The Sun. — London, England, 1861-03-07 00:00:00

O E N' E S N TG- G T, 1 D S E N H OPERA, C Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, LE DOMINO NOIR. Miss Louisa Messrs. Henry Hai g h, ' , vie, miss Thirlwall, Miss Leffler ; H. t ;orri, A. St. Albyn, and Horncastle. To conclude with a new Divertissement. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at 8. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Baekstone. THIS EVENING, the Deriorraanoes will eommrmee with THE SUN AND THE WIND. The Leclercqs, &c. After which, a new and original comedy, A DUKE IN DIFFICULTIES. Mrs. Stirling, Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr. Euckstone, &c. To conclude with THE HAPPIES r DAY OF MY LIFE, Mr. Compton, 3irs. Wilkins, &c. Commence at 7.4 POYA L PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- lo Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. TNIS EVENING, the Farce of SUSAN SMITH. To be followed by DON CLESAR DE BAZAN. Don Caesar, Mr. Pechter. Supported by Messrs. Basil Potter, F. Matthews, J. G. Shore, Miss M. Harris, Miss C. Leclercq and Mrs. Weston. " To conclnde with a comic ballet, THE JOLLY MILLER. M. Espinosa, Mr. Garden, &c. REA 7 PIE- ROYAL LYCEUM So:e Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. TIIIS EVENING the Butletta of THAT RASCAL, JACK. Followed by the new drama, THE HOUSE ON THE BUDGE NOTRr; DAME. Principal characters by Mr. G. Vining, Mr. J. Johnstone, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Clifford, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Morris ; Miss M.Ternan, Miss K. Saville, Miss L. Thompson, and Madame Celeste. Alter which, the Lyceum Christmas Comte Extravaganza, CRYSTABELLE •, or, The Rose without a Thorn, showin& TAE VISION OF A ROSE, ITS FADING AT EVE, AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE•R r7t. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J. L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde; Miss K. Belly, and Miss E. •rhorne. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Ronoicault, D. Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled BLUE BEARD FROM A NEW POINT OF HUE. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith ; Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and ►C. Thorne. Doors open at hall past B—Commence at 7. Box-oitce open from 10 till O. , fo charge for booking. Privak boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, XL Orchestra Stall-a, ss . ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Is.; Pit Stalls, 24. Pit, 18. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, Is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith. CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS!! Westminster-road. Proprietor........C. Morton. A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera, IL CORSARO, (This opera has never been produced in this or any other country, except at these Concerts), having met with that de cided success which charactise the most popular works of this great Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ; together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI MENTO, by Donizetti, Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and C. W. Bernard. partment Director, Mr. F. Jonghm sns . The Comic De com E. Marshall, A. B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, prises F. Bell, Messr W s. . 11. Welland, and the Brothers Conrad. John Martin's Three celebrated Pictures will remain on view a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the Establishment. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, llh. 10m.—Afternoon, 11h. 48m. To-stonuow.-Morning, Oh. 10m.—Afternoon, 12h. 24m. - rut WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 7, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 55—highest since noon yesterday. 39—Lowest this morning and during the night. 52—this day aqnoon. BAROMETER--30.13. WlND—North—fresh, with fine weather. 401 .); L _ - i ; • 4; • THE SUN• LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1881. The Church Rate Bill has passed through com mittee under a flag of truce—the hostile amend ments were made but to be withdrawn, and the Solferino of Abolition is to be fought on the third reading. It can hardly be doubted that the liberal members will do their duty on this occasion ; if so, the result is pretty certain to be an increased majority. The Government must see the necessity of doing their very best. They have had already two defeats on divisions, and a third without one ; they must, therefore, show the Oppositon that the Liberal party is a great fact, when it is challenged on liberal questions. Nothing will do the Ministry now so much good as the head of a great party, as to show that, notwithstanding differences of opinion on minor details of administra tion, when the party unites on a general question, it is clearly master of the field. We should say that on the third reading Mr. BRAND should send out " a double-thonged whip." The third reading should be carried by a larger majority than the second, and not, as it was last year, by a smaller one. We do not remember that there is any other subject this session likely to become a fair test of the position of the two great parties. And hence in the history of the session the relative strength of each will be esti mated pretty much by the division lists on Church Rate Abolition. The Government, if it wishes to encourage its otvn supporters, and to reverse the effect of the two or three small defeats we have mentioned, cannot do better than make one of its great efforts on the Question "that Sir JoHN TRELAWNY'S Church Rate Abolition Bill be now read a third time." The debate added little to the views which can now be taken of the whole subject. Amendments to lay the rate on all property which had paid Church Rates during the last seven years, to be levied with the county rate; or to exempt Dis senters by " ticketing" them Non-conformists, limiting at the same time the application of the rate, were not likely to be received with more favour than formerly ; and Mr. NEWDEGATE and Mr. CROSS, who moved them respectively, seemed to do so with the understanding that they were to be withdrawn. It is perfectly useless to talk of such compromises, or of any compromise now. A little misunderstanding seemed to arise in the early At of the debate respecting the position of of the Methodists on this subject. Sir JOHN THE LkV NY had petitions from fifteen thousand Methodists against the :rate, called, forth by the declarations of two Methodists, before the com mittee of the House of Lords, that Methodists were not hostile to it. Mr. HARDY replied that these petitions were not from the old Wesleyan body. The fact is that the Ecclesiastical Toryism of the old Wesleyan ministers, which is always accom panied by political Toryism, has driven half the members of the community into revolt ; and the seceders declare themselves to be the more genuine Methodists. They are, in the eyes of indifferent persons, quite as good Methodists as the old ones ; in the eyes of liberal men, better Methodists. The old Methodist ministers have a strong tendency to fawn upon power. They are extremely illiterate, and, being absolute rulers of their members, are naturally jealous of every exercise of liberty. Hence they use their people, 'who are even, as a body, more illiterate than themselves, as tools of their Toryism ; they form, indeed, the strength of Toryism in lower lif e . In this respect th e y are a perfect contrast to the educated and en lightened Non-conformists, who are one of the strongest regiments in the vanguard of the Liberal army. The effect of Mr. BRIGHT'S speech on the second reading of the Bill was visible enough yesterday ; and the hon. member, though he said nothing, looked as if he thoroughly enjoyed the consterna tion with which several speakers adverted to hi s remarks. We certainly, when reading them, could nut perceive any thing unfair in Mr. BRIGHT'S argu ment or illustrations; that is, from him,as an avowed Non -conformist. As Dissenters, he said, we object to pay tribute to Church Supremacy ; and as being Dissenters, with good reason, we especially object to the supremacy of a Church which puts the cure of souls up to sale at Garraway's ; and which fosters such unaccountably diverse and strange doctrines as those of the " Essays and Reviews" and those of their predecessors, from which, indeed, the Essays and Reviews are but the reaction—the " Oxford Tracts for the Times." This was a fair a fortiori argument in a Dissenter's mouth, and as it is found to touch such a tender place, Lord ROBERT CECIL may be quite sure he will have a great deal more of the same kind when next Mr. BRIGHT has to speak for an Abolition Bill. It is not likely that the Bourbons of church rates, Lord CECIL and MONTAGU, will listen to our counsel. They will doubtless fall back on their Gaeta in the Lords; but in the interest of their Church we should advise them to haul down their flag, with the understanding that the terrible BRIGHT'S battery should cease its deadly fire. We can hardly conceive anything more damaging to the Church of England than that they should thus furnish Dissenters with al opportunity and a pre. text for raking up annually all the delinquencies of Church officials, and for painting with no feeble hand all the anomalies, irregularities, and abuses which each twelvemonth will exemplify. Disben ters provoked by the Lords will not be very scrupulous or delicate in the arguments they employ. Amongst the notices of motion for this evening the eighth is certainly remarkable. Read it. It is there upon the papers of the House, and runs as follows :—" Major GAVIN—To ask the Under-Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been called to the case of ' THELWALL V. YELVERTON ; ' and whether the name of Major YELVERTON is to be retained in her MAJESTY'S Army List." To such a query as that, there can be but one answer, if not immediately from the Under- Secretary of State, eventually from her MAJESTY'S Government. It is due to our most gracious Sovereign, it is due to every man in the QUEE N ' S army, to every officer and gentleman sworn to fight under her colours, whenever occasion may require, for the maintenance of the honour of the Crown and of the country—it is due to VICTORIA, to England, to every soldier of the United King- dom, that the name of the Hon. WILLIAM CHARLES YELVERTON, hitherto inscribed upon the Army List as Captain and Brevet• Major in the Royal Artillery, shall at once be struck off that roll of the Royal Forces, as the name of one now regarded throughout this land with unmiti gated scorn and abhorrence. It is not thus simply by reason of the verdict given in against him in the Court of Common Pleas at Dublin, on Monday evening, by a jury of his fellow countrymen. It is not by reason of the fact that their verdict was given absolutely in favour of the plaintiff in this particular case of THELWALL V. YELVERTON. It is because the defendant having prefixed to his name the courtesy title of Honourable, holding the rankAf an officer, wearing the garb of a gen tle man—has deliberately, elaborately, and systema tically, while speaking upon his solemn oath in the witness box, in a British Court of Justice, assumed the privilege of proclaiming him self to be, in very deed, and in one simple and expressive word, a scoundrel. It is because throughout this trial it was literally and actually his object to prove himself a scoundrel. It is because that was really and unmistakeably the "case," his counsel had to argue and demon strate, namely, that this client was a scoundrel. And so far, certainly, in showing this beyond the reach of contradiction, they one and all of them succeeded to their hearts' content—for there the man stands before his country as he appeared in that witness-box upon a pedestal of infamy—an object of universal contempt and opprobrium. It is, in other words, simply because while the plaintiff obtained the verdict, the defendant nevertheless proved his case completely, by demonstrating the henceforth undeniable fact that he is a scoundrel, that there cannot remain one instant's doubt but that Major YELVERTON'S name must be struck off the Army List. It will inevitably, we may be sure, be struck off that List right summarily. That we may leave with perfect confidence (regarding it already virtually as un fait accompli) in the hands of the illustrious chief of that army, his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief. Our only regret is that, in striking the name of Major YELVERTON from among the Brevet Majors of Artillery, the ceremony of the erasure cannot be accompanied with some peculiar and especial mark of ignominy. The imperative necessity for this now disgraced and execrated name being obliterated from the catalogue of military officers and gentlemen holding commissions as such under the Crown Corn missions authenticated, recollect, by the sign manual of the SOVEREIGN !—the imperative neces sity for this name being now summarily obli terated from the " Army List," may be recognised, if nowhere else, in the masterly summing up of the case on Monday by the Lord Chief Justice MONAGHAN. Honour to that good and upright judge for every word that fell from his lips in. the course of his speech in summing up this case of THELWALL V. YELVERTON ! The case itself is epitomised with admirable skill in two tersely expressed and widely contrasting arguments, placed by him respectively in the mouths: of the plaintiff and of the defendant. " You, Major YELVERTON," he makes the plaintiff say, " were previously the lawful wedded husband of MARIA YELVERTON; being her lawful wedded husband, YOu had no right, authority, or power to cast her from you, an outcast upon the world. You having not that power, I, influenced by feelings of humanity, took upon myself the responsibility of supply ing to that woman the care and protection which in my conscience I believe was due from you. I incur the risk in a court of justice of exposing myself and my property to the heavy expenses to which I will be liable should I fail in this action. But still, so strong is the opinion that I entertain of the truth and justice of the case of this unfortunate woman, that I am prepared to incur that risk in order that justice may be done to her through you." Every syllable in this being an indirect but most explicit panegyric upon Mr. THELWALL, a gentleman whose honour throughout this trial has never for an instant been impeached. The defendant's case, on the contrary, says Judge MONAGHAN, may be expressed as follows:—" Great as my delinquencies have been, dishonourably as I have acted, though I have acted the part that any man with a particle of feeling should blush to have exhibited in a public court of justice, yet that woman was not my wife, she was my mistress—she served my purpose, and I am justified, if not in the Almighty God, in the eyes of the law, in casting her upon the world, and therefore I am not respon• sible for the debts that this gentleman chose, with a full knowledge of the circumstances, to have allowed her to incur." Having quoted these pas sages from the summing up of the case by the Lord Chief Justice on INlonday, we may certainly say, with some significance, "Look on this picture —and on this !" As to the lady standing intermediately in the trial, having the plaintiff, that true friend and true gentleman, for her Champion —and the defen- 1 dant, that quasi " Honourable " and soi disant officer and gentleman (her Husband !) for her Antagonist, her Vilifier, and her Repudiator—as for the Hon. Mrs. YELVERTON, as we may now hence forth always designate her until she may come, in the course of nature, to be the Viscountess AVON MORE what said the Lord Chief Justice MONAGHAN " This girl," said his lordship, and the words that follow will long ring in the popular recollection like trumpet notes—here of sympathy and admiration, there of horror and indignation— " This girl," said his lordship alluding to the inter view which . took place in the Hospital of the convent at Galata, where _Major YELVERTON met Miss LONSIVORTH, the latter arrayed in the sacred dress of a Sister of Charity—" Tnis girl, who underwent one of the most searching cross-examinations I ever witnessed, and in whose conduct up to this moment there does not appear to have been any thing that would be discreditable or improper in auy woman, excited the admiration, love, and affection of this man, as he tells us ; but, my God ! should not the garb in which she appeared, and the work of charity in which she was en gaged, have had some influence on this man, and driven from his mind the idea which he says he entertained at the time ! My God, gentle men ! all of us see in this city numbers of young and beautiful women who are engaged in this holy work of charity, and though men may enter tain different opinions as to the prudence and propriety of a conventual life, there is not a man among you who would be capable of offering an insult to those young and devoted women, as they go to and fro in their mission of charity, visiting the haunts of suffering and misery." Enough, however. There cannot remain two opinions as to the necessity about which Major GAVIN is going to ask the Under Secretary of War this evening—the necessity for the erasure forthwith from the " Army List" of the blackened name of Major YELVERTON. How came the hop growers and their advocates on Tuesday night to omit the most touching argu ment for their case ? Not one word was said by the mover and seconder, or by even our imaginative ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, of the beauty of our hop gardens. Yet what has out - agriculture to compare with the beauty of its hops. A field of oat panicles trembling in the breeze is a pretty sight, and soft and pleasing is the waving green, or the waving brown ,„of a wheat field, bending before the breeze in late summer or autumn ; but what are they beside the festoons, and clusters, and garlands of our high creeping hops, as, in every fantastic variety of twist, bend, and curve, they interlace among and between the poles which sup port them ? How was it that the yet young Lord HOLMESDALE did not tell his opponents, if they would not pass the resolution now, to take all of them a trip to Farnham next Autumn,—to see the hop-gardens for themselves— , and then ask if they could again vote that the pro fane hands of the exciseman should meddle with and pollute Engttifid'e most beautiful Georgics. What else have we so like the " Married elms " of Lombardy? What on which the eye of the Foreigner would rest, more for its graceful and romantic beauty than its utility. All our crops, uncon sciously to ourselves, delight our eyes partly through the secret recollection we have of their value as food —our hops are, themselves, " pleasant to the eyes," as well as" good for food." Nor will we disparage them even in comparison with the produce of Italian vines—for if the beautiful clusters of the grape speak of mirth and cheerfulness, so the not less beautiful clusters of the hop tell of the tonic beverage, of whose soul-stirring virtues our Scottish HORACE has sung so well. If, however, we are forced to look upon our hops simply as an article of production, we feel that all the inspiration of the appeal for mercy is gone at once. Cwts. of hops have nothing more propitiatory to the eye or to the ear than bushels of malt. " GLADSTONE spare those clusters," has something in it—but " GLADSTONE spare those 1121bs."—Pshaw—all the tea, coffee, tobacco, and snuff in the kingdom could say as much. So strongly did the Anti-Hop-Duty advocates feel this that they were fain to plead chiefly that hops were the most gambling crop grown in England ! This, indeed, the betting world did not need to be told. The Derby does not more regularly transfer hun dreds and thousands to hands that probably, for the more part never toil for what they gain or lose, than does the amount of the Hop Duty perform the same valuable service. Not that this service , exactly, was pleaded as the ground of exemption. Of course it was the sufferings of those, who, if lucky, might by the cultivation of hops get gold by the hatful, but who, if unlucky, would lose at the same rate, which formed the plea. But, then, the reply seemed to be, " if hops be a gambling cultivation in :our climate, why expose yourself to the hazard of the loss ? You are not forced to grow hops. There is other produce certain on the average of years to pay fairly ; if you must have a field or two as a kind of agricultural lottery ticket, why grumble because Government taxes your lottery ? Govern ments are prone to get something by lotteries when they allow them." Had Mr. DODSON bethought himself of our gracefulness and beauty argu ment, and launched it in reply to all the prose of two Chancellors of the Exchequer, he would, as old FULLER has it, " surely have gravelled him therewith•" There was indeed one BRIGHT argument—as BRIGHT as other Brummagem wares—" Paper first, then hops F' There is, to be sure, the fact that paper is a question to the revenue of £1,300,000, and hops, at the outside, of only the odd £300,000. Yes, says JOHN BRIGHT, but it is worth the odd million to humble the Lnrds ; come hop-tax, come shilling income-tax, come any tax in what shape it will— " Paper first." Help us, says Mr. BRIGHT, to make a great hole in the revenue, and we will help you to make a little one ; it will look like nothing after our exploit. Well, in conclusion, we have a little bit of advice to offer the repealers of duties, whether on paper or on hops: It is this hnmble and sage counsel—first earn your repeal. England will no longer tolerate her enormous, as well as unjust income-tax. Lessen that—get rid of that; put your broad shoulders to Admiralty and Dockyard Reform, and you may soon earn enough, with advantage, not injury to our defences, to repeal the Paper Duty and the Hop Duty, too. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1861. SIR BALD WIN WALKER. wh M e e O l U steam-tenderT ll , THURSDAY ,IO A.M Avon, . The paddle- wheel Master Commander C. M. Hammond, which left Ply mouth at 2 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, in search of the steam- frigate Narcissus, with the hope of communicating with Admiral Sir Baldwin Walker, returned to the Sou :;:d last night at 11 o'clock. The Avon, at noon, on Wednesday, was 22 miles south of the Eddystone, and at half-past 5 in the evening was 32 miles south of the Lizard. She experienced strong winds from north-west to west, and saw nothing of the frigate. The steam gunboat Penguin, 5, tender to the Narcissus, which left Plymouth on Monday evening at half-past 6, to join the frigate outside, returned to the Sound this morning. His Royal Highness the Prince Consort visited Chichester Cathedral yesterday. The Prince arrived at Chichester from Osborne at eleven o'clock, and was met at the station by the Duke of Richmond and the Mayor of Chichester. Proceeding direct to the cathedral, his royal highness was received by the Bishop of Chichestei, the Dean, and Mr. Gilbert Scott, the architect. After having, made a minute inspection of the ruins, the Prince accom panied the Duke of Richmond to Molcombe, where his royal highness partook of luncheon, returning via Chiches ter to Osborne at two o'clock. The Prince Rodolph Leichtenstein has left Cla ridge's Hotel, for Southampton, to embark at that port for Madeira. The Duchess of Inverness entertained their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary at dinner last evening at Kensington Palace. A select party were invil ed to meet their royal highnesses. The Countess de Persigny and family left Albert Gate House, yesterday, for Folkestone, on their way to Paris. Viscountess Palmerston has issued cards for assemblies cn Saturdays, the 9th and 16th inst. Lord and Lady Churchill have left St. George's Hotel. Lady Charles Wellesley has left Claridge's Hotel on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, at Burleigh House, Stamford. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Pierrepont have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Northamptonshire. The Hon. Frederick and Mrs. Walpole have left town on a tour in Spain. The Right Hon. Laurence and Lady Jane Peel have arrived at their residence in Great Stanhope-street, from Brighton. General Gillant has just died at Rutranges, in the Moselle. He entered the army in 1792, on the day on which he attained his sixteenth year, and saw much service. ALL SOULS.—The Archbishop of Canterbury will deliver judgment in the All Souls College case, in the Hall, Lambeth-palace, on Saturday next, March the 9th, at 10.30 a.m. ESSAYS AND REVIEWS.—We learn that the Archbishop has fixed next Wednesday, at half-past eleven, to receive, at Lambeth. the deputation. of the clergy, by whom the Address, now in course of signature, will be pre sented.—Record. THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.—A perfectly successful attempt has been made to illuminate the Courts of the Tuileries and the Place du Carrousel by the electric light. The illuminating power is so great that the ordinary gas jets seem absolutely lightless. The appearance of these localities every evening is that of an animated fair.— Athenceunt. The Orpheus left California for England on the 39th of January with 24,000 sacks of wheat and 6,000 half sacks of flour; and the Flying Childers with 28,000 sacks of wheat. EXCISABLE ARTICLES.—In 1859 the quantity of hops retained for borne consumption was 67,143,6521b5. ; in 1860, only 10,352,5201b.—n0t a sixth of the previous year's crop. The quantity of malt also fell off from 47,746,239 bushels in 1859, to 41,754,050 bushels in 1860. British spirits from 23,878,688 gallons in 1859 to 21,404,088 in 1860. The quantity of paper increased from 197,684,6871 b in 1849 to 207,182,0131 b in 1860. MR. R. COBDEN.—Mr. Alderman Heywood has given notice that he shall move the following resolution in the Manchester City Council next Wednesday week : " That this council recognises the important benefits which have been conferred by Richard Cobden upon the great in terests of this city and district ; and, as the representative of a large manufacturing and trading population, tenders to him this renewed public expression of its gratitude for his eminently successful services, by which commercial in tercourse has been extended between the people of France and England, and the cause of peace greatly promoted." SETTLEMENT OF THE STRIKE AT BLACKBURN.— BLACKBURN, Tuesday Evening.—The mills of this town, with one or two exceptions, which are undergoing some re pairs, are again in operation, on the terms agreed to be tween the manufacturers' and the the operatives' commit tees. There is also a resumption taking place throughout the district on the same ternas,andit is anticipated that in a day or twc , sll the operatives now unemployed will have returned to their looms. If this be not the case prior to the 14th inst. the manufacturers who signed the document to close their establishments on that day unless this condition were complied with will positively do so, and thereby throw out of employment about 16,000 or 17,000 operatives. It is to be hoped the weavers will not bring the severe crisis that would inevitably follow such a result upon themselves. COAST DEFENCES.—Ground to the extent of between six and seven acres has been selected and staked out by the Government on the South Denes, Great Yar mouth, adjoining the haven,'for the purpose of erecting a fort for the protection of the harbou,r and reads. The works will be very important, and will cost, it is estimated, from £16,000 to £20,000 ; the batteries will be casemated, and heavily mounted with Armstrong guns, and the forti fications will, in every respect, be the most considerable on this part of the coast. Close to the site of the proposed fort is the South Battery, in the hands of the Artillery Volunteers. The guns of both will command St. Nicho las's Gat, one of the entrances to the roads ; and it is ex pected that a similar fort or battery will be erected on the north of the town, where a sandheap dignified with the name of battery until lately stood,: so as to command the other entrance, the Cockle Gat. THE YELVERTON CASE.—It will be seen by re ference to the Parliamentary notices for this day that Major Gavin will ask the Under-Secretary of State for War, "whether his attention has been called to the case of Thelwall v. Yelverton; and whether the name of Major Yelverton is to be retained in her Majesty's Army List." The London correspondent of the Dublin Evening Post writes :—" I have heard that the resignation by Major Yel verton of his commission as captain in the Royal Artillery, forwarded from Dublin on Friday last, has been received at the Horse Guards. Further, I have learned that General Sir George Brown, Commander of the Forces in Ireland, had received orders from the Horse Guards carefully to watch the proceedings in the, Yelverton trial in the Court of Common Pleas." The Scotsman says :—" An action is, we believe, still in dependence before the Court of Session, having for its object to establish the validity of the alleged Scotch marriage of Major Yelverton with Miss Longwerth. The action has been allowed to sleep by a sort of consent of both parties till the result of the action in the Irish Court of Common Pleas, indirectly involving the same point, should have been concluded; but is now likely to resume its progress." SHOCKING MURDER NEAR WISBECH.—A shock ing tragedy occurred on Saturday last, about eight o'clock in the evening, at the small village of Parsondrove, seven miles from Wisbech. A Mr. Augustus Hilton, occupying a small farm there, drove his wife to Wisbech Mart, dining together, and leaving for home between six and seven o'clock, the husband being at the time the worse of liquor. On arriving home words ensued (which has been nearly a constant practice during the two years they have been married) ; the wife said she would leave him and go to his father's. She then left the table where the tea was ready, and went upstairs. Her husband followed her and cut her throat, nearly severing the head from the body, and causing instant death. He then drove to his father's, a respectable farmer at Gedney, Hill, about three miles distance, and told them that he had had as good a wife as ever walked, but he had cut her throat. In a few minutes he was in the hands of the police, and was instantly conveyed to Wisbech gaol. On Monday morning he was privately taken before a magis trate, and remanded until the next day to await the deci sion of the coroner's inquest. The inquest was opened on the same morning, and adjourned till to-morrow (Friday). On the following morning the prisoner was again brought before the magistrates, and was fully committed for trial on the charge of wilful murder. The friends of both mur derer and victim are very respectable, the murdered woman being an only daughter, and within six weeks of her con finement. Her father is a railway contractor. CONVERSION OF THE THAMES TUNNEL INTO A RAILWAY.—The annual court of the Thames Tunnel Com pany was held on Tuesday at Radley's Hotel, Blackfriars, Mr. Wollaston in the chair. Mr. Mason, the secretary, read the report, which stated that the balance in hand on 31st of December last was £789125. 3d., the tolls amounting to £4,052 10s. 2d., the rents from stalls to £399 17s. 6d., the rents from houses to £515 6s. 6c1., and the amount received from guide books £7 35., making the total receipts £5,755 9s. sd. The expenditure for machinery, salaries, &c., was £343 78. Ild., and, after payment of £1,578 12s. 6d. to the com missioners of loans, there remained a balance of £744 9s. The report having bepn adopted, the chairman said, with reference to the state of the company generally, there had been an increase in the receipts during the year of £2OO There was no particular cause to account for that increase ; it arose principally from the general increase of traffic. The expenses during the year being rather less, they had been enabled to pay to the Government an increased sum of £5OO. At the last meeting he had informed them that they had entered a provisional agreement for the sale of the tunnel to a railway company. The amount promised by the promoters of the railway was a large amount, but not sufficient to pay the Government. He had pur posely withheld the amount offered, as he thought it might affect the interests of the company. The promoters came before Parliament with their scheme, but expe rienced a very strong opposition, which made the promo ters feel that they had no hope of getting the bill passed through. The agreement of the company with the pro moters was for two sessions, and during the present session they had not brought it in, although the company had often asked the reason, but had received no answer. The directors had been in communication with the G)vernment with respect to the scheme. He was not justified in telling them the nature of those negotiations, as they had to feel their way with the Government ; but he could say that the Government had not bound themselves in any way. The company was now open to an agreement with other parties for the sale of the tunnel. It was probable that the tuth,el would ultimately be converted into a railway. The retiring directors were re-elected, and the meeting separated with a vote of thanks to the chairman, LArIEST NEWS. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. PARIS, THURSDAY MORNING. The Moniteur of this morning announces that Duke Tascher de la Pagerie and Gen. Montauban have been appointed senators. The Moniteur also contains decrees appointing several vice -admirals, rear admirals, and other high naval functionaries. VIENNA, THURSDAY. An imperial autograph letter sanctions the as sembling of a Servian National Congress in Kar lowita, under the Presidency of the Patriarch Rajacic, before the opening of the Hungarian Diet. The Congress is to be composed of Servian deputies only. POSEN, WEDNESDAY EVENING. Prince Gortschakoff has appointed a delegation of 24 citizens of Warsaw, eight of whom are alter nately to sit at the Town-hall for the purpose of arranging measures for the maintenance of public order. This appointment has produced a satisfactory impression, and it is hoped that order will not again be disturbed. The revolutionary party is small, the people being convinced that any rising, not supported by foreign intervention, would have no result. The garrison of Warsaw is being nightly in creased by other troops. BERLIN, MARCH 7. According to reliable information. Prussia has, in the conference on the affairs of Syria, proposed a compromise tending to the prolongation of the French occupation until June. PARIS, MARCH 6 (Evening). In to-day's sitting of the Senate, the committee appointed to examine the draft address proposed the following amendment, which was agreed to : " We remember the deeds of our friends of Sol ferin3 and Magenta, and it is therefore our duty to take them into consideration." The amendment in favour of the temporal power of the Pope was then discussed. Senator Casabianca, in the name of the majority of the committee, opposed the amendment, and requested the members to have confidence in the Government of the Emperor. He maintained that neither the committee nor the Government dreamt of abandoning the chief of the Catholic Church. Senator Bourqueney and the Duke of Padua supported the amendment. Senator Barthe likewise defended the amend ment, and reproached Piedmont for having fol lowed the advice of England and despised the counsels of France. M. Baroche opposed the amendment, considering the draft address was quite sufficient. He main tained that there was nothing to indicate any in tention on the part of the Government of withdraw ing the French troops from Rome ; on the contrary, everything tended to show that they would remain there. The amendment was then rejected by 79 agains. 81 votes. The further discussion of the address was ad. journed until to-morrow. THE HOLSTEIN QUESTION. ITZEHOE, MARCH 6. The Estates have been opened to-day. M. Plessen has been elected President, Government submitted a communication con cerning the project of the Constitution of 1859, and also a project of law relating to the provisional position of Holstein. The following are among the royal proposals submitted to the Estates of Holstein:— " The project of a Constitution to be valid for the whole monarchy. " The establishment of two Legislative Cham bers ; the Upper Chamber to be composed of 30 members appointed for life. " A distinct position for the army of Holstein. " Holstein to contribute two millions towards the expenses of the State." COPENHAGEN, MARCH 6. Government, besides making proposals respect ing the common Constitution and provisional arrangements, offers to Holstein a revised special Constitution for interior affairs, with a responsible Minister, independence of judges, freedom of press and of association, habeas corpus, religious liberty, financial competency for the Estates, and inviola bility of its members. MADRID, MARCH 5. In to-day's sitting of the Senate Government announced that they had resolved upon stationing cruisers on the coast of Africa. These cruisers would be authorised to visit Spa nish and English vessels, in order to prevent the slave traffic. The Ministry seized the opportunity to again repel the accusations of Lord Palmerston in regard to the slave trade, which accusations they stigmatise as unjust. BERLIN, MARCH 6. The _Deutsche Zeitung says :—The address of the Poles to the Czar already bears 20,000 signatures. It is said that it will be presented by Prince Gortschakoff in person. It is generally believed that the policy of the Government in regard to the reorganisation of the nationality will undergo a complete change. Prince Gortschakoff is fully con vinced that the force of circumstances necessitates such a change. The Kreuzzeitung publishes a lead ing article stating that France and Russia have either come, or are on the point of coming, to an agreement in reference to the Oriental question, and that such an agreement admits the supposition of an understanding relative to the Polish question. The article concludes that the yielding of Russia to Poland must not, therefore, be considered as a symptom of weakness. BERLIN, MARCH 6. The investiture of the King with the order of the Garter has just taken place in the White Saloon of the Royal Palace. During the ceremony the Court did not wear mourning. There were present the Queen, the Royal Princes and Princesses, the high military functionaries, the Ministers of State, and the highest functionaries of the Court. The English commission who had brought the insignia of the Order of the Garter to Berlin were conveyed in a State carriage drawn by six horses, and in two State carriages, each drawn by two horses, to the Royal Palace, where they were re ceived by the Governor and the Lord Chamberlain. The Marquis of Breadalbane addressed a few words to the King in English, stating the object of his mission, after which the investiture took place. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Tagus, sailing hence today, with mails and pas- sengers for the Peninsular ports, takes £20,000 specie in sovereigns for Lisbon. BOMBAY, FEB. 12. The famine in the north-west province is assum ing a more serious character. The failure of the spring crops appears to be certain. The inhabitants of Cutch and Travancore (P) are also starving. It is feared that the famine will exceed anything of the kind within memory. Singular frauds have `been detected in the Electric Trlegraph-office. The Bombay Times says : " The Paper Currency Bill is to be remodelled or abandoned altogether. " The tariff on piece goods and yarn is to be re duced. " The Inam Commission is breaking up." THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. MARSEILLES, THURSDAY MORNING. The Euxine, with the above mails, arrived at Marseilles at 7 last night. The mails left for London at 10. The Massilia, with the heavy portion of the mails, &c., left Malta at 10 a.m. on the 3d, and may be expected at Southampton on the 12th inst. The Ottawa brought the Bombay mail up to Suez, and the Nepaul that from Mauritius, both arriving on the 26th Feb. THE OUTWARD MAIL. The Pera (from Southampton, Feb.2o), and the Valetta (from Marseilles, 28th), reached Malta on March 2, and sailed same day for Alexandria. WARSAW. A lerter from Warsaw, dated 2d March, says : " I have this moment returned from the funeral of the victims of the 27th February, and I hasten to inform you that everything has taken place in complete order, and that the city is perfectly tranquil. " It is impossible to convey an adequate idea of the imposing spectacle offered by this ceremony. The country as well as the city took part in it. There must have been 150,000 persons present. "Order was kept simply by the students and citizens ; not one agent of police, policeman, or soldier was visible during the day. General Paulucci, on horseback, was the only person in uniform. " All the schools (boys as well as girls), the Con gregations with flags, at least 200 in number, more than 10,000 workmen, accompanied by the whole city, followed in close ranks. " The Bishop and the clergy of every confession marched in front: of the coffins, which were all alike of black wood, with silver nails. Wreaths and branches of olive were on the coffins. "After the coffins came the Rabbi and Jewish clergy. With a sentiment of toleration and frater nity, the commissaries of the ceremony had invited the Rabbi to walk by the side of the Bishop, but he declined, as, according to the Jewish faith, he cannot walk before a coffin. " Order was not disturbed for a single instant, and continues to prevail in the city. General Paulucci has requested the Committee, of Citizens to lend him their aid for a few days more, to per form the duties of the police. " The address to the Emperor is said to have already received 60,000 signatures." FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY. BOURSE, March 6.—There has been but little business doing to-day, but the prices of yesterday have been well maintained. Threes, for the Ac count, which commenced at 67f 95e, are now at 68f. The Railways also remain quiet but firm. The following are the last quotations :- 4f per - per Cents ... 97 80 Credit Foncier 927 50 Do. end month.... 97 801 Belgian 41 99 50 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 05 Roman Bank Shares 2890 —1 Austrian .. — Credit Mobilier 655 ; Spanish Threes.... 47 25 Do. Account 652 50 ! Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1416 25 .. 1415 Northern New ditto B9O .. 890 Lyons and Mediterranean 945 .. 916 25 Geneva 375 .. 377 50 Southern , 525 .. 526 26 Western Eastern .. .. Sardinian Austrian Loirbard AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY. The North German Lloyd's steamer New York, from New York, on the 23d ult., has arrived off Cowes, en route for Bremen. She brings 89 pas sOngers, 250 dols. in specie for England, and 500 dols. in specie for Bremen. On the 2d inst. the New York passed a large paddle•steamer, with red funnel, steering westward. The New York was detained several hours at sea in consequence of a leaky stern pipe. The British schooner Quickstep had been aban doned. She was picked up at sea, and taken into Boston. On being pumped out four dead bodies were found in the cabin. General Miramon was still at Havannah. Apartments had been taken for his family, who were expected from Vera Cruz. The exiled Mexican Bishops had also arrived at Havanna from New Orleans. The sugar-market was heavy, with downward tendency. The New York's commercial news has been anti cipated. MR. LAING. (From the Times' City Article.) The following most uncourteous and wholly un provoked letter from the chairman of the Commit tee of Investigation of the Great Western of Canada Railway imputes to the remarks in yester day's City Article on the case of Mr. Laing the dishonesty of recommending the public to read Mr. Laing's evidence, with the hope that they will not take that advice, but accept a " perverted" view of it. The chairman omits to point out the perversions of which he complains, and, while he denounces the article as the partial and unfair pleading of a mere " advocate," cites a considerable portion of it to show that he considers it-to repre sent sufficiently everything that could bear with severity upon Mr. Laing : _ _ " Wednesday, March 6. " Sir,—The Times' City Article of this day, with refer ence to Mr. Samuel Laing's connection with the Great Western Railway of Canada, mingles its elaborate defence of Mr. Laing with many very severe censures of the Com mittee of Investigation, and, in so doing, makes a few ex. tremely short extracts from the report recently addressed to the shareholders. Dealing in a like manner with the Times' City Article, how will the following extracts from that article read as coming from the powerful advocate of Mr. Laing? " He admits that it was at the time part of his business to assist in getting up public companies for a definite remu neration—a fact which has for years been well known, and which, if it is to be used in a damaging sense, should have been brought forward previously to Mr. Laing's being called to high offices of State, and not after years of service, at the most critical period of his duties.' " The report (Mr. Laing's examination) reads like that of a cross-examination in some inferior court.' " There is no reason to doubt that the committee only desired to do their duty.' " ' It may be considered that Mr. Laing's evidence shows laxity, or want of caution, or worse.' " There may be more yet to come out.' " Strong animus' is alleged against the committee. Any six persons sitting as an impartial jury may feel indignant upon the discovery o f grea t wrong. , The committee desire nothing more than to echo the recommendation of the Times City Article, 'that all persons should carefully read Mr. Laing's evidence before they form a judgment upon the matter.' But I cannot help sus pecting that the writer of that article entertains a hope that his advice will not b-' followed, and that, instead of perusing the evidence, the public will be content to take his perverted version of it, " Mr : Laing's proceedings, as well as those of other per sons, will be come th e su bj ec t o f i nves ti ga ti on i n a court of justice, and until j u d gmen t shall be p ron ounced by autho rities to which even the Times must bow, I trust the coin luittT) will recei v e credit for having patiently and laboriously inquired and faithfully and honestly reported. " I am, sir, your most obedient servant, " H. H. CANNAN, " Chairman of the Committee of Investigation," THE COMMERCIAL BANK FRAUD. BO WSTREET.--(THIs DAY.) John Durden, of 9, Park-village East, Regent's-park, clerk at the late Commercial Bank of London, and James Holcroft,'of 109, Hatton-gardens, agent and wholesale boot and shoe dealer, were placed at the bar on remand, charged with having defrauded the directors of the said bank of three sums of money—viz., £156 65., £149 6s. 4d., and £66 9s. 11d., together with other sums, the said Holcroft being charged as an accomplice. Mr. Humphreys said the progress of the cause was stopped owing to the professional accountant not having completed the examination of the previous accounts. He regretted, although the professional gentleman had been engaged in that work ever since the last examination, they had not nearly completed the task, ani that it would take at least a fortnight. There were three accounts standing in the name of each prisoner, which were of a very extensive character, and he was stopped in his progress entirely owing to want of the report of the accountant. He had six witnesses in attendance, but he did not propose to examine them that day. The only witness he proposed to examine was a gen - tleman named Freeman, who, in 1851, paid a cheque of Hoare's for £9l on the Commercial Bank into the hands of Durden, who was at that time officiating as a cashier, the gentleman occupying that position being temporarily absent. This cheque, Durden, instead of posting it to that gentle man in the ledger, entered it to himself but he carefully en tered it in the cashbook to Freeman's account, so that when that gentleman's pass-book was made up it would appear quite regular and correct. This charge would affect only Durden, but with respect to Holcroft, he had a gentleman from Nottingham who would give some evidence.: Charles Freeman, of Westbourne-park Villas, Notting hill—On the 6th of May, 1851, I paid the sum of £9l Os. 7d. by cheque, drawn upon Hoare's and Co. I found the amount credited to me in my pass-book. Mr. Dyson, clerk in the Commercial Bank, said the sum was not entered to Mr. Freeman, but to Darden. in Dur den's own handwriting. Mr. Wright, one of the ushers of the Court of Bank ruptcy, produced a petition of the prisoner Holcroft to the court, dated sth September, 1860. The petition was afterwards dismissed, the creditors being satisfied. Mr. Gardner said—l am a boot and shoe manufacturer at Wellingborough, Nottingham, and knew the prisoner Holcroft. He was my agent, but he ceased to be so some time about the middle of August last. I have had to apply to the prisoner Holcroft for money, and I have accompanied him to the Commercial Bank in Henrietta-street on such occasions. I went there about July last. I went there, as he said he was going to see Durden, to see if he could lend him some money or do anything for him. I saw Durden there, and he and Holcroft had a communication together. I did not hear what took place. I came up in July to see about the goods and money. Mr. Henry—What was the amount of your debt ? Witness—Over £1,600. In the latter end of August I was in town relative to a bill of mine that had been returned, due by the prisoner Holcroft. He said, in referring to the debt, "I hope what ever comes of this matter, you'll say nothing about me and Durden." I said I don't know what you mean. I afterwards agreed to accept a composition of 4s. in the pound. I was obliged to compound with my creditors in consequence of losing this money. I paid 15 s . i n th e pound. Mr. Sleigh—You went to the bank with Holcrolt to see if the manager would assist him in the usual way ? Witness—Yes. Mr. Henry—But Durden was only a ledger keeper. Witness, in answer to further questions, said that Mr. Darden had often lent him money as he was a very wealthy man. The prisoners w ere again remanded. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Fahe.) IN RE HOOPER AND PARKINSON-ANOTHER GREAT LEATHER FAILURE. These bankrupts were described as of Seething-lane, City, leather factors and merchants, and to-day came up for their certificates. Mr. Linklater, for the assignees, said this case presented %uch the same features as that of Messrs, Mortimore and Co., in which Mr. Commissioner Holroyd yesterday deli vered judgment. He proposed to examine the bankrupts. __ __ _ _ Mr. Parkinson was called, and was under examination when this report left. SHERIFFS' COURT. WAITERS FEES.-EXTRAORDINARY ACTION BY A WAITER, AND IMPORTANT DBCISION.-ELSASSER Y. SIMONDS. In this case the plaintiff is a waiter at an eating-house in Doctors' Commons, and defendant is a clerk in the Probate Court. The action was brought to recover ss. 6d., but the point involved is both novel and important to every person. Plaintiff stated that he accepted a situation as waiter at a dining-room, and he agreed with his master to be paid by fees from the persons using the rooms. Defendant dined habitually at the house, and the present claim was for the multifarious pennies consequent upon such dining, and his (plaintiff's) attendance. His Honour was quite surprised at such a claim. It was, no doubt, usual at some places to give the waiter a penny, but surely it was not compulsory ? Plaintiff averred that it was compulsory. His Honour—Do you mean to say that if he had refused you the penny you would not have brought his dinner ? Plaintiff—lndeed I do. His Honour—And you would not have attended upon him ? Plaintiff—Certainly not. His Honour—Then if I had been your master I would have bundled you out neck and crop. (A laugh). Did you ask the defendant for the penny when you brought the dinner ? Plaintiff—He receives his money once each quarter, and I thought I should get it then. His Honour—But did you tell him he would hays to pay it. Plaintiff—No. It was customary. His Honour (to defendant)—You should give the man tho penny at the time, and then we should not be troubled with such ea traordinary actions. Plaintiff cannot recover in this case, and he will be non-suited. Defendant—And am I to be brought here with impunity upon such a cause ? His Honour—No. Defendant—What am I to do then ? His Honour—Just take no notice of the summons. You must think me a great blockade to entertain such an action as this. Plaintiff non-suited. Plaintiff was much dissatisfied with this decision, and expressed himself so loudly and strongly that he was called to order by the judge. POLICE IN7ELLI iENCE—(This Day). BOW STREET. Caroline Palmer was charged, with another person now on remand, with attempting to obtain, by false pretences, a cheque-book of Messrs. Coutts and Co., bankers, Strand. William Samson, living at 15, Exmouth-street, Hamp stead-road, said he was a messenger and porter. He had known the prisoner for several years, and had occasionally done jobs. He knew her when she lived at Tucker's-rents, Ossulston-street, Somers-town. About two months ago he lost sight of the prisoner. About the end of January he saw her. On Friday, the 15th of February, she came to him at Mr. Costin's public-house, near King's-cross, and asked him to meet her next morning near the Angel, Islington, as she had had some mosey sant up from • Hertford, but the bank in that town had sentit to Coutts's. She said she was told, in order to get the money out, she would require a blank check, and he was to see her to go with her to get it. He told Mr. Costin what had passed, and on the following day he (witness) met her near Pentonville. She asked him where she could buy a blank cheque-book. They went to several places to see if they could get a cheque-book. When they got to Gray's Inn-lane, she said she knew a pawnbroker, and she would go and see if he banked at Coutts's, if so, he would give her a cheque-book. She left him for a short time, and returned and told him he did not, but that she knew Mr. Young, of Gray's. in.n 'square, did so. She asked him to go to that gentleman and ask him if he would oblige her with a cheque. He did not go to Mr. Young, but he told her Mr. Young was not at home, and that a piece of blank paper would do as well as the cheque. She replied that it would not, that it must be a regular cheque. She said she had been told that, by mak ing use of the name of any party banking at Coutts', a cheque-book could be obtained, and sbe told him to go in and ask for one in the name of Mr. Young, as she knew he banked there. He said he hoped there was no fear of danger to do so, and she replied there was not. He went in and asked for the book, which was not given, but he was detained. The prisoner denied ever sending Samson to the bank at all. The prisoner was remanded. MARLBOROUGH• STREET. THE LEICESTER-SQUARE NUISANCE.—Two shabbily dressed females, named Catherine Ellis and Elisabeth Martin, constant frequenters of Leicester-square, ,were charged with annoying gentlemen in Leicester-square. James Waterson, 144 C, proved the case. Mr. Sturt, stationer, corner of Green-street, Leicester square, said he wished to complain of Ellis, who was in the constant practice of annoying every gentleman that passed. As soon as a gentleman approached she would pull up her crinoline to an indecent extent, and, in fact, gentlemen could not approach his shop owing to her conduct, in addition to which the tradesmen residing in the square had their business spoilt, no respectable person being safe from the annoyance of prisoner and her companions. He had expected Mr. Nind, of the Sabloniere Hotel, also to have attended. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he was very much obliged to him (Mr. Start) for coming for.v::u cl to support the police. The police ought to be supported. He should commit Ellis for 14 days as a regular nuisance, and Martin for seven days, and he hoped eventually the nuisance would be altogether stopped.