The Sun. — London, England, 1857-06-11 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING. IL DON GIOVANNI. THIS EVENING, Thtu-sday , June 11, will be produced, with the following unprecedented cast, Mozart's chef-d'oeuvre, IL DON GIOVANNI : —Zerlina, Piccolomini ; Donn Anna., Mdlle. Spezia ; and Donna Elvira, Mdlle. Ortolani. a Don Cliovanni, Sig. Beneventano ; Leporello, Sig. Belletti ; Masetto, Sig. Corsi; 11 Commandatore, Sig. Vialetti; and Don Ottavio, Sig. Giuglini. Conductor—Sig. Bonetti. The Minuet in the Ball Scene will be danced by Mdlles. Pasquali, Karliski, Morlacchi, Matie, and Corps de Ballet. From respect to the grand work of the immortal composer the following artistes of the establishment have consented to lend their assistance to increase the effect of the majestic finale of the first act, including the chorus, Viva la Liberta : —MM., Reichardt, C. Braham, Bottardi, Mercuriali, Kinni, De Soros, and Baillou ; Mesdamss Poma, Berti, Baillon, Fazio, and Ramos. After which, will be revived the highly successful Ballet, by M. Perrot, entitled L'AIIRORE, Far particulars, see bills. I limited number of Boxes in the Half•circle Tier have been specially reserved for the public, and mly be had on applica tion at the Box-office, at the Theatre Colonnade, Haymarket. Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. LES BOUFFES PARISIENS—St. JAMES'S THEATRE. Triumphant Success of the FRENCH PLAYS. THIS EVENING (Thursday), June 11, the entertain• ments will commence at half-past 8 o'clock precisely, by the performance of Operette, en un acte, LA. NUIT BLANCHE. M. Guyot, M. Mesmacre, and Mdlle. Mace. After which (for the second time) Operette, en un acte, LA ROSE DE ST. FLOUR. Musique de M. J. Offenbach. M. Privleau, M. Chas. Petit, and Mdile. Dalmont. To conclude with Opera-Comique, en un acte, L'OPE RA AUX FENETRE3. M. Leonce, M. Tayau, 2,1. Charles Petit, and Mdlle. Dalmont. The Orchestra of the Thostre des Bouffes will accom pany these Representations, under the direction of the composer, M. Offenbach. This Engagement being limited to one month, Performances will be given EVERY EVENING. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be engaged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. T REAT RE-R 0 Y L, DRURY-LANE Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. OPEN EVERY EVENIN 3. GREAT EQUESTRIAN AMERICAN and CONTINENTAL COMPANY, under the direction of Miss Ella. Prices—Pit and Promenad, is ; Boxes, 2s. 61, 25., and ls. 6d. ; Potteries, td . . Doors open at half-past 7. Commence at 8. First Equestrian Artistes in the World : —Madame Schap lain, Madame Newsome, La Petite Wells, Signora Delavanti, and Miss Ella ; Miss E. J. Wells, Mdlles.. Flora, Fabia, and and Marie, MissosNewsome, Moffatt, Delavanti, Potter. Jen nings ; the Manchester Boy, Masters J. Wells, A Wells, E. Moffatt, Henrico and Carlo Delavanti, Sig. Felix Delavanti, Mons. Beeq, Mons. Ferdinand, Mons. Eugene, Mr. Tom Swann ' Mr. B. Fuller, Mr. W. Feller, and the great Shaks pzian Clown, Wallett, will appear each evening in a series of Performances, original and unapproachable. Director—Mr. Stokes. Acting Manager—Mr. E. Stirling. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING will be pet farmed Shakespere's tragedy of KIN( RICHARD THE SECOND. King Richard 11., Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by a new Farce, in one act, callecl AN ENGLISHMAN'S HOUSE IS HIS CASTLE. rirFIEATRE ROYAL, 15 AYMA.RKET it Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock. with a new drama, in two periods, entitlel THE HUSBAND OF AN HOUR. Mr. Buckstone, Sze. Followed by anew farce, MY SON, DI kNA! After which, the successfu' Classical Love Story, un der the Apple-lation of AI'AL I.NTA ; or, The Three Golden Apples: in which Miss M. Oliver will appear; also Miss M. Wilton; and Miss Ellen Ternan. In future the prices will be :--- Orchestr I 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 Upper Boxes ....... 3 0 Upper Boxes... Pit 2 0 Pit 1 0 Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 CNo half-price to Upper Gallery. T HEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed the new and ori ginal domestic sketch, entitled WELCOME, LITTLE STRANGER. Mr. Wright. Mr. Paul Bedford, &c. After which, PAUL PRY. Mr. Wright and Miss Wyn ham. _To conclude with THE PRETTY GIRLS OF STILBERG in which Mr. Webster will appear. LOYAL SURREY THEATRE, Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creavriek. THIS EVENING will be performed Lk TRAVIATA. Mr. Haigh and Lucy Escott. To conelude with DEEDS, NOT WORDS, Messrs. Shep herd, Widdicomb, and Mies Eburne. STRAND THE kTßE.—Lessee, Mr. T. Payne. —Signor ALFRED BOSCO has achieved a legitimate triumph, and established his reputation as the Chief Professor of Legerdemain. His wonderful performance —his gorgeous apparatus—his unrivalled programme—have received the public verdict—lnimitable ! Stalls, 3s ; hoses, ; pit, is ; gallery, 6d. A Morning Performance on Satur days, at 2. R OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, will be revived Murphy's com-dy of ALL IN THE WRONG. Mr. Robson. After which, a now drama, called DADDY HARDACRE, Mr. Robson, &c. Commence at half-past Seven. A STLEY'S ROY AL AMP El ITH EATRE LIL . • AND OPERA. HOUSE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. Under the patronage of Her Majesty and His Royal Highness - Prince Albert. The encomiums of the press and the approbation of de lighted audiences justify Mr. William Cooke in announcing "Il Trovatore," with Equestrian Illustrations, every Eren ing, until further notice. THIS EVENING (Thursday, June 11), Verdi's far-famed Opera of IL TROVATORE ; or, The Gipsy's Vengeance. The whole of the Music as performed at the Italian Opera, and Equestrian Illustrations. Miss Rebecca Isaacs, Mr. Augustus Brabam, Miss M. Somers, Mr. Brookhouse Bowler, and Mr. Francis Kirby, and Miss Fanny Huddart. Mr. Borrani. Conductor and Composer—Herr Meyer Lutz. With a powerful Band and Chorus. Manager and Director of the Opera Company—Mr. Augustus Brabam. After which, Mr. Wm. Cooke's Inimitable SCENES in the ARENA, supported by the Unequalled Troupe of Eques trians. To conclude with the musical farce of THE WATER MA N. Commerce at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. • Private Boxes, from 215., no c h arge f or b oo ki ng; Pit, 2s ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Notice- —Darin; the Opera Season Half-price will take place et 9 o'clock. Box offico open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Ur. W. IVest. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. ('IANTERBUI Y HALL. Westminstor-road.— kJ OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow. company of Vocalists aro engaged for the performance 01 'elections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Duets, &c., viz.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brnnell, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta ; Mr. J. aulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans, P. Grover, T. Farrant, S. , 7 0 ,es, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri. Senor Antonio M. de Solla, and E. L. Rime; Masters Bennett and Corri; Messrs. Sam Collins, and E. Mackney. o forte , Mr. Cecil Hicks harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.; Erector, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock •precisely, Suppers, dtc., until twelve o'clock. TO CORRESPONDENTS. MR. J. N. STUBBS. If this meets the eye of Mr. J. N. Stubbs he will please inform the Editor, that a communica tion from his Brother in India may be forwarded to him. Stin-office, 112, Strand, June 11, 1851. aIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T ,un D AY — Morn. 1 min. aft. 4—Even. 19 min. aft. 4 To sionnovr—uorn. 39 min. aft. 4 —Even., 59 min. aft. 4 W EATHER—SUN 07111011, Jun 11. Timms:n BTEB , IN TFII SRI". 67 -highest arose noon yesterday. 52 -lowest this morning and during the night. 61 this day at noo n . BARomrrnn, 29.93—a sudden rise since yesterday of one third of an inch. %r u m, W.N.W ; fresh and ftne, but cloudy. C ri - i - ..":..6 - ( 4 -7,:it-, . I I 44 ______- : _ c ...... ! , - --,4 ? ---------. .. ,- ..-. ;-"....--;.€ . = K -. ..ii 444 4e, LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 18G7 .___..-_ " A very pretty little bouquet of Reform", Was yesterday tendered for the acceptance of the R e _ presentative branch of the Legislature, but the coy beauty held aloof and would not receive the gage d'amour. There is, it appears, an implied engagement with the fascinating Premier, and his thick-and-thin adherents are resolved that he shat' have a clear stage, so that his proposals may not be embarrassed by any coquettish flirtation with others. Lord PALMERSTON certainly seems " to rule the roast," just at present. No matter what may be the abstract merits of any suggestion, it is unhesitatingly pcstpcned to meet his views and wishes. Even the discussion by the popular re presentatives of any measure calculated to improve the national representation is re garded as a species of lese majeste—a petty treason against the Ministerial prerogative. Mr. LOCKE KING, however, yesterday achieved sufficient to convince all parties, that the matter which he brought under the consideration of the House, must be included in the new Reform Bill, and that the property qualification is to ail intents and purpoaes doomed. The contemplated change is, as the member for East Surrey truly remarked, " no innovation." It is only the restoration of the ancien regime. The necessity for a real estate qualification was but an ingenious device to bolster up the landed interest, and, for a time, it a;laieved the intended purpose ! To it, the country is partially, if not altogether indebted for the incubus by which it was so long oppressed. The bread-tax was its legitimate fruit, and as that has been unequivocally condemned, as even the ghost of " Protection" has been " laid," and there is no prospect of the resuscitation of the unseemly monster, there is no longer any reason why the farce should still be enacted. The property qualification is now a mere bugbear. It is noto rious that almost any person can obtain the neces sary qualification at a very trifling cost. There is in fact a fixed tariff. An aspiring knight of the shire can obtain his passport for 1001. ; a citizen or burgess fJr half that amount. What, then, can be the utility of an enactment whioh can so easily be evaded ? What the advantage of compelling even a few of the law makers to be come law breakers before they enter on their legis lative career? There is no qualification required for Scotland or for the universities ! Is it for a moment supposed that the representatives from "The Land o' Cakes" or "The Seats of Learning" are less eligible than those from other parts of the United Kingdom ? Certainly not. The best and only qualification is the possession of a majority of votes fairly and honestly obtained, and when that majority decides in favour of any man there should be no further obstacle to his taking the seat to which he is justly entitled. . Surely the privilege is that of the electors, not of the elected. Every constituency possesses a ' constitutional right to select the person whom they consider best calculated to represent their wants and wishes in Parliament. It does not follow that the wealthy man must necessarily be the most independent and straightforward mem ber. A man may be largely assessed to the in come tax—may bo earning many thousands per annum—and thus, to all intents and purposes, as independent of Ministerial favour as any person in the House ; and it would be an absurdity to deprive him of the opportunity of serving those who had afforded the most flattering proof of their confidence, unless ho should consent to evade a law that should never have been passed ! The chief grounds, then, whereon the principle advocated by Mr. LOCKE KING should be carried out to the full extent, are-Ist. That it is unwise and impolitic to maintain a law which can be easily evaded, through which "a coach-and-six" can be drawn at any moment, and the only effect whereof is to put some trifling coati into lawyers pockets. 2dly. That constituencies should not be de prived of the services of any person whom they may think proper to elect Let every possible precaution be adopted. to ensure the most perfect freedom of election, to be certain that no corrupt influences have succeeded in put ting " the wrong man iu the wrong place." Let there he a considerable extension of the franchise, so that every man, fairly entitled, may be enabled to record his vote—that the number of political cyphers may be greatly reduced. Let the smaller electoral districts be greatly enlarged. Above and beyond all, let " the Minot" bo adopted in its integrity, and bribery and inti midation, with all their various phases, be com pletely got rid of. When these objects have been attained, as 'we hope and believe they wilt be, no further security is wanting, and the property qualification may safely be set aside without a single mourner deploring its well-merited doom ! It has long since beeome a mere jest, and the sooner it is consigned to oblivion the better for the honour of Parliament and the best interests of the nation. Another " Testimonial" has this day to be chronicled. The presentation of it took place on the 23d ultimo, in the theatre of the Institu tion of Civil Engineers. The recipient was no other than Mr. CHARLES MANBY, the Gentleman who, during the last eighteen years, has discharged the onerous and delicate duties of Secretary to that Institution. So discharged those duties as to win for himself at last the tribute of this really noble and eminently well-deserved Testimonial. A. Testimonial consisting of an exquisitely fabricated and costly Timepiece and Can delabra, together with a sum of 2,0001. — the former bearing the subjoined inscrip tion: " Presentad by the members of the Enstitution of Civil Engineers and a few personal friends, with the sum of two thousand pounds, to Charles Manby, as a token of esteem, and in re• cognition of his valuable services, during a period of eighteen years, as secretary of the institution" —together, of course, with " May, 1857," the simple date of the presentation. The manner of that Presentation, it should be observed, was hardly less gratifying in its way than the Testi monial itself. The proceedings were presided over on the 23d ult. by perhaps the most illustrious, by certainly one of the most illustrious, engineers of this day —the name will have sprung to the lips of almost every one before reading it—ROBERT STEPHENSON. And ROBERT STEPHENSON, on the part and in the name of his brother engineers generally, spoke of the object of this MANBY Tes timonial in terms constituting of themselves an additional and an enviable recompense. Mr. STEPHENSON alluded to the fact of Mr. MAN3Y'S sphere of usefulness as the Eighteen Years' Secre tary of the institution of Civil Engineers not being restricted to the discharge of his official duties, onerousas they were in themselves. Beyond all that observed the Great Engineer, he (the recipient of the Testimonial), "was ever ready to give advice to the younger members, and to afford aid to the senior members, from his welt-stored mind, in reference to every department of engineering, as well as in a variety of ways, rendered more pleas ing by the alacrity and cheerfulness with which the friendly offices were performed." Adding (and the words ring with a golden sound in the ears of engineers, falling as they do from the lips of STEPHENSON)—" The value of the information afforded was enhanced by its accuracy, which was to some extent to be attributed to the practical foundation of his professional education, the early portion of his life having been spent in the work shop as a ani me c h • cal engineer, at the period when the profession was beginning to assume its present importance. In some degree, therefore, Mr. MANBY lost the official character of secretary, and became the friend and companion of the ma jority of the members of the engineering profession." A panegyric so complete in itself that it were little les3 than an impertinence to append - to them one syllable in addition. Sufficient for us after this to observe in con clusion, that these interesting proceedings on the morning of the 23d were adjourned to the even ing of the same day, from the theatre of the in stitution to a convivial apartment in the old banquetting hostel of The Ship at Greenwich. Where Mr. MANBY was feasted and toasted by a joyous party of appreciators, the Chair again being occupied by the gifted President of the Institution. Everything appears to have gone so entirely upon the occa " merry as a marriage bell," that ,owards the close of the evening we find Mr. STENIENSON genially regretting the absence of his friend, Mr. BRUNEL (another "man of mark" among Engineers), with whom he said he had maintained arduous struggles, which he could now look back upon with such pleasure as almost to desire to fight again " The Battle of the Gauges." Fighting was not, however, the order of that kindly day—a day for the honoured hero of it only one of cordial, deserved, and enviable gratulation. Sion, Yesterday our hopes were most happily realised. Mr. HARDY'S Beer Bill was politely shown the door in a House of 393-180 voting " for," and 213 " against" the second reading of that ridicu lous measure. Altogether, then, we may at last say—A. good riddance of 4—and we do say that cordially. The pertinacity of our pseudo-philan thropists was becoming intolerable. Only a session or so back the metropolis, it will be remembered, was frightened from its propriety, Sunday after Sunday, in consequence of one of the pet moral panaceas of these fanatical Religionists. Persons whose principal endeavour appears to be that of cramming their notions down the throats of their fellow-creatures by sheer brute force—not by per suasion, but by the strong arm of the law. As though Christianity itself had been origin ally established after the same fashion as Mahommedanism—not by the inspired lips of twelve poor Fishermen, but by the keen sword, and the resolute genius, and the daring ambition of a great military Conqueror. It appears to be the aim of these latter-day saints—to bully the masses into sobriety, to bludgeon them into good behaviour. Happily, a very considerable majority of the populsr representatives appear to be hardly less determined than the great bulk of the coal• munity out of doors to have nothing whatever to say to it—to the blundering phantasy pursued with so much fanatical ardour by these carica turists of Christianity. And so—Lord ROBERT GROSTENOR'S Sabbatarian movement is abruptly and summarily reversed in the Old Parliament. And so Mr. HARDY'S Beer Bill receives its conge or quietus, or exequatur, or whatever we may like to call it, in the new Parliament. That new Parliament has in this particular realised to the full—we had almost said surpassed —our expectations. THE DIVORCE BILL. NIMIIIIMI rHE SUN,- LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 11, 1857 TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sift,—Having read with admiration the noble and chivalrous opposition which Lord Lyndhurst has offered, in the House of Lords, to Chancellor Cranworth's Divorce Bill—a measure so degrading and insulting to the women of England—and also having witnessed, with equal admiration, the manly struggle which Sir Erskine Perry is making in the Commons in behalf of my sex, 1 venture to express a hope, through your paper, that the women of England—or, at least, such portion of them who are as sensible as I am of the debt of gratitude we owe to the noble loid and Sir Erskine Perry—will think it consistent with their duty to raise a fund to present them with n toatimnnial in the shvo of soma work of art, or article of vertu, as indicative of our gratitude and thep sense or obligation for their noble exertions. If any lady of position will give a more tangible shape to this suggestion, I shall have muck plea sure in sending hPr my name and subscription of 101., and shall also have much pleasure in using my exertions to procure sub tcriptions from my lady friends, who are equally indignant at this attempt at legislation so cruel and insulting to our sex.— I have the honour of remaining your obedient servant, M. C. C. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-111ADAME RISTORI. Judging from the aspect presented by the house last evening, when Madame Ristori made her second appearance this season, the interest created by the performance of this great actress must be on the increase = since the audience was far more numerous than on Monday night, and evi dently of a very high class. Madame Ristori performed Rosamunda, in Alfieri's tragedy of that name, and gave all the varied and powerful ex preszdon calld for by the situation of the drama, with as great effect as when it was per formed in London last year. The character is so imbued with horror and intensity that it demands the very highest dramatic art in its representation, and perhaps fierce and terrible passions were never exhibited with greater power than by Madame Ristori in Rosamunda ; her great command of facial expression, the grandeur of her attitudes, and the flexibility of her voice, were all called into play, especially in the great scene in the third act, which produced a call before the curtain, and in the fe Irful scene of the catastrophe, which re ceivel a like honour. To-morrow, Madame Ristori appears in a new tragedy by Signor Montanelli, called " Camma." MR. BEREDICT'S C3NCERTS.—Mr. Benedict gave the first of a series of three grand concerts, " dramatic, classical, and miscellaneous," at her Majesty's Theatre, yesterday afternoon, with the greatest success. ST. MARTIN'S - HALL.—An excellent concert of sacred mus , c was given last night by Mr. Hullati and his First Upper Singing School. The programme included Men delssohn's " Lauda Sion" (the English version), and Rossini's " Stabat Mater." A vary crowded audience was attracted. SIGNOR GIULIO REGONDI'S CONCERT.—Signor Giulio Regondi, who is acknowledged as the best performer in existence upon that very popular instrument, the concer tina, gave his annual concert on Tuesday evening. Signor Reg , .ndi was assisted by Madame Lemmena Sherrington, M. Jules Lefort, and other first-rate artists; and his concert was, altogether, excellent of its kind. MADLLE. SEDIATZBICS CONCERT.—MaciIIe. Sedlatzek gave her annual concert, at Willis's Rooms, yesterday morning. Her talent was most advantageously displayed in an aria from Mercadante's " Il Giurarnento," a duet from Donizetti's " Maria Padilla," and Kalliwoda's " Home of Love." Madlle. Sedlatzek was assisted by the celebrated Madame Gassier, Maclaine Wilpert, Herr Hausmann, M. Gassier, Mr. E. Aguilar, and other ar tists of distinction. A marriage will shortly take place between the Hon. Edward W. Douglas, younger sen of the Earl of Mor ton, an] Miss Banker, youngest and only unmarried daughter of the late Right Hon. George Bankers. The Queen of Oude, with her family and suite, have gone on a temporary visit to Paris.' A telegraphic despatch from Odessa says that the steamers in communication with Constantinople, the Crimea, Nicholaieff, Cherson, and Rostow had com menced running ; and those for Galata and the Sea of Azoll were to follow shortly. Doves, Wednesday, June 10.—His Royal Highness Prince Frederick of Prussia arrived at Dover this even ing rather unexpectedly. It was not generally known that his Royal Highness was about to visit England so soon, but ou the arrival of Major-General Wylde from the Palace and an attadd of the Prussian Legation at Dover this afternosn the rumour spread that the Prince was coming, and, short an was toe notice, the pierheads and the Admiralty pier were speedily thronged with spectators, anxious to welcome a prince who is shortly to be so closely allied to the Royal Family of England. Every preparation had beep made by the raiiway autho rities for the comfort of the Prince. A special train consisting of a State carriage for the use of his Royal Highness and suite, with carriages for the servants, had been kept in readiness from 5 p.m. His Royal High ness arrived at the Admiralty-pier on board the PrineJss Nlaude, South Eastern steampacket, at 6.15 p.m., and was warmly cheered on landing. The special train left Dover en route for Winder at 6.51 p.m. DEATH OF Ma. HOLMES.—lntelligence has arrived in Dublin of the death in England of Robert Holmes, Eeq., barrister-at-law. He was one of the most remarkable men at the Irish bar, from which he retired shortly after the conviction of John Mitchel for seditious writing and speaking. Mr. Holmes was his leading counsel, and de- Ivered a speech for the defence, which called forth the ~e logiurns of Young Ireland and the whole body of Irish Repealere. The Master of the Rolls has made a further call of 301. per share on the contributories of the Norwich Yarn Company, payable by the 26th inet. LATEST NEWS. - . 7 -7, !^^~. ;~- FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY. The following is the latest list of the Opposition candidates for Paris, and for which the electors will be asked to vote:— First electoral district—M. Laboulaye, member of tho Academy, and one of the Journal des Debats. Second—M. Bathmont, former Minister under the Republic. Third—Gengral Cavaignac. Fourth—M. Emile 011ivier, Advocate. Fifth—M. Carnot, Minister under the Republic. Sixth—M. Goudchaux, ditto. Seventh—M. Darimon, editor of the Presse. Vavin, former representative of the people. Ninth—M. F. Lasteyrie, do. Tenth—M. Regnault, former Sub-Prefect of. Sceaux. The question of the corning elections still mono polises the attention of the Paris papers. M. A. Fould, minister of state, has left Paris for England. He will only be absent a few days. An imperial decree confers on M. Abbatucci, minister of justice, the ad interim. management of M. Fould department during his absence. chair. M. Troplong in the dareport on the bill rela tiveTaihr.e Senate Baron met pu pi yesterday,rea to calling out 100,000 men from the class of 1857. The Senate declared that it did not oppose the promulgation of the measure. The same de cision was come to respecting the budget of 1858 three measures authorising additional taxes in de partments ; the bill sanctioning advances on de posits of Credit Foncier Bonds; two bills approv ing of conventions passed with the Orleans and Mediterranean Railway Companies, and the transatlantic steam-picket communication. The proceedings then terminated. - The following telegraphic despatch has been re ceived here to-day : " BERNE, 9th.—The Federal Assembly met to day. The message of the Federal Council proposes and recommends the ratification of the treaty rela tive to the affairs of Neuchatel. M. Escher, presi dent of the National Council, expressed himself in the same sense. The treaty has been referred to a committee, who will report on it to-morrow." BOTRSE, June 10, -.. The following were the las ' quotations : Cash. fr. c. End of Month. 44 per Cents 3 per Cents 6B 68 5 Bank Shares 4,475 Credit Foncier — Credit Mobilier 1,160 53 Roman Do. Account 1,167 50 Austrian Belgian 44 - Piedmontese (5) 9l Home Debt IRAILWAYS-FOR CASH. tr. fr e. Orleans 1,462,1 c. Western Northern Lyons 1,475 New Ditto - Mediterranean 1885 Grand Central Geneva Midi TURKEY. We have received Constantinople journals and letters to the 31st ult., brought by the Sinai. The great affair of the moment was the diplomatic con ference so frequently postponed. The meeting took place in the apartments of the Grand Vizier Rschid Pacha, the other personages present being M. de Prokesch d'Osten, the Austrian internuncio ; M. Thouvenel, ambassador of France ; Lord Strat ford de Itedcliffe, the representative of England ; M. de Gundlach, charge d'affaires of Prusssia ; Baron de Boutenieff, the envoy of Russia ; Gene ral Durando, minister of Sardinia ; and Ali Ghalib Pacha, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs. The sitting commenced at two o'clock, and lasted until evening. The discussion is said to have been warm occasionally, but never stormy. The follow ing letter gives some interesting details relative to what passed on this important occasion : "I by no means pretend to state to you fully what took place, but the information which I receive from a trustworthy source enables me to give some general idea of the proceedings. The day before the conference, the representatives of Russia, Sardinia, Prussia, and France, met at the residence of the latter at Therapia ; and it being ascertained that the views of the four governments were identical, M. Thouvenel was charged to re present at the meeting the complaints of the four courts. That preference was given to the French representative from the decided attitude which M. Thouvenel had assumed in the affair of the princi palities. and from his personal influence. Accord. ingly, at the conference itself, M. Thouvenel spoke first, pointing out at great length the facts which had taken place in Moldavia and Wallachia in direct contradiction, he said, to the treaty of Paris. He produced a vast number of documents to prove that both caimacans, and more particu larly Prince Vogerides of Moldavia, had been acting quite illegally. I understand that M. Thouvenel, from the statements, facts, and papers transmitted to him by M. de Talleyrand, made out a very strong case. He then proceeded to inquir e a t whoseinstigation Prince Yogorides was acting, and asked if the Turkish Government would venture to support their agent in such conduct. He did not, he said, mean to accu se th e P or t e o f coun t enanc i ng the two caimacans, but it was indubitable that both had received a certain amount of encourage as well as f rom t h e pecu li ar bi as o f t h e pre ment from the know n v i ews o f E ng l an d an d Aus tria, ceding Minister of Fo re i gn Aff a i rs , Eth ein In reply Reschid Pacha unhesitatingly declared, that such conduct could not be too entrgeti. catty blamed ; far from the acts of the caimacans being of service to the P o rt e , th e y o n ly served to raise supicions against the frank bearing of the Turkish Government ; and the more so that the Sultan considered it a point of honour to carry out completely the s tipul a ti ons o f th e t r eaty of Paris As for himself, who then ad dressedvheere reprimand, and to insist on their pledged himself to send to the . ediately sent to them. Lord adhering Stra tford to the .instructions which he promised e ela.m d ms c me !ffe next spoke, but without departing fo should caimacans de te h from a certain reserve, rtain reserve, and apparently with a strong deaire to justify Ids personal conduct. He did not attempt to deny the exactitude of the facts brought forward by M. Thouvenel, and he ad mitted the necessity of having recourse to mea sures calculated to prevent a repetition of them. M. de Prokesch, lam informed, was much less conciliatory, and even gave way to a certain amount of recrimination. Ali Ghalib Pacha spoke more than once, and after stating clearly what he conceived to be the chara c t er o f th e t reaty o f P ar i s and the spirit of the firm an o f convocat i on, h e as sured the meeting, as the Grand Vizir had done before, that it was the decided intention of the the . other p owers . Th e repre sentatives to execute loyally the treaty of March 30, in conjnnctio with f Sardinia, Russia, and Prussia con fined themselves to admitting the correctness of M. Thouvenel's representations, and announced the complete accord of their governments with the opinions expressed by the French ambassador. In fine, the conference terminated satisfactorily for the wishes of France, Russia, Sardinia, and Prussia. In the evening, a telegraphic despatch was sent to Paris to announce the result ; and this day, full instructions have been despatched to the cai macans at Jassy and at Bacharest to guide their future conduct. In addition, M. Lesourd, secretary of the French mission in the prin cipalities, will return to-morrow to Bucharest to join M. de Talleyrand, and to convey to him th e necessary powers to constrain the Turkish autho rities from the highest to the lowest to executd strictly the treaty of Paris." The Sultan has renounced his excursion, which had been recommended chiefly on account of the measles and the scarlatina having made their ap pearance in the palace. These maladies have now almost entirely died away, and in consequence his Majesty has re s olved not to leave Constantinople at the present conjuncture. GREECE. It was stated a few days ago, in some of the papers, that the visit of the King of Bavaria to France has not been merely an act of courtesy, but ' that affairs of more serious import to his family was the principal motive of his presence; and it is rea sonable to suppose that the brother of King Otho of Greece has profited by the present opportunity to confer with the Emperor on the state and pros pects of that kingdom, particularly with reference to the question of the succession. A private letter from Athens, of the Ist instant, purports to give some particulars of the conference between the two Sovereigns on this subject, which may yet give some trouble to the Western Powers. The writer mentions that, according to intelligence received from Paris, the King of Bavaria intimated his desire that the Court of France should support the abro gation of the 40th Article of the Greek Constitu tion, which requires the successor to the throne of Greece to profess the orthodox faith, which is that of the Greek nation. The Emperor is said to have replied that his respect for the rights of the Greek people prevented him from requiring the modifica tion of a Constitution which was voted unanimously by the people, whichwas sworn to by the Sovereign, and which is recognised by the three protecting Powers. The King then asked whether, in case of a modification of the Constitution by the Greek Parliament, such changes would be accepted by the Powers. The answer was that the revision of the Greek Constitution was only legal inasmuch as it was voted by'a Constituent Assembly summoned ad hoc. ALEGERIA. The Moniteur Algerim publishes the following telegraghic despatch " The Governor-General to General de Cissey, at Algiers. " Souk el Arba, June 4. " The whole of the Beni Mahmaud have now made their submission. The road is open from Sik ou Meddour to Souk el Arba. The works of Fort Napoleon are about to be commenced. The health of the troops is excellent." " The expedi tionary corps," pays the same journal, " has had in all 509 me❑ put hors de combat, v;z., Ist division, 33 killed and 177 wounded ; 2d, 34 killed and 230 wounded ; and 3d, 3 killed and 35 wounded. As to the enemy, it is impossible to ascertain their exact loss but it has been very severe ; and it is principally owing to that circumstance that may be attributed their prompt submission. According to accounts which appear to be entitled to credit, they had 400 killed and 800 wounded. Most of the wounded of the French have been sent to Algiers." PRUSSIA. A telegraphic despatch from Berlin, dated yester day, states that the King and Queen had left that city for Dresden, and that his Majesty was alter wards to proceed, as already stated, to Marienbad, and the Queen to Tceplitz. It adds that the fire work manufactory of M. Dobremont, situated a short distance from Berlin, was blown up on the preceding evening, and that several persons wore killed. POLAND. - :as'rA letter from Warsaw of the 3d, in the Nord of Brussels, says --" Yesterday was the 50th anni versay of the entrance into the military service of General Gortschakoff, Governor of the kingdom of Poland. At ten o'clock in the morning a nume rous assemblage invited the general to a grand dinner which had been organised to celebrate his jubilee. The prince accepted the invitation, and at four o'clock a numerous party assembled. Dur ing the dinner the general received the following telegraphic despatch from the• Emperor I cor dially congratulate you, and sincerely thank you for your 50 years of faithful and exemplary ser vices in remembrance of which I have named you chief of the Battery of the Guard No. 2, which from this day will bear your name. ALEXANDER." SPAIN. The Madrid papers of the 6th have arrived in due course. A deputation of the Congress bad presented to the Queen the address in answer to the speech from the throne. The prorogation of the Cortes would, it was said, take place between the 20th of this month and the beginning of July. On the prorogation, Marshal O'Donnell intendel to vi-it Catalonia, and after wards to go abroad till the wint.r. " The Prince and Princess Galitzin are the ob ject of great at'ention in this capital. The Prince is a real Russian noble spending his revenues most liberally, and the Princess is full of grace and (Us ' tin. The Queen, departing from the laws of Spanish ettiquette, gave a grand dinner in honour of them; and the Marquis of Turgot, the French ambassador, treated them, It may be said, in an imperial manner. In the absence of the Marquise, who is now in Paris, the honours of the day were done by Madame de Serrano. On the following day, Lord Howden, the English ambassador, en tertained in his turn, the Prince and Princess. Of all the diplomatic body, he only invited the Marquis de Turgot, as though he wished to show the good telations which exist between him and the French ambassador. The latest bulletin of Marshal Rade!zky's state of health, dated Verona, 6th, anuounces that his excellency had been restless during the day, and that the fever had returned in the course of the evening. A letter from Vienna, --in the Cologne Gazette Rays:—" The government has replied very favour ably to the petition of the Chamber of Commerce of Prague, praying for the abolition of the dues on the Elbe. It has promised that it will employ all its influence to obtain their suppression." AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING. The United States mail steamer Arago, Captain Lines, arrived at Cowes this morning, after a pas= sage of 11 days and 6 hours from New York. Her advices are to the 30th ult., tbree days later than those by the Asia. The Arago has, besides the usual mails, 300 pas sengers, 1,058,000 dols. in specie, and 6,000 bushels of wheat. She has experienced ordinary weather for the season ; came south of the B .nks, and saw no ice. The mail steamer Arabia, from Liverpool, May 16, arrived at New York on the evening of the 23th, and the Ariel, tr mm Southampton, May 16, on the afternoon of the 29th. The Arago ex changed signals with the English bark Stirlingshire, June 4th ; bark showing in a white signal. No. 393, June sth ; bark Elizabeth, June 6th ; a Cunard steamer, from Havre for Liverpool, Juue 10th, off the Lizard. Louis Grellet, one of the parties concerned in the Great Northern Railway fraudF!, sent back under the Extradition Treaty, in charge of a United States' police officer, came by the Arago. General Walker has surrendered, and Rivas is in the hands of the Allies, despairing of success. Walker made terms of capitulation with the Costa Ricans ou the Ist of May, having then less than 300 men, and but two days' provisions. General Heuningsen, !Colonel Titus, and some others of Walker's men, arrived at New York by the ;Illinois steamer on the 28th ult. Walker and staff arrived at New Orleans on I be 27th, in the steamer Empire City. He was received by 10,000 people, who escorted him to the St. Charles Hotel, where he made a speech thanking them for his splendid reception, and saying that in the mass be fore him he recognized the American love of liberty, and that victory was still sure. He was obliged to speak twice before the crowds were sa•isfied. The greatest excitement prevailed in the city. 101 guns announced on the 7th May to the people of San Joie, Costa Rica, the occupation of Rivas by the allies. General Mora, with his divion of the army, was expected at San Jose on the 13th, and gre at preparations were being made to give him an en thusiastic reception. _ _ Lieutenant Strain, a leader of the Darien ex ploring expedition, died at Aspinwall on the 15th. The reported division of Nicaragua is contra dicted, and a plan was on foot for re-establishing the old Central American Confederation. From Panama we have a rumour that the Islands in the Bay of Panama had been ceded to England in the settlement of the Macintosh claim, as also the tonnage duty accruing on the American vessels in the Isthmus ports, but this wants confir mation. Advices from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec state that violent gales had been experienced on the Pacific side, and that the country was much dis turbed by revolutionary attempts. The news of the defeat of the Sonora Filibusters, under Colonel Crabbe, is confirmed ; 14 only of his party escaped. The Californian news, though two weeks later, is unimportant. The cotton market at New York on the 29th was quiet, but firm. Holders received the foreign news iu a favourable light, while purchasers regarded it to be less favourable than they had anticipated ; hence transactions were restricted to a few hundred bales, without quotable change in prices. The news checked the upward tendency in flour, e4pe cially for the common and lower grades, while buyers were unwilling to purchase freely without some concession in prices. Sales were consequently moderate, without change of moment in prices. Wheat was in good demand, and prime lots were firm. Indiana red sold at 1 dol. 67c. ; fair Western do. at I dol. 62c. ; Canadian Club, at 1 dol. 62c. ; and medium to choice Southern and Missouri white ranged from 100 dols. 75c. to 100 dols. 80c. The upward tendency in corn was checked with sales of Southern yellow and white at 100 dols. 3c. to 100 dols. 4c., and Western mixed, at 101-tc. to 103 c. Rye sold at 120 c. Prime northern pork sold at 23 dols. 900., with small lots at 23 dols. 95c. Sugars were quiet, while holders stood out for pre vious current rates, regarding the future move ments of the trade with much confidence, while buyers were unwilling to enter the market freely without some relaxation in prices hence the sales were confined to small jobbing lots, without noticeable change in quotations. Coffee was quiet but firm. Freights were inactive and rates some what irregular to British ports, while engagements were moderate. The stock market opened with a strong upward tendency on the 29th, and with con siderable activity on all the leading railroad stocks. New York, Central Erie, Cleveland and Toledo, Michigan, Southern, and in fact all the Western railroad stocks were particularly active, and most of them advanced a fraction or so at the first Board. Pennsylvania Coal improved j per cent.; New York Central, 1; Erie 1; Reading, A ; Illinois Central, A ; Cleveland and Pittsburg, 2 ; Galena and Chicago, 4 ; Cleveland and Toledo, 2 • Chicago and Rock Is land, 1 ; Mill waukie and Mississippi, 1i ; Michigan Scuthern Guaranteed Preferred 10 per cent. scrip fell off 4 per cent. ; ditto, full 1. The advices from London by the Arabia had a favourable effect on Illinois Central Stock ; sales were made at 140 per cent., but the stock closed ab 1391 ; Michigan Southern Old Deferred Stock hung very heavy in the neighb,nrhood of 60 per cent. ; Cleveland and Toledo was quite buoyant, and sold freely at the advance • it opened at 66 and closed at 66i per cent., with sales of nearly 4,000 shares. At the second Board the market for some stocks was pretty well sustained with pretty active sale 3 ; Cleveland an i Pittsburg advanced 2 per cent., • closing at 49, seller three dap. Cleveland and Toledo opened at 66 cash, and closed at 66, buyer 60 days. A sale, seller 60 days, was made at 641 per cent.; after the Board it was offered in stacks at 65k per cent. cash. Michigan Southern De ferred sold at the Board at 60 per cents., but after wards sold at 58i cash, and was offered freely at that price ; the Guaranteed Preferred was heavy at 88 per cent., with small sales ; Eri e was t o l era bly steady, and closed with an upward tendency ; of Ohio, life and trust was made at 101 per cent cash. NEW ORLEANS, MAY 28. Cotton unchanged. Sales to-day 1,000 bale 3 ; re ceipts 900. Corn 1 dol. Flour firm. Pork firm. Lard, in kegs, 16c. Other articles generally un changed. MAY 29. Cotton market generally uncnanged. Sales to day only 300 bales at 14c. for middling. Sales' of the week, 11,750 bales ; the receipts of ti.e week; 4,01)0 bales ; stock, 119,500 bales. The receipts at this port up to the present time fall short, as compared with those of last year, 230,000 bales. The receipts at all the southern ports, less than those of last year, are 524,000 bales. Sugar firm, 111 cents. Flour closed with an advancing tendency : sales at 7 dols. 621 c. to 7 dols. 80c. Cord excited, white, 1 del. 10c. ; yellow, 1 dol. sc. Mess pork, 24 dols. 50c. Western hay, 32 dols. to 33 dols. Coffee quiet ; sales of the week, 5,000 bags ; stock, 132,000 bags ; prime, .I.olc. to 11c. Freights stagnant. Sterling ex change, 10 per cent. premium ; and on New York, to per cent. _ _ _ OSWEGO, MAY 29, 6 P.M. Flour dull ; sales of Canadian at 7 dols. 25c. Wheat firm ; sales, 12000 bushels, at 1 dol. 50c. for. Canadian Club, and 1 dol. 80c. for Canadian white, afloat. Corn unchanged ; saleS, 6,300 bushels, at 95c. Canal freights to New York— flour, 35c., and wheat, 10c. Lake imports to-day, 24,000 bushels wheat'; and 13,500 bushels c"rn. Canal exports 3,500 barrels flour, 10,000 bushels wheat, 4,000 bushels corn. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING. The screw steam ship City of Mauchester has arrived, with advices from New York to the 28th ult. She has brought 10,000 dols. specie on freight. THE DANUBE NAVIGATION. CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY 31. At the present moment no object can be of greater interest to civilised Europe, or deserve more of its attention, than the settlement of the Danubian navigation, by rendering one at least of its mouths an accessible thoroughfare. This project, so con spicuously sanctioned at the peace of Paris, has not been realised as yet. All eyes are directed to the quarter where the Danube debouches into the sea, to watch what the commission appointed by the seven powers of Europe may be doing ; but unfortunately we can detect very little doing in deed, even in the way of preparation. The indo lence of this commission has induced me to make an excursion as far as Galatz, and at every station on the river I. made it my business to institute strict inquiries as to the operations, if any, whict were in progress or proposed, and I now transmit you the veryunsatisfactory data which I collected. - The commission of the Seven Powers has divided itself into two sub-committees, one of which super intends the general management, and the other looks after the technical details of the works. I observed with regret, that sometimes only two out of the whole seven, and those the Austrian and Sardinian commissioners, were present at Galatz. The English commissioner, I heard, had left Galatz to inspect the survey of the Danube now going on, but the other four, to amuse themselves at Vienna or elsewhere. I stated in a previous letter, that the want of hydrographic maps or charts prevented it from be ing ascertained, whether the Sulina or the St. George's Channel should be selected to be made navigable. Nevertheless, by way of making some sort of beginning, if only to say they had started, the commission, ignorant as they were of which branch was preferable, resolved on making Tultscha the cen tral point of their operations, taking it for granted that the Danube must be p u t to rights as far up as Galatz. The construction of the works and maga zines, where the materials must first be collected before the workmen can be actively employed, was confided by the commissioners to the Turkish colo nel, Emin Bey (Malinovsky), who has, or is sup posed to have, all the clerks and staffs under his orders. The work has been in consequence ad vanced a step, as the solemnity of laying the first stone for the building to be occupied by the direc tors was gone through on the 10th of May by the Austrian. commissioner. This was the first step, but after a few days orders were given to leave every : - thing alone; about half the workmen and assistants were dismissed, some hundreds of whom consist of Tartars from the Dobrudscha, • called from their homes for the purpose, and though the work has since recommenced, not more than 50 men are em ployed. If the works of the improvement of the Danube navigation go on at this rate they will last one generation before the gigantic task is half ac complished. It would seem that the commission intend dimi nishing the number of persons employed on the magaz'nes and the like, and amalgamating several branches of the administration into one. It is said that this measure is dictated by economical motives. It should be observed that the treaty of Paris created no pecuniary source, I mean, wherefrom to defray the c )st of such an undertaking. The com missioners did not think of this at first, did not see the necessity of obtaining definite instructions on this head and guarantees for the money that would be required. Only Turkey came forward with a few thousand piastres, a mere drop in the stream, and which has now fib wed away or been evaporated. Seeing that the means were wholly inadequate, the commissioners should now be doing all they can to mend the matter. As to how far the officials or clerks, appointed by the present commission at Galatz, are of any use, I could not discover ; my humble opinion.is, that their services are not re quired for the moment, unless to make a parade of official titles. To be sure, they are busy enough, from morn to eve, at Tultscha, where the stores have been collected and the works have been more or less comm-nced. In case a diminution of their numbers should be made, those in non-activity are to be dismissed first, and the same rule is to be ob served at Galatz, if reductions are made there. As for the engineers, there are scarcely half the number required for the work of their extraordi nary task ; but if there are no funds, there is no thing to be said. One thing is quite clear, that the commissioners are not practical persons, or men of business competent to their work. I have also to state that the spirit of party has broken out among them, and if- one togs one way and another the other, no progress is conceivable.—Correspondent of Daily _Yews. THE ARCHDUKE UAXIMILIAN OF AUSTRIA.—PORTS MOUTH, June 10.—A government telegraphic message has come down this afternoon, intimatin g that the Grand Duke Maximilian of Austria may be expected to arrive every hour, by an Austrian war steamer. PERSONATION AT THE LEEDS ELECTION.—Two young men named Joseph Mountain, and William Bennett, were committed for trial by the Leeds magistrates for personating voters at the late election for Leeds. The first prisoner voted for Beecroft, the latter for Mills. Warrants have been issued against three other persons for aiding and abetting in the personation. RECOVERY OF THE BODY OF ENSIGN BOWLES.— After a submersion of 16 days, the body of this young officer was discovered floating in the Ribble, near to the Guides, or King William public house, Freckleton, by Henry Gornall, the guide, at six o'clock on Monday evening. It will be 'remembered that on the night of the 23d ultimo Mr. Bowles left Lytham in a boat, for Preston, with a man named Cartmel ; both were drowned, but the latter was found near the spot where the accident happened, on the day after itr occurrence, and it was seen that the boat had sunk. It is supposed that the remains of Mr. Bowles were "sanded u,)," and that the freshet occasioned by the recent heavy rains disengaged them from the superincumbent deposit. The body was very much swollen and disfigured. It was at once taken to the inn, and the news of the melan choly discovery was dispatched by telegraph to the unfortunate young man's relatives, who reside at Kelve• don, in B.sex. MR. SPURGEON DONE BY A PICKLE-SELLING TAIL TUFFE.—Most persons have observed in the newspapers, and on the walls of the metropolis, announcements of a reward for the . apprehensi an of Mr. John Gregory, an oil and pickle merchant in the borough, who has not L persons to s surrendered to his bankruptcy, but has left the country in company with, it is said, his gov e rness. It may not be knerwn that, in Mr. Gregory,glist of we p h add another to the unhappily long who have traded on religion, or, rather, a hypocriti cal assumption of true religion, for the purposes of deluding the world in general. Mr. Gregory, wh o was accustomed to wear a white neckcloth among his other personal adornments, was treasurer of the funds in precles of collection for the new chapel about to he erected for Mr. Spurgeor, by whose teaching, it would seem, be has profned but little, and has absconded, it said, with over 2,0001 of the popular young Baptist's money. A warrant is issued for his apprehension ; in deed, it is rumoured, that he has been captured already, and, if so, he will find himself in a " pickle " much more , g pretty " than his own olives, cabbages, and cucum bers. AMIN TBE BEER BILL. In accordance with the principles of Free Trade, as well as the result of many years' experience, the House of Comm ons ye s t er d ay re j ec t e d M r H ar dy 's bill for a return to a stricter monopoly in the sale of spirits and beer. Such a fate might have been expected from the first for a measure which 109 not only opposed to the spirit of all recent legisla tion, but was in direct contradiction to the Repor t of the Committee whi c h sa t d ur i ng near l y the whale sessions of 1853 and 1851. Certainly the public sobriety and morality ought to be well assured in return for such a commercial anomaly as the pre" sent licensing system—a s y s t em w hi c h th e bill of Mr. Hardy proposed to mak e s till more sever e an d onerous. If temperance societies confessed that the licensing of puolic•houses acted as a kind of Maill i e Law, and that wherever the m ag i s t ra t es wer e rigl" and the brewers omnipotent there drunkenness was rare, and health, wealth, and co n t en t men t re igned if the clergy and the Poor Law authorities declared that a restriction on the sa l e o f li qu id s e levate" pubic morality and prevented desti , ution, then W e might have some encouragement to persist in a course by which great advantages were attained to return for obvious sacrifices of theory. But Nru", has a word to say i n f avour o f th e presen t p r actice Who can discover any s oc i a l b ene fi t t o re deem t ll ,_ e economical heresy ? Th e p r i nc i p l e on w hich th e license system is b ase d i s s i mp l y thi s —that th e authorities shill take due care for the regulation e' houses of entertainment. Places where men meet t , ° drink are apt to b e scenes o f r i ot i ng an d profliga?' the resort of the gambler and the thief. The mag i*. trates of a district should, then, take care t hat n° permission is granted to sell strong drink excePt t° a man for whose character there is some guarante e ; On this principle, sound en oug h i n it se lf, has bee n built up a fataic of inconvenience and injustice., h The spirit of interference with soc i a l habits win distinguished legation in past times, which P r(/ ' dueeesumptuary laws and laws for the minute re' gulation of trade, has thoroughly penetrated 0011 „ part of the licensing s y s t em . Th e mag i s t r acy P r. "; tend to take care of the public sobriety, to lol a f the public wants, t o d e t erm in e w h a t num ber 0 . houses are necessary to a certain population, an, tl ii i° o what manner the business of a pthe limitation should,,,"o carried on. -The consequen ce has been, not ' limitation in number of the publi c h ouse s, nor ,o improvement of such as exist, but the establis h .. . ment of a monopoly in the hands of a few brag' of colossal wealth. The license's have been O r o fessedly granted on no fixed principle. In Se t % parts every tenth house is a ginshop ; in others or three streets are confined to one dirty and 1 , 4 conducted establishment. It is evident that O A object of a license is to secure a landlord of g .. ,07 character, but under the present system the n o strates have thought more of the house than ' i master. Instead of maki n g th e license a pure fo personal affair, they have practically granted A do certain houses, which retain it under any ells of proprietors or lessees. Thus, while a m's of the best character and the most ample me an- e 0 refused permission to open a new house, the old oa ct , are transferred from respect a ble to di sr eputable la e s o lords, from solvent deale r s to b an k r upt s , almost a o f matter of course. The fittest person for the supPlY i iii a district may be refused l eave t o t ra d e because he not take one of the established houses from sonlet, o , brewer on the latter's ow n t erms , w hil e blaclo o n prizefighters, and worse find no difficulty in g etv : e r, their license, though without means or chara e t o f because the place they have taken is ou the li Lr e , those already liceved. The results might be o f seen. The houses, and consequently the sa, le t he beer and spirits have become a monopoly, m l %O longest purse has gained most by the a`_", o f The publicans are confessedly to a great fi 3 :bel the mere agents of the brewers, from whom t o o are obliged to purchase their liquor, and Ito, influence may unmake, as it has made tu The sway of one or two great firms is said ° T y tend over large districts of the metropnlig• ~of Bedford estate or the Grosvenor estate is nose greater wonder than the property of some of tl e r colossal establishments in licensed places of el l or tainment. All the evils of monopoly are tint: oo . curred without any of the benefits of regula'aas Gin flavoured with turpentine and porter A t er frothy with cocculus Indices are evils not colli•the balanced by any necessary reepectability, j a . t , landlords who vend them. The great marr i t ' o ble these we will allow to be honest and resPe c s fld men, but this is not the result of the licensinkse9 would equally be the case if there were no been at all. Now, these facts being known and pretty g to i e° l rally acknowledged, it would have been' a _jog thing at any time to bring in a bill for throwtbs the trade more completely into the power of 1 0 brewers, and their allies, the magistrates. 4r, in the present case the confidence shown by P i dr, Hardy is pre-eminently surprising, since, as j o ie W. Brown told the house, a committee, after o ti tine two sessions and asking 15,000 questions no . the subject, has come to conclusions exactly If, site to those which the bill embodied. The not mitte of 1854 has declared that there exista u o tei plcions that "licenses are withheld and -gr a o e 3 , capriciously ; that the influence of builder a ter 9 brewers is more potent than either the chas e, the applicant or the requirements of the lar t ' and, without endorsing these accusations,the sidered them sufficiently important to, just l ' 4 ,,,je l abolition of the present system. Having to she' the impossibility of magistrates knowing t i t'` tr iett meter of the applicants or the wants of the T s oti gel the Committtee was in favour of granting a ° c o ol' revocable foemisconduct, to every man Wh ° 00 0 procure sureties for good behaviour: BY means the monopoly, the j o bbi ng , the favor and the injustice of the present practice 10 1 l once be bro to an end. Some such plan must, we think, soon te o f' o; cepted by the Legislature. There can be n c l re he a t why the trade in beer and spi r its sh o uld not for' free as any other. A sum may be charge' 0 0 1 ' license greater in the case of spirits than , ill s liquor ; that is simply a tax for the benefit , e c ipYi revenue, and makes no difference in the Vi n e 9 d; But, as long as we allow that liquor should b r igh" at all, we must allow that every man has a pa d to sell it. The freer the trade becomes tile respectable will be the class of men who era L "' v e it, and more will be gained by delivering"t vie t lie f , om millionaire brewers and depenu e v rs isiol tailors than by the strictest system of suP er a ise' i that the skill of a Bench of Justices ever ' roe °I The present state of things certainly has ' l , g bi cli sa il= recommend it. If ever there was a system failed completely, it is that which now PI V' Much drunkenness among the people, Eali c liquor at the public-houses, and many bankr eP among the landlords, are its chief features.' tb a then, it neither insures wholesomeness n ct drink, temperance in the drinkers, nor resPeede bility in the dealers, it is time it were auPe rs o o o by some regulation more reasonable and promising of success.—Times. THE BANK OF PRANCE. ~. The letters from P a ri s y es t e rday assert wit ", s'olo, confidence that the Bank of France will for A tv reduce their rate of interest, which has sto od per cent. since the 26th of September last' 0 0 01 monthly return to be published on Friday is re , ' upon to show that the step has not been Poe, O turely entertained. Looking, however, to e "; sient nature of each recovery in the stock of Sfi#, during the past two years, togethcr with til f , that it was lately, after a short attempt 7.,,, dangerous to leave it to its natural course, be pression is unavoidable that if a relaxation b` t ,g decided upon the hope of producing a f ee it ease at the approaching elections must hays the primary motive. f Jihr The probability of a reduction in the rate ° ,l tt e t count by the Bank of France has sugges t " question whether, in consequence of the h arrivals of bullion, a similar course may n ot 1 3 ,,,r0 t i 5 0 cipated on this side. The latest weekly r e w-cP '0 however, do not warrant the expectation. ap t% not been for the further unfavourable move rs "o: the Chinese exchanges reported by the last °Dee.; reduction to 6 per cent. would certainly hav e ," already witnessed ; but, as out of the recen t ,' 0 1 : 4 arrivals of 2,000,000/. only about 270,000'• too found its way to the Bank, and some time r° ll ',,, f 4i elapse before further large receipts take P',; (1 t1,,, supply the constant demand, it seems unlike' 4 ,,eov; o any hasty change will be announced. At all e 4 . 043 ; 0 a short period will most probably be sid elapse to test the result of the experiment 9, l ' f be contemplated by the Bank of France. 6,° lowering of the rat e o f th a t establishmen tt° c oe i ; 5/ 1 per cent. may p ro d uce an e ff ec t u pon tliu : 0 0 nental exchan ges , suc h as t o ena bl e a redtriot't tit 6 per cent, t o b e ma d e i n L on d on , vrito ll prospect of its leading to any extra presstire, present rat e o f 6) per cen t. i s a b o ut Pg ,00 o cil?„f higher th an th a t a t an y o f the other If l r ge? European cities. At Paris the existing the Bank is 6percent., but transactions in the open market at about 54, At 10 0 . 00 lit although the rate after a temporary dech again advanced, it is still not higher than 51 0 ,' Berlin, Vienna, and Frankfort it is 5. At dam it is 4, and at Brussels 31. 'o ° a diti MADAM TDSSAIJD'S EXHIBITION.—The latest a of A to this popular exhibitiun are three allegorical vaiectrot representing Britannia, Hibernia, and Caledoni a ! l e on pedestals, and intended to add t o t he pictori floye fe,e of the group containing her Maje-ty and youthful o f tP! c , su resentrround day. ed by many of the distinguished These figures have been manufaa73 00 p ; replace similar ones of long standing', and are nni c elegant and life - like in appearance and constructio_ti t',eir predecessors. Mill anu take tore and T 11( cult dati sect liabi Con that orig alto] tour 13 4 t Ti Very Ti to tb au s p 3 F N o , Loi