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

rro PRESS READERS.—WANTED, 1 an Experienced READER for a Daily Paper. I.9tte rs to be addressed " A. II.," 104, Strand. TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. SEASON 1857. The THEATRE will OPEN on TUESDAY, April 14, when will be presented Don'zetti's Opera of LA FAVORITA. Leonora Baldassare Signor VIALETTI. Fernando Signor GIUGLINI. To be followed (first time these 10 years) by the favourite Ballet of LA ESMERALDA. Founded on Victor Hugo's "Notre Dame de Paris." La Esmeralda Madlle. POCCHINI. Claude Frollo Signor RONZANI. Pierre Gringoire, SSOT. All the Boxes and Stalls having been disposed of for the Subscription or Opening Night, the same Opera and Ballet will be Repeated on THURSDAY, April 16 (it being an extra night not included in the subscripticn). A limited number of boxes in the Half Circle Tier have been specially reserved for the public, and may be had on ap plication at the Box-office at the Theatre Colonnade, Hay market. Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each, The doors will open at half-past seven ; the Opera com mences at eight. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. On EASTER MONDAY, will be performed Shakespere's tragedy of KING RICHARD THE SECOND. King Richard 11., Mr. C. K.an ; Qneen, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by A GAME OF ROMPS. T HEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. NEW ARRANGEMENT OF PRICES OF ADMISSION. On EASTER MONDAY, and during the week, the new Drama of A LIFE'S TRIAL. Messrs. Buckstono, Comp ton, Howe, W. Farren, Rogers ; Mesdames Reynolds, Poyn ter, Fitzwilliam, &c. After which, for the first time, a Classical Love Story, un der the Apple-lation of ATALANTA ; or, The Three Golden Apples : in which Miss M, Oliver will appear; also Miss M. Wilton, her first appearance here, and Miss Ellen Ternan, her first appearance in London. - Concluding with GRIMSHAW, BAGSHAW, AND BRADSHAW. Mr. Buckstone. In future the prices will be :—Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole or the evening), 6s. each ; Dress Boxes, ss, ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Lower Gallery, ls ; Up per Gallery, (1. Second price :—Drees Boxes, 35.; Upper Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, is. ; Lower Gallery, 6d. No half-price to Upper Gallery. (No charge for booking.) T HEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. On EASTER MOND AY, will be performed the new and nriginal domestic sketch, entitled WELCOME, LITTLE STRANGER. Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Bedford, &c. Followed by THE ELVES, in which Madame Celeste will make her first appearance. After which, A NIGHT AT NOTTING-lELL, in which Mr. Wright and Paul Bedford will appear. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Duets, drc., viz. :4-,Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brinell, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans, H, [Grover, T. Farrant, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Conti, Senor Antonio M. de Solla, and E. L. Hime ; Masters Austin, Bennett, and Corn; Messrs. Sam Collins, E. Mackney, and C. J. Wilkins, Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre. cisely. Suppers, ttc., until twelve o'clock. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRTDGE. THIS DAY—Morn. 35 min. aft. 1 —Evening 51 Tula. aft. 1 i's►-MORUOW—Morn. 5 min. aft. 2—Evening 20 min.aft. 2 TEIE WEATITER—SIIN OFFICE, APRIL 8. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. F3—highest singe noon yeroterdayl M —lowest this morning and daring the night. 60 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29'93. Worn, S. to S.W.—Light, with fine weather, but cloudy. Two O'CLOCK.—Heavy rain. q',!•:;' , :;: ' - 0 : '9 1 'V e < ; LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1857. The Ministerial triumphs in the Boroughs are remarkable enough in themselves, but the Mini sterial successes among the County conlitituencies are something quite extraordinary. They are worth examining in detail—these gains to the cause of Liberalism among the Agriculturists. Let us take them one by one, as so many political tid bits—mumbling each in turn as a bonne bouche worth the relishing ! There is Berkshire with a little over 5,000 registered electors out of a population of 170,000 ! And Berkshire has summarily thrown overboard Viscount BARRINGTON, Conservative, Ant i-May noothite, and, once upon a time, Protectionist, electing in his stead a Liberal and Reformer in the person of the Hon. E. P. BODVERIE. There is Cambridgeshire with about 7,000 registered electors out of a population of 186,000 ! And Cambridgeshire has discarded Lord GEORGE MANNERS (ditto, ditto, ditto, namely, Conserva tive, Anti-Maynoothite, and, once upon a time, Protectionist), choosing in lieu of him Mr. H. J. ADEANE—a Reformer, so far as a Liberal Con- servative can be ! There is South Derbyshire with 7,000 registered electors out of a population of 166,000—where Mr. WILLIAM MuNDy (ditto, ditto, ditto) has given place to Mr. T. W. EVANS—a Liberal, and, therefore, a Ministerialist. There is Glamorganshire—having 6,500 elec tors and a population of 232,000—where Sir GEORGE TYLER (ditto, ditty, ditto) has made way for a second Liberal representative in the place of Mr. H. H. VivrAN - , now the congenial col league of Mr. CHRISTOPHER TALBOT. There is Hertfordshire—having some 5,300 registered electors and a population of 167,300—... where Sir HENRY MEUX refusing b sacrifice him self for the sake of his Party, and Mr. ADEL SMITH proving a trifle more magnanimous, Mr. CHRISTO PHER PULLEN", the Liberal candidat , ?, has walked over the course—to the end that one more might be added to the County gains of the IVliniste rialists ! Huntingdonshire, again, with nearly 3,000 regibtered electors and nearly 65,000 as the tottle " of its population—Has it not added to the same list another Liberal in the person of Mr. S. M. HEATHCOTE ? And North Lincolnshire—with upwards of 11,000 registered electors and a population of more than 221,000—Have not the Pal , nerstonians gained Sir M. CHOLIIELIVE there, while the Derby ites have simultmeously lost a " great gun" in their once Chancellor of the Dachy of Lancaster, the Right Hon. ROBERT CHRISTO.EIIER ? Meanwhile in East Norfolk the ;ains are ac tually doubled : a clear majority out of 8,000 registered electors, in a population of 250,000, having thrown aside the two old members (Con servatives, Protectionists and all that sort of thing) —Mr. EDMUND WODEIIOUSE and Mr. N. BuR ROUGHS-t0 select in their place a Liberal and a Liberal Conservative, Sir E. N. BUXTON and the Gallant Major-General WINDHAM ! In West Norfolk—with nearly 8,000 regis tered electors, and a population of over 192,000 —Mr. BAGGE has got the sack, vacating his seat for Mr. BRAMPTON GURDON, a Liberal, and there fore a Ministerialist In South Northamptonshire—with 4,500 re gistered electors, and a population of more than 115,000—Mr. RAINALD KNIGITTLEY has found a new colleague in the aristocratic but liberal per son of Lord ALTHOUP, the heir to the Earldom of Spencer ! In North Nottinghamshire, with 4,000 regis tered electors, and 190,000 a s th e num b er o f iti population—Mr. J. E. DENISON, a Liberal, and therefore a Ministerialist, has taken the post for merly occupied by Lord HENRY BENTINCK, ultra Conservative and ultra Protectionist ! In West Surrey, with nearly 4,000 registered electors, and a population of nearly 103,000 Mr. W. J. EVELYN has yielded the palm to Mr. J. BRISCOE, the reforming candidate. In East Sussex—with 5,000 and odd registered electors, and a population over 225,000 —Mr. J. DODSON, the Liberal, is the colleague of Viscount PETENSEY, the Conservative. In Argyllshire the Ministerialists have gained one through Mr. A. FINLAY, the Liberal substi tute for Sir ARCHIBALD ISLAY CAMPBELL, pre viously the Conservative Representative of a Con stituency of little more than 2,000 registered electors out of a population having an aggregate of more than 89,000 ! Ayrshire, with nearly 4,000 registered electois, in a population of some 190,000, has, by electing Lord JAMES STUART, the Liberal candidate, given on• more to the Ministerialists. Lanarkshire, with 3,500 registered electors and a population of 530,000, having done precisely the same thing by the selection_ of Sir E. COLE BROOKE as its Liberal Representative I Ministerial gains altogether Seventeen in the County constituencies ! A tolerable catalogue, we take it, all things considered ! But even beyond these Seventeen positive " gains," Ministers have had other triumphs of a rather notable kind among the remaining County constituencies. Not the least remarkable of these triumphs to the cause of Liberalism and Reform being the one recently gained against apparently very long odds in North Devonshire ! There, thanks to the indomitable pluck, the unflinching resolution, and the sustained and contagious enthusiasm of the Liberal possessors of the franchise, Sir STRATFORD NORTHCOTE, the " great card" of the Conserva tives, was again ignominiously defeated. Again defeated we say advisedly, for, had he not been already summarily expelled from Dudley by an " unknown" Liberal, Mr. HENRY SHERIDAN ? Well—the true-hearted electors of North Devon have reiterated the rejection already recorded by Dudley against Sir S. NORTHCOTE ! And they have not only thereby sternly spurned Conserva tism, but they have chosen a worthy representative of Liberalism, in the person of Mr. J. W. BULLER, placing him at the top of the poll—and thus most satisfactorily equipoising the Family Interest in their own good county of Devonshire. Dod will have a strange tale to tell when the Returns shall (now in a very few days) have been completed. Bansard will indirectly tell the same tale all over again, piecemeal and at intervals. A tale of unexpected successes to new candidates, and of most bitter disappointments to old and ignominiously rejected representatives. The les son conveyed by the General Election, after ail, is a very wholesome one—and we trust that it may be laid to heart, not merely by the success ful and defeated candidates,!but by the constitu encies themselves. Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT tells us that the New Parliament is to be composed of ANABAPTISTS ! " We have all," he twice told the electors of South Wilts, " been redipped in a general elec tion." The Right Hon. Gentleman has not listened in vain to Mr. SPORGEON, at the Surrey Gardens Music Hail ; and if he be right we shall have, ere lex,. x sufficiently zealous band of neophytes in the'walls of St. Stephen's. In many placee's we have noted that the catechu mens at swered well ; in some they were put through our Candidates' Catechism en tire ; in others they were tested by im portant questions from it, and. we are bound to say that many not only knew the Creed and the Ten Commandments, but some had almost mastered the eleventh ; being willing to do to electors and to non-electors as they would that they should do unto them. And assuredly liberal politics are fully mastered when the cate chumen understands the political application of the great, the oft-quoted, but always evaded, command. Mr. S. HERBERT is surely right. It is a long time since Hon. Members have been im mersed in such a flood of Reform questionings. In 1852 the contest turned on the funeral or re surrection of free trade ; and I.ord. DERBY boasted, and not without reason, that he had checked the onward march of democracy. He gave it something else than the suffrage to con tend for. This time, though our adroit Premier meant us to discuss China, YETI, the Arrow, and all that, and to leave reform till a more con venient season, we thought the present the best time for demanding reform. We all saw that China had settled the China question itself. We refused, as Lord JoHN said, to be divided into Yehites and Bowringites—indeed the Yehites were scarcely discoverable. Everywhere candidates were deluged with questions on the Ballot, on the Suffrage, on LOCKE KING'S motion, on Church Rates, or on Administrative Reform. Many a can didate proffered a little propitiatory talk, or a little self-recommendatory talk, on the China question, according as he was guilty or innocent on the awful third of March ; bi 4 we question whether any electors once asked, spontaneously, about the China business. No ; the grand thing to get through at the huF-t -ings was the Reform questions ; even Mr. DISRAELI had to reason, as best he might, on the Ballot and extension of the Suffrage. What, then, shall we do with our re-dipped members ? We answer, take good care that they do not apostatise. The great Ministerial organ, giving Lord PALMERSTON some very prudent advice about finding work for his large majority, exhorts him to set them at once about a Divorce Bill and a Joint Stock Bank 3 Bill ! Great measures certainly for a great majority ; measures, however, which we should have thought needed rather a few honest lawyers than an overwhelming majority of non-professional men. Indeed, so far as these measures need a Ministerial majority, that majo rity will be more secure if it be a vigorously liberal majority. The great and practical object of Liberals should Le to secure their hold on their renovated old members, and their untried new ones. The country should re member that Lord PALMERSTON and Mr. HAY- TER have the advantage. They have all the mem bers before them. They cant hint, cajole, ad monish, persuade as the case may require, and the numerous new Members, one hundred and fifty of them, perhaps, will have had no expe rience of the wiles of the tempter. They say nothing so mach preserves the morals of youths coming here from the country as frequent cor respondence with the homes they have left, and we can assure electors that a similar correspond ence between constituencies and their Members is remarkably favourable to political and Parlia mentary fidelity. Suppose Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT'S Anabaptists were each furnished with a petition or two on the subjects on which they had been questioned. Why, indeed, sh►ould not every member of Par liament have some proof of that kind in his hands that his supporters, many of them at least, are in earnest, and expect him to act up to his professions ? We have abundant reason to be satisfied, thus far, with the successful way in which the Candidates' Catechism was worked, but to follow it up is the grand thing. Viet lry is too often succeeded by over-confidence and fata' inaction. The country has conquered reform at THE SUN, LONDON, WEiDNESDAY the hustings and the polling-booth, but the final and harder victory at St. Stephen's has still to be won. If Lord JOHN RUSSELL see that the people will have a real Reform Bill, he will soon have one on the anvil ; and if Lord PALMERSTON hears the sound of Lord JOHN'S hammer, he will set his own forge to work at once and anticipate him, or else join in partnership with his rival. At the election, reform has fared infinitely better than we expected, seeing that the couittry was so suddenly appealed to on another question. Surely the great gun at the election will not be lost by remissness after it. We shall have oppor tunities. Mr. LOCKE KING must soon renew his motion. Mr. BERKELEY will give early notice of a motion on the Ballot ; and Lord JOHN is in un easy non-employment. Let Liberals be awake, I and this Parliament will do something for them. The rate of interest has increased, is increasing, and is likely still further to increase, until the entire profits of producers and traders are trans ferred to the pockets of the money-lenders. Not contented with the addition to the minimum, rate of discount announced after the meeting of Direc tors on Thursday last, " a further slight restric tion," as it is termed by the bullionist organ, was decided on yesterday. In ordinary times they discount bills not having more than three months to run for the bill-brokers in the same manner and on the same terms as for the public. They have, however, given notice that the accommodation will be limited to bills not having more than a month to run e and that on bills of longer date they would only make advances for a fortnight. This change followed rapidly on the alteration as to the terms respecting advances on Stock 1 At a late hour on Monday afternoon it was de clared that no advances would be made at less than seven per cent., or for more than seven days on Government securities. Thus, then, we find that the facilities for obtaining pecuniary accom modation on the very best securities have been withdrawn by the Bank. Three such changes within a single week augur badly for the state of the money market. They prove, beyond the possibility of doubt, either that the Directors feel that they are themselves placed in circumstances of peculiar difficulty, and must adopt these stringent and unpopular mea sures for their own security, or that they are seeking to obtain exorbitant profits at the expense of the trading and manufacturing interests of the country ! Utrum horum, muftis accipe. It signi fies but little on v: hich horn of the dilemma they may be tossed. In either case they are not quali fied for the position into which they have been pitchforked as controllers and regulators of the national currency. It is quite clear that, not withstanding their large capital and the monopoly which they enjoy, they are unable to contend against the necessity of being obliged always to buy or sell the precious metals at a fixed price with out any reference to the supply or demand there -11 for. trader this most unwise and impolitic system every European nation can supply its wants at our expense. The bullion that flows in from Australia is taken for the Continent, and we are tantalised by being starved in the sight of plenty. It is not the increase of 1 or 2 per cent. in the rate of discount that can stop this demand. Under the existing law England must be victimised, and her industrial population are ruined in the pro cess. It requires a total change—something must be done, and that speedily to prevent the ruin of those whom it should be the first duty of the nation to encourage and support. We have heard many " flattering tales" respecting the temporary nature of the exigency. The prospect of "a partial retention of some of the Australian gold arrivals" is hinted at as offering some slight alleviation. And has it come to this with Eng land, that the hopes and aspirations of her people are already directed to the early arrivals of vessels bearing specie to the extent of a few hundred thousand pounds ? That adverse winds or a break down of machinery, or any of the various acci dents to which sea-going ships are exposed, should derange the commerce and production of the Empire? Unless some decisive measure be adopted within ' the approaching session, we may be exposed to direful calamities, far exceeding the ;nest formid able crises that have hitherto occurred. Sir G. C. LEWIS has declared his intention of renewing the Bank Charter Act without change or modi fication, for a further period of ten years. It is impossible to estimate the results. Surely the experience of 1847 should not be altogether disregarded, nor should the painful lesson be thrown away. The Select Com mittee of the House of Lords clearly and distinctly traced the deplorable events then witnessed to the Bank Charter Act, and the same causes must produce similar effects. The case is much stronger at the present time, inasmuch as it is universally ad mitted that there is now no undue speculation, and that the undue pressure cannot be in any degree ascribed to domestic affairs. As we have repeatedly stated, the monetary legislation is even of greater importance than the fis cal. We may feel ourselves very unfairly treated, so far as the unequal tax on incomes are concerned ; but it is, if possible, more urgent that we should be allowed to earn the means of satisfying the inequitable and impolitic charges that we should be ena bled to provide for all classes of demands, than that they should be diminished in number or amount. The moneyocracy are virtually "killing the goose that laid the golden eggs." They may themselves be the first to suffer by the consequences, and if wise would seek to inaugurate a sounder policy, which wouldgive them greater secu rity, although their profits might be smaller ! We trust at all events that the matter may not be slurred °Ter, but that before any renewal of the Bank Charter Act be decided on it, may receive the calm and attentive consideration whiah its vast importance and its influence on the welfare and prosperity of the industrial community so eminently merits, so imperatively demands. HAYMA.RKET THEATRE. Mr. Bucketone, the higuly-respected lessee of the Hay market Theatre, re-opens his popular establishment on Easter Monday with a very strong company and at re duced prices of admission. The upper boxes formerly 55., are to be for the future 3s. ; pit, 25., instead of 3s. ; gall , ries, ls. and 6d., instead of 2s. and is. We sincerely hope that this liberal concession to the playgoing public may be duly appreciated ; that in crease of patronage will follow decrease of price ; and that the new arrangement, whilst it reflects great credit upon Mr. Buckstone's spirit as a public man, may also prove remunerative in a pecuniary point of view. Austria has announced by telegraph at Constantinople her rupture with Piedmont. A despatch from Marseilles (April 7) says the Am- bassadors of Russia, Spain, and Austria are about to leave that city en conge. The Australian Mail brought by the Simla consists of 145 boxes of letters and papars. These boxes are larger than the Indian and China ones. At Lloyd'd, yesterday, insurance premiums of 10 guineas and 15 guineas were paid upon a portion of the gold by the Oneida. STOCKHOLM, March 30.—The diet have unanimously approved the abolition of the Sound Dues, and tie Treaty concluded with the various Powers. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-INN ROAD. The number of patients relieved at this hospital during the. week ending M arc h 28, 1857, is 2, 533 , o f w hi c h 690 were new cases Yesterday morning, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, the Princess Helena, and Princess Louisa, accompanied by R. Ormsby Gore, Esq., and Miss Illhardt, visited the Royal Colosseum in the Regent's•park. The royal visitors arrived at the, Regent's-park entrance at. 10 o'clock, and were conducted through the different exhi bitions and entertainments which had been prepared for them by special command of her Majesty by Dr. Bach hoffner, F.C.S., the managing director; Messrs. H. Ferrer, F.S.A., and H. Collier, directors of the institu tion. On leaving, the royal children expressed the plea sure they had found in their visit. His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen arrived at the residence of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, C1.,-treaca Howse, St. James's, yesterday, from Portsmouth. Lord Broughton will leave town to-morrow for his seat, Erlestoke Park, Wilts. Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Dudley Carleton left town yesterday for Brighton. Mr. and Lady Caroline Townley arrived in town a few days since from St. Leonards-on•Sea. They will leave on Monday next for Paris. Lady Molesworth entertained a select circle at dinner last evening. Yesterday was the birthday of his Royal Highness Prince Leopold. It is estimated that about 5,500,000 lbs. of tea will be delivered this week, duty paid, from the port of London. The third call of 2/. is to be paid on the new shares of the London, Tilbury, and Southend Extension Railway by the Ist of May ; and the third call of 2/. on the Barking Extension shares by the same day. The Bail and Countess of Lanesborough have left town for Switbland Hall, Leicestershire. The Earl and Countess Howe are expected in town in a few days, from Gopsall, Leicestershire. The Earl of Kenmare arrived in town, a few days since, from Ireland. The Countess of Sefton and Lady Cecilia Molyneux left town, on Monday, for Stoke Farm, Berkshire. The Earl of Cawdor left town, on Monday, for Car marthen. Her ladyship is staying on a visit with the Countess of Ellesmere, at Hatchford, near Cobham, Surrey. The Countess of Kinnoul is expected at her new resi dence in Portman-square, at the latter end of the pre-: sent month, for the season. The Countess of Sandwich has left town for St. Leo nards-on-Sea, for a week or ten days. The half-yearly meeting of the Great Indian Peninsu lar Railway Company is called for the 29th inst. 'The expense of our consuls abroad for the current year is 185,1841. For the current year the expense of the Privy Council office and Board is 62,000/, It appears that the annual net amount received by the sale of Parliamentary papers from its commencement to the present time has averaged the sum of 4,0001. by sale and waste. Three partners in one brewery firm will have seats in the new House—Sir E. N. Buxton, for East Norfolk ; Mr. Charles Buxton, for Newport, Isle of Wight ; and Mr. Robert Hanbury the younger, for Middlesex. REFRESHMENTS TO VOTERS.—According to the 23d section of the 17th and 18th Vic., o. 102, it it; declared that refreshments given to a voter on the day of nomi nation or polling shall be deemed illegal, and the person so offending shall forfeit the sum of 40s. for each offence to any person who shall sue for the same, with full costs of suit. The Crystal Palace is to be again opened on Good Friday after one o'clock. The experiment was triad last year for the first time, and was perfectly successful. Up wards of 17,000 people, mostly of a class whose holidays are limited to Good Friday, Christmas-day, and the Queen's birthday, were brought down by rail, and as sembled in the palace for the afternoon, and that with out a single instance of disorderly conduct. We think that in this fact the directors have the best ground for repeating the experiment, the results of which appear so unexceptionable, and we heartily wish it success. THE LATE ACCIDENT IN THE BRISTOL RIVER.—The Mary Ann Peters, which was stranded in her out ward voyage to Africa, under the circumstances detailed i n The Sun of the 2d jest., wa-• got off on high tide yester day afternoon. Since the unfortunate accident the vessel had been lighteried of her cargo, and every other means taken to release her from her perilous position. These operations were carried to a successful issue yesterday afternoon, as above stated, when the Mary Ann Peters was floated off and taken higher up the river. She has sestained very severe injuries, and her repairs have been intrusted to Messrs. Patterson and Sons, the well-known shipwrights of Bristol. NEW ROUTE FOR CENTRAL AMERIOAN PRODUCE.— SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday.—The steamer La Plata, which arrived at this port on the Ist inst., with the last West India mail, brought home, amongst other cargo, a large quantity of indigo, from the west coast of Central Ame rica. The produce of that part of the world has hitherto been sent to England by the roundabout way of Cape Horn ; but now, by arrangements made by the managers of the Panama Railway, it is shipped to Panama on board a steamer, provided by them for the purpose, sent thence by railway across the isthmus to Colon, and there put on board the West India mail steamers for England. The result is, as in the present case, thatthe produce is home, and probably sold, at a time when, under the old system, it could scarcely be expected, even under the moat favourable circumstances, to have reached the neighbourhood of the stormy Horn. The facilities thus afforded to those interested in the speedy delivery of consignments from Central America well de serve, and will no doubt receive, their cordial approbation and support. EXTRAORDINARY FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday Mr. Bedford, coroner for Westminster, held an inquest at the Green Man, Bedford -street, Covent-garden, on the body of Timothy Finaughty, aged 65, labourer, whose death occurred under the following singular circumstances : It appeared that on the 24th ult. deceased was engaged in a vessel laden with malt, in emptying it, his duty being to hold the mouth of the sack while a man named Maddams fixed round it the noose of a rope by means of which it was raised to the deck. On one sack being pulled up, it had not been lifted more than a foot, when deceased exclaimed, in tones of agony, " Oh, oh," and it was then found that his left thumb had been fastened in the noose, and dragged nearly from its socket. Ho went to Charing-cross Hospital, where the thumb was dressed, and on a subsequent day amputated, but morti s fication ensued, and the poor fellow rapidly sank, and died. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death. FIRES YESTERDAY.—Yesterday morning, between the hours of 2 and 3 o'clock, a fire broke out in the pre mises occupied by Mr. Heyday, a boot and shoemaker, situate No. 6, King-street-terrace, New North-road. Before the fire could be got under the whole of the stock in trade in the lower part of the premises was consumed, and serious damage done to the furniture, &c., in the upper part. The origin of the disaster is unknown. The sufferer was insured in the Westminster Fire office. About the same time another fire took place in the premises occupied by Mr, J. Halbert, an importer of foreign leeches, No. 3, Princes-square, St. George's-in-the-East. The flames commenced from some unknown cause in the basement. Considerable damage was done to the stock-in-trade and the premises. The proprietor was insured in the Royal Exchange office A third fire took place in the promises belonging to Mr. John Baker, a bread and biscuit baker, carrying on busi ness at No. 3, Charlotte•street, Pimlico, nearly facing Buckingham Palace. The fire originated in the third floor, and as it shot through the windows it reflected so strongly upon the palace as to lead persons at a distance to imagine that the royal residence was on fire. The upper part cf the building was destroyed, and the lower portion extensively damaged by water, &c. The origin of this fire was also unknown. The stock-in. trade was insured in the Sun Fire-office, and the build ing in the Law Fire-office. Other fires also took place in the premises of Mr. T. P. Smith, milliner, No. 32 A, Cleveland-street, Fitzroy•equare, and No. 1, Gravel. lane, Southwark, but the damage done at each was I trifling. ADVANTAGES OF THE SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS.—Her Majesty a ship Himalaya, 3,500 tons (iron troop ship), was ordered round from Plymouth to Southampton, for the purpose of being placed in dry dock, there to be coated with the composition of Messrs. Peacock and Buchan, previous to her long voyage to China, and the fine steamship Teutonia, 2,000 tons, arrived on the same day from Hambure, to be docked for the same purpose. Both ships steamed into the tidal basin of Southampton Docks, and thence into the large graving docks, the Himalaya drawing 21 feet 2 inches. The Teutonia en tered the west graving dock as the screw ship Jason vacated it. The gates of each dock were then immedi ately shut, and the powerful pumps set in motion to discharge the water from the graving docks. Both ships were safely on the blocks and shored up in three hours from the time they entered. The Teutonia was scraped and received two coats, and cams out of dry dock within 4S hours ; received on board 500 tons of coal and a large cargo for Lisbon and the Brazils, and proceeded to sea within three days of her first arrival. The Himalaya having been coated with the same composition, was taken out of dock on the third day, and immediately proheeded to Spithead under steam. It is worthy of remark that this large ship was fully coaled and provi sioned for her 'voyage, and although drawing upwards of 21 feet, was enabled to dock at neap tides one hour before high water. Mr. Hedger, the dockmaster, was entrusted by the Admiralty authorities with all the arrangements. The Himalaya takes out a consi derable quantity of Messrs. Peacock and Buchan's composition for the use of the iron ships forming the Gazette. Ch A ina sH fl l e p e , — CE S E h W ip S p T in A g RVED TO DEATH.—The following is an extract of a letter received at Lloyd's relative to the wreck of an English ship on the coast of Norway. It is dated " Stavanger, March 14. A pilot on the 2d inst. boarded a vessel about eight miles from the land, off Kinn, near Stavanger, dismasted and waterlogged. Found in the forecastle the bodies of six men, which he brought with him on shore, and another body was found between the cargo in the hold, which he could not suc ceed in landing. On one of the bodies was found an English Prayer-book, in which was written Joseph Bell, Slot-street, Hull, 1840 ;' and on another a double• cased silver pocket watch, on which the name of J. Buxton' was engrav e d. A certificate found on board proved the vessel to be the Holingen, from Nerve for Gainsborough, with a cargo of deals, &c. The vessel was found to be without provisions, the crew are therefore , supposed to have died f rom starva ti on , an d espec i a ll y as one of the bodies appeared to bear marks of having been attacked by the others to satisfy their hunger. Some of the bodies had evidently been dead some time, others only a few days. The most remarkable circumstance connected with this wreck is, that the crew could have been starved to death on a voyage from Narva to Gains borough, a 3 even admitting that they ran short of pro visions, or that these were spoiled on the vessel filling with water, the crew must still have existed four or five days, and during that period, on a tract so frequented as the North Sea, it appears btraoge that they fell in with no vessel of any kind." 'EVENING, APRIL 8, 1857. LATEST NEWS. CHINA. The following document, purporting to . be a despatch addressed to the Viceroy of Canton by the Chief of the Council of the Emperor of China, has been received in Paris from Macao : " YEH, -I have serious news to announce to you. We have read with attention the account you have given us of the attack by the English bar barians. The Nuy-Ko were unanimous in their indignation at it, and we determined that the Em peror should be informed of it, notwithstanding the pain it occasions his magnanimous heart, and these are the commands of his mighty will : Yeh, you are to carry on a war of extermination against the foreign barbarians who have attacked you. They must receive from you an exemplary chastise ment. Yet, after the vengeance shall have been deemed sufficient by you, and if they manifest sincere repentance for what they have done, the Emperor, our magnanimous Sovereign, who is inundated with floods of light, consents that hosti lities shall cease, and that commercial affairs shall be resumed with these foreigners as they existed previous to their fault. " Yeb, you will take heed, and you will commu nicate the preceding to the mandarins placed under your orders. "Pekin, the 10th day of the 2d Moon. " TsAou-TeHriv-YoNo, Head of the Imperial Nuy-Ko." PERSIA. MARSEILLES, APIUL 7. ' The snow that blocks up the roads in Persia will delay the return of the ratification of the Treaty with England. The Ottoman Ambassador at Teheran has pre sented. a Note requiring the execution of the Boundary Treaty, and the restitution of seven towns, especially Ourmiach and Sulimanich. The two principal grievances alleged by the Aus trian against the Sardinian Government are, it appears, the provocations offered by the political refugees in Piedmont, and the fortifying of Ales sandria, and until these cease it is pretended that there will be no reconciliation. The Austrian Consuls in Piedmont have, however, received orders from Vienna to remain at their posts, and to continue as hithezto in the performance of their duties. The circular in which these instructions are contained is couched in reassuring terms. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. The Neuchatel Conference did not sit to-day as expected. Notice was sent out on Sunday to the Plenipotentiaries for a meeting on Tuesday, but a counter-order was subsequently given, doubtless because the expected instructions were not received from Berne or Berlin, or perhaps from both places. The difficulty, it appears, turns on the question of money—the amount, not the principle of indem nity, which is said to be admitted. BOURSE, April 7.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. c. End of Month. 4} par Cents 3 per Cents 6B 80 70 New Loan — Bank Shares 4,175 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,400 Austrian Belgian 4. Piedmontese (5) 9oi— Home Debt RAILWAYS-FOR CASH. tr. __ .. _ Orleans 1,490 Western Northern Lyons 1,5671 New Ditto Mediterranean 2,155 Grand Central A — Lyons Geneva i — Midi ft C MONTENEGRO. The _Austrian Gazette of the 4th contains the fol lowing observations on the present state of Mon tenegro : " The importance of Montenegro, which is not incon siderable, results from her geographical position. Her mountains form a line of fortresses which constantly menace the Turkish provinces of Bosnia and Albania. In the event of a war, the Montenegrin nation, though counting not more than 150,000 souls, could furnish 40,000 fighting men, which might prove dangerous to Turkey. An opportunity now presents itself to diplo matists who oppose Russian influence in the East for reconciling Montenegro with Turkey. It is certain that a great many of the acts of brigandage of the Montenegrins proceed from a want of sufficient food, as the agricultural capacities of the country are, from its mountainous character, unequal to the wants of the population. Prince Danilo wishes to make peace with Turkey, and fie begs the Euro pean Cabinets to act as intermediaries. The Prince does not appear to aim too high. Let a portion of territory capable of cultivation, sufficient to maintain the people, be accorded to the Prince of Montenegro. Turkey does not lack adjacent territories, for the most part unculti vated, and which are constantly being ravaged by these inconvenient neighbours. On that condition, the Prince of Montenegro appears disposed to recognise the suze rainty of the Porte for the territory conceded. Let well-defined limits be determined, and let any incursion into foreign territory be rigorously punished.; It may be objected that to aggrandise Montenegro would weaken Turkey. As for ourselves, we do not see the prejudice which the cession of some square leagues of territory to a vassal could cause to Turkey ; we believe, indeed, that she would rather gain in having the Montenegrins be come more peaceable and civilised." PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin of the 4th says :—" In the Second Chamber yesterday a petition was presented from a number of merchants and traders of Cob lentz, complaining that the names of 54 men of business in that town had been improperly omitted by the provincial government from the list of `notables entitled to elect the Chamber of Com merce, and that the Minister of Commerce had ap proved of the omission, whereby an unjust imputa tion was cast on those persons. The petition further represented that, as 49 of the omitted were Catho lics and 3 Jews, the omission was a violation of liberty of conscience ; and, besides, that the list drawn up was contrary to Jaw, inasmuch as several traders inscribed on it had not been engaged in business long enough to be qualified. On this peti tion, the Committee of the Chamber proposed an order of the day blaming the omission of the names in question. The Ministers took the other side of the question, and a debate ensued, which soon de gem rated into personal altercation between the Ministers and some members of the opposition. The closing of the debate was demanded not fewer than eight times, but refused ; eventually, how ever, the discussion was adjourned. In the sitting of to-day the order of the day of the committee was adopted." AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna, in the Cologne Gazette, says :—" The Emperor and Empress, in their ap proaching journey to Hungary, will only b 3 accom panied by two Ministers, Baron de Kentpen and Baron de Bach, who will remain with 'their Majes ties during the whole duration of their visit. The other Ministers will remain in the capital. Count de Jellachich, Ban of Croatia, had a long inter view of the Emperor yesterday." Another letter from Vienna, in the Weser Ga -1 zette, proves that the telegraphic despatch given in a London journal of the departure of the Sardinian Minister at the Austrian Court was erroneous. The Marquis de Cantono, although he has broken off all official relations, will remain here for the rest of the spring. Probably before the period for his depar ture arrives some arrangement may be come to. A despatch from General Martini, the Austrian am bassador at Naples, confirms the statement that the court of the Two Sicilies is more and more dis posed to make advances towards the re-establish ment of diplomatic relations with the western powers. The construction of the building for the Industrial Exhibition of 1859 is to be commenced in a few days. It will be situated near the Schwartzenberg Garden. ITALY. The Piedmontese Gazette gives the following ac count of the King of Sardinia's stay at Nice on the Ist and 2d inst. After receiving the visit of the Grand Duke Constantine and the Princ9 of Wur temburg, H.M. went in company with the Prince de Carignan to pay a visit to the Empress Dowager of Russia, who invited him to partake of a break fast, her Majesty's sons and the Grand Duchess Helena being among the guests. In the afternoon the King gave audience to the chief authorities of the town, and then proceeded to the Villa de Oresti.s to pay his respects to the Grand Duchess Olga. In the evening the town was splendidly illu minated. The King attended a soirée given by the Empress, where Mine. Bosio sang several pieces in talian and French. On the following day his Ma jesty gave a grand dinner to the authorites. A letter from Leghorn says that the Grand Duke Constantine visited' . Elba on the 26th, and sought i out with the greatest apparent interest all ve,t , ges of the residence of the Emperor Napoleon I. His irnpr,rial Highness al,erwards left for t:!e Court of Tuscany. _ A Lotter from Rome of the 3d says :—" Car- dinal Villeoourt a few days ago consecrated '1 Mgr. Ainanton, heretofore prior co - ' the Order of St. Dominick at St. Sabine; as Bishop of the iniE sions in Persia and Babylon. The ceremony took place in the church of St. Sabine, which was given by Pope Honorius 111. to St. Dominick, and in which the saint's cell is still preserved ; and it was m tended by Cardinal 0-aude ' and the Bish o p ; o f Nancy, Meaux, Toront o , and others. A decree of the Government, dated the 28th ult., makes reduc tions tin the duties on the importation of foreign goods. The reductions in the import duties previously effected have produced excellent re sults, the value of the goods imported having risen in the course of a year from 2,211,277 Roman crowns to 3,753,712. The municipality of Ferrara has commenced the draining of a large portion of the extensive marshes which exist in the province of that name. The Prince de Syracuse, brother to the King of Naples, has arrived here, and has had an audience of the Pope. The King of Bavaria has made a generous donation to the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, and the society in gratitude has caused a mass for the King to be celebrated by the Bishop of Toronto. Queen Christina of Spain is to leave this city for Paris at the end of April." Another letter from Rome, in the Corriere .Mer cantile of Genoa, states that the arrest of Prince Simonetti was unaccountably connected with that of two functionaries of the Post-office at Bologna, who had discovered, by opening certain despatces, that Austria was making proselytes for a secret society called " Setta Ferdinandea," the object of which is to separate the legations from the Papal States. The Austrian commandant having caused these functionaries to be imprisoned, the Papal go vernment, according to this letter, has claimed. their liberation. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 3d have arrived„ A. royal decree in the Gazette enacts that the 16 bat talions of infantry of the army of Cuba shall be formed into 8 regiments of 2 battalions each. An other decree authorises the provincial deputation of Madrid to raise a loan of 6,000,000 reals for making roads in the province. A new election having taken place for the district of Las Vistillas in Madrid, owing to none of the candidates in the first one having obtained an absolute majority of the votes given, the Duke de Alba had been definitively elected by 218 votes out of 321. At Santander, M. Olozagit had been defeated. Marshal Espartero had written a letter to the electors of Barcelona to thank them for having thought of him as a candidate, but he does not say whet_ler, if elected, he will sit or not. Six com panies of infantry and a small detachment of cavalry had left Burgos for Vittoria and Logrono, to put down, as was supposed, an insurrectionary movement. A project'had been submitted to the Government for establishing a company with a capi tal of 60,000,000 reals for working mines in differ ent parts of the country. A fire had destroyed a vast tanyard in the vicinity of Madrid : it was sup posed to have been occasioned by some armed men who had been seen hanging about the place. The amount of [damage is not stated. The English schooner Cheerful had been lost off Santander ; she carried a cargo of flour, but all the crew except one man were saved. A letter says :—" Very active communications are taking place between our Go vernment and those of France and England on the subject of the difference between Spain and Mexico. Our cabinet hopes to obtain the moral support of these two poiVers ; and in the event of the question going beyond a war between Spain and Mexico their material support also." The King of the Belgians went to the palace at Brussels on Sunday from Laeken, where his Ma jesty was waited on by a deputation of the National Guard, who invited him and the royal family to a grand fete to be given on the 13th in honour of the 22d anniversary of the birth of the Duke de Bra bant. The King accepted the invitation. The Bund states that the Federal Council is over whelmed with demands from exiled royalists to he allowed to return to their homes to put their affairs in order. The Federal Council, it adds, is reported to have rejected all these demands, on the ground that it has not the power, except in very peculiar cases, to modify the decree of the Federal Aseembly relative to those persons. WEST COAST OF AFRICA. PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY MORNING. The African Steam Navic , ation Company's mail packet Candace, Commander Hawkesley, arrived this morning. Her homeward dates are :—Old Calabar, Feb. 24 ; Camaroons, 26; Fernando Po, March 2 ; Bonny, 6; Lagos, 8 ; Accra, 10 ; C a p e C oas t , 11 ; Liberia, 15 ; Sierra Leone, 19 ; Bathurst, 24 ; Goree, 24 ; Teneriffe, 30 ; Madeira, April 1. She brings 1,241 ounces of gold dust and a small amount of specie ; and her cargo includes 437 casks of palm oil, 64 pieces of ivory, three packages of skins, one cask of gum copal, 68 cases of arrowroot, 96 bags of cochineal, five hogsheads of wine, and sundry pepper, argol, pineapples, &c. Among her passengers are olonel Clarke and Captains Macully and Hingston, 3d West India Regiment. The Governor of Sierra Leone returned on the 6th of March from a successful tour up the river, where he arranged several treaties with the chiefs. The war continued in Mellicourie, to the advan tage of the Moriahs, which tends to the progress of trade. The country round Ca,meroons is quiet. Trade is brisk at Calabar. An expediton to open a large palm oil country is contemplated. The River Bonny is unhealthy. The doctor of the Ferozepore died on the 4th of March, and the Charles Horsfall has lost several hands. Lagos is quiet, and ample preparations are made for any possible attack by Kosoko. A rumour prevails that the Dahomey nation in tends making a descent on Abbeokuta. Owing to the scarcity of rain provisions are dear at Accra. The disturbances between the Ashantees and Fantees being settled, gold is arriving at Cape Coast Castle. Ex-President Robert, with 110 men, has been successful in quelling a disturbance at Cape Palmas, which is proposed to be annexed to the republic of Liberia. The steam-sloop Prometheus, 5, Commander C. W. Hope, and the screw steam-vessel Teaz,r, 2, Commander W. J. Lubbe, were at Old Calalear. The steam vessel Myrmidon, 3, C3mmander Edward W. Shaw, left Lagos on the 7th March for Fernando Po. The steam vessel Antelope, 3, Commander John Pike, left Lagos on the 6th March The steam vessel Merlin, 6, Commander Cecil W. Buckley, and the steam ship Hecla, 6, Com mander Elphinstone, left Sierra Leone on the 18th; and the steam ship Aplin on the 19th, for a cruise. The screw steam troop ship Magcera, 6, Com mander George T. Purvis., touched at Sierra Leone on the 13th of Mecoh. The steam frigate Retribution, 28, Capt. Charles Baker, was at Teneriffe on the 28th of Marcb. The screw steam-ship Sanspareil, 70, Captain Astley C. Key, arrived at Madeira on the 27th of March, and sailed jmain on the 28th. The steam vessel Dover was at Sierra Leone. The United States corvette St. Louis was al Liberia on the 15th of March. The French frigate Jeanne d'Acre, the steamer Tonnante, and the corvette Recherche were at Goree. The French packet Bresil arrived at Madeira, on the 29th of March. The mail packet Ethiopo arrived on the 13th at Sierra Leone, and sailed on the 17th of March. The screw steam-ship St. George arrived at Sierra Leone on the 17th of March, with boiler out of order. The troop ship Perseverance, from the West Indies, arrived at Sierra Leone on the 28th of February, and sailed for the Gambia on the 9th of March, and left there on the 21st for Goree, whence she sailed on th e 22d for the West Indies. The merchant brig, Columbine, of Bristol, was ashore at Old Calabar, and was seized and plun dered by the natives. The steam ship Scourge, 6, has released the crew, who are coming home in the Candace. Spoke, April 3, lat. 47 30 N., long. 13 49 %V., the Hamburg brig Elice. THE CONVICT NATION.—The execution of Thomas Nation, condemned to death at Taunton on Saturday last for the murder of John Aplir, under the circum stances detailed in the report of the trial which appeared in The Sun of Monday, has been fixed for Tuesday, the 21st instant. Oa Sunday the prisoner had a lengthened interview with his father and brother, but he made only slight reference to the charge of which he had been con victed, and nothing in the shape of admission of the jus tice of his sentence or a confession of his guilt escaped bin). THE TEA AND SUGAR DUTIES.—LivERPoot, Tuesday.-- The customs duties received at this port yesterday were very large, amounting to 104,7161. 9s. 10d. This is accounted for by the reduction of the duty on tea and sugar—the amount paid on the former being 56,572 1 . 7s. 7d.; on sugar, 34,3951. 4s. Bd.; and on molasses 1,1251. 17s. 9d. One house in the tea trade alone paid 20,1391. 4s. sd. ; and another 5,6711. 4s. The largest amount paid for duties on sugar by one firm was 7,5421. 17e. 6d. PROTEST OP THE ROMISH DUTCH BIS II 01'S. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. MR. EDITOR.- -in your pop. ef I , st S7iturday you pu Ult-ti certain; RASt , ral uction=, signed by John, Archbishop of Utrecht ; Henry John, Bishop of Haar lem; and Herman, Bishop of Dever, ter. You head the paragraph—" Protest of the Romish Dutch Bishops against the Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception ;" and commence with this remark :—" The following sig nificant paper forcibly exhibits that worthless cheat called lenity' in the schismatic Church of Rome." Allow me, then, Mr. Editor, to remark for your infor mation, and that of the public, who might otherwise be misled by the p;'rusal of the Pastoral Instructions, that neither the Archbishop nor the Bishops who stn the document are in any sense either " Romish" or Catholic Bishops, but that they are the Bishops of the Jan•enist Church of Rolland. They, and their predecessors for above a century, bave been cut off from all communion with the Catholic Church, for refusing to submit to and accept the decrees of the Popes Urban VIII., Inno cent X., Alexander VII,, and several of their successoir, condemning as heretical certain propositions on Grace of Cornelius Jansenius, Bishop of Ypres, who died 1638. This sect, once so powerful, is fast dying away. While on a tour last autumn through Holland, I ex. pressly visited Utrecht, the head-quarters of Jansenism, for the purpose of seeing their archiepiscopal church, and informing myself of their present position in Hol land. I found the church a small building, of no preten sions, and scarcely capable of containing 300 persons. Their Hierarchy consists of the Archbishop of Utrecht (an old Alan nearly 90), and four Bishops, with a very scanty supply of priests. I was told tuat they had scarcely a dozen students in theology in their seminary. Murray, in his " Handbook of Holland," states that the Jansenists scarcely exist in any number except in Hol land, where they now are reduced to 5,000 souls. Besides the Jansenist Hierarchy there is also in Hol land the Catholic Hierarchy, restored by the present Pope about four or five years age. I need hardly inform you that, by the Catholic Hier. arcby, which also consists of an Archbishop of Utrecht, and several bishops, the decree of the present Pope de fining the Immaculate Conception as an article of Ca tholic faith was accepted and received with respect and veneration. The Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht, mate of Holland, John Zuizen, consecrated 1853, was one of the Archbishops expressly invited by his Holiness to Rome to take part in the discussions previous to the definition. His name stands the 39th in the list of Archbishops assisting in St. Peter's when Pius IX. pronounced the solemn dogmatic definition of the Imma culate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the Bth of December, 1854. Oa the same occasion, as a mark of especial honour, the Archbishop was raised to the dignity of an Assistens ad Solium, or a prelate entitled to take his place besides the Pontifical Throne when the Pope celebrates the offices of the Church publicly. May I request, Mr. Editor, you will either explain to your readers the error into which you have fallen in attributing to the Catholic hierarchy of Holland a docu ment which proceeds from the excommunicated Jan senist Bi4iops, or that you will kindly give my letter a place in your journal. I remain, Mr. Editor, your obedient servant, CUTHBERT W. CLIFTON. Workington, Cumberland, April 6, 1857. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—As I believe the document referred to in the following note has appeared in your columns, may I beg the favour of your inserting the expla nation given in my letter to the Herald this day. Yours truly, N. W. HODGES. April 7th, 1857. DUTCIZ ROMISH BISHOPS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE "MORNING HERALD." Sir,—As the headin4of, and introduction to, the pro. test which appears in the Morning _Herald of to-day, and which you designate as proceeding from the "Dutch Romish Bishops," is liable to be rnisunthrstood, I claim your permission to state that the three pereons described as "John, Archbishop of Utrecht ; Henry John, Bishop of Haarlem ; and Herman, Bishop of Deventer," are not, and never have been, in communion wi th, or i n an y way recognised by th e Holy See, and, therefore, they cannot be in any sense "Romish" Bishops. Indeed they are, and their predecessors have been, formally ex 4 communicated and their doctrines condemned. They are the only remaining Jansenist bishops, and their authority extends only over 10 clergymen and some 3,000 of the laity (including men, women, and children), so that Mr. Spurgeon can boast of a larger number of followers than they. On the other baud, the Catholics of Holland in communion with the Holy See form two. fifths of the entire population, and their prelates—viz., the Archbishop of Utrecht, the Bishop of Haarlem, the Bishop of Breda, the Bishop of Rurimonde, and their coadjutors, all in communion with Rome—have, in nom• mon with the rest of the Roman Catholic Church throughout the world, accepted with thankfulness the definition by the Pope of the dogma against which the Jansenist Bishops protest. I trust to your sense of justice to insert this explana. tion.—l am, sir, your most obedient servant, London, April 4, 1857. N. W. HODGES. MR. WOODIA'S OLIO OF ODDITIE. We extract the following genial tribute of admi ration from the columns of our contemporary the Morning Chronicle : A great advantage cf an entertainment like Mr. Woodin's is the facility which it affords for the introduc tion of new waiter. Made up of shreds and patches, the " Olio of Oddities" can readily be refitted with a i piece l half e a r e d a o nd ze n a p t i i m e c e e s t h m e a r 3 , s c o o n t t h r a i t v e t h o t o s e v w i s h i o t have th e p s o e l e y n . graphic Hall, and always find something new in addi tion to those standing features of the monopolylogue, which are too unique and wonderful ever to grow stale. Among the recent additions, the imitation of Manuel Perez, the Spanish dancer, as the " Doctor in Love," is singularly grotesque. In this character the expression is entirely choreographic. You see before you a Spanish doctor, not M.D., but D.D., dressed in a black suit of tights, with clerical bands, and a coat whose long mallow tails fl y i n t h e wind behind the clerical person in a most ridiculous manner. You are to imagine the Doctor deprived of every other means of expressing the love which fires his heart, and de• ranges his brain, but that of dancing. Accordingly, the Doctor dances. Such a dance I There is no describing that dance. The demented seriousness of the Doctor's face, the demented evolutions of his thin, black legs, and the perfect devilry which his tails keep up in the rear, combine to produce a spectacle at once so novel, so gro tesque, and so ludicrous, that you can only scream with laughter. Herr Formes, as Marcel, is in every respect a won derful performance, though it may not be equal to the personation of Mr. Albert Smith and Mr. Henry Rus sell. "make up" for Herr Formes is no slight achievement, while the adoption of the basso profundo, and sustaining it throughout the whole of the " Puff paff " song, is perhaps the greatest polyphonic feat which Mr. Woodin has performed. Our old friends, the Foxhunter, Lady Ever Green, and Miss Chattaway, are as fresh—especially the Foxhunter—in their respec tive ways as ever. The last is perhaps the most finished performance of the whole entertainment, In the re presentation of female characters Mr. Woodin is the only male personage who has ever approached the natural. In the early days of the monopolylogue the women were all coarse and elderly ; the scold and the fish-fag were the favourite types. Mr. Woodin, however, has attempted the fashionable and beautiful young lady of the drawing-room, who plays and sings, and his Miss Chattaway shows how marvelously he has succeeded. Those Punch•like figures which pop up behind the flap of the table are as startling and incomprehensible as when they first began their strange mercurial career The instant change of expression and costume, all so marked and decided, never cease to draw upon our won derment. Does Mr. Woodin do it, or does he keep some dozens of indiarubber figures under his table ready dre3sed ? You might imagine this but for the fact that india-rubber figures have not yet been endowed with the powers of speech and action. ST. MARTIN'S HALL. A concert for the benefit of the widow and family of the late Mr. Harro way, the accomplished composer of some of our most popular songs, and a vocalist of consi derable repute, whose untimely decease has left them in very unfortunate circumstances, was given last evening at k Martin's Hall, at which a number of professionals of a high order of talent assisted. The entertainments announced, we are happy to say, proved sufficiently at tractive to produce a considerable advantage to those whom it was desired to benefit. The principal artistes who devoted their talents to so praiseworthy an end included Miss Poole, Miss Ransford, Miss Jeffreys, Miss Marian Taylor, Madame Anna Thillon, Madame Marietta; Mr. Ransford, Mr. G. Genet), Herr F. Jonghmans, M r . G eo . P erren, Mr. G. Tedder, two of the Messrs. Distin, and Master Haydn Celli. The fare provided consisted of a happy selection of popular songs. The names of the vocalists are alone sufficient to testify to the character of the performance. The gratuitous nature of the services rendered formed no drawback to the enjoyment of the audience ; on the contrary, it forineu a generous stimulus to increased exertion, and I on no occasion that we remember (and it speaks highly for the character of our leading vocalists) was more heart thrown into the varied performances of the evening. It would be invidious to select, for, with scarcely an excep tion, every song received an enthusiastic encore, and each successive mark of approval by the audience was rewarded by a suitable addition to the beautiful selection in the programme, given in the artiste's best style. Those of the public who failed in being present on this interesting occasion really lost a rich musical treat. Al though these successive voluntary efforts contributed to protract the concert to an unusually late hour, the audi ence were evidently highly gratified, and we trust the results wi I materially aid in furthering the benevolent object of the concert.—Advertiser. THE SHIP BOANEBGES.—The Government emi gran t ship Boauerges, Captain Sedgwick, left Liverpool on I Feb. 25 with 400 adults for Sydney, put into Queens town with cargo shifted, and left there on the 30th of March. 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