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OYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT AN GIRD Ti; N.—Mr. Gye has the honour to announce that the OPERA SEASON of 18 3 will c)mmence on TUESDAY, April 7. The Prospectus with lull particulars may be ob tained at the Box-office, and at the principal nausicsellers and librarians. THE AT R E-R YA L, DRURY-LANE. -- Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. On EASTER MONDAY, for the 347th time in London, PEEP O'DAY. Mefprs. Henry Lorraine, Walter Lacy, C Verner, Addison, J. Graham. G. Spencer, T. Neville, do. ; Misses Cleveland, Clara Weston, M. Hudson, &C. To conclude with MAGIC TOYS. Valentine, Ml , s Lydia Thompson. Commence at 7. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAY MARKET. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Bnckstone. On EASTER MONDAY, will be pe rformed MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Hero, Miss Ellen ferry; Beatrice, 3liss Louisa Angel. After which, an apropos Dramatic Sketch, itroducing a Panorama of the To . ;r of the PrinCe of Wales in n the East. To conclude with BORROWING A HUSBAND. Pamela her first appearance), Miss Maria Harris. THEATRE ROYAL 'LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER. On EASTER MONDAY, to commence with an Original %ketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, tiarden, Ff. Widdicomb, Mlss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic Drama , in Three Acts , a nd Prilogue, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter, suonorted by Messrs. G. Vining, J. Brougham, H. V, iddi com6,, DPlntyre, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, H. Lutle;, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E. AVelltle, and Elsworthy. Stage-Manager, Mr. G. Vining. Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Lessee and Manager, Mr Lindux. On Easter Monday the drama of AURORA FLOYD. Miss Amy Sedgwick, Miss Henderson, and Mrs. Simpson ; Messrs. Rozby, G. Melville, G. Belmore, C. Seyton, Wallace, and Collett. To conclude with a new whimsical Extravanza, entitled BEA UTIFUL HAIDER: ; or The Sea Nymph ac,, and the Sallee Rovers. NgVir THEATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHL- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. To-morrow Evening (15th time) AURORA. FLOYD. Miss Avonia Jones, Miss H. Simms, Mrs. Billington ; Mr. Benj. Webster, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Billington, Mr. Stuart , Mr. Sefton, Mr. Romer, Mr. C. J. Smith. - After which, A VALENTINE : Messrs. J . . L. Toole, Paul B e dford, Miss Kate Kelly, and Miss Seaman Commence at 7. nil FIE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN , " IL Containing the LAtest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaugbt-terrace, Hyde-park. NOTICE. THE WEDDING SUN Is still Publishing• The Weather--Sun Office, April 3, 1863. THERMOMETER. Highest since Noon yesterday • 50 Lowest during the night This day at Noon 49 Wind—N. -Westerly; light, with fine but cloudy weather, HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY. —Morning, lh. 36m.—Afternoon, Ih. 55m. To-moanovf.-Morning, 2h. 14m.—Afternoon, 2h. 30m. $ r).30-..........AzT0p0 „Ns) LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1863. The American news which we have lately pub lished does not tell us of any striking event or de cisive encounter. Its tone, however, only confirms the opinion which has for some time been gaining ground in this country, that the subjugation of the South is hopeless, and that the Norther r. Govern ment will soon be compelled, by the exhaustion of its finances and the growing discontent of its people, to abandon the fruitless and cruel war which it has persisted in waging in defiance of reason and re monstrance. Signs of the increasing desire for the cessation of the struggle are beginning to show themselves. The New Jersey Legislature has passed peace resolutions, protesting against war being waged for partisan purposes; against the domination of military law in States not in rebellion ; against the arbitrary arrests and the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act ; against the division of existing States; against the emancipation proclamation and the expenditure of public money. On most of these points they will have the sympathy of Europe with them. The present war is waged only with the view of the subjugation of the Southern States without regard to the cost or consequence. There are doubtless many fanatics among the Northerners who would rather reign over a desert laid waste by fire and sword than suffer the fertile provinces of the South to flourish as an independent State. The tyranny of military law has been suffered long enough in districts where it was totally uncalled for, while the results of the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act has filled Englishmen with indignation. We need scarcely remind the reader cf the numerous instances in which the so-called free Government of the Northern States has exercised a degree of unconstitutional authority, which would be bold in a despotic sovereign in these days. In the words of one of the v ictims of authorized oppres sion the history of whose wrongs has been recently laid before the people of this country,* " The unlawful and oppressive acts of Mr. LINCOLN, his advisers and subordinates, during the war be tween his Government and that of the Confederate States, will hereafter constitute no insignificant portion of the history of these times." The following brief summary of the state of affairs in Maryland, even early in the struggle, from the same authority, shows plainly enough that the protest of the New Jersey Legislature is not uncalled for. Mr. HOWARD, the writer in question, tells us that Northern troops having been placed in the city of Baltimore and throughout the State, numerous points were forti fied, and the President proceeded to put his plans in execution. " The Cemmissioneis and Marshal of Police were arrested in Baltimore, and the police force was disbanded. Many of the most prominent members of the Legislature, on the eve of the meet ing of that body, the Mayor of Baltimore, and one of the members of Congress for that city, were ar rested at midnight and dragged off to prison. Edi fens and other private citizens were also among the proscribed. Newspapers were suppressed, and the functions of the State and municipal authorities neurped or suspended by agents of the Administra tiun," No wonder, after such proceedings, that a protest is issued against theomination of martial law ! Another point of th e New Jersey remon strence is, we are glad to find, directed against that proclamation which, under the profession of virtue and religion masks but faintly an exhor tation to the horrors of a servile war. Further more, the New Jersey Legislature supports that project of a meeting between representatives of the rival parties which was originally proposed by the astaft ruler of the French. It is believed that if the rumoured successes of French arms in Mexico are eoroact, NAPOLEON M. will be encouraged in the * Fourteen Months in American Bastiles. London 11. F. Mackintosh. prosecution of his designs ci nmicsble intervention• From whatever quarter it comes, any interference which brings to a c!ose this disastrous struggle must be a subject of gratification to every lover of his kind. The barbarous spirit in which the North have throughout carried on the war has excited the indignation of the civilised world, and has naturally provoked the South to acts of retali ation which, however natural, are not the less censurable. The boasted refinement and civilisation of America has indeed fallen sadly short of the demands of common humanity. The last exploit of the Federals, mortified by the failure of their canal scheme, has been to submerge a vast tract of fertile country beneath the waters of the Mississippi. The Southerners in return have with more reason cut the levees, thereby compelling a great part of Gen. GRANT'S forces to re-embark, and very probably deciding the question of the assault on Vicksburg. If, as is rumoured, the attempt is finally abandoned, the secession of the North-West provinces may be fully expected, and the end of the war brought nearer. The most de voted adherents of the North could hardly, we should imagine, do otherwise than confess that the disgrace and mortification of abandoning the boasted attack on Vicksburg has been richly deserved by their inhuman conduct. Vicksburg and Charleston have long been considered the two decisive points of the contest; and if the North be compelled to abandon both without a struggle, what then, Presi dent LixcoLN ? jealous of these attempts to reduce the great events of history to a level with the gossip of the clubs. Depend upon it,'' he continued, "that war was what to you at the time it appeared to be. It was a war ren dered necessary by the ambition and the obstinacy of one Sovereign." How far the ambition and obstinacy of that Sovereign were encouraged by his "friend of forty years" we need not now stop to ask; how far secret influence, unworthy jealou sies, and favouritism hindered the action of our army, we will not inquire either. Those events are with the past, and like the great Italian struggle to which the noble duke subsequently re ferred, the public opinion and sympathies were rightly directed, and the results of the struggle were in them sin satisfactory and beneficial. Further on the speaker came to that other conflict, of which the issue is, unhappily, still pending. On this subject he spoke with the moderation and kindly feeling towards the combatants due from one in his position. The horrors of civil war he deprecated, but he refused to censure the Americans themselves. " Gentlemen, who are we that we should speak of civil war as under no circumstances possible or ad missible ? Do we not remember that our own liber ties have been secured through every form and variety of civil contest and of civil war ? How much blood has been shed in the streets of this ancient capital of Edinburgh?—how many grim heads have been nailed up to its ancient battle ments ! How many victims of civil war crowd our churchyards in every part of the country ! How many lie upon our mountains with nothing to mark them but the heather and the cairn! Wnat do we say of those men ? Do we count their course to have been an evil course ? Do not we rather turn back those pages of history as with the loving chisel of OLD MORTALITY, and keep fresh in our memory the recollection of their immortal names ? Yes, gentlemen, if it be true, and it is true, that the blood of the martyrs has been the seed of the church, it is equally true that the blood of patriots has been the foundation of the liberties of out country. Let us extend to our Ame rican brethren the liberal interpretation which , we seek to be given to our former annals. I lot one have not learned to be ashamed of that an cient combination of the Bible and the sword. Let • it be enough for us to pray and hope that that • contest, whenever it may be brought to an end, shall bring with it that great blessing of the white • race which shall consist in the final freedom of the black." It is true that the annals of our civil war were never stained with the crimes which have darkened the records of the American struggle. Still let us hope however stormy the passage the end may bring freedom to white and black alike; that the black may be released from that thraldom which is the execration of the civilised world, and • that the white may be set free from that tyranny of mob law and the tyranny of numbers, which • Democratic America has so long endured. The proclamation of the King of DENMARK to his unruly subjects the Holsteiners, which will be found in another part of our impression, is one of considerable importance. The vexed question of Schleswig-Holstein has long been a standing diffi culty, and of late its settlement has become impera tively necessary. The continual interference of the German Powers in the affairs of a portion of the Danish Kingdom could be productive of nothing but mischief, while it was felt both by Danes and Englishmen that an excuse for further intervention would not be wanting if required. According to Earl RUSSELL'S defence of his own extraordinary proceedings, a resort to arms was in contemplation, and he would have us believe that he only succeeded in arresting an invasion of Danish soil by the promise to endeavour to effect some settlement — a promise which he faithfully kept in a manner more satisfactory to the Germans than to his own countrymen. This ill-timed and ill-directed inter ference greatly complicated the affairs of Denmark. Had our Foreign Secretary remained silent, the prospect of the approaching English alliance would Have strengthened the position of the Danes, but when the potent alit', from whom so much was expected or hoped, deliberately ranged himself on the side of the adversary, it was most discouraging. Germany, embol dened by so powerful an ally, where she might reasonably have anticipated opposition, pressed her claims more strongly, and at length the KING has been forced to abandon the struggle by granting Holstein a separate constitution and dissevering it from the rest of the monarchy. The recent meet ing at Copenhagen expressed decisively the views of the Danish people, and their monarch has em bodied them in his proclamation. The object is by granting the Helsteiners more than they have a right to claim to secure the amalgamation of Schles wig with the Danish kingdom. It is more than ten years since the KING proclaimed his intention of combining the several parts of his kingdom into one single state by a constitution common to all. This intention he has never been able to carry out owing to the immediate and unwarrantable interference of the Federal Diet, of which the KING, es Duke of HOLSTEIN, is a member. His resistance to the attempt of the German Powers to exercise jurisdic tion in any part of his dominions was, however, en tirely consistent with his obligations as a member of the Diet. It was felt both by him and by his subjects that similar demands on Schleswig would be put forward as soon as the affairs of Holstein were settled, and the trifling fact of its never hav ing joined the Germanic Confederation was not likely to stand in the way. The long continuance of this dispute was, however, most injurious to the interest of the monarchy. In the words of the re cent proclamation—" Such a state of internal dis cord, by which the development of the king dom has been paralysed for the last ten years, cannot longer continue." The last assembly of the Holstein Diet gave no grounds for anticipating a settlement, and accord ing'l the KING has resolved to define clearly and decisively the position of this litigious State, re garding alike the interests of his kingdom and his Federal obligations ; or, in other words, the pres sure exercised upon him by the German Powers. It is impossible, of course, to decide with exactitude upon every possible contingency, and, therefore, "the most urgent part of the task" is all that is attempted. By the proclamation before us Hol stein is permitted to have an independent army. It will be expected to share with the rest of the monarchy in the national expenses, but the Estates of Holstein are to have a voice in the affair, and in details referring to their own share in such mat ters they will have the right of decision. It would seem at first sight that, judging from the previous obstinacy of the Holsteinere, and the German in fluence affecting them, a difference between the Estates and the Rigsraad, or Council of the Empire, may be certainly anticipated. The KING himself has apparently a suspicion of the extreme probability of such opposition, for he reserves further separation where no agreement be tween the representative assemblies is found to be attainable. It is also ordered that the Ministry shall submit to the Estates Bills esta blishing a new constitution. The heads which are given La the proclamation, together with the inde pendent army, an o d ugh t h t e to popular t h representation . already accorded, ing Holsteiner. we fear, however, that the real parties to be satis fied are Holstein, and we trust t hat Enontgliinshmtheen willduc watchduchy of narrowly the proceedings at the Danish Court, in which they hate now so warm an interest , a nd that ra they country a w i llb l:t ando be not suffer the name and aut horit y of their e a x g t u o i r n tio u n se a d t eindesmuapnpdos.rt o f such unwar - I German art has just sustained a heavy loss. Henry de Hess, the famous battle painter, died last week at Munich, aged 65. He was for many years director of the Royal Museums. M. Bravais, successor to Admiral Roussin in the section of geography of the Academy of Sciences, died at Versailles three days back, after a very long illness. M. Jules 7anin has addressed a letter to the French Academy, announcing himself as a candidate for the seat vacated by the death of Duke Pasquier. The elec• tion of the successors of M. Pasquier and M. Biot is to take place on the 23d inst. Intelligence from Warsaw announces, the Presse states, that the Russians are executing very con siderable works of fortification in that city, and particu larly in the suburb of Wola. They have raised a redoubt, which is to be armed with. 36 pieces of cannon ; and similar works have been commenced in other large towns. Intelligence from Haste state that Captain Du Buisson, aid-de-camp to Prince Napoleon, has arrived at that port, and given orders that the Jerome Napoleon yacht is to hold herself in readiness to proceed to sea. According to general report at Havre, the Prince intends shortly to embark and proceed to Egypt, BUTLER.—A refugee from New Orleans fur nishes the following incident. It should not be permitted to pass into oblivion, as the future historian of this contest might find it useful in illustrating a character already infamous beyond precedent in modern times. "Escaping from New Orleans, 1 reached a plantation upon the Mississippi, in the vicinity of Baton Rouge. The parish priest of Baton Rouge came in while I was there; he had been to New Orleans (before Butler was superseded) for the purpose of procuring foad for the poor of Baton Rouge, but Butler peremptorily refused a permit, saying, ' They are our enemies.' The priest urged that these poor people were necessarily, from their extremely destitute con dition, precluded from taking any part in our national troubles, and therefore could not properly be considered enemies. ' Sir,' said Butler in reply, ' those that are not for us are against us, and if they were our friends they would be in the Union army." But, General,' continued the priest, ' a large portion of these poor people are women and children—poor innocent children.' The monster hissed between his teeth, "Does he who kills the serpent preserve the eggs ? I tell you, sir, my purpose is exterminaion. " —Charleston Mercury. A STRANGE INVENTION.—There was an exhibi tion of agricultural implements a few days since at Lyons, and among them were remarked several instruments for the destruction of animals who feed upon vegetables to the injury of the farmer. One of these instruments is worthy of examination, being to those previously in use what the rifled cannon is to the smooth bore. It is in fact a very unexpected application of artillery, being composed of small pistols, of which the lock is set in motion by a lever turned back on the barrel, and extending two or three cen timetres beyond the mouth. When a gardener wishes to destroy a mole, for example, he places the instrument charged with gunpowder on the path of the animal, taking care to fix the point of the lever of the lock across the hole, so that the animal cannot pass without raising the lever with its back. The pistol is thus discharged, and the ani • mal is shot point blank. If a charge of powder is not sum. cient, a few grains of shot may be added. A STAGE SCENE IN AMERICA.—A writer, who has travelled extensively, slys that he witnessed rather a strange Ecene in Shakespeare's beautiful tragedy of "Romeo and Juliet." It was at one of the Western theatres. The piece had passed cff well without interrup tion until the last scene, The character of Romeo was I excellently enacted and loudly applauded. The very model of the lover was before the tomb of the Capulets, Basing upon the motionless form of her who had so attracted his soul, and meditating upon committing an act which would send his spirit to that undiscovered country where he sup • poses Juliet's had gone. Just as he exclaimed, " Here's to love I " and at the same time raising the vial which contained the poison to his lips, a stalwart young countryman jumped upon the stage, seized him, dashed the vial horn his hand, crushing it into atoms, and yelling : " Yer stupid fool, she ain't dead I Only been takin' a little sleepin' medicine. Didn't yer get the parson's letter ?" " Sirrah I" growled out the enraged tragedian, while the house fairly shook with laughter. " Why, yer girl ain't dead, I tell yer. The way it was, they wanted to make I Julie marry that chap thar," pointing at Paris, "whose business you have just settled; but I tell you Julie war Pluck —she got her back right up, and vowed she wouldn't do it, even if she war lying in the vault and the ghost of the other feller whom you kilt should dash her brains out with the bones of some of her dead cousins. Wal, her pluck war !!!........„,...„--.......,............... hum. That's the way it war," up, and she took the stuff the parson fixed; so she could p lay 'possum till you got 1 • his tugs his elbow, and at the same losing The speech of the Duke of ARGYLL, at the Eden- added the countryman,. giving the desperate timelover a poke in burgh banquet, on Wednesday, is well worth read- 11th/drib:, "Curse on the fellow!" muttered the raging trage ing. The noble duke had the honour of returning ... di n an, as he stalked behind the scenes. " Wcafi'thnetetwa,7l: taida thanks for the toast in honcur of her MAJESTY'S the countryman , hope ‘ to be swowed. Ministers, and on that congenial subject, under the leetle the meanesth cu k s ß s l gi v t er for stopping him from pizenin influence of his native country, he expressed him- o fronting l the d i ( a l audience, e I n ce, thanks tarnlv swashed if ever I go to inter self with more force and simplicity than common. fere m again when p a feller wants to murder himself' n ' h That's lf all h ;lie e t to h tl e •m e e en tO In looking back on the last ten years he recalled tinned, ai he clambered back to justh . is o. se n at , , on tact with the those eventful struggles which have made the name ßook. prevent eurt his upper d story from cocamit2ns,ortap BOOKSELLERS it descended.—Amer -Abooks bookseller e N r D wh A o : a T dilO heardßS • of war no uncommon sound in the ears of those who Balzac : grew up when Europe was hushed in the trail. % anecdote is related of the late distinguished writer writer of great promise quillity of the forty years' peace. He refused to Iyoungilg subscribe to the modern dogma, that would have i re solved to offer him 3,000 f. for a t novel, but en being told that he lived in an obscure street us believe the war with Russia a mistake. He 'i n the old part of Paris he observed that he must be a deprecated the supposition that, by the new lights plebian, and that he would offer him but 2,000 f. On arrive around us, the affairs of that day could be better ifinogo floor. t the ,,o house h t h e was a s told tbat .d ßalzac lived on the fourth l of A U THORS.—Tie e l z a f o llo w ing :s l l e o n understood than at the time of action. "I am offer him but 1,500 f." case," But s wheu the h bookseller, " I will understood entered a poorly jealous," said the noble duke, "of these attempts furnished room and saw a young man steeping a penny roll in a glass of wa t er , he offered but 300 f., and for thi s sum to deprive the great transactions of the world of received the man uscr i p t of what was afterwards considered the lessons they are ;capable_of affording. lam a chef-W(7ll4l;re, the Dernicre Fee. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1863. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) SUPPRESSION OF THE INSURRECTION IN SAN DOMINGO, PARIS, APRIL 3. Official intelligence has been received here from San Domingo to the 9th ult., relative to the insur rectionary movements which had taken place there. A state of siege was proclaimed, and troops were despatched into the disaffected districts, where, after some fighting, tranquillity was completely re-established. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. CRACOW, APRIL 3. Langiewicz, accompanied by two police-officers, left this city last night for Vienna. It is said that he will be taken to Gratz, where he will remain on parole. THE BRAZILS. BUENOS AYRES, FEB. 28. (Per Parana via Lisbon.) Exchange, 703. to 71s. Ounces, 434, Wet salted ox hides, 37t. Dry hides (American), 33 to 36. Wool declined 3to 4. Tallow, 13k. Lumber unchanged. Flour, 17 to 17i. Refined sugar dull, and unchanged. MONTE VIDEO. Exchange, 55 to 54; wet salted hides, 5.60; dry American, 4.50 to 4.90; dry German, 5.30 to 5.50. Wool slightly declined. Tallow, 1.65. CHINA AND JAPAN. SHANGHAI, FEB. 23. The late General Ward's and the imperial forces have suffered a severe defeat in the storming of Tailsin. The casualties among the united forces amounted to 500. The expedition to Fooshan has failed. Advices here received from japan announce that the British Legation at Jeddo had been destroyed by gunpowder by the Japanese. No fatal acci dent, however, resulted. The country was unsettled. AUSTRALIA• MELBOURNE, FEB, 23. Dissatisfaction prevails in the Council at the pro posal of England to renew the transportation sys tem. The total amount of gold shipped since the de parture of the last mail amounts to 99,375 oz. Intelligence received here from New Zealand announces the total wreck of her Majesty's ship Orpheus on Manakan Bar, Commodore Burnett and Commodore Burton, together with 188 men, officers, and crew, were drowned. FRANCE. PARIS, April 2. Le Constitutionnel observes this morning in con tinuation of its remarks of yesterday in reference to the retirement of M. Magne from the Cabinet, that the diff-rense of opinion existing between that "Minister without Portfolio" and M. Fould, tLe Minister of Finance, has been for some time past no secret to anyone. The remark, simple though it in itself, has about it a very obvious significance. It is a reminder that the continuance of MM. Fouls and Magne in the same Cabinet was an anomaly, the further toleration of which by the Emperor was impracticable. Le Siecle announces that yet another Asteroid, the 78th of the group, has just been discovered by M. Robert Luther at the observatory of Biik, near Dusseldotff, and that it has received the name of Diana. " The Ministers," says L' Opinion Nationale, " assembled in council yesterday, at the palace of the Tuileries, under the Presidency of the Emperor." This is the first Cabinet Council held since the accep tance by his Majesty of M. Magne's resignation. Le Pays remarks to-day upon the fact of the new imperial ambassador from France to the Court of St. James's, having been received, for the second time, on Tuesday last, by her Britannic Majesty. It is officially stated that the last reports received from Mexico announce that Gen. Forey had sum moned a council of all the generals and chiefs of the service for February 28, in order to arrange the de tails of the movement on Paeble, and give them their final instructions. The parks of artillery, the war material, and a great depot of stores were con centrated at Quecholac, to which place all the mu nitions necessary for the first operations had been conveyed. Th e san it ar y condition of the army was very satisfa c t ory. The Constit u ti onne l o f to -day, in an a r ti c l e s igned by M. Limay rac, says :--" In the maintenance of M. Fould i n th e M inistry , And of red uc ti on i n the the country will see with pleasure a fresh pl e d ge o f good order in the finances public expenses?' BOURSE, Ap r il 2.—The market has been very buoyant, and f rom the o pening the business done has been at a stead i ly i m proving advance in quota. tions. Th rees for the Account, are at this moment firm at 69f. 80 e. T he IWiwaY Share Market has Do. end month... been weak, and many of the lines are rather lower. The market closed as follows :- 3350 end month.... I t ze p w er 3 Cents.... :.. _96 -: rt ß A a uu n sste l li S ati h n ares _ __ Credit Fonder l4BO 3 per Cents . ' 69 5 0 Italian Loan 7l 60 Do. end mouth... 69 8 0 Do. end month 7l 75 Do. end m0nth....1.377 50 Do.— Credit Mobilier... , 1375 __-- Spanish Threes 52 25 491 iterliwAYs• Home Debt . . Cash. Account. Orleans llO6 25 #. 1115 .... jiorthern lO4O .. 1043 75 N - -1 ew ditto, 1215 1210 .. Lyons and Mediterranean 435 435 Geneva., .... 765 757 50 Southern— .. 546 25 .. 551 25 Western ...... Eastern . ... 7 50 537 50 Sardinian 50 Sardinian...,.. Austrian 577 50 582 50 North of Sp a i n .• • • Saragossa., 747 5 0 737 50 Ditto to Barc e l ona ... • 355 360 • ----- • SPAIN. The ceremony of decorating the Prince of the Asturias with the Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour took place on the 29th ult., at the Palace at Madrid. Her Majesty had near her the King her husband, and the great officers of the Royal Household. The young Prince, in the uniform of a corporal of Chasseurs, Was placed between his august parents. The French Ambassador, in pre senting the insignia to her Majesty, said : " Madam,—l place in your Majesty's hands the insignia of the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour which the Emperor, my august Sovereign, has conferred on the Prince of the Asturias, in order that your Majesty may have th-; pleasure of decorating the Prince yourself. I shall not allow myself to add anything to the tenour of the latter addressed to your Majesty by the Emperor. Let your Ma jesty only deign to permit me to congratulate myself on having been chosen to perform this honourable mission, and t> manifest to you the hope that one day, when the Prince shall have become a man, he will consider the insignia which the two young Princes of Spain and France will have worn, for the first time as it were simultaneously on the same day, as a bond of sympathy and affection which will always unite them as are now united the two Governments and the two countries of which both of them are the love and the hope." The Queen replied as follows: "Mousier l'Ambassadeur—Be kind enough to make known to the Emperor, your august" Sovereign, the satis faction which I feel at this fresh proof of his cordiality to wards Spain, and towards my family. The investiture of the honourable Order, with the insignia of which I am about to decorate my young son, will doubtless be a perms• nent reminiscence of the ft iendly relations existing between France and Spain, and the honourable exception made by the Emperor as regards the age of the Prince of the Asturias will be an additional proof of the interest which his Impe rial Majesty has on more than one occasion manifested towards my family. lam delighted, Monsieur l'Atnbassa deur that you, whom I esteem, should be the faithful inter preter of these sentiments and the medium between his Imperial Majesty and myself on this so pleasing an occa• sion." The Queen then placed the insignia on the breast of the Prince. Their Majesties afterwards addressed some friendly remarks to the Ambassador and the members of the Embassy, and the proceedings ter minated. AMERICA. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) SOU "CHAMP lON, APRIL 3. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Teutonin, from New Y,)rk on the 21st ult., has arrived off Cowes en route for Hamburg. She brings 82 passengers, 77,000 dols. in specie for England, and 41,900 for France. She spoke, on the 21st ult., the British steamer Plantagenet, off New York, and the Edinburgh, off Sandy Hook; on the 26th the Bremen bark Stella; on the 2d inst. the Hamburg bark Washington, off the Scully Islands ; and the Oldenburg bark Fanny Kirchner, off the Uz Mr. Glaisher's Ninth Balloon Ascent for Scientific Purposes. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sut,—One of the principal subjects of research in the bal loon experiments of last year was the determination of the law of decrease of temperature wi h increase of elevation. It is a subject to which very great interest is attached, and to the determination of which a great deal of labour and re search has been devoted, resulting in the adoption of the theory of a uniform rate of decrease of 1 deg of Fahrenheit's scale for every increase of 300 feet. The results from my several accents last season were that, when the sky was clear, a decline of 1 deg took place within 100 feet of the earth, while at the height of 30,000 feet a space of fully 1,000 feet had to be pasfel for a change of 1 deg of tem perature; and that between these limits a gradually in creasing space was required for a change of temperature to the same amount, pLinly indicating that the theory of a decline of 1 deg of temperature for every 300 feet of eleva tion must be abandoned. The previous eight balloon ascents were made in the months of July, August, and September. It became of the highest importance to have similar experiments in the other months of the year ; and the British Associa tion, at its meeting in Cambridge, voted £2OO for further experiments to he begun in the spring, and some of these, if possible, during the prevalence of the east wind. The first of these ascents took place with Mr. Coxwell's large balloon on Tuesday last, March 31, from the grounds of the Crystal Palace, by the kind permission of the direc tors. The gas was prepared by Mr. Ohren, the engineer of the Crystal Palace Gas Works, and the several instruments were prepared by Mr. Negretti and Mr. Zambra, the former gentleman being present to adjust them before starting. The balloon left the earth at 4h 16m p.m., the tempera ture of the air being 50 deg. At 4h 25m we were one mile high, with a temperature of 334 deg; the second mile was reached at 4h 35m, with a temperature of 26 deg; the third mile at 4h 44m, when the temperature was 14 deg ; and at 31 miles high the temperature was 8 deg. A warm current of air was met with, and the temperature rose to 12 deg at 4h 58m ; at 5h 2rn we passed out of this current, and when 41 miles high the temperature was just zero of Fahrenheit's scale. In descending, the temperature increased to 11 deg, at about three miles high, at 5h 38m ; then a cold current was met with, and it decreased to 7 deg. We soon passed through it, atel the temperature increased to 184 deg at two miles high, to 251 deg at one mile, and to 42 deg on he ground, which was reached at 6h 30m. The air was dry before leaving the earth ; it became very dry at heights exceeding two miles, and at heights exceed.' ing four miles the temperature of the dew point was fully minus 40 deg. The course of the b lloon on leaving the earth was from the east, and continued so till about 4h 3m, when it changed, and at about 4h 45m the Crystal Palace appeare t under us; its course again changed, and we met with several different currents of air. When one mile high the deep roar of London was heard distinctly, and its murmuring noise was heard at greater elevations. At the heights of three and four miles the view was indeed wonderful—the plan-like appearance of London and suburbs, the map-like appearance of the coun try generally ; then, running the eye down the winding Thames, the white cliffs at Margate, and on to Dover. Brighton was seen and the sea beyond, and all the coast line was clear pto Yarmouth. The north was obscured by clouds. Looking under us, and to the south, there were many detached cumuli clouds resting apparently on the earth, like patches of shining wool, and in some places a solitary cloud, thus apparently resting on the earth, sur rounded by a clear space for many miles.. Looking towards W indsor, the Thames was like bur ni , hed gold, and the surrounding water ike bright silver. Looking towards Putney, the rippling of the water along the banks of the river was distinctly seen. Railway trains were the only moving objects visible, and they looked like some creeping thing, caterpillar-like, and the steam was like a narrow line of serpentine mist. Taking a grand view over the whole visible plain beneath, I wai struck with its regularity. the view did not seem natural ; it was too even, apparently artificial. The effect of the river scenery was very remarkable in this respect; all the ships looked very diminutive, but were visible beyond the Medway. At 5h we could plainly distinguish Greenwich Park as a small garden, and the Royal Observatory as a gray speck. The Green Man Hotel, Blackheath, was quite distinct ; all the docks were mapped out, and every object of moderate size was seen clearly with the naked eye. At the height of three miles and a-half Mr. Coxwell said my face was a glowing purple, and afterwards both our faces were very blue. At heights exceeding three miles the feet and tips of the fingers were very cold. The sky was a deep prussian. blue. When three miles high, on descend ing, Mr. Coxwell, forgetful of the fact of the grapnel having been exposed to a temperature of zero, incautiously took hold of it with his naked hands, and cried out, as in pain, that he was scalded, and he called on me to assist him to drop it. The sensation was exactly that of scalding water. The blackness creeping over the land at sunset was very remarkable, while the sun was still shining upon us. The general results of this ascent confirm in a vary remarkable degree those obtained from the preceding experiments, and indicate that very few more extreme high ascents will be necessary for this purpose. I cannot close this account without again expressing my ense of the great skill and judgment of Mr. Coxwell. The circumstances of this ascent were peculiar. Leaving the earth early in the season, with a cold east wind, to pass high up into colder regions, he never for an instant, from leaving the earth to returning to it, took his eye off the balloon, ex. cept when otherwise engaged in its management ; indeed, he was so completely occupied that he was unable to make a single note. The balloon descended at Barking Side, near Stratford, at half-past 6 o'clock.--I am, Sir, yours, eee 5 JAMES GLAISHE R THE COLOSSEUM AT ROME.—Within this magni ficent amphitheatre lies the Campagna of Rome, and nothing can be more rich and varied, with every kind of beauty, sometimes, as around Ostia, flat as an American prairie, with miles of canni and reeds rustling in the wind, fields of ( xquisite feathery grasses waving to and fro, and forestsof tall gob:en trunked stone pines poising their spread ing umbrellas of rich green high in the air, and weaving a murmurous roof against the sun ; sometimes drear, mys terious, and melancholy, as in the desolate stretches be tween Civita Vecchia and Rome, with lonely hollows and hills without a single habitation, where sheep and oxen . feed, and the wind roams over treeless and deserted slopes, and silence makes its home ; sometimes rolling like an it land sea whose waves have been suddenly checked and stiffened, green with grass, golden with grain, and gra cious with myriads of wild flowers, wh- re scarlet poppies bleze over acres and acres, and pink frilled daisies cover the meadows, and pendant vines shroud the picturesque ruins of antique villas, aqueducts, and tombs, or droop from mediaeval towers and fortresses. Such is the aspect of the Agro Romano, or southern portion of the Campagna ex tending between Rome and Albano. It is a picture wherever you go. The land, which is of a deep rich loam that repays a hundred fold the least toil of the farmer, does not wait for the help of man, but bursts into spontaneous vegetation, and everywhere laughs into flowers. Here is pasturage for millions of cattle, and grain-fields for a continent, that now in wild untutored beauty bask in the Italian sun, crying shame on their neglectful owners. Over these long un fenced slopes one may gallop on horseback for miles, with out let or hindrance, through meadows of green smoothness on fire with scarlet poppies—over hills crowned with ruins that insist on being painted, so exquisite are they in form and colour, with their grand background of purple moun • tains— down valleys of pastoral quiet, where great tufa caves open into subterranean galleries leading beyond human ken; or one may linger in lovely secluded groves, of ilexes and pines, or track the course of swift streams overhung by dipping willows, and swerving here and there through broken arches of antique bridges, smothered in green ; or wander through hedges heaped and toppling over with rich luxuriant foliage twined together by wild vetches, honeysuckles, morning glories, and every species of flower ing vine ; or sit beneath the sun-looped shadows of ivy covered aqueducts, listening to the song of hundreds of larks far up in the air, and gazing through the lofty arches into wondrous deeps of violet-hued distances, or lazily watch ing flocks of wbito sheep as they crop the smooth slopes gull:tied by the faithful watch-dog. Everywhere are deep 13; own banks of pozzolano earth which make the strong Roman cement, and quarries of tufa and travertine with unexplored galleries and catacombs honeycombing for miles the whole Campagna. Dead generations lie under your feet wherever you tread. The place is haunted by ghosts that outnumber by myriads the living, and the air ie filled with tender sentiments of sadness which makes the beauty of the world about you more touchinge—Rok di Rorna. OLD LONDON BRIDGE.—The stone upon which the Woolwich steamer Sibyl struck at London-bridge on the 7th ult., and sunk, and which, it was feared, would prove a serious obstruction to the channel of the second arch, has been got up. It is about three feet square, and on the upper part a portion prcjects about a foot, It waa no doubt one of the otohee of old London-bridge, zdvl Nl,tlp' .9\jaLto CM Tit W ll4 tiltirar HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, April 2. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal highness the Princess Louis of Hesse, drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by Lieut.. Gen. Hon. C. Grey, Equerry in Waiting. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended by Major E iphinstone, arrived at the Castle last evening from the Ranger's Lodge, Greenwick Park. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred and Prince Louis of Hesse rode on horseback, attended by Capt. Wester. weller. Col. the Hon. A. Hardinge, C. 8., has succeeded Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. D. de Ros as Equerry in Waiting. Earl Cowley, we understand, intends giving a State dinner and evening party on Wednesday next to celebrate the marriage of the Prince of Wales, his lordship's absence in England when the ceremony took place having prevented his doing so at the time. His Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio left the Italian Legation yesterday for the Easter recess. The Duke of Wellington left town yesterday for Strathfieldsaye. The Ducheks of Wellington will join his grace on Saturday. The Duchess (Emily) of Beaufort and Lady Edith Somerset returned to town on Wednesday from visiting the Duchess of Beaufort and family at Badminton. The Marebione§s (Maria) of Ailesbury has joined the circle visiting the Duke and Duchess of Manchester at Kimbelton Castle, near Huntingdon. Earl Cathcart has left Manrigy's Hotel for Thorn ton-le-Street, Thirsk. Viscount Palmerston and the Right Hon. William F. Cowper, M.P., will leave Scotland to-morrow morning for London. Viscount and Viscountess Campden have left Portman-square, for the Continent, and contemplate a pro. tracted residence abroad. The funeral of Viscount Templetown is to take place to-morrow at Kensall. green. Cemetery. Ttie Baron and Baroness Waldenbou . rg and family have arrived at the Brunswick, Jermyn-street, from Baden- Baden. The Hon. Blanche Thellusson has arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. • FUNERAL OF THE DUKE OF GRAFTON.—The mortal remains of the late Duke of Grafton were in terred yesterday in the family vault at Euston Hall, Suf folk, the duke's body having been previously removed from Wakefield Lodge, Northamptonshire, where he died, to the family burial-place in Suffolk. The white and gold basket containing flower:, which was presented to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wale., and graciously accepted, on her arrival at Sand ringham, was made especially for the occasion and im ported by Mrs. Ottignon, of the Soho Bazaar. THE INTENDED VOLUNTEER REVIEW AT Ox FORD.—The Secretary of State for War has given his sans• tion to a review of vo:unteers taking place at Oxtord on Wednesday, the 24th of June next, MAUNDAY TIIURSDAY.—The ancient and Royal charities associated with M , unday Thursday wort disfributed yesterday, to 44 aged men and 44 aged women, in Whitehall Chapel, with the customary ceremonial. Thp number of each sex corresponds with the age of her most gracious Majesty the Queen. The Corriere deli' Emilia of Bologna announces that the Emperor of the French has subscribed 2,000 f. to the fund for the relief of the sufferers from brigandage in Italy. METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.—The number of houses to be taken under the powers of this com pany's bill for the construction of works and acquisition of additional lands in St. Giles's Without, Cripplegate, and St. Sepulchers, is 45, situate in King's Arms-yard, Star. court, Milton-court, Harp-alley, Phillip's-court, New court, Round-court, Sharp's-alley, and Greenhill-rents, the number of persons that will ba thereby displaced beirg 420. METROPOLITAN (TOTTENHAM AND HAMPSTEAD EXTENSION) RAILWAY.--By this company's bill is proposed to take 145 houses, in Glocester-place, Islip street, terrace, Georgiana -street, Pratt- street,King's road, Oesulston-street, Charlton and Wasted-streets, and Southampton-mews, the total number of persons to be dis placed being 1,100; but most of the houses will be rebuilt when the railway works are finished. The proposed capital of the company is £500,000. The line is to commence near the Gower-street station of the Metropolitan Railway, tra verse northwards, on the low level, without altering a single thoroughfare, to a junction with the Tottenham and Hawp stead Junction Railway at the foot of Highgite. hill. By this means the Great Eastern Railway will be brought into comrounicat;on with the Metropolitan Railway and its in tended station near Finsbury-circus. NEW YORK, March 21.—The Emily Fisher, of Eis'p )rt, which was captured on the 19th of Feb ruary, off Castle Island, Bahamas, by the Confederate schooner Retribution, was run ashore on Acklyn Islands, and 236 hhds, of sugar taken out of her and landed there ; she was then released on bond and arrived here yesterday, Greenock, April 2.—The Runnymede which arrived here from Pernambuco, has on board the crews of the two Ame rican vessels the Star of Peace and the Aldebaran, which have been burnt at sea by the Confederate steamer Florida, London, April 2.—The Hotspur, which arrived off Portland from Calcutta, reports that on the 24th of March, in lat. 38 N., long, 34 W., she was chased for three hours by an American steamer, which tacked and stood to the south ward when the British ensign was hoisted by the Hotspur. A REMINDER.—The following is the concluding paragraph of the address presented to Lord Pal merston at the Working Men's soiree at Glasgow, on Tues day evening :—" We devoutly pray that your lordship may be blessed with uninterrupted health for years yet to come, and that you may be spared to see our country still progressing, the people becoming better educated, more enlightened, and possessing that increased share in the representation of the country which hay, been so repeatedly promised from the Throne, and so confidently expected and waited for." ACCIDENT AT A STEEPLECHASE.—At the steeple chase of the Irish Brigade, of General Hooker's army, a serious accident occurred. Dr. Paxon, surgeon of the 9th Massachusetts, and the quartermaster of the same regiment,while riding at the top of their speed towards each other, in attempting to pass, turned in the same direction, and a collision ensued, by which both horses were instan taneously killed, and both the officers were thrown 30ft. in the air, and seriously, and probably fatally injured,—/Veut York Times. CUSTOM HOUSE CAPTURE.—PLYMOUTH, Thurs day.—Yesterday there was placed in the revenue stores at this port 12 bales of smuggled tobacco stalks, each weighing upwards of 100 lb. It appears that Mr. Rae, the tide surveyor, having received some previous intimation, proceeded with much skill and caution to Coffiett Mills, in the parish of Brixton, about eight miles distant, and quieby secured his prize, where it was concealed under a rick of straw, near the premises of Mr. Kendal, the miller. It is very unusual for smuggled tobacco to be packed in such large and unhandy bales ; and, from circumstances which transpired at the time, it is now thought that the venture was landed several weeks since in Catwater, an important creek in this port, the resort of merchant ships of all classes, and that it came directly across the channel from the islands of Jersey or Guernsey. No smuggled tobacco equal in quan tity has been taken in this port during the last 10 years, CON-TEMPORARY OR CO TEMPORARY.--Bentley, in his " Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris," justly remarks that " cotemporary is a downright barba rism, for the Latins never use co for con, except before a vowel—as "co-equal," " co-eternal," but before a conso nant they either retain the n—as " contemporary," "COL. stitution," or melt it into another letter—as " collection," " comprehension." So that the Examiner's COTEMPORARY is a word of his own composition, for which the learned world will cogratulate him.—" ," in Notes and Quer tes. A DRUNKEN OUTRAGE.—An extraordinary and fatal outrage was perpetrated at Mount Sorrel stone quarries, Leicestershire, on Wednesday afternoon, by a man named Josaph Webster, manufacturer, an d k eeper of the Royal Oak publiehouse, Quordon, It appears th a t on the afternoon of Wednesday Webster, who was in a drove h over o t r o k t e h d e b t o y p M o r f . t ,T h . e cliff r o t i f n state of intoxication—and when so i s a perfect man i ac -- , M t o h n e n h t igh Sorrel sh e r ff u , a r a r n y d , after unharnessing his horse and turning it out upon the hills, laid held of th e F h a f ts of the spring car t an d backed it over the pre c ipi ce (90ft. high) upon the men below, when a greAt many were.at work. Some of the men underneath appear to have o 1: served the descent of the tr ip, for a cry of warning was raised, and many were enabled to get out of the way; but one poor man, named Henry Pidcock, was not so fortunate, for the cart fell upon him, and he re ceived such serious injuries to his spine, that he died in the course of the evening. The vehicle, it is hardly necessary to say, was smashed to splinters. Considering the great number of men (about 630) at work in the quarry, it is quite surprising that more mischief was not done. Web ster, after backing the cart over the precipice, ran away, but was apprehended the same evening by Police sergeant B sworth, of Mount Sorrel, and conveyed to Loughborough police-station, An inquest on the body of the unfortunate man who Wi s killed was formally opened at the Exhibition public-house, Mount Sorrel, on Thursday afternoon, before Mr, tiregory, coroner, and adjourned until Tuesday next, THE ALABAMA, Some further papers relating to the Alabama have been laid on the table of the House of Com mons, in pursuance of the motion of Mr. White. Tney show that, on duly 22, the Commissioners of Customs wrote from London to the Collector of Cus toms at Liverpool, stating that their solicitor, after considering the evidence furnished by the United States Consul, advised that it was not sufficient to justify any steps be.ng taken against the vessel, The Commissioners added, " The solicitor has, however, stated that if there should bo sufficient bvidence to satisfy a court, of enlistment of individuals, they would be liable to pecuniary penalties, for security of which, if recovered, this Department might de tain the ship until those penalties are satisfied, or good bail given, but there is not sufficient evidence to rt quire the Customs to prosecute ; it is, however, competent for the United States Consul, or any other person to do so at their own risk, if they see fit." The United States Consul, however, does not seem to have taken any such step, but continued to urge the English authorities to " take such steps as they might deem necessary." It will be recollected that, on Saturday, the 26th, there was received at the Foreign-office from Mr. Adams further evidence, and a copy of an opinion, given by Mr. Collier, that the vessel ought to be detained; the papers thus furnished were immediately laid, by the Govern ment, before the law officers of the Crown, who gave their opinion in time to telegraph to stop the vessel on Tuesday, the 29th, but she had left the Mersey that morning. The United States Consul, at Liverpool, wrote on the 30th to the Collector of Customs, stating that her steam-tug, the Hercules, had returned, and the master said that the Alabama had six guns on board, concealed be low, and was taking powder from another vessel, and that the Hercules, itself, was at that moment taking on board 40 or 50 men, beams evidently for gun carriages, and other things to convey to the gunboat, which on the previous night was cruising 50 miles off, and, he added, that a quantity of cut lasses were taken on board on the 25th. The Sur veyor to the Customs went on board the Hercules, and strictly examined her, and found no guns, no ammunition, and nothing of a suspicious character; and he says he has the fullest confidence that the Alabama left Liverpool without any part of her ar mament, without even a single gun or musket on board. The master of the Hercules deposes--" I left the river on the 30th, and took with me from 25 to 30 men, who, I believe, were to be employed on board as part of the crew; they appeared to be all sailors or firemen. I found the vessel about 3 o'clock that afternoon in Beaumaris Bay. I put the men on board, and lay alongside till midnight. We were from three to four miles from the shore, Besides the men, I put on board an anchor-stook, a piece of wood about 15ft long, and two pieces of brass belonging to the machinery. I neither carried guns, powder, or ammunition of any kind to her, nor did I see anything of this description or, board. There was no vessel of any descripticn came near the vessel while I was by her. I have never seen the American Consul to my knowledge. I never told him or any one else they were taking powder on board the new vessel. I never was told what she was for, or what was her destination. The piece of wood w hich I have men tioned was not in any way fit fora gun-carriag e . I hcught it was intended to rest the ship's boat upon ; it was planed and cut out for some purpose, if not o rest the boat upon. The papers show that the Government telegraphed to Beaumaris, Holyhead, ind Cork, to seize the vessel, if she should enter either of those ports, but her captain was much too cautious to do so. He kept cruising about, meeting the tugboat in the afternoon of Wednesday the 30th, And getting out to sea at 3 o'clock next morning. Royal National Lifeboat Institution. A meeting of this institution was held yesterday at its house, John-street, Adelphi; Thos. Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the chair. There were also present Captain W. H. Hall, C. 8., Colonel Fitz. Roy Clayton, W. H. Harton, Esq , Captain A. P. Ryder, R.N., Alexander Boetefeur, Esq., Captain Ward, R N., inspector of lifeboats to the institution, and Richard Lewis, secretary. A reward of £l4 was voted to the crew of the institution's lifeboat, at Padstow, for their gallant services in rescuing during a heavy storm on the 18th ult. the crew, consisting of 13 men, from the brigantine Pandema, of Plymouth ; and schooner Betsy, of Brixham, which had stranded on the Doomed Bar Sand, off Padstow. The thanks of the institution were also voted to Mr. Daniel Shea, chief officer of the coastguard, for putting Off in the lifeboat on both the above occasions. This lifeboat is called the Albert Edward, after the Prince of Wales. By a happy coincidence she was also instrumental in res cuing a shipwrecked crew on the very day that his Royal Highness arrived at his majority, on the 9th November last. Rewards amounting to £53 7s. were also voted to crews of the lifeboats of the institution at Rye, Winch ilsea, Ty nemouth, Middlesborough, Fraser burgh, Dundalk, Berwick, St. Ives, and St. Andrews, for putting oft with the view of rendering assistance to vessels which had signals of distress flying, but which did not afterwards require the services of the lifeboats. Some of the services on these occasions were of a very laudable character, and were attended with considerable risk. The lifeboats of the insti tution are often called out during heavy gales of wind, in reply to signals of distress, especially in the night time, from vessels which do not ultimately require their help, the ships having succeeded in getting out of danger. It was reported that tho institution had, during the past three months, voted £444 for rescuing, by its lifeboats and other means, 203 persons from different shipwrecks on our coast. During the past year it had expended £12,583 on its lifeboat establishments and lifeboat crews. The committee of the institution therefore earnestly appealed to thepublic for continued support to assist them to carry on its great and important work. A reward of £6 was granted to six fishermen for putting off and rescuing three out of seven coastguard men, who had been capsized from their boat, while proceeding to board a vessel during squally weather, off Greencastle, on the coast of Donegal. Four men u❑fortunately perished on the occasion, notwith stsuding the gallant and prompt endeavours that were made to save their lives. A levk ard of £2 was also voted to two fishermen for saving six persons, whose boat had capsized in a heavy sea off Faka, on the coast of Limerick. It was reported that the mayor of Liverpool and the lord lieutenant of Cardigan had, during the past month, convened public meetings for the pur pose of presenting some silver medals of the insti tution, which had been voted by the society to diffe rent persons for their gallant exertions in saving lives from shipwreck. The institution had, during the past month, sent a new lifeboat to Porthleven, on the Cornish coast. The boat was the gift of Mr. Agar Robartes, M.P., who had also previously given the cost of a lifeboat to the institution. The committee decided to send a new lifeboat ana transporting carriage to Fishguard, on the Welsh coast, in lieu of those at present there. Th e y also decided to call the boat the Sir Edward Perrott, cfter the honourable baronet of that name, in acknowledgment of his long and valuable services to the lifeboat cause as chairman of the preparatory committees of the institution. A letter was read from the Hainburgh Lifeboat Society, requesting the co-operation of the National Lifeboat Institution in placing a iifeboat at Heligo land. It was reported that Mr. F. R. Magcnis had pre— sented to the institution £262 10s. to assist it to place a new lifeboat on th, coast. A legacy of £204 16s. had been received by the institution from the executors of the late Miss Gedge, of Yarmouth. It was also stated that Messrs, Hoare, the bankers, had given the society a donation of fifty guineas, and also that the principal Llndon bankers had recently contributed to its funds. Admiral S.r George Sartorios handed to the in stitution £7l Bs. which he bad collected for it, fifty guineas of which amount was from Mr. Henry Green, of Bl'ickwali. Payments amounting to £570 having been made to various lifeboat establishments, the proceedings terminated.