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

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Second Night of LUCIA DI LAVIMERIVIOOR. OPICOOLOMINI, GIUGLINI, BELLETTI, VIOLET 11, POCCHINI. THIS EVENING (SATURDAY), May 9. LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. 'I. - acia, Piccolomini (her second appearance in that part). Edgardo, Sig. Giuglini. Ballet—LA ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda, Mlle. 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 ap plication at the Boa-office at the Theatre Colonnade, Hay market. Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. Madame ALBONI will make her first appearance on Tues day next, as Rosina, in IL BARBIERE DI SEVIGLIA. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Last appearance of Madlle. Pocchini. PICCOLOMINI, GIUGLINI, BELLETTI, VIOLEPTI. On THURSDAY EVENING, May 14, an Extra Night. LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Lucia, Piccolmini ; Edgardo, Sig, Giuglini. After which, LA ESMERALDA. Li Esmeralda, Madlle. Pocchini (her last appearance.) 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- Von at the Box-office, at the Theatre Co!onnade, Haymarket. Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. ES BOUFFES PARISIENS-St. JAMES'S J THEATRE. - FIRST REPRESENTA TION, WEDNESDAY, May 10.-1. M'SIEU LANDRY, Operette, 1 Acte.--2. LES DEUX AVEUGLES, Bouffon nerie, Musicale, 1 Acte. Musique de Offenbach. —3. BA-TA CLAN, Chinoiserie Musicale, 1 Acte. Musique de Offenbach. Principal Characters by Messrs. Pradeau, Guyot, Gerpro, and Leonce ; Mesdlles. Dalmont, Marechal, Belnoir, and Mace — their first appearance in this country. The Orchestra of the Theatre des Bouffes will accompany these Representations, 'under the direction of the popular composer, M. Offenbach — To commence at half-past 8 o'clock.—This Engagement being limited to one month, Performances will be given Every Even ing. —Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be engaged at Mr. Mit chell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. _ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING will be performed Shakespere's trtgedy of KING RICHARD THE SECOND. King Richard 11., Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by A GAME OF ROMPS. THEATRE ROYAL, LEAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buekstone. NEW ARRANGEMENT OF PRICES OF ADMISSION. THIS EVENING (May 9) to commence at Seven o'clock, with THE EVIL GENIUS. Tom Ripstone, Mr. Buckstone. After which, the muccessfu` Classical Love Story, un der the Apple-lation of A I'AL kNTA ; or, The Three Golden Apples : in which Miss M. Oliver will appear; also Miss M. Wilton, and Miss Ellen Ternan. Followed by the drama of A WICKED WIFE. Concluding with A KISS IN THE DARK. In future the prices will be :---- Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d. Dress Boxes 5 0 I) , •ess Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 Pit........ Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery. T HEATRE ROYAL, AD ELPHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed PAUL PRY. Followed by a new Farce, called FEARFUL TRAGEDY IN THE SEVEN DIALS. To conclude with the new and original domestic sketch, entitled WELCOME, LITTLE STRINGER. Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Bedford, aw. IRY A L SURREY THE XTRE, LessePg. Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. THIS EVENING will be performed PIZARRO. After which, THE GOOD FOR NOTHING. Mr. Widdi combe, &c. To conclude with THE D.I.NCING SCOTCH AAN. Mr. Flexmore, and Madlle. Anriol, &c. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE, Logaeo, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING will performed a new drama, called DADDY HARDACRE. Mr. Robson, kc. To conclude with YOUNG AND HANDSOME. Messrs Robson, G. Murray, d:c. Commence at ba7f-;east Seven. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE La. Lea4ee and MAnager, Mr. W. Cooke. Unprecedented success of the New Grand Military Spec tacle, in which W Cooke's highly trainel Horses appear in novo! and exciting situations. THIS EVENING (Saturday,) the Entertainments will commence with the New Mililsary Spectacle, in three Acts, entitlA THE FRENCH iN ALGIERS; or, The Battle of Constantine. To be followed by Recherche SCENFI74 IN THE ARENA, giving an EQUESTRIAN PE CE ; introilueinz the great ar tistes of the establishment, including Miss Kate Cooke. Signor Corclli and Family, and a variety of other entertain ments. Commetco at seven o'clock. Dress PorCo4, 4s. ; Upper B )xes, 35.; Private Boxes, from IL, no Crarge for booking ; P.t, 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Uppar Gallery, B ,c-fiMce open from &even till Four. Stage Manager, M. 0/, West. Equestrian Director, Xr. W. Cooke, jun. CA.NTERBU IIY HALL, Westmingter-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow. ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance , elections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Duets, dm, viz.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunel], Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans, it. Grover, T. Farrant, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri. Senor Antonio M. ale Solla, and E. L. Rime ; Masters Bennett and Corri ; Messrs. Sam Cowell, Sam Collins, and B. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre• 41i3e1y. Suppers, dm, until twelve o'clock. ii - IGFI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. 38 DAI---Morn. 3 min. aft. 2—Evening 21 min. aft. 2 nt-Mowtosv—llorn. 37 min. alt. 2 —Rvening 52 mid. aft. 2 TaE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, MAY 9. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 57—higliest since noon yesterday. 44 —lowest this morning and during the night. 59 —this day at noon. BAROMETPR, 20'85. E.S,E. to S.E. ; rather fresh and squally, with sunshine and heavy clouds. Heavy shower of rain anti hailstones. ) A LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1357 It is tolerably notorious by this time, we should imagine, that the Admiralty have made a horribly bad bargain of it three times over—with the Transit, with the Urgent, and with the Persever ance. Let us repeat it—The badness of the bar gain with reference to these three wretched ves sela must be regarded, we should conjecture, as absolutely notorious. Yet, in the very tit3th, as it were, of Facts altogether unde niable—it is actually insisted, with matchless effrontery, by Sir CHARLES WOOD, that everything is in truth most satisfactory relating to any one of these three lumbering " Pill Garlics " of the Deep, these three abominable " 13ig Pickles" of the Transport Service, everything relating to The Transit, to The Urgent, or to the Perseverance. Why, really—than this, we don't recollect at the present moment any more unblushing evidence at once of the folly and of the hardihood of that systematised official perversity of judgment which Mr. DIOKENS has happily designated under the generic name of Circumlocution. In illustration of this we will, first of all, briefly enumerate a few among the Leading Facts relating to these three miserable tub , , called Screw Transports—Facts already alluded to a., at one and the same time, notoriously undeniable. They were categorically mentioned last evening in the House of Commons by the Hon. Gentle sun the Member for Teignmeuth (an authority upon these matters, b e it remem bered I) .but were immediately after wards so very coolly giv en the " go by " by the First Lord of the Admiralty, that it may be just as well they should, seriatim; be here formally recapitulated. As to the Transit, then, first of all ! Don't we every one of us know just a trifle or two in regard to "The Transit" rather to her disadvantage ? Well, yes—we rather conjecture that most of us remember how The Transit left Spithead on the 7th , *ult. with 600 or 700 passengers, an& hating some 286 troops on board be sides, and how, upon the Bth (the very day afterwards) having grounded upon one of her own anchors, and thereby driven a hole in her bottom near the Needles, she was obliged to put back at once for repairs to Portsmouth. Neither have we forgotten how shortly afterwards (having been cobbled and patched into a nominally seaworthy condition, aril having again taken her departure from our shores carrying with her a considerable number of troops and passongers), we beard of her putting, upon the 19th ult., in great distress int) Corunna! This same incorrigible vessel, being thus described by one on board of her (not, observe ! by a Right Hon. Baronet proving black to be white from the Treasury bench of the House of Commons), we find her described by one on board of her, as little better than a mon strous tub, topheavy, rolling, keeping her crow continually wet, having her masts obviously dis proportioned, and her rigging altogether dis- ordered ! As to the Urgent, again—in the second place as to " The Urgent." Well, it is equally noto rious and equally undeniable that she had pre viously left Spithead on the 23d of February, and that then her casualties were simply the following —That at the beginning of March she sprang a dangerous leak in the Bay of Biscay—that her engines could not be worked—that she was com pelled. to go on as best she could without their assist- ante—and that it was actually not until the 27th of March that she (a screw vessel !) ultimately reached her destination ! All the while 800 persons being on board of her, with boat accommodation for no more than 300 at the most—the water rushing into her hold, and the pumps refusing to work ! The fact being (according to the asser tion of ahother " eye-witness," another person actually on board at the time), that the screw of this inestimable ship, " The Urgent," had worked a large piece of iron out of her stern, and thus effectually put a dead lock upon her steam ma- chinery ! Finally, a; to the Perseverance ! Well, as Mr. LINDSAY yesterday observed, rather significantly, " at the Naval Review the Members of the House had experience of the qualities and charac ter of the Perseverance !" Nevertheless—in spite of all these hard and stubborn Facts—if we are to believe Sir CHARLES Woon, " lt's all right ! Don't bother yoursel They're capital ships, every one of them !' They were bought, the Right Hon. Baronet tells us (we knew this before, but that don't matter), they were bought, he tills us, from the Messrs. Mare and Co., " very great shipbuilders on the river, and of the highest character !" They were not built, he reminds us, in a hurry—nothing of the kind—don't think it ! One of them, for example, (everybody knew this also, but let it pass) one of them was built for the Peninsular and Oriental Company and not for war purposes. It was true that a few trivial alterations were made in them after they were purchased, but every one of these alteration's was effected (of course) with the utmost caution and sagacity, in fact t) admiration ! The screws were raised, but that was a mere trifle ! Poops were built up supplementarily upon their decks—not a doubt of it—but really and truly they were nothing to speak of ! But [Read thin Anyone, fur Heaven's sake, simply by the light of common sense !]— " bu'," says Sir CHARLES, " this could not have added any weight to the ship, as the materials of which the poop was made were very slight." We really don't care what the materials they were made of, were—so long as they were "Lnateria!s," they must obviously have added to the weight. Again these three unfortunate ships were re masted after they were in the possession of the Admiralty—but immediately to prove that this could not in the smallest degree affect their sta bility—out pour from the lips of Sir CHARLES WOE), a multitude of facts and figures to prove round square, and square round, and white black, and black white—a douche bath of feet, and inches, and area, and tonnage, reminding one strongly of that douche bath of argument fairly taking the breath but of poor Mr. SQUILLS, at the end of " The Cottons." The Stubborn Facts still remaining, after all this special pleading of the First Lord of the Admiralty—that the Transit did spring a leak in April off the Needles ! Toat the - Urgent did spring a leak in March in the Bay of Biscay ! That the Transit did put, in distress, into Coruena I That the Urgent, although fitted up with the screw, did take more than a whole ca lendar mouth to get to Barbadoes ! That her pumps would net work, and that her ma chinery was useless ! That the Transit did roll like a tub, that her masts were topheavy, that her rigging was loose and disordered—that her own poop, and the poop of the Urgent, and the poop of the Perseverance, were all three encumbrances ! The chopped logic and cooked statistics of Sir C. WOOD to the contrary, never. theless, notwithstanding. Observing all which, one is really fain at heart • to cry out for very anguish-0 for one sweep of COBBETT'S " wet sponge" in other departments besides merely those of the Treasury and th• Exchequer ! What can Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE, of the Liverpool Financial Reform Association, mean ? Has he not received the message from Downing street via Printing-house-squaw, "Take care of PALMERSTON l" If he has not, how can so igno rant a man presume to lecture the representatives of the people, and if he has, how dares he dis obey ? MILTON might address the "High Court of Parliament," though some, doubtless, in his day, thought him very presumptuous ; but Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE—Who is he ?—who— President of the Liverpool Financial Reform As sociation. But who and what are the association ? The League we know, or did know, the Carlton we know, and the Reform Club we know, even the Administrative Reform Association we can just discern, giving, as it does, a sort of glowworm light since it obtained Mr. ROEnuCK'a name, but this Liverpool knot of professed national accoun tauts we can hardly remember having ever heard of them. Stop—when topics ran short about last Christmas, we did read some financial scheme, some absurd project for bleeding every one, so that none should feel the operation—some cotton importing or manufacturing proposal for shutting up all our custom-houses, or converting them into Free Trade halls; it served us as a peg for a leader or two, and we thought no more of it. Thus it pleases the leading organ to notice Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE'S address to the New Parliament. What does it mean ; when Lord DERBY is at pains to make it known that he never spoke to Mr. COBDEN—when any of us elaborately exhibit our unacquaintedness with Mr. B. or Mr. C., why, of course, there is some reason. We glance, therefore, as a matter of curiosity at the address of the unknown Liverpool Financier—and all becomes plain enough. The fault is in the homily, and so far in the man. Here is a busi ness-like plain reminder of several plain facts ; stock facts if you will—facts, it may be, which have stood stock still, because the predecessors of those addressed would not let them move on ; but all, or most of them, matters of serious import, and matters which, whether the Times and Lord PALMERSTON like or not, ought to have prompt attention ; would have prompt attention in a business-like and earnest Parliament, and could LEE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1857. be, by a vigorous leader, brought before the Le': gislature, and disposed of honett!yr in no great Me. First and foremost, of necessity, Mr. GLAD STONE begins at the beginning—" Gentlemen— You who represent one-thirteenth of the popula tion, and one-seventh of the male adult 4." That is enough. No sin so inexcusable as that of raising a ferment about the state of representa tion, when the unfortunate Premier is surrounded by his huge majority, too ready to effervesce on that subject. Not that the hon. members them selves would not perhaps, most of them, prefer to take Reform rather easy, but certain of themselves are alive and awake, and the influence of the late contact with constituencies is yet rather strong. kir. GLADSTONE, moreover, does not forget that not only is the vast majority of the adult popula tion of Britain entirely unrepresented, but that through the smallness of many of the constitu encies, and the mode of voting, not half, perhaps, of those who have votes hold them for themselves. Well, and why should not Mr. GLADSTONE tell the hundred majority of this t Has it not been said many a hundred times at the elections ? Yes, but why can't it drop with the hustings? Like the boards which comprise those erections, all that sort of thing was meant to be taken back to the contractors for a seat, as soon as the seat was ti./ o th 4.0 45g or , O 46, SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock. THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA IN HUNGARY. The following telegraphic despatch has been re ceived in Vienna from Pesth " BUDA, MAY 5. " This morning their Majesties permitted depu tations from numerous country districts to pass be fore them. At a later hour the Court dignitaries, military men, clergy, country gentry, and civil au thorities waited on the Emperor. At 2 o'clock the Empress held a levee, at which only ladies were present. At 5 o'clock there was a very large party at dinner. In the evening both the towns were il'urn inated." The reply of the E-nperor to the congratulatory speech of M. Von Conrad, the Burgomaster of Pesth, was :—" I am perfectly convinced of your loyalty, and am pleased to hear the expression of it from your lips." After .a short pause his Ma jesty continued The Empress, who has long wished to see this beautiful city, is certainly as pleased with it as I am." His Majesty told the nobles who waited on him in the Palace at Buda, that be bad come "to examine into the wishes and necessities of the Hungarian nation ;" but the public papers make no mention of the circumstance. ~,(.„ Arr ES T .N E W s., THE GRAND DUKE CONSTANTINE. The Nord, of Brussels, publishes the following telegraphic despatch : " PARIS, May 7, 4 P.M. "In consequence of a gracious invitation from her Majesty Queen Victoria given to his Imperial Highness by Lord Cowley, when he had the honour of being presented to him, the Grand Duke Con stantine, after visiting Cherbourg, will embark at Ostend for Osborne, on a visit to her Majesty the Queen of England." We learn (says Galignani of to-day), that a gracious invitation from her Majesty Queen Vic toria, transmitted to the Grand Duke Constantine by Lord Cowley, has been accepted. BERLIN, FRIDAY. Princs Napoleon arrived here at half-past five this morning. He was received at the station by Prince George of Prussia, Prince Augustus of Wurtereburg, Prince William of Baden, Baron Moustier, and a stiff of generals. He was con ducted to the Palace. The Upper Chamber yesterday rejected the clause (No. 1) of the bill for imposing a tax on manufactured goods. This day it has passed the whole measure, with the exception of the modifi cation above-mentioned. The Journai des Dresden states, " upon autho rity," that the ratification of the Treaty between *gland and Penia has been made by the Shah. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. A Paris letter in the Independence of Brussels says :—" Count de Morny is expected at Paris on the 24th with the young Countess, his wife. It will be too late for him to resume the duties of his post of President of the Chamber ; but it is said he will offer himself as a candidate for re election to the chamber, and that he desires to be again nomi nated president next year." The Patrie says that the object of Prince Napo leou's visit to Berlin is hymeneal, as he has gone to negotiate a marriage with a German Princess—a marriage which will add to the prestige of the reign ing dynasty. The Duke Constantine is extremely courteous to the Marquis Tillamarina, the Sardinian Ambas sador, whom he has thanked cordially for the at tention paid to his mother by the King of Sardinia. This kindness, he says, he can never forget. A telegraphic wire, corresponding with the electric telegraph from Paris to St. Petersburg, los been placed in the Palace of the Tuileries, and the apparatus is arranged in the very apartment of the Grand Duke Constantine, who is thus enabled at any moment to communicate with his brother, the Emperor Alexander. In consequence of the high price of every article of food, a credit of three millions was, by imperial decree of the 11th February last, placed at the disposal of the Minister of War to increase the or dinary pay of the soldier, with the exception of the Imperial Guard, which is placed under exceptional circumstances, and the gendarmery, whose pay was increased on the 16th May, 1855. BOURSE, May B.—The following were the last quotations : - Cash. fr. 0. 4i per Cents __ __ End of Month. —fr. --c. 69 30 3Ver Cents 69 20 Bank Shares 4,300 Credit Mobilier 1,307 50 Roman Do. Account 1,307 50 Austrian Belgian 4.+ 1 Pied montese (5) 9O 75 Home Dobt RAILWAYS-FOR CASH. 90 89 411 39 fr. c. fr c. Orleans 1,485 Western ' 7881 Northern Lyons 1,435 New Ditto Mediterranean 2,010 Grand Central 1 — Geneva llidi - Austrian Cum FALL OF THREE HOUSES, AND LOSS OF LIFE, This morning, shortly after 7 o'clock, one of those dreadful calamities—viz., the fall of houses—tool: place in Tottenham-eourt-road, and we regret to say that, in this instance, loss of life has also occurred. The pre mises in question, Noe. 145, 146, and 147, were in the occupation of Mr. Maples, furniture dealer, and familiarly known as the "Hen and Chickens." Of course, at the present time, it would bo impossible to state with positive certainty the causes which lad to the accident, but as far as we have been able to ascertain, they ar• as follows :—The adjoining premises, Nos. 14S and 149, in the occupation of Mr. Hunter, also a furniture and carpet dealer, a few months 1 ago were seriously damaged by fire, and ever since 1 that accident they have been in course of repair, and at the present time it is supposed that the premises of Mr. Maples were damaged either by the conflagration or by the building operations that have been going on there. At the hour above stated the three houses in the occu pation of Mr. Maple fell to the ground with a tremendous crash, burying the several unfortunate persons who re sided therein. Of course the greatest consternation pre vailed in the neighbourhood, and in the shortest time possible the police arrived at the spot, and it was with the greatest difficulty that they prevented a number of persons ezeosingr themselves to danger by approaching too near the spot. Immediately it became known that a number of T ersons were on the premises at the moment they fell, the most active measures were taken for their release, and in a short time a young man who was in bed when the calamity occurred was rescued. As he was not seriously injured he went into one of the adjoining houses, and, having dressed himself, returned to the spot and gave such in formation as enabled the police to direct their search in the proper quarter. Another man was afterwards taken from the ruins very severely injured. This pet son, we were informed, was the son of a budder, who was engaged is improving the shop fronts of Mr. Maples' houses. He was conveyed to the Univer sity Hospital, and there received the utmost attention. The police next succeeded in rescuing another man, but it was discovered that, from the shocking nature of the injuries he had received, he had ceased to exist. The lifeless body of another unfortunate individual was next taken from the debris. Toe name of this person was said to be Byng, a workman in the employ of Mr. Maples. Up to the time of writing this ac count no other persons had been rescued, although it was known that there were several unfortunate in dividuals beside those taken from the ruins upon the premises at the time of the accident. Tue greatest ezoitement prevails in the neighbourito )d, and the most intense interest is manifested by the immense body of persons asemblel in the operations at present going on under the direction of the police. INDIA Housg.—A deputation from the Madras Irri gation and Canal Company, consisting of the Hon. Philip Pleydell Beuverie, M,P., Colonel Philip An struther, U. 8., Lieut.-Colonel Onslowan(' Jas. Thomson, E4q., directors, accompanied by John Mackrell, Esq , the solicitor, and John Westwood, Esq., the secretare of the company, had an interview yester lay with Ross Donnelly Mangles, E.q., M.P., the chairman of the E tat India Company, and Sir Frederick Currie, the deputy-chairman. TER COLONIAL 'POSTAGE SEIVTICE.—In most of the colonies the Post-office is at present conducted at a loss, and the loss seems hitherto to have been increased gene rally by the reductions that have been made in the rates of postage. In. 13 colonies postage stamps have been introdued, and in five—New South Wales, Victoria,Tasmania, Western Australia, and Trinidad, prepay ment is compulsory. In India, South Australia, Mau ritius, and Barbadccs, prepayment is not compulsory, but an increased charge is made when the payment is delay ed.— Ciril Service Gazette. THE COUNTY OF MAYO ELECTION.—The petition against the return of Mr. Mtore for the county of Mayo, which was the first presented t i the House of Commons at its assembling on Thursetey evening, contains most serious allegations respecting the conduct of the C priests at the election. Colonel Higgins, the petitioner, asserts that he was defeated by a combination of the bishops and working Catholic clergy ; that they instigated the people to acts of the grossest violence and terrorism ; that voters dared not freely exercise their franchise ; and that be and his supporters were publicly denounced at the altars of many chapels in the county. The subject excites much interest in the house and abroad, and the petition will probably be the first tried. A. Speaker's warrant has been issued for the attendance and examination of Dr. Miele, the archbishop of the diocese. Mr. Edwin Janice, Q C., will conduct the case for the petitioner, and in his hands we feel confident that a most searching investigation into priestly mieeenduct and spiritual in timidation will be ar.compli-de l —_ldvortiscr. DRAINAGE OF TRH METROPOLIS.—The referees tai whom the plans for the main drainage of the metropolis were re:erred by the Chief Commissioner of Works, have addressed the surveyors of the several districts and parishes in the metropolis for information on the subject of the drainage of the several localities, and inquire : The length of covered sewers in the district or parish. 2. The length of open sewers, and the estimated cost of re-constructing and covering the same. 3. The length of streets and places, irrespective of uncovered sewers, which require to be drained ; and the estimated cost of the sewer works thereon. This information is required ex elusive of the principal lines of sewers which are pro posed to be carried out by the Metropolitan Board of Works. Inquiry is also made whether the plan pro posed for the main drainage by the Metropolitan Board of Works, as described in Mr. Baaelgette's reports, dated May 22 and Dec. 1, 1856, will, in their opinion, be euffi cleat for the district or parish, and whether there will be any sewer at such a low level 39 not to be suscep , ible of drainage by the proposed works ; also the addition of any general information as to the state of the local drainage, with a description of any ftiodings which may have occurred from defects of the main drainage. From the information received in answer to these inquiries, a vast body of information respecting the drainage of the metropolis is being received which could be obtained in no other way, and which will materially affect the de cision of the referees. MRT2OPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.—Yesterday at its weekly meeting, this board discussed the appro priation of the vacant space of ground at the south eastern angle of St. Paul's churchyard, and also received a deputation from the Royal Institute of British Archi tects, who were anxious that it should not be occupied as a building site, but preserved for public use and en joyment. A deputation on the same subject was also received from the Improvement Committee of the City Corporation. From remarks made by the members of the deputation it appeared that it had been in contem plation by the corporation to build on one-fifth of the ground, and to leave the remainder unoccupied. There was a willingness to give up the whole plot if the board would aid in the contribution. The value of the whole of the area would be 75,0001. The ground had been purchased by the corporation for the improvements in Cannon-street, and would involve a serious loss on the City if the coal-tax ceased in 1862. After some dis cussion the whole subject was referred to the Committee of Works and Improvements. A number of miscella neous resolutions were then passed. Among other things it was resolved that the several houses and pre mises in Maddox-street, Hanover-square, be re-num bered ; and that, subject to the approval of the Commis sioners of her Majesty's Works, &c., the several names of Clark's-place, Hedge-row, York-building, Gloucester place, Oddy'e-row, Islington-green, Frederick's-place, Commerce-row, Barnsbury-place, Trinity-row, Hapkin's buildings, San's-buildings, Sebbon's buildings, and Wells-row, on the west side of Upper street, be abolished ; that the whole of the west side of such street, from the Liverpool-road to the Holloway-road, be called Upper street, Islington, and that the houses be num bered consecutively ; also that, subject to the same approval, the line of buildings at present callled Great Cumberland-street, Great Cumberland-place, and Cutu. berland street, be called Great Cumberland-place ; and further that application be made to her Majesty's Com missioners of Works and Pa6lic Buildings for their approval of the alteration of the names at present exist ing in the New-road, between the Edgeware-roal and the Angel Inn at Islington, to those of Marylebone road, Euston-road, and Pentonv:lle-road, secure. Mr. GLADSTONE, however, is very discursive. He publishes a kind of vade mecum for a do something member. A long list of gravamina, corrigenda, and agenda, is furnished to all who are willing to use it. Tax-payers with no voice in the imposition of taxes:—subjects without s vote on the laws which they must obey—parliaments without power on the great question of peace or war—secret diplomacy—oligarchy under pretence of Constitutional Government—Ministers voting on their own delinquencies (in a really reformed house, however, they would have a right to do so) —the loss of parliamentary control over the public purse—the neglect of audit of the public accounts till too late to be of the least service—the land tsx and the present incidence of taxation=the jobbery and waste of the Government acting as manufac turers—the Bank of England is not forgotten, nor even the Hudson's Bay Company—law reform in two important aspects—the dowry talked of for the Princess Royal, i.e., for the avaricious Prussian family—the accumulated revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall—lastly, Parliament itself doing its work after instead of before dinner, and forbidding discussion on the presentation of public petitions. This certainly seems a large list of things to be amended or to be done. Yet Mr. GLADSTONE may fairly ask, Why should any of these be neglected even for this pre sent session t What in the world do gentlemen go to the House of Commons for but to do, not to sigh or to smile over the work of the nation ? With a majority of one hundred to settle questions in the national interest, why should not reforms in the matters indicated be pushed through as rapidly as when gentlemen want to get away into the country i With such a majority debates need not be indefinitely pro tracted ; by all means let the Opposition be treated respectfully, let real objections be fairly canvass3d, and real improvements candidly ac cepted, but there is no need whatever for five hour speeches, and five hour replies. It must be a rare case indeed when the hour, or two hours at most, should be eseeeded. The real hindrance, however, is want of heart. By commencing the measures for Law Reform in the Lords at the beginning of the Session, and showing a real willingness to work at public busi ness in the Commons, the Houses would soon catch the spirit of their leaders, and Members would emulate each other in facilitating rather than in obstructing the progress of national nieasurss. We only hope the House will have ROBERTSON GLADSTONES in every borough. They are just what it nests. Points of exception may be taken, of course, in any long address, but the points in which all Reformers agree will prove ten to ciao compared with those on which they differ. Lot each borough send its own exhorta tion to its own Members, for petitions are now to have half their ut.lity destroyed, and in every way let the constituencies watch to keep their Members alive to their duty. Let them see that the electoral audit is not neglected, whether Government attends to its own or not. SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE. The present manager of this theatre, Mr. G. A. Webster, seems determined to make this season ot.Vrivid all preceding ones. This evening, in addi tion to the services of the inimitable Mr. Thickstone, h.) bat secured those of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dillon, thus presenting to his patrons a combina tion of talent of the highest order. We understand various other highly-attra3tive engagements are pending, and also that a succession of novelties are in preparation, in order that the season, so ener,gefically begun, may be brought to a success ful termination. Such exertions on t e part of Mr. G. Webster deserve, awl we are glad to see they receive, the cordial support of the play-going public. The theatre during the past week has been very fully attended. A NTLEY'S THEATRE.-Mr. William Cooke, the enter prising manager of Astley's, has just purchased three zebras, the most beautiful specimens ever seen in Eng land. They arrived but a few days since, and were brought over by Captain Mason in :he ship Alexandria. The ERA of Carlisle, during his brief stay in town, intends to remain with the Duke and Duchess of Suther land, at Stafford-house. Sir C. Wood commences his levees on Thursday, the 11th of June, and will hold them during the mouths of June and July. Captain Stewart, the son of Admiral Stewart, will be Admiral Reynolds's flag captain ; and Mr. Richards will continue as secretary. Despatches for the Governors of the North American Provinces were sent last evening from the Colonial-office. Sir Aiemander Spearman had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. A deputation from Liverpool, relative to a burial ground. had an interview with Sir George Grey yester day, at the Elome-offie. The deputation consisted of the Rev. A. M'Conkey, Rev. T. Major Lester, Captain Johnson, and Mr. Richard Johnson. The deputation was accompanied by Mr. Horsfall, M.P., and Mr. T. C. Ewart, M.P. A deputation from the Commissioners of St. Martini Baths had an interview with the Right Ron. Sir Benja min Hall, yesterday, at the Office of Public Works, on the subject of Baths and wash-houses. The deputation consisted of Mr. Philip Palmer and Mr. Samuel Bar ton (commissioners), and Mr. Dangerfield, clerk to the commissioner& CHIRP JUSTICE COCKBURN AND TIE " LAW CLERKS." —Chief Justice Cockburn will dine with the " Law Gerks," at their next anniversary, the twenty-third, in June. CON VOCATION OF THE CLEROT.—Yesterday morning, the archbishop, bishops, and proctors of the province of Canterbury assembled in Convocation at Westminster. The members of the Upper House met at Queen Anne's Bounty House. The Archbishop of Canterbury pro. sided, and read the address to the Crown, which it is usual to present on the opening of a new Convocation. The address having been agreed to. and communicated to the Lower House, the Bishop of Chichester presented a petition from 156 clergyman of his diocese, complain. ing of the compulsory use of the burial service in certain cases. A large number of other petitions were pre sented, and the Upper House adjourned. The Lower House assembled iu the Jerusalem Chamber a little after twelve o'clock. The Hon. and' Rev. Dr. Elliot. Dean of Bristol, officiated as prolocutor. The principal portion of the morning was taken up with the transac tion of merely formal business. A committee of privi leges was formed, to which a number of petitions upon various topics were referred. The Rev. Dr. Millman, Dean of St. Paul's, moved that a petition be presented to the Upper House of Convocation, praying his grace the president and their lordships the bishops to join in an address to the Queen, praying that the three extra church services of the 30th of January, the 29th of May, and the sth of November, be discontinued as no longer necessary. An amendment to examine by what authority the services were read was carried. AMERICA. [A summary of the following appeared in our impression of yesterday LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY MAY 8. The Canadian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company's steamer Canadian, Captain Ballantyne, arrived to-day with advices from Portland to the 25th, and from. New York (by telegraph) to the evening of the 24th ult. • The Royal Mail ste tmship America end the screw steamship City of Glasgow had arrived at Halifax, and the screw steamship Chersonese - at Portland. The steam-frigate Niagara had not left the offing of New York up to the 24th. Before sailing for England she would, it was understood, make a trial trip to Norfolk. A despatch from Halifax announces the passing by the House of Assembly of a bill giving to the Atlantic Submarine Telegraph Company the exclu sive privilege for 25 years of landing a submarine telegraph cable from any part of Europe on any part of the shores of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton. At the annull dinner of the St. George's Society of New York,' Lord Napier, who was present as a guest, re4ponded as follows to the toast of " Her Majesty's Ministers and representatives on this continent" ' : .‘ Gentlemen,—l beg to 'offer you my very sincere and cordial thanks for the honour which you have done me in associating my name with the toast and with the health of 'filer Majesty's Ministers.' Her Majesty's Ministers will bo highly gratified when they learn that their names and theit officers are held in such esteem, regard, and memory by their fellow-countrymen residing in the United States. I, myself, gentlemen, in my own personal capacity, am sensible that I am undeserving of the acclamations which you have deigned to bestow upon my name ; but I see in the manner in which you have received it a warm revulsion of those feelings of sympathy and regard which may be sus pended or obscured for a time, and by accident, between America and England, but which are ever deeply founded on the affections and the interests of the two countries. (Loud cheers.) The office which I have the happiness to fill, and in which you have done me the honour to wish me well, is one which has been familiar to my hopes and wishes from a very early period of my •life and services. I may still maintain that there is not a more grateful, a more glorious, or a more useful employment than this employment, which 1 share with my venerable friend, the United States' Minister in London—the employ ment of holding aloft the ensigns of peace and friend ship between the two great branches of the English race. (Loud cheers.) I feel that I entered upon that employ ment here at a most auspicious period. I can assure you that I have met, upon the part of the President of the United Stites, upon the part of General Cass, upon the part of all the Ministers and functionaries of the United States with whom I have been brought into contact, every manifestation of that cordial and friendly disposi tion which animates the Government and the community , of Great Britain. (Cheers.) There are no questions involv ing any degree of anxiety or apprehension pending between the two countries —(cheers) ; and I am sometimes disposed to hope that the time may soon come when there will scarcely ba any subjects of official correspondence at all. (Cheers.) If I may not flatter myself with this agreeable prospect of official vacuity—(laughter)—if I must look for ward to my fair and natural share of discussions and de bates, surely, gentlemen, we have, in the experience of the past, the best grounds for believing that there can never be a question so difficult or so complicated that it may not meet with a prompt, with a peaceful, and with an honour able solution. (Loud cheers.) There are many questions at once envenomed and alarming which have been settled in a pacific manner in our recent negotiations. Oar east ern boundaries have been defined by one treaty. Oar western boundaries have been settled by another. The disputed fisher ies, which at one time threatened to embroil us, have been converted, by the salutary engagements of reciprocity, into a source of mutual wealth. Finally, gen tlemen, the question of the privileges of neutral trade in time of war—that question which for so long was the con• atant cause of complaint and recriminations, has now ob tained, by the spontaneous declarations of her Majesty's Ministers during the late hostilities, that liberal interpre tation so often desired by the United States, and which no Government of England hereafter will ever be inclined to revoke or to repeal. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, lam justified, then, in saying that by an easy exercise of frankness, of mutual forbearance and indulgence, no question can arise between our countries which will not admit of an Ideasey and an amicable settlement. Bat, gentlemen, more than cordiality—l desire co-operation. (Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, I do not wish to alarm the citizens of the United States who are here present by raising before their averted eyes the phantom of " entangling alliances." {Laughter and cheers.) Entangling alliances, gentlemen, are a kind of political spectre which seems to have descended with undiminished terrors from the period of the Revolu tion to the present day. (Cheers and laughter.) There may be mutual co-operation where there are no written engagements; and gentlemen, where the heart is wanting, there may be written engagements without mutual co-ope ration. (Cheers.) All, then, that I wish to say is, that our respective Governments should perpetually make an early and sincere declaration and avowal to coati other of their views and intentions with respect to all subjects which involve the common interests of the two countries—(cheers) —whereby they will have the benefit of Mutual good offi ces and mutual counsel, and 'whereby they will be able to avoid these one-sided resolutions and those startling an nouncements which are ,apt to disturb the confidence of commerce and calculated to excite the sensibilities and jea lousies of two high-spirited nations. Gentlemen, the only entangling alliance which I shall venture to recommend to your adoption is the submarine °alai() between this country and England. (Laughter and "cheers.") My friend, thehon. chairman, has been so kind as to allude in terms of glowing eulogy and encomium to the services which members of my family have been enabled, in former times and generations, to offer to their Sovereign and county either in the departments of science or in those of war. The sincerity with which that encomium was pronounced, and the manner in which those observations were received, are certainly exceedingly gratifying to . my own pride; and all this is an additional incentive to me to endeavour to render myself not unworthy of those services which were performed by mend:ms of my family upon previous occasions. (Cheers \ .) I cannot flatter myself that I possess any peculiar fitness cr any local experience which could enable me to perform the duties of Her Majesty's Minister in a distinguished manner. But this. I can assure you, that I ma lertake these duties with the highest satisfaction and with the happiest anticipations. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, it was some time ago observed in England, aad it was re peated in some quarters in America, that the members of the regular diplomatic profession of Great Britain were not qualified by . their previous education and ex perience to contend with the stubborn and masculine elements of American politics. (Cheers.) It was sup posed, gentlemen, that we were so enured in the petty act. and dark practices of " Cabinet intrigue," th a t we wee so accustomed to humble - ourselves in the twilight of military courts, that we were not qualified nor disposed to meet a free people in the light of day. (Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, did you observe any symptoms of this intellectual decrepitude in Sir Richard Pakenham or in Sir Henry Bul wer. I have not the honour of having ever served with those distinguished personages, but, in honour to the profession to which I belong, I am justified in alleging that in my friend and my former chief; Sir H. Seymour, Pnever observed auy want of vigour or capacity. And, gentlemen, I never observed any want of vigour and independence in my la er, master, Viscount Sit at ford de Redcliffe, who has passed 30 years of his indefatiga ble life in contending against the ambition of arbitrary power in one country and in mitigating its abuses in an other. Gentlemen, I do not wish to eayanything unduly and ungratefully depreciatory of any country or of any Govern ment. I have had some experience of despotic Governmente. I have lived in Naples, in Turkey, and in Russia. Th.re era elements of happiness in them all. Fortunately, I say, there are elements of`-kindness, of culture, and of happi ness which no politicalvstem whatever can exclude from the face of neture and from the hearts of man. (Cheer:.) But nei.her the retrospective glories of the Italian scene, nor the enoient repose and the picturesque assoc:ations of Oriental life, nor the splendid enchantments of social life which have arisen in their most - agreeable form upon the borders of the Neva, can ever make an Englishman under ;value or forget those principles of freedom which have been cherished by our common fathers at home,-and which be , them wcra sown broadcast upon the soil of the groat Ameri can continent. Gentlemen, I have, since my arrival, sometimes observed an impression in the United States that `the development of this country is regarded with jealousy by England. That is an erroneous opinion. (Cheers.) You will bear me out in the assertion that the last vestige of former prejudice founded on the animosities of two un happy wars is being very rapidly extinguished. The peace ful and legitimate expansion of the United States forms a matter of satistaction and pride for every reasonable Eng lishman. That expansion forms the beat resort and relief for our superabundant population ; it forms the best mar ket for our increasing industry ; it is the triumph of our labour and our arts, of our lauguage, our religion, and our blood. (Loud cheering.) No thoughtful Englishman can contemplate this unparalleled spectacle of future predomi nance without emotions of thankfulness and praise. No thoughtful foreigner can regard it without a sigh, because Providence has not reserved the future empire of the world j for his own tongu e and his own tale. (Cheers.) These sen timents of sympathy and goodwill, to which I give a feeble utte& ante, are; believe me, not rare or partial in our coun try, nor do I derive them from obscure authority. (Hear.) I have gathered these sentiments in the benevolent pages efa Carlisle, in the wise conclusions of an Aberdeen, and in the eloquent declarations of an Elgin. I have heard these sentiments declared and enforced from t e bench of the Government, and I have heard them echoed back from the bunches of the Opposition. These sentiments have been inculcated upon me with sincere and careful emphasis by tho Earl of Clarenclon, and by that noble Viscount who' is first in the councils and in the hearts of the British people. (Immense applause.) Finally, Gentlemen, I have received these sentiments as a fruitful trust from the hands of my Sovereign, and I will not lay up this profitable talent in a diplomatic napkin." At the 6c)se of this speech his Lordship was loudly cheered. The schooner- Margaret, a supposed slaver, had been seized at New York. A telegraphic despatch from Washingto❑ to the Portland papers, under date of April 23, says : "it is understood, on reliab:e authority, that the action of our Government in increasing our naval force in the waters of the Isthmus meets the appioval of Lord Napier, the MitishMinister,who was officially informed of the fact by a tote from the State Department, as was also Count de Sartiges, Minister from France. l'ne latter, however, as far as can be ascertained, has not signified his assent or dis sent to the movement. "The total number of vesßels ordered to the Isthmus is ten, seven of which will be stationed at Aspinwall, and three at Panama. With so imposing a force oar Govern ment is confident of effecting an early arrangement of the dispute." _ _ _ The Hon. John G. Montgomery, senator for Danville, Pennsylvania, had died of disease con tracted at the National Hot 1 during the inaugura tion of President Buchanan. It is s'ated that the Governorship cf Utah had been offered to Major M'Cuhlocb. A dispatch from Chicago confirms the rumoured massacres in Blue Earth County. Forty settlers wt re murth red at Big Bend and several women taken prisoners. The excitement was increasing, as all the Indians beyond the Minnesota had assumed a hostile attitude. Rumours were also rife of an alliance between the Sioux and Chippewa tribes. A workshop in the Maryland Penitentiary had been set on fire by some of the prisoners, who vainly hoped to escape during the confusion con sequent upon the alarm. Advices from the city of Mexico to the 4th ult. report that an intended revolution, instigated by the clergy and their partisans, had been discovered and suppressed. The British Charge had sent in his ultimatum. The following telegraphic despatches to Boston give the latest markets at New York and Charleston " NEW YORK, APRIL 24. " Storks are again lower, and the transactions moderate. Money easy and rates heavy at 7 per cent. on call, and 8 to 9 for short first-class paper. Sterling exchange tends up wards at 1091 to 109 k. Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, 96 ; Illinois Central Railroad, 131; Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad, 601 ; New York Central Rail road, 86} ; Reading Railroad, 811: Galena and Chicago Railroad, 102 ; Michigan Central Railroad, 05 ; Erie Rail road, 4?. ; Cleveland and Toledo Railroad, 63i. " 6 P.M. " Stocks.-Some aro rather better, but the market clones weak. Money and exchange are without further change. Illinois Central Railroad, 131; Michi g an Southern and. Northern Indiana Railroad, 61k; New York Central Rail reai, 87, b. 60 ; Reading Railroad, 81i ; Canton Com pany, 21a ; Erie Railroad, 42a ; Cleveland and Toledo Rai iror 64i. "Ashes better and unsettled ; 'sales 40 barrels ; pots, 8 dole. 50c. to 8 dole. 75a. ; pearls, 8 dole. to 8 dole. 12ic.. Cotton quiet ; sales, 2,000 bales. Breadstuffs-Flour, sc. better on good brands; sales, 10,500 barrels; common to straight State. 5 dole. 56c. to 5 dole. 800. ; Upper Lake, 5 dole. 70c. to 5 dole. 95c. ; common to good Ohio extra, 6 dols. 20c. to 6 dole. 60e ; extra Geneseo, 7 dole. 25c. to 8 dol. 400. • Southern Sc. better on medi um gra d es ; s al es , 2,300 barrels; mixed to good, 6 dole. 50 c . t o 6 d o l e . so c . ; fancy and extra, 6 dole. 85c. to 8 dole ; Canadian firm ; sales, SOO barrels; superfine, 6 dols. sc. to 6 dole. 10c. ; extra, 6 dole. 20c. to 7 dole. 60c. Grain-Wheat better and unsettled; sales, 10,000 bushels; St. Louis white, 1 del. 52gc. for common ; Illinois white, 1 dol. 55c. for fair ; Southern white, 1 dol. 62e. to 1 dol. 65c. ; ditto red, 1 dol. 56c. for choice. Oats firin ; sales, 4,000 bushels ; State, 560. to 57c. ; Western, 58c. to c. Corn firmer; sales, 7,500 bushels ; mixed, 73ic. to 740., in store ; white, 75c. to 80c., new ; yellow, 74ic. to 75e., new; round yel low, 74e. to 75c„ new. Provisions-Pork lower and un settled ; sales, 350 barrels ; mess, 22. dole. ; prime, 18 dole. 87ic. to 19 doh , . ; Western prime mess, 20 dole. Beef firm ; sales, 300 barrels ; country mess, 13 dole. to 14 dole. ; prime, 10 dols. 75c. to 11 dole. 50e. ; repacked Chi cago 16 dole. 25c. to 16 dole. 50c. ; prime mess, 25 dole to 30 dons. Lard easier-sales 260 bbls. at 13ic. to 14c. Bacon firm ; sales 250 boxes at 11c. to l 2ic. ; hams, linc. to 11c. ; shoulders, Fie. to 9c. Butter firm ; Ohio, 15e. to 20c. ; State. 20c. to 26c. Whisky quiet; sales 300 bbls. ; Ohio and Prison, 28c. to 2S c. Leather steady ; cat{ light and middles, 38c. to 40e. ; hemlock sole, 290. to 31o; Fish quiet. Groceries-Coffee firm; sales 1,200 begs ; Rio, 10c. to ; Java, 15i. Sugar firmer • sales 1,030 hhds. ; Muscovado, 10e. to 10ic. ; Havannah,l lOic. ; 300 hhds. Melada, 7ic. to 'Tic. Molasses firm ; sales 100 hhds. 200 bbls. ; New Orleans, 75c. ; Muscovado, 53c. to 62c. ; Cuba -cloyed, 50c. Oils inactive-sales 10,000 gallons. Linseed lower-sales at 81c. to 82e. Whale steady, at 73c. to 741. Lard held higher. Sperm quiet. Spirits of tur pentine less buoyant-sales 400 bbls., at 50c. per gallon, on 30 and 60 days, interest added ' crude, quiet, but firm. Resin less active ; prices firm at Idol. 85c. Hides qniet. Iron quiet, but firm ; Scotch pig, 35 dole. six mos. Lead unsettled; sales, 60 tons Spanish on private terms. To bacco firm • sales, 50 hhds. ; Kentucky, 16 c . t o 20 c . Ri ce steady; sales, 600 barrels at 41c. to Sic. per lb. Tallow steady ; sales, 7,0001b5. at lie, to 114 e. Remp-Ameri eau is a shade easier; we quote dressed at 230 dole, to 250 dole., and undressed a: 180 dole. to 200 dole. per ton. " Freights to Liverpool, heavy and lower ; cotton, id. ; Sour, Is. ; grain, lid. to 2d. "CHARLESTON, APRIL 24. "Cotton.-Sales to-day, 300 bales, at unchanged prices. There have been no sales since the r ece ipt of the America's news." RUSSIA. " We learn from St. Petersburg," says the Nord of Brussels, " two facts worthy of notice. The first is that the Emperor, on the 29th ult., the anniversary of his birthday, addressed to Prince Gortschakoff, Minister of Foreign Affairs, a letter, in which, after expressing in flattering terms his gratitude for the services which the Prince had rendered to him and to Russia in the various posts he bad occupied, his Majesty announces that be has conferred on him the Order of St. Vladimir. The second fact is that the public subscription for the shares of the Great Russian Railway Company' has been opened at St. Petersburg, and that the confidence of the public in the eut,,rprise was im mediately demonstrated by the fact of 50,000 shares, one-th:rd of the number to be disposed of, having been subscribed for in a single day. Our correspondent adds that, from the anxiety to sub scribe, it will not be possible to satisfy all the demands." PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin, of the sth, says :—"A visit from the Emperor of Ru , sia to our court is spoken of ; so also, tbnugh more problematically, is one in the autumn from the Emperor of the French." It was lately mentioned in the Berlin journals that the Prussian Government, in consequence of the late measure for pr venting the circulation of foreign bank-notes in Prussia, had some intention of proposing a sort of financial union between the Slates of the Zollverein, for regulating the issue, circulation, and guarantee of the paper money of those States. The semi-official journal, the Zeit of Berlin, couthms this statement, and publishes an explanatory memoir OR the subject, which has been addressed by the Prussian Government to the States of the Zollverein. Another letter from Berlin says :—" It has been stated. that Baron de Manteuffel, president of the council, addresse I a few days ago a letter to the President of the Chamber of Nobles relative to its labours. It appears that the letter expressed the dissatisfaction of the Cabinet at the extreme slow ness with which Government measures nra discussed by the Chamber, and at the frequent le Ives of ab sence accorded to its members. The Chamber at once deliberated on the letter in a secret sitting, and has through its president replied in a letter in which it is asserted that the delay in the discussion of the Government bills is caused by the Govern ment bringing them forward at too late a period of the session, and in which the President of the Council is told that, as regards leave of absence to members, the Chamber and its president have alone power to decide thereon." THE BALTIC. HAMBURG, May 7.—We learn from Copenhagen that at a Privy Council held at the Palace of Fred riksborg yesterday, a probable final arrangement had been come to wi h repent to the present Ministerial crisis, and that Mr. Audrae would take the Foreign department, and Mr. Heinzelmann, the Chief President of Altona, the vacant office of Minister for the Duchess of Holstein and Lauen burg. The rea,ou why Mr. von Molkte and Baron vonßulow declined the vacant offices itz, it is re ported, their refusal to offer any further assistance to the claims of the German Powers. A Russian gunboat, coming from Archangel, ar rived two (lays ago in the Copenhagen roads, and. anchored for the night. She was furnished with a screw, and will proceed to Cronstadt to receive her guns on board. The navigation at Cronstadt •is again free from ice for steamers up to St. Petersburg, and one Lu beck vessel had already effected her passage to Csat city. There was, however, according to the last accounts, a great deal of floating ice in the Gulf of Finland. The new line of steamers from Kiel to St. Petersburg wiil commence running on Saturday next. Two splendid ships have been built at Glas gow for this route—the Or'ent and Occident ; the former is already at K•el in readiness. Prince Christian of Denmark visited Altona a day or two back , on his tour of inspection of the troops garrisoned there; as commander-in-chief of the army, but, after so doing,' returned to Lluqn burg. He has, therefore, not gone to - Berlin on any mission, as had b een s t a t e d in the Danish papers at Copenhagen, but Prince Frederick of Holstein- Glticksburg in his stead. The weather has been very cold and rainy for some days past, but the crops of young corn do not appear to suffer much. Emigration to various parts of America, the Bra. zils, and to Australia continues on the increase, and great numbers are constantly arriving from the interior for this purpose. The Faedrelaindet of the Gth says that a privy council bad been held at Fredericksborg. M. Hein zallmann was present at it, and that fact has led to the supposition that he will fill the post of minister for Holstein. The Madrid Gazette of the 7th contains Royal decrees ) nominating Gen. San; aide-do camp to the King, vice Gen. Urbistondo, deceased : and Gen. Lemerick, Captain-Gennil of Madrid. The .Nord pubiishe3 the &Apaches exchanged between the governments of Vienna and Berlin on the subject of the dffer( nee between them and Denmark ; they prove that, t'le most perfeot under standing exists 'between the two great German powers, and that they will persist in maintaining the attitude which they•have auutned towards the Danish Government. 4 A letter from Rome of The 28th ult., in the Risor gimento, says The Sardinian frigate Governo:o has arrived at Civita Vecchia, at the disrosal of the Empress of Russia. The It,ban colours displayed by this vessel caused some excitement, and on Vie following morning the police found a number of revolutionary placards stuck up at the street cur ners, in which the aid of Piedmont was invoked for the liberation of Italy. • A letter from Vienna of the Ist says:—" The Senate of Montenegro has forbidden all I‘.49ntene grins to cross the frontier without authorisation. Arrests continue in the country. The partisans of Geo:ge Petrowich, in particular, are persecuted and imprisoned. On the 18th ult. two sons and two grandsons of the ex Serdar Milo Baiz),, who is in exile at Sara, wee arrested." ' A let+er from Christiania,- of the 28th ultimo., says :—" The Norwegian Diet has, like that of Sweden, unanimously rejected the bill relative to the regency of princes ; and, in consequence, if the King be absent or ill, the regency will be exercised in Norway, as in Sweden, by a council of ministers, and not by a prince." THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY NIGHT. 10 o'CLoex. The mail steamer Etna, Captain W. F. Millar, has just arrived from Alexandria and Malta with the Australian mails. Amongst them is the mail of the Oneida. The collective mail consists of nearly 400 boxes and bigs, the largest mail ever landed at this port. They will Le despatched to London at aboutll p.m. to-night, in a special train consisting of five vans. Her dates are Alexandria, April 25th, and Malta, the 29th. She brings 62 first-class "passengers, 15 second-class ' and six E. ervant—in all 81 ; and 26 packages of gold, of the value of nearly 90,0001. sterling ; nearly 50,0001. of this gold was on board the Oneida. Nearly 100 of the passengers left the Etna at Malta, to get to Er:glaiid via Marseilles. This steamer had fine weather from Alexandria to Malta ; westerly winds from Malta to Gibraltar ; fine from Gibraltar to Fin'sterre ; and thence to the Needles strong winds, with head sea. Among the pas,e9gers landed at Southampton from the Etna were, Miss Graham, a sister of Sir James Graham, from Malta ; and Messrs. Childers and flannel, two of the members of the Legislative Council of Victoria. The passengers who left Australia in the Euro pean are some of the richest men in the gold colony, and many of them possess immense fortunes. The Oneida broke down 500 miles from King George's Sound, her sole plate, which is the founda tion of the whole machinery, having given way. Although she was only so short adistance—namely three day's steam—from St. George's Sound, it took her 17 days to get back, and she reached the Sound one day atter the Simla had left. The weather was at the time very thick, which pre vented the people of.the Simla from seeing her. The charge for sending gold home overland is considered by the colonists too high, and it is thought that comparatively small quantities of gold will be sent by that route. The European, although a fast sailer, is con sidered not adapted for crossing the ocean, as she is fitted up fur a cold climate. The Sydney pa,sseneere who were taken from the Oneida were 101 Lys from the time they loft Sydney until they reached Southampton. The Australian passengers were detained three days in Egypt, owing to the European arriving at Suez Circe days before her time. The passengers have a large number of nuggets in their possession. They say that Sir Henry Barkly, the new governor of Victoria, has given much satisfaction to the colo niee, and his lady , has won golden opinions from all ciass.es of persons. Everything augurs well for the successful governorship of Sir Henry. The Etha, reports that the Bri'ish squadron was cruising off Malta;-and that she passed the Indus steamer off Pantelleria on the 29th, bound for Alex andlia. The Etna pa'ss:ed the steamer Teneriffe off Galita on the 30th of April. THE MAIL STEAMER TENTEMOUTH. FALMOUTH, FRIDAY EVENING. The mail steamer Tynemouth, Capt. Sceales, from the East ludie3, put in this afternoon through contrary winds and short of fuel. Her dates are—Port Louis, 24th February; Cape, 13th March ; St. Helena, 22d March ; Ascension, 29th March. Her mails will be forwarded to-night, THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, Friday.-- The Jura steamer, Captain Moodie, arrived here from Liverpool this morning, and sails hence with the n=ails for Ceylon, Australia, New Z.aland, &c., on Tuesdsi next, tne 12th inst. CLARKE V. THE ROYAL PANOPTICON OF SOIFICCE AND A --An arrangement has been made for settling the whole of the m a tt ers i n d i spute in the cause. The Court of Chanc2rl will spared the consuming the midnight oil, or rather midnight composite candles, in' the consi deration of this ease. ENTERTAINMENT TO COL. HIIDSON.—On Thursday the British officers of the Italian Legion showed a sense of their gratitude for the great exertions and genera kindness of Colonel Hudson, the inspector of that force, by inciting him to a hanes.one entertainment at the Star and Garter Hotel, at Richmond. ILLNESS OF DR. PUSEY.—We deeply regret t o learn that Dr. Pusey i s i n a very wea k state of hea l t h. 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