The Sun. — London, England, 1861-04-11 00:00:00

, THE WELLINGTON, 160, PICCADILLY. —Gentlemen are respectfully informed that the SALOON DINING ROOMS are now OPEN for the Supply of LUNCHEONS and DINNERS PRICE, from One to Nine o'clock p.m. THOMAS Superintendent. HEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, the performances will oommenae with A DUKE IN OIFFICULTIES. Mrs. Stirling, Miss F. Haydon, Mrs. Wilkins, Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, &ff. After which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery and effects, and all the original music by the late Sir Henry Bishop, the melodrama of THE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Commence at 7. THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM. Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. Decided Success of the Two New Dramas. THIS EVENING, LOVERS' QUARRELS. Alter which, a new original comic drama, written by Saml. Lover, Esq., entitled MAC CARTHY MORE ; or, Possession Nine Points of the Law. John Drew, J. Johnston, Forrester, ,J. Rouse, Medlin ; Misses Rawlings, Hudspeth, &c To conclude with a new drama, NEW YEAR'S EVE ; or, The Belle of the Season. Messrs. H. Neville, Villiers, Jae. Johnstone, J. Rouse ; Mrs. Winstanley, Miss Matilda Heron, Miss Willard, &c. LOYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- 1. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING,. THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore, Meadows, Garden, and Miss C. Leclercq. Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Pechter. Sup ported by Messrs. Ryder, Hermann Vezin, graham, Shore, Meadows, ; 3tisses heath, R. Leekreq, and Elsworthy. EW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI,- - 1 - Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J. L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E. Thorne. To be followed by the new drama, MAGLIORE, THE PRESTIDIGITATOR. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, D. Fisher, tx.; Miss K. Kelly, Miss H. Simms, &c. After which, OUR GAL. Miss Julia Daly, Mr. Romer, Mr. Eburne, and Mr. Warde. Doors open at halt past 6—Commence at 7. CANTF,RBURY-HALL CONCERTS!! Westrainster•road. rroprietor........C. Morton. A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera, IL CORSARO, (This opera has never been produced in this or any other c ountry, except at these Concerts), h av i ng met w i t h t h a t de cided success which eharactise4 the most popular werks of this great Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ; together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI BIENTO, by Donizetti, Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss Tyrrell, Mr. 11. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A. B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and the Brothers Conrad. John Martin's Three celebrated Pictures will remain on view a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the Establishment. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. DAY.—Morning, 2h. 38m.—Afternoon, 2h. 56m. To-moßnow.-Morning, 3h. 10m.—Afternoon, 3h. 26m. TAB WEATHER.--SUN OFFIC/14 . AFRIL 11, 1861. THEISMOICIETBIt, IN THE SIIADZ. M—highest since noon yesterday. 34—lowest this morning and during the night. 55 —this day at noon. BABomBTEn.-30.45; falling. WIND--Easterly—rather fresh; with fine weather. .fi i :1 ( : , „ =,, '• =.- ~.., -• , . , -,, , ... , ~...,..,, ..... THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1881. " We were not geese"—said Lord PALMERSTON, when the Tiverton butcher wanted to know what he had done with the Reform Bill. The negative assurance was quite superfluous—no one suspected Whigs of being geese ; he might as well, therefore, have put it in the positive form at once—" we were foxes"—and " I, your member and Premier, was the I most wide-awake old fox of the lot ; and, seeing a capital opportunity of doubling on my own track of last year, and running to cover, and to earth too, in the lucky old Act of 1832, don't suppose for a moment, that an old Whig fox like me would not do it." And crafty, indeed, are Whigs and Tories in their policy, and reasonably are they of one heart and one soul—the PALMERSTON Government refus ing to bring in a Reform Bill, and the ex-DERBY Government commending them as wiser in their generation than the real Liberals. For, what is the plain fact under the Act of 1832 That act gave the middle classes a voice, the working classes not even that ; but it gave the aristocracy all the power. As Mr. BYNG, the then " father of the House of Commons," said in his day, so we may say still— " It is plain that we are living under an aristo cracy." The broad view of our representation is, that the Reform Act enabled, doubtless, several of the great centres of industry and population to speak out, and thus whatever power the ultramontane party have in the French Senate and Legislative Assembly—the power of tongue—is given to the middle classes, but that is all. The counties are handed over, bound hand and foot, to the landlords, and the numerous petty agricultural boroughs are bestowed on the same enlightened patrons of popular rights ; while all boroughs with, say from 800 to 1,000 or 2,000 electors are consigned to the territorial and the Stock Exchange Long-purses, ho take them at market price, being greatly assisted in so doing by the " Bribery and Corrupt Practices Prevention Act"—an Act which is therefore to be renewed this year. flow can we wonder then at the secret indigna tion, hardly veiled behind the fig-leaves of decent speeches and votes, which pervades the whole Whig and Tory camp, towards such marauders on the peace of the House as Mr. LOCKE KING and Mr. BAINES. Dare they do it, they would vote them pests and bores ; " black sheep " as the masons on strike would say, betraying the great body of their brethren. The country indeed, will not be in the least surprised with the result of yesterday's vote. It was quite looked for. It was known that the Whig whippers-in had imitated the stonemasons and picketed the gates to the Liberal side of the house, and had induced quite a sufficient number to stay away to insure the Tories a victory for them seivm and for the Government, whose members were compelled like the Hungarians in Italy, to fight on the side they would rather have voted against. The 'Tiverton fox had not been " goose enough to take the oaths and his scat since his match with Mr. HoWCLIFFE. And so the whole affair went oft as well as, indeed probably better, than the House expected. Both sides will now be in excellent work ing order for the next election, come when it may. Even the Tories on the hustings will look very graciously on the " rabble" below, and with uplifted eyes will exclaim, " Heaven forbid that we should vote against intelligent and honest working men obtaining the franchise ;—we only voted that Mr. BAINES'S bill was untimely ; we did not vote against the principle of working class enfranchisement; and gentlemen of the working classes, if you will par don a pun, we took shelter in a Shoreham CAVE, while a heavy shower from Yorkshire passed by. We did not vote against you, but only that the question of your enfranchisement be not now put, [aside] "ve always mean to do whenever it should be put. The p re t ext or . available i incorrect returns is no longer purposes they bef ore, were correct enough for all practical th‘ireyt --ore, but they are now corrected, till no one can imp ugn bero-uathistical accuracy. The net result as regards .!, turns out to be, that the present number of vote rs in cities and boroughs is 142,479, that a £6 franchise Nvooo— known la From add 211,269, making a total of (353,479. causes, however, about twenty-s even Per cent ' of those who might n ow be on the register, are not found there, hence the probable addition to the borough electoral constituency would not exce e d 200,000. This is the a ctual addition, therefore, to the present constituencies, which we are told would be enough to swamp them! That is with all their boasted intelligence, with their undoubted wealth, and the, influence which must belong to intelligence and wealth, the middle classes are told to believe that a n addition to the constituency of one operative for eN ery two middleclass men would destroy their present supremacy ! We can only say if it would they deserve to lose it. Mr. BAINES must have had some courage and nerve! to deliver his long and carefully prepared speech to an assembly which he so well knew was almost to a man dead against him. His arguments were as conclusive as any could well be ; there was an excitement on the subject of his Bill proved by at least fifty meetings, and many of them very spirited, in its favour ; there was on the other hand the absence of such excitement as could be pro nounced dangerous and intimidating; and thus curiously enough the vote of yesterday seemed to affirm a new and third condition under which any Reform of representation must not be granted. If the people are in commotion bordering on revolu j tion, it has been ruled, as in tha days of Chartism, that they must not be trusted with votes then. If they are apathetic, or at least hold no meetings, it i is said they do not ask Reform, it must not be given them then. But now, if the medium is the case, if they show in all the more independent boroughs considerable interest in the subject, but an interest equally removed from apathy and violence—well—hem—it must not be granted then .' Well may the working classes say " If you please, gentlemen of the House of Commons, let us know how we must behave to get a Reform Bill which acknowledges our rights, only tell us what you want and we will try to please you." The whole thing is, however, a transparent hoax played off by the aristocracy of what Major YEL VERTON termed " gentle blood," and the aristocracy of wealth, on the middle classes. As in the times of Chartism, the aristocracy hounded on the Chartists to serve Toryism by opposing Corn Law Repeal and every moderately liberal proposal, so now the same aristocracy sets the middle classes against the working classes; it recklessly endeavours to embitter the too natural antagonism of the buyers of labour, add the sellers of labour, and all for what—we say deliberately to insure yet a little longer the reign of the two old parties who have so long tossed the Government of the State as a football between them. The real dread of both Whigs and Tories is, not that working men would overpower their masters in elections, but that they would combine with them; and that the combination would be for cheap government, and for the more rapid advance of Civil and Religious Liberty. Reduction of Taxation, a House of Commons which would not consent to send up measures for twenty years, to be rejected each time by the House of Lords, and bona fide Religious Equality for all sects— these are the real objects of aristocratic dread. It is fear lest the honest working-men of England would unite with their masters to obtain such things, that puts forward Mr. CAVE to pro. pose, that the question of enfranchising 200,000 working-men shall not be now put—that musters all the Tories to say it shall not—and that keeps away scores of so-called Liberals, who, if they were present would he almost compelled to say it must be now put. One more Reform fight there will yet be this session. On Tuesday the 23rd leave is to be asked to bring in a bill to enable every English man "to do his own voting "—freed from the •' in " fluence"of those on whom his livelihood may de pend, and frote. the temptations of those, who would sap his electoral virtue by bribes. Of course no one doubts the fate of a far"more vital reform, a far more real and extensive enfranchisement than those proposed by Mr. KING and Mr. BAINES. It will follow them doubtless. But let the battle be fought without discouragement. The defeats of a righteous cause are a heavy loss to the victors, and the vanquishtd are as ready as ever to renew the attack. Indeed we have little doubt that Mr. BAINES and Mr. KING fared all the worse, because it was feared that their incomplete reforms might add to the number of those who must vote for the Ballot. A greater number of electors both in boroughs and counties is little relished; but, the idea of even the present constituencies being emanci pated from landlord thraldom is the most terrible of all. Any reform rather than that of independent voting ! Lord JoHN's challenge to the country is being answered. The non-electors have been pronounced indifferent as to their possession of the franchise. The champions of Reform have been believed in sincere in its advocacy. The necessity for Reform of some kind or another, of Reform, large or small, partial or comprehensive—after being insisted upon as most urgent by Administration after Adminis tration, after being formally promised year after year in the Speech from the Throne, after being made the plea actually for the last change of her MAJESTY'S Government, has been cavalierly set aside as imaginary, as illusory, by the very Coali tion pledged to recognise it. The people don't care one straw for Reform !—that is the declaration now made by the affected Reform Government, The people being described thus, we presume, Els indifferent to the question of Parliamentary change, whether viewed in the abstract or regarded practically— because Bristol is not again in flames, because the unions are not once more mustering in arms ready to march upon the metropolis, because the whole country, north, south, east,west, is not a second time what it was notoriously prior to the last Reform of Parliament—ripe for insurrection. Because of this—the Cabinet that turned out their immediate predecessors upon the argument that they, forsooth, were not sufficiently advanced Reformers, and that it required a Whig Administration, or, at any rate, a Coalition Government with a good infusion of Whiggery in it, to carry a good and proper Reform Bill, the dishonest Cabinet that slipped into office upon this pretext above all other pretexts, now derides the notion of attempting anything in the way of Reform whatever ! Not a syllable anent Reform in the Royal Speech addressed to the Lords and Commons at the beginning of the present ses sion by the SOVEREIGN. Nit a scrap of a Reform Bill prepared and red-taped, and set aside for use at the first favourable opportunity, visible in any one of the pigeon holes of any one of the departments of the whole motley Coalition Government. The Russian EMPEROR may, by a magnificent stroke of autocratic magnanimity, emancipate 20,000,000 serfs throughout his vast dominions ; but a cluster of statesmen pledged here in England to extend the elective franchise to some extent, however re stricted, can find not a word of hope to whisper to the 6,000,000 non-electors, who nevertheless bear their burden no less than the actual electors, bear their portion of the awful burden of taxation now advancing every successive year further and further beyond the appalling sum total of £70,000,000. All that Lord J. RUSSELL can ford it in his heart to say to those who may hereupon experience any sense of disappointment in this matter of Reform, is that he waits for such a breeze of public opinion in favour of it, that he waits for such a wave of public opinion in furtherance of Reform as may eventually c ars a Reform Bill bodily over the Bar of the House of Lords. That was the pretty little witticism with which the Reform Question was shelved at the beginning of this session, was summarily cushioned by Lord JOHN RUSSELL ! The expres sion was witty enough, it is true, as a metaphorical expression, but that was all. For when one has said that it was witty, it is essential also to add that it was evasive, that it was untrue, that its dishonesty was most flagrant and most discreditable. The Bar of the Peers ! say you, Lord JOHN RUS SELL ? Was that the obstacle i Why, all England knows, for absolute certainty, that the fact was dia-. metrically the reverse. England knows full well, and remembers at this moment quite distinctly, that whatever shape the Reform Bill of 1859, the Reform Bill introduced into the House of Commons by Mr. DISRAELI, might have been moulded into in com mittee (and it was of so plastic and elastic a character that it admitted of being there moulded into any shape), that that bill could then with the utmost facility—would with the most absolute certainty, have been carried triumphantly over the Bar of the House of Lords by the noble Earl then at the head of her MAJESTY'S Government. England knows this, England remembers this, and thus knowing, thus remembering it—while she listens to Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S fribbling little witticism, she judges of the wit who could venture to utter it —accordingly ! Our veteran Premier's frankly avowed and cheerily outspoken scorn for Reform, when con trasted by the country with the course thus pursued in its regard by his noble colleague, the Foreign Secretary, appears by the sheer force of that con trast—how shall we express it ?—absolutely re spectable. Lord PALMERSTON has never once, from first to last, affected to be a Reformer. And so— when he casts the Question aside with a laugh as a plague and a nuisance, he in no way sullies his own consistency. Referring to the manner in which the Prime Minister, upon the occasion of his recent hustings' duel or political logomachy with the butcher - demagogue down at Tiverton, Mr. GEORGE THomrsoN re minded the reformers of Southwark, on Tuesday evening, that Lord PALMERSTON, when asked by the butcher why he and his colleagues did not reintroduce their Reform Bill into the House of Commons this session, replied, with broad humour, because her Majesty's Government were not geese ! " That," remarked GEORGE THOMPSON, on Tues day, " was as much as to say that those other hon. members of her Majesty's Government who might attempt to introduce Reform measures into the House of Commons were nothing but geese. It was in fact an avowal that all those in and out of Parliament who urged on the cause of reform were geese. He therefore addressed his brother geese on that occasion, and as it was said fowls of a feather flocked together, he was glad to see so many of them before him. He would say, Geese of England, know you not that you are six millions" —of geese ? Well—yes—we will good-humouredly accept Lord PALMERSTON'S phrase, as the eloquent Reformer who spoke on Tuesday to the men of Southwark accepted it : and we will say— Yes, six millions of Geese, Lord PAL MERSTON ! But even the proverbial schoolboy, the merest urchin who has but thumbed Mr. PIN NOCK'S catechism or Dr. GOLDSMITH'S Abridg ment of the old classic history, knows familiarly how Rome, ancient Rome, the old heroic capitol of that mistress of the then known world was saved—by geese ! Bat Lord JOHN RUSSELL may laugh, and so far with sufficient reason at such a reply to his whistling for the breeze of public opinion, as that vouchsafed by the fire-eating dealer in rhodomon tade who talked so braggadociosely the other day at Southampton at the Reform meeting there, about the cause of Reform being taken up and championed by the ping-pang of our Volunteer Riflemen ! Arrant nonsense like that may provoke nothing better than a feeling of absolute derision in the breast of every right-thinking Englishman. But when a bold, clear-headed, rational, manly Reformer, like the hon. member for Bodmin, Mr. JAMES WYLD, can speak of her MAJESTY'S Ministers and of their conduct in regard to Reform, as Mr. WYLD spoke of them on Monday to his own Liberal constituency—there is a significance in every phrase, and in every turn of a phrase, that may well scatter any sense of mere pleasantry from the faces of the leaders of the Coalition. " When it was remembered," said Mr. WYLD on Monday, " that the present administration took office simply on the question of Reform—when it was remem bered that Lord John Russell's resolution led to the last dissolution of Parliament, when also a vote of confidence at the commencement of Parliament was taken upon this very question—it was no answer for her Majesty's Government to say, that the people are apathetic, for they took office on that condition alone, and they were bound as men of character, as men of feeling, to bring forward a measure of Reform. Were the people apathetic when Lord JOHN RUSSELL proposed his resolution, or were they at the last general election ? He contended that the people were not apathetic; and he asked, did Lord JOHN want meetings simi lar to those held prior to the passing of the Reform bill in 1832, so that they might manifest their wishes by turbulence ?" The position now occupied, in fact, upon this question of Reform by the Ministry is, in both senses of the phrase, not tenable. Conspicuous among the most popular of our politi cal axioms is the saving—" Measures not men." At this moment in regard to the most important mea sures of all it is a phrase ludicrously inapplicable to the existing Government. For in regard to this Coalition the country may say, alas, with the strictest truth—that it has the Men, but that it has not the Measures. The 'Marchioness (Frances Anne) of Londonderry has arrived at Holdernesse House, Park-lane, from Wyn yard-park, near Stockton-on-Toes. The Recordership of Brighton is vacant, it having been resigned by Mr. Edwin James, Q.C. The salary is £2OO per annum. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston arrived at Cambridge House yesterday from Broadlands, Hants. REPRESENTATION OF MARYLEBONE.—Yesterday very great sensation was created throughout political circles in the borough of Marylebone, by the publicity given to the address of Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., announcing his inten tion of retiring from its representation in Parliament. Dur ing the afternoon several leading reformers of the borough held consultations, and a general feeling was expressed that steps ought to be taken to secure, if possible, some local or resident candidate of position, who will fully and fairly re present the feelings of the great Liberal party in Parliament. It is intended to call an early meeting to confider the steps necessary to be taken with reference to the representation of the borough, and if possible to unite upon the selection of a fit and proper candidate to succeed Mr. James. Amongst the names mentioned yesterday as being likely to come for ward were Colonel Romilly, who, it will be remembered, con tested the borough with Mr. Ed win James on the first occa sion when that gentleman was returned, but it is understood that Colonel Remaly declines to come forward. CRYSTAL PALACE.—The new season will open on "Wednesday, the Ist of May, with a gigantic festival per formance of Haydn's oratorio, " The Creation," by a band and chorus of above 3,000 performers, carefully selected by the Sacred Harmonic Society from all tho leading musical societies and choirs of the country. The oratorio will be conducted by Mr. Costa. The soprano parts arc supported by Mdlle. Titiens (her first appearance in sacred music in this country) and Madame Rudersdorff, to whom the part of Eve is allotted ; the tenor and bass by Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. Santley, and Herr Formes, who has justreturned to London, and who will take the bass solos in the first and second parts of the oratorio. The directors have also con cluded an engagement with Mr. Lumley by which the im portant assistance of Mdlle. Titiens and Signor Giuglini is secured for a series of twelve opera concerts on Fridays in May, June, and July. The flower shows will be on the same scale as last season, LAI Es T N E TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENOV:. PARIS, THU RI 3DAY. The 21foniteur of today announces th el; the in dividual amount to be paid by young m en of the class 1860 for exemption from military stlrvice has been fixed at 2,500 f. NAPLES, WEDNESDAY Evm NING. An order has been issued recalling all flo ldiers of the ex-Neapolitan army who are absent liNom their communes, or who attempt to disturb peal is order. Arrests continue to take place. Tranquillity prevails. MADRID, THLCRSDAY. According to advices from Lisbon the Piortuguese Government has authorised the cultivatiom of cotton in their African possessions. THORN, Taw RSDAY. A proclamation has been published at Warsaw, in which Prince Gortschakoff exhorts ti to inhabi tants to maintain tranquillity, and states id hat he will otherwise be compelled to proclaim a state of siege. An ordinance has also been published specifying the penalties which will be inflicted on. disturbers of public order. A police regulation has been issued prohibiting those persons who were wounded in the, recent dis turbances from showing themselves in the streets. Another police regulation prohibits 1;,1 to - carrying of loaded canes. Up to yesterday no fresh conflict has Laken place. PARIS, PRIL 10. The Paris papers publish the followirAg telegram, dated Constantinople, 3d inst.:— The rate of exchange has arisen alas i ningly, the Turkish livre being at 162. It is expected to rise still higher after the emission of the paper money, which is imminent. A loss of about .'0 per cent. will be sustained by the employes and the army. A gloomy impression prevails in the capital, and a financial crisis appears imminent. The value of a gold Medjidie has already risen to 166. During the Crimean war it did not exceed 120. Money is scarce, and commerce is a lmost at a standstill. , The price of food is rapidly advancing —that of meat is more than deubled. A catastrophe is generally apprehended. Three hundred Hungarians have left Constantinople for Italy. TURIN, AZPRIL 10. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies Signor Brofferio put an interpellation relative to the inquiry which had been instituted at Genoa at the office of the Garibaldian committee.. Signor Minghetti replied, declaring that an in vestigation had taken place on account of the in dications of an illegal enlistment which the Govern ment absolutely wished to prevent. Signor Brofferio then proposed an order of the day, which was rejected by the Chamber. Signor Ricajoli gave notice that ou Monday next he should put interpellations relative to the Southern army and to its commander. The health of the Pope is not satisfactory. COPENHAGEN, APRIL 10, EVENING. At a Cabinet Council held on Monday last it was resolved that the whole infantry force should be doubled. It is said that the whole army will be placed on a war footing. PARIS, APRIL 10. The Pays of this evening, in speaking of the provisioning and augmentation of the garrison of Malta, remarks, " under reserve," "These arma ments are being made with the view t• the em barkation of an expeditionary corps." The same journal says further—" The belief in the prolongation of the French occupation of Syria is not foreign to these precautionary measures. The rumour is current at Malta that it is the in tention of England to - occupy a point of territory between Upper Syria and Egypt." The Pays and the Parte of this evening contain the following : " The number of victims who fell at Warsaw is more considerable than has been stated. The late events at Warsaw may be attended with conse quences in the provinces. " The troops in Warsaw number 32,000 men. " A renewal of the disturbances is apprehended." CALCUTTA, MARCH 9. A special army amalgamation commission has been appointed. The following are the members: —Majors• General Sir R. Napier, Sir R. J. H. Birch' W. S. Balfour, F. R. Chesney, H. Eyre, and another whose name is not known. SHANGHAI, FEB. 21. There is no news from Tien-thin. The Yang-tze expedition has started, accompanied by Messrs. Hamilton, Michie, and Ballance. San-ko-lin-sin has been defeated by the Shantung insurgents. Business is slowly improving. CANTON, MARCH 2. Intelligence ha; been received from Japan to the 28th January, confirming the news of the murder of Mr. Hoskins, the Srcretary of the American Legation at Jeddo. Trade was interrupted. BATAVIA, MARCH 2. Immense damage and loss of life have been caused by floods. .The extent of the destruction arid distress is incredible. SINGAPORE, MARCH 9. Advicea from Saigon state that the French and Spanish captured five forts on the 24th February, after an obstinate resistance. MELBOURNE, FEE. 23. Intelligence from New Zealand is to Feb. 11. The Maories boldly attacked our troops on Jan 23 and Feb. 10, but were defeated. The 57th Regiment had arrived from Bombay. MELBOURNE, FEB. 23. Heavy storms have been prevalent, and the quantity of rain which has fallen is unprecedented. The following are the departures of gold ships sine() the last mail : Oz. Copenhagen, with Empress of the Sear, Owen Glendower ~... Kleber Kent Marco Polo Perp f 9 I Export of wool. Bales. 14,167 THE CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. MARSEILLES, THURSDAY MORNING. The Vcctib, With the above mails, arrived at Marseilles at 7 a.m. this day. The mails were to leave for London at 10 a.m. The Massilia, with the heavy portion of the mails, was to leave Malta at 3 p.m. on the Bth, and may be expected at Southampton on the 17th inst. The Colombo brought the mail to Suez, arriving there on the 3d inst. THE OUTWARD BOUND MAIL. The Pera, from Southampton, on the 27th of March, and the Euxine, from Marseilles, on the sth of April, left Malta for Alexandria on the 4th and 7th inst. respectively. ,~--- FRANCE. BOURSE, April 10.- 7 -The market has been ra ther firmer, but prices -have not obtained any im provement. Threes, for the Account, are now as yesterday at 67f 55c. Railways quiet, and prices pretty well maintained., The following were the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents ... 95 50 Credit Foiscier -- Do end —I Belgian 41 100& 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 60. Roman , 72 Bank Shares .. 2900 I Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 642 50 I Spanish Threes — Do. Account 643 75 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1330:- .. 1331 25 Northern New ditto BB5 .. 885 Lyons and Mediterranean 945 .. 947 50 Geneva 391 25 .. 390 Southern 537 50 .. 540 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Loirbard . 456 25 .. 457 50 RUSSIA. The following communication from Warsaw, dated the sth inst., shows the extent to which the popular disaffection had arisen previous to the serious occurrences there on Monday last : " In the Government, female institution at Pulaw the girls wished the preceptor of the school, Madame Grote, to institute a funeral service for the fallen, and to permit the scholars to wear mourning ; but as both requests were denied, the young Amazons revolted, when Madame Grote took to flight, and before order was restored it was necessary to call in the military. A demonstration at Kiew, during which the students and the military had come into col lision, is also spoken of. Here in Warsaw the police remove themselves out of the way of the people so as to avoid a collision. Yesterday and to-day the demonstrations in the Cracow suburb took place before the statue of the Virgin, when the people assembled in immense numbers, and sang hymns and national songs at the close of the proceedings. The streets were crowded with patrols and Cossack pickets, but they ignored what was passing before their eyes. Similar scenes took place to-day before the Reformed church, where also an enormous crowd had assembled. The church was not able to contain more than the twentieth part of the people, so that they were compelled to re main in the street before the building while the service was going on.' All passed off without disturbance. The chief of the police and other high Government offleets passed while the crowd were at their devoficso,s, and bared their heads as a token of respect; In the evening, also, a procession took place, in which great numbers of women joined." A letter from St. Petersburg, dated the 2d instant, relates an occurrence illustrative at once of a pecu liar Russian custom and of the reverence paid by the people to their Czar. The letter says :—" On Sunday the workmen of M. Poletika's iron foundry, after they had implored the blessing of the Me tropolitan, proceeded to the Imperial Winter Palace. The Emperor appeared, accompanied by his sons, and received a dish worth 500 silver roubles, and which contained bread and salt, from the hands of a venerable old man with a long white beard and hair, who at the same time addressed his Majesty. The Emperor was visibly moved, and spoke a few kindly words to the crowd, who thereupon knelt and implored the blessing of the Highest on the benefactor of his people." THE KINGDOM OF IT4LI'. The following correspondence respecting :the assumption by King Victor Emmanuel of the title of King of Italy has been received : " THE MARQUIS D'AqGLIO TO LORD J. RUSSELL. 1141#DREs, le 19 Mars, 1861. "My Lord, Le't'irilement National vient de voter, et le Roi, mon auguste Souverain, a sane. tionne la loi en vertu de laquelle sa Majeste Victor Emmanuel 11. assum pour lui et pour ses, suc cesseurs le titre de Roi d'ltalie.' " La legalite constittitionnelle a consacre ainsi l'ceuvre de justice qui a rendu elle•meme. " Des ce jour l'ltalie affirme hautement en face du monde sa propre existence. • " Elle proclaim solennellement le droit qui lu.i appartient d'être libre et independante, droit qu'elle a soutenue zur le champ de bataille et dans lee conseils europeens. " L'Angleterre, qui alit', et qui doit, sa prosperite a l'application des mOmes principes qui nous guident, verra avec faveur, j'en Buis convaincu, se constitue officiellement, et se faire connaitre en Europe une nationalite a laquelle le peuple du Royaume Uni a temoigne des genereuses sympa thies. _ " Je suis chargee Or le Gouvernetnent du Roi de notifier officiellement cot evenemcnt memorable a votre excellence en sa qualite de Principal Secre taire d'Etat pour les Affaires Etrangeres de sa Majeste la Reine du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'lrlande. " Ce grand fait a une importance quo votre ex cellence appreciera facilement. L'experience du passe me permet d'esperer que la communication que j'ai l'honneur de lui faire lui causera, ainsi qu' a sea colle'gues la meme satisfaction que j'ai a la lui addresser.—Je prie, (Signe), "V. E. D'AZEGLIO." (Itlation.) ondon, March 19, 1861. " My Lord,—The National Parliament has voted, and the King, my auguSt Sovereign, has sanctioned, the law by virtue of which his Majesty Victor Emmanuel 11. assumea,for himself and for his suc cessors the title of King of Italy.' " Thus constitutional legality has hallowed the work of justice which Xas restored Italy to herself, "From this day forward Italy asserts loudly in the face of the world her individual existence. She solemnly proclaims the right which belongs to her to be free and independent—a right which she has supported on the fields of battle and in the councils of Europe. " England, who has owed, and who owes, her prosperity to the application of the same principles that guide us, will, I am convinced, see with favour a nationality, towards which the people of the United Kingdom have manifested such generous sympathies, constitute itself in an official manner, and obtain its recogn,itien in Europe. " I am charged by the King's Government to notify officially this memorable event to your et. cellency in your quality of Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land. " This great fact has an importance which your excellency will readily appreciate. The experience of the past permits me to hope that the communi cation which I have the honour to make to you will occasion to your excellency, as well as to your col leagues, the same satj4faction that I have in ad dressing it to you.--T , sze., (Signed) 1 5 t , 4 1 - 7. - "V. E. D'AZEGLIO." " LORD J. RUSSELL TO THE MARQUIS D'A ZEGLIO. " FOREIGN -OFFICE, March 30, 1861. " M. le Marquis,—l have had the honour to receive your letter of thn 19th inst., informing me that the National Pavliament has voted, and the King, your august Sovereign, has sanctioned, a law by virtue of which his Majesty Victor Emmanuel 11. assumes for himself and for his successors the title of ' King of Italy.' " Having laid your communication before her Majesty the Queen, I am commanded to state to you that her Majesty, acting on the principle of respecting the independence of the nations of Europe, will receive you as the Envoy of Victor Emmanuel 11., King of Italy. " Corresponding instructions will be given to Sir James Hudson, her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Turin. " I request you, M. le Marquis, to accept the assurances of my highest consideration.—l have, &c, (Signed) "J. RUSSELL." " LORD J. RUSSELL TO SIR J. HUDSON. " FOREIGN•OFFICE, April 1, 1861. " Sir,---I transmit to you herewith a copy of a letter from the Marquis d'Azeglio, announcing that the National Parliament has voted, and the King sanctioned, a law in virtue of which his Majesty Victor Emmanuel 11. assumes for himself and his successors the title of King of Italy,' and also a copy of my reply, stating that the Queen would receive him as Envoy of Victor Emmanuel IL, King of Italy.' " No new credentials will be required by you. , I am, &c. (Signed) "J. RUSSELL." AUSTRIA AND ITALY. A correspondent of a contemporary, who signs himself " One Who Has Served Under Him," writes thus :—Just at the moment when every one had become tranquillised about the formidable year of 1861 warlike rumours arrive from Italy —move ments of Austrian troops on one side of the Mincio and Po, and corresponding movements of Italians on the other side. The Austrians first withdrew their troops from the Ultra-Mincio dis trict, and then reoccupy it again and move down large bodies of men into Venetia; Cialdini, on the other hand, takes the command of two corps d'armee and establishes his line along the Po ; General Benedek harangues his officers and tells them that the time for the decisive struggle has come, and that they must be prepared to serve without pay and live like private soldiers. On the other hand, gatherings of Garibaldians are talked of in the frontier towns towards Austria, and Garibaldi himself appears all of a sudden at Turin. Both Austria and Italy had given most tranquillising assurances about their pacific inten tions, and yet both seem preparing for a struggle. It is as if the first rays of the warm spring sun were exercising again their exciting influence on the blood of mankind and were overruling the calm decisions taken during a long frosty i inter. But although the fact of these warlike prepara tions admits of no doubt, it has not been made as yet clear from which side the first impulse to these warlike preparations proceeds. As in 1859, each of the two parties accuses its adversary, and claims the right of self-defence against a possible aggression. There can be little doubt that both hate each other more than ever neighbours did, that either would have little hesitation to attack the other, if it could do so with some chance of success. The chances at this moment are entirely in favour of Austria and against Italy. The union of Southern Italy has been hitherto rather a source of weakness than strength to the nation, and instead of having doubled his army the new King of Italy has fewer soldiers at his disposal for immediate warfare than last autumn, when he entered the Roman provinces. The unpopularity of the Italian cause with a large and influential portion of the French people has been clearly enough shown in the recent debates, and it would be a hopeless task even for the Emperor Napoleon to drag France into a war caused by an aggression on the part of Italy. A couple of days ago the Hun garian Diet met with the view to make another last attempt to come to a compromise with the dynasty. Can Italy expect to be seconded at this moment on that side? Thus every consideration on the part of Italy is for putting off the decisive struggle. To consoli date the internal organisation, to develope the mili tary resources of the country, and to wait for the result of the negotiations in Hungary,—time is all in favour of Italy. It is fatal to Austria. It is madness to wait till Italy is consolidated and her army raised to double its present number. What better moment can there be chosen for an attack than while there are negotiations carried on with the Hungarians ? A bold attack with 200,000 men would soon bring the Austrians to Milan and Turin. There is quite that number of troops in and about Venetia. Genera] Benedek is just the man for a bold plan, and when once this object is accomplished the Hungarians can be more easily disposed of. The only difficulty is to find a justification, or rather a pretext for such an attack, which other wise might bring in the French troops again. The pretext is found. All over Lombardy Aus trian agents are busy buying up the conges of Gari baldians, the price given being about 300 f. (about £l2) for each of them. Once a sufficient number of these conges bought up, and others manufactured, a corresponding number of men can be easily put in red shirts and be made to attack. Thus Austria will have the right to retaliate; the conges will be held up to the world, the principle of non-interven tion invoked, and an Austrian army will re-enter Italy. The stratagem is so much the more plausible as at this very moment heated imaginations are frightening themselves and others by attributing the movements in the Herzegovina to a descent of Garibaldians, and constru'ing it into the first be ginning of a great scheme for revolutionising all Europe, when a moment's reflection might show the absurdity of this first stratagem which comes through the Austrian telegraphs in the Adriatic. Garibaldians don't exist without Garibaldi ; he is the soul, the animating spirit; it is his prudence which makes an army of a number of untrained and undisciplined youths. Who ever heard of Garibaldi as second in the fight ?—and yet Garibaldians are said to be attacking in the Herzegovina, while he has only just come up to Turin to fight the battle of his companions against the sweeping measures of the War Department. With this example before the world, and the buying up of Garibaldian conga going on in Lom bardy, a word of warning against a two ready belief in Garibaldian movements may not be superfluous, especially as the true test of the reality of a Gari baldian expedition can be easily obtained. When some day your readers hear of a new crusade of Italian youth, and the telegraph announces Gari baldi's arrival amoung them, then they may be sure that a Garibaldian expedition is at hand—but not till then. IRIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, April 11.—Wind this day at noon, N.E. ; light breeze, and very fine. HuLL, April 10.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—John Geddes, from New York. DEAL, April 11.—Wind N.E,—Arrived—Bremen, (s.), from Bremen, for New York. PORTSMOUTH, April 10.—Wind N.E. to S.—Sailed — John Howard, for Quebec; itanni, for Genoa. DARTMOUTH, April 10.—Wind E.—Sailed—With of the Wave, for Guadaloupe ; Margaret, for Quebec ; Amanda, for Gibraltar. PLYMOUTH, April 10.—Sailed—Camden, for Quebec ; Belmont, for Quebec. OFF PLYMOUTH, April 10.—Arrived—Renown, from Calcutta. FALMOUTH, April 10.—Sailed—Feronia, for Quebec; Fontaine, for Antwerp. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning. Arrived, April 10. — . United. from liirkaldy ; Delta, steamer, from Alexandria; Georges, from Cherbourg; Southampton, steamer, from Jersey; Impulse, front Sea ham ; Premier, Sir William Chaytor, and Constantia, from Shields. Sailed.—Caroline, for Jersey ; Dispatch and Atalanta, steamers, for Jersey ; Southampton, steamer, for Havre ; Light and Sign, Isabella and Eling, for Sunderland. Arrived, April 11.—Havre, steamer, for Havre. (BY SUBMARIN2 AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. Arrived, April 10.—Minorca, steamer, from Santander. Arrived, April 11.—Earl of Auckland, steamer, from Rotterdam ; Diana, steamer, and Smyrna, steamer, from Amsterdam. _ _ Sailed, April 10 . — Meteor, for Sunderland ; Jane, for Antwerp and Calcutta ; Woolfe, for Halifax.; Silvadore Packet, for Trinidad; Regina, for Montreal; Mignette, for St. Helena; Betze, for Konigsberg. DEAL, Thursday Morning. Passed—Cruesoe, for Belizo ; Mignionette, for Ascension; Chamois, for Cardiff; Pensylvania, for Cardiff; Christina, for Havapnah ; Constantia, for Ferrol; Springfield, for Quebec—all from London; Bremen, ship, from Bremen, for New York. Sailed—Supply, for the westward. TEE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Delta, Captain J. S. Field, arrived at South ampton at 2 p.m. yesterday, bringing the heavy portion of the above-named mails in charge of Mr. Mounsey, of the General Post-office. She left Alexandria on the 29th ult., Malta on the Ist inst., and Gibraltar on the sth. Fine weather was ex perienced throughout the voyage. No ships were spoken by the Delta. The usual Egyptian fleet were lying at Alex andria. Her Majesty's ships at Malta on the Ist inst. were the Neptune, Liffey, A mphion, Assurance, Scourge, and Alacrity ; and at Gibraltar on the sth the Ariadne, Immortalite, Argus, and Redpole. The steam troopship Megasra, Commander Hen derson, arrived at Gibraltar on the afternoon of the 31st ult., in six days from Woolwich, with the 3d, 4th, and sth batteries of the Ist Brigade Royal Artillery, consisting of 345 gunners, with the fol lowing officers : Colonels C. J. Dalton and Thomp son, Captains Sanderson and Lascelles, Lieutenants Lacey, Wing, Kirkwood, Chute, Scheck, Barber, Cullen, and Hallet, and Assistant-Surgeon Graves. She also had detachments of the 6th, Bth, 25th, and 100th Regiments, accompanied by Assistant- Surgeon J. E. O'Loughlin and Ensign Cole, Bth ; Ensign Barnardiston, 25th ; and Ensigns Lyon and Ritchie, 100th Regiment. The troop disem barked at th© New Mole on the afternoon of the Ist inst., and joined their respective corps, At an early hour on the morning of the sth inst. the 4th and sth batteries of the sth Brigade of the Royal Artillery (head-quarters) assembled at the New Mole parade, previous to embarcation for Eng land in the M egmra. The bands of the 6th and 7th Regiments accompanied them from the Rosia and Europa barracks. On arriving at the parade the batteries were inspected by their respective captains, and marched to the quay amid the cheers of the spectators, the band of the 6th playing " Auld Lang Syne" and other popular airs, until the whole were on board. The men appeared to be in excel lent spirits. The detachment consisted of Lieut.- Colonel Crofton, commanding ; Captains Dumaresq and O'Hara; Lieuts. Collingwo6d, Robinson,Duncan, Brodrick, Martelli, and Shuttleworth ; Paymaster Kidd, Quartermaster Cairns, Assistant-Surgeon Dickerson, 20 sergeants, 16 corporals, 3 trumpeters, 211 gunners, 31 women, and 58 children. The Meggera sailed for Plymouth at 11 a.m. on the sth. The screw sloop Santa Teresa, Lieut. R. M. Perry, from Ferrol, arrived at Cadiz on the 28th ult., and the steam sloop Leon, Lieut. A. de Tosta, from Algesiras on the following day ; the latter is or dered to proceed to Fernando Po. The British steamer Hercules, J. Palmer master, in the Spanish transport service, left Cadiz on the 28th, laden with flour, for Ceuta. The British ship Commissary, Hutchins master, from Swansea, with coal, put into Cadiz on the latter day, with damage. The Royal Yacht Squadron schooner Magnolia (Sir H. Becher, owner), Captain Young, from Gibraltar, had arrived at Cadiz. The Swedish corvette Lagerbjelke, 16 guns, Captain Milander, had sailed for the Baltic via Cherbourg. The Dutch steam sloop Cyclops, 6 guns, bearing a vice-admiral's flag, arrived at Gibraltar on the sth inst., at 1 p.m., from the eastward. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Pera, Captain T. Jamieson, hence on the 27th ult., arrived at Gibraltar on the 31st, 4 days 5 hours out, and left during the night for Malta and Alex andria. Since the doparture for Southampton of the mail steamer Ceylon the following British merchant steamers had arrived out at Gibr altar :—March 26, the Lord Byron, Captain S. Deedliston, 10 days from London, with a general cargo for Malta and Alex andria ; 28th, the Cadiz, Captain J. Russell, 7 days from London, with general cargo for Gibraltar. Latest quotations of exchange at Gibraltar ranged as follows :—London, 90 days' date, 501; Paris, ditto, sf. 31c. Freights to London and outports in .the United Kingdom, 255. to 30s. per steamer, and 10 per cent. ; Brazil and River Plate, 12 dollars per ton and 10 cent. ; Gulf of Mexico and Havannab, 12 dollars per ton and 10 per cent. THE BUDGET. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—ln the letter which you did me the honour to insert in your paper of Saturday, I pointed out that, according to the published returns of the re venue for the last financial year, the actual produce of the taxation for 1860-1 fell short of Mr. Glad stone's estimates by £1,976,000, and that if the expenditure for the same year had been equal to the estimated amount, there would be a deficiency on closing the accounts for the year to the amount of £3,263,000; of which, however, £594,000 had been provided for by the issue of Exchequer-bonds. From comments which I have seen in some of your contemporaries upon this statement, and upon the leading article which appeared in the Times of the same day, I infer that the purport of my re• marks has been misund e r s t oo d, an d th a t I have been supposed to foretell a deficiency of a greater or less amount for the coming year of 1861-2, and to anticipate the necessity for some addition to our present taxation. I am, therefore, induced to re quest the favour of a little space in your columns for the purpose of saying that my remarks did not apply to the year 1861-2 at all, but to the year 1860-1. With regard to the coming year, 1861-2, I will not be so rash as to offer any predictions, but it must be obvious to every one who looks at the Estimates which have been presented this session, and compares them with those of last year, that there can be no question of an addition to our taxation, and that the only question is to what extent there can be a remission. No less than £3,800,000 was voted last year for the war with China, and the Army and Navy Estimates were also increased to a great amount by the demands in connection with that war. We shall be spared this expenditure in the coming year. The saving on our Military and Naval Estimates amounts to about £1,000,000, which, added to the £3,800,000 vote of credit, makes a difference approaching to £5,000,000 between the Estimates of the last and of the present year. Sup posing, therefore, that the present taxes are re imposed, and prove equally productive, the defi ciency of £3,000,000 in the past year will be ex changed for a surplus of near £2,000,000 in the coming year. It is clear, therefore, that there can be no need of increased taxation. You rightly pointed out that our revenue last year was to some extent swelled by exceptional receipts, of which the revenue of 1861-2 will not have the benefit. Those receipts will, probably, turn out (at least, as regards the anticipated malt and hop credits) to have been smaller than they were expected to be. On the other hand, we shall have some compensating advantages in the year 1861-2. For instance, the full effect of the increase of the spirit duties remains yet to be experienced ; and the various changes which were made with re gard to the customs and excise duties i n the course of last session will have materially reduced the prospective loss of £700,000 on which Mr. Gladstone originally reckoned. The calculations, however, required to estimate the exact effect of all these changes upon our revenue are very com plicated. There is only one item of great mag nitude and importance, which has been strangely left out of sight in almost all the calculations 1 have seen with respect to the budget, viz., the compensation whi c h we are t o rece i ve f rom Chi na . The character of the budget will materially de pend upon the use that may be made of this sum of money, and it is a point to which very care ful attention ought to be directed. I have ventured to trouble you with these re marks, as I think it' cannot but be useful to have a general outline of our position marked out be fore we approach the consideration of the im portant statement which we are likely to receive on Monday next. EXPORT OF GOLD TO AMERICA.—The Liverpool ,. New York, and Philadelphia Steamship Company's steamer City of Washington sailed yesterday from Liverpool for New York. She took out the United States' mails, and about 60 cabin passengers ; sbe also had £13,000 in gold on freight. The export of gold since the Ist of November t° the 30th of March, both inclusive, amounts to £4,765,621 14s. 4d., of which £273,290 were sent from Southampton. --• all the rest from Liverpool as the port of despatch. M. Ole Bull, the great violinist, having returned to this country, after an absence of several years, will make his first appearance at St. James's Hall, on Vi/edneY day evening next, April 17, when Miss Louisa Pyne, our English soprano, will also make her first appearance at St. James's Hall this season, and the choir of the Vocal As sociation (200 voices), will, by particular desire, repeat Webbe's beautiful descriptive glee, " When Winds Breathe Soft," and Thomas Morley's fine old madrigal, " Say, Gentle Nymph." The concert will be under the direction of M. Benedict, 3101 ANoi Afi Just 131 of the during Public mon e y point 1 townie eta n di r affairs. yesterd of the r Pientifi th a t fii elapsed Abot t3glan The 7 remains inaporta bardo-1 7 1 91 20; ltdian hint continul of A.ust: kintiter Nov? SI B B 1 Btc ; Per Ce: u lz Per Cei New 3 P, 413 - 11 _11itif Inca uitto 1 Sti Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto! 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