The Sun. — London, England, 1853-02-15 00:00:00

NEW WORK BY SIR E. BULWER LYTTON BART. This day is published, in 4 vols., price 425., NI Y NOV E L. By PISISTRATUS CAXTON ; Oa, VARIETIES in ENGLISH LIFE. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. _____-------- -wiNTER AT LAST• SUPERIOR OVER COATS at reduced charges ; quality the test of cheapness ; one of the largest stocks in London to select from. Also, the Patent Reversible Fur Beaver O•ercoats , Capes, Ice., a perfect garment on either side—two at the cost of one. For warmth, comfort, and econothy, not to be excelled, real luxuries to the wearer; all guaran teed to resist any amount of rain. W. BERDOE, 96, New Bond street ; and 69, Corialtill (only). THEATRE ROYAL, III:MARKET. Farewell Season of Mr. Benjamin Webster as Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING, FEB. 15, Will be performed the new and original Comedy, in five acts, calledNOT SO BAD AS WE SEEM; or, Many Sides to a Charac er. Supported by Messrs. B. Webster, Barry Sullivan, Keeley, Buckstone, Leigh Murray, Stuart, Rogers, Miss Rosa Bennett, Miss A. Vining, Mrs. Leigh Murray, &c. Aft e r which, the new and original Farce, called TO PARIS AND BACK FOR FIVE POUNDS. To conclude with the Farce of BOX and COX M &PRIED an d SETTLED. • ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. THIS EVENING, FEB. 15, win be performed the Comic Drama called A PHENOMENON IN A SMOCK-FROCK. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, and Horncastle ; Miss F. Baker and Miss C. Mitchell. After which, the new and popular original Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THti GOOD WOMAN IN THE WOOD, in which Messrs. F. Matthews, Suter, Horncatle, and Templeton; Madame Vestris, Miss Julia St. George, Miss Robertson, Miss Martindale, Miss Ellis, Miss Wyndham, Miss Eglinton, and Miss Rosina Wright will appear. To conclude with LITTLE TODDLEKINS. Sole Agent for the Private Boxes, Mr. W. Allcroft, lb, New Band-street. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, FEB. 15, Will be presented the powerful new Drama of SLAVE LIFE ; or, Uncle Tom's Cabin —by Messrs. Alfred Wigan, S. Emery, 0. Smith, and Cullenford ; Madame Celeste. Miss Woolgar, Miss Collins, Miss Harding, Miss Keeley, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with the successful new Comic Pantomime, called NELL GWYNNE ; or, Harlequin Merrie Monarch. Principal Danseuse, Mdlle. Auriol ; Clown, Mr. Flexmore. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Heart. THIS EVENING, FEB. 1 5 , win be performed the new and original Comedy, in three acts, by Douglas Jerrold, entitled ST. CUPID; or, Dorothy's Fortune (as played at Wdsor Castle, by Royal Command). Principal charac- Mess in rs. Wright, W. Lacy, Harley, J. Vining, Ryder, F. ters by Cooke, Everett, and Chester ; Mrs. W. Lacy and Mrs. C. Kean. After which, THE SPITALFIELDS WEAVER, in which Mr. Wright will appear. To conclude with the new and original Grand Comic Christ mas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN CHERRY AND FAIR STAR; or, The Green Bird, the Dancing Waters, and the otnging Tree. Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Huline ; Pan utioon, Mr. Paulo ; Columbine, Miss Desborongh. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farrell. THIS EVENING, FEB. 15, WE! be presented THE HUNCHBACK. Supported by Messrs. Compton, W. Farren, Jan , Hoskins, Shalders, Cooke, Kinloch, Edgar, and Bender ; Misses Anderton and H. Gorden. After which, MISCHIEF-MAKING. Madame Manette, Miss H. Gordon. To conclude with THE WATERMAN% Tom Tug, Miss H. Gordon. Box-office open from Eleven till Five, under the superintendence of Mr. E. Chatterton. ASTLET'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. LAST WEEK BUT THREE a Mr. BATTY'S MANAGEMENT. Extraordinary Attraction. The Two most powerful Equestrian Dramas ever produced—Mazeppa, and Uncle Tom's Cabin. THIS EVENING, FEB. 15, And during the Week, the Entertainments will commence with the superb Spectacle of MAZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, reproduced with all its original splendid and magnificent effects- After which, Batty's brilliant Scenes In the Arena, supported by the first Equestrian talent in Europe. To conclude with UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. Doors open at Half-past Six .3klock. To commence at Seven. Box-ornce open daily from Eleven to Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. MGR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tats DAT —Morning 17 min. after 6 Evening 35 min.aft. 6 T o -lioaaow—Morning 55 min. after 6 I Evening 16 •a 7 DAILY WEA.YHER TABLE. TUESDAY, FEB. 15, 185 a State of the wind and weather at each of the following places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations are arranged in order of latitude. HASTINGS—N.E., gentle breezeovercast. FOLKESTONE—N.E., fresh breeze—overcast. TITNBRIDGE--N.W., calm—snow. GREENWICH—N., gentle breeze—overcast. STBOOD—E., gentle breeze—snow. CAMBRIDGE—N., gentle breeze—cloudy. DARLINGTON—N. by W., gentle breeze overcast — snow heavy, eighteen inches lying on the ground. The returns from the following_ places indicate the state of the weather on Saturday morning at nine o'clock HOLYHEAD—N.E., gentle breeze—hard frost. LANCASTER—N., calm—cloudless. WHITBY—S.E., gentle breeze—frost, snow. DARLINGTON—N.N.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy, snow. SHAD—N., calm—snow, hard frost. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, FEB. 15. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 28—highest since noon yesterday. 25—lowest this morning and during the night. 28—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29'84. WIND, N. by W.—Light breeze, and cold, cloudy, frosty weather. The Publication of "THE SUN" Commences every afternoon at THRRE O'CLOCK, and the Late or Third Edition, containing the DEBATES IN PARLIAMENT ON TAE SAME EVENING, with all other news ariving in London up to the hour of Post, at SEVEN O'CLOCK. EXPRESS EDITIONS will be forwarded after the Post is closed by the Latest Trains. ~,.*., , , i ,„.„ ti ,6 ' 4 1.:( ‘ ii ,l4 o * g ..., f ift,„_„,,, t .....,Ant, LONDON,. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1853. Procrastination and postponement—postpone ment and procrastination ! These appear to be the great objects of the Joint Stock Administration. The spirit of Sir CHARTYS WOOD seems to have been infused into his colleagues, and the do nothing policy is recognised as the guiding prin ciple of ' the ABERDEEN-RUSSELL-MOLESWORTH Government. The leader of the House of Com mons on Thursday evening exhibited too clearly on that point to admit of doubt or question—the LORD CHANCELLOR followed in the same track last night, so far as the long-anticipated and eagerly looked-for legal reforms were concerned. Very elaborate arguments were entered into to explai n his reasons for not legislating on particular sub jects. On one topic the enactments had been so recent he should wait for a sufficient time to learn their operation, and the nature of their working ! Another had been referred to a committee, and he should wait for the forthcoming report before he introduced any measure! ! If the commissioners should come to a different conclusion from that to which he had previously made up his mind, he is not prepared to say that he will prefer acting on it to that.of their predecessors. He even acknowledges that he " has an opinion so dis tinctly formed that nothing will shake him out of it." But notwithstanding that distinct and posi tive opinion nothing is to be done. The plausible excuse of the pending report is anxiously grasped at to avoid doing anything. Other excuses of every shade and colour are resorted to, but all for the same purpose. Delay ! delay ! I delay ! ! is the burden of the song, in almost every respect and every point ; and wh e th er it be a more equit able apportionment of the Property and Income Tax, an adequate extension of the Suffrage, with the security afforded to the voter by the Ballot from the worst species of corruption-_« intimida tion," or the amendment of the administration and practice of the law. The result is in variably the same. The Common Law pro cedure Act, with all its admitted deficiencies, is to be let alone ! No change in the Ecclesiastical Courts is to be even thought of until the repo r t of the Commissioners. The Marriage and Divorce Laws are to remain in abeyance, and there is not the slightest, even the most trivial, allusion to the County Courts, or the much-required extension of the jurisdiction of the local tribunals, and the introduction of the system, which, even with inferior appliances, has given so much satisfaction to all who have been compelled to put the machinery of the law into operation, and have by the assistance of these District Courts been enabled to do so cheaply and expeditiously. But something should be done. There should be some little wheat with so much chaff. Even W '/.vr,had a halfpenny-worth of bread to his Three Bills have accordingly Z .intl,ldlteed—a Registration of Deeds Bill, a / Cljai;itailO Tiusts Bill, and at length a Codification I — j ofthe 4ta44 Law. We do not, by any means " , 1 able speech with which his MAJESTY the EMPEROR yesterday opened the Session of the Senate, and of the Corps Legislatif, at the Tuileries. In that document, after remarking that the financial posi tion of France has never been better during the last quarter of a century, his MAJESTY announces that "the effective force of the army, already diminished by 30,000 men during the last year, will soon undergo a further reduction of 20,000 ! Another and substantial guarantee of the sincerity of the pacific policy with which the restored Empire may be said to have been formally inaugurated ! Everything combines, therefore, to encourage us in the hope that the peace of the world has become of late so strongly secured, that Christendom may witness with increasing joy the calm development of civilisation. iindLerrate the advantages that may, and probably w . i/ .1, be derived from judicious enactments on these ETL: portant and interesting subjects. The offences of the existing Administration are of omission rai ;her than commission. It is not for what they do, , but for what they leave undone, that the ly are tb be censured. There is no doubt till A legislation was required on each and eve )ry one of the topics on which he has yen tui:ed "to screw their courage to the sticking place," and if it be judiciously and discreetly brought into operation, great benefit will be con fe-rred on the community. Before we pronounce a decisive judgment on the new projects relating to registration, or charitable trusts, we must see the details and the machinery by which they are to be carried into execution when the bills be printed. "Security of title," facility, and cheap nest; of transfer are the great objects to be at tained. The evils arising from the present system in Middlesex, and Yorkshire, and in Ireland, are, however, perhaps greater than the benefit derived therefrom. There can be no doubt that in some respects it is beneficial ; but there are many great objections to which it is exposed, and which, if practicable, should be obviated. There are diffi culties connected with the subject, but they are not insuperable. In every other civilised nation real estate can be transferred much more expedi tiously, cheaply, and we believe me may add with greater security than in great Britain or Ireland. There is really no reason why a similar practice should not be introduced in this country, and with equally beneficial results. The chief impediment appears to be lest some suitor, who once in a cen tury, might be so fortunate (1 I I) as to become involved in a litigation of the JARNDYCE v. JARN DYCE class—should be deprived of the baleful in heritance. They " manage these matters, how ever, better in France." And. there is no reason why real estate should not be transferied. as speed ily and securely as personal property, why lands or houses should not be conveyed as rapidly, economically, and safely as investments in the Three per Cent. Consols, or in any Rail way or Joint Stock Company. The necessity is that there should be a registration of " titles," not of " deeds ;" and we regret to say that Lord CRANWORTH'S measure is directed to the forme; not to the latter point, and is, therefore, more calculated to perpetuate than to remove the existing abuses. At present, we shall—following the example of Lord ST. LEoNAßDs—pass over the Charitable Trusts Bill. Something ought to be done on the subject, but whether the present measure will meet the exigency, is another point, on which we shall reserve our opinion. The con solidation of the statute law is, however, a matter on which there need be no reserve. That has long been demanded, and acknowledg ments are due to those by whom the boon is to be conceded. We return thanks, on this point, to Lord CRANWORTH, and only regret that the initia tive has been so long delayed, and that much time must elapse before the new digest or codification of the statute law can receive the legislative sanction. is, in fact, the interest of every journalist in re gard to both opinions and facts ; for him, as for every one else, in the long run, honesty is the best policy. From all this it results, we think, that readers generally look upon their newspapers sA their friend and adviser in public matters. Most select one near their own line of thinking, and, perhaps, accept its views with too little consideration. Many, andthey are doubtless theleast and best class, like to compare the views of all, and to judge for themselves. Those who do not read the leaders do not grudge them to those who do, and those who do read them would most reluctantly m i ss the intellectual excitement which they furnish. We do not think the time will yet come when Editors of newspapers will be without great power in England. If they lose it, it will be by such misconduct as should inflict a ruinous war on the p. resent generation and entail an augmented debt on posterity. In that case the prudence which is lampooned as cowardice, would be thought infi nitely better than the vituperation and bullying, which assumes the names of courage and justice. It must have astonished many to find the same oracle tender over the vile slave-holding despots of the United States, and censuring the bland expos tulations of Stafford-house, yet indulging in fierce invective against Louis NAPOLEON, and claiming the right to abuse him as it pleases. RICHARD COBDEN is a tyrant and a coward. Denounce him, post him before all Europe and America, and Asia too. He thinks the leading articles of newspapers are little read, compared with their news itself, and he regards the former as of far less importance than the latter. Satis factory enough, indeed, to the vanity of our pro fession is the tribute he offers to " the talent, to the transcendent ability" with which those articles are written, but to think them less important, or less read than the news, is an unpardonable sin. Hence Mr. COBDEN is kindly offered confessorial assistance in the profoundly difficult art of self knowledge, and his spiritual adviser tells him that by sober introspection, he will discover that he is intolerant of criticism and opposition, and that he wants "to suppress all teachers but himself." Nor that only, but that like many other tyrants, he has but a craven heart. " Know thyself," Mr. COBDEN, and thou wilt see that thy contemptuous dqfiance of Russia, and thy withering attacks on Austrian loans for crushing Hungary and Italy, combined with thy respectful behaviour to the elected EMPsnon of France, prove thee a coward. You freely censure those you fear not—you crouch where you are afraid. Now, there is a great deal of truth in Mr. CoBDEN'S remark, which, moreover, he has several times made before, and especially in the point of view which he was taking. To a very large pro portion of readers the news, distinctively so called, is, the more important, and to vast numbers far more interesting. What numbers who look, as soon as they open a morning paper, at the busi ness news which concerns them, leave the political articles till night, and perhaps post the paper to a country friend in the evening without reading them at all ! How many look at the evening papers for the market intelligence of the day, and how many in the country prefer an evening paper, because it gives such intelligence for one day more, in fact, than the morning papers which arrive at the same time ! Then the sporting world, the tale-loving world, and the fair students of the catalogues of marriages, births, and deaths--very great altogether must be the number who care more for news than for editorial comments upon it: Besides, Mr. COBDEN was address . i4g a special class, and has always made these remarks in connection with a special object—the newspaper readers, namely, which a mechanics' institute could furnish, and the vast class who now never read a paper at all, or who resort to the beer-shop or the public-house to see one. He is right enough in respect to this class. They are either too young or too illiterate, or too contracted in their notions, to care for much but the last novelty or the gossip of the day, though the young mechanics will of course have acquired an interest in all the higher discoveries of Art and Science. Mr. COBDEN also k nows full well that _ England and France are now vieing with each other in the expression of the most pacific policy, and of the most amicable feelings, as well as of their de termination to maintain, if possible, the mos tfriendly relations between their respective Governments. What think the raw-head-and-bloody-bones panic mongers after this 7 How about that fire-eating enthusiasm which only the other day prompted to such extraordinary indecorum a gallant officer like General BROTHERTON ? Was Mr. COBDEN SO very ridiculous after all in his argu ments about the preservation of international tranquillity ? That honourable gentleman, ever since the publication of his remarkable and humane pamphlet, " 1793 and 1853," has been subjected to all kinds of sneers, obloquies, and vituperations. We anticipated that such would be the case immediately the brochure made its appearance. But while declaring such to be our conviction, we took the earliest opportunity to avow our no less earnest belief that the time would inevitably come, sooner or later, when the reasonableness of those enlightened views would be appreciated and rendered apparent. Well—the time has come " sooner"—at any rate it is coming, and that with unexpected rapidity. Already the rulers of both countries, the Administrators of Imperial France and of Monarchical England, have reiterated, in terms admitting of no misap prehension, their solicitude, in spite of all that has been said by warlike factions, to preserve un broken amity oetween the] foremost races of Christendom. Sir CHARLPS WOOD'S absurd speech at Halifax has elicited from his Ministerial col leagues the most satisfactory, because explicit and pacific, explanations. M. BILLOT'S atrocious pamphlet has simultaneously drawn from the Councils of the Tuilleries the most manly and straightforward disavowal of those criminal sug gestions on the part of one of the avowed organs of Legitimacy. This is *ell. It augurs happily for the peace of Europe, for the prosperity of England, for the stability of affairs in France, and for the steady and progres sive advance of the great movement of civili sation. Look at the disavowal of the warlike intentions attributed to the Imperial Government by the self-sufficient and blustering author of the " Lettres Franques " the disavowal already alluded to, the disavowal attributed to the hand of NAPOLEON 111., but at any rate appearing in his official journal, the Moni teur. Nothing could be more out spoken. It says—" The EMPEROR, like France, wishes earnestly for peace (vent la paix), a fruit ful and honourable peace, the repose which is suited to the nation ; and it certainly is not from the old parties that the heir of NAPOLEON the Great will ask counsel in any matter of honour or of national dignity." Clear enough that, we take it, and in all respects sufficiently significant. Then turn to the companion revelations—the state ments made yesterday in both Houses of our Im perial Legislature as to the foreign. policy (so far as concerns France) cherished at this juncture by the English Government. The intemperate and un statesmanlike language used the other day on the hustings at Halifax, by the Right Hon. ilaronet the PRESIDENT of the BOARD of CONTROL, when addressing his constituents, has been so . far pro ductive of good. that it has led to those now un mistakeable explanations. That language, how ever, may now, we rejoice to say, be altogether forgotten—forgotten, as of no sort of value or importance whatsoever. For it has been signally expiated—Sir CHARLES WOOD having fairly gown down on his knees, and confessed his peni tence. " Nothing," said the Right Hon. Baronet in the letter read to the House of Commons, in his absence, last evening, by Lord JOHN RussELL, —" Nothing could be further from my intention than to use any words which could be considered as offensive to the EMPEROR, and I regret that any expressions should have fallen from me on that occasion on which such an interpretation could have been placed." Simultaneously, as it were, in both Houses, the same pacific assurances were uttered by the two pro minent leaders of the present Coalition Ca binet—namely, in the Lords by the Prime Minister de jure, the Earl of ABERDEEN, and in the Commons by the Prime Minister de facto, Lord JOHN RUSSELL. The former said yesterday to the House of Peers most distinctly, in answer to the questi on p u t t o hi m i n hi s o ffi c i a l capac it y b y the Marquis of CLANRICARDP—" I am happy to assure the Noble Marquis that the best possible understanding continues unbroken between the two countries of France and England, nor is that app ears th e l eas t lik e l y there anythi ng to endanger or diminish the cor di a lity o f th a t understanding." The Leader of the Commons went, if possible, still farther in the utterance of a like declaration : " The relations," said he, " between the two countries are, I am happy to say, of the most friendly nature : and with re spect to European affairs generally, the best pos sible understanding subsists between the two Go vernments." Scarcely have these assurances fallen from , the lips of Lord JOHN RUSSELL and of the Earl of ABERDEEN, when there is received in this country by means of the Submarine Electric Telegraph a report of the memorable and remark the members of almost gl en. our Governments, ex of the last one, and two o t o p r erh th a r p e s e th in e gr th e e at p ai g res . ent one, are dreadfully g p olitical knowledge, a a f n r d aici th o a f t t t h h e is Pe f o e p ar W a s lo g nein the way of his project of cheap st ands also, newspapers for the f m av im ou o r n it . e object to the ' admi ssion lie knowso, that mechanics' insti tutestheir walls ; hence he was ledof politics within strong est light he could the little t o . put in the and Committe es , mischief (as Cabinets not Mr. C OBDEN , the • • political articles in the , deem it) which The newspapers would young mechanics do. would assuredly for the news. care chiefly So would the bump kins, who would country read his that is the plain penny sheets ; and account of the very whole affair. A harmless affair never have been noticed indeed, at all, w ch would COBDEN censured the belligerents,had not Mr. or at least war provoking language of some magnates Now, a s of the press. to the cowardice of Mr. ~ n OBDEN. The appropriate answer to a Russo-phobia to show that Russia was powerless to injure w Eng l and ; th e same thing was not true of France. The appro priatean warning to speculators in Austrian Loan was that Austria was bankrupt, the price of the blood and the money of freedom . re gard to France , But, in ce, with a powerful navy a few hours'. sail from us, and an immense army b • besides—it is not appropriate to say that she is not an object of fear, but that she is so if you We grant that it would be consummate quarrel with her. nsummate folly of Louis NAPOLEON to inflict upon France as well as upon us the miseries of a war because of the as sumptions of newspaper Editors ; still, if, as a certain journal asserts, that • journal (and others too, we presume,) reflects faithfully the general opinions of Englishmen, and if those opini • • ons are excessively provoking to Frenchmen, nay, if they only are p rovokin g to the man who, according to the same journal, has centred in his own hands the whole of that physical force which could half ruin our trade and commerce—if this be the case, surely, should war arise, such jour nals would be chiefly answerable for all its cala mities. By their own confession, a war mi • ght be the best security for the power of the man whom they describe as the despot of France. To pro voke him to it, then, is to forge, as far as in them lies, yet stronger fetters for the land they profess to mourn over. It seems, however, we are to spend millions more to raise an army and navy, safe under whose protection we may have the en joyment of lecturing France and its Emperor at pleasure. Millions more of taxes we are to pay that the tongues of Cabinet Ministers, and the pens of journalists, may indulge in vituperation of cur next door neighbour, and theiroEmperor. Should "leading articles," though of "transcendent talent," lead to any such results as these, either war itself, or war taxation in peace, we fancy they would become as odious to their present readers and admirers as they are now unin teresting to the illiterate and the mere hun ters for novelty. Write common sense, in Mr. COBDEN'S case, for cowardice, and it would about hit the mark ; and as to the great Free-trader's impatience of all teaching but his own, whether we agree with him or differ from him, we can hardly deny him the credit of being one of the best tempered of disputants, and if occasionally he evinces a rather overweening con ceit of his own opinions, there are not wanting writers widely famed interest style oracu/ar. As to the general and influence of the leading articles in English newspapers we have Partly stated our op inion ; w© may add, however , that from a pretty extensive observation and le of ong experience, we a re p ersuaded that they axe great interest to all the best portion of newspaper readers, and that their influence is very consider able with the minds' which influence the e most non reading circle. The news certainly is th important, since with that none coUld dispense ; b u t the use which Editors of all opinions make of it greatly enhances the va lue of a paper. have time to wade Not to mentio n that few all w hi c h an intellige nt editor through its essence , with appropriate presen ts in hints on its value, its truth, or incorrectness ; on all debateable points the various journals are obviously counsel on each side, and, like barristers, each they can and d o select all the best points on side, and leave it for the great jury of the nation to give the verdict. On many other subjects, moreover, they give not merely their art honest a udges dvo cacy, but the deci sions of entirely im for the prepoe.. pial j ; indeed, -with reasonable allowance sessions and par t y bias, from which none of us are free, we believe the general object of the Press is to deliver those judgments and to advocate those opinions which will stand the test of trial. Truth THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15,1 1853. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, Two o'CLock. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at from 3,000 to 4,000 bales, all to the trade. The market closed heavily, with but little alteration in prices, except American, at sid., which were 1-16 d. lower. The sales comprised 200 Pernam and Maranham, 200 Bahia, 500 Egyptian, 300 Surat, and 70 Sea Islands. Railway Shares were dull at rather lower prices. The following report upon the indigo sales is by Messrs. H. W. Jewesbury and Co. • "Catalogue B, consisting of goods in second hands, was commenced to-day ; prices ruled more even than is usually the case in this catalogue, The previous rate of advance was fully maintained. 1,311 chests have passed to-day, of which 122 were withdrawn, 530 bought in, and 660 sold. Catalogue A will be resumed to-morrow, and the remainder of catalogue B, on Mon day next, should the sale not be concluded before." The notice given from the office of her Majesty's Paymaster-General, for a reduction from lid. to ld. per centum per diem in the interest on Exche quer Bills, rather took the Stock Exchange by sur prise. There can be no doubt that the measure is a judicious one, and that if the floating debt bears a high premium, the country ought to have the benefit in a reduction of the interest. The mea sure, no doubt, has been taken after consultation with the Bank of England directors, and on that account also will have a good effect. The English Stock Market is rallying, and the quotations are higher. The reduction in the rate of interest on Exchequer Bills has had an effect upon values generally. Consols have been 99i to for Transfer, and 99i for Account. Nothing has been done in Exchequer Bills bearing the pre sent rate of 14d., but at the opening of the market there was considerable bustle, and, apparently to produce an effect, offers were made to sell the new Bills as low as 2s. premium, but since there are many buyers at 10s. to 20s. premium. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 1031 to and the Three per Cents. 1001 to I. Bank Stock has been worth 2271 to 228, an India Stock after being 269 to 266. The Foreign Securities have been very dull. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been marked 38 to Mexican stock is at 23k, and Peruvian Six per Cents. are at 23k. Grenada Deferred have been ilk to 11, and the Equador Bonds are at 51. Austrian stock has been in demand at 97i to 98i. Sardinian is 94k. There appears, notwithstanding yesterday's ru mour, to be really a confirmation of Colonel Fre mont's mineral as well as soil rights to the ten leagues in the Mariposa district, and it is strange under such circumstances that the Californian papers should in one or two instances assert directly the contrary. The Gold Mine Shares hare been firm, but with out much doing in them. The South Australian Land Shares have further advanced. The Australian Bank Shares are also looking up. In Railway Shares there is less firmness. The York and North Midland have fallen 1/. to 1/. 10s.; the Midland fto ; the Lancashire and Yorkshire to ; and the South Eastern, and one or two others are likewise flatter. The French Shares are very firm, and there is a rise in Strasbourg of 4 ; Northern to ; and Havre 4. The railway meetings announced are the fol.. lowing Company. Blackburn .. Date. Place. . Feb. 28, Blackburn. Bristol and Exeter Feb. 24, Bristol. Buckinghamshire City of Toronto & L. Huron Feb. 24, 13, St. Helen's-pl. Colchester, Stour Valley, &c. Feb. 16, Colchester. Cork and Waterford Cornwall Feb. 26, Truro Direct London & Portsmouth Feb. 25, London Tavern. Dublin and Belfast Junction Feb. 16, Dublin. Dublin and Drogheda Feb. 25, Dublin. Dublin and Wicklow Feb. 16, Dublin. Dundalk and Enniskillen Feb. 22, Dundalk. East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Feb. 19, Euston Station. East Anglian Feb. 26, London Tavern. East Lincolnshire Feb. 25, King's-cross. Eastern Counties Feb. 25, London Tavern. East Indian Feb. 18, 50, Old Broad-st. Eastern - Union Feb. 25, Radley's Hotel. Edinburgh and Glasgow Mar. 1, Glasgow. Gloucester and Dean Forest Feb. 19, Gloucester. Great Northern Feb. 26, Albion Tavern. Great Sn. & Wn. (Ireland) Mar. 4, Dublin. Great Western Feb. 17, Paddington. Kilk. & Great S. & W. Irel Feb. 22, Dublin. Lancaster and Carlisle Mar. 4, Liverpool. Liverp., Crosby, & Southp. Feb. 15, Liverpool. Llynvi Valley Feb. 24, Bristol. London and Blackwall Feb. 15, London Tavern. London and North-Western Feb. 18, Euston Station. London and South-Western Feb. 16, London Tavern. Madras Feb. 15, Office. Manchester, Sheff., & Lin. Feb. 23, Manchester. Midland Mid. Gt. Western Ireland Mar. 4, Dublin. Newmarket Feb. 26, London Tavern. Newp., Aber., & llereford Feb. 23, London Tavern. Northern and Easternl Feb. 17, Office. North Devon Feb. 21, London Tavern. North & South-West. Junc. Feb. 21, 15 Parliament-st. Oxf. Worc. & Wolverhampt. Feb. 23, London Tavern. Royston and Hitchin Feb. 28, 15A.,St.Helen's-pl. Sambre and Meuse Feb. 17, Office. Ditto ditto Sheff., Rotherham, 8., W., H., and Goole Feb. 18, Wakefield. South Wales Feb. 25, Paddington. South Yorkshire Feb. 25, Sheffield. St. Andrew's and Quebec (Class A.) Feb. 24, 26, Parliament-st. Taff Vale Feb. 16, Bristol. Thames Haven Feb. 26, London Tavern. Vale of Neath Feb. 19, Cardiff. Waterford and Limerick Feb. 25, Waterford. West Cornwall Feb. 28, Penzance. Western of France Feb. 25, Paris. Wharfdale Whitehaven & Furness June Feb. 26, Guildhall-chamb. York, Newcastle, & Berwick Feb. 18, York. York & North Midland Feb. 23, York. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY. (Front the Official List.) Business done. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities iool g 3 per Cert. Consols Annuities New 34 per Cent. Annuities lO3 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 6i • India Stock South Sea Old Annuities 99i Consols for Account 10th March 99i PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Austrian Bonds 5 per Cent 9Bl 7i Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. — Ditto Small Ditto New Bonds, 1829 & 39, 5 per Cent lO2 Equador Bonds Grenada Bonds, Deferred, 1 Mexican 3 per Cent ....... ......... ............ Peruvian 6 per Cent. _ _ _ _ Portuguese 4 per Cent. 3BA 8 x d Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent... ..... .. 94; panish Bonds, 3 per Cent . ............. 47; Spanish Passive (Converted) sa THREE O'CLOCK. Consols Ditto March Account 991 t DEATHS BY COLD ON DARTMOOR. - Corporal John Panton and privates George Driver and John Carlin, belonging to No. 7 (Captain Brown's) Company, 7th Regiment . Royal Fusiliers, stationed at the Dartmoor prison, Princetown, unfortunately lost their lives in the snow on Dartmoor, on Saturday night. The two pri vates, who only left the Royal Military Hospital last week, marched from the head-quarters, St. George's square, early on Saturday morning, under charge of Corporal Ramsden, who conducted them seven miles, to the village of Jump, where they were received by Panton, who took them four miles further, to the Doursland barn Inn. Snow having fallen all day, the landlord advised them not to proceed, but the corporal said they must obey orders, and the three marched on. It is sur mised, from the positions in which their hats and knap sacks were scattered, that they passed through the first snowdrift on the margin of the moor, a mile and half from the inn, and reached the Devil's-bridge, a mile and a half further. There they could not proceed, and re traced their steps to the first drift, which by that time had become impassable, and here they unhappily perished. John Smith, of No. 3 Company, who re turned to Devonport on Saturday, states that he and Panton were four hours in the morning coming fro m Doursland-barn (five miles), being at times up to their arms in snow, which was in some parts eight feet deep. He endeavoured to dissuade Panton from returning the same evening. The bodies of Driver and Carlin were found. -- Yl3ll BANK ROBBERY AT CHELMSFORD.-011 Friday a h g e e e n n t e acting inns l y - f o o o r k i e n o g m e p e t r i m s o e nna as med t tLaugho the a G m o , v w e r m h o eGovernmenthas Emigration Commissioners, was examined before the h t m h the nt clerk of upwards w t a h r e d s E s o s f e x l, B o a o n o k l. , , who and magistrates at Chelmsford, charged with aiding the an b bg e lsi lieved, to Australia. From circum stancesspired, a Suspicion was excited that the proceeded,ep robbeds a o p n e e r ofhh knewaajtti tet Jennings, snagtni of the robbery, and had made arrange ments for the outfit and passage of Jennings, so that he was able to proceed at once out of the country when he absconded from the bank. The only evidence, however, to support this were some words dropped by him to a policeman, who got into his company in disguise, and the prisoner was discharged. There is now little expec tation of apprehending Jennings. Some of the local police and London detectives have been watching the haunts in which he was supposed to be concealed in the metropolis, and an officer has been kept on board a vessel at Liverpool 111 which it was thought, he might attempt to escape, but 'without success, COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with their Royal Highnesses the P r i nce o f W a l es , th e Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, the Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, and Prince Arthur, left Windsor Castle at five minutes before one o'clock yesterday afternoon for the sta tion of the Great Western Rail Way in Windsor. The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting were the Countess of Charlemont, Lady Caroline Barrington, the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, Earl Somers, Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Col. the Hon. Charles Grey, Captain the Hon. Mortimer Sackville West, the Master of the Household. Lord Alfred Paget, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A. Gor ' don, and Mr. Gibbs. Her Majesty and the royal party tra velled to London by a special train, and on arriving at the Paddington terminus, entered several of the Queen's ear -1 riages, and proceeded to Buckingham Palace, where they arrived at eight m i nutes to two o ' clock. A party of Light Dragoons formed the escort from the station to the Palace. , Her Majesty and Prince Albert were received at Buck ingham Palace by the Duke of Norfolk, Lord Steward ; the Marquis of Breadalbane, Lord Chamberlain ; the Duke of Wellington, Master of the Horse ; Lord Ernest Bruce, Vice-Chamberlain; and Lord George Lennox, Lord in Waiting to his Royal Highness. A deputation, on the subject of the Building Act, the sewers, and th e po li ce, an d th e necess it y o f l oca l govern . ment on the se po i nts, had an i n t erv i ew w ith Sir William Molesworth y esterday, at the Office of Works and Public Buildings, in oij Lord Dudl ey Whitehall Place. The deputation consisted Sir De La c y E vans, 31. p .; Nicholay, Mr. Toulmin Stuart, M.P. • Sir Benjamin Hall, M.P. ; Smith, Mr. Plum, Mr. Pardwell, Mr. T. Duncombe, M.P. Mr. G. Bird, Mr. Nelson • Messrs. Trelawney, Saunders, and James L a b ram (St. 'Martin's), William Geesin (St. James) Horne (St. Luke's), Gudella (Islington), M.P. (Lambeth), C. Carr, Russell, Rowe W. R. Green well, Buzzard, and Cook ; Messrs. J. F. Williams, W. W. King, H. Horn, and Wm. Horn (overseers St. Luke's), and about twenty-three other gentlemen. The deputation had also an interview with Viscount Palmerston, Home Secretary, yesterday. . A deputation, consisting of Mr. Leslie Foster, Mr. Bux ton, Mr. Donaldson, Mr. Leslie, and Mr. Brooks had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday, at the Colonial-office. The Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer y es t er d ay, a t hi s official residence in Downing street. A deputation from Chorley, Lancashire, had an interview yesterday with the General Board of Health, at their office, Whitehall. The deputation consisted of Messrs. Anger, Walworth, and J. C. Crook (solicitor). They were attended and introduced. by Mr. Robert Townley Parker, M.P., and Mr. John Wilson Patten, M.P. The Count Baptiste Metaxa had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Dispatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and to the Governor of the Mauritius. Dispatches were received yesterday from the Governors of the North American Pro vinces, and from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. THE SrEAKEEsHre. l —The probable succession of the member for Leeds, the Right Hon. Mr. T. Baines, to this office, as recently intimated, is occasioned, we are glad to learn, by no failure of health, and certainly by no dissatisfaction, or want of confidence in the right hon. gentleman, who up to this time has so ably filled the office, but arises simply from the ordinary routine i;.y which it is understood that, after the arduous duties have been satisfactorily discharged for a given term, the Occupant of the chair of the House of Commons is usually relieved by a successor, some mark of distinction being conferred on the retiring Speaker. Hcr,lifax Courier. FATAL ACCIDENT TO CAPTAIN 31vDDLET0N.—Yester day Mr. Baker held an inquest on the body of Capt. Myddleton, one of Lloyd's surveyors, who lost his life under the following circumstances :—lt appeared from the evidence that, on the 7th inst., Captain Myddleton was surveying the Breadalbane in Lavender Dock, at Bermondsey ; a sort of stage was formed round the vessel to facilitate the examination, and upon this the deceased was standing, when it suddenly gave way, and he was precipitated into the dock, and so seriously in jured that he expired on the following morning. Ver dict—" Accidental death." EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY AT THE GENERAL POST °num—Yesterday morning considerable surprise was occasioned amongst the employes at the inland depart ment of the General Post-office by the accidental disco very of bank notes and jewellery to a very large amount, supposed to be the proceeds of a series of letter robberies which occurred two years_sinee. The objects of the discovery were found in an extra office only used under a pressure of business. Some of the notes were entire, ,and others in halves, and all of them were creased, as if they had been enclosed in letters. Information of this discovery was at once forwarded to the Secretary's office, and the property was carefully examined and deposited in a • place of security until steps can be taken to trace the various owners. A list will be issued shortly with the view of enabling the persons by wh•m the various articles were transmitted to identify and recover them. THE HUNTERIAN ORATlON.—Yesterday afternoon, the annual oration, in celebration of John Hunter, was de livered by Mr. Bransby Cooper, before the members of the Royal College of Surgeons, in their theatre, which, during the last few months has been enlarged to nearly double its former size. The spacious building was densely crowded by gentlemen connected with the medical pro fession. The orator chose to pursue the development from the studies which have made Hunter's name illus trious, rather than repeat eulogies upon his name, and his address was, therefore, of a thoroughly professional character. As usual, notice was taken of the losses sus tained by the profession through death during the year, and the names of Mr. Vincent, Mr. Dalrymple, Sir Charles Forbes, Sir John Webb, Dr. Pereira, and Mr. Lawrence were mentioned amid demonstrations of re spect. THE ALBION GOLD MINING CO3fPANY.—This com pany, to which we drew attention the other day, has now issued its shares. There can be no doubt that a rich auriferous estate must be productive of great profit to the adventurers, provided strict economy and fidelity be observed in developing its resources. For such a course, the names in connection with the company hold out the best guarantee, and an efficient management, combined with the most perfect integrity, is thus secured, added to which, the chairman of this company has been emi nently successful in a like capacity in connection with the Agua Fria.—Morning paper. BRITISH AMERICAN LAND COMPANY. —The annual general meeting of the proprietors of the British Ame rican Land Company was held yesterday, when a very favourable report from the directors was read and adopted, and a dividend for the past year of 30s. per share, payable in two instalments, namely, on the 11th of April and the 10th of October next, was declared, f o o u rm t o e f d a t h s e u rp n e l u balance t s profitforo f th 2,2 e o ye o a l. , of year 1852. which 9,8431. It appears, from the report, thal the various branches of enterprise embraced in the company's operations show a continued improvement. Land had been sold to the extent of 17,060 acres, for 18,1871., and the income of the com pany shows a large and satisfactory increase. NORTH AND SOUTH-WESTERN JUNCTION RAILWAY The North and Sonth-Western Junction Railway is at length open for traffic. This short line runs between Willesden and Brentford, connecting the lines of the London and North-Western and London and South- Western Railway Companies, an d will p robab ly open up a traffics from the north side of London. The large The opening of the line is also calculated to prove a great boon to the public, inasmuch as not only will much delay and expense be saved to the shippers of goods from the manufacturing districts at the port of Southampton, but there will also be a considerable diminution of the cart and waggon traffic through the streets of London between the termini of the lines in question. The line will also bring the East and West India Docks in con nection with Southampton. EXTRAORDINARY CHANCRE OP FORTUNE.—The Devon port Telegraph, gives the following :—" Romance in Real Life.—A striking instance of the mutability of human affairs has recently occurred in the person of a stoker on board her Majesty's ship Valouros, lying at this port. By some contretemps the individual who has now fallen so unexpectedly into the lap of Fortune has been condemned by the fickle goddess to pass his life up to the present moment in the humble and obscure position of a stoker or fireman, the immense property of which he has now, it is said, become the inheritor having few been lying in the Chancery courts for many years. A days ago this begrimed and sooty son of Neptune was visited on board the said vessel (we aro told) by a gen tleman, who, after making the necessary inquiries, communicated to the object of his visit the astound ing intelligence that he was entitled to the earldtoom the title, of the value of some 34,0001. per an num. The feelings of the poor fellow on learning the almost incre dible transformation that had taken place in his affairs this 'romance of real life' immediately departed for ma be be readily conceived. We hear that the hero of don, in company with the gentleman alluded to, in order to complete the necessary arrangements previous to, taking posseasion of his enorm ous wealth and newborn' honours." DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Mr. Smith produced here last night, under the title of Louis the Eleventh, an adaptation of Casimir Delavigne's historical drama of that name. The period is a favourite one with romance writers, but the general reader, ac quainted through their pages with the most prominent fea tures of that reign, will look in vain, in the action of this drama, for any trace of the great and important events which were brought about by the influence of that crafty and unscrupulous monarch. The piece is one of character and not of action, and. but for the title which it bears, might be said to belong to the domestic, as much as to the historical, school of drama. In truth the plot is but slight and uninteresting in either of these particulars—the only historical events alluded to are the perfidious policy pursued by the " most Christian King" to the Duke of Bur gundy • and the schemes of revenge which animate the Duke de Nemours, his nephew, who, disguised as an envoy from Flanders, meditates the destruc tion of the murderer of his father. A slight domestic interest is introduced, incident to the attachment of Nemours for the daughter of Philip de Comines, hut, beyond suggesting a situation in the second act, in which the happiness of the lovers is interrupted by the apprehen sion of the duke, nothing of consequence comes of it. The whole interest of the piece is concentrated in the character of Louis, which is certainly drawn with a master hand, and was admirably acted by Mr. Davenport. On him the attention of the audience was concentrated throughout, bent with age, trembling with fear and superstition—crafty, credulous, and remorseless—the tyrant of Plessis-le-Tours, seemed before us, an his torical portrait stepped out from the frame. It is long since we saw a more elaborate piece of acting, and its merits were amply appreciated by the audience. Mr. Edward Stirling was the Duke of Nemours—a some what melodramatic part—which he played with spirit and energy. Mr. Henry Wallack took great pains with the part of the physician, Cortier, and Miss Emma Feist, as the Dauphin, was a pleasing representative of the boyish chivalry of the age. Our old friend Philip de Comines was reduced to a mere nonentity, as were also those two ter rible personages, Oliver le Dain and Tristan l'Hermit. The applause was loud and unanimous, and the principal characters were c a ll e d b e f ore the curtain ' at the close. Although the piece is too deficient in dramatic structure to be permanently popular, we have no doubt that it will have a long and successful run. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. The production of Macbeth last evening at this theatre has proved the most striking and magnificent of Mr. Charles Kean's managerial triumphs. It was presented with a splendour and scenic effect which gave to this tragic masterpiece all the charms and attractions of novelty, and which cannot fail to attract the attendance of the play going community in an extraordinary degree. As regards the performers, the Macbeth of Mr. Kean is a most careful and finished histrionic effort. Macbeth is generally and erroneously represented as a mere bloodthirsty and guilt hardened monster, whereas Shakespeare evidently meant to exhibit a great, but weak and ambitious man, yielding to hellish temptation, and plunging into guilt, to carry out, as he believes, his own over-ruling destiny. Mr. Kean has seen, and throughout avoids this fault. It is Macbeth's first interview with the witches which prostrates his virtue, energy, and self-reliance. By Mr. Kean the moral dark ness which then slowly seems to cloud the former serenity of the chieftain's mind was exquisitely given. In his suc ceeding interview with Lady Macbeth he was equally felici tous. The cold and subtle ingenuity with which Lady Macbeth imparts a meritricious brilliancy to her scheme of murder, and draws to its accomplishment the weak but guilty nature of her consort, is a splendid tragic situation to which Mr. and Mrs. Kean did the amplest justice. But the scene of Duncan's murder, the masterpiece of tragic composition, was the great effort of the evening. The usual rule of laying this in an apartment of Macbeth's castle has been departed from in the present instance. The scene 'takes place in the court-yard of the castle, the dark and gloomy towers of which form an appropriate background in keeping with the horrors of the scene. All the minutiae connected with this part have been admirably contrived to create and sustain a foreboding impression of evil, which is heightened to the utmost by the slow and stealthy movements of Macbeth. Every word of this scene seems• to have been long and carefully studied by Mr. Kean, and he gave to it according a solemn and touching effect which was very fine. The audience were hushed and mute until the discovery of the murder, when the appalling alarm which Macduff gives—the sullen ringing of the huge alarm bell—the hurried gathering of startled thanes— the rushing to and fro of a crowd of menials and soldiers with lighted torches in their hands—so perfectly repre sented the poet's idea of horror, fright, and wild con fusion, that the whole house burst out into a unanimous shout of applause. In the third act Macbeth's beau tiful soliloquies were given with care and judgment, and the bolder villany which the character displays after Duncan's murder was truly rendered. The fine tragic points of the banqiiet scene was done full justice to by all concerned in it. The whole of the scene, as far as regarded its antique decorations, was perfect, and com pletely realised the description of best authorities upon the dress and architecture of the days of Edward the Confessor. Banquo hitherto has been but slightly distin guiihable from the rest of the party into which he in truded, but here he also becomes a means of producing new effects. Now he rises behind the table, and a strong light thrown on his pallid countenance makes him the focus to the entire picture; now a pillar becomes trans parent in order to show his menacing form within. In the fourth act the hardihood of Macbeth has reached its climax. His confident belief in an overruling destiny more potent than self-will impells him forward, and sup plies the place of caution and reflection. His will becomes more bold, his conduct more unscrupulous, and he is bent "to know by the worst means the worst." A most power ful and excellently drilled chorus has been brought toge ther for the purpose of giving full effect to the scene of the witches' incantation. The apparitions also are managed with a care and view to dramatic effect which greatly aid their portentous appearance ; and the vanishing of all, when Macbeth seeks to know more, was very admirably contrived. The whole of the celebrated scene was repre sented with a gloomy and wild grandeur which deserves the highest praise. Macbeth's character in the fifth act is _ the most difficult of all to portray with tragic fidelity, yet Mr. Kean proved himself competent to tho arduous task. Now furious—now peevish—now repentant and calm—he displayed with unrivalled skill, in all its varied lights and shades, the heroic inconsistencies of the northern usurper. He faithfully portrayed throughout that desperate courage which survives the loss of friends and fortune, name and fame, and which attracts fis to the character in despite of its crimes. The whole of Mr. Kean's part shows long study, and a most accurate appreciation of all those delicate touches of nature which makes its representation truly masterly. The Lady Macbeth of Mrs. Kean is deserving of exceeding praise. The masculine spirit with which she moulds Macbeth's weaker nature to the fulfilment of her bloody will, was acted with a stern truth, .which seemed to move the whole audience. Throughout she faithfully ex pressed the hard, unfeeling disposition which enables her to rule her consort, except when his great bursts of passion bear her down before it, her hardihood arising from a mere absence of feeling and sensibility. Her somnambulism and the picture of mental agony—a punishment so suited to her guilt, which it there displays—was acted with painful fidelity ; and at this, her last appearance in the piece, the whole house echoed with applause. It is certainly no small credit to the versatile abilities of Mrs. Kean, as an actress, to say that she can on one night com man d th e en core of the public in portraying the rustic coquetry and innocent gaiety of Dorothy Budd, and on the next awe it into silence by her fine delineation of a tragic cha racter so opposite as Lady Macbeth. The applause which she elicited in the course of the piece was loud and general, and a perfect storm welcomed her at its close. The Macduff of Mr. Ryder was a truly noble and masterly portraiture. In costume and bearing he was foremost of the entire, and his acting was worthy of the unequalled personator of Hubert. In his discovery of Duncan's mur der, and raising the alarm, the splendid 'sentences of Shak speare were given with feeling and effect ; and the pathetic outburst of manly sorrow at the news of the massacre of his wife and children elicited continued applause. Towards the close of the piece also, when the love of his country and hatred of the tyrant divide his breast, his acting was equally commendable, and was warmly acknowledged by the house. He was very well supported by Mr. Graham, as Banquo, and Mr. Cathcart, who played more than cre ditably as Malcolm. The malignant natures of the three weird sisters were represented in all their hideous defor mity by Messrs. Addison, Meadows, and Saker, all of whom were dressed for the characters to perfection. The parts of the singing witches were ably sustained by Miss Poole, and Messrs. Manvers, and Jones, supported by an effective and numerous chorus. Mr. Drayton sang with more power than correctness as Hecate. Some of the effects were most impressive. The witches speak and sing through thick gauzes, that render them but half real ; and, when these artificial fogs disperse, their gaunt figures s t an d ou t awfully against the morning sky. Their cave is no com mon cave, but the " Pit of Acheron" —a hollow cone, lighted from the top, with a reddish lustre, in the midst of which they perform effective orgies. The scenery was per fectly beautiful; but the greatest effect of all was, in our opinion, produced by the chorus of witches at the end of the second act—it was absolutely preternatural. At the conclusion, a loud and hearty call was raised for Mr. and Mrs. Kean, and then Mr. Ryder was summoned. The house was crowded to the ceiling. OLYMPIC THEATRE. A new farce entitled A Deed without a Name, was pro duced here last night for the first time. It is by the au thor of The Fast Coach, a successful farce of last season. The plot which is unusually slight, even for a modern farce, treats of the reconciliation of an ill-tempered wife with her much-enduring husband, through the medium of an itinerant professor of legerdemain and ventriloquism, to whom the husband in his distress applies. The dialogue is smart enough in parts, and the part of the professor gave full scope to Mr. Compton's comic powers. His acting was excellent, and procured him an unanimous recal at tho fall of the curtain. The piece was successful, and will no doubt have a fair run. SUSPECTED CHILD MURDER.— Late on Saturday night the body of a remarkably fine newly-born male child was found on the step of the house of the Rev. Conrad Winiberly, Mornington-crescent, Regent's-park. The body was conveyed to St. Pancras workhouse, where Mr. Waldegrave, the house surgeon, made a minute ex amination of the body, from which there is no doubt that the child was born alive. It was enveloped in a piece of white calico much stained with blood, and over which was closely folded a piece of black glazed calico. THE CHARGH OF CONSPIRACY AGAINST CAPTAIN JOHNSON--Yesterday morning a second attempt was made before Mr. Justice Wightman, by the solicitors for Henry Goodshall Johnson, alias Captain Johnson, to have him admitted to bail ; but, like the first, it was fruitless. The proffered securities were rejected as un substantial, and one of them acknowledged that he Was in the habit of bailing prisoners out, and that he got handsomely paid for the jobs, and he expected to have been so in this instance should he have been accepted. LAW APpoiNTMENTs.—The gentleman selected by the Attorney-General to be counsel in equity to the Board of Works, the Woods and Forests, and th e C ommis. sioners of Stamps and Taxes (in the room of Mr. W. Milbourne James, appointed Vice - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster) is Mr. Alfred Hanson, and not _Harrison, as was stated in our impression of yesterday, in a paragraph copied from the Observer. RAILWAY AND OTHER PRIVATE BILLS. The following is a list of the railway and other importans private bills which were read a first time in the House of Commons last night : Boston and Midland Counties Railway and Docks. Caledonian—l. To make a connecting b ranc h with the Edinburgh and Gl asgow .—ll. Branch from the Pollock and Govan.—lll. For amalgamation with the Edin" burgh and Glasgow. Carlisle Canal and Port Carlisle. Dublin and Belfast Junction—To amend acts. Her Majesty's Theatre Association—For incorporating. the company. Leamington, Warwick, and Stratford-upon-Avon. London and North TV estern—For lino from Shrewsbury to Newtown. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire—For alteration of capital. Shrewsbury and Chester—For amendment of acts. Severn and Wyo Railway and Canal. Stamford and Essendine. Thames Haven Dock and Railway. Tralee and Killarney. Wexford Junction. CONTROVERTED ELECTIONS. Yesterday the General Committee of Elections appeint ea by the House of Commons met in the Grand Corridor, O. 22, to nominate the first batch of select committees to con sider and report upon the merits of the petitions impting" ing so many of the returns at the last election. The mem bers present were Sir John Trollope in the chair. Sir F. Baring, Mr. Sotheron, Mr. Robert Palmer, an d Mr. E. Denison. The following were the select committees nominated an appointed : TAVISTOCK.—Lord Robert Grosvenor (chairman), Mr. Wigram, Mr. Wyvill, Mr. Arkwright, 'and Mr. Thom Chambers. BRIDGENORTH.—The Hon. E. Bouverie (chairman), 11-T, Locke King, Sir F. Dundas, Sir H. Willoughby , and S ir E. Knatchbull. LANCASTER.—Mr. E. Divett (chairman), Mr. Somers Cocks, Hon. Cecil Forester, Mr. Scholefield, and Mt. Fergus. CANTERBURY.—Mr. Ker Seymer (chairman), Mr. Eivsr° Mr. Layard, Sir J. B. East, and Mr. Malins. The members will be sworn on Wednesday, and commence - commence their sittings on Thursday. DUBLIN GREAT INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION• Of the complete success of the Great Industrial Exhil; tion, no one now entertains a doubt. From nunior°."" communications that Mr. R. A. Thompson, the imperil" tendent, has received, it appears that already numerous sr' rangements are being entered into by the various excursi°,ll agents for the transmission, during the summer, of wh tches of the workmen from several manufacturing to m in England, and the interest which the men the mseo Z take in the forthcoming Great Exhibition is gra tif YT" g in the extreme. From the beginning of the year the pro g. cipal men in the several factories of Manchester, haw, Leeds, Stockport, the Potteries, &c., have form ek themselves into clubs, and now subscribe so much per Web in order to defray their expenses in a visit to the Biniuf, tion. It is supposed that they will come over inn umbs; varying from 100 to 200, and it is highly gratifying to s ts ' that their m as ter s , in most cases, have determined up% giving them a week's holiday without making them J 2 l substitutes during their absence, thus proving the bells,' cial effect w hi c h th es e exhibitions must have upon ° I — working population. THE SEWERS COMMISSION. H • Yesterday, a t 12 o ' c l oc k, was a ppointed by • e co „ Ai n Palmersto n to receive deputations at the Home - office the vario us me t ropo li tan par i s h es, on th e subjection mismanagement of the Metropolitan Sewers Commies of and the police of the metropolis ; but in consequen c e y the indisposition of the noble Home Secretary, the &P o t tions, instead of being received at his official residence , ehe to proceed to his private residence in Carlton-gardens . f„:„. deputation, consisting of delegates from nearly eve*. tropolitan parish, numbered upwards of 100 gentlemen.oo, Mr. NICHOLAY, who attended to represent Maryl eb c ° o,- complained o f the abuses connected with the Sewer ,he mission, and said that, upon this and other questions, ie entire metropolis asked for " local representation. il i a lordship was also addressed by Mr. T. Smith, M.P., Mr. C. Genge, Lord D. Stuart, M.P., Mr. w • Hams, M.P. Viscount PALMERSTON said that most of the gentle. l33 o l present were, no doubt, aware that his attention had. f ro r A series of years been 'so much engaged with affairs 51/ I f et that he had bad but little opportunity of making hin 3 „1 60 ,) present thoroughly conversant with things at home. o' l ' i c e He had, however, paid implicit attention to all the tof to touched up on i n th e speeches which had been addre s la he him, and f or th e va l uable information they con t a in he, felt himself d ee pl y i n d e b ted. He should f ee l it t° l:6o his duty, as it was hi s inclination, to exercise the ° tbe• he then held to the best of his energy and ability O wa s, public advantage. (Cheers.) In order to do this, h e d the most anxious to hear the expression of the opinions 931 ... a ch feelings of the public at large, and therefore he W 5 to'. obliged to those gentlemen who had come there that dolbt,, give him practical information, which he should, no t e „,o. , find exceedingly useful to him as a guide. ( 110sr ' which' There were two matters of a prominent charaett r n oble could not fail to attract his attention—one to which his the friend (Lord Dudley Stuart) had called his attentionbao other night, and one to which his attention had to to of, called by the deputation that day, namely sinth of the the refuse of the living., and the state of the rera s avi est dead. (Hear). He (the noble lord) should be most earnest in his endeavours to get rid of the nuisances w ith f t r h o e m fo t rm ho e se r t h w e o was causes. not a A t s theto thezre say that ir o o_ ra f oo d yo e c i de_ t cl o i n d ke e rsio d r. ; but he was so far prepared as ing would be of any advantage ; mtuhsttu be o ile 2 e suret system and one great and comprehensive - UpOW whether under representativ e c on t ro l or not. te the question of local government or centralisatie n :. o l begged them to understand that he was not c over 'any opinion. As to the police, he had always undo rs they were a well conducted body. There might be o ar tions, but being new in his present office, he would an d every inquiry into the statements laid before hilo! . .d e r into the question as to the police rate, which he roe' stood to be divided into three parts, namely, the r `, l : 0 0 0 panty between the rating of the north and the sou e n e 4 . -; of the metropolis—how the balance . had been exP„u se L 4 and whether the police in its organisation had ref"' purpose. (Hear.) e thanksvoteofrthe pa being offered itewredh wyie bhthh he had epu l i tato_nitra them i tle lord fo for nearly two hours, the deputation with ;; proceeded to the official residence of the Chief '-' on the be sinner of Public Works, Sir W. Molesworth, errand. The right hon. baronet expressed a hul o l o would be able to introduce some measure to mee t complained of. THE ROYAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC H os PlTS , _: kers o f annual general meeting o f the f r iends and suPPr`, o l l : l( this institution was h e ld y es t er d a y, in the board -r e W 0 the hospital, Bloomfield-street, Moorfields. Th ere e d large attendance of governors, and the chair was" — , been the Rev. John Russell, D.D. The meeting ha v ' a c 'f th e duly constituted, the secretary read the mina t t f p ", ( Pbi ° ' previous quarterly and other special meetings ; the medical report was read, which stated, that the number of patients admitted during . t ll loba ceding 12 months was 10,295; in addition, th,7 he r,01 44 3 111ie - r e t re ' t been 200 sufferers who had been seen by the aP ° ",;(lo°' after hours. The number admitted during the P .- of be t ; year was 11,071, show an increase during the I bent' fore of 476. The total number of in and out P a tio during the last 12 mo n th s was 10,939. The °P e. 1,0•0 4 performed for that distressing complaint, 'oo r e n . during the year had been no fewer than 17L i ds ceipts for the 12 months, in the shape of divideve stock, subscriptions, and donations, with the h i t O a ' the previous year, made a total of 1,087 1 . - L i3 j. 0 5 4 i The expenditure was :—Balance brought dow i '' it - as, Thethe pfuunrcdheadseproofpesrttoycko, sd. ; in the hands of the matron, with the ban Os. 0„ . 2,2501. in the Reduced Three per Cents. ; 4 ), °B Q 4 aAlf, f.mthaedechtahreitytowtaals I;9o6f9otirsi:?,-0. 9d., ditto; 3,6061. 19s. lid. in the Three-and' stn per Cents. ; and 9121. 16s. 2d. in the South s ea te e ° , The various officers having been appointeo, 4 . 4 At, thanks were passed to the medical attendazli;ool'" which a similar compliment was paid to the c TO and the pr ocee di ngs term i nate d . 4 OP, t i j o SOCIETY FOR PROMOTI N G THE AMEN/Nu" - O f Law. —Yesterday evening a general rueeting soc iet4 o members of thi s assoc i a ti on was h e ld at thc o , p iol rooms, 21, Rege n t- s t r eet--Mr. T. W. goe, r, chair. Th e re p or t on th e " A ss i m il a tion of ut o ra' o , Law" was pres en t e d by th e commi ttee on elii"Witft jurisprud ence , th e d ocumen t b e i ng r ead by r. the, o o The report was o f a purely historical paturef it t, y on , stadium gai ne d having been the interviews t to C ,fr, Derby, a n d th e promise of the late Governra. o. of sider the propriety of appointing a commit: f ilo, Hawes, in urgin g th e necess ity of bringing y eg ish's oor mercantile men. to bear upon commercial coo ce to t pointed to the evident impropriety of an e 's",i , t of (Lord St. Leoriards) giving notice to reselL i dat t r i of passed with so much difficulty as was the ''', o l. ol o l Consolidation Act, and this without taking ro tes . l eo , the commercial community. A report IPi3, .tvg o o' remuneration was afterwards read by Mr' ,00 5, 0 0' THE INDIA AND CAPE MALLS.—SOUTMA _f s icr , day, Feb. 14.—The General Screw CorapanoYooooo ship Queen of the South, W. H. Norma l ' 0 0)0 took her departure this afternoon for St. 'r o ll D orb Cape of Good Hope, the Mauritius, Ce,e b V e rollb ° and Calcutta, the mails for which places Que eo ° O OO l . at Plymouth on Tuesday,(this day.) T h i u e South takes out 73 passengers, s pecie va f 0 sterling, for Madras and Calcutta, 450 bo a silver for Calcutta, and about 300 tons rue o ' o d s fo cii o tt_lf u s r ° e rse! t tho general cargo, comprising bale and eas e s bip 1 . 1 / 1 , ti )° , Cape and India. The company's steaT t o n e 0 0' will be due at Plymouth on the 26th Ins " tire mails from India, Mauritius, and the C a raen " outward mails of the 15th of March will be 1 4. Lady Jocelyn, C a pt a i n St ewa rt. .or; osl3 o°° AUSTRALIAN EMIGRATION.—SOUTMA.S-, near;_,J —A fine ship, of 740 tons register., an d pucnloo; tons burden, belonging to Messrs. D in ' call 'eba lleg Sons, of Limehouse, named the Ramilies, f or der, commander, a' rrived here Yesterociffiell°4l7eret Thames to embark a full complement de po et ot f Adelaide from the Government emittons Ml n l d' Harriett, a large Quebec-built ship, corn;.Av and 1,200 tons burden, W. J. Sh adenc e ;n ool3 will leave Southampton on Tuesday 811 _ 0 ,1, 3C to nesday morning with over 400 s ouls, el t ,tionl A to the Emigration Commissioners' con:Woes statute adults, for Sydney. Both the I ta e °° f Geor ge f f f 0 riett are to be dispatched by Mr-, 'olio oft s t° Th e agent at Southampton; the elnua ove rnin, e- S". „ s o grants being superintended by the , o n, ad officers, presided over by Lieutenany , 0 n 0 .. .. f0 0t ship Coromandel, 639 tons register,_ is `J;jetee"4.o, Southampton, and daily expected from The,issi°°oo embark emigrants for Hobart To wl e c oup - rt Dutch ship, of 700 tons, chartered bY r this pe oe 0 o t and bound for Sidney, will be due a y . . o ts. org i , 7th of March, to take on board enlig ar giog ta l:e rican ship Mary Green, now c lis a i se h ecil tba °3l ,,l ha au' Northa m , near S ou thampton, s the S°ll for th e conveyance o f emigrants from depot for Adelaide.