The Sun. — London, England, 1857-04-09 00:00:00

riv) PRESS R,EADERS.—WANTED, 1 an Experienced READER for a Dztly Paper. Lett° rs to be addressed " A. 8.," 104, Strand. ITER lq AJESTV'S THEATRE. SEASON 1357. The THEATRE will OPEN on TUESDAY, April 1 1 , when will be presented Douizetti's Opera of LA FAVORITA. Leonora Baldassare Fernando Signor GIUGLINI. To be followed (first time these 10 veils) by the favourite Ballet of LA ESMERALDA. Founded on Yietor Hugo's "Notre Dame de Paris." La Esmeralda Madlle. POCCFIINI. Claude Frollo Signor RONZANI. Pierre Gringoire M. MASSOT. 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. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. On EASTER MONDAY, will be performed Shakespere's tragedy of KING RICHARD THE SECOND. King Richard 11., Mr. C. K-an ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by A GAME OF ROMPS. THEATRE ROYAL, HA.YMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. NEW ARRANGEMENT OF PRICES OF ADMISSION. On EASTER MONDAY, and during the week, the new Tama of A LIFE'S TRIAL. Messrs. Buckstone, Comp ton, Howe, W. Farren, Rogers ; Mesdames Reynolds, Poyn ter, Fitzwilliam, &c. After which, for the first time, a Classical Love Story, un der the Apple-lation of ATAL ANTA ; or, The Three Golden Apples : in which Miss M. Oliver will appear; also Miss M. Wilton, her first appearance here, and Miss Ellen Ternan, her first appearance in London. Concluding with GRIMSHAW, BAGSIIAW, AND BRADSHAW. Mr. Buckstone. In future the prices will t 0: — Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. 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 2 0 Pit. 1 0 Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 BNo half-price to Upper Gallery. T HEATRE ROYAL, A DEL PHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. On EASTER MONDAY, will be performed the new and original domestic sketch, entitled WELCOME, LITTLE STRANGER. Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Bedford, So. Followed by THE ELVES, in which Madame Celeste will make her first appearance. After which, A NIGHT AT NOTTING-HILL, in which Mr. Wright and Paul Bedford will appear. OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. On EASTER MONDAY, a new drama, called DADDY HARDACRE. Mr. Robson, &c. The new drama, by Toni Taylor, Esq., A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING. To conclude with THIEVES ! THIEVES ! ! Messrs. F. Robson, G. Vining, dec. Commence at half-past Seven. CIANTERBURY HALL, Weetminster-roal.— V} OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance ol Selections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Duets, dre., viz. !!'_l3liss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunel], Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta ; Mr. J Caulfield, Herr F. Tonghmans, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri, Senor Antonio M. de Solla, and E. L. Hime ; Masters Austin, Bennett, and Corri; Messrs. Sam Collins, E. Hackney, and C. J. Wilkins, Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre cisely. Suppers, die., until twelve o'clock. 11.100 WATER AT LONDON BREDGI. TRIB DAT—Morn. 5 min. aft. 2—Evening 20 mid. aft. 2 :'n-Moasow—Alorn. 35 min. aft. 2—Evening 51 rnin.aft. 2 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 9. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. El —highest singe noon yesterday' 48 -lowest this morning and daring the night. 59 --this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29'65—falling. WIND, S. to S.S.W.—Light, with sunshine and heavy clouds. It rained heavily yesterday afternoon, during the xight, and this morning, in torrents. It is now fine. (1 1 3 .IZ, LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1857. The Chinese War of 1857 is being illustrated If the motive really be such, it may offer some by a variety of curious little episodical incidents. extenuation of the act of the last w ee k. B u t it The Celestial EMPEROR is at one moment stated to places the impolicy of the existi ng mone t ar y co d e have evidenced an eager solicitude to make p eace even in a strongerllight than a n y i n w hi c h it h as as upon any terms with the English, and a t ano th er yet been exhibited. What wou ld b e sa id t o th e is declared to have pronounced, if p oss ibly more corporation of a borou g h if, w h en it was k nown energetically, his fixed resolution, at all cost, to that evil-disposed men were abroad, and that take, vengeance upon those outer-barbarians. The designs were entertained by burglars and former statement, however, is as clearly authentic garotters against the purses of the com as the latter is unquestionably apocryphal. There munity, they should, in place cf affording can bo little doubt that YETI has found his pro- the requisite protection, merely anticipate the ceedings at Canton formally repudiated by his predatory horde, by themselves plundering the Imperial Master—the preposterous despatch given intended victims ? They would certainly be con simply as " a matter of curiosity" in The Sun sidered as entirely unfitted for the position in of yesterday, purporting to be a communication which they were placed, being by their own acts addressed to the Viceroy of the Cantonese by th e proved to be incapable of di sc h arg i ng th e i m - Chief of the Nuy-ko, or State Council, of Pekin, portant duties confided to their charge. Quis is from first to last an outrageous and ridiculous custodiet ipsos custodes wou ld b e h ear d ou every side, and prote c tio n aga i ns t th e p re t en d e d f r i en d s fabrication. "Thu, I have serious news to an nounce to you!" saith the ghostly apparition of and guardians would be ea ger ly soug ht f or . TSA.OU-TCHIN-YONG, in this sonorous and resonant The fact, however, that the attempt, while it proclamation—the great news referred to, being deeply injures tho victims, must prove abortive, a war of extermination ! The sanguinary Sem- renders the grievance more glaring. If the free blance of the Head of the Nuy-ko continuing i n quenters of Capel-court can be bamboozled by the the genuine Fe-Fi-Fo-Fum strain—" I smell the Muscovite scheme, one or two per cent. addi blood of an Englishman"—thus : "YEN, you are tional in the rate of discount will not induce to carry on a war of extermination against the them to avoid nibbling at the bait. Their game foreign barbarians who have attacked you ; they will be merely to turn over the shares, which, must receive from you an exemplary chastise- like the "razors" of the tale, are made for sale, men t." And so forth ! All very fine, Mr. FER- not for use, and to realise trifling premiums in the GUSSON—or rather TSAOU-TCHIN-YONG ! But that process. A daring gambler thinks but little of the whole of this raw-head-and-bloody-bones the price that he may be compelled to pay for the Despatch happens to be a canard—" bosh"—e stake which he imagines will be largely increased pleasant little fantastic bit of oriental penny-a- by his operations. A trifling difficulty will not lining ! The truth of the matter being all the deter him from the speculative game on which he while that the Brother of the Sun, the cousin of has determined. He will, under any circum the Moon, and the Nephew of the Stars happens stances, " stand the hazard of the die," and to be of a very different mind : reprehends YEH will find a consolation i n th e k now l e d ge t h at discountenances all his recent acts in regard t o other innocent persons are involved in one com the lorcha—evinces the utmost possible degree of mon ruin with himself. He has the experience anxiety to conciliate the British, and so come to of past bubbl e s, an d if th e y s h ou ld prove insuf ficient, a minimum, rate of even ten per ce n t. w ill terms with them as speedily as may be, and as satisfactorily. not suffice to save him from the ruin which he so Then there is the supposed poisoning of the recklessly invites. bread with Alum at Hong Kong ! No—not with There is but one mode by which these evils can be averted, and that is, by su pplyi ng a c i rculating Alum, rather w e s h ou ld have sa i d b y A LUM — on l y that we are so accustomed here in London to the medium suited for internal transactions, via., a former atrocity in the way of systematic adultera- really National Note, and maki ng th ose requir tion in what our neighbours the French call inn bullion, either for transmitting abroad or panification ! Well, then—to speak more cor- hoarding, pay for it according to its actual rectly—we repeat, Ther e i s the supposed poisoning value. Englishmen should surely be enabled to of the bread by ALUM, the baker of Hong 'Co n e ! compete with foreigners in their own markets. That is one of the most remarkable episodes in the We should be enabled to retain the gold that has whole history of this collision between the British found its way to our markets, despite the machi and the Chinese authorities ! Out of the pre- nations of those who desire to insinuate their sumed infamy of this occurrence has grown up hands into our pockets. At present we are ren portentouslY a very notable Trial, the Trial of dered perfectly helpless by the unjust and impo- ALUM and his supposed Accomplices--a Trial con- litic enactments which it is proposed to renew ducted with no inconsiderable ability by M r . —without c h ange or mod i ficat i on— f or a further years. Attorney-General ANSTEY, ex - Member for Youghal term of t en It may be fortunate for the Tr i a l l as ting through five days in succession nation if the existing pressure and the imperative — a Trial, according to English usage, in the pre- necessity of obtaining protection for the internal sence of Judge and Jury—a Trial, wonderful to commerce of Great Britain should open the eyes relate, ending in the acquittal of the prisoners, of the Legislature, while there is yet time, and although th e b rea d su pplied by ALUM on the before the evil has reached its full magnitude. It occasion referred to was notoriously and uncle- is clear that circumstances have arisen, not con niably poisoned ! Why—in conclusive testimony templated by the enactments of 1844, and against of the irrefragable nature of the evidence adduced whichtheydo not afford adequate protection. Other upon the last-mentioned point, viz., the point as measures are clearly required, and the.most urgent to whether the bread w as or was not po i sone d— claim on the new Parli amen t w ill b e to render the the Daily News itself (the Self-constituted Special i monetary legislation as complete as possible, so as Pleader for the Chinese) says di st i nct l y aw l ex - to prevent the welfare an d p rosper i ty of the plicitly in its impression of this very morn i ng — United Kingdom from being pl ace d a t t h e mercy Mark every syllable in the followi ng sentence— lof any foreign Power that ca n p u t f orward " We do not, of course, mean to deny the fact that schemes sufficiently tempting to induce the specu there me poison in the bread, and that the poison f ators of Capel Court to touch the unclean thing, filE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1857 was arsenic." A tolerably ditinct and txplicit admission ! In spite of which, however, in de fiance of the apparently incontrovertible facts that ALum's bread was poisoned, and that the poison with which it was poisoned was arsenic— there comes that other and still more astounding fact, the fact that the Verdict of the Jury was a Verdict of Acquittal ! Not, let us acknowledge it at once, but that we do really conceive ALUM the Baker to have acted no otherwise than as an innocent man would have acted under the circumstances ! Insomuch so that had we ourselves been on the Jury at his trial, we should have yearned for the old Scottish privilege in such cases—that of bringing in a verdict of " Not Proven" rather thgn one of Not Guilty ! For while the evidence brought into court did not, in any way directly implicate ALUM in the transac tion, there was clearly and undeniably (as the Daily News itself admits) poison in Ames bread, and that poison clearly and undeniably was arsenic 1 Meanwhile the incidents connected with the prosecution of the Chinese War of 1857 are not by any means exclusively remote incidents—re mote either in time or situation. There is the extraordinary casualty which occurred in relation to it at no greater distance than Portsmouth, and no further off than yesterday ! The casualty of the screw troopship the Transit, bound for Hong Kong with some 800 officers and men of the 59th and 90th Regiments, returning to Spithead in a nearly sinking condition—we need hardly say quite unexpectedly 1 It appears that, getting into a fog, sounding seven fathoms, and at last anchoring off the shore of Hants, near Lymington—the Transit was deemed (even by the local pilots who came off to her) to be in a capital position. All goes merrily, the troops turn in and make them selves comfortable, and the night advances without any feeling of disquietude, or apparent cause for it among those on board—when towards day break, lo and behold, the vessel is found to be making water fast—with five feet of water already in her hold ! The anchor being weighed is dis covered, directly it is sighted, to have had half of its stock snapped off—the ship then proving to have driven a hole in her bottom by drifting upon her own anchor ! With nine feet of water in her hold, and more flooding in, the Transit makes the best of her way back to Spit head. And so, in this wholly unlooked-for man ner, comes a delay in part of our Chinese Expedi tion. Other illustrative incidents might be enume rated, but these are assuredly sufficient—suffi cient to prove, as plainly as that two and two make four, a greater need than ever (just at this moment, in regard to the Chinese) of prompti tude, of energy, and of determination on the part of our Executive. A further increase in the rate of discount to a minimum charge of 7 per cent. is this day anti cipated. It is generally supposed that the an nouncement will be made at the breaking up of the Meeting in the Bank Parlour ! It is, more over, stated that the object of the Directors is to check, if they cannot altogether prevent, any dabbling by English speculators in the Russian Railway Scheme to which we have so recently directed public attention. This is another Ides_ sing for which we are indebted to the Cabinet of St. Petersburg. The trading and manufacturing interests must be seriously and, in many in stances, irreparably damaged, because an at tempt is made to abstract the precious metals from the United Kingdom, for the purpose of en abling the AUTOCRAT to carry out the traditional policy of the empire in a manner befitting a suc• COSSOT of PETER I. and to bring ruin and misery ou their innocent countrymen by their thirst for unhallowed gains ! Never did the " Auri sacra fames" assume a more portentous aspect, and never was there a more pressing necessity for remedial measures, and those, too, of no stinted or meagre character. The electors of Flintshire have completed the confusion of the Aberdeenites. In vain has Mr. GLADSTONE displayed all his blandishments. In vain has the deserted general exhausted his energies in seeking their suffrages on behalf of his alter ego, his dearly-loved brother-in-law —Sir STEPAEN GLYNNE. The sturdy Welsh men have not listened to the voice of the charmer, although he practised all the arts of a paid canvasser, and endeavoured to obtain even a single follower ! King LEAR did not plead more earnestly for but one knight than did the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer for his friend. Despite, however, this indefatigable activity, despite all the influences brought into operation, the Government candidate, the Hon. T. E. L. MOSTYN, was returned by a decisive majority, and the once popular GLADSTONE is left to wan der alone through the halls of the Imperial Palace at Westminster, save so far as the doubt ful aid of his rather slippery coadjutor, "the gentle JAMIE frae Carlisle," is concerned. In truth, the policy that " starved the war" in its earlier stages—that proclaimed that the whole expenses should be provided for out of the annual revenue of the country—and that no dis tinction should be recognised between permanent and precarious revenue for fiscal purposes— has been unequivocally repudiated throughout the length and breadth of the land. The avenging NEMESIS has promptly vindicated the political offences perpetrated by the scanty remnant of a once powerful party. " Peelism," or rather " Aberdeenism," is virtually defunct, and GLAD STONE and GRAHAM, the sole survivors, must hang themselves on to some other party which may be induced to open its ranks for the unat tached leaders. It is certainly a remarkable change —one that may hereafter serve " to point a moral and adorn a tale ; " but never was exem plary punishment more completely merited. The Right Hon. Member for Oxford was courted by all parties. Without his co-operation Lord DERBY would not venture to form an Administra tion, and it was vainly imagined that his seces sion would send Lord PALMERSTON to the right about. In 1853 he was allowed to dictate to the entire Legislature, and to his perverse obstinacy alone may be attributed the continuance of the Income Tax in its present op pressive and inequitable form, after the Ministe rial Leaders of the Lords and Commons had noti fied a contemplated change. He might have said, as he did on another point— " Me, me, adsum qui feci, in me convertite ferrum ; Mez fraus omnis." It was he who concocted the " valuable financial demonstration" of denuding the Exchequer of its balances when a terrible struggle was impending, and the Russian war was palpably "looming in the future." For all these he has been severely punished, if not by the proper per sons, by means of the " whipping-boys" who have been made to bear the weight of his delin quencies. He may still quibble and prate in the House, but he has no one to back him. The CARDWELLS, PALMERS, PHILLIMORES, et hoc genus omne, are extinguished so far as the House of Commons is concerned. Not even a GLYNNE has been obtained ; and GLADSTONE must either lower his flag, or he must beat about for new re cruits, if any be foolish enough to accept " the shilling" and volunteer for such a dangerous— we may almost say desperate--service. The bar silver brought by the leer West India steamer ws.‘ sold yesterday at Lid., showing no alteration. The 40,000/. brought by the Africa is understood to be for the Bank of France. Th• specie arrivals yesterday were 17,0001., — namely, 5,0001. by the African mail, 5,0001. by the Etna. and 7,0001. by the Indus from the Mediterranean. THI HON. JOHN PARSONS. —The Hon. John Parsons, second son of the Earl and Countess of Rosso, is alarm ingly ill, at Parsonstown. It is said that his We has been despaired of. EAST INDIA ElOUSE.—Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the thanks of the Court were voted unanimously to Uolontl William H. Sykes, M P., chairman, and Mr. Ross Donnelly Mangles, M.P., deputy-chairman, for their great appli cation and attention to the affairs of the East India Company during the past year. THE ELECTION DISTURBANCES AT SHEFFIELD. —D RATH OF A POLICEMAN.—We regret to state that one of the officers engaged in the preservation of the peace on Sa turday week, died on Thursday morning, in consequence of injuries which he received by a stone which was thrown by some of the mob who had assembled in front of the Angel Hotel. GREENWICH FAIR.—The owner of the last portion of ground on which this fair was allowable has acceded to the wish of the police authorities. Greenwich Fair, therefore, will not take place—in any manner otherwise than what the London public may make for themselves. It is understood that the park will be open as usual for the present, to the serious annoyance of the inhabitants residing in the vicinity. An extraordinary discovery of ore has just taken place at the Welsh Potosi Mine, Cardiganshire. At the 10 fathom level the miners have found a rich course of ore, averaging 18 inches wide solid, and the same has been found to extend 30 fathoms in length. They are now sinking upon the lode, and the ore holds down, and is expected to continue to the 20 aad 30 fathom levels. Should this be the case, this mine will again rank as one of the most productive in Wales. THE ROYAL BRITISH BANE.—Yesterday the sale of the South Sea-house, Threadneedle -street, lately occu pied as the chief office of the Royal British Bank, took place at the Auction Mart, by Messrs. Haslam and Buckland, by direction of the assignees of the estate, when there was a very full attendance of merchants and others, among whom there was an active competition for the property. A bidding of 10,0001. was made, and eventually the property was knocked down to Mr. Elder, of the City-road, for 11,0001., which will go to wards liquidating the debt of the bankrupts. . BUSINESS OF THE COURT OF CHANCERY.—The tota number of notices, petitions, causes, pleas, demurrers, claims, and appeals heard by the L or d Ch ance ll or , th e Lords Justices, the Master of the Rolls, and the three Vice-Chancellors, amounted from the 2d Nov., 1852, to the 2d Nov., 1853, to 8,619 ; in 1853-54, to 10,141 ; in 1854 55. to 10,276; in 1855-66, to 10,502. The total remanets in the courts of equity were during the same period 401, 419, 426, 506, and 379. THE AMERICAN MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, April B. The United States' Mail steamship Fulton, Capt. Wot ton, left Havre yesterday and Cowes to-day, with the English, French, and German mails for New York, 120 passengers, 40,0001. in specie, and a full general cargo. ADDITIONAL MAIL TO JAVA.—luformation has been received from the Government of the Netherlands that so long as the additional communication which has just been established between Point de Galle and China, via Singapore, shall be maintained, a corresponding commu nication will be kept up between Singapore and Batavia. Mails for Java will accordingly be in future made up in London, and forwarded by each despatch of the overland Indian mail. By command of the Postmaster-General. Rowland Hill, Secretary. General Post-office, April 6. LIVERPOOL, April B.—This morning the Liverpool and Philadelphia Steamship Company's screw steamer City of Washington sailed hence for New York, with a ship's mail, a fair cargo, and upwards of 100 cabin pas sengers. The Royal mail steamer America will sail for Halifax and Boston on Saturday ; and the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company's steamer Indian on We Ines.- day, the 220 inst., for Quebec and Montreal, with the Canadian mails, resuming the fortnightly sailings for the season. CLERKENWELL INCUMBENCY.—Notwahetanding the decision given in favour of the Rev. R. M agu i re , M r. Jones, senior churchwarden, has again issued a caveat to his induction by declaring the election illegal. Accord ingly, on Tuesday a deputation of the most respectable inhabitants waited on the Bishop of London, and com municated to him the result of the election. They were moat graciousy received by his lordship, who expressed Ice desire to assi.t the deputa , ion by granting his licence to the Rev. R. Maguire to officiate as incumbent of the parish, if the law would allow him to do so, and said he would obtain the opinion of his legal adviser on the matter. The deputation thanked his lordship for the courtesy with which they had been received, and re tired. MIFRDER.—DEATH OF MR. SCOTT.—Yesterday morning,' at an early hour, Mr. Jas. Scott, of Freeling street, Caledonian road, Islington, who was stabbed with a sword in his house by Robt. Robinson Tripp, and severely wounded, expired at his residence, through its effects. The prisoner Tripp is a surveyor, and was formerly foreman is the employ of Mr. Cubitt, the eminent builder, of Gray's-inn•road, and in conse quence of his peculiar eccentricities, he was discharged a few years ago, and allowed a pension. He has ire• quenlly figured at the Clerkenwell Police Courts for assaults, and been committed to prison. He is a single man. Information was forwarded to Mr. Wakley, the coroner, and an inquest will be held upon the body of Mr. Scott. LORD CHIEF JUSTICE COOKBURN.—SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday. —The Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas and Mr. B. M. Willcox have accepted the invitation of the Chamber of Commerce at this port to a public banquet, in acknowledgment of the many valuable services rendered by those gentlemen to the commercial interests of this town during the 10 years they represented Southampton in the House of Commons. An invitation has also been given to Mr. Weguelin, the present colleague of Mr. Wilcox, who succeeded Sir Alexander Cockburn on his deserved elevation to the bench. The day for the banquet is not yet fixed. THE SHEEPSHANKS COLLECTION.—A copy of the deed of gift by Mr. John Sheepshanks of his collection of pictures and drawings has just been published, by order of the late Parliament. A minute of the Privy Council of Trade, of the 6th of 'February, accepts, with much gratification, the trusteeship created by this deed of gift, acknowledges the great value of Mr. Sheepshanks' splendid collection, expresses admiration of the liberal spirit in which it has been made, and announces that orders have been given for the erection of a gallery for the reception of the collection, as desired by the donor, in some airy situation near the Gardens or Parks at Kensington. The other conditions of the deed of gift are already known to the public. The new gallery will be attached to the Schools of Art in connection with the Departments of Science and Art now established there. The collection includes 233 oil paintings, the works of British artists, and 103 drawings and sketches, the works of native draughtsmen. NEW CODE of MARINE SIGNALS —The committee appointed by the Board of Trade to inquire into the sub ject of a code of signals to be used at sea have reported the result of that inquiry. The existing codes are all based on the numeral system, which is objected to as insufficient. Only one other method was known to the committee for obtaining the object in view. It was that of taking a number of signs (or flags), and by their transposition effecting a certain number of permutations, each different combination of two or more of the signs so taken forming a signal distinct in itself, and having a particuler signification. A. table is subjoined, showing the number of distinct signals which 10 or more flags are capable of by permutation, and forming in hoists of two to four signs at a time in one place. It shows that 18 flags will be requisite to give the number of signals necessary —i.e., 70,000, with power of extension to 78,642, each signal consisting of a minimum hoist of four flags. In conformity with the resolutions of the committee a signal book has been prepared, and accompanies the present report. MR. COBDEN.—A. Liverpool paper says :—" We have been favoured by the inspection of a letter addressed by Mr. Cobden to a gentleman in Liverpool, in which he alludes to his own defeat at Huddersfield, and more especially to the rejection by Manchester of Mr. Bright. Mr. Cobden is in a delicate state of health, and states that his own exclusion from Parliament will be a positive relief to him ; but he feels acutely the course which has been pursued at Manchester, and declares his belief that political ingratitude was never before carried to such an extent, inasmuch as Mr. Bright's intellect, which is of a commanding character, has been shattered by too faith fully serving hie constituency in the House of Commons, and he now finds himself dismissed with less delicacy than is usually accorded to a menial in a private family. The publication of this letter at the present time would excite interest, but, although it treats exclusively of pub lic matters, Mr. C o bd en h as mar k e d it "Pr'evate, , ' a feeling which his correspondent respects. In addition to the indifferent state of his own health, Mr. Cobden's hap piness is considerably marred by the illness which pre vails in his family." GAROTTE ROBBERY AT BRIGHTON.—On Monday even ing, about eight o'clock, John Bimpson, a middle-aged man, a smith, residing at Brighton, was walking along the Old Shoreham-road, towards Hove-place, arm in-arm with a woman named Elizabeth Parker, It was foggy, but not quite dark, when two men met them, one of whom seized Bimpeo n by the neckerchief, threw him down, and attempted to throttle him, while the other knocked down the woman, and then assisted his companion in holding Bimpeon down. They kept him on the ground about eight minutes, riflin g his pockets, from which they took about ten s hil lings. The woman ' s screams of murder were b r i ng i ng some persons to Bimpeon's assis• tance, when the t wo ruffians, and a third man who had joined them, ran away. Three men are in custody charged with thi s d ar i ng robbery. They were yesterday examined before a Brightor; magistrate, and remanded for a week.—Brighton Gazette. EXPLOSION ON SHIPBOARD.—HARTLEPOOL, April 7. —Yesterday afternoon a violent explosion occurred on board the iron screw collier Hutton Chaytor, Capt. J. Jefferson, lying in the 'Victoria Dock, by which two of the crew were seriously injured, though, fortunately, not dangerously. The Hutt on Chaytor was loaded with Thorn ley gas coals, and had been lying in her berth since Saturday waiting for a sea tide. Two of the crew—the second mate and another—went down into the fore-hatch on some necessary business, carrying a lantern with them. On getting below the candle was removed out of the lan tern, and an explosion instantly took piece. The scuttle hatch had fortun a t e l y b een taken off during the forenoon, for the purpose of ventilation, or the injury would have been much mere seriou s than it was. The fore hatches were blown off, and the second mate was severely burnt about the head, face, breast, and hands. The other man's injuries were less severe, being confined to the back of the head. Mr. Edger, surgeon, was speedily in attendance upon the poor fellows, and both are progress. ing favourably. LATEST NEWS. AUSTRALIA. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING. T e European and Australian Company's steamer J ura, CaptAin Moodie, has just arrived in the river, with the Simla's Australian mails. She left Ahxandria March 28th, and Malta April the Ist. The Jura brings 29 passengers; 21 packages of specie, value 84,7171. ; one package of gold coin, value I,IOW. ; 50 parcels and 630 bales of cotton, woo], &c. On the 31st of March, in lat. 35.35, long. 16, the Jura spoke the barque Circassian; and on the 7th of April, in lat. 44.25, long. 8.42, the steamer Albania. BERLIN, WEDNESDAY. The Zeit (Berlin paper) denies that a delay has been accorded to Denmark, by Austria and Prussia, for the settlement of the Holstein question through French influence. It confirms the statement that Russia has refused to agree to the claims of Den mark being referred to an arbitration of the Euro,- pean Powers. COPENHAGEN, WEDNESDAY. The Ministers have tendered their resignation to the King en masse. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. Several journals say that the French Government is occupied at this moment with the affairs of Naples. This statement is untrue. The Moniteur announces that General Todleben was presented to tke Emperor on Tuesday, by Count Kisseleff, the Russian Ambassador. The commission of the budget, contrary to the usual custom of the Chamber, has this year ap pointed its reporters before having completely dis cussed all the questions connected with it, having done so in consequence of the pressure of time. M. A. Leroux has undertaken to present his report to the Chamber by the Ist May, as the Government and Chamber both desire that no prolongation of the session should take place. The committee on the budget is now discussing the new taxes, and everything favours the impression that it will come to the same conclusion as the Council of state, and that nott•ing will be changed with regard to the 45 centimes on transferable securities. BOURSE, April B.—The following were the last quotations : _ Cash. fr. c. 4i per Cents 3 per Cents 63 95 End of Month. —fr. —c. 69 10 New Loan - - Bank Shares 4,0g5 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,380 Austrian Belgian Piodmontese (5) 9oi— Home Debt RAILWAYS-FOR CASH. fr c tr. Orleans 1,465 Western Northern Lyens 1,550 New Ditto Mediterranean 2,130 Grand Central Lyons Genova Midi - Austrian Com. ...... 730 AUSTRIA. The Ost Deutsche Post of Vienna publishes a telegraphic despatch from Turin of the 2d, stating the, according to the Military Gazette of that capital, which is supposed to receive communica tions form the Minister of War, a corps d'arm6e of 20,000 men is to be concentrated at Alessandria, on the Austrian frontiers. But the Military Gazette takes care to add that this measure, justified by the custom of previous years and other requirements of the service, must not be considered as an act of provocation. That interpretation is, however, op posed by the above Vienna journal, which asserts that the establishment of a camp at Alessandria, if not a menace for Austria, is, at, least, a hostile demonstration which cannot be passed over in silence. A letter from Vienna of the 4th, in the Ham burg News, says :—" The Count de Paar had a private audience of the Emperor yesterday. The information given.by the count is said not to be of a nature to calm down the irritation felt against Sardinia."—Another letter of the same date, in the Cologne Gazette, says :—" Baron do Bourqueney had an interview with Count de Buol yesterday, when he (the baron) made known to him the condi tions on which France was disposed to support the proceedings of Prince 'hail() of Montenegro. It is certain that the Austrian Cabinet has been re quested by France to use its influence at Constan tinople in favour of the Prince." THE PRINCIPALITIES. At the same time that the last of the Austrian battalions are crossing the Carpathians, the com missioners of the great powers are proceeding on their way towards Bucharest, where they will be all soon assembled.. 'A telegraphic despatch of the 4th from that capital announces the approaching arrival of Baron de Talleyrand, who had landed that very morning at Kalarasch. Safet Effendi, Sir H. Bulwer, and the Chevalier de Beuzi, the Ottoman, English, and Sardinian commissioners, who had left Constantinople within a few days of each other, were expected daily. The Russian commissioner, M. Constantin Basily, was at the above date at Vienna, which place he was to leave at the same time as the representatives of Prussia and Austria. It is still M. de Richtoffan who is to represent Prussia. As to the Austrian commissioner, Baron de Koller, who was recently appointed to the lega tion at Berlin, he has been replaced by M. Lieh mann de Pahn.rode, formerly resident Minister at Cracow. This grave question of the Princi palities is thus provisionally transferred from Paris and Constantinople to Buchkrest and Jassy, to return hereafter to the seat of the Conferences, where it will receive its definitive solution. In a few days the elections for the composition of the divans ad hoc will commence, and it is calculated that this operation will not occupy less than three or four weeks, particularly if, as is stated from dif ferent quarters, the country is preparing to appeal to the commissioners on the subject of certain irre gularities committed by the native government in the formation of the electoral lists, and also against the interpretation given to certain clauses of the firman of convocation. It is therefore thought scarcely probable that the divans will assemble be fore the end of April or beginning of May. RUSSIA. A letter from St. Petersburg, in the Nord of Brussels, says :—" The operation of raising the vessels sunk in the port of Sebastopol has com menced. There are upwards of 80 of them, and 16 have already been recovered, viz., the Chersdnese steamer, 260 horse-power, 4 transports, 1 brig, 2 &loaners, two tenders, and 6 smaller craft. The 4 transports are already afloat, and are engaged in conveying provisions and equipments. The Cher sonese is under repair at Nicolaieff, and will be launched again in spring. Besides these vessels, the Government has six sailing transports and some steamers of from 60 to 100 horse power. It has but lately bought 5 screw schooners, which are to cruize along the eastern coasts of the Black Sea." ROME. The Giornale di Roma publishes an edict making very important reductions in the Customs' tariff of the Roman States. The import duty on manufac tured articles of coarse silk, linen, cotton, woollen, hair, leather, is reduced from between 30 to 'TO per cent. On wearing apparel and articles of fashion it is reduced 50 per cent. ; on linen or woollen thread, 33 per cent. ; palm oil, 50 per cent. ; common soap, 40 pitr cent. ; felt for paper-mills, 50 per cent. ; books bound in pasteboard, covered with cloth or coloured cotton, 40 per cent. The export duty on coarse silk, carded and combed, is reduced two-thirds ; on woollen rags, four-fifths ; on wool obtained from rags, 1 bajocco per 100 lb. ; while the export duty on bones is doubled. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of 4th have arrived. The Infante Don Henry continued at Salamanca. General Prim had left for Alicante to undergo the six months' arrest to which he has been condemned. General Roncali, Count d'...41c0y, had been attacked with apoplexy in the street, and died before he could be conveyed to his own house. M. Alameda, Archbishop of Bur gos, had been translated to the metropolitan see of Toledo, and M. Tarancon, Bishop of Cor dova, to the archiepiscopal see of Burgos. Ac counts from Melilla to the 15th ult. stated that the Moors were quiet. It was expected th a t the ex-King of Portugal would visit Seville in the Holy Week. A number of workmen at Barcelona having refused to accept work in the manufactories, the governor of the city had interdicted their asso ciations. A letter states that Count de Montemo lino has notified to his partisans that he disap proved strongly of any new attempt to light the gum of oivii war, and that he considered that there was not at present any chance orfmccess. This step, adds the letter, seems to indicate that the count hopes that the attempts of Russia to effect a reconciliation between his family and that of Queen Isabella will prove successful. "Our correspondent at St. Petersburg," says the Nord • of 'Wisels, " informs us that the King of Green ;Presented Prince Gortschakoff Mi nister of Ftteign Affairs, with the. Grand Cordon of the Ordq of the Saviour. The Brazilian charge d'affairm.N. de Ribeiro, at St. Petersburg, is to be accredicld in the same quality to the govern ment,of Ttirin, and M. de Magalhaes, who is new at Turie,, ia to be accredited with the rank of Mi nister to fhe court of Russia." A letter from Belgrade states M. Semics, Mi nister of Foreign Affairs of Servia, had suddenly resigned not only his portfolio, but his seat iu the Senate. The letter says that this event had pro duced some sensation, but that the causes of it were not known. Letters from Constantinople (says the Constitu tionnel) inform us that the Porte is about to with draw from the Moldo-Wallachian provinces, and even to remove to a distance from the frontiers the Turkish troops which are now there, in order to avoid even an appearance of exercising any pres sure at the moment of the elections. We learn via Vienna that this movement is to commence on the 10th inst. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS IN 1856. A report of the railway accidents of last year is embodied in a blue-book of some 80 pages. It appears that in 1856 281 persons were killed and 394 injured on railroads in the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Of this number 112 were killed and 16 injured who were neither pas sengers nor servants of the railway companies, 142 killed and 80 injured who were servants of com panies or employes of contractors, and 27 killed and. 298 injured who were passengers. The first cate gory includes 2 persons who committed suicide, 67 killed, and 7 injured while trespassing, 28 killed and 2 injured at level crossings, 1 killed and 2 in jured while on a bridge which was thrown down by a load on a train, and 11 persons killed and 5 - injured by being run 'over or struck by trains at stations. Of the servants of companies 30 were killed and 46 injured from causes beyond their con trol, and 112 were killed and 34 injured owing to misconduct or incautiousness. Of the latter 2 were killed and 2 injured while shunting, 20 killed and 39 injured from accidents to trains, and 7 killed and 5 injured from being run down or struck by trains while discharging their duties. One man, a guard, was killed by the blow of a bridge. The greater number of those servants killed or in jured from want of caution were crushed between buffers, run over, or fell from trains in motion. There is a large annual number of 'victims from being crushed between the buffers of carriages which are being coupled together. Of the pas sengers eight were killed and 282 injured from causes beyond their control, and 19 killed and 16 injured from incautiousness. Of the 71 accidents re ported on in 1856 it appears that in 7 cases only were the accidents attributable to circumstances which could not be guarded against, and that in only three of the cases were the accidents solely at tributable to such circumstances. In 27 cases the negligence of the inferior servants entered into the cause of the accident. The remaining causes of ac cident are classed under the following heads—viz., (Moots in the construction of works or rolling stock insufficiency of accommodation or ap pliances for safety—insufficient staff, and in adequacy of the system of working. A general review of accidents reported since 1810 shows that the great majority of accidents are attributable to causes over which the managers of railways have control, but which, from negligence or false economy, they do not remedy. What is called " negligence" of servants in cases of accident is often a habitual infringement of the regulations with the guilty cognisance of the managers, or else a iotactice which has grown up in the absence of defined rules. " This," observes the report, "is an important fact, because the public have a right to require that the traffic on railways shall be con ducted with the greatest attainable degree of safety." It is thought, on the other hand, that freedom from railroad accident is not to be secured by external interference, but by efficient and re sponsible internal management and the mainten ance of strict discipline. It is suggested that all important railway accidents should be inquired into publicly by a competent officer or tribunal, the coroner's inquest being a tribunal ill-suited to such inquiries. POISONING AT DEVONPORT. A great deal of illness and one death have re sulted in Devonport from partaking of food con taining some poisonous ingredients, most probably arsenic. A woman named Fuge, who had been wahing at the Duke of Cornwall public-house, Cornwall-street, Devonport, had some slices of pudding given to her by the landlady. She took them home, and her husband ate a part of one. In about half an hour he became sick, and remained so all night. Next morning the woman toasted the rest of the pudding, gave small portions of it to her three children, and ate some herself. They all became ill shortly after, and one of the children, a little boy, five years old, died the same evening. About a week before this, it seems, the family living at the public-house had all been taken ill shortly after a dinner of which puddings, similar to those of which pieces had been given to the washerwoman, formed a part. At an inquest which was held on the body of the litttle boy, Mr. Thomas Crossing, surgeon, was examined, and described the appearance of the deceased when he saw him, after he had died. From the appear ance of the body he formed the opinion that some powerful irritant had entered the stomach. He bad, with the assistance of Mr. James Ryder, of Morice-town, chemist, analysed a portion of the contents of the stomach, and was of opinion that the child had died from the effects of the poison, and, as he believed, of arsenic. He bad every reason to believe that the stomach contained arsenic in considerable quantity. It would be more satis factory, and would enable him to form a more positive opinion as to thepreciso nature Of the poison, whe ther arsenic or otherwise, could he have the op portunity of submitting the contents of the stomach and intestines to further chemical examination. The inquest was adjourned until Monday, when Messrs. Crossing, Reed, Slogget, and Mr. Ryder, chemist, were examined, and stat ad that in the pudding and in the body_of the deceased they had detected a large quantity of arsenic. The inquest was then again adjourned until yesterday (Tues day), when Mr. Laity, surgeon, and a number of other witnesses, gave evidence in corroboration of the facts adduced on the previous examinations. The inquest was then further adjourned until Mon day, the 2llth instant, to allow time for further in quiry. THE MEETING OF PARLIA 'VENT. As affording a guide to public ex p ec tation in re gard to the probable occupati on of the n ew Parlia ment for the first week after its meetin g , were pint an extract from the record of the last house when it met under similar circumstances (From " Votes of the House of Commons.") November 4, 1852. House met at 2 p.m., and went to the Lords. The Lords Commissioners directed the house to pro ceed to the election of a Speaker, and to present him at 2 to-morrow for the Royal approbation. Mr. Shaw Lefevre, on motion of Mr. Palmer, seconded by Lord R•bert Grosvenor, took the chair. The Chancellor of the Exchequer then congratulated the Speaker elect. The house adjourned at 3. November 5, House met at 2 and went to the Lords. Her Majesty approved of the choice the house had made. The Speaker tlok the oaths alone. Several members also took.the oaths. House adjourned at 4. _ November 6. House met at 2. Several members took the oaths. Adjourned at 4. November 8. Same proceedings. Members took the oaths. November 9. Same proceedings. November 10. Same proceedings. November 11. The house met at 1 O'clock. Message to attend her Majesty in the Lords. House went. On return, the Speaker reported her Majesty's speech. Address moved by Lord Lovaine, seconded by Mr. E. Egerton, and agreed to. Adjourned at 9.30 p.m. MR. MINABI'S PEN AND INS DRAWINGS. —We have just inspected another of the truly wonderful pen and ink sketches of this ingenious artist , whose executive powers at upwards of 70 years of age are truly surprising. After a residence of more than 60 years in England, occupied in the exercise of his pleasing art, and having produced multitudes of ingenious and tasteful pieces, vying with the most elaborate productions of the graver, Mr. Minasi deserves the patronage of the wealthy and the refined. The drawing before us, " The Morning Rose," consists of three nymphs amidst a profusion of ctiptered white roses. It is in - endeti for a vignette title-page to a lady's album, and anything more unique and beautiful we have seldom seen. Any lady of means, and of bene volent disposition, may wool be gratified at possessing one of Mr. Minasi's drawings for her album or port. folio. —Morning Advertiser.- .HAYMA.RKET THEATRE. Mr. C. H. Adams' 27th annual series of lectures on astronomy are now in course of delivery at this theatre. For the last six-and -twenty years, at this particular period, these lectures have been looked forward to with great interest by all the students of this sublime science. The observations of the talented lecturer were most at tentively listened to by a very crowded audience, and at the termination of the lecture the applause was enthu siastic. The diagrams with which the lecture was profusely illustrated were splendid. DRURY-LANE TREATRE. A grand dramatic festival is announced to take place at Old Drury during the Easter week. Mr. and Mrs. C. Dillon are announced to appear in several of the favou rite characters, but the great novelty will be the unique production and blending of the gorgeous Lyceum bur lesque of " Conrad and Medora," with the unrivalled Drury-lane pantomime of "See SAW, Margery Daw." In this novel entertainment Fenton's magnificent trans formation scene will be united with the splendid scenic productions of Mr. W. Eaverley, and Baleno, with bis celebrated troupe of pantornimists, will also appear ; so we shall have altogether one of the most unexampled attractions imaginable. The festival will be repeai;lll3r six nights only ; but on Easter Monday a morning peiN formance will take place. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent took a carriage dtive yesterday. His Excellency Feruk Khan, accompanied by his suite, left Claridge's Hotel this morning on his return to Paris. His Excellency the Ambassador of Prance and the Countess Persigny will leave town to•morrow for Paris, en congd for a short period. The Duke of Montrose left town a few_days since for Scotland. The Duchess still remains in London. The Earl and Countess of Bradford left town, yester day, for their seat, Castle Bromwich, near Birmingham. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained at dinner, last evening, at their residence, Cambridge house, Piccadilly, bis Excellency, the Sardinian Minister, Minister, the Countess of Shaftesbury and Lady Victoria Ashley, Sir John and Lady Milbank° and Miss Mi! banke, Mr. John Evelyn Denison, and Mr. Norman Macdonald. Lord and Lady Londe borough and family have arrived at the family seat, Grimston Park, near Tad caster, from their chateau in the South of France. Lord and Lady .Aveland are at present staying on a visit with Lord and Lady Willoughby D'Eresby, at Grimsthorpe, in Lincolnshire. Lord and Lady Burghley have left town to join the family circle at Burghley House, near Stamford. Lady S:►phia Tower was safely delivered of a son yes terday afternoon, at her residence in Eaton-square. Her ladyship and infant ara progressing favourably. The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli have left town for Hughenden Manor, Bucks. Sir John and Lady Milbanke arrived in town, on Tuesday, from Hampshire. Lord Panmure's retirement from the Ministry will take place before the end of May, and Mr. Sidney Her. bert will probably be asked to take his place. The following distinguished persons have visited the Great Globe, Leicester•square :—The royal family of Oude, the Count and Countess of Jersey, the Russian Ambassador (Prince Eiterhazy), Sir John and Lady Pakington, the Ladies Fitzclarence, Falcon, and Hol land, Sir John Boileau, Sir Joshua and Lady Winning ton, Sir T. Freemantle, Lord Campbell and iLadies, Lord Burleigh, Alderman Carden, &c. A grand Verdi Festival is announced to take place at Exeter Hall on Easter Monday. The three operas, " Rigoletto," " La Traviata," and "Il Trovatore, ' are to be represented in a condensed form, with the assist ance of first-rare artistes, band, and chorus. The vocalists are Madame Clara Novello, Miss Louisa Vinning, Miss Dolby, Mr. Millardi, Mr. Weiss, and Mr. Sims Reeves. Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon. MAUNDY THIIRSDAY.—The interesting ceremony of the distribution of her Majesty's Maundy took place at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, to-day, at two o'clock. The Bishop of Oxford, Lord High Almoner, officiated, assisted by Dr. Jelt; Sub-Almoßer, and Mr. Jos. Hanby, Sec retary of her Majesty's Almonry. There was choral ser vice, and four anthems were sung on the occasion. EASTER TEM—The Lord Chancellor will receive the Judges and Queen's Counsel on Wednesday, the first day of Easter term, at his lordship's residence in Upper Brook-street, at twelve o'clock. a The large mount of 5,500,0001 b. of tea is expected to be delivered this week , duty paid, from the port of London. 'HE LATE VISCOUNTESS KEITH. We announced, a few days, since, the demise, at her residence in Piccadilly,. of Hestber Maria, Vis countess Keith, inher 95th year. This remarkable lady was the last remaining link between the pre sent generation and that brilliant literary circle which congregated around Johnson at "the club" —which thronged the hospitable mansion of Mrs. Thrale at Streatham. Viscountess Keith was the eldest .daughter of Henry Thrale, the friend of Johnson, and the husband of Hesther Salusbury, better known to the world by the name of her second husband, as "Mrs. Piozzi." As the child of his most valued friend, Heather Maria enjoyed a large share of the attention of Johnson, who was her early instructor, and in whose memoirs her name frequently • occurs as " Queeny," a term of endearment conferred upon her by the great philo sopher. During her girlhood she was surrounded by Reynolds, Garrick, Burke, Gibbon, Boswell, Beauclerk, Langton, Siddons, Burney, and Mon tague. Johnson was her early tutor, and Baretti her Italian master. From her mother she learnt to cultivate intellectual pursuits, and from ber father she derived those sterling qualities which belong more especially to•the high-toned English. character. On the death of the latter, and the mar riage of her mother to Signor Piozzi (with whom she spent many years in foreign travel), Miss Thrale was deprived of her home. Being a minor, and re stricted to a small allowance, she retired to a de serted house of her father's at Brighton, with no other companion - than an old and faithful house-, keeper. Here she applied herself to severe courses of study, and to the acquisition of many branches of . knowledge, rare in a woman at all times, and eve:. cially so in the less cultivated days of the last cen tury. When the time arrived appointed by her, father for her majority, she established herself in a handsome house in London with her younger sisters, who were many years her juniors. But be fore this period she had lost her guardian and valued preceptor, the illustrious Johnson, whose deathbed she assiduously attended. She frequently dwelt upon that solemn scene in after years. The sage/0A their last interview said, "My dear child, we part for ever in this world, let us part as Chris. tians should ; let us pray together. He then uttered a prayer of fervent piety and deep affec tion, invoking the blessings of Heaven upon his pupil. When Mrs. Piozzi returned from her long marriage tour her daughters received her dutifully, and though her second marriage had been a severe mortification to them, they continued from the period of her return to England to that of her death, many years after, to show her great kind ness. In the year 1808 Miss Thrale became the wife of George Keith Elphinstone, Viscount Keith; one of the most distinguished of those commanders by whom the naval honours of Great Britain were so greatly exalted during the revolutionary war. As this nobleman was the personal friend of the Royal family his wife was soon introdiiced into the highest circles. Viscountess Keith, who was in Scotland when she received tidings of her mother's illness, instantly repaired to Bath to attend her deathbed. Mrs. Piozzi. was by birth the heiress of the ancient Welsh fantily of the Salusbury, but she disinherited her daughter in favour of Signor Piozzi's nephew, a youth from Brescia, whom she adopted, and who was knighted as Sir John Piozzi Salusbury of Brimbella, in the Vale of Clwyd. Viscountess Keith resided for many years on her husband's property of Tulli allan, in Clackmannanshire, where she was the generous and unwearied benefactress of the poor. In 1823 she became a widow ; and in 1831 her only child, the Hon. Georgiana Augusta Elphinstone„ was married to the Hon. John Augustus Villiers, second son of the Earl of Jersey. By a former wife Viscount Keith had a daughter, Margaret, now Baroness Keith and. Nairne, the wife of the dis tinguished French diplomatist, Count de Flahault. During many years Viscountess Keith held a dis tinguished position in the highest circle of the fashionable world ; but, for the latter part of her life, she retired altogether from society, and limited her intercourse to a few old and intimate friends. Her time was divided between her religious duties and works of unostentatious and active benevolence. Few ever did so much for the good of others, or sought so little for their praise. Whilst her strength permitted she used to visit the objects of her bounty at their own homes, and the poor and suffering relieved by her ladyship seldom guessed that the quiet lady muffled up in a cloak, who* sympathised in their sorrows, and administered so liberally to their necessities, was one of the original foundresses of Almack's, the pupil of one of England's greatest philosophers, and the widow of one of her greatest admirals. Thus she lived for many years, studying. the ad vantage of every one b ut h erse lf —t h e most devoted mother, the most generous friend, and the most com passionate benefactress. Until within a few days of her death she enjoyed as much health' as the in firmities of her great age allowed. She was attended by her affectionate daughter with the most watch ful care ; and, when the time came for her removal from this world, her last moments were calm and tranquil. _ Besides ber daughter already mentioned (the Hon. Mrs. Villiers) Viscountess Keith is survived by two sisters—Miss Thrale, of Ashgrove, near Sevenoaks, and Mrs. Mostyn, resident in Brighton. IRELAND. DUBLIN, TUESDAY. IMPORTANT JUDGMENT.—THE INDEFEASIBILITY OF AN ENCUMBERED ESTATES COURT TITLE. For a considerable period the case " Errington v. Roke" has excited the utmost attention on this side of the water. It has also been made the sub ject of discussion in th e L eg i s l ature. The matter was - this :—Plaintiff rested his absolute claim to lands purchased in the Encumbered Estates Court in 1853 on the Parliamentary title which he had re ceived from the Commissioners. A portion of the ground which was the subject of controversy was admitted to be included within the boundaries set forth in the conveyance, but defendant claimed 21 acres as still his property upon a title, of which he was the assignee, contained in a lease for three lives, or 31 years, made by Mr. Hamilton (the ori ginal owner) on the 19th of March, 1822, and therefore long anterior to the plaintiff's conveyance from the Estates Court in 1853. The question, consequently, was whether the Parliamentary con veyance gave an indefeasible title, when the Com missioners professed to convey the land of one party, which, in reality, was the property of an other. The case came before nine of the Irish judges yesterday, by writ of error from the Court of Queen's Bencb, where two judges held the title not indefeasible, and one, Mr. Justice Crampton, taking a different view, decided that the convey ance was irrevocable, even where a mistake as to ownership had been made. The question was reargued at great length. The judges pro nounced their opinions separately. By a large ma jority the Court concluded that the judgment of the Queen's Bench should be overruled, and that a title granted by the Commissioners of the En cumbered Estates Court was in every circumstance indefeasible. While this decision greatly increases the value of the Parliamentary conveyance, it en hances vastly the responsibility of the Encumbered Court Commissioners ; and, in the case which has elicited the judgment, would seem to have inflicted serious injury on the defendant. Considerable anxiety has prevailed regarding the decision, inas much as other issues of a similar nature have been awaiting the determination of the question. THE FAMILY OF THE LATE MR. LITTLE. The fund for the family of the late unfortunate Mr. Little amounts to the gross sum of 1,3431. 14s. 6d., which, subject to some small incidental expenses, is to be lodged to the credit of the Mid land Railway Company, who have consented, for the present, to pay interest at the rate of 6 per cent. The fund committee passed a vote of thanks to Sir C. Roney, the result of whose zealous exer tions has been a handsome contribution from friends in England. ROYAL CREMORNE GARDENS. This delightful suburban retreat will be thrown open to the public on Good Friday, preparatory to the commencement of the Easter season on Monday. Among the various opportunities afforded to the inhabitants of the metropolis for the enjoyment of fresh air and a clear sky, there is none for which the return of spring is more eagerly looked forward to, or more thoroughly appreciated ; and if ever there was an establishment worthy of the support of the metropolis at large for its successful endeavours to counterbalance the disadvantages of a city, as compared with a country life, most certainly it is Cremorne-gardens. The ensuing season promises to have its triumphs, and its spirited proprietor has done all in his power, as on former occasions, to deserve them. In every portion of the delightful grounds the promptings of novelty, and the eye of taste will be found to have enhanced the attrac tions they present, while the entertainments will be characterised by the same amount of variety and excellence as heretofore. The musical arrang€• ments, both vocal and instrumental, will especially claim the visitor's admiration, and the theatre, with its effective ballet, will materially, assist in passing the time agreeably. Bossisio's capital quadrille band is engaged, and the pleasures of. dancing will be augmented by the brilliancy of the scene, the illu mination brine of the most tasteful, and extensive kind. We have only to add,that 'the hotel depart ment will be placed on the same satisfactory footing as heretofore, and that a capital table d'hote, adver tised to commence on Fridaynext, - will be con tinued throughout the year, The Stock; tan, bog Per C 25 ; d The to this The active of in 62, at Joi dull ; In, eh an.g l'alae Yestei SRIT tank 3 Der Per e w 14)4 g Fitt Ditt 444 bfi co gal ha ova not Jut Cas Mai way the ia 1 that Consul Ditt n hiliat vrre na 13 erup r ortu 13 it "Pant n]ti r , bit c , Pani Turk; Dntel bit 1