The Sun. — London, England, 1857-04-01 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX ELECTION. VISCOUNT CHELSEA'S supporters will assemble at the Caitle Inn, at Brentford, to-morrow morning, at half-past 9 o'clock, to accompany his Lordship to the Hustings. Tickets for the Hustings may be there procured. Central Committee Room, April 1, 1857. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. SPEZIA, GIUGLINI, VIALETTI, and roccHINI. OPENING NIGHT, TUESDAY, April 14. Opera—LA FAVORITA. Ballet—LA ESMERALDA. All the Boxes and Stalls having been disposed of for the Subscription or Opening Night, the same Opera and Ballet will be Repeated on THURSDAY, April 16 (it being an extra night, not included in the subscription). A limited number of boxes in the Half Circle Tier have been specially reserved for the public, and may be had on ap plication at the Box-office at the Theatre Colonnade, Hay market. Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. The doors will open at half-past seven ; the Opera com mences at eight. R OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. C. Dillon. THIS EVENING, HAMLET. Mr. Charles Dillon, Mr. Stuart, Mr. J. L. foole, Miss Woolgar. Followed by the gorgeous burlesque of CONRAD AND MEDORA. Miss Woolgar, Mr. J. L. Toole, clic. The box-office open daily, from 11 to 5, under the super intendence of Mr. Chatterton, jun. Carriages conveying parties 1.3 the Private Boxes to set down at the State entrance in Burleigh-street. BAAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING, will be performed Shakespere's tragedy of KING RICHARD THE SECOND. King Richard 11., Mr. C. K , an ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by MUSIC HATH CHARMS. rrHEATRE ROYAL, HA.YMARKET. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven, A LIFE'S TRIAL. Messrs. Buckstone, Compton, Howe, W. Farren, Rogers ; Mesdames Reynolds, Poynter, Fitzwil- Ham, age. Followed by the new Comedy, in three acts, entitled, DOUBLE-FACED PEOPLE. Characters by Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. Compton, Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Clark, Miss Reynolds, Mrs. Poynter, and Mrs. E. Fitz lam. And LA FOLIE ET L'AMOR. T HEATRE ROYAL, ADEL PHI. Les9ee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed PAUL PRY. Paul Pry, Mr. Wright. Followed by a new and original domestic sketch, entitled WELCOME, LITTLE STRANGER. Mr. Wright, Mr, Paul Bedford, kc. After which, A NIGHT AT NOTTING-HILL, in which Mr. Wright and Paul Bedford will appear, R OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, a new drama, called DADDY lIARDACRE. Mr. Robson, Sze. The new drama, by Torn Taylor, Esq., A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING. To conclude with THIEVES ! THIEVES ! ! Messrs. F. Robson, G. Vining, drc. Commence at half-i4ast Seven. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. TIIIS EVENING (the last Week before Eater), Shaks pere's Flay of KING HENRY THE FOURTH, with Mr. Wm. Cooke's equestrian illustration.. Hotspqr, Mr. James Holloway; Prince Henry, Mr. W. Cooke, jun.; Falstaff, Mr. J. W. Anson. After which, the SCENES of 1101130.1tANSFIIP in the ARENA. To conclude with FORTUNE'S FROLIC. CommeLco at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Roses, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from 11., no charge for booking ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Vox•office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. A New (hand Military Spectacle will be produced on EARTH a AYSDAT. CANTERBURY HALL. Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow- Inv, company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of selections from all the popula7 Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Duets, &c., via.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunell, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F. longlimans, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S. .Tones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corsi. Senor Antonio M. dc Solla, and E. L. /lime ; Masters Austin, Bennett, and Corn; Messrs. Sam Collins, E. Mackney, and C. J. Wilkins. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre• cisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock. DIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. VHS DAY—Morn. 13 min. aft. 6 —Evfming 41 mid. aft. 6 FA-MARBow—Morn. 13 min. aft. 7—Evening 51 min.aft. 7 T LIE WEATHER—SUN Onnoz, APRIL 1. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 56 --highest since noon yesterday 45 lowest this morning and during the night. 57 --this day at noon. BA nom rr .It, 2949—rising. wrNr.—S.W. Light, with fine, mild weather, but cloudy. More rain in tho night. t l / 4 *•-.) 1"-"I i r a ) Ant LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1867. The Opposition Lsaders, in their turn, are fast coming in amidst the acclamations of their con stituencies. Tim Right Honourable BENJAMIN DISRAELI has for the fourth time been accepted unhesitat ingly by the electors of Buckinghamshire as one of their three knights representatives. Simulta neously one of the most distinguished associates of the Member for Bucks—Sir EDWARD BULWER LYTTON— bas been triumphantly nominated to a seat in Parliament by the unpolled suffrages of the men of Hertfordshire. The Government candidates, hitherto victori ous for the most pact in the borough elections, are beginning to find themselves in the county elections altogether surpassed in popularity by the candidates for the Opposition. Lord PA LMER.. lITON'S strength lying in the urban constituencies —Lord DERBY'S in the agricultural. All this is happily so far in obedience to the Constitutional Equipoise—formerly of Whigs and Tories—nowa4 days of Liberals and Conservatives. The oppor tunity presented by this inevitable reaction is not lost—we might have felt certain it could not by possibility be lost-••upon tha astute and gifted antagonists of the Administration. Their keen eyes failed not to recognise at a glance the " weak point" in the chain-mail of the confronts big Government. And recognising that " weak point" their keen weapons of attack—winged with wit and pointed with satire—fly, in a twinkling, true to the mark, as the arrow-head to the bull's eye. It was thus for example, yesterday, that Sir EDWARD LYTTON facetiously commenting, in the course of his very admirable hustings-speech, upon the No Policy implied by the Blank Pre gramme of Ministers, observed with a dry humour that raised a ready laugh ameng his hearers — How Lord PALMERSTON was too clever to commit himself, and would never let the cat out of Vie bag until he knew to which side of the house the cat would jump ! It was thus, moreover, that Mr. DISRAELI yesterday endorsed his written taunt against the Premier to the effect that he was the " Tory Chief of a Radical Cabinet" by a spoken sarcasm—barbed and poisoned like an Indian dart—in which he repudiated, for his own pact, the mere notion of his being " a Bit-by•bit Reformer !" It was, however, in the enumeration of the good services to the country which wore actually achieved by his own Party within the compara tively brief interval during which they held the seals of office, that the chief merit of Mr. Ms nazea's remarkable speech yesterday in the Town Hall of Aylesbury may be said to have consisted. It was the statesman-like epitome of those unques tionably eminent achievements which rendered the oration of the Right Hon. Gentleman pecu liarly formidable as a counter-statement to the charges latterly directed against himself and his colleagues by the Leader of the present Govern ment. It is but justice, we cannot but think, to re member at this moment of their affeat by the Majority of the Constituencies, what were the good deeds done by the DERBY Cabinet durin g their brief but memorable tenure of power—what were the chief, at least, of their very notable and mag nanimous, their bold and patriotic achievements. The recapitulation of the principal among those achievements, we repeat, is in a manner at this present juncture...while we are in the very midst of their signal discomfiture by the majority of the constituencies—an act of simple Justice to them selves, while it is at the same time an act of merely , common gratitude on the part of the general popu lation. It can hardly, moreover, prove otherwise than salutary under existing circumstances, con stituting as it necessarily does the incentive of a Great Example to any future Reforming Govern• ment ! A wonderful coincidence truly, remem bering that Lord DERBY'S Cabinet was avowedly a Tory Cabinet, a Cabinet based upon the princi ples of Conservatism—Yet a truth, a fact, a positive reality nevertheless I Wherefore—it is literally out of a feeling of Gratitude for the Past, and of Hope for the Fu ture, it is because we regard our so doing as an act of well-merited Justice to the Defeated, and as one constituting, at the same time, a wholesome and inspiriting incentive to the Successful—that weltere direct the earnest attention of the com munity to the Record of the Deeds of the DERBY DISRAELI Ministry, furnished in a compact and popular form in the admirably timed, and no less admirably considered oration of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Buckinghamshire. It will be remembered afterwards, somewhat more vividly than it appears to have been borne in mind recently—What was actually Done, as well as What was Intended To Be Done, at the period in question, a period of extraordinary difficulty and embarrassment, by—the Tory Reformers ! The Lesson so conveyed may be welt laid t) heart just now by Viscount PALMERSTON and his , Government ! In illustration of what was actually Done by the Derby Administration, Mr. DISRAELI re minded his hearers yesterday, and, through them, the whole country far and wide, that when that Administration was suddenly formed upon the breaking up of the Russell Cabinet, the whole community was in a panic about the National De iences—,England being, at the same time, secretly estranged from, if she was not openly at daggers drawn with, the French Republic. Was it not so ? Don't we very well remember Sir F. HEAD'S big book arguing pretty much to the effect of "Ditto" to a not Able little pamphlet published several years before by the Prince DE JOINTILLE ? Don't we remember the indecent hustings harangue, delivered about the time of Lord DERBY'S advent to Power, by two or three of the then ex-Cabinet Ministers ? Don't we recall to mind the foolish insolence of Sir CIIAS. WOOD at Halifax, and the *ll more foolish insolence of Sir JAMES GRAHAM at Carlisle ? And what, thereupon, was the course pursued daringly, sagaciously, and chival rously —by the newly-installed Go rernment ? Mr. DISRAELI reminds the country—mentioning to that end a few plain facts categorically. He reminds the country of the MILITIA ACT, introduced by the DERBY Cabinet—an act by which "a force, full of efficiency and of patriotism, was raised at a cost of not more than 250,0001. per annum"—How ? Wby, by that actual De spair of the Whigs—Voluntary Enlistment ! He reminds the country that the DERRY Cabi net found no Channel Fleet in existence when it assumed the reins of Government ; but that when it resigned those reins to its successors, it had organised that magnificent fleet of SCREW MEN os-WAn which was the pride of England in 1853, and the creation of which must ever redound to the honour of his Grace the Gallant. Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND. He reminds the country that the DERBY Cabinet bequeathed to the ABERDEEN Ministry, among other boom, AN EFFICIENT ORDNANCE, with an Artillery Corps, and no less than 200 field-pieces ! While, a few months before, it had found the whole system of the Ordnance in such utter confu sion that there were actually then not 50 field-pieces fit for use; not more than seventeen gun car riages being available, foe ezample, for the grand funereal pageant, when " The Duke" was solemnly interred in St. Paul's Cathedral. He reminds the country that the DERBY Cabi net, improvised and successfully carried out, side by side with these prudent changes of a warlike species, other and th,t less remarkable reforms of a purely pacific character. Effecting, for example, a complete REFORM IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY the greatest legal reform ever effected," Mr. DISRAELI calls it, and he scarcely exaggerates its' importance, let us add, when pronouncing upon it that superb eulogium. A Legal Reform worthy of having been introduced by the greatest Lawyer of his Age, the Lord Sr. LEONARDS-a reform rendering a procedure in Chancery " as efficacious, as expeditious, and as inexpensive as any in a common law court." Above all—considering its difficulty, its daring, and its subsequently immense importance, we may, in truth, say—above all the DERBY Cabi net, as Mr. DISRAELI reminds the country, put an end effectually (and, please GOD, permanently) to the estrangement between France and England-- recognised the NAPOLEON Dynasty —originated and consolidated the French Alliance ! What are the exact words, upon this point, of Mr. DIS RAELI ? He says—" The coup d'etat had taken ' place in France, and it was clear that the head of the French Republic meant to re-establish the French Empire ; but all the great Continental Powers that had signed the Treaties of 'Vienna objected to such a change, on the ground that they were bound by those Treaties not to recognise the NAPOLEON Dynasty in France. We declined to accede to the overtures of Russia, of Austria, and of the other great powers upon that subject ; we would not postpone our decision, and we at once recognised the dynasty of NAPOLEON 111. It was this speedy and cordial recognition of the present Empire of France by England that clenched the French alliance, and that transformed that great man and great ruler NAPOLEON 111., from one who entertained no friendly feelings to this country, into the cordial and sincere ally Of England since proved himself to be. W e were he we harymuch attacked at the time for the course which we pursued, and we were described as truckling to France ; but allow me to say that we did not take that course until we had previously obtained a declaration from the Emperor of the FRENCH that he would recognise his predecessors of every dynasty, and also all the acts that had been passed since the ye ar 1815. 'Wa were not then unmindful of the interests of England and of Europe, while at the same time we pursued a policy that prepared the way for that powerful alliance which in the recent war so gloriously se cured the independence of the civilised. world." Enough—these claims upon the National Gratitude are sufficient surely to war d off obloquy in the hour of their discomfiture, from the Leaders of the DERBY Opposition. The Glorious French Alliance ; The Reform of Chancery ; The Remodelling of the Ordnance ; The Reorganisation of the Militia ; The Magnificent Fleet of Screw War Vessels These, with other kindred achievements, ought assuredly to be borne in inind, especially, to our Oinking, under existing circumstanles—if only, wo repeat, as an act of justice to the Earl of DERBY and his late colleagues, and as a direct incentive, at the same time, to Lord PALMERSTON and his associates in the present Administration. The Revenue Returns for the year and quarter ending the 31st ultimo are once more before us, and will be found in another part of this day's impression. They are particularly interesting on the present occasion, inasmuch as they relate to the termination of the financial year, and sundry fiscal alterations, consequent on the conclusion of the war, will henceforward come into operation. The people desire adequate grounds whereby they may judge for themselves of the financial pro spects, so that they may be enabled to check and control the propositions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and ascertain whether he can justify the demands which he may think proper to make on their pockets. We are happy to say they are still very satisfactory, and afford abundant reasons for relying on the well proved elasticity of the national ressurces. During the year there is an improvement under every head, save that of Miscellaneous ; while, on the quarter, the only item in which a deficiency ap pears is "Customs," and that is susceptible of a complete and easy explanation. The net increase on the year amounts to 2,525,0411. ; and that on the quarter is 115,074/. The latter looks small at the first glance ; but, under the peculiar circumstances, it is, perhaps, more favourable than that for the " longer term, all matters being fairly and impartially considered. Considerable sums have been repaid as drawbacks, and still more have been kepi back until the diminished duties should come into operation. We may, therefore, be thankful for the auspicious nature of those unques tionable evidences of national prosperity, which may well encourage Sir G. C. LEWIS to deal con fidently with the imports that press heavily on the energies of the people. Every experiment hitherto tried has operated beneficially, not only for the con sumers, but for the revenue. There is, therefore, an additional and very cogent argument for further and more rapid progress in the same direction that has hitherto been so felicitously pursued. Turning to the particular items, we find iu Customs an increase of 237,8141. on the year, but a deficiency of 296,5321. on the quarter. The latter, however, is easily explained. A very con siderable reduction of duty on tea, from ls. 9d. to ls. 3fl. per lb., would have come into opera tion on the 6th inst. There would also have been a small decrease on the " corn of the Tropics." By Acts passed during the last moments of the mori bund Parliament the nation was precluded from receiving the full benefit of the change. But sufficient remained to make it well worth while to prevent any addition to the duty paid stock, while that in bond remained without alteration. The gain of 4d. per lb. on tea, and of ls. Bd. per cwt. on sugar, was worth obtaining. It has • been officially announced that the falling off under these heads amounts to one million sterling, while there has been an increase on all the other princi pal articles of duty. Under such circumstances, the quarter's deficiency in Customs need cause but little uneasiness. It will be fully compensated before another week has elapsed. In the Excise there is an increase on the year and quarter ! On the former of 853,8481., and on the latter of 91,0001. This is the more re markable, as the deficiency and drawback on malt (the war duty whereon terminated on the sth July last) amounted for the year to at least a million sterling, and for the quarter to more than a quarter of a million. There would, therefore, have been much larger augmentations but for these disturbing causes. In the Stamps there have been improvements on the year and quarter of 296,1991. and 103,9371. respectively. These have mainly arisen from the Legacy and Succession Duties, which had previously not by any means fulfilled Mr. GLADSTONE'S estimates. They are slowly but steadily becoming important items in the national balance-sheet. In Taxes there are trifling additions 016,0151. and 11,0201. on the year and quarter. These, however, may be regarded as merely casual varia tions. If any opinion were to be hazarded, we should say that it was the more favourable, inas much as great stringency could not be expected oa the eve of an " appeal to the country." In the Income Tax the increase on the year is 1,018,0301., and on the quarter 61,512/. The total proceeds were 16,089,934/., a little more than the million for every penny in the pound relied on. It is only during the last year that the additional 2d. came properly into operation. It had not even been fully developed. The abolition of the war 91, in consequence of the unequivocal repudiation of the pettifogging quib ble, must make a very important change in this interesting item, which may be considered the index to the prosperity of the middle classes—the wealthy and the very humble not being affected by temporary changes, so far as this impost is concerned. The Post-office shows an improvement of 108,8481. on the year, and of 16,8481. on the quarter. In Crown Lands the change on the year is trifling, but 3,311/., while that on the quarter is nil. In the Miscellaneous the - alterations are pure accidents, scarcely worthy of notice. As it happens there is a falling off iu the year c j f 59,975/., but an improvement on the quar ter of .127,067/. On the whole, " the facts and figures" presented to oar view are very satisfactory. Not the less so that we can again welcome that long ahP.,eut stranger, a sur. plus of revenue over expenditure of 1,301,329/. $ of which Ireland is entitled to credit for 981,4541., chiefly arising from the enhanced spirit duties, MACCLESFIELD ELECTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—My attention has been called to your report of the Macclesfield election, from which it would appear that I had gone to the poll. It has mieled several of my friends, and I shall therefore feel obliged by your allo•ving this note to appear in your to-morrow's edi tion. At the nomination I obtained an unprecedented ma jority, and a poll being demanded by Mr. Brocklehuret, which was appointed for the following day, I had a con ference with my committee, when it was unanimously agreed that, under all the circumstances, well known to thorn, it would be better for me to retire from the contest. I assented, and my agent immediately communicated my determination not to go to the poll to the Town Clerk and others directly interested, and I returned to London the same evening. —I have the honour to be, Sir, your very obedient servant, THOMAS HUGGINS. The Shrubbery, Streatham, March 31, 1857. The Chancellor:• of the Exchequer arrived in town, yesterday, from Hampton Court, Herefordshire. Sir George G rey will return to town to•morrow, from Fsll9den. Hf,r lidy6hip wi!l not return to town for a fortnight. Sir 13.oberfe Peel arrived in town last evening, from Tamwortil, The cllargr, for the Metropolitan police for the present year is 103,6451. A new screw three decker, the Alesander, 100 guns, was launched at Rochtort, on Friday last, with much pomp and ceremony. The Bank of Belgium has reduced its rate of discount from 4 oer cent., at which it had stood since the 30th of September last, to 3i per cent. The rate of discount at Hamburg has risen to 7 per cant., owing, it is believed, to continued purchases of silver for the Bank of Vienna. LATF . 'iT _ NEWS.,, Official accounts have now been received of the departure of the Marquis de Cantano, the Sar dinian Minister, from Vienna. The treaty on the Sound Dues was unanimously adopted by the Prussian Chamber, on the 30th ultimo. AUSTRALIA. We have received Adelaide papers to the 20th of December last, but they do not contain any aiditional intelligence of interest. We have also received files of papers from Van Dieman's Laud (Hobart Town) to the 6th January. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. The Moniteur has a report from the Minister of War, and an Imperial decree instituting a French Arab college at Algiers. The Patric has some observations which confiim the rumour that Prussia is raising fresh difficulties in the Neuchatel question : " In the approaching sitting (the sth) Dr. Kern will, it is said, make known the instructions which he has re ceived from his Government in reply to the Count de Hatzfeld's propositions. Will this answer be completely satisfactory I We should find it very difficult to pronounce an opinion on the point. Several foreign journals say that the two principal difficulties are raised by S sitzer land—the one relative to the preliminary recognition of the King of Prussia's rights ; the other on the subject of the pecuniary indemnity to be given to him for his do mainal property. According to these journals the amount of the indemnity demanded is larger than was at first supposed, the King claiming all arrears since 1848. We know not how far these assertions may be well founded, but we persist in thinking that the difficulties, whatever they may be, will be removed by mutual concessions, and thanks to the gold offices of the mediating Powers. It cannot, however, be denied that tke settlement of an affair presenting so many delicate points requires great forbearance on both sides. The knot must be untied, notcut. It may, therefore, well be that the arrangement may re quire a certain lapse of time, and that the labours of the Conference may not be brought to an end so soon a 4 public opinion seems to expect. Should further delay take place the fact need occasion no uneasiness, for we are confident that the final issue will be honourable and satisfactory to both parties." BOURSE, March 31.—The following were the last quotations Cash. fr. c. End of Month. 44 per Cents 3 per Cents 7O 50 70 50 New Loan Bank Shares 4,150 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,452 50 Austrian Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes 42 Piedmontese (5) 9O 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS-FOR CASH• fr. C. fr C Orleans 1,545 Western Northern l,Oll Strasburg Lyons .......1,570 New Ditto B4O Mediterranean '• 2,105 Grand Central Lyons Geneva ...... 845 Sardinian — Midi THE CAUCASUS. A letter from Kalisch of the 24th ult., in the Aus trian Gazette, says :—" The last Russian reports on operations in the Caucasus state that the Russians have received large reinforcements. The 41st re giment of the Cossacks of the Don, which distin guished itself in the Crimea, has already arrived there, and it is certainly not the only Cossack regi ment which has received that destination. The troops of the 20th division, commanded by Gen. Jewdakinoff, and intended to act in the Caucasus, are more numerous than those of an ordinary one, having 194 battalions of infantry and 9 companies of riflemen, in place of 16 battalions, the general allowance. Besides all this, the depot and reserve battalions have joined this corps. On the whole, the Russians have almost double the [forces they had last year in the Caucasus ; and are, besides, assisted by militia raised from amongst the sub jected populations." TURKEY. We have received, via Trieste, Constantinople journals and letters to the 20th. The investi gation which had been ordered by the Govern ment into the affair of the Kangaroo is over, and the commission has delivered its report to Ow Grand Vizier. It appears from that docu ment that Ferhad Pacha and Ismail Bey were the principal authors, not only of the expedition of that vessel, but of all the others organised for the same purpose—that of supplying the Circassians with arms and ammunition. They are to be brought to trial for the offence. Some other persons are men tioned in the report as being mixed up in the af fair, but they are only subordinat e agen t s , and acted under the ordera of the above-mention e d per sons. These journals state that the nomination of M 1 Nicolaki Vogorides as Caimacan of Moldavia had exited great discontent in that principality, and that it required all the tact and energy of Cabouli Effendi, the Turkish commissione r , to allay the popular excitement. Nothing is mentioned rela tive to the new bank, nor is anything expected, until the account reaches Constantinople of the deposit by the company of the 200,0001. agreed to, and the issue of the shares. The plan which had been so long in contemplation of nominating a minister of public instruction bas been carried into effect by the appointment of Sarni Pacha to that post. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, MARCH 29. The official part of the IViener Zeitung of this morning contains the fAlo wing : _. _ " His Imperial Royal Apostolic Majesty has thought it (sich bestiment gefunden) to recall his Embassy from the Court of Sardinia. " As a consequence of an understanding with the Prus sian Court on the subject, the Prussian Embassy at Turin will, should it be necessary, uphold the interests of the sub jects of his Austrian Majesty in the kingdom of Sardinia." Subjoined is a translation of the despatch which, on the 16th of March, was forwarded to Count Paar at Turin : " Sir,—.Directly after the return of the Emperor to his capital I took orders of his Majesty on the subject of Count Cavour's despatch of the 20th of February, which was to serve as a reply to the reclamations you were charged to make to that Minister. lam at present able to commu nicate to you the impression which that document pro duced on the mind of the Emperor, and to give you direc tions for the regulation of your conduct. "The explanations offered by Count Cavour aro far from having entirely satisfied us. That Minister publicly and plainly confesses that the Piedmontese press has been guilty of excesses which are greatly to be regretted. He openly condemns them, We willingly take note (prcnons aete) of an avowal so candidly made, and duly appreciate the feeling Pihich led to the declaration. Although we ac knowledge the uniformity of our views on this point, we arT4 unable to subscribe to the inferences which M. de Cavour draws from his declaration. In fact, the President of the Council seems to think he is dispensed from all effort to repress those abuses of the press, the existence of which he acknowledges, as soon as he has pointed out to foreign Governments that judicial measures are a sovereign remedy against them. He seems to be inclined to release himself from all responsibility, and to leave it entirely to the foreign Governments to take the initiative in the re pression of those excesses. "This is not our view of things. The system proposed might suffice for the ordinary, I may say for the accidental, abuses from which the most respectable press is never quite free; but we do not think this passiveness of the local Go vernment is justifiable, when the excesses (carts) of the press assume (as in the present case) the form of a regular system of calling in quEstion the validity of treaties, and when the violence and turpitude of this excesses are carried to such a pitch that revolt in a neighbouring country is openly preached, and an apology is even made for regicide. We persist in thinking that in the presence of such enormi ties each Government is bound in honour and duty to make its authority felt, and to prove by its acts that it is not only inclined to respect treaties itself, but to make them respected by its subjects► "If we have properly understood the sense of Count Cavour's reply, that Minister seems to think we only com plained of the polemics of the public papers, but our com plaints bore reference also to the encouragement, as well open as tacit, which the press received from the attitude of the Government. " Count Cavour gives us the assurance that he will not permit anything in the monument which is to be erected at Turin to the Sardinian army that could give umbrage to our susceptibility or to that of our army. We regret thatlwe were obliged to incite him to an assurance which, under all cir cumstances, would have been of much greater importance if it had been given spontaneously. At the same time that we express cur appreciation of the intention which led to such a declaration, we take the liberty of . remarkiug, that M. de Cavour, when speaking of the simple proofs of sym pathy which he has received from our Italian provinces and from other parts of the Peninsula, takes no notice whatever of the series of pretended deputations (pretenducs deputations) which he has received in person. This appears to us to be a most important fact, for if it is not of a nature to constitute a regular encouragement to revolt, it at least tends to relax those ties which unite legitimate Sovereigns and their subjects. " It is true that M. de Cavour t :firms, in the name of the Sardinian Government, that iris his firm intention com pletely to fulfil Sowards his neighbor us the obligations and duties which the law of nations and t, reaties impose on him, but he will permit us to ask if the tc derance which ho die plays towards a press which incessanta'y attacks those terri torial limitations that are consecrated' . y treaty ia in keeping with his assurances— if the personal reception which he has given to numerous addresses, all inspired by the hollow vi sions of Italian unity, and all tending to detach the subjects from their duties towards their govei mments—is in accord with the letter and spirit of the treaty .af posace, in which the King of Sardinia renounced all claim and pretensions to the country situate beyond the limits c ,f Sardinia, as those limits were fixed by the final act of the ( I:ongress of Vienna ? Does Count Cavouit think that he well interpreted the in ternational duties of Piedmont tower , is Austria, and to wards his other neighbours, when ho r •eceived deputations and accepted addresses presented by f. 'reign subjects, per sons who are not bound by any particu Jar tie to Sardinia ? Does not his conscience reproach him w I.th having, by these acts, encouraged evil passions, and furnished aliment for the ceaseless attacks of a malevolent press ? " On this point we have a right to expect explanations from M. de Cavour, as they alone can give us a just idea of the value which is to be attached to his protestations of respect for existing treaties. " If we were disinclined to indulge in recriminations in respect to the past, and were willing to oonsider the assur ance given by M. de Cavour an indication of a more pro pitious future, that Minister has deprived us of the possi bility of doing so, for simultaneously with th e d e li ver y o f his despatch, the Correspondance Italienne, lithographed at Turin, on the same day, sated that the President of the Council bad received a deputation of citizens from Modena and Reggio, who spoke of the ties which bound them to Piedmont, ties which wero forcibly severed for the moment, but which faith kept in full vi g our. We appeal to the good faith of M. de Cavour, an d ask him whether the reception given to this address—and it most not be forgotten that this is not an isolated fact - is in keep ing with the respect which is due to treaties? We ask him whether his conduct was in keeping with the assurances which he at the same time gave us? Or does he think it would be proper (ioiBibk) for us to seek redress for this attack on treaties, by bringing an action against the editor of a me; whose offence was that he had made mention of an action performed by the Minister of the King, or at least of one which he had never disallowed. " Count Cavour indulges at length in recriminations re lative to wrongs committed by the Austrian press, which, if they were well founded, would make no change in the nature of the controversy. But the reclamation which we have addressed to him furnishes him with no motive for remedying the evil we have pointed out. He has not uttered one word which can induce us to hope that such an abnor mal state of things will cease. On the contrary, we are induced to believe he does not think of changing a line of conduct the results of which appear to him to be so satis factory. " Until this state of things has undergone a change it is not compatible with the dignity of the Emperor to leave his diplomatic agent at Turin, whrea he daily exposed to be an eye-witness of demonstrations which must more or less directly tend to shake the force of treaties and to lea I to new complications. It is for this reason, Count, that I in- vita you to quit Turin, and to come here to communicate to us orally the final explanations which the President of the Council may think proper to give. ►'hen announcing your departure to Count Cavour, you can express our regrets to see •urselves under a necessity which we must deplore, and from which we had always hoped to be able to escape. You will tell him that we heartily wish to see the moment ar rive when a more suitable state of things will permit a re presentative of Austria to return to Turin. You will also add that we, on our side, see no obstacle to the Marquis of Cantono (who will not be exposed to the same inconve nience) continuing to reside at Viers). It gives us pleasure to acknowledge the honourable conduct of M. de Cantono, and he may be convinced that he will meet with the respect due to his public character. As it is our desire that this step should not be in any way prejudicial to the reciprocal, interests of the two countries, we shall at once take such measures on the frontier that your absence may not be detrimental to the peaceable subjects of the two States, and that private relations may not suffer by the momen tary cessation of our diplomatic action at Turin. We are confident that after your departure the subjects of the Emperor residing in Piedmont will continue to enjoy the full protection of the laws of the country. Should, how ever, any diplomatic intervention be required between them and the Royal authorities, the Court of Berlin has, at our request, authorised its representative at Turin to take charge. " I request you, Count, to read this despatch to Count Cavour. " Accept, die., " BuOL." THE WEST INDIAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING. The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship La Plata, Captain Weller, has just arrived, with the "West India and Pacific mails ; she also brings the mails from the Spanish main which missed by the last steamer, in consequence of the Trent having broke her shaft and been compelled to put into Jamaica fur repairs. The Plata has 87 passengers, and on freight specie value $1,673,693 ; jewellery, $66,043 ; pearls, $3,500, and a cargo of cochineal, lowa, bark, cigars, &c. Commercial matters at Jamaica were dull. The Legislature was not in session. The islands were very healthy, and tranquillity prevailed every where. Coffee quoted at 395. ; prices of pork as last re ported ; rice in demand, and sales at 14s. Exchanges on London, 90 days, / 2 - per cent. pre mium ; 60 days, 1 per cent, premium ; 30 days, 1i per cent. premium ; private bills, par. The cholera was abating at Demerara. Trade dull. Freights scarce at St. Lucia. The weather had been unfavourable for manufacturing purposes, and retarded the ripening of the canes. At Grenada the labours of the Legislative se:sion had terminated. Agricultural prospects were bright and promising. The weather was rather wet for sugar making. Th-re was plenty of coffee at Barbadoes, and sold at $l2 per 1001 b. CJcoa, $l2 50c. ; flour, $9 per barrel. From California we hear that companies are be ing formed in the interior to join General Walker at Nic iragua. Two shocks of an earthquake were felt at San Francisco on the sth Feb. Dates from Oregon are to the 11th of February. The snow had disappeared, and was succeeded by heavy rains. The Indians had made an outbreak *ear lfort Simcoe. La Plata's latest dates were—Vera Cruz. March 6th ; Havannah, 11th ; Grey Town, 7th ; Jamaica; 13th ; Porto Rico, 16th ; Demerara 11th ; Trini dad, 11th ; Barbadoes, 13th ; St. Vincent ; 13th, Antigua, 15th ; St. Thomas, 18th. The Atrato had arrived out at St. Thom!, and sailed oa the 18th for Jamaica. The Trent was at Carthagena, with her interme diate shaft broken. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY, MARCH 31. The Cunard steam-ship Ewen, Captain Small, has ar rived with advices from New York to the 19th inst , day liter than ; those by the Persia, same company's steamer, having made the passage in 11 days 17 hours. The City of Philadelphia Company's steamer Kangaroo sailed shortly before the Emeu, but has not yet arrived ; she was erroneously reported off Queenstown. The French screw steam-ship Cadiz left New York for Havre on the 13th. In the New York market stocks, compared with the latest previous advices, bad slightly advanced in price. Michigan Southern were 4 better; Chicago and Rock Island 4 ; Missouri State Bonds, with large sales, had a wanted one per cent. since the 13th. The cotton market was weak. Flour quiet and steady ; wheat dull ; corn moderately active, but a little lower. Pork, lard, and butter dull and declining ; beef firm ; spirits of turpentine irregular and lower, for grocers' improved, molasses lower ; freights to Liverpool im proving; grain in bulk, sd. ; fluur, Is. 31. ; cotton, id. To London—grain in bulk, dd.; crude turpentine and rosin, 24. 3d. per 280Ib. Toe Cunard Royal Mail steam-ship Arabia, having been in port four weeks under repairs, and having been painted and fitted for the summer service, sails for New York on Saturday with the mails, instead of the Persia, which will remain for the purpose of being painted and having alterations made in her cabins. TUESDAY NIGHT. The Kangaroo, reported off Cork last night, passed Holyhead to-night, and is now off the port. AUSTRALIAN MAIL. By telegraph from Marseilles we learn that the .Tura, which sailed from Southampton on the 12th with the Australian mails, arrived at Malta on the 21st. The Cambria, from Marseilles, with the mails for Ceylon and Australia sent via Franc., arrived at Malta the same day as the Jura, and transferred ler mails to that vessel up to the 23d inst. There was no news from Suez at Alexandria of the Oneida, with the first inward mail from Australia and Ceylon, due at Alexandria on the Bth, the contract day for sailing for England. The Cunard screw steam-ship Etna was at Alexandria on the 23d, where she had been since the 7th, waiting for the arrival of the Oneida. The Australian Auxiliary Screw Clipper Company's mail steam-ship King Philip was off Plymouth Sound yesterday (Tuesday) evening, bound for Melbourne. She cannot leave Plymouth before this (Wednesday) evening, and will probably be detained until the arrival of the London mail to-morrow (Thursday) morning. THE PRINCES OF OUDE IN BIRMINGHAIL—The Princes of Oude and a numerous suite arrived at Bir mingham yesterday afternoon. They were received by the Mayor (John Ratcliff, Esq.) and other municipal authorities. They were present at a dinner given by his worship at the Royal Hotel last evening to the Re corder, the sessions bar, the magistracy of the borough, and the members of the Town Council. The princes remain in Birmingham for a day or two, for the pur• pose of visiting the principal manufactories in the town and district. The following letter, addressed by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue to Messrs. Palmer, Mackillop, Dent, and Co., was yesterday posted in the tock Exchange:— " Sir,—ln reply to your letter of the 24th inst., I am directed by the Board of Inland Revenue to state that the deduction for income tax becoming due on the 10th of next month, payable by you in respect of Turkish Bonds, should be at the rate of 7d.in the pound.—l am, &0., THOMAS KEOGH." RAILWAY ACCIDENT.--A serious accident occurred cn the Cockermouth Railway to a special train despatched immediately after the proceedings at the Cumberland County election. The engine ran off the line, and was nearly precipitated into the river Derwent. Mr. Mason, he secretary, and the stoker were dangerously hurt. FATAL CAI: ACCIDENT.—An inquest was held yester day, at the Brownlow Arms, Tavern, Brownlow -street, Drury-lane, on the body of Mr. Edward Wilson, who was killed on the day of the Finsbury election by the upsetting of a cab as he was leaning his body out of the window. The deceased, who was a very stout man, was returning from the polling booths in a state of exaltation at the success of Mr. Cox, on whose behalf he had been making active exertions. The jury returned the following special verdict :—"That the deceased was accidently killed by falling out of a cab ; and they further beg to add, that the deceased had left a widow and five children totally unprovided for, and trust this circumstance will be taken into the benevolent consider ation of the election committee for Finsbury," SPORTING NOTES. "MEIVIS. ON THE METROP." Should the weather prove propitious, a pleasant day's sport, at least, may be anticipated, however, on the breezy downs at Epsom. The programme contains seven items, and every stake is likely to command a nu merically strong field. Both Metropolitan, and. City, and Suburban Handicap *ere; until within the last three or four days, " dead letters" in the turf market, and even now they do not seem likely to afford those delights of book makers—" good betting races." Scar cely a dozen horses altogether have been backed for the two races, and little chance has therefore been afforded to speculators to get round. Bel Esperanza and Aspaeia received some support at the Corner on Monday for the " City and Suburban," but they have been struck out. A new favourite in Wardermaieke was, however, introduced with considerable force into the market yesterday. He is in LT. Dawson's stable. Last year be was much talked at •it in connection with the forthcou ing Derby, but l• ptx,. formed so badly tbat his chance of obtaining the blee riband was thought to be quite destroyed. Still his blood And appearance are sufficient to recommend hi m to notice. Adamas showed at least a good turn of speed last week, and he will be better suited over the last mile and a quarter of the New Derby course than he was over the two miles at Northampton. I shall expect him to run forward. Of the three-yr olds, however, I prefer Admiral Lyons, who, at Doncaster, showed an improve. ment of form scarcely to be expected from his early exhibitions. Vaulter "cut up" very badly at North ampton, but he may like a longer course. His defeat for the Earl Spencer's Plate has not at any rate diminished the confidence of his partisans. To represent my in terest I shall select VAULTER, ADAMAS, AND ADMIRAL LYONS. Fisherman is not so steady in the betting in the Metre politan as could be des.red by his backers, and, indeed, many people do not hesitate to assert that he will not run. Be the adverse reports as they may, I shall not enter an opposition against Fisherman, for he will, with only one or two exceptions, meet opponents to whom he can give lumps of weight and a beating. Winkfield has the advantage of two years and. 6 lbs. over him, scarcely sufficient to make me trust Mr Walker's horse, who, however, should Fisherman be withdrawn, will be wor thy of the most serious consideration. Of the other old 'une, Pantomime is enti , led to attention--he is in run• ning, but I do not deem him exactly "class enough " to pull through. St. Giles, with his 5 lb. penalty, will be formidable enough, but he is not supported with that steadiness in the market which augurs confideno Still should he start I shall not be amongst his opponents. Logic o' Buchan figured so inglorious at Croxton Park yesterday that his owner may be inclined to spare the expense of sending him to Epsom. Janet belongs to the same stable with Warilermarske, and it is said that Tom Dawson has really made up his mind to win the two Great Handicaps at Epsom. lam afraid, however, he will be disappointed. Madame Rachel is the lightest weighted animal in the race, and if her party be in earnest she will take a deal of beating. The Elccit's dam colt ran fourth last week with 6lbs. more weight than he has now in a Handicap which is altogether heavier than that at Northampton. Distrusting Madame Rachel, there• fore, and stipulating for a start, I shall select from the top weights Fisherman and Winkfield, and from the three yr-ol‘'s Duloionara a d The ('cot's dam cell Either New Brighton or Ruth may win the Rail way Plate. The Two-yrs-old Stakes I assign to Polly Peachum and the Inkerman Plate to Flacrow. Mrs. Beaton, of the far-famed "Dolphin," Milk-street, Cheapside, has been compelled to give notice to those gentlemen vi ho for nearly 20 years have been in the habit of frequenting her house, that owing to the arbi trary interference on the part of the Licensing Magi strates she is compelled to request them for the future to abstain from visiting the "Dolphin" for betting pur poses. She has thus been compelled to abandon one set of customers, and mast new form an entirely new busi ness connection. No plea can be set up to justify the proceedirrgs of the irresponsible authorities of the City, who have only their own caprice to consult in their dispensation of justice save the mark. The " D Iphin" has ever been one of the moat orderly conducted houses in the City, and no complaint was ever lodged against it by the police. Would it not be a gracetul act on the part of those gentlemen who have long "used" the "Dolphin," and one which would mark their respect and sympathy for Mrs. Beaton, if some testimonial wereito be presented to here A FRESH MAN, April 1. "FEIST'S RACING RECORD." The March and April parts of " Feist's Racing. Re. cord," bound co as to form a neat and perfect volume, are now published. In addition to the racing, they con tain a summary of the betting, and a list of the winning horses made up to the end of the past month. The copi ous index, in which pedigrees of horses and trainers' names are stated, is one of the most useful portions of this very useful book. LATEST BETTING-TunDAT NIGHT. CITY AND SUBUnDAN HANDICAP. sto 1 agst Wandermarske (taken freely) 6 to 1 agst Mr. J. B. Starkey's Vaulter (offered) 10 to 1 agst Admiral Lyons (taken) 10 to 1 agst Adamas (take 12 to 1) 100 to 6 agst Fright (taken) 20 to 1 agst Maid of Athens (taken) 100 to 3 aget Dusty Miller (wanted) GREAT METROPOLITAN STAKES. sto 1 aget Mr. Y. King's Madame Rachel, 3 yrs, sst (taken) 6to 1 agst Mr. Davison's Janet, 5 yrs, sst 121 b (taken and offered) 7to 1 agst Mr. T. Parr's Fisherman, 4yrs, 9st (taken and offered) 7to 1 agat Lord Ribblesdale's St. Giles, 3 yrs, Est 71b (offered) 10 to 1 agst Mr. Lewis's Pantomime, aged, 7st 131 b (take 12 to 1) 100 to 8 agst Elcot's dam colt, 3 yrs, sst 61b (taken) 100 to 8 agst Mr. S. Walker's Winkfield, 6 yrs, Bst Bib (taken) 33 to I agst Sir Cohn, 3yrg, Est 21b (taken) 1000 to 20 agst Veiette's wincing the Two Thousand, and Lady Hawthorn the Derby (taken) BETTING AT MANCHESTER-TUESDAY. A tolerable amount of wagering was done upon the events now decided at Croxton Park, and as regards the Metropolitan Stakes the betting is only remarkable for its fluctuations, and the few investments required to bring them about. The City and Suburban Handicap bids fair to become a betting race. The only transaction that cam., under our notice upon the Chester Cup was 500 to 25 asst Dulcamara. Nothing was done upon the Two Thou•Aand Guineas Stakes at llsrby. CITY AND SUBURBAN HANDICAP. Gto 1 agst Wardermarske (take 6to 1) 6to 1 agst Vaulter (offered) 10 to 1 agst Admiral Lyons (taken) METROPOLITAN STAKES. sto 1 agst Madame Rachel (take 6to 1) 6 to 1 agst St Giles (offered) 6to 1 agst Janet (taken) 7to 1 agst Fisherman (offered) 1000 to 8 apt Pantomime (offered) 25 to 1 agst Mr. J. H. C. Wyndham's Dundas, 3 yrs, sst 61b (taken) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 100 to 30 aget Lord Zelland's Vedette (offered) 10 to 1 ag-t Lord Londesborough's Kent (offered) 10 to 1 agst Bird-in-Hand (offered)' 10 to 1 agst W. S. S. Crawford's Lord of the Hills (offered) CHESTER CUP. 20 to 1 agst Dulcanaara (taken) 20 to 1 agst St. Giles (offered) 20 to 1 agst Gemma di Vergy (take 25 to 1) We are credibly informed that Mr. T. P.m has sold Peregrine for a few rounds, owing to his having severely broken down at Doncaster. HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR EPSOM ENGAGEMENTS. The following declarations of forfeit were made yes terday (Tuesday) at 9 a.m. : Gortschakoff and Bel Dperanza, out of all their en gagements. Scourge, Neva, and Chamounix, out of the Two-Yr- Old Stakes. Aspasia, Bar One, and Ombra, out of the City and Suburban. Cerva and Ombra, out of the Metropolitan. CROXTON PARK RACES—TuEsDit. Farmer.' Plate. Broughton Hornsea gelding Bdvoir Castle Stakes. , .................... 2 Glede Hawk Sir Colin Logie o'Buchan Granby Handicap Sluggard Peter Flat Lawn Five ran. AQUATICS. SCULLERS' RACE FOR EIGHTY POUNDS. The scullers' race between May and Hill, for 40/. aside, which has cawed some betting amongst sporting men acquaiutt.d with their merits as rowers, took place yesterday evening. The distance was from Putney to Mortlake with tide ; and May, who is a member of the Thames Unity, was the favourite at sto 4. At a little before six o'clock both men made their appearance, accompanied by their cutters and several other boats. Hill had the best station, and went off with the lead, which he, however, only retained for a minute, when his opponent became scull and scull with him, and then be gan to shoot ahead. From this moment Hill never had a shadow of a chance. May went well away, and won as be liked, Hill not rowing a l l the distance. Messrs. Lucas Brothers have terminated the construc tion o f a wall exceeding two and a-half miles in length, which meioses and forms the boundary of the entire premises constituting the Royal Arsenal grounds at Woolwich. The new wall extends as far as the limits of the artillery practicing range in the Plumstead•marsh, and contains five spacioufi and well arranged entrances, secured by ornamental and substantial iron gates, each guarded by a police station. The order for the exclusion of strangers from the Arsenal is strictly observed. MAGAZINE DAY. Blackwood.—" All-Fools' Day" is the appropri ate title of a hugeouS absurdity in the way of a most inopportune satire upon her Majesty's Go vernment. It comes forth at a moment the moat ill-timed imaginable. Precisely at the juncture rendered remarkable in the constitutional history of the country, by one of the most complete and astoundingly overwhelming triumphs ever gained by an Administration. Lord Palmerston can afford to be laughed at nominally by the great mon.hly organ of the utterly discomfited Opposition. For in reality that Opposition is at this present instant i n point of fact laughing—at the wrong side of its mouth ! The character of this extravagant and futile effort at facetiousness on the part of Black wood may be readily understood, upon the merest glance at some of the motley dramatis persona in troduced. First and foremost the Prime Minister is brought upon the stage under the exceedingly transparent and not by any means funny name of " Pammerstein, afterwards Harlequin !" Lord John figures upon the scene in the no less trans parent guise (we won't call it disguise) of " Hans or Little Jack, afterwards Pant tloon." Sir James we may conjecture tt; be discoverable in the person. of " Grime, afterwards Clown." Lord Panmure ap pearing under the soubriquet of " Fuchsen-maul, afterwards Seararnouch." Roebuck under that of "Ribaldo, afterwards Spi it e." Bernal Osborne trip ping down to the footlights as "Ralph°, the Comic Robber." The. Attorney-General as " Beetle, a Prosing Robber"—and so forth ! " Shoddy, a Demon," being, of course, no other than King Calico, otherwise the Political Bagman, otherwise Richard Cobden, the ex-member for the West Riding, and the ignominiously Rejected of Hud dersfield I The emptiness and frivolity of the whole production being sufficiently indicated by the rather significant circumstance that before one line of the Extravaganza in Blackwood—appropriately designated "All Fools' Day, or the Rival Robbers" —can have been uad, Sl.oldy, the Demon, has been exorcised ! The charming "Athelings," in this its eleventh instalment, comes suddenly in view of the denouement, or ecclaircissement. Charley, no longer the big boy, but a young man nearly six feet high, returns home from Italy to Pentonville —(whither he has been preceded by his kith and kin—fresh from the sweet country air familiar to the Old Wood Ledge)—bringing with him, in the person of an antiquated Romeo and Juliet sort of a Nurse—proof positive of Louis's legitimacy ! The lest of the disclo sures consequent upon this opportune arrival may be readily anticipated. From a critical arti cle, headed "Remonstrance with Dickens"—a re view of Little Dorrit, sternly condemnatory of the story as a work of art—we extract the following delibious description of the consequence of— RECOLTACTING Pickwick IN CHURCH ! " One of the most shameful recollections of our almost irreproachable life lies at the door of the road wag Dickens. We were attending service in a cathedral in a city where we were a stranger, and had been shown into a pew al ready occupied by two respectable old ladies. For a time we behaved with our wonted decorum, till some absurdity committed by the elder Weller, of which we had been reading the night before, rose up to haunt us. Had we been in the open air a good laugh would have at once re- Roved us, but cabined, cribbed, confined, as it was, the risibility expanded till our form swelled visibly, our face grew purple, and we saw a medical man in the next pew feel in his waistcoat-pocket as ho anxiously watched the veins of our forehead. The choral symphonies of the anthem invested Mr. Weller's image with fifty fold absurdity, blending him, as they did, in his top-boots and shawls with angels ever bright and fair. Despairing of our ability to prevent an explosion, and feeling the danger be coming each moment more imminent, for india-rubber it self must have given way under the accumulating pressure, we suddenly dived with our head below the shelf on which the prayer-books rested, and laughed silently, while our tears dropt like rain upon the footstool. We were begin ning to grow calm when, looking round, we saw the two ladies regarding us with pious horror through their spec tacles, and sidling off to their own end of the pew. This set us off again, and down went our head in a vain ostrich like attempt at concealment., for our shoulders and back, convulsively agitated from nape to waistband, told of the internal struggle, to say nothing of sounds that occasion ally broke forth, noways resembling responses. Conscious that prebendary and preceptor were regarding us from their eminence, we again raised our head with desperate gravity, and shall never forget the agony of shame with which we beheld an aged verger sternly approaching, while two churchwardens were quitting their pews with the faces of men determined to discharge a painful duty. Nevertheless, at the instigation of Old Weller, off we went again in a fit now quite .. audible, and were eventually marched down the centre aisle, between rows of faces fixed in devout horror, with our handkerchief crammed nearly down our throat, and our watery eyes starting out of our head like a land-crab's, and so, turning a corner, out under the old Saxon archway, where we exasperated the verger and churchwardens to frenzy by sitting down upon a tombstone and giving full vent to our mirth. Next day, all repentant, we waited upon the dean, who, being himself a Pickwickian, gave us absolution in the most kindly way, and we caused a copy of Pickwick to be bound in Morocco and gold, with the inscription, ' from a peni tent Sabbath-breaker,' which is to this day conspicuous on a shelf of the episcopal library, for he is now a bishop. We are glad to say that, regular church-goer as we have ever since continued, we have never again remembered Old Weller in our orisons except with shame anti con trition." The reviewer gratefully avowing a little further on— " For our own part, when we had read Pickwick over again for the third time (all three readings being consecu tive and unintermittent), we were ready to start on a pilgrimage to Mecca► with peas, uuboiled, in our shoes, if we could at the end of our journey, an. incurable bug still enthusiastic cripple, have hoped to catch one glimpse, one word of him, who had so delighted us." Dispraise from so genial a reader of Dickens as this right humorous reviewer in Blackwood thus proves himself to be, comes all the more painfully, of course, to the author of Little Dorrit. A fact sufficiently obvious even to ourselves—sympathis ing, as we do not at all, with that treatment of Mr. Dickens, which has been, for some time past, so strangely popular amongst the crowd of critics. Re viewers who can do little else, when writing about that illustrious author, than csrp, and cavil, and sneer, and snarl at everything falling f, om the hand of the glorious writer of the immortal "Christmas Caro!," and of incomparable " David Copperfield." A third " Letter from a Lighthouse," and an other cluster of " Scenes from Clerical Life," are conspicuous among the April contents of Black wood. Besides which, there are four other con. tributions not sufficiently important to need par. ticularsiation. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) BANKRUPTCY COURT. (Before Mr. Comtnissioner liolrOyd.) THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK. EXAMINATION OF MR. APSLEY PELLATT. To-day was appointed for the examination of Mr. Apsley Pellatt, formerly one of the Board of Directors. The Court was crowded as on previous occasions. Mr. Linklater appeared for the assignees, and Mr. Voss as the legal adviser of Mr. Pellatt. Mr. Linklater said that he now proposed to examine Mr. Pellatt, who became a director on the 12th February, 1849, and retired from the bank in 1850. He had examined Mr. Esdaile principally with reference to the latter period of the transactions of the bank, and he should now examine Mr. Pellatt as to the formation of the bank. Mr. Pellatt, in examination, said he was formerly one of the directors. Thought he lint joined in Feb., 1849, aed was introduced to Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Cameron, and Mr. Ritchie, when it was proposed that the bank should be formed under the 7th and Bth Vict. At that time it was his impression that it was to be a bank of limited liability. It was so stated in the prospectus. Thought he should not have joined if he had not thought so. Did not become acquainted with the fact that it was unlimited liability until some time after on perusing the charter. He was introduced by Mr, M'Gregor, who was at that time a per sonal friend. Thought he saw Mr. Learmouth at the fir t board, but could not recollect whether be ever say!' him there afterwards. He might have seen Mr. Es daiie. Did not see Mr. Menzies acting as secretary. Was not aware that it was originally proposed that the capital was to be 500,000/., to be increased to a million. Mr. Learmouth refused to take up his shares to qualify himself as a director. After some further answers, His Honour asked Mr. Linklater whether it was at 4,11 necessary to enter into all the preliminaries which were not agreed to, but a very different arrangement at length come to Mr. Linklater said that the object of the inquiry was to inquire as to the formation of the bank, and to see whether the shareholders had been deluded when they were induced to join. The examination was then continued at great length, and a great number of minutes and a voluminous cor respondence, to ascertain whether Mr. Menzies was act ing in the capacity of secretary in obtaining shareholders at Newcastle and the north. Mr. Pellatt's impression was that Mr. Menzies was not the secretary, and never saw him acting as such at the board. His Honour said that iu July, 1849, Menzies was in Whitecross-street Prison. Mr. Linklater—He was inquiring as to April and May. A letter was read from Mr. Cclgon, dated the 9th of stating it had been mentioned in Parliament that the prospectus of the Royal British Bank tended to mis lead, but he was prepared to defend it in all its details. Mr. Linklater read several letters, which he contended proved that the persons connected with the board were studiously concealing from the shareholders, at New eastle, the real state of the affairs with respect to what had taken place in Parliament, and Menzies wrote up to say that the speech of Mr Readlaw bad made an un favourable impression at Newcastle, but they (Mensies and Co.) were counteracting it as far as possible, and recommending that the Charter should be obtained as speedily as possible, when all obstacles would be removed. Mr. Voss hoped Mr. Linklater did not intend to imply that Mr. Peilatt was cognisant that these letters had been written Mr. Linklater said Mr. Pellatt could speak to that. Mr. Pellatt said he might have heard of them, but bad no distinct recollection. (The case was proceeding when we went to press, and not likely to be concluded this day.) THE SUN LONDON, WED N, SDAY EVENING, APRIL 1, 1857