The Sun. — London, England, 1857-05-11 00:00:00

FiER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. First appearance of Madame ALBONI. REICHARDT, BELLETTI, VIOLET I'l, BENE VENTANO. TO-MORROW EVENING (TUESDAY), May 12. IL BARBIERE DI SEVIGLIA. Rosina, Madame Alboni. Ballet—LA ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda, Mdlle. Pocchini. IterpArticulars see bills. A limited number of boxes in the Half Circle Tier have been specially reserved for the public, and may be had on ap. plication at the Box-of f ice at the Theatre Colonnade, Hay. market. Price Ono Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Last appearance of Madlle. Pocchini. FICCOLOMINI, GIUGLINI, BEL LETTI, VIOLEPTI. On THURSDAY EVENING, May 14, an Extra Night. LUCIA DI LAM.IERMOOR. Lucia, Piecolmini ; Edgard°, Sig. Giuglini. After which, LA ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda, Madlle. Pocchini (her last appearance.) Far particulars, see bills. A limited number of Boxes in the Half-circle Tier have been specially reserved for the public, and may be had on applica tion at the Box-office, at the Theatre Colonnade, Haymarket. Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING will be performed Shakespere's tragedy of KING RICHARD THE SECOND. King Richard 11., Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by a new Farce, in one act, called AN ENGLISHMAN'S HOUSE IS HIS CASTLE. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buekstone. NEW ARRANGEMENT OF PRICES OF A DMISSION. THIS EVENING (May 11) to commence at Seven .'clock, with THE EVIL GENIUS. Tom Itipstono, Mr. Buckstone. After which, the successful Classical Love Story, un der the Apple-lation of A CAL ANTA ; or, The Three Golden Apples : in which Miss M. Coiver will appear; also Miss M. Wilton, and Miss Ellen Teruan. To conclude with BOX AND COX. In future the prices will be : Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), es. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d. Dress Boxes 5 '0 Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes ....... 3 0 Upper Boxes... Pit . Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery, T HEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed a new and original drama (never acted). entitled JOSEPH CHAVIGNY ; or, Under the Thumb, Ben. Webster, Paul Bedford, Madame Celeste, dle. Followed by a new Farce, called FEARFUL TRAGEDY IN THE SEVEN DIALS. To conclnde with the new and original domestic sketch, entitled WELCOME, LITTLE STRANGER. Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Bedford, &c. OYAL SURREY THEATRE, t , Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Crescvick. THIS EVENING will be performed MATHILDE. After which, THE THREE WONDERS OF PEKIN, To conclude with 102 ; or, The Veteran and his Progeny. Mr. Widdicomb, &c. OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING will he performed a new drama, called DADDY HARDACRE. Mr. Robson, &c. To conclude with YOUNG AND HANDSOME. Messrs Robson, G. Murray, &c. Commence at half-past Seven. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. Last Five Nights of the present successful Entertainments. On Saturday the theatre will be closed for a Grand Re hearsal of Verdi's far-famed Opera of IL TROVATORE ; or The Gipsy's Vengeance, which will be produced on Monday next, with Equestrian Illustrations, and supported by the FIRST OPERATIC ARTISTES OP THE DAY. On Friday, May 15, the Annual Complimentary Benefit of Mr. William Cooke, and his daughter, Miss Kate Cooke, un der the distinguished patronage of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress. THIS EVENING, and following nights, the performance will commence with the Grand Military Spectacle, entitled THE FRENCH IN ALGIERS; or, The Battle of Constantine. To be followed by a matchless routine of SCENES IN THE ARENA, in which Miss Kate Cooke will appear. To conclude with a Risible Farce. Commerce at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from 1/., no charge for booking ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6cl. 8.,x-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West, Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of selections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Duets, &c., viz.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunel% Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta ; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans, H. Grover, ?. Farrant, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri. Senor Antonio M. de Solla, and E. L. Himo ; Masters Bennett and Corri; Messrs. Sam Cowell, Sam Collins, and E. Mackney, Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.; lirector, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre cisely, Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock, aIGEt WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TdIB DAY—Morn. 7 min. aft. 3—Evening 22 min. aft, 3 I'o-kionßovr—Morn. 39 min. aft. 3—Evening 55 mid. aft. 3 THE WEATHER—SUN °MOE, MAY 10. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 61 -highest since noon yesterday. 46 lowest this morning and during the night. 53 -this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29.75. WIND, Easterly to S.E.; rather fresh, with dull wea ther, and partial rain at times. MAT 11. 56 highest since noon yesterday. it -lowest this morning and during the night. 66 this day at noon. Besosirrint, down to 29 68—now WIND, S.E.—Light, with fine summer weather. It rained smartly early this morning. i lA N ' ,‘..../ (.;" . - - --tt...i; z: z L t .-;- : „--,:,y- f o-,1. z c. \-,.. 4 S',,V, --- - -.__,.:.--- .....- - 4, 4 ~. LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1357. This evening the Chancellor of the Exchequer willl move for a Select Committee to inquire into the operation of the Bank Act of 1844, and of the Bank Acts for Ireland and Scotland of 1845. The Right Honourable Gentleman has lost no time in introducing the all-important question ; we trust, however, that he will be prepared to modify materially the opinions which ke enun ciated on the 6th of February, or that he will at least consent to the appointment of a fair and impartial committee, whose report cannot be re garded as "a foregone conclusion." Even within the last three months additional light has been cast on the subject ! We have seen the rate of interest again raised to a minimum, of 7 per cent. to the immediate customers of the Bank of Eng land, which may be regarded as 10 or 12 per cent. to those who are not so fortunate as to possess equal facilities for obtaining pecuniary accommo dation. It is certain that the trading and manu facturing interests are greatly injured by this exorbitant and usurious price. Orders are re fused, simply because the cost of obtaining the means of executing them is so great, that the entire profits would be transferred from the pockets of the producers to those of the non producers. There are unquestionably plenty of loan societies and money-lenders, whose demands increase in proportion to the necessities of their victims, until there is every prospect that they will eventually swallow up not merely the pro fits, but the whole of the capital of the borrowers. Industry is paralysed, and, as wo have repeatedly stated, those who, under a better system, might be the creators of national wealth, become un profitable consumers. In :'act, the bees in the national hive are ruthlessly sacrificed for the be nefit of the drones. This deplorable state of affairs has become the normal condition of the country. Even the Times itself confesses that "a return to cheap money icannot be expected for several years !" There raay be sanguine persons who hope even against hope for a return of better times. But sooner or later this must end. It is vain to expect that it can continue. The inevi table end will be certain ruin, and even the moneyocracy will at length discover the grave mistake of which they have been guilty, in " killing the g oose that laid the golden eggs !" But it will then be "too late !" The mischief will be perpetrated, and no liberality or change can restore matters to the condition in which they were placed before the monetary revo lution that must occur, and which will not only occasion fearful sufferings to the working classes, but eventually to all but leviathan capitalists ! Nor is the enhanced rate of discount all that is to be complained of. There are new restrictions imposed, which press severely even on capitalists themselves. Advances can no longer be obtained on Consols. It was bad enough for those who had lent money to the State at 3 per cent, to be obliged to pay 7 per cent. for any temporary loans which they might require on the same security. But now they cannot be obtained at any price from the quasi national establishment. The certainty of obtaining money at any time on Consols was one of the things that kept up quotations in the market ; that feature being removed, the value of the investment will be seriously diminished, and prices must necessarily fall. Should another Loan be re quired, it must be effected on much higher terms ; and every fundholder will witness a seri ous depreciation in the nominal value of his in vestment ! Even leviathan capitalists may not like to have it supposed that the value of their accumulated wealth is less than it had previously been. But the premiums paid for gold by the Bank of France completely disposes of the question ! For the comparatively small sum of 6,0001., they can take 1,000,0001. from the Bank of England For 60,0001. they can produce a commercial crisis in England of greater intensity than that of 1847 I The expenditure of half a million would occasion far greater calamities, so far as pecuniary matters are concerned, than the Russian war that cost us 30,000,0001. Surely, then, some precautions should be taken while die present grievance is so palpable, the future danger so imminent ! If the Bank Charter Act be renewed, without change, for a further term of ten years, the Nation will be unable to extricate itself on any terms from the involvement. It is at all events worth while to test the feeling of the new Parliament. Mr. DISRAELI thought it was useless to divide the House on the appoint ment of the Committee " unless he should receive greater encouragement than he anticipated." He cannot now put forward a similar excuse ; unless he chooses to try, he cannot tell what will be the feeling of the House ! " A straw thrown up" will indicate the pointfrom which the wind blows. A single division on the name of a member, will give valuable information. Nothing, at all events, can be effected by apathy or indifference. Anything worth having is worth struggling for. It was not by patient submis sion that the Anti-Corn Law League destroyed the giant monopoly of the landowners. And if monetary reformers desire the removal of even a more formidable grievance they must bestir them selves while there is yet time. Palma non sine pulvere is a sound policy. They must display zeal, energy, and perseverance before they can hope for the abatement of the sociel nuisance. There is a story that a wealthy citizen, of Antwerp, if we remember rightly, or of some other Flemish town, had a large stone by his door, over whieh his neighbours often fell at night, and were lucky if they went away with nothing worse than bruised shins. At length the complaints became so general that the burgher had to appear before the magistrates to answer them. Either the law was not very clearly against him, or rather difficult to enforce against a long purse, and it was not easy to compel him to re move the obstruction ; in his philanthropy, how ever, he offered, though nobody should force him to take away the stone, to hang a lantern over it after dark. The course of our legislators in regard to election matters, is the parallel to that of the wayward burgher. At every election, thousands of electors are stumbling over an obstacle which the law puts in their way. The law compels them, if they vote, not merely to give their vote, but to give it so that any one on whom they are dependent can use " undue influence." This is loudly complained of after every contest. Bribery and intimidation in their countless forms, are openly charged upon the winning party, and the losing party too. No one doubts the truth of these complaints. In every constituency, those who dare speak, can tell of others who would have voted otherwise, but for " undue influence." " Such a one would have voted differently, but his lawyer, his banker, his creditor, his customers, were strongly on the other side, and he dared not disoblige them"—and almost as frequently—" So-and-so did not vote at all—he had customers on both sides." Well—the Legislature is appealed to. This stumbling block—your poll-book--is bruising our shins, or doing us worse mischief at every elec tion ; for goodness sake do remove the nuisance Be content with having our votes, without forcing us to disclose them. We had reater not have votes at all than make our conraciences sore for weeks together by stumbling over your polling book. Never does an election occur but we do violence, either to our interests or to our honest judgments. Now, Messieurs the Legislators know full well the truth of the complaints, many of them, in fact, are Legislators because they true. Yet the ugly stone is a precious hei:rloom to them. They and their predecessors, perhaps, for several generations, have used it to mount the public, and to ride it, booted and spurred, as the Upper ten thousand wish. "They won't remove the stone, that they won't, for all the electors in the kingdom ; the law does not compel them, and no one shall." They do not wish, however, to seem too un gracious, though they like to shew their obsti nacy ; so they offer to compromise the matter. The poll shall still be open, but they will hang up a warning Act of Parliament in the polling.. booth—it shall be a misdemeanour in law for any one to use undue influence during an election ; and the penalty shall be 501. in each case. If a clergyman, for instance, comes and threatens to deprive a baker of his own custom, and of baking the charity bread also, unless he votes as the priest bids him ; if a landlord intimates through his sfeward that his tenant must vote with him or quit; if others in unlawful authority over us do like things, why then they must smart for by Act of Parliament. With such a legislative ligh on the freedom of tl►e polling-booth, why need any one fear to walk in and vote at ease ? lin- luckily the Legislative lanteru is not of half so much use as was that of the Flemish burgher. i That showed o n ly th e o ld man ' s perversity n pre ferring the nightly trouble of lighting and main taining his lamp, t 3 the trouble once and over of removing the stone. Our luminous Act, although constructed, seemingly, with infinite carp, leaves the poor voter, in thousands of cases, wronged in mind or in estate. i We had a specimen of its working last Tuesday, in the case of the QUEEN versus BARNWELL ; the latter being a clergyman, against whom a rule had been granted to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against him for threatening to deprive Mr. TREiIEARN, a baker, of his own custom, and also to take from him ultimately the sufplying of a, charity with sixty loaves weekly if he did not vote for Mr. MAIN WARING. The rule was discharged, because the defendant, in a somewhat roundabout way, denied the charge. Probably, no one, however, doubted that it was substantially a true one, and that TREHRARbT, though not driven to violate his judg ment, did suffer the loss of the Rev. E. BARN WELL'S custom, and may yet suffer more, for vot ing honestly. The act referred to is expressed in the most stringent terms, and all the judges agreed that to threaten to take away custom is a misdemeanour punishable under the act, Lord CAMPBELL stat ing that after the election a person could employ any tradesman he pleased, but could not during the election threaten di rectly or indirectly to deprive him of custom in order to influence his vote. Mr. Justice EnLE also observed that " the object of the statute was that the voter should be allowed to exercise his calm judgment, without being disturbed by selfish motives, and to protect him from threats a f fecting his private interests." If this be its object, and we grant that it is the avowed object of the act, we may well ask what better description can be given of the reason for which the Ballot has been adopted wherever it is in use ; and whether the act, really needed, is any other than a ♦ery simple one, providing that no elector shall hence forth b• required to put his vote on record for the uss of his threateners. Who will deny, for instance, that under the Victoria Election Act, which we have recently published, threatening and bribery must be reduced to minimum, indaed annihilated. It is all very well for an act of Parliament to threaten Mr. BARNWELL with a penalty if ho threatens Mr. TREREARN with one, but former acts have given Mr. BARNWELL the means of carrying out his threats—let the Legislature re peal those acts, and substitute one which should withdraw Mr. TREUEARN'S vote from the cognis ance of every mortal, leaving him really "to ex ercise his calm judgment," and Mr. TREREARN will need to fear no threats, nor Mr. BARNWELL to fear prosecutions for them. The law has created the nuisance of bribery and intimidation by requiring open voting, and makes law after law to prevent people being injured by it ; in the name of common sense let it remove the open voting and the nuisance will vanish with the law. Put the voters beyond the threatener's reach rather than tempt him to threaten and punish them when he has done it. The elector owes his vote to no one, why then keep an account against hina as if he were debtor to his clergyman, or to his landlord, or to any one else 7 Give the man his vote in fee simple—give him the BALLOT. The speech of Lord Nanert, at the annual din ner of the St. George's Society of New York, a report whereof appeared in our impression of Saturday, is worthy of attentive perusal, at both sides of the Atlantic. It is not merely because it was couched in polished phraseology, or contained well-rounded periods. It is not because it was far beyond the ordinary class of post prandial oratory ! Had it not possessed a far higher claim, it should have remained unnoticed in our leading columns. But there was a thorough and cordial kindliness of feeling perceptible in every sentence, that proved, beyond the possibility of doubt, that the speaker was satisfied alike with himself and with those whom he was brought into contact. He inculcated the grand principle of mutual for bearance and indulgence----that the Representa tives of the two great nations of the Anglo-Saxon race should not strive to obtain petty advan tage% over eaeh other, but rather strive to co operate in the great cause of universal bene volence and philanthropy. It is not by formal written engagements, by be ing mutually bound over in heavy recogoisances to keep the peace towards each other, that the inte rests of either nation can be advanced. One spark of good feeling and fair straightforward in tegrity, is worth a hundred stipulations, albeit of the most stringent character. We do not want " entangling alliances," save, as the Noble Lord justly remarked that of " the submarine cable" between the two nations, that will convey instan taneous intelligence from one to the ether. In all other respects the communications should be of the most candid and open character, perfectly ex empted from diplomatic slang or hair splitting, and quibbling interpretation of existing treaties. All existing jealousies, on either side, should so far as practicable be suppressed. We are of the same. blood, speaking the same language, and pro fe,asing the same religion. Let us then be brothe rs in reality, as well as in name. United, W e m a y defy the world, or, to use the parlancr4 of our con sins, " w h o p th e universe." As L or d N APIER de clared, " the peaceful and lee - Amato expansion of . the United St a t es forms a matter of satis rJvery reasonable English faction and prid e f or man ; " it forms '• the best resort and relief for our superabundant population ; the best market for 'Air increasing industry. It is the triumph 'A our labour and our arts, of our lan guagr.,, our religion, and our blood." But it tnast be a "peaceful and legitimate" expansion. We cannot tolerate in our friends what we would ourselves be ashamed to do. We desire the honour of the Anglo-Saxon name, and cannot sanction anything that tends to its depreciation. We wish to t3acli a great moral lesson to despots, and must feel intense pain when they can point to anything injurious to free institutions. But we only wish to advise, not to legislate—to in fluence by persuasion rather than by force —and we shall willingly receive similar instructions from the New World. There are opportunities for mutual improvement that should, not b e di s regarded. Lord NAPIER enters on the important duties (we participate in the hope that they may not be very arduous) which have been entrusted t:) his hands, in an excellent spirit. We ear nestly hope that nothing may arise to change or embitter these healthy feelings. "By an easy exercise of frankness, of mutual for bearance and indulgence, no question can arise which will not admit of an easy and an amicable settlement." We hope and believe that this may be the feeling on both sides. Distrust begets dis. trust. An overreaching disposition on one side is sure to occasion a similar one on the other. Our diplomatic intercourse should be like that of private gentlemen, where oue would be ashamed to ask anything, that the other would not be bound to grant. Reciprocity and co-operation will ensure the welfare and hap piness of both nations ; and the originators of any demand,{ likely to disturb that auspicious state of affairs, will have much to answer for. The good sense of the People should put an immediate stop to diplomatic quarrels, whenever there is tilt I slightest appearance of a cloud in the horizon, THE SUN, _LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 11, 1857 THE DUCHESS Or" -0' RENT. We loam, with deep ..-egret, that th e s t a t e of the f _aealth not altogeth er such as hteßileo''.yllalofiltehnifesss's family and friends could de sire. It is stated that symptoms of an unfiwour able character have recently shown themselves, and cau ied considerable anxiety among those who en joy the confidential intimacy of her Royal High nee. Tl~?o~nang Post. THE ROYAL ACADEMY. [THIRD NOTICE. ] : It is a source of sincere regret to us that a young artist of such unquestionable genius as Mr. Everett Millais should not merely be retrograding so ob ! viously in his Art, but should actually, by the man ner of his retrogression, be rendering himself (we must put it in plain terms) absolutely ridiculous ! The instant impulse produced upon us, on turning our glance either to No. 283 or to No. 408, is to laugh outright ! The former picture being the hideousest as well as the grotesquest within the reach of one's imagination. The later bearing a wonderful resemblance to a tragedy turned into a tomfoolery. Take the first, No. 283: " A Dream of the Past : Sir Isumbras at the Ford." There straddles, bolt upright, on a roman-nosed cart horse, a grim old hobgoblin, having a very thin, grey, ragged beard (as if he had left off shaving for about a fortnight), and his limbs (a very forked radish of a man !) cased in yellow plate armour ! And this is "Sir Isumbras at the Ford !" The knight being altogether about as much like a knight as the "Man in Armour" in Lord Mayor's Show ! His eyes exceedingly resembling boiled gooseberries—and his destrier being in shape and action uncommonly like Master Jacky's notion of a horse, as seen among the smudged sums on his slate, or in the midst of the blotted pothooks of his copy book. Or—turning to the other exemplar of Pre- Raphaelitism, No. 408, " The Escape of a Heretic, 1559 "—what other feeling but one of absolute comicality can possibly be produced by the merest look askance at that mock-monk's mouth in the centre of the picture ?—a mouth, the lips of which are sticking out into an exaggeration of a pout, such as any wag of the schoolroom might produce if he were "putting o n " a sham fit of the sullens ! Both of these extraordinary paintings, we main tain, really appear as though the artist, in common parlance, were trying to " play the fool" with the public generally, but particularly with his admirers. For, apart from the absurdity glaring upon us from each canvass in turn—each, in turn, has about it, qualities, merits, beauties, that separately, and collectively command our admiration ! The little boy's face (dreamy and childlike) in the " Sir Isumbras," and the marvellous flesh tints iu the "Escape of a Heretic"—are wonders to be hung over in delight and astonishment. You see at once that this great Artist has genius —but a genius that delects perversely in a ludicrous and degrading masquerade. Another and a very different " Assoc ate"— Frost —appears to be fast settling down into a mannerism that ultimately, we fear, may degene• rate into the merest mediocrity. No. 14, ' 6 Nar cissus" is certainly worthy of him—it is exquisite in its classic gracefulness. But No. 161, a " Sea Nymph ; and No. 327, " O'Donoghue's Mistress," and No. 326, " Coaxing "—have been seen, again and again, befure now, by repetition upon repetition. We know them by heart. They are exceedingly pretty—but we are quite tired of them, if only by reason of their sameness and monotony. Pickersgill's " Duke Orsino and Viola" (No. 87) is a charming, and, all things considered, a satisfactory specimen of another of our pictorial mythologists--who has this time, however, turned from the classic Fairyland of Paganism to the Poetic Fairyland of Shakepere ! Poole's " Field Conven ticle" (No. 391) is altogether a subject too old, hackneyed, and thoroughly used-up to interest any one—even when rendered anew by the brush that revealed to us Job under the weight of his House hold Calamities, and Solomon Eagle prophesying, in the midst of the Terrors of the Great Plague of London, with the burning chauldron of coala upou his head ! S an t d e li g h ts our eyes, in No. 568, with a glimpse of " Infancy," as he sees it ! Frank Stone has a delightful French scene of a market-cart going by, heavily laden with Jean Crapaud, Madame Jeannot, et sa Famille —full of life, and fun, and natu:.—entitled "Bon jour, Messieurs !" Goodan , quite a compani on pietist: in No. 364, h as o (in its way) to this—a painting representing " A Wedding Dance in Brit tany." Out of WithrJrington's four charming contri butions, we N 0 . a are fain fain to sel ec t, as our espec i al "Spring"—Spring as seen in the growth, the budding,flowering the of some sweet virginal primroses I Linnell's No. 467, " Where the nibbling flocks do stray." is an idyll upon canvass—a delicious landscape. Faed has surpassed himself this season in No. 264, " The First Break in the Family, " incomparably, as yet, his masterpiece. It is a picture, we are quite certain, that would entirely delight the authoress of " John Rintoul," aN o. 501 , and " Zaid ee ," an d " Katie Stewart, " and " The Athelings"— % painti ng a f ter the heart of Margaret Oliphant. As to th e y oung artist who won the ad miration of u s a ll l as t year [2,y his noble work, illus tz trating the Death o f << this season full real= Chat ter ton"—Wallis—he y es, we had almo s t sa id more than realizes, o ':tr expectations. No. 458. " A Sculptor's Workshop, St rat f or d- on-Avon, 1617 " nc . , " Montaign e i n t h e lib rary of his i chateau, n Gascony" —are both works of indubitable gentsis. The former especially. It is the thought Qi a Poet-Artist —a thought worthily, nobly, ex quisitely realized ! Mr. Wallis has only to advance upon the same road upon which he has already adventured so successfully—and Fame and Fortune are his. May he prosper—and with life he is certain of winnins , his spurs as an academician. For the name of another young artist who took our praises by storm last season, we look in vain, unhappily, now, in all this long cata logue —we mean Mr. Burton, who for 1856 painted so wondrously the death of the gambling duellist in the presence of his lady-love and her Puritan instructor. He has contributed nothing to the pre sent year's exhibition. Not so W. C. T. Dobson, who, besides another (smaller) picture, 63, "Reading the Psalms," has a lov e ly scr i p t ura l pa i nting in the ' gallery, in 556, " The Cuild Jesus going down with his Parents to Nazareth." A very beautiful work of art, which we long to see worthily en graved. J. M. Carric's two contributions are —as any one might safely have predicated they would be, who at all remember,' his " two" in the 1856 Exhibition —successes. One of them especially—the landscape, No. 542, "Rydal, Westmoreland." The precise meaning of the second, No. 996, " Waiting for the Stage Coach 17th Century," we must acknowledge we don't rightly comprehend. This is poked away in the North Room—a room generally rather chilly and deserted. In the South Room, we recognise, with a now accustomed satisfaction, many new specimens of T. Carrick's admirable skill as a painter of minia tures half a-dozen, in fact, altogether, among which half-dozen we may particularise os. 725, and 702 as particularly excellent. In the same apartment, among the miscellaneous drawings, we must especially notice No. 914, by F. Piercy—a charming sketch of "A Garden-gate, near that of Osborne." In one of the larger rooms, O'Neill evidences afresh his vivid appreciation of the humourous in No. 541, representing "The Last Day of a Sale," in which we have drolly delineated, for our amuse ment, all the hubbub, crush, and confusion, familiar to every practised auctioneer. G. Land seer's graceful portraiture, in No. 641, of " Miss Matthews and Favourites," does credit to the young artist's ssnse of the True and Beautiful-- whether viewed in regard to the young lady her self, the pony, the dog, the butterfly, or the land scape. Gen-rally spe tking, however, this season, the Portraits without revealing amongst them any Great Success—are more than usually meri torious. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—About four o'clock on Friday afternoon an accident occurred on the London and North-Western Railway, at the coal-yards crossing, near the passenger station, Fishergate, Preston, by which a woman named Jane Waddington was instantaneously deprived of life. The unfortunate woman was returning home, having two bundles of rod iron she had been pur chasing for her husband, who is a blacksmith, in one arm, and an infant is the other. She was accompanied by a woman, and when on the point of crossing the line to go into Dock-street a coal train came up from a siding and proceeded towards the tunnel. The woman waited until the last waggon had passed, and were cro , siog the line, when a luggage-train, which had been hidden from their view by the coal-train, emerged from the tunnel in an opposite direction. One of the women succeeded in clearing the train, buL the other (the deceased) was might by the buffer and thrown upon the line, the train passing over her body, hands, and legs, cutting off one of her breasts, and teal - leg away a portion of flesh from various parts of the body, tier iu4et was thrown ff.''' . ward out of her amyl ! AO OA folintlll l .±.l near to her aide in the R set space; Beyond being a good des! I shaken the child was hot injtired. The deceased was I about 35 years elt 4 ., and has left a family of three tihildren. te be hoped for the future safety of the public that % , 11 . (3 , r a i lny rtuiborittol ',‘l!! to 6 sot+ipelled to er e ct bridge et this stiet., several accidents of a fatal nature naving previously happened by pe4sons having to cross the metal , , ttite uangerous piade tdr d #feseinef cifin boi; be conceived, for in addition to the large number of , regular trains passing over the line at this point coal trains are often standing or shunting. It is stated that the corporation have given their sanction to the stoppage of the crossing. No blame is attributed to the engine-driver, as it was impossible for him to have stopped the train and prevented the accident, and he had given the usual sigbal of danger—the whistle. At an inquest held on the following day (Saturday) a verdict of "Accidentally Killed" was given, and the jury re- I commended that some steps be taken at the place where the accident occurred for the future safety of the public. LATEST NEWS. THE OVERLAND MAIL. We have received the following telegraphic despatch from Mars Pines : MARSEILLES, SUNDAY, MAY 10. We have advices from Alexandria to the 2d of May. The Bombay mail arrive 1 at Suez on the 30th of April. There are no tidings of the Calcutta mail. The capture of Mohammerah on the 26th March by General Outram with a force of 4,500 men, which left Bushire on the 19th, is confirmed. The entrance of the Karoon had been skilfully fortified by the enemy, but the forts were silenced by the steamers in two hours. Prince Khanlas Mirza, at the head of 13,000 men, fled, with a loss of 200, leaving ammunition, stores, camp equipages, and 17 guns. General Stalker and Commo lore Etheridge have both committed suicide in a moment of temporary insanity. The Bombay money-market was improving. The import-market was fair. Freights were falling. MALTA, MAY 7. Lord Elgin passed Malta on the 2d of May. Lord Lyons' squadron continues in Valetta harbour. VIENNA, SUNDAY, MAY 10. An amnesty has been granted to all those persons who, having been condemned to imprisonment for political offences, are now in Austrian prisons. All trials for political offences are quashed, ex cepting those which are pending against the re fugees. THE NEUCHATEL QUESTION. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. A despatch from Berlin, dated yesterday, .has been received, which states that Prince Napoleon bas delivered to the King of Prussia an autograph letter from the Emperor Napoleon upon the sub ject of the Neuchatel dispute. TURKEY. From Constantinople, news to the 30th of April has arrived at Paris. The banking project of Mr. Wilkie is said to have been definitively set aside ; and some other projects of English capitalists are said to have been either rejected or much restricted in their scope. The native bankers have made some proposals to the Government, which, how ever, were not acc3ptable. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY. F.ruk Khan, the Persian Ambassador, declared yesterday at the Foreign-office that he not only h td not received any confirmation of the report that the treaty of peace with Great Britain had not been ratifiod, but what rendered such a fact highly im probable is that since the treaty was signed he had received despatches from the Court of Teheran di recting him to insist on certain terms which he had already introduced into the treaty. BOURSE, May 9.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. c. li per Cants 3 per Cents 69 10 Bank Shares 4,300 Credit Mobilier 1,290 Roman ... Do. Account 1,290 -- Austrian Belgian 4i Piedmontese (5) 9O 25 Home Debt End of Month. 92fr. 69 20 RAILWAYS-FOR CAKE. tr. Orleans 1,475 C. Western c. 87A — Northern Lyons 1,475 New Ditto 745 Mediterranean 1,990 Grand Central 1 — Geneva Midi ... THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA IN HUNGARY. The following telegraphic despatch has been re ceived in Vienna from Pesth " BUDA, MAY 5. " This morning their Majesties permitted depu tations from numerous country districts to pass be fore them. At a later hour the anirt dignitaries, military men, clergy, country gentry, and civil au thorities waited on the Emperor. At 2 o'clock the Empress held a levee, at which only ladies were present. At 5 o'clock there was a very large party at dinner. In the evening both the towns were il'uminated." The reply of the Emperor to the congratulatory speech of M. Von Conrad, the Burgomaster of Pestb, was :—" I am perfectly convinced of your loyalty, and am pleased to hear the expression of it from your lips." After a short pause his Ma jesty continued :—" The Empress, who has long wished to see this beautiful city, is certainly as pleased with it as I am." His Majesty told the nobles who waited on him in the Palace at Buda, that he had come " to examine into the wishes and necessities of the Hungarian nation ;" but the public papers make no mention of the circumstance. AMERICA. 9,0 89 414 38i ARRIVAL OF THE ARABIA. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY MAY 10. The royal mail steamship Arabia, Capt. Stone, arrived this afternoon from New York, with advices from that port to the 29th ult. She brings 170 pas sengers, and above 1,000,000 dollars, 300,000 of which was on French account, and the remainder for Liverpool and London merchants. She passed the Africa steamship on the 30th. Several vessels of war are ordered to the coast of New Granada in anticipation of the adoption of measures having for their object the solution of the questions in dispute between that Republic and the United States, viz the Independence, Decat ur , John Adams, St. Mary's, Wabash, Saratoga, and Cayenne. The squadrons combined pre3eut a force of 204 guns. Lord Napier had been introduced to the mer chants on New York Exchange on the 24th, and was very favourably received. The Hon. F. P. Stanton, the newly-appointed Secretary for Kansas. had delivered an address to the people. He regretted the determination of the Free State men of Kansas not to vote in the elec tion of delegates to the State Convention, stating that the constitution to be formed would be adopted. He stated further that the territorial laws would be enforced. Five persons were killed and several wounded by a steam-boat explosion on the Delaware canal on the 25th ult. By the steam-ship Empire City, at New Orleans, advices from California to April 6 have been re ceived. Business was dull. The Pacific Express Company had failed. The steam-ship Illinois, from Aspinwall for New York, has nearly a million and a half of dollars in gold on freight, and about 70 of Colonels Lockridge's force, including Generals Wheat and Hornsby. The Empire City brings 100 of the unfortunate Nice aguans, while others ware left behind at As piuwall, whither they were all taken in British vessels. Col. Lockridge's retreat is confirmed. The Costa Ricans have taken possession of Punta Arenas and the steamer Resale, with a great amount of ammunition, and six pieces of artillery. We have news from lavana to the 25th ultimo. Sugar was in active demand, and money continued to be plenty. The health of Cuba was remarkably good. COMMERCIAL INTELIGENCE. NEW YORK, ArRIL 29. 1 The demand for money is more active, and no change I was reported in quotations, but the tendency was in f a v,„:2r of lenders. Stocks were irregular and unsatis fActory. Fxctiange on London closed at 1094 t o The cotton math :t was more active. Flour had again advanced 10 to 20 cei.:.t3* per barrel, with a fair amo un t of sales. Prime wheat was firm. Pork was more acltive and higher. Freights , were more irregula r , w ith *more offering aglow rates. THE BISHOPRIC OP NORWICH.—On Saturday a special meeting of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich was held at the deanery for the purpose of going tbrougb the form of electing a bishop in the room of the Rev. Dr. Hinds, resigned. The conge d'elire, "recommending to the Dean and Chapter the Hon. and Rev. John Thos. Pel ham, M.A., to be by them elected bishop of the see of Norwich," was read ; and the hon. and rev, gentleman was formally elected. Mr. Pelham wit! be consecrated in the parish church of Marylebone., MR. MACDOUGALLOF THI ROYAL TAR TAN WAREHOUSE. We have great pleasure in referring our readers to the repOrt, in another column, of the preienta tion of plate and public .dinner given to Mr. Macdougall, Inverness, by some of the leading mer chants. in Glasgow. Busine4s was not always so prosperous at the Royal Tartan Warehouse as, we are glad to see, it has been of late ; and in 1837, from a variety of unfavourable circumstances, Mr. Macdougall had to place his affairs in the hands of i his creditors. His liabilities were large but the composition offered was accep`ed, and Mr. Mac .dougall received a full discharge of the balance, amounting to nearly 6,000/. This sum he has voluntarily repaid —an act which he mod , stly refers to as simply one of duty, but such cases are unhappily so rare that it has led to the flatter ing testimonial, accorded to our townsman by the merchant princes of Glasgow. Mr. Macdougall has evidently long premeditated this step. Neatly a dozen years ago his Inverness creditors received the sums which they had cancelled, and it is grati fying to all his friends that circumstances have favoured the coit;plete execu•ion of a most honour able resolution, conceived, probably, when matters looked gloomy enough around the Tartan Ware hou-e, and adhered to through a most persistent career of activity, enterprise, and usefulness. Mr. Macdougall has largely extended the business connection of Inverness, especially in the depart ment which he has made peculiarly his own ; and we are glad to think that the same exer tions which have enab'ed him to perform so princely ala act towards his former creditors, have greatly benefitted his native town, and his cOun trymen in many a Highland glen. The plate pre sented by Sir James Campbell is of the value of 3301. After the purchase of the plate, a surplus of about 401. of the money subscribed remained, and this the committee very handsomely appropriated to the purchase of a gold watch for each of Mr. Macdougall's two daugters. On the whole there has rarely been an incident in the commercial world which, in all-its circumstances and accom paniments, has been so honourable to all the par ties concerned, and we cordially congratulate Mr. Macdougall on ,the highly-gratifying result.—ln verness Couiier. [And so do we most cordially.— Sum] The stay of the Queen at Osborne will be for a longer period than was at first intended, most probably for about three weeks.— Court Journal. Baron Gros, who has just been appointed to proceed to China, was charged with a mission to La Plata in 1847. In 1850, he filled the functions of commissioner mediator, to settle the differences which had arisen be tween England and Greece ; and, lastly he negotiated as one of the plenipotentiaries of the Emperor, the treaty recently concluded between France and Spain, for settling the important question of the frontiers of the two countries. The Princess Amelia of Hohenlohe-Schillingfurst was married a few days ago at Herbeelenben, in the Duchy of Gotha, to M. Lauchert, an artist of Sigmaringen. The Princess being a protestant, the marriage took place ac eordirg to the protes ant form, but as M. Lauchert is a Roman catholic, a catholic marriage was also to be cele - bratsd. The Princess is the second sister of Prince Cbled wig of Hohenlohe, and was horn in 1821. THE LATE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER.—His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is acting as chief executer to the late Duchess of Gloucester, with the Earl of Verulam, Mr. Vincent (the Queen's remem brancer), and Mr. Drummond, the banker, as col leagues. Though rather early to speak of snub matters, it is understood that the bulk of the property goes to the family of the late Duke of Cambridge, the house in Park-lane devolving to the present duke. The Princess Mice, a god-child of the late Duchess, has not been forgotten, nor the other members of the royal family. Pensions have been left to two old servants—one of 501. a year, and one of 251. a year, with a gratuity of a year's wages to the rest of the household. Discussions having arisen as to the chief mournership, and the claims of rank, precedence, and family consanguinity having formed a complete puzzle, the Gordian knot was cut by the Crown becoming chief mourner, and her Ma jesty was theref ore represente d at the funeral by the Duchess of Athole, one of her principal ladies in waiting. Court Journal. DEATH OF LORD WILLIAM FlTZROY.—lntelligence of the death of this nobleman bee been received in London on Friday. Lord William was the third son of the third Duke of Grafton, by- the daughter of the late Rev. Sir Richard Wrottesley, Bart. He was born in 1782, and married in 1816 the second daughter of the late Thos. Raikes, Esq. His lordship entered the navy in 1794, commanded the Eolus frigate in Sir Richard Strachan's action in 1805, at the reduction of Martinique. In 1809 he was appointed to the Macedonia frigate on the Lis bun station, and in April, 1811, was dismissed the ser vice for having put the master of the ship in irons. This man was subsequently tried for contempt of his lordship, dismissed the navy, and rendered incapable of serving again; while in August, 1811, Lord William - was restored to his rank, and became Admiral of the Blue in 1853. • DEATH OF MR. COULTON, EDITOR OF THE " PRESS '" —English journalism has just lost in the late David Trevena Coulton one of its brightest ornaments. A more sagacious politician and forcible writer has rarely been met with. He was the founder of the Britannia news paper, and for the last three years has been editor of the Press. He was a contributor to the Quarterly Review, and was also known as the author of the novel " For tune," a work indicating the possession of no ordinary imaginative p3wer. Mr. Coulton was indefatigable in his literary labours, both P. 9 a political essayist and a critic. Independently of his claim for consideration as an intellectual contributor to our periodical literature, he was eminently distinguished for his high sense of honour and his thorough independence and conscientious impar tiality. He was just in the prime of life, in his 46th year, when he was removed from this world's cares, after three weeks' illness at Brighton. Bronchitis was the first attack, but it is feared tbat the shock to the system from his having to go down to Macclesfield within the last month, to be present at the deathbed of his brother, arriving just an hour ton late, mainly con tributed to the fatal termination. He has left a widow and two children and a sister, the last survivor of a f a mily, the mortality in which has been rapid within a j few years. Mrs. Anderson, the Queen's pianist, has announce I an annual morning concert at her Majesty's Theatre for the 18th inst. She w ill b e supported as usual by the full orchestra and chorus of the theatre, and the catalogue of solo singers comprises all the names which have become familiar to the frequentersof theoperaduring the present season. The new prime donne Spezia, Orto levi, and the charming Piccolomini, will bethere. Alboni also will take part in the performance, and Clerallovello will be added to the operatic company. Of the male voices Giogiini will perbspe be the greatest attraction ; but Belletti, Beneventano, Vialetti , and Charles Bralcam will be very important auxiliaries. M. Remenyi, her Majesty's violinist, and Pezzi, the first violoncello of Signor Bonetti's band, are among the solo instrumental ists, and Mrs. Anderson herself, Mrs. Jewiom, and Mrs. Cosine will undertake the pianoforte performances. The pleasure of hearing and seeing the celebrities of the stage apart from their accustomed trappings always give an especial interest to these morning concerts ; and, to judge by the strong list of names which has been published, the concert of 1857 may be expected to equal, if not to surpass, the best of Mrs. Anderson's well-remembered enter ainments. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Amongst the distin guished visitors honouring the performances of her Ma jeety'rs Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening were the following;—The Duchess of Wellington and Lady Julia Hay, the Duchess of Montrose, the Duke of Cleveland and Lady Augusta Paulet, the Duke of Mon trose, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marchioness of Clanricarde, Countess Stanhope, the Countess of Har rington the Earl of Glengell, the Countess of Glengall and the Ladies E. and M. Butler; the Countess Dowager of Harrington, the Earl and Countess of Macclesfidd, the Earl of Bradford, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of Wilton, the Earl of Coventry, the Earl of Mufgrave, the Countess of Essex, the Baron de Rothschild, Mr. Hel bert, his Excellency the Brazilian Minister, the Earl of Sefton, the Earl of Monntcharles, Count Delacour, Vis o unt Elmley, Viscount Powerscourt, Viscount Curzon, Viscount Canterbury, Vistount Mahon, Viscount Ex mouth, Lady Pakington, Lord George Gordon Lennox, le.rd Wm. Lennox, Lord and Lady Colville, Lord Nor bury, the Right Hon. Lord Ravensworth, Lord Sandys, Lady Pigott, Lady Clara De Burgh,..Lord Denman and party, Lady Georgina Codrington, Lord Grey do Wil ton, Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps, the Hon. Mr. Craven, the Hon. Mr. Egerton, the Hon. Ot.way Toler. the Hon. Walter Harbord, the Hon. F. Baring, M.P., Sir Frede rick Pottinger, Bart., Sir Henry Meux, Bart., and Lady Meux, Colonel the Hon. Percy Herbert, Major-General Van Strauhenzee, C.B , the Hon. Mrs. Pnipps, Gen. th Hon. H. Cavendish, the Hon. Mrs. Cast, Major- General Mackintosh, Sir Charles Morgan, Bart., the Hon. C. Hanbury, Sir George Wombwell, Bart., Lady Colville and the Hon. Miss Auson, Lady Barnard, the Solicitor General for Scotland, Sir Prohy Cautley, K.C.8., Sir John Bayley, Bart., Sir John Thorold, Bart., and Lady Tborold, Captain Hogge, Captain and Etzabeth De Roe, Colonel De, Horsey, Mr. Willough by, Admiral the Hon. C. Duncombe, Sir John Lowther, Bart., Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald, Rear Ad miral Ryder Burton, K.H., Miss and Mr. Da Horsey, General Avery, Col. Wildman, Capt. the Hon. C. Eger ton, Hon. E. Pepys, the Hon. Manners Sutton, Major Wombwell and party, Mr. Howard, Capt. Bateson, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Heywood, Colonel Torrons, Mr. Harvey Lewis, Mrs. Willoughby, Mrs. Beauclerk, C aptain . W. H. Megan, M.P., Mr. Maclean, Mr. W. H. Sands, Mr. A. J. B. Mope, M.P., Colonel Fitzgerald, Mrs. Ben tinek, Captain Bates, Mrs. Stewart, Mrs. Wheeler, Mrs. Neville, Mr. Bell, Mrs. Andrew Arcedeckne, Mr. Gordon Ivey, Mr. H. Barrett Lennerd, Major Deering, Mr.. William Delafield, Colonel White, Mr. and Mrs. Baillie 'Cochrane, Mr. CLrrie, Mr. Frank Fuller, Colonel and Mrs. Watson, Capt. and Mrs. Lucas, Mr. J. Bewley, Capt. Wynne, Capt. Palmer, Capt. Marshall, Capt. Remnant, C. lonel and Mrs. Ram say., Mr. Robert Dick , Major Poole, &c. F OREFED BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES.—On Saturday information was received at the various metropolitan police-stations of the successful passing of several forged 10/. Bank of England-notes by a man about 40 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches in height, and apparently afflicted with asthma. His plan of operation appears to be to visit the different water-places for the assumed purpose of benefiting his health, and offering as an excuse for being without luggage that it has been carried by rail to a wrong place. LITERATURE. No. XVII. By Chnits Dickens. Arthur Clennam stil a prisoner for debt in the old room in the old Marshalsea ! And this the last monthly issue, but one, of Little Dorrit! For the next number will, of course, be the doub!e number bringing the story to its conclusion ! A Prisoner in the Marshalsea, Arthur Clennam throughout this seventeenth number, maybe described as hold ing a kind of levee,' in the course of which there appear before him, either one by one, or occasion ally in motley groups, very many of the new charaaets associated with that noble heart , dhero of Mr. Dickens's last great composite fiction. Mr. Chiveg tie Turnkey pokes his head in at the door a very li the way " with one ear" upon Arthur " instead of both eyes !" The histo rian of the Dorrits adding to this, by way of explanation : " This was native delicacy in Mr. Chivery—true politeness ; though his exterior had very much of the Turnkey about it, and not the least of a gentleman." Young John, in regard to whom quoth that Paterfamilias Clo the-lock, " My sin has a art, and my son's art Is in the rght place ; me and his mother knows where to find it, and we find it sitiwated correct"--he looks in several times, off and on, afterwards. Then come excellent Mr. and Mrs. Flemish, arnt in arm, upon a visit of condolence, eminently cba rac!eristie of them both throughout. Witness the following record : " Mr. Plornish amiably growled, in his philosophical bat not lucid manner, that there was uns, you see, and there wai downs. It was in wain to ask why ups, why downs ; there they was, you know. He bad beard it given for a truth that accordin' as the world went round, which round it did rewolve undoubted, even the best of gentlemen must take his turn of standing with his ed up side down and all his air a flying the vvreng way into what you might call, Space. Wery well then. What Mr. Plornish said was, wery well then. That gentle man's ed would come tip'ards when his turn come, that gentleman's air would be a pleasure to look upon being all smooth again, and wery well then !" Mrs. Plorni,..h not a jot less delightful in her way, chatters on quite as garrulously as ever about "Fa ther" (little old Mr. /randy), and in talking of Mr. Baptist's exertions in Arthur's behest, winds up her account of them " in the Italian manner" by declaring "it really do, as I say to him Mooshat toniqm Padrona 1" Then, again, Ferdinand Bar nacle, the easy, gay, vivacious, light-in-hand, touch-and-go —pays Arthur a no less'chara,cteristie visit in his way I And afterwards Mr. Bugg, another in his ! Later on, stream in upon the saddened prisoner, all together—Rigaud, other wise Blandois, with the diabolical nose and mou stache, accompanied by Pancks, fresher than ever from the coals, and his hair more " pron g y” ev en than of yore, and close upon their heels little chirrupping Jean Baptiste Cavaletto, waiting upon them, as he hiwselt expresses it, " patientistia mentally." Old Flintwinch (still screwing at everybody with his neckcloth awry), having been sent for to the House upon Crutches, drops in u pon this agreeable little parti carree not long afrer wards. When they have all at length taken their departure, Somebody Else comes too ! Who ? Who but—Little Dorrit Arthur has previously had his eyes opened to the fact of her loving biro, to his wonder and bewilderment, by honest-hearted e John Chivery. Yet i n s pit e o f thi s— i n spite of Little Dorrit herself being just for all the world the same as she has been all throuvh the book (even to her old dress, which she has donned for her visit of grAtitude arid affection to Arthur in his nevi abode in the old familiar Marshalsea)—in spite of himself, of herself, of their mutual tenderness, their fortunes are still, at the close of the number, divided, though their hearts are not by any means estranged. We are left to the very last quite du bious as to what may be the result of the plot with ail marvellous complications. Will Little Dorrit and her brother find themselves ruined by the treacherous Merdle Quicksand ? Fanny and and Sparkler, we already know, must have been beggared by the suicide of the wholesale Speculator. Will Doyce return, having made his fortune t° release Arthur from the Marshalsea—and to pia?, to the astonishment of the very scales and scoop belonging to Mr. Merdle, that the mere child, i°, matters of business, is no such child after all How will it all e n d ? We close the seventeeth nurli" ber on the tiptoe of expectation. PLANS OF THE NEW OFFICES.—The designs for . 0 8 new Government offices have now been visited by thou' sands during the week, and it is universally admitted that of its kind it is the most extraordinary collection that has for many years been brought before the public. Now that the public have had an opportunity to vie° the designs, the names of the commissioners selected tO act as judges are given, and it will be generally a dmit' ted that a netter or a fairer selection could not save' been made. The judges are—The Duke of Buccleuch Mr. Stirling, M.P. for Perthshire; Lord Eversley, lat e Speaker of the House of Commons ; Earl Stanhope , president f the Royal Society of Architects ; Mr. D' Roberts, R.A., Mr. Burn, R.A., and Mr. Brunel, the eminent engineer . The Duke of B ucc l euc h i s reckooect among the best judges of architecture in the kingdono He will represent the House of Lords. Mr. Stirling , the selected of the House of Commons, is well knoval for his proficiency in all that appertains to architoc" ture. Lord Eversley has been chosen from his 101 l official knowledge, which will enable him to judg e what are the principal requisites for Government office'' Earl Stanhope, as president of the Royal College of M cbitects, should be con s id ere d as b e i ng one of the Vs" qualified to give a sound opinion. Mr. David Rober t jean artist -of great eminence. Mr. Burn is a s cr ota' architect of high standing, and a member of the laad" tute of Architects ; and Mr. Brunel is well known a g being one of the first civil engineers of any country"" Observer. NOT USING THE LEAD.—LIVERPOOL, May 8.—A1301 a fortnight since a n i nqu i ry, i nst i tuted by the Boar d Trade was held in St. George's-hall before Mr. J. Mansfield, the etipendary magistrate, and Capt. Walkers R.N., into the ci rcumstances atten di ng the total loss °f the barque Emperor, Cant. Mitchell, and the grounding of the snip Lady Ebrington, Capt. Hillman, on the 20 March, on the Blackwater Bank, on the coast of Ire land. In neither case had the lead been used betweea the time the vessels left Liverpool, on the 28th Marco' and a few minutes before they struck on the bask' Capt. M. - Orman, however, succeeded in getting his O i l; off the bank with the next tide, while the barque wast; total wreck. At the terminatio n o f th e i nqu i r i e s the masters' were withdrawn f rom C a pt. flubloll and Capt. Mitchell, for the purp ose o f b e i ng f orw arde d to the Board of Trade. To-day, at the police-court, Al f ; Mansfield, addressing Mr. Clarke Aepinall, the so licit... for Capt. Hulinan, said their Lord s hip s th e Cow sioners of the Board of Trade, considering the successi ti a efforts made by Capt. H u l man t o save hi s ship, 0,4 thought that the justice of the c ase h a d b een me t by temporary withdrawal of his certificate which was 1 1 °" returned. AR to the - case of the Lady Ebrington,.l3 oP ever, he said (addressing Mr. Bremner, the solicitor O r d Capt. Mitchell) their lorctships felt compelled to swipe° the c,rtificate for six months. MYSTERIOUS CASE OF POISONING.—An extraordina{ case of poisoning, wnich pl ace d i n j eopardy the litres i e t six persons, took pl ace i n C ornwall a few days ago. appears that a servant in the employ of Mr. Fra - cis L 5 sen., cabinetmaker, of Penzance, named C a therle" Richards, purchased 8:b. of fl our of Mrs. King, and su°l yeast of A nn B rower, w h o h a d procured it at Treaver''' brewery. The flour and yeast were put into a pantrls and shortly aft erwar d s th e servan t converted it int4:l loaves of bread. Mr. Lugg and a female assistant name Trevelyan, ate a small portion of the bread for dinne r ' and were immediately aft erwar d s aaken ill, but not ser i ously. For tea, Mr. Lugg, his son, Mr. Francis Lugg' Miss Trevelyan, and the servant, Catherine Richard; ate a large quantity o f th e b rea d, an d soon atterw aru. all four of them were s e ized w ith v i o l en t pa i ns i n the', stomach, followed by vomiting. A medical man w il d ?al!ed in and medicines were admi n i s t ere d , w hich b°, o the desired effect. Some of the br ea d was submitted ' 0 Dr. Montgomery, who analysed it. In the meant a workman in the employ of Mr. Lugg, and one of il 2 . f'o apprentices tasted the bre a d, an d su ff ere d severe ly o f their temerity. Dr. Montgomery found the whole ec i the bread highly charged w ith arsen i c, b ut it ,apPearl that the largeness o f t h e d ese caused a speedy v°Wiv; and trims raved the six lives which might otherwise 13 5 ,t been sacrific2d. Flour from the same sack and Y e l i o from the same vessel were sold to other customers. W r y used it with ou t any i nconvenience or injury. ac' exertion has been used to find a clue to this dreadful cident or crime, but without effect. °. FIRES YESTERDAY AND SAT URDAY . —Yesterday fl ier j a ing, between two and three o'clock, a fire took p1 3 1,L. the premises belonging to Mr. C. Sparrow, shell ro , monger, an d f ru it erer, N o. 1 0, Mi ddle row, 1101b° forming the corner house of Staples-inn-building' ,of police officer first discovered tlle fire, which had ale The cut off all means of egress by the regular way. ~„b0 Royal Society's escape attended, and the inmates , " o i c t had previ ous ly wrappe d up a child only seven m onths 00 in a shawl, an d h a d a tt empted to put it down the can o e• bagging of the escape, by some unfortunate circugo ta ci it dropped the po or c hild a t t h e side of the escape, en 50 fell upon the st one fl ags b eneath, a distance of nearly lost feet, by which it rece i ve d such injuries that not the , be hope can be e n t er t a i ne d o f i ts recovery. The rest °' fi r e ititnatee wer e sa f e l y b rought down the escape. Th i e , de' could not b e su bd ue d until the premises were nea r /gr. strayed and the contents consumed. The premises 0,,1e G. Dry, lacenian, N. 11, have also received d 35 1 , 9,7,5 00 7.ter end smoke. Mr. Sparrow was insured in the the Fire-office, but Mr. Day was uninsured. A s ci ° t ell or giu of the fire, nothing that could be dePen de te edal could be learned.— Another fire took place Y es ifid, in the premises of Mr. J. Smith, leather cutter'io the Bethnal-green -toad. The disast e r commenced the be as second floor front, but from wh a t cause could n , t , pre' certained. Considerable damage was done to ' su ff e rer mises and their contents by fire and water. T he , ve d was insured in the Sun Fire-office.—A fire halW a ` tion of Saturday evening in the premises in the ocoPs„. /8, Mr. A. Longley, a hosier and shirt maker, _, O n ee, 11 E 1 cn" High-street, Borough. It was caused from se light lighting the gas, dropping a sp a rk amongst _th ho p an fabrics in the shop windows. Th e stock in the ufferer Was windows was considerably dam age d. The insured. 1 I -` take] La abou be as Th sl,Cri Livel Th antly ]arge favou the Ili 934 9, 911 re spe , Cents Exoh, disco' Stock Vol 6 Per to 931 4 per 251, , stead, Pri ce , (lency rat es. West , ceter Isa r. NIA Per ? Per New It% n _ bit %13430 hi ( nit "Paul Dit ~Pahi ~rki Littla Dorr it.