The Sun. — London, England, 1853-05-05 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, TILYMAREET. Under the management of Mr. linckstone. THIS EVENING, MAT 5, b• performed ELOPEMENTS IN HIGH LIFE. By Messrs. C. Sullivan, Chippendale, Howe, Blackstone, Vincent, Rogers, and Campton ; Mn.s Yitzvrilliam, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, and Misses itoynoldi and L. Howard. After which MR. BUCKSTONE'S ASCENT OF MOUNT PAR "Assus. To conclude BOX AND COX. BOTAL PEINOESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Moiler the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, MAY 5, VIII be performed THE CORSICAN' BROTHERS. Principal eimracter by 2.1 r. C. Kean. To conclude with the new Drama, adapted from the French of Woe. Scribe, by Mr. Pegrave impson, called MARCO SPADA. Principal characters by Messrs. W. Lacy, J. Vining, Ryder, Graham and Everett; Misses Heath and C. Leclercq. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. 'Under the Management of Madame Vaaris. THIS EVENING, MAT 5, Will be performed A.S.S. Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Rater, ant ftostere ; Mrs. Maenamara and 3liss Wynditare. After which, A FAST TRAIN —HIGH PRESSURE EXPRESS. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Baker . and Suter. To he followed by T ItYIN 0 IT ON. Principal character by 31r. C. Mathews USED UP. P r i n cipal character by Mr. C. Mathews. Af te r which. THEATRE ROYAL ♦DELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webstet —Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, MAT 5, Will be pertbrmeil MASKS AND FACES; or, Before ani Behind the Curtail' —by slesOrs. B Webster, L. Murray, Honey, P. Bedford, rod Cullenford ; Mesdames Celeste and Woolgar. After which, A DESPERAT riAllE. To be followed by TO PARENT. AND GUARDIANS. Cha racters by Masqe. Keeley and Wigan, Mrs. Keeley, Mrs. Wigan, and Mies Keeley. To, conclude with THE DANCING SCOTCHiLAN. ROYAL OLYMPIC; THEATRE. Lessee and Manager Mr. Farren. Ozeat Sit of THE MILLER OF DERWENT WATER. THIS EVENING, MAY 5, Will be performed THE MILLER OF DERWENT WATER. Characters by Messrs. H. Farren, F. Robson, Shalders, and G. Cooke ; Mesdames Anderten and E. Turner. After which, UNCLE CROTCHET. Supported by Mr. Fer rer), &c. To be followed by MACBETH. By Mr. F. Rabeos, and Mrs. A. thllups. T. conclude with THE WATERMAN. ASTLErS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. iQuibatled and brilliant success of the New Spectacle. Third Night of an entirely new Drama. THIS EVENING, MAT 5, Aid (lasing the week, the performances will commence with the Increasingly popular spectacle of AMAKOSA; or, Scenes of Kafir Warfare; with all its new and beautiful scenic, interesting dramatic and astonishing Equestrian effects. The Burning Wood, the Leap through Fire, and the terrific spring of Amakosa's Steed over the Falls of the Umtata, nightly received with enthusiastic approbation. To be followed by a novel and incomparable display of Equestrian Achievement in the ticenes of the ARENA, supported by the most accomplished Artistes of the day. Mr. Cooke will appear with his Wonderful steed Raven ; also Mr. Alfred Cooke and his accomplished lamlly. To conclude with a new Cemic Drama, entitled IN FOR A DJG; or, Life at the Diggings. Buz-ounce (wen daily from Eleven to Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. MIMI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tvtq DAY --Morning 1.7 min. after 12 I Evening 38 min.aft. 12 To-Menßow—Morning 57 min. after 12 1 Evening 18 min.aft. 1 TRH WEATHER.--Smc Onica, 3LLY 4. THENMOMETER, IN THN SHADN. 57—highest aim* noon yesterday. 46 lowest this morning and daring the night. 00— this day at noon. &morainal', 30'29. WIND, E.N.E.—Fine, sunshiny weather. THE PUBLICATION OF " THE SUN" COMMENCES EVERT ♦FTHRNOON AT THREE O'CLOCK, AND THB LATE OR THIRD EDITION, CONTAINING THB DEBATES IN PARLT A AfENT THE SAME EVENING, With all other News arriving up to the hour of Post, AT SEVEN O'CLOCK. EXPRESS EDITIONS will be forwarded after the Post is closed by the Latest Trains. its favour. The result of the first division, however, proves that but little regard is paid to the abstract justice of a proposition by Hon. Gentlemen who are prepared to vote black white if it promote the interests of the party to whom they have tendered allegiance, or from whose bounty they ex , ,,ect a fair proportion of " the loaves and fishes "—the good things, so acceptable to the numerous waiters on PROVIDENCE who crowd the lobbies of the House, ready to take advantage of any chance. They may, however, %r very shame, take advan tage of the loopholes for partial escape, to extricate themselves from the lowest depths of infamy ; and, although argument and reasoning may be thrown away upon them, a feeling may be excited among their constituents that will produce some effect when a new appeal to the country becomes immi nent. It is difficult to conceive anything more absurd than a system which taxes the whole of a precarious income themoment it touches a certain point. Why, we ask, should an income of 1001. per annum be reduced below one of 991., or even 981., from the demands of the tax collector. It is quite clear that if a certain amount be considered entitled to total exemption as being barely sufficient to pro vide the necessaries of existence, it is only the surplus beyond that amount that should be taxed —the portion which may be considered as at the disposal of the acquirer. It will be seen that this proposition only applies to precarious incomes, —every pound of accumulated and realised pro perty being properly subject to the charge. In deed there should be no exemption of any kind under schedules Aor C. As the fate of the Mi nistry cannot be considered as in any degree depen dent on the success of Mr. MICHELL'S motion, it is to be hoped that the so-called Liberal members will vote in accordance with their convictions. It is even possible that Mr. GLADSTONE, seeing the general feeling on the subject, may make a graceful concession. We cannot, however, say that we rely with any degree of confidence on this being the case. It is essential, therefore, that those who wish to make the only possible amends for their past votes should be in attendance this evening, to obtain partial justice for those whom they had previously so deeply injured. Prophets have not been wanting to threaten the world with " wars and rumours of wars" dur ing the next quarter of a century—disasters which are, according to them, to close the " abomination of desolation," and to usher in the Millenium. Yet throughout the whole of Europe there reigns at this moment the most uninterrupted tranquil lity. Whatever clouds appeared of late to be "looming in the future," have, by this time, through the agency of the diplomatists, become tolerably well dissipated. The Councils of the Sublime Porte have recovered their equanimity. The AUTOCRAT has modified his demands upon the Government at Constantinople. The Austrian EMPEROR has suddenly grown less eager to draw ' the sword in defence of the Christian marauders of Montenegro. All those ominous movements, which were recently observed upon the shores of the Levant, have subsided into negotiations far the better guardianship of the Holy Places, by a common arrangement among the Sovereigns of Continental Christendom. Instead of conspiring to cut each other's throats in an outburst of amiable enthusiasm, the nations of Europe ap pear to be now only solicitous to become the privileged custodians of the consecrated soil of Palestine. England, it is true, keeps altogether aloof from these conferences among the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Plenipotentiaries. A chivalrous ardour, such as the Saxons and the Normans knew of old, has given place to an eco nomic caution, or a half-political, half-commercial, indifference. France, however, has not altogether lost the glorious spirit of the Crusaders. Some what of their romantic daring and of their religious fervour has survived in the bosoms of her children and in the palaces of her administrators. Senti ments like those were rife in 800, when the diadem was worn by CHARLEMAGNE. They had not become entirely obsolete—they had not be come wholly forgotten—they were still regarded with a certain tenderness in 1800, when the sceptre was grasped by NAPOLEON. A thousand years had failed to wear away the influence which thus linked together the respective ages of those two redoubtable conquerors. It seemed in this regard that there was a sympathy between epochs thus widely separated from each other—just as there was discernible a certain resemblance between the brilliant prowess of MURAT and the magnificent knight-errantry of ORLANDO. And the same sen timents may be declared, we believe, with truth to have descended from the last, down to the pre sent, generation. They were latent in the ,hearts of the millions who owned allegiance to the great NAPOLEON : and they are cherished, too, with redoubled ardour among the lieges of his imperial successor. These truths were recognised early in the present century by RENE DE CHATEAUBRIAND. Their recognition gave the key-note to the music of that golden eloquence which won such' rapid and world-wide popularity to his " Genie du Christianisme." They were truths, moreover, which were understood in all their grandeUr and intensity by PAUL DE BERANGER. It was his ap preciation of them that caused him to celebrate a greater than HANNIBAL, a wiser than CASAR, and a more wonderful than ALEXANDER, not by any of those gorgeous terms of panegyric, but--,-from his instinctive sense of the popular feelings as a poet—simply as—"lui qui un Pape a couronne." His comprehension likewise of these feelings throughout France has guided, to a considerable extent, the Eastern policy of the THIRD NA POLEON. And so it has come to pass that the shield of Gaul has been extended, at the eleventh hour, over the SULTAN, and that the CZAR has found his cupidity unexpectedly baffled on the eve, as it were, of his anticipated seizure of Constanti nople. Meanwhile, there have become visible nume rous tokens of an amicable ambition in various other parts of Continental Christendom. The promise of the conservation of tranquillity throughout Europe has been rendered visible by events elsewhere than within the Council Cham bers of the Imperial Palace of the Tuileries. If hope of the preservation of quietude be looked for, it is not necessary that we should search for it solely in reference to these arrangements as to the future guardianship of Palestine. It is to be seen to the north and to the south simultaneously. Northwards it is becoming discernible in thQ prospective assemblage, during this present month of May, at Vienna, of the Monarchs of Austria, Russia, Prussia, Bel gium, Greece, Naples, and Bavaria. Southwards it is conspicuous in the graceful reception, by the QUEEN of Spain, on the 28th ult., at Aranjuez, of the letters accrediting the Marquis de TUR GOT to the Court of Madrid as French Ambassa dor. The language uttered upon this latter occa sion, both by the Monarch and the Diplomatist, must be regarded as, in all respects, too remark able to be negligently overlooked. It is curious to read the speeches addressed to each other nowadays by the French Plenipo tentiary and the Spanish Sovereign, and to remember, while doing so, the relations for merly subsisting between ISABELLA 11. and the ORLEANS family—or, still more, the opinions which farther back estranged the representatives of the Royal House of Spain and the Founder of the NAPOLEONIAN dynasty. On presenting his cre dentials, it will be soon that the Marquis de TuateOT observed—" I have the honour to present to your Majesty the letters of his Majesty the Emperor of the French, my august Sovereign, which accredit me to you in the quality of Am bassador :" adding—" His Majesty the Emperor forms the most ardent wishes for the happiness of Spain and for the glory and prosperity of the reign of your Majesty, and charges me to express them in the warmest terms." Nor is this deemed seeuifintciiag t n , the representative of NAPOLEON 111. `LS s in p e r e o r d e ue f e r d ie , n m ds a n d ip am b e, et i l een F n all times, ad r d a n e as , m happye r and Spain 1 o f u o r r both nations ;" and he constantthat efforts, desiresalwoaf m y Majesty may be p e rsuaded st y en Sov dto er i e n i e g r n e , as a e nd th m ei y r good relations, and to draw closer the ties which lunite them." After a, word a complimentary tas at - Pit t , e T : 4tr i a - „, , N. Ant ( i s :; - - LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1853. A. more complete and decisive victory has se dom been achieved by any Government than tha obtained on Monday night, or rather Tuesday morning, on the first division on Mr. GLADSTONE'S Budget. Ifever have there been so many instances of unblushing tergiversation as were exhibited on the occasion by men whom we have hitherto been accustomed to regard as consistent politicians. The division list, indeed, affords a deplorable illus tration of the subserviency of many popular mem bers, who, for once, voted for " men not mea sures," and sacrificed the interests of the indus trious classes to the indefensible crotchets of the Financial Minister. These men have hitherto been accustomed to condemn, in the strongest and most unequivocal terms, the gross and pal pable injustice of levying the same rate on every kind of income, - without reference to the source from whence it might be derived. They have clearly explained the nature of the inequity, objecting to Mr. DISRAELI'S project, which recognised a distinction between the con tributors under Schedule A and C, and B, D, and E,—that it did not go far enough,—that the actual difference in value was far beyond the allowance which he was prepared to make. And yet these very men have, with a few honourable exceptions, combined to negative the amendment of the Hon. Bart. the Member for Herts, which embodied the great principle they had so frequently and so eloquently advocated, and to continue the iniquitous system for seven years longer without change or modification of any kind. Let us for a moment consider the substantial effect and meaning of that amendment. It was, that the continuance and extension of the tax, " without any mitigation of the inequalities of its assessment, are alike unjust and impolitic." There was nothing factious in this no thing calculated to obstruct the Government, or embarrass the finances of the country. It did not pledge the House to oppose a renewal of the impost after a due discrimination between the dif ferent descriptions of income. All that it con veyed was, that the tax was objectionable in its present form, anti that its renewal for so long a term as seven years, without some attempt to in vestigate its inequalities, was contrary to equity and expediency. We venture to assert that nine tenths of those who obeyed the Ministerial Whippers-in, who followed Mr. GLADSTONH into the Government lobby on the division, were in their hearts and souls convinced of the truth and accuracy of the proposition against which they were voting, and had at some time or other, in public or private, given distinct expression to their views on the subject ; and yet they voted against it, and thereby affirmed the justice and propriety of the impost. What faith can henceforth bo placed in the professions of public men when we find them so strikingly at variance with their, practice, and that on an occasion of such vital and paramount importance as that of Monday last, when the effect of their extraordinary conduct may be the Perpetuation of a system in every respect as iniquitous as that which they then sustained with their suffrages. There is yet, however, a locus penitentice, a chance still remains for the partial redemption of the characters that have been already so seriously damaged. The amendment of Mr. MICHELL, ex tending only to details, and not aimed at the principle of the measure, will be brought forward this evening, by which it is proposed that no duty shall be levied in the first hundred pounds of in come arising from the exercise of any professio n trade, or vocation, and that a diff erence of 2d. in ' th e pound shall be made in favour of all such in wines above the yearly profits of 100 i., and less than 5001. This is a material improvem en t on Mr. DISRAILI'S proposition, not merely because it i s a nearer approximation to justice by a farthing i n the pound, the contemplated charge for the first two years—we do not expect to see the reduction ". 1 : 3 V ) " . ever carried into practical operation—bein g off s e d rs . in place of sid. an exemption to; thbleutfi,rfsatrlinooolie,ofbecaallusp precarious ingoraes not exceeding 500/. per annum. This appear almost claim is so equitable, that it would ivork of supereroptio4 to offer Amy argument in = THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING -1 MAY 5, 1853. from himself personally, the Ambassador is answered in a congenial strain by the Spanish Sovereign. " I receive," says her Majesty, " with a great deal of pleasure, Monsieur le Marquis, the letter of the EMPEROR of the FRENCH, which accredits you as ambassador to me : the wish which you manifest on the part of his Majesty for the felicity of the Spanish nation, and the splendour of my reign, are the more agreeable to me as I already possess numerous proofs of his sincerity." Thereupon, the QUEEN continues, " On my part, I form the same wishes for the prosperity of the EMPEROR and of France, and I will not let any opportunity escape for causing the friendly rela tions established between this monarchy and the French Empire to serve in promoting the common welfare of the two States." Although the senti ments here expressed were given utterance to merely at what may be termed, without much inaccuracy, the private interview between the Marquis de TURGOT and the Queen ISABELLA they are, nevertheless, sentiments so re markable, as significant of the epoch at which we have now arrived, that they have appeared to us to be especially entitled to our consideration. Everywhere, in fact, not only in Spain, but in France also, and in England, and in Russia, and in Turkey, and in Austria, and in Prussia, and not only in Europe, but throughout both hemi spheres, there is a manifest reluctance to interrupt with unjustifiable hostilities the beneficent and prosperous tranquillity of Christendom. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, WEDNESDAY. The Queen and Prince, accompanied by Princess Helena and Princess Louisa, drove out in a pony car riage yesterday afternoon, and returned to Osborne about six o'clock. The Hon. Colonel Grey was in attendance on horseback. The Duchess of Bent visited the Duchess of Glouces ter yesterday at Gloucester-house, Piccadilly. . The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, and attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir George Couper, honoured the Lyceum Theatre with their presence last evening. The Bishop of Nova Scotia had an interview with the Duke pf Newcastle yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Earl of Clarendon received the Cabinet Ministers at dinner yesterday evening at his residence in Gros venor-crescent. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the West India Colonies, and also from the Governor of Gibraltar. THE BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS. The Board of Trade returns for the month ending the sth of April were issued this morning, and furnish still stronger evidence than was afforded even by the previ ous returns of the prosperous state of every branch of industry. As compared with the corresponding month of last year, they show an increase in the declared value of our exportations of 1,486,8181. In this increase al most every article has shared, but the most prominent items are metals, co tt on manufactures, haberdashery (which has reached a total exactly double that of April, 1852), and woollen, leather, silk, and linen manufactures. In hardwares, also, there has been a considerable aug mentation, and beer and ale likewise exhibit the extra ordinary extent of shipments to Australia. In looking at these results allowance must be made, as on former occasions, for the manner in which the respective amounts are swollen by the general advance in prices ; but this has operated only in a limited degree, the increase in the quantities as well as in the value of each article exported being in most instances extremely large. DECLARED VALUE OF EXPORTATIONS. Month ending April 5, 1852, 6,400,415/. ; ditto, 1853, 7,887,2331. The comparative imports and exports of raw material show a very large increase in the imports of every arti cle, except tallow. The aggregate value of our exports during the first quarter of the present year has been 20,391,7231., against 16,575,7481. in the like period of 1852, showing an increase of 3,815,9751., or 23 per cent., which has occurred in the following order : Month ending— Increase. February 5 ... ... "'£1,410,060 March 5 ••• ••• ••• 919,097 1 , 486,818 April 5 ... ... ... The quantities of imported articles taken into con sumption present an almost general increase. Grain, flour, salted provisions, cocoa, coffee, sugar, wine, spirits, tobacco, fruits, and spices, have all been used to an ex tent that demonstrates the constantly improving condi tion of the people. Tea is the only item on the unfa vourable side, and the diminution in this article is, doubtless, to lse attributed in some measure to the cessa tion of purchases on the part of the trade pending the production of the budget. DEPARTURE OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADIAN MAILS. Yesterday morning, about half-past nine o'clock, the United States mail steam-ship Atlantic, Captain West, sailed from the Mersey with the usual mails for the, United States and British possessions in North America, upwards of 100 passengers, and a large and valuable cargo of general merchandise on freight. INDIAN AND AUSTRALIAN OUTWARD MAIL.—The mail put on board the Ripon yesterday, at Southampton, .for the Mediterranean, India, China, Batavia, and Aus tralia, consisted of 261 letter bags and boxes. There were 22 bags for the Mediterranean, and 239 boxes for places beyond Egypt ; 27 of these boxes contained letters, and 212 contained newspapers. There were 53 boxes for India, 8 for China, and 100 for Australia, 13 out of the 100 contained letters, and the rest newspapers. For Melbourne there were 78 boxes, 6 containing letters, and 72 newspapers. For Sydney there were 55 boxes, 4 containing letters, and 51 newspapers. This has been the second mail for Australia viol India, that has been dispatched, and the largest and heaviest that ever left England. It weighed about 10 tons. Among the 40 passengers who went out in the Ripon, about a dozen ' were for Australia. Captain Fitzgerald, RN., was also a passenger, and has gone to India to join H.M.S. Winchester ; and Mr. Down, a brother to Captain Down, of the Chusan, who is gone out to . Melbourne in an official capacity. 'SCREW v. PADDLE.—The Bengal screw steamer, which brought home the last Indian mail, performed the dis tance between Malta and Alexandria, 820 miles, in two days 20 hours, which is the shortest time the voyage was ever performed in, and she must have averaged 12 mires an hour to have done it in the time. There is no doubt that this steamer, the largest at present in the world, can run, under very favourable circumstances, 19 miles an hour. She has fully answered the most sanguine expectations concerning her, and has preyed the Yankee notion that length of itself gives speed, be cause steamers of such enormous length as the Bengal, 1 1 which is nearly 320 feet long, have not to breast every wave. All persons interested in the screw, and who have watched the perforMance of the Bengal, have pro nounced that the days of paddle-box steamers are num bered, and that they will be supplanted by screw steamers as effectually as the mail coach has been supplanted by the railroad. AUSTRALIA.- The Statesman arrived yesterday from Port Philip, having sailed on the 30th of January. The total amount of gold she brings is not at present known, the advices only giving the shipments from Geelong, which were 10,339 ounces; valued at about 42,0001. The intelligence by this opportunity is two days later, but comprises few points of interest. An arrival by private escort of 20,204 ounces of gold had been announced, and the latest accounts from the mines were satisfactory. New discoveries had been made at Ballarat, the value of which appeared to be undoubted. The quotation of gold in Melbourne was 31. 12s. 6d. per ounce. Sales of real property continued to be made at advanced prices. • ONE HUNDRED TONS OP SPECIE.—The specie brought home by the Magdalena from the West Indies, Pacific, and Mexico amounted to nearly three millions and a quarter dollars in value. About half a million dollars' value of it was in gold ; the rest was in silver. A very large portion of this specie was from Mexico. It took 28 hours to transfer the specie from the Mexican packet to the Southampton one at St. Thomas. The whole of the specie was dispatched to London from,the South ampion Docks yesterday ; it weighed nearly 100 tons, and occupied nearly 20 specie waggons. The Magda lena brought the largest and most valuable cargo ever known. The West India Company "will net by her cargo and by her passengers' fares about 10,000/. The Magdalena had a splendid run from St. Thomas, having performed the distance of nearly 4,000 miles in little over 14 days. DEATH IN THE SNUFF-BOL—Yesterday Daniel Can non, snuff and tobacco manufacturer, was fined by the Commissioners of Excise in the mitigated penalty of 251. (his liability being 3001.), for mixing chromate of lead with snuff. The analytical officer of Excise having re ported the adulteration, Mr. Cannon stated that he had no idea of defrauding the revenue or the public by in creasing the weight of the snuff, and that his only ob ject was to add brilliancy to the article by the mixture. Mr. Commissioner Stevenson observed that the act was not only illegal, but deleterious to health, and therefore cautioned the defendant against a repetition of the offence. DRS. ULLATHORNE AND MOORS.—We understand that the legal advisers of Drs. Ullathorne and Moore have decided upon making application to the Master of the Rolls for their liberation from custody, on the ground that their committal has been abuse of the power of the Court. Affidavits will be put in to show that the de fendants bad previously tendered all the property they were possessed of ; that their personal inability to pay was never questioned by the bank managers or their re presentatives ; and that their imprisonment is not un reasonably believed to be the result of an expectation, on the part of the official managers, that the money would be paid by the Roman Catholic body. Should this application fail, the rev. gentlemen will go before the Insolvency Court, for which ;their papers and schedules are now prepared.—Birmingham , Gazette. A letter from Mayence of the 28th ult. says :--"At the theatre here last night, just as the' performance had finished, and the audience were withdrawing, a sharp cry was heard behind the scenes. It was soon circulated about that one of the actors having in vain besought an actress, who was about to leave the company, to change her determination and stay, had, in pretending to give her a farewell kiss, bit off part of her nose. The wound, though not dangerous, will require, it is supposed, five or six weeks to heal up. MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 8,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were taken for export and on speculation. The market closed firmly, and prices of American •a turn against the buyer. The sales comprised 5,000 American, 1,300 Pernam and Maranham at 6d. to 7d., 450 Bahia at 6i-d. to 6d., 400 Egyptian at 6d. to Bd., 500 Surat at 3d. to 41d., and 170 Sea Island at ls. 9d. to 2s. 6d. per lb. Railway Shares were quiet, but steady. The six weeks' average price of wheat is 445. 7d. , per quarter, and the last week's sales were 74,904 quarters. In the monthly circular of Messrs. Lamond it is remarked, concerning railways, that " The traffic throughout the country is encouraging. The returns for the week ending April 23 amounted to 298,560/., and for th e correspond i ng week of last year to 262,2211., showing an increase of 26,3421., or 9'67 per cent. The gross receipts for the eight railways having their termini in the metropolis amounted to 134,5231., and for th e corresponding week of last year to 125,241., showing an increase of 9,2791., or 7.4 per cent. The increase on the Eastern Counties Railway amounted to 1,389/. ; on the Great Northern to 3,5451.; on the. London and North-Western, to 4,600/. ; on the London and Blackwall, to 49/. ; on the London, Brighton, and South Coast, to 3831. ; and on the South- Eastern, to 1111. ; total, 10,077/. But from this sum must be deducted 7361., the decrease on the Great West ern, and 621. on the London and South-Western • to gether, 7981. , leaving th e i ncrease as above, 9,2791. The receipts on the other lines in the United Kingdom amounted to 164,0401., and for the corresponding period of 1852 to 146,9771., showing an increase of 17,0631. in the receipts of these lines, which, added to the increase on the metropolitan lines of 9,2791., makes the total increase 26,342/. over the corresponding week of 1852. The total increase, from the 2d January last to 23d April, over the corresponding period of 1852, amounted to 444,9241., or 10 . 47 per cent. Should the increase in the traffic continue at the same rate during the year, it will amount to 1,600,0001. over the receipts on railways in the United Kingdom in the year 1852." The steamer„ Adelaide left St. Helena for the Cape of Good - Hope and Australia on the 4th March. The Honourable East India Company have lowered the rate of exchange id., and now receive cash for bills at 2s. O'd. on Bengal and Madras, and 2s. id. on Bombay. The Committee of Mexican Bondholders have received advices from Mr. Falconnet, by the Mag dalene, dated Mexico, the 2d ult. Proceedings had been instituted against Mr. Falconnet, at the instance of 52 ex-deputies of the late Mexican Congress, for imputations against the Government and Legislature, as contained in the reports of the late general meeting of Mexican bondholders, held here on the 26th January last. He had, under this process, been arrested since the 29th March, but understood that the proceedings against him were arbitrary and illegal, and expected soon to' be liberated. It was his intention then to return to London, and he requests the committee, in the meanwhile, not to take any steps with refer ence to this incident. The packet has brought 70,000 dols., being per balance of the cotton license to the credit of the arrears, and 31,058 dols. to Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co., for account of the dividend. The intelligence of the progress of Manning and Mackintosh's affairs is unsatisfactory. The English Stocks have been rather dull again, and prices have improved. Consols have been 100 k for Transfer, and 1001 for Account. The New 3± per Cents. have realised 103 to , and the 3 per Cents. 99i to 1001. Bank Stock has ad vanced to 228 k. India Stock is quoted 261, and South Sea Stock 115. South Sea New Annuities have been marked 1001, East India Bonds are dull at 325. premium, and the June Exchequer Bills at Is. to ss. premium. In the Foreign Market there has been less activity. Grenada Deferred Stock has been quoted lit, and Equador 6 i. Buenos Ayres Bonds have been at 67, and Brazilian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at 101. Mexican Bonds have been steady at 27A to 'J. Spanish New Deferred Bonds have been 241. The Certificates have been at 68. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have realised 66i to - 66. In Railways there is less doing but prices have not varied much. Caledonian are firm. Midland have been in greater request, and Norfolk are higher. York and Berwick are very firm. Foreign Shares have been higher as regards the French, owing to the rise at Paris. This concerns the old and established lines only, the many new schemes that are being sanctioned not finding particular favour. The French Government does perfectly right to grant concessions while the money market is favourable, but the question is whether our capi talists should favour this. Joint Stock Bank shares have been rather firmer. The Land Companies' shares are dull, but Scot tish Australian Investment keep up tolerably well. In Gold Mine shares there is a moderate busi ness doing at steady quotations generally. United Mexican are lower, the reports from the mines being unfavourable. The last week's railway receipts ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under : _ 1853. 1852, Great Western £18,819 £18,14 North Western... 49, 451 46,33 q 1 29 1 3 , : 2 85 6 96 7 07 1 28 0 1 , :98 65 3403 1 South Western Brighton Midland South Eastern 12,395 11,679 Caledonian Great Northern Lancashire and Yorkshire 18,022 15,790 York and North Midland Newcastle and Berwick 25,511 22,775 'lt will be observed that these traffic returns are all very satisfactory. The prices of the Jamaica Mines are rather higher. Metcalfe, 14 to 15 prem. ; Jamaica, 5 to prem. ; Port Royal, to prem. ; and Sue River, 1i to 2 prem. Canada Trunk, to 1.1. prem ; and Central of France, 21 to prem. Australasian Coal, 3-16ths to 1-16th die. The following are extracts from a letter received by the last Australian arrival, dated from the " diggins" at Golden Gully : " I suppose by this time you have got my letter from Melbourne, wherein I dare say I expressed myself any thing but satisfied with thingsin general, and the town in particular. With respect to Melbourne, I have no reason to alter my opinion, and every one appears to think as I do—that it is a detestable place. It was natural, however, for me to write in that strain, after living in a fine city, and leaving behind all that is dear to one. At the diggings the post-office arrangements are so inefficient that it is safe neither to send letters from nor to them ; still less is it with regard to news papers, so that I shall not be able to send you any. You want to know how I like the diggins. I like them much, for a rough, hard, independent life appears suitable to my character. It wont do . for every cockney, however, nor can every constitution stand it, for very many of our shipmates have returned to town, in many cases severely ill of dysentery. It is hard, very hard, work even in pleasant weather, and now that the sun begins to roast you, and the flies get into your eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, it is trying indeed to the spirit of - the bravest. We have been hear about ten days, and be tween seven of Us have realised one ounce ; so that it is not gain that keepki up our pluck. You can't get vegetables, or cooling drinks, or beer, except at an ex orbitant price, consequently, our fare is bad indeed — mutton, and that none of the best—and damper every. day ; still, I like the life. It would be wrong to think that diggers are not companionable people ; you may listen for hours to their recitals of adventure without feeling tired. I find a singularly good feeling prevail ing among them towards one who does his best, and wherever we go we experience a cordial reception ; for they admire a hard-working man, and give us uncon ditional praise for dragging up our truck. As a body, they.are indeed most honest, it is they who cap ture nearly all the wretches you meet handcuffed in a cart going to town. On one occasion, they entrapped 30 odd at one full swoop, by surrounding the tent in which they were, and you frequently see them leading off men to the constables tents. Over the hill here at Friar's Creek, scarcely a day passes that two or more are not captured ; robberies and murders are too com mon to create any surprise. You become used to these things, and making up your mind to kill or be killed, sleep soundly and go abroad quite without care. Every one complains that there is nothing doing at the dig. gings now. This is quite natural, for here men have got 20 pounds weight in one.day. If they get an ounce a day now they call it poor work. There is apparently little sordid feeling among these men, for they frequently tell you their losses and gains, and give you any infor mation you may ask of them, in many cases at their own expense, to my certain knowledge. The main reason of this as it appears to me is that if they don't get gold where they are they will somewhere else ; and this notion it is; that makes them reckless in spending it. They rely on the discovery of new diggins where pounds weight are to be had. There are tow, however, so many competitors in the field that this chance is altogether different to what it was. In a few days the place will be torn up and tunnelled in all directions. If the gold ground, however, is as extensive f a o s r around T h " e t h w e a t l%' e l r o n e r t e , h ' ist ebrreacwillkis a d n o d u b d t y b s e e nat apnre e . vails, as does, likewise, the influenza, which carries many off. Caution every one against buying digging tools in England—they are useless here. --'s cradle is the greatest sell ever made ; it is entirelyand utterly useless — I mean that rocking deal wood thing. I am not describ ing the diggins because I am writing all in a hurry, my messenger to Melbourne being within an hour the bright sun shines on the various shades . of th e up-heaved mounds of earth, interspersed with trees. At night, no thing can be more beautiful than the view from our tent. My brother Hal will forward it to you. The wea ther here is fine and hot, with cool nights. Occasionally we have a thunderstorm, with rain, though of short du ration. It is as yet much like an English summer, though less varied perhaps. This is, however, but the end of spring. In summer, an "old hand" tells me, that it is as hot as th oug h th ere were b ut a sheet of paper , between you and —. People should not be led astray in England by the news of a golden harvest as the reward of digging in Australia. Long before they can possibly get out, all the gold will have been found. Market gardeners with a plentiful supply of seeds will do first-rate in this colony. Cabbages are now is. each, and everything else in proportion. Salt they sell here at is. the pound, and the vilest of pickles 3s. 6d. the bottle. All diggers without exception are agreed on one point—that by sink ing hole after hole you must come upon it some day. We have sunk a dozen holes without success, as I have 'said, and are now wor ki ng an unbottomed hole which has, we are told, been tunnelled in three places. We ,shall have to shore it up and stand the chance of its fall ing through. We work up to the knees in water and slush, and are becoming regular miners. I would rather follow this life in the worst of weather, and with but little pay, than sedentary employment in England. But then you have the glorious and inspiriting hope of com ing upon pounds weight, who knows when, of the golden metal. Not many, however, brought up like myself, relish it. Don't be deceived. It is the imagination that lends the charm. You work in the midst of most beau tiful scenery, and are tormented by flies. Never mind. Like all diggers I have a notion now that they are most worthy of all people of respect, and am proud to enrol my name among them. Is this an egotistical feeling, or is it honest, independent labour really something to be proud of? Caution anyone against bringing revolvers without a conical bullet mould, and against any six chamber revolver, where the snapping of the cap is pro tected from the hand by a ridge. I would rather recom mend five barrels and conical bullets." BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY. (From the Official List.) _ - Business done. Bank Stock :3 per Cont. Reduced Annuities lOO t i 69i 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 31 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, Expir e sth J an ., 1860 India Stock 261 India Bonds, £lOOO South Sea Stock . ..... ............. ..... 115 South Sea New Annuities Consols for Account Exchequer Bills lid. June. £1000.... 1 5 £5OO l5 p par Small l5 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. — Ditto Ne ~ v , 1852, 43 per Cent lOl Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 67i Equador Bonds Grenada Bonds, Deferred Greek Bonds, Red ,Vitto, Blue Mexican 3 per Cent. Ditto for the Account 27A g A Peruvian Bonds, 43 per Cent. B9 Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto 44 per Cent lo4il Sardinian tondo, 5 per Cent. 9Bl Spanish Bonds 3 per C e nt 484 Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent 244 Ditto Passive (Converted) Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun. 6 a p a Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 4i per Cent. Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Guil. THREE O'CLOCK. .... 100 i i .... 100 i if Consols Ditto May Account March. SHERIFF'S COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff Burchell.) OAR V. LIIMSDFiLL. This was an action to recover the sum of 11/. 14s. 10d., the balance of an account for goods sold and delivered. The defendant pleaded that he was not indebted. For the plaintiff, who is a wholesale provision mer chant, in Bishopsgate•street, and defendant is a grocer and cheesemonger, it was proved that plaintiff formerly supplied a tradesman at Walworth, and in Oct. 1850, saw defendant in the shop, a n d un d ers t oo d that had taken the business, and supplied goods to his order to the amount of 1191., and there was now due the balance claimed. Plaintiff, in cross-examination, said that de fendant's father paid money on two or three occasions, and gave orders, saying that his son was out. He (plaintiff) always considered the defendant was the pro prietor of the shop, and his name, "Robert Lumsdell," was over the door, but there was no description—" se nior" or "junior." He believed that the father's name was Robert. For the defence, it was contended that the business belonged to the father, and defendant was only manag ing in order to put him in the way of business. The shop was taken by Lumsdell, sen., and the licenses were taken out in his name. The defendant was called to prove this. He further proved that in July, 1851, he told plaintiff that he was about to leave his father, and wished that all the differ ent invoices should be comprised in one account, and one was sent in, addressed to Mr. R. Lumsdell, sen., who continued the business, but is-now dead: He swore positively that he had no interest in the business, al though he was introduced to plaintiff by Mr. Banyard, who sold it to defendant's father. Mrs. Lumsdell now stated that about three months after the shop' was taken, plaintiff called for orders, and asked in a general way how business went on, and said he did not think it would support three, and witness said that it was not intended, for her son was going away, and was only there to put his father in the way of the trade. Orders were given by herself and husband, and also by defendant, but the latter always first consulted his father. John Banyard proved that he let the shop to Lums dell, sen. He positively denied that he had ever intro, duced either Lumsdell or defendant personally to the plaintift but plaintiff asked him to speak to the party coining in, and did not ask who the party was. The Learned Under-Sheriff summed up, and , left it to the jury to whom the credit was given ; for even if defendant was only acting as agent, if he did not disclose the name of his principal, he would be personally liable. The Jury, after a long consultation, asked whether the fact of the business being actually the father's ought to weigh withthem. The learned Under-Sheriff said that the fact of a busi ness belonging to a certain person was prima fade evi dence of his liability, but nevertheless other persons might give orders. The plaintiff, in answer to questions ba the jury, said he never saw the father or mother till nine months after Banyard gave up the business. After retiring for two hours, the jury returned at three o'clock, with a verdict for the full amount claimed. SOUTHWARK.-(THIS DA Y.) EMBEZZLEMENT BY A GAB COLLECTOR.—Mr. William Madam, a gentlemanly-dressed and respectable person, residing at No. 134, Blackfriars-road, was brought be fore Mr. A'Beckett charged with embezzling various sums of money, the property of the London Gas Com pany, Vauxhall. Mr. Edward Draper, Inspector of Collectors to the above company, stated that the prisoner was one of their collectors,, and his duty was to collect money in a specified district, and hand the money to witness at the gas works every Friday. He had ascertained that the prisoner had received several sums of money in another collector's district, and had appropriated the money to his own use. Mr. A'Beckett asked whether he had any of the par ties in the Court who had paid him the money? Mr. Draper replied that he had not, but he had the counterpart of the receipts. One sum he had received was from a Mr. Peyne, at Mitcham-terrace, which did not belong to his collection. He had not accounted for that. Alex. Ross, a collector in the company's employ, said the prisoner had received money in his district; he had no right to do so. Prisoner—Did you not give me authority to collect money wherever I could get it ? Mr. Ross—l gave you orders to collect when there was any change of tenant, but I don't recollect anything else. Sergeant Romaine, 14 L, said the prisoner said; when he produced his balance-sheet, that he could bring the company in debt. Mr. A'Beckett said the money ought to have been paid at Vauxhall ; therefore, the offence, if any, was not in that district. The prisoner was accordingly remanded to Lambeth Police-court. A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.—An investigation into the supposed suicide of an aged female named Sarah Hawle, taken yesterday before Mr. G. W. Brent, at the Pied Bull, Islington, disclosed a fearful species of ingratitude on the part of an adopted son. It appeared by the evidence that the deceased, who was a married woman, but lived separately from her husband, had some years ago adopted a nephew, and brought him up as her own son. Some time since she established herself, with him, as a ladies' shoemaker in the neighbourhood of Barbican, and they took up their residence together. In course of time the adopted son, whose name was stated by a sister of the deceased to be Thomas Wells, married, and the presence of his foster mother under the same roof proving no longer desirable he turned her out, and claimed her property as his own. In despair, the poor woman sought her husband, a very old man, and with his consent legal proceedings were taken with a view to obtain back some portion of the wife's property. This seems to have proved unsuccessful, and on Friday last the deceased, on visiting her nephew, was knocked down by him, and otherwise ill-treated. This appears to have filled her cup of misery. She returned to her husband, bade him "good bye," and proceeding in the direction of her home, entered a coffee-house at King's•cross, where she asked if she could have a bed ? Upon being answered in the affirmative, she asked to have a little warm water and a cup of tea taken up stairs ; and her request having been complied with she retired for the night. As she did not come down at the usual hour in the morning her room door was burst open, when she was found partially undressed lying across the bed, and quite dead, with a cup containing some grains of oxalic acid on a chiir beside her. The medical evidence prove. that death WAS caused by irritant poison ; and the jury, after an intimation from the deputy-coroner that they had nothing whatever to do with family matters, unless the violence of any person could be shown to have hastened ti e death, found "That the deceased died from the effects of swallowing oxalic acid, but whether wil fully, or by mistake, there was no evidence to show." ROYAL ACA.QEMY. The eighty-fifth annual exhibition of the Royal Aca demy of Arts was, this week, thrown open to the pub lic, and it may fairly be paid to excel that of last year, for although some eminent artists as Mr. Frith, Mr. Egg, &c., whose works adorned the walls last year, do not now exhibit, we perceive that this year Sir Edwin Landseer again contributes his powerful aid to the at tractions of the exhibition. It is to be regretted that, in an exhibition which almost professes to be a national one, either from want of interest or from some other cause, pictures of' considerable merit are excluded, while others of a very inferior description are permitted to occupy that space so eagerly wished for by less suc cessful aspirants. Still, in the exercise of our duty, it only falls to our lot to pass according to our judgment, an impartial opinion upon the pictures exhibited. It must be, however, premised, th a t f rom the hurried run through the rooms, we are at present only able to notice some of those pictures which more particularly attracted our attention. " Ruth Sleeping at the feet of Boaz" (No. 124), by Sir C. Eastlake, the president of the Academy, although possessing considerable merit, we are unable to call a masterpiece. Mr. Ward contributes two very fine pic tures, although we must confess, in our opinion, not equal to those of last year and the year before. " The Executioner tying Wishart's book around the neck of Montrose, at his execution at the Cross of Edinburgh, on the 21st May, 1650," (No. 396) is a carefully painted. and effective picture. The fearless, yet grave demean our of Montrose is admirably depicted. The back ground of the picture, however, seemed to us to be too dark, and the details too numerous for the prin cipal figures to be as effective as they might otherwise have been. "Josephine, Signing the Act of her Divorce" (No. 512), by the same artist, is, we think, a happier effort ; the expression given to the faces of the leading characters is all that could be desired. "The Confession of St. Thomas," by Mr. Knight, although a showy-picture does not ex hibit to any degree of per fection the talents of the artist as a draughtsman. Mr. Stanfield exhibits two admirable pictures. " The Vic tory towed into Gibraltar, with the Body o f N e l son on Board" (No. 57) i s painted in the artist's best style, and what Stanfield's best style is all our readers know. "An Affray in the Pyrenees with Contrabandists" is also a most effective picture ; the mountain scenery is skilfully depicted, and the snowy peaks in the background, ad mirable in themselves, give additional effect to the whole production. Mr. Webster exhibits only one pic ture, "A Dame School" (No. 116), which, though cleverly painted, is not, we think, with all due deference to the fair sex, equal to his " B oys ' Pl ayground " of last year. Sir Edwin Landseer exhibits, among others, two powerful pieces, "Morning" (No. 69), and " Night" (No. 46). Two stags are portrayed, as Landseer only could portray them, in deadly combat. The morning comes, and the two foes are seen, their antlers locked, in death. " The Children of the Mist" (No. 170) possesses merit, but could hardly be considered a mas terpiece of the great animal painter. "The City of Refuge" (No. 514), by M r . E. A rmytage, although smaller than the pictures of his which have hitherto been exhibited in the Academy, is in our opinion inferior to none of his former productions. A refugee is represented, who, having just escaped pursuit, falls exhausted at the portals of the city to which he Is hastening, and there is met by some of the city maidens. The story is faithfully told, and to our mind the colouring of the whole picture is an improve ment upon the former efforts of this gentleman. Mr. Roberts' picture, " The Cathedral of St. Stephen, Vienna" (No. 89), is a splendid interior, hardly perhaps as fine as the one he exhibited last year. " The In auguration of, the Great Exhibition" (No. 415), by the same artist, is as effective a picture as could possibly be made out of such a subject. The pre-Raphaalite brethren have never heretofore commanded our admiration, but we feel bound in justice to admit that Mr. Millais' picture, " The Proscribed Royalist" (No. 520), leave ,us nothing to cavil at. The story is mo s t effectively told, the colour ing of the picture harmonising, and what is very rare in pre-Raphmlite paintings, the minor accessories do not detract from the effect of the main figures. F.Mr. Anthony's picture of the " Monarch Oak" (No. 480) is very pretentious, but to our mind decidedly in ferior to his picture " Beech Tree and Ferns," exhibited last year. " The Last Return from Duty" (No. 1061), by Mr. Glasse, is a picture which, independently of its artistic merit, and that is by no means slight, will pos sess considerable interest, as being the last portrait painted from life of England's immortal Duke. Mr. Glasse also exhibits another picture, portraits of the Hero and of his Secretary, Mr. Greville (No. 473) ; the likenesses of both are very faithful. Mr. Thorburn, as usual, shines forth pre-eminently in the miniature room. In the sculpture room, " The Day Dream" (No. 1304), by Mr. M'Dowall is well modelled and executed. " The Maid of Saragossa" (No. 1307), is a very spirited piece of sculpture. "Truth Unveiling herself" (No. 1312), by Mr. Monti, is in the same style as the veiled figures which attracted so much attention at the Great Exhibition, and in execution we consider decidedly superior to them. Pressure upon our space compels us to defer to a future day any notice of other works of art, whether of painting or of sculpture, in this year's exhibi tion ; but we shall take the earliest opportunity of again referring to the subject. FRENCH PLAYS. A fashionable audience was present last night at the St. James's Theatre, to witness the representation of MM. Scribe and Legourves historical comedy, Les Contes de la Reine de Navarre. The fame achieved by Mdlle. Madeline Brohan in the arduous rale of Mar gueritte, sister to the chivalrous Francis 1., on the pro duction of the play at . the The'citre Francais, increased the desire to " assist " at its first performance in England. The piece, so far as regards the unities, would satisfy the most exigent Aristotelian critic. Its time and action are, a day and night ; and the scene, the garden of the King of Spain, Charles V., a t M a d r id. The period is that when the astute and diplomatic Charles, after the defeat of his " brother of France " at Pavia, holds the gallant Francis in captivity. The glorious pri soner, who has "lost all, save honour," heart-struck at the woes of his country, whose humiliation he identifies with his own refuses sustenance. At this juncture his brilliant sister, Margueritte, afterwards Queen of Navarre, arrives at Madrid. She carries with her the wise and the frivolous. Isabelle of Por tugal; the betrothed of Charles, is at the Court, as is El6onore, the sister of the cunning and implacable Emperor. There is also present Henri d'Albret, Comte de Navarre, who, after being reported dead of wounds received at Pavia, arrives to share the capativity of the brave French Monarch. From these materials, including Count Guattinaria, the Minister of Charles V., an imbroglio of truly sparkling intrigue is woven, and finally disentangled. Charles, in the first scene, ap points Guattinara to be his minister • he has been ambassador at the Court of Ema nue l, of Portugal, and loves Isabelle, who loves him. Margueritte, who is admired by Charles for her intelligence and genius, is loved by and loves Henri of Navarre, while El6onore, the sister of Charles, has a secret passion for the cap tive Francois. There is some excellent comedy in a subordinate character, Babieca, a jealous Court cou rier, whose wife, Sanchette, is attached to the cause of Francois. Guattinara,. having taken up the King's hat by mistake, effects an exchange in the apartments of Sanchette, which makes her jealous husband suspect Charles himself of being his rival in his wife's favours. Margueritte's plots to effect the escape of her beloved brother are the basis of her " tales " to amuse the Em peror. The acting of Lafont, as the captive king, where Margueritte, by engaging his affections, and drinking the health of his mother, and of those to whom he is most ' - attached, induces him almost unconsciously to take wine and fruits, was - wonderful. Nor did Mdlle. Brohan in the least fail in her playing up to that accomplished artist. A round of applause, and a call, followed th e scene. The interview of the cold-blooded Charles (M. St. Marie), with the bold and candid Francois, was.of the best Order of histrionism. His refusal to escape, disguised as a monk, and his noble burst of indignation and patriotism at the humiliating proposition of Charles, were electric. At the fall of the curtain, a general call produced the reappearance of Madlle. Brohan and M. Lafdaty who were warmly applauded. M. Langeval played G-uatti nara carefully, a character filled by Regnier in Paris.. Tourillon was the Babieca, vice M. Got. Madlle. Ber tin has a pretty Isabelle de Portugal, and Madlle. Edith was an efficient Eldonore. The house was fully attended in all parts. STRAND THEATRE. The production of the Beggar's Opera at this theatre has been most successful, both as regards audience and artistes. Everyone knows by heart the little opera, the most successful hit of the century, which, took the town by storm on its appearance, and has since retained its place on the stage as the facile princeps of English opera, and to go into a minute detailed criticism, there fore, would be superfluous. On the whole we think that in our time Gay's masterpiece has seldom or ever been placed before the public with better effect than as at present played, and as we last night witnessed it, at the Strand Theatre. Miss Rebecca Isaacs is the fond Polly Peacham, and sang the well-known music with great sweetness and expression. She was; deservedly encored in " Cease your funning." Miss Isabelle Featherstone played the saucy and slightly shrewish Lucy. This promising young actress is, to use an old phrase, a valuable acquisition to the London stage, and we venture to say, from what we saw of her last night, she is destined to make some considerable figure on it. Her acting was full of spirit, and of what the French call aplomb, without ever being boisterous or obtrusive, and she sang the part in a manner which left nothing to be desired. Her voice, which is full and clear, told in the concerted music with considerable effect. We shall watch her progress with some interest. Our old favourite Leffler played the dashing Captain with somewhat less than his usual care and finish, but his singing made up for other defects. "How happy could Ibe with either," given in his best style, was a genuine treat, and was re ceived by the audience with great delight. The other characters were all well played, and the piece, as a `whole, was put on the stage in a manner most creditable to all concerned. We were glad to remark that the house was well filled ; and for the ability and liberality evinced in the management of the theatre during the present season certainly deserves public support, FATAL ACCIDENT. —Yesterday afternoon, about six o'clock, an elderly man, named Southcott, employed in pointing the front of a new building in Roxburgh terrace, Haverstock-hill, fell from a - scaffold on a level with the third storey, and, his head striking against the edge of a flag-stone, when taken up he was quite dead. The body was removed to St. Pancras workhouse to await a coroner's inquest. METROPOLITAN BURIAL, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIM SlR,—Having recently read in your columns le Dr addressed to the Secretary of State for the Bowe partment by Sir Richard Broun, relative to the g 7, undertaking projected by him of making a M E TROPOOfr i NECROPOLIS, or City for the Dead, at Woking , it, I,i not be uninteresting to yourself, who hav e evinced 00 great zeal in advocating sanitary improvements, to the shareholders of the Necropolis Companh to a " STATEMENT" now being circulated in print by on the directors. • 01 0 A meeting is called by five of the shareholders, , ing the name of the Solicitor-General, for the 17th l " g „ for the purpose of removing Lieutenant - Ge neral 13 16 Mr. Davies, the banker, and Mr. F. Dobins on, barrqes from the direction, and appointing a committee to ill tigate and report on the affairs of the compatil• It is reported that Mr. W. J. Voules, the bli - 110 who has had awarded to him 2,0001. to retire frog o chair, has also received 6001. or 7001. of the eeulr'of money as fees, he acting to it in the double eapacleo chairman and legal adviser. But had this report' tbo true, he surely would have been able to paY r ac ' re 501. of the 5,0001. for which he is a subscriber. 00 As the company is exempted from the operation ° t be Joint Stock Company's Winding-up Act, and ° 3l l. l2° re dissolved without a special Act of Parliament, t'edobt no chance of the project being abandoned ; an d of II the proceedings on the 17th will lead to the atfau",.e for company being placed in such hands as will ins ll the undertaking the public confidence and supP ° it merits.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, „0, A SUBSCRIP' STATEME NT. T nSPC CI A TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OF VIE NECROPOLIS AND NATIONAL MAIT°'" COMPANY. For some time past it has been painfully e of many who are deeply interested in the success company, that the present directors are utterly '" petent to carry out its object. After the lapse of two years and five months s' n ece isi; directors undertook to bring the project to a S h i otli a . 0 issue, you will not be surprised that they called upon'to state the cause o f th e i r f a ilure, ",; e t iot); when it is disclosed to you that, with the e ce i f t iof' four gentlemen on the direction, yon have a I° , tll ,l faulters, who, neglecting to fulfil their own P n ' e ° rt liabilities, have necessarily failed to obtain 611 r confidence from the public. of In July last the Company obtained the •c' e , - sco:, liament empowering them to form a cemetery t p torf: As yet the means even to commence 'a wanting. ton to e The directors stand pledged to Lord Palo:ors.; yet for interments by the Ist of May. claims of the Woking commoners are unadil is o r ' e consequently no steps can be taken even to P re ' ground for consecration fO i il ' n s not because this . important work is no'' A " pr r,,, e either by the Government or by the pub lic, io capitalists stand aloof for want of confidence, a r e scheme itself. On the contrary, money could o„, o W`, readily obtained, and the share list rapidly ccti,so`; but for the disunion of the direction. Influe n ,• r eco e ,; are not even now wanting. But the present 1 ' f ait ' • e vl' J notwithstanding its incapacity, resolutely u. office. to ti° ll Your original directors obtained the ree'idemi the company, and the confidence of the shar eb° their subscription to the deed of 500 sbalefor The following table shows how their liabilities 10 met : Ve,o Names. Shares. Money paid. F. Dobinson 5OO ... £3OO J. Gardiner 5OO ... 300 G. H. Thompson 5OO ... 300 W.J. Voules 5OO ... 50 - I'l 4 l# J. C. Taylor 5OO -... 2,500 J. C. Chatterton 5OO ... 1,500 J. Briggs lOO ... 1,000 R. C. Davies lOO ... 1,000 Ift 4 It will thus be seen that there is a deficit 01l 111 1 ;1° of four of the directors '6f 5,0501., or nearlY - - capital subscribed ! I ! Ac ioo o ,;f ABSTRACT OF THE SHARE LIST AND CAPITAL The number of shares taken is only 3, 135 ' P 59 shareholders., 04,0 A deposit of 1L per share produced... ........... .• t he l A call of 2/. paid on 2,715 shares produced•••" 3!; Calls paid in advance on 432 shares ............ Dava o The shareholders have much reason to c0° 3 40 with so small a subscription any call should P, of d made. It inconvenienced them, without hei l l o pe!"4 , service, and was reluCtantly agreed to in the. 4 , 01 ir the defaulting directors might be shamed In" v 4 ment of their own subscription. "1 1 t o ffo, In January last Lieut.-General Briggs w as oe t as a gentleman capable of extricating the director', its embarrassments, and he was elected a „ t having has, however, utterly failed to realise the obje' election. A communication 't f li r° :l lll Onslow that if the instalment due to him wil , 10,2001., were not paid upon a'given day, lega'.„ol . „l, ings would be taken against the company, ' to les'" emergency Messrs. Davies, Dobinson, and D ile o o,l o l General Briggs were appointed a finance ° 9 ,,0,.0,7t0 The result of their deliberations was a sugge s ' e ol i ° l , been received 5,0001. should be raised upon the joint and se y any of hand of Lieut.-General Briggs, Mr. Davies, a°, of eo l Stirling Taylor ; but owing to the insufficierSti sum thus raised, the latter gentleman, Mr. , bO O Taylor, contributed in cash 1,0001.' addition' o otr l co c other members of the board having failed t o c o . be ti to the exigencies of the company, could no 10ng,,,011,,er sidered eligible as directors, and the thre e 00 0 9 '" last named were appointed a committee for fee itip; ing the direction. fe de 0, This committee recommended that the. ki wi , t V directors should elect either to pay their lr";0001 retire from the direction. But upon the Ve i t"? resignation of Mr. Voules, the deputy - Cr - 0 i d lit was elicited that a written compact, jr!g13111°00' Briggs, R. C. Davies, F. Dobinson, and w i • nie i3 r a had been made, by which those four gen t tp e a - del,„ ? ' themselves to act in concert---to retain Mr. 'n o - PT, chair—to appoint General Briggs and fr fr. d defaulter in the amou n t o f 1,2001.) as directoi 13t mg, and to give Mr. Davies the patronage of a ' r the company 11 I mo t ol ei It was about this time also that the ex tral;.', I ° o o of 2,000/. was awarded by the board to /‘ „0„ r° 1 0 1 ' upon his resigning the chair, but under a sir c , f inserted on the minutes by Mr. J. Stir w i,Teo l which protest should be read by the share'," p ar tr will look in vain for the means of meeting tb, e fi rO i i should they unfortunately be induced to grant of above one-sixth of the capital subse ri v oly, The directors have been advised that heive°, forfeiture of their shares, they may be v s- i l ia 1 0' their liabilities to the company, thus of c ourse i t beV your burdens to the amount of 5,050/. ; and te ° l, possibly endeavour by the use of your proxieli is 13 1 ,"' from you a formal and legal discharge. pi t ' a rild that you will not entrust your proxies to ill n without the strongest guarantee that they used for any such purpose. re) There remains but this to remark. If t b , i „ e b il t now abandoned, you will have to meet a , "" o tio ° Quo than 50,0001. ; and if the remaining calls, 1* „ 1 , 1 - 1c1P i P 71. per share, were duly honoured, they w",,, - r ep O iero duce half that amount Are you, thee, losie entrust the disposition of your property s ° , l • 7 l roel men whose poverty or incapacity have pla ce- he - or, position ? Or will you not rather dismiss t' n - 0 ,014,' gether unfit to conduct the affairs of the elf, poi By forming a committee of yourselves, W"„ r sel' t. examine the ex-directors, and by setting ' solutely to the work of remodelling the 'I to-e, may yet insure success ; but if you neglec t to !„,,, you will have, to encounter loss of property t tlr amount, and to regret the failure of a proje c i o deur of which can only be equalled by its t re ot° r :th r This statement is laid before you by s i u r i to lj, l !oil je , has contributed more money to the tutt e D'"De, 4 l any other one, and who has given it hesi,,,," fore,' "01 mitted attention. Its accuracy may, the . ° re' - pif; ti l pended upon, and his object may be at one D • B as an attempt to rescue your moneys an d , 1 0 1° disposal by men utterly wanting in raea l3 :l , influence necessary to advance the project' The 11 0 1 11, 0 DANGEROUS SHOAL IN THE PACIFIC. p o d which is now in process of formation by n i " e t'l e agencies bears south-west from St. C. l , e— , e f t e r about 35 miles, and is within eight r 13 " e i 0 0101 $ 5 ,0 reef indicated by the United States' Co s o not down on the ordinary charts. As n e • ti l g c oed tained, it is about half a mile in extent, tha track of the Panama steamers, ..anifolY, 1, 1 0 0 :1 Captain Cropper, of the Cortes, and 31r• the ~,esit, officer, as well as by th e commander Of Leo ° , so`,, r i Captain Cropper witnessed the following . t i t as ro jec o r —The sea around the shoal was as sr° o° o o P . 4 0 0. 011 when suddenly a heavy column of mate r b e th, t i i fw into the air some 20 feet, appearing, i ' / , l pre", from a common centre, and, although z re kerr, having no appearance such as ordinal"' %ter P et ( f ° In an instant it subsided, and the W . nese teifroo 0 01 smooth as it was before. This was ii e.SiS te ,oo 3 times, and leaves no room to doubt o f t the 01 0 0 1 0 0 submarine volcano there. According t° ~tittrupt , made on board the steamer Pacific , the ` y new shoal is 32.30 N., longitude 119.03 g Herald. Air A110 15. ,4... : 0 00, CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT AT COLL—, o, terday, at the Manchester Boro u g h with COS' e named Edward Davis was charged jato s orWe 99/., the property of his employer, lt r er os; aoti: ton, paper manufacturer. The pris. t w as 1° pg as bookkeeper and salesman, an d A nd I ' oo e` l oir( collect accounts and to receive order;he C o; oc ,r , , money over to Mr. Crompton. 113 0 , t iarn eu tt eit li i `, month he received 611. from a r e r s solin son , pr Greenhalgb, and 381. from Chaa,. et eik'Y e - rll O ll which sums he accounted for. ,„ ... -nt e ; l „y t'. or him on Saturday last, and on n bo und P was at Liverpool on board a suir tit oin il lie °P O P which was to sail on the followieg,, h i s w_ .3 'l l paid 701. for the passage of hinrse n ."', o o.l.‘7 l o6 10' and daughter, who were found 0 . y anpr elae . 0 00_ 0 4 amongst his luggage the officer wn" pri sone r , o The . ( 1 i ortv found 251. in a tea caddy'. e „„ d r ai should be able to show that h " i n ch i l e,r tar cl t ri away on his master's account n lvf e ' d t ill peC with embezzling, and was re " nia roeur in g t afford him an opportunity of P • otAten2 ol2 " evidence in support of Nr-