The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-08 00:00:00

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males
'Females

Total

936
902

1,838

THE MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY.
The peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship In.
us, Captain G. Brookes, with the heavy portion of the
India and China mails, has arrived. She brings 150 pas-
sengers, 7,0001. in specie, and a cargo of silks, shawls, &e.
Her latest dates are Alexandria, Match 24 ; Malta,
)!arch 28; and Gibraltar, April 2. Her Majesty's ship
Cressy was on her way from Malta to Gibraltar. The
Majestic arrived at Gibraltar on the Ist, on her way to
England.
The Etna, which should have brought the first Austra-
lian mail, which has been due at Suez by the Oneida for
some time past, has returned to carry out the mails of
the 12th instant. She brings two letter bags from Alex-
andria and Malta, and a small cargo, with five passen-
gers. She left Alexandria on the 25th of March, and Malta
on the 29th.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Al.
hambra, Captain Woodgates, sailed to-day with the mails
for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, adiz, and Gibraltar, 26 pas-
sengers (among whom was Ensign Harrison), specie value
28,0801. for Lisbon, and a general cargo. The Golden.
Fleece, the property of the European and American Steam-
ship Company, left here for Hamburg yesterday afternoon,
to take in cargo and passengers for the Brazils; she haves
Hamburg on the 20th inst., and Southampton on the 24th.
Mr. Crawford, M.P., and Mr. Round, two of the direc-
tors, paid a visit of inspection on Saturday last to the
isuligipras cpoidmlpyoisainthg tehire
equipmentcompay's forfl eet, which are all progress.
sea.

CENTRAL AUERICAN PRODUCE.—The steamer La
Plata, which arrived at Southampton on the Ist instant,
with the last West India mail, brought home, amongst
other cargo, a large quantity of indigo from the 'west'
coast of Central America. The produce of that part of
the world has hitherto been sent to England by way of
Cape-Horn ; but now, owing to the arrangements made
by the Panama Railway Company, it is shipped on board
of a coasting-steamer to Panama, sent by railway across
to Colon, and there put on board the West India mail-
steamers for England—the result being that the produce
is in England and sold in less time than it used to take
in reaching Cape Horn. These arrangements will prove
of immense advantage to those interested in the speedy
delivery of consignments from Central America.

Letters to be addressed " A. 8.," 104, Strand.
H" ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
SEASON 1857.
The THEATRE will OPEN on TUESDAY, April 14, when
- will be presented Donizetti's Opera of
LA FAVORITA.
Leonora Madlle. SPEZIA.
Baldassare . Sig,no:7 VEALETTI.
Fernando S'gnor GIUGLINI.
To be followed (first tires these 10 years) by the favourito
Ballet of LA ESMERALDA.
Founded on Victor Hugo's "Notre Dame de Paris."
La Esmeralda Madlle. POCCHINI.
Claude Frollo Signor RONZANI.

Pierre Gringoire

M. MASSOT.

All the Boxes and Stalls having been disposed of for the
Subscription or Opening Night, the same Opera and Ballet
will be Repeated on THURSDAY, April 16 (it being an extra
night not included in the subscription).
A limited number of boxes in the Half Circle Tier have
been specially reserved for the public, and may be had on ap-
plication at the Box-office at the Theatre Colonnade, Hay-
market. Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each.
The doors will open at half-past seven ; the Opera com-
mences at eight.

ROY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
On EASTER MONDAY, will be performed
Shakespere's tr)gedy of
KING RICHARD THE SECOND.
King Richard 11., Mr. C. K-an ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean.
Preceded by A GAME OF ROMPS.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone.

NEW ARRANGEMENT OF PRICES OF A DmisSION.

On EASTER MONDAY, and during the week, the new
Drama of A LIFE'S TRIAL. Messrs. Buckstone, Comp-
ton, Howe, W. Farren, Rogers ; Mesdames Reynolds, Poyn-
ter, Fitzwilliam, &e.

After which, 'for the first time, a Classical Love Story, un-
der the Apple-lation of ATALANTA ; or, Tho Three Golden
Apples in which Miss M. Oliver will appear; also Miss M.
Wilton, her first appearance here, and Miss Ellen Ternan, her
first appearance in London.
Concluding with GRIMSHAW, BAGSHAW, AND
BR ADS HAW. Mr. Bnckstone.

In future the prices will be :—Orchestra Stalls (which may
be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each ; Dress Boxes,
bs. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Lower Gallery, ls ; Up-
per Gallery, M. Second price :—Dress Boxes, 3s ; Upper
Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls. ; Lower Gallery, 6d. No half-price to
Upper Gallery. (No charge for booking.)

THEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI.
Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.

On EASTER MONDAY, will be performed the now and
original domestic sketch, entitled WELCOME, LITTLE
STRANGER. - Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Bedford, &c.
Followed by THE ELVES, in which Madame Celeste will
make her first appearance.

After which, A NIGHT AT NOTTING-HILL, in which
Mr. Wright and Paul Bedford will appear.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—Tho follow-
ing company of Vocalists arc engaged for the performance of
Selections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses,
Glees, Ducts, dre., viz, : Z-Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield,
Miss Brunel], Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta; Mr. J.
Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmaits, R, (Grover, T, Farrant, S.
Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri, Senor Antonio M.
de Solla, and E. L. Hime ; 'Masters Austin, Bennett, and
Corti; Messrs. Sam Collins, E. Mackney, and C. J. Wilkins,
Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.;
director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre-
cisely. Suppers, dtc., until twelve o'clock.

awn WATER AT LONDON BRTDO

THIS D 4T—Morn. 35 min. aft. 1 --Evoning 51 inio. aft. 1
FO-Movßow—Morn. 5 min. aft. 2—Evening 20 min.aft. 2

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFiaE, APRIL 8.
THERSIOHZTErt, IN THZ SUAEE.
6.3 —highest since noon vesterdayl
51 -lowest this morning and daring the night.
60 - this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 29.93.
WIND, S. to S.W.—Light, with fine weather,• bui
cloudy.
Two O'CLOCK.—Heavy rain.

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I Mr. W. J. EVELYN has yielded the palm to Mr.
J. BRISCOE, the reforming candidate.
In East Sussex—with 5,000 and odd registered
electors, and a population over 225,000—Mr. J.
DODSON, th© Liberal, is the colleague of Viscount
PEYENSEY, the Conservative.

In Argyllshire the Ministerialists have gained
one through Mr. A. FINLAY, the Liberal substi-
tute for Sir ARciiinALD ISLA.Y CAMPBELL, pre-
viously the Conservative Representative of a Con-
stituency of little more than 2,000 registered
electors out of a population having au aggregate
of more than 89,000 !

Ayrshire, with nearly 4,000 registered electors,
in a population of some 190,000, has, by electing
Lord JAMES STUART, the Liberal candidate, given
ore more to the Ministerialists.

Lanarkshire, with 3,500 registered electors and
a population of 530,000, having done precisely
the same thing by the selection of Sir E. CoLE-
BROOKE as its Liberal Representative !
Ministerial gains altogether Seventeen in the
County constituencies I A tolerable catalogue, we
take it, all things considered ! But even beyond
these Seventeen positive " gains," Ministers
have had other triumphs of a rather notable
kind among the remaining County constituencies.
Not the least remarkable of these triumphs to
the cause of Liberalism and Reform being the one
recently gained against apparently very long odds
in North Devonshire ! There, thanks to the
indomitable pluck, the unflinching resolution, and
the sustained and contagious enthusiasm of the
Liberal possessors of the franchise, Sir STRATFORD
NORTHCOTE, the "great card" of the Conserva-
tives, was again ignominiously defeated. Again
defeated we say advisedly, for, had he not been
already summarily expelled from Dudley by an
" unknown" Liberal, Mr. HENRY SHERIDAN ?
Well—the true-hearted electors of North Devon
have reiterated the rejection already recorded by
Dudley against Sir S. NORTHCOTE! And they
have not only thereby sternly spurned Conterva-
tism, but they have chosen a worthy representative
of Liberalism, in the person of Mr. J. W. DULLER,
placing him at the top of the poll—and thus most
satisfactorily equipoising the Family Interest in
their own good county of Devonshire.
Ded will have a strange tale to tell when the
Returns shall (now in a very few days) have been
completed. Ilansard will indirectly tell the same
tale all over again, piecemeal and at intervals. A
tale of unexp3ct'3d successes to new candidates,
and of most bitter disappointments to old and
ignominiously rejected representatives. The Lee-
son conveyed by the General Election, after ail,
is a very wholesome one—and we trust that it
may be laid to heart, not merely by the success-
ful and defeated candidates,!but by the constitu-
encies themselves.

Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT tells Us that the New
Parliament is to be composed of ANABAPTISTS !
" We have all," he twice told the electors of
South Wilts, " been redipped in a general elec-
tion." The Right Hon. Gentleman has not
listened in vain to Mr. SPURGEON, at the Surrey
Gardens Music Hall ; and if he be right we
shall have, ere long, a sufficiently zealous band
of neophytes in the walla of St. Stephen's. In
many places we have noted that the catechu-
mens answered well ; in some they were
put through our Candidates' Catechism en-
tire ; in others they were tested by im-
portant questions from it, and we are bound
to say that many not only knew the Creed
and the Ten Commandments, but some had almost
mastered the eleventh ; being willing to do to
electors and to non-electors as they would that
they should do unto them. And assuredly
liberal politics are fully mastered when the cate-
chumen understands the political application of
the great, the oft-quoted, but always evaded,
command.