The Sun. — London, England, 1857-03-31 00:00:00

R OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. C. Dillon. THIS EVENING, Mr. TOOLE'S FIRST BENEFIT, wil be performed TIE WONDER. Mr. and Mrs. Dillon, Miss Woolgar, Mr. Stuart, Mr. Barrett, Mr. Toole. OMINIQUE THE DESERTER. Mrs. B. White, Miss Wilton, Mr. Toole. GOOD FOR NOTHING. Miss Woolgar, Mr. Toole. MY FRIEND FROM LEATHERHEAD. And the Dazzling TRANSFORMATION SCENE. Tickets, &c., at the Box Office ; Keith, Prowse, and Co., 48, Cheapside ; London Tavern; and Mr. Toole. 14, Cecil street, Strand. The box-office open daily, from 11 to 5, under the super intendence of Mr. Chatterton, jun. Carriages conveying parties t 3 the Private Boxes to set down at the State entrance in Burleigh-street. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING, will be performed Shakespere's tragedy of KING RICHARD THE SECOND. King Richard 11., Mr. C. K.an ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by MUSIC HATH CHARMS. T"ATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven, A LIFE'S TRIAL. Messrs. Buckstone, Compton, Howe, W. Farren, Rogers ; Mesdames Reynolds, Poynter, Fitzwil liam,&c. Folhwed by the new Comedy, in three acts, entitled, DOUBLE-FACED PEOPLE. Characters by Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. Compton, Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Clark, Miss Reynolds, Mrs. Poynter, and Mrs. E. Fitz wil'iam. And LA. FOLIE ET L'AMOR. T HEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed PAUL PRY. Paul Pry, Mr. Wright. Followed by a new and original domestic sketch, entitled WELCOME, LITTLE STRANGER. Mr. Wright, Mr. Faul Bedford, Sze. After which, A NIGHT AT NOTTING-HILL, in which Mr. Wright and Paul Bedford will appear. OYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lesgeeß, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. THIS EVENING, BRUTUS. Brutus, Mr. Creswick. After which, TTIE QUIET FAMILY. To conclude with JEM, THE DODGER. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMP FIITTI EATR,E. .CIL Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. THIS EVENING (the last — week before Easter), Shake pere's Play of KING HENRY THE FOURTH, with Mr. Wm. Cooke's equestrian illu.strations. Hotspor, Mr. James Holloway ; Prince Henry, Mr. W. Cooke, jun.; Falstaff, Mr. J. W. Anson. After which, the SCENES of HORSEMANSHIP in the ARENA. To conclude with FORTUNE'S FROLIC. CommeLce at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from it., no charge for booking ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. , ox office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr, W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. A New Grand Military Spectacle will be produced on EASTER MONDAY. CANTERBIJRY HALL. Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow in7, company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Duets, dic., viz.: Miss E Pearce, Sirs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunell, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri, Senor Antonio M. the Solla, and E. L. lime ; Masters Austin, Bennett, and Carr"; Messrs. Sam Collins, E. Mackney, and C. J. Wilkins. Pianoforte, Mr. Cceil Hicks; harmonium, .T. Caulfield, jun.; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre • cisely. Suppers, dtc., until twelve o'clock. ;aofl VT'AT'- , .ft AT LONDON BRIDng. TRIG DA!—Morn. 25 min. aft. 5 —Evening 50 cilia. aft. 5 l'n-Moßßow--.Morn. 13 rain. aft. 6—Evening 41 rnit.aft_ 6 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 31. THEE.3IO3II,TEE, IN 'VIE SHALE. 57 - hlghest triune noon yesterday 48 lowest this morning and during the night. 55 -this day at noon. ARONITTEB, 29'23. 'VT:Tr.—Variable and light, from W. to W.S.P. It rained continuonaly yesterday afternorm, and up to a late boor in the evening, and from midnight till this morn in;. Now fine and cloudy. ‘C' F -Tr (rt LSII,II, 4.! .7. 7 . 5 . „I• ; LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1857. The Victims of " Voting in the Majority" are, in their number, very rapidly multiplying. Yesterday we enumerated thirty-five ! Tc-day, this melancholy catat)gue may be increased to just exactly three over half a hundred ! Positively no less than fifty-three, who have, by reason of that one fatal vote, been shorn suddenly and in exorably of their political glory as popular repre sentatives. Exactly twenty-one are "retiring" gentlemen. Thirty-two not finding it in their hearts to yield to their inevitable fate voluntarily, and with a good grace, have gone in and—lost ! They have been defeated ignominiously. They have been rejected with scorn, as having been un faithful to their trust as Englishmen. They present on this account so great an example, so solemn a warning, so salutary a lesson in their col lective downfall that we feel ourselves constrained to reproduce their natixes seriatim. Premising while we do so, that the asterisks, wherever they appear in the list 4 subjoined, denote those who have suicidally tempted their own evil-fate, and, so tempting it, have been defeated ! THE REJECTED YETIITES ! *.A.NNESLEY, Eirl of Great Grimsby. BALDOCK, E. *BELL, J Guildford. *BIGNOLD, Sir S. BUCK, Colonel Birmtap7e. *Btrxr, G. *CABBELL, B. B Boston. *CHANDOS, Marquis of Buckingham. CHELSEA, Viscount Dover. *COCKS, T. S Reigae. *COLES, 13. B. *DP.AX, J. DUCKWORTH, Sir J. Exeter. *DUNCOMBE, Hon. W East Retford. Bridgewater. Oldham. *FOLLETT, 8.. *Fox, W. J. . *GLADSTONE, Capt. J. GORDON, Hon. A. *GRAHAM, Lord W. Grantham.. - *GREENE, THOMAS Lancaster. GUINNESS, R. Barnstaple. *GWYN, HOWEL Penryn. HALFORD, Sir H South Loieestershire HENEAGE, Geo. H. Devizes. HERBERT, Sir T. *HEnvEY, Lord A. * HEYWORTII, L. Derby. * LACoN, Sir E * LAvAnn, A. H Aylesbury. Lirrnsxy, Col. J. Wigan. • *MAca "m°R, JAMES Sandwich. MADDOCK, Si r R Rochester. *MALL, E. *MIIRROUGH, J. p .. Bridport. *ICORTHCOTE, Sir S. *OAKES, J. OTWAY, A. J. *PALMER, ROUNDELL *PELLATT, APSLEY *PHILLIMoRE, J. G. *PHILLIMORE, R. T SANDARS, G. Wakefield. SC9BELL, Capt. J • Bath. STARKIE, LE G Clitileroe. -3 STTJAII.T, Capt. SUTTOY, J Newark. VERNON, G. WADDINGTON, DAVID Harwich. WARNER, E. Norwich. WYNDHAM, General FINALLY-THE TWO TELLERS ! *COBDEN, R. GIBSON, M. Exactly Fifty-three Unfortunates, already chasseed out of that Notable Majority formed under the rHE- auspices of the Ex-Member for the West Riding— the Factious Combination —no, we must talk politely and not by any means call things by their right names—the " Fortuitous Concurrence." That's the correct phrase, we believe—Well, the " Fortuitous Concurrence" hcis drawn down upon itself a rather summary vengeance, it must be allowed. Fifty-three of its " atoms" being al ready scattered to the winds ! Among those fifty-three, we would especially direct attention to eight expelled Liberals whose names are here immediately suijoined Mr. RICHARD COBDEN. Mr. W. J. Fox. Mr. MILNER GIBSON. Mr. AUSTIN LAYARD. Mr. EDWARD MIALL. Mr. J. P. MUR , IOUGH. Mr. J. G. PHILLIMORE. Captrin SCOBELL. Rejected Liberals, perverse and crotchetty Re formers, who have so often of late shown them selves to be so entirely unworthy of reliance, that they have at length provoked, by their fitful and flagrant inconsistency, the stern and deliberate condemnation of eight Liberal Constituencies. The Constituencies who have thus nobly vindi cated themselves from any participation in the blame of these same monstrous inconsistencies being no other than the following : Aylesbury, Leominster. Bath. Manchester. Bridport. Oldham. Huddersfield. Rochdale. Honour say we to those true-hearted and tho roughly English Constituencies ! They have de served well of their brother electors throughout the country. They have " Put Down" some half-dozen at least of the more conspicuous of those self-sufficient crotchet-mongers who have been the Marplots during the last few sessions of the great national cause of progressive improve ment. Does any one recollect, by the way, Punch's whimsical sketch some time ago of the Ex-Member for the West Riding the Rejected of Hud dersfield—clapping an extinguisher upon his head that strange descending headpiece being inscribed, after the title of Mr. COBDEN'S own pamphlet—" What next—and next ?" That Next, Mr. COBDEN ! The actual realisation of the fancy of the cruel caricaturist ! It fits well— that Extinguisher ! To a hair—to admiration ! As naturally and inevitably in its way as the Crown of CHARLEMAGNE fitted the head of NAPO LEON the Great. And now that Mr. COBDEN is so well suited in that way—let us recall to mind, for a moment, what he said among other equally sagacious things in his Address to the Electors of Huddersfield. He boasted to them that he had among the supporters of his Motion—Fox, and MIALL, and LAYARD, and PELLATT, and THOMAS BARING ! Well—Fox, and MIALL, and LAYARD, and PELLATT, and THOMAS BARING, and Mr. COBDEN himself, and his Seconder, and forty-six others besides, have all of them in rapid succes sion fallen into the shade in consequence ! Clever —isn't it ? Wonderfully sagacious ! A DANIEL —yea, a DANIEL come to judgment ! Lord PALMERSTON will no longer have any excuse for not bringing forward—not six or seven, or a dozen, measures—but such measures, be ginning with one or two of great importance, as shall show that Ministers are truly Reformers, and that nothing but the too finely-balanced state of parties has hitherto cooled their ardour. So says ford J. RUSSELL, and be is unquestionably a high authority on such a point. With charming naivete, he acknowledges that ho has availed him self of that excuse; and that Lord PAMERSTON has been equally willing to follow the valuable precedent thus established. It certainly does not speak very highly for the enthusiasm, or even the sincerity of either of these Noble Lords. Bat it forcibly illustrates the system. Nothing will be granted that can be rejected or even postponed. The " policy of abstention," as it has been eupho niously termed, or the "do-nothing dodge," as it has been styled in more homely, but no less ex pressive terms, is that which every Minister keeps in view. It is of comparatively trivial importance who may be placed at the head of affairs, unless he be stimulated onwards in the path of Reform. The Tadpoles and Tapers—the collective red tapery—would be astounded at any voluntary offering. To give only what is imperatively re quired—and as little of that as practicable— is the golden rule by which every official regu• lates his proceeding% It is the guiding principle of the " Ins." The " Outs" are differently cir cumstanced. They must offer something really bene ficial to the country if they desire to change their positions; but their rule is to " buy in the cheapest market," to make the smallest possible bidding that may suffice to achieve their object. It is thus that the most extensive ReForms have been the fruits of a protracted absence from office by the Whig party. It tmk a series of years to bring them up to th© mark so far as the modern Magna Charta was concerned, and " Lord JOHN" occupied the Opposition benches, more than four years before he could discover the im policy and injustice of the iniquitous bread t s. Now again, we may hope for his aid, in asmuch as he has discovered that something must be done to regain his forfeited popu larity : "Sweet are the uses of adversity: , The Noble Lord has received a salutary although painful lewon, which will, we trust, re main permanently fixed in his mind. He has still a locus pcnitentia?, and we shall not despair of seeing him once more shaking off his cautious doubts and becoming a leader amongst Reformers. We have elsewhere given him a useful hint on the subject of " the Ballot," by which he may profit. Let him take it to heart, and if he offers something worthy of the glorious cause, and of his quondam reputation, his backslidings may be forgiven, and ho may once more be received with open arms by those whom he so long abandoned. We trust, however, that the Noble Lord may carry the general principles, so boldly enunciated in the hour of triumph, into practical operation. We cannot, however, forget that no man utterei "prayer 'ords" during the late war, while but few were prepared to make such extensive concessions to Germanism ! Ha now declares that " he trusts to see the edifice of religious liberty perfected." Will he press for ward the Jews Enfranchisement Bill and the Marriages Affinity Bill in such a manner as to permit no excuse for their rejection? If any decided collision takes place, the Lords must yield. There are constitutional modes of en forcing their assent. But no attempt has hitherto been made to turn the screw, and obtain th e b ene fit o f a littl e gent l e coerc i on. H e also h opes " to see free trade completed by the abolition of some obnoxious duties." But surely DO man knows better than himself that the great desideratum, cannot be achieved save by the adop tion of a judicious and well-regulated system of direct taxation, or, in other words, by the equit able adjustment of the I ncome Tax. In the begin ning of 1853 he indicated i n hi s capac i ty as Ministe- rial Leader of the representativ e branch of the Legis lature a speedy solution of the important problem. SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCI u , 1857. But he permitted the well-founded expectations ofl the people to be frustrated, and was a consenting party to the GLADSTONE " dodge," that promised the abolition of the impost in 1860, although •that abolition would be fatal to the removal of obnoxious. duties Lr)rd JOHN RUSSELL must ponder over these matters. He has a glorious opportunity before him ; but if it be neglected or misapplied his case will be irredeemable ; he never can again retrieve the position from which he has fallen. There is another "fair penitent" before the country. Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR is repent ing in sackcloth and ashes the grievous mistakes committed on the Chinese question, and the at tempted legislation for the " bitter observance." He tries to show that he was deceived on the latter question, and promises, like a naughty child, that, if forgiven, he will . not do so any more. He confessed that he should have a species of courage amounting to foolhardiness if ho again sought b bring in such a bill. But he gave no pledge that he would vote against such a measure, or that his views were really changed on the point ; and he also spoke decisively against " the Ballot," which ought to be the great "Shibboleth" of the Par liamentary Reformer's Creed. We'll have none of Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR. He ought not to be the man for the Great Metropolitan County. Surely some sincere Liberal, who would allow the poor man the enjoyment of his Sabbath, might be obtained. We are well aware of the enor mous expenses attendant on a contest for Middle- sex. But surely some one may be induced to come forward even at the eleventh hour to rescue the county from such hands. The electors ought if necessary to purchase their own independence, and not sacrifice great principles for paltry considerations of L. S. D. Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR has a very Yong purse. He hasalsoahigh title, but we can discover no other qualification. HANBURY is a suitable candidate, but we confess we cannot approve of the Coalition that has been formed, and which savours strongly of a private arrangement for the overthrow of the independence of Middlesex. We noticed the other day Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S apology, by proxy, for his anti-Ballot answers. It is an unmistakeable sign of the times. Not a sign that Lord JOHN RUSSELL will endorse his brother's liberal hints and interpretations. Lord JOHN has managed too cleverly for that. He has managed to have the bill accepted by Lord C. J. F. RUSSELL, made payable at Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S —and the advocates of the Ballot will find " effects" there or not, just according to the ad vantage or disadvantage to the Noble Lord him; self of honouring the bill. Nothing is more cer tain, however, than that at this election the friends of the Ballot have most generously made large deposits with his Lordship. Without the votes of those who claim the Ballot, Lord JOHN RUSSELL would have been in the position of Mr. RAISES CURRIE. So changed are the times, that Lord Jon N COllll not have been member for London without the votes which his brother did his best to procure for him. It is this fact of which the paternal Speech was the sign ; and the mind of electors on the question is of far more consequence than the mind of a Lord, even of suck a Lord as the " fruit of the BEDFORD family." There is one of the stock arguments of professed Liberals which always rouses our indignation, and which we are ashamed of Lord JOHN RUSSELL for reproducing this time. Far better, like the Cana dian judge, have given his opinion without his reasons. The very obstinacy of a lord is more re spectable than his hypocritical arguments. Who believes for a moment that L)rd JOHN RUSSELL believes in the argument we allude to ? That "the electors are but one in six or seven of the adult public, and that therefore the six or seven ought to know how the one votes." We affirm that this is pure cant—or if it be more respect able, at least but special pleading. Those who use this argument, and none more so than the new First Member for London, know that there is lite rally nothing in it. With scarcely a solitary ex- ception, the one elector cares not a straw what th• six non-electors think of his vote. What harm can they do him ? What bribe can they offer him ? What influence can they bring to bear upon him ? We will own that we once heard of a fifth-rate manufacturing town where the "milt-hands" threat ened not to deal with shopkeepers who did not vote for the advocate of the Ballot and all the other points of the Charter ; but we never heard of a single other place in which the non-electors had the smallest weight with the electors. They there fere could lose nothing by the present voters ob taining eitire independence. But what we hate most of all in this detestable cant is, the pharasaical ostentation of generosity to the non-electors, covering the grossest aristy cratic selfishness. Why, if it was really wished that these tenderly-cared-for non-electors should influence the formation of the House of Commons, not give them votes to do it in a straightforward manner? The poor outcasts of the constitution are put forward, but it is those who fare sumptu ously under it that are the real objects of concern. "Do not deprive the half-dozen labourers of some honest farmers of the privilege of knowing how their master votes 1" As if the labourers ever thought or cared about it ; or as if any anti ballot lord cared a straw about the farmer's vote being public to any one but his landlord. And so the shopkeepers' poor customers, the master builders' workmen, and all other of the employed class, are paraded as those in compassion to whom the present voters may not be emancipated ! As if, again, the cArriage customer, and the gentry who give their orders to the employers, were not the only parties who could influence their votes• We thoroughly believe that all the arguments against the Ballot now in vogue amongst the aristocracy are but special pleading for a foregone conclusion, but this wretched argument of the non-electors' interest is but impudent political pharasaism. We repeat—if you wish to have non-electors to have influence give it them. The friends of the Ballot all wish it. Every elector who demands the Ballot will, almost to a certainty, be found demanding a large extension of the Suffrage also ; rate book suffrage at least, perhaps household or universal suffrage. The advocates of the Ballot are not the men who resist the enfranchisement of their fellow citizens, fellow taxpayers, and fellow subjects. The opponents of the Ballot are the opposite of extended suffrage also. Occasion ally, indeed, as in Lord JoaN RUSSELL'S last Reform Bill, they may seem willing to enlarge the electoral constituency, but examine their schemes, and you invariably find that they devised a cleverly-modulated extension, by which the non-electors gain little or nothing, because all who are or become electors will remain as exposed as before to the power of the local constituency. We see some hope, however, that Mr. BERKE LEY will have beLter support than ever in tha new Parliament. No article of the Reformer's creed has obtained more notice, favourable notice frequently, on the hustings than the Ballot. Many have had to swallow it wbo evidently do not quite relish it. In other cases the candidate felt his position the stronger because he was pre viously known to be a friend to perfectly free voting. We do not believe any Reform Bid wilt excite popular enthusiasm which does not compre hend the Ballot amongit its provisions. We are equally confident that the people would never let the Minister fail, that they would force buth Houses to accept a measure in which the Ballot was an essential feature. The Ballot, in fact, must be the essence of the next great Reform Bill. LATEST NEWS. THE INDIA MAIL. TUESDAY MORNING. We have been favoured with the following tele graphic despatch : " The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's steam ship Valetta, with the India and China mails from Alexandria, arrived at Marseilles at 7 a.m. this day, the 31st inst. " The mails were to leave for London at 10 a.m. j• AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY EVENING. The steam-ship Kangaroo, with one day's later dates from New York than the Persia, passed Cork to-day, and is due in the Mersey about noon to- morrow. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY MORNING. The Cunard Company's screw-steamer Emeu, which was to sail from New York on the 19th, the day after the Persia, is reported off Holyhead this morning. It is said that the intervention of the British and French Governments for the arrangement of the existing differences between the Austrian and Sar dinian Governments has been favourably received, and 't is hoped that diplomatic relations will be rd stored sooner than expected. The negotiations for the conclusion of a treaty of commerce between the French and Russian Govern ments are concluded, and the treaty will s)on be reduced to writing. M. Baudin, First Secretary to the French Ecnbassy at St. Petersburg, is ap pointed to conduct the negotiations. Intelligence of the 23d from Constantinople announces that the Grand Vizier had' made a communication to the various Legations to the effect that be would expel, and confiscate the property of, all Mussulman subjects who should refuse the payment of military subsidies under pretence of being under foreign protection. The Russians are concentrating considerable forces in Ekaterinodar and Anapa. The successes of the Oircassia,ns are confirmed. Mehemet Bey is taking energetic measures to repel au attack by the Russians, which is thought imminent. The latest despatches from Athens mention that the Senate had refused to hold any sittings till the Ministry should have apologised to them. Diet, here has already brought up its report on the .Sound .Dues Treaty, and, both of them unani mously recommend the }louse to adopt it for ratification. Tills will, doubt'ess, take place to morrow, as the subject is already on the list of the business for that day. Prussia will pay her quota in 40 half-yearly payments of 121,7314 dialers each (18,2601.), retaning to . herself the light at any future time that it may be convenient to pay up the remaining instalments in advance ; the first paymentswillamount, with interest on Oe outstand ing balance, to about 240,000 thalers each. Small as this half-yearly-sum is compared to the advan tages gained to Prussia by the abolition of the Sound Dues, the revenues of the State will not be burdened by an addition of more than three-fifths of it, or about 114,000 thalers yearly, inasmuch as the State has always been in the habit of allowing its own subjects a drawback of 2i per cent, to be de ducted from all import duties in the Baltic ports, as a sort of palliation of the burden of the Sound Dues, and has also paid on salt alone, of which it has -the monopoly, on an average of the last 11 years, 11,000 thalers a year for Sound Dues ; these two sums of 11,000 duty on salt and 85,000 drawback on import duties must therefore be first deducted from the 240,000 thalers before one can appreciate the extra burden which the redemption of the Sound dues imposes on the revenue, and that too only for 20 years. ROYAL VISIT TO THE HAYMARKET THEATRE. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince, accompanied by the Princess Royal, honoured the Hay market Theatre with their presence last evening.. The royal suit:, consisted of the Hon. Beatrice Byng, the Hon. Emily Cathcart, the Earl of Caithness, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Captain the Hon. D. de Ros. .DELPHI THEATRE. Last night, a capital farce, from the pen of Mr. Mark Lemon, entitled " Welcome Little Stranger," was per. formed for the first time, and met with immense success. The fun cent►es in the person of Mr. Wright, en whom a thousand troubles devolve, by reason of the event that made him father of the finest boy in England. Driven from his own room, he takes refuge in the coal•hole, from which he emerges only to discharge a series of the most harassing and humiliating duties. He airs the baby-clothes—makes gruel, of which it may with truth be averred that its quality, like that of mercy, is not "strained"—runs about on all manner of messages, and endures such bitter reproaches from his mother-in-law (Mrs. Chatter. ley) and his needy friend (Mr. Bedford), that, to use his own ridiculous expression, he feels as uncomfortable as if he were clothed in "a suit of sticking plaster." His sufferings evoke shouts of laughter from the stony hearted audience, but prove the excellence of his own suggebtion, that some benevolent persons ought to insti tute a home for the reception of husbands "during the occurrence of interesting events." Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, and Prince Edward of Saxe- Weimar, visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent on Sunday. Her Serene Highness the Princess Amelie of Hohen lohe-Schillingfurst left the residence of her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent, Clarence House, yesterday morning, for the Continent. His Ex:iellency the Ambassador of France and the Countess de Persigny entertained at dinner lat evening, at A; bert-gate House, his Excellency the Spanish Mi nister, M. and Madame Comyn, the Countess of Sefton and Lady Cecilia Molyneux, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, - the Earl and Countess Stanhope, Viscount Chelsea, Frances Countess of Waldegrave and Mr. Harcourt, Baro❑ and Bironess Lionel de Rothschild and Miss do Rothschild, Lady Motesworth, &c. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ely will leave Nice in a few days, en route for England. The Earl and Countess of Effingham and family are expected in town in a few days, from the Grange, York shire, for the season. The Earl of Burlington and Lady Louisa Cavendish are staying at Holkar House, Lancashire. Lord and Lady Boston arrived in town a few days since from Hedsor Lodge, Maidenhead. His lordship has taken a mansion in Belgrave-square. Lord and Lady Lilford are staying at Lilford-park, and will not return to town until after Easter. Lady Graham is much better, but not yet able to leave her house. Lady John Somerset is at present visiting her son, the Hon. Alfred Plantagenet Somerset, at his seat in Hert fordshire. Visc - iunt Ever:ley has bought a mansion in Eaton place, late the residence of Lord Stafford. Viscount and Viscountess Melgund left town a few days since for Scotland. The Dowager Lady Truro left town on Saturday for Brighton. Sir Augustus and Lady Elizabeth Clifford and family left town a few days since for the Isle of Wight. Sir Roger and Miss Palmer are expected to arrive in Portland-place to-day from Cefn Park, North Wales, to remain a short time, en route to Paris. 100,000/. i❑ bar gold was taken from the Bank yester day for the continent. Toe Queensberry has arrived from Foo-chow-foo, with 813,40.1b5. of tea on freight. The French advices state that the 2d April has been fixed for the opening throughout of the hue of the Southern of France Railway Company. On the hustings yesterday at Guildhall was M. Alex andre Dumas, accompanied by M. Delille, of the City of London School, and other foreigners. At the fourth annual meeting of the Linden Printing and Publishing Company, held on the 27th hist., a divi dend at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum st , ,,is declared. Wejare authorised to contradict the report which has appeared in the Standard that the Right Lion. Henry Fitzroy has declined to offer himself as a candidate fur the Speakership in the next Parliament.--Times. The newly-formed London, Harwich, and C.intinental Steam Packet Company announce that their steamers will commence running between Harwich and Rotterdam on the 25th April It is said that Mr. Alderman Wire has joined the direction of the Wester❑ Bank of. London. Mr. Roe buck, M.P., has been recently appointed chairman of this hank, in the room of Sir E. B. Lytton. MACBRIDE SCHOLARSHIP.—OXFORD, March 30.—Mr. H. Arthur Dillon Surridge, of Magdalen Hall, late of Brent wood Grammar School, was this day elected to the Macbride Scholarship. THE NEW TEA DUTY.— On Monday next the new tea duty will take effect by the act of last session for the then • current year. The duty imposed is Ig. 5.1. in the pound. THE PRINCIPALITIES.—TeIegraphic accounts received at Vienna on March 26, state that an order of the day issued at Jassy by Colonel Skiletti, commander-in•chief of the Moldavian troops, declares that at the date of the 25th not a single Austrian soldier remained in Moldavia. An Egyptian mummy is advertised to be sold by auc tion - at Southampton on Friday next. It is at present lying amongst other unclaimed articles at the Southamp ton Docks, having been detained to defray certain dock charges to which they are liable. At the meeting of the Turkish Gas Company yester day it was mentioned that out of a deposit of 2s. 6d. per share, about ls, per share has been spent in preliminary expenses, leaving 5,5001. in favour of the company. It was also stated that negotiations are to be renewed by *the directors, with a view to obtaining a concession from the Government of Turkey. 'THE POOR LAW IN MARYLEBONE AND ST. PANCRAS. —Yesterday a return was published in the form of a bulky blue uo, - )k of correspondence between the Pool' Law Board and the local authorities of St. Pancras and St. Marylebone in relation to the administration of the Poor Law, from the date of January, 1856. It occupies a space of nearly 200 pages. THE CANADIAN RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—LIVERPOOL, Monday.—The following letter was potted to-day in the Exchange News-room Fen wick Chambers, March 30!--The report in the Albion of this day, that Isaac Buchanan, Esq., was amongst the killed m the Cana dian railway aiasi lent, is quite unfounded, as letters of a subsequent date have been received by Messrs. Bucha nan, Harris, and Co." The Austrian troops, in their forced march out of the Danubian Principalities at th e early time of the year, had severe difficulties to contend with. The Gazette of Cron stadt (Transylvania) says that the soldiers and officers had to walk through water up to their breasts in cross ing the swoollen streams and ditches of Upper Wal lachia; many of the men lost their arms and shakos, but none are mentioned as having perished. LYCEU3I THEATRE.—Mr. J. L. Toole, who has achieved for himself much distinction as a comedian, and who also enjoys hereditary renown as the youngest son of the once celebrated toastmaster., takes his benefit this evening, when he will appear in no fewer than four different characters. It is to be hoped that a brimming house will reward the exertions of so meritorious a performer. FIRE IN THE CITY.—A. fire involying great destruc tion of property happened during Sunday night in the extensive range of premises belonging to Mr. R. Jenkins. proprietor of the Girdlers' Arms tavern, situated in Sherborne-lane, Cannon-street, City. Fortunately a good supply of the New River Company's water was procured, with which the engines were called into opera tion. By conveying the hose of the engines up the various staircases, the men were enabled to attack the fire at the right quarters, but nevertheless the adjoining houses on either side continued to blaze with the greatest vehemence, and many hours passed away before the con flagration could he subdued, which was not effected until property roughly estimated at several thousand pounds sterling had been reduced to ashes. As to the origin of the misfortune nothing that could• be depended upon could be ascertained, owing to the whole of the inmates being from home when the outbreak commenced. The official report of the damage done states that the Gird , len' Arms tavern is burnt down, and the contents de' stroyed, ineludieg furniture, fixrures, and stock in trade; insurance unknown. No. 17, ditto, Mr. J. Griggs, billiard-room proprietor, premises, &c., partially de stroyed ' • insured in the London office. No. 15, ditto, ground fie r, similar damage ; insurance unknown at present. Ditto, G. Osborne, engraver; building very seriously injured by fire and water; insurance unknown. Nc. 18, ditto, W. Isaac, bookbinder • two top floors burnt out, greater part o f ro of off, and rest of house damaged by fire and water ; insurance not known. Ditto, W. Ford, tailor, similar damage ; insured in the Church of England insurance-office. No. 4 (opposite), G. Edwards, let out in offices; front of building exten sively damaged by heat, &c. ; insurance not knovvn. No. 5, J. Riddle, patent agent, premises and contents similarly injured ; insurance not known. No. 11, Ab church-lane, Messrs. Blades, printers, windows of the second and third floor burnt out, and roof and contents damaged by fire , &c. • insured in the Guardian-office. No. it, ditto, Messrs. - Surr and Co., aolicitors.premises and contents damaged by fire and water. The police, under Inspectors Mitchell, Sheliford, and Howard, rendered great assistance to the firemen by keeping a dense crowd out of danger, FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY MORNING. The departure of the Marquis di Cintono, the Sardinian Minister, from Vienna has not yet been officially announced here ; nevertheless it is gene rally believed to have taken place. The Conference on the Neuchatel question was to have met to-day, but did not, the Swiss Plenipo tentiary not being yet prepared with a categorical answer to the propositions of M. de fiatzfeld. Captain Roussiu, commander of the steam sloop Averne, who is appoiuted to p rocee d t o th e mou th s of the lanube to be stationed there, has been sum moned to Paris to receive special instructions from the Government. The Averne is at Toulon, under gomg repairs. - It bas been decided that Admiral Hamelin, Mi nister of Marine, accompanied by the French Bo trd of Admiralty, will proceed to Toulon, to receive the Grand Duke Constantine, who will proceed to England after having visited France. The Moniteur publishes a decree granting .. .he military medal to 183 non-commissioned oftice,rs and privates of different regiments, all of whom have either lost limbs or been severely wounded durinc , the late war. Ferukk' Khan is expected in a few days back in Paris from London. When he shall have received from the court of Teheran the ratifi cation of the treaty which has just been Can eluded between Persia and England, he will return to Loudon accompanied by all the members of his legation. It is said that he will terminate in that capital the negotiations entered into with different powers for commercial treaties with Persia, and will embark iu September to return to his own c,untry. _ _ _ The surprising defeat sustained by the Man chester party in England is thus briefly commented on by the _Presse " The English elections are going on with rapidity, and we are already acquainted with a third of the re su!ts. They prove to be both a victory of the Lliberal party over the Conservative party, and a personal triumph of Lord Palmerston. The personal suc cess of Lord Palmerston consists above all in. the check sustained by some of his most re markable and most meritorious adversaries. If Glad, stone and Roebuck have been re-elected, Cobden, Bright Gibson, and Layard have lost their seats. The defeat of the Manchester school is a deplorable triumph of party spirit ; but popularity is easily reconquered, and Cobden an Bright will doubtless not long remain exiled from Parliament." The Union offers the following remarks on the re-election of Lord Rilmersion "No doubt was ever entertained with regard to the re-election of Lord Palmerston at Tiverton ; we have tt,crefore simply to announce Vie Puccess of the noble lord. We will not dwell on the speech he delivered to the electors, for we prefer the address published by him a few days ago, which was clearer and more satisfactory. Oue sentence has, however, excited our attention ; it is where the Premier declares that the commercial intercourse of England with foreign States shall be as free in regard to tariffs as the laws, &c., of those countries may permit.' This passage deserves to be recorded, for it comprises the whole policy of England." BOURSE, March 30.—The following were the last quotations : End of Month. -fr. 70 50 - Cash. fr. c. 4)) per Cents 3 per Cents 7O 30 New Loan — Bank Shares 4,150 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,455 Austrian Belgian Fives .. 101 Spanish Threes Pied m ontese (5) 9O 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS-FOR CASH. fr. c. f r c Orleans 1,532 50 Western Northern] 1,037 5.f Strasburg Lyons 1,550 New Ditto Mediterranean 2,097 50 Grand Central Lyons Geneva Midi RUSSIA. The latest advices from St. Petersburg state that investigations have been instituted in several departments of the service in consequence of the statements made by Sir R. Peel in hiS speech near Birmingham. The result has been, it is said, to prove the entire innocence of the persons incrimi nated. by Sir Robert. The friends of peace in Russia express great satisfaction at the conclusion of the treaty between England and Persia. At the moment when the Emperor received the intelligence, Prince Gorts chakoff happened to be witn him, and received the news from the Emperor's mouth. The latter jexclaimed in conclusion, " Ala bonne heure ; j' en suis tres content. Dites le dM. Wodehouse." The Prince repaired immediately to our Minister, and, after concratulating him, invited him to a grand entertainment to b given in honour of the occasion. The entertainment accordingly took place in the Hotel of Foreign Affairs on a very splendid scaie, and was attended by nearly every embassy, with their entire personnel. The Invalide, Northern Bee, and the Journal of the Academy exoress their satisfaction also at the peace, though the forme r seems dissatisfied that England should obtain any advantages by it. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, March 29.—From the Royal proposi tion that was laid before the Four Estates of Sweden on the 20th instant, we learn what al lowance has been made by Denmark to Sweden for the expenses of keeping up the light beacons along the Swedish coast for the better security of the navigation in the Cattegat and Sound. From the whole quoti of 1,590,503 Danish Reichsbank-thalers that falls to the lot of Sweden and Norway to contribute, the sum of 311,307 Rbk. thalers is to bs deducted for this purpose, leaving 1,279,196 to he paid in 40 half-yearly pay ments, the balance unpaid continuing to bear in terest at four per cent. The Government has called upon the General Council to use all despatch in its deliberations, so that, it' possible, the treaty ' may be ratified by April 1. The amount to be paid to Denmark is to be supplied out of the Com merce and Navigation Fund. The commission appointed in each House of the . NAPLES. The Nord contains a violent article against the Morning Post, and other London journals, for hav ing published pretended letters from Naples on the cuffla di silenzio, or new instrument of torture, of which the English journal has given a woodcut, and declares that the said letters were sent to it, but that, knowing them to be full of calumnies; it refused to publish them. It says that the publica tion is an electoral manceuvre on the part of the Morning Post, which is highly discreditable to it. DENMARK. A letter from Vienna, of the 26th, in the Cologne Gazette, says : "A. long interview-took place yes terday between Baron de Budberg, Ambassador of Russia to our Court, and Count de Buol, in re ference to the Danish question. The Russian Minister represented the danger that would be incurred were that question submitted to the Diet, and be endeavoured to prove the advisability of settling it in a general conference of the great Powers. Count de. Buol replied that the fact of the King of Denmark being represented in the Diet removed all fears of danger. The question, it is believed here, will be certainly laid More the Diet." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 26th have reached us, but their contents are not of importance. The Emperor of Austria, says the Epoca, had conferred the insignia of the first class of the order of the Iron Crown on M. de la Torre Aillon, late minister of Spain at his court. The Government / had de spatched to Marshal Serrano, ambassador at Paris, the leave of absence which it promised to accord him some time ago. The Government had raised the state of siege in Granada, Malaga, and 'Palen oia, but not either in Catalonia or Aragon. In the elections at Madrid, the progressist candidates, MM. Olozaga, Asenio, Patrico de la Escosura, General Prim, and Marquis de Perales, had been defeated by large majorities. The Moniteur contains a letter from Venice, which states that the Archduke Ferdinand Maxi milian arrived there from Trieste, on the 23d of March. He was saluted on landing, from the Fort of St. George, and subsequently reviewed the troops on the Place de St. Marc. At a later period he received the civil and military authorities, and in the evening visited the Theatre de la Fenice, which was illuminated a giorno by the municipality. On entering the Imperial box he was loudly ap plauded. The es-King of Bavaria, Louis father of the reigning sovereign, left Munich on Friday for Italy. The session of the States of the Grand Duchy o Nassau was opened at Wiesbaden on the 26th. THE RECEPTION OF THE ARCHDUKE MAXIMILIAN IN VENICE. -4::- Intelligence has been received from Venice which entirely confirms a rumour which was made yester day. At half-past four on the 23d instant the Archduke Governor-General arrived at Venice, where he was coolly received. One reason why but few persons were assembled to receive his Imperial Highness was,- that the higher classes at Venice were at dinner when he arrived ; and another, that the 23d was the anniversary of the battle of Novara. Early in the morning of the 24th there was little or no wind, and consequently the Austrian standard, which is at the top Of the immense mast that is planted on the Place of, St. Mark, hung listlessly dewn, but as the sun got higher the wind freshened and the flag began to wave majestically to and fro. Gradually a crowd assembles in the Place of St. Mark, and stares with might and main at some thing which is fluttering just above the Imperial standard. What is the object that attracts such at tention, and induces the Venetian badauds to bid defiance to rain and wind ! It is the Italian tricolor, which has been attached to the upper part ,of the Austrian standard during the night. When the authorities arrived on the spot, and orders were. given to lower the flag they could not be irenA diately executed, because the halliards had been removed. 'During the night between the 23d and 24th three tricolors were hoisted ; one was on the Place of St. Mark, another on the flag-staff which is in the arsenal, and a third was affixed to the top of a sentry-box. The Austrian authorities seem to attach but little importance to the demon stration which has just been made at Venice, and a military man who, has recently arrived from the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom assures me that "such tricks are very frequently played in Italy." There are persons who suspect the police or the military authorities of having hoisted the revolutionary flag in order to serve sortie particular purpose, but those who best know the - Italians are least inclined to doubt that they were the authors of the insult which was offered to the Austrian standard. There was the usual official illumination of the Place of St Mark in the evening of the 23d. to a fortnight or three weeks the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian will remove from Venice to Milan. It. is very generally related that the Austrian Govern ment has resolved to defer the destruction of the railroad between Milan and the Austrian frontier near Novara, but it is difficult to believe that the ruler over 39,000,000 of souls can intend to take such, a petty reve nge . A us t r i a j us tl y cons id ers her self one of thefirst of European Powers, but unfor tunately for her own reputation she sometimes acts as if she were one of the last. After granting a general amnesty and abolishing her vexatious and most injudicious passport system, Aus tria Cannot afford . to spite Sardinia by refusing to complete the line of railroad to the fron tier. There have been several Cabinet Councils held here lately, and it is believed Hun garian matters have been discussed at more than one of them. A person who is capable of giving correct information on such a delicate subject as sures me that the Emperor has declared that no "principiel" changes can be made in the organiza tion of Hungary. In a word, the unity of the Ein pire will be stricly maintained, but everything will be done to improve the administration of the diffe, rent Crown lands, and to satisfy the " legitimate" wishes of the inhabitants. The Credit Bank has established a. branch bank at Pesth, and will ad vance money at five per cent. on the produce of the soil.—Times Vienna Correspondent. M. George Petrovich, the President of the Senate of Montenegro, is at Berlin, and it is said that he has come to complain of the conduct of his nephew, Prince Daniel. The order given by the Porte to the Kaimakane to emancipate the press in the Danubian Principalities has greatly alarmed the Austrians, who seem to fancy that Moldavia and Wallachia will soon be as troublesome to them as Sardinia. A great number of the large trees in the Champs Ely; des are undergoing the process of being stripped of their rough outer bark to a height of 20 feet and upwards, with a view of destroying the worms that are bred and harboured in the interstices of the bark, and which, by piercing the trees with innumerable holes, prevent the sap from rising, and cause their premature decay. MEXICO.—The United States Senate has refused to ratify the proposed treaties between the United Sta es and Mexico, which were signed by Mr. Forsyth, the American Minister at Mexico, on the 11th of February. These treaties were five in, number, depending one on the other, and the whole combinine , an arrangement, the object of which was to extract Mexico from its financial embarrassments, to bring a commercial fleet to its coasts, and upon its frontiers a crowd of emigrants, who would in a few years give new life and activity to the maritime and internal commerce of that republic. THE BELGIAN TROOPS AT WATERLOO. —An interest ing ceremony took place at Brussels on Tuesday, A . committee of patriotic Belgians, including M. V an Schoor, a member of the Senate, and several m em. bers of the Chamber of Representatives, waited up on Gen. R6nard, and presented him w ith a sword of honou r , in acknowledgment of the service which he has render e d his country by refuting, in a series of lett ers i n the lndependance Beige, the accus ations ii rought by ce r t a i n foreign historiabs against th e cond uct of the B e lO an troops at the battle of Waterloo. The gehrral remarked that there was really no foundation for that calumny, which only originated in a half - jesting all us i on in an obscure English contemporary pamphlet, a n d h a d b een ineautiouely adopted by later authore,—[Fudge.] CITY MANAGEMENT OP BUSINESS. The " Administrative Reform Association" seem to have destroyed the capibility of the citizens for mauagiug public busiuess. At least, if the conduct of both the City Committees on Saturday last is to be taken as a specimen of management, there never was a time when " Reform" at home was more needed. Every one who has ha I to do with elections knows the importance of keeping a correct account of the poll. Without thi, the electors can never tell the practical effect of their votes. Errors of units must always occur ; but any good election manager knows how to keep within a few votes of the truth. Bearing this in mind, let our readers examine with astonishment the following facts : On Saturday afternoon, the Liberal Association for the four candidates put forth the final state of the poll : . RotEso'iild ... ... ... 7,134 Duke ... ... ... 7,560 Crawford. ... ... ... 6,440 Currie ... ... ... 5,016 Russell ... ... .. 7,046 And on the same afternoon, Lord John Russell's Committee published the following statement Rothschild ... ... ... 7,236 Duke ... ... ... 7,086 Crawford ... ... ... 6,088 Carrie ••• ••• ••• 4,772 Russell ... ... ... 7,425 Now, just six-and-thirty hours after, the sheriffs made their appearance on the hustings, and made their official declaration ,of the real numbers, as follow : Sir J. Duke Baron Rothschild Lord John Russell Mr. Crawford Mr. Raikes Carrie 6,664 6,398 6,308 5,808 4,519 So that the secretary of the reform committee was out by 736 in the votes polled for Baron Rothschild ; and the secretary to Lord John Rus sell's committee was wrong by 838, in the votes polled by the same candidate. Now, this sort of thing makes the publication of the poll a mere farce. It would be as useful, and save the trouble and expense of check clerks, to publish the poll by guess, or probable estimate. As ti'e thing now stands, the City. of London is made a laughing-stock to all the other constituen cies in the empire !Morning Advertiser. CITY OF CONDO? ELECTION. So, then, it is just as we supposed with regArd to the City of London. Sir James Duke not only bravely and brilliantly heads the poll, but heads it by several hundreds above both Baron Rothschild and Lord John Russell. The numbers, as offi cially declared yesterday, stood thusfor the respec-, tive candidates : Sir James Dake, Bart. ... 6,664 Baron Lionel Rothe:Ailld ... 6,398 Lord John Russell ••• 6,308 Mr. Crawford - 5 808 Mr. Raikes Currie 4,519 The friends of Lord John Russell who, towards the close of last week, were talking so confidently and boastingly of heading the poll by several thou sands, must now look exceedingly small. There is an end to their chuckle. His victory, as we remarked yesterday, is worse than a defeat. Con sidering the agencies by whi c h th e no ble Lords election was achieved, he must regard it as u a grievous disaster, inst e ad o f th e brilliant triumph which his Mends predicted for him. But not only must the noble Lord feel intenseli mortified at the position which he occupies on the. poll, considering the u nna t ura l combination of politicians by whose votes he was returned- -11° must no less be humiliated when he finds that will , we stated yesterday, resp ec tin g a m os t di sg raceful trick having been resorted to by his committee to obtain for him an advantage by deceiving the elec tors, is unhappily too true. It is now proved 1331 the official declaration made yesterday, that his committee, early on Saturday morning, clapped on 500 votes to the return list, which were never given. Of coarse, the noble lord is not responsibl e for this. On the contrary, no one could feel more indignant at the unworthy expedient than be must do ; but he must, nevertheless, be deeply humi liated at the thought that -he owes a single vote to so profligate a device.—Morning Advertiser. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, March 31.—Wind this day at-noon, .N.Vi r ' moderate breeze and cloudy weather. FALMOUTH, Mardi 30.—Wind, fresh gales—Arrived`' Maurant, from LJndon, for Jamaica ; Earl Grey, Bahl* for Liverpool. GLOUCESTER, March 29.—Arrived—Rapid, from Thralls. CARLIFF, March 30.—Wind W.N. W.—Arrived—ZS. melia, and Saga, from Algiers. Sailed—Colombo, for Callao • Chene, Havana; Columbia, Savannah ; Avon, Rio Callao; Okeanos, Messina ; Odin, Carthagena; Highland Light, New York ; Jonina, Malta. - HULL, March 30.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Stella, from Alexandria; Corkscrew , (s.s.), Bremen. QUEENSTOWN, March 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Bon' nie Dundee, from Mauritius, for Liverpool; Belle, Paraiba. OFF QUEENSTOWN, March 30. —Arrived—liangar? ° ' (s.s.), from New York,. for Liverpool. TORBAY, March 30.—Wind W.—Arrived—Oscar I Iti" cardo, from Bergen, for Barcelona. LlvEnrooL, March 30.—A conducter left the City of Mexico ou the 23d Feb. for Vera Cruz with 2,300,001) dols, the waggons being heavily laden, it is doubtful if it can reach Vera Qruz in time for the steamer of the 4th of March, the export duty on silver coin in Mexico wie ° , raised from the present rate of 3i to to 6 on the 20th AW next. (PEB ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning* Wind W. ; occasional showers of rain. Arrived—Othello, Laura, and Ocean, from Cardiff. Sailed—Jasper, for Cardiff ; North Briton, for Que be°; La Poule, for Cherbourg. LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning* Wind N.W. Arrived—Caroline, from Alexandria; Mary and Ant Sicily; Sterling, Taganrog; Kumagonda, S ev ille; 31 °7 Catharina, Sara, and Mary, Caen ; H e i nr i c h and-Edwar'' Hamburg ; Gefion, Bremen. Sailed—Diana, for Newfoundland ; Tartar, BorabsY. l Alexander, Quebec; Ele a n or , St. J o h n ' s , N.B. ; Cle°P". tra, Bordeaux ; L. L. Till e y, H a lif ax ; Italian, sere" ,„ steamer, Havre. QUEENSTOWN, March 29. Wind S.W Arrived—Belle, from Paraiba; Bonnie Dundee, Mauri d tins ; Margaret, Odessa. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) , GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 10 a.m. Wind S.W. ' • last hour's ebb ; cloudy. Arrived—Ni le, from Singapore ; Serpent, St. Michael% Laurence, Antwerp. Sailed—City of Hamilton, for Montreal ; Walter Scott, Port Phillip; Persia Geelong; Rhine (s.), Boulogne; William Crow, Quebec. DZAI, Tuesday, 9.55 a.m. . - Wind S.W., strong, with rain. Passed—Belle, brig, from - Lanelly ; John Anderson , Trinidad ; Orient, ship, Adelaide—all for London ; Blew heim, from Manilla, for London, reports, Feb. 4, havini spoke Collingsburg, from Shanghai, ont 79 days • Ana' Jentoo, from Liverpool to Ad e l a id e, on t h e l i ne, 21 NV. Anchored March 30—Wynyard, from Marseilles, for Dunkirk, and not from north to westward, as reported. Anchored--Mary Blair, from Ibrail, for Dunkirk. Put back—Vermont, for Boston ; Wye, Mogador ; In' trepid, Simon's Bay, with loss of jibboom. - THE HOUSEHOLD TROOPS.—On Wednesday next the following annual change of quarters will take place The Ist Regiment of Life Guards, under the command of Colonel Parker, will leave the Spittal Barracks , Windsor, for Regent's park Barracks, London. I - b e 2d Regiment of Life Guards, under the command of • Colonel Williams, will leave Regent's-park B a rracks for ; oy Knightsbridge Brraks, and the Ral Horse Guds (Blue; will leav tithe c Knightsbridge Barracks for the Spittal Barracks, Windsor. • BRUTAL MURDER.—A letter, dated Clonmel, Thum' day, states that a dreadful murder was committed on the previous night between the Junction and Limerick. The name of the deceased had not transpired, but it appears that the body, after being frightfully mutilated, was placed across the rails, in anticipation of tue next train passing over it ; fortunately, the engine-driver observed the body, and, baying stopped the train before itreacbed it, descended and found that life was quite extinct. No other particulars are as yet known. C C o a l u es sdeil wer e ch arge d at Marl' POLICE CR qSADE AGAINST 13ETTING-130UsEs.., Jaime. ' William Hitelains, W D d a l u ia ir ru l , Richard Baker, George Ching, and borough pa ce - co urt, to-day , with bei ng f oun d in a betting-office, No. 2, Rupert street, S t. James ' s. Super intendent Hannant, C division, said about a quarter past the Chief C ommissioner of piajoe, b e 8 last right, in consequence of a war ran t s i gne d by Sir of Ne. 2 , Rupert-street, St. James ' s , e w ßa h ite e eli r ra e erdd he rh fo ea n Ysnnbdec:l:he whole of the tiefendants, stating Hitohins the wa s standing at the door o f an i nner room, and Causdell was nea r a desk. li annant described the arp?arance of the oce that he fou n d b e tti ng car d s re f err ing to o somffiofeho'afndicappis for 'nei 1Pa187,7. Mr. Beadon s races, alsoa raeing. calendar he badar and book no doubt that Ritchins and Causdell were the ostensible parties cam log on the betting-office, and he should fine flitchins 201. or two months' imprisonment, and Caus dell 10/, or one month. Baker, Ching, Coles, and Sing were ilischarged. EVFECV OF A LOOSE MARRIAGE LAW.—We read hi an American paper that a Miss Duncan, accompanied by a friend from Cincinnati, met her divorced husband in Louisville, Ky., on the 20th ult., and, after forcing hire to retract alleged slanders relative to her character, covr hided him publicly. The affair created considerable citement. SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY OP IRELAND. - The half• yearly meeting was held at Dublin on Saturday. The re. port stated that by the satis actory working arrangements made with the Great Southern and Western Company, the board were enabled to propose a3l per cent. div. The works on the Baget.al-town and Wexford line are pro gressing in a uttisfactory manner, and it is expected that the first division to Borris will be opened fur traffic In the course of the present year. There was a balance of 4,812/. on the capital account. The report was adopted, and dividend declared.