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Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

MALTA, March 4.—Accounts from Corfu to the
25th ult. state that the demolition of the fortiflea-

tions of Vido, Fort Neuf, and Fort Abraham was

By the arrival of the above mail we have re-
ceived advices from Bomb ay to Feb. 14, and from
Calcutta to Feb. 5.
The Viceroy and Govt rnor-General of India is
remaining in Calcutta. His excellency, on a
morning walk a few week s since, was pursued by a
wild buffalo that had brokc to use from the Calcutta
cattle sho w,and escaped from Its attack by his &et-
neis as a runner.
Hie Excellency Sir Hugh. hose has been invited
to Calcutta by the Viceroy, to confer on military
matters of importance. II is excellency
was in
Peshawur at latest dates.

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following talented artistes ; —Misses Russell. Fitz-Henry,
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UNSWORTH and EUGENE will make their re-appear-
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CANTERBURY HALL.
Th 3 Fairy Entertainment, entitled

slag actively proceeded with. Three or four E x
plos ion were taking place daily. At five o'clock in
the evening of the 24th one was effected with up-
wards of 4,0001 b, of powder, which did great exe-
cution. A very bad feeling continued to be shown
by the Corfiotes towards the English. Six or seven
foreign sailing vessels had been chartered for the
conveyance of guns and stores to Malta, Gibraltar,
and England, and were being loaded with all de-
spatch. The only British man.of-war there was
the Orlando, 46, Capt. G. G. Randolph, whose men
were busily engaged loading the transports. The
Supply, 2, iron screw storesbip, Master Commander
Bawden, left on the 19th for England direct, call-
ing at Gibraltar, laden with ordnance stores. The
Cossack, 20, Captain W. R. Rolland, left on the 23d
for Z into, after having, together with the Orlando,
righted the transport that had capsized while
taking in guns. The Orontes, 2, screw troopship,
Captain W. H. Hire, was hourly expected to em-
bark the 6th Regiment for the West Indies. The
4th Regiment was under orders for Malta. Both
battalions of the 9th Regiment were under orders
for Gibraltar. It was thought that the 2d Mitts-
lion would embark first. The arrival of the Meeanee,
60, Capt. G. Wodehouse, the Resistance, iron-clad,
18, Capt. Chamberlain, and the Liffey, 35, Capt. G.
Parker, was expected, to assist in embarking stores
and guns. There was an Italian frigate at Corfu
with 140 naval cadets on board, who were daily
cruising in the channel in a steam launch belonging
to the ship. It is reported that the captain of the
Orlando has applied to the Admiralty to have simi-
lar steam launches introduced into our navy. The
following movements have taken place among the
ships of the fleet at Malta during the week:—On
Friday last the Icarus, 11, Acting-Commander
Lieut. N. Boger, left for Benghazi, to take there
Mr. Dennis, lately appointed Vice-Consul at that
place, and Mrs. Dennis, On her return the Icarus
will proceed to Corfu, for which island she was on
the point of saiiing when she recived counter orders.
The iron-clad frigate Resistance left on the same
day for the Pira3us and Corfu. This ship may be
said to be on the black list at present. Some fresh
instances of misconduct on the part of the crew,
similar to that already related—such as wilfully
damaging the fittings of the guns, &c.—have oc-
curred. The screw transport Orontes left on Sa-
turday for Corfu. The screw gunboat Growler, 2,
Lieut.-Com, J. M'Neill Boyd, left on the following
day for Corfu, to be employed in towing lighters
to the transports that are loading ordnance stores.
Sir Henry Bulwer and suite arrived on Monday
from Marseilles in the Caradoc, and proceeded on
Wednesday to Constantinople. The Royal Oak
leaves Malta to-day for Corfu direct. A Turkish
war steamer, the Kars, Capt. Salih Bey, arrived
here yesterday from Constantinople and Candia,
with munitions of war for Tripoli.
The Supply, screw storeship, Master Commander
Bowden, arrived at Spithead yesterday from Corfu
and Gibraltar. Mr. Armstrong, master, R.N., in-
valided from her Majesty's ship Cossack, died at
sea between Corfu and Gibraltar. The Supply has
a largo cargo of military stores
on board, and will
proceed on to Woolwich.

Viceroynb
affairs
eT
The Viceroy is summoning to his coun9els those
who formerly were co-works ,vith him in the
pani 3,,b.erGa
agent for
f.obrt.t
hPe. Li
taarprocontcaei;
aC. B
States,. r-orhoar
has
13v; rn or.
6ki10% important matters. connected with the
, are
tnoved to Calcutta to ejtifer with the
of Raj otana. Great. changes are in con-
templation with regaid to the political jurisdiction
over that part of the country.
General G. St.. P. Lawrence, C. 8., Sir Herbert
Cfoorlotnheel
lieutenant-governor-
ship Edwardes, C.B„
ship of the Punjab.
The first section c if the Persian Gulf telegraph is
completed. It extends from Guadur to Malcolm's
spoken of as candi and
des
`lnlet, Cape Mussend On the 9th ult. a message
was so transmitted :5-om the last-named place to
the former as to show that the 359 miles of cable
successfully laid in tit a first section was in good
condition. The extens ioh of the line to Bushire
was to be commenced it a week, and everything
gives promise of a suoca ieful and speedy termina-
tion of the work in the Pa rsian Gulf. Within two
months probably there will be an uninterrupted
telegraphic communieatic in between Great Britain
and India.

We have to announce 643 completion of another
great public work—the Bombay, Baroda, and
Central India Railway. The •whole length of the
line was travelled on the 9th alt, by Colonel J. Pitt
Kennedy, the engineer-in-chief:. The line was
expected to be opened on the let o f this month.

Great suffering has been produmed amongst the
poorer classes in Bombay by the unprecedented rise
in the price of provisions.
A sanitary commission has been formed in Ben-
gal by Government notification, ‘g to consider and
afford advice and assistance in all matters relating
to the health of the army, and to supervise the
gradual introduction of sanitary improvements in
barracks, hospitals, and stations, as well as in
towns in proxiwity to military stations in the Ben-
gal presidency." Similar boards are to be formed
at Madras end Bombay.
The act for the prevention of the adulteration of
cotton in the Bombay presidency came into opera-
tior on the Ist ult.

PRINCE BLOSSOM IN THE LAND OF SHADOWS!
Is written expressly for this establishment by W. F. Vander-
yell, author of the celebrated " Enchanted flash," and en-
ables Mr. Mortoi, with the aid of Professor Pepper's Optical
Illusion (known as the Ghost), to produce effects never before
contemplated, aid which have all been duly registered by
him and Mr. J. H. Weston under the title of The Ghost in
the Magic Foultaios." By this new arrangement, that
which is in reality nothing but a shadow, becomes to all ap-
pearance endowed with life, and when " Fame" takes her
flight through the burning Cataracts, and the Naiads seek
their beds in the Crystal Waters, form a coup d'ceil of beauty
unparalleled even in fairy romance.

Prince Blossom(with the Song of all Nations), Miss Townley.
The Marvellous Illusion will take place every Evening at
half-past Nine o'c oek.
All the wond3rful entertainment of the establishment, as
usual, in a idition to the above.
Admission—Area, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony,
Open every Evening.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA.—
LAST WEEK of FRANCONI'S TROUPE.

ItOYAL ALHAMBH A.
LAST SIX NIGHTS of FRANCONI'S CIRQUE.

Favourable accounts are received from all parts
of the country of the gener►il health and industry.
The past season has been unusually cold through-
out India.

PERCY M. DOYF, Ifftmzer.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, secretary of the London Board.
29, Lombard-street, LondoL, E C.

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ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY,
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BACHELOR'S B 0 X

ttOYAL ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.
Under the 3lan azement of Miss Louisa Pyne and
Mr. W. Harrison.
THIS EVENING, the new Opera, founded on Goldsmith's
Comedy, and called SlIn: STOOL'S TO CONQUER. Miss
Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison.
After which, FANCHETTE : Mice Susan Pyne, Thirlwall,
Corrie, Mr. Rouse.
Doors open at half-past Six—Commence at Seven.

THEATRE ROYAL DRUR Y-L AN E
Managers, Ifeesre,pmond Falconer and

F. B. Chatterton.
THIS EVENING, the Performances will commence with
THE FOU'd MOWBRA.YS. Master Percy Roselle.
After which, MANFRED. Manfred, Mr. Phelps.
To conclude with a new farce, THE ALABAMA. Mr. G.
Belmore and Miss Lydia Thompson,
Prices as usual. Box Office open from 10 till 5 daily.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.—
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, THE LITTLE DAISY. bliss Maria
II arris.
Followed by BUNKUM MULLER. Mr. Sothern.
After which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN: Messrs.
Sothern, Buckstone, Chippendale, Braid, Gordon, Rogers,
Clark, Cullentord, &c, ; Mesdames Angel, Snowden, Harris,
Lindley, Hill, &c
And SHOCKING EVENTS. Mr. Compton.
Commence at 7.

OYAL LYCEUM. THEATRE
ti Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter.

BEL DEIIONIO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated
Every Evening during the Week.
THIS EVENING, the performance will commence with a
New and Original Farce, entitled THE LOST CHILD:
Messrs. H. Widdicombe, Shore, Garden, F. Charles Collett,
3l9reland; Misses Percy, Pauline Leclercq, Wood, Mrs. Lee,
and Miss E. Lavenu.

A Ater which, at Eight o'clock, the 104th Night of BEL
DEMONIO, a Love Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from
Stendhal's "Italian Chronicle,," by Mr. John Brougham.
Principal character by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs.
Jordan, Charles, Brougham, Emery, Raymond, Moreland,
Smith, Clifford, Collett, Sims ; Miss Kate Terry, Miss E.
Lavenu, Mrs. Lee,and Miss Elsworthy.
The Public are entreated to take notice that No Charge Is
;nade to the occupazts of Boxes, Box-places, or Stalls, either
for play hits or for the safe keeping of hats and cloaks, and
tnat the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden to
receive any gratuities whatever.
Box-office open daily from 11 to N. Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining.
THIS EVENING, PAUL'S RETURN.
After which, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. The Two
Dromios, by the Brothers Webb.
And JACK'S ARRIVAL FROM CANTON.

NEW THEATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manazer, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE PRETTY HORSEBItEAKER,
Mr. J. L. Toole and Hiss Wooigen

At Eight, LEAH . Miss Batenan, supported by Messrs.
A. Stirling., R. Phillips, Ellington, Stuart, Stephenson,
Iburne; Miss H. Simms, and Sirs. Billington.
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To conclude with, 3d time, THE AREA BELLE : Afessrs.
J. L. Too:e, P. Bedford, Romer, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. H.
Lewis.

Commence at 7.

LE A H.-E VEIt Y
MISS BATEITAN.

NIGHT

MISS BATEMAN.—LEAH.—Tars EVENING,
the 1313th appearance of the great Tragic Actress, Miss
BATEMAN, in the character of LEAH. In consequence of
the unbounded success with which Miss Bateman's imperso-
nation of the prif.cipal character in the new Five Act Drama
of LEAH has been attended. Mr Webster begs to announce
that it will be performed EVERY EVENING until further
notice.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Manazer, Mr. W. IL Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, ON AND OFF.
To be followed by UNLIMITED CONFIDENCE. Mr.
Belford, Mr. Parselle ; Miss Marie Wilton, Miss Thorne.
After which, the Grand Christmas Burlesque, ORPHELTS
AND EURYDICE : Messrs. Honey, Wood, James Fenton,
Mesdames Swanborough, Marie Wilton, Hughes, &o.
Concluding with MARGATE SANDS.
Commence at'.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the
Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER.
Crowded with rank and fashion. —The New Comedy of THE
SILVER LINING every Evening.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Mathews, Mrs. Stirling, ,Sirs. Frank 'Matthews, and Mr. J.
L. Toole every evening. The following eminent artistes are
engaged :—Mr. Benjamin Webster. Mr. J. L. Toole, 3lr. Paul
B4lford, Mr. Frederic Robinson, Mr. Ashley, and Mr. Chas.
Mathews ; Mrs. Stirling, Miss Herbert, Mrs. Frank Mat-
thews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny .Josephs, Miss Went-
worth, Mrs. Howard Paul, Mr. J. Clark, and Mrs. Charles
Matlews.

THIS EVENING. and darinz the Week, at 7 o'c'ock,
UNDER THE ROSE. Mr. Ashley, Miss A. Cottrell, and
MN+ Patti Josephs.

At a quarter before 8, the new Comedy, by L. Buckin,,-
ham, Esq., entitled TBE SILVER LINING : Mr. Charles
Mathews, Mr. Frederic Robinson, Mr. Ashley, Mr, John-
s'one, Mr. Niontao-ue ; Mrs !lades Mathews, Mrs. Frank
Matthews, IlLss Cottrell,-MissWentworth, and Mrs. Stirling.
To he followed by fir. Charles Mathews just translated
from the French)in his characteristic character of Un Anglais
Timide, entitled COOL AS A CUCUMBER.
Several novelties are In preparation.

THE LAST SIX NIGHTS.
GRACE EGERTON (Mrs. George Case),
at the POLYGRAPHIC HALL, King William-
street (her THIRD SEASON in London), in her New and
highly successful ( haractPristic and Musical Entertainment
entitled "A DRAWING ROO3l TO LET." EVERY
EVENING, at Eight.
Saturday Evening, at 5, and positively the last night.
Stalls, 34. ; unreserved seats, 2s. ; area, ls.
Last performance March 12.

11HE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN,"
Containine: the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,
"'Jbe had Every Evening- of
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No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park.

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON' BRIDGE.
Tun DA.7.—Morning, 2h. 45rn•—Afternoott. 3h. 812.
ro.uoituovf...Morning, 3h, 26a1.—Afternoon, 3h. 60m.

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The Weather--Sun Office, March 9, 1864.

THERMOMETER.
This day at Two o'clock .................... 41
Barometer-29.05.
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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1864.

The disasters now befalling Denmark are a
disgrace to England. It is nothing lees than dis-
graceful that England should be holding aloof all
a period when the soil of Dm-
this while, during
mark Proper, not that. of Holstein and of Schleswig,
but even that of Jutland itself, is being devastated
by a war brutally commenced against the Danes
by the two chief Powers of Germany. It would be
disgraceful,at any time and ender any circumstances,
that Englandshould stand aside apathetically while
an outrage of this flagrant character was being
perpetrated by two of the great powers conjointly,
and perpetrated by them upon one of the minor
powers opposed to them single-handed. As the
Earl of s -HAFTESBITRY remarked last evening in the
Lards, putting the matter before us in a mere
numerical poiett of view, it is fifty millions against

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT
INSTITUTION.
The ANNUAL GENERAL M. EE I'ING of this Institution
will be held at the London Tavi ?.rn, Bishops ate-street, on
TUESDAY next, 15th inst., at T wo o'clock preeisely.
The Right Hon. Sir JOHN S. RA.KINGTON, Bart., G.C.8.,
3LP., In the char.
RICH) UtD LEWIS, Secretary.
H, John-street, Adelphi, Marci 9.

THE ROYAL INSU RANCE COMPANY
has much satisfaction in aianouncing to the public that
the effort which was made (so far as its nroprietors were
concerned) by only one individual holding fifteen shares, to
restrain its recent liberality on occasion of the 'ate fearful
explosion at Liverpool, has ere;irely and completely failed,
the Vice-Chancellor declaring that as the plaintiff did nor
come in•o couro for the benefit cif the Company the bill must
be dismissed with cots.
The course pursued by this office received in three days the
approval of proprietors hold,: ng nearly 40,000 shares, irrespec-
tive of upwards of 20,000 held by the directors themselves--
making a total of 60.000 out of 04,000 issued. It is, therefore,
evident that 'he vast majority, it not almost all without ex-
ception, of the holders of the remaining 34,000 shares would
have signified a like acquiesonce if time had affinded oppor-
tunity for the act.
The publ.c may now, therefore, be assured of the continu-
rnce of the same principle c t liberality which has ever dis-
tinguished this office, supported as it is by the decis on of the
Vice-Chancellor, and backed by the prompt and cordial
acquie c ace cf its shareholc:ers.
The Royal Insurance Company thankfully acknowledges
the generous assis ance given in the shape of affidavits from
the representatives of the Sun, Phoenix, Royal Exchange,
and Alliance, attesting their concurrence in the course taken
by the Royal in the ex gratin payment of the losses sus-
tained—these great companies having themselves acted in
the like liberal spirit.

England, however, more especially. It were
an infamy to Us as a great Power, as one
of the mightiest Powers of the earth,
both by sea and land, if within less than a year from
the date of the nuptials of the young Danish Prin-
cess with his Royal Highness the Prince of
Waus, we should complacently stand out of
harm's way, while Austria and Prussia were
with brutal deliberation and in flagrant de•
fiance of all attempt at remonstrance to take all
the preliminary steps towards the dismemberment
of the Danish Kingdom. Hitherto the Ministers
of the Crown here in England have been bold only
in words. As Earl RUSSELL was, for example, last
evening—" roaring" once more against Austria and
Prussia, but roaring as usual " like any sucking
dove." Qeoth the noble earl the Foreign Secretary,
at the very close of his last speech in the House of
Lords last evening :—" I.:should not think that
anv fleet of Austria or of Prussia would venture
to encounter:a squadron of ours!" Than which—
two millions ! And, even when that has been said,
it is an understatement of the atrocity now transpiring
in broad day under the observation of all Christen-
dom. Whereas the population of Denmark is
2,600,000—the population of Prussia is 18,500,000,
and the population of Austria 35,000,000, to-
gether (Austria and Prussia) 53,000,000. An
unprovoked war, an unjustifiable war as the
Foreign Secretary of England himself called it last
evening in the House of Lords, a war of this
shameful and audacious character, begun by
two such huge Powers against one so small,
is an outrage in itself to each and all of the
other great Powers of Christendom. It is especi-
ally and peculiarly an outrage to the pride, the
majesty, and the honour of England. Under any
conjuncture of circumstances, as we have said,
England holding itself aloof from the war now
desolati'ng the southern provinces of Danmark
would be a disgrace to us. It is, how-
ever, a disgrace to us of a peculiar poign-
ancy, now that the Heir Apparent to the
Crown of England has, barely a year ago taken
to wife the eldest daughter of Denmark, the fair
young princess who has but so very recently become
the mother of a future Sovereign of these realms,
a Prince who in his turn, let us hope, is fated to
become the progenitor of our Kings to be. It
is true that we are in no way whatever dis-
posed to adopt the argument of those who would
maintain the necessity of our Government mould-
ing their foreign policy upon the hints suggested
purely by our dynastic alliances. Ia effect,
there is proof positive, in the actual " situation,"
that ;,this is by no means the present scheme
of our argument. Dynastic al iances far more
necessary, some of them of long duration, and

all of theta most intimate, would rather tend to
warp the Foreign Policy of England towards the

side of Germany, to give a bias to the rolling of
England's wheel of fortune towards Prussia, and,