The Sun. — London, England, 1857-05-12 00:00:00

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That by an , Indenture dated the 13th day of April, 1837, JOHN DANCE, of Fairford, in the county of Gloucester, grocer and bacon factor, bath a , :signed and made over all his real and personal estates and effects subject to any existing mortgages, charges, liens, claims, or encum brances 'thereon, to WILLIAM CARNE, the younger, of Birbury, in the said county Oaf Gloucester, yeoman, and Alexander Iles of Fairford aforesaid, yooman, in trust for the benefit of such Creditors of the said John Dance, as shall execute the said Indenture within two calendar months from the sale thereof, or signify their consent thereto by notice in wiiti , g deliTered to the said Trustees, or ou e of them , within such specified period. And notice is hereby also given, that the said inden ture was executed by the said John Dance, in the presence of George Frederick Newmarch, of Cirencester, in the County of Gloucester, Solicitor, on the said 13th day of Anril, 1857, and was also executed by the said William Game and Alexander Iles, in th• presence of the said George Frederick Newmarch, by whom the aforesaid several executions of the said indenture are attested, and the said indenture new lies at the office of Messrs. Sewell, Newmarch, and Francis, solicitors, Cirencester, for execution by th e cre ditors of the said John Dance.--Dated this 4th day of Way, 1857. SAWELL, NEWMARCH , & FRANCIS, Solicitors, Cirencester. ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. First appearance of Madame ALBONI. REICHARDT, BELLETTI, VIOLET PI, BENE VENTANO. THIS EVENING (TUESDAY), May 12, IL BARBIERE DI SEVIGLIA. Rosina, Madame Alboni. Ballet—LA ESMERALDA. L•a Esmeralda, Mdlle. 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 Box-office at the Theatre Colonnade, Hay market. Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Last appearance of Madllo. Pocchini. PICCOLOMINI, GIUGLINI, BELLETTI, VIOLEPTI, On THURSDAY EVENING, May 14, an Extra Night. LUCIA. DI LAMMERMOOR. Lucia, Piccolmini ; Edgard°, Sig. Giuglini. After which, ESMER ‘LDA. La Esmeralda, Madlle. Pocehini (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 tion at the Box-office, at the Theatre Colonnade, Haymarket. Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. _g_/ THE BOUFFES PARISIENS-St. JAMES'S THEATRE. - FIRST REPRESENTA TION, WEDNESDAY, May 20.-1. 31'SIEU LANDRY, Operette, 1 Acte.--2. LES DEUX AVEUGLES, Bouffon, nerie, Musicale, 1 Acts. Musique de Offenbach.-3. BA-TA CLAN, Chinoiserie Musicale, 1 Acte. Musique de Offenbach. Principal Characters by Messrs. Pradeau, Guyot, Gerpre, and Leonce ; Mesdlles. Dalmont, Marechal, Belnoir, and Mace— their first appearance in this country. The Orchestra of the The, tre des Bouffes will ace 'mpany these Representations - i under the direction of the popular composer, M. Offenbach— To commence at half-past 8 o'clock.—This Engagement being limited to one month, Performances will be given Every Even ing.—Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be engaged at Mr. Mit chell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. ROY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING will be performed Shakespere's tragedy of KING RICHARD THE SECOND. King Richard 11,, Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean, Preceded by a new Farce, in one act, called AN ENGLISHMAN'S HOUSE IS 1113 CASTLE. THEATRE ROYAL, Et A.YMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. NEW ARRANGEMENT OF PRICES OF ADMISSION. THIS EVENING (May 11) to commence at Seven o'clock, with THE EVIL GENIUS Tom llipstone, Mr. Buckstone. After which, the auccessfu' Classical Love Story, un der the Apple-lation of A "'AL A.NTA ; or, The Three Golden Apples : in which Miss M. Oliver will appear; also Miss M. Wilton, and Miss Ellen Ternan. To conclude with BOX AND COX. In future the prices will be: Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), Gs. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d. Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress 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, A DELPHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed a new and original drama (second time). entitled JOSEPH CHAVIGNY ; or, Under the Thumb, Ben. Webster, Paul Bedford, Madame Celeste, dm. Followed by a new Farce, called FEARFUL TRAGEDY IN THE SEVEN DIALS. To concinde with the new and original domestic sketch, entitled WELCOME, LITTLE STRANGER. Mr. Wright, Mr, Paul Bedford, kc. 11110YAL SURREY THEATRE, A , Lessees, Messrs• Shepherd and Creswiek. THIS EVENING will be performed MATHILDE. After which, THE THREE WONDERS OF PEKIN. To conclude with 102 ; or, The Veteran and his Progeny, Mr. Widdicomb, ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING will he performed a new drama, called DADDY HARDACRE. Mr. Robson, Stc. To conclude with YOUNG AND HANDSOME. Messrs Robson, G. Murray, Grc. Commence at half-past Seven. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. Last Five Nights of the present successful Entertainments. On Saturday the theatre will be closed for a Grand Re hearsal of Verdi's far-famed Open of IL TROVATORE ; or The Gipsy's Vengeance, which will be produced on Monday next, with Equestrian Illustrations, and supported by the FIRST OPERATIC ARTISTES OF THE DAY. On Friday, May 15, the Annual Complimentary Benefit of Mr. William Cooke, and his daughter, Miss Kate Cooke, un der the distinguished patronage of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayer and Lady Mayoress. THIS EVENING, and following nights, the performance will commence with the Grand Military Spectacle, entitled THE FRENCH IN ALGIERS; or, The Battle of Constantine. To be followed by a matchless routine of SCENES IN THE ARENA, in which Miss Kate Cooke will appear. To conclude with a Risible Farce. Commence at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper B )sea, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from 11., no charge for booking ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6(1. Box•orrlce opan from Els-ren till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jnn. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of 'elections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, - Duets, dtc., viz.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brnnell, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta; Mr. J. Caulfield, Heir F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Cori. Senor Antonio M. de Solla, and E. L. Mime ; Masters Bennett and Corri; Meyers. Sam Cowell, Sam Collins, and E. Mackney. Pianofort,, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, .J. Caulfield, jun.; iirector, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre cisely. Suppers, Sm., until twelve o'clock. NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T DAT —Morn. 39 min. aft. 3—Kcening 55 min. aft. 3 ro-Moßsow—Morn. 13 min. aft. 4—Evening 28 mtn. att. 4 THE WEATHER-8117N OFFICE, MAY 12. THRHMONEYER, IN THIS SHADE. 67 —highest singe noon yesterday. 51 -lowest this morning and during the night. 66 —this day at noon. BABO3fETER, 30.01—rising rapidly.! WIND, S. W.; light, with fine warm weather. A thun der storm passed over London yesterday afternoon, and heavy rain fell in the northwestern parts. • • 1, 0 - LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1857. The responsibilities of the Home Secretary are already immense. Yet her MAJESTY'S Govern• ment are actually now demanding of Parliament that those responsibilitiesshall be at once increased, and that they shall be increased, moreover, enor mously ! Such literally after all will be, must necessarily be, the result of the Transportation and Penal Servitude Bill—read a second time last night in the House of Commons—passing through that additional stage of its legislative growth into an Enactment not simply pro forma, but as the sequel to an animated discul36on. The principal persons who took part in this Debate, including amongst their number the Right Hon. the Home Secretary himself, his predecessor in office, on the side of the Opposition, the hon. and learned gentleman the Member for Sheffield, the right hon. gentleman the Member for Leeds,the noble lord the Member for King's Lynn, and divers other representatives already distinguished amour , law reformers and practical philanthropists.. humanity and of prudence. It has long bees felt that in our treatment of Criminals, we have perversely and blindly rushed from one Extreme to the Other ! That in doing away with the old cruel, sanguinary system, which not so very long ago, in simple truth, rendered the assizes —not " once" in a way, but permanently and sys tematically—Bloody Assizes : that in putting a stop to the wholesale hanging, drawing, and quartering, t) branding, gibbeting, and disem bowelling, we ran stupidly. and obdurately into the opposite extravagance ! Dandling and cod dling, cherishing and nurturing Crime and Cri minals ! And doing this, observe! so entirely con amore, that at last some of the more incorrigi ble reprobates in the community preferred, and with no little show of reason, admission into the Gaol rather than admission into the Union —the walls of a Convict Prison to those of a Parish Workhouse. Simultaneously with which blunder on our parts came the ultimate refusal— and, be it said, the obviously reasonable refusal— of our Colonies to be polluted into the moral sinks of the empire by means of the old, worn-out, used up, thread-bare scheme of transportation to penal settlements. Transportation being abruptly closed—our cri minals having, in consequence, rapidly and conti nuously increased upon our hands—and all this occurring at the very time when ultra-lenity was taking the place of ul tra-severity—tohat have been, rather should we say, what have not been, the consequences ? Why, we all know but too well the terrible character and the appalling magnitude of those consequences. We all know that such have been the results of our Modern System in the Criminal branch of our jurisprudence—that evils have flourished and multiplied by reason of it, in this country, in the middle of this latter half of the 19th century—evils that are a scandal to our generation ! Two phrases will be sufficient of them selves to "point the moral and adorn the tale" of this strange, new version of a union never dreamt of by the Roman, when he talked in the old days of knitting together the suaviter in modo and the fortiter in. re ! Those two all-sufficient phrases being—need we add ?—" The Garotte," and the " Ticket-of-leave ! " The fortiter in re, being so translated, by our Ruffians-Let-Loose, as the fitting sequel to the sauviter in modo of a weak minded and maudlin Legislation ! The conse quences of all this becoming, at laLt, so dreadful that the Parliamentary Frankenstein has at length found it absolutely necessary to bind the hands, to fetter the limbs, to paralyse the desperate and destructive energies of the Monster that Parlia mentary Frankenstein had himself, in au evil mo ment, created ! The only question yet remaining unsolved in the matter, being, we repeat, How this might be accomplished the most effectually ? A problem, so difficult of solution, however, that it is set aside for after consideration ! The new Ministerial measure relating to the subject, was read a second time last evening, the Bill referring to the twin topics of Transportation and Penal Servi tude : meaning, after all, as previously intimated, the submission of the whole difficulty to the wis dom and discretion of Her MAJESTY'S Secretary in the Home Department. Whether this evasion of the difficulty be really judicious under the cir cumstances, remains yet to be decided. If it signifies anything, it signifies simply this—the transference of an enormous responsibility from the Legislature to the Home Secretary. Did anyone remark among the foreign news yesterday, the astounding piece of intelligence received by telegraphic despatch from Buda, dated the sth instant? The reply of the EmPriatoß of Austria to the congratulatory address of the Bar : gomaster of Pesth ! What was that reply ? Let us repeat it—" I am perfectly convinced of your loyalty, and am pleased to hear the expression of it from your lips." After a short pause (the telegraphic despatch adds), his MAJESTY (evidently not a very ready speaker), continued—" The EMPRESS, who has long wished to see this beautiful city, is certainly as much pleased with it as I an." Really ? Wonderful ! As DOMINIE SAMPSON would have said—"Pro-di-gious !" As Baillie NICHOL JARTIE would have remarked—" Ma conscience !" As one of the Turnkeys observes in Mr. CHARLES REAM'S clever matter-of-fact romance, Never too Late to Mend —" Well, I'm blessed ! Well, I'm blowed !" . . . The EMPRESS, who has long wished to see that beautiful city of Pesth, is as much pleased with it as he is ! Why, what more than this can Hungary want, in reason Here surely is a balm for all her sufferings ! Here is a solace for all her afflictions a healing ointment for all her wounds ! After this—M. Louis Kos- SIITH can certainly have nothing more to say ! His task is surely accomplished—his hopes are, without doubt, entirely realised ! The spouse of the Red Emperor is very much pleased indeed— the Hungarians are told this by the lips of FRANCIS JOSEPH himself, who adds that her MAJESTY entirely concurs with him (her august and imperial husband) in. considering the city of Pesth beautiful. So —we dare say NERO, while fiddling on the Capitol, thought Rome looked very pretty in truth under the rosy light of the conflagration ! Really this imperial tour of the Austrian EMPEROR through his Hungarian dominions, gives promise of proving a very appropriate sequel to his tour through his fair Italian possessions. And there don't we all of us remember how he won the hearts of the more impressionable among the Lombards by an amnesty so very memo rable because so very magnanimous ? The mag nanimity of the thing being just equivalent to that of a man who knocks another down, and then picks him up again. 0 those HAPSBURGS ! We don't wonder in the least that KOSSUTH thinks of them as he does think of them, as the world knows he thinks of them. We only marvel that the Thoughts of KOSSUTH are not the Actions of the Hungarians. The Lord Chancellor has again introduced the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill, having struck out the clause to which Lord CAMPBELL took excep. tion at its introduction in February last, and which, as the Ncble and Learned Lord declared, would empower a husband and wife to separate by mutual consent; or, in other words, to obtain a divorce for all practical purposes save that of marrying again ! It is to be regretted that Lord BROUGHAM, who has taken such an active and creditable part in exposing the wrongs to which married women are subject, was not present. We trust, however, that Noble and Learned Lord may be enabled again t) give the public the benefit of his inestimable services on this interesting and important subject, until the flagrant grievances of English wives are thoroughly and completely removed, and they are ensured the entire control and administration of i t "immediate" . heir property, w h e th er ar i s i ng f rom l egac i es or The imperative necessity of some and "resol u t e " c h ange i n the Criminal Code of gifts, er from their own industry. this country has been for a considerable time past, We cannot wonder that au intelligeat French we believe, u n i versa ll y recogn i s ed. The only ! woman should h ave described England, as " a question remaining to be so lved in the matter' barbarous cou n t ry ," when she found herself being, in point of fact—What that Change Ought I stripped by a worthl ess husband of her To Be ! What it ought to be—due regard being ' own earnings. It i., i n d ee d , a hardship of the worst description, suffi c i en t to conver t had all the while to cons id era ti ons a t once f into hatred the love that a woman might otherwise bear to her partner for life. What can be more vexatious than to see the produce of her own labour, by which she could maintain her children in comfort and happiness, ruth lessly seized and squandered by one for whom, with all his faults, she still retains lingering feel ings of affection ? She may feel disposed to cling to him through good report and through evil report—to welcome him when the world frowns and turns its back—but that feeling will be promoted, rather than checked, by knowing that she can retain the m'aans of doing so efficiently ! that what she realises by her own exertions, should be employed as she thinks pro per, and not be liable for the consequences either of his profligacy or his folly. Yes, his folly, for that should be as strenuously guarded against as deliberate crime. Men may incur debts either through their own extravagance, or becoming bound for others, and the aggrieved woman's property will be seized for their liquidation, and she and her children may be driven from the home which she had herself formed, and of which she was the main, if not the sole, prop and sup port. G. C. LEWIS to say_ that he has hitherto dealt.with the important question in a more libe . ; :a l an d enlightened spirit than any of his. predecessors, and we give b',. • ni credit for suppos ingtha aytmhe will re n f et e eno _favour, by short-sighted gad io frictions, t o i m p a i r th e b ene fi c i al character his P-... ;uggestions. and of r There Are however two points which require im:nediate attention. It appears that there was in November, 1855, an ascertained deficiency of more than 5,200,000/. If the entire assets wore realised —and the liabilities provided for, this large sum must be defrayed by the tax-paying community. It is highly discreditable to the Government that such an untoward state of affairs should be per mitted to continue. If the accounts of any private establishment showed a loss of more than 15 per cent. of the original capital, stringent inquiries would take place as to the errors of management, that had produced such disastrous consequences. The conduct of the Directors would be subjected to severe criticism ; and the Government should not set so bad an example as to go on, in the face of a large ascertained deficiency. The proper course would be to make such provisions as would leave an ample fund to meet every possible de mand, although the depositors had drawn the full sums to which they were respectively entitled. But the great evil, and that which has mainly occasioned the loss of the five millions, is the irre sponsible control exercised by different financial ministers who buy and sell stock or Exchequer Bills without reference to the interests of savings banks. It is, in fact, a gigantic fraud used for stock-jobbing purposes ; and it is not right or proper that any individual should be entrusted with such enormous power. Besides, the absolute control over 35,000,0001. sterling should not be vested in any servant of the Crown. It is highly unconstitutional that it should be so, and in the event (which GOD forbid) of any collision between the SOVEREIGN and the people, it might be used in a manner very detrimental to the liberties of the subject. These are matters that require stringent investigation before a select committee. There is no reason, however, that the present measure, which is good so far as it goes, should not be forthwith carried through Parliament, while the other points above referred to may properly be postponed for future and efficient legislation. It is not necessary to cite specific instances of this nature. They are, alas ! too painfully notorious, and must be familiar to every person of ordinary experience. They fall, too, chiefly on the middle and humble classes, who have not had elaborate settlements drawn out before their union. Woman was intended to be the helpmate, not the slave, of man. It should be, to all intents and purposes, a real bona file partnership into which she enters, not a contract that renders her merely an upper servant, without the power of retaining property, save through the in tervention of trustees. That the state of the law on this all-important subject re quires immediate alteration, is admitted on every side. No one has the hardihood to deny that proposition. It is also generally considered that the best change would be to place a wife, where there has been no bona fide settlement of her pro perty, to all intuits and purposes, in the position of a femme sole, so that what has been bequeathed or given to her, as well as her own earnings, may be absolutely under her own control—free from the debts, control, or interference of her husband, or of any person claiming under or through him. It would also be well, as Lord BROUGHAM proposed, to afford a speedy remedy by " the interposition of a court, to which her access is rendered easy, and which may ex3rcise a summary jurisdiction, at all events to the extent of keeping the disputed property safe, until the ownership could be fairly decided. So far as to the rights of property, which, if she possessed it, should carry with it the duty of pro viding for her offspring, and guaranteeing the husband against any debts which she might think proper to contract, either before or after marriage. But there are other matters which must also be considered. Events ntay unhappily occur which would render it impossible that the parties should ever afterwards live together in amity. The re dress in such cases should not be exclusively given to the man, nor should it be placed at so high a price that none but the wealthy could aspire to it. Why should a woman be irrevocably bound to a heartless wretch, who treats her habitually with brutal cruelty We are aware that the question of divorce is one of a peculiarly delicate nature, but there should be reciprocity, so that either party might apply for relief, and that the cost of the remedy should be suited to their position and means, so that there may not practically be one law for the rich and another for the poor in England. What Lord CRAN WORTM proposes will not achieve this desideratum, It will, therefore, be necessary that the subject should be maturely and attentively considered in all its details, and that the opinion of a Select Committee should be obtained thereon. It will be seen that the questions relating to property, and to divorce or separation, are totrlly distinct, and they should be treated of in different bills, and not jumbled or confounded together. The formal resolution essential to the introduc tion of a bill for the regulation of Savings Banks throughout the entire kingdom, was last night carried unanimously in the House of Commons, on the motion of the Chancellor of the Erchequer. The Right Hon. Gentleman explained the trifling modificatiOns from the measure which he intro duced in February, and which may be regarded as improvements. The chief one relates to the amount of deposits, which, by the bill of last ses sion, was fixed at £lOO. Sir G. C. LEWIS has yielded to the representations of numerous trustees and managers in various parts of the kingdom, and consented that it should remain at £2OO, as at present. The only other relates to the mode in which the prices. of the different investments shall be ascertained. It was proposed in February that the average for the preceding quarter should be taken. It is now intended to take it at the price of the day, on which the investment was actually made, manifestly producing greater accu racy in the accounts. To our humble judg meet, however, it seems that the best way of any would be to ascertain the sums actually paid or received, without looking to averages of either quarters, months, or days, under which system there could be no possibility of error. The great feature, however, of the bill is, that it gives a real, bona fide national guarantee for the money actually paid into these institutions, and not merely for what was actually transferred to the hands of the Government. It was shown m too many instances that this was completely illusory. The unfortunate depositors were made dependent on the integrity of those over whose appointment they had no control, while the trustees who appointed the defaulters avoided any description of responsibility. This system, which occasioned many well-founded complaints, and which deprived many widows and orphans of the means provided by the providence of husbands and fathers, was virtually a fraud of the worst description. It was neither more nor less than obtaining money under false pretences ! inducing the parties to believe that they had pub lic security while there was really no such thing. The natural result has followed on the exposures that have arisen, and the amount of the deposits have been reduced. Up to 1841 there had, for several years, been a steady augmentation amount ing to nearly 2,000,000/. per annum. Since ,hat period there has been a falling off of more than 7,500,000/., and the working classes would hare been altogether deprived of the benefits arising from what, under a better system, would be really valuable establishments. It was, there fore, indispensable that something should bo done to place matters on a more satisfactory footing, and that, Sir G. C. LEWIS proposes to do, so far as the safety of the depositors is concerned Assuming so large a liability, it is, of course, necessary that adequate means should be adopted to preserve more efficient control over the dif— ferent banks, rAnd to prevent the possibility of frauds. This is a delicate subject, requiring very nice handling. We cannot as yet say whether the provisions are such as to prevent its satisfac tory working. It is, however, but justice to. Sir DEATH OF ADMIRAL LORD RADSTOCK. It is with great regret that we announce the death of Vice-Admiral the Right Hon. Lord Radstock, C.B. His lordship had attended, as was his cus tom, at the Council of King's College on F r id ay last, and personally assisted the distribution of the prizes to the meritorious students. On Satur day morning he felt unwell, and afterwards became seriously ill, and on Sunday he gradually sank away, departing this life at an early hour yesterday (Monday) morning, at his London residence, 26, Portland-place. The dec e a se d fiord was the eldest son of the first Baron Radstock, who was the younger brother of George, fourth Earl of Wal degrave, and who, in consequence of a very important victory over the Spanish fleet off Cape Lagos, was created an Irish peer under the title of Baron Radstock. At an early age the subject of this notice entered the royal navy, and displayed great zeal and courage in that gallant service. He was the most distin guished in his services off the coasts of Italy, and took an important part in the destruction of the French batteries at the mouth of the Rhone, in 1812. He was in later years made a Companion of the Bath, and appointed naval aide-de-camp to her Majesty. His unostentatious charity, and ac tive exertions in many of the leading societies and benevolent institutions of the metropolis, will long be remembered. He is succeeded in his title by his only son, the Hon. Granville Augustus Walde grave, born in 1833. He leaves a widow, daughter of the late John Puget, of Totteride-park • one daughter married to Captain William Beauchamp Proctor, of Langley-park, in Norfolk ; and owe daughter unmarried. T 11147: SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 12, 1.z15.7. ADELPHI THEATRE. Mr. Webster, whose protracted absence from London, however agreeable to his provincial friends, has been a matter of much regret to his admirers in town, returned to his old qearters yesterday evening, and experienced an enthusiastic reception. He appeared in a new piece, eptitled " Joseph Chavigny ; or, Under the Thumb." The plot is as follows :—Joseph Chavigny (Mr. Webster) had, some 19 years before the period at which the drama commences, been found guilty of forgery, and had been condemned to the galleys (for the scene is in France), from which, however, he managed to escape. It was generally but erroneously belieeed that he had drowned himself. He rambles about the world a rogue and a vaga bond, and at length finds his way to a village, near which an old acquaintance, Monsieur de Varennes (Mr. Garden) resides. A conversation takes place between them, and it transpires that Monsieur de Varennes' real name is Ligny, and also that his reputed daughter Madeline (Madame Celeste), is the daughter of Chavigny, and that by a fraud of De Varennes a very large property had become hers, though left fo another. As Madeline is on the point of being married to the Count Gerard de Grandmevinil (Mr. Billington) it is most important to De Varennes that no exposure should take place, and Clavigny leaves him, having fixed a time up to which he will promise, for a large sum of money, to keep the secret. Madeline, however, happens to appear, and learns the secret of her parentage. She thereupon resolves not to marry the Count, as it would be a deception ; and yet, in order to sereen her reputed father, she assumes, as a pretence for breaking off the match, the appearance of being so bent on a life of Parisian gaiety, that the Count's chateau would be too gloomy ; and accordingly, after a scene in which her acting, under the influence of con flicting feelings, is highly wrought, they separate (it would seem) for ever. An opportunity, however, is afforded the Count of learning the true facts, as he over hears a conversation in a wood between her and Cha vigny, to whom she brings the money, and, appreciating her honour, his love returns. Chavigny is robbed of his hush-money by a fellow-robber, Requin (Paul Bedford), and, in despair, he rushes back, after escaping from gendarmes, to the house of De Varennes, where, to use the words of the play-bill, the customary " Adelphi effecte" take place—the villains being killed and the respectable people surviving, and being, it is to be sup posed, dismissed to happiness. Mr. Webster's acting was excellent, and the other performers exerted themselves with zeal. The applause at the falling of the curtain was general, and it is pro bable that the new drama will have a run. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, ?L 11. The Prince, the Princess Royal, Princess Alice, and Princess Helena a.tended divine service yesterday, at Whippingham Church, where the Rev. G. Protheroe officiated. The Queen, the Prince, and the Royal Family walked in the grounds this morning. Viscount Costlerosse, Comptroller of the Household, had an audience of the Queen, to present the Address from the House of Commons in answer to the Speech from the Throne. We are authorised to state that though the Duchess of Rent has been unwell, her Royal Highness's health is nearly perfectly re-established at the present time ; and that there is no foundation whatever for the report that any anxiety is entertained for her Royal Highness by her friends. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO MANCHESTER.—We are enabled to state that on the Queen's visit to the Art Treasures Exhibition, her Majesty will, as in 1851, honour the Earl of Ellesmere by staying at Worsley. The visit is not expected to take place before the end of June.— Manchester Guardign. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. —There were issued yester day further papers (December 27 to April 28) relating. to the proceedings of our naval forces at Canton ; and a convention between England and France relative to Portendic and Albreda. PRINTED BILLS.—Sir George Grey's Bill to Amend the Act of the 16th and 17th years of her Majesty, to substitute, in certain cases, other punishment is lieu of transportation, and Mr. Adderley's Industrial School Bill, have been issued. THE LIVERPOOL FINANCIAL REFORM ASSOCIATION AND THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY.—At the last weekly meeting of the above a , s wiation, a petition to the House of Commons on the subject of the Hudson's Bay Com pany was adopted. It will be sent to Mr. J. C. Evart, M.P., fur presentation, with a request to the other member fur the borough (Mr. T. B. Horefa'l) that he will support its prayer. r - 711 1 - ;1 LAT LAJS A „2.4 V• TEE WAR IN PERSIA. We have been favoured with the following copies of telegraphic messages received by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's agent at Alexandria : " Before the news of the conclusion of peace with Persia could reach us an expedition to Moham morah sailed from Bushire on the 19th March, under the personal command of Sir James Outran]. " The force arrived in the mouth of the Eu phrates on the 21st. On the 24th it moved towards the fort, and opened a brisk fire at daybreak of the 26th. The Persians replied with spirit, but in the end the superiority of our squadron was manifest, and our troops having landed advanced upon the entrenched camp of the enemy, who fled imme diately, leaving behind them their tents, stores, &c. " The loss of the enemy has been estimated at 200 killed. " . As a truly tragic episode of this war, we have to mention the death, each by his own hand, of General Forster Stalker, Commander of the Forces, and Commodore Etheridge of the navy. " The verdict on General Stalker's body was, that he came by his death from a pistol shot inflicted by his own hand in a fit of temporary insanity. "There was no paper left to indicate this, and he was merely heard to complain that the 3d Cavalry was not given him, and was also uneasy about the responsibility of sheltering the European troops during the approaching weather. " The verdict on Commodore Etheridge was that he destroyed himself with his own hand while suf fering under mental aberration, brought about by long-continued anxiety connected with the duties of his command. " A mutiny of the Sepoys of the 19th Bengal Native Infantry has ended in the disbanding of the corps. "The Governors of the Presidencies are at the seats of their administration. "A further improvement has taken plac3 in our money market, and we have to report a further rise in 4 per cent. paper. " The business transacted in the impoit market during the fortnight has been to a fair extent. "Freights have fallen in value, and exhibit a downward tendency. FR ANCE. PARIS, MONDAY. The departure of the Grand Duke from Paris is fixed for Saturday, the 16th. He will arrive at Creuzot on the 17th, and return to Paris the 18th, when he will leave again directly for Bordeaux. He will arrive at Rochefort on then 20th, and on the 21st he will visit Indret, L'Orient on the 23d, Brest on the 24th, Cherbourg the 28th, and Os borne, in the Isle of Wight, on the 30th. The marine department has freighted a steamer belonging to a private company at St. Nazaire for the service of the Grand Duke Constantine on the 20th, 21st, and 22d of this month. H.I.H. is to arrive at St. Nazaire in the Reins Hortense, after visiting Bordeaux and Rochefort. The Prince's present intention is to visit Indret, but the Nantes people hope lie will be induced to go to that town, and accept a dinner and ball. On leaving St. Nazaire, the Grand Duke is to proceed. to Lorient. General de Be ville, aide-de-camp of the Emperor, Count Tascher de la Pagerie, first chamberlain to the Empress, and Count de Riancourt, equery to the Emperor, will in a few days lea ve f or Ly ons , to meet the King of Bavaria, and accompany his Majesty to Fontainebleau. The Cabinet of the Tuileries has received the re ply of the Swiss Government on the subject of the publication of the documents relative to the Neu chatel affair. The Federal Council is said to justify the publication which it made by the difference ex isting between the institutions of Switzerland and those of monarchical States. It maintains that a republican government cannot regard as an act of indiscretion• a publication which was required by strict duty towards the confederated States of which Switzerland is composed. In the second place, the Federal Council explains the haste with which it published the documents in question, by stating that it was under the conviction that the negotiations were terminated, and that Prussia, like Switzerland, had no choice between a formal adhesion to the projected arrangement and an ab solute rejection of it. Lastly, the Federal Council declared that the text of the resolutions adopted by the representatives of the four great powers cannot be modified ; and that, for its part, it will abide strictly by the arrangement made, and will accept no new condition from the King of Prussia. The following telegraphic despatches have been received from Paris : " MARSEILLES, May 11.—The Courrier de Mar seilles mentions a tragical event which has taken place in Persia. According to this journal, Gen. Stalker, the commandant of the British land forces, and Commodore Cherydge, who commands the English squadron, are said to have committed suicide. Great anarchy is said to reign in Persia, where Sattrakan is still in favour. Accounts from Constantinople to the 4th state that Ali Ghaleb, son of Reschid Pacha, and Member of !the Council of the Tanzimat, has been named Minister of Foreign Affairs in the room of Ethem Pacha, who is named Member of the Council of Tanzimat. This chatage has been favourably received." " MARSEILLES, May 10.—The Journal de Con stantinople of the 30th ult. announces that the bank affair of Wilkins has failed. The same paper states that another English combination on a re stricted scale bas been rejected. The Turkish bankers have made propositions which are inaccept able. The Presse d'Orient mentions a number of attacks on persons in the Turkish capital. The Bey of Tunis has been decorated by Austria, on the occa sion of an advantageous treaty recently concluded. The inhabitants of that regency are irritated at the heavy taxes imposed on them, and the seizures which have taken place on account of non-pay ment. A great number of them are emigrating into Algeria. Some alarm is felt at Jerusalem in consequence of the presence there of 12,000 Greek pilgrims." " BERLIN, May 10.—Immediately on the ar rival of Prince Napoleon at Berlin, the King went to visit him and presented to him the officers of his military household. Shortly after, the Prince returned the visit of his Majesty and was presented to the Queen. He afterwards proceeded to visit the Prince of Prussia. The reception given to his Imperial Hignhess by the Prussian Royal family has been most friendly and cordial. The Prince, the next day, the 9th, delivered to the King an autograph letter from the Emperor of the French, relative to the affair of Neuchatel. His Imperial Highness visited the President of the Council, and was present at a grand review, after which he dined with his Majesty and the royal family at Chariot tenburg. It is said that Prince Napoleon will leave on Wednesday next, and that he has ex pressed a desire to visit Prince Frederick William at Breslau." " VIENNA, May 10.—An imperial decree pro nounces an amnesty for all Austrian subjects (not Lombardo-Venetians) imprisoned for the crime of high treason, insult, or rebellion, and orders their being set at liberty." BOURSE, May 11.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. C. End of Month. 4i per Cents 3 per Ceuta 69 15 69 30 Bank Shares 4,350 ... ....... Credit Mobilier 1,302 50 Roman 9O Do. Account 1,290 Austrian Belgian 41 Piodmontese (5) _ 90 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS-FOE CASH. tr. c. ft' c. Orleans 1,4671 Western Northern Lyons 1,462 New Ditto 745 Mediterranean 1,980 Grand Central Geneva Midi THE PRINCIPALITIES. A letter from Bucharest in the Bourse Ga.ette of Berlin, says :—" On the 29th ult. the news was received at Jassy that M. Katargi h a d been replaced in his functions of Minister of the Inte rior by M. Basile Ghika. This seems to imply that Prince Yogorides has modified his views with respect to the union, for M. Ghika is favourable to that measure, and would not conseut to any step hostile to his party. The commissioners for settling the question of the Danubian principalities, after a month's stay in Wallachia, proceeded at the end of last month to Jassy in Moldavia, where they were received with every mark of respect, and, as at the former place, addresses were presented to them, to which they returned suitable replies. The Ottoman coniraisaioner was received with marked attention, but was more reserved than the other commis sioners, and begged that his reply to the adds ss presented to him might not be published. The local authorities continued to display severity against the partisans of the union of the two prin cipalities. AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna, of the 6th, says :—" The Archduke Maximilian, governor-general of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, is expected in the course of a few days, and on his arrival Count d'Archinto is to go to Brussels to demand officially from King Leopold the hand of the Princess Char lotte. Count d'Archinto is to be accompanied by Count Ziehy, grand marshal of the palace ; the Duke Melzi d'Eril and Count Bembo, chamber lains ; Count Bela de Hadik, adjutant of the Ad miralty; Captain Count Michielli, of the navy, aide de.canap ; M. de Scherzenlechner, councillor-secre tary, and a numerous and brilliant' suite. The Count is to await at Brussels the arrival of the Archduke. It is probable that from Bruise's the Archduke will go to England to visit Queen 'Vic toria and Prince Albert, also the ex-Queen of the French Marie Amelie and her family, who are the nearest relatives of the august princess." ITALY. The Giornale di Roma of the 6th states that the Pope arrived at Civita Castellana on the 4th, and on the following morning went to the cathe dral on foot, to say mass before his depar ture. During the ceremony he distributed the Eucharist to all the municipal authorities and to many of the other inhabitants. At M4gliano, Otricoli, and Narni, he also visited the cathedrals and gave his benediction to the people. At Terni he visited the large foundry of that place, where several medals with the effigies of 'the Saviour, the Virgin, and the Apostles Peter and Paul were cast in his pre sence. When about to leave that place, some young men of the best families offered to take the horses off his carriage, and to draw it, but this he would not allow. The streets through which he passed were , everywhere strewed with flowers. At Spoleto, triumphal arches had been erected, and before the cathedral stood a large wooden column surmounted by the statue of the Immaculate Virgin. The town was illuminated when he arrived. On alighting he proceeded on foot to the cathedral, and thence to the episcopal palace, where he admitted all the authorities to the honour of kissing his slipper. On the following morning the Pope said mass in the cathedral, and then set out for Fuligno, where he was received with similar honours. SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 7th contains a royal decree which appoints General Sans y Cuadrado Chief of the King's Military Household, in the room of the late General Urbistonclo, and another which nominates General Lemery Captain- General of New Castille (Madrid), in the room of General Sans. In the Congress, on the preceding day, the Minister of the Interior, in the course of a discussion on an election return, a.szerted that the Government had maintained strict legality and impartiality in the elections ; and with reference to the press, he declared that the press is not sub jected to any censorship, but is regulated accord ing to law. He added that, on a future day the Government would be perfectly ready to go into a full discussion of the matter. The Congress, hav ing become formally constituted, had nominated, as its president, M. Martinez de la Rosa ; vice presidents, Messrs. Maquieira, Vista Hermosa, Terreira, Alonsa ; and secretaries, Messrs. Baizan allana, Belda, Burigny, and Incan. All these gentlemen belong to the moderate party. The Infante Don Henry had left Valladolid for France. The old goldcoin of the country was being exported in considerable quantities. The weather had im proved. A letter from Turin says that the Empress of Russia is expected in that city on the 21st, and that the day fixed for the arrival of the King of Saxony is the 15th. It adds that the Duchess d'Orleans was also expected in Turin to thank the King for the hospitality which she bad received in the course of the winter. According to the Corriere Mercantile of Genoa, a Piedmontese man-of•war is shortly to leave for China to co-operate with the British fleet. The Comte de Paris and the Dec de Chartres left Genoa on the 7th. The Archduke Charles of Tuscany left Florence on the 6th for Perugia, in order to compliment the Pope during his stay in that . town. "The Count de Chambord left Venice on the 24th ult. for Farina," says the France Centrale of Blois, "to visit his sister, the Duchess Regent. After stopping there two days, the Prince, accompanied only by the Duke de Levis and two servants, continued his journey incognito under an assumed name. Crossing Piedmont he visited Turin, Chambery, and Geneva, without any one being aware of his presence. He was at the last named place on the 3d instant, and was to proceed by Munich to Vienna and Frohsdorff. The Countess de Chambord was to proceed to Frohsdorff via Parma and Modena, and would arrive at her journey's end and be fore the Prince." Accounts from Venice state that the Emperor of Austria has restored the pensions of 82 retired employes of the Arsenal, which had been discontinued in conse quence of their conduct in 1848. The municipality of Pesth has voted 250,000 florins (upwards of 600,000 f.) for the fetes to be given in tbat city in honour of the Emperor and Empress of Austria. Their Majesties intend to pass two months in Hungary, returning to Vienna on the 28th June. Major-General W.F. Williams, K.H., arrived on the 23i ult. at Gibraltar, where he suceceds to Sir R. Gar rett in the command. The similarity of names has led several London journals to suppose that this governor ship had devolved on Sir W. F. Williams of Kars, and they have consequently speculated on the destination of the borough of Calne, now occupied by the latter. The minister of Anhalt-Bernburg announced in the last sitting of the Diet of that small duchy that in 'the budget of the preceding year the receipts had exceeded the expenses by 33,000 thalers, so that the taxes could be at present reduced one-fourth. " Negotiations between Count Hatzfeldt and Ferrouk Khan for the conclusion of a treaty of commerce between Persia and the Zollverein," says a Berlin letter, "are advanced enough for the draft of the convention to be submitted to the various States concerned. The agree ments ex'sting between these States require that all treaties of this kind shall be concluded in common." A letter from Hanover of the Bth in the New Prussian Gazette says --" An interesting trial has just tnken place at Osnabruck. A young peasant, aged 18, named Meyer de Ryke, was requested to subscribe to the mo nument which has been erected to the memory of the late King Ernest Augustus, but refused, saying that Ernest Augustus did not merit a monument, as be had been compelled to do all he had done ;' or, according to another version, that .all he had done, he had done through fear.' As expressions of this kind could not form grounds for a penal trial, a civil action was brought for these offensive remarks, and the tribunal of Osna bruck condemned the young man to 100 thalers damages and costs." The Tayesbote of Prague announces that the cantonal authorities of Saar, in Bohemia, have suspended, subject to superior decision, the execution of the ordinance of the burgomaster of that town lately passed, enjoining all Jews to leave the town in a fortnight. The burgomaster based this exercise of authority on a privilege of King Ferdinand I. existing in the archives, but which is nearly 300 years old. As, however, a royal d ecree , d a t e d t h e 25th May, 1792, enacts that all special privileges must be submitted to a new ratifieation on a change of govern ment, and as the privilege in question was not ratified it appears to have fallen into desuetude. We learn from the New York papers that Louisa Pyne, and the rest of the English Opera Company of which she is the most distinguished member, must by this time be crossing the Atlantic, homeward bound, after their long and most successful sojourn in the United States. Miss Pyne was to have her farewell benefit in New York on Saturday, the 25th April ; and this was to be the company's last performance previous to their embarking for England. This charming song stress seems to be as great a favourite among the Ameri cans as among ourselves. They have been in the habit of calling her " the English skylark"—a phrase happily characteristic of the peculiar charm of her melody ; and their most popular journals join in their expressions of regret for her departure. ESTABLISHMENT OF A TURKISH PILOT FLAG.—The Board of Trade have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the subjoined copy (translation) of a notice issued by the Turkish Foreign office relatiie, to the establishment of a Turkish pilot flag :--(Trans lation.)—°° It. having been reported that men-of- war and merchant ships passing through ports in the dominions of the Sultan sometimes require the services of a pilot, instructions have been sent to the autho rities. of all places which are ports, for the harbour masters to take a guardian from the Quarantine, visit the ship, ascertain for what place she requires a pilot, and report it to the proper quarter, in order that a pilot may be immediately procured and sent on board, at a r e . muneration, on exhibition by the ship, of whatever na tion it may be, coming to an Ottoman port, of a fiat similar to the one specially designed for the purpose, of which a copy is herewith sent to your Excellency. The ambassadors of all friendly powers having been re quested to make the matter known to the shipwastera of their respective nations, and to instruct them to act ac cordingly when about to ask for a pilot, a si m il ar sem . muuicatien is wield to your Excellency." [rho flag is a red peter, or red flag with a white square in the centre.] PROSPERITY TO THE MAURITIUS. The publication of the annual reports on the state of her Majesty's colonial possessions fully accounts for the strong desire that every now and then bursts forth in the French press to exchange the French possessions on the continent of India for the old French inland of Mauritius. In such an exchange the material, and as we think also the political, gill' would be all on their side. .Governor .Higgiuson's last report on that co'onY exhibits a state of prosperity 'which it is pleaqint to record. Although during the five years-1851 -55 —taxes to the amount of 55,8001. a year were re pealed, the revenue has gone on steadily increasing; in the year 1855 it amounted on this small Volcano, island in the India n O cean ; w hi c h canno t ra i se fod enough for its own population, to 348,452/. ; and in those five years its taxes produced the large sae . Of 1,667,3151. The expenditure, too, though large (in 1855 it reached 317,8391.), has been kept steadily below the receipts ; and at the date of this repot the Mauritius was not only free f rom d e bt, but hid in hand a considerable reserve fund to meet Wl' foreseen contingencies. So gati,factory indeed are the island finances that the popular tendency lon e more to prodigality than to economy, and the pres sure on the Government is for the reverse of a fro - . gal management of its pecuniary means. In 1854 the value of the imports was 1,492,7 881 : In 1855 it fell off to 1,356,300/. ; but in 1855 the value of the exports exceeded that of 1854 ba r 601,6891., and was no less than 1,848,0901. ; and the balance of trade in 1855 was 491,7891. in WO' of the colony. - Gradually the Mauritius is beeore . ing a depot for a large and increasing conanal e , s with toe magnificent island of Madagascar. trade with that island re-opened in 1854, a v id ' n the course of the next year trebled that of any Pre lions year in exports alone. A steamer is now re" gularly engaged in the transport of c tttle to the Mauritius, and the supplies from Madagascar hal e . brought down the price of beef one half—au The mense boon to 'the peasantry of the islatn). trade with the Australian colonies is also rap i u ' r augmenting, and in 1855 the island sent thithe r 262, cwts. of sugar. Sugar production is the basis of this prosperiV.! and Mauritius is now f a irly i n th e van o f the suga r producing possessions of the British Crown, as the following progressive increaser of its productia shows Crop of 1851 „ 1852 BO,OOO „ „ 1853 lOO,OOO „ „ 1854 98,000 „ ~ 1855 And if m 1856 the expectation of Governor ginson be fulfilled that the crop would Yit e 120,000 tons, we shall have th e production of the island doubled in five years. Neither is that tb limit assignable to Mauritius p r od uc tion, er li e , under the present system of culture and mane?, ture. For there are large tracts of land still .13n. 11 : unreclaimed, and quite as capable of producl% sugar. All that they want is labour. With tb, a i , it is, says Mr. Higgin s o n , "h ar dly possible to e s ' mate the producing power attainable within 31)0, ther five years." The consequence of this augmented product' t$ and of the highly remunerative prices of late Y e % has been that gra d ua lly th e propr i e t ar y h a s he . ; getting out of debt ; l e s s b orrowe d ca pit a l i 3 ei g ployed in the culture of estates • a more solvelt o proving a more skilful race o f ctiltivaters ; at he'd they inspire greater confidence ; and the credit o Mauritius planters now stands very high in markets of England. The sheet-anchor of its prosperity is of course j a i l; migration; and of the proximity of Mauritius to In full advantage hasbeeu taken. The stream of gration maintains a steady and perpetual Ott On Dec. 31, 1855, there were in the island 100,, male Indian coolies and 28,245 females, and tiro wards of one-half the former were under contra ero re of service. Notwithstanding this number wages.° l „ l o i rising, and the demand on the immigration de increasing. Still the average wages were not lil t , being only 13s. a mon th ; b u t i n 1855 th a t sure t o tracted 13,000 men a nd women f rom the contill e o of India. The tenden c y, t oo , on th e p ar t of th e r immigrants to settle permanently in the island' 1 0 creases ; the women from Indii very seldom terti an to their own country, and there is growing 1 1 1 3 4 ,6 Indo-Creole race, Mauritius-born, bound to ', lO , island Ly all those ties which beget love of c°_,,, t o try. The per-tentage of the Indian immigr',a, was, according to the returns of 1855, 43 per o 'o of the whole popul a tio n , th a t o f th e emancill b e Africans being only 30 per cent. at that date. a latter race is, indeed, decreasing in numbers; not only does it suffer much more from the aO c tva l of epidemic diseases, but in it there is an ally f or excess of deaths over births. Hitherto Indiall e migration has been enti r ely a G ov er n ment trap tion ; but a law has been lately passed to e 11 3041 persons to obtain at their own expense iminig ra ' from India. f big It was a wise rema r k o f L or d G rey, i n o ne ° • al circular despatches to the governors of our troPleii possessions, that no class of proprietors are so deep and directly interested in the e d uca ti o n and elvAt improvement of their labourers as the planters• to last the Mauritius Government is making effort overcome the peculiar impediments opposed colony to educational progress. The principal l ot s pediment lies in the difference of language OP° „ r by the two different races of labourers, which f4 / 0 gests the institution of separate schools for 030 4 dians and the Creoles. On this point the Gove%,,. and his council have, it seems, differed ; the ( i;le vernor recommending that teachers and suite 61 books in the vernacular dialects should be obtal:: /i g from India for the C oo li es ; th e counc il i n sis' l l 3 a that children of both ra c e s s h ou ld b e taught 'of same school, through the medium of the Crew e d patois of the island. There is, however, an se li b - Do grant of 8,7881. f or common sc h oo l s, an d a institution called the Royal College is maintint4 at an annual c h arge o f 7 , 0001. T wo o f its nel j 4 te are yearly sent over t o thi s coun t ry t o conlP l l their educati on , an d, o f th ose so sen t, th ree 3 1 ° 0 ,4 men of colour have recently competed with sec° for honours in the British universities. titlf What a contrast does this picture of Mallri afford to the state of a majority of our West Ina l3a islands. No doubt the West Indian colonies ha of late been sorely tried by the assaults of c hole o ; no doubt they are less" favourably situated for to acquisition of labour. But it is impossible 1 1 ° t ir it see that their proprietary, as a rule, want theSei of enterprise which so pre-eminently clistingei: r itli the proprietary of the Mauritius. To wrangle ' their governors, and ascribe all their misfortllfl i to the Colonial-office and the Imperial LegisleP o lf is a poor substitute for self-exertion—the gods °OB aid those who aid themselves. Then, agaie , ,,alt Mauritius is not cursed to the same extent T" r e ' non-resident proprietors as the West Indies a 00 Cultivation and production are costly processes 10 t estates encumbered with debt. If the propri e be be resident, he is poor and spiritless ; if h e ad absent, he has the cost and loss of overseers to s to.the expense of production. 0 1/ The prosperity of th e M aur iti us oug ht to fe t io the West Indies a great and useful lesson. Mauritius society is in a purer, simpler, more E fo l l reliant conditi on ; it i s , consequent ly, more hoc! r islt energetic, and independent. It doesjnot fret' of its labcurera, with its government, with the nlov o l, country ; but it attends to its own affairs, li o d keeping them steadily in view, it prospers. t ile so also will the West Indies, when they take Ac t, same means—when- the Encumbered Estates , 0 8 passed several years ago, shall be allowed to 1101 property in a sound condition, when the csP c ed applied to cultivation shall be free from cha r which set all profit at defiance, and when the rePiles neration of labour shall be such as to indite! negro to give " a good day's work for a fair 01 wage."—Daily News. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) HAY MARKETS. , Jo , ' SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 2/12s to 4/ 4s ; elovel o o o 3/ 10s to 5/ ss; and straw, 1.0 78 to 1/ lOs Pe r , Trade firm. 0 107 CIIMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 2/ 12s to 41 Gs; ioso do., 3/ 108 to 5/ Os ; and straw, 1/ 6s to 1/ lOs per A moderate supply and a steady demand. clele o WHITECHA.PEL.—Meadow hay, 2/ 10s to 4' 0 ; p od , do. 3/ 10s to 5/ 58 ; and straw, 1/ 5a to 1/ lOs pe r Trade steady. COLONIAL • r' TEA.-The market has exhibited . in more firmness „ r oe and a considerable busi ness h as been done in °° i'atAi fi congou at is OAd per lb. Other descriptions fu11Y. 3333 " previous values. d uoY SUGAR.—There has been a f a i r d eman d f o r most ", t io o ,l ties of both foreign a nd co l on i a l f or h ome co nsiin*Oo but for exportation business has been inactive• prices hav been currnt fo all de scrtins. a nd CoFFEE.— e -There is e very little stoc ip k " on offer , io tif tretne rates have been paid for both Plantation an d o , Ceylon. Oth er d escr iptions fully maintain their va, ra te RICE. —The mark e t h as b een d u ll, an d ra ther efoi e ' t are cutrent for most qualities. a, 1)11 Rum.—A very li m it e d b us i ness h as been transac t° e. prices rate ste a dy. c e°, TALLOW.—. 4. moderate business has been sc, r , prices have ruled rather firmer, more especially for to ' qls.' delivery. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 565. 6 d . go d 9 and last 3 months 555. to 535. 6d, per ovt• melted is in request. • ROYAL SURRY GARDENS.—The ommencew-00 Juiliea',; great m E musical performances— c or in the qiza s ,, of ( s )tvu more graadiloquent phrase, L 0 The Inaugur3t3 o , ° ' l , - e rs eaf)on 1857 "—too, place yesterday evening , o so Mendelssohn's " E enta lijah" was given, by an — f e 3 l ' vocal and instruml host, under the direction ° o cl Jullien hitnself. The principal singers were Or' an d Madame Weiss, Miss Louisa Vinning, pollO er t, tti Mr. Sims Reeves; and the band and chorus W t housand strong. _ _ le sl v ( bi h( and Cei auC b ee and fer t Cet b ee , blor at q jug ' 10s. Wes P en R o y 5 8. 1 P ort sP+r Di Turk 1.4 oree: 1.00 , Sv Lo r I Lai; „ .. 1) 1 at att Zia!: