The Sun. — London, England, 1861-04-18 00:00:00

EW TI-17 ATRE-ROYAL, AD ELPHL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, the new drama, MAGLIORE, THE FIZE6TIDIGITAI OR. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Took, D Fisher, &c.; Miss K. Kelly, Miss tI. Simms. Are.. To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS. MeNsis. J.,. Toole, Eburne, Homer, C. J. Smith ; Miss sate Kelly, Miss E. ''horse, snd mrs. Cbatterley. Alter which, THE FOOL OF THE 14 - "A.M.ILY. Mr. Paul Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, MISS Laidlaw, and Miss Julia Daly, Doors open at halt past 6—Commence at 7. ____ CANTERBURY - H ALL CONCERTS!! Weatminster.road. Proprietor........C. Morton. A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera, IL CORSARO, (Tills opera has never been produced In this or any other c ountry, except at these Concerts), ha v i ng me t w ith t h a t de cided success which charactise , the most popular works of this great Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ; together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI MENTO, by Donizettf, , Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Maaarno Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, li. Drummond, and C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonuhmans. The Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A. B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and the kin,thers 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, Gh. 48m.—Afternoon, 7h. 21m. To-monnow.-Morning, 7h. 54m.—Afternoon, Bh. 50m. „THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, AFRIL 18, 1501. THEISM:I=IE3I, IN THE SHADE. 55—higLest since noon yesterday. 40 —lowest this morning and during the night. 52—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.23 ; still falling. WlND—East-South-Easterly—light; with fine cool weather. .t.'v il l 't) , 43i4-,! ---4 V, --- 7 - -- -: 1 • ' -:.' -.: fly,!;:.-A ~..k'-lz .-Is='.l .. t-,; - , i_, :, - . .7- J:_-;.. , 3. ~ - \ O, L,/ , f -- -- 1 ,-. , •4:-..../ • •,(,,,,----i .... , ..- - 3 . c_....4.d , -c-, 4 ''' ------7-77- ' :. -1- -' --- .._-... - il':;.?" , :c. -- . 7 ' _,_ , • s, -, .--. THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1881. CIVIL WAR IMMINENT IN AMERICA. The reports from America, by the Baltimore, which left New York on the 6th, are more warlike than anything we have yet had. When the New York Herald states that the naval preparations of the Government in that city have created intense excitement, it states what it must surely know as a fact. It could hardly also create the report that on the sth a panic had prevailed among Stock operators. By the last accounts we were informed that the Government got its loan easily taken, which agrees very well with the statements both of its immediatelyi commencing preparations, and of the panic on the Exchange. The information of the " Washington Correspondent of the .New York Herald" is pro bably of about the same value, so far as his know ledge of the Cabinet's intentions goes, as letters of London Correspondents of country papers here would be ; still it looks the same way, " that the country is on the brink of a civil war." From Charleston the language is that " a terrible moment is evidently at hand." From Washing ton and New York the expression, surely half rhetorical, is, " that within 24 hours' war will be upon us." Activity and excitement are intense, and everything looks warlike. The full equip ment of the Powhattan frigate for sea, and its being ready to sail, accompanied by two steamers with sealed orders, appears to be a fact also. But the rumour that the South Carolina General had threatened to shell Fort Sumpter, if it were not evacuated within 24 hours, may prove to be only a rumour. On the whole, so much of the telegrams just arrived seem to be more than rumour as to give rise to the gravest apprehension. 'Whatever may be insinuated to the contrary, the Budget is unquestionably a success. Is there any doubt about it ? Look at the state of the Funds since Mr. GLADSTONE'S financial oration of Monday was delivered before Parliament ! Have they fallen? On the contrary. They at once advanced upon the morrow of the Financial Statement. They are still advancing. There is no sign in that barometer of the approach of foul weather. As the quicksilver runs up in the tube—the Consols rise in the monetary column devoted to City intelli gence. Nor can it be wondered at that the effect of this last Budget speech should have been thus favour able. For what, in point of fact, is the situation as therein explained by the Chancellor of the Exche quer ? Why, according to the very clear Financial Statement of Monday, the position of the country is simply this in regard to the new financial year just commencing. We have a balance-sheet vouched to us in plain black and white of so much estirnated revenue and so much estimated expendi ture. The expenditure being 1:71,823,000—the revenue £69,900,000. Consequently—deducting that estimated amount of expenditure from that eslimated amount of revenue—there is a clear surplus shown at the end of the financial year of £1,923,000. Dealing with which anticipated balance in the nation's favour, the Chancellor of the Exchequer does what every Chancellor of the Exchequer would by necessity do under the like circumstances. He proposes to ease the shoe of taxation, precisely where, according to his own judgment, it pinches the most tightly. He pro- Poses to take off a penny of the Income-tax, to re dr.ce, that is by a penny, the Property and Income-tax during the last three quarters of the year—thereby diminishing the surplus i 'mAly mentioned by £830,000. So that the looked -I°l' s urplus at the close of the year would then be £ 1,9 23,000, but- 0 1,073,000. This still contsideramesurplus Mr. GLADSTONE proposes, by another Of his resolutions in Committee of Supply, to diminish yet further by abolishing altogether the duty upon paper --doing this from the Ist of Oc tober ; thereby reducing the already diminished surplus to a m i n i m , am amount but very little over the round. sum of £400,000 altogether. Yet, even then, holding in hand a balance in the nation's favour, ; going on for half 11, m illi on of money—after P a ying up all the year's liabilitio, after remitting a penny upon the Income-tax, after dooming the already sentenced, and last session only temporarily reprieved, Paper duties, to die the death inexorably upon the first day of October : yet, in the face of facts like these —in the presence of a steady rise in the funds— there are these sneers, and shrugs, and whispers of tlepreciatioa heard in regard to Mr, at,ADSIOXA' - - THEATRE -ROYAL, IiAYMARKET, Lessee, Mr. J. B. Baoksteme. TATA F,VP.NTN , :, the ocriorrnances vn.l ern:anent* with A DUKE IN i)IFFICULTIES. Mrs. Stirling, Miss F. Haydon, Mrs. Wilkins, Miss Fsainy Stirling, Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, ,to. After which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery and effects, and all the original music by the late Sir Henry Bishop, the melodrama <pi THE 3IILLIIR AND HIS MEN, And A DAUGHTER TO MARRY, Commence at 7. T HEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM. So:a Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. Last Week of the Season. THIS EVENING, THE SECRET. At ter which, a new orizinal comic drama, written by Saml. Lover, Esq., entitled 3IAC CARTHY MORE ; or, Possession Nina Points of the Law. John Drew, J. Johnston, Forrester, J. Rouse, Medlin ; Misses Rawlings, Hudspeth, &c. • To conclnde with HANDY ANDY. Handy Andy, Mr. John Drew. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Manaffer. Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, TIIE HUNCHBACK. Messrs. Ryder, Hermann Vezin, Shore, Meadows, ttc. ; Misses Heath and C. Leclercq, To conclude with THE RENT DAY. TIrE SUN, LONDON, TPIUTISDAY 7 EVENING, APRIL 18, 1861. new Budget' As though it were some scheme showing upon the face of it a deficit instead of a surplus, as though it involved an increase instead of a decrease, at once in direct and indirect taxa tion Ministers could contrive, however, in defiance of the sinister prognostics of the Times and Company to enjoy even w ith a relish their ban quet,and as it mi ght be called, without much exaggeration, their ovation yesterday at the Mansion-house, as the guests there, in the Lord Mayor's palace, of the chief magistrate of the city of London. The majority of the Cabinet Ministers, at any rate, were there to enjoy it thoroughly; they could hardly do otherwise than enjoy it under the circumstances. While both the Colonial Secretary and the Lord Chancellor spoke agreeably enough, and each of them very much to the purpose the speeches of the evening were indubitably those delivered by the Prime Minister in speaking for himself and his colleagues, and by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in acknowledgment of the toast of the Commons House of Parliament. Among all the pleasant sentences that fell last evening from the lips of those who spoke at the Lord Mayor's table in the Mansion•house, not one could well have been more agreeable to listen to than the one which, uttered as it was by the voice of the First Minister of the Crown, may be said with literal truth to have comprised within it an epitome of the whole finan cial and political situation :—" After a season the most inclement," said Lord PALMERSTON, " which in former times might have produced either a famine or a financial crisis, my right hon. friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been able to propose to Parliament and the country a surplus of revenue over expected expenditure, which has enabled him to propose a large remission of the burdens of the people, without diminishing in the slightest degree those military and naval means of defence to have diminished which, in the state in which the new world now is, would have been a betrayal of the trust which has been confided to us." Reviewing the whole position, well might the noble Viscount observe in regard to it—" This is most encouraging." Adding these words, as happy auguries of the future in Christendom—" The function of England is to endeavour by the influence which she justly possesses to maintain the peace of the world. She has no ambitious objects, she has no aggressive policy, she has no warlike propensities. We wish not only to enjoy ourselves the blessings of peace, but we Wish by the legitimate exercise of our influence on other countries, to secure for the rest of the world that blessing which we prize so highly ourselves." That is in truth the natural and rational policy of England. Let but Ministers persist in that policy, really and truly act upon that policy, and the peace of the world may yet, for a long while to come, be protracted. Let them but begin, moreover, to show themselves again really in earnest in their long since avowed solicitude to ameliorate the political situation of the country internally, and they may revive and re claim their dwindled popularity as Reformers— they may still even now, before it is quite too late, rehabilitate their almost shattered, their certainly very seriously damaged, reputation as a Liberal and Reforming Government. Every Session of Parliament seems to charac terise itself by some peculiarity—that of 1860 was distinguished as the "Talking Parliament ;" this of 1861 will be known, probably, as the "Wed nesday Parliament." Owing to the Government having slipped out of its pledge to the country which enabled it to overthrow the DERBY Minis try; owing also to its declining to make Govern. ment measures of Bills for which it votes, which at least it does not oppose, and which some of its members strongly support—the Bills relating to Civil and Religious liberty fall into the hands of private members, and their second readings come on on a Wednesday. That has become, therefore, the day on which all measures springing from the love of freedom and of equal rights for all—springing from the deeply-seated sentiments which are the glory of the Anglo-Saxon race, and whioh have made us the country we are —Wednesday has become the day on which the genuinely English measures have been all discussed this year. The day on which the love of Equality fights with zeal to retain Privilege ; on which the consciousness that Reli gious opinions and practice are no just ground for civil disadvantages, contends with Ecclesiastical supremacy and domination ; and on which the efforts are made to extend political rights to wider circles, and to expunge item by item the legislation of in tolerance and bigotry from our statute-book or our judge-made law. Hence it has fallen to the lot of this day to dis close or to seal the reactionary character of the pre sent Parliament. The Wednesdays of 1861 will be black days in the calendar of civil and religious liberty. With hardly one exception they have been fatal to its demands. Church-rate abolition was carried by a majority perfectly ignominious after so long a discussion and in so plain a case. Then, Mr. LOCKE KING'S measure and Mr. BAINES' successively fell a sacrifice to the open zeal of Toryism, and the covert zeal of Whiggism against the extension of popular power. And now, again, yesterday, Wednesday vindi cated its claims to b e cons id ere d the f i eld-day of I political and religious bigotry by the rejection of two of the most common-sense bills in the interest of religious liberty which could well be conceived. Mr. DISRAELI, if we can excuse his humbling himself to such an alliance, knew well what he was about, when he invited the political aid of all the clergymen of the country, offering them in return a measure to facilitate the collection of Church rates, not to abolish them. Nothing like a bold stroke. He has thus converted sleeping friends of Toryism in every village into active friends, and by their help he has beaten the Liberal party in numerous battles, and will, while the Liberal ranks are officered by Whigs, beat them in many more. He is on the right tack to upset the Government. Even their Budget will not save them. Indeed, we should not be at all surprised if, emboldened by Wednesday successes, the Tories should show fight on the Budget itself, and should determine to have two pence off the Income-tax, or something off tea and sugar, and so save the Lords the odium of rejecting a second time a bill which repeals a tax. Should Mr. GLADSTONE find the Opposition taking this course, he may thank himself for it. He contri buted to the Tory triumphs of Wednesday, and if they carry an amendment on his resolution for repeal of the paper duty, his vote of yesterday will be like the eagle's feather which winged the arrow to his own breast. As to Mr. DILLWTN'S bill, it was a measure of the most obvious equity. Property is left to endow schools. No religious limitations are elepressed in the foundation deeds. One would suppose that in such a ease no sectarian qualifications would be re qcourtsuired of eith er th e masters or trustees.. But our have laid down a rule that if religious or godly persons Are required as trulteop, or if religion without limitation is mentioned in the deeds—that the only religion and godliness known to the law is that of the sect which forms but one half the nation—which is the sect lucky enough to have appropriated to itself the throne, and the high offices, and the ecclesiastical patronage and endow ments of the country—and that hence, trustees and masters must all belong to the Church of England ! Mr. DILLWYN'S Bill merely provides that when the Church of England is not mentioned, suitable per sons of any other denominations shall be eligible for trustee ships. We have certainly not one word to say against the merits of the Church of England, as a Church; but, living in daily intercourse with men of all sects, we are prepared to deny utterly that its members are more religious, especially that its members show themselves more amenable to the dictates of religion in social life, than those of other Churches. Probably few who voted against Mr. DILLWYN'S Bill would say they did. We are utterly at a loss, therefore, to conceive of any but purely party reasons for opposing a bill which would but conform the law in this case to the state of society. As each of us would now be ashamed to take note of another person's religion as a bar to intercourse on dealing with him, or appointing him to civil office, why should notice be taken of it in such a case as the upright administration of a religiously open school trust ? The rejection of the Bill to legalise marriage with the sister of a deceased wife is equally reac tionary. The principle of the Bill has been affirmed in four Parliaments ; it has passed triumphantly in thirty-four divisions ; it has all but passed the House of Lords, and now, in this session of 1861, a Parliament which has enabled a Liberal Ministry to take office has rejected it —by a narrow majority, indeed, but still by a majority ! Mr. DISRAELI'S clergy have whipped up the Tory members well, the Liberals have been perfunctory, and so the canon law of the Church of England is to be fastened on the necks of Dissenters for another year at least. The tables of the Prayer-book are turned into law for those who never use the Prayer book. The half of the nation which rejects those tables must obey them, or their marriages must be treated as null in law, and their children as illegi timate. Reason may laugh at the absurdity of the canonical prohibition ; Divines may tell us that it has no more foundation in Scripture than in reason. But it is in the Prayer-book of the Church of Eng•- land—it was transplanted thither from the canons of ascetic ages, reverenced with all their absurdities by that Church, and therefore it is to be obeyed by all Englishmen, Irishmen, and Scotchmen, whether they respect the authority of the Church's set canons or not ! Church supremacy is now the battle-cry of Tories. They rally to it with zeal for political purposes. But they must be ashamed of it soon. Even Austria will make them blush, for she has just denied the perfect civil equality of all sects. Our Tories must brush up—they will soon be behind their pet German Power. The division was adroitly taken on an amendment, which did not touch the merits of the case. The Bill was limited to England, as so many other Bills are. It was not wished, we presume, to com plicate the case with the difficulties of opposition from Scotland and Irehind ; bigotry was known to be intolerant in both countries, and not likely easily to surrender the power to coerce those who differed from Church formulas and standards. More Liberal England was therefore the part of the Empire to which it was proposed to apply the Bill, with little doubt that the excellence ofits working would cause it to be extended to all other parts of the Empire. This moderation was now turned against it, and a convenient pretext afforded to the timorous to vote for its rejection. It was at best but a matter for committee. But the error was that Liberals made no muster while the Tories came down in full force. The Treasury whips aro not equal to the Opposition whips, for these divisions against the Liberals are rapidly chilling their zeal for the Government. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs Gladstone have removed from their house in Carlton. house• terrace to the official residence in Downing-street. PORTSMOUTH, Thursday Morning.—The Mac• duff, transport, arrived at Spithead with head-quarters o the First Royals from China, under the command of Colone: Holcombe. We are authorised to state that his Royal High ness the Prince Consm t will hold Lev6es on the part of her Majesty at St. James's Palace on Saturday the 4th of May next, and on Wednesday the 15th of May next. It is understood that the Queen will bold two Drawing Rooms at St. James's Palace towards the end of June next. At a meeting of the creditors of the Faringdon and \Vantage Bank (Messrs. Fames, Medley, and Ansell), held at Faringdon yesterday, Mr. H. P. Harding, accoun tant, explained the causes of the failure and the present position of the estate. A composition was agreed to of 10s. in the pound, ss. on or before the 4th day of May, and the balance secured. The total liabilities arc about £96,000, of which about £15,500 are expected, to become claims against the estate. The assets available for distribution, including the amount from the separate estate of Mr. Barnes, are estimated to produce about £22,500. SUICIDE OF A MASTER TAlLOR.—Yesterday evening an inquest was held by Mr. Langham, the deputy coroner, at the Bricklayer's Arms, King-street, Regent street, on the body of Mr. David Taylor, a master tailor, aged 75, who committed suicide by hanging himself by means of a white pocket handkerchief thrown over a room doer, at his residence, 16, Poland-street, Oxford-street. Family grievances were stated to be the cause of the de ceased's rash act. The coroner having summed up, the Puy returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity." ANOTHER CONVICTION FOR MAKING AN IMPRO PER CENSUS RETURN.—Mr. Richard Evans, of Bugle street, has been summoned at the Guildhall, Southampton, by James Potter, for having on the 9th of April unlawfully refused to answer him, he being one of the census enumera tors for the parish of St. Michael, such questions as were put to him touching his census return. The defendant pleaded not guilty, but the evidence being conclusive, he was fined 20s. and costs, and ordered to make a fresh return. —Wiltshire Mirror. DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN.—The death of John Hill, who was believed to have been the oldest man in England, he having reached his 10Ith year, took place at Rochester, on Sunday last. The deceased was born at a village in Sussex in the year 1758, and during the early part of his life was employed in agricultural pursuits. He was always remarkable for being a man of very abstemious habits, and also an early riser, both of which, probably, conduccd to his longevity. Until within the last few months Hill was in the habit of taking his daily walks about the city, and notwithstanding his advanced age had the appearance of being a hale old man. The deceased lived during the reigns of five English sovereigns, and was in the frequent habit of conversing on events which took place during the first few - years of the reign of George 111., of which he had a perfect recollection. THE ADRIATIC.—A letter from Trieste, in the Vienna Presse, says :—" We learn that contracts have just been made here for a supply of provisions for an English fleet which is expected in a few days, and which will re quire a dozen oxen daily. There are several indications that for some time England is following with attention not only the affairs of Syria and those of her own possessions in the Mediterranean, but also the eventualities of tho Adriatic." POST OFFICE (MONEY ORDER-OFFICES) DEFAL cATIoNs.---A Parliamentary return shows that losses and defalcations have occurred in the money order-offices of the United Kingdom to the amount of £5,905 since 1841. Thirty-one offices are returned defaulters ; one (Barnet)in the considerable sum of £2,701, and another (Jersey) in the C,11.1 of £1,135. The defalcation of lowest amount is c 2 Os. 10d. in a Perthshire office. These losses and deal catio:as, it seems, have formed no charge upon the public revenue, but have been made good from time to time out of the proceeds of unclaimed money orders. MURDER. IN GLASGOW.—At an early hour on Sunday morning . , a party of men, accompanied by some loose women, were drinking in a shabeen in Meuse-lane, Glasgow, when a slight quarrel arose between two of the men—Patrick Keeney or INl`lienna, and Daniel Fraser. A few moments afterwards the other parties left the house, leaving Keeney and Fraser alone in the lane. At about 4 a.m., a police constable found Keeney lying dead on the road, a fatal stab on the left breast having been inflicted. Suspicion immediately fell upon Fraser, who was appre hended, and a knife marked with blood found in his posses- j Pi 9 nt The deceased 1:44/1 has bit widow and QIN 941,14, PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. HOUSE OF COMMONS-APRIL 17. TRUSTEES OF CHARITIES BILL. Order for Committee read ; motion made, and question proposed, " That Mr. Speaker do now leave the chair:— Amendment proposed to leave out from the word "That" to the end of the question, in order to add the words " this house will, upon this day six months, resolve itself into the said Committee,"—(Mr. Selwyn)—instead thereof : Question put, " That the words proposed to he left out stand part of the question :—The house divided ; Ayeo, 171, Noes 200. A.YVI-171. Adair, H. E. Dunkellin, Lord Mines, R. M. Agar-Ellis, Hon. L. Dunlop, A. Mitchell, T. A. Alcock, T. Dunne, M. Monson, W. J. Antrobus, E. Enfield, Viscount Morris, D. Ayrton, A. S. Ennis, John Norris, J. T. Bagwell, J. Evans, Sir De L. North, F. Bailey, C. Evans, T. W. Onslow, Guildford Baines, E. Ewart, J. C. Owen, Sir H. Ball, E. Fenwick, Henry Padmore, R. Barnes, Thomas Fermoy, Lord Paget, C. Bass, M. T. Finlay, A. S. Paxton, Sir J. Baxter, W. E. Fitzwilliam, C. W. Pease, H. Bazley, Thomas Foley, Hon. H. W. Peto, Sir M. Beaumont,Somerset Foljambe, F. J. S. Pigott, Francis Bellew, R. M. Forster, W. E. Pilkinr,ton,•James Biggs, John Fortescue, lion. D. Pollard Urquhart W Black, Adam Fox, W. J. Pousonby, A. Blake, J. A. Freeland, H. W. Powell, F. S. Bouverie; E. P. French, Fitzstephen Pryse, Capt. E. L. Brady, John Gard, R. S. Ramsden, Sir J. W. Brand, H. B. Gavin, Major Raynham, Viscount Bright, J. Gilpin, C. Ricardo, 0. Briscoe, J. I. Goldsmid, Sir F. Robertson, D. Bristow, A. Gower, F. L. Roupell, W. Brown, James Greene, Capt. J. Russell, A. J. E. Browne, Lord J. T. Gregory, W. H. Russell, Sir Wm. Bruce, H. A. Gregson, S. St. Aubyn, J. Buller, J. W. Hadfield, Geo. Salomons,Alderman Buller, Sir A. lianbury, R., jun. Scholefie,d, W. Burke, Sir T. J., Bt. Hankey, Thomson Seymour, Sir M. Butler, C. S. Hardcastle, Jos. A. Shelley, Sir J. V. Caird, James Headlarn, Thos. E Smith, J. B. Carnegie, lion. C. Henley, Lord Stacpoole, W. Cavendish, lion. W. Hodgson, K. D. Stansfeld, J. Cavendish, Lord G. Holland, E. ' Steel, John Cholmeley, Sir M. Jackson, W. Sykes, Col. IV. IL Churchill, Lord A. Jervoise, Sir J. Talbot, C. R. M. Clay, James Kershaw, J. Thornhill, W. P. Clifford, C. C. King, Hon. L. Tollemache, Hon.F. Clive, George Kinglake, A. W. Villiers, Rt. Hon. C. Cogan, W. H. Kinglake, Serj. J. Vivian, H. H. Coke, W. C. Knatchbull-Hugess Vyner, Reginald Coning - ham, Wm. 1.%77:.'"r1, Ti. G. Waldron, L. Craufurd, E. H. J Lawson, W. Warner, Edward Crossley, Frank Leatham, E. Watkins, J. L. V. Dalglish, Robert Lee, W. Wemyss, J. Davey, R. Locke, John Westhead, B. Davie, Col. F. Lysley, W. Whalley, G. H. Denman, G. M`Cann, J. Whitbread, S. Dent, John Dent McEvoy, E. White, Jas. Dodson, John G. Mackie, J. Wickham, H. W. Douglas, Sir C. McMahon, P. Willcox, B. M. Duff, M. E. Maguire, J. F. Williams, W. Duff, Major. Marjoribanks, D. C. Wrightson, W. B. 'Duke, Sir James Martin,J. Wyvill, M. Dunbar, Sir Wm. Massey, W. N. TELLERS. Dundas, Frederick Miller, William Dillwyn, Lewis L. Dundas, Sir David Mills, T. Mellor, John war. L A fir, -1-4 S. CIVIL WAR IMMINENT IN. AMERICA, TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. QUEENSTOWN, THIJASDAY, APRIL 18. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steamship Company's screw steamer City of Balti more, Captain Petrie, from New York on the 6th inst., has arrived here. She brings mails and passengers. The steamers Vanderbilt, Illinois (the latter char tered by the United States Government as a trans port), and the John Bell had arrived out. The New York Herald states that warlike rumours and the naval preparations of the Govern ment created intense excitement throughout the city. On the sth inst. a panic prevailed among stock operators. The Federal Government had received no intelli gence from Fort Pickens for several days. This caused the belief that the fort had been attacked and telegraphic communication cut of by the Secessionists. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald says the country is on the brink of a civil A despatch from Charleston, dated the sth, says a terrible moment is evidently at hand. News from Washington and New York corro borates the general impression that within 24 hours war will be upon us. Every man has been ordered OR duty, and the utmost activity prevails. The highest officials declare that the present state of things can last but a short time lq,nger. The excite ment is intense. Everything wears a warlike aspect. According to the New York Times, General Beauregard had declared to Major Anderson that he must evacuate Fort Sumpter or it would be shelled within 48 hours. Major Anderson's supplies were to be cut off immediately. The United States frigate Powhattan was fully equipped for sea. The Government had chartered the steamer Atlantic, which, with the Powhattan and the Illinois, would sail immediately under sealed orders. Jamaica dates are to the 23d ult. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred met with a royal reception at Barbadoes. Preparations were making to give him a magnificent ball at Jamaica. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, APRIL 5, EVENING, The panic announced elsewhere caused an ave rage fall of 2 per cent, in stocks. New York Cen tral closed at 7717 Erie, 291 ; Exchange, bankers' bills, 1071 to 108. Cotton and corn less active ; flour opened dull, but closed firmer ; wheat heavy ; pork advanced; sugars and coffee steady ; freights firm. NEW ORLEANS, APRIL 4. Sales of cotton to-day 3,000 bales; middling, 12/c to 13c. TURIN, APRIL 18. The Opinione of to-day announces that the National Guard have energetically repressed the reactionary attempts in the Neapolitan provinces, whither troops have been sent. Tranquillity has been everywhere re-established. CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 10. The issue of the new caimes has commenced. The amount to be issued is 300,000,000 piastres. No official explanation has yet been given on the sub ject, and serious local complaints are made in con sequence. The report of the Syrian Commission is so volu minous that it will be sent back for revision and abbreviation. All the commissioners, with' the exception of the representative of France, recommend the appoint ment of three Kaimakans for the Lebanon, namely —a Muse, a Maronite, and a Greek. The French Commissioner insists on the appoint ment of only one Kaimakan to be a Maronite. The Commissioners are to remain at Beyrout. PARIS, APRIL 18. The following telegram, dated Constantinople, April 17, evening, has bean received here to-day . Omar Pasha has been appointed Generalissimo of the army in the Herzegovina, and will conduct the inquiry in Bosnia. War materiel and reinforcements have been sent to Antivari. Prince Garatchanine has arrived in Constanti nople, and has demanded the evacuation of Bel grade by the Mussulmans. CRACOW, APRIL 17. The state of things at Warsaw remains un changed. Arrests continue to be made. The number of the killed, wounded, and arrested amounts altogether to 1,000. The exasperation of the people is increasing throughout the whole country. THORN, APRIL 17. General Paniutin, the military governor of Warsaw, has published a proclamation sternly pro hibiting the wearing of political emblems, and limiting the followers of a funeral to the family of the deceased. The city of Warsaw is ordered to contribute daily the sum of 2,000 roubles for the mainte nance of the troops, and to pay 1,500 roubles to defray the expense of burying those who fell in the recent disturbances. ST. PETERSBURG, WEDNESDAY. A resolution of the Imperial Council, dated the 11th instant, and published to-day, permits the merchants of Kiachta to trade unlimitedly with China either by barter or by payments in gold or silver.. The same resolution also permits, from April, 1862, the importation of merchandise by sea from Canton into Russia and Poland. INDIA. BOMBAY, MARCH 27. Fears are entertained that the famine will extend to the Madras Presidency. The cotton question is attracting much attention. Political affairs aro quiet. The Army Amalgamation Committee is still sitting at Calcutta. The result of its deliberations is impatiently awaited by the army. Lieut. Fryer, of the 35th Foot, was drowned at Meerut on the 16th inst. Colonel Knollys, of the 75th Foot, has died suddenly. BOMBAY AND EXTRA CALCUTTA MAILS. The Euxine, with the above mails, arrived at Marseilles at 1 p.m. yesterday (Wednesday). The mails left at 2 p.m. for London; The Pera, with the heavy portion of the mails, left Malta at 10 pn. on the 14th, and may be ex pected at Southampton on the 23d inst. _ The Malta brought tb,e mails from Calcutta, And the Salsette those from Bombay, arriving at Suez on the Bth and 10th respectively. OUTWARD MAILS. The Ceylon, from Southampton on the 4th, ar rived at Malta at 11 a.m. on the 13th, and sailed at midnight for Alexandria. The Valetta, from Marseilles on the 12th, reached Malta at 7 p.m., and sailed at 11 p.m. on the 14th. FRANCE. PARIS, APRIL - . 1 1 . BOURSE, April 17.—The market has been dull, without any variations of importance. A rumour was current of a diminution in the Bank of France discount, and prices have varied from 2,860 f. to 2,825 f. Threes, for the Account, have fallen from 67f. 75. to 67f. 60. The following were the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents ... 95 Credit Fonder 925 Do end month.... 95 10 Belgian 4k — 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 10 ! Roman Bank Shares 2830 I Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 655 Spanish Threes 4B Do. Account 655 I Home Debt .. 47a RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1332 50 .. 1333 75 Northern Now ditto B9O Lyons and Mediterranean 947 50 .. 946 25 Geneva 390 .. 390 Southern 541 25 .. 550 Western Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian Lombard 457 50 .. 458 75 LAW INTELLIGENCE—(2IIis Day). COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.) IN RE THE UNION DISCOUNT COMPANY. To-day was appointed for proofs and settling the lista of shareholders. Various legal gentlemen appeared, and debts to some amount were ',loved. The usual arguments ensued as to the liabilities of sjiare• holders. (Case proceeding.) (Before Mr. Commissioner Gculbourn.) IN RE HUTCHINSON. The bankrupt was described as of Mark-lane, raer‘lantt and to-day came up for his certificate. The Commissioner, in reviewing the facts of the case , remarked that the bankrupt had kept a stud of race-horses , one of which, though stated to be a valuable animal, had been sold for £2O. In addition to his conduct to a livery stable keeper there was this feature in the case, the bank" rupt's personal expenditure had been immense. That was, immense to a person in his position. The benhnlPl had petitioned this Court some time ago, and then he peid Os. Bd. in the pound. Now he would not pay le.; so his assets became "small by degrees and beautifully less! , Complaint had been made by two ladies; but the bankTuPt had really done all he could to relieve them, and there did not appear to be any charge against him in that respect. But he had obtained credit when he must have known he was hopelessly insolvent, and for that his certificate would be suspended (with protection) for nine months from the date of the petition, and when granted to be of the third class. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) BOW-STREET. ALLEGED RAPE - AND ASSAULT.—John Delobt, a native of the East Indies, and a woman who resides with hint, were placed at the bar on remand, charged with a rape on a girl named Oliver, and an assault on a person named Hooper. Mr. Henry Allen attended to watch the case on behalf of the Associate Institute for the Protection of Women. It will be recollected that the girl Oliver stated )11 her first examination that she was a servant out of place and was a little over 14 years of age. On Wednesday night, the 10th instant, she met the prisoner Sullivan in Drury-lane, a little before midnight, and, being without a lodging, she asked the prisoner where she could get a bed. Sullivan replied, " I have a very nice lodging. Come home with me, and you can stop till morning if you like." Witness went with her. On the way they entered a publichouse, where Sullivan gave her some rum, upon drinking which she became so stupified that she did not know what she was doing. Sul livan took some money out of witness's pocket and p aid for the rum. Sullivan then took her to the house in Parker street, where she went to bed. She had not been there long when the male prisoner entered the room, and, having stripped himself absolutely naked, got into bed. She screamed out for assistance and endeavoured to resist. him, but the female prisoner assisted him, holding her down in the bed and pressing the bed-clothes over her mouth, so se stifle her cries. Sullivan then left the room, after which Delobe repeated the offence, notwithstanding her cries and struggles. Long before the hour set down for the examinatiott:of the witnesses, a large number of persons assembled i n the lobbies of the court with a desire to catch a glimpse of the parties as they entered the police-court, but by order of the magistrate the outer doors were closed, and the court was kept closed during the whole of the hearing of the case. Mr. It. B. Painter, surgeon, of 33, Brydges-street;, said I have examined the girl Oliver twice. On the first occa sion I found no appearance of violence about her person. She was not a virgin. On the second occasion I saw two slight bruises on the lower part of her person ; but I do not infer from that that she had suffered any extreme violence. Sarah Asbury, the mother of the girl, said—Mary Oliver was fifteen next birthday. Her father was dead. - Until the last eight weeks she had been residing with me, and I then told her she ought to look out for a situation. She said she would do nothing for me, and accordingly she get a situation and went to it. It was very near the place where 1 resided. I did not neglect her. I told her I hoped she would be a good girl, and keep her situation. Sho went, but about a fortnight ago she told me she was going to leave. The girl Oliver was called, and asked by the magistrate why she Old him on the first occasion that she had neither father nor mother. Oliver—Because I did not go back to my mother after r left my place. I never saw the girl Sullivan until I met her in Holborn. I spoke to her first. I asked her where 1 could get a lodging, and she told me I could go home with her. I had previously asked other people. Sullivan—What kept you out till one o'clock in the morning ? Oliver—l had been told by another woman to meet her at twelve o!clock, but she did not keep her appointment. Sullivan—Why, you told me you had left your place, and you were determined to go on the streets. Oliver—l never made such a statement. Mr. Hooper—When the male prisoner rose to strike zae in the room, he was in a state of nudity. I can feel the effect of the blow the prisoner Delobe struck me. Mr. Hall—l forgot to ask you, Mr. Painter, but the girl stated on her first examination that the male prisoner hit her on the breast, did you find any marks of such violence ? Mr. Painter—There was a mark, but it was very slight. Oliver recalled—lt was but a few minutes after I took the rum which Sullivan gave me that I became stupified. Sullivan I know paid for the rum, but I can't say whether it was out of the five shillings I had when I first met her. The last time I recollect having the money in my pocket was when I was in Dean-street. Constable F 73—When I went up to the male prisoner's room he was quite naked. When I went back to look for Mr. Hooper's handkerchief, I found the female prisoner going away with Oliver's clothes. On being asked what they had to say to the charge, Delobe said the girl first came into the room while I woo in bed, and began to undress herself, and came up to me e! I was in bed and said, "Dear, don't you love me." asked her to come into bed, and she did so. Altar that she told Sullivan that there was a shilling in her pocket, with which she could go and get some rum. Sala' van said she did not want it. A gentleman (Hooper) then came in, and I asked him what he wanted and he said to smoke a pipe. He was quite druut and laid down on the floor for a quarter of an hour. I 'Afterwards got up and said something to Sullivan, when she struck him in the mouth. He said he had got two 6ompanions down stairs, and that he would call the police. He called Sullivan a bad name, and then the landlord came in and I told him the gentleman had been breaking the windows, and when the constable came in I wished to give the gentleman in charge, but after wards I said I would not do so if he would go away. The policeman refused to take the gentleman in charge, but took me instead. I never hit Mr. Hooper with the poker. Sullivan said she had given the girl a lodging merely from charity. She did not take away her money. Both prisoners were fully committed for trial. NOES, 200. Adderley, C. B. Gray, William lfure, David Ashley, Lord Griffith, C D. Murray, William Astell, J. H. Grogan, Sir Edward Naas, Rt. Hn. Lord Millie, 11. J. Haliburton,rJustice Nicol, William Baring, A. H. Hamilton, Lord C. Noel, G. J. Barrow, W. H. Hamilton, Major North, Col. Bar ttelot, Major Hamilton, Viscount Northcote, Sir S. H. Bathurst, A. A. Hanbury, Captain Packe, G. H. Bathurst, F. 11. Hardy, Gathorne Pakenham, Col. Beach, W. W. Hardy, J. Pakington, Sir J. S. Bentinck, G.C. Hartopp, E. B. Palk, L. Bentinck, G. W. P. Hassard, M. D. Palmer, R. W Beresford, B. Heathcote, Sir W. Parker, Major W. Bernard, Thos. T. Henley, J. Patten, J. W. Bond, J. W. Hennessy, J. P. Pevensey, Viscount Botfield, Beriah Hervey, Lord A Philipps, J. 11. Bovill, Wm., Ileygate, Sir F. Phillips G. L. Bramston, T. W. Heygate, W. U. Pritchard, John Bridges, Sir 8., Bt. Hill, Lord E. Puller,C. W. Brooks, R. HoHord, R. S. Quinn, Peter Buckley, Maj.-Gen. Hood, Sir A. Ridley, Sir M. W. Bunbury, Capt. W. Hope, G. W. Rolt, J. Buxton, C. Hopwood, J. T. Rowley, Hon. R. T. Cartwright, Col. H. Hotham, Gen. Lord Salt, Thomas Cave, S. Howes, Edward Sclater-Booth, G, Cayley, E. S. Hubbard, J. G. Seymer, H. K . Cecil, Lord It. Hume, W. Shirley,•E. P. Clive, H. G. W. Hunt, G. W. Sidney, Thomas Close, M. C. Ingestre, Viscount Smith, M. Cobbold, John C. Jermyn, Earl Smith, Abel Cochrane, A. D. Jervis, Captain Smith, S. G. Codriugton, Sir W. Johnstone, lion. IL Smyth, Col. Cole, Hon. 11. A. Jolliffe, Sir W. Smollett, P. Collins, T., jun. Kekewich, S. Somerset, Col. E. Copeland, W. T. Kendall, N. Somes, Joseph , Corry, H. L. Kennard, R. Spooner, It. Cubitt, George Kerrison, Sir E. Stanhope, Lord Curzon, Viscount Knatchbull, W Stirling, Wm. Dawson, R. P. Lacon, Sir E. Stuart, Major W. Deedes, Wm. Leader, N. Stracey, Sir H. Dickson, Col. Leeke, Sir 11. Thynne, Lord E. Disraeli, Benjamin Legh, G. C. Thynne, Lord H. Du Cane, Chas. Legh, W. Tollemache, J..H. Duncombe, A. Leighton, Sir B. Torrens, R. Du Pre, C. G. Lennox, Lord G. G . Tottenham, C. Dutton, Hon. R. H. Leslie, W. Trefusis, Hon. C. H. East, Sir J. B. Liddell, Hon. H. G . Upton, Genet al Edwards, Major H. Long, R. P . Valetort, Lord Egerton, Sir I'. Long - field, Robert Vance, John Egerton, A. F. Lovaine, Lord Vansittart, Wm. Egerton, E. C. Lyall, G. Verner, Sir Wm. Egerton, W. Lygon, Hon. F. Walcott, Adm. J. E. Estcourt, S. Macaulay, K. Walker, James R. Farquhar, Sir M. M'Cormick, W. Walpole, S. H. Farrer, James Macdonogh, F. Walter, John Fellowes, Edward Mainwaring, T. Watlington, J. W. Filmer, Sir E. Malcolm, J. W. Whi teside,Rt Hn J. Fitzgerald, W. S. Manners, Lord J. Whitmore, 11. Forde, Lt.-Col. W. Miles, Sir W. Woodd, B. T. Forester, Col. G. C. Miller, T. Wyndham, Hon. H. George, John Mills, A. Wyndham, lion. P. Getty, S. G. 31ittord, W. T. Wynn, Col. Gilpin, Colonel Montagu, Lord R. Wynn, Sir W W. Gladstone, W. E. Montgomery, Sir G. Yorke, Hon.E. Goddard, A. L. Morgan, C. 0. S. Gore, J. It. 0. Morgan, Major TELLERS. Gore, W. R. 0. Mowbray, Rt. Hn. J. Selwyn, C. J. Greenall, G. Mundy, William Beecroft, G. S. MARRIAGE LAW AMENDMENT BILL. Order for second reading read ; motion made, and question proposed, " That the bill be now read a second time :" Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " that" to the end of the question, in order to add the words "in the opinion of this house, any measure that would have the effect of placing the law of marriage, with regard to the prohibited degrees, on a different footing in different parts of the United Kingdom, would be highly incon venient," instead thereof :—Question put, "That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the question." The house divided—ayes 172, noes 177. AYES-172. Adair, Hugh E. Fitzwilliam, C. W. Mitchell, T. A. Adeane, Henry J. Foley, J. H . Moffatt, G Agnew, Sir A. Foley, H. W. Monson, W. J. Alcock, Thomas Foljambe, F. J. S. Morgan, Major Antrobus, E. Forster, Charles Morris, David Archdall, Capt. Forster, W. E. Noel, G. J. Ashley, Lord Fortescue, F. D. Norris, J. T. Atherton, Sir W. Fortescue, C. S. Onslow, (*. Ayrton, A. S. Fox. W. J. Owen, Sir 11. Bailey, C, Freeland, H. W. Padmore, Richard B a i n e,, Edward Gard, It S. Paget, Charles Ball, Edward Gibson, T. M. Paxton, Sir J. Baring, Thomas Gifford, Earl of Peacocke, G. Baring, T. G. Gilpin, c, ' Pease, Henry Barnes, Thomas Glyn, G. C. Peto, Sir S., Bass, M. T. Glyn, G. G. Pilkington, James Baxter, W. E. Goldsmid, Sir F. Pinney, Colonel Bazley, Thomas Gower, F. L. I'ollardUrquhart,W Beamish, F. W. liairnidiGreene,dfieueealyr Hadfield, J. G. Pryse, Edward Beaumont, B. Greniell, C. P. Ratnsden, Sir J. Beaumont, S. A. Gurdon, B. Raynham, Viscount Biggs, John Gurney, J. 11 . Ricardo, Osman tilaek, Adam 8 11.3,, rr Bonham ai t g i n i i e dt l i d ffj , - B o C e In e a r i r y i t a e h r ' J. . • Russell, A. ;le l. , t ..J .A . IS : a : u l o AP m ue : bi n ; si nW , ' Aid.jiliWilliam Harting•ton, Marq. Scholefield, W. Briscoe, J. I. Hayter, Sir W. Shelley, Sir J. V. Bristow, A. IL 1 teadlana, T. Sheridan, H. B. Broame, Lord J. Treneage, G. F. Sidney, T. Bruce, H. Herbert, H. A. Smith, J. B. Buckley, General Holland, Edward Smith, M. T. Butler C. S. Jacks o n, William Smyth , Col. Butt,lsaac Jervis, Captain Somerset, Col. Calthorpe, F. H. Jervoise, Sir J. Spooner, R. Carnegie, Charles i J i o e h l i n y s , t s o i n r e r , S . i r J. , S r it i a l c b p o o t, o c l e., w ll. M. Childers, H. C. E. Jo ll iffe , Sir W. Stansfeld, J. Kershaw, James Thomp son , H . S . Tite, W. C CCC i llh i ja : fry- el7rjdGea'lemeoYer'sg M. r Colonelli. I l i i i i n n g g I a j k . e L , A . .W. Tollemache, F. J. Coke, Colonel Kinglake, J. A. Tollemache, J. Coningham, W. Kingscote, Colonel Turner, J. Crossley, Frank linatelibull-Hugess Villiers, C. P. Davey, Richard Langton, W. H. Vivian, H. H. Davie, Colonel Lawson, Wilidd Vyner, R. A. Denman, George Layard, A. H. Watkins, Col. L. Dillwyn, L. L. Leatham, Edward Westhead, J. P. B. Donc,rlass, Sir C. Lee, William Whalley, G. H. Duke, Sir James Locke, John White, J. Egerton, E. C. Lysley, William Willcox, B. M`Ghie Ellice, Edward Mackinnon, W. A. Williams, W. Elphinstone, Sir J. Matins, Richard Wrightson, W. B. Enfield, Viscount Marjoribanks, D. Wyvill, M. Evans, Sir De L. Marshall, William Evans, T. W. Martin, James TELLERS. Ewart, Wm. Massey, W. N. Ewart, J. C. 3Tellor, John Milnes, 31. Fenwick, Henry Mills, Thomas Buxton, C. /cots-177. Adderley, H. C. B. Forester, Colonel Mundy, William Astell, J. H. Gallwey, Sir W. P. Mure, David Bantle, 11. Garnett, W. J. Naas, Lord Baring, H. B. George, John Newport, Viscount Barrow, W. IT. Getty, Samuel G. Nicol, William Barttelot, Major Gordon, C. W. North, Colonel Bathurst, F. H. Gore, J. R. 0. Northcote. Sir S. H. Beech, W. W. B. Graham, Lord W. Packe, C. W. Bentback, G. W. P. Greenall, Gilbert Pakenham, Colonel Bernard, T. T. Greville, Col. Fulke Parker, Major W. Blake, J. Grogan, Sir E. Patten, Colonel W. Bond. J. W. Haliburton, T. C. Paull, Henry Bovill, IV; Hamilton, Major Pevensey, 1, iscotmt Brady, J. Ilanbury, Captain Phillips, George Bramston, T. W. Hardy, Gathorne Puller, C. Bridges. Sir B. W. Hardy, John Quinn, Peter Brooks, 11. Ileatlicote, Sir W. Ridley, S.r M. Bunbury, Cap.W.B. Henley, J. W. Bolt, John Burghley, Lord Ilennessy, John P. Rowley, Richard Burrell, Sir C. M. Hervey, Lord A. Salt, Thomas Caird, J. Heygate, Sir F. W. Sclater-Booth, G. Cairns, Sir If. Hodgkinson, G. Scully, Vincent Cartwright, Col. Hodgson, K. D. Selwyn, Charles Cave, S. llolford, It. S. Seymer, Henry Cavendish, Hon. H. Holmesdale, Vii. Seymour, Sir M. Cavendish, Lord G. Hood, Sir A. A. Shirley, Evelyn Cayley, E. S. Hopwood, J. T, Sibthorp, Major Cecil, Lord R. Hotharn, Lord Smith, Abel . Clive, Hon. G. W. Howes, Edward Smith, Samuel Close, M. C. Jermyn, Earl Somes, Joseph Cobbett, J. M. Johnstone, 11. B, Stanhope. Lord Cobbold, J. C. Kekewich, S. T. Stuart, Lieut.-Col. Cochrane, A. - Kend4l, Nicholas Talbot, W. C. Cogan, W. H. F. Kennard, It. W. Tyhnue, Lord E. Cole, Hon. li. Kinnaird, A. F. Thy - une, Lord H. Colbns, Thomas Knatchbull, W. F. Torrens, Robert Corry, Hon. 11. L. Lefroy, Anthony Tottenham, Charles Cubitt, G. Legh, Major C. Traill, George Curzon, Viscount Legh, W. J. Trefusis, Charles Dawson. Ti. P. Lennox, Lord G. G. Upton, General T)eedes, W. Leslie, William Valletort, Viscount Dickson, Col. Lindsay, General Verner, Sir W. Du Cane, C. Longlield, Robert Walcott, Admiral Dunbar, Sir W. Lyall, George Waldron, Laurence Duncombe, Hon. A. Lygon, Frederick Walker, James Dundas, Frederick 11.1`0o•nzi:' , . W. Walpole, S. H. Dundas, Sir D. Mackvoy, I.Liward W4lt;2r„Jo! - _ - .1. Dunlop, A, M. Mackie, James Watlington, Perry Dunne, Colonel Maguire, John F. Wemyss, Erskine Dunne, Michael Mainwaring T. Whiteside, James Du Pre, C. George Malcolm, J. W. Whitemore, Henry East, Sir James B. Manners, Lord J. Wickham, Henry Edwards, Major Miles, Sir William Wyndham, H. • Egerton, Sir P. G. Miller, William Wy n dh am . Percy ~ ~ Egerton, W. Mills, Arthur Wynn, Colonel Elclio, Lord Mitford, W. T. Yorke, Eliot Estcourt, T. 'LS. Monsell, William Farrer, James Montgomery, SirG. TELLER S. Fellowes, Edward Mordaunt, Sir C. FergusEcm, Sir J, Morgan, Oefavlus Hunt, W. Fitzgerald, W. R. S. Mowbray, John R. Hubbard, J. G. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was accidentally shut out from th 3 division on the second reading of the Marriage with Deceased Wife's Sister 13111, and prey rated from yoting irk the majority, TURKEY; We have received Constantinople journals and letters to the sth, but they contain very little news of interest. They mention the events which have lately taken place in Montenegro and the Herzegovine, as well as the blockade of the coast by a Turkish squadron, but fur nish no details beyond what we have already received. The report of a landing of volun teers at Spezza is not confirmed by the accounts which have reached Constantinople. At the late sittings of the Turkish Council of Ministers, the question was discussed whether the Porte ought or ought not to grant to Moldo-Wallachia the power of unitin g the two Ministries into one—a power which Prince Conza had applied for as a guarantee of order. The Porte, before coming to any decision on the subject, has resolved to send a high func tionary to the Principalities to examine into the matter, and to be guided by his report. This important mission is to be confided either to Cabouli Effendi, Political Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, or to Khalil-Bey, ex-Turkish Minister at Athens. Vice Admiral Mustapha Pacha, who commanded the Turkish squadron on the coast of Syria, has returned to Constantinople in the Taif steam frigate. No Turkish vessels now remain on that coast. A report still prevailed in the Turkish capital of a speedy issue of paper money, and exchanges kept con stantly rising. VOCAL ASSOCIATION. At the third concert last night, amid a host of miscella. neous attractions, vocal and instrumental, there was one feature of more than ordinary interest—viz., the first ap pearance of M. Ole Bull, the Scandinavian violinist, after so long an absence from London that his style of execution was probably something quite new to 99 persons out of 109,, in the room. To those present, however, who remembered M. Bull, it was like travelling back a quarter of a century and more. There were the same tours de force, the same eccentricities of expression, the same profusion of "harmonics," die same left -hand accompaniment while a theme went on, the same double stopping, the same alteration of " staccato" and " pizzicato," the same fits and starts, and surprises, and unexpected contrasts ; and, as a medium of exhibition, precisely the same kind of pieces we were used to hear—one of them a fantasia of Paganini's on an air by Paesiello (La Molinera), the other a fantasia by the "virtuoso" himself on Mozart's "La ci darem," both, as of yore, for violin without the aid of any other instru ment. If M. Ole Bull, has lost somewhat of his mechanical dexterity and force, he is, at any rate, just as individual, original, and entertaining as ever. He completely hits the taste of the patrons of the 'Vocal Association who crowded St. James's-hall on the occasion, and was enthusiastically applauded and encored in both his per formances. In response to the second " encore" he played our National Anthem, arranged in harmony after the fashion invented by Paganini, and perpetuated by his disciples, among whom, at one period, M. Ole Bull conspi cuously figured. The rest of the concert included Meyer beer's " Pater Noster," which is attaining a marked popu larity at these meetings, and was far better sung than at a recent concert; madrigals and part songs, by the members of the association; vocal solos, by Misses Louisa Pyne, Lascelles, Horder, and Chipperfield (the. last two belong ing to the choir) ; and a 'brilliant pianoforte fantasia of Thalberg, performed by Mr. W. G. Cusins. Mr. Benedict conducted, and M. Francesco Berger was the pianoforte accompanist. LONDON MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.—It will be remembered that some time since a project was set on foot for raising a subscription, the proceeds of which were to be devoted to the purchase of the lease of the premises occu pied by this institution, by which means the managers would be relieved from the pressure of a heavy amount annually for rent, and the surviving trustees, Lord Brougham and Jeshna Walker, Esq., would be released from the liabilities generously incurred by them at the foundation of the Institution in connection with the pre • mists. We understand that upwards of 4000 have already been subscribed towards the object in view, but about £1,500 more aro required, and we are glad to learn that Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P., has consented to preside at a public dinner, which will be held at the London Tavern, on the 7th of May next, for the purpose of raising this sum. We trust the meeting will be a successful one, for it is not right that our public men should be made to suffer loss through their philanthropic exertions. From abroad all accounts prepare us for changes of the gravest importance. Everywhere events are tending to revolution. In France, the struggle between Imperial and priestly power seems to be past all reconciliation The bishops revile the Emperor, and the Emperor's go vernment holds punishment over the bishops. From Count Cavour's frank avowals that the Roman question is virtually decided, following upon Prince Napoleon's cele brated speech, it is generally assumed that the French occupation of Rome is drawing to a close. The expec tation seems to be that the Pope will be secured in a free spiritual dominion at Rome, and handsomely provided for externally, while the Italian parliament will hold its sittings on the other bank of the Tiber. If this is accomplished, it will be a great feature in the life of our generation that it has witnessed the close of the fight which Henry VIII. began, and been present at the oyez throw of a power which, having advanced the best interests of the human race, led the march of civilisation, became corrupt and domineering, and brought on its own humiliation. Future generations will say that if it was a great thing to see the Papal power first called in question in the sixteenta century, it was a yet greater to see it extinguished in the nineteenth, by a pro gress which it strove in vain to hinder. Catholicism will probably endure for generations to come, but it will never more lead the affairs of the world. It will be left in the peace and freedom which it never allowed to other faiths; but henceforth it must exercise its powers within its own limits.—Once a Week. THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. The attempt, apparently successful, to annex the Dominican Republio to Spain will excite considerable indignation in the United States, and may be viewed as one of the first results of the diminution of political influence sustained by America sinca tho commencement of the disunion movement. About seven years ago a project was on foot in the United States to acquire gradual control over this Republic, the first step contemplated being to secure a naval station in the Bay of Samana, one of the finest harbours in the world, and which is alleged to possess an abundant supply of coal fit for steam purposes, and so situated that vessels might load S even alongside the mines. This position once attained, the accomplishment subsequentlyof any designs in Cuba would have been greatly faciiitited. In its strategical and mari time bearings, St. Domingo is ono of the most valuable islands in the world, lying as it does on the highway from Earope to Central America, and across the isthmus to Australia. ATTEMPTED MURDER ON SPIIPBOARD.—At the Liverpool Police-court yesterday (Tuesday) James Hallam, a steerage passenger on board the screw-steamer Vigo, which arrived from New York on Monday, was charged with attempting to murder George Corner and James Nash, also etecrage passengers, while the Vigo was at sea, on the Gth inst. It appeared from the time the Vigo left New York until he 6th instant, the prisoner kelt t') his bei th, and betrayed no symptoms of insanity. However, on the 6th inEt., the steward hearing a noise, went to tho prisoner and found him with a razor in his hand. lie had a scuffle with the prisoner, and after he got away from hin , , Corner and Nash came up, when the prisoner cut them both very severely in the face. He afterwards cut his own throat so badly that it was at one time feared ho would die. The prisoner was ultimately coixtraittecl fg trial pi e two 9 1 1Argefi p attclDPtC4 MARLBOROUGH-STREET. STEALING AN OIL PAINTING—CHARGE AGAINST A PARDONED PRISONER,— Jacob Dimoline, described as sa pianoforte-maker, of New-street, Soho, and who was tried at the Middlesex Sessions for stealing an oil painting at Messrs. Christie and Manson's sale-rooms, King-street, St. James's, was brought before Mr. Tyrwhitt, charged with stealing an oil painting, said to be by Pcolamberg, the pro perty of Mr. Wright, upholsterer, of 22, Wardour-stree t, of the value of £4. Mr. Wright said the painting was stolen out of his hone° three months ago. It had been hanging in a frame on the staircase, and had been pushed out of the frame. It WO brought to him by the officer, and he identified it. Mr. Wm. Sharp, of 3, Great Russell-street, picture dealer , said that the picture was brought to him on the sth of March by the prisoner, who asked 10s. for it. Having con suited the police, he gave the prisoner part of the mones 4 and told him to call again fot the balance, when the officer secured him. The officer asked him to account for his pos" session of it, and he said it was given to him by a person named " George" to sell, but that he could not find hita. The night the prisoner brought the picture he took it to Messrs. Christie's, who said it had not been stolen frog' them. Mr. Wright said his shop being an open one, the person who took the painting could easily have walked up the stairs' Inspector Hubbard, E Division, said that he went to the House of Correction, but found the prisoner had been Por doped by the Secretary of State before his term of imprison' went, for the picture stolen from Messrs. Christie's, had expired, and he then went to his lodgings that morning► and took him into custody. The prisoner said he was tried and convicted, and th e fact of there being a second picture was mentioned at the trial before Mr. Bodkin, and he thought that he W 94/ punished for the whole offence, which included the pictur e then in court. Mr. Wright asked that the case might be at once settled► as he was going to Germany. The prisoner preferred going to trial. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he should remand him for a few W e; ho bad no wish to prevent the prisoner going to trial if he thought proper. A VOLUNTEER SMOKING IN THE RANK 9 .--4 court of inquiry, consisting of Mr. W B. Simonds (preel' dent), Sergeant W. Tanner, Corporal Jacob, and private. Cox and Pamplin, was held at the Black Swan hotel, Wi g ' chester, on Thursday afternoon, to take cognisance of a charge of misbehaviour preferred against private W. Gale' of No. 2 Company, Ist Hants, by colour•sergean t W. (-1' Mason, viz., that at the Brighton review, on Easter Mon' day, while under arms in battalion, he, although the bat. talion was at "attention ," persisted in smokin g in the ranks, contrary to express orders, and in defiance of all good order and discipline. Evid ence in su pp ort of the charge was adduced, and afforded ample proof of the o offence, which was attended w ith considerable risk, as 11. men were at the time loading- with blank cartridge. The cowl recommended the colonel to dismiss Gale from the corps, under the provisions of George 111., cap. 54, sec. 27. Colonel Faunce confirmed the reconameudation,-0 3e minex Ito Gri the 14111 La: Ea Ca of ne chi Or Tr 99