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A large and influential deputation waited upon the President of the Poor-law Board, headed by the Archbishop of YORK, who commenced the proceeding by an address, in which he declared that the object they had in view - was not to " dictate terms" to the noble lord, but merely •, to co-operate with him, and to lay before him the opinions of those who were qualified to judge as to the reforms that were necessary in dealing with the evils of the present system. A point of great im portance was referred to, namely, the separation of the sick poor from the able-bodied paupers, in order that their treatment should be placed under a dis tinct arrangement. The Workhouse Infirmaries Association has always advocated this desirable change, and recommended it to successive heads of the Department. Of course there are difficulties in the way of making this change ; but, at the same time, its value and im portance cannot be overrated. The proposal is that instead of sick-wards being attached to each work house there should be " consolidated infirmaries" provided, where they could carry out the rules of hospital management, which have been acknow ledged as efficacious in this and in other countries of Europe. In the measure which Mr. HARDY brought forward last year a good deal of this was recognised, and it has been ascertained upon minute investigation that the sick in the country work houses are equally in need of improved arrange ments as those in London can be or have been. One great thing is to leave a sufficient space for air. As for the expenses incidental to such changes they would be, of course, considerable in some instances; but it is satisfactory to know that by the new regulations a great saving may be effected, as the case of St. Pancras has made evident ; in three months a saving was effected of the rate of eleven thousand a year. Those who understand the importance of this branch of the subject will see at once that there is a great deal of difference between the cases of the sick-poor and the ordinary paupers. It is another argument in favour of this mode of treatment that some would be more speedily restored to health, and therefore some of the expenses be saved to the Union. Medical inspection of these Infirmaries is absolutely necessary, because those who were non-professional could not speak with the same authority, and means would be taken by the officials to set their wishes at defiance or render them practically useless. The dispensaries for the out-door sick have worked so well in Ireland that it is no wonder the Archbishop should advocate the desirability of establishing now such a system in England. In conclusion, his Grace mentioned some cases in which neglect and cruelty have conspired to bring about sad results, and very forcibly urged the importance of having a code laid down which would indicate the " re quirements of infirmary establishments," and that the Board should hive power to enforce such re gulations. Among other speeches which were made, Mr. ERNEST HART'S remarks are worthy of notice, since they put the evils of the present sys tem very plainly before one. The reports that are given do not always permit one to judge accurately for " want of classification," " insufficie n t attend ance," and so in reality mean far more than they seem to do at first sight. " Inadequate" and 66 insufficient" are convenient terms for describ ing some awkward circumstances. We think that there is a good deal of truth in the observations of Mr. HART, to the effect that no codes of regulations that may be established can be carried out effectually unless a staff of capable inspectors be appointed to visit and report on the condition of provincial workhouse infirmaries. Those who are not intimately acquainted with such matters are apt to think that striking changes and great improvements are sure to follow on any exposures that may take place ; but such unfortu nately is very far from being the case. When the first excitement is over matters are very apt to go on much the same as before, and it may be con sidered as a certain thing that no change will be permanently effected unless there is a constant supervision of an effectual character carried on Lord DEVON'S observations were very much to the point, and he expressed his sense of the obliga tions which the Poor-law Board were under to those gentlemen who had rendered such important services, and enabledLthem to improve that which was amiss in the laws previously. The noble lord seemed to doubt that Parliament would fulfil the expectations referred to, and grant the Poor-law Board the full powers that they might ask for; but it is to be hoped that the action of the Legislature may not be found impracticable on this point, for unless something deci sive be done it will be impossible to remedy a great deal of what now militates against the comforts and injures the interests of the paupers, especially in sickness. Lord DEVON did not deny thdt at present great deficiency exists in some respects in reports and other matters referred to ; but the Board intend, as he informed the deputa tion, to effect some alterations, and the medical officers are to be required to keep a book for detailed information, which is to be laid before the guardians at every meeting, and will furnish them with im portant information as to the infirmaries. It is difficult to decide upon changes at once, and the noble lord explained that distances in the country between the different unions rendered it more awk ward than in London to establish accommodation for the sick poor by sending them to a common point. The most sanguine could hardly expect that the President should immediately acquiesce i❑ all the suggestions that were offered to him, for it is one thing to make plans in the abstract, and an other to put them in practice against the decided objections and earliest opposition of a host of offi cials, who have become used to the old ways, and will not accommodate themselves willingly to the new regime. Nothing, however, took place THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 23, 1868, at this meeting which could at all disappoint those present as to the permanent success of their wishes. The opinion of the public has been so often ex pressed on the subject of Workhouses that it is not likely any one would attempt to go counter to its views ; and the Earl of DEVON seems to appreciate the importance of the subject, for he spoke out in a much more independent manner than is often mot with from those in bis position, who are too apt to become entangled in the fatal meshes of precedent and expediency. There appears to exist in India a very delightful uncertainty respecting a matter on which we Eng lish folk are generally pretty accurately informed. The condition of the national exchequer in Calcutta is a problem with which those whose duty it is to solve it appears very hopeless to deal. Llst year the Secretary of State prepared Anglo-Indians for a deficit of some £1,800,000. Last quarter that unpleasant prospect brightened, and the estimated deficiency was reduced one-half. Now the news is better still, and we are told that there is to be no deficit at all ! Perhaps by the time we get the financial statement we shall hear that it has turned into a surplus. There are, how ever, some grounds for the change, which, whatever its origin, must be a welcome one. Opium has yielded a million more than was expected, and the license tax a quarter of a million more. On the other hand, the public works have cost half a million less than the estimate. As a general rule this is an unsatisfactory mode of saving, since an Indian surplus would be dearly bought by any needless delay in the prosecution of public works. If these had been pushed on with due vigour twenty years ago we should not now be talking about deficits in the Indian Exchequer ! The country is produc tive enough to avoid any such awkward pre dicaments, but Indian financiers just now I are doubtful how to act. The system of taxation calls loudly for revision, since the burdens fall unequally. The classes who do not hold land pay very little, while the landowner comes in for a share of every burden. The salt duties press un equally on the poor, and it is held in many quarters that a modified income tax would be a better and more equitable means of raising the requisite funds. When the Budget has fairly shown the real condi tion of the Treasury we shall perhaps find some sensible schemes of financial reforms laid before the Council. At any rate we may re: cognise a marvellous change since the days when wise men doubted whether India would not be too costly an encumbrance for England to maintain. The new postal arrangements are occasioning much dissatisfaction, since the Calcutta correspon dents are of opinion that unnecessary time is lost in the manner of starting the mails. There is some ground for this complaint, as the weight of corre spondence is thrown on the Sunday, and Indian correspondence with England is no light thing. The Government of India has suggested to the Home Government a change of day, which would make a great difference in the ease and comfort of letter-writers, without in any way interfering with the interest, of the service. The constitution of Bengal under the new regime is just now occupy ing a good deal of attention in high quarters. Sir JOHN LAWRENCE, perhaps from personal experience, is strongly opposed to the formation of a Council to assist the Governor. No doubt Sir JOHN has often found his Council a hindrance rather than a help, and India is not the place for delay and delibera tion, or for any appearance of uncertainty or vacil lation in the mind of the governors. Lord CHAN. BORNE'S opinion on the subject was pretty clearly expressed not long since in the House of Commons, and much of what he said carried conviction with it. The home Government is empowered to give Bengal a Governor and Council like Madras and Bombay, but it would be easy obtain the sanction of Par liament to a change which was already shown to be desirable. o plan of I isosfa oft t ahr i ne s ri sn u el se ht l iheeschs indifference m a v f e o r no t aconstitution waosrtkoer irriga tion, ge al well, and ti a h n e d other instance s o f th e i n fl uence of routine o t a n n on d t and d d i considerc m e , more arere vigorous whether sufficient spirit to h m a y k i e cna on t no : oo l tu e legislators i infuselnadt ar Indian pause p r r a e a n ju local administrations. The arrival of the Australasian, from New York, on the 11th inst., does not bring us any intelli gence of importance. The summons to appear before the Senate Court has been served on the PRESIDENT by the Sergeant -at-Arms, and the PRE SIDENT has replied that the matter should have his attention. This is all we hear of the impeachment, but there are other matters which have some sig nificance. The Conventions of the several States are making themselves busy with regard to the coming Presidential contest. Georgia has nomi nated General GRANT, who, in spite of his recent inconsistency of conduct, still claims a good many suffrages. South Carolina has shown what its idea of individual liberty is by passing a resolution requiring all persons voting for the new Constitution to vote also for the candidates nomi nated by the Convention. It is a very different thing to support a particular Constitution and to be forced to choose, as popular representatives, per sons nominated by others. There is an end in this case of representation at all, since the real election lies with the nominators, and the farce of voting may as well be left out. The object of the Conven tion, which is, of course, composed of Radicals, is to keep the representation of the State entirely in the bands of their own party. The Radicals are apparently aiming at this in several places, since they feel no doubt that it will not be possible always to exclude the members for the Southern States. If instead of the Democrats, of whom they have hitherto been ap prehensive they can by a little ingenuity obtain staunch Radical allies, the representation of the South will d be a direct gain to them instead of a loss. It will not, however, be an easy matter to manage, especially when the Impeachment crisis is passed. Signs of division between the Houses of Congress are becoming apparent—the House of Representa tives, in fact, becoming intolerant of any superior. The Reconstruction Committee, always ready to make war on the world, has recommended the pass ing of a bill to admit the Alabama representatives, on the ground that fraud and violence have been used to defeat the new constitution in that State, and that the Senate unwarrantably delayed the passing of the House Bill, providing that the majority of votes in each State shall decide the elections under the Reconstruction laws. This pro vision, as we know, however apparently just and reasonable, is only superficially 80, inasmuch as the registration laws take gcod care that the majority should always be on one side ! Financi 11 matters still perplex both Senators and Representatives, and although the latter have refused to vote upon a resolution in favour of the gradual substitution of currency for bonds, they have referred it to the Com mittee of Ways and Means. The ways and means to escape from the present embarassment are not easy to find, and, though the ugly word repudiation is not often beard, we are beginning to catch murmurs of its more polite imitations. We cannot but hope, however, that the American people at large have too much energy, good sense, and right feelingjto consent to, any humiliating alternative. Their country is, rich enough, and time is before them. Their debt. is of but few years' standing. Let them have patience and resolution, and when once the incubus now weighing on them, in the shape of civil dissens ion and political recklessness, is re moved, they will soon recover their lost ground, and show the world that they can clear off a big debt as fast as they can incur one. LATEST INTELL LGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. SUEZ, March 21 Advices received here from Abyssinia (date not given) state that King Theodore was entrenched on the Talanta plateau, and that he intended giving battle. The Filth (? Fifth) Brigade was to advance on Ashangi on the 11th March. Nearly all the troops are now on the highlands (received as zighaiands). Large supplies have been collected in the neighbourhood of Autola. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, March 23. The Royal Mail steamer Etna, from Halifax on the 13th inst., arrived here at 4.45 a.m. to-day. After landing the mails and passengers she pro ceeded for Liverpool at 5 a.m. All well. SOUTHAMPTON, March 23. The North German Lloyd steamer Weser, from New York, passed the Needles at 9 a.m. to-day. CORRESPONDENCE PROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, SUNDAY, March 22. `The red flag has been hoisted at Bordeaux." This news has a startling sound. It is really somewhat serious though not so alarming as appears at first sight. The facts are these. According to the semi-official Etendard, which is not likely to exaggerate the occurrence, at two o'clock yesterday afternoon a band of men appeared suddenly on the All6es de Tourny. They bore a red flag, and some of them were armed with sticks. Some attempts at disorder took place. The Commissary- General, at the head of his agents, tore away the flag from its bearer, and then engaged in a struggle with the dis turbers of the peace. The Prefet of the Gironde marched to the spot with a picket of honour and gendarmes. They made some arrests, " and in ten minutes all was over.'' One agent was wounded. The account goes on to say tint the behaviour of the . people was perfect, and that they blamed the rioters. A police commissioner, we are in formed, endeavoured by paternal words to turn away the young mea from their culpable folly. The Mobile Guard, who were undergoing revision at the time, took no part in the disturbance, but remained perfectly calm. Presuming that this affair is no worse than the Govern ment organ has made it out, it is yet somewhat serious, as indicating a growing unpopularity of the Imperial regime in the large towns. We are now looking forward with some anxiety to the enforcement of the Army Bill in Paris. The Corps Legislatif is expected to vote to-morrow without any opposition the two millions (E 80,000) forthe relief of the distress in Algeria. It will also sanction the prosecution of M. de Kerv(s.guen for slandering the Paris journals. The telegraph has already informed you that the editors of the Situation and the Figaro have been found guilty of slandering the Chamber. The editor of the second mentioned paper has to go to prison as well as to pay a fine. What would your journalists think if they were liable to incarceration in Newgate for declaring that the House of Commons was past its work and ought to be dissolved ? The irritation which this trial has produced will not be lessened by another which came off last Friday. A certain association, called the Working Men's International Association (Societe Internationale des Travailleurs) was lately started, in order to discuss such matters as co-opera tion, strikes, the wages paid in different countries—certainly very legitimate objects of consideration. But the members omitted to obtain the authorisation of the Government, which is necessary when a society consists of more than twenty persons. For this cause fifteen of them have just been put upon their trial, and, after making an able de fence, in the course of which they said that they did not think of demanding the Government authorisation for such an association as theirs, they were each sentenced to a fine of £4 and thirty days' imprisonment. The report that the Emperor means to go to St. Peters burg gains ground, and it is taken for granted that he will call at Berlin on the way. The Prussian official papers , are now admitting that Prince Napoleon had a mission, but that he had no definite instructions. The Minister of Commerce has just stated, in a speech delivered to the Corps Ldgislatif, that 30,000 working men received hospitality in Paris during the Exhibition, and 400,000 free tickets were given. Baron llaussmann's-street making mania has had the effect of bringing to light a large number of crimes which have taken place no one can tell how many years ago. There is scarcely a street or a boulevard upon the site of which human remains have not_been discovered. During fifteen years no fewer than 300 skeletons have been found. If to these we add all the bodies which have probably been thrown into the Seine, those which have been burnt, those which still remain buried in the cellars of the houses that the Emperor of Paris has not yet touched, we have room for any number of additional chapters to Eugime Sue's " Myst4es de Paris." The Calcutta correspondent of the Times gives several interesting items of Indian news. Sir John Lawrence resigns the Viceroyalty on January 11, when his term of office will expire. He will, says the correspondent, carry with him the blessings of four classes of the community— the English soldier, the sailor, the native peasant, and the third-class railway passenger. One of his latest acts, which seems to have been the proximate cause of this eulogy, is the providing of a room in every barrack where a married scripture-reader will reside, and hold prayer meetings with the soldiers. The Viceroy is a Presbyterian, and this arrangement would seem to be intended as a demonstration against the Bishop of Calcutta, the general of division, and some of the military chaplains, who are accused of Ritual tendencies. The other day a Highlander in one of the regiments grounded arms, and absolutely refused to enter a church to which he had been marched on account of objections to the mode of conducting the service. As a religious controversy of this sort was likely to endanger the discipline of the army, an order has been issued permitting the troops to go to any place of worship they choose. As regards s:cular matters, we learn that Sir John Lawrence is strongly opposed to granting a Council to Bengal, being convinced of the importance maintaining direct personal government and single respon sibility. Mr. Grey, the new Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, takes the Opposite view. The correspondent thinks it hard that the 150,000 pure Englishmen in India, 89,000 of whom are English gentlemen chiefly resident in Calcutta and Bengal, should not be represented if such a Council is to be appointed. In financial matters the great event has been the unexpected discovery of a surplus. Ten months ago the deficit was estimated at £1,827,500 ; it is now said to be non-existent. Opium has, for the first time during Mr. Massey's rt'gime, yielded a million more than was anticipated. There have been other circum stances tending to the same result. The correspondent, however, puts no faith in the figures, and pretty broadly intimates that the accounts have been cooked in order to prevent the levying cf the unp , pular income . tax. The new mail arrangements have caused the greatest possible dissatisfaction. They have been so fixed that while Englishmen at home have the whole week between the arrival of one mail and the departure of the next, Anglo- Indians will have to work all day Sunday in order to answer their letters by the return mail. From the Times of India we glean the following items :-- The rebellious Naikras have been attacked near Baroda, and their leader has been killed. Sir Seymour Fitzgerald is in ill health, and was prevented from attending the opening of the Bombay Art Exhibition. Captain Cun ningham, who, it will be remembered, was some time ago cashiered by court-martial, has been restored to his rank, and will receive the arrears of the pay which should have been given to him if he had not been cashiered. A strong illustration this of the unsatisfactory chara:ter of military courts of justice. The information respecting the reported murder of Azim Khan is vague. According to a Peshawur telegram to the Indian Pub.'ic Opinion, dated February 16, the Amir had been killed by Muhammad Sharif Khan. Some travellers who have just arrived deny this, and state that the Amir who had gone to a feast at Kutsha-Merdom- Chandol was, on returning, shot down close to the Kutsha- Chandol gate by a man with a carbine who had hidden himself there. The Melbourne Argus of February 14 believed that the Victoria Government would not obtain so large a majority at the impending general election rs it did at the last. Opposition candidates had not been chary in exposing the administrative blunders and offences of the Government. The financial mess into which the Government had brought the country has been a fruitful theme for the speeches of the Constitutional party. A deficiency of £650,000 on the year—that is to say, the revenue falling short of the estimated expenditure by that amount—was felt by the Government to be so damaging a fact, that the revenue returns were withheld for a fortnight beyond the usual time of publication, and until the first batch of elections were over. Nevertheless, the " Constitutional" party—those who resist the intrusion of the grant to Lady Darling into the Appropriation Bill —had an uphill battle to fight. The Ministry were believed to have secured the co-operation of a large section of the squatters, who are content that the Constitution should be subverted if only they can retain their runs on favourable terms after 1870, when their present tenure expires. The power conferred by so many millions of acres of land being at the absolute control of the Ministry is in itself sufficient to secure a majority for almost any Ministry. The civil servants in Victoria were compelled to go without any money, in consequence of the recent decision of the Supreme Court that it was illegal to pay money which had not been sanctioned by the Legislature. It was believed that Government were about to issue promis sory notes. The subject of meat-preserving was attracting much notice, as well it might when mutton was selling for id. per lb. Captain Cadell had reported in favour of the Liverpool River as the site of the capital of North Australia. The Duke of Edinburgh had received an address from 800 old colonists of Victoria, some of whom were the earliest settlers in the colony. The deficit on the Italian Budget for the year is esti mated at 8 millions sterling ; the previously accumulated deficit is variously stated at from 24 to 32 millions; it is probably not less than 30 millions. Count Cambray- Digny's financial proposals—the macinato, or grinding tax, and the additional income tax,will reduce the first-mentioned sum to 2 millions. It is hoped that by the sale of the Church lands he will be able to make a substantial assault upon the larger amount. Hitherto, however, these sales have not brought in much ready money, in spite of the heavy discount offered to purchasers for cash. It is sup posed that the Government will have to arrange a finan cial operation with one of the great houses. The rumour that such an arrangement had been made with Rothschild i 4 denied, THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. Mr. Gye's New Season-1868. The Prospectus just now issued by Mr. Gye demands a more than ordinarily cordial welcome. This we award to it at once, as it deserves. For an other year, at any rate, London is to have a couple of Opera Houses instead of the one grand amalgamated establishment that was promised to us by arrange ments which were but very recently all but com pleted, yet which after all fell through, as we now very clearly understand, through no fault whatever attaching to either of the two great rival managers, Mr. Gye or Mr. Mapleson. 'rho former, indeed, in the preamble of his recently issued Pro spectus, gives a very lucid account of the manner in which these hitherto merely rumoured arrangements were opened up, carried apparently to a successful conclusion, and then abruptly, and (it is impossibke that we should not add here at once) most vexatiously dropped altogether. The expla nation runs in effect as follow :—" About the middle of the month of January," says the Pro spectus, " Mr. Gye received an application from the managing director of one of tiro financial corn panics in the City, requesting an interview on the subject of some contemplated opera arrangements. The plan, as explained to Mr. Gye at that inter view, was the following—The financial company was about to enter into an agreement to purchase the interest of the Earl of Dudley in the lease of the site of her Majesty's Theatre, as well as the in terest of the ground landlord of whom that lease is held. The company also intended to purchase of Mr. Maplesou the interest which he had in the remaining term of his lease of the theatre. "l'hese three interests having been bought up, it was the intention of the Financial Company to sell the site of Her Majesty's Theatre for the erection of some public building--probably for a branch of the Bank of En\gland or for a West-end Post-office. The managing director of the Financial Company then proposed to Mr. Gye to sell the Royal Italian Opera, thus uniting the interests of the two Opera houses under one direction." The result of these ❑egotiations was that, in the course of a few days, a contract was signed for the sale of Mr. Gye's Covent-garden property to the Financial Company in question for the sum of £270,000. This con tract, it should be added, was not a provisional or contingent one, but a contract for a posi tive and definite sale, with specified pay ments to be made at certain fixed dates. This was on the 25th of January, and the manner in which the decision agreed upon between the contracting parties was arrived at was this—that Mr. Gye frankly and most honourably "placed at the disposal of the Financial Company who had agreed to purchase his property the whole of the account books, with every account, receipt, and voucher, appertaining to the receipts and expendi ture of the Opera-house for the last ten years—that is to say, since the building of the new theatre ; that four professional accountants were engaged at the theatre during seven days ; that he gave instructions to his Treasurer to •attend upon them and to show them every document they required, and, that in order that they should be in no way embarrassed, he abstained from being present himself for a single moment during the whole of their investigation." How it is that, after all this, the arrangements have (as they have) entirely fallen through, the Prospectus now placed in our hands explains clearly enough by the simple statement that the Financial Company have not fulfilled their contract with Mr. Gye, and that therefore the entire arrangement has fallen to the ground. " Mr. Gye," adds the Prospec tus, upon this point, in conclusion, " regrets this for two reasons--first, that after nineteen years of very arduous labour he would have been but too glad to have retired from the direction of the Opera, al though the proposed sum which he was to have re ceived would only have left him a very moderate remuneration for all the labour and anxiety which he has undergone, for notwithstanding the " exor bitancy" of the demands before alluded to, the public have but very little idea of the cost of build ing and furnishing such an establishment as the Royal Italian Opera ; secondly, that as the esta blishment has now been formed, and the outlay made, Mr. Gye feels quite certain that had the pro ject been carried out it would, under proper ma nagement, not only have produced an immense revenue, but, by combining in one establishment the very few great artistes who are now living, both the cause of art as well as the interests of the public would have been better served." However—possibly —le bon temps viendra ! At present matters are upon their old footing, for inasmuch as we have still two great rival opera houses here in London. With this difference only, that they are brought into nearer neigh bourhood of each other, by reason of the disastrous fire which destroyed her Majesty's Theatre but a few months since--a conflagration necessitating the removal of Mr. Mapleson's noble company of ar tistes, both vocal and instrumental, to their tem porary home and shelter, in our great national Theatre Royal Drury-lane. Reverting now, however, to Mr. Gye's Pro spectus, in so far as it relates to the prospects of the Royal Italian Opera at Covent-garden during the immediately on-corning season of 1868, we have to congratulate the public at large, but more especially the subscribers and habitues of that grand arena of the Lyrical Drama, upon the radiant promise here set forth by way of appetiser ! As for the array of great names, hardly anything is left for us to desire in reason, whether in reference to the Company, or in reference to the Repertoire. Again, Mademoiselle Adelina Patti and Mademoiselle Pauline Lucca, are to be, there, the rival Queens of Song 1 The former (Madlle. Patti) appearing for the first time in England as Elvira, in the Puritani! The latter (Madlle. Lucca) in ber turn appearing, for the first time, in Auber's Domino Noir, now in course of adaptation to the Italian stage by its illustrious composer. Then, again—Mario is coming back this season to the scene of.so many triumphs of his, in finer voice than he has had for years past. One great name we miss with regret from the list of Mr. Gye's company— one of the greatest names connected for years upon years with the lyrical stage, the name of an artist and actor of true genius —we mean, Signor Ronconi. In the ever widening repertoire, again, of the Rcyal Italian Opera, we look in vain for what we should have so gladly seen, any, even the faintest promise of, that is to say, the Premier Jour de Bonheur of the perennial composer of Fra Diavolo and Masaniello. However, without saying a word about it in his Pros pectus, Mr. Gye may even yet vouchsafe it to us be fore the close of the approaching season! The operatic version of Hamlet we could spare, or at any rate wait for, very patiently. But Auber's Last we would indeed glad.y have welcomed ! As it is, however, we must not be ungrateful ; for Mr. Gye is suffi ciently bounteous with his foreshadowed novelties, conspicuous among which is the production of Rossini's grand opera L'Assedio di Cortnto. Be sides, who would not blush to utter one whisper of complaint as to the absence from the list of any opera that could be named, when Mr. Gye can point, as he now does, to such a magnificent reper toire as the subjoined : L'Africaine—Meyerboer L'Etoile du Nord—Meyer beer Les lluguenots—Meyerbeer Dinorah—Meyerboer Roberto it Diavolo—Meyer beer Le Propbeto—Meyerbeer Dun G' iovauni —Mozart Le Nozzo di Figaro— Mozart 11 13arbiere di Siviglia—Ros sini Gugliolmo Tell—Rossini La Gazza Ladra—Rossini Lucrezia 11Jrgia.—Doniz.2tti Don Pasquale—Donizetti Maria di Rohan—Douizetti La Favorita— Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor— Do- L'Elisir d'Arnoro—Donizetti Linda di Chainounix—Doni- zettiLat —Bellini Traviata —Verdi 11 Trovatore —Verdi —Verdi a i 7 91 10 e i t a t 0 3, — , a ch Verdi o r a Don Carlos —Verdi Stradella—Plotow Martha—Flotow Zampa-I.lcrold Fra Diavolo - Auber Masaniello—Auber Il Giurtunento Mercadante I'idelio-13eetlioven Orfee—Gluck Faust e Margherita Gounod Romeo e ietta,—Gounod rispino e la Con:tare—Ricci nizetti La Figlia del lleggimento— Douiz , Ati With a choice from such masterpieces, and with artistes as peerless as those already named, to in terpret them—those artistes supported by instru mental performers and choral singers, such as ara marshalled under the baton of Mr. Costa on the stage and in the orchestra of Covent-garden _ o —what true lover of music is there amongst us wh does not look forward with delighted and confi dent anticipations to the New Season at the Royal Italian Opera, as it is here sketched out for us, in anticipation, in Mr. Gye's brilliant and attractive Prospectus? Cn- n - r t . 4) 4; 4 .1 14p4vy TR44 PORTUGAL. LISBON, March 22, 2.15 p.m. The elections both here and at Oporto are pro ceeding with the greatest tranquillity. March 22, 5.25 p.m. Accounts received from nearly all the depart ments state that everywhere the elections are pro ceeding most peaceably. The results, so_far as they are at present known, are favourable to the Government, the members of which who were can didates for Lisbon having been elected. Senor Fontes, formerly Minister of Finance, has lost his seat. OUTWARD CAPE MAIL. FALMOUTH, March 23. The Cape of Good Hope Company's steamer Asia embarked the mails and 50 passengers at the Docks Pier and sailed at daybreak yesterday, taking out £25,000 in specie and a valuable cargo. SOUTIIAMITTON, March 23. The English bark Grecian Queen, bound from Shields to Point de Galle, has put in here for re pairs, having collided off the Isle of Wight with the English bark Infanta, of Newcastle. The Grecian Queen bad her jib-boom carried away, her figurehead slightly damaged, and her cutwater started. The Infanta's rigging was slightly damaged. FRANCE. PARIS, March 23. The Moniteur of this morning publishes an Im perial decree relative to the contingent of 100,000 men. Another decree opposes the accession of Turkey in Asia to the International Telegraph Convention of the 17th May, 1865. BOURSE, March 21—Three o'clock. .The market closed as follows :- 4} per Cent. End of month... Ital'an Loan 3 per Cent End of month 69 10 Mexican Loan 16 50 Credit Mobilier 266 25 Do. Bonds End of month... 260 Spanish Threes Credit Foucier _1485 Home Debt 35 Deferred 34 Account Orleans ... 905 Northern ............ Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 5681. Western Eastern Sardinian End of mouth... RAILWAYS. 558; 3821 80 Austrian Lombard North of Spain ..................... Saragossa 50 Roman TRIAL OF CAPTAIN MACKAY. CORK, Saturd a y. The trial of Mackay in Cork termi na t e d i n a verdict of " Guilty." With this case the interest of the Fenian prosecutions may be said to be ex hausted. There was a reckless dash in the young " Captain " which made him a favourite with the people, and he evinced some manly and generous qualities, which, if they did not win sympathy from others, mitigated their hostility. The court, there fore, was densely crowded during his trial. After the examination of Corydon a number of witnesses testified to the facts detailed in the statement for the Crown. Mr. IVyse, of Brick-hill, near Blarney, proved that the house was attacked on the 6th of March, 1867, early in the morning, by a party of 40 or 50 persons, under the command of a young man, who wore a military cap, top coat, and green sash. He did not identify the prisoner. Consta bles deposed to the attack on the police barrack at Ballyknockane, which was set fire to, and the in mates obliged to deliver up their arms, but were not subjected to any violence. The soldiers in charge of the Martello tower, at Feta, clearly iden tified Mackay as the leader of the party who attacked and rifled the tower on the 27th of December last. Evidence was given of insur rectionary proceedings at Castlemartyr, Knock adoon, Kilmallock, and Kilcooney.wood, also of the arrest of the prisoner, under the Lord-Lieute nant's warrant, and his discharge in April, 1866, on condition of his leaving the country. An tin dertaking to this effect was produced in his own handwriting. At the close of the case for the pro secution witnesses were called for the defence. John Mullady, alias Shaw, swore that he saw the prisoner for the first time on the previous day, and that Corydon, who was confronted with him, was never present at any conversation between him and the prisoner in Liverpool. In cross-examination he would not say that he had not seen the prisoner before, and he declined to answer whether he ever saw Captain Deasy or Ryan in Gibbons's house in Liverpool. Mr. Heron, Q.C., addressed the jury on the part of the prisoner. His speech consisted chiefly of a denunciation of Corydon, the chief wit ness, whom he called upon them to disbelieve, and censured the Government for employing. Mr. Exham, Q.C., replied, and Mr. Justice O'Hagan charged the jury, who, after an absence of two hours and a half, returned into court with a verdict of " Guilty," accompanied by a recommendation to mercy. The prisoner had the frankness to acknow ledge that he had received a fair trial, and that the verdict was a just one. He was sentenced to 12 years' penal servitude. Iu the gardens of the Inner Temple, Mr. Broome, remarks the Gardener.i' Chronicle, has succeeded in making a display of hyacinths and other spring flowers, such as ono could hardly have expected under the difficulties which surround their production in the heart of London. Large vasefuls of hyacinths ornament the side of the principal promenade, and bads on the grass are not only well furnished with that favourite flo wer, but contain, moreover, tulips, Virginian stocks, and other plants, cal culated to keep up a certain amount of gaiety after the beauty of the hyacinths is over. The latter, to the amount of 500, were rooted in cocoa nut fibre refuse under a wall in a somewhat dry situation, from which they were care fully removed and placed in the vases and beds which they now occupy. The fibre in question is still used for their growth, both in the beds and in the vases, and Mr. Broome is of opinion that it suits them better than any material which he has hitherto employed in their cultiva tion. HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, March 22. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac companied by their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise and Prince Leopold. Her Majesty, their Royal Ilighne-ses Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice attended Divine service this morning in the Private Chapel. The Prince of Wales, attended by Capt. Ellis, visited Mr. Leighton's studio on Saturday afternoon. The Princess of Wales drove out, attended by the Marchioness of Carmarthen, on Saturday. BERLIN, March 22.—The baptism of the youngest son of the Crown Prince of Prussia was celebrated at four o'clock this afternoon. He has received the names Joachim Frederick Ernest. Waldemar. The godfathers and godmothers present were the King, Queen, and Dow ager Queen of Prussia, Princes George and Adalbert, the Cesarewitch, the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Saxony, Prince Augustus of Wurtemberg, Prince Henry of Hesse, and the Grand Dukes of Saxe-Weimar and Oldenbuig. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. The close of th.e dramatic season on Saturday evening was marked by the benefit of Mr. F. B. Chatterton, the able and spirited lessee. The pro gramme was indeed a full one, embracing all the artists of the establishment, with a great number of the most popular actors and actresses of the day in their leading and most popular assumptions. The unexplained absence of Mr. Barry Sullivan occa sioned the omission of the selections from " Richard III." and "As You Like IL" It may almost go without saying that the house was crowded, and that the utmost good humour prevailed throughout the audience. The address delivered by Mr. Chat terton was brief and to the purpose. It sas couched in the following words : "Ladies and Gentlemen,—This evening will terminate the second autumn season that I have had the honour to preside over this theatre. Governed by past expe rience, I have produced the works of standard authors, including Shakspere, Byron, Sheridan, Goethe, and others. To give effect to the representation of those plays 1 en gaged the best artists 1 could command. Encouraged by the success which attended my labours as a public caterer at Easter last, it was my intention to have given an enter tainment at Easter next, but in consequence of the cala mitous fire and destruction of her Majesty's Theatre, I have been induced, upon receiving an equitable considera tion, to allow Italian Opera—for one season only—to take the position of the English Drama in this our national theatre. (Cheers.) " Now, ladies and gentlemen, I appear before you in the unfavourable position of an apologist, in consequence of the non-appearance of Barry Sullivan, who is engaged to me up to this evening inclusive, and whose non-appear anc I am quite at a loss to account for. "I must also crave your indulgence on behalf of Air. 11. Sinclair and Mr. Harcourt, who are unexpectedly called upon to appear before you in consequence of the sudden illness of Mr. Edmund Phelps. " Now, ladies and gentlemen, in the name of the ladies and gentlemen of my company and myself, allow me to bid you, until September next, respectfully farewell. (Immense applause.) fIHE VOLUMEERS. 3D LONDON RIFLES. On Saturday evening the members of this corps, together with many of their friends, assembled at the Guildhall, for the purpose of witnessing the pre sentation of a testimonial to Lieutenant-Colonel Richards, on his retirement from the regiment. Colonel LAURIE, in presenting the testimonial—a massive silver inkstand, in the form of a regimental and two kettledrums, and bearing an appropriate inscription—said that he had to express the regret which both officers and men felt at the retirement of Colonel Richards from the command of their regi ment; and, as an evidence of their good feeling towards Lim, he, as the representative of the regi ment, had to haul to him a small present, as a token of their sincere regard and in grateful ac knowledgment of his exertions in the formation of the regiment, and his zeal and agility in promoting its welfare and efficiency. He was sure that Colonel Richards, in common with every member of the corps, regretted that the press of other busi ness compelled him to relinquish the position he had so long and efficiently held, more especially as in a great measure it was to his exertions that the volun teer movement owed its success. Mr. LARDNESS having briefly addressed Colonel Richards, expressing regret at his retirement and many good wishes for his future, Colonel RICEIARDS said that it needed nothing to convince him of the good feeling and kindness of the corps towards him, but, at the same time, be felt a pride in accepting that testimony of their cordial feeling. It was a great comfort to him whilst compelled to leave the corps, to know that in Colonel Laurie he left an able successor. TheY could none of them regret more than he did the necessity for his retirement, but since he had been connected with the regiment he trusted he had done the volunteer service some good. Though he had left them he still devoted his pen as much as possible on all occasions to the service of the volunteers. It was a great, he might say wonderful, force, but far from perfect, or being what a very little would make it, if that little were done. Lore Ranelagh had been most cruelly misrepresented when he was made to say the volunteers were a sham, for he had done everything in his power for the welfare of the move ment. Every honest man and true volunteer knew well what Lord Ranelagh meant. He meant that the force wanted a better organisation, and that that which at present existed might in some respects be called a sham. He (Colonel Richards) did not think they needed a commissariat with the volun teers, as such a thing would not be necessary in this , their own country, nor did they want a system of telegraphs of their own, but he wanted to see the force thoroughly organised, so that on any day at moment's notice, they could be called into action/ and be furnished with everything requisite, se as to prevent that inconvenience and confusion which must inevitably arise if they were calle d out in their present state. Those were Lord Ranelagh's views, and he hoped they would be carried out, as the volunteers would then be 8 5 efficient an army as any in the world. It was no t of the volunteer force generally he wished to speak , but of that regiment which was so dear to A fter complimenting the corps upon its efficiency an d the manner in which the men had alway conduct ed themselves in the ranks, he offered a few words o, c l parting advice to both officers and men. He aske d the officers to remember the mixed element with which they had to deal ; to be gentle with the me n of whom they had charge, not to attempt to be too strict, but at the same time to carry out the dis ci pline of the regiment. It was a difficult force t ° command, but he had always found the task easy' and he would also say, " Do not trouble your coal: inanding officer with too many courts of inquiry' t The men he asked to obey their officers, to be sil ent in the ranks, and never to lift their rifles, whe the r in shooting or snapping a cap, without think in g that they were aiming at the heart of an eivu t t' who would reach their throats if they did not sh oo, , him down. In conclusion, he said that the best t e ' timony they could give him of their goodwill to wards him was to remain a regiment, and let .11 see them march by, so .thati . he might be able-to " There goes the dear old :Id London with wl° llt I have passed so many happy hours." The gallie33 colonel resumed his seat amidst loud and prolong ed cheering. tae f,, The statue of Napoleon 1., one of the CUP a d'ceuvres of Canova, which under the reign of Jerome st°° in the Salle des Etats, Westphalia, has been found in 0 - hay-loft of the garrison at Cassel. In 1812 it had he 1 thrown down and broken. As soon as this discovery to the knowledge of the French consul at Frankfort, hastened to apply to the Prussian authorities, claiml" these mutilated parte. •1.............. zi( BRIT Per 8 CiOVERNIN ), Aecour tirr Cent. R( 4: 1- a per C e "Z 2 1 per C 44nuitie 5 Per C s ' • C ited 3 E i) t L ° So Bi 1)—o 7 Co;