The Sun. — London, England, 1856-05-09 00:00:00

niEtTRE ROYAL, nauirr-LAIsE Lessee. T. Smith. ENGLISH OPERA. fIII3 EVE) INU will be produced FRA. DIA.VOLO. To cow,lude with THE YANKEE HOUiTIEEPER. TUE AT Et F. ROYAL, HIT MARKET. the Management of Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE EVIL GENIUS. Followed by EL GAMBUSINO; or, The Mexican Goldseeker. n which PEREA NEN. A and the Spanish Dancers will appear. After which, SAG3HAW, AND BR T:IoSTIAN 4 7. To conclude with THE POSTMAN'S KNOCK. RTTAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. ruder the MAnarcetnent cf. Mr. CHARLES KEAN. Viii EVENING, THE VICTOR VANQUISHED. To conclude with THE WINTER'S TALE. Principal character 3 by lir. and Nir3. C. wean. 'ROYAL THE kTRE ADELPIII. Proplator and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. Dtrectresq. Madame Celeste. F.lrrvrvq, LIKE AND UNLIKE. Meese. B. Wehqter. Wright, P. P.e C qethy, Garden; Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham. After whicb, ITRGENV PRIVATE AFFAIRS. To conclude with UOW'S YOUR UNCLE ? ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lame and Manazer. Mr. Alfred Wigan. Ting EVENING STILL WATERS RUN' DEEP. Followed by CATCIIISTG A Mu tID. ROYAL SIMREY TTIEXTRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shenherl and Creswick. THIS EVENING, HOW WE LIVE IN THE woaLD OF LONDON. After which, ARAll'i YOUNG MAN. To conclude with THE TWO POLTA. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPEIITHRATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. There will he prodaeerl, on Whit-Mondar. a New and Grand Equestrian ll:lectacte, with many other novelties. THIS EVENING (its Last Week), Lord Byron's MAZEPPA and the WILD HORSE. After which, LES JEUX A BRIDE ABITTUE, or Equestrian Acts in the Arena. To conclude with ENGLAND'S HARVEST HOME and NATIONAL STEEPLE CHASE (its last week). Box-office open fr )nt Eleven ti'l Fo tr. Stal'e Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. Y. Cooke, iun. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tiri DAT—Morn. 51 min. aft. 4—Evening 13 min. aft. 5 Ta•Moßßow—Morn. 36 min. aft. 5 —Evening 1 min. aft. 6 THE WEA.THER—SUN OFFICE, MAY 9. THEEMOHETER, IN THE SHADE. 52 —highest since noon yesterlzy. 4C —lowest this morning and during the night. 51 —this day at noon. BAROMMTER, 30.23. WIND, N.N.E. to N.E: —Light, with dull, cloudy weather. y r ktillt 2- • §rn LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1856. THE NEW LOAN OF FIVE MILLIONS. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has just issued a notice for a New Loan. It is, however, for a much smaller amount than had been antici pated. Five millions only are required, and that sum is to be raised in 3/. per Cent. Annuities, in which term the biddings are to be made. The following are the conditions proposed : " Downing-street, Thursday Evening, May 8, 1856. "Gentlemen,—l request that you will make it known in the usual manner that her Majesty's Government propose to contract on Monday, the 19th ofMay, 1856, for aloan of 5,000,0001. ster ling, to be raised in Consolidated 31. per Cent. Annuities. "For every 1001. subscribed in money, the contractors will receive 31. per Cent. Consolidated Annuities. The bid lings to be made in`such Annuities. " The interest on the 31. per Cant. Consoli dated Annuities will commence from the sth of January, 1856. " The days of payment, and the proportions of the contributions to be paid, will be as follows : " On Thursday, May 22, 1856, a deposit of 101. per cent. "On Thursday, June 12, 1856, a payment of 201. per cent. " On Saturday, June 28, 1856, a payment of 201. per cent. "On Thursday, July 24, 1856, a payment of 201. per cent. "On Thursday, August 28, 1856, a payment of 101. per cent. "On Thursday, September 18, 1856, a pay ment of 201. per cent. "For each instalment after the deposit a proportional amount of stock will be created for the contributors. The stock for the deposit will be created at the same time with that which will be due on the payment of the last instalment. "No discount will be allowed for prompt pay men t. "Scrip receipts will be issaed by the Bank in the usual manner. " The biddiugs to be made at the Treasury on Monday morning, the 19th inst., at 10 o'clock. The biddiugs to be fur the entire sum. " Lord Palmerston and I will be ready to re ceive, at a preliminary meeting at the Treasury, at 1 o'clock on Tuesday next, the 13th instant, any gentlemen who may be desirous of obtaining further information on the subject. " I am, Gentlemen, " Your obedient servant, " G. C. LEWIS. 64 The Governor and Deputy-Governor of tne Bank of England." From this it will be seen that the instalments are to be spread over a period of nearly four months—viz., from the 22 d of M a y to the 18th of September, while the interest commences from the sth of January last. This is equiva lent to a bonus of 1/. 12s. 6d. per cent., or di v i_ dends, for an averageperiod of six months and ahalf. There will be a preliminary meeting at the Trea sury on Tuesday next, at which any gentlemen desirous of obtaining further information may at tend. There can be but little doubt that the new stock will be readily taken, especially as it is for an amount so much less than had been antici pated. We fear, however, that it augurs badly in another respect—that it proves that the Chancellor of the Exchequer does not con template affording any relief during the present session to the over burdened tax payers. He has carefully avoided making any provision for the debt to the Bank of Eng land—and setting that important item aside it is manifest that 5,000,000/. will not be sufficient to " wind up " the War, bring back our troops, and provide for the supplementary expenses that must be liberally discharged• It is impossible ! R `~ `M. 4 that, under th© circumstances, he can propose new imposts, but it is almost equally certain that he will offer but little relief from the new burdens which ho has created. The Income Tax will still remain in all its oppressive inequality, until April, 1858, at Is. 41 in the pound, or nearly i per cent. on the earnings of the industrious middle class. The increased Malt Tax will still vex the " thirsty souls," while the exorbitant Spirits Duties will stimulate the demoralising trade in illicit alcohol. Nor will any triumph be given to Teetotallers. To them the duties on Tea, Coffee, and sugar, on " the cup that cheers without inebriating," and " the corn of the tropics," will prove that the Financial Minister intends not to give in his adhesion to the Maine liquor law. Men of all parties will do well to consider the subject before the financial statement is brought forward, so as to be prepared to hit " the right nail on the head," at the only moment which, according to red-tapists, will neither be too early nor too late for moving amendments in the finan cial policy of Ministers. Mr. DISRAELI will have opportunity of taking a glorious revenge. It was on this budget—far better than any since sub mitted to the country—that the DERBY Adminis tration were expelled from office. He may now produce " a Roland for an Oliver," that scattered his forces, and sent his colleagues to enjoy the sweets of private life, unalloyed by the cares and vexations of official labour. A question was lag night brought under the consideration of both Houses of Parliament, on which persons of all shades and varieties of poli tical opinion could cordially and unanimously agree. Whatever differences might exist on other points, there could be none as to the zeal and effi ciency displayed by the great body of those en gaged in the different branches of her MAJESTY'S service. Whatever doubts might exist respecting the skill or activity of the commanders, whether by land or by water, there could be no difficulty as to the unflinching valour and patient endurance of the officers and men under their control and direction. Whatever they had to do, they accom plished, so far as it was practicable. Mr. DISRAELI truly remarked of the Army, that " there was hardly any variety of warfare which had not been proved during their course. There was the pitched battle—the protracted siege—the heights triumphantly gained—the heights defended with success. Throughout these campaigns, so numerous were the traits of individual heroism, such were the wonderful effects produced by the determination of the soldiers, that were we to search the most glorious annals of past wars, we shoull scarcely be able to find a match for the ochievements of our contemporaries." This beautiful and truthful tribute to the de voted gallantry of the men well merited the en thusiastic cheers which it elicited from all sides of the House. Officers and men had faithfully discharged the important duties confided to their charge. Whether their efforts were required at the moment of emergency, when their brethren were falling thickly on every side, and each man felt that his own fate might be the same the next minute, or whether they were suffering the most fearful privations, their conduct was still exemplary. They passed through every ordeal without stain or impeachment, and by their achievements in the field and iu the trench, for dash or for patience, probably a more formidable test, have never been surpassed, if they have been equalled, by tht most distinguished of their predecessors. The British. soldier has been weighed in the balance and not found wanting, and an unexcep tionable witness, one whose name has become a household word in every English mouth, har added her indisputable testimony in their favour. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, the heroine par excellence of the War, says :—" I have never been able to join in the popular cry about the recklessness, sensuality, and helplessness of the soldier. l should say (and, perhaps, few have seen more of the manufacturing and agricultural classes of England than I have before I came out here) that I have never seen so teachable and helpful a class as tho army generally. Give them opportunity promptly and securely to send money home, and they will use it. Give them schools and lectures, and they will come to them. Give them books and games of amusements, and they will leave drinking. Give thep work, and they will do it. Gii'e them suffering, and they will bear it. I would rather have to do with the army than with any other class I have ever attempted to serve, and when I compare them with . . . . I am struck with the soldier's superiority as a moral, and even an intellectual, being." To add anything to this would be merely " gilding refined gold," would weaken the case we desire to support--would lessen the claims of that noble army, whose " devoted gallantry in the field—whose unflinching courage in the hour of battle, and, above all, whose patient heroism in the midst of disease and famine, and privations of every description—keeping alive, under all diffi culties and discouragements, nit only the strictest discipline, but the most fearless valour and un hesitating devotion to duty—reflect more credit on them than any army ever gained before." Nor so far as the occasion allowed did our gal lant tars less distinguish. themselves. They ex hibited, whenever an opportunity offered, the highest qualities of British .se.amen. The Union Jack, under their charge, maintained its proud pre-eminence, and _passed through the ordea, untarnished by a single blemish. The militia also well and truly Performed their duty. It was not merely that they-supplied-more than 33,000 volunteers to the line, and thus fed its exhausted ranks, but wherever their services were required there they were willing to go., Not only were ten regiments employed on foreign service s but thirty-seven more tendered their aid, as they would have done in the Orime4 itself, if occasion required, and they were per mitted to have exhibited their zeal and gallantry in the face of the enemy under arduous circum stances. Tf we have not alluded more particu larly to the Mt urines, the Naval Brigade, and others engaged in the contest, it is not from want t of due appreciatic )11. There cannot be a higher tribute of p ra i se th an th a t th e y we ll an d faith ft3 r o t discharged es of will be accor d ed to each and all, not merely by 0, both Houses of Parliament, but by the c or di al and unanimous concurrence of the entire p eop l e, by 2 from th e from the Peer to the Pea sant,m ionnaire to the humble opera tive who earns :ki k - • d • aily bread by his daily labour. tellmem.... • 0p....., The parties chiefly affected by the oversights o f L or d CLARENDO.) ; are alre a d y astir. Repudiated Circassia andOmh iatened Belgium have both spoken. In the I ;elgian Chambers th e excite ment was very consi arable. In reply to questions, the Foreign Minist ,er stated that he had not yet received o ffi c i a l i n f oz .mation of the language adopt e d by the Plenipoten6.l tries at Paris respecting the Press of his county y, but that " when that com munication di d t: tke p l ace th e an swer would be ready, and would ' be communicated to all Govern .~. ~4*. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVE!. - 41*-7(3, l‘. : 4 -I s,.. i r_9 , 1856, mutts, firmly maintaining the rights of an inde pendent and constitutional country." He also stated that no Power had ever asked for any alte ration of the Belgian laws relating to the Press. There was immense cheering and enthusiasm at hearing these announcements. It is to be hoped :hat the manifest unpopularity of Count WA LEWSKI'S audacious language, and of the Protocol so unhappily signed by Lord CLARENDON, will deter the Count and his Master from attempting in France to make laws for Belgium. It is impossible to repress astonishment at the principal parties implicated. That Austria and Prussia should be ready for any attack on real liberty creates no surprise, but that Louis NAPOLEON should imagine England would allow her own greatest institution to be suppressed, where it exists in any other country by external coercion, is truly surprising. If the French think a NAPOLEON on the Throne a consolation for a tagged Press, let him remember that Belgium has no such indemnification. A COBURG and a free Press may be a fair compromise, but a COBURG And a Press under the laws of France would be unendurable. We must do LEOPOLD, however, the justice of acknowledging that we do not remember his evincing any personal hostility to the freedom of the Press. Probably he lived long enough in England to know that it is a practical convenience under a constitutional Government. It is a ready means for any Government to ascertain the popular tendencies, and to adapt legislation to them before they be come unmanageable. But what shall we say of an exiled Pole becoming the instrument of enslav ing a free country ? and what of our own Pleni potentiary, first asserting in his country's name the impossibility of England's uniting in an at tempt to fetter the Press of another country, yet signing Count WALEWSICI'S assertion that the "Plenipotentiaries condemned loudly the ex aesses in which the Belgian newspapers indulge with impunity, by recognising the necessity of reme dying the inconveniences which are so greatly tbused in Belgium !" How c)uld his Lordship commit this country to Count WALEVirSKI'S sum mary after his own truly English remarks? As suredly, many things were said and done of which the Protocols tell us nothing. All England would renounce the French alliance at once rather than -iee the Peace of Paris employed to put down th e freedom of the Press. As we have already stated, we think that some solemn and official declaration should go forth from this country to Belgium and Europe, that England will tolerate no interference with the Press of Belgium. Indeed Mr. GLADSTONE ihowed at length on Thursday night that the attempt was wholly needless. No further check but that of censorship can be introduced. Already the law of Belgium requires the Government of the country to prosecute, on behalf of any com plaining foreign potentate, while in this country, if Lours NAPOLEON thinks himself aggrieved, he himself must prosecute. The sore point probably s, that the case there, as here, must go before a jury ; and the Emperor of FRANCE remembers how his uncle, in the case of PELTIER, gained I verdict, but suffered infinitely more from . the ipeech of counsel than he could have done from in obscure writer. Louis NAPOLEON does not wish to become the theme of a B3lgian Mao- KINTOSII. The Circassians, now it is too late, are also moving. They probably had till quite recently no idea of what was going on at Paris. Seeing ~ he forts which alone prevented their intercourse with the sea destroyed, they in their simplicity hought the powers which had caused their de struction would take good care they should never he re-established. They supposed their commerce with Turkey and with all Europe perfectly secure For the future. Too late, however, they learned that Russia would probably be permitted to cut them , ff as before from the sea which washes the feet .f their mountains, and by which alone they can )btain not only such common articles of commerce is they wish, but the supplies of warlike stores which are their chief necessity for maintain ing their freedom. We read, therefore, without :urprise that their chiefs in hundreds flocked down ;o Anapa on the news of Peace, drew up an ad tress to our QUEEN, asking the recognition of the 'ndependence of their country, and sent a depu tation of twelve of their number with it to Con itautinople. We trust that something decisive will be done. It seems clear that the Circassians have never renounced their own independence, !qually clear that Turkey could never renounce it for them—the SULTAN having no authority over -.hem but that of the religious chief of ISLAM. Unless our Government can take some efficient step at once, Russia with her wonted craft will accomplish her ends, while we are merely venting ►ur indignation. Her troops are already moving to the Caucasus, and her probable intention is to Overwhelm finally the free mountaineers, and to compensate herself in Ciroassia for her losses else where. Was this result connived at by the Pleni potentiaries ? Was it a part of the policy of not humbling Russia ? The War is over. The War that cost some 'mucked and twenty millions of money ; and the iuly good thing it has ace.)mplished is the libera tion of FROST, JONES, and Ca., and the revocation )f the sentence of exile on SMITH O'BRIEN ! Is this worthy of our character as an economical people ? Is it in accordance with the principle so triumphantly vindicated at the Naval Review, when Members of Parliament wore victualled for the day's holiday excursion at seven-and-sixpence a head ? Were Paosr, JONES, and Co. the only real patriots after all ? And now that patriotism can do the ruling caste no harm, is it thought politic to show a due appreciation of the virtue of patriotism in the liberation of their persons ? We are accustomed to speak of patriotism as a priceless jewel. Could'nt we in this case have 'had more of it for the money ? A hundred and twenty millions ! Divide the sum by four, and the reader will find that gives thirty millions L-piece for FROST, JONES, and Cu. ! Never, surely, hung orient pearl so costly on the neck of beauty. Item—Faosr—a Welsh icicle-diamond we should say-30,000,0001. Rather staggering to light on this in the national accounts ! Item— JONES 30,000,000/. ! Of the five million JONES' in existence was not a jewel of equal value, a jewel quite as spotless and quite as worthy of admiration, to be had at a somewhat lower figure —for a million say, or for a QUEEN'S shilling ? Item—SMITH O'BRIEN, an Emerald of the first water, 30,000,000/. Surely a high figure for a splinter of " the gem of the say." In the language of fast men—" Isn't this going it rayther ?" Don't let us be misunderstood ; we don't in the least complain of the revocation of the sentence of exile on these men. Nothing of the sort. They ought to have been pardoned before. Their power for evil has long been gone, and whatever they may have respectively deserved it would have accorded better with the majesty of the country and its Sovereign to have set them free, the Welsh rioters at least, years ago, and SMITH O'BRIE N th e moment he stood out in such honourabl e re li e f to hi s ungen tl eman ly assoc i a t es in treason an d punishment. What we complain of is, that for so frightful an expenditure we should only have so paltry a return ! And yet we are goiug into the money mark€ t to-day to beg or borrow five millions to keep ou r credit afloat !—and that, too, with so:ne two bun dred gun-boats all ready for action, but of no use 11.01 - F r the War is sc)teh'd And the Peace is totch'ki! SIGNS OF THE TIMES. While the German Jagers—the mercenary cut throats of Vatorland—are creating disturbances at Plymouth, the authorities of the good city of Exeter are intimating in a rather marked manner their patriotic disgust at the Peace of Paris. As sembled in council to decide as to what really after all should or should not be done upon the day ordered to be set aside for Rejoicings, with squibs, crackers, pop-gun-shows, fireworks, and all sorts of absurd illuminations and trans pan ncies, the Mayor and Corporation of the city of Exeter resoled without one dissentient upon letting the day pass without taking any notice whatever of it ! For the very sufficient reason that the Treaty recently signed contains nothing at all in any way satisfactory to true born and right-minded Englishmen. Bravo ! say we to the Exeterites. May their bold and manly decisions exact an honourable emulation elsewhere in_all parts of the United Kingdom. LATEST NE WS. PARIS, MAY 8. The Moniteur announces that M. de Morny has been appointed Ambassador Extraordinary to the Emperor of Russia. General Ney left yesterday for St. Petersburg. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. If the Empress's health, which is still delicate, permit, the baptism of the imperial prince will take place on the 14th June, the anniversary of battle of Marengo and of Friedland. Political arrests have lately taken place in the department of the Loire. Arms and revolutionary papers have been seized. The enemies of the exist ing Government are again active. The following telegraphic despatches have been received to-day : "Tomo*, May 7, Evening.—The discussion on the in terpellations to the Government has been continued to day. M. Mamiani delivered a brilliant speech in fa vour of the Government. Count de Cavour • read the note which had been delivered to the allied Powers on the affairs of Italy, and added that the Cabinet of Turin persisted in its policy towards the Court of Rome. The deputies of the Right and Left offered their support to the Government, if circumstances should require it. The Chamber adopted an order of the day approving (.f the conduct of Count de Cavour." " MADRID, May 7.—The Gazette publishes the statutes of the Spanish Rink. The capital is to be 120,000,000 of realg. with liberty to increase it to 200,000,000. The greatest tranquillity prevails throughout the kingdom." BOURSE, May B.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. tr. e. End of Month. 4i per Cents 93 75 —f. —O. 3 per Coats 74 90 75 40 New Loan 75 Bank Shares 3 950 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,815 Austrian Belgian Fives ...... .. 97 Spanish Threes...— — Piedmentese (5) 93 Home Debt ........., 41 RAILWAYS—roB CASH. fr. c. fr. o Or!eans Northern Lyons . , ... 1,465 New Ditto Mediterranean 1,700 Grand Central Lyons Genova - Teste - Cotte THE ROYAL ACADEMY. (SECOND NOTIC E.) Everything considered, we d most dispassion ately believe the most remarkab t.e picture in this year's Exhibition of the Pain tin. gs of the Royal Academy to be, curiously enoug,‘3, No. 413—a blank in the Catalogue ! It is the production, we understand, of a young artist n amed Burton. Evidently a man of genius—a post in his way, already a perfect master of colour, and a most keen observer of Nature. The incident por trayed by the artist in this very notable maiden picture is but dimly indicated by the title gene rally reputed in the gallery to belong to it, namely, that simply of " The Wounded Cavalier." How powerfully the tragic interest of the scene is revealed at one glance to the spectator's imagina tion ! How wonderfully the whole story is told by the painting itself without any need whatever of extraneous aid in the way of its elucidation ! The sylvan seclusion of the spot which has become the arena of so many wild and con tending pas sions—how admirably that is intimated by every (even the minutest) accessory ! The furious Past and the sorrowful Future—how clearly, how distinctly, how marvellously, those are laid bare to any one's apprehension by that one agonising glimpse of the Present, which, by a masterly sense on the part of the painter at once of the pathetic and of the com plete, has been selected by him as the moment of representation ! Everything is, upon the instant, comprehensible through that single glance among the green leaves into the woodland. The be holder understands it all, in a manner, instinc tively. Understands, from the playing cards lit tered among the underwood, how the knightly gamblers have rushed forth desperately and sud denly into the adjoining coppice to fight out their wine-heated quarrel at once and to the Death. Understands from the tumbled-down stones of the boundary-wall how the victor has fled from the duel-ground, leaving his antagonist bleeding and groaning upon the green sward. Understands from the broken blade of the wounded man's sword sticking in the bark of the tree in the fore ground—the trunk of which tres s by the way, separates the picture (though not, as might be reasonably conjectured, inartistically) into two nearly equal divisions—understands, we say, from this broken sword. blade sticking in the bark of the gnarled tree in the foreground how the wounded cavalier had aimed a last desperate blow at his opponent, and how with the hilt still clutched in his grasp of anguish, giddy with loss of blood, sick with pain, and dizzy with passion, ke had staggered round to the other side of the fatal tree and had there fallen for dead among the trampled fern and brushwood. The observer understands all this, the picture tells it to him plainly : it tells him more—it tells him how the wounded cavalier must have lain some time -bleeding upon the ground—judging from the cobweb spun by the spider Ilona the sword's point to the tree's trunk, and afterwards powdered with the liquid diamonds of the dew glittering all along the mazes of its fairy cordage ! More, even, than all this the painting reveals to the gaze of the spectator. It tells him how tbe Lac - lye-love of the Gallant, wandering with her puritan Tutor through adjacent copse and meadow, had abruptly come, quite accidentally, upon the pale and bloodstained form of her betrothed. It shows us the beautiful maiden looking with an guish upon the face of her beloved, as she sup ports his head upon her arm so tenderly. It half discloses to us at the back of the splin tered tree, already mentioned as occupying so conspicuous a place in the composition, the gaunt figure of the round-head-school man with his red-edged parchment-covered quarto under his arm, with no hair at all to speak of, with a broad-brimmed, sugar-loafed hat, and lan tern jaws, and the sourest and grinaliest expres sion imaginable, and a skinny hand nervously clutched behind his back in the intensity of his suppressed emotions—looking on from the back ground. The loveliest little gorgeous dragon butterfly—(exquisite type of the "soul," just trembling upon the lips of the expiring cavalier) —lit the while upon tho fatal sword-blade, snapped from the haft by the tree, and spun upon with its delicate meshes by the spider ! Alto gether it is a wonderful picture—a work of art, so true -to nature, so replete with tragic interest, so abounding with manly pathos, rather than with sentimental affectation, so complete in itself as a story, so various in its contrasting characteristics of quaintness, and beauty, and passion, and repose, that we do not hesitate to speak of it as, everything considered, about the most remarkable picture in this year's Collection. It stands forth—even by the side of paintings from the easels of Hunt and Millais—as incontestibly one of the most note• worthy pleas yet put forward of late years, in deprecation of the wrath of those authoritative judges of art who are most inimical to the old new school of the modern-ancients called, for want of a better title, the Pre-Raphaelites. Henceforth we shall look for great things from Mr. Burton. The public, or we are much mis taken, will do no less, when they have rendered themselves . familiar with the merits of this very curious production, No. 413—" The Wounded Cavalier." Let the young artist, guided by the instincts of his own genius, so develope that ge nius wisely, and direct it sagaciously, as not to end simply where he h as b egun , an d so t o dis appoint the popular expectations. Another very notable production in the school of the pre-Raphaelites for the present season is, of course, No. 398, "The Scapegoat," by W. H. Hunt—an extraordinary picture, suggested by the sixteenth chapter of Leviticus. A painting con veying to the mind an astonishing sense of deso lation. Far away, illuminated by the gorgeous sunset dyes of Palestine, are the mountain peaks of Edens. The immediate scene itself represents in the foreground (as the catalogue tells us) the margin of the salt-encrusted shal lows of the Dead Sea, at Oosdoom. The solitary figure in this region of solitude, of awful and titter solitude, is, as the title of the piece in dicates, " The Scapegoat"—otherwise the Em inissary goat, what the Hebrews called Azazel, and the Greeks azoropzatoc, and the Latins Caper Emissaries. The Goat laden with the sins of the people, and sent forth by the high-priest to be devoured by wild beasts in the wilderness. In other words, the typo of the Redeemer ! Mr. Hunt has Comprehended with a poet's comprehension the pa thcs of this strange spectacle of solemn and dread ful abandonment. The vastness and barrenness of the surrounding waste, and the wild and troubled expression shining out of the eyes of the Scapegoat, an expression half-supplicative, half-despairing are " points " in this singular painting which are rendered with surprising vividness. Yet the ge neral effect of the painting is so strangely gro tesque that many of those who involuntary pause before it, arrested by its secret power and startled by its chromatic splendour, smile upon this undoubted ebullition of genius almost —be it plainly said at once—with the smile of derision. The recognised Chief among our youthful and gifted band of Pre-Raphaelites, facile princeps by reason not only of a daring priority in point of time, but by right also of un questioned pre-eminence, both in regard to innate abilities and in refereine to their mi nute, and exquisite, and laborious cultivation —John Everett Millais—appears during the past twelve months to have been more than ordi narily industrious, and in one or two instances more than usually successful. What cannot fail to lend a peculiar charm to his five remarkable contributions to this year's Exhibition, is the cir cumstance that in each of those five paintings the young artist has depicted with a most loving and appreciative pencil the multiform and manifold graces of little children. No. 293, "Portrait of a. Gentleman," is capital—just the very urchin who would look up with a face full of latent fun hidden by a varnish of sudden gravity--a b oy _ sage caught feasting his sense of the ridiculous over a scrap-book of caricltures ! No. 586, "The Blind Girl"—a limning painfully true to reality —is a portraiture which at once assumes to itself among the works stored up in our galleries of art a place kindred to that occupied by the pathetic shade of Nydia in the records of imaginative literature. No. 553, "L'Enfaut du Regiment," we have already spoken of, as a very exquisite production—exquisite beyond all marl ner of doubt, whether viewed in reference to the subject itself, or in regard to the method of its treatment. As to the subject—that is told in two minutes. It simply consists of a child lyin g (anyhow) sound asleep upon an old knightly monument, carved in stone, with the re cumbent figure of the mailed dead—may be the effigy of some grand old Bayard among the Crusaders—the slumbering figure of the child half covered by a regimental coat of blue and scarlet, the colours of which contrast exquisitely with the stony hue of the crumbling old ceno taph. No. 445, " Autumn Leaves"—perhaps one of the finest pictures of its kind yet exhibited by Millais—represents a group of children and maidens busy piling up and burning in the waste corner of some weedy, flowery, fruitful " plea saunce" towards the close of the yellow leaf-dropping month of September—a gorgeous heap of fallen foliage, ruddy, green, brown, goldQn, purple, ! Looking at the picture, you - can almost hear the rustle of the moving footsteps, you can almost smell the fragrance of the scented smoke —you can hardly fancy it is, after all, merely so much paint and canvass, it looks so wondrously like a cluster of living girls and a pile of dying leaves : not the image of the two, but the very girls and leaves themselves. No. 200, " Peace Concluded, 1856"--the largest and the most ela borate of all these five pictures—is (we can have little doubt of that) in some respects the most clever of the five, and yet altogether beyond all question decidedly the most unsatisfactory. The mere arrangement of the picture is—upon the very face of it—preposterous. Papa, with a very coarse sandy moustache, and ha bited in a dressing gown the texture of which resembles sacking, sprawls at full length upon a particularly narrow sofa—at the extremest edge of which, Mamma is somehow (in a very Acrobatty or W. H. Payeey mariner) sit ting upon nothing at all—for we can't fur an instant suppose she is sitting upon Papa's unseen waistcoat, like the comeliest Daymare in a brown velvet boddice and skirt ! Trotty- and Toddles, children both wonderfully child-like in look and gesture stand by : one of them having ingeniously hauled out of the Noah's ark in the corner such effigies of a Lion and a Bear as would have puzzled M. Buffon very much indeed could he have seen them. The lid of the said Noah's ark we take, by the way, to be one of the most glaring among Mr. Millais' affectations —you can all but smell that dealy 'minty smell familiar to those who know what it is to handle the toys of children. The grease in Papa's hair, again, is another of these affectations—it ought to have been brushed into it with the best un bleached bristles purchasable at Truefits or Gillingwater's—not left to cake there en masse under the pressure of Papa's recently doffed sills. - ventilator, or possibly that of his lately unbuckled helmet. For we are left to conjecture, somehow, that this same youthful, sandy, poinatumed, sprawling paterfamilias has just come back from the wars to repose at home —a circumstance which can alone account for his shaking Mamma's hand with one of his, and with the other holding at arm's length a damp copy of the Times newspaper. Another of these pre-Raphaelites, R. Hannah, to wit, reveals to us in No. 230, " Master Isaac Newton, in the autumn of 1665, sitting in his garden at Woolsthorpe." The greenest of apples (how it ever came to drop off the bough no one can possibly imagine) lying upon the most me tallic colourel of greensvards—and the rosiest, ripest, mellowest of fruits sticking up aloft on one of the branches, as though it never intended to fall even through all the snows, and frosts, and rain, and wind, and hail of the most pitiless of on-coming Winters. So much, this year, for the more conspicuous among the pre-Raphaelites—a school steadily rising in note and influence even in spite of Mr. Etuskin's exaggerated adulation now of Mr. Hol man Hunt, and now of Mr. Everett Millais—lie Prophet and the High-Priest of this old-new Religion of the Painter's Art. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) TURKEY. CONSTANTINO PLE, APRIL 28. The Circassian deputation, which arrived some time ago, bearin g an address to the S u lt an , th e Emperor of the French, and. the Queen of Eng land, presented on Thursday last their address to the Kaimakan of the Grand Vizier, in three copies. According to the Journal de Constantinople their address is as follows : " To HIS IMPP.RIAL MAJESTY TEE SULTAN, &C. "Prayers addressed to God for the Life and Prosperity of the Sultau. "Although you are at all times our Padishah, our light, the source of our prosperity and our refuge, yet the invasion of the cursed Ru,sian has thrown us under his tyrannical dominion, and has caused us great evils. Ntverthele.s, in the same way as when the sun sets it is certain that he will rise again, thus we have neither been seduced by his persuasions and intrigues, not cor rupted by his gold, although we have had much to suffer irim his tyri.nny. 'We have never ceased to oppose to his forues our lives, our goods, and oar children, and, by the aid of God, we have been fighting up to this day, as everybody knows. • Thanks to God, the light of the Imperial Sun, for which we wished so much, has at last spread its rsys over all Mussulmans, and especially over the Circassians. May Gad the Almighty, in consideration of our holy Prophet, preserve your Imperial Majesty from all evils of this world, and give you a complete victory over your enemies. "Au old proverb says, One must al ways keep up old customs. According to those of our country, accord ing t) our imperishable laws, after having taken an oath befo .e God, we set to work, 29 or 30 years ago, your servant Zanzadi Mehmed Boy, having chosen from 12 Circassian tribes 12 delegates, provided with letters of credence, he sent them to your Imperial Porte to de. Clare that the Padishah, our only light, and the only cans) of our prosperity, being our only Sovereign Lord, we w 1 never separate from him. " Since that time, always faithful to the true religion and to the State, we have waited, when we saw arrive at Auapa an employe charged with a mission in Circassia, and provided wish your imperial firinan. Your sove reignty was established in Circassia, and we rejoiced, and our childrea sang hymns to demand from Heaven the prolongation of the life of our Padishah and his triumph over his enemies, and we swore before the Almighty that we would never up to the day of judg ment recognise any other master. " When this war broke out where our Padishah hay fought with his two alies agains'; the Russian, your undersigned servants have also fought, as far as it was iu their power, under the orders of Sefer Pasha ; but as rumours of peace have arrived, and that there is no question of Circassia, this petition, drawn up by the d , flerent Circassian tribes, declaring th it we will never separate from our Pad stab, has been entrusted to 350 C rca,ssian deputies, cl osm a nong those t. ibes, and according to the maxim that everything returns to its source, we have turned toward. you, and we beg your Majesty, kissing the dust of your feet, to order that we may be placed for ever unde the majestic shade of your Imperial Throne." DEPUTATION TO THE HO WE SECRE TARY ON STREET CAB FUNERALS. Yesterday, a deputation from the vestry of St Marylebone, accompanied by Lord Ebrington, M.P., waited upon Sir G. Grey, at the Home-office, on the sub ject of street cab funerals, and the conveyance of pa tients in the public vehicles to the Fever and Small-pox Hospitals. The deputation consisted of Mr. Win. Field, church. warden, and Mr. Nicholay, churchwarden elect of Marylebone ; Mr. Guy, Mr. Jacob Bell, Mr. D'lffanger, jun., and Mr. Russell, with Dr. Thomson, medical officer of health ; and Mr. Greenwell, vestry clerk. Mr. Guy referred to the daily increasing practice of cab funerals of children to the metropolitan cemet er i es, and to the praciica of conveying patients Navin; small pox or typhus fever to the hospitals, aiid co n t en d e d t h at the increase of those diseases in the higher locuiities was attributable to that cause. Of 24,731 deaths of children under five years registered by the registrar-zelieral to have taken place during twelve months, 8.567 died of zymotic diseases, 143 of small pox, and 478 of typhus. He offered some suggestions for remedying the ev il, t h e principal points being, that the prpiietors or driv ers o f caha who use them for children s funerals should be tined 101. in each case ; that fever and small p ox hos pitals should be compelled to provide vehicles to send for patients when applied to, and that som e o f t h e am bulance vehicles used in the Crimea should be placed by the Government at the disposal of such hospitals, Mr. Jacob Bell, Dr. Russell, Mr. Nicholay, and Dr. Thomson confirmed Mr. Guy's view as to the danger to the public from the practice. Sir G. GREY expressed his concurrence with the deputation, and the importance of dealing w ith i t in a sanitary p o i n t of view ; but said it was a difficult question, and persons might also get into a railway carriage which had brought a person with fever from a long distance and catch it. He would, however, put. himself into communication with the Commis sioners of Metropolitan Police, and maturely consider the subject with a view to the application of some remedy for the evil. The deputation then retired. STEAM BETWEEN LIVERPOOL AND AFRICA. --Direct /4 t earn communication is about to be established between Liverpool and the 'West Coast of Africa, and the Liver' pool African Association have petitioned Government to allow a portion of the African mails to be sent from- Liverpool. CORN EXCHANGE. The present week's arrivals of English wheat, coastwise and by land carriage, have been very moderate, and the show of samples here to-day was limited. For most kinds we had a steady demand, at prices fully equal to those realised on Monday. The imports of foreign wheat are under 6,000 quarters. That grain changed hands to a moderate extent, on former terms. In barley and malt very little was doing, at Monday's currency. The supplies were moderate. The show of oats was good, and the oat trade ruled heavy, at Monday's decline in valde. Beans and peas were unaltered in price. The flour trade was steady. ARRIVALS TIM WKEK. I Wheat.. 7 I Barley. 3 1 / 2 a 3 it o . 1 Oats. I . ''': nT• i L r i i t s g h llsh . .... ,J 0 ' I —1, -- . 1,510 660 i . ~,, 1 IBA 1)1'1. Foreign • 1 1 5,930 1 . 3,320 i -- 1 16, °'' i 1430 sks METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The supply of beasts in to-day's market was good, both as to number and quality. All breeds sold slowly, at. barely Monday's quotations. With sheep we were heavily supplied, and the mutton trade was in a depressed state, at a fall in prices of 4 i per Sibs. The lamb to ade was heavy, at 2,1 per Sibs less money. The supply of lambs was good, and 350 came to hand from the He of Wight. Calves, the supply of which was good , moved off he av il y, at barely stationary prices In pigs scarely any busines was doing. Milch cows were dull, at from 141. to 19/.los. each, including their small calf. . _ Per Bibs to sink the °ale. s. d. 8. d. I A. ft. Inferior Beasts—. 3 2to 3 qrimeSouthdowil 5 0 5 4 Secc.end quality.... 3 8 3 10 i Large crse. calves 4 2 5 0 Prime large oxen 4 0 4 4{Primo small d 0... 5 2 5 8 Prime Scots, die. 4 6 4 S(Large hogs •i 4 4 2 inferior Sheep ...3 8 4 G i Small porkers ... 4 4 4 8 Second quality ...4 2 4 6 Suelcling calves.. 22 0 29 t Prime crse.-wiled.4 8 410 ,Quarter old pigs.2l 0 27 Lamb, 5 s GA to 6s 6,1. TOTAL SUPPLY. I FOILEIGN SUPPLY. Beasts ..•• •• •• •• .• •• •• •• 1,103 1 feasts Sheep and limbs •• .. •• • • 8,900 Sheep ~.... Calves ..•... •• .• •• •• •• .. 280 C a l v es...••, •• •••• •••••••:•••• T:7 Pigs ..... ..... ...• .. •• •• 303 Pigs.... —•••••••• •• •• •••• 1 NEWGA.TE AND We had a very slow tr: drooping. LEA.DEINTELILL. ide, and prices were rather Per Bibs by B. d. s. d. Beef, Inferior 010 3 0 Do., naiddling 3 2 3 6 Do. prime large 3 8 I 0 Do , do. small 4 2 4 4 Eak, largo 3 2 3 10 th e carcase. d. s. d 3lntt:9n Inferior 3 2 3 6 Do., sniddlinn• ,3 8 4 0 Do., prime 4 2 4 [ 6 Veal 3 10 5 0 Pork. small 4 0 4 8 Lamb, 43 1011 to 5s 10d. BOROUGH 110 P. Our market continues to be well supplied with all kinds of hops, in which' ahmt an average business is doing, above quotations. This week's imports aro 79 bales from Ham bro'. Mid and East Kent pockets, 3/ 5s to 6l 6s per cwt ; Weald of Keuts, 3/ to 5/ ss. ; Sussex, 2/ 163 to 4/ 15s. COLONIAL. TEA.—The market has ruled exceedingly dull. Common congou realised Bid to 9d per lb. SUGAR.--The demand has been active, and shipping and home dealers have been buyers to a considerable extent at an average advance of 63 per cwt. West India low mid to fine 4us to 445, Mauritius brown 37s Gd to 38e Gd, good and fine brown 39s to 403 Gd, yellow 43s to 143, superior yellow 45s Gd to 46d, white 488 per cwt, Bengal good to fine yellow 42s GI to 435, Havannah white 37s 9d per cwt. The refined market has been firm, and full rates were rea lised—grocery lumps 53s to 56s per cwt. COFFEE. —This article has been in good demand, and plantation and native Ceylon have brought high rates. Plantation low mid, to small greyish to good mid. bold colnry, 5Ss to 655; line to fine ord. 59s to 60s 61 ; native low to good ord., 508 to 538 63 ; St. Domingo, 51s per cwt. Cc coA.—There have been but few parcels offered, although a good demand has existed at full prices. Rick.—Tl►e market has been steady. Bengal realised 98 6d to Ils. and good white 12s per cwt. RUM. —There has been a very quiet market for this article. Small parcels of good Demerara brought 2s L.d per proof gallon. SPICES are rather &reaper. Pepper, Malabar declined Is 4d per cwt., fine grby and brown sold for 41c1 to sd. Penang mid earthy brown 50, and damaged 4.,;d to 5d per lb. Pitnent3 mitt coarse stalky 4$ ito 40, good fair even bright 4'Al per lb. Cloves—Zanzibar, good bold 40 to 4-1 , 1 per lb. SALTPETRE—The market has been inactive. British re fined realised 'lBB 6d. to 3Js per cwt. f. o. b. COCHINEAL—The market ruled heavy, although prices generally have been well supported. Honduras blacks, 4s to 4s 6tl ; Teneriffe silvers, 3s 8d to 3s 10d; and blacks, 3s 9d to 4s per lb. TALLOW—But little business has been done in this article, but prices rule steady. P.Y.C. spot, 458 3d, and last three mouths, 45s 6d per cwt. At the meeting of the Victoria (L on d on ) D oc k Com pany, held yesterday, it was stated that the terms for the lease of the business of the dock with Messrs. Peto, Betts, and•Bras;ey hal been agreed upon fur a term of 21 years, at an interest of 5 per cent. on the capital of 700,0001., with 6 per cent. interest for an additional capital of 200,0001. THE TOBACCO DUTY. The very high duties laid upon tobacco by seve ral nations of Europe —many hundred per c ent. of its cost price here—and the monopoly in the sale of it for the purpose of extracting a heavy tax from the consumers, maintained by other nations, have for many years been an occasion of loud com plaints on the part of our tobacco growers. Thil entertain the idea that these very heavy taxes levied upon the consumption of tobacco greatly curtail the use of the article, and that if it could be had throughout Europe at American prices, its consumption • would be very greatly extended. There are m an y ar ti c l es as to which this doctrine would be applicable. A diminution of one-half in the price of cotton, sugar, or flour would, no doubt, lead to a v er y extended consumption of those articles ; and, on the other hand, the imposition of a duty by which their cost to the consumers would be doubled or quadrupled, would greatly diminish their consumption. But tobacco seems to be as article to which this rule does not apply, ex' cept to a limited extent, and it is for that very rea son that the Governments of Europe have been able to tax it so highly. Chewers and smokers will have their indulgence regardless of the expense, which, after all, with all the taxation levied upon this fragrant weed, does not pass a limit beyond the means of most labouring men—the article being produced at a very moderate price, and the quan tity being quite limited to which the most invete rate smoker or chewer is able to consume. Some statistical inquiries on the subject lately laid before Congress tend to confirm this view of the case. From these documents it appears that here, in the United States, where tobacco juice is so vigorously squirted in all possible directions, and where it is almost impossible, at least in any public place, to escape the puffing of tobacco smoke in your face, the consumption of the article does not exceed two pounds ten ounces to each inhabi tant. Hence it is apparent that under the most favourable circumstances its use will always be kept within pretty narrow limits. The people of Europe, exclusive of Russia, notwithstanding the heavy duties by which the article is burdened, consume now about two-thirds of that amount. It appears also, from the same documents, that although the growing of tobacco is prohibited in Great Britain and some other European countries, yet that the total of the European crop somewhat exceeds the total crop of the United States, whence it is reason able to conclude that an increase in the consumption would not redound exclusively to the benefit of our American growers. The attempt persevered in for so many years and so constantly repeated, to induce the G o v ernmen t s o f E urope to a lter their policy on this subject, seems to us little better than childish. Can those Government s be expected to abandon a source of revenue at once so lucrativeand so unexceptionable, merely r to gratify the Am er i can t o b acco growers ? tobacco had about it any nourishing or even stimn latiug the Governments of Europe might he supposed to have some inducement for desiring its use extended. But as it, is merely a narcotic, of which both the moral and physical effects upon those who use it are of a very dubious character, Governments have rather an interest in diminish' ing its use than in extending it, except so far as use that may be a source of revenue. Indeed the interests of cleanliness and decency, let alone those of health, would seem to afford abundant reason¢ why any civilised. Government should reject with disdain our diplomatic efforts on behalf of free to bacco. In fact, we are strongly inclined to believe that more than one of our foreign envoys has afforded in his own personal habits more than counterbalance to all his political and economical arguments.—New York Tribune. LOCAL DUES UPON SHIPPING. The committee met yesterday in room No. 11 ; Lowe in the chair. Mr. Heelin g , Mayor of Salford, said th e ques ti on of the town dues of Liverpool nad attracted great attention in Salford for several years past, and the general opinion was that the Corporation of Liverpool had no right t 0 levy such a tax. They claimed to exact the dues, but ii: claimed any obligation to make a return for them,on d witness believed that at common law no such right al that which was asserted by the corporation of Liverpoc" could exist, and he was not aware of any precedent Or such an impost. The only limit to these dues was in the discretion of the corporation. By Mr. Headlam—The reason why no objections bo a been made to the imposition of these dues until the las t few years was that the subject had not before been in' quired into so fully, and the injustice of that tax was oot ha clearly understood ; directly this was ascertained en' deavours were made to bring the matter before the Go• wernment and Parliament. By the Chairman—lie was clearly of opinion that it was a case for the intervention of Parliament. Witness was about to explain the operation of the Municipal Corposation Act, when Sir J. Duckworth moved that the room he cleared. The committee having remained in consultation for an hour, the parties were readmitted, and, in answer to a question from the chairman, witneß's said he thought, if the question of the legality of the dues had bee❑ raised at the time of the passing of the .lunicipal Act, some clause would have been inserted to protect the public interests. By Mr. Headlam—lf the original grant were produced some obligation would be found to attach to the collet' lion of these dues. By Mr. Watson—To establish the legality of the lin position of the dues under a grant from the Crown. 1 1 considered it necessary th a t suc h d ues shoul d be prov ed to be the same as those originally levied, or, in other words, to prove continuity and similarity; an d 0 15 could not be e , tabiished. He could not refer to Of document to prove that the dues were clothed with aol trust, but his reading of the law was, that there must be some duty performed in return fur the power to lel dues. By Mr. Horsfall—He still maintained that the duos were levied arbitrarily and without limit, notwithstand' ing the publication of the tariff, because such tariff wa g varied from time to time, and m an y ar ti c l es were 1 10 ' . mentioned in the tariff at all. By Mr. Headlatn—Ele denied the right of the Crowe to grant dues upon property not in its possession at the time, or upon articles which . were not imported at the period when the grant was made. By the Chairman—All prescription implied a grants and no grant cmild be made of dues upon articles uc' known at the tme being. Mr. Newland, of Liverpool, general merchant, Said his attention had been directed to the Liverpool town dues. He complained es p ec i a lly o f th e tax upon salts which amounted to 5 per cent. on the cost of the ev ported article. This was a very injurious impost on trade, and prevented its expansion. The trade in salt had been increasing of late years, and was subject to large comps' tition from works on the Mediterranean, Cadiz, Lisbon, St. Hoe's, and other places. He objected generally to the levying of town dues on articles of import and export, and believed it would be greatly to the adyan• tage of Liverpool if some compensation were made to it and the town dues altogether abolished. This would remove a serious grievance, and it would also be an additional benefit if the distinction at present existing between freemen and non freemen were done away. Wit' ness was not prepared to suggest the mode of compen ,ation, but tbought that, as the corporation had a title to these dues, which had been recognised by act of Par liament, Government should make some compensation to the town. The dues were decidedly an encumbrance to trade, and their removal would afford great facilities to the trade of Liverpool. He objected to the Weaver dues, which were double the amount o f the town dues, and on such an article as salt the tax We s most oppressive. The amount of the town dues he paid for salt in the last year was 2501., and 1001. for other articles. By Mr. Duncan—He had exported 10,000 tone of salt during the past year, upon which, had be been a freemavf he should , have saved the town dues of 6d. a ton. _ Mr. Heron, town clerk of Manchester, was recalled, and put in returns of the poor and other rates in the townships of Manchester from the years 1851 to 1855, and stated that a sum of upwards of 541,000/. bad been expended by the corporation within the city, and which sum had been repaid by single proprietors within the last 20 years. No other witnesses being in attendance, the committee 3cljourned until Thursday, May 22. CANCER HOSPITAL. Since the establishment of this Institution, which was founded in 1851, having an hospital in West BroroP' ton for in-patients, with dispen,ary for out-patients and Secretary's office in Cannon-row, Westminster, the ravages of this fearful disease have become more gene' rally known, and the necessity for giving it special atten' Lion rendered apparent. it accordingly has been deemed ,dvisable to extend as much as possible the sphere of its usefulness ; and, in order more effectually to carry 00 its operations, the business of the office in London a nd that of the dispensary are now conducted beneath one roof, in very eligible premises, centrally situate in Pic cadilly, opposite to Bond-street, instead of Cannon-roW' as heretofore. The support given to this benevolent iu-titution has shown it to be progressing in public estimation. We understand that, as this hospital becomes more known, so the demands upon its resources are consider• ably increasing. These facts no doubt will be appre ciated by the benevolent, on whom this valuable insti tution is entirely dependent for support.—Secretary's office, and for out•patients, 167, Piccadilly. Post-ofEce orders to be made payable to Mr. William Jame% Cockerill, at the Post office, Piccadilly. HALF HOLIDAYS IN THE LAW COURTS ON SATURDAYS. —A notice was read yesterday, at the rising of the Court of Queen's Bencb, which intimated that, for the future, no business would be transacted after 2 o'clock on Saturdays. A NATIONAL HOLIDAY.— It is said that her Majesty'll Government areabout to bring before Parliament a speoi!' l let, providing that the 29th icst be observed as a publl o holiday. The act at present in force limit s p u blic holi days to days appointed for public thanksgiving . an d humiliation— neither term applying to a simple holiday such as now contemplated. 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