The Sun. — London, England, 1853-05-10 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, IILYMARRET. Under the management of Mr. Buekstons. THIS EVENING, MAY 10, Will be peribruicd BLOPEMENTS IN MGM LIFE. By Messrs. R. Sullivan, Chippendale, Howe, Farren, BuekStOne, and Compton ; 3fesdanaer Fitzwillian..Reynolds, tee. After which MR. BUCKSTONb'S ASCENT OF MOUNT PAR NASSUS. To couc4ude with BOX AND COX. ROYAL PRINCESS'S TH.EATRE, OXFORD-STRERT. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, MAY 10, Will be performed the new and original Play, in five acts, by West land Marston, Esq , entitlad ANNE BLAKE. Principal characters by Messrs. C. Kean , La c y , and Addison ; Mrs. Winstanley, Mrs. Daly, and Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with tie new Drama, adapted from tho French of Mono. Scribe, by Mr. Pei-grave vimpson, called MARCO SPADA. Vrinolpal characters by Messrs. W. Lacy, J. Vining, Ryder, Graham, and Lverctt ; Misses Heath and C. Leclercq. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Vnder the Management of Madame Vestrig. THIS EVENING, MAY 10, Will be performed A.S.S. Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Suter, anl Rosiere ; Mrs. Macnainara and Miss Wyndham. After which, A FAST TRAIN—HIGH , PRESSURE EXPRESS. Baker and Suter. tharacters by Messrs. C. Mathews, To be followed by TRYING IT ON. Principal character by Mr. C. Mathews. To which will be added a DIVERTISSEMENT, in which Miss Rosina Wright will appear. After which, USED UP. Pr ncipal character by Mr. C. Mathews. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster. —Directress, Madame Celesta. THIS EVENING, MAY 10, Will be performed MASKS AND FACES; or, Before and Behind the Curtain— by Mesi.rs. B. Webster, L. Murray, Honey, P. Bedford, Porsche, and Collet - nor:I ; Madame Celeste, Miss 'Woolgor, Miss F. Maskell. Mrs. L. Murray, &c. Atter whicb„k DESPERATE GAME. To be followed by TILE PRETTY GIRLS OF STILSBERG. To conclude with THE DANCING SCOTCHMAY. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager Mr. Farren. THIS EVENING, Mar 10, Will be performed THE MILLER OF DERWENT WATER. Characters by Messrs. H. Farren, F. Robson, Shalders, G. Cooke, and Charley; Mesdames Auderton and E. Turner. After which, UNCLE CROTCHET. Supported by Mr. Far rel), &c. To be followed by MACBETH. Supported by Mr. Samuel Mac beth and Mr. F. Robson ; Mrs. Sarah Macbeth and Mrs. A. Phillips To cone tide with THE SWISS COTTAGE. Lisette, Miss 11. Gordon. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. In empliance w:th a generally .expressed wish, Mr. W. Cooke has the honour of announcing that A GRAND JUVENILE MORNING PERFORMANCE - . Will take place on WHIT-TUESDAY, May 17, commencing at Two o'clock. By Permission of the Commandant Col. Clark, R.H., and by special Invitation from Mr. W. Cooke. the Boys of the Duke of York's School, with their Band, will attend. LAST FIVE NIGHTS of THE KAFI it WARFARE, which must be withdrawn for the entirely new sporting Hippo Drama, Illustrat ing LIFE ON THE. TURF, to be produced for the WHITSUN HOLIDAYS. - - THIS EVENING, MAY 10, And during the week, the entertainments will commence with the grand spectacle of AM ARDS'A ; or, Scenes of Kafir Warfare. To be followed by a display of Equestrian Scenes in the ARENA, introducing Mr. Cooke's highly-trained steeds. The infant Victor Claude Cooke and his pet Drawing-room Pony. The Entertain ments [supported by the eminent Artistes of the Establishment. To conclude with Hugo Vamp, Esq 'B, new Cernio Drama, entitled TN FOR A DIG; or, Life at the Diggings. Box-office open daily 111 U Eleven to Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. NT, DAT —Yforning 9 min. after 3 I Evening 25 min.aft. 3 To-Moamow-11 °ruing 40 min. after 3 I Evening 55 min.aft. 3 THE WEATHER.—SUM OFFICE, MAT 10. THERMOMETER, IN TYE SHADE. 54—highest slues noon yesterday. 42—lowest this morning and during the night. 52 this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29'98. WIND, W.N. W.—Light breeze, and fine weather. • ,il)* LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1853. There was no portion of the Financial State tnent which occasioned more general satisfaction than that for the extension of the Legacy Duties to real estates. The industrious middle classes had long remarked with indignation the exemp tion afforded to the lords of the soil from the onerous burden to which they themselves had been, and their successors in due course would be, subjected. It was not that a tax on successions Was regarded as a wise or judicious impost, that it was believed to be an eligible mode of collect ing any portion of the national revenue. Far from it ! It was, on the contrary, considered the very worst species of direct taxation—one that should, on the first suitable opportunity, be totally abolished, when a fitting substitute could be provided. But the chief cause of complaint was the undue favouritism exhibited towards the favoured class the territorial aristocracy. If a merchant, a manufacturer, or a tradesman (lied, the fruits of his in dustry could not be distributed among his sur viving relations without the liquidation of heavy and vexatious demands. Before his property could be made applicable to the payment of his debts, or the support of his family, an enormously expensive stamp should be impressed on the pro bate of his will, or the letters of Administration granted by the Court of Prerogative. Many vexatious forms were required, which, although they did not materially increase the public re venue, filled the coffers of the numerous harpies who, GouLE-like, fattened on mortality. It is from such sources that the leviathan sinecurist draws the income of his patent place, and that his worthy brethren draw princely incomes for services which they do not render. At last, after considerable delay, expense, and annoyances, when the assets of the deceased are about to be distributed, a new claim is insisted on. A legacy duty is demanded, and 1,3, 5, or even 10 per cent. must be paid over to the Governmeq before the legatee can receive a single shilling of the bequest to which he was entitled, which, from these various draw backs, becomes perceptibly reduced before pay ment. From all these things the great landowner was exempted. The will under which ho derived his title required no proof ; it was quietly locked up among his muniments of title without any expense either for costs or fees, or stamp duties, being in curred in reference thereto. Should it at any time be questioned or disputed, it was submitted, like any deed or instrument, to the consideration of an upright and learned Judge, and a jury of 12 gentlemen. Nor was there any change on the succes sion. The heir-at-law remained a man—or devisee quietly stepped into the shoes, and occupied the position of his predecessor without the outlay of a single shilling. This was felt, and justly felt to be a grievanoe— one too that was materially aggravated by the fact, that the exemption was not extended to all kinds, of landed property, but only to freehold lands ; the limited interests, leaseholds for long terms of years, &c., being liable to the change, so that the smaller fry were caught while the larger easily burst through the meshes of the net. A deep and burning sense of injustice was thus oc casioned, that induced persons to look not so much to the policy and expediency of the impost itself as to its fairer and more equitable assess ment, so that it should comprehend all classes in society, and every description of property, real or personal, freehold or leasehold. To the tax itself we confess that we entertain D. Very decided objection. It is a tax upon capi tal, levied, too, at t time when the person coming into possession has many other heavy claims to liquidate—when, perhaps, the unexpected death of his relative might render pecuniary assistance exceedingly desirable, and when the inexperience of the legatee renders him an easy prey to the de signing artsof thosewho flock around him with offers of loans and advances of money in any form that may be most acceptable to the intended dupe. I[7nlees the property be in the funds or easily convertible, be must avail himself o f these off r debts for the purpose o f liquidating' the d incurs ta testa inentary expenses and legacy duties that must, - unless lie be very prudent indeed, materially crip ple his resources for the best years o f hi s life, said which may probably lead to a connection with money-lenders, and induce a habit of borrowing very prejudicial to his future interests: Thos e % who have had experience of the -effect s •of the system so prevalent in Ireland, where a cOnsid- . erable portion of the land is held for lives re newable for ever, and , in many cases, subject to a heavy fine at the fall of each life, *ell know the fatal effects of the necessity of he , liquidate the fine--thee habits tho lands to habits of improvidence 'which it engendered in ducing a visit to the money-lender for the moat trivial causes. The first application wits ex neces• sitate, but it created a dangerous facility, that led to subsequent transactions, and eventually brought many respectable families to misery and desti tution. The same may be said of the copyhold system, where the " heriots" and payment of pecuniary fines, amounting in some cases to one or two years of the improved value of the holding, on the ad mission of each new tenant, led to such numerous and well-founded complaints, that a legislative remedy became essential. Mr. GLADSTONE'S propo sition will transform all the freeholds of the country into a species of copyhold, where a fine, varying from one half year to four years of the improved yearly value, must be paid on each succession. We see the evil, but we also see that it is inevitable. There is but 0110 alternative. Either the legacy duty on personalties must be abolished, or it must be extended to real estate. No option— no choice remains ; although there are burdens exclusively affecting land that should fairly and justly be extended to every kind of property, that injustice cannot, as we have already stated, consecrate another of a still more flagrant cha racter. The Chancellor of the Exchequer cannot afford to relinquish a source of revenue so pro ductive without obtaining a fitting substitute, and, therefore, he must necessarily enlarge the basis of the impost, and apply it to all descrip tions of property, real and personal. But the extension required a considerable modi fication of the existing law. Under that now in operation, it was only legacies that were charge able ; one who succeeded under a settlement of any kind, even to personalty, was not liable for any payments on account thereof. It was only when money, goods, or chattels belonged abso lutely to the deceased, and passed under his will, or, if intestate, to his next of kin, that the tax gatherer made any demand. It was, in fact, optional with the owner to exempt his property from the operation of the legacy duty, by placing it in settlement by a deed inter vivos, taking him self an interest for life, and settling the rever sion as he thought proper. A very small pro portion of personal property was, however, I thus exonerated ; first, because men did not choose to make irrevocable arrangement with regard to their property ; and, secondly, because the ex pense of the deed, though far less than the legacy duties that would be thereby avoided, fell on the owner during his lifetime, and not on his successors after his death. But in real estates settlements constitute the rule, and not the exception. And if the successor could be exonerated by the same means which would at present free personal property from the charge, we venture to assert that the exten sion would not prove very profitable to the Ex chequer, or worth the trouble and ill feeling it would engender. It, therefore, became essential to alter the entire law, so as to make it a charge not merely on legacies, but on successions of every kind, taking place upon, or in consequence of, the death of any person—under whatever title, wile tiler existing or future, such succession may be derived. This course Mr. GLADSTONE has adopted. It is an important change, and one that will re quire mature and attentive consideration before it can receive the Legislative sanction. Another delightful squabble took place last evening in the House of Commons, as they say at the law-courts, in, re the Irish Representatives. - Upon this occasion the originator of the distur bance was not, however, the Member for New Ross, but the Member for Cambridgeshire. The proceedings may be briefly described :—Mr. E. BALL was solemn and declamatory, Captain W. MAGAN surprised and indignant, Lord J. RUSSELL calm and decisive, Mr. W. HAYTEB disdainful and repucliative. The subject of dispute was as to whether overtures had or had not been made to Irish Members on behalf of the present Ministers when in Opposition—overtures not made individually, but collectively, to the whole body of Irish Representatives--overtures to the effect that if they, the Members for Ireland, would aid the Whigs and Peelites in throwing out Loid DERBY'S Government, the sister island should be guarded yet longer from the extension of the Income Tax to its population. A rather serious charge, it must be allowed, whatever may be thought to the contrary by the Hon. and Gallant Gentleman the Member for Portar lington. An accusation, moreover, so remark able of its kind that we do seriously think, notwithstanding all that funereal solemnity with which Mr. E. BALL, last night, unintentionally convulsed the House into laughter, that the Hon. Representative of Cambridgeshire was justified in bringing it once more under the direct scrutiny of the Legislature. He did so, let it be remem bered, under no idle rumour, under no shadowy insinuation, under no merely distorted conjec ture. The accusation had resolved itself into so many words from the lips of the Honourable and Gallant Representative of Westmeath. It re quired some explicit and early explanation. It was reasonable, therefore, to bring it as soon as possible more immediately under the notice of Parliament, though scarcely reasonable, we opine, to do so in a manner calculated, from its exaggerated severity, to excite the risibility of those who were listening to Mr. E. BALL'S statement. However the matter was introduced yesterday—it is satisfactory at least to think that it was introduced. For it elicited from the Right Hon. Gentleman, the Member for Wells, a 3 well as from the Noble Lord the Member for the City of London, the most clear, the most distinct, and the most straightforward declara tion, that no such overtures had ever been made to the Irish Members by the leaders or subordinates of the present Administration. It is but right that while these insinuations are flying about uninter ruptedly, those most interested in their suppression or dissipation should be afforded an opportunity of declaring them at once to be gross and unjusti fiable misrepresentations. For having afforded Ministers this opportunity, we do conceive, con sequently, as we have ventured to remark already, that some good service was done last evening, in spite of his most ludicrous solemnity, by the Hon. Gentleman the Representative for Cambridgeshire. After the stormy contention of yesterday, let us hope that the political atmosphere may have been cleared by these rhetorical thunder-claps, and that at any rate for some little time to come the nation may be spared any repetition of these unseemly debates in the Imperial Legislature. EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA.—The departures from the port of London for the Australian colonies during the past week show an increase in tonnage, but not in num ber, and have again comprised vessels of all classes. They consisted of seven to Port Philip, with an aggre gate burden of 8,938 tonnage ; two to Hobart Town, with an aggregate burden of 523 tonnage ; one to Ade laide, of 426 tons ; one to Portland Bay, of 432 tons ; and one to Swan River, of 704 tons. Their total capa city was consequently 6,023 tons. The shipments con tinue to be of the ordinary kind of manufactures and merchandise, and the rates of freight present little ♦aria tion. AMSTERDAM AND ROTTERDAM PRODUCE MARKETS.— The weekly reviews from these markets describe little activity in business. Coffee was steady, with limited operations. An increased demand had existed for re fined sugar, and prices showed a slight tendency to ad vance. Indigo was well supported, but the chief pur chases had been for England. No important change had occurred in rice or spices, although the latter were gene rally firm. In tea the transactions had been more nu merous, owing to the gradual diminution in stock, and for some descriptions higher prices had been paid. The accounts from Hambnrgh mention that coffee and sugar were rather more firm, but that business had been limited. SALes OF BULLION.—A bill regulating the weights used in sales of bullion has been introduced by the Go vernment with the view of legalising the employment of decimal numbers. As the law stands the troy pound is the unit, but the weights ordinarily used are those of the troy ounce and its decimal parts, many of which are not multiples of the troy pound. The question having, consequently, arisen whether these decimal weights are not liable to be seized as illegal, from not having been stamped, and the sales made by them also declared void, the proposed act is intended to remove such doubts, and to declare that in all contracts in relation to gold, stones, er, a t n b d e t p r l u a y ti plating, ounce d ina diamonds be tak e a i n t and to other be th e p u re n c i i t ou o s f ismeapyrboveiddeidvimdthey into weight, and parts shall, within three its decimal parts, it _ o d a n t t h m s f o r d o e ra ls t h o ef passing such d decimal m the l act, be made and verified under the direction of the —Letters from Rouen state rna tl t i:t a the market Tr ß eag ou u E ry ; alteration for manufactures was quiet, without lin prices. The weather had latterly interfnereclL usual course of business, MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TTVO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at from 6,000 to 7,000 bales—of which 2,000 American were taken for export and on speculation. The market closed very firmly, with prices of all kinds quite as high as on Friday last. The sales comprised 6,000 American, 400 Pernam and Maranham, at Gad. to 7d. ; 200 Egyptian, at 6d. to 10d.; 500 Surat, at 3id. to 40.; and 30 Sea Island, at ls. 10-Ad. to 2s. 9d. per lb. Railway Shares were flat, except Caledonian and Lanca shire and Yorkshire. The steamer America brings accounts three days later from New York. The money market at the latest date was quiet, but steady. Cotton was dull. The shipments of specie, from the 16th to the 23d ult., amounted to 303,174 dollars. This steamer brings a good amount of specie -127,000 dollars—and the private letters are particularly encouraging as to the soundness of the money mar ket, and the tendency towards greater ease. From California 2,234,308 dollars in gold dust had arrived at New York. The small-pox was proving very fatal among the Indian population along the coast, and it was thought at Oregon that unless it was checked the whole of the Indians would be exterminated by the malady. The mercantile advices from San Francisco re port increased activity in the provision market. Flour was rather dearer. Freights at Stocton were again very high. The mines were yielding re markably well. At Agua Fria and Mariposa con siderable amounts were obtained, and throughout California the gold production seems large. The long-vexed question of the right of holders of quartz and building lots to hold them against squatters had been decided by a verdict for the Gold Hill Company. From Peru it is stated that— "Gen. Echenique was gaining great reputation by his prudent government at Lima ; many excellent de crees relating to the affairs of distant provinces had been passed, which were entirely forgotten by his predeceA sors. The recent treaty entered into between Peru and Brazil for the navigation of the river Amazon, would, it was anticipated, be productive of great benefits to the former country ; and the Government intend getting the consent of the Council of State to their spending $lOO,OOO in steamers, to navigate periodically the rivers Ucayali and Huayaga, and also another $lOO,OOO in en couraging and assisting emigration to those parts." In the President's Message to the Congress of New Granada, it is mentioned that--- "The boundary between Costa Rica and this republic is under consideration by the Ministers of both nations, at Washington, and should the just claims of New Granada not be admitted, steps will be taken to enforce them. The most friendly relations continue between the United States and this country, and the difficulty with England relative to the settlement of the Mackintosh claim, it is hoped, will be speedily arranged. "The financial state of the nation next engages the President's attention. The public debt amounts to the enormous sum of $377,000,000 reals, or $47,125,000 currency, whilst 28,000,000 reals ($3,500,000) are re quired for the expenses of the incoming year, and 10,000,060 reals ($1,250,000) to complete that of the current year, which, with 8,000,000 reals ($1,100,000) to pay the negotiated debts and the expenses of the army, makes a total deficit of 18,000,000 reals, or $2,250,000, whilst the credit for the incoming year only amounts to 20,000,000 reals, or $2,500,000. " This important question has engaged the considera tion of the President and his Ministers, and he has examined it in every possible bearing, to devise a method of meeting it without burdening the industry or resources of the country." The result is a recommendation by the President that public lands should be set apart for the cre ditors. In English Stocks for present transfer, there has been rather more doing, but prices have not risen in consequence of the further advance made by Ministers towards the passing of their Budget. Consols have been quoted 1001 to for Money, and 1001 for Account. The New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. have been at 103 to and the Three per Cents at 99i to 1001. South Sea Stock was worth 1144, and the Old Annuities have been at 99i. The March Exchequer Bills have been at par, and East India Bonds are heavy at 27 premium ; the requirement of money is pretty well exemplified by these low rates for floating se curities, and a very important question, at the present moment, is whether the Chancellor of the Evchequer will be enabled next month to get out the fresh issue of bills upon as low terms as those last renewed. In Foreign Stocks there has been very little doing. Mexican are dull, at 271 : Peruvian De ferrad steady, at 68 ; and Brazilian New 4i per Cents. are well supported at moi. The Red Greek Bonds have been done at 9i ; Sardinian are worth 98 ; and French have been at 103 62k, with the Exchange at 25 to 25 10 ; Spanish 3 per Casts. have been marked 24. Dutch 4 per Cents. were at 964. In the Railway Market there has been a rather decided movement in Caledonia,n_shares, the traffic returns, it is reported, being again satisfactory. Great Northern shares also are 1/. higher. French shares were not so high as they closed yesterday, though still in fair demand. The Royal Danish have been done at 2i. premium. The Gold Mine shares, though quiet, are firm. Brazilian St. John del Rey have advanced 10s. United Mexican are flat. The Land Companies' shares are further improv ing as regards Peel River and Australian Agricul tural. The shares of the established Australian banks, and also of the Oriental Bank, are rising. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY. ( From the Opicial List.) Business done. 3 per Cola. Reduced Annuities 991 100 k 991 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 31 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 6 3-16 India Bonds, £lOOO South Sea Stock —,.... - South Sea Old Annuities 99i Consols for Account Exchequer Bills lAd. June. March. £1000..... par par £5OO — Small — 5 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Ttrazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. — Ditto New, 1852, 4i per Cent lO2l Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 6B Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent.... ..... . Greek Bonds, Red -i i Ditto, Blue Mexican 3 per Cent. Ditto for the Account 274 Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent. BBi Peruvian Deferred 3 per Cent. Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto 4A per Cent 1044 i Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Spanish 3 per Cent., New Deferred 24 i Venezuela Bonds, 3A per Cent. Dividends on the above payable in London. French Rentes, 41 per Cent. ...... .. 103 f 62.3 c Ex. 25f 10e Ditto 3 per Cent B2f Ex. 25f 10c 25f Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Guil. ... 664 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificate 5............... 964 i THREE O'CLOCK. Consols loog Ditto May Account lOOl ACCIDENT IN COAL MINES. —A parliamentary paper, which has just been issued, contains returns from the Government inspectors of coal mines, of the number of accidents which happened in these mines during the years 1850, 1851, 1852, with other particulars relative to the causes which produced the accidents, and the re sults of the judicial investigations, &c. It appears that four districts were marked out, with an inspector ap pointed for each ; but several modifications having been introduced, and the limits of the districts altered, each inspector has made a return of the district he inspected, which has varied at different times. From the report of Mr. Dickenson, whose district comprised Staffordshire, Lancashire, Worcestershire, Shropshire, Cheshire, and North Wales, and subsequently South Wales, Glouces tershire, and Somersetshire, the number of accidents was 600, and the deaths arising therefrom 757. From the report of Mr. Davis, inspector of coal-mines in Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, and Scotland (up to the end of 1851), the number of deaths from accidents in the mines was 470. In Scotland during 1852 the number of lives lost in coal-pits was 61 ; in ironstone pits, 18. From the report of Mr. Mackworth, inspector in Wales, it appears that the deaths in his district, the exact extent of which is not specified in the return, were 304. In the districts of Yorkshire and the Midland Counties the number of deaths was 108 ; and in Lancashire, Cheshire, &c., during part of 1852, was 221. The total loss, therefore, caused by accidents in coal-mines between November, 1850, and the 31st of December, 1852, was 1,939 lives. ONE OP THE WATCHMEN. — A "feller" coming home from California, had a monster rattlesnake in a wicker cage, which he deposited with his other plunder under his bed at Chagres. The room con tained fifty beds, half full of drunk and sick " fellers." During a temporary absence of the owner, the snake got loose, and the owner coming in and find ing his critter gone, yelled out, " Everlasting misery ? who's seen my watchman ?" Many heads popped up from the flea-inflicted, dirty beds, but nobody has seen the missing article. " What was he, old feller, you're inquirin' for ?" says a bald-headed man. " Why, my watchman ; all my dust is under my bed here, and I left a guard with it, but he's gone !" " Guard ! was he a nigger or a white feller ?" "No ! he was a California rattlesnake, nine feet long, and fifty-two rattles on his tail. Have any of your fellers seen the eternal critter crawlini 'round here . ?" They hadn't ; but all able to get out of bed and nuzzle did so, in a bunch. THE SUN, LONDON, TTJESDAY EVENIN'Gr, MAY 10, 1853 4YTOUN ON POETRY, LECTURE THE SECOND. In pursuance of his project, and in accordance with the scheme marked out on his printed syllabus, Professor Aytoun, yesterday afternoon, delivered at Willis's Rooms the second lecture of his course of six on Poetry and Dramatic Literature. We were gratified to observe that in spite of the unseasonable inclemency of the wea ther, a numerous and attentive audience again assembled to listen to the opinions entertained upon the subject of poetic art by the author of " Lays of the Scottish Cava liers." The lecturer, in many respects, appeared to us to be still more heterodox, if possible, in those opinions than he did during the time occupied by his introductory observations. He seems to regard art as having nothing whatever to do with poetry—the latter, according to him, being not alone in conception, but actually in ex pression the fruit of intuitive knowledge and innate s kill, or, in other words, of pure and simple inspira tion. Unquestionably, we regard the germ of it as spontaneous. But we think with him, as lie him self appears to have forgotten that he said once, as it were, inadvertently, that that germ admits of cultiva tion, and that what he called deliciously the " magni ficent flower" of poetry, is the result of that cultivation. He declares himself that he cannot believe Homer— whom he designates, by the way, the Natural Poet, as contradistinguished from the Artificial Poet, Virgil—he declares himself, we say, that he cannot believe Homer to have been a beggar. He considers him to have been no mendicant ballad-singer, wandering through ancient Greece, from city to city, subsisting upon the alms doled out to him partly by charity and partly by admiration. Rather does he regard him as one who, during his life time, was recognised as an honoured bard by his coun trymen. Homer, indeed, was no graduate at an uni versity ; but he was not for that reason unlearned. He was, doubtless, no recognised authority at first under the porch among the philosophers ; but he was not therefore illiterate. He, at least cannot be taken as an example of the accuracy of Professor Aytoun's hypothesis, that poetry springs up from the natural rich ness of the soil in which it is nurtured—with the exuber ance of wild flowers or underwood—a harvest reaped after no toil at the harrow or the ploughshare. For the Lecturer insisted, during the delivery of his second dis sertation on Poetry and Dramatic Literature, that the great epic of Homer was a masterpiece created out of the adroitly disriminated materials of tradition. In avowing that belief, Professor Aytoun gave utterance to one of the most admirable of those ingenious and beautiful metaphors with which his discourse is frequently interpersed. He said that Homer took those traditions about the " tale of Troy divine," dis jointed and contradictory as they were before his time, and, melting them down in the furnace of his genius, ran them off afterwards into the mould of that co lossal masterpiece which no poet since his time has ever dreamt of rivalling, any more than architects have ever dreamt of rivalling one of the primeval pyra mids. Surely, then, there was art, and erudition (of its kind), and application, and forethought in this birth of the " Iliad"—scarcely less systematic in its way than in the growth of any one of those despised, but exqui site, effusions of the Wasp of Twickenham. No. Pro fessor Aytoun furnishes his strange hypothesis at every turn with some new and overwhelming contradiction. Nay, he himself, we take it, is a disproof of it by a sort of visible embodiment. Without his knowledge of the rules of art and of the laws of taste, and without the se dulous application of those rules and laws, of that art and taste throughout the delightful labours of composition—, we should never have found so many sources of pleasure in his own rythmical productions, the Messrs. Black wood would never have been enabled to produce so speedily the sixth edition of the " Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers." Unconsciously, this may doubtless occur, unconsciously it undoubtedly does occur with the majority, but it no less certainly occurs too with them than it manifestly does with the minority. There was an art no less in Cowper than in Pope, al though the latter may have appeared more trammelled. With Pope it was—to his own view at least-- the true ars poetica. With Cowper it was, in some particulars, perhaps—though we venture to deny that altogether—a yet truer art, the art of arts, the ars celare artem. But still with both an art—with all its intricacies of dogmas, platitudesst and conventionalities. Professor Aytoun, however, is manifestly " wedded" to a belief in his own hypothesis. It is obviously bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. We despair of procuring a divorce in any Court of Arches. We can only marvel at the phenome non of any man cherishing this eccentric opinion, when he himself must be ranked amens , those by whose writings its inaccuracy is most glaringly demonstrated. The following was the programme of the lecture de livered yesterday as given in the syllabus : " Diversity of National Tastes—General characteristics of Oriental and European Poetry—Contrast between French and English Tragedy—National Style Perverted by Foreign Imitation—Dryden's attempt to Naturalise Rhymed Tragedy—Fluctuations of the National Taste at Different periods—The Epos described--Distinction between Tradition and History—The Elements of In terest necessary for Narrative Poetry—Homer's locality of the Plain of Troy—The Grand Epical Cycle of the Greeks—The Inferior Interest of Purely Imaginative Poetry—The Pilgrims of the Troad—Homer and Virgil compared—The Artist's Morning Song, from Goethe— Lyrical Poetry described—lts Type in Pindar—" What Song the Syrens sang "—Development of Dramatic Poetry—Conjunction of Epical, Lyrical, and Dramatic Poetry at the National Gaines of Greece." Perhaps the most graceful portion was that in which the Lecturer, after likening the effects of the school of Pope and his imitators to those produced by a prolonged frost, compared the outburst of the flowers of poesy, subsequent to the appearance of Cowper and his fol lowers, to the gushing forth of the green leaves and blossoms after a thaw—the glorious and delicate efflo rescence of vernal vegetation. A delicious quotation was here aptly introduced from the wonderful " Sensitive Plant " of Shelley. In a later portion of his dis course, the Lecturer declaimed with considerable spirit that noble " Artist's Morning Song," from Goethe, in which the bard of the "Iliad" is so grandly and glowingly eulogised. The second lecture closed with a majestic reminiscence—the memory of an Olympiad— when, the races having been run, and the gladiators having competed, and tho athletes having hurled the disc, the purely intellectual festivities commenced. There we beheld in imagination what were then the three grand types of the past, the present, and the future—the ancient Bard chaunting a passage from the National Epic, the Lyrist singing the glories of the con temporary Victors, the early cultivators of the histrionic art testing their) powers over an Athenian audience from the platform on the cart of Thespis. There, in fact, was the recollection of Homer—there was the living Pindar—there was the promise of the approaching iEschyltts. Among those who were present yesterday at the second lecture, we observed the Duchess of Sutherland, the Duchess of Norfolk, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, the Duchess of Cleveland, the Marchioness of Aylesbury, the Earl and Countess of Eglinton, the Countess of Wilton ' the Countess of Jersey, the Countess of Lichfield and Lady Anne Charteris, the Countess of Zetland, the Countess of Talbot, Lord and Lady Blan tyre, Lady Colchester, Lady Borough, Lord and Lady John Manners, Lady Eastlake, Lady Duff, Lady An, trobus, Lady Powlett, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P, , and Mrs. Disraeli, the Hon. Mrs. Rouse, the Il on. Mrs. Liddell, Mr. Gilbert Lewis, Mr. Hayward, Mr. Conolly, M.P., Colonel Wildman, Mr. Blair, Mr. Strickland, &e. THE NEW AUSTRALIAN MAIL SYSTEM.—The sum to be paid in future for the conveyance of a mail to Aus tralia will be 1,0001. sterling. The following are the chief conditions of the tender for conveying the next Australian mail. The mail may be conveyed in a steamer or sailing vessel by any route, and she may sail from London, Liverpool, Plymouth, or Southampton. The vessel must be dispatched on the 4th of June next ; if not, a daily penalty of 501. will be enforced ' • and if the vessel is not dispatched on the 9 th of June the con tract can be annulled and a penalty of 2501. inflicted. The Australian mails may be landed at Adelaide, Mel bourne, or Sydney. If the mail packet only calls at one port 100/. is to be deducted for the delivery of each of the other mails by the colonial postmasters, and the time for the performance of the contract is to be reduced. The penalty for not delivering the mails in the time spe cified is 201. a day. The total penalties are not to ex ceed 1,2501. The mail ship must be registered at Lloyd's Al. The mail room is to contain a space equal to 1,000 cubic feet, or larger, if required. It is to be under lock and key, and protected from leakage. No letters are to be conveyed by the mail ship except those contained in the mails or privileged by law, The con tract is not to be underlet without the consent of the Postmaster-General. No member of the House of Commons is to be connected with the contract. THE ABORTION CASE AT CLAPHAM.—Yesterday orders were read at all the s tation-houses in London, and com municated to all the county police, requiring the officers to use every exertion to apprehend the Rev. Mr. Gordon, the late curate of St. Andrew's, Holborn, who stands charged with being concerned, with Dr. Cunningham and Messrs. Currie and Thomas, in procuring abortion on the person of Miss Ann Morden, at Stockwell. It is firmly believed that he has not left the country, but that he is in concealment in or near the metropolis. It is expected that if not apprehended soon, a reward will be offered for his apprehension. THE ROYAL NAVAL FEMALE SCHOOL.—On Saturday the 14th annual general meeting of the friends and sub scribers of this charitable institution was held at Willis's Rooms ; Earl Manvers, president, in the' chair. The Hon. F. Maude, R.N., read the report, which stated that the balance sheet showed the total receipts from all sources for the past year (including a balance in hand of 2701. 13s. 3d. ; donations, 136/. 7s. lubscriptions, 1,3311. 7s. ; and pupils' payments I d. ; s ,727/. ls. 7d.) to amount to 3,704/. 198. ; and after' all the expenses had been defrayed, and 2501. invested for the " endow ment" and the " building fund," there was left a balance in hand of 317/. 10s. 100. The report was adopted. NEWSPAPER STAMPS. —Yesterday a return was issued of the halfpenny newspaper stamps in the United King dom during last year. The total number of such stamps was 16,599,602 ; and the amount paid for the same, 34,5821. 14s. 3d. In England, the stamps at a half penny numbered 16,217,054 ; in Wales, 11,418 ; in Scotland, 235,720 ; and in Ireland, 135,410. THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT AND THE JEWS.—Mr. Anderton will, it is expected, on Thursday next, bring on the following motion, of which he gave notice on Saturday, in the Court of Common Council—" That it be referred to examine into the state of the existing laws precluding any of her Majesty's British born subjects from holding any civil office or trust in any of her do minions by reason of their religious tenets, and what steps are advisable to be taken by the friends of civil and religious liberty, and by this court in particular, to pro cure the abolition of such laws, that all her Majesty's subjects may enjoy the same rights without any test of their religious creeds." NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. FIFTY POUNDS PLATE. T.M.M. Koh-i-noor Waverley Six ran. Placid left Newmarket for Shrewsbury at 12 o'clock. RETIREMENT OP MR. MARE.-SUPPRESSION OF THE PLYMOUTH DISCLOSURES. Mr. Mare has abandoned the defence of Hs seat for Plymouth, and has thus brought the proceedings to an abrupt termination. This was, no doubt, prudent on his part. It stops all further exposure of himself and his agents, and also the expense of defending a position which did not admit of being pursued. But the main reason for giving in was, no doubt, the desire to spare Mr. Stafford, and his other friends at the Admiralty, from any further exposure in relation to the Plymouth election, where one of Mr. Samuel Truscott's many friends who stood for dockyards was bringing discredit, not upon himself and his aides-de-camp of the civil ser vice, but largely compromising the heads of a great and important department of the State. But the exposures cannot be allowed to end here. The Plymouth Committee retired to consult as to whe ther they would permit the retirement of Mr. Mare to conclude their investigations ; and we think their deci sion to proceed no further, under the circumstances, was hardly prudent, or just towards the public. The case of Plymouth must now certainly be referred to the Dock yard Committee. There are many more things to be inquired into still, besides the election dinners paid out of "Navy Contingencies," and transferring the duties of the Admiralty in Whitehall to the "gentlemen of the the press."--Morning Advertiser. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) , OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) William Winter, 18, described as a labourer, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with stealing a handkerchief, value 25., the property of John Gallie, from his person in .Cheapside, and he was sentenced to imprisonment, with hard labour, for four calendar months. NEW COURT. (Before the Common Sergeant.) During the whole of the morning the time was occu pied in this court in trying prisoners indicted for passing bad coin, and the cases were likely to last the remainder of the day, there being no less than 38 prisoners for trial. The committals were—from the City, 4 ; Middlesex, 14 ; Essex, 2 • Kent, 4 ; Surrey, 14. The cases were all of the usual character, not possessing any feature of suffi cient interest to warrant a report ; but it may be re marked that, whatever has been said against the Mint authorities for not prosecuting every case of uttering base coin that is brought before the police courts, the result of the indictments preferred by them at these sessions fully justifies the course they adopt, for few, if any, of the prisoners brought here escape conviction. Were it otherwise, the charge of utter ing bad coin being generally a question of intent in the mind of the person charged of which the jury have to judge, if persons only suspected, from the fact of a single uttering, were sent for trial upon that alone, they would invariably be acquitted, and thus the county being put to a useless expense, which, by the judicious selection of the Mint prosecutors, is invariably avoided. Not any ,of the prisoners tried during the morning were acquitted, and the sentences passed upon them were various terms of imprisonment of from six to twelve months. MARLBOROUGH-STREET-(THIS DAY.) SHOPLIFTING.- -- Mary A an Eirotti, the wife of a courier residing in Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, was charged with stealing a pair of stays, value 4s. 6d., the property of Mr. James Hayward, draper, Tottenham-court-road. Raymond Weston, assistant to the priisecutor, deposed that he had known the defendant for a considerable time as a customer of theirs, and that during that period they had missed at different times, after she had left the shop, goods to a large amount. Witness, suspecting the prisoner, determined to keep a watchful eye upon her when she came again ' • and accordingly on Saturday when she entered the shop he, unobserved by her, placed himself in a position where he could see all her move ments. After purchasing a few articles, she asked to look at some stays, which were placed on the counter before her. She turned them over, and he distinctly saw her arms working about as if she was placing some thing underneath her cloak. Having finished her pur chases, she left, and he followed her, and told her he wished to speak to her privately up stairs. She turned into the shop, and accompanied him up stairs, when he told her he had known her for some years, and it was painful for him to make a charge, but he believed she had something under her cloak which she had not pur chased. She begged his pardon, and wished to be allowed to go home to her child, and she then took from underneath her cloak the pair of stays produced, which she laid on a table. He then sent for a constable, and gave her in charge. He subsequently went with an officer to her lodgings, where he found other property, whibh he identified as belonging to his employer. Inspector Checkley, E division, applied for a further remand, as from the immense quantity of valuable pro perty, consisting of silks, satins, linens, &c., found at her lodgings, he believed her to have committed similar depredations elsewhere. Remanded till Monday next. SOUTHIVARK.-(TIIIS DAY.) UNFOUND= CHARGIA.—A respectably dressed young man named Lewis Jones, a solicitor's clerk, was brought before Mr. A'Beckett, charged with stealing an um brella, the property of William Churcher. The prosecutor stated that at an early hour in the morning he was at the corner of King-street,. South wark, when he saw the defendant at the bar, insulting a 'female. He attempted to persuade him not to strike the female, but he rushed violently towards her, and in flicted several blows. Witness then went between them, and placed his umbrella against a gateway, when the prisoner seized it up and struck him with it, at the same time refusing to give it up to him. A police constable came up, when he repeatedly demanded the umbrella in his presence, and on his refusing to deliver it up he gave defendant into custody. The umbrella; an old ragged and worn-out cotton one, not worth twopence, was here produced, and excited some surprise in the mind of the magistrate that such a charge should bp made. Defendant said that the com plainant.not of him but his friend with the umbrella, which' he• believed to belong to a female ac quaintance who - was with him. To prevent his using the umbrella'abOut their heads, he (defendant) seized it and - refused to give it up, when he was given into cus tody.. • Mr. A'Beckett' said it was disgraceful that such a person in defendant's position in life should be out quar relling in the streets. There was, however, no pretence for giving him' in charge, therefore they should discharge him. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. RAILWAY EXTENSION.—Rumours are again rife in the South of England that the Great Western Railway Com pany purpose to extend their line to Southampton, entering it at the western side, the South-western ter minus being on the eastern side. Sir John Barker Mill, who owns the mud land to the western side of Southamp ton, is understood to be prepared to form docks there, and has purchased a small slip of land contiguous to bis property, at an expense of 3,0001., to facilitate a com munication between a railway and docks. The Great Western Company have already reached Basingstoke , about forty miles from Southampton, and the extension of that line farther south would doubtless be on the site of the Andover canal, and the once projected Manchester and Southampton Railway. Nothing would be more welcome in the extreme south than this extension of the Great Western line. CENTRAL RAILWAY OF SPAlN.—According to the Bar celona journals, the works of the Central Railway of Spain are being rapidly proceeded with. It. is said that the part of the line between Barcelona and Cornelia, can be opened in the month of November next, and that to Molins de Rey the month after. NEWPORT, ABERGAVENNY, AND HEREFORD RAILWAY. —The directors have withdrawn their extension to Bre con bill, In their declaration to Parliament they sub mitted that, over and above everything else which the law might compel or they themselves desired to accom plish, there remained of their money powers a sum of 170,0001. for the purposes of this extension. We may, therefore, congratulate the shareholders on their escape from a tax to that extent ; but they should do well to consolidate their capital, and strike out every shilling not absolutely required for the works of the line they have already obtained. It is only by taking the means of mischief out of the hands of indiscreet directors that the value of property already acquired can be preserved. —Railway Times. EAST INDIAN RAILWAY.—The East India Railway, says the Calcutta Englishman, is now a threadbare sub ject, and has lost much of its interest, in consequence of the unexampled slowness of its progress. We are now assured that it cannot be completed as far as Burdw a n before 1856 ; and, if it proceeds at the sam e ra t e, it will but reach Mirzapore, even if the whole capital required be supplied at once, in the present centu ry . Fe of us can reasonably expect to benefit b y a railro year 1900, and we should therefore l eave the consiindetrhae tion to those more immediately interested than travellers —namely, the engineers and contractors- had we not a faint hope that either Queen Victoria, Louis Bonaparte, or the Emperor Nicholas, may take the affairs of India into their own hands - vithin the next ten days. TESTIMONIAL TO AN OLD DETECTIVE CONSTABLE.— The officers of the L division of the metropolitan police yesterday presented Charles Burgess Goff, late a sergeant of that division, and for nearly twenty-one years an active detective, with a handsome lever watch and Albert chain, for the kindness and urbanity displayed by him towards the men under his charge. Mr. Goff has retired on a full pension much respected by all who knew him, TEE FRENCH EMPIRE. There is only one of the Paris journals of yesterday that has anything in its original columns at all worth extracting. The Debats has two leading articles—one on a recent scene in the House of Commons, the other on the decree for the revision of the concessions of rail ways in Spain, the works of which have not been com menced. Our readers are acquainted with the charges brought in the-Spanish Senate against the late Ministers in connection with some of these concessions. In vain were attempts made to stifle the discussion on this sub ject ; all the influence of high personages who were sup posed to have interposed their own interests in opposi tion to those of the public failed before the probity of certain members of the Senate, who had just notions of what was due to their own dignity and to Spanish honour, and when the Ministry resorted to a suspension of the sittings of the Senate, public opinion was pro nounced against them in so decided a manner that they were compelled to give in their resignation. The Minister of the Marine has received accounts of the progress of the Banks of Martinique and Guadeloupe up to the 31st March, from which it appears that the operations had acquired considerable activity. A letter from Algiers, of the 30th ult., says :—"The Governor-General, accompanied by his staff and General Pate, have just left to commence the intended expedition in Little Kabylia. Several tribes in the mountains between Bugia, and Delhys, having lately shown some symptoms of hostility towards the French, the Govern ment decided on sending among them a force strong enough to bring them back to their duty, whilst an imposing reserve would be placed so as to keep in awe the neighbouring tribes of the Djurjura. The expeditionary column is composed of two battalions of the Zouaves, from the division of Algiers ; and two from the division of Oran, supported by the 11th Light Infantry. Whilst these six battalions, hav ing with them some Spahis, African Chasseurs, and some mountain guns, will traverse not far from the coast the same country in which Marshal, then General, de Saint Arnaud, operated in such a distinguished manner about three years ago. General Camou, with some other troops from the division of Constantino, will take up a position on the mountain of Dra-el-Mizam, opposite the Djurjura. He will concentrate himself within reach of the Zouaouas, warlike and undisciplined tribes, in order to keep them in check, and to reinforce the expedition ary corps if it should be necessary. Gen. Camou will have under his orders two battalions of the 22d Light Infantry, a battalion of Foot Chasseurs, the battalion of Turks of Constantina, and two battalions of another regiment, a force with which he may meet any eventu alities." The Moniteur of yesterday contains a decree approving of the payment of the sum of 5,000 f., being the arrears of rent due by the Academy of Medicine. There are also several decrees legalising the purchase by the state of the shares of three canal companies. The Moniteur also contains three impel ial decrees, the first approving of the project of law respecting the ex change of correspondence between France and her Afri can colonies • the second, respecting the convention en tered into between France and Sardinia for regulating the transmission of telegraphic messages; and the third, concerning the reciprocal guarantee in France and the Duchy of Nassau of the rights of authors and musical composers. There was considerable activity at the Bourse yester day in transactions in the public funds. Prices were steadily maintained throughout the day, and closed with a general advance. The final quotation of the Three per Cents. for the account, however, showed a decline of 15c. ; the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. advanced 40c. ; a rise of 30c. occurred in the Three per Cents. for cash, and of 10c. in the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. There was an improvement of sf. in Bank Shares. Closing prices : For money—Three per Cents., 82f. ; Four and a Half per Cents., 104 f. 10c. For the end of the month— Three per Cents., 81f. 90c. ; Four and a Half per Cents., 104 f. 50c. ; Bank Stock, 2,700 f. The previous quota tion of shares of the Mortgage Bank remains without change, viz., 885 f. ; a decline of 2f. occurred in that of the Credit Mobilier, which closed at 948 f. The market for Railway Securities has been steady throughout the day ; and, at the conclusion of business the previous quotations had been well maintained. An advance again occurred in Paris and Strasbourg shares, to the extent of 10f. ; and there was also an improvement, though of a less amount, in most of the principal lines. The final quotations were :—Northerns, 929 f. 75c. ; Orleans, 1,i19f. ; Paris and Strasbourg, 945 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 971 f. 50c. ; Paris and Rouen, 1,176 f. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 880 f. ; Western of France 804 f. 50e. SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 4th contains a circular from the Minister of the Interior to the Governors of Pro vinces, informing them of the discovery of a secret so ciety in a village near Barcelona, and directing them to employ all efforts to arrest any persons who may at tempt to form any such societies in their provinces. The Queen had received a deputation from Catalonia, and her Majesty stated to them that she would do all in her power to promote the interests of that part of the king dom, so far as was consistent with what she owed to .the rest. The Queen then presented the young Prin cess of the Asturias to them. General Prim, Count de Reus, was about to leave for Mexico, on leave of absence, for four months. M. Gonzalez Romero, ex- Minister of Grace and Justice, has been nominated mem ber of the Ecclesiastical Council, in the room of the Marquis de Mirafiores, resigned. The Minister of Finance was drawing up a bill relative to salt and tobacco, with the view of increasing the public receipts. A letter says that thirteen of the persons composing the secret society near Barcelona have been arrested, and that the greater part of them are French or Italian. Another letter of the 6th, received by express, says : "The Gazette publishes a royal decree suppressing the corregidors. This will cause a saving of a million to the Treasury. Everybody applauds this measure." ITALY. , The Opinione of Turin quotes correspondence from.. Milan of the 3d, stating that the commission appointed to superintend the sequestration of the property of the refugees is to be dissolved, and its attributions trans ferred to the Intendance of Finance, where a special office is to be established for the purpose. It adds that, in the instructions received on this subject there is a provision, by which the administration of any property under sequestration may be left with the agent who managed it before the decree, on his binding himself by oath not to send any sum to the proprietor. By an other provision, the sums due to refugees are to be called in by the Government, which will take them at 5 per cent. interest. The Corriere Italiano of Vienna states that Parma and Tuscany have concluded a treaty for the establish ment of a railway between Parma and Pontremoti. The King of Naples has conferred the Cross of Com mander of the Order of St. George to Count Maximilian O'Donnell, Chamberlain and Aide-de-camp to the Em peror of Austria, for his noble conduct on the occasion of Lebenyi's attempt upon the Emperor's life. The Eco dell' Esperienza of Naples of the 26th ult. publishes a table of all the sums spent in public works by the Neapolitan Government in 1852 in the continental provinces only. They are as follows :—Electric tele graph, 189,347 f. ; railways, 192,562 f. ; roads, 4,002,165 f.; communal edifices and constructi ons , 2,880,011 f. ; build ings belonging to the financial department, custom houses, &c., 503,409 f. ; churches, 721,492 f. ; military c onstructions of all kinds, 2,640,982 f. ; hydraulic works, 1,151,243 f. Total, 12,281,211 f. TURKEY. A letter from Constantinople, in a German journal, says :—" It has been rumoured that some of the fanati cal Turks had formed a plot for attacking the Christians with arms on Easter-day of the Greek Church, which this year fell on the Ist May. The rumours obtained such general belief that some of the Foreign Ministers Made inquiries of the Porte whether there was really any reason to apprehend anything of the kind. The Porte answered in the negative, and added that it would undertake to preserve order. These declarations re moved all fears. Disturbances, as already stated, broke out recently between the Greeks and the Armenians, in the temple at Jerusalem, but they were not so grave as represented. The Porte has ordered an investigation to ascertain the causes of, and the principal actors in, the riot." A letter from Smyrna, of the 27th ult., in the Sema phore of Marseilles, says :—" In consequence of the menaces of Russia and Austria, all the political refugees are to be expelled from the Ottoman Empire. This morning the Governor signified the order of expulsion to MM. Diamanti, advocate ; Boudoli, physician ; Storari, engineer ; Cricca, dancing master ; and Cugini, paper manufacturer. The same measure is about to be en forced with respect to the Hungarian, Wallachian, and Italian proscripts, without any exception." GERMANY. An autograph letter has been received by the Em peror of Austria from the Pope, thanking him for the protection accorded to the Christians in Turkey, and expressing a hope that it would be continued. A desire has been expressed by the Romish Court for a more intimate union between Austria and France, as a means of counterbalancing the increasing pretensions of Russia. The new Austrian law for the re-organisation of the East India Consulates has received the Imperial signa ture, and will shortly be put in execution. It is stated that the Commission, of which Count Rechberg is president, has been instructed to make a list of those persons who have been affected by the re cent decree of sequestration in Lombardy, which mea sure is to be put in force against those only who shall be proved to be culpable. An emeute recently occurred at Brunswick, originat ing in two persons having been taken into custody, in consequence of approaching too closely to the military arsenal with lighted cigars. The military were com pelled to charge on the mob, and several arrests took place. The members of the Opposition party in the Hessian Second Chamber still threaten to vacate their seats, in consequence of the recent expulsion of three of their colleagues. The Government has decided that in case of resignation, the expenses attending the election will fall on the deputy. The police exercise a strict surveil lance over the residences of the members, and every re union is strictly prohibited. The Grand Duke of Oldenburg has ordered the dis continuance of the German cockade in the army, which has been worn since 1848. The ceremony of presenting the Order of the Golden Fleece to the Prince of Prussia by the Spanish Ambas sador at Berlin took place with great pomp at the Palace on the 6th, in presence of the King of PPllB$ll4 King Leopold, and a number of other high personages. Atter the ceremony there was a grand dinner, to which the members of the corps diplomatique were invited. The Spener Gazette, under date of Berlin 4, ea r "It is generally thought that the interview which is to take place at Vicana between the Emperor of Austria, the King of Prussia, the Emperor of Russia, a nd the Kings of Bavaria and Belgium, will not hav e anyth ll of a political character in it. The King of Prussia f i ll T ig not be accompanied by any of his ministers, The ° being merely to pay a visit to the Emperor. h. of Bavaria will be at Vienna, because it lies in his rod the King of the Belgians goes there on family Emperor of Russia had long promised to visit the Do: peror, he renewed that promise after the late attempt affairs ;the assassination, and now he will perform it. The i nt l „ er ; view of the overeigns will have the advantage of n3akwe the Emperor of Russia and King Leopold, who hs" never before met, known to each other.' The Augsburg Gazette contains a letter from FrantJort which says "The Germanic Diet has received cony munication of the propositions of the military onus* sion concerning the execution of the resolution to eug . ment the Federal army by 50,000 men. The m a commission has also been occupied with drawing 113 new set of regulations for the fortresses." the A letter from Oldenburg states that, by order of Government, the troops of that Grand Duchy hav e rfr moved the German cockade from their caps. A letter from Christiana of May 3, in the Hins bit l i Correspondent, says :—" The Minister of Justice yi ordered the Workmen's Journal to be seized. The ,7l : tor and printer have been subjected to an interrg i . l. 7); The tide of emigration to America is increasing l A ° " n g district of Kongswinger, many of the persons prosev— there belonging to the middle classes." COURT CIRCULAR• OSBORNE, M° l4Vjj , v . The Queen and Prince, with the Royal Family , v/5"- out in the garden this morning. n The Earl of Aberdeen left Osborne this fore n°° London. succ ee d as the Hon. A Gordon 1 10 ' 3 ', co ed as Equerry-in-Waiting to Prince Albert, to Colonel Wylde, Groom-in-Waiting to the Prin°°' the The Duke and Duchess de Nemours vial e ~r nee Duchess of Kent y es t er d a y, a t h er res id enc e, L'" -- House, Duchess St. James's. ,„ g s Aar The of Kent, accompanied by Prin'— 010 laide of Hohenlohe, a n d a tt en d e d by L a dy Apo* hotr Dawson and Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Serol e f: Leif oured the performance of the French Plays wi.,7„ o bes. presence yesterday evening. The Duke and -v" de Nemours were also present at the performano e ' oo 4 A. deputation on the subject of religious persect rt ief protestant dissenters on the Continent had an s ifica with the Earl of Clarendon yesterday at the Foreign f3', The deputation consisted of the Hon. A. Kumaird , Mr. Charles Cowan, M.P., Mr. George Hadfield, ."`" Mr. S. M. Peto, .P., the Rev. E. Steane, Rev. W. Brock, and Mr. S. Wilkin. The Earl of Aberdeen returned to town from a • a ge the Queen at Osborne, Isle of Wight, yesterclq • noon. 1004 Count Walewski, the French ambassador, ti business yesterday at the Foreign-office 001 1 ' The Educational Committee of the Queen's go,!', o cit Privy Council had a meeting yesterday at the C o e office. Present—The Lord President, the P2 1 ,301 1 ' Argyll, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and the Rig"' Sidney Herbert. woo The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Gi?" — arrived in town yesterday from Brighton. Dispatches were sent yesterday from the OA - or oi office to the Governor of Ceylon and to the Gove ril Hong Kong. s c, The colonel c y o f th e 76th R eg i men t h as b e come by the death o f Li eut. -G enera l Si r R o b ert A r buth% 0 11er Yesterday even i ng Si r J o h n an d L a d y Y a rde ' t beir entertained a s e l ec t c i rc l e o f f r i en d s at di nn er, 3' f i g,g mansion, Belgrave-square. Later in the eveningA II Yarde Buller had an assembly, which was attend' 1. ' sC I very numerous and disti ngu i s h e d party o f t h e arisv,f- and beau monde. MADLLE. SAIN VILLE'S CONCEO ca , _ 1 ; OOP Yesterday an evening concert, which was velJolil rously and fashionably attended, was given ,34 ien Rooms, by Madlle. Letitia Sainville. The sele c ` . 0 0 music for the occasion was, to say the least of it, arena ciently diversified. This, we fancy, will be ePPTioSt on the most cursory glance at the pro,gramme• were included, for example, among the masters whose 'works the different pieces had been culled , t op and De Beriot, and Verdi, and Dr. Arne, and 0 1 '1 30 0 and Rossini, and Mercadante, and Donizetti. De eti oot by the way, because of an astonishing little phen al l e Mademoiselle Barwolf, who performed one of bid es' certos on the violin with surprising brilliancy en 4 10 presaion. Thalberg too, because of a fantasia u'_tbe rendered by Madame Bompiani on the pian ofort ;e o theme being taken from La Somnambula. Beside s e-: i e i there were other timely attractions. Ther e was a e ballad " Ab sence ," sung l as t n i g ht for the fir st tincr,b, Mr. Ge orge T e dd er — an d t h ere wa s, seasonably en ; 0 ; , Kiicken's song o f " Sweet Ma y," sung by M iss a l/0 9 Braham. An aria, called "The Magic of nome," Was e h oll later on in t h e evening by Mr. C. Cotton—having 'iv composed expressly for him by Mr. J. DeWitt' the attraction of th e n i g ht, h owever , was i ncon testeh;rlll new song, composed by M r . J. Hatton, ol ici°' Slave's Dream"—one of the most exquisite of OIL P r ' poems of Professor Longfellow. Fortunately _.,'"" c efo r Hatton it was introduced to an E ng li s h aucii°Pa f_,o l " the first time last evening by He rr B ran dt, a n ; tunately for that artist, he was acc o mpanied 1 se° Alexandre Billet, the distinguished pian i° ;erel f one of the most graceful and artistic of ore , paniests. Herr Brandt, as a matter of derr commanded for the new song an unanimous o n dial encore—throwing into its delivery that and tenderness which his fine organ has the et of giving utterance to. The singer, more than tu s; poser, we conceive, has done justice to the P ° ;e.su:, while we admired the feeling with which ffer r c ock delivered those five noble verses, we must ackt . ourselves somewhat disappointed with the e 3 r„ P g e g" which Mr. Hatton has interpreted the l'), / of Longfellow. Remembering the e veriiv e 't 4 terest with which the subject of Slavery garded in this country, and recollecting b O ha e o r , enthusiasm excited by "Uncle Tom's Cabin go od, cently been confirmed by, the warmth of Mr°• tr t/ reception am ongs t' ourselves—we are tempted to 70,(10, scribe the w or d s o f th e new song , an d th e were 0 10 11 P because we have found them unknown, even those most familiar with the poetry of Longfellow' THE SLAVE'S DREAM. Beside the ungathered rice ho lay, His sickle in his hand ; His breast was bare—his matted hair Was buried in the sand ; Again, in the mist and shadow of sloop, He saw his native land. Wide through the landscape of his drexul l ' The lordly Niger How'd ; Beneath the palm-trees on the plain, Once more a king he strode, And heard the tinkling caravans Descend the mountain-road. He saw once more his dark-eyed queen, Among her children stand ; They clasp'd his neck—they kised his che ,o ' They held him by the hand ; A tear burst from the sleeper's lidg, And fell into the sand. At night he heard the lion roar, And the fierce hyena scream, And the river horse, as he crushed the ree d° Beside some hidden stream ; And it pass'd like a glorious roll of druni* Through the triumph of his dream. He did not feel the driver's whip, Nor the burning heat of day ; For death had illumined the land of sleep' And his lifeless body lay A worn-out fetter, that the soul th ° Had broken, and thrown away e ill A wil e be rt' If only from the interest recently eXCit excited 3 fiee Abolition Movement, a wide popularity o o . s i go we conjecture, to this new version of Dream" of Longfellow. The rest of the en b ' passed off in everyrespcct satisfactorily. TATTERSALL'S—Yzazunia• ° coo Up tß The balances of the overstanding Che ster d 1 " were ad justed and for the most part liquid oo t g e One or two , parties, of whom dou b ts had u e e 0r1 )(Ir t o tamed, met their liabilities with an honestY f Ve o Better sol and made satisfactory arrangements. would, however, have been made in the se ears oe for of the " north country division," whose °l e :0 1 : e 0 0 command, had employed agents to pay ° ll ,,T te rta , ' ll o° them. Their tardiness, to give it a 1 21 "" " es e 0 , 1 the calculated to sustain credit. The best el c- a ttes'a find for them is in their intention, perlto" w eek, Second Spring Meeting. at Newmarket this W the settle there. ; o 01. The betting on coming events was, 41 tic th - , instances, heavy and important. at 00 0 v• Is• West Australian was backed for nearly v iolw!'d odds quoted ; two of the bets were laid s l a :01 0 In the early part of the afternoon 15 t° 1 1 2 to e a' 1,6001. against Oineas, but towards the Showedse to . fis t taken, his old opponents, however, stil j a i agl o ro flinching hostility. 10 to 1 and 12 to 1 Iv t er ° ws t 1 1 0 0/. Roneywood, the latter odds were book leis to : bo ot the conclusion of business. 9to 1 wa s , e sura ‘lO O/ ' ao a bo b r o eus u tt t esr s , h i l t ar t 4 in oas g n, b d4 o: ls r t n ot e o , ll l t o aobl t o o r l u t in o b 'a rie s i i n j ( j to 1 a t( : i cl 01 ' 1 same odds to upwards of 2001. 61* aabbLutt CLOSING PRICES. DERBY - . 3to 1 agat West Australian (taken). 9to 1 agst Sittingbourne (taken). 10 to 1 agst Orestes (taken). 10 to 1 agst Pharos (taken). 12 to 1 agst Cineas (taken). 10 to 1 agst Honeywood (taken). 15 to 1 agst trinbriel (taken). 25 to 1 agst Hurworth. 40 to 1 agat Vanderdeeken (take°)' 40 to 1 agst Cheddar (taken). 40 to 1 agst Ethelbert (taken). 1,000 to 10 agst Jordan (taken)* OAKS. Bto 1 agst The Queen (taken). 10 to 1 agst Lady Louie 063011). 1 I I