The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY E V ENIMG, MAY 24, 1858.

HER. MAJESTY'S THEATRE. thoughts were concentrated on the best mode of
DON GIOVANNI. evading the difficulty. The despatches from India
TO-MORROW EVENING, TUESDAY, May 25, will be
repeated Mozart's chef d'oeuvre. were a perfect God-send. Sir JAMES OrTRAM Was
DON GIOVANNI. reit3 ex nz-zch;:z(*, who extricated them from
Donna Anna, Madlle. Titiens ; D. ? .ua
Ortolani ; Zerlina, Madlle. Piccolomint ; DJ!' Giovanni, Sig- he painful d&iniaia.. Like) the be,ei-eater ;,1 the
aor Beneventano (his first appeara-,ee this season ; Leporello,
Signor Belletti ; Masetto, Signor Aldighieri ; Commends-
tore,"Critic Signor vialetti ; and Don Ottavio, Signor Giuglini. their swords and daggers." The catastrophe was
Conductor, Signor Bonotti.
And the Ballet Divertissement, CALISTO; ou, Le Renvoi doubtless very humiliating, but it was better than
de I'Amour, by Mesdames Pocchini and Annetta. a decisive defeat, or being compelled to vote
Madlle. Marie Taglioni has arrived, and will appear on
Saturday next, May 29, in a new Ballet, composed expressly against their conscience. And they compelled
for her by M. Massot, entitled LA REINE DES SONGES. their would-be leaders to withdraw the vaunted
The Opera will commence at 8 o'clock.
A limited number of Boxes have been secured to the public. resolution that was to reinstate Lord PALMERSTON
Price 21s and 315 6d each, which may be had at the Box
Wilco, at the Theatre. in power, together with the newly-formed coalition.
The well-considered arrangements, the carefully
weighed compromises all tumbled to the ground
at one fell swoop. The Chancellor of the Exche-
quer gave a dignified assent to the ignominious
withdrawal of the resolution, and he was right,
for the most adverse division could scarcely have
damaged the conspirators so greatly as the lame
and impotent conclusion of their scheme. The
people felt this, and the Commons, too, for on
leaving the House the Right Hon. Gentleman,
Mr. DISRAELI, was loudly and very heartily
cheered !
That the actors in the political farce are pro-
' foundly abashed is manifest from the miserable
attempts which they are making to excuse, or
rather to extenuate the grave mistake into which
they were betrayed. Lord SHAFTESBURY, who
hesitated not to make an appeal to the Deity that
he was not actuated by party feeling in proposing
the Resolution in the Lords, has vainly attempted
to whitewash himself by declaring that
he had not attended a political meeting at
Cambridge House on the Sabbath. He has not,
however, ventured to assert that he was not on
that day visiting at that mansion while the pro-
ject was under discussion, and that he was not the
first to act in carrying out the cunningly-planned
scheme. He has solaced his conscience with this
specious excuse ; but the religious party, by
whom he desires to be regarded as a " shining
light," will require something more before they
can be satisfied, or their quondam idol be rein-
stated in the shrine he once occupied. He heard
Lord DERBY'S splendid address. He heard the
imputations so freely cast upon his own conduct
in becoming the champion of that factious plot,
concocted on " The LORD'S Day," and he did not
then, nor after many days of chewing his rueful
cud, attempt to make any denial—that might have
elicited a very inconvenient explanation.
The Times, too, has also discovered its mis-
take, and is compelled to make very damaging
admissions. It feels that it has been led into a
very awkward scrape by the " Cerberus Club,"
and is therefore desirous of getting out of its im-
prudent escapade with the least possible damage.
It confesses with au affectation of candour that,
as a party move, the motion was not successful ;
adding—" the army would not fight, and the gene-
rals had nothing to do but to draw off with as little
loss as possible," supplementing it with this very
remarkable paragraph. " One thing is, however,
clear, and that is, that in the present House, indi-
vidual influence goes for very little. It was
assumed that if Lord JOHN RUSSELL and
Lord PALMERSTON could only be brought
to unit; the destruction of the DERBY
Government was certain. Well, the dreaderi
conjunction has taken place, and the DERBY Go-
vernment is, at least, as strong as before." This
confession, wrung from it by the irresistible facts,
must have been very painful, but it was indispen-
sable. We do not despair of seeing the Times
again performing another act of tergiversation, and
following in the current of public opinion, by
giving strenuous support to the Administration 1
It has also discovered that the discus-
sion, albeit it cost a week of very valuable
time, was not without its utility. We
cordially concur in that opinion. It has
destroyed many prejudices, has placed public men
in a very striking point of view, and has given
the present Government a prolonged tenure of
office. That was certainly worth the time spent.
[t has removed many a delusion, and shown
that henceforward the nation will look to
measures, not men, and will seek to promote the
interests of the community rather than of a family
clique, or of—politically speaking—an unprin-
cipled coalition.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—
Titiens, Alboni, Giuglini.
Piccolomini, Ortolan', BelletLi, Beneveutano,
The following arrangements have been m ide :
TO-MORROW, Tuesday, May 25 DON GIO VANN', and
the new Divertissement, CALISTO, by Madlle. Pocchini.
Thursday, May 27— IL TROVATORE and Ballet.
Friday, May 28—Grand Morning Concert, in which all the
Artistes of the establishment will appear.
Saturday, May 29—Mozart's NOZZE DI FIGARO (first
time this season), and a new Ballet, for the first appearance
of Mndlle. Marie Taglioni.
Monday, June 7—Grand Morning Performance.
In answer to numerous communications, it is announced
%,t, for the convenience of tho gentry residing in the envi•
rune, a Grand Morning Performance will be given on Monday,
June 7, in which all tho artistes of the establishment will
Perform, including all the artistes of the ballet.
Applications to be made at the Box-office at the Theatre,

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.
NEW THEATRE.
First appearance of Madame BOSIO.
First appearance of Signor GRAZIANI.
First appearance of Signor GARDONL
First Night of LA TRAVIATA.

TO-MORROW, Tuesday, May 25, will be performed (for
the first time this season) Verdi's opera,
LA TRAVIATA.

Violetta, Madame Bosio (her first appearance this season) ;
Flora Servoix, Madame Tagliafico ; Georgio Germont, Signor
Graziani (his first appearance this season) ; Baron Duphol,
Signor Tagliafico; Marchese D'Obigny, Signor Polonini ;
Gastone, Signor Soldi; Dottore Grenyil, M. Zelger ; Guiseppe,
Signor Rosse ; and Alfredo, Signor Gardoni (his first appear-
ance this season).

Conductor—Mr. Costa.
Doors open at half-past 7, the Opera to commence at 8
•'clock.
Pit, 10s. 6d. ; amphitheatre stalls, 10s. 6d., 75., and ss. ;
amphitheatre, 2s. fib

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ll E R MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—MadIIe.
MARIE TAGLIONI.—On SATURDAY
next, May 29, Madlle. MARIE TAGLIONI will make her
FIRST APPEARANCE this Season, on which occasion will
be produced an entirely New Ballet, by M. Massot, entitled
LA REINE DES SONGES.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING, will be presented MUSIC HATFI
CHARMS.
After which KING LEAR. King Lear, Mr. C. Kean.
To conclude with the new farce, entitled SAMUEL IN
SEARCH OF HIMSELF.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THE ATRE. —Mr.
and Mrs. CHARLES KEAN respectfully
Inform the Public that their ANNUAL BENEFIT will take
place on SAPURDAY, June 12, upon which occasion Shaks-
pere's Play of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE will be pro-
duced, with the same accuracy of detail and historlcal cor-
rectness that have marked the previous revivals at this
theatre. In consequence of this arrangement KING LEAR
will be repeated ELEVEN NIGHTS more, and then with-
drawn, to make room for THE MERCHANT OF v ENICE.
ICING LEAK, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with
AS YOU LIKE IT. Rosalind, Mrs. Charles Young.
After which a Classical Extravaganza, entitled PLUTO
AND PROSERPINE.
Followed by JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON.
Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the
• evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.)
. First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d.
Dress Boxes
Upper Boxes... , .......... 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0
Pit...... ~........ ...,
Gallery

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII.
Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.

THIS EVENING, will be presented the Drama of the
GR FEN BUSHES.

Followed by the new Broad Eccentric Drama, OUR
FRENCH LADY'S MAID. Mr. B. Webster and Madame
Celeste.

Commence at Seven.

.STRAND THE ATRE.—Lessee and Directress,
Miss Swanborough.—This Evening will be
presented MARRIAGE A LOTTERY, supported by Messrs.
Emery, Ray, Belford, Mesdames M. Oliver, Portman, Victor,
and Selby.

After which, the new burlesque of PRA DIAVOLO ; or,
Tho Beauty and the Brigands. Fra D.avolo, Miss Swan-
borough ; Beppo, Mr. C. Young.
To conclude with MY WIFE'S SECOND FLOOR. The
characters by Messrs. N. H. Swanhorough, J. W. Ray, Chas.
Young, Mesdames Leigh Murray, M. Ternau, and C. Melville.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
big company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance o'
elections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS,
CHORUSES, GLEES. D UETS, &c., viz. : —Miss Russell, Mrs.
Badzey, Miss Brunch, Miss ay, Madame Bartoletti,
Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson ;
Herr P. Jonghmans, Mr. Renshaw, S. Joue, J. Barker,
W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Hime, Mr. Badzey,
Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Ber mrd
Messrs. W. T. Critelvield, John G. Forde, and E. Mackney.
Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Mr. Courtnay ;
Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock
precisely. Suppers, &s., until twelve o'clock.
Mr. AUGUSTUS BRAHAM will appear every Evening
in a Selection from "LA. DAME BLANCHE" (THE WHITE
LADY), first produced at the Canterbury Hall. English
words by Desmond Ryan, Esq.

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, MAT 24.
THERMOMETER., IN TUE SHADE.
71—highest since noon yesterday.
49—lowest this morning and during the night,
61—this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 29.88.
WIND, S. W. ; light, with fine weather, but cloudy. It
blew very fresh yesterday, with frequent heavy showers,
and occasional sunshina.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

THIS DAY—Morn., 43 min. aft. 11—Even., 0 min. aft. 0
To-MoßßOw—Morn., 7 min. aft. 12—Even., 31 min. aft. 12

The miserable narrative of a Great Wrong done
to a noble-hearted English Tar, recently deceased,
has been compressed within the compass of a
little pamphlet of 44 pages, published in the Row,
by Daniel F. Oaken and penned by George J.
Cayley in words of manly eloquence and burning
indignation. The whole melancholy story is
epitomised in that inscription on the tomb of the
Dead Sailor, whose dust now lies neglected in
the naval burying-ground at Plymouth. Siste
Viator—those few graven characters on the little
cross are well worth perusal, the characters carved
upon the cross there raised upon those three ru•ile
stones brought thither from the walla of Sebas-
topol—

ROBERT WILSON ROBERTS, R.N.

OB : X. DEC : MDCCCLVII. AET : XXXVIII.

Two lines—no more—and the literal meaning
of the words simple enough ; yet uuler that

literal meaning what a mournful and touching
significance I With the particulars of this deplor-
able history the public at large aro by this time
only too painfully familiarised. They have been
related by Mr. CAYLEY in the first abstract of that
very memoir of his which has been since then
published, as already intimated in a more
lengthened form, though still in a very portable
form, as a separate broAare. This early abstract
of the memoir appeared originally on the 11th of
Nlarch in the Daily IVetV3, and was subsequently-,
on last Lady-day, rendered the theme of some
most impressive remarks reprinted in our own
columns from those of our able and out-spoken
contemporary. It would be superfluous, there-
fore, to recapitulate here the whole story, as it
has been now thrice told-1
with admirable ability and with rehaeltiloricinar forceace
and a logical precision, not simply persuasive but
perfectly convincing and incontrovertible. In his
pamphlet-reprint of the story, Mr. CAYLEY with
a poignant irony entitles his memoir--_" The
Service and the Reward "—the Service having in
truth been Immense, and the Reward absolutely
Nothing. In one sentence, What was that Ser-
vice ? It was briefly this—The accomplishment
in a few days by the individual exertions of this
humble Master in the Royal Navy of what every
other official, great and small, from the Admiral
of the Fleet and the Commander-in-Chief of the
Army downwards, had altogether neglected up to
the moment of the emergency-Ind at the
arrival of the emergency regarded as altogether
impracticable, viz., the landing of British troops
upon the shores of the Crimea at the time of the
famous descent of the Allied Forces upon Ea-
patoria. The French, according to their habitual
promptitude and prevision in matters of this kind
--when the hour had struck for the transport of
troops bodily across the Euxine from their tem-
porary encampment at Varna—were, as a matter
of course, prepared. The English—according to
their habitual entanglement in a labyrinth of
red tape and the mazes of circumlocution—when

that same hour had struck for them for precisely
the same movement, were, equally as a matter of
course, unprepared. Nobody bad thought at all
of the obviously inevitable provision. IV-I.)ody but
this master in the Navy, Me. R. W. ROBERTS, !den
fortunately for England, stationed in the Black
Sea, in command of H.M.'s war-steamer Cyclops.
He had thought of it, however, betimes, and had
not only thought of it, but had already acted
upon his own calculations. He purchased with
his own money materials for the construction of
the Flotilla, by stagings of timber laid upon the
long narrow caiques of the country, and there
fastened together in the form of rafts—safe, capa-
cious, and manageable. When everybody else
was bewildered at, the apparently dead-lock sud-
denly arrived at for the expedition, the master-iu-
command of the Cyclops stepped in with
his proposition. "If you do this," said
Sir GEORGE BROWN, " you will deserve
the thanks of the whole army." And as Mr.
OATLEY simply adds—" He did it." He did it
only, however, by an almost preternatural exer-
tion—by such superhuman exertions that his
stalwart frame bent at last to the shock, his hale
constitution was broken by it. When the last nail
was driven, when the last plank was fixed, when
the flotilla was actually completed at the end of a
single week, to the astonishment of those who had
regarded the notion of its construction from the
first as simply impossible and preposterous, poor
ROBERT/5 fainted away, and for several hours re-
mained in a state of insensibility. Is it sur-
prising that the strong man reeled under the weight
of the herculean task which he had undertaken and
which he had achieved, that the gallant SALT,
then in the full vigour of his lusty manhood,
should have thus actually fainted away at the
moment of its complete accomplishment Y Read
in a few words the manner in which he had
accomplished it, Mr. CATLEY is speaking :
"He performed, by a superhuman strain of
energy, what every one thought madness to at-
tempt. He did it by working night and day with
head and hands, heart and soul in the effort. Here
and there and everywhere, with his shirr-sleeves up
to his shoulders, working like a possessed Berserk
of old. Marking timber, sawing plank, driving
bolts, with a medley crew of ship's carpenters,
common soldiers, Turks, Greeks, and Armenians.
Stimulating this man bypraise, that man by bribes,
the other by threats—and the whole by his
example. He had declared war with Impossibility,
and how he wrestled with his incubus enemy,
drenched in sweat, and choked in dust under a
broiling sun, in the arsenal on the Golden Horn,
made the men who saw him marvel. Lard
L) ons came down from Varna to see what progress
he would make. At first the Admiral looked on
as Ulysses might have looked on the toil of Sisydhus.
It was wonderful energy hopelessly employed. He
shook his head and said : You have undertaken
to ) much. You will deceive both yourself and us !
Here is the third day and you have not finished
one p )ntoon, and still you talk of completing the
whole in seven days !' Mr. Roberts replied : "If
I attempted to finish one at a time 1 sliould
certainly fail. I am getting the several parts ready
for the whole ; and that done, shall pat them to-
gether all at once.' On the fifth day Admiral
Lyons said : ' Well, Roberts, I'm quite satisfied
now I I see you know what you are almit, and
will get through it. There is no use in my waiting
any longer.' "

Nor was there, as the event proved—for the
thing was done. Long afterwards, when Mr.
ROBERTS had returned home invalided—dying
—unrecompensed—Lord LYONS, on the 3d of
February, 1856, wrote to him—" I really do
not know what we could have done without
you." Lord LYONS wrote to Mr. CA.YLEY—
" Without ROBERTS'S pontoons we could not
have gone to the Crimea this season." Admiral
LYONS wrote to Ctptain DAcaEs—"Lord RAGLAN,
Sir GEORGE BROWN, and I wrote as strongly as
possible in his (RonEuTs') favour, and I will do so
again this very post." Lord RAGLAN himself at
the time said to Admiral LYONS—" How is it,
among all the promotions that have come out,
there is no mention of ROBERTS, who really did
more for us than anybody." That was the die•
tinct avowal of the Commander-in-Chief—an
avowal extorted from him by the omission alluded
to as glaring on everybody's Notice on the arrival
at the seat of war of the first batch of promotions.
Poor ROBERTS had written in a letter to his wife
on the 6th of September, in a cheering postscript.
" We are safe to win a C.onmander's commis-
sion." Nothing of the kind. And, why ?
Because at the head of the Board of Admiralty
there was such a man as Sir CHARLES WOOD ! Is
there needed distinct and positive proof of this:?
We give it. When ROBERT ROBERTS was slowly
dying, broken in spirit as well as in constitution
by his magnificent but self-destructive services to
his country, and by his despicable and dastardly
treatment in return, he receives one fine
day in answer to his last earnest and
manly appeal to the Admiralty for some
substantial recognition of those services, the sub-
joined cruel, cold-blooded holograph letter from
the Right Hon. Sir CHARLES WOOD, Bart., M.P.,
then First Lord of the Admiralty. Read it,
electors of Halifax, read it, men of England, this
harsh, pitiless missive, aidressed to the dying
sailor by this Wood-en-hearted statesman and ad-
ministrator :

" Portsmouth, Sapt. 21, 185 G.
"Sir,—l have had the honour of recAving your
letter, and I am sorry to hear from yourself, as in-
deed I had heard from Dr. Nisbett, to wOom I
spoke on the subject, that you are at present un-
able to undertake at.y active employment. Atter
the fullest consideration I can give to the subject,
which, indeed, it had before received from the
Board of Admiralty, I cannot comply with your
request for promotion to the list of active com-
manders. But I need not repeat wuat his been
said to you before, that the Board will be very
glad to avail themselves of any fitting opportunity
of marking the sense they entertain of your ser-
vices.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your ob3dient
servant,

6 ‘ QUARLES WOOD.

•
R. W. Roberts, Esq."
Another Lord of the Admiralty of that time has
yet to be particularised. Admiral Sir MAURICE
BERKELEY, to wit, who figures in the story thus ;
—Mr. ROBERTS' name had been mentioned with
honour in the House of Commons, and an inquiry
put by Mr. CAYLEY as to whether he (ROBERTS)
had received promotion for his distinguished. ser-
vices ? Now, mark the answer given ! Admiral
BERKELEY replied—

" With regard to the case of Mr. Roberts, of the
Cyclop3, mentioned by the hon. member for the
North Riding, he was hippy to say that that gen-
tleman had bees promoted, and had received from
the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Carlisle,
in consequence of his merit and his merit only, one
of the best situations which a fluster was capable of
holding." (Hear, hear.)—Sea Times, March 21,
1855.

had received one of the best appointments a
Master was capable of holding." Master capable
of holding ? Then he was a Master still after all,
told not prunoted I

_.r':

Tbo res=4ll% crrwen un(kr L7ia
name on that sia,pla cross rai.ied above his rethains
in the naval burialground at Plymouth—

CB ;X. DEC: 3IDCCCLVII. AET XXXVIII.
Truthfully and forcefully does Mr. CAYLEY
designate his memoir—" This sad record
of uncommon merit basely recompensed."
To Sir JOHN PAKINGTOY, now happily for the
nation installed at the Admiralty as Sir CHARLES
WOOD'S sucv,ssor—England, the English Navy,
the English people, look confidently for the re-
moval, as far as may yet be possible, of this foul
blot upon our maritime escutcheon by one tardy
act of reparation. At the very least, the afflicted
widow of this noble-hearted tar should receive an-
other pension henceforth—an increased pension—
not as the relict of a Master in the Royal Navy,
but as the widow of a Commander.

Now it must be observed that Mr. CAYLEY'S
question was, whether Mr. ROBERTS had received
promotion for the services he had describea.
Admiral BERKELEY'S reply sounded enough like en
affirmative to draw the cheers of the Rouse on
promotion for merit and merit alone. Admiral
B.'s statement was true, in so far as Mr. ROBERTS
elliad ghtbyeeean promoted
rsbefore for
. It
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t w
aseri tand
true
sir meritj.
Git aloneAm
had appointed him to the Cyclops in '53, an ap-
pointment which had enabled Mr. ROBERTS to do
those services whose reward was now the question
before the House. But the only preferment or
promotion Mr. ROBERTS had received for and since
those services, was a sick bed in Alalta Hospital.
There he lay, while the Admiral was drawing
cheers in Parliament oa a rare instance of Admi-
ralty promotion for merit and merit alone. Naval
men might have seen that Admiral B.'s assertion
was self-contradictory, "He was promoted, aid

L TEST NEWS.

INDIA AND CHINA,

done in exchange, and bills on London closed at
109 k to 110. Ashes firm. Coffee quiet but firm.
Cotton quiet, but prices sustained. Flower and
wheat rather lower. Corn spa Ice, and rattler dearer.
Sco ch pig is on itull anl deprv,ss. (i. Spi!is of tur-
R7ntine va-z.:0e.1 to 51)c. OJAI:. in- tivc. 043
stcdy. P. irre; ,kn,! ct-j, ;wcer.
Be 4 uncilauk-A. Lard dull ~n(i i( 'wen Sugar
firm. Tobacco steady and firm. Freights again
firmer. Flour to London, 2s. Gd. ; beef, 4s. 91.

NEW ORLEANS, MAY 11.
Cotton firm at to 12d. for middling. kJ-
eeipts of the week at all ports, 65,000 bales, making
the total receipts of the season thus far slightly
ahead of the same date last year.

LATEST.
The Arabia not having sailed from New York
until the afternoon of the 12th, we are placed in
possession of the f 11,,wing ihformatiou in advance
of its publication in New York.
The stock market on the 12th was dull, and lower
for most of the leading securities. New York
Central shares closed at 874 ; ditto Bonds, 97. Erie
shares, 24 ; half ditto, third mortgage bonds, 77.
Illinois Central shares, 911 ; ditto Bonds, 90. Pa-
nama Railroad, 100 k. In the p aluce markets
flour and wheat were steady, but Indian corn was
dull. Provisions were quiet.
The arrivals at New York on the 12th included
the steam ship City of Baltimore, and the ships
Dreadnought and Constantine from Liverpool, and
the Fain field from Havre.

WASHINGTON, May 12.
The House of Representatives is engaged to-day
upon the affairs of the territories.

FRANCE.
PARIS, SUNDAY.
The Emperor and Empress, with the Prince Im-
perial, her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands,
H. 1.11 Prince Napoleon, and H.R.H. the Prince
of Wmtemberg, left Paris this day for Fontaine-
bleau.

It is stated that an official despatch has been sent
from Turin, to be communicated to the English
Government, to this effect :—The English Govern-
ment is asked to join the Sardinian in the demand
for the restitution of the Cagliari, and the imme-
diate liberation of the crew ; that, in case of refusal,
England and Sardinia should propose the media-
tion of (a Power tot specified) ; but on con-
dition that the crew shall be at once liberated
without bail ; and that Sardinia agrees to separate
the question of compensation to the two British
subjects from that which may appear to be due to
the Piedmontese Government.

An Italian gentleman, named Dal-Ongaro, has
received a peremptory order to quit France. M.
Dal-Ongaro is the Italian translator of Racine's
" Phedre," which was represented at the Theatre
FrAncrais a few nights ago by Madame Ristori. A.
day or two of er the pert qmance he received a sum-
mons to attend at the Prefecture of Police ; be was
then informed that orders had been given for his
expulsion from the French territcry. He in-
quired the reason, but was told that reasons
for this mode of practising hospitality were not
usually given ; there was nothing for it but sub-
mission. With respect to his passport, he was
informed that he should have one for Algeria, or
for any other country that would not refuge to re-
ceive Italian refugees, ex opting England. No
reasons were given for this exception. It is well,
however, to know that refugees are now debarred,
so far as the Fi ench police can debar them, from
going to England. The exception can hardly be
in consequence of any und.rstanding between
Lord Malmesbury and the French authorities,
and the supposition is that the act is solely that of
the latter.

M. Dal Onagro has mt recently taken part in
political transactions. For some years past he has
devoted himself to literary pursuits, by which he
earns his livelihood. The authorities have, doubt-
less, their secret reasons fur the measure, ; and their
right to expel from their soil any stranger th,y
think proper is not contested. What in the pre-
sent case is worthy of notice is that England is ex-
cepted from those countries for which Italian re-
fugees will get pa: sports. _

The improvemeht stated to have taken place in
the state of M. de Pen© continues ; the fever yes-
terday morning had disappeared, and the patient
was perfectly calm.

BOURSE, May 22.—The following were the
closing quotations :

4? per Cents 93 40
Do. end month —
3 per Cent. ..... 69 75
Do. end month 69 75
Bank Shires . 3115
Credit Mobilier
Do. Account 671 25

Credit Fonder
Belgian
4l
Piedraontese (5)
Roman 92
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt 3
-FOR CASH.

RAILWAYS.
Orleans
Northern
New Ditto —
Lyon and Meditoran. 7323
New Ditto •••
Geneva

Midi - 490
Western 555
Strasburg
Grand Central ... —
SLlrdinian
Austrian

MR, SPURGEON'S NEW CHAPEL.—We understand
that Mr. Spurgeon and his congregation Lave at la,t
fixed on a site fur the enormously large chapel they are
about to erect. The place they have chosen is the open
space opposite the Elephant and Cattle. The ground
belenge to the Fishmongers' Company, and they are to
receive a ground-rent of 1501. for it. The building will
be speedily cornmeneed.—Morning Advertiser.
FIRST LIFE GUARDS —The aneu it banquet of the
officers of this regiment took place on Si urday at the
London Tavern. Covers were laid for 70. Gen. the Earl
of Lucan in the chair, supported by Field Marshal Vis-
count Combermere, Gen. the Ei %rl of Beauchamp, Duke
of Beaufort, Gen. Lord de R e, Earl Vane, Earl Mont-
charles, Sir W. W. Wynn, Gen. Hall, Colonel Parker,
Licht -Cul. Hogg, Hon, S. Macdonald, Viscount In-
gestre, &e.,
GARRISON AMATEUR THEATRICALS AT PORTSMOUTH.—
Through the rectmoineedatien of Maj in-Gen. the Right
Hon. Sir Jas. Yorke Scarlett, the lieutenant governor of
Portsmouth, the sum of 201. has beers generously pre-
sented to the Royal Portsmouth Hospital, towards the
fund provided to relieve the wives and children belong-
ing to the regiments which have embarked from Ports
mouth for India.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS,—The following ger-
tlemen, hating undergone the necessary examinations for
the diploma, were admitted members of the college at a
meeting of the Court of Examiners, on tee 21st inst.,
viz.:—Messrs, Robert Lanes Nishett, King William-
street, City ; T. W. Limb y, Demerara ; H. N. Hett,
Brig 0., Liecolnehire; A. Walker, Scarcroft, n"ar Leeds;
J. Wlaitworth, Heck coondwike, near Leeds ; J. J Flinn,
Liverpool ; A. Vintras, Filly-sur-Leulles; Celvadee,
France ;H. Griffith, Pwilheli, North Wales ; F Paws-
sett, Wiaeeach, Cambridgeshire ; C. Watton, King's
Langley, Hurts; W. Lomas, Guildford ; W. H. Morris,
Studley, Warwickshire ; J. Housley, Mansfield Wood-
hituati, Natte ; J. M. Jones, Reydpererinian, ne
Devil's Bridge, South Wales ; and F. J. Meson, Wis-
h acs, Cernbridgeehire.
EXPERIMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY.-IM. oDe. Brown-Seqnard
who has been promulgating his extraordinary discove-
ries on the nervous system at St. Bartholomew's Hospi-
tal, commenced a course of lectures in the theare of the
Royal College of Surgeons on Saturday las-, before a
elistinguished and crowded audience, amongst whom
were the Presilents of the Royal C lieges of Physicians
and Surgeons, Sir B. Brodie, Dr. Bright, Mr. V. Har-
court, Mr. Hilton, Mr. Kiernan, Mr. South, and the
surgeons to the London hospitals, tte.
DEATH OF Ma. WROCGIITON, OF WOOLLEY PARK,
The announcement of the death of this gentleman, who
for many years held a leading position in the county as a
magistrate and extensive lando-ener, will be received with
Null regret and surprise. The proximate cause was a
fail from his horse by which several ribs were broker),
and other injuries inflicted, under which, at the age of
66, Mr. Wroughton's constitution gave way. Dying
without issue, we believe his brother, P. Wroughton,
Esq., will succeed to the estates. The deceased gentle-
man was much respected as a landlord and neighbour,
and exercised great inflaanoe in the locality where he
resided so many years.— -.Berkshire Chronicle.
EXPDRTS OF BRITISH BEER.—Froin the lit of Octo-
ber, 1856, to the Ist of Oetober, 1857, there were ex-
ported from the united kingdom to various ft reign coun-
tries 429.367 barrels of beer, of the declared value of
1,573,722/. The chief beer-drinking atuntries appear to
be Vitt iria (in Australia), which fiures for 119,604 bar-
rels ; New South Wales, 54132 ; Seuth Australia,
3 Canada, &c., 10,224; the West Indies, 23,147 ;
116 the 9;
United States of America, 29,571 ; Hongkoug,
7.884 ; Ader, 2,010 ; \.lauritine 8,704 ; Etst Indies,
66,240 ; Saute Africa, 9,162 ; Russia, 4,501 ; Prussia,
3 216 ; Hans Toienie 3 316 ; the Channel Islands,
4,357 ; Franco 4,859 ; &tee, 53,210 ; Buenos Ayrere
12,026 ; Chili, 12 300 ; and Peru, 4,066 barrels. Wal-
lachia and Moldavia relieved our brewer' stores of as
teeny as two barrels of beer (131.) ; " the thirsty souls"
of the Caps de Verd Islands gave an order for 3 ;
Morecce one fsr 26, and Syria and Palesti to one for 30
barrele Greece fgdree fo; 72 barrels ; Mexico for 243 ;
and the S web St a Is'ande for 384. ,
THE Bernell Musetae—Tee British Me.,eutu has
recently become posses eel of scene ect unimportant ma-
nuscripts', known for the la-t few months as the " Ben-
tinck Papers." They fill three or four large chests,
the price for which they have been purceved is under
2001. Timy have been obtained from the family resi-
dence of some members of the Bentinck f tinily at Vas el,
near Oldenburg, and may be said to exte-nd over a pc-
riod not far short of a century, coPaira,riciug with the
opening of the reign of Wildem 111., when the fi!se. Earl
of Portland came into this country, acid was rare l to
the pee rage. It eeems that the portion of the lam ly
remaining in Gt,rinany kept up a constant correspond-
ence with persons about the Court of Lsndsn, and the
many letters are full of curious news and minute parti-
culars. One of the oliest documents in Kieg
patent to the first Earl of Portland, dated the 9th of
April, 1689. Toe library of printed books at Vlarel
having been diaper, ee (he arrival of one of thew, the
volume of Shakspeare's Sonnets,' 4t0., 1609, iu this
this country we noticed at the time), it was net thought
worth while to keep the manuscripts longer in Germany,
and they were, therefore, sent for sale to England,—
thvogion,