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

LT ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.' i Piccolomini, Alboni, Spezia, Giuglini, Beneventano, Vialetti, Bellettt. TO-MORRO Ar EVENING, SATURDAY, June 6, LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Lucia, Piecolomini ; Edgardo, Sig. Giuglini. After which will be produced an entirely New Ballet, in Two Tableau; composed expressly for her Majesty's Theatre by M. Massot, entitled ACA t ISTA. FIRST TABLEAU—Ferpsichore,Madlle. Rolla ; Acalista Madame Pena Nena; Aglaia, Thalia, and Euphrosyne, Mdlle Mit helet, Mdlle. Karliski, and Mdlle. Brunetti; Amyntas M. Baratti. SECOND TABLEAU—(The Vision Realised).—Seville.— Acalista, Madame Perea Nena; Conchitti and Carmen, Mdls. Pasquali and Morlacchi ; Pepe, M. Gamba.rdelli ; Manolo, M. Massot. Spaniards. For particulars, see bills. A limited number of Boxes in the Half-circle Tier have been sp)elally reserved for the public, and miy be had on applica tion at the Box-office, at the Theatre Colonnade, Haymarket. Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. TES BOUFFES PARISIENS—St. JAMES'S J THEATRE. Triumphant Success of the FRENCEI PLAYS. THIS EVENING (FRIDAY), June 5, the entertain ments will commence at half-past 8 o'clock precisely, by the performance of Opera-Bouffe, en un Acte, L'IMPRE• SA RIO. M. Caillet, M. Charles Petitt, Mdlle. Daimon% awllle. Mace. After which, Opera-Comique, en un Acte. L'OPERA AUX FENETRE3. M. Leonce, M. Tayan, M. Charles Petit, and Mdlle. Dalmont. To conclude with (first time) Operette-Bouffc, en un Acte, SIX DEIIOISELLES A MARIER. M. Pradeau, M. Tayau, Mdlle. Mace, and Mdlle. Maresehal. This Engagement being limited to one month, Performances will be given EVERY EVENING. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be engaged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. HEA TRE-ROY AL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. OPEN EVERY EVENING. GREAT EQUESTRIAN AMERICAN and CONTINENTAL COMPANY, under the direction of Miss Ella, Prices—Pit and Promenade, is ; Boxes, 2s. 6d., 25., and Is. ; Galleries, 6d. Doors open at half-past 7. Commence at 8. First Equestrian Artistes in the World : —Madame Schap lain, Madame Newsome, La Petite Wells, Signora Delavanti, and Miss Ella ; Miss E. J. Wells, Mdlles. Flora, Fabia, and and Marie, MissesNewsome, Moffatt, Delavanti, Potter, Jen nincrs ; the Manchester Boy, Masters J. Wells, A. Wells, E. Moffatt, Henrico and Carlo Delavanti, Sig. Felix Delavanti, Mons. Becq, Nfons. Ferdinand, Mons. Eugene, Mr. Tom Swann, Mr. B. Fuller, Mr. W. Fuller, and the great Shaks. p_.-ian Clown, Wallett, will appear each evening in a series of Perfornunces, original and unapproachable. Director—Mr. Sbkes. Acting Manager—Mr. E. Stirling. ROYAL r - RINCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING will be performed Shakespere's tragedy of KING. RICHARD THE SECOND. King Richard IL, Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by a new Farce, in one act, called AN ENGLISHMANS HOUSE IS HIS CASTLE. rICHEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET I Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with a new drama, in two periods, entitled THE HUSBAND OF AN HOUR. Mr. Buckstone, sze. Followed by a new farce, MY SON, DIANA! After which, the successfa' Classical Love Story, un der the Apple-lation of A. rAL A.NTA ; or, The Three Golde❑ Apples : in which Miss M. Oliver will appear; also Miss M. Wilton, and Miss Ellen Tolman. In future the prices will be:— Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), Cs. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price, s. d. Seeond price. s. d. Dress Boxes... Up er Boxes . . 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 Pit Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery ... 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery. 11IIEATRE ROYAL, ADELPH Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed the new drama of GEORGE DARVILLE, in which Mr. EmjanainWelistcr, Hr. Wright, Mr. Paul Redford, and Madame Celeste will perform. After which, THE PRETTY GIRLS OF STILBERG, in which Mr Webster will appear. To conclude with A NIGHT AT NOTTING-HIbL. Mr. Wright, Ste. OYAL SURREY THEATRE, , Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek. THIS EVENING will be performed THE BOHEMIAN GIRL Mr. Haigh aril Lucy Escott. After which, THE VILLAGE SMITH. Mr. Widdicomb, Miss M. Eburnc, &c. STRAND THEATRE.-BOSCO will APPEAR THIS EVENING, in his Fairy Temple of the Magi, in his won irons Entertainment of Natural Masic, Music, and Ventriloquism, illustrated by . gorgeous paraphernalia and superb display of vertu. Stalls, Ss ; boxes, 2s ; pit, is ; gallery, fid. A Morning Performance on Saturdays, at 2. tOY A L OLYMPIC TREATRE o Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, will Le performed A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING. Aftcr which, a new drama, called DADDY HARDACRE, Mr. Robson, &c. To conclude with THE WANDERING MINSTREL. Commenca at half-past Seven. STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE' AND OPERA HOUSE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. Under the patronage of Her Majesty and His Royal Highness Prince Albert. Continued and increasing success of the Grand Opera. E , ormous attraction for the Whitsun Holidays. THIS EVENING (FRIDAY, June 5), Verdi's far-famed Open► of IL TROVATORE ; or, The Gipsy's Vengeance, The whole of the Music as performed at the Italian Opera and Equestrian Illustrations, Miss Rebecca Isaacs, Miss M. Snmers, and Miss Fanny Iluddart. Mr. Augustus Brabam, Mr. Brookhonse Bowler, Mr. Francis Kirby, Mr. J. A. Leffler, and Mr. Borrani. Conductor and Composer—Herr Meyer Lutz. With a powerful Band and Chorus. lfa nnge r and Director of the Opera Company—Mr. Augustus Brahma. After which, Mr. Wm. Cooko's Holiday programme of novel and peerless SCENES in the ARENA. To conclude with the farce of SALLY SMART ; or, The Clockmaker's Hat. C,'omniaLce at seven o'clock. Dress Buses, 48. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from 218., no charge for booking; PA, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6,1 Notice---During the Opera Season Half-price will take place at 9 o'clock. B,x office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr, W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. CA NTERBII RY HALL, W estminster-roal._ OPEN EVERY EVENING.--T be follow eompany of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Gees, Duets, &e., via.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunell, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta; Mr, J Caulfield, Herr F. Jonglimans, R, !Grover, T. Farrant, S. :Tones. J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Cord. Senor Antonio M, de Solla,' and E. L. Hime ; Masters Bennett and Corri; Messrs. Sam Collins, and E. Maekney, Pianoforte ; Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.; Jiroctor, Mr, J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock •precisely, Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock. liIGEI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TRTs DAT—Morn. 14 min. aft. 12—Even. 36 min. aft. 12 To vonow—Morn. 56 Cain. aft. 12—Even., 17 min. aft. 1 THE WEATHER—SUN Ornou, JUNE 5. TIIIRMONITIEII, IN Tint SHADE. 74 —highest singe noon yesterday. 58 -lowest this morning and during the night. 75 -thin day at noon. BAROMETER, 30.13. Wnir, S.W. ; light, with very fine summer weather. ik it:11 ~ 1 = f'-`1; LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1857. A little more than a Fortnight and the New House of Commons will have been tested in re gard to the Ballot by M r. TT, KI.ENR Y BERKELEY. The Hon. Member for Bristol yesterday duly redeemed his promise by indicatinf, the 23d instant as the even i ng u p on which. his Annual Motion is, in 1857, to be introdu ce d. Reformers, consequently, have an immediate prosp ec t of knowing the best—and the worst—in regard to tits Old Question of the B tllot and our n ewly elected House of Representatives. Already we have undertaken to be on the alert as to this proximate Division. Let others be on the alert iu like manner. We are solicitous that the watchfulness of a few should not be rendered nugatory of good by the indifference of the many. The Liberal Con 3 tituencies far and wide ought at this moment to be on the qui vice as to the voters and non-voters upon this yearly motion of Mr. BERKELEY'S. For ourselves we have undertaken to be more than ever observant upon this division list upon the Question of the Ballot. Might not the Ballot Society co-operate more than ever effec tually at this juncture with the liberal journalists, by multiplying the results of this all-important Division, and distributing the record of those results throughout the length and breadth of the United Kingdom ? Now—if ever—is our oppor tunity. The 23d instant will be the long-expected criterion-day as to the Ballot with reference to the newly-elected Commons House of Parliament. .Aud after what ordeal having been passed through in regard to The Ballot by the vast majority of the popular representatives ? After each one of that vast majority having been scrupulously and searchingly catechised as to the Ballot upon the conspicuous platform of the Hustings, amidst the breathless attention of the assembled constituents ! Questions and Answers still fresh in the recollection of those constituents—HOW will Hon. Members vote upon the 23d upon the motion of Mr. Berkeley? Will they have the hardihood to vote contrary to the opinions they have themselves, each in turn so recently and so publicly expressed ? Or, will they have the hardly less glaring effrontery to ab sent themselves upon that unwelcome occasion ? We shall see, after another interval of eighteen days shall have elapsed. We shall see—and we shall thereupon record legibly in black and white the result of our observations. Let Hon. Mem- hers therefore look well to it. A " ehiel" or two, not less vigilantly watchful than Captain Gr.osE hi ms elf will be among them on the 23d "taking notes"—" and faith" as ROBIN BURNS said, in the old song, with a sort of an Irish accent, and with a noble defiance of all the laws of syntax— " and faith" they'll " prent it "—meaning, of course, the produce of those " notes." They'll " prent it," so that " those who run may read " —it—the Division List upon the Ballot Motion of Mr. BERKELEY ! And that printed list—be it not for an instant forgotten by Hon. Members-- will be read scrutinisingly by the light of their own Hustings Revelations. It is because of this that we consider this next division upon the Ballot, in the House of Commons, to be of such extraordinary importance. For the Ballot— judging that House by the speeches delivered from the hustings by so many of its members— has gained very considerably by the late dissolu tion. Most of the old advocates of the Ballot have been again returned to Parliament. Many new advocates of the Ballot may be readily enu merated among the one hundred and seventy odd representatives until now strangers to the interior of the popular branch of the Legislature. And beyond these two important categories, there is still a third remaining to be particularised—the number of those who have intimated (under the wholesome pressure applied to their judgments at the hustings during the agonies of the late Gene ral Election), who have intimated (directly or in directly, it matters nothing), who have distinctly intimated their readiness to waive their objections at last in favour of a project evidently considered requisite by the great bulk of the electoral popu lation. Among these—we won't call them Trimmers—among these sagacious Politicians who have recently shown themselves to be open to reason, there were, it cannot possibly have been already forgotten, there were one or two very conspicuous by reason of their position and their reputation. There was—a single instance will be sufficient for our purpc se, considering the indubitable importance of the one we are selecting—there was—Not, observe, Mr. NOAKES, of Little Britain, or Mr. STYLES, of Stoke Pogis There was—the once puissant, and still to a, certai❑ extent influential leader of the Great Whig Party, One of the chosen repre sentatives of our metropolitan constituency. There was, in brief, Lord JOHN RUSSELL. Did he, or did he not, declare a willingness to recon sider his objections to the Ballot ? We distinctly and positively assert that he Did ! He did— indirectly. These still sits (conspicuously placed) in the House of Commons not merely the Wit ness of his so doing, but the actual Organ or Mouthpiece of his so doing ! A personage dressed with courtly precision in tights and silk stockings, with buckles to his shoes, and a bag to his coat collar, and a dapper little sword by his thigh— the Sergeant-at-Arms, Lord CHARLES F. &e. &e. RUSSELL. We resolutely maintain that the brother of the noble ex-Premier declared as plainly as words could possibly declare anything at all, that Lord JoHN was prepared, upon certain con ditions, to waive his hitherto obdurate objections to the Ballot. Lord CHARLES RUSSELL spoke this voluntarily at a public meeting of the electors of the City of London, at one of the old city Taverns, at a time when the result of the memorable contest fur the City appeared to be particularly dubious, to say the very least of it. We ourselves drew attention t) the circum btince at the time. And we are very anxious that that circumstance should not, at the preseLt critical moment, be overlooked. Let us see now how Lord JOHN will vote upon Mr. BERKELEY'S motion—into which lobby he will we.lk in the presence of that out-spoken Sergeant -at-Arms ! And Lord JOHN is but one of many And many of those many, spoke a great deal more plainly, or rather more directly than Lord JOHN did, whoa he spoke thus through the lips of his brother. Several of these sudden converts to the Belief iu the Ballot made their Confessibn of Faith not by proxy, but upon the Hastings —themselves ! Let us see now their sincerity. Let us not., on their part, the glory , of their perseverance —or brand the ignominy of their recantation There is at last a reasonable' hope that Church rates will be finally and completely got rid of, even within the present session. Lord PALMER sToN last night, in answer to a question of Sir J. TLLELAWNEY, declared that " the Government have a measure in course of preparation which they hoped to be able before long to submit to the consideration of the House ;" and on a little gentle pressure, added, that he of course meant that " Government intend to introduce the bill during the present session." This is as it should be, and, coupled with this manly and straight forward conduct of the Noble Lord respecting "Ministers' Money," will go far towards satisfy ing the people of his sincerity. It will, if fully and fairly carried out, prove that he is not, as has been asserted, "a wolf in cheeps clothing" --1 thorough-paced Tory disguised as a Liberal I But there must be no underhand work—no half-and half legislation, that will keep up the irritation and leave both parties dissatisfied. Nor will it be satisfactory if the just and necessary measure be deferred until there is no longer a reasonable hope of its passing into a law before the proroga tion. The people want something more than a mere glimpse at th e p rom i se d l an d. Th e y w ill no t be contented with the introduction of " an inno cent" t o participate in the annual massacre. They gratef u ll y accept the Ministerial Bill in the hope and belief th a t i t will be faithfully met, and duly honoured at maturity. We cordially congratulate our fellow labourers on the auspicious Prospect thus afforded of a triumphant termination to our labours. We need not say how long, and how earnestly, we have ad vocated the good cause—how we have insisted on the complete abatement of the social nuisance. The question was not one of money, but of prin ciple. It offended many moral and high-minded THE SUN, LONEON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 5, 1857 men, who liberally supporting their own places of worship, and providing in every way for the worship of the DEITY in the form which they believed to be most acceptable, felt hurt and in sulted, at being compelled to supp3rt the fabric of churches, where they would not attend, and from which they derived no benefit. It was even more than insult, for those who could patiently submit thereto, felt their consciences opposed to the paltry demands, and when that was the case they were bold as lions, although in other respects meek as lambs. We are glad to find that those who held aloof I during the heat of the contest, and while the battle was yet undecided, are now joining the winning aide. The Leviathan, has at length, unmistakeably enrolled itself under the Anti- Church-rate banner ! It says that " there is no country in the world, except England, where such an extortion would be endured for a twelvemonth, just as England is the only country under the sun, where two hundred thousand people would endure to be prohibited from marrying in their own churches, and compelled to frequent one alone for this purpose, simply and solely to make a piece of preferment for the Dean and Canons of St. Paul's." Emphatically adding, "we talk in this country of emperors, of priests, of inquisitors, of wooden idols, and other stupidities and cruelties ; but there are certain impostures of the vested-interest class, which grow nowhere else to so venerable an age, and such magnificent dimensions as in this green old island. Church-rates, in their present capricious, unjust, and intolerable form, illustrate this popular weakness of our tax paying race." These sentences ought to be inscribed in letters of gold. We thank the Times for its vigorous and just, albeit, tardy description. If anything were required to show that this in equitable and vexatious impost had been doomed, and that there was no reasonable chance either of reprieve or respite, this energetic language, echoing as it does the voice of public opinion, would be conclusive. We shall, therefore, in the firm con viction that speedy victory is certain, do no more than simply remind Lord PALMERSTON that "if 'twere done, 'twere well it were done quickly." We earnestly invite public attention to a letter from a respected correspondent, on the all-im portant subject of the currency. The suggestion of issuing Exchequer Bills for 11. 21. and 31., is one which we put forward nearly ten years since, in the beginning of October, 1847. There is no legislative enactment as to the amounts for which these bills should be issued.. If Sir G. C. LEWIS, or rather Lord MONTEAGLE, pleased, they might be made for small and convenient amounts, which would come within the reach of every class. At present they suit large capitalists who pay hun dreds or thousands at once, in discharge of duties. They are not available for the demands of ordi nary tax collection, but this, as we long since stated, is ascribable rather t. the laziness of a former Comptroller of the Exchequer, who established a: bad precedent, which his successors were only too happy to follow, than to any other cause ! The adoption of "J. C.'s" suggestion, would not merely save the entire interest on the " un funded debt," a very appreciable item in the na tional accounts, but it would render far greater benefit than the pecuniary saving. It would con• , stitute an unexceptionable circulating medium, which every man would willingly receive, because certain that it would be received from him by others, without demur or deduction. Even if he did not require it for his own tax collect3rs, whose visits, however, unlike those of angels, are "nei ther few nor far between," he may be certsin that isome of his neighbours are less favourably cir cumstanced, and will gladly accept at his hands the means of defraying their contributions to the national treasury, and give him full value in return. They can never be hoarded, because they do not possess intrinsic value, nor can they be issued in excess, because a vote of Parliament must first be obtained, and, as we have stated, there is an established mode of redemption, be cause they are based on taxation, and will be called in and cancelled, at least, once or twice in every year. A far larger number than would be required' for the liquidation of the un funded debt, and rendering the Government in dependent of deficiency bills and other discredit able methods of raising the wind, might be issued without in the slightest degree overstocking the market, or depreciating that which would be an unquestionable security at all times and under almost any circumstances, so long at least as it was kept within reasonable limits, and that the amount issued did not exceed the amount to be called in within the year. It would decidedly be one of the best, if not the very best, modes of currency reform that could be devised ; and although it would not get rid of the burden of taxation, it would render it tclerable, for the straw would be provided for the making of the bricks. We commend this plan to the consideration of Mr. JAMES WILSON. It may go far towards meeting his views, and, as it seems to us, would immediately add to the effective capital of the country, and to our stock of commodities, or command over them, just as much as if we discovered a productive gold mine in the centre of England ; indeed more so, inas much as we would not find foreigners overbidding us in our markets, and carrying away fox a small premium that without which the _industry of the United Kingdom is paralysed and deprived of vitality. RETURN OF TILE COURT TO BUCKING HAM PALACE. Her Majesty,and his Royal Highness Prince Albert left Osborne for London at half-past 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, the Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, and the infant Princess. The Royal suite consisted of Lady Macdonald, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, Major-General the Hon. C. Grey, Major-General Bouveria, Lieut.-Col. Ponsonby, and Lieut. Cowell. The royal party crossed iu the Fairy steam yacht to Gosport, where the Queen inspected the 93d High landers. Her Majesty and the Prince travelled from Gorport by a special train, on the South-Western Railway, to the private station at Vauxhall, where five of the Queen's carriages were in readiness, which conveyed the royal party to Buckingham Palace, escorted by a party of Light Dragoons. The Queen and Prince arrived at five minutes past seven, and were received by Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord Camoys, Lord George Lennox, Major-General B. Drum mond, and Major-General Wylie. The Prince of Wales left Osborne yesterday morning for London, and proceeded in the afternoon to Eton, to be present at the boat-races of the scholars and the fire works. Colonel F. H. Seymour and Mr. Gibbs were in attendance on his Roy al Highness. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Sir G. Wetherall and Sir Richard Airey, left town yesterday morning for Sandhurst Military College. His roycl highness returned to London last evening. The Duchess of St. Albans, accompanied by the Duke of .St. Albans and Lady Diana Beauclerk, has left Prin.ce's Gate for a prolonged tour on the Continent. Via count and Viscountess Palmerston arrived at their resides ►ce, Cambridge House, Piccadilly, yesterday, from Broadjands, Hants. _ _ The Viscountess Combermere will have an assembly thin evening at the fawily mansion in Belgrave-Nuare. LATEST NEWS. Intelligence has been received from Constantinople to the 25th, by the Alexandre. Naib Emin, who was sowing dissension, and who bad refused to lend assistance to Sefer Pasha, has been expelled from C.rcassia. FRANCE• PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. Marshal Vaillant, Minister of War, has received from Marshal Bandon, Governor-General of Al geria, the following telegraphic despatch : " Tizi Ouzou, 29th May, half-past six, evening. " The Beni-Fraoucens, Beni-Khelilis, and Beni- Chaibs have made their submi , sion. I was to have quitted to-day my camp of El-Hadj-Aly for Souck el-Arba, but the boisterous state of the weather detained me. Everything is going on well." The Pays, Ministerial journal, contradicts a statement in a Belgian paper that Feruk Khan is going to London to arrange the modifications which are to be made in the treaty of peace. The Pays adds that the treaty of peace between Great Britain and Persia was ratified unconditionally at Teheran. A special Glance in the treaty grants to the Brit;sh Government the right to appoint Con suls in the northern provinces of the Empire. The privileges and attributes of the Consuls are to be, as they always are in similar cases, the subject of a special convention independent of the treaty. Such is the truth. Count de Morny, previous to his departure from St. Petersburg, which is to take place about the 23th of the present month, will sign the treaty of commerce between the French and Russian Go vernments, of which the clauses arc already arranged and agreed upon. Tue Siecle publishes two rather curious letters exchanged between the prefect of the Gironde and M. David lately deputy in the Legislative Body of the arrondissement of Libournr, in that department. The Prefec.'s letter, dated the 24th ult., stated that the Government is of opinion that it will be right to support the candidateship of M. Armand, one of the most eminent men of the Gironde, and in the full force of his age ; and it accordingly requests M.'David to "give a new proof of his devotedness to the Emperor and the coun try by generouqy abstaining from presenting him self as a candidate, and thereby causing division in the great party of the Imperial cause, which he has always firmly supported." M. David, in his reply dated the 26th, declares that "far from giving up his candidateship he will persist in it more firmly than ever ;" and that he " owes such a line of conduct to himself, and still more to his arrondissement, which revolts against the prefect's pretension of imposing on it a candidate who does not possess its sympathies." He adds that he shall publish some letters relative to the affair, and amongst them one from the sub-prefect of Libourne, which states that though he would com municate to him the lists of the electors he would not allow him to take a copy of them, a declaration whiclt, says M. David, amounts t u a restriction on universal suff, age, in opposition to the just and liberal ideas of the Emperor. A Paris letter in the .Nord of Brussels says "Dr. Kern, on leaving Paris, carried with him some information relative to the dispute which has exis'ed since 1815 between France and Switzerland on the subject of the valley of the Deppos, in the Jura. This valley, which is kept by France, is claimed by Switzerland. Fresh negotiations have teen opened for concluding the affair." The official notice given to the press of certain departments to abstain from discussing the elec toral question has, according to the Phare de la Loire, been withdrawn. That journal says : " The Presse will no longer doubt the correctness of our assertions in reference to the :antic° addressed to the provincial press. This notice, as we had been led to expect by the circular of the Minister of the Interior, has now been officially with drawn." The King of Bavaria yesterday paid a second visit to the Palace of Veriailles, and returned to Paris at half-past six. His Majesty dined with the Baron de Wendland, the Bavarian Minister, and in th• evening honoured the Theatre of the Porte St. Martin with his presence. Bouusz, June 2.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. o. End of month. 44 per Cents 3 per Cents 6B 85 69 20 Bank Shares 4,450 Credit Fonder — Credit Mobilier 1,200 -- Roman Do. Account 1,207 Austrian Belgian 41 . Spanish Threes 4l Piedinontese (5) 9l 25 Home Debt KAILIVAYS—FOB CASS. fr. c. it c Orleans 1,400 Western 4 — Northern } — Lyons 1,475 -- New Ditto Mediterranean 1,865 Grand Central Geneva Midi - AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY MORNING. The Sussex, Captain Scanlan, 87 days from Mel bourne, with over 48,000 ounces of gold, was off the port this morning. She left the Heads on the 19th of March rounded Cape Horn on the 6th of April, and crcssed the Line on the 3d of May. The Sussex is laded with wool and copper ore, and ha 4 137 passengers, of whom eight mechanics landed here. They state that their wages varied from. 15s. to 205., and those of labourers from 10s. to 20s. per day, working eight hours, which is the prevailing time. • Profits are less. Business is mere steady. The Sussex spoke, north of the Line, the South Carolina, 102 days out from Melbourne, for Liver pool ; May 17, the Glorieuse, from India, with troops, last from the Cape, out 92 days—all well ; June 3, in the Channel, the Black Swan, out 92 days from Hobart Town. PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY AFTERNOON. The Walmer Castle, Captain Daniel, 78 dqya from Melbourne, was off the Start this morning. She has 150 tons of copper ore, a ful cargo of wool, 40,000 ounces of gold-dust, and 165 pas sengers. The Walmer Castle left Melbourne March 15, rounded Cape Horn April 6, and crossed the Line May 1. Her passage to the Horn in 22 days is said to be the shortest ever made. LIVERPOOL, Tau RSDAY. The clipper ship Oliver Lang. one of the Black Ball line of packetq, has arrived with advices from Wellington, New Zealand, to the 28th of Marcb, being 44 days later. She has made the passage in 68 days, and is the first direct vessel from New Zealand for this port for the hst ten years. She brings no specie, but has 2,300 bales of wool and 17 tons of flax, besides parcels of oil, whale bone, &c. The foundation-stone of the new buildings for the use of the general and provincial Legislatures had been laid at Wellington with considerable cere mony. The fourth and last session of the Provincial Council terminated its sittings on the 20th of Fe bruary. Gold to a limited ex' ent bad been discovered in Nelson province. Ern:grants had been freely ab sorbed in the districts within easy distances from Wellington. The Colonial Government had offered handsome rewards for the invention of means for rendering flax and other fibrous plants of Now Zealand avail able as articles of export. Business was improv ing, and money was becoming easier. Several cargoes from England had been sold at generally remunerative prices. The Customs re venue showed a large increase. Porter was very scarce. Drapery, soft wood, and hardware of all kinds dull of sale, the supply being excessive. London soaps were sailing at a profit. The season's wool was nc..t yet all in ;in consequence of the high price it was fetching in England buyers bad been anxious to purchase for remittance, but growers preferred to take their chance of the home market. Provisions were much cheaper, but owing to the increasing population rents wore rising. The following vessels had arrived at Wellington : —The Rose of Sharon, the Indian Quesn, the Myrtle, and the Monsoon. The Phillip Laing and the Belisapa from Lon don, had arrived at Lyttleton. The Ann Wilson, the Heroes of Alma, and the Maori, with Govern ment emigrants, bad not arrived out. The Mon soon would fill with wool. THE MEDITERRANEAN. SOU I'HAMPTON, JUNE 4. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Pent, Captain John Soy, with the heavy por tion of the East India and China mails, in charge of Lieutenant Seward, R.N., Admiralty agent, arrived at 5.30 p.m. to-day. She left Alexandria May 23d. ; Malta, 26th ; and Gibraltar, 31st. She has had generally fine weather throughout the voyage. From Alexandria to Malta she ran the distance in 68 hours. After leaving Matta, she met with some strong westerly winds, and, arriving at Gibraltar after gun-fire, was detained till the even ing of the 31st: From Gibraltar she has bad light winds and fine weather, with a heavy north-west swell across the bay. She is four days and eight hours from Gibraltar. This steamer brings 144 passengers. On freight she has three packages of specie, value 6,700/., and a cargo consisting of 3,244 bales of silk, 68 bales of wool, 63 bags of coffer, 116 cases of s;lk, 35 I:arrels of gum, and 222 packages of general merchandise. The Turkish screw steam-frigate Gyvan Barhv, 42 guns, of 1,800 tons, and 550 horse power, Capt. Mustapha Bey, arrived at Gibraltar from Ply mouth, in charge of Mr. Williams (Liverpool Channel pilot), on the 30th ult , atter a passage of eight days. She met with a strong gale in the Bay from S.E. to N. W., and was hove to for a couple of days, as the Turkish crew preferred going to prayers to making sail, which all the persuasions of Mr. Williams could not prevail on them to do, they saying "too much wind," "'no bono," The engines, by Napier, worked well, and the vessel steamed at the rate of eight to nine kno's, making good weather. She would leave for Con stantinople in a few days. Lord Lyons's fleet was at Malta, and was to leave for Tunis on 31st May. Her Majesty's ship Vul ture left for Gibraltar on the 26th, and the screw st e liner Adelaide wi' h the 47th Regiment on board, on the same day, for Gibraltar. The Sydney, steam-transport, arrived at Gibral tar from Malta on the 28:h, with the right wing of the Ist Royals (2d ba.taliou), under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Edmund Haytitorn e. They landed on the 30th, and were to occupy that portion of the south barracks vacated by the 15th Foot, who are to proceed to England in the same steamer under the command of Colonel Cole. The left wing of the Royals, commanded by Bre vet Lieutenant-Colonel F. G. Urquhart, arrived at Gibraltar on the 29th, in the Australian steam transport. Tue French Government steamer Requin, with the gun-boats Studente, Rafale, and Coulevrine, in tow, left Gibraltar on the 31st for the west. At Gibraltar, on the 31st, were her Majesty's steamer Curlew, and the Turkish steam-frigate Gyvan Barhy. Gibraltar exchanges on the 30th were quoted as under :—London, 90 days' date, 50i ; Paris, do. sf. 380. • Marseilles, do , sf. 39e. ; Genoa, do., sf. 42c. ; Madrid, 8 days' sight, 11 die. ; Cadiz, do., dis. ; Malaga, do., f dis. ; SJville, do., dis. ; Alicante, dis. ; Valencia, do., dis. ; Barcelona, dis. Spanish pillared dollars, 4 per cent. prem. BELGIUM. Manifestations have taken place at Ostend against the law on charitable bequests ; at Bruges they have been confined to an ovation made to the opposition member;, though the state of things looked very serious, and the bishop of that city, M. Malou, one of the au thors of the measure, has been forced to abandon his palace, and take refuge in a convent. The accounts from other parts of Belgium speak of tranquillity being generally restored, although some slight agitation still subsists. The objections to the late bill on charitable institutions appear to gain ground. The communal council of Ghent, in a majority of 48 to 5 lto that of the y ar an it addresss itting oifoth the 2d, Icingvo tseidnabi com mune of Biusels. The communal council of Namur was to assemble on the same day to draw up a similar address. The Journal de Huy of the 2d says : St. Hubert hav e made ioanrfts past. Ardennes. On Satur d. a club of foresters every p l ace `‘ F d o t r uw naod years r re a tr h t s ea numberpatron pilgrimageoa f g y e e day morning 'ast they started Ls usual from t,e church of S. Pierre, and on the afternoon of Alonday returned in procession, and proceeded to the church of St. Pierre. To their great surprise, nn i that of a crowd of people who had assembled to witness their return, they found the doors of the church clo-ed, and every demand for admission was positively refused. The crowd soon be mile excite), and, amidst cries of 'A bas Is calotte 1' A bas lee convents I' the members of the cub dispersed. The fact has produced a considerable sensation in the town, and it is much to be regretted that the order to close the church in this manner should have been given by the clergy under existing circumstancas. NEUCHATEL. A telegraphic deApatch had announced that the Grand Council of the Canton of Neufchatel was convoked for the 21st June to deliberate on an amnesty, without mentioning to what category of prisoners that measure of clemency was meant to apply. We now know that it rela'es to 5u , .:11 members of the militia as did not join their regiments when called on, in con sequence of the events of September. They would be pardoned as a matter of course when the treaty comes into operation, but by means of this extraordinary meeting of the Grand Council they will Le restored to liberty or to their country, according as they are in con finement or fugitive, about a fortnight sooner. RUSSIA. A le ter from St Petersburg of the 26th states that the Emperor has given his formal authorisa tion to a project brought forward by the Agricul tural Society of Southern Russia, for the erection at Odessa of a monument and an asylum for old soldiers. The building is to be in memory of the services rendered to New Russia and Bessarabia by the late Fie!d-Marshal Prince Woronzow. A sub scription in aid of this undertaking will be opened throughout the wholm3of the empire. The Emperor has placed his name at the head of the list by giving 3,000 silver eoubles from his privy purse. SPAIN. MADRID, June 3.—The address of the Chamber of Deputies in reply to the speech from the throne has just been voted by a majority of 221 to 19. The bills on public instruction and the provincial roa, Is are to come under discussion immediately. The Madrid Gazette of the 31st ultimo quotes a paragraph from a Malaga journal, which announces that " Queen Isabella, in consideration of the in timate ties which unle her to Queen Victora, and of the conduct of that sovereign in the affair of Col. Correa Boleno,.has exercised her royal prerogative to pardon some English sailors who were arrested some time ago at Malaga for having committed acts of violence in the street , ." A committee of the Senate had reported in favour of the bill for sanc tioning the treaty between France and Spain, for fixing the precise limits of their respective terri tories. SUICIDE OF A POSTMAN.—Yesterday morning a man named George Smithers hung himself at 16, Bridport street, Dorset-square. His wife discovered him sus pended by a cord, which was attached to a nail of the cupboard door; she cut him down. The deceased had been many years employed in the General Post-office, and was in fear he should not receive a grant from the superannuation fund. The deceased had tied his hands previously to committing the act. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(Ihis Day.) LONDON, June s.—Wind this day at noon, S.E.; mode rate breeze, and sultry weather. SOUTHAMPTON, June 4.—Arrived—Pera, (s.), from Alexandria. Sailed—Hydaspes (s.), Brazils; Indus (a.), Alexandria. FALMOUTH, June 4.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived—Psyche, from Rio Janeiro. Off port—Svenge, from Batavia for Hamburg. BELFAST LOUGH.—Arrived—lngleborough, from Nor folk, U.S. DARTMOUTH, June 4.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived—Eu ropa, from Martinique for Havre ; Walmer Castle, Mel bourne. (PER ELI CTRIO TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Friday, 10 a.m. Wind S.S.E. ; fine. Arrived—Roso, Clyde, Harriett, Hero, Fox, Susannah, Moslem, and Susan, from Newport. Sailed—Argyll, (s), for Carenton ; Atlantic, Sicily. LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning. Wind S. Arrived—Locomotive, from Malaga ; Rosalie, Ostend; Rebecca, New Orleans ; Endymion, Boston ; Scamander, (s.s.), Alexandria ; Balder, Copenhagen ; Sir Willoughby, Rotterdam ; John Norman, San Felipe ; Rostock, Phila. delphia ; Leortes, Leghorn. Sailed—Jane, and Prince of Wales, for Quebec; Giaour, Bahia; Nonpareil, Newfoundland ; Hawk, Sebastian; Cabot, Calcutta; Cora, Paraiba; Albinus Maceio, Para guay. Wind S.S.W. Arrived—Astarte, from Iquique. Wind S.S.E. Arrived---Halll, from Dunkirk. Wind S. QUEENSTOWN, June 3. WATEP.FORD, June 3. DUBLIN, Jun© 4. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH 'MEG/RAMO GRAVESEND, Friday, 10.20 a.m. Wind W.S.W., three-quarters flocd, tine. Arrived, June 4—Dorcus, from Jamaica ; Lusitania, Oporto; Caroline, Guernsey; Caroni, Trinidad ; Digna, St. Domingo ; Gefredo Marnoli, Manilla ; En Gracia, Neivvitas ; Tar, T r i ns did ; Th omas Suook, Lagos; Che valier, Sages Is Grande ; Thomasine, Galipoli ; Mary, Mauritius ; Brothers, St. Vincent • Eclipse, Guernsey; Witch of the Wave, Buenos Ayres ; Sir Robert Sep pings, G eorge T own ; Marian, Colombo. Unity, Caen. Arrived, sth—Alliance, from Mauritius ; Manuel, Ha vanuah ; Cornhill, Barbadoes ; Pacific, Nassau ; HornbY, Jamaica ; Christiana New Yerk ; Ariel, Barhadoes ; Thomas Ma rs h a ll, Demerara; Gilbert Munro, St. Lucia; Vernon, Currashea. DEAL, Friday, 9.40 a.m. Wind S.W. ; light, fine. Passed, June 4—Polonaise, from London, for the Cape of Good Hope; Holyrood, screw steamer, London, for Limerick. Passed in lo v, Juno 4.—Severn, Portland Bay, for Lon don ; Flora, screw steamer, London, for Oporto. Anchored.—Venus, brig, Shields, for Gibraltar. Sailed.—Bosphorus, Port Philip ; Libertas, Adelaide ; Palmerston, Sydney; Pilot Fish, Pernambuco—with all the outward bound, except the Adventure, for Sierra Leone, LITERATURE. Collections, &c. By the Very Rev. Geo. Oliver, D.D. 8 vo. Dolman. Robert Southey, who himself projected a "His tory of the Monastic Orders"—an intention the ncn-realisation of which we remember to have been feelingly lamented some few years since in the Edinburgh by Sir James Stephens, in the course of a learned' and genial biographical criticism upon "St. Francis of Aseisi"—Robert Southey would have welcomed with unaffected delight Dr. Oliver's goodly book of Collections. It would have been a volume after his own heart—truthful, earnest, new, scholarly, gossipping, discursive, and anecdotal. A repertory of curious and out-of-the-way fragments of archaeological information. Not a lumber- room so much as a cabinet—a cabinet carefully pigeon holed and exquisitely arranged. Robert Southey's chief attraction in the Look would, however, without doubt have been the Supplementary No tices appended to it " otices of the Do minican, Benedictine, and Franciscan Orders in England." For these Notices would have furnished the literary antiquary of Keswick with an inestimable score of materiel for the build ing up of that beautiful " Castle in the Air" already particularised as among the number of poor Sou they's manifold and diversified day-dreams. Not by any means, however, 'that those supplement try notices constitute the only or the chief part of the attraction to be found in Dr. Oliver's strangely inte seating tome of " Collections." Those caections themselves the learned and ingenious author has divided into two distinct parts, one illustrating historically, the other biographically, particular por tions of ecclesiastical hint, ry in the six western counties, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wilts, and Gloucester. As an ecclesiastical historian, antiquary, and archueologist, Dr. Oliver has long enjoyed throughout a considerable portion of those six counties, a very high and a deservedly high reputation. It is no less than thirty .even yeirs since the date of his publication at Exeter (namely, in 1820), of his remarkable " Historic Collections relating to the Monasteries of Devon." It was between the years 1839 and 1842 that be gave to the world his'three remarkable volumes en titled " Ecclesiastical Antiquities in'Devonshire." It was subsequently, in 1846, that our venerable author produced his noble folio vol ume" Monasticon Diceoesis Exoniensis" —a worthy continuation of Dugdale, and as such already recognised as authori tative. Other hardly less laborious compositions from the same pen, works displaying an extraordi naryamomit of research, sagacity, and perseverance, have also at intervals made their appearance. Con spicuous among these, his popular volume entitled " Cliffordiana, of which we are not surprised to observe that another and enlarged edition is an nounced to ba in preparation. 'lhe " Collections" now before us will not fail—we rest perfectly assured of this, after carefully scrutinising the contents — will not fail materially to confirm, and at the same time to extend very considerably Dr. Oliver's reputation as an ecclesiastical antiquary and archaeologist. We accept the volume as a fresh earnest of the advent at last to the world of letters of his long anticipated and carefully-prepared work— very soon, let us hope, to see the light—" The His tory of Exeter Cathedral." A work which tie late John Britton would have welcomed as eagcr:y as we have already remarked the late Robert Southey would assuredly have hailed this interesting and alluring octavo of "Collec:ions." Dr. Oliver's foot no' es—we may illustrate the value ofthis latest of his literary productions thus succinctly ex pede Mrculern —are very often a great deal more interesting than many another wriier's text. Ex. gr. his little anecdotal " aside"—commemorative of a character istic incident in the annals of the " Bet edictine Dames," here spoken of as the Ladies of Canning ton. In the course of Dr. Oliver's sketch of them, having mentioned their temporary reception at Marnhull House, in - the county of Dorset, our learned author allows his pen to jot clown in the margin of his narrative this amu , ing little foot no'e " During their twelve years' residence there, a credulous magistrate, of the name of Frampton, waited upon these religious ladies, and informed them that ho must search their premisas for Napol_on Buonaparte, who he was credibly instructed lay concealed there,—that he had a painful duty to perform,-4bat resistance was unavailing, as he bad abundant force to back him, and demanded their keys and aid to apprehend the king's enemy. The search was rigorously made, but proved abortive. On quitting, the prioress assured him she was not surprised at the „re sult, —that her convent at Paris had been as strictly searched for William Pitt by the French authorities, and with similar success !" Speaking of even these footnotes, we may say ex Imo disco omnes—each fragmentary por tion has its value and its interest. Much more, therefore, may we say the same, of the text which those notes merely serve, of course, either to embellish or to explain. It is this blending cf value and inte rest which constitutes the charm of Dr. Oliv.r's " Collections" —as, indeed, of all his various works, antiquarian and archaa logical.? Rosa of Tannenberg. By Christopher Von Schmidt. Pp. 181. Dolman. A translation from the German of an exquisite story reland by an exquisite tale-teller—" Rosa of Taunenburg"—can never fail in any version, English, French, Spanish, Italian, whatever fo reign tongue it may be rendered into, it can never fail, we say, to increase Canon Schnaidt's beau tiful and enviable reputation. Eveiybody who read& a novelette by Canon Schmidt is - the better for it. And the dear old canon of Augs burg does us good, thus, so delightfully! He never sermonizes. He tells all that he has to tell so simply—we hang upon Lin every word while he is talking. And the lovely unler-meaning of the :whole narrative, whatever it may be, only comes fully and distinctly upon us when we have reached the conclusion. While we are reading one of these charming tales by Cbriktopber Von Schmidt, Canon of Abgsburg, we are thinking only of the tale itself. it has - always such a sweet and alluring fascination. It is only in the remembrance of it that the moral of the story presents itself vividly and distinctly to the judgment. And by that time it has found its way tenderly, irresis ibly, int) out heart's core—and is not then t.) be sh.tken out of it. For what is that versa of Keats?—inscribed the other day over the porch of the Manchester Art Exhibition—the first line of th 3 first poem poor John Keats ever published— "A thing of beauty is a j for ever ?" ' A delicious thought, thus continud— " Its loveliness flerervop, it will never Pass into notlangness, etc." We cannot forget these little stories, toll by the tongue of genius, even if we had the heart to wish that we could ! Wh o that has onceread erum can ever forget Defoe's "Robni,:on Crusoe," or Goldsmith's " Vicar of Wakefield," or Voltaire's " Zadig," or Dicken's " Christmas Carol," or St. Pierre's " Paul and Virginia?" And Canon Schmidt's beautiful little tales, in their way, though not quite of the same world-wide fame, come (for such at they are), prettyimuch within the same category. Welcome, therefore, to all English readers of dis ceroment will be this good Christopher Von Schmidt's story of " Rosa of Tanuenbuig," trans lated from the German into our own verriacular— this dear little " Tale of the Olden Time," written by the bright-eyed, warm-hearted Canon of Augs burg, at once for parents and for children. Edith Mortimer. By Mrs. Parsons. Pp. 168. Dolman. The authoress of this thoroughly readable narra tive is already favourably known to a rather large circle of readers by her former historiette of " Thornberry Aliby." Mrs. Parsons, we doubt not, will find her reputation enhanced, and her influence extended, by "Edith At. , rtinter, or The Trials of Life at Mortimer Manor." It is an improvement upon " Thornberry Abbey," as that again was an improvement upon her earlier produc tions. It relates as pleasantly and alluringly as need be "The Trials of Lite" to Edith Mortimer herself—the wayward heroine of the story, whose self-will is ultimately, under the chastening influ ence of those trials, transmuted into sweetness of temper, and all but absolut,ly perfected resignation. The narrative, which is divided into thirteen chap ters, introduces us to " Fr:ends" and " Neigh bours ;" to the "House of Mortimer"—both Manor and Family ; to "The Rich Widow" and to "Those who Work ;" to " Hard Truths" and to "Love S'....enes ;" to " S tan grove Park,' and, among other individuals wh se characters are admirably well drawn, to one of the ' most clearly defined characters in the story (always excepting, of course, Edith herself) Lady Sarah Tregenna. Our authoress, we may observe, dedi cates her little story in graceful terms to " Lady Charles Thynne," intimating, while she does so, that it was written at Lady Chat les Thynno's sug gestion for the entert.tinment of her Daughter. The Irish in .Eng 7 ancl. By William L. Todd, D.D., • Pp. 40. Dolman. An impressive article, originally published in the Dublin Review, and now reprinted in a separate form " with additions." It may be regarded, to a certain extant, as a running c•-.rnmentary on an im portant section of klet,ry Mayhew's "London Lour and the London Poor." Dr. Todd in quently takes occasion to quote Mr. Mayhew, and one of not the least effeAlve extracts made in tin se p:-)gei in reference to " T he Irish in London ''— one of not the least . effectlvo extracts from the pages of that Historian of our Street Sellers, is certainly the following. It is the confessitn of a poor lrial ser vant girl, made to Mr. Mayhew jut. mediatoly after her narrative of her father having d cd of a broken leg : " Mother wasn't long after him, and on her death-bed she said, so low I could hardly hear her, Mary, my dar int, if you starnve, be vartuous. Runimber poor Illen's funeral.' When I was quite a child, Sir, I wen wid mother to a funeral—she was a relation—and it was of a you•g woman that died after her child bad been borren a fortnight, and the wasn't married ; that was Ilic n. Her body was brought out of the Lying-in Hos pital--I've often heard spate of it since—and was in the churchyard to be buried; and her brother, that hadn't seen ber fot a long time, came and wanted to see her in her coffin, and they took the lid off, and then he currused her in her coffin afore hus ; she'd been so wicked. But he wa'n't a good man hisself, and was in dhrink too ; still nobody said anything, and be walked away. It mach; me ill to see Ill9n in her coffin, and hear him cur ruse, and I've rem:mbered it ever since."—Yol. 1, p. 466. . Dr. Todd's evidence in regard to C( the Irish in Rigland" affords very curious and starling corro b(,ration to that already furnished to the public more in detail by Mr. Mayhew, in reference to " The Irish in London." Both records of the race are particularly, and almoit equally, deserving of examination. THE CURRENCY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I perceive by your paper of Monday that you still advocate the issue of national notes of one, two, and three pounds, but I fear the Chancellor of the Exchequer will be too much influenced by the bulliunists to accede to the plan you so ably advo cate. lam not aware whether a simple idea that strikes me, and might easily be carrixd into effect, has ever bent proposed or not, which is, to pay off the whole of the outstanding Exchequer Bills, and issue one, two, and three pound notes for the same ' amount, not payable on demand of bullion, but re ceivaVe in payment of taxes and duties of every description, and to be a legal tender by Government in all their payments cf thu fractional parts . under 51., and for all payments of Pest-office money-orders throughout the United Kingdom, which, if reduced to a penny on issue, and a penny stamp added on rectipt of all sums of 40s. and upwards, would cause an immense circulation ; and I know, from experience, notes would b 3 preferred to sovereigns. This could be tried on a limited scale at first, and extended after if found to answer, like the penny postage, by establishing additional money-order offices throughout the kingdom, and conducted at a comparatively small expense by additional clerks at the Money-order-office at the General Post-office ; and it would be the saving to Government of the whole of the expense and interest on the Exchequer Bills, and not increase their responsibilities, and. I be a much greater accommodation to the public. —I am, &c., • J. C. Bristol, June 4, 1857. PRIME, TEE POET. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. Sir,—l beg of you to &low me space in your journal for an appeal to the patrons of literature and to the benevolent public on behalf of a well known artizan-poet, John Critchley Prince, whose refined and eloquent verse has won for him a fame which cannot be ephemeral. This talentml mau is encumbered with a family afflicted with d isease and iu the most abject povtrty. Shall be perish like the many meu of genius who in life were neglected, but whose memories are bright and deathless ? I would ask those who have shed tears of pity on hear;ng the sad story of Chatterton, 'to show active sympathy for his distressed brother poet, Prince. I shall be bapoy to give information and be an almoner. I have the honour t 3 be, sir, your faithful servant, EDWARD J. WOOD. North-street, Cambridge-heath, June 4, 1857. The Earl of Powis gave a delightful ball lest night, at his mansion, in Berkeley-square, at which •a brilliant circle of the members of the aristocracy assembled. Lady Coote has issued cards for a ball at her mansion in C. - mnangbt place on Thursday, June 25. The Right Hun. W. E. Gladstone and Sir William Heatbcote arrived in town yesterday, from a visit to their constituents at Oxford. HORTICULTURAL GARDENS, CHlSWlCK.—Yesterday was the second flower, fruit,,and vegetable show of the season at Chiswick ; the day before being the firAt show, when, as usual, the elite of fashion, beauty, and excln• siveness was present. The B )tanical Society of Prates is this year to explore the environ 3 of Montpellier, Cevennes, and part of the coast of the Mediterranean. The general rendezvous is fiaed for the Bth of the present month at Montpellier, and strangers - to the society are to be permitted to attend its meetings, and take part in its excursions. The Lunacy 811 for Scotland, si hich is to be intro duced immediately into the House of Commons, is, we ( Scotsnian ) h,ar, to consist mainly of an extension of the p iwers of the Engltsh Board to Scotland, with a secre tary and two co-operating members here. This will save the txpenae of a separate board to Edinburgh. ROYAL SOCIETY OF MUSICIANS.—On Wednesday evening de annual benefit concert of the Royal Society of Musicians was held in Exeter-hall. The performance was Handel's " Messiah," the most eminent vocalists in London lending, as usual, their support. The society has, during the past year, appropriated the cam of 2,757/. Hs. 7d. to the benevolent purposes for which it was established. THE JERUSALEM.—This establishment, which has be e )me so well known as the resort of parties connected with the East India and China trade more especially, and during the period the Hon. East India Company held the monopoly of the commerce, has just undergone very considerable alterations and improvements, by which it has been rendered one of the fine.t, and most commodious, and best arranged subscription coffee-houses of the City. FINSBURY ELECTION. —EXAMINATION OF RUMP NlZANCES.—Yesterlay was appointed by Mr. Rickards, the counsel to the Speaker, for the hearing of the ob. jeotions taken by Mr. Cox, the sitting member, to the recogoivinces entered into by the four electors of the borough in support of the petition aga•nst his return. Coun-el for the sitting member, Mr. Price, and for the petitioners, Mr. Tindal Atkinson and Mr. F. La4rence. After a brief hearing the examiner deciled that the re cognizances were sufficient, and ordered Mr. Cox to pay the whole cos s of the inquiry. WATERLOO-BRIDGE COMPANY.—Yesterday the half yearly meeting of this company was held at the Free masons' Tavern ; Wm. Anderson, E-q , in the chair. The report shooed that from the 234 of August last to the 23d of February last, the amount received from loot toll was 5,0271. ; hcrse t )1!, 4,5641. 141. 71. ; in all 9,591/ 17s. 7d ; and Iron other sources, 5201. 134. ; hock appropriated, 6191. 9s. 11d. Disbursements, 1,986/. ss. 24. ; interei4 on bonds, 1,2451. 16s. 3d. ; dividend on annuities upon 37 ,0001. the half year, at 4s. in the pound, 7,5001. The general balance showed cash in treasurer's hands, 5,858/. 18s. 104. ; Exlhtquer Bias, 5,0001. ; an:l after providing for dividends and in terest on bonds, a balance of 8731. Bs. 7d. was left in reserve. The report was unanimously adopted, and Mr. Newbery, of Bayswater, elected a director, in the moat of the late Mr. huff. A vote of thanks to the chairman ended the proceedings. FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE AT ST. KATHERINE'S Dom. —Yesterday afternoon a man named Daniel Miller, aged 40 years, a lighterman, was engaged in loading a barge by the IlleaisB of a crane, when some portions of the tackle gave way, and several bags of sugar fell on and crushed him in a dreadful manner. The poor fellow was extricated with all speed, and seen by Dr. English, who ascertained that he bad sustained compound fractures of both arms and legs. He was placed in a cradle and carried to the London Hospital, but died shortly atter his admission. The dee( aged has left a wife and six children totally unprovided for. . . MANSLAUGHTER.—The inquest on the boiy of TLos. Hudson, who was killed by wounds received in a scuffle with Mr. Kendall in Agar-street in the Strand, was re sumed yesterday. Several witnesses said they saw the deceased and Mr. Kendall fighting, and that they fell to gether, the latter being uppermost. nee jury returned a verdict that the deceased was killed by Richard Ken dall, who was then taken into custody, he having ap peared at the inquest on his own recognisance to attend. 'I BE ISTHMUS OF SUEZ CANAL.—At a mewing of the Hul Chamber of Commerce, held on the 30th ult., S. T. Hase'l, Esq., president, in the chair, on the motion of Air. M. R. Keigbley, E.q., seconded by C. M. Nor wood, Esq., it was resolved unanimously—" That M. Ferdinand de Lesseps having detailed the object of his proposed plan of a canal through the Is:hmus of Suez, with a view to obtaining the opinion of the mercantile community as to the utility of a direct communication between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, this inset. ing is perfectly satisfied that the advantages of such a communication would be great and very beneficial to the whole of the trading interest, and merits the support not only f the men antile classes, hut of the indivicual goo vernments of the civilised world." CONFIRMATION OF THE BISHOP OF NORWlCH.—Yes terday the ceremony of confirming he election of the Hon. Thomas Pelham, Doctor of Divinity, as Bishop of Norwich, by the Dean and Chapter of the diocese, was celebrated at Bow Church, Casapside. The proceedings were of ly fennel. Her Majesty's writ for the election, the record of the election by the dean and chapter, and the decree of the Archbishop of Canterbury, were read and subscribed by the vicar-general. The bishop elect then took and subscribed the oaths of supremacy, abjl.l - sitnony, and canonical obedience. There remain two other ceremoeies—viz., the consecration and en thronement of the new prelate. SALE OF THE GARRICK THEATRE.—Yesterday, at the Auction Mart, Mr. Robins (Ailed to public auction the leasehol t property known as the Garrick Theatre, situ ated in Lene,n-street, Goodinan's 7 fields, with the scenery, properties, and wardrobe. The property was built a bout_ persons two ofears h7l o d , foraed aanffourndesxapci unexpired term o ti of Sears,ab o n . 11 ,6 t 2: a ground rent of 251. per annum, and the thea t re i s no let at a rent of 5201. per annum. Knocked down at 2950bL been 6 j uo The to l. tal cost of the property was stated to have •- 4 Liverpool 4 4 1111 app e: ere unalte 10 bal es , 1 , ', 4 : er s• The and price • : 11 9 Fo re i gt l e * a fair a t )bet there is , e4 erleneecl er declined, !el' than th , ateldy rather el '' ll sactions 1 I lees are si ~Ferlb. 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