free from cowardice ! We retort the charge. The member who fears the vote he can neither purchase nor coerce—he 58 the coward. The wealthy man who votes against the Ballot—not the dependent man who asks for it—is the real coward. He it is who is afraid of the battle on equal terms. There is one great organ of Tory opinion very fond of telling us that it never met a man who wanted the ballot for himself; an experience precisely the re verse of our own, and of every canvasser for Liberal votes where Tory gold was abundant, or Tory land lordism dominant. But we have certainly the parallel in honourable members who vote against the ballot—they do not vote against it for them selves ; Oh, dear no ! They would be returned just the same by the admiring electors ! Indeed ! Well, then, try the electors. Give them one chance. Pass a bill for the votes to be taken by ballot at one election only, or at the bye elections and the next general election ! Stand on your merits, gen tlemen, just for once ! No, it is all pretext. Those who vote against the Ballot know that, with a few honourable exceptions, they vote both for their party and for themselves. They vote as cowards before electoral independence. Her Majesty the Queen has, we are informed, been pleased to appoint the Duchess of Wellington to be Mistress of the Robes, in succession to the Duchess Dowager of Sutherland. The report of the Royal Mail Company, prepara tory to their meeting on the 24th, recommends the usual dividend of £2 per share, free of income tax. THE LATE BUILDERS' STRIKE. —The workmen at the country establishment of Messrs. Lucas Brothers, at Lowestoft, are to be placed on the same footing as to their hours of labour as their metropolitan brethren —that is to say, they are to be paid by the hour, and to leave work on Saturdays at 1 p.m., instead of 4 p.m. as heretofore. This arrangement was announced to the men in the course of last week by Mr. Thomas Lucas, who stated that all the professional employers of his firm had shown the greatest forbearance in the late strike, and had given them full per mission to stop their various buildings if the agitation con tinued. SIIICIDE.—A suicide under singular circum stances occurred at Vienna a few nights back. A report of firearms having been heard on the glacis of Josephstadt, the guard went to ascertain the cause, when they found the body of a young person in officer's uniform lying dead, with the skull dreadfully shattered by a pistol-shot. The deceased was at once removed to the military hospital, and on examination proved to be a' young woman, about 16 years of age, whose name was afterwards ascertained to be Frances K-. But nothing transpired to show why she committed suicide, or what were her motives for assuming a military unform. At the execution of a murderer at Nantes, on Monday last, the guillotine, generally so mathematically exact, failed to do its duty completely, and a very horrible scene was the consequence. When the knife fell it was found that the head was not completely severed. The lower part of the jaw, elongated by a convulsive backward movement of the body, attached the head to the trunk, and in order to effect the separation, one of the executioners leant upon the knife while another dragged the body till the flesh and ligaments gave way. The patient gave no signs of life during the few seconds that this sad spectacle lasted. The steam frigate Eldorado, which has been for the last six weeks waiting instructions at Toulon to start for China, has just received orders to immediately embark a number of officers and sailors for the squadron on that sta tion. The steam frigate transport Amazone has arrived from Senegal, Cayenne, and the Antilles, bringing 477 civil and military passengers. M. Bompard, a surgeon in the navy, died on the passage. The Ceres has received orders to get ready to start for Cayenne with 580 convicts and 200 passengers. FATAL RESULT OF THE STABBING CASE AT SALFORD.--Thomas Boyle, the man who was stabbed in the quarrel at Salford on Tuesday morning, expired yes terday morning at his home in Watkin's-court, Manches ter, to which place he had been removed from the Salford Dispensary. The inquest was opened yesterday afternoon at the Royal Infirmary, before Mr. Herford, city coroner, but as the jury expressed a wish that the prisoner Kane should be present at the inquiry, it was adjourned untli Tuesday afternoon, when it will be held at the Coroner's Court. THE ROYAL YACHT FAIRY.—As the Fairy was proceeding down the Southampton Water on Friday even ing, between 7 and 8 o'clock, on her way to Osborne, with the Prince Consort on board, on his return from London, some portion of her machinery gave way, and the yacht was broughtito a standstill. One of her boats was immediately sent back to the Southampton Docks to obtain the assist ance of a steam tug, but meanwhile a revenue cruizer came up, and the Prince and his attendants having entered the state barge belonging to the Fairy the revenue vessel took the barge in tow and proceeded to Osborne. The Fairy was subsequently towed down by a steamer which was sent after her. EXPORT OF COAL.—France took of us no less than 1,352,962 tons of our coals, cinders, and culm in the year 1860, and, large as the quantity was, it was less than she purchased in the preceding year. Our other chief cus tomers were :—Denmark, 418,356 tons ; Sweden, 214,729 ; Norway, 141,163 ; Russia, 356,496 ; Prussia, 399,175; the Hanseatic towns, 539,468 ; Holland, 315,931; Spain and the Canaries, 452,479 ; Italy, 465.275 ; Turkey, 196,504 ; India (including Singapore), 230,417; China (with Hong kong), 139,119 ; the United States, 309,869 ; Brazil, 169,568; British West Indies, 78,919; foreign West In dies, 175,597; British North America, 150,565 tons, Mr. Myers, who is building Netley Hospital, has obtained the Government contract for building a ninety gun battery, a barracks, and a hospital at Portsdown-hill, near Portsmouth. The contractor for supplying 10,000,000 bricks for the fortifications of Portsdown-hill will be selected in a day or two. These fortifications, and their necessary adjuncts, will cost between 7 and 8 millions; a million and a half has been already voted. THE CIVIL SERVICE ESTIMATES.—The estimates for public works and buildings show a decrease as com pared with 1860-61 of £97,806. The sum to be voted for the current year, £773,974, is thus distributed :—Royal palaces, £38,214; public buildings, £85,470; furniture of public offices, £22,400; royal parks and plea sure gardens, £98,298 ; new houses of Parliament, £54,692 ; British embassy houses abroad, £3,035 ; British consulate, Constantinople, £2,928 ; Westminster-bridge' approaches, £53,000 ; new Westminster-bridge, £3,914; new Foreign ofßoo, P2(I,M); fronoral v.:T.40-0r bmiqP, Edinburet, £8,200 : industrial museum, Edinburgh, £11,200; Aberdeen univer sity, £6,870; Glasgow cathedral (window), £800; main drainage of the metropolis —expenses, £413 ; National Gallery, Dublin, £3,000; harbours of refuge, £160,000; Holyhead and Port Patrick harbours, and works at Spurn Point, £46,702 ;" public buildings, Ireland, £64,556; Kings town harbour, £2,628; Sheriff -court houses, Scotland, £5,000; lighthouses abroad, £32,600; highland roads, &c., commissioners, £5,000; rates for Government property, £35,000.; MORE FAILURES.—A telegram on Saturday morning notified the suspension of Messrs. Gabriel Hava and Co. and Messrs. Demetrius Baltazzi and Co., Levant merchant and bankers at Marseilles. The liabilities of Messrs. Hava are estimated at a large amount, about £600,000 of which will fall in France, and about £BO,OOO in England. Those of Messrs. Baltazzi are less, the total in France being supposed to be £200,000 and in England about £20,000. IR September last their respective commit raents were about four times their present amount, but both firms have since been assisted by the Bank of France while realising their resources—a proceeding which has involved great sacrifices. This assistance has now been suddenly stopped, and, according to the inferences of some persons, political motives are at the bottom of the affair. The refusal to continue further advances is alleged to have been made at the order of the French Government, who desire, as liquidaters of the estates, to obtain another hold over Turkey, which is largely in debt to the two, houses. These reports may be entirely unfounded, but they are re peated by persons well acquainted with much that has been going on upon the subject; and, looking at eertain circum stances which transpired in connection with the recent Turkish loan in Paris, together with the fact that there can be no more sure way of realising the assertion that Turkey is unable to maintain order in Syria than that of utterly crippling her credit and resources, so a s t o l eave her no immediate means of paying her troops, it is not surprising that such ideas should have found currency. The Bank of France is said to have installed two clerks in each of the houses at Marseilles with a view to have the whole ramification of the business of the houses with the Turkish Government clearly brought out. Mr. Have, of London, it is understood, states that he is not in partner ship with his brother at Marseilles, and it is therefore I hoped that his business will not be interrupted, LATEST NE WS. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. TURIN, APRIL 22. Signor Ratazzi, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, is indisposed. It is believed that he will not preside for some days. The Italia says:—" Garibaldi will not attend the sittings of the Chamber of Deputies for some days, as his health requires that he should remain quiet." It is said that he will go to Trecchi, near Cre mona. VIENNA, MONDAY. The Official Wiener Zeitung of to-day publishes a decree appointing the hereditary representatives of the non-Hungarian Provinces in the Upper House. The decree reserves the appointment of the mem bers for Croatia, Hungary, Slavonia, and Transyl vania until the question as to what manner these provinces should be represented has been settled. Among the members appointed are the Protes tant Superintendent, the three poets—F ranc i s Grillpartzer, Anastasius Grun, Frederick Halm-- and Baron Rothschild. POSEN, APRIL 22. The Minister of Public Worship has strictly pro hibited national prayers in the churches of War saw, otherwise the military will interfere. Two higher classes of the Radom School have been closed. THORN, APRIL 21. At the present moment a large body of Russian troops are concentrated at Warsaw. The provinces are divested of soldiers. The Cossacks set fire to the city of Chelm for the purpose of plundering it. The fire was, however, extinguished. It is said that the Emperor himself will designate the persons who are to be called to official functions. TURIN, APRIL 20 (Evening). The discussion on the organisation of the Southern army was continued to-day in the Chamber of Deputies. Signor Conforti supported the order of the day proposed by Garibaldi. Count Cavour defended General Fanti's project of law, and declared that the Minister of War had no intention of wounding the feelings of Garibal dian generals, whom the Ministry highly esteemed. Their resignation would, he said, be productive of regretable conseqiences. Count Cavour then de fended the decree of April ordering the formation of three divisions of volunteers. He examined the orders of the day proposed by Garibaldi and Baron Ricasoli, and showed the difficulties in the way of immediately placing the volunteers on active ser vice. Count Cavour continued as follows : " If, after the speech of General Bixio, the Go vernment were to give him the command of the volunteers, it would be a kind of declaration of war. (Marks of disapprobation.) "The Government has frequently declared to Europe that the aim of the Italians is to complete the kingdom of Italy by the annexation of Rome, but that this will be done peacefully, and with the consent of France. "The Government has likewise declared that it will not take the initiative in a war for the re covery of Venetia. A spark may set all Europe in a blaze. England has positively declared that she will be against those Who shall provoke such a con flagration. It is therefore necessary to listen to the advice of friendly Governments in order to avoid a conflict between Italy and another Power. The Ministry cannot agree to the order of the day pro posed by Garibaldi." Count Cavour admitted the possibility of follow ing a contrary policy, " but then (he said) it would be necessary to declare it openly. In such a case the members of the Cabinet, as Italians, would co operate by every possible means." General Bixio gave explanations respecting the resignation of the Garibaldian officers, which were received with applause. General Fanti also gave some satisfactory ex planations, and it Was then stated that the resigna tions would in consequence be withdrawn. General Garibaldi declared loudly that he owed nearly all his successes to his brave companions in arms. He then put a question to Count Cavour relative to the arming of the nation. Count Cavour, in reply, said—" As far as th e regular army is concerned, we have made two levies rered in in sh Centrale Italy, and on e l evy h as b een d A levy in Si c il y a l so i s of war mate r i a l required is almost com 000t under the consideration o f the Government. The ty p g l u e a t n ed ti .We possess 100 batteries of artillery ; and, thanks to the kindness of a friendly Power, we have also a great quantity of rifles. With regard to the volunteers, the Government will maintain their lists ( cadres) in order to make use of them at any op portune moment. In case of danger of war the volunteers would be reorganised, and Garibald would be requested to take the command. Garibaldi said he was not satisfied with these declarations, as all the news from the interior and the exterior was alarming. He insisted, therefore, on the organisation of the Southern army, The Chamber then adopted the following order of the day, proposed by Baron Ricasoli, by 197 against 77 votes : " The Chamber, having heard the declarations of the Ministry, and being convinced that the decree for the formation of three divisions of volunteers will be faithfully executed, and that the Govern- went wail suitably provide for the brave Southern army, and that the Government will know how to increase and arrange our forces in an efficacious manner, and, finally, being convinced that the will actively o ccu py it se lf with Governmen t thearmaments theforK i King the defence of the country, a duty which appertains to the Government alone, passes to the order of the day." NAPLES, APRIL 20. The reactionary movements in the provinces have suppress e d. beßeniocnoemgprole,temlyeifi, Barile, and Vico, the last re treats of the insurgents, have been occupied by Pied montese troops. The disturbances at Cosenza are over. The having quitted hi s p os t, h as b een depu dismissed.ty-gverno deputy-governor, The city of Naples is tranquil. TURIN, APRIL 20. The Opinione of to-day publishes letters stating that fresh arrests have been made at Padua. According to a letter from Rome, in the Nazione of to day, the enrolment of Bourbon soldiers con tinues, and an insurrection in the-Neapolitan pro vinces is prepared for the 24th April. CRACOW, APRIL 19. The state of thinks at Warsaw remains unaltered. The soldiers continue to offer violence and provoca tions to the people. According to a secret report addressed to the Go vernment, the number of killed on the Bth of April Was 240. Among the wounded were 80 who have since died. The Government insists on the pay ment of the war contribution which had been levied upon the city. THORN, APRIL 2 A proclamation of the Governor, Prince Gorts chakoff, states that no assemblage of people for political discussion will be tolerated, and that order can only be maintained by the civil officers of the State with the assistance of the military, but nowhere by delegates of - the citizens. The Government has decided on sending M, Platanoff instead of M. Wielopolski to St. Petersburg, to give an account to the Emperor of the state of things in Poland. The report, universally circulated, that the Government had imposed a war contribution on the city of Warsaw for the maintenance of the troops is without any foundation. VIENNA, APRIL 20. The Austrian Provincial Diet elected its mem bers to the Council of the Empire to-day. All the members elected belong to the Right or Conserva tive side of the-Diet. The Vienna journals assert that out of 849 Venetian communes 431 have regularly taken part in the elections. In the other communes, especially in the provincial towns, the elections remained without any result. ZARA, APRIL 20, The Diet of Zara has voted an address expressive of loyalty to the Emperor, and has elected members to the Council of the Empire. FRANCE. PARIS, APRIL 20. BOURSE, April 20.--The market continues firm, and prices have again improved on the quotations of yesterday. For the Account, Threes, which opened at 68f. 20c., are now at 68f. 30c. Railway shares are also firm, and some of the lines show a slight improvement. The following were the las quotations :- 4i per per Cents 95 30 Do end month 95 30 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 30 Bank Shares 2835 Credit Mobilier 670 Do. Account 672 50 RAILWAYS. Credit Fonder 935 Belgian 41 — Piedmontese Fives 74 Roman 73 Austrian Spanish Threes — Home Debt Cash. Account. Orleans 1337 50 .. 1340 Northern New ditto B9O .. 890 Lyons and Mediterranean 951 25 .. 952 50 Geneva 396 25 .. 395 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Low bard 467 50 .. 463 75 The Journal de St. Petersbourg of the 12th inst. says :—" The Neva is open from Schlusselbourg to the distance of 35 versts. At the 36th and 37th verst there are patches of open water ; at the 39th verst the Neva is open to a distance of half a verst beyond that the ice is firm. On the lake the bay is encumbered with masses of ice, gradually floating off by the north channel; the south channel is encumbered with floating ice covered with half melted snow." PRINCE NAPOLEON AND THE DUKE D'AUMALE. Saturday's Moniteur says: —"Prince Napoleon wrote to the Emperor requesting him not to order proceedings to be instituted in the affair of the pamphlet entitled, A Letter on the History of France.' It did not, however, appear possible to accede to the wishes of the Prince, and to interrupt the course of justice." The 'Weelepublishes the letter, which is credi table to the Prince's good sense : Sire,—The Duke D'Aumale has published a pamphlet in reply to a speech which I maac, iii th. Senate a few weeks ago. The public prosecutor has coon in it an offence againot tho law-a of the empire and an attack on your Government. As a matter of common law he has seized that publica tion and brought it before the' tribunals. It was his duty to do so. I yesterday saw the Minister of the Interior, and begged him t o di spose o f an exceptional affair by an exceptional measure. I am attacked in the Prince of Orleans' pamphlet; this is an additional reason for my beseeching your Majesty to stop the prosecution. To suppress is not to answer. I beg you, Sire, to let the reply of the Duke D'Aumale circulate freely, certain that the patriotism of France will judge that pamphlet according to its merits, and that the good sense of the people will do justice to this self-styled his torical lesson, which is only an Orleanist manifesto —Accept, Sire, &c., . Palais Royal, April 14. NAPOLEON VEROME: GENERAL BENEDEk'S ADDRESS. The Hungarian Magnates have made the follow ing reply to General Benedek's Order of the Day, which appeared in The Sun of Thursday last : " The Military Gazette has just published an order of the day, addressed by General Benedek to the army placed under his orders, and to such of his soldiers as enjoy electoral rights. This mani festo contains expressions offensive to the honour of all Hungarian patriots who refuse to recognise the Constitution of the 26th of February. Thank God ! our country is in possession of ancient liberties, in virtue of which Hungary has formed, now forms, and will form, a kingdom distinct and independent of the hereditary States of Austria. The rank of Magnate, according to the spirit of our public law, belongs not only to the princes, counts, and barons of the country, but also to all the members of the upper chamber. The expression of cowardly Magnates,' which General Benedek makes use of, affects all the members of the high nobility, who, using their constitutional right, feel themselves compelled to defend their ancient charter against new Constitution. It is not our intention to enter into a discussion on political opinions with the General, but we owe it to ourselves, as well as to our brethren serving in the army, and to whom these irritating expressions are addressed, to declare that we consider as a coward every Hungarian j Magnate who would hesitate to defend a Constitu tion which is the work of the wisdom of our fore fathers, and the maintenance of which has cost so much noble blood. Yes, it would be treason to the country, if any one, without taking into account the gravity of the moment or the situation of affairs, should condemn and stigmatise those who endeavour to pratcct our fundamental law. It would be treason to the country to, apply the term cowards to those who have always been ready to valiantly defend their honour and the country on that same field where General Benedek himself acquired his glorious name. This declaration will be our only reply to the insult, which we repel both individually and collectively. We are convinced that in so doing we are the organs of the feelings of all Magnates without exception." (Here follow the signatures of nearly 200 Ma, mates, THE RUSSIAN ARMY.—The Putrie has the sub joined intelligence :—" Recent despatches furnish us with t 331110 positive information as to the military measures just adopted at St. Petersburg. Three out of the six corps d'armee, of which the active force of Russia is composed, are placed on a war footing, and all the officers and soldiers who were absent on leave have been ordered to join their regiments at the latest by the 20th inst. Two of the corps are destined to occupy Poland. The second will be in Warsaw and in the provinces of Lublin and Podlacia. The third army has received orders to quit Velhynia and Podo lia, and proceed by forced marches into Poland, and part have already arrived in that kingdom. Each of these two corps d'armee will be about 50,000 strong, which will make the number of soldiers required to maintain order in Poland 100,000. The general opinion is that in a very short time the other three corps will be also placed on a war footing, so that the whole army of Russia will be just as though a war was actually going on. The Russian Government is at the present purchasing a groat number of horses in Ger many for the artillery and cavalry, and is also making very considerable additions to the camp equipage and supplies of all kinds. From the same source of information we learn that the persons arrested at Warsaw in consequence of the events of the Bth inst. are to be divided into three categories. The first will be composed of the persons the least compro • mised who will be sent for six months to the fortress of Modlin ; the second, of the young men:who have been led to take part in the movement, and who will be incorporated in the regiments of infantry in the Caucasus ; and the third, of those who are regarded as the ringleaders, and who will be incorporated in the frontier regiments of Eastern Siberia. These rigorous measures will, if carried into execution, pro duce a very painful impression throughout the whole of Europe." MB. COBDEN AND THE 211ANCHESTE.R CITY COUNCIL. . - The following letter from Mr. Cobden, M.P., has just been received by the Mayor of Manchester : " Algiers, April 12, 1861. "My dear Sir,—l beg to acknowledge the re ceipt of your letter enclosing a copy of the resolu tion passed by the Manchester City Council, ex pressing their thanks for my labours in arranging the treaty with France. "It gives me peculiar pleasure to receive this renewed assurance of the approbation of the body over which you preside, representing, as it does, the city which must he ever recognised as the birthplace of practical free trade. " We are not, I trust, taking too sanguine a view of the effects of.the recent commercial arrangement in assuming that its influence will be felt beyond the limits of the two countries immediately con cerned. When England and France are found co operating, whether in peace or war, for the attain ment of a common object, they can hardly fail to make their policy triumphant throughout Europe ; and, looking at the negotiations now going on else where, and the indications generally manifested, I am led to the conclusion that ere long the example of those two nations will induce the whole Conti nent to adopt a more liberal commercial policy. In the meantime, whatever hesitation there may be in Europe, or whatever temporary backsliding in America, it is satisfactory to know that England, speaking through the voice of Manchester, remains faithful to the principle of unconditional freedom of trade ; if it ,be accompanied IN ith reciprocity from other countries, so much the better for her and them—if not, so much the better for her than them. In any case, liberty will bring its own reward. " Let me beg you to be the medium for convey ing to the council my sincere thanks for this ex pression of their confidence and kindness, and pray accept personally my acknowledgments for the friendly terms of your letter which accompanied the resolution ; and I remain my dear Sir , yours , sincerely, " R. COBDEN. " Matthew Curtis, Esq., Mayor." ANNEXATION OF THE FIiVEE ISLAXDS The commercial value of the Fejee Islands is, no doubt, far inferior to their political importance, for it would secure us a good position in the mighty archipelago of the Pacific, where we have not a single station, while the Americans have several, and the French are making rapid strides in that direction, and have already obtained possession of New Caledonia, with the Loyalty Islands, Otaheite, the Marquesas, the Gambier group, and Clipperton Island. There can be no doubt that there would be great advantages gained by the possession of the Fejees, especially when the Panama and Australian steam communication shall have become a redlity, as they will then become a convenient coal station ; while their sheltered harbours and delicious fruits and excellent provisions will not fail to make them in future a favourite resort of navigators in those distant regions. It is true that the present pro ductions of these islands are but of limited extent, but they are capable of great development, which would assuredly follow if placed under the security of the British flag. The only produce fitted for exportation is now confined to sandal-wood, cocoa nut oil, and beche de mer ; but from Mr. Pritchard's account, both the soil and the climate are admirably adapted for the cultivation of the cotton plant, and there is no doubt that not only the sugar-cane, but coffee, tobacco, and arrowroot may be cultivated with success. But this development can only be expected to take place under the security of impar tial administration of justice and a strong and recognised Government. The Wesleyan mis sionaries have been singularly successful in their endeavours to pave the way for civilisation by their example and precepts, and that, too, at a con siderable pecuniary sacrifice, for we are enabled to state, in proof of their disinterested conduct in the cause of humanity and Christianity, that their missions in the Fejee Islands have cost them no less than £BO,OOO. Hitherto the principal trade with this group has been chiefly confined to the enterprising merchants of New South Wales, who export ironware, clothes, gunpowder, furniture, and other articles, receiving in return the native produce.—Australian and IVeta Zealand Gazette. 2HIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, April 22.—Wind this day at noon, North • Westerly ; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather cloudy. CROOKHATEN, April 18.—Arrived—Flying Eagle, from Mazatlan, with mainmast sprung, and other damage, and a 1... w..u.si overboard ; Aurora, from Philadelphia; Polly, from Rio Grande ; Anna M. Roberts, from Phila delphia. PLYMO U TH, April 21.—Wind N.—Arrived—Westbury, from Launceston; Taganrog, screw steamer, from Shields for Taganrog. CLYDE, 41.11 20.—Wind E.—Arrived—Helena, from Mauritius; Marathon, from New Orleans. Sailed—Sea Nymph, for Trinidad. WATERFORD, April 18.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Albert, for Quebec ; W. N. Townsend, for New Orleans ; Laga, for Quebec. LIMERICK, April 19.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Hope, for Quebec. OFF PLYMOUTH ) April 20.—Wind N.—Arrived—Nord Am erike, from Charleston for Bremen. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning. Arrived.—Haddington, from London ; Geneva, steamer, from Liverpool ; Argyll, steamer, from Carentan ; Idalia, from Swansea. Sailed.—Enterprise, for Cardiff ; Jane Cochran, for New- , port ; Hero, for Ely; Genova, steamer, for London. (BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday Morning. Arrived, April 21.—Holmesdale, from Calcutta; Mar garet, from Dominica; Harkaway, from Whampoa ; Gar dim, from New York; Maria, from Santander; Mar s hal Pelissier, from Mauritius ; Pudsey Dawson, from Mauritius; Merse, from Foo-chow-Foo ; Maria, from Libau ; Victoria, from Some ; Europa, from Cochin ; Leonora, from Guern sey; Actif, from Oporto ; Reward, from Guernsey; Venus, from Odessa. Arrived, April 22—Chevalier, from Dragomeister ; Jessie and Heinrtch, from Dantsic ; Sylph, from Antwerp; Hope, from Santander ; Hcnry, from Guernsey. , Monday ing. Passed in tow—Newcastle, fr D om EAL C alcutta ; Morn Seine and Tamise, screw steamers, from Paris; Genova, screw steamer, from the West—all for London ; Penope, and Suez, for Genoa ; Mazurka, for Malta ; Cyprian, for Quebec ; Epsom, ford Montreal ; Isabella, for the Cape of Good Hope—all from London. Two large ships and a bark, for London, towed through before daylight. THE REV. DR. GUTHRIE AT ALDERSHOT CAMP. On Sabbath last the Rev. Dr. Guthrie, of Edinburgh, preached twice in the iron church. The congregations were composed not only of officers and soldiers of all ranlcs, from generals down to privates, but of people gathered together from the surrounding country and towns. A party of 50 came from Guildford, 10 miles off. His audience was com posed not merely of Presbyterians, but of Episcopalians, Wesleyans, Independents, and of a considerable body of Roman Catholics, all of whom were unanimous in their high admiration of the gifts of the preacher. Manyseemed most powerfully affected by his grand and expansive views of divine truth and his touching appeals to their hearts. Dr. Guthrie's visit to this camp will be long remembered and spoken of. Why should not the soldiers of our army have every opportunity of hearing such eloquent and earnest minded men as Dr. Guthrie ? A NOVELTY IN FIRE INSURANCE.—An American paper tells a droll story :—" A clergyman At the west in sured his manuscript sermons in the -.Etna Insurance Com pany some ten years ago. I. moving into another house, his log hut, in which the manuscript sermons were left behind, were burned. He went to the company for thein surance money, which was refused and an action resulted. The defence was that the sermons were valueless. The clergyman produced witnesses who testified that the ser mons had done them good, and the jury gave a verdict of 2,000 dollars." CONDEMNED CULPRITS.—The law is left to take its course in the case of William Williams, who was con victed at the last Brecon assizes of the murder of his aunt, and sentenced to be hanged on the 23d inst. Appeals have been made to the mercy of the Crown on the ground of his youth and ignorance, but the crime was of so heinous a nature as to render a commutation of the sentence altoge ther incompatible with the due administration of justice.— In the case of Elizabeth Griffin, convicted at the last Salop assizes of the murder of her infant child, the Crown has commuted the sentence of death to penal servitude for life. PURCHASE OF SILVER BULLION FOR INDIA.— A financial operation of some importance has just been effected. We are enabled to state that the Indian Govern ment has just purchased from the Bank of England the whole of the £948,362 in silver bullion which, as stated in the last return, is held by that establishment. This amount comprises the balance of the £2,000,000 of silver which was taken by the Bank some months ago from the Bank of France, in exchange for an equivalent amount of gold. It will be despatched to India on Government account in instalments by several packets. As notes have been issued against this sum t.f £848,362, its withdrawal will operate upon the money market in precisely the same way as if it were gold. The magnitude of the specie requirements of the Indian Government has excited some surprise. It is said to be connected with the reduction in the cash balances in the Indian Treasuries. We have alluded before to the increase which has occurred during the last few days in the mercantile demand for service in the East. As there is no supply of the metal now in this 'parka, what private ship pers want must be procured on the Continent, until the promised Mexican remittances come forward, and gold will be sent to the Continent in papeent. Some stimulus will probably be given to the deraaAd for money.—Daily Arocs. LITERATURE. Bermuda • its Ihstory, Geol og y, Cli ma t e, Products Agriculture, Commerce, and Government, with • .Hints to Invalids. By Theodore L. Godet, M.P. smith and Elder. • We are informed in the preface of this book that • its aim "is togive an historical account of the settle . went made by emigrants from England in Ber muda or Som e r' s I s l an d s, and of the constitut i ons l establishment, internal government, and political system maintained by Great Britain in these Islands," Further on the author states this un answerable reason for his efficiency for the task in which he is engaged. "From having resided mall years in Bermud a , o f w hi c h place I am a nat i ve , presume to think that I am somewhat better quel l ' fled to judge of the influence of climate and situation on the disposition, temper, and intellect of the inhabitants, than some of those writers who have not had the same advantages.” Thoce who wish f or a good general idea e l this place, such as may be gathered from th e recorded experience of one who is a t home with his subject, cannot do better than avail them selves of this opportunity of information. T he climate is described as most agreeable, being mean temperature, between that of the West Indies. and British N or th A mer i ca, " partaking neither 0 1 the extreme heat of the one nor the excessive aid, of the other." It i s stated that Bermuda woo prove very serviceable to those who are of delicate constitution. These islands have only been visited with yellow fever seven times in two centuries, and are generally considered to be very healthy. In the chapter on the " G overnment " of Bermuda it is remarked how very strong are the distinctions and how inveterate are the prejudices of party feeling' " It is utterly impossible for any one unacquainted with Bermuda to form an idea of the length to which party spirit is carried. It enters into the most private relatio ns o f lif e. A Tory and Ra di c al are as distinct and have as little in common be tween them as if they were men not only of different countries, but of countries hostile to each other. The most admirable proposition that united wislicl e and patriotism ever contrived, if emanating from one party, would be received with coldness by the other. In private society, too, the distinction ie very strangely marked—families of different parties do not mingle, and even tradesmen find their cus tom affected in a considerable degree by these poli tical divisions." It would be well if these colonists would follow the example set them by those in high places and distinguished positions at home. There is nothing in which the good sense and fair play of Englishmen is more exhibited than in the free in tercourse and friendly association that often taxes place between those of opposite opinions, and whil e they meet with frankness one day, they can as frankly be engaged on different sides the next. The productions of the soil and agriculture furnish topics of interest for consideration. It is observed that the neglect of agriculture is attributed to want of knowledge in a scientific point of view; and a hope is expressed that a society: should be formed in Bermuda for the purpose 01 encouraging agriculture and horticulture. On the. whole, it may be saf e ly a ffi rme d t h at the aut h or a this little work has presented us with a readable and useful sketch of the progress of the colony, an d many may be entertained with the picture of Ber muda as here presented to them. Market Harborough ; or, How 111 r. Sawyer went to the Shires. Chapman and Hall. Although the author of this tale does not declare himself, few who are conversant with the sportingliterature of the last ten y ears w ill f a il to recogu l the style of the clever author of " Mr. Sponge.° Sporting Tour" in the present work. The hero is a country gentleman who, having been recom mended in youth to take his name off the boards of an Oxford coll ege f or a b reac h o f di sc i p li ne, w hich although venial in the eyes of many, was unpar donable by the University, he having ridden 0 : " Ayrshire bull across Peckwater in broad daylight 1 0 hunting costume, having attired his steed in a fall suit of academicals, renounced for ever the litera ture of the ancients, and retired to his country residence and devoted all his energies to the chase, and confined his literary researches to the perusal of Bell's Life and the Sporti ng M agaz i ne , caring little for the pleasure of society, having shortly after his retirement from Oxford been heartlessly' jilted by a certain Miss Mexico, who however 1 0 not introduced to the reader. Mr. Sawyer, our hero, in his thirty-eighth year, tires of his own county, and determines to viait the Shires, as the sporting phrase goes, or, to be more explicit, the grass-land of Leicestershire with its extensive pastures, ox fences, and broad ditches, by way of a change, from the heavy plough-land of his own county. It is on his arrival at Market Harborough that the tale really begins. Mr. Sawyer meets in the railway carriage, which conveys him from Lon don to Harborough, a certain gentleman yclept the Hon. Crasher, who is certainly the best character in the book, and represents, in some measure, many of the first flight men of the hunting field, who, when in town, are too fatigued and weary to make the least exertion ; but in the saddle, at the cover side, are men of rather another stamp. The Hon. Crasher is one of this class in both extremes, and the author properly says that where danger is not feared, or the possibility of accident antici pated, it is often avoided. So with Crasher, he cared nothing for his own neck nor that of his horse —be with hounds he would, cost what it might, and escaped dangers which would have crushed most men. Idle and listless to the last degree, generous and good-natured to a fault, there was yet that in the manner of the Honourable that forbade freedom or intrusion. Mr. Sawyer struck up a great friend ship with this individual, whose heart he won when chancing to come across him going to the meet the morning after his arrival, and having lost his way in a fog Crasher volunteers to show him, which he does after his own fashion, for ge tti ng o ff the right track and finding a gate locked, he jumps it, and rides straight across country to the place of meeting, but he is followed by as bold a rider as himself, who shows him the way over some difficult places. From that moment they are fast friends. He introdu ces him to the Sporting Parson, who invites them to lunch, where our hero meets the rector's lovely daughter, with whom of course he immediately falls in love and ultimately marries, although this episode does not take place during the narrative. The maid is won by the neglect which her coldness to her lover has induced him to show her, and the matrimonial catastrophe is consummated by the steeplechase catastrophe which breaks Mr. Sawyer's collarbone, and causes Miss Dove to show her real feeling. A variety of characters are introduced, all more or less portraying the idiosyncrasy of diffEcent classes of individuals to be met with in hunting coun tries. The author is a thorough sportsman, and his descriptions of runs, leaps, &c., and the general adventures of a hunting field, are given con amore; and the steeplechase, which concludes the volume, is capitally done. It is a private affair got up among the Harborough gentlemen, and Mr. Sawyer of course enters, much against the advice of his old groom, Isaac, who has had some experience in steeple chases. Mr. Sawyer, however, acquitted himself very well—himself, the dare-devil Crasher, and an. unknown, forming the three at the finish. Thus they near the "double"—the last obstacle of any importance. It consists of two ditches, and a strong staked and-bound fence on a bank. No horse can fly it all in his stride, after galloping nearly four miles. Perhaps that is the reason why Stripes, who knows he is on a quick one as we ll an fast one, shoots a little to the front, and comes at it at such an awful pace, seducing his two adversaries, by the force of example, into the same indiscretion. Crasher, who never "loses his stupidity," as he calls his presence of mind, diverges for a rail that he spies where the ditch is narrowest, takes the chance of breaking that or being killed, and going at it forty miles an hour, smashes it like paper, and succeeds, as Chance rises not an inch, in cover ing both ditches at a fly. He lands 'almost abreast of Luxury, who has struck back at the fence with the rapidity and activity of a cat. Mr. Sawyer, though remembering the place under the tree, dare not pull his horse off enough, lest he should lose too much ground, and Wood Pigeon, who is a little blown, attempting to do it all at once, lands with both fore-feet in the further ditch, chucks his rider into the field before him, and then rolls over the plum-coloured jacket in an ex tremely uncomfortable form. The horse rises, looking wild and scared; not so the rider : " He's down I" exc l a i m the crowd ; but their attention is so taken up by a slashing race home between Crasher and Stripes, in which the for mer is out-ridden by the latter, and beaten by half-a-length on the post, that probably no one present but Miss Dove knew who it was that was down. As the plum-colour still lay motionless, poor Cissy turned very pale and sick, and. then began to cry. This is not a tale of romance; it is not the author's intention, nor is it his forte; he has some experience in the ways of women, or, at least, has studied character, or per haps been thrown over himself. But his knowledge of all sporting matters is complete, and feeling that, it is his strongest point he makes the most of it. THE COAL !MADE.—In the year 1860,10,720,716 tons of coals, cinders, and culm were shipped coastways, from one port to another of the United Kingdom, an in crease of 612,883 tons over the year 1859 ; and 7,321,832 tons, of th© declared value of £3,316,281, were exported, an increase of 214,833 tons over 1859, and of £46,268 in value. In 1850 the quantity exported was only 3,351,880 tons (less than half the export of 1860), the declared value of which was £1,284,224. But all those figures, relating to seaborne coal, deal with not very much more than a quarter of the total quantity raised ; the bulk of it is brought into con sumption without being shipped, and manufactures and ty was 041 y 3,6;B,BB3.ncrease of 275,207 i porliation aro attract e d t o th e ne ighbourhood of th e coa l - . fields. The qu an tit y o f coa l s b r ought into the met ropol i s in 1860 coastw a y s was 3,573,377 tons (an tons over 1850), and by inland navigation and la n d carriage 1,499,899 tons (an increase of 289,123), tog e th er 5,373,276 tons, Ton year,' ago the quantity Col would Irs at fi, Soul time Ti Cow / vidix of 8 with lie a tekfi Th ley, Road to n R Old hE Thi Leadi / W ate *O. Itai Thi oa s I time. Lor POnde Mr. *heti of ILE (love: the II Ma s i e! India aerate the C Sir Venie La trait te.thi Lo Rom Gov( mew Iteer4 the acts meal Den had Lam to ti an t : cler,E inte to a a gi any He abo