The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-03 00:00:00

BAVARIA.

MUNIcH, April 2 (Evening).
Manifestations of public opinion, provoked by
the Luxemburg question, are about to take place in
Bavaria against any foreign encroachments upon
German territory. The promoters of these demon-
strations intend to pass resolutions to the effect
that the Bavarian people would consider any weak-
ness on the part •Of Prussia in this question as
equivalent to consenting to the sale of the Duchy.

OPENING OF THE PARIS EXHIBITION.

(From the Special Correspondent of the Times.)
PARIS, April 1.
The nominal opening of what is still for the
greater part an almost nominal exhibition took
place to-day. There was no ceremony or pageant
of any kind, no address or replies, no official cos-
tumes. The Emperor and Empress merely visited
the building, walked round the most presentable
parts of it, spoke a few words to the representatives
of the various foreign Commissions, who wore even-
ing dress in honour of the occasion, and left as they
came, in their open carriages. It was little more
than a mere formal visit, except that the building
was cleaner, and certainly much emptier than it
has often been before. For some days past it has
been known that the opening would not be made a
great public ceremony, and the knowledge of this
fact has told most seriously on the sale of season
tickets. Up to the last it was believed that M.
Play would yield, and allow foreign countries, and
France itself, a little grace in point of time, to
get themselves into tolerable order. Not until
Friday last was it for an instant
,believed that the
building was really meant to open to-day, and when
the fiat was given out on Saturday it produced
only the sort of indifference induced by the absolute
despairof being ready. With the exception of Russia,
England, Sweden, and perhaps, also, Denmark,
absolutely none were prepared. By far the greater
part of the French side was not only unfurnished,
but even unfinished. Austria and Prussia were
quite as bad. Italy had only just got her packing-
cases in, while Spain, Portugal, Turkey, and a mass
of smaller States, have scarcely yet got a case into
the building at all. With such awful gaps in the
display, it was considered up to the very last that a
postponement of at least a fortnight would be al-
lowed, but the Imperial Commissioners were firm,
and on Saturday it was known that the building,
finished or unfinished, would be opened to the pub-
lic to-day. Opened, therefore, it has been, though,
to do the public justice, they have by no means
sought to avail themselves of the privilege so unex-
pectedly offered to them, for it is perfectly well
known in Paris that what will really be in time one
of the best and most varied collections ever brought.
together cannot possibly be arranged so as to be
worth inspection for nearly a month to come. The
positive announcement, therefore, that the opening
to the public would really be made this day was
received with not a little gloom by all but the Rus-
sian, English, and some few French Courts, though
of the latter only a very few were even tolerably
ready. By far the great majority of the foreign
Commissions simply contented themselves with
closing their entrances and affixing the notice " En-
tree interdite," for not only were the Courts them-
selves unfinished, but even the small number of
the goods which had yet arrived were not un-
packed. With such a state of things, of course any-
thing like a ceremonial was out of the question.
Even for the Emperor and Empress themselves
it would have been impossible to clear a fair
passage through the mass of bales which in heavy
stacks, like piles of rough deals, cumber the spaces
reserved for most foreign nations. Sunday was
the last day allowed for work—in fact, it was most
decisively announced at first that no work would be
allowed on that day at all, as it was to be given up
entirely to cleaning the interior. Of course, how-
ever, this rule was relaxed, and such a scene of con-
fusion as the building presented yesterday was pro-
bably never witnessed evenby those most conversant
with the horrible uproar and hurry of the last day's
work in these huge shops. To make matters worse,
not less than from 50,000 to 60,000 people had re-
ceived tickets of admission, so that in some parts
the radial avenues were literally blocked up with
dense crowds of loungers, who only congregated
where the work was busiest, and where, therefore,
as a matter of course, their presence was least de-
sired and most obstructive. It was not till towards
the evening that these throngs gradually abated,
and the sweepers and labourers got a fair chance to
make things look, if not in disorder, at least in less
disarray than usual. Scaffoldings were pulled down,
screens broken away with hammers or beams,
benches dragged out en masse, and the last efforts
only ceased when darkness came on. All, however,
was in vain, and half the foreign countriAand more
than half of France was still blocked up with lad-
ders, poles, and frameworks of every shape and
kind.

The mere unceremonious opening created very
little stir in Paris, and the approaches to the build-
ing were never less crowded than this morning. A
few patrols of cavalry were there to keep the car-
riage ways clear and see that everything kept
4, moving on ;" but beyond this there was very
little unusual. Along the road leading from the
Pont de Jena, where the Emperor and Empress
were to pass, there were thick groups of people;
but by the Pont de l'Alma, one of the main en-
trances into the building, the footways were al-
most deserted compared with what they have
been when admissions were hitherto given freely.
By the road leading from the Ezole Militaire a
very handsomely draped avenue had been hung
across between lofty flagstaffs, and this entrance
was well filled with spectators. It gave access
to the Hall or Vestibule in which their Imperial
Majesties were to alight. Beyond these prepara-
tions there was Rot very much to distinguish the
formal opening from other days. The usual
assortments of pink and blue and white tickets
and the usual mistakes of people with white
tickets wanting to get into pink galleries, and people
wanting to get into galleries without any tickets at
all, and a strong cordon of French gendarmes and
scrgens-de-ville who utterly ignored all tickets of
any shape or colour, made up the usual routine Of
difficulties always to be expected on an even in-
formal opening like that of to-day. The main
avenues through which the Emperor and Empress
were to pass were kept railed off, but beyond this
very little difference was made. In the English
machinery court a few of the easiest moved ma-
chines were kept going in spite of an accident to one
of the steam pipes, and in the French section also a
few of the smalleft engines were set to work ; but
beyond this there was nothing in motion or even
very much arranged. Most of the visitors went to
the picture galleries, through which their Majesties
were to pass after making the circuit of the ma-
chinery annexe. The English and Russian courts,
with most of the picture galleries, were fully open ;
and the glass courts, and those of Sevres, and a few
others of less importance on the French side, were
also ready, and nearly quite arranged; so also were
some sections illustrative of the history of industrial
works of art of all periods completed on the French
quarter ; but little more than this can be said.

At least another month will be necessary to get
the building into proper exhibiting order, and at
least two months to make the park presentable.
Just now it is in most cases a mere litter of
planks and poles and excavated paths about to
to be filled in with gravel, and parterres wanting
both their soil and flowers. The attendance of
visitors to-day was, as I have said, not very large,
and except in the seats in the picture galleries,
there were very few ladies. Indeed, of the whole
assemblage, there were scarcely more than a
fourth of the fairer sex present, and a by no means
small percentage was made up of workmen who
were employed in the building till the last moment,
and who managed to remain and see what was
the formal opening. Two o'clock was the hour
fixed for the arrival of the Imperial family, and
almost to the very second the Emperor and Em-
press alighted at the entrance to the Vestibule.
They came to the building in the private style
in which they, as a rule, drive about Paris, in an
open carriage and four. Following that of the Em-
peror were tle carriages of the chief members of the
corps diplomatique, M. Rouher, M. Arles Dufour,
Count Walewski, the Prince of Orange, the Count
of Flanders, and the Baron James Rothschild. The
Prince Imperial was not with their Majesties, as his
health is not yet sufficiently re-established to allow
him to take even a formal part in any public cere-
mony. In plain truth, he is still very far from well
and as yet does not leave the Palace, nor is he ex-
pected to do so for some few days to come. Every
where the linpeiial cortege was received with marks
of the most profound deference arid respect, but
there was very little cheering. A few stray cries of

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" Vive l'Empereur" were raised at times, but as a
rule the French do not cheer, and the carriages
moved on amid the waving of handkerchiefs and
uncovered heads only.
At the Vestibule their Majesties were received by
M. Le Play and the other members of the Imperial
Commission, and almost instantly ascended the
staircase which led to the raised gallery running
round the machinery annexe, or rather circle. The
Emperor wore plain evening dress, with the Grand
Cordon and Star of the Legion of Honour. The
Empress was attired in the simplest of walking
costumes, and wore a dark veil, which she never
raised while in the building. The course of tine
Imperial party through the Exhibition may easily
be followed. The building is arranged in a series
of concentric rings, or galleries, each of which is
devoted to a certain class of subjects. Thus the
outermost ring of all is allotted to the display of
machinery, at rest anJ in motion, while one of the

innermost rings forms a succession of picture galle-
ries. The Emperor and his party went round the
edifice twice—namely, in those two rings which
may be said to represent all that is most fine and
all that is most useful in the arts. Entering at any
door of the building the visitor will at once find
himself in the midst of machinery, but the arrange-
ment at the chief door of all is such that on the
one hand he will find the French and on the other
the British show. Down, indeed, the whole
length of the great hall, which leads from the
chief doorway to the central garden, and cuts a
passage through the concentric galleries, the same
arrangement holds. Turn to the left, and go into
any gallery, you, find yourself in France ; follow it
in its course round the building, and you pass
through a succession of countries until at last when
you complete the circle you find yourself among
the products of Great Britain. The gallery set
apart for machinery has a peculiarity ; it has a
raised continuous gangway from end to end that
goes over all the machines, so that a visitor can see
them from above. Arm in arm the Emperor and
Empress ascended the gangway on the French side,
the Imperial Commissioners preceding them.
Crowds collected among the machines below to see
them as they passed, and at various recesses along
the gallery bands of regiments were ready to strike
up the national air as they came in sight—the band-
masters gesticulating in all a Frenchman's anxiety
that the first combination of notes should not come
one moment too late, not one moment too soon. At
fixed points along the gangway the Emperor came
upon the Commissioners of the various countries,
who were presented to him and to the Empress. In
passing over the French section of the gallery their
Majesties had the satisfaction of seeing a consider-
able number of the machines in motion, but they
could scarcely find a similar proficiency iu any other
region of the department until they came to the
British end of the gallery, where the roar of machi-
nery might again be heard, mingling this time with
loud English cheers. The Austrian and some of
the Prussian machinery is also pretty well advanced,
but in the sections allotted to numerous minor coun-
tries (minor in the manufacture of machinery) there
was little to be seen.

The procession along this gallery took about
three quarters of an hour. The Emperor and the
Empress had a little word or a bow for scores of
Commissioners as they passed along, and the won-
der is that they travelled through the gallery in so
short a space of time. They stayed longest with
a little party of Japanese, most of whom to the
barbarian eyes of any Londoner would seem
identical with the troop of jugglers who lately
performed the butterfly trick in St. Martin's-
hall. They were, however, Commissioners from
the Tycoon and from Prince Satsuma, and were
presented to the Emperor and the Empress with a
good deal of formality. Opposite to them, on the
gangway, were ranged a small band of gaily dressed
Tunisian musicians, who played on a sort of hurdy-
gurdy and on a tambourine. It was a little bit of
comedy introduced into a rather dull ceremonial.
On the one side of the platform, in dark solemn
robes, the Japanese were bending with the most
awful gravity, some of them reverently falling on
their knees to the Empress ; on the other side, in
the gayest of dresses and with the jauntiest air, the
Tunisian musicians seemed to make mirth of the
sombre Japanese with a jingle, jingle, jingle. The
Emperor looked from one side to the other, per-
plexed whether he was to be grave with the Ja-
panese, or merry with the Tunisians. He did his
best to be courteous to both, and so passed on to
the American Commissioners, and finally to those
of England, stationed at the end of the circle. As
he descended the staircase he was greeted with
loud hurrahs which one rarely hears out of England.
Two sailors seemed to be foremost in cheering, and
were conspicuous in the crowd. The Empress smiled
upon them, and smote their hearts. " Ah, Bill,"
said the one to the other, " she guy me sech a look."
In the great crowd, rushing and tossing about, and
filling the ear with a rattle of French phrases.
" Vive l'Empereur !" " Par ici !" " Attendez !"
" M'sieu," one heard with a sort of bewilderment
interpolated in all their genuineness, " Ah, Bill, she
guy me sech a look."
Along the gangway of the machinery department
the procession was comparatively quiet and orderly,
for few persons were admitted to it ; but when the
Imperial party descended to the Great Hall of En-
trance and proceeded to the picture galleries the
spirit of the scene was changed. Before the Empe-
ror and his party all was clear and stately to make
his passage free. Behind him was the deluge. The
crowd rushed and crushed into galleries which
had hitherto been denied to their view. The
immense footmen in green livery who followed the
Emperor were seen agonising in the mob which
swayed to and fro—an enormous confusion of
ladies and gentlemen, and policemen, and soldiers,
and three glittering Turks, and one white-headed
negro. The crowd was too great, and I did not
follow the procession through the complete circle of
the picture galleries, but turned back to wait for
it in the last gallery of all—the British. The
Emperor passed through a magnificent show of
pictures and marbles. The picture galleries, with
the exception of the Italian section, may be de-
scribed as complete. In the Italian gallery only
the pictures on the line are fixed. In the British,
as in the French gallery, everything is ready, and in
each of these great saloons hundreds of persons
were ranged in double lines, waiting for the
Emperor to pass. He came into the British terri-
tory about half-past three, preceded by the Imperial
Commission, among whom, however, no one seemed
to recognise a well-known London face. Surely/
that is Lord Houghton ? Is it possible that, in
disgust at the iniquities of a Tory Government, he
has left his country and taken service under the
Emperor, so that we now see him in the very centre
of the Imperial Commission, marching before Hig
Majesty ? The Emperor follows and passes rapidly
through the gallery. The only incidents of his
progress through the room are two. According to
the style of Royal personages, the Emperor selects
one picture for remark. It is a portrait of the
Prince of Wales—a good portrait, though nothing
very remarkable as a picture—by Watson Gordon,
of the Prince when he was at Oxford. His Majesty
points it out to the Empress, and passes on. Mr.
Cole immediately afterwards presents him with a
complete catalogue, printed in four languages, of
the whole of the British department of the Exhibi-
tion —a department which has something to boast
of in being the most punctual of all.
From this point a visit was made down the Rue
de Russia, and thence into the central garden, over
the surface of which an immense number of plants
had been stuck in the ground the night before, and
which then looked by no means the better for their
translation. On this picture, however, their Impe-
rial Majesties did not dwell, nor did they traverse
more of the building than I have mentioned, butt
avoiding the routes which led to the tiers of
packing-cases and unfinished courts, came back at
once to the Hall or Vestibule, and so on across
the unfinished Park into the Imperial Pavi-
lion. The whole visit—for ceremony it could
not be called—was over in an hour and a half. Ex'
cept in the Russian and English Courts, there is
really very little to see as yet. The Emperor left
the building about half-past 3, and went for refresh"
anent to a pavilion which had been prepared for
near the grand entrace, and which is likely to fool

one of the chief sights connected with the Exhibi-
tion. The arrangement of this little structure is a
merely private enterprise, the speculation of about
a dozen French tradesmen ; but they have set about
their work with spirit, and having spent an immense
sum on its preparation, the Emperor hasbeen pleased
to accept it for his own use. It consists of three
small apartments, each of which is most elaborately
decorated—one called after the Empress, in the style
known as that of Louis XVI. ; another named after
the Emperor, in the fashion of Louis XIV. ; and the
third allotted to the Prince, in a sort of Alham-
bresque decoration. Besides these apartments there
are ante-rooms, in which the ornaments are of Pom-
peian character. The juxtaposition of so many styles
detracts somewhat from the harmony of the build-
ing as a whole, which, however, is to be regarded as
in itself a miniature Exhibition, and in all its details
perfect. The door of entrance alone, adorned in its
arch with beautiful scrollwork of hammered steel,
has cost about £I,OOO. In this elaborate little pavi-
lion a short stay was made, and the Imperial cortege
left the Champ de Mars in the same quiet and un-
ostentatious manner with which it had entered it,
but welcomed everywhere with the same earnest,
deep respect.

The instant their Majesties had left the building
every one was allowed to pass freely through all its
galleries. It was only, however, in the picture circle,
the Russian and the English Courts, that visitors,
as a rule, assembled. In most other places little
more than empty benches or dreary piles of cases
were to be seen. The Paris Exhibition will be one
of the finest of its kind the world has yet beheld,
but most assuredly such of the world as visit it now
are only fated to the disappointment of guessing at
what it will be, and lamenting their misfortune in
having come a month too soon.

MONEY IitAILKET,i

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

TWELVE o'CLootc.
The demand in the general discount market con-
tinues moderately active consequent upon the pre-
parations made for bills due to-morrow, the 4th
inst. The rates remain firm at 2i 3 per cent.
Gold amounting to £48,0Q0 was taken to the
Bank of England yesterday, and there was also a
withdrawal of £15,000 for Egypt.
The La Plata, from the West Indies, has brought
£256,468 in specie ; the Tanjore, from Alexandria,
£3,000.
The TasMania, for the West Indies, takes out
silver and gold to the amount of £101,130.
The shareholders of the London, Brighton, and
South Coast Railway Company are invited to at-
tend a meeting on Tuesd ty, the 9th inst., at the
London Tavern, for the purpose of considering the
propriety or otherwise of taking over the West
Sussex Junction, the Chichester and Medhurst, and
the Surrey and Sussex Junction Railway Companies
to be proposed by the directors at the (adjourned)
meeting on the 16th inst. Also to consult generally
as to the best course to be pursued for stopping the
construction of unremunerative branch lines, and for
entering into amicable arrangements with neigh-
bouring companies to prevent ruinous competition.
Sir Charles K. L. Jackson will take the chair.
It appears that in 1857 the capital of the London,
Brighton, and South Coast Railway was £7,790,615,
the revenue £880,587, and the expenditure
£353,955 ; while in 1866 the capital was £16,462,191,
the revenue £1,189,944, and the expenditure
£686,881. The percentage of working expenses
in 1857 amounted to £45 7s. per mile, and is now
£57 10s.
The following is a report from the Prince of
Wales Mine :--In the 55fm. level east, the lode is
4ft. wide, worth £2O per fathom. In the 55fm.
level west the lode is 9ft. wide, worth £5O per fm.
In the 45 east the lode is lift. wide, worth £lO per
fm. In the 45 west the lode is from 4 to 5 feet
wide, worth £4O per fm. Winze in bottom of 45
east worth £3O per ftn. Stopes in back of 45 east
worth £2O per fathom.

o'Crocx:.
Less animation has taken place inTwo the English
Stock Market, and a slight downward movement
has prevailed. :Consols for m9ney and the 10th
inst. have receded f, to 901 91 ; while for the May
settlement they are9l9 If. The New Threes are 8914 ;
Reduced Annuities, 89 I ; Exchequer Bills, 16s.
20s. ; India Stock, 1217 219 ; ditto 5 per Cents.
1098 1 1 ; ditto 4 per Cents., 94 ; ,
and ditto Bonds,
50s. to 525. prem.
Foreign Stocks, since the opening of the market,
have shown some depression. Italian have declined
I, to 52153, and Turkish 5 per Cents. I; to 281 29 but Spanish Passive have advanced
f, to 211 22 ;
while Mexican remain at 161 1 ; Greek at 14/
Spanish Certificates at 131 14f ;
dig
Russian Scri 1 ;
24 p at 1 prem.; Chili= Scrip at 3 2} dis. ; and Danubian
at 3} 3 dis.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
been to a fair extent,: but prices generally have
shown considerable depression. Brighton have de-
clined 11, Metropolitan 11, Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincoln 1, Great Western f, Lancashire and
Yorkshire 1, Midland 1, London, Chatham, and
Dover, and South Eastern each 1, and Caledonian
; while Great Eastern have advanced 11.
The Foreign and Colonial lines continue very
dull at about previous rates.
Bank Shares are in moderate request. Bank of
Egypt have improved to 35, and City Bank have
receded to 12.
American Securities show no alteration in value.
-United States 5-20 Bonds are 741 75 ; Erie Shares
39 1 ; and Illinois, 781 79.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
have advanced 1, tc 311 321 ; and the Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds remain steady at 221 238.
Miscellaneous and Finance Shares remain with-
out material change as regards prices. Atlantic
Telegraph 8 per Cents. have declined to 731 ;
Hudson's Bay Company to 161 a ; and Submarine
Telegraph to 621 ; while National Discount Com-
pany have improved to 13 ; and Viceroy of Egypt's
Mortgage Loan to 721 1.

MINING MARKET.

WEDNESDAY VENING. Quietude has prevailed in
mining E
market to-
day. The shares mostly dealt in were West Chiver-
ton, Prince of Wales, and Chiverton Moor. An-
nexed are the latest prices:
Chiverton Moor ...... 5f 5/
Chontales Gold ..
Clifford Amalgamate 6 6f
Cooks Kitchen ...,,11 12
East 8a55et.,,,,,,..... 17 19
East Caradou ......... 51 6
East Lovell ............ I() 10f
East Russell ......... 3 3f
East Wheal Grenville 21 3
Great Laxey ....... 17f 18f
Groat North Laxey
Groat Wheal Yor ...19} 20/

Alarke Valley ......... 41
North Crony ......... 51. 51
North Treskerby 1 2
Prince of Wales .... 21 2*
Providence Minos
South Condurrovr 178 20s
Tincroft ...14} 151
West Chiverton ..... .70 721
Wheal Seton
...,,135 140
Wheal Chivertoa 61. 6/
Wheal Grenville,.... 1 1-1
Wheal Seton ......... 103 104

BRITISH FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
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Do. Account, April 10 ....................
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NNew per Cent. Reducmcl ..... 891 9 I
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Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth . Jan.,.
Do. for 30
Sean' sth Apri18188850„. --
Do (Red releraph), Antr.. 1908—
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Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 4 Ct. 16 20
Do ............... X5OO ..
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INDIAN GOVERNMENTSSECURITIES.
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Do. 5 per Cent. July,
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Rustrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1659
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Do. 4i per Cent., 1852-58-60
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Do 2 per Cont. (Deferred 3 per Cont.)
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Colombian, 6 per Cent.
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Do Government Railway Debentures Bll I
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Do. Account
Do. Coupons -
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1 C.ian 5 p.l rel. t 1865
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Do 41 per Cent., 1865
Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarron)
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Do Account 541
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..?,. Do 6 per Cent., 1863 —
Do 5 per Dent., 1865
Do. Account
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Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed lOO
Venezuela, 3 per Cent. —
'-Jo. 6 per Cent, 1864 —
Ditto 11 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian, a par Cent., Ex. 10 Florins
Bolgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 2* per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil,, —
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ...., —
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 251. —
[Whin 3 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 25f.
Do. Account 53

TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 9O 1
Do. Account 9Ol 1
91
Do. May

Naval and Military Intelligence.

_
The deaths of the following officers have been offi-
cially reported at the War-office since the Ist ult. :
—Gen. Cosmo Gordon, Major-Gen, A. Abbott,
C. 8., Royal Artillery ; Colonels 11. Chas. Cunliffe
Owen, C.B. Royal Engineers ; and Alex. Essex
F. Holcombe, 2d Battalion of the Ist Royals; Lieut.-
Colonels Wm. Wild J. Cockraft, 58th Regiment
and Jas. Richardson ; Captains Geo. W. Clutter-
buck, 63d Regiment ; Jos. Bygrave ; Peter Sher-
wen ; and Quintus Baron Groeben, 3d Hussars,
King's German Legion ; Lieuts. Alexander Knox
Alalcolmson, 46th Regiment ; Jeffries Kingsley, 3d
Dragoons ; Jas. Ormsby, 25th Dragoons ; and John
Maxwell, West India Regiment; Ensign William
Mathias Cartwright, 45th Regiment; and William
Walther, Adjt., sth Line Battalion, King's German
Legion ; Deputy Assist.-Commissary-Gen. George
Damerum Twining; Surg. H. S. Sanders, 49th
Regiment ; Assist.-Superintendent of Stores F. H.
Glinn ; Deputy Assist.-Superintendent of Stores J.
Macintosh.

In consequence of the Ist division of the depot
Brigade Royal Artillery being below its proper com-
plement, a detachment of 100 gunners from the
division at Warley will proceed to join the head-
quarters of the Ist division to-morrow.
The Royal Horse Guards leave Windsor this
morning for the Regent's-park barracks. The 2d
Life Guards will march to-day for Windsor.
On Friday last Dr. Jas. French, •C. 8., Inspect-
ing-General of Hospitals, died at his house in
Lanarkshire. He served with the 4th Regiment in
'the Peninsula from May, 1812, to the end of that
war, in 1814. He also served in the American war and
the war in China. He had received the war medal
with five clasps. His commissions bear the follow-
ing dates :—Assist.-Surg., Feb. 8, 1810; Surgeon,
Dec. 9, 1821 ; Staff-Surgeon, Aug. 1, 1842 ; Deputy-
Inspector of Hospitals, Dec. 16, 1845 ; and In-
spector-Gen., March 12, 1852. After this period
he retired on half-pay. In recognition of his long and valuable services he was in 1850 made a Com-
panion of the Bath.
The Sprightly, steam tender, Master Commander
G. Allen, returned to Portsmouth yesterday morn-
ing from the Channel Islands, after having been
employed in the disembarkation and embarkation of
troops for the Himalaya troopship, Capt. Piers.
A court-martial was held yesterday on board the
Victory, flagship of Admiral Sir T. C. Pasley,Com-
naander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, for the trial of
John West, signalman of her Majesty's ship Ter-
rible, for having written and forwarded to Capt. J. E. Commerell, in command of the Terrible, a letter
purporting to come from the petty officers of the
ship, containing mutinous expressions and threaten-
ing language. The prisoner was found guilty, and
sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour
for 18 calendar months from this date, and during
that period to be kept in solitary confinement for
five days out of every 28 days of the said term. The
Court was under the presidency of Capt. the Hon.
F. Egerton, A.D.C., her Majesty's ship Victory,
and Capt. Commerell appeared as prosecutor.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Lieut. T. V. Williams, to the
Chanticleer ; Lieut. W. H. Childers to the Canopus;
Lieut. F. S. Clayton to the Donegal ; Lieut. J. R.
D. Cooper, Lieut. F. Durrant, Lieut. F. G. Gam-
bier, and Lieut. H. T. Grenfell to the Minotaur ;
G. Stovin, master in command, to the Vindictive ;
G. Marsh, master, to the Minotaur ; Sub-Lieut. C.
J. Fellowes, to the Minotaur ; E. C. Hobkirk, F.
H. Tabor, T. Holmes, Hans H. H. Brooke, H. L.
Messum, E. C. Chippendale, W. L. Rundle, and J.
A. Home, midshipman, to the Bristol, as supernu-
merary; C. S. Fuller, midshipman, to the Chanti-
cleer, supernumerary, to fill the first vacancy ;
the lion. G. M. Bennet, and C. W. Pallen, naval
cadets, to the Minotaur ; W. H. Richards, pay-
master, to the Minotaur ; W. A. Stevens, assistant-
paymaster, to the Minotaur; C. E. Grant, assistant-
paymaster, to the Research ; J. Henderson, second
master, to the Minotaur ; J. Jeans, master's assist-
ant, to the Minotaur ; H. Howell and A. Turner,
clerks, to the Minotaur ; F. B. S. Robinson, clerk,
additional, to the Minotaur ; and W. E. Gill, assist-
ant clerk, to the Minotaur.

INSURANCE CONVENTION.— -Says a New York
letter :—" We have been holding a convention of
representatives of the fire insurance companies. The dis-
closures which have been brought out aro by no means
calculated to inspire confidence among those who aro in-
sured. Such an exhibition of impaired capital cannot fail
to injure fearfully the whole business. The assembly, just
before taking its recess, directed the committee on insurance
to meet is this city and institute an inquiry into the mi-
ter with a view to legislation. It is evident that the Fire
King is omnipotent, and further that ho is übiquitous.
AFFAIRS IN HAYTL—The following appears in
La Patrie of the 31st March :—The .Moniteur confirms, in
accordance with the despatches of the Bth March, the
news which we gave, namely, that General Geffrard, Pre-
sident of the Haytian Republic, had completely put
down the movement that had taken place at Port-au-
Prince." From other news received, dated the 11th of
the same month, it seems that President Gcffrard had con-
voked the Chambers for the 15th March, and that the new
Ministry formed by him had boon accepted by the country,
which enjoyed a complete tranquillity.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY.--OU
Tuesday the admissions on payment were 772 i ditto by
season tickets, 1,171;
total visitors, 1,913,