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

THEATRE. LT ER • MAJESTY'S LA TRAVIATA. PICCOLOMINI, GIiJGLINI, BENEVENTANO, POCC - dINT EXTRA NIGHT, T J-MOR 110 W _EVENING, Apri 3). LA TRAVIATA. Violetta, Mdlle. Piceolomint. Ballet—LA ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda, Mdlle. Poc.ehini. For particulars see bills. A limited number of boxes in the Half Circle Tier have been specially reserved for the public, and may be had on ap plication at the Box-office at the Theatre Colonnade, Hay market. Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. THER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Second appearance of Marille. ORTOLANI. GIUGLINI, RENEVENTANO, BELLETTI, POCCHINI ON SATURDAY EVENING, May 2 (the second time Lhese seven years), Bellini's Opera of I PURITAN!. Madlle. 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 may be had on applica tion at the Box-office, at the Theatre Colonnade, Haymarket. Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. - J J -ES BOUFFES PARISIENS (French Plays), ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. It is respectfully announced that the Entire Company of Les BOUFFE PARISIENS, from the TheAtre des Bouffes, in the Champs Elysees, and the Thefare Comte, Passage Choiseul, Paris, will have the honour of appearing at the St. James's Theatre, on WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 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, Guyot, Gertpre, &c., Mesdernoiselles Dalmont and Marechal, will have the honour of making their first appearance in this country. The performances will be selected from the following rd pertoire : LE VIOLONEUX.... M'SIEU LANDRY, Musique de M. Offonhael. „ „ Duprats, „ Adolphe Adam, „ Bizet et Lecocq Offenbach. Mozart. Onnbach. Offanbacb. Offenbach. PANTINS DE VIOLETT E LE DOC PEITR MIRACLE PEPITO L'IMPRESARIO LA BONNE D'ENFANTS.. BATA.O f AN , LE ROSE DE St FLEUR CROQUEFERS, LS DERNIER „ Offenbach. DES .... LES DEUX A VEUGLES.. Offenbach. Offenbach. TROMB-AL•CAZAR SIX DEMOISELLES A MARIE R, LE DUEL DE BENJAMIN, LA NUIT BLANCHE „ Offenbach. Jonas Offenbach. &c.. dze., dre. Owing to the limited duration of this engagement per. formances will be given every evening, but - subscribers 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 nieht--Stalls. 10s. ad.; Public Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 2s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 2s. Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets may be engaged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE THIS EVENING, will be performed Shalrespere's trlgedy of KING RICHARD THE SECOND. King Richard IL, Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by A GAME OF ROMPS. T TIEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee- r -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. Bnckstone, Comp ton Howe, W. Farren, Rogers ; Mesdames Reynolds, Poyn ter, Fitzwilliam, After which, the sinceessfai Classical Love Story, tin der the Apple-lation of A rALANTA ; 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 o? the evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second pike. 5. d Dress Boxes., • 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes._ ......... 2 0 Pit . 2 0 Pit 1 0 Lower Gallery I 0 Lower Gallery ..... 0 6 Upper Gallery T HEATRE ROYAL, ADEL PHI, Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed LIKE AND IJULIK E. Chara••ters l p Messrs. Wright, Paul Bedford, die.; 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. 10 0Y A L SURREY THEATRE, It' Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek. THIS EVENING will be performed BRUTUS. Brutus Mr. Cr2swiek. After which, OUR NELLY. Miss Poole. Follbwed by THE DEAR SAVOYARD AND HIS MONKEY. The Monkey, Mr. Flexmore. Melly Bell (with songs: R OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, will he 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. ALSTLETS ROYAL AMP HIT EATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. THIS EVENING (continued Success), the highly successful Military Spectacle, called THE FRENCH IN ALGIERS; or, The Battle ~f Constantine. Novel nad effective situations by Mr. W. Cooke's beautiful Horses, trained by him. After which, the inimitable SCENES in the CIRCLE, in troducing Miss Kate Cooke on her beautiful charger, Snow & op. The performance of Signor Corcl:i and Family. To conclude with A MIRTHFUL FARCE. Co:mimeo at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper ?loxes, Zs. ; Private Bozos, from IL, no charge for booking ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6cl. iioz office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager ; Mr. W. West, Equestrian Director, &fr. W. Cooke, jun. CANTERBURY HALL. Westminster-roarl. OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ins; company of Vocalists aro engaged for the performance of ..elections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, C v lees, Duets, dr.c., viz. : Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss BrUnell, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S. Jones. J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corgi Senor Antonio M. de Solla, and E. L. Hume ; Masters Bennett an Corgi; Messrs. Sam Cowell, Sam Collins, and E. Mackney. Piannfortl, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre cisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock. REGLI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tl3/13 1)1,7 —Morn. 11 ruin. aft. 5 —Evening 38 Tata. aft, 5 ro-MoßP.ol4—Morn. 5 min. aft. G—Evening 35 rem. aft '6 TUE WEATHER—SUN Onnor, ArErr, THERMOMSTER, IN TER Sue Dz. 47 —highest singe noon yesterday. 41—lowest this morning and during the night. 52 —this day at noon. BAROURTER. 30 08. ; light, with fine sunshiny weather. • 4 "1:44 1 TI) t , LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1857. Honour to tha 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 adventarous 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 racord of these remarkable proceedings on the part of Sir JAMES BROOKE, penned by his Excellency himself in the form of a most explicit aikl detailed com munication. Together with this particularly straightforward and unostentatious narrative, there have come to us, happily, the opportune commentaries of the local journals of Singapre. Nevertheless, even without the adventitious light thrown by these last-mentioned advices upon the recent exploits of Rajah BROOKE in Bornec, 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 selr-passession by which the conduct of this extraordinary mail 11. , s throughout the whole of these perillous proceed ings been pre-eminently distinguished. What are those facts? They are worthy of re- capitulation :-- ft vas about midnigh on the 17th-18th Feb. THE SUN, 'LONDON ) WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1 Sis 7. when some 200 of the Chinese section of tile Borneo-population (having secretly armed them selves) stealthily descaided the river as far as the town of Kuchin, anrl—sun%lunaing it —made sudden and desperate nocturual assault ou that seat of the British Rajah's Gs)vernment. So ad mirably was this murderous adventure contrived, at the moment when the attack commenced inhabitants were one and all slumbering. The bloody work of the insurgent Kungsi began ended for that night without one chance of being in any way impeded, without the slightest possibility of rousing among the assailed even a and " show" of retaliation. The two Forts (one above and the other below Kuchin, and both of ;hem 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. CaooKsHANK) 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 ungle. Mr. NICHOLETS, a guest in the RAJan's household was murdered and his corpse burnt in the ruins of Sir JAMESBROOKE'S residence. Mr. WELLINGTON, one of the company's employees, was also assassinated, and after assassination was de capitated 1 Mr. MIDDLEToN, a settler at Kuchin, had his house set in flames and two of his children destroyed in the conflagration. His Excellency himself contrived to elude the grasp of tie das- tardly midnight cutthroats who were in search of him, by an escape, as the phrase runs, almost miraculous—certainly one very desperate Al ex traordinary. A few days previously, feeling in disposed, Sir JAMES meditated, it appears, an excursion for change of air on the Sadong River as far as Simunjang. His departure delayed, however, by unforseen circunast ',noes, the R A JAIt was now compelled by this abrupt nocturnal on- slaught upou'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. kean while—the flames spreading at Kuchin, the mur ders multiplying, the Treasury being sacked, the Government property being either deAroyed or purloined. Such was the rebellious outrage perpetrated by those 200 insurgent Kungsi or Chine,o during that terrible midnight attack of the 17th-18th February, upon the scat 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 population numbering about 4,000 or 5,000 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 b this sudden revolutionary and sanguinary outbreak by the intelligence received of the atrocities then recently perpetrated by their ce-barbarians and fellow-cOuutrymen at Canton, and Whampoa, and Hong Kong upon the local English Residents. They determiued (as our Gallic neighbours have it) to evidence in a very signal manner their sympathetic fraternisation with YEE( and the other Miscreant-" Celestials." To accomplish this the most effectually they 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 171.11-18th February. But the R-►jah's Retaliation for this Atrocity ? It was delayed, but it was only When it came it was terri ble—it was complete and overwhelming. Having returned a few days afterwards to Kuchin, to the amazement of the Chinese, who had fully counted upon his destruction, ho 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 furmer occasion, and taking with him, upon this his second withdrawal before them, the whole of the surviving Earo peens. Thereupon, he moved forward at once towards Liuga—meeting, however, on his way thither, a steamer (auspiciously Galled af,er him self, "The Sir James Brooke") fresh from Silage.- pore. The Rajah returned on board that steamer to Kuchin swept the Chinese Ruffians out of the town they had only captared by a bloody surprise—and Then, with the aid of the neighbouring Malays and commenced the deadly and terrible work of Retribution. A Re tribution, we repeat, the most complete and over whelming ! Everywhere the Chinese wore pur sued and shot down by the Maltys, the Dyaks, and the British. The vengeance paused not until the ruffian horde was all but aunihilated. Uati. 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 to this statement, "Out of a population of from 4,000 to 5,000 not more than 2,000 have escaped, and half this number is c 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, sot the seal to his heroic reputation. He has done more lie 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 and resolute Englishman. How now about the miserable peace-at-any price principles of the so-called (but we exult to know the erroneously 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 tasies of this miserable mock philanthropy. It is to daring and valorous Englielimen like Sir JANES 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 "t) 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 largo 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 palpatly incompetent ! It was on Tuesthy, the 7th ice., 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, ,he.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, — 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, ." It cause ha presumed to talk iu most innocent , strains at South Molt m of the Whig Reforms he had laelpad to obtain, and of the possibility of some crumbs being yet to be picked up which fell from the table iu 1632. 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 eitpectecl 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 Palmerstouian 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 enough. It is expected that Parliament and PALMERSTON 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 ao 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 com mence a Reform agitation ? They could do it consistently. What would become of " well-con ••iidered" 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 ,00se among the constituencies again T This seethe zo 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. BERXELEY will not wait on the conve aionce of Lord PALarERSTON and his journals. Neither will Mr. LOCKZ KIN*. 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. He cannot wait to be outbid. fie will not like to be anticipated in his own de partment. The motions of others will oblige both isim and Lord PA.LMERSTON to speak out a little ; each, too, will ba on his own good behaviour before the country, and must at least give us his draft Reform Bill this Session. At present the offers )f the Ministerial organ are meagre enough. Not A single word respecting the Ballot ; too vulgar radicalism that, for leading journals even to speak if, fit only for BENTIISMS, and GROTZS, and AOLBSWORTHS, and Colonel THOMPSONS, and the rest of the noisy inconsiderat3 herd. No ; a franchise extended to all the educated classes ; some forty boroughs cashiered ; a few big towns enfranchised, and a batch of minority meniliers in troduced as a compensating drag on the enlarged constituencies, and that will do ! It will satisfy the country. Wield it ? Let the Premier try it on. HEALTH OP THE DUCHESS OF GLOU- CESTER. The following bulletin was issued this morning : " Gloucester House, April 29, 9 a.m. "Her Royal Highness tbe Duchess of Gloucester f. 3 more feeble to-day than her Royal Highness was yesterday. (Signed) "F. HAWKINS, M.D. " ROBERT. FERGUSON, M.D. " E. H. HILLS." T m IEI T LA I PERSIA. MARSEILLES, ArIIL 28. The intelligence of the Treaty of Peace between lingland and Pei sia arrived at Bagdad on the 27th of March. FRANCE. PARIS, TITESDAY EVENING. The Duke de Cambaceres, grand master of the ceremonies, has addressed to the foreign ambassa• 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 statirr , 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 a:Tompany 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 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 be tt a salute ; at the Tuileries the ordinary guard of the Palace will render to H.I.H. the honours due to the princes of the Imperial family. On his arrival at the Palace will be received at the foot of the staircase of the Pavilion de l'Elorloge by the Grand. Master of the Ceremonies and the Grand Chamber lain. The Eaiperor will wait at the top of the staircase to receive H.1.H.; his Majesty will after wards conduct him into tLe saloon, in which the Empress, surrounded by the officers and ladies of her household, will be seated ; the presentation of persons composing 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.1.H.: —the Marquis de Belmont, chamberlain to the Emperor ; Baron de Bourgoing, equerry to H. M. ; and Lieutenant-Colonel Fave, orderly officer to the Ensperor (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. f. Every time that H. I. H. gots out, an escort of honour will precede and follow' his carriag?, unless he shall otherwise order. Oa 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 inscrib3 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. .Bounsz, April 28.—The following were the last quotations Cash. fr. c 4i per °tints 3 por Cents 63 95 Bank Shares 4,375 Credit Mobilier 1,310 Roman Do. Account — Austrian Belgian 4 Piedmontese (5) 9O -- Home Debt RAILWAYS—FOR CASH. End of Month. —fr. 68 95 fr. c. fr c, Orleans 1,470 Western Northern - Lyons . 1,560 New Ditto - Mediterranean 2,112A— Grand Central - Geneva - Sardinian - Midi - Austrian Corn. Genoa touching the portion of entrance dues which I are to be p:tid ins o the royal tr Thu law fixes the sum at 80.06017 c.: tho coniinuml ocuucil 1 in its hot siltivg:virru,l)y refer e 1 to pay- the tax. by voting only 90,000 fr.; af,er which the whol council resigned. It is believed that the Govern ment will send a royal coannissoner to take charge of the munic:pal 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 Cuetorus in 1856 was 16,446,691 lire (13,7415,575-fiance), being 556,851 lire more than the sum fixed in the budget for that year. THE UNFOI? PUNAT .1 SHIP TRANSIT. :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 oxtract, placed in his hands yesterday for publi cation : " Her Majesty's ship Transit, Corunna, April 19. " Here we are ! done up ! Two days' Bay' wea thers sent us in here to be fresh rigged ; you never sew a worse sea boat in your life---erank top-heavy, and everything that's bad ! We have everything we could wish is the way of provisions—only two clays' salt since we came on board ;—but such an old. tub you never saw ; the rigging never set up, or a nything 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 m'aet have gone over the bows. We had to get ta elides across the decks from side to side to brace tb_e rigging in to save the spars, in fact a greater tab to roll I never knew, She is t - ip-heavy. lam certain she will never weather the Cape, or she will d . )o,3i.ve all on board both soldiers and blue-jackets. Sine: is a disgrace to the British Government, and meee 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 the re are not one dozen men (troops) on boird with a d::y hammock, every seam in her deck letting in water. They had to give, or at least did give, extra gro g. if If r .. Chis letter is from an intelligent and responsible por son ou board the Transit, and is authenticated by name, rank, awl every other ess.:mtial establish ing the credit of the wri:er. The Duke of Newcastle 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 few days, from Balls Park, Hertford, for tb.a season. Viscount Raynham comes to town to.mor ro.w. The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke and the Ladies Y orke have left Wimpole Hall for Newmarket, whence th ey will come to town to-day for the season. The Earl and Countess Waldegrave are at present at: tying at Hastings, and will not return to town until the 12th of next month. • The Earl and Countess of Wemyas are staying at their sea ,t in East Lothian, and will not return to town until the latter end of next month. '..C11.3 Earl of Lincoln ; returned to town on Saturday, from Nottingham. Viscount Castlerosse has arrived in Belgrave-square, from Killarney, for the meeting of Parliament. L )rd and Lady Etcho arrived in town a few days since froir L Italy, and have taken a house in Upper Beigrave stre 3t, for the season. T he Hon. George Frederick and Mrs. Boyle have ar rive d at the Countess Dowager of Glasgow's residence, Ch eshana-place. '.tlr. and Mrs. Henry Potre have arrived at Barkeley scpiare, for the season. 'Mr. and Miss Longueville Clarke have arrived for the sea son at their residence in Eaton-square. Mr. Bollard arrived at the Foreign-office here, yester• day morning, with extraordinary despatches from Lord .pier, her Majesty's Minister in America. A Cabinet Council was held at the official residence of th , e First Lord of the Treasury, Downing-street, yester• day. The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Le.nsdowne, the Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, the Elrl of Clarendon, ,Ir. Secretary Labouchere, 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. MEETING OF CONVOCATION.- - Tile archbishop, the deans of cathedra's, the archdeacons, and the proctors recently elected to represent the clergy of the various dioceses of the province of Canterbury, will assemble at St. Paul's Cathedral, at a quarter before 11, on Fri day next for the purpose of formally opening the new egnvootion. THE PRINCIPALITIES. The Etoile du, Danube cont.-tins iu its number of the 25th sever 1 letters from Jassy and Romano, in which it is stated that arrests, illegal, detentions, dismissals, iutimi.lation, false runaour , , 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 prtsent Go vernment. I be 4 you to interfere to procure my re lease. I send a despatch by telegraph to the Caimacan an 1 to the French consuI.—BASILIC POPOVIOI 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 unible 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 Couucil (Marshal Narvaez). It was reported that a bill on the press of a very restrictive character was to be presented to the Corte;s. A telegraphic despatch received from Rome, of the 22d, states that Mgr. Simeoni, charge d'affaires to Madrid, had left for his dei,- tivation. THE FORTHCOMING SPEECH OF THE QUEEN OF SPAIN. The Debats of this day (the 29th lost) publishes an analysis of the Royal Speech, which will be re id by General Narvaez, in the QuTien's name, 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 hare 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 pa-t. The difficult ies caused by the high pr ice 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 sesdon, 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 greater 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 possesors of large territorial fortunes. The fortune would be the flotation 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 then 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 obtaiuing its consent to the treaty concluded with Denmark for the redemption of the Sound due?. According to the Universal German Gazette, measures are to be taken in Saxony similar to those adopted in Prussia, for preventing the cinnilation 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 dnd the Archduchess Sophia immediately paid her a visit, and H. It. 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 bill for the fortifications of Ales sandria by a majority of 45 to 8. • A serious misunderstanding has arisen between the Sardinian Cahinet and the municipality of 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 I It wouli 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 Vie 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' d.eti. ciencies. The damage to the Transit was there. fore speedily repaired, and she was again des. patched with troops and stores for the scene o strife. The result may easily be anticipated. We are told that " She has put into Corunna, in deep disq.ess." 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, tap-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 tickles across the deck, from side to side, to brace the rigging in to save the spars." There were not " out dozen men on board with dry hammocks, every seam in 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 iu 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 apethetic 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 thear and eternity. Tice litter 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 were paid off and cast adrift ! 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 all 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 triumpb, but it will not be in consequence, but rather in spite, of their proceed ings. We trust that there will be a Parliamentary investigation into the ease. It will bo 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 may be prevented from partici. pating in the Chinese war, through her inefficiency, aye, and think themselves fortunate that they are sacrificed as victims at the shrine of official " red tapism." The eve of Parliament has come, and the Pre mier makes no sign. Sir G. C. LEWIS has spoken, and Lord JOHN RussELL has spoken, but still no sign—nothing 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 made its sign ; the Times, last Monday, actually came out with a leader advocating Par liamentary Reform 1 To be sure the oracle does it very grudgingly ; for long weeks and months his it boeu proclaiming that no one wanted a Reform Bill ; every candidate, where there was a spark of independence, was, indeed, catechised on the subject ; extension of the suffrage and the Thllot, were universal passports to popular favour ; last session began, the dissolution took place, the elections proceeded with universal demand for reform, yet, strange to say, no one wanted it. A PALMERSTON Parliament was chosen, but it was notoriously--PALMERSTON and REFoRm, yet, who wanted Reform ? Tory and Whig journals ex pressed their fears that Lord PALMERSTON would be 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, it hunted poor Lord J. RU SELL mercilessly, be-. TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Another of Mr. Lumley's new vocalists made her first appearance last night, namely, Mdlle. Angiola Ortolani. 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 position 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, arid her appearance lady like, this deficiency is not remembered to her disad vantage. Ile singing of Mdl!e. Ortolani, viewed ' in the abstract, is not likely to ravish the town, in asmuch as the executaticy, 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 a'so 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 he certainly delivered with exquisite finish and expression, worthy of all ad miration. Nor u 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 miser•a," one of the pet exploits of operatic ter ors, and in the bands of such a gracious and satisfactory exponent as Signor Giuglini, inevitably suggestive of delight. That he should ho encored was but tie natural course of things. The parts of Giorgio and Riccardo were effectiv,ly filled by Signor Belletti and Signor Beneventano. After the opera, the third tableau, from the celebrated baltet • Esmeralda," was given, when the charming Pocchinni displayed feats the most surpassing in the choregraphic art ; an I Signor Filippo Boratti proved himself to be a dancer of first-rat 3 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 Grid and Mario as the representatives of the heroine and hero. These pets )nations are thoroughly familiar to the patrons of the theatre, aad have long . been ranked among the best of the combined efforzs of the two moot popular operatic artists of the day. Grisi, who is singing this year with little deteriora tion either of voioe or fluency, avien 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, and 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. Mario, 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 sung 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 Zelgar the monk B.tldassare. The house was well attended. THE RUSSIAN RAILWAY ROBBERY SCHEME. The Steele 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 bead of the enterprise. We only stated that by the statutes of the company, the majority of the council of a'lministration wi I always . remain Russian. Also, 'we cannot conceive that our re gret that the majority should not be composed of French Men, or of any other nation, can be con strued into a crime. We thought we wore paying a compliment to the non-Russian members in pie . ferring them to their Muscovite partners, but their clumsy friends have imagined that it was our wish to insult them. We are also a'..x.used 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 in'erferes in all import. ant questions. It is true that we wilfully omitted this circumstance and many others 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 I By Russians ! You deliberate in Pad., but on what ? Only on that which is found convenient for you to be made familiar with. You will deliberate whilst in Russia they will act ; yet you tetra 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 beLeving that our capital would be infinitely better employed in completing our great lines and our branches, in endowingalgeria with q, complete network, and in reducing the rate of discount, which weighs on agriculture, industry, and commerce," The remaining journals contain no articles of interest. DIAiIKET NEWS.— (This 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 bad a good demand for oats, and prices were well supported. Beans, peas, and flour roo:ed off steadily, at late rates. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. 1,770 1 2,010 Oats. English. Irish Flour. 1,36 J Foreign..,,, 1'2,660 14,180 1,690 I 11,750 • -- BOROUGH HOP. There is a moderate business doing in most kinds of hops and prices generally are supported. WILITECHAPEL. Beef from 3s 2d to 4s 6d; mutton, 38 4d to 4s 8d ; lamb, 4 g 6 d to 5s ; veal, 4s 01 to 4s 8d ; pork, 43 Od. to 53 Od per 81hs., by the carcase. A moderate 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 I.s. 31 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 F ropri. tors' shares, affording a nomination tor the general committee, with a life nomination to the freedom of the theatre, to be filled up at any time—sold at 5 guineas the lot. Five birailar shares, at the same price; while a third lot of similar shares sold at 7i guineas, FRENCH coN,FuL TO PARMA. cry good authority nAt the French GOyerument contetipiate s:.4ding a Charge d'Affairei (" Hohorazy Consul'—what ever that may mean), at any rate a diplomatic agent, to the Court of Parma. The Emperor Napoleon may have his own excellent reasons for .t, seems now aseertainf. on adJpting such a course, besides the paltry object of watching the few stray bewigged dotards, " men who have suffered losses," who will still venture on occasional calls upon the Count de Chambord's sister. France has her own "legitimate influ ence" to maintain in whatever may be the meaning of that quaint, old, stereotyped expression. we have quoted ; for • the actual in- flu - enca at the present moment exercised by the sons of the heroes of Arcola and Marengo is limited 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 no political interests, no commercial prospects, no moral obligations to compel her to look somewhat closely to her own business in that quarter of the globe 1, We have Ministers at Tutin 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 iar 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 t? 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 enewy to the policy which the English nation has set its heart upon having pursued towards , Italy, whilst our Turin representative, Sir J. Hudson, 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 IVlodena 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 leseona in diplomatic wisdom should come from the French Emperor, we think we ought at any rate to lose no time in following a good example, and sending our own diplomatic agent close upon the footsteps of the French " Honorary Consul." We have not forgotten that a traditsonal irrationality deprives us of the means of communicating wish 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. But there is, north of the Apennine , , a vast division of the Roman States—the very heart and soul of the Pontifical territory—about which mu- Foreign Secretary is left as thoroughly in the dark as if it were the sanctum sanctorum of the Em peror of Japan. Now it is easy to demonstrate that Parma is only thirty miles from Modena, and Modena little more than twenty from Bologna, so that our agent at Parma could, without any great strain, have au eye upon the second city of the Roman States, as well as upon the Austrian pro vinces lying only 12 miles from Parma, across the I Po. We think enough has bean said to show the expediency of fixing a British representative at Parma at such an anxious moment as the pre sent. Unwilling as we are to lavish praises ou Napoleon 111., we cannot but give him credit for the great tact and shrewdness he has shown on the present occasion, and acknoW ledge the opportuneness of his resolution. These two duchies lie at the very heart of Italy, and they are the very first bone of contention between those two rival powers which, even in the most pro found peace, are necessary rivals for the mastery of the peninsula—Austria and Sardinia. We have already often stated our conviction that Piedmont can by no possibility hold an isolated posi tion and that the day on which another Italian State, no matter how small, can be made to join the policy of Victor Einanuel's Government, will be the herbinger of new destinies for the whole 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 coins to the best political ,understanding with Piedmont, and that is Parma. We know that its Minister of Finance, M. Lombardini, has, with a moral courage of which every Italian has a right to Le proud, ventured to hurl defiance against Austria, by peremptorily refuing to renew the compact of the Customs League which the Court of Vienna has imposed upon other Italian States.; we know that MM. ()Atari, Pallavicini, an d other ministers, who came into power sing' Providence removed Charles the Third, a re we''' meaning, intelligent, moderate men, who would fain render their wise counsels acceptable to the weak minded and bigoted, but good-natured Princess wn° now governs the Duchy in behalf of that Bourbon maniac's heir. It is impossible to imagine a case in which& lover of fair play could find a better opP.°l - of using his 'influence. Here is an Italian, State in which th e Sovereign , the Ministers, the people are of o ne mind; aiming at redress, remedy, and oblivion of an irrevocable past anxious to obtain such freedom of a c tion as 0 13 -Y ; allow them to work hand in hand for the commo n good. •Already, single-handed, isolated, forsaken' exposed to all the bullying threats, to all the treacherous intrigues to which Austria inveriablf resorts when she dares not employ open violence —already, we say, have the Parrnese Govern' merit won two signal victories over the Cabine t of Vienna. Lowbardini has emancipated the coun try from a commercial connexion which was, in fa n a grievous tribute and a-great clog upon the COin' merce and industry of the State, and after Austria had repeatedly threatened to withdraw her troop s from the Duchy she has been compelled to mak e good her threat by recalling her battalions, who se presence must have been so galling to those -Por" migiani, who since the days of Tassoni are prover: bully nemici alla Tcdescheria, the most inveterate enemies of the Croat to be found in all Italy. The danger for Parina is, however, by no means gone by ; on the contrary; the greatest uneasines s prevails iu the Duchy, and for the very best reasons' Driven from the capital, and from all the open country, the Austrians muster stronger than WI iu the second city of the Duchy, Piacenza. Entitled by the iniquitous stipulations of 1814 to occupy th e citadel—the old dismantled citadel of that place": not only do they occupy the whole town, but the; .have erected formidable outworks all round 1 t , 6 gates ; they patrol a n d exerc i se th e po li ce au tborli4 fur several miles round the neighbouring countrly and set the civil auth or it y o f th e h e l p l ess D uca l (. 4 e; vernment at defiance. Even at this very naonieh ti artillery and war stores in great quantitieshava he % marched into that st rong h o ld, an d f res h b a ttalin' n ; have been added to it s garr i son . O s t ens ibly,- A ll4 ' r i e concentrates force at Piacenza to show a ferrnidal;p front against Piedmont; but her immediate ob ject is to overawe and intimidate the Dueh e 'l, o Government, and add so many vexatious to t ly, Parmesan subjects at Piacenza that some of tb e di in the blindness of misery, may wish fur the sP ee to and final annexation of their town and countili.. Austria—for Austrian subj ects th e y cer tainlY ready are, with a vengeance. tbat It is under the pressure of such circumstance s lll France sends a diplomatic ageut to Parnia• be Lord Clarendon, or (since little re!iance ca n ' ill placed upon that warm p ar ti san o f A u stria)," i r the Premier, take a hint f rom our "f a i t hful anY o d The Italians have littl e reason t o h ope th a t auYS ti n e i can arise from F r e n ch i n t er f erence a l on e. know the fate of those of their brethren who b rier o been for the last e i g ht years ex p o i e d t o the ;e -rep mercies of the author of the letter to Edouard' They may well say, T. Danaos ! Can Bng b u t do any good 1 It cannot at Naples, it is dear at Naples the screw. is to be put on a sovereig n ly Parina it is a sovereign asking for a rescue.--op tl. Neu's. • , AN IMPERFECT TRAP.—Hemp and other cong:o9oa; ties have for some time been stolen from war e "a" in Newcastle, and the other day a thief Wag Th e covered in a tall range of stores in the Close. - ,,, - a key of the entrance-door was turned upon birei 5 : 0 could be got. The prisoner, however, was he was left in his huge lock up until a policer n ,J, posed to a t d o e a h w is ait wa th y e in a t r o riv a al wa o or f not u l . j u stice' floor, ware room and to a door from which lowered into tbe street. First too:sing his bags ds of ar b e eot down to the officer of top pavement, he lifted his eyes g to a hook that ewu l Lg n i l air in connection with a crano inside. Ile ` -- 11 8 c1 have had some familiarity with the Prer nisleg ' rely known that his weight would suffice to effect a leisuree . descent, or he would not have hazarded the ent_ort 'prise which he medidated. A. desperate leap re u ., k be made to catch the book, and if he missed his req nothing could save him from being dashed to death. But liberty is sweet. He sprang upward and forwArd, cog% the hook, and was next moment travelling slowly bu: surely downward. It was daylight, and eyes w ere pc,, ' arri vivo. him, but nothing wrong was suspected. bo, _ O , safely at the bottom , he g athered u p his bags uoi." Looted : and walked off.—Gateshead Observer. . . sha the tie: bus act Rai Por 14,1 exp the terd rein[ are 5 98i , (Tra lie t Maid give tb e Pros ttal