The Sun. — London, England, 1857-04-28 00:00:00

THE Mii.ROU.T.3 o NOILITANBY AND THE' iRENCH _RE - VOLUTION. • The _Nord of Brussels publish-s the following letter from the Marc ' u's of .Normanby, Engiis mi nister at Florence, but the date of it is not given : " Sir —I have i..ceivecl this morning your jour nal of the 11th. Ido not disputetliat. a journalist is always free to apprecia'ethe opin7ons of a public man, but I do not adroit that he has the right to impute to him controverted facts. In an article containing a pretended tremeir ef Lord Palmer ston, there is-a question of me, in connection with the revolution of 1843. 1 will confine myself here to denying each precise • allegation. I was never in open (or secret) connivance with the men who conspired againSt the government of Louis Phil lippe. Never did I receive at my house 'the leaders of the movement, or the journalists who professed republican opinions.' - Your correspon dent adds, c Lord Normanby was seed to frequent with remarkable familiarity these ministers of chance.' The fact is that, being then only at Paris non-officially, I never visited those gentle men, whom I did not know personally. It was never necessary for me to address a word to a sin gle member of tie Provisional Government, with the exception of M. Lamartine, minister of foreign affairs, with whom naturally I maintained daily re lations. No one ever saw me present at 'the filing off of the corporations of workmen, going, about 200,000 in number, and headed by flags, to signify their will to the indescribable government (cepou- Toir :tans nom) which sat at the Hotel de Ville.' It is therefore unnecessary to add that the assertion that 'this spectacle appeared to enchant him' is a pure invention. On the whole, there is not a word of truth in what concerns me in the article. It is true that I foresaw, to my great regret, the probability of the revolution, and when it had broken out, I did my best, within the limits of my duty and my powers, to diminish the sad conse quences of it. I beg of you, sir, in a spirit of fair ness, to give the same publicity to this letter that you have given to the anonymous accusations of a writer who meditates a reproduction of his article, since he reserves to himself the right of translating it.—Accept, sir, &0., Nava'. and Illittary Intemgenue. A later from Malta, dated April 23d, says : "Admiral Lord Lyons, who by the hst accounts had left Smyrna for Syra, Alexandria, and Malta, was expected in the Royal Albert, to meet which vessel the Centurion, Conqueror, and Brunswick left Valetta harbour on the 11th, under orders n:•t to extend their cruise beyond 15 leagues to the eastward of Malta. On the n;ght of the 13th they stood close in, and after midnight exercised great guns, and they have sighted the town almost daily ever since. " The British squadron which left Constanti nople on the 29th March arrived at Smyrna on the 3d April. On the Royal Albert coming in sight the English residents assembled in large numbers at the British and Smyrna Club, and an immense crowd collected on the wharves to welcome the gallant ad miral. On his approach the frigate Pomone, carrying the French admrql's flag, fired the usual salute, and the sailors of the French ships in port manned the yards and cheered. Salutes were also exchanged by the Royal Albert with the Turkish brig on the station. Rear-Admiral Count' Bonet Willaumez repaired on board to compliment Lord Lyons, as did &so the Caimacan of Smyrna 'through his aide _ _ de-camp. On the 4th and bill many of the foreign consuls and English residents visited the admiral. The squadron took its departure with the same en thusiastic demonstrations which marked its arrival. " Her Majesty's steamer Caradoc left for Mar seilles on the 12th to embark for Alexandria, on THE ANITRICAN MISSION To CHINA. (From the New York Times.) The intima . ions contained in our leading article yesterday concerning the intentions of our Govern ment in regard to China are fully confirmed by our intelligence from Washington this morning. The President has determined upon sending a special Minister Pleniputentiary to China, accompanied by a suitable naval force, and has appointed Will;am B. Reed, of Philadelphia, to that important and responsible post. Mr. Reed is well known through out the country as a gentleman of marked ability, an eminent lawyer, and for many years a promi nent and active politician. Until the late election he had been a leading member of the Whig party in Pennsylvania, but he was one of those who, in duced partly by their personal regard for Mr. Buchanan, and partly by their a!prehensions of danger from the alleged sectionalism of the Repub lican movement, transferred their support to the Democratic candidate for the Presidency. They contributed largely to the result, and Mr. Buchanan discharges a political debt, as well as pays a giace ful tribute to a personal friend by the appointment of Mr Reed to this 11113'1013. the way . to China, Lord Elgin, the'Euvoy to the Court of the Celestial Empire. " All the disposable vessels of the Mediterranean squadron are on their way to England, the gun boats having first landed their heavy armament to strengthen the fortifications. " The Lynx screw steam gun-boat left for Gib raltar and England on the 14th, followed next day by the steam-trigat e Malacch. " The Gladiator steam frigate, which arrived from Ss ra on the 14th, left for England on the 18th. " Her Majesty's screw steam• gunboats Snake and Wrangler arrived from the Piraeus on the 11th, and on the 18th the latter left for England. " The Osprey and Wanderer steam gunboats are to remain out at Malta, to keep up a constant com munication with Sicily and Naples. " The Swallow screw steamsloop has been ordered to Corfu. 4 ' NORMANBY." The appointment strikes us as judicious. Mr. Reed is eminently Corrervative in all his senti ments and sympathies, and is one of the last men in the country who would be likely to enter upon such duties in a spirit of reckless disregard of the rights of other nations or or the requiremmts of public law. At the same time he cannot fail to ap preciate the importance of the mission which he is to fill, and we are confident he will discharge his duties in a spirit of enlarged statesmanship, and with a view to the interests of civilisation through out the world. Mr. Reed will, as a matter of COUrBO, be pro vided with very full and explicit instructions for the guidance of his official conduct. That they will en join upon him the most careful abstinence from everything which can involve us in causeless war with China, or entangle us in the qiurrels and aims of European Powers, it is safe to assume. At the same time, we take it for wanted he would not be sent to China if it were not expected that he will have something to do. It is known that England and France have resolved to make an effort to secure for themselves the right of being represented by Ministers resident at the Imperial Coat t. There are abundant reasons why this request, so reasonable in itself and so thoroughly in conformity with public usage and public law, should be conceded. We trust that Mr. Reed will be instructed to urge the desire of the United States, that the application should be granted, and that an American Minister should also have the right of residence at Pekin. We do not expect much in the way of concession from the secluded and complacent Monarch who rules the destinies of the Central Flowery King dom ; but it is quite possible that evou he may un derstand the propriety and policy of conceding a demand so just in itself when wiruest ly Tressed by the three great Powers of the Christian world. Our trade with China is already large, and is cer tain to increase. It is carried on at great disadvan- I age—bycot; cessions to, and under regulations from, the Chinese authorities, which are as humiliating as theyare embarrassing, and without any of the safe guards which rec')gnised international law throws around the commerce of the civilised world. If it is to be continued it should bs pat upon a more just and equitable footing. And we hope the result of Mr. Reed's mission may be to secure for it a degree of protection suited to its importance and to the spirit of the age. 2•HE GRAND DUKE COL STANTINEAT TOULON. The following letter from Totion of the 24th gives an account of the furtber proceedings of the Grand Duke Constantine : " The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam packets }'era and Euxine arrived on the 9th • from Alexandria. The Euxine left for Marseilles on the same morning. " The Vects steamer arrived from Marseilles with the overland London mails of the 10th, on the 15th. " The Colombo returned on the 22d, in the morn ing, bringing a telegraphic despatch from Suez, an nouncing the arrival there of the European steamer from Australia, with the mail, but no tidings what ever of the missing Oneida. The Colombo left for Southampton on the afternoon of the,22d. " The Cambria arrived from Marseilles on the " The representation given on Thursday evening at the theatre in honour of the Prince was ex tremely brilliant. The house is rather a barn than a theatre, but by, dint of flags and other ornamen tations, it was transformed into something really handsome inside. The amphitheatre was arranged with fauteuils for the Prince and his snits, and the other persons who accompanied him. His Impe rial Highness reached the theatre about eight o'clock in an open carriage, accompanied by Baron Du bourdieu, the-maritime perfect, Admiral Behrens, and General Totleben. The other officers of the squadron followed in other carriages. On the Prince and his staff entering the house, they were warmly greeted by the audience, and the orchestra immediately struck up the Russian national march. The representation of the "Mousquetaires de la Reiue " then commenced. During the per formance an enormous white cat, doubtless an amateur of music, came on the stage, and gambolled about for some minutes, in spite of all the efforts .of the persons there L e o drive it off. The movements of the animal appeared to cause great amusement to the Grand Duke, as well as to the audience. The Prince, on leaving the theatre, expressed his satisfaction at the manner in which i the opera had been performed. The next morning, after break fast, the Prince went to visit the line building yard of the Mourilloe. The large sheds, upwards of 500 metres in length, built for s otiug timber, par ticularly struck his attention, as did also the large Wenn saw-mills. He asked numerous questions from the different persons who acted as his guides, and took notes of all he saw. The Prince after wards visited the new fortificationce and alse Fort Lanialgue. In the afternoon, he went on board the Bretagne line-of-battle ship • to partake of a dinner given by Admiral Trehouart. The Prince returned to the maritime prefecture about seven o'clock, to prepare for the grand ball given there by Admiral Dubourdieu, and which was an excesdingly brilliant affair; the only draw back was that the number of invitati , ,ns given was FO great that the rooms could not contain them all conveniently, and several persons left without having beets able to penetrate into the . Grand Salon. With that exception the let-3 went off most admirab'y. Toe variety and splendour of the'urli forms, the elegance and richness of the ladies' dresses, prescnt , al a charming coup d'ocil, and when altar midnight the re ms became less crowd ed dancing weut on with great spirits. The Grand Duke and the officers of his squadron tOoka very active part iu the dance, an amusement of which the Prince appeared to be particularly fond. This morning the,Prince did not quit his apartments be fare breakfast. He passed agreat part of the after noon in visiting the fortifications, and stopped two hours at the Pyrotechnic School. He frequently interrogated the artillery officers on points of its erganisalion, sad dictated notes to his aides-de camp. At• four o'clock he visited the naval hos- pita!, and expressed his admiration at the order and reguiarity which prevailed in that establishment. He was accompanied by the surgeon of his own vessel, who had in the morning been present at the dressing of the patients. That officer se...ined par, ticulaily struck with the eboi;.;e quality of the food supplied to the convalecent, and remarked, We cannot equal this in Russia ; half of our time we • should not be able to procure the medicaments you nse or the food you di-tribute.' The Princ3 went s'oArly through all the wards, caking a number of questions, and expressed great admiration at the manner fn which everything Wa3 conducted." THE ITALIAN OPERA. (From the Dublin Daily Express of April 27.) night of the 20th with the overland Aurtralian mail, and the Etna on the afternoon of the 21st, with the heavy mails from Southampton, the former having had remarkably fine, the latter very boisterous, weather throughout the voyage. " Up to the 14th of April no tidings had reached Alexandria regarding the missing steamer Oneida, from Aiistralia. Commodore Shepherd, Superintendent of Wool wich Dockyard, accompanied by Admiral Eden, yesterday inspected the gunboat Slaney, and ordered her to proceed to the Arsenal to ship her-ammuni tion and steam down to Greenhithe to be adjusted, and sail with all despatch for the westward to join the squadron under orders for China. The gunboat Leven, having had the damages to her screw pro peller repaired, returned to Greenhithe to be swung, and is ordered to join the squadron with all pos sible speed. The freightship Violet, which arrived at Woolwich-pier the latter end of March, sailed thence yesterday for China, laden with about 800 tons of war stores. Mr. J. W. Rawnsley and Mr. Branscombe, of the Military Store Department, and some officers ofthe Medical Corps, took passage in the Violet for service in China. Sir Charles Wood, First Lord of the Admiralty, who is on a visit to Sir Augustus Clifford at Ryde, embarked yesterday forenoon on board the seam tender Fire Queeo, Master-Commander W. F. Pa,nl, and visited the Naval Hospital and other establish ments at Gosport. Sir Charles was accompanied by Sir 13,ddwin,Walker, Surveyor of the Navy ; Col, Greene, the Director of Admiralty Engineer ing and Architectural Works ; and his assistant, Mr. Scamp, and was conduced by Captain Superintendent Sir C. Dacres over the gunboat berthing slips, the new burying-ground for the Naval Hospital,* situated at the western extremity of the slips, and the new washing apparatus of the hospital, the supply of water for the machinery of which is found insufficient. It is proposed to increase the number of sheds for berthing gunboats at, Ilasiar, and, as the last well sunk to obtain water for the washing machinery has by some means caused the admission of salt water into the well supplying the hospital with water, it has been mooted whether it would not be advisable to fill the well up, and endeavour to ob-. twin water for washing the linen of the establish ment from Titchfield or Roundown, or some other not very distant locality. The First Lord remained about an hour on the Gosport side of the harbour, and then crossed over to Portsmouth. The new burying-'rouncl at Haslar Hospital, which has been very le:alutifully laid out and ornamented with ch .iee shrubs and trees by Capt. Dacres, pleased Sir Charles greatly. • The Winchester, 50-gun sailing frigate, Captain Wilson, late flagship on the China; station ' arrived at Spitheoul yesterday forenoon to be paid oft: She has mace a long passage, and has brought no news. She has on hoard 50 naval invalids, 27 military, and 84 of the crew of the sloop liittaq•n (made a ten dea to the present flagship on the China station), with the following officers of that vessel :—Lieut4. Walsh and Robinson; Mr. Johnson, master ; Mr. Gurney, paymaster • Mr. Newton, assist. ; surgeon ; and the gunner, boatswain, and carpenter (warrant offiCers). The Winchester has been upwards of five years in commission. Capt. the Hon. J. R. Drummond, C. 8.,K.L:11., Toe announcement, of the fare Nell appearance in Doh lin of Miss Catherine Hayes lent much additional interest to the attractions of the ;terror:flat ce of S iiur day night, and brought en audience whicii crowded every part of the house. Fcr some years past the name of Catherine Hayes has been famous throughout the world. Not a,!one in suety Italy and sprightly France is it greeted with apelsuse, but throw ;hour the vast reeion of the United States, in the rei.nete valleys of San Francisco, amongst the planters of the West Indies, the descendants of Pizarro and Almagro in Peru, the nabobs of India, tfie gold diggers of. the Australian i fields, and the grave Dutch settlers of Java, her sweetest notes and most impassioned songs are remembered with enthusiasm. It required' no crdinary woman to brave the dangers of such tray( 1 ; it was the thought of no ordinary songstress to give the most refined of European pleasures to the dwellers in those remote and savage regions. She re turned to the. British, islands with talents unimpaired, and in a Isegthenell visit to her native land has proved, by the representation of characters never before enacted by her, the range of those thients, and the still corn manding, powtr else wields. To one of these we refer red when speaking of the artistes triumph in " Trozn tore ;" another demands notice in reference to line opera of Satuiday night, Donizetti's "Lucrezia Borgia." Here, as in ether parts, Miss Hayes had to c3ntend with the majeatic impersonation of (xlrisi, to whom nature has accorded much that fits her for the enactment of the terrible scenes of lyric tragedy, as it has Mies Hayes for more graceful and therefore less thrilling parts ; and yet with a lull remembrance of what Grisi was arid is in the role of Lucrezia, speaking of her as an actress, we say, without fear of contradiction, that in aorne points it was surpassed by the performance of Miss Hayes. This observation particularly applies to the whole of the first act. In the second the balance' trembles between the two. In the last terrible scene the agony of the wretched mother was more horribly drawn by the songstress of Milan, the grief more ten derly depicted by the songstress of Ireland. We have ' seldom seen a stage picture more grand than the au - tamed look of bold indignation that promised retribu tion, when one of the noble; tore the mask from he - face in the first act, and th e warm ap pl ause o f t h e audience rose to enthusiasm when, with perfect origi nality, as her tor mentors dispersed, the haughty and in sulted princess threw herself upon her knee, her arm outstretobed, her e y e C ashing, and her whole counte nance lit with the diabolic h o p e o f vengeance. Upon this picture the curtain fell, an d am id st a storm. of ape plause the artiste was called to the front. In the scene with Don Alphonse there were native majesty and grace combined, and throughout the while second act, without effort, there was undoubted originality. Of the Pecu liarities of the last scene we have already spoken. After the second act, again, and twice after the green curtain bad fallen, Miss Hayes was called t o the front and greeted with genuine enthusiasm. Should it so happen that Mica Hayes, as we under,tand to be her present d e t er mination, will not again visit this city, regardi ng her not only as Irish vocalist, but as an ar ti ste in the abstract, in many points "we shall not look upon her like again." Signor Badiali had little comparatively to d o i n t h part of Don Aiphonso, but be did it in such a way as to cast into complete shade all other artistes who hav e at tempted it in Dublin. His noble voice, managed with a skill but too r are ly p os s e ssed, was heard throughout with pleasure, and in the " Vieni mid Vendetta" lie Was rapturously enc ore d. V o l p i n i ac t e d well, but his voice does not suit the character of Gennaro, and with the deli. cious notes of Mario still falling on our CiU", the unplea sant middle voice of Volpini, which he ro profusely usled on Saturday night, was by no means ca l cu l a t e d to raise that artiste in our esteem. For such parts as Pc:Olio and Edgard() oat ute has fitted him ; Gennaro should not be included in his list. Me Excellency the Lord Lieutenant was present, and remained in his bex until Ilisa Hayes came a second time before the curtain. is appointed private secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, vice Mr. T. Baring, resigned.' Capt. John M'Neil Boyd is appointed to the command of the Meander, 44, coastguard frigate on the Devon port station, vice Drummond. The Devastation, 6 guns, paddlewheel seam sloop, Commander Ed war d Marshall, arrived at Sheerness. on Sunday, last from Devonport and Pertsmouth. Shp has brought rcuud with her sea men and petty officers from Devonport for the Vesu vius. An Admiralty order has arrived for her to make good all defects and be ready for foreign 'ser iice. She will be taken into the fit' ing basin for that zairpose forthwith. The Cumberland is ordered to be out of the hands of its 3 dockyard authorities, 'at Sneerness, by the 9 th of May next, and to be ready for sea 10 days after that date. Lieut -General Sir Wm. Codrington ' M. P. , with his brother, Rear-Admiral Joh n T. Codrington, and Mr. Archibald, proprietor of the Acadian iron mines in Nova Scotia, visited Woolwich Arsenal yesterday morning t inspect the machinery departments; and, accompanied by Mr. Anderson, they passed about two hours examining the steam machinery employed in the manufacture of percussipn caps, bullets, fuzes, &c., with which the large room of the laboratory is furnished. Captain H. B. Saunders's No. 2 Company was yesterday withdrawn from the Horse Brigade of the Royal Artillery en cam ped on Woolwich-common and was ordered to the sth Battalion Fort. The horses were distributed to the Military Train, and regimental depot, when the company marched down from the encampment and were told off to barrack quarters. Her Majesty's steamer Locust went to Woolwich yesterday from Sheerness, and conveyed a party of Marinekto head-quarters who were discharged from the 50-gun sczew steam-frigate Euryalus, and the 21 screw steamship James Watt. THE LATE FIRE IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD. —Up to last Saturdays tremendous amount of property had been secured from the ruins of the premises belonging to Mr. Goodyear, in St. Paul's Churchyard, includino , several thousand bonnets ; but what is better, the whole of the books, &c., belonging to the firm were found uninjured, in one of Marr's pstent fire-proof safes, consequently the business can be shortly resumed. 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The fret general meeting of this society since the diE.- solutiOn of Parliament was held yesterday evening at No. 3, Waterloo place, and was numerously attended. Mr. Ilea,:lam, M.P., took the chair. The SECRETARY (Mr. Hastings) read an address of the cAmcil of the society on its resuming its fourteenth ses sion. It was as follows : . . . . After the long adj )urnment of the Society confegnent on the dissolution at Parliament, the council have thought it advisable to follow the 'precedent established at the commencement of the present session, especially as it seemed to be approved of by the members, and to ad dress some observations to the society on those topics of lavi reform which are now prominently before the public notios. fere in any way with marriage settlements, but enables a married woman, in the ab=sence of a 'settlement, to re tain her own property and earning, as if she were a fernrn 'pole, making her liable at the same time on her own debts and engagements. The society has lately received the valuable evidence of Mr. David Dudley Field as to the way in which such a law has worked in America, and nothing can he more conclheive than the statements of that gentleman. His only objection to the alteration 'Made in the law of his own State, New York, as concerns married 'women, is that it does not go quite ae far as he could %Nish ; but he entertains no doubt as to the beneficial effect which it has already exercised, and bears witness that it commands the approbation of alt classes in the State. The example of a population which bas inherited our laws, language, and customs, can hardly be without weight ;. but were it otherwise, the feeling which has arisen in our own country, and which increases daily, will enforce tbo•atteution of the Legislature. It is a remarkable fact that more than one of the public bodies which were represented at the late Mercantile Law Conference sent up this subject as one of those on which the laws of England most required amendment ; not on account of the hardship sustained by married women, but in respect to the difficulties which' the present state of the law imposes on their cre ditors. Tee soliCitor of the London Association for the Protection of Trade states that the present state of the law is a constant source of loss and annoyance to trades men, and that such an alteration as would make mar ried women the owners of their own property, and re sponsible for their own debts, would greatly increase the safety of trade transactions. It is evident that any measure ,which dealt only with earnings would leave this portion of the grievance untouched ; and for this, no less than for other well-considered reasons, the council trust that the Subject will be dealt with by Parliament in a comprehensive way. It has been currently re ported that her Majesty's Government intend to bring forward a measure to remedy the evils complained of, and the council sincerely trust that the rumour will prove to have been correct ; but should that, not be so, the bill prepared•by the society will again be proceeded , with. . 3IIISISTEL OF JUSTICE. In the address of the council at the opening of the pre sent session of the society, the necessity of giving, in all efforts for law reform, the most prominent place to the question of a minister of justice was insisted on, and a hope was expressed that strong support would be given to Mr. Napier's motion for the appointment of such an officer, which; in a letter to the secretary, be had ex. pressed his intention of making at an early opportunity in the House of Commons. The council can now con gratulate the society on the adoption of that motion by the house, and on the pledge given by Government to carry out the wish thus' expressed by the Legislature. It cannot be concealed that the organisation of a depart ment of justice is attended with some difficulties, and more especially as to the question in whose hands the supreme direction of such a department is to ibe vested. It has been proposed that the minister of justice: should be an independent officer of state, having a seat in the Cabinet and the House of Commons ; but to this it is objected that the existence of such an officer would not be compatible with the political influence of the Lord Chancellor, who is at present the representative of law in the Cabinet. Whatever weight attaches to this objec tion seems to apply to another proposition, of making the Home Secretary Minister of Justice, with the additiouil evil of still further burdening a depart ment which is at present supposed to he fully occupied. Beth these plans seem to be grounded on the popular feeling, to which it is hardly possible to at tach too much imptSrtance, that proper security for the vigilance and activity of snob a department is only to he obtained by its direct responsibility to the House of Commons. The society a - few years since approved of a plan submitted to them, which it was thought would in a great degree meet the complicated requirements of the case, and, without interfering with the position of the Lord Chancellor, would make the department of justice sufficiently responsible. It was proposed in this report that a Board of Justice should be established on the same footing as the Board of Trade ; that the Lord Chancellor should be the president; and that there should be in addition a vice-president with a seat in the House of Commons, and a permanent non-parliamentary secretary, with a competent office and staff. The council have not yet heard any other proposal which seems to promise on the whole a more satisfactory solution of the difficulty than this ; and they have little, doubt that a department well organised after such a plan would not only be able to deal with all current questions of law amendment, but would also find in itself arnpls resource , ' for the consolidation of the statute law and the revision of bills as they pass through Parliament. TRANSFER OF LAND. Since the society last met, the commissioners ap pointed some time since to consider registration of title with reference to the sale and transfer of land are under stood to have finally agreed to their report. The subject of their deliberations has been frequently before the no tice of the society, and indeed it was a paper read by Mr. Strickland Cookson at one of our general meetings which first impressed on the public mind the expediency of a registration of title as opposed to a registration of assurances. It was chiefly in consequence of the notice which that paper attracted, and the discussion which ensued on it, that a select committee of the House of Commons was appointed to investigate the subject, the result of their investigation being a recommendation to the Crown to issue the commission from which the recent report bas originated. As the commissioners comprised among their number several influential members of the ' society—the Attorney-General, the Right Hon. Mr. Lowe, Mr. Headlam, M.P., and Mr. Cookson—it was to be anticipated that the views which had been first mooted at our meetings, and bad afterwards obtained eo retch approval, would meet with full cent detaion ; and the council, still deeply impressed with the soundness and practicability of those vieiles, are happy to find that the report of the commissioners seems to be in a great measure in their favour. A system of registra tion of title is recommended for adoption by the Legis lature, and is elaborately worked out in its details ; and whatsoever may be the opinion of individuals as to *rime of these details, it will be generally conceded that no plan for the simp!ification of the transfer has been put out to the public in so exact and tangitle .a form, or which has furnished such solid ground for expecting t great diminution in the cost of conveyances and the un certainty of titles. The council do not attempt to go at the present moment into the numerous and minute ques tions arising in the scheme of the commissioners ; this task can be far better performed by a committee, and they recommend tbat the principles and details of the registration report should be at once referred to the real property committee, who will of course be ready to re ceive any euggestiens concerning it. COMMERCIAL LAW. The Mercantile Law Conference, held in January last, under the direction of the society, has given a consider. able impulse to 'the efforts for the improvement of our commercial law. The detects existing in the administra tion of the bankruptcy law were brought prominently forward at that meeting, and will be the subject of a bill now in course of preparation by the committee appointed at the ;conference. The statements made by Mr. Com tnissioeer Ayrton s In his able paper, ns to the expense of the court, have since been verified by a return to the House of Commons obtained by Mr. Headlain ; and to diminish the ruinous cost, amounting, on an average, to about 45 per cent. on the assets, mu't be the first object of any amending tiiehstti•e. It is proposed to effect this by transferrirg the compensation payments nettf saddled on the suitors to the consolidated fund, and by aboli ,, hing the offices of broker, messenger, and accountant. Fur ther improvements are propwed in the system of appeal, and the mode of remunerating the official assignee, and the frequency of attendance by the comtniSehmets 1 alto by giving to tbo bankrsptcy courts the jurisdictia in insolvency, by improving the arrangement clauses in the act of 1849 No as to make them operative, by enacting that a deceased trader may be made bankrupt, by confining imprisonment for debt on execution to cases where the bankrupt's case has been heard and decided on, and by vesting in the Court of Bank ruptcy the winding-up jurisdiction. This latter point has been made the subject eta separate report, which points at the best mode of effecting the object in view, and which was lately adopted by the society. The con ference elle reported in favour of repealicg the 7th sec tion of the Statute of Frauds, with Exception:l as to c; r tain classes of contracts. A bill for this object will pro bably be introduced into the house soon after it assem bles. The insufficiency of onr present tribunals for adminis tering fulland sphdy justice in mercantile causes excites the greatest attention among the classes peculiarly af fected by it. The delegates at the conference stated that in nearly all the large towns of the liiegdent an absolute denial of justice in cases above the value of 50/. prevails throughout the year, tx.?.?pt duri ng th e t wo occas i ons when her INk jesty'sjudges sit for a few days in each c . f . - cult town ; that a greater frequency of ci rcu it s an d a large extension of the jurisdiction, both legal and equit able, of local courts, are measures imperatively de manded ; and that to these should be added some means of deciding commercial causes in a more satisfactory way than the present machinery of our courts admits of. The council must add that the bill of Lord Brougham, to give the powers of courts of reconciliation to existing tri bunals, and to discourage frivolous actions and defences, would aid greatly in remedying the evi's oomp'aiued of. The council must not omit to add that the Mercantile Law Conference recommended the adoption of the Scotch system of summary diligence, and the enactment into law of the Judgments Executions Bill. JUDICIAL STATISTICS. A bill to provide for the regular collection and publi cation of the statistics of all our courts of _justice was in troduced in the last session by the president of the society, and will again be brought before Parliament. The recognitio❑ of the 'need of such a system has now become universal, and its establishment woufd be one of the first and most important duties of a minlsteilof jus tice. DIVORCE AND TEST.IME;sTTARY JURISDICTION. The bills introduced by the Lord Chancellor to remedy the evils complained of on the Reject of divorce and the testamentary jurisdiction have failed to satisfy the-public expectation. It is to be hoped that the counsels of the most able and experienced members of the upper house, hacked as they are by public opinion, will at length be allowed their due weight, and that the society will no longer have to deplore the introduction of measures sig nally ill-suited to acc , )mplisb the objects aimed at. On the testamentary jurisdiction a special committee of the society has recently reported, condemning the creation of a new court, which would either supersede in a great measure the Couit of Chancery, or else be an expensive machinery for doing very little work, and proposing that some of the judges of our existing superior courts of common law should be employed to form a court of pro. bate, with a simple procedure. This plan has received the general assent of the society. THE PROPERTY 07 MARRIED WOMEN. There is no portion of our law which has attracted more attention of late, than that which affects the condi tion of the property of married women, and none on which the advance of public opinion has 'been so rapid. It is only a twelvemonth since thisisociety first turned its at tention seriomly to investigate and report on the evils incident to our present system of giving to the huqband an absolute and unqualified right to all the earnings of the wife, and, in the absence of a marriage settlement, a right to her personal properly also. The abstract in justice and impolicy of suc - h a state of the law , seem to have been admitted .by all, but consiierable difficulty was felt in many quarters as to the possibility of apply ing any practical remedy. The discussions which ensued as to the publication of the society's report, since eon tinned by the press in a variety of ways, have tended to clear up in a great measure these difficulties, and to smooth the way for a legislative enactment. The com mittee who were charged with the subject accordingly proceeded to prepare a bill "to amend the laws relating to the property of married women," which was intro duced into the House of Lads by Lerd Brougham shortly before the termination of the la,t session 'ii I' rliceaent., This bill was based on the resolutions appended to the society's report, and aims at establishing the same state of the law as now p r eva il s th r oughout the greaterpor titan of the "United States of Atherica ; it does not inter. (From the New York Herald.) The Hon. W. B. Reed, Philadelphia, will shortly leave this country on a most important mission. He goes to China to represent the United States during the contpst which has just been begun with the Chinese and the maritime Powers of Europe. It is understood that Mr. Reed owes hisuppointment in some respect to the recommendations of Robert J. Walker, whose intimacy he at one time enjoyed, and though formerly acting with an opposite party, whose views on the subject of the development of our Chinese relations he is believed to have shared from the beginning. Mr. Reed's mission, though in point of nominal rank beneath that of France and England, will, in all probability, be far more important than either in its practical results to commerce and eivilsation. At the time of writing our news from China is en veloped in some obscurity ; it is not possible to say exactly what is the condition of affairs in that part of the world ; but, in the absence of authentic evi dence, the story of the conciliatory attitude of the Emperor of China must be received with caution. But we are more inclined to place credence in the report of a forcible opening of the ports of Japan by some English ships of war. This is really a likely occurrence. No doubt the English comman ders in the' Pacific—like Sir M. Seymour—have been instructed to stand no nonsense, and have availed themselves of the first pretext to bring the Japanese to their at nses. But with regard to Chiria we have no reason to state anything with certainty except that a state of hostility exists there, and is likely to last. Mr. Reed will go out to that region not to make war, but if possible, to gain admission to the great thoroughfares of Chinese trade, and. to obtain a re ception for himself or successor at Pekin without fighting. Whether be can succeed in doing this can not be predicted with any certaitity, though the Chinese seem to be favourably disposed towards us as a general rule, and may offer us facilities which, until bad!y beaten, they may refuse their enem'es. But Mr. Reed•may not improbably fill a more im portant station still as umpire between the comba tants. He is the most likely person to be chosen, and should he be competent fur the p6st, he may absolutely find himself giving the law to both sides. THE 'RUSSIAN BAIL - ETA YR OBBERY SCHEME The Nord of Brussels says :—" The systematic and interested hostility of speculators and news papers to the Russian railway scheme has hitherto had no other effect than to show more clearly than ever the immense advantages which the shareholders, as well as Europe and Russia, will derive from• that vast enterprise. The shares are everywhere so much in demand _that it is to be expected that the applications for them will be far from being satisfied. Even in Austria, in spite of the tactics of the Austrian pres., public opinion is favourable to the undertaking ; the journals of Pragun ' and a letter from Vienna, in th e Cologne Gazette, state that large sums have been subscribed in all the Austrian empire, and particu larly at Vienna. The Ostdeutsche Post, which at tacks the enterprise with some bitterness, and me naces the shareholders with the miasma of the Putrid Sea, fogets that 'Russia is not Austria. If Ruisia; with the immense fertility of her soil, is even now, when the benefits of capital and the spirit of enterprise are unknown to her, the most productive country of Europe, what will she be when capital.and enterprise shall have accomplished for her the miracles which they have effected every where else ?" We have already reported the telegraphic news of the rettirn of cold weather at St. Petersburg. Advices dated the 23d inst. remark :—" Winter has suddenly set in again, with snow. Yesterday there were 11 degrees, and to-day 4 degrees frost, with the win ce at north-west. There has been a drift of ice in the Nev 4 yesterday and to-day," [ADVERTISEMENT]. —Kidneys, Bladder, and Prostrate Glands —their complications, Diabetes Albumiuutia, or Brights Disease, &c.—their connexion with the Stomach, Liver, and intimate association with the Ganglionic, or great cen tral or solar plexus of nerves, by Dr. Denis Cronin, price 2s " To a sound theoretical knowledge of the painful and ills• trussing diseases on which he writes, Dr. Cronin adds the ex perience derived from a largo and successful practice."— " News." Smith and Son, 52, Long Acre. t ADV3RIIB.I% WM . 1— SI ORTSM N AND GS TLIMEIT OF TER AR MY Axn NAVY.—S, and H. Solomon, opticians, 39, Alba marie-strcet, Piccadilly, W. Observe—opposite the York Hotel.—Portability, combined with great power in Field, Racecourse, Opera, and general out-door day and night powerful waistcoat pocket Perspective Glasses, weighing only four ounces, each contain'ng 12 avid 18 lenses, con structed of German g . ass, will show distinctly' a person's countenance two and a half and three miles. They servo every purpose on the race-course, and at the opera houses, country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 8 to 10 miles. They are also invaluable for shooting, deer=stalking, and yachting. Single ones, the s'z iofa w. lint, possessing the same great power. Her Maje-ty's Coait-Guards are making use of teem as day and night glasses, in preference o all others ; they have also "re , oma iu general use by gentlemen, of the Army and Navy, and by sportsn en, gentlemen, game keepers, and tourists. The most powerful and brilliant telescopes, possessing such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half inches, with an extra astronomical eye- piece will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and thedouble stars ; with th e same tAescope can be seen a per son's countenance three-and-a-half mile, distant and an object from 14 to 16 miles, All the above can be had of larger and all sizes, with increasing powers, and are secured by 14er Majesty's Royal Letters Patent, Newly-invented Spectacle Lenses or the greatest transparent power. The valuable advantage derived from this invention is, that vision becomes preserved and strengthened; very aged pe r sons are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occupation—can see with these leases of a much less magnifying power—and they do not require the fre quent changes to the dangerous effects of further power. ful assistance. Persons can be suited at the mot remote part of the world by sending one of the glasses out of their spectac'es in a letter, and stating the dist awe from the eye they can read small print with it, and those who have not made use of Spectacles by eta' in; their age. Deafness.—A newly-invented instrument foe extreme cases of deafness, called the Sound Magnifier, Organic YibratOr, aid 'nvisible Voice Conduct,.r. It fits so int.) the ear as not to be in the least percept!ble; the unpleasant sense ion if singing noises in the heat is entirely i emoted. It affords ins tant relief to the deafest persons, and enables them to hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies. 39, Altemarle-street, Picca dilly—opposite the Yorl Hotel. OrtIMINAL LAW. When tL•e council last addressed the society, at the commencement of the present session, a panic was pre valent lin the codntry on the subject of our criminals, and a giineral disposition was manifested in favour of re turning to a wholesale system of transportation. The criminal law committee reported against any such retro grade step, believing that transportation at the best was but a clumsy substitute for a vigilant and judicious ad ministration of secondary punishment at home, and that a return to it in the present state of our colonial empire could only be attended by disastrous consequences. The committee recommended an increase of the terms of penal servitude, and a stricter and more discriminating appli cation of the ticket-of-leave system. The measure in troduced by Sir G. Grey was in a great degree in accord ance with these views. The Industrial Schools Bill of last session received the warm support of the society, •aiming as it does at the prevention of crime by the arrest of some of those causes which lead to its development, and the council trust that the, same support will again be afforded to it, in conjunc tion with the National Reformatory Union and the Bir mingham Educational Association, when this 'measure again comes before the house. LAW REPORTING, A. report on the mode, of publishing the decisions of our courts of justice has been lately presented to the society, and the council trust that the subject will not be allowed to drop. It would he desirable to inquire whether, in addition to the greatly needed improvements in our system of law reporting some plan might not be adopted fur the classification and ultimate codifying of all the reports. In conclusion, the council have to congratulate the so• ciety in the increase which still continues in its mem bers, more especially in those of its corporate members, which have been trebled during the present session, and to express their hope that the influence exerted by the society in favour of the great object for which it was originally established may be commensurate with its numbers and prosperity. Sir E. PERRY, in moving the adoption of the forego ing document, observed that law reform should not de pend exclusively on lawyers for success. As regarded the Minister of Justice, he feared that if the Lord Chan cellor held the office, as it was proposed that he should do, and introduced useful measures, those measures , would not in all cases be adequately supported by the law officers of this crown. In his opinion the Home Minister was the officer wio should receive the new ap pointment, 'entrusted as he was with the administration of justice and assisted by lawyers of the greatest emi nence. The present duties of the home department were almost entirely matters of routine, and would not pre vent the alt 'ration which he swggested. Mr. D. POWER seconded the motion. He did not share in the despondency of some as to the progress of , law reform. A great advance bad already been made, and it had been shown by experience that the interests of lawyers were promoted instead prejudiced by the im provement of the law. He agreed with the preceding speaker that the Lord Chancellor could not advantage ously bold the office of Minister of Justice, but could not admit that the Home Secretary would be a good substi tute, or that , his present duties were of a light nature. What was wanted was a department in which the coun try had confidence, and the machinety of which would ensure that acts ofPailiament were properly framed for the carrying out of their object. (Hear, hear.) The CEIAIRUAN congratulated the society on the num ber and variety of mil jests embraced in the address of the council. The question of the registration of lands involved the whole subject of real property, and there was no branch of the law that stood more in need of re form. As one of the commissioners who bad investi gated the matter, he should be glad if the society would bestow great attention upon it. Hooves unable to con cur in all the recommendations of the commissioners. The subject was so large that it was notlikely that there would Lie concurrence of opinion till there bad been ample discussion. As regarded law reform' generally, all saw the evil, but there were differences of opinion as to the best remedy, 'nd hence it was that progress was so slow. Nothing would contribute more to the object than precise measures embodying the principal recom mendations made on the subject dealt with. The scheme ,of appointing a Board of Justice was beset with difficul ties. He agreed with Mr. Power that the Home-office had sufficient to do already. It being, too, a purely executive office, he did not see how it cool t he com bo Induced to intr oduce new bills when the probability pilled to undertake ad ditional labours, or how it could wag that they would not pass. On the other hand there vroulsi great jealousy of an independent department whose so l e i t zction it was to frame new measures ; and into discredit. He was therefore, the best minister of justice Tailor© would bring . and . after some besi (Laughter ) w i n o c ti i i i n j e , d af t t o er t a h l e i, o et i , n t i h o a n t ciety: prou4ec ogs terminated. nes T s hoei a d r d o r u es t s i e w c a h s a t r h a e o n te adopted,rat EXTBAO_RDINARY NE - Vir MOVEMELVT BY THE TBACTABIANS, A movement has been set on . foot by the Trac tariars which will somewhat startle the religious world, nod espociilly the Evangelical party in the Church, when they bedome acquainted with it through the mod'um of our gehtlntls. Deeply mortified at the series of admirablo ecclesiastical appointments which Lord Palmerston Las made since his advent' to tiro Premiwship, they have determined on addressing the Qti.P 9 n, the tWO Rouses of Parliament, and the two nougat, of 0,41- vocation, praying that either the present syston of appointing bishops may La altered,' by takinc , the power of appointment out of the bands of the Premier, or that if it should be deemed expedient to continue that power in the hands of the Prime Minister, that there may be an impartial sOection from all parties in the Church, so as that clergymoin of every variety of religious belief in the establish ment may have their relative share of the higher class of good livings. It is confidently expected that out of the 18,000 clergymen in the Church, from 6,000 to 7,000 will sign those addresses. Morning Advertiser. ANCIENT ORDER OF Foorsnes.— On Monday evening the brothers of Court 2,681 celebrated their second an niversary at the Perseverance Tavern, kept by Brother Gibson—Brother Robertson in the chair, faced by Brother Forster. After the dinner, which was of a first-rate kind, both as regards quality and quantity, the• chairman gave the usual loyal toasts. Mr. Forster, in returning thanks for his health having been drunk, had occasion to adve!t to the falore of the Royal British Bank, in which he had, on the part of the London United District Society deposited 2001. ; that sum was of course sacrificed, but he (Brother Forster) had made that sum good. (Cheers.) He was obliged to refer to the circumstance, inasmuch as it was mentioned by his fraternal proposer. The affairs of the Court were briefly adverted to, end sufficiently proved that it was one of the most prosperous. A vote of thanks was given to Brother Gibson, for his indefatigable exertions-on behalf. of the Court, and for his attention and liberality on that occa sion. Brother Gibson returned thanks, and the brethren gave him the " Foresters' Fire." Several of the brethren contributed to the harmony of the evening; one singing "The Good. Rhein Wine" in first-rate style. The party —which was one of mirth and fraternal jollity—broke up at a little after one. COAST DEFENCES.—At a special meeting of the town council of Aberdeen, on Thursday, a communication was read from Lord Panmure, to the effect that, acting upon representations made from several localities during the late war, pointing out the great insecurity of the com mercial ports of the United Kingdom, in the event, of any desultory attack by an armed force or an enemy's cruisers, his lordship bad been induced to cause the sub ject to be inquired into, and a committee of officers bad recently visited Aberdeen, in order to report upon the necessary measures for its protection. This report bad been approved of, and his 'lordship proposed that there should be (1) a 9-gun battery commanding the bay ; (2) a 4-gun battery fronting the town ; and (3) one gun of the heaviest calibre commanding the approaches to the harbour. His lordship asked the co-operation of the authorities in providing the sites, and the council con firmed a former resolution on the subject, granting sites —about two acres will be required—at a merely nominal rental, to preserve the right of the town to the property. LOLA Motagz. -A despatch from Louisville, K en . tocky, dated 10th inst., says :—" Quito a row occurred at the theatre here. It was the benefit of Lola Monte; and she wanted carpet instead of green hr.ize on the floor of the relased this, ..u:d ap peeled to the audience, when a war of words took place between him and Lola. The manager afterwards made a speech, and - so did Lola. She refused to play, and the money taken was returned to the ticket-holders, ciporlinr-r Intelligence. .t> NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING. MONDAY. Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs each, 5 ft. if declared, T.Y.C. (Five furlongs 140 yards.) Five subs. two of whom paid 5 sovs each. _ Duke of Bedford's Cruzada, by Cowl, 3 yrs, Bst 71b (S. Rogers) 1 Mr. Smith's Spinet, 3 yrs, Bst 21b (Fordham) 2 Baron Rothschild's colt by lago—Evenirg Star, 3 yrs, Tat 13Ib _ _ Betting-11 to 8 on Crunda ' 7 to 4 agst Spinet. :on by a head, two lengths between the second and Plate of 59 soya, for 3-yr-olds and upwards. The winner to be sold for 200.50v5. , Allowances if entered to be pold for lugs &c. DAT (7 furlongs 201 yards.) !Niko of Bedlord's Eapatoria, by Weatherbit, 3 yrs (401), sst 111 b. Mr. Chambers's Hegira, 3 yrs (401.), sst 111 b (T. Fordham) 2 Mr Deacon's Sichacus, 3 yrs (401.), Gst...(Musgrove) 3 Mr. La Mert's Admiral of the White, 3 yrs, let 71b (Walley) 4 The following also ran :—Raphael, Mary Ann, Jack the Giant• Killer. Betting-7 to 4 agst Hegira, 4to 1 agst Jack the Won by half a length, a length between the second and third, three lengths between the third and fourth Mary Ann was fifth, Raphael sixth, and Jack the Giant- Killer, last, beaten off. The winner was claimed, and goes into T. Stephenson, jnn.'s @table. The Spring Oatlands, a free handicap, of 15 sous each,' 5 ft, with 100 added. R.M. 1 mile 17 yards. 28 subs. M. Morris's Admiral Lyons, 3 yrs, sst 111 b (Grimmer) 1 Baron Rothschild's c by lago, 3 yrs, Sat 131 b (Rayner) 2 Duke of Bedford's Eloquence, 4 yrs, 6st 7th (Plumb) 3 ' The tollowing.also ran :—Kestrel, Pembdw, Knight of Avon, Mite Harkaway, Indulgence, and Tiptop. Bating-7 to 4 agst Kestrel, 7to 2 agst Eloquence!, 6 to 1 each agst Knight of Avon and Admiral Lyons. Won by half a length, same distance between second and tbird, Indulgence a bad fonrtb, Pembdw fifth, Miss Harkaway sixth, and Kestrel next. Sweepstakes of 50 soya each, for foals of 1854, out of mares that never bred a winner. Colts, Sat 71b; fillies, Bst 31b. A.F. 1 mile 2 furlongs 73 yards. 7 subs. Lord John Scott's Matstissmaa. Bst 31b (Kendall) w. o. Handicap Plate of 50 soya, R. M. (1 mile 17 yards). Mr. Harvey's Renown, by Collingwood, 3 yrs, 5.t fib (Daley, jun.) 1 Duke of Bedford's Aster, 3 yrs, sat 101 b (J. Rogers) 2 'Mr. Waller's Octavia, aged, 7st 12tb (Wakefield) 3 The following also ran :—Tom Thumb, Pitapat, Noi sette, Alcyone, Tester, Hartley Buck, Fright, and Spinet. Betting.-4 to 1 each agst Pitapat, Aster, and Hartley Buck, 7 to 1 each agst Spinet and Renown, 8 to 1 agst Tom Thumb, 10 to 1 agst Fright. Won by three lengths, same distance between the second and third, bad fourth ; Spinet was fifth, and Noi sette next. Bartholomew rode in this race for the first time since his accident at Goodwood. Match of 200 sovs, h ft. First half Ab. M. Duke of Bedford's Pampa, Bst 71') (S. Rogers) 1 L9rd Glasgow's The Blacksmith; 7st 111b...(Aldetoft) 2 Won by a length. _ _ Th' Queen's Plate of 100 guineas for mares ; 4-yr-olds, Bst 91n ; 5-yr-olds, 9st 81b ; six and aged, lOst. R.C. (3 miles 4 fur. 139 yards.) Mr. Saxon's Mary. by Idle Boy (Fiatman) 1 Lord 'Clifden's Melissa (A. Day) 2 Duke of Bedford's Eloquence (S Roger's) 3 Betting-6 to 4on Melissa. Wen by six lengths. TWO THOUSAND. The race will be ruu at a quarter past 4 o'clock. The following is a list of the probable starters:— Loyola Videtto Matins Beeswax colt Lord of the Hills Barba colt Anton Lambourne Apathy Kent I Sydney I Drumour Turbit LATEST BETTING. TWO THOUSAND. 4to 1 agst Kent (taken) 4 to 1 agst Loyola, (taken) 4to 1 agst Vedette (',ffered) 6to 1 agst Anton (offered) 10 to 1 agst Lanibourn (offered) 12 to 1 agst Sydney (offered) 13 to 1 agst Drumour (taken) 25 to 1 agst Turbit 40 to 1 agst Lord of the Hills Racing Fixtures for 1857. Chester 5 Hambledon Bunt 7 Shrewsbury . l2 Ludlow 14 JU Bath Harpenden 92 Epsom 26 Redditch Cartmcl• Manchester Wye 11awick Newcastle 23 Knighton 23 Lenham' 24 Bibury Club 24 Stockbridge 25 Winchester 26 Carlisle 3O Chelinsford .. 30 Ascot 9 Beverley, Hull, &d 10 Hampton l7 Newton 17 JU Worcester 2 Stoorbrid;ife Newwarkot Wibam lO Liverpool l5 Nottingham 2l Stamford 23 Knutsford 23 Goodwood ...28 AUGUST. • York 19 Radcliffe 24 Egbarn 25 Stockton 27 Hereford 27 Maidstone 98 MBER. Doncaster 15 Leicester 23 Monmouth 24 Mauchester Autumn 25 Newmarket F 0 29 BER. Newmarket S 0 l2 Warwick Autumn 2O 20 Ripon North Staffordshire 4 Brighton Brighton Club Wolverhampton lO Reading l2 SEPTE: Warwick Cardiff • • 3 Lichfield Derby Tbirsk ll OCT Northallerton Chester Autumn 6 R. Caledonian Hunt . 6 Wrexham 8 Richmond 8 Kelso . Newmarket LI 26 NONE Worcester Autumn 3 We n lock ,Shrewsbury Autumn l7 SBER. Liverpool Autumn lO Ludlow Autumn 20 Irish Racing Fixtures for 1857. MAY. Kilkenny Hunt l2 1 Howth and Baldoyle 5...10 JUNE. Monckstown (Co. Girl) 9 I Curragh 23 JULY. Bellewstown 8 Wicklow l4 AU( Down R. Corporation ...21 Heath of Maryboro'...2B UST. GU- aliva'y Ballyeigh 25 Tu am not fixed Tamore 11 Kii!arney lB SEPT: lIIBER. Jenkinstown Park 22 Johnstown 29 Curragh 2 Cathereivea ......... 8 Kilkee ...., 8 OCTOBER. Armagh 7 Thwo R. Corporation...2l Curragh... 13 Cork 27 Limerick ............19 A Q Uii CL; LONDON -UNITY ROWING CLUB. The opening match of the season amongst metabers of this flourishing club took place yesterday evening, !as d was remarkable for the spirit and excellence of style dis played by the oeveral competitors. The contest was in' one heat with fiVe four-oared boats, and had created some amount of , p „ a :ation owing to the reputation some of the men had acquired 41 oarsmen. Messrs. W. Hazlewood, B. T. Squires, W. sen. ;F. Whitaker, cexswan; White 1 Messrs. Hurst, W. Amar, E. Tutt:,`," C. Glenister ; Evans, coxswain Messrs. T. Day, F. Knight, Palmountain, t`j:ilers ; T. Sheppard, coxswain Blat.:k 0 Messrs. W. Walker, F. Cask, F. Cross, F. Miller ; R. Jones, coxswain Another crew started, but were ultimately left con siderably astern. The race was from the new bridge at Putney to Barnes railway bridge. Mr. Newnham, the veteran oarsman of Lambeth, officiated as umpire. The start was most excellent, more so than could have been ex pected with such a wind and tide, there not being a couple of feet difference amongst the quartette, and all the oars being in the water at the same instant. Yellow in the course of a few strokes showed in front, anci kept it by dint of the most extraordinary labour, till within half a mile of the winning post, when White, who had been engaged in a close race all the way up with Black, challenged them, and a sharp and game encounter fol lowed, which might have terminated differently but for the two boats separating to clear a barge, an d White, being advantaged by it, won by two lengths. The Citi zen K, steam boat, c hartered by Mr. Robe rt Bain, oar and skull m a k er , Lambeth, accompanied the race, and the arrangements on board, for the comfort of the visitors, gave general saiisfaction. A CouiAGEous SERVANT GlllL.—Between two and three o'clock on Sunday morning some burglars broke into the house oc cupied by Mrs. Harrison, in Tranmere park, Holt-hill, near Birkenhead, and no douLt they would have committed a robbery were it not for the spirit evinced by the servant girl. Having heard a noise in the kitchen, and the striking of two or three matches, she shouted "Give me that blunderhu?, and I'll blow their brains out." A young man who lives in the ;.souse was then a woke, and having been apprised by the ser vant that there were burglars in the - ki;;chen, he fired a pistol, which had the effect of frightening the nocturnal intruders, who quickly decamped before they had time to effect their object, third. INLAND 1300 K TOST. On the let of May nez.!., arid thenceforward, writing (when not of the nature of a letter) will be allowed in all book packets, even when the postago is less than four pence : and the regulations of the Inland Book Poe will then be as follows, viz. : POSTAGE BATES. 1. For a packet not exceeding 4 oz., Id.; do., above 4 oz. and not exceeding 8 cz , 2d. ; do., above 8 oz. and not exceeding 16 cz., 4(1. ; do., above 1 lb. and not ex ceeding 11 lb., 6d., and so on, twopence being charged for every additional half-pound or any less weight. 2. The postage must be prepaid in full by means of postage stamps affixed outside the packet or its c , )ver. 3. Every book packet must be sent either without a cover or in a cover open at the ends or sides, so as to admit of an examination of the contents. 4. A book packet may contain any number of sepa rate books or other publications, prints, or maps, and any quantity of paper, parchment or vellum (to the ex• elusion, however, of written letters, whether sealed or. open), and the books er other publications, prints; maps, &c., may be either printed, written, or plain, or any rni:zture of the three. Further, all legitimate bind ing, mounting, or covering of a book, publication, &c., or of a portion thereof, will be allowed, whether such binding, &c., be loose or attached, as also rcliers in the case of prints or maps, mari , ers (whether of paper or otherwise) in the case of books, and, in short, whatever is necessary for the safe transmission of literary or artistic matter, or usually appertains thereto : but no patterns or books of patters can be admitted. 6. No book packet may contain any written letter, closed or open, or any enclosure, sealed or otherwise closed against inspection, nor must there be any letter, or any communication of the nature of a letter, written in any such packet or on its 'cover. 6. No book packet can be received, if it exceeds two feet in length, width, or depth. . - 7. Any book packet which shall not be open at the ends or sides, or shall have any letter, or any communi cation of the nature of a letter, written in it or upon its cover, will be charged with the " unpaid" or double letter postage. ' 8. If a book packet be found to contain any written letter, whether closed or open, or any enclosure sealed or otherwise closed against inspection, or any other un autiaori-ed enclosure, the letter or enclosure will be taken out and forwarded to the address on the packet, charged with full postage as an unpaid letter, together with an additional rate of fourpence ; and the remainder of the packet, if duly prepaid with stamps, will then be for warded to its address. 9. If a book packet be not sufficiently prepaid with stamps, but nevertheless bear a stamp of the value of one penny, it will be forwarded charged with the deficient book postage, together with an additional rate of four pence ; but any packet which shall bear no postageotamp will be charged with the "unpaid" or double letter pos tage, according to its weight. 10. These regulation will not interfere with the privi leges allowed to' votes and proceedings of Parliament, or with those allowed to newspapers and other periodical publications bearing a newspaper stamp, and posted in acordance with the regulations applicable to such privileged publications. 11. To p'revent obstacles to the regular transmission of letters, any officer of the Post-office may, when neces sary, detain a book packet for a period not exceeding twenty-four hours beyond the time when it would other wise be forwarded. 12. The head' postinaster who first receives a book packet must, whenever he has ground for suspecting an, infringement of the above conditions, and occasionally, even when there is no ground for suspicion, open and examine tho packet ; and every packet which shall not be open at the ends or sides, or shall exceed two feet in length, width, or depth, or shall have any letter or com munication of the nature of a letter written in it or upon its cover, or shall bear no postage stamp, must be tent up, with as little delay as possible, to the Dead Letter office in London, Edinburgh, or Dublin, as the case may be ; but; in the event of . any other infringement of the regulations, the packet must be dealt with by the post master himself as lad down in paragraph No. 8, and in the first part of No. 9. By commmand of the Postmaster-General, ROW LAN D HILL, Secretary. General Post-office, 24th April, 1857 Country Markets. CHELMSFORD-A PI IL 21. Wheat to-day experienced a rather better sale, and the best samples must be quoted is per qr. dearer—inferior as last week. Spring corn firm. Wheat, white, old, per s. qr. 32 new red, old 30 new 30 70 Oats, 69 I Peas, 60 I per qr Partridge White B. B. ~21 30 ..41 43 ..39 46 ..39 45 ..37 39 ...35 39 39 47 ...34 36 -34 37 Barloy __ ' CO I Boiling 46 Dun 54 1 Beans, Tick 46 Harrow ticki 77 79 I Mazagan Ditto, new. Chevalier 40 Grinding 35 Malt 73 Chevalier 75 Official Statement of the Quantities of Corp, &c., received in the port of London, from the following ports, from April 20 to 25, both inclusive. , . Ti 1.1 'l . A I ° I 5 0 . ii CA r' ''' 8 A P. cl; s .... Colchester - 40 Harwich 55 ? 1392 Leigh I 233 —, 2p 10 Maldon :1182) 34 t 310 23 f 140 1 2 160 COLCHESTER- APRIL 25. A fair supply of wheat ; the best samples were 2s per quarter dearer. Batley for malting is cheaper. Beans and poas were both the turn dearer. Prices to-daywere as follow :—Wheat, white, 56s to 645; red, 46s to 535; barley, 44s to 48s ; cats, 23, to 28, ; beans, Mazagan, 34s to 363 ; middle and small, 36s to 445; peas, white, 38s to 42s ; grey, Os to 425. KIRKCALDY-APRIL 25. To-day Nre had a better supply of wheat and oats than on last market day, but only a few sacks of barley. Sales quick for wheat and oats at is to 2s advance. Barley slow sale at last week's prices. Wheat. I Barley. Oats. I Beans. First sBs ohll 41s / 3)s Od I Os Od Second ';2s Od 3'ls Od I 28s 01 , Os Od Third 3tis 01 I 35s 01 I 25s Od l Os Od Oatmeal, 3Gs to 38s per bag of 2801 b. -APRIL 27. the close of the market. , ffallsend, ae. Framwcllgato l6 3 i Eden Main l6 6 South Hetton • 17 9 Stowart's . 18 0 Cassop 16 3 Hartlepool Hetton l6 9 Kepler Graingo ... 17 3 !Lumley 16 6 : Pensher ... 15 9 laswell 18 0 i'lummer l6 0 -;eaham Braddy 11 l6 6 fletton Lyons Main l4 6 Coundon Tees l4 6 Montague 15 6 :, 90; sold, 57. COAL KARK Prices of Coals per ton at s d, Tama°ld Moor Butes 13 3 Howard's Wost Hartley Netherton 18 3 North Percy Hartley l5 6 tauflohl Moor l3 *S Walker Primrose l4 0 West Ilartley Grey's 17 Wylam VT*llsond, &c. Acorn Close l6 3, Eden Hough Hall South Kelloe 1 6 Toes lB 0 Russell's Hetton 16 6 Lambton l7 6 Belmont l5 0 Ships at markel THE DARDANELLEEL—By an order recently issued by the Porte. all vessels under the English, French, an d Austrian flag, carrying mails, will be permitted to pass the Dardanelles at any time of the day or night. [ADVERTISEMENT ]—Holloway's Pills an infallible Re' medy for Asthma.—These pills effected a perfect cure in the case of Maria . 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Hawkins, °f .57161°- street, aged 21. On the 25th inst., at Brompton, Captain David Edwarcl6 R.N., and 78. On the b 25th inst., at Kugwle•- green , Staines, William J o flings, Esq., aged 65. LCztr - r ; ; :;, ~1 tssi• !,1 ';vv . 11711 1. - OC IC Z of o. 112, strand, 1-Y.nter, at T/e Sun Ofticep tf 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the 0 011 of Middlesex, Tuesday, A 28, 1857. r.r~""" m 0 raetexiltic ING PER &Ud Stall P olYzraDt teen entit OS etas of th] Lturent's Principal eight, cot ten. Ad] 0.01 his AD V Batn,day D AY, at hi their 1 3. and 2 EoR lily, at fir. norm 4 he pat; it: Mireum Unrivalle tilt to. A Lectures G E II ISubse Atimber Rix Con Itr. mi Es StA &xhihitE 1110,s Library S qi 'greet, 1 tia kee Y, A 4ondol Fore Dartlea W inch Patt from Statiot CPpllct Ten( Elul ........__ C' twiltt or ti; 41)01 tan Joti and . l're Jot De DC!