The Sun. — London, England, 1863-05-07 00:00:00

THE EXHIBITION of ALUMINIUM and I copy of our own journal under that same date, we ALUMINIUM BRONZE. find in the two little newspapers—then stripling 29000 SPECIMENS, illustrating-the appli. cation (Ornamental and useful) of thes e i n - journals of no more than six or twelve years teresting Metals, ARE NOW ON VIEW 1 each, since aged by nearly 65 years additional — we find now in one, now in the other of them such con temporary scraps of intelligence as the following :—" Mr. CURRAN, the Irish Barrister," is mentioned in The Times as having "arrived in town," and as "residing at Lord Moms's." A Treasury messenger, one Mr. COUR VOISIER, is spoken of in The Sun, in another para graph, as having a few evenings previously been "stopped, about two miles on this side of Maiden head, by two highwaymen, who robbed him of about three pounds in money." No such great 6' haul" for the two highwaymen I Tae messenger from the Treasury carrying with him apparently no very large amount of the contents of its coffers. "Mr. PITT," The Times informs us, "is net confined with the gout at Weimer ; we saw him yesterday in the park in perfect good health." Still having an eye to the Day's News, " BCONAPARTZ'S Dispatches" says The Sun, "are in possession of Admiral NELSON." One announcement in The Times reads rather start lirgly us nowadays, viz., one to the effect that " The Keepers of Several Read ing Rooms in Fleet Street have been fined £5 for lending newspapers for hire." The Sun of that date, it may be remarked, indulges in various odd little devices among its typography —every thing of that kind being disdained apparently then, by its contemporary. Between The and Sun appears the rayed effigy of the same, having traced within it Sol Clarior Astro. A wreathed Harp divides IRE from LAND —a wreathed anchor NAVAL from NEIN - 63. The organ itself had been from its foundation, was then, and continued still for some time afterwards—the organ of that " Heaven-born Minister " who was seen by the writer in the morning jour nal walking in the park the previous afternoon in such perfect good health. An official advertisement in The Times, signed by the Secre tary of the Post Office, no other than Sir FRANCIS FREELING, offers £240 reward :for the capture of the Highwayman who, on the 3d of the Ju'y pre vious, had stopped The Post Boy, and robbed the Mail, between Bromley and Sevenoaks. An adver tisement in .7 he Sun, the first advertisement in that number of our journal for the 3d October, 1798, an flounces that the next evening, "at half after six," for the " first time this season," "His Majesty'sservants will act a Tragedy called HAMLET." And glancing down the list of the dramatis persona., we observe that Mr. KEMBLE is to be the Hamlet, Mr. Dow- TON the Polonius, Mrs. JORDAN the Ophelia, and Mr. CHARLES KEMBLE the Laertes. Time runs on, two generations pass away, No. 4,298 of The Times has expanded to No. 24,552—N0. 1,881 of The Sun having multiplied simultane ously to 22,107. The journals meanwhile expand in size—The Times, repeatedly nowadays (as in effect it did but this very morning), becoming magnified, by means of its double supplement and a half sheet extra, to absolutely leviathan pro portions. Existing during so many years, wit nessing and recording the whi.le so many strange vicissitudes,' our own journal cannot but direct attention for a moment in passing, and this too, as it were, with a sense cf contemporary exultation to the manner in which that first little sprouting a the acorn has grown and strengthened, and ex. panded into the giant oak of the limes news MAPPJN BROTIIERS' NEW ROOMS, `22, REGENT STREET. Admission by Card. TrIE.ATRE-RO7 AL, HAY MARKET . Lessee Mr. J. B. Buekstone. THIS EVENING, BORROWING A HUSBAND. Pa. mela, Miss Maria Harris. After which, at half-past 7, STILL WATERS RUN DEEP. Mr. and Mrs. A,freci Wigan, Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Chippen dale, and Miss Louisa Angel. Followed by an apropos Dramatic Sketch, introducing a Panorama of the To❑r of the Prince of W ales in the East. To conclude with MY HUSE AND'S GHOST. Commerce at 7. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER. TUTS EVENING, at 7, to commence with an Original Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, H. Widdicomb, M:ss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic Prama, in Three Acts, and Pr3logne, entitled THE DUKE'S STOTT°, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G. Jordan, J. Brougham, H. ‘t iddi ombe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Da Neon ; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, and Elsworthy. Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, Sole ~ ranee and Manager, Mr. G. Vining. Tins EVENING, PERFECTION: Mr. B. Roxby, Mr. Belmore, Mr. Fitzjames, Miss Murray, and Miss Oliver. After which, at Eight, HAMLET : Hamlet, Mr. Charles Kean; Gertrude, Mrs. Charles Kean. NEW THI ATRE-R0 STAT., ADELPHL—. Sol© Proprietor and Manazer : Mr : B. Webster. - THIS EVENING, JANET PRIDE. Messr s . B . W e b ster, J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, Stephenson, Stuart, Eburne, Sefton, C. J. Smith. Romer ; Miss Arona. Jones, Miss A. Seaman, and Mrs. Stoker. To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY, Mr. J. L. Toole, Miss Kate Kelly, Miss A. Seaman. and Miss Stoker. Commence at 7. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather--Sun Office, May 7, 1863. THERMOMETER. Highest sines Noon yesterday. 64 Lowest during the night This day at Noon 59 Wind—Northerly ; light, with fine weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tats DAY.—Morning, 3h. 42 m. —Afternoon, 4h. sm. To-moaßow,Morning, 4h. 26 m. —Afternoon, 4h. 50m. -4- 44, , I Sll It ,y 444 LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1863. A copy of a daily London newspaper, the name of which is simply world-renowned, the influence of which is such that the journal referred to has long since come to be recognised as among the insti tutions of the land—a copy of this the most dis tinguished and powerful of all the Organs of Public Opinion, has this day come before us in " so questionable a shape," that we can hardly call it, as it nevertheless calls itself, The 7imee. The date of it is Wednesday, October 3, 1798. The number of the journal is No. 4,298. The price affixed to it, in the opposite corner (the right hand corner) of the first page, is " Sixpence." We turn back to our own file, and, running through the pages of the s, eond volume for that same year -a period removed from the present by exactly sixty-four years, seven months, and four days —we have now lying open before us The Sun of Wednes day, October 3, 1798, the number of it, 1,881, the price of it also" Sixpence." Each of these journals (of from sixty-four to sixty-five years ago) is not only a single sheet, or four diminutive pages, but each is very small indeed in its superficial dimensions ! Both being exactly of the same size (2 feet 2 inches by 1 foot 71 inches), both four columns to a page, that is sixteen columns alto gether in each. The limes being published then, as it is published still, in Printing-house- i square, Blackfrisre. Th e S un b e i ng published then, as it is published still, at 112, Strand, in the precinct of the Savoy. Our great morning contem porary of this present Wednesday, May 7, 1863, is numbered as No. 24,352. We ourselves this even ing number for Wednesday, May 7, 1863, No. 22,167. Reverting, however, from the present moment to a period removed from us by an interval of nearly sixty-five wonderful and momentous yearp, we will cursorily glance though the contents of the two—we can hardly call them broad-sheets, they are so small—we might rather speak of them as doable flyleaves of very moderate proportions. The limes of October 3, 1798 , and The Sun of October 3, 1798. In each appears, as the great news of the day, an account of paper. The necessity of finding employment for our Lancashire operatives has long been only second in the minds of the wise and thoughtful to the urgent need of supplying them with the means of sub sistence for their families. It was felt that long months of enforced idleness were hard to bear by intelligent and active men accustomed to the excite ment and bustle of a busy commercial life. Content and industry are, moreover, closely allied, and there are other evils attending this compulsory inaction besides the additional discomfort it inflicts upon the unemployed " hands." It is not probable, scarcely possible, that so large a standing army of idlers should be able to maintain during a lengthened period unbroken order and unshaken resignation. There will always be demagogues, whose object it is to inflame and irritate the people against the governing powers, and their efforts, which produce but partial and limited effects in the busy seasons of activity and prosperity, may act like firebrands among a large host of idle men and women, if they are once persuaded that their misfortunes are in any way the fault of their superiors. The conduct of the Lancashire operatives has been on the whole most admirable. Their dignified patience, and the fortitude with which they have borne their undeserved sufferings, have called forth the ap proval and respect of the civilised world, Even in the late distressing riots at Staleybridge it was found that the disturbances originated with a band of giddy and excitable young people —not with the regular working men and women of the district, who complained bitterly of the discredit thus brought upon them. But however admirable the conduct of the people may be, it is the duty of those whose province it is to rule them to provide for their needs and necessities, no less moral than physical. Meny benevolent schemes have been suggested and par tially developed by private exertion and kindliness. Some hundreds have been shipped off to our colo nies to transport into young and thinly peopled States the energies that could find no room in the overcrowded arena of the old country. Others have been removed to different parts of the country, and set to new kinds of labour. But the school, tha field, and the colony have not as yet disposed of a twentieth part of the great body of unemployed hands. The question is what is to be done for the remainder ? They cannot be left longer in that idleness which i s i ntolerable to an honest English man, and it will be yet some time before our mills are all fairly at work again. A system o f compre hensive emigration uncer Government auspices has been thought of by some, which should transplant into other lands the vigorous offshoots of English industry. But ie such a wholesale deportation !vis e or necessary Are these honest and hard-working sons and daughters of toil the ones that England can best spare Are they not part of that steady substratum which neutralises the efforts alike of anarchs and despots, which enables her to smile at the thunders of Chartist eloquence, which offers the beat safeguard to the liberties of her Constitution. Young, daring, adventurous spirits may do well to carry to another land those energies and powers which the routine of an old civilisation might c l irsahmlp i b ; e r t t h y e y a n are ofittetielid pence.to be the pioneers of Eng- They are qualified to wrestle with nature and man on the wild outs ki rts of o)olotc3iyviilliistttictiieoLvonr of t oitsa developfortunes,ing a En r,lis li young worth and English enterpris e h ave by such means been wafted, like tho wind borne seed, int o every latitude of th e habitable globe, and thei r counts ; applauds them for their courage. It is the fitting work for youth, and energy, and hope, untram melled by home ties, unworn by home labour. But it is not the work for fathers and mothers of families, who once had no thought nor wish but to end their days in the oid land as their (parents did before them, ADMIRAL NELSON'S VICTORY. reprinted in both from a London Gazette extra ordinary are the official documents relating to that victory. Among them the Rear- Admiral's letter to the then Secretary to the Admiralty EVAN NEPEAN Esq., enclosing the despatch recounting in many of its details the incidents of that glorious victory won on the Ist of August, over the French fleet, at the mouth of the Nile near Aboukir ! A despatch dated from on board the VAnguard two days after the battle ; signed HORATIO NELSON; beginning " Nly Lord, Almighty GOD has blessed his MAJESTY'S arms and addressed to the then First Lord of the Ad- miralty, the Earl of ST. VINCENT. Following these documents come the catalogues of the English and French Fleets numbered, the former up to 14 the latter up to 17, according to their position in the line-of-battle. Afterwards there are the lists of the killed and wounded. There is in neither hardly anything that can be called, even by courtesy, a leading article, in spite even of the temptation to the writing of such in the receipt just then of the grand record of the glorious victory of the Nile. Running comments, there are, among the official documents, connecting them together, but nothing else in any way approximating to a faint resemblance to what is known now as a Leader. The illuminations are described as having been very general throughout the metropolis, though they were of course hastily arranged, not by order, but quite spontaneously an d upon the spur of the moment. It should be remarked at once, that whereas The 'Limes of Wednesday morning, the 3d of October, announces the news of the Victo r m akes mention of the ov ern i g h t ' s illuminations, Stm of the previous evening, Tuesday, the 2d o f October, had already given to the town the first tidings of the great event ! Beginning its account of ADMIRAL NELSON'S VICTORY with—" We lose n ot a moment in giving to the public such details of this glorious event es have come to our knowledge." The record ending thus—" It is almost unnecessary to observe that this intelligence has thrown the whole metropolis into a transport of joy." These being the opening and closing remarks of the earliest announcement of the Battle of the Nile as given to the public in Pe Sun of Tuesday, the 2d of October. Turning again, however, to the copy of The Tones of the following morning as it now lies open before us (cleverly reproduced in facsimile by COLLINS and Co., on the 30th of last October, at t heir:printing-house in Fetter-lane--and examining there this i ngen i ous f acs i m il e of our contemporary f t hat date, as i t appears at this moment o f i •:=vriting at our elbow, aide by side with a veritable 1 THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1863. 1 whose energies are exhausted by years of toil, whys° hopes are damp e d by th a t bi tter exper i ence that time brings to all of us. It is not probable, scarcely possible, thet of the thousands hitherto fully employed in the cotton districts, even hun dreds would choose emigration voluntarily. It is the pressure of want, the force of circumstances, that would drive them to it, and the enforced severance of all home ties would dishearten and depress them at the very outset of their un dertaking. We would by no means discourage emigration, which is often a blessing to both the old country and the new, but to be successful it should be voluntary. Let those who are fitted for the life, for whom the change has charms, be assisted in every way possible, but do not let those who shrink from it be driven to adopt it as a last resource from pauperism. ['here is the less need for such an enforced emigra tion, as there appears to be no reasonable doubt that the cotton trade will before long revive its wonted strength. The many sources now opened— India, Queensland, Jamaica,Western Africa, Egypt, and Italy —must ere long bring us in supplies which will render us commercially indifferent whether the doors of the Temple of Janus ere open or shut in the troubled Western hemisphere. Our merchants have had to pay a heavy price for their own per versity and shortsightedness in depending wholly upon one foreign source. Unfortunately in this as in so many other cases, the chief trouble has fal len on those undeserving of it, but the experience so dearly bought must surely be productive of some good, and a similar catastrophe is not likely to recur in our time. If, then, the prospects of the cotton trade are so far satisfactory, why should those who look to it for bread leave us just as the clouds are breaking ? Why should those best fitted for the work depart for a new and untried sphere of action, leaving less experienced and able hands to fill the place of those " who have borne the burden and heat of the day," Under these circumstances we see with great satisfaction that, in accordance with the recent observations of Mr. VILLIERS, a gentleman has been despatched by the Government to the cotton districts, for the purpose of reporting:on the possibi iity of employing the able-bodied operatives at fair 1 , wages. He inspected the different bodies of men now engaged in oat-door work, and examined the industrial schools. On the day he arrived, there happened fortunately to be a meeting of the Gene ral Purposes Committee, to which he explained the object of his inquiry. He informed the committee that the Government were prepared to advance money to municipal bodies, local boards, and simi lar associations, for the purpose of carrying out sanitary improvements or works of public benefit, which should be the means of giving employment to the idle hands, and thus carry them safely over the time, until supplies of cotton arriving from a thou sand new plantations shall set our mills merrily at work again. We should hope this very rational and feasible scheme may be carried safely into exe cution. Last night the House went into Committee on the " Security from Violence Bill," and a short de bate ensued. Mr. PEACOCKE moved an amendment to insert the words " that some previous conviction must be proved." This after some discussion was lost by an immense majority of 154, deciding that the clause should remain as it was. This on the whole is a desirable conclusion, since it would be weakening the case as it now stands to alter or commute the sentences inflicted by it. Mr. PEACOCKE gave as a reason for his proposal that he Ns ished legislation to " proceed from principle, and not to be prompted by panic." This is all very well, but there is no panic in providing proper and suitable measures for the suppression of such crimes as those here refered to. Mr. ADDERLEY said there had been no undue haste, since it was six months ago that the garotting outrages look place, and therefore he did not agree with the proposal of the hon. member. .Af:er a few other remarks, Mr. BENTINCK spoke very forcibly and sensibly on the subject, and said that hon. gentlemen opposite seemed to deal with these questions as if they were discussing the rights of their fellow•subjects, but " ho thought that crimi nals of the most hardened class should be considered as separate from the rest of their species, he pro tested against all maudlin sentiment, and thought that the evil should be firmly and promptly dealt with." This is the right way of taking up this question, and Mr. BENTINCK's remarks are most applicable at the present time when so much folly is perpetrated in the management of criminals. Really honest people are left to starve, and the virtuous in trouble may pine away in unnoticed obscurity, while the hardened felon and the con victed criminal are to be pampered in every way ; their crimes passed over, and their penalties an nulled. There is no greater anomaly in the present state of society than this premium for crime, that seems held out by really sensible and well meaning persons. The present lu in the exciteme n t th a t p reva il e d co ncern i ng garotters is not to be depended on, for as soo n as the dark nights return we shall hear of more depre dations unless now some stringent measures are adopted and passed into law. There is no greater preventive than disgrace for this class of offences, and the knowledge that ignominy will be attached to the act of violence will do more to deter its repetition than any other system that can be devied. It is, therefore, satisfactory that the decision of last night should have ratified Mr. ADDERLEY'S bill, and that gentleman is en titled to the thanks of the community whom he has done so much to serve in the plans he has prepared for the consideration of the House. " Prevention is better than cure" is a well-known adage, and it is well to let it be known among the lawless outcasts of the metropolis that severe measures will be in force against them before they again molest our streets and make the condition of the greatest city in the world a byeword and a reproach among sur rounding nations. False kindness, or as Mr. BENTIN CX properly denounced it, " maudlin sentiment," is a cruelty to the evil-doers themselves, and an injustice to the rest of the community. What with the absurd leniency of the convict system; juries recom mending criminals to mercy, when convicted of bar barous and savage assaults; with the apparent im ps o e s e s r i e b t i a l r i y e s of o f p rsotvaitnegbceai being cases p s of r omp poisoning; toprocure and with par don for the f e l ons, if by any mischance they have been sente nce d to the extreme penalty of the law, it is so difficult nowadays to see things called by their right names, that it is a refreshing change to find our legislators adopt for once a decisive course. The penalties cannot be to severe, nor the preventives too stringent that operate against such malefactors, and the result of Mr. ADDERLEY'S motion on tho subject will be tc militate against the dangerous practice that gains ground of making such exploits a subject for boast- ng, while if it is once an established fact that shame is attached to the offender, in such in stances, it will prove a more potent auxi liary than any other that could be employed in the cause of order. It is to be hoped that this decisive Step is the forerunner of many others in the same direction, a nd that the absurd plans that have hitherto so signally failed will be put aside at once and for ever, (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) city of Posen. BERLIN, MAY 7, It is said that this note has produced a good im pression upon the Ambassadors of the Greai Powers. LEMBERG, MAY 3, A namber of boys, averaging between 10 and 12 years of age, left this city to-day with the object of joining the insurgents in Poland. They were formed into two detachments, one numbering 30, and the other 50 strong. It is to be hoped that the authorities will succeed in preventing these boys from carrying out their intention, which they have up to the present moment managed to keep secret. This incident testifies to the patriotic spirit which prevails in the breasts even of Polish children. Mr. W. H. Russell, the well-known correspon dent of the Times, arrived here a few days ago. Baron Seebach is also here, and it is said that he has been in communication with some of the most prominent members of the Polish aristocracy. The Baron has but just returned from Warsaw, and it is asserted, on reliable authority, that he is about to proceed to Odessa. Intelligence recently received here confirms the news that the insurrection is rapidly extending, and that new bodies of insurgents are being formed in every part of the Polish territory. The most important news, however, is that the peasants in many districts are now joining the insurgents in great numbers, in some cases armed with scythes, and in others with implements of husbandry. They form distinct bodies, and alter having fought a battle they disperse and return to their agricultural pursuits. The Russians appear to have abandoned their favourite system of traversing the country in flying columns. They now march in considerable force against the insurgents, evidently with the view of annihilating the small insurrectionary bodies. This change of tactics 0 , 1 the part of the Russians has, how ever, caused the Poles not to allow their detachments to operate at too great a distance from each other. Thus, for instance, the division under the chief command of Czachowski is subdivided into four detachments, three of which are led respectively by Kononowize, Grelincki, and Lopacki ; the fourth being under the immediate command of the chief. In the district of Ssndomir other bodies are in course of formation, which will also co-operate with the abovenamed detachments under Czachow ski. On the 20th ult. Czichowsli i defeated the Russians at Bzin, arid again at Nicklanie on the 22d ult. Kononowize, a few days since, gained another victory over the Russian forces within a short distance of Wachock. It is said that another insurgent leader, by name Liittich, has defeated the Russians at Papow, not far from Dzialosz,yn, in the district of Sandomir. The tactics observed by the forces under Cha chowski are also followed by the insurgent divi. sinus in the vicinity of Kdisch and Konin, all the small detachments operating within a short dis tance of each other. The headquarters of the last named forces are at Priesern (Py zdry), where the insurgents are employed day and night in the manufacture of arms of every description. The insurgent chiefs Mokiakowski and Obsinski are now also acting together. Tezioranski, with about 600 men, mostly volun eers from Gaiicia, is operating in the Governmen of Lublin not far from the forces under Lelewei A third detachment is now in course of formation in that Government, The news that the p - et Mieczyslew Romanowsk had fallen in battle on the 24th ult., is now con. firmed. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's screw steamer City of B..ltimore, Cap tain M'Gingan, which sailed from New York on the 25th ult., arrived in the Mersey at 1 o'clock this afternoon. The Canadian mail steamer Hibernian, Captain Ballantine, from Portland Maine, on the 25th ult., also reached the port at the same time. Full telegraph summaries of news have already been published. The Hibernian not having left Portland till six p.m. on the 25th ult., we receive by her the follow ing telegrams in advance of publication : , 4 Washington, April 25 " The following despatch from Major• General Burnside has been received at head-quarters Cincinnati, April 25, by Major-General Halleck, General in Chief. it Louisville, April 22. " The expedition to Celina was entirely successful. Colonel Graham reports through General Hobson that they destroyed the town, 100,0001 b. of bacon, 10,000 bushels of wheat, 10,000 bushels of corn, 100 barrels of whiskey, 100 barrels of flour, a considerable quantity of sugar, coffee, tea, malt, and other stores, and 40 boats which had been used in transportation from Bucksville and other points on the Cumberland River. The rebels report a loss of 00, killed, but Colonel Graham, the commander of the expedition, is of opinion that the number is greater. We had one wounded and one missing. The result is highly creditable to the troops engaged. Indeed it was a perfect success. (Signed) "' Brigadier General WRIGHT. " A. E. BURIN-SIDE, Major General.'" "Head -quarters, Army of the Potomac, April 25. "Two or three days ago a party of our troops paid a visit to Port Royal, on the Rappahannock, and captured from 15 to 20 prisoners, a mail, and several horses. They also destroyed a quantity of forage and some army waggons. The severe rain storm ceased last night, and there is now a prospect of better weather, which will dry the roads. The rebel pickets informed ours that they have a new gene ral on their side, who treats the soldiers with great severity. On inquiring his name, they replied, General Starvation, begad !' " The Baltimore American, of the afternoon of the 24th, has the following : TO MAJOR. GENERAL lIALLECK. "Head -quarters, Bth Army Cc rps, Baltimore, 24th. "By telegraph from Major -Gen. Milroy I learn that the expedition under General Elliott is a succes. , . He captured aboat 20 prisoners and some 30 horses. Nine rebels were killed. We lost t wo i n killed. (Signed) "ILE, ScuENcx, Major- Gen. Commanding." PHILADELPHIA, 25TH.—The Bulletin has the following special despatch : " Cincinnati, April 5. Advices (rota below state that there has bona a Mil- LATEST INTELLIGENCE, POLAND. CRACOW, MAY 7. More than 60 persons have been arrested in the Numerous arrests,including many noblemen, have also been made in the province of Posen. The insurgent chief, Ozinski, after a successful encounter on the sth inst. with the Russian troops, occupied Dombrowa. The peasants of the district of Pcdlachia, in the Government of Lublin, are paying to the revolu tionary agents the ground rent for the support of the insurrection, which their landlords have refused to pay. Private letters received here from reliable sources in St. Petersburg, state that Prince Gortschakoff, after having despatched the replies to the notes of the Great Powers on the Polish Question, read a confidential note to the ambassadors of those powers in St. Petersburg. This note explained the pro gramme of reforms intended to be carried out in Poland by the Emperor. The introduction of these reforms would depend upon circumstances, although they would not be delayed after the pacification of Poland had been effected. It is expected that the insurgent forces in Poland will shortly be augmented, but the Russian autho rities hope to be able to overpower them. tica.. of fighting on the Coldwater. During the fighting thus far the Federal loss h;:s been small ; one colonel is reported killed, but his name has not yet been ascertained. Rebel reports say that Gen. Loring has arrived from Fort Pem berton, with several thousand men, and reinforced General Chalmers. Same hard fighting was anticipated. Several houses were burnt at Hermundson, on the 21st. It is re ported that Holly Springs has been re-occupied by the Federals. The steamer Prima Donna, from Vicksburg, arrived at Memphis on the 2 3d inst., when our gunboats and transports ran the rebel blockade at Vicksbu-g ; all went by the Warrenton batteries but the Forest Queen, which being disabled put in at the mouth of the lower canal for repairs. On Tuesday she ran by the Warrenton batteries and joined the fleet, Not a gun was fired at her." The Chattanooga Rebel of the 23d reports a fight at Tuscumbia, and claims a victory. The Tul lahoma correspondent of the Rebel says from pre sent indications the campaign in Middle Ten nessee will open in earnest. In pursuance of a re cent order of Bragg all tents and extra luggage had been sent to the rear, only 3 flies being reserved to every 100 men. The correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat a the 23d writing from Rolla says : " General Marmaduke has a force of 20,000 rebels in south-east Missouri, and General Price has a force of 10,000 conscripts at Pocahontas. This doubth ss, is an exaggera tion. General Van Darn left for Rolla with a brigade of cavalry and some artillery and infantry, and the remainder of cavalry and artillery of General Ewing's and Osterhan's divisions were ordered to move." The steam ship North Star, from Aspinwall, had arrived at New York with 256,604 dole. in Califor nian gold. The French corvette Bertholet, from Vera Cruz on the 7th, had also arrived at New York. The commander stated that the report of the defeat of the French at Puebla was entirely erroneous. When he left Vera Cruz all was quiet at Puebla. The steamer Bremen, for Southampton, left New York on the 25th, with 160 passengers, and 90,000 dole. in specie. A dispatch from Simcoe, Canada West, of the 25th says:— " Van Eary's steam mills were blown up yesterday by the bursting of a boiler. Four men were killed, and the mills entirely destroyed." COMMERCIAL. NEW YORK, April 25 (Evening). The Stock Market farther advanced to-day— particularly for Illinois Central Shares, which closed at 941. Erie closed at 81i. Gold, S3l prem. Cotton was unchanged, but firm. Bresdstuffs steady, but firmer. SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 7, The North German Lloyds steamship Bremen, from New York, on the 25th April, has arrived off Cowes, with 150 pabsengers, 38 bags of mails, 51,800 dole. for France and 38,750 dole. for England. She left Sandy Hook on the morning of the 26th, passed several large icebergs on the 29th, spoke the American ship Columbia on the 30th, the Eng lish barque Gordon on the 3d, steering westward, the English ship New Great Britain, off Portland on the 7th. Her news has been anticipated. SPAIN. M ADRID, MAY 6 (Evening). In the Congress to-day a Royal decree was read suspending the sittings of the Cortes. The Progressist party had the intention of con- tinuing on Sunday next the celebration of the national fête of the 2d May. The Government, however, being opposed to this project, the Pro gressists determined to abandon it. The reports current of a ministerial modification are devoid of foundation. FRANCE, BOURSE, May 6.—The market improved at the commencement of business, but afterwards receded in consequence of sales for realisation. Threes, for Account, are now at 69f. 80c. The Railway Share Market has been heavy, and some of the lines are lower. The market closed as follows:- 11 per Cents. 97 25 Italian Loan 72 60 Do. end month.... Do. end month — 3 per Cents Do. end month..., 69 70. Do. end month — Credit Mobilier.... 1437 60 1 Russian Do. end m0nth....1440 Austrian Bank Shares 370 Spanish Threes.... Credit k °racier — Home Debt ...... 51 RA IL WAYS. Cash. Account. 1007 50 .. 1015 1040 1037 50 1007 60 1081 25 .. 1085 462 60 . . 467 60 765 762 50 630 .. 630 512 50 .. 516 25 462 60 .. 463 497 50 .. 50u 585 .. 586 50 583 75 . . 586 25 760 . . 765 Orleans Northern New ditto . Lyons and Mediterranean Geneva .. Southern Western Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian 1.017' ha rd North of Spain Saragossa.. Ditto to Barcelona .... MARKETS—This Day. MARK••LANE. IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. —Wheat, 45s 9d ; barley, 34s (id ; oats, 21s 2d ; rye, 29s 8d ; beans, 37s 3d , and peas, 35s Gd. I'HE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. - Wheat, 45s 7d ; barley, 35s 7d ; oats, 21s 5d ; rye, 30s 10d; beans, 36s 4d ; peas, 35s 9d, ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEDL—Wheat, 93,016; barley, 13,925; oats, 10,047; rye, 16; beans, 4,151; peas, 275 qrs. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. Our market, to-day, was favourably-well supplied with beasts in fair condition, and all breede moved off slowly, at a decline in the quotations compared with Monday, of 2s per 81bs. The best Scots, &c., sold at 4s 8d per 81bs. Sheep—the show of which was moderately good—met a slow sale, at 24 per Blbs less money. The best Downs realised 4s 10d per 81bs. Prime lambs were disposed of at about stationary prices; but inferior breeds gave way 4d per 81bs. The supply was rather on the increase. We have to report a dull sale for calves, at 2d per Blbs less money. The quotations ranged from 3s 104 to 4s 104 per Blbs. Pigs and mulch cows were very dull, at barely late rates. Per Sib. to sink the offal. a. d. s. d. 5. (I. s. d. Ors°. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 6 Primecrs-wool d 0.4 4 4 6 Second quality do. 3 8 4 0 Pme.S'thdowndo.4 8 4 10 Prime largo oxen 4 2 4 4 Largo orse. calves 3 10 4 4 Prime Scots, etc. 4 6 4 8 Prime small do 4 6 4 10 Crse. ez inf. sheep 3 6 3 8 Large hogs 3 4 4 0 Second quality do. 3 10 4 21Small porkers ... , 4 2 4 6 Lambs, 6s Od to 78 4d. Suckling calves, 12s to 20s; and quarter-old store pigs, L9s to 28s. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts .... Cows l3O Sheep and lambs .... 90u Sheep and lambs .. 6,600 1 Calves . , 290 Calves Pigs 370 MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.—The supplies are only moderato, nevertheless the trade rules heavy, as tol. lows .—Beef, from 3s Od to 4s 2d , mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 6d ; lamb, 6s Od to 6s 8d ; veal, 4s 9d to 48 8d; and pork, 3s 4d to 4s 6d per 81b8, by the carcase. SOUTHALL, May 6.—The sup2lies of stock were toler• ably good, and the trade ruled steady, as follows : Beef, from 38 8d to 4s 8d; mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 10d ; lamb, 68 4d to 78 2d ; veal, 48 2d to 5s Od; and pork, 3s 10d to 4s 6d per Blbs, to sink the offal. RomFonn, Ale. 6.—The demand for all kinds of sbck was inative at bartly last week's prices. Beef, from 38 6d to 4s 6d ; mutton, ~s 8d to bs Od ; lamb, 6s 6d to 7s 4d , veal, 48 4d to 5s Od ; pork, 3s 4d to 4s 6d per 81bs ; suckling calves, 12s to 19s ; quarter-old store pigs, 19s to 265; and milch cows, £l4 Us to £lB Os each. HAY MARK2TS. SMITHFIELD. —Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 Os Od ; clover do., £3 lOs to £5 10s; and straw, £1 10s to £1 16s per load. A slow trade. CUMBERLAND.—MearIow hay, 2s to £4 48; clover do., £3 lOs to £5 108 ; and straw, £1 108 to £1 16s per load. Trade inactive. WHITECIIAPEL —Meadow hay, £2 Od to £4 Oa; clover do, £3 108 to £5 10a; and straw, £t 10a to £1 l6s per load. A lull average supply. " For some days past," says the Augsburg Gazette, " the King of Prussia drives out in a carriage drawn by horses harnessed in the Russian manner, and driven by a coachman wearing the national Russian costume. His Majesty is always enveloped in a cloak, with a military hel met on, atd is never accompanied by any person." UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW.—Lard Palmerston, the Lord Rector of Glasgow University, has made the very liberal donation of one hundred guineas, to be given in three prizes, to be competed for by the students enrolled during his lordship's reotorate—one prize of £37 each year. aninott, z 44Ckt,4 iF4M, „ (Court nuar HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, May 6. Her Majesty. accompanied by her Royal High• ❑ess Princess Louis of Hesse, walked and diove yesterday. Princess Helena and Princess Louise rode on horseback. PORTSMOUTH, May 6. Their Royal Highness the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Prince Alfred, and Princess Helena crossed over from Osborne this afternoon in the royal yacht Fairy, Captain his Serene Highness the Prince Leiningen, and landed at the Queen's Stairs in the dockyard, where their royal highnesses were received by the Port-Admiral, Sir M. Sey mour, G.C.8., Rear-Admiral the Hon. C. Rhott, C,8., Admiral Superintendent, the principal officers of the yard, and a guard of honour from the 20th Regiment. Their royal highnesses visited the Royal Sovereign, where a model of a section of the pilot • house was exhibited, and, after being conducted over the ship and the various alterations explained by Mr. Cradcck and Mr. SturEee, they proceeded to the Steam Basin, taking a hasty view of the Hector, iron ram. From thence the royal party were conducted to the smithery, where the hydraulic press was set in motion and its capabili ties fully pointed out. From the smithery their royal highnesses proceeded and took a view of the Royal Alfred, in No. 5; afterwards the Mack Prince, at the sheer jetty, and finally went on board the Defence and inspected different parts of the the ship, being received by the officers on the quar terdeck, and the marines presenting arms and band playing the Nationat Anthem. Their royal high nesses then proceeded in the admiral's barge to the flagship Victory, Capt. Scott, C. 8., where the royal party were received with a royal salute, and the yards manned. The royal yacht Fairy was in at tendance to embark their royal highnesses on their return to Osborne. The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince of Wales, attended by M>jor Tees. dale, rode on horseback in the forenoon yesterday The Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess o; Macclesfield, took a carriage drive. The Prince and Princess of Wales took a drive in an open carriage in the afternoon. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington, Earl Granville, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Lord Harris, Viscount and Viscountess Castlerosse, the Earl and Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, Lie General Knollys, the Hon. Robert H. Meade, Lieut.-Colonel Keppel, and Mr. Herbert Fisher, had the honour of dining with their Royal High nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales at Mail borough House in the evening. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington have issued cards for a grand banquet, on Monday next, at Ansley House, to meet their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland had a dinner party last evening at Northumberland House, where among tho guests were Lord Redesdale and the Hon. Miss Mitford, Sir Michael and Lady Octavia Shaw Stewart, Hon. Josceline and Mrs. Percy, Admiral Sir George Back, Admiral Fitzroy, the Astronomer Royal, Dr. and Mrs. Cureton, Mr. and Mrs. Halliburton, Dr. Rock, Mr. Alex ander Herschell, Mr. Michell, &c. The Duchess of Somerset has left town for Bul strode Park, Bucks, The Duke of Cleveland, according to the accounts received in town yesterday from Paris, is better, and will return home as soon as his health will admit of the ourney. The Duke of Argyll has gone to Roseneath Castle, Dumbartonshire, where the Duchess and youthful 4 amily are staying. It is understood that the noble duke will re main in attendance on the Queen, as a member of the Ca binet, during her Majesty's residence at Balmoral. The Earl and Countess of Harewood and family arrived in town yesterday from Harewood House, near Leeds, for the season. NOT RUINED BY PROMOTION, A writer in the 7 lines r ays:—ln corroboration ot the statement by "R. N." in your paper of this d-+y relative to the mention in Southey's "L fe ot Nel son" of Lieut. Pollard, R having shot the man by whose unerring aim Nelson Jell, I beg to forward an extract from O'Byrne's "Naval Biography," bearing out the fact, and which may prove i❑terest- ing to your readers. He says— On the return of the fleet of Lord Nelson from its pursuit of the. com biped squadrons to the West Indies Mr. Pollan' was tifThrded an opportunity of participating as sig nal midshipman of the Victory in the action off Cape Trafalgar. On that occasion, when standing on the poop, he was struck by a splinter on the right arm, and chanced to be the first officer who was there touched. A musket-ball nest passed thr .ugh the shell of his spyglass, about a toot above the hand that held it, and a second one shattered the watch in his pocket. Some time after the Vic- tory had been in action with the French 74 . gun Redoubtable, the officers and men around him be ginning to fall fast, the attention of Mr. Pobard was arrested by a number of soldiers whom he perceived crouching in the tops of the Redoubtable, and di recting a destructive fire on the poop and quarier - deck of the Victory. He immediately seized a musket, and being supplied by the signal-quartermaster, King, with ball cartridges from two barrels kept on the afterpart of the poop for the use of the Marines (who at the time were elsewhere engaged), con tinued firing at the soldiers every time they rose breast high in the tops until not one was to be seen. In the act of handing the last parcel of ball car tridges the quartermaster was shot through the forehead and fell lifeless on the spot. When the action terminated Mr. Pollard was the only officer left alive of those who had been originally stationed on the poop; and thus, in the manner we have described, originated the belief that it was he who had shot the man who had killed Lord Nelson." Lieutenant Pollard was promoted the following year to the rank he now holds, having seen much active service in both war and peace, and it is ot ly during the last 10 or 12 years that he has been found a shelter 'within the walls of Greenvtich Hospital. Surely, sir, after a period of 66 years in her Majesty's navy, during which most of his gene ration have passed away, he may well present a claim upon his country's gratitude that at the least, if nothing can be done for himself in his declining years, his relatives in the service should meet with due consideration at the hands of the Admiralty P AMERICAN SPEECHIFYING.—Speeches are deli vered to be printed and circulated amongst consti• tuents, rather than to influence the audience to which they are addressed; and, indeed the newspaper summaries are ordinarily so meagre, that any member whe wishes for aiull report is obliged to have his speech reprinted. Probably, in consequence of this, the custom of reading speeches, or re ferring constantly to memoranda, is very common, and mars the effect of the discussions. There is an amcunt, too, of unimpressive gesticulation which become perfectly mono tonous. I saw on e member, who, during a speech of an hour, kept advancing and retreating constantly up an open space of some 12 feet in length, like the Polar bear at the Regent's-park gardens; another, who always sialed from one desk to another; a third, who swung his arms up and down with the regularity of a windmill ; and a fourth, who kept turning like a teetotum towards every part of the house in turn. The constanr, accentuation, t , o, of unimportant words, and the frequent misplacement of the right emphasis to the wrong place, makes long lis tening to an American debato wearisome to an Englishman Still, the one remarkable feature is the marvellous fluency of the speakers. Everybody has the gift of speaking—the power, at least, of stringing words together without a hitch. ' I never heard an American member of either house stutter, or hem and haw, as nineteen• twentieths of our speakers do when in want of a word, Ana this is not solely because the spe , eches are prepared beforehand. I have constantly heard members interrupted in their speeches, and unexpected questions put to them, yet they always replied with the same perfect self-possession, and almost fatal fluency of language. Whether this arises from the fact that, unac customed as I am to public speaking,' is a phrase no Ame rican out of his teens could use with truth, or whether, as I think, it is due to some characteristic excitability in the race, which supplies words at command, I cannot say. The fact is certain, that though I never heard anything in the way of American parliamentary oratory which rose to the height of eloquence, I never heard so much average good speaking in any English assembly. Dicey's feaeral Oftfe. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. The Duke of Somerset, First Lird of the Admi ralty, and Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir F. W. Grey, K.C.8., Senior Naval Lord, accompanied by Rear - Admiral S. Robineon, Controller of the Navy, Mr. W. G. Romaine, C,8., Under-Secretary of the Ad miralty, and Captain R. Hall, Private S,:cretary to The First Lord, went down to Chatham dockyard yesterday, in order to inspect the vesse,s under construction and repair, as well as the w orks in progress at that e s t a bli s h ment. Th e i r l o rdships reached the dockyard at 11 a.m., and were received at the entrance by Capt. Fanshawe, the supelinteu dent, Mr. Lang, master-shipwright, and the °ther heads of departments. Th e c hi e f o bj ect o f their visitwas to inspect the s crew f r i gate O rlan d o, 46,1,000 - horse power, Capt. R an d o l p h , w hi c h h as b ee n sent home from the West I n di es t o un d ergo h ea vy re" pairs. It now appear s th at t h e d e f eats are more serious than were at fir s t con j ecture d , an d her re pairs will require h er d e t ent i on i n doc k f or some time. Moat of the i n j ur i es s h e h as susta i ne d are towards her stern, whi c h, f rom t h e h eavy s t ra in this portion of the vessel is called upon to sustain from the enormous power of her engines, will require to be very consid era bly s t rengt h ened b y the addition of iron knees t o th ose parts wh i ch g i ve s i g ns °r weakness. The whole of her copper sheathing into be stripped off, when her planking below her wat er line will be inspected, in order that those portions which give tokens of unsoundness may be renewed' Atter completing their inspection of the Orlando the Board proceeded to the adjoining dock, 10 which the iron frigate Achilles, 50, 1,000 horse power is under construction. Since the f or mervisit of their Lordship s th e p rogress made i n th i s s hip is something marvellous, and from a mere skeleton of huge iron ribs, nearly every portion from her stem to sierra is covered with the inner skin of iron, 011 which has been l a id th e 18-i nc h b ack i ng of teakritl readiness for the reception of the armour-0 16 1 . About one-third of the armour-plating ix already completed, the number of slabs of iron fixed uP t° yesterday being 97, the total number required to encase every portion of her surface above the wat er and to Sit. below the water line being rather over 300. The number of wor k men a l rea d y em ployed exclusively on the vessel exceeds 1,300. A lter spending some time in the inspection of the Achilles their Lordships went down the harbour in the Ad' miralty steam yacht Wildfire, Mr. Brockman CO ni ; mender, to the iron-c ase d f r i gate R oya l O a k, 3' 800 horsepower,Capt.Campbell,lyingat Folly P° 1 . 114 preparing f or sea. T hey spent some time in theirs' spection of this ship, which has comparatiolf little remaining to be done on board before sh will be ready to take her departure for h er experimental cruise. After re-embarking in tde Wildfire, and before returning to the dockYa r they inspected the works at St. M a ry's DO! for the extension of the dockyard by the forrn ,o° t of additi ona l d oc k s an d b as i ns. On relanding 11; the dockyard th e y were occup i e d a s h ort time in th e , transaction of official busin ess w ith C a ptain -Saps' rintendent Fansh awe , an d a f terwar d s le f t the e° tablishment for the Admiralty. The screw corvette Cadmus, 21, 400 horse-pok er, Capt. J . , F. Ross, having b ee n di sman tled, put out of commission and her crew paid off in Chat ham harbour ye s t er d ay . Th e C a d mus h as b e en fo n t ,' years in commis s i on , an d h as b een employe d nble o on the North American and West India stations- The following appoint ments were made yoter day at the Admiralty : —H enry A . H enr i , eugirieenr, to the Indus for the Tilbu r y ; G eorge ThomPs% engineer, to the Indus for the Ni g h t i nga le; ° ft , James W. M. Ashley, pay mas t er , t o b e sec retary Admiral Sir H. Stewart. THE ARMY. Yesterday Col. J. W. Ormsby, c ommanding the 9th Brigade Royal Artillery, made an of f icia l r; spection of th e m ounte d D fi e ld b a t ter y of the o brigade quartered at Ch a th a m garrison. He i1:16.; tuted a minute inspection of the mer, horses , g un ; q uarte,: &c., and afterwards went through the stables, and offices, and inspected the official of the battery. In the afternoon the non comfi ts sioned officers and men of the battery assen )bje , dismounted, in the square, for the purpose o f belnb inspected at drill. The D battery having just under_ gone the half-yearly inspection, the customary ell:Ye iutions on the Lines were dispensed l A . battery is just now in a very high degree of Ell' ciency. first The half-yearly inspection of the Chatham e „ recoru division of Royal Marine Light Infantry 109 e , Burned at heat quarters on Tuesday, by Maj0r . ° 63 ... 0 rai A. B. Stransham, the Insp,7ctor General of Royal Marine f orces . O n the previous d a Y ho inspection wa s confined to a battalion et 6°° f , m ill e or in order t o t est t h e e ffi c i ency o f t h at num bei 0 " o t t taken from th e d iv i s i on , w h en un d er arms. t at Tuesday the Inspect or -G enera l selected is G re at smaller battalion, whi c h was marc h e d to the u re a Lines in order to enable him to ascertain the 0 ° 1333 i0 r in which the captains o f com p an i es an d the j un " A officers could handle their men and watt:o llk %, battalion. For this purpose M. jot.. G e mral S tr6 r e slam selected a number of tie officers, wn ° , ll :o , successively called to the front, and under his u ' n ' e ti e tion put the battalion through various move lne- de r The. battalion was subsequently manoeuvred 1113 the command of one of the fiela-officers, and at 1)°0 was marched ba c k t o it s quarters. At 2 o'clock tjeo companies were f orme d i n t h e barrack-squa re ' ° ne e. Major-G e n era l S trans h am ma d e a m i nu te in`= ti i i tion of their arms, kits,uniforms, and accoutremel3o byo a portion of th e i ns p ect i on w hi c h occup i e d biro L ' c ' time. The Inspector-General, accompanied d o Col. Ltmon, C. 8., an d ot h er o ffi cers , aftervi sr . t , proceeded t o th e gun b attery f or t h e p u rpose of W o l o nessing a porti on o f th e battalion at ship's x 49 drill. The number of men selected for this d uet was 60, a portion of the number who are 1113 1, 7 0 0 daily instruction in gun-drill. Th e b a tt er y in 1"„ re i, the Royal Marines are ex erc i se d i s ma d e to re r sent a portion of a line-of-b att l e - s hi p, an d is ref nisbed with the naval 110-pounder and 40 P ° , 1113 0 0 , Armstrongs, and th e or di nary 68-poun d e r 9° " r e guns. Tue in s p ect i on on Tuesday proved in a markable degree the value of training the - "t i ts Marines in a thorough knowledge of still/ 8 4 :0 drill, so a s t o ren d er t h em va l ua bl e auxilia P i e l i e g f the seam en . D ur i ng t h e i nspect i on the Nifird- clot under the dire c tion o f C a pt. Bli g h, the jostr",- tti in gunne r y t o th e di v i s i on , displ.yed a the°"-tils knowledge of every portion of their gun large Armstrongs and 68-pounders being cast fi r e loaded, pointed, and fired with rapidity ev io ci p i ot ' ctsion. On leaving the gun- s h e d b atte ry ' LI %O General Stransham express e d h is satisfaction at ctrl manner in which the Royal M ar i nes h a d seq u e r themselves. The inspection was brought to 0 1000 ruination yeeterdby afternoon. The result lis s oc iill in the high es t d egree sa ti s f ac t or y, an d the ° 121, b0 report to the Admiralty will, th e r e is little dnu an exc e edingly flattering one. dive Mejor-General Sir Richard Dacres, eomm sn r ll at Woolwich, on Tuescay resumed his balf"T e i inspection of the garrison, by parading a thc-81 - oa of the Ist Horse Brigade, commanoed by °l°li llg Sir David Wo ill The F and H batteries bsiot been supplitd with 10 rounds o f blank rucor alia li t olf' per man, mustered on W oo lwich common dof past 10, in heavy ma tc hing order, in nol litnfin Capt. F. L. H. Lyon. The Ron. ibert Craven, youngest On all 2 °f the R Earl and Countess Crav e n, w h ose ill ne ss at Bton Wee tioned a few days ago, is much better. COMPENSATION FOR ACCIDENTS.--Sir J. a bil l gusson has laid before the House of Con 3:l° ' 3 providing that railway companies shall not be liable to r P . 6O, kitled l e , any larger compensation, on a passenger being j e . ured, than £4OO for a first-clasTpmaesusegn er, X3O O O r ° ; ag er b o a n b d p - a c i l d as f s a , r an in d a t a o n O e f e er a a t third-class, u g niess c h b e y , P to b:e ra h o l r a ; Shipowners, also, are not to be liabl t e n in be sut enti ' es e th ve a , n ,D £2 o o y o, o u u n l l i e k ss e t r h a e w pa r e a se m n7 , pays for iaor insurance. t on young 133 1:iche. whincihnghepwaratsyo, ffheirnitnigngtoaat ladythe qautatlhietysuopfptehretar; and was a while before the lady redistributed the utterfole,outb. raver 'am t and so got at the raw ham of which . the , J otttia was sneaking. In this intense case there is tho 0 9 ' 9 1 41, fault of the Rand the H; but not a few who waY 18 ' g ood it cannot say " lite sofa is hargdiv"i:iht oaust .71 3 7 fi t , the deal of R out of the hard and eofo(r),