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events. If his Majesty's Government, from motives easily comprehended, should desire to put a stop to the French occupation of the Roman States after a delay of greater or less duration, it would be better at once to abandon the sluices to the impulse of the torrent than to open them by dealing, either by means of advice openly given, or by forced combinations, the coup de grace to the temporal power of the Popes. In the presence of the existing agitation of mind in Italy, and of the very lively emotion caused by the publication of the protocols, it is impossible to keep down a profound feeling of anxiety as to the future destiny of the Papacy. If care is not taken Europe will see the most terrible of prob lems present itself—terrible; in fact, because it is con nected with the deepest and the most ardent passions of the human heart. The words pronounced by your Excellency in the Con ference, the assurance you have given of the interest which the Emperor's Government wili not cease to take in the safety of the Pontifical power, are certain proofs that the true interests of the church are in no danger in the present crisis. With such a programme, the most imminent dan gers may be removed, and the catastrophe delayed. This is all that can be accomplished at the present moment by human wisdom. Let us continue to give the Papacy the benefit of our protection. Let us decide deliberately only, and after successive diminutions, on complete evacuation, and only after being well assured that it is possible. Calm will come by degrees. Finally, if the political and reli gious tranquillity of Italy, perhaps even of Europe, should appear to depend solely on the presence at Civita Vecchia and Ancona of a few hundred men, giving a moral, rather than a material, support to the Pontifical flag and esta blishment, but still a support which is sufficient, is it not a hundred times better to have recourse to this certain remedy than to attempt to obtain similar ends by ways full of peril? If in such circumstances the temporal power of the Papacy should be menaced anew, and if, in spite of our efforts, grave complications should arise, the responsi bility would then at least rest wholly and entirely on events which are often stronger than man, and we should not have to reproach ourselves with - having contributed to so fatal a result. I thought that I was performing a duty in submitting to the high appreciation of your Excellency the results of a tolerably long experience and connected study. The kindness and encouragement with which you have met my proposal to explain my opinions, have emboldened me to do so without reserve. I appeal to the indulgence of your Excellency in reviow ing my labours, and beg you to accept the reiterated assurance of my high consideration (55). AT a GENERAL COURT of PROPRIETORS, held at the BANK of ENGLAND, on Thursday, the 19th March, 1857—Resolved : That the thanks of this Court be given to the Governors, Deputy Governors, and Court of Directors of the Bank of England, for their able management of the affairs of this Corporation during the last half-yeah. Ordered—That the said Resolution be advertised in all the daily morning and evening papers. present instance it must be allowed, to say the least of it, that he has spoken most adroitly and judiciously. As an electioneering demonstration we take this pithy and sententious Address of his I to be, in its way, a political masterpiece. Mr. DISRAELI says just the right thing—and leave s the wrong thing unsaid. He slurs, with a dex terous and glossing ingenuity, over the Majority of the Combination—and fixes upon the Cabinet defeated by that Majority, the responsibility of " wasting a year" by resorting to a dissolution. Ho leaves altogether unassailed what is really strong and impenetrable in the mail of his anta gonist. He essays a home-thrust only where that opponent appears to be most vulnerable. His lunge is at the chink in the armour. He cares not to strike fire from the helmet or the breastplate—his deadly aim is at the Heel of the ACHILLES. How is it, for example, that Mr. DISRAELI describes Lord PALMERSTON ? Not in that particnlar cha racter in which the Noble Viscount stands before the country and before the world at large, as the object of almost unanimous admiration Not as the chivalrous upholder of the dignity and honour of his native land, in its supreme capacity as one of the most puissant among the great Powers of Christendom ! Mr. DISRAELI is too sagacious a politician to direct popular attention thus un• wisely to the character of his antagonist, lit up by the glory of his Foreign Policy, and by the prestige of the more undeniable evidences of his Patriotism—a light in which the Noble Viscount has been increasingly admired during now very nearly half-a -century by men of all parties indis criminately. No—witty as well as wise in his gene ration—Mr. DISRAELI epigrammatically defines the position of Lord PALMERSTON at the present junAure—How ? Why, pointedlyand stingingly - e thus as—" A Tory Chief at the Head of a Radical JOHN BENTLEY, Secretary. Cabinet !" The poisoned shaft will stick and rankle in the Heel of ACHILLES—unless it be at once plucked out by his own hand, and tossed to the winds disdainfully, The country looks to Lord PALMERSTON for some categorical declaration of his opinions and principles, now that he has resolved upon appeal ing to the constituencies for a verdict for or against his Government. The country has anxiously awaited the appearance of some formal Political Manifesto of this kind from Lord PAL MERSTON, ever since the Noble Viscount intimated his intention to bring about a dissolution of the present Parliament. It requires at length more urgently than ever the issue of this Ministerial Pronunciamento—now that the Prime Minister is being goaded' into Candour by the taunting in fluence of Mr. DISRAELI'S scarcely resistible Provo cation. Wilt Lord PALMERSTON remain any longer silent—can Lord PALMERSTON, by any possibi lity, remain any longer silent ?—Held up as he is now to general scorn and ridicule as that most Epicene of Statesmen, as that most Hybrid of Politicians, as that most Amphibious of Adminis trators—" A Tory Chief of a Radical Cabi net !" His own high and historical character, the honour of the Crown, and the good of the Country—alike demand from the Primo Minister that he should so speak at the present mo ment, that there should no longer be any doubt whatever as to the Future Polley or the Guiding Principles of his Government. " Strike, but hear me !" were the memorable words of THEMISTOCLES. Let them now illustrate anew the chivalrous and candid bearing of the Premier. Ho is struck, and struck vigorously and piercingly by the chief among his Parliamentary antagonists. Let us now " Hear him." The Leader of her MAJESTY'S Opposition has already spoken to the Country at large—spoken plainly, honestly, and frankly, through the customary me dium of an Address to his own constituents—the Electors of the county of Buckingham. Let Lord PALMERSTON hesitate no longer—through an Ad dress to his constituents, the Electors of the borough of Tiverton---to speak, in his turn, plainly, honestly, aed frankly, to the possessors of the Elective Franchise in the Three Kingdoms. We have waited long enough already. We must have the truth out at last, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Of that we may be quite certain. Of that the Premier may be perfectly well satis , fled. And he may be equally well satisfied, let him rest assured of it, that No Minist3r, however great the prestige may be of his political career, however wide-spread his popularity in what exclusively affects our foreign relations, however wholly unrivalled to all appearance by personal competitors for the Preniiership—can at any time, by any possibility, under any conjunc ture of circumstances, oppose himself with im punity, even for a comparatively brief period, to the steady advance of the broad flood of Reform, the strong and irresistible current of political change, of social amelioration, of progressively graduated, and constitutional development. Mr. DISRAELI (again we remind the Premier) has spoken—let the country now accord a hearing to Lord PALMERSTON. Mr. DISRAELI has spoken frankly, re repeat, distinctly and explicitly—and to what purport ? Why, to this—that he has candidly epitomised his political Future by de claring "The general policy which I would enforce at this juncture may be contained in these words—Honourable peace, reduced taxation, and social improvement." Let the Chief of the Cabinet —we ask now no more—emulate, without any more ado, the Candour, at least, of the Leader of the Opposition. The period has gone by for vague generalities. We must have a distinct Political Profession of Faith. Electors must know precisely what it is they are voting for—not, simply, who it is they are voting for ! They must now, more than ever, subordinate the Mon to the Measures—of which latter the former ought to he regarded as merely the Guarantees or Repre sentatives ! Mr. DISRAELI (yet again we remind the Prime Minister) has spoken already clearly and unmistakeably, as becomes the Leader of her MAJESTY'S Opposition in the popular branch of the Legislature. Let Lord PALMERSTON speak et last in his turn to the Country, as clearly and as unmistakeably—as it assuredly befits the Noble Viscount to do, in his still more responsible posi tion as the Leader of her MAJESTY'S Government. The strong point of the PALMERSTON Govern ment is unquestionably its foreign policy. The nation confides in " the English Minister" who enunciated the manly statement that " England had no cousins"—and who was and is believed to eschew the doctrines of Germanism • and of des potism, and to act solely with a view to the safety, honour, and welfare of our Sovereign Lady the QuEEN, and h er d om i n i ons i n a ll c li mes b enea th the " neer setting sun." Lord PALMERSTON has, however, a difficult game to play. He is subjected an i d ist w it h u i t e te h na/ to sinister a n d unco h must bo resisted, imperatively influences, demandwhie that his hands should be strengthened by the unequivocal expression of public opinion, and the certainty that he will be sustained and supported in the manly and straightforward course which his and sound * great experience judgment may suggest, by a good working majority. He requires that as sistance, not merely against avowed enemies, but far more against professing friends, who would, if possible, lead him from the proper path, into de,. OIITHIVARK ELECTION. Mr. LOCKE will MEET the ELECTORS at the under mentioned places THIS EVENING, At the Equestrian Coffee-house, St. George's-circus, at S o'clock precisely. Mrs. Lunn's, Lilliput Hall, Prospect-row, Bermondsey, on Friday, the 20th inst., at 7 o'clock precisely. At the George Inn, Borough, on Saturday, the 21st inst., at 1 o'clock p.m. At the Southwark Literary Institution, 'on Monday, the 23d inst., at 8 o'clock p.m. precisely. T HEATRE ROYAL, DRUM LANE.— Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. Acting Mtnager, Mr. C. Mathews. Stage Manager, Mr. R Rosby. Scenic Artist, Mr. W. Beverley. The emlient Comedian, Mr. Charles Nfatliews, every evening; and Mr. and Mrs. Keeley. THIS EVENING, her Majesty's Servants will perform A CURIOUS CASE. Followed by BETSEV BAKER. After which will be produced SEE, SAW, MARGERY DAW; Or, Harlequin Holiday, and the Island of Ups and Donns. The reduced prices as follows, varying throughout the house to suit every one :—Galleries, ed. and ls. ; Second Circle of Boxes, is. 6d. ; Pit, 25. ; First Circle of Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Drees Boxes, 3s. ; Stalls, Ss. ; Private Boxes, 10s, 64., 1 7 . ls., 1/. lls. 6d., and 2/. 2s. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, THIS EVENING-, will bo performed Shalcespere's trtgedy of KING RICHARD THE SD - 20ND. King Richard 11., Mr. C. K , au ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by MUSIC HATH CHARMS. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. C. Dillon. THIS EVENING, THE CAGOT. Mr. Charles Dillon Mr Barrett, Mr. Stuart. After which, a new farce, entitled MY FRIEND FROM LEATHEItIIEAD. Mr. Toole, Miss Wilton, and Mrs. B. White. Followed by the gorgeous burlesque of CONRAD AND lIEDORA. Miss Woolgar, Mr. J. L. Toole, 3c. The box-office open daily, from 11 to 5, under the super lotcndence of Mr. Cliatterton, inn. Carriages conveying parties 1..) the Private Boxes to set down at the State entrance iu Burleigh-street. THEATRE ROYAL, IJA.YMARKET. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven, A LIFE'S TRIAL. Messrs. Enckstone, Compton, Howe, W. Ferren, R,gers ; 'Mesdames Reynolds, Poynter, Fitzwil- Ham, die. After which, A WICKED WIFE. To conclnle with SHOCKING EVENTS. THEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI. Ties =ee—Mr. Bon. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed the popular drama of IRELAND AS IT IS. Mr. awl Mr 4. Barney Williams. After which, A NIGHT AT NOTTING-HILL, in which Mr. Wright and Pall Redford will appear. BARNEY THE RATION. Barney O'Tcole, Mr. Barney Williams. Followed by a-now Piece do Caractere, entitled IN AND OUT OF PLACE. Mr. Barney Williams. OYAL SURREY THEATRE, 1 5) Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Oreswick. THIS EVENTING, a new drama, entitled FRAUD AND ITS VICTI MS. Messrs. Creswick, Shepherd, &c. After which, an original farce, entitled, THE SERIOUS YOUTH. To conclude with the Spanish bal:et, EL DESCUIDADO. Sancho, Mr Buck. • 4,1* TI AND TB E.A.TRE.—Manager, M:. T. ►.7 Payne. —Thiq Evrminv. will be per , :ormed DO S7TAKr, HANDq. After which, THE DEATH OF EVA,* in which the Howard Family will appear. Followed by COUSIN CHERRY. To conclude with THE BLUE JACKETS. Commence at Seven. Stalls,'. 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. 140 Y A L OLYMPIC THEATRE. T_Aqsee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, (a 'new farce, called THIEVES ! THIEVES ! ! Messrs. F. Robson, 0, Vining., S:c. The new drama, by Tom Taylor, Esq., A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING. Followed by the new farce, by Bayle Bernard, Esq., called A SPLENDID INVESTMENT. And A BLIGHTED BEING. Mr. F. Robson, &c. Commence at half-past Seven. A.STLEY'S 'ROYAL AMP HITIT EATRE. Lessee and Manag - er, Mr. W. Cnol:o. THIS EVENING (first week) Shaksperc's Play of KING HENRY THE FOURTH'Part First), with novel and effec tive equestrian illustrations invented by Mr. Wm. Cooke. Hotspur, Mr. James Holloway. Alai), a number of amusing Entertainments, concluding with a Brilliant Display of Equestrian SKILL and SCIENCE, by first-rate artistes, in the SCENES in the CIRCLE Commerce at soven o'clock. Dress Ilexes, 4s. ; Upper Roxes, 35.; Private Boxes, from 1 /., no charg,o for booking ; Pit, 2s. Gallery, U ier Galle- • , , • ppk .eery, pox office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooko, jun. CANTERBURY HALL. Woßttnintter-road. OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow- Lug company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Duets, e.r.c., viz.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunch], Miss Sr:mmors, and Madame Marietta; Mr. J. Caulfield, Hen- F. Jonglanans, It. Grover, T. Farrant, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri, Senor Antonio M. lie Soils, and E. L. 'lime ; Masters Austin, Poimett, and Corti; 'Messrs. Sam Collins, E. hackney, and C. J. Wilkins. Pianoforte, Mr. Cccil Hicks; harmonium, .T. Caulfield, jun.; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Confluence at Seven o'clock pro etiely. Suppers, dtc., until twelve o'clock. HIGH WATMR AT LONDON BRT Tuts DAT—Morn. 49 min. aft. 6--Ev , ming 17 mid. aft. 7 n ^- Volinow—Morn. 52 min. aft. 7—Evening 38 mil.‘..aft 8 Tim WEA.THEIt—SuN Oirricr,, MARCH 19. THRBIIOIItITER, IN TIIR SITADIC. 63 —highest singe noon yesterday. 51—lowest this morning and during ths 5G -this day at no on. R enovit-atn, 29.91. WIND, S.S.E. to S./L . — Light, with dull, rainy weather. ` 3 l Gtiv 3/ LONDON, TEET_TIZSDAY, mAncrt 19, 18t7. Lord PALMERSTON is 10-ing his opportunity. Not a syllable from the Noble Viscount yet either as to his Policy or as to his Principles. Not a syl lable—although his position has manifestly been, from the first, so very anomalous. I‘..tean w bile, it has not b een b y any means th us w ith the Right Hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition. He, at least, has spoken out already—candidlh we must admit, and very much to the purpose. He has issued his Political Minifesto betimes upon the very eve of the Dissolution. Ho has done so, moreover, according to approved form, in the shape of an Address to his Constituents. Conspicuously placed as Mr. DISRA.ELI is, how. ever, it is rather to the People of England gene rally that he speaks, as it were, by necessity, at such a moment, than simply and exclusively to the Electors of _Buckin g hamshire. And in the fIIR SUN, LONDON, THURSDAW EVENING, MARCH 19, 1857. vious courses from which extrication may be im possible. The impending difficulties do not relate to " the Celestial Empire" only. There are selious complications nearer home that call for extraordinary courage and skill in order that satisfactory results may be accomplished. " The State of Italy" is perhaps of all others that which requires the most careful consideration —the most prompt and vigorous action. It was brought prominently before the Conferences at Paris, but the Austrian protests prevented the de cision which must have been arrived at had the interesting question been discussed on its merits. The " occupations," as they were euphoniously termed, of different states, or, in other words, the protection afforded by foreign bayonets to those who did not think it worth their while to cultivate the good-will of their subjects, who thought that they should enforce submission rather than win love, were the evils complained of—and the repre sentatives of France and England spoke fairly, although in deference to Austria, nothing was accomplished. The hopes of the oppressed and long suffering peoples were encouraged, and there was every reason to believe that France, at least, would speedily remove the grievance. Nothing, literally nothing, has however been done during the twelve months that have since passed away. The Italian soil is still polluted by the presence of alien troops, and French and German are the languages spoken in the barracks of Hesperia. There have been no attempts at the abatement of the intolerable nuisance—no symptoms of evacuation. Austria has been striving to pick a quarrel, on the approved " wolf-and-lamb" precedent, with the Government of Piedmont, while France and England calmly survey the ominous clouds gathering on the poli tical herizon, and which indicate an impending hurricane, by which an European war, or series of wars, may be rendered inevitable. In another part of our impression will be found a remarkable document, which we have extracted from a morning contemporary, the Daily News, together with an article showing clearly and forcibly the magnitude of the emergency. It purports to be a " Report on the condition and prospects of the States of the Church, and of Italy in general," addressed by the French Envoy at Rome, to Count WALEWSII. We cannot, of course, vouch for its authenticity, respecting which our contemporary appears to be satisfied. There is, however, a vraisemblanee that induces us to lend it an easy credence. It seems to have been " written to order" —to have been prepared as an elaborate excuse for inaction a studied condemna tion of Constitutional Government for which, according to the writer, Italy is perfectly unquali fied. It is dated in May, just two months after the unexpected ventilation of the inconvenient topic by Count °AYOUB at the Parisian Congress. It is an apology for the Papal, and a serious in dictment against the Sardinian Government, an earnest vindication of the policy that produced and has continued the occupations. Without secret encouragement the subordinate official would not have dared to oppose that which his superior declared to be his own views. Under such circumstances we cannot repose implicit con fidence on the good faith and integrity of the French Government. Many matters flash on our minds. The crushing of Italian freedom, the lame and impotent conclusion of the Russian war, the hints against the inconvenient freedom of the Press, and now this extraordinary document indicate the vast difference between the sayings and doings of the French Government. The danger is great ; and there is but one mode by which it can be averted—the clear, distinct, and unqualified expression of public feeling on the several hustings throughout the length and breadth of the land. Elsctors must not speak of China only, but show what they think in relation to foreign affairs generally, so that their temper may be clearly understood, and that those who may be inclined to tamper with such matters may be made cognisant of the great danger of "playing with edged-tools." In our " Catechism for Candidates," to which Lord DERBY so recently directed the attention of his brother Peers, we gave a prominent place to " The Abolition of Purchase in the Army, and Promotion by Merit." The vast importance of the question cannot be controverted. It may, indeed, be regarded as a matter of urgent neces sity—as the only means by which we can mate rially reduce the expenses, without impairing the efficiency, of our military establishments. It has been authoritatively declared that the British troops in the Crimea were "an army of Lions, led on by Asses ; " and it is essential that our dearly-bought experience should not be wasted or misapplied. We should profit to the utmost by the painful but salutary lesson, and adopt every possible precaution against the chance of the reproach being again applied to our English army. We see that a system of pro motion prevails in this country unknown in other nations, by which the security and honour of the United Kingdom depend on a succession of lucky accidents—on men who are possessed of ample funds, or commanding interest, and who are too frequently disposed to talk slightingly of the ser vice—to vote it " a bore," and declare their in tention of " selling out,"—being actuated by military enthusiasm, and induced to study care fully and painfully that which by no means im proves their position , Dither at the Horse Guards or with their brother officers. What can be expected or hoped for while money and influence are almost the only qualifications sought for, and attentive and diligent study is not only not required, but virtually discouraged by the authorities ? When staff appointments and other advantages are distributed to the least de serving applicants. Surely such a system suffi ciently explains the untoward events that occurred in the Crimea, and which occasioned the tardily re cognised Report of Sir JOHN WNEILL and Colonel Turxoeu. We are told that the abolition of the system would occasion a heavy expense to the country . But the most unflinching economist would scarcely hesitate at any cost which the introduction of a more judicious and wise prac tice might require. " They manage these things better in France." The importance of Military Education is there fully appreciated as well as in all other nations aspiring to a military position. All through the Continent, in France, Prussia, Austria, and Sardinia there are schools at which officers aspiring to Staff appointments must undergo probationary exercises and examinations, and prove themselves fully qualified for the efficient discharge of the duties that may be confided to their hands, while "out ofj 216 officers who have received certificates at the senior depart ment of Sandhurst since 1836, only 15 were employed on the staff in May, 1854." This simple fact speaks trumpet-tongued as to the ne cessity for a total change in the administration of military affairs by the authorities at the Horse Guards. A very important Report has just been pub lished by the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the foreign systems of military education. These gentlemen have faithfully and efficiently discharged their duty. Let us hope that " the good seed thus sown may bring forth fruit in due season," and that a large and comprehen sive measure of reform may be one of the first, as it would be one of the most popul. r, acts of the new Parliament. There is no royal road to military skill, although, unfortunately, there is to military rank. That anomaly must be forthwith removed. "Detur digniori" should be inscribed on every commission ; and when it is once gene rally known that merit will be rewarded, and that mere money or favour will do nothing for the candidates, we shall find men anxious to do that which will entitle them to favourable notice at head-quarters. In every other branch of the public service it is a high crime and misdemea nour to endeavour to obtain promotion by pur chase. Why, then, should it be sanctioned or tolerated where it may be productive of results very injurious to the national interests and pre judicial to the national honour ? REPRESENTATION OF BRID.PORT. TO THI IDITOR OF THE SUN. DEAR SIR, --Will you kindly permit me, through the medium of your columns, to say there is not die slightest truth in the statement contained in this morning's Post and Advertiser, that I had given up my hope of obtaining a seat in the House of Commons, for Bridport. On the contrary, my canvass bas been most flattering and successful.- -I am, dear sir, yours faithfully, E. T. SMITH. Her Majesty will hold a Privy Council on Friday next at Buckingham Palace. Yesterday was the birthday of her Royal Highness the Princess Louisa. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess Amalie of Hohen lobe Schillingfurst, arrived at 2 o'clock in the afternoon to pay a visit of congratulation to the Queen. LIE PERSIAN ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY.—MB Excel lency Feruk Khan, the Envoy Extraordinary from Persia, will arrive at Folkestone to-day from Paris, and will remain some weeks in London. Captain Lynch, of the East India Company's service, will attend on his Excellency during Lis sojourn in England. General Todtleben is travelling in Piedmont. He lately visited Alessandria, and it is said offered some suggestions with respect to the fortifications about to be erected. DE. VOGEL.—A letter from LApsic of the 11th con. tradicta the statement of the death of Dr. Vogel in Africa —no accounts having been received later than those which mentioned hie safe arrival in the capital of the Wadai. ADDITIONAL MAILS TO CHlNA.—Arrangements have been made by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Na vigation Company for establishing packet communica tion with China, in connection with the Overland India Mail leaving London, via Southampton, on the 20di, and via Marseilles on the 26th of each month. Mails for China will accordingly be made up on those days, com mencing an the 20th inst. The branch packets con veying these mails will [depart from Point de Galle, and will call at Penang and Singapore. This despatch of mails will be additional to that now taking place on the 4th and 10th of each month.—By command of the Post master-General, RoWLAND HILL, Secretary.—General Post-office, March 18, 1857. MAILS FOR SWEDIIN. —The mail steam packets under e•ntraot with the Swedish Govetnment being about to recommence their voyages between Grimsby and Got tenburg, mails for conveyance by those packets will be made up at this office on the evening of Friday, the 20th lest., and on the evening of every subsequent Friday, until further notice. Al. letters and newspapers ad dressed to Uddewalla, will be forwarded bythese packets, unless directed to be otherwise sent ; but letters and newspapers for other parts of Sweden, intended to he transmitted by these packets, must be specially addressed " Via Grimsby "or "By Swedish packet."—By com mand of the Postmaster-General, ROWLAND HILL, Se cretary.—General Post-office, March 17, 1857. INJUNCTION AGAINST SIR WILLIAM DON.--On Tues day Sir William Don and Mr. Emery, the lessee of the Marylebone Theatre were served with a copy of an in junction, issued by Vice-Chaaeellor Wood, on the ap plication of Mr. Buckstane of the Haymarket, and of Mr. Bernard, the author of the piece called "Tao Evil Genius," in which Sir Wm. Don has been performing at the Marylebone Theatre. The application was made by Mr. Lewis (Lewis and Lewis), the solicitor to the Dra matic Authors' Society, and forthwith issued, and was served by that gentleman on both parties the same after noon. The parties will of course have an opp eitunity to move the court on the next seal day to dissolve the in junction obtained on the ex-parte application. EXTRAORDINARY NARRATIVE. —Oa Sunday last, whilst the ship Switzerland, Captain Conway, from New York, was beating up the Channel towards the Mersey, one of the crew, James Smith, fell overboard when off the Great Ormahead. The sea was running wild and high, and some time necessarily elapsed before the boat was launched for the almost hopeless task of rescue. Tne man was known, however, as an athletic fellow and a good swimmer. As the boat neared the unfortunate man they were horrified to see him deliberately take out his penknife and cut his throat. They hailed him, but the noise of the storm seemed to proveut any recegnition, and he alternately rose and descended with the waves. Ultimately they succeeded in rescuing him and bringing him on board, with blood flowing from his neck. When interrogated as to his singular conduct, he said he en tertained not the slightest hope of being saved, and rather than undergo the horrid and tedious death of drowning amid the storm, he thought of hastening his end by cutting hie' throat. The poor fellow now lies in a fair way of recovery on board the ship in the river. FATAL GUN ACCIDENT. --On Saturday last, about 11 o'clock forenoon, Wm. Ferguson, spirit dealer, Garnock e - oottae, near Kilbirnie Railw a y station, met with his death in a very sudden manner. He, along with others, was enjoying a day's sport i n sh o oting rabbits, in the bank contiguous to the far m of B oag. Duncan John son, ono of the party, had his gun on full cock, and in the act of passing through a clump of bramble, the trig disengaged it, and caused the content s ger seems to have come in c ont act with one of the twigs, which probably of the barrel to be discharged, ar tof which settled in the body of poor Ferguson, who was within a short dis tance iu front of Johnson. The melancholy occurrence was entirely fortuitous, and the distraction of Johnson can wily be imagined when he beheld the comrade of his youth prostrated a bleeding corpse before him. Dr. Walker, of Kilbirnie, wa s shortly in att en d ance, b ut h i s professional skill was of no avail. He, however, exa mined the body, and found marks of hailehot on the chest, arms, and face, some of which appear to have penetrated the lungs, and other vital parts, and caused death to be almost instantaneous. Dec,ased has left a wife and five children to lament his loss. We under stand that Johann is in custody. —Ayr Express. MELANCEIOLY AND FATAL OCCURRENOE.—An accident of a most heartrending nature occurred at the residence of Mr. W. Robson, of Paradise, near Newcastle, on the evening of Wednesday last, which unhappily ended in the death of Mrs. Rubson. It appears that on the evening in questiou the lamented deceased and her hus band wore alone in a small breakfast -room in the lower part of the house, and, as Mr. It ibson was reading at the fire, Mrs. Robson, who was attired in a white muslin dress, passed between him and the fireplace for the purr pose of ringing the bell for one of the servants. After ringing the bell, and while standing with her back to the fire, the housemaid entered the apartment, and per ceiving her mistress's dress to be on fire behind, uttered a loud shriek. Mr. Robson, whose attention was im mediately directed to the flumes rising up behind, in stantly attempted to throw her down, and wrap her up in a rug, but owing to the excitement of the unfortunate lady his efforts proved ineffectual. After the flames had to some extent been got under the unfortunate lady was found to be burnt to death.—Newcastle Journal. SOOTOU PRISONS.—The 18th Report of the General Board of Directors of Prisons in Scotland has just been issued. At the close of the year 1855 there were 543 prisoners in custody in all departments of the General Prison—viz., 303 males and 240 females. The total number confined in this prison during. the year included 584 males and 414 females. 'At the close of 1856 there were 616 persons in custody. The total net cost of the prisoners was 161. ls. 21 per head, being 21. 9a. 2d. less than in 1855. Tne number of criminal prisoners re• ceived at the various prisons in the year ended the 30th of June, 1856, was 20,931, making a total of 112,235 for five years ending in 1856, and a yearly average of 22,447. Of the prisoners 1,787 were under 16 years of age, 1,213 under 18, 2,843 under 21, 12,824 between 21 and 50, and 1,232 of 50 years and above. The net number of commitments in the year was 19,015. There were 264 sentences to transportation and penal servitude and 2to death. The great majority of offenders expiated their crimes by imprisonment. The report does not present any remarkably salient points. The LATE COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—The Rev. Dr. Bicleersteth, the newly-appointed Bi,leop of Ripon, has expressed his deep sympathy fo r the widows and children of the men now lying dead at the bottom of the Lundhill Colliery. He has visited the site of the catastrophe, and expressed his delire to render any service in his official capacity :which may be the means of aiding the subscrip tion set on foot for the relief of the distressed ; and on Monday evening the right rev. prelate preached an elo quent sermon to a large congregation in Barnsley Church, having especial reference to the late awful explosion. Many colliers, as well as the leading inhabitants of the town, were present. The collection at the close of the sermon in aid of the " Lundbiill Colliery Relief Fund" amounted to 28/' BURLINGTON HOUSE —The new meeting-room and library for the Royal Society, whi c h have been formed under the direction of the Office of Works, Whitehall, in the western wing of Burlington-hou se , are now ready for the decorator. The meeting-room is an apartment of large size, 77 feet long, 42 feet wide, and about 30 feet high. Here the collection of portraits belonging to the society will be open to the public at stated times. It will be heated by hot water. The library is a room of good size, but comparatively low. Mr. Myers and Mr. Smith, of Pimlico, have executed the principal works. —ne .Buitclo: HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. SEASON 1857. aurouncing tLp: arrang , 3roes the director of her Majesty's Theatre caunot but refer, with sincere gratitude, t the success which attended his efforts, under very trying circumstances, in the season of 185 G. Dramatic opera, which in every Foreign State is foss tered by Government aid, is, in this country, denied the support which is extended to other departments of Art; and it is to the patronage of the upper claseee, who have rallied round the establishment, that the country owes the prosperity of a noble lyrical institution, which no ❑neupported individual efforts could maintain in a man ner worthy of its old renown. In acknowledging the munificent assistance which enabled him to conquer the unprecedented difficulties of last year, the director cannot sufficiently express his , grateful appreciation of the delicacy with which it was bestowed ;—support was freely and nobly ac corded for the sole purpose of insuring the prosperity of the institution, and the counsel which added to its value was never accompanied by a word to shackle the discretion or impair the authority of the direction. To this the success of the past season is greatly owing ; and from the generous confidence with which the sub scribers have renewed their subscriptions for the present year, without awaiting the publication of the annual programme, the director derives the assurance that he bas not altogether disappointed the patrons of the theatre, and that)e may rely on the continuance of the cordial encouragement by which be has been hithertolipheld, and under which it is hoped still higher triumphs may be achieved than were immediately attainable on the restoration of the establishment. The enthusiasm which a elcomed the re•opening of her Majesty's Theatre was not confined to the subscribers. The hearty interest and genuine appreciation displayed by the audiences who thronged the house from the first night to the closing farewell demand the warmest thanks of the director, which he will endeavour practically to Express by renewed efforts in the service of the public. The director is most anxious to acknowledge how much he is indebted to Madlle. Piccolomini and all the artistes whose talents contributed to the success of last year, not merely for those efforts of genius which won the sympathy and admiration of the subscribers and the public, but for that high artistic feeling and honourable fidelity which secured the audience from disappointment, and enabled the direction to produce the entertainments promised for each evening without a single change of performance —a fac',i without precedent in operatic history. The advantages peculiar to her Majesty's Theatre, — its central position, and associations, now more than a century old—give to it a natural pre-eminence of which •no ococasional circumstances can ever per manently deprive it. These advantages will be turned to account by a company combining the prestige of acknowledged genius, with the attraction of new candidatei for the highest rank of their profession. Those who last year won favour at the hands of strangers will reappear to claim the cordial recognition which an English audience never refuses to established favourites ; and the direction has been further strengthened by an accession of new aspirants of the highest order, whose merits are already acknowledged on the stages of Italy, and who only await the verdict of the subscribers and frequenters of her Majesty's Theatre to confirm their fame. Although in an establishment especially devoted to Italian Opera the compositions of Italy will naturally predominate, the gems of other schools will not be neglected. Ballet will continue to bo supported by the most fa mous of established artistes and the most promising of those who are ambitious of the same distinction. It is hoped that the organisation of every department will prove complttely worthy of that state of renewed prosperity to which her Majesty's Theatre has now attained. The following are the arrangements already com pletcd OPERA. Madame Allooni.—Madlle. Maria Spezia, of La Scala, Milan; La Fenice, Venice; San Carlos, Lisbon ' - &c., her first appearance.—Madlle. Angiola O r t o l an i, o f La Scala, Milan; L'Oriento, Madrid ; &c., hor first appef.rance.— Madlle. Baillou, Madams Franchi, Madlle. Berti, Madlle. Treneta Ramos, of the Toatro Regio, Turin. Her first appearance.—Madlle. Piccolomini. Sig. Antonio Giuglini, of La Scala, Milan ; Carlo Felice, Genoa ; San Carlos, &c. His first appearance. Sig. Jacopi, Sig. Mercuriali, and Sig. Luigi Bottsrdi, of the Carlo Felice, Getoa, &c. His first appearan ce .—Si g . Bel lotti, Sig. Beneventano, Sig. Napoleons Rossi, Sig. Gio vanni Corsi, of La Scala, Milan ; and Italian Opera, Paris; &c. His first appearance. —Sig. Baillou, Si,. 13. Soros, Sig. Gariboldi, and Sig. Filoppo Vialetti, of La Scala, Milan; La Fenice, Venice; L'Oriente, Madrid; &c.—His first appearance. Director of the Music and Conductor, gig. Bonotti. Sous Directeur and Maitre du Chant, Sig. Vaschetti, Suggeritore, Sig. Fontana. BILLET. Madlle. Carolina Pocehini, of the Karnther Thor, Vienna ; La Scabs, Milan ; San Carlo; Naples ; Carlo Felice, Genoa, &c., her first appearance ; Madlle. Marie Taglioni ; Madlle. Boschetti • Madlle. Katrina ; Madlle. Teresa Rolla, of La Fenice, Venice, her first appearance ; Luigia Brunetti, of the Carlo Felice, Genoa, her first appearance; Madlle. Elias Salvione, of La Scala, Milan, her first appearance ; Madlle. Giuseppina. Morlacchi, of the Teatro Rogio, Turin, her first appearance ; Madlle. Isabella Karliski, of tt e Academie Imperiale, Paris, her first appearance ; Madlle. Carolina Pasquali, of the Impe rial Theatres of Vienna and Milan, her first appearance; and Madame Rosati. M. Paul Taglioni, Signor Ronzani, Mr. Charles, M. Pierre Massot (of the Oriente, Madrid, his first appear ance); Signor Filipo Baratti, his first appearance; Signor Cesare Checchetti, his first appearance ; Signori Rairaelle Gambardolla, Luigi Varini, Luigi Turbino, and Pietro Buzzio; (of the Teatro Regio, Turin; and Carlo Felice Genoa), their first appearance. Maitres do Ballet—M. Paul Taglioni, Signor Ronzani, M. Massot. Regissour de la Danse—M. Petit. Master of the School of lustruction—M. Mascot. Marine. Piccolourini will arrive early in April ; and, in addition to the characters which last season she made her own, will appear in a varied and attractive repertoire.. Madlle. Spezia will have the honour to appear for the first time at the opening of the season in Donizettes opera of La Favotita. Immediately after, Macllle. Ortolani will make her first appearance as Elvira, in Banjul's opera of " I Puritani." Elvira, Madlle. Ortolani ; Arturo, Si gnor Giuglini. Madame Alboni will arrive before the Ist of May, and will make her first appearance this season as Azucena, in Verdi's opera of " IL Travatora." The union of three of these distinguished prime donne, Madlle. Spezia, Madlie. Ortolani, and Madlle. Piccolomini, will be effected in Mozart's opera of " Il Dm - Giovanni," which will be produced with the perfection of ensemble and details necessary to realise the intentions of 'its great author. All the artistes of the establishment will join in aiding the efforts of the director to do honour to the noble work of the Shakspere of music. Signor Giuglini. This charming tenor will have the honour of inaugurating the opening of the theatre, and will make his first appearance as Fernando-, in the opera of " La Favorite." The distinguished basso profondo, Signor Vialetti, also make his first appearance at the opening of the theatre, Tho admired tenor, Signor Botardi, will snake his first appearance early in the season. Besides the principal executants of last year, the arches. tra has been .strengthened by the engagements of, amongst others. Sig. Pezzs, first violoncello of La Scala ; and Sig, Giraldoni, first contrabass° of Bergamo, La Scala, &c. The chorus will be numerous and effective. In addition to the union of operatic talent at the opening of the season, the inauguration of the ballet portion will be made by the fascinating artiste, Madlle. Pocchini. The most successful ballot of "La Esmeralda," will be 'revived expressly for her debut. Early in the season Madlle. Boschetti and Madlle. Ka trine will appear. Madlle. Marie Taglioni will arrive early in May, and will shortly after wards appear in a New Ballet, composed expressly for her by M. Paul Taglioni. Madame Rosati will appear in a Ballet Divertissement from Auber and Scribe's new ballet of "Marco Spada," now preparing for her at the Academie Imperiale, Paris. Principal artiste to the establishment, Mr. C. Marshall. The costume department will be directed by M. Laureys, under the superintendence of Madame Copere. Principal Machinist, Mr. D. Sloman; Head of the Property Depart ment, Mr. Bradwell. The subscription will consist of thirty nights, and the taring will be as follow : —Pit Boxes, 150 guineas ; Grand Tier, 200 guineas ' • One pair, 150 guineas ; Two-pair, 100 guineas ; Pit Stalls, 25 guineas. The theatre will open on Tuesday, 14th April, when will be presented Donizetti's opera of " La Favorite." Leonora, Madlle. Spezia; Baldassare, Sigr. Vialetti ; Fernando, Sigr. Giuglini. To be followed (first time these ten years) by the favourite ballet of "La Esmeralda," founded on Victor Hugo " Notre Dame de Paris." La Esmeralda, Madlle. Pocchini s Claude Frollo, Sigr. Ronzzni ; PierreGringoire, M. Mascot; ADILPHI THEATRE.—Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince, with the Princess Louisa, Prince Arthur, and the Princess Helena, honoured the Adelphi Theatre with their presence last evening. The Royal suite consisted of the Countess of Desart, Lord Byron, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Captain the Hon. D. de Rog. Madame Ristori is expected in Paris on March 25, and it is said that she will positively appear in the cha racter of Lady Macbeth. CELESTE AT EDINBURGH.—On Monday night Madame Celeste commenced a short engagement at the Theatre Royal in her original part of Miami, in the drama of "The Green Bushes." The character is well adapted for the display of that expressive pontomimic power in which she is without an equal • and we need scarcely add that her actin g , in point of pi c t uresque effect, was quite wor th y of her established reputation. At the Queen's Theatre, Mr. Vandenhoff is performing some of his finest parts. This evening he is to appear, for the first time in this quarter, in the character of Sir Pertinax Mace - yeophaqt—Edinburgit Courant. A Paris letter in the Independance of Brussels atat' that a play, written by Alexandre Dumas in 24 hours, is about to be performed at the residence of M. de Gir ardin, and that M. Dumas, who boasts of being the best cook in France, is to superintend the preparation of the dinner which le to precede the performance. LATEST L I 1,1 It wo:. , ulembered, says the .Nord of Brut- Bois, that long before we published the Austro- Sardinian notes, our correspondent at Vienna led tis to expect the cessation of diplomatic relations between Austria and Piedmont. The Austrian Gtazette appears now to confirm this news, but it states that the recall of Count Paar from Turin would only be a satisfaction which Austria owes to herself, and would be attended with no other consequences than the cessation of diplomatic re lations between the two countries. We must de clare with all those who wish to see future com plications prevented that when two powers are geographically and politically placed one against the other, as are Austria and Sardinia, such a rupture is always dangerous and consequently to be regretted. FRANOE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVMING. M. F. de Lesseps has arrived in Paris from Egypt. At his departure from the East, the pre liminary works of the canal through the Isthmus of Suez were urged on with activity. The question of a modification of the French Cabinet is, after a long interval, once more among the rumours of the day. The cause to which rumours owe their origin is as fol lows :—A. short time since M. Mocquard, the Chef du Cabinet of the Emperor, was attacked by a severe malady, which confined him for some time to his bed, and which at one time occa sioned serious alarm to his friends. The offico of Chef du Cabinet is of the most important kind, and of an entirely confidential nature. The person who holds a post so near the Emperor's person must be, of all others, not only politically but personally devoted to his master. In case of dismissal, resignation, or any other casualty, it would be difficult to nd a successor, at least one who combines alI the qualities which, according to general belief, are found in the present occupant of the post. During M. Mocquard's illness it was represented to the Emperor that, in case of its teminating fatally (which is not the case, as that gentleman is completely re-established, and has for some days past resumed his duties), it would be necessary to ineorporatethe Cabinet of the Emperor with the department of State and the Imperial . household, as the Cabinet ought in point of fact to be a branch of that department; that the Minister of State is the principal member of the Cabinet ; that, as atpresent situate, he is so merely in theory and not in practice, and that serious inconvenience would result unless the incorporatign took place. This view of the case is by some persons believed to be correct ; and the person who is at the head of the Cabinet,' according to them, ought to be under the immediate control of the Minister of State. The recovery of M. Mocquard rendered the change which was contemplated unnecessary or inoppor tune, but it is thought that the reasons alicg,Al for it were rather favourably received by the Em peror, who,. it is said, communicated them to his chef de cabinet and confidential secretary. Whether the plan of incorporation which was so near taking place has been merely 'postponed, or abandoned altogether, is not known, but it affords the only grounds for the rumours of the Ministerial modifi cations alluded to. One of these rumours was, that M. de Persiguy would probably be recalled from the London Embassy, and appointed to a high and confidential place in the Cabinet. Bouusz, March 18.—The following were the last quotations - Cash. fr. C. 4 per Cents - End of Month. -fr. ----3. 71 15 3Per Cents 7O 85 New Loan Bank Shares 4,175 Roman Crgdit Mobilier 1,470 Austrian Belgian Fives .. Spanish Threes Piedmontese (5) 9l 25 Home Debt RAILWAYS-FOR CASS. 89/ 90 41 333 fr. c. fr c Orleans 1,480 Western Northern 987 50 Strasburg Lyons 1,530 -- New Ditto Mediterranean 9 ,010 Grand Central Lyons Geneva Cette B6O Austrian Cum. ...... 787 50 SARDINIA. The d:seivion on the fortifica ions of Al essand rift, in the Chamber of Deputies of Turin, has lost much of its interest since the result Las been announced by telegraph. Somo of the most striking passages of the debate on the 15th, h owe v er , d eserve t o be mentioned : Farini, alluding to Count Solaro's defence of Austria, reminded Lim that he himself had written that Austria was celebrated for her wisdom of ingratitude towards those whom she owed benefits.' In 1815 Aus tria conceived vast projects in Italy, and constituted her self the protectress of the peninsula. The first operation she understook was the destruction of the fortifications of Alessandria. The r.igning prince of the House of Savoy at that time wept at the outrage, and in the bitterness of his heart said, `J'attends mon astre.' Aus tria likewise attempted to deprive Piedmont of Novara, but was prevented by the other powers, The present eo:lscitutional system of Piedmont was not palatable to Austria, and there was, therefore, both from historical facts and present circumstances, every reason to put the country in a state of proper defence. Count Solaro delta Margherita in a second speech denied Count Cavour's assertion that Austria infringed any treaty in fortifying Piacenza, she being entrusted with its defence, and therefore authorised to fortify it. (This declaration was received with loud murmurs of disapprobation.) "Count Revel, one of the leading members of the Right, declared he s aw no provocation in fortifyfog Alessandria, which he considered a measure of legi timate defence ; but that there was great provocation offered to Austria in the speeches of the orators of the Chambers arid in the pudic press. f l 00113 i Kamiani ooncluCled an animated speech in favour of the measure with the following words : After a silence of six centuries, the traditions of the Lombard League are reviving, not under thirty banners, but under a single one, which shows that the Italian nation has but one opinion, one will, and one hope. (Loud cheers from the tribunes.) Tho grandeur and holiness of the enterprise command us to suppress every discussion and to vote the bill. I move that we pro ceed to the consideration of the articles." The motion was supported by many other mem bers, and after General La Marmora had given ex planations on his conduct in the matter, the dis cussion was adjourned to the 16th, whoa the vote was taken, as already stated. THE EAST. -- ----- We have received Constantinople lett-ra and journals to the 6h. Ou the previous day a coun cil of ministers had been held, to deliberate on the choice of a new caimacan of Moldavia, but no de cision had been then come to. The diplomatic body had been -consulted on the subject, and the result had been made known by telegraph. The news of the conclu?don of the treaty_ of peace tweeu England and Persia had reached the Turkish capital, but had not produced much sensation, as the result was a n ti c i pa ' e d. 'A letter from Alexandria of the 7th says " The Viceroy has returned to Cairo from his visit to the Soudan. In the course of it, he diminished the taxes even below what the populations had offered to pay, released 2,000 slaves, ordered about 100,000 feddars of land, which, from being exces sively taxed, had been left uncultivated ; to be dis tributed amongst the people, put an end to a host of abuses, and nominated Orakel Bey, who is a Christian, to the government- of the Senur. All these measures have won him the gratitude of the populations. The project of cutting through the Isthmus of Suez continues to attract the Viceroy's attention. The Russian consul -general, in a visit to his Highness, complimented him on the support he gives to that project." PRUSSIA. BIRLIN, March 17. Yesterday information reached here by telegraph from Copenhagen, to the effect that the final treaty for the redemption of the Sound Dues had been concluded, and Baron von Manteuffel took occasion, in the course of the sit ting of the Rouse of Deputies, the same morning, to communicate the circumstance to the members assembled. The Minister President made his an nouncement in the following worth "Gentlemen,—lt is an agreeable duty which I fulfil in informing the house that in the course of the night before last a treaty for the redemption of the Sound Dues was concluded and signed at Copenhagen. (" Bravo 1" from all sides of the house.) As soon as it is possible I shall lay before the house the papers connected with this treaty, and I trust that the house will derive from them the conviction that his Majesty's Government has been at some pains to further the interests of the country as far as it lay in its power." SPAIN. MADRID, March 14.—Gen. Prim is to undergo at Toledo the punishment to which he has been condemned. The report of the removal of Gen. Concha . from the chief command in Cuba is not confirmed, and may be presumed to have had no foundation. We hear nothing further of a pardon for Gene ral Prim. The get,eral opinion seems to be th a t to giant it would be to offer a slight and alm os t an affront to Narvaez, such as would indicate that his influence was all but e xtinct, and scarcely l eave him any option but that of withdrawing from the Ministry. The Three per Cents, were clone at 39.60. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. (From the Cape Town Mail of Jan. 27.) From Natal we have news of rather an exf..itin(4 cl , aracter, in correqueuce of th e di s t ur b ances among the Zulus. These disturbances were caused by a contest between Kechwya and Umbulazi, two sons of the paramount Chief Panda. On the 2d Dee• the latter was defeated with immense slaughter. The victorious Kechwya, a lad of 19, after the bat tle, divided his army into three sections, and with these scoured the country in all 41irections, putting to death not only his enemies, but also all neutral or doubtful subjects who came in his way. get however, kept clear of the immediate vicinity of Panda, who, by the latest intelligence, was raising an army in defence of his throne. It is said that the number of persons slaughtered by the victors, must have been upwards of 30,000. Umbulazi was put to death with the utmost barbarity, having been skinned alive. The export of wool is daily increasing. Further improvements in the breed of the Cape Marino sheep have lately been made by the introduction of Saxony and German rains. The Angora goat has also been introduced. The Vulcan has arrived with the bead-quarters • of the German Legion, and General the Baron s' oll Stutterbeim, who has been severely injured in the, arm by the bite of a b u lld og, w hi c h he purc h as ed from Sir Sir Harry Smith before leaving England. The first detachment of the German Legions consisting of 654 men, with 6 women, and 9 chil dren, arrived in Table Bay on the 29th Dec., by the Sultana. The Culloden, with a second detach ment, arrived on the Ist January. The third detachment arrived in the Stamboul, on the Atla January. Extract of a letter from Fort Beaufort, dated Jau. 16 :—" Intelligence has just been received from Kaffirland of the result of the great meeting of Kaffu's in the Amalgaleka country, which has been looked forward to with great interest, not to - say anxiety. I am. glad to say that the intelligence upon the whole, very favourable—that is, so far as affects the question of peace or war. The meet ing, I am told, was a very large one though veil deficient as respects the num b er of chiefs who wer e expected to be present on th e occas i on . Kra' , was, however, there, and it would s eem no t in a verrcomfortable mood. The wild extravagances of the Prophet, who had been stimulated and pro. tected by him, had become so gross, as well as rine . - chievous, that even the most credulous of his dupes began to have misgivings on the subject, and to call in question his claim to their further credence. This feeling led to a sharp cross-examination of the chief by the assembled Kaffirs, and he found it extremely difficult to parry the many hits made at him ; the meeting soon got rather tumultuous and broke up in unpleasant disorder. The chief was greatly disconcerted and took the matter so much to heart that on his way home he attempted, it is said, to do himself fatal injury. So extravagant was his conduct, that his followers were obliged to interfere to disarm and place him under control. It is now said that the slaughter of cattle is sus,pende" to a large extent, and that the influ ence o f th e p r ophet. •1 is dimiuishing daily. On the oth er b an d, it i s a ffiruieti that the prophet has only changed his course of , procedure. That his r word' now is that the Kam are to cease dealing with the Fiugoes for Kaffir corn and mealies, but are to use for their ordinal' diet wheaten meal, sugar, and rice. lam assured that so potential is this 'word,' that the trade hi' therto carried on with great profit by the Fingoea has suddenly ceased, and that every Kaffir that. has the means is obtaining the articles I have specified. Many, however, are quite destitute, and I am told that, having killed their last head of cattle, and divested themselves of every goat , they are now killing their cats 1 Want is staring them in the face, and must ere long make them fully sensible of the stupidity of which they hav e been guilty. Amongst the best informed persons war is not thought to be immanent. There is more prospect of internal commotious in Kaffirland than in the colony, and there is reason to hope, that by the continued exercise of that prudence which l been hitherto observed, that the existing alarms will die out, and our farmers be enabled to purse! their avocations without disturbance. At presen' the they are much annoyed and excited by latitude which has lately been given to the natives to roam as they please about the coun try. Current report says that all this originates in an opinion of the Attorney-General overlooking aP, a ; , patently the fact that the frontier districts a re still under martial law, and have been kept so, for the express purpose of checking that vagrancY which is the cause of so much irritation, as well as not unfrequently of serious disturbance. The lati tude now given is alike injurious to the frontier farmer and to the native, and call loudly for the application of a prevalent and effectual remedy." LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(This Day-) LONDON, March 19.—Wind this day at noon, S. to S.E. ; light airs, with drizzling rain at times. FALMOUTH, March 18.—The Belgian brig Plantain, from Rio Janeiro, for Antwerp, was spoken, on the 27th Feb., in 32 N. 3t W., having on board the crew of an English brig, from Pernambuco, picked up at sea. QUEENSTOWN, March 18.—The brig Selskar, hss been brought in here derelict ; craw taken off by the Birkby, rived at Waterford, from St. Domingo: BERWICK, March 17.—The Resolution, of Sunderland , on shore at Boulmer, will become a wreck ; crew saved; cargo and stores expected to be saved. HARTLEPOOL, March 18.—The Kathleen, for London, has put in leaky, having been on Whitby Rock. CHRISTIANSAND, March B. The Danish schooner Pri' ma, from. Korsoer for Dublin, has put i n t o Fleckeroer leaky, and must discharge and repair. HAMBURG, March 16.—The Lowe, of and from thisyer4 for Hartlepool, put back to Cuxhaven on the 14th rust., with loss of bowsprit, &c., from collision with the Tiger (s.), and towed in here. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning. Wind calm ; drizzling rain. Sailed.—James, Nora, and Griffin, for Sunderland; Mary, Plymouth. Wind N.N.W. LITEICOOL, Thursday Morning. Arrived—Eliza Bell, from Laguna; Isabel, St. Michael's; Courser, Sicily; Jamestown, Bombay; Pilot, Girgenti ; Trident, Paraiba; Trinidad, Cadiz; Success, Demerara; Oregon, Mobile. _ S;tileil.—Byon, for Alicante; Metropolis, New York; Eliza Jenkins, Constantinople ; Emilie and Victoria, Lisbon ; Caroline, Aarhus ; Ocean Queen, Calcutta; Assyria, Now Yolk ; Peruvian, Constantinople. QUEENSTOWN, March 17. Wind S.S.W. Arrived—Lady Minsell, from Barbados ; Nancy, Ibrail ; M.S. D., ictoria ; Cardinal Hotspur, Callao; Isabel AeLteria, Havan Lab. DUBLIN, March 18. Wind W.N.W. Arrived—Circassian, from Messina ; Testimonial, Can , ton ; Priscella, Demerara. (BY SDBNARINE AND BRITISa TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday, 9.59 a.m, Wind calm ; tide two hours' ebb ; cloudy, with slight rain. Arrived, March 19--Nealdon, from Falkland Isles; Shepherdess, Algoa, Bay, Sailed, March 19.—Pollux, for Dunkirk Elba, Han burg ; Edith, Table B a y ; W a t er Li ly, Rangoon; Wieners steamer, Weenet ; Sir E. Banks, Calais. DEAL, Thursday, 941 n.m. Wind S.W., light. Passed in tow, 6.30 a.m.—Dunbar, from Sydney, for London. Passed—H.M.S. Electra, from Portsmouth, for the River ; George Andrews, brig, from Sunderland, for Ports- mouth. Anchored—Venus, from London, for Liberia; Lady Peel, from Norway, for Liverpool; Dorothe, from Bre , men, for Bahia; Gefion, from Norway, for Liverpool. Sailed—Chilian Packet, for Coquimbo. Rica MEN IN New YORK.—Wm. B. Astor is our richest man ; he inherited his wealth. Stephen Whitney, 5,000,000 dole., owes his fortune to speculations is cotton, and the rise in real estate. W. H. Aspinwall, 4,000,000 doh., came of a rich family, an I gained vast increase of wealth in the shipping business. Jas. Lennox, 3,000,000 dols., which he inherited. The late Peter Harmony, 2,000,000 dole., ca r e to this city as a cabin boy, and grew rich by commerce. The Lorillards, 2,000,000 dols., came from France poor, and made their huge fortunes in the tobacco and snuff business. The late Anson G. Phelps 2,000,000 dole., learned trade of tinter, and made a Phelps, in iron and copper. Alex ander T. Stewart, 2,000,000 dole., now of the dry goods palace, began business in a little fancy store. Of those who are put down for 1,500,000 dole., Geo. Law began life as a farm labourer, C. V anderbilt a s a s a boatman, J. Lafarge as steward to Joe. Bonaparte. Of the million. mires, began lif e a ires, James Che sterman journeyman tailor, and Peter Cooper as a glue-maker. George Bancroft, Professor Anthon, Tne mas m'Elrath, and Dr. Francis are each stated to possess $lOO,OOO. Edwin Forrest is rated at a quarter of a million; so is S. E. Morse, of the New York Observer. Mr. Bennett has $150,000. -But perhaps the most remarkable of all is that Mrs. Okill has made $250,000 by keeping school ! Charleston Courier. DIED AT HIS POST.—The toilet (Illinois) Democrat says—" A sad, but touching scene was witnessed at the accident of the Ou Page-bridge. On the morning after the accident the slow tolling of a bell was heard. On looking to see whence it came, it was discovered to proceed fro m th e eng i ne, as it lay submerged in the water. The as they foamed and surged ov e r the sunken engine, swayed the bell, which alone, with the smoke pipe, appeared above water, and caused it to give a slow tolling sound, Whentheengine was raised from the water the engineer was found in a standing posture, with his stiff, cold icy hand firmly grasping the throttle-valve, as though amid the thick darkness he had discovered the perilous condition of the train, ;and bad sprung to avert the ruin. But it was too late ; the engine and train, with their precious freight of life and property, went down, and during the dreary night the engine-bell and the mad rushing waters rang out a solemn requiem for the dead ! It is probable that had not the freight train gone down as it did the passenger train from Chicago, due two hour:, later, and loaded with sleeping paksen! gers, would itself Lava taken the fatal plunge.