The Sun. — London, England, 1857-06-04 00:00:00

ITER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING. Verdi's Opera of IL TROVATORE. Leonora, Mdlle. Spezia; Azucena, Madame Alboni. Manrico, Sig. Ginglini. After which, will be revived the highly successful Ballet by M. Perrot, entitled L'AURORE, Per particulars see bills. A limited number of boxes in the Half Circle Tier have been specially reserved for the public, and may be had on ap. plication at the Box-office at the Theatre Colonnade, Hay. market. Price One Guinea, and One Guinea and a Half each. fIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Piccolomini, Alboni, Spezia, Giuglini, Beueventano, Vialetti, Belletti. SATURDAY, June 6—LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Lucia, Piecolomini ; Edgardo, Sig. Giuglini. Concluding with L'ACRORE. For particulars, see bills. A limited number of Boxes in the Half-circle Tier have been specially reser-red for the public, and may be had on applica tion at the Box-office, at the Theatre Colonnade, Haymarket. Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. T4ES BOUFFES PARISIENS—St. JAMES'S THEATRE. Triumphant Success of the FRENCH PLAYS. THIS EVENING (Thursday), Jnae 4, the entertain. ments will commence at half-past 8 o'clock precisely, by the production of (for the fifth time in this country), the new Operette-Militaire, en un Acte, DR IGONETTE. M. Gnyot, M. Tajau, M. Leonce, and Mdlle. Oorally Guffroy. After which (4th time) Operette-Bouffe, en un Acte, LES PANTINS DE VIOLETTE : M. Pradeau, :Mlles. Mareschal, and Dalmont, and M. Anthonini. To conclude with Bouffonnerie Musicale, en un Acte, LES DEUX AVEUGLES. M. Pradeau and M. Mesmacer. This Engagement being limited to one mouth, Performances will be given EVEIIY EVENING. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be engaged at Mr. Mitchell's /Loyal Lihrau, 33, Old Bond-street. THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. . Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. • OPEN EVERY EVENING. GREAT EQUESTRIAN AMERICAN and CONTINENTAL COMPANY, under the direction of Miss Ella. Prices—Pit and Promenade, ls ; Boxes, 2s. 61, 25., and Is. 6d, ; Galleries, 6d. Doors open at half-past 7. Commence at S. First Equestrian Artistes in the World : - Madame Schap lain, Madame Newsome, La Petite Wells, Signora Delavanti, and Miss Ella ; Miss E. J. Wells, Mdlles. Flora, Fabia, and and Marie, MissesNewsome, Moffatt, Delavanti, Potter, Jen nings ; the Manchester Boy, Masters J. Wells, A. Wells, E. Moffatt, Henrico and Carlo Delavanti, Sig. Felix Delavanti, Mons; Becq, Mons. Ferdinand, Mons. Eugene, Mr. Tom Swann, Mr. B. Fuller, Mr. W. Fuller, and the great Shaks p;•ian Clown, Wallett, will appear each evening in a series of Performances, original and unapproachable. Director—Mr. Stokes. Acting Manager—Mr. E. Stirling. ROY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING will be performed Shakespere'A tragedy of KING RICHARD THE SECOND. King Richard IL, Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by a new Farce, in one act, called AN ENGLISHMAN'S HOUSE IS HIS CASTLE. T UEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with a new drama, in two periods, entitled THE HUSBAND OF AN HOUR. Mr. Bucketone, Sz.c. Followed by a new farce, MY SON, DIANA! After which, the successful Classical Love Story, nn der the Apple-lation of A TALANTA ; or, The Three Golden Apples : in which Miss M. Oliver will appear; also Miss M. Wilton, and Miss Ellen Ternan. In future the prices will be:-- 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 Tioxls 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 Pit Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed the new drama of GEORGE DARVILLE, in which Mr. BenjaminWe')ster, Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Redford, and Madame Celeste will perform. After which, THE PRETTY GIRLS OF STIL BERG, in which Mr Webster will app.ar. To conclude with A NIGHT AT NOTTING-HILL. Mr. Wright, ke. OPAL SURREY THEATRE, It' Lessees, 31essrs. Shepherd and Cresvriek. UTIIISI EVENING will be performed THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Mr. Haigh and Lucy Escott. After which, THE VILLAGE SMITH. Mr. Widdicomb, Miss M. Eburne, arc. ROY AL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, will be performed A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOIIIING. After which, a new drama, called DADDY HARDACRE, Mr. Robson, kc. To conclude with THE WANDERING MINSTREL. Commence at half-past Seven. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMP RITHEATRE La.. AND OPERA. HOUSE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. Under the patronage of Her Majesty and His Royal Highness Prince Albert. Continued and increasing success of the Grand Opera. E ,ormous attraction for the Whitsun Holidays. THIS EVENING (Thursday, June 4), Verdi's far-famed Opera of IL TROVATORE ; or, The Gipsy's Vengeance. The whole of the Music as performed at the Italian Opera, and Equestrian Illustrations. Miss Rebecca Isaacs, Miss M. Somers, and Miss Fanny Huddarl,. Mr. Augustus Braham, Mr. Brookhouse Bowler, Mr. Francis Kirby, Mr. J. A. Leffler, and Mr. Borrani. Conductor and Composer—Herr Meyer Lutz. With a powerful Band and Chorus. Manager and Director of the Opera Company—Mr. Augustus Braham. After which, Mr. Wm. Cooke's Holiday programme of novel and peerless SCENES in the ARENA. To conclude with the farce of SALLY SMART ; or, The Clockmaker's Hat. Commence at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper B )xes, 3s. Private Boxes, from 215., no charge for booking; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Notice— Darin; the Opera Season Half-price will take place at 9 o'clock, B3x office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager s Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooko, Jun. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow in' company of Vocalists aro engaged for the performance of c'elections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Duets, &c., viz.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Mins Brunell, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans, R. ;Grover, T. Farrant, S. , es, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corti. Senor Antonio M. de Solla, and E. L. Hime ; Masters Bennett and Corti; Messrs. Sam Cowell, Sam Collins, and E. 3fackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre cisely. Suppers. &c., until twelve o'clock. TRAND THEATRE.—BOSCO will APPEAR S THIS EVENING, in his Fairy Temple of the Magi, in his wondrous Entertainment of Natural Magic, Music, and Ventriloquism, illustrated by gorgeous paraphernalia and superb display of vertu. Stalls, 3s ; boxes, 23 ; pit, is ; gallery,. 6d. A Morning Performance on Saturdays, at 2. RIG 3 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T to DAY—Morn. 0 min. aft. o—Even., 53 min. aft. 11 To tor.tor--Norn.l4 min. aft. 12—Even. 36 min. aft. 12 TILE WEATHER—SUN °mai, JUNI 4. THERMOMETER, IN THZ SHADE. 69 -highest sines noon yesterday. 56 —lowest this morning and during the night; 72 —this day at noon. • BAROMETER. 30.17. Wtrrn, S.W. ; light, with fine sunshiny weather. - 7:11 •-) , tay LONDON, TRURSDA.Y, JUNE 4, 1857. Pal liament resumes b e. „i u „ s , this evening. Does it? Business, quotlia I— well certainly, if to do just exactly about Nothing means Business —it does ! For —really and truly—after all Mr. D isRAELf w as quite right when in that pithy Address of his to his Constituents, d ated " Hugh. enden Manor, March 17," ho answered th e very general enquiry as 0 what might be the p recise meaning of the Dissolution ? thus—in a line by itself—like a verse from the poets—epigrararnaii. cally " To waste a year." Nearly everybody thought that going just a little too far. The old game—it was remarked —Party Spleen, Political spite, Opposition exaggeration Bat, honestly and candidly now—ls it not the case ? Is not the result at any rate, we won't say the object but simply the result, is not the result at least of the Dissolution--" to waste a year ?" Obviously it is—undeniably—if there be such an THE SUN, LONEON, rHURSDAY adverb, admittedly. The great Government organ, the Times of this very morning, distinctly and explicitly acknowledges the fact on the part of Lord PALMERSTON and his Administration. It does it thus. It characterises the three last years by applying to each some distinctive phrase by way of appropriate appellation. Just as we might designate 1848 as the year of Revolution, or as we might speak of 1851 as the year of the International Exhibition. It talks of 1855 as the year of War, of 185 G as the year of Peace, and of 1857—as the year of What Why, bluntly— as the year of Dissolution ! it says, to give the ipsissima verba, " The year before last we had the War ; last year the Peace : this year the Dissolution." Precisely. Nothing more and nothing less—the Dissolution. Everything else is thrown aside until 1858 — which promises, observe " promises," to be the year of Reform. So that, for once, the Royal Speech at the opening of the Session gave a cor rect indication of what was in store for us. It said next to nothing. And Parliament is loyally taking the hint and doing next to nothing. The Two louses in 1857 are something like DIGGORT and his fellow-servant in GOLDSMITH'S Comedy. " What be you going to do ?" "Noathing." " Then I'll help you 1" And so to-night, as we have said, they resume their very arduous oceu• pations. It will be certainly the fault of the Reformers themselves, both within and without the walls of the Imperial Legislature—if some real advantages are not, after all, drawn from this tantalising delay through a whole session, if only by way of Avenging Compensation. Leisure is afforded them to prepare their tactics deliberately for the ensuing campaign in the new Parliament. Upon one thing we ought to be all of us resolved, namely, to have nothing Less than the Ballot. That ought to be regarded as the—sine qua non I The Ballot at the very least, with as much more as we can pos sibly obtain. A very few nights will now afford us an opportunity of calculating the amount of the probabilities in favour of our obtaining the Ballot—Mr. HENRY BERKELEY having intimated before the recess, his determination to test the feeling of the House upon that subject iramedi- Aely after Whitsuntide. So that Reformers generally ought just now to be more than usually upon the alert, and more than ordinarily observ ant. From the result of the next division upon the Ballot, very much may be predicated. It will he at once comprehensible, through that division, what amount of exertion may or may not be re requisite, with a view to the furtherance of their common cause in 1858 among the Reformers themselves. Consequent upon that division, a mark ought to be put upon every man's name among the long list of our popular representa tives. Was ho for Mr. BERKELEY'S annual motion, or against it ? Did he pair, and how—pro or contra ? Finally—was he among the Non-Attendants, among those who neither Paired, nor Voted ? Every one of the six and a half hundred members must obviously come point blank under one or other of those c ttegories. Put them in those categories accordingly. WE intend to do so. Wo promise the electors gene rally far and wide that we will do so. LA them look to it. Let each constituency call to mind what was asked at the hustings of their represen tatives—in regard to the Ballot ! What was there Asked, and what was then Answered ! And with a judgment reanimated by the reminiscence let each reforming elector look keenly for the " Right Man in the Right Place"—and see if he finds him there I Let eaeh Elector in favour of the Ballot look lynx-eyed upon the forthcoming cata logues. A reform of our representation may be based upon three tolerably distinct ideas. That of re presenting all clases of the community; that of representing the Tiews of the most enlightened part of it; and that of representing the mind of tie people generally. For each of these something may be said ; but, if we mistake not, the two former will be found little better than political partisanship or political quackery, and the latter the only impartial and practical basis of free con stitutional government. Its disadvantages, though not unimportant, will, we think, be found to be fewer than those attendant on either of the others —while the breadth of the base will, by the secu rity it gives to the whole building, more than compensate for all defects of symmetry or appear- SD ce. If there were any means for discovering the most enlightened among us, and at the same time guaranteeing their freedom from self interest, we might, perhaps, constitute them the trustee elec tors for the whole country ; just as we might give up hereditary monarchy for an election of the wisest and most patriotic person in the whole kingdom, if only the infallible test for such quali ties could be found. Unhappily neither weights nor measures can inform us respecting either the legislative, administrative, or moral qualities of our fellow-men ; not even of their capacity to choose legislators rightly ; hence our only alter native seems to be, to fall back, like insurance companies, on the result of an average. Birth gives us an average monarch, and an average House of Lords too ; and birth must give average electors or constituencies. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, it is true, and the greater number of constituency-doctors, have laboured hard to give us a representation of classes. They have talked so noisily on the necessity of what in truth is an utter impossibility, that they have almost made numbers believe that it is an essential of representation. In a certain sense no doubt it is ; but they mean, not that persons of all classes should have votes ; but, that the Reform Bill maker should group the classes as best he may, and en able each class to send its quota of members to the House of Commons. Now, with all due respect for Lord JOHN RUSSELL, this is just what we must denounce as political quackery ; it deserves no better name. Take the country as it now stands, and we defy Lord JOHN RUSSELL to classify it honestly. If any two classes have conflicting in terests, for instance, viewed in regard to pro perty, it is the two great groups of buyers and sellers. This would at once divide each branch of trade into two. The pet county constituencies, especially, ought forthwith to be separated into the landlord and tenant classes. No two interests are more opposed than those of the letters of farms and preservers of game, and the hirers of farms and the sufferers by game. At present the law is all landlord-made law, and is in all respects as stringent as it can be on behalf of the class which has made it. But every trade is a class, and even the who'e sale and retail dealers in each trade are classes, and more than that, the sellers and consumers of etch article of trade are classes—the bakers and their customers, the grocers and their customers, the drapers and their customers, and so without end, are all real classes. If we attempted to classify men by their rank, education, profession, or reli gion, we should be equally perplexed. The other day the Duke of CLEVELAND emphatically asserted at the Darling'on dinner, that to give the suffrage to 10/. householders in counties, would be abso- lute destruction to the landed interest ; and both Mr. DISRAELI and Lord JOHN RUSSELL are desi- rous to perpetuate and strengthen the ascendancy of landlords in the House of Commons. Now, we ask, what right have they first to assume that representation must be studiously snared with the various and almost innumerable classes of the community, and then to select one class for special favour? Could, indeed, all classes be represented as they now exist, still every decade would witness a shifting among them. The points on which we really feel it a matter of interest to have repre sentatives in the House of Commons, are continu ally changing ; and the best adjusted class repre sentation of to-day would be antiquated ten years hence. But the flagrant vice, the shameless in consistency of our Whigs and Tories is, that demanding representation for an classes, they first divide all the country into two—town and country—and then require that the country constituencies shall, in any case, have the upper hand. We contend, on the contrary, that there are fifty classes equally important with those of town and country ; that, indeed, since the in auguration _of Free-trade, there is no kind of commercial antagonism between town and coun try ; and that true statesmanship, instead of fostering the now useless distinction into a party badge, would do all it could to fuse and amalga mate the people. The general extension of rail ways, indeed, has converted the greater part of England into one vast city ; the various districts harmonising with each other more and more every day iu habits, manners, and fashions, and also in knowledge awl public opinion. In view of all these facts, and not least of the one last mentioned, we maintai❑ that it is more statesmanlike to deal with the people as one ; to know no distinction of trade or profession, of education or religion, of rank or caste ; to treat them as Englishmen all concerned to do their best for their country, and not as hostile sections of a community pitted one against the other. Lord JOHN RUSSELL has strongly asserted that our legislators are Imperial legislators, and not legislators for this borough or that ; for a county in the north or the south of Britain. Be it so. But let electors then be Imperial electors ; let them be asked, as they ought to be asked, to send men to Parliament not to legislate for proprietors of rent, or for manufacturers of cotton; for makers of hardware, or for weavers of cloth ; but for the equal protection of the rights, and property, and industry of all classes. Large constituencies, both town and country, would represent best the general wishes of the people ; and it is morally certain that amongst a considerable number of members some must be found practically ac quainted with all matters which could occupy the attention of the house. It is important to add that to a real representa tion of the national mind, as well as to guard against the worst evils of elections, the ballot is, of course, indispensable. No arrange ment of constituencies can be honestly worked without making each vote a real one ; and the real opinion of all can never be given at the poll unless we get rid of that corruptor's and intimi dator's ledger—the polling book. We want the honest mind of the nation, and maintain that nei ther the Duke of CLEVELAND nor Mr. DISRAELI, neither Lord JOHN RUSSELL nor Lord PALMER STON, has any right to shuffle the constituencies like a pack of cards, and to play them to their own purpose ; let England be taken as it is, and we are content. We ask only that the English party should have fair play. The all-important question of Currency and Bank Reform is now fairly before the public. A Select Committee of the House of Commons is actually sitting and hearing evidence on the sub ject, and on the Report of that Committee it will mainly depend whether the existing monopoly of the Bank of England is to be maintained for a further term of ten years, and the unwise and inequitable Act of 1844 renewed without change or modification of any kind, or whether the country is to obtain a circulating medium adequate to its wants and exigencies, by means whereof its na tural resources might be fairly developed, an.l full employment provided for its industry. There can be but little doubt as to what the result will be if the public remain indifferent and apathetic. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has revealed his intentions, and selected a committee likely to give effect thereunto. Nothing but " the pressure from without," strenuously applied, can obtain even the trifling boon of a small addition to the Bank issues on Securities, and a foreign trade of 120,000,0001. sterling per annum must be car ried on with the same amount of currency that was provided to meet less than half the amount, or 55,000,0001. An exorbitant rate of interest i 3 consequently the normal condition of the nation, and the bullionist organ has coolly an nounced that we cannot hope for a restoration of cheap money—meaning thereby a moderate rate of interest—for several years to come. It is to enlighten the public mind on these matters by exposing " the inconsistencies, injustice, and anomalies of the existing monetary system," that the Currency and Bank Reform Association, which yesterday held its first meeting has been called into existence, and we heartily wish it suc cess in the arduous path on which it has entered. The Association are acting judiciously in point ing out clearly and unequivocally the practical operation of the monetary code on the different kinds of property, the value whereof must be greatly depreciated by a continued high rate of interest. They show its effects on railways, ou land, manufactures, agriculture, shipping, min ing, and all distant undertakings, such as the irrigation and growth of cotton in India, and on different classes, such as retail traders, artisans, operatives, all, in fact, who obtain their daily bread by their daily labour. This is going to work in the right way. One simple fact that comes home to that most sensitive point the pocket, is worth, a hundred abstract arguments. It was because the Anti-Corn-Law League di rected its attention to this subject, and pointed out the manner in which tke bread tax affected every household in the kingdom, that the triumph of the great principle was ensured. The beginning was small. Seven energetic men met together in a small back room in Manchester, but within a short time the ramifications of tho Society harX extended through every district in the United Kingdom, and had attained such gigantic proportioas that it produced the breaking-up of one of the strongest Parliamentary Parties that over sup•potted any Administration. Monetary Reforme rs should not therefore be discouraged at the small attendance at the preliminary meeting. As wo h ave already repeatedly stated, "the public only require authentic information as to the full effects of this, the most unwise and impolitic law that aver received the legislative sanction, to shake off the unaccountable apathy that has so long tolerated its continuance. If the int measu Table importance of the subject were only partially understood—if those who earn their daily bread by their daily labour, and all engaged in trade, commerce, or manufae• tures, could conceive the effect of the Bank EVENING, JUNE 4, 1857 Ch arter Act on their comforts, their happiness, and their prosperity, we should witness demon strations in every part of the kingdom that would speedily place matters on a sound foundation, and ensure the repeal of the obnoxious law. It is their ignorance alone that has produced indif ference, and the manner in which they have been mystified by interested parties." This ignorance will, however, speedily be enlightened—these mists dispelled, if the new association earnestly and efficiently discharges the duty it has voluntarily undertaken. It must follow in the foot steps of the League. A salutary precedent has been established, and there should be no departure therefrom. Cheap tracts should be published explaining the most salient points, but above and beyond all there should be meetings in every part of the kingdom, at which competent lecturers and deputations from the parent society should attend. It was the machinery set in motion by the League that ensured its inevitable triumph, and similar means would pro duce similar results in a question of equal, if not greater importance. There is also another reason for this apathy. Men engaged in trade, and therefore requiring pecuniary accommodation are unwilling to be stigmatised as agitators. If the complaints are strongly urged, lit will be stated that they are in difficulties, and they cannot hope for help from the money lenders, whose practises they are denouncing, and whose unholy profits they are striving to reduce within reason able limits. These men may, however, subscribe, they may provide the sinews of war, by which the association can carry its intentions into prac tical operation, and get into good working con dition. At present the discussion of the subject is all that is required. Truth must benefit by that discussion; and when it is ascertained that the fluctuations in the value or interest of money —more injurious, as even Mr. CoaDEN himself declared, than " the failure of all the banks of issue that ever stopped payment" —are occa sioned by this iniquitous cede, adequate mea sures will be adopted to abate the social nuisances and to obtain "free trade in currency," by which alone comparative equality in the rate of interest and discount can be obtained. At present it is indispensable to prevent the renewal of the Bank Charter Act in its present form during the present session, and that surely can be accomplished withott any extraordinary diffi culties. If the Act be renewed for ten years, a new obstacle will be created to an equitable ar rangement that may prove insuperable. We earnestly invite attention to a letter from a consistent and energetic monetary reformer—Mr. HAMER STANSFELD —to the Editor of the Econo mist, or in other words to Mr. JAMES WILSON, M.P., Financial Secretary to the Treasury, and one of the most experienced . members of the Select Committee of the House of Commons now in quiring into the expediency of renewing the Bank . Charter Act of 1844 for a farther term of ten years. Although a strenuous advocate for the convertibility of the bank note, Mr. WILSON has taken much sounder views on the general question of currency than almost any of the bullionist writers, and his pertinent questions to the witnesses before the Committee of 1348, on the causes of the com mercial crisis of the preceding year, should have ensured a very different report from that which was carried by a small majority. His views are, therefore, of peculiar importance. It is desirable to ascertain whether the monetary reformer is merged in the minister ; and whether he is pre pared to surrender 'the opinions which he has so powerfully advocated, at the command of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. WILSON in a recent article in the Econo mist, " absolves the act of 1844, from being in any degree instrumental in making money dearer." Now, on this point, we must together with Mr. STANSFELD, join issue with the Honourable Gentleman. He states, that the high rate is entirely attributable to the deficiency of floating capital. But even were that the case, to what is that deficiency owing, but the want of an adequate circulating medium, or as Mr. STANSFELD terms it, " legal tender money ?" If the demand so greatly exceeds the supply, and the price is there Fore forced up to an exorbitant rate, it is because that supply is curtailed, by the undue restrictions imposed by the Bank Charter Act, which compels the withdrawal of a 51. note for every five sovereigns withdrawn from the stock of bullion in the bank vaults, and still more from the absurd prohibition of notes of sma ll an d convenient denominations, which would answer the purposes of every day life. As Mr. STANSFELD justly remarks, the effect would be precisely the same, whether occasioned by the withdrawal of bullion or bank notes. For every practical purpose paper is even better than gold ; and if MERCATOR and his disciples carried out their views by the adoption of a purely metallic currency, and thus effected a further reduction of 14,475,000 1 . in the circulating medium, it would be precisely the same as the withdrawal of an equal amount of bullion. Mr. WILSON has himself—in the E conom i s t o f May 9, 1847—explained th e e ff ec t o f a l arge ad ditional issue of 11. notes. He then said, "While therefore at present we economise the capital o the country by the use of five-pound notes and upwards, to the extent of 14,000,0001., we would accomplish the same to the extent of 34,000,0001., or 20,000,0001. in addition, by the use of one-pound notes, with the most perfect safety. We should thus immediately add to the effective capital of the country, to our stock of commodities, or which is the same thing, our command over them to the extent of 20,000,0001., just as much as if we dug that amount of bullion out of the centre of England." With these views, how, then, can Mr. WiLscri " absolve the Act of 1844 from being in any degree instrumental is making money de ar er ?" We are glad to fiud that Mr. WILSON still pro tests against " needless protection" to currency. Let him give us the 20,000,0001. of one-pound notes, and he will have made immense progress in the right direction. These 20,000,0001. should be national paper, which would not only save a large sum of money annually paid from the Ex chequer, but would avert the degrading necessity of having the Government dependent on a private trading corporation for the means of liquidating its engagements —of paying the interest of the national debt and maintaining the national °stab: lishments in due efficiency. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, as General Gnnruanding-in.Chief, entertained a select circle at dinner last evening, at St. James's Palace. His Grace the Archbishop of York and the Hon. Mre, Musgrave left their mansion in Belgrave•equare, on Tuesday, for the palace at Bishopthorpe, York. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington have issued cards for a grand dinner to-morrow evening, at Apeley House. The Duke of Sutherland left Stafford House, yester day, for Gravesend, to embark on board his yacht ; his Grace intending to take a cruise before proceeding t. Scotland. The Duke of Buccleuch is expected to return to Mon• tague Ilouse, Whitehall, to-morrow, from Bothwell Castle, near Glasgow, where his grace was lately called upon business connected with the estate of the late Lord Douglas, The Earl and Countess of Glengall hal a select party at dinner last evening at their mansion in LOwer Gros• Tenor-street. The Earl of Hcme has joined the Countess at Ditton Park, near Windsor, from BOthwell, near Glasgow.' Viscountess Stratford de Redcliffe and the Hon. Misa Canning have arrived in town from Constantinople, with the intention of passing a few months in this country. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston return to town to-day, from Broadlands, Hants. Viscount Hamilton, eldest son of the Marquis of Abercorn, has this week entered as a nobleman at Christ Church, Oxford. His lordship will not go into residence at College until October term. Lady Stanley of Alderley, has issued cards for an assembly on Wednesday next, at her residence in Dover- street. Lady Charlotte Denison has issued cards for an as sembly o❑ Tuesday next, at her residence in Carlton- Carlton House Terrace. Lord and Lady Overstone entertained a select circle at dinner last evening, at their residence in Carlton gardens. Her ladyship has issued cards for a concert on Friday next. We are authorised to state that Lady Louisa Douglas Pennant's ball will take place on Friday; the 19th inst. Lord and Lady Willoughby De Eresby had a dinner party last evening at the family residence in Piccadilly. Lord and Lady Wenlock have closed their visit to the Duke and Duchess of Nortumberland, and gone to their seat in Shropshire. CHAPEL ROYAL, ST. JAMES'S.—Preachers in June : Rev. Dr. Hook, Rev. S. M. Anderson, Hon. and Rev. R. L. West, Rev. Henry Birch. Divine service com mences at 12 o'clock. His Grace the Duke of Norfolk has just presented a contribution of 100/. to the Associate Institution for Improving and Enforcing the Laws for the Protection of Women: It is understood that Sir Laurence Peel, who was many years Chief Justice at Calcutta, is about to be nominated by the Government to the vacant seat of the East India Direction. The London silk-mariet is maintained with firmness, and from this fact, coupled with the despondency on the Paris Bourse, it is to be inferred that the prospects of the French crop are not becoming less unfavourable. The suspension has been announced of Messrs Wm. Macintosh and Co., of Manchester, with liabilities sup posed to amount to about 100,0001-, of which about 40,0001. fall in London. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday.—The new screw steamship Kangaroo, Captain S. S. M. Jeffrey, sailed this after noon for New York, with a large complement of pas sengers and a general cargo. THE ALLEGED INFANTICIDE AT EALlNG.—Yesterday, at the Brentford Town Hall, the bench committed the accused, Mary Green, for the concealment of birth, to Newgate, to take her trial for that offence. CROSBY HALL.—Yesterday, the unexpired term of the lease (77 years) of this fine memorial of early London, was put up to auction by Mr. Fox. It was formerly the palace of Richard 111. It was knocked down for 5,9901 , but it is understood to have been bought in. Open-air preaching has been commenced by the Rev. Francis Trench in the picturesque old village of Islip, near Oxford. A large assemblage now meets each Sunday evening under the " Cross Tree " to hear the Word of God. HAYMARKET THEATRE.—Mr. Turpin, the respected box book-keeper of this establishment, takes his annual benefit on Monday evening next, the Bth inst., when the new and successful drama, "The Husband of an Hour," will be performed, together with " Atalanta," and Mor ton's comedietta, " A Pretty Piece of Business," in which Mr. Bucketone, Miss Reynolds, and Miss Talbot will appear. "'Telegraphic advices from Lisbon state that the con tract for the railway between Lisbon and Oporto, lately en ered into with Sir Morton Peto, has been definitively approved by the Legislature, the measure having passed th• Chamber of Peers. An arrangement has also been made for the settlement of the claims of Messrs. Shaw and Waring in connection with the works already con structed on the portion of the line between Lisbon and Santarem. HUMAN REMAINS.---During the excavations which are now taking place near the tunnel of the East Kent Rail way, at Ordnance-place, Chatham, the workmen have discovered a great number of human remains, amount ing, in the whole, it is said, to nearly 50. The skele tons were discovered at a depth of scarcely more than three feet below the surface of the ground, nearly the whole of them appearing as if having been buried in coffins. ELECTION or MEMBERS OF THE ST. PANCRAS BURIAL BOARD.—Yesterday at, the St. Panora , ' vestry there was a contest for members of the Burial Beard (Mr. Churchwarden Wyatt in the chair.) The three members retiring by rotation were the Rev. Thomas Dale, M.A., the vicar, the Rev. Robert Eckett, and Mr. Robert Furniss. The Rev. Mr. Dale, the Rev. Robert Littler, and Mr. Samuel Sandys were elected. THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL SERVICE.- , —ln consequence of the breakdown of the Australian mail steamer Oneida, there will be no outward overland Australian mail despatched on the 12th inst. The European and Australian Mail Company will despatch a steamer this month to Australia, via the Cape of Good Hope, which will convey the • mail which should have gone by way of Egypt. ADDITIONAL STEAM ACCOMMODATION TO INDIA.—The directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Company have issued a circular, stating that, in pursuance of their in tention to provide additional accommodation fur the large number of passengers proceeding to India by the overland route during the later months of the year, they will despatch extra steamers from Southampton on the 27th of Oct. and 12th Deo. next, in correspondence with steamers from Suez to Ceylon, Madras, and Calcutta. There will also be an extra departure from Calcutta about the 15th March, 1853, for the convenience of homeward passengers. The precise amount of the speoie shipped by the Pen inmnlar and Oriental steamer Indus is 761,6131., of which 413,4621. is silver for Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, Penang, and Singapore, and 342 , 8371. for Hong Kong and Shanghai. The only gold is 5,3141., for Ceylon, Madras, and Hong Kong. Ie is stated that the total would have reached the sum mentioned yesterday, but that there were numerous packages which could not be prepared in time. The amount by the next mail will be proportionately increased. EXCURSIONISTS AT BRIGHTON.—On Sunday 2,400 excursionists paid us a visit from the metropolis and the intermediate stations ; on Monday, curiously enough, the numbers were, as nearly as maybe, similar—viz., 2,000 from London,. 400 from New Cross and stations southward. On Monday 1,200 from Brighton visited Shoreham, and yesterday 1,000 availed themselves of the excursion train to London and back. About 500 visited the coast from the metropolis.—Brighton Guar dian. THE ART TREASURES Ex lIIBITION.—There was a larger attendance on Tuesday than on any previous day since the opening, 9,484 persons paying a shilling for admis sion at the doors, and 914 entering with season tickets — total, 10,398. Of these, 2,005 arrived by railway. The Manchester races drew a good many people in another direction yesterday, and the attendance was somewhat less. PUBLIC PETITIONS.—There are now three petitions against the dowry of the Princess Royal, signed by eight persons ' • 141 against the Maynooth Endowment, signed by 23,654 persons ; 41 for a repeal of the paper duty, signed by 1,066 persons ; one (from Mr. J. Caldwell, of Dean-street, Soho) against the Beer Bill ; and 35 in its favour, signed by 5,368 persons; and 214 for an altera tion of the law on the Civil Service Superaanuation Fund, signed by 9,lBs:persons. LUCK IN ODD NUMBFRS.—A letter from Rome, in the Courrier Franco-Italien, mentions the death of the Baron Gazioli, who by his talents in business in a few years amassed a colossal fortune. He arrived at Rome as a journeyman baker, with 17 baiocchi (sous) in his pocket, and at his death left one of the largest fortunes in Rome. In memory of the 17 baiocchi of capital with which he commenced; he has always held that number in veneration. He bad 17 farms, 17 houses, and 17 different kinds of investment of money. THE SC6THERNE BURGLAEY,—Five men, iiam-d Enoch JOrdan, Henry Black, Alexander M'Donald, George Williams ' Richard Allsop, and a woman named Mary Brown h ave undergone several examinations before the magistrates at Lincoln, charged with being concerned in the burglary perpetrated on the premises of Mr. Pindar Worth, farmer at Scotherne, Lincolnshire, early on the, morning of the 18 - h ult. A. great deal of evidence was adduced rgainst the prisoners, some of whom were proved to have been posse-sion of several of the articles stolen from Mr. Wo:th. All the men were , committed for trial, but the woman was discharged. The Committee of Spanish American Bondholders have transmitted for publication a correspondence re garding the debt of Venezuela, It consists of a. letter from the Finance Minister to Mr. Mocatta, the repre sentative of the bondholders at Caraccas, and of Mr. Mocatta's reply thereto. The Finance Minister an nounces that the Venezuelan Government decline to assent to the agreement effected last January by their own commissioners with the bondholders' committee in London, on the plea that the resources of the country would preclude the possibility of its being punctually fulfilled. He adds that the Government intend to issue a decree for the settlement of the debt according to their own views, and that this decree will be submitted along with the rejected agreement to the Venezuelan Con gress, who can then decide between the two plans, or suggest any other they may think proper. Mr. Mocatta, in reply to this disgraceful intimation, formally protests against the right assumed by the Government of set thug by an arbitrary decree the elaims of foreign cre ditors. THE CHINESE SEAS.—LITERPOOL, Wednesday.—The The following extract from the log of the barque Strath.- mere, Captain John Mann, en her voyage from New York, to Foo-Chow-Foo, may prove of interest to navi gators in the Eastern Seas. Captain Mann reports : " December 4 saw an island bearing east by north at 8 a.m., and at 10 a.m. saw another island bearing north west by west. From the ship's position they must be the Mitre and the Cherry islands shown on the chart as doubtful. -At noon two canoes were in sight from Cherry Island, but we having a fine breeze they did not get alongside. At 5 p.m. passed over a shoal with from four to five fathoms of water upon it. Could see the bottom very distinctly. Sand and rocks. The bottom was not seen until we passed over it. A space of 150 yards or thereabouts may be the extent of it. I consider it in the latitude of 11 degrees 9 minutes s ou th, an d the, longitude of 170 degrees 42 minutes east, and I believe it has never been discovered before. I call it the Strath-1 more Shoal," LATEST NEWS. AUSTRALIA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY MORNING. The Sussex, Captain Scanlarn, 87 days from Melbourne, with over 48,000 ounces of gold, was off the port this morning. She left the Heads on the 19th of March, rounded Cape Horn on the 6th of April, and crossed the line on the 3d of May. The Sussex is laden with wool and copper ore, and has 137 passengers, of whom eight mechanics landed here. They state that their wages varicd from 15s. to 203., and those of labourers from 10s. to 205., working eight hours per day, which is the prevailing time. Profits are less.. Business is more steady. The Sussex spoke, north of the line, the South Carolina, 102 days out from Melbourne, for Liverpool ; May 17th, the Glorieuse, from India, with troops, last from the Cape, out 92 days ; all well ; June 3, in the Channel, the B 1 tek Swan, out 92 days from Hobart Town. We have news from Constantinople of the 25th May, and from Teheran of the 27th April. High dignitaries of the Persian Court have been sent to the frontier for the purpose of giving a formal reception to Mr. Murray, the Eoglish Envoy. The ratifications of the treaty of peace were ex changed on the 2d of May, at Bagdad ; great cere mony and mutual congratulations passed between the Hon. Mr. Murry and Jehanguire Khan, the Persian Plenipotentiary. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Emperor. will . to-morrow afternoon, at five o'clock, review the infantry, engineer , and foot artillery of the Imperial Guard, in the racecourse at Longchamp. The Grand Duke Constantine arrived at Calais at 7 o'clock on Monday evening in the Admiralty steamer Osborne. The Prince dined on board,• and afterwards went into the town, where he passed the night. He left yesterday morning at half-past 7 for Antwerp. On the demand of H.I. H. no honours were paid him at Calais, either on arriving or leav ing. The Prince reached Mouscron at a quarter past 10, Ghent at half-past 11, Mecklin at a quarter to 1, and Antwerp at 20 minutes past 1. The King and the royal family of Belgium had arrived in that city from Brussels at 11 o'clock to receive him. His Majesty with their Royal Highnesses were wel comed with great enthusiasm by the townspeople, and the inhabitants of the neighbouring places who had flocked into the town. The Duke de Brabant and the Count de Flandra went to the railway sta tion to receive the Russian Prince—the Duke wear ing the Grand Cordon of th 3 Order of St. Andrew of Russia. The Belgian Princes were accompanied by the provincial, communal, and military authori ties, and Admiral Glasenapp, who has come from Kiel, M. Sievers, secretary of the Russian legation at the Hague, and Count and Countess Anrepp, and M. do Thal, were also in waiting to receive the Grand Duke. H.1.H., on arriving, was accom panied by M. de Richter, Minister of Russia at Brussels, M. de Petersen, Secretary of the Russian Legation of the same city, General de Liem and Colonel d'Hanins de Moerkerke, a'tached to him by the King of the Belgians, Marshal Sabouroff, M. Golevnine, • Chamberlain ; Colonel Grei,g, Prince Ouchtomskii, and Dr. Haourowicz. The Grand Duke and the Duke de Brabant, atter having presented to each other the persona by whom they are accompanied, entered with the Count de Flandre an open carriage, and proceeded towards the Palace on the Place de Meir, in the midst of acclamations. It was thought that the Grand Duke would remain at Antwerp till Thursday morning. The object of his visit fp that place is to examine its maritime Constructions. The palace not being large, and the suite of the King and the Princes amount ing to not fewer than 78 persons, it was necessary to take apartments in hotels and in private houses. The King, the Grand Duke, and the Princess Char lotte were lodge I in the Palace, but the Duke and Duchess de Brabant and the Count de Flandre oc cupied apartments in the town. Several of the Court carriages had been sent on from Brussels on I Monday. , Mr. Stevens has arrived in Paris with the Per- Sian treaty. He rode all the way from Bagdad to Constantinople, which may be a distance of about 1,300 English miles. Mr. Murrray was preparing to leave Bagdad on the 30th of April for Teheran. The Persian Government had despatched a mission of high officers to meet his Excellency at the fron tier, and the usual Eastern honours employed on such occasions w ere to be most scrupulously observed. The whole of Persia is described to be is a very un settled state, the authority of the Shah being little , regarded beyond Teheran. The British army was leaving rapidly, according to the latest despatches. The illonieur publishes two despatches to Marshal Valliant, Minister of War, from Marshal Randon, Governor-General of Algeria. The first is merely a collective account of the affair of the 24th ult., but adding little to the accounts already given in the despatches of the generals command ing the different divisions ; the second, dated from Vie camp of Ighill Guifri, May 21, is as follows : "Monsieur le Mar6chal,—The vigorous resistance made by the enemy to the movement of our troops on the 24th led us to expect that the Kabyles would make a night attack, but our outposts were so strongly entrenched that all attempts on their part were fruitless. The firing recommenced in the morning of the 25th, when numerous contingents marched from the Souck-el-Arba and boldly attacked the advanced posts of the division of General Mactnahon, but they were driven Lack at the point of the bayonet with heavy loss. Gen. Renault on the morning of the 25th marched a part of his troops on the villages of Ait-Hag, Ait- Janak, Ibachiren, and Ait-Halli, situated on the right 0" his camp, and the holders of which kept up a warm fire of musketry on his posts. The Kabyles were all driven out, and at noon the firing had ceased on almost all the posi tions. At this moment wereseen towards Sone!. -el-Arba body of at least 3000 Kaby les retiring in all directions after having exchanged shots with the inhabitants of several villages, who, at the instigation of our ancient Cali, had declared for us. A short time after envoys from the tribe of the Beni-Raten came to make overtures of sub mission, and demanded a truce of 24 hours, which I granted. On the afternoon of the 26th, the representatives of all the fractions of the tribe of the Beni-Raten came to my tent, dem ending to submit. They have accepted without hesitation all the conditions which I have pro• posed. This submission was immediately followed by that of the Arb-Dolena, who had struggled vigorously against us during the autumn. I have reason to believe that other mountain tribes who have been hitherto opposed to us will HOOD follow the example of the Beni-Raten and the Arb•Donela. While waiting for these probable re sult., and which will be facilitated by the presence of our troops in the formidable positions which they oc cupy, I am causing the interior of the country to be examined, and shall fix on the direction of the roads to be constructed in order to unite Tiz•Ouzou to the post which will be established on these mountains. The health of the troops is excellent, and we receive our supplies without any difficulty.—Accept, "HANDON." The following order of the day was published by the marshal, dated head-quarters at the Camp of Dame., 20th : " Soldiers,—l told you a short time ago, 'Next Spring we shall return and continue our work.' The will of the Emperor and the instructions of the Minister of War permit me to keep my promise. In a day or two we shall attack the most powerful tribe of Kabylia, and I expect that they will bravely defend themselves. Your glory will be the greater. Skilful chiefs command you, and success is not doubtful. Obstacles, dangers, and fatigues, all will be overcome by your ardour. Forward, then, and soon our cry of victory, Arive l'Empereur will resound on the summit of the mountains." BOURSE, June 2.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. c. End of Month. 4l per Cents 3 per Cents 6B 65 69 Bank Shares 4,500 Credit Foncier ...... 560 Credit Mobilier 1,215 Roman — Do. Account 1,205 A ustrian Belgian 4t Piedmontese (5) 9l 25 Home Debt ......... 38 75 - - RAILWAYS—FOB CABS. fr. c. fr c. Orleans 1,459 Western Northern Lyons 1,455 New Ditto Mediterranean 1,885 Grand Central 5 _— Geneva 735732 s_o Austrian Sardinian do m . ..,.«Midi BELGIUM. Since the late disturbances in Belgium, rumours were current that the Goternrnent had received private intelligence that an outbreak of a more serious character was in contemplation, and that in order to prevent it 20,000 men were to be called out imm€diately and kept permanently under arms. This rumour appears quite unfounded, as the fol lowing notice in t`. - :e Belgian Moniteur provcs that the memiure of cAlling out troops is quite of a tem porary charac'er. The official journal says : " The disturbances which have taken place in several parts of the country have imposed on the Government the duty of calling out from the 29th May two classes of militia. These troops will re turn to their homes as soon as calm shall be re established. The Government proposes to send the - troops lately brought to the capital back to their respective garrisons immediately." RUSSIA. A le' ter from St Petersburg') says that the pub lic baptism of the newly born son of the Emperor and Repress of Russia, which had been originally fixed for the 31st ult., has been postponed to the Bth, in ord,r to enable the Grand Duke Constan tine to be present at it. It adds that the name of Sergius has been seleetA for the prince in accom plishment of a vow made by their Majesties in their visit to the convent of St. Sergius in September last, after the coronation fetes. The Czas of Cracow of the 29th ult. recurs to the affair of the beating given to a general at Kiew, and, ftr from admitting that its statement was un founded, confirms it in its ma'n points, with addi tional particulars:— " We have to-day received some positive infor mation relative to the affair of the students at Kiew, and it differs in many points from the ver sion which we published a few days ago. In the month of February last, an officer, in a state of in toxication, killed a student in a quarrel which took place at a ball, and that event produced a consi derable, sensation, although the young man before he died begged that his murderer should be par doned, as he was not in his senses when he com mitted the act. Since. that time there have been constant quarrels between the students and the of ficers up to the last affair of General de Br—, which occurred in the following manner :—A student struck a dog which was attempting to bite him; the owner of the dog, General de B r —, well known for his irritable temper, asked the student why he beat the animal. 'Because he attempted to bite me,' replied the Student, at the same time , giving it another blow. The General, greatly annoyed, called the police, and had the student arrested. On his being summoned to deliver up his sword—for the students wear a uniform and a sword—he put himself'on his defence, and protested against being arrested by any authority but that of the university. Notwithstanding his resistance and remonstrances, his sword was taken from him. At the same moment he managed to escape from the hands of the police, and went to the rector of the university, who referred bins to the council of that body. The council only assembles once a week (Friday), and as the general was to leave the ,place on Wednesday, the students resolved to take the matter into their own hands and wreak ven geance for the insult offered to their body. An opportunity soon presented itself. On the even ing of the 29th the General went to the theatre, and more than 300 students assembled and waitep at the door for his coming out. The general, hav ing received notice of what was going on, left the house before the close of the representation, accom panied by several officers. He did not, however, escape, for the students who had been watching his movements gave the signal, and the moment ho reached the street he was surrounded, the officers knocked down, and the general himself, being thrown on the ground, received about sixty blows with a stick. One of the gendarmes present drew his sword,tbut he was overpowered and received several stabs from a poignard, of which he die' shortly after. A detachment of troops came up at the moment, and the students took to flight. On the following morning 64 of them were arrested, and althcugh none of them made any avowal, Si-t were condemned, probably as the assumed leaders, to one year's service as simple soldiers." SPAIN. The Spanish Congress was again occupied the whole of the 29th ult. in discussing the address in reply to the speech from the throne : but the only point of interest in the debate was that M. CamP° Amor expressed regret for the offensive language he had used on a previous occasion. On the 30th the debate was resumed, and was continuing when the post left. The Madrid journals of that dat e contain no news of interest. The disturbances at Granada had entirely ceased, but the authorities continued to take military precautions. The num; ber of persons wounded by the troops was two, and not four as at first stated. The authorities were causing bread to be sold to the poor at a reduce d rate. We regret to state that a telegraphic despatch from Venice announces the death of the Princess Bagration, wife of his Excellency Lord Howden. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. The screw steam-ship Indian, Captain Jonegt arrived at midnight with advices from New York to the 22d, and Quebec to the 23d ult. She brought nearly 200 passengers. There is no news of importance. COMMERCIAL. INEW YORK, MAY 22. Money was without change, and rather easier. Stocks were dull, and in short supply. Excbang ° on London, DOI to Cotton was steacli• Breadstuffs advanced in value. Freights Ow altered. The Sydenham has arrived from Port Philip IV" 31,462 ounces of gold, valued at 125,8001. lb ° 193,0001. announced yesterday by the Morning Star 1 46 reached London. A portion will be purchased for th° Eanl: of France, and the remainder is expected to'he taken to the Bank of England. ce PROPOSAL FOR A NEW CATTLE AND SHEEP AT THE HARROW RAILWAY STATION.—We believe OA' if the owner of any site in the immediate vicinity of the, Harrow Railway Station, were to establish a cattle an c ; sheep market, the undertaking would succeed beryl his most sanguine expectations. The want of it, an d the certainty of its success, we hear of repeatedly. It h e ' been suggested that Tuesday would be the best day, i l l following the Metropolitan and preceding the South all markets. A great deal of cattle are unloaded Alcoa/ at the Harrow Station, and we bear that a large number of the leading salesmen would give the scheme their bee t sur pert.—Harrow Gazette. The ships Orwell and Palmerston have left Deptfor d tl receive the 77th Regiment on board for conveysee° to Sydney, New South Wales. The following she have been chartered by the East India Company for th e , conveyance of troops to India, viz. :—For Calcutta Encephalitis, 838 tons, July 1 ; Ellenborough, 853 totO,' July 8 ; Cressy, 999 tons, July 11 ; Octavia, 1, 05 w tons, July 25. For Kurrachee Bombay, 1,280 toe:: July 21 ; All - meta, 852 tons, July 21. The ships PIP' maise and Beechworth are to take the 95th Foot tree' Dublin to Cape of Good Hope, the 89th Regiment Ire ci l Cape of Good Hop e t o i i.uckland, New Zealand, an" return to Portsmouth witTi the 58th Regiment. ORIGIN OF THE BONNET.—The first bonnet worn in En; land was brought from Italy in the reign of Quel l :, Elizabeth, and its form was a cempromise between present round Italian peasant bat and the French boo"' The materials employed in constructing these bead ores' menta were crimson satin, elaborately embroidere d, cloth of gold and similar rich materials. The Leghor n Rat, with perpendicular crown and a wide brim standiq out far around the face, was the first legitimate bonn e It worn, and this appeared long after Elizabeth's time. was trimmed with artificial flowers and immense rows ° a ribbon. Our present neat and exquisitely delicate an e tasteful head covering is but a modification of this Mg r , affair, which not until very many years back, was s" universally worn and admired. ORIENTAL WATER WORKS —lt is said an influential a body of East India merchants and others have fore 3e themselves into a company under the above title, for t bd ; purpose of supplying the principal towns in the Ens with pure water. Calcutta, with its 400,000 inhabitael is the first city u p on w hi c h it i s p ro p ose d t o o p e rate, s °. it is estimated by Mr. Fulton, the engineer, that a eeP / , tal only of , 300,0001. w ilt b e necessar y t o p rov id e that eitJ with an adequate supply, and taking the amount 00 receipts, as calculated upon by Mr. Timing, the le t a Government engineer of India, it would give a divide ° , of 19 per cent. upon the proposed capital. Wheveve; cholera appears to any extent in India, Calcutta is en d , to be heavily visited, which is, to a great extent, r mittad to be owing to the impure and filthy watt;supply, and nothing can show more clearly the iWP O j, ante, in a sanitary point of view, of a pure and abee de ant supply of water, than one f ac t w hi c h w as 1 0 0 known a few years ago with respect to the prevalee' of cholera in 1849 on the sou th s id e o f th e Thap h e t , S ; There was a large and unh ea l t h y "" district into which th pipes of the Southwark, and Vauxhall, and Lambeth Water Companies w ere laid side by side. The Solln"; wark and Vauxh a ll C ompany d er i ved at t h at t i m e the, supply from the Th ames, at B attersea, b e l ow the Ple lagh sewer. The Lambeth company took their suPP L I from a pure r source, name l y, t h e Th ames, a b o ve li °1 ", ston. Wh en the ravages of the cholera, in that ti,ng, healthy di s t r i c t, came to be investigated by the Re /%, trar - General, it was ascertained that, with very fe W ije d eeptions, the cholera raged only in those houses 0313_, by the then impure water of the Southwark and VW` hall Comp an y, thus clearly demonstrating that the t of purity of water greatly assists in the di s semivato o : a tbat most fearful of all diseases, cholera. With rega_„,, to the prejudices of the natives, which are by sonoeo`_T' ~ posed to exist, it may be mentioned that the Cornisir., sioners for the Improvement of the Town of CalcutttiL.; a report, dated 4th September, 183 2 , state that r„0 and habit they believe would soon ha v e its due effect regards the use of good and the Elude° OP° hours of the day or night, even with P the tioo, or at all events with so large a proportion 01. pure water , accessible at t n i a o t n i . v , e , inhabitants generally as to warrant its introdu' lYto Letters Mtrket y a , good sp full price bales, 1,01 a like nur. Rarket et a slight a( realii Jo gust Ausl tio n tune tath COB - p e 3 p, ek !lid; larti Con,