The Sun. — London, England, 1857-03-20 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed the popular drama of IRELAND AS IT IS. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams. After which, A NIGHT AT NOTTING-HILL, in which Mr. Wright and Patti Bedford will appear. Followed by a new Piece de Caractcro, entitled IN AND OUT OF PLACE. Mrs Barney Williams. BARNEY THE BARON. Barney O'Toole, Mr. Barney Williams. OYAL SURREY THEATRE, I Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. TILTS EVENING, a new drama, entitled FRAUD AND ITS VICTIMS . Afesrs. Creswick, Shepherd, die. Aft-r which , an original farce, entitled, THE SERIOUS . . , YOUTH. - To conclude with the Spanish ballet, EL DESCINDADO, gaucho, Mr. Buck. STRAND THE RE.—Manager, M:. T. Payne.—This Evening will be performed DO SITAKFI HANDS. After which, THE DEATH OF EVA, in which the Nowa rd Family will appear. Followed by COUSIN CHERRY. To conclude with THE BLUE JACKETS. Commence at Seven. Stalls,? 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls. ; Gallery, sa. R OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. • VHS EVENING, (a new farce, called THIEVES ! THIEVES ! ! Messrs. F. Robson, G. Vining, &c. The new drama, by Tom Taylor, Esq., A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING. Followed by the new farce, by Davie Bernard, Esq., called A SPLENDID INVESTMENT. Ard A BLIGIITED BEING. Mr. F. RobsDn, Commence at half-past Seven. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMP FIITH EATRE 4Lesoee and Manager, Mr. IV. Cooke. TITIS EVENING (first week) Shakspere's Play of KING HENRY THE FOURTH 'Part First), with novel and effec tive equestrian illustrations invented by Mr. Wm. Cooke. Hotspar, Mr. James Holloway. Al.>®, a number of amusing Entertainments, concluding with a Brilliant Display of Equestrian SKILL and SCIENCE, by first-rate artistes, in the SCENES in the CIRCLE CornmcLce at seven o'clock. Dress Bakes, 4s. ; Upper Itoxcs, 38.; Private Boxes, from 1/., no charge for booking ; Pit, ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, Gd. to..oflice open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager . Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. CANTERF3URY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow biz company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of 'elections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glee 4, Duets, &e., viz.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunell, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta ; Mr. J CaulLiehl, Herr F. Jonglimans, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corti. Senor Antonio M. tie Solis., and E. L. Hime ; Masters Austin, Bennett, and Corri ; Messrs. Sam Collins, E. Mackney, and C. J. Wilkins. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil flicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun. director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre ciiely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock. .11G1-4 WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGK. This DAT—Morn. 52 min. aft. 7 —Evening 38 min. aft. 8 `.'r-mnimow—Morn. 30 min. aft. 9—Evening 182in.aft 10 WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 20. THERMOMETER, IN THS SHADS. 53 highest slime noon yesterday. 50 -lowest this morning and during the night. .52 —this day at noon. PAttom 30'02—rising. W INE —Easterly ; rather fresh, with dull, cloudy wea'ber, but dry. It drizzled with fitful showers all day yesterday. rAk' tit); t s otalt , / -3nll ROY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING, will b© performed Shakespere's tr,gedy of KING RICHARD THE SECOND. - King Richard 11., Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean. After which will be produced a new petite comedy, in two acts, called OUR WIFE ; or, The Rose of Amiens. Princi• pal characters by Messrs. Ryder, Harley, Fisher ; Misses Murrr•- aid C. Lecicrcq. R OYAL LYCEUM TtIEATRE. Lessee, Mr. C. Dillon. THIS' EVENING, HAMLET. Mr. Charles Dillon, Mr Stuart, Mr. J. L. Poole, Miss Woolgar. Followed by tke gorgeous burlesque of CONRAD AND MEDORA. Miss Woolgar, Mr. J. L. Toole, &c. The box-office open daily, from II to 5, under the super sttendence of Mr. Chatterton, jun. Carriages conveying parties t. the Private Boxes to set down nt the State entrance in Bu'rleigh-street. nritEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven, A LIFE'S TRIAL. Messrs. Buckstone, Compton, Howe, Farren, Rogers ; Mesdames Reynolds, Poynter, Fitzwil- Ham, After which, A WICKED WIFE. To conclude with SHOCKING EVENTS. LONuON, FRIDAY, MARCH . 20, 16t7. Grumbling, wo believe, is pretty generally, am', for that matter, too, pretty accurately, regarded among us as, of all, about the Na tional Characteristic. A witty epigrammatist has led off a whole catalogue of similar definitions by observing that—" An Englishman is never Happy unless he is Miserable !" Candidly, let us say at once, That is really after all to our mind a very just definition. We are—there is no pos siblity of blinking the matter—unmistakeably and undeniably a Nation of Grumblers. It is in some respects about the sweetest privilege accruing to us from our Constitutional Government—the pri vil-ge of Grumbling. And we Grumble, as a matter of course, for this one, obvious, unanswerable, and. all-sufficient reason, that we have incessant eause_for Grumbling 1 it is the same whether in reg trd to our Ciimato or in regard to our Politics. The changes in each are in themselves so wanton, so fitful, so perversely and provokingly unex pected, that it is really and truly, while noting them, mat to impossible to preserve one's equa nimity. Look, in testimony of all this, to the actual situation of affairs at the present moment irntreliately prior to the dissolution of Parlia ment ! Look at the relative plight of the various Candidates and of the various Constituencies ! Look attire positiou of Parties—at the medley of Factions —et the "confusion worse confounded" 'among Tories and Whigs, Radicals and Retrogrades, Reformers and Conservatives ! A confusion so dire and bewildering that we have been every now and then liable to have revealed to us per fectly novel and hitherto unheard-of combinations —some startling and "fortuitous concurrence of atoms," certainly never before " dreamt of in our philosophy !" So uttorly indeed, of late, have the heterogeneous Parties in the House of Com mons been jumbled together, jostling each other, and distracting themselves in a perfect maze of cross-purposes, that when at last the popular re presentatives are actually dismissed, they are presented to view as trooping out, collectively, for the purpose of Appealing to the Country, in a strange pent of a wild Political Country dance ! Change partners, hands across, right and left, down the middle and up again ! With a result, in fact, all things considered, very nearly identical with that facetiously described by Mr. 1)1 "s in his Christmas Carol, at the close of the grand Terpsichorean demonstration, on a famous winter's night, at Old FEZZIWIG'S :--" Old top couples always turning up in the wrong place; new top couples starting off again as soon as they h a d got there ; all top couple s at last, and not a bottom one to help them !" IA is the actual posi tion just now of Pulit leal Pattl ee—the veritable state of thinza arrived at by th e pre3out merit. Jr. become~, corriegitentl.r, re li cf nowadays to find a few at last among our chief select f e w o f our priiacip public characters-1 Politicians and leading St en any rate in a light manner, whAt it is they really d o t hi n k upon most t hi ngs itl generll, and upon Horne things in part icJI rr—d'Ar.g Cris either throneli written or through oral Ad dreffles to their Constituent?. Yuterday, wbile again enforcing our demand—our urgent and reiterated demand—for a categorical explanation of his opinions and principle s from Lord PALMER STON, we took occasion to commend, as we eon' ceivo we were in simple justice bound to do, the very explicit Manifesto addressed to the cou:ltry ff at large by Mr. DISIZAELI, throu g h the moditaii I of Lis own individu..l c'n,;tittrents., the Electors the county of Backingilaw. We are tc-ehy I afforded the opportunity of directing popular at tention in a very particular manner to the no less explicitly enunciated views of two others among our more conspicuous Members of Par liament. Mr. COBDEN and my Lord JOHN RUSSELL. The Premier that was and that may be—the Tribune that has been, and that never will be again ! The veteran Chief of the Reformers, and the successful Champion of the Free- Trade Principles. The Noble Lord and the Hon ourable Gentleman were yesterday speaking at different parts of the country, almost simultane ously—Lord Joasr in the City of London, plead ing in his own cause before his old constituents ; Mr. COBDEN advocating the interests of an invalid and absent friend in the hearing of sundry of the " free and independent " Electors of the city of Manchester. Be it here observed at once, that to our thinking nothing could well have been more noble or more generous in its way, hardly anything, to our mind, could be more instantane ously entitled to the utmost possible degree of respect and consideration, than the earnest and ob viously heart-born tribute of affection and admira tion offered by Mr. COBDEN to the genius of JOHN BRIGHT in the hearing of the mon of Manchester 1 Allowance must here at least, we conceive, be made for any vitupe rative epithets accidentally wrung from the speaker by the very intensity of his emotions while uttering an indignant denunciation of the depreciators of his distinguished political associate. " I feel humiliated," exclaimed Mr. ConoEsr, at that point, in a generous outburst of enthusiasm, the unaffected sincerity of which cannot fail t command the respectful attention of the whole community, "I feel humiliated—l feel disgusted to see the daily personal attacks—the diatribes that are made aga . .inst this man, with his health impaired for the moment—his health impaired, too, ix that organ which excites feelings of awe, and of the utmost commiseration for him on the part of all right-minded men. Yes, while this man is not able to use those great intellectual powers with which GOD has gifted him, while their full activity is suspended for the day, the vermin of your Manchester press —the ghouls of the Guardian—the ghouls of the Guardian are preying upon this splendid being, and trying to make a martyr of him i❑ the midst of his sufferings." Apart, however, from such impassioned allusions to his absent friend—Mr. COBDEN'S speech of yesterday at Manchester, we cannot but think, " pales its ineffectual fires" lie fore the manly and, in many respects, luminous oration delivered about the same time in the City of London by Lord JOHN RUSSELL. • Recollect, Lord JOHN spoke as a Reformer with a prestige and an authority certainly not second to that of the treat Free-Trade Champion. If Mr. COBDEN addresses himself, if Mr. COBDEN CAII never fail to address himself to any audi ence otherwise than in the light of his al ready historical character as the Destroyer (par excellonce) of Monopoly—Lord JOHN never speaks before any English audience whatever, save is the much loftier and nobler capacity of one of • the - very First and Foremost among the living Champions of Civil and Religious Liberty. In this respect he stands before us upon the elevation of no ordinary rostrum—he talks in reference to great national questions from a tribune of no common material or elevation—he speaks as from a political tripod of his own construction : as the introducer into the House of Commons of the Parliamentary Reform Bill, as the author of the Test and Corporation Act, and as one of the most energetic and high-minded promoters of that other grand palladium of our religious liberties, the ruemoratile Act of Catholic Emancipation. And in this eminent capacity, as the Leader of a Great Party, as a Yeteran Reformer, as one who for tive years held in his own grasp the reins of supreme Government—bow is it that Lord Joss( has spoken I What (precisely, briefly, and to the point) may have been the gist of Lard JOHN'S views as to the present Situation ? Re said yesterday in the City of London, distinctly and deliberately, that it appears to him, The vary First Question now put to the Country is—" Whether Lord PAL MERSTON'S Government should be supported, or whether it should bo replaced by any other Go vernment." That Lord JOHN maintains candidly is THE Question just now put to the Country. And in explicit reply to that question, he immediately adds—" My candid opinion is that Lord PALMERS TON'S Government ought to be supported ; and if had to choose between Lord PALMERSTON at the head of the Liberal party, and Lord DERBY at the head of the Conservative party, I should think it my duty to give my adhesion to the former." Now this, to our thinking, is true patriotism—it is true consistency. It is civisin. It is mag nanimity•. Very different, indeed, the statesman like view thus taken of the existing Crisis by Lord J. RUSSELL —very different, indeed, from the poor, miserable, little, contracted, peddling, hux tering, mean-spirited, narrow-minded view taken of the self-same Crisis by King Calico Why, look at the two Speeches--compare them —contrast Mr. COBDEN'S speech with the speech of Lord JOIN RUSSELL. The Noble Lord's speech is the speech of a Statesman, and, let us repeat it again to his honour, the speech of a Patriotic and of a Consistent Statesman. That of Mr. COBDEN —is precisely for all the world what we might only iu reason have expected to hear from the 13.3 of the Political Bagman. Common sense gone fiean mad. Sophistry affecting sincerity. Disin genuousness affecting candour. An oration worthy of the man who had the effrontery the other day in the House of Commons to talk of giving over the destinies of the country into the hands of the Tories for the sake of a dirty 2,000,000/.1 Look at the Speech ! See how ingenuous it is ! Observe how this noble-hearted Politician raises a laugh of ridicule against Lord PALNIERSTON—for What? For being seventy-three years of age ! Mark the convincing logic as well as the captivating decency of his arguments 1 He reject; one opinion as the result of " downright quackery." lie repudiates another as "insulting chiliishness." He finds a view different from his own—and ho tells you "It is all moonshine." Fellow-citizens in the same free state dissent from his own infallible judgment in the estimate of a particular Minister, and he brands them at once as " toadies." Ho goes far beyond this, however, in the bespatteriug about him or his coarse and vulgar seurrilitins—Speaking of Lord PALMER ETON'S claim just now upon popular consideration, he asks : " Wel, what other title does he present to our confidence that the people of this country should be called upon by the impudence of time or four metropolitan journals, which for reasons best known, to themselves, which I hope will be ca- nosed som e day, are calling upon the English people to lie down upon their bellies in the dust before this man I" Au insinuated, but sufficiently apparent calumny, which we, for one, should scarcely have ei g ia lt i or th l e ow il , ar g d o u o l d o , od bad or indifferent, wo to thought any public man, high cas t from him in these days of ours, even in a moment of the most extreme exae.,rbation. Yet one which Mr. COBDEN blushes not fling from him with an idle and careless band, and in a tone of ind , cent flippancy. We have now done with Mt COBDEN. Wu have done with him as a politician entitled to anything more than a merely curious considera tion. We have done with him as a man of fla grant inconsistency : an inconsistency sufficiently visible in that speech of yesterday, where we find him—quite oblivious apparently of what he kad already said so elegantly about the folly of ex pecting people t• " lie on their bellies" before Lord PALMERSTON—cooIIy insisting that 4,000 of the electors of Manchester in a lump should put their Votes (and with them, of course, their Reason and their Conscience) into the pocket of Mr. BRIGHT. Vide the Speech itself towards its close —a Speech in which the BOANERGES of the Peace• Mania cries out with stentorian energy against " the newspapers who are bawling for War." Observe : those who differ from him in opinion bawl—he himself argues! It matters nothing in the literal fact of the thing that the newspapers that have the audacity to think differently from Mr. COBDEN, print—while he speaks. They "bawl"—and he "argues." And so we leave Mr. CO DEN to console himself for the egregious exhibition made by himself ix to-day's newspapers through the reprint of his very singular harangue —we leave him to console himself with the recol lection of the clacqueurs who cheered his vulgari ties to the echo yesterday at Manchester. " The usual half-yearly Court- of Proprietors of Bank Stock was held yesterday in the Bank Par lour !" This stereotyped article of intelligence, which requires only a change of date to answer t wice in every year, which maybe calculated on with as much certainty as a lunar eclipse, or a planet's transit, has just made its appearance. We are told, in addition, that the Meeting "was net numerously attended," and that the Court sepa rated, the proceedings having occupied but a very short time." They, however, contrived to de clare a dividend of 4i per cent, for the half year, free of Income Tax—and, in answer to some not very convenient inquiries, it appeared that no less than 64,9701. was carried over, which was but 8,0001. short of a 5 per cent. dividend. It might possibly have been made up under different circumstances—but at present it is the Old Lady's game not to show too large profits, a considerable portion whereof may be regarded as a gratuitous donation by the national Exchequer. Had it been declared subject to Income Tax the desired 5 per cent. might easily have been granted, and there would still have remained a surplus of nearly 40,0001. carried over, or the additional quarter per cent, might have been given free from Income Tax with nearly 33,000/. carried over. There is, however, an amiable weakness, which prohibits the division of mere quarters. Nothing under a half per cent. san be tendered to the pro prietors, and there must be no drawback of any kind, nothing that can allay the satisfaction of the fortunate individuals I They " take the goods the gods provide them," with unexception able grace, and are quite contented that a con. siderable surplus remain to fructify in the hands of the Directors. If the Bank could be considered in the light of a private establishment of course nothing could be said against the exercise of a " proper disore. tion," as it may be termed. But it has a quasi national position —a virtual monopoly that takes far more from the community at large than finds its way to the pockets of the proprietors. For every shilling they receive, not one, but many, pounds are abstracted from the resources of the trading population of the country. " Unrestricted competition," or, to use the Saxon appellative— " Free Trade," is no less required in currency than in corn. Indeed we believe that far greater injury has been occasioned by the restriction on money than on bread, and that a reform of the monetary code is no less required than on that relating to cereals, which was happily carried in 1846 I We do not wish to deprive the proprie tors of any legitimate profits. As we have repeatedly pointed out, they might, with judicious management realise even larger dividends than those which have recently been distributed. If we look to the re• turns of any of the great Joint-Stock Banks now in operation, we shall find that, notwithstanding the disadvantages to which they are subjected, they show even larger gains in proportion to their means than "the Old Lady" herself. They are enabled to allow interest on deposits, and to give their customers a decided interest in their pros. parity ; and consequently we find one at least of these establishments pressing closely in the amount of " private deposits " on the Leviathan itself —and others promise to achieve a similar position. A comparatively private station would be more beneficial for the Bank itself, and greatly so for the community at large ; and the sooner it can be brought to that condition the better for all par ties concerned ; that is to say, for the British people of all glasses, from the Peer to the Peasant It is the undoubted prerogative of the Sam REIGN to issue money, or what shall be received as the measure and representative thereof. Bat that great and very profitable privilege haebeen delegated to a considerable extent to a trading corporation. The Bank of England now issues notes to the nominal value of 14,475,000/. against public securities. In other words, it re ceives the interest on that large amount--which, taken at only 3 per cent., amounts to 446,000/. per annum, while it has the profits on its paper issues, declared to be legal tenders everywhere but at the offices of the Bank, which may be set down at least at an equal amount. A. really National Bank, issuing really na tional notes, secured on all the accumula tive wealth and industry of the nation, would save nearly half a million sterling per an num in the matter of interest alone, to say nothing of the different sums paid for deficiency when the Chancellor of the Exchequer is com pelled to apply for temporary assistance at Leadenhall-street. There aro also the payments for the management of the National Debt, a large portion whereof might be saved by the creation of a National Bank of Issue under the exclusive control and direction of a department responsible to Parliameni. But at this moment, unless the unaccountable apathy that has so Long prevailed Le shaken off, a re newal of the charter for a further term of ten years will be granted. Five millions at least will be abstracted from the National Exche quer, and more than one hundred million., of damage inflicted on the manufacturing, and com mercial, and industrial interests. This exceeds the costs of the RuFsian War, and should not lightly be sacrificed. A decided demonstration may avert the impending evil. But if the people are silent, if the golden opportunity be neglected or misapplied, they will only have themselves to thank for the misery that must inevitably arise. Even five millions would be worth saving, and that can be effected by a tinkly exhibition of pub lic feeling. NAIL Fon Lim CA.ra.--The Post-office authorities have given notice that they will make up a mail for the Cape of €l-oodlope on the evening of the 24th for de epa.t...eli by her Vaj,sty's steamer Ttannit, to bail an the 25th ins:t., for China, o. Ling at the_Cape. Tne Archduke Albert, the Vienna journals state, sent in on the 13th to the Emperor of Austria a long report on the situation of Hungary, particularly as regards the finances. They add that the propositions which his Imperial Highness has made, based on the results of the conferences of the five Vice-Presidents of the Govern• meats of Hungary, are expected to obtain the Imperial sanction, The Princess Luitpold of Bavaria has been indisposed for some days. The last bulletin says :—" Her Royal Highness passed an agitated night ; the cough has been less tormenting than during the day, and towards even ing the fever diminished." A letter from Dresden, of the 14th, states that a grand dinner, which was to have been given at court on that day, was postponed in non sequence of the intelligence of the illness of the princess, who is a niece of his Saxon Majesty. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing -street. Tho Ministers present were : Viscount PalmAiston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Gran ville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Duke of Argyll, and the Right Hon. M. T. Baines. Despatches were Fent from the Colonial-office yester day to the Governors of Hong Kong and Ceylon. ARRIVAL OF TLIE PERSIAN ENVOY.—His Excellency Feruk Khan, Envoy Extraordinary from the Shah of Persia, attended by a numerous retinue, arri►ed in town last evening from Dover. His Excellency proceeded direct from the London bridge railway station to Claridge' s Hotel, in Brook street, the state apartments of which magnificent establishment had been prepared for his re ,ception. Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Kent, yesterday, at Clarence House, St. James's. The Countess of Clarendon has issued cards for an as sembly to-morrow evening. The Earl of Donoughruore has arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Ireland. The Count Zabielo (Attacbd to the Legation of Russia) has arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from St. Petersburg. The Hon. Julian Fane arrived in town, a few days since, from Russia. Sir Brook and Lady Bridges and Miss Charlotte Knight have left the Clarendon for Goodnestone Park, Kent. M. Pontiloff (Conseiller to the Emperor of Russia), accompanied by his family and suite, have left the Bruns wick Hotel, Jerrnyn•street, for Paris. Lady Molesworth received at dinner, on Wednesday evening, the Marquis of Breadalbane, the Earl and Countess of Stanhope, his Excellency the Sardinian Minister, the Earl and Countess Grey, Viscount Tor rington, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Sir Anthony and Lady de Rothschild, Baroness Lionel de Rothschild, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, M.P., and Mrs. Vernon Smith, and Mr. Delane. The Earl of Burlington has been appointed Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire, in room of the late Earl of Ellesmere. PAPER MILLS AND Pam DUTY.—In 1856 there were 393 paper mills, and the duty in the year ended March was 1,047,4301. The Dublin papers announce the death of Mr. Kew mis, Q.O , who for several years has filled the office of c‘iairman at Kilmainham. The deceased was called to the bar in Easter Term, 1795, and must have been con siderably over fourscore years. The chairmanship is worth 1,2001. a-year. ACCIDENT AT A. PUBLIC MEETING.—IIIIDDRESTIELD, Thursday.—Mr. Cobden having addressed an audience of two thousand persons, in the theatre, in exposition of his political views, was interrupted by a tremendous crash. The side gallery 'gave way, precipitating forty persons into the pit; several of them were injured, and the meeting was abruptly terminated. THE RECTORSHIP OP KING'S COLLEGE.—The Aberdeen Journal say. : —The graduates, it will be seen, are called to a meeting to be bald within the college on Wednes day, April 15, to nominate a rector to succeed the Earl of Ellesmere. The meeting has been fixed for the above day, we have remora to believe, in order to accommodate members of the synods. We have not, as yet, heard any name mentionei as likely to be brought forward.] NEWLY DescovnuEn Beam—Capt. D. Moore, of the Russell-Ellice, arrivad at the Falkland Islands, reports having found soundings in 45 fatho ms wa t er i n l e t . 30 . 50 S. long. 35.50 W., by chronometer, or 36 W. b y l unar observation. Hie attention had been directed to it by the change in the appearance of the w a t er , b u t th e wea ther and a heavy sea prevented hi s l ower i ng a b oat and taking soundings around it carefully as he was disposed to do. EMIGRATION TO A.USTRALIA.—LI TERPOOL, Th urs d ay. —The celebrated clipper ship Red Jacket, C a pt. M. H. belonging to Messrs. H. T. W ilson and Star line of A us t ra li an packets, will Chambers, White belnS sail from the Mersey for Melbourne at noon to-morrow, the 20th instant (the appointed day of this line). She will carry out 420 passengers, her full complement, every berth having been engaged a number of days ago, and a very large and valuable cargo of merchandise on freight. It has transpired that Russia has taken more active steps than England to establish telegraphic communica tion with India. According to private and reliable ad vices just received, she made a contract previously to the termination of the late war for a line from Nicolaieff via the Caspian Sea to Ispaban and Herat. It has since been in progress, and although, under the secrecy enforced in that country, no conjecture can be formed as to the probable period of its completion, the contin gency is not impossible of our finding before long that she is in regular receipt of news from our possessions weeks previously to its arrival in London. According to some impressions, the recent treaty between Mexico and the United States is not likely to come into effect. At the last advises the session of Congress at Washington was within a few hours of its termination, and the treaty had not been sub mitted. Mr. Buchanan, the new President, will immediately, upon assuming office, call together the Senate, which, as an executive branch of the Govern. went, must act upon all his appointments, and to which be could submit for ratification a treaty strictly so called. But, as that said to have been concluded with Mexico contemplates a loan of money, it seems doubtful whether under the constitution it would be valid without the sanction of Congress. The latter body unlace they are specially called together, will not meet until December next, and the prospect, therefore, with regard to the adjustment of the question is uncertain. The treaty was negotiated with out instructions, and from the hesitation of the expiring Cabinet to bring it forward for completion an assump tion is entertained that it is regarded by them with die satisfaction. Tliii CAMP AT COLOHESTER.—The wretched condition of the soldiers' wives at the Colchester camp has led to some correspondence between the War Department and Major-General Gascoigne, which was published yesterday. It appears that in the middle of last month the scenes of destitution as to the wives and children of soldiers in Colchester, from causes connected with the army regulations and the dearness of food, were truly deplorable, and " there were not so few as 2ro wives and 350 children next to houseleas." The wives of soldi re married without the command ing officer's leave, and who had no children, re ceived 2d., and many only a penny a day to live on, and it was feared tbat they would fall into habits of prostitution. The Secretary of State for War wrote to Major-Gen. Gascoigne on the 2d inst. to the effect that he (Lord Panmure) could not sanction the application to the cases of women who had married soldiers without the con sent of the commanding officer of the C►rcular, No. 1,235 (July 15, 1856), inasmuch as it contemplated the cases of women who had been lift behind at the stations at which their hush:lnds wt re serving previous to their removal to a camp, and not to women above the regulated number who belong to corps eituattd as the depots of Colcheeter are. Lord Panmure, how ye?, agreed to grant free pasi.ages or travell'ng expended back to their parishes to the wives and families of soldiers who had married without consent, and whose wives were in excess of the regulated numbers, rrovlcled they were willing to return. Lord Panmure at the same time expreseed his surprise that soldiers who had married without consent, and whose wives and families had bee❑ allowed to accompany them from Ire land to Colchester, had been placed under stoppages of pay to refund the expense of transit, and his Lordship gave orders that such stoppages should hi for the future I discontinued.—Times. A SERIOUS Joicr.--The 'ol'owing is an ixtract from a private letter dated Hong Kong, the 29th of January : " A capital tale is told c f—'s campradore. On the morning the breal was poisontd boy ran into his room, telling him not to eat any, as it was poisoned. rang for the rampradoro to a , .k him about it, and the roan promised to investigate the matter. Half an hour elapsed, and the eameradore did not return. His master walked down stairs, and asked him if ho had dis c ivered any trace of Yes,' was the reply. 'lndeed ! and how did ycu find it out ?' Oh, I have given one half loaf to the small boy, and another half to that coolie." And why have you done that ?" Oh, that small boy has no father, mother, sistsr, or wife. If be do die, what matter ? Coolie all the Rattle.' A concert, under the direction of M. Jullien, was given at these gardens last night, in aid of the funds of ths Early Closing Association. The con cert, as regarded both its selection and performance, might have been given to the most polished and fastidious audience in London. It included Weber's overture to " Euryanthe ;" the presto movements of Beethoven's seventh syMphony ; A.lenclolssohn's pianoforte concerto in G minor, played by Miss Arabella Goddard ; the whole of Mendelssokn's symphony in A (the Italian symphony) ; the allegro and storm movements from the Pastoral symphony of Beethoven ; and Thalberg's fantasia from "Mose in Egitto," performed by Miss Goddard. For vocal music—Miss Dolby sang Mendelssohu's " First Violet," Balfe's "Green Trees," and a pretty Scottish ballad ; and Miss Louisa Vinning sang the Pages song in " Figaro," " Voi the sapete," and "Verdi's cavatina, "Tacea la Notte." The orchestra was complete and powerful, and the various performances were admirable in every re spect.. We were particularly struck with the re markable acoustical properties of the hall. Not withstanding its, vast dimensions, every note of the music was as well heard as it could have been even in a private drawing-room ; better, indeed, for the sounds were softened and freed from everything like noise or_ harshness by the vast sp ace th roug h which they" ere diffused. The sounds of the voices, and ttle tones of every instrument were clear, full, and resonant ; and, in particular, Miss Arabella Goddard's splendid execution of Mendelssohn's Con certo was probably never heard to greater advantage. Throughout the evening the audience were loud and enthusiastic in their applause ; and there was even something grand in the bursts which rever berated through the building like prolonged peals of thunder. In addition to the pieces which we have mentioned, some specimens of Jullien's bril liant dance-music were introduced between the first and second parts of the concert. From the ap pearance of the hall we trust it will be found that the 'concert has been of substantial benefit to the excellent association in whose aid it was given. 1 1 11 E SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENIN',G, MARCH 20 1 1857. THII COIVTINBATAL COURTS. ROYAL SURREY GARDENS. A letter from Vienna of the 15th, in the Nord, says : —" The Emperor and Empress appeared the day be fore yesterday for the first time since their return at the theatre of Hofburg, and were received with the warmest acclamations. Wonderful stories are related here of the visit which their Majesties made, in returning from Italy, to the cel 3brated grottos of Adelsberg. The interior of this vast subterranean labyrinth, even to its most distant passages, was illuminated by 16,000 torches and Bengal lights. The entrance to the grotto was ornamented with a transparency bearing the following inscription :—'The love of their subjects accompanies sovereigns further than the rays of the sun.' A military band awakened the echoes of the .cavern. In the part of the grotto called the ' Ball room,' were ranged 50 couples of peasants of the Ca:• niola in their national costume. The august visitors remained in the grotto two hours. hours. LATEST N E WS. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The American mail steamer Fulton, Capt. Wot t on, is just telegraphed off Hurst, from New York. She no doubt brings President Buchanan's Mes- Her mails will be delivered here in about two The Paris correspondent of the Times (second edition) says : " The Government received yesterday news from Naples. It is said that a reconciliation with France and England is becoming not merely possible, but probable, and that an Attache of the French Foreign-office will soon leave for Naples on a private mission. HAYMARKET THEATBE. Last night a new four-act drama entitled " A Life's Trial," from the pen of B. Bernard, Esq., was perforrr sd for the first time, and met with complete success. The drama is capitally written, admirably acted, and splen didly put upon the stage; the only thing to be regretted is the abrupt termination of the play. At the end of the third act the climax could easily and most effectually be attained, but a decided mistake has been made by adding a fourth act. The scene opens in Tenby in 1825, a year of panic and commercial calamity. The heroine, Miss Rochdale (Miss Reynolds), is beloved by Wyndham (Mr. W. Farreo), and reciprocates his pas , sion ; but believing that he has forsaken her, and re turned to the West Indies, his native country, she gives her band, in an evil hour, to Hawksworth (Mr. Howe), who establishes a claim upon her gratitude by advancing a large sum of money to avert the ruin of her father, who is a banker. Hawksworth, always a villain, has now become a forger and an inveterate gamester. Wyndham returns to London, and is heart-broken on discovering that his mistress has betrayed him. Being informed that Hawksworth has deserted her, be visits h er a t h er l o d g i ngs, an d o ff ers her a ll the as sistance in his power. They are in confidential con versation when the husband enters, and, affecting to believe himself dishonoured, demands satisfaction on the spot. A highly dramatic scene ensues, and a duel is fought upon the stage. Hawks worth's pistol misses fire, but Wyndham, magnanimously scorning to take advan tage of an anarmeeman, permits him to escape with his life. The third act is laid in London, in 1838. Ten years have now elapsed since the marriage of the heroine, and they have brought with them many changes. Mrs. Hawksworth fancies herself a widow, for the story goes that her husband was drowned on the coast of Amer ca. He, however, turns up, famished and ragged in the streets of Southwark, and reveals himself to his wife as the latter is walkii g by moonlight in the gardens of her villa at Richmond. This fatal apparition blights her prospects of happiness, and destroys all the plans she bad formed, f or she had succeeded to a large fortune, and it was arranged that she should be married to Wyndham in a fortnight. Ia the fourth act the plot is huddled up in a most inartistic manner, as though the author bad grown tired of his task and desired to get it off his hands at any cost. Hawksworth, disguised and passing under the name of Everington, lures Wyndham, who fails to recognise him, into a west end gambling-house, and there wreaks his vengeance on him by reducing him to beggary. He is about to de camp with his victim's money, when Mrs. Hawksworth, who has got scent of the villanous plot, enters with a posse of police, and " scatters all the Volsci." Finding him self hotly pursued, drinks poison, and the curtain falls. The. part of Miss Rochdale was well performed by Miss Reynolds ; and Mr. W. Farrel), as Wyndham, played throughout with energy and tenderness. Mr. Howe, as Hawksworth, acted with his usual excellence. The two comic' parts in the play were supported by Meesre. Bnckstone and Compton, and the manner in which those accomplished artistes acquitted themselves con vulsed the house with laughter. At the fall of the curtain the piece was given out by Mr. Buckatone for repetition every evening until further notice. ACTORS' TESTIMONIAL. Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, March 12, 1857. TO EDWARD TYRRELL SMITH, ESQ., LESSEE. Sir—We, the undersigned, cannot permit another sea son of your management of this theatre to close without congratulating you upon the continued, and, we hope, increasing, success of your administration ; aho to offer you an expression of our esteem for your character in the relation you stand towards us. A kind word, an approving smile, a frank and friendly demeanour, exercise an influence that words can barely express. For your kindness we, therefore, wish to express our sincere gratitude, and to assure you that, while in sour employment, which we trust will be for many years to come, no exertion on our part shall be wanting in the , fulfilment of our duty; our only desire being to promote, to the utmost of our power, your success and prosperity. In this testimonial, which we now place before you, we trust that we will esteem it as the expression of our feelings. You will, we hope, estimate it not at its in trinsic value, but as the visible embodiment of those sen timents of esteem and affection with which your admi nistration of the affairs of the Theatre Royal Drury-lane has inspired us.—We have the honour to be, yours re spectfully, (Signed) Messrs. Defries and Sons, Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, Mr. and Mrs. Boleno, Messrs. Stirling, FlPxnkore, Chat terton, Drysdale, Stride, Lewis, A. Younge, Mrs. Selby, Mrs. F. Matthews, Miss Wright, Mdlles. Osmont, Herr Anschuez, Mr. Hollingsworth, Miss Oliver, Miss E. Honey, Mr. E. L. Blanchard, Mr. and Mrs. 'Vincent, Messrs. Tilbury, Dunning, Tucker, Needham, Palmer (costumier), Lingham, George Honey, Templeton, Barnes, Fairbrother, Mr. Randle (pyrotechnist), Messrs. Elliott, Mr. Rickards (hairdresser), Band, Money and Check Takers, Messrs. Home and Wood (police), Messrs. Walton, Messrs. Tanner, Glindon, Halford, Veroni, Craven, Filcher, Messrs. Muffit and Emery. THE LATE MOJIAS ETANS, ESQ., M.D The lamented gentleman, whose name heads this brief Inotice, departed — this life at his residence, Stockwell park-house, Surrey, on the Ist inst. ; and seldom have the scenes of this world closed upon any one whose warm heart and earnest endeavours had been more lent than his were upon doing all the good in his power, nor upon any one more respected than he was, or more re , gretted than he is by a large circle of friends and ac quaintances. He was also remarkably happy in his do mestic sphere, for there he won and retains the love of those who now mourn his loss. He was born at Sid welly, South Wales, in the year 1800, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He pursued his professional studies in England, Germany, and France, and practised successfully in London for many years. Waving married the second daughter of the late wealthy Squire Angel, of Rumsey-house, Wilts, and being much occupied of late years in attending to his father-in-law's interests and property, especially in the neighbourhood of Stock well, he found it necessary, not without regret, to discontinue his professional practice. Out of the time gained, however, by this means, he was enabled to in, crease his ever-ready exertions to assist, in various ways, many deserving persons whom he knew to be struggling honourably against the difficulties and hardships of life, in which private services he always took great delight. Nor did he neglect public affairs. For during all the years of his maturity, every movement which he believed would contribute to the removal of wrong, and the ex tended establishment of what is right and just between man and man, met from him an instant and hearty sup port ; and many of the great questions of the day had in him the advantage of an energy and activity, combined with a clear power of expression and wit, which he pos. sassed in no common degree. In these and all the transactions of his life, he, in mind and feeling, ever ascended above the narrowness of party, sect, and class, and looked upon mankind and the universe as a sub lime whole, governed by multiform and immutable laws, which have God, the Eternal, for their author, and uni versal beneficence for their great and constant realisa tion, how incomprehensible soever this might in some cases seem to the finite human understanding. His life was a blessing, tied his end peace ADDRESS TO SIR JOHN DOWRING.—An address is ' being numerously signed by the inhabitants of Black burn to Sir John Bowring, who contested the represen tation of the borough in 1832 andlB3s, and was defeated on both occasions by a majority of only 13. The address expresses sympathy with SirJohnßowring in the trying circumstances in which he was recently placed "by an unworthy combination of parties in the Parliament of this country," and proceeds—" We cannot sufficiently express Our indignation at the obloquy which has been cast upon your conduct and character, without the justi fication of evidence, and in opposition to all the antece dents of your lung and arduous career in the cause of human progress. The attacks made upon you by pro fessed friends form the most unworthy feature of this malignaLt coast iracy to injure and defame an honourable and philanthropic man." - • " Lord 'Elgin is expected to visit Paris pre vious to his departure for China, in order to con fer with the French Government. I give this as an on, dit without vouching for its exactness. " Colonel Oklewsky, Chief of Division of Rail ways at St. Petersburg, has arrived in Paris. His visit relates to the construction of railways in Russia. "M. Hubner, the Austrian Minister in Paris, has been thanked in the name of the Emperor of the French for the attention of the Emperor of Austria in placing the statue of tke first Napoleon in the public gardens of Milan." TRIESTE, MARCH 19. Despatches from Constantinople, dated the 14th inst., annomlce,that the ship Kangaroo had landed troops and arms in Circassia. M. de Boutenieff had demanded the appoint ment of a commission to inquire into the nature and origin of this expedition. _There had been serious disturbances among the population of Tibris, in consequence of the scar city of provisions. The Circassians bad repulsed 4,000 Russians on the frontier of Abasia. BERLIN, MARCH 18. Baron Bulow, the Danish envoy, has returned from Vienna ; his mission to the two Courts of Berlin and Vienna relative to the affairs •of Schleswig Holstein is said to be a failure. HAMBURG, MARCH 18. The Swedish finance committee, accepting the estimate sent in by the chief engineer Ericson, proposes to make a considerable loan abroad for the construction of railway lines. No doubt whatever is entertained that the Chambers will readily grant the requisite authorisation. COPENHAGEN, MARCH 18. The Supreme Council has been convoked for the 3d April, on the occasion of the conclusion of the treaty of the Sound dues. The session will be a very short one. Letters from the French squadron in the China waters, received in Paris, contain particulars of the defensive measures adopted by the civil and naval authorities of England and France. Hong Kong has been surrounded by earthworks, mounted with guns, and commanded by a fort in the immediate - vicinity of Victoria, which also commands the Chinese town. The Lemma canal has been cut, and the com munications by water are thus secured. At the point whero the canal has been cut strong redoubts have been erected. These works are defended by a detachment of sailors from the French vessel Virginie. At Shanghai similar precautions have been adopted, and numerous earthworks have placed the factories beyond all danger of an attack from the Chinese. These letters all express A desire for the speedy arrival at Canton of the gunboats and smaller steamers, as the attitude of the Chinese is such that a terrible blow can alone 011 them to their senses. FRANCE. PARIS, THIRSDAY EVMTINQ• Changes are spoken of as likely to take place among the upper classes of the magistracy ; such as the retirement of M. Troplong from the PFesidency of the Court of Cassation, and M. Delangle to suc ceed him. The destination which rumour again gives to M. Troplong is that of Arch-Chancellor of the Empire. M. de Royer, Procure ur-General of the Court of Caseation, would under such circum stances be named First President of the Court of Appeal. it is also said that M. Roulaud, Minister of Pub lic Instruction, is likely to be transferred to the Home Department, and that M. Vaisse, now Pro cureur-General at the Court of Paris, will take the Department of Public instruction. The Paris papers have been directed to discon tinue the discussion on the civil war in the Vendee, in the great Revolution. That discussion was occa sioned by the funeral sermon of the Bishop of Poitiers on the Marchioness de Larochejacquelein, who died a week or two ago, and who, as every one knows, played a distinguished part during that struggle, and afterwards wrote a most interest ing history of it. The Bishop of Poitiers seemed to regard all those who fell in that war as martyrs to the cause of religion and legitimacy. The SQcle made some angry comments on the discourse ; it was replied to by the Univers and Union ; the Sidcle rejoined ; and the dispute soon waxed warm. The question was about to enter into a new phase, when the authorities stepped in, and separated the combatants. The Mon iteur has a number of promotions in the Legion of Honour, and bestowals of the military medal. BOUUSE, March 19.—The following were the las quotations : Cash. tr.• 0. 46 per Cents - End of Month. —fr. --c. 71 15 3 per Cents 7O 65 New Loan — - Bank Shares 4,200 Roman .... 8c Credit Mobilier 1,440 Austrian .. 9( Belgian Fives ...... ... Spanish Threes 4( Piedniontese (5) 9l 25 Home Debt ......... 3E RAILWAYS—FOR CASH. tr. c. f r c Orleans 1,475 Western - Northern 982 50 Strasburg - Lyons 1 New Ditto - Mediterranean 2 , 015 52 — Grand Central - Lyons Geneva ...... 805 Trieste — - Cette B5O Austrian Corn - AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna of the 15th says :—" It is confirmed that Count de Paar, the Austrian charge d'affaires at Turin, has been recalled, and it is said that he is to be sent to Berne." The same letter says that, now that the Danube, steam-frigate, has been launched, orders for the construction of two ships-of-the-line, each of 90 guns and 800 horse power, are about to be given. One ship-of-the line, the Emperor ; a frigate, and two corvettes, are already in construction. Since 1855, it rays, four steam-frigates, each of 31 guns and 300 horse power, have been added to the Austrian navy. THE DANUBE. A letter from Galatz of the 4th confirms Unbar rival of Omer Bey with 150 men at Sulina, and the fact of his havinc , taken possession of that town and of the Delta of the Danube. The Austrians in Sulina had received orders to depart, but as these instructions arrived some days after the entry of the Turks, the arrival of Omer Bey had excited much astonishment amongst the Austrian officers. gave a wand di nner SARDINIA. at Turin Count Cavour on the 15th, on the occasion of the birth day of King Victor Emmanuel 11. Among the guests we ro the members o f the Sar dinian Cabinet and of the diplomatic body, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, the Minister of the Royal Household, General Dabormida, &c. Towards the close of ithe banquet, Sir J. Hudson, the senior member of the diplomatic body, pro posed the health of the King, to which Count sage. Cavour responded by proposing the health of the Sovereigns and Princes allies of his Majesty. THE BALTIC. HAMBURG, March 18.—The latest intelligence from Stockholm states that the weather has been extremely cold, and the navigation interrupted; but the finest weather prevailed in other parts of the Baltic, an d th e same influence is experienced here. Accounts from the Swedish capital, of the 12 01 inst., state that the Committee of the Reichstag', appointed to report on the Government matol scheme, had completed their report Fa t i&facto ri IY t° all parties, and Colonel Ricsou's plans and Pr °- rosals for the direction of the various lines bare been generally sanctioned by th e comm ittee. Tn e report recommends tint the means f or carrying°llt these lines shall be raised by f ore i gn l oan s, 11 1" °- „ the most reasonable terms to be obtained. • fo The Ostsee Zeitung mentio ns th e p ro bability Riga being speedily dism‘ntled of all her fortifi,_ ca. tions ' with the exception of the c it a d e l, and the work of demolition is to be und er t a k en by Privt e contractors, on account of tin Russian Govern" went. Lord Wodebou.e, who had been absent fronl Petersburg for a short time, had returned to the Embassy. SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 15th denies thanll as stated in some of the p a p ers , or ders ~,3 been given to select by lot 80 captains of" fantry for the army of Cuba, owing to ther e not being a sufficient number of volunteers It)r 611 up vacancies. The Gazette declares the nueib e t of vacancies did not amount to one-tenth 61 , 0 number. M. Sorela, late Spani s h blinister, Mexico, had had a long conference with the Minix" ter of Foreign Affairs ; he had expressed the °lli nion that the Mexican Governme n t would soon fa from its own excesses. The Le on E s p ano l maintaL that no explanations the Mexican envoy, M. gill fray can make, and no excuses he can offer, w d i s suffice to calm the indignation of the Spaniaf against the Mexicans, but that Mexico must g' solid satisfaction. The Abeille du Nord says :—" The pievre lin „g animosity against England lately caused a sad unfortunate scene at Moscow. Professor Selle,"l, reff, of the University of that city, having low' s .; blamed Sir Robert Peel's speech on P i o sia, by saying that he had calumniate d country which had afforded him hospital, concluded by calling him an ungrateful felb ) /z. Count Bohrynski, who was present, took Sir" Peel's part, demonstrating that his reproacuff, against Russia were well founded. M. Scheil r , e ile becoming excited, struck Count Bohrynski on ' r face ; the latter infuriated, rushed on the prefet s ; and struck him with such violence that he died clays after." EAST INDIA AND CHINA MAO; at ia SOUTHAMPTON March 19.—The Peninsular Oriental Steam N avigation Company's steam - t il ig Colombo, Capt. Field, reached Southampton day, at with the heavy portion of theab° l mails. ed On her passage home the C o lombo e xperien c a strong westerly gales in the Mediterranean , head winds from Gibraltar. arch 1-.,. Her dates of sailing were :—Alexandria, IViare - .,. at 4 p.m. ; Malta, 10, at 8.6 p.m. ; an d Gibrait''' 15, at noon. A na She brought 30 first-class, two s ec o n d-class, six deck passengers, and 18 servants and 3 5 e lt, dren-91 in all, amongst whom were Sc ° Bii Captain and Mrs. Abdy, C a pt a i n an d Mrs. 1331 , 4 13- 0 , Captain and Mrs. R o b er t son , C a pt a in and -- „a Ogle and family, Rev. M r . an d M rs . Meadow's $ 0 family, Captain Bickerstaff, Dr. and Mrs. 5136 and Dr. Patterson. 31 The freight of the C o lo m b o cons ists of 1,2 packages of silk, 156 ditto coffee, 111 ditto 3 ditto teeth, 150 bundl es o f empty sacks, 40 • ui d 0 flax, 89 ditto sundries, 25 boxes of oranges, a n group valued at 721. s , H.M.S. Hibernia, Conqueror, C e nturion, B 1 " ee wick, Centaur, M ag i c i enne , M e dina, OsPr o Jj Miranda, Lynx, Weiser, Recruit, Carado, 551 Wanderer, were at Malta. The Majestic and Ore left Malta for England on the 10th inst. Stb SHIPS OBSERVED OX THE VOYAGE.-011 •A„-„ 1 2 Ult. at 1.40 a.m., in Gibraltar Straits, the WIT/ Williams, for Nw York ; on' the 28th ult., 1 1: ; ,, a.m., the ' Peninsular and Oriental steal:B.67, Ripon ; on the 13th inst., at 3 p.m , the Pepi n :l, l o lar and Oriental steam-ship Indus • and 0 0 rye Alhambra. inst., at 5.20 a.m., off Cape St:Vincent; "" ti Alhambra. Miss Nighting a le paid a lengthened but unex p ected visit to the Royal F ree Hospital, Gray's-inn-road, se, Wednesday, for the pu r p ose o f i nspec ting that V excellent charity, and inquirin g i n t o its c oanageole r e t e She went through the whole of the building, and P il t cularly noticed the 66 Sussex wing" recently ere° el; which is now filled with patients. Miss Nightilo was next conducted through the ne w ly-arr a nged ed. patients' department, with which she was equally P1e 56 00 After making particular i n quiries i n to the princiP lej os which this very m er it or i ous c h ar ity i s c onducted , o f took her departure, expressing her high aimirationreo the general management of the institution, and the g Re benefits conferred on the poor through its agency' c os feel it our duty to dir ec t th e p ar ti cu l ar a ttention e' isg e humane and charitable to an i ns tituti on to which, W or e unendowed, and depending solely on voluntary e e lot butions and legacies for support, relieved during th e year over 44,000 patients. EXPLOSION OF FIRE-DAMP.—On Monday a seriagbrc: cident occurred at the Park Gate Colliery, nor Be t ham, belonging to the Tborncliffe Ironworks Cer e tee It appears that two men, one named John bliS' e g r - 1, ie the other Milnes, fr om Th orpe H es l ey, were at v°°-ieg the pit at Str a it wor k. Th e wor k s ha d b een stand h id from Saturday t o M on d ay , an d a quant i ty of ale accumulated in them. Th e t wo men , con t ra ry r heedlessly took a naked candle instead of a Ds v f i l o a leS into their workings, and in a short time An e „.. r irP. :ops took place, which burned them very severely. al e „ - beia is entertained of the recovery of Milnes, and 3 18 ° 1 1 0 ,, lies in a very precarious state.—Manchester Guard nor MAURITIUS AND ADEN STEAM-PACKETS.--Tb e port tear of yesterday contains the fellowing letter fronl - `, o s Louis, dated the 27th of October :—" The Gerere,, - ab of the Mauritius has lately conceded to an Anelcer e r ' c 's, company, having its head establishment at Port al e T l bs the packet service between that colony and Aden.. t his Government of the Isle de la Reunion has joined in . 0 1 undertaking, and by means of a treaty which it has lee' concluded with the Anglo-French Company, has alto cured the direct and re g ular despatch of th e wail° 'ol our colony, by way of Suez. The company does t h e possess as yet more than two vessels on this pi e• Mascareignes and the Governor Higginson, both r o e vided with screw.propellere. But there is reason to af sieve that the Governor Higgins on , w hi c h h as relativil a very considerable steam p ower, w ill alone suffice' c e the speed which it can comman d , f or a mont hl y sell' o f between Aden and Port Louis. The trip from On! of those points to the other will be accomplished in the 12 days, and th e t wo colonies of the Maurit i us a nd ' o ' Isle de l a Re un i on will thus be brought within 2 6 da l e a eita , 0 and 28 day s ' j ourney o f the i r respective home ge v meats. Th e vesse l w ill l eave P ort L ou i s on the " to , and Aden on the 13th of each month. Another ste ll e a packet service which has lately been established beta's England and Calcutta, calli nga t th e C a p e o f Good IJli. Mauritius, Ceylon, and Madras, is likewise calculateetb• facilitate communications between Mauritius and • Isle de la Reunion on th e one par t, an d the rni- jo markets on the other, wh ence b o th th ose i nsu lar-OW derive rice and grain for their subsistence." rd , A CHESS BALL.—A letter f rom H anover , in tbe- - % e l describes a grand fancy ball g i ven i n th e Th e atre . 04 e i b e by Count Platen, Minister of Foreign Affairs. b i • royal family arrived at n i ne p unc t ua ll y , accompan i e d e e the Grand Duchess Al exan d r i ne o f R uss i a . The Qu e o - 4 wore a white dress embr o ide re d w ith p ear ls ; the Gr!,, n t Duchess was dres se d i n th e cos t u me of the an,c l : • Czarinas of Rus s i a . •Th e p rocee dings commenced by ' procession of livin g c h essmen , the kings, eineena, 7 0 4 other pieces all magn ifi cen tly dressed. After the Poo cession the pieces took up a position on a gigs P. O board prepared for the purpose. Two magicians th i , played a game, which excited great interest and sae,. tainment. After this chess match, dances illustrat e of all countries and classes of population ensued, 0 continued until the morning. A murder has just been committed at Constantin o n le , which has created conside ra ble sensation, particulari,/ among the European population. The victim is an A l h g o -' : 1 d ah the s rae o d h e u I horses,atin p r i ib a eo n ,u , tw ah2ase years u rne h d j elirceeta ago,ol f sa er r d eeadasi established an], fortune,i himselfeti d e j s i s a S ot ti f l c e Suleiman, dealer ats n aat , :i chance made him the witness of amurder of a yr" ere e captain by a Tunisian colonel, but not wishing to cu • eto forward as a • witness, he determined to conceal -. 0 knowledge . of the affair. Unfortunately he imparted h i d aancqu.aintance with the matter in confidence to a frieD polled 1) 1 some means it became known, and he was cc ect e . i t ) ri l b le to appear and give evidence before the tribunal. From that moment Hadji Sulei man felt a fele presentime n t which has been but too fully recogni s ee theOn l7th Feb. six individuals called on him, aest : l isted o n his retracting his deposition on pain of els e " discussion ensued, during which a se rvan t o f his ran d , O and brought th e guar d f rom a ne i g hb our i ng pos t. At " f g. moment when Hadji was exp'aining the affair to the ,e cer of the guard, o ne o f th e s i x persons d rew ou t a ° 9l '; ger, and stabbed him to the heart. The assassin 's 0 young man from the No of Crete, and pGssesses , i4 O said, a fortune of 1,500,000 piastres (300,0000. confessed his crime, and says that he was exasperate d the calumnies which Hadji Suleiman had uttered sgee. i tie him. As the d e c ease d was a F renc h subject the au o is in the hand s o f th e F renc h au th cr i t l es . T wo of ' I ' relatives are in the French service. One is a broth; is a captain i n th e native tiradleurs, and has received . cross of the Legion of Honour and the military tne dB ,. il e the other, his n e ph ew , i s a sub-lieutenant in the se— regiment. The son of the deceased is in the college Algiers,