The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-21 00:00:00

PARLIAMENT.

Her ALAt ar,ci.)ll3 MAJESTY has, in the fol-
-1 rwing grins, annourice 1 to her Fourth Parlia-
ment the fact of it 4 dismissal. Triat Parliament,
convoked on the 4th of November, 1852, has
now, therefore, on the 21st of Msrch, 1 857, been
summarily pror )gued—its prorogation being, of
course, only immediately preparatory, pro formd,
to its Dissoluti.yn. Mr. Speaker LEFEVRII has
t3rminate4l his official career as Chairman of
the House of Commons. The Oppisition have
got a great deal more than they wanted. The
apparent 'Victory of the Sixteen has proved a t3tll
Defeat in its consequences. The majority, like
unskilled boinbardieri as they were, are fairly
" hoist' with their own petard." Sir Jour;
BOWRING is Vindicated. Mr. COTISUI PARSES
is justified. Sir MICHAEL SEYMOUR is effec-
tually supported. And her MAJESTY'S Mi-
nisters have already avenged themselves
upon the Corn —we beg pardon—upon
the "fortuitous concurrence !" All this is for-
mally announced to the country in the intimation
made to the two Houses this afternoon, by order
of her Must Gracious MAJESTY, in the words here
immediately subjoined
MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
We are commanded by her M:+jvsty to inform
you that, in rele 'sing you at this early period from
your attendance in Parliament, it is her Majesty's
intntion immediately to dissolve the present Par-
liament., in order to ascertain, in the most constitu-
tional manner, the sense of her people upon the
public affairs.
present state of

GENTLEMEN OF THE Huss OF COMMONS,
We are commando I by her Majesty to thank
3,:m
for the liberal provision which you have made for
the exigencies of the public service during the
period that will elapse before the new Parliwnent,
which Ler Majesty will direct immediately to be
called, shall have been able to give its deliberate
attention to these matters.

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
We are commanded by her Majesty to express
the satiefaetion which she feels at pair having been
able during the present ses-i..n mAteriAlly to reduce
the burthens of her peop!e.

lier Majesty commands us to assure you that it is
her fervent prayer that the several constituencies of
the United Kingdom, upon whom will devolve the
exercise of those high functions which, by the Con-
stitution, belong to them, may be guided by an
all-wise Providence to the solectou of represen-
tatives whose wisdom and patriotism may aid her

Maje,ty in her constant endeavours to maintain
the honour and dignity of her Crown, and to pro-
mote the welfare and happiness of her people.

Lord PALMERSTON has spoken—and already
Parliament is virtually dissolved. These con-
stitute, as a matter of course, the crowning
political events preparatory to the appeal to
the constituencies. The Alpha and Omega of
the period of transition. The Be-All and the
End-All of the late most mistaken movement
on the part of Her MAJESTY'S Opposition.
Lord PALMERSTON has spoken—and, so far as
he has spoken, he has spoken admirably. Although
we should have preferred something more explicit
—something more detailed something more
minutely and definitely explanatory from the
Noble Viscount, considering the really extraordi-
nary nature of the existing emergency—we must
nevertheless, perforce, acknowledge that what he
has said he has said well. He has spoken words
worthy of himself, worthy of his position, worthy
of his historical character, and of his chivalrous
and patriotic reputation. It may be that the
occasion which yesterday afforded the Prime
Minister the opportunity of formally ad-
dressing himself to the general commu-
nity in reference to the present juncture--
precluded him in a manner from resolving his
remarks into an elaborated exposé of his policy,
rendered it unbecoming, if not actually impractic-
able, for him to issue his formal Manifesto to the
Country in the shape of an after-dinner oration
at a civic banquet, given by the Right Hon. the
LOUD MAYOR to Her MAJESTY'S Ministers. It
was scarcely the fitting.opportunity. And so far,
we find a solace in our temporary disappointment.
The Premier's Manifesto must come before the
community a little later, under the sedater guise
of either a written or an oral address to the Noble
Lord's Devonshire Constituency. Meanwhile we may
enjoy the precursory satisfaction of conning to our
heart's content the eminently patriotic sentiments
to which, upon the festive occasion already speci-
fied, Lord PALMERSTON yesterday gave utterance.
" There be pippins and cheese to follow," of which
in due course the country may have more than a
nibble at the hustings of Tiverton. Without
waiting for this, however, in altogether famished
expectancy, we have been enabled, as the President
of the Council facetiously intimated last evening,
we have been already enabled to stay our appetite
for the time by a little wholesome food for re-
fection, rendered peculiarly zestful, piquant, and
savoury by a flavouring of the new " PALMER-
STON Sauce I" What a smack it has—what an
aroma Reminding one in its relish of what the
Epicure, in the Al,nanaeh des Gourmands, says,
with such horrible gusto, of a very notable condi-
ment—" With this sauce, one might eat one's
own father 1" The genuine "PALMIIIIITON Sauce"
—which some three hundred picked guests, at the
table of the LORD MAYOR yesterday, enjoyed the
opportunity of appreciating flavoured for the
most part the whole of the remark-
able food for reflection there and then
proffered, through them to the country at
large, by that very skilled and popular Chef, the
First Lord of the Treasury. Here is just a taste
of it. Alluding to the immediate cause or provo-
cation of the dissolution (the Opposition Majority
of Sixteen condemnatory of the Chinese policy of
her 111141/BBTYIB Government) Lord PALMERSTON
observes—" We [Ministers] felt that our fellow-
countrymen in a distant part of the globe had
been =posed to every sort of insult, outrage, and
atrocity ; that the treaty rights of this country
had been broken, and that those who were locally
charged with the defence of our interests were not
only justified, but were bound to resent it in as
far as the means under their command en-
abled them to do so. We felt that we
should have been basely betraying the trust which
our Sovereign and the country had reposed in us
if we had not approved of proceedings which we
thought to be right, and tehic% we, if we had been
placed in similar circumstances, should certainly
have deemed it our duty to take." Forcibly put
—so forcibly that we wonder not at all at the
cordial cheers those gallant words elicited !
Nay, further, Lord PALMERSTON added
to all this somewhat later—a little more hotly,
a little more pungently—" Why my Lord Mayor
and gentlemen, if those who concurred in that
vote [The vote on COBDEN'S motion] had risen to
power, what, by logical and inevitable conse-
quence, ought they to have done to give effect
to that vote I They said the proceedings we took
were unjustifiable; they must have sent word,
then, to the Chinese barbarian that they apolo-
gised for the wrong that had been done him.
They must have rebuilt the forts which our gallant
sailors had destroyed. They must have sent from
Woolwich fresh cannon in lieu of those which our
.ailors have rendered unserviceable ; and I pre-
sume that, in order to complete the apology,
t'ley would have repaid him the rewards
which he had given for the heads of our mur-
dered fellow-countrymen, and the expense of the
arsenic by which our people have been poisoned.
Gentlemen, I cannot envy the feelings of those
men who could witness with calmness rewards
offered for the heads of respectable British mer-
chants abroad—murder, assassination, poisoning,
committed upon our fellow countrymen abroad—
and who, instead of feeling their blood boil with
indignation at proceedings like these, would have
gone and bent the knee in abject submission to
the fiend-like barbarians by whom those atroci-
ties were committed." Logically, earnestly,
eloquently, patriotically spoken, Lord PALM6R-
STON ! Let those words go to the country—let
them plead to the sheer "common sense" of the
Electors—let them appeal to the conscience of the
Constituencies

A.B to what the Prime Minister said a little
further on, when referring to the electioneering
programme put forward by some of the more con-
spicuous leaders among the ranks of his antago•
nists, to this effect—" Gentlemen, we, too, are
for peace abroad and progressive improvement at
horse "—Thai we look upon simply as another
illustration of what we hare more than once
stigmatised, of late, under the title of mere -Vague
Generalities. That is precisely the very
point upon which we still want through L)rd
P LLMER STON' s long •looked-for M inifest)—that
is precisely the very point upon which we want a
full and satisfactory explanation. We all know
perfectly well, for example, that, as the Noble
Premier says, "The peace which we want is peace
with honour—peace with safety peace with
the
maintenance of our national rights—
peace with security to our fellow-countrymen
abroad.''
Indeed we scarcely required to receive
fron4 Lord r r%
the day ALMERSTON the assurance that—" If
shall come when a different doctrine shall
p edaecgera sa t
itoon b e
the a c ccoomu
np ltirsyh e cl by
humiliation and
must
prevail, when'
will not
up that now say where—.l
elsewhere-1
leave you to fill
gir —the couu try,
I say, must look
elsewhere for instru-
degradat:on and ments for the national
dis-
grace." Nevertheless that otherwise almost super-
fluonsassurance comes to us, we will admit, in a
manner rather consolatory in its way—bearing, in
mind the last Peace, the "Precious Peace," the
miserable and unsatisfactory Peace, in the arrange-1

ment of which the Premier himself participated,
together with most of the leading Statesmen

of our time—the discreditable and disgraceful
Peace implicating in the odium attaching to the
fact of its Acceptance, or in that of a mere con-
nivance at it, all Parties, in the Lords and in the
Commons, indiscriminately !
But—looking "at home," instead of `'abroad"
—how about the " progressive improvements ? "
It is all very fine, and very witty, and very
humorous (not one moment's doubt of it !) to
hear our vivacious Prime Minister, at seventy-
three years of age, winding up a brilliant and
chivalric oration with the assurance that " So
long as we [Ministers] feel that we are to be
backed up we shell set at defiance the accidental
concurrence' (loud laughter) of unconcerting and
uncommunicating gentlemen (cheers, and laugh-
ter), who, by a strange fatality, may find them-
selves united to turn out the Government of the
day. (Loud cheers.)" Capital, every word of
it ! BUT " backed up"—for what I For "pro-
gressive improvement ?" For what " progressive
improvement 2" Let us hear that, Lord PALMER-
STON ! That is why we are demanding so ear-
nestly and so perseveringly your Manifesto in ex-
planation 1

We may alike congratulate Europe and Ame-
rica on the great fact that Mr. PIERCE is no
longer President of the 'United States ! He bid
largely for a renewed tenure of office. He would
gladly have endangered the peace of the world,
could he thereby have retained the occupancy of
the White House for a further term of four years.
But all his convulsive efforts were fruitless. The
very steps which he thought best calculated to in-
sure success proved ruinous to his interests, and
the Democratic party unquestionably selected a far
better candidate in Mr. BUCNANAN, and p4obably
owed their success in the closely contested
election to that circumstance. Mr. Bu-
CHANAN was unquestionably their trump-card ;
and it was played at the right time. Other-
wise the triumph of Colonel FREMONT would
have been decisive ; and the Planters would have
witnessed the inauguration of the Northern Stan-
dard Bearer in the position long held by their
nominees. As it was, the battle was sharply con-
tested ; and although Mr. Bucruaralr eventually
obtained a plurality of votes of such a character
as to turn the scale in his favour, there is, we be
lieve, no doubt that the actual majority polled for
Colonel Fruntorm.

The next question was as to the manner in
which the newly-elected President would use his
victory ! Great anxiety was naturally felt at both
sides of the Atlantic for any decisive indications as
to the policy which he should pursue. He had,
by his participation in the "Ostend Manifesto,"
his advocacy of Filibustering principles, his
avowed hostility to England, and protection of
the " domestic institution," excited considerable
and apparently well-founded apprehensions, both at
home and abroad. Still, as a man of great expe-
rience and unquestionable ability, it was hoped
and believed that he would subside into a milder
tone when the necessity of "electioneering cries"
had passed away, and he was comparatively free
to act in accordance with the dictates of a
sounder judgment The first point was the
nomination of the subordinate members of his
Administration The programme put forward
might have been bettor, but it also migkt have
been much worse. General Gess, the nominal
Premier, had been apparently bitten by the Anglo-
phobia that so long prevailed in the States, bui
the selection of Mr. COBB to the next most impor-
tant office, was certainly as good as could have
been anticipate:], taking the very recent declara-
tions at the hustings into account. There was
nothing therein to excite extraordinary hopes, or
fears on either side, and the assumption of office
--the inaugurating Message, was therefore awaited
with intense curiosity. It was, in fact, by far
the most important Presidential Speech since the
proclamation of national independence.

That speech will be found in extenso in another
part of this day's impression. It is of a similar
character to the Ministerial appointments, giving
no great cause for congratulation to any side—
but " just as good as could have been anticipated
under the circumstances." The new President has
profited by his European experience, and has ap-
proximated to the vagueness of a Royal Speech.
He has not delivered himself of a short pamphlet
—de omnibus rebus et quibusdant aliis-•-tn had
been the habit of predecessors, but given a general
outline of policy to be filled in according to the
tastes or prejudicei of the readers. He commits
himself to nothing, although giving some indin-
tions of his own views.

At the very commencement he declares his deter-
mination of not becoming a candidate for re-election,
thus setting aside any imputation of being desirous
of resorting to any " dodges" for the sake of in-
fluencing future votes. This is an excellent an_
nouncement—one that affords the most auspicious
auguries respecting the good conduct of the new
Government, and inducing reasonable hopes that
it will look rather to national than individual
objects. It is a constitutional declaration which
should be demanded from every future candidate.
We know that such promises are easily disregarded
—that events may occur to induce a change of
sentiment. The advanced age of Mr. Bucnamur,
however, gives additional validity to the pledge
thus voluntarily given. At seventy years of age
—which he will be at the termination of his pre-
sent Presidency—he may be well contented to
retire into the enjoyment of the otiunt cum digni-
tate which he will have nobly earned, if his
power during the interval be applied to the
advancement of the welfare and prosperity of his
fellow-men. He will hare attained the life al-
lotted to mankind, and need not desire to increase
the labour and trouble that must inevitably fall on
the se strong enough to live t 3 four-score years.
The next topic to which he addresses himself is
the cordial union that ought to subsist between
the different States of the Republic. He •recog-
nises the full danger of the ordeal through which
the Republic has recently passed, and desirc3 to
remove, so far as practicable, the perils
that threatened a separation. Under this
view of the subject, the Kansas difficulty could
not be passel sub silentio, and this, he declares,
shall be solved under the simple rule that " the
will of the majority shall govern"—or, in other
words, that the majority of bona fide settlers shall
decide the important question of domestic slavery
in the territories. This is as much as could have
been expected, and we willingly abide the result,
satisfied that when the " border ruffians" are no
longer permitted to overrule the free expressicn
of popular judgment, the event will be in accord-
ance with the dictates of truth and justice. He
wishes chat all agitation on the subject
should cease, but that manifestly cannot be
until there has been a satisfactory solution of the
grand problem.

generations.

To put aside corruption in State affairs--te
render the purity of the Government beyond sus-
picion, is a laudable aspiration, and we earnestly
hope that he may be enabled to accomplish that
great desideratum; which would entitle him to the

THE SUN,
_LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1857

thanks and gratitude of the present and all future

Mr. BUCHANAN has one difficulty. A well-
filled, we may say an over-flowing, Treasury. This
is a matter with which not many of the old States
are troubled. If properly applied it may be made
a blessing to the community, but " jobbing" of
all kinds must be eschewed. A surplus was the
ruin of Sir C. WOOD ; but the new President is a
man of a very different class, and his declaration
that "no more revenue ought to be collected
from the people than the amount necessary to
defray a wise, economical, and efficient adminis-
tration of the Government," is just what it
ought to be, and affords the best prospects for the
welfare and happiness of the people committed to
his charge.

It only remains to allude to the foreign policy
befitting " a member of the great family of
nations." This is far better than could
have been anticipated from the principal
member of the Ostend Conference. He says "we
ought to cultivate peace, commerce, and friendship
with all nations, and this not merely as the best
mode of promoting our own material interest, but in
a spiri t of Christian benevolence towards our fellow-
men wherever their lot may be cast. Ourdiplomacy
should be direct and frank—neither seeking to
obtain more nor accepting less than our due."
Should he act up to these principles, he will erect
for himself "a monument more durable than brass."
He will be held up to generations yet unborn as
the model President, and the name of JAMES Bu-
CHINAN will go down to posterity as a benefactor
of his species. We only hope that he may justify
the expectations in this respect excited by his
inauguration address. Time will tell—and we
must await the testimony of that great witness
before we can speak positively on the point, or
know whether the history of JAMES BUCHANAN is
to be written in bright or sombre characters.

Lord Joint RUSSELL and Reform versus Lord
PALMERSTON and no Reform. This is Lord
Joy's own issue. Let us try it. Go back to
the past, says Lord JOXIc ; look at the present,
we reply. But the past is nine-tenths of my
case, says the plaintiff ; but the present and
the future are the whole of our case, we of the
constituency reply. Nay, but you will not be
politically ungrateful, says the ex-Premier. We
are- very grateful for all you have done, we rejoin,
but we have repaid you for all that, by our sup-
port while you worked for us. What l says Lord
Joint, nothing more than that for all, from the
Test and Corporation Act repeal, down to lowered
Sugar Duties i It may seem harsh, we must own,
but we can only say, that we will show our gra-
titude in any other way you like, but cannot
afford to show it in appointing you our represen-
tative unless you still represent us. You did
your duty as a public man ; we did ours as elec-
tors. Let us cry quits, and let bygones be by.
gones. But will you let me drop through after

PRIVY COUNCIL.

Her Majesty held a Privy Council and Court yester-
day afternoon at Buckingham P.alace.
The Council was attended by his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, Earl Granville, Lord President; the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne ; the Earl of Harrowby, Lord Privy
Seal ; Viscount Palmerston, First Lord of the Treasury ;
Sir George Grey, Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment ; the Earl of Clarendon, Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs ; Lnrd Panmure, Secretary of State for
War ; Sir Charles Wood, First Lord of the Admiralty ;
the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, President of the
Board of Control ; the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, Chan-
cellor of the Ducby of Lancaster ; the Duke of Argyll,
Postmaster-General ; Earl Spencer, Lord Steward ; the
Marquis of Breadalbane, Lord Chamberlain ; the Duke
of Wellington, Masier of the Horse ; and the Marquis
of Abercorn, Groom of the Stele to Prince Albert.
At the Council an Order for proroguing Parliament
from this day (Saturday, 21st) was approved.
His Grace the Duke of Rutland was sworn in Lord
Lieutenant of Leicestershire.

The Earl of Burlington *was sworn in Lord Lieutenan
of Lancashire.

sixteen years' service T We will not do it for the
world, if you will but sit on your old stool of re-
form, and not attempt to sit half on the stool of
reform and half on that of finality.
Hard measure ! But let us try, then, the pre-
sent and the future I Lord PALMERSTON voted
against Looms KING's motions for it. He voted
against it once oftener than you did—that is all,
But I put it into my last dear little Reform Bill.
You did, with accompanying provisions which
made us question whether Reform Bill the
second was worth having. Still I voted for it
pure et simple this year. In opposition—and
Lord GRANVILLE says PALMERSTON' was prepared
to vote for nine-tenths of it or BO ; we give you
the benefit of one-tenth of that vote, but we.sub-
tract a tenth for your being out of offle^ —you
and PALMERSTON appear to be equal there.

Worse and worse. " But. then Church Rates !

Well, what of them ? Why, snow me a way to
keep the churches in repair at the cost of the State
and I'll abolish them. Oh—ho I Your religious
liberty zeal is got so far as that, is it ? You say

Viscount Milton was sworn in Lord Lieutenant of th•
West Riding o Yorkshire.

The Hon.-Ww. Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council
in Waiting.
At the Court the Duke of Rutland had an audience of
the Queen, and delivered to her Majesty the Ensigns of
the Most Noble Order of the Garter worn by his father
the late Duke.

His Excellency Feruk Khan bad his first audience of
the Queen, and delivered to her Majesty his credentials
as Ambassador from his Majesty the Shah •f Persia.
His Excellency was introduced by the Earl .of Clarendon,
K.G,, the Queen's Principal Secretary of State for Fo-
reign Affairs, and conducted by Major-General the Hon.
Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of the
Ceremonies. Captain Lynch, R.N., attended the Am-
bassador as interpreter. His Majesty and suite were
conveyed in two of her Majesty's carriages from their
hotel to Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince tork
a drive in the afternoon in an open carriage and four.
Lord Charles Fitzroy and Captain the Hon. D. de Ros
attended on horseback;

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Princess Royal, the Princess of Hohenlohe Lan genburg,
and the Princess Feodore, honoured the Princess's
Theatre with their presence last evening. The royal
suite consisted of the Countess of Desart, Lord Byron,
.Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Captain the Hon. D. de Ros.

nothing about keeping in repair the other half of
the places of worship at the cost of the State I
Thank you for repealing the Test and Corporation
Acts, but we want you now to repeal the Church-
warden and Parish Test Act, by which all who
cannot swallow your Liturgy are to repair the
churches for those whocan, and their own churches
too, Thank you Lord Jowl*, but we are quite sure
Lord PALMERSTON is as liberal as that. An
equation again. PALMERSTON minus Church Rates
equal to RUSSELL minus Church Rates.
What then will you want next—the Ballot ?
Certainly. Then, by France and America, you
shall never have it I Then, by France and Ame-
rica, we won't have ye u. Not so fast—will Lord
PALMERSTON give it you? You won't, and that's
reason enough why we should not change on that
point him for you. A tie again. PALMERSTON
minus the Ballot equal to Lord JOHN RUSSELL
minus the Ballot.

But then the reduction of expenditure—you
will never got that from him. Shall we get it from
you in oncelucom I
Taxx and Income We have
got a pretty good lump
off theoff the estimates, under
PALMERSTON. We have a shrewd suspicion that
RUSSELL and WOOD, Or GLADSTONE, would not
have 'Bone much better. But were you satisfied 7
No—but we question whether YOU---IN ornoE—
would have satisfied us. "In office I" Oh the
incredulity of electors I Is it fair to talk so to
public men—" Ott of office." Oh 1 the splendid
declamations on democracy of ex-Ministers. Is it
fair to bamboozle electors?

Well, then, what's the verdict on our future

line of policy 7—Verdict—we say, six of one, and
half-a-dozen of the other. Bat now, electors,
let us be good tempered, let us at least toss up—
PALMERSTON or RUSSELL--.—YICTORIA and Co.—
RUSSELL has it—BRITANNIA, PALMERSTON has
it. Well, we hardly know PALMERSTON is in pos-
session, one thing—then there's foreign policy just
now, another. Never mind, however—up goes
—and—what's uppermost ?
PALMERSTON and BRITANNIA.

THE CITYELECTION-,SIR JAMES DUKE
AND MR. SAMUEL MORLEY.

Mr. Samuel Morley made an ungenerous attack
the other day on S;r James Duke, iu relation to
Sir James's absence from divisions in the house.
For this assumed neglect of his Parliamentary
duties, Sir James is destined to endure the cala-
mity of the loss of Mr. Morley's vote. Had not
Mr. Morley been a stranger to what Englishmen
consider fair play, he would have found the other
two Liberal members for the City still more de
serving his censure ; but that would not suit Mr.
Moriey's book. It was against Sir James that his
" excellent indignation" )mist needs be directed,
his Liberal colleagues
must be put m abeyance for the moment. An
and therefore truth regarding
honest man, seeking the truth only, would have
published the list of divisions at which the Liberal
would have stood thus :
were present, and which
Members for the City

Sir James Duke voted on 44 motions.
Mr. Masterman....,
..37
~
Lord John Russell. .......... 29
So that Sir James Duke was actually present at
44 important divisions, while Lord John Russell—
now suddenly, for some reason or other, become
the god of Mr. Morley's idolatry—was only pre-
sent at 29, being not much more than half the
number of divisions at which Sir James Duke
voted on great questions, We should like to see
how Mr. Morley will attempt to reconcile his sup-
port of Lord John Russell, and his hostility to
Sir James Duke, with these awkward returno.—
Mornivig Advertieer.

Her Majes+y the Queen will hold a Privy Council this
day, at Buckingham Palace.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Duchess of Gloucester yesterday.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford are expected in
town to-day from Woburn Abbey.
Lord and Lady Rokeby entertained the Duke and
Duchess of Wellington and a select circle at dinner, last
evening, at their mansion in Portman-square.
Baron and Baroness James de Rothschild left town
yesterday, for Paris.
The Right Hon. H. and Lady Mary Labouchere are
expected in town on Monday, from Taunton.
We regret to announce the serious indisposition of
Lady Graham, wife of the Right Hon. Sir Jas. Graham.
We- are requested to state that the North of India
Trammed Company (Limited) has now obtained its cer-
tificate of incorporation under the Joint Stock Compa-
nies Act of 1856.
BOILER EXPLOSION AT BIRKENHEAD.—At half-past 10
o'clock yesterday morning there was a tremendous ex-
plosion of a boiler attached to a stove, and used for the
purpose of generating steam to steam planks, in Messrs.
Clover and Royle's yard, Birkenhead. No one was
killed, but several labourers were struck or scalded, and
renaain in the hospital.
TROOPS FOR CHINA.--ais Royal Highness the Gene-
ral Commanding-in• Chief will review the troops in Ports-
mouth garrison who are under orders for China on Mon-
day next. The town council of the borough met in
special meeting on Thursday, for the purpose of resolv-
ing on an address to hia Royal Highness on his first offi-
cial visit to Portsmouth.
MILFORD HAVEN.----NEW POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS.
—Several memorials have been this week forwarded
from Pembroke, Milford, Haverfordwest, Swansea,
Cardiff, &c., to the Postmaster-General, for the estab
lishment of a postal communication between Milford
Haven and Waterford, now that private steam-packets
ply between these ports in connection with the South
Wales and other railways.
LyCEDM THEATRE.—The attractive performances at
this popular theatre will derive additional interest on
Monday next, from being played for the benefit of Mr.
Guiver, the obliging and very efficient treasurer of the
establishment. The duties attached to this important
post have never been more ably filled than by the bent-
ficiaire, and there can be no doubt his claims will be
liberally responded to by the friends of Mr. Dillon and
the public generally.
EAST INDIES.—Sie H. M. Lawrence, agent at Raj•
pootana, has been appointed Chief Commissioner of
Oude, vice Mr. C. C. Jackson. Colonel St. George
Lawrence has been appointed Agent of Rajpootana.
Mr. W. Bell has been appointed an Extra Assistant to
the Commissioner in Pegu, vice Mr. T. J. Fallon, pro-
moted.—Civil Service Gazette.
- A discovery, which is of importance to manners, has
just been made by Captain Estienne, of the Marie-
Eugenie, schooner of Reunion. About 20 miles:from
Madagascar he came quite close to a shoal of coral on a
level with the water, and narrowly escaped running trio
vessel on it. It is situated 17 deg. 58 min. south lati-
tude, and 47 deg. 20 min. east longitude.
sl,The pensions accorded to the widows of officers in the
French army are remarkable for the smallness of their
amount, being the following :—Widow of a general o
division, 1,500 f. a• year ; general of brigade, I,ooof.
colonel, 750 f.; lieutenant-colonel, 600 f.; chef d'escadron
(major), 500 f. ; captain, 400 f.; lieutenant, 300 f. ; and
sub-l+eutenant, 250 f.
WELLINGTON COLLEGE.—Prince Albert presided yes-
terday morning at a meeting of the governors of the
Wellington College. His Royal Highness, attended by
Captain the Hon. D. de Ros, arrived at the Palace of
Westminster soon after 11 o'clock. The governors pre-
sent were—the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of
Northumberland, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Right
Hon. Spencer Walpole. S:r Alexander Woodford, Mr.
P. R. Hoare, and the Rev. G. R. Gleig. Mr. Chance,
the secretary, attended. The meeting broke up at half-
past 12 o'clock.
EMIGRATION ra A 118TRALIA..—LIVERPOOL, Friday,_
The clipper slip Red Jacket, belonging to Messrs. Wil-
son and Chambers, White Star line of Australian packets,
left the Mersey to-day for Melbourne, with a full con-
Vement of passengers and a large cargo of merchandise.
She also took out a ship mail. The ship Algiers, be-
longing to the same line, will be despatched for Mel-
bourne on the 27th inst.
MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OP AN ARTIST.—Late last even-
ing Mr. G. T. Brent, the deputy coroner, concluded an
adjourned investigation at the Tavistock Arms, Great
Russell-street, Bloomsbury, respecting the death of Mr.
Ed win Henry Evans, aged 57 years, who committed
suicide by p iison on Tuesday morning last. It appeared
from the evidence that deceased had been for some time
in depressed spirits on account of pecuniary difficulties,
arid two days before his death had actually suggested
self-destruction to his wife. He had been disappointed
in not obtaining a lucrative situation he bad hopes of
in a new company. Prussic acid was the cause of death.
A verdict to that effect was acc ,rdingly returned.
Loss OF THE MADRID OFFICIAL INQUIRY.
SOUTHAMPTON, Friday.—The official inquiry was held
this morning before two justices of the peace of this bo-
rough—Captain Robertson, of the Board of Trade, acting
as nautical assessor. Evidence having been given that
no rock was marked in any of the Admiralty charts, and
consequently the practice of going in quite close to the
shore, and also to the skill and care of the commander,
Captain Bradshaw, the masistrates, after a short con-
ference, announced the entire acquittal of the captain,
coneidering the rocks were not marked in the Admiralty
charts, and that their existence was not known ; but
that the Court thought it prudent to give a wider berth
to headlands of any description. Captain Bradshaw's
certificate was then returned to him.

DISEASED MEAT IN LONDON.—Mr. J. S. Gamgee, in
a letter, to the Lancet, discloses some rather startling
facts as to the condition of the meat sold in the metro-
polis. Mr. Gamgee. says that he lately went to the
New Cattle-market in Copenhagen-fields to inspect the
live and slaughtered cattle. Among the former there
were three diseased beasts. In the slaughter house be
saw five carcases all destined for the City markets, and
found that four out of the five were diseased. He states
that the amount of diseased meat sold in London is
enormous, and suggests that inspectors at ports and
markets should be appointed instantly, The Lancet says
that a greater question, the cholera excepted, never oc-
cupied public attention ; and that it is impossible tp
aver rate its sanitary and economic importance.
DOCKYARD REDUCTIONS.—An order has been issued
by Capt. Smart, Superintendent of Pembroke Royal
Dockyard, to the effect that on the 21st inst. considerable
reductions are to take place in this establishment. All war
appointments are to cease, and joiners,, blacksmiths, and
labourers, to a large number, are to be di-oha'ged. The
contrac ;ors, t ao, are getting rid af many of their men. The
quantity of work the old sive, muated shipwrights
have aCCatni lish, dis astonishing. They have in an un-
u-nally short space of time put one of
.the largest ships
into frame, as well as other of smaller dimensions. The
Doris frigate (steam screw) is to be launched next week.
Tire contract for the roof over the new slip just com-
pleted by Smith has been given to Mr. Turner, of
Newcastle. The other contract w( rks are proceeding
satisfactorily.
HORRIBLE CASE OF INFANTICIDE—ARREST OF THE
MURDERESS.—Yesterday afternoon Mr. Brent, deputy
coroner, held an inquiry in St. Pancras Workhouse,
New-road, touching the death of a male child, about
eight months old, which was found murdered in the
Regerr!s Canal, on Tuesday evening. The jury returned
a verdict of wilful murder, against some person or per-
sons unknown. The coroner and jury bad only departed
a short time when a man attended with a police con•
stable at the workhouse. On sewing the body, he re-
cognised it as the child of his unfortunate sister-
in-law, and he then accompanied the police
constable and the assistant overseer to St. Pancras
workhouse, where they discovered the wretched creature,
she having slept there the previous night as a casual. It
appeared,. from the statement of the 'inmates, that she
had been in a strange state of mind, and she at once c
in-
fessed to the murder, saying she committed it after du-k
on .
Monday night. After strangling the child, and throw-
ing it into the water, she said she was about to throw
herself in aftrr it, when a policeman made his appear-
ance, and she ran off. She was at once taken into cus-
tody, and she will be committed to Newgate on the I
coroner's Warrant.

LATEST N E WS.

Intelligence has been receive 1 fi orn Constanti-
nople stating that twelve hundred men, commanded
by the Russian General, Scader Khan, have occu-
pied the forts of the district of Isar, in order to
protect the rear of the Russian army and the
population of Shirvan against a descent by the
mountaineers of Daghectan and Leghistan, who are
in possession of the important defile of Balakada.

FRANCE,
PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING

It is said that the French Consul at Jassy has
been summoned by his Government to come for a
few days to Paris.
The receipts of the Paris and Orleans Railway for
the week ending the 11th inst. amount to 1,174,695 f.
62c., being an increase of 264,165 f. 87c. as com-
pared with the corresponding week of last year.
The receipts from tie Ist January to the 11th inst.
amount io 10,6 :4,878f. 29e., being an increase or
1,941,760. 48c. as compared with the corresponi-
ing period of the year 1856.
BOURSE, March 20.—The following were the last
quotations :

- Cash. tr. c.
44 per Cents -
3 per Cents B5
New Loan —

End of Month.
—fr. —c.
71 5

Bank Shares 4,175 Roman
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Credit Mobilier 1,450 Austrian

Belgian Fives . Spanish Threes
Piedmontese (5) _ —-- Home Debt

RAILWAYS-FOB CASH•

tr. c. fr C
Orleans 1 487 50 Western
Northern 992 50 Strasburg
Lyons 1,532 50 New Ditto -
Mediterranean 2,042 50 Grand Central ...... 617 50
Lyons Geneva
Cate 835 Austrian Corn.