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

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ER, MAJESTY'S TEUBA.TRE.
Il
DON GIOTANNI.
TO-MORROW EVENING, TUESDAY, May 25, will be
repeated Mozart's chDON Gef d'muvre,
lOVANNI.
Denim Anna, Madlle. Titiens ; Donna Elvira, Madlle.
Ortolani ; Zinnias, M9,dlle. Piceolomun Don Giovanni, Sig.
Aor Beneventano (his first appearanee
,this scason); Leporello,
'Signor )3elletti ; Masetto, Signor Aldighicra ; II Commenda-
tore, Signor Vialetti ; and Don Ottavio, Signor Giuglini.
Conductor, Signor Bonetti.
And the Ballet Divertissement, CALISTO ; ou, Le Renvoi
de rAMOIIr, by Mesdames Pocchini and Annetta.
Vadlle. Marie Tagliont has arrived, and will appear on
Saturday next, May 29, in a new Ballet, composed expressly
for her by M. Massot, entitled LA REINE DES SONGES.
The Opera will commence at 8 o'clock.
A limited number of Boxes have been secured to the public.
Price 21s and 31s 6d each, which may be had at the Box
Office, at the Theatre.

thoughts were concentrated on the best mode of
evading the difficulty. The despatches from India
were a perfect God-send. Sir JAMES OUTRAN was
the Deus ex macitinel, who extricated them from
the painful dilemma. Like the beef-eater in the
" Critic," he could command them all " to drop
their swords and daggers." The catastrophe was
doubtless very humiliating, but it was better than
a decisive defeat, or being cpelled to vote
against their conscience. An omd
they compelled
their would-be leaders to withdraw the vaunted
resolution that was to reinstate Lord PALMEB.STON
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
I,eople felt this, and _the Commons, too, for on
leaving the House the Right Hon. Gentleman,
Mr. DISRARLI, was loudly and very heartily
cheered 1
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 be 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. his He
own heard the
uct
imputations so freely cast upon cond
in becoming the champion of that factious plot,
concocted on " The Lonn's Day," and he did not
then, nor after many days of chewing his ruefii
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 an 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 unite, the destruction of the DERBY
Government was certain. Well, the dreaded
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.
ft 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 famil3
clique, or of—politically speaking—an unprin-
cipled coalition.

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that same hour had struck for them for precisely
the same movement, were, equally as a matter of
course, unprepared. Nobody had thought at all
of the obviously inevitable provision. Nobody but
this master in the Navy, Mr. R. W. ROBERTS, then
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-in-
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.
°AILEY 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
ROBERTS 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 ? Read
in a few words the manner in which he had
accomplished it. Mr. CATLEY is speaking :
"He performed, by a superhum an 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 shirt-sleeves up
to his shoulders, working like a possessed Berserk
of old. Marking timber, sawing plank, driving
bolt, 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. Lord
Lyons came down from Varna to see what progress
he would make. At first the Admiral looked on
as Ulysses might have lo eked on the toil of Sisy Ans.
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 pontoon, and still you talk of completing the
wiaole in seven days !' Mr. Roberts replied : "If
I attempted to finish one at a time I should
certainly fail. I am getting the several parts ready,
for the whole ; and that done, shall put them to-
eether all at once.' On the fifth day Admiral
Lyons said : ' Well, Roberts, I'm quite satisfie I
now I I see you know what you are about, and
will get through it. There is no use in my waiting
auy longer.' "
I Nor was there, as the event proved—fur the
thing was done. Long afterwards, when Mr.
ROBERTS had returned home invalided—dying
—unrecompensed —Len]. 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 Crime). this season." Admiral
LYONS wrote to Captain DACRES—"LIrcI RAGLAN,
Sir GEORGE BROWN, and I wrote as strongly as
possible in his (ROBERTS') 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 dee-
tinet 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 Commander'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 OfEARLES 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 Firat Lord of the Admiralty. Read it,
electors of Halifax, read it, men of England, this
harsh, pitiless missive, aldressed to the dying
sailor by this Wood-en-hearted statesman and ad-
ministrator :

ITER MAJESTY'S T ELEATRE.—
Titiens, Alboni, Giuglini.
Pieeolomini, Ortolani, Belletti, Beneventano, Aldighieri.
The following arrangements have been mule:—
TOMORROW, Tuesday, May 25 - DON GIO VANNI, and
the new DiVertissement, CALISTO, by Madlle. Pocchini.
Thursday, May 27— IL TROVATORE and Ballet.
Yriday, May 28—Grand Morning Concert, in which all the
art etes of the establishment will appear.
Satttrday, May 29—Mozart's NOZZE DI FIGARO
(first
time this season), and a new Ballet, for the first appearance
of Madlle. Marie Taglioni.
Monday, June 7—Grand Morning Performance.
lii answer to numerous communicitions, i
.aunounced..
*at. for the convenience of the gentry residing in the e
rcno, a Grand Morning Performance will be givenrh Monday,
June 7, in which all the artistes of the estab men
perform, including all the artistes of the ballet.
Applications to be made at the Boa-office at the Theatre

R AL ITALIAN OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.
NEW THEATRE,
First appearance of Madame BOSIO.
First appearance of Signor GRAZIANI.
appearance of Signor GARDONI.
First
Firt Night of LA TRAVIATA.
Tuesday, May 25, will be per!ormed (for
TO-MORROW,s
the first time this season) Verdi's opera,
LA TRAVIATA,
Violetta, Madame Bosio (her first appearance this season) ;
Flora. Bervoix, Madame Tagliafico ; Georgio Germont, Signor
Graziani (his first appearance this season); Baron Dnphol,
Signor Tagliafico ; Marchese D'Obigny, Signor Polonini ;
Gastone, Signor Seidl; Dottore Gren4ll, M. Zelger ; Guiseppe,
Signor Ross* ; and Alfredo, Signor Gardoni (his first appear-
ance this season).
Conductor—Mr. Costa.
Doors open at half-past 7, the Operx to commence at 8
o'clock.
Pit, 10s. 6d. ; amphitheatre stalls, 10s. 6d., 75., and ss. ;
amphitheatre, 2s. C4l,
E[ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—MadIIe.
MARIE TAGLIONI.—On SATURDAY
next, May 29, Madlle. MARIE TAGLIONI will make her
FIRST APPEARANCE this Season, on which occas
entitl ion w
ed
ill
be produced an entirely New Ballet, by M. Massot,
LA REINE DES SONDES.

ROYAL FRINCESS'S THEA.T.B.E.
Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING, will be presented MUSIC HATH
CHARMS.
After which KING LEAR. King Lear, Mr. C. Kean.
To conclude with the new farce, entitlel SAMUEL IN
SEARCH OF HIMSELF.

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ROY AL PRINCESS'S THE ATRE. —Mr.
and Mrs. CHARLES KEAN respectfully
inform the Public that their
ANNUAL occasionBEll take
place on SAPURDAY, June 12, upon which Shaks-
pere's Play of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE will be pro-
duced, with the same accuracy of detail and hi ill cor-
rectness that have marked the previous revivals at this
theatre. In consequence of this arrangement KING LEAR
will be repeatei. ELEVEN NIGHTS more, and then with-
drawn, to make room for THE MERCriday, and Saturday.
HANT OF v ENIC.
KING LEAR, Monday, Wednesday, F

THE A. TR E 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.
Drees Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0
Upper Boxes_ .......... 3 0 Upper Boxes. 2 0
Pit ...... ........ ... ..... 2 0 Pit 1 0
0 6
Gallery

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.
THIS EVENING, will be presented the Drama of the
ORFEN BUSHES.
Followed by the new Broad Eccentric Drama, OUR
FRENCH LADY'S MAID. Mr. B. Webster and Madame
Celeste.

Commence at Seven.

STRAND THEATRE.—Lessee and Directress,
Miss Swanborough.—Thii Evening will be
presented MARRIAGE A LOTTERY, supported by Messrs.
Emery, Ray, Belford, Mesdames M. Oliver, Portman, Victor,
and gelby.
After which, the new burlesque of FRA DIAVOLO ; or,
The 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. Swanborough, J. W Ray, Chas.
Young, Mesdames Leigh Murray, M. Ternan, and C. Melville.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-rout.--
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow
tug company of Vocalists are engaged
for the performa
DRIGALS
nce o
S tleotions from all the popr OPERAS, MA
CHORUSES, GLEES, D 'JETS, dtc., viz. Mme—ussell, Sirs
Badzey, Miss Bruaell, Miss Ray, Maßartoletti,
Mies Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson ;
Herr F. Joaghmans, Mr. Renshaw, S. Toner, J. Barker,
W. Melling, Senor Antonio. E. L. Rime, Mr. Badzey,
Senor 'Moll, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Beriard
Messrs. W. T. Critchfield, John G. Forde, and E. Mackaey,
Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Mr. Courtney ;
Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock
precisely. Sappers, &e., until twelve o'clock.
Mr. AUGUSTUS BRAHAM will appear every Evening
in s. Selection from "LA. DAME BLANCHE" (THE WHITE
LADY), first produced at the Canterbury Hall. English
words by Desmond Ryan, Esq.

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. Oakey, 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
Victor—those few graven characters on the little
cross are well worth perusal, the characters carved
upon the cross there raised upon those three rude
atones brought thither from the walls of Sebas
topol—

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

fUGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY—Morn„ 43 min. aft. 11—Even., 0 min. aft. 0
To-MOREOW—Morn., 7 min. aft. 12—Even., 31 min. aft.l2

ROBERT WILSON ROBERTS, R. N.

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

rsvo lines—no more—and tho literal meaning

of the words simple enough ; yet under that
literal meaning what a mournful and touching
significance ! With the particulars of this deplor-
able history the public at large are 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 brochure. This early abstract
of the memoir appeared originally on the 11th of
March in the Daily News, and was subsequently,
ottlast Lady-day, rendered the theme of slme
moat 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 thrics told-1n each instance
with admirable ability and with a rhetorical force
and a logical precision, not simply persuasive but
perfectly convincing and incontrovertible. In his
pamphlet-reprint of the story, Mr. CAYLEY with

g 4 CHARLES WOOD.

a poignant irony
entitles his memoir—" Tao
Service and the Reward
"—the Service having in
truth been Immense, and the Reward absolutely
Nothing. In one sentence, What was that Set-
e e aecrc:imo
exertions
ioshf mtehnist
vice ? It was briefly this—Th
in a few days by the individual x
humble Master in the Royal Navy of what every
othei official, great and small, from the Admiral
of the Fleet and the Commander-in-Chief of the
Army downwards, ha.l altogether neglected up to
the moment of the emergency—and at
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 Eu-
patoria. The Fiend), according to their habitual
promptitude and prevision in 'natters 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
Bred tape and the mazes of circumlocution—when

TRE SITS, LONDON, MONDAY E V ENIN7G, MAY 24, 1858.

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,
and not promoted !

The result is graven under the humble hero's
name on that simple cross raised above his remains
in the naval burialground at Plymouth—

L A,TE

EWS.

INDIA AND CHINA.

" Portimoutb, Sept. 21, 1856,
"Sir,—l have had tha honour of rec.!iving your
letter, and I am sorry to hearty om yourself, as in.
deed I had heard from Dr. isbett, to whom I
spoke on the subject, that you are at present un-
able to undertake aLy 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 promo ion to the list of active com-
manders. But I need not repeat w iat has 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 obedient
servant,
"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. ROUERTs' 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
Cyelop, mentioned by the hon. member for the
North Riding, he was happy to say that that gen-
tleman bad been promoted, aria had received from
the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Cit.
in consequence of his merit and his merit only, one
of the best situations which a mister was capable of
bolding." (Rear, hear.)—See Times, March 24,
1855.
Now it must be observed that Mr. CAYLEY'S
question was, whether Mr. 2.OBERTS had received
promotion for the services he had described.
Admiral BERKELEY'S reply sounded enough like an
affirmative to draw t .e cheers of the Rowe on
promotion for merit and merit alone. Admiral
B.'s statement was true, in so far as Mr. ROBERTS
had been promoted for merit and merit alone
eight yeal.s before. It was true Sir J. GRAHAM
had appointed him to the Cyclops in '53, an ap-
pointment which bad enabled Mr. ROBERTS to do
o lir ROBERTS these services whose reward was now the question
before the House. But the only preferment or
promotion
bad received for and since
thse services,was a sick bed in Malta Hospital.
There he lay, while the Admiral was drawing
cheers in Parliament on 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, and

done in exchange, and bills on London closed at
1091 to 110. Ashes firm. Coffee quiet but firm.
Cotton quiet, but prices sustained. Flower and
wheat rather lower. Corn scarce, and rather dearer.
Sco cb pig iron dull and depressed. Spirits of tur-
pentine advanced to 50c. Crude inactive. Oils
steady. Pork irregular, and ± dol. to dol. lower.
Beef unchanged. Lard dull acid lower. Sugar
firm. Tobacco steady and firm. Freights again
firmer. Flour to London, 2s. 6d. ; beef, 4s. 9d.
NEW ORLEANS, MAY 11.
Cotton firm at 111 d. to 12d. for middling. Re-
ceipts 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 following information 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 871 ; ditto Bonds, 97. E. ie
shares, 24 ; half ditto, third mortgage bonds, 77.
Illinois Central shares, 91-1 ; ditto Bonds, 90. Pa-
nama Railroad, 1001. In the p o Ince 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 Fait field from Mole.
WASHINGTON, MAY 12.
The House of Representatives is engaged to-day
upon the affairs of the territories.

THE DERBY GOVERNMENT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—After the upright and patriotic manner in
which, discarding previous associations, the most
distinguished members of the Liberal party have
given a bold, consistent, and an able support, in
the House of Commons, to Her Majesty's Govern-
ment, it is to be hoped, that by timely, and I may
add graceful concessions, a collision between the
two Houses of Parliament, on the question of Jew-
ish emancipation, may be averted.
The Tories must be convinced that the Liberals
are not factious, but patriotic ; and that the time
has come when the honor of England requires that
to subdue factious there should be a closer bond
of union between the peers and the people.
The Tories are themselves Liberals in their
policy towards India, they are winning back the
respect and the love of their fellow-countrymen by
that policy :—Then why not, while so just to the
Mahommedan and the Ilindoo, be tolerant, kind,
and generous towards their Jewish fellow-subjects `l
As all the arguments on this matter are exhausted,
I will not trouble you with a word more ; I will not
put this question on the low grounds of party
political gain ; 1 give Lord Derby credit for higher
views and purer motives ; but when so many of his
lordship's supporters in the House of Commons
are favourable to this measure, it is not unreason-
able to hope that a concession will be made.—l
have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant,
London, May, 1858. J. B.

FRANCE.
PARIS, SUNDAY.
The Emperor and Empress, with the Prince Im.
perial, her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands
H.I.H Prince Napoleon, and H.R. H. the Prince
of Wuttemberg, 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
tor the restitution of the Cagliari, and the imme-
diate liberation of the crew ; that, in case of refusal,
England and Sardiuia should propose the media-
' Lion of (a Power not 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 tha' 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
U'ranorais a few nights ago by Madame Ristori. A
day or two aft er the performance he received a sum-
mons to attend at the Prefecture of Police ; he wAs
then informed that orders had been given for his
expulsion from the French territrry. He in-
quired the reason, but was told that reasons
for thin 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 refuse to re-
ceive Italian refugees, excepting England. No
reasons were given for this exception. It is well,
however, to know that refugees are now debarred,
so far as the French police can debar them, from
going to England. Tee exception can hardly be
in consequence of any undwrstandiug between
Lord Malmesbury and the French authorities,
and the supposition is that the act is solely that of
the latter.
M. Dal Onagro has not recently taken part in
political transactions. For some years past he has
devoted himself to literary put suits, 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 they
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 passports.
The improvement stated to have taken place in
the state of M. de Pene continues ; the fever yes-
terday morning had disappeared, and the patient
was perfectly calm.
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"La Traviata," with Piccolomini for its heroine,
seems destined this season to go through a second career
of success, for, despite its frequent repetition, it never
fails to bring a full and fashionable attendance. Satur-
day night presented no exception to the rule, and the
enchanting notes of the songstress were listened to with
as much admiration as ever, whilst her pathetic acting
in the last scene evoked as much tearful sympathy.
Giuglini was in fine voice, and exerted himself to the
utmost, sharing in all the encores of the evening;and
receiving, with Madlle. Piccolomini, all the customary
'nonours at the close of each act. The opera went off
exceedingly well, and the lively ballet of " Fleur des
Champs," with the graceful dancing of Pocchini and
Annetta, brought the performances to a conclusion amidst
a manifestation of enthus;as.ic delight.

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