The Sun. — London, England, 1857-05-04 00:00:00

II OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. It THIS EVENING, will be performed Shakespere's tragedy of KING RICHARD THE SECOND. King Richard IL, Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by A GAME OF ROMPS. FIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Third appearance of Madße. ORTOLAN'. GIUGLINI, BENEVENTANO, BELLETTI, POCCHINI. TO-MORROW, TUESDAY (the third time these seven years), Bellini's Opera of I PURITANI„ Elvira, Madlle. Ortolani (her 34 appearance in England); rturo, Sig. Giuglini. After which, the Third Tableau of LA ESMERALDA. In which will be introduced an entirely New Divertissement. La Esmeralda, Ma,dlle. Pocchini (her last appearance but 'our). For particulars, see bills. A limited number of Boxes in the Half-circle Tier have been : , }ecially reserved for the public, and may be had on applica t :on at the Box-office, at the Theatre Colonnade, Haymarket. 'Trice One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. Li ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. First Night of LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. 1 X PICCOLOMINI, GILTGLINI, BELLETTI, VIOLETrI, POCCHINI. On THURSDAY EVENING, May 7. LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Lucia, Piccolomini (her first appearance in that part). Edgard°, Sig. Giuglini. Ballet—LA ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda, Afdlle. Pocchini. Pop particulars see bills. A limited number of boxes in the Half Circle Tier have eeen specially reserved for the public, and may ho had on ap plication at the Box-office at the Theatre Colonnade, Hay inarket. Price One guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. NEW ARRANGEMENT OF PRICES OF ADMISSION. THIS EVENINGS CMonday), to-morrow (Tuesday), and on Wednesday, for three nights only, to commence at Seven with the Comedy of THE BEAUX' STRATAGEM. Archer, Mr. Howe ; Aimwell, Mr. Farren; Sullen, Mr. Chippendale ; Boniface, Mr. Rogers ; and Scrub, Mr. Buckstone; Mrs. Sul len, Miss Reynolds ; Dorinda, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. After which, the successful Classical Love Story, un der the Apple-lation of ATALANTA ; or, The Three Golden Apples : in which Miss M. Oliver will appear; also Miss 31. Wilton, and Miss Ellen Ternan. Concluding with MY WIFE'S DAUGHTER. In future the prices will be : Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), Gs. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d. Dress Boxes Upper Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 Pit Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Wel:liter. THIS EVENING, will be performed LIKE AND UNLIKE. Characters by Messrs. Wright, Paul Bedford, dtc.; Madame Celeste, Miss Windham, &c. Followed by THE ELVES, in which Madame Celeste will perform To conclude with a new Farce, called FEARFUL TRA GEDY IN THE SEVEN DIALS. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE, Lessees Messrs. Shepherd and Oreswick. THIS EVENING will bo performed PIZARRO. Mr. Creswick, &c. After which, THE GOOD FOR NOTHING. Mr. Widdi combe, To cocludo with THE DANCING SCOTCHMAN. Mr. Flexmore, and Madlle. Auriol, &c. IL? OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, will be performed a new drama, called DADDY HARDACRE. Mr. Robson, &c. To conclude with YOUNG AND HANDSOME. Messrs. Robson, G. Murray, drc. Commence at half-past Seven. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMP HITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. Unprecedented success of the New Grand Military Spec tacle, in which Mr. W. Cooke's highly trained Horses appear in novel and exciting situations. On MON DAY, May 4, and during the week, the Enter tainments commence with the New Military Spectacle, in three Acts, entitled THE FRENCH IN ALGIERS ; or, The Battle of Constantine. To be followed by Recherche SCENES IN THE ARENA, giving an EQUESTRIAN FE CE ; introducing the great ar tistes of the establishment, including Miss Kate Cooke. Signor Curelli and Family, and a variety of other entertain ments. Commence at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper loxes, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from 1/., no charge for booking ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Box.ofilce open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. CV. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. CA.NTER BEE ItY HALL, W estmi nster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ing company of Vocalists aro engaged for the performance of .;'elections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Duets, &c., viz.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunell, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri, Senor Antonio H. do Solla, and E. L. Hime ; Masters Bennett and Corri ; Messrs. Sam Cowell, Sam Collins, and E. Hackney. Pianoforte, Hr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.; :Erector, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre cisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock. WATIO, AT LONDON L,T-LIDG'r:. -Morn. 2 min. aft. 11—Evening 32 min.. aft, 11 ORIIO w'—Morn. 32 min. aft. 11 —Bvening 58 mia.stL.ll ThXM D. 17- TELE WEATHER—SUN Onrunt, MAY 3. THEB,MONZTEII, IN THE SHADE. 55 —highest since noon yesterday. 43 —loweat this morning and during the night. 52 —Cala day at noon. BAROMETER, 3018. WEID, W.N.B. —Easterly, moderate, with fair, cold weather, and cloudy, with occasional sunshine; some slight rain in the afternoon. MAY 4. 55—highest since noon yesterday. 42—lowest this morning and during the night. 51—t1 , 16 day 9 uproll. aA ROMII',I2, 30.18. WIND, N.B.—Light, with sunshine, and cloudy, bu' cool. • r07:411.)2? ••• 1 ; - • •, ) e LONDON, MONDAY MAY 4, 1857. en The absurdity of a " penny-wise And pound *foolish policy" has become so notorious, as to have passed into a proverb. The man who sacrifices important matters in order to effect a compara tively trifling saving is regarded with contempt, and would be laughed to scorn by any of his more experienced neighbours ; but, as a nation, we set aside the many painful lessons so frequently re ceived, and fall into the palpable error which in others we should be the first to condemn. It is a general misitake, which has been sanctioned by the "wisdom" (?) of Parliament, and that is quite sufficient to satisfy the sufferers, and to persuade them that the evil is beyond remedy, or at least that it is ziot ascribable to any fault on their part, and therefore they grumble, but submit ; or, according to the vulgar but expressive phrase, make up their minds " to grin and bear it." Our monetary code furnishes, perhaps, the most striking illustration of this ridiculous policy. The internal trade and commerce of the country are made to depend altogether on the possession of a Certain quantity of metals—not produced in this country, and which no degree of active in dustry can procure for us at home. Mills are closed, artizans Paid operatives thrown out of em. ployraent. Those who should be the creators and producers of national wealth become unprofitable consumers, credit is annihilated, and perfectly sol vent houses are subjected to serious losses, be cause bolo fide securities cease to be convertible, orders for the manufacturers of the country cannot be executed—and those previensly sent or ab ou t to b 3 sent, are countermanded or kept back, and all this is occasioned by the scarcity of a proper measure and representative of value --the want of a circulating medium ade q uate to the wants and exigencies of the country ! " They manage these things bettor in France." DY paying a trifling premium for gold, 6 fr. per mills, which necessarily attracts it to the quarter where it is most valuable, they supply themselves with all they require at our expense. There are frequent arrivals of the precious metals, but we is abstracted, and we are helpless because there is are forestalled in our own market. Carrie, after cargo no one to pay the trifling sum necessary to ensure ease. Tho Bank of England is bound to sell at a fixed price to all applicants. It has, therefore, vo inducement, to buy, is virtually prohibited from buying at any sum, liQwever trifling, ht , yonc.l the stipulated rate. The Bank of France, with far inferior resources, whose entire capital i!!' but little beyond the " rest," or reserved fund of " The Old Lady," is enabled to rela the strin gency of its rules, merely from being at liberty to purchase specie at a higher rate than can be given by its English rival, and hence they can maintain comparative ease in their country, and pay more than twice the dividend of the London establishment. An intelligent and respected correspondent, whose letter will be found iu another part of our impression, has clearly explained the nature of this anomaly. On the 20th ultimo we ourselves pointed out the trifling cost by which it was effected, and the only adequate remedy for the flagrant grievance. By the payment of 6,0001. the French Bank can draw gold worth a million from England, and the withdrawal of that amount not only occasions great "tightness," as it is termed in the money market, but - increases the minimum rate of discount from to 1 per cent. to the immediate customers of the Bank, and to at least double the rate, to those who are not so fortunate as to possess similar facilities for obtaining discounts. Sixty thousand pounds thus applied, would produce another commercial crisis in England, exceeding in interest that of October, 1847, when the unwise, and we may add, iniquitous enactment, was suspended, and virtually abrogated. Now, what is such a sum, ten times told, when compared to the annoyance and inconvenience sustained by the industrial community ? It is notorious that there are always commercial bills worth from fifty to one hundred million of pounds sterling in circulation. We believe, that considering the extraordinary increase indirected by our enhanced exports, that the larger amount may he fairly taken as that discounted. The addition of only 1 per cent. therein, would amount to One Million Sterling, and this, he it remembered, from four to six times in the year. Sixty thousand pounds, spent by the Bank of France, would quadruple that loss, 42n1 make it at leaSt TWENTY-FOUR MILLIONS Sterling per annum. This being the amount sacrificed, by what may be designatod as "the penny wise and pound foolish" policy of Great Britain. The Bank of England, however, favours this system, inasmuch as it enables it to charge 7 in place of 3 per cent. for its advances. The Direc tors seem to be oblivious of the advantages of the "nimble shilling" over the sluggish pound," and to ignore altogether the devastation occa sioned by the system. Trade and manufactures may struggle on for a time, but they cannot permanently stand against such repeated blows. No men will remain satisfied at the continued transfer of her legitimate profits to greedy money-lenders. It must, sooner or later, terminate in the destruction of " the Goose that lays the golden eggs." A private cor poration cannot safely be trusted with the control and management of the National Currency. The duty should be transferred to a department of the Government, and then the Bank of England might find it convenient to compete with that of Franco, and to arrest the golden tide now ebbing from our shores. A really National Bank, and National Notes of small and convenient denominations would prevent all the mischief, and if the industrial community be wise they will strive to achieve that great deside ratum while there - is yet time, and before the Bank Charter Act has been renewed without I change or modification for a protracted period. Concurrently with the meeting of the Secular Parliament, the Spiritual Parliament has also made its commencement. Of the two Assemblies it has the better claim to the name of Parliament, Since it meets to talk (parler) and to do nothing else. Nor is the epithet Spiritual, or its nearly antiquated Saxon equivalent, a/lastly, inappro priate, for time was when convocations of the Clergy were formidable realities, and besides trans acting business, could instigate secular powers to consign to present perdition all who ventured to dissent. The Convocationists of the province of Canter bury make the most of the two or three days which of late they have managed to secure for their conversation ; those of York are still dealt with after the old fashion, and dismissed as soon as they appear. If they wish to talk, they must do so at their hotels, or anywhere but in the Convo cation Chamber. The Canterbury represent stives and Spiritual Peers, by the glace of Lord DERBY, who dared not venture, in his peculiar position, in 1852, to offend so powerful a body, have ever since furnished a column or two of perfectly re sultless motions, discussions, and speeches to the ' daily papers. s o p l e of the restless among them are fain to represent this as a great point gained. We cannot think so. In fact they injure rather than aid the cause they have at heart." The object of the High Church Clerics, and of some others top, is to get a working and effective representation of their Church. They demand power to make laws for her, and to superintend their administration. They want to be a power in the Church, not a mere debating club. Now, as we think, their present attempts are just of the kind to keep them out of power. They show us once or twice a year the kind of stuff they are made of, and hitherto it has appeared as if there was a tolerable share of the quarrelsome and quibbling in their composition, a special unaptness for business, a great faculty of moving resolutions and anapudinent.s innumerable, but no faculty for moving on, or for amending where confessedly there le ample room for it. The plain fact is, an d coaepp 4 op A i a t a will find it out, that their annual threb days' debate just serves to ke,p awake the attention of their Parliamentary anta gonists to their objects, but so as to irritate rather than conciliate. The attempt to steal power makes every Liberal in the liouse of CoMmons only so much the more determined t) bolt th e door against them. The sentiment amongst ho nest, businesslike laymen is, if the Church needs A Synod of some hind for self-government, let her come openly forward, and seek it by the means adopted for all other objects : but let her not at tempt to worm herself into power underhandedly, through the ruins of au antiquated institution, and one whose very cp4stitution is wholly behind the standard of the day. The truth is that the Convocationists have gaine4 nothing beyond the privilege ppi,/yed by all Englishmen, from the peer to the peasant. LOO JOHIiT RIISSET.L or Lord DERBY, Mr. FROST and 440;!ITItitp O'liurEN, have equally the right, and use it too, of getting their supporters together, 814 freely all that, concerns their re si3q4iig objects. Convocation only (1.004 at a dis advantage what the others can do with every faci lity. Convocation has all the trammels of an institution fettered by law, but none of the free dom and vigour of a: voluntary, or a still living body. It is obsolete, and does not know it. A hollow oak, with a few sprigs and leaves and the outward layers and bark, to indicate he former strength ; but it is useless now except for tho se ecclesiastical emblems, owls and ivy. Convocation, iu aboaq, is lut bad public Meeting ;it has no more power thaa one ; it can do uotiliag LEE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY f.'VJENING, MAY 4, 1857. any body of Churchmen, meeting in Freemasons' Tavern or in Exeter-hall, could not do ; yet it essays to be something more. The attempt spoils al). An open honest association, with the Arch bishop at its head, to which delegates both lay and clerical from every diocese were invited, and which held public meetings besides, would have far mere attention paid t - .) it, and possess more real influence. The present hole-and-corner gathering of a few bishops, archdeacons, doctors, and proctors, in the guise of an antiquated and practically defunct body, is both ludicrous and useless. It is indeed amusing to read the report of the proceedings. The Bishops in state entering at the north gate of St. Paul's, the common clergy at the south gate. Eolus or antiquaries must tell us why. To the successors of St. PETER the " Litany was intoned in Latin," and the sermon preached in Latin ; siuoo,though St. PETER knew nothing beyond his native Syriac, or Greek, at most his successors at Rome have always used that language. We hope the discourse on modern things in the ancient tongue—the new wine in the old bottles--will be printed ; for there do appear to have been some good things in it. If Convo cation could but debate in Latin, it might be worth while to keep up its meetings to preserve the Latin of our clerical scholars from getting rusty. One of the old Puritans was complained of, indeed, for addressing his brethren sharply in English, but he tuld them that "if they had sinned in Latin he would have admonished them in Latin, but as they had sinned in English they must ever hear of it in English." Cannot the DITCHER and DENIsoN case be conducted in Latin—it would save some scandal. To return to Convocation, how ever, after a Latin benediction from the Arch bishop, they go forthwith to the Chapter House, the Archbishops and Bishops, and the Lower House, imitate as closely as may be the proceed ings of the Lords and Commons. The clergy are ordered to withdraw and choose a speaker (pro locutor), and present him duly to his Grace for confirmation, and so ended the first chapter of this last Convocation. The second we are to have on Thursday, when the clerical shadow of Mr. E. DEmsoN is to be presented to his- Grace in the person of the Dean of BRISTOL. As in St. Ste phen's there was no opposing candidate. We im4gine all wise Churchmen will think that the sooner all this solemn nonsense is, put an end to the better for religion and the Church. FREE TRADE IN MONEY. THE ROYAL ACADEMY. (PRIVATE VIEW.) The bereavement of the Royal Family by the lamented demise on Thursday morning of the last of King George the Third's children, H.R.H. the Princess Mary, Dachess of Gloucester, closes for a while inexorably against the general public the gates and doors of the Royal Academy. The same melancholy event even precluded the Acade micians on Saturday evening from entertaining Her Majesty's Ministers at the annual banquet given by them now during ninety-eight consecutive sea sons to the Members of the Government and to some among the most eminent of their contem poraries. Otherwise than by reason of the same calamity—the doors of the Academy would this morning have been flung wide for the first day's public exhibition. Fortunately for ourselves, during the continuance of this untoward delay, we can fall back upon our recollections of the " Private View" on Friday morning ! Having consumed some two hours most agreably on Friday morning in saun tering round the noble suite of„rooms constitut ing the gallery of our Academicians, we can, even from that one day's view (inadequate though one day's view necessarily is in itself for the pur pose of minute criticism), speak of this " Eighty- Ninth" Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, authoritatively, so far, nevertheless ! We can speak from our instant impression, from our own vivid remembrance—though at the same time, of course, from a merely " partial" and not by any means " satisfied" experience. The Private View, how ever, while in one respect it does little better than " whet the edge of one's appetite" for further inspection—at the same time is quite enough in itself to enable 6. keen observer to arrive at a tolerably accurate estimate of the general merit of the whole Exhibition collectively. And viewing it thus, we do not hesitate for one in stant to declare, that the impression produced upon our mind by our visit to the Academy on Friday, is beyond all manner of doubt, that the " Exhibition for MDCCOLVIL" is decidedly above the Average. There are really some few noble works of art in the present collection. And the general run of pictures now hanging on those " storied walls," we take to be excellent. Unfortunately, it is true, there are several very considerable Defaulters among the Associates, and even, be it said, among the Academicians them selves ! Vainly do we look this year for some of our chief favourites ! Briefly be it said, there is no Thomas Webster, no Edward Ward, no Frederick Lee, no Alfred Elmore. The Pre- Raffaelites have nothing for once from Holman Hunt—" The Scapegoat" of last year, we sup pose, being enough and to spare, for two seasons at least ! Even the President himself reposes for once upon his laurels—as he may well do with perfect safety to his reputation, those same laurels of his, not being by any means as yet, to all ap pearance, in " the sear and yellow leaf." But, while eminent names like that of Eastlake and like those already enumerated are a•wanting—the Gallery for Fifty-Seven is full of its consolations. Pre-eminent above them all—there is this season a Mulready, and such a Mulready ! A picture worthy in every respect of that illustrious and veteran artist—perhaps of all men the chief among the living glories of the English School of Painting. This picture is No. 138. " The Young Brother"—a work, as the catalogue in forms us, painted by this distingui hod artist "For tue Gallery of Pictures presented to the nation by the late Robert Vernon"—i❑ pursuance of the will left by that munificent public bene factor. So that everybody can look at " The Young Brother" with a double satisfac tion ! It is their own—a prize actually iu their own possession ! The subject is full of nature, of simplicity, and of tenderness. A flaxen headed infant-boy in the arms of an elder sister (herself not far advanced in her teens) being tickled into baby-laughter upon the smooth shoul der of that elder sister (who stands with her back to you) by the hand of an elder brother. The whole picture is riant in its playfulness ; and the group ing, the anatomy, the colouring—all appear to us. perfectly exquisite. Nothing possibly could be better than the flesh tints, whether in regard to the child, the rural lassie, or the rustic stripling ! And as to the general colouring of the picture already alluded to—what with the girl's brown dress and yellow boddice, and lilac apron, and red Icloak, and the youth's blue " smock," and the baby's white raiment and golden locks, and the azure sky overhead, and the verdant leaves in the background (all charmingly harmonised)—the effect of the ,whole is literally delicious : and in so ex pressing ourselves, we utter the words most truth fully and most unaffectedly. It is a painting— small, though comparatively it is in its dimensions —that a nation may be well proud of. It is a work worthy of being an example of the powers of Mulready, and, as such, of being added to the treasures of the Vernon Collection. Again —besides Mulready—we find another, and a very notable Academician, this season, redidivus ! Her bert, to wit, who, in No. 230, presents to our view (opening thereby to our mind's eye a new phase in his genius)---at once a sea-scape and a landscape. It is entitled, " On the Coast of France, in the autumn of 1853 "—and spreads out before us a wondrous sweep of coast scenery. Leslie has but one picture this year, but it is one much more pretentious, and much more worthy of Leslie than his solitary contribution of last sea son. " Sir Roger de Coverley iu Church " is the sub ject of it (No. 213)—a painting in which the artist has caught the humour of the "Spectator"— caught it unmistakeably, and, therefore, of course, delight fully. Yet, so accomplished this that the gene ral effect produced upon the judgment of the be holder is anything but satisfying. The colours are crude and raw—the hero of the scene appears to be deaf and blind to the progress of the prin cipal incident, and while several of the country bumpkins, in their suppressed appreciation of the fun of the thing, are undoubtedly very humorous, the majority of the rural congregation are so many rustic pokers in dimity and smockfrocks ! Dyce's single contribution to the collection, No. 107, '• Titian Preparing to Make his First Essay in Colouring," is at once beautiful and marvel lous. It is one of the loveliest pleas we have yet seen put forward in behalf of what has always seemed to us absurdly called Pre- Raphaelism ! The dreamy face of the boy genius, his negligent, natural, musing attitude, the flowers scattered about him, held in his hand, lying on his knees, strewn upon the green sward, the statuette of the Madonna, the very blades of grass in the turf, the very twig, and bud, and leaflet in the adjoining tr e es and thicket—all is wonder ful, all is beautiful ! liotv different this small picture to the two large and absolutely hideous exhibitions of the same extraordinary school by the undoubted master of it now-a-days—the young and gifted, but fitful and eccentric Millais 1 , Those two all but miraculous painted abominations, No. 283, "A Dream of the Past : Sir Isambras at the Ford" [call it not a Dream, Mr. Millais, but a Nightmare !i]—and. No. 408, "The Escape of a Heretic, 1559 [wherein the pretended monk if pouting his lips into a "face" that would have been either the fortune or the despair of Munden the most face-making of comedians]. Danby has, in No. 245, a delicious and gorgeous view, upon a ruddy morning of old, of " The Court, Palace, and Garden of Alcinous." Landseer almost excels himself in two at least out of his three remarkable contributions to the present collec tion. No. 77, " Scene in Braemar—Highland Deer, k,c.," with the oddest little wild rabbit perking up on one forefoot, the other drooped akimbo—all inquisitiveness ! And better still, No. 315, "Uncle Tom and his wife for sale"—a Landseer (even while remembering that it is really by Landseer) quite wonderful. Stan field, by no means equals this season his great work of last year—" The Abandoned." But, then, it is true that was a masterpiece, and masterpieces are not productions of every day achievement. Maclise has an astonishing collection of Pencil Drawings under the head of No. 1159, " The Story of the Conquest," and one large painting No. 78—illustrating a memo rable incident in the life of " Peter the Great," when he was visited by William of Orange in the ship builder's yard down at Deptford. But this, and divers other remarkable contributions to the Academy Exhibition we must speak of more at ilength in our subsequent dissertations. LATEST NEWS. Lord Elgin, Envoy Extraordinary from the British Government to China, embarked at Mar seilles on the Ist inst., on board the English Post office packet Car adoc, for Malta. Letters from Smyrna, of the 23d ult., state that a ship belonging to Tripoli, having 45 slaves on board, had been seized at Tchesme on the de mand of the British Consul-General. The Municipal Council of Smyrna had ordered that the slaves should be set at liberty. According to the news from Constantinople, of the 23d ult., Ismail Pacha, commanding the army of Anatolia, is removed to the command of the army of Atabistan. Au Imperial order has been addressed. to the Greek Bishops, directing them to carry out the reforms in the administration of worship decreed in 1856. The squadron of Admiral Lyons arrived before Malta on the 23cl of April. Preparations were making, for the 28th, to give a brilliant ovation to the admiral, and to have a triumphal entry to the officers and the crews. BERNE, MAY 2. Col. Denzler, commanding the republican troops, and a member of the Grand Council of Neuchatel, has published a letter addressed by him to the Cantonal Government, blaming the acceptance of the Treaty without consulting the Grand Council. The Colonel expresses a hope that the People and Grand Council of Neuchatel will declare themselves against the Treaty, to which he con siders the status quo preferable. BERLIN, SATURDAY. 111 this day's sitting, the Chamber of Repre sentatives rejected the law proposing a tax, upon mines. Iu the Upper Chamber the first section of the itupost on manufactures has been thrown out. MADRID, MAy 2. In their sitting of Friday, the Cortes proceeded to the formation of bureaux. M. Martinez de la Rosa, has been named Pre sident of Congress. MM. Maquiera, Ferreira, Aloiso, and the Count of Vista-Hermosa have been elected. Vice-Presidents.. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR, —You have often called attention to our monetary system, and made remarks which must have appeared to those who understand the subject, appropriate, as well as forcible. There are few persons who do not profess to un derstand the subject of free trade ; it is, however, too evident that nothing is less understood by those who are the victims of the present system than free trade in money. I will, at ptesent, only ask your attention to a few matters which probably may induce a more popular style of reasoning than has hitherto been adopted. One of my ignorant neighbours says, " What is the meaning of gold being six per mille dearer in Paris than in London ?" I reply that it means that they will give 1,006/. for every 1,000/. of gold, according to our London price, or six thousand pounds more for a million pounds of our gold. He then asks why we don't raise the price of gold, if we want to keep it ? and how much it would add to the price per oz ? I tell him it would only add to the price about si, making, what is now, 31. 17s. 10i cost 31. 18s. 4d. ; but that course does not appear practicable. He then says he thinks the French are making a very good bargain, and that our rich capitalists must ,be in league with them, and if we gene rally have 5Q to 1.00 millions of bills afloat, which cost two per cent. more for discounting them, all this loss mhst fall in some way upon trade, and only benefit the classeS who are rolling in plenty. Another neighbour stepped in and said that all the builrings in his own neighbourhood were either stopped, or going on very slowly, because no mort gages could be procured now, while money was so dear. This has already had the effect of throwing vast numbers of workmen out of employment, and reducing the trade of all the little shopkelyrs, which is a state of things that ought not to exist, when, according to the published accounts of Joint Stock Banks, they are making their 18 er 20 per cent., after allowing their customers interest for their money ; and, of course, private bankers, who do not allow interest, must be lucre sing their pro perty enormously. May I ask you to consider whether there is any folly on the part of the French in paying an extra price of only 6,0001. on every million, to enable them to possess themselves of the means of dis counting to any extent, taking care to charge such rates as will enable them to re-discount their bills on England in the English market, at any rate of discount which our monied authorities please to fix upon them ? Let it be assumed, for a moment, that the opera tions are somewhat of this nature, and can we expect any remedy to be devised by the parties who best understand (the bullionists) the subject ? There is nothing to be hoped for unless the public have the question repeatedly before them, and argued in all its bearings till a general conviction is produced that until there is a free trade in money, all our com mercial people, who are not great capitalists, will note lse. e derive real benefit from free trade in anything • I am, sir, Your obedient servant, A CONSTANT READER. May Ist, 1857. FUNERAL OF THE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER, The funeral of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester is expected to take place on Friday next at Windsor. The interment will take place in the daytime, in that respect differing from the usual course of royal funerals at Windsor, which uni formly take place in the evening, with the excep tion of that of the Queen Dowager, the precedent in which case will be followed on the present occa sion. The funeral ceremony will be conducted in a private manner. The last hours of the Duchess of Gloucester were free from pain. The immediate cause of dissolution was an entire decay of vital power ; the proximate cause was, doubtless, the severe attack of spasms which prostrated the little remaining str,ngth she had, and though dropsy or water on the chest su pervened, yet it was not that which proved fatal in its effects. The royal duchess was unable to make the least mark of recognition to any of the members of the royal family. The funeral of the duchess will most probably take place on Friday next, following the precedent of the late Duke of Cambridge, who was interred eight days after his decease. Should it, however, be determined to embalm the body, in the same manner as was done with her sister, the Princess Augusta, the interment may be de layed till the following Monday. But, as in all these matters, the deceased duchess may either hive expressed a wish or left instructions, im mediate directions caunot be given by the authorities. Without an expressed wish has been made by the royal duchess to the contrary, the in terment will take place at Windsor, Prince Albert and the Duke of Cambridge being chief mourners. The Duchess of Gloucester's house is not free hold, as has been stated ; her interest in it was only the remainder of a lease for a not very long term. Her Royal Highness, besides a large sum of money, was possessed of much valuable pro perty, and was especially rich in jewels, her dia monds being as fine as any possessed by the Royal family, the . is Queen alon e excep t e d . Of l aces , t oo , of that quality the art o f ma ki ng w hi c h , if no t ex tinct, certainly not now practised, the late i duchess had a large store, and of very great value ; her collection is, perhaps, not to be surpassed in this country. The accumulation is easily accounted for. On the death of Queen Charlotte al her laces and jewels were publicly sold, an d it was known that the choicest specimens were purchasei by the princesses, her daughters ; and the same system has been pursued on the death of every female member of Geca-ge the Third's family, till the most beautiful specimens of each collection have centred in the possession of the last survivor—the Duchess of Gioucester. Of the nature of the will her Royal Highness has left, nothing is formally known ; but it is supposed that the bulk of the jewels and the rarest of the laces will be inherited by the Princesses of Catnbridges, especially by the Princess Mary, who was her godchild, and a great favourite of her venerable aunt, with mementoes to the other metuhers of the Royal Family.--Court Jo THE NEUCHATEL QUESTION. PARIS, MONDAY MORNING. The Paris correspondent o f the Morning Post (second edition).says : The Berne newspapers have just published what professes to be a statement of the articles of the treaty and protocol intended for the settlement of ,the Neuchatel question. This publication, whiqh can only be the result of a most unjustifiable indiscretion, is moreover at variance in many re spects with the true text of the documents to which it relates ; and it should be .borne in mind that the text itself had not as yet been definitely decided upon. This abuse of confidence (in the case of a negotion not as yet concluded is the more to be regretted as it may possibly compro mise• its success. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. The Moniteur describes the visit of the Grand Duke Constantine to the Louvre on Saturday. "He went through all the rooms, and the Prince spent much time in admiring the chefs d'ceuvres of the great masters. The museum of the Sovereigns particularly fixed the attention of his Imperial Highness. Articles of curiosity which belonged to Charlemagne, Sr. Louis, Anne of Brittany, Fran cis 1., Henry 1., 11., 111., and IV., and especially to Napoleon 1., were made the objects of ca►e[ui examination and evident emotion. " Thy Prince closed his visit by an inspection of the Museum of Marine, which furnished his Im perial Highness with a complete view qf the pre sent, extent of nautical science." Tho Moniteur has a letter from London, minu tely describing the transatlantic cable, its manu facture, and the proposed mode of iti laying down, all which have bests already given in our columns. AUSTRALIA. By the arrival of the European we have received files of papers from Melbourne to the 14th March, and from Sydney to the 10th March. We take the following from the Melbourne Aye of the 14th March 1— " THE NEW MINISTRY. "On Tuesday last the Assembly met, after the adjournment consequent on the Ministerial defeat, to hear the explanatory statement of the new Pre mier. Mr. O'Shanassy, in a speech of considerable length, entered into a detail of the various steps he had ta4en towards the formation of a Cabinet. He had first applied, he said, to the leading men among the twenty-nine members who had voted in the majority against the previous Ministry. He had offered the Commissionership of Trade apd Customs successively to Mesrs. Moore and M'Calloch, who are eminent members of the mercantile community; but both gentlemen had been compelled to deelio e the offer, not being able to withdraw from their extensive private concerns. He had offered the two law appointments to Mr. Michie an I Dr. Evans (a new arrival) respectively ; but these gentlemen had also declined office for non-political reasons. IJl tim 44, he bad been able to secure the services of the following gentlemen : "H. S. Chapman, Esq., Attorney- General. "J. V. F. F. Foster, sq., Colonial Treasurer. "C. G. Duffy, Esq., Commissioner of Public Works. " A. F. A. Greeves, Esq., Commisioner of Trade and Customs. _ _ "G. S. W. Horne, Esq, Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey. "J. D. Wood, El., Solicitor-General. These gentlemen with Mr. o'§lanassy himself as Chief-Secretary, form 09 new Administration. "Mr. Chapman was formerly Chief Justice of New Zealand, Old. more recently Colonial Secre tary of Tasmania. Mr. Foster was formerly Colo nial Secretary . of this colony, and at one time, in- I . deed, acting Governor. Mr. Duffy is too well I known to our Eagtish readers to requite desttrip- tion. Dr. Greeves was one of the leaders to the old Legislature, in which be sat as member for the ciiy. Mr. Horne is a legal gentleman of high c: a racter and respectability, brother to the present Chief Justice of Tasmania. Mr. Wood is one of our ablest lawyers, and was offered the Solicitor- Generalship a fortnight before, by Mr. Haines, and refused. It will thus be seen that with respect to social position, as welt as ability, the new Ministry is a vast improvement upon the old. • " Since our last summary the markets have been glutted by excessive arrivals from England, and the prices have been i2ordiriately depressed. Several failures have taken place ; but they are mostly among small firms of limited means, and happily not likely greatly to influence the markets. Yet confidence has been shaken, and few but cash trans actions are ventured upon. 'As the banks have. shown a disposition to accommodate firms of re spectability, D 9 permanent interruption to the course of legitimate trade is likely to arise, and a crisis need not be appaehended. • The electric telegraph is now in full operation between Melbourne and the principal towns on the gold fields. The Governments of South Australia and New South Wales are making arrangements for connecting lines, and that of Tasmania is ,ex pected to be completed between Hobart Town and Launceston by the let of April next. The short lines connecting these towns with the extremities of the island are temporarily.deferred ; and, in con sequence of the indisposition of the Tasmanian - public to incur the expenses of the cable across Bass's Straits (though the Victorian Government have engaged to share the expense), its c_nstruc tion is indefinitely postponed. " The project of improving the navigation of the Yarra I arra, and the formation of dcieLs . in Bat man's Swamp is for the present allowed to sleep. On the resumption of parliameptary business, 'on the 15th of April next, we trust that a matter of so much importance to the commercial well being of Victoria may meet with the attention it deserves. GOLD. " The depression in commercial matters gene rally is exercising an unfavourable influence with respect to gold as well as other commodit es. Yet the yield of the various gold fie!ds is tolerably steady and the returns do not present an unfavour able appearance. " The total amount of gold received by escort since our last summary (Feb. 14) amounts to— Week ending February 21 27 March 6 *sent up to February 13 Total escort for 1857 .„ Oz. dwt. ... 48.032 0 ... 35,213 15 ... 57,805 5 ... 28,709 0 169,750 0 ▪ ... 320,7%5 15 • ... 490,525 15 Total gold shipped during 1857... ... 626,874 11 NEW SOUTH WALES. (From the Sydney Empire of the in,n March.) Since the departure of the Simla, on the filth February, the community of New South Wales has not been agitate l by any unusual event, nor has any remarkable development of natural wealth •or industrial power occurred to stimulate to unwonted activity the steady course of our material progress. The colony has pursued the even fellow of its way," and even in the Legislature nothing has stood out from the ordinary routine of business to disturb the repose of s,)c:ety. Tire third of the European and. Australian Royal Mail CeinpanY's steam-ships, the Europe Aii:arri arrived in our harbour on the 14th of February, the thiid day af er the departure of the Simla. The outward. passges of the three ships sent out to cornmt.nce the line from the Australian side stand in the con secutive order of their dates as foll ws Oneida, Southampton to Sydney... 72 days. Simla )1 2) )) . ..59 )2 » •••4 )2 22 This uniform igitcces3 has established for the new company a high prestige in the colonies, which it is hoped will lie increased. by the nuts between Aus tr ilia and India. The that contract mail via Suez, to leave Southampton on the 24th of February, with :..upplerueutary mail via Mirseilles on the 2d of March, wiil be brought to us by the return voy age of the Oneida, but ct.nnot reach Sydney before the 21st or 22d of April. The Legislature is still in session,. but will proba bly be prorogued during the next fortnight. On the 10th February, Mr. Martin, in the As sembly, brought for Ward a motion containing a di rect censure on the Ministers for offering situations in the public service to Mr. Gilbert Elliott and Mr. John Rae, the present City Commissioners, while the official conduct of those gentlemen was under investigation by a committee of the House. The motion was negatived by 21 votes to 17. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. , . The royal mail steam-ship Niagara, Captain Wickman, has just arrived in the Mersey, with advices from New York ,to the 21st, Boston 22d, and Halifax 24th ult. She brought 110 passengers and nearly 600,000 doll. in spt-eie. The steam-ship America and the Khersonese,, hence, had arrived at Halifax ; and the City of Washington, hence, and the Pultoh, from Havre and Southampton, had arrived at New York. There is little news of importance. New York was visited on the 20th ult. by a severe hailstorm, accompanied by a a violent gale of wind, causing considerable d image to property. It did not appear that the difficulty between the United States and New Granada would be settled by negotiation. Several inni-i , f-war were to be at once despatched to that quarter. Havana adviCes to April 14 report the attempted assassinalign a the British Consul, Mr. W. Smith, owing to his exposures of slave traffic. Later news from Nicaragua confirm the defeat and retreat of Colonel Lockridge, but has no fur ther tidings of General Walker. At New York, on the 21st ult., money was in good supply and rates were easier. Stocks were higher and the market quite active. Exchanu b e on London, 1.001 to Cotton was heavy, but bread stuffs very steady at full l rites. Provisions in ac tive demand, but prices were unaltered. Freights to Liverpool were'heavy; acid engagements light. ARRIVAL OF TEM WASHING-TON. SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY. The, United States Mail steamship Wash ngton, from NO Yocli to Bremen, artiired . off Cowes this afternoon, with the American mail. Tie advices are to the 18th ult. _ , The Arabia, from Liverpool, had arrived out. We have news from Washington to April 1.6.. Tue Cabinet met at an early hour that m9riiing to consider the questions connected with New Gra nada, and orders were to be sent by the next APpinwall steamer for the States naval forces in the West Indies and the Pacific to concentrate ou the Isthmus of Panama. Should it be necessary, men would be landed on both sides, and the neutrality of the transit guaranteed to all the world. The British and French Ministers bad b..en ad vised of this deterninViop. Orders were to be sent to Mr. Bowlin to return at once, 'if the new Administration at Bogota liad not offered to open favourable neg , ,tiations. The Administration was determined that the rights of American citizens should be respected. _ _ Mr. Reed was at Washington consulting about his instructions. The suggegtion that he should go by way of England_ met with much favour by the Cabinet. A good deal of excitement had been occasioned— it having been talked over in Cabinet Couticilat the charges made by Messrs. Herrick arid Donald son against certain gentlemen connected with the present administatiori. They were to he thoroughly investigated. Robert Lit tle, of Wyoritim. , ' Penn sylvania, had been appointed judge advocate to the Naval Court ot Tuquiry. This is the third court. The salary of each judge amounts to over $7,000 per year. The United States vessels Independence, John Adams, and Decatur, now on the Pacific side of the Isthmus of Panama, were to remain there for the present, and the home squadron was to proceed to this side of the Isthmus in view of the difficulties in that quarter. No clue had yet been obtained to the murderers of Policeman Har,lenbrook. A man named 4611 n SCratchard had been exa mined before Justice Connolly upon the charge of attempting to effect the release of Charles B. Hunt ilgton, the forger, from the State prison, by means of a forged pardon. Scratchard, as alleged, had been endeavouring to obtain money from various parties to carry out object. Huntington de nied all knowledge of Scratohard and his designs, The affair, which was involved in considerable Mystery, was to be further investigated. Meantime the accused remained in prison. The case of the alleged frauds upon the Northern Railroad of France had been resumed in the United States Commissioner's Court. Carpentier, one of the accused, had pleaded guilty to the charge. Re was to be used as State's evidence by the prosecu tion. After the destruction of the settlement at Spirit Lake the Sioux Indians made an attack upou Springfield, in the southern part of Minnesota, but were repulsed with 4 loss of about a dozen men. A detachment of 100 goOcl troops pursued the but being without provisions w“e compelled to return. The gaol at Hagerstown, IVII., has been entirely destroyel by fire. The prisoners were all saved. The steam- , hip Teune , see, Capain Patterson, 'which arrived at New York on the 15th ult., from Aspinwall and San Jua,n, via - Key West, brought the folowing intelligence " Colonel Lokridge advanced to Castillo on the 28th of March, with 800 men, ou board the steamers Scott and Rescue. He found the enemy had for tified Nelson's-hill, 250 yards in rear of the castle, with strong breastworks, ditches, several large guns, and 500 men. He retreat,d without making an attack, and destrny€d all the fordfications below Castillo, abandoning all hope of opening the river. He disbanded the two regiments of recruits and formed ano her from those who were willing to go to Walker via Panama. " On the 2d inst. the boiler of the Scott exploded near Serapiqui, killing and wounding about 50 of the officers and men the sick and wounded were immediately sent to Punta Arenas in the Rescue. " Colonel Lockridge was up the river with a portion of his force and a large supply of pro visions." The Tennesse left in the liarbqur of San Juan, April 9, her Britannic Majesty's war steamers Orion Cossack, Archer, Pioneer, and Intrepid._ "NEW ORLEANS APRIL 16. "Cotton generally unchanged. Siiles to-day 2,800 bales. Sugar closed buoyant, at 10c. to 10ic. Flour -declining tendency ' • sales at $6. White corn, 73c; Provisions steady. Freights stagnant. Sterling exchange 9f per cent. " PHILADELPHIA APRIL 17. Stocks stdady. .vptipsylviija Fives, 53_ • Read ing ; Railway, 501 Long Isiand Railroad, 13 ; Morris Canal, 15k. CIEtARLESTON, Ann, 15. " Sales of cotton to-day, 2,000 bales, at advan prices. The market has nearly recovered what -A lost in the beginning- of the week. " CHARLESTON, ABRIL 16. "Our cotton market hai recovered the decline, and good middling closed to-day at 144 c. Sales to-day 800 bales. Sales of the week 6 , 500 bales." ARRIVAL OF THE CIR.CASSIAN. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. The North Atlantic Steam Navigation Com pany's screw steamer Circassian, Daptain Powell, arrived this morning in the Mersey from Portland, Slit; sailed bona that port on the 17th ult., Halifax on the morning of the 21st, and St. John's, New foundland, oil U e evening of the 24 h ; and has made the passage from Newfound'and to Holyhead in 7 days 21 hours, and hasbroutht passenget s, in cluding his Excellency the ex-Governor Darling, family, and suite, but no specie. The Circa, , siari encountered south-easterly and easterly winds during the entire voyave. The submarine te'cgraph between New York and. Newfoundland is out of order, otherwise we should have had eight days' later news from the former pott. The Khersouese, screw steamer, from hence, belonging to the same company, arrived at New foundland in nine days, from Liverpool, notwith standing considerable detention off the port by the fog. The Arabian steamer, was to leave Portland for Liverpool, April 25. The ships Favourite and D. R. De Woolf, froni Liverpool • Mac Lae, from Glasgow ; White Star ; from London ; and Elizabeth, from Cardiff, had arrived from Halifax. No ice reported on the coast of Newfoundland. The seal fishery is spoken of as having been exceed.- incly prosperous, The versels returruno , are quite filled. The navigation to Toronto, Canada West, had bee n fully opened. Commercial affairswi•h , ut any rnat , rial variation THE PENINSULAR, MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY EVENING. The steamer So Capt tin Cook, has arrived with the Peninsular mail 4, and dates from Gibral tar, to' the 25th of April ; Cadiz, 26th ; Lisbon, 29 h ; Oporto and Vtgo, 30th. She brings 39 passengers, eight packages of specie, value 1,8691., one package containing 285 doub loons, 823 half-che,ts of oranges, 174 boxes of date., 10 casks of wine, 225 bags of coffee, and 211 packa ges of general merchandise. The European and American company's steam ship Golden Fleece, for the Brazils, arrived at Lis bon on the afternoon of the 28th, in 3day4 20 hours from Southampton. The Sultan left her Majesty's ship Exmouth and the Colossus at Lisbon on the 29th, still under or ders for England. They had been detained by heavy contrary` gales. Upon their departure the Princess Royal will be the only ship of war in the Tagus. On the 30th, going into Vigo, the Sultan ' passed and exchanged signals with the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Tagus, all Well. She exchanged signals on the 29th of April, 10 miles south •of the Burlings, with the steamer Milan, and two miles south of the Barlings with the Dan Pedro ; on the Ist of May, 80 miles north of Cape Fini,terre, with the steam-ship Persian ; and on the 31, 10 miles south of Portland, with the ship Rosaria and barque Grays. Lisbon exchanges on London had fallen from 52 3 / 4 to 52 for thiee months; Paris 533 to 535; Amsterdam, 41i ; liamburg, 41 • Genoa , 531 ; all in demand. There had been a further rise in , tocks and bank shares, but it had partially sub sided, and the market closed quieter before the packer left. At the sitting of the Lisbon Chamber of Depu ties on the 28th the first three articles of the pro ject of law authorising' the Government to carry out the railw.ty contract made with Mr. Peto were voted by a large majority. The reint.inder of the project was expected to be voted on the 29th, and h there seemed every chance of the contract being carried out. IMPERIAL • PAAI4A.MENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Day.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'cldpk. The swearing in of the new members was continued to day will' the adj,urnment of the house. LAW INTELLIGEME.--(This Day.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyci.) THE ROYAL BRITISH BANE. To-day was appointed for the further ixamination of directors. At the hour appointed, Mr. Linklater ad dressed his Honour, and said that it bad been his intew tion to examine Mr. Valliant, but under circumstances he should not do so at present, as his (Mr. V 's) evi dence was comparatively unimportant, as be bad only "been a director for a short time—his examination would be taken hereafter, $o as to be placed on the records of ihe ponrt ; but he (Mr. Linklater) did not consider to • occupy the time of the Court. He would examine Mr. Kehnedy, Mr. M'Leod, and Mr. Oven, when an Op portunity offered. An impression had been entertained that these examinations bad been without object, or attended with benefit, but enough bad h'een already dis closed to ensure a conviction of one or more parties, but the prosecution must rest with the Government. The examinations would be, therefore, oily saying the saws thing over and over again, without any greater enlight erment, but in the course of a week he would have the information on the record, so that on his Honour's re'. port, the Government would be in a position to judge. The meeting seas then adjourned. The King of .ganover went on the 25th ult. with P , numerous suite to Brunstyick to take part in the cele bration of the anniversary of the duke, who was born on the 25th April, 1806. Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Murray are . aloont to made a pqr through the provinces. THE POISONINGS IN HONG KONG.-4. letter frau Munich, in the 4ug4urgh Gazette says : -- 4 f Professor Liebig has ana ly se d th e brea d sent f rom Ilong Song, and has found it to contain a quarter gri.mine of arsenic for every 50 grammes cf bread, of more than sufficient to cause death. The arsenic wee spread over the whole surface of the bread, which proved that the poison had been mixed with the dough." THE LATE EXPLOSION AT LIINDHILL.--S4tUrcial Evening.—The operations continue to progress in the most satisfactory manner, though less rapidly than coup be desired, from the want of men. Large numhers Nap e volunteered their assistance, but the viewers felt that in so dangerous a work it would be exceedingly imprudent to employ any but the mos t exper i ence d an d ca reful miners, apd they have only as yet been able to o btain she services of about 80 miners of this character. At noon today another b o d y was recovere d, rea ping th e total cumber exhumed 22". It was found in the dip level, a little t the north of the s h a ft. It was in an evee e d ingly decomposed state, but was very satisfactorily id t °P; tified, by a number of peculiarities in the dress, 48 that of a you.n,t man named George Townsend, who live 4 _ West Milton. The miners are engaged in clearing en the large falls on the north Side, and it i$ not expe,Pr o ' r nit any large number of bodies will be recorerea tho several days. The bodies recovered yesterday we 7 °, l ,. eh afternoon interred ; those of Bmjamin and Beev.)rB at Gawber, near Barnsley ; and those of Bah nett Bailey and George, his son at Parfield. TB; : e t the whole a re a over whiol) the ire raged 0. 3 po t been explored, from the extended examinations a e u n. during the last few days, not the slightest deu i' All ° t tertained that the whole of the fire is e *tingel-b°cL ii , a t apxiety on that most important point is now ha ll ' au end, U' th e~