The Sun. — London, England, 1857-04-08 00:00:00

Letters to be addressed " A. 8.," 104, Strand. H " ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. SEASON 1857. The THEATRE will OPEN on TUESDAY, April 14, when - will be presented Donizetti's Opera of LA FAVORITA. Leonora Madlle. SPEZIA. Baldassare . Sig,no:7 VEALETTI. Fernando S'gnor GIUGLINI. To be followed (first tires these 10 years) by the favourito Ballet of LA ESMERALDA. Founded on Victor Hugo's "Notre Dame de Paris." La Esmeralda Madlle. POCCHINI. Claude Frollo Signor RONZANI. Pierre Gringoire M. MASSOT. All the Boxes and Stalls having been disposed of for the Subscription or Opening Night, the same Opera and Ballet will be Repeated on THURSDAY, April 16 (it being an extra night not included in the subscription). A limited number of boxes in the Half Circle Tier have been specially reserved for the public, and may be had on ap plication at the Box-office at the Theatre Colonnade, Hay market. Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. The doors will open at half-past seven ; the Opera com mences at eight. ROY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. On EASTER MONDAY, will be performed Shakespere's tr)gedy of KING RICHARD THE SECOND. King Richard 11., Mr. C. K-an ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by A GAME OF ROMPS. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. NEW ARRANGEMENT OF PRICES OF A DmisSION. On EASTER MONDAY, and during the week, the new Drama of A LIFE'S TRIAL. Messrs. Buckstone, Comp ton, Howe, W. Farren, Rogers ; Mesdames Reynolds, Poyn ter, Fitzwilliam, &e. After which, 'for the first time, a Classical Love Story, un der the Apple-lation of ATALANTA ; or, Tho Three Golden Apples in which Miss M. Oliver will appear; also Miss M. Wilton, her first appearance here, and Miss Ellen Ternan, her first appearance in London. Concluding with GRIMSHAW, BAGSHAW, AND BR ADS HAW. Mr. Bnckstone. In future the prices will be :—Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each ; Dress Boxes, bs. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Lower Gallery, ls ; Up per Gallery, M. Second price :—Dress Boxes, 3s ; Upper Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls. ; Lower Gallery, 6d. No half-price to Upper Gallery. (No charge for booking.) THEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. On EASTER MONDAY, will be performed the now and original domestic sketch, entitled WELCOME, LITTLE STRANGER. - Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Bedford, &c. Followed by THE ELVES, in which Madame Celeste will make her first appearance. After which, A NIGHT AT NOTTING-HILL, in which Mr. Wright and Paul Bedford will appear. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—Tho follow ing company of Vocalists arc engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Ducts, dre., viz, : Z-Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunel], Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmaits, R, (Grover, T, Farrant, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri, Senor Antonio M. de Solla, and E. L. Hime ; 'Masters Austin, Bennett, and Corti; Messrs. Sam Collins, E. Mackney, and C. J. Wilkins, Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre cisely. Suppers, dtc., until twelve o'clock. awn WATER AT LONDON BRTDO THIS D 4T—Morn. 35 min. aft. 1 --Evoning 51 inio. aft. 1 FO-Movßow—Morn. 5 min. aft. 2—Evening 20 min.aft. 2 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFiaE, APRIL 8. THERSIOHZTErt, IN THZ SUAEE. 6.3 —highest since noon vesterdayl 51 -lowest this morning and daring the night. 60 - this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29.93. WIND, S. to S.W.—Light, with fine weather,• bui cloudy. Two O'CLOCK.—Heavy rain. f(t ;l J , I Mr. W. J. EVELYN has yielded the palm to Mr. J. BRISCOE, the reforming candidate. In East Sussex—with 5,000 and odd registered electors, and a population over 225,000—Mr. J. DODSON, th© Liberal, is the colleague of Viscount PEYENSEY, the Conservative. In Argyllshire the Ministerialists have gained one through Mr. A. FINLAY, the Liberal substi tute for Sir ARciiinALD ISLA.Y CAMPBELL, pre viously the Conservative Representative of a Con stituency of little more than 2,000 registered electors out of a population having au aggregate of more than 89,000 ! Ayrshire, with nearly 4,000 registered electors, in a population of some 190,000, has, by electing Lord JAMES STUART, the Liberal candidate, given ore more to the Ministerialists. Lanarkshire, with 3,500 registered electors and a population of 530,000, having done precisely the same thing by the selection of Sir E. CoLE BROOKE as its Liberal Representative ! Ministerial gains altogether Seventeen in the County constituencies I A tolerable catalogue, we take it, all things considered ! But even beyond these Seventeen positive " gains," Ministers have had other triumphs of a rather notable kind among the remaining County constituencies. Not the least remarkable of these triumphs to the cause of Liberalism and Reform being the one recently gained against apparently very long odds in North Devonshire ! There, thanks to the indomitable pluck, the unflinching resolution, and the sustained and contagious enthusiasm of the Liberal possessors of the franchise, Sir STRATFORD NORTHCOTE, the "great card" of the Conserva tives, was again ignominiously defeated. Again defeated we say advisedly, for, had he not been already summarily expelled from Dudley by an " unknown" Liberal, Mr. HENRY SHERIDAN ? Well—the true-hearted electors of North Devon have reiterated the rejection already recorded by Dudley against Sir S. NORTHCOTE! And they have not only thereby sternly spurned Conterva tism, but they have chosen a worthy representative of Liberalism, in the person of Mr. J. W. DULLER, placing him at the top of the poll—and thus most satisfactorily equipoising the Family Interest in their own good county of Devonshire. Ded will have a strange tale to tell when the Returns shall (now in a very few days) have been completed. Ilansard will indirectly tell the same tale all over again, piecemeal and at intervals. A tale of unexp3ct'3d successes to new candidates, and of most bitter disappointments to old and ignominiously rejected representatives. The Lee son conveyed by the General Election, after ail, is a very wholesome one—and we trust that it may be laid to heart, not merely by the success ful and defeated candidates,!but by the constitu encies themselves. Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT tells Us that the New Parliament is to be composed of ANABAPTISTS ! " We have all," he twice told the electors of South Wilts, " been redipped in a general elec tion." The Right Hon. Gentleman has not listened in vain to Mr. SPURGEON, at the Surrey Gardens Music Hall ; and if he be right we shall have, ere long, a sufficiently zealous band of neophytes in the walla of St. Stephen's. In many places we have noted that the catechu mens answered well ; in some they were put through our Candidates' Catechism en tire ; in others they were tested by im portant questions from it, and we are bound to say that many not only knew the Creed and the Ten Commandments, but some had almost mastered the eleventh ; being willing to do to electors and to non-electors as they would that they should do unto them. And assuredly liberal politics are fully mastered when the cate chumen understands the political application of the great, the oft-quoted, but always evaded, command. 0 PRESS READERS.-WANTED, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1857. The Ministerial triumphs in the Boroughs are remarkable enough in themselves, but the Mini sterial successes among the County constituencies are something quite extraordinary. They are worth examining in detail—these gains to the cause of Liberalism among the Agriculturists. Let us take them one by one, as so many political tid bits—mumbling each in turn as a bonne boucle worth the relishing ! There is Berkshire with a little over 5,000 registered electors out of a population of 170,000 ! And Berkshire has summarily thrown overboard Viscount BA RRINGTON, Conservative, Ant i-May nooth ite, and, once upon a time, Protectionist., electing in his stead a Liberal and Reformer in ) the person of th e H on . E . P . BOUVERIE. There is Cambridgeshire with about r,0.90 registered electors out of a population of 186,000 ! And Cambridgeshire has discarded Lord GEORGE MANNERS (ditto, ditto, ditto, namely, Conserva tive, Anti-Maynoothite, and, once upon a time, Protectionist), choosing in lieu of him Mr. H. J. ADEANE—a Reformer, so far as a Liberal Con servative can be There is South Derbyshire with '7,000 registered electors out of a population of 166,000—where Mr. WILLIAM MUNDY (ditto, ditto, ditto) has given place to Mr. T. W. EVANS--a Liberal, and, therefore, a Ministerialisf. There is Glamorg,anshire—having 6,500 elec tors and a population of 232,000—where Sir GEORGE TYLER (ditto, ditto, ditto) has made way for a second Liberal representative in the place of Mr. H. H. VIVIAN, now the congenial col league of Mr. CHRISTOPHER TALBOT. There is Hertfordshire—having some 5,300 registered electors and a population of 167,300_ where Sir HENRY MEUX refusing to sacrifice him self for the sake of his Party, and Mr. ABEL SMITH proving a trifle more magnanimous, Mr. CHRISTO PHER PULLEN, the Liberal candidate, has walked over the course—to the end that one more might be added to the County gains of the Ministe rialisti ! Huntingdonshire, again, with nearly 3,000 registered electors and nearly 65,000 as the " tottle " of its population—Has it not added to the same list another Liberal in the person of Mr. S. M. LrE.ATHGOTE ? And North Lincolnshire—with upwards of 11,000 registered electors and a population of more than 221,000—Have not the Palmerstonians gained Sir M. CHOLMELEY there, while the Derby ites have simultaneously lost a "great gun" in their once Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Right Hon. ROBERT CHRISTOPHER ? Meanwhile in East Norfolk the gains are ac tually doubled : a clear majorit registered elect ors , y out of 8,000 in a population of 250,000 , having thrown aside the two old members (Con servatives, Protectionists and all that sort of thing) —Mr. EDMUND WODEHOUSE and Mr. N. - uouans—to select in their plAce a Liberal and a Liberal Conservative, Sir E. N. BUXTON and the Gallant Major-General WINDMINI ! In West Norfolk—with nearly 8,000 regis tered electors, and a population of over 192,000 —Mr. BAGGE has got the sack, vacating his sea for Mr. BRAMPTON GUEDON, a Liberal, and there fore a Mini4erialist ! In South Northamptonshire—with 4,500 re gistered electors, and a population of more than 115,000—Mr. MINALD KNIGHTLEY has found a new colleague in the aristocratic but liberal per son of Lord ALTHORP, the heir to the E:irldom of Spencer ! In North N ottinghamshire, with 4,000 regis tered electors, and 1 90,000 as the number of it 3 population—Mr. J. E. DENISON, a Liberal, and therefore a Ministerialist, has taken the post for merly occupied by Lord lIENny BENTINCK, ultra Conservative and ultra Protectionist ! In West Surrey, with nearly 4,000 registered electors, and a population of nearly 103,000 Mr. S. HERBERT is surely right. It is a long time since Hon. Members have been im mersed in such a flood of Reform questionings. In 1852 the contest turned on the funeral or re surrection of free trade ; and Lard DERBY boasted, and not without reason, that he had checked the onward march of democracy. He gave it something else than the suffrage to con tend for. This time, though our adroit Premier meant us to discuss China, YEET, the Arrow, and all that, and to le - we reform till a more con venient season, we thought the present the best time for demanding reform. We all saw that China had settled the China question itself. We refused, as Lord Jornr said, to be divided into Yehites and Bowringites—indeed the Yehites were scarcely discoverable. Everywhere candidates were deluged with questions on the Ballot, on the Suffrage, on LOCKE KING'S motion, on Church Rates, or on Administrative Reform. Manya can didate proffered a little propitiatory talk, or a little self-recommendatory talk, on the China question, according as he was guilty or innocent on the awful third of March ; but we question whether any electors once asked, spontaneously, about the China iusiness. No ; the grand thing to get through at the hust ings was the Reform questions ; even Mr. Drsitanr had to reason, as best he might, on the Ballot and extension of the Suffrage. What, then, shall we do with our re-dipped members ? We answer, take good care that they do not apostatise. The great Ministerial organ, giving Lord PALMERSTON some very prudent advice about finding work for his large majority, exhorts him to set them at Once about a Divorce Bill and a Joint Stock Banks Bill ! Great measures certainly for a great majority; measures, however, which we should have thought needed rather a few honest lawyers than au overwhelming majority of non-professional men. Indeed, so far as these measures need a Ministerial majority, that majo rity will be more secure if it be a vigorously liberal majority. The great and practical object of Liberals should be to secure their hold on their renovated old members, and their untried new ones. The country should re member that Lord PALMERSTON ani Mr. RAY TER have the advantage. They have all the mem bers before them. They cant hint, cajole, ad monish, persuade as the case m a y require, and the numerous new Members, one hundred and w fifty of them, perhaps, will have had no expe rience of the wiles of the tempter. They say nothing so much preserves the morals of youths coining here from the country as frequent cor respondence with the homes they have left, and we can assure electors that a similar correspond ence between constituencies and their Members is remarkably favourable t o poiiti ol l a nd Parlia mentary fidelity. Suppose Mr, SIDNEY HERBERT' S Anabaptists were each furnished with a petition or two on the subjects on which they had been questioned. Why, indeed, should not every member of Par liament have some proof of that kind in his hands that his supporters, many of them at least, in earnest, a n d expect him to act u are to his professions ? We have abundant reason to be satisfied, thus far, with the successful w a y in which the C an did ates ' Catechism was worked, but to follow it up is the grand thing. Victory is too often succeeded by over -confidence and fatal inaction. The country has conquered reform at The rate of interest has increased, is increasing, and is likely still further to increase, until the entire profits of producers and traders are trans ferred to the pockets of the money-lenders. Not contented with the addition to the minimum. rate of discount announced after the meeting of Direc tors on Thursday last, " a further slight restric tion," as it is termed by the bullionist organ, was decided on yesterday. In ordinary times they discount bills not having more than three months to run for the bill-brokers in the same manner and on the same terms as for the public. They have, however, given notice that the accommodation will be limited to bills not having more than a month to run, and that on bills of longer date they would only make advances for a fortnight. This change followed rapidly on the alteration as to the terms respecting advances on Stock ! At a late hour on Monday afternoon it was de clared that no advances would be made at less than seven per cent., or for more than seven days on Government securities. Thus, then, we find that the facilities for obtaining pecuniary accom modation on the very best securities have been withdrawn by the Bank. Three such changes within a single week augur badly for the state of the money market. They prove, beyond the possibility of doubt, either that the Directors feel that they are themselves placed in circumstances of peculiar difficulty, and must adopt these stringent and unpopular mea sures for their own security, or that they aro seeking to obtain exorbitant profits at the expense of the trading and manufacturing interests of the country ! Utrum horum, mavis accipe. It signi fies but little on which horn of the dilemma they may be tossed. In either case they are not quali fied for the position into which they have been pitchforked as controllers and regulators of the national currency. It is quite clear that, not withstanding their large capital and the monopoly which they enjoy, they are unable to contend against the necessity of being obliged always to buy or sell the precious metals at a fixed price with out any reference to the supply or demand there for. Under this most unwise and impolitic system every European nation can supply its wants at our expense. The bullion that flows in from Australia is taken for the Continent, and we are tantalised by being starved in the sight of plenty. It is not the increase of 1. or 2 per cent, in the rate of discount that can stop this demand. Under the existing law England must be victimised, and her industrial population are ruined in the pro cess. It requires a total change—something must be done, and that speedily to prevent the ruin of those whom it should be the first duty of the nation to encourage and support. We have heard many " flattering tales " respecting the temporary nature of the exigency. The prospect of " a partial retention of some of the Australian gold arrivals" is hinted at as offering some slight alleviation. And has it come to this with Eng land, that the hopes and aspirations of her people are already directed to the early arrivals of vessels bearing specie to the extent of a few hundred thousand pounds t That adverse winds or a break down of machinery, or any of the various acci dents to which sea-going ships are exposed, should derange the commerce and production of the Empire? Unless some decisive measure be adopted within the approaching session, we may be exposed to direful calamities, far exceeding the most formid able crisis that have hitherto occurred. Sir G. C. Lewis has declared his intention of renewing the Bank Charter Act without change or modi fication, for a further period of ten years. It is impossible to estimate the results. Surely the experience of 1847 should not be altogether disregarded, nor should the painful lesson be thrown away. The Select Com mittee of the House of Lords clearly and distinctly traced the deplorable events then witnessed to the Bank Charter Act, and the same causes must produce similar effects. The case is much stronger at the present time, inamnuch as it is universally ad mitted that there is now no undue speculation, and that the undue pressure oannut be in any degree ascribed to domestic affairs. As we have repeatedly stated, the monetary legislation is even of greater importance than the fis cal. We may feel ourselves veij unfairly treated, so far as the unequal tax on incomes are concerned ; but it is, if possible, more urgent that we should be" allowed to earn the means of satisfying the inequitable and impolitic charges that we should be ena bled to provide for all classes of demands, than that they should be diminished in number or amount. The moneyoeracy are virtually "killing the goose that laid the golden eggs." They may themselves be the first to suffer by the consequences, and if wise would seek toinaugurate a sounder policy, which would give them greater sem , rity, although their profits might be smaller ! We trust at - 411 events that the matter may not be slurred over, but that before any renewal of the Bank Charter Act be decided on it, may receive the calm and attentive consideration which its vast importance and its influence on the welfare and prosperity of the industrial community so eminently merits, so imperatively demands. ADVANTAGES OF THE SOUTHAMPTON DOEIKS.—Her Majesty s ship Himalaya, 3,500 tons (iron troop ship), was ordered round from Plymouth to Southampton, for the purpose of being placed in dry dock, there to be coated with the composition of Messrs. Peacock and Buchan, previous to her long voyage to China, and the fine steamship Teutonia, 2,000 tons, arrived on the same day from Hamburf, to be docked for the same purpose. Both ships steamed into the tidal basin of Southampton Docks, and thence into the large graving docks, the Himalaya drawing 21 feet 2 inches. The Teutonia en tered the west graving dock as the screw ship Jason vacated it. The gates of each dock were then immedi ately shut, and the powerful pumps set in motion to discharge the water from the graving docks. Both ships were safely on the blocks and shored up in three hours from the time they entered. The Teutonia was scraped and received two coats, and came out of dry dock within 48 hours ; received on board 500 tons of coal and a large cargo for Lisbon and the Brazils, and proceeded to sea within three days of her first arrival. The Himalaya having been coated with the same composition, was taken out of dock on the third day, and immediately proceeded to Shithead under steam. It is worthy of remark that this large ship was fully coaled and provi sioned for her voyage, and although drawing upwards of 21 feet, was enabled to dock at neap tides one hour before high water. Mr. Hedger, the dockmaster, was entrusted by the Admiralty authorities with all the arrangements. The Himalaya takes out a consi derable quantity of Messrs. Peacock and Buchan's composition for the use of the iron ships forming the China fleet —Shipping Gazette. A SHIP'S CREW STARVED TO DEATIL—The following is an extract of a letter received at Lloyd's relative to the wreck of an Eoglish ship on the coast of Norway. It is dated " Stavanger, March 14. A pilot on the 2d inst. boarded a vessel about eight miles from the land, off Kinn, near Stavanger, dismasted and waterlogged. Found in the forecastle the bodies of six men, which ho brought with him on shore, and another body was found between the cargo in the hold, which he could not suc ceed in landing. Ou one of the bodies was found an English Prayer-book, in which was written ' Joseph Bell, Slot-street, Hull, 1810 ;' and on another a double. cased silver pocket watch, on which the name of J. Buxton' was engraved. A certificate found on board proved the vessel to be the liolingen, from Narva for Gainshorough, with a earrro of deal., &c. The vessel was found to be without provisions, the crew are therefore supposed to have died from starvation, and especially as one of the b o di es appeare d to b ear mar k s o f having been attacked by the others to satisfy their hunger. Some of the bodies h a d ev id ent l y b een d ea d some time, others only a fe w d a y s . T he most remarkable circumstance connected with this wreck is, that the crew could have been starved to death on a voyage from Narva to Gains borough, as even admitting that they ran short of pro visions, or that these were spoiled on the vessel filling with water, the crew must still have existed four or five days, and during that, period, on a tract so frequented as the North Sea, it appears strange that they fell in with no vessel of any kind." the hustings and the polling-booth, but the final Yesterday morning, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and harder victory a t St. Stephen's has still to the Princ ess Helm, and Prin cess L ou i sa , accompan i ed by R. Ormsby Gcre, Esq., and Miss Illhardt, visited be won. If Lord JOAN RUSSELL see that the the Royal Colosserm in the Regent's -park. The royal people will have a rea l R e f orm Bi ll, he will soon vi sitors arrived at the Reg en t' s -p ar k entrance at 10 oclock, and were conducted through the different exhi have one on the anvil ; and if Lord PALMERSTON bitions and entertainments which had been prepared for them by special cimmand of her Majesty by Dr. Bach hears the sound of Lord JOHN'S hammer, he will hoffner, • r u , the managing director ; Messrs. H. set his own forge to work at once and anticipate Farrer, F.S A., and H. Collier, directors of the institu tion. On leaving, the . royal ch ildren . expressed the plea him, or else join in partnership with his rival. At the election, reform has fared infinitely better su H re is th s e e y re h n a e d ll fo i r b l e i s n s their visit. the Prince of Leiningen arrived than we expected, seeing that the country was at the residence of her Royal Highn ess the Duche ss o f so suddenly app ea l e d t o on another question. Kent, Cle wee Rime, St. James 's, yesterday, from Surely the gre a t gun a t th e e l ect i on will not be P o lj r t o s r m d o ü ß t r h o . u ghton will leave town to-morrow for his lost by remissnes s a ft er it. We seat, Erlestoke Park shall hav e oppor- Colonel and the He Wilts. Mrs. Dudley C ar l e t on l e f t town tunities. Mr. LoCKE K ING must soon renew his yesterday for Brighton. Mr. and Lady Caroline T own l ey arr i ved in town a motion. Mr. BE RKELEY w ill g i ve early notice of few days since from St. Leonardo-on-Sea, They will a motion on the ; and Lord JOHN is in un- leave on Monday next for Paris. Lady Molesworth entertai ne d a se l ect c i rcle at dinner easy non-employment. L e t Lib erals be awake, and this Parliament will do something for them, last Yesterday was the birthd a y o f hi s R oyal Highness evening. Prince Leopold. It is estimated that about 5,500,000 lbs. of tea will be delivered this week, duty paid, from the port of London. The third call of 21. is to be paid on the new shares of the London, Tilbury, and Southend Extension Railway by the Ist of May ; and the third call of 21. on the Barking Extension shares by the same day. The Earl and Countess of Lanesborough have left town for Swithland Hall, Leicestershire. The Earl and Countess Howe are expected in town in a few days, from Gopsall, Leicestershire. The Earl of Kenmare arrived in town, a few days since, from Ireland. The Countess of Sefton and Lady Cecilia Molyneux left town, on Monday, for Stoke Farm, Berkshire. The Earl of Cawdor left town, on Monday, for Car marthen. Her ladyship is staying on a visit with the Countess of Ellesmere, at Hatchford, near Cobham, Surrey. The Countess of Kinnoul is expected at her new resi dence in Portman-square, at the latter end of the pre sent month, for the season. The Countess of Sandwich has left town for St. Leo nards-on-Sea, for a week or ten days. The half-yearly meeting of the Great Indian Peninsu lar Railway Company is called for the 29th inst. The expense of our consuls abroad for the current year ' is 185,1841. Far the current year the expense of the Privy Council ' office and Board is 62,0001. It appears that the annual net amount received by the sale of Parliamentary papers from its commencement to the present time has averaged the sum of 4,0001. by sale and waste. Three partners in one brewery firm will have seats in the new House—Sir E. N. Buxton, for East Norfolk ; Mr. Charles Buxton, for Newport, Isle of Wight ; and Mr. Robert Hanbury the younger, for Middlesex. REFRESHMENTS TO VOTERS. —According to the 23d section of the 17th and 18th Vic., c. 102, it is declared that refreshments gives to a voter on the day of nomi nation or polling shall be deemed illegal, and the person so offending shall forfeit the sum of 40s. for each offence to any person who shall sue for the same, with full costs of suit. The Crystal Palace is to be again opened on Good Friday after one o'clock. The experiment was tried last year for the first time, and was p er f ec tly success f u l . Up wards of 17,000 people, mostly of a class w h ose h o lid ays are limited to G oo d Friday, Christmas-day, and the Queen's birthday, were brought down by rail, and as sembled in the palace for the afternoon, and that with out a single instance of disorderly conduct. We think that in this fact the directors have the best ground for repeating the experiment, the results of which appear so unexceptionable, and we heartily w i s h it success. THE LATE ACCIDENT IN THE BRISTOL RIVER.—The Mary Ann Peters, which was stranded in her outward voyage to Africa, under the circu ms t ances d eta i led in The Sun of the 2d inst., wee got off on high tide yester day afternoon. Since the unfortunate accident the vessel had been lightened of her cargo, and every other means taken to release her from her perilous position. These operations were carried to a successful issue yesterday afternoon, as above stated, when the Mary Ann Peters was floated off and taken higher up the river. She has sustained very severe injuries, and her repairs have been intrusted to Messrs. Patterson and Sons, the well-known shipwrights of Bristol. NEW ROUTE FOR CENTRAL AMERICAN PRODUCE.— SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday. —The steamer La Plata, which arrived at this port on the Ist inst., with the last West India mail, brought home, amongst other cargo, a large quantity of indigo, from the west coast of Central Ame rica. The produce of that part of the world has hitherto been sent to England by the roundabout way of Cape Horn ; but now, by arrangements made by the managers of the Panama Railway, it is shipped to Panama on board a steamer, provided by them for the purpose, sent thence by railway across the isthmus to Colon, and there put on board the West India mail steamers for England. The result is, as in the present case, thattho produce is home, and probably sold, at a time when, under the old system, it could scarcely be expected, even under the most favourable circumstances, to have reached the neighbourhood of the stormy Horn. The facilities thus afforded to those interested in the speedy delivery of consignments from Central America well de serve, and will no doubt receive, their cordial approbation and support. EXTRAORDINARY FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday Mr. Bedford, coroner for Westminster, held an inquest at the Green Man, Bedford-street, Covent -garden, on the body of Timothy Finaughty, aged 65, labourer, whose death occurred under the following singular circumstances : It appeared that on the 24th ult, deceased was engaged in a ressel laden with malt, in emptying it, his duty being to hold the mouth of the sack while a man named Maddams fixed round it the noose of a rope by means of which it was raised to the deck. On one sack being pulled up, it had not been lifted more than a foot, when deceased exclaimed, in tones of agony, " Oh, oh," and it was then found that his left thumb had been fastened in the noose, and dragged nearly from its socket. He went to Charing-cross Hospital, where the thumb was dressed, and on a subsequent day amputated, but morti fication ensued, and the poor fellow rapidly sank, and died. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death. FIRES YESTERDAY.—Yesterday morning, between the hours of 2 and 3 o'clock, a fire broke out in the pre mises occupied by Mr. Heyday, a boot and shoemaker, situate No. 6, King -street-terrace, New North -road. Before the fire could be got under the whole of the stock in trade in the lower part of the premises was consumed, and serious damage done to the furniture, &c., in the upper part. The origin of the disaster is unknown. The sufferer was insured in the Westminster Fire office, About the same time another fire took place in the premises occupied by Mr. J. Halbert, an importer of foreign leeches, No. 3, Princes-square, St. George's-in-the-East. The flames commenced from some unknown cause in the basement. Considerable damage was done to the stock-in -trade and the premises. The proprietor was insured in the Royal Exchange-office A third fire took place in the premises belonging to Mr. John Baker, a bread and biscuit baker, carrying on busi ness at No. 3, Charlotte-street, Pimlico, nearly facing Buckingham Palace. Th e fi re originated in the third floor, and as it shot through the windows it reflected so strongly upon the palace as to lead persons at a distance to imagine that .the royal residence was on fire. The upper part of the building was destroyed, and the lower portion extensively damaged by water, &c. The origin of this fire was also unknown. The stock-in. trade was insured in the Sun Fire-office, and the build ing in the Law Fire-office, Other fires also took place in the premises of Mr. T. P. Smith, milliner, No. 32 A, Cleveland-greet, Fitzroy -square, an d N o, 1 Gravel lane, Southwark, but the damage done at each was trifling. LATEST NEWS. CHINA. The following document, purporting to be a despatch addressed to the Viceroy of Canton by the Chief of the Council of the Emperor of China, has been received in Paris from Macao : " YEH, —I have serious news to announce to you. We have read with attention the account you have given us of the attack by the English bar barians. The Nuy-Ko were unanimous in their indignation at it, and we determined that the Em peror should be informed of it, notwithstanding the pain it occasions his magnanimous heart, and these are the commands of his mighty will : Yoh, you are to carry on a war of extermination against the foreign barbarians who have attacked you. They must receive from you an exemplary chastise ment. Yet, after the vengeance shall have been deemed sufficient by you, and if they manifest sincere repentance for what they have done, the Emperor, our magnanimous Sovereign, who is inundated with floods of light, consents that hosti lities shall cease, and that commercial affairs shall be resumed with these foreigners as they existed previous to their fault. " Yeb, you will take heed, and you will commu nicate the preceding to the mandarins placed under your orders. "Pekin, the 10th day of the 2d Moon. " TsAou-TourN-YoNa, Head of the Imperial Nuy-Ko." PERSIA. , MARSEILLES, Apitn 7. The snow that blocks up the roads in Persia will delay the return of the ratification of the Treaty with England. The Ottoman Ambassador at Teheran has pre sented a Note requiring the execution of the Boundary Treaty, and the restitution of seven towns, especially Ourmiach and Sulimanich. The two principal grievances alleged by the Aus trian against the Sardinian Government are, it appears, the provocations offered by the political refugees in Piedmont, and the fortifying of Ales sandria, and until these cease it is pretended that there will be no reconciliation. The Austrian Consuls in Piedmont have, however, received orders from Vienna to remain at their posts, and to continue as hitherto in the performance of their duties. The circular in which these instructions are contained is couched in reassuring terms. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. The Neuchatel Conference did not sit to-day as expected. Notice was sent out on Sunday to the Plenipotentiaries for a meeting on Tuesday, but a counter-order was subsequently given, doubtless because the expected instructions were not received from Berne or Berlin, or perhaps from both places. The difficulty, it appears, turns on the question of money—the amount, not the principle of indem nity, which is said to be admitted. BOURSE, April 7.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. c. End of Month. 4} per Cents 3 per Cents 6B 80 70 New Loan — Bank Shares 4,170 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,400 -- Austrian Belgian 4i Piedmontese (5) _ 9o4— Home Debt RAILWAYS—FOB, CASH. tr. c. fr c Orleans 1,490 Western - Northern - Lyons 1,5674 New Ditto - Mediterranean 2,155 Grand Central Lyons Geneva Midi - Austrian Corn. ...,« 725 - THE SUN, LO'NDON, WEMNESDAY EVEN'ING, APRIL 8, 1867. MONTENEGRO. The Austrian, Gazette of the 4th contains the fol lowing observations on the present state of Mon tenegro " The importance of Montenegro, which is not incon siderable, results from her geographical position. Her mountains form a line of fortresses which constantly menace the Turkish provinces of Bosnia and Albania. In the event of a war, the Montenegrin nation, though counting not more than 150,000 souls, could furnish 40,000 fighting men, which might prove dangerous to Turkey. An opportunity now presents itself to diplo matists who oppose Russian influence in the East for reconciling Montenegro with Turkey. It is certain that a great many of the acts of brigandage of the Montenegrins proceed from a war.t of sufficient food, as the agricultural capacities of the country are, from its mountainous character, unequal to the wants of the population. Prince Danilo wishes to make peace with Turkey, and he begs the Euro pean Cabinets to act as intermediaries. The Prince does not appear to aim too high. Let a portion of territory capable of cultivation, sufficient to maintain the people, be accorded to the Prince of Montenegro. Turkey does not lack adjacent territories, for the most part unculti vated, and which are constantly being ravaged by these inconvenient neighbours. On that condition, the Prince of Montenegro appears disposed to recognise the suze rainty of the Porte for the territory conceded. Let well-defined limits be determined, and let any incursion into foreign territory be rigorously punished.l It may be objected that to aggrandise Montenegro would weaken Turkey. As for ourselves, we do not see the prejudice which the cession of some square leagues of territory to a vassal could'cause to Turkey ; we believe, indeed, that she would rather gain in having the Montenegrins be come more peaceable and civilised." PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin of the 4th says :—" In the Second Chamber yesterday a petition was presented from a number of merchants and traders of Cob ' . lentz, complaining that the names of 54 men of business in that town had been improperly omitted by the provincial government from the list of `notables' entitled to elect the Chamber of Com merce, and that the Minister of Commerce had ap proved of the omission, whereby an unjust imputa tion was cast on those persons. The petition further represented that, as 49 of the omitted were Catho lics and 3 Jews, the omission was a violation of liberty of conscience ; and, besides, that the list drawn up was contrary to law, inasmuch as several traders inscribed on it had not been engaged in business long enough to be qualified. On this peti tion, the Committee of the Chamber proposed an order of the day blaming the omission of the names in question. The Ministers took the other side of the question, and a debate ensued, which soon de generated into personal altercation between the Ministers and some members of the opposition. The closing of the debate was demanded not fewer than eight times, but refused ; eventually, how ever, the discussion was adjourned. In the sitting of to-day the order of the day of the committee was adopted." AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna, in the Cologne Gazette, says :—" The Emperor and Empress, in their ap proaching journey to Hungary, will only be accom panied by two Ministers, Baron de Kentpen and. Baron de Bach, who will remain with their Majes ties during the whole duration of their visit. The other Ministers will remain in the capital. Count de Jellachich, Bau of Croatia, had a long inter view of the Emperor yesterday." Another letter from Vienna, in the Weser Gc:- zette, proves that the telegraphic despatch given in a London journal of the departure of the Sardinian Minister at the Austrian Court was erroneous. The Marquis de Cantono, although he has broken off all official relations, will remain here for the rest of the spring. Probably before the period for his depar ture arrives some arrangement may be come to. A despatch from General Martini, the Austrian am bassador at Naples, confirms the statement that the court of the Two Sicilies is more and more dis posed to make advances towards the re-establish• meat of diplomatic relations with the western powers. The construction of the building for the Industrial Exhibition of 1859 is to be commenced in a few days. It will bo situated near the Schwartzonberg Garden. ITALY. The Piedmontese oa7ctie given the following ac count of the King of Sardinia's stay at Nice on the Ist and 2d inst. After receiving the visit of the Grand Duke Constantino and the Prince of Wur tembnrg, H.M. went in company with the Prince de Carignan to pay a visit to the Empress Dowager of Russia, who invited him to partake of a break fast, her Majesty's sons and the Grand Duchess Helena being among the guests. In the afternoon the King gave audience to the chief authorities of the town, and then proceeded to the Villa de Orestis to pay his respects to the Grand Duchess Olga. In the evening the town was splendidly illu minated. The King attended a soiroc given by the Empress, where Mme. Boaio sang several pie ces i n , Italian and French. On the followin g d ay h i s Ma jesty gave a grand dinner t the autl, r it es. A letter from Leghorn says that the Grand Duke Constantine visited Elba on the 26th, and sought out with"the greatest apparent interest all vestiges of the residence of the Emperor Napoleon I. His Imperial Highness afterwards loft for the Court of Tuscany. A letter from Rome of the 3d says :—" Car dinal Villecourt a few days ago consecrated Mgr. Amanton, heretofore prior of the Order of St. Dominick at St. Sabine, as Bishop of the mis sions in Persia and Babylon. The ceremony took place in the church of St. Sabine, which was given by Pope Honorius 111. to St. Dominick, and in which the s a i n t' s ce l l it still pregerved ; and it was a' tended by Cardinal Gaude, and the Bishops of Nancy, Meau x , Toronto, andothers. A decree of the Government, dated the 28th ult., makes reduc tions [in the duties on the importation of foreign goods. The reductions in the impost duties previously effected have produced excellent re sults, the value of the goods imported having risen in the course of a'year from 2 ,211,277 Roman crowns to 3,763,712. The municipality of Ferrara has commenced the draining of a large portion of the extensive marshes which exist in the province of that name. The Prince de Syracuse, brother to the King of Naples, has arrived here, and has had an audience of the Pope. The King of Bavaria has made a generous donation to the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, and the society in gratitude has caused a mass for the King to be celebrated by the Bishop of Toronto. Queen Christina of Spain is to leave this city for Paris at the end of April." Another letter from Rome, in the Corriere Mer cantile of Genoa, states that the arrest of Prince Simoneiti was unaccountably connected with that of two functionaries of the Post-office at Bologna, who had discovered, by opening certain despatches, that Austria was making proselytes for a secret society called "Sett:, Ferdinandea," the object of which is to separate the legations from the Papal States. The Austrian commandant having caused these functionaries to be imprisoned, the Papal go vernment, according to this letter, has claimed their liberation. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 3d have arrived. A. royal decree in the Gazette enacts that the 16 bat talions of infantry of the army of Cuba shall be formed into 8 regiments of 2 battalions each. An other decree authorises the provincial, deputation of Madrid to raise a loan of 6,000,000 reals for makiug roads in the province. A new election having taken place for the district of Las Vistillas in Madrid, owing to none of the candidates in the first one having obtained an absolute majority of the votes given, the Duke de Alba had been definitively elected by 218 votes out of 321. At Santander, M. Olozaga had been defeated. Marshal Espartero had written a letter to the electors of Barcelona to thank them for having thought of him as a candidate, but he does not say whet ler, if elected, he will sit or not. Six com panies of infantry and a small. detachment of cavalry had left Burgos for Vittoria and Logrono, to put down, as was supposed, an insurrectionary movement. A project had been submitted to the Government for establishing a company with a capi tal of 60,000,000 reals for working mines in differ ent parts of the country. A fire had destroyed a vast tanyard in the vicinity of Madrid : it was sup posed to have been occasioned by some armed men who had been seen hanging about the place. The amount of !damage is not stated. The English schooner Cheerful had been lost off Santander ; she carried a cargo of flour, but all the crew except one man were saved. A letter says :—" Very active communications are t a ki ng p l ace between our Go vernment and those of France and England on the subject of the difference between Spain and Mexico. Our cabinet hopes to obtain the moral support• of these two powers ; and in the event of the question going beyond a war between Spain and Mexico their material support also." The King of the Belgians went to the palace•at Brussels on Sunday from Laeken, where his Ma jestywas waited on by a deputation of the National Guard, who invited him and the royal family to a grand fete to be given on the 13th in honour of the 22d anniversary of the birth of the Duke do Bra bant. The King accepted the invitation. The Bund states that the Federal Council is over whelmed with demands from exiled royalists to be allowed to return to their homes to put their affairs in order. The Federal Council, it adds, is reported to have rejected all these demands, on the ground that it has not the power, except in very peculiar cages, to modify the decree of the Federal Aw.embly relative to those persons. WEST COAST OF AFRICA. PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY MORNING. The African Steam -Navigation Company' s ma il packet Candace, Commandr Hawkesley, arrived this morning. Her homeward dates are :---Old Calabar, Feb. 24 ; Camaroons, 26; Fernando Po, March 2 ' • Bonny, 6; Lagos, 8 ; Accra, 10 ; C ape C oast, 11; Liberia, 15 ; Sierra Leone, 19 ; Bathurst, 24 ; Goree, 24 Teneriffe, 30 ; Madeira, April 1. She brings 1,241 ounces of gold dust and a small amount of specie ; and her cargo includes 437 casks of pa!m oil, 64 pieces of ivory, three packages of skins, one cask of gum copal, 68 cases of arrowroot, 96 bags of cochineal, five hogsheads of wine, and sundry pepper, argol, pineapples, &c. Among her passengers are Colonel Clarke and Captains Macully and Hingston, 3d West India Regiment. The Governor of Sierra Leone returned on the 6th of March from a successful tour up the river, where he arranged several treaties with the chiefs. The war continued in Mellicourie, to the advan tage of the Moriahs, which tends to the progress of trade. The country round Cameroons is quiet. Trade is brisk at Calabar. An expeditlon to open a large palm oil country is contemplated. The River Bonny is unhealthy. The doctor of the Ferozepore died on the 4th of March, and the Charles Horsfall has lost several hands. Lagos is quiet, and ample preparations are made for any possible attack by Kosoko. A rumour prevails that the Dahomey nation in tends making a descent on Abbeokuta. Owing to the scarcity of rain provisions are dear at Accra. The disturbances between the Ashantees and Fantees being settled, gold is arriving at Cape Coast Castle. Ex-P res id en t Roberts, with 110 men, has beep successful in quelling a disturbance at Cape Palmas, which is proposed to be annexed to the republic of Liberia. The steam-sloop Prometheus, 5, Commander C. W. Hope, and the screw steam-vessel Tetizsr, 2, Commander W. J. Grubbe, were at Old Calblear. The steam vessel Myrmidon, 3, Commander Edward W. Shaw, left Lagos on the 7th March for Fernando Po. The steam vessel Antelope 3, Commander Joh n Pike, left L agos on th e 6th March The steam vessel Merlin, 6, Commander Cecil W. Buckley, and the steam ship Hecla, 6, Com mander Elphinstone, left Sierra Leone on the 18th; and the steam ship Aplin on the 19th, for a cruise. The screw steam troop ship Magmra, 6, Com mander George T. Purvir, touched at Sierra Leone on the 13th of March. The steam frigate Retribution, 28, Capt. Charles Baker, was at Teneriffe on the 28th of March. The screw . steam-ship Sanspareil, 70, Captain Astley C. Key, arrived at Madeira on the 27th of March, and sailed again on the 28th. The steam vessel Dover was at Sierra Leone. The United States corvette St. Louis was at Liberia on the 15th of March. The French frigate Jeanne d'Acre, the steamer Tonnante, and the corvette Recherche were at Goree. The French packet Bresil arrived at Madeira on the 29th of March. The mail packet Etbiope arrived on the 13th at Sierra Leone, and sailed on the 17th of March. The screw steam-ship St. George . arrived at Sierra Leone on the 17th of March, with boiler out of order. The troop ship Perseverance, from the West Indies, arrived at Sierra Leone on the 28th of February, and sailed for the Gambia on the 9th of March, and left there on the 21st for Goree, whence she sailed on the 22d for the West Indies. The merchant brig, Columbine, of Bristol, was ashore at Old Calabar, and was seized and plun dered by the natives. The steam ship Scourge, 6, has released the crew who are coming home in the Candace. , Spoke; April 3, lat. 47 30 N., long. 13 49 W., the Hamburg brig Elice. ME CONVICT NATION.—The execution of Thomas Nation, condemned to death at Taunton on Saturday List for the murder of John Aplin, under the circum stances detailed in the report of the trial which appeared in The Sun of Monday, has been fixed fur Tuesday, the 21st inslarit. On :-:unday thn prinnuer had a lenpuiuned interview with his father aura brother, hut he made only slight rf:fcrenco to the ebarT3 of mdlich he had hen con victed, and nothing in the shape of admission of the jus tice of his Sentence or a confession of his guilt escaped him. TILE TEA AND SUGAR DUTIES.—LIVERPOOL, Tuesday.-- The customs duties received at this port ye , terdav were very large, amounting to 104,716/. os. Hid. This is accounted fur by the reduction of the duty on tea and sugar—the amount paid on the former being 56,572/. 7s. 7d. ; on sugar, 34,395/. 4s. Bd. ; and o n moiaises 1,1251. 17s. Oil. Ono house in the tea trade alone pail 20,139/. 41. sd. ; and another 5,671/. 4i. The largest amount paid for duties on kugar by one firm was 7,5427. 170, W. • PROrEST OF ,THE ROMISH DUTCH 'BISELOPS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. MR. EDITOR,—In your paper of last SaturJay you publish certain Pastoral Instructions, signed by John, Archbishop of Utrecht • Henry John, Bishop o f Haar lem; and Herman, Bishop of Deventer. You head the paragraph—" Protest of the Romish Dutch Bishops against the Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception ;" and commence _with this remark :—" The following sig nificant paper forcit ly exhibits that worthless cheat called lenity' in the schismatic Church of Rome." Allow me, then, Mr. Editor, to remark for your infor mation, and that of the public, who might etherwise be misled by the perusal of the Pastoral Instructions, that neith - er the Archbishop nor the Bishops who sign the document are in any sense either " Rainish" or Catholic Bishops, but that they are the Bishops of the Jan-enist Church of Holland. They, and their predecessors for above a century, have been cut off from all communion with the Catholic Church, for refusing to submit to and accept the decrees of the Popes Urban VIII., Inno cent X., Alexander VII., and several of their successors, condemning as heretical certain propositions on Grace of Cornelius Jansenius, Bishop of Ypres, who died 163 d. This sect, once so powerful, is fast dying away. While on a tour last autumn through Holland, I ex pressly visited Utrecht, the head-quarters of Jansenism, for the purpose of seeing their archiepiscopal church, and informing myself of their present position in Hol land. I found the church a small building, of no preten sions, and scarcely capable of containing 300 persons. Their Hierarchy consists of the Archbishop of Utrecht (an old man nearly 90), and four Bishops, with a very scanty supply of priests. I was told teat they had scarcely a dozen students in theology in their seminary. Murray, in his " Handbook of Holland," states that the Jansenists scarcely exist in any number except in Hol land, where they now are reduced to 5,000 souls. Besides the Jansenist Hierarchy there is also in Hol land the Catholic Hierarchy, restored by the present Pope about four or five years ago. I need hardly inform you that, by the Catholic Hier archy, which also consists of an Archbishop of Utrecht, and several bishops, the decree of the present Pope de fining the Immaculate Conception as an article of Ca tholic faith was accepted and received with respect and veneration. The Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht, Psi mate of Holland, John Zuizen, consecrated 1853, was one of the Archbishops expressly invited by his Holiness to Rome to take part in the discussions previous to the definition. His name stands the 39th in the list of Archbishops assisting in St. Peter's when Pius IX. pronounced the solemn dogmatic definition of the Imma culate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the Bth of December, 1854. On the same occasion, as a mark of especial honour, the Archbishop was raised to the dignity of an Assistens ad &limn., or a prelate entitled to take his place besides the Pontifical Throne when the Pope celebrates the offices of the Church publicly. May I request, Mr. Editor, you will either explain to your readers the error into which you have fallen in attributing to the Catholic hierarchy of Holland a docu ment which proceeds from the excommunicated Jan senist Bishops, or that you will kindly give my letter a place in your journal. I remain, Mr. Editor, your obedient servant, CUTHBERT W. CLIFTON. Workington, Cumberland, April 6, 1857. TO THE EDITOR OP THE SUN. SIR, --As I believe the document referred to iii the following note has appeared in your columns, may I beg the favour of your inserting the expla nation given in my letter to the Herald this day. Yours truly, N. W. HODGES. April 7th, 1857. DUTCIJ ROMISH BISHOPS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE "MORNING HERALD." Sir,—As the headineof, and introduction to, the pro• test which appears in the Morning .Herald of to-day, and which you designate as proceeding from the " Dutch Romish Bishops," is liable to be misunderstood, I claim your permission to state that the three persons described as " John, A rc hbi shop of Utrecht ; Henry John, BishoP of Haarlem ; and Herman, Bishop of Deventer," are not, and never have been, in communion with, or in any way recognised by the Holy See, and, therefore, thet cannot be in- any sense "Romish" Bishops. Indeed they are, and their predecessors have been, formally eP communicated and their doctrines condemned. Thei are the only remaining Jansenist bishops, and their authority extends only over 10 clergymen and some 3,000 of the laity (including men, women, and chil'lren)s so that Mr. Spurgeon can boast of a larger number of followers than they. On the other hand, the Catholics of Holland in communion with the Holy See fora two. fifths of the entire population, and their prelates—viz, the Archbishop of Utrecht, the Bishop of Haarlem, th e Bishop of Bred a , th e, Bi s h op o f R ur i monde, and their coadjutors, all in communion with Rome—have, in coo' mon with the rest of the Roman Catholic Church throughout the world, accepted with thankfulness the definition by the Pope of the dogma against which the Jansenist Bishops protest. I trust to your sense of justice to insert this explanr tion.—l am, sir, your most obedient servant, London, April 4, 18 57. N. W. Honuits. TIAYMARKET THEATRE. Mr. Buckstone, the highly-respected lessee of the Hay market Theatre, re-opens his popular establishment on Easter Mo n d ay with a very strong Company and at re pricebe sof admission. Th uoxes 5a., ar e to for the future 3A. ; o pit, pper 21., i nstead of 3s. formerl ; y galle-Ties, is. and 6i., instead of 2s. and is. We sincerely hope that this liberal concession to the phaygoing public may be duly appreciated ; that in crease of patronage will follow decrease of price ; and that the new arrangement, whilst it reflects great credit upon Mr. Euckstone's spirit as a public man, may also prove remunerative in a pecuniary point of view. Austria'has announced by telegra Constantinople her rupture with Piedmont. A despatch from Marseilles (April 7) says the Am bassadors of Russia, Spain, and Austria are about to leave that city en ronge. The Australian Mail brought by the Simla consists of 145 boxes of letters and papers. These burs are larger than the Indian and China ones. At Lloyd's, yesterday, insurance premiums of 10 guineas and 15 guineas ware paid upon a portion of the gold by the Oneida. STOCKHOLM. March P,o.—The diet have unanimously approved the abolitic,n of the Sound Dues, and the Treaty concluded with the various Powers. ROYAL F'itßE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-INN ROAD. - The numberof / 'atients relieved at this hospital during the week end/ were nevy n . Z e l‘ifa"h 28, 1857 ' is 2,583, of which 690 MR. WOODIN'S OLIO OP ODDITIES. • We extract th e f o ll ow i ng genial tribute of admr ration from the columns of our contemporary the Morning Chronicle A. great advantage of an entertainment like Mr , Woodin's is the facility which it affords for the introduc' Lion of new matter. Made up of shreds and patches, the " Olio of Oddities" can readily be refitted with piece here and a piece there, so that those who have seen it half a dozen times may contrive to visit the Poly , graphic Hall, and always find something new in addi' tion to those standing features of the monopolyloguer which are too unique and wonderful ever to grow stale , Among the recent additions, the imitation of Manuel Perez, the Spanish dancer, as the " Doctor in Love," is singularly grotesque. In- this character the expression is entirely choreographic. You see before you a Spanish doctor, not M.D., but AD., dressed in a black suit of tights with clerical band s , and a coat wh ose l ong swallow tails' fly in the wind behind the clerical person in a most ridiculous manner. Yoh are to imagine the Doctor deprived of every other mean o of expressing the love which fires his heart, and de' ranges his brain, but that of dancing. Accordingly, the Doctor dances. Such a dance ! There is no describing that dance. The demented seriousness of the Doctor 'e face, the demented evolutions of his thin, black legs, and the perfect devilry which his tails keep up in the rear / combine to produce a spectacle at once so novel, so gre' tesque, and so ludicrouF, that you can only scream with laughter. Herr Formes, as Marcel, is in every respect a, won derful performance, though it may not be equal to the personation of Mr. Albert Smith and Mr. Henry Rus sell. To "make up" for Herr Formes is no slight achievement, while the adoption of the basso profundof and sustaining it throughout the whole of the " Piff paff song, is perhaps the greatest polyphonic feat which Mr. Woodin has performed. Our old friends, the Foxhunter, Lady Ever Green, and Miss Chattawayt are as fresh—especially the Foxhunter—in their respec tive ways as ever. The last is perhaps the most finished performance of the whole entertainment. In the re presentation of female characters Mr. Woodin is the only male personage who has ever approached the natural. In the early days of the monopolylogue the Women were all coarse and elderly ; the scold and the fish-fag were the favourite types. Mr. Woodin, however, has attempted the fashionable and beautiful young lady of the drawing-room, who plays and sings, and his Miss Chattaway shows how marvellously he has succeeded. Those Punch.like figures which pop up behind the flap of the table are as startling and incomprehensible as when they first began their strange mercurial career The instant change of expression and costume, all to marked and decided, never cease to draw upon our won derment. Does Mr. Woodin do it, or does be keep some dozens of indiarubber figures under his table ready dressed ? You might imagine this but for the fact that india-rubber figures have not yet been endowed with the powers of speech and action. ST. MARTIN'S HALL. A concert for the benefit of the widow and family of the late Mr. Harroway, the accomplished composer of some of our most popular songs, and a vocalist of consi derable repute, whose untimely decease has left them in very unfortunate circumstances, was given last evening at St. Martin's Hall, at which a number of professionals of a high order of talent assisted. The entertainments announced, we are happy to say, proved sufficiently at tractive to produce a considerable advantage to those whom it was desired to benefit. The principal artistes who devoted their talents to so praiseworthy an end included Mies Poole, Miss Ransford, Miss Jeffreys, Miss Marian Taylor, Madame Anna Thillon, Madame Marietta; Mr. Ransford, Mr. G. Genge, Herr F. Jonghmatis, Mr. Geo. Perren, Mr. G. Tedder, two of the Messrs. Distin, and Master Haydn Corti. The fare provided consisted of a happy selection of popular songs. The names of the vocalists are alone sufficient to testify to the character of the performance. The gratuitous nature of the services rendered formed no drawback to the enjoyment of the audience ; on the contrary, it formed a generous stimulus to increased exertion, and on no occasion that we remember (and it speaks highly for the character of our leading vocalists) was more heart thrown into the varied performances of the evening. it would be invidious to select, for, with scarcely an excep tion, every song received an enthusiastic encore, and each successive mark of approval by the audience was ' rewarded by a suitable addition to the beautiful selection iu the programme, given in the artiste's beat style. Those of the public who failed in being present on this interesting occasion really lust a rich musical treat. Al though these successive velontary efforts contributed to unit act the concert to an unusually late hour, the audi ence wore evidently higkly gratified, and we trust the results wi 1 inat , ,:riafly aid ib furthering the benevolent object of the con cert.—A drcrt;scr. THE SHIP BOANERGES.—The Government emigrant ship lloatierges, Captain Sedgwicl:, left Liverpool on Pet. 25 with 400 adults for Sydney, put into Queens town with cargo shifted,• and left there on the 30th of March. She experienced a strong gale from the north west on Thursday last, which carried away fore and waintepgallant masts and damaged her topmasts, and sprung the head ef her mainmast, in consequence of which she put back to Plymouth Sound on Monday fQr rephir2. it ii calcu COTisj conti whicl sista! 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