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

i nr ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. L] Third appearance of 3.,1ad11e. ORTOLANI. GIUGLINI, BENEVENTANO, BELLETTI, POCCHINI. THIS EVENING (Tuesday) (the third time these seven years), Bollini's Opera of I PURITANI. Elvira, Madile. Ortolani (her 3d appearance in England); Arturo, Sig. Giuglini. After which, the Third Tableau of LA ESMERALDA. In which will be introduced an ent . rely New Divertissement. La Esmeralda, Madlle. Pocchini (her last appearance but four). Far 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 applica tion at the Box-office, at the Theatre Co'onnade, Haymarket. Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. Fir ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Jll First Night of LUCIA DI LAIMERMOOR. PICCOLOMINI, GIUGLINI, BEL LETTI, VIOLET EI, POCCHINI. On THURSDAY EVENING, May 7. LUCIA DI LAMIIER, 00R. Lucia, Piccelomini (her first appearance in that part). Edgard°, Si;. Ginglini. Ballet—LA ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda, Mdlle. Pocchini. Poi•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 ap plication at the Box-office at the Theatre Colonnade, Hay mute t. Price One Guinea and One Giinca and a Half each. ( .. L OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING, will be performed Shakespere's tr igedy of KING RICHARD THE SECOND. King Richard 11., Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by A GAME OF ROMPS. T HEATRE ROYAL, Er AYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. NEW ARRANGEMENT OF PRICES OF ADMISSION'. THIS EVENING (Tuesday), and to-morrow Evening Wednesday, for two 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. Fitzwiliiam. After which, the auccessfu. Classical Love Story, un der the Apple-latiou of A I ALA,NTA ; or, The Three Golden Apples : in which Miss M. Oliver will appear; also Miss M. Wilton, and Miss Ellen Ternan. Concluding with MY WIFE'S DAUGHTER. Iu future the prices will be:— Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second pi ice. s. d. Dress Boxes.. Upper Boxes .. 3 0 Upper Boxes... ......... 2 0 Pit.... Lower Gallery 1 oLowcr Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery. T HEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed LIKE AND UNLIKE. Ohara tern by Messrs:Wright, Paul Bedford, Sic.; Madame Celeste, Miss Windham, Sec. Followed by a new Farce, called FEARFUL TRAGEDY IN THE SEVEN DIALS. To conclude with THE ELVES, in which Madame Celeste will perform ROYAL SURRH:Y THEATRE, LegAef.sl Messrs. Siieplierd and Cr o swick. THIS EVENING will be performed THE FLOWER GIRL, Mr Creswick, &c. After which, THE GOOD FOR NOTHING. Mr, Widdi combe, &c. To conclude with THE DANCING SCOTCHMAN. Mr. Flexmore, and Madlle. Auriol, &c. OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, will he 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. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE L Lessee And Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. Unprecedented success of the New Grand Military Spec tacle, in which Mr. W Co'ke's highly trained Horses appear In novel and exciting situations. THIS EVENING, and during the week, the Enter tainments commence with the New Milital ySpectacle, iu three Acts, entitl3d THE FRENCH IN ALGIERS; or, The Battle of Constantine. To be followed by Recherche S'CENPf3 IN THE ARENA, giving au EQUESTRIAN FE CE; introducing the great as. tistes of the establishment, including Miss Kate Cooke. Signor Curelli and Family, and a variety of other entertain• meuts. CommeLce at seven o'clock. Dress foxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 35.; Private Boxes, from 1/., uo charge for booking ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Es. ; Upper Gallery, 6(1, B,x•offico open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Ar. W. Cooke, jun. CA.NTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Duets, dm., viz.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunell, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta ; Mr. J Caulfield, Herr P. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Farrant, Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. I 'orri, Senor Antonio M. de Solia, and E. L. Hime ; Masters Bennett and Corri; Messrs. Sam Cowell, Sun Collins, and E. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun ; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre• cisely. Sappers, (Sze., until twelve o'clock. alCiti WATER AT LONDON WU 6. Tens Del - -Morn. 32 min. aft. 11—Evening 58 min. aft 11 Iff nBRO —Morn. 21 min. aft. 12 --gvening 38 mi., af. 12 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, MAT 5. THERMOMETER, IN THE `SHADE. 53 *.ighest since noon yesterday. (2 lowest this morning and during the night. 62 -this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30'23. VrTiqP, N. to N.N.E. and N.B. ; rather fresh, with sun shine, and heavy clouds ; inclining to rain, but warmer than for the last week or two. st 'IN" t „. - - • • • LONDON, TIIESDA.? MAY 5, 1857 There is a new Central American difficulty ! " Another RICHARD in the field ! " Fortunat -ly, England is not at present inv(dved in the contev, although it might be difficult to say how long she may retain that happy exemption. It is for the time being with the Government of New Granada with which that of the United S - ates has thought proper to suspend diplomatic relations— the first step, so far as " Uecle Saar " is con cerned, to spoliation on a lirge scale, and ultimate annexation. A plausible pretext is put forward, but when was such ever wanting in a controversy following the approved precedent of Wolf v. Lamb ? The alleged ground on the part of " the Statesmen " is that a number of American aiti zans were grossly ill•used, some lives being lost in the general melee on the line of the Panama Rail. way, and that adequate protection was not af forded to life or property by the constituted authorities. On the other hand it is alleged, and with much apparent reason, that the overbearing insolence of the Yankees received well-merited punishment, and that the only verdict which could be returned would be like that of the Irish jury—" Sarved them right;" that in fact they had deserved all they got, and more into the bar gain. Thus stands the controversy, and it seems a pretty quarrel as it stands. But unfortunately the Government of Washington has all the power in its own bands. It fulfils the rather multi farious duties of Plaintiff, Judge, and Jury, aye, and that of Executive, to give force and efficacy to its own decisions. It has, therefore, the game in its own hands, and, according to its ordinary practice, has acted promptly and decisively. Naval squadrons were despatched to take possession of " both sides of the Isthmus," and under such circumstances it requires no extraordinary• powers of vaticination to predict that the " debateable l an d" will ere long share the same fate, and fall under the Government of " the United States." The weakness of the defendant can, however, constitute no valid excuse for such summary pro ceedings. Even if the New Granadian authorities were really unable to enforce their own laws, the same may be said of many American States, where Lynch Law prevail, and the people take matters into their own hands, and inflict sum mary punishment on those whom, in the plenitude of power, they are pleased to consider as offenders, even to the extreme penalty of the law ! When we learn, by the same mail, that two executions, according to Lynch Law, had taken place in lowa, in which the majesty of the law of the land was totally set at defiance, every participator being :In actual rarderer, we may sell doubt the validity of the pretext which alleges the weakness of the Executive to control and direct the popular will, and to punish the wrong-doers, as an adequate ground for invasion and ultimate annexation. The truth, however, has oozed out, through the public , journals. " The permanent acquisition of the Isthmus is the object which American policy availing itself of the existing difficulty now proposes to accomplish." There may possibly be a compulsory purchase, according to the " Sir Giles Overreach" school. But if matters follow the usual routine, the weakest must go to the wall, and thankfully receive whatsoever the levia than opponent may please to offer. This, however, is a matter in which England may properly exercise a veto. It is in direct oppo sition to the arrangement between Sir HENRY LYTTON BULWER and Mr. CLAYTON on which the Government of Washington has already relied in certain difficulties that heretofore occurred. The main obj.-ot of that conven tion was to provide for the perfect neutra lity of the Lthmus, so that the contemplated ship canal might be available to the trade of all nations, without advantage being given to any. The ex clusive possession of the entire Isthmus by the United States—and, save so far as right was con cerned, it signifies little whether by corquest or purchase—would give extraordinary and very objectionable poll er to one party, who would thereby obtain the entire control and management of the route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and thus the direction of the trade of the two hemispheres. This would indeed be some thing far beyond the jurisdiction of the United States. It would be of the deepest interest, not merely to England, but to every nation of Europe —we may say, of the world. If New Granada be too weak to establish an efficient police, and to supply the requisite protection for life and property, the suitable remedy can only be found in a general arrangement, in which all can concur, and ensure equal rights and privileges—not by the action of a single Power, whose propensitie, for self-aggrandisement have already become toy. painfully notorious. We cannot say that Mr. BUCHANAN really contemplates the suggested annexation. But the matter is one requiring extraordinary vigilance and caution on our part, and that we trust it will receive from Lord PALMERSTON and the Earl of CLARENDON. r'on. mews hie sermo. The question has m..t been raised on this side of the Atlantic. It is American journalists who have promulgated the sulution of the interesting problem, and it may safely be assumed that they are speak ing in accordance with at least a section of public opinion. They have magnified the possible danger arising from a local squabble, in which there might have been faults on both sides, but where their protegees were by no means blame less. But whatever might be the decision of a fair and impartial tribunal respecting the causes of the original quarrel, it is manifest that the sug gested remedyis by no means appropriate. It goes much too far. Before the Isthmus can be trans ferred to the United States, England, France, Europe must be parties to the suit. Ensure by all means adequate protection on the route but let it be against the excesses of Ameri cans as well as against the consequences of the natural indignation of the inhabitants. This will not be accomplished by an exclusive occupation, elthough it may by an arrangement between the leading Powers of the Old and New Worlds which will render the passage perfectly free under any circumstances that may hereafter occur. This it is the duty of Lord CLARENDON to ensure, and we hope and believe that it will be faithfully and efficiently discharged by the Noble Lord and his coadjutors. Fie, Mr. WATKIN, M.P., you ought to have known better ! What ! seriously tell the electors and non-electors of Yarmouth that the Times ad vocated a popular extension of the Suffrage—that it even asked for a vote for every man who could write his name ! Look again at the Times of the 27th ult., and you will see, as plainly as the style oracular permits, that the name-writing was not a franchise, but a limitation of it. "Sad to think,'• so we understand the Trophonian utterances, "we are opening the doors, and, to a certain ex. tent, relaxing those restrictions which are proved by printed lists and rate books ;" but can we not reimpose the restrictions, and restore a bolt or two in a way which suits the temper of the c 11 .437 ? Can we not " require each man to write his own name and vote at the polling booth ?" Mr. COB DEN—when you get in again —Sir JOHN PARING TON, and my Lord of the British and Foreign School Society—what say you to this ? Ex ilt writing into a condition of voting. You will seem to be patronising education ; but, only that we whisper in confidence, you are not to say so where the country will hear it. It may cut down the registration list five or ten per cent: perhaps, and that is something. We may assure the Times, for its comfort, that Mr. WATKLN'S mistake was shared by very few. If here and there the greyhead of a commercial firm did rub his spectacles when he first read the paragraph referred to, and did begin either to fear that his clerks might be placed on an elec toral level with himself, or to hope that they might be so knowing that without that ungentle manly thing the ballot-box, it would be but an addition to his own voting power, he had but to look a second time, and he was soon undeceived. He could soon turn back quietly enough to the City Article and the price lists. The oracle was all right yet. It did not mean to follow Tom PAINE, and begin a crusade for the rights of man ; it would never allow the substantial merchant to be swamped by the riff-raff, nor even by his own clerk'. The Times wou'd never desert the grey heads and convex spectacles for the young green horns, who can only clamour for Tom DUNCOMBE and Reform. So we understood the PALMERSTON paper when we read it, and it is thought worth a a whole leader to prove, that limitation, not exten sion of the franchise was intended by the requisi tion of a signature. For our part we should not object, we suppose few Liberals would, to the requisition after a fixed date of a signature from the voter. With the present opportunities no man need remain disqualified on that ground. But we now to warn the whole tribe o trmmers that Reformers do not mean to be trifled. with. They quits understand the object with which feelers of all kinds are put out, and our response is, that Reformers, with a MAJORITY OF ONE HUNDRED in the House, will stand no non sense., The paltry offers of the Times, making no mention even of the greatest Reform at all, they scout as unworthy of notice, unless, indeed, it may be worth while to observe, that even the most servile of the PALMERSTON press cannot al together check the Parliamentary necessity of the day. Some more liberal journals will be content —some of them if PALMERSTON gets Biron ROTHSCHILD into the Rouse ; and, probably, if the Lords thi n k th a t admitting a Jew this session will stave off Reform till another, they will be Jaws enough to turn round this time. Other Liberals demand from the Premier Reform Pro. raises this session, to he accepted payable at St. Stephens next session. The Qtrzzis's Speech must contain an advertisement of PALMERSTON and Co.'s Reform Bill, and the Premier must issue a prat) , full prospectus afterwards for the country to study after Honourable Gentlemen have fled to the moors or to the sea shore. Some of this advice may be honestly meant—but we know the meaning of most of it, and it is neither more nor less than this —spare poor Lord PAL. MERSTON, burdened as he is with his large ma- jority. Now we have no kind of sympathy with this • mawkish pity for PALMERSTON. One of the First Peers of the Realm, the Noble Leader of the • Cinservatives in the House of Lords, was pleased, in quoting our Candidates' Catechism, and the remarks connected with it, to mention us as among Lord PALMERSTON'S supporters ;—we are the supporters of no man, as such. We have supported Lord DERBY when we thought him in the right, and we have thoroughly exposed Lord PALMERSTON when we thought him in the wrong. And, however right we thought him on the Chi nese question, if he cannot come up to our stand ard on the great domestic question of this Parlia ment, we shall show him no more mercy than Manchester, Huddersfield, and Salford showed the League. Already he has fallen behind expecta tion in the Chinese business. Witness his truck ling to routine and the Horse Guards in the nomi nation of a General, his loss of time in getting of gun-boats and reinforcements, and to clench all— the Transit again I Pity Lord PALMERSTON ! No, we cannot. Pity a Premier with THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY Members elected to vote for him— pity him I what for t Why, because these three hundred and eighty were elected to vote for Pal merston, and Reform, and it is believed the Pre mier, and perhaps the Court, wants the PALMER STON without the Reform. Now we quite agree with those who demand that the QUEEN'S Speech announce a Reform Bill. We will not accept a Jew for a Reform Bill ; neither will we accept a Reform Bill next year for one this year. We do not want a Thai° ses sion. We have given our Government one hun dred guns more than the enemy, and woe to the commander if he close the campaign with only a look at the Conservative Cronstadt. Let him remember Sir CHARLES NAPIER. If he does not we shall ; for we feel no doubt that if he do not avail himself of his superiority in the way the country expects be will be dismissed from his command by another session. His successor would do little better than he, and the nation, after having elected a Reform Parliament, will see the enemy's fortress left intact at the end of the war. It shall be no fault of ours if this colliery do succeed. We believe it is a deliberate design to hoax the nation. If Reform can be shuffled out of now, it will be evaded next year, and for ever, Parliaments without end. From the days of NEBUCHADNEZZAR till now the drift of puzzled magicians and conjurors has been to gain time. Time and the chapter of accidents is the fast de fence of anti-Reformers ; it should therefore be the one thing refused by Reformers. When time is demanded they may be sure that it seedi but a vigorous assault, and the Malakoff is t ikon. No statesman pleads want of time when he has anything better to plead. A few weeks ago the Premier's Illoniteur told us that he had hardly wasted three weeks, instead of a year ; if so, why have we not as much time to deal with Reform this session as we shoull be likely to have in any coming one ? We say deliberately that to put off a large measure of Reform till another session is to put it off till the Greek ICAlends, or till, Mr. GLADSTONS will arrange an honest income tax. One word more. We are not exacting in de tails. We can well leave all that really requires some time till next session. What we want is one or two simple and easy extensions of the suf frage and voting by ballot. It would be easy, for instance, in a few days to make the suffrage and paying to the poor-rates co-extensive, and at the same time to abolish the rate-paying clauses, leaving the overseers and the law to settle their own business. The franchise in counties ought to be the same, and that is the only alteration we should suggest to Mr. LOCKE KING—a clause, namely, that if the franchise were extended to any class in towns, the corresponding class should enjoy it in the counties. The cant about the im portance of different franchises for boroughs and counties is too transparently Eldonian to impose on a child. But the Ballot is the reform which is the first necessity. We maintain now, as we have maintained before, that if but ra e reform can be carried, it ought to be this. Before all other reforms, let a vote be a vote—a reality—the act of the person who gives it, not of another who uses him as a tool. Talk, indeed, of the mechanical character of the Ballot Why, what on earth is more mechanical than the vote of the tenant-farmer, the mortgagor, the dealer, the retail tradesman Open vctiug is a mechanical device for depriving the votes of de pendent persons of their free and intelligent cha racter. The Ballot is a mechanical device too, if you will ; but it is one for making a vote an affair of judgment, free will, conscience. We care not who is the Minister to do it ; but we would support the veriest old Tory Premier who could be found in any of the old political strata if he would but give us the Ballot. Yesterday morning the ceremony of oburcbing the Queen was performed in the private chapel at Bucking. ham Pa ace, by the Hon. the Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, arid the Marchioness of Ely, were present. The Countess de Neuilly and the Doke and Duchess de Nemours visited her Majesty yesterday. The Bon. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon have arrived at the St. George's Hotel. Sir Francis and Lady Arabella Baring soma to town to-morrow, from their seat in Hampshire, for the season. Sir Benjamin Hall left London yesterday for Man chester, to attend the opening of the Art Treasures Ex hibition. Lord Feversharn arrived in town a few days since from Duncombe Park, Yorkshire. Her ladyship remains at Duncornbe Park. Lady Rolle is expected in town in a few days from Iticton, near Exeter, for the season. Lord Lilford has left the St. Goorge's Hotel. The Itlght Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., and Mrs. Herbert cow to town to-morrow, from Wilton House, for the season. The Earl and Countess of Lanesborough returned to town on Saturday, from Swithiand Hall, Leicestershire, for the season. The Earl and Counteee of Darnley return to town to morrow for the seaBon. Viscount and Viscountess Boyne have arrived in Bel grave-square, from their seat, Burwarton Hall, Shrop shire. Lord and Lady Poltimore arrived at their house in Grosvenor-square, yesterday, from Paris. The Lady Augusta rim es gave birth to a daughter, yesterday morning, in Portman-square. We are glad to announce that her ladyship and the infant are pro gressing favourably. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent dined with the Queen in the evening. On Thursday it is expected that her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Royal Family and ladies , and gentlemen in waiting, will take their departure for the Queen's marine, residence at Osborne, Isle of Wight. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of , the First Lord of the Treasury, in Down ing-.treet. All the Ministers were present. The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow (Wed. uesdaY), at Zuokiagbam Palace. THE SUN, LONDON,_ TUESDAY EYE r 4 ING, MAY 5, 1.157 THE ROYAL ACADEMY. (SECOND NOTICE.) Yesterday, in our introduct , ,ry notice of the Royal Academy Exhibition for the present season —a collection opened at last to Public View this morning—we took occasion to regret the absence of six eminent artists from the list of exhibitors in the current catalogue. At the same time we hastened to congratulate ourselves and the visitors generally upon the conspicuous success achieved this year by six other eminent artists, their contemporaries. The regrett:d defaulters being—East'ake, Webster, Hunt, Lee, Ward, and Elmore. The euccessful ex hibiters—Mulready, Herbert, Leslie, Dyce, Denby, and Laudseer. In the latter category we rejoice to think that many other distinguished names may he enumerated. Sever dof these, indeed, would not have remained until no to be enumerated, but for the time and space occupied in the record of their competitors' achievements. Prominent among these in truth—though this, be it said, more by reason of his remarkable reputation than because of any immedietely present achievements—there was one whose name we did mentien yesterday— perforce, however, but cursorily—Daniel Maclisel A name sounding pleasantly to us all—foremost among our genre paireers, now that Mulready has almost laid aside the brushes and the palet. e—cbief among the chiefs of his high Art in this country now for many years—renowned among the living celebrities of our English School, thrcugh that magnificent series of poetical and historical creations by which his hand has so nobly illustrated our Na tional Annals and our National Literature ! Yet Macßae in 1857 disappoints us ! Recognising in him all this, he disappoints us, this year neverthe less. Possibly this may be simply because "we re cognise in him all this"—because he himself has rendered us, in his own regard, exacting and fasti dious. May be—but, however it is, it is ! We are disappointed ;we are dissatisfied. Yet No. 78 is an extraordinary work in many particulars—in invention, iu minuee detail, in grouping, dec. It is a large canvas crowded with celebrated personages —Peter the Greet,' Czar of Muscovy, working in the midst of them, in old Deptford dockyard, as a shipwright. The young Russian, roughly clad, his cheek blooming with health, his limbs muscular and well-proportioned, his eyes bi ight and keen, pauses suddenly in his labour, leaves the saw s irk ing (we can almost fancy it still vibrating) in the plink under his knee, and looks up curiously enqiiiringly, observantly at his visitor. That Visitor —William the Third, late of Orange, brown wigged, hook-nosed, cold, cautious, and self-pos- Hesse 1. In attendance upen the King are Lords Car marthen and Shrewsbury, his Majesty's President of the Council and Foreign Secretary. In attend ance upon the Czar a motley gathering enough—a monkey, a dwarf, a negro-boy, a young Drury-lane actress, two or three other flaunting lasses, frilled and furbelowed—and, together with these, scattered about the dockyard as Peter's fellow workmen in shipbuilding, some of his great nobles from the countries of the Don and the Volga, Menzikoff, Golownin, Galitzin, and Siberski, planing, filing, hammering—a very babel of artizen-p etrician.s. the accessories are wonderfully painted—the princi pal actors in the scene (for Maclise) most unsatis factorily The chips and shavings littered about the ground, the metallic portions of the implements, the woodeh models, all are marvellous for their vrai semblance. But with regard to the faces, the figures, the very clothing of the historical persons introduced, it is, alas ! be it said, diatnerrically the reverse. The c .mplexione are hectic and unnatu ral, the texture of the raiment unlike - any known textile fabric—velve, silk ; or woollen. The atti tudes are extravagant rend theatrical. The expres sion,of instances, i m p ro b a bl e an d exaggerated. Altogether this e x t raor di nary pic i n the m ajLl t t pic ture, while - eetoni-hing us by its unmistakable evi dences of power, oppresses us, we repeat, with a sent',3 of disappointment. Net so the architectural eararvels revealed to us by the canvas of David Roberts—conspiqums among whose three contri butions to the Gallery is unquestionably, to our mind, No. 41, " Interior of theDuom.o at Milan." Although there are many rare beauties discernible even at a glance in his two other productions, No. 88, "The Pizza Novena. at Rome," and No. 418, the "Interior of the Church of Sr. Gommaire, at Lierre, in Brabant." The third of Sir Edwin Land seer's admirable pictures in this year's collection still remains to be briefly particularised by us— as it deserves to be—most eulogistically. No. 93, "Rough and Ready," not equal, of course, to the two remarkable paintings from the same hand else where in this really noble Academy Exhibition—but still very admirable —as it might well be even then, seeing that each of those is in its way a veritable chef d'auvre. The Landseer under notice merely re pre,ents a very plump and fussy little hen cackling as hens can cackle when they have laid an egg ! Looking down calmly upon Dame Partlet a ragged hack, apparently rather tremulous at the knees, in the straw-littered yard, sedately impassive and serenely unimpassioned ! Cope, in No. 503, has upon a verj considerable scale, and with no incon siderable show of genius, pourtrayed "The Pilgrim Fathers—De, arture of a Puritan Family for New England." Yet, shall we confess it ? we infinitely prefer his undoubtedly minor productions this season, No. 394, " Affronted," a charming picture of the prettiest, little, wayward minx imaginable, pouting over her untested dinner, with her tabooed dull tucked defiantly and perversely under the tablecloth ! And No. 172, "Breakfast-time--Morn ing Gam- s," where mamma, sugar-tongs in hand, is playing off the old, old practical joke of the nursery, "Open your mouth and shut your eyes," playing it off de!ightfally upon a little shut-eyed, open-mouthed Toddle, to the watchful wonder of a pet dog, and the intense dolight of thatynung puss, little Two-Shoes, in the background. Egg —pre-occu pied no doubt by the responsibility of presiding over the complicated regulations of the approaching Fine Arts Exhibition at Manchester—has cmtributed but one solitary picture to the present collection. A most interesting and an eminently meritorious paining it is howbeit, No. 331, " Esmond returns after the Battle of Wynendel"—gracefully illus trating an incident recorded in the History of Henry Esmond, by W. M. Thackeray. There is an illustration in another part of the Academy Exhibition of another fiction, by another Eminent Novelist. It is Frith's pretty portraiture (No. 125) of "Kate Nickleby at Madame Mantalini's" —a picture which will afford many a reader of Bez the unexpected pleasure of gazing once more upon the features of perhaps the most Natural, certainly one of the most loveable and womanly of all Mr. Dickens's heroines ! Frth has another painting, however, and abetter painting than this in the Ex hibition, No. 152, " A London Flower Girl"—a sketch in every way redolent, and be it added deli ciously redolent of the land "of the streets streety," the land of Cockaigne ! Redgrave, besides three other meritorious productions—one of these much more than simply meritorious, exquisitely beautiful indeed in its sylvan freshness, No. 189. "The Cradle ofthe River,'' with itsfloati ng shadowand its wooled perspective—has one little picture in the Academy, whichwe hesititenot to pronouncoa masterpiece. It is No. 62. "The Well-knownFootstep"—a picture that tells its own story at a glance, and tells it how touchingly and how elequenty ! Yet a story as old as the hills. A soldier, his arm in a sling, coming home from the wars, opening the latched gate of his little garden, striding along the path way to his cottage ! Hidden from a view of him, but bearing his footstep—Ah, "The Well-known Footstep"—(seated in the doorway) his wife and his children ! It is a lovely composi tion—charmingly rendered in every particular. Horsley surpas-es himself this season, in No. 338, "Hide and Seek—Found 1" A production very sparkling and humorous. A stripling has hidden himself behind the trunk of a tree where he is atrociously discovered to be by a auwretch of a spaniel—the pet o f the et t w iful barking oyouug ladies, who have been vainly seek ing their playmate in the dis'ance, but who now (one sees the whole thing at a glance) perfectly well understand what is the meaning of their four foo!od Friend's noisy greeting of A Something behind the tree-trunk ! The Discomfited Hilc-er all the while comically grinding his teeth, and sup pressedly shaking his fist at his abominable Discov erer ! Not the last of these successes, not even the only one of Horsley's successes in the Academy Exhibition for 1857. Others may readily be enn- merated, others we shall take occasion to enume rate at our earliest available opportunity. ADELPHI TELBA7RE. A farcical interlude in one act, and of half an hour's duration, entitled, "Fearful Tragedy in the Seven Dials," %as successfully produced at this theatre last night. It la from the French, and depends entirely upon the act ing of Mr. Wright and Mr. Paul Bedford, who enact two gents, who, having gone to a feast of the " Social Villagers," both get so they " don't know how," that though perfect strangers, they find themselves sleeping in the same apartment when the farce commences, and from circumstances that occur they imagine they have committed a " horrid murder." The consummation is effected by discovering to the contrary, and so all ends and Mr. Wright, wakieg the usual appeal, the curtain went down to an uproarious announcement of approval of this last piece of Adelphi extravagance and c , 'tnicali•y. A grand original Adelphi drama, in which Mr. Webster will re-appear with the whole strength of the company, is announced for Wednesday next. SADLEA'S IVFLI,S THEATRE. Last evening Mr. Buckstone cz'anenced a short en gaLement at this thea•re, now under the management of Mr. G. Webster. The piece selected was the capital comely cf " Mari-d Life," in which Mr. Buckstone sustained his original part of Mr. Henry Dove. The audience were delighted at the acting of the lessee of " the little theatre in the Haymarket," and at the fall of the curtain Mr. Buckstone had to make his bow amidst the enthusiastic applause of the audience. The engage ment of Mr. Buckstone promises to be the greatest " bit" of the management. A new version of "La Dame de St. Tropez," by Mr. Edmund Faulconer, was also produced, the author taking the principal part. Mr. Faulconer has much to learn before he can take his position among our leading actors. The house was well attended. CITY OF LONDON THEATRE. BEN LIEL, OR THE SON OF NIGHT. This drama, adapted from the French by Mr. Wm. Travers, was produced at this theatre on Monday night with great success. Mr. Travers, well known as an artiste of considerable merit, has been before the public .n one or two occasions as a dramatic author, and with !air success. The plot is rather intricate, and turns upon toe changing of two children, by which one be comes an outcast, the other a duke. There are some startling and novel scenic effects in the piece, upon which Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee have spared no ex pense. Mr. Charl•s Pitt impersonates the hero with considerable effect ; Messrs. Harmer and Beaumont. Hughes, two villains of good birth, with great skill ; and Mr. W. Searle, a pirate chief, with great force. Mrs. Campbell is rather too weighty and earnest in an already heavy character. Miss Clifton is chaste and earnest as the Lady Julia (mother of the hero). Mrs. Lindon, as the her .ins, was truthful and ladylike ; with no pointoraking, she succeeded in making wonder ful way with the audience. The subordinate character, were unusually well filled in. The piece may be judi ciously curtailed, but is extremely well dramatised in its incidents. Mr. Travers received a call after the second act, and responded to another at the conclusion of the piece. All the principa characters were recalled. The house was well filled,..and the audience very attentive. MADEMOISELLE CATHERINE HAYES. SONNET. 0 toi ! des connoisseurs defendue, applandie, Lorsque le mauvais gout resprit de travers, Servant, a son insu, la riosidieuse envi., I)63igrait cette roil qu'acclame ruuivers ! Muse des borda riants de la cite aerie ! Pr6tresse d'A.p)llon en tent de lieux divers, Toi ! qu'houore toujours la clas , ique It tlie, Daigne agree.r encor l'hommage de mes vers. Salut a to Norma, a Lammermoor si belle, Animant, emouirant l'ame la plus rebelle, Electrisant I'esprit en (le thirant le ccear ; Ton triomphe est complet : an lieu de to naissance Pour toi le vieux proverba est futile et menteur ; Touty est Is tes piedsjusqu a la medisauce. P. LOMB DUMOULIN. Limerick, 30th April, 1857. THE "UAGENT" OF THE ADMIRUTY The following letters have been addressed to the Editor of the Times : Sir,—To my astonishment I see in the Times this morning, under the head of " Naval and Military Intel ligence," that the last voyage of her Majesty's new steam troopship Urgent to Barbad , .es, with the 49th Regiment on b. , ard, is characterised as " a good passage from Spit head." She left that port on the 28th of February, sprang a dangerous leak to the middle of the Bsy of Biscay, put into Corunna on the 3d 'March in a half--.inkiog state, and would certainly have foundered, but for calm weather, and the daring act of an assistant-engineer, who repeatedly, at the risk of his life, set free the valves of the engine pumps at a time when the water bad risen to within a few inches of the fires, and when the deck pumps were found totally in-ufficient, though worked for hours. In case of extremity her boats would not have held one-third of the number of the men on boar.l. She put into Madeiraon the 9ch, took up her acre. , n the trades, put her screw down agatu when the trades fell light, broke some of the engine gear almost immedi ately after, took 24 hours to repair, tried again, and snapped again. Finally went into Carlisle-bay under sail on the 27th of March. If this be " a good passage from Spithead," I should be glad tt, know what an indifferent one would be like. As the vessel was " hourly expected at Spithead," there will, I presume, unless she again disappoint her friemls, be an immediate opportunity for some one on board to give a complete overhauling to the statement of Your obedient servant on the London, May 4. LOOK OUT. Sir,—Perhaps you may think the enclosed account of the last trip of the Urgent, with the 49th Regi ment on board, wor',;hy of insertion, It is from one of the officers of the regiment. I remain, he., R. FANSIIAWL Dagenham, Essex, May 3. "Barbadoes, Apr:l 6. . . "I shall give you an account of our chapter of acci dents from the time we left Portsmouth. For the first two days all went on very well, arid we were looking for ward to a quick passa:le ; on the third morning the Cap tain reported to the Colonel that there were 8 feet of water in the hold, and that the pumps would not work. We then set about clearing all the heat= and getting ready a raft, as the boats would only h ld 300 men, and we had 800 on board. Fortunatelw, after much trouble, we got the pumps to work before the fires were put ()lit by the water, which had risen to within a few inches of the st kehole. At this time we were 98 miles from Corunna, which was the nearest port. The ship's head was im mediately put r iund, and all the pumps being manned we set heartily to work, as you may suppose. The sea was quite smooth, so we managed to get into port next morning. After icy° days we again started, and retched Madeira without accident. After leaving Madeira alt went very well for two or three days, when one night about 12 o'clock the engines broke down and we had to sail. After a few days they were set to work again, but after wor ing very uneasily for a few hours th. y stopped again. Tne screw bad worked a large piece of ir. , n from one of the plates at the ship's stern. After this we did not attempt to screw, se sailed in, after a month at sea, thik whole of which time we had 30 men working at the pumps, she took in so much watr." Sir,— In your paper of yesterday there is the fol lowing statement under the head of "Military and Naval Intelligence : " Tbel Adventure and Assistance iron steam troop ships, fitting out at Portsmouth dockyard fir the conveyance of troops and stores to China, will not be ready to embark them for a week or so. As the vessels are children of the same parentage as the Transit it it possible her fate may stimulate 'the powers that be' to make them worthy of the pennant." Your correspondent has been misinformed in saying; that the Adveetura and Assistance are of th 3 same parentage as the Transit. The Transit, Urgent, and Perseverance were built by Messrs. Mare and Co., of Blackwell, and sold to tne Admiralty. The Adventure (formerly called the Resolute) and the Assistance were built by me and sold to the Admiralty in January 1855. The difficulty of getting suitanle officers and engineers for vessels of this class early in 1855 was so great that the Admiralty requested me to enter into an arrangement with them in Match of that year to manage these two vessels for them as transports. I engaged to do so, and had the appointment of captains and officer 4, and the entire control of workin4 the vessels from that time until they were paid off at Portsmouth in September, 1856. During the time they were under my management they were engaged as infantry and cavalry trangport-i in the Mediterranean and Black Sen, and the Adventure also made a voyage to Quebec. That they gave entire satisfaction to the naval and military authorities is shown by official documents in my possession, and I believe no transports, either private or belonging to the Admiralty, did their work better. There is therefore every reason for supposing that those two vessels will continue as serviceable as before if properly managed and no alterations made tending to destroy the effieieney.--I am, sir, your obedient ser vant, JOHN LAIRD. Birkenhead Ironworks, Birkenhead, May 2. Ma. FLEXUORE'S BENEFIT.—The most celebrated of English Pantimitnists takes his benefit at the Surrey Theatre to-morrow evening, Wednesday, the 6th inst., when he is to be supported by an extraordinary array of tal.nt, embracing the names of Madlie. Auriol ; Barnes, the famed pantaloon ; Charles Sloman, Mack neg. and several like celebrities. Mr. Creswiok, and Mra. R. Honner, will appear in the "Rent Day;" and a new comic ballet, by Fltaill.ife. is to follow, succeeded by scenes from the recent highly successful Pantomime at Drury-lane, "See Saw Margery Daw." A 9 a matter of course the house will be fully and fashionably at tended. LATEST NEWS. TURIN, MONDAY. We have just recived a report of the speeches and resolutions of the meeting which was lately held at Glasgow, to promote the liberation of Italy from the oppression of foreign soldiers. An allusion which was to-day made to it produced the best effect in the Chamber of Deputies. According to advices received from Berlin, yes terday, Prince Napoleon is expected there from , he 6th to the 10th of this month, thus returning tlm visit of Prince Frederick William to Paris. The Queen of Prussia has postponed her journey to Dresden. MEXICO AND SPAIN. MEXICO, MARCH 30. The preliminary proceedings in the ease of the Spanish assassinations have terminated. It is proved that the sons of Genetal Alvarez were the instigators of the crimo. _ _ If an execu - don should taw placo, of which there is reason to d ,übt on account of the weakness ot the Government, the intelligence will be forwarded to 114vana, in order to prevent the arrival ot the Spanish fleet. _ Oa the other hand, the British Charge d'Affaires has communicated a note from his Government, which allows nine days to bring M. Degallado be fore the Tribunals ; failing which, the Minister will retire, together with the members of his legation. FRANCE. Our letter from Paris, dated yesterday evening, had not arrived when we went to press. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, MAY 2- Reliable information was yesterday received from Jassy that the agitation In favour of the Union is not to the taste of the Moldavian nation. A pri vate letter from Jassy, of the 25th of April, con tains the following information. On his arrival at Jassy on the 20th of April the Austrian CommiSsary was received with great ceremony by the Moldavina Government, and two days later the Unionists male a demonstra tion in favour of the Representative of Sardinia. On crossing the frontier at Fokschani the Austrian Commissary was met by a guard of honour, which escorted him to Jassy. When at a distance of some six or seven miles from the capital, the Governor of the district pi esented himself to M. von Lieman, and welcomed him in the name of the Kaimaikan ' to Moldavia. On ente r i ng th e c i ty h e was received by a deputation of Boyards, which accompanied him to a palace belonging to Prince Ghika; that had been placed at his dispos il. Within half-an-hour from the time of the arrival of the Austrian diplomatist, he had received the -visit from the Kaimakan. As the Cotiservatives had had things entirely in.t heir own way' on the 20th, tne Radicals resolved to make a counter,demoAtration on the 22d. A number of men, carrying -'flags and weering foreign colours marched in frolit of the carriage in which sat the Sardinian ComtniSsioner, and a vast crowd accom panied .him to his lodgings. Having shouted " Vivat !" in honour of the Turin diplomatist until they were tiled, the mob paid a visit to the houses inhabited by the Moldavian Ministers Katargi and Istratti, and roared ‘• Pereat !" with such hearty goodwill that some of the Jassy fashionables got nervous and fancied that the peace of the city was about to be disturbed. A flag-bearer—a foreigner was arrested in the street, and another individual was seized in their barracks by the gendarmes, " for offering to give them money and union manifestoes." On the 24th April, wen the Prussian Commissary made his entry, every thing was qu'et The Moldavian Government re ceived Safvet Effi-ndi, the Turkish Commissary, with great pomp and ceremony. Yesterday the Emperor signed the " Currency Convention." Baron Krauss, the ex-Minister of Finances, who is now a member of the Council of the Empire, strongly objected to the ratification of the convention, and it is whispered that he was supported by every one of his colleagues. RUSSIA. BERLIN, MAY 3. The most interesting suvjects connected with Russia just now are the new tariff that is t be published souse of these days, and the new railways that are to be bult at some future period. With reference to the first, there is very little chance of its being proniulgated before the close of the present year's navigation. The next subject of interest is the great railway scheme. In St. Petersburg there is a talk of the term for keeping open the subscription lists being prolonged, and permission being given for subscrip tions being received in Moscow, Odessa, and other cities of the empire. Hitherto it was incumbent on every speculator to appear in St. Petersburg, either in person or by attorney, for the purpose of subscribing. The bait lately held out to the public at large by the Russian Government, in permitting these railway shares to be taken at par in deposit on the part of persons who have to give security to the Government, will have no other effect than to produce a few illusory quotations of high prices in Russia itself. The bulk of speculators there even will be unaffected by this gracious offer, and, as re gards other countries, there can hardly be a dozen men who can in any way make use of the advan tage offered them. Some person has written to the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung from here, and stated that, now that all attempts at introducing the Rus-dan railway shares into the various stock- Exchanges of Europe have totally failed, the origi nators of the scheme intended to put up with the first loos, and to forfeit their deposit of 20,000,000 f., but, though this has been written, and printed in.; o the bargaio, there is no necessity to believe it. , A few days back four French engineers passed through here on their way to Wilna, where they are to take in hand the railway works about to be prosecuted there in continuation of the Peteraburgb-Warsaw line; and it is this line evidently, with its branches to Prussia, which will be the first and main object of atteution to the Government, as offering the greatest advantages to the commercial world, and posse sin : the best chances of paying. REINFOROEMENTS FOR CHLATA. PLYMOUTH, Morn; &Y. E srly this afternoon the Furious steam frigate left tbis port for China. Wi• it her proceed t Surpris:e and Mohawk despatch boats, Cormorant, Alg,-; ine, Lee, Banterer, Clown, Kestrel, Drake, tr nus, Firm, Watchful, Woodcock, Slaneyaud Leven, gunboats, and Hesper steam transports. They will probably. first rendezvous at Madeira, They lt-fc with fine wind down channel. Considerable interest is felt as to their eApanility of performing so long a voyage. The Countess de Neuilly, the : DUke and .Duchess de Nemours, the Prince of Wales, and Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, yesterday, at Clarence House, St. James's. His Girt ace the Archbishop of Armagh, Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar and family, huve arrived in Charles-street, from the Palace, Armagh. The Duchess of Atbole has arrived at the St. George's Hotel, from Dunkeld House, N. B. The Marquis Camden and the Ladies Pratt arrived on Carlton terrace a few days since from Wilderness Park, Kent, for the season. • There is a report that Major-Generat Sir W. Williams, M.P., will have the governorship of Malta, which will shortly be vacated by Sir W. Reid. This would leave the seat for Calne open. Mr. Benedict's first musical festival at her Majesty's Theatre (morning), under the immediate patronage of her Majesty the Qieen ' his Royal Highness Prince Al bert, her Royal telighneps the Duchess of Kent, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, eec., takes place on the 10th of next month. The first appearance of Mademoiselle Victoire Balfe at the Royal Italian Opera, Lyceum, is fixed for Thurs day, the 21st inst. The opera, we nederitand, is to be "La Sonnambula," and Mademoiselle Balfe will make her first aprearance on any etage as the heroine. • BEQUEST TO HER MAJESTY.—From Buenos Ayres it is alleged that a brother of the ex-Dictator Rosati has recently died, and bequeathed an estate to Queen Vic toria, in acknoeledgment of the shelter afforded tUthe exiled members of his family. • OBSERVATORY FOR SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES.— A de-patch has been received by the Board of Trade from the Governor of New South Wales, notifying that arrangetrent.4 are in progress for the establishment of an Obaerva.ory .at Sydney, upon a rocky bill overlooking the harbour, and for the erection of a time-hall in eoe neotion with the Observatory, In such a poeition and at such an altitude as to enable nearly every vessel in the harbour to take time from it. The departures from the port of London for the Au stralian colonies during the past week have comprised e i g ht veesele,-- four to Port Poillip, two to Sydney, one to Portland Bay, and one to Swan River, with an aggro gate capacity of 7,382 ton. The rates of freight show no great alteration. In the general business of the port of London during the past week there has been little activity. The number of ships reported inward was 147, being 33 less than in the previous week. Theee included 21 with cargoes of corn, flour , &o., four with cargoes of sugar, and one cargo of coffee. The total number of vessels cleared outward was 154, including 24 in ballast, showing a decrease of 13. THE NEUCHATFL QUESTION. THE TREATY. We read in the Bund, of Berne : " The Fede ra l Council has determined to make pubic the three following d )cument4:-1, The treaty of mediation,'ivith the proton. is aunt xed ; 2, the original demands of Prussia ; 3, the original instructions of Dr. Kern. We now give a non official translation of the first of these documents " Majesties the licaperoi of Austria ' the Ear peror of the Fre nc h, th e Q eeen o f th e U n i te d Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Emperor of Russia, being desirous t remove every cause of trouble to the general peace, and with the intention, having that aject in view, to p , acee he international p eition of the Principality of Neuchatel and keente of V. lee' gin on a footing in harmony with what is required for the tranquillity of Europe, and his Majesty the King o f Prussia, Prince of Neuchatel, and Count of Vaienglot after having expre•sed an intention to defer to the %isbes of his allies with the view aforesaid, have requested the Helvetic Confederation to come to an aereement with their aforesaid Majesties as to the most fitting means to attain the desired object. a, `l n ceni.equence their aforesaid Majesties and the Helvetic Confederation have named for their respective Plenipotentiaries, &c. " Art. 1. His Majesty the King of Prnssia cow cents, for himself, his heirs, and successors, to re nounc e for ever his riOns of sovereignty in the prineipalitl °( Neuchatel and the CotnteS of Vaiengin, which are rehor nised by article 23 of the treaty concluded at Vienne e ll June 9, 1815. " 'Art. 2. The State of Neuchatel, being now on ce more independent, will henceforth continue to be *. member of the Helvetic Confederation on the sale ° footing as the other cantons, and conformably to fi t ' 75 of the said treaty. •` `Art. 3. The Helvetic Confederatfon takes ripen itself all the expenses occasioned by the event,' of Ser tember, 1856. The canton of Neuchatel cannot be charged with them further or otherwise than any eth er canton, and in proportion to its pecuniary contingent. thecanton 'Art. 4. The expenses falling to the charge of canton at Neuchatel will be apportioned among all t", inhabitants according to the principles of strict• rat° ability, and so that neither by way of exceptional tax or any other means any class or category of fainili e or persons may be charged with such expenses, ei ther wholly or for the greater part. "`Art. 5. A complete amnesty is granted for all P°, li ; tical a .d military crimes and offences connected with recent events, and this amnesty extende to all Ne lob ; , telese, whether Swiss or foreigners, and especia ly to " militia who may have withdrawn from their militad duties and gone abroad. No criminal or cor re cti on al a c tion for damages h e° , be brought either by the Canton of Neuchatel or by 01 0 other corporation or person against those who h al f taken part, either directly or indirectly, in the even ts September. The amnesty extends also to political ° fences of the press anterior to the events of Septernherb', " Art 6. The Helvetic Confederation will pay to ring of Prussia the sum of 1,000,000 f, " Art. 7. The revenues of the ecclesiastical piope O r/ 18 which became blended with the State domains in 1° are not to be diverted from their original destioatioe' dy " Art. 8. The capital and income of religious fa ° a l tions, of private establishments of general utility , , fr iff also the bequest made to the bourgeoisie of Neucha tel b Baron de Pury, will be conscientiously respected. 5 ; :b. will be disposed of according to the intentions 0 ' . 0 1 founders, and must never be diverted from their'oriS l destination. `_l 3 a!aphed by, &e.' "At the same time as the treaty the Five F° signed the following protocol. - d d " 'Concerning the title of Prince of Neuchatel 11- , Valengin, which his Majesty the King of Prussia for , o self, his heirs, and successors reserves the right to bear , d Plenipotentiaries of Austria, France, Great Britaintly Russia can oily refer to their declaration inserted in ' Tye tocol No. sof the present Conference, which says- - 01 Plenipotentiaries of Au-Aria. France, Great Britain , Russia are of opinion that Coe wording of Art. 1 oh o !, he adopted purely and simply.' This article 8 11 ,1' 0 i The Kings of Prussia keep in perpetuity the th` ° Prince of Neuchatel and Valengio.' a Or "`lf, however, the King of Prussia should i des11::do the following declaration on the part of the Prt l 7 o li Plenipotentiary might be inserted in the final prot'bio His 111..jesiy the King of Prussia, in renouncilg o d sovereign rights in the Principality of Neuctotto foe Valengin, does so with the intention of retainivg, of himself, his heirs and successors the title of Fril ly- Neuchatel and Valengin.' i hl " 'The Swiss Plenipotentiary, on his part, make the following declaration, which would also I : t i be corporated in the protocol Should his Majo t f,, of King of Prussia wish to continue to bear the ti'cier, Prince of Neuchatel and Valengin, it must be °n o t stood that he can in no case found upon that title so right whatsoever, either in Switzerland or in the C arl of Neuchatel.' "Note.—The expre.sion used throughout thin A 0 0 1 ment is Prince de Neuchatel et de Valengin,' Prince de Neuchatel et Comte de V4-ngin.' The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the fo il " in; 'bed .111114 Some journals of Berne have just pub..- draught of the treaty and of the protocol delta:1 0 0 KKeure the settlement of the Neuchatel affair. or publication, which can only be the result of adu l t 0 1 fiable indiscretion , does not, moreover, a gre e on 7, 0 / points with the real text o f the docum en ts in quO ti ;rbil a. text which had not yet been finally awreed up 00... abuse of the secret of a negotiation ...till pending t a s; more to be regretted, as it might compromise its eau"- MARKET NEWS.—(This Dly,) HAY MARKETS. et J ll4 SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 2116 s to 41 4s ; eloV 10 0 31 .J. 03 to 6/ Os; and straw, 11 4s to 1/ 9s Pe r A fair demand. A . 01 4 CUMBERLAND. —Meadow hay, 21 12s to 4, , , 4 8 s.' do., 31 10s to 51 Os ; and straw, 11 4s to 11 9s per rid' Both hay and straw moved off steadily, at very full Pot WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 21 lOs to 41 4s ; do., 3/ lOs to 51 Os ; and straw, 1/ 4 s t o 11 S s per Trade steady. COLONIAL TFA.—There has been an improved demand Prop artisle, anti a large business has been doneaCla rib i;; ,o prices, hoivever, are unlltered. Common Congou r e° is. 2icl per lb. ,t O ll • for 1)4 SUGIAR.—A brisk inquiry has been experienced Foreign and Colonial descriptions, and fully p r evious I wo were supported, and soma superi o r qu a lities have r e : 9 an advance of 6d. par cwt. on last week's rates. T l 3 fined market rules firm, and prices tend upwards. Cr COFFEE. —A moderate demand has been experien c e Pla tation and Native Ceylon, and the quantitY brought forward during the week being small, pric a exp4cted to show a slight improvement. RlCA.—There has been an increased inquiry for t i ce 0 0 scriptions, awl prices generally rule at a small advo ° Close current last week. Rukt.—An active demand for good qualities b a g experienced, and fully former rates are curren'. , TALLOVi.--The market hag been firm, but the 0 %01, have not been large. P.Y.C., on the spot, is a ct sis 61 to 565. Last three months, 545. Home 133 " realised 56s per cwt. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.---t Tins Dal.) . .; LONDON. May s.—Wind this day at noon, ..- -V, ' 5 strong breeze and cloudy. i . lit ° ' PLYMOUTH, May 4.--Wind E.S.E.—Sailed— , D , ',i e gall' jesty'd steamer Furiouts, for China, with a number of - boats. fo r CARDIFF, May 3.—Sailed—Christopher Houst°'''-qe' sioristopti._--,„ ;yeti' . . Rio Grande; Mary Ann, St. Vincent ; Villa .r.'"' I Malta; Queen of the South, Corfu. : .1 eV fle PORTSMOUTH, May 4. —Wi nd N.E.—Arrive...- - Crocker, from London for Melbourne. 11 DARTMOUTH, May 4. Wind E.—Arriyed—P gi (s.s.), from London fur Calcutta. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) ;vg , LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Mol l ' Wind N.E. Arrived— Elizabeth Ann, from Calcutta ; King 17 , 1 0 00' the Third, Rotterdam; Joe Blomensten, and "'NO" Aren , iabl. Sailed 7 Marquette, for New York. Off—Cimen, and'Ocan ave. The Baal y bec, e screw st e a mer , W for Havre, has put b°3, QUEENSTOWN, 0 3 / Wind E. ' Arrived—Perseverance, from Barbadoes; veloPl‘l3 Trieste ; Asia, lbrail. ~,..., S. WATERFORD, W''' _ _ - Wind N.E. Sailed —Lawrence Forrestal, for St. John's, N.B' (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITiS=I TELEGRAPH. ) 0 . GRAVESEND, Tues da y, 9.2 i 1' • r Wind N.E. ; tide four hours' flood ; fresb, and 6 40 0 Arrived, May 4—DO i dlecht Walvin, from Ali° nois; Petreonella, Holmetadt. th eflt# Arrived, May s—Anglesea, from Melbourne; 0 1 , Fohr ; Vriesland, Worcom ; Vrow Maria, Harlioig jtv Sailed—Zeminda, for Sydney ; Harvest Home , '°5.110. DEAL, Tuesday, 9.13 a. Wind N.E., moderate; weather tine. b 0 Passed—Union, e.s., from westward, for north ; verbond, from Batavia, for Amsterdam. fr o Passed Dover, May 4—Schooner 29th September, b Sunderland, for Genoa JI . t o°n aet Passed, last night—.M.S. Majestic, from l'or- ° for Sheerness. is , to or Sailed—Amazon and Pilot Fish, for London ; tu in tow. Dr. Radcliffe has been elected physician e rci iire'" Ru., , sell Reynolds assistant physician, to the l • wi ster Hospital. 14 Al THE ALLEGED POISONING A ND EXIIIII,I OI° Oi rI CHELSEA.—Yesterd a y M r . B ren t conc l u ded the ",'I: ° into the death o f M rs . H enton , w h o , it will the membered, was exhum e d a f e w w e eks ago at th e A r he - of her relative's', who ' suspected that she ü b il ;o j e ; paison e d. Th e j ury re t urne d a ver di c t " that bathe 11 " ceased died from natural disea, , e, and not P° i°- e( b been susp.cted. A .- The prospec's of the silk crop continue to be her throughout Europe. Great apprehensions balot oe ociyasioned by the recent severity of the 0 88°13 ' 4 . 0 &la to the latest dates the accounts are not such 0,,r, Aw ri discouragement. According to advices frcre l' et o ° Dufour, of Lyons, of the 21 just, a rise equal te t do riei 4 and 5 per cent. occurred in the silk in arke -ld g ` lb -• the last few 'days of April owing to the cu.,of threatening weather, but the news subole" Kat% cowed from the south of France, Italy, Nel' lr % jeg h e the Levant, and Greece had not beer), i° spy if i— ri t unfavourable. It was certain, homever, thatwitbe" cold should continue to check vegetation, °Yell frost, the crop would be periounly injured. ra of ra lin 13a Jo as 15ai 3p 3 1 Ne