The Sun. — London, England, 1864-04-27 00:00:00

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden. From this time until the end of the season there will be four Opera nights in each week, viz., every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Subscription Night, in lieu of Tuesday, August 2. 3ldlle. Emilia Lagrua ; Signor Graziani ; Signor Mario. TO-MORROW EVENlNG(Thursday , April 23, will be per formed Donizetti's opera, LAFAVORITA. Leonora, 31dIle. Emi is Lagrua ; Inez, Madame Tagliafico ; Alfonso XI., Signor Graziani ; Baldassar :, Signor Attri ; Don Gasparo, Signor Rossi ; and Ferdinando, Signor Mario. Conductor, Mr. Costa. The incidental Divertissement wi I be supported by Mdlle Salvoni, 3ldlle. Carmine, and Mdlle. Navarre. Commence at half past Eight. Pit tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre sta Is, 103. 6d., 75., and ss. ; amphitheatre. 25. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at the box-office under the portico of the theatre, which is open from ten to five, and ac the principal musicsellers' and THEATRE ROYAL DRUR Y-L AN E. Managers, 'Messrs. Edmond Falconer and B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, a ,:'cene from TWELFTH NIGHT. -- - Alter which, will be produced the Grand Staze Pevival of Shak , pere's Chronicle or Historical Play, entitled the First Part of HENRY THE FOURTH. . - - The cast will include impersonations by those emine at krtists, Mr. PHELPS, Mr. Walter Montgomery, Mr. Walter Lacy, Mr. ,Nddiscr, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Itobert Roxby, Mr. Barrett, Mr. E Phelps, Mr. Rayner, Mr. H. Vandenhoff, Mr. Belmore, Mr. Ellerton, Mr. Fitzjames, Mr. Neville; Miss Edith Wynne, M es Rcse Leclercq, and Mrs. Edmund Fal coner, supported by all the Members of the Drury-lane Ccm- To conclude with AN APRIL FOOL. Mr. G. Belmore. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. - Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. TIIIS EVENING, THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Messrs. Howe, Chippendale, Buckstone, Rogers. Compton, Farren, &c. ; Mesdames Angel, Lindley, Fitzwilliam, Snow den, lc:. Atter which, the new Easter piece, entitled VENUS AND ADONIS. Messrs. Compton, Wm. Farren, Coe. &c. ; Mes dames Louise Keeley, Snowden, Nelly Eower, Hill, Wrigh" Rogers, &c. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Pechter. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with THE DAY AFTER THE FAIR: Messrs. Widdi combe, Garden, Moreland, and Miss E. Lavenu. After which, Mr. John Brougham's Original Comedy, FLAYING WITH FIRE. Messrs. J. Brougham, Emery, Widdicomb, J. G. Shore ; Miss C. Leclercq, Miss Henrade, Bliss P. Leclercq ; )!dra. Winstanley. Doors open at 7, commence at halt-past. NEW THEATRE-RO fAL, ADELPHI.- Solo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS:EVENING,an apropos Sketch, SHAKESPEARE'S HOUSE: Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Phillips, Stephenson. Af er which, at 8, LEAH: Miss Bateman, supported by Messrs. A. Stirling, R. Phillips, Billing - ton, Stuart, Eburne, Stephenson ; Miss H. Simms and Mrs. Billington. To coaclude with T LIE AREA BELLE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, R. Romer, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. MISS BATEMAN.—L E A H.—THIo EVENING and EVERY EVENING.—Miss Bateman will re-appear in her great impersonation of the Jewish maiden until further notice. In order to give due effect to tuffs most remarkable success of the se,son, entirely new scenery by the celebrated artists Messrs. Manson and Sons, a❑d Thompson. New drcss,s and appo . ntments have been prepares for its production.—N. is. In consequence of the 'tressing and numerous applications at the Box-office, ar mgementi have now been - nade by which Seats mry be ob tained a Fortnight in Advance. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, MY PRES PI RYER.. After which (never acted) MAZOURKA. Messrs. Honey, Turner, &c. ; Marie Wilton, bimpson, &c. Commence at 7. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Crowded with rank and fashion.— The greatly successful new Comedy every Evening. First wLek of a new sensation Farce.—Mr. J. Clarke. Amongst the artists engaged will be found the popular names or Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. J. llobinson, btr, Asuley, Mr. J. Johnstone; Mrs. Char es Mathews, Miss Herbert, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Misg Wentworth, and Mrs. Stir ing. EVERY EVENING, at 7. a Farce, with a new sensation, called HAKE HANDS : Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Ashley, Mr. Johnstone ; Miss Fanny Josephs and Miss Patti Josephs. At a quarter before 8, the successful new Comedy, by L. Buckingham, Esq., entitled THE SILVER LINING: Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ashley, Mr. Montague; Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss A. Cottrell, and Mrs. Stirling. After which, at le, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charlei Mathews. To conclude with UNDER THE ROSE : Mr. Ashley and )tiro A. Cottrell. Commence at 7. COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'.......Ms. per ton. Double 21s. per ton. Top 2.55. „ Nuts... ... 19s. „ Deep 22e. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their Do pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W. Best Coke lss. per chaldron. Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. riridE .r.kitaD EDITION OF THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGEZi 02E, ban be had Every Mvening of G. R. GLI:NIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather---Sun Office, April 27, 1364. -o-- THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock Barometer-30.06. Wind—N.; light breeze, and cloudy.' HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tgls DAT.—Morning, 511. 21m.—Afternoon, sh. 20m. To-Noltuow.-Morning, 64. 10m.—Afternoon, 64. 86m. •L', o AL - 13 frri 4 te t enaP i 0;--,t LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1864. According to the rate at which things aro going in the political world, we must soon begin to doubt the testimony of our own senses. We allude to what has been latterly occurring in the House of Com mons—and elsewhere, without the walls of Parlia ment—among some of our most conspicuous living politicians. Take, for example, the suddenly hust ling away out of London of General GARIBALDI. Are we there—to believe or not to believe our own senses? Are we to follow in that matter the simplest dic tee3 of " common" sense ? GARIBALDI himself protests, in answer to every inquiry addressed to him—even to the enquiries addressed to him by the most eminent surgeon living —that he is uncommonly well. We see him with our own eyes —and he looks what he says he is, namely, uncommonly well. The Great Surgeon, in his very last letter upon the subject of GARIBALDI'S health, says, as plainly as words can say anything, that on pressing him (GARIBALDI) closely with his inquiries he appeared to be fagged —and that on examining him very closely he looked fagged. Well, for that matter, really the wonder of the world would have been if he hadn't. Fancy any man living, going through the fatigue and ex citement that GARIBALDI had been going through for nearly a whole fortnight, and not acknowledging when he is closely cross-questioned that he is rather fagged —and not, when he comes to be very closely scrutinized, looking rather fagged. " A throat cf Brass and adamantine lungs," and all the rest of his anatomy built up out of similar materials, would be t,gaired in amen who could speak or look otherwise al ter such a fortnight as that following GARIBALDI'S arrival in London. Fagged, of course, he was — but o therwise, if we can believe himself, he was uncommonly well. And, if we can be. lieve o ur own eyes, he was so the day before he left L e , don. Oh, but ho was something more than fa ggecl I . —the public have been seriously in formed. GARIBALDI was something more than merely fagged—he had a boil! Nay, he had "two boils "—en his ar m! How very severe they must have been, those boil s , seeing e , tnat GARIBALDI could, without wincing, go through such an amount of hand shaking, that it i s a mercy his arms were not wrung off before he co u ld get away from the metropolis. Then ag in--- lhese boils on his arm, that fairly compelled his more zealous friends, Mini s ters of the crown and others on the score of his health advise his immediate de parture—these boils on his arm don't seem to have interfered in the least with his rowing the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland about the Thames! More than that—What in the name of common sense is the viva voce evidence given in by Mr. BEALES, Mr. NICHOLAY, and others on Monday at the London Tavern, before the City Garibaldi Committee ? Why, the evidence is this—the Chairman of that Committee, namely, Mr. PEADES, the Revising Barrister,!already mentioned, Mr. NICHOLAY also already mentioned, and other members, said they had seen GARIBALDI at Cliefden on Sunday, "lie had assured them lie was in perfect health, and that the cause of his departure must, be attributed to other causes." Than these, words could net be plainer—any more, in deed, than they could be more tautological! Reading them—looking simply at very plain facts remembering the look of GARl- BALDl—remembering the assertions uttered by GARIBALDI himself as recently as Thurs day in answer to inquiries about his health and about the real reason for his hasty depart are— again we ask are we in future to believe our own senses—are we to follow the dictates simply of common sense? Mr. GLADSTONE says no. Lord PALMERSTON ditto. Lord SHAFTES BURY protests as distinctly as possible that we are not—and according to what formula ?—upon his honour as a gentleman ! Really —we cannot help recalling to mind, in the midst of all this, how very comically, only the other day, CHARLES DICKENS, speaking of one cr two passages in SHAKSPERE'S plays, remarked that, but that it was SIIAKSPERE, we should call it bosh! It is, for all the world, exactly thus with us in regard to this over-much speaking and writing of certain noble lords and right hon. gentlemen about GARI BALDI'S Health. But that the assurariss we are listening to come from these noble lords and right hon. gentlemen, we should be certainly very much indeed inclined to call it bosh. One of the most imprtant of the measures affecting the interests of the trading community which have been passed in our time is undoubtedly that which first admitted the principle of limited liability. It appears so manifestly unfair for a man who has only taken a small share in a business, or perhaps no share at all, save advanc ing some part of the money required for carrying it on, to be held liable for the full consequences of his partner's imprudence or misfortunes, that it is only wonderful that such a measure should have been E 0 long delayed. Its omission was the more to be regretted because, in Et busy thriving com. munity like our own, it is a matter of daily oc. currence for capitalists to advance money to con cerns in which they take no active part. If a man take a recognised share in the management of a business, and induce others to trust him to a large amount, he should, undoubtedly, be held personally responsible for the consequences. But if he has merely advanced a certain sum as a profit able investment, it is certainly not only hard but unjust, that because his investment has proved a bad one, he is to be forced to sacrifice the rest of his means. The advantages of such a measure of protection are very great in every way, putting a restraint on those unprincipled persons who are very willing to risk other people's money, knowing that the consequences will not fall upon themselves, and cautioning the public against putting too ready faith in any company or speculation on the strength of one or two names of known respectability, with out inquiring too closely into its actual means or prospects. To require a man to be personally re. sponsible for all tha liabilities of his firm is much as if he were called upon to pay the value of the whole freight of a vessel which had gone down with his goods. No imposition is practised upo❑ the creditors by the regulation, since they are warned of the state of affairs by the very name of the company, co that if a tradesman continue to supply goods to an unsafe firm, rely ing on the private fortune of one of its members, it is his own fault if he is disappointed. It was this important principle which constituted the lead- ing feature of Mr.SCIIOLEFIELD'S Partnership Law 1 Amendment Bill, which was read a second time in tha House of Commons on Monday night. The bill proposes that the benefits of the Limited Lia bility Act, which at present are restricted to coma panies consisting of not less than seven members, should be extended, with certain restrictions, to a wider field, enabling capitalists who wished to ad vance money to an energetic man of business to do so in a safe and profitable manner by being regis tered as partners of limited liability. It is practi cally the object of the measure to extend still fur- ther the benefits o the Act already passed, but it will have a still wider influence. It will assist and encourage the enterprise of self-made men, enabling them to obtain the necessary capital on fair terms from respectable capitalists as a matter of open and regular business, instead of trusting to the liberality of friends and relatives, or being driven into the toils of professed money lenders. As Mr. MALINS very justly observed, in his clear and sensible reply to Mr. IltemeanD's attack upon the bill, it is to the advantage of the public that young men who pos sess skill and ability, though they may not have capital, should be able to enter into business. Mr. HODGSON supported the same view when ho said that so far from injuring the tone of commercial morality, the bill in question would raise it by giving greater freedom to contract, which meant greater freedom to industry, and it would confer upon honest and deserving men opportunities of reaping the fruits of their industry which they have not hitherto enjoyed. Mr. GREGSON'S objections on the ground that while the non-acting partner was only liable to a certain amount, there was no limit to the credit to be obtained on the strength of that sum, is scarcely tenable in the face of the registration system by which a creditor can ascertain not only the amount of responsibility incurred by each individual member of a firm, but also how much of the capital is paid up—so that if, as the hon. member sug• gested, ten persons were duped on the strength of a liability of £lO,OOO each to the full amount, it must be their own fault, when they could ascertain whether or no the full £lO,OOO had been paid into the concern. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD, in fact, called it a creditor's measure, and pointed out that it did not in the least affect the present law of partnership regarding those who are held out to the public as being partners, since the only persons limited to the amount which they put down will be those of whom the creditors know nothing excepting from the registration of the amount of their liability. At present, as the hon. member for Birmingham pointed out, a capitalist can only lend money to a private partnership by doing so at a fixed rate of interest, which the borrower may decline to make a high one, and which at a low rate would not repay his risk, or else by becoming a partner, and thereby risking his whole property. It is, in fact, proposed to extend to firms the advantage now restricted to companies, and, if the principle be so end in the one case, there can be no reason why it should not be admitted in the other. We are surprised to see a gentleman like Mr. HUBBARD, who has previously shown so much good sense and fairness in dealing with commercial responsibilities in the matter of the income tax, put himself so decidedly in the wrong by his unqualified opposi tion to this measure. Fortunately the House of Commons were unconvinced by his arguments, since the amendment was negatived without a division, and the bill was read a second time, with a view, we may trust, of ita shortly becoming law, It may be very convenient for the adherents of the Government to keep silent under the awkward circumetanoea that attend upon their very unwise THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1864. conduct in many particulars, but those who scan events with a critical eye must observe the strange course of things. Thus a retributive justice seems avenged in the circumstances that surround the whole of the proceedings connected with the Alexandra. The last intelligence is certainly of a very conclusive character. It informs us that the Collector of Customs at Liverpool was served with a writ from the Court of Exchequer, ordering him to deliver up the Alexandra to her owners. On the day when the order came from the Government tor this vessel to be seized, and in the plenitude of power those dressed in a little brief authority proceeded to carry out the arbitrary enactment with all due expedition, how mortified would the mighty ones in office have been had they been told of the end that was to follow on their grand beginning, the ignominious failure, the complete discomfiture, the regular break-down. All possible means were tried, unlimited expenses incurred, the interests of individuals sacrificed, for what ? That an oppres sive policy should be carried out, and a tyrannical edict enforced. The whole procedure from first to last has been characterised by a spirit quite out of character with the feelings and sentiments of the nation. The devices and stratagems resorted to were unworthy of British statesmen, and the very Ise ture of the affair was an utter eioletion of British rights and national independence. So far as the question can be regarded in every sense of the word, the defeat of the Ministers has been a triumph to freedom, a victory for fair play, and a success in a right cause. The excitement that the contest occasioned has now subsided, and the effects can therefore be quietly scanned and calmly regarded. Those who win are to receive back their rightful property, torn from them by the ruthless grasp of men as oblivious to the claims of consideration as a maraud ing army, and as devoid of any sense of justice as any despotic envoy, or emissary of an absolute mo narch. So far the honour of the nation has been vindicated in the sight of men before the nations of the world. The dwellers in the cities beyond the broad Atlantic have learned that matters are not quite so easily settled in England as in some coun tries that are near, and some that are remote from her: The subjects of our land may rejoice that the laws are so franked that they can be put in force against those who think themselves capable of controlling and regulating those laws. A serious matter has yet to be thought of. The expenses incurred in this contested case will be enormous, and the loss to be made good to the de fendants very considerable, and on whom will this fall ? On the Government ostensibly, but on the nation really; and is this right ? Ought sums to be squandered for the purpose of gaining time to prolong a disgraceful struggle, and persist in a suicidal policy that rightly applied might have been made the means of benefit to many, and the source of blessings to those in great need of help. Every day we hear of some sad case, some deplorable calamity, or some desirable undertaking unfulfilled, because the Government cannot possibly afford to do so much. They are stowing up their ammunition to fight the battles of the stranger and the foreigner. The sums that are wasted in these degrading con troversies might have done good service to those who are sinking under their exertions to aid public works of usefulness, and private missions of charity. It is impossible to over estimate the vast signifi cance of the proverb " One sows that another may reap." It is hard that money should be so reck lessly squandered for purposes for which it was never meant. It is easy to go on in the way of ex travagance if once it is fairly launched into, but in the name and for the sake of these hundred interests which devolve upon Ministers of State, at every period of their probation, let not a similar escapade occur. Let it not be said that personal claims, pri vate rights, and public claims were all counted as dross in the balance when politicat purposes were at stake, and party prejudices ruled the hour. Such a consummation bodes ill for the reputation of a Minister, and betides dark things for the Govern ment that unscrupulously embraces such a line of action. The Alexandra had better be a warning for the future, as it has been a temptation in the past, and a humiliation for the present. In such a cause defeat is better and safer than victory, and the discomfited party who have had to give up their much coveted prize must take heed lest riches and greater things are not claimed from them by way of forfeit. GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION, We are pleased to find that the Tuesday morning and Saturday evening performances of Mr. German Reed's opera di camera " Jessy Lea" receives a full share of the public patronage. Were it otherwise, it would be a reflection on the musical taste of the metropolis, because Mr. Macfarren has set the little captivating pastoral to some of the most de lightful music that ever fell from his pen. The part of the coquettish heroine Jessy is now sustained by Miss Robertine Henderson, a young lady who has won much applause at many of the concerts given in London within the last few months. Nature has been bountiful to her, and, in addition to pleasing features and good figure, she has a voice of much sweetness, which she uses with the greatest dis crimination. Mr. Whiffin has much improved since his first appearance, and at no distant day he will become a general favourite. The same must also be said of Mr. Wilkinson, wh o , as th e rough, hearty sea capt Lin, shows himself a clever and accomplished artiste. The music exactly suits the compass of his voice, and every note is sung with an ease and fullness of tone that greatly pleases the audience. But the chief honours ara invariably secured by that acknowledged favourite and accom plished vocalist, Miss Poole, who sustains the pirt of Eispeth the gipsy. Her singing produces the greatest delight, because it is executed with sweetness, and in a manner peculiarly liar own. There is a witchery in her eye that enchants the audience, whilst freshness and power in her voice shows how carefully and solidly the framework of her musical education must have been laid. Other singers have appeared and long passed away since little Bessy Poole sang her first song, " Oyster, sir," at the Olympic Theatre ; yet still she is the queen of English ballad singers, and I simply because she is f native here, And to the manner born," A more delightful afternoon or evening cannot be passed in the metropolis than at the Gallery of Illustration in Regent -street. RECEPTION OF THE LIBERATED CONFEDERATES IN RICHAIOND.—The following is an extract from a Richmond paper :--" The paroled prisoners whom General Butler sent up from Fortress Monroe a few days ago nad a grand .time upon their arrival. A procession conducted thaw to Capitol.square, and Jeff. Days was called on for a speech. Taking his stand on the platform of the Wash ington monument, he welcomed the soldiers to their native land. He had often heard of the severe trials to which they had been subjected in their captivity, and his heart had yearned for the bravo boys' who had proved true under every trial, and had resisted every offer made to them to desert the fortunes of their country. Though they had passed through so many bitter trials, there were, perhaps, many yet in store for them, but he knew that they would not shrink from them—that they would all assist in achieving the independence of the coun try, and in driving away the hated foe now polluting our soil. After a brief respite, said the President, you will be again called to the battle-field. know you will come.' He hoped that they would all find their families better provided for than they might expect to do. The President closed by invoking the blessing of God upon those he addressed." Other speeches having been made, three cheers were given by the crowd, and the band struck up Dixie" as a finale to the proceedings. THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Un Ballo in Maschera." The loveliest of all Signor Verdi's operas, " Un Ballo in Maschera," was repeated last evening at the Royal Italian to a brilliant and delighted audience. From the stealthy opening of the Over ture, an opening that always sounds to us as though it came burdened with muttered intimations of the approaching conspiracy, up to the pathetic tumult of the grand Finale, where Duke Richard expires amidst the lamentations of his court, having been struck down by the pistol shot of Renato in the midst of the gay wild hubbub of the masquerade — the Four Acts of this most charming lyrical drama " went off" with admirable effect under the baton of Mr. Costa. Yesterday being the second performance of the opera this season, both orchestra and chorus were brought into due subordination at last by the potent wand of the conductor. There was no op. partunity left for cavilling last night, therefore, any longer at the over-zeal either of the instrumen talists or of the choral singers : as there had been opportunity for thus cavilling on the first occasion, namely, on Saturday. And by this evidence (as it were, upon second thoughts !) of moderation on the part of the chorus lead the orchestra, the principal performers, no less than the composition itself, as now rendered at the Royal Italian, were very con spicuously benefitted. Mademoiselle Lagrua, for one, was thereby enabled, quite unmistakably, to add yet another leaf to the bay garland she is fast winning for herself here in England—her Amelia taking rank now side by side with her Norma and her Leonora. It is in the tender pathos of it, indeed, even a yet mare bewitching impersonation at tin es than the K.ug's Favourite, Signor Mario ' again was in noble voice last evening, to the evident exultation of a crowded house. So that it needs hardly to be said, what we will yet say, that his , Riccardo was from the first a masterpiece at once of acting and of vocalisation. His impersonation of the Duke remains still to this hour wholly and absolutely unrivalled. The character in itself is one of the most eminently dramatic within reach of a prim• Nmore, and allotted to a consummate artist like Signor Mario, ono who is great as an actor no less than as a singer, it wins our sympathy through out while it commands our admiration. A more bewitching performance, again, than Mdlle. Battu's Oscar, we have certainly not within our very recent recollection. It acts with the charm of a spell upon the usually sedate and undemonstrative Covent Garden habitue3. A most graceful page she makes, in all the variations o! costume and situation —and one who sings the lovely melodies allotted to Oscar not merely charming y but deliciously. Of Signor Graziani we may here say, at once, that we have never yet heard him to greater advantage than as the Duke's friend and secretary in the lovely double of " Gustave"—this opera of Verdi's Un Balls in Maschera." Graziani's Renato in the fourth act especially was just everything we could in reeson have wished. His romanaa " 0 dolcizzo perdute," in whict he laments the lost happiness of his undoubtiig love for Amelia, was given with the most exquisite delicacy— a delicacy all the more apparent in that tender lament composed for the baritone, inter woven as the articulated notes of the singer are in this remain% with the refined breath ing forth, almost, one might say, sighing, of the flute accompaniment. As a natter of sheer neces sity with the audience, Signs)! Graziani was, at the close of the second verse, instantly encored. There were several other encores during the night— equally as a matter of curse : but the ab sense of one other, would have been a cause of nothing less than bewilderment to us but that the " sit uation"—as for that natter must be always provokingly visible at every performance of " Un Ballo in Maschera"—but that the "situation," we say, at the moment, precludes the audience from following its instinct and demanding a repetition. We wean hers, of csurse, no other than Oscar's delicious, warning, riant " Saper vorreste," with its trilling refrain, " Tra lsi, la, la" —sung in the midst of the dance and frolic of the masquerade, immediately before the assassination—and which exquisite morceau was carolled last night by Mdlle. Battu ith bewitching espieulerie ! The gem and glory of this beautiful opera, however, has yet to be mentioned—mentioned we mean, of course, in regard to the rendering of it last evening at the Royal Italian Opera. For, as to its celebration, otherwise—who is not already familiar with it ? "It'' here signifying that delicious spine tette, namely, at the close of the fifth scene of the second act, the quintette led off by Riccardo's "E scherzo od s follia "—hose sung by Mario, those who have ever heard him sing it will recall, nothing less than grate fully, to their remembrance ! It is that superb quin tette, in fact, the very climax of the beauty of which is capped, so to speak, by Oscar's impassioned cr . ; soaring abov e , piercing th rou gh, sounds of dismay— " sari dunqne spento the chorus, In breve a tradintento ? Al sol pensarci l'anima, Abbrivideado vs 1" Armando and Angri, the conspirators, and with those two the hag, Ulrica, participate with the page: Oscar and th e Duk e Ri ccar d o in " rendering" this lovely concerted piece :—one of Signor Verdi. most brilliant, as it i s certa i n ly also one of his most popular compositions. Given as it was last evening, it was redemanded with enthusiasm, and listened to throughout, on its repetition, with unabated admiration. Almost equally effective —certainly as successful in proportion to its merit —was t h e maste r y finale to the third act, where Renato takes his disgraced wife, homewards from the moonlit field , to the jeering of the libertine caorus— Ire la tragedia reuti, in commedia Piacevolissitua all I ahl ah 1 Of Madem o i se ll e T et i who was t h e Sorceress, we prefer sayin g nothing at an, for as thrice she unquestionably fails to make any impression what ever. The rest of the characters, being none of them of any importance, may be passed by without being particularized. The opera, lift a whole, is put upon the s t age w i t h a m i nu te regard toits complete Less, not un wor thy even of the reputation of this great lyrical establishment. The final scene, or rather " spect i e l e ," namely, the ball room in the palace, superbly illuminated and gor geously decorated, fill e d w ith a radiant an d ever moving throng of pie rro t s , h ar l e quins, punchi nellos, oallet dancers ,and masqueraders, bomb alnOng them sumptuously costum e d, is, as an illusior, just simply in one word, magnificent. The marvel to us is, not that the opera should nova have been re vived, but that two years should have been allowed to elapse without a yn Performanc e at all of " Un Ballo in Alascnera" at Covent - g arden —knowing full well, as opera- goers do, the evcr - l ivin g charm of the lib re tt o , t h at i s, o f the mere story related in the libretto—a s t ory t hat, once upon a time, one might not unreasonably have t h o ught, that Auber had lun g ago ma d e hi s ow n exclusively, by royal right, as one may say, o f his puissant genius as a composer ! And our wonder that during the last two years this Italian double of " Gustave" has not been heard at Covent Garden, ie;not diminished, of course, when we remember the lovely, fresh and sparkling music wedded anew to the old tie by the younger genius of Verdi—a g enius that (happily) shrank not from auda ciously daring a comparison, even of melo dies, with the brilliant Frenchman ! However, after the lapse of these two years the charming opera is revived, and we are thankful. To-mor row, Donizetti's "La Favorita," will bo repeated : and on Saturday, for the first time this season, with Wachtel as Jean of Leyden, and Madame Destinn as Fides, the pat-9ns of the Royal Italian will have produced for them, as Mr. Gye's establishment can produce it, "Le ProphAte"—we were going to say Meyerbeer's masterpiece, but that we have too grateful a remembrance of his "Huguenots." THE COUNT DE CHAMBORD'S STUD !—Fourteen horses, said to belong to the Count de Dames, but in reality the property of the Count de Chambord, have just been sold at the French Tattersall's for the sum of 72,400 f. One, a lady's horse, was purchased by the Duke de la Rochofoucauld for 8,400 f, and another by M. Saldanha for 10,400 f. The average price of the 14 minuted to not less than 5,100!, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] THE WAR IN DENMARK. FURTHER ADVANCE OF THE PRUSSIANS IN JUTLAND. COPENHAGEN, APSIL 25 (Midnight). On Saturday last the Prussians were a mile and a half south of Aarhuus. • The enemy continues his works at the tete de Pont of the Dybbol position, and is strengthening his batteries between R3gebol and Alsen Sound. BERLIN, APRIL 27. Advices received here from Warsaw to the 25th instant state that on the previous diy a letter frog. Archbishop Fella:Ai was read to the various con gregations abolishing mourning in the churches. In consequence of this the bells and organs are again used. MADRID, APIRL 26. The banquet of the Progressist party is fixed for the 3d May. The question of inviting Espartero is being dis cussed. DEPARTURE OF GARIBALDI, FOWEY, APRIL 27. Garibaldi and his son Ricciotti embarked here in the Undine at nine this morning. The yacht left at 930 a m. Wind fair. FRANCE. PARIS, APRIL 27. Private correspondence announces that the Eng lish Admiral sent to Tunis has received instructions to act in concert with the French Admiral. BOURSE, April 26.—The same want of anima tion pervades the market, but prices have not re ceded. Threes, for the Account, are now at 66f. 90c., and Mobilier at 1,087 f. boc. Railway Shares offered, and some of the lines rather lower. Mexi- can Loan is at f i per cent. premium. The marke closed as follows :- 4i per Cents 93 60 Do. end month — 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 90 Credit Mobilier 1192 50 Do. end month 1190 Bank Shares 3400 Credit Fonder Roman Italian Loan 6B 95 Do. end month 6B 75 New ditto — Do. end month — Russian Austrian Spanish Threes — Rome Debt .. Deferred RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. 887 50 .. 885 975 .. -- 945 .. 950 887 50 .. 670 .. 670 500 .. 500 480 .. 481 25 371 25 .. 367 60 417 50 .. 415 560 .. 558 75 491 25 .. 492 60 572 50 .. 572 50 270 .. 280 Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean New ditto Southern Western Eastern .... Sardinian... .. Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona THE FALL OF DUPPEL. COPENHAGEN, April 23. The Minister of Marine published yesterday the following report concerning the part taken by the Rolf Krake in the fight at Duppel of the 18th inst. : " The commander of the squadron in the western portion of the Baltic reports : " At 10.15 a.m. our troops were seen hurrying to the trenches in unusually large numbers, where upon, although the signal agreed upon with the commanderin-chief had not been made, the battery Rolf Krake immediately weighed anchor and cleared her decks for action. " thfore this could be accomplished the black and white flags were observed over Forts 1,2, 3, and 4, although, so far as we could perceive, no shot had been fired from those works. " The Rolf Krake immediately steamed towards the Duppel shore and opened fire upon the advanc ing columns of the enemy with grape. As, how ever, the smoke spread over the shore, being at times so dense we were forced to suspend fire for fear of hitting our own troops, the discharges could only be directed in accordance with the observa tions made, to the best of our ability, of the move ments taking place on Duppel-hill. During the engagement the Rolf Krake fired in all 95 shots, and was fired upon by all the batteries at Broager and those in the rear of Arnbjerg, as well as from Redoubt No. 1, which was in the hands of the enemy. Impediments in the shape of nets and similar contrivances, which had been placed in the Sound by the enemy, obstructed her progress. " About noon, our troops having been compelled to retreat to the rite du pont, and large bodies of the enemy which could have been fired upon with great effect being withdrawn, the battery retired out of range and remained in the vicinity until 3.30 p.m., when the entire Duppel position had been evacuated by our troops. It is my painful duty to report that a 24-pounder shell, which broke through the deck, killed Lieutenant Jespersen and wounded nine men, one severely. A splinter which penetrated the fire-turret also severely injured Cannoneer Olsen in the furehead. " The commander of the battery cannot suffi ciently praise the remarkable intrepidity and zeal with which Lieutenent Jrspersen performed his duty, and even up to the last moment assisted him (the commander of the battery) in observing all that took place beyond the ship. The zeal and bravery of Cannoneer Olsen must also be especially mentioned. Again, the commander of the battery must repeat that as usual every min did his duty, but he must specially mention the pilot Dithelfsen, and the second mate, P. F. Olsen, both of whom remained on deck, as much as protected by the tur ret, in order with better effect to direct the course of the vessel and observe the movements of the enemy. Besides these, the coolness and celerity with which the guns in the turret were served, as well by the two commanders of the turrets as the force occupying them deserve great praise.' The Minister of War publishes the following : " COPENHAGEN', April 22 (Morning), 1864. " Yesterday nothing of importance took place in Aleen. The body of General Du Plat has been given up by the enemy. " According to a report of the commander in chief the bodies of the following officers were lying in Ulkebol church :—Colonel Lassen, of the Ist brigade—Captain Luudbye—Lieuts, Tosverdt and Mailing, of the 2d Regi ment—Captains Baland, Jensen, and Gruner, and Lieut. Behrenz, of the 22d Regiment—Captain Ahlefeldr, Liouts. Gram, Lindhardt, and Schultz, of the 9th Regiment— Lieut.-Colonel Scholten, Captain Stockflath, of the 20th Regiment—Lieut. Erininger, of the Bth Brigade—Lieut. E. ::.chan, of the 16th Regiment—Colonel Bernstoff and Chief Surgeon Boesen, of the 17th Regiment—Cadets Berner, Fusinette, and Pio—also the corpse of an unknown officer, with an elastic stocking on one leg, and another unknown officer with woollen drawers marked H. B. " The following captured officers, who have all applied either personally or in writing for their baggage, are sup posed by the commander in chief to be slightly wounded or unhurt :—Lieutenants Gandil, Gjorup, Theatrup, Larsens, Holmertz, and Sammark, of the 2d Regiment—Lieuts. Jaeger, Johannsen, Averhoff, Corlsen, Hohlenberg, and Grunwaldt, of the 22d Regiment—Major Stein, Captain Petersen, Lieuts. Agerholm, liofoed, and Christiansen, of the 16th Regiment—Lieutenants Nielsen, Dameck, Galster and Sparre and Horn, as well as the Cadet Remi sing of the 17th Regiment—Lieutenants Nielsen and Hertz of the 3d Rogiment—Borgen of the 20th Regiment—Hein of the Staff of the 3d brigade—Captain Sick and Lieute nants Tielge, Starik, and Tensen, of the Artillery." " April 22, 4 p.m. "The commander-in-chief reports that at Alsen nothing of importance has occurred. A few shots have been fired by the enemy." "April 23 (Morning). " Nothing of any consequence took place on Alsen yes terday. The enemy is at work on the redoubts of the Duppel position, and is strengthening his batteries on the shore of tb e sound. The promised communication of Field- Marshal V ;A:i Wrangel concerning our captured officers and their condition has not arrived." The .Da qbladet publishes the following upon the condition in which the bodies of the fallen Danish officers were returned to their comrades : "The dead bodies of the Danish officers, which had been collected by the Prussians, arrived hero (Allen) yester day. It was a heartbreaking sight. In proof of the ' chivalrous' manner in which the Prussians carry on the war, a fact they themselves are never tired of praising, it may be intmesting for posterity to know that every officer who wu bremlat over here had been previously plundered ; their pockets had been emptied ; their buttons and marks of ranks had been cut off; their boots had vanished. These are facts which among others can be substantiated by the various foreigners staying here." The correspondent of the Berlingske Mende says : " All the corpses of officers which we received from the Duppel side had been, according to Prussian usage, tho roughly plundered. Watches, rings, gold shoulder-straps, boots, stockings, all had been taken. Major Rosen was brought in covered only by his shirt." The two unknown officers mentioned in the foregoing report of the commander in chief were unrecognised, for these reasons—viz., their heads had been shot off in the action, and it was impossible to recognise them by the few scraps of clothing which were still left upon their persons. PROCLAMATION OF KING CHRISTIAN TO THE DANISH ARMY. COPENHAGEN, April 21. The following proclamation has been issued by King Christian to the army:— "Brave soldiers I undaunted and heroic comrades I " The army occupying the Uuppel position has been forced to retreat to Alsen after a defence which will be memorable to remotest posterity, nut only on account of the inequality of the contest, but also for the heroism with which it was fought. " Heavy indeed have been the sufferings the development of the contest has entailed upon you ; nor will the great and painful losses of the last few days ever be forgotten. But by God's help neither the sufferings nor the losses will have been in vain, for they will bear fruits in the war we are now waging against might and injustice—a war whose aim is the existence and independence of our beloved country. " I return you the fervent thanks of myself and my peo ple for the perseverance and self-sac ificing heroism you have displayed, and I am convinced that you will still be inspired by the same spirit. " God preserve ray brave Danish army I May it receive the reward of its persevering bravery, and may He confer everlasting peace upon our fallen heroes. " CHRISTIAN R." AMERICA. (Per the Hibernian.) NEW YORK, April 15, Evening. General Grant has left for the Army of the Potomac. General Forrest's forces have captured Fort Pillow, on the Mississippi, by assault. Four hundred out of the garrison of 600 men are stated to have been killed. Telegrams state that the Con. federates killed ali the negroes and many white troops after the capture. it is reported that they are now evacuating Fort Pillow, and moving on Memphis. The Confederates are in possession of the town of Paducah, Kentucky. Unfavourable rumours are current in New Orleans concerning the Federal situation on the Red River. Two hundred Federala have been captured near Alexandria, Louisiana. The streets of Alexandria are barricaded against an attack. The previously reported attack on Alexandria was untrue. The Federal Arkansas expedition is still ad vancing towards Texas. It has had two successful skirmishes. The House of Representatives has censured M. Long, of Ohio, for declaring himself in favour of the recognition of the Southern Confederation. The steamers Syren and Cozet have arrived at Nassau from Wilmington. The steamers Grey hound, Will o' the Wisp, and Syren have sailed for Wilmington. Steamer Petrel has arrived at Nassau from Charleston. The steamer Juno, from Wilmington, has foundered; nearly all hands were lost. Mr. Chase 13 in New York making flimcial arrangements. _ _ Monvy tighter. Gold opened at 73, advancing steadily to 741- per cent. premium. The excitement in the market is subsiding. Exchange on London 191 191/, Stocks fell 3to 5 per cent. this morning on rumours of the inten tion of Mr. Chase to issue at 6 per cent. loan, but recovered on the report being denied. The ten dency is down ward. New York Centrals 1411, Illinois 1481, Erie 1231, Six per Cent. Uulted States Bonds 116. Cotton very firm ; Middling Upland 82. Bread stuffs tending downwards. Provisions dull. Coffee very firm. Sugar good inquiry. Molasses very firm. Petroleum dull; crude 38 to 49, ditto refined 56 to 54. NEW YORK, April 16, Morning. Money tight. Gold 71 per cent. prem. There has been a panic in the Stock market, in conse quence of which prices declined. They are now, however, rallying. New York Centrals, 139; Illi nois, 143; Erie, 119. NEW YORK, April 16, Afternoon. The Canfederates, who had occupied Paducah, were subsequently shelled out of tbeir position. Yesterday they demanded the surrender of the fort, which was refased, the Federals marching out to attack them. The War Department has received no informa tion concerning the reported massacre of troops at Fort Pillow by the rebels. The City of London and Teutonia take out 950,000 dole, in specie. Money tight. Gold 711 per cant, premium. The Panic in the Stock market continues, and prices are again declining. New York Centrals, 1384 ; Illi nois, 138; ; Erie, 1198 ; 6 per Cent. United States Bonds, 115. Cotton steady. Middling Upland, 80c. Petroleum heavy; crude 38 to 39, refined 54 to 56. THE WEST INDIA, MEXICAN, AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, APIIIL 27. The royal mail steamer Shanncn, with the above mails, has arrived here, She brings 304 passengers, including the Bishop of Barbadoes and family, £529,896 in specie, of which £5,413 are on account of the Mexican dividends, and 1,500 packages of cargo. She left St. Thomas on the 13th inst., and expe rienced fine weather throughout the passage. In Chili business had improved, and in all de partments of trade, large transactions had taken place. Confidence had increased. The excitement in the copper market had sub sided. Transactions were limited. Mining operations were being actively prosecuted. Charters for England had slightly declined, Exchange was quoted 441 d. to 441 d. General business in Peru was satisfactory. The growth of cotton was increasing. The political news is unimportant. Exchange, 37d. News from Santo Domingo says that the spirit of the Dominicans is by no means subdued, and that the pacification of the country is far off. The Spaniards had deferred the Monte Christi expedition until October. No news from Mexico. The intelligence from the West India islands is unimportant. Garibaldi's Health, " Mark, how plain a tale shall put them down." Those who wished to get prematurely rid of Gari baldi, under the pretext of his being in a state of ill health, will require no ordinary amount of logi cal ability to dispose of, on their theory, the follow ing fact:—" Oa Saturday evening," writes a dis tinguished gentleman, who was present and witnessed what he states, "the General was engaged for an hour or so in rowing the two Duchesses (the Duchess and Dowager Duchess of Sutherland), and Lsdy Grosvenor, with another friend, on the beau tiful water at Cliafden." To row a boat full of per sons for upwards of an hour is not precisely what might be expected from such an invalid as Garibaldi has been, for political purposes, represented to be. What," asks our Correspondent, "will the doctors say to this ? "—Advertiser. == - Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day, Market steady but quiet. Sales, about 10,000 balm Imports, 294 hies ; Preciously, 12,373, tr 611 tlirinbr HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, April 26. Her Majesty the Queen drove out yesterday- in the morning and afternoon. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred and Princess Louise rode on horseback. • Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell Bed Lieut. Haig, left Osborne this afternoon for London! on his way to Dover, where his Royal Highness will embark for the Continent. The Prince will make short visits to BrusselBl Hanover, Berlin, Coburg, and Darmstadt, end ' lll then proceed to Marseilles to join her Majesty'e Racoon. Lieut. Haig, of the Royal Engineers, 1. 68 bee° appointed by her Majesty to be in attendance °II Prince Alfred. The Queen held a Council this afternoon at OS . borne, which was attended by the Duke of Sowe r• set, Earl Da Grey and Ripon, and Lord Stanley of Alderley. Sir James Wilde and Mr. H. Bruce, M.P., We re sworn in to the Privy Council. The Prince and Princess of Wales, SANDIsINGEL93I, April 2 6 . The Prince and Princess of Wales and the Du ke of Cambridge, with Lieut.-General and N tir re ' Knollys, Captain Grey, Colonel Clifton, Mr. P :: Fisher, Mr. H. L. Wood, Mr. Holzman, and th e Hon. Mrs. W. G. Grey, attended Divine service 0 ° Sunday last at Sandringham. The Rev. George Brown Moxon, 8.A., rector, read prayers, a nd th e Bishop of Oxford preached the sermon from the 1 . 6 ` 1/ chapter of St. Joan. On Monday the Prince and Princess of Wale l4 the Duke of Cambridge, the Bishop of Oxfor d ' Lieut.-General and Mrs. Knollys, Captain Grey' Colonel Clifton, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Wood, Mr. 1 - I°l r man, and the Hon. Mrs. W. G. Grey, drove from Sandringham to the pleasant watering place f Hunstanton, returning about five o'clock in th e afternoon. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge left Sandringham at about half-past ten this worn ing, accompanied by Captain Grey and Colonel Ca m ton, for Newmarket. The Bishop of Oxford left Sandringham for E l l this morning. _ His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell and Lieutenant Haig, arrived in town Ye ster : day afternoon from Osborne, and proceeded last even►ng from the Charing-cross Terminus to the London•bri d g o station, and thence by the 8.35 train to Dover, en route fo r the Continent. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived at Gloucester House, Piccadilly, late last even il ' s from Newmarket. His royal highness had been staying '''.., a visit to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales since Saturday at Sandringham, and yesterdoi accompanied the Prince of Wales to Newmarket. The Countess de Grey will have a dance on th e 6th and another on the 10th of next month, at the fawi l l residence in Carlton-gardens. The Countess of Derby will have her fir st assembly this season to-night, at the family mansion in St. James's-square. The Countess (Dowager) of Glasgow and Lsdl Diaua Pakington have left Farrance's Hotel for Malve r/1/ Worcestershire, Count Krouscowitze, from Homberg, and Baton Bruille, from Paris, have arrived at th e P or tl an d 11 ° te1 " Southsea. The Bishop of London and Mrs. Tait entertained at London House, St. James's-square, yesterday evening' at dinner, Lord and Lady Cranworth, Lord and 1 0:1 / Houghton, Lord and Lady Rollo, the Bishop of St. AsaPh° Archdeacon Hale, Sir David and Lady Dundas, D r * M'Murray, Lady Sitwell and Miss Sitwell, kc. Field-Marshal Sir Edward Blakeney, Governor of Chelsea Hospital, is improving in health. Th e venerable officer is regaining his lost strength. MARRIAGE OF VISCOUNT POWERSCOURT AS P LADY JULIA COSE.—Tile marriage of Viscount Powerscourt and Lady Julia Coke, eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Leicester, was solemnised yesterday at St. Gaorge's Church, Hanover-square. The church W °s crowded to excess on the occasiin by the numerous relative s and friends of both noble families. The noble bridegroom' in company with Captain Richard Bateson, arrived at the church shortly after half-past eleven o'clock, and was soon joined by the bride, who was accompanied by her mother , the Countess of Leicester. The wedding party then arrange ( ' themselves in front of the communion table—the bride being attended to the altar by ten bridesmaids, namely, her sib sisters—the Ladies Anne, Gertrude, Mary, 'Winifred, Mar garet, and Mildred Coke ; the Hon. Alice Jocelyn, daughte r of 'Viscountess Jocelyn; Lady Mary Gordon, daughter of the Marchioness of Huntly ; Miss Mary Stephensollt daughter of Lady Mary Stephenson; and Miss Stewart. Captain R. Bateson (Ist Life Guards) attended as "groom ° man." The Rev. Robert Collyer, honorary canon of Norwich Cathedral and rector of Warham, performed th e religious rite. The bride was given away by her father, the Earl of Leicester. LIVES SAVED FROM SIIIPWRECK.—The Board of Trade state that in the nine years 1855-63 3,409 lives W e been saved by lifeboats, and 2,896 by lines and ropes throvgl from the shore either by rocket and mortar apparatus or by hand. In the year 1863 the numbers saved were 505 bf lifeboats, and 357 by lines and ropes. THE LATE BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH NURSING THE FARMER'S CHILD.—Some years ago the late Bishop of Peterborough had occasion to visit a remote country village in his diocese, and notice had been sent to olie of the churchwardens (an intelligent but unpretending farmer) that his lordship would call upon him in the court of a certain morning, it was cold weather, and, after an early breakfast, the farmer's wife had gone upstairs for e short time, leaving her baby, of about three months' o ld ' asleep, and still in his nocturnal habiliments, in a cradle by the parlour fire. When upstairs the good mother Mar a a knock at the house door, but, never dreaming that the bishop would call before nine o'clock, she took no notice of it. Presently, however, she descended to look after lle r , infant son, and to her extreme astonishment, and indee horror, found him in the arms of the worthy prelate, Wi l° was alone in the parlour with him, hushi n g, coax ing, fin d kissing the now unmistalreab'y wide awake child. T he good bishop, altnough then wanti n g no t man y years ,„° threescore and ten, had w a lk e d over a t th a t ear l y h o ur fr°P; a town three miles distant; and, having probably rout*" the infant from its slumbers by his knock and entrance in to the room, had taken it out of the cradle, and was good nti turedly acting the part of nurse until the arrival of th e mother. Such a man naturally won the hearts of all. FARMERS IN MUSLIN I —Can our readers pictur e to themselves an agricultural exhibition, at whiel l the farmers are attired mainly in white muslin, with to: bans instead of hats, and slippers instead of boots—the said farmers, moreover, having black or brown faces, decorate; perhaps with paint, and generally set off by earrings of go it and precious stones, not to mention other rings wherever is possible to place them—on the arms and the fingers, t° • ankles and toes ? Such an anomaly may have been sac gested at Hanwell, but it is only lately that it has folio" existence in real life; and, even now, it may not be seen to this country. To behold it one must have been at Calcutta. a few weeks ago, when a proceeding was enacted which b ad: hitherto been unparalleled in India. For the idea of :h is novel experiment the local public are indebted, it appearsl e ° the excellent Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, the Hon. t Beadon. It occurred to him, we are told, in the early P sr „ of last year, that an Agricultural Exhibition, somewhat . 6 1 1 - the model of these held in England, would bo of we'l l ' benefit to the country, by improving the breed of cattle, ili troducing a better class of agricultural implements, and stimulating the tillers of the soil to greater care concerna the quality of the produce brought to market. To carry out these objects the most effectual measures were taken' Local committees were appointed in every part of Ind ia ' and announcements of the nature of the scheme w ere 6 " culated in all the local languages. The Bengal Govern' meat advanced a sufficient s u m o f money for prizes, wb`,c were on a very liberal sc a l e , an d f o r the general expenses 0f . the Exhibition : so th ere w a s no occasi,n to solici t e n b a scriptions. But c on t r ib u ti on s of obj e cts to be exh ibi : e were demanded from all sides, and the response was battle in the hi g hest degree. By the end of the ye ar, t of collections were nearly completed. These, consistinge°, live stock, machinery, and produce, were all p rope classified, and placed in temporary buildings erected orlon large piece o f ground a ssigned for the purpose. And' by e the 15th of January, the Exhibition was formally opened ." Sir John Lawrence, who arrived out just in ti me fo ceremony.—Dickens's " All the Year .Round." iS GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY.—This compa showing great activity in preparing AntwerP• tinental traffic between Harwich, Rotterdam, and We announced a few weeks since the launch of the A . vai t u he , the first of the feet of noble vessels constructing O r Messrs. Dudgeon, of Cubitt Town, for the railwiaaYurnc",:i pany. On Saturday last the second steamer scion c" uni bee of most successfully in the presence of a large hter of the visitors, Miss Alice Goodson, the eldest daurforming the Chairman of the Great Eastern Railwa)% r Was waned for its Cow baptismal duties most efficiently. The P Zealous.