The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-18 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY RVENINGI APRIL 18 1866,

METROPOLITAN GOSSIP.

(From the Liverpool Albion.)
LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING.
If " April showers bring forth May flowers," as the
proverb has it, London should be a perfect parterre next
month ; the ghost of Hafiz find itself equally at home
in Islington as in Ispahan ; and the pert twitter of cock-
ney sparrows melt into the soft jug-jug of Lalla' Rook-
nightingales. The much rain, however, gives small
promise of any such paradisical products. Our domestic
philanthropy doesn't progress with foreign peace ; for,
as Zadkiel would say; " Taurus waxes restless under tho
baleful gaze of the malefic Ursa Major," to whose evil
every other major is minor, save taking care of Major
Dowbiegin, which is the maximum of all misfortune.
Brunoff, or Orloff, or Kislieffe, or Meden, or whoever
he the Muscovite plenipo coming over here, will find things
in as Tartaric a state of acidity as they were just before
the good Aberdeen found out that his imperial friend of
forty years was a gigantic Jack Sheppard. The precise
Period when the by-no-means double-sighted elderly
Highlander made that discovery, though now rather late
in the day to be inquired ,into, happens to be one of
the chief gossipisme of • the week, because of Malmes-
bury's letter in the leading journal of yesterday, in re-
ference to the late Sir C. Hotham's neglected recom-
mendation about mortar-boats, for what the ex-
Foreign Secretary calls the then (1853) "inevitable war."
The question is, why did not Aberdeen know it to be in-
evitable? What was, or is, the secret of his ignorance?
for that there is a secret is held by many who are not
particularly enamoured of the pastime called a wild-
goose chase, or the exploration of mares' nests. It was
stated at the time, in this column, very circumstantially,
and is now repeated by Malmesbury, that Hotham repu-
diated the Australian appointment, as being unfit for it,
and asked for a naval command, for which he was fit, and
for which the approach of war made him doubly anxious.
But it was not stated then, though it may be stated now,
that he himself, just before he left this country, told an
intimate friend there would be no war, because he had
been assured by the First Minister, that, for certain rea-
sons, war was impossible. What were those reasons? That
is the point; but it is a point we may never get beyond. It
is notorious that Lord Raglan continued to be of the same
opinion, or rather conviction, up to the very day the expe-
dition sailed from Varna; and that his authority was Aber-
deen. But who or what was Aberdeen's authority? That
he was juggled and deluded by other influences than his own
monomaniacal devotion to peace is unquestionable ; and
hence the explanation of his refusal to make preparations
so essential in all others' eyes. Palmerston, too, WAS hood-
winked, or rather pretended to be no ; and hence the other-
wise wholly unaccountable neglect of the militia, to which
the gentleman who spoke of " credulity and connivance"
has frequently made allusion, with a significance showing
that there are other than Asian mysteries within his necro-
mantic cognisance. Some people have got hold of a tale,
and 'a not improbableone it perhaps is, and that wonderful
Count Padden, whose apparition at Lord Granville's and
elsewhere so astonished our natives this time three years,
was the secret agent of Nicholas for the purpose of confi-
dentially communicating to his old crony, to whom he had
years before imparted all about the sick man, that, what-
ever he might say or affect, he would do nothing. Relying
on that, it is now assumed, that the Earl acted as he did,
or rather didn't act at all till it was "too late" with him,
as it was with his other august friend, him of the Tuileries,
whom tardiness; converted from King of France into Mr.
William Smith, of f2risehton, v ithin eight-and-forty hours.
The only notability of the Coalition who didn't fall' into
this trap, though lie tumbled into another of his own making
much worse afterwards, was Lord John, who cried aloud for
battle even when his chief murmured peace. Whether he
knew then what he was crying aloud for is now questionables
but what he may or may not cry for henceforth is a matter of
the smallest concern to any body. Last night seems really
to have put an end to Finality. The headlong obtrusion and
p••ecipitate withdrawal of his ill-omened, pragmatical, and
omni-obnoxious education crotchet, exhibit a self-stultifying
abortiveness and decrepitude that seem to consummate the
annihilation of all that was left of his reputation, not only as
a statesman, but as a Parliamentary tactician. Amid the ill-
suppressed consternation and mortification of his friends, and
the jubilant tittering of his enemies, the fallen leader of
Whigeery would insist on dividing upon a point that served
merely to exhibit his feebleness ; and came out of the lobl-y
in a minority of nearly one hundred. Palmerston, who doesn't
believe in original sin, but yet deems some sort of instruction ne-
cessary to keep Englishmen from being heathens, voted, with a
sort of charitable condescension for his quondam superior, who
had for his fellow-teller—oh! tell it not in the Reform! —Sir John
Pakinyton, "To what base uses may we come at length,
Horatio !" Terrible and complete, indeed, is the retribution
Disraeli has extorted for the memorable malignity about " the
right hon, gentleman ransacking his Thucydides far parallels,
and gloating in anticipation over the disasters of his country-
men" at Sebastopol. Surely Nemesis is a pure sephardim, of
true Caucasian breed, and is embodied in the person of the
member for Bucks, who has now triumphed over three Prime
Ministers, and is evidently preparing for a victory over the
fonrth ; for it is clear the tAtering Bottle Holder cannot hold
the ring much longer. Equally clear is it that those judicious
gentlemen, the Peelites, are discerning that truth with their
usual penetrating prescience of what there is no longer ally
doubt about. Hence the all-demure and decorous Gladstone
shrewishly snubbed both Russell and Palmerston last night;
and, with his henchmen, Cardwell and Herbert, helped the
Knight of Netherby to, elongate the tail of him whom they all
accused of having hunted their chief to death. Still, the Pony
Peel should not be spoken of disparagingly just now, seeing
that he has lately said a smart thing, all his own, and not in
,-1...&."-kod from Sir Robert, who inched never did
say anything of the scrt. Wino. .s._
time ago the blunt and bluff Lord Hardwieke, whose portrait
would do for the sign of the Deptford Jolly Sailor, and who
often acts the part of that popular personage to the life, ~ oing
into the Carlton, spied the metaphysical member for the Uni-
versity poring over that lively matin print of his party,
wherein it was diurnally demonstrated to a dozen readers, or
thereabouts, that Engla-d was going headlong, to perdition ,and,
positively for the last time of announcement, would be demo-
lished some particular day of some particular month, unless
the right hon. gentleman and half-a-dozen others of his im-
mediate connexion contracted with Providence for the pre-
vention of the catastrophe. The Earl, in half jest and whole
earnest, having ejaculated a good deal of nautical lingo about
sailing under false colours, piratical craft, Flying Dutchmen,
and other marine gibberish, implying that W. E G.'s absence
would be considerably more welcome than his company in so
thoroughly Toryfied a latitude, wound up by asking, point
blank, "Now, Gladdy, my boy, when do you mean to leave
off being rated in our books ?" The question, of course, ad-
mitted of being divided into three heads, and each head an-
swered under tlree different aspects. Every question put tb
a Peelite does ; he wouldn't be a Peelite if he didn't. How
ever, for a wonder, he disposed of it under one head, and at
once, saying, with the unctuousness of a benevolent cobra :
" Lord Hardwicke, I shalltake my name off the books of the
Carlton,when my Lord Derby removes his from Brooks's."
The noble earl recoiled as though he had caught hold of a re-
es ie
to
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markably lively torpedo, and presentlymade himself as scarce
es n
thet.
coolnesswhereof
he pranced a revolutionary war dance in '32, in the manner
of Anarchus Clootz, whooping a a la lanterns with all coro-
netted conspirators who should deny to the sovereign people
the bill, the whole bill, or the smallest bit of •
the bill ?
Well, it is rather odd certainly;
is co siderable. And what do
you think it is? Why, at
Brookes's lie can see The Abion, and it is the only Liverpool
paper he can see there, being the only
that most exclusive of all liberal
circles—a
one admitted within
es—a fact as flattering
to your individual vanity as it must be humiliating to your
Dicky Samical local antour
propre as an inhabitant of the
Tyre of the North, Carthage of the Mersey, Second City of
the Empire, greater port than London, and all the rest of the
ninnyisms beloved by your Little Peddlington press. If this be
not the secret of the allurement of the lord of Knowsley in
that direction, it is hard to say hat is. But, whether it is or
not, the fact is as aforesaid it
;
is a fact that beats cock-
fighting, as another game lord of the same race, one who
never showed the white feather to principle for interest,
would say. But how about thet young lord—him of King's
Lynn ? Much troubled is Rupert reported to be touching the
wayward ,ess of the filial trooper, More and more does the
juvenile become enmeshed in ger* wiles of that weird head
that carried the brains of the father's cabinet, and more and
more wrathful, in consequence, grows the sire, who can't
abide that a scion of the house of Stanley should in any way be
warpsd by the British head of Israel,
Little terror, however,
do the threats of Tamboff carry to the
breast of Benjamin,
who, through some mystic process or other, is rising day by
day, till his presence literally overshadows
else in the houows that of orerybody
v . During no
session
of
the last 10 has ha
done so little, and yet during no three sessions has he advanced
so much. You cannot tell why; imbed
He is, if possihle,
more taciturn, more abstracted, more isolated,nea
inerly he used to say nothing to
anybody; now
than ever. For
he looks at
nobody. Once upon a time, it washis custom of au afternoon to
fix his eyes intently on the tips of his boottoes, fort hree hours
at a stretch ; now he gazes point blaok at vacancy
; and to
all appearance of that phantasrnaeorial visage of his he has
no more concern with, or cousciousness of, what '
is going on
him in Westminster than what
aroundis going on in Jerusa-
lem—Probably deal
a good less, How, when were, or with
whom he contrives to arrange the order of business
mode of doing it, is as inscrutable to the general public,ess and thel
apparently to every one. of his party, as what hen
int am
l s to
do with " Tancred," whom ho left in a state of chloroformede
obfuscation at the end of the ninth volume of his T•!lmudical
reverie, nine years ago. He seemingly takes no
what-
ever to conceal his contempt for the noodles and bigots pains
wilom
to make use of ; and in the •
ho condescends Abjuration Oath
'debate, the other night, treated the Manners, Leeces,
Louvaines, and other young sprigs of the " old nobilitlien'
just
as the Duke used to deal with the Londonderr s,IN in chilseas,
Rodeos, and tine in
e rest, when they stood Y his way—kick
them out of it. Moreover, he does not speak often, and when
he does, he does not speak well, that is, well for him, y
just said, he never stood so high in the house ; and he
is ad-
vancing as
vanaisig at inch a rate, that it is almost questionable if he
will vouchsafe to go" when he shall be ,t sfor,"
en unless
it be very speedily.
And if it really should come to that—if Coningsby should
pooh-pooh the Premiership, and leave poor Protestant •
land without a Judaic director in the midst of its headless'g-
benightedness, what a finale for the Sidoniau biography!
Well, who knows ? His history hitherto has been asmuell
of
a psychological romance as his own " Contarini Fleming •"
and why not so to the close ? Besides, see the turn things
are are taking. Notwithstanding the abjuration debate aflonie
seid, here's no less a person than that prince of nrac.ic'al
philosophers, shrewd, hard-headed, mathematical-minded old
Col. Thompson (for Colonel he will be called, though they
should make him Generalissimo), out in print to-day with
proofs that there are lawful heirs to the legitimate right-divine
of this country ; at least that there are people
kings
lieve in such heirs ; and he pertinently asks those who laugh
at the notion of a British Pretender to remember how they
laughed also at Boulogne, and all the rest of it; and how
they think of Cayenne, as they ruminate on Ham,
or a
" Strasburg" pate, of a morning now. Supposing that the
notion of another dynasty should get abroad, and that our
candidfriend, Austria, should cultivate it with her Concordat
machinery, Russia having, as is well known, a poisoned pole-
mical chalice ready to present to us and France, du reference
to a Greek Church " cross" with Rome (whereof more here-
after) ; supposing this to take place, as some of it will, let
us remember that there is a privy councillor, who is.a citizen
of the world, as little troubled with scruples as was his poli-
tical idol, Bolingbroke, under simi ar circeim-tances ; and,
like him, infinitely the ablest man in the State, with ten times
his opportunities. Captivating contemplation for maiden an-
nuitants thinkieg of Weir dividends in. 1860.-But, raem—what'

a capital hint for the Liverpool Financial Reformers. Let
Mr. Robertson Gladstone, instead of appealing to Prince Al-
but and his wife to provide for their daughter, Miss Victoria
Adelaide Maria Louisa: Guelph, as any other Mr. end Mrs.
Brown, Jones, or Robinson would do, just hint at the idea of
there being a Master Charles Stuart, or a Miss Mary Ditto,
iu the wind. Why, that: ame 70,000/. a-year for the Prince
of Prussia, which has so disgusted your worthy presidential
financier, will be changed in a twinkling into shillings, and
thence into farthiugs, anslafter that into'nothing at all, which
it is to be hoped will satisfy
-your local analytical arithme-
ticians, if any can, though it is tolerably clear that nothing
will; and, indeed, if it did there would be no use in them.
Thompson tells us that there is something liken conspiracy to
suppress the evidence oßhe elsistence of this pretender, Cr
phantom of one ; anl hefactints to the fact that whereas an-
article appeared in the QUarterl!) some years ago, explaining
all about it, there is no rertirence in the index since published
to that explanation—a clear proof to the Colonel that the..
cue to Croker's bugaboo has been barked by the publisher.
Croker, by the way, may,,perhaps, clear off old accounts ou
that as well as other scor4s next week, in forthcoming Quar-
terly, wherein he is to scarify the satirist of Disraeliand him-
self [think of a "slashing article" by Rigby against the libeller
of his own lampooner I] Mr. Humdrum Hayward, who has
been making such a noise in the papers of late, about Monta-
lembert and the future of England.
Future of England; quotha! Past of England, of Eng-
land passe, as the antidiluviau es-Secretary of the Admi-
ralty would say if he heard from the lips of the First Lord,
tonight, the t.remendous tidings tha the Dreadnought is to
be done away with. What the Dreadnought moored of
Greenwich, that delightfully dilapidated old three-decker,
the pride and glory of Blackwell whitebait eaters, the only
.floating thing the Thames has in the shape of maritime
respectability, or that give -us inland cockneys a sniff of the
saltwater to look at—this to be done away with? Impossible !
Fact, nevertheless ; for though Wood isn't much of a con-
juror, it is presumed he knowsyshat he is talking about when
he says that; and that's whatjte has Said to-night at the
London Taverss. But don'ts' alarmed. "Dreadnought"
is the word still. Although she is to disappear, she is to be
replaced by the Camperdown, •of 600 tons greater burden ;
so we shall have a line-of-battle ship half as big again to look
at, and thereby be proportionably as much more superior as
we are now in our acquaintance with such leviathans to ye den i-
zeus of the. merely mercantile Mersey, saying nothing of our
poSsession of that unique monster of the deep, Scott Russell's
stupendous stupidity. Such it is, though nobody here has
openly ventured to say so, but plenty will say it now that it
has been said in Liverpool. There's failure on the face of it,
monetary and marine failure of every sort ; but the great.
failure of all is the failure in having foreseetkthat it must be
a failure. Much of the capital suck in her construction will
be clogged with 30 per cent interest before she can be floated,
if floated she over be. When floated she can never bo
docked, never be cleaned, in any part of the world except
the Isle of Dogs, Loudon ; but to the dogs of a far distant
part of the world she must go if anything happen her machi-
nery, as it assay readily be understood when it is known 'hat
the 3d-toe block of metal forming the centre of her shaft has
taken perpetual relays of men six mhiths to hammer away
at, night and day, with the forge nearly at white heat all the
while—a,nice look-out in the case of a fracture or a flaw off
Borneo, or some equally convenient corner of the globe.
The whole thing has long been the laughing-stock of many
judges, and the crying stock of more, not since the builder's
blow up, but for several months previously, ever since the
design of the thing really became tangible ; and the uniform
remarks of those who knew anything of the behind-scene
business was, " What could you expect from Brunel but a
bore ?" a pleasantry that invariably gives the hipps to
Hawes, and other fortunate proprietors of that lively pro-
perty, the Thames Tunnel, which will probably be in a condi-
tion to make the tollman a Christmas-box of uinepence half-
penny on the 26th of December. A 0. 1991
What has all this to do with Wood ? Why, not much to be
sure, only, as he himself would say, it came in quite promis-
cuous, and it wouldn't do to eschew it, though seemingly
cutting him. Sir Charles is a', all times the most grotesque-
looking personage in her Majesty's service, or her Majesty's
Opposition, as the case may be ; and that is not saying a
little, considering the collecti ,n of inlescribable two-legged
curiosities who face each other across the pair of Parliamen-
tary t doles in the two houses. Of much the same' attenuated,
wiry, dislosated anatomy; as restless in his attitude's as
spasmodic, electric, galvanic, and voltaic in his gestures as
Brougham himself, his visage is equally mobile as that of old
Harry ; but, unlike the busy B.'s, it has one, and only one ex-
pression, namely, overpowering astonishment that he, Wood,
should be Secrets, y of the Treasury, Chancellor of
the Exchequer, President of the India Board, First Lord
of the Admiralty, or what not. as the case nosy be.
Now certainly, • under the circumstances, that is a most
natural expression; and it does great'credit to Sir Charles'
accurate appreciation of himself and the times. he lives in.
It is a sentiment which the public fully reciprocate, only
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they can't be always indulging in and dwelling upon it, as
he, much to the repute of his modesty and industry, seems to
be everlastingly doing. Well, if that be the expre-sion of
Wood's face at ordinary times, what must it be, what must it
not be, ou such au extraordinary occasion as to-night ? Let
any man iv o has ever seen Wood making a speech in his
ordinary attire, feiskiag and skippin about, bending forward
within half a feet of his feet, one moment, and throwing his
head b Lek within half a yard of his heels, the next I—now
haw-hawing like a tu•keY-cock, and then neighing like a filly
at his own jokes, only a filly doesn't joke, though what else
should make a herse laugh it is hard to say :—let any one who
only knows Wo ,d in this his usual aspect fancy the effect of
a white cravat, of cast iron stiffness, and a corresponding
shirt-collar right up to the ears ; and then making, not one,
but 16 speeches, at the head of .m public dinner table. All,
that was a spectacle to be forgotteh_ouly with life by the
lucky beholder. To-day, at the Savierp sale, a beautiful.
woman sold for 16/.. Don't beesMooked—iiew., patntivet,'
female, and net at all a Jezebel, though your respect' for the
tasty rhetoric of Canon. M'Neile will put that modest
metaphor in your head, as a matter of course. The painting
was by Hoga.rth ; but if, instead of a beautiful woman, it had
been Wood, in the figure he cut to-night,
such a production
by such au artist would have brought 1,0001., and been cheap
at the money. However, as some learned author has some-
where profoundly remarked, appearances are often deceitful ;
and, as another equally erudite philosopher has also sagaciously
observed, we should not always judge by appearances. Despite
his funereal comicality, or comical funereality, if there be such
a phrase. Sir Charles really made a very good sort of chair-
man. He gallopped through the toasts as he used to do
through the estimates in his higgledy-piggledy budgets, and
before you wdl knew what it was he was going to propose,
he was calling upon
you to drink it with three the rs, and
was hip-hip-hurrahing himself at such a rate that nearly took
the breath out of Toastmaster Higgs with amazement.
.
If he didn't get on in this fashion he would never have got
through to-night's business at all ; for, with the exception of
that antique blazer and Salamairline devourer of combustibles
Admiral Bowles, all the duty of spouting devolved upon him,
there being no great guns present to go off, as there had been
a late Cabinet meeting in the afternoon ; and, besides, Satur-
day is always a bad night, those in town contrive to get out
of it, or at least to keep out of the Corn-hill end of it. Like
a genuine Whig' as he is, brother-in-law of two Greys, uncle
of three Russells, and cousin to nineteen Elliots, he took the
highly constitutional and very Hampdeu-in-the-field-and-
Sydney-on-the-s.:affold privilege of doctoring the toast list,
that is, striking out certain toasts. Among them was, " The
Foreign Sovereigns Contiibating to this Charity." Now, to
have given this, would have necessitated a flourish in praise
of him whom Sir Charles. at Halifax, with more truth than
courtesy, had called Caligula, or some complimentary classic
something or other of the kind, at the time when, as Victor
Hugo says, as he alone can say—" Schinderannes became
Caesar the thrice-sworn defender of the Republic, filched
the purple, with felon-hand, incarnadined in the blood of
murdered citizens. Still, although his Imperial Majesty sent
700 f., We al contrived to have a sly hit or two at him, de-
claring with highly italicised emphasis that we could carry on
the war for ever, with annually increasing eclat ; that our fleet
is, beyond all comparison, the greatest the world ever saw, as
the world migliti soon see by going to Spithead ono of these
fine days ; that our army are wallowing in luxuries,, equally
full of food and fight, knowing no fear but the fear tt,they
should have no op- ortunity of threshing somebody or other,
and not very particular who it might be; and that if it
weren't for consideration towards others—(hem!)—we should
-have'gone on till we had grilled the last tallow-candle eater,
or frog-eater either, for the matter of that, on the North
Pole or equinoctial line, we shouldn't much mind which ;
both if our friendly enemy, or inimical friend, preferred it.
Therefore, shouted Wood, (and no non-sequitur was it either,)
I give you " The wooden walls of Old England !" Rule
Britannia, of course, was bellowed by the band, (Coldstreams
_magnificent,) all the company joining chorus, Sir Charles
pitching the key—very strong—and a stimulating rattle of
subscriptions, to the tune of nearly 9031., rolling rejoicingly
in, including ten guineas from M'Gregor Label, the only do•
nation with a Liverpool name to the tail of it. There is only
room to note one professional feature of the entertainment,
namely, the number of sentimental ditties,all briny of course,
warbled through the night ; " Lovely Nan," " Peg of Wap-
ping," "My Kate and bark," and a multitude of maliue
' melodies, too tedious to mention, your Correspondent leaving
Mr. George—a gentleman with a sort of alto bassoon voice—
' shrieking " Sally in our alley" like a delirious mermaid with

the teoth-acl,e
P. S. Now that you have read all this circumstantial de-
scription of the affitir, perhaps it is as well to tell you the name
of it, namely—the Seaman's Hospital Anniversary.

Naval and Military intelligence.

The Commander in Chief of the fleet at. Portsmouth
and Rear-Admiral Sir M. F. Berkeley held a levee yes-
terday at the, Admiralty-house, which was attended by
all the captains •of the fleet, with the object of finally
arranging the movements to be executed at the review by
the Queen. The fleet was joined yesterday ley the Am-
peine, 34, Captain H. CSa.ls ; the Pyledes, 21, Captain
D'Eyneourt ; and the Harier, 17, Commander Derriman,
from the Baltic; and the Archer, 14, Capt. i-leathcote,
from Portsmouth harbour. The Victor, 6, despatch gun-
vessel, Commander De Horsey, was taken ant, of dock'
yesterday, The Rodney, 90, •‘ pivot ship," Capt.
son, bent sails yesterday morning, preparatory to going
out to-day or to-morrow to Spithead. The Vulcan, 6,
steam troop-ship, 'Commander Bowyear, had her com-
presses adjusted yesterday, preparatory to, going to Spit-
head. The weather yesterday was exceedingly fine, and
the fleet looked grand in the extreme. All who desire to
view its unbroken and deeply-striking proportiousshould
see it as it now is, and steam through it.
The General Screw Company's steam transport Cal-
cutta sailed for the Crimea yesterday morning with the
Governmeet passengers previously enumerated in The
Sun. The Golden Fleece and the Jason will sail this
morning for the ewe destination. These three vessels
will be employed in .the conveyance of horses and
troops from the Black Sea to England. Toe prepara-
tions for the grand naval review at Spithead on the 23d
instant • are causing cousiderable activity at South-
ampton. Nearly the whole of the accommodation
at the principal hotels is disposed of, and the difficulty
to procure sleeping apartments is already apparent.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company are preparing the
whole of their available ships for the purpose of convey-
ing the dire,ctors and shareholders and their friends to
witness the display. These vessels will inc ude the screw
steamers Alma, Sultan, Manilla, and Alhambra, and the
- she' 1 ship s Euxine and Ripon. The Pasha of
Egypt's small steam-ya Mustip'ia Bey, now lying at
Southampton, will also leave fur Spithead. The Royal
Mail Company are getting ready the Atrato and Tay to
convey their directors an i shareholders, and her Ma-
jesty's mew steam-transport Himalaya is, under the
superintendence of Capt. Engledue, Superintendent of
the Peninsular and Oriental Csmpeuy, being provided
with sleeping accommodation for 600 persons. This fine
vessel will also be present dureig the review. Berths
are also made up on hoard many of the ships in the
docks for the use of the members of the mail com-
panies. Several announcements of the departure for
Spithead of chartered steam-ships, at one guinea per
head, are posted throughout the town. It is expected
that between 20 and 30 steamers will leave Southamp-
ton on the day of the grand spectacle, carrying an im-
mense number of spectators. Tee directors of the
Southampton Dock Company have agreed that on this
eccasion no tonnage dues or other charges shall be made
on steamers coming in to embark or to laud passengers.
The passengers also will be embarked and landed free of
charge. Tue company, however, require notice from all
steam-ships not belonging to the port, in order that
proper berths may be assigned to them.
The Iwperatriz steam transport, Capt. Cox, arrived at
Portsmouth yesterday from the eastward, with Russian
(late) prisoners, as specified in The Sue of yesterday. She
has embarked others at Portsmouth, and will take in
more from Lewes and convey them to a port in the Baltic.
Toe Lancashire Witch clipper, 1,300 tons, Capt. A. S
Molison, belonging to Meeers. Dunbar and Co., sailed
from Portsmon h yesterday for Hobart Town and Wel-

lingten, New Zealand, with the following officers and
men for the above poses Vlaj pr Blosse, 11th Regi-
tneut, in military cAnmand ; Dr. Bit ken, of the 74%,
in medical charge ; 3 officers, 74 non-commissioned offi-
cers and privates, 2 women, 5 children, and 6 bugler,
and drummers of the 11th Regiment, 1 officer, 85 non
commi,,sioned officers and men, 2 women, and 6 childret:
of the 12th Regiment ; and 1 officer, 251 men, 30 wo-
men, and 29 children of the 65th Regiment.
The gun-boats Spey and Tilbury, which sailed from
Wool etch on Wednesday evening forPortamouth, put
in from stress of weather, and anchnrel during the night
at Greenhithe, but left again yesterday. Two mortar
ft ,ats, Nos. 112 and 113, were yeterday received at
Woolwich from Messrs. Scott Russell's. They are to go
int basin to be rigged and fitted out. A new screw
steam gun-boat, the Peacock, 2, with engines of 60-horse
power, has been launched at Messrs. Pitcher's of North-
fleet, and forwarded to Woolwich, where she is to be
docked and fitted for service.

A telegraphic message was yesterday morning for-
warded to ll,ptford and Woolwich dockyards from the
Lords of the Admiralty, giving instructions for the im-
mediate suspension of any turther despatch of gun-boats
and vessels thence to Portsmouth, the number intended
for the ilaval review being complete.

Orders have been received at Woolwich arsenal to
prepare ammunition for the use of seven regiments of
the line abour, to proceed to Canada. These regiments,
it is said, are to be transported from the East to Ca-
nada, in the-Duke*, Wellineton. andotber Jarge ves-
sels of war, immediately after the grand naval review
at ,Vortsmouth.

Toe order for contintrieg the large establishment em-
ploy ed ak Woolwich arsenal has boon ..aatermanded,
and fresh instructions have been delivered by the war
authorities, by which it is decided that a reduction in
the number of labourers working in the various depart-
ments inu,t be attempted. On or about the Ist of May
nexi, 50 collar makers are to be discharged from the
storekeeper's department ; 200 of different trades are to
be pensioned and discharged from the carriage factory ;
and 200 men and boys are to be discharged from the
laboratory.
A. circular has been forwarded from the Horse Guards
to the'officers commanding depots at Chatham garrison,
directing that the settlement of accounts of bread, meat,
and forage for the army be transferred from the Com-
missariat to the War Department, and ordering that in
future the forms directed to be kept are to be'sent to
the examiner at the War Department, and the dupli-
cates to the office of the Accountant• General.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, TIIURSDAX MORNING.
THE TIPPERARY BANS.

Yesterday a document full of paint ul interest to a large
circle of persons connected with the unfortunate Tippe-
rary Bank, was lodged by the official assignee in the
office of Master Murphy. It not only sets forth the
names and addresses of the directors and shareholders at
the period of the stoppage, but it gives those contribu•
tors who sold their shares within three years, and are,
according to the hard conditions of the Banking Act,
still liable for the debts due by the concern. Several
names stand in this black list' f persons of wealth, who
Must have conceived they were beyond the reach of the
assignee. nis list will be finally settled in a few days.
Those who may have any objections to make to it should
to=e no time in doing so,
Directors.—. Tames Sadleir, M.P. Clonmel, 1838 shares
of 51. each ; Wm. Kennedy, Clonmel, 100 shares ; Vincent
Scully, M.P., 70J shares.
Shareholders.—Simon Armstrong, Tipperary, 71 shares;
Captain W. F. Baker, Middlesex, 20; John Bernard,
Essex, farmer, 1-I ; Michael Bariy, Limerick, farmer, 1T ;
John Bennett, Esq., Nenae,h, 20; Edward Biggs, farmer,
Leighton Buzzard, 30; Henry Bird, M.D., Essex, 50;
W. J. Bodger, gent., Leighton Buzzard, 25 • William
Boyels, draper, Buckinghaanshiro, 5U ; Charles Buck-
master, miller, Bedfordshire, 30 ; G. A. Burrell, merchant,
Essex, 60 ; T. H. Candy, Esq., Cambridgeshire, 77; Wt C.
Childs, gent., Essex, e ; John Cleary, gent., Goldon, 1 ;
Patrick and William Cleary, farmers, Golden, 101; Wm.
Condon, farmer, Tipperary, 9 ; J. Cook, farmer, Bed rd-
shire' 30; S. Cook, Bedfordsiiire, 15; R. Daily, Esq., n-
lio
don, 10; Rev. E. Docker, Hants, 40; J. H. Doyle, eut.,
London, 41 ; Major-General H. Dwyer, Ballyquirk*Castle,
4 ; J. Elliott, gent., Hertfordshire, 20 ; J. Hessemen,
merchant, Hertfordshire, 5 ; Mrs. T. Flint, Leighton Buz-
zard, 3; C. Gadsden, Buckinghamshire, 5 ; Mrs. Gadsden,
Buckinghamshire, 10 ; R. Gardner, gent., Torquay, 50; J.
Ginger, farmer, Ha npstead, 40; T. Ginger, farmer, Buck-
inghamshire, 2U; G. Girliug, surgeon, Huntingdonshire,
10; C. Good, gent., Pimlico, 10; H. Gregory, farmer,
Hertfordshire, 10; It. Gregory, fanner, Hertfordshire, 23;
G. Grace, farmer, Buckinghamshire, 20 • C Halliday,
Dromore, 401 ; J. Hanimersley, farmer, Tipperary, 9; J.
Harkness, Hertfordshire, gent., 40; H. Hovland, gent.,
Hants, 20; G. Horn, Bedfordshire, 10; J. Horn, Elect-
fordshiie, gent., 5 ;.L. Keatinge, Cashel; Esq., 10; R.
Keatiuge, M.P., Cashel, 700; J. B. Kennedy, Dublin, so-
licitor, 0 ; T. J. Kennedy,deceased, Dublin, '2l; H. Lacy,
England, banker, 3; Rev. S Langston, Tunbridge Wells,
England, 80 • J. F. Law, banker, Loadon, 50; T. Seinen,
farmer, Bedfordshire, 20 ; J. Liuton, Uxbridge, gent., 10;
C. A. Swermore, Essex, 8; Rev. T.Ludlow, Buckingham-
shire, 10 ; B. M'Key, Carrick-on-Suir, merchant, 53; Rev.
T. Mahoney, P.P., Paliasgreen (deceased), 3; Mr. E. Major,
Essex, gent., 10 ;S. Munford, farmer, Essex, 10; C. Mur-
name, Tipperary, 9 ; J. Osborne, merchant, Leighton
Buzzard, 100; S. Parnell, Surrey, gent., 80; W. Patmore,
Essex, 2 ; W. D. Pallison, King's County, gent., 4; J.
Pepper, Lismore House, gent., 20; J. G. Pierson, solicitor,
Hertfordshire, 5 ; T. Price, Buckinghamshire, gout., 10;
J. Proctor, England, farmer, 50; T. Proctor, England,
gent., 40; E. Quillinan, Tipperary, 8 ; D. Rafferty, Tip-
perary farmer, 45 ; E. T. Reader, Kent, banker, 40.; W.
Redwell, baker, London, 10 ; J. Ryan, J. P. ruff, 35 ;
P. Ryan, Tipperary, farmer, 4; J. Sadleir, London, de-
ceased, 150 ; R. Sampson, Tipperary, farmer, 18 ; Sir M.
Sausse, judge, Bombay, 88; F. Scully, M.P., London, 175 ;
J. Scully, Golden, 117; John Scully, Galway, 58; J.
Scully, Tipperary, merchant, 8 ; Robt. Sear, Buckingham-
C. Smith, Bedfordshire, gent., 10; H. Smith, Be e_
.1 ,
Bedford-
shire, farmer, 20; W. Stormer, Bedfordshire, trader, l
Mr. ,Strange, Bedfordshire, farmer, 8; Sophia A. Smith,
shire, farmer, 10 ; 0. Swannell, Hertfordshire, gentd.f, Buckingham-
nEt.,ss2eox;,
C. Tunes, Hertfordshire, solicitor, 20; .
merchant, 50; R. Turner, Buckinghamshire, merchant,
5 S. Waldron, Berkshire, Esq., 20; J. White, England,
Bedfordsh re, 5 ; S. Tavenerluckiugbaincs.ll
farmer,* 10 ; Elizabeth Willes, Essex, 32; S. A. Wilson,
Tyler,irege
Essex, gent., 12; Susan Wood, Roxburgh, 9; Thomas
Willigon, Buckinghamshire, farmer, 1.9.
Contributors who sold their shares within till ea years
past—F. Goodyear, merchant, London, 10, tran..ferred 31st
Dec., 1853, to R. Daily; P.
Connell, Tipperar
18, transferred 27th Dec., 1855, to Jas. Sadleir; E Ri I.
,13, transferred 25th lBse
y, farmer,
forty, Tipperary, ml) Dec., -• f
to Jas. Sadleir ;W. Taorpe, • ~Manchester, 10, trans-
ferred sth Nov., 1853, to David Rafferty • Rev. J. B.
Whitley, Roscarbery. and C. J. Whitley, Cork,
21th Oct., 1855, to David Rafferty-; T. Edward Cork, 35, trans. Dublin, Gent. 44, transferred from T. Hone to T. Ed-
aP war t ••t I 1
and 6th July, leee, to J. H. Doyle;
a. Waugh, D:B9,
olmore, Esq , 401, transferred 21st of April,
1855 to Charlotte Halliday ; Ellen Beery, Cork, 17, trans-
ferred 17th Jan., 1855 ; to Michael Barry ; C...Sadleir,
Esq., Carriek•on-Suiri-70, transferred 30111 Dec:;lBs4, to