The Sun. — London, England, 1861-04-25 00:00:00

THE WELLINGTON, 160, PICCADILLY. -7 Gentlemen are respectfully informed that the SALOON DINING ROOMS are now OPEN for the Supply of LUNCHEONS and DINNERS, from One to Nine o'clock p.m. Set Dinner's and Dining from the carte in the most varied form. Dllllle/5 from the joint, 2s. Whitebait is now served daily THOMAS PRICE, Superintendent, HEA TR g -It Y AL, HAYMARKET L esm ee, B. Bizokstone. I,H-f3 EVENING. the performances will commence with a new and original Comedy, entitled BLACK SHEEP. tittekstone, air. Compton, Mr. Howe, ho. ; Mrs. Wilkins, airs. Charles Young, Mies Loyal), &c. - - Aitcr which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery and effects, and all the ortzinal music by the late Sir Henry Disir.lp, the melodrama et TEE MILLER, AND HIS MEN, 4 ammence at 7. A L PR INCE S S'S THEATRE.— Legsee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THE HUNCHBACK. Messrs. Ryder, Hermann Vezin, Shore, Meadows, &o. ; Misses Heath and C. Leelereq, To coaclude with NURSEY CHICKWEED. EIV THRATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI, - 1 - 1 Sole Propriator and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, the new drama, MAGLIORE, THE I'RESTIGITAIOR. Messrs. R. Webster, J. L. Toole, D. Fisher, ,fie.; Miss K. Kelly, Miss IT. Simms, &c. To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS. Messrs. t,. Toole, Eburne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss Aiate Kelly, Miss E. .'llorne, and Mrs. Chatterley. After which, THE FOOL OF THE FAMILY. Mr. Paul Redford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, Miss Laldlaw, and Miss Julia Daly, Doors open at half past 6—Commence at T. CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS!! Westminster-road. Proprietor ........C. Morton. A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera, IL CORSAEO, (This opera has never been produced in this or a n y o th er countty, except at these Concerts), having met with that de cided succors which charactise i the most popular works of this ~r -at Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ; together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI MENTo, by Donizetti, Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and c . Av. Bernard. Director, Mr. P. Jonghmans. The Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A. B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell; W. H. Welland, and the Brothers Conrad. John Martin's Three celebrated Pictures will remain on view a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the Establishment. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, Ih. 4Gm.—Afternoma, 2h. 7m. Tu-MORROW.-Morning, 2h. 28m.—Afternoon, 2h. 54m. THE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, APRIL 25, 1561.1 THERMOXETEB, IN THE SHADE. 61—highest since noon yesterday. 42 —lowest this morning and during the night. 55—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30 - 08. WIND--N.-Westerly—light and variable; with dull weather. ..:.. , l'h .4 t ... ..,,,,..0. 4 `, , ,3',- , ....... 44...,,,,r,— , ! ~, ,,' A• - ~,,...----, -.., a 4 ^ '4 s ', Ns — • ~-.-,,,,.. „ 0 , 4 ,:,, :,,t,,, ,, .,. : 7 sv, ~..<4,,,., _ . -,,,,4 ,-Qtr--!-.,,;.ka',„,,:',,,.,'''r . :; , ___... .-,,., • , , ~ ~ ~.......,,... ..e..i.,,,-„. ~,..:44,„... 07,---- 14,m. THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1861. One, at least, of the numerous select committees appointed during this session by the House of Commons to inquire into matters of very urgent importance yesterday issued the report of its pro ceedingg. That report—regarding it, as we do, as one of singular interest to tile . community at large —we transfer in its entirety to our columns this evening. Formidable though its length may appear upon a cursory glance, it will prove upon examina tion to be a document in every way worthy of perusal throughout. Superficially viewed again, the results arrived at by this committee in the shape of anything like explicit suggestions of change to the Legislature may bear the appearance of being very inadequate, both in extent and in variety, under the circumstanom Yet upon a strictly deliberate and dispassionate scrutiny, these suggestions will be found, we cannot but think, as bold, and comprehensive, and nume rous as it would be prudent for the House of Com mons to entertain at one time without risking the peril of rash and even, it might be, unconstitutional innovations in the whole scheme of Parliamentary procedure. The facilitation of public business in the popular branch of the Legislature the eco nottiy of public time during the ordinary sessional sittings of the House day after day, week after week, between February and August inclusively. those are the two chief objects held in view by this Select Committee during the course of its lengthened deliberations and investigations. At the com mencement of their labours as a Committee the members first of all carefully took into considera tion, as was obviously advisable, the successive in quiries and reports of their preceding Select Com mittees appointed at uncertain intervals within the last thirty years to consider, like themselves, whether, by any alterations in the forms and pro ceedings of the House, the despatch of public busi ness may be more effectually promoted. Having thoroughly digested these reports, having carefully taken into account the standing orders of the House, in any way applicable, directly or indi rtetly, to the particular subject under consideration, the Committee have decided altogether upon offer ing for the acceptance of the House of Commons four very simple but really, we cannot but think, most effective and comprehensive recommendations. It will be seen, when wo have particula rized the wording and the tendency of these Four suggestions proposed in the Report of the Select Committee that supposing them to be adopted and carried into effect by the House, they would add one very important standing order to those already in existence, while they would add another Government night to each week, so that there would be three of those Government nights hebdomidally instead of two, as heretofore. They would, in point of fact, we are disposed to think, facilitate the transaction of public business daring the ordinary sessional sittings, and yet at the same time refrain from injudiciously re stricting the right of independent members to give voice to Public Opinion, and to elicit from even reluctant Ministers, whenever advisable, explanations that might be otherwise evaded, dur. ing a whole session possibly, as—inconvenient Taking. the four recommendations of the Select Committee in the order in which they appear, and the report of its proceedings, we find the first one suggesting—" That the Committees of Supply and Ways and Means may be fixed for every day on which the House shall meet for despatch of public business." A proposition, that, which, on the face of it, if but once acceded to, would necessarily and very appreciably facilitate—would, in fact, as we has° said, materially facilitate—the transaction of public business in the popular branch of Parliament. Itwould ensure this good result by the simple divice affording tke Commons House of Parliament 411d this without lengthening its session—fresh °P.Pottuulties for getting through its labours in practical legislation. The second proposition of the Com,Thitttee runs to the effect " That on Friday, throughemt the session, orders of the day skull have P re ecti 6 nce of notices of motion, the right being reserved to h er TAJEsTv's ministers of placing Government ord er 3 on the head of the list." A f uggebtion, that, moreover, which: without hiving th e smallest reason ivhatever for jealousy to the House generally, could n e t but be peculiarly ac ceptable, one cannot but feel, upon the i ns t an t, t o the responsible advisers of th e s • EltraoN. Upon the administration, now-a-days, d„ oives the bulk of the labours; previously - divid e d between the " Powers that be and the Oppositi on , Important measures of all kinds being, as a rul, , introduced by the Government of the day, and as an e xcev . Lion merely, brought forwal d at rare intervals by independent members Members with the countenance and ligent family, occurred; the vicar, somehow, made support of the Government—it follows, if only in out that it had not been duly baptised. He sent fair play, that the Government nights should, if a verbal message, and in very uncourteous lan possible, to that extent at least, be multiplied , guage to the family, that he could not perform the The Committee's third recommendation relates to service over it. The father, without a moment's the new standing order already hinted at as being hesitation, gave him as his answer, that "he was now, thanks to this report, " upon the cards"— not asked." He obtained the aid of a less bigoted suggesting, namely, " That, by standing order, the minister at his own house, who conducted a suitable house, at its rising on Friday do stand adjourned service in the family, and the little innocent was to the following Monday without question put, interred in solemn silence. If Dissenters would unless the house shall otherwise resolve ; pro- follow this simple example, and such interments vided that, while th e C omm itt ees of Supply and are the universal practice in Scotland—the Quakers also in England h ave , we b e li eve , no serv i ce a t of Ways and Means are open, the first order of the grave—there would be no need for any bill the day on Friday shall be either Supply or Ways and Means, and that on that order being read, whatever. Lord HENLEY sensibly observed in the motion shall be made, ' That the Speaker do ' th e di scuss i on , t h a t " no e d ucate d P rotestant could leave the chair." This proposition, we are some- suppose that any service performed over a dead what disposed to think, will be the least acceptable body could have the slightest effect on the future of all to the House of Commons generally ; at any state of the deceased," and to us this seems the rate, it will be the least acceptable of all, beyond a key of the whole difficulty. Dissenters think doubt, to the more garrulous section of the often- themselves very well educated as Protestants, let speaking independents. Yet if it would add that them therefore leave to the less gentlemanly of the " one more" to the Standing Orders of the House clergy the odium of a course which can injure . no —the House would manifestly, by that one decision, one but those who adopt it. rid itself for once and for all, of what has so fre- We do not the less regard it as superstition quently before now been felt to be in two words and bigotry to inflict needless pain on the illi an Intolerable Nuisance. Fourthly, and lastly, terate. Christian Burial has to thousands of the Committee suggests in - its report " That persons some importance—they hardly know when a public bill has been committed why, which makes it unendurable that their de to a select committee, and reported to the parted relatives should not hare it. And somehow, house, the bill, as amended, shall be appointed for perhaps by long association, some service at the consideration on a future day; when unless the place of interment has become to them the ideal of house shall order the bill generally, or specially in Christian burial. The Legislature ought to provide, respect of any particular clause or clauses thereof, either by altering the Rubric, or by altering the to be recommitted to a committee of the whole law of churchyards, that even the most illiterate house, the bill, after the consideration of the report and superstitions of her MAJESTY'S subjects should may be ordered to be read a third time." Whereby not be tortured, under the painful circumstances of one superfluous hitch would be frequently avoided family bereavement, by clerical spite and bigotry, in the advance of measures upon their way to their for that is the plain truth. At present the House, enrollment upon the Statute-book as perfected with its clerical riders, will hear of nothing. enactments. Although we don't forgot how—to Sir M. PETO, a man who, though a Dissenter, the Actor's exclamation— • has almost rebuilt the church in his own parish, 6, My wound is great, because it is so small 1" might obtain a hearing if any man could. He is ROCHESTER wittily echoed from the boxes— no member of that wild Liberation Society—in e Then 'twould be greater if 'twere none at all I" deed, the churchmen of Lowestoft and Somer we cannot bat adopt the apparent extravagance so leyton would appeal to the house on his behalf, far in regard t o thi s R epor t o f t h e Select Corn- enlace on the Busi ness o f th e H ouse o f Commons as the Jews did for the Roman pagan, "he loveth our nation, and has built us a synagogue"—but by observing that we do certainly regard the sug- all would not avail. The bill seemed like a slight gestions contained in it as impo r ta n t an d even con - scratch on the surface of Church supremacy, and siderable by reason of their ver y mo d era ti on. By it must go to the place appointed for all such thus attempting less, they are likely to do more in b i lls. the way of rational wholesome innovation. Diet. We in England are apt to regard Spain, Naples, and Austria as priest-ridden countries, and to plume ourselves not a little on the notion that we have not allowed the clergy to get on our backs. But we must not be too conceited. We all know how firmly the Bishops have seated them selves on the Lords ; and this year has made it pretty evident that the lower grades of the clergy, the rural clerics, archdeacons, rural deans, rectors, vicars, and curates, stick pretty hard on the back of the Commons, and are riding them with heart and goodwill. A " committee of laymen," the instrument of some active clergy men, have undertaken to whip up the members of counties and agricultural boroughs, through the agency of parish clergymen, who are supposed to influence parish votes. They have done their work with great vigour, and Mr. DISRAELI, with his usual cleverness, availed himself of the new movement, and advertised the clergy that though he did not like to see them politicians, he thought now was the time for them to act energetically for Toryism and the Church. They have responded well to the summons of the Committee, and of the great Conservative leader, and every member whom the country, clergy could hope to influence has had letters enough "from influential constituents" to make him believe that his seat depended on zeal for the Church. This is the whole secret of the Tory activity and success on questions of Religious Liberty. One after another it has been able to throw out of the House of Commons measures which really required microscopical vision to see how they could be said to touch the rights of the Church ; and which, in the judgment of liberal Churchmen themselves, cer tainly did not touch her interests, but would be of considerable advantage to her. Sir MORTON PETO'S bill last night shared the fate of all measures of the same inoffensive, but ecclesiastically liberal charac ter in our priest-ridden house. We are told that every Englishman has a right at common law to burial in the parish churchyard. By law he has a right to the performance over his corpse of the legal burial service, provided he has not committed suicide, or died unbaptized ; but in the latter, and unhappily of late too common case, he is refused burial by the Rubric, and there fore by those clergymen who trouble them selves to inquire into the facts of his baptism. Bishops have advised against this over curious scrutiny. The Home Secretary did so too last last night; but there is something restless in the clerical mind which too frequently prompts it to " ash questions for the Rubric's sake." Our readers can doubtless recollect having seen numberless :extracts we have had to make of " Refusal to bury," generally followed by scenes painful enough in the little parish, and cer tainly injurious to the Church rather than helpful. Death is an occasion on which every civilian in stinctively feels disposed to do anything in his power to soothe the feelings of the bereaved family, and it cannot be for the credit of the Church that a country parish clergyman announces in self defence that his Church compels him to do .in England, with regard to the body of an innocent child, what the Catholic Church in Spain does in regard to:the bodies of Protestants dying there. There might be clauses in Sir M. PETO'S bill which were so drawn that Church clergymen might think their position not sufficiently protected—these, of course, could have been amended in committee; but the object of the bill was to assimilate the English to the Irish practice, by which, after due notice, and with provisions for mutual convenience and pro priety, Dissenting ministers perform the wished for service in a churchyard, if the parish clergy man be unwilling to do so. Now, as the At the present moment, when the waste of public money by the Admiralty and its inefficiency as a shipbuilding institution are before the public, it is worth while to recal attention to the " grievance " of Mr. TROTMAN, not so much for his own sake, as because it is a national grievance. When we have incurred such enormous cost in constructing our ships of war, one of the most obvious of duties is to provide them with the very best of anchors. Even if the best cost from double tot reble what common anchors do, the common sense of every taxpayer would exclaim, let us have the best, cost what they may. Every landsman can understand that in a storm, the anchor which will bite the ground immediately, and which will not drag when it has taken the ground, may save several hundred thou sand pounds' worth of national property, to say nothing of invaluable lives, from destruction. There cannot be two opinions on the subject amongst either landsmen or seamen. What, then, will the public say, when we remind them of the fact, that the anchor proved by the Admiralty itself to be the best, recorded as the best in their own report, the anchor selected accord ingly for the QUEEN'S yacht, the anchor used by the first Lord of the Admiralty in his own small yacht, that this anchor is not used by the Admi ralty, and that it costs considerably less than the Admiralty anchor, and is considerably lighter than the Admiralty anchor of the same powers. Mr. TROTMAN, relying on the results of former trials, says, in a letter to the Duke of SOMERSET : " May I venture in conclusion to propose one more expe riment. Your Grace may grant it without doing violence to your opinion as to the duty of Public Departments,' for it will not cost the country a solitary sixpence. lam still willing, in the spirit of my letter addressed to the Admi ralty, 7th April, 1859, to supply at my own risk and cost a TROTMAN'S anchor, weighing 50 cwt., costing £9O, to be tested against an Admiralty anchor of 100 cwt. or more, the contract value of which exceeds £36s—say an anchor half the weight and one-fourth the cost, against the best the Admiralty can produce. Will your Grace accept this proposal, and abide the results ?" At one quarter of the cost he will guarantee equal results ! say : iers." raised. parish churchyard is kept up at the cost of the parish, and in country► districts is generally the the only place of interment, it seems but reason- able that it should be open, on reasonable condi tions, for the burial of all who die in the parish. The case seems to lie in a nutshell. If Sir G. C. LEWIS be right, interment cannot be refused, but only the service ; and he advises not to refuse this. His advice is good, but unfortunately it is mere advice, Every country vicar can injure the Church by. hrowing the advice in his teeth. We know that his law is disputed, and the offensive case last week, at Burnham Market, seems against him; but suppose him to be right, and the question be- comes simply this—" If the clergyman will not perform a service at a burial, shall ihe relatives be able to procure the aid, under reasonable arrange ments, of another minister." Now, we must own that, were it our own case, we should feel no great concern about the ungen tlemanly and unchristian folly of the country vicars. We were once, on a visit to the country, a village:while one of these cases occurred. A Ould'N death, and is 4 highly re , !pectable And int{l`' 711 E SUN, 'LONDON, THURSDAY MIMING, APRIL 25, 1861. LATEST NE WS, TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. TURIN, APRIL 24. The Nationalites of this evening states that the southern soldiers belonging to the garrison of Mon dovi have protested against the letter of General Cialdini to Garibaldi, and that arrests have been made in consequence. The Italia says that the state of things at Naples has considerably improved, APRIL 25. A perfect reconciliation has taken plaee between Garibaldi, Count Cavour, and General Cialdini. Garibaldi had an interview with Count Cavour, followed by another with General Cialdini. He afterwards left Turin, and has proceeded to the Villa Pallavicini. TURIN, APRIL 24. It is not true, as has been rumoured, that the representative of King Victor Emmanuel at Frank fort has received his passports from the Federal The Opinione of to day publishes extracts from confidential despatches, addressed by Count Rech berg to the Austrian representative accredited to the Federal Diet at Frankfort, in which the latter is instructed to insist that the Diet should neither recognise the title of "Kingdom of Italy," nor receive any ambassador from Italy at Frank fort. TURIN, APRIL 24 (Evening). The Turin Gazette of to-day says :—" An attempt to excite a popular demonstration was made yester day evening at Milan by 100 Garibaldians, who ran shouting through the streets." In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies Signor Mamiani proposed an order of the day declaring that the National Guard of the South had deserved well of the country during the recent events. This order of the day was adopted. M. Minghetti, Minister of the Interior, stated that the Government was particularly occupied with the organisation of the National Guard. General Bixio proposed to the Chamber to adhere to Garibaldi's project respecting the national arma ment. PARTS, APRIL 24. The Pays of this evening gives a denial to the report that it was intended to withdraw the French troops from Rome. The Presse and Pays assert that a Russian army, numbering 50,000 men, has been concentrated on the Pruth, and placed on a war footing, and " The reason for this concentration of troops is said to be the fermentation prevailing in European Turkey. " Austria has taken similar measures, but will not in any case order her troops to cross the fron- VIENNA; APRIL 24. The state of siege !n the city of Fiume has been The foreign consuls have been instructed to urge Prince Nikolaus to conclude an armistice with the Turkish troops, and withdraw the Montenegrins. The Oesterreiehisde Zeitung of to-day states that the Central CongregEtion of Venetia has refused to send representatives to the Council of the Em pire at Vienna. MADRID, APRIL 23. The Epoca of to-day says :—" the Haytians have demanded the protectorate of Spain, solely in order to preserve the administrative and judicial powers of their republic." CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 17. The new financial scheme has been published. differs widely from that proposed by Sir Henry Bulwer, and gives general dissatisfaction. Omar Pasha has been nominated to the command of the army in Ronmelia. A special Conference of the Foreign Represen tatives is likely to be held on the affairs of Montenegro. LITERATURE. The first chapter of book seven is devoted to the renewal of the Company's Charter, the establish ment of intercourse with Nopaul, and the war with the Ghoorkas ; and the succeeding chapters describe the continual petty wars which were waged with the surrounding States until the settlement, for the time at least, with the Oude dynasty, and the assumption of the title of King. of Pude by the Nabob in 1822. There is a well executed engraving as a frontispiece for Book 7, entitled, ,‘ scene on the March of A Native Indian Army," va Memoirs of _royal Ladies. By Emily Sarah Holt. 2 vols. Hurst and Blackett. The memoirs of royal ladies seem lately to have been a favourite resource for authoresses who for sake the beaten track of novels and romances. Miss Strickland's celebrated and successful " Lives of the Queens of England," which have long since become part of our standard literature, set an example which inspired many others to enter the same line. Miss Everett Green's v Lives of the English Princesses" were worthy companions to Miss Strickland's " Queens," while Miss Pardoe and Miss Costello have both produced instructive biographies. More lately Miss Freer has obtained no inconsiderable reputation by her skilful por traiture of royal French ladies—the sister of Francis I. and her heroic daughter being followed by the memoirs of the brief existence of the fairest of the four wives of the gloomy Philip 11. It is true that in her recent works Miss Freer has become more ambitious in her choice of subjects, and has for saken court festivals and boudoirs for camps and cabinets, but there are many still left to pursue this genuine branch of history. The work before us possesses in some degree the merit of novelty, since, although many of the names are familiar to us, but one of them possesses any memoir in the English language. Some of them, such as Joanna of Navarre and Marguerite of Austria, have from their political associations been prominent in his tory, but from some strange oversight their lives have remained unwritten. The ten subjects selected by Miss Holt include some scarcely known names, such as those of Ela de Roamer, Countess of Salis bury, in the days of King John, and Alicia de Lacy, Countess of Salisbury, Lincoln, Leicester, and owner of many another fair heritage, whose life so ill accorded with her noble birth. This unworthy lady lived in the reign of Edward 11. Jane Beau fort, Queen of Scotland, the wife of James 1., and the lady whom the imprisoned monarch first saw from the windows of Windsor Castle, and celebrated in the King's Julian, is one of the ladies chronicled, though we gain few particulars respecting her which are not told us in ordinary histories. Jeanne, Duchess of Orleans, the hapless wife of Louis XII. of France, will be a familiar figure to all who remember the pages " Quintin Durward." Joanna of Spain is another lady who has been cele brated in song and romance, and her melancholy devotion to her neglectful husband has furnished Mrs. Tremens with the subject of one of her famous "Records of Woman." She was the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, and mother of the Emperor Charles V. Her husband was the son of Maximilian of Austria l and Mary of Burg un dy, an d thus in her joint connections were gathered to gether half the crowns in Europe; The madness hereditary in her family, however, developed itself in the unfortunate heiress, who passed the latter half of her life a hopeless maniac. She was pas sionately devoted to her husband, who regarded her with contempt and aversion. For many days after his sudden death she insisted that he was still alive, and remained watching the corpse. This touching incident gave rise to Mrs. Hemans's poem. The historical student will remember the use made of the name of the Emperor's mother in Padilla's insurrection against Charles V. Maguerite of Austria, sister-in-law of the un fortunate Joanna, and subject of another me moir, was of a very different character. She was possessed of considerable political ability, and governed the Netherlands for many years with prudence and fidelity—services which were ill requited by her ungrateful nephew. Her marriage adventures were most extraordinary. After being three times married, she was left a widow at the age of 24, having by a series of unfortunate accidents lost the crowns of France, of Spain, and of the dukedom of Savoy. She was first married, when scarcely more than an infant, to Charles VIII. of France, and was brought lip in the French Court. After a few years, however, Anne of Bearigen, the Regent of France, considered that it would be more advantageous to her young brother to espouse the heiress of Brittany, and consequently the youthful Marguerite returned to Austria. She was after wards married to Juan, Prince of Asturias, and son of King Ferdinand of Spain, but he died in consequence of a fall from his horse six months after his marriage. Some time later his widow espoused Philibert, Duke of Savoy, and was crowned Duchess; but again her wedded life was short. Three years had scarcely elapsed when the young Duke of Savoy died almost suddenly, and Mar guerite henceforward remained single. It would seem that, had it not been for pride of birth, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, and afterwards the hus band of Mary Tudor, would have been the object of her choice. Numerous copies of the correspon dence between her and her father, the Emperor Maximilian, are given in her life. The " Memoir of Clementine Sobieski3 O titular Queen of E ng l an d. wife of James IL's unfortunate son, will attract the reader. It seems singular indeed that any body should have been willing to undergo so much risk and adventure to wear such a shadowy crown. The lives are all written with care, and show evidence of considerable research and careful study of contem porary, authorities. Nevertheless the work is not equal in interest to many others of its class. The earlier lives are too brief and fragmentary to pos sess much individual interest, and the style does not compensate for the deficiency. The authoress does not possess the power of throwing herself into the spirit of the times which she treats of, and representing characters and events as they ap peared front their point of view. She regards them as if they were acting and speaking at our present day, which throws a kind of stiffness and want of reality over the work. As a first attempt, however, it is decidedly meritorious, and we have no doubt that the authoress with time and expe rience will occupy a worthy place among our feminine historians. A Comprehensive Ristory of India, Civil, MiWary and Social. Nos. 39-42. Blackie & Som. Chapter ten of book the sixth brings us to the year 1807 and Lord Minto's appointment as Governor- General, and, as is the custom in this work, a portrait of the earl is given. In reviewing the character of Lord Minto at the close of his admini stration, the author, after doing justice to the earl for the encouragement which he gave to education and literature, censures him in our opinion unjustly for his severity regarding Baptist missionaries. We would ask what right individuals have to insult the religion of a nation simply because they themselves profess another creed ? Granted it is done with a good intention, but that does not render their i nterference the less objectionable. The Government having engaged to respect the national religion of India, was bound to see that it was respected by those who directly or indirectly claimed the protection of Government : "Among the personal merits of Lord Minto must not be forgotten the interest which ho took in native literature, and the liberal patronage which be extended to these who cultivated it. So far as compatible with the restrictions imposed upon him by the home authorities, ho endeavoured to carry out the view of the Marquis Wellesley-in founding the college of Fort William, and he also proposed a plan for the foundation of Hindoo colleges at r.'adiya and Tirhoot. These were to have been followed by Mahometan colleges in other localities. The object contemplated by these insti tutions was to continue to native literature that encourage ment which it received from native Governments, hut which had ceased in consequence of the political revolu tions which the country had undergone. In regard to the Bapti• t missionaries at Serampore, the conduct of Lord Minto uv fortunately is inconsistent with itself, and at variance with the good sense and enlightened spirit which he usually displayed. Besides defraying out of the public treasury the expense of several native grammars, dic tionaries, and other rudimentary works printed at the Serampore press, he gave liberal aid to the Serampore translations of the Scriptures ' and yet issued an edict tended,which evidently tended, if not to crush them altogether, to diminish their usefulness, and bring them under bondage. Sir George Barlow, sharing in the prejudices then gene rally entertained by old European residents, and alarmed at the supposed connection between missionary labours and the Velore mutiny, prohibited the missionaries from preaching in the public streets, or sending itinerant native preachers through the villages, or gratuitously distributing controversial and religious tracts, but imposed no restric tions on their private instructions or Scripture translations, and left them at liberty to perform divine service in Ben galee in their mission-house at Calcutta. One of the first acts of Lord Minto's Gevernment was not merely to renew the restrietions, but to threaten the missionaries with others of a still more rigorous description. The pretext for this procedure was the circulation of a tractin Persian containing what was called a scurrilous account of Mehemet. By a strange perversion of the meaning of words it was held that Government, by promising to protect the great body of the people in the undisturbed exercise of their religion, were thereby pledged not to allow any one to obtrude upon them printed works containing arguments or exhortations at variance with their religious tenets. The inference drawn was, that the Company were under an obligation to suppress, within the limits of their territory, treatises and public preaching offensive to the religious persuasions of the people—an obligation whichconsiderations of necessary caution, of general safety, and national faith and honour, made it imperative on them to fulfil. In conformity to this very curious pledge and obligation, the Governor-General in council not only prohibited the issue of religious tracts, but ordered that public preaching in the vernacular tongue in the Mission-house at Calcutta should be discontinued. Even this was not deemed sufficient, and for the avowed purpose of bringing the inissionarypress more immediately under the control of the officers of the Government, the missionaries were commanded to remove it from Serampore to Calcutta." Ills case, he reminds us again, is briefly this : "In 1852, the then Board of Admiralty-nominated Vice- Admiral the Hon. Sir M. Stopford, Rear-Admiral George R. Mundy, and the late Admiral C. Hope ; the Master Attendants of her Majesty's Dockyards at Sheer ness and Portsmouth, viz. :—J. Aylen and J. Tonkim, Esqrs., R.N. ; also W. S. Lindsay, Esq., M.P., Duncan Dunbar, Esq., Chairman of the General Shipowners' Society, Anthony Ridley, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Mercantile Marine Board ; and the following members of 'Lloyds' Committee, William Drew, Esq., and William Phillips, Esq., and George Marshall, Esq., as a Committee or Arbitrators, to determine the relative merits of different descriptions of anchors.' " And what were the results of this trial ? Here is the committee's own report :-- "ART. 29.—The Committee here beg to recapitulate the order in which they consider anchors to stand, together with tfieir relative per cantage of inferiority or superiority to the Admiralty anchor, the value of which (18-17) this being taken as the standard or unit. Trotmau 1.28 or 28 per cent. Rodgers 1.26 or 26 „ Mitcheson Lenox 1.13 or 13 „ Porters 1.09 or 9 „ Aylen .. 1.09 or 9 „ Admiralty .... 1. =the standard." Superior to Admiralty Anchor. But for like dilatoriness at the Admiralty, first in adopting steam in the navy, then in adopting screws in place of paddles, then in adopt ing iron, the nation would hardly credit ,he statement, after this report, that nine years have passed away, and TROTMAN'S anchor is no yet employed in the navy. The above experiment cost Mr. TROTMAN £4OO ; yet he has never had an order from the Admiralty. We must subjoin another statement, on which we need make no comments. It shows how we are sacrificed to old routine contracts, and is one amongst the thousand illustrations of :low the money goes a t the Admiralty : " The subjoined list shows the prices of anchors from the first makers of the day, comparatively with the official scale _ _ of prices paid by the Admiralty under contract, dated 1811. (Specification, proofs, and test precisely the same.) ADMIRALTY ANCHORS. PRICE PER TON UNDER. ADMIRALTY CONTRACT ENTERED INTO 1841. Cwt. s. s. 20 at 4t 10 a ton.. 44 10 40 —56 0 ..112 0 60 —65 0 ..195 0 80 —73 0 —..292 0 100 —73 0..365 0 PRICE PER TON AS PER PRICE LISTS FROM FIRST MAKERS OF THE DAY. eWt. £ s. £ s. 20 at 20 10 a ton.. 20 10 40 -- 24 0 .. 48 0 60 -- 28 0 •-- 84 0 80 -- 30 0 -- ..120 0 100 -- 30 0 -- ..150 0 Present market price .422 101 Admiralty priee....1,008 10 "Thus the market price of the above five Admiralty an chors, from 1 ton, increasing to 5 tons weight, is shown to be £122 10s. as against £l,OOB Us. paid by the Admiralty under a contract dated 1841. This excessive overcharge may, in a measure, be accounted for by the fact, that an chor contracts have not been subjected to the test of public competition for at least a quarter of a century, or since the introduction of Nasymth's steam hammer, by which in vention the cost of manufacture is reduced one-half at least. I have vouchers, viz., an official letter from the Store keeper-General of the Navy, giving the above list of prices, as paid to the Admiralty contractor for anchors ; also the price lists of the following eminent anchor makars :—Messrs, Hawks, Crawshay, and Sons ; John Abbot and Co. ; Henry Wood and Co." The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and the Ladies Scott have arrived at their mansion in Be!grave rime, from Dalkeith Fttlace, seotland, for the scum Troops and money have been sent to Beyrout: THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Ceylon, with the heavy portion of the above mails, was to leave Malta at midnight on the 21st, and may be expected at Southampton on the 30th inst. The Candia brought the mails to Suez, arriving there on the 18th inst. FRANCE. PARIS, APRIL 24. The Pope is still firmi n his ideas of resistance, and more d ec id e d than ever not to qu it R ome . From Naples Ire receive better news of the provinces. The whole couitry is safe, and the in trigues of parties may be considered as at an end. In Sicily assassinations and isolated attacks are numerous. has been rather heavy, and. Stook having been o'Clock.—The market BOURSE, April 2- I.—Two offered by speculators desirous of realising the pro fits of previous operations, prices have declined. For the Account, Threes, which opened at 6Sf. 40c., are now at 68f. 30c. R a il way Sh ares s i m il ar l y acted on. The following were the last quotations :--, 41 per per Cents ... 95 301 Credit Foncier 935 Do end month.... 9 5 3 5 Belgian 4/ — 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 40' Ronan Bank Shares . . 2870 I Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 672 50 ' Spanish Threes — Do. Account 675 —lHome Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1342 50 .. 1345 Northern 968 75 .. 970 New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 955 .. 956225 Geneva 395 .. 395 Southern 517 50 .. 548 75 Western Eastern Sardinian 372 1 150 .. 371 25 Austrian Lowbard 472 50 .. 473 75 THE KING OF YTETOT.—Yvetot is a little French village containing about a thousand inhabitants, situated on the railway between Paris and Havre. The name Yvetot is composed of two words—" Yve," or " Yvo" (probably the same as Ives), a common German name, and 6( tot," the Celtic word for ahousc or dwelling-place. Gaguin, a French historian of the 16th century, says the origin of the king dom of Yvetot was contemporaneous with that of the French monarchy ; that is to say, it was founded in the reign of the Merovingian king, Clotaire the First. . The Kings of Yvetot possessed all the prerogatives of sovereignty. They had a court of justice of the highest jurisdiction, which issued its deci sions without appal. In cases of minority they could not be enrolled in the noble guard of the King of France; they were not requires to serve in the army, nor to pay fealty and homage, nor any tax whatso ever ; and, in a word, they had no hierarchical superior. A medal, still preserved from the old chaiter••house of Yvetot, repreAents Mai tin the First, son of Jean the Fourth, sitting upon his throne—a sort of four-legged stool—with a plain gold crown upon his head, an dressed in a coat of snail fastened tight round the waist. Ile has long hair, like all the Merovingian kings, and is represented affec tionately embracing ono of his subjects named Bobe. Martin the First put into circulation as money, notched bits of leather, with the mark of a nail head in the middle. But as the circulation of this sort of coin was restricted to is own state, when the king fell into difficulties, he was compelled to sell his kingdom to Pierre do Vilaines, the chamberlain of the King of Frauce,"--Pigens's "4( (Ii! icor Botig(." the paraphernalia which accompanies one of these vast assemblages is minutely depicted ; also a map of the independent states of Assam and Bhutan, and of Rajpootana, Guzerat, &c., &c. The Comprehensive History of _England, Civil, Military, .Religious, Intellectual, and Social. Parts 34, 35. Biackie and Son. This valuable serial is fast nearing its comple tion, having with Part 35 reached the year 1850. Part 34 opens with a sketch of the poets who graced the beginning of the present century. The author gives us his opinion of the writings of Scott, Wordsworth, Moore, Southey, Byron, and Hannah More. Of Lord Byron, like too many historians and biographers, the author takes a prejudiced view. He cannot but admit that he was the first poet of the day ; but why condemn a man be cause he wrote straightforward and truthfally ? It is true that he portrayed characters of a reckless and desperate nature, but he ex poses their failing, and, as in " Lara and the Gaiour." he shows that remorse and distrust must accompany crime. What has brought so much undeserved censure upon Byron is, that he wrote undisguisedly, and scorned to hide his meaning under an hypocritical garb of sanctity. Let any dis passionate critic examine the writings of some of the eminent writers of the present day, and 03 a close analysis he will find immorality and profli gacy of a deeper dye than is t&be met with in any of Byron's works, only in the one case the sin is painted colour de rose to deceive the super ficial reader, rendering its effect the more pernicious, while, on the other, the very clearness with which crime is delineated warns the most obtuse intellect of the danger. Book 12 commences with the ascension of William the Fourth to the throne, and again we enter upon the affairs of France, with the expulsion of Charles the Tenth, and the election of Louis Philippe. The exciting period of the Duke of Wellington's premiership and his failure as a politician, occupy considerable space. It is un necessary to dwell at any length on the succeeding chapters relating to our own time ; suffice it to re mark that all the leading characters, whether civil, military, or scientific, are duly noticed, and por traits of many of them are furnished. Great pains have been devoted to the detail of all matters which are likely to be useful or interesting to the reader. The Marchioness of Downshire's dancing parties will take place this evening, and on Monday, the 29th inst., not on Friday, as stated yesterday. The Earl and Countess of Munster have been placed in mourning by the death of their youngest son, the Hon. Arthur Fitzclarence, who died on the 20th inst. at Edinburgh. The Countess Dowager of Sandwich has arrived at Grosvenor. square, from Hinchingbrook, Huntingdon. Sir R. Peel, Bart., M.P., and Lady Emily Peel had a dinner party last evening, at their residence in White hall-gardens. The guests included the Marquis and Mar chioness of Clanricarde, Maria Marchioness of Aylesbury, the Marquis of Hartington, the Earl Granville, the Earl and Ccuntess of Clarendon, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield and Lady Evelyn Stan hope, Sir Edwin Landseer, Mr. Alfred Montgomery, and Mr. Delane. A marriage is arranged to take place between he Hon. Fanny Blanche Calthorpe, second daughter of Lord and Lady Calthorpe, and the Rev. John Fielden, chaplain to the Marquis of Cholmondeley, and son of Mr. Fielden, of Witton Park, near Blackburn, Lancashire. Married, on the 23d inst., at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, by the Rev. Edward Wilts, assisted by the Rev. Otto Ball, Mr. Cecil van Notten Pole, only son of Sir Peter van Notten Pole, of Todenham House, county of Glou cester, and grandson of the late Earl of Limerick, to Frances Anna, eldest daughter of the Rev. Henry Rice, and grand daughter of the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Gloucester. The Manchester papers mention the death of Mr. John Leech, one of the largest and most wealthy cotton spinners in that city. The Hon. George Leslie Waldegrave has resigned his appointment of secretary to the Speaker of the House of Commons. Mr. Waldegra% e's unwearied courtesy and urbanity have gained for him the esteem of all with whom he has been concerned during the six years he has offici ted as secretary to Lord Eversley and to the present Speaker. We understand that Mr. Alfred Denison, brother of the Speaker, has bean selected to fill the vacancy. The Irish Roman Catholic prelates are now sit ting in solemn conclave, in Dublin. They met for the first time on Tuesday, but the proceedings were strictly private. The business before them, we are told, is "important." The resumption for the season of the special tidal service between London and Paris, via Folkestone and Boulogne, the short sea route, takes place on May let. The journey will be performed by special express trains on both the South-Eastern and Northern of France lines, in a few minutes over 10 hours. The syotom of intorprotiug conduc tors, registration ur bugmage, with the other facilities hitherto afforded by this service, Is to be maintained in full efficiency. It is stated that, at the request of the Turkish Government, one of the Commissioners of the Board of Trade, accompanied by an official conversant with accounts, has been authorised to proceed to Constantinople to assist in an investigation of the finances of the Empire, with a view to their adjustment upon some defined basis. French offi cials are said already to have . reached Constantinople on a similar errand. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER IN ISLINGTON.— Since the brutal attempt at murder on the unfortunate young woman, Mary Ann Redkison, in Chapel-street, Islington, the police have been on the alert, and in the course of their investigation they have been successful in apprehending another of the party who was engaged in this murderous outrage and burglary, and he is now in custody. He is the son of a butcher residing in Chapel street. He has given information of a third party, and also the cabman who took away the chest. It is therefore probable that by this time all the parties concerned are in custody. COLLISION ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAIL WAY.—Tho Essex Herald of Tuesday reports a serious collision on the Eastern Counties Railway, at the Bishops's Stortford station. It seems that a goods train had been shunted to allow. of a mail train passing, and before the first train could recover its original position, another of a similar character came up in an opposite direction at the rate of about 15 miles an hour. The engines of the two trains struck each other with great viclence, and both were much injured. Four or five trucks were smashed, and the property in them—beer barrels, sacks of corn, &c.—strewn at out the line, which was blocked for a short time; but no life was lost, although one man received a severe bl w on the right side of his head, and also several bruises on other parts of his person. TITS POST. OFFICE.—The estimate of the expenses of the Pcst-office for the current years is a strange contrast to such an estimate 30 years since. The conveyance of mails by railways in 1861 will cost £643,400, while mail coaches, of wliich our fathers were so proud, get a vote (which is declining every year) of only £13,870. 193 sorters and clerks are required for the travelling post-office. The mere apparatus for exchanging bags on the railways causes an outlay of nearly £2,000 a year, and the supply and repair of mail-bags above £ll,OOO. The poundage allowed for the sale of postage labels at the post• offices is described as ex- ceeding £21,000 a year. The letter-carriers, sorters, and messengers now constitute a little army of above 11,000 men, and their year's pay exceeds £520,000. CROWN LANDS IN CANADA.— The sales of Crown lands in Lower Canada during 1860 amounted to 290,026 acres, being more than double the account sold in 1859 The free grants on the colonisation roads amounted to 19,421 acres, being an increase of 1,429. But we have still an almost inexhaustible supply of lands for intending pur chasers, there being no less than 5,397,191 acres surveyed and as yet not granted, and a great deal more which the surveyors have not yet visited. Of what are called " Clergy Lands" there were 44,545 acres sold in 1860, or more than 10 times as much as in 1859. In Upper Canada there were sold, in 1860, 126,413 acres of Crown lands ; 26,300 acres were located as free grants. Of clergy lands 62,522 acres were sold, and about 10,000 acres of school lands. There aro still for sale surveyed Crown lands amounting to 1,853,121 • clergy lands to 198,974 ; and sc h oo l l a nds to 76,000 acres.—Canadian.News. ALLEGED TORTURE IN THE MAZAS PRISON.-- A correspondent of the Nation Suisse, a Geneva paper, writes :—" I have just received from Paris a letter relating unheard of cruelties exercised in the Mazas prison. My i n -. forruant is a man of strict veracity, and, Pbelieve, incapable even of exaggeration. Here is his statement A witne ss called before tho Juge d'lnetruction to give evidence in Auguste Blanqui's affair, saw him enter the cabinet with unmistakeable marks of recent violence on his person. His clothes, including his shirt, were torn, and his hat, was crushed, as if it had been trampled on. The witness, shocked at the sight, could scarcely help expressing his indignation, when Blanqui, addressing the judge, said, ' It is atrocious ' and useless to drag me out of my cell and assault me, for you may kill me, but you shall never force a word out of my lips.' On this the gaolers rushed in and removed him with violence from the cabinet.' " Another letter appears to confitm the aboVe extraordinary statement. TIM SCOTCII PIG IRON TRADE. —There has been a great revival in the Scotch pig iron trade since an amelioration was first observable in the commercial pros pects of the country. Thus the shipments have expanded as follows 1361. 1860. Tons. Week ending M Tons.arch 9 7,117 .. 11,114 ~ ~ 16 7,982 .. 9,656 ~ 23 8,206 .. 10,037 , , 30 10,169 .. 8,345 April 6 14,992 .. 12,275 If ,1 13 14,419 .. 11,673 Considering the depression under which this important trade has long laboured, the hopes induced by these figures an witnuely grAtifyiDg, ISCENE A2' THE T IVEMOUTH EZEth TYNEMOUTH, WEDNESDAY. Yesterday this borough was kept in a most eV cited state, through the warm contest that was going on for the election of a representative in place of Mr. Taylor, who had retired ; and as the non•electors took a warm interest in the re' turn of Mr. Otway, the Liberal candidate, on the ground that he was a thorough-going Reformer , large crowds were assembled in front of the Tows Hall all day. The agents of the Duke of North umberland, who had taken a very conspicuoun part in bringing up his Grace's tenants to vote for Mr. Hodgson, the Tory candidate, were mobbed, and they, with Mr. Hodgson, were pelted with rotten eggs and a ppl es ; an d notwithstan d i ng a large police force was brought in from neighbour ing boroughs to help those of the town, Hodgson! cabs and more obnoxious supporters were hooted and pelted with garbage. Shortly after 4 o'clock the declaration of the poll, took place amid th e con f us i on an d uproar which ha d characterised the previous proceedings. On the appearance of the candidates the noise only became more intense, Mr. Otway being greeted with vehe ment cheers, while Mr. Hodgson was met with all the opposite demonstrations. A few stones were also aimed at the side of the hustings occupied by th, e member elect; but, f or t una t e l y, a stop was rea d i l Y put to that dangerous game. The Mayor presided, and appealed to the sense of the assemblage by freely waving his hand, and addressing to them some observations, which, to the nearest listeners, were almost inaudible. After a few minutes, however' a partial silence was obtained. The MAYOR, again essaying to speak, said*" Unless you be quiet I will order you into court. Gentlemen, order. (Interruption.) Will you be silent?—(" Yes," and uproar.) I have now to declare to you the state of the poll. Will you hear ?—(‘' No," loud cheers, and hisses.) Yesterday was our thinking day, and to-day is our working day. But, then, working men have their times to be quiet, and hear the result of their good work. Let us have quietness. The state of the poll 15-- - 425 for Mr. Hodgson, and 376 for Mr. Otway.- -- (Cheers, hisses, and great uproar.) I therefore declare Richard Hodgson, Esq., to be elected. (Cheers, hisses, and continued uproar, in which the concluding words of the sentence were drowned.) Mr. HODGSON, on putting himself in a speaking attitude, was assailed with a storm of hisses and other disapproving sounds. Knowing that it was impossible to make himself heard by -the large as semblage, the hon. gentleman turned,round to, and briefly addressed, the occupants of the hustings. To the general body of the reporters present, how:- ever, his remarks were totally inaudible; and amid a continuance of the uproar, Mr. Hodgson with drew. Mr. OTWAY, in an earnest speech, urged peace and quietness upon the people. But shortly after the declaration one of the most extraordinary scenes ever witnessed in Shields occurred. Mr. Hodgson had, with his committee, escaped from the hustings and got to his rooms in Howard-street, and a feif minutes before five o'clock, a body of about 60 North and South Shields policemen were marched down to the building, and formed into a square, amid the most fearful shouts from a crowd of at least two thousand men and lads. Mr. Hodgson. and his friends then came out of the house and took their place in the square formed by the police. His committee made up the rear, and proceeded to the North Shields Railway station, by way of Saville-street, the mob pelting them with rotten apples, rotten eggs, onions, and, we regret to say, stone', and shouting and yelling in the most awful manner. Mr. Alderman Mayson, in his endea" yours to protect the new,ly-elected from violence, had his hat knocked over his ears several times with stones. His committee also, mere or less, felt the effects of those salutes on their heads or ribs. Inspector Pattison got an ugly rap on the back part of the head, and it is feared has some of his ribs broken ; and Mr. Hodg son received an ugly cut on the left side of the temple from a stone. The police had to charge the mob several times with their staves before the extraordinary—End it must be admitted, sadly frightened procession —reached the railway station, into which Mr. Hodgson and his friends rushed pell-mell, and amid the most awful shouts and yells of derision ever heard in Shields from a mob, and the cheers of his committee, Mr. Hodgson left for Tynemouth by the 4.50 express train from New castle. The police were pelted with stcnes on their way to the police station, but no further mischief occurred. CUI?E FOR SERPENTS' BITES. Last week Dr. Cloquet communicated to the Academy of Sciences the following interesting letter trotu Dr. do la Gironniere, a physician of Manilla " In our virgin forests of Calanang," says M. de la Gironniere, " a vast variety of serpents are found, some of which are extremely venomous. A abort time ago one of my labourers had his finger bitten by one which is considered by the Indians to be of the most dangerous kind. It is a small snake about 30 centimetres in length, of a yellow colour, with a flat triangular head. Its fangs are 11 centimetres (half an inch) in length. The man was brought to me a few minutes after the accident. I had no volatile alkali at hand, so I cauterized the wound with burning coals ; but this did not stop the alarm ing symptoms which appeared with great rapidity. The tumefaCtion had already extended from the hand to the elbow. The patient uttered piercing cries in consequence of the pain he felt under the pectoral muscles ; I was at a loss what to do. At length I was struck with the idea of making him drink a bottle of coco wine (alcohol of 16 degrees strength). The intoxicating effects were instan taneous ; the patient began to rave, but without seeming to feel any pain, and the swelling of the arm made no progress. Half an hour after he had returned to his senses, the pectoral pains recom menced ; I administered a second bottle, and then a third, which completed the cure; the arm returned to its natural state, and the hand bore no traces of the injury but those of the cauterization. I had often heard it said that alcohol, taken in a sufficient quantity to cause excessive intoxication, was a specific against the sting of serpents; I now have a proof of it, but I do not know whether it would do in other cases, such as the following one :—Ao Indian was bit by a very venomous serpent, of a grey colour, with a round head, and sometimes fox feet in length. It is the enemy of ail other ser pents, which it hunts down whether they be veno mous or not ; it has happened to me four times to kill one while swallowing another serpent. This Indian returned home, cauterized the wound him self, and a few minutes later fell dead without complaining or evincing any suffering. His rela tions, who could not bolieve in so sudden a death, brought him to me ; his limbs were still supple, but cold; the wound bore traces of the cauterization, but no sign of tumefaction." 21118 DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, April 25.—Wind this day at noon, North. Westerly; light breeze, and fine weather, but rather cloudy. PORTSMOUTH, April 24.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Sir William Peel, screw steamer, from Hong Kong ; her Ma jesty's ship Ganges, from the Pacific Sailed—Melbourne, screw steamer, for Bristol. NEWPORT, April 24.—Wind E.—Arrived—Penelope, from Gthuaehi; Jane and Mary, from Dublin for St. Thomas. DEAL, April 21.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Washingtont from Hamburg for Quebec; Wressel Castle, from Sunder land for New York. COWES, April 24.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Weyes ward, from Akyab. BRISTOL, April 24.—Wind S.—Sailed—M'Dougall, for Montreal. DUNDEE, April 24.—Wind S.W..__Arrived—Dundee, screw steamer, from Greenland ; no fish, and vessel mak ing water. HULL, April 23.—Wind IV. -- Sailed—Amulet, for Gib raltar. LIMERICK, April 23.-IVind GiO' vanni, for New York. RAMSGATE, April 21.—Wind S.—Sailed—Catherine: for Sunderland. SWANSEA, April 24.—Wind N.—Sailed—Royal Bride for Montreal ; Charlemagne, for Gibraltar. OW ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning. Arrived—British Lady, from Newport; Vectis, from Cardiff; Georges, from Ch er b ourg; T asm a nian, from Ports mouth ;_Havre, strainer, from Havre ; Mary Coles, from Newport ; Violet, from Cardiff. Sailed—Cornet, for Ipswich; Dispatch, steamer, for Jersey; Southampt on , s t eamer, f or Havre; Mary Ann, for Cardiff. (BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GR.A.VESEND, Thursday Morning. Arrived, April 21—Galileo, from Odessa; Anna Catha.• rine, from Palma ; Martha and Jane, from Sulina ; Thos. Humphreys, from Sarpsborg ; Rose, from Guernsey ; Lively, from Guernsey; Bertha, from Stralsund ; Despatch. from Berdianski ; Luc*, from Griefswald ; Pride of the Sea, from Foo-chow-Foo ; Mary and Eleanor, from Tagan rog ; Ferret, from Gravelines ; Providence, from Grave liues ; Queen of the Vales, from Guernsey ; Elizabeth Ann, and Dublin Lass, froom Guernsey; Coringa, from Calcutta; Anne, from Gottenburg ; Solon, from Stralsund. Arrived, April 25.—Mayville, from Guernsey; jose phino from Malmo; Honarks, from Rouen. Sailed.—Schwalbe, steamer, for Bremen. DEAL, Thursday Morning. Passed.--Lady Hilda, from Barh a d oe s ; Rachel from Bombay; Rhoda, from St. Michael's; Theodore Curtis, from Niantanzas ; Crocodile, from Alexandria — an for London ; Indiaman, f r om L on d on, f or P ort Phillip; Princess Royal, 'rein London, fa- Gibraltar Anna, f ro m London, for Tran quillone ; Terpsichore, brig, from the northward,_ for the westward; President, supposed from New York, for Lon don. Passed off Dover—Schaknire, from New York, for Bre. Wing, fr9lAl XiclY X9ric) fog Rotterdam. MONI Coatir money, t tae pure' kon that than ITN the limit enabled 1 !ent., er 'ank of A fart] t rcau the tion. The di made a c fore the : Tender Ptiated p bebelltui A large ill the ] Prices tee at 15,000 It Was Thomas cosataitte Thos The fo the direc tl 'arY to tb Bench, in dere it nec eeurt befo e xecution directors le as to for N ew to raise reenths, b Which to arnount of amicably i LY a mor4 even to t , debenture. ellbscribed to be pro' request ti stating tb., Vinin g to mee Mr. D. stated tl Ind the 4 genes a to be ful resolved A mee The 1 to this 5 5., an ever, The been ii It shad Great Great Caned Cent. Joit tenni! don ar 601; 1 graph Bank 3 per C New ( 3 Amami Ditti India Dm< Cousol Exche Portuf Ditt Russia Ditt Ttu ' Ditl Ditt Dutch Diti Ditto ! Letwl