The Sun. — London, England, 1856-05-29 00:00:00

H ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Madame ALBONI. GRAND EXTRA NIGHT. —TO-MORROW EVENING (Friday, May 30th), will be repeated Bellini's Opera, LA SONNAMBU LA. Amina, Madame Alboni ; Lisa, Madlle. Rizzi ; Teresa, Madlle. Borgaro ; Elvino, Signor Salviani ; Alessi°, Signor Vario ; and Count Rodolpho, Signor Beneventano. To conclude with the new Ballet Divertissement, LA MANOLA. Madame Albert Eellon, Mdlles. Katrine, Rosa, Lisereux, Clara, Pierron, M. Venafra, and M. Vandris. The Scenery by Mr. Charles Marshall. Madlle. PICCOLOMINL—On Saturday, Madlle. Piccolo mini will make her fourth appearance. Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre, Colonnade, Haymarket. ROYAL SII:ZREY THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. ON FRIDAY EVENING, Will be performed MARTIN CIIUZZLEWIT. To be followed by A THUMPING LEGACY. To conclude with TWICE KILLED. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Win. Cooke. A GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE, THIS DAY, at Three o'clock, when will be presented, for the first time, a Patriotic Allegorical Pageant Drama, entitled THE FES TIVAL OF PEACE, or Honour to the Brave; with a bril liant series of Scenes in the Circle. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, Jun. HIGH. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAT—Morn. 28 min. aft. 9—Evening 1 min.aft. 10 Ta-Molutow—lforn. 23 min. aft.lo —Evening 2 min. aft. 11 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, MAY 29. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 69—highest since noon yesterday. 86 —lowest this morning and during the night. 61—this day at noon. BAROMITIII 29-98. Wym, N. to N.N.E.—Rather fresh, with dull weather and glimpses of sunshine. _r " e 1 15 at tr irml i •—• 11,114 LONDON, TIIIIRSDAY, MAY 29, 1856. THE ILLUMINATIONS. The greatest fools make the rarest shows We hope that the evil consequences (yet to come) of this patched up mock - Peace may teach Posterity to beware of being parties to such national humiliation in their day. The once proud land of the Free is now betrayed to Continental hypocrites, in order that a foreign nobody of yesterday may be the future purveyor of kindred despots : " Trust not your freedom to the Franks ; They have a King who buys and sells : In native swords, and native ranks, Your only hope of freedom dwells !" The day of illumination for the bitter first fruits of a mismanaged war has at last arrived. And of all days in the year, as we took seca.sion to notice last week, it is the anniversary of the restoration of that debauched traitor, CHARLES 11., who sold his people for French gold, and suffered that glorious flag, which the genius of the Great OLIVER and the enterprise of the heroic BLAKE had elevated to the highest pinnacle of renown, to be draggled. in the mud—brought England, in point of fact, to so sorry a pass that a Dutch Admiral, with every circum stance of insult, swept the Channel, and, sailing unimpeded up the Thames, menaced with the thunder of his guns the safety of the me tropolis ! Royal Oak day ! Could there have been a more appropriate day selected for the cele bration of a truce dictated and enforced by a con spiracy of foreign despots and domestic traitors ! Corporal NYM must have admired " the humour of it " had that veteran conveyancer been still in the land of the living. " Sold again !" cried the sententious parrot over the victim of a huckstering espousal. "Sold again." Not all the guns in the Park will this day be able to drown the ominous words, " Sold again"—a thorough unmitigated "sell !" The very artists employed by Government to furnish designs for the illumination seem to have been influenced by a consciousness of the fact. At Somerset House, for instance, the wreath of national glory is painted. waving feebly upward from beneath the anchor in the salt 00z: where it lies drowned. Never was wit- nessed a greater poverty of invention, nor a more straggling array of paltry devices on the part of private individuals. When the people of this country do rejoice they do so handsomely. The inference is obvious, and the absence of all enthu siasm in the streets confirms it—everybody feels, to a greater or less extent, we have been " sold again." We are only surprised that the illumi nation at the Horse Guards is not in keeping with that at Somerset House. The device there should have been the Gallic Cock, in the act of crowing, perched on the shoulders of the British Lion, muzzled. The motto of the Garter is, however, well enough in its way. Boni soft qui mal y pense—evil be to him who evil thinks—an indi rect confession, as we take it, of guilt. So poor, in fact, is the display, and so little proof does it afford of any rejoicing on the part of the people, that were the Government designs with drawn there would be little more to be witnesses than on an ordinary Birth-day. The people are wiser than their rulers give them credit for. What have they to rejoice over ? Rejoice, in May, over a German Peace, concluded in March ; a peace in the making of which they had no say, and which was ratified without the semblance of their concurrence. It is bad enough to be sold ; it is intolerable to be called upon to rejoice over such a bitter humilia tion ! The triumph is a German triumph, and a triumph over, and not of, the people. Let German hearts and German voices rejoice over it, together with those grovelling traders who would as readily illuminate if the Cz.ut were in posses mon of London. The population having to pay for all, whether they like it or not, may choose to witness the exhibitions which Government has provided, but they neither will nor can do more. Too many noble lives have been sacrificed, too much national treasure has been wasted, too bitter a pill of national humilia►ion has been swallowed, to admit of that. Their forefathers rejoiced over great victories gloriously won and followed by great results. How should they rej o i ce over a German Peace—fiver the stoppage of th e national arms, just as a career of glory and sue• cess, following on a period of ever-memorable dis aster, was opened out to them ! The people have not forgotten Agincourt, Cressy, the victories of the Peninsula, and the glorious 18th of June. NELSON and his achievements are not quite erased from their recollection. Prince ALsratT has not got them sufficiently Germanised for that. They cannot rejoice. Not a few, indeed, are to be found who go so far as to deplore the fact that her MAJEsry's Birthday should be celebrated on a day characterised by so much national humiliation. It would, indeed, have been fortunate if the irresponsible and secret directors of the Govern ment, and the responsible and avowed Ministers had been as solicitous for the honour and welfare of the United Kingdom as they showed theal selves to be to prevent any humiliation, or loss of power to Russia. Had it been so we never should have heard of " the nijserable CLABENDON _ capitulation," or the gratuitous and uncon• stitutional surrender of our unquestionable maritime rights. Never was there a sacrifice more wanton and uncalled for than that which Lord CLARENDON deliberately made. Not a single effort was made to avert the evil—not a word spoken in defence of what was considered by the Statesmen and Jurists of former days, as the clearest and most valuable privilege belonging to their " Mistress of the Seas," the most formidable weapon by which she could bring any enemy, whether continental or transatlantic, o reason. We were accustomed to rely on our ' wooden walls," not merely as defenders of the British soil, for any invaders, even if they effected a landing, would have bitter cause to deplore their temerity, but also as the means of checking and destroying the adversaries' commerce, and thus inflicting the heaviest blows on the sensitive part, the pocket. Against this power no enemy could stand. It was to it that England owed her eventual triumph. in the most serious struggle in which she had ever been involved. But for it there might have been no interruption to the NAPOLEON dynasty. The Great EMPEROR might have lain in state in the Tuileries in place of dying in exile. With its surrender we have abandoned the chief source of strength which entitled us to rank amongst the great Powers of Europe. It is obvious that England is not and cannot be a great military nation. We cannot maintain half or three-quarters of a million of fighting men, partly because our free institutions do not allow of forced conscriptions, and men, aye and boys, of all ranks being compelled to serve as private sol diers at the will of a despotic ruler ; partly, also, because our commercial and manufacturing occupations are too well remunerated to in duce men voluntarily to shoulder the firelock and accept the QUEEN'S shilling, but chiefly be cause we pay and feed our soldiers far better than any other nation, and do not allow them to make up by plunder for the scantiness of their ether resources. But our maritime power and maritime rights more than compensated for any and every deficiency. As GEORGE CANNING truly declared, we have " braved confederacies and sustained wars rather than give up the principle, and when ever in despair of getting the British" (they were British, not German Governments then) "Govern ment to surrender it by force, recourse had been had to proposals of amicable negotiations for the pur pose. of defining, limiting, or qualifying the exercise of the right of search, Great Britain had uni formly declined all such overtures, from a convic tion of the impracticability of qualifying, limiting, or even defining in terms that would be accept able to the other party the exercise of a right, without impairing, if not sacrificing the right itself." It was in speaking of that same right, and the attempt to produce a new code of maritime laws, that Mr. PITT made the memorable declaration " Whatever shape it assumes, it is a violation of public faith, it is a violation of the rights of England, and im periously calls upon Englishmen to resist it even to the last shilling and the last drop of blood, rather than tamely submit to degrading concession, or nreanly yield the rights of the country to shameful usurpation." Bat this degrading concession has been treacherously made at Paris without the slightest necessity on the insidious application of our own Ally. It wasto France that the power was peculiarly dangerous. In the event of any future compli cation in which the flags of France and England were array ed on opposite sides—and such an event is possible, although, we trust, notprobable— France could carry on her whole commerce under neutral flags, and her only vulnerable point being guarded by the concession so improvidently made might laugh our puny efforts to scorn. We have voluntarily disarmed ourselves, or have been com pelled to fling down our well-tried weapons by a juggle, of which we shall not trust ourselves to speak in the terms that it deserves. Lord CLARENDON is not the only delinquent. There are others implicated. The manner in which the surrender was made, proved that it was not the result of any sudden inspiration, but rather of a well-organised conspiracy to sap the foundation of England's greatness. Neither the Parliament nor the People of Great Britain were consulted. If such had been the case we can scarcely doubt the nature of the indignant response that would be heard from every district through out the length and breadth of the land. We would still be prepared to resist to the last shil ling and the last drop of blood the degrading concession, and refuse to barter our children's birthright to gratify Emperor, Kaiser, or Prince. But the matter was kept involved in deepest mystery. Not a hint was suffered to leak out of the terrible degradation and iojury about to be sustained by Great Britain. We were deluded into the notion that the Conference was held for the purpose of obtaining satisfactory guarantees from Russia, such as might justify the cessation of hostilities. It was not for a moment imagined that we, who had made no aggression, were to be required to make the heaviest sacrifice of all. The Italian question, and others, were venti lated as a mere excuse for the more se rious matter introduced. They were quietly shelved by the refusal of Count BUOL to dis cuss them, as not within the scope of his duties. But Lord CLARENDON did not adopt a similar course. He struck at the first summons not on a topic under discussion, but one that was surreptitiously and improperly introduced by those who should not have aimed a blow at, or been willing to surrender, England's rights. That it was illegal and unconstitutional we have no doubt. That it is not, and cannot be, binding on our successors is equally certain. We cannot deprive them of their weapons of offence and defence—cannot compel them to sur render their inalienable rights, rights indispens able to the hon Our and security of the country. It would be just as competent for Lords PALMER. STON and CLARENDON, LOUIS NAPOLEON, and the irresponsible Premier, to stipulate that England should pay tribute to France, acknowledge its supremacy, and entrust its defence in case of aggression to French soldiers, while the British helots worked at the loom or the plough, as that they should attempt to bind her not to resort to the only weapons that could be effectual in time of war. we repeat what we have already declared, that not on ly Lord C LLREN DON, but all the parties cognisant o f this miserable and degraded capitu lation, should be impeached and brought to con dign and exemplary punishment. CURIOUS TREASURE•TROVE. Ln.;ng must be much meet uh on the Derby day. easier than findi n g , for whe re yol— :mhae : or are must make money," you h dropped with one man " who has pecked come in contact wit h at least te n theirs. By the bye, t he Lord of the a good thing of it, if he claims all th e money that is dropped on those oceasions.—Panch,. THE FORCE OF HABIT. —Louis Napoleon has the credit, whether justly or not, of having concluded the present treaty. It would seem as if, at the "Theatre of War," as at all our other theatres, the English could not avoid taking their " Peace " train the French.— Puna. COLONIAL.—It is not true that the Governorship of Victoria was offered to Prince Albert, and in the hand somest manner refused,—Punch. "GERMAN PASTE." Our English glory is confirmed, our triumph ratified, A little English gold has gone—a few brave men have died ; But "Articles of Peace" are signed, and form a painted cage, Where, like the " Happy Family," all nations lose their rage, 'Tis curious to watch the "Bear" bow down with courtly stoop, And let the Gallic Eagle strut around him " cock-a-whoop ;" 'Tis strange to see the Lion stretched, like lamb on flowery plain, While PrussianßatsandAustrianCats are playing with his mane. fis whispered there's a secret in the mixture of their food, Some potent charm that cunningly affects their real blood ; And shrowd men have suspicion that the "secret" is a taste Of that mysterious condiment well known as "German Paste." So satisfying does it prove, 52 soon it yields enough, It seems a pity that our "stores" did not contain the stuff; That Englishmen and English steeds, on Balaklava's waste, Could not have had their lives saved by a little " German Paste." Perhaps John Bull may ask to know how this same stuff is made, Perhaps he'll find that this same stuff affords a Royal trade. Perhaps at last his genuine and honest roast-beef taste Will "stop supplies" for bills of fare made up of "German Paste." MARCO. t' PEACE, PEACE, WHEN THERE IS NO PEACE." LINES FOR MAY 29. Blazing rockets pierce the sky, Flags hang out from tower and steeple, Yet there is but little joy In the hearts of British people. Vain are the illuminations, Vain the cannon's thundering peal, Vain the Royal Proclamations, Joy Great Britain cannot feel. Great she is, alas ! no longer, In the dust she bows her head ; While the despots are but stronger, And the hopes of freedom dead. By our household idols shattered, All the brave ones we have lost, By the millions we have scattered, All the sum the war has cost. By our soldiers' deeds of wonder, Since they stood on Alma's height, We declare the peace a blunder, 'Tis our duty still to fight ! Oh ! for one more chance with Russia, This time on the open sea, Noble fleets but wait to crush her, Let them not inactive be ! Then, our mighty task completed, Shall the wrongs of Poland cease, And the nations all be treated To a happy, lasting peace. Now, though rockets pierce the sky, Banners wave from tower and steeple, Yet there is but little joy In the hearts of British people ! Brompton, May, 1856. W. G. FIREWORKS FOR MAY 29. Squibs, crackers, and rockets, And wheels—from our pockets Well paid for—oh, glorious, glorious peace ! What no one can boast of We shan't make a toast of, But pray, this our joy, may not soon have to cease. Squibs, rockets, and crackers, The war had its backers Not few ; but this peace, like a newspaper puff, The thoughtless hoodwinking, Has found many thinking That Louis, the Czar and Co., soon—but enough. Stars, candles, and bluelights ; Methought I saw two lights Shine forth in the heavens—ourselves were the one, And like to a brother At first seemed that other, But shortly it grew, and blazed hot as the sun. Stars, bluelights, and candles, And now from my sandels I shake the dust at you—yo who are blind ! Who wet not, unequal Where friends are, the sequel Is ever, the strong leave the weaker behind. Bells, triple bob-majors, As ringing for wagers— All jingling and jangling—Oh, Lord, what a din, And I writing treason With rhyme, if not reason ; Roar cannon ! bang pistols ! and laugh ye who win. Edinburgh. J. W. P. THE TEMPLE OP _HUMBUG. A PASTORAL. Tell me, shepherds, tell me, pray, Unto HUMBUG'S Fane the way; Shepherd swains, this pilgrim tell, Whereabouts doth Humbug dwell? Gentle stranget, take the way, On a morn in jocund May, Walking Eastward up the Strand; HUMBUG dwells on thy left hand. Yea, but shepherds, what may I Know the dome of HUMBUG by? Shepherds, kindly tell me what Signs denote the hallowed spot? Crowds of vo'aries who wait, Thronging round the Temple gale, Over whom sleek HUMBUG reigns, Se ions nsui7lis and solemn swains. Are they then so clearly seen By their countenance and mien ? May they be so surely known, By their garb, for HUMBUG'S own ? By their visages severe Nymphs and swains revealed appear; These in black with ties of white, Thofe in saddest hues bedight. Thanks, kind shepherds—now I'll go IV here CANT'S tumid rivers flow, Moods which Atm/worm pouroth out, And the Sabbatarians spout. Go where wild fana:dcs stray ; If, hke them, thou lose thy way, Ask for guidance to the HILL EXETER which Shepherds call.—Punch. His Royal Highness Prince Frederick William of Prussia visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, yesteriay, at Clarence House, St. James'e. His Excellency the Prince Carini arrived in town on Tuesday from Paris. His Excellency made a brief stay at the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, previous to his re• turn to Eaton-square. Sir Henry and Lady Houghton and family have ar rived from the Continent, and are sojourning at the Pavilion Hotel, Fiiikeistone. The Earl and Countess of Stamford and Warrington I ave arrived in Hill-street, from Enville Hall, Stafford- shire. Sir Archibald Alison, Bart., and Lady Alison have arrived at Rawieigh's private hotel, in Jerrnyt-street, from Possil L'lnarkshire. The Earl ,nd Countess of Clarendon gave a grand din ncr at the family residence in Grosvenor-crescent, last evening, to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary, and a distinguished circle of the nobility were invited tJ meet their royal highnesses. The Earl and Countess of Malmesbury entertained at dinner last evening the Earl and Countess of Chester field, the Earl of Stradbroke, the Marquis Conyngham and Lady Cecilia Conyegham, the Earl of Howth, 'he Earl of Eglinton, L"rd and Lady Delamere, Lord Otho Fitzgerald, the Hon. Admiral Rous and Mrs. Reus, Right Hon. Sir W. and Miss Somerville, the Hon. Gilbert Heathcota, Mr. Charles Greville, Lord Bateman, &c. _ MR. BARON PLATT.--Mr. Baron Platt, whose severe indisposition prevented him goinglastcircuit, or appear. ing in court during this and the previous term, is said to have tendered his resignation. PORTSMOUTH, Wednesday Night.—The W. S. Lind say has arrived with the head-quarters of the 4th Dra goons. The Clyde also, with the Army Works Corps. The Windsor has arrived from New South Wales, with the 99th Regiment. HEALTH OF THE BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER AND BRISTOL —We regret to learn from a correspondent that the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol is in a •ery weak state of health. Prayers were offered on hie behalf in the several churches in the diocese last Sunday. CHURCH BUILDING IN ST. PANCRAS.—The works at the Church of St. Matthew, Oakley-square, after being suspended for many months for want of funds, have now been resumed, and it is anticipated that the structure will be ready for consecration in the course of the present year. THE TRIAL OF PALMER.—By the now act under which Palmer was tried, an account of the expense of his removal and maintenance, &c., in Newgate, is to be de livered to the county treasurer of Stafford, who is to pay the same. Any objection to the account must be made in writing, within a ca!ender month of its delivery. We understand, from good authority, that this trial will cost the country at least le,oooi. TsE PRINCIPALITIES.—The Correspondence Autri chienae publishes an article upon the evacuation by the Austrian troops of the Danubian Principalities, which, it says, has commenced. The semi-official organ con cludes with stating that Austria will complete the evacuation immediately that the stipulations of the Treaty of Paris concerning the organisation of the Prin cipalities have been carried into effect. LORD BROOGIUM. — We regret to announce the death of the only sister of Lord Brougham, which took place on the 25th inst. The mournful event has happened at a moment when his lordship is far from well, although to the last moment assiduous in the discharge of his Par liamentary duties, both judicial and political. The 1)1- lowing letter from his lordship was read the other even iug by the Lord Chancel!or in the House of Lords : "My dear Lord Chancellor,—l am sorry that I must trouble you to take charge of the Carlisle petition and of my bills, as I an unable to attend, being very unwell ; but besides, I find that 17 years (since my afflictions in 1839) have, both by the length of time and the work, left me unable to struggle as I then did, and I may, per haps, venture to hope that I have earned a title to some rest under the present distress. Two of the bills are in their last stage ; but by far the most important (the Judicial Statistics) is not, and I earnestly recommend it to:your care. The prints are delivered to-day, and the numerous schedules, elaborately and most carefully pre pared, really exhaust the whole subject, and give a com plete system of judicial statistics, civil and criminal, general and local. As I shall almost immediately leave town, I hope you may receive this so as to act upon it before I go." Lord Brougham will, we believe, quit town immediately, either for Stratbfieldsaye or West. csoreland. THE SUN; LONDON; THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 185 6. BEATTIE'S WALLACE. An exquisite little bronze statuette of the ever glorious Sir William Wallace, the darling hero of Scotland, is at present on view at Mr. McLean's, in the Haymarket. Designed by a provincial sculptor for the Arts-Union of Glasgow, it cannot but be examined with some degree of curiosity by the miscellaneous art critics of the metropolis. No matter whether those who are by temperament more sanguine, or those who are by experience less credulous of the good things which may from time to time be worked out of marble, or pig ment, or metal, or granite by the cunning imple ments wielded elsewhere than under the fostering shade of the School of Design, or under the pro tuberant pepper-boxes of the Royal Academy ! Mr. Beattie's charming statuette of Wallace fur nishes, we cannot but think, conclusive testimony that taste, ability, and imagination may flourish elsewhere than in direct communication with the dark ice-house in which some fifty or sixty busts, good, bad, and indifferent, are annually displayed at the back of a particularly ugly building not a hundred miles from Charing-cross. The effigy of ,he champion of Scottish liberties as "bodied forth " by the creative fancy of Mr. Beattie is altogether so excellent of its kind, so accurate in costume, so chivalric in attitude, and so emi nently characteristic throughout that we are dis pcsed to regret that the scale upon which the design was carried out was not colossal rather than miniature. Such, too, we cannot but ima gine will be the sentiment with which this very ohaste production of art will be viewed by the majority of those who may examine it, whether as connoisseurs of sculpture, as admirers of heroism, or simply in the abstract as patriotic lovers of Wallace and Caledonia. TOMB OF WILLIA COBBETT. Over the slab which has hitherto covered the grave of William Cobbett, in the churchyard of Farnham, Surrey, a tomb has just been erected by Mr. Thomas Milnes, the sculptor who executed the statue of Nelson recently put up in Norwich. The tomb is made of a durable stone, from the quarry at Roch Abbey, in Yorkshire. It stands near the porch of the church, is of solid workmanship, oblong in farm, and in style following the Vainest old English architecture. On one panel, the inscription, copied from the slab, ii :—" William Cobbett, son of George and Ann Cobbett ; born in the Parish of Farnham, 9th of March, 1762. Enlisted into the 54th Regiment of Foot in 1784, of which regiment he became sergeant major in 1785, and ob. tabled hisPiseharge in 1791. In 1784 he became a political writer. In 1832 was returned to Parliament for the borough of Oldham, and represented it till his death, which took place at Normandy Farm, in the adjoining parish of Ash, on the 18th of June, 1835." On the panel opposite : " Anne Cubbett, daugh ter of Thomas and Anne Reid, and wife of William Cobbett ; burn at 'Chatham, 28th of March, 1774. Married at Woolwich, sth of February, 1792. Died in London, 19th of July, 1848." Farnham church is within a mile of Waverley Abbey, and of Moor Park (once the residence of Sir William Temple), and about two miles from Aldershot. It has undergone much alteration shwa the present vicar came to the parish, being greatly repaired and beautified, and ren dered more commodious. THE ILLUMINATIONS AND FIRE WORKS. " Great joy in London now,' says some great fool, When London had a grand illumination, Which to that bottle-conjuror, John Bull, Is of all dreams the first hallucination ; So that the streets of coloured lamps be full, That sage (said John) surrenders at discretion His purse, his soul, his sense, and even his nonsense, Tu gratify, like some huge moth, this one souse." —Byron. TO THE EDITOR OP THE SUN. Sin,—Optimism is in the ascendant ! Redeunt Satur nia Reyna ! In this best of all possible countries of this best of all possible worlds, under this best of all possible Governments, it seems almost impossible to be wrung or to do wrong. It is true we sometimes stumble over melancholy and disgraceful e f fects, but somehow or another these seem to have no corresponding causes- If ignorant people, like myself, persist in looking for them, they receive sore slaps and buffets in the face from a flight of Good Intentions, which, emerging from the old ruins of Routine, flutter and flap about our ears so as utterly to blind and confuse ue. Blessed, then, and happy are the ignorant ! Here, on the Cotswold, we were bewildered by the war, which has left us minus many " old familiar faces " of sons, brothers, and husband's. We were more bewildered by the peace, which has left 114 simply, plus the double income tax and a rumour of fire scrk; and illuminations, which we, the clod•compellers, Ehall never see, and, of which, unless they are to represent the old custom of corpse-candles, we cannot divine,the reason. But, of course, all is for the best. Oar time, Sir, is pretty wall occupied in the country. 13ays and old women will steal turnips, and hardened suEfia.ns will frighten pheasants into apoplexies. Never theless a book sometimes finds its way into our hands, and enables us to lay aside "Burns' Justice" for a brief period. I venture to quote a few passages from an author (Captain Mayne Reid) who appears to have seen, thought, and done as much as most men in this best of all possible worlds. He says : "A fondness for fireworks is a singular but sure charac teristic of a declining nation." _ . . " Give me the statistics of pyrotechnic powder burnt by a people, and I shall tell you the standard measure of their souls and bodies. If the figura be a maximum, then the physical and moral measure will be the minimum—for the ratio is inverse.".. " I saw a whole nation, its rich and its poor, gazing on one of these pitiful spectacles, got up for the purpJse of dup ing them into contentment. It was the price paid them for parting with their liberty of opinion, as a child parts with a valuable gem for a few sugarplums. They wore gazing with a delight that seemed enthusiasm. I looked upon eyes that gleamed with demoralised thought." " These were the representatives of a once great people. and who still deem themselves the first of mankind. I felt sure that this was an illusion. The pyro•spectacle and its reception convinced me that I 83. w before me a poople who had passed the culminating point of their greatness , and were now gliding rapidly down the declining slope that leads to annihilation and nothingness."—Vide" The White Chief," pp. 100-10. Would not one imagine, sir, that all this bore date about the Ist of June, 1856, and was written not a hun dred miles from St. James's ? But in this best of all possible countries, the best of all possib!e Governments, of course, knows best, and the country ought to rejoice in being spared the trouble of coming to a conclusion. Of course before it was determined to spend thousands on these coming illuminations, the aforesaid best of all Governments has satisfied itself— lat. That not a single soldier's widow or orphan is left unprovided for. That the Chancellor of the Exchequer is laboaring under a plethora of revenue, an " emharras des riche,sses." 31. That the great majority of the country consider the peace as safe, satisfactory, and honourable. For unless these three points are beyond dispute, the fireworks and illuminations seem to ue, ignorant country people, very like a mockery, and almost like a crime. But no doubt our best of all possible Governments can give a satisfactory answer on all three heads. So by all means let us have fireworks and illumina• tions ! What next ? as my friend Richard Cobden has it. Why, next, of course, the window breaking. gi ng Mob must be allowed to rejoice in his own fashion— Gin in pailfuls, beer in rivers ! Dash the window glass to shivers, as sings a respectable character in one of Scott's novels. Why not ? You have "achieved" (that is the phrase) a belauded and illumined peace. Who can object to so respectable an ancient right as window breaking, its in variable accompaniment ? What are glaziers bills com pared with time-honoured custom ! After all, your broken windows are only a " prmlibatia," a foretaste, a slight reminder of what might have happened if the Cos. sack had got the upper hand. It is only the mustard without the beef. It is only the thistle with which the donkey chooses to excite its carrot-sated palate. Even quiet Cowper could become enthusiastic upon it— That man shall be my toast ' When breaking windo ws is the s port Who bravely breaks the most. Dut if you have shabby misgivings, how easy your safe. guard. " Proximus ardet ucalegon"—your next-door neighbour illuminates, but why should you ? Put but your faith in placard 4, shelter yourself under the aegis of Powys and you are secure, otherwise you may h ave cause to lament that you are not— Proximus, at longo proximus interballo. Sir, in Llndon you are a wise, sensible, and consistent race of people, but sometimes your proceedings are be. yond the comprehension of A COUNTRY SQUIRE. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. -- Yesterilay, a man named Charles Garner, a zinc-worker, was k►lled at the London Bridge Terminus of the London and Brighton Railway by endeavouring to enter a carriage whilst the train was in motion. ATEST NEWS. PARIS, THURSDAY MORNING. The baptism of the Imperial Prince is fixed for ,he 14th of June. The Moniteur says that the work of Baron de Bazancourt borrows no official character from the fact that it is dedicated to the Emperor. By the steamer Danube, which left Cmstanti nople on the 19th, and whose arrival at Marseilles we announced yesterday, we learn that a serious conflict has occurred at Philippoli, in Roumelia, between the Chrigian and Mussulman populations. The Austrian Internuncio has set out on an ex ploration of the mouths of the Salina branch of the Danube. The Presse d'Orient states that the Porte has named four Christians and a Jew mem bers of the Imperial Council. Gen. MacMahon will assume the command in the Crimea on the departure of Marshal Pelissier. A despatch from Odessa of the 14th states that a quarantine of four days is imposed on all ves sels coming to that port. The price of wheat was firm ; that of coals had fallen. Great anger has been excited in Athens by the articles in the English journals on the affairs of Greece and Italy. Five brigands were executed on May 21. FRANCE. M. de Morny will shortly leave for St. Peters burg. He has freighted a steamer to convey to Russia the personnel of his embassy. M. de Morny takes with him eight carriages and 20 horses, for himself and his suite, which is to consist of 50 persons. His departure will take place during the first fortnight of June. The trial of the news agent, Lejolivet, on a charge of complicity iu purloining public docu ments, and of bribing and corrupting a servant of the State, comes on before the Court of Assizes of Paris in the early part of next month. Among the Russian ports and cities, where France is hereafter to maintain consuls or agents, are Kertch, Taganrog, Cherson, Nicolaieff, Simpheropol, and Bakshi-Serai. The Consulate formerly established at Odessa is to be a Consu late-General. The following letter has been addressed to the Diritto (Turin newspaper) : " PARIS, MAY 20. "I believe it urgent to answer another objectiv. I have been told that by counselling the national party in Italy to confide in the Pied montese Go vernment I render the patriots of Italy apathetic, and I preach inertness. Now nothing could be further from my intention. I said that the na tional party in Italy ought to give its co-ope ration to the Piedinontese Government, in the event of that Government entering on the way which conducts to the common end—viz., the independence and unity of Italy. The national party does not abdicate ;it co-operates. Co-ope ration is action, and not inertness. Already in March, 1854, when I protested against the coun sels of Lord John Russell I affirmed that we should ever agitate until such time as our inex tinguishable aspirations for national independence were satisfied. " And now, in the name of the great National party, I say to the Italian patriots, Agitate, agi tate, ardently, incessantly, until our object be gained—until Italy shall become one and inde pendent.' " I have every confidence that the .Piedmontese Government will be with us, and that confidence is increased by recent events. If I be deceived, it would be a great misfortune ; but, even then, the National Italian party should not desist from its labours. In auy case, and in any event, and until Italy become independent and one, Italians, all you who love your native land, listen to the word which comes to you from the exile, Agitate, agi tate !' " MANIN." A private letter from a (French) friend at Brus sels alludes to tho Circassians in the following terms : _ _ " Welearn from Constantinople that the Russians have commenced their work of destruction in the Caucasus; that they have burnt avillage,and taken off 22 prisoners and 6,000 head of cattle. We should like to know what pretext is alleged for such bri gandage. Had that village during the war com• mitted acts of hostility for which the Russians are exacting the penalty ? If so, why should we now be told that we cannot stipulate for the Circassians because they have done nothing for the common cause ? By acting so the nations of the West, the Franks, ought forthwith to renounce the reputation for generosity, magnanimity, and grandeur which the East invests them with, for they only know how to protect those who, like the Greeks, are subjected to a secondary Power, and not those who kill the soldiers of the Czar of All the Russias. This is not all. If the Circassians are revolted subjects, they are comprised in the promise of amnesty made to the Congress by the representatives of Russia. Their massacre is an infamous breach of faith, which shows how our conventions with them will be executed. If we do not mean to declare war to avenge this immediate violation of treaties, what prevents us at least from using repri sals on the Sovereigns of Naples and Greece, who have shown themselves so devoted to Russia ? If the Circassians are a people who acknow ledged Turkey, or who, formerly independent, de sire to acknowledge it now, we have the right, and we are bound to settle the limits of their frontier, and to protect them. We are opposed to the Cir cassians selling their children to the Turks, who married the daughters and adopted the sons ; arid we allow the Russians to make them prisoners. And what will be done to these prisoners ? They will be sent to Siberia to join the Poles, or will be made Russian soldiers, which is a still more miser able prospect." The BOURSE, May 28.—The following were the last quotations : _ _ End of Month• —f. —a. 75 25 Cash. fr. e. ti per Cents 94 20 3 per Coats 75 5 Now Loan 75 45 Bank Shares 4,150 Boman Credit Mobilier 1,93 ; Austrian Belgian Fives 97 Spanish Threes...... Pieduiontes: (5). 93 7 i Home Debt RAILWAYS-108 CASH. ft. c. fr. e Orleans ......... Northern .1,167 50 Strasburg 1,006 2 Lyons ..,,.,,1,517 50 New Ditto ......... 912 50 lediterranean 1,770 Grand Central Lyons Geneva 832 50 Testa ...... ............ 745 Cette Bl2 50 Austrian Com. 916 2.5 91 92 42: THE PRINCIPALITIES. The following private letter has been received from Bucharest, under date the 15th : " We are witnessing a curious spectacle here. Prince Stirbey, despairing cf remaining at the head of affairs, caused au address to be presented to him self, which he has hawked about and for which he has solicited signatures. The purport of the ad dress is to beg Prince Stirbey to remain in power, and to sacrifice his amour-propre to the well being of the country, and to accept even the title of Kaimakan. Every one knows what that means. But this is not the only prayer of the address ; it also demands the prolongation of the Austrian occu pation during the sittings of the commission, on the pretended fear of disturbances if the Austrian forces are withdrawn. This, of course, means that Prince Stirbey could not remain in power a single day if he were not supported by Austrian bayonets. I need not tell you that the indignation of the public is roused by these acts, and it is re marked that Stirbey is very long in deciding on retiring, and the Porte in signifying to him that the period of his office has expired." THE CRIMEA. The Courrier de Marseilles publishes the following letter, dated Sebastopol, the 10th inst. :—" The embarkation of troops is proceeding with the greatest rapidity. About 40,000 men have already left, and as many more will have sailed before the end of June. The French forces remaining here number 80,000 men. In order to facilitate the embarkation the engineers have constructed five platforms, three at Kamiesh and two at Sebas topol, near the Quarantine.• Those platforms ad vance sufficiently far into the sea to enable both men and horses to walk into the steamers which are to convoy them te' France. The Remount Cimmission, over which Colonel Abdelal pre sides, meets daily. Every person on the point of embarking brings his horses before that commis sion, which disposes of them in the following man ner :—The horses fit for service are placed in the cavalry, others are given up to the waggon-train, and those considered unserviceable for any military purpose are sold. It is intended to establish mar kets on different poants of the Crimea, to afford the Russians and Tartars greater facilities to pur chase those horses. The 49th Regiment of the line embarks to-day, The departure of the Marshal. lute been repeatedly talked of, but I have reason to be lieve that he will be one of the last to quit the Crimea. This delay will enable the troops already arrived in the south of France to recruit their streneth previously to their entering Paris with the Marshal. The Russians continue to pay us frequent visits. Kamiesh is their principal re sort. A merchant told me that they bought up all the porter, champagne, liquors, curacoa, and Boi deaux wines of the best description which they could procure ; but that to those articles alone were their purchases confined. The same merchant says that the traders of Kamiesch overcharged them shhniefully, and that if they were satisfied with a reasonable profit they would sell five times as much. There are at present, at Eupatoria, 9,000 Tart ars waiting for means of conveyance to quit the Russian territory and proceed to Varna. Thence they are to repair to the Lower Dobrudscha, where Mirza Sahir Pasha, Governor of Silistria, is at pre sent making the necessary arrangements for the installation of the new colony. Villages are to be built at the expense of the Imperial Government, and the Sultan has ordered that they should be supplied with means of existence during two years. Steamers are shortly expected at Eupatoria to take on board those 9,000 Tartars, who may be usefully employed in constructing the canal of Kostendje." RUSSIA. The Independanco Beige publishes the following letter, dated Warsaw, 24th inst.:— "The Emperor, on his return from the cathedral, gave audience; at the Palace of the Belvidere, to the dignitaries of the Catholic, Greek, and Protestant clergies, the mem bers of the Government, the marshals of the Polish nobility, the notable inhabitants of the country, the superior officers of the army, and the public functionaries of the second and third classes. His Majesty showed himself extremely affable towards everybody. The most remarkable and important of all the speeches delivered on the occasion is that ad dressed by the Sovereign to the marshals and nobility, who were received together. Ido not know if the speech is to be published in the official Gazette, which is to appear this evening. That of yesterday makes no mention of it, and down to the present moment—two hours before the departure of the mail—the text of the Imperial address has not yet been sent to the editor of that journal. The following is the substance of it :—' My line of conduct towards your country,' said the Emperor, will consist in an absolute oblivion of the past. lam satisfied with the Poles, not only because, in spite of the revolutions and wars which lately disturbed Europe, they did not forget the duties they had to fulfil towards their Sovereign and themselves, but also because those who fought in the ranks of my soldiers gave proofs of braveryand unshaken loyalty. I bear them all, therefore, in my heart, and I dial never cease to love the Poles as my own children. I request you to tell this to your countrymen ; but tell them also that the period of wild schemes is gone by. Let there be no more of them, gentlemen. I wish Poland to be happy, and she can only be so by her union with Russia.' It is useless to say that this speech, delivered with an ex pression of conviction and benevolence, produced a deep impression on all present. The higher classes of our society, on being informed of the sentiments of the Mc narch, received them with marked satisfaction. They applauded the fr Inkmss and confidence with which the Emperstr addressed the nation. As for the people, their demonstrations are full of expansion and enthusiasm. They prove that they appreciate the blessings already conferred on the country by the Emperor. Last evening, when the Emperor was riding through the park of Lazienki, the population assembled on his passage saluted him with its accla• mations until he re-entered the palace. In the after noon of yesterday his Majesty proceeded, with Prince Gortschakoff, to the railway station to receive his sister, the Grand Duchess Olga, and her husband, the Prince- Royal of Wurtemburg. A few hours after her arrival the Grand Duchess drove through the parks and streets of Warsaw, which were again illutnina`ed. A grand ball is to be given to-night by Prince Gortschakoff, whose wife was honoured yesterday with a visit from his Majesty. The ball of the nobility is to take place after to-morrow. That of the city will be given at the Hotel de Ville, but the night has not yet been fixed." AUSTRIA. VIENNA, May 25.—The subjoined article, which appeared in the Ministerial Uesterreichische Owe spondenz of last night, must be considered a sup plement to that of which a translation appeared in The Sun, yesterday. That it is from the same source—the Foreign-office—need hardly be said : "A number of North German papers and correspon- dents continually repeat that the Imperial Court desires to induce Prussia to guarantee the territory of the Austrian empire, more particularly that part of it which is in Italy, and they do not fail to make the most of this theme of their own invention. " Neither the papers in question nor their readers need be under any alarm. Austria, which in the most trying and dangerous times of external and internal con fusion found means to retain possession of the Italian crown lands, has the consciousness of being perfectly well able to defend both her territory and the position which is hers by right of treaty against any attack. The power of Austria is based on her internal strength and on 'European treaties which are recognised and re spected by all the Powers. As to the policy of the Austrian empire, it is based on a respect for all acquired rights. " True to its principial' regard for the independence of all sovereignties, the Imperial Royal Government can never recognise the right which is claimed by the Sardi nian Court to speak in the name of Italy. Although re garding things from a point of view entirely different, we cannot but agree with the opinion expressed by that Minister that in the perception of international re lations, rights, and duties, there is an impassable gulf between Austria and the present Sardinian Cabinet. " Wherever Austria has intervened in Italy she has done so in the most disinterested manner ; she has intervened at the request of the different Sovereigns, and, as soon as the one or other of them has declared his ability to maintain public peace and order with out foreign assistance, the Imperial forces have been withdrawn from his terr:tories. Prudent and judi cious reforms, freely emanating from the re spective Sovereigns, may conduce to the wished-for peace and quiet of the Italian States, and the Imperial Co vernment has never failed to give its counsel in that direction, though always with that consideration which is due to the dignity and independence of foreign States. " Austria is ready to give her approval to all arlvantageoes changes which may emanate from the free and enlightened will of the Italian Go vernments, and she wishes nothing more e ir nestly than that the time may soon come when tht , Italian Sovereigns, to whom she has afforded her disM terested support against the revolution and its agents, may be able to dispense with the assistance of the Austrian troops, but she will firmly repel any unjusti fiable attack which may be made on those Italian States that are allied to her, and will do all in her power to counteract the machinations of the anarchists, and to prevent revolutionary agitation." A letter from Varna, of the 24th, states that the Panther° French gun-boat, which has been stationed there for the last seven months, had left for France, orders having been brought to her to that effect by the Phlegethon. Commandant de Russell, of the latter vessel, has been sent by Admiral Trehouart to settle the naval accounts at Varna for coal and oxen supplied to the French navy. The reply from Con stantinople to the communication of the sentence against the assassins of the Bulgarian girl had not reached Varna. The Pasha had been set at liberty. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY. The Liverpool and Philadelphia steam-ship Com pany screw steamer City of Baltimore, Leitch com mander, arrived this afternoon with advices from Philadelphia to the 15th inst. The Washington correspondence of the New York Daily Tribune states that Padre Vizil had been received by the President as Minister from Nica ragua with distinction and cordiality. In the Senate on the 14th— " Mr. Clayton said he had seen in the morning news• papers what purported to be an extract from a letter from the British Minister at Washington, dated March 31, 185 G, in which Mr. Crampto❑ says— " It will be witnin your lordship's recollection that Mr. Clayton was informed by Sir Henry Bulwer, before the treaty of 1850 was signed, that Ruatan was de jure and de facto a British possession, and Mr. Clayton has on various occasions since, in conversation with me, stated that he considered Ruatan a British possession as mach as Jamaica, or any other British West India island.' "Mr. Clayton branded this statement as utterlyuntrue in every particular. The British Minister must have laboured under an hallucination as strange as ever en tered the brain of any man to make such a declaration. Nothing like it had ever escaped him in conversation with Mr. Crampton or anybody else. Fortunately the fact did not rest upon the statement of Mr. Crampton and himself. He had a living witness, and first be would call attention to a letter written by Mr. Crampton and read in the Senate on the 12th January, 1854. In which h e (Ar. Crampton) attempted to prove that Ruaiian was not a dependency of Belize, and was not exempted from that provision of the treaty of 1850. He then had Mr. Crampton's testimony on the subject, and read it to the See ate. He would now read it again to contradict Mr. Crampton's statement which was made known to him for the first time that morning, and of which he had not the most remote conception. In this letter Mr. Crampton said— The dependencies of British Honduras are, in my opinion, distinctly enumerated in the treaty of 1786.' He bad made this statement deliberately, and the irresistible conclusion was that Ruatan was not ircluded in these dependencies. Mr. Clayton said while he was detained at his lodgings by sickness in February or March last he was called upon by Mr. Crittenden, and while they were engaged in conversation on this subject Mr. Crampton came in to invite him (Mr. Clayton) to dine with him. He (Mr. Clayton) was too sick to accept the invitation, but took occasion to ask Mr. Crampton if he know any thing of the charge that he (Mr. Clayton) La I ever a( - mitted that Ruatan was exempted from the operation of the treaty, and Mr. Crampton in most unqualified terms acknowledged that there was no truth in the report that he (Mr. Clayton) had over made any such intimation to him. " Mr. Crittenden corroborated Mr. Clayton's state. went. He could not pretend to give the details of a cunver.,atiot, at, which he was accidentally present ; but, according to his recollect►on, the substance of it wag directly contrary to the statement in the newspaperaf and sustained the account Mr. Clayton had given of tt• " Mr. Clayton said he had made speech after Fpecch in the Senate, endeavouring to prove directly the reverse of what he was represented as admitting. He was will ing to put the most charitable construction upon it, but it was an utter mistake. " Mr. Cass thought it very certain Mr. Clayton, un' le=s in some fit of insanity, could never have said to Mr. Crampton what was attributed to him. " Mr. Pratt inquired what evidence there was that this letter was authentic. He thought there must be some mistake. " Mr. Clayton had no knowledge as to its antigen' ticity. When his attention was called to it that morn' ing he was much astonished, and his first duty wag to disprove the statement. No matter by whom nga,der it was false. If Mr. Crampton never made such a statement he was not injured by these remarks but, if he did make it, it was for Mr. Crampton to explain. It had appeared in the public prints, and, until it W 33 denied or disavowed, Mr. C a yton was bound to suppose that it was a genuine document . lie should, however, be very happy to be assured to the contrary. " Mr. Fish, in response to a question from Mr' Clayton, said that in the course of two interviews with Mr. Crampton the latter had stated that Mr. Clayton always denied that Ruatan was a British possession . He (Mr. Clayton) thought there must be some mistake in the copy of the letter. " Mr. Cass said that Great Britain, being repeatedly driven from one point of defence, had invariably taken refuge at another, and recent events had shown Olio more strongly than ever." Mr. Buchanan had had an interview of several hours with the President on the 14th, in which he made a personal report of his mission. His friends are much buoyed up by the demonstrations he received while en route. Mr. Clayton's denial of Mr. CranaP ton's allegation that he had admitted to the latter that Ruatan was as much a British possession ae Jamaica made quite a sensation in the Senate, being sustained by Mr. Crittenden, who was pre sent at the particular interview. tis understood also that Mr. Fish was prepared to testify to the same effect, having seen Mr. Crampton after the interview mentioned and received a similar state ment from him. In commercial matters there is no change of importance. A despatch from Washington, of the 15th inst., states that Secretary Marcy sent for M. Mar" coletta, the Minister from Nicaragua, and in' formed him of the determination of the Adminis tration to receive the Padre Vizil as the Minister from the new Government of Nicaragua. IVL Marcoletta complained of it as violating the lavr s of God and of nations, entering his solemn protest against the proceeding, and informing Mr. Marl that he should prepare an expose of all the facts' to be communicated by him to the members of the diplomatic corps. Another despatch states that the President would send a message to Congress on the 16th, annoube; ing the recognition of the Walker Government, an d giving his reasons for that step. Telegraphic accounts from New Orleans of the 14th repeat the arrival of the San Francisco mail , bringing dates from that city to the 21st of APr,i" The steamer George Law hail sailed from AsPor, wall for New York with nearly 1,2,000,000 gol d on freight. The San Francisco markets were quiet. A messenger from Nicaragua arrived at Aspiry wall reported that Colonel Schlesinger had bee n recaptured, and would be shot. The British ship Wilson Kennedy, from Liver; pool for St. John's, New Brunswick, was abandone d on the 10th of May, in the Bay of Fundy. The crew were taken off by a schooner and taken t° Boston on the 14th. The City of Baltimore left on the 16th inst.,—not the 15th. UNITED STATES SEAME V. SHIELDS, May 27. —At the present time there era considerable number of large United States mercken• vessels in the Tyne taking in con's, but as there is no treaty between this country and the United States ' o ' the restoration of runaway seamen, many of the master s of those vessels are suffering the greatest inconveniel?'" through the men leaving their vessels and joining British vessels. In fact, some large vessels are lyina la Shields' harbour ready for sea with only four or fig ° , hands on board. Fifteen masters of those vessels, ec companied by the inspectors of the river police, and gr. H. Davis, the American Vice-Consul at Newcastle -0 ! 1 Tyne, have made application to the mayor and mug' s : trate3 in North Shields to solicit the assistance o f the police to restore the men to their duty. At the la ter. _ view the masters stated that since their vessels bav: come into the harbour it has been impossible to Esal l ' tain discipline among the men ; they go on sho re when they think proper and return when they thi n ' : proper, and are in a complete state of insubordination they wished to know whether the magistrate wool a adjudicate in cases of insubordination, and allow the police to interfere to prevent crimps inveigling theilr men away from the vessels to employment in 1 3 r y tish ships, as wages were higher in the Tyne than in el American service. The Mayor, Capt. Lin s kill, r eplied that as no treaty existed between England and the United States, as between England and most European countries, for the req - iration of runaway seamen, 0° authorities on the Tyne had no power to order the r: lice to interfere with the seamen, either in maintainlo6 discipline or in restoring them to their vessels if they is t : away; so long as they did not make themselves amenably to the law of England. British owners, he said, suffer s most severely when their vessels touched at American ports by the seamen being induced to desert wholesale' and iu same instances the captains of the vesse ls so deserted had been obliged to pay as b i gi, as 151. a-month to seamen t o b r i n g ba t e the vessels to England. Hs k n e w th a t th e marin e Department of the Board of Trade in this countr,f a was anxious that the Ame r i can G overnmen t shoe' t place the marine of that country upon the same terms the reciprocity with Engl a nd, w ith regar d t o seamen , as t"- principal maritime St a t es o f E uro p e , an d h e sugge' tea that the vice-consul a t N ewcas tl e s h ou ld ma k e ot2 - detailed account of the inconvenient position of America ! captains visiting British ports, and rem it it t o the G oy vernment at Washington. An Ame r ic an mas ter alau f ! di somewhat impertinent observation to th e b e nch sc l '' respect to coloured men, and asked if the propertYl i the American owners was not to b e p ro t ec t e d i n Britis a ports? The mayor replied, that the men were eugagF,, by a civil contract, and that just such a n amo unt of " I ", cipline could be exercised towards the men while il!. ‘ British port as was compatible with th e l aw s of o, l _ country. Coloured men and white men were alike 1 0 England ; they were all equally free and equal as s° ° t as they came within the jurisdiction of our laws. Ab out 50 men have run away from their vessels ; a great nu' - , ber of them aro coloured men. THE POPE AND LORD PALMERsTOS' Rolm, May 22.--The confusion and contradicti°lll, that prevail among the various parts composing the cef„, 4 3 siastical Government have been for c ibly d e monstra t e ( the recent conflict with regard to th e p a blicatiou ni ,", Lord Palmerston's speech on the affairs of Italy. Pope, who has a will of his own when he thinks prop,Bl; read the whole speech in the Debats, a paper Wk ic e he is in the habit of perusing regularly ; and resole? that his own good intentions and humane dispositi o ,7 for which even the British P r e m i er g i ves him credy, should not incur the blame attributable to the W. administration and arbitrary acts of hi s mi n isters, Pi, Holiness insisted upon the publicatio n o f th e sPee e o in the Roman official paper in spite o f th e strentl ° , - 4 opposition of Cardinal Antonelli, who wa s so disgus'o at having to give up that he was quite ill for two ( 111 ,,J afterwards. Th speech, however, as printed in t '",, e Journal of Rome, is sufficiently ambiguous and ine °.l . rectly translated to render it uncertain whether 0 3 1 0 rannical acts alluded to by Lord Palmerston refer to "4 4 Pope's present Ministers or those of his L constituti ou ; reign ; but even this garbled account, inserted oull th e t:te Pope's absolute command, was so obnoxious t° e . police authorities, acting under the orders of the De - , tary of State, that many copies of the j ourna l destin' o r for the provinces were kept back at the post-offic e 0' sexed after arriving at their resp ec ti ve d es tinatio o, o whilst those distribut e d as u sua l t o th e su b scr iber B .„ l g Rome were withdrawn from the cafés on the folloic l lo morning, thus affording the public the absurd spec t9 r e o• of a Governm en t g i v i ng or d ers f or th e se i zure a nd P . hibition of its own official organ. THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER AND THE POLES. The correspondent of the Independance Warsaw gives the following as the substance speech addressed by the Emperor Alexander ° pc) deputation of the inhabitants of that city waited upon his Imperial Majesty on the 23d " My line of conduct towards you r c o un t r y is- - a b ti o lute forgetfulness of the past. I am con t en t With and Poles, not merely because, iu spite of revolutions al e wars in which all Eu ro p e has been entangled, they ',Li' not forgotten thei r d u ti es t o t h e i r sovere i gn an d to tP"6 selves, but still more b ecause t h ose o f them wil e b h 9 riv fought in the ranks of my soldiers have displayed• very and fidelity which have been proof against all ter°,' tation. to " I have them all in my heart, and shall not cog love the Poles as my own children. "Tell this, messieurs, I pray you, to your -e countrymen ; but tell them also that the time for 10 dreams is at an end. No more of reveries. Gentle'lleby I wish Poland to be happy, and she can only be s e her union with Russia." THE AMERICAN MAILS.—LIVERPOOL, WedrieSuaerive The United States mail steam ship Ericss)n, Capt . .rdo ber, left the Mersey at 245 p.m. to-day for New ° ; r0 1 with eight passengers, the usual mails, and a gell cargo. MARINE SOCIETY.—The centenary festival of this e :: °client charity, instituted 1756, is to be held at the don Tavern on Tuesday next—Admiral Sir E, 1-4._°"„.0 Bart., G.c.n., in the chair — when the commi ttee to receive that support which the institution so vieli• serves, .1•10.100••• 1 / 1 / I Th heavi of Au id. p 7,000 auk' 5 at GI( tiara, expor Way Tuead Rai lets e appari count sou. stricts Inerei; 164 fr degret the cu qualit are 13€ of tht Commn Honey, 9 ti any 2 i prei tiated 1 discout The Cents. count. Cent. 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