The Sun. — London, England, 1857-02-16 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, DRUB,/ LANE,— Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. Acting Manager, Mr. C. Mathews. Stage Manager, Mr. R Roxby. Scenic Artist, Mr. W. Beverley. The eminent Comedian, Mr. Charles Mathews, every evening. Great Snecess of the Grand Christmas Pantomime, the most magnificent ever produced on the English stage. THIS EVENING, her Majesty's Servants will perform an entirely new three -act Drains, entitled THE BLACK BOOK. Characters by Mr2C. Mathews, A. Younge, G. Honey, Mr. Vincent, Mr. Ti lbury, Mr. Lingham ; Misses Cleveland and M. Oliver, and Mrs. Selby. After which will be produced SEE, SAW, MARGERY DAW ; Or, Harlequin Holiday, and the Island of Ups and Downs. The reduced prices as follows, varying throughout the house to snit every one :—Galleries, 6d. and is. • Second Circle of Boxes, ls. 6d. ; Pit, 2s. ; First Circle of Boxes, ta. 6d. ; Dress Boxes, 3s. ; Stalls, is. ; Private Boxes, 10e. id., 1/. le., U. 11s. 6d., and 2/. 25. 1 A Morning Performance of the Great Pantomime every Wednesday, at Two o'clock. rPHEATRE , HAYA.RIKET. THIS EVENING, ROYAL to commencMe at Seven, with the successful new Comedy, in three acts, entitled, DOUBLE-FACED PEOPLE. Characters by Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. Compton , Mr . W. Farren, Mr. Rog Fitz. ers, Mr. Clark, Miss Reynolds, Mr s . Poynter, and Mrs. E. wil' bun. Followed by (first time) a new drama, called A WICKED WIFE. After which (50th time) the now comicpantomime, entitled THE BABES IN THE WOOD, or Harlequin and the Cruel Uncle. The scenery of the opening story painted by Mr. W. Callcott. The pantomime produced under the direction of M. Milano. Harlequin, M. Milano ; Columbine, Fanny Wright; Pantaloon, Mr. Mackay; and Clown, Mr. Driver - gap OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, THIS EVENING will be performed A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. After which, a new grand Christmas Pantomime, called ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP; or, Harlequin and the Genii of the Ring. Harlequin, Mr Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Huline ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Co kmbine, Miss C. Adams. R OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. C. Dillon. THIS EVENING, will be performed a new play, in Eve acts, by Westland Marston, Esq., entitled A LIFE'S RANSOM. Lord Reverdale, Mr. C. Dillon ; Bancroft, Mr. 'Stuart ; Felicia Reverdale, Mrs. C. Dillon. To bq followed by CONRAD AND MEDORA; sr, Harlequin Corsair and the Little Fairy at the Bottom of the Sea. The burlesque opening by W. Brough, Esq., ounded upon the ballet of Le Corsair, as produced at Her Majesty's Theatre. The harlequinado upon things in gene raL The new and magnificent scenery painted by Mr. F. Fenton. Conrad (the Corsair) Miss Woolgar Eirbarto (his lieutenant) Mr. J. L. Toole ?.fedora Mrs. Charles Dillon Clowns Mr. H. Mai shall The box-office open day, from 11 to 5, under the super. atendeaco of Mr. Chatterton, jun. Carriages conveying parties to the Private Boxes to set down at the State entrance in Barleigh-street. T HEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. ^ THIS EVENING, will be performed OUR GAL. Caro line Morton, Mrs. Barney Williams. Followed by DOMESTIC ECONOMY. After which, a new and original comic drama, called BARNEY THE BARON. Barney O'Toole, Mr. Barney Williams. To conclude with MOTHER SHIPTON ; or, Harlequin Knight of Love, and the Enchanted Whistle. Harlequin and Columbine (h la Watteau), Madame Celeste and mi s s Wyndham ; Clown, Mr. Garden ; Pantaloon, Mr. Moreland; Scaramouch, Mr. Le Barr. Characters in the bur lesque by Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. 3. Bland, Mr. R. Romer, Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham, Miss Mary Keeley, Miss gate Kenj i Miss Arden, &c. BOYAL SURREY THEATRE, Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. THIS EVENING, VIRGINMS. Virginius, Mr. Creswick. After which, HARLEQUIN AND THE SUMMER QUEEN. Harlequin, Mr. F. Glover ; Clown, Mr. Buck ; P an t a loon, Mr. Bradbury; th 9 Four Sprites, the Fillis Fa. miry; Columbines, Mesdames Maris and Agnes. THEATRE ROYAL, SADLER'S-WELLS. Under the Management of Mr. Phelps. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Characters by Messrs. Phelps, H. Mars ton, F. Robinson, Ray, Belford, Williams, Ball, C. Fenton, and Harris,; Mesdames Elm-no, Marston, and Mrs, H. Mars ton. To conclude with THE SENTINEL. OTRAND THE A TRE.—Manager, Mc. T. Payne.—This Evening will be performed a powerful new drama, THE PRIDE OF POVERTY ; or, The Real Poor of London. Affer which, DON'T LEND YOUR UMBRELLA. To conclude with the immensely successful novel Burlesque Pantomime of THE MAGIC MISTLETOE ; or, Harlequin Wumbug and the Shams of London. The Fairy Christmas, Was E. Wilton ; Good Humour, Miss Norbury ; Mercury, Mies Cameron ; Humbug, Mr. Herbert; Cant, Mr. Bolton ; Baron, Mr. J. B. Johnstone ; Sir Roland, Mr. ciftrird. •, 'Lori Love/., Miss Craven ' • Addelpate, Miss Cuthbert ; Crambo, Master W. Edonin ; Lady Aznes, Miss E. Jacobs ; Baroness, lair. G. Lee ; Furbilosa, Mr. J. Howard. Novel Harle quin:x(le : Clown, Miss Cuthbert ; Little Clown, Master W BdoWn ; Pantaloon, Mr. J. Clarke ; Harlequin, Miss Craven ; Columbines, Miss E. Jacobs and Mile. Collison ; Premier Danseuso, Mdle. Marie Charles. Commence at Seven. Stalls,4 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls„ ; Gallery, 6d. A morning performance of the Pantomime every Monday at two o'clock R OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, a new farce, by Bayle Bernard, Esq., called A SPLENDID INVESTMENT. After which, CRINOLINE. A new Fairy Extravaganza, by J. R. Planch6, EN. called YOUNG AND HANDSOME. Messrs. F. Robson, EN., Leslie, G. Cooko, Danvers. Misses Swanborough, Thirlwall, st. Caere, Castleton, Bromley, Maskell, awl Mrs. Melfort. Commence at half-past Seven. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. THIS EVENING—A Performance crowned with signal success !—The operatic drama of ROB ROY, Illustrated by Mr. Wm. Cookc's Trained Horses, and acted with the original music, with Mr. J. H. Cooke's Great Bridge Act. After which, the Equestrian SCENES in the CIRCLE. To conclude with the equestrian comic pantomime of PAUL PRY ON HORSEBACK. Commence at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s.'; Upper Boxes, 3s. • Private Boxes, from 1 /., no charge for book in g ; Tit, ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6(1. Box-oftleo open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road. — OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the populv: Operas, Madrigals, Chdruses, Glees, Duets, &c., viz.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunell, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta ; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S. Jones. J. Barker, W. Melling. P. Cord, Senor Antonio M. de Bolls, and E. L. Hinie ; Masters Austin, Bennett, and Cord ; Messrs. Sam Collins, E. Mackney, and C. J. Wilkins. Pianeorte, Mr. Cecil Ricks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre cisely. supper., Ac., until twelve o'clock. Mr. C. Morton's Annual Full Dress Ball will t&k. place on Wednesday, Feb. 18. Gentleman's ticket, 7s; lady' s dit to, 5 s ; double ticket (lady and gentlesian or two ladies), 10s. RIGA WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY—Morn. 7 min. aft. 6 —Evening 24 min. et. 6 Tn-MORROW—iforn. 44 min. aft. 6—Evening 4 tain.aft. 7 THE WEATHER—SUN OBEICE, FEBRUARY 15,, THERMOMETER, IN THZ SHAD& 47—highest since noon yesterday. 4 t--lowest this morning and during the night. 46 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30.12. -Light, with fine, sunshiny weather. FEBBUARX 16. 47—highest since noon yesterday. 41—lowest thin morning and during the night. 50 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30 . 16. WIND, S.E. —Light, with very fine weather. WIND, S.E. If •- • - ‘, A , I ct ‘ s 4 t All 1 -4; LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1857 "Finance" has alway s been a stumbling-block in the way of the Whig,. It has been their weak point, which has brought them into discredit and di sre p u te, and led to their evicti on f rom place and power in 1841 and 1552. In fact, they cou ld never take au original or comprehensive A slavish adh erence to pre view of the su h j =e. cedeut was their chief eharActeriaic, and all th e i r Budgets were enveloped in voluminous folds o f " red tape." The more objectionable an i m p ost he more closely did they adhere to it, and what to men of ordinary common sense would occasion its unequivocal condemnation, seemed to consti tute its chief recommendation in their sight. Sir G. C. LEWIS is no exception to the general rule. His chief ambition appears to be to prove that Sir CHAS. Woof) was not the worst Financial Minister that could be selected. He deserves no particle of credit for yielding, t o a certain extent, to the popular demand for the immediate aboli tion of the War Income Tax. Were it possible to do so, he would cling with desperate tenacity to the war duty of 16d. in the pount l . But " the pressure from without" convinces him that such a course is practically impossible, and that it would render his own tenure of office very brief in deed. But in yielding he keeps the slight convenient intrenchment still available as a place of refuge, and requires, as compensation for going back to the original id., an additional 2d. in the pound for the next three years, or 6d. in the pound alto- gether. He also distinctly repudiates the " GLAD- STONE compact." He declares that the settlement effected in 1853 has been entirely deranged by the stern reality of subsequent events. It is there- fore perfectly clear that he does not intend to relinquish, or even materially reduce, the tax in 1860—that it must, so far as he is concerned, be regarded as a permanent burden, and that, there fore, it is essential that it should be forth with revised, so as to render it more equitable in its apportionment, and less oppressive in its inci dence. We trust, then, that professing fiscal reformers seeing that the hope of complete relief in 1860, which could alone extenuate a submis sion to the present system, being completely re moved, ma; insist en its immediate modification, so as to remove the chief grounds of objection to its continuance. The difficulty must be encoun tered sooner or latter, and there is no use in endeavouring to postpone the inevitable contest ! The reasons assigned by the Right Hon. Gen tleman for not adhering to the settlement of 1853 were clearly fallacious. While speaking of the losses arising from the alteration of the stamp duty on Bills of Exchange, he gave no credit for the stamps on foreign Bills of Exchange. The alleged loss in the assessed taxes of 285,0001. had, as Mr. GLADSTONE explained, been provided for in the financial scheme of 1853—and the esti mated loss on the malt tax does not depend on any proposition of his, but is the effect of the existing law, which fortunately leaves no loophole for a " pettifogging quibble." Besides, he will still receive the same amount of duty that was levied on that imported article in 1853, and which was contemplated at the time of the alleged settlement. As to tea, coffee, and sugar, in place of giving any remission, he is actually proposing a very considerable increase on that which he would be entitled to receive from and after the sth April next, and, as Mr. GLADSTONE declared, it would be well if, in place of contenting himself with stating the amount of reduction from the scale of duties, " he would supply the figures from the gain which he expects to realise from the new duties, as compared with those which would take effect under the existing law." In tea alone he will gain 972,5001. during the year 1857-8, 1,291,5001. in 1858-9, 972,5001. in 1859-60, and 553,5001. in 1860-1 ; or, in other wordclin that one article alonehe attempts to realise 3,790,0001. more than he would receive under the existing law. This makes a formidable inroad on 5,000,0001. he professes to surrender on the In come Tax. We have calculated these returns on his own data, for if 2d. per lb. produces 369,0001., the sd. increase will produce 972,5001., the 7d. 1,291,5001., and the 3d. 553,5001. ; and the additions on coffee and sugar will more than make up the balance which he professes to give up on account of the Income Tax. Even if he availed himself of the " pettifogging quibble " so justly complained of by the indignant people, all that he can justly claim credit for is the remission of the stamp duty on newspapers, which he asserts amounts to 260,0001., and the addition to th• interest on the public debt, amounting, as he de clares, in round terms, to a million and a half, but actually to 1,459,0001. only, according to his own figures. But he displays a similar want of candour in these matters. He ignores the Post-office increase, produced mainly by the abolition of the newspaper stamp, and which accounts for the greater portion of the loss; and also the war-duty ou spirits, which he proposes to maintain, and which, accord ing to his own estimate, " may be reckoned on as producing a permanent addition to the revenue of about 1,500,0001. per annum ;" thus more than counterbalancing the increased interest on the debt, inasmuch as (to say nothing of the 41,0001. which he erroneously takes on interest) that will gradually be reduced by the proposed extinction of the Exchequei Bands ; the 1,000,0001. loan to Sardinia, which will bring in another 40,0001. per annum ; and the interest on the Sinking Fund of 250,0001. for the next year, and 1,500,0001. for every subsequent year until the recent war-loan be altogether extin guished. The 81,0001. per annum arising from the error in simple addition, for which a candidate for a 'petty clerkship, producing 801. per annum, would be Plucked by the Ctvd Service Examiners, and the interest of the Sardinian loan is an ample equivalent for the loss on Newspaper Stamps, credit being allowed for the augmented receipts of the Post-office, which he estimates to produce 3,000,0001. next year, but which only returned 2,767,201/. for the year ending on the 31st March last. It is therefore manifest that the entire proceeds of the additional taxation can only be required to pay off the debt, and against that considering that the people have suffered so se verely during the war, and that the whole of the war debt will be liquidated by the Sinking Fund in sixteen years. We earnestly and emphatically protest, and call upon the independent or quasi independent Members to resist this disreputable dodge on the part of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. His views as to direct taxation are equally sin gular. Iu comparing the amount raised by di rect and indirect imposts he classes amongst the former, not only the Income-tax, Land-tax, and Legacy and Succession Duties, but also the whole revenue on Stamps, the assessed taxes, and the gross returns of the Post-Office. Can anything be more unfair or more uncandid than this ? Can he, with truth, allege that Admiralty stamps, bills of Exchange, cards and dice, Chancery fund, civil bankers' notes, and composition therefor, plate, marine and fire insurance licences, and cer tificates, law forms, medicines or receipts and drafts, fall on accumulated property ? Moat of them are charges on trade and commerce, and defrayed by the consumers of the commodities dealt in. The Irish insurance is chiefly paid by the occupiers, not the landlords, of houses —and of the assessed taxes, the same may j said of the House-duty, and all the others on servants, horses, horse-dealers, hair-powder, garne-duty, dogs, carriages, and composition duty, and armorial bearings, although nominally direct taxes do not necessarily fall en the owners of accumulated property. They are entirely optional, and oven a millionnaire need not pay a single shilling on account thereof if he does not choose to do so. But the Pos•- ffico is the most absurd of all. Sir G. C. LEWIS is fully aware that the Post -office swallows up in its acle ministration very nearly the whole of its revenues, and properly se. Full and valuable consideration is given for the payments made, which fall on the general population of the country, and not on the owners of property. There is scarcely a family, however humble, that does not contribute its qu ota to the charge. We have something yet to say respecting the volunteer views which the Right am, Gentle man unnecessarily put forward respecting the paper and wine duties. Our space will not, how- I ever, permit it this day. We, however, entreat the chosen representatives of the people and the community at large not to be misled by the ap parent remission of what is facetious/1j tarmed the War 9d., but to examine the whole scheme closely and attentively. They will then perceive I that it merits condemnation in place of the plau dits it has received on a mere superficial inspec tion, and that Sir G. C. LEWIS is as unfair to the industrious classes on the fiscal as he is on the monet try question. He has proved himself utterly imcompetcnt for the duties of his arduous and important office, and if the PALMERSTON Admi nistration desire to retain the confidence of the people they must find some person far better qua lified to preside over the national exchequer, and more disposed to relieve the industrious classes from the burdens by which they are afflicted. A frightful evidence has just been afforded at Milan of the atcocity of Austrian domination over the Lombard territorieF. We allude, of course, to the infamous murder perpetrated in a public café of that city by au officer of the Garman army of occupation. The assassination of a young Italian civilian in a manner unexampled in civi lised nations, and under circumstances of peculiar horror. It appears ta have been a crime committed so entirJy without even the sem blance of what might be ordinarily desig nated provoc-tion, that it can only in reason be regarded as a deed of blood originating in the very want anness of Pride and Power, on the part of one wielding—in a subordinate capacity no doubt, but still wielding in that capa city the sword of a conqueror. A Lombard citizen at the Odera-home presumes to hiss the prima donna. He is, iusulted thereupon by an officer wearing the Austrian uniform —is followed out of the theatre into the street;—is provoked, challenged to single c)nab4t, and threatened with summary vengeance. The authorities, having their attention called to these incidents betimes, are driven t) the necessity of interfering, in very shame, with a view t) the prevention of an out rage not uncommon in the Italian provinces ap pertaining to the dominions of the Red Emperor— the semi-legalised butchery of Lombards or Vene tians by the weapons of the professed duellists in the German army of occupation. Forewarned in the recent instance at Milan the Austrian Com mandant compels the officer in question, as in duty bound, to retire for a while to some distance from the capital of Lombardy. Shorty after wards a friend of this Knight-Errant of the Prima Donna of the Opera House—this friend also, be it observed, wearing the uniform of the soldiers of FRANCIS JOSEPll—encounters by accident, in a public café, the young Italian who had had the presumption to hiss a favourite actress. There fore, with a sweep of his sword—like a Turk of the middle ages rather than a civilised Christian gentleman of the nineteenth century—this Ger man cut-throat severs the head of the young Ita :ian, without any more ado, clean off his shoulders I Intelligence of which unparalleled outrage spread ing rapidly, as it ware, on the wings of the wind, throughout Milan, creates—naturally enough—an extraordinary ferment among all classes of the population. Whereupon, dreading the conse quences, the whole Austrian army now quartered in the capital of Lombardy is turned out and marched to and fro about the streets—the shops being closed—the citizens being compelled to keep in doors—martial law being all but proclaimed. Revolutions before now have sprung out of crimes less in infamy than this atrocious and hor rible assassination. Quotcsque tandem abutere-- How long, Hew long is Italy to display this oraven toleration of the heel of the German CZSAR upon her neck ? Has she one spark of heroic pride among ail the millions of her prostrat3 people ? Is the tocsin ever to sound fur her liberation ? What was it MIRABEAU erAtirued so grandly at the be ginning of the First French Revolution 1— " MARIUS flung dust to heaven, and out of that dust sprung the Gracchii 1" Se may it not be at length with the ashes strewn upon her own head in her profound abjection and despair by modern Italy—ltaly, not less than Rome (as the central point of Italy) as sung by BYRON, " The Niobe of Nations I—The M 'VIAL. of Dead Empires !" Speaking of her 1 living but degraded chil dren, particularly of the Lombard Serfs of Austria, may we not rather ask than declare, with GRAY--" Even in their ashes live their wonted fires l" Have they the vaguest glimmer ing sense of their despicable condition 7 Hardly can we imagine this. Otherwise catching but the merest glimpse of it—they would barely, for very shame, but start up at once erect from the dust in ono grand and irresistible rising fur their Fatherland, from the Abruzzi to the Carpathians. Sir W. CLAY has returned again to the Church rate conflict. Ho got his bill zead a first time on Thursday without opposition ; the debate is, of course, to be taken on the second reading—a debate which ought to be the last ever held on that subject. If Dissenters only used half theie power, or put forth half their strength, it is quite certain that they might compel the Government to move, and the House of Commons to dd its part. We believe they could even vanquish the House of Lords. At their door we lay it, that with no one of nets to conquer in the House of Commons but Lord Jowl RUSSELL, the Church-rat.: contest is prolonged Session after Session. We are sick of it, and if those whom it chiefly concerns will not be,•tir themselves as they ought what are they to expect of us ? We pro bably should have more to pay after the abolition of Church Rates than we now have, but we have taken the straightforward course, with all truly liberal Caurchinen, of j )iuing in the condemna tion of the gross inju,tice of Church Rates. There are thousands and tens of thousands of Churchmen all the kingdom over who feel as we do. Tney would scorn to advocate a palpable wrong to half the worshippers of the country, for the benefit of their own pock its, or oven for that of their own rel:gious denomination. But they do ask Dissenters to c mie forward, now, in a way which shall make this effoit a final one. As to their quond tra friend, L )rd JOHN RUS SELL, he has 'Joked back on this question, and become a pillar of ELDON bigof.ry. It is hopeless for them to wait for a man whose decrepitude in Religious Liberty t•embl3s for the House of Urdu, the throne, and the altar, whenever Church-rate abolition ia talked of. Dis senters must be content to write off Lord JOHN'S help as a btd debt. They will never re ceive Ever since he lampooned their clergy as stageplayers, and gave up the appropriation ! clause, he has cut hi 3 old supporters. It is of no use for them to vote for him as a practical friend of religious liberty. He will talk big out of office, and deliver grand preambles in office, but the practical issue of any official speech will always be the minimum of reform that will pass muster for one who oats the political bread of Liberalism. That is our measure of Lord JOHN for the remainder of his career. Dissenters must carry all they want for the future in spite of Mm; THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1857 we fear the same will be found to be the case with every serious measure of political re form. We write thus, reluctantly. We have fought by the side of Lord JOHN' in many a battle, but, if he will see fit to consult the " dignity" or amour propre of the aristocracy and their Church, much as he did that of Russia ; if he will halt in his march when he might lead on to a conclusive victory, it is his fault, not ours, that we are not still fighting with him. Let Dissenters bethink themselves of their forces. They have, even without much stir of late, had majorities, and respectable ones, and against the Government too, in the House of Commons. The heir to the house of Derby is on their side. They have many representatives in the house, and BOMO of them men of mark and they have in their favour, as Lord STANLEY observed, both in the House and out of it, a growing sense of the necessity of reli gious equality. The House of Commons wants but a few vigorous turns of the popular screw, to be induced to bury Church Rates in the grave where lie Test and Corporation Acts, the old Marriage Laws, and a host of other laws of far more terrific ecclesiastical character. Then, the people. Why, more than half the worshippers were proved by the Census to be Dissenters ; to these must be added the vast numbers of liberal Churchmen who detest puiting their hands into their dissenting neighbours' pockets, to asWthhey; if these might be w s o t r i s r h r i e p d . n ere m pa ig y ht f y or el t e h m e e ir nts ow w there would be such a commotion, such a flight of petitions, such a succession of public meetings, that Lord PALMERSTON is not the man to brave it all ; nor is his five-year - old Parliament the as sembly to forget that the votes of (ihurnh-rate payers would soon have their value, . The Dissenters have just bad before them the very illustration which ought to arouse them. They have seen how a Cabinet, who most cer tainly did mean (we call the Times to witness) to have their pound of flesh out of the War Income Tax, and to spend sixteen millions of the nation's money, have struck their flag to the people. Struck on a money questior, a question involving nine millions of Government patronage ! Go vernment, let Dissenters be assured, is squeezable enough, especially when it is in the vice of a fifth Session, with a sixth at best, but more pro bably not another, to follow. Then there is the similarity in one respect of the taxes. Church Rates belong to the hateful class of direct taxes ; of hard cash payments; of payments which by no economy can you escape ; and which, despite all theories, people do and will detest. We verily believe the Churchman himself, "in the good time coming," will give his larger voluntary con tribution with much more pleasure than he now pays the compulsory Church Rate. Now, therefore, is the very time for dissenters to ask their Church neighbours to help then to get rid of this unjust tax—this direct tax—this irreligious tax—this PARISH WAR -TAX. We believe Dissenters, if they girded themselves to the conflict like men, and determined to relieve us of this House of Commons nuisance, and this parish vestry nuisance, would be astonished with the support they would gain by showing themselves determined to win. What tires the patience of the country is the annual skirmish - without result. All would join if the announcement of Dissenters was—we will submit no longer. We leave details till the second read ing is announced. What we desire is to rouse Liberals, dissenting Liberals, especially, to their duty. On this question the Jupiter of the Press nods to them his approbation ; we do not lay too much stress on that, knowing that the times may change—the wind at least does so— but because on the question of the war ninepenoe, we who ventured from the beginning to de nounce it, have succeeded proprio marte, or, rather, we should say, temporibus repugnantibus. We give, the refore, to Dissenters the advice which we gave on the War Income Tax—advice with which public opinion turned out to be coincident—t he old, but, while we have a House of Commons, the not antiquated advice —AGITATE ! AGITATE ! ! AGITATE ! H If Dis senters will but do their part, we promise them the best services we can offer. We are confident every Liberal journal would do the same ; and the parish pest of Church Rates would be got rid of for ever.. The demand of the unemployed operatives con nected with the building trades, that public work, real work, not charitable relief, should be provided for them i 4 met with a deaf ear, on the assumption that the work must needs be such as is not already in demand, and consequently not needed, and the idea raised is of some public work which is mer e ly ornamental. Even if it were so, it would be better than enforced relief, without any return of work whatsoever. But we earnestly call the attention of those most directly concerned in the question of the relief of the unemployed to the fact, that there is in the metropolis the need of a large amount of quasi public work, within the recognised control of the local authorities, and within their direct duties to enforce, which may be undertaken, with vast pri vate, as well as public benefit, namely, works of sanitary improvement. Of between two or three hundred deaths of the zymotic or fermenting class, such as typhus, diar rhoea, which are weekly recorded in the metropolis, it is often instanced—and of the greater proportion well known, that they occur in the vicinity of those poison pits the common cesspools, or those extended cesspools the old house drains, or the old sewers of deposit, which give off their noxious emanations into houses and streets. The justice of the term " poison pits," anti the effects of their presence, is proved by the state of things which has in a little time followed their removal. The model dwellings, constructed by various voluntary associations, are chiefly distinguished from other dwellings, by being freed from these cesspools or house drains of foul deposit, and in having well constructed water-closets, and, above all, self-cleansing tubular drains, properly constructed, so as to remove all excrete from beneath the site of the dwellings before decomposition can com mence. The houses where these works, with suitable sinks, have been constructed, are distin guished by an almost entire immunity from dis eases of the class specified. But these beneficial results are not confined . to the new model dwel lings ; they have been obtained in all houses oc cupied by the labouring classes where there has been no change in the class of occupiers, and no change in their habits other than those changes which may have been induced by the particular improvements. Even common beggars' lodging houies, the chosen seats of typhus and small-pox, have, by the new works, gained immunity frara them. Our contemporary, the Times, congratu lated the metropolis on a reduction of the general rate of mort a lit y f rom t wen ty-five tb twenty-two in a thous an d per annum. But in some old dwellings, as we ll as t h e mo d e l d we lli ngs , th e re duction is proved by several years' experience in separate blocks of buildings to be thirteen in a thousand. The reports which sometimes appear in the provincial journals from local Boards of Health, in relation to the operation, are beginning to be very s a ti s f actory. Th us, it i s repor t e d a t Southampton, where little more than one-half the houses are drained, and those by no means the worst half, that the new works have been attended with a mark e d reduction of sickness, an d f ree d o m from disease s which continue to ravage adjacent =drained rura l villages an d su b ur b an districts. Mr. Cooper, th e officer of health of that port , re ports the saving of life there is at the rate of one hundred and fifty-six a year in a population of 40,000. The cases of sickness prevented are at least twenty times more numerous than deaths. At Ottery St. Mary, Devon, a fever of regular occur rence, known as the "Ottery fever," has disappeared upon the remo va l et' the cgsspocPCl the &ALIAS of all the louses. One of the union medical officers state? that his weekly reports, which usAl to occupy four sheets, now occupy only one sheet ant a half. Of these very satisfactory reports we quote, . as a particular example, the following from the local Board. of Macclesfield : " In four years 43 streets and 245 courts have been sewered, paved, and flagged, every privy and ash-pit be longiog to them numbering 290, have been drained, re paired, or rebuilt, and new ones have been erected where none existed before. 1,489 houses have been drained. In the execution of these works the board have 15,4161., and when it is stated that, in the same period, nearly 36,0001. has been the entire expenditure;and that the efforts of the board, and the means at their command have uniformly been first directed where they could be best applied fo - r the removal of the most pernicious evils, and principally amongst that class of persons whose con dition, habits of life, and tone of morals, were the most miserably wretched, the council cannot fail to contemplate the great sanitary change that has been accomplished, and the vast amount of sickness, suffering, and human degrada tion, that has thus been prevented. " To make these observations tho more obvious, and in accordance with former practice, the board mast refer to - -.-. their Table of Mortality, and causes and ages of death, brought down to the present period. These tables show the rate of mortality before the operations of the board to have been 33 deaths in a thousand, whilst the average of the last three years has been reduced to 26 in a thousand. So with the average age of death of all persons, which was formerly 24 years, is now 29 years. And a freedom from the former excess of preventable deaths is shown iu the registered "causes of death," and singularly confirmed by the nearly uniform numbers dying in the last three years, Namely in 1854 1855 1856 In all these previous years there appears to have been no such uniformity, because, no doubt, those influences were in existence which rendered life more precarious, conta gion more certain, and epidemics more frequent and malignant. " Throughout England the mortality of children under five years of age is 39 per cent, of all the deaths; in Macclesfield it is 40 per cent., and the reductions have succe'sively been from 11 to 14 per cent. " To sum up the benefits therefore it will appear that 812 lives have been saved, •the proportionate number of cases of sickness to each death have been prevented, and the consequent expense avoided, the mean duration of life has been lengthened five years, and infantile mortality, one of the certain tests of the absence or otherwise of sani tary improvement, has been reduced 13 per cent. " These results are the daily observation of the medical man, the clergy and minister of religion, and other dis pensers of charity and relief, but it is only through the medium of this report that their extent and value can be made r.lnably evident to the public, so as to command that attention and general co-operation which vt,, , uld. only treble these physical benefits, but would also strengthen the defences against vice, intemperance, and crime. And that sanitary measures are a defence against the latter, is clearly shown in a former report which exhi bits a decrease in magisterial convictions of 50 per cent. in streets, popular in the police records, after the usual con structive improvements have been perfected and cleanli ness secured. In the old haunts of fever, Wood-street, George-street, and Nixon's Yard, not a single fatal case has occurred." Here surely is an example for the Metropolis. We have been at the pains to look into the matter, and we find that, out of upward of three hundred then sand houses, it does not appear that the cesspools have been abolished in more than thirty thousand, and self-cleansing tubular house drains—the only drains that are not themselves extended cesspools and a,nuisance—s u b s tit u t e d. M ore may h ave b een done privately than appears in the returns, but from accounts of house to house inquiries, of houses infected with cesspools and smells, even in districts of a batter condition, that, at the least, two-thirds have cesspools to be filled up, and cesspool drains to be removed. The expense of doing the requisite work appears to be, if done by common contract, and under improvement rates, to be under five pounds per house, that is to say, for filling up a cesspool, substituting a self-cleansing water-closet apparatus, and self-cleansing house drain, a sink and proper d us tbi n . Th ere i s ear th wor k for all, there will be work for the carpenter, and for the bricklayer. In unpaved districts, moreover, there will be work for the unemployed mason. By the 79th section of the Metropolitan Board of Works act, the local boards and vestries have power to do these works for the owners ; that is to say, to borrow the money and pay for the work as an im provement rate. The contract price of cleansing cesspools is stated in the blue-books to be 1/. per , annum. The new works have been executed, with the supply of water for the water-closet, greatly in reduction of that existing charge. The expense of merely rude labour is stated to be at the rate of at least one pound each house. Here then, for the drainage of 200,000 houses, there is a beneficial labour fund of upwards of 200,000/., to meet the immediate need of the un employed. The winter is a good time for innoxious and inoffensive to the inhabitants, as well °p a r fe e rpfmroor arrested, ve adn ceof and a c n h s d u e ac theph dlai labour f l o e u c r t a s ß a tus,t rendered n f o o u w ebmya perfectlytnh ae use sti as to the workmen, in any weather, so that all ob jections on that score are now rendered illusory. Here, then, strictly within the line of duty of the local Boards, is a sufficient source of productive employment for the time. Mr. Simon, Dr. Chal lice, and other officers of health, may point out more. We will undertake to point out more. The surveyors of the local Boards of Health will pre pare the work pointed out by the health officers. There are g,reat numbers of unemployed operatives, and advisedly and confidently we declare that it will be found that there is abundant public work of the highest public utility for them to do, if the local boards, in any proper degree, do their duty. Those who are conversant with the subject are aware that the measure of the extent of mortality, which is early preventible—and in the examples cited, proved to be so—is the greater proportion of the diseases called " zymotic,' or fermenting, and these are in the metropolis between two and three hundred weekly. We are all interested in the purity of the air we breathe, and with those who cannot escape from cesspool-tainted houses and slice's, the necessity of action is far more urgent than they are even yet aware of. This or teat occupier may, in his ignorance of the means of relief, be content to suffer the infliction, and the owner may visit it upon the poor inmates of his polluted premises, but he has no right to taint the public air, and the Boards of Health are bound by law to act for the public protection, and should be made directly, and even personally, responsible for continues in action. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen held a court at three o'clock on. Saturday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. Count de Lavradio, the Portuguese Minister, had an audience of her Majesty. Count Vitzthum bad an audience, and deliverel to the Queen his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from his Majesty the King of Se xony. General Almonta had an audience, and delivered to her Majesty his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Mexican Republic. Their Excellencies were respectively intrcduced by the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., the Queen's principal Se cretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Sir John Milbanke was presented to the Queen at an audience by the Earl of Clarendon. Lord Napier had an audience, and kissed hands on being appointed her Majesty's Minister to the United States of America. His lordship was presented to the Queen by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Portuguese Minister and the Countess Lavradio, the Marquis of Breadalbane, Earl Cawdor, Zarl of Mel!. grave, and the Right Hon. Sir James Grahim, liad the honour of dining with the Queen in the evening. A Cabinet Council wag held on Saturday afternoon'ai the of residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. Present—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Marquis cf Lansdowne, Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, Earl of Clarendon, Lord Panmnre, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Woad, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke Argyll. Tux SPEAKER'S DamEn.----The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons gave is first Parlia mentary full dress dinner this season on Saturday, the 14th inst. The following members of the House of Commons were present :—The Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston, G.C.B , the Right Hon. the' Lord Ernest Bruce, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, G.C.8., the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, G.C.8., the Right Hot the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Robert Vernon Smith, the Right Hon. Mathew Talbot Baines, the Rightlion. Sir Benjamin Hall, the Right Hon. Viscount Monck, the Right Hon. l i ord Alfred Paget, the Right Hon. Henry Fitzroy, the Right Hon. Edward Bouverie, the Right Hon. Sir Maurice Berkeley, 1C.C.8., th e Ri g ht Hon. the Judge Advocal e-General, tle Right Hon. Ed ward Horsman, the Right Hon. William Goodenough Hayter, the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, Viscount Castle rosse, the Hon. Henry Band, the Attorney -General for Ireland, Mr. Massey , M r . F r ede r i c k P ee l, M r. B ernal Osb erne, Mr. John Ball, Mr. Danby Seymour, Mr. James Wilson. There were also present the Rev. Thos. Gamier and the Hon. George Waldegrave. The Lord Advocate for Scotland, the Attorney• General, and the SAicitor•General were prevented by domestic affliction from being present. Viscountess Palmerston bad an assembly on Saturday night, at Cambridge House, Piccadilly, A brilliant com p an y, including all the members of the diplomatic c orps, and a numerous congregation of the aristocracy, responded to her ladyship's invitation. Earl Granville will preside at the fifth anniversary festival of the Royal Medical Benevolent College at the Freemasons' Tavern, on the 6th May next. We understand that the Marquis of Londonderry will preside at the anniversary festival of the Benevolent Society of St. Patrick, at the Freemasons' Tavern, on the 17th of March next. The Belgian papers announce the death of Vicomte ArcEidde Vilain XIV., Councillor of Legation, Brother of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Plenche has eceepted the invitation of the Corn. mittee of the Exhibition of Art Treasures to superintend tho-izrraDgement of arrooox tuod Wits, LATEST N E WS. It is believed at Berne that France will not convene the conferences on the Neuchatel ques tion until Prussia has agreed to renounce all pre tensions hitherto insisted upon by the King. The Hydaspes, which arrived at Marseilles on Saturday, brought news from Constantinople to the sth February. The Sultan and the Ottoman Ministers have subscribed for shares in the Smyrna railway, the concession of which has been recently granted. The rebuilding of Canea, the capital of Candia, destroyed by the late earthquake, and the repairs of Sinope of the damage created by the bombard ment, are receiving the attention of the Govern ment. An immense number of pilgrims are en route for Jerusalem. A proposal has been made for the construction of a railway from the Illyrian provinces to Adrian ople. The Presse d' Orient says that the Messageries Imperiales are in arrangement with Russian packets to effect alternate departures from Marseilles. The boats are to effect the transit from Constan tinople to Marseilles in six days. News from Naples announces that Count Aquila is organising a steam company for freights to the East. It is asserted in Berlin that Prussia, in the coming Conferences on the Neuchatel question, will take the initiative, by submitting her propo sitions for an arrangement. M. Lindenberg, the editor of the Gazette Pa- Yiotique of Minden (whose severe minimum we uu- ticed in our impression of Feb. 9tb), has been pardoned on the intercession of the Prince of Prussia. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY. The Moniteur contains the following :—" The decree of Feb. 17, 1852, which ordains that two judicial condemnations against a periodical news paper shall entail its suppression, adds that the offences or contraventions of law must have been committed within the space of two years. Some journals have just raised the question of whether the latter regulation might not be &lade applicable by analogy to the two official warnings, in virtue of which suspension for two months at most may be pronounced by a ministerial decree. This analogous interpretation is not warranted by the law, and cannot be admitted in principle. Differi n g from suppression, an extreme measure, which a second condemnation within the period of time indicated legitimately entails, the temporary suspension is only facultative. Even after two warnings, if the facts do not require a more severe decision, a fresh warning may still be given, and the Government which uses with great moderation the powers con ferred on it with respect to the press, in the interest of order and public tranquillity, ways takes into its most serious consideration the date as well as the gravity of the facts which occasioned the previous warnings." BOURSE, Feb. 14.—The following were the las quotations : Cash. ft. c. 44 per Cants 3 per Cents . 68 50 New Loan Bank Shares 4,175 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,355 Austrian Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes Piedmontese (5) _ 90 50 Home Debt End of Month. —fr. —c. 68 55 RAILWAYS-FOR CASEI. fr. f r C Orleans 1,375 C. Western Northern 920 Strasburg Lyons I ,375 New Ditto Mediterranean 1,770 Grand Central Lyons Geneva - Cette AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Feb. 13.—The following reason is here given for the prolonged st a y o f th e E mperor and his official advisers at Milan. Some time since it was arranged that the Archduke Ferdinand Max should take the oaths as Governor-Generfu of the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom on or about the 12th inst. ; but his Imperial Highness has recently expressed :his disinclination to accept so impor tant an office without previously ascertaining the exact extent of the powers with which his Majesty the Emperor proposes to invest Lim. The Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian is aware that the rigid system of centralisation which has been introduced by the Minister of the Interior is one of the principal causes of the discontent of the Italian subjects of his Imperial brother. At present the inhabitants of the Lombardo- Venetian kingdom are in an excellent humour, because they can apply directly to their Sove reign for the redress of their grievances ; but they will probably speedily relapse into their former sullen disaffection if they are again made so en tirely dependent on the Central Government. It is whispered that the youthful Archduke has ex pressed his conviction that he will not be able to discharge the important duties of Governor-Gene ra l of the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom to the satis faction either of his Majesty or of his . subjects, less some important changes are made in the sys tem of government. THE BALTIC. HAMBURG, Feb. 14.—Accounts from St. Peters burg up to the 7th instant give a very melancholy picture of the continued general distress and want —bordering upon positive fa mine—exist ing through out the Grand Duchy of Finland, and which pro mises to become daily worse, notwithstanding th e am ounts subscribed in St. Petersburg, Helsing - fors, and other places for the alleviation of the existing evil. The Emperor and Empress have subscribed 10,000 silver roubles and 5,000 silver roubles re spectively for the purpose ; and large supplies from the military magazines in Finland have been placed at the disposal of the poorer classes, at very low prices, to aid them ; but this aid is of a tem porary character. TLe population in many parrs are perishing of hunger and cold. The merchants and other monied men have subscribed in the capital about 28,000 roubles ; among them Baron Stieg litz's name is down for 10,000. The authorities are at their wits ends in Finland to meet the great distress. The navigation of the river Elbe will become en tirely free from the the ice in a couple of days. The Loudon, Hull, and Hartlepool steamers pass up and down the river, suffering only trifling obstacles, and these will probably disappear in a very short time. The thaw has continued rapidly, and much rain has fallen, accompanied by somewhat stormy weather yesterday. ITALY. A letter from Genoa of the 12th inst, observes that should the illness of the Duke of Modena end fatally, his death would give rise to serious compli catious. He has no children, and his brother left but one child—a daughter. If the latter be inca pable of succeeding; the question will arise whether the Duchy will pass to the elder branch at Vienna or the junior branch at Florence. The writer of the letter thinks that, after the recent demonstrations made by the inhabitants of Modena, Reggio, Massa, and Carara, they will not readily submit to a German Sovereign. The Milan Gazette replies as follows to the article of the Moniteur relative to the affairs of the Danu bian Principalities :—" The article of the French official organ in defending the union of the Princi palities thwarts the views of Austria and Great Britain, who had declared themselves in favour of a separate administration of these provinces. It is a brand of discord thrown into the league of the 15th April, 1856, which was concluded for the common defence of the integrity and independence of the Ottoman empire. Austria and England are not powers to allow themselves to be readily turned aside from their plans or to fail in their observance of treaties. It must therefore be bk lieved that the questou put forward by the Moniteur cannot be solved in aCcordance with its views, even should the statesmen of Turkey admit the opportuneness of what the French official organ calls for." The Austrian General who had the command of the troops in Bologna is dead. The immediate cause of his death was a hundred oysters of the largest size, which he ate at a sitting. Vessels of war are to proceed from Spain to Cuba, to form part of the contemplated expedition agai ns t Mexico. Mr. Sergeant Marnell was sworn in one of the B arone of the Exchequer , in the room of the late Si r J. Alder son, on Saturday, at the Privy Council Office, before the L o w cjsucellor. THE TEA DUTY.—(Meeting this Day.) This afternoon a public meeting of the importers of and dealers in tea was held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, to protest against the proposed reso• lution of the Chancellor of the Exchequer by which the war-duty is to be retained upon that important artiele of general consumption, contrary to tlai- Act of Parliament of 1855 ; Mr. 51 , .ff at, M.P., in the oi,air. There was a very full attendance, considering the short notice of the holding of the meeting. The CHAIRMAN expressed regret at the short notice of the meeting which had probably prevented many of the large importers of tea from attending it, but be was enabled to state that they cordially agreed with the obj-ct of the meeting. It was a case of great emergency, as the whole question of the financial State• ment of the Chancellor of the Exchequer would come on for discussion that evening in the House of Commons. He expressed his astonishment at the resolution of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which broke the pledge of the Government and threw over the - act of Parliament in reference to the tea duty which would be as vexatious as possible to the trade, and in a manner injurious to the revenue of the country. It un settled everything connected with the tea trade and settled nothing. Mr. GlLmorat moved the following resolution : " That the meeting has heard with extreme surprive that the proposition of the Chancellorof the Exchequer by whichthe war duty is to be continued upon tea, contrary to the pledge involved in the act of Parliament of 1855, upon the faith of which all existing contracts in that important trade have been made ; and while protesting against this breach of public faith, this meeting expresses an un qualified reprehension of the manner in which this in fliction is proposed to be levied, as being alike disadvan tageous to the interests of the revenue, the trade, and the public." The hon. gentleman, in moving the resolution, said that the money that had been taken out of the pockets of the people by the unsettled state of the duty was incalculable and the vexation to the trade bad been no leas. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had shown himself no man of business, or he would have given encouragement to the trade. So far from the stocks of tea being small there were 87 million lbs. in this country ; but it was true that the quantity on the way to this country was very small. Mr Lowooor. +I Encsf;on, and said that the changes made in the tea duty during the past four years had upset the arrangements of the trade, and had mint materially interfered with the interests of the country traders, who had purchased largely, on the understand• ing that at the end of the war the duty would be re duced to is. 3d. per lb. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY supported the resolution, and said that if the tea trade was better represented in the House of Commons the Chancellor of the Exchequer would not have dared to take such liberties with the trade. The change proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer would add 4d. in the pound to the duty in stead of reducing it 2d. as he had state 1, because by the aot it should have been reduced from ls. 9d. to is. 3d, per pound, now the war was at an end, whereas the Chancellor of the Exchequer only proposed to reduce the duty from is. 9 !. to is. 7d. per pound. Mr. TWINING moved the next resolution : "That a committee be appointed to confer with the Chancellor of the Exchequer upon the subject of the meeting, and to take such steps as may be deemed ne• cessary to obtain a more equitable and less inconvenient arrangement." rhe meeting had shown that the arrangement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer failed in equity and convenience, and he saw no reason why the tea trade should be made the scapegoat to carry off some imaginary deficieucy of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer on his proposed concession on the income tax. The consumers of tea would be in reality the greatest sufferers from the unsettled state of the trade, owing to the alterations in the tea duty. He moved the committee as follows :—Messrs. Moffatt, Rowson, Gilmour, Ashton, Chapman, Sidney, Abber held, Thompson, Ewart, Cassel, Twining, Smith s Harrison, Lowcock, and Langton. Mr. RewsON seconded the motion. Mr. WALKER said that the resolution was not strong enough ; it ought to call on the Chancellor of the Ex• chequer to carry out the provisions of the act of Parlia ment. The CHArremAx said that the committee had considered that, and would act on it ; but half a loaf was better than no bread. The resolution was then carried unanimously. Thanks were voted to the chairman, and the meeting adjourned till 12 o'clock to-morrow. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Feb. 16.—Wind this day at noon Light breeze and fine weather. PORTSMOUTH, Fab. 15. Wind E.S.E. H.M.Str. Dee, from Woolwich. PLYMOUTH, Feb. 15.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived—Argna, from Havana ; True Britain, London, for Melbourne ; refordshire, London, for Sydney, FALMOUTH, Feb. 15.—Wind E.S.E., strong.—Arrived —Sron Princesse, from Samarang, for Hamburg. Off the port— Nfercator from Sourabaya, for Schied am . PETERHEAD, Feb. 14.—Wind S. W.—Sailed—Arctic, for Greenland. SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 15.—Arrived—Marquis of Chan• dos, from Quebec. Sailed—Leopold 1., for New York. PILL, Feb. 15.—Wind E.—Sailed—Magna Bona, for Melbourne ; Victory, Africa. • DOVER, Feb. 15.—Wind E.S. E.—Sailed—Moses TO' lor, for Madras. CARDIFF, Feb. 14.—Wind E.N.E.—Sailed—Prince of Wales, for King George's Sound; Maria, St. Thomas; Coquette, Havana. TORBAY, Feb. 15.—Off the port.—Slade, from Buenos Ayres, for Antwerp ; Mary Ann, Berbice. CLYDE, Feb. 14.—Wind W.—Sailed—Ann Buckle, for Bombay ; Rise, Valparaiso. BELFAST, Feb. 14.—Wind S.S.W.—Sailed—Ulidia, for Baltimore. HARTLEPOOL, Feb. 15.—Wind Queen, for Charente and Montreal. HARWICH, Feb. 15.—Wind E.S.E.—Sailed—Pomona, for Havana. CHERBOURG, Feb. 14.—The Ballochan, No. 2, from Honduras, for London, which put in here with damage. is leaky and will discharge to repair. MESSINA, Feb. 9.—La Belle Barbari, of London, from Galatz t o Q ueenstown, f oun d ere d on the let inst., in lat. 37 N. lon 18 E.; crew eased. FATAL, Feb. 4.—The Willington, from Prince Edward" Island to Liverpool, put in on the 19th Jan., leaky, and is partly discharging to caulk her topsides, when she will re load and proceed. Tl2* China, from Liverpool to Bald• more, has put in very leaky, has discharged nearly the whole of her cargo, and now only leaks four inches per hour. The New Orleans will be repaired. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Monday, 10. a.m. Wind E. ; fine. Arrived--Clara, Caledonia, Nancy, Atalanta, and Mar• quis of Bute, from Sunderland ; Star, Guernsey; Aguish London; Marquis of Chandos, Quebec; Le Coq, Cher' bourg. Sailed—Leopold 1., steamer, from New York. LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning. Wind Si Sailed—Gauntlet, for Gibraltar ; Caroline Brown, St. Michael's ; Oacanaita, C a ll ao ; Trio, Dunkirk ; LuCifert Trieste. Wind S. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 14. Arrived—Regard, from Lataka ; Altantio, Honduras. (BY SUBMARINE AND Bc - rTisli TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND. Monday, 9.39 a.m. Wind S.E. ; fonr hours' ebb ; fine. Arrived, Feb. 15—Henry, from Drobak. Sailed, I?eb. 15.—Joanna AlbOrtaa, for Batavia ; Har k* away, New Zealand. DEAL, Monday, 9.30 Lim. Wind southerly and light. Passed, Feb. 15—Justitia, from Hull, for darthagena ; Island Queen, Shields, Odessa ; Mirage, London, St•. Michael's; Julia, Aberdeen, Plymouth. A lodging has been taken in Piccadilly for Ferukh Khan, the Persian ambassador. In military circles the belief gains ground that the militia will eventually be organised so as to form a re. serve for the standing army. A deputation respecting the Ministers' Money Tars Ireland, had an interview with Viscount Palmerston, on Saturday. Her Majesty's sloop Bittern was exposed to public competition on Saturday, the 20th inst. 2,050/. we° offered for her. It is understood the limit placed upon the vessel was 3,000/ —Hong Kong Register of Dec, 23. Rear Admiral Sir H. Stewart has again struck hie flag on board the Indus, 78, at Devonport, and pro ceeded to London, where be was summoned by the Ad' miralty. Report says there is a difficulty in filling VP the vacancy at the Admiralty board occasioned by the appointment of Rear Admiral Richards to a commie' sionership of GreenwicL Hospital. GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS.—The Lord Chancellor jjt h Hh a .uee s sEntori a p poin t ed rtcyienal iojeafai at st Esq., aslsci qshßtheßain, ssr Christopher O: H p vEh o ae n scrq . a .at,e a n dndhdaNbsyße Nevis. ieh v gee .. S in p W hupog a oph l i n d oHt e fe g ed r nß a wc v i po e hooi to o f, appointed members of the legislative counci of Grenada. dh a a n s d Charles Alexander , E.qs., ar e Propertybeen appointed R Colony egis tr a o r f . GBerni British Guiana ; and J. T. Vaughan, G. Tighe,/C. A. Flemiugt R. S. Turton, W. S. Johnston, and W. J. Jeffrl , Eggs., are appointed district registrars of the same c°l _° l3 3'.—Observer. ItiOYAL BRITISH BANK. —We learn that within the last few days it has been determined to appeal to the House of Lords against the adjudication of b an krupleY, in this ill-fated corporation. Mr. Marcus, the origi n " petitioner, has instructed Messrs. Harrison and Lesc! r ! of New Boswell-court, his present solicitors, to take the necessary steps to get the appeal heard this se wn The point raised will be the validity of the act of ban k ' ruptcy. At the Court of Chancery, on Saturday , lea ve was givesgruanntdeedrsttoandthat h notticee s of panmoish tionforTuesday We Government ba.e re moved the duty upon the importation of rice, ov!inlli the high price of grain in that country,