The Sun. — London, England, 1857-05-09 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Second Night of LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. PICCOLOMINI, GIUGLINI, BELLETTI, VIOLET CI, POCCHINI. THIS EVENING (SATURDAY), May 9. LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Lacia, Piccelomini (her second appearance in that part). Edgardo, Sig. Giuglini. Ballet—LA ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda, Mdlle. Poccbini. Per particulare see bills. A limited number of boxes in the Half Circle Tier have b een specially rese rved for the public, and may be had on ap plication at the Box-office at the Theatre Colonnade, Hay market. Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. Madame ALBONI will make her first appearance Tnes day next, as Rosina, in IL BARBIERE DI SEVIGLIA. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Last appearance of Madlle. Pocchini. PICCOLOMINI, GIUGLINI, BELLETTI, VIOLEPTI. On THURSDAY EVENING, May 14, an Extra Night. LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Lucia, Piccolmini ; Edgardo, Sig. Giuglini. After which, LA ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda, Madlle. Pocchini (her last appearance.) Fir 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 Colonnade, Haymarket. Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. LES BOUFFES PARISIENS-St. JAMES'S THEATRE. - FIRST REPRESENTA TION, WEDNESDAY, May 10.-1. M'SIEU LAN DRY, Operette, 1 Acte.--2. LES DEUX AVEUGLES, Bouffon nerie, Musicale, 1 Acte. Musique de Offenbach. —3. 13A-TA CLAN, Chinoiserie Musicale, 1 Acte. Musique de Offenbach. Principal Characters by Messrs. P radeau, Guyot, Gerpro, and Leonce ; Mesdlles. Dalmont, Marechal, Belnoir, and Mace — their first appearance in this country. The Orchestra of the The Are des Bouffes will accompany these Representations, under the direction of the popular composer, M. Offenbach — To commence at half-past 8 o'clock.—This Engagement being limited to one month, Performances will be given Every Even ing. —Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be engaged at Mr. Mit chell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. ROY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. 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, T HEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. NEW ARRANGEMENT OF PRICES OF ADMISSION. THIS EVENING (May 9) to commence at Seven o'clock, with THE EVIL GENIUS. Tom Ripstone, Mr. Buckstone. After which, the successfa' Classical Love Story, un der the Apple-lation of A rAL XNTA ; or, The Three Golden Apples : in which Miss M. Oliver will appear; also Miss M. Wilton, and Miss Ellen Ternan. Followed by the drama of A WICKED WIFE. Concluding with A KISS IN THE DARK. In 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 price. s. d Dress Boxes 5 0 D r e ss Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes .. 3 0 Upper Boxes... Pit Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gal l e r y 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 CNo half-price to Upper Gallery. T HEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed PAUL PRY. Followed by a new Farce, called FEARFUL TRAGEDY IN THE SEVEN DIALS. To conclude with the new and original domestic sketch, entitled WELCOME, LITTLE STRANGER. Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Bedford, &c. OYAL SURREY THEATRE, Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek. THIS EVENING will be performed PIZARRO. After which, THE GOOD FOR NOTHING. Mr. Widdi combe, &c. To conclude with THE DANCING SCOTCHNIAN. Mr. Flexmore, and Madlle. Auriol, &c. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING will he performed a new drama, DADDYcalltd HARDACRE. Mr. Robson, &c. To conclude with YOUNG AND HANDSOME. Messrs Robson, G. Murray, dtc. Commence at half-past Seven. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lik_ 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. THIS EVENING (Saturday,) the Entertainments will commence with the New Milikary Spectacle, in three Acts, entitled THE FRENCH IN ALGIERS; or, The Battle of Constantine. To bo 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 Corelli and Family, and a variety of other entertain ments. Comilla-co at seven o'clock. Dress Rases, 4s. ; Upper 15 )xes, 3s. • Private Boxes, from If., no charge for booking ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. ,x-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr, W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. rIANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road. — OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow in7 company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of .elections from all the poptila>: Operas, Madrigals, Chorases, Glees, Duets, dtc., via.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunell, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F. longhmans, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri. Senor Antonio M. de Solla, and E. L. Hime ; Masters Bennett and Corri; Messrs. Sam Cowell, Sam Collins, and E. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre cisely. Suppers, atc., until twelve o'clock. NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRTTIGg. T 118 DAI —Morn. 3 min. aft. 2 —Evening 21. min. aft. 2 ril-Moitsow—Morn. 37 min. aft. 2 —Evening 52 min. aft. 2 THE WEATHER—SuN °MOE, MAY 9. THERMODIZTZE, IN THE SHADE. 57—highest shwa noon yesterday. 44 —lowest this morning and during the night. 59 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, 20'85. WitiD, E.S,E. to B.E. ; rather fresh and squally, with sunshine and heavy clouds. Heavy shower of rain and hailstones. e LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1857. It is tolerably notorious by this time, we should imagine, that the Admiralty have made a horribly bad bargain of it three times over—with the Transit, with the Urgent, and with the Persever ance. Let us repeat it—The badness of the bar gain with reference to these three wretched ves eels must be regarded, we should conjecture, as absolutely notorious. Yet, in the very teeth, as it were, of Facts altogether unde niable—it is actually insisted, with matchless effrontery, by Sir CHARLES WOOD, that everything is in truth most satisfactory relating to any one of these three lumbering " Pill Garlics " of the Deep, these three abominable " Big Pickles" of the Transport Service, everything relating to The Transit, to The Urgent, or to the Perseverance. Why, really—than this, we don't recollect at the present moment any more unblushing evidence at once of the folly and of the hardihood of that systematised official perversity of judgment which Mr. DICKENS has happily designated under the generic name of Circumlocution. Its illustration of this we will, first of all, briefly enumerate a few among the Leading Facts relating to these three miserable tubs, called Screw Transports—Facts already alluded to ag, at one and the same time, notoriously undeniable. They were categorically mentioned last evenino , in the House of Commons by the Hon. Gentle man the Member for Teignmouth (an authority upon these matters, be it remembered I)—but were immediately afterwards so very coolly given the " go by " by the First Lord of the Admiralty, that it may be just as well they should, seriatim, be here formally recapitulated. As to the Transit, then, first of all ! Don't we every one of us know just a trifle or two in regard to "The Transit" rather to her disadvantage? Well, yes—we rather conjecture that most of us remember how The Transit left Spithead on the 7th ult. with 600 or 700 passengers, and having some 286 troops on board be sides, and how, upon the Bth (the very day afterwards) having grounded upon one of her own anchors, and thereby driven a hole in her bottom near the Needles, she was obliged to put back at once for repairs to Portsmouth. Neither havo we forgotten how shortly afterwards (having been rHE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 18 5 7 be, by a vigorous leader, brought before the Le gislature, and disposed of honestly in no great First and foremost, of necessity, Mr. GLAD STONE begins at the beginning—" Gentlemen— You who represent one-thirteenth of the popula tion, and one-seventh of the male adults." That is enough. No sin so inexcusable as that of raising a ferment about the state of representa tion, when the unfortunate Premier is surrounded by his huge majority, too ready to effervesce on that subject. Not that the hon. members them• selves would not perhaps, most of them, prefer to take Reform rather easy, but certain of themselves are alive and awake, and the influence of the late contact with constituencies is yet rather strong. Mr. GLADSTONE, moreover, does not forget that not only is the vast majority of the adult popula tion of Britain entirely unrepresented, but that through the smallness of many of the constitu encies, and the mode of voting, not half, perhaps, of those who have votes hold them for themselves. Well, and why should not Mr. GLADSTONE tell the hundred majority of this 3 Has it not been said many a hundred times at the elections ? Yes, but why can't it drop with the hustings? Like the boards which comprise those erections, all that sort of thing was meant to be taken back to the contractors for a seat, as soon as the seat was secure. Mr. GLADSTONE, however, is very discursive He publishes a kind of vade mecum for a do something member. A long list of gravamina, corrigenda, and agenda, is furnished to all who are willing to use it. Tax-payers with no voice in the imposition of taxes—subjects without a vote on the laws which they must obey—parliaments without power on the great question of peace or war—secret diplomacy—oligarchy under pretence of Constitutional Government—Ministers voting on their own delinquencies (in a really reformed house, however, they would have a right to do so) —the loss of parliamentary control over the public purse—the neglect of audit of the public accounts till too late to be of the least service—the land tax and the present incidence of_taxation—the jobbery and waste of the Government acting as manufac turers—the Bank of England is not forgotten, nor even the Hudson's Bay Company—law reform in two important aspects—the dowry talked of for the Princess Royal, i.e., for the avaricious Prussian family—the accumulated revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall—lastly, Parliament itself doing its work after instead of before dinner, and forbidding discussion on the presentation of public petitions. This certainly seems a large list of things to be amended or to be done. Yet Mr. GLADSTONE may fairly ask, Why should any of these be neglected even for this pre sent session ? What in the world do gentlemen go to the House of Commons for but to do, not to sigh or to smile over the work of the nation ? With a majority of one hundred to settle questions in the national interest, why should not reforms in the matters indicated be pushed through as rapidly as when gentlemen want to get away into the country ? With such a majority debates need not be indefinitely pro tracted ; by all means let the Opposition be treated respectfully, let real objections be fairly canvassed, and real improvements candidly ac cepted, but there is no need whatever for five hour speeches, and five hour replies. It must be a rare case indeed when the hour, or two hours at most, should be exceeded. The real hindrance, however, is want of heart. By commencing the measures for Law Reform in the Lords at the beginning of the Session, and showing a real willingness to work at public busi ness in the Commons, the Houses would soon catch the spirit of their leaders, and Members would emulate each other in facilitating rather than in obstructing the progress of national measures. We only hope the House will have ROBERTSON GLADSTONE 3 in every borough. They are just what it needs. Points of exception may be taken, of course, in any long address, but the points in which all Reformers agree will prove ten to oire compared with those on which they differ. Let each borough send its own exhorta tion to its own Members, for petitions are now to have half their utility destroyed, and in every way let the constituencies watch to keep their Members alive to their duty. Let them see that the electoral audit is not neglected, whether Government attends to its own or not. FALL OF THREE HOUSES, AND LOSS OF LIFE. This morning, shortly atter 7 o'clock, one of those dreadful calamities—viz., the fall of houses—took place in Tottenham-court-road, and we regret to say that, in this instance, loss of life has also occurred. The pre- . - mises in question, Nos. 145, 146, and 147, were in the occupation of Mr. Maples, furniture dealer, and familiarly known as the " Hen and Chickens." Of course, at the present time, it would be impassible to state with positive certainty the causes which led to the accident, but as far as we have been able to ascertain, they are as follows :—The adjoining premises, Nos. 148 and 149, in the occupation of Mr. Hunter, also a furniture and carpet dealer, a few months ago were seriously damaged by fire, and ever since that accident they have been in course of repair, and at the present time it is supposed that the premises of Mr. Maples were damaged either by the conflagration or by the building operations that have been going on there. At the hour above stated the three houses in the pation of Mr. Maple fell to the ground with a tremendous crash, burying the several unfortunate persons who re sided therein. Ot course the g►eatest consternation pre vailed in the neighbourhood, and in the shortest time possible the police arrived at the spot, and it was with the greatest difficulty that they prevented a number of persons exposing themselves to danger by approaching too near the spot. Immediately it became known that a number of persons were on the premises at the moment they fell, the most active measures were taken for their release, and in a short time a young man who was in bed when the calamity occurred was rescued. As he was not seriouslrinjured he went into one of the adjoining houses, and, having dressed himself, returned to the spot and gave such in formation as enabled the police to direct their search in the proper quarter. Another man was afterwards taken from the ruins very severely injured. This per son, we were informed, was the son of a builder, who was engaged is improving the shop fronts of Mr. Maples' houses. He was conveyed to the Univer sity Hospital, and there received the utmost attention, The police next succeeded in rescuing another man, but it was discovered that, from the shocking nature o the injuries he had received, he had ceased to exist The lifeless body of another unfortunate individual was next taken from the debris. Toe name of this person was said to be Byng, a workman in the employ of Mr. Maples. Up to the time of writing this ac count no other persons had been rescued, although it was known that there were several unfortunate in- dividuals beside those taken from the ruins upon the premises at the time of the accident. The greatest excitement prevails in the neighbourhood, and the most intense interest is manifested by the immense body of persons assembled in the operations at present going on under the direction of the police. INDIA HOUSE.—A. deputation from the Madras Irri gation and Canal Company, consisting of the Hon. Philip Pleydell Bouverie, M.P., Colonel Philip An struther, C. 8., Lieut.-Colonel . Onslow and Jas. Thomson, _ _ Esq., directors, accompanied by John Mackrell, Esq., the solicitor, and John Westwood, Esq., the secretary of - - the company, had an interview yester lay with Ross Donnelly Mangles, Esq., M.P., the chairman of the East India Company, and Sir Frederick Currie, the deputy-chairman. APOTHECARIES'-HALL.—The following are the names of gentlemen who passed their examination in the science and practice of medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday, May 7 :—Wm. Wood, Sidding ton, Glocestersbire ; Robert Matthews Inman, Carlisle, Cumberland; Henry Stilwell, Uxbridge ; John Mar shall Clark, London ; John Moses Bateson, Kirkby- Lonedale, Westmoreland ; Wm. Theophilus Girdlestone, Wordsley, Staffordshire. THE STAFF OF THE POSr•OFFIOE.—The number of officers and servants of the Post-office department, ex clusive of 118 in the colonies, of 55 agents in foreign countries, and of 8 marine mail officers, is 23,130, of which 10,667 are postmasters, 1,693 clerks, &c., and 40 secretaries, surveyors, superior officers, heads of depart ments, and chief officers, Of this staff about 1,700 are attached to the chief-office in London, and (inc siding this number) about 3,200 are employed in the London district.—Civil Service gazette. THE COLONIAL POSTAGE SERVICE.—In most of the colonies the Post-office is at present conducted at a loss, and the loss seems hi lerto to have been increased gene rally by the reductions that have been made in the rates of postage. In thirteen colonies postage-stamps have been introduced, and in five—viz., New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, Western Australia, and Trinidad— prepayment is compulsory. In India, South Australia, Mauritius, and Barbadoes prepayment is not compul sory, but an increased charge is made when the payment is delayed.—Civil Service Gazette. THE COLONIAL POSTAGE SERVIOE.—In most of the colonies the Post-office is at present conducted at a loss, and the loss seems hitherto to have been increased gene rally by the reductions that have been made in the rates of postage. In 13 colonies postage stamps have been introducd, and in five—New South \Vales, Victoria, Tasmania, Western Australia, and Trinidad, prepay ment is compulsory. In India, South Australia, Mau ritius, and Barbadoes, prepayment is not compulsory, but an increased charge is made when the payment is delayed.—Civil Service Gazette. THE MARYLEEONE BOARD OF GUARDIANS AND THE POOR.LAW Boattp.—Yesterday, at a fa ly attended meeting of the Marylebone Board of Directors and Guardians, it was resolved by a large majority to make answer to the letter of the poor-law board requiring them to admit a poor-law inspector to take hie place among them :—" That they could perceive no new fea ture affecting the question at issue in the letter under reply, and therefore most respectfully, yet firmly, begged to intimate their intention to adhere to and carry into effect the resolution of the 24th, to which they have been referred." That is to say, the guardians refuse to admit the poor-law inspector to take his place at their board. This reply, it is understood, is definitive. THE COUNTY OF MAYO ELEOTION.—The petition against the return of Mr. Moore for the county of Mayo, which was the first presented to the House of Commons at its assembling on Thursday evening, contains most serious allegations respecting the conduct of the Catholic priests at the election. Colonel Higgins, the petitioner, asserts that he was defeated by a combination of the bishops and working Catholic clergy ; tbat they instigated the people to acts of the grossest violence and terrorism ; that voters dared not freely exsrcise their franchise ; and that he and his supporters were publicly denounced at the altars of many chapels in the county. The subject excites much interest in the house and abroad, and the petition will probably be the first tried. A Speaker's warrant has been issued for the attendance and examination of Dr. M`Hale, the archbishop of the diocese. Mr. Edwin James, Q C., will conduct the case for the petitioner, and in his bands we feel confident that a most searching investigation into priestly misconduct and spiritual in timidation will be ascomplishi I —Advertiser. DRAINAGE OF THE METROPOLIS.—The referees to whom the plans for the main drainage of the metropolis were referred by the Chief Commissioner of Works, have addressed the surveyors of the several districts and parishes in the metropolis for information on the subject of the drainage of the several localities, and inquire : The length of covered sewers in the district or parish. 2. The length of open sewers, and the estimated cost of re-constructieg and covering the same. 3. The length of streets and places, irrespective of uncovered sewers, which require to be drained ; and the estimated cost of the sewer works thereon. This information is required ex clusive of the principal lines of sewers which are pro posed to be carried out by the Metropolitan Board of Works. Inquiry is also made whether the plan pro posed for the main drainage by the Metropolitan Board of Works, as described in Mr. Bazalgette's reports, dated May 22 and Dec.l, 1856, will, in their opinion, be suffi cient for the district or parish, and whether there will be any sewer at such a low level as not to be miscep+ible of drainage by the proposed works ; also the addition of any general information as to -the state of the local drainage, with a description of any fiocelings which may have occurred from defects of the main drainage. From the information received in answer to these inquiries, a vast body of information respecting the drainage of the metropolis ie being received which could be obtained in no other way, and which will materially affect the de cision of the referees. METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.—Yesterday at its weekly meeting', this board discussed the appro priation of the vacant space of ground at the south eastern angle of St. Paul's churchyard, and also received a deputation from the Royal Institute of British Archi tects, who were anxious that it should not be occupied as a building site, but preserved for public use and en joyment. A deputation on the same subject was also received from the Improvement Committee of the City Corporation. From remarks made by the members of the deputation it appeared that it had been in contem plation by the corporation to build on one-fifth of the ground, and to leave the remainder unoccupied. There was a willingness to give up the whole plot if the board would aid in the contribution. The value of the whole of the area would be 75,000 i. The ground bad been purchased by the corporation for the improvements in Cannon-street, and would involve a serious loss on the City if the coal-tax ceased in 1862. After some dis cussion the whole subject was referred to the Committee of Works and Improvements. A number of miscella neous resolutions were then passed. Among other things it was resolved that the several houses and pre mises in Maddox-street, Hanover-square,be re-num bered ; and that, subject t o the approval f the Commis sioners of her Majesty's Works, &c., the several names of Ciark'a place, Hedge-row, York-buildings, Gloucester place, Oddy's-row, Islington-green, Frederick's-place, Commerce-row, Barnsbury-place, Trinity-row, Hopkin's buildings, San's buildings, Sebbon's buildings, and Wells-row, oa the west side of Upper street, be abolished ; that the whole of the west side of such street, from the Liverpool-road to the Holloway-road, be called Upper street, Islington, and that the houses be num bered coneecutivsly ; also that, subject to the same approval. the line of buildings at present callled Great Cumberland-street, Great Cumberland-place, and Cum berland street, be called Great Cumberland-place ; and further that application be made to her Majesty's Com missioners of Works and Puolic Buildings for their approval of the alteration of the names at present exist ing in the New-road, between the Edgeware-road and the Angel Inn at Islington, to those of Marylebone road, Easton-road, and Pentonville-road. LATEST NEWS. THE GRAND DUKE CONSTANTINE. The .Nord, of Brussels, publishes the following :elegraphic despatch : " PARIS, May 7, 4 P.M. "In consequence of a gracious invitation from her Majesty Queen Victoria given to his Imperial Highness by Lord Cowley, when he had the honour of being presented to him, the Grand Duke Con stantine, after visiting Cherbourg, will embark at Ostend for Osborne, on a visit to ber Majesty the Queen of England." We learn (says Ga/ignani of to-day), that a gracious invitation from her Majesty Queen Vic. toria, transmitted to the Grand Duke Constantine by Lord Cowley, has been accepted. BERLIN, FRIDAY. Prince Napoleon arrived here at half-pa-t five this morning. He was received at the station by Prince George of Prussia, Prince Augustus of Wurtemburg, Prince William of Baden, Baron Moustier, and a staff of generals. He was con ducted to the Palace. The Upper Chamber yesterday rejected the clause (No. 1) of the bill for imposing a tax on manufactured goods. This day it has passed the whole measure, with the exception of the modifi cation above-mentioned. The Journal des Dresden states, " upon autho rity," that the ratification of the Treaty between ingland and Persia has been made by the Shah. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. A Paris letter in the Independence of Brussels says :—" Count de Morny is expected at Paris on the 24th with the young Countess, bis wife. It will be too late for him to resume the duties of his post of President of the Chamber ; but it is said he will offer himself as a candidate for re election to the chamber, and that he desires to be again nomi nated president next year." The Patric says that the object of Prince Napo leon's visit to Berlin is hymeneal, as he has gone to negotiate a marriage with a German Princess—a mai riage which will add to the prestige of the reign ing dynasty. The Duke Constantine is extremely courteous to the Marquis Tillamarina, the Sardinian Ambas sador, whoua he has thanked cordially for the at tention paid to his mother by the King of Sardinia. This kindness, he says, he can never forget. A. telegraphic wire, corresponding with the electric telegraph from Paris to St. Petersburg, has been placed the Palace of the Tuileries, and the apparatus is arranged in the very apartment of the Grand Duke Constantine, who is thus enabled at any moment to communicate with his brother, the Emperor Alexander. In consequence of the high price of every article of fo3d, a credit of three millions was, by Imperial decree of the 11th February last, placed at the disposal of the Minister of War to increase the or dinary pay of the soldier, with the exception of the Imperial Guard, which is placed under exceptional circumstances, and the gendarmery, whose pay was increased on the 16th May, 1855. BOURSE, May B.—The following were the last quotations : End of Month. —fr. —c... 69 30 Cash. Pr. c 44 per Cents 3 per Cents 69 20 Bank Shares 4,300 Credit Mobilier 1,307 50 Roman Do. Account 1,:307 50 Austrian Belgian 41 Piodmontese (5) 9O 75 Home Debt RAILWAYS—FOR CASH. Orleans 1,485 Western Northern Lyons 1,485 New Ditto Mediterranean 2,010 Grand Central t — Geneva A — Midi cobbled and patched into a nominally seaworthy condition, an having again taken her departure from our shores carrying with her a condiderable number of troops and passengers), we heard of her putting, upon the 19th ult., in great distress into Corunna ! This same incorrigible vessel, being thus described by one on board of her (not, observe ! by a Right Hon. Baronet proving black to be white from the Treasury bench of the House of Commons), we find her described by one on board of her, as little better than a mon strous tub, topheavy, rolling, keeping her crew continually wet, having her masts obviously dis proportioned, and her rigging altogether dis ordered ! _ _ As to the Urgent, again—in the second place as to " The Urgent." Well, it is equally noto rious and equally undeniable that she bad pre viously left Spithead on the 23d of February, and that then her casualties were simply the following ! —That at the beginning of March she sprang a dangerous leak in the 13 iy of Biscay—that her engines could not be worked—that she was com pelled to go on as best she could without their assist ance—and that it was actually not until the 27th of March that she (a screw vessel !) ultimately reached her destination ! All the while 800 persons being on board of her, with boat accommodation for no more than 300 at the most—the water rushing into her hell, and the pumps refusing to work ! The fact being (according to the asser ' tion of another " eye-witness," another person . actually on board at the time), that the screw of this inestimable ship, " The Urgent," had worked a large piece of iron out of ,her stern, and thus effectually put a dead lock upon her steam ma- chinery ! Finally, as to the Perseverance ! Well, as Mr. LINDSAY yesterday observed, rather significantly, " at the Naval Review the Members of the House had experience of the qualities and charac ter of the Perseverance !" Nevertheless—in spite of all these hard and stubborn Facts—if we are to believe Sir CHARLES Woon, "It's all right ! Don't bother yourself ! They're capital ships, every one of them !" They were bought, the Right Hon. Baronet tells us (we knew this before, but that don't matter), they were bought, he tells us, from the Messrs. Mare and Co., " very great shipbuilders on the river, and of the highest character !" They were not built, he reminds us, in a hurry—nothing of the kind—don't think it ! One of them, for example, (everybody knew this also, but let it pass) one of them was built for the Peninsular and Oriental Company and not for war purposes. It was true that a few trivial alterations were made in them after they were purchased, but every one of these alterations was effected (of course) with the utmost caution and sagacity, in fact to admiration ! The screws wore raised, but that was a mere trifle ! Poops were built up supplementarily upon their decks—not a doubt of it—but really and truly they were nothing to speak of ! But [Read this Anyone, for Heaven's sake, simply by the light of common sense !]— " but," says Sir CHARLES, " this could not have added any weight to the ship, as the materials of which the poop was made were very slight." We really don't care what the materials they were made of, were—so long as they were," materials," they must obviously have added to the weight. Again these three unfortunate ships were re masted after they were in the passession of the Admiralty—but immediately to prove that this could not in the smallest degree affect their sta bility—out pour from the lips of Sir CHARLES WOOD, a multitude of facts and figures to prove round square, and square round, and white black, and black white—a douche bath of feet, and inches, and area, and tonnage, reminding one strongly of that douche bath of argument fairly Wring the breath out of poor Mr. SQUILLS, at the end of "The Cartons." The Stubborn Facts still remaining, after all this special pleading of the First Lord of the Admiralty—that the Transit did spring a leak in April off the Needles ! That the rrgent did spring a leak in March in theßay of Biscay 1 That the Transit did put, in distress, into Corinna ! That the Urgent, although fitted up with the screw, did take more than a whole ca lendar month to get to Barbadoes ! That her pumps would not work, and that her ma chinery was useless ! That the Transit did roll like a tub, that her masts were topheavy, that her rigging teas loose and disordered—that her own poop, and the poop of the Urgent, and the poop of the Perseverance, were all three encumbrances ! The chopped logic and cooked. statistics of Sir C. WOOD to the contrary,. never theless, notwithstanding. Observing all which, one is really fain at heart to cry out for very anguish-0 for one sweep of CoBBETT's " wet sponge" in other departments besides merely those of the Treasury and th• Exchequer ! What can Mr. ROBERTSON GLA DSTONE, of the Liverpool Financial Reform AsE•ciation, mean ? Has be not received the message from Downing street via Printing-house-square, " Take care of PALMERSTON ?" If he has not, how can so ignc rant a man presume to lecture the representatives of the people, and if he has, how dares he dis obey ? MILTON might address the "High Court of Parliament," though some, doubtless, in his day, thought him very presumptuous ; but Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTOXE—W h 0 is he ?—who— President of the Liverpool Financial Reform As sociation. But who and what are the association ? The League we know, or did know, the Carlton we know, and the Reform Club we know, even the Administrative Reform Association we can just discern, giving, as it does, a sort of glowworm light since it obtained Mr. ROEBUCK'S name, but this Liverpool knot of professed national accoun tants we can hardly remember having ever beard of them. Stop—when topics ran short about last Christmas, we did read some financial scheme, some absurd project for bleeding every one, so that noun should feel the operation —some cotton importing or manufacturing proposal for shutting up all our custom-houses, or converting them into Free Trade halls; it served us as a peg for a leader or two, and we thought no more of it. Thus it pleases the leading organ to notice Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE'S address to the New Pailiarneet. What does it mean ; when Lord DERBY is at pains to make it known that he never spoke to Mr. COBDEN— when any of us elaborately exhibit our unacquaintedness with Mr. B. or Mr. C., why, of course, thAre is some reason. We glance, therefore, as a matter of curiosity at the address of the unknown Liverpool Financier—and all becomes plain enough. The fault is in the homily, and so far in the man. Here is a busi ness-like plain reminder of several plain froetri ; stock facts if you will—facts, it may be, 'Rb ich have stood stock still, because the predecesrlors of those addressed would not let them move fm. ; but all, or most of them, matters of serious irnport, and matters which, whether the Times anc I Lord PALMERSTON like or not, ought to have prompt attention ; would have pr. mpt attention in a business-like and earnest Parliament, p , u4 could I • SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE. The present manager of this theatre, Mr. G. A. Webster, seems determined to make this season ou►rival all preceding ones. This evening, in addi tion to the services of the inimitable Mr. Bnckstone, he has secured those of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dillon, thus presenting to his patrons a combina tion of talent of the highest order. We understand various other highly-attractive engagements are pending, and also that a succession of novelties are in preparation, in order that the season, so energetically begun, may be brought to a success ful termination. Such exertions on ti.e part of Mr. G. Webster deserve, and we are glad to see they receive, the cordial support of the play-going public. The theatre during the past week has been very fully attended. ASTLEY'S THEATEE..—Mr. William Cooke, the enter prising manager of Astley's, has just purchased three zebras, the most beautiful specimens ever seen in Eng land. They arrived but a few days since, and were brought over by Captain Mason in the ship Alexandria. The Earl of Carlisle, during his brief stay in town, intends to remain with the Duke and Duchess of Suther land, at Stafford-house. Sir C. Wood commences his levees on Thursday, the 11th of June, and will hold them during the months of June and July. Captain Stewart, the son of Admiral Stewart, will be Admiral Reynolds's flag captain ; and Mr. Richards will continue as secretary. Despatches for the Governors of the North American Provinces were sent last evening from the Colonial-office. Sir A'exsnder Spearman bad an interview with th• Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. A deputation from Liverpool, relative to a burial ground, had an interview with Sir George Grey yester day, at the Home-offie. The deputation consisted of the Rev. A. M'Conkey. Rev. T. Major Lester, Captain Johnson, and Mr. Richard Johnson. The deputation was accompanied by Mr. Horsfall, M.P., and Mr. T. C. Escort, M.P. A deputation from the Commissioners of St. Martin'e Baths had an interview with the Right Hon. Sir Benja min Hall, yesterday, at the Office of Public Works, on the subject of Baths and Wash-houses. The deputation consisted of Mr. Philip Palmer and Mr. Samuel Bar ton (commissioners), an Mr. Dangertleid, clerk to the commissioners. CHIEF JUSTICE COCKRURN AND TXS " LAW CLERKS." —Chief Justice Cocl.burn will dine with the " Law C erks," at their next anniversary, the twenty-third, in June. _ _ CONVOCATION OF' THE CLERGY. --Yesterday morning, the archbish o p, bi s h ops , an d proctors of the province' of Canterbury assembled in Convocation at Westminster. The members cif the Upper House met at Queen Anne's Bounty }lease. The Archbishop of Canterbury pre sided, and read the address to the Crown, which it is usual to present on the opening of a new Convocation. The address having been agreed to, and communicated to the Lower House, the Bishop of Chichester presented r.• petition from 156 clergyman of his diocese, complain. ing of the compulsory use of the burial service in certain cases. A large number of other petitions were pre sented, and the Upper House adjourned. The Lower House assembled in the Jerusalem Chamber a little after twelve o'clock. The Hon. and Rev. Dr. Ellict, Dean of Bristol, officiated as prolocutor. The principal portion of the morning was taken up with the transac tion of merely formal business. A. committee of privi leges was formed, to which a number of petitions upon various t )piss were referred. The Rev. Dr. Millman, Dean of St. Paul's, moved that a petition be presented to the Upper House of Convocation, praying his grace the president and their lordships the bishops to join in an address to the Queen, praying that the three extra church services of the 30th of January, the 29th of May, and the sth of November, be discontinued as no longer necessary. An amendment to examine by what authority the services Were read WaE carried. the King, vice Gen. Urbistondo, decease Gen. Lemerick, Captain-General of Madrid. !cl : and The Nord publishes the despatches exchanged between the governments of Vienna and Berlin on the subject of the difference between them and Denmark ; they prove that the most perfect under standing exists between the two great German powers, and that they will persist in maintaining the attitude which they have almtned towards the Danish Government. A letter from Rome of the 28th ult., in the Risor gimento, says :—" The Sardinian frigate Governoio has arrived at Civita Vecchia, at the disposal of the Empress of Russia. The Italian colours displayed by this vessel caused some excitement, and on the following morning the police found a number of revolutionary placards stuck up at the street cc r ' ners, in which the aid of Piedmont was invoked for the liberation of It ly. A letter from Vienna of the Ist says:—" The Senate of Montenegro has forbidden all Montene grins to croas the frontier without authorisation. Arrests continue in the country. The partisans of George Petrowich, in particular, are persecuted and imprisoned. On the 18th ult. two sons and. two granthons of the ex-Serdar Milo Baiza, who is in exile at Sara, were arrested." A leVer from Clirisiia.nia, of the 28th ultimo., says :—" The Norwegian Diet has, like that of Sweden, unanimou-ly rejected the bill relative to the regency of princes ; and, in consequence, if the King lx,) absent or ill, the regency Will be exercised in Norway, as in Sweden, by a council of ministers, and not by a prince." AMERICA. [A summary of the following appeared in our impression of yesterday :—] LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY MAY 8. The Canadian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company's steamer Canadian, Captain Ballantyne, arrived to-day with advicos from Portland to the 25th, and from New York (by telegraph) to the evening of the 24th ult. The Royal Mail steamship America and the screw steamship City of Glasgow had arrived at Halifax, and the screw steamship Chersonese at Portland. The steam-frigate Niagara had not left the offing of New York up to the 24th. Before saint). - for England she would, it was understood, make a trial trip to Not folk. A despatch from Halifax announces the passing by the House of Assembly of a bill giving to the Atlantic Submarine Telegraph Company the exclu sive privilege for 25 years of landing a submarine telegraph cable from any part of Europe on any part of the shores of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton. At the annual dinner of the St. George's Society of New York, Lord Napier, who was present as a blest, responded as follows to the toast of " 'Majesty's Ministers and representatives on this continent" " Gentlemen,—l beg to offer you my very sincere and cordial thanks for the honour which you have done me in associating my name with the toast and with the health of `Her Majesty's Ministers.' Her Majesty's Ministers will be highly gratified when they learn that their names and their officers are held in such esteem, regard, and memory by their fellow-countrymen residing in the United States. I, myself, gentlemen, in my own personal capacity, am sensible that I am undeserving of the acclamations which you have deigned to bestow upo❑ my name ; but I see in the manner in which you have received it a warm revulsion of those feelings of sympathy and regard which may be sus pended or obscured for a time, and by accident, between America and England, but which are ever deeply founded on the affections and the interests of the two countries. (Loud cheers.) The office which I have the happiness to till, and in which you have done me the honour to wish me well, is one which has been familiar to my hopes and wishes from a very early period of my life and services. I may still maintain that there is not a more grateful, a more glorious, or a more useful employment than this employment, which 1 share with my venerable friend, the United States' Minister in London—the employ ment of holding aloft the ensigns of peace and friend ship between the two great branches of the English race. (Loud cheere.) I feel that I enterers upon that employ ment here at a most auspicious period. I can assure you that I have met, upon the part of the President of the United States, upon the part of General Case, upon the part of all the Ministers and functionaries of the United States with whom I have been brought into contact, every manifestaticn of that cordial and friendly disposi tion which animates the Government and the community of Great Britain. (Cheers.) There are no questions involv ing any degree of anxiety or apprehension pending between the two countries —(chcers) ; and I am sometimes disposed to hope that the time may soon come when there will scarcely be any subjects of official correspondence at all. (Cheers.) If I may not flatter myself with this agreeable prospect of official vacuity—(laughter)—if I must look for ward to my fair and natural share of discussions and de bates, surely, gentlemen, we have, in the experience of the past, the best grounds for believing that there can never be a question so difficult or so complicated that it may not meet with a prompt, with a peaceful, and with an honour able solution. (Loud cheers.) There are many questions at once envenomed and alarming which have been settled in a pacific manner in our recent negotiations. Our east ern boundaries have been defined by one treaty. Our western boundaries have been settled by another. The disputed fisheries, which at one time threatened to embroil us, have been converted, by the salutary engagements of reciprocity, into a source of mutual wealth. Finally, gen tlemen, the question of the privileges of neutral trade in time of war—that question which for so leng was the con• stant cause of complaint and recriminations, has now ob tained, by the spontaneous declarations of her Majesty's Ministers during the late hostilities, that liberal interpre tation so often desired by the United States, and which no Government of England hereafter will ever be inclined to revoke or to repeal. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, lam justified, then, in saying that by an easy exercise of frankness, of mutual forbearance and indulgence, no question can arise between our countries which will not admit of an easy and an amicable settlement. Bat, gentlemen, I desire more than cordiality—l desire co-operation. (Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, I do not wish to alarm the citizens of the United States who are here present by raising before their averted eyes the phantom of " entangling alliances." (Laughter and cheers.) Entangling alliances, gentlemen, are a kind of political spectre which seems to have descended With undiminished terrors from the period of the Revolu tion to the present day. (Cheers and laughter.) There may be mutual co-operation where there are no written engagements; and gentlemen, where the heart is wanting, there may be written engagements without mutual co-ope ration. (Cheers.) All, then, that I wish to say is, that our respective Governments should perpetually make an early and sincere declaration and avo wa l t o each other of their views and intentions with respect to all subjects which involve the common interests of the two countries—(cheers) —whereby they will have the benefit of mutual good offi ces and mutual counsel, and whereby they will be able to a sold these one-sided resolutions and those startling an nouncements which are apt to disturb the confidence of commerce and calculated to excite the sensibilities and jea lousies of two high-spirited nations. Gentlemen, the only entangling alliance which I shall venture to recommend to your adoption is the submarine cable between this country and England. (Laughter and "cheers.") My friend, the hon. chairman, has been so kind as to allude in terms of glowing eulogy and encomium to the services which members of my family have been enabled, in former times and generations, to offer to their Sovereign and county either in the departments of science or in those of war. The sincerity with which that encomium was pronounced, and the manner in which those observations were received, are certainly exceedingly gratifying to incentive to own pride ; and all this is an additional to me to endeavour to render myself not unworthy of those services which were performed by members of my family upon previous occasions. (Cheers.) I cannot flatter myself that I possess any peculiar fitness or any local experience which could enable me to perform the duties of Her Majesty's Minister in a distinguished manner. But this I can assure you, that I undertake these duties with the highest satisfaction and with the happiest anticipations. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, it was some time ago observed in England, and it was re peated in some quarters in Ameeica, that the members of the regular diplomatic profession of Groat Britain were not qualified by their previous education and ex perience to contend wich the stubborn and masculine elements of American politics. (Cheers.) It was sup posed, gentlemen, that wo were so enured in the petty acts and dark practices of " Cabinet intrigue," that we we e so accustomed to humble ourselves in the twilight of military courts, that we were not qualified nor disposed to meet a free people in the light of day. (Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, did you observe any symptoms of this intellectual decrepitude in Sir Richard Pakenham or in Sir Henry Bulwer. I have not the honour of having ever served with those distinguished personages, but, in honour to the profession to which I belong, I am justified in alleging that in my friend and my former chief, Sir H. Seymour, I never observed any want of vigour or capacity. And, gentlemen, I never observed any want of vigour and independence in my later master, Viscount Ste at ford de Radcliffe, who has passed 30 years of his indefatiga ble life in contending against the ambition of arbitrary , power in one country and in mitigating its abuses in an other. Gentlemen, I do not wish to eay anything unduly and ungratefully depreciatory of any country or of any Govern ment. I have had some experience of despotic Governments. I have lived in N a ples, in Turkey, and in Russia. Th!re are elements of happiness in them all. Fortunately, I say, there are elements of kindness, of culture, and of happi ness which no political system whatever can exclude from the face of nature and from the hearts of man. (Cheers.) But neither the retrospective glories of th e Italian scene, nor the nci,nt repose and the picturesqu e associations of Oriental life, nor the splendid enchantme nts of social life which have arisen in their most agreeable form upon the borders of the Nova, can ever make an Englishman under value or forget those principles of freedom which have been cherished by our common fathers at hoe, and which by them were sown broadcast upon t he soil of the groat Ameri can continent. Gentlemen , I have, since my arrival. sometimes observed an impression in the United j States that the development of this country is regarded withjealousy by England. That is an erroneous opinion. (Cheers.) You Will bear me out in the assertion that the last vestige of un happyforoee warsr prejudice isbeing f oun ded on the animosities of two ve ry rapidly extinguished. Tile peace ful and legitimate expansion of the United States forms a matter of satisfaction an d pride for every reasonable Env,- lishinan. That expansion forms the . best resort and re li e f for our superabund ant population; it forms the best mar ket for our incre asin g industr y ; is the triumph of our labour and our arts, of our language, our religion, and our blood. (Loud cheering.) No thoughtful Englishman can con template this unparalleled spectacle of future predomi nance without emotions of thankfulness and praise. No thoughtful foreigner can regard it without a sigh, because Providence has not reserved the future empi re o f th e world for his own tongue and his own race. (Cheers.) These sen timents of sympathy and goodwill, to which I give a Leble utterance, are, believe me, not rare or partial iu our coun try, nor do I derive them from obscure authority. (Hear.) I have gathered these sentiments in the benevolent pages ofa Carlisle, in the wise conclusions of au Aberdeen, and RUSSIA. " We learn from St. Petersburg," says the Nord of Brussels, " two facts worthy of notice. The first is that the Emperor, on the 29th ult., the anniversary of his birthday, addressed to Prince Gortschakoff, Minister of Foreign. Affairs, a letter, in which, after expressing in flattering terms his gratitude for the services which the Prince had rendered to him and to Russia in the various posts he had occupied, his Majesty announces that he has conferred on him the Order of St. Vladimir. The second fact is that the public subscription for the shares of the Great Russian Railway Company' has been opened at St. Petersburg, and that the confidence of the public in the ent-rprise was im mediately demonstrated by the fact of 50,000 shares, one-third of the number to be disposed of, having been subscribed for in a single day. Our correspondent adds that, from the anxiety to sub scribe, it will not be possible to satisfy all the demands." PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin, of the sth, says :—"A visit from the Emperor of Russia to our court is spoken of ; so also, thncgh more problematically, is one in the autumn from the Emperor of the French." It was lately mentioned in the Berlin journals that the Prussian Government, in consequence of the late measure for preventing the circulation of foreign bank-notes in Prussia, had some intention of proposing a sort of financial union between the States of the Zollverein, for regulating the circulation, and guarantee of the paper money of those States. The semi-official journal, the Zeit of Berlin, confirms this statement, and publishes an explanatory memoir on the subject, which has been addressed by the Prussian Government to the States of the Zollverein. Another letter from Berlin says :—" It has been stated that Baron de Manteuffel, president of the council, addressed a few days ago a letter to the President of the Chamber of Nobles relative to its labours. It appears that the letter expressed the dissatisfaction of the Cabinet at the extreme slow ness with which Government measures are discussed by the Chamber, and at the frequent leaves of ab sence accorded to its members. The Chamber at once deliberated on the letter in a secret sitting, and has through its president replied in a letter in which it is asserted that the delay in the discussion of the Government bills is caused by the Govern ment bringing them forward at too late a period of the session, and in which the President of the Council is told that, as regards leave of absence to members, the Chamber and its president have alone power 0 decide thereon." THE BALTIC. HAMBURG, May 7.—We learn from Copenhagen that at a Privy Council held at the Palace of Fred riksborg yesterday, a probable final arrangement had been come to wi h re pect to the present Ministerial crisis, and that Mr. Andrae would take the Foreign department, and Mr. Heinzelmann, the Chief President of Altoua ' the vacant office of Minister for the Duchess of Holstein and Lauen burg. The reason why Mr. von Molkte and Baron von Bulow declined the vacant offices is, it is re ported, their refusal to offer any further assistance to the claims of the German Powers. A Russian gunboat, coming from Archangel, ar rived two days ago in the Copenhagen roads, and anchored for the night. She was furnished with a screw, and will proceed to Cronstadt to receive her guns on board. The navigation at. Cronstadt is again free from ice for steamers up to St. Petersburg, and one Lu beck vessel had already effected her passage to tlsat city. There was, however, according to the last accounts, a great deal of floating ice iu the Gulf of Finland. • The new line of steamers from Kiel to St. Petersburg will commence running on Saturday next. Two splendid ships have been built at Glas gow for this route—the Orient and Occident ; the fmner is already at K•el in readiness. Prince Christian of Denmark visited Altona day or two back on his tour of inspection of the troops garrisoned there, as co mmander-in-chief of the army, but, after so doing, returned to Lauen burg. He has, therefore, not gone to Berlin on any mission, as had been stated in the Danish papers at Copenhagen, but Prince Frederick of Holstein- Gliicksburg in his stead. The we:Lther has been very cold and rainy for some days ptst, but the crops of young corn do not appear to suffer much. Emigration to various parts of America, the Bra zils, and to Australia continues on the increase, and great numbers are constantly arriving from the interior for this purpose. The Faedrelandet of the 6th says that a privy council had been held at Fredericksborg. M. Hein zillmann was present at it, and that fact has led to the supposition that he will fill the post of minister for Holstein. The Madrid Gazette of the 7th contains Royal decrees, nominating Gen. Sanz, aide-decamp to 90 89 414 39 it c. in the eloquent declarations of an Elgin. I have hear' these sentiments declared and enforced from the bench of the Government, and I have heard them echoed back from the benches of the Opposition. These sentiments have been inculcated upon me with sincere and careful emphasis by the Eal of Clarendon, and by that noble Viscount who is first in the councils and in the hearts of the British people. (Immense applause.) Finally, Gentlemen, I have received these sentiments as a fruitful truit from the hands of my Sovereign, and I will not lay up this profitable tulent in a diplomatic napkin." At the c'ose of this speech his Lordship was loudly cheered. The schooner Margaret, a supposed slaver, had been seized at New York. A telegraphic despatzli from Washington to the Portlalc.l papers, under date of April 23, says : " It is understood, on reliab'e authority, that the action of our Government in increasing our naval force in the waters of the Isthmus meets the approval of Lord Napier, the itishMinister,who was officially informed of the fact by a rota from the State Department, as was also Count do Sartiges, Minister from France. Toe latter, however, as far as can be ascertained, hasnot signified his assent or dis• sent to the movement. "The total number of vessels ordered to the Isthmus is ten, seven of which will be stationed at Aspinwall, and • three at Panama. With so imposing a force our Govern ' ment is confident of effecting an early arrangement of the dispute." The Hon. John G. Montgomery, senator for Danville, Pennsylvania, had died of disease con tracted at the National Hotel during the inaugura tion of President Buchanan. It is sate I that the Governorship of Utah had been offered to Major M'Cu'loch. A dispatch from Chica g o confirms the rumoured massacres in Blue Earth County. Forty :ettlers were murdered at Big Bend. and-several women taken prisoners. The excitement was increasing. es all the Indians beyond the Minnesota had assumed a hostile attitude. Rumours were also rife of au alliance betwe:n. the Sioux and Chippewa tribes. A workshop in the Maryland Penitentiary had been set on fire by some of the prisoners, who vainly hoped to escape during the confusion con sequent upon the alarm. Advices from the city of Mexico to the 4th ult. report that an intended revolution, instigated by the clergy and their partisans, had been discovered and suppressed. The British Charge bad sent in his ultimatum. The following telegraphic despatches to Boston give the latest markets at New York and Charleston :—.- _ " NEW YORE, APRIL 24. " Stocks are again lower, and the transactions moderste• Money easy and rates heavy at 7 per cent, on call, and 8 to 9 for short first-class paper. Sterling exchange tends uIY wards at 109 i to 109. Chicago and Rock Island Railroa (4, 90 ; Illinois Central Railroad, 131; Michigan Southern uud• NoithPrn Indiana Railroad, 60 a ; New York Central Rail road, 86± ; Reading Railroad, 84 : Galena and CbicaV Railroad, 102 ; Michigan Central Railroad, 95 ; Erie Rail' road, 42, ; Cleveland and Toledo Railroad, 63;1. "6 P.g• Stocks.-Some are rather better, but the market closes weak. Money and exchange are without further change; Illinois Central Railroad, 131 ; Michigan Southern an d Northern Indiana Railroad, 61i; New ' York Central Rail road, 87, b. 60 ; Reading Railroad, 814 ; Canton Com pany, 214 ; Erie Railroad, 421 ; Cleveland and Toledo Raitrord, 644. " A. , -hes better and unsettled ; sales, 40 barrels ; pots/ S dols. 50c. to 8 dole. 75c. ; pearls, 8 dols. to 8 dole. 12 : ic• Cotton quiet ; sales, 2,000 bales. Breadstuffs-Flour,' better on good brands; sales, 10,500 barrels; common to straight State, 5 dole. 56c. to 5 dole. 80c. ; Upper Lak e ' 5 dole. 70c. to 5 dole. 95c. ; common to good Ohio ex trs, 6 dole. 21c. to 6 dols. t;00 ; extra Genesee, 7 dols. 250. t ° 8 dol. 40c. ; Southern sc. better on medium grades ; s ales' 2,300 barrels; mixed to good, 6 dols. 50c. to 6 dole. SOo• ; fancy and extra, 6 dole. 85c. to 8 dols ; Canadian grin sales, SOO barrels ; superfine, 6 dols. Sc. to 6 dole. 1.00.; extra, 6 dole. 20c. to 7 (lois. 60c. Grain-Wheat better and unsettled ; sales, 10,000 bushels ; St. Louis wbitt 1 dol. 523 c. for common ; Illinois white, 1 dol. 55c. fa; fair ; Southern white, 1 dol. 62 c. to 1 dol. 65 c. ; di tto reef 1 dol. 56c. for choice. Oats firm; sales, 4,000 bushele! State, 56c. to 57e. ; Western, 580. to Coc. Corn firmer' sales, 7,500 bushels; mixed, 7:*. to 74c., in store ; whi t l' 75c. to 80c , new ; yellow, 74 to 75c., new; round low, Tic. to 75c, new. Provisions-Pork lower and a i "9 setted •, sales, ' 350 barrels ; mess, 22 dols. ; prime , '„ dole. 871 c. to 19 dole. ; Western prime mess, 20 ( 1 .'4 Beef firm ; sales, 300 barrels ; country mess, 13 dole. to k ‘ dole. ; prime, 10 dols. 75c. to 11 dole. 50c. ; repacked Cb,,, cago 16 dots. 25c. to 16 dols. 50c. ; prime mess, 25 dol e to 0'; dots. Lard easier-sales 260 bbls. at 134 c. to 14c. Bar ; firm ; sales 250 boxes at 11c. to 121 c. ; hams, 10ic. to 1 1e " shoulders, 84c. to 9c. Butter firm ; Ohio, 15c. to Of,i; State. 20e. to 260 c. Whisky quiet; sales 300 bbls. ; ° P , ( I and Prison, 28c. to 28t i c. Leather steady ; oak light .„ 6 :"0 middles, 38c. to 40c. ; hemlock sole, 29c. to 310. -'!, )6 , quiet. Groceries-Coffee firm; sales 1,200 bags ; Rio, 1 ". to llic. ; Java, 15i. sugar firmer; sales 1,000 bboci,,' Muscovado, 10c. to ; Havannab, 101 c. ; 3CO 0 ' 2 60 Melada, 74c. to 74c. Molasses firm ; sales 100 hhds. „ e ; bbls. ; New Orleans, 75c. ; Muscovado, 58 c. to 6,',;0, Cuba clued, 50c. Oils inactive--sales 10,000 galSy. Linseed lower-sales at 81c. to 820 . Whale steady , a" t or to 74c. Lard held higher. Sperm quiet. Spirits efloo, pentine less buoyant-sales 40U bbls., at 50 c. per gal el. ou 30 and 60 days', interest added ; crude, quiet, but t.t. t , Resin less active ; prices firm at 1 dol. 85 c. Hides lot Iron quiet, but firm ; Scotch pig, 3 5 dole. six mos. To. unsettled; sales, 60 tons Spanish on private terms• pee ba,cco firm • sales, 50 hhds. ; Kentucky, 16c. to 20e. 1 n o ir steady; sales, 600 barrels at 4ic. to 510. per lb. - - 1 -,: e ri• steady ; sales, 7,00 0 1b5. at 11c. to IlAe. Hemp- 1 ;7, 05 0 can is a shade ; we quote dressed a t 230 doh" "" dols., and undressed at 180 dole. to 200 dole. p e r ton. d ,; " Freights to Liverpool, heavy and lower ; cotton/ B lour, ls. ; grain, lid. to 2d. "CHARLESTON, APRIL 2 t e i, "Cotton.--Sales to-day, 300 bales, at unchanged P r ldi There have been no sales since the receipt of the Amer news." THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS• SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY NIGHT, 10 0 ,,-- ,116 The mail steamer Etna, Captain W. F. in'Litl/ has just arrived from Alexandria and Ala " 10 ( the Australian mails. Amongst them is the the Oneida. The collective mail consists of nearly 400 and bags, the largest mail ever landed at this They will be despatched to London at aboutl- 11 ;; 4 , to-night, in a special train consisting of five Her dates are Alexandria, April 25th, and•Pslb the 29th. She brings 62 first-class passenger s A ' second-class, and six servanti—in all 81 ; all'obOP packages of gold, of the value of nearly 9 0, 1 , 1 sterling • nearly 50,0001. of this gold was on O „. the Oneida. Nearly 100 of the passengers lef t Etna at Malta, to get to Eegland via Marseille°,o This steamer had fine weather from Aleo_, ° ol to Malta ; westerly winds from Malta to Gibt l ' e fine from Gibraltar to Finisterre ; and WO the Needles strong winds, with head sea. Among the passengers landed at SouthalOf from the Etna were Miss Graham, a sister 100 James Graham, from Malta ; and Messrs. all; 0 0 and Hannel, two of the members of the Legi s° Council of Victoria. 1•1 The passengers who left Australia in the l o ud pean are some of the richest men in the gold ee and many of them possess immense fortunes. log The Oneida broke down 500 miles from do George's Sound, her sole plate, which is the fe ti ol' tion of the whole machinery, having give" to ll, Although she was only so short adstance- 413 j, three day's steam—from St. George's Son "ilit took her 17 days to get back, and she reach e Sound one day after the Simla had left. d e' weather was at the time very thick, w hiel" vented the people of the Simla from seeing 11 , 6* ,;(1 ! The charge for sending gold home overf considered by the colonists too high, al w. thought that comparatively small quantit ies gold will be sent by that route. c of!: The European, al hough a fast sailer, ' s ae' ? sid'zired not adapted for crossin g the . ogean, as fitted up fir a cold climate. fr ° o The Sydney passengers who were taken le e the Oneida were 101 days from the time the ' Sydney until they reached Southampton. 00) Australian passengers were detained three e t b tte a Egypt, owing to the European arriving % 0 4 ,,r three days before her time. The passenger s 51)e„7 large number of nuggets in their posoession• i oi say that Sir Henry Barkly, the new gover i cr l Victoria, has given much satisfaction to til e fir t nie , , and his lady has won golden op inio lo ol ll o all classes of persons. Everything augurs g the successful governorship of Sir Henry. , 0 5 The Etna reports that the British squacniid° cruising (A 1 Malta, and that she passed the f kle t i steamer off Pantellaria on the 29 bound fe r lfe o andria. The Etna pas,ed the steamer Tart ar Galita on the 30th of April. TINE MAIL STEAMER TYNE.3IO- -- t ' 6 O O FALMOU ..... TH, FRIDAY E' Srfjl O O A' l it The mail steamer Tynemouth, Capt• h ro lls from the East Indies, put in this afternoon e ' contrary winds and short of fuel. , caper Her dates are—Port Louis, 24th Februvll,o3io 13th March ; St. Helena, 22d March ; -A Bc 29f h March. Her mails will be forwarded to-night, .clO.l . 11 P.' fails TEE AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON , OUTHAMPTO,,,ere The Jura steamer, Captain Moodie, arrived P Liverpool this morning, and sails hence with t,rba oe o for Ceylon, Australia, New Zdaland, 8c c., °LI •P next, toe 12 , h inst. . fit rae tli - CLABKE V. THE ROYAL PANOPTICON OF ':' C- t diV ii i l ,ll o ART.—An arrargewent has been made fel' °e ve 'V C r. hose of t I.e matters in dispute in the cause.„old ps' ( - ,f Chanc,ry wi ll b e s pared the consuming t" - t he c" oil, or lather midnight composite candles, i n 01 deration of this case. Tb ilf ,¢ ll l ENTOPTAINMENT TO COL. HUDSON.-- On e cl - e rsv the British officers of the Italian Legion 5110 _ a d g e ,F o ret of their gratitude for the grea t exertio ns that tio kindness of Colonel Hudson, the inspector °f eat ea t * id by inviting him to a bands ime entertainl'u kr , le° Star and Garter Hotel, at Richmond. ra t 1)- P I A ILLNESS OF Dn. PUSEY.—We deeplY reb th el" that Dr. Posey is in a very weak state o , f ,. . b t ies 51 a ftb ef physicians have given distinct orders v t utbg• S irc ullj i; keep entirely quiet for the next three av y c ht pastoral nor literary labours can, 11 13 " 1 1 4. 0 dot . r to stance: interfere with this regulati" ° .,l v at f i g , clergy, when ministering at the altar, member him in their oblations and prayer ~~ I I as i pro con met