The Sun. — London, England, 1856-03-20 00:00:00

% -1. A;; ,),<PO!it Under the 'Management of Mr. CuAa KEAN. ON EASTER MONDAY A WO2iDERFUL WOIIAN. After whl2ll, Faust AND mARGuERITE. To conclude with A PRINCE FOR AN HOUR. ROYAL MARYLEBONE THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Edward Stirling. Ou EASTER MONDAY, the 24th of March, 1856, LOST, 430,000. Messrs. Stuart, Belford, Stirling, Carter, Langton; Messds. An derten, Morel!, Mars. Brothers Elliott's wonderful performances. GRAND 7IALLET. Mamselle Agnes, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey. and Corps de Ballet. • Musical Fairy Spectacle, FAIRY FERN FLOWER ; or, THE GOBLIN MINE. Miss Francis Hug,hef, Miss Morel!, Ur. Sanders, Mr. J. Bedford, and 33 Ladies. Boxes and Stalls, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. EMMA. STANLEY'S `, SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN." Commencement of the Second Season on EASTER MONDAY. This Lyric Entertainment has been crowned by the unanimou approbation of TIIE LONDON JOURNALS As the greatest artistical triumph of the day. It constitutes an Opera, Comedy, and Vaudeville, With a host of characters in Correct Cos tumes ; and Songs in SIX DIFFERENT LANGUAGES! Never attempted by any other artiste. • - Evening performances on MonilaYs, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, at 8. Morning performanoes on Wednesdays and Saturdays at half-past two, preeisely. Admission—Chairs, 3s. ; Centre Seats, 2s. ; Back Seats, Is. SAINT MpalIPS lIALL,,Long-acre. TIMM WATER AT LONDON BRIDOE. Tins DAY—Morn. 39 min. aft. 1.--Evening 56 min. aft. 1 To-Monuow—Morn. 11 min. aft. 2—Evening 26 min. aft. 2 THE- WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, 3dertoli 20. THER3IOIIETER, IN THE SHADE. Ehri,c 4 since noon yosterday, 4 !---,ioreig thia morning and during the night. 49 4334 Hy et noon. BAROMETER, 30'0?. - -NELND,,N.E.—Light, with dull weather. k tc j i §2431. LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1856. " What will they say in England ?" Such was the last exclamation of a Crimean soldier who fell in the hour of victory, but who survived suffi ciently long to witness the triumph of his coun try's arms. The thought deprived death of its sting ! The patriot hero died rejoicing ! He felt that he was one of a noble band, whose names would long remain enshrined in the memories of their compatriots. He fondly imagined that the sacrifice would not be fruitless, but that the cause of liberty and civilisation would materially profit thereby—that the aggressive propensities of Russia would be permanently checked, her vain-glorious pride humiliated, and her overgrown power re duced to proportions better suited to the permanent tranquillity of Europe and of Asia. Had he for a moment suppo,sed that England would again lose by the pen what she had just gained by the sword it would have been misery indeed. Then would agonising thoughts respecting the loved ones at home, whom he could never more embrace, intrude themselves, and add bitterness to the final struggle. But, happily, he was spared that intolerable pang. His noble enthusiasm remained unalloyed and undiminished. " What will they say in England ?" The ques tion has again been asked, but, alas ! in how diffe rent a spirit, and with what conflicting anticipations. The blush of shame must have suffused the cheeks of those to whom the interrogatory was addressed, by " the still small voice" which could not be silenced—which was loudest at the hours dedicated to rest, but which, like the detestable hag that haunted the merchant ABUDAH, could never be completely banished. The thought of the just indignation that must be felt by the betrayed and deluded people of England at the ignominious conclusion of the contest must have intruded itself at all times and seasons on those responsible for the outrage to the best feelings of the British community, for the triumph of "Germanism," and the abasement of the Western Powers. Even the parties who have achieved the diplomatic triumph may shudder at the conse quences " looming in the future," and doubt whether the passing success may not have been too dearly purchased. Russia alone may congra tulate itself on the event. It may suit her pur pose to dissemble for the moment the extent of her delight at the easy manner in which she has baffled her opponents, and by which the AUTOCRAT remains at libarty to pursue the traditional policy of his house, inaugurated by the savage PETER, pursued by the harlot CATHERINE, by the double dealing ALEXANDER, and the audacious NICHOLAS! The criminal has evaded well-merited punish ment. The chief sufferer is his intended victim, and those who, with a spurious chivalry, took up a cause which they hail not the manliness to fol low up to the only legitimate conclusion. We have not shrunk from our duty, nor hesitated to explain the causes that have led to this very untoward result. They have been patent from the very commencement of the Eastern difficulty. The vacillating, temporising policy that waited for Austria and for Prussia, that permitted Russia to invade the territories of her inoffensive neighbour without at once pro uouucing the ag,gression a castes belli, that sup posed that a greedy pirate could be diverted from his dreams of self-aggrandisement by permitting him to receive a portion of the plunder on which he had set his heart, was the fatal error. That was occasioned by an unconstitutional influence that cannot be too deeply deplored by every true hearted Englishman, and which was well obeyed by the ABERDEEN Government. The servile twaddling of the nominal Premier— the valuable financial demonstrations of the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, who prepared for the impending conflict by denuding the department over which he presided of its balances to pay off an old debt without the slightest necessity—the ravings of the Peace Society—all contributed to increase the magni tude of the evil ; but the chief cause was the Conußa-Germanic influence above alluded to. Can that be suffered to continue in all its formid able dimensions ? Is there no English represen tative willing to denounce the obnoxious system, and to raise tho inspiring cry of "England for the Englisi_lnd no more German matrimonial t alliances ?" Th e f rogs i n the fable, aft er experi encing the tender mercies of the "Log" and " Stork" dynasties, were at the eleventh hour conscious of the delusion that occasioned so much mischief. Will Englishmen for ever remain inert and apathetic? Another victim is already adorned for the sacrifice, and will soon be brought to the altar. The result, if permitted, may be the annexa tion of England to Prussia, and the government cf Great Britain by a 'German Viceroy. What may be the possible consequences? We shudder to think of there, but in a matter of such vital importance to the well-being of the nation there should surely be some effort made to prevent the consummation so earnestly to be deprecated. We should strive, While there is yet time, to avert that rious evil from our posterity ! Immediately after Easter, Chelsea Hospital is to be the scene of a new Military Commission. An investigation, it will be, into an investigation ! An inquiry itpon, an inquiry ! It is a thing ear- 4%;', TEtEET . 41 / 4 V • I THE gribr, LONDON, TITURSDAY EVENINTG MARCH 19, I.R 'S passages from Genesis or the Decalogue can be perverted in their favour. They are days of purely human invention. Even were it true that the New Testament consecrated Sunday as the Old Testament sanctifies Saturday, yet no one will venture to tell us that the New Testament says one word of Good Friday, or even of Easter —the single passage where the word occurs in our version being notoriously the rendering of a word everywhere else translated Passover. All pretext fur a Sabbatarian observance of Good Friday and Christmas-day is therefore utterly wanting. Indeed as we read our New Testaments we find not a word of Chris tian anniversaries at all. We admit the reasonable inference from several passages that a weekly day was, in a certain sense, ob served ; that the Christians, before "or after ,the hours of usual employment, did assemble for wor ship on the first day of the week, pursuing, for the rest of the day, their ordinary avoca tions ; but of any other observance of days, and weeks, and new moons, &c., the Gentile Chris tians were certainly innocent. Those who at tempted even fmolt innovations were sharply re buked for it by an Apostle. There' s not, tyerefore, the shadow of ' a pre text for,depriling all Who don't adoPt particular ecclesiaStical views, of their amusements on these two holidays. Let those who feel the obligation of abiding by the institutions of Episcopacy, or any other denomination do so ; but if the State interferes to secure a holiday, let it be a holiday. Let the poor pent-up millions who have no eccle siastical scruples enjoy themselves to the full ; espaially let every place which can mi nister to mental and bodily recreation be opened without restraint. If a plea be set up for indulgence to the servants in these places of amusement, we can heartily listen to it ; but we reply, give them their turn on other days which are not leisure days to the great public. The many would thus get the full benefit of their holidays, while the few would not lose theirs. Nothing, in fact, but ecclesiastical lordliness stands in the way of Good Friday and Christmas day being perfect holidays to all who have no reli gious scruples respecting them. But why not have more State holidays for the million ? In Catholic countries, which are charged with laxity in regard to Sunday, the saints' days and holidays are much more numer ous than in Protestant communities, and afford proportionate relief to the jaded sons of toil. In the manufacturing districts there are some half dozen statute holidays, and with great physical advantage to the people. In Manchester there is the voluntary half-holiday on Saturday also. Now, what city in the world can need such relief more than the one in which we write ? Nowhere in England, we might say in Europe, perhaps in the world, are there so many acres of streets covered by such au atmosphere of smoke. Nowhere has the seeker of recreation further to go for green fields and a sight of the sky, and nowhere is the din without and the fog within so ceaseless and unre lenting. To those who quit it all every afternoon all this may not be quite so oppressive, but to the toiling many it must jade every faculty of body and mind. For such we ought to demand not only Good Fridays and Christmas-days, but half-a-dozen other days at a better season of the year. The Great Tasmania, sailing transport, arrived at- Portsmouth yesterday from the Crimea with nearly 400 invalids on board. Letters from Stockholm state that the mixed corn mission charged, to pr pare the bases of a customs union between the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Not way have just presented an internatienll bill on the subject. The Duke of Buccleuoh has abandoned his intention to rebuild Montagu House, Whitehall, for the present. The noble duke and family will occupy it during the season. His grace has rented the late Earl Brownlow's mansion, in Belgrave-square, during the last two yearr, bleb, however, the ducal family have not risided The noble duke has just made over the unexpired term he held of that elegant mansion to Lord Evelond. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN DOCTORS' COMMONS.--Last night, at a few minutes before ten o'clock, a fire occurred at 4, St. Andrew's-hill, Doctors'-corntnons, occupied conjointly by Mr. T. Guy, a tailor, Mrs. Hart, Miss Clark, Mr. Busnall, and Mrs. Manley. The loss must be very considerable, as, out of the many sufferers, only two were insured. As to the origin of the misfortune nothing could be gleaned. . _ Oa the' 15th inst. six Wallachian officers arrived at Vienna, whero they are to remain until they have YetifeetLabe system of exercising and manoeuvring prac tised by 'tile .Austrian army. Prince Gortschakoff left for St. Petersbnirolc'ttierseight of 'the 15th, and it is generally believed that he will not again return to this city as the relsresenta.tiie of Russia. SUICIDE IN AN HOSPITAL.—About a fortnight ago a man named Edward 'Jones, of Windermere-terrace, Boundary-street, Liverpool, jumped out of a window while in a fit of delirium tremen4. He was conveyed to the Northern Hoipital in that town, where he remained under treatment until the 7th inst., when he jumped out of bed and tan into a roam below. When over taken by one of thu,porters, who had followed him, he was, wit) great flesp*aninn, sawing his throat with a kra: fe He succeeded in making a frightful wound, which 'cased his death yesterday. An, inquest will be held o the body to-day. THE SUSSEX MEMORIAL AND THE ROYAL FREE Hos- PITAL.—The committee for managing the Sussex Me morial Fund have decided upon having erectad on the new wing of the Royal Free Hospital, in Gray's-inn-read, a colossal statue of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, as a mark of respect to his memory. The statue is to be executed in stone by Mr. John Thomas, at his studio in Paddington. THE ALLEGED POISONING AT HARTLEPOOL.—On Tuesday the adjourned inquest on the body of Mary Taylor was resumed, and Mr. Green, surgeon, spoke to the results of the post mortern, examination. No trace of poison was found in the stomach of deceased, neither was she enceinte. The brain was in a congested state, and his opinion was that deceased died from natural causes. The frequent vomitinge might be ascribed to sympathy with the brain. The jury returned a verdict " That the deceased died from congestion of the brain, ,produced by natural causes." -FATAL ACCIDENT OT MR. ORRIDGE, LATE GOVER NOR OF CAMBRIDGE COUNTY GAOL.—This gentleman, we regret to say, lost his life on Tuesday evening in Grace church-street, by a heavy-laden coal waggon passingover his neck. He had but a few minutes previously arrived in town from Cambridge, and was in the act of crossing the street, when be dropped his walking-stick, and in picking it up it is supposed his foot must have slipped, as he fell beneath the wheels of a coal waggon, laden with two tons of coals, which happened at the time to be passing, and almost instantly the hind wheel passed over the unfortunate gentleman's neck and throat, caus ing instantaneous death. Yesterday the driver of the waggon was examined at the Mansion-house, but Mr. Alderman Wire considering it was an entire accident he was discharged. Mr. Orridge was 76 years of age. EDINBURGH ADDRESS TO THE FRENCH ESIPEROR.—A special meeting of the Town Council of Edinburgh was held on Tuesday forenoon for the purpose of considering the propriety of voting* congratulatory address to the Emperor of the French, on the occasion of the birth of an heir to the French throne. The Lord Provost, who presided, proposed the following address, which was unanimously agreed to :—"To his [rnperia,l Majesty the Emperor of France. We, the Lord Provost, magis trates, and town council of the city of Edinburgh, humbly approach your Majesty to offer our warmest congratulations on the auspicious event of the birth of an heir to the throne of France. We cordially sympa thise with your Majesty, your august consort, and your people, in your joy. We hail with delight the advent of a prince allied to our country by hereditary descent, and destined, we trust, to draw still closer than even hitherto the bonds of amity which have so long subsisted between the French and the Scotch people. The efforts to restore tranquillity which are now being made by France and Great Britain, in conjunction with our allies, will, we earnestly pray, be crowned with success, and thus constitute the prince the harbinger of peace to the world. It is our fervent hope that the prince may be spared to realise the fondest wishes of his illustrious parents, and that he may prove a signal blessing to the French na tion, whose prosperity and progress we shall never cease to regard with anxious solicitude. Signed in name, kc.. JOHN MELVILLE, Lord Provost. EXECUTION AT LEICIISPER.—The execution of John Fawkes for the murder of his nephew at Snareston on the 25th of November last took place in front of the Leicester County Gaol yesterday morning. For some days after the prisoner's condemnation, on the 6th inst., by Lord Canepbell, he appeared to regard very little the awful position in which he. was placed, frequently deny ing his guilt and uttering strong expressions on the con duct of some of his relatives. The chaplain (the Rev. J. W. Fletcher), the governor, and schoolmaster of the gaol lost no opplrtnnity of impressing on the mind of the convict how hopeless it was for him to believe the law would be stayed in its course, and when he found there was no chance of escaping the dreadful sentence he made a full confession of the teenier, also admitting that he "intended to have shot his brothel. Bia if he could have got them both in a line.".. It will be recol lected that the prisoner's brother received some of the contents of the gun in his head when the shot was fired through the window by the prisoner at his nephew. The prisoner's brother turned round when he heard the crash in the window, and hooted, "Why, that's Butcher !" meaning the prisoner. After the convict had made his confession he became much composed in his mind, exihibiting the utmost repentance, and paying great attention to the clergyman. He spent the greater part of Tuesday night in prayer, and at 8 o'clock yes terday morning he was conducted to the scaffold, where the preliminaries were speedily gone through by Cal craft, the fatal bolt drawn, and the convict died almost without a straggle. There was an immense concourse of people to witness the execution, estimated at upwards of 20,000. The convict was 45 years of age, and has left a wife and ei4ht young children. THE RECENT RAILWAY COMPETITION.—A minute of the directors of the Great Northern Railway has jogt been communicated to the officers and servants of the company relative to the recent competition between the Great Northern, the London and North• Western, the Midland, and the Manchester, Sheffiefd, and Lin colnshire Railway Companies, as follows :—" Read, — Report of Match 3, from the general manager, enclos ing a statement showing that in the five days ended Feb. 29,11856, during which very low fares were charted in competition with the London and North-Western CJinpany, 21,8431 passengers were conveyed by the cheap trAins on the Great Northern Railway, pro ducing a total receipt of 3,756/. 155., and remarking that the arrangements fur the accommodation of _ _ the traffic were so well considered and carried out by the superintendent of the line and his assistants that he, the general manager, has not yet heard of a eiree complaint, tier did any accident occur on the Great N orthern way, though there was a slight one near Wcodhouse Junction, on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, on the return of the last train of empty car riages. —Resolved, that the Board has great pleasure in thanking the officers and men in the service of the Great Northern Railway Company for the judicious arrange ments and the efficient manner in which the passenger traffic was conducted during the late period of competi tion. J .R. MOWATT, Secretary. To Mr. W. Leith." The superintendent of the line has much satisfaction in making known the above resolution of the Board. The Bereelona papers contain accounts of two strange crimes just -vommitted in that city. A toreador named Sevilla got into a quarrel with a butcher of the Plaza de San Miguel, and struck him in the face, after which be took to flight. The next morning he walked slowly before the butcher's shop, and the butcher's rife seeing hire, cried out that if ever he dared present himself loa fers her again she would make him repent his insult to her husband. After a while, the toreador returned, and said tauntingly, " You see, my fine lady, that Jam not afraid of you !" The woman, making no reply, seized one of the huge knives which Spanish butchers use, and which are nearly as sharp as a razor, and with one blow, skilfully applied, cut his . left arm completely off. She was immediately arrested, and as she was being conveyed to prison, exclaimed repeatedly, " I care not what is done to me, as long as my husband is avenged !" Before the emotion caused by this affair had subsided the second crime was perpetrated. A young man of 20, and a girl about 16, after walking arm-in•arm in the Calle do Capellanes, proceeded to the Plaza de Ca lenque, where they faced each other as if about to separate. After au animated but apparently not angry conversation, the girl suddenly drew a poignard front her pocket and stabbed her companion in the breast. The young man fell covered with blood and fainting into the arms of a labouring man who hae pened to be passing at the moment, and the girl trek to (light and could not afterwards be discovered. The man was conveyed into a druggist's shop, and there a medical man ascertained that the dagger was poi soned. Means were immediately employed to coun teract the effect • f the poison, and the wound, when dreseed, was declared, although serious, not mortal. The young man refuses to divulge the cause of the quarrel. NUMEROUS DETERMINED SUICIDES Or FEMALES.— Yesterday the Coroner, Mr. Baker, held the following inquests upon females who had committed self-destruc tion :—Trio first was taken at the King's Head, White Horse street, Ratcliffe, on the body of Mary Kelly, aged 42. She was foind on Monday morning suspended by a handkerchief from the bedpost, and when cut down life was extinct. The second was held at the Anchor and Hope, Edward-street, Mile-end Old Town, on the body of Mary Ann Scott, aged 60, the wife of a news vendor. She bad been for a long while in a desponding state of mind. On Sunday morning, about seven o'clock, she got up, leaving him in bed. Soon after, as she was absent a long while, he went in search of her, and found her legs projecting from the water-butt, in which were her head and body. The third case was held yesterday evening, at the Peacock, High-street, Homerton, on view of the body of Anne Benham, aged 44. She was respectably connected, and received assistance both from her relatives and the parish. She bad inflicted a desperate incision across her throat with a dessert knife. A verdict of temporary insanity was returned in each case. LATEST NEWS. VIENNA, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Oeste.preichische Correbpondenz' has the fol lowing despatch, dated the 13th inst.:-- There is great mortality among the French in the erimea.— The health of the French at Constantinople is improving. • General Luders ‘lias ordered all officers on far. lough at Odessa to returu._ TRIESTE, MARCH 19. Accounts from Constantinople to the 10th state that throe Russian officers have entered the regi- ments of Ottoman Cossacks. Fires continue o: frequent occurrence in th© Turkish capital. COPENHAGEN, MARCH 19. Ten nobles of Holstein have made the following proposition :—" The Council of the Kingdom shall request the King to cause an exavination to be made into the constitution and the law of elec tion for the state of the duchies. In the event of amendments being proposed, they are to be sub mitted to the examination of the Council of the Kingdom." MADRID, MARCH 18. The discussion of the bases of the bill on admi nistrative organisation has bees brought to a close in the Cortes. The Government has declared that it will not make a Cabinet question of the plan of finance presented by M. Santa Cruz. General tranquillity prevails. Commodore Watscn, C.B. The vesels, in their cruise up the Baltic, had found much floating ice along the coasts, and the cold was very severe. With'iespect to any. Russian ships of war having been seen at any time moving about the Gulf of Finland or the Baltic Sea, such a thing had been impossible, even had they wished to do so, on ac count of the great masses of ice seen on all parts. of the coast. The navigation of the Elbe, for some miles down the river, has experienced a complete stoppage for want of a sufficiency of water to convey vessels up and down, in consequence of the easterly winds which have prevailed for some days past. Even the city canals cannot be traversed by lighters to con vey goods to and from the vessels in port, and business is therefor& at a thorough standstill. The wreck of the Hamburg ship Adolph, Captain Henningson.. which took place some days ago in the British Channel, on her voya g e to Africa, has created some sensation. She had a valuable cargo in her. The telegraphic despatch announcing the birth of the Imperial Prince caused an extraordinary sensation at Marseilles. All the vessels in the two harbours, foreign as well as French, were in an in stant dressed with flags. The port of La Joliette in particular presented the most,picturesque aspect. The Caradoc steamer, of the Riglish Royal Navy, distinguished herself by the richness and variety of her colours, among which the flag of France occu pied the place of honour. At night the entire city was spontaneously illuminated. VIENNA, March IG.--The Oesterreichische Zeitung contains a letter of the 13th, from its Kalisch cor respondent, which gives some insight into the opinions of the Russians in regard to the Hatti- Sherif recently published by the Porte. The pro mised improvement in the position of the Christians has considerably diminished the ardour of the war party, " which feels that at the price of the emancipation of the Christians Russia can afford to make some few concessions." The German, Journal of Frankfort states that on the 16th the Minister of France accredited to the Germanic Diet received the congratulations of all the members of the Diet and of the Diplomatic Body, of the Burgomaster of the free city of Frank fort, of the President of the Federal Military Committee, and other distinguished personages, on the occasion of the birth of the Prince Imperial. A Te Deem is shortly to be sung iu the cathedral to celebrate this event. A letter from Berlin of the 16th, in the Reba ts, says :—" Immediately after the arrival of the Paris despatch announcing the birth of a Prince-Impe rial, a courier was despatched to Baron de Manteuf fel with a letter of congratulation, to be delivered by him to the Einperor Napoleon. The closing of the chambers will take place in the first days of next month. The Prince-Bishop of Breslau will arrive here to-morrow, to consecrate the new Roman Catholic church. By a decree in the Monitenr, M. A. Fould, Mi nister of State, and Admiral Hamelin, Minister of Marine, have been promoted to the rank of Grand Crosses of the Legion of Honour. Admiral Penaud, Commander-in-Chief of the Baltic naval division, has left Paris for Brest. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH BETWEEN LON DON AND CONSTANTINOPLE. VIENNA, March 16.—Major Bicidulph, who has been here on business connected with the telegraph between Constantinople and London, has left for Berlin. While here the Major had an interview with the Minister of Commerce, and explained to him how it was that the communication between Bucharest and Hermannstadt was so often inter rupted. Oa the Wallache-Austrian frontier is a great deal of land which is uninhabited, and whenever any injury happens to the wire there, a long time generally elapses before it is dis covered and repaired. Another matter to which the attention of the Minister has been directed is, that copper wire is used in Austria ; copper is a . better conductor than iron, but wire made of the last mentioned metal is the more durable. It is the wish of the British Government to estab lish an " instantaneous" correspondence between Constantinople and London, and this may be done by means of " Translatoreu" (transferrers), which were, some two or three years s i nce , invented by M. Steinheil, the present Director of Telegraphs in Bavaria. It is not yet settled whether the new wire is to pass through northern Germany and by the Hague, or through south-western Germany and France. Experience has taught me that the one line is no better than the other ; the former is very slow, and the latter cannot be relied on. It may be mentioned, that the electric cable between the Crimea and Varna, which was broken in No vember last, is not likely to be repaired. The French do their work very well between Varna and Bucharest. SOUTH LONDON GAS CONSUMERS' PRO TECTION ASSOCIATION. A meeting of this society was called at the Eques trian Tavern, in the Black friars-road, yesterday after noon, for the purpose of forming a deputation to wait upon the directors of the South Metropo!itan Gas Com pany, and urge upon them the propriety of making a re duction in the price of gas. It should be observed that the four companies—namely, the one we have named, the Surrey Consumers', the Phcenirc, and the London Gas Company, which supply different districts on the south of the , Thames—having entered] into an arrangement two or three years ago to charge an uniform price for their gas, the South London Protec tion Association has &ready sought an interview with the directors of each of those companies separately ; and yesterday was appointed for their meeting the directors of the South Metropolitan Company. Ten or a dozen gentlemen having assembled, Mr. EVANS, the vice-president of the association took the chair. In the absence of Mr. Wingl am, la a secretary, a letter from the directors, prornisiag to receive the depu tation, was read by Mr. Harris, who likewise read the circular issued by the directors to every consumer on the of January, 1854, which ran as follows : ":Sir,—The directors have instructed me to inform you that in consequence of the unexpectedly large increase in the price of coals and other materials connected with the manufacture and distribution of gas, they have been compelled very reluctantly to rai e the price of gas 61. per thousand cubic feet fi orn Christmas last ; and they tru-t this small advance will be readily conceded them by the consumers. When the directors issued their circular in September last, ar nouncing the ar rangement for confining the company to a certain dis trict so as to enable them to conduct their works more economically, the rapid alteration in the prices of almost every article required for their business could not be cmtemplated ; but that measure, by diminishing the waste of gas and the cost of di , tribution, has prevented a larger advance than sixpence per thousand cubic feet, which is far from equivalent to the extra amount paid for coals alone. At the iame time the directors h ipe the advance will not be permanent, bir that a fall of the prices of coals and iron may warrant a return to the old charge." The CIIAIBMAN then asked whether any of the gentle men present hal any fresh arguments to urge in addition to those which they presented on the 12th inst. to the directors of the Phcenix and of the London Gas Com pany ? Mr. COCKAYNE observed that at this time the best house coals might be delivered at 245. a ton, and the gas manufacturers entering into large contracts would, of course, get their coals for much less • besides, out of a ton of coals they could make a chaldron of coke, which was now worth 11s. or 125., and, so far, would lessen the cost of the coal. The chairman of the Phceuix Company, and the chairman of the London Gas Company, told the Association the other day, that in 1855 they had paid a larger sum for coals than for many previous years, but if the companies had been so injudicious as to eater into very high contracts, the public ought not to suffer by then]. It had been said that aeenuoh as from 9s. 3d. to 10s. a ton was paid for freights last November ; but those high rates of freight it was now to be hoped, would not continue. After some remarks from Mr. Harris to the same effect, the gentlemen present went together to the esta blishment of the South Metropolitan Gas Company, in the Old Kent-road, where they were received by the following directors of the company :—Mr. Alderman Fern-comb, chairman • Mr. Simpson, deputy•chairman ; Captain Heathorn, Mr. Baker, and Mr. Drew. Mr. EVANS briefly and simply stated the objects of the deputation. Alderman FARNCOMB said that the directors would give their best consideration to all that had been said. The deputation thanked the directors for their cour teous reception of them, and then retired. DINNER AT THE MANSION-HOUSE.—The Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress gave the usual dinner at . the Mansion•house on Easter Monday, and a distinguished party has been invited to meet his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, who has intimated kis intention of honouring the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress with his presence on that occasion. - A reward of 2001. has been offered by the authorities to any person who will give such information as shall lead to the discovery of persons who stole the Royal plate chest and a recovery of the property. GRATIFYING TESTIMONIAL.—The Board of Trade have awarded to John Anderson and James Newham, two young seamen belonginc , to the port of Shields, the sum of 504 each, as a reward for their noble conduct on the occasion of the collision between the Josephine Willis and the Mangerton, when they bravely, at great personal risk, succeeded in saving the lives of 9 pers ,, ns, who were on the mizenmast, and, after rowing half a mile, blIC• ceeded in rescuing a gentleman from a life-buoy. THE NAP , )l,' ., ),‘ DY AS7 Y. r • The :lioniteur of yesterday publishes the folio lug :- " On Tuesclay, at half-pa:-d 12, the Emperor re' ceived all the Plenipotelviaries of the Paris Con:j Gress, as well as the members attached to thel'i mission. "On this solemn occasion Europe was rOrel seiited by the most eminent personages of aac h ' respective country, all' of them Presidents of til t ! Council, or Ministers of Foreign Affairs, and 80:1 joying the full confidence of their Sovereigns. i " Count Walewski, President of the Congre o l selected as speaker on the occasion by his colleague spoke as follows : " The Plenipotentiaries of the Congress have thous fit to select me, on this so l emn occas i on , as the rnoutl'' piece of their sentiments towards your Majesty. elf " lam happy and proud, Si re , a t finding m$ 5- „f called upon.to express to your Majesty, in the earn° Europe, the sentiments, the hopes, the joy inspired 0 ' all sides by the happy event with which it has please 3 Providence to bless you, and which, by assuring 0 1 consolidating the Napoleon dynasty, i s a new p l e dge " safety and confidence to the whole wort]: " The Emperor replied :-- "' I thank the Congress for the well-wishes and ce gratulations addressed to me through you. " am happy that Providence has granted me A 6°l at a moment when a new era of general reconcilistil dawns upon Europe. I will bring him u p i m b ue d wi l t the idea that nations must not be egotistical, and th u d the peace of Europe depends upon the prosperity of 0 9 1 nation.' " His Majesty then approached the Plenipoteri tiaries and addressed words of thanks to each them. "At 1 o'clock his Majesty the Emperor recei/61 in the Throne-room the members of the Diplocl tic Corps, whose President, his Eminence Papal Nuncio, presented to his Majesty, in tbi name of his colleagues, their warm congratulatid on the happy event of the Empress's accouchemen t i and on the birth of an Imperial Prince. "At the wish of the members of the DiplonOt i° Corps his Majesty had them conducted to no Prince. "At half-past 1, in the Th -th• peror received the congrAtql o the r.; -0: the State on the birth of it . off • "His Majesty was seated 'ea': rounded by his Household, by e Maid nisters, Marshals, and Grand Chtises ol' ,; Imperial Legion of Honour. His Excellency' 0 Grand Master of the Oereuronies—iktroduced cessively the great bodies of th* gists o.l Emperor. " His Excellency the President of the Sena te addressed his Majesty as follows Sire,—Providence has gifts in store princes who devote themselves to the greatness and PI perity of their people. It hag just proved this to i? Itlajesty by a most striking favour. By this greatr ; ', which it gives.you by the birth of a son is also a isaPP t ,l news for the great family which gathers r o u nd r. Already France breathes more freely by the birth oft child ; she associates her future with his destinies. 0) "' When he s'sall reign over this empi r e. wil l Grating styled the finest under the kingdom of Heal the 19th century, having reached its extreme period, ci o gather the fruits the productive seed of which have be_ j sown by our generation in the present. Africa, fosteP o l by your powerful hand, will have become one the brightest gems of his Crown. The East and ,t, West, which have been seeking each other since w o Crusades, and are only coming in sight of each otlito now, will , have connected their seas and coasts to ) 1 , forth the improving tide of the ideas and riches of eir i l • satinn. Let the future Sovereign of our children 01 1 in the steps of his august father ; let him call to neinu hf reign where the genius of government is guided moderation and justice ; and in this march of human'tl France will still be, as she is now, a regulator of Enter a lever of progress, a torch of intellect. " 'Let tes bail, then, this son of the Empire, the plan of so many great destinies ; let us greet lik e wise, 13 1 4 thank his graceful mother. A wife already so endear to you will be dearer still to your heart by this nr 4 sideration of maternity. " Allow the Senate, Sire, to place its.komager at the foot of this throne, which she embellished b' amiable qualities, and which she has cemented happy birth.' "The Emperor replied : c r• " Monsieur' le President du Senat,—The Ffin t l shared my joy when it learnt that Heaven had gran vie a son, and you have hailed as a happy eveotittw o c birth of an Enfant de Prance. I purposely use s ke this expression. In fact, the Emperor Napoleon, uncle, who had applied to the new system created by tbl revolution :11 that was great and noble in the ° ,l l regime, resumed that old denominati on o f 'EnfanrW,, Prance.' And, in truth, gentlemen, when an heir,cj born destined to perpetuate a national system, that clw is not only the offspring of a family, but he is t also, the son of the whole country, and the name l'', cates his duties. If this was true under the old monaterui which more exclusively represented the privileg e , classes, with how much more reason ought it not to e' so to-day, when the Soy: reign is the elect of the THAI the first citizen of the country, and the representnt'l of the interests of all ? " 'I thank you for the good wishes you have expr o P B4 for this Child of France and the Empress.' " These words were received 'with unanirn° shous of Viva l'Empereur ! Five l'lmperatrix es Vice le Prince Imperial !' " The Legislative body having then been inie, duced, his Excellency the President addressed il lo Majesty. "His Majesty replied 'Monsieur le Prd‘ident du Corps ISgislatif, —The preiv-ion of your sentiments on the birth of the son +lbw it has pleased Providence to grant me has touched n! 1 nearly. You have welcomed in him the hope, which is flattering to entertain, of perpetuating a system oiC t i is held to be the surest guarantee of the general inter'' 0 of the country ; but the unanimous acclamat io ns ech, l „ • surround his cradle do not prevent me from r e lict; upon the fate of those born in the same place and u$ • similar circumstances. If I hope that his fate may I)° ,, happier one, it is that, first of all, confiding in Providene; I cannot doubt of its protection when I see it resle_':, again by an extraordinary combination of circemstann what it was pleased to overthrow 40 yews since, 110' 4 1 wished to mature by martyrdom and misfortune are 4 dynasty issuing from the r a n k s of th e p eo pl e . has, moreover, lessons which I shall not forget. It.t e me, on the one hand, that we should never abuse i ll favours of fortune ; on the other, that a dynasty has on then a chance of stability when it remains faithful ta i "; origin, and when it occupies itself solely with the p 0 lar interests for which it was created. This child, wb birth is consecrated by the peace under preparation, 1 ' the blessing of the Holy Father, brought by electrie l l an hour after he saw the light of day, and finally by tot acclamations of the French people, whom the EmPerho° so much loved—this child, I say, will, I hope, worthy of the destinies that await him. "The reply of the Emperor created considerab le emotion and was received with loud applause. ; "The Council of State having then been callei.! l , his Excellency the President spoke as followiti - " ,i ' " the midst o f th e re j o i c i ngs c at throughout the whole of France by the birth of an perial Prince, your Council of State feels happy in e ": pressing to you r M a j es t y i ts warm an d respectful Ow' gretulations. " Divine Provid ence , w hi c h s i nes th e access i on o f te Majesty h as s h owere d so many bl ess i ngs upon t his D IY' pire, which, after crowning our arms with victori; seems to be preparing so many glorious results to so policy, could not have giv en y o u, Si re , a more s trike d proof of its protection than by granting to your wish and to ours the birth of an Imperial Prince. "'Around this cradle, the depository of so many he e l the new pledge of the future and of security, France 0 0 0 up thanksgiving and invokes heavenly bl ess i n gs up o n you, Sire, who saved her,aud upon that au g u s t Prinee so the object of our love and of our respect, so worthy „i . a " the happiness she experiences to-day as a mother and Empress. " 'Sire,—Your Council of State, while adding „s voice to the accents of public rejoicing, could not snl e i f a more solemn occasion for renewing to y our Maie t ' d o the assurance of its unchangeable devotion ; it belie' in the Providential event which assures the happinesa ° France a new encouragement for its labours. " 'Proud of the part your Majesty has reserved t o „t in the preparation of your noble ideas of i m provenni and progress, it will - double its efforts to show W e e , worthy of your confidence, and to keep itself up to too mark of a mission which appears to enlar g e i n p r oporti o with the prosperity of France, which, thanks to 9 ° , Sire, and *with God's help, is increasing and is lon s developed.' "His Majesty replied : " M. le President du Conseil d'Etat, " 'The Council of State, that intimate Council of the Sovereign and of his Government, which is initiate all his thoughts, and which as s ociate s it se lf w ith all acts, would, I was sure of it, take a lively partioipet" , in the rejoicing of the pres e nt and i n th e h o pe of ' - 11 , future. None labour more than yourselves, gentlern e m ,' towards the consolidation of that future. Strong io grand traditions of the Council of State of the first ereP",; s you elaborate the laws which, while th e y consec rate t" i. grand principles of the revolution , pacify the ceigi ttl r ; consolidate the ruling power, curb factions, and prep% the peaceful reign of a wise liberty. I co un t, therefo r ! , upon the talents and patriotism of which you W e 1 1,0 ready given me so many proofs to r en d er e asy to t. O child who has just been burn the accomplishment of future destinies.' " The Moniteur announc e s th a t th e h ea lth of her Majesty, the Empress, and the Prince Iniperl continues to be excellent. The Moniteur also announces that Prince Jer° 'so is convalescent. The Moniteur states that Baron Manteuffely Prof sident of the Council of Ministers and Ministe r ., Foreign. Affairs of his Majesty the King of Pru s9l had been received at a p r i v at e audience by the PI . peror. nestly to be hoped that this same re-examination of the evidence originally submitted to Sir JOHN NEWELL and Colonel TULLOCH—and set forth by those eminent officers as the " reason " for the deliberate judgment pronounced by them through their very memorable and authoritative Report — may by some good fortune put an end to the con stant and apparently interminable bickerings by which the military system of England has of late been brought into deplorable ridicule, and by which her more intimate Allies at least may be said, without any exaggeration, to have been grievously scandalised ! This, we say, is a thing to be very heartily desiderated. But seriously to expect so much would be simply—we all feel that —nothing less than absolutely preposterous. Everybody is convinced from the outset that the whole ostentatious arrangement is what is vulgarly but significantly termed in the homely vernacular —a DO ! We know perfectly well that the upshot of it all will be—after a good deal of talking, and cross-questioning, and minuting, and reporting, and so forth, mail everybody has become cor dially sick and tired of the whole transaction— that no one has *ln in any way at all in fault ! That every one has' Acted from first to last to per fection ! . That Commander-in-chief, Generals of Division, Gott Is of Brigade, Adjutant Gene rals, Assistant Adjutant Generals, Deputy Assist ant Adjutant Generals, the Commissary General, Assistant Commissary Generals, and Deputy. Assistant Commissary Generals, Colonels and Lieutenant-Colonels, Staff officers and Aides-de- Camp—every one, in short; from the Field- Marshal ruling off his recommendations for promo tion with his bran new baton, down to Ensign TITE BARNACLE paring his nails and warming the calves of his legs in front of the mess-room fire at head-quarters—has done his duty in every depart ment just exactly as England expected him to do it ! And yet that after all in some strange unaccountable manner to be left a moot point and an unsolved problem for ever and ever afterwards—everything —somehow—went wrong and no mistake at al about that! Future inquirers being left in after times to form their own conclusions precisely as the humour may suit them at the moment—as to how on earth it came to pass that the Bri tish Troops before Sebastopol, in the winter of 1854-55 had no fuel and plenty of green coffee berries—had rags and vermin enough for a whole generation of the Jews of Houndsditch had boards for the building of huto, but no nails or hammers—had hatchets thatwould not cut, spades that would not dig, pickaxes that would not on any account whatever consent to pick without snap• ping in two at the first blow—and so on through all the maddening sections of that long, weary, awful Chapter of Accidents ! How all 'this was so—people, of course, will be left to decide just as they have been left to de cide as to the identity of PERKIN WARBECK, or as to the mystery of the Man in the Iron Mask, or as to the authorship of the "Letters of JuNrus," or as to the arrival of the Greek Kalends, or as to the squaring of the circle. That it was so—history relates, already in accents of horror and lamentation. But how it was Bo— is to be left, of coarse, as the Scotch have it, " not proven." A miserable, disgraceful sham, in fact, the whole scrutiny has been hitherto—and a miser able, disgraceful sham it will continue to be when all has been said and done before the Chelsea Hos pital Commissioners. That—we all know. That—we all feel certain of. That—we all look for. Even Mr. FILDER—(and everybody appeared at least to be perfectly agreed in his instance, everybody- - - taking the most lenient view of his case—seemed to coincide entirely in the opinion that Mr. FILDER had something excessively like a turnip for a head) even Mr. FILDER, now that he has given in his reply to the Report of Colonels 111'NE/L and TuLLoar, comes out of the inipliry of course perfectly innocent, completely whitewashed, thoroughly and I-totally exonerated ! The fact is (we must all of us, at any rate, have by this time arrived at thus mucn of a conclusion), the fact is, * nobody at all is in any way to hlame.y The coffee, ought to have roasted itsslf, and ground itself, and cooked itself. Nails and hammers ought to have grown up among the grass with the Crimean crocusses, or to have rained down from heaven with the Crimean sleet, and snow, and hail-stones. Bread ought to have come like manna, and coats and waistcoats, like the coats and waistcoats deposited (according to a Nonconformist Joe Miller) by the bedside of the Rev. RowLAND HILL during the nights that followed the days of his benevolence. Nobody is to blame—it is the drift of the whole inquiry —nobody at all is in any way to blame—but—The Dead ! That is the one inevitable deduction alone remaining to us. And it appears to be the only deduction authorised by the different statements and documents put forth by living authorities in the way of exculpation. Vide—as corroborative of this the latest of these exculpatory explanations —Mr. FILDER'S reply to the Report of the Com missioners ! If anything at all is to be deduced from thal reply it is most certainly that Lord RAGLAN was to blame. Read it—and see ! Let the Supplementary Commissioners about to as semble in solemn conclave at Chelsea—read it, and see ! It may suggest to them a loophole for escape from their rather difficult, and most delicate, and even embarrassing position. Cannot they contrive to take the hint—not upon the mawkish principle de mortuis nil nisi bonum, but upon the inexorable and rhadamanthine one de mortuis nil nisi verum. There are plenty of dead scapegoats—RAGLAN, and BOXER, and CHRISTIE, and NoLart, 'and even the poor Scutari apo thecary ! The Crystal Palace is to be opened in the afternoon of Good Friday, and special trains provided. The sight of a placard to this effect is very suggestive ; it reminds us first of our Sabba tarian friends—a large portion of them think Good Friday a holier day than a Sunday, and would enforce its observance more stringently ; they would have us not only abstain from work but from food also. Anotherlarge section hold the observance of this day and of Christmas-day also to be sheer superstition. In England the former party is triumphant, in. Scotland the latter. The result is the Scotch lose two holidays, the English gain two days free from business, at least, and attend to their worship or their amusements, according to their tastes. The' Protestant Dissenters on this side the Tweed concur, for the most part, with the Presbyterians, in so far as they reject all religious observance of these holidays ; they use them for visits, pleasure, and frequently for school anniversaries and treats. It occurred. to us when read ing the above announcement—why should not the Palace be open in the morning ? The afternoon is but a short time just now ; the families are very numerous to whom it would be a treat in deed to spend the whole day there, and who, as things stand, have no other day in the year to give to such a pleasure. In regard to both the holidays referred to, the chief ground of the Sabbatarians is unde niably cut from under their feet. No one who has learned to read pretends that these are days of Divine appointment. No misapplied v f THE PRINCE ,OF PRUSSIA. The Brussels Independance Asserts that Prises Fre derick William, son of the heir to the crown of Prussia (now at Cablentz), has " Solemnly demanded of the King his uncle the consent indispensable to the projected allauce with the Princess Royal of England. This consent wa, granted in the presence of the whole court, and no doubt whatever exists as to the analogous dis position of the Queen of England." A letter from Berlin of the 16th, in the Debuts of yesterday, says :—" The departure of Prince Frederick William of Prussia for England is definitively fixed for the first days of May." COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY. The dinner party yesterday inoluded his Majesty the King of the Belgians, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, Lady Fanny Howard, Lady Caroline and Miss Barrington, Baroness de Speth, Major-General the Hon. Charles and Mrs. Grey, Colonel the Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps, Sir George Conner, Colonel de Moerkerke, Captain Pcisse, Doctor Riekn, and Mr. Glover. The Queen and Prince Consort w liked in the grounds adjoinin► the Castle this morning. Prince Arthur aid the younger Princesses drove out in an open carriage. THE EMPRESS OF TITS FRENCH.—The bulletin received this morning from Paris states that her Majesty is pro gressing most satisfactorily. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were—Viscount Palmerston ' the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Harrowby, Sir G. Grey, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmure. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir C. Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley-of Alderley, and the Right Hon. M. T. Baines. The Council sat two honrs and a-quarter. Viscount Palmerston left town after the Cabinet Council yesterday afternoon for Windsor Castle on a visit to her Majesty. Dr. Elliott, from Ceylon, had an interview with Mr. Secretary Labouchere yesterday at the Colonial-office. It is believed that no prolongation of the armistice will be required. Peace will be proclaimed before the 31st of this month. THE ARMISTICE IN THE CRIMEA.—Lord Pannture has written to us to state that he has received intelligence from Sir W. Cedrington, under -date March 15, that the armistice had been signed by the allied Generals, an I that the exchange of documents would take place on the 16th. We have to record the death of the Hon. George O'Callaghan, youngest son of Cornelius, first Lord Lis more, and brother of the late Viscount and General the Hon. Sir R. W. O'Callaghan. He was born on Sept. 9, 1787, and was unmarried. ILLNESS OF MR. BARON PLATT.—We regret to learn that Mr. Baron Platt has been prevented by illness from attending to hiq duties on the Western Circuit, but his health is now improving, and at no distant time it is expected he will he in a condition to resume his duties ; in the meantime Mr. Sergeant Channel! has the honour to fill his place. THE BOARD OF CONTROL.—Sir George Russell Clerk, K.C.8., who has filled the important offices of Lieut.- Governor of the north-west provinces of India and Go vernor of Bombay, has accepted the permanent Under- Secretaryship to the India Board, vacated by Sir Thos. Redington. ELECTION OF OFFICER OF HEALTH, &C., FOR ST. PANCRAS.—Yesterday a fully-attended meeting of the Vestry of St. Pancras was held at the Vestry-hall, Cam den-town, for the purpose of electing a medical officer of health. Dr. Hillier was elected. __ Yesterday the Lord Chancellor, the Master of the Rolls, the Lords Justices, and the several Vice-Chan cellorA, at the rising of the court, adjourned their fur ther sittings until Thursday, the 3d of April next. The offices of the several Masters will also be closed during the same period. The Lord Mayor was entertained last evening at a sumptuous dinner, at the Gresham Club, by his fellow committeemen. Mr. John Ingram Travers took the chair, and Mr. A. B. Cook was vice-chairman. There wore present Mr. Rickard Weida, Mr. Thomas Gooch, Viscount Torrington, Mr. Vilinet, Mr. Samuel Ward, Mr. Richard Ellis, Mr. Lewis Hazelwood, Mr. J. H. Parry, Mr. IL J. Slack, Mr. John Galswortby, Mr. R. IT. Firman, Mr. W. D. Starling, Mr. Joseph Starling, Mr. IL L. Mergan,'Mr. F. W. Hamstede, and Mr. F. Chinnock. DEPARTURE OF MR. BUCEIANAIT, THE AMERICAN MINISTER.—Mr. Buchanan, the American Mini%ter, having introduced his successor, the Hon. Mr. Dallas, to the diplomatic circle, will take his departure this afternoon for Paris, where he will remain for about three weeks. The ex-Minister will return to England br a kw days, and sail from Liverpool for America by the packet of the 16th or 19th of April. THE TIPPERARY BANK.—DUBLIN, March 10.—The first step consequent on the appointment of the official manager for the winding up of the above-named concern will be taken this day, when, it is understood, Mr. James Sadleir will be subjected to an examination before Master Murphy. The Master, however, has resolved that the proceeding shall be private, and that for that purpose it shall be conducted at his own house, so that whatever information may be elicited on the occasion the public are not likely to become the wiser for ;t at prevent. ~~ , '~'l ~ ,~ TURKEY. The last acoounts from Constantinople state the weather was very tempestuous, and that the packet from the Crimea had not arrived. Snow was three feet deep at Constantinople. The Journal de Con stantinople strongly insists on the delimitation of the Russian Transcaucasian frontiers. The Arme nians and the Greeks have protested against the late Hatti Scheriff ; the Greek petition, in parti cular, is directed against the clauses of the docu ment relative to the clergy. Ismail Pacha, who commands in Roumelia, takes the command of the Turkish troops at Erzeroum. The Austrian Go vernment has decorated several Turkish civil func tionaries. Among them are Affif and Noureddin, attaches to the Ottoman Embassy in Paris. The Anglo-Italian Legion have arrived at Malta. KERTCH. A letter from Kertch, under date of the 2d, in the Moniteur de la Flotte, states that when the news of the armistic had been made known along the shores of the Sea of Azoff it produced a profound sensation of joy. At Marianupol, Berdiansk, and Gheisk,business fora long time dead, had been sud denly resuscitated as if by enchantment; and at Ta ganrog the news of the armistice had been hailed with enthusiasm. The armistice was received there with shouts of "Long live the Emperor Alexander !" and at night the houses were illuminated. The Imperial foundry, established on the left bank of the Don, has been closed, and this would seem to confirm the news of the intenti*n manifested by the Court of Russia to abandon all its maritime establishments on the Black Sea. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. Addresses of congratulation to the Emperor con tinue to pour in. The following is from tLe Imperial Court of Paris : " Sire,—The Imperial Court of Paris brings to the foot of the throne its congratulations and its jov. Pro vidence, in responding to the prayers of the Emperor, gives to the present security of the future. The Impe rial dynasty is strengthened. France may henceforth repose tranquil and confident under the shelter of the great name of Napoleon. May the august child, the object of so much love for all truly French hearts, grow up in the virtues which have made his race the forceand glory of the country." - That from the Municipal Council of Lyons is as follows : " Sire—Provident', which so visibly protects your Majesty, has just conferred o❑ you a favour the most delightful to your heart, and the most precious to France. Otall the cities of the empire, Lyons is perhaps the one which owes tho most to your glorious dynasty. During nearly a century it has never been completely exempt from civil disturbances except when under its shield. It therefore accepts as a blessing from Heaven every thing that consolidates and perpetuates the power of your august family. Permit us. Sire, to be the faithful interpreters of the sentiments of the people of Lyons, in laying , at your feet, and at those of the Empress, the most loyal congratulations and the assurance of the most respectful devote-loess." The Municipal Council of Bordeaux. thus ex. presses itself : " Sire,—Your Majesty has saved France. You have directed her strength towards industry, commerce, and the arts; you have just added by war a noble gem to your crown of glory, and the wisdom of your policy, by remov ing old national prejudices, will have re-established the balance of poser in Europe. Providence, in giving your Majesty a son, rewards you for all the good you have effected. Accept, Sire, tile respectful congratulations of the Municipal Council of Bordeaux. God, who pro tects France, and who guides you so clearly, will listen to our desires, and will guide this child in the glorious path opened by his father. After having constituted the joy and pride of his august mother, the Prince-Im perial will continue your labour of civilisation and pro• press. He will bear, like you, Sire, a name which will never perish. We are, with the most profound respect, Sire, the most humble and obedient servants of your Majesty." Similar addresses have been presented by the Imperial Courts of Pau, Metz, Dijon, Besancon, Caen, Montpellier, Poitiers, Toulouse, and Bourges ; also by the municipal councils of Versailles, Metz, Toulouse, Amiens, Poitiers, Bourges, and Avignon ; by the Conseil d'Amiraute; by the Maritime Prefet and the persons employed in the marine department of Brest; by the con sulting committee of the Colonies ; and by the clergy of the see of Verdun. The Congress held yesterday a sitting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This was the first sitting at which were present the Prussian Pleni potentiaries, Baron de Manteuffel and Count de liatzfeldt. A decree in the Moniteur promotes Generale Randon, Canrobert, Bosquet, to the rank of Mar shal of Franco ; Generals of brigade Walsin-Ester hazy, Grenon, d'Hughes, Jusuf, and L. J. Walsin- Esterhazy to the rank of general of division ; and Colonels Luis Decliners, Daulomieu-Beauchamp, de L'Abadie d'Aydren, Edgard Noy, and Fleury to that of general of brigade. BOURSE, March U.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. e. End of Month. 4i per Cents 93 90 —f. —c. 3 per Cents 72 53 72 75 New Loan 73 Bank Shares 3,475 Roman Credit Mobil* 1,577 51 Austrian Belgian Fives ...... .. Spanish Threes Piedmoutese(s) . 93 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS-TOR CASH. fr. c. fr. e Orleans ....... ........ 1,300 Western... 897 50 Northern Lyons ..... 1,247 50 New Ditto .. 827 50 Mediterranean 1,580 Grand Central 652 50 Lyons Geneva 792 50 Testa Cette 753 Austrian C0rn....... 915 THE DANUBE. A letter from Vienna, of the 15th, in the Post elmpt Gazette of Frankfort, says : "Our Government is taking measures calculated to remove the old obstructions to the free naviga tion of the Lower Danube. Thus, for instance, it has bought a steamer at Constantinople for the service of the mouth of the Sulina, and a kind of raft is attached to this vessel for the removal frim time to time of the mud rid 'sand that deposit there. M. Lova, an expe rienced captain of the merchant service, has been ap pointed captain of the port at Sulina, where a war steamer, with a strong detachment of marines on board, has been permanently stationed for some time past for the maintenance of public order. The company for the navigation of the Danube intends to carry its traffic to the very mouth of the river, and is now building five screw steamers for the conveyance of goods and corn along the Lower Danube. Last year the company possessed 80 paddle and screw steamers, forming a total of 10,026-horse power, besides 268 transport vessels, &c., making an aggregate of 9,000 tons. Since then there has been a considerable increase, and the com pany now possesses 112 steamers, representing a total of 11,391-horse power, and 405 iron transports, showing a grand total of 120,000 tens, without counting 25 yes selsfor the conveyance of pigs, 19 colliers, and a quan tity of smaller craft besides. THE BALTIC. HAmnimG, March 18.—The British steam-sloop Samson, 6 guns, Capt. Brock, arrived yesterday from the flying squadron, with despatches from 0 The with a 1 of Frid lb. tend kinds I.( in value export, 6 1d. to 61(I. to Islands Market into at t Late] Govern r lation of for clear the rive] chased a bar at tl vessel of stationer port, an The A.us also inte the Sul structin grain a the Lo, this cor tug -boat 268 light 9 ,000 toi and at tl this trail 405 iron aggregate added 49 other pa' Accou: staternen the Bata 8 ,629,30: 2,460 Li deposits amount c Accom mei dantly, a Were ver: The Pe 'vessel, wl Ch Chiefly fo] The las to this Iv Great We North-We south-Wei Brighton . . south-Eas C aladoniar Great Nor Laneashiri Nisneheste Cheste r au Bristol an( Bast Lane North Sts Taft Vale . Bdinburgl Great i Glasgow a Wei There gacurities During a generally Pleseht i 111 Quey I 92g A. brought 7 eotleols Chequer : dated Ju the latte the inter( Of these Md. the I Foreign Turkish C lowe r . 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