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THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. Lessee, Mr. J. 11. Anderson. TilN, EVENING THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. To be followed by WHAT DO YOU WANT? To conclude with L'ECO3SAIS TRETILLANr. THr.ATRE ROYAL, DRURY.LANZ. Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, THE GREAT GUN TRICK. After which, LITTLE TODDLEKINS. To e'n•lade with HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE; or, Harlequin King Nonsense end the Seven Ares of Man. TFIEATRE ROYAL. lIIYMARKET. Unier the Management of Mr. Bnekatono. THIS EVEITINO. THE BUSY BODY. Followed by THE LITTLE TREATTRE. After which the New Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled THE BUTTERFLY'S BAT,T. AND THE GRASSHOPPER'S FEAST; or, Harlequin and the Genius of the Spring. ROYAL PRINCESN 3 THE \Tat, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Ca Au.= Kum. TIII3 EVENING, The Historical Play of LOUIS XI. Louis (King of France), by Mr. Charles Kean. After which, fugLEQUIN AND THE MATD AND THE MAGPIE ; or, the Fairy Paraffin and Hanky Pantry, the Enchanter. narlegnin, Mr. Cormack Clown, Mr. Hanna; Pantaloon, Mr. T a me; and Colurnhine, Miss Caroline Adams. TIIRATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. 1 3 :optiotor, Mr. B. Wohitor.—Directress, Madame Celestes THIS EVENING. BETTY MARTIN. After which, BETSY BAKER. To be followed by THAT BLESSED BABY. To conclude with SICK AND THE BEkN RTM,K ; or, trarloquin &R 4 Mothor Goose at Home Again. which Mortar.. J. Bland, P. Redford. Madam Celeste, Miss Wyndham, and Miss E. Arden will apaear. ROYAL OLY%EPTC THE kTRE. Lessee and Mane7er. Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENTNO, STAY AT HOME. Mier which will be prminc.4 a New and dmibly-moral, though exceteively old, Melodrametic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled DISCREET PREY jE - 14.3; a the Three rams Distarl. In which IStesers. Emery, F. Robson, H. Cooper, Mice Marstoi, an I Miss Maskell will appear. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Stiepher.l and Creswick. THIS EVENING JASPER LANGTON ; or, A Duel to the Death. To conclude with A PRINCE Or PTAR(.4 ; or, Harlcluin and Jane Shore. ARTL Era 110YA.T. A`rPHITHE ATRC. Lem* and Monate:, Mr. Wm. Cooks. Tart EVENING, Vint time, a Grand Oriental Ennestrian Spectacle, called THE ARAB OF TIIE DESERT AN.) HIS FAITHFUL STEED. The principal character by Mr. W. Cooke, jun. After which the SCENES the CIRCLE and the performance of the Stupendona Elenhan , s. one of which ascends uncontrolled upon a narrow inctlned plane from the centre of the rin; to an elevation 12 feet above the stage. To conclude with lIARLEQUIN AND ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Box-orlice open from Eleven till Fenn Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, '.fr. W. Cooke. !ult. EM MA STANLEY'S SEVEN AGES OF WJNIAS, Every Evening at 8, and on Saturdays at 3. Pronounced by the unanimous voice of the press, and by nizhtly Iroreashiz auu,,uces, .e the Greste,t Artistica! Triumph of the day. SAINT MARTIN'S HALL. Long-acre. Area, la. Reserved Chairs, 29. ed. HIGH WATEK AT LONDON BRIDGE. T 416 DAT—Morn. 35 min. aft. 2—Evening 53 min. aft. 2 TrWrfortßow—Morn. 10 min. aft. 3 —Evening 24 min. aft. 3 THE WEATHER-SuN OFFICE, FEB. 21. THERSIOI/ETER, IN Trig SHADE. 41 -highest since noon yesterday. 37 —owest this morning and &l ens the night. 39 —thin day at neon. BAROmrrint, 30'05—rising. WIND, N.N.E. to N.E. Light, with dull, cold,weather. ' Ay un LINDON, THURS k V, FEBRUARY 21, 1856 If there be any thing dear to English hearts it is the privilege of self-government, which they have so long enjoyed that it is now regarded as an inalienable birthright. Anything that inter feres with that time-honoured principle is regarded with jealousy and distrust—however plausible the pretexts on which it may be brought forward and sustained. The very name of " centralisation" is distasteful to every Briton, as tending to the re moval of some of the ancient lmdmarks of their highly-prized Constitution, and substituting a semi-despotic authority, for that of persons chosen by themselves, inhabitants of the same districts ; and therefore amenable to the public opinion of their friends and neighbours. We cannot feel then surprised at the excitement occasioned by the new " Counties and Boroughs," or, as it might more correctly be termed " Trinity House'' Police Bill. We call it " Trinity House" Bill, inasmuc'a as it is palpably in accordance with the line of policy laid down in a certain speech delivered at a Trinity House banquet, in which it was - gravely asserted that " Our Constitutional Government was under going a heavy trial." And why ? Because, forsooth, the acts of Ministers were canvassed and inquired into, by the Parliament, the Press, and the People of the Creaited Kingdom ? The lecture has not yet been forgotten by those to wbom it was addressed, nor, we venture to add, the almost unanimous comments of the public journalists thereon by the illustrious lecturer The former discern in " the Trinity House" Police Bill one of the first fruits of - the seed pro fusely scattered on that occasion. They therefore heartily oppose it, and denounce it as a dangerous and unconstitutional measure—an insidious attempt to wrest out of the people's hands the management of their own concerns. Nor are they tempted to its acceptance by the liberal offer to pay, under certain conditions, one quarter of the expense out of the Consoli dated Fund ; that is to say, with money to which every ratepayer is charged in another form. It is, therefore, not merely "robbing PETER to pay' PAUL," but satisfying Palm with money extracted from his own pocket. It requires no very great exertion to reject the plausible gift of the modern Greek. A very superficial examination will satisfy the parties interested that when the allowance is made in every district the result will h the same, no matter w h a t propor ti on b e charged on the local rates, or on the Consolidated Fund. When the provisions of the Act, th e G overnment inspection, and the nec e s s i t y for Gov ernmen t approval before their contribution, such as it is, can be paid, it will bo obvious that the intention is to place the entire police force of the country under the control and management of the Home office, or, in other words, at the beck and call of the Ministers of the day. It is needless to say what would be the effect of a well-organised body distributed throughout the length and breadth of the land, and able to report en the political opinions of every individual in the kingdom. The objections to a standing arm y, which were SO strongly entertained by our forefathers would be aggravated tenfold in the present instance, for, as the Lord Mayor of York justly declared, " a Police force so organised and paid would inevitably become the tool of the Government of the day." The demand was iu the first instance apparently simple, but it was analogous to the grant of " the handle of the axe " to the woodcutter in the fable, by which the remainder of the liberties would speedily fall. It was arranged that a deputation was to wait on Sir GEORGE GREY this day. We trust that the Right Hon. Baronet may yield to the argu ments adduced by those intelligent and influential persons, and withdraw the obnoxious measure, which no modification can render innocuous. If not, it will be the duty of every English. man to oppose it zealously and energetically, and of every constituency to instruct its represen tative or representatives, as to the course they are required to take in reference to the bill. The battle, as Mr. ROEBUCK justly declared, is to be fought in the House of Commons. The second leading will afford a suitable occasion. There should be no compromise, no surrender of a single position. Any promises of referring to a Select Committee, or of alterations in Committee, should be disregarded. The measure is essentially dis tasteful to Englishmen, and should therefore re ceive unequivocal condemnation. It may be constructed on approved German models, but we are satisfied with English principles, and cannot be coaxed into the surrender of the privileges en joyed by our ancestors through a long succession of ages. Princely orators may harangue on the . superior advantages of despotism, and the great convenience of a Government being enabled to act as it thinks proper, without being responsible or required to render any ac count whatsoever of its proceedings. But the people will not barter their liberties for such doubtful benefits. The Coburg-German constitu tion is not suited to the meridian of the British Isles ; and now that their eyes have been opened they will resist everything tending in that direc tion, and, as a matter of course, will totis viribus oppose the " Trinity House" Police Bill recently introduced by the Home Secretary, and now awaiting a second reading, or rather, we hope, a decided rejection, in the House of Commons. The recently-established Order of Merit—ex cellent in itself as a reward of valour—is but a poor corollary after all to the argument long agi tated in this country, convincing every rational man in the three kingdoms that England, too, should have her Legion of Honour ! Again the opportunity has been missed. 'Between the cup and the lip there has come that everlasting slip of the tantalising draught, never, it seems, to be drained, or even sipped, with any degree of equa nimity. Animal courage is to have a bran new medal dangling by a bit of gay ribbon at its but ton-hole—but modest worth, doing its deeds of heroism neither to tuck of drum nor to flourish of trumpets, must look for no recognition whatever from the magnates of the realm, the leaders of the powers that be ! Stay—yes ! there is one comfort for the scholar, we must admit, still left him as a solace in his grey hairs and his destitu tion. He may hope to have his name 'blazoned in the newspapers as the recipient of a beggarly pension of ls. and .qi. a day —as poor Mr. JOSEPH HAYDN had only the other week, just before he sickened and died, aged, infirm, and paralysed. Gon knows, indeed, that honest YORICK had reasons enow for exclaiming, on the very eve of his Continental travels, " They order, said I, this matter better in France I" Better ? Well, yes—slightly ! To say nothing of even that sham-TB. A J AN, and huckstering-A.IIGUSTUS, and Brummagem CHAILLBA.GNE, who shaved off his whiskeri in the February of 1848 and escaped iu an old pea-coat across the Channel—to say nothing at all of even his creating VICTOR HUGO a Peer, or again of that famous exclamation of the Great N APOLEON, to wit, that had CORNEILLE lived in his age he would have made him a Prince —to say nothing of all this—there is the grandest order of merit in the whole world as proof positive that, in this matter, France may reasonably enough be expected to shame us at last into something like emulation. Established by a soldier it embraces within its sheltering shade all classes of civilians. NAPOLEON the Great reasoned thus when ho founded it: "France," he said, "con sists of thirty millions of men united by intelli gence, property, and commerce. Three or four hundred thousand soldiery are nothing in such a mass "—adding—" The soldiers themselves are the children of civilians "—and observing conchs sively—" If you divide society into soldiers and citizens, you establish two orders in what should be one nation. If you confine honours to military men, you do what is still worse, for you sink the people into nothing." Now, this is what we have actually been doing in England all along. Nay, this is positively the very mistake which has so recently been more than ever signalised and ren dered glaringly obvious to the meanest capacity by the establishment of the New Order of Merit lately announced in the London, Gazette. A reward not for all kinds of merit indiscriminately, but for one description alone, that of mere brute courage. A recompense to be awarded to a com paratively small and exclusive division of the community—and not, as it should be, surely, if our rulers had any reasoning faculties left them upon the question, to all orders, and grades, and classes of Englishmen. How different from NAPOLEON'S Legion of Honour—the insignia of which might be aspired to alike by the wearer of ' the embroidered uniform and the wearer of the homely blouse, by the peasant and the artisan, by the man of letters and the ecclesiastic. Everybody, in fact, great and small, rich and poor, learned and unlearned—who, by bravery, by virtue, by genius, or by any other means whatever might be conceived to have done good service to his fellows, and so to have, in some measure, deserved the grateful recognition of those services by a discern ing, a sagacious, and a munificent Government. To select ono class of men for reward is simply absurd. And still more absurd, if possible, is it to decide that this doubly exclusive reward shall be awarded to one merit alone, as a means of public recompence. Aro forty or fifty thousand men in blue coats and red coati alone to be cared for, and dingily dressed millions and millions of their fellow-countrymen to be altogether over looked? Are genius, and virtue, and industry, and self-sacrificing philanthropy, and the like, really all as absolutely nothing when weighed in the balance a gainst—pluek ? Take industry alone ( of all these, by way of example, and answer if that deserves nothing whatever (supposing it to have been laudably directed to the achievement of any considerable success) : answer, we say, if that deserves nothing whatever in the way either of recompence or encouragement ! It was only the other day, for that matter, that the laborious and ent erpr i sing burghers o f H ull enjoyed the privilege of listening to an impressive argument addressed to them upon this very subject by one of the eminent men of our generation—Tve allude to the remarkable L ector© delivered upon the 3d ultimo, by the learned Recorder of Hull, now M.P. for the borough of Midh urst, upon the sub ject of " Labour : its Rights, Difficulties, Dignity, and Consolations." An eloquent and earnest dis. course a the very naeri i of the elaboration of which, 'to our regret, precluded us from transfering it ' entire to our own columns from those of cur Yorkshire contemporaries. Since then, however, Mr. WARREN'S masterly prelection upon Labour has been reprinted as a separate and substantive publication, from a portion of which we are tempted to excerpt one brief but suggestive pas sage, as singularly apposite to the theme now under our exAmination, and one, moreover, strik ingly illustrative of the particular branch of the argument just referred to by ourselves. The Lecturer is talking of Intellectual Labour as not, surely, altogether unworthy of that designation, and thereupon exclaims—" The working Classes ! Are those not worthy of the name, and in its very highest sense, few in number, comparatively, though they be, who, by their prodigious powers of thought, make those discoveries in science which have given tenfold efficacy and value to labour—turned it suddenly into a thousand new channels, and conferred on all classes of society new conveniences and enjoy ments 7 Are we to overlook those great intellects which have devoted themselves to statesmanship, to jurisprudence, to morals, to the science of me dicine—securing and advancing the best interests of mankind, and relieving them from physical anguish and misery ; the noble genius devoted to literature, refining, expanding, and elevating the minds of all capable of it, and whose immortal works are glittering like stars of the first magni tude in the hemisphere of thought and imagina tion ? No, my friends ; let us not be so unjust, ungrateful, or unthinking ; let us rather be thankful to GOD for giving us men of such powers, and opportunity and inclination to use them, not for their own reputation's sake alone, but for our advantage ; and let us not enhance the claims of manual, by forgetting or depreciating intellectual labour." Mr. WARREN adding to all this, imme diately afterwards—" I could, at this mo ment give you a dozen instances within my personal knowledge, of men whom GOD has given very little physical strength, but great mental endowments, and who cheer fully undergo an amount of exhausting labour of which you have no idea, in conducting public laffairs, political and legal, and prosecuting scien tific researches, immortalising the age in which they live. These, they, men of letters, of science —authors, philosophers, divines, statesmen, law yers, physicians—;ve not only admit among us into the ranks of the working classes, recognising their power and grateful for its exercise—but we welcome them with pride, and grudge them no 1 honour and distinctions which society can confer upon them, and which genius commands, in all ages, as the spontaneous homage of mankind! Surely—surely. It is their due. But do they receive their due in this country, these distin guished, and unostentatious labourers—the la bourers of the closet as contradistinguished from those of the mart and of the factory, the heroes of the study and the laboratory, and not of the battle field or the deck of the man-o'-war---are their services rightly appreciated and honoured, their 1 great services to their fellow-citizens and their fatherland? Instead of this, are we not constantly observing certain invidious distinctions marked out by which the symbols of honour are exclusively awarded for animal courage, and squandered for that right and left indiscriminately upon our brave national defenders. Again we say what we set out with observing, virtually in so many words : the new Order of Merit is but a sorry set-off for —what is still wanting in this country—a Legion of Honour for the deserving among all grades, and ranks, and classes of Englishmen. We have said before, and we say again, no man living can adduce valid Scriptural authority for a " Sabbatarian" observance of the weekly National Day of Rag. The more closely, in point of fact, the texts on which the Sabbatariau party rely are examined, the more surprised will the thought ful reader become at their extreme folly and audacity in claiming such an authorisation in order to the maintenance of a yoke which presses so heavily on a class sufficiently overburdened with out it to challenge the kindlier sympathies of all Christian men. What is likely to be thought of such teachers in regard to other matters when the sort of observance on which they insist is given up as lacking,lthe very authority they claim for it by such men as the Bishop of LONDON and the Archbishop of DUBLIN, the learned Doctors BLOOMFIELD and WHATELY ? For our part, we can hardly reflect without a shudder on the mischief now being sown by these hot-headed Sabbatarian bigots. It is positively shocking to witness men, claiming tae character of Christian guides, going so far and so flagrantly astray, and to misrepresentaticn, ungodly rancour, and all uncharitableness, adding a by no means scrupulous regard for 4 ,:ne truth. Are they aware that what they sa;l and do in the matter is said and done in tae hearing or sight, as it were, of the entire population r The tyranny of these men has really become insupportable, and ought not to be submitted to one moment longer than can be helped. The question of Sundry observance is one in which the masses have a special interest, and it is really time they should bestir themselves. The table of the House of Commons is being inundated with petitions, and the more weak-minded of our legislators aro being led to believe that the population in the main sympathise with the ravings of the Sabbatarian party. A few fanatics in the most out-of-the-way districts persuade after a fashion their dependents, tradespeople, and workpeople, to sign a Sabbatarian peti tion, and it passes off with many as the volun tary outpouring of a district. A number of the frequenters of chapels in towns where there is not spiritual accommodation for one-half the po pulation, get up a dozen or more petitions among themselves, and these are being suffered to pass muster as representing the views of the majority. All sorts of arts are • being employed to get up petitions in such numbers as to create a false im pression of the views and feelings of the country on the subject, and. still little or nothing is done by the masses by way of counteraction, and in vindication of their views and interests. It is really high time they should bestir them selves. On our iconscience, we believe if the country were polled to-morrow, and polled by ballot, the Sabbatarians would be found in a miserable minority. Let the working men of England, who know that in the opening of our national institutions nothing but the intellectual and moral elev,ation of their order is sought for, bestir thems , tives. Let them everywhere be in attendance at public meetings on the subject, and give at once expression and effect to their opinions. Let them got up meetings and petitions, and do all in their power to show that without the pre tensions of the Pharisee, the English workman cherishes in. his heart a generous sympathy for his brethren throughout the length and breadth of the land, and that, leaving cruelty and On the workmen of the =- into lerance to 'bigots, he delights in practising the most salient b u t m os t neglected teachings of Christian ity. tropolis, ,the .duty of giving expression to their d e Jtestatioll of Sabbatarian tyranny and THE SUN, .L 0 N DON, THURSDAY fI:VENING, FEBRUAR Y 21 , 186 6. unwillingness to continue longer under the yoke is imperative. It is more especially for their benefit that the motion for the opening of our national institutions on a Sunday is brought for ward. They know what a grievous yoke that is from which it is sought to deliver them, and how also to make themselves heard. What ! are a handful of tinners in Cornwall and a few hun dred little knots of zealots in other out-of-the way places, who know little or nothing of what they are petitioning about, to be suffered to rivet the yoke, the unchristian yoke, imposed on myriads of men, when, by an effort on the part of the sufferers, it may be broken and cast aside for ever ? Let them be up and doing. Let the memory of the Beer Bill, repealed last session, convince them how dangerous it is to despise the ravings of bigots ; and, in a peaceful and constitutional manner, say of Sabbatarian Restriction, " We may no longer endure it." If they do so, and do it as they ought, they will not be without aid. Let them be assured that from their brethren in the country petitions in favour of the motion will come in, not perhaps in such numbers, but vastly more numerously signed than those against it, and the dullest legislatoiral head will be led to question the propriety of a miserable minority in flicting their stapid hypocrisy by Act of Parlia ment on the great majority. CRIMEAN OFFICERS ON LEAVE. HORSE . GUARDS, FEB. 15, 1856. MEMORANDITM.-officers on leave from Scutari or the Crimea, on their private affairs, who re quire conveyance to the East, are desired to re port themselves immediately at the Adjutant- General's-office, in order that they ►nay be pro vided with passage in a vessel which has been chartered for the purpose by.her Majesty's Go vernment. As the accommodation is limited to 90 officers, application as above must be made without a day's delay. ROYAL VISIT TO TFI ADELPIII I'.II EAT RE. Her Majesty has graciously signified to Mr. Webster her intention of visiting the Adelphi Theatre on Satur day morning next, accompanied by Prince Albert and the Royal Family, to witness a private performance of the splendid pantomime of "Jack and the Bean Stalk; or, Harlequin and Mother Grouse at Home Again." Mr. Webster well deserves this special mark of his Sovereign's favour, for no manager has more industriously and suc cessfully laboured to provide attractive entertainments for her Majesty's lieges than the talented and enterpris ing lessee of the Adelpbi Theatre. ST. MARTIN'S HALL. Beethoven's Mass in C and Mendelssohn's Hymn of Praise were performed at this hall last evening, under the direction of Mr. Juhn Mullah. The principal per formers were Mr. and Mrs. Sims Reeves, Miss Palmer, Miss Banks, and Mr. Thomas. The chorus consisted, as usual, of the members of Mr. Ii llah's Upper Sing ing School. The first of the pieces performed, though not so well suited to a mixed audience as the latter, and having the disadvantage of being in a foreign language, was nevertheless attentively listened to and well re ceived. The second part of the evening's entertainment commenced with an introductory sinfonia admirably performed. The opening chorus was given with vigour and effect. The duet for two sopranos was sung by Mrs. Sims Reeves and Miss Banks, and obtained a well merited encore. Mr. Sims Reeves sung the air for the tenor, " The Sorrows of Death," and its accompanying recitative, " Watchman, will the night soon pass," with so much expression and effect that the enthusiastic demand. for an encore silenced the chorus which imme diately followed. The chorus acquitted themselves well, and the orchestra, under the direction' of Mr. Hollab, I was all that could be desired. The ball was crowded. .13 URF ORD' S ROY _l L PANORA 311. Yesterday we were favours, I with a private inspection of a view of Sebastopol, including the storming of the Malskhoff, the assault on the Redan, and the retreat of a large body of Russians towards the bridge of rafts, which has just been added to this well-known exhibition. The visitor is supposed to be placed on a portion of the 11Ialakhoff Tower, and, turning to the left, looks down on Prince Gortschakoff and staff watching in the vicinity of burning dwellings the struggles going on simulta neously within the Malakhoff and the Redan. Extending his gaze, the dilapidated palaces, temples, houses, &c., of the once fair city are spread out before him, picturesque even in ruins, and looking ae if their decay had been the work, not of weeks, but of centuries. Equally con spicuous are the barracks, docks, forts, and the Allied fleets in the offing. At this point, more especialiy, the colouring and perspective give a startling reality to the scene ; so perfect, indeed, is the illusion, that an effort is required in order to disenchantment. In the rear of Fort St. Nicholas, and stretching over to the north side, is the bridge of rafts, and behind ii a few ships of war, partially enveloped in smoke. Passing onward, the visitor comes on the Admiralty, with its ruined buildings, and beyond these looks down on large bodies of Russians in full retreat from the Malakhoff, while others endeavour to resist the entrance of the Z maves within the lower lines of defence. From the topmest heights of the fortress the tricolor is to be seen floating over a frightful scene of coufl:ct, in an atmosphere dun and lurid, and charged with death. In all directions the Zouaves are seen scampering up to the assault, °vir every sort of obstacle. Further on the zigzag work of the trenches, and troops issuing from them, catch the eye ; while on the extreme left the spectator is presented with a view of the assault of the Redan, and the Rus sians hastening in great force to the defence. Altogether the exhibition far exceeds our expectation, and bids fair to become, and to continue for some time, one of the lions of the metropolis. The 'Panorama, we should add, has been painted by the proprietor and assistants from sketches taken by Capt. Verechoyle, of the Grenadier Guards, aided by photographic views, and is remarkable, it is said, for its fidelity. Mr. Sergeant Wilkins has again passed a comfortable night ; and his restoration to health is progressing satir factorily. The Speaker of the House of Commons will hold his levees at his house in Eaton-square, on Saturday, the Ist, and Saturday, the Bth of March, each night at ten o'clock. M. Yvon, the painter, the author of a well known picture, represetiting - a scene of the retreat of Marshal Ney from Russia, has been commissioned by the Minis ter of State to go to the Crimea, to make studies for a grand picture of the taking of the Malakhoff. PROPOSED NEW CAmrs.—lt is understood to be the intention of Government to establish camps in the spring on Barham Downs, near Canterbury ; Penenden Heath, near Maidstone ; and Southsea Common, Hants ; the troops to be encamped are stated at 8,000 on Barham Downs, 20,000 on Penenden Heath, and 15,000 on Southsea Common, at all which places the men will be under tents, and will be drilled in field duties ready for any emergencies. A. •oluminous report hall just been issued by the Port Philip and Colonial Gold Miniug Company, pre paratory to their meeting on the 25th. The future prospects of the concern appear to depend mainly on the results of an agreement lately made with a Mr. Stephen to undertake the management of a mineral station in Victoria, on the principle of being remunerated solely out of profits. The accounts show 3,1321. cash in Eng land, 12,5091. cash and bills in the colony, and 17,546/. in freehold property, &c., in the colony ; making the total assets 33,1871. _ The report of the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank, issied preparatory to their meeting nn the 27th, states the profit of the past half-year at 13 2011. The reserved fund has been reduced from 6,2171. to 1,6171., in consequence of debts to the amount of 4,6001. having been written off as bad. It is now proposed to declare a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, which will absorb 10,0001., and to apply 1,440/. to building and preliminary expenses, leaving 1,7611. to be carried to the reserved fund, which will then amount to 3,378/. A little boy named Morley, nine years of age, hung himself in Southampton on Friday last, There is every reason to believe that he was innocently trying an experiment as to the effects of tying a rope with a slip knot round his neck, and leaning forward to tighten it, when the experiment proved . fatal. He was a well-disposed boy, and not at all eccentric in his conduct or disposition. REVOLUTION IN SCIENCE.—A lady, the daughter of the late Mr. Samuel Blackwell, of Bristol, has just completed her medical studies in Paris, and obtained a diploma t o p rac t i se as a phy s i c i an . She has a sis ter, who pursued her studies also in Paris, who is acting in a similar capacity in New York, under the title of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell.- The' lady who has just obtained this honourable distinction is Dr. Emily Blackwell. Her studies have been principally directed to the diseases of women and children. LATEST NE WS. MARSEILLES, FEB. 21. The steam-frigate Sane, which left Constanti nople on the 13th, has arrived, with Aali Pasha, the Turkish Plenipotentiary to the Paris Con- erences, on board. His Highness leaves for Paris this evening. BERLIN, WEDNESDAY. Count Orloff had an audience yesterday of the King at Charlottenburg, and left this capital this morning for Cologne, where he will sleep to- night. The Emperor of Russia has just given his ap probation to the budget of the navy. It is re marked that it is only those parts of it which apply to the ports of the Baltic, the White Sea, and the Caspian Sea that are provided for. The ports of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azoff are not mentioned in the budget. Count Zeptowitsch, Russian ambassador to Belgium, has arrived in Berlin, on his way from St. Petersburg to his post. CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB. 11. The Sultan will decree the freedom of property in this sense—that Christians shall be empowered to acquire and possess real estate in their own names. The railway from Belgrade to Constantinople has been conceded to a firm of English capitalists. MADRID, FEE. 19. The statutes of the Credit Mobilier Company have been presented to the Government. It is not yet known of whom the Board of Directors is to be composed. The payments of the month of February are insured. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. We had lately occisiou to translate the princi pal passages of an article from the Lebats , in which it was argued that the destruction o f Nicolaieff could scarcely be comprised in the conditions im posed by the third point. This statement attracted a reply from the Siecle, which is reproduced in the columns of the Moniteur of this day. The fact of the appearance in the official journal of this article, which insists on the - .destruction of Nicolaieff, bestows upon it an importance which we recognise, and we now extract the more important portion of its contents : " There are journals which imagine themselves to be members of the congress, and which lay down and solve the most complicated diplomatic difficul ties with imperturbable aplomb. The Debats is of this number, and we would willingly pardon the little weakness which leads it to play the plenipo tentiary, as it played the general before, during, and after the siege of Sebastopol, provided the dif ficulties it enumerates were solved in a national manner. But the diplomatists of the Debuts are far from having the same tendencies as its generals. The military editor used to carry the Russian posi tions with flying colours. The diplomatist, on the contrary, leaves to the enemy with a remarkable liberality everything he may desire. . . . Now, according to the Debats, the Turks, starting from the clear and precise text of the third point, are about to demand that the arsenals and dock yards of Nicolaieff be transported elsewhere. Ac cording to our ideas, right and sense are on their side. Nicolaieff is as dangerous to them as Sebas topol, and, Moreover, from its slips have gone forth exclusively the Russian navy in the Black Sea. But the Debuts does not think so. Nico laieff, it argues, is not on the Black Sea : it is a few leagues inland, on the Boug. Consequently, it is not comprised in article 3. We need not prove the hollowness of this argument. It is not only the shores of the Black Sea that are to be libe rated, but the Black Sea itself is to be emancipated, and, above all, the Woman empire is to be placed beyond attack. Now, to close the Euxine to armed navies, it is evident that the Boug must be closed. If that river remains open, there will be no closing the Euxine. Let us admit that it is closed by a treaty ; who in the world will guarantee that fact, if Nicolaieff remains erect with its menacing arsenals and dockyards ? No largo vessels will be constructed there, but smaller ones will make up by their number for their want of size. Sinope expeditions will leave the Bong and Nicolaieff, in stead of leaving Sebastopol ; that alone is the dif ference. The arguments of the Debuts, even if pre sented by MM. de Brunow and Orloff, will, we believe, shatter against the good sense of all. No closing of the Bong, no article 3. Nicolaieff extant, no security. This is beyond doubt. With respect to Bumarsund, the Debats, which has studied the treaty of Frederickshamm, asserts that the Rus sians possess the right of fortifying the Aland Isles. But it thinks that, out of consideration for Sweden, not England, Russia will not be intractable on that point. If she does act thus, she will, whatever may be her reasons, act with good sense ; for the question of the possession and fortifying of the Aland Isles interests not alone Sweden and Eng land, but also all Europe. Mistress of these islands Russia not only dominates Sweden and the pas sages of the Sound, but she also menaces the com merce of Europe in the Baltic, and could at any time impose her law on it. Finally, within reach of the passage of the Sound, she has fleets which might throw themselves on any given point of England, Holland, or even France. All Europe is, therefore, much interested in the question of the Aland Isles." After stating its opinion that these difficulties with respect to Nicolaieff and Bomarsund are merely diplomatic scruples which will be overcome, the ,Siecle persists in its declaration that even then the object of the war will remain unaccomplished, whilst the real stumbling-block h still the fifth article :—" The war has not been undertaken alone to save the Ottoman empire. It has been said and repeated everywhere in official regions that it was a question of the re-establishment of European equilibrium and the prevention of any future in vasion on the part of Russia. We demand that the conditions of peace shall strictly coincide with the programme of war." BOURSE, Feb. 20.—The following were the closing quotations:— Cash. — 7:fr. s. End of Month. 4i per Cents 96 --f. —a. 3 p©r Cente 72 85 73 30 New Loan 73 40 Bank Shares 3,465 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,565 Austrian Belgian Five 5........ 97 Spanish Threes Piedmontese (5) B9 50 Home Debt 38 RAILWAYS—POs CAM fr. 0. Orl4ans 1,265 -- Western B7O Northern Lyons., ..,.... 1,245 New Ditto B3O Mediterranean' 1,390 Grand Central 650 Lyons Geneva 760 Teste Cette 755 Austrian Com. COO AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna of the 16th, • in the Post Ampt Gazette, says :—" Count Boul, it is affirmed, has been charged by the Empress-Mother, Caro lina Augusta, to present to the Empress of the French the order of the Star, with a letter from her Majesty. The order of the Star, founded in 1668 by the Dowager-Empress Eleonora, reckons amongst members 41 ladies of reigning houses."-- Another letter of the above date, in the Augs burg Gazette, says :—ln well-informed circles, it is said that the leave of absence obtained by Prince Gortschakoff is only a preliminary step to his de finitive departure from this Court, where he will, it is thought, be replaced by M. de Fenton." VIENNA, Feb. 17.—The evident desire of the Washington Government to pick a quarrel with England excites attention here, and people in office are ,s trongly inclined to suspect the President of endeavouring " to kill two birds with one stone." In plain English, his partisans are believed to have two reasons for agitating against England ; the one to secure the re-election of their leader ; the other, to make a diversion in favour of Russia. The incorrect telegraphic news of the departure of Mr. Buchanan from England caused a slight panic here, but it ceased even before the intelligence was contradicted, as the moneyed world firmly believes peace will be restored with Russia, and foresees that the "state: • men" will lower their tone as soon as they learn that.such is likely to be the case. Austria is at present on very decent terms with the Washington Government, but she regards its continual endea vours to find a pretext for meddling in European affairs with such a jealous eye that the good, un-. derstanding is, not likely to be of any great dura tion. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Feb. 18.--In imitation of Paris and Vienna, Berlin is now also going to have its " Credit Institution," as it is called for want of a better name ; a bank it is not, but it is to be everything else ever heard of for promoting joint stock companies, commerce, manufactures, agricul ture, and the welfare of the commonwealth in general. It will also be permitted to issue its own paper, bearing interest and payable to bearer. The managing committee will consist (as far as the names have as yet become known) of seven of the largest landed proprietors in Prussia, for the most part members of the highest nobility, and nine of the richest bankers in Berlin and Cologne, thus combining landed property and an cestral rank with large money capital and extensive business experience. The capital is to be 30,000,000 thalers, in shares of 200 thalers each, with liberty subsequently to increase it to 50,000,000. No diffi culty is apprehended in obtaining the Royal appro bation and permission, as the project apparently enjoys the fullest approbation of the Minister of Commerce, who gave the members of the future man aging committee a grand dinner last Tuesday. Short of permitting the establishment of private banks, with power to issue theirnotes, the Minister of Com merce seems to leave no stone unturned to inspirit trade, manufactures, and enterprise in Prussia ; after having procured the expulsion of millions of spurious paper money issued by all sorts of States and corporations in Germany and circulating in Prussia, Herr von der Heydt has lately authorized an extension of the Royal Bank, and put it on a better footing as regards the share the Government has in the capital and the profits ; we hear also of a Credit Bank being about to be opened in Breslau for the benefit of the Silesians, and also of an in stitution set on foot by a number of landed pro prietors, who propose to raise 40,000,000 thalers by the issue of shares, and apply the capital to the improvement of agriculture on their own estates ; perhaps the last two are only the same under dif ferent names. THE GERMANIC DIET. In the sitting of the Diet of the 14th, the pre sident announcd that during the absence of Baron de Brunow, M. de Meugden, first secretary of legation, would perform the duties of the charge d'affaires of Russia at the Diet. The Universal German, Gazette states that Baron de Brunow will not return to his post at nankfort, but that im mediately after the conclusion of peace he will resume his former functions at the court of St. James's. GREECE. Accounts from Athens, of the 13th, state that King Othe) in order to give satisfaction to the Western, Powers, has abrogated the law which raised the duty on transshipment of corn from one vessel to another to 5 per cent. His Majesty is suffering from indisposition. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, Feb. 18.—The meeting of the " Bel gian Association for Customs Reforms" took place yesterday. Several members addressed the assem bly in favour of, riot one opposed, the objects of the association. The president, M. Corr Vander maeren, laid great stress on the obstacles opposed to the development of sundry manufactures, to their competition with foreign industries, and to their faculty of supplying home markets at cheap rates, from the amount of customs dues upon indispensa ble raw articles. He mentioned that many articles were liable to no less than 240 different duties under divers shapes, and added that matters went so far that a transit duty amountin g to prohibition was exacted upon nightingales and some other singing birds. M. Masson, of Verniers, secretary of the chamber of commerce, laid stress on the hardships imposed on Belgian operatives by the "iniquitous" nature of the tariff on coals and iron, which were taxed far beyond their value. He added, in the name of four of the great engine builders of Ver viers, that they required no protecting duties, and could compete with England if the duties on articles requisite for their manufactures were reduced. M. Hardy de Beaulieu pointed out by cyphers the ad vantages, as shown by the British tables of experts and imports, which England derived from her libe ral system of commerce. Several other members having spoken in the same sense, and no one having risen to oppose, the following resolutions,were read and unanimously adopted : "Seeing the superannuated ate, the unhearc'- f com plications, and total ab.ence of unity, views, and princi ples of the Belgian customs tariff : " Seeing that this situation has been recognised by tl:e Government itself in the expose of the proyet ban sub mitted by the then Minister of Finance, in Jan., 1 553, to the chambers : "Seeing that our tariff, a; sai , l in that document, pre sents in divers parts a character approaching too much to prohibition : '• Seeing that industrial progress is not a fact particu larlo Belgium, and tiiat in proportion as it is developed elsewhere, competition becomes more difficult for us in foreig❑ markets ; and that unles we abandon the strug gle, it is requisite to have recourse to reductions of duties on raw ~übstance "Seeing that foreign m'rchants, and the greater part. of foreign con, , uls abroad, whom the tariff concerns, are net always enabled to see their way amidst the multipli city of charges which it consecrates : "Seeing that there result therefrom causes of uncerti tude for commercial combinations, and serious obstacles to the extension of international exchanges of produce : "Seeing that the general interest of Th,lgium inv.-li on:4ly demands a general and definitive revision of our customs legislation, a , regards simplification, reduction of exaggerated duties on manufactured articles, and the same off everything coming under the head of raw pro duce : The assembly declares— " That all cla'ses of the Belgian nation are deeply in terested in the reform of the tariff, and that they ought to associate, in order to concentrate and direct their scattered forces for this purplse." The principles on which the association is found ed, and the objects it has in view, are indisputably gaining ground throughout the country ; and an impression exists that the legislative body will in due time see the question in its proper light ; that is, if individual members can shako off that esprit de exciter, or devotion to local interests, which is carried to greater lengths here than in any other country possessing representative institutions. Belgian members are invariably hard sticklers for the very letter of the constitution, except as re gards that clause which tells them that " each, when elected, represents his country at large, and not the special locality where he is nominated." Intelligence has been received from Martinique and Guadaloupe to the 29th of January. At the latter island a considerablo amount of illness still prevailed, but at Martinique the yellow fever had subsided, .and a great improvement had taken place in the public health. At Martinique, the lofty building erected near St. Pierre, as a watch tower for the purpose of discovering and announc ing as early as possible the arrival of the transat lantic steamers, was completely finished, and was found to answer perfectly. The official Gazette of Guadaloupe publishes a decree from the governor, according a drawback of sfr. for every kilogramme of vanilla of the first quali t y , and one of 2fr. for ordinary quality, to any planter exporting 25 kilo grammes at least. THE MEDITERRANEAN. SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 20. By th e Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Euxine, captain Joy, with the India, China, and Mediterranean mails, in charge of Lieut. Pearson, R.N , we have dates from Alexandria, Feb. 6 ; Malta, 10 ; and Gibraltar, 16. The Euxine has on board 38 passengers, and on freight one package of specie, value not stated, and a cargo consisting of 5 boxes of dates, 50 boxes of oranges, 2 boxes of tea (samples), 8 quarter casks of wjne, 36 cases of crape shawls, 223 bales and 92 cases of silk, 122 bales of goats' hides, 1. bale of hemp, 70 cases of indigo, and 78 packages of merchandise. The Euxine during the voyage experienced fine weather in the Mediterranean, strong N.W. winds along the coast of Spain and Portugal, and across the Bay of Biscay and up the Channel N.E. winds with rain. At Malta wore her Majesty's ships Royal Albert, Hannibal, Agamemnon, Princess Royal, St. Jean d'Acre, Tribune, Iligliflyer, Miranda, Himalaya, Swallow, Curlew, Sidon, Leopard, Terrible, Sphynx, Medina, Shearwater, Lynx, Wrangler, Beagle, and Viper. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw steam-ship Pera was at Malta, repairing the da mage to her machinery, and would sail for South ampton on the 11th inst. The India, China, and Mediterranean mails which should have arrived by the Pera have been brought to England by the Enxine. Intelligence from Gibraltar is to the 16th instant. The screw . steam-ship British Queen, six and a-half days from Liverpool, arrived out on the 6th inst. The British brig Lyons, Duff master, which sailed from Gibraltar -bay laden with sulilur for Cork, took fire off Cape St. -Vincent. The captain and crew were obliged to abandon the vessel, and ar rived at Gibraltar on the 4th, in the Dutch galliot Margaretba Gesina. The Spanish steamer Guadalete, which anchored in Gibraltar-bay on the 6t,b, landed. at Algesiras upwards of 300 Spanish infantry soldiers from Ca diz to relieve an equal number f4crn the former j garrison. The relieved troops were conveyed by the same steamer to Cadiz. This mode of convey ance; by steam, is solely attributable to the bad state the roads were in between the two places, occasioned by the continued heavy rains. Her Majesty's screw-steam corvette Cossack ar rived at Gibraltar from England on the morning of the Btlii inst., on an experimental trip to the Mediterraneau. The British steamer Oscar, eight days from Plymouth, arrived out on the Bth. The Vigo steamer, in the French transport service, sailed from Gibraltar on the 9th inst., laden with stores for the u.:e of the French troops in the Crimea. Die steam-transport Madagascar, seven days from Malta, in ballast, for Gibraltar, arrived there on the 10th. She has been chartered by the Government for four months longer, and was to proceed to Barcelona to ship mules for the Dar danelles. The steam-transport Wm. Oldham, from Malta to Deptford, was at Gibraltar repairing some defects in her boilers. The screw-steamer R. Lowe, from London, with a general cargo for the Crimea, arrived at Gibraltar ou the 11th. The steam-trans port Europa, Capt. Leach, witu her Majesty's float ino, battery Glatton in tow, put into the bay on the 12th' inst. to coal, on her way to England. The Glat ton, Capt. Cumming, being ordered from Kamiesh to England for the purpose of refitting before pro ceeding to the 13altice in the spring, had 12 out of the 14 guns she carried taken out, as well as all her rigging, 4,7 c., and put on board the Europa, 50 as to lighten her, and render the towage easier. When those vessels left Kamiesch Bay the steam transport City of London was preparing to take the guns, &c., of the Meteor (floating battery), which was likewise ordered home to refit for the same campaign, and would be towed to England by the City of London. The steam transport Berwick, which was about to leave Gibraltar for London, has been again taken up by the Government for four months. Prepara tions were being made for her to proceed to Valen cia with stores and mulateers, at which place she will take in a cargo of mules for conveyance to the Dardanelles. The Gem of the Sea (American barque), Captain Miller, put into Gibraltar on her way from NO York, 13th inst., with a cargo of salt pork, con' sisting of 2,800 barrels, which she is conveying to Toulon for the use of the French Government. The 3team transport Alps, Captain Inglis, four i days from Malta, arrived on the 14th with 76 n' valids on board, hound to Portsmouth. The steam transport Saldanha, No. 209, arrived on the morn ing of the 14th, in tow of the Assistance troopsbilh having left Scutari January 24th, Renkioi 29th, and Malta February 7th, with 255 invalids, In charge of Captain R W. Piper, 46th Regiment , and medical care of Staff-Surgeon Adams, Assist; ant-Surgeon Brown, Mr. Stewart (Dresser), and Mr. Blackmore (charge of hospital stores). The Assistance was to leave immediately for Spitben . and take the Saldanh a i n t ow . Th e S a mu e l Lung steam transport, Captain Goldsmid, arrived in the bay on the 14th, to coal, on her way to Deptford. RUSSIA'S SHARE OF THE THREE PAP TITIO A S OF POLAND. (From a Correspondent of Morning Advertiser. )• The partition of Poland, reserved for the unscru pulous daring of the Empress Catherine to accom plish, was designed by Peter the Great, by whop! it was intended that the partitioning powers should. be Russia, Prussia, and the Elector of Saxony e then King of Poland, who was to hold his share a the spoil as its hereditary monarch. In this ar rangement Austria was to have no voice, but her silence was to be bought by guaranteeing the throne of Spain to one of her Archdukes. In all probe' bility the Empress would have improved upon this' arrangement by taking the whole of Poland to her' self. But Austria and Prussia were likely to he averse to that mode of settling the Polish question, and the result was the invasion of Poland by the three Powers, under various frivolous pleas, and the first partition of that kingdom. By this Russia obtained au accession of 32,00 0 English square miles ; Austria 27,900 ; and Prussia 10,800. Poland thus dismembered, still retained au extent of territory of 278,000 English square miles, with a population of 11,000,000 ; and feel' • ing teat to secure this a new constitution was no' cessary, her patriots set to work and provided . one , which Catherine opposed, because it was well cal culated to effect the object for which it was in tended. Under pretence of having bound herself to guarantee the old constitution, she invaded Poland with 100,000 men, and, joined bf , Prussian force, shortly after consummated th e second partition (1793), by Which she gained 98,000 English square miles, giving to Prussia 22,000, and the town of Dantzic. The resist" once of the Poles to this unparalleled mixture of dishonesty and impudence provoked the third dismemberthent which took place in 170* It is to this struggle that Cauibpell's lines in tha Pleasures of _Hope refer. Poland was now blot ted from the map of Europe, and what remained er her after the second partition, with some trifling exceptions, was, finally assured to Russia, a t the Congress Of Vienna, in 1815. The War of F r ance. with Prussia, in 1808, raised the hopes of those Polish patriots, who bad retired to the protection of the French Republic after the final dismelPher" inent of their country, had formed a legion, which was allowed to assume its national colours, and be. ing joined. by Polish refugees from all quarters, soon numbered 8,000 men, much diminished after wards by privations and losses. No sooner had the French entered the Polish soil, accompanied bl this remnant of the Polish Legion, than they wer e joined by the inhabitants, and the prospect of iw dependence began to assume the most encouraging appearance. A. portion of Prussia's share of the spoil was taken from her, and constituted into an independent State (1807), under the title of the Duchy of Warsaw, which received the King e l Saxony for a ruler, and the Code of Napoleon for its law. The history of this little State during its brief existence, and until it sank overwhelmed 131 the nii,foitunes which overthrew the first French Empire, afforal ample proof of the ability of the Poles to maintain their caus e aga i ns t a ll come rs, if they were once but fairly set on their feet. When the Duchy was invaded in 1809, by an Austrian force four times the number of its own army, the Poles, after giving the enemy battle in the environs of the capital, evacuated the town, crossed to the right bank of the Vistula, entered Austrian-Poland , where, being joined by the inhabitants, they occu pied a considerable portion of Galicia, and would have conquered the whole but for the treaty of Vienna, which stopped their • victorious career, , though not without adding to the Duchy War saw a part of Galicia, equal to about half the share gained by Austria through the dismemberment. Napoleon fell, and the Duchy passed into the hands of Russia. GENERAL SCREW STEAM COMPANY. At a meeting of the General Screw Steam Com pany held yesterday—Mr. Raikes Currie presiding —the recommendation of the directors to, return 31. per share out of capital, and to pay a dividend of 10s. 9d. per share, equal to about 6 per cent• per annum, was unanimously agreed to. The re' port was generally regarded as satisfactory, but difference of opinion was expressed as to whether the distribution should be made in the manner described. It was explained that the return of 3 1 • per share is coupled with the appropriation of a proportional amount of revenue to capital to sup ply the losses previously incurred, but that it 1. 5 not considered necessary to keep it to 181. per share, and that a repayment may with advantage be made to reduce it to 151. With respect to ob taining the supplemental charter, it is hoped that no difficulties may be interposed, although former experience has taught persons connected with public companies the. nature of the technical pro' visions enforced by Government departments. Should, however,, Mr. Lowe's measure be ulti mately carried, limited liability will be assured without the formalities and stringent requirements now entailed. The directors, with a view to eco nomy, have disposed of the city premises of the company on advantageous terms, retaining a por tion necessary for the present business. The sale to a French company of the principal vessels has not yet been completed, but there is every expec tation that it will shortly be so. A first deposit of 5,000/, has been paid, which will belong to the shareholders if the negotiations should lapse, and it has been arranged that 25,0001. is to be forth coming when the legal agreement is signed (also liable to forfeiture should any difficulty arise), 25,0001. further to be paid on the delivery.ot the vessels. The Earl of Derby had a Parliamentary dinner last evening at his residence in St. James's-square, includ ing the following members of the House of Commons :-- Lord C. P. Clinton, Lord Naas, the Right Hon. Sir J. Pakington, the Right Hon. J. Napier, Sir James Duck worth; Major-General Hall, Captain Gladstone, Mr. G. A. Hamilton, Mr. G. Bentinck, Mr. Mowbray, Mr. Cumming Bruce, Mr. Whiteside, Pir. Fiezgeraid, Mr. Pea Cock, Mr. B. Coles, Mr, Floyer, Mr. Hale, Mr. Macartney, Mr. Cairns, Mr. Lloyd Davies, Mr. Cot.. bold, Mr. Burronglies, &c. Tile Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli enter tained at dinner yesterday at their residence, Grosvenor• gate, the Ambassador of France and the Countess de Persigny. There were present to meet their excellencies the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the Earl of Eglinton and Miss Cockerel), the Earl and Countess of Hardwicke and Lady Elizabeth Yorke, the Earl of Loris dale, Lord John Manners, Baron De Rothschild, M.P.. and Miss Da Rothschild, Lord Dufferiu, Sir James Fur guovn, Ms I ) ,, and Mr. Charlta Mi The Week. A ve d• th e ir Mining ertshiE 4 , lave , a i ng opc I thiPpec all Seta 38 ,0001 18 ex operati shrtrehc al ready %e di efforts still ap, eels. 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