The Sun. — London, England, 1861-03-02 00:00:00

t 0 YAL ENOLI SH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. 'MIS . EVENING, LE DOMINO NOIR. Miss Louisa Fyne, Miss Thirlwall, Miss Leffler ; Messrs. H. Haigh, H. Corri, A. St. Albyn, and Horncastle. To conclnde with a Divertissement. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Seven. THEA'FRI.. 4 .;-ItOYAL, RAYMARKET. Lesgee, Mr. J. B. Baokstone. THI:z EVENIN(;, the performances will nommense with SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Miss llardcastle, by Miss Fanny Stirling; Tony Lumpkin, by Mr. Buckstone. After which, a new Pantomime, QUEER LADYBIRD AND HER CHILDREN. The Pantomimists by the =- rivalled Leclereqs, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright. Commence at 7. 'ROYAL PitINCESS'S THEATRE.-- Lossee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the Farce of A.S.S. To be followed by DON CAESAR DE BAZAN. Don Caesar, Mr. Fechter. Supported by Messrs. Basil Potter, F. Matthews, J. G. Shore, Miss M. Harris, .Hiss C. Leclercq and Mrs. Weston. After which, a new Christmas comical pantomime, entitled ROBINSON CRUSOE ; or, Harlequin Friday, and the King of the Caribbe Islands : in which Monsieur Espinosa and Mdlle. Marie Dumilatre, of th• principal cantinental theatres will appear. Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest. THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM. So..e Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING the new drama, THE HOUSE ON THE BRIDGE OF NOTRE DAME. Principal characters by Mr. G. Vining, Mr. J. Johnstone, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Clifford, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Morris ; Miss M.Ternan, Miss K. Saville, Miss L. Thompson, and Madame Celeste. After which, the Lyceum Christmas Comie Extravaganza, CRYSTABELLE ; or, The Rose without a Thorn, showing THE vistov OF A ROSE, ITS FADING AT EVE, AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR. To conclude with a new Divertissement. Miss Annie and Miss Marie Collinson, ar.o. 11\4 D gLpHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL . Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Bent. Webster. THIS EVEN ING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J. L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E. Thorne. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boucicault, D. Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled BLUE BEARD FROM A NEW POINT OF HUE. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith; Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and IC. Thome. Doors open at hall past 6—Commence at 7. Box-offloe open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 28. ; Family Boxes, XI. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, :S. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager. Mr. WM. BATTY. Immense success of " Tu-pin's Ride to York." 6th appearance of Mons. Hillier, the Greatest Equestrian of the day, who has just arrived from Lisbon. THIS EVENING. will be reproduced TURPIN'S RIDE TO YORK, Ac4D THE DE AT II OF BLACK BESS, in which the Brothers Edwin will appear with their celebrated Steed Black Bess. - - - - - ------- - To be succeeded by , Scenes in the Arena, supported by talented Parisian and British Artistes. Concluding with Batty's Prize Equestian Comic Panto mime, for Good Little Boys and Girls, by T. L. Greenwood, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE WONDERFUL HORSE ; or, Percinet and Grociosa, the Ugly Duchess and the Greedy King, produced with Gorgeous Scenery, by Mr. Cuthbert, new Costumes and Appointments, and introducing in the cornie scenes Ratty's Prize Equestrian Harlequinade, and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4 Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. 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 eve Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ; together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI MENTO, by Donizetti, Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonglamins. The Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A. B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and the Brothers Conrad. John Martin's I hree celebrated Pictures will remain on view a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the Establishment. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS. In consequence of Its Great Success, THE ENCHANTED HASH EVERY EVENING, The whole of the Characters by Messrs. E. MARSHALL and F. BELL. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins am—Morning, sh. 27m.—Afternoon, sh. 43m. To-idowtow.-Morning, 6h. 9m.—Afternoon, 6h. 28m. THE WEATHER...-SUN OFFICE, MA.RCII:2, 1861. THEEMOMETEB., IN THE SHADE. a —highest since noon yesterday. 36 —lowest this morning and during the night. 48—this day at noon. BenomElß-30.0. WlND—Westerly—fresh ; with fine cold weather. r — y , .4, ~ , ~ -- le N .‘.., - 44:7, , 0, <7 :;74 . - \ ' --''''. ---,,,521.-4 I. , s - 4c. --.; :Ft ...._ .. ..,,,,.. 0 1 r ~ ~, ,: --12_____, _...: ...„..t!t1_A7,,,.... , AZ4; ~t~ THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1881 Halving Rome seems to be the Imperial solution of the Papal-Imperia! difficulty. We gather thus much at least from the telegrams of the Prince NAPOLEON'S speech yesterday. The French Senate, in discussing the reply to the EMPEROR'S speech, did not want defenders of the Bishop of ROME'S temporal power, nor is this to be wondered at. There has been no want of defenders of the tem poral powers of the twenty-six bishops who in this country, as we all know to our cost, exercise their temporal powers in the House of Lords, to the obstruction of every liberal measure, till the lay lords drop some hint that they must hold their temporal powers in abeyance, " or set their house in order." And, if temporalities of a more personal kind are at stake, " the Church in danger" is the watchword immediately passed down the Conserva tive benches. With such specimens of the temporal power of our English Right Reverend Fathers before us daily, and such proof of their zeal for tem poralities, we must not be too hard on the Holy Father for reluctance to part with his secularities of a Princely and Financial kind, and on those worthy or furious Papal Conservatives who can see nothing but ruin to religion in driving the POPE to become simply a religious official. All the good Churchmen in this kingdom would be in alarm if a Bill were introduced to relieve the Bishops of their Baronial Honours, of their Palaces, and of their Episcopal estates at once, and to throw them on the offerings of those who admired a Church government by unquestioned successors to the Apostles. Looking, therefore, with the patience learned by looking at home on the French defenders of Papal Temporal power, we yet notice with some pleasure, one step more in advance towards the liberation of Rome from its present secular rulers. After some flourishes on the liberal principles of Imperial France, principles for which she is, of course, chiefly indebted to her Imperial head, a few words in defence of the English Alliance, and of sympathy withVenetia, deprecating, at the same time, an un seasonable attack, the Prince turned to the " Roman Question "—there the great difficulty, be told us, as we have been told for the hundredth time, is to "insure the independence of the POPE ;" this cannot exist if he be subject to another Sovereign (as he is now to France),—b u t his independence can be assured "by securing to the -POPE the right side of the City of Rome, with a Papal garrison, and a Papal budget guaranteed by the Powers:, "The right side "—when we first read that, it reminded us of the old distich, giving us the rule for passing each other in travelling— The rule of the road is a paradox quite, For as you are passing along, If you go to the left you are sure to go right, If you go to th e r i ght you go wrong. Now most certainly if the Holy Father, as Temporal Prince, went left hand to the wall, he would be right for Italy, right for himself, right for his spiritual power ; but if h e goes to the right, as the Prince will have him, he goes wrong. N o politician but must see that such a compromise, however it might do for a while, could last no longer than the complete consolidation of Italian unity and strength. The independence of POPES lies in the Porn themselves, not in their petty temporalities. Nothing can conquer a firm mind which is at the head of the creed of several great nations, let the possessor dwell wherever he pleases ; no temporal power, possible to be possessed by such a person, can make him indepen dent, if he be naturally a trimming favour seeking soul. The secret of Papal indepen dence lies in placing intelligent, prudent, firmness in the Chair of St. Peter, and nothing can remedy the mischiefs of not doing so. The present dif ficulties are all caused by a weak and obstinate, though pious Pope, with an unscrupulous and cruel Ecclesiastic as his adviser, whose stronger mind dominates that of poor Pius the Ninth. Had the good heartedness of the old gentleman, nomi nally the Prince of Rome, but had in ANTONELLI an adviser, who saw that the POPE'S temporal power could only be preserved by seeularising the Government, and that in a style so liberal that the King of Piedmont would have been outbidden, and had this but been done in time, the States of the Church, the Legations included, might possibly have been under the Pope's rule to this hour, and for a long time to come. There is no help now for excluding the Bishop of ROME from the list of territorial princes. Prince bishops are become indeed but an antiquarian curio sity ; they are either mediatized or have had their rights absorbed by the Crown, as in England; and the Centaur-like monstrosity is not destined to be restored, or its lifeless skeleton to be preserved— VICTOR EMMANUEL will, in fact, take far better care of the POPE than he can of himself, and much better than ANTONELLI takes of him. All the money he needs can be supplied him by the contri butions of Catholic nations, and a convention of all the nations interested can assure, if it be needed, any such status as may be desired for him. Rome, however, will be Italian, both right side and left side of it, in spite of any agreement between Pope, Cardinals, Kings, Emperors, and their Ministers. This, indeed, the latter know full well; they merely leave the ecclesiastics to learn from the only teacher who can " pierce the obtuse ness of their mental being," the lesson which is to themselves so obvious. Indeed the other represen tations of the Prince include this, as the greater does the less. "The peoples," he said, " are not mis taken if they rely on NAPOLEON 111., who will not fail in his mission." The alliance with England was an alliance, " not with some particular Ministry, with the great and liberal English people,"and its use was that by its help " we can defend the great principles of liberty and pro gress." Suppose all this oratory to mean realities, and the oppressed Romans, the Venetians, the Hungarians, ultimately, perhaps, the very Poles are not to want a friend. The appointment of a Select Committee of Inquiry into the constitution of the Board of Admiralty was, last evening, at the instance of Admiral DUNCOMBE, and after a rather smart dis cussion, agreed to by the House of Commons. It has latterly become the fashion with some to de precate the notion of these kind of Select Com mittees, to deride theM as altogether useless, and so forth. Now, without for an instant wishing in any way to claim for these same Committees of investigation any marvellous or miraculous power of doing good, of dissipating abuses, and scattering to the winds of heaven seemingly imprescriptible anomalies and evils of all kind, we do nevertheless maintain most earnestly that the hard work got through session after session in the committee-rooms, is of incalculable advantage to the public service, and ought not in any way, by the community at large, to be thus frivolously and ungratefully depreciated. Take as a case in point that famous committee of Mr. ROEBUCK'S, secured by him and presided over by him in the very midst of the "horrible and heart-rending" accounts coming to this country half a dozen years ago, from the seat of the Russian war in the Crimea via that dreadful slough of despond for the British troops, the seven miles between Sebastopol and Balaklava. Cavillers may yet object that the evils then and there complained of had almost to the very close of that ter. rible war, disastrous fruition in the squan dering of human life on the side of the Allies to the number altogether (in battle and out of battle) of 100,000 men, and to the simultaneously squandering of gold upon the contest to the fearful amount of £100,000,000. Yet who shall say that in our own regard, that in reference to the reorganisation of our War Departments generally, that maligned and contemned Committee of Mr. ROEBUCK'S did not sweep clear countless abuses from those departments by the sheer force of its appalling revelations ? As evidence, as conclusive and irrefragable evidence, of the accuracy of which conviction on our part, it is only necessary now to bear in remembrance the contrast presented to view upon a comparison of the Russian expedition sent out half a dozen years ago merely to the other side of Europe, to the Crimea, to be landed at Eupatoria and reinforced at Balaklava, and that resent Chinese expedition of ours sent forth to the opposite end of the earth, to the Gulf of Pechili, to advance through Tien-tsin to the very walls of the almost mythic city of Pekin, yonder, as we have said, at the opposite extremity of the globe--at the other side of this old eastern hemisphere ! Thanks to Mr. ROEBUCK and his Committee—thanks, we do really and earnestly believe in a very great measure, to the voice of Public Opinion speaking through Mr. ROEBUCK and his Committee--this latest warlike expedition sent forth from these shores to the conquest of the capital of the Chinese Empire —of that vast empire peopled by one entire quarter of the inhabitants of the globe—is allowed upon all hands to have been, is known to have been, the most per fectly organised, the most admirably equipped, the most entirely successful that ever carried any whither on the surface of the globe the dominant banners of England. The contrast already spoken of is consequently one as wide, as vivid and startling as any such contrast could by possibility be. 1t is the contrast there of the most profligate, here of the most thrifty expenditure —there of inextricable confusion, here of the most perfect order and dis. cipline—there of rags, and filth, and disease, and absolutely at times, in spite of the costliest coin- missariat (remember the green coffee berries, and the insufficiency of bread, bread that the soldiers of England had at times to receive as a bounty from their generous hearted French allies !) absolutely at times, in spite of our commissariat, the actual semblance of desti ution, here (in this recent Chinese expedition) good clothing—and plenty of it—cleanliness, health, and abundance! That is no over-painting of the con trast visible in the retrospect of our troops as they were seven years ago in the Crimea, and as they were seven months ago among the Chinese ! And for the happy result of the comparison . to the latest of these remarkable expeditionary forces, we have to thank, as we have said, as we can not tire of saying, Mr. ROEBUCK'S Committee —a Committee of Inquiry into abuses long either darkly suspected or flagrantly noto rious. It is unjust, therefore, it is absurd, it is un grateful to deride and depreciate as useless what have so often proved pre-eminently advantageous to the public service, that is to say, namely, these select Committees of Inquiry appointed by Parlia ment. Such being our dispassionate and conscientious estimate of the particular system of investigation we have here referred to as in vogue in the House of Commons, we cannot but feel peculiar satisfaction in noticing the circumstance of Admiral DUNCOMBE'S success last evening in moving for a Committee of this very kind to inquire into the construction of the Board of Admiralty as it is. Parliament having now decided upon the appointment of that Committee,we may rest pretty confident that sooner or later the Board of Admiralty as it is, as it has so long continued to be, is t• all intents and purposes doomed. Whatever Sir FRANCIS BARING may say to the contrary, the abuses and evils rife in that nest of mismanagement are visible be yond the possibility of misapprehension. They are, many of them, abuses and evils that have long stunk in the nostrils of the community. The Board of Admiralty,as at present constituted,has been only too painfully appreciable an illustration of the old say ing that what's everybody's business is nobody's busi ness. There has been then hitherto—at the Admi ralty—the utmost amount of inefficiency, and the least amount of responsibility. Insomuch that only three or four years have elapsed since the appalling, but at the same time ludicrous result had been reached in the marine department of the greatest maritime power upon the face of the globe, the frightful but ridiculous result, that an annual expenditure of millions sterling upon the Royal Navy of England, had left England without the smallest vestige of a Channel Fleet ! And had enabled the most powerful and at the same time the nearest of our neighbours to multiply her steam war vessels so much more rapidly in propor tion than ourselves, that England had the im minent prospect before her had this state of things been allowed to go on, of witnessing gradually slip from her grasp the meed of all her naval glory, the priceless recompense of her mari time supremacy. It is only since the date of Sir JOHN PAKINGTON'S occupation of office as First Lord of the Admiralty under the Earl of DERBY'S Administration, it is only since then that the national service of Great Britain, the glo rious navy of England, has been recovering lost ground, and making good once more our British claim to maritime supremacy. This, recollect, not by means of, but actually and literally in spite of the administrative machinery of the Department as it is at the Board of Admiralty. That machinery is not simply supposed to be old fashioned and ricketty, out of place and out of gear —it is seen to be all that and much more. England has long been pining to make an end of it. In its very title it is avowedly the merest temporary makeshift and stop-gap. For is it not in its very name, style, and title the Board of the Lords Com missioners of the Admiralty, Commissioners ap pointed by the Crown to discharge the duties and to acquit themselves of the responsibilities as they best may—duties and responsibilities hitherto in years long past devolving upon a high and mighty personage, whose office has for more than a reign fallen into desuetude—to wit the Lord High Admiral of England ! The last Lord High Admiral—and even then the revival of the office was purely temporary, and in every respect quite exceptional—being his Royal Highness the Duke of CLARENCE, afterwards his Majesty King WILLIAM IV. Instead, however, of many such high authorities as a Lord High Admiral, instead of this present in• efficient and irresponsible Board of Admi ralty, what England wants, what England's navy wants for its more efficient and responsible administration—is a Minister of Marine, call him what you will, and together with the Minister, his Secretary ! Whatever may eventually be substituted for the Board of Ad miralty—SOMETHlNG, we may now reasonably expect, will be substituted in the fullness of time, directly or indirectly, through the agency of Ad miral DUNCOMBE'S Select Committee. The Emperor of AUSTRIA is in a panic, and has fled for protection to our Court of Chancery. He tried first our Foreign-office ; there, indeed, he found a person, we are sorry to say, as willing to oblige him as Sir JAMES GRAHAM was in olden times to oblige despots, and get the noblest patriots shot, by violating the secrecy of our Post-office. But the Foreign -office was "in a fix." The law officers told it, it could do nothing—nothing directly, at least—but it was suggested, if you put two detectives into a cab and send there!. to 'Messrs. DAY, who have lithographed the ROSSUTH notes, they may get up a case. Off accordingly started the detectives, with all the dignity of the Foreign-office at their backs, and were accord ingly shewn, we are told, very politely through that fine establishment, just as, we presume, any respectable person, with a proper introduction, would be asked to look through any first-rate manufactory in the Kingdom. What, however, is as discreditable as can well be conceived to some F party in office is the fact that though the Messrs. DAY were carrying on their business thus in the light of day, some one was guilty of a deed of darkness in which he found a willing coadjutor in English or Austrian authori ties. There must have been a thief, and a receiver of stolen goods; the proof was given in court by the receiver, or the friends and agents of the re ceiver, for one of the notes was produced in court. The note could only have been obtained by purloining it. The purloiner must have been either iustigated to the act or re warded for it ; which, indeed, of the two, makes little material difference, unless a dealer in marine stores has been occasionally rather hardly dealt with. The damning fact remains, that either some honest servant's fidelity was tampered with, and the man or boy corrupted ; or some worthless pil ferer was encouraged by those who wanted to pro duce the note in an English court of justice. As his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador swore that he had obtained possession of one of the notes, it seems to us that he ought to be called to account for its owner ship, and unless he can give a satisfactory account of it, to be treated with a sight of the usual recep tacle for the receivers of stolen goods. As to the merits of the legal application we can hardly doubt that the injunction will be dis solved ; indeed, to our non-technical appre hensions, it is only wonderful that one was granted even temporarily. It would, how ever, be well, lest there should be some techni cal grounds of sustaining the Austrian Ambassa dor's application, which laymen cannot conceive of, that the case for KOSSUTH should be well brought out by competent and willing counsel. The case would seem to be one of the simplest, nor is there, that we can see, any offence known to the English law which would be committed by the circulation of the note. The printing of the notes is in the Hungarian language ; they have the Royal arms of Hungary at the bottom of them, and the translation of the note is as follows :—" One florin. This monetary THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY tVENING, MARCH 2, 1861. note will be received in every Hungarian State and pay-office as one florin in silver, three zwan zigers being one florin, and its whole nominal value will be guaranteed by the State. In the name of the nation, LOUIS KOSSUIII." What is the offence here. There is no forgery, there is no fraud ; every receiver of the note would see on the face of it what it was. He would form his own opinion of the probability or the contrary of the independence of Hungary, and of the acknowledg ment of the claim to be repaid by the State in silver. But the arms of Hungary were sworn to be the property of the Emperor of AUSTRIA. Now, this would be just one of the points which it might be worth all the notes cost M. KOSSUTH, to have argued by well-instructed counsel in this country. The present Emperor of AUSPRIA is not, beyond any doubt, the legal King of Hungary. His pre decessor, FERDINAND V., is still the only lawful king there. Re has never abdicated the Hunga rian throne, and FRANCIS JOSEPH has never been crowned, and cannot by Hungarian law be king till he has been. He cannot now convoke the Diet legally, nor can Austrian notes—which are now forced into circulation in Hungary —be legal currency there without the sanction of the Diet, which they have never yet had. But this is not all; in a letter to a contemporary, by Mr. F. W. NEWMAN, the writer observes—" If any of them is King of Hungary, it is his uncle, the crowned King, FERDINAND V. Not only so, but the whole House has been solemnly deposed, with all the legal formalities necessary, by the Diet of Hungary in 1849, summoned by its legitimately elected Governor. Lord JOHN RUSSELL is bound, by his letter to Turin of October last, to accept the declaration of independence deliberately executed by Hungary after repulsing the Austrian armies. The dynasty was deposed for the follow ing high crimes !-1. For forming alliances with insurgent traitors and robbers. 2. For armed at tack on a peaceful and loyal people. 3. For violat ing the integrity of the monarchy and tearing away its limbs. 4. For calling in foreign armies to oppress its liberties. The English Government may be forced to accept a de facto foreign ruler, but a court of law has no right to adopt as fact his re presentations of its native laws, and become his tool." These are but specimens of the rich harvest of defences of the KOSSUTH Notes which a counsel might gather for the benefit of the Hungarian cause, and which, even were it possible that the Austrian Ambassador shduld gain a technical victory, would leave him, as in the famous PELTIER case, in the hands of MACKINTOSH, a terrible prac tical defeat. Hard, indeed, it must be for the man who illegally exercises the functions of King, or rather of despot in Hungary, to see the lawfully elected Governor of the land thus bearding him to his face, but he had better bear it meekly. And, better still, endeavour, by legal and liberal courses, to make his notes as good as those of KossuTH. WEATHER WISDOM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Admiral Fitzroy, in his letter published in The Sun of last evening, informed the public that the science called Astro•meteorology is based upon the idea that there is a supposed lunar influence operating, which affects the earth. As an Astro-meteorologist, permit me to state that this science is based upon this principle, namely, that the tem perature of the air rises and falls exactly coincident with the occurrence of certain celestial phenomena in which the sun and planets, as well as the moon, according to their geocentric positions, are believed to bs influential, in the opinion of numerous experienced observers who have de voted much time and labour to the consideration of this particular matter.—Yours, &c., • C. COOKE. 58, Pall-mall, March 2, The Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe and Lady Charlotte Innes Ker left town yesterday for Floors Castle, near Kelso, N.B. The Earl and Conntess of Lichfield have left the St. George's Hotel. The Count and Countess St. Clair and Madlle. Bergiere have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn- street, for Paris. Lord and Lady Huntingfield and the Hon. Miss Vanneck have arrived at the St. George's Hotel. Sir William and Lady Gomm are about to pur chase a villa in the neighbourhood of Cannes. Rossini's soirees musicales in Paris are all the rage, and are given by him in his princely salons in the Chausee d'Antin, on the most brilliant scale. Talent, beauty, fashion, art, literature, and wealth all humbly incline before the Maestro's glace cards of invitation, which are punctually attended to as a most distinguished honour. Such deference from the highest of the ,high, and the richest of the rich, is one of those many noble attributes of genius.—. Era. MR. AND MRS. GERMAN REED AND MR. JOHN PARRY.—Although the present entertainment of these deservedly talented artistes at the Royal Gallery of Illus tration, Regent-street, continues to attract a numerous and highly delighted audience, we hear it is shortly to be with drawn, in order that an entirely new entertainment, now in course of active preparation, may be produced ; and, therefore, that portion of the public who have not seen it should lose no time in obtaining for themselves that plea sure.—Era. SPANISH EXTERIOR THREE PER CENT . STOCK. Annexed is a communication from the Stock Exchange on the above subject :—" Committee-room, March 1. Sir, — The committee of the Stock Exchange have unanimously passed the enclosed resolution, and as the matter is of great importance to the public I shoald be obliged by your in- sorting it.—l remain, sir, your most obedient servant, GEORGE LOVELESS, Secretary to the Committee.—' That a representation be made to the Spanish Ambassador, that the new coupon sheets now being is sue d t o th e h o ld ers of . _ the Exterior Three per Cent. Stock are not in accordance with the tenor of the bonds, and that a special committee be called on Monday next to consider the subject.' " THE ABANDONMENT OF SNUFF WELL PAID FOR. —The Dublin law courts were lately occupied with a case in which a clergyman was such an excessive snuff-taker a s to disgust his future father-in-law, so much that, on the bridal morning, the old gentleman slipped £l,OOO to the son-in-law with one hand, while with the other he withdrew his snuff-box. The reverend recipient took both the money and the hint, for he abanantiod tho habit. Sub sequently the father-in-law willed £l,OOO to each of his daughters who might " not have previously got a pecuniary advancement ;" and on his death the question arose—Was this £l,OOO an "advancement" to the young lady ? The Court held that it was not, that it was in effect a covenanted price paid for a certain act of self-denial on the part of the husband. SALE OF LAND.—The first allotment for the ninth year of the Conservative Land Society took place at the offices yesterday, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, when the second portion of the Woodbury-park estate, Tunbridge wells, the Old Ford, Roman-road, Wood-green, and Tot tenham estates, besides ground rents on the St. Margaret's and Battersea estates, were offered. As is usual on these occasions, there was competition for favourite sites, and the commencement of this sale proved satisfactory. Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co. no longer date only from Cornhill, but have taken premises in Pall •mall, far the accommodation of their West-end friends ; and have brought their two establishments wilin speaking distance by means of telegraphic wires—both houses having a com munication with their printing office in the Old Bailey. LORD MACAULAY'S HISTORL—The publication of the fifth volume of Macaulay's " History of England," edited by his sister, Lady Trevelyan, is announced for the 15th inst. It will comprise the events of the years 1698, 1699, 1700, and 1701, including the death of James 11. and the memorable general election of 1701, and contains that portion of the continuation of the " History of England" which Lord Macaulay left fairly transcribed and revised for ' the press. It is given to the world 2recisely as it uas left. Besides the revised manuscript, a few pages containing the first rough sketch of the last two ruorths of William's reign are all that is left. From this Lad) Trevelyan has, with some difficulty, deciphered the account of the death of William. No attempt has been msde to join it on to the preceding pail, or to supply the corrections which would have been made by the tasteful hand of the author. DESPERATE SUICIDE BY TOlSON.—Yesterday afternoon Mr. Payne, the coroner, held an inquest in the board-room of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of Agnes Scrymgeour, aged 52 years, who resided in Hatton wall, Hatton-garden. It appeared that the deceased was a woman given to intemperance, and destroyed herself by taking two ounces of laudanum. Tbs jury returned a ver dict that the deceased destroyed herself whilst in a state of temporary insanity. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. PARIS, SATURDAY, NOON Three per Cent. Rentes, 68f. 15c.—Quiet. NAPLES, MARCH 1, 4 P.M, PESTH, MARCH 2. The Judicial Conference has resolved upon re establishing the District Courts of Justice. PRINCE NAPOLEON'S SPEECH. PARIS, MARCH The discussion on the draft address was con tinued to-day in the Senate. Prince Napoleon in his speech said : " I am astonished at the violence of the discus sion. I leave to liberal opinion in Europe, to the patriotism of the Italians, to the 200,000 soldiers who, with the Emperor at their head, made the campaign of Italy, the task of replying to the in sults which you have listened to. (Cheers.) The empire represents modern society, its progressive tendencies, and the liberal principles of 1789. (Loud cheers.) The peoples are not mistaken if they rely upon Napoleon 111., who will not fail in his mission. The Prince then recalled the words of the Em peror respecting Gaeta, and said : " Count Heckeren has confounded the words ' pity' and sympathy,' the latter being only felt by the Emperor for the glorious cause of Italy and for the allies who have shed their blood at our sides at Magenta and Solferino." The Prince defended the English alliance against the Marquis Larochejacquelin, and said : " That alliance is not with some particular Minister, but with the great and liberal English people. It is as alliance with which we can defend the great principles of liberty and progress." The Prince justified the policy of Piedmont in Italy, and maintained that the unity of Italy was favourable to France, of whom (he said) she was the natural ally. He uttered some sympathetic words respecting Venice, but said that he should deplore any un timely attack. He foresaw that Italy united would soon demand Rome, as her capital, and continued : " The difficulty is to ensure the independence of the Pope, who cannot become subject to another Sovereign. But by securing to the Pope the right side of the city of Rome, with a Papal garrison and a Papal budget guaranteed by the Powers, his independence would be ensured." The Prince was essentially opposed to the union of the temporal and spiritual power, which would be subjection of the conscience. The sitting is adjourned. TURIN, MARCIE 1 (Evening.) The journal L' Italia says : " Aecording to despatches received from General Cialdini, the resistance of General Fergola, gover nor of the citadel of Messina, arises from orders received by the latter from Francis 11. " The siege will_be commenced in a few days " ST, PETERSBURG, MARCH 1. In refutation of current reports, the Governor- General of St. Petersburg announces that no Government measure concerning the peasants will be published on the 2d March. COPENHAGEN, MARCH 1. The Berlingske Tidende of to-day says : " According to reliable information, the Minister of State for Holstein will proceed to Itzehoe in the quality of commissioner, the nomination of M. Rowentlows hating been withdrawn by Govern ment." FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY. The Bishop of Poictiers, whose somewhat pro fane parallel between the Emperor and Pontius Pilate has led to his prosecution, is undoubtedly a man of spirit. Yesterday (according to a private letter) a commissary of police waited upon him at the episcopal palace to summon him before the pre fect, in order to receive notice of the prosecution against him. The bishop agreed to accompany him, but asked permission to dress. He presently re-ap peared before the eyes of the astonished official in full canonicals, with mitre and crozier, and pro fessed his readiness to walk through the streets in that costume. The commissaire, well knowing that this would lead to a riot, muttered an excuse and beat a precipitate retreat. General Tascher de la Pagerle, who is related to the Emperor through the Empress Josephine, has for some days been very seriously ill. He is up wards of 80 years of age. The day before yester day the Emperor paid him a visit. BOURSE, March I.—There has been but little business doing, except those which related to the settlement, but the market has been firm, and the prices of yesterday were maintained. Threes, which opened at 68f sc, are now at 68f 10c. Rate for carrying over moderate. Railways quiet, but firm. The following are the last quotations :- 4/ per per Cents ... 97 95 Credit Fonder Do. end month.... 98 —, l Belgian 4} 99 50 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 15' Roman — Bank Shares 2885 —1 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 665 ' Spanish Threes 47A Do. Account ——l Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto 895 .. 892 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 948 75 .. 950 Geneva 375 .. 375 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Low bard 487 50 .. 485 - 476 25 .. 475 - ITALY. The text of the bill for conferring the title of King of Italy upon Victor Emmanuel, as proposed to the Senate by the commission charged to exa mine it, was as follows : " Art. 1. King Victor Emmanuel 11, assumes for himself and his successors the title of King of Italy. "Art. 2. All Government decrees, and such deeds as require to be headed with the name of the King, shall begin with the following formula :—Victor Emmanuel 11., by Divine Providence and the Votes of the Nation." To the latter article— The Minister of GRACE and JUSTICE objected, LA ri E T NE W This morning Prince Carigr.an paid a visit to Admiral Mundy, on hoard the Hannibal, and was received with great honours. The English fleet will leave to-morrow for Malta. The frigate Victor Emmanuel goes to Messina. The Neapolitan nobles who had fled the country are returning every day. The Municipality of Pesth has sent a deputation to the Tavernicus to request the removal of the Imperial police. ST. PETERSBURG, MARCH 2. The following despatch, dated Warsaw, Feb. 27, has been received here : " Riotous assemblages are forming in several streets. The troops have been pelted with stones, and replied by firing on the people, killing six and wounding a similar number." The following despatch, dated Warsaw, Feb. 28, has also been received : " Order has been re-established. In the event of fresh disturbances taking place, a state of siege will be proclaimed." stating that it would be best to insert an article to that effect in the bill which must soon be framed regarding the form to be given to public deeds. The article was accordingly withdrawn, but an order of the day was moved and passed, with the consent of the Minister, to the effect that the bill alluded to should be brought in as speedily as possible. Senator PARETO made some objections to the title of "King of Italy," which he thought resembled the old feudal forms too much, and therefore might bG much more advantageously replaced by the other form—" King of the Italians." Count CAVOUR, in reply, remarked that the Queen of England was not called Queen of the English, although the English were the nation which understood liberty best ; but that if it were objected that the English are characteristically attached to old customs and traditions, he would quote an instance of a people that had no feudal traditions whatever—viz,, the North Americans, wbo called the chief of their Government " Presi dent of the United States," and not "President of the Americans." • After this explanation, Senator Pareto withdrew his objection, and the bill as amended was voted by 129 ayes against 2 noes, as already stated by telegraph. THE EX-KING OF NAPLES. The following order of the day was issued by Francis 11. on leaving Gaeta : " General, Officers, and Soldiers of the Army of Gaeta,—The chances of war separate us after five months, during which we have suffered for the in dependence of the country, sharing the same dan gers and the same privations. The moment is arrived to put an end to your heroic sacrifices. Resistance was becoming impossible, and if my wish as a soldier was to defend like you the bulwark of the monarchy until it fell under the crumbling walls of Gaeta, my duty as a King and as a father ordered me now to spare a generous blood, whose affections under existing circumstances would only be the last manifestation of a useless heroism. For you, my dear and faithful companions in arms, by thoughts for your future ; for conside rations which your loyalty, your constancy, and your bravery well merit—for you I renounce the military ambition of repulsing the last assaults of an enemy who would not gain possession of the place defended by such soldiers without covering the road with his dead- Soldiers of the army of Gaeta !—For the last six months you have fought with incomparable courage. Internal treason, the attack of foreign revolutionary bands, the aggres sion of a power which was thought to be friendly —nothing has been able to subdue your bravery or fatigue your constancy. Amidst sufferings of every kind, traversing fields of battle, facing trea sons more terrible than steel and lead, you came to Capua and to Gaeta, yielding to your heroism on the banks of the Volturno and of the Garigliano, defying for three months on those ramparts the efforts of an enemy who had all the resources of Italy at his disposal. Thanks to you, the honour of the army of the Two Sicilies is safe ; thanks to you, your Sovereign may raise his head with pride, and in the land of exile, where he will await Divine justice, the remembrance of the heroic loyalty of of his soldiers will be the sweetest consolation to his misfortunes. A special medal will be distributed to you, to reminu you of the siege, and when my dear soldiers shall return to their domestic hearths, all men of honour will bow their heads as they pass, and mothers will point to the heroic de fenders of Gaeta as an example to their children. Generals, officers, and soldiers, I thank you all ; I shake you all by the hands with the effusion of affection and of gratitude. Ido not say farewell, but au revoir. Retain for ever your loyalty for me, as I will always preserve my gratitude and affection for you.—Your King, " FRANCIS IL" AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, SATURDAY.- The Royal Mail steamship Canada, Captain Anderson, from Boston on the 20th, and Halifax on the 22d ult , arrived here at four a.m., and landed all mails except those for Liverpool, and proceeded at 4.30 a.m., all well. She brings 62 passengers. Mr. Jefferson Davis, President of the Southern Confederacy, was inaugurated at Alabama, on the 18th ult. The spectacle is described as the grandest ever witnessed in the South. The inaugural address of President Davis says: " The judgment and will of the people are, that union with the Northern States is neither prac ticable nor desirable. If necessary, we must main tain by final arbitrament of sword the position we have assumed, President Lincoln left Buffalo and Albany on the 18th ult. He was greeted en route with the usual ovations. The Missouri election would probably result in favour of the Union candidates by a majority of 5,000 votes. In the House of Representatives a bill had been reported making an appropriation for a survey of the Northern Pacific regions, with the view of establishing a telegraph to Asia. Advices from Montery, Mexico, announce that Mejia had entered the town of Riverde with 2,000 men, butchered 200 men, and burnt the town. NEW YORK, FEB. 19. Exchange on London, bankers' bills, 105, 1052, Commercial bills, 1041, 1041. (LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO HALIFAX.) NEW YORK, FEB. 21. Arkansas has voted against the holding of a Con vention. The Tariff Bill has been passed in the Senate. The duty on coffee has been agreed to. The steamships Jura and Saxonia, Fulton, Kan garo, and Nova Scotian have arrived out. Stocks dull. Erie, 311 ; New York Central, 76Z ; Illinois Central, 79. Cotton firm. Sales in two days, 8,500 bales. The crop is estimated to be declining. Breadstuffs and provisions unchanged. PRUSSIA A 'VD ITALY. Herr von Vincke, the mover of the resolution in the Prussian Chambers in favour of Italian unity, writes as follows to the Perseveranza " The journals report that an appeal is being made in Italy for offering me a testimonial for a motion in the Prussian Parliament, viz., that "it is for the interest of Prussia, and of Germany gene. rally, not to oppose in any way the consolidation of the unity of Italy." Animated by the liveliest desire of witnessing the constitutional unity of Italy under the sceptre of her brave king, Victor Emmanuel, I think it my duty to call to mind that my motion—considering the occasion and motive of it—was not intended to express sympathy—a thing barren enough in politics—but to indicate in the interest of Prussia and Germany the line of conduct which the Prussian Government ought to follow in the opinion of the Chamber of Deputies, that is, to abstain from all interference—even diplo- , matic interference—in the affairs of a nation as ' great as it is full of good intentions towards Prussia (as I have a right to presume); of a nation w:lich fights for its unity, the fulfilment of which by pacific means is for the interest of Europe, and OR which Germany hopes that she may count in case of opposition being made in the name of Europe to the abuse of force by any power whatsoever. " For these reasons the undersigned feels it, how ever reluctantly, to be his duty to refuse a mark of recognition, on the part of Italy, of a proposition which he made as a Prussian, and in the interest of Prussia. Consequently, while warmly thanking so many Italian patriots, I ask them to - devote the product of their subscriptions to the aid of the families of the brave soldiers who have recently taken the fortress of Gaeta under the royal flag of his Majesty Victor Emmanuel. _ G. YON VINCKE. EXTENSIVE FIRE.--Yesterday morning a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. P. Foster, beershop keeper, China-place, Back Church-road, St. George's-in-the-East. A policeman discovered the fire, and aroused the inmates, but so fiercely was it progressing that they were unable to escape by the staircase. Fortunately they effected a safe retreat from the top windows, over the roof of the house. The royal fire escape and several engines arrived in rapid succession, when the firemen, with a good supply of water, succeeded in conquering the flames, not, however, until the house was destroyed and those adjoining much damaged. The cause is unknown. The loss will fall on the State and , other offices. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-APPEAL AGAINST A MAGISTERIAL CONVICTION. The court sat yesterday, specially at Clerkenwell, to hear an appeal by Wm. Harrod and James Hall, against a conviction by Mr. Arnold, the police magistrate, for being in possession of a quantity of meat reasonably suspected of having been unlawfully ob tained. The court affirmed the conviction, and the appel lants were removed in custody to undergo the sentence of two mouths' hard labour. FRANCIS JOSBPH OF AU , s2RIA V. PAY 411 7 1) KOSSUTH. ---- ----- ,1,,, M. Kossuth, who has always paid scrupulous deference to English law in England, took legal advice as to the lawfulness of his printing certain banknotes. On being assured that they were lawful he gave his sanction. They are in the Hungarian language(whichdiscriminates them from all Austrian paper), and promise that the note shall be accepted in Hungarian Government Offices for such or such a sum. They are signed Kossuth, without any title annexed, On the face of the matter there is no imaginable fraud : the holder can never fancy that they are something else than they are. It is not even clear that they are intended to be used at all, except after Kossuth shall have been recalled to Hungary and reinstated as its Governor. We all remember that in the war of 1848.9 he found ex treme difficulty in getting Kossuth-notes stamped fast enough. For any thing that an English Court can know, he is now preparing for a future exigency in Hungary, for which he has a legal right to prepare. On the other hand, if it were in evidence before the Court that he had sold these notes by public auc tion, and that A. 8., an Englishman, had bought a 10-florin note for 9 florins, what else would this be but a' speculation of A. B. as to a future revo lution in Hungary? What else could an English court have to say to it but caveat emptor ? In no commercial sense is Francis Joseph injured, when A. B. gives money to Kossuth for a piece of paper. Even if the notes were drawn upon his name, he would have no power to claim an injunction against them. Any Englishman, C. D., is free to draw a bill on any banker or merchant, on his own paper, and to sign his own name ; and the banker's redress is to dis honour the paper when presented ; but he has no right to interfere between the issuer of the paper and his customer, even when the customer is the victim of a fraud, except when the banker's own paper is being imitated. What if M. Kossuth's notes ran as follows, " I hereby avow that I have at present no credit in the Austrian treasury ; but I expect that within twelve months I shall have a credit there of thirty millions sterling. On the faith of that expected credit, I promise that this note shall be accepted there for a hundred florins : Kossuth." If thereupon an Englishman were to pay down eighty florins for the note, no Court of England would listen to the complaint of Francis Joseph that he was wronged by the transaction. How then the more at present ? Francis Joseph is not called on to pay. He has the common banker's remedy, of dishonouring the bills when presented. But his complaint to Chancery is said to have run thus :—" I am king of liangary ; and as such, by the laws of Hungary I have an exclusive privilege of making bank-notes : therefore I claim that the Court will put an injunction on M. Kos suth's notes, lest these notes be smuggled into Hungary." Accepting his facts, we have to ask: When he enters Court as an individual Hungarian who has certain exclusive privileges in his own country, how is his case dif ferent from that of any other Hung ar i an , w h o h as similarly some exclusive privilege, as that of a copyright or patent ? Unless there were some international treaty to forbid it, the copyright or patent might lawfully be imitated in England; and if the patentee applied for an injunction, lest the articles be smuggled into Hungary, the court would reply—" Your Hungarian officers must look after that contingency themselves." It does not appear that the Austrian Ambassador in the Emperor's name ventured to complain of Kossuth circulating these notes in England. He knew that this would be a question, not for Chan cery, but for the Ministry ; a purely political ques tion, whether such conduct threatened the peace of England. He knew that the Ministry, after con sulting the law officers of the Crown, though anxious to aid the Austrian policy, found no ground to stand on. He, therefore, expressly based his claim for an injunction on the argument that such notes were intended to circulate in Hungary. How the Vice-Chancellor should yield to it has puzzled some Englishmen learned in the law. If the case comes on for further hearing, the fact alleged by Francis Joseph will require to be sub stantiated. He professes to be the legitimate King of Hurgary. This is positively denied by all Hungarian legists ; and the evidence to the con trary is on the face of Hungarian law and of European history. Even the heir to the throne is not King of Hungary until he is legitimately crowned ; and he is under legal duty to take the coronation oath within six months. If six months elapse and he remain un crowned, the position is so illegal in Hun gary, that no man can say what he is. And before he is crowned, he has not aiministered to the estate, (as a lawyer would say of an executor to a will;) h e can perform no properly royal functions: he can not convene the Diet, (the Palatine must do that,) and much less can he issue Hungarian notes. Even the crowned King has no such privilege: it is only the Diet which from time to time permits such an act.—Nor is this all: but the whole House of Austria has been legally deposed in Hungary, by a formal act of the Diet, legally summoned, not according to any new extemporised processes, but according to the hereditary and ancient precedents of Hungary; when her King, an imbecile and half idiot, was used as a tool of treason by the Austrian Cabinet, and was next deposed by them on his refusal to go all the lengths of his treason. The Diet deposed the dynasty for four reasons: 1. that it had secretly allied itself to insurgent traitors and robbers whom it publicly denounced. 2. That it had attacked with armed force an unarmed and loyal people. 3. That it had violated the integrity of the monarchy by tearing away its constituent members. 4. That it had called in foreign armies to crush liberty. This solemn act of deposition was passed, after the Austrian armies had been victoriously driven out in 1849. An unjust Russian invasion followed, and Francis Joseph be came Emperor, not by Hungarian law, but by the Russian arms. He has never pretended to be King of Hungary till since last October. In 1849 he published an edict, which began with, "Hungary exists no longer." And he now claims that an English Court will adopt as fact all his versions of history and of law. Moreover, if the Hungarian De c la r ati on o f In dependence be not valid in law, much less is the abdication of Ferdinand V., and of his brother, the father of Francis Joseph. These abdications have never been even presented to the Diet : some doubt whether such documents exist, or ever were executed. Be that as it may, if there be any legal King of Hungary, it is Ferdinand, the crowned king, and not his nephew, who has been put on the throne by Russian arms, and has never yet performed a single legal deed. When the Austrian Ambassador has so weak a case,—when the laws officers of the Crown had de cided against him,—why does he rush into Chan cery ? Apparently, because he hopes to crush Kossuth by the expense of a Chancery suit. TILE BOBOUG'H FRANCHISE BILL. MEETING AT LEEDS. Yesterday evening there was a largely attended meeting held in the Victoria Hall, Leeds, for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the bill brought in by Mr. Baines, M.P., with the object of extend ing the borough franchise. The major (James Kitson, Esq ) presided, and he was supported by a number of old and tried Reformers. The first re solution, which was moved by Mr. T. B. Baines and seconded by Mr. John GENOS, was as follows : " That this meeting of the inhabitants of the borough of Leeds believes that the time has now arrived when the education, independence, and patriotism of th e wor ki ng classes fully justify, and loudly demand, such an extension of the 11 rough franchise as shall give to those classes a fair share in the election of representatives to Parliament." The resolution was unanimously carried, as was also the following, which was moved by Alderman Middleton, and seconded by Mr. A. Scarr— " That this meeting regards with high satisfaction the consistent adherence to principle shown by the Liberal member for this borough, in introducing a bill to extend the Parliamentary franchise in cities and boroughs in England and Wales, believing that such bill, if carried, will improve the representation of the country, and tend to satisfy the just demands of the work ing classes • and it urges Mr. B a i nes t o s t ea df ast perse • verance willh this bill, in regard to which this meeting feels bound to aid him by all constitutional means." It was also resolved to petition Parliament in favour of the bill, and an appeal was made to the electors and non-electors of the various towns in Yorkshire and Lancashire, to organise a vigorous support of the measure, which comes on for second reading on April 10th. Three cheers for Mr. Baines, M.P., terminated the proceedings, which lasted two hours and a half. The Giornale di Verona of the 25th ult. states that Mazzini is now at Caprera "to arrange the next expe dition with his Lieutenant Garibaldi." - FUNERAL OF CAPTAIN BOYD.—DUBLIN, March 1. —The funeral of Captain Boyd took place today. It was an imposing ceremony. The body was landed at Kingstown amid the firing of minute guns ; and a procession, includ ing 300 officers, seamen and military, followed. After parading Kingstown the procession came by train to Dublin, where it was joined by a firing party, a large detachment of military, and 200 students. The coffin was carried on a gun-carriage followed by the deceased's dog, and a seaman carrying his hat and sword. On the procession arriving at St. Patrick's Cathedral it was met by his Excellency th• Earl of Carlisle, the Lord Mayor, and others. The usual ceremony was then performed and the remains of the gal lant deceased committed to the grave.