The Sun. — London, England, 1857-04-29 00:00:00

fir ER MAJESTY' S THEATRE. LA TRAVIATA. PICCOLOMINI, GI UGLINI, BENEVEN TANG, POCCIIINI EXTRA NIGHT, TJ-MORROW EVENING, Apri LA TRAVIATA. Violetta, Mdlle. Piccolomini. Ballet—LA ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda, Mille. Poeeldni. For particulars see bills. A limited number of boxes in the Half Circle Tier have been specially reserved for the public, and way be had on ap plieatiou at th• Box-office at the Theatre Colonnade, Hay market. Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. HER M AJESTY'S THEATRE. Second appearance of Madlle. ORTOLANI. GIUGLINI, BENEVENTANO, BELLETTI, POCCHINI. ON SATURDAY EVENING, Vfay 2 (the second time these seven years), Bellini's Opera of I PURITANI. Elvira, Madile. Ortolani (her 2d appearance in England); Arturo, Sig. Giuglini. After which, the Third Tableau of LA ESMERALDA. In which will be introduced an entirely New Divertissement. La Esmeralda, Madile. Pocchini For particulars, see bills. A limited number of Boxes in the Half-circle Tier have been specially reserved for the public, and miy 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. L ES BOUFFES PARISTENS (French Plays), ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. It is respectfully announced that the Entire Company of Les BOUFFES PARISIENS, from the Theatre des Ronffes, in the Champs Elysees, and the Theatre Comte, Passage Choiseul, Paris, will have the honour of appearing at the St. James's Theatre, on WEDNESDAY EVENING, 111XY 20. Notwithstanding the well-merited popularity of this talented company, which has existed for several years in Paris, cir cumstances have always occurred to prevent a visit of " Les Bouffes" to this country until the present period ; nor can the engagement now entered into be extended beyond a short season of six weeks. In order to insure the best possible effect to their performances, it is intended to bring over the entire orchestra attached to their establishment, under the able direction of the composer, Monsieur Offenbach. Mes sieurs Pradeau, Gnyot, Oertpre, &c., Mesdemoiselles Dalmont and Marechal, will have the honour of making their first appearance in this country. The performances will be selected from the following I'd pertoire : LE VIOLONEUX . M'SIEU LANDRY PANTINS DE VIOLETTE LE DOCrEUR MIRACLE .Musique do M. 0 ffenbaei. „ Duprats. „ Adolphe Adam, „ Bizet et Lecocq, „ Offenbach. „ Mozart. „ Offenbach. „ Onnbach. Offenbach. „ Offenbach. ~ Offenbach. „ Offenbach. „ Offenbach. Jonas -,., Offenbach. &C, PEPITO L'IMPRES %RE' LA RONNE D'ENFANTS.. BATA C N, LE ROSE DE ST. FLEUR CROQUEFERS, LE DEWSIEIt DES PALA6INS.. LE',' DEUX AVEUGLES.., TROMB-AL-CAZAR DEMOISELLES A MA RIER, I,E DUEL DE BENJAMIN, LA NUIT 8LANCHE........ Owing to the limited duration of this engagement per formances will be given every evening, but subscribers will have the option of selecting either the Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings, or the Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Satur days. The entertainments will be arranged to commence at half past 8 o'clock, and terminate about 11. Subscription to Stalls, for 12 representations, 5 guineas ; Private Boxes, 30 and 40 guineas. By the night—Stalls. lOs Od.; Public Boxes. ; Pit, 2s. lid. ; Amphitheatre, 2s. Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets may be engaged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. Flab OY A PRINCESS'S THEATRE. -Lt.') THIS EVENING, will be performed Shakespere's tr , c, , edy of KING RICHARD TETE SECOND. King Richard 11., Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by A GAME OF ROMPS. T HEATRE ROYAL, EIAYMA.RKET„ Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. NEW ARRANGEMENT OF PRICES OF ADMISSION. THIS EVENING, and during the week, the new Drama of A LIFE'S TRIAL. Messrs. Buckstone, Comp ton Howe, W. Farrell, Rogers ; Mesdames Reynolds, Poyn ter, Fitzwilliam, After which, the successfif Classical Love Story. tin der the Apple-lation of ArAL NTA ; or, The Three Golden Apples : in which Miss M. Oliver will appear; also Miss M. Wilton, and Miss Ellen Ternan. Concluding with LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. 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 Dress Boxes 3 0 Up per Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes... Pit . 2 0 Pit 1 0 Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery. THEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed LITE", AND ITULIKE. Chara , ters by Mesßrs.Wright, Paul Bedford, &c.; Madame Celeste. Miss Windham, &c. • Followed by THE ELVES, in which Madame Celeste will perform To conclude with the new and original domestic sketch, entitled WELCOME, LITTLE STRANGER. Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Bedford, &c. OYAL SURRNY THEATRE, Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek. THIS EVENING will be performed BRUTUS. Brutni, Mr. Cr,?swiek. . After which, OUR NELLY., Nelly Bell (with songs), Miss Poole. Follbwed by THE DUMB SAVOYARD AND HIS MONKEY. The Monkey, Mr. Fie: more. OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE, Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, will be performed a new drama, called DADDY HARDACRE. Mr. Robson, &c. The new drama, by Tom Taylor, Esq., A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING. To conclude with THIEVES ! THIEVES ! ! Messrs. F. Robson, G. Vining, &c. Commence at half-past Seven. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. THIS EVENING (continued Success), the highly successrul Military Spectacle, called THE FRENCIT IN ALGIERS ; or, The Battle of Constantine. Novel end effective situations by Mr. W. Cooke's beautiful Horses, trained by him. After which, the inimitable SCENES in the CIRCLE, in troducing Miss Kato Cooke on her beautiful charger, Snow drop. The performance of Signor Corelli and Family. To conclude with A MIRTHFUL FARCE. Commetce at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Roses, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from I/., no charge for booking ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, N. f:ox.oMeo open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West, Equestrian Director, 'fr. AV. Cooke, jun. CA.NTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ing, company of Vocalists arc engaged for the performance o 1 `elections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Duets, drc., viz. : Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunell, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta; Mr, J. Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S, Jones. J. Barker, W, Melling, P. torn. Senor Antonio M, de Soils, and E. L. Hime ; Masters Bennett and Corri Messrs. Sam Cowell, Sam Collins, and E. Mackney, Pianoforte, Mr. (iced Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun. director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre cisely. Suppers, drc., until twelve o'clock. :{l(4t-1 WAT?.R. AT LONDON I:MD(3Z. TRIM I)A• —Morn. 14 min. aft. 5 —l*,vering 38 min. aft. 5 2 . 0.1.firg - gOw—Morn. 5 min. aft. 6—Evening 35 min. aft '6 THE WEATHER—SUN Omar., APRIL 29. THERHOMETER, IN THE SHAPE. 47 --highest since noon yesterlay. 41—lowest this morning *nd dining the night, 52 —this day at. noon. BAROMETER. 30'08. ; light, with fine sunshiny weather. _(trA;Z . b•-) l st)._ ,S t 1 ' , I 1„ LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1857 Honour to the brave Rajah of Sarawak ! Ha has by his last brilliant and daring achievement set the seal to his heroic reputation—the reputa tion of one of the most adventurous and enter prising of all the adventurous and enterprising Englishmen of our generation. Elsewhere in our impression of this evening will be found the simple and manly record of these remarkable proceedings on the part of Sir JAMES BROOKE, penned by his Excellency himself in the form of a most explicit and detailed com munication. Together with this particularly straightforward and unostentatious narrative, there have come to us, happily, the opp or t une commentaries of the local journals of Singapore. Nevertheless, even without the adventitious light thrown by these last-mentioned advices upon the recent exploits of Rajah BROOKE in Borneo, it would be impossible not to recognise in the mere outline of the "facts" recounted with so much modest precision by his own hand, conclusive at testation of that skill and valour, of that instant promptitude, and of that perfect self-possession by which the conduct of this extraordinary man lvs throughout the whole of these perillous proceed ings been pre-eminently distinguished. What are those. facts? They are worthy of re capitulation : I t Ni as abou) midnigh . : on the 17th -18th Feb. when some 200 of the Chinese section of the Borneo-population (having secretly armed them selves) stealthily descended the river as far as the town of Kuchin, ani—surrounding it—made a sudden and desperate nocturnal assault 'on that seat of the British Rajah's Government. So ad mirably was this murderous adventure contrived, hat at the moment when the attack commenced the inhabitants were one and all slumbering. The bloody work of the insurgent Kungsi began and ended for that night without one chance of being in any way impeded, without the slightest possibility of rousing among the assailed even a "show" of retaliation. The two Forts (one above and the other below Kuchin, and both of them together only garrisoned by a dozen men) were at once seized by the Chinese insurgents. The dwellings of the English residents and autho rities were simultaneously assailed. A magistrate's house (that of Mr. CROOKSHINK) being broken into, the occupant's wife was savagely wounded— so savagely that upon the following morning she was discovered all but dead in an adjacent jungle. Mr. NICHOLETS, a guest in the RAJAU's household was murdered and his corpse burnt in the ruins of Sir JAMES' BROOKE'S residence. Mr. WELLINGTON, one of the company's employees, was 'also assassinated, and after assassination was de capitated I Mr. MIDDLETON, a settler at Kuchie, had his house set in flames and two of his children destroyed in the conflagration. His Excellency himself contrived to elude the grasp of the das tardly midnight cutthroats who were in search of him, by an escape, as the phrase runs, almost miraculous—certainly one very desperate and ex traordinary. A few days previously, feeling in- disposed, Sir JAMES meditated, it appears, an excursion for change of air on the Sadoug River as far as Simunjang. His departure delayed, however, by unforseen circumstances, the RAJAH was now compelled by this abrupt nocturnal on slaught upon his dwelling-house to pass through a bath-room into the outer darkness : and by swim ming across a creek, near his residence, effected a safe retreat to a contiguous Malay village. Mean while—the flames spreading at Kuchin, the mur ders multiplying, the Treasury being sacked, the Government property being either destroyed or purloined. Such was the rebellious outrage perpetrated by those 200 insurgent Kungsi or Chinese during that terrible midnight attack of the 17th-18th February, upon the seat or headquarters of Sir JAMES BROOKE'S Government. Its origin —is easily traceable. The Chinese section of the inhabitants of Borneo—a division of the pooulatiou numbering about 4,000 or 1,000 altogether—had always chafed and fretted under the Rajah's authority from the very date of the first establishment of his Administration. They were evidently inflamed at last to this sudden revolutionary and sanguinary outbreak by the intelligence received of the atrocities then recently perpetrated by their co-barbarians and fellow-countrymen at Canton, and Whampoa, and Hong Kong upon the local English Residents. They determined (as our Gallic neighbours have it) to evidence a very signal manner their sympathetic fraternisation with YEH and the other Miscreant-" Celestials." To accomplish this the most effectuAlly tlit , y resolved upon putting to death the whole of the British Political Authori ties, from the Rajah himself downwards to the most humble of his official subordinates. Hence the inhuman midnight attack—with fire and sword—of the memorable 17th-18th February. But the Raales Retaliation for this Atrocity ? It was delayed, but it was onlyc:b.When it came it was terri ble—it was complete and overwhelming. Having returned a few days afterwards to Knehin, to the amazement of the Chinese, who had fully counted upon his destruction, lie was again compelled to beat a retreat, by reason of a total inadequacy to contend with the superior numbers of the rebel marauders—retiring, however, not by any means so precipitately as upon the former occasion, and baking with him, upon this his second withdrawal before them, the whole of the surviving Euro peans. Thereupon, he moved forward at once towards Linga—meeting, however, on his way thither, a steamer (auspiciously called after him self, "The Sir James Brooke") fresh from Singa pore. The Rajah returned on board that steamer to Kuchin —swept the Chinese Ruffians out of the town they had only captured by a bloody surprise —and Then, with the aid of the neighbouring Malays and Dyaks, - commenced the 'deadly and terrible work of Retribution. A Re tribution, we repeat, the most complete and over whelming ! Everywhere the Chinese were pur sued and shot down by the Malays, the Dyaks, and the British. The vengeance paused not until the ruffian horde was all but annihilated. Uutd Sir JAMES BROOKE was able to write with appalling brevity, " There is not a rooftree to cover their dastard heads in the country." Until he could add t) this statament, " Out of a population of from 4,000 to 5,000 not more than 2,000 have escaped, and half this number is composed of women and children." And so crushing out under his spurred heel a seed flame of rebellion against British Rule that might otherwise have spread in those eastern regions into one disastrous conflagration, !the gallant English Knight has, we repeat, by this latest and perhaps greatest of his many remarkable achievements, set the seal to his heroic reputation. He has done more —be has signally proved, at a time in every way most opportune, that the murderous 'weapons of a horde of Chinese Bar barians, are but so many reeds and daggers of lath when opposed to the iron will of one daunt less arid resolute Englishman. How now abour, the miserable peace-at-any price principles of the so-called (but we exult to know the euroneously so-called) Political School of Manchester ? Had the policy of that bungling and really despicable school been in vogue at Sa rawak—in what plight, at this moment, would have been the representatives of British rule at Borneo—and not only at Borneo, but far and wide throughout the Great Eastern Archipelago ? Away with the last shred and vestige of tolerance for the craven phan- t isles of this miserable mock philanthropy. It is to daring and valorous Englishmen like Sir JAMES BROOKE, and not to any of these drivelling Arcadians-in-Broadcloth that the nation must look in the middle of this Nineteenth century for the maintenance of our imperial glory and supremacy. Ecce iterum Crispinus ! We have once more intelligence of the notorious " Transit." Intelli gence which can surprise no person in any degree acquainted with her antecedents. It is the second time within the current month that this unfortu nate ship has served " to point a moral and adorn a tale" —the second time that the public has had occasion to comment on the gross mismanagement of those who originally selected such a vessel for so arduous and important a duty as conveying a large body of troops and stores to China —and who, notwithstanding her first failure, persevered, in reckless defiance of the voice of public opinion, in keeping her to the task for which she was clearly and palpably incompetent ! It was ou Tuesday, the 7th inst., that she steamed from Portsmouth, having on board 800 officers and men, whose services were urgently required at the earliest moment possible—the letters and correspondence—all in fact that consti tutes a mail, besides ammunition, shot, shells, &c. She was carrying the personnel and materiel of war, with instructions from the Home Government, the early arrival whereof would necessarily greatly affect the satisfactory arrangement of the new Eastern difficulty. The following day, within less than 24 hours, the first break down took place. The transport, conveying eight hundred gallant men, eager for the opportunities of acquir ing distinction, returned to Spithead "almost in a sinking state." The general feeling was,—" It is well it is no worse"—that our gallant soldiers were only subjected to annoyance, but that their• lives were still spared to render important ser vices to their country. All that was required was that they should be able to proceed with the least possible delay to their destination, so that their absence might not damage our interests in Chins, and the various settlements in its vicinity. The painful lesson was, however, disregarded. " My Lords" were enamoured of the Transit— resolved to stick to her " through good report and through bad report." The damage, which was occasioned by drifting on the fluke of the anchor in a fog, was hastily repaired, and the men and stores again embarked. Some valuable time had been lost, but what was that to Sir CHARLES WOOD and his subordinates ? It would be altogether contrary to offi cial precedent if everything proceeded right in the early stages of a great war, and they were not the men to disregard " the interests of red tapeism." There were also grave mistakes at the commencement of the Russian contest, and it was only a fitting tribute of respect to their predecessors that the ordinary routine should be strictly ob served. It is said that there was once a feeling against employing unfortunate captains, and that the fact of losing one vessel was not considered the best possible recommendation for obtaining the command of another. But it is manifest that this does not apply to the vessels themselves. The casualties may have arisen from palpable defi ciencies. The damage to the Transit was there fore speedily repaired, and she was again des patched with troops and stores for the scene of strife. The result may easily be anticipated. We are told that " She has put into Corunna, in deep distress " This time it was no casualty ! The bad qualities of the " old tub" were displayed at the first test. Two days' trial proved her absolute inefficiency. She was " crank, top-heavy, and everything bad." " The rigging was never or anything secured." it was " with difficulty that the masts were kept from going over the side," and the crew had "to get tackles across the deck, from side to side, to brace the rigging in to save the spars." There were not " one dozes men on board with dry hammocks, every seam is her deck letting in water. Extra grog was distributed in order to enable the men to endure these hardships." What, then, would have been their position had she persevered in the inauspicious voyage ? Perhaps not a single sur vivor would have remained to tell the deplorable tale, or to demand the exemplary punishment of those whose careless and apathetic indifference bad occasioned the fearful calamity. There would have been another item added to the disasters at sea—another vessel which had departed but never reached its destination—whose future history was a blank calculated to inspire awe and to prove the dangers to which all are exposed, who venture to sea with but a plank between them and eternity. The letter from a passenger in the ill-fated vessel, which will be found in another part of this day's impression, and to which we earnestly invite attention, so gra phically explains the case, that it is quite unne cessary to dwell at greater length on this part of the transaction. It is manifest that a great responsibility attaches to the Board, and even to every individual member, for their reckless dis regard of the warnings of experience the calm indifference with which they placed the lives of 800 gallant soldiers, besides the ship's company, and the honour and interests of their country in jeopardy. Nor was there the slightest necessity for en countering so serious a risk. There were many vessels that might have been made available, the well-disciplined crews whereof wore paid off and cast adrift 1 Many of the Mediterranean fleet, too, would have been just as usefully occupied in con veying the troops and stores to Hong Kong as in cruising idly from port to port. Why should there be any procrastination, when not only the lives and property of our fellow-subjects in China, but . the national honour, was at stake ? The loss of a single day might occa sion irreparable mischief. The vindictive and malevolent disposition of "the celestials" is now thoroughly understood. There is no atrocity of which they are not capable, and they ascribe alt our shortcomings to fear. A striking example is indispensable. But Sir C. WOOD and his colleagues seem resolved that the example shall not be given. They at least do all in their power to prevent it. And if the war should happily be brought to a speedy conclusion it will not be to their zeal or efficiency that we are indebted for the fact. Great Britain may still triumph, but it will not be in consequence, but rather i❑ spite, of their proceed ings. We trust that there will be a Parliamentary investigation into the case. It will be very pro perly conducted in the Upper House, many of whose members can speak from bitter experience of the undoubted deficiencies and discomforts of the notorious Transit• transport vessel. They, however, only lost sight of a naval review—the 90th Regiment row' be prevented from partici pating in the Chine:Jo war, through her inefficiency, aye, and think thienselves fortunate that they Are sacrificed as victiims at the shrine of official U red tapistn." The eve of 'Parliament has come, and the Pre mier makes Ivo sign. Sir G. C. LEWIS has spoken, and Lord Jo RN RUSSELL has spoken, but still no sign—nothi no but "progress and order"--a pro gramme which the absolute Master of France himself could furnish, as well as an English Mem ber of Parliament. But the Times has spoken, and has mi ide its sign ; the Times, last Monday, actually ea me out with a leader advocating Par liamentar3 Reform To be sure the oracle does it very g rudgingly for long weeks and mouths has it be, 3n proo ) ,airaing that no one wanted a Rtifurm f;ill ; every candidate, where there was a spark of 'independence, was, indeed, catechised on the subj ect ; extension of the suffrage and the B !Hot, sere universal passports to popular favour ; last ses' lion began, the dissolution took place, the elections proceeded with universal demand for refortr,, yet, strange to say, no one wanted it. A PiALMERSTON Parliament was chosen, but it was notf)riousIy•PALMERSTON and REFORM, yet, who wa - ated Reform ? Tory and Whig journals ex pr,!,ssed their fears that Lord PALMERSTON would bo, forced to yield to the pressure ; Radical papers did not, of course, doubt it, but the oracle scoffed at the idea. Only so recently as Friday last, I it hunted poor Lord J. RUSSELL mercilessly, be- THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1867, cause he presumed to talk in most innocent strains at South Molten of the Whig Reforms he had helped to obtain, and of the possibility of some crumbs being yet to be picked up which fell from the table in 1832. But now all at once Reform is a Parliamentary necessity. Nobody wants it, it is true, but this is because every one expects Parliament to attend to it ! No one wants it, and yet we have chosen members who are expected to look to it ! Rather Delphic reasoning, to be sure. However, we gladly pass by the temper in which the Times turns round; indeed, its reluctance to give up its old Palmerstonian programme only shows that the new one is a necessity, not a choice. It is rather promising to see that a journal which, to the last, when wanting a task to keep the " large majority" steady and sober, could find nothing better than some old husky law reforms, now owns that these are not en*ugh. It is expected that Parliament and PALMRRSTON should take up Reform, and take it up they must. Such is now the order from Printing-house•square to PALMERSTON, or— vice versa. The terror of the would-be-still party is the Sybil's leaves. A large working Liberal majority and peace will compel something. Why, if it were only for a little stimulus and excitement, now we have no war, no great tariff reductions, and no Corn-law repeal to talk of, we must have a Reform Bill. This seems now to be the great fear. Leave it a little longer, and so glaring are the inequalities of constituencies, and the injustice of the present franchise, that it is but leaving a • stock iu trade for political agitators if Reform be longer delayed. There's the League, out of work; their old agitation is done with for ever, and as, to do them justice, they have always been staunch Reformers, what better can they do than cora -1 mence a Reform agitation ? They could do it consistently. What would become of " well-con sidered" Reform, of " judicious " Reform, of Edinburgh Review, and of Times Reform, if the unadorned eloquence of Mr. COBDEN, and the impassioned eloquence of Mr. BRIGHT, were let loose among the constituencies again ? This seems to be the dreaded thing just now, and not with out reason. We understand Mr. MILNER. GIBSON - neans to give his business-like energies to the Ballot Society. We welcome his help there, and it will tell. We are told by the Times that next Session is the more convenient season. Of course. But pro bably Mr. BERKELEY will not wait on the conve nience of Lord PALMERSTON and his journals. Neither will Mr. LOCKE KING. Lord JOHN RUSSELL too—he will not prefer to push on the question this Session, but then, he may be com pelled to do it. Be cannot wait to be outbid. He will not like to be anticipated in his own de partment. The motions of others will oblige both him and Lord PA.LIVERSTON to speak out a little ; each, too, will be on his own good behaviour before the country, and mast at least give us his draft Reform Bill this Session. At present the offers of the Ministerial organ are meagre enough. Not a single word respecting the Ballot ; too vulgar radicalism that, for leading journals even to speak of, tit only for BETrusms, and GROTES, and HOLBSWORTHS, and Colonel THOMPSONS, and the rest of the noisy inconsiderate herd. No ; a franchise extended to all the educated classes ; dome forty boroughs cashiered ; a few big towns enfranchised, and a batch of minority members in troduced as a compensating drag on the enlarged constituencies, and that will do I It will satisfy the country. Will it ? Let the Premier try it on. HEALTir OF THE DUCHEw OF GLOU- CESTER. The following bulletin was issued this morning : `Gloucester House, April 29, 9 a.m. • "Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester is more feeble today than her Royal Highness was yesterday. (Sigued) "F. HAwKrNs, M.D. " ROBERT FERGUSON, M.D. " E. H. HILLS." THE UNPOBrUNAT , `_e SHIP TICA.NSIT. Her Majesty's ship Transit, having the 90th Re giment on board for China, has put in at Corunna in " deep distress." The Times Portsmouth corre spondent had a. letter, from which the following is an extract, placed in his hands yesterday for publi cation " F r ier Majesty's ship Trangit, Corunna, April 19. " Here we are! done up ! Two days' Bay' wea ther sent us in here to be fresh rigged ; you never saw a worse sea boat in y our life—crank, top-heavy, and everything that's bad ! We have everything we could wish in the way of provisions —only two days' salt since we came on board ;—but such an old tub you never saw ; the rigging never set up, or anything secured ; we had hard work to keep the masts from going over the side ; if she had pitched instead of rolling I am sure the foremast must have gone over the bows. We bad to get tackles across the decks from side to side to brace the riggin g in to save th e spars, i n f act a greater tub to roll I never knew. She is tv-heavy. lam certain she will never weather the Cape, or she will deceive all on board both soldiers and blue jackets. She is a disgrace to the British Government, and more so to the dockyard authorities. if she is lost I only hope my diary will be found to condemn those who sent her to sea. You may think what she must be when I tell you for a truth that there are not one dozen meta (troops) on board with a dry hammock, every seam in her deck letting in water. They had to give, or at least did give, extra grog. This letter is from an intelligent and responsible person on board the Transit, and is authenticated by name, rank, and every other essential establish ing the credit of the wrier. The Duke of Newcaidle and family returned to town a few days since, from Clumber Park, for the season. The Marquis and Marchioness To wnshend are expected in town in a f-w days, from Balls Park, Hertford, for the season. Viscount Raynham comes to town to•mor- row. The Earl and Countess of Har3wicke and the Ladies Yorke have left Wimpole Hall for Newmarket, whence they will come to town to-day for the season. The Earl and Countess Waldegrave are at present staying at Hastings, and will not return to town until the 12th of next month. The Earl and Countess of Wemyss are staying at their seat in East Lothian, and will not return to town until the latter end of next month. The Earl of Lincoln returned to town on Saturday, from Nottingham. Viscount Castlerosse has arrived in Belgrave-square, from Killarney, for the meeting of Parliament. Lord and Lady Elcho arrived in town a few days since from Italy, and have taken a house in Upper Belgrave street, for the season, The Hon. George Frederick and Mrs. Boyle have ar rived at the Countess Dowager of Glasgow's residence, Chesbam-place. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Petro have arrived at Berkeley square, for the season. Mr. and Miss Longueville Clarke have arrived for the season at their residence in Eaton-square. Mr. Bollard arrived at the Foreign-office here, yester day morning, with extraordinary despatches from Lord Napier, her Majesty's Minister in America. A Cabinet Council was held at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, Downing-street, yester day. The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lan.downe, the . Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, the E arl of Cl►rendon, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panrnure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charlie Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Duke of Argyll, and the Right Hon. M. T. Baines. MMITING OF CONVOCATION. — The archbishop, the deans of cathedra's, the aroLdeacons, and the proctors recently elected to represent the clergy of the various dioceses of the province of Cant rbury, will assemble at St. Paul's Cathelral, at a quarter before 11, on Fri day next for the perrose of formally opening the new Convocation. LATEST NE WS. PERSIA. MARSEILLES, APRIL 28. The intelligence of the Treaty of Peace between lingland and Persia arrived at Bagdad on the 27th of March. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. The Duke de Cambact.res, grand master of the ceremonies, has addressed to the foreign amba=sa• dors, the ministers, and high dignitaries of the State, the programme which has been adopted re lative to the reception of the Grand Duke Constan tine at Marseilles, and Paris. After describing the honours to be paid him at the two former cities, and stating that at the railway stations of all the towns in which the Prince may stop on his way from Marseilles to Paris, the prefect and the gene ral commanding the department shall, with a de tachment of troops, be waiting to receive him, the programme thus sets forth what is to be done at Paris : "On his arrival in Paris, which will take place in the afternoon of Thursday, 30th April, the Grand Duke will be received at the railway station by Prince Napoleon, who will accompany him to the Palace of the Tuileries. Two battalions of in fantry, one of them of the Imperial Guard, the other of the line, are to be drawn up under arms in the court-yard of the Paris terms. Court car riages, with an escort of cavalry of the Imperial Guard, will await H.1.H., to conduct him and his suite to the Palace of the Tuileries, where apart ments:will be prepared for him. On all the line of the cortege the soldiers in the guard-houses are to present arms, and the drums to beat a salute ; at the Tuileries the ordinary guard of the Palace will render to ILI.II. the honours due to the princes of the Imperial family. On his arrival at the Palace H. I. El. will be received at the foot of the staircase of the Pavilion de l'Horloge by the Grand Master of the Ceremonies and the Grand Chamber lain. The Emperor will wait at the top of- the staircase to receive H.1.H.; his Majesty will after wards conduct him into the saloon, in which the Empress, surrounde'l by the officers and ladies of her household, will be seated ; the presentation of persons compsing the service of honour will take place immediately. During the stay of H.I.H. the following persons of the household of the Emperor shall compose the service of honour of H.I.H. : —the Marquis de Belmont, chamberlain to the Emperor ; Baron de Bourgoiug, equerry to H. M. ; and Lieutenant-Colonel Fave, orderly officer to the Emperor (these gentlemen receive the Grand Duke at Marseilles, and accompany him to Paris). A service for the table, chamber, and stables, will be prepared for H. I. H. Every time that H. I. 11. goes out, an escort of honour will precede and follow his carriage, unless he shall otherwise order. On the day of the arrival at Paris of the Grand Duke, the great officers of the crown, the officers of the households of their Majesties and of their Imperial Highnesses, and the presidents of the Senate, the Legislative Body, and the Council of State will inscribe their names in H. I. H.'s visiting book." It has been stated that a grand review in honour of the Grand Duke is to take place in the Champ de Mars on the 6th ; the troops under arms will, it is said, be 50,000 in number. BOURSE, April 28.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. c. End oraronth. 4i per Cents 3 per Cents 6B 95 68 95 Bank Shares 4,375 Credit Mobilier 1,310 Roman Do. Account 1,300 Austrian Belgian 44 Piedmontese (5) 9O Home Debt 00 90 414 38i RAILWAYS-FOB CASH. fr. c. f r c. Orleans 1,470 Western i — Northern Lyons 1,560 New Ditto 4 — Mediterranean 2,112 A— Grand Central Geneva Midi THE PRINCIPALITIES. The Etoile du Danube cont sins in its number of the 25th several letters from Jassy and Romano, in which it is stated that arrests, illegal detentions, di,missals, intimidation, false rumour=, and arbi trary acts of various kinds are resorted to to pre vent the free expression of public opinion among the Moldavians. In support of these remarks the journal publishes the following note sent to an in fluential person at Jassy : "I am imprisoned for having spoken of the union; but without, in any way, attacking the present Go vernwent. I beg you to interfere to procure my re lease. I send a despatch by telegraph to the Caimacan and to the French consul.—BASILE Forum SERDAB." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 24th have reached us. The King and the Princess of the Asturias, dele gated by the Queen, who was unable to attend, had inaugurated, with some religious pomp, the new hospital of the Princess. The speech from the throne on the opening of the Cortes was to be read by the President of the Council (Marshal Narvaez). It was reported that a bill on the press of a very restrictive character was to be presented to the Cortes. A telegraphic despatch received from Rome, of the 22d, states that Mgr. Simeoni, chargé d'affaires to Madrid, had left for his doi tivation. THE FORTHCOMING SPEECH OF THE QUEEN OF SPAIN. The Debats of this day (the 29th inst.) publishes an analysis of the Royal Speech, which will be read by General Narvaez, in the Queen's came, on the Ist of May, at the opening of the Spanish Cortes. The Speech is drawn up by M. Pidal. It will announce the re-establishment of a good understanding between Spain and, Rome; renewal of friendly relations 'with the Court of Russia, The hope is expressed that the difference with Mexico will be amicably settled, but not unless the honour of Spain is satisfied, and the interests of Spaniards in Mexico guaranteed in future, and an indemnity paid to those who have suffered. Should the conditions put not be.granted, Spain, despite her sincere wish for peace, will not hesitate to bare recourse to coercive measures. The Queen calls the attention of the Cortes to the internal condition of the country. Peace and order prevail everywhere. A veil of oblivion is to be thrown over the past. The difficulties caused by the high price of pro visions have been happily overcome by a series of well-combined measures. The loan is especially mentioned as having enabled the Government to act without complying withthe enormous exactions of Spanish capitalists. The conditions of the loan have been faithfully fulfilled. The Queen will recommend a series of political and financial reforms ; a Bill for the reform of the organisation of the Senate will be brought forward very early in the session, as also a Bill for reform ing the regulations of the two Chambers. The Senate, as now constituted, consists exclusively of members appointed by the Queen for life. It is proposed to introduce a new element into this great body which will give it grater authority and add to its lustre. The Senate would lose nothing if it com prised a certain number of hereditary Senators se lected from the Grandees of Spain and possessors of large territorial fortunes. The fortune would be the dotation of the title, and would descend from gene ration to generation with the title to the, eldest sons of the Senatorial families: The existing regulations of the Senate and of the Chamber of Deputies have engendered many abuses which continually impede the public service and the progress of the Govern ment, and will ultimately throw discredit upon the Parliamentary system. Finally, the speech from the Throne will give some explanations on the bills that will be presented by the Government for the regulation of the finances; with a view to establish the financial sys tem upon the principles of economical science and the wisdom of experience. The Queen will inform the Cortes that the plans of the Minister of Finance will be submitted to them at the same time as the Budget of 1858. The Dutch Government has just submitted to the Second Chamber of the States-General a bill for obtaining its consent to the treaty concluded with Denmark for the redemption of the Sound dues. According to the Universal German , Gazette, measures are to be taken in Saxony similar to those adopted in Prussia, fur preventing the emulation of foreign bank-notes. The Princess Amelia of Saxony arrived on the 23d at Vienna, under the name of the Countess de Hohenstein. The Emperor the Empress and th e Archduchess Sophia imtneLtely paid her a visit, and H. R. H. afterwards attended the family dinner at court, which was to celebrate the anniversary of the marriage of the imperial Couple. The princess left two days after for Italy. The Piedmontese Senate, in its sitting of the 25th, voted the bal for the fortifications of Ales sandria by a majority of 45 to 8. A serious misunderstanding has arisen bet*een the Sardinian Cabinet and the municipality of Genoa touching the portion of entrance dues which are to be paid into the royal treasury. The law fixes the sum at 800,000 fr. ; the communal council in its lam sitting virtually refused to pay the tax by voting only 90,000 fr.; after which the whole council resigned. It is believed that the Govern ment will send a royal commissioner to take charge of the municipal affairs of the city until the council be re-organised. From an official report published by the Moni tore Toscano, it appears that the net produce of the Tuscan Customs in 1856 was 16,446,691 lire (13,705,575 francs), being,556,851 lire more than the sum fixed in the budget for that year. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Another of Mr. Lumley's new vocalists made her first appearance last night, namely, Mdlle. Angiola Ottolani. The character in which she ap peared was Elvira in the " Puritani"—a part of sufficient onerousness to demonstrate gifts and capabilities, if they perchance exist. The voice of Mdlle. Ortolani is a pure soprano, of small power, but of smooth and pleasing quality. She has no low notes, all her strength and speciality lying in the altitudes of her register, into which she darts with surprising facility, though not always with truth. At the outset of the evening the novelty of her posi►ion disturbed her self-possession, and her earlier efforts, marked by a perpetual tremu lousness, were unpromising ; but in the " Son vergin vezzosa" she had comparatively recovered herself, and she gave this popular polacca not only with spirit, but with certain conceits of embellish- ment that resulted in a very general and decided encore. In the music of the second act her effects were chiefly produced by attacking remote intervals in the higher regions of the voice. She is evidently very young, while her figure is slight and fragile. Her acting is wholly without passion, but as her deportment is graceful, and her appearance lady. like, this deficiency is not remembered to her disad vantage. The singing of Mdlle. Ortolani, viewed in the abstract, is not likely to ravish the town, in asmuch as the executancy, although carrying with it the elements of extreme flexibility, is both uncer tain and imperfect, and indicative of an immatured experience, the style at the same time being bald and colourless. She was well supported by the house, and encouraged by recalls after the first act, and also at the final fall of the curtain. Signor Giuglini sang the music of Arturo with consummate taste and refinement. He was rap turously encored in the opening air, the tender "Ah te, o cara," which be certainly delivered with exquisite finish and expression, worthy of all ad miration. Nor e ere the suave and alluring beauties of his singing less observable in the other parts of this opera. His best triumph, however, was the aria in the third act, the pathetic " Credea 'si misera," one of the pet exploits of operatic tenors, anti in, the hands of such a gracious and satisfactory exponent as Signor Giuglini, inevitably suggestive of delight. That he should be encored was but the natural course of things. The parts of Giorgio and Riccardo were effectively filled by Signor Belletti and Signor Beneventano. After the opera, the third tableau, from the celebrated ballet "Esmeralda," was given, when the charming Pocchinni displayed feats the most surpassing m the choregraphic art ; an I Signor Filippo Boratti proved himself to be a dancer of first-rate merit. The applause which greeted the exertions of these favourites of the public was most enthusiastic and merited. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. Mr. Gye last night gave the first representation this season of Donizetti's " Favorita," with Grisi and Mario as the representatives of the heroine and hero. These personationa are thoroughly familiar to the patrons of the theatre, and have long been ranked among the best of the combined efforts of the two most popular operatic artists of the day. Grisi, who is singing this year with little deteriora tion either of voice or fluency, when compared with herself in 1856, delineated the unfortunate "favourite" with all her native force, and, in the principal scenes, exhibited an energy and passion which she has not lately, ant scarcely in her prime, surpassed. The character is one of her finest, and like the Valentine in the " Huguenots," and other striking melodramatic parts, will always be honourably associated with her name. Maiio, too, has invested Fernando with an interest as vivid and enduringas that appertainingtothe Leonora of Grisi. Nor could it be otherwise. If there ever were perfection, it is to be found in his delivery of the pretty romanza " Ah si, un angelo," or, again, in the " Angiol d'amore" in the last act, one of the most pathetic effusions as sting by him, that ever dropped from mortal lips. The separate airs, in common with the more elaborate portions of the music, were given by this exemplary singer last night with his usual admirable effect. Graziani was the king, and Zelger the monk Baldassare. The house was well attended. THE RUSSIAN RAILWAY ROBBERY SCHEME. The Siecle thus replies to some remarks made by the Nord on its article on the Russian railways "We have' never sought, as the echo of St. Petersburg asserts, to direct any insinuations against the men who have placed themselves at the head of the enterprise. We only stated that by the statutes of the ,company, the majority of the council of administration will always remain Russian. Also, we cannot conceive that our re gret that the majority should not be composed of Frenchmen, or of any other nation, can be con strued into a crime. We thought we were paying a compliment to the non-Russian members in pre ferring them to their Muscovite partners, but their clumsy friends have imagined that it was our wish to insult them. We are also aL.cused of having wilfully' forgotten to mention that the foreign directors can not only be represented in the deli berations of the council, but that they form in Paris a committee which interferes in all import ant questions. It is true that we wilfully omitted this circumstance and many otheis that we might have mentioned; we did not wish to draw atten tion to the hopes that are entertained of blinding the eyes of the public by means of such illusory guarantees as are trumpeted about. You will be represented, it is very true, but by whom ? By Russians ! You deliberate in Pari., but on what ? Only on that which is found convenient for you to be made familiar with. You will deliberate whilst in ttussia they, will act ; yet you term this a serious guarantee. We shall return to this subject if neces sary, but we believe that we have sufficiently indi cated its character and object to permit everybody to make up his mind on the question. For our own part we persist iu believing that our capital would be infinitely better employed` in ,completing our great lines and our branches, in endowing Algeria with a complete network, and in reducing the rate of discount, which weighs on agriculture, industry, and commerce," _ The remaining journals contain no articles of interest.' . IYIARKET NEWS.—(This a ay ) CORN EXCHANGE. , The supply of English wheat on sale here to-day, coast wise and by land carriage, was very moderate. For most descriptions we have had a fair demand, at Monday's im provement in the quotations. Foreign wheat, the show of which was good, sold slowly. In prices, however, no change took place. We were fairly supplied with foreign barley, but the show of English was limited. The barley trade ruled steady, at full prices. Malt ruled Inactive, but not cheaper. We had a good demand for oats, and prices were well supported. Beans, peas, and flour moved off steadily, at late rates. ARRIVALS TUIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. English 1,770 2,010 Irish, — Oats. Flour. 1,36 t/ Foreign.... 2,660 1 14,x80 1,690 11,750 BOROUGH HOP. There is a moderato business doing in most kinds of hops and prices generally are supported. WHITECHAPEL. Beef Trona 3s'2l to 4s 6d; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 8.1; lamb, 4s 6cl to 5s Sa ; veal, 48 01 to 4s 8d ; pork, 4s thl to bs Od per albs., by the carcase. A modoro.te demand. SALE OF DRURY-LANE THEATRE SHARES —Yesterday, at the Auction Mart, Mr. Robins submit , ed to public auction the following shares in the, Theatre Royal Drury-lane :—A renter's share of 5001., originally en• titled to 2s. 6d. per night of performance, since reduced to is. 33. per night, but now paving an annual dividend, with a free admission, transferable or saleable, annually, held for an unexpired term of nearly 40 years--sold at 44 guineas. Five 1001. joint stock or propri , tors' shares, a ffording a nomination for the g« neral committee, with a life nomination to the freedom of th e th ea t re, to be filled up at any tims—soll at 5 guineas the lot. Five similar shares, at the sa,wo price ; while a third lot of similar shares sold at 7i guineas. F'BENCEE CONSUL TO PARMA. It seems now ascertained on very good authority th.-.t the French Government conteoiplate sending a Charge d'Affaire s (" Honorary Consul —what-. that may mean), at any rate a diplomatic agent, to 'the Court of Parma. The Emperor Napoleon may have his own excellent reasons for adopting such a course, besides the paltry object of watching the few stray bewioged dotards , " men who have suffered l osses ," w h o will shat venture On occasional calls upon the Count de Chambord's sister. _France has her own "legitimate influ ence" to maintain in it ily, whatever may be. the meaning of that quaint, old, stereotyped expression we have quoted ; for tote actual in fluence at the present moment exercised by the sons of the heroes of Atcula and Marengo is I.mited to play the part of amateur Pope's soldiers (soldati del Papa), and of servants of all works---' without wages—to the worst minions of the pon tifical police. Now, is there not a question very plainly rising before every reader acquainted with the above-men tioned intention 'of the French Government ? Has England no " legitimate influence" to support, to extend, or to establish anew in Italy ? Has she D 0 political interest., uo commercial prospects no moral obligations t o com p e l h er to l oo k somewhat closely to her own business in that quarter of the globe We have Ministers at Turin as well as at Florence, and with that contempt for the laws and arrange ments of nature which led our postmasters to write down Parma and Modena amongst the districts of "Southern Italy," we have placed our diplomatic relations with Parma and Modena in the hands of our Minister at Florence, although geographical position very clearly pointed out the expediency of trusting them with a Minister accredited to a Cis-Apennine court, like' that of Sardinia. The mere necessity of having to cross the mountains every time our Minister at -Florence has a mind to inspect his Trans-Apennine dependencies of Parma and Modena would, it is true, be no very, great matter, if it were not that our. present Minister in Tuscany, Lord Normanby, is a sworn enemy to the policy which the English nation has - set 'its heart upon having pursued towards Italy, whilst - our Turin representative, Sir J. Hutson, is as thoroughly devoted to the Italian cause as duty to his country and dependence on his employers allow him to be. The mere shifting of the duties of representation at Parma and Modena from the hands of Lord Normanby to those of Sir James Hudson would be such a bles sing to the subjects of these two Duchies as they could never be sufficiently thankful for. But we are disposed to believe that at the present crisis England might with advantage go a step be' yond that ; and much as we regret that our lessons' iu diplomatic wisdom should come from the French Emperor, we think we ought at any rate to lose no time iu folllowing a good example, and sending our own diplomatic agent close upon the f oo tsteps . _ of the French "H onorar y C onsu l." W e h av e no forgotten that a traditional irrationality deprives of the means of communicating with the Pope di" rectly through a Minister accredited to his Court- Upon Rome itself our Consuls and our Ministers at Florence and Naples may, though we hardly know how, exercise some salutary control. Ba c , there is, north of the Ap enn i ne = , a vas t di v i s i o n 01 the Roman States—the very heart and soul of the Pontifical . territory—about which our Foreign Secretary is left as thoroughly in the dark as 1 ' it were the sanctum sanctorum of the Pa perer of Japan. Now it is easy to demonstrat e that Parma is only thirty miles from Modena, and Modena little more than twenty from Bologna, e?. that our agent at P arma cou ld, w ith ou t a ny gra" strain, have an eye upon the second city of th e Roman States, as well as upon the Austrian pt 9" vinces lying only 12 miles from Parma, across the I Po. We think enough has been said to show th e expediency of fixing a British representative i° Parma at such an anxious moment as the .pre sent. Unwilling as we are to lavish praises on Napoleon 111., we cannot but give him erect" for the great tact and shrewdness he ha s shown on the present occasion, and acknes" ledge the opportuneness of his resolution. Thes e two duchies lie at the very heart of Italy, and they are the very first bone of contention betwee n those two rival powers which, even in the most pro" found peace, ar e necessary r i va l s f or the mastery (/' the peninsula—Austria and Sardinia. We have already often stated our conviction tha t Piedmont can by no possibility hold an isolated poi' tion, and that the d a y on w hi c h ano th er Italian State, no matter how small, can be made to jeig the policy of Vi c t or E manue l' s Government, Wilk be the harbinger of new destinies for the whole L country and nation. Now we have the most posi tive knowledge that there is an Italian State, powerful by its position if not by its extent, anxious to come to the b es t p o liti ca l un d erstan di ng wit' Piedmont, and that is Paima. We know that its Minister of Finance, M. Lombardini, has, with o t moral courage of which ev e ry It a li a n has a ' to be proud, ventured to hurl defiance agaia ot Austria, by peremptorily refuing to ren ew th e compact of the Customs League which the Court of Vienna has imposed upon other Italian States we know that MM. Cattari, Pallavicini and since ' other ministers, who came i nto power Providence removed Ch ar l es th e Third are well, meaning, intellige n t, mo d erate men, w h o would far render their wi se counse l s accepta b le to the weawea k' minded and bi go t e d , b u t good - nature d Princess wit" now governs the Duchy in behalf of that Bonrbon maniac's heir. It is impossible to imagine a case in which a lover of fair play could find a better opPar tunity of using his influence. Here is an Dahl State in which the Sovereign, the Ministers, an the people are of one mind; aiming at redress, remedy, and oblivion of an irrevocable pas t „, anxious to obtain such freedom of action as no/ allow them to work hand in hand for the couini° ll good. Already, single-handed, isolated, fersah o , ll ' exposed to all the bullyi n g th rea t s , t o all to!, treacherous intrigues to which A us t r ia invariably resorts when she dares not employ o pe n violeae —already, we say, have the Parmese Gover n; meut won two signal Vict or i es o ver th e Cabine t . of Vienna. Lombardini has emancipated the co try from a commercial connexion which was, infec t ' a grievous tribute and a great clog upon the 0111 . 0 : merce and industry of the State, and af t er Austri a had repeatedly threatened to withdraw her troel ) ; from the Duchy she has been compelled to wa k e good her threat by recallin g her b a ttali o ns, %h.° presence must have been so galling to those Pa r ' migiani, who since the days of Tassoni are prover bially nemici a/ia Tedescheria , the most inveterat e enemies of the Croat to be futind in all Italy.. The danger for Parma is, however, by no mean) , gone by ; on the contrary, the greatest uneasine a prevails in the Duchy, and for the very best re asons' Driven from the capital, and from all' the 0 0 country, the Austrians muster stronger than (l e f t iu the second city o f th e D uchy, Pi acenza. En t i tle by the iniquitous s ti pu l at i ons of 1814 to occupy the citadel—the old dismantled citadel of that place not only do they occupy the whole town, but they have erected f ormi d a bl e outworks all roun d gates ; they patrol and exercise the police authora fur several miles round the neighbouring country' and set the civil authority of the helpless Ducal 66 ; verument at defiance. Even at this very mottle% artillery and war stor es i n grea t quan titi es h a ve marched into that stronghold, and fresh battalioT o have been added t o it s garr i son . O s t ens ibly, concentrates forces at Piacenza to ,how a formidaP front against Piedmont ; b u t h er i mme diate °.,,,_ : o ject is to overawe and inti m id a t e th e Duche a - Government, and add so many vexations to ho _ Parmesan subjects at Piacenza, that some of the 7 .; in the blindness of misery, may wi s h f u r the sPee to and final annexation of their town and countria. Austria—for Austrian subjects they certainlY ready are, with a vengeance. tha t It is under the pi essur e o f suc h c i rcums t an ces., B o France sends a dipl oma ti c agen t to P arma . ' bo Lord Clarendon, or (since little reliance can ill placed upon that warm partisan , of Austria)" r , the Premier, t a k e a hi n t f rom our " f a i t hf u l ally a The Italians tdve little reason to hope that aoYg e y can athe from French int e rf erenc e a l o ne. 1 ,, n. . 0 know the fat e o f th ose o f t h e i r b re th ren who 'aer been for the l ast e i g ht years expose d t o the te, n eir . mercies of the author of the letter to Edouard . 1 - 1 ; Y d . b They may w e ll sa y, T. hanaos ! Can Dig l 3 b t it do any good ? It cann o t a t Naples, it is clear ; at Naples the screw i s t o b e pu t on a sovereign:Tim Parma it is a sovereign asking for a rescue. AN IMPERFECT TRAP.—llernp and other COmmodi' j c ii hkict posed n i ooee e uvy s el dwr h oea a fdbta v ote e hi neagef Newcastle tae r ta.n some anr al a;rilinibhuedi eei timethe been other thief e a r wagell o 11 , vd b e f range adrhporu:i ivgrs o teo f i: stores eaoorseik thtuuoi arpnew i e n eudvo n t ef: lithrui on wor C l ana i : 0 Ph : 0 . cri ot,,a • e a : D ot ( 11°. He made his Hay into a wareroom on the top i- 4 - he and to a door from which gonds ire lowered int° ' h street. First tos,ing his bags of booty down to t . : pavement, be lifted his eyes to a book that swung t air in conn ec ti on wi th a crane inside. R s wwi cl have had some familiirity with the premises, &I; known that hi s we i g ht would suffice to effect a. leisueetY_, descent, or he would not have hazarded the entert prise which he medidated. A despera te leap rflue„ be made to catch the hook, and if be missed his Bu nothing nothing could save him from being das hed to death. -116 rt liberty is sweet. He sprang upward and forward, the hook, and was next mo ment travellin g slowly Du__ surely downwa,d. It was daylight, and eyes were i him, but nothing wro n g was sus p ected. So, arr in t safe and lyatthweabikoetdtooff._ m,he o z h h e e a r a eo o u ba p b.v b e i l s .. bags no m lasted, ° I syi for str