The Sun. — London, England, 1857-05-01 00:00:00

11:1 ER MAJESTY'S T HEATRE. EXTRA. NIGHT, THIS EVENING, May 1. PICCOLOMINI, GIUGLINI, BENEVENT AND, POCOHINI LA. TEA.VIATA. Violetta, Mdlle. Piceolomini. Ballet,-LA ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda., Mall°. Pocebini. For particulars see bills. A limited number of boxes in the Half Circle Tier have been specially reserved for tne public, and may be had on ap plieatiou at the Box-office at the Theatre Colonnade, Hay market. Price Ono Guinea and Ona Guinea and a Half each. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.' So:ond appearance of Mac!lle. ORTOLAN'. GIUGLINI, BENEVENTANO, BELLET POCCHINI. TO-MORROW EVENING, May 2 (the second time these seven years), B-llini's Opera of I PURITANI. Elvira, Madile. Ortolani (her 2d appearance in England); Arturo, S'g. Giuglini. After which, the Third Tableau of LA. ESMERALDA. In which will be introduced an ent'rely New Divertissement. La Esmeraida, hiadlle. Pocchini For particulars, see bills. A limited number of Boxes in the Half-circle Tier have been specially reserved for the public, and may be had on app'ica tion at the Box-office, at the Theatre Co'onnade, Haymarket. Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. L B ES OUFFES PARISTENS (French Plays), ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. It is respectfully announced that the Entire Company of Les BOUFFES PARISIENS, from the Thatre des pouffes, in the Champs Elysees, and the Theatre Comte, Passage Choisenl, Paris, will have the honour of appearing at the St. James's Theatre, on WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 20. Notwithstanding the well-merited popularity of this talented company, which has existed for several years in Paris, cir cumstances have always occurred t ) prevent a visit of " Les Bouffes" to this country until the present period ; nor can the engagement now entered into be extended beyond a sho: t season of six weeks. In order to Insure the best possible effect to their performances, it is intended to bring over the entire orchestra attached to their establishment, under the able direction of the composer, Momieur Offenbach. Mes sieurs Pradeau, Cvet, Gertpre, &c., Mesdemoiselles Dalmont and Marechal, will have the honour of making their first appearance in this country. The performances will be selected from the following r 6. pertoire : LE VIOL' 'NEUX 'grisly° do 3f, Offenbach, 31'31E13 LANDRY. , „ „ Duprats. PANTINS• DE VIOLETTE „ „ Adol t .he Adam, DOCTEUR MIRACLE „ Bizet et Lecoeq, PEPITO .. „ „ Offenbach. L' I MPRESA.RIO ~ Mozart. LA TONNE D'ENFANTS „ „ Offenbach. BATACIAN lv „ Offenbach. LE ROSE DE ST. FLEUR CROQUE FEES, r,E DERNIER DES PALADINS LES DEUX A VEUGLES TROMB-AL-PA7 kr; SIX DEMOISELLES A MARIER bE DUEL DE BENJAMIN LA NUIT BLANCHE „ Offenbach. Off-nbach. Offenbach. „ Offenbach. „ „ Jonas „ Olenbach. &c., &c., &c. Owing to the limped duration of this engagement per formances will be c , i1 , 011 every evening, but subscribers will lr.ve the option of selecting either the Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings, or the Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Satur days. The entertainments will be arranged to commence at half past 8 o'clock, and terminate about 11. Subscription to St dls, for 12 representations, 5 guineas ; Private Boxes, 30 and 40 guineas. By the night Stalls, 103. 61.; Public Boxes, 5s ; Pit, 2s Gd. ; Amphitheatre, 2s. Boxes, Stalls, and Tscket3 may be eng,aged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. LOYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. _Kt THIS EVENING, will bo performed Shakespere's tr,gely of KING RICHARD THE SECOND. King Richard 11., Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by A GAME OF ROMPS. r ,UEATRE ROYAL, TT A.YMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. NEW ARRANGEMENT OF PRICES OF A DMISSION. THIS EVENING, and during the -week, the new Drama of A LIFE'S TRIAL. Messrs. Buckstone, Comp ton Howe, W. Fanen, Rogers ; Mesdames Reynolds, Poyn ter. Fitzwilliam, er:c. After which, the Auccessfu Classical Love Sto' y, un der the Apple-lation of A I'AL A.NTA ; or, The Three Golden Apples : in which Miss M. o:iver will appear; also Miss M. Wilton, and Miss Ellen Ternan. Concluding with LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. In future the prices will be :---- Orchestr 1. Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s d. Second piice. s. d Dr'ss Boxes 5 OTY m Boxes 3 0 Up ;;er Boxes 3 0 Upper Box 5... Pit . Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery ..... 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 f . No half-price to Upper Gallery. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Les , ee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed LIKE AND UULIKF, Chara , ters by l+ies3rs.Wright, Paul Bedford, &c.; Ma-lame C%deste, Miss Windham, &c. Followed by THE ELVES, in which Madame Celeste will perform To conclnd• with the new and original domestic sketch, entities WELCOME, LITTLE STRANGER. Mr. Wright, Mr. l'aul Bcdfcrd, &c. * OVAL SURIt EY THEATRE, Mews. ShPplierd and enlscrick. THIS EVENING will be performed BRUTUS. Brutu3, Mr. Cr_swielc. After whie' , , OUR NELLY, Nelly Bell (with songs), Miss Poole. Followed by THE DUMB SAVOYARD AND HIS MONKEY. The M.mkey, Mr. Flexmon% 'I.IE WEATEER—SUN OrricE, MAY 1. TIIERMOSIZT2H, IN VIZ SHADE. 52 -highost roon yeaterdeT. 43 -10vie3t this morning and during the night. 51 --this day at noon. g) OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. Al gyred Wigan. THIS EVENING, will ' e performed a new drama, called DADDY HARDACRE. Mr. Robson, &c. Tie new drama, by Tom Taylor, Esq., A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING. To conclude with THIEVES ! THIEVES ! Messrs. F. Robson, G. Vining, &c. Commence at half-past Seven. ALSTLEY'S ROYAL AMP FIITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. THIS EVENING (continued Success', the highly suceess'ul Military Spectacle, called THE FRENCH IN ALGIERS ; cr, The Batt:e of Constantine, Novel an 1 efrectiye situations by Mr, W. Cooke's beautiful Horse:3, trained by him, After the inimitable SCENES In the C • In troducing Miss Kate Cooke on her bauti!'ul charg . inow dr op. The performance of Signor Corelli and Family. To conclude with A .MIRTHFUL FA - 2,CE. Commet.ce at seven o'clock. Dress ;loxes, 4s. ; Upper ilexes, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from 11., no charge for booking ; Pit, 2s ; Gallery, is. ; Upper Gallery, floc office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. IV. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. fIANTERBURY HALL, I'Vestminster-roaSl. 'kJ OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The in,T, company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of , -'eloctions from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Duets, dre., : Miss E. Pearce, Ifre. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunel], Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta; Mr. J. aulfield, Herr F. Jon,glimans, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Meiling, P. Corti Senor Antonio M. fle and E. L. Hime ; Masters Bennett and Corgi ; MCf.SI'S. Sam Cewdl, Sam Collins, and E. Mackncy, Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil II eks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, just ; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre. cisely. Suppers, dm, until twelve o'clock. d!€7o-1 WATER AT LONDON BRIDOK. is DA•: .7 r roni. 6 min. aft. 7 -- - 7 voning 41 mid. aft. 7 rr,-Antmo , —Morn. 2j min. aft. 3 —Evening 0 min. aft. 9 B VIOMETEB, 30'13. w(Nn.—N.N.W. to N.N.E. ; light, with dull weather, and partial rain. It rained rather sharply last evening. 'kt- - %lip (Fr, s, ti LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1857 The Russian Railway scheme—the designa tion is peculiarly appropriate in the present in stance—has been duly hunched on the Stock- Fxchange, and shares are quoted at a nominal premium of to It is more than hinted, however, that few, if any bona fide English ap plications for allotments have been made. The speculators have, much to their credit, refused to touch the unclean thing, and even the prospect of gain, usually so alluring, has been insufficient to induce them to permit their names to be com promised in such a transaction. The patriotism that has induced them to stand aloof, will in this case meet with its own reward, and they may be saved at some future time from very con siderable annoyance and inconvenience, and p )s _ sibly serious losses in consequence. " The policy of abatention " is certainly that which should I • pursued in the present instance, and it would be well if the Committee of the Stock Exchange promptly came forward and passed a resolu tion to the effect that the undertaking should not, under any circumstances, be quoted in the offi cial lists. They have already interfere] in matters of far less importance, and a resolution such as we have suggested would be hailed with tha r , k-1 by the entire community. It may seem strange to the uninitiated hat the scrip or shares should .be quoted or purchased at a premium when any appli cant cou!d receive as large an amount as he could possibly desire at par. This, however, is one of the mysteries of Capel-court. It is well known to the promoters of all kinds of o(mpanies that the shares will not be applied fur or paid on unless a market has besn made. A certain sum is almost invariably applied for that purpose ; and we believe that it is by no means unusual for the parties concerned to purchase the letters of allot ment which they have themselves just issued. A moment's reflection must, however, convince even the most credulous that there must be some object to be attained that " premiums" are not so Lavishly bestowed or so easily acquired as the proceeding may seem to indicate. They may rest assured that the trap is skilfully baited, and that those who enter into it with the de• sign of strippicg others will be thoroughly plucked before they cAn effect their own escape. The first desideratum is, as we have stated, to make a market. For this purpose sundry decoy ducks in the shape of " Clergymen at Brussels," and others, are used. They have received ample indemnities from capitalists, who, no doubt for sufficient reasons, are contented to remain in the background. The deposit is provided, and that is the main consideration ; but the lion's share of the profits —if any will be appropriated by the sleeping partners, who will not suffer their own names to be used. These men, then, are merely " decoys" to bring others into mischief—and with the first operation their dirty work is ac complished. Not so, however, with the vic tims. They may fondly imagine that when they have pocketed the original premiums the connection has terminited, but to their cost they will find that they are then but at the commencement of their misfortunes. The pur chasers will not have to execute any deed, or bind themselves to the payment of future calls. The Muscovite agents may not bo contented with the mere forfeiture of unpaid shares. They may deem it expedient to institute actions against the defaulters, and the cervine flock may find "a rod in pickle" ready to administer a castigation, of the severity whereof they have but little notion. As a respected correspondent, " One of ler MAJESTY'S Justices of the Peace for Lanarkshire " —whose admirable letter will be found in another part of our impression—truly declares, "it is difficult to conceive how any respectable Eng lish house could be found to embark in any scheme so well calculated to advance and strengthen the most powerful, and certainly the greatest enemy England ever had." The BARING BROTHERS, however, have always been the agents of the AUTOCRAT, and a trans-atlantic element is largely mixed up in the composition of the House. One of the chief partners is, we believe, au American, and certainly we have seen enough of the tendencies of " Brother JONATHAN," to know that " extremes sometimes meet," and that the citizens of the model Republic entertain a great veneration for the "model" AUTOCRAT, the largest slaveowner in the world. But that is no reason why England should lendlherself to the project, or part With her sterling coin for the aggrandisement of her "powerful and inveterate opponent," who is merely biding his time, and striving to recover from the exhaustion occasioned by the late war, to avenge severely the thwarting of his traditional policy by England. We must not provide him with the means to be subsequently used against ourselves t He cannot be permitted to carry out his demonstrations against the United Kingdom, 1 with resources wrung from the hard hands of British capitalists—even under the highly re spectable auspices of the BARING Brothers and Co. It is, however, Englishmen who must protect themselves. A spirit ought to be exhibited, that would prevent any mere from dabbling in the stock. As we have already explained, every shilling subscribed must be drain in hard cash from this country. The work wilt be constructed by means of "paper roubles." It will be paid for in sterling gold and silver, if Messrs. BARING carry their present intentions into practical execu tion. We are already suffering too severely from the steady ebb of bullion from our shores. While the present monetary code is maintained it will be impossible to prevent that evil, but, if the Rus sian swindle prevails, the evil will be very greatly aggravated, and a crisis must occur far exceeding in intensity that of October, 1847, when there were awful days, during which industry was para lysed, and business virtually suspended. If Messrs. BARING choose to apply their own we6lth in be stowing it on the CZAR, we cannot help it, although we may greatly doubt the taste that induced them to give the sanction of their names to such a proceeding. But we call on all Englishm(n who are not yet committed, to abstain from connecting themselves in any way with the matter. They mud see that they have no adequate security that the estimates may not be greatly exceedel, or that the working Expenses will be defrayed from the earnings of lines in a country where there are so many restrictions on traffic as in Russia. We would, however, hope that they might be influenced by higher motives, and consider the injury that must be inflicted on their native land by so large a withdrawal of the pre c:eus metals, and so great an increase to the military power of our inveterate enemy, as must result from the construction of the Russian mili tary lines by means of British capital. America seems likely to realise the prayer of CALTBAN, for "all the infections that the sun sucks up from bogs, fens, flats," we may add from Salt Lakes and desert;, "fall on her and make her by inch-meal a disease." What with Mormons in the wilderness territory of Utah, slavery in the swamps of the Southern States, and Missouri ruffians in Kansas, she has a mass of avowed social villany, of villany nct only excused, but defended —not only defended, but even gloried in, which would be enough to shako almost any of the States of the Old World to their foundations. Probably the young R Tulle has growth and vigour enough to exscind, or to heal, or at least to survive all these maladies ; but maladies, and horrible ones they are, nevertheless. What the oldest of them can do, and how inveterate it is, we saw in the late Presidential election what Mon monism will yet do, or the Union do with it, re mains to be seen. W© in England certainly owe much to Ame rica. A great part of the raw material of Mor monism has been drawn from this country. Latter day Saints do indeed set up little synagogues here ; and, to our personal knowledge, not only do Mormon men preach in these Mormon emigration offices the blessings of the Eden on the Salt Lake, but Mormon females carry Mormon tracts from house to house to teach our female suvants the comforts of polygamy and the privileges of being spiritual wives to the very flesh-and-blood Saints of Utah. One of these female miscreants happen ing to call when we were at home, we hoard of her errand, and after listening to a few minutes' p -each rent on the vices of the patriarchs as pre cedents for Cutter-day Saints' debauchery, we, with quite as much politeness as we suppcsed the LEE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1857 oase required, toll the missionary our opinion of scna of their now rapidly assembling representi- IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. a ferehle who c - mild preach such doctrines ; in formed her that we were not Jews but Christians; that we wished the inmates of ow house to imi tiveF. And it obviously behoves the Leader of Her MAJESTY'S Government, therefore, to indi cate at once the precise length to which the Cabi net is prepared to go in the way of Reform without HOUSE OF LORDS.—(This Day.) Their lordships met at two o'clock. The I •r.i Com missiooers were the Lord GrAncellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, the Earl of I - farrow:3y, and Earl at not the vices of the patriarch, but the vir tues of the Apostles of Christianity ; and that a the smallest show of prevarication. Englishmen, now that they have responded so generously to to the frank Appeal of the most popular of all their living Statesmen, expect to find in him no repetition of her attempts to make proselytes in Spencer. The LORD CHANCELLOR then ordered Sir A. Cl►fford, the Usher of the B 1 ick Rod, to summon the mernbrrs of the Howe of Consume to attend at the bar. In a few minutes afterviards Mr. John Evelyn Denison, accompanied by his mover and seconder, Lord H. Vane and Mr. Thorneley, and surrounded by a great number of new members, appeared at the bar. Mr. J. E. DENISON then addressed their lordships, saying that, iu obedience to the commands of her Ma jetty, the House of Commons had proceeded in the exercise of their undoubted right and privilege, and had meted their Speaker, and be had to acquaint their lord ships that he was the object of their choice, and with all humility he now asked for her Majesty's most gracious approbation of the choice. The LORD CHANCELLOR said—Mr. John Evelyn Denison, we have the command from her Majesty to assure you that her Majeity is so fully sensible of your zeal for the public good, and your sufficiency to dis . charge the arduous duties to which you have btpn elected by the members of the House of Commons, that I she fully approves and confirms you their Speaker. The SPEAKER, escressed his profound reipect and gratitude, and said he bowed to her Majesty's command. It now because his daty, in the name and for the House of Commons of England, to lay claim, by humble peti tion, to,the free exercise of all those ancient and un doubted rights and privileges—morn especially those of free lom from arrest and molestation for themselves and their servants—'reedorn• of speech in debate, free ac cess to her Majesty when occasion required it, and that her Majesty would be most graciously pleased to put the most favourable construction on all their proceedings and actions. For himself, he entreated that it he committed any errors, they might be attributed to him, and not to her Majesty's most faithful Commons. The LORD • CHANCELLOR—Mr. Speaker, we have it further in command from her Majesty to assure you that her Majesty moat readily• confirms all the rights and privileges of her faithful Commons, which have ever been granted by her Majesty's royal predecessors ; and with respect to yourself, sir, $ though her Majesty is sensible that you stand in need of no assurance, her Maje.ty will ever put the most favourable construction upon all your words and actions: The SPEASHR then bowed to the Lords' Commis sioners and retired from the bar. The Lords Commissioners shortly afterwards left the house. The Lord Chancellor, having divested himself of his robes as a Lord Commiesioner, re-entered the house, and took his seat on the woohack. The swearing in of peers was then proceeded with, and Viscount EV3CEBLEY, the late Speaker of the House of Commons, took the oaths and his seat as a peer of the Uoited Kingdom. The noble Viscount was introduced by Viscount Combermere and Vieeouot Torrington. our kitchen would only insure her being consigned to the hands of the police. The fact, however, that at this time of day persons can be found to longer simply a First Lord of the Jokery, but a First Lord of the Treasury, who is preplrecl to believe in JOE SMITH'S revelations ani the utterly contemptible Beek of Mormon, to believe in such a prophet and such a revelation, to believe to the extent of leaving a home, country, kindred, and sometimes property, to emigrate to the remotest wilds of North America, must be acknowledged to be at once a social marvel, and a painful re proach to our supposed advance in education, religion, and civilisation. America, of course, furnishes the larger quota to the Mcrmon state, and this may serve to assure us that American education is not so superior to ours as we have been taught to believe. The States had, how ever, the honour of giving birth to the prophet, and owing probably to this circumstance, and to the facility of finding a no-man's land in America, we have to thank her for becoming the Mormon sink of the world. Our readers probably remember the first settle ment of the Saints at Nauvoo, and the extraordi. nary energy with which they were founding a community there ; also how they were driven thence, and their splendid city and temple de stroyed, their founder having perished in a way which seemed to compromise the good faith of the more civilised part of the community. Ii was after this attack that they resolved t) go far beyond the haunts of civilisation, and to commence anew, where the foot even of the Indian bad hardly trod. They had scarcely, however, be come fairly settled on the Great Salt Lake when the dis3overy of Californian gold placed their new abode in the direct route of the overland emigration to the land of unt)ld wealth. They came thus once more under the direct notice of the United States' Government, on whose ter ritory they bad been obliged to locate themselves, and were therefore treated as all similar districts are, which are sufficiently settled to form what is termed " a territory." They came- under the direct management of the Central Government, by whom their governors and other principal officials were in consequence nominatA. It would appear that BRIGHtiM YOUNG, the " Apostolical successor," as some here would say, of JOE SMITH, is the present Governor, and to him all the faith and submission formerly accorded to the arch-impostor is freely given. lie is be lieved, however, to be not merely the channel of mystic power, the effects of which no one sees, but must believe to reside in a duly advanced priest ; he is held to possess a permanent ins:lira tion ; he is not even a cleric, or even a preltte, but a pope, and his not very immaculate concep tions are accepted by his Church as revelations ! The Government of Utah is, in fact, a theocracy, in the belief of its subjects. The Governor happens to be the high priest of the theocracy ; he is there fore obeyed, and therefore als ) the orders of the non-Mormon officers appointed from Washington are not obeyed, if they happen to conflict with heats of Governor, and Apostolic Successor, give substantial evidence that his is indeed a Liberal and Reforming Government. It has been suggeEt2d by a provincial conternpo• rary (Norfolk iYews), whose pertinent remarks we give in another part of our impression this evening, that what may be called the minimum, of the wishes eutertained by the country in regard to Reform should be forthwith announced by means of a delegation from the borough oonstituencies. The hint is not by any means one to be laughed away as merely chimerical. It is seriously entitled to con- sideration. "Reform Resolutions" like those, woull be a capital pendant to the " Chinese Re solutions" adopted at Mr. COBDEN'S suggestion by the soon afterwards Defeated Majority of the last Parliament. They ought at least to comprise amongst the "progressive improvements" im peratively required by the Liberals throughout the country—l. The Ballot. IL An Extension of the Franchise. 111. An adjustment of the Electoral Districts from one end of the land t) the other. The last-mentioned series of innova tions involving, of course, the nearest possible approach to the equalisation of representation. Numerically insignificant constituencies being clean wiped out of existence. Kensington and Chelsea, and such-like populous localities, being empowered to send one or more members (just as the case may be) to the re-organised Parliament. Householders down to five pound rentalled tene ments inclusively, in the boroughs, receiving the Franchise—the same boon being accorded to those in the counties down to ten pound renhdled tene ments. Operating over all those electors and all their constituencies, that 21:_lis of the Franchise, THE BALLOT ! That above all we take to be the keystone of the arch of these new Reformers—The Ballot It we regard as the real sine qua non of Reformers. Without the Ballot all would be the merest delusion. With it—everything inthe way of desirable improvement afterwards would be readily practicable. Deny the country the Ballot, and we care not a straw for all your patchwork changes in regard to the franchise and in regard to the constituencies. Concede the Ballot, and for this session we arc c mtented. Fur having once secured that we be lieve every other reform would follow in natural and inevitable sequence. Again, therefore, we say that while Reform must be the actuating principle, the "Ballot" must be the ringing and nspiriting watchword of the new Parliament ! "Testimonials" we regard with feelings little less than contemptuous. Generally speaking, they are merely indicative of what may be called, without exaggeration, organized humbug and sys tematic adulation. But in this, as in other general rules, there are exceptions. We don't think, of course, for example, that because a speculator has had the good luck to clear hale-a million or so by a series of successful investments, that he of all men should be rewarded fur his tact by one of these great gew-gaw testimonials. Mach less are we disposed to concur in opinion with those who appear to regard as the most appropriate re cipient of the same Good Things, some enterpriiing individual, let us say, who has feasted up m luncheons of a Broken Joint-Stock Bank up to the date of its Breakage, and immediately after wards is found (besides this) to have coolly swal lowed " a plum" not belonging to himself, but to the deluded shareholders. But there are, never theless, deeds of heroism, we do believe, really and honestly entitled to some signal tribute expressive of national admiration. Sir THOMAS PHILLIPS was worthily knighted, for example, in 1839, for his gallant conduct at Newport during the time of the Chartist Insurrection. Sir FENWICK WIL LIAMs'S defence of Kars, again, though unhappily rendered by famine and isolation only the prelude t') a compulsory capitulation, was deservedly rewarded only the other day, as it were, by a baronetcy. Sir JAMES BROOKE, the dauntless Raj di of Sarawak, we regard as a man no less veritably deserving we'l of his count.iy. His recent heroism at Borneo, we con ceive, entitles him to some conspicuous testimony of the national regard at the hands of his gra cious SOVEREIGN. BRIGII AM YOUNG. It wilt have been seen, however, in our paper of Wednesday last, this is not the worst. So outrageous is the insubordination, that the judge appointed by the Attorney-General has returned in disgust, and in some alarm for his safety. In an official document, laid before the Att)rney- General of the United State 4, and giving the re,Lsons for his resignation, he states that BRIGHAM YOUNG is considered the only fountain of law, And that no 1-tw enacted by Congress is hold to be binding ; that all the male inhabitants are bound by oath to acknowledge no Itw but that of "the Holy Priesthood ;" that persons are set apart by the Church to take both the lives and property of those who question the authority of the Church ; and that the Federal officers are constantly harassed, insulted, and annoyed, with out the possibility of redress. Acts of murder and rebellion are also dis tinctly charged on the Mormons. The records, papers, &c., of the Supreme Court were destroyed by order of the Church, BRIGHAM YOTJNG openly sanctioning the deed. Criminals who had been duly convicted assault with intent to murder, or of murder itstlf, were, in defiance of tho Federal Judge, pardoned and taken openly by the Go vernor to Church. These men were Mormons. On the other hand, men who were merely emi grants on their way to California, but Anti-Mor mons, were convicted, though guilty of no crime against the law of the States, and brutally treated. Worst of all, the Judge states that he is compelled, after due investigation, to believe that the Mor mons induced the Indians to murder Captain W. Gumirsoic and eight others with him ; that his predecessor in office was poisoned by order of the Church, and that the Seent try of the State was murdered by the order of BRIGHAM YOUNG. If these statements, deliberately made, or but the half of them, can be fairly verified, the United States Government will, of course, have to act with deciion. The moral enormities of the Mor mons, none of them exceeding, we should say not equalling by much, the enormity and enormities of slavery would have afforded no ground for at tack. The Union which can tolerate the violation of all divine and human laws of marriags in Vir ginia could not quarrel with a smaller infringement on them in Utah ; nor is it more autichristian to believe in the divine right of BRIGHAM YOUNG t call his harem of adulteresses, wives, than in that of planters and slaveholders to call human beings property. Murder, however, of some of the Go vernment authorities, and constant insults to those who are spared, is a rather different thing. Even that lover of quiet, Mr. BUCHANAN will probably have to move. To be sure there were infinitely worse violations of law i.nd order in Kansas, but ruffianism and murder installed a pro slavery Government there ; this condoned every thing. Violence and bloodshed for PIERCE and slavery, and for BRIGHA 31 YOUNG and Polygamy might be ecpial in wickedness ; but the licentious ness and villanies of slavery are a "domestic in stitution ;" those of Mormonism must wait for Pennsylvanian votes, and till Pennsylvania can gain dollars by them. His Excellency the Ambassador of FrAnce and thy Cou►:tess Persigny are expected to town from Pa is on the 16th instant. His EKcelhncy the Russian Minister and the Countess Chreptovvitch are expected to ro..urn Ches ham House from Paris early in the week after next. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford have arrived at Wobura Abbey from Carton House, Kildare, where they have been staying on a visit with the Duke and Duchess of Leinster. Their graces will come to town about the middle of this month. The Marquis and Marchioness of Tweeddale have arrived in town from Vaster House, Haddingtonshire. Ms lordship bas taken a residenaJ in Grosvenor crescent, fur the season. Frances Marchioness of Londonderry will return to town on Thursday next, from Paris. The Countess of Jersey and Lady Clomentina Villiers will return to town to.morrow, from Portsmouth. The noble Earl returns to town to-morrow, from Middleton Park. The Countess Dowager Grey and Lady Georgiana Grey arrived at their residence, in Eaton square, a few days since, from Hickleton Park, near Doncabtcr, the seat of Sir Charles Wood. The Earl and Countess of Lichfield have strived at the St. George's Hotel. We are authorited to state that Lady Palrnerston's party for next Saturday is unavoidably postponed. Lord Li'ford has arrived at the St. G-3orge's Elotel. L - rd and Lady Art'iur Hay arrived at their new resi dence in Chester-square a few days since, from Strath fitl lsaye, Hampshire, for the rason. Colonel the Hon. James and Lady Sarah Lindsay have arrived at their new residence in Portmar-aquare. It was rumoured at the clubs last evening that Lord Palmerston had promised to introduce a bill into Parlia ment for the removal of the Jewish disabilities. We believe Mr. Massey will be appointed to the office resigned by Mr. F. Peel at the War-office. We have to announce the death of Colonel Manley Power, of the 85th Light Infantry, who expired at Bath on Monday last. Ile entered the service in 181.9, and became a colonel in 1854. We have authority to state that, in consequence of the death of her Royal Highness the Duchess of G 1 , u• caster, the State apartments at Windsor Castle will be closed till further orderg. _ Organic Changes—those are the Reforms now demanded by the country from Lord PALMERSTON. Not merely superficial modifications—but really Organic Changes—Reforms complete and corn preber sive. We are informed that Prince Albert, in consideration of the national importance of the occasion, will certainly be present at the opening of the Exhibition of Art Treasures at Manchester on Tuesday next. We believe that Captain Sayer, who recently vacated an appointment in the Adjutant• General's department, will succeed Lieutenant Colonel Addison as Deputy. Assistant Quartermaster• General to the Forces, at tho Florae Guards. It is as well to be as plain as possible upon this vital question, now that the New House of Commons is upon the eve of commencing its labours in earnest. The requirements of the time have been of late so very clearly indicated at the Hustings throughout the United Kingdom, that their character is, as we observed yesterday, already visible—and it must, before many days are over, be loudly audible—in the new Parlia ment. The political aspirations of the constitu encies are embodied more unmistakeably than per haps by any previous General Election in the per- M. de Morney is now expected in Paris about the 25th of May. M. Gonzalez Bravo, Minister of Spain at London, has arrived at Madrid. MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.—At St. George's, HAR• over•square, Major Vincent Wing, Staff Battalion, Depot, Parkhurst, was married to Gertrude Elizabeth, only daughter of Lady Vane and the late Sir Francis Vane, Bart., of Hutton Hall and Armathwaite, Cum berland. On the same day, at All Saint's Church, Knightsbridge, Thomas C. Leslie, E q., youngest son :41 the lato Wiliam Leslie, RA., of N.B. , wad married to Henrietta Marion, yogngeet daughter of the late Sir Robert Dalrymple. HOUSE OF COMMON—(This Day.) The SPEAKER took the chair shortly before 2 o'clock. The hon. gentleman did not wear his official robe. He was babited in full court dress, with a barrister's wig. The mace was laid on the table, and not on the floor, the form observed yesterday. Sir AUGUSTUS CLIFFORD entered the house, and, addressing the Speaker, said the Lord C Jmnais sioners desired the immediate attendance of the house in the House of Peers. The SPEAKER then proceeded to the House of Lords, accompanied by nearly all the members present. Oa his return, and having taken the chair, he said he had to state that he had that day been to the House of Peers, where he communicated to the peers preQent that the house bad proceeded to the election of a Speaker, and that its choice had fallen upon himself. The Lords' Commissioners on behalf of her Majesty confirmed the choice, and also her Majesty's most gracious approval. He had, on behalf of the beuse, laid claim to the ancient and undoubted privileges heretofore presented by the house, especially the privilege from arrest, the freedom of debate, and free access to her Majesty at all iwonable times when the house desired it, and that her Majesty woul I put the most favourable construction upon the words and actions of the Commons, and the Lords Commissioners had conceded the privileges. Having made this communication to the house, his next duty was to subscribe to the oaths. the oaths having been administered, the hon. gen lemAu reAumtid the chair, The SPEAKER, then informed the house that the members would be sw6rn in in the alphabetical' order of the counties. Tne Clerk then commenced the list with Bedford county, and, having read about a dozen names, the re spective members advanced to the table and took the oaths in the prescribed form. THE RUSSIAN RAILWAY ROBBERY sau Of E. TO THE EDITOR OP THE SUN. GLASGOW, April 24, 1857 Sir,—l consider the c iuntry deeply indebted to you for the patriotic view you have t Ikea in rela tion to the Russian Railway Scheme, and for the light you have thrown on the trick now playing off by the black-leg speculators of London and Paris, to aid Russia and relieve Messrs. Baring and Co. from the burden which they have thought proper to assume. _ _ _ How any respectable English, house could be found to embark in any scheme so well calculated to advance and stren . gthen the most powerful, and cer.ainly the greatest, enemy Great Britain ever had, puzzles me, and must puzzle most men who have any love or respect f r the glory and honour of th it country. But are the Ba-ins really Eng lish ? I doubt it. Were they not originary Dotal? Certainly one of their chief partners—Mr. Bates —is not an Englishman. He is an American ; and a'l the world knows the predilection our cousins have for dollars, titles, and despotion itself, provided the Autocrat or any crowce King knows how to administer suffieient doses of flattery to the recipient, mixed up w;th deelara- Cons of pr. found respect and estee,n for the United States, and adafiration of the government, institu tio6s, and in' elligence of the "most enlightened people on earth." No man of sound judgment will believe that the late mis rabic), or rather diegraceful peace, can last ton years. Our apology for the peace was, that Napoleon refused to continue Vie war; that he could not afford. it. Now, the chief, if not a'l the expenses, for anoth-r six months' campaign had been incurred ; and t!!ere can be no question as to the fact that Russia was on her last logs when we thought fit to re-establish her—much in the same way as our unnatural kin lness spared Odessa ; which piaci.) of treason cost us minims of money, and the still greater loss of much precious blood of our best and bravest. We must all respect and love our nob'e French ally, but it is semewh tt strang i to roe Napoleon cottoning wi'h Russia and Austria. It i 3 no great honour to our Queen to Fee a Russian archduke reo, ived with like honours as herself. Did not Victoria recognise and acknowledge Louis Na poleon, While RtisAa, Austria } rrussia, Awl all the kinglets of Germany ttirned their' baclts - don hint There is no doubt, however, that he refused to carry on the war ; still I am satisfied that Great Britain alone could hive carr:ed on the fight with greater ad vantage than with the ail deny foreign Power— not with our gallant s-AlierA, for the barbarians of the north would have met 1.14 with a hondred to ono of such Wages as mit:de aid the wdundol on the field of Inkerman ; and that, too, under the eyes of two of their Arch-Dukes I But the " wooden wells" of England would easily hare sealed up every port in the Euxine and Baltic, and effectually destroyed_ their commerce, leaving them to the en j yment of their own wilds and wastes. Indeed on the declaration of war, this should have Leen the game for Britain to have pliyed—infinitely thebest mode of fighting a barbarous foe, under a ruthless despot, who can without compunction sacri fic 3 his people, by burning their cities, and sinking fle.:,ts afraid to meet an enemy even on equal terms. We talk of Yell and the atroci`ies committed by him at Canton, and the poison ad mi istered at Hong Koeg ; but no man who has studied the conduct of Ru.sia, in the last war, will al!ow that she is lass cruel, or more enlightened and civilised than " the Sons of the Moon." .Yet it is said, for I can hardly yet credit the report, that an English mercantile house of standing—one, t indebted to our Government (was not a peerage granted to one of them within the last few years ?) has undertaken to support and carry through a scheme to aggrandise our powerful and inveterate enemy, a scheme which every high minded man, would turn from with loathing as an "unclean thing," and which Jew and Scot alike eschew. I remain, O N E OF HER MAJESTY'S JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FOR LANARKSHIRE. The Vimiera has arrived yesterday from Sydney, but is not believed to have brought any gold. Ferukh Kban, gho has been of late travellin g abo ut incognit o , a f ew days back paid a visit to the manufac tcry of boking-glasces at St. Gobain, in the Aisne, and at the same time examined very minutely the fine ruins of the old cast* The object of his visit to the manu factory was to make important purchases for the Shah of Persia. Lord Goderich bas been in communication with the curious society at Sheffield, waled the "Foreign Affairs Committee." During their meeting the other evening, a letter was read from his lordship, containing the fol• lowing passage :—"I am of opinion that criminal pro ceedings ought not to be taken against Sir John Bow ring, S:r M. Seymour, and Mr. Parkes, not because I wish to 'deal with a crime by a different process than that of the law,' but because I do not believe that they have done anythirg which the law would punish crimi nally. If they had, I should have been anxious that they or any other persons should have been d u ly p un i s hed by legal proem!: LATEST NEWS. AMERICA. (BY ELECTRIC "TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY MORNING. The Liverpool and Philadelphia screw steam bhip City of Manchester has arrived with advices from New York to the 16th ult., which have been anticipated by the arrival of the Ariel. She brings no specie. • THE WEST INDIAN MAIL. (BY ELECTRIC TELEVRAPLto SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The West India steamer Magdalena was tele graphed off Hurst at 11.15 a.m. She will be up here about 1 o'tlock. BERLIN, THURSDAY. The entire bill remodelling the taxes upon manu factures has been adopted by a majhrity of 187 against 87. The impost upon the shares of public companies was provisionally adopted. The tax upon transferable shares was to be applied to the stock of the Bank of Prussia. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY. A. Council of Ministers, at which the Emperor presided, was held yesterday at the Tuileries. The Grand Dake.Constmtine of Russia arrived. at Paris at 5 o'clock this evening. He was con veyed in an open carriage to the Tuileries, along the Boulevards. Prince Napoleon accompanied him. An immense crowd had assembled to see him pass. We are still wizhcnt the answer of Prussia to the Neufchatel dispute. A letter from Marseilles gave some particulars concerning the Grand Duke Constantine's proceed ings in that city. It says :—" On Tuesday morn ing, the Prince, accompanied by the authorities and by his suit, went to the new port, where they em barked on board the Hermus steamer, and took an excursion in the roadstead. After having proceeded as far as opposite the Prado, the steamers turned round and steered towards the new port. When the steamer was passing between the Isles, a signal was given and the large mine of the Frod was made to explode. The detonation was made exceedingly loud, and a column of thick smoke was thrown up, which, for several minutes, completely enveloped the part of the Ile de Ratonneau situated below the fort. This difficult operation was attended with perfect success, and it is calculated that the part of the bill detached was not less than 150,000 cubic metres. An immense number of persons bad embarked in steamers and boats to witness the operation. The Grand Duke afterwards pro ceeded to the port of La Joliette, and alter having visited the new docks returned to the Hotel d'Orient. A little after three o'clock, his Imperial Highness went to Mempenti, visit the extensive foundry at that place. He was received by the director and other members of the compiny, and visited in de tail the dfferent parts of the establishment. In the evening, the Princeand his suite vieited the theatre." The folewing telegraphic despatches have been received in Paris : " MARSEILLES, April 20.--The representation at the theatre, in honour of the Grand Duke Constan tine, as as of a most brilliant description. To-day, after a religious service iu the Greek chapel, the Prince left Marseilles, having made considerable donations. He will arrive at Lyons at a quarter past six." " VIENNA, April 28.—An imperial decision has ordered the geveroment to take into consideration whether it will not be advisable to suspend all new joint-stock enterprises during the present mone•ary crisis. The result is to be published without delay." "BERNE, April 29th.—The Federal Council has authorised unanimously the signing of the treaty. Two members proposed to submit at once the question to the Federal Assembly, with a recom mendation in its favour." " Baters, Aeril 30th.—The Federal Council has decreed the immediate publication of the treaty, as also of an annexed protocol, adding to it the tenor of the piitnitive demands of Prussia and the first instructions given to Dr. Kern." I heard two or three days ago (says the Times Paris corresp)ndent) that the Presse would, on the very day of the ( 4rand Duke's entry, contain an article on the English alliance, and that this article would be, if not written, at all events inspired, by a personage of exalted rank, whose dislike of all that is RuE . sian is very etrobg. The article has ap peared in the Presse of ttis evening, and the paper began to be sold at the very moment the Grand Duke was passing. It begins wi. , 11 this phra-e " The alliance of England and Franca is one of the fundamental bases of European civilisation. The day it is seriously disturbed the same blow will disturb the en tire edifice. We must. then take care to lay a hand on that corner stone, for its fall would be alike fatal to both coun tries. The community of their interests is evident, and it lathe blind only who will not recognise it. Whoever sees and understands must not allow his eyes or his thoughts to be diverted from this great object by petty obstacles." This is the concluding passage : " Democratic France is the ally of free England. We recognise in this alliance the great political necessity of the 19th century, and we hail it as the pledge and the security of the future." Boman, April 30.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. Pr. c. 14 per Cents 3 per Cents OB 70 Bank Shares 4,375 Credit Mobilier 1,280 Roman Do. Account 1,280 Austrian Belgian 4) rieduziontese (5) 9O Home Debt ItATLWAYS—FOR CASH. End of 3fonth. 911 r. 68 90 U. C. fr c. Orleans 1,470 Westorn Northern Lyons 1,490 New Ditto Meliterranoan 2,010 Grand Central . ..... 600 Geneva Midi - Austrian Cote• SARDINIA. The Piedmontese Gazette of the 27th publishes a report addressed by M. Ralazzi, Minister of the Interior, to the King of Sardinia, stating that, contrary to the law of 1853, hich fixed at 806,472 f. tin sum which the city of Genoa is to pay to the royal treasury out of its entrance duties, the Communal Council of that city, at the com mencement of this year, only voted 90,000 f., thus rettising payment of nearly the whole of its share of the public burdens, That, nevertheless, the Minister, overlooking the illegality of this vote, and interpreting it simply as a desire expressed by the cornmu ,, al councq, contented himself with re-establishing the sum of 806,472 f. in the com munal budget, instead Of haying recourse to more rigorous measures ; but that this leniency, far from having the desired effect, led to a stormy debate in the si ting of the 22l of the communal council, in which several members made motions tending to nullify the ministerial decision, whereupon the syndic and all fhe vice syndics resigned their offices. The report then recommends the dissolution of the communal council of Genoa, and is followed by a royal decree dissolving it accordingly, and appoint ing Advocate Visono to be delegate exttaordinary for the provisional administration of the commune. until a new council be elected. A letter from Turin of the 22d ult., hi tile Na says :—" or some days Na tional Gazette of Berlin, past, a movement has been 01 - oserved on the Par mc.'se frontier, and it is asserted at Genoa that arms and munitions are being secretly conveyed there by the Mazzini party. Forged letters from Garibaldi, declaring tliat the Sardinian Government favours the movement, are said to he in circulation. That Government, on the contrary, is using all its endea vours to put down any agitation. SPAIN. We have received th e M a d r id journals of the 26th. Her Majes'y, as a fresh mark of her solici tude for the poor, gave another sum of 20,000 reals to be distributed amrng the inmates of the Prii cess's Hospit a l, which was lately inaugura'e d . The list acco un t s received from the island of Cuba to the 16th ult. state that the most perfect tranquil lity prevailed, and that the sanitary state of the country was satisfa3tory. A letter from Albucemas had been received at Madrid, giving an account of another outrage committed by the pirates of the R;ff. On the 27th of March, the Moors intimated that they had a boatload of poultry and piovisions for sale, and four Spanish sailors and an i n t er p re t e r went firm a vessel to purchase ; but no sooner hal they landed th tn a discharge of mus ketry was made by a party placed in amr,ush, a n d the sailors were all more or less wounded, an d taken prisoners. DENMARK. A telegraphic despatch from Hamburg of the 29th ult., in the A ord of Brussels, says :—" Im portant news has arrived from Copenhagen ; Prince Christian, the heir to the throne, has left for Bei lin o n a private mission from the King to the Kiug of Prussia." The game journal publishes _a telegra- phic despatch from Berlin, oF the 22tli ult., to this effect :—" After an eloquent speech from M. Stahl, the Cpper Howe adopted hy 83 votes to 3 the mo tion of MM. de Below an - I Stah', inviting the Go vernment to continue hs efforts, in conc-3rt with • its confederates, to cawe the rights of Holstein . and. Lauenburg to be respected." MONrENECIRO. The Deutschland of Vienna, .26th ult., says " The Montenegrin que.A . on has created a certain animation in diplomatic circles, and three confer ences have taken place between C.)unt de Buol and Prince Xallimaehi, tl:e Torsish minister. The latter at first refused to_ consent to any subsidy being paid by the Porte to Prince Dauilo ; on the contrary, 13.3 insisted on the right of Turkey to cl tim a tribute from Montenegro. The repreecn ta.ions of Count de Buol, coup!ei with the urgent reiuest of the French government, have succeeded in changing the resolution of the minister, who has promised Co support the proposed arrangement in his communications with the Porte." Several journals have announced the intention of the King of Pru , sia to visit his sis'ec, the Empress Dowager of Russia, at Rome. The Independance of Brussels denies the c-rrectness of the statement, and sugges's that it may have originated in the in tention of the King to visit the bAnks of the Rhine and Carlsruhe, were his niece has married the reigning Grand. Duke. Letters from St. Petersburg, of the 24th, state that the Russian frigate Aurora, coming from the Mantchou coast, having anchored on March 11. in the harbour of Hong Kong, some of the crew who went a.hore for wat'r were ill-used by the Chinese population. The commandant sent a company of marines to avenge the outrage. The same' letters state that the Governor General of Siberia had sent a body of troops to the Chinese frontier to main' sin tranquillity. THE • C:Rg WT MOBILIER OP FRANCE. The General Meeting of the shareholders of this Company was held at Paris on the 28th of April ; M. Isaac Pereire in the chair. The meeting being declared duly constituted, the President rose and read the report : " It commenced by declaring that the difficulties experienced in the money-market during the past year had naturally restricted, in a considerable degree, the operations' of the Company. During the years 1853, 1851, and 1855, its duty bad been, in the midst of war and scarcity of food, to encou rage the industrial development of the country ; but ie1856, owing to the immense impulse given to all kinds of enterprises, when peace set in, its task was rather to restrain tm to urge forward. Besides, the note inserted in the Moniteur on the 9th of Marcb, 1856, showed that the wish of the Govern ment was to limit in a very decided manner the issue of all new securiies. Still the company had vary materially aidod in forwarding useful works, and in enabling the country t ) support the mone tary crisis which broke out towards the end of 1856. It subscribed fi r 250,000,000 f. (10,000,0000 to the Government ;o3ri of 750,000,000 f.; the pur chases of rente made by it to support the public funds amounted to 1,849,816 f., representing a capital of 40,000,000 f. (1,600,0001.), the greater portion of which stock the company was still pos sessed of ; the sums which ithad supplied to the mar!. ket at each settlement of the ace )unt, to facilitate the carrying over of rents, might be judged of by the fact that on one occasion it amounted to 95,000000 f. (3,800,0001.), and that the average was 44,000,000 1 . (1,760,0001) ; in addition, it gave similar accom modation to railway securities, on one occaeion to the extent of 29,000,000 f. (1,160,0001.), and the average being 15,000,000 f. (600,0000 for every fortnight ; in fact, the total of all such sums fur nished in 1856 was not less than 703,000,00 0 f. (28,120,0001.) ; and when at last the restrictive measures of the Banks of England and of France led to a crisis in the Mcn-y-market, the Credit Mobilier tended not a little to facilitate the transi tion, towards easier times. When the moment of difficulty arrived (says the le port) the Credit Mobilier not only did not diminish the credits which it was accustomed to make to rail way enterprises, but even augmented then 3; nay, more, it offered offi:ially two th!egs "Ist, t'3 purchase with the co-operation of several foreien houses, the rents which the Bank of France possessed, so as to furnish that establishment with the means of effi caciously augmenting its metallic reserve, and of continuing its advances on rents and railway shares; and, 2d, to provide for the wants of all the railway e companies by subscribing to the extent °I 300,000,000 f. (12,000,0001.) for the loans whit ] ; they had to issue in 1857, the Credit Mobilier and its di , ectors declaring that they were ready to en" gage themselves personally for that purpose for the amount of 200,000,000 f. if tho remainder of 100,000,000 f. was sub-cribed for the other banking houses. These two propositibns remained withou t result, and the Credit Mobilier being forced to renounce every cembined measure was oblige d to confine itself to providing for the want ° of the companies whose Lusiness it was in tb ° habit of transacting ; but it had formed a cor rect judgment of the situation, and the sole fact of it° having made the propoaition alluded to contribute d in no small degree to calm dower disquietude, strengthen public feeling, and to demonstrate tha t. unfounded terrors had been too easily given veil to. The crisis, although conjured away, had n!" less the effect of reducing in a very striking manne,', the profits on which the company thought its elf entitled to reckon in consequence of the situl n° amelioration of credit." The report then touches on the several enterpris es which the company had aimed at carrying out 03 its own account, and states that of its railway P r T . jests that of Grenoble to Sr. Ilambert, towas o-4 Lyons and Valence, had been sanctioned by 10 3 0.: rial decree in March, 1857. The Transatla ntl " packets still rema , ned undecided, but there w ag every relsou to believe that the question would b° berore long settled in a manner to satisfy all tb° interests involved in it ; and the company bade is.; tiblished a regular intercourse with the Ore ° Mobilier of Spain, and would take part in the con" struction of the Spanish railways. The report theli speaks of the insufficiency of the capital of Vie Bank of Franca for the vastly increased business of the country, and then examines the question 0, how i s capital could best be doubled in ore l to meet -its enlarged sphere of action, and ll elates that when the proper time arrives it 11 , 1 give the preference to bonds of short date. 11° r port then touches ou the financial situation of tLe company. Its movement of cash duriog 7 yearhaciamountedto3,oBs,l9s,l76f.(l23,4o7,Boll 1 2 it s ac count-cieerent with the Bank, 1,216,68 6 , 271 1 (48,667,4511.) ; j e company had rec e i ve d paYme n on 1,455,264 railway .'hares and bonds, produel 160,976,590 f. (6,439,06i'.) and had paid, eit% f o r itself or f r other conipuies, on 4,98 6 ) 3 r, coupons of shares and bonds. The total of th profits of the year was 15,249,g'31f. (609,99914; which would give a dividend of 115 f. per share, '3' 23 per cent. for the year 1846. re' The meeting then gave its approval to the n° port, and adopted the dividend proposed. "" proceedings then terminated. The New Speaker has, appointed the Hon. Ge° l : 4 ,,: Waldegrave as his Secretary, the Rev. Thom as Gersh" d as his Chaplain, Mr. G. K. Rickards as 1114 C ounsels /I Examiner of Election Recognisances, Mr. Robert as his Trainbearer.—Mr. R. Beckerson, for many yea the Inspector of Police attending the House of Corun3°°;, has been promoted for his efficient services to be SuP i e he intendent of the L Division, and Inspect or Bra y , of "- A Division, is appointed in his place. The trawler books at the Bank will be closed to, 41 1:, for the half-yearly balance, and it is a holiday at "- St oc k -Exchange. ' Up ae. Mr. Bright, ex-M.P., is at present at Turin. count of his peace principles he is not generally poP in Sardinia. ted It is said that about 55,0001., sovereigns, are esllecthe from the East during the next; fortnight th rough " Ottoman Bank and the Bank of Egypt. » are " The Emperor and Empress," says the Patric', expected to visit Compiegne on the 15th or 16t off, -041/0 with the King of Bavaria. Their Majesties wil 1 said, remain there for a week. Accounts from Venice state that the Count de Ch lign o . bore, during his stay is that city, has been lvi. l3 to g r o, very retired life, Re received fewer foreign ' il ,. to particular French, than during his previous vi'" Ital On 0 0' y Tuesday afternoon, Lord Loughborough boats of tertained at a public dinner at Cupar by a large for ge ntlemen who supported him in ~:er ecen t canva ii to the eanuty of Fife. AbOut 500 gentlemen sat dovi° dinner.. 0 in' A deputation respecting Smithfield market bsd :rclay , terview with the Cba , icellor of the Exchequer yea" dept.r at his official residence in Downing-street. r he PO' Cation consisted of Mr. H. L. Taylor (chairnit!l'o par. Deputy Holt, Mr. De Jersey, Mr, Deputy 1 1 'c l° ' et Ross, the City Remembrancer, and the City Architehore It is stated that up to the present time theVsessts' been scarcely any English applications made toe deo' Baring for the shares of the R At Am railway try • tatton nominally remains at to premium. at occ sterdam, the market where Russian securides are popular, they are extremely heavy at premioe'.l.-roicl‘ Signor Saffi, the ex-Triumvir of R ome, visited ought and delivered a ie :ture on "Italy as it is and `sit , 11 fool to be," on Monday last.. Gay flags were disPlar o ,, the the factories and other building s in the town duo. _L4 1 4 . hay, and Signor Seth was met by a procession, h arra by a band.-.be ARRIVAL FROM NEW YORK.— We learn by r t o b ro fttist N et last " nOP steam -ship 01 Telegraph,aihes Manchester, with L i v edraptoe s o 1 db a York to theApil, 'was cif the port as 9 o'clock. The mails would be landed as 00 0 `" sible, • AU, alt pei dui am hal /1,-2s Wa: rat] ld. reel' ):( Ens ena hro n icev, 1 1liU LC Lill) Iliiii Ne v , N'ori r C, yeti` ga N. N. Fi f s an, retil Sp n Tut,