The Sun. — London, England, 1861-03-20 00:00:00

110 YA L ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN tinder the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. Sole Lessees. THURSDAY EVENING, for the Benefit of &Liss Louisa Pyne, THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT. Messrs. Ir. core, A. St. Albyn, and Horncastle ; Miss Thirlwall and Miss Louisa Pyne. To conclude with the Third Act of THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Mr. W. Harrison, Miss L. Pyne, Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at 8. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lome, Mr. J. B. Backstone. THIS EVENING, the performances will oommense with A. DUKE IN DIFFICULTIES. Mrs. Stirling, Miss F. Raydon, Mrs. Wilkins, Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, Art. After which, TURNING THE FABLES. And THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Laclercqs. Commence at 7. itOYA.I, PRINCESS'S THEATRE. — Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. TAB EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. After wide, HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Messrs, Graham, Meadows, ; Misses Heath, Elsworthy, &O. DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. - 1 • 11, Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster. THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J. L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E. Thorne. After which, THE COLL EEN BAWN. D. Boneicault, D. Fisher, BiElington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billing - ton, and slrs. Chatte "Hey. To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled BLUE Bk:ARD FROM A NEW POINT OF HUE. Messrs. J. !L. Toole, P. Bedford. C. J. Smith ; Hiss Woolgar, H. Kelly, 11,aidlaw, and E. Thorne. Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 2a. • Family Boxes, XI. Orc h e stra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony , ; Front Circle Stalls, 3s Fit Stalls, 25.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatr e , I s ; 6 . 1. Acting Manager—Kr. Wm. Smith; 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 charactise4 the most popular works of his great 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. Jonghmans. The Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A. E. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and the Brothers Conrad. _ John Martin's Three celebrated Pictures will remain on view a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the Establishment. HIGYI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tau DAY.—Morning, 7h. 9m.—Afternoon, 7h. 38m. To-monnow.-horning, Bh. 17m.—Afternoon, 9h. 6m. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 2041861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADS. 48—highest since noon yesterday. 36—lowest this morning and &ming the night. 46 —this day at noon, BAnomrrint-29.65. WIND—South-Westerly —fresh ; with dull relay weather. Rather fine in the morning. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY ',EVENING, MARL n 20, _lB6l. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1861. The Lords have got hold now of one argument which is to serve for all occasions when measures having the slightest bearing on Religions Liberty, or Religious Equality, are brought before them. It is nothing more nor less than this,—" Dissenters really aim at upsetting the Established Church." The merits of the measure are quite an unimportant consideration. It might be a clear advantage to the Church, a diminution of friction, a removal of causes of a liberation from fetters—that is all nothing to the purpose. If Dissenters are among the prominent persons who support the measure, it must be thrown out. To pass it would be to acknowledge that Dissenters have power, to relieve them from something they considera badge of infecriority,would tempt them on to demand equality of rank, privileges, and perhaps at last even of pay. Dissenters must be taught by every method that they are but Dissenters—that the lords of England represent the supremacy of the Church, and that Dissenters must patiently bear the pre scribed mark of inferiority, just as the Jews of Vensce were once required to wear a yellow head dress. List night Lord CHELMSFORD, avowedly from reasons of this kind, which we have not caricatured, moved the rejection of the Offices Qualification Bill —a bill which has twice passed the Commons with hardly anything to be called opposition. The object is simply the repeal of a declaration to be made by per Fons taking municipal office and certain high offices in the State, that they will do nothing in %virtue of their office to injure the Church of England. It was explicitly designed by Sir R. PEEL as a mark, as he expressed it, of the predominancy of the Church of England. It was worLderful that a statesman of his strong sense should not perceive the utter futility of such a declaration. Any Dissenter, who intended as May.or to preside at a meeting against Church rates, or for the severance of the Church from the State itself, could easily allege that he regarded both, measures as a decided advantage to the Church of England. We imagine there are a great many Churchmen just now who would exceedingly like, saving of course all the revenues, to be released from the control of Premiers, and Parliament, and Ecclesiastical law in its present form. Church. rates, the Vicar of Frome, and other clergy men too, have shown to be a positive injury to the Church, and thus on two great points much discussed at the present day, a Dissenting Mayor might actually, with clergymen as his supporters, in virtue of his office, do all he could to promote what Lord CHELMS FORD would hold to be great injuries to the Church of England, if not its destruction. The Dissenter would say that he did it all quite consistently with his declaration. To Churchmen, of course, like Lord CHELMS FORD and Lord DERBY, both of whom said they had made the declaration, it is entirely superfluous. It is equally so to men who are indifferent to all religion, and to those who pay no attention to formalities of such a kind. The only case in which it could take effect would be in that of a very scrupulous Dissenter, who was also a warm anti-State Churchman. Such partisans of a cause are, however, rarely amongst the most scrupulous of men, they would simply laugh at the declaration, interpret it to their mind—and as for over -4410113 men, not partisans—they, of course, would not be the men to damage anything, except by inaction, while their consciences were deciding cases of 'ilTry which never trouble practical men. But, seriously, does the House of Lords really intend to carry out this foolish policy of point ing to the opinions the ad voca t es o f a m easure, instead of (3 adoptingt cou rse of considering h measure itself, and dealing with it according t its real cha racter ? 11Th at on earth are th eews and intentions of persons to legislator ',n , except they proceed to acts ? Are we really abo u t to legislate like inquisitors, to ascertain the faith of m en , not to look to their works, and thus to punish mere opi n i on. The opinion against State Churches is as reasonabl e as the opinion for them. We know nothing of either in legislation. Let the proposal come to abolish the State Church, and it could then be dealt with. But surely if any class of persons come forward and say this or that appendage of a State Church, or of any of our institutions, is a grievance to us, our lawmakers are entitled to look at the pro posal only, not at the creed of the parties, The foolish argument we condemn has come afresh into use since the Duke of MARLBOROUGH'S com mittee ; it is, however, but an old dodge mach in vogue when the Catholic Emaneipation end Municipal Reform Bills were passing. On Friday—it will be perceived from Sir GEORGE LEWIS'S intimation in the Commons last evening—the First Lord of the Treasury will move that the House on its rising shall adjourn over the Easter holidays. The funeral of her late Royal Highness the Duchess of KENT having been offi cially announced to take place on Monday next, the 25th instant, has caused the customary date for the commencement of the annual recess at Easter to be thus by three or four days anticipated. It is but a slight additional evidence of the respect ful sympathy of Parliament in the heavy grief of the SOVEREIGN. And—considering the mere cir cumstance of the Funeral being fixed for Monday —it was a supplementary mark of that respectful sympathy on the part of the Legislature quite inevitable under the circumstances. After Friday, the 22d instant, consequently, the Parliament will stand adjourned, as a matter of course, until the close of the Easter ♦acation. Upwards of a fortnight, in fact, no less than seventeen clear days, will intervene this time, there fore, between the adjournment and the reassembling, at Eastertide, of the Imperial Legislature. Upon the Bth proximo, but not until then, after the rising of the Houses on Friday, the Lords and Commons will once more have assembled—this time perforce in genuine earnest—for the despatch of urgent public business. Thenceforth—after the Bth of April— the session will have to run out in real work, and vigorous debate, and decisive divisions, until the announcement of the approach of autumn by that prefatory battue of the innocents, by practice at which members seem annually to get their hands well in for the grouse shooting. Once the Commons shall have assembled after the lapse of the Easter holidays, we shall at length know all about what none of us now have any inkling of whatever—namely, the Budget now preparing for the nation in the recesses of the judgment of that profound financier and rhe torician her MAJESTY'S Chancellor of the Exche quer. As yet we can only give him our good wishes for up to this moment we can surely see nothing more plainly than the formidable array of his difficulties. Whether he will adventure upon any revival of his scheme of last year to do away with the paper duties in a year of deficit; whether he will determine upon grasping boldly what last session he was so very evi dently hankering after, namely, a shilling instead of tenpenny income tax; whether, having in 1860 facilitated the wine-bibbers' acquisition of claret, he will as benignantly facilitate the poor washer woman's acquisition of that chief of all comforts in life to her, her consolatory " dish of tea" ; or what ever else in this matter of the Budget may be among the good or evil intentions of Mr. GLADSTONE—We shall be left now to imagine for ourselves as we list until the Easter holidays shall have duly termi nated. Then, towards the close of the first fortnight of April, we shall have, but not until then, a prospect of hearing Mr. GLADSTONE'S new finan cial statement. Then, but not until then, will come the tng of war between those opposing Greeks, her MAJESTY'S Government and her MAJESTY'S Oppo 'sition. Parties being just now so equally balanced that everything will really depend upon the course pursued by the Intermediates, by such Interme diates, let us say, as the cluster of Irish members or as the vigorous phalanx of the Liberal indepen dents. Both of thaw intermediate sections, it is certain, have been greatly irritated by the present holders of office—the former, viz., that of the Irish members, by the determined cha racter of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S foreign policy symbolised in the significant watch-word, of " non intervention"—the latter, viz., that of the Liberal Independents, by the shameless abandonment of Parliamentary Reform by the very Coalition raised to power for its more successful and comprehensive achievement. Revenge, no doubt, may be so ex ceedingly sweet to either or to both of these im portant sections of what we have, for want of any better term, designated as the Intermediates, that it may just possibly tempt them into some hostile demonstration. Before that temptation, however, can have arrived, .before the conflict of the present session shall really have commenced between the two great competing parties in the House—it will be well for the national interests, both at home and abroad, if every man amongst those responsible Intermediates avails himself of the calm of the coming Easter Holidays for the deliberate and dispassionate con sideration, in the light of his own conscience, and in the remembrance of his own constituents—the consideration of what is really the course pointed out to him, not by the mere impulses of revenge, but by the loftier, and nobler, and purer dictates of high principle, and of inflexible consistency. Although Mr. DUNLOP'S motion—one very im portant, and even formidable, to our administrators in its general character and tendency—failed last evening, at the close of a singularly agitated and profoundly interesting discussion, the object Mr. DUNLOP had in view when bringing it before Par liament was virtually gained, by the mere fact of the very debate at the close of which the original motion was negatived. Twenty two long years have now elapsed since the period of those Ministerial Doings into which Mr. DUNLOP would now fain have had the Legislature institute a searching though tardy investigation. The hon. gentleman, in f ac t, moving for th e appoint ment of a Select Committee of In quiry —another of these terrible Argus-eyed Committees of which we have already this year gained such an abundance ! A Select Committee deputed by the House to search into the cause and nature of those notorious and extraordinary discrepancies which are observable in the Correspondence relating to Affghanistan, presented to Parliament in 1839, and the same identical Correspondence (only this time enlarged and extended) presented to Parlia ment in 1858, that is, nineteen years afterwards. The discrepancies brought to light upon a com parison of these two widely-contrasting reports of the self same Correspondence—the one report tardily entire, the other suspiciously abbreviated, or, as Mr. DISRAELI hesitated not to designate that shameless labour of elimination, absolutely, so to speak, " castrated "—the astounding discrepancies, we say, brought to light upon those two versions of the self same Correspondence are such, beyond one instant's doubt, as to justify all those words of earnest reprehension with which Mr. DUNLOP and his supporters backed up last night's motion for this Select Committee of Inquiry. In repelling this motion, it will be observed that Lord PALMERSTON insisted that the passages omitted in the version of 1839 were re a ll y immaterial in themselves. If so, howeve r w h y, i n the name o f common se nse , Were they ever omitted at all ? The insincerity of this attempt at extenuation, however, was ren dered apparent upon the instant by the flagrant manner in which almost in the same breath the noble lord evaded (as Mr. BRIGHT pointed out immediately afterwards), distinctly evaded the question brought last evening under the consideration of Parliament. It was not the policy of the war, as the member for Birmingham put it quite plainly to the House—it was not (as the Premier tried to lead the House to suppose) the policy of the war in Affghanistan that was agitated anew by this motion ; it was simply a question as to who, in 1839, had laid before the House despatches—hew does Mr. BRIGHT phrase it P—garbled, false, forged, mutilated ! Again, it was hardly fair for the' Premier to depre cate this motion as one needlessly raking up events that occurred more than a score of years since ! For—upon the very face of it —the motion had reference not so much to what took place in 1839, as to what the country had, as recently as 1858, quite incidentally disco vered had then taken place, nineteen years previ ously. In the generality of instances, of course, it is well enough to let byegones be byegones. But here, as everywhere else, the rule has happily to be proved by the exception. And it has been so proved, we cannot but rejoice to think, in the very instance brought last night under the consideration of the popular branch of the Legislature. For if Mr. DUNLOP found his motion (as he did) nega tived upon a division, he at any rate contrived with admirable effect to provoke a discussion in itself amounting to the most complete exposure of the wrong of which he was complaining. Twenty two years have sped by since I that grievous wrong was done, and yet at the end of those twenty-two years the inevitable and inexorable brand of NEMESIS has flashed exposure upon the falsifiers of that Correspondence in regard to the long past war in Affghanistan. Those near and dear neighbours, Austria and Russia, are now very much in the same predica ment. Each of them is making great political reforms in its own proper domains, each of them has an outlying kingdom claiming its old rights, and claiming them through legal, and what we might almost eall passive, action ; and as if to make the similarity more com plete, each of them feels compelled to resume the old title of " King" of the revived nationality. The CZAR has to become King of Poland, just as the Sovereign of Vienna has to seek again the title of King of Hungary. Each kingdom, too, has outlying portions which belong to its historic national existence, and desire to be re-united with it. Sclavonia, Croatia, and Transylvania seek to regain their old connection with Hungary ; and the portions of Poland seized by Prussia and Austria respectively, would prefer to combine again with the much larger portion of their nation over which the CZAR at present rules despotically. It shows to those who can look back on the course of events since 1815, or even 1830, a wonderful change in the policy of these despots. Apparently they are as absolute masters as ever of the bodies and souls of their people, and vast armies stand ready to obey their orders ; but the times are altered indeed. Instead of bloody risings, easily put down by regular soldiers, quiet legal opposition to illegal despotism is the chosen weapon, and it proves to be the most effectual of all. There was much of it in Italy, though :there the military genius of the greatest man of his day had its full share in the vast revolution. The bloodshed has, however, been small indeed even in Italy—it was chiefly the right of the people maintained by them selves with singular self-command and order, that forced France and Europe to acquiesce in what they did. In Hungary, the inhabitants have peacefully placed aa EMPEROR in the Last difficulty millions of people say, as one man—give us our legal, our historical rights. The EMPEROR has just replied that he wishes to give Hungary all her national rights, but will tolerate no infringement on those of the Crown. Now the Hungarians do not aim at the latter. The rights of the Crown and of the people are defined by the same Prag matic Sanction to which he is compelled to appeal to sustain his claim to be King of Hungary. He cannot, therefore, put on the Hungarian crown without being pledged to give Hungary a Palatine, a separate Ministry and Administration, a Diet which votes the taxes and the military levies, and without withdrawing every German soldier from the country. He would almost as soon part with his heart's-blood as consent to all this, yet how he will evade it remains to be seen. If the people will neither rise and fight and give occasion for slaughtering by his troops, nor yet pay taxes, nor conform to absolute decrees—what can he do ? The Hun garians can afford to wait, while his ruin is ad vancing in Italy, and while his exchequer is being drained of its last florin ; but he cannot wait. It would seem as if he must become a constitutional King of the old separate kingdom of Hungary, and then away, all but, in name, goes the Austrian Empire of METTERNICH, PALMERSTON, and RUSSELL. And can it be that the omnipotent CZAR is entering into the same difficulty in Poland ? He seems, however, to be aware of the difficulty of his position, and the fate of the Italian petty des pots, and the perplexity of the young HAPSBURG are not quite thrown away upon him. His letter to the Poles is indeed a rather haughty one. He tells them he might treat their petition as null, but he graciously ascribes it to " impulse," and only warns them by solemn threats of the consequences, not to make distur bances and then found petitions on them. He declares himself, however, a paternal reformer, and his deeds are conciliatory. :He will be known among the Poles henceforth as King of POLAND—he grants them the right of choosing their own municipal officers—he concedes reform of education, that is chiefly, we presume, re-introducing the Polish language into schools— Count ZAMOYSKI, the chief resident Polish noble, is placed at the head of the civil administration, and thus Poland ceases to be, in form, a Russian pro vince, whose very language was doomed to oblitera tion. Ihis first step of recognising nationality is, after all, a very great one; if patiently and prudently used, it will lead to all the rest; and even this generation, which witnessed what it supposed to be the stamping out of Polish life for ever by that brutal savage NICHOLAS, may yet see that life A re u v s i t v r e i , a th rei e o se in p separated body ted of the portions n seized atio b n y , Prussia an d possibly and may even see Poland an independent kingdom. c HER LATE ROTAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF KEXT.—We are authorised to state that the funeral of her late Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent will take place at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, on Monday, the 25th inst. The funeral will be conducted with the strictest privacy, and no tickets of admission to the chapel will be issued. It is understood that the Court mourning for he r late Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent will be for six weeks. A company has been proposed at Constantinople under the name of the " Cotton Bank of Anatolia," for de veloping the cotton cultivation in Asia Minor. It is said to be supported by the leading merchants of Smyrna, and to have received the patronage of the British Ambassador, Sir H. L. Bulwer, aad the co-operation of the grand Vizier. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. A very welcome harbinger of "coming summer" lies before us in the shape of the programme for the Italian Opera season for 1861, just issued by Mr. Gye, containing a degree of promise and novelty which is pleasant to anticipate. In looking through the prospectus of engagements, we may miss an artiste or two who have become such familiar favourites with musical spirits, that we feel a touch of disappointment at being obliged to go through an Italian Opera season without them ; neverthe less, there is so much offered that we must needs be grateful to Mr. Gye for his indefatigable efforts to satisfy the public and to do credit to his proprietor ship. The leading sopranos will comprise —Madame Ortolani-Tiberini, from Milan ; Madlle. Rosa Csil lag, Madame Miolan-Carvalho, Madame Didiee, Madame Penco, Madlle. Corbari, Madame Ruders dorff, Madame Leva, and Madame Tagliafico. The tenors are—Signor Tamberlik, Monsieur Jourdan (his first appearance in England), Signor Lucchesi, Signor Rossi, Signor Neri-Baraldi, and Signor Tiberini (his first appearance in England). The baritones consist of—Signor Ronconi, Signor Tag liafico, Signor Polonini, Signor Patriossi, and Signor Graziani. The basses of—M. Zelger, and, probably, Herr Formes. Mr. Costa, that distinguished and unrivalled " director and conductor of the music," retains his post ; indeed, he is so eminently and essentially incorporated with the successes of the Italian Opera, that the orchestra without him would be something like the constellation of the Ursa Major deprived of its chief pointer-star. The chorographic art will be chiefly illustrated by Madlle. Zina Richard and Madlle. Salvioni, a fresh slanseuse from Italy ; the former has already won considerable laurels in the ballet department, but Madlle. Salvioni is, we believe, quite new to our boards. We may expect the same amount of grand scenic effect that we have been accustomed to at this theatre, seeing that the names of Mr. William Beverley, Mr. Telbin, and Mr. Grieve are the pre siding rulers of the pictorial arrangements ; while a great amount of completeness in their various duties may be expected from chorus master, leader of the military band, director of the ballet music, ballet master, and "poet," when filled respectively by Messrs. Smythson, Godfrey, Nedaud, Desplaces, and Maggioni. Mr. A. Harris is still to be stage manager, and he has already proved himself thoroughly up to his business in every way. The opening night will be on the 2d of April, when Meyerbeer's great work, " Le Prophete," will be produced, with Mdlle. Rosa Csillag as Fides, and Tamberlik as Jean of Leyden. This opera was produced last season, but had only six representa tions, however, such was the enthusiasm and applause attending them that we imagine it will be received with great gusto as the inaugurative opera of the coming season. Rossini's enchanting master piece, " Guglielmo Tell," will be given during the second week, sustained by such a host of co-opera tive talent that must render it a great and attractive feature. Seven years have elapsed since its last representation, therefore it will constitute a novel allurement to a large portion of the musical public. The " cast" has seldom been equalled ; the characters being thus distributed, Iliatilde, Madame Miolin-Carvalho ; Gemmi, Madame Didiee ; Gesler, Signor Tagliafico ; Un Pesca tore, Signor Neri-Baraldi ; Guglielmo Tell, Mons. Faure ; Arnold°, Signor Tamberlik ; and Gualtiero (most probably), Herr Formes, with considerable addition to the chorus. Verdi's new opera, "Il Ballo in Maschera," which has created some sensation in Italy during the last year, is to be given, supported by a combination of power which will conduce to afford it every possible ad vantage. Bellini's "Il Pirata" will introduce Signor Tiberini as the principal tenor, thereby fully testing his standard of singing. " Don Gio vanni" will be performed according to the original text, and Gluck's classical work, " Orfeo a Euri dice" is promised ; which will be a great treat to musical amateurs. We may sum up our notice by saying, that from the rich character of the pro gramme, and the knowledge that Mr. Gye in variably keeps his word when he can, we can safely predict one of the most gratifying and suc cessful seasons that the Italian opera or its audiences have yet experienced. ADMIRALTY WARNING SIGNALS.—The subjoined warnings of danger were received yesterday at the Under writers' Rooms in Liverpool from Admiral Fitzroy, and duly posted .—At 12 at noon, the message was, " A gale, probably from N.W. to N.E." At 2 p.m. the message was, "A dangerous wind expected; its probable first direction from N. of W. or E." A special meeting of the South Eastern Railway Company is called for the 4th of April, to sanction a pro posed agreement with the Charing-cross Railway Com pany for the working of that line by the South Eastern, and to consider two bills now pending in Parliament. One of these is to enable the South Eastern to raise a further sum of money, and to increase their subscription to the Charing-cross Railway Company," whilst the second authorises the Charing-cross Company " to make a line of railway from their authorised line into the City of Lon don, with an additional line in Southwark, and to raise further moneys," &c. The impression gains ground that the Bank directors will on Thursday reduce the rate of discount to 7 per cent. It has been remarked that, seeing the Court have occasionally raised the rate on other days besides a Thurs day, they should, now there is the prospect of cheaper money, advise an alteration without further delay. Pro bably they would have done so before this but for the threat ening aspect of affairs in America. The next West India steamer is expected to bring some rather considerable parcels of gold from Cali fornia. The Austrian merchant shipping from 1853 to 1860 increased by 327 vessels of 133,696 tons, and in that space of time it lost 225 by wrecks. Under the new arrangements proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer with regard to Exchequer bills, the improvement will be effected of causing them to bear interest at so much per annum instead of per diem, by which they will be assimilated to all other forms of nego tiable securities. Thus, instead of 2d. per day, which yields £3 Os. 10d. per annum, or 11d., which yields £2 ss. 7,0., the rates adopted in future cases will be 2i or 3 per cent., or any otter even sum that may be found necessary. THE BRITISH ARAM—According to a Parlia mentary return issued last week the number of effectives on the British establishment, not including officers, on the Ist of February last, was 82,410 at home, and 64,907 in the colonies. Of the Indian establishment, the numbers were 67,909 in India, and 13,429 in depots at home. The number of embodied militia was 5,068. The average cost per man of the British establishment, in 1859-60, was £54 4s. 6d. THE NEW STREET CONNECTING SOUTHWARK AND WESTMINSTER.—Yesterday and the preceding day the materials of a largo number of houses, hop warehouses, and other buildings in Counter-street, Coffin's-yard, Red Cross-street, Southwark, were sold by Messrs. Pullen, Everefield, and Horne, auctioneers to the Metropolitan Board of Works, and notices of removal were given to the occupiers of premises in Castle-street, in the Southwark bridge-road, the sites of which are required for the forma tion h the new street, the works of which are making rapid progress in several points of the line. In the afternoon workmen were engaged in piling down the buildings, the materials of which were sold. The sites will be cleared immediately, and an opening, extending from the High street to the Southwark-bridge-road, completed. Mr. C. H. SPURGEON's TABERNACLE.—The pre iasinary meeting for the opening of this immense place for Divine service was held yesterday in the school-room and lecture-hall, When a grand fancy bazaar was hold, and at tended by upwards of 2,000 persons. The halls and rooms, large as they are, were fully occupied with stalls. The whole of the flooring was fitted up with seats made by Mr. Greenfield, of Lambeth-terrace, and were greatly admired for their elegant appearance and cheapness. In the bazaar there were a peacock and peahen, two beautiful birds, the upset price being marked at £4 4s. Upon the cage in which they were confined were some verses, which commenced thus : " The birds you now see so youthful and gay, Are sent by their owners the truth to convey ; They feel much indepted for helps on the r oa d, To Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the servant of God. To help a good cause they tender their aid : Right glad will they be when the debt is all paid. Then strive altogether, and lot the world see, The Great Metropolitan Chapel is free." Theladies at the various stalls did all they could to command ready sales, and several hundred purchases were made ; but the centre of attraction seemed to be a large stall presided over by Mrs. Spurgeon, who had perhaps the most miscel laneous assortment of goods in the bazaar; for she not only S sold baby. li nen , purses, p i ctures, and other fancy goods, but also d ea l t i n daggers —one taken at Delhi, and another (if we co rrect l y remember the fair lady ' s statement) at Sebastopol. M rs . Spurgeon n ati tried t , h a at / t a h G ey eo w rg ou e i ß d o b b e i tr t 3r o dispose of these artipeurlssg, , useful to those fond of curiosities ; but had not found a purchaser for them up to nine o'clock last night. The bazaar is to be kept open until Saturday next. . GENERAL LICENSING MEETlNG.—Yesterday the magistrates decided upon granting a spirit license to Nat Langham, of the Cambrian Stores, Castle-streets Leicester square, on the condition that no prize fighting or other nuisance should be permitted in the house. The app Ilea tion of Ben Caunt for a license for his house, the Coach and Horses, St. Martin's-lane, was refused. Last year the magistrates refused to renew both licenses on account of the unsatisfactory way in which both houses were con ducted. RAILWAYS in AUSTRlA.—Official statistics just issued supply interesting details with regard to the earn ings of Austrian railways in the course of 1860. The State lines in Venetia and the Tyrol, altogether 738 miles in length, carried last year 4,378,663 passengers, and earned £1,661,492; the lines conceded to French proprietors, ex tending over 799 miles, carried 2,020,200 passengers, and earned £1,965,117 ; the Ferdinand, Theiss, Gallicia, Par dubitz and Reichenberg, Aussig and Toplitz, and Graz and Kossac lines, carried, over 1,054 miles, 2,865,360 passen gers, and earned altogether £2,178,588; making a total of 9,264,233 passengers carried over 2,594 miles, and a nomi nal total receipt of £5,806,637. As, however, the receipts of Austrian railways are derived from notes of which the value is variable, a deduction of 30 per cent. must bo made to arrive at the mean actual receipts, reducing the amount to £4,064,003, or about £1,567 per mile. This amount is 9.6 per cent. below the earnings on the Prussian lines no ticed in the Times a fortnight since. The totals given above do not comprise the Western line, the line from Mohacz to Funfkirchen, from Brunn to Rositz, and from Wolfsegg to Traunthal (the last has only a coal traffic). The receipts of these lines, when ascertained will, of course, affect the mileage total given above. On the Southern lines the goods traffic amounted to 63 . 1 per cent. of the whole receipts; on the Lombardian lines it amounted to only 33 per cent.; on the lines ceded to French proprietors it reached 75 per cent. ; and taking the whole of the lines of which particu lars have been given, the mean goods traffic was 701 per cent., or 9.7 per cent. in excess of that carried on the Prus sian lines. RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER THE RHINE.—The great railway bridge over the Rhine at Kehl being nearly com pleted, experiments to test its strength were made on it a few days back. First of all, the two turning parts of the bridge were manceuvred and found to work almirably. That of the French side, which weighs not less than 350 tons, was moved with the greatest facility by eight men, then by four, and then only by two. Afterwards a train, consisting of five locomotives and their tenders, the locomo tives alone weighing 175 tons, and the whole forming a weight of nearly 31 tons per meter, passed over the line and then remained stationary on the first part of the bridge on the French side ; next, a locomotive and 15 waggons filled with stones, weighing about 14 tons per meter, was driven over, and was subsequently stationed for a time on the middle of the bridge; in the third place, the two trains passed over side by side, and were made to stand ondifferent fixed parts of the structure ; next, two other trains, each consisting of five locomotives, were also driven over the bridge side by side, and were made to remain together some time on the turning bridges and on other portions of the structure ; lastly, these two trains crossed each other at full speed. During the experiments the different parts of the bridge scarcely yielded, proving the correctness of the engineer's calculations and the great care with which the bridge has been constructed. The South-Eastern Railway Company have an nounced a fresh extension of their continental parcels sys tem, with the view of rendering the short sea route available in a still greater degree for the largely increasing parcels and goods traffic under the operation of the recent French Treaty. Through rates with all parts of France have for the first time been organised via Boulogne for parcels up to 2001 b weight. This system is in direct connexion with the South-Eastern and the French railway companies, who will forward the parcels by their quickest express routes, and secure to the public the latest hour for the despatch as well as the earliest delivery of parcels. As a large proportion of the articles imported from France are subject to the fluctua tions of fashion, and are otherwise of a nature not suitable for being kept largely in stock, an important accommoda tion to the trade will be afforded by this cheap, rapid, and certain mode of transit. The parcels system of the South- Eastern Railway now comprises through rates from the chief towns in the United Kingdom to the principal places in France, Belgium, Germany, Holland, &c., by all trains in connexion with the mail boats between Dover and Calais and Dover and Ostend, as well as by the express tidal ser vice via Boulogne. The new tariff just issued by the com pany contains through rates to about 500 different places on the Continent, and approximate rates can be given to any European destination. THE NEW AMERICAN TARIFF.—The American tariff is a topic much discussed among commercial men at Newcastle. No complete copy of it, as amended by the Senate, has come to hand, but the purport is tolerably well understood. The chymical trade, the manufacture of alkali, in especial, will suffer the most on the Tyne. A very large quantity of alkali made on the Tyne has been exported to the United States. It has been sent by steamer to London, and thence transhipped on board regular traders for New York. The duty to be levied on chymicals under the new tariff will be equal to the price of the articles here, and will be very near, if not absolutely, prohibitory. The duty on coals heretofore has been an ad valorem one of about 25 per cent., or about Is. fid. per tre-i (171 - ^ 1 in future to be a dollar per ton, which will raise the price anu Wear gas coal to about lls. per ton clear of freight. This is about prohibitory. As all goods shipped before April 15 will be charged at the old rates the freight market for New York is showing more activity than at any time since the misunderstanding between the North and South ; but after that date it is feared that it will entirely collapse. As the larger portion of the coals and goods sent from this part of the country went out in American bottoms the shipowners of New York and the Northern States will bo severe losers. It seems that the coal shippers of Liver pool will not suffer in any degree by the now tariff. The cannel coal of Lancashire, the price of which in the Mersey is from 10s. to 12s. per ton, has hitherto, under the old tariff, cost 13s. to 15s. per ton, free of freight, and it will not be any higher under the new tariff, as the specific duty of a dollar will about balance the charge of 25 per cent. Trade with other parts of the globe continues to improv with the spring. The violent gale that has been blowing from the W.N.W. since last night has done no harm here. THE YELVERTON FAMILY.—Lady Clanrnorris has addressed the following letter to the editor of the Cornish Telegraph :—" Sir,—You have given full prominence to this case, and you will, no doubt, allow me space to correct some errors in your last week's paper. You there say (quoting the Cork Southern Reporter) that the Hon Major Yelverton's great grandfather kept a butcher's stall in the town of Newcastle, County Limerick, and that his grand father married his cook. A reference to the peerage will show both of these statements to be erroneous. The Yel vortons have occupied a good position in society from a very distant period. In James 1., Sir Henry Yelverton was Attorney-General, and the Earls of Sussex (represented by the late Marchioness of Hastings) are Yelvertons. Major Yelverton's great great grandfather was Frank Yel verton, Esq., of Blackwater, Cork, who married Miss Barry, of Lord Barrymore's family. His son Barry, who was Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, Ireland, and Viscount Avonmore (my father) married Miss Nugent, of the Westmeath family. His son, the second viscount, married Miss Reed, daughter of a naval officer of East Cam, in England, and whose sister, the widow of Sir Thomas Bond, Bart., still survives. His son, the third viscount (Major Yelverton's father), married Miss O'Keefe, whose father was registrat: of the Court of Chancery. The O'Keefes are a well-known and respected family in Cork. Mr. O'Keefe's wife was a Miss Yelverton, of Belle Isle, and his mother also a Miss Yelverton, sister of the first viscount. Miss Yelverton's (of Belle Isle) mother was daughter to Sir ti lick Burke, of Glynsk. For further par ticulars allow me to refer you to a statement in the Illus (rated London News of the 9th inst. None of the family, to my knowledge, ever resided in Limerick. I should not have troubled you with these particulars did I not think it unfair that the press should take advantage of this unfor tunate opportunity to circulate all sorts of ill •natured and untrue reports.—l have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, ANNA. (Baroness) CLANMORRIS.-15, Clarence-street, Fenz Ince, March 16." CONVICT ESTAIILISIINIENTS ABROAD.—The an nual reports from Bermuda and Gibraltar have been re ceiTed. At the close of tho year 1860 there were I,oo9con victs at Bermuda and 563 at Gibraltar. In the course of tho year 280 had been sent from England to Bermuda, none to Gibraltar ; but we had received back 552-327 sent home from Bermuda to be discharged on " ticket of leave," and from Gibraltar 17, with 203 whose sentence had expired. As to the character of the men thus brought hack to us the reports are not satisfactory. The chaplain at Bermuda says that outward respect is paid by the prisoners to their re ligious teachers, and that:he is in hopes their labour is not altogether fruitless ; but he adds that under the system of association which is in force a large deduction must be made from the beneficial results of the instruction. From Gibral tar the comptroller reports that he learns occasionally that many of the men returned to England are doing well, but that he should be deceiving the public if ho were to repre sent that with the masses of men committed to his charge reformation to any great extent is progressing, and, indeed, that with criminals in association day and night, as these are, the hope of amendment must always be very faint indeed. There are public works of great im portance at Gibraltar, ho says, sufficient to employ a thou sand prisoners for many years to come ; but, if reformation is expected to go hand in hand with punishment, there must be an - establishment analogous to those at Portland and Chatham, where these combined objects can b e carried out. Discipline appears to have been, upon the whole well maintained during the year, notwithstanding an slur five attempt at a strike in Gibraltar and two cases of serious assault upon officers ; but men under sentence for life, o for very long periods, become so reckless that it is very d 4 ifi cult to manage them. It is stated that the estimated value of the labour of the convicts at Gibraltar exceeded the ex penses of tha establishment. At Bermuda the majority of the convicts aro confined in hulks, and the ohaplain made grave complaints of the state of these a year ag3; but the Governor reports that he visited them last summer wtAhtl quite unexpected, and found them in good condition and in admirable order. He expresses an apprehension that the chaplain is under the infinence of some of the most artful of the prisoners, , , L A I _E , E \VS. INSURRECTION IN BOSNIA. ♦IENNA, MARca 20. The news from Bosnia is of an alarming cha racter. The whole Herzegovina is in a state of revc lution, being supported by the Montenegrins. The fighting has become general. Several Turkish villages on the frontier have been reduced to ashes. NAPLES, MARcri 19. All the Councillors are dismissed. The Council of the Lieutenancy is dissolved. Directors will be appointed in more direct communication with Turin. There will be a Piedmontese Director of Finances. This morning a grand and enthusiastic fete was held in honour of Garibaldi. All is tran quil. The Civitella a del Tronto refuses still to surrender. PARIS, TU!SDAT. The debate on the Address was resumed to-day •in the Corps Legislatif. M. Picard blamed the Government for having granted such exorbitant powers to the Prefect of the Seine, and demanded that the regimo established since 1848 should cease. M. Marrast, Mayor of Paris after the revolution of February, 1848, thought that, under the circumstances, he had the right of exercising a real dictatorship over the Municipal Administration. He was wrong, but he replied to the reproaches on the subject by dying so poor that his friends were obliged to defray the expenses of his burial. M. Picard said he did not desire that the Prefect of the Seine should ever be reduced to a similar extremity. (Laughter.) He called attention to the speculations in building ground, and maintained that it was possible to grant to Paris what had been granted to Warsaw —namely, the right of electing a Municipality. Devinck defended the Municipal Administra tion. After some remarks from MM. Clary and Heron, M. Billault defended the Municipal Administra• tion of Lyons. He examined the question of buildings, and stated that, in consequence of the increase of the population, the city had been com pelled to build 16,000 houses. "We are," he said, "approaching a time when rents will be lowered." He expressed his astonishment at the insinuations of M. Picard, and said,—" If there exist distinct and grave facts let them be stated. Justice shall be done. You must cease making accusations which are not distinctly expressed, and reproaches which are not explained." M. Picard.—The Minister must be aware that the press law of 1852 does not permit proof by witnesses in matters of defamation. The Court of Control has also testified to the irregularity of the respon sibility. I denounce an Administration which can sell ground of the value of 135,000,000 f. without a public adjudication, and without any legal contract. An elected Municipality can alone offer guarantees. M. Billault refuted the assertions of M. Picard. The amendment was rejected, and paragraphs 13, 14, 15, and 16 were agreed to. M. Jules Fa vre proposed an amendment to para graph 17, regretting the re-establishment of the military system of administration in Algeria. He explained and condemned the inconveniences of the military system, which, he said, paralysed coloni sation. General Allard, the Government Commissioner, said he would reply to M. Favre to-morrow. The Chamber tben adjourned. PARIS, WEDNESDAY. The 2lfoniteur, in its bulletin of to-day, an nounces that the convention prolonging for three months the duration of the occupation of Syria has been signed by the representatives of the different Powers. WARSAW, MARcll 20. The Imperial manifesto respecting the emanci pation of the serfs has produced the most satis factory impression at Warsaw. A deputation from the delegation of citizens immediately complimented the Polish noblemen and the agricultural societies -which recently and spontaneously recommended the emancipation of the serfs. They also expressed a hope that reforms concerning the Polish peasantry will soon be carried out. ROME, MARCH 19. In the Consistory held yesterday the Pope, in reply to those who have asserted that the Papacy is incompatible with civilisation, said that, on the contrary, the present Papacy had always contri buted to the diffusion of real civilisation. The Pope declared that he was only opposed to that pretended modern civilisation which persecutes the Church, imprisons her cardinals, bishops, and priests, suppresses religious orders, despoils the Church, and tramples justice under foot. Ho deplored that the Concordat had been violated in the kingdom of Naples. The Pope declared that he would spontaneously have granted concessioo, and would have accepted those which have been counselled by the Catholic Sovereigns, but that he could not receive the counsels and unjust demands of a usurping Government. In conclusion, the Holy Father deplored the subversion of all authority, and promised forgiveness to all who had been misled. He confided, he said, the cause of the Church to God, the avenger of justice and right. ROME (via Marseilles) MARCH 16. It is asserted that the Pope has received an autograph letter from•the Emperor of the French. General Goyon only prevented a manifestation on the 14th inst. by a great display of military force. On the following morning, however, placards favourable to King Victor Emmanuel were posted up in every street. In the halls of the Academy of the Fine Arts and in the univ?rsity great cheering was raised by the students in honour Pf the King of Italy. Several of those who had posted up pi:wards have been arrested. A Papal Zouave, who had taken part in a dis turbance in the Cafe Colonna, resulting from a political discussion, was arrested by a detachment of French gendarmes. MARCH 17. During the night of the 13th inst. placards were posted up in this city bearing the portrait of Victor Emmanuel, with the title of King of Italy. Ten persons have been arrested on this account. The French have prevented the hoisting of the nationAl flag on the summit of the Antonnius column. Demonstrations in favour of Victor Emmanuel have taken place to-day in the university and in the Academy of Fine Arts. A Consistory of cardinals for the nomination of 12 bishops will be held to-morrow. The Pope will deliver an allocution, concerning which several reports are current. It is said that his Holiness will mention an auto graph letter of Napoleon 111., declaring that he had Prohibited V,i?,tor Emmanuel from occupying the Romagna, and a letter of Victor Emmanuel stating that he occupied the Romagna by the advice of Napoleon 111. NAPLES, MARCH 18, 2.50 r.M. It is stated here that Civitella del Tronto capitu lated yesterday evening before the arrival of the French officer who brought the order of Francis IL An armistice had already been granted. To-day the garrison and the artillery of the castle saluted the proclamation of the kingdom of Italy. Garibaldi's birthday will be celebrated to-morrow by the association of the workmen of Naples. The successor of Liborio Romano has not yet been appointed. General Fergola arrived here today from Mes sina, accompanied by the staff. Naples and the provinces are tranquil. NAPLES, MARCH 16. Liborio Romano, before tendering his resigna tion, ordered the publication throughout the king dom of his report to Prince Carignano, in which he pointed out what measures should be taken for the public safety, Liborio Romano also ordered the celebration of Garibaldi's birthday throughout the kingdom on the 19th inst. ST. PETERSBURG, MARCH 19. A committee has been appointed for the uniform regulation of the affairs of the serfs. It will be presided over by the Grand Duke Constantine. The imperial manifesto has produced a good im pression at St. Petersburg and Moscow. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. The Emperor and the Court have gone into mourning for nine days for the late Duchess of Kent. During the first five days full black will be worn, and the last four half mourning. The Emperor, as has been stated, was present at the first representation of " Tannhauser" at the Grand Opera. Both his Majesty and the Empress honoured the second performance with their pre sence. The Constitutionnel says :—" Several journals an nounce the publication of a new pamphlet by Viscount de la Gueronniere on the Roman ques tion ; but we are able to declare that the statement is not exact." BOURSE, March 19.—The market still continues languid as regards the amount of business, but the prices of yesterday have been pretty well main tained, Threes, for the Account, alternating between 68f 40c and 68f 35c. Railway shares have been rather offered. For some little time before the close stock became offered by parties desirous of realising previous profits, and prices gave way. The follow ing are the last quotations : 4f per per Cents ... 95 60 Credit Fonder 935 Do. ead month.... 95 65 I Belgian 4} lOO 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 15 I Roman Bank Shares 2885 I Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 665 Spanish Threes 47k Do. Account 667 50 1 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Amount. Orleans 1425 .. 1427 50 Northern 970 .. 970 New ditto 9OO .. 900 Lyons and Mediterranean 952 50 .. 953 75 Geneva 395 .. Southern 533 75 .. 532 50 Western Eastern Sardinian — .. Austrian Lotrbard , . 'I? . • --- . , • \ 'rt..' , 1 111; ' f s --•, 2 ' 7' ' ~ - • - .. • v....„ \ , • . \ --% , .. , ri, Z. • - ..,. P. ' ,Z..": . - J , . , i' ' - ... `.. 4...• \ '.. 5 P„,,,,e,./ . .. '• r.. , ~,,, .... 4:' , '.:.1...... , ,, ! t. ' ~..,„,,,Z4 hp:7).1,,z, ^ -`,,, THE SUN. ITALY. The following is the text of the royal decree relative to the title to be henceforth borne by Vic tor Emmanuel : " Victor Emmanuel 11. King of Sardinia, Cyprus, and Jerusalem, &o. " The Sonate and Chamber of Deputies have adopted We have sanctioned and do promulgate what follows : " Sole Article—King Victor EmManuel 11. assumes for himself and his successor• the title of King of Italy. presents sealed with the Seal of State, to be inserted in the collection of the acts of the Govern ment, enjoining all whom it may concern to observe it, and cause it to be observed as a law of the State. " Given at Turin, on the 17th of March, 1861. (Signed) VICTOR EMMANUEL. (Countersigned) "C. CAVOUR, M. MINGIIIETTI, C. B. CASSINIS, F. S. VIGICZZI, M. FANTI, T. MANIANT, T. CORSI, U. PBRUZZI." HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.) The report states that the deaths registered in London in the week ending on Saturday were 1,226, which is about 100 less than they were in the cor responding week of February, and 700 less than in that of January, when the weather had been singu larly cold. The average number of deaths obtained from returns of corresponding weeks in ten years 18M -60, and corrected for increase of population, is 1,427; and therefore the deaths returned for last week are less than the calculated number by 201. The births of last week exceeded the deaths of the same period by 734. In the zymotic class of diseases whooping-cough alone exhibits a rather high mortality. In the last seven weeks the deaths from it have fluctuated 1 , 9- tween 91 and 77. Last week the number was 86, all of which, except 14, occurred to children .who had not completed the third year of life. Ten children died of it in the district of Pancras. Of 20 deaths from measles so many as six occurred in Kentish-town. There were 27 from scarlatina, 12 from diphtheria,• 16 from croup, 6 from syphilis. Cancer was fatal in 24 cases. Phthisis, or con sumption, carried off 165 persons, the corrected average being almost the same. Bronchitis and pneumonia both exhibit results very considerably below their respective averages ; and a similar ob servation applies to asthma. It seems a reasonable supposition that the cold weather hastened the death of many persons, subject to these complaints or predisposed to them, whose lives, in a season not ui:usually severe , would have been extended for weeks or months, and that to this circumstance the present decrease of the mortality should be attri buted. Two infants were murdered. Three children were burnt or rufft, , cated by their houses taking fire. A boy, aged 2 years , N ., - .as scalded by inhaling steam from a kettle. Another, aged 4 months, was A poisoned by an over dose of Godfrey's cordial. boy and a man (a sailor) died of scurvy. Three young children of eczema. a nd 964 girls, in Last ai 1, A 9 ' 6 e o ek e t h h i e ld b r i e r n t , h w s of er 99 London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the y ears 1851-60 the average number was 1,788 . o re 6 gi b s o t y er s ed At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.686 in. The barometrical readings fell from 30.18ia. earn Sunday to 29 . 13 in. on Monday. The mean tempe rature in the week was 42.4 deg., which is 14 above the average of the same week in 43 years (as deter mined by Mr. Glaisher.) The thermometer in the shade attained its highest point on Sunday, which was 57 . 8 deg. ; and it fell to its lowest on Thursday, viz. 29 1 deg. The entire range in the week was therefore 28'7 deg. The mean daily range was 16.8 deg. The difference between the mean dew point temperature and the air temperature was three degrees. The moan degree of hu midity of the air was 91, complete saturation being represented by 100, which point was nearly at tained on Saturday, on which day the wind blew from the south-West, having been very variable Thursday a thermometer the weei:r. On deg. The thermometer in o r i the grass fell to 16 - 7 the s registered 100.5 !leg. on Sunday. The mean temp, -rature of the water of the Thames was 44.9 deg. There was rain on every da y, but chiefly on Monday and Saturday. The total amount was 0.55 in. Thunder was heard on too afternoon of Tuesday. REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE.---A meeting of the Liberal party of the Salford Hundred—pre-- liminary to a general meeting of the Liberal electors of South Lancashire to be held at Newton, on Wednesday next—took place in this c ity - yesterday, when a resolution was passed, pledging those present to support Mr. Glad stone in the event of his becoming a candidate for the third. seat which the Government proposes to allot to this division of the county. As to the probability of the right hon. gentleman's consenting to allow himself to be put forward, Mr. R. R. Philips, the chairman of the meeting, said there could be little d,ul , t on tb.e ts-.)ict if a strongly sir:tie:l requi sition were presented to him. Mr. Philips, basing his opinion on the evidence of the register, is sanguine that the Liberals, if united, will be able to secure "the trium phant return" of their candidate. ..V Itt direct( reduce become can be rnercia part of ther in the op( diate d A fi Was se: The hibited Rambo rather] Gold in Loni than in Busii terd4l a fair d 12,000 America inaintait sionally fer, a n d advance( at 1004- Per Cent l id• per to 4 8. pr About recorded are Well 76 1; dit Proved to loo t ; Per Cent Portugul In the been on 1 principal alight de thern, al Bristol a Lincoln, and Sout The F South Al clined to 6 t; and For th Very lim have iml Indian P Joint tinue du improved Red Sea BR 3 per Cent India Stoc Ditto 6 Ditto Eic Ditto Et Ditto 5 Ditto 61 onto D, Ditto Bo Cons°ln fol Ditto, For Chita @ E Ditto 4i ''lttador IS keZican 3 ki dew Grem r but° De Ditto Ittlasian 5 bitto c, Ditto 8 I e Ntiisb. 3 Ditto Ac Ditto Pa 181Ainish Turkish 6 Ditto Ae }Ditto NI Di , Dutch Eio Ditto C( Console Dit This Da between 8 9 a.m. Nair n .. 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