The Sun. — London, England, 1856-04-09 00:00:00

TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.- It is respectfully a , inOttncetrtlplt thr MAJESTY'S' THEATRE will RE-OPEN early in \lay. Engagements of great interest h+ve been effected both in Opera and Ballet, and the best exertions used to make the arrangements worihy of the occasion. The prospectus will shortly be issued. ZATII,EBOYAL, DER CY •LABE Loewe. Air. E. T. Smith. THIS 0, THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. 1 o oirrlnde with THE ENCHANTED GARDEN. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Buckatono. THIS EVENING, THE EVIL GENIUS. Followed by EL GAMBUSINO ; or, The Mexican Goidseeker. 111 Vltla PEREA NENA and the Spanish Dancers will appear. After which, LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS To conclude with FISH OUT OF WATER. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. eitABLIS ELUL THIS EVENING, The Historical Flay of LOUIS XI. Laub (King of France), by Mr. Charles Kean. To be followed by THE VICTOR VANQUISHED. To conclude with A PRINCE FOR AN /1017 R. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. TH/S EVENING, LIKE AND UNLIKE. To conclude with JAMIC ?MI THE BEAN STALK; or, Harlequin and Mother Goose at Home Again. In which Mess's. J. Bland, P. Bedford, Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham, and Miss E. Arden will ap3ear. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alited Wigan. THIS EVENING STILL WATERS RUN DEEP. After which will be produced a New and doubly-moral, though excessively old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE DISCREET PRINCESS; or, the Three Glass ➢istaf's. I i which Messrs. Emery, F. Robson, IL Cooper, Miss Marston, and Miss Haskell will appear. ROYAL StrIREY TLIEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Drama, entitled HOW WE LIVE IN THE WORLD OF LONDON. Followed by T:IE POSTMAN'S KNOCK. To conclude with TtIFFLEHAITSEN; or, The Lawyer's Legend. 1303C.AL •iTMASID TrIEATit'S. Ilader the direction of Mr: Pa! ne THIS EVENING, MY WIFE'S COUSIN. After which, THE LOST DIAMONDS. Followed by A Ba'let Divertissement. -After which. GOOD QUEEN 13,:53. To conclude with NO! NO!! NO!! ! ROYAL MARYLESONE THEATRE. WEDNESDAY, April 9th, last night but two of Mr. CHARLES MATE WS' Engagement. .%.... , ....b , course, that this dexterous side-blow at the Press 1 1 en masse, inflicter I by the dagger of lath flourished by the Comic Promier hither and thither, right and left, in the midst of the freaks and vagaries : of the Parliamentary garlequinade—applied com prehensively to journals of the most miscellaneous character, of all parties, of all classes, of all com plexions, so to speak, in matters of art, science, politics, and literature. Sir CHARLES EASTLAKE, in fact (just to epito mise the matter), has brought home from the Continent a big picture, which he tells us is very fine indeed, but which every one among us .sees at once is about as hideous and worthless as it is huge and expensive. Sir CHARLES EASTLAKE gives for this gaudy daub just (within a few brass fartUngs) 2,0001. sterling. Everybody is dis gusted with the thing—everybody is sick of it— everybod,T is indignant. And simultaneously the daily news i : , apers, both morning and evening, the weekly newsp spers, class newspapers and general newspapers, rau'ical newspapers and fashionable newspapers, maga:cines and guar terlies—simulta neously—roar forth one unanimous protest against the folly of this worCie than absurd expenditure. Mr. °TWAT protests ag'ainst it in the House of Commons when that House has formed itself into a Commit tee of Supply, and when there is brought before it the vote of 17,6391. for the expenses of the National Gallery. Besides enumerating the varh. `bus organs of public opinion who have already i:tsisted upon the extravagance of wasting 2,000 1 .0p0n a scriptural caricature, said to have been pain'ted by PAUL VERONESE, the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Stafford enforced his argument by Voting from what had been said upon the mattor by our contemporary the Times, and what we ourselves This Evening will be performed, TIIE GREAT GUN TRICK. The Wizard of the S.S.W., Mr. Chas. Mathews. After which, USED UP.. Sir Charles Coldstream, Mr. Charles Mathews. Tu conclude with KATHERINE ANA PETRUCHIO. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. E. Stirling. AwnErs ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING, That unique and unparalle!ed Rencontre Equestrienne, a GENU INE ENGLISH STEEPLECHASE! Also, the Oriental Spectacle, THE ARAB OF THE DESERT AND HIS FAITHFUL STEED. After which, the WONDERS OF TEIE ARENA, by riders of first-rate talent. To conclude with a Dram i of Peril, Esc Cement, Laughter, Mis hapi, Crossings, Jostlings, and Adventures, with Terrific Leaps from the stage to the ring, i❑ EtiOLAND'S HARVE3T HOME and NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director. Sfe. Cooke, jun. EIIMA STANLEY'S "SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN." The Manager respectfully announces the FOUR. LAST MORN ING PERFORMANCES of this most popular and amusing Enter tainment, Wednesday, the 9th April, Saturday, the 12th, Wednesday, the 16th, and Saturday, the 19th, at half-past two. Evening performances as usual, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, And Fridays, at 8 o'clock. Admission—Rack Seats, Is. ; Centre Seats, 2s. ; Stalls, 3s. SAINT MARTIN'S HALL, Long-acre. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY—Morn. 27 min. aft. 4—Evening 48 min. aft. 4 To-110BRow—Morn. 8 min. aft. s—Evening 31 min. aft. 5 THE WEATHER—Sux 02110 E, Aram 9. THERMOMETER, IN TH[l4 SHADE. 65 - highest since noon ye.sterday. 44 -lowest this morning and during the night. 53 -this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29 . 39. WniD, W. to W.S.W.—Light, with dull rainy weather. i) rt -' -47, had remarked in The Sun, in reference to ~~~~~ LONDON, WEDNESDA I, APRIL 9, 1856. glaring demerits of the picture, and of the no less glaring absurdity of allowing Sir CHARLES EAST LAKE hereafter to go maundering over the Con tinent, spending .thousands of the public money in the purchase of so much damaged canvass ! Well, Mr. OTWAY'S efforts —of course—as any one might have predicated--; failed, failed totally and egregiously. The Pre sident of the Royal Academy being a bit of a favourite " somewhere "—we wonder where ? in Lilliput-land or Brobdignag ? bis peccadillo was hushed up, and every sixpence asked for snugly voted by a complacent House—as a matter of course—nemine [Mr. OTWAY and the Fourth Estate excepted] contradieente ! And so the big daub of the " Magi" still hangs in the place of honour upon the wall rendered classic by SEBASTIANO DEL ProMno's " Lazarus "—now removed to another part of the Gallery, to show off as conspicuously as possible—(what shall we call it?)—Sir CHARLES EASTLAKE'S " Folly !" by one who arro4ata4 to him3elf the title of a statesmlu, and wh sp,Aks ex cilth,edra, that their only defence against injustice is to be found in fraud and deception, and to be encouraged in a course so demoralising ? It is, indeed, a grievous and intolerable insult to the community—one that will no doubt be repeated in Continental and trans-Atlantic journals as evidence of the low state of mercantile morality in Great Britain. We may have to submit to such imputations in other climes, but it is too bad they should receive weight and validity from the speech of a British Minister, and that the chosen representatives should, by a deliberate vote, show that they lent any degree of credence to his defamatory argu ments. As a matter of course, Mr. OTWA.Y'S amiable effort on Monday evening was a failure. Don't we all know that Sir CHARLES EASTLAKE is a bit of a favourite at the Palace ? Don't we all very well remember, moreover, how egregiously, a few ses sions back, the present Prime Minister of Eng land, then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, was snubbed, not to say flagrantly insulted, by reason of his supposed antagonism to certain un constitutional influences exercised by " a shadow behind the throne" of his SOVEREIGN ? And can't we readily enough comprehend through the sub serviency since then evinced (possibly in the way of expiation) by that same illustrious statesman to that same mysterious adumbration of Royalty— can't we readily enough comprehend, through our cognisance of that subserviency on the part of the Noble Viscount, how it should come to pass on Monday evening for the nine hundred and ninety-ninth time that his Lordship should take up the cudgels manfully for another of the charming `sveaknesses" of H. R. H., for a favourite at the Palace, now under the taboo of certain anonymous writers in the public news papers I As a matter of course, we say Mr. °TWAY'S, amendment failed under these circum stances. The result of his attempt was as obvi ously inevitabl e as it is that two and two should make four ! Reprehend Sir CHARLES EASTLAKE, forsCoth, because he happens to have inflicted upon the nation a miserable daub under the name of PAULO VERONESE, at the cost of some 2,0001., filched from the public Treasury ! The idea was preposterous—with Sir CHARLES EAST LAKE in such very high favour at Windsor and Pimlico. ' 6 TILE IDEA !"--[Surely, w h en we remember this as a specimen of one, Somebody was not so very far wrong after all when he suggested to a silly lady in quiring the meaning of the word, that—ldea-- " Idea, ma'am, is the feminine of Idiot !"1 The The very important question was certainly brought forward under the most unfavourable circumstances. " Save us from our friends" may well be the exclamation of those assessed under schedule D. Mr. Moira, although mean ing well, has certainly, - by his ill-judged motion, rendered important assistance to those who strive to prevent any modification of the tax during the present year. We trust, however, that another and more energetic effort may be made. The opportunity will be affortted when the Budget is brought forward, and Sir G. C. LEWIS cannot assert that he has not received due warning to prevent him from placing reliance on an unmodi fied Income Tax as a portion of the available assets of the Exchequer for the financial year, which will terminate on the 31st March, 1856. Is there a single person throughout the length and breadth of the land who entertains any rea sonable expectation that the Income and Property Tax will be suffered to expire in 1860 ? Who supposes that the qualified promise of Mr. GLAD STONE will be fully and faithfully redeemed ? We cannot suppose the existence of an individual so credulous, in whom the organ of gullibility is so largely developed, as to indulge in the pleasing delusion. When the Right Hon. Member for the University of Oxford brought forward his budget, in which he asked for the renewal of the tax for seven years, in place of for three, we explained the nature of the fraud—the gross fraud—prac tised on the community. We pointed out the palpable mockery, and showed that, in aceordance with the true red-tapist principle, he was only anxious to tide over the difficulty for the time being, leaving the arduous duty to a future Minis ter, which he endeavoured to shirk, per fas aut nefas. idea—of hauling poor dear Sir CHARLES over the coals for having spent one thousand nine hundred and a good many odd pounds upon a wretched daub upon a very large canvass purporting to be a repre sentation of the " Adoration of the Magi" by the great PAULO CAGLIA.B,I, otherwise known as PAULO • VZRONEK E I Again we say—The Idea—was Simply preposterous. What could the hon. member for Stafford have been dreaming of— We w°ll der—to suppose for one instant that the House of Commons would venture to blow a feather of doubt (let alone hurling a brickbat of blame) at the immaculate and infallible taste of that highly-cultivated POCOCURANTE, now installed for some years past. as President of the Royal Academy ! Particularly when, as Lord PALMER STON reminded Parliament on Monday evening, Sir CHARLES EASTLAKE himself has " far too much good sense to allow his serenity to be disturbed" by anonymous writings in the public newspapers ! It mattered nothing, of MURDER IN THE COUNTY ROSCOMMON. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPZ) . DUBLIN, THURSDAY MORNING. Yesterday evening Mrs. SArah Kelly, hitherto distinguished in our Law Courts as the successful suitor in the case of " Kelly v. Thewles," was murdered, while walking in her grounds with her nephew. Two men, with blackened faces, approached, and desiring the nephew to stand aside they dis charged pistols and shot the unfortunate lady through the head. Her death was instantaneous. RAMING THE BLOCKADE OF RUSSIAN POLTS. (From the Gazette of last Evening.) FOREIGN OFFICE, April 8. Mortice is hereby given that, pending the rati fication of the Treaty of Peace, an armistice by sea, as well as by land, has been agreed upon be tween Great Britain and her Allies on the one part, and Russia on the other ; and that conse quently orders have been given for immediately raising the Blockade of Russian ports. THE MISSING STEAMER PACIFIC. ADMIRALTY, 9TH APRIL, 1856. The Lords of the Admiralty have received a report from Captain Dunlop, of H.M.S. Tartar, detailing the results of the search, undertaken by command of their lordships, for the missing steamer Pacific. Capt. Dunlop's attention in performing this service was principally directed to the space be tween the 50th and 55th degrees of North Lati tude, and the 10th and 20th degrees of West Longitude. In order to cover the largest space it was deemed expedient that the vessels should sepa rately prosecute the search. The Tartar having a strong S.E. gale in her favour prodeeded as far West as 25 degrees of longitude, in the parallel of 55. When out of the track of vessels guns, were fired every two hours during the night, and the most vigilant look out kept night and day. The search unfortunately proved ineffectual. Captain Dunlop reports that at 50 deg. 30 min. N., and 19 deg. 30 W., he passed many outward and homeward bound vessels, two of which he spoke, and he feels very confident that the Pacific cannot be south of the parallel of 53 north latitude, as is that case she would have been fallen in with by some of the traders. The public mind was at that time strongly ex cited on the subject. Lord ABERDEEN, the nomi nal Premier, and Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the leader of the Rouse of Commons, had yielded to the strongest " pressure from without," and made speeches intimating that the unjust and oppressive tax would be modified, and rendered more equit able in its operation. A large majority of the leading men iu both branches of the Legislature had virtually given similar pledges. Aud there was a general expectation that " the smartest chap in the Cabinet" would fully and fairly carry out their views, and go far beyond the petty instal ment of justice which his predecessor, in the financial department, had actually proposed in his budget. But Mr. GLADSTONE abided by his fiscal crotchets with unflinching perversity. He found that it was impossible to stein the torrent of the general opinion, and was satisfied that if he at tempted to propose the renewal for the ordinary period of three years, he would have been left in a hopeless minority, and that he could not hope to obtain the support even of his own colleagues in that which they had admitted to be grossly inequitable and impolitic. He therefore endea voured to evade the difficulty by craft and cun ning, and by holding out a reasonable expectation of the speedy reduction, and ultimate extinction of the impost, to induce Parliament to consent to its alleged temporary renewal. It is needless to say how completely the ruse succeeded, or how readily Honourable Gentlemen fell into the trap. Nor need we refer to the too speedy verification of our own predictions, by the doubling of the tax in 1854, and the addition of 2d. in the 11. in 1855, making, in all, Is. 4d. in the 11., or 61. 13s. 4d. per cent., a charge which materially aggravated the injustice and oppression exercised towards the great majority of the parties assessed under schedule D. That tax produced during the last year, as Sir G. C. LEWIS informed the House, no less than 16,418,0001. sterling, and is it possible to suppose. that any Financial Minister will consent to abandon so profitable a source of revenue, and one that is obtained at so comparatively trifling a cost of collection ? We cannot lay the flattering unction to our souls ; and now that the War has terminated, not a mo ment should be lost in removing the well-founded objections to the charge. We tell the tax-payeis, who are now writhing under the infliction, that there is not the slightest chance of its reduction in 1857 to sd. in 11., or of its extinction in 1860. There is a far greater prospect of a further in crease, possibly to 10 per •, c nt or 2s. in the 11. ; and therefor e th ere can be no valid reason e why the inquiry into its operation, of the take place before any revision be postponed for a single d a y. whic h tax : should m us' No accounts have yet been received of the cruise of the Desperate, but her arrival at Galway has been reported by telegraph. Captain Dunlop further reports as follows : " On the 29th ult. I fell in with the American ship Jacob Badger, from Calcutta, bound for London. She is supposed to have run foul of a wreck, and was in a . dangerously leaky state, having nearly 4ft. of water in ker hold. She made a signal of distress, and I sent our captain and a large party of men on board, pumped her as clear of water as possible, and as her own crew (21 in number) were much exhausted, at the request of the master I put a midshipman and eight men on board to assist in navigating tier into port. " I have the honour to inform their Lordships that, according to their instructions, I arrived here last night, and finding no orders from them, I shall proceed to sea again to continue the search until the period of my return to Spithead, as specified in their Lordships' instructions." The Chancellor of the Exchequer has already suffered the cloven foot to peep out. He has shown, beyond the possibility of doubt, that we have nothing to expect from his sense of justice; that if the people desire a change they must lay their own shoulders to the wheel, and trust to their own exertions for the relief which cannot otherwise be hoped for. The Right Hon. Gentle man has adopted all the worn-out fallacies and quibbles of his predecessors. He endeavours to show that there is " a compensating principle," . founded on—what ?—the false and fraudulent returns of those assessed under schedule D ! And is this gross and Infamous libel on the industrious classes to be tolerated ? Are those who earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow to be told THE riv, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENtve3. APRIL 9.1856. LITEST NEWS. ST. PETERSBURG, APRIL 8. The official journal publiskes the naval armis- tice ; after the ratification of peace all the ships seized will be released. Admiral Metlin has been called to St. Petersburg. MADRID, APRTL In yesterday's sitting of the Cortes several articles of the financial plan were voted. The Cortes will very shortly grant the authorisation for the railroad to the frontier of Portugal. Tran quillity reigns throughout the kingdom. ut,d , -r influence of something like system. Wool - warehouses are no longer occupied with passengers' lug ge.ge w s id eViderices of Eor wean insani'y in the shape of uttabie merchandise ; they are again devoted to the 'use of staple export for which they were built. The re sults of the clip of the present season are not yet suffi ciently known to warrant any very reliable statement of the ; it will be in excess of that of last year . pe-_-: toinly, but the ratio of iLcr,ase will not he great. The effects of that pest of Australian sheen-runs—scab -- will have worked its influence on the progress of this inte rest. In quality the present clip will, it is expected, excel that of any year since the discovery of gold. The earliness of the season will insure a greater freedom from burrs and grass seeds, and greater pains have been taken in the washing and shearing. Shipping is plenti ful, freights ruling from id. to ld. per lb. Charges of carriage from town to the Bay, from 2s, to 3s. 6d. per bale. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. Count Buol has received instructions to remain at Paris, in order to take part in the deliberations upon such details of execution as yet remain to be settled. A letter in the Constitutionnel says that on the 30th of March there was a rumour in St. Peters burg of a third state loan for a sum of 50,000,000 of roubles. The Moniteur contains the following :—" In consequence of the unfavourable accounts from Paraguay relative to the manner in which emi grants are there treated, the French Government has suspended, until further orders, the granting of passports for that country. Colonists who feel desirous of proceeding to Paraguay are, therefore, recommended to wait until the situation of foreigners there shall have been placed under better regulations." BOURSE, April B.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. s. End of Month, 4 per Ceuta 92 75 --f. —a. 3 per Ceuta 73 73 45 New Loan 73 75 Bank Shares 4,050 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,690 Austrian Belgian Fives 97i— Spanish Threes Piedmontese(s) 93 50 Home Debt 4oi " Finance—The financial statement for the quarter and year ended the 31st of December was issued by the Government immediately on the close of 1855. While a decrease is shown in the total receipts for the year as compared with those of 1854, there is at the same time good reason for congratulating the country on the rapid improvement in some chief sources of revenue, especially in the customs, which may be considered the pulse of the country. It will be observed that there is a falling off in the gold revenues to the extent of about 100.000/. ; lett, as more than that has been saved in policeand in the Gold Commissioner's and other establishments, the mea sures of last session in reference to the gold fields may be fairly pronounced to be financially successful. The chief decrease in revenue is in that derived from the sale of ' land ; but, as we have before explained, this does not so mush arise from the diminished price per acre rea lised. On .the whole the statement of revenue may be pronounced 'satisfactory. The year 1855 has been a trying year to the colony. A commercial crisis was at its height when it was ushered in, and confidence was nearly 'prostrate: The expenditure of the Government was on a recklessly extravagant scale, and in excess of the re sources of the colony—magnificent as those resources •Wre, and elastic as they have been proved to be through a long-continued trial of ne ordinary in tensity. The close of the year witnessed a very different state of things ; confidence has in the main been restored —the government of the colony has been carried on with tolerable efficiency ; the amount that Ministers had cal, culated to be absolutely necessary was reduced by above a million and a half of money. The sum of 4,801,2921. was estimated by the Executive, while the gross sum voted by the Legislative Council was under 3,000,0001., exclusive of the debts due to the banks. The estimates for 1856, which were laid on the table of the house by the outgoing Ministry, are framed in the spirit of eco nomy initiated in the past year. The revenue is estimated at 2,738,6001., and the expenditure at 2,792,1521., leay. ing a defiCiency of 53,5521., which it is proposed to meet by' a temporary loan, without interest, from the Pound, age Fund. " Agriculture—We have recorded at various times the progress made during last year in cultivation, and we have now the satisfaction of stating that the crops in course of being garnered exceed in quantity and quality those of any previous year. To distant readers, who are but little acquainted with our agricultural districts a succinct state ment of a general character will better convey an idea of agricultural progress than the specific statements which reach us from those localities. It is estimated that the area of land under cultivation this year is at least double that of any former year, and that the produce will be 1 equal to more than the quadruple of any one of the three years. The proportion of wheat to other produce has largely increased, and, although importations will be ne cessary, a great advance has been made towards estab lishing the' colony as self-sustaining in the article of bread. The supply of hay throughout the country is altogether unprecedented, and although large quantities, which could not be stacked in cons( (pence of the scar city of labour, have been destroyed or injured by heavy falls of rain, there is still sufficient, it is computed, to supply the wants of the colony in this article, which has hitherto been extensively imported. The growth of barley in Victoria is limited, but oats are largely cultivated, and the prrduce this year will be greater than during any former period. A reduction of price has natu rally followed the increase of production ; and, while we congratulate consumers on the cheapened cost of most of the necessaries of life, we are happy to state that cur rent prices and future prospects are satisfactory also to the producers. Good agricultural land exists in abun dance in the neighbourhood of the principal gold fields, and around the many villages springing up at short dis tances along the leading roads. During last year large quantities of this land were sold, and have been partially cultivated, a (ding new producing districts to those which formerly constituted our only sources of local sup ply. Contemporaneously with the extension of cultiva tion, flour-mills are being erected in anticipation of the harvest, and the population on the gold fields will this year draw their supplies partly from the contiguous land, instead of incurring the enormous expense of cartage from Melbourne or Geelong. We look forward to a still further increase of cultivation this year, and already in some places the plough is busily at work in maiden soil. We desire also to mention that a numerous class of small farmers have lately settled on land purchased from the Crown out of their savings, and appear fully satisfied with the result of their first experiment ; while market gardeners have this year derived a greater pro fit, on the whole, than during last season. "Accounts from New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania are as favourable, in reference to the bountifulness of the harvest, as those which we furnish of the colony of Victoria ; and we may add that nothing seems to be wanted to give perfect success to the laud able efforts of agriculturists but a proper supply of la bour, the scarcity of which may, at the last moment, wreck the industry of a year. "Gas—The gas company fulfilled their promise to the people of Melbourne. On the Ist Jan., 1856, it -wars supplied to WI who had made preparations for its use. The undertaking has been a gigantic one, and before the operations are completed no less a sum than 150,0001., it is calculated, will have been expended. The amount of the original estimate of cost was 20,0001.' The neces sary apparatus for lighting the streets has not yet arrived, 'Jut its arrival is , hourly expected, and immediately ,hereafter the full advantage of the gas manufacture will be enjoyed by the people of Melbourne. "Political—Although but a very short time has :lapsed since the :late of our-last summary, the political confusion which subsisted then Ilea been worse con ;unded by the death of our late governor, Sir Charles Hotham. " We as yet possess little experience of Sir William Moles worth's appointments, but, judging him by his antecedents, we would rather leave the choice of our new Governor to him than to any Colonial Minister who has held office within the scope of our memory. The Council met yesterday, and an explanation was sxpected. Mr. Haines, however, having moved the appointment of a select committee to prepare an address of condolence to Lady Hotham, moved further, that no ether business should be proceeded with till this nielan eholy duty had been done, and the house a .journed almost immediately, without a word of explasation being given. We believe the most prevalent opinion to he, that Mr. Haine's Ministry will retain office, but this opinion we do not share, At the moment we write we hear that a requisition to the Mayor of Melbourne, to :;all a meeting to consider the propriety of addressing eer Majesty, praying her to extend to the colonists the erivilege of choosing their Governor, has been signed by many influential citizens. "The late Sir Charles Hotham—The news of the Governor's sudden death spread a deep gloom over the city. All places of amusement were closed. A ball which was announced to take place at the Exhibition Buielieg was indefinitely postponed ; and the 'same course was pursued with reference to a dinner to cele brate the lighting of the city with gas, and to the cere monial of laying the foundation-stone of the Western Market. The mortal remains of hie Excellency were, on Friday, the 4th instant, interred in the New Ceme tery, in the presence of an immense concourse of persons. The spectators included the represen tatives of every grade of society in Victoria. Ministers of every denomination, the civil and military authorities of the colony, and an immense mass of all classes of colonists tock part in the last ceremonials due from them to the deceased representative of the Majesty of Eng land.. The awful suddenness of the stroke which at a critical moment has deprived the colcny of its Governmental bead, and a strong feeling which since the death of Sir Charles has gains 1 ground namely, that his mental faculties had been overtasked by the anxieties of his position—had caused a powerful sentiment of syinpatty for the de ceased on all sides ; and the appeal made to the citizens by his worship' the Mayor was, we are glad to observe, very generally met. Business was almost entirely sus pended throughout the day, and it is well worthy of notice that the conduct of the groups assembled in the streets, both prior to and during the progress of the procession, evinced a proper and decorous bearing con sistent with the solemnity of the occasion. The clergy were represented by about 20 ministers of the Church of England, and 40 ministers of other persuasions. Among the latter were the Roman Catholic bishop and vicar general. Nearly 1,000 civilians walked in the proces sion, exclusive of those we have already referred to. About 200 private carriages and vehicles also followed, conveying at least 250 more persons, and there were also from 50 to 60 on horseback. The arrangements for 1 moving this immense mass of people forward were ad. 1 miial)ly carried out ; and in the course of a few minutes, the militsry band playing the ' Dead March,' and the I muffled bells of the cathedral chiming, the gigantic peso- - cession moved forward in perfect order and regularity towards the cemetery, by the route of Collins-street, Elizabeth-street, and northward, passing the Univer- i sity." Lady Hotham had engaged a passage to Eng- I land on board the Anglesey. In the Legislative Council on the 9th, " The Chief Secretary moved a brief address of con dolence to Lady Hotham, which was unanimously adopted. The Chief Secretary entered into an explana ; tion of the present position of the Ministry, of which tie eubstance was that he had been requested by his Excel lency the Acting-Governor to continue in office in cen -equence of the failure of Mr. Nicholson to form an Ad ministration, and that he had felt it to be his duty tindo 80. With respect to the ballot, he intended to act as if it had never been affirmed by the Council. Mr. Nichol- son also gave his explanation, of which the substance was, that he could not get a sufficient number of men inited in political sentiment to form a Ministry, and he cad therefore abandoned the task. As to the ballot, he was prepared to propose certain clauses for incorpora tion in the Electoral Act whi.ch would amply provide for ; its operation. A discussion having commenced on the subject, the Speaker ruled that it was out of order. Mrs Fyffe then moved an adjournment. A rather sharp dis. eussion ensued, le the course of which Mr. Fyfe attacked i the Ministry,and Mr. Fawkner attacked the press, and the motion was lost." RAILWAYS-?MB CASH. fr. c. fr. c. Orleans ... ..... . (xd) 1,345 Western... l(xd) 915 Northern . 1,052 50 Strakbutx 1,036 25 Lyons. ~„, 1,362 50 New Ditt0... Nediterranean 1,650 Grand Central Lyons Geneva BlO Testa ...... ........... 712 50 Cette - COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and the Prince Consort, accompanied by Prince Arthur and the Princess Helena, visited the Z logical Gardens, in the Regent's-park, - yesterday morn ing. In attendance were the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, Lord Alfred Paget, and 0.)1. F, H. Seymour. In the afternoon her Majesty and his Royal Highness, attended by the Equerries in Waiting, visited her Royal High ness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House. His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Mr. Munro with a visit at his studio, in Upper Belgravc- place. The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, attended by Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps and Mr. Gibbs, visited the establishment of Messrs. Dd La Rue, in Bunhill-row. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Duchess of Wellington, the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, the Hon. Lucy Kerr ; Lord de Tabley, Lord Alfred Paget, and C•)I. F. H. Seymour, honoured the Princess's Theatre with their presence in the evening. The Duchess of Wellington has succeeded Lady Mac donald as the Lady in Waiting to the Queen. Lard de Tabley and the Hon. Mortimer Sackville West have re lieved Lord Dufferin and Col. the Hon, A. N. Hood, in their duties as the Lord and Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. a The Queen held a Privy Council this day (Wednesday), at Buckingham Palace. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Sir Couper, honoured the Olympic Theatre with her presence last evening. The funeral of the Countess of Pembroke took place place at Wilton, on Thursday last. AU the naembera of her ladyship's family, male as well as female, followed the remains to the grave. Lady Mary Wood has an assembly this evening, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Admiralty. Lady Caroline Towersley's soiree for Friday, the 11th, is postponed to Friday, the 18th. Lord Pantnure and Sir Charles Wood left town yes trday for Portsmouth. Lord Skye and Sele and the Hon. Miss Fiennes and the Hon. Mr. Fiennes have arrived at the family man sion, in Grosvenor-street, fromA3roughton Castle, near B In bury. The remains of the Right Hon. George Robert Daw son, late Deputy-Chairman of the Customs Board, were interred on Monday in the Necropolis at Woking.. APPROACHING MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.—We un derstand a matrimonial alliance is arranged, and will shortly be celebrate 1, between the Lorsl Forester and Adela Tiscountese Melbourne, widow of the third and last Viscount Melbourne. A matrimonial alliance will b a r l s o o t h s e h r o o r i t shortly e ta ke Earlp o a f c eGllialgwoewe andt e F. the Ab.-.rcrortiby, daughter of the late Lord Abercr omb y . Hon.R o G n . .Montagu lij Yie THE FERMOY PEERAGE.—The Committee for Privi leges sat yesterday to consider the claim of Edward Burke Roche, Lord Fermoy, in the peerage of Ireland, to vote in the election of representative peers for Ire land. Lord Redesiale presided. The Lord Chancellor referred a question to the judges embracing the facts cf the case, and asking whethtr, in their opinion, the ex tinction of the earldom of Menrath in 1812 was such an extinction lus was contemplated by the Act of 'Union to entitle the Crown to create a new peerage for Ireland. The learned judges took time to consider the question. The Persians have taken possession of the filatd of Karate, in the Persian Gulf. The Minister at War of the Shah is dead. The Khan of Baraljchan has been arrested. AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna, in the German Journal of Frankfort, says :—" The reductions in the Aus- , trian army are being continued without interrup tion. Provisional and definitive congas are granted, and the cavalry horses are being sold. The army will, it is said, be reduced to the states which ex isted previously to 1848. Baron de Ribeaupierre, master of the ceremonies to the Court of Russia, has just passed through this place on his way to Venice. CGunt Buol and Baron de Bruck have been named citizens of honour of Prague ; the fint in consideration of the part which he has taken in the conclusion of peace, and the second for his services in the reorganisation of the finances." —Another letter from Vienna, in the Post Ampt Gazette, says :—" The new ambassador of Austria at Munich, Count de Hartiz, has arrived bare from Copenhagen, and will not delay proceeding, to his post. The members of the episcopal con ference will be all assembled here in a day er two. Those who have already arrived presented them selves immediately to the Papal Nuncio, Cardinal Viale Prela, who returned their visit the same day. It is probable that the monetary conference will have some twenty more sittings. In conse quence of the arrest of two stock-jobbers in the Cafe List, the other speculators of the same kind have decided ou not frequenting that café, and on suspending their business in the evening, until some convenient spot shall have been found for their meeting." The Bourse Gazette of 'Vienna of the 4th says:— "It is well known that the Paris Conference has refused to apply its attention to the question of the Sound dues. Denmark had several times at tempted to submit the matter to the Congress. At the opening of the Conferences, the Government of Copenhagen addressed a circular to its diplomatic agents at foreign Courts, in order to convince the great Powers, and especially those which have an interest in the 'question, of the necessity of exa 1, mining it in the general interest of Europe." A letter from Berlin of the 3d, in the Post Ampt Gaette, says :—The courier who will convey to Paris the ratification of the peace by the Emperor Alexander will probably arrive here towards the end of next week. The courier who took the treaty to St. Petersburg passed through Berlin in the night of the 31st of March. It generally takes five days to go from Berlin to St. Petersburg. AUSTRALIA. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 8. The White Star Royal Mail clipper ship Red Jacket has arrived with ad vices from Melbourne to the 12th January, 108,686 ounces of gold, 1,688 bales of wool, &e., and 280 passengers. Capt. Millward, commander of the Red Jacket, died during the voyage home. From the M elbourne Argus we extract the fol lowing summary of intelligence : " Gold,—We have little to add to the remarks on this subject in our previous summary. The yield is steady and increasing, and the mining population generally Je in a prosperous ccndition. The export of the precious metal for 1855 has amounted to 110 tons 8 cwt. 3 qrs. 61b., against 88 tons 8 cwt. 3 qrs. 81b. for the previous year. " The receipts by escort and shipments for 1854 and 1855 respectively have been : Received in Twelve Montbv, 1854. 1855. Shipped i■ Twelve Months. 1854. 1855. Ounces. Ounces. Ounces. OunceQ. 1,734, 446 2 ,177,887 2,122,596 2,650,578 "The quarterlystatementof theamount of gold brought to Melbourne and Geelong by escort in 1855, compared with the corresponding quarter of 1854, exhibits th following results 1854. 1855. Oucces. Once& 160,570 194.646 October.... ~ November December... . 134,911 210,847 ~ 145,318 243,732 440,799 649,225 Last quarter of 1854 440,799 • Increaße on the last quarter of 1855 208,426 "The gold brought down by escort fro•u the various gold fields in the months of November and December. 1855, amounted to 454,5791. ; and for the corresponding week of 1854 to 290,6361. " We have had only one escort return for the current year, that for the week ended the sth inst. The total number of ounces received by it amounted to 51,533. 'The increase which these returns exhibit over 1854 is very marked, and the most encouraging feature is that it has been gradual and uniformly progressive. That this year will exceed' 1855 is not doubted by any one. The boundaries of the gold fields are extending, enterprie is more ably directed, and the quartz reefs are of such extent that for centuries they will in all probability def% the power of man to extract their treasures. The state of the returns will net admit of our drawing our usual' annual comparison in the present summary, but they are so nearly complete that we can promise then by the mail ship of the 25th of the current month. "The departures of gold ships for foreign ports since the Ist of December have been as follows : Date of sailing. Xhip. Destination. Oz. Dec. 4 Viceroy Mauritius... 155 ), 10 ... Emma Liverpool... 41,917 ff 12 ... Queen of the Seas Calcutta .... 2,890 „15 ... Admiral London 31,053 „18 ... Rajah of Sarawak... Calcutta • ~ 27 Lightning Liverpool... 11,639 ,27 ... Blackwell London 86,281 " ' We ought to remark that, within the last few months, a considerable proportion of our gold has been shipped to Sydney, to be coined at the mint recently established in that city. It was provided in the impe• rial regulations that the Sydney coin shall not be a legal tender in the other Australian colonies until a proclama tion to that effect has been sanctioned by the local legis lature, and made by the Executive. This proclamation has not yet been issued in this colony, and the gold sent to Sydney is paid for by imperial coin. If this continues for any length of time our neighbours will require con tinually to import sovereigns to pay for our gold. "Population—We commence the new year with a population sf at least 325,000 souls. Our numbers at the close of 1854 were 273,000. " Trade and commerce —Our laet summary wac issued on the eve of Christmas. Since that period the Lolid Lys, the Ministerial crisis, and lastly, the sudden death of his Excellency Sir Charle3 Hotbam, have contributed to the stagnation of trade. At this period of the year the whole. sale houses do not look for a brisk business, but about a month later the season fairly commences. Many of the country buyers are already finding their way into town, and a bu , y season is confidently looked fur. We are glad to be able to confirm our remarks of the 24th of December as to the gradual and increasing growth of confidence among our traders, and of the absence of ille gitimate speculation. " Wool—Our present wool season has commenced earlier than usual. It has rarely happened in previous seasons that mere than three or four sales have taken place before the close of the year. On the present occa sion there have been about a dozen. Judging from the facts that have reached us, we are of opinion that the bulk of the crop of this season will be earlier by four weeks at least than that of last season. ‘We may remark that this trade has more come SPORTING NOTES. THICK-COMING FANCIES. The recent operations in the Turf Market on the Epsom Events have been neither determined nor mysti 'fying. The remarks which were published in The Sun an Monday last have been unaffected by them, and no necessity exists for altering. the statements or modifying the opinions which were then set forth. The move ments of the cognoscenti, too, have proved that my judg ment was not at fault when I warned the reader of the Hospitality likely to be experienced on the Downs, and prepared them for the introduction of Smack into the market. Fishermen is fluctuating considerably on the sea of speculation. For the City and Suburban St. Hubert has drifted steadily before a brisk trade wind into the lead ing position, whilst Fisherman scarcely makes head against the current of opposition which has set in against him. To explain these changes is some what difficult; many persons apparently believe them to be caused by the supposition that Mr. Parr's and Mr. Howard's interest in the race ara identical, whilst others trace the origin of the movements to the conviction which is now widely entertained respecting the superiority of St. Hubert's pretensions. On Monday I wrote as follows :—"I fancy the race will be between him (St. Hubert)and Fisherman, and I' shall not be surprised to see the black jacket awl orange cap triumph over the puce jacket with white sleeves." The betting has strengthened this opinion. Still, despite the hostility arrayed against Fisherman, my fancy for the horse is not entirely de- stroyed. I still deem him a most dangerous antagonist. Hospitality enjoyed only a brief season of popularity. It was reported that in private he had done wonders with; Ellermire, who, however, has now superseded him in the betting. Ellermire has received some support, but no' decided demonstration has been made in her favour. Should she be " wanted" she will indubitably run forward. Winkfield will show, it is said, both for this event and the Metropolitan ; I am afraid, however, h:s owner has no such slice of luck in store for him at Epsom as winning either of the large handicaps. New Brighton is, it is whispered, somewhat unprepared ; were he all right I should not certainly deem his chance unworthy of consideration. Sir Rowland Trenchard will represent Messrs. Barber and Saxon's interest, and should he prove " kind " he may run well. Boer has reappeared in the betting with some force ; he belongs to a diver " party" who, when in earnest, seldom make a mistake. Boer is weighted with much leniency, and will doubtless be formidable. Bubble showed a good turn of speed last year, and his; party entertain hopes of his chance for this race. He was somewhat freely sup ported on Monday, and in consideration of his running for the two-years-old Stakes at Epsom Summer Meeting, and his subsequent performance in good company at Goodwood, I am induced to believe that the outlays which have been made in his favour are quite warranted. Still whether it will be a case of Bubble and Squeak for hackers or layers, I am at present unable to determine. Sir George is much talked about, but I am disinclined to be numbered amongst his partisans. I have no desire to alter the opinion which I expressed on Monday. The result of the race will, I fancy, be in favour of ST. HUBERT. .Fi•herman is nest in my estimation, but should his sinking tendency be confirmed, I shall take BUBBLE for my " second beat." If the betting be any criterion of the numerical strength of the field, the subjoined will be found a pretty accurate list of probable starters for the CITY AND SUBURBAN. Age st lb St. Hubert 4 8 0 Flatterer Etlermire Ariosto a 7 5 Age et lb Crown Pigeon ... 4 6 7 Lave A dullana 4 6 6 Sir George 4 6 4 Fulbeck 4 6 3 Hospitality 3 6 2 Fisherman 3 5 9 Bubble Post-Bores Blue Bell Claret 4 7 4 Winkfield Le Juif New Brigbton Sir R. Trencbard a 6 9 Barrel... 5 6 8 The doubtful starters are printed in italics. METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. The list ofprobable starters comprises the following : Age st lb Age st lb Speed the Plough 6 8 7 Maid of the Morn 3 5 7 Winkfield Mishap The Earl Cannobie The Cannobie mania has somewhat diminished, a cir- cumstance perhaps attributable to the fact of the field for the Metropolitan being likely to be numerically stronger than was once expected. Still the number of competitors is not likely to exceed ten, and it will not comprise any animal, perhaps with the exception of Cannobie, of very formidable pretensions. Should any mistake be made with the favourite, and I confess I am prepared to see him beaten, I fancy the winner will be either MIDDLETON OA SMACK. • A few investments have been mad on Mishap, whom I shall reserve for a cockhoat. The minor events are likely to bring out comparatively large fields. For the Railway Plate, Lizzie, Gondoline, and Jane Shore attract my fancy. Flacrow will doubt less carry off the Inkerman Plate. For the Two-Year- Old Stakes, Amorous Boy and Apathy are my selections. April 9. ' A FRESH MAN. CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justices Cresswell and Crompton.) THE MURDER OF TWO CHILDREN BY THEIR MOTHER 4° UXBRIDGE. Mary Ann Harris, spinster, was indicted for th e wilful wur , ler of Ellen Harris, her illegitimate child. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clerk prosecuted ; and the P sonar was defended by Mr. Sleigh, at the instance of tb ° sheriffs. The prisoner, who is a pretty-looking young woulP 3 ' having as infant in her arms, remained seated during th e whole of the trial, and seemed to fed most poignantly th e situation in which she was placed. Mr. Bodkin, in stating the case to the jury, said, thl l from the facts which had been disclosed in connection iviw, this painful tragedy they would h ave no d ou bt b a t tbP the deceased child came to its death by the hand of O s ; unhappy woman at the bar, who was their m other , and in laying before the jury the facts connected Ili° f the one crime charged in thi s i n di c t men t h e cou° not disguise from them that she had also been the cause of the death of her other child, which formed the subject of another inquiry. The prisoner had, before th i i time of the murder, b een i n th e un i on a t Uxbridge, slll` left there, accompanied by the two children in questioth and the one she then held in her arms. She was about _ i t° go to Portsmouth, t o j o i n some one w ith w h om s h e b"" been previously connected, and who was the father of the infant now alive. She called at a public-house afteiles/' iug the union, and at that time had with her the throf children. In the evening she left the public-hence Wi t) two of the children, stating that she was going f.O takd them to sleep at another house. She left the baby, was soon afterwards seen near the Grand Junction C* ll ,l with the zhildren. Shortly after this she c ame b a ck sip' fetched the infant, and thou left. At a later period of th e evening the two children were seen floating 111 3 ° P the surface of the canal, and upon being take° out were found to be quite dead. It Ist °ll known the road she had taken, she was followed and slri prehEnded. The learned counsel then called the witness!!! whose evidence, which was not disputed, - ;;;;ed the lowing facts. The prisoner was the mother of three chP dren, Agnes and Ellen, and a baby, all of whom ill illegitimate, and it appeared that the father of the is" child was living at Portsmouth, and at the time of t a fatal 'occurrence he was anxious that the prisoner dist join him with the baby. The prisoner and h er three st dren had been in the Uxbridge workhouse, b u t on the 1 . 5 ' February she left, taking with her all the children, Id same time expressing her intention of proceeding to rsr" mouth with them. She was seen by some of her relatiops, who reside in the neighbourhood of Uxbridge, at differes i periods of the day, and towards the evening the pris° l3el 2, commenced her out return to p rocee d b y th e train fret the West Drayton station, on her way to Portsreet"' About half-past seven o'clock in the evening she was O A with the two elder children near a b r id ge over th e Orw Junction Canal, called Yewsley-bridge, an d a ve ry fr , minutes afterwards she was seen coming away from w e canal without the children. In about half an hour t l ° ° this time the bodies of the two unhappy children . seen in the canal by a labouring man, a nd on th e ir be' D° taken out they were found to be quite dead. Suspicil: of course, immediately fell upon the pri soner , a nd was taken into custody the same evening, at a puis i " house in the neighbourhood, and an her being t°lll that the bodies of two children h a d b een tik° l out of the canal, and that she answered the dota' tion et the person who was last seen with them she O I L no reply. The Constable then took the prisoner , to "'- public-house where the bodies of the children were ly l ° and when the prisoner saw them she went up to then lsll l kissed them, and said they were her children, and that .14 had brought them out of the workhouse that Mornisi a The prisoner was then taken to the police-station, , while the woman employed for that purpose was sear: o4 I her, she said to her, " Oh dear, oh dear, do you knUir Whl yos have been doing ?" to which the prison er re plied, know very well what I have been doing ;" and upon gap. other person who was present observing that it was a 'I I !: der she had not drowned the baby as well as the et's" children, the prisoner exclaimed, " The baby has got father, but the other children have not." slj She subsequently, after having been caution e d tha t . _a. she said would be given in evidence against h e r, tcour s. . statement, which amounted to an entire conf ess i on , 61 4 "Li had thrown the children into the water, and that she 11 " -- done so because she would not take them with her to r° l44 ; mouth ; and she also stated that she was. sorry her b s,s " was not thrown in as well as the other children, and lidded that she had gone through so much trouble not had no desire to live. Mr. Sleigh, in a very able and impressive speech, it that he never rose to address a jury with feelings of der t responsibility than upon the present. There was thing so painful, so revolting in the case that a i notbi" should with premeditation take away the lives of the " 4 children. Mr. Justice Cresswell then summed ,up, upon the probabilities of the defence set up. The jury. after consulting a few momenta, returne l l vardict of Guilty. Mr. Justice Cresswell then passed the extreme multit il i of the law, telling the miserable woman not to Ind in any hope that mercy would be extended to her. Upon hearing her sentence she shrieked out, " I ei1t .. .1 1 nocent ;" and was removed fram the dock screaming, Pl ' in an almost fainting state. JLN( LISA FIRE INSURANCES. Subjoined are the provisions of the new measure by which the Chancellor of the Exchequer contem plates the possibility of preventing English fire insurances from being effected in foreign offices. All persons acting in the slightest degree as agents in such cases are to be compelled, under a penalty of 100/. per day, to take out a licence similar to that required by the English offices, and to pay duty. It is likewise stipulated that every insur ance on property in England is to be liable to duty, whether the policy be issued here or in a foreign country. The means by which this stipu lation is to be enforced remain yet to be ascer tained : " Whereas, under and by virtue of certain acts passed in that behalf, persons insuring or keeping an office for ln . turing property from loss by fire are requested to take out licences for that purpose from the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, and to give security by bond for duly rendering accounts of such insurances and paying the duty chargeable in respect thereof, and a certain stamp duty is by law chargeable upon any policy or o th er in strument whereby any insuranceis made of or upon pro perty from damage or loss by fire, and a further duty at and after the rate of 3s. per centum per annum is also chargeable in respect of every such insurance; and whereas it is expedient to amend as hereinafter men tioned the laws relating to the duties on such insurances : be it therefore enacted as f , llows "1. Every person who iu the united kingdom shall receive or accept any proposal or instructions for the in surance of property from loss or damage by fire by any company, society, or person, or persons out of the united kingdom, or who shall keep, or have, or conduct, or manage any office or place for accepting or receiving or issuing any such proposals or instructions, or who shall be held out by any public advertisement or notice as •a person to or by or from whom any such proposals or instructions may be given or received or obtained, or through or by means of whom any such insurance as aforesaid may be effected, and every person who shall in any manner effect or negotiate, or be concerned in effecting or negotiating, any such insurance as afore said for or on behalf of any such company, society, or person, or persons as aforesaid, or who shall issue or deliver out any policy or other instrument, or any note or memorandum of or relating to any such insurance as aforesaid, made or proposed or intended, shall be held and deemed to be a person keeping an office for in suring property from loss by fire within the meaning of the several acts before mentioned, and shall be and is hereby required to take out a prop(r licerca in that be• half, and to give security in the manner directed by the said acts respectively, and in such form as the Commis sioners of Inland Revenue shall think proper, for ac counting for and paying the duties with which he shall be chargeable aribereinafter mentioned ; and if any such person hereby required to take out such licence and to give such security as aforesaid shall neglect or omit PO to do,-he shall forfeit the sum of 100/., and the like penalty for every day that such neglect or omission shall continue. Every person who by reason of any such act or meanie as. in the• preceding clause mentioned shall be deerised to be -a person keeping such office as aforesaid within the meaning of this act and the several acts aforesaid shall account for, and shall be chargeable with, the duties in respect of all such insurances as aforesaid made, or nndertaken, or agreed to by any company,- society, or person or persons out of the united kingdom for whom or on whose behalf, or in respect of whose business of insurance, he shall do any such act as aforesaid, or become a person keeping such office as aforesaid. "3. The said respective duties by the said ads granted as aforesaid shall extend to and be p a y a bl e acid paid for and in respect of every insurance of pro perty within the united kingdom from loss or damage by fire, whether the same shall be made by any coo:. pany, society, or person, or persons within or out of the united kingdom, and whether the policy or other instrument, note, or memorandum of or relating to any such insurance shall be made, signed, or issued in the united kingdom or elsew ere, and whethe there shall be any such policy, instrument, note, or memorandum, or not. At the annual meeting of the Company of Cop per Minas of Ergland, held yesterday, the dividends declared were at the rate of 74 ptr cent. on the prefer ence shares, and at the rate of 2 per cent. on the origi nal stock. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, April B.—Wind this day at noon, S. /C. moderate breeze and cloudy with slight rain. PORTSMOUTH, April B.—Wiud S.W. —Corsair, from Syra, leaky, having struck on the OW H.M.S. Caesar, Baltic; H.M.S. Majestic ,do. ; John Bot o l (tpt.), Gibraltar ; Lancashire Witch, London, foi l3O w e Town, &c. ; H.M. (steamer) Geyser, Liv e rp oo l, w ith gun-boats in tow ; H.M. (steamers) Magicienne and C e is tvrr, with the Trusty and Thunder, floating-batterie* tow. BRIDPOR'', April 7.—Sailed—First Fruit, for St. john i Newfoundland. PLYMOUTH, April B.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Roes Canton, for Quebec. (PIM ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning' s . Arrived—Alliance (s.), from Havre; L e Coil, CL bourn ; Tradesman, Marsala. Sailed—Desire, for P or t Madoc ; Duke o f Cornwall tia , / London; South-Western (s.), Jersey. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Morning' Wind N.W. ; Off—James Nesmith and Tyrrell, from New Or! A.Z., New York. Sailed —Douro (s.s.), for Oporto; New England, Triso" ; Margaret, Genoa; W. Rzaamheid, Galatz. QUEENSTOWN, April Wind S. Arrived—Mercutio, from Mauritius; Corrido, Tasmania, St. John's, New Brunswick. BY BUBNABIN3 AND BRITISH TIELIGIIAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday, 10.14 a.sh Wind S.S.W. •, tide last hour's ebb, cloudy. Arrived, April 9.—Reliance, from Guernsey; Vo n* Mariager ; Batavier (s), Rotterdam ; Elbe (e), Hamburg', Sailed—Belgium (s), for Ostend • Dorothe a , Stettilg' Lord J. Russell (s), Dunkirk; Ida, Constantinople. DEAL, Wednesday, 10.4 eau' Wind S.W., fresh. Anchored.—Neptune ' from Smyrna, for Leith ; W hfi fh Krageroe, New York ; lifedora, Boston, Hamburg ; Ju"'" Richardson, from the North, for Dieppe. Passed.—Mayflower, from Seville, for London ; 3 .43514 . Byrne, Halifax, London ; her M a j e sty's ste a m e r Pol g o pino, Sheerness, Portsnsonth, with two morta r -heats, t : her Majesty's gun-boat No. 43, the River, re" . mouth. The Neptupe brig has been in collision.withthe'brig..,b o4 , il navala, from Lendon. To anchor at .3 tbisoraing. vessels sustained damage to spars and rigging. Report of Jabez Snow, from Calcutta 10, in,lt O 35.40 S., long. 22 E., spoke British skip 'Adelaide, n o Mirrisus, for London put-into St. Helots.. March 5 0 lat. 3 S., long. 19.20 W. , signiled skip 'Barham. 19, in lat. 22.20 N., long. 35'25 W. spoke British 99 1 Culloden Castle, from Constantinop le to New Orht o ; March 30, in lat. 22.30 N., l o n g . 36.40, spo k e D n t s h Jacob Ludgerude, 95 days from 'Batavia ; lat. 24.40 P' ° long. 35.50, spoke the schooner Wessel, from Barbadoo' STATE OF TRADE. , MANCHESTER, April B.—We have had a quiet mark et in yarns, but prices are very firm. Cops are in ratb" more demand and tending upwards. Sellers report Olt id. over the price of last week, and for some of the fin anti sca rcer counts buyers have had to give Ad. per lb. "i s vance. For export there is not much business ; but 5 0 orders as come to hand are given eut without much re; serve, from a feeling that terms will not come lower present. For shirtings there is but a moderate demand, but goods made from fine yarns there is more business, and!, advanced rates. A more healthy f ee li ng preva il s th a n Iv' some time past. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report— " The advanced prices asked on Tuesday last have b0 .. 1) , firmly adhered to th roug h ou t th e wee k, an d b us i ness J: iu consequence b een muc h res t r i c t e d, as s hi ppers teem 06 termined to hold back as long as possible. There is, hoc , ' ever, a steady business doing in many . kinds of pods jot the home trade, and prices are tendin g u p war d s . 4 LEEDS, April B.—The woollen-cloth trade continue ° steady, and prices are without alteration. The attendan in the cloth-halls to-day was of an average character for Tuesday's market, and a fair amount of cloth change ( ' hands ; but some of the merchants did not operate so frog'', as they have done in the last few preceding marked The report of this day's Huddersfield market is Of satisfactory character. The market has been visited by * large number of buyers, and more sales were effected than on any late market-day. Both plain and fancy goods ar e in active demand, and prices have a slightly wow tendency. The Corriere Mercantile, of the sth, states frosa Parma that Auditor Bordi is likely to recover frovs, bis wound. A mixed commission, composed 01 Parmese and Austrians, has been named at Parma to carry on the inquiry. Upwards of 100 persons have been imprisoned on suspicion. GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Thilfie 11) ; turn for the week ending Mulch 29,1856 £5,674 16 „° V orres ponding week last year 4,849 3 # Inereaiein 1856 28.:5 1 3 6 Bu case healt Co come that atten of p terioi of 8 alive! Tb and I Mexi Defe: New are E Sinai Pan 1011 The per I Ti Stoe can, 54 6 ~~ .... r Aus BE PR: Bra Dar ET I Cr