The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-13 00:00:00

EVENING-, APRIL l3, 1852,

tinn—(Laughter and cheers)—it would be quite un-
necessary to enlarge in the city upon the integrity
and honour which guided him throughout his com-
mercial transactions while engaged in business, or the
zeal and ability and judgment with which he had per-
formed the civic duties that devolved upon him.—
(Cheers.) His high character was appreciated by his
who had placed him in the chair of the
magistrateie of the first city in the universe.
firstf ell fellow-cit
The toast was drunk with much applause, and was
duly acknowledged by the Lord Mayor.
The next toast was " the House of Commons."
Mr. WALPOLE, M.P., was aware of the difficulty
of speaking on behalf of a body of men entertstining
such different opinions, but here, at least, differences
might be left behind, and the members present could
afford to think more of their agreements.—(Hear,
hear.) In some things they all agreed. They agreed
in desiring to promote the common good and the
general well-being of the community.—(Hear, hear.)
On another point, too, they would be unanimous—in
thanking the Lord Mayor for his hospitality--(Hear,
hear)—which perhaps one might be permitted to pre-
fer to the disputes and differences of the House of
Commons.—(Laughter and cheers.)
The toast of " The City Members," which followed,
was acknowledged by Mr. MASTERMAN, M.P.; and
the next, "The Governor of the Bank," by that func-
tionary.
The AMERICAN MINISTER then said—We are de-
prived of the honour and pleasure of the presence of
detained Mayoress—(Cries of " Hear, hear")—
ed by severe indisposition—(Hear, hear)
—twhheandeanothing can mitigate our regret but the grace
and dignity with which the place is filled by her
daughter.—( Cheers.) It has been said, and with
great truth, that women govern the world—(Laugh-
ter) —I am, without perhaps qualification, a convert to
that opinion.—(Laughter and cheers.) I can only
.say, to-night, without the ladies, it would be like a
men, I beg to offer to you, as a toast, " The better
withouto of
tha s u
e Lady n. —(Cheers.) Ladies and gentle•
Mayoress, and the continued
and prosperity of the Lady Mayoress who oc-
wchhaueeoaprilttedhhs her chair."--(Cheers.)
The toast was received with much applause ; Miss
Hunter bowed to the company.
The LORD MAYOR acknowledged the compliment,
and said he hoped the day was not far off when he
should have the opportunity of introducing the Lady
' Mayoress in that hall.
The toasts of " the Solicitor-General and the Bar,"
the magistrates of
,6 prosperity to the city of London," followed. The
Lord Mayor and his the City, "the Sheriff?," and "
guests then retired to the draw-
-1 ing- rooms, and the party began to break up.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
N DEVOPORTI Ai4RIL 1 I.—Magcienne, steam
guard-ship, Captain Ramsey, went out yesterday
(Saturday) for the first time since she was commis-
sioned, to try her engines. On passing the Impreg-
nable she saluted the flag of Admiral Sir J. A. Om-
manney, which was returned by the Impregnable.
She went out round the Eddystone, the engines work-
ing very satisfactorily.
Leander paid
Seymour. wages on Saturday, by Commodore

Rolla tender, the training-vessel for naval appren-
tices at Portsmouth, arrived on Saturday. She sailed
again in the night.
Nautilus tender (similar vessel to the Rolla), at-
tached to this port, went out on Saturday, the first time
this season.

Hecate steam-sloop, Commander Hand, sailed on
Saturday for the chops of the Channel, to relieve the
homeward-bound vessels.
Devon lighter, Bond master, arrived on Saturday
with stores from Pembroke.
Avon tender, returned to this port this morning.
Pestonjee
Bomanjee convict-ship arrived to-day,
earned
fProomrtlaDnadr;tmanoodr,wiwllhefinll
sheup herwill csoamilpfloer-
having taken in convicts at Woolwich, Portsmouth,
mCoewntesh,
Van Diemen's Land.
In the Sound—The Dauntless and Pestonjee Bo-
maejee.
In Harbour—The Impregnable, St. George,
Leander,
Magicienne, Britomart, Sylph, Avon, Hot-
spur, Confiance, Resistance; Devon, Camel, Tortoise,
Hamoaze, and Manouvrer, lighters.
PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—Captain William Fan-
shame Martin re-hoisted his pendant as Commodore
of the first class on board the Prince Regent, 90, at
Spithead this morning, when he saluted the Com-
mander-in-
e.
hief,
and the Victory acknowledged the
compliment.
The Vixen steam-sloop, Commander Barnard, went
out to Spithead this morning.
The Sitnoom iron steam-trigate, Captain Sing-
come, has completed coals, and hauled off to the west
shore, ready for embarking troops. Her crew will
receive their advance wages on Tuesday.
The Widmer Castle Indianian arrived at Spithead
to-day from the Thames.
The Victoria, American packet, arrived this after-
noon from the Thames.
One of Green's homeward-bound Indiamen landed
passengers this afternoon at Spithead, and proceeded
for the Thames.

~Yind,
S.E.; weather fine.
WooLwic it, APRIL 12.—Clerk—WilliamF. Jonas
(1848),
Commodore Henry Eden having gone on leave for
a few days, his broad pennant was taken down this
morning, and Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C. 8,, is
rigate at has
l been appointed to the Sampson steam-
'ortsmouth.
acting in his stead.
The Highflyer steam-sloop, C iptain Henry J.
Matson, when she went down the river on Saturday,
was tried again at the measured mile, and, on the
average of tour runs, was found to have gained a speed
of three-tenths of a knot Over her previous trial, her
first trial being an average of nine and one-tenth
knots per hour, and on her trial on Saturdy nine and
four tenths per hour. She was to have her com-
passes
adjusted tc-day by Captain Johnson, and is to
remain at Grcenhitne un:il further orders.

THE CRYSTAL PALACE.
We have been requested by the committee for the
preservation of the Crystal Palace to give
publicity to
the following letters upon the subject of the funds
collected from the admissions to the building:—
" Devonshire House, April 5.
"Dear Sirs,—lt is the opinion of the Committee
appointed for the preservation of the Crystal Palace
that there will be little probability of the building
being retained, unless an arrangement can be made
for placing the surplus of the money received for ad-
missions at the disposal of the Government. The com-
mittee are met on all aides with the objection that the
demonstrations are promoted by them for the benefit
of the contractors, and, therefore, both the committee
and yourselves are placed in an entirely wrong posi-
tion before the public, who are under a misapprehen-
sion which it is necessary that we should immediately
remove.

building since
the committee was appointed, and all
" Of course all expenses
the expenses incurred by the committee beyond the
attending the care of the
amount of the subscriptions received by them, must
be defrayed in the first lastance.—l am, Sco.

J,
" 8, New-street, Spring-gardens April 7.
" Dear Sir,—ln reply to your letter of the sth, we
beg to inform the committee that we had already,
" Messrs. Fox and
before the receipt of that letter, taken steps to obviate
all difficulties and embarrassments which might arise
money with reference to the
--ney collected at the Crystal
Palace on Saturday last.,
".We have paid the amount into a separate account
Henderson., OSEPH PAYTON.
at the bank of Glyn, Mills,—A and Co., where it will re-
main, subject to the co
" The appropriation of the balance is not to be
finally decided upon until the fate of the building is
• e lt
determined. NV committee's claims for expenses.
r9l dear Sir, yours faithfully,
" Pox, HENnEitsori, and Co.
" Sir Joseph Paxton D,,vonshire House,
Piccadilly."

AN OFFER FOR
THE CRYSTAL PALACE.
The following copy of a letter will be reed with
interest:—

" Dear Sirs,Ll
rr' gmg to the conversation which
took place between Sir Charles Fox and myself this
2it9,4l,bin don-street, April 8, 1852.
afternoon relative to the removal of the Crystal Palace,
I have to inform you that, in the event of her Ma-
jesty's Government declining to purchase on the
terms specified—namely 70,0001., I shall be prepared
to sign a contract for the purchase of the building at
that sum. The intention of my
employers is to con-
vert it into a winter
gardtn and a place of general
recreation and
instruction for the public. In the
event of your accepting my offer your solicitors may
forward the draft contract to the solicitors of my em-
ployers, Messrs. Johnstone, Farquhar, and Leecb, of
s,loorgate-street.
" I am, dear Sir, yours faithfully,
"FRANCIS FULLER.
"Messrs. Fox, Henderson, and Co.,
Spring-gardens.”

SOUTH WALEs RAILWAY.—Tbe'
west.
ground baa been
broken in earnest between renty-park-mill and Haverford-
miles from the latter town. Mr. Condor is the contractor,
and Mr. 0 A
The first cutting is at the Bath farm, about three
- ke‘Ami the' company's engineer. The works on the
line between Swansea and Carmarthen arc making rapid
progress, and efforts it is said, are being made to complete
is
them in the month of June. No doubt, however, exists
that they will be ready for opening in the course of the
L
summer. Mr. lienn tt of Bristol, is stated to have taken
laving down
the contract for ' the permanent way from
Swansea to Carmarthen, which is to be laid on iron plates.
Tie piling at Loughor-bridge for carrying the line over the
river
finishe steadily
d, and the sea-works at Pembrey and Llanelly and the
progressing. The Swansea tunnel is nearly
sea-wall at Ferry aide are finished.
TILE TE.4. TRADE, APRIL 12.—There -.vas a decided
falling off in last week's deliveries of tea in London, Good-
Friday
WWI 477,83V1b. e having been a close holiday. The qU taken
antity ,

BALLARAT DIGGINGS,
D'rotri the Geelong Advertiser )
MONDAY illoasiNG.-1: counted two hundred and
eighty erddles at G-elien Point, in full work, and
frotn inquiries I merle they all seeme ito be doing
well. Still I think there are two-thirds less of
diggers than when I left some months past. f
tremendous fever fit, then at the height of delirium,
is past, and has been succeeded by resthissness, and
an irrepressible desire of change. Toe wildest stories ,
meet with the readiest credence, and troops of diggers
hie to Mount Alexander in the full hope of gathering
gold by hat-fulls. The unparalleled yield of Billarat
has prepared the mind to believe anything, and many
have left gold lying at their feet to seek it in a more
remote locality. Whether the reports from Mount
Alexander be exaggerated or not, the effect is appa-
rent in the thinned numbers at Bellarat. One digger
breaks away, and the rest follow, like sheep after a
bell- wether, and all that can be said is " luck go with
them," there will be more room and a richer harvest
for those who come after.
I could hardly have believed the suddenness of the
change, and seeing it, I cannot comprehend the reason.
The yield of the Geelong Gold Field is unparalleled,
and I am convinced that there is more gold left in
Golden Point than has ever been got out of it. This
may be deemed a rash assertion, considering the
thousands of ounces which have been plured into the
Geelong and Melbourne markets, but I hesitate not
to repeat it, and to asseverate that not one tithe of the
riches of Ballarat at this one point, has been up-
turned. The easier part of the process has been gone
through, the harder and more prolific) one has just
commenced, at the point where the faint-hearted
abandoned it. Mining has been commenced, and at
thirty-two feet below the surface, deeply imbedded
in iron-stone, gold has b€ en found in profusion, and
one hundred ounces have been obtained by Dr.
Johnson's party, from Monday last to Siturday mid-
day.
To Dr. Johnson appertains the credit of this dis-
covery, and I found our Esculapian townsman, sitting
Patriarch-like, in the front of his tent, turning his
discovery to the best advantage, by pounding the
iron-stone with a tomahawk, on the face of a hatchet,
and deploring the absence of his psstle and mortar. I
think this discovery will lead to important results,
and extended operations, and afford a new puzzle to
geologists, the most acute of whom would hardly
have sought for gold in a matrix of iron-stone,
through which, however, it runs in some places in
clusters of small nuggets, somewhat flattened, and
continuous in their course, and perceptible from the
surface; but in others not visible until the iron-stone
is crushed, when gold of various size and form is
easily procured. Scones of this description have been
thrown aside as useless, and thousands of them, I be-
lieve, might be picked out from the heaps piled about
in all directions, and be turned to good account even
by the rough process employed by Dr. Johnson, who
is realising half an ounce a day by intermittent

exertion.
Our Adelaide arrivals will find here, a vast and re-
munerative field for their labours. In fact, as the
above instance proves, gold digging is in its veriest
babyhood, and hence, probably, the employment of
cradles.
From one hole that turned me dizzy to look into,
about a pound and three quarters weight were taken
in two hours. Poor Joe Furby has been unsuccess-
ful. "We can't always expect to be lucky," said
Joe; "but then, d'ye see, I only come up o'lNlondey,
and we a'nt got more nor thirty ounces, and what's
in the tub ;" "and this in the pannikin," added his
mate, showing about four ounces. "Yes," said Joe,
"that's all, and I thought to have had a tidy lot afore
this, only the water bust in, but better luck next
time." If there be more merit in bearing
good fortune than in submitting to bad, Joe
is a hero. "Hills," shouted another, "you
come back again!" " Yes ; how are you get-
ting on ?" "My word, first-rate; three fights and
two commissioners, in four days, about this hole.
You ought to have been here." " Well, how did it
end ?" " End ! why as usual—they told us to fight
it out, to be sure ; ar'nt we licensed ? I say, Mr.
Clarke, hasn't Armstrong been going it, and nobody
at all here; we were going to send it down to Harri-
son." Well, what is it ?" " Why, you see, the long
and the short of it is this—two fellows got quarrelling
and fighting, and one of them perhaps did give a
saucy answer to Master Armstrong, but he hid no
business to bit him with a loaded whip, had he? Well,
but he did; I see him hit the man on the temple, just
here, and on the front of his head, and on the back of
his head. The poor fellow dropped stupified, and
then d—n me, if the police didn't came and
carry him off, face down'ards, on two muskets.
It's true, every word of it—there's plenty here as
see it." Many who were present verified the
statement, and wished it to be made public. If this
be a plain statement of facts, then a gross outrage
has been committed by a Government officer, and I
should be wanting in my duty if I did not give pub-
licity to it, for public opinion is the only protection
that the gold digger has to appeal to. I had beside'
these, a whole string of complaints submitted me, the
particulars of which I have not had time to inquire
into; so, like his Excellency, I must plead the emer-
gency as a solid reason for not producing my budget,
and give, like his Excellency again, a statesmanlike
descriptive retrospect, in lieu of something better,
and as his Excellency can afford no information,
awaiting instructions from the Home Government re-
specting the future regulations of the gold fields, I,
too, must follow in the same footsteps, and be again,
like his Excellency, silent on the point which the
public i 3 most interested in.
Golden Point lilts itself up into a huge reproach
of Government regulations, or rather irregularities.
To the eight feet square system, the abandonment of
Ballarat is in a great measure attributable, an aban-
donment that was more accelerated by the perver-
sion by the Government officers of the terms of the
licenses, which in themselves were bad enough, but
made worse by the purpose to which they were
applied. The diggers were huddled together, so that
the most might be made out of a given space, thus
creating constant bickerings about disputed claims,
to settle which the Government was impotent. Holes
were soon worked out where they were found pro-
fitable, or abandoned in other places, because there
was not sufficient space allowed by " irregularities"
to test their capabilities, and in proof of what I say
Golden Point now stands Queen's evidence against
the Government's fatuity, and blundering to grasp
all, and do nothing.
The Golden Point is not half worked; it is simply
" botched" according to license, and its water front-
age destroyed. It looks as though some withering
power had swept over it, and left huge graveyards
behind. It is frightful to contemplate the waste of
labour, and time, incurred through sheer carelessness,
and want of foresight on the part of the Government
authorities, who are prompt enough to issue regula-
tions, to raise a tax upon them, but very tardy after
that consummation to see the regulations carried into
effect. They can mulct the digger, the hut keeper,
the store, and tent keeper, with most indefatigable
alacrity, but they cannot afford to do what they pro-
mise, they never had the licensed allotments properly
laid out, for that would not have suited their pur-
pose, to distress gold diggers, and exact double, treble,
quadruple, aye and quintuple, as much as they were
entitled to by the terms of the licenses. The com-
monest surveyor would put the whole lot of them to
shame, but then on the 'sther band it might be said in
their favour, that they have outrivalled Jeremy, not
Bentham, but Diddler.
The Creek is turned from its channel, and over-
flows the plain ; its bed is excavated with good suc-
cess, but much heavy labour in sinking, and the con-
stant influx of water entails considerable extra labour,
which, however, the yield amply repays. There is
water here in abundance, which heavy storms are
daily increasing; and if the commonest precautions
were taken, there would be an ample supply for the
next six weeks. The Creek is flowing, the water-
holes filled, the feed is abundant, and the whole
country presents a delightful aspect.
In conclusion, I think that Ballarat has a future
more glorious than its retrospect ; and, to account for
its partial abandonment, I must come to the conclu-
sion that gold diggers, like swallows, migrate at cer-
tain seasons, and, like swallows, will return to where
" they made their nests," provided that they ere not
too much disturbed by spoliators. A. C.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST
RAILWAY.

Traffic—Week ending April 10, 1852 ... £10.613 19 3
Traffic—Week ending April 12, 1851 .. 8 869 14 6
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1852 .., 121,370 5 3
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1851 ... 118,878 7 10
Total number of Passengers—Week ending
April 10, 1852 ... 69,267
Passengers ... £8,157 8 7
Goods ... ... 2,456 10 8

Total ... £10,6.131
Total miles open, 1852, 173 ii ; ditto, 1851, 173 y
London Terminus, April 12, 1852. 4.

SOUTII-.EASTERN RAILWAY.
Gross traffic receipts for passengers
and goods, week ending April 10,
1852
... Z 13,677 18 9
.„ 10,931 16 2
Ditto, April 12, 1851

Increase in 1852
...
London Terminus, Aprill2, 1852. £2,746 2 7

DIPLOMATIC CONSIGNMENTS,
ions
having considered the practice under existing reladtesti-
with respect to officers accompanying to the Place
eor ambas-
sadors The authoritie s
nation articles directed to be delivered duty ,f 1
free for
which
sadors or other privileged persons, these rare Excise, since
have reference to certain regulations°fthe
have been
repealed, have been rescinded, and directionsand wine' deli-
issued that in future only spirits, tobacco, and
privileged per-
vered duty free for ambassad. rs
or
f destinaio by an offi-
sons, be ircompanied to their a at once delivered
cer of the Crown, all other ahliaccleesr%tieeisng
duly authorised to
under proper authority to the Pa
receive them.

..11ENSON'S SAFETY RAILWAY TRUCKS
Au improvement of consid, r hl e importance ia the
e eels reilweys, has
present s,estem of conveying
receiely been effected by H-osen, the success of
whieh is amply attested b ,he meet comeeteet prac-
tical men in all the details of ties de,criptien of traffic.
Ureil the glaring imp-rtew.ione in !hr ordinary con-
s i ruction of goods' trucks had been sufficiently exeosed
in the gold-dust robberies on tae Sou h- Western
Railway, it w,15 not supposed that they ceurained the
germ of o much mischief. But robberies Of all
descriptions of merchandise bad long been matters of
daily oecurrenc-, as may easily be conceived when
the un
isprotec!ed state of the waggons is considered,
and itremembered that a vigilant escort
i 3 only provided when bullion is being con-
veyed, though even then the ingenious thief has not
been foiled. R.ibbery, however, is not the only inci-
dent of goods traffic by these truck,. The common
practice has been to keep together in them the most
incongruous articles—eilks and sugars, draperies and
blackings, firkins of butter, and barrels of Lucifer
matches. Over these packages a tarpaulin ha, been
loosely spread, partly secured by top-s, the c ,nsteut
shifting of which and the cnafiog of the goods eguaist
the rough iron fittings of the waggon, have proved
highly destruc,ive. From thee, cau-es it has fre-
quently happened that merchendixe his arrived in a
damp state, or in a bad condition ; and we believe it
impossible to estimate the amount of losses thus
arising from theft, and the depreciation of perishable
commodities. These terpaulihs, moreover, besides
being no security against the weather or the thief,
are the occasion of a vast cost to every railway com-
pany, and there can be no question as to the expe-
diency of dispensing with them.
The a sandal punts to be united in the conetruc-
tion of a goods' truck are. taeiliv of loading eed
loading when open, fccility of opening and closing,
and that it should be proof alike against water, fire,
and thieves. In Mr. Henson's waggon all these con-
ditions have been ingeniously observed, and they have
also been co:ubined with an economy which every-
body of railway directors will be certain to appre-
ciate. By a judicious combination of wood framing
and sheet iron—sometimes plain and sometimes cor-
rugated, as the nature of the traffic may require—a
vast amount of strength has been given to these
structures, and a degree of lightness as yet uukuown.
Added to thi•• greet attention has been paid to the
form of each carriage, so as to reduce to a mini-
mum the resistance which the atmosphere offers
to its motion at a given velocity. In the con-
struction of the roof the same principles have
been applied, and the result is, a strong and light
covering, which, when fastened down, renders, the
truck as completely secure as if it were a merchant's
safe on wheels. Either the whole, or part of the roof
may be raised, to suit the requirements of the traffic ;
i but n general, so much of it only as is necessary.
Side doors are likewise provided, which can be readily
opened or closed by one man, whereas several have
hitherto been required to close each truck. By means
of a self•locking apparatus, which can only be released
by the persons in charge, perfect security is insured,
and so far as danger from robbery is to be appre-
hended and provided against, the contrivance may Fe
pronounced perfect. It must be obvious, too, that in
carriages of this description, merchandise cannot fail
to come to hand in proper condition—neither mois-
tened or damped by the contact of wet, Cru injured
by friction against iron nuts, ropes, or tarpaulins.
To the public in general and to railway cornpanier,
Nlr. Henson% waggoes must prove eminently advan-
tageous. The superseding of the extensive and in-
jurious tarpaulins is an improvement sufficient in
itself to render the new system invaluable; and
it
may be mentioned incidentally, as an illustration of
its great value, in a financial point of view, that this
simple feature of Mr. Henson's arrangement has, on
one railway alone, effected a saving of some thousands
per annum. As regards the working of goods trains,
also, a great economy of locomotive power must
necessarily arise ; for the weight of the carriages
being vastly less, and the resistance of the air upon
them diminished, they require a smaller tractive
force. The mercantile public will also profit largely
by the change, in the greater security of their pro-
perty, and the better condition in which it will reach
them, compared with the state of circumstances which
has prevailed hitherto. Altogether, the improvement
is, perhaps, the most satisfactory that has been intro-
duced for years past into the working system
of our lines of railway, and, before long, will cer-
tainly effectuate some beneficial and important
changes in the cost of the conveyance of goods.

FOREIGN M SICA L. IN EL LIGENCE.
(From Galignant's Messenger.)
M. Leopold de Meyer has been distinguishing
himself' at a few of our recent concerts, where he has
excited a genuine enthusiasm by the brilliancy and
playing. Standing perfectly aloof
from
or even resemblance to the other
originality
ali of
imitation, his
great pianists of the day, M. de Meyer displays a
verve and poetry both in his compositions and execu-
tion, which, combined with his marvellous power over
the instrument, render his performance perfectly
unique, and stamp it with the rare gift of genius.
An interesting concert was given a few days ago
by M. Tellefseo, a Norwegian pianist of distinction,
and one of the best pupils of the late Chopin. M.
Tellefsen performed several morceaux in a manner
which vividly brought to mind the style and execu-
tion of the great artist. Besides the Ihineficiaire, M.
Franchomme, the favourite violoncellist, executed
several pieces with a mastery that obtained tor him
loud and unanimous applause ; bis son, a lad of 12,
also performed in a manner truly surprising on the
same in.trument, and the concert was brilliantly
concluded by Mine. Sabalier, who gave some of her
chansonnettes in her most popular manner.
M. Berliox's "Benvenuto Cellini" has been pro-
duced at Weimar, and, according to a letter from M.
Loitz, under whose direction it was got up, with
great success. This noble work, which contains
more beauties than any three modern productions
(those of Meyerbeer alone excepted) produced for
years at the Grand Opera in Paris, was sacrificed to
the musical clique who reigned at the opera when it
was brought out, and whom the honest criticisms of
Hector Berlioz had made his inveterate foes. It must
be added that the indisposition of M. Duprez, who
was unfortunately taken ill at the precise moment of
its being brought out, was the immediate cause of
stopping the run of this fine work.

Mme. Alajmo hat been singing with success at
Leghorn, iu Paciai's Medea.

A. new opera has been successful at the Carcano, in
Milan, under the title of La Sacerdotessa d'lside, the
music by Maestro Mazza, and the libretto by M.
Torelli. Mme. Leva and MM. Scola, Righini, and
Cervini, are highly spoken of in the principal parts.
At Florence, Verdi's Luisa Miller, with Mme.
Albertini, a❑d MM. De Vecchi, Gorin, and Euzet, is
said to h-ivo created great enthusiasm ; the excellence
of the ensemble must, however, needs have been im-
pired, by the fact of M. Gorin having completely lut
his voice.

At Naples the revival of Nabucco at the San
Carlo has giv,l great isatt,faction, with Mmas. Bwri-
drizzi and Gnone, a Mlle. Ittmorini, a debutante t,nly
16 years of ag,, is hicchiv gookPn oF as Fenena. At
the Fon to L'Elisire cr Amore had been successful,
with Mme. Cortesi, and MM. Gnone and Mon-
tanari.

Mine. Ssnchioli is at present singing with succPss
at Messina, especially as Norina iu Don Pasquale.
MM Prudence, Monari, and Fieravanti are alas men-
tioned in terms of warm commendation.

An Italian journal announces that an operatic
company is in course of formation at Tithe, in
Georgia!
At the Orient, at Madrid, I Foscuri has been
produced with great success, the principal parts
filled by Mme. Cattinari, MM. Sinico and Cresci.
The theatre is said to be on the brink of ruin, the
Queen having withdrawn her protection from the
management, and M. Solers, the impressario, having
been obliged to pay Mile. Alboni 60;000f. for 24 re-
presentations, for which his receipts only amounted to
27,000 f.

ROYAL ARTILLERY.
GEDNepEuRt
yA.
At,
di
tt
att ORDERGeO
Woolwich, April General's-office,
ce'
His Lordship the Master. General 'approves each
company of the regiment having in its
„famishment
six acting bombardiers from this date.
H. D. Ross, Deputant-Adjutant-General.
GENERAL ORDER.
852.
Deputy- Adjutant- Geheral'a-cffieet
Woolwich, April 61. le _
t d for the
retirement upon
Ht.'. Majesty's been ob.
undermentionedain
pleasure has
dicers, viz. :—Lieutenan A. Lethbridge,
Horse Artillery;
and H. Stow, Royal L cilia? Royal
Artillery, under
it appearing
a the royal warrant of April
dical examination that they
-Colonels
A.
jAirktliiie7ry,:?der the provisions
for the active duties of their
by the reports of the m
ents to take effect frem the
profession. Theselr'
are rermanently un..ttirtin
let inst.

D, Ross, Deputy-Aijutant-General.
Captain Marston's company (sth battalion) having
completed a course of Rf-pository instruction, they
were relieved yesterday by Captain Paynter's
company.

Si'. MARY-LE-STRAND EASTER GIFTS, EASTER
MoriDAY.—Yesterday Messrs. Hughes and Stack, church-
wardens of the parbh of St. Mary le-Strand, distributed the
annual Easter gifts of Bs. 4d. each to 12 poor widows of the
parish, as left by will in the year 16 6, by a lady named
Elizabeth Jennings. A second distribution of small sums of
money from the churchwardens' fund took place to poor pa.
rishioners. Most of the recipients were far advanced in
years, and some years ago liberally assiste.di:iocuocnertiebrutaiundg
towards that fund which they thi‘ day received a portion of.
THE BISHOP OF GLOUCEsTEII.—Wt. Sr" t'ePpy
being able to state that the Lord Bishop of
Bristol has this week been enabled to visit Stapleton, and
that his ladsllip is WAY Apgrly owlvaleagetltol•Glokoster
Jounal.

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CHELMSFORD, APRIL 9.—Prices to-day were as follovr.
Wheat, white, 42s to 48s ; red, 36s to 41s • barley, 26s to 290;
chevaliet 28s to 335; grinding 21s to 271;2 malt 55, to 56„s;i
chevalier 55s to 58s ; oats 18s to 255; peas, partridge, 7
J
to 303 ; whit., 28s to 30s ; boiling, 29s to 32s ; dun, new'
to 28s ; beans, tick, 26s to 303; harrow ticks, 27s to 311,
toszagan, 249 to 28s.
CoLcuzsxsa, APRIL 10.—Wheat, white 44s to 46s ; red
to 42s ; oats, 18s to 228; beans, mazagan 26e to Gls; middlest
and small 28s to 30s; peas, white 348 to 38s, grey, new 27. s
2'<i§ ; barley, 30s to 32s per qr.
KIRKALDT, APRIL 10.—The following are the quststiovi
for grain :
Wheat. Barley. I
First 42a Od 31s Od
Second 41s Od 3)3 Oil
Third 36s Od 253 Od I
Oatmeal, per bas of 2801bs
HAnDiticATON, APRIL 9.
grain at our market to-day :
Wheat.

First ... .... ---
45s Od
Second ... 41s Id
Third ........ ...... 353 fid
Total quantity of Wheat ii
Do. Barley
Do. Oat*
Do. Beans

Oats.
235 Od
22s Od
19s Od
imperial.
ie followi
Barley.

Beans.
—5
Od
—s
Od
—5 Od
30s Od to
ng are the

Oats.

peak
—I
lld
311 COl I
Prie"

Boons

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25. fid 19. 3d O. -Id
do. 201 qrs., 165 rig
do. 802 qrs., 276 °ld
do. 200 ors., is; so

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,iOAL MARK ET.— YESTIRDAY.
Prices of Coal per ton at the close of the market:' 641
Bate's West Hartley.. 13s 6d Haswell.,, 165 od
huddle's W. Hartley.. 138 6d Keepier Grange 155 Ai
Chester Main........... 12s 9d ; Lambron
Howard's W. H. Neth. 138 6d' N. Hetton Lyons '-- 6dd
145
North Percy Hartley.. 13a 6d Pensher
15 3d
Ravensworth'sW.Hart 13s 6d Plummer ........ -
Redheugh Main ...... •lls Od Richmond 155 Ai
155 "
anfield Moor ..—.... 13s Od Russell's Hetton
Tr
oanwfield y Moor B utes..., 1132:
(9ad
cS taesws
oapr t' a.. ... ....
js i
Walker's Primrose ... lls 6d Denison 145 oj West Wylam
Wylam
Wall's End, Esc. Heugh Hall
Gosforth .... .. ...... 14s Od Kelloe
his Od South Hartlep00l
39c1
Horton
Hebburn
Heaton
Hilda l3s 6d 149 - South Durham
(90
Northumberland
...... 13s 3( Tees
Riddell .............. ... 133 9,' West Cornforth
Walker .................. 13s 9d Woodhouse Close l3 611
Eden Main ...... ...... 15 Od Llangenniech
BLambton Primrose
... 15, Od Nixon's Merthyr and 03, 0'
elmont ................» 14e 90 Cardiff .. ... - 91
Braddyll
El etton
16e 0..1
Ships at market,

322, ..... Sold, 228.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS'
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 12. eV
STOCK EXCHANGE. - There was an improved feelinko
hibited in the share market to-day, and a good! bus T.....
has been done at improved prices. The sales reported we'pi
Aberdeen, 14%—Caledonian, 19 1-16—Eastern Counties;z,c•
—East Lancashire, 171/4.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 72 7,„ ,
—London and North-Western, 124%—Ditto, New Quito
6% p.—Midland, 6614—York and North Midland, 2314'
MANCH ESTER, APRIL 12. ,:.,ite,
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The buSiness to-day was very u"' fro
but prices had an upward tendency. The transactions ,4),....
as follow:—Blackburn (No. 1), 5% Caledonian.Aits....
Eastern Counties, 9 7-16—Cheshire Junction, 11i4 South Lancashire and Yorkshire, 72%—Midland, 6tiYi.—",„,R- old,
Yorkshire and River Dun, 1% dis,—Manchester, ~u--5-1 164 and Lincolnshire, 34y.,,—South-Eastern and Dover, : - '
31.14Y1INGHAM, Arm. 12. inue9
STOCK EXCHANGI.— The share market still coot :mid'
lands continue in
dull, and the business transacted is of small importance; oily
Staffordshire line good
has demand,
e n dere d
able rumours with regard to the working of the es'
of its shares ,be
.
tremely firm, if not improving. k.
, s a matter of
tter of course,
business more tbl
occurrence of tie Easter holidays renders 1 Istate°
more ive y e usually dull; but on their termination a
were the closio,o
andthe the
pricerenewal of
the
things may be expected. The following
/3, 1233/ Midlasie*
(potations :—London and North-Wester 4
so.—South Staffordshire, 1 dis.

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SWIFT PA9SAGE or AN AMERICAN CLIPPE2o.'T
have again the pleasure to 'announce the arrival of a cliPri.,'.
The New Yotk-built clipper-ship Swordo,ll, Captain OP'
g_sPetheellaasstPtleillvodid performance.
BeScock, arrived on the 10th of February,, making the pad
er
space
against light winds and calms,
th in the short spa of 90 de°.
This is coming close to 9 celebrated trip ,of, 0, Ilyil
Cloud, , Ingl
greatest day's run reached d 32 ;,
mn,es, and at periods 3,..e - iv
she did not average 15 knots an hour. She. has had light
northerly winds. bier run to C days -12 'ed ''
4 days 10 hours to the line, and"
whole pshe e nouotni
ge
threebrmeeilzeess
per hour's
,inaeuvdedrYrirene
aasnsdagi is
!Itarg g 2
19 days 10 bea•—
this port. Her skysails have beensetolo'
n Horn occuPl
...Jo
early the while ~
and for 23 days
Alta California....,