Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-15 00:00:00

meat. lie had himself instituted many inquiries, and had no objection to any inquiry which would not impede the Public service. lle opposed the motion as likely to lead to In consequences. , Mr. B. Osborne said that, after the charges that had been Drought against the Admiralty, the House was bound to , ppoint n co mm i ttee of inquiry, before which he pledged hadhimself to disprove those charges. Adiniral Napier, who hmade th ose charges, - might be a very ga llant officer e water, but he was but a lame duck on the land. Or C. Napier u rge d i nqu i ry into the construction of the idiniralty. He thought the present motion inoppor tune, as a general motion for inquiry would be made on Thu rs d ay. Mr. J ac k son supported the amendment, deeming inquiry bere a committee a b so l ute l y necessary. Altar a few words - from Sir C. Wood, the, amendment W as negatived without a division. I 0 r. Gilpin calledTHE MUTINY the attention of the house to the detraction of the 26th Native Infantry, at Ujnalla, on Ist of A ugust, 1857, as detailed in a work entitled, C ooper Crisi s in the Punjaub," by Frederick This ?Per w , Es l, Deputy Com m i ss i oner o f Amritzur. re as the arkest pag e i n th e bl ac k-b oo k o f th e I n di an b i ellion. H e h ad no intention of calling military proceed nge in question. The acts to which he drew attention were those of a civilian. The 26th Infantry served with alatt diction u n d er our flag, they were disarmed in 1857 as c,y n atter of p recaut i on. They had been fired upon by the :Ikh levies, upon which they killed two of their officers in ~Panic. Subsequently while cooking their prOvisions they ore attacked by the Sikhs and by the villagers, and many tnk t . hetn were killed. The rest fled, they were pursued, and Were` eby M. Cooper under promise of a fair trial, yet all Put to death without any trial to the number of 500. 8 . e took th e f acts of these slaughters from Mr. Cooper's own h orrt,nieule t, which presented c i rcums t ances o f pecu li ar and ibatrocity upon which he called npon the House to mark its sense. mat barbarous Thompson stigmatised the affair as one of the tV‘barbarous massacres in history, and hoped in charity '" air. Cooper was insane. ThLord Stanley explained the circumstance of the case. th e men. had been disarmed under strong suspicion W e Y were insurgents, and would, if not stopped, have easily ft ' l l ell ii d arms and marched to the assistance of the mutineers intot—etui• One of the European officers had been enticed h is their lines by these men, and an attempt made upon th e t lif e, and two others had been actually murdered. All the great authorities in India regarded the punishment of oiltsbe en as merited, and as necessary to prevent similar i, d ,!eaks. At the same time he greatly regretted that these Wastsee4ri,na.inate executions should ever have taken place. It th e p u l by determined energy that Sir J. Lawrence saved . dist a il ieub, and with it all India. He could not this me n, Tlee,altogether understand the feelings or motives . of innqer such circumstances as those in which our officials : to 3o.ripuoss,3 : :: 'w t e h r see e tt P leilasetnced. He thought the house would do well matter over with that judicious silence, which comment on the proceedings. SUPPLY. Went into committee of supply, when items were voted in the navy estimates. Ituti n - The BILLS.. committe • . 3•and Marineßills passed through Mutiny Th ' a' also did the County Court Bill. _ Then e Remission of Penalties and the. Evidence by Com m. Bills were • time and passed. re • read a third ~...inatninq business was dispose 0 , Thed f and 4140 use adjourned at ten minutes to one o'clock. THE PROPOSED LEASING BILL OF THE WARRINGTON AND S TOCKPORT RAIL WAY LoN- box TO THE AND NORTH-WESTERN COMPANY, ri , AND THE RUNNING POWERS THE BIRKENHEAD COMPANY. Pkt.o T ,, LNG, OF THE QUESTION OF PREAMBLE i • [FROM OUR OWN REPORTER. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY. .b. li Th r e select committee of the House of Commons on this 1 4 e-assebled this mornin, ,g Mr. Ridley in the chair..„ .r. R r. Sercrant Wrangham Mr. Hope Scott, Q.C., and Al b t iT rt i cl k w e a n e n h il d e ' ad wi i 9 u : j a h p v p ay ear c ed m.oll 'b e h a lf of the promoters of the Alexander, Q.C., and Mr, Webster, for the an decilnaredirtl stated that port of Friday's proceedings on the bill, we just before the rising of the committee they th e -. re preamble of the bill proved, .but conceded to Birkenhead company their a Heato for running powersanei roovtear the Altrincham and . Manchester line, thereby b- s the distance between Birkenhead and Manchester ap'eYaouroterodvfearntaheleemiles. The committee directed that clauses in I t vi i t r l k a e t n h h is ea d d ec e is om io p n a s n h y o . uld be brought up on the eiar• Alexander, Q.C., having this morning submitted er 0 .,. e 115 _ !s, giving the Birkenhead Company running h 3 pow and Manchester r l s il e t h e4t l; pail Helen'sy. !e cons d grtant Wrangli . ain addressed the committee at .! at le n " ~, With the object of inducing the committee to Agiltvriii,rntigil:theee tg _t t n rk e en d h e e o a is d io c n om at pa w n h y ich they arrived on Friday, running powers over the co r , e 'am line. He said he had no doubt that, when the O d er ee:einstho:lhey to their decision on Friday, they were came manlperession that the Birkenhead and Cheshire co„,ruy had no means of getting to Manchester, and do so by passing over the Altnchr a d I h t n hat the t i . e r ine. But what were the facts? Att,"[..el,iheead Company, so far from wanting t l a l n n y aC u c n ess into t e „';_, est.s n o ter, a der the sollread already an access to that ow Inn agreement with the London a i nd . N a o n rth o - f th e -,-;!'n Company, which the chairman or ex ~ : iairni it, eirkenhead Company, stated last week in his evidence W a t r eont, was the best route, that route being between_ ti,rri__ airing and Manchester, by way of Newton. By ai .,',n_ the Birkenhead Company powers over the Altrincham tG`2lanchester line, the com • mittee would be extending was p r epared duplicate route. But that was not all. hea t t . l 4 `, l to show the committee that the Bierke_nr the,. `-cimpany were attempting to .delude them, for with vi,ere hound, by the terms of their agreement ti le ~,,tue Landon and North-Western Company, to send 0 ,.. er ' , 401 e o f h their traffic from Birkenhead to Manchester 'wer e 4 1 - route between Warrington and Newton, and ou nce thus prevented by that agreement, from sending one Aj t ,._ of tram o itt4eham line. troeesisdio:o of over the Farrington and Stockport and Was it then, he would ask, reasonable or frot n his learned friend should' have kept these facts nimittee, in order to entrap them into the_ex ,, ,an opinion which lie would venture to say they with t - i i ° ' n.rave given had they known that this agreement h ste : L°,,,nclon and N rth-Western Company was in il, a l l Pi n 'e c ei t , ? 4 ,,zY, , this agreenient the_ . Birkenhead company t i e er n ow sotto- themselves from _mo c king use of the powers be granted to ‘th e r4 bY tit, committee. even should thospowers .forYtiseekilia_Mmittee. Why hen P lie would ask, were that o le4l t er tbre these powers ?using t Th t ic m ou f ld or, n l o le t be asking lion n and fa o,?.etusiritepoasegreement .(Zh e a i n- North_ , earn e • NN ern Company, of they Bdo co l u vi l t d h not tlie do so. a °ll clon c ounsel here read the agreement with the : :.Ist , 18Zra, No rth-Western Company, dated November -114 hle th ) Their only object, therefore, ' must be to e°lo Pan e rn the better to sell their line to some . other the ji• ;:. The learned counsel, in conclusion, said that if t ,with tilr'e,nhead Company would abandon this agreemen knew that London aid North-Western Company, but he the w they would not, for to do so would be ruinous to Woul d "8, they (the London and North-Western Company) Rolm, • net oppose the proposed running power over the . ivr,)nction line. soh: _ .:ift, of the firm of Swift, Wagstaff, and Blenkin p4y,solicitors to the London and North-Western . Com ono was called, and deposed to the agreement with the 8.5 0, It and North-NVestern Company of November . 21st, be ad eu7 Which it was obligatory on the part of the Birken-_ and A t °lll to send all their traffic between Birkenhead wa.._. bester over the North-Western route by way of ta,:fington and Newton Thearranment was ver adv : 1 01 ; . uns to the Bir kenhead Companyg, e ~the rates being very r thii..4l,lexandeader, in rep l y i ng, sa i d that the only object of p owe irlienh company, in seeking for these running h etn rs i , was to obtain a statutory power which would enable and x ;'.° get into Manchester, in the event of the London a \T ° get Company throwing up the existing greernent. a The r ° p m - "I was then cleared, and the committee were in 40. rate ion for u.pwards of half an hour. . 7,..th_.re-adnussion of strangers, cle e i" si ' 4) Chairman said : The committee have come to this 14el er ,n-_, They agree to the negative the clauses relating to the St. trine s i ea They and Railway Company: They W este P r e itt,,, that of the clauses- relating to the London and North conditions n and the Birkenhead Companies, subject to the durin g the subsistence of the existing d th' e j li et n. ent between the London and North-Western 1840 Si r rat Companies, dated the 21st of November, ethoeK:enhtheaed running powers granted to the Birkenhead h i p Pany under this bill a re not to b e exercised by the i i : Tins relCen,iningPatnoyhteanudsetvofhreanielwve a whenever exercised, subject to and the bill aining-lauses of th e bill we then - agreed to, was ordered to be reported tQ the house, AMERWAN AFFAIRS. ORRESPONDENT. FROM OUR OWN %9 THE SENATE AND THE CUB' fin ;- SUPPORT OF THE PRESIDENT'S ANNEXAT/O POLICY. AN OFFICIAL AT WASHINGTON ASSASSINATED BY A MEMBER OF CONGRESS. SMITH O'BRIEN IN NEW YORK : SPECULATIONS AS TO HIS DOOM. PRO POSED RESTRICTIONS ON BANKING FACILITIES : EXPECTED ADVANTAGES IN A SOUNDER COMMER CIAL SYSTEM. NEW PROPOSITION FOR CHECKING THE SLAVE TRADE. ASTOUNDING CONGRESSIONAL EXPOSURES OF BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION. FALLING-OFF OF EMIGRATION: VAST AGGREGATE INCREASE OF POPULATION FROM FOREIGN SOURCES. GREAT MOVEMENTAMONGST THIEVES AND BURGLARS. MR. COBDEN AT NEW YORK. The most important Congressional intelligence which the Africa takes out is that of the virtual adoption by the Senate of the Cuba Bill—l say virtual adoption, because, although not actually passed, yet the vote upon the motion for its being laid on the table was a test vote, and it was lost by a majority of 30 to 18—being, in effect,-a majority of twelve in favour of the Bill. It is not ex pected that this vote will be carried out during the few days that remain of the present session. But it is shown that the Senate will eventually adopt it. " Buchanan's policy in this important question of our foreign relations," says the New • York Herald, "has thus not only been sustained by a large majority of the Senate, but the question has proved throughout the country the most popular one that has ever been brought before the public." All other subjects, however, at the niornent I write, are almost lost sight.of, in public observation, by the terrible tragedy at Washington, of which you will find full accounts in the . papers,the assassination in the streets of 'Washington, at noon, on Sunday the 27th, amidst the Sabbath calm of that sacred day, of a State, official by - a member of Congress. Mr. Philip Burton Key, district attorney for the district of Columbia—in which the City of. Washington is situated—was, met near the President's house, fired at, and shot dead upon the spot, by the Hon. 1). Sickles, one of the mem bers for New York, on' the' plea that he had dis honoured him, and destroyed his domestic peace. The dreadful scene was witnessed by-'several persons. The wretched assassin at once gave himself up to the police, and was committed to prison. 'His awful case has naturally excited a very warm sympathy in his. behalf, under the severe provocation he is sup posed to have • received. It is, however, another melancholy instance of that fearful habit of sur rendering everything to the gratification of a deadly and bloody revenge which is unhappily so prevalent in this country. Two families thus have been plunged into the deepest misery ; and the unhappy criminal himself is said 'to be in a state of the most dreadful prostration at the recollection of what he has done. He must, of course, as a matter of form, be put on his trial ; but there is no idea that he will be convicted of any punishable offence.. The miserable woman, his wife, who has been the cause of this awful catastrophe, is an Italian, the daughter of a former popular mem ber of the Opera Company in New York. The arrival of the pardoned Irish rebel, Smith O'Brien, in New York, has been the scene, not un naturally, of a good deal of : excitement among his, countrymen ; and he afforded an opportunity, of which a certain class of Americans are only too glad to avail themselves, for the gratification of hostile feeling against Great Britain, for her pretended ill-treatment of Ireland. It is not as a rebel, assuredly, but as a martyr, that one who has set the British Government at defiance has been received in America. But it will all soon blow over, and Smith O'Brien, like greater heroes before him, will find his proper position even here. " There are two clasSes of foreigners," it is observed in one of the New York journals, " who are likely ,to be used up on touching our shores; one is the poor and uneducated, who land at Castle Garden and become the prey of the sharks and harpies, in the shape 'of emigrant runners, boarding house keepers and railroad agents ; the other is the distinguished foreigners,' who become the victims of the equally unscrupulous politicians and demagogues who create an ex citement about them—making demigods out of mere men, not from any admiration or appreciation of the strangers, but in order to participate with them in a momentary popularity, and bring them selves prominently before the public. The people run to see the man as they would an elephant, or a lion, a woolly horse, a Fejee mermaid, or a Swedish Nightingale ; and their expectations . are raised so high that they are sure to be disappointed, and say, Is this all 9'' They begin to find out that the individual is just a man like themselves ; and, taking revenge for having been sold,' they are apt to bring him soon even below their owrevel." This is quite true. And Smith. O'Brien, you may depend upon it, will be no exception to the rule. It has been severely felt as an evil in the com mercial world, that banking could be carried on with such dangerous facility. Loud complaints have ever and anon been heard—more especially, of course, after any great. crash, or succession of crashes, as is too generally the case, when once the rent is made that the extension of banking facilities has been carrried so far, upon such a slender basis of substantial business operations. It has given much satisfaction, therefore, that the Committee on Banks and Banking of the Senate have advised a modification of the existing laws, so that hereafter no bank shall be incorporated, ex cept by special act of the legislature. The wisdom of this change seems to be unquestionable, especially when the tendency of the present system at this par ticular time is considered. There has seldom teen a time when the general condition of affairs called for greater caution than at the present moment. The Boston Advertiser, a highly respectable com mercial journal, says :—" We have now thirty-eight banks in this city,• with a combined capital of nearly thirty-four millions. The line of discounts, although it has fallen a little from the maximum attained in the early part of January, is still higher than this city ever saw until the present year, and is admitted to be far beyond the actual requirements of commerce; and can it be pretended, that in this state of affairs, it is necessary or even wise, to continue a system of indiscriminately granting charters with banking privileges, to all who choose to apply ?" Certainly it would not seem to be one or the other • and it is a good sign when this is acknowledged, and such restrictions are advocated as will put an effectual check upon a monetary system which has done so much to promote rash and reckless speculators, and to encourage a most mischievous course of false credits. Well does the Boston journal just referred to add, "the question which we now have to deal with is, whether, at this time, w h en the state of affairs calls for more than ordina r y caution and circumspection, and when more than ordinary temptations exist to draw capital in this direction, and to aid in a dangerous expan sion and inflation of credit --whether now we shall give charters Without stint to ,asks for them,or whether we shall endeavour to impose some restriction upon th em , . T hat the l atter is the : only safe course for us to pursue, with reference to the general conditionof tuono,y - matte rs , an d without THE N-0111111ERN TIMES; taking into account the geneyal reasons which may seem to discourage an increase in the number of banks at this time, seems to us to be plainly the case." These are sentiments which I cannot but think will meet with a hearty response in the commercial mind of England. I_ see it advocated in some of the Western. journals, and the idea has many favourers in the North and East, that a treaty should be proposed with England and France—and why not with Spain also P--for the purpose of arresting the slave trade, by colonising the African coast with the negroes found out of Africa, after the manner of Liberia, which, it is argued, is in harmony with the disposition made by Mr. Buchanan of the slaves of the Echo. It appears that very lately a joint resolution was introduced into the Senate of Indiana advocating the complete and final suppression of the slave trade by means of colonisation—that is, by sending from the United States, to colonies on the African coast, all free coloured persons who may consent to go, and that it is expedient to vary the ae.reement now existing between the governments of Great Britain and the United States embodied in the eighth article of the Webster and Ashburton treaty, and that in future the naval forces of the two countries on the coast of Africa be ex tended as to the objects, and their joint action be directed to the carrying out of this system of colonization, and its projection, till the growing strength of the colonies shall justify the gradual withdrawal of such forces. The object is doubtless a good one. But I can't see why the Congress of the United States may not carry . it out by itself, having regard, as it has, so exclusively to their own slaves. At the same time there can be no question that England would afford every assistance it its power. In a former communication I merely alluded— nothing more—to the Report of the minority of the Committee of Congress on naval contracts and expen. diture. This Report is now printed and published, and every one is enabled to judge for himself of the amount of official corruption and partizan favourit ism it exposes. We have heard through the radical and republican ravings of England, a great deal about the system of corruption and bribery that prevails there, under its monarchical and aristocra tical institutions ; but it would be impossible, one would think, for anything of the kind to be worse than this, under the pure and simple republican system of America. Well does the New York Times say of it, that " when thus it is made evident the power of every department of the Government ceases to be exercised for the public good, and is made solely subservient to the purposes of faction, to the perpetuation of partisan power and to the enrichment of party favourites, it certainly is time for the people at large to feel some degree of con cern for, the public welfare." The Report is a clear and concise statement of the facts of the case, as to the disposal of patronage in the several branches of the navy department of the public service ; and it shews that men are appointed to various posts who are utterly unfit for their places -idle, drunken, negligent Of their duty, and utterly indifferent to the requisitions of those under whom they are employed, feeling sure of being sustained by their partisan indorsers. Contracts for machinery are given to others than the lowest bidders, avowedly and openly on party grounds -to secure political influence, and to reward men for having contributed money for party contests—and the President himself interposes to influence such a disposition of the patronage of the Government. All these things, I, say, are made as clear as the sun at noon - day. Yet they are but a sample of the general practices of , bribery and corruption which this Report shews to exist in the admimstratimi of the Government ; and while they have grown up and have prevailed under' all parties, no party when in power has ever made any resolute, earnest effort to put an end to them. In the words of the respectable journalist already quoted from, " they are not due to any peculiar dis honesty in any party, but grow out of the very nature of party organisations, and the partisan con flicts by which the character of our Government is decided. So long as party supreinacy, at all hazards arid at any cost, is the leading aim of political effort —so long as our public men permit themselves to be the mere tools of party wire-pullers, passive instru- - ments in the hands of men whose only qualification for taking part in public affairs is the ability to con trol votes—just so long may we expect the whole business of governing the nation to become a trick for putting money into the pockets of professional politicians, and for elevating the worst men to the highest and most responsible posts."' Such is our republican system, on the testimony of its own adhe rents ; and being such, I cannot think that sober minded Englishmen can see much in it to yearn after, in substitution of their own, with all its faults. The statistics of emigration given in the report of the Secretary of State, recently issued, show that in 1858 the whole number was 144,652, of whom 42,291 were from Germany, 26,673 from Ireland, 14,638 from England, and 21,780 were born in the United States. The whole number shows a re markable falling off from former years; the arriVals in 1855 being 230,476 ;- in 1856, 224,490 ; and in 1857, 271,982. Taking, however, the period em braced between September 30, 1813, and December 31, 1858, it is shown that there have been added to the population of the United States from foreign sources, during those fifteen , years, about 4,051,670 human beings, of whom 2,432,829 are males. It is thus that the progress of the country is accelerated— thus. that foreign aid is given to its material interests. A very curious yet. most audacious proceeding has just taken place among what may be called the dangerous classes in New York city. The Herald. describes it as a great Movement amongst the thieves and burglars. It is the fact of a great many thieves, burglars, garroters, and the members of the rowdy population generally, getting up a petition to the Legislature for the abolition of the Office of City Judge. It is truly remarked, that " during the last two years the City Judge has sent many of the distinguished leaders of these confraternities to the State prison and penitentiary, to the great annoy ance of the brotherhood ;" and that therefore " they are naturally determined to get rid of the Judge, if it can be accomplished." And consequently respect able people cannot but exclaim, " Look out for a grand movement in the lobby, by all the vagabonds of New York, to get the law passed." For even the dangerous classes can prevail by the usual means. Their money is quite as good as that of any other party. Mr. Richard Cobden, of Free-trade fame, has arrived in New York, and is staying at one of the hotels. His presence, so-far, has not occasioned any excitement—scarcely, indeed, has it attracted any particular public attention whatever. His Free-trade principles are not popular in the. United States ; and in other respects there is a difficulty in appreciating the political character of such a states man. THE W ASHINGTON TRAGEDY. INTERESTING STATEMENTS OF MR. BUTTER WORTH AND HON. ROBERT J. WALKER. STATEMENT OF MR. BUTTER WORTH , In consequence of the erroneous and false statements Which have appeared in the public press in relation to the death of P. Barton Key, Esq., I feel that it is neces sary that I should state the facts, so far as I am connected with the occurrence. On Sunday morning, about twelve o'clock noon, I received, at the house of a friend, with whom I was staying, a note from he Hon: D. E. Sickles, saying : " Dear B come to me right away," which I showed to Hon. Robert J. Walker and Senator Gavin, with whom I was then con versing-. I asked the bearer of the note who was there, and said to my friends, •What can Sickles desire ? " I immediately went to the house of Mr. S. On my arrival, I found Mr. Sickles in his bedroom, lying on his face, on the pillow, overwhelmed with grief. Some time elapsed before I could obtain an account from him of the cause of his afflic tion. He kept exclaiMing, "lam a dishonoured and ruined man, and cannot look you in the face." Finally, he disclosed: to me the following circumstances.: —On Friday Mr. Sickles receveli an anonymous letter,_ stating that his wife was in the habit of meeting Mr. P. Barton Key at a house on Fifteenth-street, in a negro neighbourhood. Through an agent Mr. Sickles had ascertained that Mr. Key had rented a, v house in that neighbourhood, and was in the habit of meeting a lady - theto corresponding in dreis and appearance to the wife of M. Sickles. Being- possessed of these facts, he stated then} to Lis wife oil S"' acid at irilay the co ntrget i P h e legy, Lets waro lit ' oracle'ln!' tbo r' it thr egg t er poe choe bi „, int eres; It woo _„„ :'res sl l,i ed t° the le -11 1 ' d ire Sell atoll' the Q. L. ,d Bin w' rP• of : t •ect 11 o r I fer,A, der °6 raioate 00 0 tbe 11:' - a w",,," sao tit ae , s tief 1 1 ov if l. s t ew title pc cs• ~, to i; - c l° A. lj b; ,iste7,o; o f a ibt nth a~ D ep , bi sated oi, OVr il t° ill ‘ P ,fle f lble to .11 '° tot l op:; t oo ' res til bee ' „a ha a O IPf ,t taVlO3 01;0 lOW el° In d° al h 3111~oe1~ 0 )t oPe3t lfl sw o i la be j 116 1111 , der C° clit Pr ; t he f ;frt . ge t re t he, t ;to '0 el s for e ,tt 0 0 )e er a r oat a te"' &Olio" stat otru" prOtiCIA ;1011 ,1 05 Ot o e t itte e , regP° ,t• for , roitL ce 'll 5 L 1:,10t It C?' 00111 b° t )o ba il - trtSDA - V, AtARCH 15 1859 once ." that she perceived she was discovered," and there von I ,, ju le a full confession of her guilt in writing. By eonfew , , n it appeared that this criminal intercourse had been ge , f r, , , r on since April, 1858, somet i mes, i n the eisence of r.. b., at the house of h er h us b an d , an d t h at M at the eominewea : s ent of the present session of Con gress Mr. Key had h - 2 ,,ed . an untenanted h ouse on Fifteenth street, where they were 2n the habit of m ee ti ng f requen tl y. After he had apprised nap of the foregoing facts, he con stilted me as to the course Ict.: should pursue. I advised him to send his wife to her motL'er at New York ; that as it was now near, the close of the secs ion, it would excite no remark ; that, during the time intervening between the close of this session and the commencement of the next, he-could go to Europe for a few months, and in the mean time a separation could be arranged between himself and his wife ; that I presumed the affair was known only to one or two persons, beyond mere surmise. and that, for the honour of his little- daughter, and his wife's friends, this course- should be pinsued. To this Mr. Sickles replied, " My friend, I would gladly pursue this course, but so aban doned, so reckless have. Key and my wife been, that all the negroes in that neighbourhood, and I dare notsayhow,many other persons, know all about the circumstances." I then left Mr. S. in his bedroom, and on going down stairs I met in the library Mr. George B. Wooldridge. a clerk of the House of Representatives. I said to him, " This is a terrible affair." He then handed to rise the written statement made by Mrs. Sickles of her guilt - , which was written and signed, as I was then informed, by Mrs, S., in the preset:lee of two females- and witnessed by them. I read the statement, laid it down on the table,. and said, " I will go down town for awhile, and return here. ao•ain." I requested Mr. Wooldridge to say so to Mr. S. if he should inquire for me. I immediately left the house and walked to the Club House, on Sixteenth-street, drank a glass of ale with a friend, and slowly returned to the house of Mr. Sickles. On entering the library again, Mr. Wooldridge informed me that Mr. Key had twice passed the house during the morning, :and had a short time since waived his handkerchief three times as a signal. Whilst con versing with him,. Mr. Sickles came into the library, and said that he had seen the scoundrel making signals; and he added, "My God, this is horrible." I said, " Mr. Sickles, you must be calm, and look this matter square in the face. If there be a possibility of keeping the certain knowledge of this crime from the public, you must do nothing to destroy that possibility; You may be mistaken in your belief that it is known to the whole city." He instantly replied, " No, no, my friend, lam not ; it is already town talk," I then said,. "If tliat be so, there is but one course left for you, as a man of honour—you need no advice." After a few moments silence, Mr. Sickles said that he was satisfied that Mr. Key had been in the habit of making his signals from the window of the Club House opposite, and what surprised him very much was that his wife strenuously denied ails, though freely confessing her guilt. He then walked into the hall. and said to me, " Come, go over with me to Stewart's room, in the Club House, and he may be able to inform me whether Key has a room there, and for what purpose he uses it." I assented, and walked out into the street, supposing that Mr. Sickles was following me. I left the house for this sole purpose. When I left Mr. S. in the hall I am satisfied he had no weapons on his person. He was without an overcoat. He said nothing to me about weapons, or the probability of encountering Mr. Key. I walked slowly down the avenue, on the south side, to the corner, and as I was crossing the street I saw Mr. Key advance a few steps towards me, He saluted me, saying, " Good morning Mr. Butterworth ; what a fi ne day we have." I responded and said, "Have you come from the club ? " He said, " I have." I asked, "Is Stewart in his room ? " He answered, " Yes ; and he is quite unwell." I then said, " I am going up to see him—good morning," and turned to leave him. As I did so, I saw Mr. Sickles for the first time after leaving his house, coming rapidly down Sixteenth-street, on the side next the square, and then near the corner. I had walked about thirty feet on my way to the Club House when I heard Mr. S. exclaim, in a loud voice, " Key, you scoundrel, you have dishonoured my house—you must die." I turned immediately and saw Mr. Key thrust his hand in his vest or side coat packet, take a step in the direction of Mr. Sickles, and simultaneously I heard the discharge of a pistol. Mr. Key then rapidly advanced on Mr. Sickles, seized him with his left hand by the collar of the coat, and seemed to make an effort to strike with something in his right hand, which I then supposed to be a weapon. Mr. Sickles backed into the middle of the street, when he succeeded in extricating him self from Mr. Key's grasp, drew a pistol from his over coat pocket,' and presented it at Mr. Key, who retreated •backward up Sixteenth-street, towards the Club-house, and threw something at Mr. Sickles. Mr. Sickles followed, and when within ten feet fired. I saw that Mr. Key was wounded. He staggered towards the sidewalk, saying, " Don't shoot me." _ He leaned for a moment against a tree, when Mr. Sickles advanced upon him; exploded a cap, and then fired a third time. As Mr. Key was falling, Mr. S. frequently exclaimed, " You villain, you have dis honoured my house, and you must die." Ire uttered these words again:while standing over Mr. Key with his pistol in his hand. I took no part in the contest. I believed them both to be armed. When I left Mr. Sickles' house 1 had no thought of meeting or seeing Mr. Key, my object being to visit Mr.. Stewart. v I had no arms with me. I did not know Mr. Sickles intended to take arms with him. He left the house after me, and, without any suggestion from.me, came towards the Club House, on the north side of the square. When Mr. Key saluted me I did not know Mr. Sickles was approaching, nor did I. see him until I,turned to leave Mr. Key. I did not see Mr. S. shoot Mr. Key after his fall, nor place his pistol in contact with his head or clothing. After the third tare I advanced and took Mr Sickles' arm, and walked with him up Six teenth-street, and advised him to go to his house or to the Attorney-General's. He did so. I returned to the scene of the encounter, and picked up an opera glass from the middle of the street, and gave it to Mr. Sickles. This is the whole of my connection with this unfortunate occur rence. It is not true that I either sought or detained Mr. Key. He.ti.rst addressed me, and our interview did not last one minute. I have known the late Mr. Key in New York and Washington during the last ten years, and our relations have ever been of the most friendly character. I did not anticipate a collision on the Sabbath, though I did not doubt but that it would take place at an early clay. STATEMENT OF HON. R. J. WALKER. At the close of last week I came here from New York. Sunday mirnincr, after breakfast, I visited . the H on . 'William M. Gwin and his family, at his house, where I met Mr. Samuel F. Butterworth. We were .conversino-, when a servant came in and handed a note to Mr. Butterworth, who then, after reading the note, remarked, " Sickles wishes to see me immediately ;" adding, "What can this Mean ?" and left at once. Remained conversing most of the time with Dr. Gwin, when in the course of an hour or two some one—a servant, I think—entered and said, " Mr. Sickles has just shot Mr. Barton Key dead." I asked, " What was the cause ?" when some one inquired of me, " Did you never hear the stories as to Mr. Key and Mrs. Sickles ?" I replied "No," never having heard their names connected in any way. I proposed in a few moments to go to the Club House, where the dead body of Mr. Key was said to be, and ascertain the facts. Dr. Gwin's carriage being at the door, I drove at once to the Club House, was informed Of "the death of Mr. Key, and that Mr. Sickles and Mr. Butterworth had gone to Judge Black's where I drove at once, and was told Mr. S. and Mr. B. had gone to the President's. When on the way, meeting the Hon. John Slidell, I stopped the carriage, and on inquiry learned that Mr. Sickles and Mr. Butterworth had just gone, or were going to Mr. Sickles' house, to which I proceeded at once, and, entering the back parlour, met Mr. But terworth there alone. He 'appeared deeply distressed. This fact, together with my regard and sympathy for Mr. Sickles, my affection for Mr. Butterworth, my long and inti mate acquaintance with Mr. Key, and friendship for him, so overwhelmed me with grief, that I could not speak to Mr. Butterworth for several moments,when, at length,with great deep emotion, he said, " My friend, you should not grieve so deeply ; it is deplorable, but Mr. Key deserved his fate." I then asked Mr. Butterworth to. slate the facts to me, which he did, narrating the incidents substantially as they are now given in his accompanying statement. I then said, " The meeting was not advised by you ?" Mr. Butterworth replied, " No, I did not expect any meeting to-day, although I apprehended a collision as probable at some future period, but when or how I did not know, nor had Mr. Sickles ever stated to me." At that moment Mr. Sickles entered the room, when, after saluting me warmly, he threw himself on the sofa in an agony of the deepest distress I have ever witnessed. His grief was so appalling, his exclamations so constant of the dishonour Mr. Key had brought upon his house and upon his wife and child, that I feared he would become insane, and thought of sending for a physician. I united, however, with. Mr. Butterworth in endeavouring to pacify him ; but we did not succeed for some time. At length he became calm, and saying' he was ready to accompany the magistrate, for whoin''he had sent, as I understood, Mr. Butterworth, Sickles, the magistrate, Mr. Goddard, the Mayor, Mr.. Berret, and myself, all proceeded in the carriage to the. front room. of the prison, where, after a brief statement of the mere fact of the killing and death, Mr. Sickles was I committed for further examination. Mr. Batterivorth and myself then drove to the Club-room, where the coroner's inquest was being held over the dead body of Mr. Key. At the Club-room we met Dr. Gwin, and drove with him to his house. Mr. Butterworth then repeated substantially to Mr. Gwin the saw narrative he had given to me, which narrative Mr. Sickles confirmed in a subsequent statement to me, interrupted; by deep agony about his daughter and about his wife, who, he said, was a, mere child, adding that for their sake he might have triekto,sutfer in.silence, with but7 home or hope. in t his world; hut after the signals an the disgrace became public, - 4.13 'wither. askea • nor. wau+„ed advice as_to..iliCcggrse, EXTRAORVJNARY A somewhat remarkable action for divorce came be the First Division of the Court of Session at Edinburgh, last week, for judgment. Mr. John M'lver, banker, in Dingwall, Rosshire, and provost of the burgh, is the pursuer (plaintiff) in the case, and seeks to obtain divorce from his wife on the ground of adultery. Suspicion against his wife was first presented to his mind by a letter written and placed in his hand by his wife's sister, Ellen o!Doherty, on the 25th of February, 1857, which, while professing deep sorrow and repentance for having aided her sister in corresponding and meeting. with her alleged paramour, t discloses circumstances of a painful nature, and leading to the assumption that, in a pre arranged interview between Mrs. M'lver and Dr. Gor don, of Port Stewart, Ireland, in the Royal Hotel, Belfast, on the 12th of July, 1856, an act of adultery had been committed. It would appear that, in early life, Mrs. M'lver, then Miss Eliza Doherty, became acquainted with Dr. Gordon, and that a strong attachment had arisen between them—an attachment which seemed on both sides to survive the separation of their fortunes caused by circumstances, and even the- marriage of both the lovers to different partners. Dr. Gordon, who first met Miss O'Doherty in 1837, addressed her under the• romantic name of Una, in songs and sonnets (one of which appeared at the time in the Dublin University Magazine), and also in highly romantic love letters. But Dr. Gordon married another lady, whom he describes in his correspondence with the defender as his " loving, true, and faithful wife ; " and by her he had three children. Mrs. M'lver married the pur suer in 18f3, and is the mother of five children. Twice during her married life she met Dr. Gordon, once a fermi months after marriage, and the second time on the occasion above referred to. Dr. Gordozr who had for • been in declining health, died in a year after the alleged' adultery.. The statement of Ellen O'Doherty is that, on her sister's ac count, and at her instigation, she kept up an occasional correspondence with Dr. Gordon, and was the medium of conveying loving messages between him- and her sister : that in May, 1856, Dr. Gordon, who then proposed' to go abroad to recruit his failing health, expressed a wish to see Mrs. M'lver beThre doing so; that, on pretence of Ellen's illness, the two sisters went south to Edinburgh, professedly to consult Dr. Simpson, and that, while there they (mina that Dr. Gordon was unable to come so far, and that he appointed Belfast as the place of meeting. Miss O'Doher ty's description (given in the letter referred to) of the scene that took place in. Belfast was the chief groundwork orthe The judge-ordinary in the case (Lord Benholme) I'lver guilty of adultery, and granted divorce, some years 1857, about found Mrs. but the cas, being brought under review of the Judges of the First Division, they decided by three to one that not only was there no renal proof of the wife's guilt, but that the evidence did not even amount to moral proof: Lord Ivory stated - his opiniorrat some le _ out that several of the witnesses, including Ellen, appeared to be animated by a strong feeling of hostility to the defender, and that a very unusual intimacy appeared to subsist between the pursuer and Ellen, and that Ellen had' actually abstracted from the custody of others some of the th; pointin proofs . she now offered of her sister's guilt. He had no single word this witness spoke, and would confidence i not use it against her sister on so heavy a charge. She professed great purity, and was shocked at what she saw pass between her sister and Dr. Gordon, but she was equally free with the pursuer, her brother-in-law. On the whole, he thought there was proof enough of much bad taste, but he considered moral delinquency very doubtful, and it was not upon evidence like this that a woman. was to be divorced from her husband and thrown a victim of poverty and helplessness upon the world. Lord Curriehill took the opposite view, and believed in Mrs. M'lver's guilt. Lord Dens expressed the same opinion as Lord Ivory, and even in stronger terms, and stated that within his own knowledge he knew of a case in which an early attachment, which had ceased - to be a passion, had remained a deep seated feeling ; and he believed that had a like meeting taken place, as for forty years it was wished for, no meeting.: could have been more * free from sensual thoughts, nor could the nature of the sentiment still subsisting be better de scribed than in Dr. Gordon's letter, in which lie said, " My heart is my only priest, and it sanctifies me the remem brance of my love, and makes Eliza holy." A meeting of such a kind and there was proof of no other—was far more conceivable than that a married lady, who for thirteen years had led an irreproachable life, should dedicate a single . day of her life to adultery, and never seek a repetition of it. This was not the usual history of an adulterous connexion, but savoured more, to say the least of it, of a farewell meeting, sought in the belief—which it was clear enough the defendant entertained, and which she expressed to her iterrnother at the time—that Dr. Gordon "was dying," and under the impression, however delusive, which the s Ellen says she expressed to her, that "she would Make a dutiful and affectionate wife to her husband when she came back," and that, "although he had not the first place in her ,heart. still she would do the best she could to make up for it." He was far from denying either the folly or the impropriety of the meeting. There were sufficient to give it an unsatisfactory character. But, on the other hand, the consciousness of these features in it sufficiently accounted for the cloak of relationship s a id to have been cast over it, and many of its other inci dents, without the necessity of supposing adultery. His lordship then referred to the evidence of allowing that still greater feelings appeared to have subsisted between the pursuer and Ellen than even between the defender and Dr. Gordon. The pursuer and. Ellen slept habitually in adjoining rooms, with the door open between. When he was ill, she lay in the same bed with him ; when she was.ill, he kissed her and cried over her from morning to night, and the very flannel chemise next her skin was taken off and replaced by his very paternal hands. He was not disposed to thick that there was any guilt in all this. He did not believe there was ; but surely one must pause before leaping to the conclusion of guilt in the one case any more than in the other. His lordship concluded by referring to the correspondence and evidence, as showing the high character of Dr. Gordon, and as show ing. that his were not. the letters of a man writing for the ear of a wife whom he wished to debauch. On the whole, he was not, on moral grounds, prepared to affirm the defen der's guilt, and certainly he could not do so as matter of legal evidence. The Lord President also gave his opinion at some length in favour of the defender ; and The Court, by a majority, recalled the interlocutor of the Lord Ordinary, and refused the divoree. Mr. William Smith O'Brien met with a warm and en thusiastic reception on landing Nev York from the steamer Prince Albert. By an ordnance voted by the city of Hamburg yachts and pleasure-boats belonging to clubs or private individuals are free from al navigation dues when they enter the port or leave it without merchandise on board. A' letter from Wiesbaden states that the reigning Duke of— Nassau, who is one of the best horsemen in Europe, was lately thrown from his horse while on his way to Biberich, whither he was going to see some ball-firing. He met with some very severe contusions, but his life is not in danger. _ _ _ _ _ Thefirst stone of a villa which Rossini intends building at Passy, was laid on Friday last. The maestro himself officiated, and placed under the stone an inscription and a medal which had been struck in honour of his " .Stabat." Madame Rossini concluded the ceremony by planting a rose tree. Among the persons present at this little fete were the Mayor o(Passy, and MM. Vivier, H. Lucas, de Pompery, and other intimate friends of the composer. ENIPTOYER. AKD EMPLOYED.—We learn that Messrs. Spencer and Moore, spinners and manufacturers, Burnley, made . special arrangements by which they gave to the whole of their workpeople, numbering fifteen hundred, a treat on Saturday last, viz.: a railway trip to Manchester and back, and a visit to the Fairy Fountain and dissolvine views. The directors of the Mechanic's Institution, to facilitate this kindly project, arranged to admit this large body in two battalions, viz : half at 11.30 a.m., and the other half at 4.30 p.m. This plan is worthy of extension. —Bury Times. SUPPOSED SUICIDE OF Two SlSTERS.—Considerable ex citement has been, during the past weak, created in the neighbourhood of Camberwell, in consequence of the dis covery of the bodies of two females in the Grand Surrey Canal, under most extraordinary circumstances. o A oed i_r otnn in an q i: u :t e teh s d t e, was held on Saturday morning by Mr Carter, coroner for the eastern division of Surrey, in the board room of Camberwell Workhouse, and from the evi dence adduced it. appeared that both the bodies were discovered floating in the water by a , police constable, named Collins, by whom they . were secured, and conveyed to the dead-house of the parish. Shortly after wards the same officer observed a basket in the canal, and upon draging it to the bank he found that it contained the body of a large black cat. Although Mr. coroner's officer, made every inquiry, the unfortunate women were not identified, and the inquiry was adjourned. Ir i t e h n e Elizabeth afternoon, however, a female, most respectably r eeogni , ed both of them as her nieces, Sarah a r n r d il wer e e ir fo h rm ist e o r r ly y Buckle, aged respectively 34 and 36 years, is strange, and not without interest. They what is termed "fancy ironers," and by their exertions hall-rooms, obtained a most excellent living.ceased A roo relation, however, left to them a legacy of 1,040 t., and they ma,waonrak,sluirch places gu a p ee o s n that, sum, frequenting theatres, , until the whole was speedily expended. They were after- Nr, ards unable to obtain work,: and no doubt their extreme 'poverty, as shown in their wretched clothing, i led them to terminate their- e x ist en c e. The most e , w si h sin ua t r he pa t rt oek o f the with affair is, that the s i s t ers h a d a pet at them whereve r th ey went, and which no doubt w y as the one found' by the constable in the basket. The inquiry will be r.e.sunied,to.to-m or ro w (Wednesday). AL, DRAM ATIC, TATTT•'.TI \B'\ AND ARTISTIC NEWS AND. GOSSIP. "; , . , -land from Rome his coloured M tra,:_ • •.., . Mr: Gihgcsh is gendlig'to lb ' , statue of Venus. . ~ -..,..,..,. _ Mr. and Mrs. Charles 'N.atlieWs apPearea4 at -. Tn0., , .... H market on Monday. Music at the Crystal Palace continues attracting conuois- , sienrs to the Saturday concerts. . . Mr. Alexander Dumas has arrived at Marseilles, return ing from his long travels in Russia and the East. A new farce, by Mr. A. C. Troughton, is in preparation at the Strand Theatre, to be called " Vandyke Brourr." These eccentric comedians, the Christy Minstrels, con tinue their performances in Paris with increasing success. Rossini, departing from his determinatiott to compose no more music, has coup. used an Ave Maria for the Empress At the Grecian Theatre, the drama of " Tit's Late to Mend" has bees-reproduced, and contisue Never tom large audiences 'The Critic reiterate to attract " The Vestig,es of I)ai ,ts assertion as to the Enthorship of mien," despite the denial of the Smith . Mapieson and Co., the agents of Mr. E. T. forms us that Signor Graziani has signml an en- gagement for Drury-lane We are sorry to hear that Miss Swanborough, the clever and attractive manageress of the now prosperous Stra n d Theatre, has been suffering from the effects of an ac.3icTent. At the Princess's Theatre the "last ShakesPetian Re— vival" will be produced on Monday, the 28th inst., for the benefit of Mr. and. Mrs. Charles Kean. "He' •e, to commence i i the play selected. • At the Lyceum, Mr. Stirling Cayne has a new drama accepted for Mr. and Mrs. Barney Willi Edmund Falcnner has a new - play reutly for Mrs . . 'Charle" .n -Mr Preparatior are being made for the performar Ci Hey rheatre. Tst it a ma been played at Sadler's .ffeent - seule at last few years has this niece \1 7 :6 - 1Is ; and h • time with In the event of a vacancy occurring in the representa tion of Cambridge Uni‘ersity, C. .T. Selwyn, Esq., a: as of Trinity College, the Chancery barrister, brother of the BiShop of New Zealand and of Professor Selwyn,. will he-s -candidate. Mr. Sala's admirers will be.glad to learn the title of• his one--" . Gas Lio.ht and Da; London Scenes 14tessrs. Chapman and Hall, says th e i• • to be the publiShers. next work L' ht, with s It is sa it a commission is about to- be appointed to revise the regulations of the Theatre Francais established by the Imperial decree of Moscow . ; particularly in what rel s to the money coming to authors f..)r- the' represe—; tation of their pieces For the Hertz Collection of anti Mr. Hertz twelve thousand poi= c-olrec thousand pi Kr. - Mayer has, con nr. Mayer gave thousand • Mr.. IV, ; by thp trpisaction, we obsenre, has :ent sale of the ," b 5• a distin lied. writer says, realised tem equently, lost two s of an. anti-Trac ed his intention, ress "A Tale of m" and a novel- an anti- dote to " Amy Herbert," and that sort of thing. A paper has been extensirely circulated amongst the nobility and gentry during the past week, stating that the house of Colnaghi and Co, propose to pu portrait of a lady of high, rank WE fish a caricature quested to state , The that the contents of 'thi& paper are wholly false eminent firm referred to , would not lend themselves to such laandal A rumour is in circulation that the Rev. A. Holmes, author of " The Heirs of the Farmstead," &c., a short time ago entered into an engagement with a respectable firm, to , write a serial tale, for which he was to be paid £5OO, and that he is guilty of a dishonourable breach of the contract. We (Critic) are authorised to state that the rumour is. with out any foundation. Mr. - Clayton, the well-known artist of stained o.ls (says , 2 .5 the Atheneum), is now a t wor k on a memorial window, which some kindly enthusiast is about to erect in Gloucester Cathedral to the memory of the murdere I Edward IL The glass will contain a view of the murder scene, treated in the archaic way, and a little, we hope, mitigated in the brutality of its horror. son takes .place at Covent- The Pyne and Harrison xse terminates on Satnrday next with the iss Louisa Pyne. The company are engaged. to perform in Dublin, Glasgow, Birmingham, Liverpool, Hull, York, Edinburgh, and Manchester dnring the recess, and to produce " Satanella," " Martha," 0 Rose of Cas- The benefit of Mr. Hard zarden on. Monday evening tile," la., with band, chorus, full company, &c. A. carious discovery has just been male in the archives of the City of Landon --a new fact about Chaucer. In the reign of Edward 111. a lease was granted to Geoffrey Chaucer of a room above one of the City gates —Aldgate —and of premises adjoining. The poet was the lessee, is the east of London, of a roam like that over Temple-bar, and of a honk adjoining, like that of the Messrs. Child. We understand that a claim is to be made on behalf of the representatives of - Mr. Douglas Jerrold, upon Mr. E. T. Smith with regard to the operetta of " Black-eyed Susan," now being performed at D rury -l ane Th eatre. Th e defence, we are told, is that the material for the libretto has been taken, not from the melodrama, but from " Dibdia's ballad;" to which there are only two objections, viz., that the ballad is not Dibdin's, and that it contains no story. Mr. Chorley, the biographer of Mrs. tiemans, and one of the principal critics of the Athenceum, &c., we hear, has in_ the press a novel, the main purpose of which is to eipose the domestic wrongs of women in the higher classes. The long announced work by the Chevalier de Chatelain, "Beautes de la Poesie Anglaise," will, it is said, shortly appear in two volumes, uniform with the same gentleman's translation of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" from English. into French. This work is the fruit of snore than test years' incessant labour. There is to be a deluge of chamber music apparently this season. The Reunion des Arts will commence its series of spring meetings on Wednesday next. Miss Arabella Goddard is announcing her soirees. Then, there are to be two glee concert-,csivin„u parties—one consisti ng o f the well-known company, including Mr. and Mrs. Locke); Messrs. Foster, Winn, and Thomas—headed this ye ar b y Miss Banks—the other only known at present as the Lon don Glee and Madrigal Union. Appropos of the announcement that Messrs. Chapman. and Hall will shortly publish a volume of sketches by Mr. Sala, collected from the pages of Household Words, and. reprinted with the consent of Mr. Dickens; it will be with. noting how many of these sketches will be found to hare been. not by Mr. Dickens. If we mistake not there is now sold. in Paris and St. Petershurgh translations of "Dicken's Miscellaneous •Works ; " many pages of which are from the fertile and 'fanciful pen of Mr. Sala. Some of t h e best papers in H. W., which have always been regarded 'as additional sprigs in the laurel-crown of the "conductor,'" are from the same pen. In a loch r. 3 rcc :ntly delivered at Chelsea by Mr. Gilks, the following curious statistics were communicated concerning the illustrated press. Of ten illustrated papers published in London every week, viz., the Illustrated' London _Yews, Illustrated Times, Panels, London Journal,: Reynold's .illiseellany, Cassell' s Paper, Leisure flour,. Sunday at Beane, Town - Talk, and Mechanic's Ma gaz i ne the aggregate circulation is 1,744,000 copies per week, and; the weekly cost of engravings is £578, making a total. annual circulation of. 00,688,000 copies, mid spending £30,056 per annum upon engraNiag.- Critic. " Operatic chat," says the Literary Gazette "is stilt mysterious. Among recent arrivals is that of Signor' onetti. Arditi, whose advent has been constructed into a sort of renewed connection with the probable re-opening of her Majesty's fe. We receive tli Theatre, of which establishment Signor i lk u rd L i o ti nd li o as n_ f ori timeshared the musical directorship with Signor 33 some are on the vigouramo u r f, - - ,r pe ti r i h e a i p t s a i i w a h n o o c p a e n ra . y hear that . say ?) boding London—is life Another and r Mdme. Jenny Goldschmidt-Lind has determined once ,gains to enter professional li regrettable indisposition' great caution. Imp, essarli who has returned to London tenors, may be glad to h re a 0 rho look -out after some years' absence. The of Mr. Slits Reeves has left us pretty nigh tenor-lesi." A grand ball took place at the court of Parma on the sth, Of which the Countess of Chambord and the Duke or Modena, were present. The duke left his capital on the following day. Several French chambers of commerce, including that of Bordeaux, have expressed an opinion in favour of a re duction of the duties on sugar and coffee. The chamber of commerce of Boulogne-sur-Mer advocates the total suppres of the duty on coffee, in order that " the consumption of sugar may be thereby increased." A public meeting was held on Sunday in Hyde-park, the object being to denounce the Government Reform Bill. Several thousand persons assembled, and muck noise and disturbance prevailed. The whole affair partook more of the character of a disreopfuctoanbsleiderrionwg tthheanineorfitsa meeting convened for the purpose of a question in which the electoral privileges of the people are concerned. On Friday evening a meeting of the reformers of Hull. was held, presided over by Mr. Alexander Samuelson, the recently-elected chairman of the Reform party in that town. The Government Reform Bill was'very strongly condemned, and it was decided that .a requisition be presented to the Mayor to call a meeting of the electors and non-electors of the borough to take into consideration the Government Reform Bill. Wednesday is the time suggested,