The Sun. — London, England, 1863-04-30 00:00:00

EXETER HALL. —TO - MORROW. The TICKET OFFICES at No. 2, Exeter Hall, for the ISSUE of A'IHALIE ADMISSION TICKETS, Reserved Stalls, and Season 'Tickets will be Open TO-MORROW, from Nine till Twelve o'clock ; after that time the Tickets will be on sale at the Crystal Palace. NOTE.--To prevent delay at the Doors Tickets should be purchased beforehand. THE EXHIBITION of ALUMINIUM and ALUMINIUM BRONZ E. 2,000 SPECIMENS, illustrating the appli cation (Ornamental and Useful) of these in teresting Metals, ARE NOW ON VIEW at KAPPD7 BROTHERS' NEW ROOMS, 222, REGENT STREET. Admission by Card. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.- THIS E VENING (Thursday), April 30 (Subscription ::\ fight), Verdi's favourite Opera, IL TRO VATORE. Principal Characters by Signori Ginglfni, Santley, Bocci. Soldi, and Casaboni ; Madame Terese Effinger (her third apt pearance), Madame Corsi, and Mdlle. Titiens. Conductor, Signor ARDITI. To conclude with LA FARFALLETTA, supported by M. Alessandro Paul, M. Frail, M. Prospero Diani ; pieroni, and Mdlle. Amalia Ferraris. Saturday next, May 2, first time this season, L'N BALLO IN MASCHERA. In the Ball-room Scene a Grand Ballet. ARRANGEMENTS FOR NEXT WEEK. Tuesday next, May 5, Debut of Mdlle. Trebelli, Signor Zucchini, and Signor Bettini. IL BARBIEB.E. New Ballet. Thursday next, Subscription Night.—First Night of Signor Schira's new Opera, NICOLO DE LAPI ; or, The Siege of Florence. New Scenery, Dresses, and Appointments. Doors open at half-past Seven. The Opera will commence at Eight o'clock precisely. Prices :—Stalls, One Guinea ; Reserved Box Seats, Half-a- Guinea ; Pit Tickets, Se. 6d. ; Gallery Stalls, ss. and 7s. ; Gallery, 2s. 6d. ; Private Boxes, in the Gallery Circle, to admit three persons, 219. Notice. —lt will be necessary for those parties who intend visiting the Reserved 13.)x Seats (at 105. 6cL each), to attend in Evening Costume. Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets may be had at the Box-office of the Theatre (under the Colonnade in the Hayman et , which is open daily , under the superintendence of Mr. Nugent, from Ten till Six ; and at all the principal Libraries and Music sellers. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAY MARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnokstone. THIS EVENING, STILL WATERS RUN DEEP. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Chippen dale, and Miss Louisa Angel. Alter which, an apropos Dramatic Sketch, introducing a Panorama of the Tour of the Prince of Wales in the East. To conclude with BORROWING A HUSBAND. Pamela Miss Maria Harris. Commence at 7. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. PECHTER. THIS EVENING, at 7, to commence with an Orizinal Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr3logue, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Pechter, supported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G. Jordan, J. Brougham, NN iddi Bombe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson Mi ss es Carlotta Leclerc Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, and Elsworthy. Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessees, Yeas's. Linda, and Vining. THIS EVENING the drama of AURORA FLOYD. Mi , s Amy Sedgwick. Sties Henderson, and Mrs. Simpson ; Messrs. ft. Roxby, G. Melville, G. Belmore, C. Scyton, Wallace, and Cathcart. After which, KILLING TIME. Mr. Geo. 'Fining, Mr. C Seyton, and miss Amy Sedgwick. To conclude with a new x himsical Extravaganza, entitled BEAUTIFUL HAIDEE ; or The Sea Nymph and the Sallee Rovers. Misses M. Oliver, Helen Howard, Hudspeth, Hen dersun, and Murray ; Messrs. C. Seyton, G. Belmore, Fitz- Jam , s, Moreland, and Cockerill. INTE W Tit RATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHL—• soiA Proprtstor and Manaver. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, JANET PRIDE. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, Stephenson, Stuart, Eburne, Sefton, C. J. Smith, Romer; Miss Avonia 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 Litest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, April 30, 1863. THERMOMETER. Highest since Noon yesterday Lowest during the night This day at Noon Wind—North-Easterly ; light, with fine weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tale Dent.—Morning, llh. 49m.—Afternoon, h. m. To-icognow.-Morning, 12h. 14m.—Afternoon, 12h. 34m. r.,.! ; , 44 ' ''" -L 7 i t \ . . jit ,04c70:4. tiiiiii4 ~,..tat, t i LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1863. The Wednesday afternoons during the last few Sessions are attaining—increasingly—a high degree of importance and celebrity. They are the favourite field-days of Party. Theirs are the chosen sittings at which the Dissenters and the members of the Established Church love to contend. These are the select occasionsupon which the Whig-Tory.Radical- Conservative Coalition now ruling the destinies of England—(that is, nominally ruling it, for the Conservative Opposition, now for a long while past, have been notoriously pulling the strings)— these are the occasions upon which this heterogeni ous Coalition may scatter, ad libitum, to the right, or to the left hand of Mr. SPEAKER, flocking, some With the ayes into one lobby, some with the noes into the other. And not only this—but it is upon these fast becoming more and more memorable Wednesdays, that Ministers of the Crown in the Coalition have been allowed the pri vilege not alone of gratifying their own political and religious whimsies at pleasure, but actually— it must be remembered distinctly that this has oc curred again and yet again in very flagrant in stances—actually of speaking hot and voting cold, or vice versa Supporting a motion and immediately afterwards voting dead against it; or it may be doing the very like by some notable amendment. Lovingly as the wolf and the lamb may, according to wont, lie down together in the pastoral haunts of Downing street, while that debonnair young CORYDON, the Premier for Once with a primrose in his buttonhole instead of a straw in his mouth, pipes to them deliciously— lovingly as the kid may ordinarily sport with the basilisk, in the sylvan shades of Whitehall—upon these same sessional Wednesdays, they are latterly in the habit of returning each to the indulgence of its own natural instincts, and of betraying each its "In particular preference. The Tory Solicitor- Gen eral, Sir ROUNDELL PALMER, then, for once, cannot, for the life of him, find it in his heart to troop into the same lobby, say, with an accustomed col league like that thorough-going Liberal the Right Hon. MILNER GIBSON, the President of the Board of Trade, and M.P. for Ashton-under-Lyne. Or , again, still less can he go meekly forth through the same porch of the House of C ommons, at the heels of a new colleague like the junior L ord of the Ad miralty, the ultra-Radical, Mr. s TANSFELD, M.P. for the borough of Halifax. Instead or sauntering into the lobby with these—forth once again into the lobby, as of old, with his old friends the Tories, goes Sir ROUNDELL PALMER, rubbing elbows with Mr. NEWDEGATE, and with Mr. G.7W. P. BEN TINCK, with Mr. DISRAELI and Sir J. PAKINGTON. Even the Right Hon. member for the University of Oxford can for once, forsake the haunts of his more recently found friends, Mr. BRIGHT and Mr. COBDEN ; and, not without feeling strange enough under the old-new companionship, hie once more with : his quondam acquaintacce of the Csrlton—numbered , as he was, only as recently as yesterday by the members for Bridgnorth and Bedfordshire, with true blue representa tives like Sir J. TROLLOPE and Lord R. CECIL. Among all the Wednesdays of the session, however, tire 'Wednesday of Wednesdays—what the Derby Wednesday is in the sporting world—the " bright Particular" 'Wednesday annually sacred to the de molition of Sir JOHN TRELAWNY'S Bill for the Abo lition a Church Rates, is beyond any doubt of it. Year after sear of late it has been really and truly nothing less important to the Conservative Opposition (half in a political, half in a religious, altogether in a distinctly party point of view) than the winning of the Blue Ribbon, so to speak, of Tory Orthodoxy. A couple of sessions back it will be remembered that the race run on that famous Wednesday resulted at the moment in a dead heat. Contrary to what is the course pursued under a similar emergency in the sporting world, the Umpire in the Chair (of the House of Commons) settles the matter at issue as he rather whimsically, not to say Quixotically, settled it: then by giving his own casting vote—that w as in 1861—dead against his own convictions. Doing so purely out of an over-refined sense of honour and a wholly exaggerated view of the magnamity required at his hands as Speaker. Yesterday, as it happened, the SPEAKER was put to no such possibility of a threatened fix. Last year, earlier than this year by nearly a month, last session, that is to say,onWednesday the 14th of May, instead of, as now, on Wednesday the 29th April, the Speaker had not the fix of 1861, but he certainly again had the threatening of it! A great deal too much is said by the parliamentary reporters in some of our morning contemporaries, to-day, about the multitude of members thronging into the House for yesterday's division. The total number voting yes terday, as the simple fact shows, being fully " thirteen " less than the aggregate voting in 1862. Last year the division paper showed all but a tie—all over egain ! There were 286 for and 287 against the Abolition Bill of Sir JOHN TRELAWNY. So that then the Bill was thrown out again by a single vote, only that here the single vote in excess against it, did not happen to be the casting vote of the Speaker. This year, that is yesterday, the numbers showed a difference between the opposing ranks not of one but of ten-275 voting with and 285 against the very badly used, the rejected and re-rejected Bill of the hon. and learned baronet the member for Tavistock. Showing, as we have said, fully thirteen less in this division list as compared with that of last yGar. As cir cumstances would have it, the noble viscount the the First Lord of the Treasury was prevented solely from voting, as he did last year, among the the supporters of Sir JOHN TRELAWNEY by a sudden summons from Her MAJESTY to attend upon Her MAJESTY at Windsor Castle. Otherwise, of course, by the Premier's vote (if recorded) the majority of ten would have dwindled to one of nine : even under those circumstances, however, a very considerable enhancement of advantage in this matter to the Opposition. If not the result—as it certainly is not the result—of any in. crease in the number of opponents to the measure on their side of the House (their aggregate being less by two, as we have sten, than it was last ses sion)—the division of yesterday shows, at least, on the side of the Minority, a notable falling off (a fall ing off to the n umber of eleven) among the sup porters of the favourite reform of the Member for Tavistock, Notwithstanding the grand flourish of trumpets indulged in by Mr. WHITESIDE yesterday, when exultingly quoting the recorded opinion of Mr. STANSFELD that there could never be any possibi lity of a compromise —as suggested again and again before now, by one or another—we still hold firmly to the opinion that the hon. member for Birmingham, hit long since upon the one "possible" compromise, namely, that of doing away with the power to levy a compulsory rate, though interfering no otherwise with the general arrangements for the carrying on of the Church Establishment. It is not surprising that t Mr. GLADSTONE'S proposal to tax Charities should have created great dismay, and given rise to considerable discontent among those connected with these important insti tions. A meeting was held at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, at which nearly all the London hospitals were represented, and several of the charitable in stitutions. At this meeting the following resolution was passed : " That the meeting considers the proposal of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer to deprive the charities of the ex emption from income-tax, which they have always hitherto enjoyed, to be most impolitic, unjust, and inconsistent. " That such a measure would be productive of the most serious consequences to the poor persons who are the objects of charities ; and this meeting, therefore, feels called upon to take the most prompt and energetic measures to prevent the imposition of such a tax, and to invite the other chari ties throughout the country to co-operate, by immediately presenting petitions to the House of Commons against the proposed tasation, and by communicating with members of Parliament." There is great force in what is here stated, and all impartial persons will fully coincide with the opinions herein expressed. It is most impolitic of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to call down upon his Government such opprobrium as will inevitably fall upon them should this measure be adopted. It is manifestly unjust to take away from the poor and afflicted what has been presented to them for their exclusive use and especial benefit. It is also highly inconsistent to propose such a plan. If it is to be taken for granted that large sums are annually to be extracted from these resources for the destitute, it stands to reason that a far greater number of in firm and sickly persons will be cast back on the State to support. The plan suggested at this meeting for the various charities throughout the country to co operate and present petitions against the innovation is an admirable one, and it is to be trusted that this invitation will be cordially responded to, and that no local prejudices or class jealousies will intervene to interfere with the carrying out of so laudable an endeavour and wise an undertaking. Union is strength is a well-known adage, and in this case it is tobveilltrursegtiedn amongthatthe most complete cor dialitythose associated in a cause so worthy of zeal and devotion, and that con tains so many incentives for honest exertion and inducements to perseverance in its maintenance and defence. Sir STAFFORD NORTTICOTE has given notice that he will move an amendment on this clause in committee of supply. This is a rrost satisfactory announcement, and reflects great credit on the hon. member. He could take up no better principle to defend than the interests of those who are powerless to help themselves, but who appeal to the charity, the good-will, and the Christian feeling of their happier and richer brethren So much has hitherto been conceded to Mr. GLADSTONE—partIy becaus e he is so over-rated and over-estimated in his vocation, and partly because he has great in fluence in the House--that those who are likely to be the victims of his schemes and the sufferers by his crotchets may be excused if they give way to despair and count the battle lost before it is fought in their vindication. Yet, notwithstanding these doubts and difficulties, this is a case which, in some respects, o may be a e n r egarded latn g as an excepti on . Cold and s such matters, Mr. as he prides hims e lf on beingin u GLADSTONE now will surely pause before be in sists on making this affair a sine qua non in his arrangements. The members of the Legislature will also be called upon to reflect that before the claims of party etiquette, and the rigour of Ministerial adherency, they have a higher duty to perform, to follow the dictates of their consciences, and not violate the principles and trample down the interests that are arrayed against this proposition. Lord PAL3fERSTON may yet come to the rescue as he has often done before, and with his great tact and ad mirable discretion perceive the right moment when opposition should be withdrawn and concession substituted. There is more to be expected from his good sense and keen appreciation of the claims of others than from all the elaborate evolutions and skilled sophistries of his Chancellor of the Ex chequer. Last night there was laid before Parliament the correspondence of the English Government with the European powers relating to the Polish in surrection. One of the chief of these despatches is that of Earl RUSSELL on the subject of Russia fulfilling her treaty obligations. His lordship says he feels that her Majesty's Government have a peculiar right to make its opinions known to his Imperial Majesty from Great Britain having been a party, in common with many other European nations, to the Treaty of Vienna. Farther on he distinctly states the grievance of the case by de claring that by treaty the Grand Duchy of Warsaw was erected into a kingdom of Poland " to be inse perably attached to the empire of Russia under certain conditions specified in that article, and her Majesty's Government are concerned to have to say that although the anion of the kingdom to the empire has been strictly maintained, the conditions on which the union was distinctly made to depend have not been fulfilled by the the Russian Government." Again, afterwards, Earl RUSSELL forcibly protests against the assertion of Prince GOBTSCHAKOFF, that the revolts have cancelled all the engagements of Russia in the treaty of Vienna; but, argues his Lordship, her Majesty's Govern ment cannot acquiesce in a doctrine " which they deem so contrary to good faith, so destructive of the obligation of treaties, and so fatal to all the international ties which bind together the com munity of European States and Powers.' His Lordship could hardly have spoken more strongly, and he still further adds that, if the Emperor of RUSSIA held Poland as part of his original domi nions, or had acquired it by the unassisted success of his arms, he might have refused to listen to the dictates of generosity and justice, and in conse quence of the revolt of a portion of the Poles, have visited his displeasure upon them and their descen dants for ever, by depriving them of their privileges and confiscating their liberties. But the position of Poland is entirely different, for Russia had made a solemn stipulation with the European Powers, by virtue of which treaty she held Poland, and no re volt of the Poles could annul the engagement or obliterate the signatures. Finally, Lord RUSSELL adverts to the issue of the struggle, and states that whether quelled speedily or at a more prolonged period, it cannot be done without great sacrifice; and her Majesty's Government, therefore, would submit to the Impel ial Government that Russia has duties to fulfil, as a member of the community of European nations, besides the obligations that. treaties may impose. This is all that can be desired, and it is most errnestly to be trusted that it may have some weight with the Imperial Government. Earl RUSSELL is always great in his despatches; they often exhibit such force and decision that they appear worthy to be models for statesmen to study. The misfortune is, that it is by this time pretty well acknow ledged as a fact that no results ever ensue from these admirable communications with Foreign Powers. Lord RUSSELL'S remarks on the amnesty are also most excellent, and he plainly states his conviction that the terms pro posed to the Poles are not such as they are likely to agree to, and are not uttered in the right spirit of conciliation. Certainly these despatches are worthy of proceeding from the Government of Great Britain, and exhibit a force and display a straightforwardness that are worthy of the occasion. All that is wanting to complete the satisfaction that is occasioned by their perusal is the fear that they be deemed conclusive on both sides, that Lord RUSSELL will think he has done enough, and that the Emperor of RUSSIA will not expect that more will be done to follow up this remonstrance. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVit,'NENG, ,APRIL 30, 1863. Senor Julian Areas' Matinee Musicale. A very agreeable and recherda entertainment was given yesterday afternoon in Collard's Concert Rooms, Grosve nor-street. Senor Areas is the most accomplished per former on what may almost be called the Spanish national instrument that we ever listened to. The varieties of tone and expression which he drew from the few simpl e strings of the guitar were really marvellous, and called forth the warm applause of a select audience. In variations of the famous " Carnival de Venise," in fantasias of his own com position, in Spanish romances and baleros, and more espe cially in a selection of airs from " Trovatore," he displayed his singular skill. His performance of the celebrated " Miserere" brought at once before the mind the well. known scene by the lonely tower, the agitated search of Leonora, and the exquisite melody heard from the unseen prisoner, Senor Areas was ably assisted by Miss Saunders and Miss Bennett, the former lady a vocalist of some power, the latter a pianiste of considerable skill. Miss Bennett, who has not hitherto been much before the pub lic, is likely to become a valuable addition to our concert rooms. We may add that the concert giver avoided the common error of too great length, which frequently renders the best musical entertainment somewhat tedious. THE ST. GILES'S MURDER 9--t....usPlcloUs DISAP PEARANCE.—On Thursday evtniug, a man was found lying on the roadside, between Coatbridge and the village of Coatdyke, in a state of unconsciousness, and ap parently dying. He was brought to the office by the police, and properly attended to. On being able to speak be stated that his name was Louis Smith, ana he belonged to Man chester. He seemed to be a foreigner by his speech and broken English, and, as soon as he had recovered so far as to be able to walk, he was taken to the Old Monkland Poor house, where a suit of clothes, the property of the institu tion, was provided him, and he was otherwise well attended to. This sort of confinement did not appear to please his fancy, for on Friday night he scaled the wall which sur rounds the grounds and made off. This anxiety to depart aroused certain suspicions that may yet turn out to be well founded—viz., that his description tallies in almost every respect to that given of the murderer of the girl lately in a house of ill fame in London, and for whose apprehension a reward of £lOO is offered by the authorities. The same man was at Hamilton on Monday last, and was taken care of by the police under circumstances somewhat similar.—Glas gow Herald. CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling Day, Wed nesday, April 29.—Admissions on payment, 1,229; ditto by season tickets, 788 ; total, 2,017. I MODERN LOVE.—A correspondent of a contem porary says :—" It is my duty to impress upon you the certain fact that one half of our young people lose their senses when they lose their hearts. One of our party has already written five letters to his ladye-love, and he goes about groaning and Eighing in the most pitiable manner. He has no appetite and sleeps up at the top of the house, close to the moon. He cannot stand by one of the columns of the piazza without putting his arms round its waist; and I caught him kissing an apple to-day, because it had red cheeks."-41merscan Paper. ABRAHAM..WhiIe I was contemplating this in teresting scene I saw the President suddenly emerge from his private room and walk excitedly into another apartment. Never was Iso astonished in the man. Three years ago I knew him to be tall, straight, and well-propor tioned. Now he burst through the door a careworn old man —his body went forward, his face pallid, and, in place of the stately appearance he might be supposed to make, he his arms backward an d f orward there I Stopping sh or t a t hi s d oor ' a s o h sh u he ! what was astalong, areturning, change was swinging h e seemed greatly perplexed, and: turning about, he exclaimed, " I said I would see no more gentlemen to-day," and closed the door with some noise Buffalo Courier. w a il s r a y A. N. L a nlkßeoeN, the Sn F o E t h IIerIA:,LaTsFnA,Cf.TURHEeRSt. safes, and then it was exposed for three days to the most hat told his s tory. A game coc k h a d b e en abut up in one of his he wasn't, ile intense heat. When the door was opened the cock stalked out, flapped his wings, and crowed loudly, as if nothing had happened 1 It was now the Yankee's turn. A cock had also been shut up in one of his safes, with a pound of fresh butter, and the safe was subjected to a most tremendous heat for more than one week. The legs of the safe were melted off, and the door itself was so far fused as to 1- , :quire a cold chisel to open it. When it was opened. the cock was found frozen dead, and the butter so solid that a man who knocked off a piece of it with a hammer had his eye put out by a frozen butter splinter, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) POLAND. WARSAW, APRIL 25, EVENING. A recent arbitrary act has excited public indig nation anew against the name of Wielopolski. Since the time when Prince Gortschakoff replaced Paz kiewicz as Viceroy nothing so flagrantly urjust in administrative matters has been perpetrated here. The cause of complaint is briefly thus :—For some time past it has been intended to improve the health of the city, unhappily notorious for an extraordi nary high rate of mortality, by amended water supply and drainage. The town council lately in office had been very zealous in the matter, and we Dow learn from official quarters that Count Sigis mund Wielepolski, the President of the town, has of his own accord placed this undertaking, which will entail upon the citizens an expense of two million florins, in the hands of an Englishman, upon terms which double the estimate of the engineers engaged by the town council to prepare the scheme. The financial management of the enterprise is en trusted to the banker, Laski, a very intim a t e f r i en d of the Wielopoiski family, and report whispers that the President himself is not without some interest in the affair. Suspicions of this description find general belief in a land of universal corruption when officials venture on such arbitrary proceedings, and tend to increase the stock of inflammable materials already largely present among the population. Nor does the Government aid in decreasing the elements of danger by orders like that of yesterday, forbid ding religious processions in the streets. These solemnities take place every year at the end of April or the beginning of May. The clergy walk in procession from one church to another, in order corresponding with the rank in the hierarchy of the patron saint to whom the church is dedicated. Until recently they met with little public interest. In 1861, however, when the discontented party, failing or ganised and defined concentration, were glad to avail themselves of ecclesiastical means of agitation, the processions were made the vehicles of political demonstrations by the people, who attended them singing patriotic hymns in their progress through the streets. Last year Archbishop Felinski, then friendly to the Government, forbade the processions on account of the state of siege. Whence the chief ecclesiastical dignitary in the country has been in spired this year with precisely opposite sentiments I am unable to divine; it is sufficient to chronicle that upon this occasion, spite of the state of siege, the archbishop insisted that the processions should take place. It wts in vain that the Minister of Public Worship and the Chief of the Police negotiated , with the high dignitary even as late as yesterday. No arguments they could adduce were able to move him from his purpose. If the Government had a better memory they would surely have remembered in what an unpleasant predicament they were placed by the temporary Archbishop Bialobrzeshi closing the churches, and that it was only through the compliance of Rome they could obtazn a suc cessor, who made his debut by reopening the sacred edifices. To bring this extraordinarily delicate subject once more into prominent notice at this cri tical period, and to go to loggerheads with the clergy, worst of all with Archbishop Felinski, whom they had hitherto used as a tool,was a step to which, one would think, the Government could only have been advised by their most virulent enemies. The appointed processsion, from Liszno to the Elector's-street, came off, therefore, to-day with due t formality and perfect quiet, the Governmental pro hibition being violated unpunished by the people. But after the termination of the ceremony all the clergy who had participated, among whom was canon Wyszynski,who only returned a few months ago from Siberia, were arrested, and carried off to the citadel. The party of agitation is, of course, overjoyed at this blunder of the Government, which must lead to further collisions. But I grieve to say that I perceive in the matter the commence ment of a rising in Warsaw, which the Govern ment will have the dismal merit of having brought about. _ Had they not issued the prohibition, the present leaders of the revolution would not have dreamt of using the processions for their own pur poses, as they have already seen, in the case of Felinski himself, how perilous to freedom is an alliance with the superior clergy. But through this ill judged prohibition the processions are now stamped as political demonstrations, from holding which neither the people nor the clergy will allow themselves to be restrained; and, therefore, I repeat it is to be feared that melancholy sights will soon be seen in Warsaw. A story of an act of revolutionary vengeance is current here. In the middle of last week a post chaise arrived at a small town not far from Wloc lawek. The occupant of the vehicle, a well-dressed person, sought out a police official suspected of being a Russian spy, arid begged his assistance to follow up the traces of two horses which he stated had been stolen from him. The policeman obtained per mission from his superior to accompany the stranger. The two got into the postchaise, and drove out of the town, where their vehicle was seen to be fol lowed by another. To the side of the high road, outside the town, is situated a small wood, into which. by the wheel-tracks, both carriages nous) have passed. Here the policeman was afterwards discovered, hanged, with a sign upon the tree be side the corpse, designating the execution as au act of political vengeance. While Fate overtakes a spy, Fortune bestows her favours upon the bold. One of the prizes in the recent Prussian Lottery, amounting to 50,0 .0 thalere, fell to the lot of a resident in Kempen. When he received the news of his good fortune he had joined one of the corps of insurgents, and had the money forwarded to him in camp. PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY. Messrs. T. and W. Smith's ship St. Lawrence, 1,200 tons, Capt. Joseph Tai nbee, has passed up Channel. From Calcutta, Jan. 22, and Table Bay, March 6. She brings a general Calcutta cargo, with a large quantity of indigo and shell lac. Her passengers are—From Calcutta—Col. A. K. Ather ley, 92d Highlanders, Mrs. Atherley, and 4 chil dren ; Mrs. Col. AL.xv i r e n a nd 3 children, Col. and Mrs. J. W. Carter and 2 children, Col. and Mrs. T. C. Blagrave, Mrs. Col. Cos and 5 children, Major J. S. Dunbar (Bengal Steil' Corps), Capt. and Mrs. Ramsay, Madras army, Capt. and Mrs. Baggs, Capt. Miller, 52d N. 1., Capt. C. Bailey, 17th N. 1., Dr. C. M. lie.nderson, Dr. Reid, 20th Hussars, Lieu! s G. Stainforth, 4th Sikh infantry, M. Rind, 107th Regiment, P. Brind, 44th NJ., Richards, 94th Regiment, B. Arbuckle, RA , Mrs. Chevers and 3 children, Mrs. Simpson, Mrs. Taylor and 3 children, Mrs. Hann a h and 4 children, Mrs. Duncan and 4 children, Mrs. Wood and 3 children, Mrs. Turner, Mrs. Mayes and child, Mrs. Ander son and 2 children, Miss Newton, Miss Maxwell, Messrs. H. H. Brakspear and Coiappini. From the Cape of Good Hope—Mrs. Fellowes and Mr. Finlay. The St. Lawrence spoke Feb. 13, in 22 S. 67 E. the Dutch barque Hendiana ; Feb. 27, in 34 S. 25 E., the ship Annott Lyle, from Bombay for Liverpool, 44 days out; March 25, near the Equator, in W,, French ship Montisquier, from Bordeaux, for Monte Video, and Harvest Home, from London, 35 days out ; March 29, in 3 N. 24 W., the Eliza Ann, from Colombo for London, 85 days out; April 18, in 42 N. 28 W., boarded the Wooloo mooloo, from Sydney for London, 93 days out , April 26, in 49 N. 9 W., the ship Windsor Castle, 96 days, from Bombay for London ; and the barque Highland Brigade, standing to the westward. The above news only arlived in London at 11.30 a.m., to-day (Thursday), although despatched by train from Plymouth yesterday afternoon. PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY MORNING Brookfield-house, Binstead, near Ryde, the marine seat of Lord Burghley, has been destroyed by fire, Furniture and effects saved. No lives lost, ANOTHER RUMOUR OP CARDINAL ANTONELLI'S RESIGNATION. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. TURIN, ARBIL 27, 3 35 P.M Yesterday a German priest left Civita Vecchia, for Genoa, by the steamer Prince Napoleon. He is supposed to be the bearer of despatches to Car dinal Do Angelis announcing the resignation of Cardinal Antonelli, and calling De Angelis to be the head of the Pontifical Government: Some time since we had occasion, it may be re membered, to give a formal end positive con'radic tion to a precisely similar rumour. Cardinal Ante nolli was then quite as confidently stated to have tendered his resignation—his eminence really and truly, as we then remarked in this jour nal, never having done anything of the kind. Now that the rumour is again cropping up in the form of the above very roundabout little telegram, we may be permitted at least to doubt its accuracy, uatil such time as it may come to us from some more reliable direction than Turin. It will be seen from the wording of the telegram that the mysteriously anonymous " Germ ,, n priest" (why German ?) left Civita Vecchia for Geno!, in order to summonCirdi nal De Angelis at once to Rome. there to assume Cardinal Antonelles vacated (?) post at the bead of the Pontifical Government. A voyageacross from Civita Vecchia to Genoa, being rather a circu:tons route, by the bye, for any one to have selected, on his way to Fermo, of which city in the Marshes Cardinal 1)e Angelis is Archbishop. If in " durance" further to the north like so many other of the Italian dignitaries, Cardinal DE ANGELIS is hardly likely to be the one selected by the POPE to replace ANTONELLl—sup posing (which we don't) that ANTONELLI has really resignFd. Yet supposing this summons actually to have been issued—what are those words of SHAKESPEARE ? " You may call spirits (for Spirits here read Angelip,) from the vasty deep, but will they come ?" THE BRAZILS. LISBON, APRIL 30. The royal mail steamer M ,gdalena, from the Brazils, arrived here yesterday, and will leave for Southampton at 7 a.m. to-day, with 123 passengers, 1,300 bags of coffee, 862 bales of tobacco, 30 bales of cotton, and 216 packages of sundries. MEXICO. PARIS, APRIL 30. The Government has received despatches from General Forey confirming the investiture of Puebla by the French forces. Tile French headquarters are established on the Cerro San Juan. The town is completely invested. The convents have been fortified, and earthworks are erected in the open country. The garrison of the place is estimated to number 18,000. The telegraph line between Puebla and Mexico has been destroyed. The whole population round Puebla is favourable to the French intervention, The sanitary condition of the French troops is excellent, and the army is full of ardour. The offi cial report says, in conclusion :—" We have cut the aqueduct and command all the roads." FRANCE. PARIS, APRIL 30. BOURSE, April 29.—Tbe market has been more buoyant, and the business has been at an advance on the closing rates of yesterday. Threes, for the Account, are now firm at 69f. 25c. Mobilier Shares have also improved. The Railway Share Market is firm, with a rise on some of the lines. The market closed as follows: 4t per Cents. 96 60 r Italian Loan 7l 90 Do, end month.... Do. end month — 3 per Cents - -- Do. end month..., 69 40 Do. end month.... Credit Mobilier .... 1415 Russian Do. end month.... 1416 25 Austrian - Bank Shares 3: , 75 Spani,h Threes.... 521- Credit loncier 1470 Home Debt - RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans . ... 1015 .. 1015 Northern .... New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1157 50 .. 1158 75 Geneva.,.. Southern Western ..., .. Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian I ,f)TP bard North of Spain Saragossa 747 50 .. 347 50 Ditto to Barcelona DEATH OF LORD MASSAREENE.—.A telegram from Dublin conveys the melancholy intelligence of the death or Lord Massareene, which occurred shortly before eleven o'clock on Tuesday night. DEATH CF LADY SEATON.---The family of Lord Seaton has jumt sustained a most Lii.,ming bereave ment in the sudden death of Lady Seaton. This sad event, following closely upon the death of Field Marshal Lord Seaton, will occasion universal sympathy for the family. On the 17th of the present month the gallant old soldier, Lord Seaton, peacefully breathed his last at Valetta House, Torquay, His lordship's eldest son, with his wife, was staying at the same residence. - Within a few hours after her father-in-law's death the Hon. Mrs. Colborne, who had just become Lady Seaton, g.,ve birth to twins. Not withstanding the na•ural distress arising from the decease of Lord Seaton her ladyship progressed as favourably as circumstances gave a right to expect. On Saturday, how ever, a sudden change for the worse took place, and her ladyship expired the same night, to the infinite grief of her husband and friends. Lady Seaton was only 37 years of age. She was born in 1826, and at the age of 25 married the present Lord Seaton—Major the Hon. James Colborne. Her ladysnip was the youngest daughter of the second Lord Down: a. EGYTTIAN HALL—Among those who have le cent iy accepted Mr, Edmund Yates's "Invitations" to the Egyptian Hall are the following distinguished visi tors :—The Duke and Duchess of Manchester and Vis count Mandeville, the Earl of Essex, the Nia , quis of Clan ricarde, Lord Dunkellin, M.P , Viecount Chelsea, Ddy Egerton, of Tattoo, and the Hon Misses Egerton, Lady Cornwallis, Lady Camoys, Lady Howard, Lady Morton Peto, Sir Charles Young, Lady Edwin Landseer, Mr. Roebuck, M.P„ Mr, Chas. Dickens, Mr. Friih, R.A.., Mr. Sheriff Jones, &c. CRYSTAL PALACE.—The offices at Exeter Hall will be open till 7 o'clock this evening for the sale of tickets for the great musical performance of " Athalie," &c., at the Crystal Palace to-morrow, which will commerce at three o'clock, and is expected to terminate about six. THE NEW TEA DUTlES.—Upwards of 21,000 entries for were passed in the London Custom House on the 25th inst., when the reduced duty of is. per pound took effect. These en ries released 3i million pounds from the various metropolitan bonded warehouses, and yielded £175,000 to the customs revenue. FRENCH MAN OF-WAR 1N BURNTISLAND Ro IDS. Early ou Monday morning the Dance, a French screw steam frigate of 30 guns and 360 men, Commandant Choyou, came up the Firth and anchored in 1 urnrWand roads. object in visit,ng this quarter is, we under stand, to coal and water previous to proceeding to the north to protect the fisheries. She l'es about a quarter of a mile off Burntisland harbour, opposite the railway pier, where she will remain for the next five or six days.—Scotsman. THE PUBLIC OFFICES.—The annual retur❑ of the increase or diminution in the salaries and expenses of the retiring allowances of the public offices or departments shows a decrease of £7,953 in the year 1862. In the Post office there was an increase of £20,6` 8, and at the Admiralty of £7,330. In the Customs there was a diminution of £17,781, and in the Inland Revenue Department of 426,116, • C our t - Cl,tratlar iP o HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, April 29. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Princess Louis of Hesse, drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by Major-General the Hon. A N. Hood on horseback. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred and Princess Helena, attended by Lidy Caroline Thrringtou, Sir W. Haste, and M,jor Cowell, re urned to Windsor Castle to-day from Buckingham Palace. The Queen Marie Arnetie, accompanied by the Count of Paris and the Duke of Chartres, visited the Queen. His Grand Ducal Highness Prince Alexander of Hesse and his Grand Ducal Highness Prince Henry of Hesse and suite have arrived at Maurigy's Hotel from Windsor Castle. The Duke de Colenze has arrived at Maurigy's Hotel from Naples. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland re ceived at dinner last evening Lord and Lady Lovaine, Lord and Lady Colchester, Sir Fredei ie and Lady Smith, Gen. Sabine, Professor Owen, Captain Denham, R N., Mr. Cheney, Mr. F. B uckland, Dr. Bence Jones, and a select party at Northumberland House. The Earl and Countess of Yarborough have arrived in Arlington -street from Brockleaby Park. Lord Palmerston was summoned to the Q.leen at Windsor, and was therefore unable to vole in favour of Sir John Trelawny's bill for abo'ishing church rates. The Earl Russell, in compliance with the Queen's command, left town last evening for Windsor Cas le, on a visit to her Majesty. Tho Countes, of Listowel and the Ladies Adela and Helena Hare have arrived at 34, Belgrave-square, from Brocklesby Park, Lincoln, for the season. The Earl and Countess C--theart have arrived at Maurigy's Hotel from Thornton-le-Street, near Thirsk, Yorkshire. The Earl and Countess of Fingal have arrived at he Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. The Countess Cowper received a small party of visitors last night at the family residence in St. James's. square. The Lord Bishop of London and Mrs. Tait have issued invitations for a large reception at London House, St. James's-square, this evening. Ile marriage of Col. R. Taylor, C.R., and Lady Jane Hay, daughter of the Marquis of Tweeddale, and sinter of the Duchess of Wellington and Lady Emily Peel, will take place in June. Lady de Rothschild had a dancing party last night at her ladyship's residence, Grosvenor-place-houses. Admiral Sir Frederick Grey has quite r covered from his recent illness, and has resumed his official duties at the Admiralty. The Right Hon. James and the Hon. Mrs. Stuart-Wortley have experienced a severe 1 es by the death of a son, aged 10 years, who expired yesterday of scarlet fever at East Sheen, Sur: - ey. WEDDING PRESENTS TO THE PRINCESS OF W ALES. — Yksterday afternoon the Prince f...t Waif's sen , to the South Kensington Museum, to be exhini ed with the other presents until the 4th of May, a case of gold ornaments, consisting of a tiara in the form of bay leaves, with a necklace, &0., manufactured in Rome after ancient Etruscan models. The present was made by 49 British subjects residing at Rome, at the period of his royal high ness's marriage. LITERATURE. For Ever ! (r the Final State of the Redeemed Considered. Shaw and Co. This very beautiful and consolatory volume will be read with pleasure and interest by many. Very happy is the quotation on the title-page from Mrs. Norton's " Child of the Island ": " Oh, there is need for permanent belief In the ad-equal world of j.,y to comp, Need for such solace to the restless grief, And heavy troubles of our earthly home." We have glanced over the pages of " For Ever" with considerable interest, although we have not coin cided with all the author's opinions. We very sin cerely appreciate, throughout the volume, the very reverent spirit in which the awful topics of the work are treated. So reverently are these all-important themes discussed, and so tenderly are the sublime teachings of revelation dwelt upon, that even those who do not agree with the writer's deductions as to particulars, may peruse with very great plea sure and meditate over with, we doubt not, very considerable profit, these anticipated glimpses of the world beyond the grave. As an instance of the writer's peculiarly felicitous power of description, let us transcribe from the commencement of the volume the picture of man in " his primeval Innocence " There we see him made after the likeness of the Infi nite, created 'an image of God's own eternity,' standing with his helpmeet alone in the freshness of the new earth's beauty; that earth filled with things innumerable, all in tended to minister to his wants, or gratify his sen es--a mind at peace with God and with itself, a disposition at tuned only to adoration and. to love —and power given him to use all things for his p?easure. Such was the bliss of man with respect to this rnatetial world only; but his hap piness did not end here. He posse s•ed withm him a prin ciple of life, and as yet death did not struggle for the mas tery. His life was an unclouded ray, an emanation of the lite of the Eternal ; God was his companion and his friend. In that garden which was planted by infinite skill, the Creator condescended to converse with the creature of his power and love, and man was permi•ted to hold such com munion with Jehovah as a child with the parent he re• veres, It is not fanciful, then, to contemplate him for a moment in our mina's eye, with angels his familiar friends, the heavenly hosts his constant visitants; to suppose him elevated by such intercourse into a fi ress for that 'high estate,' and to conclude that the presence of the ' High and Holy One' had so made Paradise a heaven, and sanctified the garden into a holy place, that our first parent could scarcely have needed a change nto the heavens above to inerea e his blessedness, for he had the company of heaven, * and the 'very God' Himself present to constitute his earth a heaven. To ' see Him as He is,' to converse face to face with the Triune E ernel, we are taught to believe the highest point or bliss to which created beings can attain, as involving all others; and yet this was the portion of the fir. t man—of unsinning Adam I" OL:e great object of the book, as the author very happi,y explains to us, is " to show what is revealed rather than to analyse that revelation ; to point cu . what is our hope, not to intrude into the still hidden mystery of how that hope can be realised. We have simply to inquire " What," God will arrange the " How." And in that assurance poor Human Nature may rest satisfied. Man's anxieties and aspirations perplex him in vain—" there," let them " Alike, in trembling hope repos- , , The bosom of his Father and his God." We differ from the writer of these very eloquent pages in the stress laid upon the equality of the future state. Many illustrations are brought forward from the prophe2ies of the Old Testament, and from the parables of the New, to prove the equality of happiness enjoyed by all who have once passed the golden gate. These columns are not the acting place for the discussion of religious subjects, and we will therefor e content ourselves with acknowledging the logical clearness with which the writer's vielAs are expounded and the very free and impartial spirit with which those views are enforced. We feel assured that upon further consideration one so true hearted in the pursuit of truth, and so submissive and reverent itl its acceptation when recognised, will come to a conclusion more in accordance with the general teaching of the Christian world. "No Cross, no Crown," is a familiar adage to us all —according to the manner in which the Cross is borne in this word will be proportioned the glory of the Crown in the hereafter. Apart from the opinions in which the reader may d ffer from the writer of this very earnest little volume, there is much in its pages that will appeal to the heart of every Christian. The beautiful truths of revelation, so consoling to all who love and suffer, but who ale,o hope and believe, are here set forth most tenderly and earnest,y : " There, in the soft and beautiful Belief, Flows th • true Lethe for the tips of Grief; There, Penury, Hunger, Mis< ry, cast their eyes, How soon the bright Republic of the Skies!" GEOGRAPIIICAL FEAT.—Sir Roderick Murchison writes to the Times, intimating that he has "just received from Mr. Layard, M P., Under-secretary for Fo reign Affairs, the intelligence, so highly gratifying to all geographers, that Captains Speke and Giant have corn plettd their arduous j•iurney across Yistern and Ceneral Africa, from Zanzibar to Kh4r 'An, by the White Nile, where they arrived in safety. As the news has only reached the Foreign-office in a telegram from Alexandria, the exact line followed is not known," Briton Medical and General Life Association. ANNUAL ME E I'ING—T 0-DAY. The ninth ordinary annual meeting of the sharehold of this association was held to-day, at the chief office, 4 Strand, for the purpose of receiving the directors' rep for the past year, for electing directors and auditors, I declaration of a dividend, and transacting the ordinS business of the association. Dr. G. H. Barlow, the chairman of the board of direct° presided. The directors' annual report, read by the Secretary (Jo Messent, Esq.), was as follows : "The directors experience unqualified satisfaction meeting the sharehnlders and ). embers of the associatic and laying before them the following statement respeoti its progress and position is— "ln the past year the directors have received 2, 5 i proposals for assuring £653,238. Of these 174 f r assuri £49,048, have been declined, 563 pr.posals for assuri £9 ,735 have not been carried out, while 197 were and consideration at the close of the year. The remainder ha been c mpleted, and 2,023 policies issued, assuring the au of £459,540, and producing in annual premiums the su of £15,275 13s. 6d. ; being an increase of over 60 per um on the returns of the previous twelve months. "Nine annuities have been granted, foi which the asi ciation has received £1,177 9s. " The following table exhibits the progress of the ass ciation during the last five years : No. of Amount No of Amount Annual proposals, proposed, policies, assured, p r ,rniutni 1858..1,976 Z 395,815 1,342 £262,815 .. £8,328 1 4 1859..2,370 430,265 1,751 .. 314,240 .. 9,751 16 1860 ..2,405 .. 466.788 .. 1,805 .. 3 i 6,16 .. 10,023 12 1861..2,512 .. 482.950 .. L 839 .. 349,990 .. 10,084 15 1862..2,810 .. 653,238 2,023 .. 459,,,40 15,275 13 " The claims have been 97 in number, and amount (le £5OO reassured) to £26,373 1 ls. 7d., which sum includes claims for £2,375, admitted but not due at the close of ti accounts. " The balance sheet and cash account, which are ant milted herewith, show the total income for the year to hat been £90,780 13a. After the payment of claims, annuitie dividends, re-assurances, and V other outgoings, ti balance on the year's transactions in favour of the associl tion is £40,469 10s. 4d. This sum has been duly carried I the Assurance Reserve Fund, which now amounts I £146,520 2s. Ild, " A dividend at the rate of £6 per cent, per annum, frl of income-tax, is recommended. " The directors who retire by rotation, in accordance wil the deeds of settlement, are Dr. G. H. Barlow, Mr. Georg Chapman, and Mr. Wilson Ancell, who being eligible, O themselves for re-election. "During the past year the amalgamation between tb "New Equitable" and the "Briton" has been finally con) pleted, and the united companies, with the special permit sion of the Board of Trade, have adopted as a title tb " Briton Medical and General Life Association ;" tbi name representing toe two interests upon which the bust ness of the institution mainly depends. " The directors have also entered into arrangement whereby they have acquired the assets and lire business 0 the Unity General Assurance Association. From the larg additional connection thus secured much advantage is no ticipated. This arrangement having been made late in the year, there has not been time to show the entire results 0 the transaction in the present balance sheet, but the diree' tore have every reason to be gratified with them so far el they have already been developed. "This being the period appointed by the deed of settle' intent for the valuation of the assets and liabilities of tbt Association, with a view to the declaration of a bonus, til l directors have instructed their consulting actuary, Arthur Scratchley, Esq., M.A., to make the necessary investige' tions the extensive transactions of the company rende r this operation one of considerable magnitude and cnflimi t /' and it has consequ ent l y b een found i mpossible to conclude it in time to embody the results in this report. The dire' tors, however, confidently anticipate a most favourable con' Cusion to the lattours of their actuary. " the directors feel great pleasure in welcoming the shareholders and memoers to the new offices of the ago:tele' tion. The former premises were found too small to accorr modale the staff required to carry on the extended o pera' tions ~f .he company; and the directors, after due conaid e° tion, deemed it advisable co embrace the opportunity whi' offered of securing a long lease of the noble and comin° - dious building in which the business of the association f° now conducted. " l'he two great f ea t ures o f th e B riton Medica l and General Life Association are, that it asserts more co; pletely than any other office the important principle doing justice to the medical profession, whose services to the c iuse of life assurance are pre-eminent ; and that it WO; duced into the practi ce o f lif e assurance the nove l at; equitable plan o f ma ki ng or di nary life policies pa yable during the life. time of th e assure d . W herever th i s plan IP' , been inown, it has been approved, and the directors b e n ; have it will be found peculiarly applicable to the preen assurances of medical, and a ll o th er pro f essional men, o r o f those whose incom e s i n an y way d epend upon the exer m" of their mental or physical powers. "In reviewing generally the progress of the as sociatie li ; the directors feel they ma y j ust l y an d fa i rly congratu l a te tb proprietors on the position it has attained. " The present income of the association may be estimate at over £ [lO,OOO per annum, " The funds in hand amount to £lBO,OOO, " The new business is progressing at the rate of uns irit £16,000 per annum. " The association has over 2,000 active agents residing t ill ' the United Kingiora lV and abroad, who are d a il y co ntrib . ing to its prosperity. " From the foregoing it will be seen that the future Pr°e , 6 pacts of the a ssoc i at i on are most encouraging, and that ''.l3t success the directors anticip a t e d h as b een to a large eate n achieved. The directors, h owever , i nv i te the earnest e°, operation and assistance of the num erous f r i ends o f they, ciety still further to edvance its i nterests, and more sin( fastly to promote those great and j us t pr i nc i p l es was founded to establish." or The CHAIRMAN, in mo v i ng th e recept i on and a d o ption t the report, congratulated the meeting on the very e l : success that has attended the operations of the Associt tti° 4 during the past year. The revenue had largely incr ease during th ,t pe r i o d, an d one of the most gra tiffl features in th e report, which they had just betirol read, he considered to be the fact that, after paying claims, the directors had been enabled to add nearly b alf their annual income to the reserve fund. (Hear, be : o 3 The annual p rem i ums h ad increased 50 per cent. eon* 0,1 with last year, and he was sure they would all feel satiss with another announc emen t , namely, that t h e diree tt ' o were enabled t o d ec l are a dividend at the rate r u " .) 6 per cent f ree o f i ncome tax. (Hear, bet.% The large fun •1 th e assoc i at i on h a d i n hand was the ' t and most substantial gu ar a n t e e to the p u bli c f or its safe 0( and security, and with continued exerti o n on the 0 4 to their friends next, he felt he should live to congrattilii them on an increase of their success, (Cheers.) The motion for the adopti on o f the report was care rga unanimously. The retiring dir ec t ors h aving been re elected. a "te 01 thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings' MANCHESTER EMIGRANTS' AID CoM3lr ,rll o ol# A general meeting ot the Emigrants' A'd ha tli mittee for the Cotton districts was held at the Town - 0 0 Manchester, y es t er d a y, w h en t h e E xecut i ve Colo Wilt t reported that since the last meeting 122 persons o b° ol% emigrate to New Zealand had been assisted in pip e " do' their outfit, at a total cost of £l3O. 'I he corolni, f tlee w i gb4 cided to accept a rroposal made by Mr. J. a tb Commissioner for Victoria, to find aEsi,ted passage° - o t of colony ot Vict,ria for upwards of 300 persons, I: te whom have been already se l ec t e d. 1 his will ific°' outlay by the committee of £l,lOO at the least. ne t : EXTENSIVE FIRE IN LAMBETH.—Yeateruag IA a to noon a fire to o k pl ace on the premises belorig i° Pla Mr. W. W. Pettitt, dealer in china and glass, situat e :f o i l rear of No. 13, Lambeth-walk, nearly facing B e % tie Rigged Sch oo l s . Th e di saster commenced f ro m s° l3l a d known cause, in a timber building 70 feet long, tor stores adjoining another ran ge o f woo d en b u ildings , Pi o t ing to Mr. L ee , b u t c h er , an d w hi c h exten ded s° to t 0 length, and with such fury did th e fire progress 4ta cir the course of a few minutes th e fl ames com menced ' w ill° ing the stables belonging to Mr. Blair, a greengrool l ' a col' same ,horoughfare. The en g i nes soon arr i ve d, but th e of flagrtitioa was not extinguizhed until a serious ar a° mischief was done. col iel THE FRENCH INSTITUTE.—Mr. Arthu r 00 Fellow otTrinityCollege,Cambridge, has bee n t i l d e ; corresponding member of th e I ns ti tu t e o f France : n ee/ tli partment of astr o no m y. Th e name o f M. Otto Sti butt, distinguished as ronoraer, was under co nsiderationtou 001 Cayley's claims were de eme d su p er i or ,— a fact Wil l c ol enhances the valu e o f th e h onour con f er red. I ‘ ll. ' 01 1 0 was Senior Wrangler and Senior Smith's P Eige r° anl is well known in the s. itentific world from his in uti tions in the higher b ranc h es o f p ure an alysis an d alla astronomy. ry ni b GALE AT LIVERPOOL.—Between .11es Jai - -le and yesterday morning there was a s ironglr a sbtP wind at Liverpool and its neighbourhood. Of L iverP,a ' S irah Palmer, Captain Reid, from Calcutta lb' tear'''. The t went ash , ,re yesterday morning eff Tuscan is so l a Rattler w, nt to her assistance. One beat's crew is ° O O be missing. On Tuesday evening the An' yorki dr i3 oo William Tapscatt, in the river, bound for Newel about on Pluckington Bank and remains. She ha inf`flf' emigrants on board. is 424 P er erli 9g.. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold er X 1 st abo us and the short exchange on London is 13. 51 therefoe, tandard ,tiold at the English Mint price uur g, A t for btiP 6-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Co l d l a ie ys co , si ht iesxlc6h7antogea ion t pere v e Yo rk e,t. , O a n n l d ;: i r n o r 11 ; ° °j:tS gol is about 654 per cent. At these rate _ln a. 011, the impertation of gold from the 'U nited 161s1