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London, England, 1858-04-24 00:00:00

`LON;TYON, SATURDAY EVE`NISG, APRIL 24,

pure statesmansk'jp. Lord GREY not only ab-
stained from denouncing as bigots those who took
the view of the Premier ; but, he acknowledged so
many difficulties in his own mind, as to ground
his present strong desire to settle the question,
on the political position of the question. Setting
aside the merits of the case, that is, as
they might he estimated by each indi-
viduP.l Lord, as a House, is it the consti-
tional duty of the small band of hereditary
legislators to resist indefinitely the long and con-
stitutionally expressed wishes of the nation ? Is
the House of Peers to be a governor or fly-wheel
to the engine, regulating and checking the impul-
sive action of popular sentiment, and its mode-
rated influence on our very aristocratic House of
Commons, or is it to be a permanent barrier
against the long and soberly expressed will of the
coun try

In every way the country has spoken in a man-
ner to which the House of Peers is bound to listen,
and to which, if it exists for the country, and not
merely to clef/ it, it must listen. The first city
in the kingdom, the city whose hospitality
alone, every Cabinet accepts, and would think
itself slighted were it not offered—London—has
for years sacrificed one of its votes in the House
of Commons, for the single reason of placing its
wish before the Legislature in the strongest form.
The first constituency in the Empire—one hon-
oured, at least, with four members—one which
represents all our great monied and mercantile
interests—persists in telling the House of Peers
that it cannot concede its right to elect a Jew to
represent it in Parliament, as well as to represent it
municipally at the Mansion-House. The succes-
sive Houses of Commons, returned under all
conceivable diversities of circumstances, have
remained faithful to the question of Jewish
Emancipation, and by constantly increasing
majorities have settled the question for that
House. ONE HUNDRED and FIIPTY-THREE was
the last of a long series of majorities for the
settlement of this long-disputed question ; is it
not time then that we hear no more of it ? Is it
decent for the House of Lords to resist the City of
London, expressing as it does the feeling of all the
cities in the kingdom, and the House of Commons
any longer ? Is it dignified ? Does it not represent
their Lordships in the light of wilful theorists or
purists rather than of statesmen. No one of them
pretends that the least practical evil could result
from conceding the Jewish demands ; op-
position cannot, therefore, be grounded on admi-
nistrative, political, or statesman-like reasons ;
it can only result from the individual predilec-
tions of certain Peers, indulged in contravention
of all public considerations.

Lord DERBY should also consider his relation
to the House of Commons. We do not wish to
taunt him with being in a minority there ; we do
not wish him to condescend to anything unworthy
of his position. But we must think that, under
all the circumstances, he might see in this conces-
sion to the Commons a graceful acknowledg-
ment for the fair way in which the majority of
the House has dealt with his Government. It has
tolerated no factious opposition ; on the contrary,
it has refused, and, if fairly treated, will, we be-
lieve, yet refuse, to lend itself to any patty
scheme for overthrowing the Government of the
Noble Lord. But the House has a right to ex-
pect a quid pro quo. It could hardly expect
Lord DERBY to vote for the five points of the
charter ; but here is a point on which the Com-
mons of England have long set their heart—a
point which they must insist on till they gain it,
a point which the Peers must at some time, and
soon, too, concede ; if, therefore, there be a case
in which Lord DzwitY could with perfect honour,
and in consistency with a Statesman's duty, con-
cede to the Commons, it is in the case of the
Jews. We think the House of Commons
has deserved the concession at his hands.
It would not be a bribe, or a bid
for popularity, but an acknowledgment of
fair support. An acknowledgment that neither
the onslaughts of the Thunderer from without,
nor the restless machinations of the Palmerstonians
within, could induce the House to withhold from
him that fair play which Englishmen delight in.
The business, too, has reached the point in
which the House of Commons will probably no
longer tolerate inaction. It has been with diffi-
culty hitherto restrained from admitting the Jews
by a resolution of its own. Indeed, if it does not
do so, should the Lords refuse this bill, it will pro-
bably incur the contempt of the country. It will
not be endured that our representatives should
be bearded, year after year, by a few hostile Peers,
worthy men, indeed, some of them, but the greater
part of them hardly known, except to those who
are familiar with peerage lists—mere voting
machines for bye-gone prejudices. Is it worth
Lord DERBY'S while, on their behalf, to drive
the House of Commons now to proceed by reso-
lution, and to hazard another quarrel between the
Commons and the Law Courts, in which the
former must be victors ? For ourselves, should
the fifth clause of the Oaths Bill be rejected, we
should urge the Commons to seat Baron ROTHS-
CHILD by resolution, and to dare all the old
irupracticables among the Peers to do their worst.
The country would certainly stand by the Com-
mons, and upset the men who may be very good
theological Peers, but who would have proved
themselves to be no statesmen.

THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY.---It was
mentioned some days back that a pamphlet bad been
promised by Mr. Moveal, the late secretary of the
Great Northern Railway Company, on the subject of
the differ, noes which resulted in his connexien with that
establishment being terminated. it is now said that the
contemplated publication will not take place at pres,nt,
Mr. Mowatt having commenced an action against the
company in the Curt of Common Pleas for damages
for wrongful dismissal.--Times.
CRYSTAL PALACC.—The largest and pares', gold
nugget yet di.c yvered will be exhibited to public view at
the Crycta' Palace on Saturday, the lst of May. It
weighs 1,743 ounces 8 pennyweights, and is of the cum.
prated value of 7,5001. 10,0001. was offered for it at
Melbourne. It was found at a depth of eighteen feet
from the surface at Kingevver cligginge, a place
in the B tyligo diefrct, about 120 miles from Meiloopne,
by a party of four diggers, who have brought it to
land for exhibition. One of the party will attend at the
Crystal Palace daily for a few l'ays, from and after tUe
lit of May, to explain f articulars in reference to this
most extraordinary specimen of anr fer yus deposit.
NLW DUTIES ON IRISH SPIRITS.--After the 19th of
April, 1858, th re are to be gran ed to her Majesty cer-
t tin lOW ional dutie+r n spirits imported in.° Ire! ynd—
v 3., on spirits not being ewe, t ined or mixed with any
a title so that the degree of strength thereof cannot be
ascertained fy Sykes's hydrometer; for i v •ry gallon of
t he, s rength of pro( f by au, h hydrometer, and so in pro-
portion for any greater or less etrength than the strength of
proof, and f r a.;•y greater or Lea quality than a ga !on, of
and from a British peseeseion in Aeeerica or the is'and of
Mauritius ; and rum cf and from any British rices.tssion
i hin the a of the East India Company's charter,
in regard to e h ch the conditions of t%te Act 4th Vie-
toile cap. 8, have or shall have fulfilled, 84. 21. per g: 1
lon ; and on rum, shrub, cordials, and liqueurs of and
from a British ro,session in Am.yrica, or the island of
Mauritius, or a British possession within the limits of
the Esst India ified
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ha, already been re ,d a first afore-
said,
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IRELAND,---Te‘iptain Mercer's Battery of Artillery ar-
rived at Balleic 'dig on the 21st from Newtridg e hav-
ing marched in fromYerinoy, miles. Col. Fa'tren'th
C. 8., depot, contesting of the 47th, i
48th, .57th' and
90th depots, are ordered to Cork fron Fent oy A de-
techanent of the 17th Regiment will shortly embark for
Canada.
Tire opening of the Exhibition of the Imperial Horti-
cultural Society at the Palate*de 1, Ind,ustrie has been
definitively fixed for the 12th Jay. 1 hat day will be
reserved for the authorities, the ladies patronesses, and
the members of the society. The public will be admitted
the day following and to the 27th inclusive.

LATEST N WS.

INDIA AND CHINA.

ALEXANDRIA, Arßit, 20.

The Calcutta and China mails, per Hindostan,
leave this afternoon, with intelligence from Calcutta
to the 23d of March, Madras to the 29th, Ceylon
to the 2d of April, and Hong Kong to the 15th of
March.

The Bentinck, with extra mals and passengers
from Calcutta, arrived at Suez on the 14th.
Thera is intelligence from Lucknow to the 22d
of March. On the 20th Brigadier Campbell's force
returned from pursuit of the enemy.
Hutchison, of the Lancers, was dangerously
wounded, and Cooper, of the Rifles, dead.
On the 21st the Nombries (Nana's) retreat was
stormed. He escaped, and a reward of 50,000
rupees is offered for his head.
Outram's force had discovered and destroyed
rebels in Lucknow, and the Prime Minister is
among those reported as killed. Cape, of the 13th
Native Infantry, and Thackwell were murdered by
the enemy. Fanatics still fire on our troops.
The Governor-General's proclamation calling on
the Zemindars to submit had produced no effect.
Ou le is pacified, the 'enemy flying towards Sun-
deera. Jung Bahadoor goes to Allahabad. No
civil officer had yet been sent to Lucknow by the
Government. Some inhabitants were returning to
the city.
The heat was increasing daily.

A telegram from Allahabad of the 24th states
that Sir Hope Grant was sent on the 23d to dis-
perse a body of insurgents under Rajah Jajlal Singh
at Karee, and returned perfectly successful. He
took 12 guns.

The Disarming Act was being enforced in the
North-we3t provinces.

The sentence on the King of Delhi had not yet
been made public.

In the Calcutta Import Market British piece
goods and mule twist had improved, but business
in general was limited. The produce market was
dull. Government securities had improved. Fours
are quoted 18 dis. Exchange on London, 2s. lid.
to 2s. 11d. for credits ; 2s. lid. to 2s. 1 cl. for docu-

ments.
The Madras import market was pretty active.
Money rather less abundant.
Exchange, documents 2s. lid.

13 prominent Mexican Reactionists had been cap-
tured by Garza, while attempting to land from the
British mail steamer.

Savannah dates at Charleston to the 10th inst.
Sugar and molasses quiet. Freights dull. Ex-
change on London 60 days', 11i premium. Money
plentiful but trade dull. Current rates 6to 8 per
cent. on good paper. Business in exchange limited,
and prices lower, Loudon, 8i to 9 per cent. ;
France, sf. 15c, to sf. 18/c.
The following are the latest quotations for stocks :
—Virginia Sixes, 914 ; Missouri Sixes, 83i • New
York Centrals, 87i ; New York and Erie ghares,
23 ; Reading Railroad Shares, 481 ; Michigan
Centrals, 651 ; Michigan Southern, 24 ; Cleveland
and Toledo, 44k ; Panama Railroad Snares, 1074 ;
Illinois Central Shares, 92k ; Illinois Central ds,
88/ ; Chicago and R. I. Shares, 741 ; Milwaukie
and Miss. 33 ; Galena and Chicago, 881; Lacrosse,
9 ; Del. and Hudson, 1061 ; Cumberland, 18.
Cotton firm, at 12/ for midding uplands. Re-
ceipts decreased. Little inquiry for export. Flour,
with large receipts, 10c. lower. Mess pork receded
10e. ; other kinds unchanged. Beef, ditto. Freights
dull.

LIVERPOOL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF GREAT BRI-
TAIN AND IRELAND IN PARLIAMENr ASSEMBLED,
THE PETITION OF THE LIVERPOOL CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE
Humbly showeth,
1. Thatyour petitioners have always scrupulously
abstained from interfering with the purely political,
and party que.tions ; but as the best interests of
British commerce are closely bound up with, and
must be directly affected by, the nature and cha-
racter of the Government of India, and the de.
velopment or non-development of the vast resources
of that portion of our empire, they feel themselves
bound to offer the following suggestions upon the
propositions now before your Honourable House
for transferring the government thereof from the
East India Company to the Crown.
2. The propriety of such a change having been
affirmed by a large majority of your Honourable
House, your petitioners deem any expression of
their pinion on that point uncalled for.
3. Your petitioners agree with the principle em-
bodied in both bills, and also in the resolutions now
before your honourable house, that the Secretary
of State to whom the Government of England may
be entrusted, should be assisted by a council com-
posed of men, the majority of whom have a per-
sonal knowledge of li.dia from residence in that
country, but without limitation as to the particular
locality of that residence.
4. Your petitioners are also of opinion, that to
secure to some extent the independent character of
the Council, as well as its efficiency in point of
knowledge, the election of some of its members
should be entrusted to persons who have previously
held military commissions or civil appointments in
India in her Majesty's service or in that of the
Government of India, or who may possess a direct
interest, to an amount to be specified, in some
property situate in, or charged, or secured on the
revenues or territories of India ; excepting that no
person should vote in respect of any civil or
mili-
tary appointment until he had retired from active
service.

5. Your petitioners deprecate, however, the
extension of a similar electoral privilege to any of
our Parliamentary constituencies, feeling satisfied
that those bodies are neither sufficiently acquainted
with, nor sufficiently interested in, the wants of
India to qualify them for such a trust.
6. Your petitioners further venture to suggest
that, among the European residents at the Presi-
dencies of Calcutta, Madraq, and Bombay, uncon-
nected with either of the services, constituencies
might be found to elect a portion of the Conned—
constituencies who would value the right of elec-
tion, and be guided, in their choice of members, by
the true interests of India.

7. Your petitioners are of opinion that the small
salary proposed in tie bills now before your Hon-
ourable House, for members of the Council, is cal-
culated to lower the dignity of the office in general
estimation ; and that the amount thereof ought to
be materially increased, or the position made
purely honorary ; in which latter case, your peti-
tioners would suggest that the members of the
Council should not be prohibit2d from sitting in
the House of Commons.

8. It also appears to your petitioners that the
Council should have more substantial powers than
are proposed by any of the measures now before
your Honourable House, and should accept a con-
current responsibility. It can hardly be doubted
that the Secretary of St tte for Indian affairs will
usually be selected more for 1 is weight and influence
in Pay iament than for his knowledge of India.
Individuals deservedly distinguished as Indian
statesmen, are frequently comparatively un-
known to political circles in this country,
especially in time of , peace, and they moat
commonly return home ignorant of parlia-
mentary usages and too little accustomed to ad-
dressing public assemblies to be eligible as the chief
organs of Government on Indian affairs in the
House of Commons. If the knowledge of India
possessed by such men is to be made fully
available, it must be by giving some real
powers to the proposed Council of which it is
to be hoped they will become members. Your
petitioners are fully aware of the danger of unduly
diminishing the responsibility of her Majesty's
Minister for India by thus augmenting the powers
of the Council appointed to assist him ; but they
trust that the wisdom of Parliament may devise
means of averting this danger, and should it be
incurred, they cannot but regard it as an evil some-
what less than the reduction of the Council
to a position in which it might be capable of advis-
ing if called upon to do so, but would be wholly
incapable of giving effect to its opinions. It may
indeed be questioned whether the bast men would
accept of seats at a board at which their united
opinions wcre liable, at any time, to be wholly dis-
regarded, by a Minister who might possibly know
less than any member of the council of the subject
in question.
9. Your petitioners are further of opinion that it
is a matter of vital importance to the interests of
both India and England, that the patronage
hitherto at the disposal of the Court of Directors
should be transferred to the Council ; and that, in
the event of appointments being distributed by
competitive examination, the management of such
examinations should be in the hands of the Coun-
cil. Your petitioners deeming it unwise to add to
the excessive amount of patronage already at the
command of the Executive Government.
10. In conclusion, your petitioners venture to
express the hope that, at no distant day, some plan
may be devised by which a portion of the proposed
elective power may with propriety be committed
to the hands of natives of India, in combination
with European resident, if only by way of initiat-
ing a system of self-government, which may ulti-
mately relieve this country of the great danger ever
attending an attempt to govern, entirely from with-
out, a distant people whose habits and opinions
have so little in common with our own.

11. Your petitioners, however, dreading the
effects of hasty legislation on questions of such vast
difficulty and importance, humbly pray

That the several m.,msuros hereinbefore mentioned
may be raferred to a select committee of your
honourable hou,e, and your petitioners will ever
pray, &c.

(Sign;d, on behalf of the Liverpool Chamber of
Commerce,)
CHRIST. BusrnL, President.

ATTEMPTED ESCAPE OP A PRISONER PROM A RAIL-
WAY CARRIAGE.- Oa Tnursday afternoon an accident of a
fearful character occurred on the Midland Railway, be•
tween Rothwell Haigh and Woedlesford, a few miles
from Leeds. It appears from what we were able to as-
certain that, yesterday afternoon, the superintendent f
the West Riding police, stationed at Kuaresborongh,
arrived at the Wellington station, Leeds, in charge of a
prisoner named James Clayton, alias Laycock, en route
for Wakefield, the latter having been sentenced that day
by the Knareeborough magistrates to three months' im-
prisonment in the House cf Correction on the charge of
obtaining 53, by false pretences from a lady at Low
Harrowgate. They left Leeds by the 420 p.m. up
train to Wakefield and Barnsley, travelling in a third-
class carriage, and shortly after they had passed R rth-
we'l Haigh, Clayton, who is a notorious character, sue-
ceeded in eluding the observation of the officer, and
leaped out of the window. He tell upon his forehead on
the space between the rails, rolling over with his body
to the space between the down line, his legs remaining
over the inner line r f enetelee It is probable that he was
stunned, if not disabled, by the fall, f ,rt immediately
afterwards the North-Eastern train from York, des at
Leeds at 4.55, came in sight, and though the driver
whistled and put on the break, the man remained
motionle.,,s, and the whole e f the train passed over hire.
Tue train was stopped as soon as possible, and the driver
and guard returned to the Tot, when it wa4 found that
the poor fellow's legs from a little below the knee had
been cut off, the upper part of the body having gone
under the carriages without sustaining any serious in
Ijury. He 'was still alive when they got to him, tho:igh
unconscious, and was placed carefully in the guard's
van, and brought to Leeds. On the arrival f the train
at Leeds he was removed to the infirmary, and received
immediate attention ; but he was in such a state of pros-
tration from the shock to the system, that it was lei:pos-
sible to proceed with any surgical operation. Up to a
late hour last night he was still alive and partially con-
scious, but there were only the faintest hopes of his re-
covery. The officer returned to Leeds, by the North-
Eastern express from York, arriving at
the station-
within a few minutes of his ueltrtunste prisoner. We
may add that not the slightest blame attaches to the
driver of the North-Eastern train, as he did not see
the body unt.l within forty or fifty yards of it.—Leeds
Mercury.

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THE FRENCH REPUBLIC AND THE
CAUSE OF SARDINIA.

LAMARTINE'S REPLY TO GEN. LA MARMORA.

The Presse of Thursday publishes the following reply
of M. de Lamartine to the late ppeech of General La
Marmora, Sardinian Minister of War, in the Chamber
of Deputies at Turin :

"Sir,—We owe re,pect to existing powers; we have
nothing but bad pleasantries for fallen ones ; such
the maxim of certain statesmen on both sides of the
Alps. I have not the honour to know General La
Marmora. I believed him to be a serious man.
He attributes to me to-day in his comic-heroic
speech in the Turin chamber some absurdities and
puerilities which one would blush to ascribe to an idiot
of the Alps. According to this statesman, when in
Ales;andria in 1856, I mistook some Ple3montese
sappers in their shirt sleeves for Austrians ; the chamber
laughed, says the report of the sitting; it would have
laughed a good deal more if it had known that I have
never set foot either in Alessaudria or in Piedmont since
1822, when one of my intimate friends, General Marquis
de Lanerges, commanded the garrison, and caused me
to admire the fine Piedmontese troops under his com-
mand.

"According to the same General La Marmora, I re
plied in 1848 to an envoy of King Charles Albeit, who
sought of me French intervention in Italy :—`No, I
will never suffer the Mediterranean to become an Italian
lake.' Instead of laughing at this, the Chamber of
Deputies at Turin ought to have been seized with
great admiration at such extraordinary foresight ; for
with what prophetic genius must he be endowed
who could dread the monopoly of the seas by
three steam frigates and the five or six brigs
of the Sardinian navy in the presence of the
innumerable French and English vessels which c.ivered
the seas with the shadow of their sails. This almost
equals the sublime foresight of that British newsinonger
who feared the monopoly of the ocean by the galiot of
Sr. Cloud ! There must be a great fund of credulity in
a Minister of War of Turin who could seriously attribute
such follies to a minister of the republic at Paris. The
fact is that I never had any relations, official or non-
official, with Kin?. Charles Albert in 1848 but through
the respectable and' loyal Marquis de Brignole, minister
of that unhappy prince to the French republic ; and if
I had talked such stuff to that man of good sense and
heart, he would have thought he was assisting in the
congress of Charenton.

"To speak seriously, all the foreign policy, irreproach-
able policy, of the republic while I directed it, was pro-
claimed in what is called my manifesto to Europe.'
All the special policy of the French republic with regard
to Piedmont, a policy which was scrupulously honest,
consisted in these two f :-1. Not to advise King
Char:es Albert to an offensive, inopportune, and rash
war with Austria ; because a great Power like France
is morally and jointly responsible for the acts to which
it has instigated an allied Power inferior in strength. 2.
If Piedmont, badly advised, entered upon war, and if,
after an impolitic aggression, it incurred dangers to its
existence as an independent nation—to descend the Alps
to its relief, and to take between Austria and it the
position of an armed mediator. Why otherwise did I
assemble the day after the revolution of February the
army of the Alps, if it was not for this policy ? Such is
the whole mystery.
" As to the policy of General Cavaignac after me I
have not to reply thereupon. While respecting the
motives which doubtless animated it, and of which I am
ignorant, I said myself at the time that there was be-
tween my policy and that of General Cavaignac the
width of the Alps ; that is to say, that he kept the army
of the Alps on this side of those mountains, and that I
would have placed it on the other; but to judge of the
fidelity of the tribune recollections of General La Mar-
mora respecting General Cavaignac by those which con-
cern me, I little doubt that those recollections, upon
which I prejudge nothing, will one) day be corrected or
commented upon by those who are the natural guardians
of that general's memory. He is dead, but in history
the tombs of such men speak best.—Receive,
" LAMARTINE,
"Former Minister of Foreign Affairs
of the Republic.
" Paris, April 21, 1851."

MIT OF HER MAJESTY TO .ALDERSHOT.

Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince Consort, Prince
Arthur, and the royal suite, left London by the South-
Western Railway at five o'clock on Thursday evening, and
arrived at Aldershot shortly after six. Her Majesty was
received with a royal salute from the troops, who were
drawn up in line in front of their cantonments. The royal
party did not stop, but drove direct to the Pavilion, where
they passed the night. It was fully understood that a
grand field-day would have taken place yesterday, and in
anticipation of a great influx of company, preparations of
considerable magnitude had been made in the neighbour•
hood of the camp. The general orders, however, wei e only
issued for a parade and inspection without firing, to the
disappointment of the public, and the undisguised satis-
faction of the troops, who looked forward with no sort of
pleasure to a heavy field•d by under a scorching sun, and
amid never-ceasing clouds of dust.

The Queen arrived on the ground shortly before eleven
o'clock, when her Majesty and the staff immediately rode
slowly up and down the two lines, minutely inspecting the
different militia regiments. The Queen was dressed in
military attire, the scarlet habit with the general's sash,
and the blue ribbon of the garter. with a plume of feathers
in her hat. Her Majesty rode between General Knolloys
and the Prince Consort. The inspection having concluded,
the Queen and the staff took up their position at the foot
of a hill at the north side of the valley, while the troops
marched past in the order in which they stood on the
ground. The regiments of the lino, of course, bore them-
selves with the usual perfection of discipline, and the ad-
mirable way in which the militia regiments acquit ed
themselves, and their soldierlike, and trim appearance
was the surprise and admiration of all. Among the
fine regiments the 2d Battalion of the sth Foot were
especially conspicuous, from the red roses which both men
and officers wore in their shakos and on their breasts
in honour of St. George's Day, whose name the regiment
has always borne. The Kerry Regiment, though small in
number, were also conspicuous among the Irish militia
regiments for their perfect discipline. After the marching
past, the troops broke up and returned to their lines with-
out any salute, and the visitors left the ground an thing
btit edified by the result of the day's proceedings. Upon
their return homewards a sight awaited them which in
awful gran lour and devastating influence put into the shade
the mimic warfare which they had been witnessing. A
fire, which had originated among the furze on Frimley
Heights, rapidly spread into some extensive pine planta-
tions, and in a short time the whole range of hills was
wrapped in a sheet of flame for miles distant ; the
gigantic clouds of smoke and sheets of fire could be
seen rising from the country as from an extensive city
iu flames. Of course, nothing could be done to arrest
the progress of the conflagration until it had consumed
all the wood and furze land within its reach ; and as
this would not involve the loss of any considerable amount
of property, and would in other respects be quite harm-
less, those present looked upon the spectacle only in
a picturesque point of view. After the troops had re-
turned to their cantonments, her Majesty and the royal
party, returned to the Pavillion, where they changed
their dresses and partook of luncheon. The Queen and the
Prince Consort subsequently drove over the picturesque old
domain of Farnham Castle, and paid a visit to the Bishop
of Winchester there, and upon their return in the evening
they drove round and inspected the camp and the new per-
manent barracks. In the evening the Queen honoured the
amateur theatrical performance at the north camp with
her presence. "A Wonderful Woman," and several other
pieces, were very successfully performed.
To-day there will be a grand review and field-day, at
which it is expected that Maishal the Duke of Malakoff
will be present, at the conclusion of which her Majesty
will return to town.

.NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

THE SQUADRON OF REAR-ADMIRAL CHADS.—The Re-
nown, Diadem, Curacoa, and Racoon, came into Ply-
mouth Sound yesterday, having been called in by the Lap-
wing, sent out for the purpose.
The Gorgon, steam-ve-sel, Commander J. Dayman, this
day received her armament from the Royal Arsenal, con-
sisting of two bB-pounders, four 32-pounders, and four
small brass guns. Her crew is now complete, and she is
fully rigged and ready for sea. She is ordered to leave the
harbour on Monday next fur Greenhithe to adjust compasses
and proceed thence to Plymouth, in order to join the Aga-
memnon, for the purpose of assisting to lay down the At-
lantic telegraph cable.
Boilers and machinery for the following new steam ves-
sels will be forwarded from Woolwich forthwith :—Re-
venge, Plymouth ; Lion, Davenport ; Orlando, Pembroke;
and for the Aurora and Dragoon. The machinery has been
manufactured by Messrs. Maudslay, Son, and Field.
The Challenger, screw corvette, recently launched, is in
a forward state, and is expected to be ready for commis-
sion e in June.
The Tiny and Midge steam gun-boats arrived at Ports-
mouth yesterday morning from Chatham in tow of the
Adder steam vessel.
The Flirt, Ready, and Thrush gun-boats are ordered to
Portsmouth from Deptford.
The Victoria and Albert Royal steam yacht, Captain
the Hon. Jos. Denman, A.D.C., will be docked next Wed-
nesday, to be prepared for her Majesty's summer service.
The half-yearly inspection of the corps of Royal Engi-
neers at Brompton Barracks, Chatham, is to take place to-
day, the inspecting general officer bei Kng Lieutenant-Gene-
ral Sir G. A. Wetherell, K.C.8., .H , Adjutant-
General.
The whole of the depots comprising the 3d Battalion of
Infantry at Chatham were assembled on their parade-
ground, Brompton-huts, on Thursday afternoon, for the
purpose of hearing read the sentence of
chat:irsitteriocft
desercourt-
martial recently held at Chatham garrison on Colour-Ser-
gtieoanntfrßomobetrhteßdoenpdot, 700fthhiRsecgoirmpesnta,t on
Chatham.
For this
charge he was sentenced to he reduced, in the presence of
the whole battalion, to the rank and pay of a private. The
sentence of the Court having been read by the Adjutant
the prisoner was marched to the front, when his " stripes"
were cut from his arm in the presence of the troops. The
prisoner has been branded with the letter " D."
Orders have been received at Chatham for the following
East India depots to furnish reinforcements for embarka-
tion for India :-Bth, 10th, 19th, 20th, 23d (Royal Welsh
Fusiliers), 24th, 29th, 32,1, 3.ith (Royal Sussex), 43d
(Light Infantry), 52d (Light Infantry), :;3,1,
61st
The reinforcements,
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HERR JOACHIM.—This great violinist has just arrived
in Lwidoo, where he has not been heard for several
years. He is to make his first appearance at the Phil-
harmohieCone,rt on Monday next, when he will perform
Beethoven's violin Concerto, together with the singular
piece which everybody has heard about, but few have
1 stened to—Tartini's famous " Sonata del Diavolo,"
consisting of the great old master's reminiscences of a
dream in which the Devil entertained him with a solo on
his own instrument. This sonata, of enormous difficulty,
is esteemed the most original and imaginative of Tartini's
compositions.