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TO the t ktY of LORDON..--Parnatt to a Requisition addressed to me, I do hereby call a COMMON' ItALL, TO-MORROW (Tuesdas ), a 12 o'clock, for the purpose of eliciting the opinion of the Citizens of London Upon the Bill now in Parliament, entitled, " A Bill tor the Metter Rizulation of the Corpo ration of the City of London," and which strikes at the root ortheir ancient and valued privileges D. S ALO MONI 2, Mayer. F"..S.—The LORD MAYOR will take the Chair at 1 o'clock precisely. COMMON HALL.—The Lord Mayor having Issued a Precept to the several LIVERY COMPANIES of the CITY of LONDON, to meet at Guildhall, TO-MORRO ' the 15th of April instant, to take into consideration the Bill brought into the House of Commons by Sir George Grey, for the Reform of the Cor poration of the City of London, it is requested that the Livery will attend to protect their rights and privileges. April 14, 1856. - - COMMON HALL.—Liverymen of London, Nov or Never! If the present atrocious Bill is carried you are done for ever ! ! Attend at Guildhall on TUESDAY next, at 12 o'clock. A BROTHER LIVERTMAN. 'IMES ASSURANCE COMPANIES, 32, Ludgate-hill, London. • Lire Assurance, Fire Assurance, Annuity, and Endowment Poli cies, issued by these Companies. H. B. SHERIDAN, Managing Director. VIE PLATE - GLASS INSURANCE. Riotous Breakage of Windows —The TIMES AScURANCE COM PANY, 32, Ludgate-hill, London. Every description of plate-glass insured at this office. Damage done by the riotous proceedings of mobs can be covered by this Company's policies. Forms of proposals sent by post. QECURITY to EMPLOYERS.—To Secretaries 1., - 3 of Public Institutions, Clerks, Station Masters, Railway Clerks, Travellers. Colle?tors, and others.—The , 'DIMES COMPANY, 32, Ludgate.hM, affords a guarantee to persons requiring the same, at the lowest possible rates. N ORWICH UNION LIFE INSURANCE SOCIETY. PRESIDENT. —Lieut.-Gen. Sir R. J. HARVEY, C.B. SECRETAZY —Sir SAMUEL RIGNOLI), 11. P. This Society in 47 years has issued 29,344 life Policies. Paid in Claims upwards of 4,431,0441., and assigned 1,934,342/. in Bonuses. The accumulations now amount to nearly 2,200,000/. Its Premiums are lower than those of most companies, and all the Profits are divided among the assured. For Prospectuses apply to Sarrey-street, Norwich, and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London. SCOTTISH WIDOWS' FUND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Founded ♦ D. 1815. HEAD OFFICE—No. 5, St. Andrew-square, Edinburgh. - The Assured or Members are tire only parties Interested in the Funds of this Institution. which now amounts to upwards of THREE MILLIONS STERLING. The Society's claims to public confidence and support are grounded Mainly on the sound and equitabie principles of its constitution. and on the care and success with which its operations have been con ducted from their commencement up to the present time. While the Premiums are not higher than those require) by many Other Offices, the Society treies not pretend to compete with those which hold out the attractffins of cheap rates, whether as being the lowest which are compatible with safety, or as being based on what is termed the ' 4 HALF-CREDIT SYSTEM." There being no Proprietary, however, those of the Assured whe by the terms of their policies are entitled to participate in the Proti , s of the Society, are the only parties who derive benefit from the rates being mere than what are found from time to time to be required to meet the actual risks ; and the result of past allf4cations of Surplus Profits has been such that in the case of all the earlier Policies, which have become claims within the last few years, the amount. paid to the representatives of deceased Members have been mom THAN DOUBLE THE SUMS ORIGINALLY ASSURED. . . In cases where family provision is the sole object this result carnot fail to be considerel as of the most sati-factory nature ; while in other instances where the part es are desiroui of securing benefit from the Surplus Payments Br attic THEIR OWN LIVES, Initead of allowing the Bonus to remain an addition to the Assurance payable at death, the alternatives practicable ander the laws of the office have been com mensurate In degree. In many cases, in consideration of an aban donment of the reversionary claims for Bonus Additions already de clared, such parties have either received large payments in PRESENT CASH, or have been LONG AGO ENTIRELY RELIEVED FROM FURTHER PAYMENT or PREMIUM, the Policies still remaining ent , tled to partici pate in future allocations of the profits. Illustrations of the application of Bonus on either of the footings above referred to are contained in the Society's Prospectu-es, which, together with Forms of Proposal, &c., may be had on application at the Head Office, or to any of the Agents in the three kingdoms. JOHN MArKENZIE, Manager. Edinburgh, March 1856. W ‘f. LINDESAY, Secretary. LONDON HONORARY BOARD. George Young, Esq., Mark-lane --- Charles Edward Pollock, Esq., Barrister, Temple David Hill, Esq., East India House John Murray, Esq., publisher, Albemarle-street Samuel Laing, Esq., M.P. Sir John Thomas Briggs, Admiralty Leonard Homer, Esq., Home-office John Taylor, jun., Esq., C .E., Queen-street-place LONDON AND THE SUBURBS. CENTRAL AGENT. Hugh WKean, 4, Royal Exchange-buildings, Cornhill. DISTRICT AGENTS. Captain R. S. Ridge, 49, Pall-mall, Agent for the West End District Benton Seeley, 2, Hanover-street, Regent-street James Harris, 38, St. George's-square, Beigrave-road, Pimlico. ESTABLISHED 1837. B RITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. 1, Princes-street, Bank, London. mpowered by Special Act of Parliament, 4 Vict., cap. 9. DIRECTORS. Major-General ALEXANDER, Blackheath Park, CHAIRMAN. William Bardgett, Esq., 149, Fenchnrch-street. George Bevington. Esq., Neckinger Mills, Bermondsey. F. P. Cockerill, Esq., Shadwell and Twickenham. George Cohen, Esq., Shacklewell. Millis Coventry, Esq., White Hart-court, Lombard-street. John Drewett, Esq., 50, Cornhill. Erasmus Robert Foster. Esq., I, Princes-street, Bank. T. S. Girdler, Esq , 7, Tokenh”use-yard. H. L. Smale, Esq., Doctors' Commons. STANDrNG Bellenden Ker, Esq., 8, Old-square, Lincoln's Inn. Eoucrrown—Messrs. M`Lecd and stenning, 16, London-street, Fenchurch•street. BANnu.—Messrs.Dimsdale, Drewett, Fowlers and Barnard, 50, Cornhill. Increasing Rates of Premium for securing Loans of Debts. Ralf Fremiums, only, required during first seven years. Sum assured payable at Sixty or at death if occurring previously, Provision, during minority, for Orphans. BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION. Empowered by her Majesty's Royal Letters Pa'eut. Profits divided annually. Premiums computed for every three months' difference of age. Half-credit policies—the unpaid half premiums liquidated out o the profits. (PIOPATIBTAILY.) I (MUTUAL.) —. .------.-- i Half Whole 1 Half Quar• • preraitun premium . Annual Yearly telly i First for Re- age. premium Pre- Pre - Seven mainder 1 mium. mium. Years. of Life. _ i --. ' -.... — ,---, ---- X s. d. £ s. d. Years. Months l ' X s. d. £ s. d.I £ s. d. 20 1 1 . 2 3 6 30 0 1 2 7 3 1 4 20 12 3 40 1 9 2j 218 4 3 2 7 6 1 4 4, 012 4 50 2 2 6 4 5 0 6 2 710 1 4 60 12 5 60 3 6 8 613 4 9 , 2 8 2 1 4 8; 012 6 E. R. FOSTER, Resident Director. ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. A.D. 1720. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION, (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First), For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITIES. OFFICES—ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. BRANCH OFFICE-29, PALL-MALL. Octavius Wigram, George Pearkes Barela) Sir John William Lubbock Esq., Governor. -, Esq., Sub-Governor. , Bart.. Deputy-Governor. TORS. Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Charles John Manning, Esq. Edmond S. P. Calvert, Esq. Hon. John T. Leslie Melville. John Garrett Cattley, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq. Alexander Colvin, Esq. Edward Howley Palmer, Esq. Edward Maxwell Daniel, Esq. - Sir John Henry Pelly, Bart. William Davidson, Esq. Alexander P. Prevost, Esq. Alexander Drace, Esq. Abraham George Roberts, Esq. Riversdale Wm. Grenfell, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq. William Soltau, Esq. William Tetlow Hibbert, Esq. Thomas Tooke, Esq. James Stewart Hodgson, Esq. William Wallace, Esq. lidacelet Holland, Esq. Charles Baring Young, Esq. MEDICAL REFEREE—SamueI Solly, Esq., F.R.S. Notice.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of Fire Pre vniums falling due at Lady-day will expire on the 9th April. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this Cor poration on advantageous terms. In the Life Department, assurances are granted with participation in profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such participation. The following table shows the large BONUSES declared up to the 31st December, 1855, on British Participating Policies of fourteen years' standing, for the sum of 1,0001. each. Further Per Cent. Per Cent. Age Addition Addition Total per annum on the when made in in Addition on the sum Premium Assured. 1848. 1855. Assured. paid. --- - ..---- - .....• JE £ £ 39 102 112 214 1'53 59'3 35 106 115 221 I'sB 54'3, 40 113 121 234 167 50'5 45 121 128 249 118 46•2 50 135 140 275 1'96 430 55 149 154 303 2'16 39'9 60 166 174 349 243 37'2 Equivalent reductions have keen made in the, Premiums payable by those persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The future division of Profit will take place every Five years. Any sum not exceeding 15,0001. may Ise insured on one life. This Corporation affords to the Assured Liberal Participation in Profits—with exemption from the liabilities of partnership. A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual Socie ties—with the guarantee of a large Inv, sted Capital Stock. The advantages of modem practice —with the security of an Office whose resources have been tested by the experience of nearly a Century and a-half. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. JOHN A. lIIGHAM. Actuary and Secretary. TOZEA.II'S COPAHINE, or SA.CCHARATED ei CAPSULES, approved of by the french College of Physicians, successfully administered in the Paris and London Hospitals, and acknowledged by them to be the beet remedy for a certain disorder. (See " Lancet" of Nov. 6, 1852.) A copy will be forwarded on spoil eation.—Price per 100, 48.6 d. ; 50, 23.9 d. To be had of the invetor, GABRIEL JOZEAU, French chemist, 49, Haymarket, London, n and all the principal chemists. IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. TRIESEIYLAR.—On the 29th of May, 1855, an injunction was granted by the iligh Court of Chancery, and on the I lth of June following was made perpetual, against Joseph I ranklin and others, to restrain them, under a penalty of one thou sand pounds, from imitating this Medicine, which is protected by Royal Letters Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the Emit de Pharmacia de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIF.SEMI , R, No. 1, Is a remedy for RelaxailOca,apermatorrhcea, and all tho distressing consequences arising from early abuse, &e., and its effects are effi cacious in youth, manhood, and old age ; and t- thnse persons who are prevented entering the married state from the results of early errors it is invaluable. TRIESEMAR, No. 2, effeztually, 1n the short space of three days, completely and entirely adicates all traces of those Disorders which Capaivi and Cubebs have so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of tho health Of a vast portion of the population. TRIESEMAR, No. 3, is the great Continental Remedy for that class of Disorders, which unfortunately the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla in the world cannot remove. TRIESEMAR, Nos. 1,2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or smell, and of all nauseating qualities. They may lie on the toilet teak without their use being suspected TRIEtaEMAR, Nos. 1,2, and 3 are sold in tin cases, price I is., or four cases in one for 335., which saves I Is. ; and in 51. eases, whereby there is a saving of U. 12s. • divideo Pita separate doses; as adminis tered by Valpeaa, Lallemand, Roui, Psz..,Stc. - To be had Wholesale and Retail in London of. Johnston, 68, Cornhili; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; and Sanger, 150, Oa f 'rd-street ; R. H. Ingham, druggist, 46. M arket-street, Manchester ; H. Bradbury, bookseller, Deansgate, Bolton; J. Priestly, chemist, t 2, Lord-street. Liverpool; Powell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland-strew,) Dublin ; Winnall, bookseller, High-street, Birmingham. 0 . 19,918) PUBLICATIONS. Now ready at all the libraries, In 3 vols., NEARGATtET AND HER BRIDESMAIDS. By the Author of "Woman's Devotion." "A large measure of popularity may ba predicted for this novel. The characters are drawn with great ability and knowledge of human nature." —Morning Post. •• A production of no ordinary talent. It bears a charna in its pages that attracts irresistibly."—Sun. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn. Just ready, in 2 v 01.., Bvo., with Portraits, 30s , bound, MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF THE REGENCY. From original Family Documents. By the Duke of BUCKINGHAM and CHANDOA, K.G. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburu,, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NEW NOVEL, JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN, By the author of " fhe Head of the Family," " Olive," &C., Is ready this day, in 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MR. RITSKIN'S NEW VOLUME. N ow ready, T HE FOURTH VOLUME of MODERN PAINTERS. By JouN RUSKIN. V.A. ' Author of" Stones of Venice,"• Seven Lamps ofArchiteeture,"&c.,&e With 35 Illustrations, eNravc-d on steel, and 116 W,odeuts drawn by th; author, price 21:10x. •s• The Third Vo'ume hai lately appeared, with 18 plates, price 38s , cloth. London : gmlth, Elder, and Co., 65, Con 11111. THE LONDON and WESTMINSTER BANK issues Circular Notes rf 101. each, pa , able at every impor tant place in Europe. These Notes are issued hout 0/age, and they are cashed abroad free of commission. The Bank-alsil sue , , , ree of charge, Letters of Ore lit on all His prificloal cities and towns in Europe. The Letters of Crellt are P-sued only it the Head Odice in LAlibury. The Circular Notes may be obtained at the Head Office in Loth bury. or at any of the Branches, viz : liirestmisster Branch.... t, St. James's-square. 131.,onnsbury ditto .• ..214, High Holh.rn. Southwark ditto .... 3, Wellington-street, Borough. Eastern ditto .. •. 87, High-street, Whltechaoel. Marylebone ditto .... 4, Stra - S rd-place, Oxford street. Temple-bar ditto .... 217, Strand- The rate of Interest allowed on deposits of 501/ and upwards, at the Bank or any of its Branches. is now 5 per cent - J. W. GILBART, General Manager. THE LONDON and EASTERN BANKING CORPORATlON.—Established January 1, 1854. Head Office— 27, Cannon-street, City. Hyde-nark Branch-136, Westbournc-terrace. The Hon. JOHN CADWALADER ERSKINE, Chairman. JOHN CARNAC MORRIS, Esq., F.ll. S., Deputy-Chairman. CuRRENT ACCOUNTS are opened in the usual manner with approved parties, two per cent. interest being allowed on the minimum monthly balance. CALL ACCOUNT , .—For sums deposited at ten days call five per ^ent. interest Is allo , ved ; this rate is regulated by the discount rat of the Bank of Endand. DEPOSIT AWOUNTS.— The field for employment of mom. , afforded by the Branches of this Bank in India enabl s the Corporation to allow nn deposits f 'r lengthened fixed periods very favourable rates of interest. Deposits are received for the stated periods of. on , . hree, or five years certain at five per cent. per annum,.paid half. yearly. For these deposits receipts are given, made transferable I' desired. JOHN EDWARD STEPHEN'S, Manager. vir It. ALBERT SIVI ET FT'S MONT BLANt., v TO-NIGHT, and EVERY EVENING (except S iturday) .t S , 'dock, and Tuesday, Thursday, and -aturday Mornings at :1. Malls, 3s. ; area, 28. ; gallery, la.—Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. A RGYLL ROOMS.-LAURENT'S CASINO NOW OPEN for the winter season. Principal Come . _ Piston, M. Bonicourt.—Doors ' , nen at R. Admission One shillinr 11. Laurent's-new Varsoviana and St. Patrick Quadrille every night. m-R. W. S. WOODIN'S OLIO of ODDITIES. iAIL Fifty instantaneous Metamorphoses of Voice, Character and Costume, concluding with an impersonation of Mlle. Rachel, as Camille, in "Les Horaces," TO-NIGHT and every evening, at 8. Private boxes and stalls may be secured in advance, without extra charge. Polygraphic-trill. King William-street, Charing-cross. A. Performance every Saturday Morning at 2 o'clock, and night at 8. ROYAL PANOPTIC - ON. MONDAY EVENING CONCERTA.—This day. April 14th. 1856, GRAND MISCELLANEOUS CONCERT. Principal Singer , 1811Ransford, Miss Lascenes, Madame Marietta, Madlle. Mathild Rudersdorff, Mr. Henry Haigh (by permission of J. It. Tully, Esq Mr. Ransford, and the Spanish Minstrels. Grand Org.m . Mr E. T Chipp ; Flute, Mr. B. Wells ; Pianoforte, Master Heinrich Werner: Conductor, Mr. Charles Blagrove. AdmFssion, is.; reserved seats, Is. extra. Children and schools, half-price. TO LET (in consequence of the death of the late eroprietor), an Old-established COMMERCE TIOTFL, situate in the mot central part of the town of Leeds, awl at present doing a good business, which may be cnnsiderably in creased by a person of enerey an t pereever nice. The house is within a very convenient distance of the several railway ttations, and pos sesses exeenent sleeping xuwu iQa4ivu._ . . . For furthe: particulars apply to Mr. John Thackrah, solicitor, Briggate. Leeds. THE LONDON COFFEE-HOUSE, Ludgate 11i11 —The Public are respectfully informed that this long est thlished and most respectable HOTEL is now carried on in the most efficient manner, to •insure the comfort of those families and gentlemen who may honour it with their simpor , ; added to which, its central situation and other local advantages render it pecaliarly available and convenient. AIR. HOWARD, Surgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet , ir street, has introduced an entirely new description of ARTI 'TOTAL TEETH, fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They s. erfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distnguished from he original bv the closest observer; they will never change colour or lecay, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require the extraction of roots. or any painful peration, and wil! support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is glaranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth r Irdered sound and useful in mastlestlon.-52, Fleet-street. At ome from ten till live. APPOINTMENTS to the ROYAL ARTIL. LERY, and ADMISSIONS to the PRAC. TICAL CLASS of the ROYAL MILITARY ACA DEMY. An Examination for Provisional Commissions in the Royal Artillery will commence on Monday, June 30, at King's College, Strand. About 20 appointments will be made, supposing a sufficient number of compe tent persons to present themselves. The Candi dates must be between the ages of 20 and 23 years ; and those appointed will be gazetted to lieutenancies in the Royal Artillery in the first instance, with tem porary rank. They will be placed for instruction, for about six months, under the director of artil lery studies at Woolwich ; and on completine their course, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of State for War, will receive permanent commissions with the date of their temporary appointment. They will receive the pay of their rank (viz., ss. 7d. per diem) from the date of their names appearing in the Gazette but will be required to contribute a deposit of 201. fur the purchase of books, instruments, Stc. At the same time, provided a sufficient number are found competent, about thirty admissions will be made to the practical class of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, the candidates for which must be between the ages of 17 and 20 years. It is expected that gentle men admitted will remain under instruction for six or eight months, and at the end of that period will, on pass ing a satisfactory examination, receive commissions in the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers, according to their proficiency. They will be required to pay a con tribution of 621. 10s. for the time during which they re main at the Academy. The appointments in both these classes will be deter mined by the result of a competitive examination. The days and subjects of examination will be as follows, viz. : Tuesday, July I.—Pure Mathematics, 2,000 marks. Wednesday, July 2.—Mixed Mathematics, i.e., Statics, Dynamics, and Hydrostatics,l,soo marks. Thursday, July 3—Language , Literature, Geography, and History of Ancient Rome, 1,000 marks. Friday, July 4--Do. do. do. of Ancient Greece, 750 marks. Saturday, July s.—Do. dn. do of France, 1,000 marks. Monday, July 7.—Do. do. do. of Germany, 750 marks. The examination in French and German will be both written and viva voce. Tuesday, July B—English Language, Literature, Com pesition, Histoiy, anti Geography, 1,50 marks. Wednesday, July 9—Experimental Sciences, i.e., Che mistry, Heat, Electricity, including Magnetism 1,00) marks. Thursday, July 10—Natural Sciences, Mineralogy, and Geology, 750 marks. Friday, July 11—Moral and Political Sciences, 1,000 marks. Saturday, July 12—Drawing, i. e., Elementary Geo metrical Drawing, including the use of drawing instru ments, and either Machinery, Architectural, Engineering, or Landscape Drawing, 750 marks. The examination will commence on each of these dap at 10 o'clock in the morning, and continue until 1 o'clock. It will re-commence at 2 o'clock, and continue until 5. No candidate will be admitted after the hour fixed for the commencement of the examination. Every candidate must be examined in pure mathema tics ; and no one who does not obtain at least one-fifth of the marks allotted to that subject will be eligible for an appointment. From the other subjects of examination each candi date may select those in which he desires to be ex amined ; but no one will be allowed to count the mart s gained in any subject, unless those marks shall at least amount to one-sixth of the total number of marks allotted to that subject. Every candidate must transmit to the War Depart 'nePall-Mall, by the 20 th June next : Ist. nt' An extract from the register of his baptism, or, in default of that, a certificate verified by affi lavit. 2d. A certificate of good moral character, signed by a clergyman of the parish to which he belongs, and by the tutor ( r head of the school or college at which he has received his education for at least two years, or such other proof of good moral character, as will be satisfac tory to the Secretary of State. 3. A statement of the subjects of examination in which (in addition to Pure Mathematic) he may desire to be examined. All Candidates must present themselves at King's College, on Monday the 30th of June, at 1 o clock p.m., where they will severally be inspected by Military Sur geons, in order to ascertain that they are free from any bodily defects or ailment., calculated to interfere with the performance of military duties. H. R. DREWRY. - War Department, Pall Mall, 7th April, 185 g. // , • ~/ -• /i f / z 5.... .. ..........„,7/.....tt....... - ' - '2- 1 (--- ,- . wirr i4 . , • . - ~,, - _..• - ' . 1 - .‘ ;;;;',. THE Dscznie AND PAL ..... ---- -•*... 5. • i' _ , .. . . .. a • , 1 4 A' ' -' 4 8 . , L, .. ,. . -- ;. ', 7 ", - , 1 -' ''''':•• - - i . '' \ \.... ,,i',i f. ' ., • : ',• i :I ', , 4 " ~ • :- ' :- ;, ... - ...figa . , „ . 0.111 •N A _ . ,„ - 4 • ,=.- , 4' ," '• i'?:',34* . ..-: - 1 .1.--'' ' .4- 4 , :A., ' ' ' Vit ~ - -,,,---,1 '4447 v-.14 . -.A.4..-,m r _,:, - ; ..„ 1 -.. . 7 -; 1 '''2 ~ , • .... ~.1.,, , ~. .. ~., . _ ~::: -:_-. , :.- -_,•,...„..??, • , • ; 4 . :::•.. - • :, te a. -...„-, \.,,, 1..,.. li, fo 4:_._.— , ;-:. ....---,.-__,.,...... .•• • • . 0. „, .." 4 -- p 4, .30 oil 1 ~.' c. :7_. ~,t ) , 4 I. ', .. , '6' I: 4 1 : : "4 - , _ \ . .-.,, c.„.....„,b4 ( ~.. 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Human nature is prone to magnify present and to depreciate past great ness ; and unless, as is not very likely, his former success attends the statesman when out of office, it is sure to be said that all his great actions were the gift of fortune, and all his failures entirely his own. Never was the truth of this observation more strikingly evinced than in the House of Commons on Friday last. Conscious of the ground which he had lost in the estimation of the public by his pre mature resignation of office and his unfortunate proceedings at Vienna, Lord John Russell sought for . a subject involving enough difficulty to make it asetrlement, if it should be obtained, a real and sul.stAntial triumph, and enough interest to rivet upon it the attention of all men and all cheoes. That which lie sought ha found in the question of national education. With great care and pains, with infinite deliberation, and with no little parade and flourish, Lord John Russell introduced to the House a scheme which has proved more utterly futile and abortive than any thing we at present reme caber—a scheme which trite I against it every shade of party, evrry class of political opinion—a . scheme which everybody was ready to attack, anti nobody to defend ; founded, as it appeared to us, in complete igno rance of the national character, the sentiments of Parliament, and the exigencies of the question itself. it requires considerable talents and con siderable position, high connections, and great po litical experience, to enti le any man to make so complete a failure as that which Lord John Rus sell achieved for himself on Friday night. Had he not been the person to whom for many years the Government of the country was intrusted, whose voice at one time swayed the deliberations of Parliament, who introduced and carried one Reform Bill, and is for ever threatening us with another, the utter break-down of Lord John Rus sell and his measure would have lost a great part of the piquancy which they now possess. We really do not believe that if all those votes were deducted which were given from personal kindness or from old recollections Lord John Russell would have been able to muster 40 members in support of the scheme to which ho looked for the restoration of his damaged reputation. In vain the Government generously flung its weight into his scale, the ad verse impression was too strong to be resisted, and the effort to break the fall of the former leader of the Whig confederacy served but to mark and tes tify its completeness. It we were to point out the causes of the Parliamentary decline and fall of Lord John Russell we should assign a conspicuous place to that predilection for what are called " compre hensive measures" which Lord John Russell has so strongly evinced. It is not, so far as we have been enabled to judge, that he has been in the habit of seeking very deep for principles, hut that he insists upon dealing with every part of a large question at once and thus raising against himself the greatest possible amount of opposition, while he conciliates the least possible amount of support. Having made his reputation in a revolutionary period, he is apt to treat subjects in a manner which can only suc c ed when supported by the same amount of popu lar discontEn- as the first Reform Bill. There is a. complete want of sympathy—an utter incompatibi lity between Lor l John Russell and the present House of Commons. Whether or no we attribute this phenomenon to the right cause, there can be no doubt of its existence, and as little, we should think, as to the solution of the difficulty. Lord John Russell can scarcely expect to regain The fore most place in the deliberations of the House of Commons; Parliaments, like individuals, are apt to be swayed by hope rather than gratitude, and it is, on the other hand, hardly to be asked of him that lie should be content to occupy in such an as sernhly a second rate position ; his struggles to regain his lost place are futile as regards himself, and painful to his friends. We do not sup pose, either, that there is anything indiscreet or improper in adverting to the fact that, notwith standing his long, and in many respects great services, Lord John Russell is not likely to be returned again for the oity of London, and we confess that, we should see with pain so eminent a person running up and down in search of a con stituency, or driven to the inglorious alternative of accepting a seat from among the boroughs or counties which own the influence of the Duke of Bedford. Late years have, as we have often ob served, contributed in an unusual degree to the destruction of political reputation, and it is expe dient on every ground that this process should be arrested at the earliest possible period. Little as we have seen to approve of late years in the poli tical career of Lord John Russell, we would desire for a man who has filled so considerable a part in our own times, and whose name is doubtless des tined to no inconsiderable place in the history of England, a finale more tranquil and more dignified than that which is piomised to him in the House of Commons. 1856, [ PRICE 4D. STAMPED SDO METR9POLITAAT BOARD OF WORKS. -On Friday a meeting of the board was held in No. 1 Committee room, Guildhall—Mr. President Thwaites in the chair. SOUTHWARK IMPROVEMENT.' A. deputation from St. Saviour's and. Christ Church, Southwark, presented a Memorial advocating 'the—ean struetion of a new line of' street from High-street, South wark, to Stamford-itreet, stating that such an improve ment was, o r various ground, the one which ought first to engage the attention of the board, and for the carrying out of which a sum of 85,9001. was in hand. The subject has already been twice publicly discussed at bowl meetings, and Mr. Apsley Pellat, M.P., who accompanied the deputation, and other gentlemen stated that they had come -before the board that day at the particular instigation of Sir B. Hall, who bad inti mated his desire that a plan approved by the board should be submitted to him before the end of June, because, if the works were not completed before 1860, the 85,0001. would be no longer applicable to such a purpose. The right hon. baronet had likewise given the deputation to understand that, in case a plan recommended by the board was presented to him of which he could approve, he would support in the House of Commons the application for the Act of Parliament. It is one of the many useful functions of the House of Peers that it offers to the politician who can neither maintain the foremost place nor grace fully descend to the second a harbour of refuge in which his shattered political barque may ride at anchor safe from the storms that rage without. That assembly, in which Lord Cha ham and Sir R. Walpole sought repose at the end of their stormy political career, might surely perform the same good office for Lord John Russell, and in his person a title ever memorable in the political history of England might be revived. We do not believe that among the friends and supporters who still remain to Lord J hn Russell there is one who would not read with a feeling of relief the an nouncement that his long and checkered career in the House of Commons had at last come to a close, and that he had accepted an honourable retirement from the fierce contests of party which his long services have undoubtedly merited, which is suitable to his birth and his station, and which seems the only alternative left that can free him from a succession of mortifications and humiliations such as no one either of his supporters or oppo nents would willingly see heaped upon Lim. Doubtless to be the head of a powerful political party in the House of Commons is a position more prominent, influential, and attractive that any that the House of Peers, in the present state of our constitution, has to offer ; but to Lord John Rus sel we believe that position is no longer open, and we cannot but think he would do more wisely to content himself with what he might easily retain —a leading position in the House of Lords—than to waste the remainder of his life in importunate struggles after an opportunity which he failed to use wisely when it was his own, and which is not wont to return to those who save once let it slip from their grasp. We are living in a new political ' era. The bonds of party allegiance are now loosened, the power of individual leaders is dimin ished, the public mind is no longer stung by that general sense of injury and misgovernment which 25 years ago gave the Whip their power and their success. The very triumphs of Reform and Free Trade have impaired the influence of their original supporters. New men and new questions arise, and it is granted to few to remain for ever in the van of an age pressing rapidly forward in the path of political, social, and material progress. The weary advocate gladly reposes in the comparative quiet of the bench ; the most indefatigable parish priest sighs for the repose of the episcopal throne ; w hy should not the political combatant who has spent the third of a century in the conflicts of Harty be well content to close his long career amid the tranquil shades and venerable associations of the House of Lords ? THE RECENT EMBEZZLEMENT BY A G OVE .LAMENT CLEBK. PORTSMOUTH, April 12.—T0-day the trial came on o George Joseph Nathaniel Charlier, clerk in the Gun Wharf here, for the embezzlement of 1,1301., the amount of a cheque entrusted to him to get cashed, for the pay ment of the quarterly and weekly salaries of the War Department at this port. The Recorder was J. D. Cole• ridge, Esq. The evidence was precisely the same as that taken at the examination before the bench of magistrates. Toe jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict that the prisoner was not guilty of embezzlement, but • larceny, under the third count. The usual qu lation being asked by the Recorder, th prisoner, in a partially suppressed voice, said—l throw myself on the mercy of the Court. I bave suffered the loss of my position, the lose of my fair name, of the pen• sion of 50/. a-year to which I should have been entitled, if I bad had to leave the service from illness. I have been already deeply punished, and now I can only throw myself entirely on the mercy of the Court. The Recorder, addressing the prise nor by name, said —You have been convicted on the clearest evidence of a most serious crime—a crime eeliberatelv planned and prepared beforehand. That crime involves a breach o the great trust reposed in yru by the Government of your country, and by the officers under whom you wer • employed, That crime is not alone against the Govern • moot of this country and your superior officers, but it is a crime, too, against the wife and children whose claims to consideration have just been pressed upon me by your counsel. There is no circumstance to excuse its committal, and it is one that deinan.'s a marked punishment. It is necessary for the security of society that such a crime sly uld meet with a severe and terrible punishment. and I therefore feel it my duty to sentence you to five years' penal servitude. (From the sensation produced iu court . it v, as evident that so severe a sentence was not autici• pated )—Hampshire Telegraph. i THE EMBANKMENT OF TAZ THAMES. Mr. WILKINSON, in moving that the scheme for this purpose be referred to the Committee of Works, ob served that, in doing so, he did not ' identify himself with the project, although he considered it as one which merited investigation. Sohn objections 'hiving been railed on the score of order, The PRESIDENT observed that he conceived the board ought not, by too strict an adherence to technicalities, to offer any obstruction to public business.. (Hear, - hear.; Mr. HALL thought" that cauitnittees 3noght not to be encumbered with schemes witt#tut the board at first con sidering whether these were feasible or not. He was quite sure that the board could not continue to send every unimportant matter before a committee. Mr. CRELLIN did not think it advi•able for the board to examine plans previous to referring them to the Com in,ttee of Works. Plans could not come before the board unless some member was found to present ttiern, aid doubtless he would net move for its being sent to a sminittee without having in some measure satisfied him self as to the propriety and feasibility of the scheme. Mr. SAVAGE observed, in regard to the objections raised on the matter of order, that he was aware of no ule which would be contravened by agreeing to the_mo tion of Mr. Wilkinson. Upon a division, the memorial was ordered to be re ferred to the committee of works. The document is w o rded as follows : "That your memorialists are promo ters ofar, undertaking called the Thames Embankment aml 'It:ill way,' the objects of which areas follow :—First, Che formation of an embankment and works, including certain floating and tidal docks on the north side of the river Thames, between Southwark and Westminster bridges ; s.condly, the construction of a public road and flot ways, to be cat ried on a viaduct along that portion of the embankment between Whiteball-place ; near Char i,ig-cross, and Cha.tham Blackfriars, having also coma' unicat.ons with certain streets leading out of the Strand ; thirdly, the laying down of a railway within the inc einba , kruent, from Que,nhithe, near Southwark br;dge, to Manchester-buildings, adjoining Westminster. bridge, wan an extension line to the Grey Coat Hospital n 7ar the new Victoria-street, to join the Westminster Terminus Railway. That your memorialists have at the ! , resent wile a bid before Parliament for the above pur poses, which, if authorised, will enable them to confer on the public the following advantages :—First, an improve ment of the river Thames; second, great sanitary benefits; third, a much-required new road betweun Charing cries and the City ; fourth, an expeditious, cheap, and in all weathers certain mode of intercominu- oi , atiou by rail between the heart of London a,!cl the West-end ; filth, extensive relief to the present thorough fares by the cAveyance direct from the numerous wharves to the various railways round London of an cnormous amount of heavy goods at present carted through the streets of the metropolis. That your memo ri::lists are prepared to show that all the foregoing ad vantages can be secured to the public by the carrying out of their plan without the infliction of injury on, or inconverience to, any interests or individuals, and at a cost which brings the whole undertaking within a very moderate compass. That the plans have been submitted in detail to the various public departments interested in the questions at issue, but the promoters have in fact (and on this important point they submit they stmd in a singular and distinct position from the promoters of any other metropolitan undertaking), been referred to your h gin. board, as the only competent authority to investi gate and pronounce an opinion upon the question as a whole, and ~n the benefit , or otherwise to be derived by the public from the concession of the powers sought to be (.I,tained. That your memorialists entertain a strong eon victio r that the undertaking will be commercially valuable and self-supporting, and can be carried into exeaition without any expenditure of public funds. That tire ohject of your memorialists is to elicit, after such an examination of the scheme as your hon. board may deem proper, a general expression of your opinion in favour thereof, which will enable the promoters to obtain the permission of the public departments for the submission of their plans to a Parliamentary committee, and thus secure to them the Q portunity of substantiating in de tail the correctness of their views, and, as a consequence, the attainment of the powers they seek. Signed en lee i,alf of the promoters.—Edward Loder, 43, Cambridge terrace, Hyde-park." RE-NAMING OF STREETS. As the first instance in which the board has exercised its power of altering the names of streets, the subjoined recommendation of the building committee, which was adopted by the court, may not prove uninteresting : That the application of Mr. Robert Salmon for permis sion to alter the name of a certain t,treet or place Somers Town, known as " Toms-buildings," to " Equity buildings," be granted, on condition that he do obtain and produce to the board the written consent of the owner or owners of the other houses in such stieet or place. Several reports were presented by Mr. Mar r,ble, the superintending architect, on applications made by different parties for permission to extend their houses by building on the fore-courts. In every in stance the applications were p-jected. METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS. Mr. WILKINsorf submitted the subjoined resolution, after a brief address, "That the vari,us Parliamentary reports and papers in relation to metropolitan improve ments already circulated among the members by order of the board be referred to the Committee of Works ant Improvements, with authority to consider and re port I hereon." Mr. D'IFFANGER seconded the motion. Mr. LESLIE opposed the proposition. According to the terms of the motion, immense volumes would he laid before the committee upon which they could not possibly report. Mr. HALL suggested that the words " with authority to con-i.er them and report thereon" should be left out, and that the following should be substituted, "for their assistance in considering improvements now, or hereafter, to he referred to them by this board." Mr. WILKINeoN willingly consented to adopt these words as part of ins proposition. Mr. Deputy HARRISON believed that the reference to the committee should be more extensive, and would therefore move " that it be referred to the Committee of Works to consider the present state of general communi cation to and in the metropolis, and of the best means of improving the same, and report thereon to this board." The PRESIDENT ruled that the words proposed by the deputy could not be admitted as an amendment. Mr. Hawkes and Mr. Ware spoke against the motion, and Major Lyon earnestly besought the board not to hand over such great powers to a committee. He con cluded by proposing an amendment which the President decided to be irregular. The motion, on being put, was carried by a majority of 15 to 12. Mr. SEELEY moved, " That in order to make provi sion for the proper carrying into effect the 144th clause of the Metropolis Local Management Act, it be referred to the finance committee to prepare and lay before the board au estimate of the several sums which it will be necessary yearly to assess upon each parish or district in the metropolis, in order to rea'ise a stated income of 100,0001. per annum, to be applied to the purposes de scribed in the said 144th clause. And also an estimate of the rate which will be required to raise such sum, supposing that the whole metropolis be rated in one and the same proportion." Agreed to. BALANCE OF F.ARTIES AT OXFORD. OXFORD, SATURDAY. The election thig afternoon of a professor, as a member of the hebdomadal council, in the room of Professor Wikon, whose term of office as professor of moral phi losophy had expired, was the occasion of a struggle be tween the two parties in the University designated hi g h church and low chu rc h. D r. J aco b son, R eg i us Professor of Divinity, was the candidate of the for mer, and Dr. Macbride, Principal of Magdalen Hall, Lord Almoner's Reader in Arabic, was the candidate of tie latter. The polling commenced at 2 O'clock, and was continued with u na b a t e d v i gour un til 3, the time ap pointed for its closing. Nearly all the heads of houses and resident professors recorded their votes. So well balanced were the parties, that each was alternately at the head of the poll, from its opening to its close. At 3 o'clock the proctors cast up the votes, the num ber- being, for Dr. Jacobson, 71 ; Dr. Macbride, 69. The election of a member of convocation to iit at the hebdomadal council iii the room of Mr. Mozley, of Mag dalene College, who had resigned, was also well contested. The candidates were Mr. Randolph, burger and fellow of Merton College, and Mr. Hedley, tutor and fellow of University College. At the el. se of the poll the votes were—for Mr. Randolph, 76 ; for Mr. Hedley, 68. Ma jority for Mr. Randolph, 8. Ga/igttaft; relates, with much enthusiasm, the signal s iccess of Madame Ristori in the first representation of Legouve'e new tragedy, " MeLlea." The tragedy has been translated, and its representation at the Italian plays - is described by our contemporary as the theatrical event of the week, )I'.T DON MO N DAY EVENING.. ING APRIL 14 SPORTING NOTES. TBEANNUAG MOTION FORT.IIEBALLOT. The claim of the electoral body of this country to the protection of the ballot in the discharge of their consti tutional duty of " freely and indifferently" electing their representatives in Parliament, will be again brought, by Mr. IL Berkeley, M.P., before the House of Commons, on Tuesday, 290 April inst. No one acquainted with the state of public feeling in their constituencies can fail to be aware that the ballot is the measure of reform, in the progress of which the greatei4 interest is felt by the electors. In prospect of another division on the ques tion, which may be. the - last during ths present Parlio,- uAt, it will be inte,r -sting to trace Ake history of the ballot during the four Parliaments oft Ale present reign. In the first Parliament elected in 180itithe adoption of the ballot was moved by Mr. Grotty on the 15th of February, 1838, when there divided—A,ee, 198 ; noes, 315. In 1839, Mr. Grote renewed his ,motion ;on this occasion a greater nutubar voted for the ballot than in any o t her were, 2 ther division ; h t e e it n h o e e r s b , before or since that time. The ayes Tee effect of the great number of supporters obtained by Mr. Grote was to induce Lords Melbourne and Lord John Russell to make the ballot an open question 'in the Cabinet, one of its ablest supporters, Mr. Macaulay, being made Secretary of War. In the Parliament of 'lB4l the Tories obtained a la?ge 'majority, the numbers of the supporters of the ballot of cour.e was diminished; Mr Grote bad retired from Parliament; and the atten tion and energies of the people were absorbed in the free 'rade struggle. Under these circumstances the ballot was only once mooted in ti at Parliament, viz , in 1842, wr.eit the ayes were 157, the noes 240, In the Parliament elected in iso the ballot was ' hrougl , t yearly before the Hoeseof Commons by Mr. H. Berkeley, the numbers being as follop ;--1848, ayes, .86 ; noes, 81, , ,1549-40., 841, 1850.-aiumit 121 ; noes, 176. 1851, ayes, 87 ; noes, 50. 1852, ayes, 144 ; noes, 246. _ _ _ On two occas;ons it will be seen Mr. Berkeley obtained a maj , rity, but in each case at late a period to allow of further pr egress being made with the measure, though in 1848 a bit,, was prepared, brou2lit in, and read a first time. The effect of thee reiteraed discussions was to increase the number of the support.-rs of the ballot in the Par iamert e!eeted in 1852, not withstandirg that elec tion took 'lane ui:der the aulAces of "Beresford, Flew ker, and Fr ail," Shortly after the general election, the " Society for Promoting the A loption r f the Ballot," was established. This body have especially attended to , ecuring the presence at the divisions on Mr. Berkeley's annual motion of ineinbtra fay.urable to the measure. The resnt of these cireemstance have been an increase in the butuher of Mr. Barkeley's supporters on each di vision during the present Parliament compared with the divisions fr .re 1817 to 1852. The following are the numbers :-1853, ayes 172, noes 232 ; 1854, ayes 157, noes 191 ; 1855, ayes 166, noes 217. Altogether 229 ineini,ers of the present Parliament have in the al *se three divisions voted for the balitt, but the ayes hive never attained the .am' number as in 1839, viz., 216 HO each of then , ir,em')ers been .is he ought to have beer) pre ent at any one of the three divisions, the ayes might have been carried bayond the maximum attained in'lB39. _ A Tory organ speaks with triumph of "the perceptible decrea-e in the followers of Grote and Bentham slice the question was first mooted," and congratulates its readers on the fact "that a proposition only once supported under any circumstances by 200 members cannot be considered as hiving come practically before the coun try for its trial." The friends of the ballot should there !ore use every exertion to secure the attendance at the cooing division of 200 members at least. Lot them b ,, ar in mind the effects which followed the division of 1839, and as the success then attained is not lost, for the bal lot is an op 4 n question in the present Cabinet, let them by as powerful a display as pos-ible of their Parliamen tarp streng'sh induce Lord Palmerston to act with regar 1 to the b dint as he has acted on the Church-rate question. The friends of religious liberty, by bringing the pressure from withiut to bear through the House of Commons on the Ministry, hayr in three years converted a majority of 48 against Church-late abolition into a majority of 43 in its favour. The mu aerials and means for securing a similar triumph for the ballot are the same, and equally witlin the power of its friends ; and the cause of freedom of election is surely as worthy a persevering and arduous struggle as the cause of freedom of conscience. THM FETIALE CON riffs UNDER SEN- TiNCE OF DEATH IN NEWGATE. The two unhappy women, Elizabeth Ann Harris and Celestina Somner, who were convicted on Wednesday and Thursday, the former of the murder oUter children by drowning, and the latter of the murder of her child by cutting its throat, and whose cases excited so painful an interest upon the trial, were removed immediately after tae sentence was pronounced to separate rooms on the female side of the orison, where they will remain until their ultimate fate is decided upon by the Govern ment. A female turnkey is in the room with each pri soner the whole of the day, and at night two women sit up with them. It has been already stated that there is no condemned cell, as it was commonly termed, and mvicts who are under sentearce of death are now spared the misery of being confined in the gloomy receptacle formerly appropriated t, that purpose for the short period of their existence prior to the carrying out of the fatal sentence. They are now placed in a comfortable aitartn3ent, where they have the advantage of light and warmth; and no reasonable privilege likely to soothe them in their melancholy position is denied them. Both the unhappy women, although they were very much ex cited during their trial (particularly the woman Harrie), have since become much more composed; but the worean Harris appears more fully impressed with her awful posi tion than the other prisoner. The Rev. Mr. Dav el, the chaplain of the gaol, has been in constant attendance upon theto, and Miss Frazer, a benevolent lady, who devotes her attention to the sr .lace of the wretched in mates of this place of woe, has also been frequently with the prisoners, i,nd her religious exhortations have appa rently had effect upon Celestina Somner. She is stated to be only 24 years old in the calendar, but is it appears two year- older ; even according to this she must have brought the Unhappy child whose life she destroyed into Vie world when she was little more than 15 years old. She affects to believe that there is no intention of carry ing out the sentence of death, and she has stated that she expects to be sent to a lunatic asylum, and that after she has been confined there a few months, she shall be set at liberty. But the authorities of the prison, as well as the medical officers, are of opinion that there is not the least ground for supposing that her mind is in any way disturbed. The prisoner appears to have re ceived a good education, and it is said that she is re spectably connected. A very fearful impression prevaris upo❑ the subject of the paterni - y of I a child, which is not necersary more particularly to allude to. The woman Harris is only 25 years old, and she appears to have received very little education, being scarcely able to read. It is now several years since a woman was exe cuted at Newgate, the last being a girl named Browning, for the murder of an old woman in Westminster, with the object of getting possession of what she believed to be a Bank of England note, but which, after she had committed the dreadful crime, turned out to be a note of the Bank of "Elegance," and utterly worthless. It is understood that a petition for a commutation of the sen tence is in course of preparation, and it is almost need less to add that the authorities of the prison earnestly hope it may have effect, and that they may all be spared from the performance of the distressing duty that will devolve upon ;them should they have to carry the law into effect. TURKISH GUARANTEED LOAN. DEPUTATION TO M. MUSURUS. On Saturday morning, pursuant to appointment, a deputation of the holders of Turkish guaranteed bonds waited upon the Ottoman minister, at his residence, Bryanstone-square, to submit to his Excellency's atten tion a proposition for the registration of the bonds. The deputation consisted of Mr. Oliveira, M.P., Mr. Crau furd, M.P., Mr. Ralli, and Mr. H. Toogood, and was received by his Excellency with mush courtesy. Mr. OLIVEIRA explained the object of the deputation, and stated the result of his interrogatbn of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, who had alleged that the ques tion was one in which the English GOvernment could not interfere, but which they would sanction c old any ar rangement be entered into for the purpose with the Porte and the Bank of England. He had since applied to the Govei nor of the Bank, from whom he read a letter, stating that the Bank was prepared to consider any plan which the Ottoman Minister might submit t) his Go vernment for effecting the object in view. Mr. Oliveira, •sho stated that Mr. S(!ott, M.P., Mr. Hutf, M.P., Mr. Luce, M.P., Mr. Curt's , a nd Mr. trzielli had ex pressed their approval of his su2westion, and then read a letter from Mr. Hutchinson, chair Ilan of the Stock Exchange, regretting his absence, and recommending the conversion, at the option of the holders, of the bon s into registered transferable Wock, which would have the effect of greatly raising its va , ue in the market, and of the desirability of which he quoted a striking instance. The hon. member explained fully how the registration of the bonds would opt rate in their favour as a security. Mr. RALLI then addressed the Minister, and observed that he was a holder of the bonds to the amount of 25,0001., and bought them to kee p , not as a speculation ; consequently the registration would be in his case very desirable. His Excellency, who speaks English with great fluency, listened with marked attention to the state ments of Mr. Oliveira, and after putting several ques tions, which were responded to by Mr. Craufurd, ob• served that the proposition undoubtedly tended to give additional security to the holders of tile bonds, and promised that he would take immediate steps to com municate with the Porte, as well as with the Governor of the Bank of England, on the subject. The deputatiin, after thanking his Excellency, then withdrew, much satisfied with the result of their inter view. CRYSTAL PALACE.—FIVE SHILLING DAY, APRIL 12. —Admissions on payment, 297 ; ditto by season tickets, 2,581 ; total vioitors, 2,878. TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF TILE V AUX HALL RAILWAY TION. Last night a fire of a terrific nature, the reflection of which must have been seen throughout every portion of the metropolis, and many parts of the coutity of Surrey —broke out in the station-of the London and South- Western Company, situated at Vauxhall, and near to her Majesty's private station. The flames, it appears, were first perceived by Mr. In spector Etrker, one of the officials at Watermo terminus, who, having been sent to see a gentleman at the Vauxhall station, Was in the act of ascending the staircase on the down line, when he noticed that the fire wa s b urn i ng the paper and canvas wall leading to the offices of Mes,rs. Maudslay. An immediate alarm of fire was raised, and every one we❑t to the assistance of those previously on the plat form, but without being able to do the least good, inas much as the fire travelled with the rapidity-of electricity, seizing upon the whole of the offices, then extending to the ticket depots, and finally seizing upon the roof of the station, and, burning both upwards and downwards, it assumed such a formidable aspect as to convince every One that-the station was doomed to be whol;y destroyed, and it was questionable whether any of the buildings that adjoined it could escape. A telegraphic message was, therefore, at once des patched to the Waterloo terminus, conveying the un welcome intelligence of the disaster, and at the same time men were sent down the line to stop any train ap proaching London, in order to prevent accidents. The latter was fortunately accomplished, but some hundreds of excnnionists and others were put to great inconve nience, as they were unable to -get nearer town than the Clapham and Nine Elms Stations. The Southampton excursion train which left LOndon in the morning conveyed nearly 7DO persons, who, of course, would have to walk or provide their own con veyance from the Nine Elms station to London. Information having reached the terminus the engines of the brigade and the West of England were dolled, but the flames having ,hown such a lurid glare in the horizon the engines hic-I started bef .:e the messengers had time to reach them, a. 4.1 having been guided to the place by the light in the air on. ) , he firemen at once went to work in a manner fur which they ere proverbial on similar oc casions. The moment the plugs of the Lambeth, Vauxhall, and Southwark Companies' mains were drawn a sufficient supply of water was obtained to set the engines of Price's candle works, Messrs. Burnett's and Hodge's distillery, to work, as well as that of the %Vest of England Office, and many of the London Brigade. The station, however, standing upon the top of the line, and being taiilt of wood, a ,d the wind blowing stiffly off the river Thames, the confi gration continued to pro gress, and at length cointnehced to attack the houses on the south side of the property, and by 11 O'clock sundry portions of the timber roof give way and fat with a great crash, portions being hurled into the middle. Of the per mar ent way and abut parts falling at the feet of the fire men ; but in spite of their most strenuous labours net. the least impression could be made upon the violence of the flames. TM) men, however, under the admirable directions of their superior officers, Messrs. Henderson, Conporton, Holloway, Yeinming, and several others, stood to their post-, ; but, even at the time this account was written-12 o'clock—although all da,ger of any further extension of mischief was over, the fire was far from being entirely extinguished. By that period the whole of the statiAt, hooking-officeA, warehouses, Scc., were reduced to ruins, net even the woouen walls of the railway company rematuing. The moment the news was received at the Waterloo terminus, Mr. Crornbie, the secretary ; Mr. Young, the superinteritient of the terminus ; Mr. Godson, and seve ral other officials hastened to the spot and gave the necessary instructions as to what was best to be done to pres r eot scaidents, and by so doing not a single person was injured. The mail baps were taken by one of Mr. Barwick's vans and deposited at the Nine-elms station, and they left the place in sufficient time to be delivered in the country at the usual hour this day. Of course nothing could pass up or down the line between Waterloo aed Vauxhall last night; bnt owing to the permanent way not being damaged by the fire to any extent, the line will he sufficiently cleared and repaired during the night_ to allow the trains to run as usual this day. To give anything like an idea of the inconvenience ocs casioned at the London terminus would be next to an impossibility ; every cab, omnibus, and other vehicle on the platform and the stands in the open streets were taken away. The public houses, instead of being over crowded, were completely deserted, and business might be fairly stated to h we become for a time suspended. A crowd, roughly estimated at at least 50,000 person , , lined the roads leading tb the fire, they Laving been drawn from various parts of the metropolis by the re flexion, but were kept out of danger by the police of the A, L, and M divisions, under the personal directions 41 Superintendents Walker (A), Evans (L), Branford (M), and a host of inspectors. Up to the time this account was written we did not kear of any one having met with a fatal accident, neither could it be ascertained whether the station was insured or n. 4. OFFICIAL REPORT. The following is the official report of this melancholy occurrence : TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sunday, April 13, 12 p.m. Sir,—l regret to have to announce that the buildings of the Vauxhall station of the SAith-Western Railway Cotnpail have been this evening entirely destroyed by fire, fortunately without 10-s of life or personal injury. I have the satisfaction to state that, after a careful exa mination, tie permanent way has been found to be unin jured ; and the only inconvenience therefore, to the pub lic will be the temporary ce , sation of the ,t,,pping of any trains at the Vauxhali station until necessary accommo dation can be provided--I am, sirs, y ours, &c., L. CROMBIE, Secretary. ALARM OF FIRE AT DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Early yesterday morning there was an alarm of fire a, Drury-lane Theatre which arose under the following cir cumstances : It appears that at the conclusion of the per formances on Saturday night, the committee of the theatre, according to previous arrangement, arrived upon the stage for the purpose of witnessing some experiments with Phillips's patent fire annihilators, in order to test their applicability in case of fire occurring within the building. Mr. Curtis, the secretary of the An nihilator Company, some of his men, and a number of machines were taken upon the stage, while the hands employed in the theatre were in other parts ce the house, to be ready to assist in case anything should arise to demand their services. The perf)rinances commenced with a trial between the patent hand pump, such as is used by the fire brigade, and one or two small annihilators, to see which could most quickly ex tinguish the lights burning in the battens over the stage. nese battens are about '4O feet high, and have each a great number of perforations to allow the gas to escape so as to illuminate the top of the stage and " borders." Three firemen, named Samuel Girrard, John Jones, and J. Webster, were engaged working the band pumps and discharging water over the gas jets to ascertain which would most effectually extinguish the flame. The water from the pumps for some time appeared to prove of greater advantage than the small annihilating machines, when it was proposed by Mr. Curtis, the secretary, that one of the larger machines, drawn upon two wheels, should be tried. This was accordingly done, and the carriage having been placed near the centre of the stage, a large iron funnel, 15 feet iu length, was attached for the purpose of assisting the vapour to reach the gas burning in the battens. The signal having been given, the man in charge of the annihilator broke the bottle containing the acid, which ignited the composition, and the vapour commenced to escape, but in a few seconds the funnel, through which the gas generated in the ma chine was passing, b'ew off, and was projected up to the flies and lodged under the bridge of the stage in a heated state. At the same time the cap or lid of the annihilator was blown off, which knocked down the man having charge of the apparatus, and passed by him to a distance of 35 feet, The machine then threw up such a vast body of fire that every one in the theatre apprehended its en tire destruction. Fortunately the firemen bad taken the precaution to have their engines placed upon the stage and charged with water, and they were therefore en abled without the least delay to render assistance. So great was the concussion caused by the explosion that another annihilator standing on the stage rolled away, and having broken the iron and glass of five of the floats it fell into the orchestra, demolishing one of the musk stands and upsetting the seats. This so alarmed the com mittee that they rushed out into the street, and a cry of " fire " was at once given, which caused the engines to arrive in the course of a few minutes. The firemen cor fleeted with the theatre, however, managed to get the fire subdued, and before any groat damage was done, the only part that was but nt through the eurface of the wiedwork being a beau under the bridge of the first tier of the flies. The man who had charge of the ma chine was severely burnt by the force of steam that escaped when the explosion took place. Mr. Tuck , r, the master carpenter, was also burnt in his bands by the rush of steam. A man named Watson was likewise badly burnt, arid was taken by Lyons, the gas man, to AF the hospital, but was soon enabled to return home. A to the precise cause of the expiosidnenothing positive could be ascertained, but it is supposed that the lid or top of the machine could not have been properly rivette el, as the mechines are invariably strong enough to bear the force of the charge they contain. COMMUTATION OF SENTENCE.—WaI and Carr, the two men left at Liverpool to be hanged for the murder of a seaman by strangulation, have had their sentence com muted to transportation for life. CALCRAFT THE EXI.CU T lONER. On Saturday the aldermen forming the gaol committee held a meeting at the Guildhall, which Caleraft, the public hangman, at tended, to explain his conduct at the execution of Bons field. The meeting was strictly private, but it is under stood that Calcrah's services are to be retained, and that he ie to have an aasiktal►it. _ NOTIONS FROM NEVVMARKET. The fielders were "in for it again " at Epsom. With one exception only the favouriteS won every race, and book-makers perhaps are scarely of opinion that the one turn which they got over, the City and Suburban, was good enough to deserve anOther. The hostility which Hospitality encountered for that event was inexplicable, and the good men and true whom I saw so eager to lay completely deceived me, and made me believe that the Stable was not in earnest. Ochers were equally mis taken, and " slipped it in" to Hospitality with a deter mination which nearly drove the horse completely out of the betting. The party, however, placed strong faith in the superiority of Hospitality, but to prevent accident they backed him coupled with Ellermire, with whom he had been most satisfactorily tried, and with whom it *as said he had run a dead heat. A nicer-made horse than Hospitality I have never seen ; he won his race easily enough, and it will be a good animal indeed that can beat him for the Chester Cup. His party, it is reponed, won upwards of 10,0001. on the race, Messrs. Jackson, Hargreave, and W. R)binson being the principal winners. Fisherman ran a pane horse, and it was the opinion of many good judges that ho would not have been bea.en had not so much use been made of him during the race. This gipi;ion, how ever, I do not entertain, for unquestiona?ly the best horse not only won, but achieved success with evident ease. St. Hubert got so bad a start that of course it is impossible from his performance to form any correct judgment on his present racing pretensions. Still I bcarcely believe he would have been amongst the first three had he "got off" on advantageous terms. His owner was doubly disappointed by the bad start, for not only was his chance-of winning, but the opportunity of obtaining a line with St. Hubert, to measure the capa bilities of his three-year-olds, was also lost. Last year Can.nobie appeared a huge over-grown dromedary of a horse, but he has thickened and improved to a wonderful degree. My scepticism as to his superi ority was removed as soon as I saw him, for I never be held a more magnificent specimen of the cheval pur, He stands at least sixteen hands high ; still his legs seem short. but his back appears as long as a church. He has, too, magnificent shoulders, and in my opinion he is the very beau ideal of a Darby horse. The mo derate quality of the animals which he encountered for the Metropolitan renders it somewhat difficult to form a correct estimate of his powers. Notwithstanding, how ever, the disadvantages of a bad start, he galloped away from his opponents without an effort, and won in a trot. His action, although somewhat high, is long and sweep ing. A rumour obtains that Mr. Merry has purchased Cannobie, it is said, for 2,0001. ; but this report I am disinclined to believe. If Lord John Scott has really sold him, I should be induced to think that Mr. Lawley, who won a good stake on the "Metrop," is the purchaser. Still, Cannobie's performance for the Metrop was not so g )od as that of Hospitality for the City. Notwith standing the force with which Middleton was brought into the market at the last moment, I' am inclined-to regard his rtnaning with suspicion. Sure yto take the line afforded by Bobby Taft's running for the .N.inh amptonshire Stakes. as a criterion, Middleton ought to have been before Winkfield. Smack obtained only the barren honours of thirl place. This horse is raid to have been one of Went worth's trial horses, and that the crack beat him in a canter. To possess a chance with Cannobie, however, he ought to have left him out of sight. A morning, redolent of all the sweet and fragrant in fluences of the season, tempted the few turfites Ideated at Newmarket to take an early stroll over the breezy downs, and to watch the matutinal performances of the high-bred cattle. As I am writing the sound and the whistle of the Special ie heard rousing the inhabitants to temporary stir and excitement. A few minutes pause, and the stillness of the streets is disturbed by the rat tic of cabs and flys. The bustle and stir caused by the in coming visitors is, however, merely transient, and within tnn rninutees of the arrival of the train the town again became quiet. Heavy clouds are gathering, but bright patches of blue are still visible, and despite the sharp shower of rain which is pattering against ray window, the skiey itilluences augur favourably for a sunny genial week. The programme presents many attractive "features." The Burwell Stakes is the princirral event to be decided on Tuesday, but the interest which it might have ex sited has been destroyed by the probable appearance of Cannobie amongst the starters. Cock of the North, however, who will concede him only 6163. for the year has been freely backed, and some pe pie seem induced to believe that Mr. Merry has really become the pur chaser of Cannobie, and intends to reserve him for the Derby, and let the Cock of the North represent his in terest. My opinion on the reported sale of Cannobie is stated above. Should he start, I shall expect him to follow up with success his Epom achievement. Still, Mr. Merry had a horse in the trial with Cannobie, and ought, therefore, to possess a goof line by which to measure his horse's chance. Vengeance and Boer, perhaps present the beat titles to notice for the Craven Handicap. Of the light weights my preference is for Piccaninny. Fly by-Night is reported broken down ; hence the opposition which he encountered on Saturday for the Two Thousand and Derby. ShoUld this report be true, I must look to Weimer to carry off the Column Stakes. Expectations ' are, * however, entertained that Fly-by- Night will visit Newnaarket. The Newmarket Handicap is likely to bring out a large field. Siding, Fisherman, and Smack stand fore most in my estimation. Of the top weights my prefer ence is for Defiance. Should I gather any scrap of in• formation of value I will place it, amongst other mat ters, before the reader on Wednesday. Newmarket, April 13. A FRESH MAN. TA TTERSALL'S-SATURDAY. The room was opened for the devpatch of business relative to the transactions on the recent events at Crox ton Park and Epsom ; in the course of the afternoon a considerable sum of money changed hands. When speculation was resumed it became in two or three instances sufficiently signiacant and important to produce quite a sensation. Notwithstanding certain efforts for some time past to uphold Fly-by-Night for the Two Thousand and the Derby, so strong a current of opposition set in against him today that he was forced back to 8 to 1 for the former event, and to 14 to 1 for the latter, and there ap peared to be little hope of his reaching again the points from which he had been driven. Yellow Jack, mean while, went rapidly ahead. After 6 to 4 had been taken t o a good deal of money, be touched at evens, and several hundreds were then invested on hint. At the close, however, 110 to 100 was repeatedly offered on the field. Porto Rico received good support at 5 to 1. Even money and 5 to 4 was betted on Cannobie for the Bur well Handicap, and from 8 to 1 for the Derby be sprang t' 5 to 1 taken ; 17 to 2 was taken to 501. about him for the two events. At 4 to 1 and 7 to 2 the total outlay on Wentworth was fully 500/. ; the higher odds would have been taken to a larger sum. CLOSING PRICES. BURWELL HANDICAP. Even and 5 to 4 on Cannobie (taken) 5 to 1 agst Cock of the North (taken) THE TWO THOUSAND. 11 to 10 agst Yellow Jack (taken) sto 1 agst Porto Rico (taken freely) Bto 1 agst Fly-by-Night (offered) 100 to 6 agst Peter Wilkins (taken) CHESTER CUP. 7to 1 agst Hospitality (take Bto 1) 14 to 1 agst Yorkshire Grey (taken) THE DERBY. 7to 2 agst Wentworth (taken) sto 1 agst Cannobie (taken) 10 to 1 agst Ellington (taken and offered) 100 to 6 agst Rogerthorpe (taken) • 20 to 1 agst Porto Rico (taken) 60 to 1 agst Sugar Plum (taken) 2to 1 agst Wentworth and Can no bi e , coup l e d (ken) GREAT STRIKE OE LANARKSHIRE COLLIERS.—In con sequence of a resolution on the part or the coal masters to reduce the wages of the colliers is. per day—viz , from ss. to 4 s. — g reat excitement has prevailed among the workmen, and meetings attended by sev era l thou sands have been held this week in the various mining distr cts iu Lanarkshire. On Thursday a meeting at tended by 5,000 men was held at the Govan Colliery, near Glasgow, and resolutions were passed not, to work excepting at the old rate of ss. per day,'the men alleging that the price of iron, for the smelting of which the pro duce of the pits is principally used, fully justifie4 the former rate of wages. In the meantime fully 14,000 men are on strike in what is termed the Glasgow dis trict, and, though hitherto the men have been peaceable, much uneasiness exists as to the result. It is expected that in the beginning of next week the strike will ext en d -to the cciiinties'of Renfrew and Ayr. Very few pits still continue at work at the old wages of ss. per day. NI Ale. i Od Od sold 40. d sold sold L'Ltbr 12tDs nior 1 04 , ea 106 1 2id sd Tail t•lter woo leral ; wet kers ode , ud• 11 LIADY 1414 1101.1 17 :: r • .. ,