The Sun. — London, England, 1857-05-13 00:00:00

Z' HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE Last appearance of Madlle. Pocchin.i. PICCOLOMINI, GIUGLINI, BELLETTI, VIOLEPTI. TO-MORROW EVENING, May 14, an Extra Night. LUCIA DI LAMMERNOOR,. Lucia, Piecolmini ; Edgardo, Sig. GingHui. After which, LA ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda, Madlle. Pocchini (her last appearance.) . . For particulars, see bills. A limited number of Boxes in the Half-circle Tier have been specially reserved for the public, and may be had on applica tion at the Box-office, at the Theatre Colonnade, Haymarket. Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. T HEA TR E-R YA L, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. GREAT EQUESTRIAN AMERICAN and CONTINENTAL COMPANY, under the direction of Miss Ella. Prices—Pit and Promenade, ls ; Boxes, 2s. 6d., 25., and is. 6d, ; Galleries, 6d. Doors open at half-past 7. Commence at 8. Opens Saturday, May 16. First Equestrian Artistes in the World : - Madame Schap lain, Madame Nensome, La Petite Wells, Signora Delavanti, and Miss Ella ; Miss E. J. Wells, Mdlles. Flora, Fabia, and and Marie, Misses Nensome. Moffatt, Delavanti, Potter, Jen nings; the Manchester Boy, Masters J. Wells, A Wells, E. Montt, Henrico and Carlo Delavanti, Sig. Felix Delavanti, Mons. Becq, Mons. Ferdinand, Mons. Eugene, Mr. Tom Swain, Mr. B. Fuller, Mr. W. Fuller, and the great Shaks perian Clown, Wallett, will appear each evening in a series of Performances, original and unapproachable. Director—Mr. Stokes. Acting Manager—Mr. E. Stirling. ROYAL 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 HIS CASTLE. T HEATRE ROYAL, Et AYMA.RKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. NEW ARRANGEMENT OF PRICES OF ADMISSION. THIS EVENING (May 13) to commence at Seven o'clock, with SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. After which, the successfu Classical Love Story, un der the Apple-lation of A TAL ANTA ; or, The Three Golden Apples : in which Miss M. Oliver will appear; also Miss M. Wilton, and Miss Ellen Terua.n. To conclude with BOX AND COX. In future the prices will be : Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d. Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes .. 3 0 Upper Boxes... Pit........ Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 rNo half-price to - Upper Gallery. T HEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed a new and original drama (the third time), entitled JOSEPH OHAVIGNY ; or, Under the Thumb, 11. m. Webster, Paul Bedford, Madame Celeste, dre. Followed by a new Farce, called FEARFUL TRAGEDY IN THE SEVEN DIALS. To conclude with the new and original domestic sketch, entitled WELCOME, LITTLE STRANGER. Mr. Wright, Mr. Faul Bedford, ie. TRAND T HEAT RE.—MAnager, Mr. T. PaynA.—THIS EVENING w ill he perfogned MARRIED DAUGHTERS AND YOUNG HUSBAN DS. Followed by OVER THE WAY. To conclude with THE GOVERNOR'S WIFE. 11) OYAL SURREY THEATRE, Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. THIS EVENING will be performed MATRILDE. After which, THE THREE WONDERS OF PEKIN. To conclude with 102 ; or, The Veteran and his Progeny. Mr. Widdicomb, &e. OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE, Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING will he performed a new drama, called DADDY HARDACRE. Mr. Robson, sze. To conclude with YOUNG AND HANDSOME. Messrs Robson, G. Murray, Commence at half-past Seven. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. Last Three Nights of the present successful Entertainments. On Saturday the theatre will be closed for a Grand Re hearsal o 2 Verdi's far-famed Oper of IL TROVATORE • or The Gipsy's Ve - igeance, which will be produced on Monday next, with Equestrian Illustrations, and supported by the FIRS? OPERATIC ARTISTR3 OF THE DAY. On Friday, May 15, the Annual Complimentary Bonen of Mr. William Cooke, and his daughter, Miss Kate Cooke, un der the distinguished patronage of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress. THIS EVENING, and following nights, the performance will commence with the Grand Military Spectacle, entitled THE FRENCH IN ALGIERS; cr, The Battle of Constantine. To be followed by a matchless routine of SCENES IN THE ARENA, iu which Miss Kate Cooke will appear. To conclude with a Ri-ible Farce. CommeLce at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 43. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from 11., no charge for booking ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 61. 133.K-OffiCo open from Eleven till Fonr. Stage Manager, Mr, W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. (CANTERBURY HALL. Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow. Ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of :'elections from all the popula' Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Duets, &c., viz.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunell, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta; Mr. J. Caulfield; Herr F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corgi. Senor Antonio M. de Solt, and E. L. Hime ; Masters Bennett and Corgi; Messrs. Sam Cowell, Sam Collins, and E. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre. cisely. Suppers, ere., until twelve o'clock. al a WATER AT LONDON BRIDGK. T is DA' —Morn. 13 min. aft. 4—Evening 28 min. aft 4 rgl-29rvanow—Morn. 48 min. aft. 4—Evening 7 min. aft. 5 TF.IE WEATHER—Sm./ Omar, MAY 13. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 68 -highest glace noon yesterday. 57 -lowest this morning and during the night. 67 -this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30.14. WIMP, S. W. this morning, now round to the old quarter —N. to N.N.E. and E. ; light, with fine weather. *1 ~1 ZY.S LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1857 The desertion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL by the old Whig Quarterly is an event not to be passed by sub silentio, or with anything like indifference. It caps the climax of the once powerful Party- Leaders discomfiture. It sets the seal to the at testation of his downfall. It brims the bitter cup of his political sorrows full to overflowing. The Edinburgh " against" Lord JOHN RVSSELL ! This is indeed turning the tables with a vengeance ! And when we couple with the extraordinary fact of the onslaught thus directly made upun Lord JOHN by what has hitherto been his recognised and avowed organ among the quarterlies, the no less startling circumstance of the S4lllO quondam Whig review declaringitseif earnestly and cordially in favour of the Noble Lord's chief rival and com petitor for the Premiership, Viscount PALMERSTON —we may comprehend how dire must be the blow Ethus levelled at the Pride of the House of Bedford I" Under the influence of an unhappy delusion," says the Edinburgh Review, in the current number recently published, " under the influence of an unhappy delusion which has led him of late years to suppose that no Liberal Government can be formed without his headship ; and that the elements of any Govern ment which he may think fit to destroy will imme diately unite around himself, Lord JOHN Rus- SELL, in an evil hour for his reputation, joined the assailants of the Ministry to which ho belonged, and powerfully assisted in dissolving it." Tnss, observe, from the Edinburgh ! Subsequently the ex-Whig Review adds that,Lord JOHN—(who, a little later on occupied office under Lord PAL MERSTON, finding out how entirely he had been deceived in his expeetations)—g, after hav ing overthrown one set of colleagues in January, was driven to secede from another Administration in June." The reviewer closing his remarks a little further on with some spiteful allusions to Lord JOHN'S last " ill-starred Education measure," and a sneering reference t) the noble Lord himself as "a statesman fallen on evil days." It can have assuaged but indiffer ently the anguish produced in the wounded-feel ings of the ex-Whig Premier by these personal slights to himself on the pact of the ex-Whig Quarterly—it can have assuaged this anguish but indifferently, we say, to find the next poisoned shaft of ridicule seleeliecl from the quiver of the Zdinourgh, directed point-blank upon a contem- THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNFESDAY EVEN 1 NG, MAY 13, 1867. porary statesman no less eminent than Mr. GLAD STONE. With him. the Edinburgh never had anything in common, saving and except ing always a mutual devotion to the great Free Trade principles. Not •so has it been, for now about half of a century, with it and the quondam leader of the Whig Reformers ! Wherefore, again, we. say it must prove but an inadequate salve to his wounds to find it said, in reference to Mr. GLADSTONE, by the Edinburgh, shor(ily after these scornful personalities to him self—that he (Mr. GLADSTONE) "luxuriates in the metaphysics o finance," that "he is never more eloquent, or more impressive, than when dealing with figures ;" that " his additions are performed in a sort of oratori;al ecstacy, and his subtractions are made with the violence of a paroxysm." The reviewer adding that " this man, so brilliant as an orator, so ingenious as a financier, partly from the super-sensibility of his dialectics, partly from the irritability of his temper, and partly from an incurable infirmity of judgment, may be capable of persuading, astonishing, or even convincing, but is neither safe in counsel, nor straightforward in action." His last financial speech is spoken of soon afterwards as " this distressing Exhibition" —it being previously de scribed as a speech " which, for intemperance of language, unfairness of statement and construc tion, and absolute and complete mystification of the subject, ho (Mr. GLADSTONE) will find it difficult, and anyone else impossible to equal." Pretty talk talking this our American friends worald call it 1 This identical speech having been regarded by others who heard it, as one of the most remarkable orations, if not the most admirable oration, over delivered by Mr. GLADSTONE within the walls of Parliament. Con sequently as such one of the most extraordinary Parliamentary harangues within the remembrance of our own immediate generation ! But all this pulling down of the other great reputations in the Legislature, be it observed, is only preparatory to the completion of the main design of the reviewer—the piling up of adulation upon adula tion at the fe€t of the now political Paragon of the Edinburgh, my Lord PALMERSTON ! Adulation reeking with the incense of flattery, is the meat here offered to its new idol by the ex-Whig, ex- Russellite quarterly, henceforth conspicuous among the organs, through thick and through thin, of the Palmerstonian Government. So glibly, and with scarcely one audible creak, has shifted the great blue and buff vane of the Whigs, at a single puff from the lips of that Political AoLus, her MAJESTY'S Chancellor of the Exchequer ! " An ye be virtuous, shall there be no more cakes and ale ?" Honourable gentlemen who are smitten with the ambition of appearing as legis lators, and having their names attached to re strictive statutes, would do well to ponder on the above interrogatory, and to consider what answer they could return to the renowned Sir TOBY. Men will not be made virtuous by Act of Parlia ment. The mere idea of restriction in that which in itself is lawful excites their ire, and induces them to go farther than might otherwise lie tile case. The old proverb hath it that "forbidden joys are sweet," and it is certah that difficulty of attainment stimulates the desire of possession. The Maine liquor law cnn never by any possibility be tolerated i❑ England. But, were it so, we venture to affirm and the demand will naturally and pro perly regulate the supply. It may possibly be desirable to require adequate securities for his future good behaviour—a far more efficient gua rantee, by the way, than the magisterial vagaries now afford. That, however, is a moot po;lat on which we do not desire as yet to enunciate a decided opinion. Where there has been miscon duct, either on the part of landlord or customer, let there be adequate punishment, but do not suffer a dozen well-disposed men to be subjected to annoyance and inconvenience is order that a comparatively trivial obstacle may be thrown in the way of an habitual offender. JOHN GOODMAN should not always be made the victim of BILL SYKES. Punish intoxication severely if you will, but do not prevent a dozen men from obtaining moderate and wholesome refreshment in the vain hope that the habitual drunkard will abstain from yielding to the degrading vice. Stringently pun ish adulteration, or the harbouring of notorious wrong-doers, but do not prevent the public from obtaining proper accommodation, or respectable men from engaging in the business because it is capable of being abused. It is well, if practicable, to eradicate the tares, but it would be ridiculous to cut down with them the entire crop of corn, and to involve the good and the bad in one com mon destruction. LATEST NEWS, A Paris correspondent of the Independance of Brussels writes :—" Among the motives assigned for the journey of Prince Napoleon to Berlin is that of projected marriage for himself. The name of the princess is Stephanie de Hohenzollern Sigmarin gen, born in 1837. What lends probability to this rumour is the fact that the princess is related by her mother to the family of the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden. The father of the princess has ceded his rights to Prussia, and that circum stance explains the presence of Prince Napoleon in Berlin. Elizabeth of Hungary, who, belonging to the house of Bavaria, was an ancestress of the present Empress. The theatre was crowded in every part, the greater part of the men being in uniform, and the ladies in splendid toilettes. The Emperor and Empress were greeted on arriving with enthusiastic acclamations ; and as the opera contained several allusions to them, their Majesties were again cheered in the course of the performance. The Emperor and Empress remained to the end of the piece. The launch of the two steamers, some days announced, took place at the isle of Altofen, about six miles down the Danube. The ceremony took place with great pomp in presence of a vast crowd of persons of all classes—including not fewer than 3,000 workmen, employed in the building yards of the Danu bian Navigation Company. In the evening, there was a ball at the imperial palace. The Empress danced twice —once with the Archduke William, and the second time with Prince Eiterhazy. A large crowd collected in front of the palace, and cheered repeatedly. To-day the Emperor and Empress are visiting the public monu ments." India. He charges me with having stolen at Bom bay a copy of "The Conque,t of Scinde" in July, Ib4s—knowing that I bad left Bombay in May, and did not return to it till the following year. He adds, that his brother Henry endeavoured to pre vent my admission to the Royal Society in 1846 on the imputation of a felony be knew I could not have committed, as I was then refuting, under my own name through the London press, Sir William's slanders—Sir William quoting portions of my letter of that date in one of his publications. On looking over Sir William Napier 's volumes, just published, I find that in . the portion relating to his Bombay career, about 800 pages in all, there are on an average from two to three misstatements page,a, the majority o f th em capa bl e o f re f utat i on from fficial documents, a very large number - 'of them bearing his brother's signature. Having in February, 1845, convicted Sir William Napier of threescore deliberate misstatements knowingly made, in about three times as many pages, my contradictions being established by quo tations from official documeuts, I had of late years given Up all idea of noticing his romances, which, lau2hed at as they are in India, I find in England still command attention. I have the honour to subscribe myself, GEORGE BIIIST, LL.D., F.R.S., From 1840 to the present date Editor of the Bombay Times. 7, Sussex-plane, New Kensington, May 11. TO THE BDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—Mr. Willoughby, in his letter to Sir Wm. Napier, of the 28th ult., asserts that no letter from Lord Ellenborough of 70 pages, or of any other number of pages, was ever brought to him from the wreck of the Memnon, much less pocketed by him ; that there is not a :hadow of foundation for the imputation, and th it he denies it in toto. Nevertheless, Sir, I have within the last few days been furnished upon written authority (which I much regret I am not at liberty to publish, but which is at Mc. Willoughby's service should he require it) with the following facts :- 1. That among the papers and letters'which were picked up from the wreck of the Memnon and brought to the Acting Deputy-Postmaster General at Bombay, was a mass of manuscript sheets, which, from their contents and the handwriting, were sup posed by the Postmaster-Gonoral (Mr. 'John G,,r don) and his deputy, to be!ong to the 'despatches from Lord Ellenborough. 2. That these manuscript sheets were, in conse quence of this belief, and by the advice of Mr. E - combo, one of the secretaries to Government, en closed and forwarded by the Deputy-Postmaster- General himself to the Chief Secretary to Govern ment, who, at that time, was Mr. Willoughby. After this I presume that both Mr. Willoughby's confidence in his own recollections and that of the public in his assertions will be considerably weakened. I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, W. NA - PIER, Colonel. Army end Navy Club, May 11. ROYAL SURREY GARDENS. -----~- ST 2, JOHN FALFTAFF. A NEW SERIAL. BY GEORGE CRUIKSIIANIL There appeared upon May day among the maga' tines and other monthly periodicals, Part I. of a new serial, "The Life of S:r John Falstaff." Th e Illustrations by George Cru:kshank. The Letter press by Robert Brough. The whole publication emanating from the Great House of The Row' Messrs. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. Shilling Parts—and, of these Par ts;ther e , are to be ten a lt oge th er. E ac h part embellished with a couple of elaborate etchings—graceful al humorous—from th e nee dl e o f th e mostpopu l a r 0 ,11 , gifted of all our .comic Draughtsmen ! The init im instalment of the wor k is before us, and candidly be it said, so fari-as the " Illustrations?' go, prorlii`e g to be a work worths, of those two names provoa f tive of pleasant laughter —Falstaffand Crttikshan i '; We cannot honestly say much for Mr. Brote long-winded and laboriously f unn y a tt em pt in th e letterpress to accord to th ose T w i n J o k e -Master the benefit of a sham authenti c Bio gra phy of the Fat Knight. This biography app ears t o us -frt first to last to be a mistake. It " st r ik e s flat tJ'" broad rotundity " of that obese world of fue„ Jack Falstaff ! Not so, is it with reg a rd to t'' glorious etchings of Crnikshank. They are alt s ' i gether delightful. We are satisfied with ther e t :, And surely that is saying mu c h, remembering s v i , is the hero, and who the artist ! The two already 4 hand give to us the agreeable prospect of a scor e ,'' etchings truly ,Shaksperian. First and foremost I there is the Frontispiece ! The veritable port 11 6 of " Sir John Falstaff, Koight,--[Observe ' e wording of its title !]—Drawn by William ShaksP e ' —etched by George Cruikshank." Sic Sedebal'; plethorously—with a difficulty of getting agelte e flagon at his elbow—his sturdy chair in the chinaD.' corner—the mantelahelf ornamented with an,, 511 ,; tique " carvelling," giving notice at a glance 'l' lo the scene, sure enough, is a festive room in tro' roystering Boar's Head Tavern, in Eastcheap• :`,, k ,1 brilliant eye, the portly belly, the very daggers r o ing horizontally in the belt by reason of the lieig".„,l obesity—every detlil is perfectly humourous a'l perfectly characteristic. Then there is the seco lj o i of these two wonderful. etchings in Part fl ie d Cruikshatik's " Falstaff." ' An etching enti" / Jack Falstaff, when Page to Thomas Mowlali i ; Duke of Norfolk, bre a ki n g' Sk ogan ' s H ea d at ".1t Court-gate." Jack, a dapper, little, tight - 1 varlet as ever handl e d rap i er I Sk ogan g° IC humoured to the last, with his skull cracked I is, indeed, in most particulars, replete with fal n , i s t fun that Falstaff of all men would have been Jue the very one to appreciate, and that Cruikshae l s all men has just the very knack of delineating' , o , Capital comic serial it promises to be in truth o ', gether—so far, at least, as relates to the illo, b , tions by George Cruikshank. Illustrations of ' o j " Life" of "—, a good portly man, i' faith ° ll d a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, i ,,e a most noble carriage ; and as I think his age s ° 4o , fifty, or inclining to threescore, and now I rev'? her me his name is Falstaff." That " de l o ld haunting Prince Hal, "in the likeness of a fa that man—a ton of man—that trunk of humours,: r el bolting hutch of beastliness, that swollen Pod of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that st ! ,, e l cloak-bag of guts, that roasted' man ning 'd ox with the pudding in his belly, that reve ll e d vice, that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, ~,it vanity in years, that villainous abominable ',,/ leader of youth, that old white-bearded Sateu . , 4 Falstaff ! In regard to whose vices and defr.,j, thus set forth to his teeth in derision by the,l'ir cap Prince of Wales—thus quoth he hints& co l extenuation : "If sack and sugar be a fault, 0 ; help the wicked ! If to be old and merry be ° , 1: 1; then many an old host that I know is damn s ,i l l' to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean are to be loved"—and so forth ! So, Welcoer4 the next nine months "sweet Jack Falstaff , ij ac > Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, honest, i 1 Falstaff !" Here he comes, demurely wa,ddlL l3 o ° o 4 us, month by month, under the auspices of G„,/, Cruikshank. As Prince Hal saith in the,? D iett (Henry IV., Part i., act ii., scene iv.)— i comes lean Jack, here comes barebones !" _HEALTH OF LONDON DURING , VIII WEEK. Lord PALMERSTON is the Mons of the Liberals. He keeps them in the wilderness, but points them to the Land of Promise. Where is our Reform Bill, they ask, which we murmured for at the hustings ? I promise you one, next session, which will content you all, he replies. What about Church Rates, says Mr. TRELAWNEY, speak ing in the name of Ecclesiastical Liberalism ? I am not without hope, says the Premier, of giving you your portion on this side the Jordan of proro gation ; but I can give no definitive promise. Next session is the real Land of Promise. Mr. TRELAWNET is one of the unbelieving race,—he gives the Premier a week or two's grace, and if he has not reached the promised land by that time, Mr. TRELAWNEY engages to assume the rank of Captain of the Liberal host, pro hac vice, and will essay to lead it to victory. This is as it should be. Lord PALMERSTON, and in this he is not worse than most Premiers, will move no faster than he is compelled. It may be, indeed, political charity to compel him. If we may be excused prolonging the figure, he has before him a fierce set of Amalekites, Edomites, Moabites, and Ammonites, whom he must either intimidate or fight. Tories and Evangelicals, rickety Whigs and Puseyites, will lay aside their quarrels to fight in common for the power to tax Dissenters. We do not believe that Lord PALMERSTON himself would object to abolishing Church Rates tomor row; to abolishing them out and out, with no equi valent provided by the nation. But Lord PAL MERSTON is not a dictator. He would gladly do it if Mr. HAYTER, could assure him of a good round majority ; if he could point the grumbling Churchmen to an array against them amongst his ordinary supporters, which no Minister could with impunity defy. Though we therefore never ad vocate removing one ounce of pressure from a Minister, for his own sake, in the present case we incline to think the Premier would prefer what would best furnish his apology for decision. We have always openly enough told Church men, and Dissenters too, our view of the Chureh iate question. To the former 'we say, you ought to blush at this time of day to oppress, with such manifest and mean selfishness, the aboli tion of so unjast and irritating an impost ; to the latter we say, your case is so strong, and. your battle-ground, both in the House and out of it, so advantageous, that it will be through your own inexcusable apathy if you do not gain a complete victory. Churchmen, of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S school, or that of the Earl of SRAFTESBURY, may tell us that the principle of Establishments is in volved in the Church-rate question ;if it be, then, we reply, so much the worse for Establishments. Churchmen should be slow, indeed, to talk in this style, since, as this noxious tax is certainly doomed, numbers, on its abolition, will take them at their word, "and, having abolished Church-rates, will cry—now at the Church. Should this be the case, it will be the fault of those who staked the fate of the Establishment on the right of screwing a penny or a halfpenny in the round out of men who, in addition, paid more than twenty times that amount to support their own worship. We see by the spirited meeting of what used to be called the Anti-State Church Society, at St. Martin's Hall, that this growing party is by no means discouraged by the loss of one or two of their leaders at the late election. It seems pretty clear that their ecclesiastical liberalism had nothing to do with their defeats. Had they not got into their heads the anti-popular crotchet of the League on the Canton business, they would probably have been in the house still. The Society reckons its clear gains, we perceive, at not fewer than thirty-six votes. ,If this be the case, and probably the point will soon be tested on the SPOONER motion, their progress will have proved to be in deed unexpectedly great. And greater it will yet be if Churchmen are so mad as to clamour for a pal try euivalent for the abolition of Church Rates out of the national taxation, when all of us are de manding stern economy. Will it be endured t hat the Consolidated Fund should be saddled with 200,00 W. or 300,0001. par annum to spare the meanness of men who will not pay the casual expenses attendant on their worship of GoD ? Because Dissenters will no longer be ground under the injustice, will they irritate Dissenters, and all the other tax-payers too, by demanding to have their pockets saved at the general cost ? It is barefaced avarice like this which injures the Establishment far more than all the eZorts of Dis senters. It convicts it of having taught those who slumber under its shade such niggardly parsimony as disgusts all but the infatuated. We hope on this question Dissenters will b 3 firm. Total repeal, or nothing, ought to be their motto. The nobler minded among Churchmen all. respond heartily to this, and will not relish any compromise degrading to both sides, which can, besides, but prolong the contest for a generation to come. We see the pet nonsense of the hour is that Dissenters should help to keep the national buildings in repair, becausa they are national property. Should such a proposition ever be carried in the house, we would vote with Dissenters on an amendment, " that as the wor shippers amongst Dissenters were proved by the late census to exceed in number those of th 3 Established Churches, Dissenters, on being rated to the repairs of parish churches, have half of those buildings, wherever there was a chapel of ease in any parish ; and where there was not, that Dissenters should have the church one half the day, and Churchmen the other." Tenants who pay no rent may surely think themselves well off if they have but to repair tlaeir houses. me authority to state that the Queen will no hold a drawing-roona upon the 26th instant, upon which day will be celeb ra t e d. Her Duchess o f R ent l eft her er her Royal Majesty's llig t h )i n rt r h A r: 7Y residence, Clarence House, St. James's, at half-past nine o'clock, yesterday morning, for Osborne. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has gone cn a tour of the lele district. His Royal Highness, at. tended by Mr. Gibbs, arrived at Bowmen at five o'clock OA Monday everan. We hai FRANCE. Th 3 Mon,iteur promulgates the bill confirming the different decrees issued since 1855, making codifications in the customs duties. The annual subvention to be paid to the parties obtaining tie concession of the three Transatlantic lines has been fixed by the bill just presented to the Legislative body at fourteen millions a year. The following telegraphic despatches have been received from Paris : BERLIN, lltb, Evening.—Prince Napoleon was pre sent this morning at a grand military review at Pots dam, atter which a dejeuner was given at the palace of Sans Souci. To-night the Prince will be present at a ball at the French embassy. Yesterday morning he at tended mass, and afterwards received the diplomatic corps. In the afternoon he proceeded to Charlotten burg, where a family dinner took place. The Queen will leave ta-morrow, and Prince Napoleon the day after, for Dresden. 13xuLIN, 12th. --Th e Chamber of Deputies adopted ye.day the bill imposing a tax on patentes (license to trade), with the amendment which re-establishes the tariffs rejected by the Upper House. BOURSE ' May 12.—The following were the last quotations : End of Month. —fr. —c. 69 40 Cash. fr. c. 4. per Cents ......... 91 50 3 per Cents .... 69 10 Bank Shares ......... 4,375 Credit Mobilier ..... .1,288 75 Roman Do. Account ......... 1,297 50 Austrian Belgian 41 • ........98"-- Sparkish Threes Piedmontese (5)..... 90 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS—FOR CASE. ir. C. Orleans ...............1,460 Western Northern ............ 970 Strasburg Lyons 1,4623 New Ditto Mediterranean ...... Grand Central Geneva ....... 760 Sardinian ) — Midi ........... 8123 Austrian Com. 716 i 90 88, fr c, AUSTRIA. The official Wiener Zeituny of May 10 contains the following autograph letter from his Majesty the Emperor to the Minister of Justice : " Dear Baron de Krauss,—ln order to oonsign t o eternal oblivion the political aberrations of a sad time past, and more particularly the revolutionary move ments which in the year 1848 were directed against the exsting order of things, I now, in the wayof grace, remit all further punishment to all my subjects, being civilians. who belong to those parts of my empire which do not appertain to my Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, that have been condemned for high treason, rebellion, or sedition, (paragraphs 58, 61; 68, and 75 of the State Laws,) and are still imprisoned in this country. " At the same time I ordain that no criminal process shall be instituted for the above-mentioned crimes com mitted before this present day, sinless the accused shall have escaped the hands of justice by flight, and shall stilt be fugitives ; and I do further ordain that all the penal examinations now carried on for the above-men tioned crimes shall be discontinued immediately. "This act of grace shall also extend to the individuals included in the afore-mentioned category who have been guilty of one or more of the hereinafter named crimes or offences :—lnsult to majesty, insult to members of the Imperial family, disturbance of the public peace (para graphs 63-66), exciting to sedition, as mentioned in paragraph 300 of the State Law, or aiding and abetting in the commission of one of the above-mentioned acts. (Parazraphs 212, 215, 217, 219, and 307.) " Thus, all the aforementioned persons, whether im prisoned for punishment or for examination, shalt imme diately be liberated. "In respect to those individuals who have been guilty of other punishable offences, in addition to those which have been enumerated, you will proceed to a correspond ing (entsprechend) diminution of punishment, agreeably , to the instructions which you with these presents re csive from me. "You will take appropriate measures, so that this act of grace may immed►ately be made known to all those it may concern, and be properly carried out. "FRANCIS JOSEPH. " Bads, May Bth, 1857." Accounts from Pesth of the Bth state that the fetes in honour of the visit of the Emperor and Empress of Austria continue to be most brilliant. Whole cargoes of flowers were every day brought by steo.mer from Vienna and other places to ()ma- , went the town. Their Majesties had been present at the launch of two steamers for the navigation of the Danube, which received the names of two young princesses, Sophia and Giselle. His Majesty has consented to accept the patronage of the Hun garian Academy of Sciences, and has issued a de cree for its organisation with a view to its forward ing the study, of ,the Magyar language and litera ture. Their Majesties are in excellent health. Another letter from the same place of the Bth says : _ . "The Emperor and the Empress devoted the 6th Imo receptions, the former receiving men, the latter ladies. In the evening there was a grand performance at the National Theatre, e new °pore in three acts being pip. duced, of which the heroine was the famous Queen that it would prove a 3 great a failure as in America ; and that, so far from there being a diminution of drunkenness, there would be a con siderable increase thereof, while a large propor tion of the population would be brought into a state of habitual violation of the law, productive of very injurious consequences to the well-being of society. It is notorious that in nations where what are commonly designated as " intoxicating liquors," viz., wine, beer, and spirits, are cheap and abun dant, and where restrictive regulations are com paratively scarce, the greatest sobriety prevails. There will, of course, be exceptions to the general rule—men, whom no law could restrain. But the instances, as we have said, are rare, and marked with general abhorrence. We believe, if good wholesome beer, or wine, or even spirits, could be sold at quarter the present prices, and with every facility afforded for their being obtained, that, after the first novelty had worn away, there would be less consumption, and cer tainly far less inebriety than at present. The habits so greatly complained of are, however, fostered and stimulated that a handsome revenue may be obtained by the State—not far from 20,000,0001 from duties or excise on intoxicating fluids, or licenses for the sale thereof ; and no Chancellor of the Exchequer will be induced to abandon so large au amount, which provides for the interest of at least two-thirds of the National Debt, for the purpose of trying an experiment in a vexed question. The tax should, however, be only kept up for the purpose of revenue ; and as to other matters, we believe that the most auspicious results would follow " unrestricted competition." It is the virtual monopoly occasioned by the licensing sys tem that produces adulteration, with all its con comitant evils. At present, when the licenses are regulated according to the mere caprice of " the Great Unpaid," or to their arbitrary notions of what may be the wants of the district, the " thirsty souls" must be contented with what they can get. Should an additional license be granted, a treaty may easily be effected between the rival vendors, and the public interests will equally fall to the ground between the two props. But if every man of unimpeachable character could obtain a license on paymetit of a moderate duty —or, better still, without any payment at all—and on submitting to certain police regula tion, adulterations would virtually cease. "Good wine would need no bush," and the Boniface who su - pplied pure and wholesome articles at moderate profits would triumph over his competitors, although his goods were supplied in an hambre parlour, devoid of the gaudy adornments and meretricious glare of the Gin Palace. As we have long since explained, this very adulteration is the natural result of the licensing system, which confers a virtual monopoly on a few leviathan brewing establishments. These houses being authorised to sell wine and spirits, as well as beer, can afford to undersell their moro homely beer shops in that single department. The latter are therefore compelled to reduce the quality if they cannot increase the price of their beverages. And we fear that the example is too frequently followed even in what are known as Brewer's houses. If we look to they trouble and expense incurred in aeekiug for a license from the Magi strate, and the risk of obtaining it in the first in stance, and subsequOntly of retaining it, we may feel assured that the consumers must ultimately pay for all, either in " meal or malt.," by en hanced prices, or impaired qualities. Mr. Hinny desires to place " beer shops" un der the same rules as to licenses as the more am bitious in palaces. We should rather adopt the view of the Select Committee, and assimilate public houses to the beer shops. The poplo can then decide on their own wants, EGYPT. A letter from Alexandria of the 2d, in the Sema phore of Marseilles, says :-- "A concession for establishing steam-tugs, ap plied for by the American Consul, from the Egyc tian Government, has led to important conse quences. The project in question was sent to the ministry for examination, accompanied by a re commendation in its favour from the Viceroy, but was rejected by the ministers. The Viceroy, in consequence dissolved the cabinet and formed another, in which Zocolcar-Pasha is president of the council ; Abdalah-Pacha-Oukil, head of the finance ; and Hassam-Pacha, of the interior. The want of foresight in the late ministers has been shown by a scarcity of food which suddenly declared itself at Cairo, at a period when the navigation is almost completely interrupted by the shallowness of the Nile. Public clamour threatened to break out into open disorder, when the Viceroy interfered, and took measures to put an end to the scarcity. He purchased all the corn that was disposable at Alextan dria, sent it by railway to Cairo, and sold it in th e tiler ket below cost price, whil e a t the same time he despatch ed steamers to Upper Egypt for the corn necessary for Alexandria. The Egyptian Company for steam naviga tion on the Red Sea and the Mediterranean has been definitively constituted. The subscription at Cairo alone amounted to 1,700,000 talaris (8,00,000 fr.)." TURKEY. We have received Constantinople journals and letters to the 30th ult., brought by the Jourd a i n to Marseilles, and of the Ist, via Trie,te. Since the failure of the plan for the English bank, and the rejection of a second project, another pro position has been brought forward by the capita lists and bankers of Constantinople, which appears to have some chance of success. The capital'of this bank is to be five millions of medjidies (gold pieces of Turkey) (125 millions of francs), divided into '50,000 shares of 20 medjidies each. Each share is to be paid for, one fourth on subscribing, another fourth in six months, the third in 15 mouths, and the last at the end of 20 months. Shareholders of all nations will be admitted, and the bank will be constituted as soon as the subscription list is full. One-half of the capital is to be advanced to the government for the immediate withdrawal of the small bank-notes. The copper and other old coins will be withdrawn by degrees, commencing twelve months after the opening of the establishment. The other half of the capital is to serve for the affairs of the bank, which ' will have the power of issuing notes or twice the amount of its metallic reserve. The government is to pay 6 per cent. for all advances made to it. Such is the ensemble of the plan, but doubts are felt as to whether the proposed capital of 123 millions will be sufficient for the exigencies of the present financial situation of Turkey ; and fears are entertained that it will only act as a palliative. Every exertion is being made by the Government to arrest the authors of the late murderous outrages which have taken place in the Turkish capital. A representation had been made oa the subject by a collective note from the diplomatic boiy. Armed patrols have been ordered to go through the streets within short intervals, and all suspicious persons were to be arrested and examined. The operations sup ported by MM. Perdrix and Pietro N— e•--, woo were the objects of the late murderous attacks, were attended with no unfavourable results. According to the last accounts from Wallachia, the state of things there appears to be now more clearly defined. Since the closing of the clubs, a spirit of moderation has prevailed, and discussion has be come more calm. The great unionist party has divided itself into two distinct sections• —one, wish ing for a constitutional government, and a foreign prince, and the other, for an itereditary native ruler. Some propose Prince Stutby and others Prince Bibesco. The no :a unionist party is also broken up into fractions s , status quo some demanding the ab solute; others merely the abolition of the line of custom which separates Moldavia and Wallachia. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY. This morning the Philadelphia and Liverpool iron screw steam ship City of Washington, Com mander Jellard, arrived in the river from New York, which port she left on the 30th cf April. and has brought 220 passengers. and 70,000 dollars in specie on freight. - The Hicsasteamer, from Bremen, for New York, had put into Boston on the 29th ult., being short of coal. The Severn steamer, from Liverpool, ar rived at Quebec on the 29th, but the Canadian tele• graph line closed before the name was known. A large quantity of ice has been passed on the Banks of Newfoundland. The Illinois steamer, from California, arrived at New York on the 29th, with the usual mails and a'lvices. The mining intelligence reported favour able. The other news anticipated by the Arabia. Intelligence . from Rivas, Walker's head-quarcers, speak of very great distress and privation amongst the Fillibusters, who are hemmed in on all sides by the Costa Ricans, and their capitulation or destruc tion seemed inevitable. Orders have been issued refusing quarter to either W a lk er or H enn i ngsen . Our Mexican advices report that gold has been discovered in the Island of Anacapa. Havannah dates are to the 256 h ult. Trade is reported active, and prices of sugar advanced. COMMERCIAL. Money at New York active and the supply abun dant. Stocks steady. Exchange little doing, but prices unaltered. The cotton market closed firm, with an upward tendency. Flout: continued firm, especially the higher grades. Wheat was in brisk demand. Indian corn inactive, and prices unaltered. The provision market is rather brisk. Freights irregular, and engagements light. THE BRAZILIAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY. Arrived the Avon, with the Brazilian and River Plate mails. She brings 158 passengers, 6701. in specie ; diamonds, 87,e., 70,000/. ; and full cargo. Her dates are--Buenos Ayres, April 4 ; Video, April 7 ; Rio, April 14 ; Bahia, April 18 ; Per nambuco, April 21; St. Vincent, April 30. At Video business was at a stand-still, owing to yellow fever carrying off 25 per day. The elections at Buenos Ayres have passed off quietly. Business is improving. Exchange, 71s. per doubloon. No news of importance from the Brazils. Yellow fever was decreasing. Improvements in the harbour of Rio are still going on. Business in Exchange of importance, at ls. 3- 3 4 d. Coffee sales since last arri val amounted to 156,000 bags; prices nominal. At Bahia, Exchange quoted at 2s. 4d. per mil reis. Nothing effected. Tobacco market quiet. Rum without alteration. No arrivals of cotton, and none in hand At Pernambuco there is a failure in the sugar crop of about one-tenth on last year. In cotton prices have advanced considerably, and some excite ment prevailed in the market. Freight transactions limited. The Cape de Verde islands wera generally healthy, but wanting rain. Blight has again made its appearance at the Canaries. The cochineal crop will be nearly double former years. At Madeira rain has fallen abundantly, in time to save the wheat crop, which was suffering for the want of it. Blight still exists. THE AFRICAN MAIL. PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY. The African Royal mail steamer Ethiope, Capt. W. H. Ramwell, arrived here this morning. Her dates are, from Camarooms, April 4 ; Fernando Po, April 6 ; Bonny, April 9 ; Lagos, April 12 ; Accra, April 13 ; Cape Coast, April 14 ; Monro via, April 19 ; Sierra Leone, April 24 ; Bathurst, April 28 ; Goree, April 29 ; Teneriffe, May 4 ; and Madeira, May 6. She brings 39 passengers, among whom are Lieutenant Blithe, R.N., from Sierra Leone ; and Lieutenant Ramsford, from Bathurst ; 3,000 ounces of gold dust, 400 barrels of palm oil, ivory, pine apples, cochineal, wine, &c. At Fernando Po were the Scourga and the Spy ; the former was to proceed to the South Coast, and return, touching at all the stations to Sierra Leone, where her orders from home would be expected. A d fference has arisen between the Governor and the inhabitants, which at one time assumed a serious aspect ; it was hoped, however, that through the mediation of Commodore Adams and her Bri tannic Majesty's Consul at Fernando Po, all would be amicably arranged. At Lagos were the Prometheus and the Myrmi don ; at Sierra Leone the Hecla and the Philo, and the French man-of-war Euphrates. Oa the 25th of March, died at Sierra Leone, the Right Rev. Dr. Weeks, bishop of the diocese. The deceased prelate had been on a visit to the most distant parts of his diocese along the coast, return ing tolSierra Leone in the Candace on the 16th in a very dilapidated state of health, and continued gradually to sink up to the time of his death. Her Majesty's ship Dover was at Bathurst. A disturbance between two of the native tribes had taken place at Bathurst, and some of the British troops were sent in the Dover to the scene of action, to guard our territory. At all other places along the coast matters were quiet, and nothing of consequence occurring. Her Majesty's ships Colossus and Exmouth ar. rived here this morning from the Mediterranean. TB E NAPIERS. The second season could not have commenced under more auspicious circumstances than on Monday night. The weather being highly favourable, the attractions of the music-hall and gardens were doubled, and an enor mous crowd assembled. The hail-storm which fell not long before the hour for commencing had a most bene ficial effect, since there was just time for the grounds to dry, and the air, which bad been sultry and oppres sive in the afternoon, assumed a pleasant and salubrious freshness. Everything seemed to smile upon the under taking, and the result was quite as brilliant as at the festival which conferred such eclat upon the opening of the Royal Surrey Gardens last ceason. At an early hour crowds were making their way from all points of the compass to the place which the univere•aily popu lar M. Jullien has now adopted permanently as his summer home, and with unexampled rapidity every cor ner of the vast music -hall, whether private boxes, gal leries, or area, was filled. A spectacle more stirring and animated has rarely been witnessed, and the many hundreds who were unavoidably denied admittance lost a treat which it would have been well for them had they arrived early enough to make sure of. But, to those who think seriously and wish well to the community at large, the most gratifying circum stance of all was that the thousands upon thousands who thronged the ball and gardens had been enticed there by music—and not simply . by music in the ab stract, but music of the very loftiest description. The attraction of the evening was neither more nor less than Mendelssohn's oratorio of "Elijah." The incidents that make up the repertory of the Surrey Gardens proper were most of them in abeyance. There were no fireworks, and the grounds were not even illuminated. So that the musio-hall, and what was advertised to take place in it, lured the people with out the aid of adventitious temptations. M. Jullien had announced a grand performance of Mendel ssohn's immortal work with an orchestra, vccal and instrumental, 1,000 strong, supported by principal singers of the first rank. M. Jullien, who is notorious for redeeming his promises, and has won the great pub lie reputation he enjoys as much by his honesty as by bis singular energy and talent, as usual kept his word to the letter. Although only as lets as Friday night be concluded a lying tour in Holland with a brilliant and successful concert at Rotterdam, he was at his post on Monday night, punctual and diligent as his wont, with an army of musicians under his control of such formid able proportions as none know better than himself how to marshal and conduct. The first sight of Jullien sets the minds of the audience at ease, and be was welcomed with a roar of applause. When he waved his baton to begin the-plaudits were renewed ; and after. Mr. Weiss bad pronounced,the terrible denunciation of the prophet, a magnificent performance of the overture, which so graphically describes the misery and sufferings of the drought-afflicted people, at once declared that M. Jul lien had summoned as fine a band together as London could afford. The first chorus—" Help, Lord"—into which the overture leads, proved beyond further ques tion that the multitude of singers was formed cf not less efficient materials ; and from this point on7ard the ora torio proceeded with always augmenting success. It is unnecessary to describe, step by step, the per formance so welt known. Suffice it that the general effect was impoeing to the last degree, nod the execution admirable both for attention to detail, and the combina tion of masses. The cfioruses of the Baalite priets, and the overpowering " Thanks be to God" (which was fol lowed by vociferous and long-continued plaudits), were the most striking features of the first part. In the se cond, as examples of splendid choral singing, may be mentioned " Be not afraid ;" " Woe to him, be shall pe rish" (which ends with terrible earnestness the scene where Jezebel excites the infuriated mob against Elijah) —" Behold the Lord God passed by ;" the sublime and simple acenctus—" Holy, holy, holy is God the Lord, the Lrri of Sabaoth ;" and last, not least, one of the most difficult and rarely successful of the whole—" Then did Elijah the prophet break forth like a fire," which concludes with the translation of the prophet to heaven, in a " fiery chariot drawn by fiery horses." Every one of these was worthy of unqualified commen dation, and did equal credit to M. Jullien and the vocal and instrumental forces under bis, direction. The solo singers—Miss Louisa Vinning, Madame Weiss, Mrs. Lockey (who appeared in consequence of the indisposition of Miss Dolby, and was a worthy sub stitute for that eminent sacred singer), Mr. Weiss (Elijah), and Mr. Sims Reeves—all sang their very best, and tended in no small measure to produos the satisfac tory issue we have - recorded. It is unnecessary for us to particularise their various merits after this general commendation, more especially since at Exeter-hall the successes of the same artists in the same oratorio have so frequently been stated and commented on. Unani mous encores were awarded to the unaccompanied trio, "Lift thine eyes" ({iss Vinning, Madame Weiss, and Mrs. Lockey) ; to the tranquil air, "0; rest, in the Lord" (Llrs. Lockey) ; and to the second song for the tenor, " Then shall the righteous shine forth" (Mr. Sims Reeves). It was also the general wish to hear Miss Vinning re peat the air, " Hear ye, Israel," at the beginning of Part 11. ; but as that piece, instead of terminating upon a full close, passes by a striking transition of harmony into the chorus, "Be not afraid," M. Jullien properly and judiciously went on with the performance, and declined to frustrate the intention of the composer by interrupt ing one of the finest points in the oratorio. Other con ductors (at our great provincial festivals, for instance) might imitate his example with advantage. The oratorio was listened to throughout by the im mense multitude with undeviating attention, and the applause was not less discriminating than it was fre quent and enthusiastic. At the conc l us i o n M Jullien was again loudly cheered. Such an opening of so popu lar a place of amusemen t wa s no thi ng l ess than a triumph for the cause of good music, and for this reason we have more than ordinary gratification in reporting it. It was stated that n e a rly 1,000 persons obtained ad mission into the gardens without payment. We can scarcely credit this ; but if it be true, we can only say that there must be some very defective management in certain departments. The marriage of Mr. Archibald Peel, son of Gen. Peel, M.P., and Lady Alice Peel, with Miss Palmer, only daughter of Sir Roger Palmer, Bart., is fixed to take piece on Monday, the 25th of May. BANK OF FRANCE.—The Paris advices state that the stock of bullion in the Bank of France has not expe rienced any very material variation since the publication of the last return on the 9th of April. The total was about 9,400.0001., and two or three days back it was about 9,200,0001. LABOUR SAVING MACHINE.—At a recent practical trial of one of Moore's Patent American Floating Ball Washing Machines, from 133, High Holborn, now be coming so common in most families, the following were the remits of the whole laundry. The machine had never been before acted upon, and the operators were two servants who had the bare instructions that accom panied the patent. The " wash" consisted of what is in domestic phraseology tcraied large and small.pieces, of w hich there were upwards of 300. The witer being hot, the whole time employed did not reach four hours; and this was a'l effected in the small room of a cottage, in which the heads of the family, until it was over, were not aware that so formidable and much dreaded a pro ceeding as a " wash" was in course of operation. (Prom the .Report of the Registrar-Generald Vt Ao The number of deaths registered in Lon — der the week that ended on Saturday is 1,064, 013 1 hibits a small increase on that of the previous " o , e which was 1,083. In the ten years 1847-56 t llB O rage number of deaths in the weeks correspo il ii S with last week was 1,040. But, as the cle 3t t1) 1 last week occurred in an increased populatioAj average, with a view to comparison, must be T ASV proportionally to the increase, in which case it become 1,144. Hence it appears that t heu ,:tbf now returned were less by 80 th an the nurau ,e ' f or would have occurred under the average rate of lc is 1'846 The number of births recorded last wee' 14 and shows an excess of 782 on the deaths re c u r in the same period. The returns now contain indications of the.deri of the cold north-east wind that has blown 1 - 1° _,,, / '0 1 ! ruptedly forsotne time. During 18 days frO w ,, 22d ult. to the Bth inst., both days included, the ) tlr 2 y,f) . daily temperature of the air has been cons' o it 4 below the average, and the extent of the deP re foll has been generally 7 deg. or 8 deg., and on of nights last week the thermom e t er f e ll t o 32 cl, i eg ;J: below that point. The result o f thi s co ntinue" isil; ness is seen in the deaths referred to diseases O respiratory organs, which had previously deer s l but which rose last week from 177 t o 208, t i !be . o': cial disease under which this increase is form dot bronchitis, which rose from 84 to 116. The , I vg A i due to pneumoni a ( or i n fl amma ti on o f the remained nearly the same, having been in o (p ei r weeks 74 and 70. Last week bronchitis and,r o til inonia were fatal to the same number of persons—viz., 52 ; but among persons of age the two diseases were fatal in very d i or proportions, for 64 persons aged 20 years al l o pi. + , wards died of bronchitis, and 18 of pne ujil je ,lloopingeough declined last week to 44,- --3 number than has been obtained for ss, period. There were two deaths from smallP,, ° ,,io 32 from measles 5 occurred in the sub-di sw oe,', i ' Bethnal-ereen, and 8 in that of Limehouse. t appears to have been a violent outbreak 0 f 1 ;e 4 9 in the workhouse situated in the latter sub -cll as all the 8 deaths occurred in that instituti eP f nearly all of them within a few days. Seven nonogenarians died in the week ; oldest were women, aged 93 years, one Of ' WI" died in Brompton, the other in the Pancras house. 0 9,9 Last week the births of 924 boys and '„, - ,,; 1 0 4,°,. /1 , —in a 111,846 children—were registered in - 1 - 4 '1,0 In the ten corresponding weeks of the year s 56 the average number wa s 1,550. do t At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, thriedl!A height of the barometer in the week was The mean daily reading was above 30in. 0 :4; days ; and the highest reading in the to e o fts' i 30.12 in. on T ues d a y. Th e mean t em p e ratur iro rv e week was 44.8 deg., which is 6.7 deg. he'dete' average of the same week in 43 years ( 55 ,0 01 :t mined by Mr. Glaisher.) The lowest teueqiel! D o occurred on Monday, and May 31.5 deg. ; th e o f ir on Saturday, and was 65 . 3 deg. The t range jok er ig week was 33.8 deg. The mean dew point t e co t ii l i o ture was 38.2 deg., and the difference bet'e t , and the mean air temperature was 6.6 degi v e o ,..l wind blew almost invariably from the eott e ( 114 There was scarcely any rain. The first fiy were very cold MORTALITY IN THE METROPO:Vi NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES 0 6 4, 1 0 IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, Af' 4l 6 1 Zymotic Diseases ................ g 6 Diseases of Unc er t a i n Seat ................... . 1 ....................... ...„ to! ...... r ig Tubercular Di seases Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses ...... "*„. Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... :••••• , *" . a 7 05 Diseases of th e L ungs a n d o ther Orga ll ' • Respiration ................................... s 55 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Org -0 of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. ................. ........ C- Jhildbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c...••••' Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles . 9, Diseases of the Skin, &c. ............................. Malformations ......................................... Premature Birth and Debility ..................... .. 43 Old Age Atrophy ~ ............................................... 4 .. 1 ......... ..... 6 Fiuddeii .................................................•:I„.. '4 Violence, Privation ' Cold, and Interoperan ce '' ...y Causes not specified ................................. oi if 0 1 DEATHS 'EOM ALL CA.IISES ............... ..... P el' O s ' d ifi eB P Population Deaths in Corte weelg v Enumzted. 5p0n 0 1 1 3 56. 1 55 West Districts North Districts 490,396 •'" 0 Central Districts 393,256 ...... 17 6 ' 0 0 East Districts 485,522 ...... 24 9 ' ....•: I,'..>° South Districts 6' l _____- 50 ~.. ........ 5v Totals Males F2males ................................ BIRTHS IN THE WEEK- Males 1,1 5 90 ......... ,0 .............. 1,846 TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—ln The Times of this morning I observe a letter from Sir William Napier, stating that Sir James Outram published in 1844 a letter full of the most shameless calumnies and insinuations against Sir C. Napier, " telling the soldiers (78th High landers), that the General had moved them through pestilent marshes, and wilfully as well as ignorantly caused the frightful calamity that had befallen them. Mr. Buist, of the Bombay Times, reporting the accusation, actually denounced Sir Charles Na pier as the murderer of the soldiers.' " Sir James Outram, at the date referred to, was political agent at Mundlassis, in the Indore domi nions. My conviction is, that he never published any letter whatever on the subject. lam certain he never employed any words in any way resemb ling those assigned to him. It is with the accusation against myself alone that lam concerned. I utterly deny the truth of the charge brought against me, and challenge Sir Wil liam Napier to produce the passage he professes to quote. The Highlanders left Kurrachee for Suk kur in August or September, 1844, at a period of the year when Sir Charles Napier confesses that Scinde is pre-eminently sickly from the subsidence of the inundation. Medical opinion, still to be found on record in the public archives, was strongly opposed to the movement at that season. Sick ness made its appearance before the troops reached Hyderabad, and became frightful on their arrival at Sukkur. I saw the regiment leave Bombay, under Colonel Twopenny, just before a visitor in my house, nearly 1,100 strong, and saw it return 18 months afterwards reduced to less than 400. I stated these facts on the authority of the official recods then in Sir C. Napier's hands, and still in existence. When, on the 27th of January, 1851 , Sir C. Napier, in addressing the 78th on his land- ing at Bombay, accused me of the conduct now imputed to me, and asserted that sickness had first made its appearance in the regiment in the hospital at Sukkur in November, 1844, I met him from the reginieul al books, which showed that it had broken out at Hyderabad in October, and chal lenged him to produce the words he had so un warrantably put in my mouth. The answer was the ordinary cue--a " broomstick" or a court of law. was at the time on the spot, ready to m-et him or his friends in any way they desired. Of course, I was never called upon. lam equally on the spot now, equally ready to meet all reponsibilities, equally convinced of full immunity from danger in any of its forms. The present charges are quite as true as are about a hundred others in Sir William Napier's book against me—they are not one whit more so. Two of them may be given as a sample of the whole. He asserts that, in 1844, I was "in Paris writing to the Etenxh press"—knowing that, from 184; ti 111845, I had never for an hour been out' of Females.. M ISSIN - • Cove of Cork . G 7larßt.elpy, Partington, to - n, not f be ill, thinks the poor OP having itilee:.:l33llll Total .... Ilk