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

TEEA TRE-ROY AL, HAYMARKET, Lealee. Mr. J. B. Backetonr. THIS EVENING, the performamses will oommenae with A DUKE IN DIFFICULTIES. Mrs. Stirling, Miss F. Haydon, Mrs. Wilkins, Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr, B uc k stoue , Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, Jct. Alter which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery and effects, and all the original music by the late Sir Henry Bishop, the melodrama of THE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Commence at 7. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM. Soia Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE, Two New Dramas.—Reappearance of Mr. John Drew, and 6th appearance - 61 Miss Matilda Heron, THIS EVENING, THE TWO GREGORIES. _ .• After which, a new original comic drama, written by Sami. Lover, Esq., entitled MAC CARTHY MORE ' • or, Possession Nine Points of the La w . J o h n D rew , J . Johnston, Forrester, J. Rouse, Medlin ; Misses Rawlings, Hudspeth, &a To conclude with a new drama, NEW YEAR'S EVE ; or, The Belle of the Season. Messrs. H. Neville, Villiers, Jas. Johnstone, J. Rouse ; Mrs. Winstanley, Miss Matilda Heron, Miss Willard, &c. OYA L PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore, Meadows, Garden, and Miss C. Leclereq. Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Sup ported by Messrs. Ryder, Hermann Vezin, Graham, Shore, Meadows, IC. ; Misses Heath, R. Leclercq, 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) MAGLIORE, PRESTIDIGITATOR. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, D. Fisher, dtc.; Miss K. Kelly, Miss El. Simms, dm After which. OUR GAL. Miss Julia Daly, Mr. Romer, Mr. Ebnrne, and Mr. Warde. Doors open at half past 6 —Commence at 7. CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS!! Westminster-road. Proprietor........ C. Morton. A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera, IL CORSARO, (This opera has never been produced in this or any other country, except at these Concerts), having met with that de cided success which charactise the most popular works of this great Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ; together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI- M'NTO, by Donizetti, 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 comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A. B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and the Brothers Conrad. John Martin's Three celebrated Pictures will remain on view a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the Establishment. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tale 7 DAY.—Morning, 11h. 56m.—Afternoon, —h. —m. TO-MORROW.-Morning, 12h. 20m.—Afternoon, 12h. 40m. THIC WEATHER.—Scx OFFICE, APRIL 6, 161. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 52—highest since noon yesterday. 37—lowestlthis morning and during the sight, 47—this day at noon. Bano3trrzn-30.20 ; rising rapidly. WlND—South-Easterly —light ; with cloudy weather. J • r.••••\7/74 • ' =iv 0 • ' '2'; i• -, .0? *# ~---,',-:-;:-,:.,, - 1 '." -- '- ‘ ,O .4::.., - --: .i. ,- ;77 -. 2f. * -34 1 .j 4 4 , 5# 7 / 1 ‘ .4%,,gg ' i 1 . 46:. <2 , 7 , ...• --- 6 ' 1,1. 5•A' -- •••.' ••••• 'Y l' , --.151, , •- T,_' ii 4 , : . r• 1 1, 0 ' Y 'g' ?•;,..-.--.' - . ..,, Pti.-.0.'.70,tk,5N ....—, ~ ~s `~•ir~i rr ~`. "! THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1861. 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 aback 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 t-- ,uries back, " inextinguishably." How droll he was only last spring—ce cher Monsieur GLAD STOW And then as an inevitable close to this grand annual display of his enormous 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 cheering." Upon the following day every one is talking, also quite as a matter of co urse , 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 its To see eurseig as ithers see us . 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 himself of his last great Budget Speech in bring ing forward his new Financial Statement. And so the ball rolls. And so—•vive la Bagatelle. Now in all this from first to last, the public at large, the Publi c b oth in the House of Commons and out of the House of Commons, we cannot but regard " acting very much as the sheep do—grege • make a bell_ w a t Zusiy. They say if you can only leap over an ou t s t re t c h e d walking sti c k in the highway—every separate sheep in the flock, though the walking_etiering afterwards, al be withdrawn imme diately the bellwether has •pa9sed, will, fir certain, leap, at the same identical t the same two or three feet into the air over — now : 0 ". Now, it is the fashion , up on an y and "every possible occasion, to talk lou dl y and blatantly °I . Mr GLADSTONE'S vcondei ful e lo q uence, of his extraor dinary oratorical powers in bringing forward his financial statement. The bare idea of eloquenc e the bare idea of oratory in a Budget Speech is i n itself just simply in one word preposterous 'To be eloquent, to be oratorical, in the true sense of the word while hammer ing out an enormous mass of calculations, would set at defiance the rhetorical capabilities of a CHATHAM or a BOLINGBROKE, of a CICERO or of a DEMOSTHENES. Clear, a great orator may be, cogent, lucid he may be, in his financial 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 once 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 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 every one'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 L 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 financia 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 extatic 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 P—will the house consent to swallow it ?—this wonderful new Bolus of a Budget to be gilded over - as usual with the elo quence of that Paragon of an Orator / that Dunce of a Financier our great Chancellor of the Exchequer ? We doubt it. The Bolus is too nauseous—the worthlessness of the gilding has become at last too transparent. IWhy utter a note of warning when n o symptom of danger appears ? Just because it is then too late. It may seem to unreflecting persons quite gratuitous to throw in a word just now about ear 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 before 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 fourthl y, a f ter b ot h together had deceived our Ministers into deceiving the House of Commons, had we not the 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 Iliad the public talk and the denials and the ex planations, we have now the lull before the btirsting of the —plot. We do not affirm that it is so. Pretty THE SUNAILONDON, I SATURDAY EVENING,' APRIL 6, 1861.` 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 Italy, 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 i'ardinia 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 no 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 so, 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 effcrt 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. zeuunal y , , in a rough and ready the present m eans o f conveyance tobe y conside ra bl y i mproved. portmay Wa Thu Government also proposes to p erm it t h e 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 afford for the quality of the cotton they grow; if, ' good care is, of course, taken that no one shall be in a position to do that. But it cannot be denied that we are just in the crisis in which, if Louis NAPOLEON acts like Louis NAPOLEON, just such a report may reach us, even before Parliament is pro rogued, as that Sardinia is to h put -I,,,thr ;nt screw of a -French Universal Suffrage and Ballot, that Count CAvoug 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 furl 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 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 ,it,A; hula 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 bfford to do something towards making Indio. its chief source of supply for raw cotton, for India is already the best cus tomer of Manchester for the manufactured article. We take the following from the Cotton ,supply Reporter : EXPORTS OF COTTON GOODS TO Total all India. United States. countries. Yds. Yds. Yds. 1858 .. 791,537,000 .. 1.51,818,000 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 .. 10,518,091 .. 40,342,819 Total, 3 years £31,860,996 £109,396,072 Here 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 £32,000,000 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 havebecn issued for a Cabinet Council on Wednesday next, at tae cfficial residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing. street. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.—Viscount Palmer ston has deferred his departure from Broad lands until Mon day next, whenlhislordship will be accompanied to town by Lady Palmerston. Earl Granville, the Lord President of the Council, arrived in Bruton-street yesterday from unit ing the Earl and Countess Spencer, at Althorpe Hall, Northampton. The Duke of Newcastle comes to town on Tuesday next from Clumber-park, Notts. 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 confi iential inter views 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 lndependance, " 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 f' und, 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 oven 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 Hs. lid., 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 has been drawn on to make up deficiencies during the re cent agitation, is now £5OB. An earnest appeal is made that " 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 Clitheroe, 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 £25 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 £32 12s. 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 Colne 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. THE REV. MR. BONNVELL'S CASE.—There are several misapprehensions afloat in reference 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 power 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 charge 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 elared vacant, and the principal and fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford, is whom the patronage rests, will be called upon to nominate a successor. COMMITTAL OF COLLIERS FOR CONSPIRACY AND INTimmerf ose—Yesterday (Friday), seven men, named William Peel, Joseph and George Beaumont, John Scaife, Jesse brought Goofier, up Joseph Kilner, and Mattthias Ramsden, were at the Barnsley C o urt House, befor e T. Taylor, Esq., and Colonel Daly, on remand, charged 1...1.1111tt .0 Vac— I 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 places 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 gA 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, after a few highly exciting scenes in the eliciting of evi dence, to commit the men for trial at the next York as sives. Bail was refused, but it is said an application will be made to judge in chambers on the subject. LATEST NEWS. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. PESTH, SATURDAY . The openir 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• blishud bas 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 eluded 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 h delivered by Count Appunyi 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 Oesterreiehische Zeitung of to-day says that the news of the landing of General Mieroslawskie in Albania is doubtful. ITALY. The following letter, published by the Campana della Ganda of Palermo, is addressed by Garibaldi to the Director of the Military 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 fr om R ome, in 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 11Iorny, 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! " 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:- 4i per per Cents .., 95 60 Credit• loncier 935 Do. end Belgian 4f lOO 50 3 per Cents Do. era month 67 80 Roman Bank Shares .. 2890 Austrian ........ 69 Credit Mobilier.... 647 50 Spani.h Threes.... Do. Account 650 ) Home Debt ...... RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1328 75 .. 1330 Northern New ditto BB5 885 Lyons and Mediterranean . 946 25 .. 947 50 Geneva 387 50 .. 387 50 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Loir bard o " The signing bf 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 .o,C,.etkeivry to both parties, will soon be brought about." TUE COASTGUARD SERVICE.- .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 conoerned 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 we have quoted will show that no slight services are rendered in which the mercantile portion of the community is specially conicerned. —Civil Service Gazette, TEE _RIVAL AMERICAN TARIFFS. The New York Commercial and Shipping 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 commenced—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 Chronicle, 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 receon that this fina.ily would be most detrimen tal to the South, for the North, with the great ad ya etages it has in manufacturing, cepital, 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 mowing at our very dool'. 1 - 7crld be l!:tter, ther2forr, RR 7' 1 3 think, instead of eincring into such a suicidal con • test, to enter into some compact, such, for instance, as has been in force between the States of Germany. Their Zoilverein, or treaty of commerce, was in stituted under circumstances and necessities simi lar to those which 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 contro versies:which had been continually occurring among the numerous German Sovereignties, have rendered it very acceptable to merchants and people. The substance of the arrangement is, that along the whole of the exterior frontier of the German States the same tariff of duties is enforced, and the neces• say 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 into a better humour by living apart for a time, and no further causes of exasperation occur, such an arrangement will be adopted. The neces sity for it will become every year more apparent.' Cho 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 publish the bill entire, but as Congress adjourned without acting upon it, and as it may not become law after all, we concluded to postpone its publication for the present. As some of our readers may be interested in its general provisoes, however, we make the following abstract :—There are five schedules, a list of specific duties, and a free list Schedule A pays 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 t o b acco i n 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 nli forms, and throwing out ale and beer, manufactures of fur and knit woollens, carpets, carriages, clocks, clottling, 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 moat of the 111a1111- factures of our 24 per cent list, and nearly all m our 19 per cent. list, clothing, carriages, carpetta and almost, all ordinary manufactures The 10 eer cent. schedule has ashes, bark, lumber, books, cheese, coal, diamonds, furs unmanufactured, hemp, and nearly all crude drugs at , d 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 tollows :—old brass, copper ore, pig and old copper. diamonds not set, guano, iron in pig and labor.. oat n tires of all sorts, papers for printing nea.sp ,pe!s, ppving stones. she.it hing eopn, r, sfovi in in pig, bar, and nr.-, and zinc. As there are hut sew rticic-s in this 5 per cent. list the general difference between raw twit< and manufactured goods is represented by the 10 and 15 per cent schedules tespec;ively, Manufaoturers aretherefore protected in the Cotten Confederacy by a discriminating duty et 5 per cent. The specific schedule ha, but three itsiti , —iee at 2 dots. pt's ton, tea at 4,.! p, , r lb., and salt at bushel lii the fro: list. in At:Pi t-inn 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, htims, 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 mi -1 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:cl be assessed.' This is a provision giving unusual latitude to consignees and others. The tiobile dvcrtiser is entering into a calculation of the probable yield of the cotton crop for the next 10 years, for t he purpose of demonstrating in advance, the salutary effect of the proposed export duty 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 I safely disregard the 4-1 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 hales; 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, 5,318,0002 AMERICAN INVENTIONS.—At the Society of Arts on Wednesday, the viper read was "Some Account of American Implements and Ec,,n.,mie 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, and canals constructed, and of cities built by a sparse and scattered population, in the brief pe • riod of time which had elapsed since the first peopling of the country. In conga.. ing these wonderful results he had been I.d to notice the ingenuity shown by the people in devising implements and machinery for economishag labour, which was so dear in many parts of that country, and 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 of 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—thrashing, 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 plough de scribed. Various other inventions and appliances wire alluded to, such as machine-made watches, wood-working machinery, floating docks, unloading gear for shipping, rail way engines and carriages, tramways and tramway cars, steam ferry-boats, canal sluices, canal boats built in see• tions, steamboats and pilot boats, &c. ; and, finally, modes of house-war aing adapted for very cold climates. LITERATURE. Egypt, the Soudan, and central Africa; being Sketches from Sixteen Years' Travel. By John Petherick, F.R.G.S., H.M. Consul for the Soudan. William Blackwood and Sons. This volume contains an interesting account of travels and explorations among the savage tribes that inhabit the western portion of Central Africa. The author is one well qualified to describe then' 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 he was engaged in the service of Mehemet, Ali Pacha, Viceroy of Egypt, i n the capacity of paining engineer. The Viceroy Wes very tU 10 is to discover coal in his territories, and therefore employed a Fiench and an English engineer, in the hope that the spirit of national rise.:ry would sliaaulate their efforts. The 'attempt bessesser, neauccersfel, and the _author W 8 suhsequentiy employed oo a different expedition. Alter some years he retired from the service of the Egyptian Government •and engaged i n the gum and ivory trade. It was in the latter pur suit that he encountered his most exciting adven tures, as the search for tusks led him among will' 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 pos session of their guns the party remained quiet, whoa presently an old man appeared, who, after a 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 suck 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 ; b ut f a i l i ng, he called the interpreter. His first wish was to examine my rifle: removing the can, I handed it to him. Long and silent was his examination; the most inexplicable part seeming the muzzle, which, instead of being pointed, had a hole in it. Placing WI; finger therein, he looked at me with the greatest astonishment ; and to give hi.n a practical explanations I seized a fowling piece from the hand of my favourite hunter, and pointin g to a vulture hovering over us, fired; but before the bird touched the ground, th e crow* were prostrate and grovelling in the dust, as if evert man of them had been shot. The old man's head, with his hands on bis ears, was at my feet; and when I r aised him, his appearance was ghastly, and his eyes were fixed on me with a m ean i ng l ess expression. 1 thought he had lost his senses. After shaking him several times, let length succeeded in attracting his attention to the fallen bird, quivring in its last agonies between two of his men' The first sign of returning animation he gave was, putting his hand to his head and examining himself, as if in searcp of a wound. He gradually recovered ; and as soon as be could regain his v, ice, celled to the crowd, who, one after the other, first raised their heals, and then again dropped them at the sight of their apparently lifeless comrades. After the repeated call of the old man, they ventured to rise, and a general inspection of imaginary wounds commenced. On other occasions he was in still greater danger 6om the hostility of the tribes, and an old chief once told him that had it not been for his myste rious dealings with the little black marks on papers his tribe would have annihilated the whole party's since' they were not so afraid of firearms, as it was the destiny of all brave men to die in battle, hut the! they feared hat sorcery would exterminate wNsin *rib^. A:mthi - sr time they rernsed to let 'lin] have purists fur his goods, and kept him in state of siege. One tribe were in great want of rain, and insisted on the stranger who had such relryelious powers bringing it for them. The ingenious devices by which the author extricated himself and his companions from these serious embarrassments will entertain the reader. The following anecdote is amusing : They were great snickers of tobacco, of their own gr owth s mixed with the rind of the banana, also indigenous to the country. I was presented with some of it by isimoo, who professed great attachment towards me. To my great dis comfort, after having partaken of my pipe, he expressed a liking for my tobacco ; and not knowing how to refuse him, and at the same lime exceedingly anxious to retain intact the small quantity remaining, I had recourse to a ruse; and, giving instructions accordingly to my servant, he re tired into the interior of the hut to fill the pipe. In the mean time I expL fined to Dimoo that if any person smoked my tobacco who was not perfectly well disposed toward' him, it would betray him by breaking his pipe in my presence. Not afraid of the ordeal, he accepted * well-replenished pipe, whilst my servant, by a sign, ac quainted me that my instructions had been carte* Out. Dime:), seated opposite to me in company o f 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 hi' companions, flying. Dimoo regained his equanimity's begged me to pardon him, and that he would never o r conceal anything from me; and the only harm he m eant was to detain me amongst them until they had become possessed of the whole of our riches, which he confessed they greatly coveted As a proof of his sincerity and good feeling, he would now assist me in whenever chose. Explaining to him the necessity of my departure at a stated time, in order to return with an increased stock of beads, I promised to wait the first rains, and to purchase all the ivory tnat could be procured. After this little event 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 author obtained specimens of, were found by his bead mer chant to have been manufactured at Venice solely for the South American trade, and must conse 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 shun dance : standing proofs existed in numerous mound s of earth, sax feet above the level of the ground, and mo s tly of a round shape, sionie ten or twelve feet in diameter at the base. The trunks and branches of fallen trees bore indis putable evidence of their pretence ; all those which had fallen prior to or durin t the rainy season, when there wan sufficient moisture for the insect to work, were cove red wiels a coating of mud, which, becoming harden e d Or the sun, formed an incrustation, beneath which it de" yours the wood. These were now in many instances 6 11- tirely hollow, every particle of the wood having been e aten. Eveiyibing short of metal on the ground within their reach is in danger of being eaten by them, as soon a s : it is cover e d $ y a coat i ng of ' earth. This covering 1' intended only to guard them against the light, exposure to which kills them. They are the greatest curse that can infest an inhabited neighbourhood ; nothing is safe from them; all woodwork of brick houses is attacked, a nd the huts are daily covered with fresh incrustations by the per severing insects, notwithstanding all the care of the inhabi tants, to beat them off as soon as they are dry. It is neces sary to raise all articles of clothing from the ground. One night I remained at a house, ignorant of its b e i ng i n fested by these destructi ve atoms.ln 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, w w il h d o inhabitants, in are interested L e: scientific explorations n a s iT) d a h l ts l se learn from the intro ductory statement the particulars of the proposed expedition, of which Mr. Petherick is to h 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 th e Nile by way of Zanzibar. The anecdotes and incidents of Arab and Negro life are numerous. We coo; mend Mr. Petherick's interesting volume to all who wish to improve their acquaintance with Centrgl Africa and its inhabitants, without incur' ring the risk of furnishing a feast to the Nee° Nam and their associates. FREAKS AND PROMOTION. Last week's Gazette affords an illustration of th e caprices of promotion in our army. Hy the death of the gallant Gen. Sir Archibald Maclain, Lieut.-Gen. Sir De Lacy Evans beceeie! " General ; " whil e i n t o hi s s h oes as lieutena nt' general slips %dor-General the Hon, C. G r e er 3 :' Equerry to the Que en , an d C o l one l of the 3d Buffs' According to Hart, Si r D e L acy Evans (ensigla 1807) was gazetted lieutenant-general after 47 years' service. Gen. Grey (ensign in 1820), attain?, the same rank in 41 y ears; diff erence i n f avo ur of Grey of 6 years—although Evans fought with great distinction in India, in the Peninsula, in America! commanded the British Legion in Spain, and led the glorious 2d division in the Crimea ; wh il e Grey, howfver r fficient at court, kno ws not the boom of a shotted gun. Nhe death of anoth er P en insula hero, Sir Lovel Lovel, raises Mnjor General Lord de Ros (Liente" nant of the Tower) to he lieutenantgeneral. ni° lordship (ensign of 1819) without war service reaches his present grade five years before the fight: ing veteran Evans did. The advancement of Lord de Ros makes way as tnai)r-general for Colonel the Hon. James Lindsay. This gentleman entered the. Guards in 1832, and, although without war service, before ;13 m j or - gene ral 10 years Sir De Lacy Evans was: The above instances show that in the British army the shortest cut to preferment is not always through "the imminent deadly breach." of 1 at 5 per to-d X 35 ezh Rat Live Vier 10,0 beer vI Sect; Ceni Mem at & In deaf Vc cv Ca w ea c h Jc coati: 11 1.)aN a Per 3 per eVi , adis Dii Di Di D 1 hit Cons Bad Brat Di Chili Di Mean Di , Span Di' Di Tu S am p rL Di .Di Tli betty