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LONDON, THIIRSDA.Y, MAT 13, 1858.

THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS.

The Cabinet Council, which was held at Mr.
DISRAELI'S official residence, yesterday afternoon,
lasted an hour and ten minutes.
This morning the Earl of DERBY had an
audience of the QUEEN.
There was great activity at the Carlton and
Reform Clubs yesterday evening, the rumour
gaining ground that Ministers intend to dissolve.
Several of our contemporaries give accounts
of Ministerial re-construction, but as yet they
have received no authentic confirmation, and it is
probable that the name of Lord DERBY'S new
colleague will not transpire, as the House of Com-
mons may possibly, by its vote, impose upon the
Minister the necessity of submitting to a double
re-election.

We have received a great many addresses from
Members to their Constituents, but as they merely
announce that a dissolution is at hand, and that
their authors will offer themselves for re-election,
We think it unnecessary to reproduce them here.

It is said that Ministers have hinted to their
-zuPporters the necessity of taking immediate
BtePa to secure their seats in the next Parliament.

There is
much speculation as to the probable
vomit of V. dissolution. The general impression
is that Lord DERBY would gain some 60 seats,
but that would not give fl Conservative majority,
although it would enable Ministers to con-
duct the business of the country, as the
Radical party are of opinion that nothing
would be gained at this moment by a change which
would place the Whigs in office—the moment not
having yet arrived for the sincere Liberals to form
an Administration.
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We are anxious that our Ballot-friends should
lose no time in preparing for the struggle. We
cannot believe that the Radical party will suffer
by the dissolution, as the seats gained by Minis-
ters will be wrested from Palmerstoniaus, and we
are disposed to think that many Whigs of the
CLA.RENDON-CLANRICARDE school will make wi y fir
orough-going :Reformers. At any rate, if any loss
4oea aoorue to the, Liberal party from the impend

ing dissolution, Lord PAwarisToN alone will be
answerable for it. The only circumstance which
could justify CARDWELL'S motion has been re-
moved by Lord ELLENBOROUGR'S resignation, and
it is now only a factious artifice to attempt to
saddle the Government with an indiscretion for
which that Noble Lord has frankly stated that he
alone is responsible.

The Palmerstonians exhibit neither moderation
nor decency. They are hungering and thirsting
for office with all its agremens, and they care not
by what means it may be obtained. The conduct
of Lord DERBY and his friends when in Opposi-
tion was very different indeed. They acted fairly
and properly, and relinquished many opportunities
of annoying, and perhaps overthrowing their
political opponents. They manifested a sincere
regard for the national interests, looking to the
welfare of Great Britain rather than party affairs.
But now all that is changed, and even the welfare
and happiness of 150,000,000 of our fellow-sub-
jects are rendered subservient to the petty
manoeuvres of the family clique.
It is said that there has been a coalition—that
the Peelites, or some of them, have come
to terms with the Palmerstonians. Mr.
CARDWELL is the: hand selected to fling
the firebrand. Should it succeed he is to be the
new Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir Ja.xxs
GRAHAM, it is stated, is to be the Minister for
India, and Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT Colonial Secre-
tary. But there is " many a slip 'twixt the
cup and the lip." The compact will not be ratified
by the nation, or sanctioned by the independent
Liberals. Lord ELLENBOROUGH acted fairly and
honourably. With his great experience and
foresight he could not avoid seeing the
grave mistake into which Lord CANNING
had been betrayed, and could not, consistently
with his duty, abstain from giving expression to
his opinions. No person has dared to support
the policy of wholesale spoliation and universal
confiscation, not even the aspirant to the Exche-
quer Office, the would-be financier has not ventured
to justify the proclamation that might drive an
entire nation to desperation. It is only its puili-
cation that is complained of, and the circumstances
connected with that publication have already been
fully explained. It would have been a serious
error if the Government bad sanctioned the con-
fiscation policy of Lord CANNING. He was not
an officer of theirs ; and probably on that ac-
count, and that only, he was treated with too
much consideration. It was merely hinted
that he should temper justice with mercy ;
that he should distinguish between the mutineers
and murderers and those who believed that
they were taking up arms pro axis et focis, and
fur the restoration of their legitimate sovereign.
It was the friends (!) of Lord CANNING who com-
pelled the publicity of the so-called censure which
elicited the facts of the case. They are the parties
really responsible, and must sustain the entire
burden.

While recognising the chivalrous and highly
honourable conduct of Lord ELLENnononan,
we think that he committed, and his colleagues
sanctioned, a serious error. He should not have
resigned, nor should it have been accepted. We
believe that the people would have endorsed his
policy, and that they would have rejoiced in re-
taining the services of so able and experienced an
administrator.

Lord CANNING'S proclamation was published
without waiting to know the feeling of the Govern-
ment, to which he ought to be the servant, but
strove to be the master; and all the prejudicial
results that must have followed that inauspicious po-
licy would have occurred, if the answering despatch
were suppressed, or we should rather say, not pub-
lished 1 But whatever may be the feeling on that
point—whether Lord ELLENBOIWITGH was right or
wrong in the publication, no one impeaches the
correctness of his views respecting the actual facts.
He has resigned, and his colleagues are neither
open to the censure or entitled to the credit of
the course. Alone he did it, and he has
nobly insisted on bearing the penalty. Nothing
but the most factious opposition, the most greedy
craving after office could justify any further pro-
ceedings. But it is impossible to measure the
anxiety for office amongst a certain class of poli-
ticians, and although it would be deeply injurious
to the nation, we could almost wish that the
Sabbath-day conspirators might have a tem-
porary success in order that the House of
Commons might be purified, and that
the ♦arious constituencies might have the
opportunity of rejecting with disdain, men
who should never have obtained their suffrages.
Should the malcontents succeed, there will, of
course, be a general election, and that will pro-
duce a large infusion of new blood into the House
of Commons, and render it, what it cannot at pre-
sent be said to be, a fair exponent of the opinions
and wishes of the people.

There has been another meeting of independent
liberal members of the House of Commons, and
it is said that some difference of opinion prevailed
as to the course to be adopted with reference to
Mr. CARDIVELL'S factious motion. We can

scarcely conceive the cause of such dif-
ference, or how any consistent and in-
dependent liberal could desire to create
a Palmerstonian Dictatorship or restore the
despot-loving lord CLARENDON to office. But
there are wheels within wheels, and the real
motive power, the operative influences, are as yet
unknown.

We think better, however, of the party, than
to suppose that they will suffer themselves to be
made the tools either of Peelites or Palmer-
stonians. We cannot conceive that Mr. BRIGHT will
seek to drive the inhabitants of Oude to despera-
tion, or that Mr. ROEBUCK would consent to
wholesale spoliation. Mr. HE ADLA 31 does not
desire to establish a dictatorship or a perpetual
Premier. Nor will Mr. FORSTER whip
either in or out, to produce a family
Cabinet with CL ARENDON, CLANRIOARDE, WOOD,
and LEWIS, holding high positions, and
the rival Whigg, Lords PA.LMERSTON and
JogN RUSSELL drawing lots for the Premiership.
They have a higher mission. There is a nobler
prize before them. If they actr fabiris,layandthey willhonour-
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maintains the honour of the countr y h
at home and abroad. No party in either
House of Parliament has an absolute majo-
rity ; and there is always the possibility
of an undue combination, or rather conspiracy,
succeeding. But, as Mr. DISRAELI once
remarked, "England does not love coali-
tions." The feeling within the House differs
widely from that abroad, and if the voice of
public opinion is to be attended to, the Right
Honourable and Honourable Gentlemen must alto
gether change their tactics. We look, however,
with confidence to the consistent Liberals, and

trust that the course to be adopted tomorrow
will fully justify the reliance hitherto placed in
them by the community at large.
We understand that there will be another
meeting, to-morrow, of the Independent Liberals
at the House of Commons.

Sir HENRY LYTTON BULWER'S nomination as
the successor of Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE at
Constantinople, is beyond all question the most
judicious, as it is certain beyond all doubt to be
the most popular among all Lord MALSLESBURY'S
new diplomatic appointments. It is the selection
of one of the most skilled diplomatists of his age to
one of the most difficult and responsible posts
that could by possibility be confided to an Am-
bassador. It is the choice not only of the right
man for the right place, but precisely, too, at the
right moment. The fitness of things has seldom
been more strikingly, as it has perhaps never been
more satisfactorily, illustrated in this most com-
plicated and exquisitely balanced of all the politi-
cal departments. The nomination of his Excel-
lency Sir HENRY BULWER as her Britannic MA-
JESTY'S envoy to the Sublime Porte, takes rank,
in truth, at once among the conspicuous success
rapidly achieved by the DERBY Government. It
will be long remembered, we believe, as last but
not least from that remarkable catalogue—the list
of the triumphs won within the narrow space of a
single quarter of a year by the Liberal-Conserva-
tive Administration. The release of PARK and
WATT from their long Neapolitan incarceration—
the resolute diminution of the Income Tax in
spite of a formidable but evaded deficiency—the
prompt concession of the old bugbear Property
Qualification, as a first instalment of Parliamen-
tary Reform—the determined rejection of every
idea of diminished expenditure in the maintenance
of our military and maritime armaments—the
preservation of our alliances, simultaneously with
the direct vindication of our independence ; these,
and other remarkable achievements, have within
less than three months secured to a Cabinet sud-
denly called into existence out of an abrupt and
wholly unexpected emergency a reputation com-
pounded at once of liberality and resolution, of
patriotism and promptitude. Together with
these eminently noteworthy acts boldly adven-
tured upon forthwith immediately upon the in-
stallation of the new Ministry, there have been
others of a noless significant character, proceedings
which have confirmed that reputation in the na-
tional jadgment, giving it a colour as well as a
form ; in some instances expanding credit to
popularity, and in others even heightening respect
into admiration. It can hardly be surprising,
however, that much, even in so short a period,
should have been accomplished by a Government,
having as its chief a leader no less daring and
chivalrous than the Earl of DERBY—a Chancellor
of the Exchequer in every way, whether as a de-
bater, or as a financier, alike skilled in fiscal finesse
and Parliamentary rhetoric, like the right Hon.
Member for Buckinghamshire—a Foreign Secre••
tary as energetic as Lord MALMESBURY—a Colonial
Minister, as full of promise, and as affluent in
device as the Noble Lord the member for King's
Lynn—a Home Administrator as statesman-like,
in every thought and action, as Mr. Secretary
WA.LPOLE : to say nothing of this Cabinet having
simultaneously substituted, for Sir CHARLES
Wool), at the Admiralty—an administrator as
earnest and indefatigable as Sir Joux PAHINGTON.
Determination, civicism, energy, promptitude—
with such a change—were the very results natu-
rally, if not inevitably, to be expected. And so
it certainly came to pass, that no sooner were the
DERBY Ministers installed in office than they at
once began the series of labours upon which we
have seen them rapidly adventuring, and the chief
among which we have here once more succinctly
enumerated.

In no department of the Administration, how-
ever, have larger alterations, modifications, repa-
rations been effected, since February, than in the
particular department presided over by the Earl of
MALMESBURY. A despatch that ought certainly
to have been written by his predecessor, was writ-
ten by him, immediately upon his installation in
Downing-street, as Foreign Secretary. British
subjects, who ought, as undeniably, to
have been long before restored to liberty and
their own land by that same predecessor of
Lord MALMESBURY, were quickly extricated from
imprisonment by Lord MALMESBURY in his capa-
city as the official protector (in fact and not simply
by name) of the much talked-of civis Eritannicus.
Another British subject, in the person of Mr.
HODGE, was, with equal speed, elsewhere relieved
from durance vile by the Noble Earl the chief of
the Foreign Department. Under his auspices,
moreover, old alliances and new alliances have
been alike satisfactorily maintained ; and yet,
simultaneously with the accomplishment of all
this, Lord MALMESBURY has, in the short space of
one quarter, contrived to remodel and reorga-
nise a considerable portion of the whole diplo-
matic service of England. Scarcely, in the first
instance, and at one fell swoop, has Lord MAL-
MESBURY redistributed five great embassies, when
he nominates to a sixth, of the very first im-
portance, one, moreover, invested with the most
solemn responsibilities, the most judiciously and
sagaciously selected of all the diplomatic servants
of the Crown appointed afresh under the Earl of
DERBY'S Administration. No one assuredly will
gainsay the accuracy of this assertion. What-
ever may be thought anywhere of the substitu-
tion of Lord R. LOFTUS at Vienna in place of Sir
H. SEYMOUR—of Sir J. CRAMYTON at St. Peters-
burg in the room of Lord WODEHOUSE—of Mr.
HowARD at Florence in the room of Lord NOR-
MA.NBY-of Mr. BUCHANAN at Madrid in the
room of Lord HownE2r—and of Mr. ELLIOTT at
Copenhagen in the room of Mr. BUCHANAN—it
will scarcely be denied by any caviller, however
captious, however exacting, however depreciating,
that in choosing Sir H. BIILWER as Lord STRAT-
FORD DE REDCLIFFE'S successor the Noble Earl at
the head of the Foreign-office has hit upon the
man of men who ought, beyond all others, to have
been selected particularly at this juncture as her
MAJESTY'S diplomatic representative at Constanti-
nople.

His Excellency will tido with him to the
Golden Horn very nearly 30 years of diplomatic
experience. His distinguished career as a diplo-
matist having begun in his extreme youth, in
1829, when, as attaché, ho was nominated suc-
cessively to the embassies at Berlin, at Brussels,
and the Hague. His first post of importance,
however, was the second of those three, that of
his special 'mission to Brussels, whither he pro-
ceeded in 1830, and where it was he watched,
with youthful but sagacious vigilance, the progress
of the Belgian revolution. Secretary bf Legation
and Charge d'Affaires in 1835 in that same capi-
tal, he there continued intlatltBw3o7 (more-foldca thanpacity
for two years—namely, until
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been chosen to preside, the conspicuous and im-
portant Embassy at Constantinople. There it
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was, when simply Secretary of Legation, that his
Excellency negotiated the commercial treaty
between the Porte and England. Subsequently

named, in 1839—a decade from the date of his
entrance into the service—Secretary to the Em-
bassy at Paris, he was three times interim Minis-
ter at the French Court during the occasional
absence of the Ambassador. In 1843 he himself
inaugurated his career as Minister Plenipotentiary.
That notable career is the reason for his present
nomination. As Ambassador at Madrid, as Am-
bassador at Washington, as Ambassador at Flo-
rence--and yet more recently, and, if possible,
more remarkably, as Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary in the reorganisation
and reconstitution of the Danubian Principalities
Sir HENRY LYTTON BUMPER has, during 15 years,
so acted in those remote regions as to win the
admiration of his country and the approbation of
his Sovereign. This approbation her Most Gra-
cious MAJESTY signalised ten years ago by his
Excellency's investiture with the dignity of Knight
Grand Cross of the Bath ; but it has now been
yet more signally marked by his admission, on the
11th inst., to kiss hands on being appointed her
MAJESTY'S Ambassador at Constantinople.

THE CAMBRIDGE HOUSE PLOT. -A
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT.

The candour with which we always treat our
political opponents, obliges us to notice the anxious
desire which the Palmerstonian place-hunters have
manifested to allow no act of theirs to pass un-
hallowed. Thus it was that Sunday was the day
selected for the meeting at Cambridge House,
at which the plan of operations was settled,
and, by a felicitous combination, the services
of an EvangeliCal Intriguer were secured to re-
commend the spoilation of Oude to the cordial
approbation of the House of Lords.
In justice to Mr. CARDWELL, we are bound to
observe that the Right Honourable Gentleman
showed the same laudable desire to consecrate his
designs upon Downing-street, and that he did his
best to celebrate Ascension Day by the restora-
tion of the Place-hunters to office.

MR• HOWARD GLOVER'S ANNUAL

COACERT.

Those who say the English are not a musical
people "begin their nomenclature much too soon,"
for certainly the aspect of our present metropolitan
musical stars afford favourable augurship touching
the state of our harmonic ascendancy. We need not
take a weary walk to meet with numberless temples
where Apollo is t aramount lord and master, and to
hear unequivccal significations that we have music
in our national soul. We have opera on all sides—
in all shapes. Her Majesty's Theatre, redolent
of Meyerbeer and Mozart ; the Royal Italian,
rising like a great phoenix, about to be also vitalised
with the same classical elixir of musical life ; and
Old Drury seriously adapting Verdi to the popular
vernacular. Then wo have St. James's-hall,
Exeter-hall, St. Martin's-hall, Canterbury-ball,
Sacred Harmonic Societies, Philharmonic Societies,
Musical Soirees, Crystal Palace Concerts, and
Handel Festivals; with German bands, demi-piancs,
and barrel-organs unlimited. Surely these afford
something like indications that we are not quite
deaf or dumb on the subject of sweet sound ; and
though our " Tom Togs" may not indulge in the
classical strainspt Tasso, as they pull up and down our
mulatto-complexioned Thames ; yet we are not
deficient of vocal spontaneity of a rather imposing
kind, poured from the throats of myriads of little
and big boys, who delight in making the grand
streets of this noble city echo to the romantic
themes of "Jump Jim Crow," " Pop goes the
weasel," or " Old Dog Tray." With these fully
developed symptoms of musical plethora we cannot
submit to be denominated as a people " fit for
treasons, stratagems, and spoils ;" and if positive
and particular evidence were required to prove our
love of the divine art, the audience composed of
"the people" at-ending Howard Glover's gigantic
concert at Drury-lane, yesterday morning, would
be quite sufficient witness. We never beheld a
stronger exhibition ofdelight and appreciation, and
though, with genuine John Bull heartiness, there
was a tendency among " the gods" to encore every-
thing, we could but admiro the advanced state of
intelligence and conduct which caused them, on the
slightest intimation, to reccalcile their genial im-
pulse with conventional decorum, to listen with at-
tenion and applaud with discretion. The concert
was an excslleut one for the purpose it was intended
to serve, and in every way eminently successful.
Among the more prominent demands on our
attention we may specify the " Duo Brilliante"
from Les Huguenots, for pianoforte rnd
played by Miss Arabella Goddard anti M. Sainton,
which elicited rounds of rapturous approval. Miss
Dolby in the beautiful aria " Mills Vole" was
splendidly effective, and Madame Rudersdorff, Miss
Messent, Miss Louisa Pyne and the other lady ar-
tists did ample justice to their various parts, ex
citing enthusiastic applause. Madame Gassier
displayed her wonderful power of note execution
in a fantasia ou Irish airs which evoked an encore,
as did also the ballads sung by Sims Reeves ; by
the bye we should like to find the individual who
can hear this great and pure tenor singer, and dis-
pute our right to being musical.
The Misses Rowcroft made a most gratifying
debut. Their performoace of "Carlo Vive," "
would that my love," "The Young Recruit,"
Bid me Discourse," and other compositions gave
some scope to allow a criticism of their powers.
Miss Julia Rowcroft possesses, we think
the finest vocal orgsn of the two, and will
doubtless sing well when time toad experience
shall have matured her natural gifts. Miss
Rowcroft has a slender and delicate soprano
voice which she manages with taste and skill, and
we may truthfully congratulate both the young
ladies on the highly favourable impression they have
made on the public. M. Benedict, Mr. Alfred
Mellon, and Mr. Howard Glover were the conduc-
tors and accompanists. It is consequently need-
less to say the arrangements were most admirable
and perfect. The whole concert was a most satisfac
tory entertainment, regarding equally the quality
of the programme, the ratio of the ptices, and
the gratification of the audience.

A Cabinet Counc;l was held yesterday at the official
residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Down-
ing-street. The Ministers present were—the Earl of
Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury,
the Earl of Hard wicks, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malinesbury, Lord
Stanley, General Peel, Sir John Pakington, the Right
Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord John Manners.
It was reported after the Cabinet had separated yes-
terday that Lord Stanley would succeed Lord Ellen-
borough as President of the Board of Control, and that
Sir Bulwer Lytton would be appointed Secretary for the
Colonies, the difficulty of securing his return for Hert-
fordshire being averted by his advancement to the Peer-
age. We believe, however, that these statements are at
least premature, and that it is not yet decided how the
vacancy caused by Lord Ellenborough's retirement will
be filled up.
The Earl and Countess of Derby entertained his Ex-
cellency the Duke of Malakhoff at dinner last evening at
their mansion in St. James' -square. There were present
to meet the gallant ambassador their Serene Highnesfes
Prince and Pr, 'mess Saxe Weimer, the Marquis of liar-
tington, the Earl cf Malme,bury, the Earl of Jersey
and Lady Clementine Villiers, the Countess of Wil'on
and Laiy Katherine Grey B.,,erton, Lord Otho Fitz-
gerald, Colonel the Hon. Fred. A. Thesiger, &c.
THE RESOLUTION OF CENSURE ON THE MINISTRY.—
We are enabled authoritatively to announce that Mr.
Bright will give bin best support to the Administra-
tion, in opposition to the resolution of censure that
Mr. Cardwell is to move on Friday evening. Tee
weight that the hon. member for Birmingham carrier
with him in the house cannot be exaggera'ed. Mr.
Milner Gibson will sire his adhesion to the Mini-
sterial side.—Court Cirsular.

The Cologne Gazette states that the Emperor of Russia
has dec►ded that theatres shall be established in the 19
chief towns of the governments of Great Russia, four in
Little Russia, four in the Baltic provinces, five in the
kingdom of Kagan, three in the kingdom of Astrakan,
five in Southern Russ a, eight in Western Russia, Fin.
land, and Sibe ia, and five in Poland. Ali these theatres
are to receive subventions. Sehools for surer.or instruc-
tion are also to be established in all the chief towns of
governments and other large i.lacee.
WESTMINSTER JEWS. FREE SCHOOL —The anniver-
sary dinner was hell at Willis's Rooms, James's, on
Tuesday last; Mr. J. Roebuck, ALP., in the chair, sup-
ported by Sir Anthony Rithechild, Mr. Alderman
Salomor.s, Mr. Roupell, M.P., and a numerous party of
gentlemen of Jewish and CtiriAian creeds. The chair-
man dwelt with much emphasis upon the political and
educational status of the Jewish community, aad was
successful in obtaining a charitable response, an amount
of 6501, being collected for the funds if the institution.

GOVERNIIiNT EMIGRATION.—Tho G.;vernment emi-
grant ship General Hewett, 1,055 tore, Captain Louttid,
sailed from Ryrnouth on Monday, 10th inst., for Ade-
laide, South Australia, in ch.srge of Surgeon Soperinten-,
dent Jame 4 O'Donnell, with 54 married couples, 98
"ingle men, 72 single women, 45 boys between the sgrts
f 1 and 12, 27 girls between the same 7 male in-
fants, and 8 ternales, making a total of 365 joule, equal
to 314 statute adults,

1, TEST NEWS.

THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company received
the following despatch from Marseilles this (Thurs-
day) morning :
" The steamship Euxine, with the Calcutta acid
China mails, arrived at Marseilles at 9 this

morning.
"The mails left for London 10."

MALTA.
MALTA, MAY 12.

Lord Lyons, in the Royal Albert, with the Cen-
turion and Conqueror, has returned, pursuant to
telegraph order, from Corfu, and has been cruising
in Malta Roads since yesterday.
The Princess Royal has left for Alexandria, with
654 rank and file of the 57th, for India.
A reinforcement of 3,700 Ottoman troops, in a
steam line-of-battle ship and transport, passed
Corfu on the 7th for Kleck, on the Adriatic.
The Malta Times publishes a proclamation
from Sir John Gaspard Le Marchant, dated
April 30, announcing that he has assumed the
administration of the Government in the island.
It also contains notices of the appointment of
Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Le Marchant (unattached)
to be his Excallency's private secretary, and of
Captain Wilford Brett, 76th Regiment, as his pri-
vate secretary. The same journal states that, on
the Ist, Sir William Reid, the late governor, em-
barked in a very unostentati ;us manner on board
the Benares steamer for Southampton. The Co-
quette arrived at Malta on the 25th, announcing
the departure from Tunis of the squadron under
Lord Lyons ; and the next day the Conqueror and
Centurion came to anchor at the entrance of the
grand harbour. The Royal Albert, the Princess
Royal, and the other vessels remained in the
offing. Some hours after the ships made sail for
the northward and eastward, Corfu being said to
be their destination. The Wanderer despatch-boat
left Malta suddenly on the 2d, in consequence of a
telegraphic despatch of importance from England,
with orders to have it sent on to Alexandria, in the
hope of reaching by the electric wire the steamer
at Suez, awaiting the mails for India, which left
Malta on the 30th April, by the Indus, fcr
Alexandria.

FRANCE.
PARIS, WEDNESDAY.
The Minister of War has received through the
Governor-General of AL4eria a report from Gen.
DeAmarets, giving an account of the slight insurre,c
tionary movemenr, which recently broke out among
the tribes of the Babors, and to which we have
May briefly alluded : _ _

" The report commences by stating that the
tribes engaged in this movement had also taken a
very active part in the insurrection of 1856, and
when that was put down the very individuals who
were appointed cheiks became the secret instigators
of discord and have been the organisers of the
p *sent outbreak. The report goes on to state
that Captain Capclepont, who commanded the
small outpost of Takitount, having received in-
tormation that the signal for the insurrection had
been given among the tribes, and that it was to
break out ou the eve of the fast of tue Ramadan,
took the neces,nry measures of defence, and at the
same time sent off an express to Setif to inform
General Desmarets of what was in agitation. The
captain visited such cheiks of the neighbouring
tribes as still remained firm to their allegiance, and
received from them a promise that they would take
up arms to prevent any violation of their territory
by the rele,ls and would assist the French. At
daybreak of the day fixed on by the insurgents for
their attack, they advances on the position held by
the French, but were received by the two companies
under Captain Capdepont with such a steady and
uninterrupted lire that their forward movement
was checked, and finding that the native tribes
were taking part against them, they considered
their case hopeless and retreated, and by the time
the reinforcements under Gen. Desmarets had come
up, they had all dispersed. The cheiks above al-
luded to have since Wen all arrested and lodged in
the prison of Setif," •

BOURSE, May 12.—The following were the
closing quotations :

4,-1, per Cents 93 25
Do. end month —
3 per Cent. ..... 69 rio
Do. end month 69 65
Bank Shares .
Credit Mobilier 710
Do. Account 705 50
RAILWAYS.-
Orleans
Northern
Now Ditto 760
Lyon and Mediteran. 766:
New Ditto
Geneva

Credit Foncier
Belgian 44 -
Piedinontese (5)
Roman 916
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt 33
-FOR CASH.

Midi
Western 583
Strasburg
Grand Central
Sardinian
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Austrian

TURIN.

The anniversary of the Constitution was cele-
brated at Turin on the 10th with the antis-
timed pomp. The Via del Po and Piazza.
Vittorio Emmanuele were splendidly decked
out, and the National Guard was under arms
at eight a.m., the first legion being reviewed by
their colonel, Prince Humbert, heir apparent
to the throne, who was received with loud cheers.
At half-past nine, a solemn service was celebrated
iti the cathedral in the presence of the King and
royal family, the high dignitaries of the S: ate,
deputations from the Senate and Chamber of
Deputies, the members of the diplomatic body, the
municipality, and a vast concourse of people ;
after which the King reviewed the national guard
in the Piazza Castello, and then returned to the
pitahcero at thrown 5 opp.emn. ;
to
andthe
was illuminated at night.
visitors
city a
palace with the hereditary prince, amidst enthu-i-
-astic cheering float the multitude During the day
e museumsrace
took were
ok
all
greatth horse