The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-10 00:00:00

SPOKEN.

Affghan, Calcutta for Liverpool, March 20 "5 N.. .40 W.
America (rms), hence for Boston, April 8 25 W.
Anna Augusta, bound west, April 5 -- 50 N: 24 W.
Arabia (rms), hence for New York, March 29. .41 N 63 W.
Bell, Gabcon River for Liverpool, Jan. 31 "0 N 4 E.
Carribean, Feb. 23 5 N... 21 W.
Christopher 1141, hence for Hong Kong, Feb. 5 3 N... 19 W.
Coniston, Colombo for Liverpool, Feb. 18 ' 34 5...17 E.
Countess of Wilton (1), hence for Auckland, N.Z.,
fifty-four days out "7 S.. .28 W.
Edith Byrne, hence for Calcutta, Jan. 24
Forest Monarch, outward-bound, Feb. 26
IL Theodore, hence for Melbourne, Jan. 22 3l 5...31 E.
James Gibb, Aden for Belize, Feb. 22 19 5... 2 E.
Martin Luther, hence for Bombay, Jan. 16 26 5...34 W.
Nelson, Buenos Ayres for Liverpool, April 5 51 N... 11 W.
_ witk loss of mainmast, &c.; refused assistance

Neville, London for China, March 7 ----
1 N... 22 W.
Oriental, hence for Bombay, Feb. 20
Prince Regent, for Aden, Jan. 13
Samuel Fales, hence for Havana, Feb. 28 36 N... 21 w.
Shakspeare, hence for Hong Kong, Feb. 5 3 N... 25 W.
Wm. Libby, hence for New Orleans, March 22 26 N... 38 W.
Adelaide, Mobile for Liverpool, March 16, forty miles west of
Cape Carnival. '
Dreadnought, Huelva for Liverpool, March 16, off Cape St.
Vincent.
Fidelia, hence for New York, March 12, ?fftheSaltees.
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George (brig), Monte Video for LiverpOol, April 1, with loss of

mainmast. -
lary, from Monte Video, March 2G.
Pioneer, April 7, off Tuskar, by the Hereyna.
Sea Ranger, November 21. _ _

Volant, tien'ee fer Boston, March off Mine Head.

OUTPORTS.

South, from Kurrachee at Penzance.
Conqueror, from Coquimbo at Mumbles.
Conference, fr m Callao at Bristol.
Star, from Havre at Cardiff.

P.uris, from Caldera at Swansea.
DEAL, April 9.---Arrived and passed : Orient, from Adelaide
to London ; Skimmer of the Seas, Algoa Bay to London; Nor-
thumberland, Colombo to London ; Narmi (s 1, Shanghai to
London; Forest Fairy, to St. Michael's for orders ; Windsor
Castle, to Bombay for orders; Princess Royal, Mauritius to
London ; Corinthian Lass, Odessa to London; Greyhound, Rio
Janeiro to London; Anna, Matanzas to London ; Red Jacket,
to St. Michael's; Symmetry, Mauritius to London; Kate,
Moulmein to London ; Nemesis, Batavia to London ; Mignon,
St. Michael's to London ; Bazaar, St. Michael's to Landon ;
South Ship, Bombay to London; Nannetta, Mauritius to
London; Burmah, Rotterdam to New York ; Runhardt, Cape-
town to London ; Batavia, Amsterdam to Batavia ; Gustav,
London to Quebec; Witch of the Wave, to Teigninouth ; Art
Union, London to Hong Kong ; Ingeborg, Christiana to Caen ;
Carmencian, London to Malaga ; Pink, Hull to Palermo ; D.
C. Pierce, Leith to Galatz ; March Hare, St. Michacl•s to
London ; Marie Adele, Blyth to Cam; Eleanor, St. Michael's
to London; Reanard, Amsterdam to Capetown, and not from
Capetown to London, as previously reported.
GitAVESEND, April 9.—Arrived : Lois, from New York ; Sea
Breeze, Mauritius; Excelsior, St. Michael's; Maud, Calcutta;
Susannah,. Havana. Sailed : Anglo-Saxon, for Shanghai ;
Affiance, Columbia ; Nankin, Hong Kong ; Queen, St.
Michael's; Paul August, Pernambuco; Mary Anne, Sierra
Leone.

FALMOUTR, April 7.---Arrived: Ceres, Beck, from Paraiba.:
Amanda, Olsen, Galatz ; Chancellor, Stains, Odessa ; Sophie,
Snellman, Moulmein; Star of Hope. Evanson, Paraiba. Off :
Claudia, Bichler, from Rio Janeiro; Nemesis, Roberts, Batavia
for the Downs.

GREENOCK, April 9.---Arrived ; Elizabeth Rose, from
Surinam ;' August Louise (ss), Dunkirk; Ramond, Havana;
H•ita, Antwerp.
BELFAST, April 7.---Arrived Malvina (ss), from London.
QUEENSTOWN, April 9.- --Ar rived : Arathusa, from Honduras ;
Urania, and Assigna, Alexandria; Port Wallis, Mansil a to
Cuba; America (s) Liverpool for Boston, and procee!ed ;
Riehard and Eliza, Alexandria; Frltheof, and Alice, Odessa;
Figlia, Alexandria; Jesu a, Matanzas ; Merry Monarch,
Odessa, for Cork ; Geer Dina, Ancona ; Mahommed, Odessa
for Cork. Sailed : Rosetta, for Bristol.
MARITIME EXTRACTS.
LIVERFOOL, April 9.

The Commodore Perry, from London, in attempting to dock
to-day, carried away rudder, and was placed in one of the
Birkenhead Graving docks.
The Cleator (ss), arrived here from search of the derelict
Xiphias.
The Nancy, of Tynemouth, for Runcorn with pipe clay, is
ashore on Horse Bank ; craw saved by the Lytham life-boat.
The Delhi, Thwaites, from Adelaide at Penzance, having
experienced westerly gales from 30th March to Ist April.
Alexandre, Caris, from St. Domingo at Penzance, suffered
much in a gale, March 31.
PENZANCE, April 9.---The Nelson, Rope, of and for Liver-
pool, from Monte Video, assisted in with loss of mainmast by
pilot tuggers.

NEW ORLEANS, March 24.---The Forest King, of Liverpool,
was in collision on the 11th instant with the River Belle, from
Cienfuegos to New York, when the latter foundered.
NEW YORK, March 27.---The De Witt Clinton, from Liver-
pool, that was ashore on Squan Beach, was got off last night
and towed up to the city. March 28 : The Cairn has foundered.
The Robert Treat, from Liverpool to City Point, was ashore at
Currytuck yesterday; assls'ance has been sent. The Juniata,
from Liverpool to Baltimore, was going up Chesapeake Bay
y(sterday, damaged. March 29: The Cairn, Le Couter, from
Minititlan to Europe, sprung a leak and sank, March 15, off
Cape Canavarel ; crew arrived at St. Augustine, Florida. The
Sarah J. Hyde, from Mobile to Havre, put into Key West,
March 21, in distress and leaks. The Robert Treat, ashore at
Currytuck, lies in a favourable position, and will probably be
got off.

SHIPS INTENDING TO SAIL FROM LIVERPOOL
FOR THE PRINCIPAL PORTS THIS MONTH.
Destination. Ship's Name. To Sail.
Arsa RAMA : 1860.
Adelaide Lima April 12.
Melbourne and Geelong Gosport f f 13.
Melbourne, Geelong, and
Auckland Commodore Perry „ 20.
.Pf ft Fredk. Gabbard ... „ 23.
99 Samaritan May 1.
~ f t Saldanah
Sydney Chiloe April 13.
„ Great Tasmania ...May 2.
EAST INDIES:
Bombay Calphurnia tpril 10.
ft Ilutlah
.
9 f Havelock - ‘)a.
Calcutta , Vespasian tf 12.
tf Maha Ranee
I P William Melhuish „ 23.
Ceylon British Banner ... „ 18.
Sincapore Medora „ 22.
Manilla Primera de Espana „ 20.
Hong Kong and Whampoa Valdivia 9. 23.
Shanghac Kate Carnis „ 23.
Algoa Bay Betsy
UNITED STATES :
New York Cof Balitimore as „ 11.
ft Africa (s)
f. • Vigo (es)
fl. Cof AN ashington sa „ 25.
99 Ada (a)
f t Lucy Thompson ... „ 10.
~ lsaac Webb
• Dreadnought
„ f t
91 Princeton
W. S. Lindsay „ 20.
Halifax and Boston Europa (s)
Boston Argo
' Valentia „ 20.
Philadelphia Saranak „ 12.
. Westmoreland ft 25.
New 'Orleans Vanguard „ 18.
Charleston ' Colombo
Baltimore Jane Henderson ... „ 20.
~ ' Borneo
NORTH AMERICA :
Canada, via Portland Nova Scotian (as). ~ 11.
„ ~, . ..North Briton (es)- „ 18.
„ Steamer (es) „ 25.
Quebec G. D. Peters „ 10.
Mon
If
treal Allan a Dale ...... .. „ 13.
. .
„ 13.
20.
Halifax, ILS Solwoodileld
Solon
„
SOUTH AMERICA
Bahia Castor
~ 21•
Pernambuco Belle
++ 15.
„ ktrevida
~ 23.
Rio de Janeiro David Harrison ... „ 16.
f 9 Senator
~ 21.
Mary Weir
Monte'i'ideo and Buenos Ayres.Florist
Valparaiso Lanercost „ 11.
/f Tacna „ 19.
Black Prince
NI, xsr . INDIES
' 1 •
Barbadoes Rose
„ lnca
21.
Kingston, Jamaica Johann
Demerara Parker
Havana Lima
Ysusgaiza „ 21.
tl
Morga ,, 26.
MEDITE'REANFAN :
Alexandria, Beireut, and
Alexandretta Euphrates (ss) „ 19.
Alexandria, Beirout, and
Alexandretta Pactolue (es) „ 10.
Constantinople, Smyrna, arid
Syria Laconia (as)
Palermo. Messina,, Corfu, An-
cona, and Trieste Venetian (es) ,, 10.
Palermo, Messina, Corfu, An-
cona, and Trieste
Genoa, Steamer ,, 23.
Leghorn, and Naples... Steamer „ 11.
Santancier, Bilboa, and San
Sebastian Nina (es)

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THE DAY'S NEWS.

The French press is opening out most unscru-
pulously against England ; and the opinion is
freely expressed in Paris, that such a course has
the entire approbation of the court. It was
stated a day or two since, that the Government
papers, both in the capital and in the provinces,
had received a hint to represent the revolutionary
attempts in Sicily as the result of English
intrigue ; and now it is even pretended that
England is responsible for the insurrection in
Spain, as well as for that in Palermo. The
absurdity of such statements, one would think,
must be their sure corrective. But whether
believed by the French people or not, the very
making of them shows the mischievous spirit that
prevails—the malicious desire there is to excite
anew a hostile feeling against England. It is
a significant fact that the French Government
should have taken the trouble to profess a disap-
proval of what it calls the lamentable imputa-
tions against a neighbouring Power," which the
papers have thus been throwing out. The Pays
and Patrie have been distinguished in this way—
having received official communications on the
subject. " These papers," they are told, " ought
so much the less to have accepted these imputa-
tions, knowing that they are devoid of authenti-
city." But then, since they are relished not-
withstanding, their being." devoid of authenticity"
does not much concern those who thus find it not
only popular but profitable to accept them.
The idea of a Treaty of Navigation between
England and France, as proposed by Mr. Lind-
say, and favoured by Her Majesty's Government,
is sternly denounced, it seems, by the French
Protectionists. "it would strike a fatal blow,"
they say, " against the maritime power of
France, and effect a profound revolution in the
French commercial navy,"—besides being " a
flagrant departure from the treaty 'signed last
January, which expressly reserved the main-
tenance of the differential rights in favour of
trade in France." This latter objection is at
least tenable and true ; and it shows how very
little the true interests of England were consi-
sidered in that treaty. The interests of Man-
chester were carefully attended to ; but no heed
whatever was given to the great Shipping
Interest of this country.
The position in which Switzerland suddenly
finds herself placed, under the new order of things,
may well make her uneasy. It is no joke to have
an army of six hundred thousand men—the
troops of a powerful, ambitious, and aggressive
neighbour—thrown all at once upon an unpro-
tected frontier. And this, as it is pointed out,
"is her real position,—the whole force of tie
French Empire is, by the occupation of Upper
Savoy, brought not only to the frontier, but to
the open and unprotected frontier of Switzer-
land." Germany, again, is critically affected 3y
the occupation of Chablais and Faucigny ; and
well may Prussia look to the protection of its
interests in that quarter. In its issues ilia
annexation of new territory by France, may yet
become of more European importance than i• is
at present apparently considered. And no dobt
the remark is true, that " England is interesed,
though not to a sufficient extent to assume ;he
championship of a cause which belongs to ;he
whole of the Powers of Europe."
The democracy of this country—like tha of
all countries where it has been enabled to rea'its
hydra-head—gives ever and anon unmistakable
signs of its still retaining the same vinent
spirit of animosity against the higher class; of
society which has always characterised it. [le
Morning Herald of yesterday, as an instan3 of
this, quotes the following piece of demoettic
raving from one of the political publicationshat
are popular with the working classes lathe
metropolis :—" The race who wrested fre(om
of thought and speech from crowned trots,
coronetted parasites, and consecrated hypoctes
and blasphemers, can, if they will, rescue fair
own necks from the yoke now fastened ton
them by the trembling hands of the herediry
incapable; who believe that the triumplof
justice, and the establishment of liberty, 'weld
be the destruction of their order.' " This is
evidently said with reference to the Ministsal
Reform Bill. It is by its means they hopin
due time, to produce a state of things urer
which they will achieve what they call "le
triumph of justice, and the establishmenta
liberty." Our Conservative contemporary thits
it important thus to learn the opinions•of the
who, as the authors of the Reform Bill affect°
believe, are unfairly prevented from controll
the representation of the people. of England
Parliament. " Had there been any test of p-
dence," it is justly remarked, " such as ft
which was proposed by the bill of the N
Government, no movement could have been me

proper or more truly Conservative than tt
which goes to enfranchise certain bodies of a
working classes—for the man who does t

depend for food on each week's wages need not
be a slave ; but this wholesale offer of political
power to factory hands will have a result similar
to its origin, the service of a particular class which
is ruled by prices more than by patriotism."
An official inquiry into the working condition
of the General Post Office has just been directed
by the Government to be instituted,—in con-
sequence, it is understood, of certain exposures
which the Times has lately made of alleged Seri-
ous defects in the arrangements of that establish-
ment. But our all-powerful contemporary is still
not satisfied. it takes exception, for instance, to
the commissioners of inquiry being appointed by
the Postmaster-General; and, moreover, that the
scope of the investigation, as now stated, is not
by any means so comprehensive as it should be.
" The Post-office is not charged with corruption
malversation, or waste. It is not even accused of
mismanagement in the ordinary sense of the
term, for it would perhaps be impossible to give
the public better service on the same principles
or out of the same means. What we say is,
that the introduction of the penny postage
system has rendered the accommodation at the
command of the establishment utterly ineffi-
cient, and that the desire of saving a large
surplus for the national revenue has pre-
vented such an employment of the resources of
the department as would have put things straight
again. The natural result of such conditions is
scamped' workmanship. The Post-office, instead
of welcoming any new demands upon its services,
as a national establishment ought to do, evades
its duties and curtails its work. Some of its pro-
per business it shifts on to the shoulders of its
customers; some it altogether refuses. News-
letters, or newspapers, have suffered most of all."

The leading journal, therefore, has itself a parti-
cular interest in the matter. It admits, indeed,
that the treatment of newspapers at the Post-
office is the very gist of its complaint. The fact
is, that "the Post-office requires more of its
income for its own purpose than it now appropri-
ates, and it should be allowed to take it." Too
much of the public accommodation, and of the
public interests, at the Post-office, is sacrificed to
the object of handing over as large an amount of
revenue as possible to the public exchequer.
If it be true, as the London Press states—
which- is known to be often informed of such
matters from authentic sources—that the " Impe-
rial policy of France, having accomplished its
object on the side of Italy, has now extended its
power and influence towards the Rhine, by open-
ing negotiations with Bavaria for the cession of
the Palatinate, holding out the prospect to that
Power of compensating herself at the expense of
Austria in the Tyrol," we are likely, in no long
time, to have some further illustrations of that
aggressive spirit which is so thoroughly Napo-
leonic. It is even conjectured, indeed, and pro-
bably not without reason, that " were Prussia to
lend herself to-the designs of the French Empe-
ror, he would engage to compensate her for the_
loss of her Rhine provinces by the annexation to
the Prussian crown of the province of Holstein
and the kingdom of Hanover." Prussia, how-
ever, gives no encouragement to any such dis-
organising, such revolutionary ideas, but will
remain the faithful ally of England in firmly
resisting them. That is to say, if England only
has a Government itself resolved and enabled so
to do. But in the present Government, after
what has lately passed, there cannot be any con-
fidence that they will maintain such policy.

IT is obvious, we think, that the independent
course. Mr. HoRsmAN has lately pursued in Par-
liament has been adopted under convictions
which, but for his independence, might never
have arisen in his mind. He is accused by some
of his constituents of acting inconsistently with
the principles on which he was elected ; but this
is not the fact,—he may have acted inconsistently
with the party interests, to serve which they
probably elected him at Stroud; but he has not
done anything that we are aware of at variance
with the political principles he constantly and
plainly professed to them. Circumstances, it is
true, may have occurred to unavoidably detach
him from his party. It is imputed to him that
he felt mortified at being passed over by Lord
PALMERSTON as a candidate for office again, and
that he became an opponent of Ministers in con-
sequence. This, however, is altogether- mere
supposition. But, even taking it for granted
that it was so, the great force there is in such a
motive applies first and above all to party,
rather than to principle. He is evidently not of
the Ministerial party ; but he is still, as he has
ever been, a Liberal notwithstanding,—only,
being released from the influence of party pre-
judices, he is enabled to take a more disinterested
and a more correct view of the great public
questions of the day, and of the Ministerial mode
of dealing with them. It is on this account that
we regard Mr. HORSMAN'S opinions just now as
entitled to more than ordinary attention. He is
at present, owing to the force of circumstances,
no party man ; and he is in a position, therefore,
to judge and to act more truly and more inde-
pendently, than he could otherwise have done.
And this without any tergiversation—without
any abandonment of his former principles. That
the sounder judgment, and the freer course, into
which he is thus led, may have the effect of
modifying those principles, or even of changing
some of them, is not at all improbable. But, so
far, the hon. member has apparently adhered, in
the main, to the political opinions he always
entertained ; only, from his feeling just now none
of the restraints of party, he has been at liberty
to give them a more unbiassed application, and a
more impartial expression. And it is for this
reason, we repeat, that his recent expositions of
the Ministerial policy have been entitled to all
the higher consideration.
The two questions on which Mr. HORSMAN
had to express his opinions most frequently to
his consituents last year, were those of Parlia-
mentary Reform and our Foreign Policy. With
regard to the first, he was one of those who,
though dissatisfied with the Reform Bill of Lord
DERBY'S Ministry, yet thought that it might

have been made tolerably satisfactory in Com-
mittee ; and he therefore voted against Lord
JOHN RUSSELL'S abstract and factious resolution.
He told his displeased constituents that they
must wait until that time next year to see if he
was not right in so doing, and they wrong in
disapproving of it. " If," he said, "you have
then the large and comprehensive measure that
has been promised you I shall own I have been
wrong. But if, as I predict, you are offered a
measure no • better or more satisfactory than the
one now rejected, you will own, I have been
right, and that it would have been 'wiser to have

-settled the question by amending Lord DERBY'S
Bill without the turmoil of a dissolution and the
loss of a year." Well,--the period of probation
has arrived, and with what result ? Why, as he
now truly and. exultingly tells them, " the dis-
satisfaction felt with the bill of Lord DERBY was
as nothing compared with the contempt and
ridicule that from every side are poured on the
bill of Lord JOHN RUSSELL; and while last year's
measure had at least the merit of exhibiting
much thought and pains bestowed on its prepara-
tion, this new one is universally condemned for
its careless and slovenly character, and no one
suggests how, by any number of amendments, it
can be made as good a bill as Lord DERBY'S, with
very few and simple amendments, might have
become." Upon the question of Parliamentary
Reform, *then, it is quite clear that Mr. HORSMAN
has been altogether in the right.
Equally clear, we think it is, that he has been
right on the question of our Foreign Policy. For
years past he had warned his friends at Stroud,
at every annual meeting, that the aggressive
policy of France was a storm ahead, and that
increased armaments and augmented Income-tax
would be forced upon the country. " I concluded
a speech two years ago," he now, reminds them,
" with the expression that I see you quoted at the
meeting—' Put your faith, if it please you, in the
Emperor of the French, but keep your powder
dry." What.he has since done has been in strict

accordance with that sentiment. He declared
for a policy towards France, the adoption of
which by the present Cabinet would undoubtedly
have placed us in a much better position, as to
our relations with that country, and with the
other Great Powers of Europe, than we now
occupy. As he forcibly shows, " there is now a
very general opinion in the House of Commons
that if Lord JOHN RUSSELL had delivered a
Month ago the speech he last delivered ; or
if the Ministry at an earlier period had declared,
No Savoy for France, or no commercial treaty
with England ; no Savoy for France, or no
special alliance'—the Savoy difficulty never would
haVe arisen. And I am informed," he adds, "that
this is also the language of the Emperor of
France, who complains that the English Cabinet
have misled him, as they misled the Emperor of
Russia into the Crimean war, and as they misled
the French Emperor himself on the Conspiracy
Bill." So that here, also, time has fully justified
Mr. HoRsMAN in the course he had come to see
that it was most desirable he should pursue.
His views, the hon. member declares, were the
result of long and close study of our Parlia-
mentary condition. And well, therefore, may he
ask, such being the case, " How could it be
expected that I should place • confidence in a
Ministry that had gained power, as I thought, by
questionable means, and must pursue an ambi-
guous policy ? " That it was by very ques-
tionable means the present Ministry contrived
to climb again into office, circumstances have
since occurred to show beyond all dispute ;
w hile as to its " ambiguous policy," the evidences
of it are now before the country in too forcible a
light to be doubted. " That Ministry has pre-
sented for our consideration four great questions
—the Commercial Treaty, the Budget, the Reform
Bill, and Foreign Policy. On the two first time
will pronounce its verdict, .and of that verdict I
entertain no doubt. The Reform Bill is an affront
to the country ; and the Foreign Policy of the
Cabinet has produced such complications that it
is difficult to see how it can escape uncensured."
Such is the language of defence and of justifi-
cation, in which Mr. Horsman can now most truly
and confidently speak ; and it is a language
which, or we are much mistaken, will ere long
find an echo in the voice of the country.
It is not, be it remembered, as a member of the'
Conservative party that we thus point out the
hon. member for Stroud. His testimony would
not be by any means so valuable as it is if he
were one of that party,—or, indeed, of any
political party whatever, at such a moment. It
iS-Taeolta-Se he Occnpitg- an independent pOSitien,-L-

and being, as we have ever considered him, an
honest man in such a•position,—that we look upon
his course as one all the more entitled to con-
fidence and respect than that of any party man
could well be ; and the more especially when it
is one that is evidently sustained, not by power-
ful arguments merely, but by irresistible facts.

EASTER AMUSEMENTS.

THEATRE ROYAL.

A most successful opening of the short season of the
Pyne and Harrison English Opera Company was made
last night, at die Theatre Royal, with Balfe's charming
opera, "The Rose of Castille." Miss Pyne was in
brilliant voice and unfailing in execution. If we cannot
say that Mr. Harrison has improved since last season,
we must do him the justice to say that he has not in
any respect fallen off, and fortunately he has not a cold.
His Muleteer's song was as usual encored, as was also
the Laughing Trio, in which Mr. Harrison acted with his
accustomed spirit and humour. Miss Thirlwall took the
part of Donna azrmen, in which we have been accustomed
to see Miss Susan Pyne. We need only say that Miss
Thirlwall made a very effective substitute, to pay her a
very high compliment. Mr. H. Corti was the Don
Pedro ; and with the exception of too much mouthing,
which destroyed the roundness of the tone of his voice,
sang the music with effect. Mr. G. Honey was himself
in Don Florio, and we cannot say any more for him.
He kept the house in roars of laughter. Mr. St. Albyn,
as bon Sallmst, if not brilliant, was conscientious in his
singing, and very useful. The boxes were not so full as
this admirable performance of a delightful opera deserves ;
but the pit was crowded. Meycrbeer's " Dinorah,"
for which the public were probably waiting, as a novelty,
will be played this evening, and almost every seat is
taken. We think as three new operas are to be given
during the eleven nights to which the stay of the com-
pany is strictly limited, and a new operetta besides, it

was a mistake that the season did not commence with at
least one of the novelties ; but even the afterpieee was
not new, nor was it even musical ; but the trifling
farce, "A Pair of Pigeons," to which Mr. G. Honey
and Miss Thirlwall did all the justice possible.