The Sun. — London, England, 1857-03-20 00:00:00

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING, will bo performed Shakespere's tr gele of KING RICHARD TEE SE(OND. King Richard 11., Mr. C. Ksan ; Queen, Mr=. C. K e an. After which will 1,0 prod:lee:l a new petite comedy, in two acts, called OUR WIFE ; or, The Rose of Amiens. Princi pal characters by Messrs. Ryder, Harley, Fisher ; Misses Marrcy cold C. Leclercq. ROYAL LYCEUM TH.EATRE. L9ssee, Mr. 0. Dillon. THIS EVENING, HAMLET. Mr. Charles Dillon, Mr Stuart, IFIr. J. L. Nolo, Mis 3 Woolgar. Followed by tie gorgeous burlesque of CONRAD AND ME DORA. Miss Woolgar, Mr. J. L. Toole, &c. The box-offlco open (lady, from 11 to 5, under the super• ritenclenca of Mr. Chatterton, jun. Carriages conveying parties t, - o the Private Doses to set down at the State entrance in Burleigh-strect. /THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. TRIS EVENING, to commence at Seven, A LIFE'S TRIAL. Messrs. Buekstone, Compton, Howe, W. Farren, Rogers ; Mesdames Reynolds, Poynter, Fitzwil liam, dtc. After which, A WICKED WIFE. To conehrle with SHOCKING EVENTS. THEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI, Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed the popular drama of IRELAND AS IT IS. Mr. and Mrs. Baruey Williams. After which, A NIGHT AT NOTTING-HILL, in which Mr. Wright and PaAl Bedford will appear. Followed by a new Piece do Caraetere, entitled IN AND OUT OF PLACE. Mrs Barney Williams. BARNEY THE BARON. Barney O'Tcole, Mr. Barney Williams. R OY Le A sse L SURREYes Messrs. She THEATRE, pherd and Creswicic. THIS EVENING, a new drama, entitled FRAUD AND ITS VICTI NS. Messrs. Crcswick, Shepherd, &c. After which, an original farce, entitled, THE SERIOUS YOUTH. To conclude with the Spanish ballet, EL DESCINDADO. Sancho, Mr, Buck. TRAND THEA.TRE.—Manager, M:. T. Payne.—This Evening will be performed DO SiTAIC hl HANDS. Affor which, THE DEATH OF EVA, in which the Howard Family will appear. Followed by COUSIN CHERRY. To coarrlude with THE BLUE JACKETS. Commenco at Seven. Stalls,; 35.; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, is, ; Gallery, 6d. 0Y A L OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. 11) THIS EVENING, (a new f tree, called THIEVES ! THIEVES ! ! Messrs. F. Robson, G. Vining, &c. The new drama, by Tom Taylor, Esq., A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING. Followed by the new farce, by Bayle Bernard, Esq., called A SPLENDID INVESTMENT. And A BLIGHTED BEING. Mr. F. Robson, &c. Commence at half-past Seven. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. THIS EVENING (first week) Shakspere's Play of KING HENRY THE FOURTH 'Part First), with novel and effec tive equestrian illustrations invented by Mr. Wm. Cooke. Hotspnr, Mr. James Holloway. Also, a number of amusing Entertainments, concluding with a Brilliant Display of Equestrian SKILL and SCIENCE, by first-rate artistes, in the SCENES in the CIRCLE Commence at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from H., no charge for booking ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, Cd. ~ox-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. CANTERBURY HALL, Wegtinimoer-roal. OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of !=elections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses Glees, Ducts, dtc., V 17.. : Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunch, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta; Mr. J Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmaus, Ti. Grover, T. Fan-ant, 5, Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corsi, Senor Antonio M tie Solla, and E. L. Hime ; Masters Austin, Bennett, anti Corsi ; Messrs. Sam Collins, E. Mackney, and C. J. Wilkins, Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Caulfield, jun. director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre cisely. Suppers, 61c., until twelve o'clock. WATFX AT LONDON 'PM! DAT—Morn. 52 min. aft. 7--Fvening 351 Miit. aft. F Iln-mottaow—Morn. 30 min. aft. 9—Evening 18 aln.aft it Td}.". WEA.TEIEU—StrN OFFICE, MUCH 20. TIIIMMOMETER, IN TAB; .BADE'. 53 -highest Billet: noon yesterday. rg) --lowest trig morning and during the night. 52 —this day at neon. BAUOMETXR, 30'02—rising. Wrxr—Easterly ; rather frail), with dull, cloud, weather, but dry. It drizzled with fitful showers all day yestcrilay. • 4 ;1, • „ I,0111.)0N, FRIDAY, ,^,IARCII 20, L'l7. Grumbling, we believe, is pretty generally, and, for that matter, too, pretty accurately, regarded among us as, .of all, about the Na tional Characteristic. A witty epigrammatist " has led off a whole catalogue of similar definitions by observing that—" An Englishman is never • Happy unless he is Miserable !" Candidly, let us say at once, That is really after all to our mind a very just definition.. We are—there is no pos sibility of blinking the matter—unmistakeably and undeniably a Nation of Grumblers. It is in some respects about the sweetest privilege accruing to us from our Constitutional Government—the pri vilege of Grumbling. And we Grumble, as a matte: of course, for this one, obvious, unanswerable, and all-sufficient reason, that we have incessant cause for Grumbling ! It is the same whether, in regard to our Ciimate or in regard to our Politico. The changes in each are in themselves so wanton, so fitful, so perversely and provokingly unex pected, that it is' really and truly, while noting them, next to impossible to preserve one's equa nimity. Look, in testimony of all this, to the actual situation of affairs at the present moment immediately prior to the dissolution of Parlia ment ! Look at the relative plight of the various Candidats and of the various Constituenciea! Look at the position of Parties—at the medley of Factions —at the "confusion worso confoundefl" among Tories and Whigs, Radicals and flatrogrades, Reformers and Conservatives ! A confusion so dire aryl bewildering that we have 'been every now and then liable to have revealed to us pal fectly novel and hitherto unheard-of combinations —some startling and "fortuitous concurrence of atoms," certainly never before " dreamt of in our philosophy !" So utterly indeed, of late, h ave the heterogeneous Parties in the House of CUM mons been jumbled together, jostling each other, and distracting themselves in a perfect maza of cross-purposes, that when at list the popular re presentatives are actually dismissed, they are presented to view as trooping out, collectively, for the purpose of Appealing to the Country, in a strange sort of a wild Political Country dance ! Change partners, hands across, right and left, down the middle and up again ! With a result, in fact, all things considered, very nearly identical with that facetiously described by Mr. DICREN B in his Christmas Carol, at the close of the grand Terpsichorean demonstration on a famous winter's night, at Old FIIZZIWIG'S :—" Old top couples always turnin g up in the wrong place; n ew top couples starting- off again as soo n as th ey p couples' at last, and not a had got there ; all to b o ttom one to help them r, It is th e actual posi tion just now of Political Paiti es--the veritable state of things arrived at by the present parlia ment. It becomes, consequ ently, an ab solute nowadays to find a few at least among our ch i ef public characters—a select few of our pri nc i pal Politicians and l ea di ng St a t e smen—explaining, at any rate in a s li g ht manner , w hat it is they really do think upon most things in general, and upon some things in particular—doing this either through written or through oral Ad dresses to their Constituents. Yesterday, while again enforcing our demand —our urgent and reiterated demand--fora categorical explanation of his opinions and principles from Lord PALMER STON, we took occasion to commend, as we con' ceive we were in simple justice bound to do, the very explicit Manifesto addressed to the country at large by Mr. DISRAELI, through the medium of his own individual constituents, the Electors of the county of Buckingham. We are today afforded the opportunity of directing popular at !ention in a very particular manner to the no less explicitly enunciated views of two others among our more conspicuous Members of Par liament. Mr. COBDEN and my Lord JOHN RUSSELL. The Premier that was and that may be—the Tribune that has been, and that never will be again ! The veteran Chief of the Reformers, and the successful Champion of the Free- Trade Princielev. The Noble Lord and the Hon ourable Gentleman were yesterday speaking at different parts of the country, alrne,t simultane ously—Lord JOHN in the City of London, plead ing in his own cause before his old constituents ; Mr. COBDEN advocating the interest; of an invalid and absent friend in the hearing of sundry of the " free and independent " Electors of the city of Manchester. Be it here observed at once, that to our thinking nothing could well have been more noble or more generous in its way, hardly anything, to our mind, could be more in,tantane ously entitled to the utmost . possible degree of respect and consideration, then the earnest and ob viously heart-born tribute of affection and admira t. on offered by Mr. COBDEN to the genius of JOHN BRIGHT in the hearing of the men of Manchester ! Allowance must ' here at least, we conceive, be made for any vitupe rative epithets accidentally wrung from the speaker by the very intensity of his emotions while uttering an indignant denunciation of the depreciators of his distinguished political associate. " I feel humiliated," exclaimed Mr. COBDEN, at that point, in a generous outburst of enthusiasm, the unaffected sincerity of which cannot fail t command the respectful attention of the whole community, "I feel humiliated—l feel disgusted to see the daily personal attacks—the diatribes that are made against this man, with his health impaired for the moment—his health impaired, too, ha that organ which excites feelings of awe, and of the utmost commiseration for him on the part of all right-minded men. Yes, while this man is not able to use those great intellectual powers with which GOD has gifted him, while their full activity is suspended for the day, the vermin of your Manchester press —the ghouls of the Guardian—the ghoul; of the Guardian are preying upon this splendid being, and trying to make a martyr of him in the midst of his sufferings." Apart, however, from such impassioned allusions to his absent friend—Mr. CiODDEN'3 speech of yesterday at Manchester, we cannot but think, "pales its ineffectual fires" be fore the manly and, in many respects, luminous oration delivered about the same time in the City of London by Lord JOHN RUSSELL. Recollect, Lord JOHN spoke as a Reformer with a prestige and an authority certainly not second to that of the great Free-Trade Champion. If Mr. COBDEN addresses himself, if Mr. COBDEN can never fail to addreEs himself to any audi ence otherwise than in the light of his al ready historical character as the Destroyer (par excellence) of Menopaly—Lord JOHN never ;peaks before any English audience whatever, save in the much loftier and nobler capacity of one of the very First and Fore:nost among the living Champions of Civil and Religious Liberty. In this respect he stands before us upon the elevation of no ordinary rostrum—he talks in reference to great national questions from a tribune of no common material or elevation—he speaks as from a political tripod of his own construction : as the introducer into the House of Commons of the Parliamentary Reform Bull, as the author of the Test and Corpora* ion Act, and as one 'of the most energetic and high-minded promoters of that ether grand palladium of our religious liberties, the memorable Act of Catholic E:nancipation. And in this eminent capacity, as the Leader of a Great Party, as a - Veteran Reformer, as ono who for five years held in his own grasp the reins of supreme Government—how is it that Lord JOHN has spoken ? What (precisely, briefly,, and to the point) may have been the gist of Lord JOHN'S views as to the present Situation ? He said yes ierday in the City of London, disfuctly fuel deliberately, that it appears to him, The vary First Qae,tion nor put to the Country is—" Wheyier Lord PAL AIERSTON'S Government should be supported, or whether it shoul I be replaced by any other Go vernment." That Lord JOHN maintains candidly THE Question just now put to the Country. An I in explicit reply to that question, he immediately adds—" My candid opinion is that Lord PALMERS TON'S Government ought to be snpported ; and if I had to choose between Lord PALMERSTON at the he td of the Liberal party, and Lord DERBY at the head of the Conservative party, I should think it lily duty to give my adhesion to the former." Now this, to our thinking, is true patriotifon—it have done with him as a politician called to I anything more than a merely curious considera tion. We have done with him as a man of fla grant inconsistency : an inconsistency sufficiently visible iu that speech of yesterday, where we find him—quite oblivious apparently of what he had already said so elegantly about the folly of ex pecing people to " lie on their bellies" before Lord P&LNERSTON—cooIIy insisting that 4,000 of the electors of Mancbster in a lump should put their Votes (and with them, of course, their Reason and their Cmiscirice) into the pocket of Mr. BRIGHT. Vide the Speech it ;elf towards its close--a Speech iu which the BOANEISGES of the Peace-Mania cries out with stentorian energy against " the newspipers who are bawling for War." Observe : those who differ from him in opinion bawl—he h imself argues! It matters nothing in the literal fact of the thing that the newspapers that have the audacity to think differently from Mr. COBDEN, print —whil3 ha spealo. They " bawi"—aud he "argues." And so we leave Mr. COBDEN to console himself for the egregious exhibition made by himself in to-day's newspapers through the reprint of his very singular harangue —we leave him to console himself with the recol lection of the clacqueurs who cheered his vulgari ties to the echo yesterday at Manchester. " The usual half-yearly Court of Proprietors of Bank Stock was held yesterday in the Bank Par lour !" This stereotyped article cf intelligence, which requires only a change of date to answer twice in every year, which may be calculated on with as much certainty as a lunar eclipse, or a planet's transit, has just made its appearance. We are told, in addition, that the Meeting " was not numerously attended," and that 4 the Court sepa rated, the proceedings having occupied but a very short time." They, however, contrived to de clare a dividend of 4i per cent, for the half year, free of Income Tax--and, in answer to some not very convenient inquiries, it appeared that no less than 64,9701. was carried over, which was but 8,0001. short of a 5 per cent, dividend. It might possibly have been made up under different circumstances—but at present it is the Old Lady's game not to show too large profits, a considerable portion whereof may be regarded as a gratuitous donation by the national Exchequer. Had it been declared subject to Income Tax the desired 5 per cent, might easily have been granted, and there would still have remained a surplus of nearly 40,0001. carried over, or the additional quarter per cent, might have been given free from Income Tax with nearly 33,0001. carried over. There is, however, an amiable weakness, which prohibits the division of mere quarters. Nothing under a half per cent. can be tendered to the pro prietors, and there must be no drawback of any kind, nothing that can allay the satisfaction 'of the fortunate individuals I They " take the goods the gods provide them," with unexception able grace, and are quite contented that a con siderable surplus remain to fructify in the hands of the Directors. If the Bank could be considered in the light of a private establishment of course nothing could be said against the exercise of a " proper disores tion," as it may be termed. But it has a quasi national position —a virtual monopoly that takes far more from the community at large than finds its way to the pockets of the proprietors. For every shilling they receive, not one, but many, pounds are abstracted from the resources of the trading population of the country. " Unrestricted competition," or, to use the Saxon appellative— " Free Trade," is no less - required in currency than in corn. Indeed we believe that far greater injury has been occasioned by the restriction on money than on bread, and that a reform of the monetary code is no less required than on that relating to cerealq, which was happily carried in 134 G! We do not Ilish to deprive the propria t irs of any legitimate profits. As we have repeatedly pointed out, they might, with judicious man agement realise even larger dividends than those which have recently been distributed. If we look to the re turns of any of the great Joint-Stock Banks now in operation, we shall find that, notwithstanding the disadvantages to which they are subjected, they show even larger gains in proportion to their means than " the Old Lady" herself. They are enab!ed to allow interest on deposit 4, and to give their customers a decided interest in their pros perity ; and consequently we find one at least of these establishtnents pressing closely in the amount of " private deposits" on the Leviathan itself —and others promise to achieve a similar position. A comparatively private station would be more beneficial for the Bank itself, and glieatly so for the community at large ; and the sooner it can be brought t) that condition the better for all par ties concerned ; that is to say, for the British people of all classes, from the Peer to the Peasant ! is true consistency. It is civisin. It is mag nanimity-. Very different, indeed, the stAtesman like view thus taken of the existing Crisis by Lord J. RUSSELL—very different, indeed, from the poor,' miseral de, little, contracted, peddling, h ux tering, mean-spirited, narrow-minded view taken of the self-same Crisis by King Calico ! Why, look at the two Speeches —compare them —contrast Mr. COBDEN'S speech with the speech of Lord JOHN RUSSELL. The Noble Lord's speech is the speech of a Statesman, and, let us repeat it again to his honour, the speech of a Patriotic and of a Consistent Statesman. That of Mr. COBDEN —is precisely for all the world what we might only in reason have expected to hear from the lips of the Political Bagman. Common sense gone s'ean mad. Sophistry affecting sincerity. Disin genuousness affecting candour. An oration woz thy of the man wh.o had the effrontery the other day in the Reuse of Commons to talk of giving over the destinies of the country into the hands of the Tories for the sake of a dirty 2,000,0001. ! Look at the Speech ! See how ingenuous it is ! Observe how this noble-hearted. Politician raises a laugh of ridicule against Lord PA L UERSTON—for What ? For being seventy-three years of age ! Mirk the convincing logic as well as the captivating decency of his arguments ! Ho rejects one opinion as the result of "downright quackery." He repudiates another as " insulting chiNishnesa." He finds a view different from his own—and he tells yo u "It is all moonshine." Fellow-citizens in the same free state dissent from his own infallible Judgment in the estimate of a particular Minister, and he brands them at once as " toadies." He goes far beyond this, however, in the bespattering about him of his coarse and vulgar scurrilities—Speaking of Lord PALMER STON'S claim just now upon popular consideration, he asks : " Well, what other title does he present to our confidence that the people of this country should b e called upon by the impudence of three or four metropolitan journals, which for reasons best kiloto n to themselves, which, I hope will be their bellies ex- Posed some day, callingare u c upon to lie down upuponinththeedEusntglbefore this people man ?" Au insinu a t e d , but sufficiently a pp aren t calumny, which w e , for oiae, should scarce t ly have man, high or low, good, bad iiught any public or indifferent, would have had the hardihood to cast from him in these days of ours, even in a moment of the most ext reme exacerbation. Yet . one which Mr. COBDEN blushe s no t to fling from him with an idle and careless hand, and in a tone of indecent flippan c y. We have now done with Mr Cc:OWEN, We It is the undoubted prerogative of the SOYE REIGN to issue money, or what shall be received as the measure and representative thereof. But that great and very profitable privilege has been delegated to a considerable extent t) a trading corporation. The Bank of England now issues notes to the nominal value of 14,475,0001. against public securities. In other word; it re ceives the interest on that large amount--which, taken at only 3 per cent., amounts to 446,0001. per annum, while it has the profits on its paper issues, declared to be legal tenders everywhere bu':, at the offices of the Bank, which may be set down at least at an equal amount. A. really National Bank, issuing really na tional notes, secured on all the accumula tive wealth and industry of the nation, would save nearly half a million sterling per an nual in the matter of interest alone, to say nothing of the different sums paid for deficiency bills, when the Chancellor of the Exchequer is com pelled to apply for temporary assistance at Leadenhall street. There are also the payments for the management of the National Debt, a large portion whereof might be saved by the creation of a National Bank of Issue under the exclusive control and direction-of a department responsible to Parliament. But at this moment, unless the unaccountable apathy that has so long prevailed be shaken off; a re newal of the charter for a further term of ten years will be granted. Five millions at least will be abstracted from the National Exche quer, and more than one hundred millions of damage inflicted on the manufacturing, and com• mercial, and industrial interests. This exceeds the costs of the Russian War, and should not lightly be sacrificed. A decided demonstration may avert the impending evil. But if the people are silent, if the golden opportunity be neglected or misapplied, they will only have themselves to thank for the misery that must inevitably arise. Even five millions would be worth saving, and that can be effected by a timely exhibition of pub lic feeling. MAIL FOR THE CAPE,---The Poet-office authorities have given notice that they will make up a mail for the Cape of Good Hope on the evening of the 24th for de spatch by her Majesty's steamer Transit, to sail on th• 25th inet., for China, (kiting at the. Cape. fliE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY __MTA...R.CI-.1 20, 1857 TIIE CONTINEATAL COURT.'. A letter from Vienna of the 15th, in the Nerd, rays : —"The Emperor and Empress appeared the (by be fare y:sterday for the first time since their return at the theatre of flofburg, and were received with the warmest acclamations. Wonderful stories are related here of t!le visit which their Maj sties male, in returning from Italy, to the celebrated grottos of Adelsberg. The interior of this vast subterranean labyrirr,h, even to its most distant passages, wag illuminated by 16,000 torches and Bengal lights. The entrance to the grotto was ornamented with a transparency bearing the following insoription :—‘The love of their subjects accompanies sovereigns further than the rays •' the sun.' A military band awakened the echoes of the cavern. In the part of the grotto called the ' Ball room,' were ranged 50 couples of peasants of the Cat. niola in their national costume. The august visitors remained in the grotto two hours. • ROYA 617I?REY GARDEN f. A concert, under the direction cf M. Jul was given at tis se gar.lens last night, in aid of the furels of tl;e Early Closing Aesocation. Tbe can cert, a 3 r. ganled both its selection and performauce, might have b,en given to the most polished and fastidious audience in London. It included \Veber's overture to " Euryanthe ;" the pie:ste movements of Beethewn's seventh symphony ; .. I \Lnd , lssohn's pianoforte cont'ette in G in:ller, played by Miss Arablle, Goddard ; the whole of Menlel•sebn's symphony in A (the Italian symphony) ; the allegro and storm movements fran the Past .ael symphony of BoAhoven ; and Thalberg'sfant,sia from "Moth in Eeiqo," performed by Miss Goddard. For vocal V music—Miss Dolby sang Meudelsohe's " First Violet," Bilfe's "Green Trees," and a prety Scottish ballad ; and Mies Louisa Vinning sang the Pages song in "Figaro," "Voi the sapete," and "Verdi's cavativa, "Tacea la Not' e." The orchestra was complete and powerful, and the various performances v ere admirable iu ever y re spect. We were parlicu'arly struck with the re markable acoustical properties of the hall. Not withstanding its vast dimensions, every note of the music was as well heard as it could hive been even in a private drawing-room ; letter, indeed, for the sounds we , e softened and freed from everything liko noise or harshness by the vest space through which they wore diffused. The sounds of the voices, and t' e tones of elory instrument were char, full, and resonant ; and, in particular, Miss Arabella Goddard's splen& d execution of Mendelssolm's Con certo was probably never heard to gueateradvantage. Throughout the evening the audience were loud and enthusiastic in their applause ; and there was even something grand in the bursts which rever berated through the building like prolonged peals of thunder. In addition to the pieces which we have mentioned, some specimens of Jullien's bril liant dance-music were introduced between the first and second parts of the conceit. From the ap pearance of the hall wo trust it will be found that the concert has been of substantial benefit to the excellent association in whose aid it was given. Tim Archduke Albert, the Vienna journals state, sent in on the 13th to the Emperor of Austria a long report on the situation of Hungary, Particularly as regards the finances. They add the, the propositions which his Imperial Highness has made, based on the results of tbo conferences of the five Vice-Preidents of the Govern• ments of Hungary, are expected to obtain the Imperial sanction. The Princess Luitpold of 13avaea has been indisposed for some days. The last bulletin says :—" Eler Royal Highness passed an agitated night ; the cough has been less tormenting than during the day, and towards even ing the fever diminished." A letter from Dresden, of the 14th, states that a grand dinner, which was to have been given at court on that day, was postponed in con• sequence of the intelligence of the illness of the princess, who is a niece of his Saxon Majesty. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. The Ministers present were : Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Gran ville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Patirnure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderlty, the Duke of Argyll, and the Right lion. M. T. Baines. Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office yester day to the Governors of Hong Kong and Ce3l.m. ARRIVAL 01 TILE PERSIAN ENVOY.—His Exzeil,ncy Feruk Khan, Envoy Extraordinary from the Shah of Persia, attended by a numerous retinue, arrived in town last evening from Dover. His Exaellency proceeded direct from the London bridge railway station to C!aridge' s Hotel, in Brook-street, the state apartments of whioh magnificent establishment had been prepared fur his re ception. Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Kent, yesterday, at Clarence Howe, St. James's. The Countess of Clarendon has issued cards for an as. sembly to-morrow evening. The Earl of Donoughtuore has arrived at Claridge's Hotel, hoer, Ireland. The Count Zabielo (Ittach6 to the Legation of Russia) has arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from St. Petersburg. The Hon. Julian Pane arrived in to wn, a few days since, from Russia. Sir Brook and Lady Bridges and Miss Charlotte Knight have left the Clarendon for Gooduestone Park, Kent. M. Pontiloff (Conseiller to the Emperor of Russia), accompanied by his family and seite, have left the Bruns wick Hotal, Jermyrestreet, for Paris. Lady Molesworth received at dinner, on Wednesday evening, the Marquis of Breadalbane, the Earl and Countess of Stanhope, his Excellency the Serlinian Minister, the Earl and Countess Grey, Viscount Tor rington, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Sir Anthony and Lady de Rothschild, Baroness Lionel de Roilecleild, the Riaht Hon. R. Vernon Smith, M.P., and Mrs. Vernon Smith, and Mr. Delane. The Earl of Burlington has been appointed Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire, in room of the late Earl of Ellesmere. PAPER MILLS AND PAPER DUTY.—In 1856 there were 393 paper mils and the duty lathe year ended M arc h was 1,047,430 e. The Dublin papers announce the death of Mr. Kem rnis, Q.O , who for several years has filled the office of eairmen at Kilmainham. The deceased was milled to the bar in Easter Term, 1795, and must have been con siderably over fourscore years. The chairmanship is w th 1,2001. a-year. ACCIDENT AT A. PUBLIC MEETING.—EfUDDEREVIELD, Thursday.--Mr. Cobden having aidressed an audience if two thr wand persons, in the theatre, in exposition of his political views, was interrupted by a tremendoni crash. The ride gallery gave way, precipitating forty persons into the pt; several of them were injured, and the meeting was abruptly terminated. THE RECTORSHIP OF KING'S COLTIEGE.—The Aberdeen Journal say; : —The graduates, it will be seen, are cal rd to a meeting to be held within the college on Wednes day, April 15, to nominate a rector to succeed the Earl of Ellesmere. The meeting has been fixed for the above day, we have reason to believe, in order to accommodate members of the synods. We have not, as yet, heard any name mentioned as likely to be brought forward., NEWLY DISCOVERED Banz.---Capt. D. Moore ; of the Russell-Ellice, arrived at the Falkland Islands, reports having found soundings in 45 fathoms water in lat. 30,50 S. long. 35.50 W., by chronometer, or 36 W. b y l unar observation. Hie attention had been directed to it by the change in the appearance of the water, but the we. - ther and a heavy sea prevented his 1 itvt ring a boat and taking soundings around it carefully as he was disposed to do. EMIGRATION TO AUSTRA LI A. — LITERPOOL, Thursday. —The celebrated clipper ship Red Jack e t, Capt. P.I. H. O'Halloran, below :jog to Messrs. H. T. W i l son an d Cietinbers, White Star line of Australian p ac k e t s, w il l sail from the Mersey for Melbourne at noo n s o - morrow, ? j o u out instant42o (theappointed (lily tliis line). Sh e passengers, her full c om pl ement, every berth having been engaged a number of ea) s ago, and a very large and valuable oargo of merchandise on freight. It has transpired that Russia has taken more active steps than England to establish telegraphic ceminunica tion with India. According to private and reliable ad vices just received, she made a contract previously to the termination of the late war for a line from Nicolniefl via the Caspian Sea -to Ispelian and Herat. It ha:4 since been in progress, and although, under the secrecy enforced in that country, no conjecture can be formed as to the probable period of its completion, the contin gency is not impossible of our finding before long that she Is in regular receipt of news from our possessions weeks previously to its arrival in London. According to some impressions, the recent treaty between Mexico and the United States is not I:kely to come into effect. At the last advises the session of Congress at Washington was within a few hours of its termination, and the treaty had not been sub mitted. Mr. Buchanan, the new President, will immediately, upon assuming office, call together the Senate, which, as an executive branch of the Govern. meet, roust act upon all his appointments, and to which he could subsoil:, for ratification a treaty strictly so called. But, as that said to have been concluded with, Mexico contemplates a loan of money, it seems doubtful whether under the carstitution it would be valid without the sanction of Congress. The latter body unless they are specially called together, will not meet until December next, and the prospect, therefore, with regard to the adjustment of the question is uncertain. The treaty was negotiated with out instructions, and from the betiattion of the expiring Cabinet to bring it forward for completion an nssump- Lion is entertained that it is regarded by them with dis satisfaction. THE CAMP AT COLCHESTER.—The wretched condition of the soldiers' wives at the Colchester camp has led to some correspondence between the War Department appears that in the middle of last and Major-Gen era l G asco i gne , w hi c h was p u bli s h e d yesterday. It month the scen es o f d est i tut i on a s to th e w i ves an d children of s o ldi ers i n Colchester, f rom causes connected with the army regu l at i ons and t h e dearness of food, were truly deplo ra bl e, and " there were not so few as 2EO wives and 350 children next to h ouse l ess. " The wives of soldi ra married w i t h ou t th e command ing officer' s leave, and who bad no children, re ceived 2d , a n d many only a penny a d ay to li ve on, and it wa s f eare d that they wou ld f a ll i nto h a bi ts c f prostitution. The Secretary of State for War wrote to Major-Gen. Gascoigne on the 2d inst. to the effect that he (Lord Paurnure)could not sanction the application to the cases of women who had married soldiers without the con sent of the commanding officer of the Circular, No. 1,235 (July 15, 1856), inasmuch as it contemplated the cases of women who had been left behind at the stations at which their husbands were serving previous to their rear:vat to a camp, and not to worsen above the regulated number who belong to corps situated as the depots of Colchester are. Lord Panmure, however, agreed to grant free passages or travell'n,g expenses hack to their parishes to the wives and families of soldiers who had married without consent, and whose wives were in excess of the regulated numbers, prov led they were willing to return. Lord Panmure at the same time expressed his surprise that soldiers who had married without eonsent, and whose wives and families bad been allowed to accompany them from Ire land to Colchester, b a d b een placed un d er s t op p age s o f pay to refund the exp ense of trans i t, an d hi s L or d s hip gave orders that such stoppages should be for the future discontinued.—Times. A SERIOUS JOKE.--The Following is an extract lam a private letter dated Hong Kong, the 29th of January : "A capital tale is told of campradcre. On the morning the bread was poisoned 's boy ran into his room, telling him n o t to eat any, as it was poisoned. rang for the cainpradore to ask him about , it , and the man promised to i nvest i gate t h e ma tt e r. Half an hour elapsed, and the oampradore did not return. His master walked down stairs, and asked hies if lie Lel d:s. covered any trace of poison. Yes,' was the, reply. ' Indeed ! and how did you find it out ?' Oh, I have given one half loaf to the small boy, and another half to that coolie.' 'And why have you done that ?' 'Ohs that small boy has no father, mother, sister, or wife. If lie do die, what matter ? Coolie all the same.", HAYMABICET THEATRE. Last night a new four-act drama entitled "A Life's Trial," from the pen of B. Bernard, Esq., was perfertned for the first time, and met with complete success. The drama is capitally written, admirably acted, and ellen didly put upon the stage; the only thing to be regretted is the abrupt termination of the play. At the end of the third act the climax could easily and most effectually be attained, but a decided mistake has been made by adding a fourth act. The scene opens in Tenby in 1825, a year of pauic and commercial calamity. The heroine, Miss R..chdale (Miss Reynolds), is brined by Wyndham (Mr. W. Ferree), and reciprocates his pas sion ; but believing that he has forsaken her, and re turned to the West Indies, his native country, she gives her hand, in an evil hour, to Hawksworth (Mr. Howe), who establisher a claim upon her gratitude by advancing a large suns of money to avert the ruin of her father, who is a banker. Hawksworth, always a villain, Las now become a forger and an inveterate gamester. Wyndham returns to London, and is heart-broken on discovering that his mistress has betrayed him. Being informed that Hawksworth has deserted her, he visits her at her lodgings, and offers her all the ae eistance in his power. They are in confidential con versation when the husband enters, and, affecting to believe himself dishonoured, demands satisfaction on the spot. A. highly dramatic scene ensues, and a duel is f night upon the stage. Hawks worth's pistol misses fire, but Wyndham, magnanimously scorning to take advan tege of an unarmeeman, permits him' to escape with his life. The third act is laid in London, in 1833. Ten years have now elapsed since the marriage of the heroine, and they have brought with them many changes. Mrs. Hawksworth fancies herself a widow, for the story goes that her husband was drowned on the coast of Amer.ca. He, however, turns up, famished and ragged in the streets of Southwark, and reveals himself to his wife as the latter is walkieg by moonlight in the gardens of her vile at Richmond. This fatal apparition blights her prospects of happiness, and destroys all the plans she had formed, for she had succeeded to a large fortune, and it was arranged that she should be married to Wyndham in a fortnight. Ia the fourth act the plot is huddled up in a most inartistic manner, as though the author had grown tired of his task and desired to get it off his hands at any cost. Hawksworth, disguised and passing under the name of Everington, lures Wyndisarn,_who fails to recognise him, into a west end gambling-house, and there wreaks his vengeance on hirn by reducing him to beggary. He is about to de camp with his victim's money, when Mrs. Hawksworth, who has got se: nt of the villanous plot, enters with a posse cf police, and " scatters all the Volsci." Finding him self hotly pursued, drinks poison, and the curtain falls. The part of Miss Rochdale was well performed by Miss Reynolds; and Mr. W. Farren, as Wyndham, plAyed throughout with energy and tenderness. Mr. Howe, as Hawksworth, acted with his usual exlellence. The two comic part r in the play were supported by Messrs. Buckstone and Compton, and the manner in which those accemplished artist,:s sequittA themselves con vulsed the house with laughter. At the fall of the certain the piece was given out by Mr. Buckstooe for repetition every evening until further notice. ACIOES' TESTIMONIAL. Theatre Royal, Drury-line, March 12, 1857. TO EDWARD TYRRELL SMITE, ESQ., LESSEE. Sir—We, the underzigned, cannot permit another sea son of your ruatlagement of this theatre to close without congratulating you upon the continued, and, we hope, it2creaAng, success of your administration ; also to ()fl_r you an expression of our esteem for your character in the relation you stand towards us. A kind word, an approving milk a frank and frienAy demeanour, exercise an hfluence that words can barely Express. For your kindness we, therefore, wish to express our sincere gratitude, and to assure you thal - , while in ymr employment, which we trust will be for many years to e n-nn e , no exertion on our part shall be wanting in the fulfilment of our duty; our only desire being to promote, to the utmost of our power, your success and prosperity. In this testimonial, which we now place before you, we trust that we will esteem it as the exprosidon of our feelings. You will, we hope, estimate it not at its in trinsic value, but as the visille embodiment of those ,en. tilneuts of esteem and affection with which your admi nistration of the affairs of the Theatre Riyal Drury-!ane has inspired us.—We have the honour to be, yours re spectfully, (Signed) Messrs. Defriee and Sons, Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, Mr. and Mrs. Boleno, Messrs. Stilling, Fl-x , nore, Chat terton, Dry-d, l?, Stride, Lewis, A. .Younge, Mrs. Selby, Mrs. F. Matthews, Miss Wright, Mdlles. Osmont, Herr Anschm z, Mr. Hollingsworth, Miss Oliver, Miss E. Honey, Mr. E. L. Blanchard, Mr. and Mrs. Vincsnt, Messrs. Tilbury, Dunning, Tuder, Needham, Palmer (costurnici), Linghaw, George Honey, Templeton, Barnes, Fairbrother, Mr. Randle (uyrotechnist), Messrs. Elliott, Mr. Rickards (hairdresser), Band, Money and Check Takers, Messrs. Home and Wood (poli,e), Messrs. Walton, Messrs. Tanner, Glindon, Ligerd, Veroni, Craven, Filcher, Messrs. Muffit and Emery. THE LATE THOHAS EVANS, ESQ., M.D. The lamented gentleman, whose name heads this brief notice, departed this life at his residence, Stockwell park-house, Surrey, on the Ist inst. ; and seldom have the scenes of this wort closed upon any one whose warm heart and earnest endeavours had been more bent than his were upon doing all the good in his power, nor upon any ono more respected than he wag, or more re gretted than he is by a large circle of friends and ac quaintances. He was also remarkably happy in his do mestic sphere, for there he won and retains the love of those who now mourn his loss. He was born at Kid- welly, South Wafes,intheYe;r 1800, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He pursued his professional studies in England, Germany, and France, and practised successfully in London for many yeare. Having married the second daughter of the late wealthy Squire Ange 1, of Rumsey-house, Wilts, and being much occupied of late years in attending to his father-in-law's •:ntetests and property, especially in the neighbourhood of Stock well, he found it nteAssary, not without regret, to discontinue his professional practice. Out of the time gained, however, by this means, he was enabled to in crease his ever-ready exertions to assist, in various ways, many deserving persons whom he knew to be struggling honourably against the difficulties and hardships of life, in which private services he always took great delight. Nor did he neglect pablic affairs. For during all the years of his maturity, every movement which he believed would contribute to the removal of wrong, and the ex tended establishment of what is right and just between man and man, met from him an instant and hearty sup port ; and many of the great questions of the day had in him the advantage of an energy and activity, combined with a clear power of expression and wit, which he pos sessed in no common degree. In these and all the transactions of his life, he, in mind and feeling, ever ascended above the narrowness of party, sect, and class, and looked upon mankind and the un i verse as a sub lime whole, governed by multiform and immutable laws, which have God, the Eternal, fo r th e i r aut h or, and uni versal beneficence for their great and constant realisa tion, how incomprehensible soever this might in some cases seem to the finite human understanding. His life was a blessing, and his end peace ! ADDRESS TO SIR JOHN BowaiNG.—An address h being numerously signed by the inhabitants of Black burn to Sir John Bowrinw s who contested the represen tation of the borough in 1832 andlB3s, and was defeated on both occasions by a majority of only 13. The address expresses sympathy with SirJohnßowring in the trying circumstances in 'which he was recently placed "by an unworthy combination of parties in the Parliament of this country," and proceeds— ,, We cannot sufficiently express our indignation at the obloquy which has been cast upon your eondac“:, an 3 eliaritoter, , .ithobt the j u ti ticatien of evidence, and in opposition to ail the antece dents of your long and arduous career in the cause of human progress. The attacks made upon you by pro fessed friends form the most unworthy - feature of this malignant conspiracy to injure and defame an honourable and philanthropic man.", F ATFST EL,I kN 1_ AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The American mail stelmer Fulton, Capt. Wo'- t on, is just telegraphed off Hurst, from Now York. She no doubt brings President Buchanan's Mes- 'sae. Her mails will ba delivered here in about two ho~irs. The Paris correspondent of the Times (vecond edition) says : " The Government received yesterday news from Naples. It is said that a reconciliation with France and England is becoming not merely possible, but probabh , , and that an AttAche of the French Foreign-office will soon leave for Naples on a private mission. " Lord Eigin is Expected to visit Paris pre vious to his departure for China, in order to ecn fer with the Fiench Government. I give this as an on, dit without vouching for its exactness. "Colonel Oklewsky, Chief of Division of Rail ways at St. Petersburg, has arrived in Paris. His visit relates to the construction of railways in Russia. "M. Hubner, the Austrian Minister in Paris, has been thanked in the name of the Emperor of the French for the attention of the Emperor of Austria in placing the statue of the first Napoleon in the public gardens of Milan." TRIESTE, MARCH 19. Despatches from Constantinople, dated the 14th inst., announce that the ship Kangaroo had landed troops and arms in Circassa. M. de Boutenieff had demanded the appoint ment of a commission to inquire into the nature and origin of this expedition. There bad been serious disturbances among the population of Tibris, in consequence of the scar city of provisions. The Circassians had repul-ied 4,000 Russians on the frontier of Abasia. BERLIN, MAncu 18. Baron Bulow, the Danish envoy, has returned from Vienna ; his mission to the two Courts of Berlin and Vienna relative to the affairs of Schleswig Holstein is said to be a failure. HAMBURG, MARcH 18. The Swedish finance committee, accepting the estimate sent in by the chief engineer Ericson, proposes to make a considerable loan abroad for the construction of railway lines. No doubt whatever is entertained that the Chambers will readily grant the requisite authorisation, COPENHAGEN, MARCH 13. The Supreme Council has been convoked for the 3d April, on the occasion of the conclusion of the treaty of the Sound dues. The session will be a - very short one. Letters from the French squadron in the China waters, received in Paris, contain particulars of the defensive measures adopted by the civil and naval authorities of England and France. Hong Kong has been surrounded by earthworks, mounted with guns, and commanded by a fort in the immediate vicinity of Victoria, which also commands the Chinese town. The Lemma canal has been cut, and the com munications by water are thus secured. At the point where the canal has been cut strong redoubts have been erected. These works are defended by a detachment of sailers from the French vessel Virginia At Shanghai similar precautions have been adopted, and numerous earthworks have placed the factories beyond all danger of an attack from the Chinese. These letters all express a desire for the speedy arrival at Canton of the gunboats and smaller steamers, as the attitude of the Chinese is such that a terrible blow can al one call them to their senses. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. Changes are spoken of as likely to take place among the upper classes of the ; such as the retirement of M. Troplong from the Prw , ideney of the Court of Cat , sation, and M. Detingle to suc ceed him. The destination which rumour again gives to M. Troplong is that of Arch-Chnicellor of the Empire. M. de Rlyer, Proem eur-General cf the Court of Casation, wouhl under such circum stances be named First President of the Court of Appeal. It is also paid that M. noulaud, Minister of Pub lic Instruction, is likely to be transferred to the Home Department, and that M. Vaisse, now Pro cureur-General at the Court of Paris, will take the Department of Public ins'ruction. The Paris papers have been directed to discon tinue the discussion on the civil war in the Vendee, in the great Revolution. That discussion was occa sioned by the funeral sermon of the Bishop of Poitiers on the Mareldbne s do Larechejacquelein, who died a week or two ago, and who, as every .one knows, played a distinguislr.d part during that struggle, and afterwards wrote a most interest ing history of it. The Bishop of Poitiers seemed to regard all those who fell in that war as martyrs to the cause of religion and legitimacy. The Siecle made some angry comments on the discourse ; it was replied ,to by the Univers and Union ; the nide rejoined ; and the dispute soon waxed warm. The question was about to enter into a new phase, when the authorities stepped in, and separated the combatants. The Moniteur has a number of promotions in the Legion of Honour, and bfs'owals of the military BOITUSE, March 19.—The following were the las quotations : - Cash. fr. C. 44 per Cents 3 per Cents 7O 63 Now Loan — End of month. —fr. —c. 71 15 Bank Shares 4,200 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,440 Austrian Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes., Piedmontese (5) 9l 25 Home Debt ..... RAILWAYS-FOI CASE. fr. c Orleans 1,475 C. Western . ........... fr ... 835 Northern 982 50 Strasburg Lyons 1,520 New Ditto Mediterranean 2,015 Grand Central Lgons Geneva Cette AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna of the 15th says :—" It is confirmed that Count de Paar, the Austrian charge d'affaires at Tulin, has been recalled, and it is said that he is to be sent to Berne." The same letter says that, now that the Danube, steam-frigate, has been launched, orders for the construction of two ships-of-the-line, each of 90 guns and 800 horse power, are about to be given. One ship-of-the line, the Emperor ; a frigate, and two corvettes, are already in construction. Since 1855, it says, four. steam-frigates, each of 31 guns and 300 horse • power, have been added to the Austrian navy. THE DANUBE. A letter from Calatzoitle47l7confirms the ar rival of Omer Bey with 150 men at Sulina, and the fact of his having taken possession of thwt town and of the Delta of the Danube. The Austrians in Sulina had received orders to depart, but as these instructions arrived some days alter the entry o f the Turks, the arrival of Orner Bey . bad excited much astonishment amongst the Austrian officers. • SARDINIA. Count Cavour gave a grand dinner at Turin on the 15th, on the occasion of the birth day of King Victor Emmanuel 11. Anson; the guests wcro the iminners of the Bar &Dian Cabinet pill of the diplomatic 1 oly, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, the Minister of the Royal Household, General Dabormid a , &c. Towards the close of `the banquet, si r J. Hudson, the senior member of the diplomatic body, pro posed the health of the King, to which Count Cavour responded by proposing it e hoallh of the Sovereigns and Princes allies of hi Majesty. THE BALTIC. HAMBURG, March 18. —Tne la - t?st intelligence foal]. Srockhelm statcs ihat the weather has been extremely cold, and the navigation intertupted ; but the finest weather prevailed in other parts of the Baltic, and the same influence is experienced her•. Accounts from the Swedish capital, of the 12th inst., stag: that the Committee of the Reichstag, appointed to report on the Government raillvaf scheme, had completed f)eir,report satisfactorily te all parties, and Colonel Eicson's plans and Pro" posals for the direction of the various lines have been generally sanctioned by the committee. The report recommends that the means for carrying out these lies shell be raised by foreign loans, upon the most reasonable terms to be obtained. Tie Ostsce Zeitung mentions the probability of Riga being speedily dismantled of all her forlitra" tion3, with the exception of the citadel, and the of demolition is to be uadertaken by private coatraet.)rs, on account of the Russian Govern ment. Lord Wolehorpe, who had been absent from St. Peteriburg for a short time, had rcnurned to the anblssy. SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 15th denies that as stated in some of the p a p ers , or d er s h' been given to sel,.ct by lot 80 captains of il l " fantry for the army of Cuba, owing to Owl ) not teing a suffici , nt number of volunteers t° till up vacancies. The Gazette declares the number, of vacancies did not a moun t t o one -t en th tha t number. M. Sorela, late Spanish Minister to Ale)Cc.?, had had a long conference with the ter of Foreign Affairs ; he had expressed the °V, nion that the Mexican Go vernment wou ld so on fLorn its own excesses. The Leon Espanol na3int'L llls that no explanations the M ex i can envoy , M. In, fragua, can make, and no excuses h e can o ff e r, will suffice to calm the indignation of the Spaniar' against the Mexicans, but that Mexico must gli e solid satisfaction. The (la Nord says :—" The p re vailin g animosity against England l a t e ly cued a sa d Mid unfortunate scene at Moscow. Profesor Schevr r,?ff, of the Univerity of that city, having loudlY blamed Sir Robert Peel's speech on Rag sia, by saying that he had calumniated 6 country which had afforded him hospitah*" , concluded by calling him an ungrateful fellow' Count Bohrynski, wo was present, took Sir R• Peel's part, d , lrion,tratit?.g that his reproach° against Russia were we!l founded. M. Schtvyreff, becoming excited, struck Count Bohrynski op the face ; the latter infutiated., rushed on th-3 profeso r ' and struck him with such violence that he di4.tW o (Lays aft,,T." EAST INDIA AND CHINA MAIL-$.l SOUTHAINIPTON, March 19.—The Peninsular maa Oriental Steal* Navigation Company's steam-sh l .P Colombo Capt. Field, reached Southampton day, at 4p.m., with the heavy porti on o f theabc l6 mails. Oa her passage home the Colombo experiencecl strong westerly gales in the Med,terranean, an head winds from Gibraltar. Her dates of sailing were :—Alexandria, Marc ll7' t at 4 p.m. ; Malta, 10, a t 8.6 p. m . ; an d Gibralta r ' 15, at noon. She brought 30 first- c l ass , t wo secon d- c lass, at? . .f l six deck passenger, and 18 servan t s an d 35 Ch:r dren-91 all, amongst whom we r e ;—Col. So o ': Captain and Mrs. Abdy, Captain and Mrs. Iniry Captain and Mrs. Robertson, Captain and ivir s i Ogle and family, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Meadovrs an family, Capt4in Eickerstaff, Dr. and Mrs. Shelv 6 and Dr. Patterson. The freight of the Colombo consists of 1,23 r packages of silk, 156 ditto coffee, 111 ditto gurn,,,, , 3 ditto teeth, 150 b un dl es o f emp t y sac k s , 40 flax, 89 ditto sundries, 25 boxes of oranges, an' group valued at 721. H.M.S. Hibernia, Conqueror, Centurion, B l ' llllB4 wick, Centaur, Magicienne, Medina, Osprey Miranda, Lynx, Weiser, Recruit, Caradoc, an Wanderer, were at Malta. The Majestic and Credkr left Malta for England on the 10th inst. SHIPS OBSERVED ON THE VOYAGE. —On the -94 -th ult., at 1.40 a.m., in Gibraltar Straits, the Einni,, Williams, for New York ; on the 28th ult., M' a.m., the Peninsular and Oriental steam-shiP Ripon ; on the 13th inst-., at 3 p.m., the Peninsir hr and Oriental steam-sbip Indus ; and on the 16th inst., at 5.20 a.m , off Cape St. Vincent, the Alhambra. Miss Niglitingele paid a lengthened but unexpecte d visit to the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's-inn-road, OP Wednesday, for the purpose of inspecting that very excellent charity, and inquiring into its management She went through the wh o l e o f th e bugling, and pa d! cu!arly noticed the " Sussex wing" recently erecte. , which is now filled with patients. Miss Nightinge l ° was next conducted through the newly-arranged oil!. pat iente'department, with w hi c h sh e was equally please% After making particul ar i nqu i r i es i n t o th e principles which this very mer i tor i ous c h ar it y i s con ducted, en!, took her departure, e x p ress i ng h er hi g h a dmiration °: the general managem en t o f th e i ns titut ion , an d the gir o ' benefits conferred on the poor through its agency. n e feel it our duty t o di rec t th e part i cu l ar a tt en tion of the humane and charitable to an institution to which, thong,. evendowed, and dep en di ng so l e ly on vo l un t a ry contra butions and legacies for support, relieved during the lab year over 44,000 patients. EXPLOSION OF FIRE-DAMP.—On Monday a serious e t/4 eidect occurred at the Park Gate Colliery, near Rot he : has., belonging to the Th orn cliffo Ironworks C0n 3 1 0 % . It appears that two men, one named John Mangha"; l the other Mines, from Thorpe H en l e y, were a t work in the pit at Straitwork. The works had been stencil from Saturday to Monday, and a qrantity of gas he ru le, accumulated in them. Th e t wo men , con t rar y to heedlessly took a raked candle instead of a Davy I°lllP into their workings, and in a short time an exPlosiou took place, which burned them very severely. No b °1) „.1 is entertained of the recov er y o f and Manitbi'— lies in a very precarious state.—Manchester Guardian., MAURITIUS AND ADE:T ETEAM-4. v ACKETS.—The 0 ,r 6 ; tee/. of yesterday contains th e f o li o ing letter from r°% Louis, dated the 27th o f O c t o b er :—" The G o vernme°: of the Mauritius h a 4 l a t e ly conce d e d t o an A ng l o -Frene'' company, having its head establishment at Port Louie; the packet servi ce b e t ween th a t co l ony an d Ad e n. T,P., Government of the Lie de l a R6 en i on h as j o i n ed in W I ; undertaking, and by me ans o f a t rea ty w hi c h it has concluded with the Arglc-French Company, has also 0 84 cured the direct and regular despatch of the mails from our colony, by way of Suez. The company does n (4 possess as yet more than two vessels on this line, the Maecereignes and the Governor Higginson, both pt° 4 vided with screw , propellers. But there is reason to be' lieve that the Governor Higginson, vhich has retativeli a very considerable steam power, will alone suffice, hi the speed which it can command, for a monthly service, between Aden and P or t L ou i s. The trip from one of those points to the other will be accomplished in 10 or 12 days, and the two colonies of the Mauritius and the, ' Isle de la R6union will thus be brought within 26 days and 28 days' journey of their respective home govern' meets. The vessel will leave Port Louis on the 2 8 t il and Aden on the 13th of each month. Another stool' packet service which has lately been established between England and Calcutta, cailingat the Cape of Good 110 6 Mauritius, Ceylon, and Madras, is likewise calculated ttB facilitate communications between Mauritius and the Isle de la Riunion on the one part, and the India markets on the other, whence both those insular colonial derive rice and grain for their subsistence." A CHESS BALL.—A letter from Hanover, in theNordo describes a grand fancy ball given in the Theatre RoY by Count Platen, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Th B royal family arrived at nine punctually, accompanied bi the Grand Duchess Alexandrine of Russia. The Queen were a white dress embroidered with pearls ; the Grand Duchess was dressed in the costume of the ancient Czarinas of Russia. The proceedings commenced by 1 ; procession of living chessmen, the kings, queens, and. other pieces all mag n ifi cen tly dressed. After the pro cession the pieces took up a position on a g i gan tic board prepared for the purpose. Two magici ans then played a game, which excited great interest and enter tainment. Alter this chess match, dances illustrative of all countries and classes of population ensued, and continued until the morning. 00 33 A murder has just been . cTimmitted at C ons t an ti n ople which has created considerable s ensat i on, -part i cu l ar ly among the European population. The victim is an Alge rian, a subject of France, named Hadji Suleiman, who, about 12 years ago, establish e d hi mself at Constantin,?' ple, where he carried on the business of a dealer in horses, and realised a handsome fortune. Last year chance made him the wit ness of a murder of a Week captain by a Tunisian colonel, but not wishing to come forward as a wit ness, he determi ne d t o conc eal hiel knowledge of th e affair. Vefertunately he imparted hie acquaintance with the matter in confidence to a friend, and by som e means it became known, and he was con: - pelted to appear and give evidence befor e the milita ry tribunal. FrJrn that moment Hadji Suleiman felt a Ws' presentiment, which has been but t oo f u lly reco gnised. On the 17th Feb. Fix individuals called on him, and slated on his retracting his deposition on pain of deatb A discussion ensued, during which a servant of his ran Ca and brought the guard from a neighbouring post. At the moment when Hadji was s xp'aining the affair to the offi cer of the gu ar d, one o f th e s i x persons d rew ou t a d ag and s t a bb e d hi m t o th e h eart. The assassinis ra_. young man from the Isle of Crete, and pcssesses, it 0 said, a fortune of 1,500,00 piastres (300,0001). He bil l confessed his crime, and slys that he was exasperated the calumnies which Iladji Suleiman had uttered against him. As the deceased was a French suject, the stfair is is the hands of the•Frtuch authorities. Two of hi relatives are in the French service. One is a brothee is a captain in the native tirailleurs, and has received th cross of the Legion of Honour and the military medal the other, his nephew, is a sub.lieutenant in the Fame regiment. The son of the deeemed is in the college Aliieri.