The Sun. — London, England, 1853-04-04 00:00:00

THE FRENCH EMPIRE. The subject which excites by far the greatest at tention here at this moment is that of the very serious differences which have arisen between the Court of Turin and the Cabinet of Vienna, in addi tion to those already existing between the latter Government and Switzerland, on which all . are fully informed. These differences, as will be readily surmised, have originated in the late decree of the Austrian Government, sequestrating the whole property, real and personal, of the political emigrants from the Lombardo-Venetian States. The latest communications between ;the two Cabinets . have been of a most angry charadter, and it is feared that an interruption of friendly relations may ensue involving very ugly possibilities. It seems that there is some doubt as to the course which may eventually be followed out by Austria, the Cabinet being divided on the question of the expediency of a moderate or an extreme policy ; the former would consist in the appointment of a commission of I nquiry to examine into the culpability of the persons mentioned in the decree, and to regulate its application accordingly ; the ether would carry . out iniquitous measure in the true Austrian B pint of undiscriminating severity. The Emperor is supposed not yet to have declared his opinion : On the publication of this decree the Sardinian Munster at Vienna was instructed to remonstrate most strongly against its provisions, and to demand an explanation of the intention in which it had been issued. He was especially to urge that the measure of confiscation could not in any way apply to the Lombardo-Venetian émigrés who had been naturalised as Sardinian subjects. Count Buol- Schauenstein not only gave no satisfactory answer on this point, but, it seems, scarcely condescended to. confer with M. de Revel, preferring to commu 1219ate with Turin through M. d'Appony, the Aus- I l an Minister at that Court. The following are "" e Principal points in the instructions, dated 9th ] karch, of w hi c h , i n pursuance o f thi s course , M. APPcny has been directed to furnish a copy to D . abormida, the Sardinian Minister for Foreign Affairs. The . Austrian Minister states that the imperative plotives of the proclamation on which explanations B .'ve been required are sufficiently indicated in that Instrument itself. He is willing, however, in order -1 ) ° Show the full intentions of the Imperial Cabinet, t▪ o afford some supplementary expositions. Herecals the events of 1848 and 1849. He enlarges on the moderation and c l emency s h own i n th e re storation of Austrian domi n i on i n th e L om b ar d o -V en etian pro vinces. He accuses t h e e m i gr e s o f h av i ng t a k en ad . antage of their position, and employedtheir revenues keepi ng up a mischievous agitation in these pro "yin_ ces. H e d ec l ares th a t th ey h ave su b s idi se d th e re yolutiona r y press, and have assisted Mazzini With funds ; that they have been accessary to the r ecent outbr ea k s ; th a t it wou ld b e mos t un j us t t o sit the guilt of these on the quiet population of 4▪ 01111?ardy., while the authors of mischi e f should. remain secure under the protection of the Sardi nian Gov ernment, which now raises its voice in fa vo ur of th e Lombard-Venetian nobles, in address ing the Government which they have so grievously injured. M. de Buol further complains that the Sardi nian Government has failed to take measures against the Radical press ; that, knowing the schemes of the refugees against the Austrian au thority, it has not communicated them to the pro per quarter - that, having had pointed out to it the most audacious and the worst of the refugees, it, up to the outbreak at Milan, declined to expel them ; and that it has peremptorily refused the extradition of refugees accused of high treason, which Vienna considers to be an obligation under existing treaties. After a full exposition of the circumstances which in his opinion completely justify the measure, M. de Buol declares that the Imperial Government does not recognise the right of any foreign Govern ment to require the production of special proofs as to the - degree of culpability of individual émigrés, since the execution of no judicial sentence is in volved, but simply the application of a measure based on notorious facts, and relating to property situated within the imperial territories. M. Dabormida replies under date of the 20th March, in a dispatch which M. de Revel was in structed to laY, before Count Buol-Schauenstein. t This document is divided into two parts, the one tbi a .fulig the legality of the measure, as it affects b it 'itoresta of Sardinian subjects ; the other re thg the accusation brought by M. de Buol against e o g° 4 ° L d faith of the Piedmontese Government. th e n first point M. Dabormida maintains that Pmciamation of Marshal Radetzky of 12th of ugust ' 1849 , was a special provision of the treaty Th 2e, ace of 6th August ; t h at, un d er th i s procla m,-".:""°; the abs o l u t e r i g ht o f d eman di ng l ega l per '7fit" to emi gra t e was extended to all tho gyrtigrev, out a power of refusal; that the imperial de cree Nof 29th December, 1850, divesting all the re ees of the rights and duties of Austrian sub- J, made such as had obtained Sardinian natu ralisation the legitimate subjects of that kingdom, and, as such, no t amena bl e t o a measure l eve lled by Austria against political refugees accused of these against her authority. The rights . of k ukae Sardinian subjects, M. Dabormida consido-f erg to be incontestible, under the i _ treaty of commerce of 1851, and to be f h the decree of Place them beyond the reach personal o culpability confiscation, unless should be legally proved. On towards Austria shoi _ the second point, M. Dabormida protests against the accusations of the Austrian Government, which, looking at the dignity of the King, his master, he declares that nothi ng wou ld h ave tempted him to answer, except the desire to de prive Austria of all pretext for persisting in an illegal decree against Sardinian subjects, which she seeks to justify on political grounds. He denies the whole of these charges, defends the conduct of the Sardinian Government with regard to the press, and affirms that the treaty of extradition referred to has never been held to apply to political offences. Re concludes that the Court of Turin has been ir reproachable in its relations with Vienna, and re- Peats that lately, in the matter o f th e Mil an out break, it has given the strongest evidence of its good faith. Finally, M. Dabormida relies on the 11 atic e and sagacity of M. de Buol, and continues 11 °Pe that the Imperial Ministry will be disposed the the justice of his remonstrances, so that ~_l 4O friendly relations which have hitherto existed oetween the Governments of Austria and Piedmont 111 4 yet be maintained. The Piedmontese Government has communi cated these protests to certain Cabinets—that of i .Great Britain among oth ers — o f w h ose su pp or t it i s lullY assured. It has been notified to these Cabi nets that Turin can in no degree admit the preten sions of Austria and that should they be persisted in, she will appeal to the justice and impartiality of foreign powers, leaving to the Imperial Govern ment the responsibility of the consequences. It will be seen from these facts that the situation of affairs on this question has become very serious, and that it may probably call for the most careful consideration and intervention of the great Powers. There is little of importance or interest in domes tic news. It has been announced, however, that M. Paul D u b o i s i s appointed accoucheur to her Majesty the Empress, a fact which may, perhaps be considered not without a ce rtain significance. The Moniteur of y es o te f rd l aiy .ce nTlnces the recep tion by the Empero o a t va, Envoy Ex traordinary and Minister Plenip , with the re 1 entiary of the to the letter of rem., of the Ceun p t y of e her Majesty Queen of Portugal avera scalchi. The Moniteur publishes, the wheat in the principal markets of th e p r Z i e ce p r f iceof last month. The highest price was 19f. 38c. hectolitre p hectolitre in the markets of Toulouse, , Gray, Lyoiaesr, atid. Marseilles, and the lowest 16f. 94c. in those of Metz, Verdun, Charleville, and Soissone. The average for the whole of France is 18f. 2c. The weather in Paris has undergone a sudden and remarkable change. The cold winds of March ceased on the last day of the month, and a warm rain began to fall. It rained during a great .part of the night of Thursday, and there was a great deal of rain on Saturday. This charge must be highly beneficial to the interests of agriculture. The statistical returns of the mortality of Paris, made up at the Prefecture of Police, have just been published for the month of February. The number of deaths was 3,491. The number of males and females was nearly equal. Of these deaths, 422 were from pulmonary phthisis ; 279 from pneu monia ; 293 pulmonary catarrh ; 286 enteritis ; 585 typhus fever ; 133 brain fever, and 109 from apoplexy. On Saturday night the splendid ball at the HOtel de Ville took place. The Emperor was received with enthusiasm. The Empress looked charming. The English deputation were present. At the Bourse on Saturday Rentes and Bank Stock were active and generally advancing. The Three per Cents. for cash advanced 30c., while for the account they fell sc. The Four-and-a-Half per _Cents. f or cash rose 30c., and for the account 70c. 3ank St oc k f urther advanced 15f. At the close of bu siness. prices st oo d th us quoted :—For cash : CThree per Cents., 79f. 70c. ; Four-and-a-Half per ents., 79f. 65c. ; Fou r - an d- a -H alf per Cents., 193 f. ;60c. ; B an k S tock, 2,675 f. The Railway Share Market exhibited a good deal of fluctuation, aisi,iod77cl.o.s_edeat the following prices :—Orleans, cash, t 50 ~ account, 1 050 f. • Rouen and Havre, cash, 515 f. ; Strasburg ' and cash, 362 f. 50c.; Northern, cash ne and account, 902 f. 50c.; Strasburg, account 840 f. ; P ar i s an d L yons, cash and account, 9 53 f. 75c. ; L yons to Mediter leans cash, 815 f..) account, 817 f. 50c. SPAIN. A letter from Madrid of the 28th ult. says : " Yesterday Mgr. Brunelli, Archbishop of Salo nica, and Nuncio of the Pope at the Court of Spain, received in the Royal chapel, from the hands of Queen Isabella, his Cardinal's hat. Her Majesty congratulated the Nuncio on his new dig nity. The Chamber of Deputies is to resume its sittings to-morrow, and it is said that the Ministry will at once present to it, first, a bill authorising the loan to be contracted, and next, a bill for con stitutional reform. In conformity with Art. 36 of the law of January, 1845, the provincial deputa tions are convoked for April 20, to transact their ordinary business." A letter of the 29th, received by express, says :—The Government presented to day to the Cortes several bills, relating to the ex tinction of the floating debt—to the creation of 30 millions of annual rente in 3 per cent. stock — to the recognition of 10 per cent. on the uncon verted coupons—to constitutional reform—and to the consecration of the principle of substitution in the transmission of family estates to the eldest son." GERMANY. A letter from Pesth of March 27, in the Cologne Gazette, states that the day before, a battalion of grenadiers having been marched into the prison yard, ninety-seven Magyars who were in confine ment for revolt were brought out, and informed by the Governor of the prison first in German, and then in Hungarian, that the Emperor had granted them a free pardon. A telegraphic dispatch from Vienna, dated Fri day, says :—" We learn from Constantinople, 22d ult., that, in a circular addressed to the Ambassa dors to announce his nomination, Prince Mens chikoff expresses the hope of a good understanding between Russia and the other powers." The Vienna Gazette, in its number of the 29th ult., publishes a decree, which removes M. de Weiss from the direction of the police of that city. M. de Maltz has been appointed in his place. This change produced a certain sensa tion in the Austrian capital, and as M. de Weiss was noted for his arbitrary acts and general severity, it is thought that the new appointment intimates that milder measuresare for the future to be adopted. The honour of the change is given to General Kem pen, the present Governor of Vienna. M. de Weiss has been named Inspector-General of Prisons, but the situation is inferior to that which he lately filled. Some rumours were afloat at Vienna of ministerial changes, it being said that M. Bach, the Minister of the Interior, was to become President of the Council of State, the vacant place being given to M. de Krauss, formerly Minister of Finance. M. de Ku beck, who now holds the place of President of the Council of State, desires to retire, it is said, on ac count of his advanced age. Dispatches from Vienna state that Field-Marshal Rad etzky had published a decree nullifying all mort gages made by the Lombard refugees on their landed property since 1847. Dispatches srom Vienna announce the reception of an official note from the Russian Court, dis avowing any intention on the part of Prince Men schikoff to disturb the integrity of the Ottoman Empire, and stating that the immediate object of his mission was to exact the due fulfilment of a treaty made with Turkey two years ago. With respect to the Holy Places, Russia was equally . bound, with the other interested Powers, to a set tlement of this important question. The following telegraphic dispatch, dated the Ist, has been received from Berlin :—" A minis terial dispatch has just been sent from Berlin to the Federal Council of Switzerland. The dispatch declares that after the re-establishment of his authority in the canton of Neufchatel, King Fred erick William will give no guarantee as regards the railroads which may be immediately constructed at the expense of the canton." A letter from Hamburg, in the Weser Gazette, s osafygsord " w l h t i e i h s t n h o e w h k a n n o h w e n r s se that n t the e l r a e r g d e u a r m i n o g u t n h t e winter, were destined for Russia, and not for Austria, as at first supposed." The Berlin journals announce that, among the papers lately seized by the police, there has been found a proclamation of the German Republic. In Mecklenburg-Schwerin a conspiracy has been discovered, of which Rostock is the centre : it was in correspondence with the refugees in London. Arrests have taken place in consequence. AUSTRALIA. ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT BRITAIN. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. This magnificent vessel arrived in the river this afternoon, amidst the enthusiastic rejoicings of the thousands who had assembled on the pier-heads to welcome her re-appearance in the waters of the Mersey. Her news from the gold regions, generally, has, of course, been anticipated by the overland route. The Great Britain left Melbourne, Jan. 4 ; Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, Feb. 20 ; was off Holy head at 6 a.m., April 2 ; and reached the bar at 12.30. Here she was detained 3-i hours for water ; and the Steam-tug Company's boat Albert, which had been dispatched to meet her by Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., came alongside. She brings 205 passengers, and 500,0001. in specie. For some weeks past she has been anxiously ex pected ; and rumours have frequently been abroad that she was " off" the port. This morning, how ever, all doubts were set at rest, for the telegraph announced that she was " off Holyhead" at six o'clock, and the news rapidly spread through the town. It being expected she would reach the river about three o'clock, the landing-stage and pier heads were crowded long before that hour, by thou sands anxious to witness her arrival, and the same feeling of enthusiasm in her favour was apparent as when she took her departure for Australia. About a quarter past three some guns were heard, and thousands rushed down the streets towards the river, thinking the Great Britain had arrived. The guns, however, were fired by the America mail steamer, which had just received her outward mails, and put on " full speed." It will be remembered that the Great Britain sailed from here for Melbourne on Saturday, the 21st of August, 1852, about 2 o'clock in the after noon, and as she has returned on Saturday, the 2d of April, her voyage out and home will have occu pied exactly 32 weeks. This includes all stoppages, which, on a first voyage, were unavoidable. Capt. Matthews ordered steam to be put on at 3 o'clock, and the Great Britain was steered up the channel towards Liverpool. She passed the Rock Light at 3.30, and fired a number of guns to denote that she had come into the port. As she steamed up the river, thousands relieved their anxiety for her safety by gazing on her noble proportions, and hearty cheers welcomed her arrival. There was a birth and a death on board—viz.: At sea, on board the Great Britain (s.s.), on her passage from Australia, on the 25th ult., the wife of Mr. Wm. Cross Yuille, of a daughter.—Died, at sea, on board the Great Britain (s.s.), on the 4th of February, Mr. Matthew Heath, a native of Truro, Cornwall. The passengers speak in the highest terms of the qualities of the ship, and also of the courteous and gentlemanly conduct of the commander and offi cers towards them. _ _ vv It is the intention of the owners of the Great Britain to dispatch her again to Australia in a short time. We subjoin the log from the day of her departure from Melbourne. It tells better than we can the progress of the vessel from her sailing till her ar rival : Jan. 4—Wind W.S.W. Fresh gales. „ s—Wind S.S.W. Spoke American ship Harriet Scott. Thick weather. „ 6—Wind E.S.E. 120 miles. Strong winds. „ 7—Wind E. 205 miles. Light winds. „ B—Wind S.S.W. 220 miles. Light winds. „ 9—Wind S.W. 178 miles. Fresh and strong winds. „ 10—Wind S.W.S. 180 miles. Moderate. „ 11—Wind N.E. 192 miles. Light air. ~ 12—Wind N.N.W. 237 miles. Fresh and strong winds. „ 13—Wind W. 158 miles. Light and fresh winds. „ 14—Wind S.S.W. 215 miles. Moderate. „ 15—Wind S. 208 miles. Light winds. „ 16—Wind S.E. 201 miles. Light winds. „ 17—Wind E.S.E. 193 miles. Light winds. „ 18—Wind E.S.E. 185 miles. Light winds. „ 19—Wind S.S.W. 198 miles. Light winds. „ 20—Wind S.E. 210 miles. Light winds. „ 21—Wind S.E. 191 miles. Light winds. „ '22—Wind E. 216 miles. Spoke Lanark, of Boston. Light winds. „ 23—Wind S.E. 200 miles. Spoke Vesta4Russian. Moderate. „ 24—Wind E.S.E. 203 miles. Light winds. „ 25—Wind E. 203 miles. Light winds. „ 26—Wind N.E. 192 miles. Light winds. „ 27—Wind N.N.W. 211 miles. Light winds. „ 28—Wind W. 204 miles. Light winds. „ 29—Wind S.E. 187 miles. Light winds. „ 30—Wind E.S.E. 207 miles. Light winds. , 31—Wind N.N.E. 206 miles. Light winds. Feb. I—Wind N.W. 193 miles. Light winds. „ 2—Wind S.S.E. 197 miles. Light winds. „ 3—Wind N. 210 miles. Light winds. „ 4—Wind S.W.S. 206 miles. Moderate. „ s—Wind N.N.W. 169 miles. Light airs. „ 6—Wind S. - W . 167 miles. Came to anchor at Algoa Bay. „ Nv,N-vir. 8 p.m.. lon Algoa Bay. „ 9.—Wind W. 113 miles. „ 10—Wind S.E. 170 miles. Spoke No. 7,618 dis ting pennant, midnight. Anchored in Si mon's Bay. „ 19—Wind calm. Arrived in Table Bay. „ 20—Wind S.S.E. 66 miles. Strong winds. „ 21 -Wind S.S.E. 247 miles. Moderate. „ 22—Wind S.S.E. 248 miles. Moderate and fresh. „ 23—Wind S.S.E. 241 miles. Fresh breeze. ~ 24—Wind S. by E. 207 miles. Moderate and light winds. „ 25—Wind S.E. 232 miles. Strong and fresh winds. „ 26—Wind S.S.E. 221 miles. Fresh winds. „ 27—Wind S.S.E. 227 miles. Light airs. " 28—Wind S.S.E. 21. 1 rmiles. Air moderato. Mar. I—Wind S.S.W. 218 miles. Light airs. „ 2—Wind S.S.W. 217 miles. Light airs. „ 3—Wind S.W. 210 miles. Light airs. „ 4—Wind W.S.W. 214 miles. Light airs and hot weather. „ s—Wind W.N.W. 197 miles. Light airs. „ 6—Wind W.N.W 182 miles. Moderate wind. ~ 7—Wind N. 174 miles. Moderate. „ B—Wind N.N.E. 164 miles. Moderate. „ 9—Wind N.E. 173 miles. Moderate. „ 10—Wind N.E. 206 miles. Fresh breezes. „ 11—Wind N.E. by E. 192 miles. Fresh and strong breezes. „ 12—Wind N.E. by E. 184 miles. Moderate and light. „ 13—Wind N.E. by E. 202 miles. Moderate and light. „ 14—Wind E.N.E. 193 miles. Light winds. „ 15—Wind E. 193 miles. Light winds. „ 16—Wind W.N.W. 180 miles. Variable winds. „ 17—Wind N.W. 190 miles. Variable winds. „ 18—Wind S.W. 181 miles. Tariable winds. „ 19—Wind E.N.E. Variable winds. „ 20 91 }Lying at anchor in the bay of St. Michael's. f P „ 22—Wind S. 100 miles. Strong winds. „ 23—Wind S.S.E. 257 miles. Fresh and moderate winds. , 21—Wind E. 203 miles. Fresh and moderate winds. • 25—Wind N.E. by N. 163 miles. Light winds and fresh gales. „ 26—Wind N.E. by E. 137 miles. Fresh gales and squally. „ 27—Wind E.N.E. 205 miles. Strong winds. " 28 • 29 }Lying off the town of Vigo, in Spain. 30—Wind W. 53 miles. Light and moderate winds, and squally. „ 31—Wind S.S.W. 230 miles. Strong . gale and squally. April I—Wind W.N.W. 247 miles. Fresh breezes. 2—Wind W.N.W. Channel at noon. Stopped at Yf Bell Buoy for water. Mrs. Rigby, Master John Rigby, Mr. J. James, Mr. R. M. Thomas, Mr. F. Brown, Mr. C. Warner, -- Mr. W. Dennis, Mr. Isaac Asher, Mr. C. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Peterson, Mr. Chumanox, Mr. Rowles, Mr. James Hunter, Mr. William Hunter, Mrs. Col. Cooper, Dr. Morgan. Prom the Cape.—Mr. J. C. Hunt, Mr. W. Burgess, Mr. N. Maurice, Mr. P. Moore, Col. Cooper, Miss Smith, Mr. Jarvis and family, Mr. Nichols, Captain Salmond, Mr. H. Watson, Mr. J. Behren, Mr. G. Wilson. From the Cape of Good Hope.—Sir Robert Stanford, Capt. W. R. King (74th), Lieut. J. C. King (74th), Hon. H. Annesley, Madame Caulett, Mr. W. Davis, Mr. Thos. Crowdy, Mr. D. Cowie, Mr. Crown, Mr. G. Holland, Mr. James Curdle Mrs. Bilston, Mrs. Newman. From St. Michael's.—Mr. A. Cohen, Mr. J. Benshaw, J. A. Putron. From Vigo.—Mr. Jose Maria Marco. ITALY. The Parlamento of Turin announces that on the 27th ult. the Sardinian corvette San Giovanni, 28 guns, Captain Juccia, arrived at Villafranca, to take the refugees on board who are to be conveyed to America. They are 82 in all. The Piedmontese Government gives them free board and passage, and 70f. per head on landinv. In the sitting of the 30th ult. of the Piedmontese Chamber of Deputies, M. Lanza moved that the sale of a villa named Montalto, formerly belonging to the Jesuits, and now to the State, might be post poned, in order to see whether it might not be use fully applied to the purposes of education ; but, on the observations of the Minister of Finance, the motion, after an animated debate, was withd r awn. The hamber then proceeded to discuss the Slavery Repression Bill, Art. lof which declares every slave to be free as soon as he touches the Piedmontese territory, or sets his foot on board a Sardinian vessel. The discussion was adjourned to the following day. We have received accounts from Rome to the 24th ult. The labours of the Consulta of Finance had been concluded some days before. After having given the most scrupulous attention to the exami nation of the budgets of the different branches of the Administration, they have proposed various reductions whieh have been approved of by the Pope, and which together amount to 830,000 Ro man crowns a year (the crown is a trifle more than. 5f.) As however the amount of certain receipts might vary, the saving is set down at 630,000 crowns. Another operation, not only important, but absolutely necessary, has also been under con sideration—namely, the calling in of all the paper money. This operation will, it is said, be effected by means of a loan of seven millions of crowns. The amount of the paper money in circulation has been calculated at only six millions, but it now appears to reach seven ; and as the amount of paper money already paid off and replaced by the conso lidated route created three years since will be in cluded in the present operation, the 600,000 crowns devoted annually to the paying off the paper money by means of that consolidated rente will be applied to the payment of the interest of the new loan. The question of railways was also brought under the consideration of the Consulta by order of the Pope. The ministers had already en tered into engagements with the representatives of two companies, one for the grand line from Ancona and Bologna to Rome, and the other for that from Rome to Ceprano, in the kingdom of Naples. The latter is the old Via Latina, revived after getting rid of the old directors and shareholders. The re presentative of the new company has offered 25 per cent. to the holders of the old shares, and if his offer be accepted, he will be authorised to make the line as far as Frascati, and he will then have two years to decide as to whether he will continue it on to Ceprano. It is thought that these advantages will be conceded to him, as he demands n• subven tion from the government. It is not, however, thought that the shareholders of the old Via Latina will be disposed to accept the 25 per cent. offered to them. Great doubts are entertained as to whether the line from Ancona and Bologna to Rome will be executed, particularly as Bologna will be hence forth less interested in the question, as the Central Italian line will put that place in free and rapid communication with Trieste and Leghorn. The thecat io T n ib f e o r r will the be suspen s i on b r id ge w hi c h h as b ee n constructed d. by M. Bodin, and which will form a communi cationinhabitantstohfe public thetwoinbaanksveryof sho r t ti me. The works have been very much re tarde two b the state of the weather, which for the last rain and st onths has been a constant succession of now at R 0 : 10 s* The Bishop of Munster, who is sor to the rae , is talked of as the probable succes of which lateltropolitan see of Breslaw, the holder ster that the 13;0 died. It is to the Bishop .of Mun at the p r the the palm which he carried ing the unfavourabl e alstin Sunday. Nothwithstand flux of strangers into at of the weather, the in amounted to upwards o f 35131(pring Easter ' week The New Zurich Gazette contains a letter from Barre of the 30 th ult., which say s commissioner the canton of rcln:o has " The federal to the federal council that no Ticino troubles announced now be apprehended, and that consequently tl need the three companies quartered at Locarno had been be ordered away. Ile adds, that numerous desertions had taken place from the Austrian service, which had been a source of expense to the canton of Ticino. The council has given orders to the com missioner to guard, as much as possible, against the inconvenience in question. That will be difficult, inasmuch as the commissioner has no direct rela lation with the Austrian authorities. This week the Government of Ticino received the first delivery of salt from the Lombard stores of Maragno." REPORTED SHOCK OF AN EARTHQUAKE AT PORTS- MoUTH.—A shock of an earthquake is said to have been felt at Portsmouth, between 11 and 12 o'clock on Friday night. It was, it is said, of about two minutes dura tion ; those who .experienced it stating that their beds were sensibly shaken, whilst the walls of the rooms ap peared to crack. The phenomenon was not, however, of such a character as to procure for it any general ob servations. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, 1853. LIST OF PASSENGERS. From Sydney.—Mr. and Mrs. Haigh, Mr. and Mrs. Solo mon, Miss Solomon, Miss Anna Solomon, Miss Selina Solomon, Miss Esther Solomon, Master Moss Solomon, Master Samuel Solomon, Master Solomon Solomon, Mr. Francis Solomon, Elizabeth Wheeler (servant), Mr. G. R. Griffiths, Mrs. Griffiths, Miss Griffiths, Miss Letitia Grif fiths, Master Neville Griffiths, Master Cecil Griffiths, Mas ter Russell Griffiths, Master Algernon Griffiths, Master Stanley Griffiths, Master Llewellyn Griffiths, Emily Gib bons (servant), Mr. Anderson , Mr. Rawson, Mr. Macnab, Mr. F. W. Ploomer, Mr. Wm. Griere, Mr. John Inches, Mr. Edwin Husley, Captain Spence, Mr. and Mrs. Robley, Mr. Parrott, Mr. Lewis Wilson, r. John Matson, Mr. John Tulley. From Melbourne.--Itev. Archdean Davies, Mr. Peppers, Mr.R.Macredie, Mrs. M acredie and infant, Miss Margaret C. Macredie, Susanna Sealey (servant), Mr. G. Turnbull, Mrs. Turnbull, Mr. W. J. Sterland, Mrs. Sterland and in fant, Miss Tolmie, Miss Margaret M‘Kay (governess), Mr. Tolmie, Master John Tolmie, Master D. K. Tolmie, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Master Fyfe, Miss E. Taylor (governess), Mr. G. Roughton, Mr. H. S. Chapman, Master Chapman, Mr. G. Webster, Mr. F. Spiers, Mr. Zuilli, Miss Betsy Zuilli, Miss Ann Zuilli, Miss Ruth Zuilli, Master George Zuilli, Master William Zuilli, Master James Zuilli, Master Archibald Zuilli, Miss Ruth Burchell, Mrs. Lemann, Miss Lemann, Miss Eliza Lemann, Mary Ann Millwood (servant), Captain Conran (11th), Mrs. Conran, Master L. W. Conran, Master H. L. Conran, Mrs. Wills, tiss Sarah Adams (go verness) Mrs. Dill (servant) Mr. and Mrs. Donald, Master Colin D. Donald, Master William Donald, M. A. Bur roughs (servant), Mr. and Mrs. Bond, and infant, Miss Alice Bond, Miss Louisa Bond, Master William Bond, Master Henry Bond, Master Charles Bond, Rachael King (servant), Mr. Fleming, Mr. and Mrs. Stevens Miss Fanny M. Stevens, Miss Hannah Ste vens, Master Charles Stevens, Master John F. Stevens, Master Joseph N. Stevens, Mr. George Gorton, Mr. Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Elmes, Mr. H. Elmes, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan, Miss Es ther Nathan, Master Samuel Nathan , Master Lewis Nathan, Taster Hyam Nathan, Miss Rachael Nathan, Mr. J. F. Bennett, Mr. H. Feldheim, Mr. J. S. Levy, Mr. R. Pemberton, Mrs. Benson, Mr. and Mrs. Dickenson, Mr. H. Trevethen, Mr. Cortiesos, Mr. Simeon Cohen, Mr. John Shields, Mr. Alex. Warke, Mr. C. and Mrs. Spratt, Mr. D. and Mrs. Knight, Mr. E Winks, Mr. G. Cherry, Mr. J. Campbell, Mr. R. Russell, Mr.W.Carter, Mr. Featherstonaugh, Mr. M. and Mrs. Greenwood, Mas ters H. and T. Greenwood, Mr. D. Lury, Mr. J. Little, Mr. Vaughan, Mr. Harrison, Mr. D. Hopkins, Mrs. Charl ton, Miss C. Cha r lton, Mr. D. M`Kenley, Mr. Walter Allen, Mr. Vickers,- Mr. Bevan, Mr. G. Gill, Mr. A. Murray,St, M r . W . H. Rod d en, Mr. J. Britton, Mr. George Johnson, Mr. T. Tayl or , Mr. N. M'Donald, Mr. Richard dRTI.s Mr. John J ones , Mr. George Wilkinson, Mr. R. Mitchell, M r . W. Powell Mr. and Mrs. Clarke Mrs Sarah Clarke, Mast er R owland Clarke, Miss M. A. Martin,Mr. and Mrs Cunnin g h am, Miss Anna Cunningham, Miss Anna Jane Cunningham, Miss Elizabeth Cunningham, Miss Rebecca Cunningham, Mr. Henry Cunningham, Master John Cunningham, Mr. Mears Mr. L. Roberts, Mr. James ' Blythe, Mr. W. Graham, M r . ! W. Ordish, Mr. C. Cox, Mr. ' J. Dutch, Mr. W. Burke, Mr. W. Cumming, Mr. George Cox, Miss Phcebe Nisbett, Mr. W. Clay, Mr. W. West • wood, Mr. Monk, Mrs. Monk, Master Monk, Mr. G. Ro binson, Mr. E. Strike, Mr. J. Enwood, Mr. M. M. Murray, AUSTRIAN TYRANNT. The important correspondence, of which a summary will be found in our Paris intelligence, will show that the position of affairs between the Governments of Piedmont and of Austria has in no degree diminished in its impor tant and threatening aspect. There can be no doubt that the utter injustice and ini quity of the measure levelled by the Cabinet of Vienna against the property of Sardinian subjects is such as to justify the most determined resistance on the part of the Piedmontese Government, and to call for the most cor dial support of the enlightened Governments to which it has appealed. To England especially it is impossible that such an appeal should be addressed without awakening the liveli est sympathy, and we have no doubt that the sentiments which, as the House of Commons learnt from Lord John Russell, have been already expressed on this subject to the Austrian Ministry will be vigorously and judici ously carried out under our present director of Foreign Affairs. To us, as the stronghold and leading example of con stitutional principles, it is most important to secure fair play and justice to the only State in the South of Europe which can be said to be maintaining those prin ciples with anergy and wisdom. It is to be hoped, on the other hand, that the chronic blindness of Vienna may, in this instance, be so far mitigated as to induce that most disastrously unwise Court to abandon the course of dishonesty and persecution which she has initiated against her former subjects, now naturalised, in accordance with her own treaty and guarantee, under Sardinian rule and protection. It is difficult, indeed, to conceive the persistence, even of Austria, in demands and in measures which have aroused manifestations of opinion so decided, so general, and so successfully maintained as those which have in every instance fol lowed her unjust and untenable demands on the ques tion of political refugees, driven by Austrian oppression to take refuge in foreign lands.—Morning Post, GOVERNMENT SCHEME OF EDUCATION. 25 25 St. 50 50 16i St. 20 50 20 111 10 10 40 25 25 (From the Times. ) The measure for the extension and improvement of the education of the people of England, which Lord John Russell is this evening to submit to the considera tion of the House of Commons, is the first important original preposition of Lord Aberdeen's Government. For this reason, as well as from the interest of the sub ject, the statement now about to be made on behalf of the Government is expected with more than common solicitude ; and, although we shall not anticipate the details of Lord John Russell's proposition, we may ven ture to offer some remarks on the spirit in which it has been conceived and the support to which it may be en titled. About fourteen years have now elapsed since the Committee of Council on Education began its la bours, and assumed the control of the Parliamentary grant annually devoted at that time to the instruc tion of the people, or rather to the erection of schools. Although the participation of the State in this moment ous duty is still here and there regarded with suspicions approaching to hostility, there is, we may safely assume, no statesman, and probably no prelate, of those who went up in 1839 with white staves to the foot of the throne to address her Majesty on the - unconstitutional powers of that Committee of the Privy Council, who would not now acknowledge that the fears of a great many eminent persons got the better of their reason on that occasion. The Committee of Education has been suc cessively conducted by its original founders, by the Go vernment of Sir Robert Peel, by Lord John Russell's Cabinet from 1846 to 1852, and even by Lord Derby's Administration last year, with no important deviation from its course of policy. It has not only caused many thousands of schoolhouses to be erected, by stimu lating and assisting the liberality of parochial authori ties, but it has materially improved and raised the cha racter of the instructors and of the instruction given throughout the kingdom. It has enabled the great educational societies to support training establishments for teachers, and to introduce the important class of pupil-teachers and Queen's echolars to the work of public instruction in the country. It has to a great degree superseded the imperfect machinery of Bell and Lancas ter's monitorial system by increasing the supply of more competent masters. It has demonstrated by example, and it has regulated and advised by inspection. But, though a more enlarged and practical character has been given to many branches of popular instruction, the entire experience of the system and its results proves that the influence of the State has never in any case been employed to lower or to weaken the religious element in these schools, or to oppose the just authority of the parochial clergy ; and we Aro eontirl.n+ 44.-4. - 0• ciety for the education of the poor in the principles of the Established Church have never been more effectually and beneficially applied than since that society has ac cepted the direct assistance and co-operation of the Go vernment. After this term of experience, sanctioned by the approbation of all that is most eminent and bene volent in the Church, in the State, and in the nation at large, we hope the time is come when we may dismiss the unworthy suspicions which have hitherto been at tached to the views of the Queen's Ministers, and that their scheme, whatever it may be, will be judged as far as possible on its own merits. Lord John Russell already told the House of Commons, on retiring from the Pre miership in 1852, that in his opinion the country would ere long be ripe for a more complete measure of education than had yet been brought forward ; and he has since repeated that this subject, and that of Parlia mentary reform, are the two matters that principally engross his interest. It is a fortunate circumstance that the present Administration and the present Committee of Council for Education are so constituted as to give a pledge against any extreme policy on either side, for no body will imagine that a measure to which Mr. Glad stone and Mr. Sidney Herbert have given their active assent can be unfriendly or dishonest to the Church, or that Lord Aberdeen and Lord John Russell have sacri ficed the Dissenters, or the cause of secular education, to the exclusive pretensions of the clergy. The truth is, that it cannot be the intention, for it is not in the power, of any Government to alter the nature of the instruction given to the poorer classes of the Englisg people, and we conceive that nothing can be done to interfere at all with that part of the subject. The nature of the instruction given is already conformable to the predominant feelings and convictions of the nation. It is based, in all cases, on religious education ; it is closely connected with the offices of the church or the ministrations of other religious denominations ; and no doubt can be entertained that an attempt to weaken this connexion, and to dissolve the tie between religious and secul ,r education, would be received with aversion, and would prove fatal to the Government proposing it. We entertain 'no apprehensions whatever that any such measure or tendency will be found in Lord John Rus sel's statement to-night ; and, although it is to be hoped that the schools for the children of the English people will continue to improve, as they have improved in the last few years, we see no reason to suppose that any such improvement is to be purchased by the sacrifice of that which has hitherto obtained for them the respect and gratitude of the public. The chief advantage to be derived from the interposition of the Government and of the legislative authority in Parliament in this under taking appears to us to consist in the application and control of the funds necessary to support an efficient system of national education. It is, therefore, to these objects that we expect to find the Ministerial proposal principally directed. Although the sums of money annually voted by Par liament are still small, there is probably no country in the world in which larger private endowments exist for the purposes of education than in England, though, in very many instances, their application by no means cor responds with the liberal intentions of the founder. These charities, which are scattered through almost every parish in the land, are, for the most part, far too small in amount to defray the cost of a Chancery suit, where that is needed to check misappropriation or to amend the application of such funds. Their amount has been roughly calculated at 700,0001. or 800,0001. a-year—a sum amply sufficient to give a very powerful stimulus to education throughout the country. But in their present condition these funds are at least partially wasted, and it is very seldom indeed that they can be said to afford to the class for which they were intended the best education that the present age requires. It is said, therefore, that one of the prin c ip a l features in Lord John Russell's plan is to connect the administration of these educational endowments and charities with that department of the Government which is already charged with the distribution of the Parlik mentary grant. Provision must of course be made for the cheap and prompt solution of the legal questions arising out of these small charities, and this may be done either by conferring an equitable jurisdiction to a certain amount, for this purpose, on the judges of the County Courts, or by the appointment of judicial commissioners expressly empowered to settle these diffi culties without expense to the fund itself. But, in most instances, it is probable that a small amount of adminis trative assistance and control, co-operating with the trustees and managers of these endowments, would suf fice to give to them the same impulse which has al ready been so powerfully felt in the common parochial I schools. If this be a part of Lord John Russell's scheme, we hope that it will be most cautiously guarded against the suspicion, which will of course be raised, that it is the intention of the State to exert a centralised au thority over the local institutions or property of the f c o o r u n t t n rj e r, f o u r ,. t t n h e a r t a n i to id o p f r o p o o n s y e d p s t r o t o e u m i a p r l o v y e its s a u o t n h o r: h t y e subject of education. The Government can have round osuch intentions, a ntiosnws,arm of adv ersaries unless it i spr whoepar haedtvoe b ring its a twice succeeded in defeating similar proposals ; and there is still a powerful party in the country, both in the church and out of it, who regard the intervention of the State in this whole question with extreme jealousy and dissa tisfaction. The difficulty is to do what the exigency of the case and the wants of our increasing population re quire, without causing a fresh explosion of the intole rance and the prejudices which have more than once thrown back the whole cause or . deterred the ablest ministers from touching it. St. St. St. St. E SR ARE MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS, Closing Prices this day. Aberdeen lAmbg. Nottng. Bost. & Eastn. Junct. Birmg. Wolverh. & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Junct Do. Chesh. & Birk.; £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £2O • Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester & Holyhead. Cork and Bandon Cork, Blackrock andi Passage Dublin&Belfast June Dundee Perth&lber deen Junction Do. New East Anglian WS L and E. & L. &D.) Do. Do. (181. K.& H.) Eastern Counties .. . Eastern Union, Class A. (late E. U. Q.) Do do Pc; B. and C.. lEasi Lancashire East & West Ind. Dk. & Binning. June Edinburgh & Glasgow Edin. and Peebles Edin. Prth. &Dundee Glasgow & S. Western Great Northern Stk Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock _ (Great Southern and Western (Ireland), Great Western Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle, Do., Thirds Yancash.& Yorkshire Do Fifths ro., Wst. Riding Un Leeds Northern Liv.Crsby.&Southpt. London & Blackwall bond. Tilb. & Sthend. bond. Brigt. & Cat. London & N. Western Do., Fifths Do. 410 Sh. M. &B. C London & S. Western Do., £5O Do., Londerry. &Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch. Shef. &Lincln Do., Man. & Lin. Un !Midland Do. Binning. & Derby Midland G. West. (Ir.) Do. j Shares .... _. _ (Newcastle & Carlisle Newmarket Do. Bury Extension. Newp. ♦berg.&Hftd. Newry & Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint, and itestrevor Norfolk IDo., Now Northn. Counties lin North British North Devon, No. 1. Do., No. 2 Do., i 1 Deferred Do., B Guaranteed North Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westrn. June Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton Scottish Central Scottish Midland Shrewsbury & Birmg. Do., L. & N. Westn. Guaranteed Sock. Shrew ,by.& Hereford Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Do. Halves do Do Do. °swardly Shropshire Union Sou Devon South Eastern South Wales S. Yorksh. River Dun Do. Stockton & Hartlepl Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath • Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford& Limerick West Cornwall Wimbledon&Croydn Woodford . York Newctl. &Berw. Do. Extensions Do. G. N. E. Purchase York & N. Midland PREFERE: 'Aberdeen . 1.. Do., No. 2, 7 p. s Do. 4 p. s. Shares Caledonian £lO Chester k Holyhead Guar. 5i per cent. Cork&Bandon 5i p. e. Dundee, Perth, and, Aberdeen Junction E. Ang. (705.) CI p. s. Do. (X 5), 7 per cent. Do. (.£'7 17s), 7. p et. Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. e. No.l Do No. 2 Do., New 6 p. s. St. Eastern Union Scrip Guar. 6 per cent... East Lancash. 6 p. cts. Edinb. Prth. a D and. Glasgow &S. Western Guar. 5 per cent... Great Northn. 5 p. s. Do. 5 p. s., Redeem. at 10 p. a. prem.., Gt.S outhn. di Westn. (Ireland) Eights... Gt. Westn. (Berke & Hants Ex. 5 p. c.) Great Western, fixed 4a per cent Lan. & York. F. £2O Do., 0 p. s., Stock London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. s Do. Pref. 5 p. s., St Do. Convertible, 5 p c., 1852 Do. New Guar. 6 p. c. London &S. Western, Con. Third 5........: Londonderry & Coler. Shares .... ..... .... ILondndry. di Ennisk. 4 Shares Manch.,Shef.,&Lin., I Shares, No. 1 Do., New, £lO ..... Do., £6 Marypt. & Carl. 4p. o Do. 4A per cent D 0............. ...... Mid. Consol. 6 p. c . St. Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. ft per cent Do. Pref. 4i percent Norfolk Extension De. Guar. 5i per et , Do. Waveney Valley 5 per cent (North British North Staffordshire. • Oxford, Worcester, & Wolyerh. £15,6p. c. Do. Shrewsbury & Myra. New Guaranteed... Shrewsby. & Chester Nor. W. (Min), 3 p. c . Do. 5 per cent. South Devon Do. New S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) f4l Os. 6d. S. Yorksh. 4p. e. Guar. Waterfd. &Kilk. 6p. e. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 4 p. c. Prof Do Tork & N. Midland, H. k S. Purchase... FORE Amtwrp. &Rotterdam Belgian Eastn. Junet. Charleroi & Erquelin D:j on and Besangon Dutch Rhenish East Indian Do. Extension... .. Gt. Indian Peninsula Gd. Junct. of France ,Gt. Westn. of Canada 1 Shares 2 Lucca and Pistoja, 5 per cent. pref 15 Luxembourg 0 Do. (Railway) 2 Do Do. (Canal) Do. 6 p. cer4. prof Lyons & Medterran Madras 'Maria Antonia, IDo. New. Namur & Liege (with interest Do. (ex interest) Northern of France , 'Do. 201. 3 p. a. Bds ' (fmy.B.Zains.Shs : Norwegian Truk. Pre; Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg Paris Caen &Cho rbrg Quebes & Richmond Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse Do. 5i per cent. pref Southern of France Upp ei India Scrip West Flanders rNo. 5i per c. Pref... Western of France... 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RAILW & . B 3 t 1 'Ord and Bletchr ;Iv Birm. & Oxfd. guarantee Do. without gr Birm.Wolv. & Dudley guar. D o. wthtguar. Buckghamsh Clydesdale Jc. E. Lincoln. gr. 6 p. cent Glstr.&Dn.Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Do. Shares. Do. i Shares. Lon. & Greenw Do. Preference Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent... Do. 6 per ct... Manch.l3xton. and Matlock Middlesbro' Redear. . ... Midld.Bradia: Northern an d Eastern sp. e. Do. 6 per ct.. Do. Fixed sp. c Prest. di Wyre Do. Shares. Roystu.&Hit. Do.Shepth.St. Shef. Roth. & Goole g. 5. p. c S. Staffordsh WearValleygr 6 per cent Do Leasing i!on pans, London ct l N. West., Gt.Westu Do Do Do L. &N.W Calcd.on Gt. Notrhu Gt. Westn. Yk. New. & Berw Y.&N. Md Do S. Eastern Do Norfolk Do Ln. &N. W & Midld Stckton & Darlingt. Midland E. Count. Do Do ****** L. &IS * &Ln& Yk Do Gt.Northn Do Lancash.& Torksh Mai Clean Stockt. & Darling. Do Gt.Westn Closing Prices this say. 104 -106 52i -53 i 151 - 153 32i -33 i 111 113 55. —56 i 273 28. 13/ 14 25 —26ixd 19 —19 i 26 27 2i 3i 105 =7 foe 64 - 66 14 151 149 - 151 1 á d Business this day. 152 3 1051 Shni Paid SO4 all ;04 1 all ;011 all it. jOO i 0 all it. 100 15 all 10 all i 0 `all ?,5 all -2j all 1.2 i all !O all !O all all !O all 51 all 0 1 all 0 all 5 all 2il 11i ;t. 100 100 I 18i Z all 3t. 100 Wilts &Somrstl 1 -33 1102 i - 103 i MINES. . 1 all Agna Fria lOs all Anglo Californian i - 1 p 1 4 1 10 2 Australasian 1 -11 p 3 20 5 Australian - 51 51 1 all Australian Cordillera 1 - p 5 1 all Australian Freehold. 1d - p 1 all Ave Maria - P 1 all l3aden(Gd. Duchy of) par - p 1 all British Anstrin. Gold 1 - 1 p 20 13.5 British Iron 6l -71 61 35 241 Brazilian Imp. (issued at X 5 pm.) 4l - 4.1 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiaba 51 • - 61 61 654 20 15 Do. St. John Del . 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American ) ... - ... 20 2 Chita. Bnk. of India,' Australia, & China' 11 -14 p 21 31 1 100 25 Colonial - ... 100 20 Commercial of Lou don- ... ... 4 English Scottish and Australian 2l -24 p 20 71 Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 4l - 4/p 17/ 50 20 London and County ... - ... 50 10 Loudon Joint Stock _ - ... 100 20 Lond. &Westminster _ - ._ 20 2 London Bank of Aus tralia and India - p 50 221 National of Ireland _ - ... 25 all Oriental Bank •f Corporation l5l -564xd 25 5 Do. New - ... 100 25 Provincial of Ireland ... - ... 10 all Do. New - ... 5 1 Royal Australn.Bkg. d; Gold Imp. Co 1 die- 1p 25 25 South Australia _ - 52 25 all Union of Australia 771 - 781 lit '7l 9 h- LO. IN WIT 50 10 Union of London _ - _ 40 all Union of Madrid - ... ...Pi MISCELLANEOUS. ) 100 35 Australian Agricult 198 - 102 100 97 20 6 A.ustrlasn.Pcific.Maili ... - _ 10 5 Australis. Royal Mail ... - ... 41 BM Brit. Americn. Land ... - ... 100 52,3 Canada — ••• 5 5 Crystal Palace — ... 6/ i 4 2 Crystal Pa/. of P rance ... 20 1 Eastern Steam - "' ... 1 1 Electric. Teleg. of Ir ... - ... 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat ... - ... 100 50 General Screw Steam. ... - _ 20 21 Irish Beetroot Sugar l ... - ... 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel , .. - ... 10 2 Netherlands Land...) 1.. - ... 20 21 Nrth.of EuropeSteasi ... - _ 50 all Peninsular &Orientall ... - ... 50 25 Do. Do. ... - ... 100 60 Royal Mail Steam - 25 25 South Austral. Lan d' 52 - 54 1 1 Submar. Telegraph 1 .., - ... 6 2 Universal Emig ra ti on 10 and Colonisation 1 ... - . 100 281 Tan Diemen's Land ' 221 - 2 ' 21. 22 94 22} - 23,1 23 2i LLOYDS' SHIPPING-(THIS DA T. ) LONDON, April 4.—Wind this day at Noon, W., light breeze, and mild weather ; cloudy at times, but barometer rising. DEAL, April 3.—Wind, S.W. by W., fresh. Arrived— Lord Hardinge, Cochin ; John Wickliffe, Bombay ; Diana, Porto Rico, for Copenhagen ; Colonist, Calcutta ; Governor M`Lean, Africa; Newport, Cape Coast Castle; Reaper, Berbice ; Lucy, West Indies ; Tally Ho, New York. Arrived from the River—Unicorn, for Melbourne ; Midas, do. ; Wanderer, Adelaide, S.A. ; John Knox, Shanghai ; Granite City, Hong Kong ; Kossuth, Madras ; Princess, Bahia ; Princess Victoria, Melbourne ; Ann, Madras ; Princess Helena, Valparaiso ; Catherine Greene, St. Kitt's ; Arena, Jamaica. The Jersey, London to Berbice, has been got off shore, and will repair at Sandwich. PORTSMOUTH, April 3.—Arrived—H.M.S. Persian, Ber muda. DOUGLAS (Isle of Man), April 2.—The Prineder, of Ply mouth, was totally lost at Langness this morning ; master and four men drowned. LIVERPOOL, April 3.—The report of the Daring, from St. Domingo, having made water all the passage, is in correct. LISBON, March 28.—The Lady Rowena, Alexandria to Liverpool, was burnt to the water's edge, and took the ground near Lagres, on the 16th ; crew and 160 bales of cotton saved. ABERDEEN, April 2.—The Duke of Sunderland (s), Lon don to this port, was totally wrecked off the point of the pier last night ; about twenty lives lost. MILFORD, April 3.—The Liberator, of Arklow, drove on shore on the Haven, and is a total wreck ; master's son drowned. FALMOUTH, April 3.—The Clemence, Antwerp to Liver pool, put in here on the Ist inst., with eight feet of water in her hold, and is discharging. WEXFORD, April 2.—The Acor, St. Michael's to Liver pool, came on shore on the rocks at Kilmore, last night, and will probably become a wreck ; crew saved. VIOLENT COLLISION ON THE MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD. AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY.—A very long heavy goods train, proceeding on the above railway from Manchester to Grimsby at 4 o'clock last Friday morning, came in violent collision with a cattle truck that was standing crosswise on the main line within 200 yards of the Worksop station on the Sheffield side. The train was drawn by a very powerful engine, the Erebus, and was running at a quick pace. Se great was the shock that seven of the foremost trucks were thrown off the line, and two of them, with the engine and tender, were pre cipitated violently down a very steep embankment, a depth of 30 feet. The driver and fireman, not having had time to leap off, were hurled down the steep descent, and had a narrow escape of being crushed to death by the ponderous engine and tender that accom panied them in the fall. The cattle truck that caused the obstruction was shivered into fragments, and two of the goods waggons were smashed to almost the same extent. The freight consisted of salt, bales of cotton, and miscellaneous merchandise. An immense quantity of salt, as well as a great many bales, were scattered about, but, without having sustained much damage, the dispersed commodities were recollected and forwarded to their destination in fresh trucks together with the rest of the train. The rails w ere cleared and adjusted with all possible dispatch, but the main line could not be reopened till half-p as t three afternoon. The truck th a t caused advanced from an adjacent have acent propelled idin it siding, The mis c hi e f h a d was very strong, might eupwonindtiewmhaicihn line, but one of the company's serv an t s s t a t es th a t on the previous even i ng he secured it on the siding by blocking th e wheels. T o'clock in th e morning the terrue ek is w e a y s id at en th ce e t t e h r a m t i a n t us on o e f the siding with one corner projecting towards the main line, for at that hour another goods train proceeding towards Sheffield came i n contact with it, and its pro minent angle rent the panels of the waggons on one side as they passed it. Several articles of merchandise from this train, including a basket of butter, were afterwards found scattered about on the scene of the subsequent collision. Had the conductors of the former train done their duty, they would have pulled up and taken mea sures that would have prevented the subsequent mishap. On Saturday afternoon the displaced engine and tender were towed up the embankment by a steep branch line constructed for the occasion, the motive power being another engine and an army of labourers. LITERATURE. The Lonywoods of the Grange. By the Author of " Adelaide Lindsay." 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. This is a very interesting novel—not perhaps so pleasing as the former works by the same author, but more powerfully written. It is told by an old relation of the family in her diary: she is the sister of the heroine of the novel. The once famous race of the Longwoods fell into decadence, and were obliged to part with their ancestral hall, their family plate, their luxuries, and grandeurs, to re tire to a simple dwelling called the Grange. The elder brother, Philip, was a wretched head of a fallen house—indolent and ignorant, he was obsti nate and self-satisfied. Glad to retaliate on his sister and aunt, he married a perfect tyrant. Esther was the plague of the house ; she ruined all the comfort of the ladies, and left the young brother to commit all sorts of follies, under the pretext of being independent. It would be out of place and unjust to the author to tell the subse quent events here. Suffice it to say that a new character appeared, who superseded even Esther in being a torment—Mortlake, the son and heir of the Nabob who had purchased the old hall. He contrived to exercise great power over the whole family, and ill did he wield his sceptre. Two im portant errors in conduct are well described in this work, and the glaring evils they cause in the social sphere are ably shown forth. Parents have no right on their death beds to sacrifice one child to another. Far wiser and more Christian-like would it be to commend all alike to the care of the only One mighty to save, than to endeavour to shield their loved object from the storms of fate, by exposing those they do not so much affect. A still more egregious fault is that of marrying for e x p e di ency , w hi c h never can b e j us tifi e d by an y .combination of circumstances. It is well exposed here. T o w h at afflict i ng horrors did Edith's fatal decisi on worstgitvhre r e i a 's t e e , n t e e d n t e au vil es h m ad ore f the g is than fo r i occurred. aallin Misfor tunes self-created are the hardest to bear, and the longest to surmount. When people take their fate into their own hands, they must not expect relief or rescue. It is true that such did happily occur in this case ; but the probabilities in real life are, it is to be feared, few and far between. Aunt Dorothy is the best character in the story, and true to life. In her veneration for her ancient and ho nourable family, her punctiliousness concerning re quisite decorum and exactitude in the members of the household, she appears a model of the 4‘ d a y s that are o'er." Bleak House. No. XIV. By Charles Dickens. A wonderful incident is recounted in the new instalment of Bleak House—and one that cannot but startle even the most far-seeing reader into astonish ment. Excellent Mr. Jarndyce—John Jarndyce of Bleak House—the Jarndyce in the great cause of Jarndyce and Jarndyce—proposes for the hand and heart of Esther Summerson That is extraordi nary enough, but even that is not the most marvel lous part of the incident—for his offer is accepted 1 Yes—in spite of the flowers left at poor Miss Flite's, the flowers presented by Caddy Jellyby, now Tur veydrop, the flowers that Ada Clare thought "very like that sort of thing," in spite of those flowers hoarded up so tenderly even when they were withered, in spite of them and of their donor Allan Woodcourt. Yes--John Jarndyce is accepted by Esther Surnmerson. But will - they ever be mar ried ? Within half-a-dozen numbers we shall know, for by that time the whole narrative will be com pleted. In a worldly sense, Mr. Jarudyce's offer is, everything considered, to say the least of it, magnanirnous. The very heart's blood of his chosen is tainted by illegitimacy (but that is not her fault), she is penniless (but that is nothing), she is dis figured for life by a terrible malady (but that is a great deal), rendered almost repulsive in appear ance, if we may judge of the effect produced by the change upon Mr. William Guppy of Pentonville. Nevertheless, in an un-worldly sense all these things are more than counterpoised by her goodness. It is a fault perhaps in the autobiographic interpola tions that we learn nothing at all of this same goodness except directly through Esther Summer sou herself—her own descriptions informing us pretty plainly how very loveable, and amiable, and winning her temperament really is. Sometimes even we cannot help thinking that the heroine is just a trifle too childlike in her simplicity of tem perament—reasoning with herself, outloud, by name —and talking to her shadow in the looking-glass as if she were a doll. However, notwithstanding all this, Esther is loveable, and Mr. Jarndyce is a noble fellow to the core—and so we look forward to the result of these occurrences with interest—in the very teeth of our amazement. Besides the fore going, other incidents really surpriSing of their kind are recorded in the four chapters of ZLv v .u.vuG instalment. ile vooupaanta of Bleak House receive a polite and ceremonious visit one day from the haughty Sir Leicester Dedlock ! And Mr. Allan Woodcourt returns from abroad in an Indiaman that puts in at Deal at the very time when Esther, attended by Charley, has gone down there to advise with Rick, who, by the way, is fast going to the dogs after selling his com mission ! And Jo turns up again among the squalid miseries of Tom-all-Alone's ! And from all we can make out from his rather dim confession, this same poor. Jo was led to his sudden and mysterious disap pearance that night when Bleak House afforded him shelter, by a spectral warning—" Hook it ' he ses. You hook it. You go and tramp,' he sea. Don't let me ever see you nowheres within forty miles of London, or you'll repent it " from Bucket, most dread and übiquitous of Detectives. And so poor Jo is being " a chivied and a chivied" —" fust by one on you, and nixt by another on you "—till he's almost " worritted to skins and bones." Tom-all-Alone's is admirably described in the closing chapter of the number which is adorned by a clever etching of it by Phiz—in the same novel way in which he has already depicted the " Long Drawing Room " and the " Ghost's Walk " at Chesney `'Vold in Leicestershire. The principal feature of the number, however, is the ever delectable Harold Skimpole—the Child—whose family are all children of whom he himself is the youngest. Ws find him at home in his lodgings in Somer's Town, in the Polygon. It is noon, and he is reclining ix his dressing-gown, on the sofa, taking breakfast— a plate of hot-house grapes, and another plate of hot-house nectarines, and a plate of sponge cakes, and coffee in china, and a bottle of claret. Mr. Jarndyce praises the grapes, and supposes they were a present. " No," says Skimpole, " No. Some amiable gardener sells them. His man wanted to know when he brought them last evening whether he should wait for the money. Really, my friend,' I said, I think not—if your time is of any value to you.' I suppose it was, for lie went away." We are introduced _to his wife, once a beauty, now " a delicate high-nosed invalid," to Arethusa, his Beauty daughter • to Laura, his Sen timent daughter ; and to daughter; his Comedy daughter. His story about the two arm chairs, borrowed from a neighbour, and worn out, is de lightful, and quite delicious his remonstrance with that neighbour (who is a baker, and angry at the destruction of his property)—" We are all children of one great mother, Nature. On this blooming summer morning, hero you see me with flowers before me, with ruit upon the table, the cloudless sky above sue, the air full of fragrance, contemplat ing Nature. I entreat you by our common brother hood, not to interpose between me and a subject so sublime, the absurd figure of an angry baker ! " Altogether, Harold Skimpole is the best character in the work—a creation—an oriainal. The good angel of the story, in regard to the brickmaker's wife, and Jo, and Tom-all-Alone's, and even W 3 expectto b i ne Allan ref Woodcourt.erencetoßick will undoubtedly turn is weeHeni tole has draw f evidently his firanin Bits of Turf. By Priam. " appeared a T i i n me th s: R O ac fli t c .n e g . a A comical little work under this title—consisting withinidnn;eeplaeensrttufiwl urdesapeynalseetbEetv.l of sketches which originally published. The f b m e f u o c u h n Tines—has ly a droll fellow enough—andthanfuno?basnerci gs are n no r n om e th tl e ie le l s i s fe tru and e and to t & t e he life, reality (certainly they are none the less humorous) because they occasionally run into the extravagance of cari cature. In sporting • regions he seems to be übiqui tous. He is on " The Racecourse at cockcrow." Re is in the thick of the " Races." He penetrates into the " Training Stables," and lets us into almost as many secrets about these same equine sanctuaries as the Princess told tales to the Com mander of the Faithful—one thousand and one. He tells us " a thing or two" (worth knowing) about the " Betting List"—and we say this having a wholesome fear before our eyes of George Cruik shank. He conducts his reader to the " Sporting Bar Parlour," and affords him a delectable glimpse of " The Settling." He is equally at home at " Newmarket " and at " Tattersall's." Then he enlivens the less imaginative portions of his narra tive with two laughter-moving incidents—one re counting to us the history of " The First Bet," being an occurrence in the life of Mr. Wriggle Snake—and another acquainting us with " How Mr. Wigsby Botham sweated the Favourite." The volume will be welcome to all admirers of the Turf and all lovers of the humorous. SAFETY OF MAzziNi.- —We learn from good authority that not only was Mazzini in safety, at the date of the latest advices from Italy, notwithstanding all the vigi lance of the Austrian police, b u t that he might be ex pected in England in about a fortnight. —Morning Ad. vertisfr. 22 St. St. 4 0.. 20 St. 15 1061 00 8i all 8i all' 100 all all 111 100 11} all all all 100 to it 100 100 100 100 ling! 100' all goo 'lOO all all all 8A 100 100 :IGN. 9 i i 52i 3 1111 144 i 2i 2 36i 6