The Sun. — London, England, 1857-05-06 00:00:00

teristics of the different periods and countries the works of which are here exhibited to us, and of the influence which they have exercised upon each other. " In comparing these works with those of our own age and country, while we may well be proud of the immense development of knowledge and power of pro duction which we possess, we have reason also for humi lity in contemplating the refinement of feeling and inten city of thought manifested in the works of the older •3hools. . . _ _ " I trust that you may reap, in the approbation of the public at large, and in the remunerative concourse of the people, the immediate reward of your labours ; And that, like the Exhibition of 1851, to which you so flatteringly allude, you may thus al3o find the means of closing your operations without having recourse to the Guarantee Fund which this district has so generously put at your disposal. " Beyond this, however, I trust that the beneficial effects upon the progress of art and taste in our country, which we may confidently look to, may be a lasting me morial of your vast enterprise." It is hardly necessary to say that not a single word of either addresses or replies was heard a few yards from the dais. In so large a building it was impossible that all could hear ; but the addresses -were real in so low a tone that even those nearest the dais could with difficulty catch two consecutive sentences. The cons, , quence was that everybody was glad when this part, of the ceremony was over, and all felt sensibly relieved whe❑ the orchestra performed " The Heavens are telling," by Haydn. That done, the Bishop of Manchester offered up the following prayer, invoking a blessing upon the undertaking— " AlmigutTy God, in whose works we see combined all that is most grand in conception, skilful in adaptation, and beautiful in execution, who hast given to us, thy creatures, the power in some degree to recognise and adore thy infinite perfections, bless, we beseech Thee, this work in which we are engaged, and prosper this our un dertaking to the advancement of thy glory, and the in tellectual, moral, and spiritual good of thy servants. Grant that this undertaking may be made available to the exalting our national character, the chastening and elevating our taste, that, in all that is good and beautiful, acknowledging Thee, the author of all good gifts, we may the more readily obey with wil lingness thy laws, and walk in thy commandments. And as this undertaking is intended for the good of many, so may it too cwitribute to draw theirs together in mutual here and kindness—the wealthier who have provided here the mear.s of instruction and improvement uniting io seeking to promote the common good ; the less favoured in estate joyfully receiving and thankfully participating in the opportunities and advantages accorded to them in this place. While we behold the various degrees and kinds of exceihnce which the imagination, learning, skill, or industry of men have at any time attained to, let us ever remember that all that is good is of Thee done, that without Thee nothing is strong, nothing is holy. ' Not unto us, 0 Lord, not unto u?, but unto Thy name give the praise !' " At the termination of the prayer the orchestra performed the Hundredth P..aloa, after which a procession was marshalled in something like the following order : The Chief Constalvle of Manchester, Captain Paulin. Messrs. Young, W. Dredge, Contractors. Engineer to the Contractors. E. salemon., J. Crace, Architect to the Executive Director of the Decorations of Con , mittee. the Building. J. C. Deane, Esq., Lieut.-Col. Hamilton, General Commissioner. Secretary. HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS. G. Scharf, jun., Esq., F.S.A.,pirector of the Gallery of Ancieut Masters. J. B. Waring, Esq., Director of the General Museum. Augustus Egg, Esq., A.R. ~ Director of the Gallery oi Modern Masters. Peter Cunningham, F.5.A.., Director of the Portrait Gallery. Edward Holmes, Esq., M.A., Director of the Water Colour and Engraving Galleries. J. F. Royle, E3q., F. R.S., Director of the Oriental Court. Members of tue Manchester Corporation. The Mayor of Salford. Subscribers to the Guarantee Fund. The Members of the City of Manchester and Borough of Salford. The Members for the County of Lancaster. The General Commanding the District and Staff. The Lard Bishop of Manchester, and the Lord-Lieutenant of the County. The High Sheriff. J. Watts, Esq., W. Eatwistle, Esq. E. Potter, Esq., Mayor of Manchester. F.R.S. T. Ashton, Esq. J. Heron, Esq. S. J. Stern, Esq, Thowas Fairbairn, Esq., Chairman of the Executive Coal mittee, and The Right Hon. Lord Overstone, President of the Gene• ral Council of the Exhibition. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT, K.G. The Members of his Royal Highness's Snite, followed by His Excellency the Earl of Ca!li-de, K.G., Lord-Lieute- nant of Ireland, anti Suite ; Members of her Majesty's Miuiatry ; Foreign Ambassadors andMin:sters; The Heads of Learned and Artistic Societies and others specially invited to take part in the Ceremonial, &c. The procession thus formed moved from the transept to the right, and, amid the most enthu siastic cheers from all parts of the building, entered the gall ry of ancient pictures at the west-end. Here the walls are hung with all that is quaint, ultra-Gothic, and pre-Raphaelite in paining. As the procession advanced it reached the departments devoted to the masterpieces of Italy, Spain, Ger many, aiid Flanders, and beheld the best existing specimens of Ritphael and Rubens, Vandyke and Velasquez, Titia❑ and Teniers, and of every great paint er that ever lived. It then crossed the main hall and entered the eastern door of the modern gallery. Here the paintings commence with the portraits of Gainsborough and Reynolds, and continuing with the masterpieces of Mul ready, Unwins, Etty, Turner, Wilkie, and others, terminate with the choiciest works of artists who fortunately are still spared to continue their labours. Having proceeded through this gallery to the northern door adjoining the transept, the procession turned to the left, and his Royal Highness was again conducted to the dais. During the promenade the orche,tra performed the march from " Athalie," and a selection from the "Ode to St. Cecilia," "As from the power of sacred 1 iys," with beautiful effect, Madame Clara Novello singing the solo. The return of the procession was hailed with loud cheers, which were renewed and prolonged for several minutes, when his Royal Highness, standing in front of the chair of stat , , formally declared the Exhibition open. The orches tra concluded the State ceremonial by performing the "Hallelujah Chorus." Prince Albert then pro ceeclsd to inspect in a more careful manner than be fore the several departments of tie Exhibition, and when he left each gallery or court the barriers sepa rating it from the central hall were removed and the public allowed to enter. His Royal Highness left the palace before 5 o'clock, and at once drove to Abney-ball, where he was to pass the night. Thus was opened the Exhibition ofArt Treasures of the United Kingdom. A more auspicious com mencement could not have been desired. Not a single hitch, so far as we know, occurred during the day. On the contrary, all the arrangements were carried out in the most satisfactory manner, and the Executive Committee have every reason to be proud of the success which has thus far crowned heir efforts. There is a report that Major General Sir. W. Williams, M.P., will have the governorship of Malta, which will shortly be vacated by Sir W. RtA. This would leave the seat for Caine mom ATTEMPT TO MURDER NEAR BURNHAM, SOMERSET SHIRE.—A. " navvy " named John Hickes, employed on the Central Somerset Railway between 11 ighbridge and Burnham, and residing at Berrow, a village near Vie latter place, having spent an hour or two with his fellow workmen after his day's work, went home in company with two of them, aout nine o'clock. His companions left him at the doer of his cottage, but in a minute after wards heard a cry of murder and saw Hickey running towards them and covered with blood. He had received a tremendous cut in the throat, and stated that on hi , entering his cottage his wife had advanced towards him " as if to kiss him," and inflicted the gash with a razor. The man's wife, it was found, had been for two days en gaged in packing up the furniture, and had given out among the neighbours that they were going to leave. In the garden a hole was discovered having every ap pearance of a grave, and with it a quantity of quicklime by the side of it. She was t.ilren before the magistrates on Monday and committed for trial. PRICE OF Conn —The quotation of gold at Paris is about 6 per mills premium, and the short exchange on Londo n is 25.221 per 11. sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of V. 17s. 101 d per ounce for standasil gold, it rippia,rs that gold is nearly 4-10thF4 per cent. dearer in I ) ,i-is than in London. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 4241 per . mark, and the short exothange on London is 13 4.} pet 4 1_1. sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price i, '‘erefore about 2-10ths per cent. dearer in Haenbure E an in Lond on . Th e coureo of t xchange at New York o'3 L ) idon for bill s a t 60 days ' is 1091 per cent., wnich, when compared with the Mint par between the two countries, sh.iws that the exeliani:e is aboutat par. And after making allowance for charges of transport and differenc , of iuterest, the present rate leaves a trifling profit on the importation of gold from America. The commercial advices from New York this week show that remittances of specie may now continue to be expected by each packet. The stock-market still pre sented a downward tendency, the news from England of th e advance of the Bank rate of discount to 61 per cent. h tying connteracte•! the previous effect of a better supply of money. Erie Railway was quoted 461 ; R ea di ng, 81 ; Panama, : New York Central, 871 ; and nr.is Central, 1311. The Now York Tribune mention s the suco , ssful negotiation in L ondon of 225,0001. of the bonds of the Panacea Railroad Company. The last racket stated that 200,0001. had jut been obtained in Ike manner on the bonds of some Western lice, and thus, notv:ithstanding the pressure in our discount mar ket, w e find capital being subi , cr:Led to be sent away at the rate of nearly half a inA;ion sterling in a fortnight. The construction tf the Ohio and Mississippi Railway, the shares of which are largely held in England, had been corup!ets-d on the 15111 of April, and regular trains were ta commence running the entire distance between Cincinnati ar'd St. Louis on the 1-t May. The length of the lis,e is 311 miles, of which 105 base been CJI • itrri , Ctt'd and Lt:cked is tht space of about nine months nd a half. r.HE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 1857. Fir ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. I First Night of LUCIA DI LA.NIMERMOOR. PICCOLOMINI, GIUGLINI , BELLETTI, VIOLET PI, POCCHINI. TO-MORROW (THURSDAY) EVENING, May 7. LUCIA DI LAIDIERIIOOR. Lucia, PiccoloninT(l:er first appearance in that part). Edg, , ardo ' Sig. Giuglini. Ballet—LA ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda, Mdlle. Pocchini. Fe? particulars see bills. A limited number of boxes in the Half Circle Tier have been specially reserved for the public, and may be had on ap plication at the Box-office at the Theatre Colonnade, Hay market. Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, THIS EVENING, will be performed Shakcspere's tragedy of KING RICHARD THE SECOND. King Richard 11., Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by A GAME OF ROMPS. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. NEW ARRANGEMENT OF PRICES OF ADMISSION. THIS EVENING (Tuesday), and to-morrow Evening Wednesday, for two nights only, to commence at Seven with the Comedy of THE BEAUX' STRATAGEM. Archer, Mr. Howe ; Aimwell, Mr. Far en; Sullen, Mr. Chippendale ; Boniface, Mr. Rogers ; and Scrub, Mr. Buckstone; Mrs. Sul len, Miss Reynolds ; Dorinda, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. After which, the successfu . Classical Love Story, tin der the Apple-lation of A I'ALANTA ; or, The Three Golden Apples : in which Miss M. Oliver will appear; also Miss M. Wilton, and Miss Ellen Ternan. Concluding with MY WIFE'S DAUGHTER. 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 Upper Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 Pit 2 0 Pit. 1 0 Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery_ THEATRE ROYAL, A DEL PHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed LIKE AND UNLIKE, Chara , ters by nessrs.lYright, Paul Bedford, dtc.; Madame Celeste, Miss Windham, dtc. Followed by a new Farce, called FEARFUL TRAGEDY IN THE SEVEN DIALS. To conclude with THE ELVES, in which Madame Celeste will perform ROYAL SURREY THEATRE, Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. THIS EVENING (for the Be . nefit of Mr. Flexmore) will be performed THE REST DAY, Martin Heywood, Mr. Creswiek. After which, THE BIRTHDAY. Poor John, Mr. Flex• more ; Une Jenne, Madlie. Auriol. To conclude with a pantomimic sketch of HARLEQUIN SEE SAW. Clown, Mr. Fie/more. R OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, will be performed a new drama, called DADDY HARDACRE. Mr. Robson, &c. To conclude with YOUNG AND HANDSOME. Messrs. Robson, G. Murray, &c. Commence at half-past Seven. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, L Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. Unprecedented success of the New Grand Military Spec tacle, in which Mr. W. Cooke's highly trained Horses appear in novel and exciting situations, THIS EVENING, and during the week, the Enter tainments commence with the New Military Spectacle, in three Acts, entitled THE FRENCH IN ALGIERS ; or, The Battle of Constantine. To be followed by Recherche SCENES' IN THE ARENA, giving an EQUESTRIAN FE PE; introducing the great ar. tistes of the establishment, including Miss Kate Cooke. Signor Corelli and Family, and a variety of other entertain meuts. Commerce at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 35.; Private Boxes, from 1/., no charge for booking ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, is. ; Upper Gallery, 6(1.. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. A.NTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road. — OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow. lig company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance o:Y elections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Duets, exc., viz.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunel], Mies Summers, and Madame Marietta; Mr. J caulfield, Herr F. Jonglimans, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S, Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri. Senor Antonio M, de Solla, and E. L. lime ; Masters Bennett and Corri; Messrs. Sam Cowell, Sam Collins, and E. Mackney, Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.; Erector, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre cisely. Suppers, die., until twelve o'clock. departments of Art, in departments the most widely scattered and the most strikingly diversified ! HOGARTH her Great Painter of Manners. TURNER her great Landscape Painter, and not hers only, but the world's, accomplishing more as a veritable interpreter of Nature than was ever dreamt of by LORRALNR, or SALTA TOR, or VANDERT MDT, or CANNALETTI, " in their philosophy !" And so step by step—perhaps we should rather write it steppe by steppe, through all that flowery fairy land of Art If the Dutch have their HOBRISIA, have not we our COLLINS!If they have rejoiced in a TENIERS have not we had reason to exult in a WILKIE ? The very pigs in our farmyards have been "glorified" by the brush of MORLAND, even as nowadays the fruits from our gardens and or chards are magically perpetuated in perrennial bloom upon the luscious canvass of LANCE. The marvellous adaptability of Art has, perhaps, indeed been nowhere more curiously ex emplified than in this country, amongst ourselves—an adaptibility not one jot less marvel lous, in its way, than that which once made Lord JEFFREYS liken the steam-engine, by an exqui site analogy, to the trunk of an elephant—capable at once of rending an oak and picking up a needle ! The secret of success in Art, in its lowliest no less than in its loftiest phase, having been epi grammatically expressed by SCIILLER in that most felicitous phrase which the closing fragment of the happily-chosen motto for this year's Royal Academy catalogue—as sey jeder vollendet in sick —each be complete in himself ! A recommendation from Poetry which, if but strenuously and con scientiously followed out by the Votaries of her Sister Art, under the guidance of Genius, leads naturally and inevitably to the same goal—Per fection—whether it be in the portraiture of a dog or in the delineation of a hurricane—an axiom, the unconscious compliance with which, in our own day, has placed LANDSEER at the head of all Animal Painters, and TURNER in a much grander and more glorious walk of Art, in the very van of all the World's great Painters of Landscape I With such nurseries in Art as those we have here cursorily hinted at, no marvel that England is the scone of the first grand Fine Arts Exhibition. England that, while boast ing of artists like REYNOLDS, and ETTY, and GAINS BOROUGH, can boast also of sculptors no less eminent than FLAXIIAN, and Gasolv, and CHANTRY ; .as also of engravers such as STRANGE, and Doo, and WOOLLETT ! Yesterday will be redlettered in the annals of the reign of VICTORIA. It will be long remembered in the city of Manchester. When we think for a mo ment of the Treasures there collected together in the noble structure erected for the purpose of this remarkable and unprecedented Exhibition, we think also, and with little less than a shudder, of the frightful possibility of there being just the chance of some new EROSTRATUS ! A casualty there would be altogether in its way as deplorable, as irreparable, as calamitous as that of the library of Alexandria. Deprived of his seat in Parliament, Mr. Ceis- DEN still continues to keep his name before th• public. He returns elaborate answers to the various sympathising addresses, forwarded by those who, mindful of the important services he rendered at the time of the Anti-Corn-law agita tion, forget the grave mistakes into which he has since suffered himself to be betrayed ! By so doing, he endeavours to delude himself and the community at large. He endeavours to soften down the decisive, nay, more, the ignominious defeat which he, in common with all the leading Members of his school, has received, by ascrib ing it to anything but the true cause. He de. Glares that " his entrance on the contest for Hud dersfield was, at the timO, simply and solely, a mistake." No, Mr. COBDEN, it was "no mis take !" And in saying so, we are influenced by charitable feelings, remembering the apophthegm of TALLEYRAND, that such "a mistake is worse than a crime." It was not because you entered late on the contest, or that your opponent, Mr. ACK ROYD, " occupied an influential position," or that he was already "in the midst of a canvass from door to door," that you were defeated ! It was, to use your own words, simply and solely be cause you had enunciated a wrong principle, and endeavoured to make the electors of Huddersfield, participators in the erroneous doctrine. They would not permit themselves to be dragged through the mire, or to be chained to the chariot wheels of the Peace•atrany-price Society, or to be enrolled amongst the " Yehites." They resented the nu-English policy of which you had been the exponent in the House of Commons. They responded like true hearted and independent Englishmen, to the spirit-stirring appeal of the Premier, being firmly resolved to maintain the national honour at any and every cost. Time was when your name was a " household word," when any influential liberal constituency in Great Britain would have been proud to have obtained you as its representative ; when no sound Free-trader would have opposed your pre-eminent claims, and no honest voter would have required "a canvass from door to door." The change has not been in the people, but in yourself I Profit by the salutary, albeit painful lesson—take the rough instruction deeply to _heart, and learn to amend the errors by which it was rendered necessary. Then indeed you will be again received with joy, and the portals of the House flung wide for your reception. There is still a toms penitentice—still an opportunity for reconciliation. Confess your fault, promise amendment and the ameade will be accepted. Then, indeed, " RICHARD will be him s , If again," and his last days will be more honoured and prosperous than his earlier ones 1 Let Mr. COBDEN consider these things calmly and maturely. No honour is to be gained by obstinate adherence to error. Let him not impeach the sound decision of the b.onest jury, who re turned a just verdict. He cannot convert the people to his Peace at any Price Notions, and as " the m:iuntain will not go to MAHOMET ;" why " MA HOMET should make up his mind to go to " the mountain !" We could bear much from RICHARD COBDEN with a'l his faults ; and " their name is legion ;" we could " better spare a better man." Ho ought to be in Parliament, and were not the issue too momentous, we should gladly waive a point in his favour I But ho should take the initiative. The onus rests on his shoul ders ; and ho may be assured that it will be far more honourable—far more conducive to his political reputation—ta atone for than to glory in his offence. He declares that the " real cause of his finding himself out of the, House is to be traced as far back as 1847." It is ! But it was not in elect ing to sit for the West Riding in place of Stock port. It was because he committed his firsi error in reference to the commercial crisis of that year. It was his vote in the select committee on Money Law, which gave the bullionists a slender majority as'lo the causes of the monetary distress. The praises so lavishly bestowed by Sir RaBERT PEEL on his previous career won him over to the Anti• Free Trade party, and induced him to give what might almost be regarded a casting vote against " unrestricted competition" - - in currency. From that time forth he has floun dered in the mire, leaving on each shoal and quick sands some shred of his former reputation. He subsequently babbled forth fallacies about the facility with which Russia could be "doubled up," and when the crisis came, strove, with all his energies, to induce England to back out disgrace fully from the inevitable contest into which she bad been unwillingly dragged I These were the errors that changed his political character—that destroyed his quondam prestige. The motion on the Chinese question " capped the climax." It was the last straw that " broke the camels back"— that insured his opponents success far more than local influences, or canvass from door . b door. If Mr. COBDEN thinks rightly on these things, his "relief from Parliamentary duties" will be an unequivocal benefit, both to himself and the com munity at large. If he persists in his error, we can only deplore that a man, who had once esta blished so high a position, should have been so ill-advised as to sacrifice the basis on which it was sustained, and with regret join in the verdict of the men of Huddersfield, that he shall " never more be officer of ours," The casualties (0 to the Transit, and her twin sister the Urgent, cast considerable light on the mode in which "My Lords" carry on their busi ness, and prove, beyond the possibility of doubt, with how little wisdom the affairs of the nation are managed, at least so far as the Navy is con cerned. Both these unfortunate vessels had to put into the very same port—Corunna—in almost a sinking state ; and it will be truly fortunate if something far worse does not result from a " perseverance" in retaining on the establishment vessels, the inefficiency of which has been so fre quently exemplified. Similar accidents do not occur in the Merchant Service. The managers there have personal interests to attend to, and profit by the lessons they receive. But so long as routine is pursued, provided all the regulations of redtapism are fulfilled, my Lords are very indifferent as to consequences. It signifies little, although 800 gallant men should go to the bottom, or the national honour and the national interest should be jeopardised in another hemisphere, if all was done in strict accordance with precedents. One of the chief causes of the misfortunes of the Transit, has been her unwieldy anchors. As the correspondent of a Morning Contemporary, whose letter we have inserted in another part of our impression, declares " routine and the Estab lishment prevailed against every effort to obtain more manageable anchors," although the experi ence of the Naval Review, when " Noble Lords and grave Judges had to lend a hand at the capstan," might have satis fied any impartial observer of the disadvantages arising from the use of the ponderous instrument, which could scarcely be weighed by all the available power on board, and the fluke whereof, on that disastrous day, " hooked an unfortunate gun-boat, and tore the masts out of her," and, in the early part of last month, went right through the bottom of the ill-fated ship. The anchor was the monster to which it was bound—" the old man of the sea" from which it could not extricate itself. My Lords were proud of the Leviathan which was "big enough, and expen sive enough" to have done better. There was but one drawback, ii was utterly beyond the capacity of the condemned vessel which could not require the enormous weight. The mere rudiments of naval science, its very A. B. C. ought to teach the nature and magnitude of the anchors required to tide out a heavy gale. The Himalaya had passed through a stringent ordeal. She had safely sustained the terrific storm of the 14th November, 1854, in the Black Sea, and the anchors that had been so severely tested, weighed in the aggregate 7i tons, and cost some 280/. Now, the Transit being 1,000 tons less burden, might have carried a proportionably less amount of ground tackle. In place, however, of so doing, the Admiralty anchors on board exceed 13i tons (costing more than three times as much, viz., 8801.). The cause of "the straining" may there fore be easily guessed. The heavy concentrated weight must necessarily tell, and it has told with a vengeance, on repeat e d occasions. A little foresight would remedy these evils, but my Lords are incorrigible. They will not deviate from the beaten path, or transgress the assigned limits, no matter how urgent the occasion. This should be locked to, and it is a matter which can only be properly attended to in Parliament, where Sir C. WOOD and his colleagues may fairly be called to task for the gross mismanagement of so important a bralich of the public service. ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF NA POLEON I. Yesterday the 36th anniversary of the death of Napoleon 1. was celebrated as usual at the Hotel des InAralidos. A mass in commemoration of the deceased was celebrated by the chaplain of the In valides, in presence of General Count Ornano, the Governor, the General Commanding, and the entire staff. Places were reserved in the nave for the great bodies of the State. M. Billault, the Minister of the Interior, attired in mourning, and wearing the decoration of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, attended, as also did Baron de Lacrosse, Generals Lafontaine and Foucher in uniform, and Gen. Polat in the costume of senator, M. Larabit, Colonel Laborde, and several m-mbers of the two Chambers and of the great bodies of the State. On the right of the ptruet d'honneur, formed of inva lides, were placed delegates from the veterans of the Empire, attired in their ancient uniform. The Princes of the Imperial family attended the service m the Citapel of the Tuileries. The Church of the Invalides was filled with private individu ds, and a number of old soldiers came to pray fur the repose of the soul of him whom, when living, they re garded as a demi-god. The eight magnificent lustres presented by Prince Jerome were lighted. After the ceremony the old soldiers were permitte d to visit Napoleon's tomb, and to pray in the chapel of St. Jerome, in which the ashes of the great man are deposited. Loss of THE SHIP PHAETON, EAST INDIA TRADER. —Tnis fine ship, 1,932 tons burtben, belonging to Nies/n.B. Sheppard and Co., of Fenchurch-street, with 260 Chinese emigrants on board, on a voyage from lion Kong, for Adelaide, has been wrecked near Cape Dom boy, Gurchen Bay, Australia. Although several casualties occurred by the upsetting of the boats, no lives were lost. The ship subsequently became a wreck ; the hull was sold for 1,2001., and the cargo of teas for 4451. The owners are understood to be insured. AN ADVENTURE IN A DRAW -WELL,—A short distance beyond Brandling-ulace, and near to the Moor Edge, is a. draw-well, about 35 feet deep, three feet five inches in diameter, with water to within about eight feet of the top. Chi Sunday morning last a hat was found near the sf:at, and certain finger marks on the aides of the well in dicated that a struggle for life or death had very re cently taken place. At first it was whispered that a man bail been drowned in the old well, and eventually a vague rumour to that effect reached the Prudhoe-street police-featioa. Long poles and grappling-irons were in immediate requisition, but after some hours' labour, the search was given up as hopeless, an d th e bystanders Slowly and sorrowfully returned to their homes. And thus the matter rested, until a pitman belonging to Gos.forth-row, named William Craven, having beard that an unclaimed bat was lying at the station-house, came and identified it as his property. lie said that en Saturday evening he was going home over the Moor in• tox!cAted, in company with some of his neighbours, and having quarrelled with them he returned t owar d s t h e town. -Us remembered nothing after that but having' plumped very suddenly overhead into a deep hole full of water. On coming to the surface he worked himself clear of the water by means of his feet and shoulders, and whilst in this position he stated he fell asleep several times, but awoke on finding himself slipping down again, How he got into the well—how long he remained in the perilous situation in which he atat,id himself to have ben placed--and f ow he got out again, he was totally unable t, remember, but this he did recollect, that he went over to Crat!-eheikii to some of his friends, wet, cold, and hu,- grv, and inibus his hat, coat, and two waOtcoata,—New castle Chronicle. The Duke of Sutherland and Lord Ronald Leveson Gower have arrived at Stafford House, from Cliefden, Bucks, The Duke of Beaufort left Badminton on Monday, for Chester, where his Grace wilt stay during the race week. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland have arrived at Northumberland House, from Sion Home, for the season. The Marquis of Lothian arrived in town yesterday, from Newbattle Abbey, Mid-Lothian. The Marquis of Lansdowne entertained at dinner, on Monday, the Countess of Morley, Lady Wm. Russell, the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, Viscount and Vie countess Duncan, Mrs. Lane Fox, Count Strzelecki, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, the Hon. F. Byng, Mr. B. Osborne, M.P., Mr. De Lane, and the Right Hon. J. Bouverie, M.P., and the Hon. Mrs. Bouverie. The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter are expected in town in a few days, from Burghley, for the season. The Marquis of Stafford, M.P., has left town for Manchester. The marchioness remains in town. The Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers arrived in Berkeley -square, on Monday evening, from Oakley-park, near Cirencester, the Earl Bathurst's seat, where the countess made a short stay on their way to town from Devonshire. The noble earl has come to fown from Middleton-park. The Countess Frances Waldegrave and Mr. Har court, M.P., have been entertaining during the past week, at Strawberry-hill, the following company :—His Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, the Marchioness of Clanricarde, the Countess de Flahault, the Earl and Countess Stanhope, Mr. G. E. and Lady Selina Vernon, Viscount Chelsea, the Bishop of Oxford, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Lord and Lady John Russell, Mr. Ralph Sneyd, Mr. Chichester For tescue, Mr. Norman Macdonald, Colonel and Mrs. Malcolm, Mr. Grenfell, and Mr. William Harcourt. The Earl and Countess Manvers are expected in Portman-square, on Friday next, from Thoresby-park, Notts, for the season. The Earl of Lonsdale, who arrived in town a few days back from Paris, has since gone to Lowther Castle, Westmoreland. The Eail and Countess of Yarborough have arrived in Arlington-street, from the Continent. The Earl of Powis arrived in town on Monday, from Walcott House, Shropshire. The Countess of Powis and Lady Lucy Herbert have also come to town. The Earl Granville, President of the Council, will preside at the ceremony of conferring degrees in connec tion with the University of London, which takes place to-day. The noble lord was elected Chancellor of the University upon the resignation of the Earl of Burling. ton some time since. Viscount Palmerston will give a State dinner to the members of the House of Commons, at Cambridge House, this evening. Her ladyship will " receive" on Saturday, the 16th inst., and on the following Saturday. Lord and Lady Cochrane have arrived on a visit at Mr. Mackinnon's mansion, in Hyde-park-place. Lord and Lady Churchill have arrived at the St. George's Hotel. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Coventry and family have arrived at their residence in Belgrave-square for the season, from Melton Mowbray. Mr. and Lady Dorothy Nevill have arrived in Gros venor -street from Dangstein House, near Petersfield. Mrs. W. E. Gladstone has cards out for an assembly, on Monday next, at the family mansion on Carlton House -terrace. Sir Robert Peel has, we are informed, resigned his office as Lord of the Admiralty. His brother, Mr. F. Peel, having failed to obtain re-election, has been com pelled to leave the War Department, and the estimates will be moved by Sir John Rameden, who will not, how ever, be able to present himself to his constituents fer re-election until 14 days after the meeting of Parliament. Mr. F. Peel wll, we believe, be sworn of the Privy Council. DEATH OF LADY ASHBURTON. —lt is with much re gret that we announce the death of Lady Ashburton, which took place at Paris on Monday last. She had passed the last winter at Nice, and had reached Paris on her way to England, having, as it was hoped, over come the malady under which she sank. Lady Ashbur ton was the eldest daughter of the sixth Earl of Sand wich, and was married to the present Lord Ashburton, then Mr. Bingham Baring, in 1823. Sir Charles Napier, it is said, was offered the Devon port command by the Admiralty, bat would not give up his Southwark constituency for it. Mr. Monsell, it is said, will leave the Government before long, inasmuch as his new department —the Board of Health—is to be abolished, or rather not renewed, alter this year, and will in future form a branch of the Home-office, under the supervision of the Secretary of State. WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—The income of the Wesleyan Missionary Society this year is 119,2051. Ss. 2d. THE TEA TRADE, May s.—The deliveries in London estimated for the week were 828,1C91b., being a decrease of 184,3151 b. compared with the previous statement. The 200,0001. of gold announced last week by the Anglesey is expected to he delivered to day, but only a portion of it will be retained. The market for silver is heavy, and furl her private advises from Mexico confirm the statement that the Parana, to arrive here about the Ist of June, may be expected to bring a large quantity. FATAL EXPLOSION. WOLVERHAMPTON, Tuesday Evening.—At the blast furnaces of Messrs. W. Riley and Sons, Millfields, two miles from Wolverhampton, there occurred this afternoon an explosion of hydrogen gas, which has caused the death of three persons, the supposed fatal injury of a fourth, and the serious injury of four other persons, all workpeople of Messrs. Riley. THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE CRYSTAL PALACE RAlLWAY.—Yesterday afternoon Mr. W. Payne, the coroner, held an inquest at Guy' s H osp i ta l on the body of Mr. Joseph Gann, aged 50, who died from injuries which he received in an accident to a Crystal Palace train, near the London-bridge station, on Saturday, ar , already noticed in this journal. The jury, after some deliberation, returned a verdict of accidental death. City of Hamilton (Canada) Six per Cent. Debenture Bonds for 92,0001., redeemable in 18 or 19 years, have been brought on the London market for disposal. The amount is to be applied to the construction of the Hamil ton and Port Dover Railway. Persons in America directing letters for London should be careful to put the initial letters of tae metro politan dfstrict intended above the word "London," and not under it. A leading house in New York having transmitted bills for 70,0001. in a letter directed " London, W. C.," it was carried to London, Western Canada. FATAL ACCIDENT.—A. man named Wm. Forman, while at work last Friday repairing the premises of Mr. Doulton's Pottery, in Lambeth, which were damaged by fire a few weeks ago, was killed by the fall of a piece of timber, the tackling baying broken with which he was attempting to hoist it. up. An inquest was held yesterday by Mr. W. Carter,, at the John Bull Tavern, Tyers-street, Lambeth, and a verdict of " Accidental death " returned. An English gentleman recently incurred a fine of 600 r: and the seizure of his cigars for attempting to pass 80 cigars without declaring them at the gates of Turin, and the authorities were with some di ffi culty induced to re duce the fine to 50f., on satisfactory proof being given that the gentleman had no fraudulent intentions, and that he was in complete ignorance of the laws of Sar dinia on this head. It should be mentioned alio, that all travellers are liable to have their baggage searched on entering Turin, and the presence of cigars and tobacco therein which have not paid duty will bring the proprie tor within the action of the law, although he may him self have purchased the articles within the Sardinian States, the only security against which is to buy always at the registered shops for the sale of such government monopolies, and not from waiters or other vendors of smuggled goods. INSTALLATION OF AECIIDSACON MANNlNG.—Yes terday morning a ceremony which excited a great deal of interest among the members of the Roman Catholic body took place at the church of St. Mary, Moorfields, in the preaenceof a large congregation. For some time pasttbe Very Reverend Dr. Manning, who, bef,re he became a priest of the church of Rome a few years since, was a beneficed clergyman in the church of Eng land and Archdeacon of Chichester, hai been at Rome perfecting himself in all the details of the ecclesiastical systel.: of the Roma n c h urc h , an d has received from the Pop 6 the appointment of a canon and provost of the church in L - Torseforry-road, Westminster. Yesterday morning the rev, gentlemen presented him- self for installation - at St. Mary's, where he was received by Cardinal Wiseman in bi+ robes, and by the priests and other officers of the establishment. The service was condeeted in Latin. The new provost Promised, ac cording to the forms of the Roman Catholic Church, canonical otedience to "his Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of ‘Vestrainster," and was then formally ad ini:ted to the possession of his new dignities. EXALOSION ON THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.—LIVER£OOL, TUESDAY.—AIymt noon this day a I . iggage engine, named St. Patrick, wee in an open space below the engine-house at Edge Hill, with steam up, waiting the approach of the trucks containing cattle from Wapping, with which it was intended to proceed up the line, While thus' situated and every attention was being paid in expectation of the trucks, the boiler of the engine burst will a terrific report. The noise of the explosion was accompanied by the diversion of large quantities cf. coke and fire. Assis tanco was promptly rendered, and it was then die covered that the engine-driver, Joseph Ford, had been blown away a considerable distance, was dreadful;v mutilated, and quite dead. Further on, in the fourth carriage from the engine, the body of Seth, the fireman, was recognised. Ono leg was very much shattered, the thigh bone protruding through the skin, and the back part of his skull was broken in. Life had not d parted, and, he was consequently removed to the Royal Infirmary, but shortly after his reception be breathed his last. The breaksman, or line foreman, was dreadfully scalded, his body b e i ng blackened from bead to foot ; he also was taken to the Infirmary, and lies in a precarious state. Ford has left a widow and four children, and Harrison has a wife and seven of a family, all of whom were dependant upon the victims of this distressing disasttr. LATES INE Ws. THE CAPTURE MOHAMMORAH. The following telegraphic despatch has been re ceived from Sir James Outram, dated "CAMP, BEFORE MaII.A.MMORAB, MARCH 28. "Mohammorah was captured by the British on The enemy lost 200 killed and the 26th inst. wounded, among whom was Asherluf Brigadier, besides ri guns, and a vast amount of ammuni- tion and military stores. "The Persian army, under tho Shah Zadab, retreated towards Ahwaz and Sinister in great disorder. " The British forces are encamped near Mo hammorah. "Oar loss in killed and wounded is about 10. " The Arab tribes aro friendly, and are sending is their submission." BERLIN, MAY 5. Prince Napoleon will arrive here on Thursday evening, to return the visit paid last autumn by Prince Frederick William of Prussia to the French Court. The Paris Correspondent of the Morning Pos e says there is no truth in the above statement. Nothing official has transpired in Paris, in refer ence to the alleged refusal of the Shah of Perils, to ratify the treaty concluded with England. Such a proceeding would be at variance with the inten tions manifested by the Shah, who appears to kive conferred full powers on Ferouk Khan. The Neuchatel question, says the correspondent of the Times (second edition), which everybody believed and hoped was, after so many delays and difficulties, disposed of, seems pretty nearly as far from final settlement as on the Ist of April last. What will next be done it is difficult to say. Switzerland accepted the decision of the Representatives of the Powers, to her great morti fication certainly--but still she accepted it, and was prepared to abide by that acceptance. But the King of Prussia apparently did not mean to do so, as he now demands further modifications. SWITZERLAND. The following letter has been addressed by Col. Denzler, Member of the Grand-Council of Switzer land, to the Council of State of the Canton of Neuchatel. It is looked upon as a manifestatiot. of great importance, as emanating from a person highly respected, and holding a high raiik in the Federal army. Colonel Denzler is a citizen of Zurich, but having married a rich heiress of 'he canton of Neuchatel, procured the right of citizen_ ship of that canton, where he is settled. It was Colonel Denzler who commanded the Republican troops against the Royalist insurrection, aid he enjoys the confidence of the army : "M. President and Gentlemen,—l learnt yesterday from the Bund, the semi-official organ of the Federal Council, that the latter had resolved, on Saturday last, to submit to you the proposal of arrangement of the Paris Conference concerning the Neuchatel question, a proposal against which there is much to be said. " I understand, knowing the temperament of the Fe deral Council, that it is anxious to throw the responsibi lity of accepting or rejecting that proposal upon a third party, and has selected you as its cat's paw to take the cheanuts out of the fire. "I learn to-day, from the same journal, that the Go vernment of the canton of Neuchatel will declare itself satisfied, and it is asserted that a deputation of the said Government will arrive at Berne to-day, bearing that declaration. "Gentlemen,—As leader of the Republican troops, who, on the 4th of September, 1856, re-established con ttitutional order in the Canton of Neuchatel, and as s member of the Grand Council, I take the liberty of ad dressing a few words upon your course ofaction, premix. ing that what the Band has a3vancei is true. " I. I do not understand that you can consent that the King of Prussia shall maintain in future the title of Prince or Neuchatel and Valengin. "2. I do not understand that you can consent that he shall have an indemnity of 1,000,000 f., that he may therewith reward the men who caused the disturbance of peace among us. "3. I do not understand that you can take a decision on this subject, on your own responsibility, without cot rulting the Grand Council. "I do not think that the Swiss people in general, and the Neuchatel people in particular, mean that the au thorities shoutd accept all these conditions and submit to them, and that they are content to continue to follow that policy of petty tiader:3 which has a'ready caused us o many humiliations. " I hope the Neuchatel people and its Grand Counci ill oppose the propositions which it is wished to impose upon us. I also hope that the Federal Assembly wil not accept them. It is better to remain in the statu quo We shall find means enough in the Canton of Neuchatel to keep the Royalists in check. "I declare to you at once that, during the ncxt ses sion of the Grand Council I shall bring forward a motion the subject. "Accept, M. President and gentlemen, the assurance of my high consideration. "L. DENZLER, Colonel, Member of the Grand Council. "Fleurier, April 28," FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. The Emperor went at one o'clock yesterday to visit the Grand Duke, and presented him with th. grand cordon of the Legion of Honour. The Prince went in the evening to the Grand Opera to witness the repre•entation of the ballet of Marco Spada. Prince Napoleon will go to visit the Exhibition of Art Treasures at Manchester. The re-organisation of the Bank of France has not been postponed, but a new scheme for effecting it is under discussion. It is proposed that the capi tal shall be fixer! at 300 million francs, of which 100 million shall he devoted to the purchase of rent's, and 100 million shall be employed in giving facilities to trade. There are to be five new regent appointed, who will be chosen from amongst the directors of railway companies ; and it is proposef that the Bank shall ne longer be limited to the rate of 6 per cent., in discounting bills of less than 90 days' date. . The following i the text of the expose des motifs of the billpresented to the Legislative B )dy, open ing a credit of 1 80,000 f. for the purchase of the tomb and habitation of the Emperor Napoleon I. at St. Helena "The Emperor has charged us with the mission of presenting to the Legislative Body a bill for the purchase in the Island of Sc. Helena of the resi dence of Longwood, and of the tomb in which, for twenty years, the mortal remains of the first Napoleon were deposited. The exhumation of 1840 did not remove everything from the island of St. Helena, as two great relics still remained there —an open prison and an empty tomb. But industrial pursuits and speculation do not always pause or bow before respect for great men. The residence of Longwood has been appropriated to the uses of an agricultural establishment. The house in which Napoleon reiiided has been converted into a farm building; a barn stands in the place where he dictated his ideas ; and the room where he breathed his last is now converted into a stable. His tomb has also undergone deplorable transfer- ' mations. The ground in which the remains of the Emperor lay belongs to a private individual ; Ame rican speculation disputes the possession of it with the patriotism of France. It was necessary to put an end to these profanations. The Govirninen et her Britannic Majesty interposed its good offices to enable France to purchase these relics—a testimony of so much grandeur and of such great suffering. Thanks to its intervention the domain of the State' will extend beyond the Ocean to that land where destinies without equal were accomplished. under a preceding government, the shore where St. Louis expired in the Regency of Tunis, near ancient Car thage, was consecrated by a mausoleum. A hcmage as striking will be rendered to the Emperor, who died under the sun of the tropics. Two great sou venirs will thus be raised at the two extremities of that African land which our arms have opened to WATER, AT LONDON BRIDGE.. r HIS DAI —Morn. 21 rain. aft. 12 —Evening 38 mia. aft. 12 08110 w—Morn. 57 min. aft.l2 —Evening 15 min. at 1 T FIE WEATHER—SUN °mole. MAY 6. THERNONKTNII, IN THN SHAM 53 -highest sinee noon yesterday. 47 -lowest this morning and during the night. 54 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, 3017. Warr, N.E. to E. ; light, with milder weather, and fine. .e.Ol e...„„ ' • ."\,,j) LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1867 Another Peaceful epoch in the history of this country was yesterday inaugurated. It was in augurated with unusual solemnity and magnifi cence by the ceremony presided over by H. R. H. The PRINCE, the long and eagerly-expected cere mony of the Opening of the Fine Arts Exhibition at Manchester. Everything upon this really auspicious occasion appears to have " gone off," as a popular idiom has it, "to admiration." Deputations presented Loyal Addresses ; to these Gracious Replies ware duly returned. Ecclesias tical and military fothorities assisted together at the celebration—a celebration principally con ducted by the members of the Special Commission, aided by those of the local municipality. The programme of the whole of these deeply interest ing and singularly attractive proceedings judi ciously, as well as naturally, bore a striking re semblance to that which systematised on the me morable May-day of 1851. the opening of that Industrial Exhibition in Hyde-park, which was at once the prototype and precursor of this Fine Arts Exhibition in the City of Manchester. And it was, by analogy, with the same startling con trast that upon the former occasion there was wit nessed the Celebration of the Industrial Triumphs of the Haman Race in the green " Pleasaunce" of Fashion hard by Rotten-row, upon the margin of Mayfair, and within the immediate precincts of Belgravia ! It was, we repeat, by analogy, with the same startling contrast that upon the present occasion there was witnessed the celsbra tion of the Triumphs of all the more refined and exquisite Arts of Luxury in the midst of the reeking chimneys and the roaring factories of Cottenopolis ! Incidents such as these—incidents like the Inauguration by the QUEEN upon the Ist of May, 1851, of the Crystal Palace of Industry in the West End of London, and the Inaugura bion, six years afterwards, by the PRINCE, upon the sth of May, 1857, of the Crystal Palace of the Fine Arts in the great manufacturing capital of Lancashire—signalise in a manner the most significant, as well as the most picturesque, the sym pathy binding together some of the most dissimilar classes in the whole of our motley and complex com munity. This, in truth, is what has been called, for want of a better phrase, Reciprocity. This, indeed, is genuine Brotherhood. May it prove a reciprocation fruitful of the happiest consequences —a fraternal greeting productive of something better than the mere truce of a passing Holiday. Industry and Art truly Allied, intimately and permanently knit together--would constitute not simply an Epoch in the History of this Country, but an Era in the Annals of Civilisation. It is only romona.ble—it is not in any way in congruous, that England should be the arena of the world's first aggregate Fine Arts Exhibition. For, if in Earlier Times Italy has had her RAPHAEL and her MICHEL ANGELO, France her CLAUDE a'nd her PoussiN, Holland her RUBENS and her REHLRANDT, Spain her Muitiaco and her VELASQUEZ—has not England in more Recent Periods had her glories also in the Victories of Arc ? And these won moreover in the highest as well as in the lovelies t civilisation. Places visaed by glory have 9 immorality her}}es. Marked by an unrx 3ll3l , l event, this small is'arld of S'. Helena i.}- , 2 ) 13 F :, midst of the sea , an historical mob tunent. - 1 -Nu t ; will ev er office it from the memory o f mal l. , Imp , rial Louvre w ill no t ec li pse t h e h ouse at 0":, wood, it} will the crypt at th e I n7a lid,s O r " oblivion on th e Atl ant i c tomb. The w/I°l6i prance will th us un i te i n the augilst , whizh surrounds us w ith a f res h venera ti o n prof tned relic s , and rescue them from mercan'l degradations, t o res t ore t h em to the p i ety of t tory." .. The Grand D u i {e converse d a good dial 1111' Mar. , hal Pais ier at the b a ll given by the 111ini' 5 , of Marine the other night. Their remarks I lal rally turned upon Sel)mtopol. "When I li es .that you had t a k en th e command" his 1 - lig"", ) i l said, "and that y ou h a d selected Malakhofra'tfi point a attack, I kn ew th a t th e p l ace m ust 1 0 ,1 and th ,, t it was only a ve4ion of time. 01r rb . $1 ject was .o prolong the defence till win er." '',J the otter Duke said is not recorded. It io f , 11 that his Highne s s i s t o b e name d an 'lo' inernb.r of ill:: Academy of Sciences i n P er ris. 01; The Ministerial journal of y es t er d a y Le PaYs c grins the following paragraph. T. De P " A private t e l egrap hi c despatch' received at .1 - fl announces that th e tre a ty of p eace conc ' u d e d-be"" v i Great Britain and Persia had not been r a tified bl . 0 Court of Teheran. W e k now f rom pr i vate i n forul,: ti o that this news is inaccur a t e . The text of the traw', ) account of the stab-. of the roads, could not ar ll `o - i. Teheran before th e 15th or 20th o f A pr il , an d, s' 3 t,ir, 35 chip at least are required to go from the cor". o - 1! Persia to the first t e l e g ra phi c s t a ti on , it i s phYsiod' impossible that the reply of the Court of Teheran c be known at this moment." The following telegraphic despatch has bee n ceived in Paris ",MARSEILLES, May sth.—The Journal de t Y bi r stantinople of, the 27th announces that the $ ll , l had recognised the authority o f S c h am yl, and, l % preparing to break the truce with R us sia anV' t , the Cireasstans. The Sultan has sent the 0 0e , the Medjidie to the King of P rus si a . A ce° , ", from Athens of the 29th st a te th a t th e discuss o " thy, budget is advancing ; that of the Minist ef Public instruction has been adopted unanialo rlg o , The Minister o f th e Fi nance h as p resen ted a 0 customs tariff, based on that of the princip3l tries of Europe. Letters from Bugia of the state that the crops present the most favour / appearance." BOLTESE, May s.—The following were the quotations : Cash. fr. c. 4A per Cents 02 End of Month. 92fr. 69 40 3 per Cents 69 10 Bank Shares 4,309 Credit Mobilier 1,305 Roman Do. Account 1 ,1.0 -- Austrian Belgian 4. Piedniontese (5) 9O 59 Home Debt ......... RAILWAYS—FOR CASH. tf tr c. 7 0 Orleans 1,4E21— Western ..............• e p Northern - ........... • 1 ,5 Lyons 1,485 New Ditto ........••• &10 Mediterranean 2,005 Grand Central ...... 570 , Geneva 1.1.i6i - Austrian Cum. ..... • d RUSSIA. The Russian Government, it has been statete lately founded a t A s t ra k an a large establl'u,'o. for the construcion of machin es 'intended war steamers which are to form part of the of the Caspian Sea. Russia at the present 1 11° , has only three establishments of this kill' belonging to MM. Scheplew, Brothers, in tbe, vernment of Wislimir ; another, at Malzow , Government of Kalouga ; and the third', Nijni-Novogorod. The last named, which 18 0) nearest to Astrakan, is still at a distance of . werats (about 1,406 miles) from it. This d l6 O has much impeded the developm en t o f stealn.°l gation on the Caspian SCA, and the fora - 0 ,0 V this new establishment will tend, it is ex pects give a considerahl9 impulse to the cornin erce Russia w;th the East. AUSTRIA. A letter from 'Vienna, in the Boersen,oo Hamburg, ascribes the precipitate depart, u . r o o Prince Daniel) from that capitsl to two racu',, l s to the delay that took place in the reply to O ar ] sire for an audience with the Emperor, and t e e m spatch from Montenegro stating that the disL i tliT state of the country had so mu c h i ncrea sed °- further absence would be highly injudicions•c o e A letter from Vienna of the Ist says „t 0 Szechenyi who has been charg e d t o concl u- b'ori business of the Austrian legation at St. Petl3sdof during the absence of C o unt E s t er h az y, ha9," t oli t audience of the Einp, , ror to take leave, and 1 1 , 5 0 , 0 of: part to-morrow for his p os t. Th e E mper or P A or proved of the mon e t ar y conven•ion oonchl u :tioi, the 24th Jan. la s t, an d an exc h ange of ratific,"„til with all the Govern men t s concerne d i n i t is"° .: `, to take place at Vi enna . P r i nce S ou znt m 1,3011 of Greed at St. Petersburgh, pased. throng - 0, city a few days ago on his way to the Russian C : r to The Empress proposes, it is said, after her ` r of from Bangary to pay a visit to her august P i 11 11 at the Chateau of Possenhofen, in Btvaria., 0 troubles in China are begin n i ng t o ma k e 03 ' . 4 felt in our silk tr a d e , an d severa l o f ou r inf / ,(10 portant dealers have al rea dy sen t agen t s to to purchase Chinese raw silk. The silk er''' Lombardy this year is looked on as lost." a dy", Another letter from Vienna says 66 It haV A mentioned in our diplomatic circles, in a 1. 4 . ! positive manner, that a conciliatory step 11 , 3- ,0 0 , been made by the cabinet of Turin towards ,641 00 P This pacific manifestation of the Sardinian c' i ,,fo s , has not, it is t rue , come to the knowledge :'sir°: Austrian cabi ne t i n a di rect manner, but itAl considered th e l ess sat i s f actory. It is stale-,. e sel l the cabinet of th e Tuileries, on pressing rereiii" tations made to the court o f S ar d in i a , h a s r ee t , e 4 from .Turin a reply which is represented a 3 0 0 0 of a nat ure t o i n d uce th e ca bi net of V.:.enho' sent to the resumpti o n o f dipl oma ti c re latiov i tween the two court=." Cle t ; I Count de Buol addressed on April 2 ty.) the man courts a circular on the Austro-Sardimil4 ference, in which he renews his attempt to ' 0 t) from the Germanic C on f e d era ti on a 0-uaran t cor the Italian posses s i ons o f A us t r i a. A Berl, respondent of the .Nord of Brussels, which is% ei hostile to Austria, inti ma t es th a t the Geon i i Pfl vernments, instructed by e xp er i ence , will Ile ' O e l gage their responsibility for interests in whic h have no concern. Si nce th e a b ove despate'lif written, a somewhat better fe?ling seems to prung up betwe3n Austria and Piedmont. SPAIN. i!t / The Madrid journals of the Ist have artiV e :teY,l the opening of the Cortes, which, as s t ate d l U v e graph, took place on that d a y, Marshal 01)°', did not take his place i n th e Senate, but 10 ", ( V petted to do so in a fe,w days. It was said Os? se nsions had brok en ou t i n t h e Government riblitle, rity, but accordinz to the partisans of the 03 o pe they did not endanger its existence, being pe r caused by differences of opinion r e l a ti ve to th e 0 V sons selec ed t o f orm th e b ureau o f t h e cd interim. Rumours were prevalent that te ;to r, surrection in the provin ce o f G rana d a was `„ tli; cent, and that the local au th or i t i es ti ere t' t lieQi qui rive ;. also, that among other precautions , , 5 had sent off two l arge d e t ac h men t s o f tr 0 7;0 0 Antequera and Ronda, with orders to cros" c oll' attempt at disturbance. The discovery of ;`,. 0 1 / spiracy in Andalusia was s p o k en o f. A bill I° o o' eform of the mortgage syst e m was t o b e pres e to the Cortes. r iot The Brussels journals publi,h a despate'lrir, ° Berlin, dated Saturday, wilch states that,'„ p g i/i 1 Napoleon is to pay a v i s it t o th e P russ i an in that city, about the Bth or 10th of this O P e oll: Ttiis visit is, it i s sa id, intended to be a Co u L - 0 3O: return of that which Prince Frederick Wril. , "' o o" Prus , ia paid t o th e C ourt of the Tuiler ies" months ago. The Borsenh a ii e o f H am b urg announces t. ti the representatives of all the powers which eign e coV treaty of Paris assem bl e d on th e 21 st u lt. 31 " . , 0 106 stantinople to deliberat e on th e memo ir up by the commission charged to present ° Till conference the report on the principalities. " leas memoir indicates the modifications which it "101 be for the interest of the principalities t° lo 4 made, and they comprise almost all the ar tje ci y ° the firman convoking the Divans. The jell n - or Vienna agree in saying that the elections 0- ` j- 1 01°' bars of the Divan are adjourned to the 15th The Grand Council of the Canton of Fri" re 'll i° which the ultramontane element dominates' the terminated in four sittings the first debate new constitution. Th e draft, which was 0 1 , by a committ ee o f fifteen, has not underg e ',:ti,le;" importaut modifications, e xce pt i n the which appeared to leave some doubts on re"SiO' guarantees—and these articles have been 133° ;, a d i ! in accordance w ith th e sp i r i t which prevails — 11 1 1 " council. A remarkabl e i nc id ent °ce ntred. Dolt', draft de c l are d th a t ecc l es i ast i cs should n ou bo4 i" legislative, executive, or judicial functionslLtiog' did not deprive them o f th e r i g ht of i ," pre - Bishop Marilley, ho wever , i n a l e t. er to t" e po l sident, prayed the council not to accord a l l 0 0 ' tical rights whatever to ecclesiastics, as tb`" fi g t/ n othl iop it rests of religion required them to have do with political conflicts. After some cllscu, s6 v ao was decided that laymen alone should ta ' e n aiti in elections. The draft declires that the 1 ) ,:,,, 0 eftt of death shall not be inflicted for political 01'10 but re-establishes it for sundry great cronesr: last confititu-tio4 did sway with a auogeth' -