The Sun. — London, England, 1856-03-26 00:00:00

THEAT*E* ROYAL, DRURY.LA.NE. Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EC ENING, THE GIPSEY'3 VENGEANCE. gupported by Augudus Brahara, brayton, and Farquharson ; Was Lucy Eseott, and Miss Fanny Haddad. o e olude with MARGUERITE, *Legend of Love. THEATRE ROYAL. HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. BuckStOne. THIS EVENING, THE EVIL GENIUS. Followed by EL DAMBUSIWO ; or, The Mexican Goldseeker. In Which PEREA 'NEN& and the Spanish Dancers will appear. After which, LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS To conclude with JOHN JONES. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Dudec the Management of Mr. CHAPLIN BELL. THIS FVENING, The Historical Play of LOUIS XI. Louis (Xing of France), by Mr. Charles Kean. After which. THE VICTOR VANQUISHED. , • To conclude with A PRINCE FOR AN HOUR. YRRATRE ROYAL ADEtami. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.---Directress. Madame Waft THIS EVENIDIO, DOMESTIC ECONOMY. • To be fonovred by lIRGENP PRIVATE AFFAIRS. • _ • To conclude with JiCK, AND THE. at BE ( Cif STALomeK ; or, Harlequin and Mother oase H Again. In which Wins. 31-Eland, P. Bedfo r d. madame cotes* miss Wyndham, and Xisa E. Arden will appear. 'ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. • Lessee and ManaTer. Mr. AlfrM Wigan. THIS EVENING STiY AT HOME. After which will be produced a New and dsubly-moral, thong% ateesslyely old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled Trig GISMO:ere PRI 1,11.149, or, the Three Glass Distals. Irt which Messrs,. Emery, F. Robson, IL Cooper, Ulu Marston, and hflu Haskell w appea,r. ill ROYA.T. Str3REI" friIEATRE. Lessees, Mews. Sheoherl and Creswick. THIA EVETI'SG. Will be performed a new Drama, entitled BOW WF. LIVE. Followed by TtrFFLEHAITSEN; .or, The Lawyer's Legend. To conclude with TUE COBBLER AND TAILOR. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Under the direction of Mr: Payne. THIS EVE ?TING, TIIE LOSE DIAMONDS. A flor which. GOOD QUEEN BTSS.' To conclude with IT r.ttss IN THE FAMILY. ROYAL MARYLEBONE THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Edward Stirling. VHS EVE vIN3, LOST, £30,000. Messrs. Stuart, , Balford, Stirling, Carter, Langton; Messds. An derton, Morell. Mars. Brothers Elliott's wenderfal.performantes. GRA N'D BALLET. Mainselle Agnes, Mr. ant Mrs. II trvey, and Corps d 3 Ballot. Musical Fairy Spectacle, FAIRY FERN FLOWER; or, THE GOT AN MINE. Miss Francis Hughei, .Miss Morel', Mr. Sanders. Mr. J. Bedford, and 3I Ladies. Boxes and Stalls, 2s. ; Plt, Is.; Gallery, 6d. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRIC. tease° and ?dander. Mr. Wm. Cooks. Easter Attractions. Astley's Great Spring Meeting and National Steeplechase. THIS EVENING, THE ARAB OF' THE DESERT AND HIS FAITHFUL STEED. The actingborse. trained by Mr Willies, Cooke. A novel series of SCENES In the CIRCLE. New act. the Post man's Knock. • ' First appearance of the Misses Dacey on the Dmble Tight Rope. • ' New urame with t h e ORE tT SPRING MEETING and ENG NATIONXL STEEFLEIHA4E, on Stage, combined with Ring, introducing Mr.. W . Cooke's nets racing stad and daring jockeys. In the chase from,the starting unto, the winning post, with other entertainments. Box-ollce open frotn'Eleven fill Fon!. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. tibinestristrf Director. bit'. sv. Cooke, ftut. EMU ST " ItY'S " krPIN AGE 3 OF *01E15." second Acosta'. This Lyric Entertainment has been ci;wned by the unanimous approbation of ALL TIIF, LOhTIVI.N• JO lINA.LS As the gre , test artistica' triumph , of the atty. It constAtutea an Opera. c.merly, and V.tuil6 , itte. With a host Of characters In Correct cos tumes ) east Songs in • SIX DIFPEnENT LANGUAGES! Never attempted by any other artiste. Evening Performances on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, at 8. , • Morning nerformanoes on Wednesdays and Saturdays at half-past two, precisely. Admission—Chairs, 3s: ; Centre Seats, 2s. ; Back Seats, Is. BART MARTIN'S HALL, Long-acre. ECM WATER AT LONDON 1311,TDGE TIM DAY—Morn. 3t min.' aft. 4—Evening 4t min. aft. 4 Tn-hionalow—Morn. 59 min. aft. 4—Evening 17 min. aft. 5 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, Minos 26. THERMOMETER, IN THB SHADE. 46—highest since noon yesterday. 40 —lowest this morning and durtn4 the night. 43 —this dig at noon. RAReddITEB-29 . 93. WIND—E. to E.S.E.—Fresh, and bitterly cold, with dull weather and glimpses of sunshine. c4, - 74 . riCIA:)t LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, AK The two most suspicious circumstances we had gathered from the rumours current, in relation to the Peace Conferences, are the exquisite facility of Russia in conceding points she was fully ex pected to have contested with vigour, if not with determination, and. the muttered threats of Rus sian vengeance, reported to have been levelled by Count ORLOFF - against. Austria. The Ethiopian does not readily change the colour of his akin, nor the leopard part with ,his spots, and, linking to gether the above circumstances, we must be par doned for having deduced from them the convic tion that the two . Powers are in collusion, a;d have been, and are practising deliberate foul play against the Qllies. ,Russia, whose policy it has always been to magnify her triumphs, and mini mise her defeats, and, Whatever her braggadocio before, to vaunt her resources, and insist on her conditions being accepted, Ore and simple, most strenuously, in circumstances of disaster, so yield ing as she is reported to be now ! And threaten ing Austria when, if ixhausted as she is repre sented to be; Austria has proved her best friend by securing her peace ! How are we to reconcile these things on Any other supposition than that we have advanced/ Let us see to what extent, without any undue straining, the most recent rumour or fact—for that to which we are about to refer may be ac cepted as such—may throw light on the matter. The Turkish, Plenipotentiary, AAU p,„ A, it is confidently asserted, has received peremp tory instructions from the Council at Con kantinople not to consent to the insertion of the SULTAN'S late decree in the articles of peace, on the pretence that auoh insertion would bind the Porte—which, by the way, no one ever doubted needed binding, so fast and loose has it played with its promises of reform—to a certain form of administration in its own independent territoz ice ; and further, to oppose any arrange ment about the Principalities which should be in any way prejudicial to the sovereign rights of the SULTAN in these provinces. Has the reader caught a glimpse of the truth 7 The grand aim of the Allies in dealing with Turkey must, we apprehend, be to obtain every reasonable security for the future welfare and stability of that un happy country, so that the least possible excuse for interference on the part of her unscrupulous neighbours should be forthcoming. To this end the carrying out of thz late deco. of the SvuAx, land the establishment of a healthy and vigor- ' ons form of government is the Principalities : two essentially necessary. The carrying out of the one, more" especially, because of the good , rill the emancipation from their civil and roll eous disabilities would insure on the part of the G reek Christians ; and the establishment of the oiler, because of the evident check a strong and limited people would/give to the aggressive designs 1 ' of Austria and Russia. Now, if such be the effect which may reasonably be calculated on from the carrying out of these reforms and the establish ment of such a rule, it is quite . obvious what would be the result if neither wore accomplished. As it was, if not worse, Turkey would continue to be ; and over the Principalities one or two armies would incessantly hover, like so many vul tures, waiting their opportunity. All, or nearly all, that has been won by the sword would prove a bit of waste parchment. Russia knows this, Austria knows this, and Tdrkey ought to know it, as indeed we believe her rascally Pachas do. And all three likewise know, and we trust the Allies also, that if the decree of the SULTAN be not inserted in the articles of peace, and the " sovereign" scruples of the Porte (they may be counted, possibly, in Aove reigns or their equivalents) be respected, the re forms promised will never be accomplished, the Christian Rayahs in Turkey will continue disaf fected, and the Principalities will be as powerless, as full of intrigue, and provocative of aggression as ever, haling lost the brightest prospects not merely ever held out to that corn-growing country, but probably to any two provinces in modern times. Is the fate of Kars not yet sufficiently burnt into the English mind ? Is it forgotten—why, it must be as present as the air we breathe, that Kara was bought with Russian gold, as it is that our Ambassador, who may have followed instruc tions from a high, though not a Ministerial quar ter, as good as looked on and saw, without making an attempt at interference, the villainous bargain consummated. What bought Kars, has, in all human probability, moved the Council at Con stantinople to issue these, its fresh instructions, to its Plenipotentiary, and the purchaser of the Council, as of Kars, may well afford the appearance of an eager longing for peace that will be gratified even at more than ordinary sacri fice, and is likely enough to have recourse to a simulated anger against Austria, the more suc cessfully to carry on the deception. The interests of Russia and Austria may be said to be at one with respect to the future of Turkey and the Prin cipalities, and how could either be better served than with Turkey for a cats-paw to obtain from the Allies what they dare not themselves demand ; bat having which, any sacrifice either may have pretended to make, will turn out as perfect a mat ter of indifference to them as of utter inutility to the carrying out the aim of the Allies. Iu Hea ven's name let us not be sold after this fashion. We have lost much gallant, and not a little noble blood—have or have had saddled on ourselves much taxation, and need some palpable fruit to set against the deep and abiding feeling of degra dation which the shameful mismanagement of the War, and our consequent loss of prestige, has occasioned us. Let the Council of Constanti nople be taught a stern lesson, and have clearly and unmiatakeably demonstrated to it, that, come what may of its promised gold, its resistance to the policy of the Allies must at once determine before the fixed and irrevocable resolution of France and England; that Turkey shall no longer play fast and loose with her prothises—but shall be made to keep her own word in real interests and the interests of Europe. If this be not done, the future historian will have to exhaust all epithets of scorn and disgust at the miserable folly of the rulers of the two greatest ,nations in the world; who went to war for the protection of a weak State, and when they had brought the enemy to terms, suffered a knot of villainous intriguers in that State to choose them out of the attainment of their aim. The Rev. H. F. YEATMAN, Chairman of the late Dorset Intermediate Sessions, at which JosErn BYL113; a poor labourer, convicted on a charge of feloniously receiving a sack and some wheat, the property of his employer, was twice sentenced under very remarkable circumstances, has addressed a letter to the local newspapers, in which he endeavours to vindicate himself and his brother Magistrates from the strictures of The Sun, and other members of thq metropolitan press, on the procedure of the Bench on that occasion. Unfortunately for himself and them, though only as might have been expected, the attempted vindication turns out an utter failure ; no fact of importance being controverted, and everything new advanced only tending to show how lenient and how thoroughly applicable those strictures were. In order that the reader may be enabled, to form au opinion on the case, it will be necessary to restate the principal facts. JOSEPH BYLES, then, a labourer, was, with his wife and daughter, charged before the Bench at the above Sessions with having stolen or feloniously received the sack and wheat in question, and, together with his wife, convicted on the latter count (the daughter being acquitted), and sentenced, himself to nine months' imprison ment (with hard labour), and his wife to six months. And here we may state, a perusal of the evidence left little doubt at the time in our minds of the wife's guilt, while the presumption was exceedingly strong in favour of Josarn's innocence. The prisoners were tried and sen tenced on the first day of the Sessions. On the second, the Rev. Chairman drew the atten tion of the jury, in a tautological address, gar nished with every circumstance of amazement, to " a most startling assertion" made to the Bench that day by the prosecutor —an asser tion that had " greatly surprised them," and to , the effect that in his belief the pri soner, JOSEPH BYLES, was innocent ! "Un der this startling discovery" (we quote from the report) " the Court was desirous of reconsider ing the sentence passed upon JOSEPH BYLES, but they were unwilling to do so without asking the opinion of the jury on the more or less guilt or in nocence (!) of the prisoner. They did not wish to put them in the unpleasant po .sition of reconsidering their verdict. There was no doubt that, in paint of law, he was respon sible for what was found in his house (the stolen articles, by the way, were found concealed in the pantry), but what the court desired was whether the jury, upon reconsideration, thought (in the absence of any evidence !) that the guilt of JosEril BYLES was not as great as they originally thought it to be—whether they thought it right he should have a less degree, of punishment (!) They would consider whether they could reCDTE mend him (the said JOSEPH BYLES) to the mer ciful consideration of the court." The well meaning jury, it would appear, thought they could, for they did so, taking care, however, to state it was on the recommendation of Mr. SAUNDERS, the (unreasonable) prosecutor. JOSEPH BYLES was then sent for, and on appear ing at the bar had his sentence commuted from nine to three months' imprisonment with hard labour ! Such are the facts on which we commented a fortnight ago, as follows :—" The reader is incre dulous. It is nevertheless the fact. The unfor tunate man was aware of the wheat and sack being in his house or he was not. If he was aware, he was guilty ; if not, he was innocent. If he was guilty no extenuating circumstances were forthcoming ; if innocent (and the party most interested next to himself in the fact, viz., the prosecutor, pronounced 'him to be so), he was entitled to nothing short of an acquittal. Yet, after an anomalous reference to the jury, he was, on their unwarranted recommendation to mercy, sentenced to three instead of nine months' hard labour !" Subsequently, in the same article in which another instapce of " justice's justice" was noticed, we called attention , to the fact that the chairman in BYLES'S case was a clergyman, and challenged the reader's recollection whether "the most glaringly foolish and unmerciful decisions emanating from the unpaid magistracy that had come within the range of his knowledge were not attributable to members of the cloth." What has the seriously outraged and Rev. H. F. YZATIIIN to say in self-defence, and on behalf of his brother magistrates ? A good deal, a column and a half, no less, of the most tumid balder dash, conceived in the utmost arrogance, by the most muddled brain almost imaginable, and no thing further to the purpose than as demonstrating the grotesque incompetency of the Beach, , the "startling" mercifulness a i d mo d es t y of his own disposition, and the shameful injustice done to the prisoner. After a column of prOsy twaddle, chiefly technical, partly given to 'grief and " amazement," and altogether meant possibly to be expository of the case, the rev. successor to the Apostles again expresses surprise at the prose cutor's conduct, this time describing his statement as " so completely out of date," and accounts for his recommending the prisoner to mercy by in forming us it was on his (the Chairman's) recom mendation, as being the only thing he could do. Admits teat the recommendation of the jury " was founded on no fact," and affirms for the edification of those " who are always ready to speak evil of dignities, and to cast stones on those who sit in the judgment seat"—that the Court " had no power in law to alter or modify the ver dict of the juzy, which had been recorded on the previous day (no one, by the way, having said it had), Audaciously pronounces the prisoner guilty, and asserts that if the Court erred at all it dirt so "by administering the law with too much mercy (HEAVEN help us !) to a man who had feloniously robbed his master" (that master, be it remembered, a hard, though justly disposed man, who allowed him and his family much too little bread to eat, and a very unlikely person to be imposed upon, or moved by foolish pity, having pronounced him innocent of any such offence !) Concluding with a postcript, in which he "lets the cat out of the bag," declaring that, had the Bench considered the verdict contrary to the evidence, they might, and should (would ?) have submitted the case and the notes of evi-' denco to the consideration of Her MA.- JESSTY'S Secretary of State for the Home Department ;" but, not dissenting from‘ the said verdict, they could not do so eonscien tiously ! ! Conscientiously ! Why that was what they " might and should" have done in any case, whether they believed him positively innocent or guilty, or "more` or Jess innocent or guilty ;" in stead of , stultifying both themselves, the prose cutor, 'and the jury by the unheard of, and wholly unjustifiable and ridioulous course they adopted. The presumption and hard-hearted .fless of the man more than surprises —it almost petrifies usv He— a minister of religion, a disciple of Him whose life was a life of mercy, whose doctrine was mercy l all whose acts *ere merciful, who offered -no outlet to the vengeance of the accusers of the woman taken in adultery, but bade such as were without sin among them first throw a stone at her, and when, conscience• stricken, -they had all slunk away, gently accosted her, and said, "Hath no man con demned thee ? neither do I condemn thee ; go thy way, and sin no more" --- actually deems himself justified in intercepting the mercy of the Crowa towards BYLE% because of his be lief in the poor man's guilt, notwithstanding his accuser had pronounced hini innocent ; as the jury, if they could have reconsidered their ver dict, would,‘ there can be no doubt, have done also, leaving hiM--wretched creature that he was and is—to drag out his three months' term of hard labour and imprisonment ? Nay, mere than this, positively brands the man's character afresh, and "conceives that if the Bench (acting under his direction) erred at all, it was by admi nistering the law with too much mercy to a man who had feloniously robbed his master." Did no recollection of his own Master and His precepts mantle his cheeks with a blush of shame as he penned the words t Had the memorable " judge not lest ye be judged," or "judge righteous judgment," escaped his recollection, together with that legacy of the poor to the kind liest regard and consideration of His servants? But we refrain. We write more in sorrow than in auger, and, knowing nothing more of the gen tleman than the case reveals, certainly froni no latent personal hostility, but from a sense of duty to him as well as the public and the prisoner ; and therefore, in conclusion, we sincerely wish him repentance, a "good conscience,'' and better "law," and invite the attention of the Home- Office to the entire affair, trusting that the know= ledge so- considerately-kept back from it will lead to the immediate liberation of the prisoner, and the vindication of stultified justice by the appoint ment of a stipendiary, or, at all events, a better qualified Chairman of Sessions. Absurdities and abuses like this, we fear, are fast uprooting in the minds of the poor all respect for.law, as well as its unpaid administrators. This evil cannot, we conceive, be too promptly checked. THE PRICE OF PEACE. England dishonoured ; Italy betrayed ; Rewards of treachery to Austria paid ; The rising hopeli of Poland's freedom crushed ; The cries of trodden nations rudely hushed ; Sinope's crime and Inkerman condoned ; The inassaere of Mango unatoned ; The soil by valour won and heroes' graves Left to the insults of barbarian slaves ; All this, that despots may prolong their hour O. public plunder and unlawful power, And, with their armies from the war set free, May bind more fast their peoples' slavery. March, 1856. J. M. His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Countess Periigny will arrive in town this evening from Warwick, where they have been stayin; for a few days past. Viscount Palmerston left town with Visco'intees Pal merston, yesterday, for his seat, 13roadlands, Hants. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left London, yes terday, for his seat, Herpton Court, Kington, Hereford. The Right Hon. H. Labouchere and Lady Mary Labouehere arrived in town on Monday evening. Sir John and Lady Lister Kaye and family have ar rived at their residence in Portland-place, from their seat, Denbigh Grange, Yorkshire. We are authorised to contradict a paragraph stating that "Mr. Ormsby Gore, M.P., is suffering from con gestion of the brain." Mr. Gore was very ill for a few boors, but is now rapidly regaining strength. Sir Robert Peg! kasEed throegh Turin on the 21st. SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS. THE SUFFOLK-STREET EXHIBITION. On Saturday afterseen ) according to annual cus• tom, we duly wended our way along Suffolk street, Pall Mall East, to the private view of the paintings displayed somewhere about epring- time, year after year, by the Society of British Artists—the first privileged glimpse of one of our most popular London Exhibitions. The collection for 1856 now hanging upon the walls of the Gallery, is that of the thirty-third memo; it appears—the association having been originally founded and incorporated by Royal Charter in the year of grace 1823. As many as 843 pictures in oil and water colours adorn the sides of the five apartments' en suite, only three specimens of sculpture decorating the floor of the outer room, the room just within the vestibule. Among the rather numerous contribu tors the most industrious, at least so far as we can estimate the amount of his industry by the variety of his productions, appears to be Mr. J. J. Wilson of Folkestone. The most conspicuous among the exhibitors being as usual the very men whose names have long been the chief boast of the society, not forgetting among these, altogether apart from his official position, the p a i n t er wom the British artists have long ago selected, and' since then retained, as their President. To a certain extent, consequently, the general character of each year's exhibition preserves, season after season, a strong and unmistakeable sort of a family resemblance. Entering the Gallery, in Suffolk street, any fine Saturday morning in March, you may be certain that,. while making the circuit of the four inner rooms, your eyes will be greeted by some sly-looking Italian boy, with an olive com plexion; instantly recognizable as a Hurlstone ! • By a chalky-coloured landscape, or a milky-hued sea view, such as Pyne's brush alone could by any possibility delineate ! By a Clint, blushing all over with the gorgeous dyes of sunset I By the prettiest; daintiest, sweetest, freshest, rustic girl, or stripling; with (be sure of that) a little child • introduced somewhere or other, to stand upon tip toe and drink out of a pitcher, ,visible at the first glance as another charming nwrceau from the easel of Hill ! Yonder, again, a Woolmer, painted in splotches and, ..blots of gamboge, white, and car mine, out-of which grows upon your view some partially nude and very voluptdotis figure, stand ing, or sitting, or kneeling, or lying in most unaccountable nakedness ip the midst of the most amply flowing and voluthinous of draperies ! While every now and then, as we saunter on, past picture after picture from very various hands indeed, we come most refreshingly upon some delicious little peep of river scenery, some . side view down a rural English lane, seine casual glimpse through the cool and shady perspective of a pleasant greenwood slitter—instantly and gladly welcomed as a new boon of natural beauty from the familiar and houourei brush of Boddingtou ! Such, ,wei take it, is the agreeable average of the annual exhibition in Suffolk-street, Pall-mall East, opened to the public view by the Society of British Artists in the sweet spring season. The exhibition there for this present year of grace 1856, is, all, things considered, about the average ; and as such, therefore, we regard it as eminently well entitled to our commendations. Eight seems to be the favourite number attained by the Chief Exhibitors. Mr. Hurlstone, the President, hes " eight "—Mr. Alfred Clint, the Hon. Secretary, has " eight"— and Mr. Woolmer has " eight"—scatteied here and. there in the ample catalogue. Mr. J. J. Hill contributes, on the contrary, only three pictures altogether, but all thr ee o f th ese p i ctures we .found (and let us add, with no surprise whatever) pleasantly marked with the little green ticket " SOLD," even before 'the vulgar sreXaei were ad mitted to the chance of cosnapetition. Mr. Pyne, on the other hand, exhibits this year as Many as . " seven," and Mc. Bodclington as many as " nine " (some of these, in each instance, very remarkable) produc tions. Exquisite, for example, to our thinking, is (No. 11) " Streatley M.ll, on the Thames—a Sum mer's Noon," from the hand of the last men tioned—lovely, too, is (No. 136) "An English Lane" of his—and yet mere lovely (No. 420) ',' A Summer's Morning, North Wales,"-this latest to our mind a very jewel of a Boddington. There are especially noticeable moreover, iu their way-:- (No. 39) "Summer. Evening Bantry," and (No: • 335)." Stunt, Fishing Boats eurening inset Harbour," both by Alfred Clint, and worthy of him—the rolling storm and the ruddy evening Mr. Pyne has brought home once more from Italy "things of beauty," WhiCh must continue ," joys for ever," so long at least as the threads of the canvass upon which he has painted hang together. .Now that Tur ner is gone, there is scarcely a man who can approach him as is delineator of Nature. Witness this (No. 38) "Bathing Buffaloes in the Pontine Marshes (in itself a most luscious study of colour !)—and (No. 65) " Castello d'Ostia ' Campagna di Recria and (No. 83) ."V en i ce from the Lido" (a Veniee like the Fairy D tydream described as such in that magical vision Of alio tioa.tittee • city, seen and told of, once upon a time, by Bee !)—end, besides these, gleams of wonderful power and beauty from 'the last asyful eruption of Mount Vesuvius, that of May, 1855, such for example-.as that presented by (No. 620) " Cescata Interwile" a rolling cataract et red hot lava that (thus depicted) would have given joy to the heart, and eyes, and brain of• Tu rner. "The Hay Field" (No. 25) a 120/. picture by Mr. Hill, is this year, beyond. all doubt, Mr. Hill's heppiest effort—wonderfully' preferable at •once to (No. 281) his " Shepherdess," and to (No. 580) his " Galway Rustics." This sweet and most' delicious Hay Field of his, being a scene altogether of happy rustic love, and health, and industry. Mr. Woolmer's worst picture, fur a long time past, we conceive to be the monstrosity entitled (No. 109) " Christ in the Wilderness," with a gigantic Seville Orange .shining through the contorted• boughs of the bare wool in the background ! As a matter of course, he gives us (No. 239) a " Doro thea, vide 'Dan Quixote.'" His two most sen suous, or rather we should perhaps say of them his two most sensual pieces, this year, are (No. 273) " Lady G-odiva," and (No. 435) " Return from the Ball, Sunrise"--both pourtraying the female form in the very act of stripping into stark nakedness ! Mr. Hurlstone's mos( characteristic work for the pre sent season is, perhaps, of all, (No. 199) "Tenants of the Forum Romanum in the Nineteenth C -n -tory," three dark-eyed, brown-skinned, white toothed laughing Italian children, eating fruit and maccaroni. The President, it should be observed, however, appears to have been latterly more than ordinarily industrious as a portrait painter, chiefly in the family of "Sir William E len, Baronet," as Mr. Bucket would call him, see Nos. 187, 306, and 134, one only of these, viz., (No. 300) " Blanche," being to ourselves, as dis passionate spectators, in any way satisfactory—the prettiest little baby-trot imaginable, with its eyes laughing, and its hands full of grapes ! One of the most interesting portraits in the Gallery is (No. 88.) Mr. Swintoa's portrait of " Sir John M‘Neil," a truly noble classic profile: (No. 14) Mr. Bell's portrait of "Professor Farraday" having an 'attraction of its own in the mere name of the illus trions philosopher—possibly, however, in all re- 'spects, the best - portrait in the entire collection being (No. 150), Mr. Westcott's life-like portrait of a lady, mentioned in the catalogue as "Mrs. Jas. H. Hulnee, Cliffs House, Ballow, Derbyshire." Besides other large pictures in the gallery, otherwise distinguishable as in some way meritorious, there are several big, execrable - paintings. 'such as (No. 201) " The Golden Age," by Mr. Underhill, with its brawny cloWn. dancing in2a leopard skin—or as (No. 174) "False SecUrriy," by Mr. Bullock, with a most extravagant Terror sprawling out upon us pell-mell with her arms outspread ! Mr. Pidding's (No. 283). "The Mercy Thought" is the silliest, vapidest thing otonceiv able. Very different from Mr. Fitzgerald's (No. 243) " Youth," with mirth in her eyes, and freak, and fun, and frolic in every outline of her gay, gliding figuree--a merry country lass, sliding to us upon tho ice with a laugh all but audible. . Horrible is (No. 372) Miss Emily Smith's " Sailor Boy's Early Dream !" Capital ie (No. 459) the little "Country Boy," sketched from nature by Mr. Hems- Icy—with visible weight in his pitcher, and muscle' under his shirt sleeves, and a totter in his little boots! Mawkish , is (No. 467.) Mr. Egley's " Honey. moon"—the very type of your ballad frontispiece in coloured lithography? And such for the most part are the chief themes for praise or dispraise noticed by us"during the course of our first visit thisseason to'the annual Suffolk-street Exhibition. COVENT•GARDEN THEATRE.—Her Majesty the Queen has, we understand, offered to head a submeription list for the rebuilding of Covent-garden Theatre, with a con tribution of 1,0001. The Sardinian Government has moved a body of troops to the frontiers of Parma. Fears are entertained of further disorders in that quarter. A SUBURBAN NEWSPAPER.—An ingenious little subur ban contemporary, entitled The Chelsea and .Kensington TVeekly Observer, has recently made its appearance. Assuming, by reason of the very modesty of its domi nion —(after the fashion of the Elector of one of your small German principalities)—a grandiose title as long as one's arm, " Tout pour deux sous, M'sieur!" it under takes to circulate in Chelsea, Battersea, Wandsworth, Putney, Fulham, Hammersmith, Pimlico, Brompton, Kensington, and Knightsbridge ! It affects in every way the manner and appearance of a French journal, beginning with its political articles and ending with its advertisements—not forgetting even the feuilletm ruled off at the bottom of the page, and which sets out with a tale of the reign of Charles the Tenth, rather uncom fortably entitled " The Lost Finger a contribution, by the way, authenticated with the name of the indus trim nciacto4.• of our little west-end contemporary. THE DISTURBED CONGREGATION. 13r GEORGE ORTTIKSHANK. Half-a-century's outpouring of fun and frolic —so far from - bluatina it—seems only .to have whetted (.4o to speak) the edge of our great humor ist's exquisite sense of the droll and the ridiculous. Kcce Sijnum this latent of his glorious and-delight.; ful provocatives of laughter—" The Disturbed Congregation." The original painting we remem ber three or four seasons back adorning the walls (if we are not very much mistaken) of the British Institution. It was a new evidence at the time of the wonderfully ready adaptation of George Cruikshank's skill to what, in his instance, had been until a very brief while previously, a hitherto unentered field for its manifestation. His pencil had given abundant employment to the tools of the wood-engraver ever since the memor able evening when as a stripling he had chanced to c itch sight----(glancing at it, as he passed by, outside) over the top of some waggish publican's window blind—of Shakspere's bust above the mantelpiece with the clay pipe stuck in its mouth. The serene, godlike face with its anomalous and most unmis takable dullaeen—startling the young artist, as with a sun-stroke' of merriment, into—facile prin ecps—the .first of English caricaturists. Very soon after that George•was at it—if not tooth and, nail, certainly crayon and etching needle ! Tumbling down all sorts of abuses and absurdities with his matchless revelation in them of what was utterly and irredeemably ludicrous. Sweeping al most out of recollection by contrast with his keen and subtle'satire, the coarseness and vulgarity, nay, even be it said now, the brutalities and obscenities of those greist guns of caricature among our fore fathers of the last century, still recollected here and there . in association with their gaudily coloured extravagancies-fGilray and Rowland son. - Droll fellews, no doubt, in their way, and in, their day, but not, by any means, either of them, a George Cruikshauk. Whichever of them yon like, say for example Gilray, was Eclipse who distanced the field—but George at once, while yet a mere youth, distanced Eclipse ! And he has kept his place, at an easy canter, ever since in the great race of ridicule; that grand struggle which • has variously for its goal—political reform and social improvement. How much he has done since then, not Only in the way of makina us happier by, the innocent laughter he has provoked, but actually, • we do believe, by helping to make us all very much better by the noble truths, the gene rous sentiments; the elevating and purifying mora lities, his pencil hat, time and again, so wondrously enforced. Has he not ? Recollect that his was the hand that gave poignancy to the political satires of Hone—his the brush that coloured into life the humorous sarcasms of Egan. Remember in proof of this, and put a grave face on the matter if you can while remembering, the high-shouldered elegance of Derry-Down Triangle, and the bewigged pomp of the ever famous Dandy of Fifty, to say nothing at all about the astonishing escapadeS •of those three emi nently ridiculous persons, the fast men of the " old-fogified times," in the Consulship of Plancus —Corinthian Tom, Bob Logic, and Jerry Haw thorn ! The memory of all wuich and of all whom seems to come back upon us from a far away per speetive, as of the fun and . frolic of some long past generation. And yet, at this very day, George Cruikshank is but now in the fullness of his ma turity, sa early had lie begun to wield the pencil, which he has ever since plied with such a master hand, and with such inexhaustible facetiousness ! Honour to the kindly humorist who has all the while been labouring at once so deftly and so earnestly—with so wholesome a regard (al ways) for the taste of the people, and so genial an eye to their harmless amuseineut. As an illustrator of our home-literature generally has he not lent a charm of his own to the original letterpress of many of our most delightful and most cherished master pieces ? scattering with a prolific fancy the most apt and felicitous of embellishments among the classic pages of such writers of fiction as Henry Fielding and Tobias Smollett, and illuminating with his pictorial mirth such comic rhymes as, for 'example, William Cowper's Ballad of John Gilpin ! Embellishments in this way not nnWorthy of being classed in the samo'category. ;with Hogarth'S series of etchings illustrative of liudibras ! :And as an oriainal • humorist of the rarest drollery imaginable—has he not, given us such tid-bits of fun as My Lord Bateman ? The, ," loving ballad" adorned with the trousers and nose of Sophia, and the bouquet and the leas (thOse . superb legs !) ,of the Proud Young Porter 1. •As an historical draughtsman,„ has he not pencilled with a very luminous pencil 7 -by victory, , after victory—the marvellous . career of that. marvellous man, whose life has been well called the Fairy Tale of Modern Europe,. Napoleon llmaparte ? As a noble, earnest, gifted, generous,. heroic, moralist-satirist, has he not done good ser vice in the cause of virtue, and in the interests Of 'religion, and in the name and on behalf of humanity, by his very powerful, tragical, and pathetic series of pictures called The Bottle, followed by its, scarcely less powerful, tragical, and pathetic sequel, The Drunkard's 'Children ?., And now, after 'having, during all these busy, years, thus marvellously, and industriously,, and variously, drawn on wood, and etched on cop per, and handled, even once upon a time i if we mistake not, the needle of the glyphographer; after having einployed so - often in each individual instance so adroitly almost every implement Corning within the grasp of au artist's hand, George Ocuikshank has latterly taken very kindly ,to the brush and the palette, and appeared in the galleries of London,. season after season, as an oil painter. Appearing, we may add, as such in every instance to very . general 'admiration. Already, if we recollect rightly, he has produced, among those later oil p a i n ti ng s, two o f remark ' able ability illuStrative of the eltritch 'scapes 'of Burns's . " Tam o'Shanter." Here—before us —is an engraving of rather considerable dimen sions taken from another, not suggested by any poet's phantasies, but "all out of the artist's own head," to wit, this droll, delightful picture of his, "The Disturbed Congregation !" Passing through the streets during the last few days, we have been amused more than once by watching the faces of the casual foot-passengers pausing for an instant opposite the windows of some print-shop in which George Cruikshank's " last' has happened to be displayed somewhat conspicuously. Looking at their faces, it has been something like looking at. Hogarth's "Laughing, Audience !" And no wonder ! Such a Beadle as there is in the very centre of this picture—from the hand that dreW of old the purpling features and the portly form of 'Bumble ! It is the very head Beadle of Beadledom —glowering over the upper •rims of his spectacles at that preposterous urchin who has just, by some strangely unaccountable ill luck, clattered his peg top down upon the pavement of the 'aisle—everybody else looking up 9r turning round at the commotion. The humorous absurdity of the . whole scene is a thing to be seen and net merely described. And seen—we warrant it, it will only be Visible through eyes half-closed with laughter. Arid so, with a kindly wave of the , hand-at parting, say we Au revoir I to George Cruikshank. • : , The director of the Bank of Athens is about to foUnd a branch establishment at Constantinople. We regret to announce the death of Sir Hyde Parker, whu.died on the 21st inst., at Government house, De vonport, shortly, after his arrival from Lisbon in afm.s. St. Georges:, Sir Hyde, whe was born in 1785, was' brother of the late Sir Wm, Parker, whom he succeeded in 1830,, and grandson of the Admiral Sir Hyde Parker who defeated the Dutch at Deggerbank, in 1781, and who being. shertly--afterwards appointed to command naval forces in.the East Indies, sailed in the Cato, and was never heai'd of after leaving Rio Janeiro, where he put in for water. The baronetcy, we believe, is inhe rited by Colonel Richard Parker, who commands the Ist Lile Guards, cousin to the late baronet, and eldest sur viving son of the late Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, who distinguished himself during the American war. Tux BAST ',INDIA COMPANY'S SERVICE.—Tne follow ing officers of the East 'lndia Company's army have been allowed, to retire from the service :—Major J. W. Ben nett, Bengal lst Fusiliers ;, Brevet-Maj or Jolla Grimes, Maeiras Bth Native Infantry ; Surgeon Samuel Cox, M.D., Madras Medical Establishment • Brevet-Major Edward Skipper, Bombay 7th Native Infantry ; .Lieut. F. E. Hunter, B Anbay 4th Native Infantry ; H. R. Edlin, Indian Navy,' Bombay Establishment ; Mr. Joseph Wells, branch pilot, Indian nary. The fol lowing appointments as assistant chaplains have been made :—The Rev. Henry Daniel James, :A.A. of Mag dalen Hall, Oxford, to Bengal Ecclesiastical Establish ment ; the Rev. Alexander Dunbar Nicholson, M.A., of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, to Bengal Ecclesias tical Establishment. Mr. Gerard Henry Dudd has been, admitted a volunteer for the Indian Navy. Mr. Samuel Augustus Gliddon bls been appointed a capt,in's clerk for the Indian Navy.—Smith. and Elder's Overland Mail JOURNAL OF ADVENTURES WITH THE BRITISH ARMY FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE WAR TO THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL, by George Cavendish Taylor, late 95th Regiment, 2 Vols.—At the present inomcnt this work will be read with unusual interest. " Mr. Taylor's Journal of Adventures with the British Army," says the Examiner, "has the merit of being a journal by one who participated is nearly the whole series of events. It is valuable for its genuineness, and for the extent of ex peri6nce embraced 'in it." " There was scarcely an oc currence of importance,": says the United Service Gazette, " that Mr. Taylor was not an eye-witness of—Balaklava, Inker:nan Kertcb, the operations in the Sea of Azoff, Amapa, the unsuccessful and also the second and glorious storming of the Malakhoff and Redan, and the taking possession of Sebastopol—each event is detailed in that concise but clear professional style which we have not met with- LATEST NEWS. MARSEILLES, MARCH 25. Intelligence has been received here from Con stantinople to the 17th inst. A rumour was current that the Porte would refuse to embody in a general Treaty of Peace the reforms enacted by the late decree of the Sultan. The Ottoman Government, moreover, was anxious that the deliberations on some important questions should talk place at Constantinople. General La Marmara had left Constantinople on the. 14th for the Crimea. KIEL, MARCH 24. The English frigate Amphion and the corvette Sampson have just quitted this roadstead to join the English squadron in the Baltic. The Caesar and Majestic, ships of the line, have just arrived here to reinforce the English squadron. BERLIN, MARCH 24. An imperial "ukase removes from their functions of governors of provinces Generals Kokoschkine and Prince Ouroussof, and calls them to the Senate. The posts 'which they held have been suppressed. - Letters from Poland state that, by order of the Russian Government, tho levy of recruits in Poland, which was to have taken plaCe on the 17th inst., is postponed. THE PEACE CONGRESS. (From Second Edition of the Time* of this day. ) The following is, the letter of our Paris corre spondent, dated yeterday, 6 p.m. : Yesterday the Congress held its twelfth meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The particular business that was gone 'through I am unable to say. What was not done, however, may be guessed from the fact that no conclusion has been arrived at yet, meaning, of course, by "conclusion" the siguingof the Treaty of Peace. • I fear we are not yet arrived at that point, thougirit is hoped we may do so in the course, or rather at the ! close of, the week. The difficulty still in tie Way •is the one alluded to in my letter of Sunday ; it turns on the terms upon which Prussia will be admitted to sign the treaty. I do not think there is any other difficulty of a serious kind, as the more important points have been already settled. I have no particular reason fur saying so, but I am inclined to think that the chief opposition to admitting Prussia on a footing of :equality with the allies comes from England. ,It is evident that Russia would be much pleased to have Prussia in the Congress on the same footing as the other Powers, as she hopes that if it were brought about by her influence she would recover her prestige in- Germany, and attach Prussia to her mere firmly than ever. Be sides, she considers she owes a debt of gratitude to Prussia for fidelity to her throughout. I am aware that here the point is not considered as one of im portance—certainly not important enough to re tard the great work of peace, or compel us to re tain our immense force in the Crimea. The diffi culty may be, viewed in another light elsewhere, but whatever be the importance it really deserves, itssuffices to retard the solution all so earnestly desire. , The term of the armistice is rapidly ap proaching, and something must be known in the course of the present week. FRANCE. VA.RIS, TUESDAY EVENING. There his•-heen a sitting of the Congress to-day. A protest, similar to that front 'Moldavia, is on its way to the Congress of Paris from Wallachia. The Wallachian protest confines itself more to a desire for the maintenance of the statu quo. Representations hare been addressed to the Con gress from persons of great influence, urgino , the 'necessity of European interference to remedy the administrative di oils afflicting large portions of Italy. , It is rumoured: .that a very powerful expedition to Mada.gascar is meditated by the Emperor, to punish a massacre lately committed there on French colonists. The Af oititeur continues to publish the text'-of addresses of congratulation to the Emperor received from different towns of France, and from the oQi cers and crews of the naval division of the . . . The Moniteur colitaius a decree extending the amnesty, already granted, to persons who have infringed the; lawstelative to sporting, to indirect taxes, and custems,.and to persons guilty of con traventions of the laws relating to the mint stamps .on gold and silver. We read in the Moniteur "The Times, in its number of the 22d, and on..the faith of its Paris correspondent, represents our army in the Crimea as being in want of everything, provisions and clothing, and as abandoned by the. Government of the Emperor, ,which : no- longer feels any solicittide for those brave troop?. The Tintes goes so far as to say . that our soldiers were compelled for their subsistence •th ~ go and pick up the damaged biscuit and the refuse pro visions which the English soldiers threw away. With regard to the last assertion, we will say that if a scarcity had been felt in our camp , , our allies would eagerly have shared their resources with us, as we have ourselves done with them, and that t e generous offer which they lately made at Con stantinople t ► place all our medical, stores at our disposal sufficiently answers for what they would have done in'the Crimea, if see hal been in want of pro visions. The Times will, we doubt not, regret that it had not been. :better informed, when it learns tt.at the 'French army is supplied in such a manner as to receive newly-baked bread every day ; that it has in store suffi cient flour for the consumption of three months ; arid that the greatest part of our troops have fresh vegetables served out t r them, which are sent in large quantities from Constantinople.: As ter clothing, it may be affirmed that never at any period have the wants of the army been so abundantly supplied. Each soldier in the Crimea has received, in addition to his regulation cloth ing, a complete winter suit, composed ofa thick worsted cap, a great coat with a hood, a pair of thick warm gaiters, a flannel or worsted waist belt, a pair of worsted tockings, a pair ofsabots, and a pair of warm gloves. It is true that our army, notwithstanding the care of which it has been constantly the object, has been for some time past suffering from sickness, which appears to have spared our more fortunate allies. If, however, it be consi dered that our troops ate encamped around Sebastopol, on the very theatre of the.strtiggle, that is to say,on the ground which, having served as the burying-place for s 4 many victims, is far from offerin g the ,editions of salubrity which the English army finds., at Balaklava, it will be comprehended that the present inferiority of our sanitary condition may be the. consequence of these inevitable cir cumstances, and that it cannot be attributed. to a want of solicitude. We may addethat this state of things has already been much ameliorated, aad that doubtless it will in a short time be completely removed. This happy result may be hoped for from the return of fine weather, and from the measures -taken to oppose the diseaie, par ticillarly from "the removal of a considerable number of the sick to Constantinople, and the establishment at the latter place of new, apaoions, and well-aired ambu lances." The Debats is of opinion that the treaty of peace will be sigutcl.before -the 3 1 st of this month. BOURSE, March 25.—The following were the last quotations : _ . . Cash. : fr• e• End of Month. ti per Cents 94 --.-. : —f.. —c. 3 per Cents 72 45 . 72 70 New Loan ....... :..: Bank Shares 3 , 500 Roman Cr6dit Mobilier 1,575 A ustr i an 89 Belgian Fives o7l— S pan i s h Th roes 44i Piedmonteee (5) RAILWAYS-108 CASH. fr. p. fr. 0. Orleans 1,330 Western 897 50 gerthern - - • 93i :5 .Strasburg (,yo as Mediterranean .....,1,560 Grand Central Lyons Geneva ...... 793 50• Testa Cette TURKEY. A letter from Constantinople of the 16th men tions that the Ottoman Ministry had been occupied fur some days with a question of much importance —the difficulties said to have arisen in the Paris Con g ress on the Danubian Principalities. It was hoped, ho?rever, that, owing to the spirit of equity and moderation which animates the Plenipoten tiaries, a solution would be obtained advantageous to all concerned. The French Ambassador at Con stantinople had received precise instructions on that head from his Government, and several Cabinet Councils were held in consequence. No decision had been come to. It was rumoured at Pera t hat the Plenipotentiaries required the insertion of the Hatti.llumayoun in the treaty of peace. Such a measure would be received with great fa vour by the Porte. It would show the de termination of the Western Powers that the reforms comprised in the Hatti-Humayoun shall be seriously carried out. It would, the letter lays, also prove that the protectorate of the Allies would be no ;rain word, and that the Sultan would regard it as a guarantee of security for the future. The French Intendance at Constan tinople had received orders from Paris to suspend all purchases ; and they had already made prepa rations to quit the buildings of the Russian Chan cellerie. They were to remove to Fuudukli, to the buildings now occupied by the Central Phar macie-of the French army. The Hatti humayoun relative to the reforms recently accorded to the subjects of the empire had been communicated officially to all the chief towns of the empire, a►nd had been read by the authorities to the Consuls summoned for that purpose. ROME. As soon as the intelligence of the birth of an Ithperial Prince of France was received at Rome by telegraph, the French commandant celebrated the event with 101. guns from the Castle of St. Angelo. In the evening all the French establish ments at Rome were illuminated, and the French ambassador issued a notice inviting all the French at Rome to a solemn Te /mum. to be sung in the French church on Easter Sunday. The usual ceremonies of Palm-Sunday were cele brated on the 16th with great pomp in the "Patio/in at Rome. Prince,Albert of Prussia, the Hereditary . Prince of Saxe IVleiningen, and the Hereditary, Prince of Holstein-Augustenburg, were remarked in the tribunes. • SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 20th contain nonews of political interest. The Queen, as usual on Holy Thursday, had taken part in the ceremony of washing the feet of 24 poor people at the palace, and had visited different churches with the Princetss of the Asturias. The Epoca asserts positively that there was no truth in a report that was current that the Marquis de Turgat was about to be replaced asFreuch Ambassador by the Marquis deLavalette. A Paris letter, in the Independance of Brussels, says :---" A geod deal is said of a memorandum on the affairs of Italy, which is said to have been drawn up by Count Cavour himself. Ido not bo lieve(although many diplomatic persons think diffe rently) that this memorandum has been submitted to the Congress, and yet from information which'l have reason to believe exact the plenipotentiaries will not separate without having touched on the Italian question. Piedmont, an ally otthe Wes- tern Powers, cannot be sent away like, a friend r . g. 4 ' who has become useless and embarrassin'' A letter from Berne, in the Moniteur, says :-- " The Grand Council of Berne has made some im- • ' portant elections in the course of the present =. month. M. Bloesch has been named President of the Executive Council, and M. Kurz President of the Grand Council. M. Sahli has entered the Exe cutive Council. These three executive persons be- - long to the party of the fusion." DIVING F )R OLD WRECKS IN TRINIDAD. (From. the P6rt of Spain Gazette, Jan. 19 ) Tho majority of the readers of the Gazette are probably aware of the existence of several sunken wrecks in Cha- oiaratnas Bay, which are the remainl3 of the Spanish fleet commanded by Apodaca at the time that the Eng lish expedition, under Harvey and Abercrombie, sailed from Martinique for the subjugation of this island; The Spanish ships were 5 in number, 4 line-otbat le ships and 1 frigate, all being perfect specimens of naval archi tecture, and which, for better protection, had been placed under cover of th e guns an d mor t ars of the fort upon Gasparillo. When the Eintlish fleet anchored within range, Apodaca, perceiving the impossibility of escare without engaging; set his ships on fire to prevent them falling into the enemy's bands, the money having been landed on the opposite coat. One of the line-of-battle ships, by being to windward of the rest, was eventually cap tured by the English, but 4 burnt to the water's-edges and sunk with the guns. At low water the wrecks lying in shore can be touched by an oar, and the guns distin guished during calm weather. Attempts have frequntly been made with varying success to fish up some portion of the copper, and recently a carpenter succeeded to far as to possess himself of one of the copper pint's', weigh ing, said, 3501 b. The arrival •of an American schooner a few days ago, furnished with every appliance •'" which science and .art can bestow, bas, however, been the means of bringing the subject of the wrecks more prominenEly , before the public, and particularlyao when it was ascertained that the. permission of his oxcelfeney the governor had been. conceded to Capt. Clarke to try his apparatus. On TUesday we accompanied the American cootie on board, and late in the evening th e schooner was moored over one of the aunkeu vessels, and within a -short dis• ranee of another. Ea rly next m o r n i ng one o f th e di vers descended for the 'purpose of exploring, and reported the existence of quantities of copper sheathing and some guns which he supposed to be iron. Shortly• afterwards a few sheets of copper were sent up, together with .a piece of timber in an 'excellent state ot preservation , and which • on being sawn .through was found to retain its rating colour and odour. Its smelling so much of turpentine induced us to pronounce it pi!ch pine ; h u t his .eeeel lency the governor states that it is Spanish oak ; a few chips, when dried, burned lilte torches. An iron bolt, •which was next procured, was foundto be completely de• caged, although surrounded by charred wood. All these articles presented a beautiful appearance. from the cliffs , . rent colours of the coral encrusting them. A rudder pintle was also found, with nearly' . all the copper bolts apper taining to it, which the captain pronounced amply re• ; • munerative for the trouble aced .expense incurred for the day. The value of the entire set belonging to each *ship be calculates to be 1,000 dol.. The proceeds of the first day's search, amountiug to about 300 dol., affords a good gua rantee for the success of • the speculation upon a more vigorous prosecution of this really interesting Rebut:trios exploration, espec!ally as one of the divers reported that . ,the copper magazine of the wreck under the schooner was entire. The value of the copper in the United States is 40c. per lb., consequently the quantity of copper - 1 : sheathing will alone realise a pretty g'od sum. Unfor tunately, from the presence of a brisk wind, the day was 'decidedly unfavourable, as the surface of the water, being „ broken into waves, .prevented the perfect transmission of sensbine to the bottom._ The wrecks are very clean, being washed by the alternate Riess' currents, which also offer another obstacle to the facility with - which the researches could be carried on by means of the diving' habits. 032 NIB US PAOORESS. The first in-talment of the promised improvements due to the public by the L'ondon General Omnibus Com pony will be paid immediately. The company are about .; to put on !Ines of omnibuses on short distances, starting from the Flower Pot, Bishop‘gate-ttreet, or some other : convenient place for correspondence with Charing-croes, thus connecting the whole of the east with the west end of London. the fares upon these lines will be redn , ..ed, t and the vehicles of a much larger description than thus* in present use. The addition of these lines to their pre-: sent traffic enables the company to introduce an admix., able novelty in the system of " conducting„" without displacing old servants, the care of whose interests they hal accepted in purchasing the property of the old pro , ' • prie'ors. Toe London General Ornnibus.Company tend to confer the appointments of conductors to the omnibuses (worth op an average 28e. weekly) On:Cri mean heroes, men not disabled in limb, but wounded in the s-rvice of the country, and either pensioned off or „, discharged from their regiments with good characters. - To this intention the directors of the company have • lately had several interviews. with the "Army and Pensioners' Employment Society," from whose lid they are making a selection, as well as with some of the high , est military authorities, who have evinced much gratifi- ' cation at th e or , ieeted arrangement. Serjeant .Pieroe, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, who served throughout the .Crimean cam paign, and whose lectures to the militia - have been favourably noticed: id-the newspapers, being compelled by ill-health, consequent en his services, to . retire from the regiment, has received the first appoint raent as inspector-to the lo wion General Omnibus Com pany, at a salary of 1001. per annum. The new style of omnibuses for the new route isr cf magnificent n ow being and capacity. They are being built by Mr. Menzies, of Edinburgh. The com pany have also given , :rdere to several of the first car riage-buildezi of London to ,build three or four omni buaes for them, with the improvements severally sur • gated, in order that each may t e practically tested. The traffic of the company is Improving. Tte return of the total "earnings" for the present week is sent in at 6,639/. 13e. 5d., an average of 171. 15s. id. per omni. bus on 374 omnibuses at work, or at the rate Of Hid. per mile. Tie total. number of omnibuses cow in possession of the company is over 400, being exactly one-half of the whole passenger-carrying trade of the Great Metropolis. Since the last return, seven omnibuses, with "Ernes" and stock, have been purchased from Mr. Martin ; being two from Clapton to the Bank, two Chelsea and Beth na'-green. two Chelsea and Horton, one Shoreditob and Bow. .The possession of these fie not unimportant, as it places the company in sole possession of the lines from Chelsea to Bethnal-green, from Chelsea to Horton, and also of the Clapton and Hackney line entirely, with the exception of one Solitary omnibus. To keep up the sturdiness of the English character, foUr of the Shore ditch and Bow omnibuses refuse (by their proprietors) to be bought off, and remain to assert the independence of the coaching craft. The London General Omnibus Com pany in the meanwhile decline to enter upon opposition, and leave the dissentients to indulge themselves at their own charges. The closing of the Prussian Chambers is definititely fixed for the 4th April. SURREY BACHELOR'S BALL.—This ball takes place to morrow (Thursday), under distinguished patronage, and we trust will be well supported. The object is to raise additional funds for the erection a of library, reading, and olasP-roorns on vacant ground now belonging to the in stitution ; the accomplishment of this will be highly conducive to its valued interests. Mr. Toole, in pro rooting this ball, is supported by the institution com mittee, of Which he is a member, also by many influen tial and official gentlemen. Every care will be taken to maintain the respectability and comfort which bay. hitherto characterised these assemblies. MO CO The with ev rates pr were esi for expc elude 6'4 and 700 Market Comm trade go with a a articles large to ionsurni stocks o : at this 8 , ply of cs requiren kilo., an 274 for there isi of the 3,000 k kilo. 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