The Sun. — London, England, 1861-04-06 00:00:00

THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMAR-ZET. Lome, Mr. J. Biakstone. THIS EVENING, the pertormanoes will commenee with A DUKE IN DIFFICULTIES. Mrs. Stirling, husa Haydon, Mrs. Wilkins, Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr. Backstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, rcs. After which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery and e ff ects, and all the orienal mush) by the late Sir Henry Bishop, the melodrama of THE R AND HIS MEN. .(342.mmence at;M T HEATRE-EOYAL LYCEUM. Bois Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. Two New Dramas.—Reappearance of Mr. John Drew, and 6th appearance of Miss Matilda Heron. THIS EVENING, T FIE TWO GREGORIES. After which, a new original comic drama, written by Semi. Lover, Esq., entitled MAC CARTHY MORE ; or, Possession Nine Points of the Law. John Drew, J. Johnston, Forrester, J. Rouse, Medlin ; Misses Rawlings, Hudspeth, &c. To conclude with a new drama, NEW YEAR'S EVE ; or, The Belle of the Season. Messrs. H. Neville, Villiers, Jae. Johnstone, J. Rouse ; Mrs. Winstanley, Miss Matilda Heron, Miss Willard, &c. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lome and Manager. Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore, Meadows, Garden, and Miss C. Leclercq. Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Sup ported by Messrs. Ryder, Hermann Vezin, Graham, Shore, Meadows, ex. ; Misses Heath, R. Leolercq, and Elsworthy. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. ADELPHI.— Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Great Attraction for the Easter Holidays.-6th appearance this season of Mr. B. Webster and Miss Julia Daly. THIS EVENING, a new drama (2d time) MAGLIORD, PRESTIDIGITATOR. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, D. Fisher, M.; Miss K. Kelly, Miss H. Simms, &a After which, OUR `Gard Miss Julia Daly, Mr. Romer, Mr. Eburne, and Mr. . Doors open at half past 6--Commence at 7. CANTERBURY-HAL L CONCERTS !! , Westminster-road. Froprietor • • • • ....C, M or t on . A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera, IL CORSARO, (This opera has never been produced in this or any other cou ntry, except at these Concerts), haying met with that de cided success which charactise the most popular works of this great Master, will be perform e d EVERY EVENING ; together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI vD:NTO, by Doniaetti, Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The Comic Department com p r i ses 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 longe. za tu. Pint Arta Gallery of the Establishment HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tina:DAT.—Morning, 11h. 56m.—Afternoon, —h. —m. To-moaßow.-Morning, 12h. 20m.—Afternoon, 12h. 40m. THE WEATHER.—SDN OPPICS, APRIL 6, 1861. THZEMOICETER, TN TIER BRADS. 52 --highest since noon yesterday. 37—lowest this morning and during the night. 47—this day at noon. BanounTEß-30.20 ; rising rapidly. WIND—South-Easterly—light; with cloudy weather. Mr. GLADSTONE'S next Budget ! " Ay, there's the rub." And it is one, we may say which is certain enough to be administered by a harsh and pitiless hand upon a back sadly overburdened, upon the back of honest JOHN BULL, upon those sturdy shoulders flayed long since beneath the weight of many heavy and shifting taxes, and now actually raw under the grinding influence of the disastrous financial policy of her MAJESTY'S present Chancellor of the Exchequer. A very few days more now and we shall know the worst through the medium of Mr. GLADSTONE'S new Financial Statement. We shall have a grand speech quite as a matter of course—a speech of several hours duration—delivered with an exqui site voice, with the most graceful gesticu lation, with all the most seductive oratorical arts that can be brought together by the consum mate skill of the most accomplished of living rhetoricians. The Budget speech of 1861, like the Budget speech of 1860, will, as reported from the Gallery, fill as usual many closely printed columns of the daily newspapers. It will be thickly sown with numerals, symbolizing a great mass of elaborate and intricate calculations. It will be interspersed with all the customary marks of par liamentary applause " Hear, hear," "Cheers," " Loud cheers," " Cheers and laughter." Actually "laughter"—for Mr. GLADSTONE can contrive to be very funny, even when he is most dreadful. If he were a dentist we may presume he would extract a laugh from a victim of the toothache, at the very moment, too, when fitting on the carious " double," the grim forceps previously concealed under his wristband. How ever, this might be in that wild contingency—it is at any rate, matter of certainty with us, from a frightful experience—in referring to which experi ence one has to go no further back than the Budget oration of last year—Mr. GLADSTONE, while slip ping JOHN BULL'S thumb into that old familiar stall of the thumbscrew, while insinuating poor JOHN'S broad foot into that boot of torture, typified in the "Scavenger's Daughter" of the Inquisition — Mr. GLADSTONE, we say, while doing this can absolutely tickle his fated victim into laughter— into ,laughing, as the wits of ANNE'S time used to say " consumedly," as old HOMER had it cen turies back, " inextinguishably ." How drol l he was only last spring—ce cher Monsieur GLAD STONE? And then as an inevitable close to this grand annual display of his enormous I folly as a Financier, and of his immense but utterly useless abilities (when so applied) as a Rhetorician,we read at the close of his rhodomontade peroration, we are fated every year to read at the end of his amazing Speech, " The right honourable gentleman resumed his seat amidst loud and pro tracted chqering." Upon the following day every one is talking, also quite as a matter of course, about GLADSTONE'S eloquent speech—finest he's ever delivered—in magnificent voice last night (as though he were an opera singer, instead of a Statesman and a financier)—what sharp hits, too, those at DIZZY—And all the while— " 0 wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see sursels as ithers see us I" A week afterwards and there appears across the counter of Mr. RIDGWAY, the great pamphlet publisher of Piccadilly, or from the esta blishment of some other favoured pub lisher and bookseller, a revised report in the form of a thickish brochure, a revised and authorised report corrected by Mr. GLADSTONE khimself of his last great Budget Speech in bring in,g forward his new Financial Statement. And so the ball rolls. And so—nits la Bagatelle. Now lu an this from first to last, the public at large, the Public both in the House of Commons and Old ' ,of the House of Commons, we cannot but regard . ailee _ gr as . acting very much as the rai4.: P e do— gregariously. egariously. They say if you can only bellwether i leap . over an outstretched walk. lug stick sheep in the i n the highway—every separate . coming afterwards, al though the vaik r' weth g er -st_ick be withdrawn imme diately tCle bell identnica: passed, will, for certain, leap, at th s same into the air over nothing. the same two or three feet ithy r -- - an uothing. Now, it is the hish.. ion, upon occasion, ,to italk loudly and 41311:en' possible o r t iti . y o f -M r - GLADsTaNi f.'s wonderful eloque nce in bringing for extraor dinary oratorical powers ward hi s finitude' etateaTent. The bare idea of eloquence the bare idea of ora tory in a Budget Speech ix itself just simply to one word preposte rous To be .eloquent, td' be oratorical, in the .4 k Z 7 •:,- A - - ' . '44; r , _ - THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1881. true sense of the word while hanimer ing out an enormous mass of calculations, would set at defiance the rhetorical capabilities of a CHATHAM or a BOLINGBROKE, of a CicEno or of a DEMOSTHENES. Clear, a great orator may be, cogent, lucid he may be, in hiafinancial statement : but to bring forward a Budget, and, while doing' so, to be pouring forth for four or five consecutive hours a strain of surpassing eloquence, of sonorous and bewitching oratory, is just, in one word a word of Oriental slang, that it only requires Mr. GLADSTONE to use mace to render, in the estimation of some people, immediately and for ever afterwards classic —is just, in one brief monosyllable—Bosh. Why, it is only necessary to bear in mind that the very last of these great Budget speeches of our preter naturally gifted Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Budget speech of 1860—the greatest of all his Financial Statements as it was declared to be at the time, the greatest of all his Financial Blunders as it has since then proved to be beyond a doubt —it is only necessary, we say, upon this head, to look back to that last boasted masterpiece in evidence of his pre-eminent powers as a rhetorician. We heard him delivering that speech, and he was certainly, as we have already observed is so often remarked in his regard, in " magnificent voice"—a voice so clear r and silvery, and bell-like—" so musical, so melan choly"—(notwithstanding the dreadful condition very shortly before then of his larynx, uvula, bron ' chial tubes, and all the rest of the marvellous me chanism of that wonderful organ)—he was " in magnificent voice"—a sort of talking SIMS REEVES. He had the ear of the House, as he always has, completely. He was there speaking for several hours together—to everyone's consciousness then listening to him—about the most gifted living orator address ing the grandest deliberative assembly in Christen dom. But for the eloquence, for the oratory of that great Budget Speech ! Why the bulk of it, as every one will distinctly recollect who heard it, the mass of it was—unavoidably was, was by sheer neces sity—arithmetical, the utterance of numerals, the winding out of a long and intricate coil of cal culations. " Sir, When I take this into account," one heard him say, " Sir, when I take this into account, I find the result not as might have been conjectured, three thousand five hundred and sixty-two pound seven, but—let the House mark this, for it is a matter of supreme importance, under the circumstances—nine thousand four hundred and twenty-three pounds ten shillings and seven pence halfpenny." And so on for four or five mortal hours at a stretch—the House cheering— Mr. GLADSTONE drinking at intervals from a mys terious little bottle, especially provided for the pur pose, instead of sucking the M.P.'s customary orange —and crowds of people all the while persuading themselves into the notion, as they listened to that wonderful Budget Speech, that as a rhetorical display it could not possibly have been sur passed by DEMOSTHENES. For the luxury of having a great and graceful rhetorician as our Chancellor of the Exchequer we have to pay now—as we all very well know— we have to pay now inadequately an appalling sum every year in the shape of taxes ; and we have to find at the end of the financial year, when all is spent and gone, an increasing Deficit. For example now, this year it is estimated that the country's income may be set down at £72,260,000, and that the country's expenditure may be stated at £73,546,000, showing, consequently, a distinct and readily comprehensible deficit of £1,286,000. Looking more closely into the accounts of the nation it turns out, however, that instead of it (the nation) being, according to the first roseate statement with (a bloom upon it) 'an income of £72,260,000, it (the nation) will find that it has an income of nearly [we are becoming surely quite as eloquent as Mr. GLADSTONE !] £70,213,674 — so that instead of having a deficit to deal with of merely £1,286,000 we shall have to make up a deficiency of nearly two millions more (£1,976,000), in other words, we shall have to take into consderation a gross deficit upon the financial year of £3,263,000! This!—after all Mr. GLAD STONE'S delicious fanfaronade last year about the nation riding in paper coaches (we presume on the Road to Ruin), drinking claret instead of old fashioned humming ale, entering into eternal bones of amity with our Arcadian neighbour on t'other side of the Channel, and, in fact, going the best way to work to beat our swords into plough-shares and our spears (say those of our lancers) into reaping hooks, and settling down blissfully, for ever and a day, in the estatic condition of the Flying Island, peopled by its One-eyed Philosophers. Mr. GLADSTONE, in fact, last year piped for Arcadia ; and, as a matter of course, we have had to pay for our whistle. Last year we had the Income Tax for one year—just for one year only—at tenpence. This year it is thrown out already as a sinister hint betimes—a feeler deli cately thrust forth through an affected at tack upon Mr. GLADSTONE —it is absolutely thrown out as a casual suggestion that, instead of any longer mincing the matter by resolving upon an income tax for a single twelvemonth, we should regulate our financial system boldly, without any further nonsense in the way of hesitation, and saddle ourselves for at least three years in a lump, for these next three years, with the reimposition of • the Tea and Sugar Duties, and the perpetuation in the same way, for the period here prescribed, of the abhorred tax upon incomes. The latter (we are left to conjecture) to be increased of course, in consideration of the increasing deficit, from an income tax of ten pence to one of a good round " splendid shilling." But will the country tolerate all this ?—will the house consent to swallow it ?—this wonderful new Bolus of a Budget to be gilded overlts usual with the elo oqf a uenceFoifoatnhoaiter ouranparagongroefatChancellor Orator, that of theatDunce Exchequer ? We doubt it. The Bolus is too nauseous—the worthlessness of the gilding has become at last too transparent. Why utter a note of warning wl7; ncp s y mp t om of danger appears I' Just because it is then too late. It may seem to unreflecting persons quite g ratuitous to throw in a word j us t now about Sat.- dinia—Sardinia itself, the island we mean, with its harbour of La Maddalena, which Lord NELSON pronounced to be, for naval purposes, worth fifty Maltas. But who, it will be asked, says a word about transferring Sardinia with its harbour from Italy to any other Power ? And who, we ask in reply, said a word about transferring Savoy and Nice to any other Power for several months befor e they were handed over to the Emperor of FRANCE ? On the contrary, was there not, firstly, a public talk about the transference ; secondly, a series of explanations assuring to England and to Europe; thirdly, an entire cessation of even rumours on the subject ; and fourthly, after both together had deceived our Ministers into 1 deceiving the House of Commons, had we no t the 1 last rumours of what proved to be then facts and not mere rumours. We are now, as we have some fear, in the third of these stages in regard to Sardinia. We have had the public talk and the denials and the ex- Jganations; we have now the lull before the bursti n i lof the__ plot. We do not affirm that it is so. Pretty , THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, - APRIL 6, 1861. good care is, of course, taken that no one shall be is a position to do that. But it cannot be denied that we are just in the crisis in which, if Louis NAPOLEON acts like Dims NAPOLEON, jut such a report may reach us, even before Parliament is pro rogued, as that Sardinia is to be put under the screw of a French Universal Suffrage and Ballot, that Count CAVoUR declares that it can not be otherwise, that Rome is in future to be the Continental capital of Italy, and that considerations of " natural boundaries" (to French ambition) require that La Maddalena be never occupied again by any English, or even Sardinian NELSON, watching thence by repeating frigates the French navy in the harbour of Toulon. We are sorry to seem even suspicious; but, if we are so, the fault is not ours. The subject has slept some time, or rather England and Europe have slept over it; but we have been "caught napping" before, and we shall have but ourselves to thank if we are caught so again. Our great ally seems to think such international pranks as harmless as those of schoolboys ; and we took the last so quietly that he may well believe -we should be as good tempered if he tried it on again. We warn him, however, that he will find himself quite mistaken. Savoy lay so entirely between the two coun tries; it had no trade with us, and was un approachable by our übiquitous • navy, that while we did not loathe the roguery and fraud the less, we had yet no direct national interest in the dirty transaction. Altogether different will it be with Sardinia. Our naval position in the Mediter ranean will be directly assailed. Malta will be checkmated. The naval power which alone aspires to be strong enough at sea to invade our shores at a day's notice will be enabled to watch our Medi terranean fleet with every advantage, and so far to neutralise the indirect aid which it would fur nish to our channel fleet at home. England can not allow Sardinia to belong to France. On the other hand, we wish Italy to have it. We care not how strong she becomes in her Mediter ranean harbours. We feel a confidence in her consti tutional Government, and in her growing free trade with England, and in the goodwill engendered by our perfectly unselfish support during her struggle for liberty, which assures us that the stronger Italy is, as a naval Power, the better for us. Italians well understand that but for the powerful moral support of England, backed as it was by a fleet which made our policy respected, the fate of Italy might have been widely different. Instead of a united and strong Italy, the man of Villafranca and of Gaeta would have kept her divided, and unsettled, and disunited, that France might be the real head of half a dozen petty kingdoms ; and probably that, in time, some of these little royalties might have chosen a NAPOLEON for its ruler by universal suffrage and the ballot. That hope must now be pretty well gone. We have therefore a magnanimous disclaimer—cheap magnanimity—of the manifesto of LUCIEN MURAT. But there is yet a question. How can the EMPEROR bring himself to give up Rome without a considera tion ? To lose not only the position for annoying and disturbing Ttaly, but the prestige of " the French at Rome"—although they got there by a most atro cious crime, and keep there in defiance of the people whom they came " to liberate"—to lose both military position and an importance gained by crime, for nothing—can it be endured ? The only compensation supposable is, another slice of terri tory. Money Italy has not to spare ; and to be bought out of Rome would be really too degrading, but territory is an honourable compen sation for renouncing other' stolen territory—and Sardinia is the only portion of Italy that France would now care about. Our Foreign Office has, we hope, therefore apprised Count CAVOUR, and the EMPEROR too, that the cession of Eardinia to France would be considered by England as a casus As to the rumours of possible hostilities this spring or summer, while they could surprise no one, we yet cannot see that there is much in the few facts to which they seem to owe their origin. Austria dare not, and Italy will not, move yet. True, Garibaldi is at Turin, but it is quite as likely he is got there to be talked over into quietness, as because he is wanted for some warlike project. Old BENEDEK, too, is no doubt very desirous to renew the conflict with the Piedmontese, in which he fought so fiercely, and was so nearly successful, on the Austrian right against the Sardinian left, at the Battle of Solferino. He probably thinks that he could, as Commander in -Chief, do for the whole army what he did for his own division. But BENEDEK cannot command in Hungary and in Italy too. Nor is it by any means certain that in a hostile Venetia, and with a nation fighting for their newly-gained liberties, he would not find himself overmatched. The hope of peace on the side of Italy is that no Government there but France is in a position to fight ; and that, however much Austria might like it, she dares not begin the conflict with Hungary on her back. As to the Northern chances of war, we should hope England will be able to keep the foolish Prussian Government quiet, and if s o, the King of DENMARK, under our advice, as a thoroughly friendly power, will take no step which shall bring a French army to the Rhine. It is gratifying to learn by the last arrivals from India that the Government there is taking up the subject of cotton growing, at the same time with earnestness and prudence. It proposes to do all that Government can do, but carefully to avoid putting itself in the place of the private trader. The Governor-General's circular to the Presidential authorities observes :—" First—That no measure which places Government in the position' of the private capitalist, cultivator, or speculator, or which in any way interferes with private enter prise can be otherwise than permanently injuri ous in itself and detrimental to the object in view. Therefore, all attempts to stimulate cultivation or labour, by any exertion of Government authority directly or indirectly, are out of the question. The same objection will apply to model farms and ex perimental cultivation conducted by officers of Government." The present object is to tell on the production of the coming Indian crop; all canal and railroad schemes are, therefore, out of place ; not even the solution of questions respecting land tenure can much avail towards the immediate object. Two things the Government thinks must be chiefly attended to immediately :—First, every effort must be made to diffuse information in the districts where cotton is grown, on the probable demand for it, the prices it will command, and the means of getting it ready for market. Secondly, in a rough and ready way, the present means of conveyance to port may be considerably improved. The Government also proposes to permit the mer chants to use, under certain regulations, its local treasuries as banks, where there are none, and offers facilities to commercial agents in visiting the cotton producing districts. We do not know that the Government could do more. Manchester must be her own chief agent. If she sends suitable persons among the native cul tivators to apprise them of the prices she can stud for the quality of the cotton they grow; if, perhaps of as much importance as any thing, she could send saw-gins, and skilled hands with them to clean and pack the cotton and to provide for its clean transmission by the rude native conveyances, it seems to be certain that India could supply an amount of cotton, and probably at a price, too, which would soon settle the question of American supply, perhaps, of Ame rican slavery. A better time than the present could hardly be. The new Confederation is devising means to pay their Governmental expenses by an export tax on cotton. They "guess" that so, Eng land and Europe will pay their taxes. But that will only be on the supposition that we have no other market. If we can get cotton cheaper from India, we shall bring down their prices to a pro bably much lower figure than they were at, before they laid on their ten per cent. Manchester can well afford to do something towards making India its chief source of supply for raw cotton, for India is already the best cus tomer of Manchester for the manufactured article. Ws take the following from the Cotton kupply Reporter : rui T. 1,74 AV IN I k.-7 TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. PESTH, SATURDAY. The opening of the Hungarian Diet, as well as of all the other provincial Assemblies, is definitively fixed for to-day, with the exception of the Galician Diet, which will be opened later. The reorganization of the tribunals of Transyl• vania, and the transfer of the administration of justice to the judicial authorities formally esta• blished there, has been sanctioned by the Emperor. WARSAW, FRIDAY EVENING. The city presents a very gloomy aspect. The deepest mourning is worn by every one of the inhabitants, without exception, The theatres have been closed for a fortnight. Last night a crowd of about 3,000 persons assem bled on the spot where the victims of February fell. Prayers were intoned before the picture of the Virgin on their behalf. The crowd afterwards dispersed, shouting the words " Until we meet again." The military, which were stationed a short dis tance off, made no attempt to interfere. MOSTAR, APRIL 5, The insurgents have made a fresh attack on Poglizza, but were repulsed by the Turkish troops, after a fight which lasted four hours. TOULON, APRIL 5. The iron-cased frigate Invincible has been suc cessfully launched at this port. The Patrie of this evening says :—" We learn that the Emperor, faithful to the policy he has constantly followed in regard to Italy—a policy excluding all family ambition and all idea of con quest—has written a letter to Prince Murat ex pressing these noble sentiments, and, consequently, disapproving the manifesto of the Prince." DRESDEN, APRIL 5. The Dresden Journal of to-day publishes a tele gram, dated Paris, April 5, stating, "on good authority," that the Emperor Napoleon had given a distinct assurance to the Pope that the French troops would not leave Rome. TURIN, APRIL 5. Liborio Romano has arrived at Genoa. It is stated that he is seriously indisposed. The discussion on the affairs of Naples was con cluded to-day in the Chamber of Deputies. Signor Minghetti, the Minister of the Interior, rejected the proposals of Signor Ferrari relative to an inquiry into the state of the Southern Provinces. The debate has been very animated. The vote on the orders of the day will be taken to-morrow. VIENNA, APRIL 5. The Oesterreichische Zeitung of to-day says : " The ex-Grand Duke of Tuscany yesterday sent to the European Cabinets a protest against the assumption of the title of King of Italy by King Victor Emmanuel. "It is expected that the ex-Duke of Modena and the ex-King of Naples will send a similar protest." PESTH, APRIL 5. The date of the opening of the Hungarian Diet is still uncertain, the inaugural speech to be delivered by Count Apponyi on the occasion not having been yet approved of by the Emperor. Great excitement prevails on this account amongst the deputies. AGRAM, APRIL 5. The municipality has decided on sending a depu tation to the King to request the removal of the Regiment Stephen, some soldiers belonging to the same having insulted the national arms. MADRID, APRIL 5. The Correspondencia Autografa of to-day an nounces that perfect tranquillity prevails in Mor rocco, and that the treaty between that country and Spain is being faithfully carried out. VIENNA, MARCH 5. The Oesterreichische Zeitung of to-day says that the news of the landing of General Mieroslawskie in Albania is doubtful. EXPORTS OP COTTON GOODS TO Total all India. United States. countries. Yds. Yds. Yds. 1858 .. 791,537.,000 .. 154,818,000 .. 2,322,780,000 1859 .. 968,209,000 225,146,000 .. 2,562,545,000 1860 .. 825,085,000 226,657,000 .. 2,775,451,000 Total.. 2,584,831,000 606,621,000 7,660,776,000 Thus during the last three years India has taken more than four times the quantity of our manufactured goods taken by any other country in the world—the United States not excepted—and about one-third of our entire export of cotton goods to all countries. Look again at the value of our exports of cotton goods to India during the same period : To India, Total to all countries 1858 .. £9,299,359 £32,014,715 1859 12,043,543 37,038,538 1860 10,518,094 .. .. 40,342,819 Total, 3 years £31,860,926 :£109,396,072 Hero we have lemonstration sufficient to convince most obstinate opponent of Indian progress. In three years we have exported, in cotton goods alone, to India nearly n 2,000,000 worth, out of £109,000,000 to all the world, or one. third of our entire exports of cotton goods for the last three years have been consumed in India. If Manchester does but her part, in return for such a splendid trade as this, she will be doubly benefited. She will provide herself with a source of supply which will become better and better every year, as railroads and canals are opened ; and she will increase the means of India to purchase her manufactures in return. CABINET COUNClL.—Summonses have been issued for a Cabinet Council on Wednesday next, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing street. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.—Viscount Palmer ston has deferred his departure from Broadlands until Mon day next, when` his lordship will be accompanied to town by Lady Palmerston. Earl Granville, the lord President of the Council, arrived in Bruton-street yesterday from visit ing the Earl and Countess Spencer, at Althorpe Northampton. The Duke of Newcastle comes to town on Tuesday next from Clumber-parkPlotts. The Lord Chan , cellor is expected to arrive at Stratheden-house, Knights bridge, early in the ensuing week from the Isle of Wight. The noble and learned will entertain the judges and leading members of the bar on Monday, the 15th inst., the first day of Easter Term. THE VENETIAN QUESTION.—The Independance Beige quotes advices from Vienna, to the effect that within the last few days the French ambassador, the Marquis de Moustier, has had, in virtue of his secret instructions, some confidential interviews with Count de Rechberg, on the subject of a new' plan of settlement with re spect to Venetia. France will support an arrangement having for its object the cession of Venetia to the Italian kingdom, in consideration of a territorial com pensation. "It is not said," observes the _lndependence, " in the circles where this rumour is credited, whether it is upon the Lower Danube or upon the Adriatic that this compensation is to be fund, or upon both, It is believed that this project will obtain the consent of the Hungarian party. France will guarantee not only the territorial com pensation to Austria, but also the future attitude of Italy, between which country and Austria she would exert her self to bring about an understanding, and perhaps even an alliance." THE COLNE STRIKE BALANCE•SHEET.—CURIOUS REVELATIONS.—The 44th weekly report and balance-sheet of this strike has been issued, and it shows a great falling off in the subscriptions, although the "income" and "ex penditure" are balanced with an apparent surplus in hand of £l3 lls. 11d., against £8 10s. 10d. last week. The sub scriptions raised in Blackburn last week amount to £ll5. to which £lOO has been added from the reserve fund, and of this £215, £153 has been sent to Colne. After other payments of small amount, there is a balance in hand of £45, and the amount " due to the reserve fund," which hag been drawn on to make up deficiencies during the re cent agitation, is now £5OB. An earnest appeal is made that t' all mills will come up with their levy this week." The subscription raised in Accrington amounts to £l3 9s. Bd., of which £4 10s. was sent to Colne and £4 10s. to Clitheroc, but in the general summary of contributions to Colne, Accrington receives the credit of sending £l3 55., and it would appear that Accrington also has had to draw on the " reserve" fund to the extent of £l6. The amount raised in Padiham last week was £2O 7s. 9d., and after taking £6 14s. Bd. from the reserve fund £2.5 is put down as sent to Colne, but in the general summary of Colne contributions Padiham gets the credit of sending. £45. The amount raised in Preston last week was £32125. Bd., and after paying cer tain expenses £26 is put down as sent to Colne, which leaves a balance in hand of 20s. But in the general summary of contributions to Cohn Preston is put down as sending £123. The subscriptions raised in Haslingden amount to £l5, of which £l3 is sent to Colne, but in the general summary Haslingden is put down as sending £23. The income of the week thus made up amounts to £537, and the expenditure to £532. Darwen has ceased to contribute to the strike,•which is a decrease of £6O per week. THEeral it EV. MR. BONWELL'S CAS E . —Th ere are several misapprehensions afloat i n re f erence to the case of the Rev. James Bonwell, incumbent of St. Philip's, Step ney, and the position he occupies ecclesiastically. The rev gentleman has not been suspended, but has merely been in hibited from the performance of clerical duty in his parish. All his legal rights in the parish remain untouched, and will remain so until he obtain a judgment from the Judicial Com mittee of Privy Council. It is also a mistake to suppose that the sentence of deprivation which the Dean of Arches passed upon him amounts to a deprivation from holy orders ; such a judgment is quite beyond the poTer of the Court. AlthoUgh so long a time has elapsed the case is by no means ripe for being submitted to the Judicial Committee of Privy Council, to whom Mr. Bonwell has given notice of appeal from the decision of Dr. Lushington. On Wednesday, the 17th of April, Mr. Bonwell will have to appear once more before the Court of Arches, to put in his proofs, and even then some time must elapse, owing to the multitudinous technical forms of the court, before a day can be assigned for further hearing ; so that it is not likely that the question can be submitted to the Judicial Committee of Privy Coun cil until after the long vacation—that is towards the close of the year. Meanwhile the Rev. J. G. H. Hill, M.A. of Em manuel College, Cambridge, will remain in sole cha i rge of the parish of St. Philip under the license of the Bishop of London. Seine legal points of great importance affecting the validity of the judgment of the Court of Arches will be submitted to the Judicial Committee. One contention of Mr. Bonwell is, that the Dean of Arches has no power to pronounce a judgment of deprivation on a clergyman, and that the bishop himself ought to perform that duty after the hearing of the case before the Court. This omission, it will be argued, is fatal to the judgment which the Court of Arches pronounced. If Mr. Bonwell is successful on this point, the judgment of the Court below will be quashed, and he will retain possession of his living. In the event of his failing to support his position, the living will be de. Blared vacant, and the principal and fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford, Li whom the patronage rests, will be called upon to nominate a successor. COMMITTAL OF COLLIERS FOR CONSPIRACY AND INTIMIDATIO N.—Yesterday (Friday), seven men, named William Peel, Joseph and George Beaumont, John Scaife, Jesse Gooder, Joseph Kilimr, and Mattthias Ramsden, were , brought up at the Barnsley Court House, before T. Taylor, Esq., and Colonel Daly, on remand, charged with conspiracy and intimidation. The case had pre viously occupied two days. The facts of the case are as follows :—The men at Woolly being dissatisfied with the proprietors' proposal to adjust the wages, gave notice and left. The proprietors thereupon sent into Stafford shire and engaged 72 men to fill their placesi They arrived on tne 24th of March, and on reaching the colliery found a considerable number of the old hands in a planta tion close to it, shouting and beckoning to the new hands. They then got them to fraternise, and on the following morning took them to Barnsley, and paid ,their fares to different places on the road to Staffordshire. After a vast amount of evidence, the bench came to the conclusion, e a d f e t n e c r a e, t f o e w e o highly t h x e cit i n meng f s , c ) r e n t e r s i a i l n a t t h t e h e eliciting Yo o r f k e a y s i : sives. Bail was refused, but it is said an application will i be made to judge in ch am b ers on the subject, ITALY. The following letter, published by the Campana della Gancia of Palermo, is addressed by Garibaldi to the Director of the Milititry Institute of Sicily : " Caprera, 15th March. "Dear Director,—l am deeply grateful to you for the kind remembrance you have retained of me, and for your civilities. Be kind enough to remem ber me most affectionately to my dear young com panions of the Institute. Tell them that Italy must be master from Istria to Marchino (the southern extremity of Sicily), and that we old men rely on the support of their young and valorous arms to complete the expulsion of the Germanic rulers. " GARIBALDI." A letter f rom R ome, i n the Gazette du Midi says : " The police have expelled about 20 families from this city, and among them that of Troubelzkoy, who are relatives of Count de Morny, and who were obliged to leave after only four days' stay. In leaving, the Princess de Troubelzkoy said gaily to the keeper of the hotel at which she had been stop ping. Adieu ! But we shall soon return to Rome with the Piedmontese, and as your accommodation is good, we will again put up at your house 1" FRANCE. BOURSE, April s.—The market has been quiet, but firm, with a slight improvement in quotations. For the Account, Threes are now at 67f 65c. to 67f 70c. Railways are also firm. - -- The following were the last quotations : ft per per Cents ... 95 60 Credit I. oncier 935 Do. end month.... Belgian 4/ lOO 50 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 80 Roman — Bank Shares 2890 i Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 647 50 Spanish Threes — Do. Account 650 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1328 75 .. 1330 Northern 957 50 .. 960 New ditto BB5 885 Lyons and Mediterranean 946 25 947 50 Geneva 387 50 .. 387 50 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian 366 25 .. 367 50 Austrian Lowbard " The signing of the Franco-Belgian commercial treaty," says a Paris letter in the independance, "is now delayed by only a single difficulty relating to alcohols. The representatives of France appear disposed to adhere to the conditions they claim, and, on the other hand, the Belgian plenipoten tiaries do not think that further concessions on their part would be approved by the Belgian Chambers. The signature is consequently adjourned for the moment, but there is little reason to doubt that a compromise, satisfactory to both parties, will soon be brought about." THE COASTGUARD SERTICE.— It would appear from a return recently made that the value of wrecked pro perty saved or protected by the Coastguard during the year 1860 amounted to upwards of £1,100,000, while the number of persons rescued from a watery grave during the same period by this gallant body of men was 528. Results so creditable to the vigilance and bravery of those concerned speak for themselves, and, irrespective of the value of this important force as the nucleus of our naval reserves and for the protection of the revenue, the figures wo have quoted will show that no slight services are rendered in which the t i mercantile portion of the c ommun ity is specially concerned. —viva Service Gazette, THE RIVAL AMERICAN 7A.RIFFS. - - - The Ncto Fork Commercial and iShippng List publishes some interesting particulars respecting the rival tariffs. It says :—" The battle of the tariffs which is about to commence—if it has not already commeneed—between the seceding States and the Federal Union, is one which vitally affects the interests of every merchant, shipper, and busi ness man in the country--and everything, there fore, that tends to develope results is just .now of particular interest. The Augusta ( kronicle, one of the ablest and most impartial journals in Georgia, expresses the belief that a competition of this cha racter must ultimately culminate in establishing free trade in both sections. The editor then goes on to reason that this finally would be most detrimen tal to the Soutb, for the North, with the great ad vantages it has in manufacturing, capital, and skill, would be, as it has been heretofore, the workshop of the South, and we should remain tributary to a nation from which we have separated in enmity, for articles manufactured from staples growing at our very doors. It would be better, therefore, as we think, instead of entering into such a suicidal con - test, to enter into some compact, such, for instance, as has been in iarce between the States of Germany. Their Zollveren, or treaty of commerce, was in stituted under circumstances and necessities simi lar to those wlich will soon press upon the two American Confederacies. That treaty has been in force nearly 20 yeaas, and its effect in abrogating numerous and vexatious restrictions, and putting an end to smuggling, and the irritating centre versiesiwhich lad been continually occurring among the numerous 3 erman Sovereignties, have rendered it very accepttble to merchants and people. The substance of •he arrangement is, that along the whole of the erterior frontier of the German States the same tarif of duties is enforced, and the neces sity of interior customhouses exists no longer. The revenue collected is proportionably divided among the different Governments. Such a plan, or a similar one, to suit circumstances, might be adopted here; and we prophesy, when two of the sections have got intc a better humour by living apart for a time, and ro further causes of exasperation occur, such an arrangement will be adopted. The neces sity for it will become every year more apparent.' The proposed Southern Tariff Bill differs very little from our old (1857) tariff, except that considerable additions have been made to the free list. We intended to rublish the bill entire, but as Con gress adjourned without acting upon it, and as it nay not become law after all, we concluded to postpf„ ne it s publication for the present. As some of our retd ers may be interested in its general provisons, however, we make the following abstract :—There are i ve schedules, a list of specific duties, and a free lie • Schedule A pave an ad valorem duty of 25 per cent., schedule B, 20 per cent. ; C, 15 per cent. ; D, 10 per cent. ; and E, 5 per cent. The first of these schedules is nearly identical with the 30 per cent. schedule of our present tariff, brandy and wines the chief articles, on which, however, they save 5 per cent. as compared with the present rate. They re tain cigars and manufactured tobacco in this list, and cut glass also. Their 20 per cent schedule corre sponds mainly with the 24 per cent. of our tariff, including in it sugar and molasses in all forms, and throwing out ale and beer, manufactures of fur and knit woollens, carpets, carriages, clocks, clothing, cheese, coal, cutlery, diamonds, earthenware, epau lettes, furniture, glass manufactures, and manufac. tures generally in this list, excepting those of silk, the precious metals, and plated ware and perfumeries The 15 per cent. schedule takes most of the manu factures of our 24 per cent list, and nearly all of our 19 per cent. list, clothing, carriages, carpets. and almost all ordinary manufactures. The 10 per cent. schedule has ashes, bark, lumber, books, cheese, coal, diamonds, furs unmanufactured, hemp, and nearly all crude drugs and unmanufactured articles, including steel in bars, iron in bars, and railroad iron, wool unmanufactured, and unmanu factured tobacco. The next or 5 per cent. schedule has a small list, also of raw materials mainly, as follows :—old brass, copper ore, pig and old copper, diamonds not set, guano, iron in pig and bloom, manures of all sorts, papers for printing newspapers, paving stones, sheathing copper, stove bolts, tin in pig, bar, and ore, and zinc. As there are but few articles in this 5 per cent. list the general difference between raw materials and manufactured goods is represented by the 10 and 15 per cent. schedules respectively. Manufaoturers are therefore protected in the Cotton Confederacy by a discriminating duty of 5 per cent. The specific schedule has but three items—ice at 2 dole. per ton, tea at 4c. per lb., and salt at 3e. a bushel, In the free list, in addi tion to the usual items in our own tariff, there are included books published by religious associations, copper, when for the mint of the Confederated States,' garden seeds, bacon, pork, hams, lard, beef, flour and bran of wheat, flour and bran of all other grains, Indian corn and meal, barley, oats, rye, and oatmeal; living animals of all kinds not otherwise provided for; also agricultural productions, includ ing those of the orchard and garden in their natural state not otherwise provided for; gunpowder and all the materials of which it is made, lead in pigs or bars, in shot or balls, for cannon, muskets, rifles, or pistols ; rags of whatever material composed ; arms of every description for military purposes, and parts thereof; munitions of war, military accoutre ments, and percussion caps, cotton, ships, steamers, barges, dredging vessels, machinery, screw pile jetties, and articles used in the construction of har bours, and for dredging and improving the same. The enumerated list, which cannot be very large, since the schedules embrace all the articles enume rated in our tariffs as now enacted, pays 10 per cent.; and it is generally enacted that unenumerated articles which much resemble those enumerated shall pay the rate of duty levied on that which they do so resemble. This is made to apply to all goods in public store on May Ist next. The col lector of every port decides positively all questions of duty, unless appeal is made within 10 days, with days notice to head; quarters at Montgo mery ; suit may, however, may be brought to test the question more formally, at any time within 30 days after the duties are actually paid. As to un dervaluation, it is provided that the consignee or agent of goods may ' make such addition in the entry to the cost or value given in the invoice as in his opinion may .raise the same to the true market value of such imports in the principal markets of the country whence the importation shall have been made; and to add thereto all costs and charges which, under existing laws, would form part of the true value at the port where the same may be entered, upon which the duty shou:d be assessed.' This is a provision giving unusual latitude to consignees and others. The Nobile .advertiser is entering into a calculation of the probable yield of the cotton crop for the next 10 years, for the purpose of demonstrating in advance, the salutary effect of the proposed export fluty on. the staple. The crop during the next 10 years, the editor is sure, will increase 40 per cent. But,' (we quote) when to this is added the consideration that, in the event of the border States standing aloof from the South, an increased emigration hither of the citizens of those States with their families of slaves is sure to take place, we may safely disregard the 41 per cent. of the crop which is produced in those States, and base our calcula tions upon the former entire crops of the United States. On that basis the expectation of future crops in the Confederate States is as follows:-- 1861-2, 4,088,000 bales; 1862-3, 4,228,000; 1863-4, 4,373,000; 1864-5, 4,520,000; 1865-6, 4,675,000 ; ,1866-7, 4,835,000 ; 1867-3, 5,000,000 ; 1868-9, 5,171,000; and 1869-70, 5,318,000.' " AMERICAN INVENTIONS.—At the Society of Arts on Wednesday, the paper read was " Some Account of American Implements and Economic Contrivances," by C. W. Eddy, M.A., M. 8., formerly Travelling Fellow of the University of Oxford. The author began by saying that he thought the observing, traveller in America could not fail to be struck with astonishment at the vast amount of work that had been achieved, of forests cleared, of land reclaimed, of roads, railroads, an d cana l s construc t e d, an d o f cities built by a spar se an d sca t tere d popu l at i on , i n th e brief pe • riod of time which had elapsed since the first peopling of the country. In considering these wonderful results he had been led to notice the ingenuity shown by the people in devising implements and machinery for economising labour, which was so dear in many parts of that country, a n d some of which he thought well worthy of attention, and even of adoption, in England. He would first touch upon agricul tural implements. The first he noticed was the American felling axe, so well known in timber regions. Large quan tities of these axes were made by convicts in the State pri sons and sold at a slightly remunerative price. Next in order to the felling axe came the stump extractor, a com pound lever wood, strengthened with iron, 30 feet long, with a handle at each end, worked generally by a chain of iron. The author then spoke o f a method of applying steam power for felling and cutting up trees ; of a peculiar method of fencing; of an earth augre for boring holes for posts ; of the mode of making plank roads ; and described in detail the different kinds of stone-crushing machines, which worked very efficiently. A peculiar kind of carriage spring, able to bear the jerking of the roughest roads, was next noticed, and some modifications in the general con struction of American carts and waggons was described; also the endless railway horse-power ; and for most of the stationary work on a farm—thrashin,g, winnowing, chaff and corn -stalk cutting, cutting up wood for fuel, &c. The subject of ploughs was discussed at some length, and the portable steam p!ough de scribed. Various other inventions and appliances were alluded to, such as machine-made watches, wood-working machinery, floating docks, unloading gear for ;:hipping, rail way engines and carriages, tramways and tramway cars, steam ferry-boats, canal sluices, canal boats built in sec• tions, steamboats and pilot boats, &c. ; and, finally, modes of house-warming adapted for very cold climates, LITERATURE. ~• Egypt, the , ‘*oudan, and Central Africabein g Sketches from ,%i x t een Y ears ' fravel By John Petherick, F.R.G.S., H M. Consul for the Soudan. William Blackwood and Sons. This volume cont a i ns an i nterest i ng account o f travels and explor a ti ons among the savage tr ib e s that inhabit the western portion of Central Africa. The author is one well qualified to describe them from his long residence in the country, and from the hardihood with which he penetrated into the most dangerous regions. During the first part of _ his wanderings h e was engaged in the service o f Mehemet Ali Pacha, Viceroy of Egypt, i n the capacity of mining engineer. The Videroy was very anxious to discover coal in his territories, and therefore employed a French and an English engineer, in the hope that the spirit of national . rivalry would stim u l a t e th e i r ef f orts. The attempt was, however, unsuccessful, and the author was subsequently employed on a different expedition: After some years he retired from the service of the Egyptian Government and engaged in th e Burs and ivory trade. It was in the latter pur suit that he encountered his most exciting adven tures, as the search f or t us k s l ed him among wild and hostile tribes, to whom the sight of a European was something startling. The astonishment and alarm excited by his firearms was unbounded, and was often the means of preserving the lives of the party. On one occasion he had penetrated the domains of the Neam Nam, a fero cious tribe who inhabit the district near the moun tains of the Moon, a little to the north of Lake Tanganyika. The savages gathered round their encampment, seemingly in high good humour, but before long the travellers discovered with some difficulty, through the medium of their interpreters, that their visitors were discussing the feast they would furnish, which was only delayed for the arrival of their chief. Feeling secure in the posh session of their guns the party remained quiet, when presently an old man appeared, who, aftera little consideration, advised the tribe not to insult the strangers, asking them if they knew any tribe that would have dared to approach their village in such small nambers. The savages replied in the nega tive, and the old man—whose powers of reasoning seem to have been very good—went on to say that since none knew whence they came, their country must be far distant, and to have traversed all the intervening lands in safety they must have some strange means of defence. This address seemed to have a beneficial effect with the majority. The old man, motioning two or three of them out of the way, seated himself near me, and endeavoured to converse with me ; but failing, he called the interpreter. first wish was to examine my rifle : removing the cap, I tided it to him. Long and silent was his examination; tn , most inexplicabl e p ar t seeming the muzzle, which, ins most of being pointed, had a hole in it. Placing his finger therein, he looked at me with the grea test astoniaraent ; and to give lai.n a practical explanation, I seizeL a fowling-piece from the hand of ray favourite d pointing to a v u lt ure h overing over us, I hunter, re; but d efore the bird t ouc h e d the ground, the crowd to and grovelling in the dutit, as if e very wmanere 0 p t. r t o h s e t u d been shot. The old man's head, with ears, was a t my and feet ; and w h en I raised is ees were fixed h h i i m s h , a n n ia ds ap o p n ea on me with a meteiess expression. 1 thought he had lost his senses.N was ghastly, h er shaking him several times, I at ttracting his attention to the lien -n -last agonies between two of his men. The in g animation he gave was, putting his hand to his head an, l T bei h nrd e g,t fi hq rst sign of retun n _ recovered ; and as soon as 116 examining himself, as if in search hisH ve,g)icrea,dcuaaly to the crowd, who, one after the c o of other,ual drfloeurgsnatidnr. raised their heao lifeless comrades. After and then again dropped them at the sight of their apparel ly they ventured to rise, and g i n'y wounds commenced. the repeated call of the old a general inspection of ima still greater danger On other occasions he was .es, and an old chief nom the hostility of the tr been for his myste once told him that had it not the Whole party, Lk marks on paper, rious dealings with the little bl his tribe would have annihilatel/4 since they were not so afraid of L iarms, as it was the destiny of all brave men tt. di e i but that they feared that sorcery wo n 'd exterminate the whole tribe. Another time they •efused to let him have porters for his goods, and k • • t him in state of siege. One tribe were in r, rain, and insisted on the stranger toßit want of battle, marvellous powers bringing it for the The ingenious devices by which ate author ex r i c ated himself and his companions from these l erione whc`%ad such embarrassments will entertain the reader. The following anecdote is amusing They wore great smokers of tobacco, of their own gr.,vrthp mixed with the rind of the banana, also indigenous to the country. I was presented with some of it by Dimoo, .9 , 11 0 professed great attachment towards me. To my great tis• comfort, after having partaken of my pipe, he expressed liking for my tobacco ; and not knowing how to l'efitse bra, and at the same lime exceedingly anxious to retain intact the small quantity remaining, I had recours e to a ruse; and, giving instructions accordingly to my servant, he re tired into the interior of the hut to fill the pipe. I n the mean time I explained to Dimoo that if any person smoked my tobacco who was not perfectly well disposed towards him, it would betray him by breaking his pipe in mY presence. Not afraid of the ordeal, he accepted a well-replenished pipe, whilst my servant, by a sign, a° - quainted me that my instructions had been curie' out. Dimoo, seated opposite to me in company of some eight or ten of the notabilities of the place, commenced smoking vehemently, when an explosion of gunpowder in the bowl of the pipe sent it, as well as the chief and companions, flying. Dirac* regained his equanimitly begged me to p ar d on hi m, and that he would never more conceal anything from me; and the only harm he meant was to detain me amongst them until they had become possessed of the whole of our riches, which he confessed, they greatly cove t e d As a proof of his sincerity and goo's... feeling, he would now ass i st me in departing whenever A chose. Explaining to him the necessity of my dapartur! at a stated time, in order to return with an increased stow.- of beads, I promised to wait the first rains, and to purcheris all the ivo r y t na t could be procured. After this little even., I was looked upon as something almost superhuman, and was respected accordingly. It is a curious fact that some of the beads which the Djour tribe possessed, and which the au thor obtained specimens of, were found by his bead mer chant to have been manufactured at Venice solely for the South American trade, and must cons& quently have reached the African continent through slavers, In the earlier part of the work we have many interesting details of the districts less central- Here is an account of the depredations of the white ants in the neighbourhood of Kordofan : • The white ants infest this neighbourhood in great abun dance : standing proofs existed in numerous mounds of earth, six feet above the level of the ground, and mostly of a round shape, some ten or twelve feet in diameter at the base. The trunks and branches of fallen trees bore MIS indis putable evidence of their p resence; a ll t h ose which had fallen prior to or during the r a i n y season, w h en there sufficient moisture for the insect to work, were covered will a coating of mud, which, becoming hardened by the sun, formed an incrustation, beneath which it de vours the wood. These were now in many instances en tirely hollow, every particle of the wood having been eaten. Everything short of metal on the ground within their reach is in danger of being eaten by them, as soon ae it is covered ty a coating of earth. This covering is intended only to guard them against the light, exposure to which kills them. They are the greatest curse that call infest an inhabited neighbourhood ; nothing is safe from" them; all w oo d wor k of brick houses is attacked, and the huts are daily covered with fresh incrustations b the pe r ." severing insects, notwithstanding all the care of the inhabi tants, to beat th em oil as soon as th e y are d ry. It is neces sary to raise all articles of clothing from the ground. One night night I remained a t a house, ignorant of its b e i ng infested by these destructi ve atoms. In the morning, when drawing on my boots, my foot went through the bottom of o ne; the sole had entirely disappeared, as if cut off by a knife, and the greater part of my rug had also been eaten. The work is written in an easy and agreeable style, and gives the reader a great deal of information, respecting the country and its wild inhabitants, in an entertaining form. Those who are interested in scientific explorations will learn from the intro ductory statement the particulars of the proposed expedition, of which Mr. Petherick is to b e the leader, and which is to endeavour to join the party already despatched by Government under Captains Speke and Grant, towards the sources of the Nile by way of Zanzibar. The anecdotes and incidents of Arab and Negro life are numerous. We corn' mend Mr. Petherick's interesting volume to all who wish to improve their acquaintance with Central Africa and its inhabitants, without incur' ring the risk of furnishing a feast to the Neel ° Nam and their associates. FREAKS AND PROMOTION. Last week's Gazette affords an illustration of the caprices of promotion in our army. By the death of the gallant Gen. Sir Archibald Maclain, Lieut.-Gen. Sir De Lacy Evans become! " General;" while into his shoes as lieutenant' general slips Major-General the Hon. C. Orel' Equerry to the Queen, and Colonel of the 3d Bun,g* According to H ar t, Si r D e L acy Evans (ensign 4 1807) was gazett e d li eu t enant - general after 11 years' service. Gen. Grey (ensign in 1820), attain! the same rank in 41 years; difference in favour of of 6 years—although Evans fought with gree t distinction in India, in the Peninsula, in America, commanded the British Legion in Spain. and led the glorious 2d division in the Crimea ; while Orel ., however efficient at court, knows not the boom of a shotted gun. Nhe death of another Peninsula hero, Sir Love' Lovel, raises Major-General Lord de Ros (Lieute nant of the Tower) to be lieutenant -general. His lordship (ensign of 1819) without war service reaches his present grade five years before the fight: ing veteran Evans did. The advancenymt of Lord de Ros makes way as major-general left. Colonel the Hon. James Lindsay. This gentleman antered the Guards in 1832, and, although without war service, s mnjor. genera l 10 years before Sir De L ac y Evans was. above e or instances tt() s p h r o e w fer t m ha e t nt i is n n th o e t British s shreugh " thq imminent deadly breach." armTyhethaebos test cu 10, pre let Vat an( Th l div zeu Pal Sec Cen Me: at E deal ahoy Can eac] emit Ban; 3 pe: 3 pe. New Indi, COR; Exci Br Chil MCIS Spa ] Tur Ti bet! Naii Abe Lett Ber'