The Sun. — London, England, 1856-03-26 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, DRUltit-LA.NE. Lessee. Mr. R. T. Smith. THIS ET EITING, THE GIPSEY'3 VENGEANCE. Supported by Auguitus Braham, li. Praytnn, and Farquharson ; Miss Lucy Escott, acd Kiss Fanny iluddart. I e e , n ludo with MARGUERITE, a Legend of Love• THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Haler the Management or Mr. BuckstOne. THIS EVENING, THE EVIL GEIN.IITS. Follorekt by ~ EL GAMBUSING ; or, The Mexican Goldseeker. , In which PSRE A. NENA and the Spanish Dancers wilt appear. After which, LEND Mu FIVE siuLtrgas To conclude with JOHN JUNES. HOTAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CIIAILT.II KERN. THIS FVENING, The Historical Play of LOUIS XI. Louis (Mug of France), by Mr. Charles /Lean. After which, THE VICTOR VANQUISHED. To conclude with A PRINCE FOR AN HOUR. TIIICATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor. Kr. B. Webster.—Directress , Warne Celeste. THIS EVENING, DOMESTIC ECONOMY. To be followed by EIRGEN C PRIVATE AFFAIRS. To conclude with .7 A.= ADD THE BE A,N STALK • or, Harlequin and Mother Goose at Home Agata. , . • which Messrs. J. 1314ni, P. Bedford, Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham, and Miss E. Arden will ap3ear. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and' Manager, Mr, Alfre4 Wiff&a. TEIIA EVENLIG STAY AT HOME. After which will be produced a New and denbly-moral, though excessively old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled TIIE DISCREET PRI N - C ; or, the Three Glass Distaffs. la which. Messrs. Emery, F. Robson, IL Cooper, Miss Marston, and Min Haskell will appear. ROYA,T. 8171RET THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Cresirlok. THIS EVENING. Wfil be performed a new Drama, entitled BOW WE LITE. Followed by TUFFLEEUTSEX; or, The Lawyer's Legend. To conclude with THE COBBLER AND TAILOR. ROYAL STRAND THEATRZ. • Urader the direction of Mr; Payne. THIS EVENING, THE LOST DIAMONDS. After which, CO3D QUEE.I To conclude with IT RUSS I f TilE FAMILY. ROYAL RIARYLEBONE TXEATRE. Under the Manigereent of Mr. Edward Stirling. THIS EVEN:MI. LOST, £30,060. Megsri. Stuart. Belford, Stirlinl, Carter, Lam - ton ; Memls. An Berton, Moran. Mars. Brothers Elliott's w3wl riul performanees. GRAND BALLET. Aimeelle Agnes, Mr. an 1 Mrs. II irvey, sm I Corps de Ballot. Musical Fairy Spectacle, FAIRY FERN FLOWER; or, ME GOBLIN MINE. Miss Francis Hughes, Hiss Moral', Hr. Sanders. Mr. J. Belford and 39 Ladles. Boxes and Stalls, 13. ; Pit, Is ; Gallery, 6d. ARTLEr3 ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manner, Mr. Win. esoks. Easter Attractions. Astley's dreat Spring Meeting and *aliens' Steeplechase. THIS EVENING, 'THE ARAR OF THE DF.SERT ANC) iftS FAITHFUL STEED The acttnghorae, trained by Mr William Cooke. A novel series of SCENES in the CIRCLE. New act. the Fost. man's Knock. First appearance of the Misses Daczy on the D mble Tl;ht Rope. New Drame with the ORE Cr SPRING MEETING and EVG NITIONAL S rEEPLEr',F/LiE, on Stage; combined with Ring, Introducing Mr. W. Cooke's new racing stnd and daring Jockeys, in the chase from the starting unto the winning post, with, other entertainments. Box-oiSce open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. 41questrian Director. M N. Cooke, tun. EIifALA STA. - RX'S . 4 SEVF,N AGES OF WONfiN." second Seas m. This Lyric Entertainment has been crowned by the unanimous approbation of ALL TILT.. LOND,INT JOURNA.I.Ft As the gre itest artlstinal triumph of tba'd ay. It constitutes an Opera cc me ant V nulevil:e. Walt a h ;st of ch tract ri in L:orre:t Cos tames y ani.Songs In srt DIFFERENT LA.';GUAGES..! Never attempted by any other artiste. Evening performances on Mon:flys, Tuesdays, Thursdays, an - 1 Fridays, at 8. , • _ _ Morning performances on Wednl3days ant Saturda.ys et haltpast two, precisely. Admission—Chairs, 3s. ; Centre Seat?, 2s. ; Back Seats, SAINT MARTIN'S HALL, Long-acre. • HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TM DAY—Morn. 31 min. aft. 4—Evening 41 min. aft. 4 . TA-MORROW—Morn. 59 min. aft. 4—Evening 17 min. aft. 5 THE WEA.THEa—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 26. THERMOMETER, IN TIIR SHADE. 46—highest since noon yesterday. 40 -lowest this morning and d.unns the night. 43 -this day at noon. BARnMITIR-29 - 95. WIND—E. to E.S.E.—Fresh, and bitterly cold, with dull weather and glimpses of sunshine. e„ • To, ) r §lll , t, 2 1 LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1356. The two most suspicions circumstances we had gathered from the rumours current, in relation to the Peace Conferences, are the exquisite facility of Russia in conceding points she was fully ex pected to have contested With vigour, if not with determination, and the muttered threats of Rus sian vengeance, reported to h&ve been levelled by Count ORLOFP 'against Austria. The 1E thiopian does not readily change the colour of his skin, nor the leopard part with his spots, and, linking to gether the above circumstances, we must be par doned for having deduced from them the convic tion that the two Powers are in collusion, and have b?en, and are practising deliberate foul play against the Allies. Russia, whose policy it has always been to magnify her triumphs, and mini mise her defeats, and, whatever her braggadocio before, to vaunt her resources, and insist on her conditions being accepted, pure and simple, most strenuously, in circumstances of disaster, so yield ing as she is reported to be now ! And threaten ing Austria when, if exhausted as she is repre sented to be, Austria has proved her best friend by securing her peace! How are we to reconcile these things on any other supposition than that we have advanced ? Let us see to what extent, without any undue straining, the most recent rumour or fact —for that to which we are about to refer may be ac cepted as such—May throw light on the matter. The Turkish Plenipotentiary, AALJ PACHA, it is confidently asserted, has received peremp tory instructions from the Council at Con stantinople not: to consent to the insertion of the SULTAN'S late decree in the articles of peace, on the pretence that such insertion would bind the Porte—which, by the way, no one ever doubted nee(lo:binding, so fast and icose has it played with iftpromises of reform—to a certain form of administration in its own independent territories ;an further, to oppose any arrange ment about tho : Principalities which should be in any way prejudicial to the sovereign rights of the SULTAN in these provinces. Has the reader caught a glimptle of the truth 7 The grand aim of the Allies in dealing with Turkey must, we apprehend, be to obtain every reasonable security for the future welfare and stability of that un happy coun try, so that the least possible excu s e for interference on the part of her unscrupulous neighbours should be forthcoming. To this end the carrying out of the late decrse of the SuLus, ) 1 / 4 . and , the establishment of a healthy and vigor o;] i form of government in the Principalities • IX , 3 essentially necessary. The carrying out of the one, more especially, because of the good- I will the emancipation from theft. civil and reli gious disabilities would insure on the part of the, fGreek Christians ; and the establishment of the other; because of the evident check a 'strong and t united people would give to the aggressive designs of Austria and Russia. Now, if such be' the effect , which may reasonably be calculated on from the car rying out of these reforms and the establish ment . of such a rule, it is quite obvious what would be the result if neither were accomplished. Aa it was, if not worse, Turkey would continue to be ; and over the Principalities one or two armies would incessantly hover, like so many vul -1 tures, waiting their opportunity. All, or nearly all, that has been won by, the sword would prove a bit of waste parchment. Russia knows this, Austria knows this, and Turkey ought to know it, as indeed we believe her rascally Paellas do. And all three like Wise know, aid we trust the Allies also, that if the decree of the SULTAN be not inserted in the articles of peace, and the " sovereign " scruples of the Porte (they may be counted, possibly, in sove reigns or their equivalents) be respected, the re forms promised will never be accomplished, the Christian Rayabs in Turkey will continue disaf fected, and the Principalities will be as powerless, as full of intrigue, and provocative of aggression as ever, having lost the brightest prospects not merely ever held out to' that corn-growing country, but probably to any two provinces in modern times. Is the fate of Kars not yet sufficiently burnt into the English mind ? Is it forgotten—why, it must be as present as the air we breathe, that Kars was bought with Russian gold, as it is that our Ambassador, who may have followed instruc tions from a high, though not a Ministerial quar ter, as good as looked on and saw, without making an attempt at interference, the villainous bargain consummated. What bought Kars, has, in all human probability, moved the Council at Con stantinople to issue these, its fresh instructions, to its Plenipotentiary, and the purchaser of the Council, as of Kars, may well afford the appearance of an eager longing for peace that will be gratified even at more than ordinary sacri fice, and is likely enough to have recourse to a simulated anger against Austria, the more suc cessfully to carry on the deception. The interests of Russia and Austria may be • said to be at one with respect to the future of Turkey and the Prin cipalities, and how could either be better served than with Turkey for a cats-paw to obtain from the Allies what they dare not themselves demand ; but having which, any sacrifice either may have pretended to make, will turn out as perfect a mat ter of indifference to them as of utter inutility to the carrying out the aim of the Allies. In Hea ven's name let us not be sold after this fashion. We have lost much gallant, and not a little noble blood—have or have had saddled on ourselves much taxation, and need some palpable fruit to set against the deep and abiding feeling of degra dation which the shameful mismanagement of the War, and our consequent loss of prestige, has occasioned us. Let the Council of Constanti nople- be taught a stern lesson, and have clearly and unmistakeably demonstrated to it, that, come what may of its promised gold, its resistance to the policy of the. Allies must. at once determine before the fixed and irrevocable resolution of France and England , ;' that Tulkey shall no longer play fast and loose with , her promises—but shall be made to keep her own 'word iu real interests and the interests of Europe. If this be not done, the future historian will have to exhaust all epithets of scorn and disgust at the iniserah!e folly of the rulers of the two greate3t nations in the world, who went to war for the protection of a weak State, and when they had brought the enemy to terms, suffored a knot, of villainous intriguers in that State to chouso them 'out of the attainment of their aim. The Rev. H. F. YEATMAN, Chairman of the late Dorset Intermediate Sessions, at which JOSEPH BYLES, a poor labourer, convicted on a charge of feloniously receiving a sack and some wheat, the property of his employer, was twice sentenced under very remarkable circumstances, has addressed a letter to the local newspapers, in which he endeavours to vindicate himself and his brother Magistrates from the strictures of The Sun,, and other members of the metropolitan press, on the procedure,„ of the B3nch on that occasion. Unfortunately for hirns3lf and them, though only as might have been expected, the attempted vindication turns out an utter failure ; no fact of importance being controvertel, and everything new advanced only tending to show how lenient and how thoroughly applicable those strictures were. In order that the reader may be enabled to form au opinion on the case, it will be necessary to restate the principal facts. JOSEPH BYLES, then, a labourer, was, with his wife and daughter, charged before the Bench at the above Sessions with having stolen or feloniously received the sack and wheat in question, and, together with his wife, convicted on the latter count (the daughter being acquitted), and sentenced, himself to nine months' imprison ment (with hard labour), and his wife to six months. And here we may state, a perusal of the evidence left little doubt at the time in our minds of thamife's guilt, while the presumption was exceedingly strong in favour of JOSEPH'S innocence. The prisoners were tried and sen tenced on the first day of the Sessions. On the second, the Rev. Chairman drew the atten tion of the jury, in a tautological address, gar nished with every circumstance of amazement,. to " a most startling assertion" made to the Bench that day by the prosecutor—an asser tion that had " greatly surprised them," and to the effect that in his belief the pri soner, JOSEPH BYLES, was innocent 1 "Un der this startling discovery" (we quote from the report) " the Court was desirous of reconsider ing the sentence passed upon JOSEPH BYLES, but they were unwilling to do so without , asking the opinion of the jury on the-more or less guilt or in nocence (!) of the prisoner. They did not wish t o put them in the unpleasant po sition of reconsidering their verdict. There was no doubt that, in point of law, he was respon sible for what wad found in his house (the stolen articles, by the *ay, were found concealed in the court desired was whether p a ntry), but what the the jury, upon reconsideration, thought (in the !) that' the gu ilt o f as they or i g i na lly absence of any evidence J OSEP H BYLES was not as great thought it to be--whether they thought it right he should have a less degree of punishment (!) They would consider whether they could recom mend him (the said JoSEPFI BYLES) to the mer ciful consideration of the court." The well meaning jury, it would appear, thought they could, for they did so, taking care, however, to state it was on the recommendation of Mr. SAUNDERS, the (unreasonable) prosecutor. JOSEPH BYLES was then sent for, and on appear ing at the bar had his sentence commuted from nine to three months' imprisonment with hard labour ! Such are the facts ou which we commented a fortnight ago, as follows :—" The reader is inere dulous. It is nevertheless the fact. The unfor tunate man was aware of the wheat and sack being in his house or he was not. If he was aware, he was guilty ; if not, he was innocent. If he was guilty no extenuating circumstances were forthcoming ; if innocent (and the party most interested next to himself in the fact, viz., the prosecutor, pronounced him to be so), he was entitled to nothing short of an acquittal. Yet, after an anomalous reference to the jury, he was, on their unwarranted recommendation to mercy, sentenced to three instead of nine months' hard labour 1" Subsequently, in the same article in which another instance of " justice's justice" was noticed, we called attention to the fact that the chairman in BYLEs'S case was a clergyman, and challenged the reader's recollection whether " the most glaringly foolish and unmerciful decisions emanating from the unpaid magistracy that had come within the range of his knowledge were not attributable to members of the cloth." What has the seriously outraged and - Rev. H. F. YZATNIN to say in self-defence, and on behalf of his brother magistrates? A. good deal, a column and a half,' no less, of the most tumid balder dash, conceived in the utmost arrogance, by the most muddled brain almost imaginable, and no thing further to the purpose than as demonstrating the grotesque incompetency of the Bench, the "startling" mercifulness and modesty of his own disposition, and the - shameful injustice done to the prisoner. After a column of prosy twaddle, chiefly technical, partly given to grief , and " amazement," and altogether meant possibly to be expository of the case, the rev. successor to the Apostles again expresses surprise at the prose cutor's conduct, this time describing his statement as " so completely out of date," and accounts for his recommending the prisoner to merely by in forming unit was on his (the Chairman's) recom mendation, as being the only thing he could do. Admits that the recommendation of the jury " was founded on no fact," and affirms for the edification of those " who are always ready to speak evil of dignities, and to cast stones on those who sit in the judgment seat"—that the Court " had no power in law to alter or modify the ver dict of the jury, which had been recorded on the previous day (no one, by the way, having said it had), Audaciously pronounces the prisoner guilty, and asserts that if the Court erred at all it did so "by administering the law with too much mercy (FlEavzx help us I) to a man who had feloniously robbed his master" (that master, be it remembered, a hard, though justly disposed man, who allowed him and his family much too little bread to eat, and a very unlikely person to be imposed upon, or moved by foolish pity, having pronounced him innocent of any such offence !) Concluding with a postcript, in which he "lets the cat out of the bag," declaring that, had the Bench considered the verdict contrary to the evidence, they might, and should (Would ?) have submitted the case and the notes of evi dence to the consideration of Her MA JEsnes Secretary of State for the Home Department ;" but, not dissenting from the said verdict, they could not do so conscien tiousby ! ! Conscientiously Why that, was what they "might and , should," have done- in -- any,lase, whether they believed him positively innocent or guilty, or " more.or lees innocent or guilty";" in stead of stultifying bdth themselves, "the prose cutor, and the jury by the unheard of, and wholly unjustifiable and ridiculous course they adopted. The presumption and bard-hearted ness of the man more than surprises —it a,lmost petrifies us. He a minister of religion, a . disciple of Him whose life was a life of mercy, whOie :doctrine was mercy, all whose acts were merciful, who offered no outlet to the vengeance of the, accusers of the woman taken in adultery, but bade such as were without sin among them first throw a stone at her, and when, conscience. stricken, they had all slunk away, gently accosted her, and said, " Hath no man con demned thee ? neither do ' I condemn thee ; go thy way, and sin no. more" actually deems himself justified in intercepting the mercy of the Crown towards BYLuS, because of his be lief in the poor man's guilt, notwithstanding his accuser had pronounced him innocent ; as the jury, if they could have reconsidered their ver dict, would, there eau be no doubt, have done also, leaving him—wretched creature that he W.a% and is—to drag out his three months' term of hard labour and imprisonment ? Nay, more than this, positively brands the man's character afre,h, and "conceives that if the Bench (acting under his direction) erred at all, it was by admi nistering the law with too much mercy to a man who had feloniensly robbed his master." Did no recollection of his own Master and His precepts mantle his cheeks with a blush of shame as he penned the words? Had the memorable " judge not lest ye be judged," 'or "judge righteous judgment," escaped his recAlection, topther with that legacy of the poor to the kind liest regard and consideration of His servants? But we refrain. We write more in sorrow than in anger, and, knowing nothing more of the gen tleman than the case reveals, certainly from no latent personal hostility, but from a sense of duty to him as well as the public and the prisoner ; and therefore, in conclusion, we sincerely wish him repentance, a "good conscience,' and better "law," and invite the attention of the Home- Office to the entire affair, trusting that the know ledge so considerately kept back from it will lead to the immediate liberation of the prisoner, and the vindication of stultified justice by the appoint ment of a stipendiary, or, at all events, a better qualified Chairman of Sessions. Absurdities and abuses like this, we fear, are fast uprooting in the minds of the poor all respect for law, as well as its unpaid administrators. This evil cannot, we conceive, be too promptly checked. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH c6, 1a56. THE PRICE OF PEACE. England dishonoured ; Italy betrayed ; Rewards of treachery to Austria paid ; The rising hopes of Poland's freedom crushed ; The cries of trodden nations rudely hushed ; Sinope's crime and lnkerman condoned ; The massacre of Hango unatoned ; The soil by valour won and heroes' graves Left to the insults of barbarian slaves ; All this, that , despots may prolong their hour 0 - public plunder and unlawful power, And, with their armies from the war set free, May bind more fast their peoples' slavery. March, 1856. J. M. His Excellency the Ambassador of France And the Countess Persigny will arrive in town this evening from Warwick, where they have been staying for a few days past. Viscount Palmerston left town with Viscountess Pal. merston, yesterday, for his seat, Broadlands, Hants. Tire Chancellor of the Exchequer left London, yes terday, for his seat, Harpton Caurt, Kington, Hereford. The Right' Hon. H. Labouchere and Lady Mary Labouchere arrived in town on Monday evening. Sir. John and Lady Lister Kaye and family have ar rived at their residence in Portland-place, from their seat, Denbigh Grange, Yorkshire. We are authorised to contradict a paragraph stating that "Mr. Ormsby Gore, M.P., is suffering from cor.• gestion of the brain." Mr. Gore was very ill for a few hours, but is now rapidly regaining strength. Sir Robert Peal paned through Turin on the 21st. sociErY OF BRITISH ARTISTS. -~--.: THE SUFFOLK-STREET EXHIBITION. On Saturday afternoon, according to annual cus tom, we duly wended our way along Suffolk street, Pall Mall East, to the private view of the paintings, displayed somewhere about spring- time, year after year, by the Society of British Artists—the first privileged glimpse of one of our most popular London Exhibitions. The collection fer 1856 now hanging upon the walls of the Gallery, is that of the thirty-third season, it appears—the association. having been originally founded and incorporated by Royal Charter in the year of grace 1823. As many as 843 pictures in oil and water colours adorn the sides of the five apartments en suite, only three specimens of sculpture decorating the floor of the outer room, the room just within the vestibule. Among the rather numerous contribu tors the most industrious, at least so far as we can estimate the amount of his industry by the variety of his productions, appears to be Mr. J. J, Wilson of Folkestone. The most conspicuous among the exhibitors being as usual the very men whose names have long been the chief boast of the society, not forgetting among these, altogether apart from his official position, the painter whom the British artists have long ago selected, and since then retained, as their. President. To a certain extent, consequently, the general character of each year's exhibition preserves, season after season, a strong and unmistakeable sort of a family resemblance. Entering the Gallery, in Suffolk street, any fine Saturday morning in March, you may be certain that, while making the circuit of the four inner rooms, your eyes will be greeted by some sly-looking Italian boy, with an olive com plexion, instantly recognizable as a Hurlstone ! By a chalky-coloured landscape, or a milky-hued sea view, such as Pyne's brush alone could by any possibility delineate ! By a Clint, blushing all over with the gorgeous dyes of sunset By. the prettiest, daintiest, sweetest, freshest, rustic girl, or stripling, with (be sure of that) a little child introduced somewhere or other; to stand upon tip toe and drink out of a'pitcher, visible at the first glance as another. chatthing moreeau from the easel of Hill ! Yonder, again; a Woolmer, painted in splotches and blots of gamboge, white, and car mine, out of which grows upon your view some partially nude and very voluptuous figure, stand ing, or sitting, or kneeling, or lying in most unaccountable nakedness in the midst of the most amply flowing and voluminous of draperies While every now and then, as *we saunter on, past picture after picture from very various hands indeed, we come most refreshingly upon some delicious little peep of river scenery, some side view down a rural English lane, some casual glimpse through the cool and shady perspective of a pleasant greenwood shaw—instantly and gladly welcomed as a new boon of natural beauty from the familiar and honoured brush of Boddiugton ! Such, wei take it, is the agreeable average of the annual exhibition in Suffolk-street, Pall-mall East, opened to the public view by the Society of British Artists in the sweet spring season. The exhibition there for this present year of grace 1856, is e all things considered, about the average ; and as such, therefore, we regard it as eminently well entitled to our commendations. Eight seems to be the favourite number attained by the Chief Exhibitors. Mr. Hurlstone, the President, has eight "---Mr. Alfred Clint, the Hon. Secretary, has " eight " and Mr. Woolmer has " e i g ht "—scatt ere d here • and there in the ample catalogue. Mr. J. J. Hill contributes, on the contrary, only three pictures altogether, but all three of these pictures we found (and lot us add, with no surprise whatever) pleasantly marked with the little green ticket "Some," even before the vulgar roXXot were ad mitted to the chance ofcom petition. Mr. Pyne, on the other hand, exhibits thiA year as many as "seven," and Mr. Boddington as many as " nine" (some of these, in each instance, very remarkable) produc tions. Exquisite, for example, to our thinking, is (No. 11) " Streatley M 11, ou the Thames—a Sum mer's Neon," from the hand of the last men tioned—lovely, too, is (Nth .136) "An. English Lane" of hise-and yet. mere lovely (No. 420) "'A SUiruner's Morning, • North Wales," this. latest - to our mind a very jewel -of a Boddington. There are especially noticeable moreover,' in their way-.- (No. 39) "Summer Evening, Bantry," and -(N - o' 335) "Storm, Fishing Beatsruu wing into Harbour," both by Alfred , Clint, and "Worthy' of him—the rolling storm and the ruddy evening ! Mr. Pyne has brought home once more from Italy " things of beauty," which milt continue " joys for ever," so long at least 'as the 'threads of the canvass upon which he has painted hang together. Now that Tur-, nor is gone, there is scarcely a Man who can approach . him, ai a delineator of Nature. Witness this (No. 38) " Bathing Buffaloes in the Pontine •Marshes " (iu itself a most luscious studyof colour !)—and (No. 65) " Castello d'Ostia, Cempagna di R.nna and (No, 83) "Venice from the Lido" (a Venice like the Fairy D kydream descubed as sueh in that magical vision of the floating city, seen and tohL of, once upsu a time, by Biz !)—and, besides these, gleams of wonderful power and 'beauty from• the last awful eruption of Meant Vesuvius, that of May, 1855, such for example as that presented by (No.. 626) " Cescata Idioms le" a rolling cataract of red hot lava that (thas depicted) .would have givers joy to the heart, and eyes, and brain of Tur ner. " The Hay Field" (No. 25) a 1201. picture by Mr. Hill, is this year, beyond all doubt, Mr. Hill's happiest effort—wonderfully preferable at once to (No. 281) his " Shepherdess,' and to (No. 580) his " Galway Rustice.' This sweet and must delicious Hay Field of his, being a scene altogether of happy rustic love, and health, and' incrustry. Mr. Wooliner's worst picture, for a long time past, we. conceive to be the monstrosity .entitled (No. 109) " Christ in the Wilderness," with a gigantic Seville Orange shining through the contorted boughs of the bare wool in the background ! As a matter of course, he gives us (No. 239) a " Doro thea, vide 'Den Quixote.' " His two most sen suous, or rather we should perhaps say of them his two most sensual pieces, this year, are (No. '273) . " Lady Godi va," and (No. 435) " Return from the Ball, Sunrise"—both pourtraying the female form in the very act of stripping into stark nakedness ! Mr. Hurlstone's most characteristic work for the pre sent season is, perhaps, of all, (No. 199) " Tenants of the Forum Romanum in the Nineteenth Cen tury," three dark-eyed, brown-skinned, white toothed laughing Italian children, eating fruit and maccaroni. The President, it should be observed, however, appears to have been latterly more titan ordinarily industrious as 'a portrait painter, chiefly in the family of " Sir William E len, Baronet," as Mr. Bucket would call him, see Nos. 187, 306, and 131, one only of these, viz., (No. 306) " Blanche," being to ourselves, as dis passionate spectators, in any way satisfactory—the ,prettiest little baby-trot imaginable, with its eyes laughing, and its hands full of grapes ! One of the most interesting portraits in the Gallery , is (No. 88.) Mr. Swinton's portrait of "Sir John M'Neil," a truly noble classic profile. (No. 14) Mr. Bell's portrait of "Professor Farraday" having an attraction of its own in the mere name of the illus trious philosopher—possibly, however, in all re spects, the best portrait in the entire collection Wine . (No. 150), Mr. Westcott's life-like portrait of a lady, mentioned in the catalogue as "Mrs. Jas. H. Hulme, Cliffe House, Ballow, Derbyshire." Besides other large pictures in the gallery, otherwise distinguishable as in soiiier Viay meritorious, there are several big, execrable paintings, such as (No. 201) " The Golden Age," by Mr. Underhill, with its brawny clown dancing in a leopard skin--sor as (No. 174) "False Security," by Mr. Bullock, with a most extravagant Terror sprawling out upon us with her arms outspread ! Mr. Pidding's (No. 233). " The Meriy Thought" is the silliest, vapidest thin g .conceiv able. Very different from Mr. Fitzgerald's (No. 243)." Youth," with mirth in her eyes, and freak, and fun, and frolic in every outline of her gay, gliding figure—a merry country lees, • sliding to us upon tho ice with a laugh all but audible. Horrible is (No. 372) Miss Emily Saiith's " Sailor Boy's Early Dream I" Capitalis (No. 459) the little "Country Boy," sketched fromnature by Mr. Hems ley—with visible weight in his pitcher, and muscle under his shirt sleeves, and a totter in his little boots! Mawkish is (No. 467.) Mr. Egley's " Honey moon"—the very type of your ballad frontisp'ece in coloured lithography Aud such for the most part are -the chief themes for praise or dispraise noticed by us during the course of our first visit thisseason to the annual Suffolk-street Exhibition. COVENT•GARDEN TEEEATRE.—Her Majesty the Queen has, we understand, offered to head a subscription list for the rebuilding of Covent-garden Theatre, with a con tribution of 1,000/. The , Sardinian Government has moved a body of troops to the frontiers of Parma. Fears are entertained of further disorders in that quarter. A. SUBURBAN NEWSPAPER.— An Ingenious little subur ban contemporary, entitled The Chelsea and Kensington Weekly Observer, has recently made its appearance. Assuming, by reason of the very modesty of its donii nion—(after the fashion of the Elector of one of your small German principalities)--a grandiose title as long as one's arm, " Tout pour deux sous, M'sieur!" it under takes to circulate in Chelsea, Battersea, Wandsworth, Putney, Fulham Hammersmith, Pimlica, Brompton, Kensington, and Knightsbridge ! It affects in every way the manner and appearance of a French journal, beginning with its poli ical articles and ending with its advertisements—not forgetting even the feuilleton ruled off at the bottom of the page, and which sets out with a tale of the reign of Charles the Tenth, rather uncom fortably entitled " The Lost Finger a contribution, by the way, au henticated with the name of the indus trious reckcteic.- of our little west-end contemporary. T 1 .14 DIBTURBED CONGREGATION. BY GEORGE (RUIKSHANK. Han-century's outpouring of fun and . frolic , —so far 'from blunting it—seems only to have whetted (so to speak) the edge of our great humor ist's exquisite sense of the droll and the ridiculous. Ecce Sigauns this latest of his glorious and delight ful provocatives of laughter—" The Disturbed Cengregation." The original painting we remem ber three or four seasons back adorning the walls (if we are not very much mistaken) of the British Institution. It was a new evidence at the time of the wonderfully ready adaptation of George Cruikshank's skill to what, in his instance, had been until a very brief while previously, a hitherto unentered field for its manifestation. His pencil had given abundant employment to the tools of the wood-engraver ever since the memor able evening when as a stripling he had chanced to c 'itch sight—(glancing at it, as he passed by, outside) over the top of some waggish publican's window blind—of Shakspere's bust above the mantelpiece with the clay pipe stuck inits mouth. The serene, godlike face with its anomalous and most unmis takable duclheen—startling the young artist, as with a sun-stroke of merriment, into—facile prin ceps—the first of English caricaturists. Very soon after ,that George was at it—if not tooth and nail, certainly' crayon and etching needle I . Tumbling down all sorts. of abuses and absurdities with his matchless.revelation in them of what was utterly and-irredeemably ludicrous. Sweeping al most out of recollection by contrast with-his keen and subtle satire, the coarseness and vulgarity, nay, even be it said now, the brutalities and obscenities of those great guns of caricature among our fore fathers of the last century, still 'recollected here and there in association with their gaudily coloured eXtravagancies—Gilray and Rowland- son. Droll fellows, no doubt, in their way, and in their day, - but not, by any means, either of them, a George . Cruikshank. . Whichever of them you like, say for example Gilray, was Eclipse Who distanced the field—but George at once, while yet a mere youth, distanced Eclipse ! And he has'. kept his plaCe; at an easy canter, ever since in the great race of ridicule, that grand struggle which has variously for its goal—political reform and social improvement. Hew much he has done since then, not only in the way of making us happier by the innocent laughter he has provoked, but actually, we do believe, by helping to make us all very much better by the noble truths, the gene rous sentiments, the elevating and purifying ntora 7 lit* ? hise.ncil has, time and again, so wondrously enforced. Has he not ? Recollect that his was the hand that, gave poignancy to the political satires of Hone—?pis the- brush that coloured into life the humorous sarcasms of Egan. Remember in "proof of this, and put a grave face on the matter if you can while remembering, the high-shouldered elegance of Derry-Down Triangle, and the bewigged ,pomp of the ever famous Dandy of Fifty, to say nothing at all about the astonishing escapades of those three emie nently ridiculous persons, the fast men of the " old-fogified times," in the Consulship of Plancus —Corinthian , Tom, Bob Logic, and Jerry Haw thorn ! The memory of all which and of all whom seems to come back upon us from a far away per speetive, as of the fun and frolic of some long past generation. And yet, at this very day, George Cruikshank is but now in the fullness of his ma turity, s) early bad he begun to wield the pencil, which he haS ever since plied with such a maser baud, and with such inexhaustible faceti eusness l• Honour to the 'kindly humorist who has all the while been ,labouring at once so deftly and so earnestlywith so wholesome a regard (al ways) for the taste of the people, and so genial an eye to their harmle , s amusement. As an illustrator of our home-literature generally has he not lent a charm of his own to the original letterpress of many of our most.delightful and most cherished master pieces ? Scatteeirig with a prolific fancy - the most apt and felicitous of embellishments among, the classic pages of such writers of fiction as II•• nry Fielding and Tobias Smollett, and illuminating with his -pictorial mirth such comic rhymes as, for example, William Cowper's Ballad of John Gilpin! re,nnellishments in this way net. unworthy of being -classed .the same category with Hogarth's series of etchings illustrative of, Iludibras ! And as an original humoriSt of the rarest drollery imaginable—has he not given us. such tid-bits of - fan as 'My Lord Baterncin ? "loving ballad" adorned with the trousers :and nose of Sephia, and the bouquet and the legs (those superb legs !) of .- the Proud Young Porterl As, an historical draughtsman, has be not . pencilled with' a. very luMinous peucil,-by victory after victory—the marvellous careen of that marvellous man, whose life has been well called the Fairy Tale of Modern Europe, Napoleon Bonaparte ? As a noble, earnest, gifted, generous,. heroic, moralist-satirist, has he not done good sere. vice in the cause of virtue, and in the interests of religion, and in the name *and on behalf of humanity, by his very powerful, tragical, and pathetic series of pictures called The Bottle;' followed by its' scarcely less powerful,'' tragical, and pathetic sequel, The Drunlzard's. Children ? And now, after . htving, during all, -these busy -years, thus marvellously, and industriously,:and variously, drawn on wood, and etched-On Cope 'per, and handled, Oven Once 'upon a time, if we Mistake not, the needle of the glyphographer, after having employed So often in each individual instauce so adroitly almost every implement coming within the grasp of au artist's hand, George Cruikshank has latterly taken very kindly to the brusli'and the palette, and appeared in ;the galleries of London, season after season, as an oil painter.. Appearing, we may add, as such in every: instance to very general adtatiration Already, - if we recollect rightly, be has produced,: among those later oil paintings, two Of remark= able ability illustrative' of the elrriteh 'stapes", of Burns's -" Tain o'Shauter." Here—before us —is an engraving of rather considerable dimen sions taken from another, riot suggested by any poet's pliantasies.e but "all out of the artist's, own head," to wit, this droll, delightful picture of his, " The Disturbed Congregation !" Passing through the streets during the last few days, we have been amused more than* once by. watching the faces of the casual foot-passengers pausing for an instant opposite the windows of some print-shop, in which George Ceuikshauk's " last" has happened to be displayed somewhat conspicuously. Looking at their faces, it has been something like looking at Hogarth's "Laughing Audience !" And no wonder ! Such a Beadle as there is in the very centre of this picture—from the hand that drew of old the purpling features and the portly form of Bumble ! It is the very head Beadle of Bead.ledom —glowering over the upper. rirusof his spectacles at that preposterous urchin who has just, by some strangely unaccountable ill luck, clattered his peg-top down upon the pavement of the aisle—everybody else looking up or turuiug round at the commotion. The immorous absurdity of the whole scene is a thing to be seen and not merely described. And seen—we warrant it, it will only be,visible through eyes half closed with laughter. And so, with a kindly wave of the hand at parting, say we An revoir ! to George Cruikshank. The director of the Bank of Athens is about to found a branch establishtuwat at Constantinople. We regret to announce the death of Sir Hyde Parker, who died on the 21st inst., at Government-house, De vonport, shortly after his arrival from Lisbon in H.M.S. St. George. Sir Hyde, who was born in 1785, was brother of the late Sir Wm. Parker, whom he succeeded in 1830, and grandson of the Admiral Sir Hyde Parker who defeated the Dutch at Doggerbank, in 1781, and who being shortly afterwards appointed to command naval forces in the East Indies, sailed in the Cato, and was never heard of after leaving Rio Janeiro, where he put in for water. The baronetcy, we believe, is inhe rited by Colonel Richard Parker, who commands the Ist L►te. Guards, cousin to the late baronet, and eldest sur viving son of the late Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, who distinguished himself during the American war. THE - EAST- INDIA COMPiNY'S SERVICE.—'labs follow ing officers of the East India Company's army have been allowed to retire from the service :—Major J. W. Ben nett, Bengal let Fusiliers; Brevet-MajorJohn Grimes, Madras Bth Native Infantry ; Surgeon Samuel Cox, M.D., Madras Medical 'Establishment ; Brevet-Major Edward Skipper, Bombay 7th Native Infantry ; Lieut. F. E. Hunter, Bombay 4th Native Infantry ; Lieut. H. R. Ellin, Indian Navy, Bombay Establishment ; Mr. Joseph Wells, branch pilot, Indian nary. The fol lowing appointments as assistant chaplains have been made :—The Rev. Henry Daniel James, ILA. of Mag dalen Hall, Oxford, to Bengal Ecclesiastical Establish ment ; the Rev. Alexander Dunbar Nicholson, M.A., of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, to Bengal Ecclesias tical Establishment. Mr. Gerard Henry Dodd has been admitted a volunteer for the Indian Navy. Mr. Samuel Augustus Glidden has been appointed a captain's clerk for tnelndian Navy.—Sntilh. and Elder's Overland Mail JOURNAL OF ADVENTURES WITH THE BRITISH ARMY FROM THE COMMENCEMENT . OF THE WAR TO THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL, by George Cavendish Taylor, late 95th Regiment, 2 Vols.—At the present moment this work will be read with unusual interest. "Mr. Taylor's Journal of Adventures with the British Army," says the Examiner, " has the merit of being a journal by one who participated ia nearly the whole series of events. I, is valuable for its genuineness, and for the extent of ex perience embraced in it ; ' "There was scarcely an oc currence of importance, says the United Service Gazette, " that Mr. Taylor was not an eye-witness of—Balaklava, Inkerman, Kertch, the operations in th e S ea o f A zo ff , Anapa, the unsuccessful and also the second and glorious storming of the Malakhoff and Redan, and the taking possession of Sebastopol—each event is detailed iu that concise but clear professional style which we have not met with before." LATEST NEWS. MARSEILLES, MARcs 25. Intelligence has been received here from Con stantinople to the 17th inst. A rumour was current that the Porte would refuse to embody iu a general Treaty of Peace the reforms enacted by the late decree of the Sultan. The Ottoman Government, moreover, was anxious that the deliberations on some important questions should talk place at Constantinople. General La Marmora had left Constantinople on the 14th for the Crimea. KIEL, MARCH 24. The English frigate Amphion and the corvette Sampson have just quitted this roadstead to join the English squadron in the Baltic. The Cesar and Majestic, ships of the line, have just arrived here to reinforce , the English squadron. BERLIN, MARCH 24. An imperial ukase removes from their functions of governors of provinces Generals Kokoschkine and Prince Ouroussof, and calls them to the Senate. The posts which they held have been suppressed. Letters' from Poland state that, by order of the Russian Government, the levy of recruits in Poland, which was to have taken place on the 17th inst., is postponed. THE PEACE CONGRESS. (,From Second Edition of the Times of this day. ) The following is the letter of our Paris corre spondent,. dated yesterday, 6 p.m. : Yesterday'the Congress held its twelfth meeting, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The particular business that was gone through lam unable to say, What was:not done, however, may be guessed from the fact that no conclusion has been arrived at yet, meaning, of course, by "conclusion" the signingof the Treaty of Peace. I fear we are not yet arrived at that poknt, though it is hoped we may do so in the course, or rather at the close of, the week. The difficulty still in the wly is the one alluded to in my' letter of Sunday ; it turns on the terms upon which` Prnssia will be admitted to sign the treaty. I do not think there is any other difficulty of a serious kind, as the more important points have been already settled. I have no particular reason for saying so, but I am inclined to think' that the chief opposition to admitting Prussia on a footing of ;equality with the allies comes from England. It is evident that Russia would be much 'pleased to hive Prussia in the Congress on the same footing as the other Powers, as she hopes that if it were brought about by her influence she would recover her prestige in Germany, and attach Prussia to her mere firmly than ever. Be sides, she considers she owes a debt of gratitude to Prussia for fidelity to her throughout. I am aware that here the point is not considered as one of im 'portance—certainly not important enough to re tard the great work of peace, or compel us to re tain our immense force in the Crimea. The diffi culty may be viewed in another light elsewhere, but whatever be the importance it really deserves, it suffices to retard the solution all so earnestly desire. The term of the armistice is rapidly ap proaching, and somethinc , must be known in the Course of tho present week. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. There has been, a sitting of the Congress to-day. A protestohnilar to that from Moldavia, is on its way to the Congress of Paris from Wallachia. The Wallachian protest confines-itself more to a desire for the maintenance of the state quo. : Representations have been allressedto the Con gress from persons of great influence, urginc , the necessity of European interference to rowed . ) , the administrative evils afflicting large portions of . _ _ It is rumoured that a very powerful expedition to Madagascar is meditated by the Emperor, to punish a massacre lately committed there on Fiench colonists. The Moniteur continues to publish the text of addresses of congratulation to the Emperor received from different towns of France, and from the offi cers and crews of the naval division of the. Baltic. The- Moniteur contains a decree extending the amnesty, already granted, to persons who have infringed the laws relative to sporting, to indirect, taxes, and customs, and to persons guilty of con traventions of the laws relating to the mint stamps on gold and silver. We read in the Moniteur "The Times, in its number of the 22J, and on the faith of its Paris correspondent, represents our army in the Crimea as being in want of everything, provisions and clothing, and as abandoned by the Government of the Emperor, which no longer feels any solicitude for those brave troops. The Times goes so far as to say that our soldiers were compelled for their subsistence to go and pick up the damaged biscuit and the refuse pro visions which the English soldiers threw away. With regard to the last assertion, we will say that if a scarcity had been felt in our camp, our allies would eagerly have shared their resources with as we have ourselves done with them, and that. t` e generoUS offer which they lately made at Con stantinople; to place all our medical stores at our disposal sufficiently answers for what they would' have done in the Crimea, if .tve had been in want of pro visions. The TiMeq will, we doubt not, regret that it had not la-en better infor ice 3, when it learns that the French army is supplied in such a maener as to receive newly-baked bread every day ; that it has in store suffi cient flour 'for the consumption of three months ; and that the greatest part of our troops have fresh vegetables served out t ► them, which are sent in large quaetitics from Constantinople. As to clothing, it may be affir.ned that never at any Period have the wants of the army been so abundantly supplied. Each soldier in the Crimea has received, in addition to his regulation cloth ing, a complete winter suit, composed of a thick worsted cap, a great coat wi'.h a hood, a pair of thick warm gaiters, a flannel or worsted waist belt, a pair of worsted stockings, a pair of sabots, and-a pair of warm gloves. It is tree that our army, notwithstanding the care of which it has been constantly the object, has been fir some time past suffering from sickness, which appears to have spared our more fortunate allies: If. however, it be collat.; derecl that our troops at e encempedaxound Sebastopol, oe the very theatre of the struggle, that is to say,on the ground which, having served as tho burying-place for se many victims, is far frem offering the c inditions of salubrity which the English army finds at Balaklava, it will be comprehended that the present inferiority of our sanitary condition may be the consequence of these inevitable cir cumstances, and that it cannot be attributed to a want of solicitude. We may add that this state of things has already been much ameliorated, and that doubtless it will in a short time ba completely removed. This happy result may be hoped for from the return of fine weather, and from the measures taken to oppose the disease, par- ticularly from the removal of a considerable number of the sick to Constantinople, and the establishment at the latter place of new, spacious, and well-aired ambu lances.' The Debats is of opinion that the treaty of peace will be signed before the 31st of this month. • BOURSE, March 25.—The following were the last quotations : . Cash. fr. c End of Month. li per Cents. 94 —f. —c. 3 per Cents 72 45 72 70 New Loan 73 10 Bank Shares 3 , 500 Roman Creditlglobilier 1,575 Austrian Belgian Fives ..... ... 97.} Spanish Threes 44? rielmontese (5). ..... 91 25 Home Debt ...... RAILWAYS-108 CASH. fr. C. fr. e. Orleans 1,310 Western 897 50 Northern ............ 99i 75 Strasburg Lyons ...... 1,275 New Ditto B3l 25 Reciiterranean. .. .... .1,560 Grand Central Lyons Geneva ...... 792 50 Tests Cette ............... TURKEY. A letter from Constantinople of the 16th men tions that the Ottoman Ministry had been occupied for some days with a question of much importance —the difficulties said to have arisen in the Paris Congress on the Danubian Principalities. It was hoped, however, that, owing to the spirit of equity and moderation which animates the Plenipoten tiaries, a solution would be obtained advantageous to all concerned. The French Ambassador at Con stantinople had received precise instructions on that head from his Government, -aud several Cabinet Councils were held in consequence. No decision had been come to. It was rumoured at Pera that the Plenipotentiaries required the insertion of the Hatti.llumayoun in_ the treaty of peace. Such a measure would be received with great fa vour by the Porte. It would show the de termination of the Western Powers that the reforms comprised in the Hatti-Hurnayoun shall be seriously carried out. It would, the letter says, also. prove that the protectorate of the Allies would be no vain word, and that the Sultan would regard it as a guarantee of security fe! the future. The French Intendance at 'Congo ) ; tinoplo had received orders from Paris to suspeou all purchases ; and they had already made prePa" rations to quit the buildings of the Russian Chan' cAlerie. They were to remove to Funclukli, the buildings now occupied by the Central Itar_:, macie of the Fren c h arm y. Th e H a tti riumart relative to the reforms recently accorded to the subjects of the empire had been- communicate officially to all the chief towns of the empire, sou had been read by the authorities to the Consuls summoned for that purpose. ROME. As soon. as the intelligence of the birth of 1111 Imperial, Prince of France was received at no, i ll° by:telegraph, the French commandant celebraw", the event-with 101 guns from the Castle of St*" Angelo. In the evening all the French establist.: ments at Rome were illuminated, and the Frell ambassador issued a'notice inviting all the Fre l ; , at Rome to a solemn Te Oman to be sung in ~c. French church on Easter Sunday. The usual ceremonies of Palm:Sunday were cele' • brated on the 16th with great pornp in the Irati° s at Rome. Prince Albert of Prussia, the.Hereditau Prince of Saxe Meiningen, and the Eteredital Prince of Holstein-Augustenbu r g, were rein4P in the tribunes. . , SPAIN. • The Madrid journals of the 20th contain no ner of political interest. The Queen, a s usual on 1 1 9 1 i Thursday, had taken part in the ceremony ° washing the feet of 24 poor people at the fd . tla ce y:. and had visited different churches with the Prince!. of the Asturias. The Epoca asserts positively th a t , there was no truth in a report that was that the Marquis de Turgot was about to be replao asFrench Ambassador by the Marquis de Lavalette! • A Paris letter, in the Independance of Brusse ls ° says :—" A good deal is said of a memorandum 0' the affairs of Italy, which is said to have be en drawn up by Count Cavour himself. Ido not be" te‘ lieve (although many diplomatic p e r s ons think ditr e ' - rently) that this rnemorandtita has been submit, to the Congress, and yet fro m inf orma tion whieu. have reason to believe exact the plenipotentiar es l e will not separate without having touched ontl e des' tern question. Piedmont, an ally of the tern Powers, cannot be sent away like a fri end who has become useless and embarrassing." . A letter from Berne, in the Moniteur, ser . .",' - - " The Grand Council of Berne has made some portant elections in the course of the prat e month. M. Bloesch has been named President'', the Executive Council, and M. Kurz President 0 ' the Grand Council. M. Sahli has entered theE o ' cutive Council. These three executive persOnn long to the party of the fusion." DIVING FoR OLD WRECKS IN TRINIDA.T). (Front the Port of Spain Gazette, Jan. 19 ) The majority of the readers of the Gazette are pro C 1 4 , 1.. aware of tee existence of several sunke n w recks fa- 11 b euaraume Bay, which are the remai ns o f the Ses e r!', feet commanded by Apodaca at the time that the fish expedition, under Harvey and Abercrombie, sails; from Martinique for the subjugation o f thi s island. I f ", Spanish ships were 5 in number, 4 li ne - o f-bat le At. and 1 frigate, all being perfect sp ec i mens o f n aval srtk Lecture, and which, for better pr o t ec ti on had been pi a ' s ; under c )ver of the guns and mor t ars Of the .fort ufr o Gasparillo. When the En g li s h fl ee t anc h or ed ewi tu r i e range, Apodaca, perceivi ng th e impossibility of e s t i ., without engaging, set hie ships on fire to prevent te - 0 falling into the enemy's Laude, the money having b e / e " landed on the opposite coast. -O ne o f th e li n e-of-be% ships, by being to windward of the rest-, Wai'ieentuellY ea , r e t • tured by the English, but 4 burnt to the water4eoesege ' and sunk with the guns. At low wat e r the wrecks'lP:7 in shore can be touched by an oar, and the guns d it i; guished during calm weather. Att em pt s b ase frequel l ee been made with varying success to fish up some enr % i e of the copper, and recently a carpent er suc ceeded eo as to possess himself of one of the copper pintles, eve i g n , ing, it is said, 3501 b. The arrival of an Anle c r: o6 l ; schooner a few day& ago; furnished with every app bra science and art can bestow, Las, however, bes...e; the means of bringing the subject of the wrecks o h 7 o prominently before the public, and particularly s° w ' r‘ it wasi ascertained that the permission of his excelle n t ! ! he l l his apparatus. • On Tuesday we accompanied the American coniat' e l l ; board, and late in the evening th e sc h ooner wa s 1017° ,; 7 5 . over one of- the sunken vessels, and Withi n a short tance of another. Early next morning-one of the dive descended for the purpose o f exp l or i ng , an d repor ted existence of quantities of copp er s h ea thi ng an d so me O D , which he supposed to be iron. Shortly aftereesr d : ce few sheets of copper were sen t up; together w i t h a of timber in an excellent state of preservation, and evb l i e on being sawn through wa s f oun d t o reta i n it s FAO!, colour and odour. Its smelling so much of turpeal induced us to pronounce 'it pi:ch pine; but his eg c lency the goveruor states that it is Sp an i s h oak ; * ,r; chips, when dried, burned like tor c h es . A n iron . I "'' r v • which was next procur e d, was fouled to be completely: d e e cayede although surrounded by chaired w o od. Alf tß;re e articles presented a beautiful app earance f rom the d'li rent colours of the coral e ncrus ti ng th em . A ru dder pin was also found, with nearly all the copper bolts aPPl e „ e ,, taming to it, which the captain pronounced amply' muntrative for the trouble and expense incurred lot, day. The value of the entire set belonging to each All ) e e •' , calculates to be 1,000 dol. The proceeds of the first 481 search, amounting to about 300 dot., affords a gone ;e ll ee "" rantee for the success' o f th e s p ecu l ation u p o n a •,, vigorous prosecution of thi s rea lly i nte r est i ng subnesr,. l ; • exploration, especially as one o f th e di vers re p o rted tu the copper magazine , e f t h e wrec k un d er t h e schoen was entire. The. value of the copper in th e U n ited Sta t e r is 40e. per lb., consequently _the quantity of copr r e sheathing will alone realise a pretty geed stnn. 13.11f .0 tunately, from the presence of a brisk a ind, the day 7„e. decidedly unfavourable, as the surface of the water, bei - a broken into waves, prevented the perfect transrnissi?" sunshine to the bottom. The wrecks are very sl e e tee being washed by the alternate Becas' currente, Wu he also off.,r another obstacl e t o th e f aci l ity w ith w hich researches could be carried on by means of the. diinve habits. GAIAIBUS PIWORESS. tg The first in-talment of the promised irnprovetne e ,„ due to the public by the L a i do n G enera l O mn ibus Cu t i; patsy will be paidiminediately. The company are A b e to put on lines of omnibuses on elsorttelietanceP, from the Flower Pot, Bishop , gate-Street, or 601310 0 ;;;: convenient place for correspondence w ith Charing-"red thus connecting the whole of the east with the west 6 !, of London. roe fares upo n th ese li nes w ill be racial:el and the vehicles of a much larger description than 0)1; in present use. The addition of these lines to their pr sent traffic enables the company to i n tr o d uce a n acle ilr i able novelty in the system of "conducting ," with c 'e ir displacing e'd servants, the care of w h ose i nter ests•th e f; ha acceptel in pUrchasing th e j • roperty o f t h e old P r '" prie'ors. T:ie London General Omnibus Cornpani,; tend to confir the appoi n t ments o f con d uctors tn . „ — ri e omnibuses (worth on a n average 28 s. wee kl y ) on T e l • mean her , •es, men not disabled in limb, but wOu r in the rvice of the country, and either pensioned 00° 0 , discharged from their regiments with good charnc, t _ er .,, To this intention the directors of the company ha lately had several interviews with the " Army arid P e ''' Pensioners' Employment Society," from whose list thehl. are making a sel ec ti on , as welts with some of the hi%, est military authorities, who h a v e ev i nce d m uch gre l cation at the pr. ject e d arrangemen t . S er j ean t The l-,1 k 6 i • of the Scots Fusilier Guards, wto served throughout t Crimean cam pa•gn, and who s e l ec t ures t o the Ini li . t „ e have been favourably noticed .i n the news p a pers, hf l 'iw o compelled by ill-health, consequent 'en his servincef ; t; retire from the regiment, has receiv e d the first .apt i ' .- , A ment as inspector to the L(n lon General Omnibus pang, at a salary of 1001. per annum. . The new style of omnibuses for the new route; le ir magnificent appearance and capacity. •They are P e , being built by Mr. Menzies, of Edinburgh. The c on ; pany have also given orders to .everal of- the first riage-builders of London to build three or four Ole l. buses for • them, with the improvements Severally t u g Bested; in order that each may to practically te ste The traffic of tht. company is improving. Tie rettn il a the total " earnings" for the prisent week is sent io "; 6,639/. l 3s. 5d., an average of 17/2355. ld. per on; bus on 374 omnibuses at work, or at the rate of 11 per mile. The total number of omnibuses now in possessionbl the company is over 400, being exactly one-half Of t po , „ whole passenger-carrying trade of the Great Metrne,:e Since the last return, seven o niiibtpiee, with "On, and stock, have been purchased from lir. Martin r,1 3 . two from Clapton to the Bank, two Chelsea and Pe" „a na'-green, two Chelsea and Hoxton, one Shoreditch Bow. The possession of these hie not unimporfse; as it places the company in sole possession'of the li° o from Chelsea to Bethnal-green, from Chelsea to 110 0 . ) i g h i f and also of the Clapton and Hackney line entirel i . l h e • the exception of one solitary omnibus. To keep Ili r e , sturdiness of the English character, four of the Shq. r t o ditch and Bow omnibuses refuse (by their proprietors ) n it be bought off, and remain to assert the independen ce ; the coaching craft. The London Gener a l O m nibus C e '" . pany in the meanwhile decline to enter upon oppositil ' and leave the dissentients to indulge themselves at th e own charges. The closing of the Prussian Chambers is definiti• - fixed for the 4th April. to' SURREY BACHELOR'S BALL.—This b a ll takes placearia morrow (Thursday), under disting u i s h e d pa t ro nage, ", 0 we trust dill be well supported. Th e o bj ec t is to P additional funds for the erection aof lib rary , rea ding, Ar lo , , class-rcoms on vacant ground n ow b e l ong i ng to the /I scitution ; the accJinplishrnent of thi s w ill be. big conducive to its valued interests. M r . T o ole., .irt rooting this ball, is supported by the institution ° ,4 ` 1 4 . inittee of which be is a member, al so by many log" - 0. tial and official gentlemen. Ev e ry care w ill be to `A to maintain the respectability and comfort .Whinh.l3A hitherto characterised these assemblies. o COM The Li 'with evidt rates prim 'were estin for export elude 620 a nd 700 ti karket 4 A liea l (4 i and nactior "harm! Per sliar "taabre blt da 143 'ha t . t v4 14 414 u„ n n t r ! t 4 st ; 0( ip. tche; , Ulu ° tha ez IP t tkilor ert twat' Ditto Di tto tt h i o Ditto Ilitt o 4 1 , 1)1t t4). btits t o, Ditto to Ditto