The Sun. — London, England, 1856-04-15 00:00:00

GIOUTH-EASTERN RATLWAY. - GRAND NAVAL REVIEW at SPITITEAD, on WEDNESDAY, 23d April, 1856.—Arrangements have been made for two of the Com pany's Aplendld Steamers to leave Folkestone for E pithead at 10 °Week on Tuesday evening, the 21d April, returning from Spithead after the Review on Wednesday, 23d April. Fares (rail and boat) to Spithead and back from London and any of the South-Eastern Railway Company's principal station*, 423. As the accommodation will be limited, an early application for tickets is necessary. Every possible comfort will be pro vided on board. Tickets can be had at the Company's Offices, 40, Regent-circus, Piccadilly, and 147, Cheataside, and at the London bridge Terminus. C. W. EBORALL, Manner. April 14, 1856. GRAND NAVAL REVIEW at SPITHEAD (POETSVOUTIL) SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. - - - This Grand Review wlil take place In the presence of her Majesty the Queen, the members of the House of Lords and House of Com mons, the Foreign ambassadors, &e., &c., on WEDNESDAY, 23i A plyn. inst. EXTENSION OF DOUBLE JOURNEY TICKETS. Ordinary double journey tickets issued from London, or any other St ition, to Portsmouth, Gosport, or Southampton, on Monday 21st, Tuesday 22d, or Wednesday 23d April, will be available to return up to -iaturday 26th April, inclusive. Pa<sengers proceeding from London to Southampton on Monday, or Tuesday, previous to the Review, may procure, with their railway ticket, a ticket fer a Steam-boat, to leave Southampton at 9.45 a.m. for Spithead, and back, on Wednesday. FIRES, FOR STEAM-BOAT ONLY, 20s. A limited number of tickets will be issued for railway (first-class), and the boat at Waterho-bridge Station ; 53, King William-street, City; and Universal Office, Regent Circus. Additional Express Trains will run from the Waterlo)-bridge Station to Portsmouth and Southampton on Tuesday, 22d April, at 11.15 a.m., 1.13 p.m., 3.15 p.m., 4.30 p.m , and 4.45 p.m., at ordi nary fares. Dy order of the Directors. Waterloo-bridge Station, April, 1856. GRAND NAVAL REVIEW at SPITHEAD ( VORTi MOUTH). LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. s Grand ItiCVICIr will take place in the presence of her Majesty the 'Queen, the Members of the House of Lords and House of Com mis, the Foreign Am , aasadors, &c., &c., on WEDNESDAY, 23d April inst. • , ‘PEcier. Excriastort TRAINS will leave the Waterloo Bridge Sta tion. oa that day, as follows : To Portsmouth at 5.0 a.m., returning at 7.0 p.m. Fares, there and back—Covered carriages, 20s. ; seated open carriages, 1 5 s. To Southampton at 5.30 a.m., returning at 7.30 .p m. A Steam boat will leave Southampton for Spithead in connection with this train, for which a limited number of tickets will be Issued. Fares— ' Railway (covered carriages) 20s. - Steam-boat only, there and back.......... 155.3 Tickets will be issued on the Tuesday, after 6 p.m., at the Witer loo!bridge Station ; 53, King William-street, City ; at the Universal Office, Regent-circus ; and on the Wednesday morning at th 3 Station only. .4. Special Train, at the ordinary fares, will leave the Waterloo bridge Station for Portsmouth, at 6 a.m., on Wednesday, stopping t take up passengers at Kingston, Farnborough, Basingstoke, and Winchester, returning at 6.30 and 7.30 p.m. By order of the Directors. Waterloo-bridge Station, April, 1356. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.- It is respectfully announced that her MAJESTY'S THE ATRE will RE-OPEN early in May. Engagements of great interest have been effected both in Opera and Ballet, and the best exertions used to make the arrangements worthy of the occasion. - The prospectus will shortly be issued. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY•LANE, `lr. E. T. Smith, THIS EVENING, IL TROVA TORE. 1 o Aucle with THE ENCHANTED GARDEN. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Unisr the Management of Mr. Blackstone. TIM EVENING, THE BALANCE OF CO3IFO3T. Followed by THE EVIL GENIUS. EL G.4.1113U31N0 ; or, The Mexicsn Goidseeker. In Which PER EA NENA and the Spanish Dancers will appear. To conclude with LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS ROYAL PRINCESS'S TUL'A.TRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management ot Mr. CuAaus KEAN. THIS EvENLNO, The comedy 9f EVERY ONE HAS 1113 FAULT. To be follo77ed by THE VICTOR VANQUISHED. To conclude with A PRINCE FOR AN HOUR. TiI.r.ATH.II ROYAL ADELPIU. Prolate!' and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Ds aflame Celeste. THIS EVENING, LIKE AND UNLIKE. Messrs. B, Webster, Wright, P. Belford, C. Selby, Garden; Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham. After which, URGENF PRIVATE AFFAIRS. To conclude with MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL. ROYAL OLYAPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING STILL WATERS RUN DEEP. After which will be produce' a New and doubly-moral, though x , essively old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled SUF. DISCREET PRISTCF.ASI; o^, the Three Glass Distaffs. I which Messrs. Emery, F. Robson, 11. Cooper, Miss Marston, au I Silas Maskell will appear. ROYAL SIMILEY TIIENTRE. Leman, 3fesirs. Shepherd and Crevrick. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Drama, entitled HOW WE LIVE IN TIIE WO ILD OF LONDON. Followed by VIE POSTMAN'S KNOCK. To conclude with TIJFFLEFIA.USrS; or, Thl Lawyer's Le;end ROYAL MARYLEBONE TEIEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. E. Stirling. Engagement of Miss FITZ PATRICK, of the Theatres Royal Drury- lane, and Covent-Garden, for Six Nights only. TUESDAY, April 15th, will be performed LOVE CrtiSE Constance, Miss Fitzpatrick. Messrs. Belford, Lewis Bail, Saunders, Carter, Langton, Masses Anderton, Turner , and: Mars. _ . _ Tu conclude with TILE HAUNTED INN. Messrs. Lewis Ball, Saunders, Bedford, Misses Morrell, and Mars. on Wednesday, THE SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER. Widow Cheerly, Mka Fitzpatrick. 4 gT1.1 4 .: PA IZOYA.I. A.NipitETIIP:ATRE. Lessco and Mana:•er, Mr. Win. Cooke. TIIN EVENING, The Performances will embrace that startling novelty, a Real English Steeplechase, with all ita exciting Incidents. The Entertainments c mmenee with THE ARAB OF Till , . DESERT AND MS FAITHFUL STEED. After which. the EQUESTRIAN WONDERS OF THE AREA , Trampoline, Gymnastics, &c. To conclude with a Draune introducing ENGLAND'S HARVEST HOME and NATIONAL S rF , EPLEcuisz, with a noble Stud of Iforses, trained by Mr. Will am Cooke. Box-office open from Eleven till Fear. Rage Manager, Mr. W West. 4:,aestrian Director. "tr. Cookc , len. ENEMA STANLEY'S "SEVEN AGES OF. WOMIN." The Mana;er respectfully announces the TWO i.IST MORN ING PERFORMANCES of this most popular an .1 amusing Enter tainment, Wednesday, the IGth, and Saturday, the 19th, at half•past two: Evening performances as usual, on Mondays, Tues lays, Thursdays and F..idays, at S o'clock. Admission—Back Seats, 13.; Centre 23. ; Stalls, 3s. SAINT MARTIN'S HALL, Long-acre. HIGH WATER, AT LONDON IMMO- E. THIS DAY—Morn. 55 loin. aft. 10—Evening 30 inin. aft. 11 DI-MORRO cY—Morn. 0 min. aft. 0 —Evening 4 min. aft.l2 THE WE ATTIE a—SuN OFFICE, APRIL 15. TIIERUOILETER, IN TILE SHADE. 57 - highest 2inc3 noon yestortiay. 50 -lowest this morning and dur!.ng the night. a 5 this day at nool. BAROMETER, 30 . 02. WIND, N.N.E. to N.E.—Fresh, with fine, cold sunshiny weather. • §rilC . '. LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1856. The National Balance-sheet for the financial year ending on the 31st ultimo, which has jusl been published, will be found in another part of this day's impression. It is, under any circum stances, a document of vast importance, which should receive the calui and attentive considera tion of every man desirous of maintaining the national credit. It is peculiarly so at the present moment, inasmuch as it is by its means alone that we can form auy notion of Vie actual expenses incurred in resisting the unconcieutious and un warrantable aggression of the late Czar, and of the enormous amount which has been wantonly sacrificed, without any demand being put forward for compensation or rairess. It shows the actual outlay on what may be termed the War Depart ments of the public service ; and comparing these with the similar charges in times of peace wo may form a fair estimate of what might justly be debited to Russia is the public ledger for the last twelve months of the War. It will not show the fuli extent of the cost, inasmuch as there are a variety of incidental charges which will drop in from time to time. There will be a larae addition to the half•pay and pension lists, that may be continued for many years to COllO. Our foreign legions are not as yet disbanded, nor can w e as y e t judge of the expenses attendant on the operation. The troops have not returned from th e Crimea. Transports are still chartered, and numerous items remain that will not easily be satisfied. We cannot see why the War expenses should not be fairly laid before the public in a distinct and separate form. But until that be done, and we can easily conceive the strenu ous opposition that would be offered by Ministers t 9 any such returns, we must avail ourselves of the information that can be obtained from the document under notice. kind in every particular. Here is a glimpse of it, as seen through the vigilant and kindling eyes of Boz--eyes kindling with horror . and indigna tion " When the sun rose brightly—as it lid—it gilded thousands upon thousands of up turned faces, so inexpressibly odious in their !mita' mirth and callousness, that a man had cause to feel ashamed of the shape he wore, and to shrink from himself, as fashioned in the image of the And again . . . " When the two miserable creatures who attracted all this ghastly sight about them were turned quivering into the air, there was no more emotion, no more pity, no more thought that two immortal souls had gone to judgment, no more restraint in any of the pre vious obscenities, than if the name of CHRIST had sever been heard in this world,' and there were no belief among men but that they perished like the beasts." Nor can this be wondered at, when we remember who made up the bulk of the bye standers—" Thieves, low prostitutes, ruffians, vagabonds of every kind, when the day dawned, docked on to the ground with every variety of offensive and foul behaviour." Upon all which terrific aggregation of horror, note now the sen tence pronounced with all imaginable emphasis by Mr. DICKENS, who first of all observes truly—" I think there are not many phases of London life that could surprise me ;" previously remarking, " I have seen, habitually, some of the worst sources of general contamination and corruption in the country,' and who yet, with all this awful expe rience as an Observer—as the Observer of his Age —avers :—" /am solemnly convinced that nothing that human ingenuity could devise to be done in this city, in the same compass of time, could work such ruin as one public execution, and I stand astounded and appalled by the wickedness it exhibits." Memorable words, coming from the lips of one with a mind so ample, with eyes so keen, with an imagination so vivid, with a heart so large and generous—words of thrilling admo nition uttered long ago—and since which time we have been blindly and obdurately hanging, and hanging, and hanging in the populous streets of London, in the midst of the same scenes, with all their concomitant horrors, in the midst of-- " Fightings, faintings, whistlings, imitations of Punch, brutal jokes, tumultuous demonstrations of indecent delight when swooning women were dragged out of the crowd by the police, with their dresses disordered," giving as Boz tells us, as he told us five or six years ago, " a new zest to the general entertainment." No marvel that large and gentle Heart broke out into that cry of anguish, " I believe that a sight so inconceivably awful as the wickedness and levity of the immense crowd collected at that execution--[meaning the execution of the MANNING; he might have said with equal truth in lieu of this, 'collected at every execution in London indiscriminately']—could be imagined by no man, and could be presented in no heathen land under the sun." And with these same hideous spectacles continually recurring and recurring among us, our legisl hors are babbling session after session in long and wearisome debates about the worthiest scheme for a popular system of National Education ! Good GOD-My Lords and Gentlemen, honourable and right honour able let us rid ourselves first of all of such prolific sources of moral disease and depravity, before we begin to talk about abstract theories of Education. It appears that the actual revenue of the year amounted to 65,704,4901. 15s. 10d. and the ex penditure to 88,428,3451. Os. 11d., leaving an actual deficiency of 22,723,8541. ss. id. A terrible array of figures, when we consider the vast increase of taxation since the com mencement of the Eastern difficulty, and the small results actually achieved. The addi tional imposts cheerfully submitted to by tilt nation—a more than doubled Income Tax, in creased duties on tea, coffee, sugar, malt, spirits, &(. —produced about 15,000,000/., while loans to the extent of 21,000,0001. were contracted, besides an addition of several millions to the Un funded Debt. From this statement it would appear that some 36,000,0001. or 37,000,0001. were actually expended on the War within the year, and that estimate is further verified by the fact that, in ordinary times, the expenditure is about 1,000,0001. per week, or, 52,000,0001. per annum, whereas it has been, in round num bers, about eighty-eight and a half millions— showing the extra cost to have been about thirty six and a half millions. A third test may also be applied, which leads to a similar conclusion. The Naval, Military, and Ordnance Estimates, have been so low as eighteen or nineteen millions, and may be safely taken at twenty-two millions, which would have covered everything but for the criminal ambition and grasping cupidity of the late AUTO CRAT, in the present return they are set down at no less than 58,592,100/. 12.4. We thus find that similar results are obtained by three different methods ; and we may, therefore, safely assume the general accuracy of the calculation. Here, then, is 36,500,0001. literally flung away ; and we may probably assume that at least as much more was expended during the first year, or must be paid before the matter has been fully weund up, and the war account completely closed. Seventy-three millions have thus been improvi dently squandered, without obtaining honour for the past or security for the future. Our gallant brethren have uselessly laid down their lives—and for what? To render England the laughing -stock of every petty German despot, who joyously pockets the bribes profusely paid by Russia for his venal support. The English People, we are told, have " their victories and their undiminished resources for their own reward," and this is one of the re sults—and we fear by no means the most objec tionable—of the secret and unconstitutional in fluence that pervades almost every department of the public service, but is peculiarly conspicuous at the Horse Guards and in the Cabinet. What might this seventy-three millions properly applied have done for, the country ? The speculation is too vast to be entered on at the close of an article. It should, however, entitle the oppressed tax-payers to some relief from their enormous burdens, and yet we see no appearance of the slightest intention to mitigate the load, We have already ascertained that no attempt is to be made towards a more equitable assessment of the Income Tax, which is to be continued with all its monstrous inequalities to the last possible moment. No step is to be taken towards placing the national currency on a better foundation, cr regulating the relations of the country with the Bank of England. The iniquitous and impolitic Act, of 1844 has virtually expired, but no hint has been thrown out as to the nature of thefuture mone tary legislation, and the manifest intention is to tide over the difficulty for the present year, and to leave a, troublesome legacy as a bequest to the future Ministers. The Chancellor of theExchever declares that Government cannot make any proposition for the alteration of the act without a prelitninar inquiry. Why, then, is it not at once instituted Because, forsooth, it is too late ! No great pro gress can be made during this latter part of the session. A short time since it was, according to the Right Honourable gentleman, "unseasonable and premature." Now the postponement, that took place at his own instance, is fatal to the cause, and no progress can be made ! Was thei e ever such palpable absurdity ? We trust that tl e House will not suffer itself to be so grossly bam boozled. Much may be effected within a coupe of months, and ample time would remain for a Bill, founded on the report of the Committee, to be passed through Parliament, or, at all events, there would be every material for legislation at the very commencement of the next s2ssion, which might be held before Christmas for a sub jecl; of such vital importance to the nation. If :Nliiiisters desire to retain the public confidence, they must show themselves adequate to their du ties, and give better proof of efficiency than the postponement of every question of doubt and difficulty to a future time. Let us look to the uses of the Hang man before we think of those of the School master. Lot us dig away the filth and rot tenness choking up the broad area chalked out for the foundation before we bagin to amuse ourselves over the various plAn.s suggested by one ingenious architect or another for the ornate and elaborate sverstructure which has yet even to be com menced ! Setting aside the problem propounded by BECCA.RTA —putting altogether out of the ques tion the rather startling axiom enunciation by the benevolent: wit, to wit, that there are perhaps after all better uses to which you eau put a man than to hang him—forgetting wholly and entirely . - the proposition put forward by th e philanthropists who would altogether do away with the supreme penalty of the law, that of capital punishment— it may possibly be just as well to consider whether we may not, with some small advantage to our selves, abandon at last, for once and for all, the rather more than merely questionable benefits resulting from the system of public executions. Particularly after the recent horrors witnessed at the hanging of the wretched murderer BOUSFIELD And more particularly when it is announced that the very infamous office of public executioner has, in consequence of that wretched spectacle, actually once more gone a-begging ! CALCRA.FT, after s3venteen years of official Thug gism, falls into disgrace (if it be possible for a Hangman to "sink" any lower from the depth of his own primary and profound abasement !) by reason of 11i3 skulking, through fear, away from the gallows before the last wretch " turned off " by his ter rible hands had been effectually strangled, the nerves of the hoary old hangman trembling under the threat of some anonymous correspondent. Con sequent upon which frightful incident, and remem bering the dying throes of BOUSFIELD as some horrid sort of Nightmare, seen by many hundreds of people by broad day light in front of Newgate Prison, there is actually heard now a talk of CA ',CRAFT, the hangman, having a successor ! Is not this the very opportunity long felt to be most de,drable ? Simultaneously with the appointment of another executioner, might we not modify at once the very nature and the very locality of our executions—modifying both for the general public most advantageously ? Might we not? It is a question, we really think, worthy of instant and serious consideration. Fl.i.)rarNu—Shall it be private, or shall it he abolished ? One Honourable Member wants to have our criminals under sentence of death, strangled within the walls of their prison, instead of the gibbet being made, as hitherto, a herriblu public exhibition. Another Honourable Member is anxious, on the contrary, to do away altogether with capital punishment. Which is it to be ? Either or neither ? Supposing we cannot persuade our selves to arrive at the humane conclusions asserted by the benevolent arguinent of BEccann—sup posing we cannot at all recognise the necessity of doing away with Death as the dread arch-penalty of Crime —supposing we still cling Pertinaciously to the belief that that penalty does really, after all, act, in some measure at least, as a preventive I—must 1 —must all murderers and poisoners, and such like horrible wretches, in this land of ours, still die like dogs by public strangulation ? Is an exe• cation of a miserable criminal at the hands of the common hangman in the midst of a crowded thorouglifare—necessary ?—is it advisable ? These are questions of a very momentous character—for they affect, in a rather serious way, the moral well-being or ill-being of the community. Upon the eantinuance of this terrible custom depends, to a con s id erable extent, the lesser or greater de pravity of very many among There can h ar dl y b e any the eye- wi tn esses. doubt as to which direc tion the proportion takes in this rather frightful alternative. Suppose—beyond what we have here already sug gested —suppose we not only abandon at last this brutal and brutalising system of strangling our great criminals in the public streets, with all kinds of horrible accompaniments in the way of obscenities and blasphealies—suppose we seize this favourable opportunity for doing away with the office of Jack Ketch altogether, adopting, in lieu of the black beams of the Gallows, with its dangling noose, the scarlet apparatus, the inexorable Made, and the blood-stained basket of the Guillotine ? Suppos3 !—Might not the majesty of the law be vindicated then more humanely, more terribly, and with less chance of shame to us all--our con demned criminals "Dying the Death," not as hitherto by the hands of a fellow-mortal, but by means of a grimly piece of mechanism, a wood and metal NEMESIS, the material Antoros born of the French Revolution ? The Great Observer of the Age has de scribed in vivid words the appalling spectacle, as it was presented to him upon an occasion very memorable in the Annals of Atrocity. And that was no exceptional sight. It was one, the horror of which (as far as the execution went) Was about the average. The crime expiated was more than usually horrible no doubt—being the murder of the miserable caitiff, O'CoNNon, by those male and female monsters, the -I ‘ir -ANNINGS. But the manner of the expiation was quite of the ordinary character. Aiid the scene witnessed en that lamentable Tuesday morning, upon the 13th of November, was, alas ! of only a customary We beg to direct the attention of our readers to a report (which will be found in another column) of the important meeting yesterday, at the London Tavern, of merchants, commercial men, and others interested in the welfare of our Australian colonies. The object of the meeting, it will be seen, was to consider what steps should be adopted to insure the immediate re-establishment of our postal steam communication with Australia, and this naturally led th e speakers to statements and explanations with whi c h, We are of opinion, it were well the public should be thoroughly acquainted. As a matter of course, and of fact, it was shown that Australia is nearly our best customer, taking from THE SUN, LO-NDON, TUESDAY EVENINet, APRIL 15 1856. us fifteen millions worth of our produce annually ; that a tardy communication was in existence,' prior to the War, but, strange to tell, that communication was stopped on account of hostilities, in other words, of the strongest motive fur improving it, that the colonists are dissatisfied with such treatment, and offer to contribute half of the expenditure of a more rapid steam service by another and nigher route, that Government, in its ineffable wis dom, instead of laying down the required ser vice, has referred the matter to the colonists, whose wishes are known already, thereby incur ring a delay, wholly unnecessary and uncalled for, of 18 months, and that the interests of this country as well as of Australia have suffered, do suffer, and must continue to suffer, from the want of a rapid communication between the two countries. These facts, and others elucidating or confirming them, had, as might be expected, their weight, and a petition for the immediate establishment of the sort of postal service required was unanimously agreed on. The speech of Lord STANLEY may be particularly pointed out as de serving of perusal, not so much for the position and ability of the speaker, as for the home truths respecting the wretched dealing of our officials with the colonies to which he gave utterance. How bitter, yet how true—indeed the bitterness is exclusively in its truth—is the remark—" In the Colonial Department of the Government those in power are too apt to treat the affairs of the colonies as if they were negotiating with hostile, or at least neutral, parties, and not with friends." THE BALANCE-SHEET. An Account of .the Net Public Income of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the year ended the 31st day of March, 1856 (after abating the Ex penditure thereout defrayed by the several Revenue De partments), and of the Actual Issues or Payments within the same period, exclusive of the Sums applied to the Redemption of Funded or paying off Unfunded Debt, and of the Advances and Repayments for Local Works, &c. INCONUE OR REVENUE, ORDINARY REVENUE AND RECEIPTS. Customs Excise Stamps Taxes (Land and Assessed) Property Tax Post-office Crown Lands Produce of the Sale of Old Stores, and other extra Receipts Afoney received from the East India Company Tinprest and other Moneys Unclaimed DRridends (received) Excess of expenditure ov, year ending March 31, 1 EXPEN interest and Management of the Permanent Debt Unclaimed dividends paid Terminable Annuities Interest of Exchequer-bonds, 1854 Interest on Exchequer-bills, 5up p1y............ • ... • • • • .• • • Interest of Exchequer bills, De ficiency ...... •...... ..... Interest of Exchequer -bills, Ways anB Means.... er income In the L 855.... ...... It appears to be generally believed at Lisbon that Queen Victoria will vied,: Portugal this year. Thee has been some gossip in the papers about a ma trimonial connection between the royal family of Naples and the ducal family of Tuscany. There is nothing of the kind. The eldest daughter of the grand duke h only twelve years of age. The Duke and Ductless of Buccleuch and family, who are staying at Bowhill, the ducal seat in Selkirkshire, do not intend to come to Montague-house, Whitehall, until the middle of next month. The Earl of Dalkelth, M.P., has arrived at Montague-house for the season. The steam-transport Trent has been ordered by the Government to be put into immediate repair at S mth ampton, she having received injuries in towing home from tee East a floating battery. Mzxrco.—By way of New Orleans we have news from Vera Cruz to the 22i ult. The Government forces had blockaded Puebla. Tarnariz had proposed a surrender, but Cornonfort would not accept the terms offered. RUSSIAN RAILWAY SHARES.—The directors of the Riga and Dunaburg Railway gave notice yesterday after noon that they intend to issue their shares " to bearer," and that a deed of settlement will be avoided. THE FATAL PRUSSIAN DUEL.—M. de Munchausen, the second of the late M. de Hinckeldy in the fatal duel, has resumed his functions at the Ministry of the Interior. M. de Rochow, it is stated, is preparing a statement in justification of his conduct. The Mon tear of yesterday states that his Imperial Highness Prince Jerome Napoleon, who has recovered from the illness with which he had been attacked, visited the Emperor and Empress and the Imperial Prince on Sunday. On leaving the Tuileries his Imperial High ness took a drive to the Bois de Boulogne. THE BISHOP OF NORWICH.—The health of the Bishop of Norwic h has been slowly improving during the plot few months. It is now so far re-established that his lordship has resumed the active duties of his diocese, which his severe and continued indisposition compelled him to relinquish. The discovery ship Resolute is to be sold for the bene fit of those who brought her into port, the British Go vernment having ahan'loned all e'aim to the vessel. As soon as the Empress is in a condition to move out she will take up her residence at St. Cloud, and remain there till the middle or end of June, when the ceremony of the baptism of the Imperial Prince will take place. She will then proceed to the south for sea•bathing. Preparations are already making at Biarritz for her re ception. AMERICAN MAILS.—The steamer Ericsson will sail from Liverpool for New Yerk on Wednesday morning with the mails for the United States and Canada. Letters will be received at the Liverpool post-office on the morn. , n g of that day till 6.30 a.m., with late fees till 7.30, and on tho landing stage till 8.30 a m. TURKISH MISSIONS Am SOClETY.—Yesterday, the second annual meeting of the above society was held, in Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's, under the presidency of the Earl of Shaftesbury. The attendance was numerous. Tue balance-sheet showed a reception of 2,6211. Oa. 21d., which, after paying all expenses, left a balance in the hands of the treasurer of 419/. Os. 10d. THE AUSTRIANS IN PARllA.—During the last few days, dozens of persons, arrested for supposed political opinions have been sent off to Mantua. Military law is applied with the utmost severity. The Au , trians say there will be no long trials—" The guilty will be shot, and the innocent set at liberty." The- whole male population wearing beards have been shaved by au thority. OPPOSITION TO THE CORPORATION RE€ULATION BILL. --Yesterday afternoon, a meeting of the inhabitants of the Walbrook ward was held at the Bay-tree Tavern, St. Swithin's-laue ' to consider th e p ro p r i e t y o f petition ing the Irouse of Commons against the second reading •it the London Corporation Regulation Bill ; David Williams Wire, Esq., Alderman, presided. Resolutions against the bill were agreed to unanimously. A subscription has been entered into by the British residents at Hamburg, for the purpose of presenting Miss Nightingale with a souvenir, expressive of their admiration of the noble and disinterested conduct of that la.ly in ministering to the wants and comforts of the army in the East. The subscription amounts at present to about 2,000 marks, nearly 1201. MISS NIGHTINGALE.—Among the Crimean photo graphs lately published by Messrs. Fenton and Robert son is one of no slight interest. In No. 191, " Mortar Batteries in front of Picket-house, Light Division," are shown three mortars in position, on the centre one of which the heroic Miss Nightingale was raised at. her own request by a gentleman belonging to the sanitary commission, in order that she might obtain a view of Sebasopol —a perilous peep, most mercifully taken with impunity. THE PACIFIC.—The Panama Star gives the follow ing news from Nicaragua :—" Costa Rica has declared war against the Filibusters, and is joined by the other Central American States. Costa Rica requires 9,000 men and $lOO,OOO from the Republic. Walker has also declared war against Costa Rica, and marched to Guanacasta, a frontier station of Costa Rica, to meet Colonel 13 )equct, of the Costa Rica army, who has quite a respectable force. Walker has not over 1,500 men in all, of whom a large percentage is unfit for duty, owing to sickness." CHARGES ON CONSOLIDATED FUND. rDITURE. £ s. d, 23,205,392 13 21 173,240 17 5 3,863,907 0 9, 210,000 0 C 616,083 7 5, 17,450 16 26,749 13 91 TIPPERARY BANK.—The English shareholders of the Tipperary Bank have held several meetings, with the view of concerting mea,ures for their own protection in the arrangement of the affairs of that establishment. Toe) , are said to have availed themselves of the best ad vice at the Irish bar, and to have bee❑ informed that several legal points can be raised in resistance to their liabilitie'. At the same time they express a disposition to deal with the case, if possible, on equitable terms. It is therefore hoped that the creditors, both in England and Ireland, will eventually agree to a settlement which may in some degree avert the disastrous consequences of this suspension. Subscriptions have been raised in London toward; a " Defence Fund," and a committee has been formed to conduct negotiations. Some of the shareholder:, however, anticipating the worst results from a winding-up, have already left the country to avoid reSpetlei')tility. DEPOSIT AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. —lt was mentioned on Wednesday that an annual general meeting of this company bad been held on the previous d ev, at which the directors deemed it expe client to avoid publicity. Although anxious on that occasion t ) prevent the presence of independent report. ers, they have since thought it desirable to incur great expense in the publication of a report framed by them selves. This chiefly consists of a series of inflated and complimentary speeches as to the thriving condition of the concern, one gentleman predicting that the company would ultimately be second to none in London, and another assuring his hearers, notwithstanding the recent developments in the case of the Protestant Life office, that old companies are not so safe as yowl.. ones. The fact appears to have been tbat a report drawn up by their own auditors was rejected at the instance of the direct•irs, together with a statement, by which it was accompanied, of the finances of the company, and that a report of the directors of a more pleasant character was subst;tuted. As a natural consequence, the intractable auditors were got rid of before the termination of the meeting. The nature of their report is not explained in the lengthy advertisement devoted to the flittering ex preesiona of the various speakers, and it is fair to infer that the exclusion of reporters was also resolved upon in order that it should not see the light. The au- TOTAL. s. d. 21,788,770 16 1 16,636,(.69 11 3 6,894,307 7 9 2,958,626 4 8 14,814,754 15 8 1,171,696 5 0 281,515 15 9 527,377 9 0 60, 00 0 0 472,029 9 0 98,741 1 8 65,704,490 15 10 22,723,854 5 1 Civil List ........ Annuities and Petitions .... Salaries and Allowances Diplomatic Salaries and Pensions Courts of Justice Miscellaneous Charges on th - Consolidated Fund however, in their own justification, — as well ai in fulfilment of their duty to the assurers, have transmitted it for publication. If the directors can controvert its all, , gations they shall have every opportunity of doing so, and the company will then take its proper stand before the public. The sole object of the appointment of auditors is to provide that some persons independent of the directors should pledge themselves to the accu racy of the accounts submitted, and when it is found that their statements are rejected at the instance of the very pai ties upon whom they are intended as a check all sense of security must be weakened. In the present case there is, apart from this circumstance, enough to call for more than ordinary vigilance, since it is under stood that the late Mr. John Sadleir was a trustee of the company, and that Mr. Clement Sadleir retired from the post of managing director only a short time pre viously to the death of his brother. Should these cir cumstances, together with the details iu the auditor's report, prove to be beyond contradiction, it may be a point for consideration whether the advertisment just put forth by the directors would not furnish grounds for the most severe legal proceedings on the part of any one who might suffer damage how being raided by it.— Tima City Article. SUPPLY SERVICES. Army Navy Ordnance Vote of credit (addition.d ex-1 penses, war with Russia) .... Miscellaneous civil services .... 85,428,315 0 11 396,457 10 0 340,491 3 161,731 18 11 147,659 7 8 493,2 , 9 3 0 183,860 16 8 X e. d. 28,112,424 9 2 17,395,059 0 0 19,654,585 1 5 10,411,543 13 2 1,723,419 19 9 4,200,000 0 0 6,930,912 17 5 58,592,100 12 2 89,428,345 0 An Account of the Balances of the Public Money remain ing in the Exchequer on the 31st day of March, 1855; the Amount of Money raised by the Additions to the Funded or Unfunded Debt in the year ended the 31st day of March, 1856 ; the Money applied towards the Redemption of the Funded or paying off Unfunded Debt ; the Total Amount of Advances and Repayments on account of Local Works, &c., with the difference accruing thereon, and the Balances in the Exchequer on the 31st day of March, 1856. Balances in the Exchequer OD the 31st March, 1655, Engl yid Ireland Money raised in the year ended March 31, 1856, — FUNDED DEBT. Money paid Into the Exche quer on account of loan of £16,030,000, per act 18th Vic toria, c. 18 Amount retained by the Bank for receiving the loan, being at the rate of£3oo per million Money paid into the Exche quer on account of loan of £5,000,000, per act 19th Vic toria, c. 6 Money paid into the Exchequer towards funding £3,000,001 Exchequer-bills, 19th Vic tonic, c. 5 EXCIIEQUER-BONDS, Raised per act 18th and 15th Victoria, c. 130 (in part of X 7,000,000) EXCIIEQUER-BILILS In part of grant of £17,183,000, per Act 18th Victoria, c. 8, and dated in June,lsss,and March, 1856 . . • In part of grant of £17,1113,000 per Act 18th Victoria, c. 8, and dated in Ilarch, 1E66, and applied i i aid of money grants In part of grant of .£7,000.000, per act 18th and 19th Victoria, c 13), and dated is August, 1855 £ s. d. 3,212,409 1 5 737,3G5 10 3 EXCREQUER CONSOLIDATED FUND-BILLS. Issued in the quarter to the 30th of June, 1855,in part of Ways and Means Grants of the year 1853-56, and charged on the Income of the Consolidated Fund for the quarter, to the 30th of September, 1856 ISSUED To the Commisssloners for the Reduction of the National, 15,995,200 0 01 Debt, to be applied to the Re demption of the Public Debt, per Act 10 Gco. IV., c, 27 .. Interest on Donations and Be- quests Redemption of Hereditary Pen BMus To the Bank of England for re ceiving the loan of£ 1 6,000,030 To the Paymaster-General, in Exchequer-bilis, to exchange Supply Bill , To the Paymaster-General, in Money,out of Ways and Means Grants, to pay off Supply 131 lb. To the Paymaster-General, iu money, to be applied to the purchase of Exchequer-bills, under the act for fundink £3,000,000 Total Issues on account of Un funded Debt in the Year ended the 31st of March, 1856 To the Paymaster-General, tol pay off Exchequer Consoli dated Fund Bills Issued in the Quarter, to the 31st of March 1855, in part of Ways and Means Grants To the Paymaster-General, to pay of Exchequer Consoli dated Fund Bills I ,, sued in the quarter to the 30th of June, 1855, In part of Ways and Means Grants ........ 4,800 0 0 3,561,000 0 01 622,000 0 01 15,930,700 0 01 d soo,ooo 0 of 13,949,774 11 8 6,000,000 0 01 £ s. d Advances for Loctl Works, &a , under various Acts of Pavia rnent (including loan to Sar dinia, £I,OG0,000) Less—Repayments of ditto :19,898 5 213,177 1 21 Excess of expenditure over In come in the year ended the' 31. t of March, 1856 - Balances in the Exchequer en the 31st of March, 1856 : Bank of England.— Consolidated Fund balance .. 4,160,573 19 6 Balance of pay ments on account of fundingExche- 15,930,700 0 526,500 0 0 *463,000 0 01 1,000,000 0 20,123,000 0 0 977,750 0 0 21,430,700 0 0 1,740,000 0 01 1,740,000 0 0 49,221,224 11 S 2,243,927 10 11 1,245,248 17 4 X s. a. 233,070 6 2 4,800 0 0 16,920,200 0 0 2,740,000 0 0 993,G78 13 7 22,723,854 5 quer Bills ...... 159,000 0 0 Bank of Ireland ......... 4,319,573 19 5 1,281,047 7 5 /5,600,421 6 10 49,221,224 11 8 WILSON. Treasury-chambers, April 8, 1 * In addition to this sum, hills to the amount of £1,479,100 have been delivered in to NI cancelled. ALARM OF FIRE AT DRURY-LANE THEATRE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. stage-manager of the operatic performances at the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, permit me to. say that the account which appeared in the journals of this morn ing of a fire which is sail to have occurred in dila theatre on Saturday night is highly exaggerated. 16 is quite true that, at the c!ooe of the performances on that even ing, at the sole request of the committee, an experiment was tried on the stage by the Fire Annihilator Clompany, and that, during the course of the experiment, one of their machines burst, and caused some littlk alarm among those present ; but, owing to the prestautions taken in the building, no danger of any kind existed, nor indeed could any arise at any time. As the performance s have in no manner been inter rupted by the occurrence referred to, I trust you will favour me with space in your columns for this cxplana tion.—l am, sir, your faithful servant, ROBERT R;OXEY. Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, April 14. THE FIRE AT THE VAUXHALL Emil- WAY STATION. The fire which broke out on Sunday evening last, as noticed yesterday in this paper, was not extinguished until past eleven o'clock, when every building and case belonging to the railway station were destroyed. During yesterday morning a very searching inquiry was made by the officials of the company, for the pur pose of finding out, if possible, how the fire commenced, the result ot 'which clearly showed that it begart in Mr. Maudsley's office, and was first discovered in this way : —Mr. Inspector Parker, having been sent by Mr. God son to make .some inquiries respecting a pass e nger, he crossed the lines of metals, when he saw two persons leaning over the counter and looking very attentively at the wall. Thinking that they were looking for an op portunity to get into the office to commit a felony, he pushed them '.a little on one side, and then perceived a piece of fire burning in the wall, but not larger than a man's hat. At that moment a man raised a ladder to the place, and endeavoured to pull the burning paper which lined the wall, but upon pulling some of the lining down the flames shot forth with extraordinary violence, and ran round the office like lightning, seizing upon the walls and roof of the compartment, and in less than ten minutes crossing the line and seizing upon every part of the station. It is here necessary to state that the building' forming the station was 60 feet wide and upwards of 150 feet long, and bein g composed exclusively of wood, canvas, and paper, it is not surprising. that the flames spread so rapidly, more especially when the high wind and the lofty position of the premises are taken into consideration. Fortunately the whole of the money and tickets were saved, and Mr. Darvon, one of her Majesty's guards, having h as t ene d to the terminus at the Waterloo-road, all trains about proceeding down the line were stopped, as was the case at stations further down the line for some time, and the traffic was transferred to the Nine Elms ; but although the rails at Vauxhall had been twisted and reduced to sundry forms by the action of the flames, they were removed and replaced in time to allow tbe mail train to reach London at the usual time yesterday morn ing, and the regular traffic was resume;] as usual, and the station will be re-opened for passenger traffic this morning. LATEST NE WS FRANCE. s . PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. There has been a meeting of the Congress to-day, and on Wednesday the final sitting will take place. The Patrie and the Constitationnel affirm that the Congress have determined that the mixed com mission appointed to investigate the difficulties raised relating to the Danubian Principalities, is to assemble for inquiry at Bucharest and at Jassy, and not at Constantinople, as was at first believed. This resolution, however, has been received with some dissatisfaction by the Ottoman Porte. The reception of the Duke of Alba, attended by Gen. Barcaiztegui, aide-de-camp of the King of Spain, bringin g the insignia of the Oder, of the Golden Fleece for the Prince Imperial, is an nounced by the Al oniteur. The collar of the order, destined for the " infant of France," was presented to the Empelor. Prince Jerome Napoleon made a visit yesterday to the Emperor, Empress, and the Prince, and subsequently took a carriage airing on the Bois de Boulogne. _ • Count Orloff, it is said, contemplates something grand in the dinner way, sa soon as the Russian Embassy recovers from the measles. A grand dinner was given to-day at the Hotel de Ville to the Plenipotentiaries and varioui other distinguished personages. It is calculated by those who are curious in culinary statistics that the ex pense of the dinner amounted to 500 f. a-head, or rather mouth ! The Plenipotentiaries, whatever else they may have cause to find fault with, have no reason to complain of French hospitality. - RUSSIA. The terms of the peace are generally considered in St. Petersburg as favourable, and there is no backwardness on the part of the Russians in ex pressing their acknowledgments to France for the result. They do not fail, at the same time, to in dicate it as the payment of a debt of gratitude due by France to Alexander I. The Invalide frankly expresses its satisfaction that the series of despatches published by it is not to extend beyond No. 408 (the number of the last one published). Toe Em peror is represented as very well satisfied with his trip to Finland. The number of judgments pro nounced by courts-martial there which he had to confirm show that his satisfaction was not entirely unalloyed. A civil officer named Fournier h►s been dismissed for embezzlement of State moneys. The following extract from the Northern Bee will, perhaps, somewhat damp the ardour of our speculators, who seem so anxious now to make-up for the two years'. interruption of their trade with Russia, by launching at once into most liberal pur chases from that country ; " Telegraphic despatches from London mention that in consequence of the news of peace the prices of Russian produce had fallen considerably, in the expectation that Russia has got large quantities (ot goods) at her disposal, which she will be ready to part with at half price. This ilea of the English speculators is, however, perfectly groundless, since during the whole of the war all superfluous Russian produce has constantly been exported, and for the most part to England ; there are therefore no large stocks to spare to be rec koned on ; what there is on hand will not be sold cheap, The last prices of tallow were 139 paper roubles per berkowitz ; in the interior the prices have risen from 10-11. to 13-14 paper roubles. In the same way, also, the prices of hemp, flax, and other goods have risen at the places whore they are produc d. People imagine in England that Russia is in a position to export enormous quantities of grain, but this is an error ; Russia can only export such quantities as are now lying at the different ports or their immediate neighbourhoods—such, ex. gra., as was sent off from the interior last au tumn, and had been detained on the road ; to send corn now from the interior to the ports in the north for this year's navigation is impossible, because, in the absence of railroads, this must always take place as early as autumn or the beginning of the winter preceding its export. In the southern ports, perhaps, a larger sale of grain may be possible; but from there we have re liable information that the greater portion of what is ou hand is already purchased for French account. The peace is in so far a blessing for England that in case of her having an insufficient harvest this year Russia can supply her next autumn and the following spring with an ample quantity of corn at lower prices than she is paying for American grain." At first sight this appeared a mere commercial trick to keep up the prices of Russian produce in London, and consequently in St. Petersburg, with a side puff of the necessity of rail ways in Russia, with Englishmen to build them ; but various indi cations tend to confirm the statements as ccrroct. The harbour at Odessa Las been re-opened to merchant vessels, and on the 6th inst. the first two entered. From this port, also, commercial ad vices state pretty much the same as the above ex tract from the Northern Bee. Thus, a letter from that place, dated about the t nd of March, says : " The expectations of peace have induced many merchants to charter vessels for Odessa, on the condition that, in case of the war not coining to an end, the charter-party is to be considered in valid. As there are very small stocks of export gocds on hand, and many months will probably elapse before they can be accumulated in any quau tity, very few ships will at first be able to find cargoes. . . . In the ports of the Sea of Awl' there are, it is true, considerable stocks of corn on hand ; but the allies have destroyed all the ar rangements for landing and• loading, so that the masters of vessels will for a long time have a num ber of unexpected hindrances to struggle with." The fleet being fitted out at Croustadt for the conveyance of the Emperor to England and France turns out to be a flotilla to conduct the Empress- Mother to Stettin, on her way to visit her family here. It is believed that she will return to be pre sent at the coronation solemnities in Moscow, and repair again to Palermo, where she will spend the winter, as she dkl once before. An order has been sent to Berlin for 18,000 ells of gold lace for the liveries of the Imperial servants on occasion of the approaching coronation. A letter from St. Petersburg states that, accord ing to an official return, the prize money to which the officers of the old Black Sea fleet are entitled amounts to about 20,000 roubles. This sum arises from the prizes made at Sinope, and the capture of two small Turkish steamers. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 3.—The Divan had come to a decision to permit the entry of Russian mer chant ships into the Bosphorus. The Journal de Constantinople says that the dis turbances at Heeljaz still continued, and that the Porte had taken measures to put them down. The same journal speaks of other disturbances having broken out in the province of Katkiari. THE MEDITERRANEAN. MARSEILLES, April 11.—More than ordinary pre cautions are being taken not only at Marseilles, but at Toulon, to prevent the introduction of the Crimean fever into France. The British steamer Columbian, Captain Atkins, which sailed from Con stantinople on the 25th of March, having on board 332 French soldiers discharged from the hospitals, arrived here to-day, carrying the yellow flag at the foretopmast. On her passage from Constantinople to Malta, which she reached on the Ist, she lost several of her passengers by sickness. She left at Malta 22 soldiers and 10 of her crew seriously in disposed: Before her arrival at Toulon she lost more soldiers, and having landed 40 others she was placed in quarantine. She sailed from Toulon this morning, in quarantine. On her arrival in the port of the Joliette the Prefect of the Department, driv ing round the harbour, observed the Columbian, and immediately called to the officer of health on duty to know the reason why a ship carrying the yellow flag should be suffered in the port. It was ex plained to him that, having lost a number of sol diers on her passage by sickness, she bad been placed in quarantine at Toulon, and was now pro ceeding to land the remainder of her passengers at the.lazaretto of the Froul. The British steamer City of Washington, towing the clipper Lord Dal housie, arrived at the Frioul this morning from Constantinople, baying landed their military pas sengers at Port Vendres. When fumigated theca vessels will be admitted to pratique. The City of Washington left some of her crew at the hospital in the Frioul, who had been attacked with fever on their passage. The steamer New York, of Glasgow, Captain Craig, which sailed with 333 invalid from Constantinople on the 23d March, arrived here on Saturday last from Toulon, where she was placed in quarantine for three days, having lost one of her passengers on her voyage. She brought to Marseilles 200 t ons o f bomb-shells. The British steamer Rammonia arrived here from Constanti nople on Monday, with 263 military passengers and a quantity of Russian shot and shell. She was ad mitted to pratique after a few hours' detention at the Frioul. The French steam-packet Meandr:?, which arrived here in the midst of a heavy g a l e of wind on Monday, bringing the Constantinople mails of the 31st ult., was, in consequence of sickness on board, sent to the Frioul, to be puri fied. The passengers, with the exception of the Queen's messenger, were not permitted to land until -Tuesday morning. A number of Gen darmerie, who have arrived here from Paris, keep, with the aid of look-out, the local police, a sharp and closely examine all soldiers arriving here from Constantinople. GERMANY. According to a tumour in circulation at Vienna, a circular note, under date of the sth, has just been addressed by the Austrian Government to its diplomatic agents abroad. It sums up the policy followed by Austria i❑ the affairs of the East, and afterwards goes into the matter of the Congress, on which it expresses itself in these terms— " Never was there seen so much disinterestedness on the one hand, and so much abnegation oa the other." Speaking of Turkey, the note expresses confidence that that State, which only so short a time ago was near its ruin, will revive in conse quence of its entering into the European concert. It afterwards enumerates the advantages which re sult from the treaty of Paris, particularly as re gards the free navigation of the Danube, and con cludes by invoking the co-operation of all Govern ments and all well-disposed people to heal the wounds occasioned by the events of late years. Another expedition is about to be undertaken against the Kabyles, and troops are being de spatched for that purpose. The French steamer Henri IV. has sailed for Algiers, heavily laden with troops and military stores. THE WAR'S LEGACY TO SWEDEN. If the Swedish treaty did not say much for the enter• prise of the allies, it said not a little for the spirit of the little kingdom which, within sixty miles of Russia, had the courage to raise so stern and uncompromising a pro tet against the aggressive intentions of its powerful neighbour. To estimate the nature and degree of that courage, it is necessary that the following facts should be taken into consideration :—Sweden, at the utmost, does not muster more than fifty thousand soldiers ; and the in. fluence of Russia has already been felt in her councils ' and throughout the country. During several months every year the protection of the sea is nil, since it is frozen over, and at one point the Gulf of Bothnia is so contracted, that in. March, 1809, a Russian army, under Barclay de Tony, crossed on the ice in three days from 'Vasa to Umea. Now, the Swedish army, though not want ng in bravery or discip'ine, is, as we have shoran, numerically small. Russia, on the contrary, maintains in the northern provinces of Finland the first division of Grenadiers, with the battalion of Chasseurs- Carabineers, amounting to 14,000 men. Add to these six reserve regiments of grenadiers, amounting to 18,000; 22 Finnish battalions of the line, numbering 13,200, and three Finnish battalions of chasseurs, numbering 1,000 each, and weOhave 48,200, which, with 3,000 men of naval crews, constitute a force equal to the whole Swedish army, and distributed throughout the chain of fortresses that line the coast. But in addition to this formidable force, which serves as a garrison for Finland, there are 100,000 militia, besides irregular troops, an army of reserve at St. Peters burg, with considerable forces at Revel and Cuurland. Such a calculation at once puts out of the question any thing like hostilities on the part of Sweden, and renders very problematical the success of defence, were Russia hereafter to take advantage of a more favourable phase of European alliances, and seek to avenge the insult she has received at the hands of Sweden ; for, every assertion of independence i., to that power, insult. Such a view of peace which has just been concluded, is not likely to place the conduct of the Allies in a very honourable light, if they have omitted to secure the best guarantee the case admits of, for the integrity of Sweden. —Advertiser. THE FASTEST ATLANTIC PAS3AGE ON RECORD. The British and North American Royal mail steam• ship Persia, Capt. Charles H. E. Judkins, completed her second trip across the Atlantic and back to Liverpool on Saturday, arriving at that port at half-past eight o'clock that morning, in the short space of 9 days, 12 hours, and 7 minutes, from New York, being the fastest ever made by 5 hours and 10 minutes. rue previous quickest run was made by the Arabia, also under the command of Captain Judkine, in 9 days, 17 hours and 21 minutes. The following is a❑ abstract of the log of the Persia : April 2—Wind SSE. At 3.30 p.m. set on three-quarter speed; 4.50 p.m. slowed to wait for water ; 5.19 p.m. pas sed Sandy Hook.; 5.45 p.m., pilot left, set on full speed. April 3—Wind SSE, moderate breezes and cloudy. At 1.30 p.m. passed the Royal mail steamer Asia. Distance, 230 miles. April 4—Wind S, fresh breezes, with short sea. Dis tance, g)1 April s—Wind S, strong breezes and cloudy. Distance, 312 miles. April 6—Wind N, strong breezos and cloudy. Distance, 331 miles. April 7 Wind E, strong breezes and cloudy. Distanoe, 292 miles. April B—Wind SW; strong breezes and clear. Distance, 317 miles. April 9 Wind W, light breezes with heavy swell. Distance 319 miles. April 10—Wind. W, strong breezes and clear. Distance, 310 milts. April 11—Wind SW., strong breozas and clear. 1 p.m., passed Cape Clear; 3.30 p.m., Old Head of Kinsale ; 10 p.m., at Tuskar. Distance 335 miles. April 12--Wind SW., 3.24 a.m., passed Holyhead. Reached Liverpool at 8.37 a.m. The run from Cape Clear to the Bell buoy was made is 18 hours, the fastest yet accomplished. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, April 15.—Wind this day at noon, N.E. ; fine, and blowing a gale. PLYMOUTH, April 14 . — Sailed—Hooghley, for Ade laide, S.A.; Protector (s.), Rio Janeiro; Princess Royal, Canton, Belmons, and Britannia, Quebec. FALMOUTH, April 14.—Wind N.E., fresh.—Arrived— Regard, from Jaffa ; Alf, for Salonica. Sailed—Ocean, Newfoundland ; Victory, Gibraltar ; Foam, Lisbon ; Te lernach, Calcutta ; Speedwell, Rio Janeiro ; Thatnet, Bar ba.does ; Neptune, New York; Eagle and Rose, Qualms; George, Civita VecAtia ; Doctor Winterbottom, Corunna ; J. L. Dinunock, Elsinore. JERSEY, April 13.—Wind S.S.E.—Sailed—Diton, for Canada. HOLYHEAD, Aprill4.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Volante, from Liverpool, for Civita Vecchia, with loss of bulwarks, &c., having been in collision ; Martha, Ardrossan, for Newcastla, leaky. CLYDE, April 14. Arrived—lsabell, from Cuba. Sailed—Kate, for Demerara.. PILL, April 14.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Neptune, for Australia; Watkins, Africa ; Louise, Barbadoes ; Ocean Queen, Java, and Columbine, Quebec; Catherine, Sir Edmund Lyons, and Vesta, Crimea. MILFORD, A prill4.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Hope, from Swansea, for Barcelona. SHIELi)s, April 14.—Wind I .E.—Sailed—Caroline, for Qneboc ; Kate, Gibraltar. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning. Arrived—Georges, from Cherbourg; Ally, Thomas and Margaret, and Sir R. Peel, Sunderland ; Cicely, Hartle. Pool ; Valiant, Constantia, Henry, Clara, Cato, Wear, and Bessie, Shields; Courier (s.), Victory, and Leader, Jersey ; Athlote, Liverpool. Sailed—Georges, for Cherbourg; Alliance, (s.), Havre; Exprss (s.), Jersey; Florida, Newport; Bosphorus (a.), London; Britannia, Portsmouth. LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning. Wind E.N.E. Arrived—Henry Curwen, from Rio Grande. Sailed—Egyptian, for Quebac ; Granville, Narva ; Jane Pringle, Gibralt a r ; Caineleon, Cape B re t on ; Alpha, Trieste; Margaret Deane, Rio Janeiro. DUBLIN', April 14. Wind E. A rrived—Dolph in, fromWhampoa; f, Barbadoes; Marseilles ; Lusitania, Villa Nova; Charlotte, Lisbon. Sailed—Andel, for Bllaklava. QUEENSTOWN, April 13. Wind S. E. Arrived—Dayspring, from Callao. Sailed—Emily, for Antwerp. WATERFORD, April 13. Wind S.W. Arrived—Thomas, for Syra. (BY SUBMARINE AIM BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 9.60 a.m. Wind N.N.E. ; tide, high water;; cloudy, an d s t rong. Arrived, 14th—Wakefield, from Antwerp ; Catinka, Thisted ; Othello, Christiania. Arrived,l6th —Victoria, ft orn Holmstadt ;Irene, Memel; Hendrika Margaretha, ICongelf ; Corn e li a , Stromstadt ; Krona Prins Fredrik, Drobao ; Blessing, Brussels ; Friend ship, Brussels. Sailed—Eliza, Bain, for Jamaica. DEAL - Wind N.E. ; gale, with heavy rain. Tuesday, 9.40 a.m. Passed—H.M.S. Impers.tice, from the Baltic, for Ports mouth ; Royal Sovereign, London, Port Philip ; Princess Royal, Gri ms by, H a yti ; Op or t o , Newcastle, Oporto. The Blanchard, American ship, from Charleston to Bre. men, on shore at Kingsdown, with wizen masts gone. TURKISH BONDS.—Efforts have been making for some time past to obtain a system of registration for the Guaranteed Turkish Bends, so that holders desirous of placing them in their names or in the names of third parties as trustees might possess the opportunity of doing so. The Government were at first applied to, but their answer was that it rested with Turkey; and the Ottoman Minister on Saturday assured a deputa tion he would give his best attention to the subject, and consult with the Bank of England. It is contended, however, that the desired object could be at once attained at a saving of much unnecessary trouble and delay by the Bank consenting to receive the bonds in deposit, and to collect the dividends periodically for the persons in whose names they might be held. For customers the service should be performed gratuitously, since it is one that any ordinary hank would undertake, while in the case of other persons a small commission might be charged. FATAL ACCIDENT AT WlNDSOR.—Yesterday evening five young men, who had been rowing in a boat from Surley-had, came across the Cobbler, just below Wind sor-bridge, when the boat capsized, and the crew were carried into the middle of the Thames by a rapid current. Two :were, with much difficulty, rescued by the cou rageous and praiseworthy exertions of one of the Eton watsrmen, who nearly lost his life in the attempt ; two others, being expert swimmers, got ashore, but the fifth, a fine young fellow of 18, from Slough of the name of Lester, was carried down the stream, and unfortu nately drowned. Those who were rescued were taken to the Ship Inn, in a very exhausted state. 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