The Sun. — London, England, 1861-05-04 00:00:00

THE WELLINGTON, 160, PICCADILLY. -I- —Gentlemen a re respectfully informed that the SALOON DINING ROOMS are now OPEN for the Supply of LUNCTIEONS and DINNERS, from One to Nine o'clock p.m. Set Dininrs and Dining from the carte in the most varied form. Dinners from the joint, 2s. Whitebait is now served daily THOMAS PRICE, Superintendent. TIi"TRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstone. THIS EVENING, the performances will oommence with a new and original Comedy, entitled BLACK SHEEP. Mr. Bue,kstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, Jeo. ; Mrs. Wilkins, Mrs. Charles Young, Miss Lovell, &c. After which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery and effects, and all the original music b y the late Sir Henry Bishop, the melodrama of THE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THE HUNCHBACK. Messrs. Ryder, Hermann Veen, Shore, Meadows, &o.; Misses Heath and C. Leclercq, To conclude with NIIRSEY CHICKWEED. NT EW THRATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- -1.1 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Reproduction of "The Colleen Bawn. " The Adelphi "Census " every . Evenifty. THIS EVENING, fith time of a new Farce, entitled TU RKISII BAT 11. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford. Atter which (171st time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. D. Iloueicault, D. r'isher, Blllinc.fton, Falconer, Stephenson ss (I.J. Smith, Romer , Howard , Ward • ' Mrs. Boucicault, Oi woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatteriey. CEN E SUS. To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, TB • miss Messrs. J. Toole, Ebarne, Romer, C. J. swath - Kate Kelly, Miss E. Thorne, and Mrs. Chatteriey. Doors open at half past 6—Commetwe CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS!! Westminster -road. C Morton. Proprietor.. ••• • '• • • Selection from Verdi's new Opera, A Grand , I L coRSARO, n produced in this or any other (This opera has ne ver s b e e,C._ ncer . B 4 . t ) • having met with that de country, except at the , -A , h ractise 4 the most popular works of cided success which this great Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING , together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI: M ENT°, by Doizetti. Principal Artistes —Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss Tvrreii, Mr. 11. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and c; w. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The Comic , Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A. n. Holling,sworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and the Brothers Conrad. John Martin's Three celebrated Pictures will remain on view a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the Establishment. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tuts Der.—Morning, 9h. 56m.—Afternoon, 10h. 28m. To-moßßow.-Morning, 11h. 6m.—Afternoon, 1111. 30m. THE WEATIIER.—Eitrx OYPICZ, MAY 4, 1561. THEILMOMETEII, IN THE BRADB. 59—highest since noon. yesterday. 40—loweat this morning and during the night. 12—this day at noon. BAROMETER-3P.09. W l ND—North-Easterly—fresh; with unsettled weather, A shower of hailstones, succeeded by sunshine. i f i 4)", -,-. - ,-;:-, ',:,'-' 7, - ,1.,, .,": - .‘ 4- '.. ort-O;41.". , 4 4..' i ). 1: :; , , ;;:5 -7, ( 4 1 ;'-'..' ,- - C -'''''' ik\ dN t' 1 ....,, ~,..,,; 4 " -- - r y - . :o' . , - et - ---.1. , :.k, 1' •q 0 • r ... :... .',e11F,,,,, ..- u. ~ 1 I.: I - ... --,-- 4 -,--,, -,..,..,.: ... - --..1 -,---, ',•-• THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1881. Five days rater news from America, is five days worse news. All now is war, and no mistake. We suppose the ships we adverted to last in Norfolk — carrying altogether about 500 guns have been destroyed; for, we are told, not only that the United States officers have destroyed the Gosport Navy-yard, at Norfolk, to prevent its falling into the enemy's hands ; but the people of Maryland have destroyed ELEVEN WAR VESSELS ! As, with two or three exceptions, the vessels in Norfolk Harbour were laid up in ordinary, it is highly probable that they are the vessels alluded to. One chartered steamer has been captured by -the Southern Government , Washington is said to be threatened by 6,000 secessionists, so as actually to cause the Government to throw up defences round the public buildings. The telegraphic and mail communication between Washington and New York are interrupted—and Baltimore, where several of the Massachusetts militia were killed, is in the hands of the mob. Troops have, however, arrived at Washington, and large bodies of them are leaving for it, we presume from different places. Kentucky declares herself neutral. Ap pearances certainly threaten speedy and fearful collision between the Northern and Southern militias, and we must not be suprised to hear, any day, of fearful bloodshed. Poland has had at last a few kind words uttered in its behalf in the English House of Commons. If papers cannot " with advantage to the public service" be produced, a few members of the House of Commons could produce their opinions, for the consideration of the CZAR, and the comfort, such as it is, of the Poles. In the affair of Schleswig Hol stein the people of this country take little interest indeed ; they have a general impression only, and a perfectly correct one, that Denmark is quite will ing to deal fairly by the Duchies, but that the Go vernment which bullied, through its officials, our Captain MACDONALD, when he had no means of resistance, enjoys the opportunity of trying to bully Denmark, and to extort from a very small power concessions for a very few German subjects which the Prussian Government would not for a moment make to its own. Mr. VERNEY'S question, therefore, to Lord JOHN RUSSELL, with its answer, will hardly be noticed. Altogether different is it with Mr. COCHRANE'S. In Poland England, and we are bound to acknowledge, France also, feels a deep interest—one which will not easily die out. Mr. COCHRANE, of course, only wanted an opportunity to satirise Lord John RUSSELL. He attributed, therefore, to his famous despatch to Sir J. HUDSON the attempts of the various nationalities to throw off all they could of their fetters ; and as the Government journal at St. Petersburg expressed decidedly favourable views in regard to Polish pro gress, notwithstanding the late unhappy events, he thought between his lordship's despatch, to which the disturbances might be traced, and the kind views expressed by the .Journal de St. Petersburg, his lordship had a specially favourable opportunity for speaking a good word for the poor down-trodden Poles. He seemed to think that Lord JorrN should go to the Emperor With the confession that he was snore guilty than the Pole-c, since he had tempted them ; and with the prayer that all the good things originally treasured in the tender heart of the CZAR for Poland might yet be given her. Mr. M. A q-evoY, though briefly, directly and st r spoke more ( Ilkly the popular sentiments ; ad vr definitely to the- crimes of the long past, to their renewal in 1831, and to the prearranged atrocity of the Bth of April, and called for the .strongest ccndemnation on the part of o ur Govern -merit. Lord JOHN RUSSELL was reserv e d i n reply, yet he could not conceal, probably did not wish to conceal, his sentiments. As to his despatch of October, be thought he should be attributing more to it than ' itreally deserved, if he supposed that either Hunga r y or Poland, had become discontented in consequence, • but he justified his despatch as rendered necessary by Russia and Prussia having expressed their opinions, and by the fact that it must soon become - necessary to decide whether or not to acknowledge the new government. He could not clquy that the Romans and Neapolitans, having suffered since • 1821 misgovernment worse than that of any other nation, Turkey not excepted, it was quite natural they should overthrow their rulers on the first op • portunity. Lord JOHN is probably quite right as to the answer that he should get from St. Peters burg to any despatch he could send; he would be told of the liberal concessions the EMPEROR had made to Poland, and that all he required was that tranquillityshould reign in the country; that thcl CZAR wld not on the one hand withdraw the con cessions, nor on the other omit what was requisite to the preservation of order. Lord JOHN, however, did say in the English House of Commons, that the failure of the Government to give two or three days' notice to the inhabitants of Warsaw was most unfair to them ; and that the Government ought to have warned them against assembling, and not merely have told them, when assembled, to disperse. This was mildly, perhaps too mildly, but still pretty plainly, branding the outrage of the Bth as a massacre; and such it was, beyond doubt—a bloody and pre-arranged massacre —intended to terrify. Lord JOHN seems afraid of doing anything which should encourage in the Poles the expectation that we could aid them in regaining their rights. Pro bably few among them, none of the better informed, would think of an armed intervention. But in the present state of Europe we might intervene, diplo matically, with unusual effect. The desire of the Poles does not appear to go beyond the honest ful filment of the Treaty of Vienna—that they should form a separate kingdom, with a constitution and separate administration. On these terms, most imprudently and unrighteously, England con sented, with the despots of Europe, to let the CZAR of the day—the first ALEXANDER — be King of Poland. The were a party to this arrangement. The CZARS have illegally as well as cruelly broken it, and have notoriously endeavoured to trample Poland into a Russian province. The events of the - year show that all oppressions with this view have been futile. Poland still lives — still demands its rights. She ought' to have them ; and we, who incurred such a huge national debt to bring about the treaties of 1815; we, who took in hand to join in the division and allotment of countries ; we are bound, in honour, not to suffer one side to rob the other, when the injured side— the nations—look to us for help. We cannot doubt that public opinion in Franee would be strongly with us; and if both countries, without offering military help, jointly asserted before Europe what was due to Poland, we might reasonably hope that even a semi-barbarian CZAR could not afford to despise the warning. We suppose our Royal Family wishes to be re garded as an English Family ; they do not desire, like the English in India, to be looked upon as foreign rulers of a great nation. If so, it really seems rather singular that all their tenderest attachments should be formed across the water ; Germany being the happy land on which the smiles of English Prin cesses are bestowed, as soon as they arrive at marriageable age, and almost before they do so. The petty prince of a petty estate, passing by the name of an independent state, to whom the Princess ALICE LS now betrothed, may be, and doubtless is, as desirable a foreigner as our young Princess could select ; select, we say, because Lord PALMERSTON, with a little Bloomerism of phraseology, represents her Royal Highness as having made choice of a prince who, he is persuaded, will prove, in every respect, worthy of her choice. Lord DERBY also gives us his guarantee that the "contract is founded on the the best security for happiness—an intimate per sonal acquaintance between the parties, and a mu tual affection and esteem." This securing to her some compensation for the comparatively humble position of the Bridegroom elect. But if we ask how this intimate acquaintance with a foreigner in country and language commenced, we must sup pose that foreigners were the associates preferred for our young Princesses at the age most suscepti ble of such impressions. It will be the same, we suppose, when the brothers begin to think of marrying. The continent will be scoured for wives for them, and England may one day have a Queen who can hardly speak her language, or be at ease without a little clique of German ladies around her. To us, we must confess, the whole thing smacks of mediaeval semi-barbarism ; of the times when ti - e Royal Races were held to be of different blood to their subjects, and reigned by a right divine. Then, of course, it was not fitting that Royalty, in any of its branches, should be allied with anything but Royalty elsewhere, and kingdoms were gained by marriages, and given away as wedding portions. Surely, it is time to give up such barbaric notions. Left to them selves, and associating with the families of our English nobility, who are in truth of far higher standing than these contemptible German Sovereignties, our young Princes and Prin cesses would form their attachments and connections here, and the English Exchequer would not be made the means of supplementing the poverty of these needy little potentates. It will be much to be regretted if our SOVEREIGN, beloved as she is by the nation, does not awake to the desirableness of thoroug%ly Anglicising her family. Englishmen generally feel these paltry Royalties to be but unworthy connections for our Crown. We are a self contained set c f Islanders, and we think our Royal Family should be one of ourselves. It will be seen that Vice-Chancellor STUART has given the judgment which was expected, not from the facts and arguments, but from the well-known bias of the Judge's mind. Not that we for one moment suspect the learned Judge of any conscious bias, or anything like an intention to make out a case for the Emperor of AUSTRIA; but somehow, on these great public questions we always find the opinions of judges governed very much by their known prepossessions. Nothing can, indeed, be more unsatisfactory than the reasoning by which the Vice-Chancellor supported his judg ment; It seemed to leave untouched all the strongest points on which the defendant re lied, or to meet them in the most superficial manner. Under the circumstances an appeal was an obvious necessity ; as, however, the term ends on Wednesday next, the Lord Chancellor was obliged to defer hearing the appeal till next term, which commences on the 22d, as he deemed the case to be one of far too great international importance to be decided otherwise than in full court. We wonder when the ottnr question will come before a criminal court—the question, "Who stole the note ?" Sir RICHARD MAYNE and Sir G. C. LEWIS are at pre sent in the position of sheltering a felon. Their long and persistent reticency . shows that it must b e , Cry duty job. as suspected, a v It must not be i ma g ined for one moment that because the Bankrup tc y and Insolvency Bill was last evening, has in u pon the motion o f Lord DERBY, referred to a S e lect Committee , that therefore it '3' way been shelved or cushioned. The Noble Earl disclaimed any such unfair design on the part of her M AJESTY'S Opposition. The manner in which he deprecated any such misaPP l ' hension on the part of 1- e public is worthy, we cannot but think, of very L particular consideration. The suspicions not unnatu ra ll y aroused by the inti ;nation that the Leader of the Conser v atives was a bout to set aside and render fruitl ess for another Attorney in 1861 sess ion the effort made by the 'Whig General to carry his favourite law reform with flying colours through both the Houses of Parliament--these suspicions, we say, have been latterly so prevalent that it is but justice to the Noble Earl himself, after his manly explanation of ITHJ SUN, LONDON, 'SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 4, 1861. F ~~' yesterday, to dissipate at once and entirely any such erroneous a pprehensions. Referring to a letter addressed to him by the Secretary of the Mercantile Law Amendment Society, Lord DERBY serio-comically remarked last evening in the House of Lords—" I am (in this communication) informed that they regret to learn that her MAJESTY'S Government, being unable to resist my powerful influence, have consented to send this bill to a select committee." Whereupon, still however in a tone of pleasant bantering, whimsical enough in its way under the circumstances, Lord DERBY went on to observe—" Now, my lords, while I dis- claim for myself the honour and compliment which is thus paid me, of its being supposed that I possess an influence capable of overbearing the determina tion of her MAJESTY'S Government, I must be per mitted also to repudiate, on the part of her MAJESTY'S Government, an insinuation so injurious and offensive to them, as that they, from fear of a political defeat on a question which really involves no political difference, should have given way and taken a coune opposed to their own judgment and views. Far be it from me to taunt the Governmen for a single moment by supposing the possibility of there being differences of opinion between them, We know that on this, as on all other questions they are united in the strictest harmony. From what quarter the Mercantile Law Amendment Society has received the notion that the Government has been compelled by my influence very reluc- • tautly to give up their own counsel I am sure I cannot say. I am sure that her MAJESTY'S Govern- ment have acted on the conviction that the course they have adopted commends itself most to their own jadgment, and that of the house, as the best means of examining the very complicated details of this measure." So that actually, as it happens, the Government and the Opposition are perfectly agreed as to the advisability of referring the Bill, as it is, to the deliberate scrutiny of a Select Committee. Nor can. this be wondered at when it is reflected simply, in the first place, that the Bill, as it is, never yet has been submitted in a printed Torm to the House of Com mons for its consideration. As Lord DERBY remarks, " It was never reprinted till after it passed through committee, and when, by the rules of the House of Commons, they could make no further alterations. And," he adds, " I will mention one instance to show the incorrect state in which it has come up to us. It was intended to make some dis tinction between the acts which constitute the bankruptcy of a trader and the bankruptcy of a non-trader; and I see that in the amendments talked of by the noble and learned lord on the woolsack he has observed the inaccuracy to which lam about to refer. There are eight acts which are taken to constitute bankruptcy on the part of a trader ; and it was intended to substitute for these three or four acts which were to be held as constituting bankruptcy on the part of a non trader ; but now, as the bill stands, the non-trader will not only be subject to bankruptcy on any of the four acts which apply to his case, but also on all the other eight which are intended only to apply to the traders." So that, on the very face of the measure, there are good and valid and obvious reasons Why the Bill should be—as it is now—referred to a Select Committee. As to the fear entertained by some that by being so referred it will be effectually precluded from the chance of receiving the timbre of the Royal Assent, of being, before the close of the session, " willed" by the simple words la Reine le veut from the draft of a Bill into a perfected Enact ment—Ls to this apprehension, what says Lord DERBY, by whose motion last night, at whose in stance (with the perfect consent of the Govern ment the Bill has now been formally referred to a Select Committee . ? Why, speaking of this dread felt out d doors lest its reference to a select com mittee should cause so much delay that it would by reason of that delay be impracticable to pass the Bill before the Autumnal Prorogation, Lord DERBY observed with perfect reasonableness yes terday :—" This anticipation shows great ignorance of the proceedings of your lordships in select com mittees, and holds out, if it were true, a very melan choly prospect to those noble lords who may be placed on that committee of attending it for the three months that the session may be expected to last." The dread thus set aside in a few frank bold careless words of derision, is, in fact, wholly chime rical. The Select Committee has a simple task before it, and that task can be, and doubtless will be, speedily enough accomplished. Let the flaws inadvertently occurring in the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Bill be summarily struck out of it, and the few amendments thought of as necessary to be introduced, be introduced—and the Bill so revised may be taken back to the Commons for reconsideration, and returned to the Lords afterwards in due form and eventually enrolled upon the statute book—and all that—without any unseemly haste whatever in the doing of it, long before the arrival of Midsummer. Associated inextricably and most agreeably in our mind with the thought that the Bill has now been referred by the House of Lords to a Select Com mittee, is the satisfactory reflection that the momen tary delay thus caused will enable the author, the promoters, and the well-wishers generally of this measure to secure for it betimes the supervision of the greatest Law Reformer of the Age, the ex- Chancellor Lord BROUGHAM. THE MARRIAGE MESSAGE IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.—When the Lord Chancellor was reading the Mes sage from the Queen, relative to the marriage of the Prin cess Alice, the house became so suddenly dark by the sky becoming overcast, that he had to pause until a light was procured to enable him to read.—Era. OFFER OF A BARONETCY TO MR. COEDEN.—Lord Palmerston, or the part of the Government, has signified his desire to advise her Majesty to bestow on Mr. Cobden a baronetcy and the distinction of a Privy Councillor, both of which honours the hon. gentleman has declined. M. Ladislas Paloczy, the late President, by senio rity, of the Hungarian Diet, whose death has been an nounced by telegraph, was 78 years old, and had presided in the Diet of 1848. The assembly suspended its sittings three days, and resolved to wear mourning for him for six weeks. Both chambers were present at his funeral, the expense of which was defrayed by the Diet. NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION.—The May general meeting of the National Rifle Association will be held at Willis's-rooms, on Monday, the 27th inst., at half past two o'clock. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge, K.G., President of the Association, will preside. THE BUDGET.—A return moved for by Sir S. Northcote, shows that the revenue received in the financial year just closed, from income tax, malt duty, and hop duty, amounted to £17,885,000, which was more by £3,141,000 than would have been received if the time and mode of collection had not been altered. The managers and directors of some of the prc - vincial savings banks have given notice that the banks will be open twice a week in future, inste•id of once. FILE AT PRICE'S PATENT CANDLE WORKS.— Yesterday morning a most serious fire broke out at the atove manufactory, at Bi omborcugh, Cheshire. The fire is to have been confined t) tho E outh-east end of the building, next the saw mills, where the oil is stored. The factory is quite safe. The damage is estimated at £lO,OOO to goods, and £5,000 to the building, all of which is covered by insurance. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT roPLAß.—yesterday mr,rning, between the hours of eight and nine o'clock, a de sttuetive fire broke out in the premises of Mr. William Squires, marine store duller, No. 40, Robin Hood-lane, Poplar. When the, alarp was first raised the flames had obtained, a strong hold.of the lower part of the building, so that it was utterly iinpossil)le for any oae to render the least assistance in saving any of the contents. The fire was not extinguished until the premises were burnt down, and tht houses Nos. 1,2, and 3, Terrace-com t, considerablydamaged. the origin of the misfortune is un known. The loss will fall on the Sun and other Qfflees. LATEST NE WS. CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, MAY 4. The Royal Mail steamship Persia, Capt. Judkins, from New York on the 25th April, arrived here at 6.30 a.m. to-day. She brings 182 passengers, and diamonds to the value of 20,000. She landed 12 passengers and all mails (except those for Liverpool), and proceeded at 7.10 a.m, All well. The Persia was detained 15 hours at New York o receive despatches from Washington. NEW YORK, APRIL 25, 2 A.M. (via Queenstown.) All telegraphic and regular mail communication between New York and Washington is interrupted. The National Guard have arrived at Washington. The latest advices from Washington state that 6,000 Secessionists were in the neighbourhood of the city, and that the Government had thrown up defences round the principal buildings. An attack was expected. Baltimore is in the hands of the mob, and a reign of terror is said to prevail there. The Gosport Navy-yard at Norfolk has been burnt by United States officers. Eleven war vessels have been destroyed by the Maryland people, end the telegraph wires cut. The chartered steamer Star of the West has been captured by the Southern Government. Kentucky has declared itself neutral. The municipality of New York have appropriated 1,000,000 dols. for the expenses of the volunteers. Large bodies of troops are leaving daily for Washington. Warlike preparations on a large scale are making in Texas. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENGE. Exchange on London is quoted 106 to 1061. Stocks are dull and heavy. Illinois Central, 571; New York Central, 7l1; Erie, 191. Cotton stuff.—Middling Upland, 131. Sales 700 bales. Wheat dull. Corn steady. Breadstuffs irregular. The City of Washington, Niagara, Jura, and Asia have arrived out. The Columbia has put into Halifax short of coals. NEW ORLEANS, APRIL 22. The cotton market is dull. Middling, 11c. Sales, 2,750 bales. MADRID, MAY 3 The C'orrespondencia Autografa of to-day says " All the towns of San Domingo have issued a pronunciamento in favour of annexation to Spain." The Correspondencia Autografa also asserts that Spain has announced to the Powers that she would accept this annexation. THE BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY. The Royal Mail steamship Tyne, with the above mail, has arrived. She brings 131 passengers and £103,748 in specie. On the 30th ultimo she spoke the English ship Malacca. The revolution in San Juan had terminated peaceably, and Don Francisco Diaz had been named Provisional Governor. In th. Argentine Itepublie Congress had been convened, and the representatives were flocking to the provisional capital. Business at Buenos Ayres was brisk, and prices of produce were advancing. Freights were firm. Exchange, 635. to 645. per doubloon. Ounces had risen from 357 dols. to 357 dols.; the last price on the Bolsa was 355 dols. At Bahia sugar was in brisk demand, at 2 dols 400 c. to 2 dols. 500 c. for whites. Freight to Channel, 655. Exchange on London, 90 days, 261. At Pernambuco the stock of sugar was sma ll. Prices without quotable change. Cotton, prices had declined 600 reis per arroba. Dry salted hides had declined to 200 reis per lb. Freight had advanced, owing to a scarcity of shipping. Sugar charters had been effected at from 40s. to 50s. Exchange on London, 90 days, 26k; discount 10 per cent. per annum for first-rate four months' bills. At Rio Janeiro business in coffee was limited, owing to the smallness of stocks. Freights were active, 40 vessels had been char tered for the Channel. Rate to London, 60s. E x _ change on London, 261, at which rate £500,000 had been drawn. Discount, 9 per cent. Nothing worthy of notice in speeie or stocks. MARSEILLES, MAY 4. The Vectis, with the above mails, arrived at Marseilles at 0 a.m. this day. The mails were to leave for London at 10 a.m. The Ellora, with the heavy portion of the mails, was to leave Malta at 6 p.m. on the Ist, and may be expected at Southampton on the 10th inst. The Nepaul, from Mauritius, and the Ottawa from Bombay, reached Suez on the 23d and 26th of April respectively. The Simla, with the London mails of the 20th 26th of February, reached Calcutta 4th of April. MARSEILLES, MAY 2. Count Trani is expected at Marseilles, on his way to Bavaria. ROME, APRIL 30 (via Marseilles). The King of Naples has left Rome for the Villa Albano. The official Gioniale di Roma gives a denial to the report that conciliatory proposals had been made by Sardinia. A petition is circulating in Rome demanding the evacuation of Rome by the French. NAPLES , APRIL 30 (via Marseilles). Three thousand troops of the Italian army have arrived here. Military operations are being continued against the insurgents in the Basilicata. TURIN, MAY 3. King Victor Emmanuel will proceed to Naples at the end of this month, and will, it is said, reside there f'or two months. THORN, MAY 3. The municipality of Warsaw hb,ve placed their resignations in the hands of General Gecewich It is said that General Paniatin, the military governor, and General Zabasckoi, have been dis missed, and that the former will be succeeded br General Lambert. FR ANCE. PARTS, FRIDAY. Vely Pasha, the new Turkish ambassador, was received by M. Thouvenel at two o'clock to-day. Fresh instructions with regard to Syria have been sent to the French ambassador at Constantinople. Count Zamoys'ti is expected in Paris, whence he will proceed to London. BoutsE, May 3.—The market has been heavy, but without losing any of its firmness, and the prices of yesterday have been well maintained. For the Account, Threes commenced at 69f 10c, and receding to 69f 5c again rose to 69f 20c, and are now at 69f 15e. Railway shares have been quiet, but firm. The following were the last quotations : ft per per Cents ... 96 Credit Foncier 945 Do. end month.... Belgian 4/ lOl 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 15 Roman • 73 Bank Shares Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 705 Spanish Threes 4B -- Do. Account 707 50 Home Debt .. 4Bl RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1353 75 .. 13.55 Northern 978 75 .. 980 New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 967 50 .. 967 50 Geneva 416 25 .. 416 -25 Southern 662 50 .. 563 75 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard 497 50 .. 497 50 SYRIA. The Indepenclance of Brussels says : " We have received from Paris the confirmation of the understanding which has been come to be tween England and France for Syrian affairs. The principal basis of the arrangement which has been come to between the two great Western Powers is the evacuation of Syria on the sth June by the French corps of occupation, conformably to the conventions concluded in Paris. On that point our accounts differ as to whether a mixed garrison of 1,500 French, 500 P.iedmontese, and 500 English shall be established at Beyrouth, or whether the forces to be left in that town shall be limited to 1,000 French, England 'confining herself to an increase of her squadron of observation. If the latter arrangement should be the one decided on, England will engage to be an swerable for the security of the Christians in Syria, and to hold herself ready for any eventuality. It is, however, to be hoped that this engagement will remain a purely moral one, as Turkey represents herself as being strong enough to guarantee the maintenance of public tranquillity. For that pur pose she intends to increase the army under the command of Fuad Pasha to 35,000 men, and that force will be more th►an sufficient to remove all the alarm felt, either in Syria or in Europe, on the sub ject of the possible recurrence of the massacres which rendered foreign intervention necessary." TRIAL BY JUJU' IN ITALY. NAPLES, APRIL 27.. The first case of trial by jury came off on Thurs day last in the Grard Criminal Court of Naples, and constantly as that court has been the scene of illegalities and ferocities, a description of the inci dents which marked the case that was decided on Thursday last will be of great public inte rest. By decree of Garibaldi trial by jury was first ordered to be introduced ; but it was not put in execution. This decree was confirmed by an . _ other signed by Victor Emmanuel, and now it has been bronght into aetion, at least for cases of libel. From the lists of those who are eligible, 50 persons arc chosen every month to serve, and from these again 12, or rather 14 (two being supple mentary for exceptional circumstances) are chosen by lot. A majority of seven are required to form a verdict. There were not many people in court, but al, were of the most respectable class. Gradually the galleries filled, and a pretty large crowd assembled at last round the benches of the judges. The jury, having been chosen and called over, took their seats on each side of the President, and the proceedings then began. The President was Signor Tofani, Minister of Police in 1848, and one of the same ministry of which Poerio formed a part. Signor La Francesca, the Attorney-General, who was one of the advocates for the defence in the great Cagliara case, appeared on the occasion. The President having called the accused and his counsel into court, then addressed the jury on the importance of the new institution which he said the English called the palladium of their liberties. In rather a long speech he described the difference which existed between the duties of the judge of law and the judge of fact, combated the arguments which were urged against the institution, alluding to the example of the English amongst whom it flourished, and by whom all the duties of the high office were performed with so much calmness and dignity, and then expressed his opinion as being un favourable to our practice, which demanded the unanimous agreement of the jurors to constitute a verdict, adding that one man might possibly decide a case. " Grand and beautiful," he said, "is the scene which I am permitted this day to witness, and I can almost say that I have lived long enough to witness this triumph of freedom. Hitherto we have administered justice whilst surrounded by the sbirri of the police, and have spoken and acted under the menace of imprisonment and ruin. We have trembled under the despotism of perjured kings, but now let us be thankful for it, we speak and act our honest convictions under the govern ment of a loyal upright Prince. Italian citizens, let me urge upon r..su the wise and moderate exercise of your high privileges, and you, gen tlemen of the jury, prove yourselves worthy of the high account in which you are held, and adminster justice with the strictest impartiality." Whilst speaking the President was several times so overcome by his feelings that he could scarcely proceed. The sensation in the court was great and alternate tears and rounds of applause, in which the jury joined with the audience, accom panied the conclusion of the President's speech. The jury were then called upon to take the oath, the most material part of which was as follows I swear before God and man to exercise most scrupulously the administration of justice." The President, standing, presented the formula to each of the jurors, who approached in succession, and, touching it, said, " I swear." The Attorney- General then, having been called upon by the Pre sident, rose and said, " I accuse A. B (the gerant of the Pietra Infernale) of indecent attacks on our holy religion, on good morals, and thereby of offending against the statute." The clerk of the court read over the indictment and the articles of the journal which had given rise to the prosecution, and the Attorney-General opened his case in a most eloquent speech, and very un-Italian, inasmuch as it was short. Declaring the sentiments of satisfac tion and gratitude by which he was overwhelmed, he congratulated his fellow-citizens on the triumph of liberty which they that day enjoyed. He drew a powerful contrast between the present and the past government, under which they had all so cruelly suffered, and exhorted his audience to a moderate and legal enjoyment of their freedom. The press, he said, was one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and should be guarded with the utmost scrupulousness; but there were limits to its action, when it violated public decency and insulted the religion of the State and of the great mass of the people; then it was for the law to interfere, and the articles of the Pietra Infernale now indicated had been guilty of this offence. He did not come there to argue theological points, or to question the right of individuals to believe as tiny chose, but to enforce the law and respect for public opinion. The law had declared the Roman Catholic religion to be the religion of the state, and it must be respected. The rest of his speech was marked by good sense and moderation, and was very eloquent. It was received with continued rounds of applause, and there were some very affecting moments. The accused was found guilty, and condemned to pay a fine of 4CO ducats, and to be imprisoned three months. A WINDFALL FOR TIIE EMPEROR OF CIIINA il -- The following extraordinary bequest appears i n the wl of the late Mr. George Wilson, late of Carstairs Lodge, near Wi g t o n, which was recsntly proved in Carlisle :—" I give an d bequeath unto the person for the time being Emperor of China, the sum of nlnebien pounds nineteen shillings, as a mark of my .grittitude for the uniform attention with which I was treated by the officials of that empire during my visit there in the year one thousand eight hundred and f i fty-five."—Edinburgh Witness. The annual meeting of the Assam Company wa:, held yesterday—Mr. H. M. Kemshead in the chair—when the report recommending a oivideud of 12 per cent., free pf iuconie-tax, was adopted. DISTURBANCES IN NAPLES. The Official Gazette of the Kingdom, a Turin journal of the 30th ult., gives the following account of the late disturbances on the Neapolitan terri tor3 "Among the ringleaders• and exciters of reac tionary movements are fanatical priests, chiefs of the ex-Urban Guard, and persons recently arrived from Rome, but the bands are only recruited by Bourbonian deserters. The National Guard has everywhere shown itself animated by the beat feelings, and the mass of the people in general has itself taken part in the defence of public order. In the Ulterior Principality an unworthy monk placed himself at the head of the reactionists ; his accom - plice was a cure of Volturera. Both of them ex cited to outbreak by preaching in the Church against the King and the National Government. The Governor of province arrived with a cer tain number of troops and National Guards. In a first conflict the brigands, 100 in number, were de feated, almost the whole of them being either killed, wounded, or taken prisoners. The same cure then changed his tone, and harangued the people in favour of the King of Italy and of the Statuto. Attempts at brigandage have also taken place at Sorbo, but they were immediately re pressed by the National Guards of Candida and Betlizza. The leader in the affair was a certain spy of the Bourbonian police who, with others, was arrested. In the Citerior Principality three brothers, who had escaped from the prisons of Salerno, had recruited among the ex-Bourbonian soldiers a band of about 50 individuals, who entered the territory of Laviano, where they were attacked and dispersed by the troops and National Guards. In the communes of Taviano and Racale, several disbanded Bourbonian soldiers raised cries of Long live Francis!" Down with Em manuel !' and tore down the national arms. The Mayor of Taviano, who endeavoured to arrest them, was killed by a stab from a stiletto. The Judge of Casareno, who came to the place with a certain number of National Guards, found the outbreak quelled, but he caused searches to be made, and the authors of the murder are believed to be among the persons arrested. In the province of Terra de Bari all attempts at outrage have been prevented by the arrest of some individuals who, by means of false reports, endeavoured to excite reaction. The pro vinces of Terra de Lahore, Benevento, and Molise, are now tranquil. In the three Abruzzi nothing has taken place since the affair of Introdacqua. Only a single act of brigandage is mentioned as having taken place in the Three Calabrias, and that was committed at Tiriolo, in the Ulterior 11, '*here a diligence was attacked, and a forced contribution imposed on some individuals. The great criminal courts of the provinces are now engaged in prepar ing for the trial of the different prisoners. We have already rectified statements which the tele graph had brought from Naples, and shown the true state of those disturbances, which have bon much exaggerated. All the facts above-mentioned took place from the 6th to the 20th ult., and all of them have been isolated acts of brigandage com mitted by ex-Bourbonian soldiers ; and, in most cases, they are ordinary crimes, with which politics have nothing to do." THE ILKESTON MURDER. In our yesterday's impression we gave a brief account of the murder of a man named Joseph Smith, of Ilkeston, Derbyshire, by his son, George Smith, who blew his father's brains out with a pis tol. We now give some further particulars. It appears that the murderer purchased a pistol, with which the murder was perpetrated, at Mr. Daniel Webster's, general dealer and pawnbroker, Clumber street, Nottingham. On Wednesday afternoon, about one o'clock, Smith went to Mr. Webster's shop and asked for a pistol, stating that he wished to purchase one. Smith being a stranger Mr. Webster asked him what he wanted it for, to which Smith replied that he wanted it " to fly pigeons with when they were r racing." Mr. Webster was satisfied with Smith's I answer, and accordingly supplied him with a pistol, for which he paid 4s. Smith then asked him if he could furnish him with powder and caps, to which Mr. Webster replied in the negative, adding that his neighbour, Mr. Carr, on the other side of the street, could supply him with all he required. Ac cordingly, Smith went there and asked for a half penny worth of caps, which were supplied to him by Mrs. Carr. He put one of the caps on the pistol, and was in the act of letting it off, when she told him she was afraid of firearms, and if he wanted to let it off he must go into the street. He then went outside the shop and fired the cap off, after which he returned to Mrs. Carr, and asked for a halfpenny worth of powder. She told him that she did not make that quantity, but he could have a pennyworth if he thought proper. He replied, " Well, give me enough for one charging; I want to try the pistol." She accordingly put a small quantity in a piece of paper, and he threw down a penny for it and went away. He then went home, and, it is said, called his father up and deliberately shot him. Mr. Smith immediately fell dead, and his son was soon after wards taken into custody. While he was being apprehended he asked for a carving -knife, stating that he would have revenge on the body of his father, adding that, when he was hanged, if his limbs trembled, his name was not George Smith. We stated yesterday that the murderer wrote a note in lead pencil to his sweetheart, at Belton, on Wednesday, in which he said he was afraid his father would make away with himself. This turns out to be correct, for on Thursday evening Detec tive Davis went to Belton, had an interview with the girl, Ellen Cox, who at first denied having re ceived a letter but afterwards produced the follow ing, written in lead pencil, which she said she had received from the murderer that (Thursday) morning : " My dear ',—l told my father this morning, and he is like a madman, and I am sure he will make away with himself ; but, Ellen, never mind ; you will soon become my wife, and then all this bother will be over. Please send me word when you are at your grandmother's, and you must come and meet me at the station on Sunday morning, be there at 8 o'clock. So good-bye, sweetheart. I have given the banns in at Ilkeston." (The letter is not dated from any place, nor bears any signature.) Mr. Whiston opened the inquest on Thursday afternoon, at the Queen's Head, Ilkeston, and the proceedings were adjourned until this day. THE MURDER AND SUICIDE IN CARLISLE. On Wednesday the adjourned inquiry into the death of Mrs. Davidson, the landlady of the Pack Horse public-house, who died so mysteriously a few weeks ago, and also into the death of the young man Horsley, who was found dead in the above house, was resumed by Mr. Carrick, coroner, in the Coffeehouse Hotel. The father of the young man produced another batch of letters, similar in import to those put in at the former inquiry. They were from Mrs. Davidson to Horsley, and indicated her desire to have her son-in-law in her company. Sergeant Cowen, of the City police, deposed to having found the body of Horsley, and to going again to the Pack Horse, to look after the clothes which Mrs. Davidson had on when it was supposed she had strangled Horsley. He produced Mrs. Davidson's dress, and pointed out the bloodstains upon it, as well as upon the apron the unhappy woman had worn. Dr. Hendrie and Mr. Temper ley, who at the former inquiry had deposed, to having found arsenic in the contents of Mrs. Da vidson's stomach, now stated the results of the post mortem examination of Horsley's body. From the appearance of the neck, the congestion of the eye• lids, and the protruding of the tongue, they were of opinion that the unfortunate young man had been put an end to by strangulation. Margaret Rickerby, keeper of a public-house at which it had been stated Horsley and his mother-in-law had met, and on one occasion had slept together, denied the statement ; but the coroner told her that further inquiries would be made, and that if the allegation proved true witness should be indicted for perjury. Horsley's mother said she had suspected an im proper intimacy between her son and his mother in-law. She took him to task about it, and he said it would not continue long. The husband of Mrs. Davidson deposed that he had not lived with her lately,. and another witness spoke to having been sent by Mrs. Davidson to watch Horsley. The coroner then summed up the evidence, after which the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder and suicide" against Jane Davidson ; that is, she had. murdered Horsley, and afterwards poisoned her self. The coroner expressed his approval of the verdict. MR. FREDERIC PENNA Will give a new enter• tainment, called " The Highways and Byeways of Song," at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, on Tuesday next, and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday during the month. The reputation this gentleman has already acquired by his Musical Entertainments will render this likely to be hailed as a pleasant addition to the attractions of the present busy musical season.—Era. The suspension was announced yesterday after noon of Messrs. P. Hava and Co., Levant merchants, con sequent upon the failure last month of their correspondents, Messrs, Hava and Co., of Marseilles. The house has long held a high position, and it is understood that its engage ments will to a great ex ent be withdrawn by the interven tion of third parties. For the remaining liabilities the assets are said to be not merely sufficient, but likely to leave a considerable surplus. The efforts to sustain the other firms compro• raised by the Marseilles failures have thus far prevented any fresh difficulty, and it is generally felt that their conduct has entitled them to the highest confidence and forbearance. No doubt is entertained of their solvency provided the securitia they hold from the Turkish Government can be rendered available, and it appears that the Bank of France have resolved to send two or three delegates to Constanti nople to examine and report upon these claims, and have invited the English firms to take a similar step. Although the entire affair is of great magnitude, and characterised by political as well as other complications, anticipations are expressed that it will be brought to a satisfactory ter mination. DESTRUCTION OF A MILL IN DERRYSIIIRE.—EarIy on Wednesday morning a fire was discovered in the mill be longing to Mr. Swallow, at Hanging. bridge, Ashbourn, Derbyshire, and before assistance could be obtained the mill was completely gutted, the roof and front wall falling in with an immense crash about 3 o'clock. An alarm having been given, the Ashbourn fire engines were quickly on the spot, and by their instrumentality the warehouses, contain• ing a large quantity of cotton, and the adjoining dwelling house, were fortunately saved. We believe the damage amounts to between £6,000 and £7,000. The mill was partly insured. The loss is aggravated by the fact that a great deal of machinery had just been added, which is entirely destroyed, even to the water wheel. Had the wind been active the entire mill-yard and dwelling-houses would have been swept away. The fire broke out in the packing-room, it is eupposed, and was discovered by one of the mill hands living in the yard. IS A GRANDFATHER THE PARENT OF HIS GRAND• man ?—After the disposal of the usual business at the Greenwich Police-court yesterday, a respectably-dressed woman attended and asked Mr. Maude, the sitting magis trate, t o sign a declaration made Ly her relative to - her child being admitted into an asylum. The declaration had to be signed also by two witnesses, neither of whom, it was de clared, "shall be the parent of the child." On examining these signatures his worship inquired who, the witnesses were, when the mother replied that they wero the child's grandfather and grandmother. Mr. Maude was of opinion the school committee would consider the grandfather and grandmother as parents of the grandchild, and he conse quently declined to attach his signature to the document presented to him, at the same time telling the mother to got another declaration prepared, and to obtain other persons as witnesses. 'I7ITETEE'iIL—Mr. Eskell has just published an admirable treatise on Dental Surgery, with instructions for the preservation and restoration of the teeth. It is written in a clear, simple, and unpretending style, and therefore well calculated to effect the desired object of the author, and at the same time confer great benefit upon all those who peruse its pages. The volume contains in all thirteen chapters, amongst which we have the causes of the decay of the teeth ; accidental causes of injury thereto ; toothache in its various phases, withremedies ; and valuable hints where extraction is rendered necessary. The effect of using acids in the removal of tartar from the teeth, the author states, is peculiarly hurtful, as the application dissolves the enamel, and the earthy part of the bone, whenever it comes in con tact with these acids, may render the teeth white for a short time only, as discolouration and decay is the inevitable re sult. The subject of artificial teeth is also treated of in very comprehensive manner ; and small as the volume is it really contains all that is necessary relative to the good keeping of the mouth and teeth, and deserves the serious consideration of all who adequately regard their health, cmf9rt, and appearance, THE STATES OF HOLSTEIN. The following is an analysis of a declaration made by the Danish Envoy to the Germanic Diet, on the 27th ult. : " The Danish Government desires to prove tha the Provisional Constitution offered to the States of Holstein, assures to them a completely inde pendent position, equal to that of the Supreme Council. The Danish Government, in conse quence, considers that it has responded in fact, and in so far as is compatible with the mainte nance of the unity of the monarchy recognised in 1852, by the Confederation, to the requirements of the Federal resolution of the 7th Febraary. Such is the state of things as regards Art. 13 of the Provisional Constitution. By that Article, the budget of the current year has been submitted to the assent of the State. The Diet had not reqUired that this budget should be for mally set aside, but only that the States should give their assent to it. That assent was refused, not on account of the budget itself, but because, like some other measures presented by the Govern ment, which was also rejected, the States laid down as an express condition the establishment of a political order of things contrary to the settle ment of 1852, that is to say, an exclusive politi cal union with the Duchy of S3hleswig—a mat ter which is neither within their jurisdiction nor in that of the Diet. But the Government can not think itself bound to accord impossible and inadmissible conditions of that kind, and it sincerely regrets not to have been able to do more towards the accomplishment of the Federal.resolu tion. The position of the Government and the States with respect to Article 13, was very diffe rent, so long as the Government was able to hope for the adoption of the provisional Con stitution. When once the rejection of that Constitution had become certain, the States were immediately called on to adopt or re ject the decision relative to the Budget inde pendently of the rest of the Constitution. The King, it is true, has reserved his sanc tion; but this is in conformity with the Federal laws, and there would be no reason to complain of that course unless the Government had rejected propositions and resolutions of the States ; but that eventuality did not arise. The declaration then enters into explanatory details respecting the propositions submitted to the States of Hol stein, insists on the practical difficulties which the question presents, and endeavours to prove that the States of Holstein had no right to intervene in the other parts of the monarchy. It concludes as follows :—" The Government is charged with the duty of protecting the interests of all parts of the country, and cannot permit the representatives of one of those parts to place themselves above the Sovereign. On the whole, if the States of Holstein only demand independence as regards their special affairs, and even their contribution to the common expenses of the monarchy, the Government is ready to satisfy their wishes, and believed that it had done so by the last propositions; but it cannot admit that the States of Holstein shall place Schleswig under their jurisdiction, and shall be allowed to discuss the budget of Sehleswig and of Denmark.'" ALLEGED EXTENSIVE FORGERlES.—Yesterday John Soloman, charged with conducting an immense busi ness upon the basis of forged bills, both at Liverpool and London, was brought before the Liverpool magistrates and remanded. ROBBERY OF £6OO IN MANCHESTER. —yesterday , at noon, a robbery of a serious nature was committed at the warehouse of Messrs. Milne and Saville, 22A Mosley street. From such information as we have received, it appears it was the habit of the firm to lock the warehouse up during dinner hour, between one and two o'clock, and to lock the cash up in a cupboard in the counting-house. Yesterday this was done as usual, but at two o'clock the back door, which opens into Back Mosley-street, was found open. This had no doubt been unlocked by a skeleton key, or by some one who had obtained possession of the proper key of the door. On entering the counting-house it was found that the cupboard in which the cash was kept had been unlocked, and a bag containing £6OO in gold and silver stolen. Although this cupboard had been locked, and the key taken away before dinner, unfortunately the key had been left in the lock of another cupboard which would also unlock the cupboard from which the cash was stolen. This had no doubt been used, and the money thus easily got at. —Manchester Examiner. THE STRIKE IN THE BUILDING TRADE.—Last evening a crowded public meeting of operatives connected with the building trades was held at the Temperance Hall, Beresford-Street, Woolwich, to protest against the system of payment by the hour, and for the adoption of measures to assist the metropolitan workmen now unemployed in con sequence of their refusal to accede to such conditions. The chair was occupied by Mr. Neble, who briefly alluded to the recent dispute between several large firms and their workmen, and expressed an opinion that the men would never succumb to the debasing h our s y stem, and the master s must give way on that pointy o r the result would be anoth er general movement for the nine hours. A number of speakers addressed the meeting, and resolutions in accor dance with the objects for which it was convened were passed. THE STRIKES AT BOLTON.—Wednesday being the day appointed by the associated masters for closing their mills, in the event of the self •acting winders refusing to resume work, a meeting of the members was held in the everting, at the Swan Hotel, to determine what course they o ught to pursue, those hands being still determined not to accept the reduction of five per cent. A deputation from the operative spinners, accompanied by Mr. David Ilolt, again obtained an interview with the masters, in order to urge upon them the serious consequences of a general stop page of the mills, now that the lyt.nds had submitted to the terms of their employers, and left themselves without sup • port from other towns. The resu!t of the meeting was, that the mills should stop until all the hands returned to their work. This determination being unexpected, has created a great senstvion in the town. DRAINING A BATTLE FIELD.—A few days since, as a gang of drainers were at work in a field near Little Clanfield, they exhumed some human skeletms, and upon further search from 300 to 400 were discovered. Amongst them were many bones of horses. The whole were, no doubt, the slain who fell in one of the fights known to have taken place in this locality between Cromwell's forces and tUe Royalists,—ShreicsMq Jo(rna(. AI sent i Th £lO4 exhib but V Con Cottoi was bales. 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