The Sun. — London, England, 1861-03-30 00:00:00

VOLUNTEER SHAM FIGHT AND FIELD DAY ON EASTER MONDAY. Gentlemen are respectfully. informed that the Dinin g Rooms will be kept Open until a late hour on tha t day. THOMAS PRICE, Superintendent. Tux WELLINGTON, 160, Piccadilly, March 28, 1861. T rlEA'Pßii._:-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee. hir. J. B. Baokstohe. On EASTER MONDAY (April 1), will be performed A DUKE IN DIFFICULTIES. Mrs. Stirling, Miss F. Haydon, Mrs. Wilkins, Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, &s. 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. t iOYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Manaffer. Mr. A. Harris. On Easter Monday, THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore, Meadows, Garden, and 3diss C. Leclercq. Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Sup ported by Messrs. Ryder, Hermann Vezin, Graham, Shore, - Meadows, &C. ; 31Isses Heath, R. Leclercq, and Elsworthy. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL - Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. TO-NIGHT, the celebrated Italian Illusionist, ANTO NIO POLETTI, in his extraordinary and wonderful enter tainment of NATURAL and CI YMICAL MAGIC ; and Pell's (the Original Bones) Ethiopian Minstrels. Doors open at half-past Six, commence at Seven. No charge for book ing. ADELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj.. Webster. On EASTER MONDAY, a new drama, MAGLIORE, PRESTIDIGITATOR. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, D. Fisher, &c.; Miss K. Kelly, Miss EL Sim ms, arm After which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSDL Miss Julia Daly. Doom open at half past 6—Commence at 7. CANTERBURYtmiH nster-ALLroad. CONCERTS!! wes Proprtetor........C. Morton. A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera, IL CORSARO, (This opera has never been produced in this or any other country, except at these Concerts), having met with that de cided success which charactise4 the most popular werks of this great Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ; together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI IENTO, by Donizetti, Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss 'Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonehmans. 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. THIS DAL—Morning, 4h. 18m.—Afternoon, 4h. 40m To-molutow.-Morning, bh. 2m.—Afternoon, sh. 27m TUB WEATHER...-SUII 0111 , 10 E, MARCH 30, MI THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADB. 55 —highest since noon yesterday. 41—lewest this morning and during the night. 50—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.68. WIND South-Westerly—light; with dull weather ; some rain in the morning. , v -11.7-4- .4 .' 2 . , ' ..r., .. , q...„m, - ......, . . b ii; I - -i•'-':• .. / •4'o • - , ' - ‘bii• - oi -- • - ' - ) - 3- - -- i• ..„:0.42\-- - --r....7 4 ,4; .4 ..., •.• • . ••,..,-... 4; ..,... THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1861. Sixteen years have elapsed since the British Empire has revealed in any part of its vast dominions anything at all comparable to the appal ling spectacle now unhappily being witnessed in Hindostan. The spectacle, that is, of a whole people stricken down by Famine, that dread scourge of humanity which is not only terrible in itself, but yet more terrible in what may be termed its inevi table consequences—Famine being ever the fore runner of Pestilence. • Sinee Ireland was desolated, in parts actually depopulated, in 1845-1846, theßritish Government has not been called upon to deal with any calamity so sudden, so widespread, so destructive as that which has now fallen, which is yet falling, which, alas, must still long continue to fall upon the un fortunate people of Upper India. The intelligence received by every successive overland-mail is, in regard to this great scourge, of the most afflicting character. It is intelligence not of the " threat ening-8" of famine merely, but of its frightful devastations. Multitudes of the poor starving people, old and young, men, women, and children,we read of in those afflicting advices, as dying absolutely on the way to seek relief at Delhi or other stations— littering the high roads one by one, in pairs, in clus ters, as they sank down exhausted and there ex pired, some of them even within sight of the very places to which they were going in search of assist ance. Among the incidents of this kind which have the most recently occurred, there has been related the case of a family, consisting of the father, the mother, and three children, who were found shortly before the last mail left India, huddled together on the road, near the fort, hard by the city of Delhi. " The father, mother, and two of the children were dead ; and the remaining child; stillliving, was clinging to its dead mother's breast !" . Incidents of even a mere terrible nature than this, are spoken of in the last advices coming to us from those desolated northern districts of Hindo stan—incidents almost as sickening as those told of by the chronicler of the fall of Jerusalem. If mothers have not been tempted, as they were within the sacred city, to devour their own children, "many impoverished and starving parents," we now read, " are said to be anxious [there in Upper India] togive away or sell their children to save their lives." According to the Meerut Relief Committee, within that district alone upwards of a hundred (109) were known to have died from starvation prior to the 22d of January. Within a single week the aggre gate number of applicants for food was doubled— had risen within the brief interval of those seven days from four hundred to eight hundred " Poor houses and dispensaries," these accounts add, " had been established, and during the month of January the numbers who had received relief were—in the city poor-house, 8,205, equal to the whole popula tion of an ordinary provincial town ; sick in the dispensary, 2,714 ; in Ghazeeabad, 11,345 ; in Hauper, 3,600; total, 25,864 persons !" As during the Irish famine, of more than three winters back, public works had been judiciously opened in those afflicted provinces of Hindostan : more than seven thousand natives having been in this way enabled to earn their food, upon the public works thus opened at Rhorkee and Dehra, at Hauper and at Shahjehan pore, The famine thus dessolating those ill-fated portions of our Indian Empire, resulting not alone from the perishing of the grain crops, 'but from the destruction also with the grain mops of the esculent loots that might otherwise have' provided nutriment to the population : the very t_ws withering away, and the standing crops rotting under a plague as deadly as the Egyptian loenae—the .novel, and hitherto, in those doomed regions of Upper India, unheard of plague of the bla c k • , caterpth ar, Scarcely have Englishmen here in the midst of their own homes, awakened to a knowledge of the fearful scourge that is now striking down by tens, and by hundreds, and by thou ma reds, their Asiatic fellow subjects in Hin dos tan- —when the most prompt and energetic efforts are i, nmediately mad e to the end that substantial help may be at once gethered together and de spa tcl ted to the scene of this widesp read starvation. These i endeavours, moreover , are no t b e i ng made upon a vague or carelessly arranged syst em , b u t upon a system carefully and regularly ,organised. A no' ble catalogue of subscriptions was publi s h e d by Tas yesterday among our adve r ti setoents ; the stem already collected in this Way under ;the auspices of the LORD Mavoß THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 30, 1861. of London, having reached even now a total of £4,450 or thereabouts. Upwards of £2OO having been transmitted to his lordship, in amounts ranging from £1 to £5O, during yesterday. In his capacity as President of the Com mittee of Relief, we rejoice to observe, moreover, that the chief magistrate of our metropolis has appealed to the provincial mayors throughout the country, and in like manner to the clergy generally, beseeching them in the name of the Central Committee to co-operate in the good work as speedily and energetically as may be in any way practicable. " The details," says the LORD MAYOR in this his circular appeal, "The details which have appeared in the news papers sufficiently demonstrate the necessity of im mediate relief being supplied, and it is therefore intended to remit to India as large an amount as possible by the Marseilles mail leaving on the 3d proximo "—that is by next Wednesday. May GOD speed the good work during the brief interval that alone now remains before the date of this next mail's departure ! With every pound that may be subscribed a life may be saved ! It is a momentous consideration. We must all laugh, of course, when the duel comes off on the Tiverton hustings between Lord PALMERSTON and Mr. ROWCLIFFE. This time between the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and the Tiverton butcher. The worthy butcher is not to be daunted by former defeats ; indeed it may be doubted -whether he regarded them as defeats. The jokes and humour of the merry Premier of 75 are, most likely, hardly understood by the rough trades man—he is accustomed to dealing with very solid food, and he does not know what to make of such syllabub and trifle as the Premier excels in. PAL MERSTON, of course, had the better of it with ROWCLIFFE before the meeting. The humorous hits told better than the harder hits. Yet somehow the pluck of the butcher had its appropriate cheers too. It was said at the Birmingham election that Mr. BRIGHT was the only man that could tackle Lord PALMERSTON, but Tiverton certainly knows better than that, and can boast a ROWCLIFFE, who can stand up to the Premier as sternly as the re doubtable Birmingham orator. Lord PALMERSTON opened the fight, with the announcement of his unprofitable honour just received from her MAJESTY, which had given him the pleasure of an occasion for a word with his dear old friends, faithful to him as he to them, for a quarter of a century ; the height of his ambition being to represent Tiverton, Tiverton also having, we presume, no higher ambition than to be repre sented by PALMERSTON. The severe summer last year, the consequent trials of the people, their mar vellous good behaviour, the blessing of Corn-law repeal, and the great industry of the House of Commons this session, were the home topics of his speech. On Foreign Affairs he was far more copious. The war threatened in March had not come with March, and ho hoped April would pass away in like man ner, and all the summer too. But come what would England was ready for anything, we had a navy and a band of volunteers which made us of some importance in Europe, and by our position and diplomatic action we had aided the cause of constitutionalism all over Europe, till Russia stood alone in being destitute of representative assem blies ; and even the CZAR was taking the grand step towards it, of creating the freemen, who would one day be electors. Tho continent was no longer one vast camp of despotism, from the Mediterrlnean to the German Ocean. France in her way, Spain and Portugal, Italy, Prussia, Austria itself—the whole continent was folldw ing the example of this country ; and a proud thing it was for Euglani to be the example, which all desired to follow. America was the only dark spot in the horizon ; there it was not for us to interfere, but one hope we all had, that settle the difficulty how they would—it would be without the horrors of fratricidal war. Now this was all very pleasant, the people and the House of Commons both behaving as they ought, at home, and foreign countries imitating our good example ; but not so pleasant did things look to the knight of the marrowbones and cleaver. He had a question to put to Lord PALMERSTON, whereupon spectators or auditors—we hardly know which to say—cheered in both styles of cheering, and laughed heartily—" ask it then " " Well, the noble lord had been speaking about foreign affairs—(Lord PALMERSTON nodded assent and smiled)—but he (Mr. ROWCLIFFE) had not heard anything about home affairs, about the mass, those who produced the wealth of the country. He wanted to ask him something about those who stood around him. Lord PALMERSTON had not said a word about the non-electors. (' Hasn't he ?') Now, it was his duty as the trustee of the non-electors standing around him to ask him what he had done with the Reform Bill. (This hit' produced a com plete outburst of laughter, in which the noble lord himself heartily joined.) Well, he (Mr. It.) said that they, her M tJESTY'S Ministers, and Lord PAL MERSTON, had pledged themselves to carry the Reform Bill into the law of the land." The Whigs had pledged themselves to economy, but they had only made laws costing a great deal of money, and they "had not carried out their pledge about the Reform Bill." But the hardest hit of all, one to which none of the Premier's subsequent jokes ever alluded, too sad a matter that, indeed, for joking, was the following :—" Now, Lord PALMERSTON must see it himself, but the large majority which he had in the House of Commons was dwindling down down —why, it was almost a minority," to which the meeting responded with-- hear, hear, bravo, he's plucky. " Why was this P" goes on the butcher prator—q because there was no honest reform." Mr. ROWCLIFFE then varied his discourse between the corruption of the House of Commons and the Reform Bill—they had not 100 honest men in the house—the proof being the bribery commissions and the petitions—then the Reform Bill—'why did • did you not give us one?"—" Lord PALMERSTON would trust his servants with his jewels and silver and money, but would not trust them with a vote." Mr. MILNER GIBSON had had a plum given him, a piece of information which seemed new to his lordship, at least, we are told, he laughed outright at so droll an idea, as that of a seat in the Cabinet, and the French treaty having any influence on Mr. GIBSON'S politics. To do Mr. ROWCLIFFE justice, he by no means shirked the responsibility of advising a Premier. " Why," he asked, " had Lord PALMERSTON come down to Tiverton ? Why, to gull the people. But you can't gull me, my lord—nor can you gull the working men. I tell you you don't see them in the Town Hall surrounding you or cheering you now. My advice to you is to go back to Downing-street and tell your colleagues the bit of advice which I will give you, (" Ad vising Lord PALMERSTON, is i t ; oh cricket'," and laughter.") Tell them they must bring in an honest, pure, and just Reform Bill, and then the people will rally around you. But that humbug ging measure. I tell you the people of this country will no longer allow you to do it ; they will no longer allow you to carry on the "double shuffle;" and to the last Reform was the text and almost the sermon, too, of Mr. ROWCLIFFE. How Lord PALMERSTON polished off Mr. Row . CLIFFE, wished him to - enter the House of Com mons, that they might then have 101 honest men there ; how nicely he slipped off the Reform Bill noose; how he acknowledged that the fear of early dissolution was the chief rea son why the Commons did not like to pass a Reform Bill ; how he was not goose enough to offer it another this year; how the country was not too much protected, (Mr. ROWCLIFFE having only said too much money was spent), and how his Lordship forgot the Dockyards report, which would have explained how so much was spent ; how he had voted for Mr. LoCKE KING'S motion, and purposed to vote for Mr. BAINES,—not adding that he could do this with safety to the cause so dear to him of Anti-Reform ;—how Lord PALMERSTON did all these things we need not describe. We cannot, however, forget that the butcher gave him some strong meat, which he did not seem in clined to attack. He did not meddle with the fact of elections since the general election, going so much against him; he did not explain how it was that several Liberal constituences did not think it worth while to trouble themselves to return Palmerstonian candidates. Indeed we strongly suspect that no amount of wit and humour could explain away this awkward fact. The reason he must have known as well as any one s He quite understands that it was the double shuffle—proffering to the country to carry a Reform Bill, and even taking office upon the strength of it, and whispering to the House of Commons—" if you like to block its way you can ; but I must seem as if I was angry with you." The truth is, PALMERSTON and Co. have used up their foreign policy dodge, they being now as bad Austrians as Lord DERBY and his colleagues; and as to Reform, why, the country knows it will never get it from the Whigs. There is an intimation from Hungary which may mean a great deal more than strikes the reader at first sight—the Emperor of AUSTRIA does not intend to open the Diet in person. Why not ? Is it because he is not yet King of HUNGARY ? Is it because the affidavit of KOSSUTH is made to a patent legal fact, and that FERDINAND V., his uncle, when he abdicated the throne of the Austrian Empire, did not abdicate that of the Hungarian kingdom, and that all the cajolery of the Austrian Court cannot persuade the poor weak man to do it ? We strongly sus pect that it is for this reason the Prince Primate will open the Diet. The Hungarians have taken their stand on the firm ground of loyalty. Even such laws and arrangements of 1848-9 as they think bad they are prepared to abide by, till they can be altered legally by the Diet. They will accept nothing, not good more than bad, through an Imperial decree. And in this they are perfectly right. Their legal constitution, when restored to activity, would enable them to rectify all that it is desirable to change, very promptly ; but if they once allow the Emperor of AUSTRIA, or even a King of HUNGARY, alone, to make their laws, there is, so far as precedent goes, an immediate abrogation of their constitution. Nothing through Vienna and the EMPEROR, everything through the lawful King of HUNGARY and the Diet, is their sacred principle. We in England can well under stand this. In the time of the Seven Bishops, the Dissenters, who would have enjoyed the benefit of it, would not acknowledge the dispensing power claimed by JAMES 11. ; and at this day, if Queen VICTORIA of her own motion should issue writs for an election on the best Reform principles, the most Radical Reformers would not act upon them. And this is just the position of the Hungarians. They will not have liberty through despotism. What an autocrat can give an autocrat can take away. They deny that he can abrogate a consti tution of a thousand years old, or that he can modify the pragmatic sanction to which he also owes the Hungarian Crown ; and the Emperor of AUSTRIA, therefore, we suspect, thinks it easier to settle first the preliminary question—whom the Hun garians will acknowledge as legal King of their country. As to the rumours of collision between the Aus trians and Piedmontese, we can but think they are rumours only. Austria increases, some say, her strength in Venetia, and makes strategic move ments on the Po; while the Sardinian army is augmented, and largely, too, and CIALDINI is placed in command there. But the Sardinians have work on hand of another kind at Rome, and could gain, it would seem, nothing by precipitation, while Austria is losing everything without a single battle. She is losing her money when she does not know where to find any, in military expenses; and, what is quite as much in favour of Sardinia, every section of her empire is not only learning but acting on the purely national prin ciples, which will dispose them all to agree that Venetia belongs to Italy not to the Germans. We should not be much surprised if even the Imperial Reichsrath itself should moot this doctrine, perhaps accept, and act upon it. Hungary, of course, would do so. She is ready, were it pos sible, to fight against the Hapsburg for the Italian. Indeed, her sons have done this already in Italy, and are ready to return home and fight for their fatherland. How deplorable that England's Foreign .Secretary should obstruct them ! We observe that the Sardinian ambassador has protested against the employment of the Banshee, one of her MAJESTY'S ships, to convey arms from Galatz to Constantinople which had been carried by Genoese vessels to the Danube and seized there at the instance of the Austrian Am bassador. We hope this proceeding of our Foreign Secretary, which we hesitate to characterise as it deserves, will be brought before the House of Com mons again and again, and made the text for many a speech which shall warn Lord JOHN RUSSELL that the English people are as interested in Hun gary as he and they have been in Italy. RETURN OF THE COURT TO TIIE ISLE OF WIGHT. —The workmen have very nearly completed the alterations at Osborne House, and her Majesty is expected down on Tuesday or Wednesday next. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.—There is likely to be a strong muster of the Royal Yacht Squadron at the Castle, as usual, at Easter. Lord Colville, the Marquis of Bath, the Earl of Shelburne, Geo. Bentinck, Esq., M.P. ; Col. Armitage, H. B. Baring, Esq., M.P. Lieut.-Col. C. Baring, Andrew Fountain, Esq., &c., are the first arrivals. ISLE OF WIGHT STEEPLECHASE.—This event is fixed to come off on Thursday next, at Gatecombe, near Newport. There are to be four races, the first will start at 1 p.m. The Earl of Derby has just presented a full length portrait of himself, painted by Grant, in his robes as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, to the Bodleian Picture Gallery. The French Government has refused to allow M. de Larochejaquelin to wear the Cross of St. Januarius, lately conferred upon him by Francis 11. A letter from Palermo of the 22d inst. says that serious fears are entertained for the safety of the steam packet Ercolo, which sailed froat Palermo for Naples on the 2d inst. She had not arrived at her destination on the 18th. A steamer had ben sent in search of her, but no trace had been found. It is generally apprehended that the Ercolo must have been burnt at sea. There were 80 persons on board the Ercolo when she sailed from Palermo, including the passengers and crew. The Austrian Government has forbidden the ex portation of arms into Bosnia, and has despatched a body of troops to the frontiers. LA 1 113 ST NE NV S. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. WARSAW, MARCH 30. The concessions granted by the Emperor have not satisfied the people. The wearing of mourning has become more general, and a much greater number of people appear in the national costume. The journals advocate the necessity for modera- tion. The concentratio:a of military continues. Unarmed citizens, doing duty as constables, patrol the streets. The 24 delegates are again acting as a Provin cial Municipality. TURIN, MARCH 29. The Chamber of Deputies is adjourned until Tuesday next, on - which day Signor Massari will bring forward his interpellation in reference to the affairs of Naples. The news that the Austrians had evacuated cer tain positions on the other side of the Po is con firmed. This measure, however, is not to be taken as a sign of war. NAPLES, MARCH 29. An unimportant demonstration has been made by 400 persons, styling themselves Garibaldians, who demanded money at the Ministry of Finance. These persons were dispersed by the authorities with great moderation. The Republican newspapers are raising unjust accusations against the Government. General Rocca has published an order to the effect that no person may wear the Garibaldian red flannel shirt without being able to prove that he has belonged to the Garibaldian volunteers. Yesterday the police confiscated some five-grani pieces, bearing the effigy of Francis 11., which had been sent from Rome. The Holy Week has passed tranquilly at Naples and in the provinces. MILAN, MARCH 29. Several editors of French newspapers, who were on an excursion to Venice, were, immediately after arriving in that city, roughly expelled by Governor Taggenburg, notwithstanding that the visa of the Austrian Embassy at Paris was affixed to their pass ports. VIENNA, MARCH 29. The Emperor has sanctioned the proposed re organisation of the political administration of Tran sylvania, by which that province will be restored to its forme'r position of autonomy. PESTH, MARCH 29. The official journal announces that the proposi tions of the Judicial Conference have received the Royal sanction. The Prince Primate will arrive in Buda on the 2d of April, in order to open the Hungarian Diet. TEMESWAR, MARCH 29. A sanguinary conflict took place at Lippa between the German and Rounaaic inhabitants on the occa sion of the elections. Three persons were killed. Fifteen persons were seriously and many slightly wounded. WARSAW, MARCH 29. Reports are current that the censorship of the press is to be abolished. M. Wielipolski has given orders for the elaboration of a project of law similar to the French press law. It is expected that from to-morrow foreign news papers will be delivered without the obliteration of those portions of the same which might be dis pleasing to the Government. ITZEHOE, MARCH 29. According to advices received here from Copen hagen, the Ministry will not submit the Budget to the Estates of Holstein on their re-assembling on the 4th of April next, but will state that the regulations in reference thereto are contained in paragraph 13 of the Provisional Constitution. COPENHAGEN, MARCH 29. M. Baasloff, Minister for Holstein, has been com pelled to tender his resignation, on account of having failed to declare to the Estates of Holstein that by Article 13 of the Provisorium the Budget had been already submitted to the Estates, not withstanding that a resolution had been unani mously adopted in the Ministerial Council deputing •M. Rhasloff to make tail declaration. The King has accepted his resignation. M. Halle, the President of the Council, has provisionally assumed the portfolio for Holstein. TRIESTE, MARCH 29. Lord Elgin arrived here to-day on board the steamer Terrible. THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 30. The Royal Mail steamship Tasmanian, Captain Weller, with the West India and Pacific mail, has arrived sere. She brings 123 passengers, 1,774,195 in specie, and 2.546 packages in cargo. She left St. Thomas's on the 17th inst. The Atrato arrived out on the 16th inst. The West India islands were generally healthy. The steamer Plantagenet, of Liverpool, arrived at Colon on the 11th inst. The Bogota, with the mails for the South Pacific, was on shore in Guayaquil River. The mails and passengers were forwarded by the Valparaiso, for Callao, on the 3d inst. Prince Alfred left Barbadoes on the Ist inst. for St. Vincent, intending to make from that place the tour of the northern islands, terminating at Jamaica. A vessel, with 600 Chinese immigrant 3, had ar rived at Callao, and were offered for sale. They were expected to fetch from 300 dols. to 400 dols. per head. In the river Magdalena the Government flotilla had been captured by the forces of the State of Bolivar, and Senor Gallazo made prisoner. In Bolivar the Government party, under Betancur were defeated, and the leader shot. Two vessels had arrived at Demerara with 786 immigrants from Calcutta. The weather was un propitious and manufacturing operations were somewhat retarded. At Barbadoes crop operations were proceeding vigorously. Several shipments of sugar had been made, amounting to over 2,000 hogsheads. Several other vessels were loading. Exchange at 30 days' sight was quoted 490 doll. The weather at Trinidad was wet and unsettled. Sugar making proceeded under difficulties, and ruling rates were at,ything but calculated to pay iLe cost of manufacture. At Jamaica preparations were being made in honour of the Prince's expected visit. The Bank of Jamaica had declared a dividend of 4 per cent. for the half-year. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY. The Paris papers publish a telegram dated Con stantinople, March 27, asserting that in consequence of an invasion of Spitza, in Albania, by Garibal dians, the representatives of the Powers had in sisted on the Porte sending a mixed commission to the Herzegovina. The same telegram asserts that the Porte had refused to submit to the Powers, before promul gating, the reforms it intends to grant, apprehend ing that Russia might again take up the project of a permanent conference at Constantinople. The Powers are said to have insisted upon com pliance with their demand. BOURSE, March 29.—The market still continues heavy, but without any further decline in prices. Threes, for the account, are now at 67f 75c. The Share Market is also dull, and quotations a shade lower. The following were the last quotations:— ft per per Cents ... 95 65 \ Credit Fonder 940 Do end month.... 95 701 Belgian 41 lOO 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 80 ; Roman Bank Shares 2890 ' Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 655 I Spanish Threes 4B Do. Account 655 Home Debt CAPE OF GOOD ROPE. PLYMOUTH. FRIDAY. The Union Steam Navigation Company's Mail packet Athens, Confmander Henry Clark, from the Cape of Good Hope, Feb. 21; St. Helena, March 2; and Ascension, March 6, arrived in the Sound this morning. Her cargo consists of 180 casks of wine, 3,313 horns, 8 cases ostrich feathers, 8 casks copper, 176 bales wool, 150 bales and 626 bundles skins, 120 bags argol, 1,163 bags copper ore, 165 bags coffee, and 17 casks seal skins. Among her passengers are Colonel and Mrs. Travers, Dr. and Mrs. Bickersteth, Captains Thursby, Raymond, and Leighton, and Lieutenant Wyaft. The intelligence by this mail is not very impor tant. The Governor, Sir George Grey, returned from British Caffraria to Cape Town on Feb. 15. Lieutenant-Colonel Maclean is appointed Lieu tenant-Governor of British Caffraria. The judge ship has been offered to Mr. Denny son; salary, £BOO per annum. The Cape Parliament assembles April 26. The separation project will be discussed, responsible government, railways, &c. The Miles Barton, with the Ist battalion of 3d Buffs, went ashore in Struys Bay February Bth. All saved except one private. The following transports and ships of war, with troops from China, had arrived in Table Bay and Simon's Bay—viz.:—Feb. 3, the Athlete, from Hong Kong, with 326 men of the 3d Buffs, under Lieutenant-Colonel Sargent ; Feb. 3, the Tasmania, from Hong Kong, with 429 men of the 3d Buffs, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Ambrose ; Feb. 8, the Sir William Peel, from the Peiho, with 94 military invalids, and 13 officers, detachments of her Majesty's 31st, 44th, 67th, and 99th Regi ments ; Lieutenant Gilmore commanding. The following is a list of the officers' names :—Rev. F. Abbott, Chaplain ; Mr. F. Taylor, master, R.N. ; Lieutenant G. C. F. Sinclair, RN. ; Captain Croome, 2d Queen's; Major Jackson, R.M. ; Staff- Surgeon Rennie, Assistant-Surgeons Snell, Turner, Goodwin, Gray, Lim, and Watson ; R. C. Barker purveyor. By the frontier mail, which arrived in Cape Town on the 20th of February, important intelligence had been received from the interior respecting the Zambesi Mission, connected with the London Mis sionary Society. It will be remembered that some months ago information reached London of the sudden decease of the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Helmore, the Rev. Mr. Price's child, and several natives forming the mission party at Linyanti, the station of the Makalolo tribe under the chief Sekuletu. The Rev. Mr. Price, with his wife, and Mr. Helmore's surviving children, after losing their friends, at once took leave of Sekuletu's place ; but, as they had little knowledge of the country into which they passed, fears were entertained for their safety, as well as that of the Rev. Mr. J. Mackenzie, who it was known had left the station at Bamangwate to proceed to join the mission at Linyanti. An explor ing party, headed by the venerable Robert Moffat, and aided by funds from friends in the colony, was sent out from Kuruman in search of them. On the twelfth day after leaving Kurman they met with a messenger bearing letters for the Rev. Mr. Moffat, and informing him that the Rev. Messrs. Price and Mackenzie were safe at Lechulatebe's Town, at Lake Ngami. The Rev. Mr. Price had a perilous jour ney from Linyanti, but his chief misfortune through out it was the loss of Mrs. Price, who died on the way. Her Majesty's steamship Cyelops, Capt. Pullen, which left Table Bay on the 17th of February, arrived the next day in Simon's Bay, where she was at anchor when the Athens left. TLe steam transport Indomitable, with the 24th Regiment on board, was spoken on Feb. 14 by the Laughing Water, Capt. Newman, which arrived in Algoa Bay the same day. At Table Bay were the transport steamers Mau ritius and Melbourne, and the ships Alfred and Mars. At St. Helena were her Majesty's ship Prome theus, the troopships Renown, Newcastle, Cold stream,Windsor Castle, and Holmsdale; the Alma, ana uue Dam Agricola. At Ascension were her Majesty's ship Meander and the Diligentia, with rudder damaged. The Athens spoke, March 17, lat 22 50 N., long 22 50 W, the Hamburg barque Mauritius, bound southward ; 18th, lat 25 30 N, long 23 30 W., passed the ships Silistria, St. Magnus, and Geolo gist, bound to the southward; 19th, lat 28 28 N, long 24 00 W, passed the American ship Flying Cloud, bound to the southward ; 24th, lat 40 36 N, long 15 55 M r , passed the barque Whitley Park, standing to the eastward; 28th, lat 48 00, long 7 00 W, passed the ship Crest of the Wave and the American ship Saratoga, standing to S.W. The Athens started from Cape Town with a dense fog, which continued for two days; experienced strong S.E trades for two days, and afterwards very light ; lost the S.E trades on the Equator, then had four days' calm. Got N E trades in 11 N lat, had N.E trades very strong, lost them N. lat 29 N, since which had calms for two days, afterwards heavy gales from the northward to north-east, accompanied with a very high sea. RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans l4OB 75 .. 1407 50 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 946 25 .. 947 50 Geneva 3BO .. 381 25 Southern 532 50 533 75 Western Eastern - :: 580 Sardinian 367 50 Austrian Low bard 463 75 .. 463 75 ITALY. The Unita Italiana of Genoa states that although General de Lamarmora has offered his resignation, it is by no means probable that King Victor Em manuel will accept it. The discussion in the Italian Chamber of Depu ties terminated by the adoption, almost unani mously, of M. Boncompagni's motion in favour of Rome being declared the capital of Italy. It appears from the Opinione of Turin that the public debt of Italy was, on the Ist January, re presented by an interest of 77,944,529 f., or a capital of nearly 1,560 millions of francs (about 60 millions sterling). According to the Italian journals, several depu ties, following the example of the Government, have presented a proposition for granting to Gene ral Garibaldi, by way of national recompense, a pension of 150,000 f. a year, reversible to his son. The retirement of Garibaldi to Caprera has not lessened his popularity, and the Milan journals state that deputations of the workmen's societies from all parts of Italy are assembling at Genoa to proceed to the island to pay their respects to the General. BOSN lA. Burner's telegraphic sheets announce that accord ing to accounts received by a great establishment in Paris, the Turkish province of Bosnia is menaced with anarchy of the most alarming character. The Turkish Bey s, the Mussulman landed proprietors, have taken up arms to recover their privileges. They have induced a number of Bashi-Bazouks to join them, but a number of the latter have deter mined to make war on their own account, or rather to plunder the unoffending inhabitants. The most unfortunate part of the affair for the Porte is that the Turkish authorities have not succeeded in enlisting a single man for the de fence of the Empire. On the other hand, the rayahs, finding themselves menaced, are arming themselves in every direction. The women and children who inhabit the villages most exposed to attack are emigrating. At present it is not on the Austrian territory they are seeking shelrer. They now traverse the Herzegovina to pass into Servia. The relatiofls have become so unfriendly at Belgrade between Prince Michael and the Pasha who com mands in the fortress that no Turkish soldier now enters the town, and that the governor of the citadel is adopting precautions as if he apprehended an immediate attack from the Servians. As to the other provinces of the Turkish Empire, such as Albania and Thessaly, their normal state is to be infested with brigands of every description. It is announced that a band of robbers entered Larissa at mid-day on the 18th of the present month, and, after having plundered the Government treasury and all the private establishments. they carried away several of the principal inhabitants to hos tages. STATE OF ?BADE. LEEDS, MARCH 29.—The following is the trade report of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce for the month of March :—" Woollen Trade.—The demand for most descriptions of woollen goods has been com paratively quiet for this season of the year. The anxiety with reference to the turn affairs are likely to take between the Northern and Southern States of the American Republic has tended greatly to retard business in this branch of our local manufac facture. It is gratifying to remark that the state of the home trade has proved better than had been expected, no failures of importance having taken place among purchasers in this market since the month of March commenced. Wool.—Since :last report business has been extremely flat, many of the mills being on short time. At the commence ment of the present series of sales a decline of from to 2d. per lb. took place. Subsequently prices have been pretty steady, with a slight upward ten dency since the Bank of England rate was reduced. A large proportion of colonial wool has been bought for foreign account; The demand for English wools was very dull during the first fortnight of the month, and prices assumed a drooping tendency. During the latter part of the month, however, there has been more doing, and on some descriptions an improvement of from Id. to l i d. per lb. has taken place. For low wools there has scarcely been any inquiry, and prices have consequently been in favour of the buyer. Flax and Yarn.—Some im provement has latterly taken place in the spinning trade of this district. The demand for yarns, especially from abroad, has been more active, but prices are maintained with difficulty. Flax and tow have been in good demand, with prices ruling in favour of the buyer. Leather—The demand during the past month has continued inactive, and business has been on a limited scale, falling short of the usual average for this month. Prices have showed but little variation, and the tendency is generally towards a rednetion. At our half•quarterly leather fair, held on the 6th inst., the quantity of goods laid down was a little aove the average for a minor fair, while the attendance was rather larger than usual. The cloth cap trade has continued in a fair healthy state, some houses working their hands over-time, having considerable arrears of orders on hand. The wholesale boot and shoe trade is in a satisfactory condition. Seed crushing and oil trade.—During the month there has been an extremely slow demand for olive oils, prices being rather in favour of buyers, arising rom the generally depressed state of the manufacturing districts. In rape oil there has been little doing , but a slight improve ment in price has taken place, the cost of produc tion being much above the market value of the article, and stocks are fast diminishing. Inde pendently of this the quantity of seed afloat from India is much smaller, and the breadth of land sown last autumn on the Continent is at least one third less than usual. For linseed there is consid erable inquiry, as the cold weather creates a great consumption of cake. There is therefore little alteration to notice. Iron and machine trades.— The demand for the best manufactured iron still continues good, which is a manifestation of the quality of the iron manufactured in this district. The various branches of the machine and tool trades continue in a satisfactory state of operation. The cut nail trade continues very brisk. Corn.— Our market has been moderately supplied with wheat during the month. The demand, which has not been brisk, has been limited chiefly to fresh dry qualities, which commanded an advance of from ls. to 2s. per quarter as the month wore on. Inferior sorts have been very dull of sale. Fine barley, being scarce, has fully maintained previous rates. Beans and oats have been in fair demand, and firm in price. " Accounts from Messina," says the Patnie, "state that the people continue to call for the demolition of the citadel, the only important work protecting the town on the seaside. The military authorities, who comprehend the importance of the fortress for the defence of the coun try, have required that the demolition shall be deferred until the question has been deliberated on at Turin." A " STRIKING" PERFORMANCE.—Mr. T. Walesby writes :—" On Thursday, the 14th instant, at three a.m., the great Parliamentary clock struck upon the largest chime bell, John' of Westminster—' Big Ben's deputy'— no less than thirty-four times, instead of three. The strik ing was also incorrect at 4 and 5 a.m. There is, however, no foundation for the report to the effect that the voice of the great bell, ' Big Ben' himself, was heard; for, under the circumstances, he could not possibly emit any sound whatever." TEE BARBOUR'S' BILL. (From the Northern Ensign.) The bill introduced by Mr. Milner Gibson, on the subject of harbours, does apply to Scotland. From the extract given elsewhere, it will be seen that the measure is one of great importance, and we have no doubt that many Harbour Boards will not fail to take advantage of it, particularly those of Scrabster, Lossiemouth, Fraserburgh, and such like. With regard to Wick, the bill is just what is needed, provided always that Government first agree to a grant, in terms of the report of the Royal Commission. That secured, the end is gained, and the work will commence. In the present state of pending negotiations we cannot publish anything definite. But we are au thorised to state that every effort is being made to obtain the consent of Government, and we believe we are correct in stating that on the amount which the British Fishery Society will contribute de pends greatly whether the Treasury will consent to carry out the recommendations of the Com missioners. We have taken the liberty of suggesting to the members for the County and Burgh, of whose exertions too much cannot be said in approval, that the Society should go to the Treasury and offer to pay in £35,000. That sum would ren der unnecessary any drain upon the public purse for a couple of years. On its absorption, let the Government give £25,000 annually for six years, making in all an expenditure of £160,000 in eight years. On the laying out of £lOO,OOO on the works, let the new t ar iff come i n t o operation, securing an additional revenue of £5,000 to £7,000 a-year, and perhaps more, and raising the total harbour dues to £B,OOO a-y e ar at least. By this time the Society's funds would be augmented to some £50,000, and on that sum being expended the works would be so far advanced that the borrowing of money to complete them would not be necessary. Or if the Society preferred taking advamtage of the proposed Act, the borrowing of £60,000 would only involve an annual payment of interest little more than i £l,BOO, a n d t h e prin cipal could be paid back n 20 years. To us it appears the matter is one of the greatest s implicity, and whileinterested we have no doubt our mem bers and others in this gr ea t cause will persevere in their efforts, We hav e th e b est authority for stating that the success of the ques tion now greatly depends on th e Di rectors of the British Fishery Society. ery Society. If th ey manifest suit able liberality in their overtures to the Govern. ment, we have no doubt whatever that before many months pass the commencement of operations w ill have taken place, and a successful - termination be witnessed to what one of our representatives, in a recent letter to us, calls this hard fought battle.' I . Ve hope i n a f ew d ays to h ave pretty accurate information in regard to the proba bilities of the negotiations now going on. Captain Sir F. Leopold M'Clintoelc, before leaving England to command the Doris, honoured Mr Edwin Sutton, of 204, Regent-street ; With a sitting for a photographic portrait, who sw,teeded in obtaining a perfect likeness, both in execution and corrcetness, of that gentle. man, whose services in the Arctic regions will ever be re membered with 2 nitude by his country. A copy is to to pre.gented to the Admiral% aad ozo Franklit;‘, his ^, to Lady DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND. Mark by what inscrutable means Providence effects jus tice I And if Ministers do net as promptly remedy this American prohibitory tariff, as the Americans have been prompt in endeavouring to overreach us, they will betray the best interests of our nation. TO ALL THE MANUFACTURERS OF GREAT BRITAIN. My Countrymen,—Sleep no longer, be up and doing, unless you mean to be ruined ! For the new American Morrill Prohibitory Tariff, united to the wanton, cruel, usurious goldmongers' monopoly, will greatly diminish your trades, and the only remedy you have is the rectification of our wicked money laws, which will stop the ravages of usury, and teach our American cousins a lesson on moderation. Why, this tariff will cause such a balance of trade against us as would drain us of all our gold under our ridiculous money laws. Therefore instantly call upon Ministers for a gold, silver, and paper token of internal 'circulation of a 12k per cent. less than intrinsic value, equal to the amount of our yearlY national income, which is about £400,000,000, and which we have a right to use, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer taxes it heavily; make these our sole legal tender payable in taxes, and this will defend our land, trade, and labour 121 per cent. This permanent measure of value (as ordered by the honest Bullion Committee of 1810) of 20s. in the pound, instead of our present single gold currency of only 4s. 6d. in the pound, and which the See-Saw Cycle Swindle fre quently reduces to 3s. 6d. and 2s. fid., will so extend our basis of taxation that it will act like the penny postage, and a one per cent. tax will double our revenue. Thus our land, trade, and labour will have a further re- _ lief of at least 121 per cent. more, making in all 25 per cent., besides the profit the Exchequer will gain o n the 12/- per cent, tokens. No trifle 111 Say 12f per cent. on £266,000,000. Only, only, only £33,250,000, without the one-third of paper tokens of £133,000,000, as our, £400,000,000 of our national income should be one.third of gold, one-third of silver, and one-third of notes, all conver tible into each other. Thus our land, being relieved of 25 per cent. of taxes, will grow one-quarter more corn, and trade and labour be equally relieved. Let our cousins know that we are not so dependent upon them either for corn or cotton as to sub mit to their heavy taxes quietly. But these are the gambling sharks fostered under our foolish money laws, who are not ruled by the balance of trade. A goldmonger can export a million of sovereigns and gain 3d. on each, say £12,500 for a morning's breakfast —so up goes discount one per cent., down go profits and wages one per cent., and up go taxes one per cent., and the goidmonger laughs at it. But what right have these gam blers to gamble with the people's money ? Why the profits of our foreign trade of exports are not above £20,000,000, and our home profits are £100,000,000, so that the foreign share is only a twentieth part; and is the twentieth child of a family to be permitted to ruin the other nineteen eaild renfll 111 111 Let them trade with £20,000,000 sovereigns at market prices, their share ; but they are not to gamble with our £380,000,000 of home circulation, which ought to be on l 9 of gold, silver, and paper tokens, that they cannot export without burning their fingers off. Why the four cent. extra discounts caused by this gambling fraud cost us about £15,000,000, and lost to our home trade. Who but usurious goldmongers would have adopted see-saw cycle swindle to ensure convertibility of bank notes, when a permanent token measure of value would have been effectual, and the yearly income of our nation our true guide ? As, surely, a nation has a right to use its yearly income I The sliding scale in corn did not provide us with enough corn, neither can this ridiculous sliding scale in gold pro vide us with enough money; it is a focus for gamblers and must be abolished, or our nation will be revolutionized. It is an ill wind, indeed, that blows nobody good I but this American ill wind will so crush us, that our infamous money laws must be abolished to enable us to cope with the Americans, and this will confer a general blessing on our nation, I am, Englishmen, yours respectfully, EDMUND TAUNTON. A Hampshire Matt, born in 1785; A Manchester Foreign Merchant of 1807; A Foreign Commercial Judge of I 825; A Member of the Chamber of Commerce ; An Ardent Lover of Old England ; A determined opposer and exposer of all violators of our national measure of value—THE RUIN. 0? OUR NATION. 10, Yew Tree-road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, March 27th, 1861. P.S.—Our sovereigns at market price are to be left for our foreign trade. The new bronze tokens, gave u s a per fect insight into the beneficial effects of tokens for our in ternal circulation as a remedy for panics, and give us full wages, full franchise, cheap bread, a 1 per cent. tax only, a double revenue, real free trade, and reduce our poor rates/ bankruptcies, and crimes full three-quarters. FhfANOTPA7rnV ()Pi TIZE RUSSIAN SERFS. The Journal de St. Petersburg of the 7th of March publishes the following rescript addressed by the Emperor Alexander to his brother, lug Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine Nicolaieviteh : " Imperial Highnen,—l have signed to-day the maul' festo which concedes to the peasants of the nobles the right of free cultivators, and I have sanctioned the general an d local arrangements as well as those concerning the peasan t and domestic serfs freed from the glebe —measures that had been previously examined under your presidentship, in the superior committ ee appo i nte d to examine the question , the peasantry, and then submitted to the deliberations of the Council of the Empire. " On this very day, so memorable for Russia, the impulee of my heart and th e f ee li ng of duty make me desirous of expressing to you my most earnest and profound gratitude for the exactitude, despatch, and perfect conformity with my views and expectation with which this important affair of State has been brought to a conclusion. Since the 15th of July, 1857, the day on which you were called upon to form part of the committee created for the projected reform, you have incessantly taken the most active part in all stli labours, and when, after the completion, in the month of October, 1860, of the labours of the subordinate committees, I convoked the superior committee for the examination of the projects presented by them, I charged, through the particular confidence I reposed in you, your Highness to preside over that committee. " You have fully justified that confidence. After having attentively and deeply studied everything that bore on the important and various questions necessarily raised by the scrutiny of the measures already projected, or,of those that might assist in the perfecting of them, in your ardent zeal for the public good you have consecrated every day yo ur efforts, the whole of your time, to the labours of the supe rior committee. Also, thanks to you particularly, the de' tailed examination in all its Darts of this vast work, the correction and completion of the projects, the solution of all the uncertainties that arose pending this work; lastly, the drawing up of several new regulations have been finishe d within the period defined by me. " I invite your Highness to express ray sincere gratitude to the members of the superior committee charged with the settlement of the question of the p easants f or the proofs they have given of indefatigabl e an d mer i tor i ous ac ti v ity. I shall not forget the manner i n w hi c h your Imper i a l High ness and all the members of the superior committee have acted on this important occasion, and with myself all Russia will preserve the remembrance of it beyond a doubt. The future is known to God alone, and the final success of the great work undertaken depends on His holy will, always merciful. Nevertheless, from this time henceforth, we can say to ourselves, with a tranquil conscience, that we h a ve employed for the completion of this work every m oans in our power, and we can hope humbly that Providence, who protects our well-beloved country, will bless the accomplish ment of our designs, the purity of which is known to it. "In sanctioning the projects relating to the emancipation of the peasants and domestic serfs, also to the settlement of their condition for the future, I have deemed it indispen sable to take measures at the same time for the organisation of the entire rural' class upon general and uniform bases. With this object I create a special committee under la immediate direction, of which I name you a member to according to you the presidency. I have the conviction that, when acquainted with my views and wishes in thi 4 matter, you will actively undertake, with your usual zee ) , that nothing can diminish the labours of this fresh work, so intimately connected with the one already terminated. "I remain, ever your cordially affectionate and grateful, " St. Petersburg, Feb. 10." "ALEXANDER. It is reported that, owing to continued ill•healthP Mr. W. Marshall, the Liberal member for East Cumber land, will shortly resign his seat. LIFE-BOAT SERVICES.—BouImer, Northumber land, March 28th.—Last night the Hanoverian schooner Hortensia struck on Boulmer North Steel during stormy weather, accompanied by a heavy sea and thick with rain. The life-boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution stationed at this place was launched as soon as practicable , the tide being at the time very low. After the vessel had been boarded, tbj master refused to leave her or to allow his crew tr., do so. When the tide made again, the ship droi:e further on the rocks. The sea being veil heavy and signals of distress made for assistance, the likAat was again launched after much difficulty, being three times filled with heavy seas, which, however, she rapidly self-ejected. After reaching the wreck the captain again obstinately refused to leave his vessel, being drunk at the time. He was soon afterwards washed overboard in the round house and drowned. The lifeboat's crew, throughout the stormy night, behaved most gallantly and twice used their utmos& endeavours to save the. captain, who perished solely through his own perverseness -- h ie crew of four men having been brought safely ashore in t ll6 lifeboat. MON The B 27th in changes. by the a falling ( wand fo] an increi other se, diminish there is a quarte balanee-f. charade] Notes The 1 Indies tc Extrei of busine cantile p Since amountel The of tion for t have bee total decl Kingdon in the 1 X 3,370,0 cotton m hardwari woollen The in been larg corn, floe cheeps' a The at amount c for the e: outward In the has been for the e' 'wards all those of There Securith taken pl 911 km 220 ; the per Cent Bills ren Fore 4 are tolert are 741, to 1031 ; 41 per C The d( been ver alight de The Fo previous Joint-1 quiet, wi BR 3 per Con India Sto( Ditto Ditto E Ditto 5 Octagons f( Exchecing FO: Chili= 6 Me'lean Ditto Peruvian Ditto 1 Russian i Ditto 4 Turkish ( Ditto A Ditto Ditto A 'Ditto E Conso Di ALARI The a at the severe i be impo, This betweet 9a " JUIA Madal rate 8, Ar stated sins tl oitizej only suit. Tx says: day, to Za regal lonia Rest Publi Other Seven G over Other Reser Gold Stock Activ