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a suggestion 11013 been thrown out by an ad-
thatestion
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should be done by the people of London Nv-ii .
iii a view
to evidence towards Mr. PEABODY himself how
truly
they appreciate his beneficence. The notion of any-
thing at all in this way being done we cannot, how-
ever, ourselves but regard as altogether a mistake.
«e cannot but feel persuaded upon the instan t that it
would be altogether alien to.the wishes of the very
man the proposer would willa to do honour to, Awl of
course to gratify. Mr. PEABODY, we are certain,
would shrink with dismay from the ordeal of pass-
ing through some public ovation in recognition of
what he has but just done—surely we must all say
this of him—so very unostentatiously. His own
emotion in giving this right royal alms of £150,000
to the very poor of London he might perhaps have
best articulated by exclaiming, Liberavi animam
warn ! The act, when done, is simply and most
touchingly indicative of the donor's benignity to his
fellow-mortals, and an attestation of his gratitude
to Divine Providence. It would be mistaking Mr.
PEABODY altogthcr, therefore, if the occasion were
seized upon for the purpose of rendering it one for
his own individual glorification.

--------:---------"---querad. The only portion he South bitterly and
implacably hostile to the g his th)slaveholalia,
and their immediate dependents. To re-unite them
with the North while their possession of slaves fed
l heir old fanatical devotion to slavery
perpetually al t
and equally fanatical hatred and contempt of the
free North, would be impossible. Each Slave State,
with its Legislature of slaveholders, would be a
standing obstruction, and more than that, a nullifi-
cation of Federal action. Granting that the Slave
States would find it difficult to regain such power
in Congress as they might have exercised there last
year at this time had they then preferred political to
military action ,they could cause much embarrassment
in Congress itself, and their State Legislatures could
be perfectly unmanageable. A re-annexed slave-
holding South could be governed only as Poland,
Hungary, or Venetia are governed at this moment ;
Federal Republicanism would be gone for ever.
The North has made its beginning by offering to
buy off the Border Slave States—it will have no
alternative but to make emancipation compulsory
in all the States. If the North adheres to the
plan of holding the Southern States answerable
for their quota of the enormous taxation it has
just laid, the purchase of the slaves w.
Each State in rebellion will owe enough to pay for
the emancipation of its slaves, and if any
mode-
rate compensation be offered in addition, with the
alternative of military emancipation, they will be
but too glad to accept, one would think, a dividend
on their unlawful possessions, to which, whatever
their constitutional claim, they have no moral oue.
However, one thing is certain, the North is opening
its eyes to perceive that, after the repulse of the
Southerns from the Border States, the alternative
will be—to imperil complete conquest of the South
and its re-union with the North, or to proclaim at
once that, by some means or other, slavery must
cease in the new Federation.
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Some of our contemporaries express their fears
Lest the Government should be slow to act on the

views they have at last expressed, in concurrence
with those of the House of Commons and of the
country. We do not like to indulge such suspicions;
and we would rather accept the beginnings made
as evidence, that, though a little slow to answer the
helm, the Government intends to keep in the right
course without a tack. We notice that they have
begun well. The Royal Sovereign, three-decker,
is already being stripped at Portsmouth ; additional
hands are put on her ; she is to be cut down to her
middle deck, to be iron-plated, and to have six of
Capt. COLE'S cupolas placed on her deck. We are
also informed that the Victoria and the Duke of
Wellington are to be treated in a similar manner.
This is a good beginning ; and other ships are
mentionE d ; and at Chatham orders are already given
to stay the conversion of timber for shipbuilding
purposes. We shall, therefore, believe that the
Government means to act as well as promise. In-
deed, if it wished, it would find it very dangerous
policy to cajole the public just now.
We do not, however, believe that there is any
need for extravagant haste. We are not in immi-
nent danger of a visit from an iron-clad frigate at
Portsmouth, nor are we likely to be for some time.
Nothing likely to be built across the Atlantic could
venture to think of crossing it, and, with its coal
exhausted, to have a try at our arsenals. European
Powers certainly cannot overmatch us. The War-
rior and Black Prince make us safe against all they
can do at this moment. And as war cannot be pro-
claimed in a moment, there is really no need for us
to hasten on work in a way which will make us
wish to do it all over again. If the Government
does but begin earnestly, we do not deprecate but
rather prefer its beginning carefully. Captain
ERICSSON'S gasconade about driving the fleets of
the Allies out of the Gulf of Mexico would be in-
deed foolish ground for hasty action. The Americans
have plenty to do before they can afford to quarrel
with two or three European Powers at once. The
boast is on a par with the meanness which says not
one word respecting the prior merits of our Captain
COLES, while the copyist is glorying as if in inven-
tion, as well as in execution, he had the priority.
We shall soon have, what the Americans have
not yet, iron-plated ships which can keep the sea,
and sail or steam with ease over half the world,
while the American vessels must confine themselves
to still waters. Of course the latter will build
iron-plated seagoing vessels, bat that has yet to be
done. We have little to do but to strengthen ships ;
we have also frames now ready for iron plates, with
abundant mechancial means to apply them, as fast
as the required quality of the works permits.
The American total of 49 iron ships built, con-
tracted for, and proposed, looks indeed large upon
paper, but of these, 20 frigates are as yet only
recommended, and 20 more are iron-clad gunboats,
chiefly intended for the western rivers, ordered by
Congress. The other 19 are nearly all yet to be
built. Indeed, the Monitor is the only one now at
sea. Another or two of more doubtful powers may
ba ready soon, but the Americans themselves, with
their present means, are not a little afraid of a
second visit at Fort Monroe from the Merrimac.
We think, however, that the press should keep
the feeling of the public on the subject before the
Government. It is undeniable that it required
three evenings' debate to bring our Premier up to
the mark, but when he does concede he generally
does it frankly and manfully. Sir G. C. LEWIS
seemed to have a little hankering after the shore
forts, and justified it by the letter of the resolution,
which pointed only to the Spithead forts. But
Lord PALMERSTON is not the man to trifle with
the public on a question of this kind. He probably
is as convinced as any of us that floating defences
have now the
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of this, and he will not irritate them by wasting
on stone what they all wish to he spent on ships.

America, it seems, has indeed produced a third
Brother CIIEERYBLE. The delightful " Brother
CHARLES" and " Brother NED," famous in one of
the earlier stories by Buz, beloved by the readers
of Kicholas Nickleby, have now, it would, in truth,
appear, had their number increased to three by the
apparition of another benignant merchant-philan-
thropist quite as worthy, in his way, of represent-
ing those two noble-hearted men, who are understood
to have been the genuine prototypes of Mr.
DICKENS'S beautiful idealisation, those twin em-
ployers of good old TIM LINKINWATER—known
in the flesh, revered, and respected by all who knew
them, as the Messrs. GRANT, of Manchester. To
" Brother CHARLES" and " Brother NED" there
ought now to be added—in every one's remembrance
of the BROTHERS CHEERYBLE—our new American
Cousin "Brother GEORGE"—Iong known familiarly
and honourably to crowds of admiring friends on
either side of the broad Atlantic, as GEORGE
PEABODY, merchant (during the last quarter of a
century), in London, denizen (before then) for a
long while in the city of Baltimore, in the State of
Maryland, native (not so very many years back) of
the town of Danvers, in the State of Massachusetts.
Says Mr. PEABODY, in the letter, to which we have
already referred in these columns, the letter ad-
dressed by him, on the 12th ult., to the,diplomatic re-
presentative of the Federal Government, at the Court
of St. James's (Mr. ADAMS), " It is now 25 years
since I commenced my residence and business in
London as a stranger; but I did not long feel my-
self a ' stranger,' nor in a ' strange land,' for in all
my commercial and social intercourse with my
British friends during that long period I have con-
stantly received courtesy, kindness, and confidence.
Under a sense of gratitude for these blessings of a
kind Providence, encouraged by early associations,
and stimulated by my views as well of duty as of
inclination to follow the path which I had hereto-
fore marked out for my guidance, I have been
prompted for several years past repeatedly to state
to some of my confidential friends my intention at
no distant periol, if my life was spared, to make a
donation for the benefit of the poor of London."
This donation, Mr. PEABODY, we all know, now
actually makes. To what extent ? London, through
all its 3,000,000 inhabitants, has already marvelled
to hear it, to the extent of what is popularly known
amongst us as a plum and a half—to the munifi-
cent extent, in other words of £150,000 !
Remember, the donor to the Poor of London of this
magnificent gift—is no well-to-do citizen, born
within the sound of Bow Bells—but one who came,
five and twenty long years ago, to these shores, as he
reminds us now, as a stranger from the opposite shores
of the broad Atlantic ocean, drawing his breath, origi-
nally, thousands of miles away in the State
of Massachusetts ! Yet grateful for the brilliant suc-
cesses that have been attendant upon his commer-
cial enterprises for so long here in the British
Empire—he now wishes, in as signal a manner as
possible, to attest that gratitude by bestowing
£150,000 upon the poor of London. Recollecting
whence Mr. PEABODY has come—from how great a
distance—from the other hemisphere—the circum-
stances antttery than thendantupon s,thdiosngoirf,tto the poor of ano-
thermay, we honestly
believe, be described without a particle ci
exaggeration as altogether vpreeedented. Dona
Lions as munificent have been made before now in
other ways, but not by one originally coming to the
arena of his munificence from the shores of another
and a distant land. Captain WILLIAM BROWN, we
all remember—with pride and exultation as fellow-
countrymen of one with so princely a heart and
hand, has within our own immediate recollection
done great and splendid things for Liverpool. But
then Liverpool was his birthplace. TURNER, the
Great Landscape Painter, presented in our own
time to the country of his birth, not of his
adoption, a collection of art treasures (the product i
of his own extraordinary genius) the value of
which art treasures is, in a manner, beyond the
reach of computation. But then, while doing this,
it is impossible not to remember that TURNER was
not only conferring a benefaction upon his native
land, but that he was at the same time building up
his own most resplendent and enduring monument.
Other benefactors of this country in a similar direc-
tion--not themselves artists, however, but simply
lovers of art—Mr. VERNON, for example, and Mr.
SHEEPSHANKS—
have adorned our national collet
tiou of picturesby kindred gifts—time after time
by an entire gallery. Here again, however, in each
instance it was a native of the soil beautifying his
own Fatherland. Old Engiish worthies whose names
are still held in grateful veneration amongst us,noble-
hearted philanthropists like good ROBERT COLSTONE
of Bristol, Founders of Schools and Hospitals, and
scientific channels for the communication of their
benevolent love towards their fallow-creatures
through generation after generation to a remote
1 posterity, have adorned our annals before now to
our nafit.pal honour, and to the honour also of our
common humali:ity-. But here again the donors were
home born or natua..alised--in a word, they were

THE GREAT EASTERNe—LTVERPOOL, BATURIJAY.
—At last the repairs to the big ship have been completed,
and on Tuesday, the 6th of May, she will take her depar-
ture from Milford Haven for New York, returning from
thence to this port about the middle of June. The Great
Eastern while she has been laid up at Milford has had a
complete overhaul, and nothing has been spared to make
her as efficient as possible, and to prevent any repetition of
such an accident as happened to her last September. No-
doubt much interest will be attached to the outward pas-
sage of the Great Eastern, as the new steamship Scotia,
under Judkins' command, leaves the Mersey four days
after the Great Eastern leaves Milford.
WHAT HATE THEY DONE P—Brooks' Club has
blackballed Mr: Robert Lowe, the Vice-President of the
Committee of Council on Education, and also Mr. Owen
Stanley, twin brother of Lord Stanley of Alderley, the
Postmaster-General. Mr. Lowe was refused admission to
this sacred enclosure of aristocratic Whigs on the suspicion
that he writes for the Times. But why a member of the
illustrious house of Stanley was excluded is a question I
cannot decide. He is a director of the Chester and Holy-
head Railway, and possibly this connexion with commerce
is deemed by these haughty exclusives a disqlialifying de-
filement. But Mr. Crossley, the manufacturer, is a mem-
ber. How came that about? These gentlemen seem to be
capricious.—lllustrated Times.
REDUCTION OF THE ARMY MEDICAL STAFF IN
CANADA.—The strong medical staff which was so recently
sent out to Canada is breaking up almost as rapidly as the
ice in that frost-favoured colony. The following medical
officers are on their way home, and may be shortly expected
in England :—Four deputy inspector-generals, Messrs.
Innes, Stewart, Fraser, and Rutherford. Seven surgeons,
Macdonald, Schoales, Todd, Cogan, Home, Macdermott,
Snell, and several assistant-surgeons, including Messrs.
Davidson, Atkinson, Hemphill, Hutton, Pennington, Mad •
den, Bryson, Hyde, &c.— United Service Gazette.
IRON TOWERS.—In the autumn of last year the
Federal Government sent an order to this country for
the construction of four iron towers similar to that now
on board the Monitor. The commission was accepted,
and would have been faithfully executed if the Trent affair
had not occurred, and so prevented the shipment of
all warlike stores; and among them these partienlar
castles. The contractor is now saddled with the produce
of his labour, as, in the meantime, the Americans supplied
themselves on the spot; and he now contemplates offering
them to the Emperor of the French, as on this side of tiler
water we are provided with Coles' cupolas, which weigh
only 72 tons to Ericsson.'s 200 tons. No little difference of
weight for a ship to carry.—Army and Navy Gazette.
LAMBETH RIFLE CORPS.—This corps mustered
at head-quarters on Saturday, under the command of Cap-
tainTrum assistedmaran,ehedwith
Wby Captains Prewett, Hill, and
Brady, and
their two bands to Clapham-
COMMOII for blank firing, preparatory to the Brighton Be-

Englishmen.
The distinctive peculiarity of Me.
PEMIoDY'S
late splendid act of munificence will, therefore, be
obvious te every one at a glance. It is the benig-
nity of an American to the poor of the British
metropolis. It is an alms, in its wav, unparalleled.
Since the publication of the correspondence an-
nouncing this noble deed to the world made its
anomie° in the Blida, of last „month! We observe view.

'THE SUN, LONDON,. MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1862.

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OSBORNE, APRIL 5.

The Queen and royal family arrived at Osborne yester-
day afternoon at a quarter before seven o'clock, from
Windsor Castle.
Her Majesty travelled quite privately, all guards of hon-
our and salu es having been dispensed with.
Ills Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended by Major
EiplAnstone, went to Dover on Thursday to meet Prince
Leopold, VIA° arrived there on that day from the Continent.
The two princes loft Dover at twelvo o'clock yesterday,
and arrived at Osborne at seven o'clock last night.
Lady and Miss Bowater have accompanied Prince Leopold
to Osborne.

provinces.

after Eabter.

APRIL 6.
Their loyal Highnesses Princess Alico, Prince Alfred,
rrineess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold at•
ppingham Church this morn-
tinengd.o divine service at Whi

THE CR OWN PRINCESS OF PRUSSIA.

On the arrival of the Crown Princess of Prussia at Aix-la-
Chapelle, on Wednesday, her royal highness was received
at the railway station by the chiefs of departments civil and
military. It had been arranged that the journey should
be continued from that place by a special train on the arri-
val of the Crown Prinoe from Julich, but as his royal high-
ness did not arrive until after the appointed time, this
arrangement was abandoned, and the Crown Prince and
Crown Princess availed themselves of a train starting later
in the day, by which they continued their journey.

FOREIGN COURTS.

PARIS, APRIL 5.

Prince Oscar of Sweden, the day after his arrival at
Toulon, visited the naval barracks of the arsenal at Mou-
rillon, the imperial yacht L'Aigle, and the military port,
all the details of which he inspected with great minuteness.
On the following morning he was to go on board the Ville de
Paris, line-of-battle ship, and proceed in her to the Isles
d'Hyeres. "The object in selecting that vessel," says the
Semaphore, " is, that the prince shall have an opportunity
of seeing the three finest specimens of French naval archi-
tecture. First, the iron-cased frigate Invincible, which
brought his royal highness from Nice to Toulon ; next, the
Ville de Paris, a magnificent specimen of an old vessel
transformed into a screw ; and lastly, at the Isles d' Rycres,
the admiral's ship La Bretagne, which was a month back
one of the most powerful machine° of war, when timber
vessels were thought something of, and which doesnot the
less remain a splendid line-of-battle ship."
The Duke of Brabant arrived at Gibraltar on the 24th ult.
on board the English steamer Intrepid, which had been sent
by General Codrington to Malaga, and placed at the prince's
disposal.
A letter from Turin says :—"The Prince Royal is to
leave at the end of the month for Paris and London. He
will afterwards visit the two Northern Courts--Copen-
hagen and Stockholm—which showed great readiness in
recognising the kingdom of Italy. If it be true that the
Court of Russia, at the instigation of the French Govern-
ment, will not long delay the recognition of the new king-
ilom, the prince will also go to St. Petersburg.
Almost the whole of the Legislative Body were, two
evenings back, present at a dramatic soiree given by the
Count de Morny, where two new pieces by M. de Saint-
Remy (his dramatic pseudonym) were performed, The
first, entitled " Bons Conseils," was admirably played by
artists from the Gymnase Theatre, Madlle. Delaporte and
M. Derval obtaining unanimous applause; and the second,
" Sauve qui Peut ; ou, la Mania des Proverbes," was not less
brilliantly interpreted by Madame Thierret and MM.
Brasseur and Priston of the Palais-Royal Theatre.
The Levant Herald says :—" On the occasion of the
Sultan's visit to the arsenal on Wednesday last, his Majesty,
after inspecting the different departments of the establish-
ment, expressed himself much pleased with their appear-
ance, and afterwards issued orders that two months' arrears
of pay should be paid to all the employes. On being apprised
of the approaching visit of the Prim/ of Wales, the Sultan
at once tendered, through Sir Henry Bulwer, the use of a
special palace for his royal highness and suite during his
stay in Constantinople. As the prince, however, is travel-
ling in strict incognito as Lord Renfrew, the Queen, whilst
gratefully sensible of the imperial attention, declined the
proffered hospitality. His royal highness, who may be
expected about the middle of the coming month, will con-
sequently be the guest of the ambassador during his eight
or 10 days' halt in our capital."

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FRANCE.

His Royal Highness the General Commanding
in-Chief will hold a levee at ono o'clock on Friday, the 11th

His Excellency the Ambassador of France and
:he Countess de Flahault entertained at dinner on Saturday

evening at Coventry House his Excellency the Russian
Ambassador, his Excellency the Hanoverian Minister, his
Excellency the Saxon Minister, Count Pahlen, the Earl of
Shelburne, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury and Lady
Victoria Ashley, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Lord
and Lady Foley, Lord Clyde, Lord Stanley, M.P., Right
Hon. Sir Hamilton Seymour and Lady Seymour, Mr,

Baring, &c.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort are enter-
taining a numerous family circle at Badminton, where the
noble duke and duchess intend to remain until the close of
the hunting season.

The Duke of Devonshire has arrived at Lismore
Castle, his seat in Ireland, from Holkar Hall, Lancashire.

The noble duke will return from Ireland towards the end
of the month.

New 3 per Cents 6B 90
Do. end month
Credit Mobilier 783 75
Do. Account —

The Earl of J )erby has been compelled by indis-
position to absent himself from his Parliamentary duties
during the past week. The noble earl has been obliged to
keep his room since Monday last.. His illness commenced
with influenza, since coupled with gout. Yesterday his
lordship was considered much better ; but some days must
elapse before the noble Conservative leader will be able to
resume his place in the House of Lords.
The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres and Lord and
Lady Lindsay have arrived at their residence in Berkeley-
square, from Haigh Hall, Lancashire.
The Earl and Countess of Erroll will shortly leave
town for Slaines Castle, Aberdeenshire.

RAILWAYS,

The Marquis de Galliffet and Baron Leon Niviere
have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Paris.

Lord and Lady Ebury have arrived at their resi-
dence in Park-street, Grosvenor-square, from Moor-park,
Herta, for the season.

Lady Catherine Wheble was safely delivered of
a daughter on the 2d inst., at Bulmershe Court.
Mr. and Lady Charlotte Lyster have left Thomas's
Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Rowton Castle, Shrewsbury.
Mr. and Lady Charlotte Fotheringham have
arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Lea-
mington. _

The Right Hon. B. Disraeli gave a Parliamentary
dinner on Saturday evening, at his residence, Grosvenor-
gate, There were present—The Earl of Hardwicke, the
Earl of Carnarvon, the Earl of Lonsdale, Viscount Holmes-
dale, the Hon. Henry Maxwell, the Hon. Windsor Clive,
Sir John Dalrymple Hay, Sir Graham Montgomery, Sir
Frederick Heygate, Col. Leslie, Col. Dickson, Mr. Fellowes,
Mr. Abel Smith, Mr. Beach, Mr. Smollett, Mr. Peacocke,
and Mr. Malin.

His Excellency the Ambassador of France and
the Countess de Flahault will shortly leave Coventry
House, Piccadilly, for Albert Gate House, the residence of
the French Embassy,

A new Conservative monthly review will make
its appearance in June, under the title of the Church
and State Review. It is to be edited by Archdeacon Deni-
son, assisted by many eminent theological and political
writers.—Litextry Gazette.
AN ODDITY.—The Halifax (Nova Scotia) Sun
records the death of a Mr. Hart, of Wallace r ver, who was
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over 9) years of age, and had worked all his life at th
problem of perpetual motion ; but 90 years had not been
long enough to enable him to solve it, and on the day before

his death he had just " a few more wheels" to make to com-
plete his work. Eccentric even in his grave, he was
buried at his own request on one of the most lofty peaks of
the Cobequid mountains in his ordinary clothes.
SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—On Sunday last a
young girl, aged 15, the daughter of a mechanic, in the
New Town, Ashford, vomited a live frog. She had pre-
viously been treated for bowel complaint. The frog has
been shown to a great many persons in the town, and we
believe has been taken by F. Shepherd, Esq., surgeon, who
attended the girl at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London.
It is of considerable size, being as large as the palm of the
girl's hand, and is very lively. She was nearly choked by
it. The water supplied to the houses in the New Town is
very impure, and in summer is full of insects. The girl
has a recollection of swallowing something when drinking
a draught of water last summer, but no attention was paid
to the circumstance. She has been lately subject to disorders
and pains in the bowels, for which she has been obliged to
have recourse to medical advice.—Sussex Express.
EARLY APPEARANCE OP THE SWALLOW. A
number of swallows were seen in the neighbourhood of
Newtowrthamilton on Monday, the 31st ult. Their appear-
once in March is thought to indicate the likelihood of a dry
and more than usually hot summer. We gratefully accept
the omen, as the fall of rain during the winter, and so far
of the Spring
months, has been unexampled for:some years.
—lVewrY 1 elegrcpls.
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. WORCESTER,
SATITEDAY.—A fortnight ago two gentlemen, belonging to
this city disappeared under circumstances of great mystery.
Mr. E. Walter, a gentleman of independent means, and a
member of !Le local council, left his home one evening, and
nothine has
been heard of him. A hat, identified as the
one be wore when he left his home, was found in the river
Severn next day, but, if drowned, the body has not come to
light.
West Midland Railway, left his home to take a walk, and
A few days previously Mr. W. Jones, cashier on the
be too has never been seen since, although a person who
knew him by sight speaks positively to meeting him in
Malithester a few days ago. Mr. Jones had been in a low
state of health before he left home. Rewards are offered
for information respecting either of the missing gentlemen.

E WS.

TURIN, APRIL 7•

The King has signed a decree, ordering the
re-organization of the magistracy in the southern

The visit of the King to Naples v, ill take place

According to news from Naples, the band of
Crocco has been defeated near Lovello. 25 of the
brigands were killed ; the rest fled towards the
Roman frontiers.

The French troops have attacked and dispersed
Chiavoni's band, near Prato Bompoli.
The huts of the brigands were destroyed.

On Friday last a convoy of provisions, sent from
Veroli, for the brigands, was seized by the French

troops.
The illovimento of to-day says that 300 Rifle
Clubs have already been organised under the
auspices of Garibaldi.
It is asserted that the Collar of the Order of the
Annunziata will shortly be sent to the Shah of
Persia.

BERLIN, APRIL 6.

The Vossisohe Zeitung of yesterday published a
letter addressed by the Minister of Finance to the
Minister of War, which it stated to have received

from an anonymous correspondent.
In this letter the Minister of Finance urgently
requests the Minister of War to reduce his military
budget by 21 millions of thalers, in order to allow
of the removal of the present additional taxes and
to enable the Government to give assurances to
that effect to the people before the pending election

takes place.
The semi-official Allgemeine Preussische (Stern)
Zeitung of to-day contains the following :—" The
Vossische Zeitung of yesterday published a confi-
dential letter from the Minister of Finance to the
Minister of War, which it pretends to have received
from an anonymous correspondent. The person
who sent this letter to the paper in question can
only have obtained it in an illegal manner, for
which reason the affair has been referred to the
Procurator-General."

The Emperor has commuted to hard labour for
life, the sentence of death passed at the last assizes
of the Rhone on the young man. Giraud for killing
a turnkey in the Prison St. Joseph at Lyons.
The Moniteur publishes four decisions of Marshal
Randon, Minster of War, relative partly to exemp-
tion from military service in 1862, and partly to re-
enlistments and engagements as substitutes. The
first fixes the sum to be paid by young men comprised
in the contingent of the class of 1861, for exonera-
tion from service, at 2,500 f. By the second, the
amount which soldiers now in the service, but wish-
ing to retire, will have to pay, is settled at 550 f, for
each year of their unexpired term, The third enacts
that re-enlistments for seven years will give a
right to a sum of 2,2001. ; I,ooof. to be paid at
the time of joining the regiment, and 1,200 f. at the
end of the engagement ; also to the pay of 10c. a-
day. Any re-enlistment contracted for less than
seven years will give a right up to 14 years' service
to a sum of 3101. for each year ; 140 f. to be paid at
the time of incorporation, and 1701. at the end of
the period, and to the pay of 10c. a-day. After 14
years' service the soldier re-enlisting will only have
a right to the high daily pay of 20c. Voluntary
enlistments by men who have retired from the ser-
vice will also give a right to the above advantages.
The fourth decision states that replacements made
by the Administration, and for a period of seven
years, will entitle the substitute to a bounty of
2,200 f. ; I,ooof. payable at the time of entering,
and 1,200 f. at the end of the term.
BOURSE, April s.—The market has been without
animation, but prices maintained with but slight
variations throughout the day. Threes, for the
Account, are now at 70f. Railways also pretty
firm, but with only a moderate amount of business
doing. The following were the last quotations :-
44 per per Cents ... 97 75 I Bank Shares 3095
Do. end month.... 98 20 Credit k oncier 1535 50
3 per Cents .. 69 90 Belgian 41 —
Do. end month.... 70 Piedmonteso Fives 6B

Roman —
Austrian
Spanish Threes 5l
Home Debt .. 4B

Cash. Account.
Orleans 1285 .. 1290
Northern ..
New ditto • • • •• .....
Lyons and Mediterranean 1137 50 .. 1135
Geneva ..
Southern
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard