The Sun. — London, England, 1856-03-28 00:00:00

THE POSTMAN'S KNOCK at ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, This Evening. Crowds rush to witness the accomplished Equestrian Postman at this Theatre, in consequence of the furore created both in town and in the provinces by that celebrated Bong, the most popular that has appeared for many seasons. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY.LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, THE GIPSEY'S VENGEANCE. Supported by Augustus Braham,ll. luraytnn, and Fauqnhrzson ; Miss Lucy Escott, and Miss Fanny Huddart. 'I o vnclude with MARGUERITE, *Legend of Love, THEATRE ROYAL. HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Bnokstone. THIS EVENING, THE EVIL GENIUS. Followed by EL GAMBUSINO ; or, The Mexican Goldseeker. Da which ERE& NENA and the Spanish Dancers will appear. After which, LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS To conclude with JOHN JONES. ROYAL PRINCESS'S TREATER, OXFORD -STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Owasso SAIL THIS FvENING, A WONDERFUL WOMAN. After which, FAUST AND MA.RGUER-ITE. To conclude with A PRINCE FOR AN 11017 R. TIIZATIIE ROYAL ADELTEU. Proprliter. Mr. B. Webster.—Direetreas. Madame Celesta THIS EVENING, DOMESTIC ECONOMY. To be followed by URGENT PRIVATE AFFAIRS. To conchide with JACK AND THE BICA.N STALK; or, Harlequin and Mother Goose at Home Avis. • In which Mesas. J. Bland, P. Bedford, Madame Celesta. Miss Wyndham, and Mtsa E. Arden will appear. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS ETENING STAY AT HOME. After which will be produced a New and doubly-moral, though xcessively old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE DISCREET PRIYCESS ; or, the Three Glais Distaff, In which Messrs. Emery, F. Robson, H. Cooper, Miss Marston, and Miss Maskell will appear. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Cresndek. THI3 EVENING, Will be performed a new Drama, entitled HOW WE LITE. Followed by TUFFLEHAUSEN; or, The Lawyer's Legend. To conclude with THE COBBLEIL AIkTD TAILOR. ROYAL STRAND TELEATRR. Under the direction of Mr: Payne. THIS EtENING, THE LOST DIAMONDS. After which, GOOD QUEEN BESS. 3 To conclude with YT RUSS IN THE FAMILY. ROYAL MARYLRBONE THEATRE. Undo the Management of Mr. Edward Stirling. TIIIS EVENING, LOST, £30,000. Messrs. Stuart, Belford, Stirling, Carter, Langton; Massds. An derton, Morel'. Mars. Brothers Elliott's wonderful performances. GRAND BALLET. Man selle Agnes, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey, and Corps de Ballet. Musical Fairy Spectacle, FAIRY FERN FLOWER; or, THE GOELiN MINE. Miss Francis Hughes, Miss Morel!, Mr. Sanders, Mr. J. Belford, and 33 Ladies. Boxes and Stalls, 23. ; Pit, 19. Gallery, 6d. esTLET'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager. Mr. Wm. Cooks. Easter Attractions. Astley's Great Spring Meeting and National Steeplechase. THIS EVENING, THE. ARAB OF THE DESERT AND HIS FAITIIFISL STEED. The acting horse, trained by Mr William Cooke. A novel series of SCENES in the CIRCLE. New act, the Post man's Knock. First appearance of the Misses Dacey on the DmMe Tight Rope. New Drame with the GRE IT SPRING MEETING and ENG LISH NATIONAL SrEEPLEOIIA.SE, on Stage, combined with Ring, Introducing Mr. W.Cooke's new racing stud and daring jockeys, in the chase from the starting unto the winning post, with other entertainments. Box-oilice open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West: eqeestrian Director. att. W. Cooke, inn. EMMA STANLY'S "SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN." second Season. This Lyric Entertainment has been crowned by the unanimous approbation of ALL THE LONDON JOURNALS As the greatest artisticat triumph of the day. It constitutes an Opera. Comedy, and Vaudeville. With a host of characters in Correct Cos • tames; aid Songs in SIX DIFFERENT LANGUAGES Never attempted by any other artiste. - - - Evening performances on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, at 8. Morning performances on Wednesdays and Saturdays at half-past two, precisely. - - - Adraissien—Chairs, 3s. ; Centre Seats, 2s. ; Back Seats, ls. SAINT MARTIN'S HALL, Long-acre. lllerEl WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tun DAY—Morn. 33 min. aft. s—Evening 53 min. aft. 5 T'4-MORROW—Morn. 15 min. aft. 6—Evening 41 min. aft. 6 THE W E ATHER—Sox OFFICE, MARCH 28. THERHOIIIITER, IN THA SHADS.. no - highest since noon yesterday. 33 -towest this rnoraiag and durost the night. 46 -this day at noon. BAROMETER-29 95. WIND, E.—Freah, with fine, cold weather. ~lje ti ;• §atn. LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1856. Some time since, in speaking of the Vienna Conferences, the Elrl of ELGIN declared that next to the triumph of our arms, the failure of our diplomatists was the greatest blessing that could happen to the country." So it would be on the present occasion, but we fear there is no reasonable chance of so auspicious a termination to the present negotiations. The work was done but too surely. The pride and arrogance of Russia had been abated. She felt how thankful she ought to be in being permitted to evade the condign punishment she had so eminently merited ; that: she was in fact obtaining a triumph in sur rendering no substantial portion of territory, and paying no indemnity towards the expenses of the war. She well knew that she would not allow any of her opponents to escape on such singularly easy terms if their positions were reversed, and she had the opportunity of striking a blow that would place Europe ather mercy, and have enabled her to render it in every respect "Cossack." It was not likely, then, that she would contend very ob stinately on mere points of form, when the sub stantial advantages were so greatly on her side, or permit any trifling matter to prevent the peace which has become to be a matter o f paramoun t importance. Nor was Austria less decided in patching u p a treaty. She saw that it would be impossible to maintain neutrality much longer—that the tim e had arrived when she should make vows for or against us, and she would draw the sword either for or against Russia. This she was determined to avoid at any sacrifice ! Besides, there is but too much reason to think that Austria will chiefly benefit by the terms agreed on as the basis of the treaty. The ratification of the Russian frontier in the vicinity of the Lower Danube—the stipulations respecting the Prin cipalities—will all ensure advantage to the Wily Power that profited by all that was achieved by the blood and treasure of the more generous and high-minded combatants. That every Aus trian effort would be made to acoomplish any ar rangement, however discreditable or injurious to the Western Powers, is beyond the possibility of doubt, and no trifling impediment would be suf fered to prevent the attainment of the consum mation 60 devoutly wished for by the Austrian Coat,. We regret to be Compelled to add that the same energetic and decided support that was ac corded on all previous occasions could not be an- I ticipated on the present occasion. It is useless to deny that the chief glory attached to the capture of Sebastopol fell to the lot of oar gallant Allies. The taking of the Malakhoff was the feature mainly associated with that great event. That was accomplished by French troops, while the Eng lish failed in achieving the minor victory at the Redan. It is true that a close and searching investigation into all the circumstances connected with the transaction will show that the English really forfeited no portion of their well established reputation ; that the French soldiers had approached to within a few yards of the foot of the Malakhoff before the signal was given, while the English had to traverse 200 yards across an exposed plain, during which their ranks were mowed down by the deadly and concentrated fire of the Russians. Besides, the Malakhoff, the possession whereof rendered that of Sebastopol itself certain, was the only object really aimed at. This other attacks were merely intended to distract the attention of the Russians until the French had time to establish themselves in their positions. This was done ; and it was the attack on the Redan, as well as those of the French in other quarters, that enabled our Allies to retain the fruit of their great victory ; and if the Eng lish failed in one point, it must be re membered that the French did so in no less than three directions. We do not allude to these matters for the purpose of depreciating the efforts of our brave Allies. Far from it. They did all that could be expected from gallant men ; but we wish to vindicate fat, characters of our own countrymen from the reproach of failure, because they did not succeed in that ' which would never have been attempted if stand ing per se. But these circumstances will not be taken into consideration. The general impression will be that the triumph belonged exclusively to France ; and that narrow and short-sighted view of the case induced many of our Continental brethren to clamour for peace, in such a manner 1 as materially to assist the views of Austria and of Russia. We do not suppose that the EMPEROR. could thus be misled, but there was an event approach ing that materially 'changed his views and feelings. The birth of a direct Heir to the Throne, the prospect of founding a dynasty, the objects of his most ardent aspirations were almost within his grasp ; and it is scarcely to be wondered at tha t he yielded to the influences, and agreed to accept what he would previously have rejected with scorn. The backstairs and unconstitutional influence prevailing in England was also urgent for peace. The Prussian matrimonial alliance could scarcely be solemnised during the continuance of war, par ticularly while Prussia, under the specious garb of neutrality, was rendering powerful assistance to our enemy. The prospects of a Thuringian kingdom could not be materially advanced, nor the assimilation of British institutions to Ger man models. King LEOPOLD desired peace, and therefore the wishes of an overwhelming majority of the English people were set a: nought, and a result was brought about which has been well described by a morning con temporary—viz., that "our victories and our un diminished resources are their own, reward. The defeats of the Czln, and the dissipation of fears which had brooded over Europe, are the losses of Russia !" Even the latter point has not been achieved, for we believe that, in consequence of her too easy escape, while she retains all the means of mischief in her hands, grave apprehen sions may be entertained of the probable conse quences of her insatiable ambition and grasping cupidity. Yesterday we had again occasion to narrate a tale of savage assault on a policeman. The offi cer, JAMES CHAPMAN, is in this case disabled for life, will be obliged to walk 'with a crutch, and must quit bis employment at the very time he was about to be promoted in it. He was, more over, discharging his duty in the most proper, and even too forbearing, manner. If we de nounce misconduct on the part of the police like that in Hyde-park, we ought equally to support them to the uttermost in the steady discharge of their duty. MICHAEL HOGAN, the savage who has disabled the officer, was, ac cording to his own account, a ticket-of-leave man, just out of prison with a four or five pounds gra tuity in his pocket; he used it to get partially in toxicated, but must have well known what he was about, being steady enough on his legs and sufficiently collected to attack CHAPMAN cunningly and unawares, to raise him from the pavement, and to throw him down violently on it, at thesame ti me giving his leg a severe kick as he MI. CHAPMAN had in consequence to be carried into court, the leg uselessly dangling from his body. His only offence against HOGAN was refusing to fight with him, and directing him to go home quietly. We need not repeat HOGAN'S defence ; it amounts to loss of consciousness, through drink ing, till the following morning—a plea which would seem to require that he should be deprived at least of the power to lose again his senses through beer, adulterated or unadulterated. Liberty to drink is, in HOGAN'I3 case, liberty to break the legs of those who do their duty towards him. The matter of consequence is to let men of his class know that intoxication, partial or complete, will be no excuse for the crimes they commit in such a state. Society is not to be at the mercy of drunkards. It is well for gentry of that quality to be aware that they will be held answerable for all they do, drunk as well as sober. This knowledge may be a salutary check on their worse than brutal appetite ; but if not the half-drunk man, and this was clearly HOGAN'S state, by no means loses his memory entirely. He can recollect many things on which his heart is set, and it would be desirable for him, if he will sink into partial frenzy, to do so under the dread of heavy respon sibility for violence mingling with his dreamy and excited fancies. There is reason in drunkenness as well as in madness. SHERIDAN, lying in the gutter, to the question, " Who are you ? " could answer, " W-I-L-BER-FORCE." It is due to the sober that the remaining reason of the in toxicated should warn them not to commit assault, and possibly mur d e r. For poli cemen, however, we claim in this case, as we, have done in others, the severest vindica ti©n of law, and the most liberal compensation for the injury sustained. Captain SOMERSET was sent to prison for beating one with a whip, and rightly. The policeman carries with him, or should carry, in the discharge of his legitimate duties, the anthority of the Sovereign. If he must use force frequently, yet those with whom he has to do should be taught that society ex pects the authority intrusted to him to meet with ready submission. We see it stated that there h to be a subscription for CHIPMAN, and his wife and nine children. Except as a testimonial from the public, this ought to be unnecessary. The country is bound to maintain the policeman who fights its battles with the depraved at home, as well as the soldier who vindicates its rights abroad—when either are disabled in their respective services. If we are to be severe, however, on the drunken wretch who endangers a policeman's life —what are we to say to country squires, and even a grand jury, seekingthe life of a rabbit shooter. Our readers will have seen the trial in yesterday's Sun. The man was employedby his master to shoot rab bits. A gamekeeper sneaked along in some high grass, we suppose to detect the man in poaching. The man naturally enough thought the grass was moved by a rabbit—shot—and hit—hut did not much hurt—a gamekeeper ! There was not a shadow of evidence that the mau—or rather lad, for he was but nineteen—thought of murder. He showed great distress of mind—ran for a doctor, and rendered all possible assistance. The Judge, Chief Justice JERVIS, remarked that the grand jury had not the slightest pretence for find ing the bill, but added, "it is a game county." He further observed, in reply to an observation of the prosecutor about poaching—that " if this was the e f fect of game preserving, it ought not to be allowed, it was shocking !" The prosecutor was obliged to withdraw the charge ! The game-preserving squires have had their disgrace, but, alas, they have had also their sweet revenge. The poor lad has been in prison for this accident ever since the 9th of Sep tember ! Surely the committing magistrates ought to receive a hint from the Lord Chan cellor, or at least one from the Home Secre tary, on the propriety of indemnifying the young man. Looking at the two cases we have brought together, we ask, who are the guiltier parties— Squires, who imprison, and Grand Juries, who send to trial, a poor lad—prosecuting him on a charge which should bring him to the gallows— the lad's real and only offence being their fear of his poaching —or, half intoxicated men, who half kill a policeman ? The gentlemen endeavoured to strangle a man lest rabbit shooting might lead to shooting hares and pheasants. MICHAEL HOGAN broke a policeman's leg for proper interference with his irregularities. What are we to say, too, for the comparative deserts of intoxication with game preserving and with beer ? Both are done for excitement, bat your game preserver is a very fiend, utterly reckless of all evidence and justice in regard to the poor rustics whom he sus pects of liking game as well as himself. He is cruel and relentless in cool blood ; and, on the bench of what should be justice, coolly cruel, even to imprisonment and death, in behalf of his amusements merely. The criminal through in toxication is always more or lens beside himself. It is high time that game-law offences were no longer tried by the game-preserving class, indeed time that these barbarous relics of Norman feudalism were utterly destroyed. PRESENTATION OF PLATE TO THE 2d LIFE GUARDS. The magnificent silver centre, for the mess-table of the officers of the 2d Life Guards, given by the late Marquis of Londonderry, but not completed in the lifetime of his lordship, has been presented by the executors. The plate is of triangular form, each angle of the base occupied by military figures—an officer, a trooper, and a bugleman. The centre is composed of a column enriched with flags, kettle•drums, helmet, swords,' trumpets, and other military trophies, and bearing re- IterO of . the charge of the Guards at Waterloo, of the names of their battles, and the inscription, which is as follows : " A Memento of Affection from CHARLES WILLIAM VANE, MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY, K.G., &c. Colonel of the 2d Life dnards, To the Regiment. Intended to have been presented June, 1851. Death makes no conquest of this conqueror ; For now he lives in fame though not in life." The whole is surmounted by a figure of Britannia. The weight of the silver is 560 ounces, and the value 5001. The ornament was designed and modelled by Alfred Brown, and manufactured by Hunt and Roskell, of Bond-street. It has been inspected by her Majesty and Prince Albert, and does honour to the successors of SW) r and Mortimer. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MARCH 27. The dinner party, yesterday, included his Majesty the King of the Belgians, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, the Belgian Minister (Van de Weyer), Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, Colonel W. Thornton, Commanding Officer, 2d Battalion Grenadier Guards ; Colonel tie Moerkerke, Captain Prisse, and Dr. Rieken. The Hon. Eleanor Stanley and the Hon. Lucy M. Kerr have succeeded the Hon. Caroline Cavendish and the Hon. Flora Macdonald, as Maids of Honour in Waiting to her Majesty. Colonel the Hon. N. Hood has succeeded Lieut.• Col. F. Cavendish, as Grown in Waiting. In consequence of the boisterous state of the weather, his Majesty the King of the Belgians has been induced to defer hisjourney a day longer, and orders were accord• ingly sent, last night.,to inform the various authorities connected with the journey. As at present arranged, the King leaves Windsor at half-past nine o'clock to-morrow morning. The Bishop of Jamaica and the Bishop of Kingston had an interview with Mr. Secretary Labouchere, on Wednesday, at the Colonial-office. Dr. Ryerson had an interview yesterday with Mr. Secretary Labouchere. Captain Bates, 43th Regiment, had an interview, on Wednesday, with Mr. Secretary Labouchere. Despatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial office, from the Governors of Victoria, South Australia, Van Diemen's Land, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward's Island. The Duke of Newcastle has left Portman-square for Clumber Park, where his grace will remain until tho reassembling of Parliament. The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton are still staying at Nice, and will not return to England until May. The Marquis of Northampton is at Castle Ashby, surrounied by a select party. The noble marquis comes to town, for the season, the week after next. The Marquis of Exeter arrived in town, yesterday afternoon, from Burghley, near Stamford. Frances Countess Waldegrave and Mr. Harcourt, M.P., are expected in town to-morrow, from Nuneham Park, Oxfordshire. The Earl and Countess of Sandwich are still enter taining company at Hinchinbroke House, Huntingdon- shire. THE AILERIIIN MAILS.—LIVERPOOL, Thursday Even ing.—The Collins steam-ship Baltic, Capt. Comstock, is now fully due, and hourly expected. Her dates from New York will be to the 15th inst. The Cambria, Capt. John Leitch, sails on Saturday for Boston and Halifax with the English mails and passenger.. Letters must be posted here before 10 a.m., with late fees to. 11 a.m., and at the landing stage till noon on the 29th inst. EAST INDIA HOUSE.—Some important changes are in contemplation in the Examiner's office, consequent upon the retirement of Mr. Peacock and Mr. Hill, the chief and deputy examiners, and we understand that these duties will devolve upon Mr. J. S. Mill and Mr. F. W. Prideaux, while the assistant exami ners will be Mr. Hawkins, a retired Madras civilian, and at present secretary to the Indian Law Commis sion ; Mr. Bourdillon, for many years in the Ex aminer's department ; Mr. W. Thornton, of the marine branch ; and Mr. J. W. Kaye, the projector of the Calcutta Review, who is spoken of as likely to under take the Public Works Department. —Some News. TILE BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS.—It was stated yesterday morning, in answer to inquiries at Chelsea Hospital, that the general board of officers, appointed to inquire into the conduct of the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of Lucan, Sir Richard Airey, and Colonel Gordon, will assemble on Saturday next, under the presidency of Sir John Woodford (vice Lord Seaton retired), for the purpose of formally arranging the course of their proceedings, and that they will enter upon the investigation entrusted to them upon an early day next week. The board now consists of Ge neral Sir John Woodford, Lord Beauchamp, General Rowan, Sir John Bell, General Jonathan Peel, M.P., General Knollys, and Sir John Berkeley. The in quiry will be conducted in the large ball of Chelsea Hospital, and it is understood that the preliminary proceedings on Satuday will be conducted with the strictest privacy. TEE EASTERLY WlNDS.—Letters from Amsterdam state that a singular spectacle now presents itself, which has not been seen for the last half century ; the Znyder zee, in consequence of the long continuance of northerly and easterly winds, is almost dry. Between Genemin den, Blockzil, Lemmer, Kampen, and Harderwyk the bed of the se a ma y b e c ro sse d dry -footed, and steamboats and other vessels are everywhere high on the sands. ~i . THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDIAY _EVENING SHILLING EXHIBITIONS. A shilling is just now we perceive the open sesame to—we don't know how many remarkable public exhibitions. To the picture gallery of the British Institution—to the Portland Gallery hard by the spiked church at Langham Place—to the collection of the British Artists Society, now on view in Suffolk-street—to Roger Fenton's 350-odd photo graphs taken in the East for the Messrs. Agnew, of Manchester, and for the most part representing scenes and incidents within gun-shot of Sebastopol. Besides these—any one decently clad can for one shilling gain admission to the scientific wonders of the Polytechnic—to the geographical marvels ga thered together under the dome of the Great Globe, erected in Leicester Square, by James Wyld, late M.P. for Bodmiia—to the various splen dours of the Panopticon with its gigantic organ, its aspiring fountains, its dissolving views and its oxyhy dr)geu micron ape —to the magical effects pro duced upon all kinds of materials by the society of Photographers—to the wax- work-wallialla of the late Madame Tussaud's executors—to the fairy-like Crystal Palace, raised by au ingenious wizard of the name of Paxton, among the green fields and sylvan scenery of Sydenham ! One shilling (and no more than one shilling if we so please) inducting us ad libitum to the polygraphic versatility of that very clever young man, who is literally " a host" in himself, to wit W. S. Woodin—to the Switzer chat, and Rhine gabble, and Parisian patter of that inimitable polyglot lecturer and humorist, Herr, Signor, Monsieur, Albert Smith, long since undisputed monarch of the monarch of mountains, a delightful gentleman, w h ose man if o ld admirers have " crowned him [as such] long ago"— " On a throne of rock, Ina robe of cloud, With a diadem of snow 1" A shilling, too—nowadays—will it not enable you to hear the übiquitous Love ventriloquise himself " before one's werry eyes" . as Sam Weller would have it—into a deal box ! or up the chimney! any where, in fact— ; into places the most impossible, or the most preposterous?- Does not anyone very well know that for a "He or she, I. or N., as the case may be," can feast eyes and ears by the hour, simply by noting the phases passed through by Miss P. Hor ton-that-was, in her protean entertainment at the Royal Gallery of Illustration ? For a shilling, within as brief an interval we can watch Miss Stanley through, one after another, of the Seven' Ages of Woman—we can saunter with the pe rennial Burford, round the rails of his flying pano rama—we can accompany Charles Okey all the way to Paris and back, without budging an inch from the Regent's Quadrant—we can go a-Lion-Slaying with the mighty hunter Gordon Cumming, in the far wilds of Africa, chasing not " the wild deer," or "following the roe," but careering down upon the lair of the bison and hippopotami ! A shilling will carry us ghoul-like through all the ghastly, grizzly, lonely, loathsome length of the anatomical museum of Dr. Kahn, attended at the elbow by— (name most appropriate!)—Dr. Sexton, who whis pers a sort of post-mortem clinical prelection upon the subjects under examination. A shilling again—is it not the visible, tangible, shining, ringing, Pass-word, admitting us within the porch of God's Temple ?—within the Gothic gloom of Westmin ster Abbey, or into the lordly basilica of St. Paul's Cathedral, carrying us, in the latter, if we list, up into the whispering gallery, or higher still, inside the gilded ball under the gilded cross, or into the throbbing " heart of London," as Boz has called it, the famous Clock Tower, with its swinging monster of a Pendulum. A shilling!— it is another form assumed by the wishing-carpet of the Arabian Story—it enables us to dive down under the Thames, along the arcades formed by its gas-lit Tunnel, or to flit up far above the smoke and din of the great city, until we are perched close by the mimic pharos of its Monument. It introduces whoever cares to bear the brunt of every imaginable and unimaginable stench collected together into one grand animal-bouquet in the Zoological Gardens, from the dirtiest little vagabond of a monkey up to that sagacious behemoth the elephant, from the villainous ourang-outang, looking for all the world like a brutalised carricature of humanity, to the leathern hulk of the rhinoceros, and the pig-like* shape of that scaley beast of au armadillo. If we don't mind rubbing shoulders with Tom and Harry in their Shirt sleeves, or risking the splitting of the drums of our ears by close conti guity to the " eat's triumphant call" up in the Gallery of the Gods, there where the ginger pop is flying, and the " fruitage of Seville" is being peeled and sucked abundantly as if the lives of people in fustian depended upon the suc tion of so much orange-juice —we can, if we so will it, make "the round" of the noblest as well as of the humblest of our London theatres—for the small charge (as the BartTmy-Fair showman had it) of one shilling ! Laughing at Buckstone in the Hay market, at Wright in the Adelphi, at Mathews in Drury-lane—beholding Kean in his glory at the Princess's, Creswick at the Surrey,. and Phelps at Sadler's Wells—wondering at the fitful genius of Robson at the Olympic, at the " blood and thunder," the murders and the blue fire, the broadsword exercise and the comic business, fami liar to every one who happens to be at all ac quainted with the regular legitimate melodrama of your regular legitimate hockly-in-the-hole arena of dramatic wonderment, say the Wictoria, or the City of London, or (until that lamentable fire the other day which appears now almost, so to speak, to have been something like a premonitory symptom of the grander conflagration at Covent-garden) the Pavilion ! For a shil ling we can inhale every evening that mingled flavour of sawdust, ammonia, and orange peel which seem to make up the exceedingly suggestive atmosphere of Cooke's Batty's Ducrow's Astley's Royal Amphitheatre ! Nay, more, for this same wonder-working " coin of 'vantage" (if we may be allowel the pun)—we can at any time, according to our own good will and pleasure, in the very act of going from one of those sights to another, or (otherwise to express it) in going from one of their sites to another—travel " for one shilling"—in a cab—the distance of exactly. two statute miles. Measuring them out, and cutting them down with a most fine precision, even to the length of a hairs breadth, or rather to the width of abarleycorn —and he blackguarded to the roots of our hair by the driver while we are handing over to him one " Bob" (may be in the presence of another) as his sole lawful fare by Act of Parliament. Eureka ! The sign manual of the age is found—it is a Shilling ! THE LATE THOMAS ATT WOOD. A meeting was held yt-sterday at Birmingham, con, vaned by the mayor (T. R. T. Hodgson, Esq.), for the purpose of devising the best means of commemorating the public services of the late Mr. Thomas Attwood, the fatleer of political unions. The following extract from the circular issued by his worship explains in terse and graceful sentences his own views on the subject : " I venture to hope for the co-operation of all parties and all classes inthis attempt to do honour to the memory of our late townsman. Whatever difference of opinion may exist as to the policy of the measures he advocated and was instrumental in carrying, there can be no doubt that at a time of great peril to the institutions of the country, and to public liberty, he exercised the immense iniaence he possessed over the people in such a wise, temperate, and patriotic manner, as to avert anarchy, and, amidst all the political excitement of which he was the centre, to maintain a due respect for law and order. I hope, therefore, that this consideration will induce those who differed with him in politics to join with those whose opinions he reflected, and who I hope require no stimulu 4 in doing honour to the memory of our illustrious. townsman." The MAYOR presided at the meeting, which was at tende I by many of Mr. Attwood's old friends, his co-- leagues in the Political Union, and who, not alone for his public spirit and disinterestedness, but for his kind heir t-dness and true generosity of nature, held his name in affectionate remembrance. Amongst the speakers were Mr. Muntz, M.P. ; Mr. John Betts, a veteran re former (who seconded Mr. Attwood's nomination at his first electinn) ; Mr. William Matthews ; Mr. Alderman Cutler ; Mr. Gorge Edmonds, the Clerk of the Peace, &c. The following resolution was adopted :---- "That a committee be formed for the purpose of pro moting. and convening a meeting of the inhabitants of this borough and the midland districts of the kingdom, for the purpose of deciding upon the character of a suit able memorial to the memory of the late Thomas Att wood, Esq., and that they be empowered to invite the attendance and co-operation of representatives of the people from all the boroughs of England and Wales." An influential committee was appointed to carry out the above resolution. THE TRIAL OF W. PALMER.—The trial of William Palmer will not take place at the April sittings of the Central Criminal Court as is generally supposed. The indictments in the several cases cannot be brought up from Stafford into the Court of Queen's Bench until the 9th of April, and at this point a technical difficulty will occur, preventing their being returned for trial imme diately to the Central Criminal Court. The jurisdiction of this Court is limited by statute to cases occurring within certain counties adjacent to the metropolis, and the power of the judges cannot override a statute. Hence the indictment , : in the Rugeley poisoning cases must re main in the Court of Queen's Bench until after the pois ing of the new bill, introduced for the special purpose of enabling the judges to transmit criminal cases, brought before them from the country by certiorari, either to the assizes of distant counties, or to the Central Criminal Court, at their discretion. It is, therefore, considered as settled that the trial of Palmer will take place at the sessimis of the Central Criminal Court on the 15th of May. It is also understood that the three Chief Justices will preside on the occasion. MARCH 28, 1856. LATEST NE WS. TREMENDOUS EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN. NEW YORK, MARCIE 13, 11 P.M. Japan dates, via California, report that the city of Jeddo was destroyed by an earthquake on the 12th November; 100,000 houses in ruins, and 30,000 lives lost. THE PARIS CONFERENCES. (From Secoiq Edition of the Times of this day. ) The following is the letter of our Paris corre spondent, dated yesterday, 6 p.m. : The Congress met again to-day for " despatch of business ;" I presume so at least, as these consecu tive meetings clearly imply a determination to get through the work, and with an industry which does not flag. The question of the admission of Prussia being once arranged, by compromise or some other manner, 'every one believed that no further difficulty of a serious character remained behind, and that the remaining two or three days would be devoted to the drawing up of the protocols. We all con& dently.counted on the Congress concluding its la bours towards the close of the week, and on the official organ of the Government announcing on Sunday, if not on Saturday next, the glad tidings to the popkilation of Paris. I believe that more than one Plenipotentiary was in the beginning of - the present week of the same opi nion. Various circumstances gave indication of the fact; and a few employes in the Ministerial departments, who excel most in caligraphy, re ceived an intimation to be in readiness for special and secret service at an hour's notice. The order not to recommence hostilities without further instructions, which I mentioned yesterday as likely to be transmitted to the Generals, was, I am as sured; sent to the Baltic yesterday. The precaution was necessary, as time is passing away rapidly, and it would be cruel that blood should be flowing at the moment the Plenipotentiaries were in the very act of signing the treaty of peace, though the sig natures might not be affixed for two or three days after the term originally assigned to the armistice. If what is said to-day be correct, the precaution of sending off' in time such an order was properly adopted. It is affirmed, and I have heard it in more than one respectable quarter, that at the sitting of 1 the Congress yesterday other difficulties arose, not of course insurm•untable, but sufficient, at all events to retard the moment of a definitive settlement. Tke nearer the Congre <s approaches its end the closer and more secret its proceedings are kept ; nevertheless, it is whispered that the difficulty now before us relates to the question of the Principali ties, on which the Porte is not so yielding as was supposed. The Sultan does not appear to view the change in the administration of these pro vinces in the same light as we do, and however provoking any new delay may be, I hardly think that we can Venture to reproach him, the circum stances not being before us, when we remember that it was the resistance of Turkey which on a former occasion prevented us from accepting an ar rangement which would have been all to the advan tage of the Emperor Nicholas. But whether the ob jections raised by the Porte be well or ill-founded it is not supposed in some quarters that they can be settled before Monday, or even the middle of next week. My informant, however, only speaks from the impressions produced by what he heard of the sitting of yesterday. Nothing has as ye t transpired of what passed to-day, and after all this tantalising uncertainty it may be brought to a close sooner than is expected. THE CRIMEA. (From the Special Correspondent of the Morning Herald, FRENCH CAMP, TRAKTIR BRIDGE, MARCH 14. Notwithstanding the armistice, the present has proved a busy week. - Oa Monday one of the Rus sian brigs, sunk in the creek which divides the French from the English positions in Sebastopol, was blown up under the - superintendence of Mr. Deane, and on Friday (this morning) we have -had a glorious muster of the allies on the Tchernaya to receive certain Russian authorities at the Traktir Bridge, under a flag of truce. A correspondent—" A Special," as they call us here—must be content, at present, to look upon his saddle rather than upon his hut as his home ; and yet, after all his labour, he can scarcely hone to satisfy the craving appetite in England for " news from the Crimea." I may state that now, in reality, the minds of all in camp are but bent upon the Tchernaya. There is certainly a " gene ral order" naming the Aqueduct (where does it begin or and !) as the " line of neutrality," over which no British officer should pass. Were this . literally obeyed, we could never even converse with the Russians, or purchase from them those pretty little crosses and amulets which every man here seems,determined to get, by hook or by crook, for his wife, sister, or sweetheart at home. While this line of neutrality has been laid down for John Bull, the French not only assemble daily and in throngs, on the left bank of the Tchernaya, but wh en I was there on Tuesday last, after posting a despatch to you, I saw two Zouaves and three soldiers of the line standing on the opposite or right bank ! The Russians were shaking hands with them. The feeling is, therefore, gaining ground among all who witness such facts, that " What is sauce for the goose, is sauce for the gander ;" and, that if the French are permitted to approach within half a dozen yards of the enemy (to mingle with them may be going too. far), the English ally ought to be allowed the same privilege. To-day (Friday) brought a much greater muster on the Tchernaya, than on Tuesday. This morn ing found an immense number of equestrians leaving the road to General Vinoy's division on their right, " at the bifork," and taking the left road to the bridge at Traktir, where a flag of truce, a white flag scarcely larger than a poket-handkerchief, was flying over a marquee. Leaving Bizot's battery on the right, we soon reached the little bridge of Traktir. On the near side there were two tents (blue and white stripes) ; on the other side a white one, the last displaying the flag of truce. A. French guard was stationed at the marquee where the " white flag" was flying. Behind them, on the further side of the bridge, a few " Red Cossacks," were stationed on the right of the English spectators ; the " Blue Cossacks," or gendarmerie, were iu the centre; and on the extreme left another group of Cossacks was seen, wearing drab cloaks, their long lances glittering in the sun, and their horses looking ridiculously small. The ground for the conference on the Anglo-French side of the Bridge was kept by the Zoti tves. Marshal Pelissier did not attend, but sent his chief of the staff, General Martinprey. General Codrington, Commander of tilt) Forces, was present with a brilliant staff ; and the Sardi nian General in Chief, and suite accompanied them. After crossing the bridge, the generals entered one of the tents, remained there a short time, and then adjeurned to the other, where, it is said, an abun da,ntsupply of champagne and other good things had been prepared for them. As to what passed at,the Conference, "this deponent sayeth not." But it was asserted on the ground, that the ratification of the armistice was the real, and indeed only, busi ness of the day ; although some added that a de mand had been made, that English ships should, during the armistice, enter that part of Sbastopol harbour held by the allies—a demand which the Russian general at once negatived. When the conference was over, the allied gene rals with their staff escorted the Russians back again over the bridge, and rode to an outpost some distance, within the right bank of the Tcher naya, and then a curious scene occurred. All were anxious to follow, if but to get a nearer view of the Cossacks, and to have . a scamper over the forbidden ground.-- Several hundred horsemen, full of this idea,made for the bridge. The picquet wouldinot :allow them to pass, though nearly all were in full uniform. - A wrangle ensued ; still, on came more and more cavaliers. The bridge was full ; arid then on the banks of the river below clouds of mounted officers were continually forming fresh groups. No picquet could hold so many in check. " Passez au gue," shouted a French „Hussar, close to whom a comrade had been just: thrown down, from his horse becom ing frightened at the increasing crowd and pressure. " Passez ast gue." The idea was a good one. So we all made for the ford, not know ing whether the report- that there was one on the left of the bridge were true or false. In an in stant about 200 horses were in the stream, throw. ing up the rapid waters in every direction. Bere and there Some had to swim for a few yards. But we all got over, and then found ourselves brought up by a wall. To turn the left flank of this was a dangerous manoeuvre, but one officer succeeded in doing so, and all the rest kept the wall on the left, and the bridge —we were now below it—on their right. The next thing was to take up a position close to the Cossacks on duty, and to wait the return of the Allies. This was effected, and after General Codrington and all, the English, French, and Sardinian notables - had returned over the bridge, we " break ers of the law" followed in the rear, and now found no resistance from the picquet. We can say we have passed the bridge, at all events, although per haps for the last time. When the horsemen first dashed into the stream, the laughter and delight and cheering of the soldiery were intense. It tickled them to' see a Zouave picquet outwitted. In the account of the meeting on the Teller naa," given abOve, I ought to have added that just as the conference was over, a Russian officer, in the faCe Of thousands, ordered a Russian infantry soldier to immediate punishment. A Cossack dis mounted, and, taking a whip from his girdle, flogged the poor Muscovite most severely. The victim did not flinch, but stood like a statue. Many were the nacre nom de Dien uttered by the indignant French, who witnessed the transaction. MARCH 15. I have only time before the post closes to an nounce that General Codrington has ordered two more piers to be built near the Diamond Wharf, Balaklava, and that the French, having completely . fortified Kamiesch, are now throwing up four ad ditional _redoubts at Kazatch. Is this peace ? And are not all French officers ordered to rejoin their regiments in the Crimea ? FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY EVMNING. The Emperor yesterday presided at a Council of Ministers held at the Tuileries. • Accounts received hero confirm the rumour that three English officers and one French had been taken prisoners by the Cossacks near Kertch. Count Cavour has expressed his intention of leaving Paris on Saturday. This is another indica tion that the Treaty of Peace will be signed on or before that day. Aali Pacha is about to give a grand ball, to which he will invite the Emperor. The Moniteur publishes the following circular from the Minister of Justice " Monsieur le Procureur General—Malevolence has already on several occasions spread a report that the government contemplated either suppressing, or at least buying back, public and ministerial offices. The Moniteur has given the most energetic contradiction to this perfectly unfounded rumour, and a journal which had propagated it was by my orders proceeded against and condemned in Paris in 1853. I never . theless hear that, for some time past, endeavours have been made to cause uneasiness to the holders of such situations, .by announcing that a bill will shortly be presented having fol. its object to interfere with the possession of those offices. Nothing is more contrary to the intentions of the Emperor's government. It respects the property of offices as well as every other, and it has never thought of depriving the holders and their families of whit constitutes their principal resource. Be pleased to give to this circular all the publicity you may think desirable, and send copies of it to the cham bers of the notaries, avoues, hussiers, and auctioneers of your district. You will please to communicate to me what you have done on the subject.--Accept, &c„ " ABBATUCCI." A Paris letter in the Independence of Brussels says :—" All the regiments in . garrisen in the neigh bourhood of Paris have received orders to hold themselves in readiness for a grand review. It is said that not less than 150,000 men will be assem bled. The troops coming from a distance will be quartered in the ♦illages as far as the Seine-et-Oise, Arrangements are being made for receiving these soldiers for four days at the least. The artillery of the Guard will form four batteries per regiment. It is expected that after the signature of the treaty of peace a camp will be formed at Clialons-sur- Marne, and it is certain the Imperial Guard are preparing for an encampment this year." BOURSE, March 27.—The following were the las quotations : Cash. ft. a. End of Month. t per Cent 5.......... 93 75 —f. —a • 3 - p'er Cents - 72 60 72 80 New Loan 73 10 Bank Shares.... ..... 3,500 Roman Credit Alobilier 1,580 Austrian 89 Belgian Five 5........ Spanish Threes Piedmontese(s). 94 25 Rome Debt ...... 40 RAILWAYS-NOS CASH. ft. c. fr. e Orleans ... 1,300 Western 9OO Northern Lyons ,. „. 1,270 New Ditto 827 1:0 &lediterranean .._....1,565 Grand Central Lyons Geneva Cette RUSSIA. A St. Petersburg letter of the 18th says : " The Emperor Alexanier is about to make an ex. torsion into into Finland to inspect the works which d.fend the coasts, and to visit the interior of that pro vince. All the military commanders on the coast of the Baltic, the Gulf of Finland, the Gulf of Bothnia, and the White Sea, have received orders, in consequence of the re-establishment of the blockade, to carry out their instructions for the defence of the ports and coasts, as on previous occasions." The following telegraphic despatch was received in Paris yesterday : " BERLIN', March 27. " The Emperor of Russia has left St. Petersburg for Einlaud." AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. By the Royal mail steam-ship America, Whit- Man, commander, from Boston and Halifax, whose arrival we announced yesterday, we are in the receipt of our usual advices from. New York to the 10th inst., from which we select the follow ing interesting items of intelligence : A message had been received from the President, asking for an appropriation of $300,060 for the sup pression of Indian hostilities in Oregon. In the House of Representatives the question of asking for power to send for persons and papers in reference to the Kansas Case had been under consi deration, but without any result. A Washington 'despatch of the 10ih says that Col. Wheeler, the United States' Minister at Nica ragua, notwithstanding his perseverance in his en deavour to convince the State Department that he was justifiable in recognising the new Government, has failed to satisfy the Secretary of State of the propriety of his course. Mr. Marcy places little or no confidence in the testimonials—the signatures which Col. Wheeler has transmitted to him in this connection justification of the conduct of an offi - cer resting, according to usage, more on the officers' statement of facts than the endorsement of pri vate individuals. Messrs. Jones and Ferguson, produce commis sion-dealers in New York, had suspended payment. Their liabilities arc about $250,000, mostly owing to banks and merchants in the interior of the State. They have been recently heavy speculators in grain. . . The steamship Union was announced to leave New York on the 15th instant, for Gibraltar and other Mediterranean ports. A fire had occurred at Washington, by _which one fireman was killed and several others were severely injured by the falling of a wall. The damage was estimated at $15,000. _ _ In reference to the missing steam-ship Pacific Captain her late commander, in a letter pub lished in the Nye,ew York papers, has given the public to understand that something unusual was-not un likely to •happen to the machinery of the Pacific, from the fact stated by him that she had a new en gineer for this voyage. In reply to this Samuel Matthews, her chief engineer, in a letter dated only five days before the Pacific leit Liverpool, expresses entire confidence in the engines of the Pacific, and Horatio Allen, the resident engineer-in-chief of the company, in a card published in the New York papers, introducing the letters of Mr. Matthews, wholly removes the insinuations thrown out by Capt. Nye, and puts to rest the suspicions which the statement of her late commander had awakened. At Norfolk an express train went through a curve on a bridge, killing three persons and se verely injuring several others. The train, after the accident; took fire, and was totally destr o y e d. Ac cidents and loss oilife have been frequent through out the States. Mr. Edward Everett and Dr. Kane had been re ceived with honour at Richmond by the city go vernment, and President Pierce was expected to attend Mr. Everett's oration. The Coninaeroial Bank of Chicago had closed its doors. A bill In the Kentucky Legislature, to establish a patrol on the Ohio river, to prevent the escape of slaves; has been referred to a special committee. Mr. Nuttall advocated the bill. He said 100,000 dols: - wort - h of slave property had escaped from the border counties. since Christmas. • In the Virginia House of Delegates the question of the emancipation of slaves in Virginia was under consideration. One of the speakers maintained that there ought to be no right to emancipate by will, except for meritorious services. He said that this right of emancipation was the right of annihilation, which the law did not recognise. He said a man should enjoy at his death the largest right to dis pose of his property among the community as he thought proper. He maintained that the right should, be withheld, except under the circumstances indicated. Colonel Garland, the treasurer of New Orleans, bad taken flight, having become a defaulter to the extent Of $150,000. He was the originator and president of the Louisiana Savings-bank. The depositors were mostly poor men and women, an immense crowd of whom gathered around the bank when his delinquency became known. He had cut the telegraph wires in order to facilitate his escape. At Louisville a steam-boat collision had occurred by which 20 persons had lost their lives. From Toronto we learn that the Legislative Council of Canada has passed to a second reading a bill to permit money to be loaned by all parties, excepting banks, at any rate of interest which may be agreed upon, the said interest to be recoverable in the courts of law. At Portland, New Brunswick, 10 houses had been destroyed by fire, and more than 80 families rendered houseless. The value of the buildings burned is estimated at something over 3,500/., about 1,8001. of which was covered by insurance. Among the houses burned was the ancient resi dence known as the Old Simonds' Hauge, which was the oldest in the pi ovince, having been erected in the year 1764. LATEST VIA HALIFAX. NEW YORK, MARCH 13. European news by the Arabia was published yesterday (Wednesday) at 3 o'clock. Money continues abundant. Fancy stocks quiet. Ster ling exchange, 1091. Cotton has declined lc. ; middling Orleans quoted 10c. ; middling uplands, 9jc. Flour, Is. to 2s. (York) lower. NEW ORLEANS, MARCH 12. Our latest European news is by the Africa. Sales to-day-8,500 bales ; middling quoted 9ic., and weak. ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY MORNING. The Baltic has arrived, with advices from New York- to the 15th instant, and $273,661 specie. The City of Edinburgh was passed going into New York. The Arabia had arrived at Boston, and the Ericsson at New York. There are no tidings of the Pacific. There is no political news. The Kansas Free State Legislature was organised on the 4th. The Governor counselled entire obe dience to the Federal authority. Everything was quiet, tbut an outbreak was anticipated at any monien Rifles and cannon intended for the Free State men had been captured at Lexington. 28,000 bales of cotton had been destroyed by fire at New Orleans. The advices by the Northern Light from Cali fornia were to the 20th ult. She had on freight 272,583 dols. A shock of earthquake was felt at San Francisco on the 15th February. The damage was slight. , The markets had slightly improved, and the mines were yieldin g largely. Money was, easie r . President Pierce's message had caused a good deal of excitement and a large amount of political speculation at Belize, Honduras. The Legislature had proposed to tax rum and sagar. Cochineal and indico were scarce. The New York money market continued well' supplied with capital, and an active business was being done at previous rates. The stock market was depressed. Sterling ex- -- change was firm at 08 to 9i. In cotton a further decline of an eighth per cent. had taken place. The market for flour was dull, and declining. In ot her articles there was no particular change. Freights remained firm. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. FALMOUTH, Friday.—Arrived, short of supplies, the steam frigate Styx. Landed her mails from Singapore, Cape of Good Hope, and Madeira. She has on board, as prisoners, the crew of the late Russian frigate Diana. . The crew of the Frolic brig of war are passengers. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 18.—The mail to England ' has been delayed on account of the non-arrival of he mail from the Crimea. This latter must be detained by the bad weather ; while I am writing it is still blowing a ea'e from the north-east. The Severn, which left this the da 7 before yesterday, had to put back. The gala was so violent that this powerful steamer could not make way against it. Miss Nightingale, whb was on board, hart again disembarked. THE MUEDEE AT EXETER.—The case of Mary Weeks, the young woman who was convicted at the recent assizes for the wilful murder of her illegitimate child at Exeter, and execution stayed in consequence of a jury of matrons having pronounced her " quick with child,"has excited much interest in the city of Exeter, and efforts are making to obtain a commutation of the sentence.. The jury have memorialised her Majesty on the subject., stating they believe that the culprit committed the crime under the influence of Thos. Warren, the principal wit ne.s against her, and to whom, it will be rememb e red, . she was about tobe married ; and that she was labouring under so much exOtement and trouble at the time that she was temporarily irresponsible for her actions. An *pi ninn pretty generally prevails in Exeter that the .prisoner will not be executed, but that her sentence will be coins muted to transportation or imprisonment for life. ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—An accident occurred on the Eastern Counties line on Wed nesday which prevented. Prince Albert visiting the camp at Colchester on that day, as he intended to have done. It had been telegraphed to the various stations that the • Prince would pass down the line between 12 and 1. o'clock. Two or three carriages of the parliamentary down train, however, got off the rails, soon after leaving the Chelmsford station, at that part of the line where the works are fining on for the Royal Agricultural Society's meeting and were dragged some distance, one of theca ) turning over, but fortunately escaped being hurled doves the steep embankment. The pa , seagers weremuch shaken bud none of them seriously hurt. Information of tb , e - matter was sent to London, and the reply was that the Prince's journey was in consequence postponed. DREADFUL ACCIDENT TO A BOY' FROM MACHINED?. —One of the most awful of the many casualties we are' called upon to report took place on Thursday morning last, about a quarter past 6 o'clock, at the works of Coe ma.a 4 ss. Dawes, Bromford. At this time a little boy, 9 years of age only, named Timothy Stanaway, whose r parents live at Cialbury, was stationed as usual at ties rolls. without his jacket, and put his arms through time spindles or boxes to reach a hammer. In an instant the rapidly-revolvirg machinery took up his shirt sleeve, drew in his body, which passing twice in and out be tween the rolls, presented a spectacle awful to look upon . ; the head was torn from the trunk completely, and the bowels and viscera, rent away, were scattered about. Police-constable Freeman was sent from the station b y Sub-inspector Holland, but the remains had been taken to the poor parents at Oldbury, who have other chin. dren, and are labouring people. The first object he no. ticed at Stanaway's cottage was the little sufferer's bro ther, about 13 : he sat in a heap by the fire, in a corner, and took no notice or spoke te any one. He worked at Bromford, and had seen the terrific fate of his little workmate and playmate.—Wolverhampton Chronicle. DISTURBANCE AT THE COLCHESTER CAMP.—We regret to announce that a somewhat serious disturbance has taken place amongst a number of soldiers of the militia and line regiments in garrison, and which it was at one time feared wonld result in the most disastrous conse quences. It is stated that some unpleasant reflections were cast upon the 88th (Connaught Rangers), on their march into the camp, by some of the militiamen, and which speedily rai4ed the indignation of the 16th. , the evening a " row" took place in the street between the 881.1), who were the most part Irishmen, and the Essex Rifle', when broken heads and bloody noses were the result, and six men r f the 88th and three of the Rifles were taken into hospital. Some men of the 11th Regiment sallied forth to the assistance of the 88th against the Essex Rifles, although the best understand. ing bad previously existed between them, as many of the Rifles had volunteered to the ranks of the 11th, and a fight took place, which lasted some little time, not withstanding the efforts of Col. Herbert, the adjutant general, and the officers in camp to subdue it. The de linquents were taken into arrest, and the injured men sent into hospital. The affair has occasioned consider able excitement in camp, and much talk in the town.--- Essex Herald. DESTRUCTION OF A DRUIDICAL TEMPLR. —We deeply re gret to learn that the Druid Temple on the estate of Moy ness, in the parish of Auldern, within a gunshot of the ruins of the old ca3tle of Moyness, has been recently in terfered with, and in a short time, if the lord of the manor, the Earl of Cawdor, does not put his veto on the contemplated "improvements," all trace of this, the most complete of the ancient Druidical monuments in the province of Moray, will he obliterated. About ten years ago this venerable temple was in an almost com plete state of preservation. Except a few stones which had been removed from the west side of the great oircle, to straighten an 'arable field, the sacred enclosure ap peared to be entire. The outer circle at that time de scribed a circumference of 200 or 300 feet. At 16 feet distance from this there was an inner circle about 60 feet diameter. 12 stones of large size in the outer circle represented the 12 signs of the zodiac, and 19 larger in the inner—of which we counted 60 in all—may have pointed to the lunar cycle. 'On the south side were two immense boulders—one the Cromlech or altar-stone, the other the Logan or rocking-stone. This latter was in the rhomboid shape, broad at top and tapering below. It measured 8 feet 6 inches along the top 5 by feet, and wan fully 3 feet through. Its weight, computing 8 stone to the cubic foot, could not have been less than from 9 to 10 tons. The lower extremity of this immense stone was laid on the crown of another boulder slightly in dented and deeply sunk in the earth, but so nicely poised that on the slightest touch with .the finger it would vibrate six inches on each side and continue 'to rock 26 times before steadying, when it always set at rest fairly balanced in the centre. A new house was erected lately for the tenant of the farm, and, building materials being required, the contractor, either ignorant of the value of this interesting and hoary monument, or being enjoined to use these stones in the fabrie, unfor tunately commenced the work of demolition by splitting up the rocking stone. Part of it, along with a quantity of other material from the same place, WAS used in the building, and we learn steps are in protress to clear the place of the remaining boulders !—Porres Gazette. During the celebration of divine service yesterday morning in the church of St. Eustache, an elegantly dressed young female requested a market woman, who happened to be seated next her, to hold her chil d for a few minutes whilst she retired. The market woman really consented, bat time wore on, and the youu woman did not return. The market woman, having waited to the end of the service without seeiog anything of her, took the child to the commissary of police. The infant was ascertained to be a male, about a fortnight old, and remarkably strong ; and the dress he were was a very costly one, trimmed with expensive lace. Be• neath his dress ws a paper, on which was written in a female hand, "Circumstances, which I cannot combat, oblige me to abandon my child, but I will claim him some day." The little creature was registered by the name of Joseph Eustache, and sent to the Hospice den Enfans Tronves.— adignani. c' Et 4 20 44 ray an