The Sun. — London, England, 1857-03-31 00:00:00

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. C. Dillon. THIS EVENING, Mr. TOOLE'S FIRST BENEFIT, wil be performed THE WONDER. Mr. and Mrs. Dillon, Miss Woolgar, Mr. Stuart, Mr. Barrett, Mr. Toole. 1 OMINIQUE THE DESERTER. Mrs. B. White, Miss Wilton, Mr. Toole. GOOD FOR NOTHING. Miss Woolgar, Mr. Toole. MY FRIEND FROM LEATHERHEAD. And the Dazzling TRANSFORMATION SCENE. Ti c k e ts, &c., at the Box Office ; Keith, Prowse, and Co., 48, Cheapside; London Tavern; and Mr. Toole ; 14, Cecil street, Strand. The box-office open daily, from 11 to 5, under the super intendence of Mr. Chatterton, jun. Carriages conveying parties t. the Private Boxes to set down at the State entrance in Burleigh-street. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE THIS EVENING, will be performed Shakespere's tragedy of KING RICHARD THE SECOND. King Richard 11., Mr. C. KFan ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by MUSIC HATH CHARMS. T HEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. TRIS EVENING, to commence at Seven, A LIFE'S TRIAL. Messrs. Buckstone, Compton, Howe, W. Farren, Rogers ; Mesdames Reynolds, Poynter, Fitzwil liam, die. Followed by the new Comedy, in three acts, entitled, DOUBLE-FACED PEOPLE. Characters by Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. Compton, Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Rovers, Mr. Clark, Miss Reynolds, Mrs. Poynter, and Mrs. E. Fitz wil' iam. And LA FOLIE ET L'AMOR. T HEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed PAUL PRY. Paul Pry, Sir. Wright. Followed by a new and original domestic sketch, entitled WELCOME, LITTLE STRANGER. Mr. Wright, Mr. Faul Bedford, &c. After which, A NIGHT AT NOTTING-HILL, in which Mr. Wright and Paul Bedford will appear. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE, , Lessees. Messrs. Shepherd and Cr9swiek. THIS EVENING, BRUTUS. Brutus, Mr. Creswick. After which, THE QUIET FAMILY. To conclude with JEM, THE DODGER. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMP FIITH EATRE, Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. THIS EVENING (the last week before Easter), Shaks pere's Play of KING HENRY THE FOURTH, with Mr. Wm. Cooke's equestrian illustrations. Hotspur, Mr. James Holloway; Prince Henry, Mr. W. Cooke, jun.; Falstaff, Mr. J. W. Anson. After which, the SCENES of HORSEMANSHIP in the ARENA. To conclude with FORTUNE'S FROLIC. Commetce at seven o'clock. Dress BONDS, 4s. ; Upper Aoscs, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from 1/., no charge for booking ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, fid. Fox office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr, W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. A New Grand Military Spectacle will be produced on EASTER MONDAY. CANTERBURY HALL. Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow inc company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of 'elections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Duets, &c., : Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Bruneli, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta ; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans, H. Grover, T. Farrant, S. Jones. J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri. Senor Antonio M. de Soils, and E. L. Hime ; Masters Austin, Bennett, and Corri; Messrs. Sam Collins, E. Hackney, and C. J. Wilkins. Pianoforte. Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre ci3ely. Suppers, drc., until twelve o'clock. aIGI-1 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAT—Nforn. 26 min. aft. 5 —Fvfming 50 mia. aft. 5 :'C-Moßßow—frforn. 13 min. aft. 6—Evening 41 min.aft. 6 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 31. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 57 —highest since noon yesterday 48 lowest this morning and during the night. 55 - this day at noon. BAROVETIB, 29'23. WiNT.—Variable and light, from W. to W.S.W. It rained continuously yesterday afternoon, and up to a late hour in the evening, and from midnight till this morn ing. Now fine and cloudy. p ri t, A 'ft-4 " c yf -I; 4.1 › .„ l c:„. ay e LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 18L7 The Victims of " Voting in the Majority" are, in their number, very rapidly multiplying. Yesterday we enumerated thirty-five ! To-day, this melancholy catalogue may be increased to just exactly three over half a hundred ! Positively no less than fifty-three, who have, by reason of that one fatal vote, been shorn suddenly and in exorably of their political glory as popular repre sentatives. Exactly twenty-one are "retiring" gentlemen. Thirty-two not finding it in their hearts to yield to their inevitable fate voluntarily, and with a good grace; have gone in and—lost ! They have been defeated ignominiously. They have been rejected with scorn, as having been un faithful to their trust as Englishmen. They present on this account so great an example, so solemn a warning, so salutary a - lesson in their col lective downfall that we feel ourselves constrained ti reproduce their names seriatim. Premising while we do so, that the asterisks, wherever they appear in the lists subjoined, denote those who have suicidally tempted their own evil-fate, and, so tempting it, have been defeated ! THE REJECTED YEHITES ! *ANNESLEY, Earl of Great Grimsby. BALDOCK, E. Shrewsbury. *BELL, J Guildford. *BIGNOLD, Sir S. BUCK, Colonel Barnstaple. *ThrrT, G. *CABBELL, B. B Boston. *CHANDOS, Marquis of Buckingham. CHELSEA, Viscount *Cocas, T. S Reigate. *CoLEs, H. B. *Ditax, DUCKWORTH, Sir J. Exeter. *DUNCOMBE, Hon. W East Retford. *FOLLETT, B *Fox, W. J. *GLADSTONE, Capt. J. GORDON, Hon. A. *GRAHAM, Lord W. Grantham. *GREENE, THOMAS Lancaster. GUINNESS, R. *GWYN, HOWEL Penryn. HALFORD, Sir H South Leicestershire. HENEAGE, Geo. H. Devizes. HERBERT, Sir T. * HERVEY, Lord A. I 'llEl' WORTH, L Derby. I. LA-cox, Sir E. *LAYARD, A. H Aylesbury. LINDSAY, C o l . J. Wigan. *MACGREGOR, JAMES Sandwich. MADDOCK, Sir B. *MIALL, E. ,m unßou pi, J. P••.•• Bridport. *NORTHCOTE, Sir S. ° * OT A :t s y ' , A. J. Plymouth. *PALMER, ROUNDELL ......... PARKER, R. Preston. Southwark. Leominster. Tavist.-)ck. *PELLATT, APSLEY *PHILLIMORE, J. G. *PHILLIMORE, R. J. Wakefield. SCOBELL, Capt. J Bath. STARKIE, LE G CI t °roe. *STUART, Capt. S LITTON, J VERNON, G WA DDINGTO3T, DAVID WARNER, E. Norwich. WYNDIlA3f, General SANDARS, G. FINALLY-THE Two TELLERS *CoBbEN, R. *GIPSON, M. Exictly Fifty-three - Unfortunate:7, already cbasse?d out of that NotaOle Kij.)rity formed under the rRE SUN, LONDON, rUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 31, 1857, I auspices of the Ex-Member for the West Riding— tke Factious Combination —no, we must talk politely and not by any means call things by their right names—the " Fortuitous Concurrence." That's the correct phrase, we believe--Well, the " Fortuitous Concurrence" has drawn down upon itself a rather summary vengeance, it must be allowed. Fifty-three of its " atoms" being al ready scattered to the winds ! Among those fifty-three, we would especially direct attention to eight expelled Liberals whose names are here immediately subjoined : Mr. RICHARD COBDEN. Mr. W. J. Fox. Mr. MILNER GIBSON. Mr. AUSTIN LA YARD. Mr. EDWARD MIALL. Mr. J. P. MIIRROUGH. Mr. J. G. PHILLIMORE. Captain SCOBELL. Rejected Liberals, perverse and orotchetty Re formers, who have so often of late shown them selves to be so entirely unworthy of reliance, that they have at length provoked, by their fitful and flagrant inconsistency, the stern and deliberate condemnation of eight Liberal Constituencies. The Constituencies who have thus nobly vindi cated themselves from any participation in the blame of these same monstrous inconsistencies being no other than the following : Aylesbury. Leominster. Bath. Manchester. Bridport. Oldham. Huddersfield. Rochdale. Honour say we to those true-hearted and tho roughly English Constituencies I They have de served well of their brother electors throughout the country. They have "Put Down" some half-dozen at least of the more conspicuous of those self-sufficient crotchet-mongers who have been the Marplots during the last few sessions of the great national cause of progressive improve ment. Does any one recollect, by the way, Punch's whimsical sketch some time ago of the Ex-Member for the West Riding the Rejected of Hud dersfield—clapping an extinguisher upon his head that strange descending headpiece being inscribed, after the title of Mr. COBDEN'S own pamphlet—" What next—and next ?" That Next, Mr. COBDEN ! The actual realisation of the fancy of the cruel caricaturist ! It fits well— that Extinguisher ! To a hair—to admiration ! As naturally and inevitably in its way as the Crown of CHARLEMAGNE fitted the head of NAPO LEON the Great. Aud now that Mr. COBDEN is so well suited in that way—let us recall to mind, for a moment, what he said among other equally sagacious things in his Address to the Electors of Huddersfield. He boasted to them that ho had among the supporters of his Motion—Fox, and MIALL, and LAYARD, and PELLATT, and THOMAS BARING ! Well—Fox, and MIALL, and LAYARD, and PELLATT, and THOMAS BARING, and Mr. COBDEN himself, and his Seconder, and forty-six others besides, have all of them in rapid succes sion fallen into tin shade in consequence ! Clever —isn't it ? Wonderfully sagacious I A DANIEL —yea, a DANIEL come to judgment ! Lord PALMERSTON will no longer have any excuse for not bringing forward—not six or seven, or a dozen, measures—but such measures, be ginning with one or two of great importance, as shall show that Ministers are truly Reformers, and that nothing but the too finely-balanced state of parties has hitherto cooled their ardour. So says Lord J. RUSSELL, and he is unquestionably a high authority on such a point. With charming naiveté, he acknowledges that ho llas availed him self of that excuse and that Lord PAMERSTON has been equally willing to follow the valuable precedent thus established. It certainly does not speak very highly for the enthusiasm, or even the sincerity of either of these Noble Lords. But it forcibly illustrates the system. Nothing will be granted that can bo rejected or even postponed. The " policy of abstention," as it has been eupho niously termed, or the " do-nothing dodge," as it has been styled in more homely, but no leas ex pressive terms, is that which every Minister keeps in view. It is of comparatively trivial importance who may be placed at the head of affairs, unless he be stimulated onwards in the path of Reform. The Tadpoles and Tapers—the collective red tapary—would be astounded at any voluntary offering. To give only what is imperatively re quired—and as little of that as practicable— is the golden rule by which every official regu. lates his proceedings. It is the guiding principle of the " Ins." The " Outs" are differently cir cumstanced. They must offer something really bene ficial to the country if they desire to change their positions; but their rule is to " buy in the cheapest market," to make the smallest possible bidding that may suffice to achieve their object. It is thus that the most extensive Reforms have been the fruits of a protracted absence from office by the Whig party. It took a series of years to bring them up to the mark sea far as the modern Mag,sa Chcerta was concerned, and " Lord JOHN" occupied the Opposition benches, more than four years before he could discover the itn policy and injustice of the iniquitous bread tax. Now again, we may hope for his aid, in asmuch as he has discovered that something must be done to regain his forfeited popu larity : "Sweet are the uses of adversity.'' The Noble Lord has received a salutary although painful lesson, which will, we trust, re main permanently fixed in his mind. He has still a locus pcnitenticP, and we shall not despair of seeing him once more shaking off his cautious doubts and becoming a leader amongst Reformers. We have elsewhere given him a useful hint on the subject of " the Ballot," by which he may profit. Let him take it to heart, and if he offers something worthy of the glorious cause, and of his quondam, reputation, his backslidings may be forgiven, and he may once more be received with open arms by those whom he so long abandoned. We trust, however, that the Noble Lord may carry the general principles, so bold!y enunciated in the hour of triumph, into practical operation. We cannot, however, forget that no intim uttered " prayer 'or&" during the late war, while but few were prepared to make such extensive concessionkto Germanism Ha now declares that " he trusts to see the edifice of religious liberty perfected." Will lie press for- ward the Jews Enfranchisement Ball and the Marriages Affinity Bill in such a manner as to permit no excuse for their rejection? If any decided collision takes place, the Lords must yield. There are constitutional modes of en forcing their assent. But no attempt has hitherto been made to turn the screw, and ohtlin t'ne benefit of a little yentl6 Coercion. Ho also horws " to P.0.'3 free trade completed by the ' abolition of some obnoxious duties." But surely no ma n knows better than himself that the great desicieriltuna cannot be achieved save by the adop tionjudicious and well-regulated system of ir l et oj taxation, a stinn t 0 f t or, in oth er words, by the equit- ab he Inc ome T ax. In the begin ningof 1/43 he indicated in his capacityas Miuiste- rialLeaderof the representativobranch o f th© Legis . - lature a speedy soltitii.m of the important problem. But he permitted the well-founded expectations of the people to be frustrated, and was a consenting party to the GLADSTONE " dodge," that promised the abolition of the impost in 1860, although that abolition would be fatal to the removal of obnoxious. duties Lord JOHN RUSSELL must ponder over these matters. He has a glorious opportunity before him ; but if it be neglected or misapplied his case will be irredeemable ; he neve, can again retrieve the position from which he has fallen. There is another " fair penitent", before the country. Lard ROBERT GROSVENOR is repent ing in sackcloth and ashes the grievous mistakes committed on the Chinese question, and the at tempted legislation for the "bitter observance." Tie tries to show that he was deceived on the latter question, and promise, like a naughty child, that, if forgiven, he will not do so any more. He confessed that he should have a species of courage amounting to foolhardiness if he again sought to bring in such a bill. But he gave no pledge that he would vote against such a measure, or that his views were really changed on the point ; and he also spoke decisively against " the Ballot," which ought to be the great "Shibboleth" of the Par liamentary Reformer's Creed. We'll have none of Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR. He ought not to be the man for the Great Metropolitan County. Surely some sincere Liberal, who would allow the poor man the enjoyment of his Sabbath, might be obtained. We are well aware of the enor: l mous expenses attendant on a contest for Middle sex. But surely some one may be induced to oome forward even at the eleventh hour to rescue the county from such hands. The electors ought if necessary to purchase their own independence, and not sacrifice great principles for paltry considerations of J.L. S. D. Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR has a very long purse. He hasalso a hi,gh title, but we can discover no other qualification. TIANBURY is a suitable candidate, but we confess we cannot approve of the Coalition that has been formed, and which savours strongly of a private arrangement for the over throw of the independence of Middlesex. We noticed the other day Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S apology, by proxy, for his anti-Ballot answers. It is an unmistakeable sign of the times. Not a sign that Lord JOHN RUSSELL will endorse his brother's liberal hints and interpretations. Lord JOHN has managed too cleverly for that. He has managed to have the bill accepted by Lord C. J. F. RUSSELL, made payable at Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S —and the advocates of the Ballot will find " effects" there or not, just according to the ad vantage or disadvantage to the Noble Lord him: self of honouring the bill. Nothing is more cer tain, however, than that at this election the friends of the Ballot have most generously made large deposits with his Lordship. Without the votes of those who claim the Ballot, Lord JOHN RUSSELL would have been in the position of Mr. R LIKES CURRIE. So changed are the times, that Lord Jon N could not have been member for London without the votes which his brother did his best to procure for him. It is this fact of which the paternal Speech was the sign ; and the mind of electors on the question is of far mere consequence than the mind of a Lord, even of suck a Lord as the " fruit of the BEDFORD family." There is one of the stock arguments of professed Liberals which always rouses our indignation, and which we are ashamed of Lord JOHN RUSSELL for reproducing this time. Far better, like the Cana dian judge, have given his opinion without his reasons. The very obstinacy of a lord is more re spectable than his hypocritical arguments. Who believes for a moment that Lord JOHN RUSSELL believes in the argument we allude to ? That " the electors are but one in six or seven of the adult public, and that therefore the six or seven ought to know how the one votes." We affirm that this is pure cant—or if it be more respect able, at least but special pleading. Those who use this argument, and none more so than the new First Member for London, know that there is lite rally nothing in it. With scarcely a solitary ex ception, the one elector cares not a straw what the six non-electors think of his vote. What harm can they do him ? What bribe can they offer him ? What influence can they bring to bear upon him ? We will own that we once heard of a fifth-rate manufacturing town where the "mill-hands" threat ened nut to deal with shopkeepers who did not vote for the advocate of the -Ballot and all the other points of the Charter ; but we never heard of a single other place in which the non-electors had the smallest weight with the electors. They there fore could lose nothing by the present voters ob taining entire independence. But what we hate most of all in this detestable cant is, the pharasaical ostentation of generosity to the non-electors, covering the grossest arist i cratic selfishness. Why, if it was really wished that these tenderly-cared-for non-electors should influence the formation of the House of Commons, not give them votes to do it in a straightforward manner? The poor outcasts of the constitution are put forward, but it is those who fare sumptu ously under it that are the real objects of concern. " Do not deprive the half-dozen labourers of some honest farmers of the privilege of knowing how their master votes 1" As if the labourers ever thought or cared about it ; or as if any anti ballot lord cared a straw about the farmer's vote being public to any one but his landlord. And so the shopkeepers' poor customers, the master builders' workmen, and all other of the employed class, are paraded as those in compassion to whom the present voters may not be emancipated ! As if, again, the carriage customer, and the gentry who give their orders to the employers, were not the only parties who could influence their votes• We thoroughly believe that all the arguments against the Ballot now in vogue amongst the aristocracy are but special pleading for a foregone conclusion, but this wretched argument of the non-electors' interest is but impudent plaice pharasaistn. We repeat---if you wish to have non-electors to have influence give it them. The friends of the Ballot all wish it. Every elector who demands the Ballot will, almost to a certainty, be found demanding a large extension of the Suffrage also ; rate book suffrage at least, perhaps household or universal suffrage. The advocates of the Ballo are not th© men who resist the enfranchisetnen of their fellow citizens, fell*/ tax payers, and fellow subjects. The opponents of the Ballot are the opposite of extended suffrage also. Occasion- ally, indeed, as in Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S last Reform Bill, they may sum willing to enlarge the electoral con3',itueney, hat ex wnine their schemes, anal you invariably find that they devised a, cleverly-modalattid ext3nsicn, by which the non-electors gain little or nothing, because 01 who are or become electors will remain as exposed as before to the power of the local constituency. We see some hope, however, that Mr. BERKF LEY will have better support than ever in the new Parliament. No article of the Reformer's creed has obtained more notice, favourable notice frequently, on the hustings than the Ballot. Many have had to swallow it who evidently do not quite relish it. In other cases the candidat© felt his position the stronger because ho was pre viously known to be a friend to perfectly free voting. We do not believe any Reform Bill will excite popular enthusiasm which does not compre hend the Ballot amongst its provisions. We are equally 'confident that the people would never let the Minister fail, that they would force both Houses to accept a measure in which the Ballot was an essential feature. The Ballot, in fact, must be the essence of the next great Reform Bill. LATEST N E WS. THE INDIA MAIL. TUESDAY MORNING. We have been favoured with the following tele graphic despatch : "The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's steam ship Valetta, with the India and China mails from Alexandria, arrived at Marseilles at 7 a.m. this day, the 31st inst. "The mails were to leave for London at 10 a.m. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY EVENING. The steam-ship Kangaroo, with one day's later dates from New York than the Persia, passed Cork to-day, and is due in the Mersey about noon to biet here has already brought up its report on the Sound Dues Treaty, and bath of them unani mously recommend the House to adopt it for ratification. This will, do abt'ess, take place to morrow, as the subject is already on the list of the business for that day. Prussia will pay her quota in 40 half-yearly payments of 121,7311 thalers each (18,2601.), retaining to herself the tight at any future time that it - may be convenient to pay up the remaining instalments in advance ; the first paymentswill amount, with interest on the outstand ing balance, to aboirt 240,000 thalers each.. Small as this jhalf-yearly sum is compared to the advan tages gained to Prussia by the abolition of the Sound Dues„ the revenues of the State will not be burdened by an addition of more than.three-fifths of it, or 'about 1 t 4,000 thalers yearly, inasmuch as the State has always been in the habit of allowing its own subjects a drawback of 2i per cent. to be de ducted from all import duties in the Baltic ports, as a sort of palliation of the burden of the Sound Due 9, and has also paid on salt alone, of which it has the monopoly, on an'average of the last 11 years, 11,000 thalers a year for Sound Dues ; these two sums of 11,000 duty on salt and 85,000 drawback on import duties must therefore be first deducted from the 240,000 thalers before one can appreciate the extra burden which the redemption of the Sound dues imposes on the revenue, and that too only for 20 years. NAPLES. The Nord contains a violent article against the Morning Post, and other London journals, for hav ing published pretended letters from Naples on the cuijia di silenzio, or new instrument of torture, of which the English journal has given a woodcut, and "declares that the said letters were sent to it, but that, knowing them to be full of calumnies, it refused to publish them. • It says that the publica tion is an electoral manoeuvre on the part of the Morning Post, which is highly discreditable to it. DENMARK. A letter from Vienna, of the 26th, in the Cologne Gazette, says : "A long interview took place yes terday between Baron de Budberg, Ambassador of Russia to our Court, and Count de Buol, in re ference to t f he Danidh question. The Russian Minister rekesented the dancrer that would jbe incurred were that question submitted to the Diet, and he endeavoured to prove the advisability of settling' it in a general conference of the great Powers. Count de Buol replied that the fact of the King of Denmark being represented in the Diet removed all fears of danger. The question, it is believed here, will be certainly laid More the Diet." • SPAIN. • The Madrid journals of the 26th have reached us, but their contents are not of importance. The Emperor of Austria, says the Epoca, had conferred the insignia of the first class of the, order t og the Iron Crown on M. de la Torre Aillon, late minister of Spain at his court. The Government had de spatched to Marshal Serrano, ambassador at Paris, the leave of absence which it promised to accord him some time ago. The Government had raised the state of siege in Granada, Malaga, and Valen cia, but not either in Catalonia or Aragon. In the elections at Madrid, the progressist candidates, MM. Olozaga, Asenio, Patric() de la Escosura, General Prim, and Marquis de Perales, had been defeated by large majorities. The Moititeur contains a letter from Venice, which states that the Archduke Ferdinand Maxi milian arrived there from Trieste, on the 23d of March. He was saluted on landing, from the Fort of St. George, and subsequently reviewed the troops on the Place de St. Marc. At a later period he received the civil and military authorities, and in the evening visited the Theatre de la Fenice, which was illuminated a giorno by the municipality. On entering the Imperial box he was loudly ap- Plauded. The ex:King of Bavaria, Louis father of the reigning sovereign, left Munich on Friday for Italy. The session of the States of the Grand'Dueby o: Nassau was opened at Wiesbaden on the 26th. ROYAL VISIT TO THE HAYMA.RKET THEATRE. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince, accompanied by the Princess Royal, honoured the Hay- market Theatre with their presence last evening. The royal suite consisted of the Eon. Bea►rice Byng, the Hon. Emily Cathcart, the Earl of Caithness, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Captain the Hon. 1). de Ros. ADELPIII THEATRE. Last night, a capital farce, from the pen of Mr. Mark Lemon, entitled " Welcome Little Stranger," was per formed for the first time, and met with immense success. The fun centres in the person of Mr. Wright, on whom a thousand troubles devolve, by reason of the event that made him father of the finest boy in England. Driven from his own room, he takes refuge in the coal hole, from which he emerges only to discharge a series of the most harassing and humiliating duties. He airs the baby-clothes —makes gruel, of which it may with truth be averred that its quality, like that of mercy, is not "strained"—runs about on all manner of messages, and endures such bitter reproaches from his motker-in•law (Mrs. Chatter lsy) and his needy friend (Mr. Bedford), that, to use his own ridiculous expression, he feels as uncomfortable as if he were clothed in "a suit of sticking plaster." His sufferings evoke shouts of laughter from the stony hearted audience, but prove the excellence or ms own suggestion, that some benevolent persons ought to insti tute a home for the reception of husbands " during the occurrence of interesting even tr." Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, and Prince Edwa . rd of Saxe- Weimar, visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent on Sunday. Her Serene Highness the Princess Amelie of Hoban lohe-Schillingfurst left the residence of her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent, Clarence House, yesterday morning, for the Continent. His Ex3elleney the Ambassador of France and the Countess de Persigny entertained at dinner last evening, at Albert-gate House, his Excellency the Spanish Mi nister, M. and Madame Comyn, the Countess of Sefton and Lady Cecilia Molyneux, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, the Earl and Countess Stanhope, Viscount Chelsea, Frances Countess of Waldegrave and Mr. Harcourt, Baron and Baroness Lionel de Rothschild anci Miss do Rothschild, Lady Moles worth, &c. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ely will leave Nice in a few days, en route for England. The Earl and Countess of Effingham, and family are expected in town iu a few days, from the Grange, York shire, for the season. The Earl of Burlington and Lady Louisa Cavendish are staying at Holkar House, Lancashire. Lord and Lady Boston arrived in town a few days since from Hedsor Lodge, Maidenhead. His lordship has taken a mansion in Belgrave-squara. Lord and Lady Lilford are staying at Lilford-park, and will not return to town until after Easter. Lady Graham is much better, but not yet able to leave her house. Lady John Somerset is at present visiting her son, the Hon. Alfred Plantagenet Somerset, at his seat in Hert fordshire. Viscount Eversley has bought a mansion in Eaton place, late the residence of Lord Stafford. Viscount and Viscountess Melgund left town a few days since for Scotland. The Dowager Lady Truro left town on Saturday for Brighton. Sir Augustus and Lady Elizabeth Clifford and family left town a few days since for the Isle of Wight. Sir Roger and Miss Palmer are expected to arrive in Portland-place to-day from Cefn Park, North Wales, to remain a short time, en route to Paris. 100,0001. in bar gold was taken from the Bank yester day for the continent. Tne Queensberry has arrived from Foo-chow-foo, with 813,4001b5. of tea on freight. The French advices state that the 2d April has been fixed for the opening throughout of the line of the Southern of France Railway Company. On the hustings yesterday at Guildhall was M. Alex- andre Dumas, accompanied by M. Delille, of the City of London School, and other foreigners. At the fourth acnual meeting of the London printin g and Publishin g Company; held on the 27th inst., a divi dend at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum nee-le - declared. Weare authorised to eontradict the report which has appeared in the Standard that the Right Hon. Henry Fitzroy has declined to offer himself as a candidate for the Speakership in the next Parliament. —Times. The newly-formed Lender), Harwich, and Continental Steam Packet Company announce that their steamers will commence running between Harwich and Rotterdam on the 25th April. It is said that Mr. Alderman Wire has joined the direction of the Western Bank of London. Mr. Roe buck, M.P., has been recently appointed chairman of this bank, in the room of Sir E. B. Lytton. MACBRIDE SCHOLARSHlP.—OXLoaßgDd,alMenarlichal34o.FateMori was this day elected t o th e E H r . e A nt r w th o u o r d D G i r l a lo tn a m S ar ur B r c id h g o e oi, of Macbride Scholarship. THE NEW TEA DUTY.---On Monday next the new tea duty will take effect by the act of last session for the then current year. The duly imposed is le. sd. in the pound. THE PRINCIPALITIES.—TeIegraphic accounts received at Vienna on March 26, state that an order of the day issued at Jassy by Colonel 4kiletti, commander-in-chief of the Moldavian troops, deeares that at the date of the 25th not a single Austrian soldier remained in Moldavia. An Egyptian mummy is advertised to be sold by auc tion at Southampton on Friday next. It is at present lying amongst other unclaimed articles at the Southamp ton Docks, having been detained to defray certain dock charges to which they are liable. At the meeting of the Turkish Gas Company yester day it.was mentioned that out of a deposit of 2s. 6d. per share, about ls. per share has been spent in preliminary expenses, leaving 5,5001. in favour of the company. It was also stated that negotiations are to be renewed by the directors with a view to obtaining a concession from the Government of Turkey. THE POOR LAW IN MARYLEBONE AND ST. PANCRAS. —Yesterday a return was published in the form of a bulky blue book of correspondence between the poor Law Board and the local authorities of St. Pancras and St. Marylebone in relation to the administration of the Poor Law, from the date of January, 1856. It occupies a space of nearly 200 pages. THE CANADIAN RAILWAY ACCIDENT. —LIVERPOOL, Morujay.—The following letter was posted to-day in the Exchange News-room :—"Penwick Chambers, March 30.—The report in the Albin of this day, that [saac Buchanan, Esq., was amongst the killed in the Cana dian railway acsi lent, is quite unfounded, as letters of a subsequent date have been received by Messrs. Bucha nan, Harris, and Co." The Austrian troops, in their forced march out of the Danubian Principalities at th 8 early time of the year, had sev ere difficulti es to contend with. The Gazette of Cron (Transylvania) says that the soldiers and officers had to walk through water up to their breasts in cross ing the swoollen streams and ditches of Upper Wal lachia ; many of the men lost their arras and shakos, but none are mentioned as having perished. LYCEUM THEATRE.—Mr. J. •L. Toole, who has achieved for himself much distinction as a comedian, and who also enjoys hereditary renown as the yenngest son of the once celebrated toastmaster, takes his benefit this evening, when he will appear in no fewer than four different characters. It is to be Loped that a brimming house will reward the exsrtions of so meritorious a performer. FIRE IN THE CITY.—A fire involving great destruc tion of property happened during ,Sunday night in the extensive range of premises belonging to Mr. R. Jenkins. proprietor of the Girdlers' Arms tavern, situated in Sherborne-lane, Cannon-street, City. Fortunately a good supply of the New River Company's water was procured, with which the engines were called into opera tion. By conveying the hoed of the engines up the various staircases, the men were enabled to attack the fire at the right quarters, but nevertheless the adjoining houeea on either side continued to blaze with the greatest vehemence, and many hours passed away before the con flagration could be subdued, whie4 was not effected until property roughly estimated at several thousand pounds sterling had been reduced to ashes. As to the origin of the misfortune nothing that cotld be depended upon, soul I ha ascertained, owing to the whole of the inmates being from home when the outbr4ak commenced. The official report of the damage done states that the Gird lers' Arms tavern is burnt down, and the contents de' stroyed, ineludieg furniture, fixtures, and stock in trade insurance unknown. No. 17, litto, Mr. J. Griggs, billiard-room proprietor, premia3s, &c., partially de stroyed ; insured in the London office. No. 15, ditto, ground floor, similar damage ; kisurance unknown at present. Ditto, G. Osborne, err,raver ; building very neriously injured by fire and water; insurance unknown. Nc. 18, ditto, W. Tman, bonkfir,der ; two top floors LIM nt out, greater part of roof riff, and rest of house damaged by fire and water ; insurance not known. Ditto, W. Ford, tailor, similar damage ; insured in the Church of England insurance-offica. No. 4 (opposite), G. Edwards, let out in offices ; font of building exten sively damaged by heat, &c. ; insurance not known. No. 5, J. Riddle, patent agent, )remises and contents similarly injured ; insurance not known. No. 11, A,b church-lane, Messrs. Blades, printers, windows of the second and third floor burnt out, tnd roof and contents damaged by fire, &c. • insured the Guardian-office. No. 1% ditto, 111i;s4rs.:Sorr and C)., solicitors, premises . . , and contents damaged by fire aid water, The police, under Inspectors Mitchell, Sheiford, and Howard, rendered great assistance to the firemen by keeping a dense crowd out of danger. morrow. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY MORNING. The Cunard Company's screw-steamer Emeu, which was to sail from New York on the 19th, the day after the Persia, is reported off Holyhead this morning. It is said that the intervention of the British and French Governments for the arrangement of the existing differences between the Austrian and Sar dinian Governments has been favourably received, and it is hoped that diplomatic relations will be re stored sooner than expected. The negotiations for the conclusion of a treaty of commerce between the French and Russian Govern ments are concluded, and the treaty will soon be reduced to writing. M. Baudln, First Sueretary to the French Embassy at St. Petersburg, is ap pointed to conduct the negotiations. Intelligence of the 23d from Corstaritinople announces that the Grand Vizier had made a communication to the various Legations to the effect that he would expel, and confiscate the property of, all Mussulman subjects who should refuse the payment of military subsidies under pretence of being under foreign protection. The Russians are concentrating considerable forces in Ekaterinodar and Anapa. The successes of the Circassians are confirmed. Mehemet Bey is taking energetic measures to repel an attack by the Russians, which is thought imminent. The latest despatches from Athens mention that the Senate had refused to hold any sittings tilt the Ministry should have apologised to them. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY MORNING. The departure of the Marquis di Cantono, the Sardinian Minister, from Vienna has not yet been officially announced here; nevertheless it is gene rally believed to have taken place. The Conference on the Neuchatel question was to have met to-day, but did not, the Swiss Plenipo tentiary not being yet prepared with a categorical answer to the propositions of M. de Hatzfeld. Captain Roussin, commander of the steam sloop Averne, who is appointed to pr ocee d to t h e mouths of the anube to be stationed there, has been sum moned to Paris to receive special instructions from the Government. The Averne is at Toulon, under going repairs. It laas been decided that Admiral Hamelin, Mi nister of Marine, accompanied by the French Board of Admiralty, will proceed to Toulon, to receive the Grand Duke Constantine, who will proceed to England after having visited France. The Moniteur publishes a decree granting the military medal to 183 non-commissioned officers and privates of different regiments, all of whom have either lost limbs or been severely wounded during the late war. Fer - ukk Khan is expected in a few days back in Paris from London. When he shall have received from the court of Teheran the ratifi cation of the treaty which has just been COE chided between Persia and England, he will return to London accompanied by all the members of his legation. It is said that he will terminate in that capital the negotiations entered into with different powers for commercial treaties with Persia, and will embark in September to return to his own country. The surprising defeat sustained by the Man chester party in England is thus briefly commented on by the Presse:— "The English elections are going on with rapidity, and we are already acquainted with a third of the re sults. They prove to be both a victory of the Lliberal party over the Conservative party, and a personal triumph of Lord Palmerston. The personal suc cess of Lord Palmerston consists above all in the check sustained by some of his most re markable and most meritorious adversaries. If Glad, stone and Roebuck have been reelected, Cobden, Bright Gibson, and Layard have lost their seats. The defeat of the Manchester school is a deplorable triumph of party spirit ' .'but popularity is easily rec onquere d , and Cobden and Bright will doubtless not long remain exiled from Parliament." The Union offers the following remarks on the re-election of Lord Palmerston : "No doubt was ever entertained with regard to the re-election of Lord Palmerston at Tiverton ; we have therefore simply to announce the success of the noble lord. We will not dwell on the speech he delivered to the electors, for we prefer the address published by him a few days ago, which was clearer and more satisfactory. ue sentence has, however, excited our attention ; it is where the Premier declares ' that the commercial intercourse of England with foreign States shall be as free in regard to tariffs as the laws, &c., of those countries may permit.' This passage deserves to be recorded, for it comprises the whole policy of England." BOURSE, March 30.—The following were the last quotations : - Cash. fr. c. 44 per Cents - - 92 20 -- - End of Month. —fr. — O . 70 50 3per Cents _ 70 30 New Loan — Bank Shares 4,150 Roman ............ .... Credit Mobilier 1,455 Austrian Belgian Fives lOl Spanish ThreeS Piedmontese (5) 9O 50 Home Debt • RAILWAYS—FOR CAST. -, Orleans , Northern) 1,037 5J Strasburg Lyons 1,550 Now Ditto Mediterranean 2,097 50 Grand Central Lyons Geneva Midi RUSSIA. The latest advices from St. Petersburg state that investigations have been instituted in several departments of the service in consequence of the statements made by Sir R. Peel in his speech ne ar Birmingham. The result has been, it is said, t o prove the entire innocence of the persons incruni_ nated by Sir Robert. The friends of peace in Russia express great, satisfaction at the conclusion of the treaty between England and Persia. At the moment when the Emperor received the intelligence, Prince God s _ chakoff happened to be with him, and received the nei vs from the Emperor's mouth. The latter exclaim ed in conclusion, " A la bonne heure ; j' en sus tres content. Dites le ct 111. Wodeho use. " The Prince repaired immediately to our Minister, and, a.liter conc , ratulating hifr, invited him to a grand entertainment to be given in honour of the occasion. The entertainment accordingly took place in the, Hotel of Foreign Affairs on a very splendid scale, and was attended by nearly every embassy , with ti leir entire personnel. The Inv a lid s , N orthern Bee, a;tsd the Journal of the Academy express their satisfaotion also at the peace, though the former scorns dissatisfied that England should obtain any advantages by it. PRUSSIA. BEnnsq, March 29.---From the Royal proposi tion that was laid before the Four Estates of Sweden on the 20th instant, we learn what al lowance has been made by Denmark to Sweden for the expenses of keeping up the light bea c o ns along the Sw e di s h coast for the better security of the navigation in the Cattegat and Sound. From the , whole quota of 1,590,503 Danish Reichsbank-thalers that falls to the lot of Sweden and Norway to contribute, the sum of 311,307 Rbk. thalers is to be deducted for this purpose, leavitt 1,279,196 to be paid in 40 half-yearly pay ments, the balance unpaid continuing to bear in terest at four per cent. The Government has called upon the General Council to use all despatch in its deliberations, so that, if possible, the treaty may be ratified by April 1. The amount to be paid to Denmark is to be supplied out of the Com merce and Navigation Fund. The commission appointed in each House of the TEE RECEPTION OF THE ARCHDUKE MAXIMILIAN IN VENICE. Intelligence has been received froth Venice which entirely confirms a rumour which was made yester day. At half-past four on the 23d instant the Archduke Governor-General arrived at Venice, where he was coolly received. One reason why but few persons were assembled to receive his Imperial Highness was, that the higher classes at Venice were at dinner when he arrived ; and another, that the 23d was the anniversary of the battle of Novara. Early in the morning of the 24th there was little or no wind, and consequently the Austrian standard, which is at the top of the immense mast that is planted on the Place of St. Mark, hung listlessly down, but as the atm got higher the wind freshened and the flag began to wave majestically to and fro. Gradually a crowd assembles in the Place of St. Mark, and stares with might and main a t some thing which i s fluttering just above the Imperial standard. What is the object that attracts such at tention, and induces the Venetian badauds to bid defiance to rain and wind I It is the Italian tricolor; which has been attached to the upper part of the Austrian standard during the night. When the authorities arrived on 'the spot, and orders were given to lower the flag they ,could not be imme diately execut e d, because the halliards had been removed. During the night between the 23d and 24th three tricolors were hoisted ; one was on the Place of St. Mark, another on the flag-staff which is in the arsenal, and a r third was affixed to the top of a sentry-box. The Austrian authorities seem to attach but little importance to the demon stration which has just been made at Venice, and a military man who has recently arrived from the Loriabarclo7Yenetian kingdomassiareante that "such tricks are very frequently played in There are persons who suspect the police or the military authorities of having hoisted the revolutionary flag in order to serve some particular purpose, but those who best know the Italians are least inclined to doubt that they were the authors of the insult which was offered to the Austrian standard. There was the usual official illumination of the Place of St Mark in the evening of the 23d. In a fortnight or three weeks the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian will remove from Venice to Milan. It. is very generally related that the Austrian Govern ment has resolved to defer the destruction of the railroad between Milan and the Austrian frontier near Novara, but it is difficult to believe that the ruler over 39,000,000 of souls can intend to take such a petty revenge. Austria justly considers her self one of t'•e first of European Powers, but unfor tunately for her own reputation she sometimes acts as if she were one of the last. After granting a general amnesty and abolishing her vexatious and most injudicious passport system, Aus tria cannot afford to spite Sardinia by refusing to complete the line of railroad to the fron tier. There have been several Cabinet Councils held hero lately, and it is believed Hun garian 'mattersioave been discussed at more than one of them. - A person who is capable of giving correct information on such a delicate subject as sures me that the Emperor has declared that no "principiel" changes can be made in the organiza tion of Hungary. In a word, the unity of the Em pire will be strictly maintained, but everything will be done to improve the administration of the diffe rent Crown lands, and to satisfy th e " l eg t imate " wisheS- of the inhabitants. The Credit Bank has established a branch bank at Pesth, and will ad vance money at five per cent, on the produce of the soil.—Times Vienn'a Correspondent. M. George Petrovich, the President of the Senate of Montenegro, is at Berlin, and it is said that he has come t 3 complain of the conduct of his nephew, Prince Daniel. The order given by the Porte to the Kaimakans to emancipate the press in the Danubian Principalities has greatly alarmed the Austrians, who seem to fancy.that Moldavia and Wallachia will soon be as troublesome to them as Sardinia. A great number of the large trees in the Champs Elyt.des are undergoing the process of being stripped of their rough outer bark to a height of 20 feet and upwards, with a view of destroying the worms that are bred and harboured in the interstices of the bark, and which, by piercing the trees with innumerable boles, prevent the sap from rising, and cause their premature decay. MEXICO.—The United States Senate has.refupfd to ratify the praposed treaties between the United Sta es and Mexico, • which were migned by Mr. Forsyth, the American Minister at Mex:co, on the 11th of February. These treaties were five in number, depending one on the other, and the whole combining an arrangement., the object of which was to extract Mexico from its financial embarrassments, to bring a commercial fleet to its coasts, and upon its frontiers a crowd of emigrants, who would ir, a few years give new life and activity to the maritime and internal commerce of that reput lic. THE BELGIAN TROOPS AT WATERLOO.—Au interest ing ceremony took place at Brusstls on Tuesday. A committee of patriotic Belgians, including M. Van &floor, a member of the Senate, and several mem. bers of the Chamber of Representatives, waited upon Gen. Eduard, and presented him with a sword of honour, in acknowledgment of the service which he has rendered his country by refuting, in a series of letters in the lndepoidance Beige, the accusations brought by certain foreign historians against the conduct of the Belgian troops at the battle of Waterloo. The get.eral,remarked that there was really no foundation for that calumny, which only originated in a half-jestiag allusion d in be a en n obscure English contemporary pamphlet, and had incautiously adopted by later authors.—[Fudge.) CITY MANAGEMENT OP BUSINESS. The "Administrative Reform Association" seem to have destroyed the capability of the citizens for managing public businc se. At least, if the conduct of both the City Committees on Saturday last is to be taken as a specimen of management, there never was a time when " Reform" at home was more needed. Every one who has hai to do with elections knows the importanc e of keeping a correct account of the poll. Without tbiQ, the electors can never tell the practical effect of their votes. Errors of units must always occur ; but any good election manager knows how to keep within a few votes of the truth. *Bearing this in mind, let our readers examine with astonishment the following facts : On Saturday afternoon, tbe Liberal Associat'on r the four candidates put forth the final state of the poll : Rot', sebild 7,134 Duke ... ... ... 7,560 Crawford 6,440 Currie 5,016 Russell ... ... ••• 7,046 And on the same afternoon, Lord John Russell's Committee published the following statement :-- Rothschild 7,236 Duke 7,086 Crawford ... 6,088 Currie ... ... ... 4,772 Russell 7,425 Now, just six-and-thirty hours after, the sheriffs made their appearance on the hustings, and made their official declaration of the real ntunbers, as follow : Sir J. Duke ... ... 6 664 • Baron Rothschild ... 6,398 Lord John Raisell ... 6,308 Mr. Crawford ... ... 6,808 Mr. Raikes Carrie ... 4,519 So that the secretary of the reform committee was out by 736 in the votes polled for Baron Rothschild ; and the secretary to Lord John Rus sell's committee was wrong by 838, in the votes polled by the same candidate. Now, this sort of thing makes the publication of the poll a mere farce. It would 139 as useful, and save the trouble and expense of 'check clerks, to publish the poll by guess, or probable estimate. As - fte thing now stands, the City of London is made a laughing-stock to all the other constituen cies in the empire !—Morning Advertiser. CITY OP LONDOI' ELECTION. So, then, it is just as w e su ppos e d w ith regar d to the City of London. Sir James Duke not only bravely and brilliantly heads the poll, but heads it by several hundreds above both Baron Rothschild and Lord John Russell. The numbers, as offi cially declared yesterday, stood thus for the-respec tive candidates : Sir James Duke, Bart. ... 6,664 Baron Lionel Rothschild ... 6,398 Lord John Russell 6,308 Mr. Crawford 5.808 Mr. Raikes Currie 4,519 The friends of Lord John Russell who, towards the close of last week, were talking so confidently and boastingly of heading the,poll by several thou sands, must now look exceedingly small. There is an end to their chuckle. His victory, as we remarked yesterday, is worse than a defeat. Con sidering the agencies by which the noble Lord's election was achieved, he must regard it as a grievous disaster, instead of the brilliant triumph which his friends predicted for him. But not only must the noble Lord feel intensely mortified at the position which he occupies on the poll, considering the unnatural combination of politicians by whose votes he was returned—he must no less be humiliated when he finds that what we stated. yesterday, respecting a most disgraceful trick having been resorted to by his committee to obtain for him an advantage by deceiving the elee tois, is unhappily too true. It is now proved by the official declaration made yesterday, that his committee, early on Saturday morning, clapped on 500 votes to the return list, which were never given. Of course, the noble lord is not responsible for this. On the contrary, no one could feel more iudignant.at the unworthy expedient than he must do ; but he must, nevertheless, be deeply hunii- Rated at the thought that he owes a single vote to so profligate a device. Morning Advertiser. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.---(This Day.) LONDON, March 3l.—Wind this day at noon, N.W. moderate breeze and cloudy weather. FALmourn, March 30.—Wind, fresh gales—Arrived Maurant, from London, for Jamaica; Earl• Grey, Bahia, for Liverpool. GLOUCESTER, March 29.—Arrived—Ranid, from Ibralia. CARDIFF, March 30.—Wind W. N. Ni.—Arrived—as melia, and Saga, from Algiers. Sailed—Colombo, for Callao • Chene, Havana ; Columbi a , S avanna h ; A von , Rio janeiro Okeanos, Messina ; Odin, Carthagena ; Highland Light, New York ; Jonina, Malta. HULL, March 30.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—St e ll a , from Alexandria; QUEENSTOWN, March 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Bon. nie Dundee, from Mauritius, for Liverpool; Belle, Paraiba. OFF QUEENSTOWN, Mar c h 30.—Arrived—Kangaroo, (s.s.), from New York, for Liverpool. TORBAY, March 30.—Wind W.—Arrived—Oscar y Ri 4 cardo, from Bergen, for Barcelona. LIVERPOOL, March .30.—A conducter left the City . of Mexico on the 23d Feb. for Vera Cruz with 2,300,000 dole. the waggons being heavily laden, it is doubtful if it can reach Vera Cruz in time for the steamer of the 4th of March, the export duty on silver coin in Mexico will be 'raised from the present rate of 3i to to 6 on the 20th May next. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning. Wind W. ; occasional showers of rain. ' Arrived—Othello, Laura, and Ocean, from Cardiff. Sailed—Jasper, for Cardiff; North Briton, for Quebec; La Poule, for Cherbourg. LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning. Wind N.W. Arrived—Caroline, from Alexandria ; Mary and An), Sicily; Sterlin g , Taganrog; Kumagond a , S ev ill e; M a ria Catharina, Sarab, and Mary, Caen ; Heinrich and Edward. Hamburg ; Gefion, Bremen. Staled:L. - Diana, for Newfoundland ; Tartar, Bombay : Alexander, Quebec; Eleanor, St. John's, N.B. ; Cleopa tra, Bordeau x ; L. L. Tilley, Hallax ; Italian, serer/ steamer, Havre. QUEENSTOWN, March 29. Wind S.W Arrived—Belle, from Paraiba; Bonnie Dundee, Manzi.. bins ; Margaret, Odessa. (BY 817BMABINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 10 S.M. Wind S.W. • last hour's ebb ; cloudy. ' Arrived—Nile, from Singapore; Serpent, St. Michael's; Laurence, Antwerp. Sailed—City of Hamilton, for Montreal ; Walter Scott, Port Phillip; Per s i a , Gee long; Rhine (e.), Boulogne ; William Crow, Quebec. DEAL, Tuesday, 9.55 a.m. withfrom L rain an . elly John Anderson, Trinidad ; Orient, ship, Adelaide--all for London ' • Bien- PWasinsedd— S.W., r b o r n ig g : helm, from Manilla, for Lond on , reports, Fe b . 4, having spoke Collingsbnrg, from Shanghai, out 79 days • aad Jentoo, from Liverp oo l t o Ad elaide, on the line, 21'W. Anchored March 30—Wynyord, from Marseilles, .for Dunkirk, and not from north to westward, as reported. Anchored—Mary Blair, from Ibrail, for Dunkirk. Put back—Vermont, for Boston; Wye, Illogadg ; In trepid, Simon's Bay, with loss of jibboom. THE HOUSEHOLD TROOPS.—On Wednesday next the following annual change of quarters will take place : The Ist Regiment of Life Guards, under the command of Colonel Parker, will leave the Spittal Barracks, -Windsor, for Regent's park Barracks, London. The 2d Regiment of Life Guards, under the _ command of Colonel Williams, will leave Regent' s -pa r k B arrac k s f o r Knightsbridge Barracks, and the Royal Horse Guards (Blue) will leave the Knightsbridge Barracks for the Spittal Barracks, Windsor. BRUTAL MURDER.—A letter, dated Clonmel, Thurs. day, states that a dreadful murder was committed on the - previous night between the Junction and Limerick. The name of the deceased bad not transpired, but it appears that the body, after being frightfully m utilated, was placed across a the rails, in an ti c ip a tion of tile next t ra i n passing, over it ; fortunately, the eng!tte-d river observed the body, and, having stopped the train before itreached it, descended and found that life was quite extinct. No other particulars are as yet k n own. POLICE CRUSADE AGAINeT B ETT ING - Hotissa....j a mes William Hitchins Dabiel Causdell, Rich ar d B a k er , George Ching, an d William Coles were ch arge d at Marl borough police-court, to -da y , with being fou n d i n P. iB be l t a t s i t ng n betting-office, Ht, e e a , n N u son C divisio n , said about a quarter past .2, Rupert•street, St. J ames ' s. Super intendentin consequence of a warrant signed by Sir Richard Mayne, the Chief Commissioner of Police, he entered the shop of No. 2, Rupert-street, St. James's, where he found the whole of the defendants. Hitchine was standing at the door of an inner room, and Camden w as near a desk. %tenant described the appearance of theoffice,e o f that he found b e tti ng car d s re f err i ng to so principal rac es , a l so a rac i ng ca l en d ar an d m stating the book of handicaps for 1857. Mr. Bead on sa id h e h a d no doubt th a t Ititchins and Causdell were the ostensible parties c arrying on the betting-office, and be should fine -ifitc hinte2ol or two months' imprisonment, and Cau -1 dell 101. or one month. Baker, Ching, Coles, and King were discharged. EPPEcT or A LOOSE MARRIAGE LAW.—We read in an American paper that a Mils Duncan, accompanied by a friend from Cincinnati, met her divorced husband in Louisville, Ky., on the 20th ult., and, after forcing bim to retract alleged slanders relative to her character, cow hided him publicly. The affair created considerable ex citement. SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY OP IRELAND. —The half 'yearly meeting was held at Dublin on Saturday. The re port stated that by the satis'actory working arrangements made with the Great Southern and Western Company, the board were enabled to propose a 34 per" cent. div. The works on the Bagenalstown and Wexford line are pro gressing in a satisfactory manner, and it is expected that the first division to Bortis will be opened for traffic in the course of the present year: There was a balance of 4,812/. on the capital account. The report was adopted, and dividend declared.