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tilgiat lo4 Pitt+. diii'attalt. Oountrl.a the warty of which are here eN.hibited to us, and of the influence which they have exercised upon each other. " In comparing these works with those of our own age and country, while we may well be proud of the immense development of knowledge and power of pro- Auction whico we poigess, we havei reason a:so for humi lity in contemplating the refinement of feeling, and inten sity of thought manifested in the works of the older " 1 trust that you may reap, in the approbation of the public at large, and in the remunerative concourse of the people, the immediate reward of your labours ; and that, like the Exhibition of 1851, to which you so flatteringly allude, you may thus alio find toe means of closing your operations without having recourse to the Guaran tee Fund which this district has so generously put at your disposal. 4 . 4 Beyond tnig, however, I trust that the beneficial effects upon the progress of art and taste in our country, which we may confidently look to, may be a lasting me- morial of your vast enterprise." It is hardly necessary to say that not a single word of either addresses or replies was heard a few yaids from the dais. In so large a building it was impossible that all could hear ; but the addresses were real in so low a tone that even those nearest the dais could with difficulty catch two consecutive sentences. The cons:,quence was that everybody was glad when this part of the ceremony was over, and all felt sensibly relieved when the orchestra performed " The Heavens are telling," b) Haydn. That done, the Bishop of Manchester offered up the following prayer, invoking a. blessing upon the undertaking— " Almighty God, in whose works we see combined all that iq most grand in conception, skilful in adaptation, and beautiful in execution, who hast given to us, thy .zeatures, the power in some degree to recognise and adore thy infinite perfeCtions, bless, we beseech Thee, this work in which we are engaged, and prosper this our un dertaking to the advancement of thy glory, and the in tellectual, moral, and spiritual good of thy servants. Grant that this undertaking may be made available to the exalting our national character. the chastening and elevating our taste, that, in all that is good and beautiful, acknowledging Thee, the author of all good gifts, we may the more reality obey with wil lingness thy laws, aid walk in thy commandments. And as this undertaking is intended for the good of many, so may it too c - mtribute to draw them together in mutual love and kindness—the wealthier who have provided here the means of instruction and improvement uniting in seeking to promote the common good ; the less favoured in estate joyfully receiving and thankfully participating in the opportunities and advantages accorded to them in this place. While we behold the various degrees and kinds of exceil3nce which the imagination, learning, alti!l, or industry of men have at any time attained to, let us ever remember that all that is good is of Thee dont., that without Thee nothing is strong, nothing is holy. 'Not unto us, 0 L(1.I, not unto us, but unto Thy name give the praise " At the termination of the prayer the orchestra performed the Hundredth Pzalw, aft .r which a procession was marshalled in something like the following order : The Chief C instable of Manchester, Captain Pallin. Messrs. Young, W. Dredge, Contractors. Engineer to the Contractors. E. ealomons, J. Crace, Architect to the Executive Director of the Dec rations of Committee. the Building. J. C. Deane, Esq., Lieut.-Col. Hamilton, General Commissioner. Secrets,' y. HEADS OF DEPARTHENTS. G. Scharf, jun., Esq., F.S. A..,_Dir3ctor of the Gallery of Ancient Masters. J. B. Waring. Esq., Director of the General Mnsaum. Augustus Egg, Esq., A.R.A ~ Director of the Gallery of Modern Masters. Peter Cunningham, F.S.A., Director of the Portrait Gallery. Edward Holmes, Esq., M.A., Director of the Water Colour and Engraving Galleries. J. F. Royle, Rig., F. R.S., Director of the Oriental Court Members of toe Minchester Corporation. The Mayor of Salford. Subscribers to the Guarantee Fund. • _ _ The Members of the City of Manchester and Borough of Salford. The Members for the County of Lancaster. The General Commanding the District and Staff. . _ . The Lord Bishop of 31anchester, and the Lord-Lieutenant of the County. The High Sheriff. J. Watts, Esq., W. Ent , ,vistle, Ea q. E. Potter, Esq., Mayor of Manchester. F.R.S. T. Ashton, E,q. J. Heron, Esq. S. J. Stern, Esq. Tho:naa Fairbairn, Esq., Chairman of the Executive Com inittee, and The Right Hon. Lord Overstone, President of the Gone al Council of the Exhibition. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT, K.G. ! The Members of his Royal Highness's Suite, followed by • His Excellency the Earl of Ca,-lisle, K.G., Lord-Lieute nant of Ireland, end Suite ; Members of her Majesty's Ministry ; Foreign Ambassadors andllin sters; The Heals of Learned and Artistic Societies and others specially invited to take part in the Ceremonial, &c. The procesion thus formed moved from the transept to the right, and, amid most enthu siastic cheers from all parts of the building, entered the gall ry of ancient pictures at the west-end. -Here the walls are hung with all that is quaint, ultra-Gothic, and pre-Raphaeli2e in painting. As the procession advanced it reached the deparimeuts devoted to the ma-terpieces of Italy, Spain, Ger many, wid Flanders, and beheld the best existing ape - rimens of Riphail and Ruben., Vandyke and Vela , qufz, Titian and Teniers, and of every great. painter that ever lived. It then crossed the ma?n Ilan and entered the eastern door of the modern gallery. Here the paint ng4 commence with. the . portraits el Gainsborough and Reynolds, and continuing with the masterpieces of Mul ready, Unwius, Etty, Turner, Wilkie, and others, terminate with the chniciest works •of artists who fortunately are still spared to continue their lthours. Having proceeded through this gallery to the northern cher adjoining the transept, the procession turned to the left, and his Royal Highness was again conducted to the dais. During the promenade the orchestra performed the march from " Athalie," and a selection from the "Ode to St. Cecilia," "As from the power of sacred Inys," with beautiful effect, Madame Clara Novelle singing the solo. The return of the precession was hailed with loud cheers, which were renewed and prolonged for several minute', when his Royal Highness, standing in front of the chair of at for malty rlecla , ed the Exhibition open. The orches- Ir t concluded the State coremon;al by performing the "Hallelujah Chorus." Prince Alb rt then pro ceed , d to ins. r ect in a more careful manner than be fore tie several departments of Vie Exhibition, and when he left each gallery or court the barriers sepa rating it from the central hall were removed alai toe public allowed to enter. His Royal Highness left the palace before 5 o'clock, and at our e drove to Abney-hall, where he was to pass the night. Thus was ope9ed the Exhibition of Art Treasures of the United Kingdom. A more auspicious com mencement could not have been desired. Not a single hitch, so far as we know, occurred during the day. On the contrary, all the arrangements were carried out in the most satisfactory manner, and the Executive Committ e have every reason to be proud of the success which has thus far crownei hair efforts. There is a report that Major General Sir. W. Williams, M.P., will have the governorship of Malta, which will shortly be vacated by Sir W. ReiJ. This would leave the seat for Caine °Dm, .ATTEMPT TO MURDER NEAR 8UR!..711,13f, SOHERSET SHIRE.—A. "navvy " named John Hickea, employed on the Central Somerset Railway between Highbridge and Burnham, and residing at Berrow, a village near tke latter place, having spent an hour or two with his fellow workmen after his day's work, went home in company with two of them, about nine o'clock. His companions left him at the docr of his cottage, but in a minute after wards heard a cry of murder and saw Hickes running towards them and covered with blood. He had received . a tremendous cut in the throat, and stated that on hi= entering his cottage his wife bad advanced towards him " as if to kiss him," and inflicted the gash with a razor. The man's wife, it was found, had been for two days en gaged in packing up the furniture, and had given out among the neighbours that they were going to leave. In the garden a hole was discovered having every ap- Pearanee of a grave, and with it a quantity of quicklime by the side of it. She was taken before the magistrates on Monday and committed for trial. Paine OP GOLD —The quotation of gold at Paris is about 6 per mills premium, and the short exchange on London 1 E125.221 per 11. sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 30id per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is nearly 4-10ths per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 4241 per mark, and the short exchange on London is 13 41 per 1/. sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price ie therefore about 2-10ths per cent, dearer in Hamburg t han in London. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is 1091 per cent , which, when compared with the Mi n t par b etween th e two countries, shows that the exchange is aboutat par. And after making allowance for charges of transport and difference of interest, the present rate leaves a trifling profit on the importation of gold from America. The commercial advices from New York this week show that remittances of specie may now continue to be expected by each packet. The stock-market still pre sented a down ward tendency, the news from England of the advance of the Bank rate of discount to 61 per cent, h tying counteracted the previous effect of a better supply was quoted 46. ; Readin g . of money. Erie Railway 81 ; Panama, 92 : New York Central, 871 ; and Ile. neis Central, MI. The New York Tribune mentions the successful negotiation in London of 225,0001. of the bonds of the Panama Railroad Company. The last nacket stated that 200,0001. had just been obtained in like manner on the bonds of some Western line, and thus, notwithstanding the pressure in our discount mar ket, we find capital being subscribed to be sent away at the rate of nearly half a million sterling in a fortnight. The construction f the Ohio and Mississippi Railway, the shares of which are largely held in England, had been completed on the 151) of April, and regulpr trains were to commence running the entire distance between Cincinnati and St. Louis on the Ist of May. The length of the line is 341 miles, of which 105 have been COL. strocted and stacked in the space of about nine months ' aid a half. ti ft It if ti 14 13 0 14 . W 111 Pt IA ti . A. PI VO 4 t. 1. 4 1 tfi Elt 11,1 A.l 1 . ; fit y s r; A r.t it 2. departlndttts of Art lu departmeets the most in curreney. reoin that time forth be has none. ' First Night of LUCIA DI LAS M ERIMOOR. widely scattered and the most strikingly diversified ! dered in the mire, leaving on each shoal and q uick- PICCOLOMINI, GIUGLINI, BELLETTI, VIOLET CI, HO GARTH her Great Painter of Manners. TURNER sands some shred of his former reputation. He TO-MORROW (THURSDAY) EVENING, May 7. LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR , her g reat Landscape Painter, and not hers only, subsequently ba bbled forth fallacies about the I; : acia, Piccolomini (her first appearance in that part). but the world's, accomplishing more as a veritable facility with which Russia could be "doubled up," Edgardo, Sig. Giuglini. Ballet—LA ESMERALDA. interpreter of Nature than was ever dreamt of by and when the crisis came, strove, with all his La Esmeralda, Mdlle, Pocchiui. I LORRAINE, or SALVATOR, or VANDERV ELDT, or energies, to induce England to back out disgrace- Poeparticulars see bills. A limited number of boxes in the H alf CANNALETTI, "in their philosophy !" And so step fully from the inevitabl e co nt e st into which she Cir b cl e e had d r on have a p . peen specially reserved for tee public , and ma y 11,,y. by step—perhaps we should rather write it steppe had been unwilling l y dra gg ed ! These were the plication at the Box-office at the Theatre Colonnade , market. by steppe, through all that flowery fairy land of errors that changed his political character—that Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. Art ! If the Dutch have their HOBEIMA, have destroyed his quondam , prestige. The motion on not we our COLLINS ? If they have rejoiced in a the Chinese question "capped the climax." It TENIERS have not we had reason to exult in a was the last straw that " broke the camels back"— WireerE ? The very pigs in our farmyards have that insured his opponents success far more than been "glorified" by the brush of MORLAND, even local influences, or canvass from door t) door. as nowadays the fruits from our gardens and or- if Mr. COBDEN thinks rightly on these things, chards are magically perpetuated in perrennial his "relief from Parliamentary duties" will be au bloom upon the luscious canvass of LANCE. The unequivocal benefit, both to himself and the com marvellous adaptability of Art has, perhaps, munity at large. If he persists in his error, we indeed been nowhere more curiously ex- can only deplore that a man, who had once este emplified than in this country, amongst blished so high a position, should have been so ourselves —an adaptibility not one jot less marvel- ill-advised as to sacrifice the basis on which it lour, in its way, than that which once made Lord was sustained, and with regret join in the verdict JEFFREYS liken the steam-engine, by an exqui- of the men of Huddersfield, that he shall " never site analogy, to the trunk of an elephant—capable more be officer of ours." at once of rending an oak and picking up a needle The secret of success in Art, in its lowliest no less than in its loftiest phase, having been epi grammatically expressed by SCIILLBR in that most felic.taus phrase which the closing fragment of the happily-chosen motto for this year's Royal Academy catalogue—es sey jeder vollendet in Bich —each be complete in himself ! A recommendation from Poetry which, if but strenuously and con scientiously followed out by . the Votaries of her Sister Art, under the guidance of Genius, leads naturally and inevitably to the same goal—Per fection—whether it be in the portraiture of a dog or in the delineation of a hurricane—an axiom, the unconscious compliance with which, in our. own day, has placed LANDSEER at the head of all Aniwal Painters, and TURNER in a much grander and more glorious walk of Art, in the very van of all the World's great Painters of Landscape ! With such nurseries in Art as those we have here cursorily hinted at, no marvel that England is the scene of thefirst grand Fine Arts Exhibition. England that, while boast ing of artists like REYNOLDS, and ETTY, and GAINS BOROUGH, can boast also of sculptors no less eminent than FLAX AN, and GasoN, and CHANTRY ; as also of engravers such as STRANGE, and Doo, and WOOLLETT ! Yesterday will be redlettered iu the annals of the reign of VICTORIA. It will be long remembered in the city of Manchester . . When we think for a mo ment of the Treasures there collected together in the noble structure erected for the purpose of this remarkable and unprecedented Exhibition, we think also, and with little less than a shudder, of the frightful possibility of there being just the chance of some new EROSTRATUS ! A casualty there would be altogether in its way as deplorable, as irreparable, as calamitous as that of the library of Alexandria. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING, will be performed Shakespere's tragedy of KING RICHARD THE SECOND. King Richard 11., Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by A GAME OF ROMPS. THEATRE ROYAL, H AYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. NEW ARRANGEMENT OF PRICES OF ADMISSION. THIS EVENING (Tuesday), and to-morrow Evening Wednesday, for two nights only, to commence at Seven with the Comedy of THE BEAUX' STRATAGEM. Archer, Mr. Howe ; Aimwell, Mr. Firren; Sullen, Mr. Chippendale ; Boniface, Mr. Rogers ; and Scrub, Mr. Buckstone; Mrs. Sul len, Miss Reynolds ; Dorinda, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. After which, the successfu Classical Love Story, un der the Apple-lotion of A I'ALANTA ; or, The Three Golden Apples : in which Miss M. Oliver will appear; also Miss M. Wilton, and Miss Ellen Ternan. Concluding with MY WIFE'S DAUGHTER. In future the prices will be:— Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d. Dress Boxes Upper Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 Pit 2 0 Pit 1 0 Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 El No half-price to Upper Gallery. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed LIKE AND UNLIKE. Chara, , ters by Nlessrs.Wright, Paul Bedford, &c.; Madame Celeste, Miss Windham, &c. Followed by a new Farce, called FEARFUL TRAGEDY IN THE SEVEN DIALS. To conclude with THE ELVES, in which Madame Celeste will perform OYAL SURREY THEATRE, I,k) Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creawick. THIS EVENING (for the Benefit of Mr. Flexmore) will be performed THE RENT DIY. Martin Heywood, Mr. Creswiek. After which, VIE BIRTRDAY. Poor John, Mr. Flex more ; Une Jenne, Madlle. Auriol. To conclude with a pantomimic sketch of HARLEQUIN SEE SAW. Clown, Mr. Flexmore. ROY AL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, will be performed a new drama, called DADDY HARDACRE. Mr. Robson, &c. To conclude with YOUNG AND HANDSOME. Messrs. Robson, G. Murray, dic. Commence at half-past Seven. STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. Unprecedented success of the New Grand Military Spec tacle, in which Mr. W. Cooke's highly trained Horses appear iu novel and exciting situations. THIS EVENING, and during the week, the Enter- tainments commence with the New Military Spectacle, in three Acts, entitled THE FRENCH IN ALGIERS ; or, The Battle of Constantine. To be followed by Recherche SCENES IN THE ARENA, giving an EQUESTRIAN FE CE ; introducing the great ar tistes of the establishment, including Miss Kate Cooke. Signor Curelli and Family, and a variety of other entertain men ts. Commerce at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from 1/., no charge for booking ; Pit, 2s ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6(1. 133 x-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Ar. W. West. Evestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. CANTERBURY HALL. Westminster-road. — OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow 11z company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of elections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Ducts, &c., viz.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunell, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta ; Mr. J. ‘'aulfteld, Herr F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corti. Senor Antonio M. rio Solla, and E. L. Hime ; Masters Bennett and Corri; Moesrs. Sam Cowell, Sara Collins, and E. Mackney, Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.; Erector, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pro Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock. ,lll+ll WATER. AT LONDON BRIDt_I4.. CHIS DAI —Morn. 21 min. aft. 12 —Evening 38 mid. aft. 12 fr.-M 01.1110 w —Morn. 57 min. aft.l2 —Evening 15 min. ail 1 The casualties (1) to the Transit, and her twin sister the Urgent, cast considerable light on the mode in which "My Lords" carry on their bu3i- TtiE WEATITER—SUN Omega MAY 6. THERISOIIETER. IN THE SHADE. 53 Lighest rinse noon yesterday. -ioa - est this morning and during the night. 54 -this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30'7. wurn, N.E. to E. ; light, with milder weather, and fine. oA Cr _ , ' s r: 7— SwS re , 4 . 4 . Z 71 77 , At 4..14 -- • A ness, and prove, beyond the possibility of doubt, with how little wisdom the affairs of the nation are managed, at least so far as the Navy is eon cerned. Both these unfortunate vessels had to put into the very same port—Corunna—in almost a sinking state ; and it will be truly fortunate if something far wors6 does not result from a " perseverance" in retaining on the establishment vessels, the inefficiency of which has been so fre quently exemplified. Similar accidents do not occur in the Merchant Service. The managers there have personal interests to attend to, and profit by the lessons they receive. But so long as routine is pursued, provided all the regulations of redtapism are fulfilled, my Lord.s are very indifferent as to consequences. It signifies little, al though 800 gallant men should go to the bottom, or the national honour and the national interest should be jeopardised in another hemisphere, if all was done iu strict accordance with precedents. One of the chief causes of the misfortunes o the Transit, has been her unwieldy anchors. As the correspondent of a Morning Contemporary, whose letter we have inserted in another part of our impression, declares "routine and the Estab lishment prevailed against every effort to obtain more manageable anchors," although the experi ence of the Naval Review, when " Noble Lords and grave Judges had to lend a hand at the capstan," might have satis fied any impartial observer of the disadvantages arising from the use of the ponderous instrument, which could scarcely be weighed by all the available power on board, and the fluke whereof, on that disastrous day, " hooked an unfortunate gun-boat, and tore the masts out of her," and, in the early part of last month, went right through the bottom of the 111-fated ship. The anchor was the monster to which it was bound—" the old man of the sea" from which it could not extricate itself. My Lards were proud of the Leviathan which was " big enough, and expen sive enough" to have done better. There was but one drawback, ill was utterly beyond the capacity of the condemned vessel which could not require the enormous weight. The mere rudiments of naval science, its very A. B. C. ought to teach the nature and magnitude of the anchors required to ride out a heavy gale. The Himalaya had passed through a stringent ordeal. She had safely sustained the terrific storm of the 14th November, 1854, in the Black Sea, and the anchors that had been so severely tested, weighed in the aggregate ii tons, and cost some 2801. Nor, the Transit being 1,000 tons less burden, might have carried a proportionably less amount of ground tackle. In place, however, of so doing, the Admiralty anchors on board exceed 13i tons (costing more than three times as much, viz., 8800. The cause of "the straining" may there fore be easily guessed. The heavy concentrated weight must necessarily tell, and it has told with a vengeance, on repeated occasions. A little foresight would remedy these evils, but my Lords are incorrigible. They will not deviate from the beaten path, or transgress the assigned limits, no matter how urgent the occasion. This should be locked to, 'and it is a matter which can only be properly attended to in Parliament, where Sir C. WOOD and hi.i, colleagues may fairly be called to task for the gross mismanagement of so important a branch of the public service. Deprived of his seat in Parliament, Mr. Conn DEN still continues to keep his name before the public. He returns elaborate answers to the various sympathising addresses, forwarded by those who, mindful of the important services he rendered at the time of the Anti-Corn-law agita tion, forget the grave mistakes into which he has since suffered himself to be betrayed 1 By so doing, he endeavours to delude himself and the community at large. He endeavours to soften down the decisive, nay, more, the. ignominious defeat which he, in common with all the leading Members of his school, has received, by ascrib ing it to anything but the true cause. He de. &area that " his entrance on the contest for Hud dersfield was, at the time, simply and solely, a mistake." No, Mr. COBDEN, it was "no mis take !" And in saying 30, we are influenced by charitable feelings, remembering the apophthegm of TALLEYRAND, that such "a mistake is worse than a crime." It was not because you entered late on the contest, or that your opponent, Mr. ACK ROYD, " occupied an influential position," or that he was already "in the mid4t of a canvass from door to door," that you were defeated l It was, to use your own words, simply and solely be cause you had enunciated a wrong principle, and endeavoured to make the electors of Huddersfield, participators in the erroneous doctrine. They would not permit themselves to be dragged through the mire, or to be chained to the chariot wheels of the Peace•at-any-price Society, or to be enrolled amongst the " Yehites." They resented the un-English policy of which you had bee❑ the exponent in the House of Commons. They responded like true hearted and independent Englishmen, to the spirit-stirring appeal of the Premier, being firmly resolved to maintain the national honour at any and every cost. ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON I. Yesterday the 36th anniversary of the death of Napoleon T. was celebrated as usual at the Hotel des Invalides. A mass in commemoration of the deceased was celebrated by the chaplain of the In valides, in presence of General Count Ornano, the Governor, the General Commanding, and the entire staff. Places were reserved in the nave for the great bodies of the St ttt. M. Billault, the Minister of the Interior, attired in mourning, and wearing the decoration of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, attended, as also did Baron de Lacrosse, Gener•ll4 Lafontaine and Foucher in uniform, and Gen. Pelat in the costume of s ,, nator, M. Larabit, Colonel Laborde, and several m tubers of the two Chambers and of the great bodies of the Sta'e. On the right of the pullet d'honoleur, formed of inva lides, were placed delega'es from the veterans of the Empire, attired in their ancient uniform. The Princes of the Imperial family att-nided the servi , e in the Chapel of the Tuileries. The Church of the Invalides was filled with private iadividuds, and a number of old soldiers came to pray f )r the repose of the soul of him whom, when living, they re garded as a demi-god. The eight magnitinent lu , tres presented by Prince Jerome were lighted. After the ceremony the old soldiers were per mitte d to visit Napoleon's tomb, and to pray in the chapel of St. Jerome, in which the ashes of the great man are deposited. Time was when your name was a " household word," when any influential liberal constituency in Great Britain would have been proud to have obtained you as its representative ; when no sound Free-trader would have opposed your pre-eminent claims, and no honest voter would have required " a canvass from door to door." The change has not been in the people, but in yourself I Profit by the salutary, albeit painful-lesson—take the rough instruction deeply to heart, and learn to amend the errors by which it was rendered necessary. Then indeed you will be again received with joy, and the portals of the House flung wide for your reception. There is still a locus penitentice—still an opportunity for reconciliation. Confess your fault, promise amendment and the ameiade will be accepted. Then, indeed, " RICHARD will be him s if again," and his last days will be more honoured and prosperous than his earlier ones ! Let Mr. COBDEN consider these things calmly and maturely. No honour is to be gained by obstinate adherenCe to error. Lst him not impeach the sound decision of the honest jury, who re turned a just verdict. He cannot convert the people to his Peace at any Price Notions, and as " the mountain will not go to MAHOMET ;" why " MAHOMET should make up his mind to go to " the mountain !" We could bear much from RICHARD COBDEN with al his faults ; and " their name is legion ;" we could " better spare a better man." He ought to be in Parliament, and were not the issue too momentous, we should gladly waive a point in his favour But he should take the initiative. The onus rests on his shoul ders ; and he may be assured that it will be far more honourable—far more conducive to his political reputation—to atone for than to glory in his offence. He declares that the " real cause of his finding himself out of the House is to be traced as far back as 1847." It is ! But it was not in elect ing to sit for the West Riding in place of Stock poit. It was because he committed his firsi error in reference td the commercial crisis of that year. It was his vote in the select committee on Money Laws, which gave the bullionists a slender majority as to the causes of the monetary distress. The praises so lavishly besto ~ , e d by Sir ROBERT PEEL on his previous career won him over to the Anti-Free Trade party, and indue3d him to give what might almost be regarded a tasting vote against " unrestricted competition" .A' ~ ; ~ ~ 'rho Duke of Stitt:Avid Jost! Lord 12 , ,,i4.1 144,e50* Gaffer have artived at Stafford 'House, from Cliefden, Bucks. The Duke of Beaufort left Badminton on Monday, for Chester, where big Grace will stay during the race week. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland have arrived at Northumberland House, fr3ro Sion House, h V. for the season. The Marquis of Lothian arrived in town yesterday, from Newbattle Abbey, Mld-Lothian. The Marquis of Lansdowne entertained at dinner, on Monday, the Countess of Morley, Lady Wrn. Russell, the Earl anti Countess of Shelburne, Viscount and Vie countess Duncan, My. 'Lane Fox, Count Strzeleeki, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, the. Hon. F. Byng, Mr. B. Osborne, M.P., Mr. Da Lane, and the Right Hon. J. Bouverie, M.P., and the Hon. Mrs. Bouverie. The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter are expected in town in a few days, from Burghley, for the season. The Marquis of Stafford, M.P., has left town for Manchester. The marchioness remains in town. The Countess of Jersey and Lady Clennentina Villiers arrived in Berkeley-square, on Monday evening, from Oakley-park, near Cirencester, the Earl Bathurst's seat, where the coma ess made a short stay o❑ their way to town from Devonshire. The noble earl has come to fown from Middleton-park. The Countess Frances Waldegrave and Mr. Har court, M.P., have been entertaining during the past week, at Strawberry-hill, the following company :—His Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, the Marchioness of Clanricarde, the Countess de Flabault, the Earl and Countess Stanhope, Mr. G. E. and Lady Selina Vernon, Viscount Chelsea, the Bishop of Oxford, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Lord and Lady John Russell, Mr. Ralph Sneyd, Mr. Chichester For tescue, Mr. Norman Macdonald, Colonel and Mrs. Malcolm, Mr. Grenfell, and Mr. William Harcourt. The Earl and Counte=s Manvers are expected in Portman-square, on Friday next, from Thoresby-park, Notts, for the season. The Earl of Lonsdale, who arrived in town a , few days back from Paris, has since gone to Lowther Castle, Westmoreland. The Earl and Countess of Yarborough have arrived in Arlington-street, from the Continent. The Earl of Powis arrived in town on Monday, from Walcott House, Shropshire. The Countess of Powis and Lady Lucy Herbert have also come to town. The Earl Granville, President of the Council, will preside at the ceremony of conferring degrees in connec tion with the University of London, which takes place to-day. The noble lord was elected Chancellor of the University upon the resignation of the Earl of Burling ton some time since. Viscount Palmerston will give a State dinner to the members of the House of Commons, at Cambridge House, this evening. Her ladyship will "receive" on Saturday, the 16th inst., and on the following Saturday. L crd and Lady Cochrane have arrived on a visit at Mr. Mackinnon's mansion, in Hyde-park-place. Lard and Lady Churchill have arrived at the St. George's Hotel. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Coventry and family have arrived at their residence in Belgrave-square for the season, from Melton Mowbray. Mr. and Lady Dorothy Nevill have arrived in Gros venor-street from Dangstein House, near Petersfield. Mrs. W. E. Gladstone has cards out for an assembly, on Monday next, at the family mansion on Carlton House-terrace. Sir Robert Peel has, we are informed, resigned his office as Lord of the Admiralty. His brother, Mr. F. Peel, having failed to obtain re-election, has been com pelled to leave the War Department, and the estimates will be moved by Sir John Ramsden, who will not, how ever, be able to present himself to his constituents for re-election ■util 14 days after the meeting of Parliament. Mr. F. Peel will, we believe, be sworn of the Privy Council. DEATH OF LADY ASHBURTON. —lt is with much re gret that we announce the death of Lady Ashburton, which took place at Paris on Monday last. She had passed the last winter at Nice, and had reached Paris on her way to England, having, as it was hoped, over come the malady under which she sank. Lady Ashbur ton was the eldest daughter of the sixth Eirl of Sand wich, and was married to the present Lord Ashburton, then Mr. Bnigham Baring, in 1823. Sir Charles Napier, it is said, was offend the Devon port command by the Admir.►lty, bat would not give up his Southwark constituency for it. Mr. Monsell, it is said, wilt leave the Government before long, inasmuch as his new department—the Board of Health—is to be abolished, or rather not renewed, alter this year, and will in future form a branch of the Home-office, under the supervision of the Secretary of State. WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—The income of the Wesleyan Missionary Society this year is 119,205/. Bs. 24. THE TEA TRADE, May s.—The deliveries in London estimeted for the week were 828,1C91b., being a decrease of 184,3151 h. compared with the previous statement. The 200,0001 of gold announced last week by the Anglesey is expected to be delivered to day, but only a portion of it will be retained. The market for silver is heavy, and fur , her private a‘lvices from Mexico confirm the statement that the Parana, to arrive here about the Ist of June, may be expected to bring a large quantity. FATAL EXPLOSION. WOLVERHAMPTON, Tuesday Evening.—At the blast furnaces of Messrs. W. Riley and Sons, Millfields, two miles from Wolverhampton, there occurred this afternoon au explosion of hydrogen gas, which has caused the death of three persona, the supposed fatal injury of a fourth, and the serious injury of four other persons, all workpeople of Messrs. Riley. THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE CRYSTAL PALACE RAlLWAY.—Yesterday afternoon Mr. W. Payne, the coroner, held an inquest at Guy's Hospital on the body of Mr:Joseph Gann, aged 50, who died from injuries which he received in an accident to a Crystal Palace train, near the London-bridge station, on Saturday, as already noticed in this journal. The jury, after some deliberation, returned a verdict of accidental death. City of Hamilton (Canada) Six per Cent. Debenture Bonds for 92,000/ , redeemable in 13 or 19 years, have been brought on the London market for disposa'. The amount is to be applied to the construction of the Hamil ton and Port Dover Railway. Persons in America directing letters for London should be careful to put the initial letters of Cats metro politan dfstrict intended above the word " London," and not under it. A leading house in New York having transmitted bills for 70,0001. in a letter directed " London, W. C.," it was carried to London, Western Canada. FATAL ACCIDENT.—A man named Wan. Forman, while at work last Friday repairing the premises of Mr. Doulton'a Pottery, in Lsmbeih, which were damaged by fire a few weeks ago, was killed -by the fall of a piece of timber, the tackling having broken with which he was attempting to hoist it up. An inquest was held yesterday by Mr. W. Carter, at the John Bull Tavern, Tyers-street, Larabath, and a verdict of " Accidental death " returned. An English gentleman recently incurred a fine of Mr. and the seizure of his cigars for attempting to pass 80 cigars without declaring them at the gates of Turin, and the authorities were with some difficulty induced to re duce the fine to 50f., on satisfactory proof being given that the gentleman had no fraudulent intentions, and that he was in complete ignorance of the laws of Sar dinia on this head. It should be mentioned also, that all travellers are liehle to have their baggage searched on entering Turin, and the presence of cigars and tobacco therein which have not paid duty will bring the proprie. for within the action of tbe law, although he may him self have purchased the articles within the Sardinian States, the only security against which is to buy always at the registered shops for the sale of such government monopolies, and not from waiters or other vendors of smuggled goods. INSTALLATION OF • ARCHDEACON MANNING.—Yes. terday morning a ceremony which excited a great deal of interest among the membersof the Roman Catholic body took place at the church of St. Mary, Moorfields, in the presence of a large congregation. For some time pasttbe Loss OF THE SHIP PHAETON, EAST INDIA TRADER. Very Reverend Dr. Manning, who, before he became --Tnis fine ship, 1,932 tons burthen, belonging to a priest of the church of Rome a few years since, Alessre. Sheppard and Co., of Fenchurch-street, with was a beneficed clergyman in the church of Eng -260 Chinese emigrants on board, on a voyage from land and Archdeacon of Chichester, has been at [long Kong, for Adelaide, has been wrecked near Cape Rome perfecting himself in all the details of the Domboy, Guichen Bay, Australia. Although several ecclesiastical system of the Roman church, and has casualties occurred by the upsetting of the boats, no received from the Pope the appointment of a canon and lives were lost. The ship subsequently became a provost of the church in Horseferry-road, Westminster. wreck ; the bull was sold for 1,2001., and the cargo of Yesterday morning the rev, gentlemen presented him teas for 4451. The owners are understood to be self for installation at St. Mary's, where he was received insured. by Cardinal Wiseman in his robes, and by the priests AN ADVENTURE IN A DRAW-WELL.—A short distance and other officers of the establishment. The service was beyond Brandling-olace, and near to the Moor Edge, is conducted in Latin. The new provost promised, ac a draw-well, about 35 feet deep, three feet five inches in cording to the forms of the Roman Catholic Church, diameter, with water to within about eight feet of the canonical obedience to " his Eminence the Cardinal top. On Sunday morning last a hat was found near the Archbishop of Westminster," and was then formally ad spot, and certain finger marks on the sides of the well in- milted to the possession of his new dignities. dicated that a struggle for life or death had very re- EXALOSION ON THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN cently taken place. At first it was whispered that a RAILWAY.—LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.—About noon this man bad been drowned in the old well, and eventually a day a laggage engine, named St. Patrick, was in an vague rumour to that effect reached the Prudhoe-street open space below the engine-house at Edge Hill, with police-station. Long poles and grappling-irons were i n steam up, waiting the approach of the trucks containing immeliate reqnieition, but after some hours' labour, the cattle from Wapping, with which it was intended to search was given up as hopeless, and the bystanders proceed up the line. While thus situated and every slowly and sorrowfully returned to their homes. And attention was being paid in expectation of the trucks, thus the matter rested, until a pitman belonging to the boiler of the engine burst wi h a terrific report. Gasforth-row, named Williatu Craven, having heard that The noise of the explosion was accompanied by the an unclaimed hat was lying at the station house, came dispersion of large quantities of coke and fire. Assis and identified it as his property. He said that on tanee was promptly rendered, and it was then dis- Saturday evening he was going home over the Moor in. covered that the engine -driver, Joseph Ford, had been tox'cated, in company with some of his neighbours, and blown away a considerable distance, was dreadfully having quarrelled with them, he returned towards the mutilated, and quite dead. Further on, in the fourth town. He remembered nothing after that but having carriage from the engine, the body of Seth, the fireman, plumped very suddenly overhead into a deep hole full of was recognised. One leg was very much shattered, water. On coming to the surface he worked himself the thigh bone protruding through the skin, and the clear of tbe water by means of his feet and shoulders, and back part of his skull was broken in. Life had not whilst in this position he stated he fed asleep several d parted, and he was consequently removed to the times, but aw. , ke on finding himself slipping down again. Royal Infirmary, but shortly after his reception he How be got into the well—how long he remained in the breathed his last. The breakstnan, or line foreman, perilous situation in which he stated himself to have be-n was dreadfully scalded, his body being blackened from placed—and row be got out again, he was totally unable head to foot ; he also was taken to the Infirmary, and t remember, but this he did recollect, that he went over lies in a precarious state. Ford has kit a widow and to Gateshead to some of his friends, wet, cold, and bun- four children, and Harrison has a wife and seven of a gry, and minus his hat, coat, and two waistcoats.—New- family, all of whom were dependant upon the victims mate chrohiee. of this distressing disaster. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1857 Another Peaceful epoch in the history of this country was yesterday inaugurated. It was.in augurated with unusual solemnity and magnifi cence by the ceremony presided over by H. R. H. The PRINCE, the long and eagerly-expected cere mony of the Opening of the Fine Arts Exhibition at Manchester. Everything upon this really auspicious occasion appears to have " gone off," as a popular idiom has it, "to admiration." Deputations presented Loyal Addresses ; t.) these Gracious Replies ware duly returned. Ecclesias tical and military authorities assisted together i.t the celebration—a celebration principally cot.- ducted by the members of the Special Commission, aided by those of the local municipality. The programme of the whole of these deeply interest ing and singularly attractive proceedings judi ciously, as well as naturally, bore a striking re semblance to that which systematised on the me morable May-day of 1851. the opening of that Industrial Exhibition in Hyde-park, which was at once the prototype and precursor of this Fi❑e Arts Exhibition in the City of Manchester. And it was, by analogy, with the same startling con trast that upon the former occasion there was wit nessed the Celebration of the Industrial Triumphs of the Human Race in the green " Pleasaunce" of Fashion hard by Rotten-row, upon the margin of Mayfair, and within the immediate precincts of Belgravia ! It was, we repeat, by analogy, with the same startling contrast that upon the present occasion there was witnessed the celebra tion of the Triumphs of all the more refined and exquisite Arts of Luxury in the midst of the reeking chimneys and the roaring factories of Cottenopolis ! Incidents such as these—incidents like the Inauguration by the QUEEN upon the Ist of May, 1851, of the Crystal Palace of Industry in Abe West End of London, and the Inaugura tion, six years afterwards, by the PRINCE, upon the sth of May, 1857, of the Crystal Palace of the Fine Arts in the great manufacturing capital of Lancashire —signalise in a manner the most significant, as well as the most picturesque, the sym pathy binding together some of the most dissimilar classes in the whole of our motley and complex com munity. This, in truth, is what has been called, for want of a better phrase, Reciprocity. This, indeed, is genuine Brotherhood. May it prove a reciprocation fruitful of the happiest consequences —a fraternal greeting productive of something better than the mere truce of a passing Holiday. Industry and Art truly Allied, intimately and permanently knit together—would constitute not simply an Epoch in the History of this Country, but an Era in the Annals of Civilisation. It is only reasonable—it is not in any way in congruous, that England should be the arena of the world's first aggregate Fine Arts Exhibition. For, if in Earlier Times Italy has had her RAPHAEL and her MICHEL ANGELO, France her CLAUDE and her PoUssIN, Holland her RUBE vs and her REMBRANDT, Spain her MUB/LIC.O and her VELA.SQUEZ —has not England in more Recent Periods had her glories also in the Victories of Art? And these won moreover in the highest as well as in the lowlies t LATEST NEWS. THE CAPTURE MOHAMMORAH. The following telegraphic despatch has been re ceived from Sir James Outrarn, dated " CAMP, BEFORE MOLIAMMORAH, MARCIE 28. " Moliammorah was captured by the British on the 26th inst. The enemy lost 200 killed and wounded, among whom was Asherluf Brigadier, besides 17 guns, and a vast amount of ammuni tion and military stores. " The Persian army, under the Shah Zadab, retreated towards Ahwaz and Shuster i❑ great disorder. "The British forces are encamped near Mo- hammorah. " Our loss i❑ killed and wounded is about 10. " The Arab tribes are friendly, and are sending in their submission." BERLIN, MAY 5. Prince Napoleon will arrive here on Thursday evening, to return the visit paid last autumn by Prince Frederick William of Prussia to the French Court. The Paris Correspondent of the Morning Post says there is no truth in the above statement. Nothing official has transpired in Paris, in refer ence to the alleged refusal of the Shah of Persia to ratify the treaty concluded with England. Such a proceeding would be at variance with the intim tions manifested by the Shall, who appears to have conferred full powers on Ferouk Khan. The Neuchatel question, says the correspondent' of the Times (second edition), which everybody believed and hoped was, after so many delays and difficulties, disposed of, seems pretty nearly as far from final settlement as on the Ist of April last. What will next be done it is difficult to say. Switzerland accepted the decision of the Representatives of the Powers, to her great morti fication certainly—but still she accepted it, and was prepared to abide by that acceptance. But the King of Prussia apparently did not mean to do so, as he now demands further modifications. SWITZERLAND. The following letter has been addressed by Col. Denzler, Member of the Grand-Conned of Switzer land, to the Council of State of the Canton of Neuchatel. It is looked upon as a manifestatim, of great importance, as emanating from a person highly respected, and holding a high rank in the Federal army. Colonel Denzler is a citizen of Zurich, but having married a rich heiress of the canton of Neuchatel, procured the right of citizen ship of that canton, where he is settled. It was Colonel Denzler who commanded the Republican troops against the Royalist insurrection, and he enjoys the confidence of the army : "M. President and Gentlemen,—l learnt yesterday from the Budd, the semi-official organ of the Federal Council, that the latter had resolved, on Saturday last, to submit to you the proposal of arrangement of the Paris Conference concerning the Neuchatel question, a proposal against which there is much to be said. " I understand, knowing the temperament of the Fe deral Council, that it is anxious to throw the responsibi iity of accepting or rejecting that proposal upon a third party, and has selected you as its cat's paw to take the chesouts out of the fire. " I learn to-day, from the same journal, that the Go vernment of the canton of Neuchatel will declare itself satisfied, and it is asserted that a deputation of the said Government will arrive at Berne to-cloy, bearing that declaration. " Gentlemen, —As leader of the Republican troopv, who, on the 4th of September, 1856, re-established co❑ stitutional order in the Canton of Neuchat,l, and as a member of the Grand Council, I take the liberty of ad dressing a few words upon your course of action, premis ing that what the Band has advanced is true. " 1. I do not understand that you can consent that the King of Prussia shall maintain in future the title of Prince or Neuchattl and Valengin. "2. I do not understand that you can consent that he shall have an indemnity of 1,000,0001., that he may therewith reward the men who caused the disturbance of peace among us. " 3. I do not understand that you can take a decision on this subject, on your own responsibility, without con sulting the Grand Council. " I do not think that the Swies people in general, and the Neuchatel people in particular, mean that the au thorities shoutd accept all these conditions and submit to them, and that they are content to continue to folllw that policy of petty traders which has a ready caustd us so many humiliations. " I hope the Neuchatel people and its Grand Council ill oppose the propositions which it is wished to impose upon us. I also hope that the Federal Assembly wil not accept them. It is better to remain in the statu quo We shall find means enough in the Canton of Neuchatel to keep the Royalists in check. "I declare to you at once that, during the next ses sion of the Grand Council I shall bring forward a motion on the subject. " Accept, M. President and gentlemen, the assurance of my high consideration. "L. DENZLER, Colonel, Member of the Grand Council. "Fleurier, April 28." FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. The Emperor went at one o'clock yesterday to visit the Grand Duke, and presented him with the grand cordon of the Legionof Honour. The Prince went in the evening to the Grand Opera to witness the representation of the ballet of Marco Spada. Prince Napoleon will go to visit the Exhibition of Art Treasures at Manchester. vj The re-organisation of the Bank of France has not been postponed, but a new scheme for effecting it is under discussion. It is proposed that the capi tal shall be fixed at 300 million francs, of which 100 million shall he devoted to the purchase or rent's, and 100 million shall be employed i❑ giving facilities to trade. There are to be five new regent, appointed, who will be chosen from amongst the directors of railway companies ; and it is propose I that the Bank shall no longer be limited to the rate of 6 per cent., in discounting bills of less than 90 days' date. The following is the text of the expose des motifs of the bilipresented to the Legislative B xly, open ing a credit of 180,000 f. for the purchase of the tomb and habitation of the Emperor Napoleon I. at St. Helena : "The Emperor has cbargel us with the mission of presenting to the Legislative Body a bill for the purchase in the Island of St. Helena of the resi dence of Longwood, and of the tomb in which, for twenty years, the mortal remains of the fiist Napoleon were deposited. The exhumation of 1840 did not remove everything from the island of St. Helena, as two great relics still remained there—an open prison and an empty tomb. But industrial pursuits and speculation do not always pause or bow before respect for great men. The residence of Longwood has teen appropriated to the uses of an agricultural establishment. The house in which Napoleut resided has been converted into a farm building; a barn stands in the place where he dictated his ideas ; and the room where he breathed his last is now converted into a stable. His tomb has also undergone deplorable transfor mations. The ground in which the remains of the Emperor lay belongs to a private individual ; Ame rican speculation disputes the possession of it with the patriotism of France. It was necessary to put an end to these profanations. The Government of her Britannic Majesty interposed its good offices to enable France to purchase these relics—a testimony of so much grandeur and of such great suffering. Thanks to its intervention the domain of the State will extend beyond the Ocean to that land where destinies without equal were accomplished. Under a preceding government, the shore where St. Louis expired in the Regency of Tunis, near ancient Car thage, was consecrated by a mausoleum. A homage as striking wilt be rendered 'o the Emperor, who died under the sun of the tropics. Two great sou venirs will thus be raised at the two extremities of that African land Which our an have opened to . Plrves vislio.d by glary haw flolr immovality like heroes. Marked by an unexampled event, this small is'aud of Sr. Helena is, in the nii.ist of the sea, an historical monument. Nothing will ever efF,ce it from the memory of man. The Impf:rial Louvre will not eclipse 'he house at Lnng 'wood, nor will the crypt at the Invidides throw oblivion on the AVantic tonal). The whole of France, will thus unite in the atwust solicitude surrounds us with a fresh veneration these profaned relics, and rescue them from mercantile cleractitioils, to restore them to the piety of his tory." The Grand Dulze conversed a good deal with Mar-h 4 Pala ier at the ball giv-ri by the Miniser of Marine the other night. Their remarks natu raliy turned upon Seastopol. " When I heard that you lud taken the command," his Highness said, and tl,at you had selected Malakhoff as the point of attack, I knew that the place must fall, and th,t it was only a question of time. Our ob ject was !o prolong the defence till win - et." What the other Duke said is not recorded. It is sad. that' his Highness is to be named an ht , norary member of tit Academy of Sciences in Paris. The Ministerial journal of yesterday Le Pays con tains the following paragraph. "A private telegraphic despatch received at Llndau announces that the treaty of peace conc'uded between Great Britain ai.d Persia had not been ratified by the Court of Teheran. We know from private information that this news is inaccurite. The t, xt of the treaty, on account of the stat- of the roads, could not arrive at Teheran before the 15th or 20th of April, and, as 30 or 35 days at least are required to go from the capital of Persla to tl.e first tele raphic station, it is physically impossible that the reply of the Court of Teheran could he known at this moment." The folly wing telegraphic despatch has been re • ceived in Pal is := WARSEILLES, May sth.—The Journal de Con stantinople of the 27th announces that the tribes had recognised the author:ty of Schamyl, and were preparing to break the truce with Russia and join the Circas - sians, The Sultan has sent the order of the ALdjidie to the King of Prus , ia. Accounts frt m Athens of the 29th state that the discussion of the budget is advancing ; that of the Minister 'of Public instruction has been a loptel unanimously. The Alinister of the Finance hat presented a new customs t triff, based on that of the principal coun ' tries of Europe. Letters from Bugia of th- 28th state that the crops present the most favourable appearance," BOURSE, May s.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. c . 4A per Cents 3 per Cents 69 10 Bank Shares 4,300 Credit Mobilier 1,303 Roman Do. Account 1, 510 Austrian Belgian 41 Yiedmontese (5) 9O 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS—FOR CASH. fr c. tr c. Orleans 1,482 Western Northern Lyons 1,485 New Ditto Mediterranean 2,005 Grand Central - 775 Sardinian (31.,n7a 807 i— Austrian Cum. ....... 717a—* End of Month. 92fr. 69 40 RUSSIA. The Russian Government, it has been stated, has lately founded at Astrakan a large establishment for the construction of machines intended for the war st-mmers which are to form part of the flotilla of the Caspian Sea. Russia at the present moment has only three establishments of this kind : one belonging to MM. Scheplew, Brothers, in the Go vernment of Wislimir ; another, at Malzow, in the Government of Kalouga ; and the third, n ear Nijni-Novogorod. The last named, which is the nearest to Astrakan, is still at a distance of 2,250 wersts (about 1,406 miles) from it. This distance has much impeded the development of steam navi gation on the Caspian Set, and the formation of this new establishment will tend, it is expected, to give a considerable impulse to the commerce of Russia with the East. AUSTRIA. A letter from Vifnna, in the Boersenhalle of Hamburg, ascribes the precipitate departure Of Prince Daniele from that capital to two motives to the delay that took place in the reply to his de sire for an audience with the Emperor, and to a de spatch from Montenegro stating that the disturbed state of the country had so much increased that hip further ab , ence would be highly injudicious. A letter from Vienna of he Ist says :—Count Szechenyi, who has been charged to conduct the business of the Austrian legation at St. Petersburg during the attsence of Count Esterhazy, has had an audience of the Emperor to take leave, and is to de part to-morrow for his post. The Emperor has sr proved of the monetary conven.ion concluded oil the 24th Jan. last, and an exchange of ratifications with all the Governments concerned in it is s hort l 7 to take place at Vienna. Prince Sou zo, minister of Gieee3 at St. Peter&migh, pas el through this city a few days ago on his way to the Russian capita"' ' The Empress proposes, it is said, after her return from Hungary to pay a visit to her august parent s 'at the Chateau of Possenhofen, in Bavaria. The troubles in China are beginning to make themselves felt in our silk trade, and several of our most ira portant dealers have already sent agents to Londo n to purchase Chinese raw silk. The silk crop in Lombardy this year is looked on as. lost." Another letter from Vienna says It has been mentioned in our diplomatic circles, in a r ather positive manner, that a conciliatory step has j ll4 been made by the cabinet of Turin towards Austria' This pacific manifestation of the Sardinian cabine t has not, it is true, come to the knowledge of tin Austrian cabinet in a direct manner, but it is 1 3 °: considered the less satisfactory. It is stated that the cabinet of the Tuileries, on pressing represe°_," tations male to the court of Sardinia, h as re ceive° . from Turin a reply which is represented as being of a nature to induce the cabinet of Vienna to coy sent to the resumption of diplomatic relations 1 ) 0 ' tween the two court." Count de Buol addresed on April 2 to the Ger man courts a circular on the Austro-Sardinian dif ference, in which he renews his attempt to o btain from the Germanic Confederation a gua ra ntee the Italian possessions of Austria. A Berlin col: respondent of the Nord of Brussels, which is alway s hostile to Austria, intimates that the German go' vernments, instructed by experience, will not ei gage their responsibilly for interests in which th e y have no concern. Since the above despatch Ares written, a somewhat better fe , tling seems to bav° prung up betwem Austria and Piedmont. SPAIN. ' The Madrid journals (f the Ist have arrived. M the opening of the Cortes, which, as stated by tele i i graph, took place on that day, Marshal O'Donto did not take his place in the Senate, but was e$ petted to do so in a few days. It was said that dig' sensions had broken out in the Government ma:l ° : rity, but according to the p ar ti sans o f t h e ca binev they did not endanger its existence, being o ° ll caused hy differencei of opinion relative to the per; sons selec ed to fo rm th e b ureau o f th e Chamb er ad interim. Rumours were prevalent that an surrection in the province of Granada was 100 31 ; nent, and that the local authorities were on tb qui vivo ; also, that among other precautions, thel o had sent off two larga detachments of troop Antequera and Ronda, with orders to crush a"' attempt at disturl - Auce. The discovery of a el; spiracy in Andalusia was spoken of. A bill for t's c i reform of the mortgage system was to be present° t) the Cortes. The Brussels journals publish a despatch fr 0133 .0 Berlin, dated Saturday, which states that Prin e Napoleon is to pay a visa to the Prussian family' in that city, about, the Bth or 10th of this mont h ' 'lids visit is, it is slid, intended to be a courteo ll i return of that which Prince Frederick Wilßawl 0 0 Prus , ia paid to the C our t o f th e T u il er i e s 0 19 months ago. The Borsenhall e o f H am b urg announces that th e e representatives of all the powers which s igned " fi treaty of Paris assem bl e d on th e 21 s t u lt. a t 0° ;;; stantinople to deliberate on the memoir dr ak e up by the co mm i s -d on c h arge d t o present to Li jo conference the report on the principalities. memoir indicates the modifications which it I , N l v e be for the interest of the principalities to 113 of made, and they comprise almost all the articles of the &man convoking the Divans. The journa l 0 ,- Vienna agree in sayin g th a t th e e l ec ti ons o f we 0 , hers of the Divan are a dj ourne d to t h e 15th .11111 • The Grand Council o f t h e C anton of F r il-orgr 2 l3 s which . the ultramontane element dominates/ 4 ,1 - 0 terminated in four sitting s th e fi rs t d e b a te on v o p new constitution. The draft, which was draw . ° b . y a committee o f fifteen, hisnot undergon e . 3 4 0 0 important m o difi ca ti ons, except in the I.iis which appeared t o l eave some dou b ts on rellffi-od guarantees—and th ese ar ti c l es h ave b een t jre in accordance with the spirit which prevails l e o° council. A remarkable incident occurred. ho ici draft declared that ecclesiastics should not it legislative, executive, or judicial functions, " t - iri g. did . not deprive them of the right of 17°- 1 , - re' Bishop Marilley, however, in a leter to the sident, prayed the council not to accord at'Y i r a t• e tical right 4 whatever to ecclesiastics, EIS t he . to rests of religion required them to have no tbil. l o o it do w;th yolltical conflicts. After some d s cussl° ar t was decided that laymen alone should isk e ,,slt9 in el ciions. The draft decl +res that the of death shall not be inflicted for political enej:t• ue but re-establishes it for sundry great crimes last constitu-tion did away with it altogether. 1 sll / )j 011110 Eego( succe Porte 00178. the c loan Rrran provi, and 2 reinab an ag the E etaft, Other terms The stated 19,12( The °unto ] forwai ellnled receipt probai the A i receive plate t June 1 (lowa') cessity on VI( Englai hall re bullion exehan will lea so that Month! long ti A pc modati creased not yet sioned tlemen tain th, fall rat An graph ( raichael firming for the forei gn rfanov 4 to thi s ever th equal o Duly s i and Fi Th e Was als, N re bei ng Caleutt 4 )m al establis s how tt x.penci 4 ,916/. Glared, The lti consi ! le e°lint 18 qu i e "Perie to prey( ket is fi Austral hue, Nui per cc b een aro 92i karch th e ju ar e 981 Mar, most eRt in takes tors. activ vane, Ntel bit