The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-28 00:00:00

MEMBERS RETURNED TO THE
NEW PARLIAMENT.

(From the London Gazette of this evening.)
CROWN-OFFICE, APRIL 27.
Members returned to serve in the Parliament summoned
to be holden at Westminster, the 30th April,
Through of Dartmouth—James Caird, Eiq.
Borough of Devizes—Simon Watson Taylor, of Emil-
font, Wiltshire, Esq. ; Christopher Darby Griffith, of
Padworth, Thrkshire, E,q,
APRIL 23.

County of Was, Northern Division—Walter Long,
Esq. ; Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron Estcourt, Esq.
Southern Division—The Right •llon. Sidney Herbert ;
William Wyndham, E.g.
Borough of Claippecham—Lieut.-Colonel Henry Geo.
Bolder° ; Robert Parry Nisbet, Eiq.

LONDON GAZETTE—(This Evening.)

COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.

East York Militia--James White Minchin, Esq., late
Captain in the 62d Regiment of Foot, to be Adjutant,
from the 20th Feb., 1857, vice Cradock, resigned.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS,

East York Regiment of Militia—Adjutant Jas. White
Minchin to serve with the rank of Captain.
3d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster Own Militia—
Thomas Monk, Esq., M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Brandt,
deceased.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Thomas Owen, builder, Liverpool.
BANKRUPTS.
Elizabeth Silby Small, plumber, Foothill-place, Clap.
ham-rold,, to surrender May 7,
at one, end June 9,
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee,
Coleman-street-buildings ; Fraser and May, Dean-street,
Soho.
Joseph Bruce, grocer, Yarmonth,laltehoefcWouirgthto,f MBaaynk9,_
;
at eleven, and June 11, at two, at
ruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghalkstreet Har-
risen and Lewis, New Lincoln's-inn ;
Eldridge, Newport, Isle of Wight._
Robert M`Lean and James .M.`Lean, builders, Hulme,
May 15 and June 12, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis-
trict Cour'. licrnaman, official assignee, Manchester;
Rowley, Manchester.
George Alexander Hewitt, chemist and druggist, Derby,
May 12, and June 9, at half-past ten, at the Shirehall,
Nottingham. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham ; Robe-
thaw, Derby ; James, Birmingham.
William Tasker and John Audus, potato merchants,
-Selby, Yorkshire, May 8, and Juno 5, at eleven, at the
Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds;,
Hodgson, Selby ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
Thomas Harrison, timber merchant, Maidstone, May 11
and Juno JO, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Bennett,
Ludgate-hill.
Win. Paskell Garrard, wine merchant, Little Tower-
street, May 13. at. half-past twelve, and June 15, at one,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Ponnel, official assignee,
0 uildhall-ohambers ; Young and Plews, Mark-lane.
(.4eLrp l'ark_r, groeJr, Leeds, May 11, at half-past
eleven, and June 8, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Richardson and Sadler,
Old Jewry-chambers ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
Henry Walters and i3enjunin Walters, druggists, Al!

freton, Derby, May 16 and June 13, at ten, at the Leeds
District Cuurt. Browin, official assignee, Sheffield ; Un•
win, Sheffield.
_ _

Henry Markinfield Addey, bookseller and publisher,
Covent.garden, May IA at half-past two, and June 12, at
half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards,
official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Cocper and Hodgson,
Gray's-inn. . _

Alfred Hinton, druggist and grocer, Birmingham, May
11 and June 8, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham Dis-
trict Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ;
Griffiths and Bloxham, Birmingham.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
William Craig, wine and spirit merchant, Glasgow.
Robert Marshall, farmer, Whitehill, Llnarkshire.
Peter Balfour, manufacturer, Dundee.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.--THIS DAY.
Amsterdam ...... • ..... 11 17 Gibraltar • .
Ditto, three months .. 11 19ys Leghorn .. • • ••........ 29 57
Rotterdam •• •• •• •••• •• 11 19% Genoa 000000 •••• •• •••• 25 75
Antwerp •• •• •• •• •... •• 25 50 Milan •• •• •• •• •• •• •••• --
Brussels •• •• •• •• •• .• •• 25 53 Venice •••• •• •••• •• •• .•••
HaMbUrgh •• •• •• •• •• •• 13 8% Naples .•••...• • ..... 43
Altcna •• •• •• •• •• •• •• i Palermo ••••
Paris .• •• •• •• ...•• •• •• •• 25 7 0 Messina ... 130%
Ditto, three months .. 25 70 Lisbon
.......... 52%
Marseilles 25 72% Oporto ..
Bourdeaux ..•• Rio Janeiro."... ••
Franl:ort-on-Nraine .• 11934 Buenos Ayres...• •• ....
Berlin New York,GO days' sight
Vienna.••••••••••• .... 10 35 Philadelphia
Trieste •• •• •••••• •• •• 10 36 raters OF 21:1LIJON, P 22 Or.
Petersburg 37% Foreign polc.l.ln Bars £3 17 9

Madrid • •• .• 4954

Cadiz 495
Barcelona •• •• •• •• .•
Seville... •..........

Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0

Mexican Dollars .... 0 0 0
New Dollars ...... A 0 0
Silver in bare 0 0 0

ART UNION OF LONDON—(This Day).

The drawing for the prizes in the Art Union of Lon-
don took place this day at the Haymarket Theatre.
The chair was taken by Lord Monteagle.
The report, which stated that the subscription for the
present year amounted to 13,218/. 93., having been read
by Mr. GODWIN,

Lord MONTEAGLE rose to move its adoption. In doing
so, the noblo lord congratulated the meeting on the pro-
sperity that continued to attend this institution,
and said the circumstance of their having increased
the subscription from 4001. to upwards of
13,0001. spoke more forcibly in favour of the
society than any observations he could address to them.
Having passed a glowing eulogium upon Mr Sheep-
shanks, for his noble bequest to the nation, the noble
lord concluded by moving that the report just read be
adopted.

Mr. BENNOCII seconded the motion. He felt that
great benefit was conferred on art by an institution such
as the present. This was the 21st anniversary, and
during the period of their existence they had expended
upwards of 250,0001. in purchasing works of alt.
The motion was unanimously adopted.

Thanks having been voted to the Council the drawing
commenced.

4,907 Mr. Sayer, Newport, Monmouthshire £l5
3,462 General Wemyss
11,742 A. Z., Tottenham-court.road
9,454 Mr. Rhead, Tavistock l5O
2,695 R. Everard, Wandsworth
3,309 W. Follett, Ashton•undcr-Lyne l5
825 Mr. Dent, Cockspur-street
8,206 N. Wood, Hetton Hall
4,111 Mr. Douglas, Lancaster
4,073 Mr. Saunders, Kidderminster 3O
10,560 Mr. Hawkes, Whitechapel
5,322 Mr. Bastable, Portma
8,541 Mr. Harvey, Singapore
4,410 Mr. Daod, Liverpool . .
102 Mr. Sanders, Oxford 3O
528 Lieut. Bougler
7,890 R. Gering, Farringdon
7,541 G. Oliver, jun.
9,335 Mr. Newconae, Long Blelconabe 3O
10,399 Mr. Taylor, Golden-square l5
1,402 R. Stafford, Ilyde-park•square
6,401 F. Mills, National Bank
2,054 Mr. Benton, Highbury Park 2O
11,589 R. Johnson, Bishop wearmouth 35
10,181 J. Davis, Daily News
2,739 Mr. Randolph, Croydon
3,275 Mr. Foster, Manchester
5,023 Mr. Cook, Norfolk
1,859 J. Pound, Lee, Kent
10,348 Mrs. Balky
826 Rev, Mr.. Tower
4,185 Mr. Willands lO
4,803 Mr. Johnson, Nautwich
12.113 Mr. Foly, Troubridge
5,051 11. Cl)wes, Norwich 2O
511 Mr. Watkins, Peckham
10,179 Mr. Powell 5O
10,161 Mr. Campbel, Leadenhall-st.t2et 75
1,770 J.'Jone., Kentish-town
10,180 F. Dent, Daily News
3,636 Mrs. Shee, Binningham
4,482 Mr. Gawing, Lowestoft 25
2,197 Mr. M rcer, Cornhill
3,270 Brigadier-General Steel, Cornhill l5
2,789 Mr. G. Mallett, 7, Catharine-street,
Lambeth 2OO
4,014 Mr. Herries, Isle of Man
6,873 Mr. Gregory
6,759 Mr. Strickland, Lanceston
3,321 Mr. Selle
3,132 Duke of Norfolk
9,805 Mr. Sloane lOO

The remaining picture przss having been drawn from
the wheel, the drawing for the bzonzes, statuettes, vases,
models, and mezzotints was proceeded with.
A vote of thanks to the two young ladies who had
drawn the prizes from the wheel concluded the pro•
ceedinr.

SALE OF THE RUINS OF THE ROYAL
ITALIAN OPERA.—;This Day.)

The sale of the ruins of the Royal Italian Opera took
place to day in the courtyard of the building. The pro-
ceedings commenced at one o'clock, at which time there
was a large assemblage of persons present.
The first lot of bricks brought 701. The stone portico
was knocked down for 251. The iron and wood work
fetched very good prices.

The catalogue comprised upwards of a hundred lots.

TIIE BANKRUPTCY OF MESSRS. FOX
AND HENDERSON.

Yesterday Sir C'aarles Fox and Mr. Henderson ap-
peared upon their last examination before Mr. Commis-
sioner Balguy, in the district Court of Bankruptcy at
Birmingham. The abstract of the balance-sheet filed was
published in The Sun on Monday, the 20th inst.
Mr. Beale, cf the firm of Colmore and Beale, who ap-
peared as solicitor to the assignees, applied that the
bankrupts should pass. He stated that their affairs had
been under the investigation of the assignees ever since
October last, and they were perfectly satisfactory. A
further adjournment could do no possible good, while it
might occasion considerable delay and inconvenience to
all parties.
The Commissioner said he thought in a matter of so
much importance, when it was understood there were
disputed claims upon the estate, they should not be in a
hurry, but that the examination should be further ad-
journed to allow creditors time for further examination.
A conversation between the Commissioner and solici-
tors ensued, when ultimately the bankrupts passed, and
the certificate meeting was fixed for the 27th of July.
In the meantime, the creditors and all other parties will
have the lapportunity of making all necessary inquiries
into the affairs of the bankruptcy, and be prepared to
lay the result before the Commission on that occasion.
The conversation was carried on in such an under-tone
that it was impossible to catch it correctly, but the above
was understood to be its purport. The bankrupts were
not subjected to any examination, and the whole of the
proceedings appeared to be of a friendly nature.

At the meeting of the London General Omnibus Com-
pany, just held at Paris, a dividend of 53. per share was
declared. This is at the rate of 12A per cent. per an-
atun. A resolution was also carried for the cancelment
of 30,000 unissued shares, it being stated that this por-
tion of the company's original capital is not required.
EMBEZZLEMENT PROM A SAVINGS BANE AT RUGBY.—
George Samuel Essex, an auctioneer, 74 years of age,
was brought before the magistrates Et Rugby, on Satur-
day, charged with extensive embezzlement from the
Rugby Savings Bank, of which he had been a clerk ever
since its establishment in 1818. He was committed for
trial. The fraudulent entries in the cash-books of de-
posits received Went as far back as 1842, and the amount
of which the bank has been defrauded is believed to be
about 1,3001.
ATTEMPT TO POISON Two CHILDEEN.—At Chester,
yesterday morning, Fanny Stanley, a servant girl of 15,
was charged with having attempted to administer poison
to Frederick John Dunn, aged 3i years, and Mary Ellen
Dunn, aged 14 year. The prisoner was in the service
of Mr. J. P. Dunn, cashier to the Chester and Holyhead
Raiiway Company, and between 5 and on Sunday
morning last, he told the prisoner to cut the children some
bread and butter, which she did, and on going up stairs
with it she was met by Mrs. Dunn, who took the plate
containing the bread and butter from her, and then told
ber to go and change her frock. Mrs. Dunn then
noticed that the bread and butter was double, and
on separating two pieces found it was strewed over with
a blush substance; she immediately acquainted her hus-
band, and on going to the kitchenotheythe table,foundan
aenmdptya
packet labelled "Poison" lying n
knife by it, covered over with asimilar substance to that
on the ()read and butter. On being questioned, the girl
said she knew what it was, but assigned no reason for
ber act. The girl had only been engaged a week, and
was hired at the door. The poison had been purchased
b arld had been kept on the top
shelf l‘r r' l)n
out the girl's reach. She had ob-
tained it by standing on a chair. An analysis of the
poison was ordered to be made, and the prisoner Was
remanded until Wednesday.

_

THE Mii.ROU.T.3 o NOILITANBY AND
THE' iRENCH _RE-VOLUTION.
•
The _Nord of Brussels publish-s the following
letter from the Marc'u's of .Normanby, Engiis mi-
nister at Florence, but the date of it is not given :
" Sir —I have i..ceivecl this morning your jour-
nal of the 11th. Ido not disputetliat. a journalist
is always free to apprecia'ethe opin7ons of a public
man, but I do not adroit that he has the right to
impute to him controverted facts. In an article
containing a pretended tremeir ef Lord Palmer-
ston, there is-a question of me, in connection with
the revolution of 1843. 1 will confine myself here
to denying each precise • allegation. I was never
in open (or secret) connivance with the men who
conspired againSt the government of Louis Phil-
lippe. Never did I receive at my house 'the
leaders of the movement, or the journalists who
professed republican opinions.' - Your correspon-
dent adds, c Lord Normanby was seed to frequent
with remarkable familiarity these ministers of
chance.' The fact is that, being then only at
Paris non-officially, I never visited those gentle-
men, whom I did not know personally. It was
never necessary for me to address a word to a sin-
gle member of tie Provisional Government, with
the exception of M. Lamartine, minister of foreign
affairs, with whom naturally I maintained daily re-
lations. No one ever saw me present at 'the filing
off of the corporations of workmen, going, about
200,000 in number, and headed by flags, to signify
their will to the indescribable government (cepou-
Toir :tans nom) which sat at the Hotel de Ville.'
It is therefore unnecessary to add that the assertion
that 'this spectacle appeared to enchant him' is a
pure invention. On the whole, there is not a
word of truth in what concerns me in the article.
It is true that I foresaw, to my great regret, the
probability of the revolution, and when it had
broken out, I did my best, within the limits of my
duty and my powers, to diminish the sad conse-
quences of it. I beg of you, sir, in a spirit of fair-
ness, to give the same publicity to this letter that
you have given to the anonymous accusations of a
writer who meditates a reproduction of his article,
since he reserves to himself the right of translating
it.—Accept, sir, &0.,

Nava'. and Illittary Intemgenue.

A later from Malta, dated April 23d, says :
"Admiral Lord Lyons, who by the hst accounts

had left Smyrna for Syra, Alexandria, and Malta,
was expected in the Royal Albert, to meet which

vessel the Centurion, Conqueror, and Brunswick
left Valetta harbour on the 11th, under orders n:•t
to extend their cruise beyond 15 leagues to the
eastward of Malta. On the n;ght of the 13th they
stood close in, and after midnight exercised great

guns, and they have sighted the town almost daily

ever since.

" The British squadron which left Constanti-
nople on the 29th March arrived at Smyrna on the
3d April. On the Royal Albert coming in sight the
English residents assembled in large numbers at the
British and Smyrna Club, and an immense crowd
collected on the wharves to welcome the gallant ad-
miral. On his approach the frigate Pomone, carrying
the French admrql's flag, fired the usual salute, and
the sailors of the French ships in port manned the
yards and cheered. Salutes were also exchanged
by the Royal Albert with the Turkish brig on the
station. Rear-Admiral Count' Bonet Willaumez
repaired on board to compliment Lord Lyons, as
did &so the Caimacan of Smyrna 'through his aide-
_ _

de-camp. On the 4th and bill many of the foreign
consuls and English residents visited the admiral.
The squadron took its departure with the same en-
thusiastic demonstrations which marked its arrival.
" Her Majesty's steamer Caradoc left for Mar-
seilles on the 12th to embark for Alexandria, on

THE ANITRICAN MISSION To CHINA.

(From the New York Times.)

The intima.ions contained in our leading article
yesterday concerning the intentions of our Govern-
ment in regard to China are fully confirmed by our
intelligence from Washington this morning. The
President has determined upon sending a special
Minister Pleniputentiary to China, accompanied by
a suitable naval force, and has appointed Will;am
B. Reed, of Philadelphia, to that important and
responsible post. Mr. Reed is well known through-
out the country as a gentleman of marked ability,
an eminent lawyer, and for many years a promi-
nent and active politician. Until the late election
he had been a leading member of the Whig party
in Pennsylvania, but he was one of those who, in-
duced partly by their personal regard for Mr.
Buchanan, and partly by their a!prehensions of
danger from the alleged sectionalism of the Repub-
lican movement, transferred their support to the
Democratic candidate for the Presidency. They
contributed largely to the result, and Mr. Buchanan
discharges a political debt, as well as pays a giace-
ful tribute to a personal friend by the appointment
of Mr Reed to this 11113'1013.

the way. to China, Lord Elgin, the'Euvoy to the
Court of the Celestial Empire.
" All the disposable vessels of the Mediterranean
squadron are on their way to England, the gun-
boats having first landed their heavy armament to
strengthen the fortifications.
" The Lynx screw steam gun-boat left for Gib-
raltar and England on the 14th, followed next day
by the steam-trigat e Malacch.
" The Gladiator steam frigate, which arrived from
Ss ra on the 14th, left for England on the 18th.
" Her Majesty's screw steam• gunboats Snake
and Wrangler arrived from the Piraeus on the 11th,
and on the 18th the latter left for England.
" The Osprey and Wanderer steam gunboats are
to remain out at Malta, to keep up a constant com-
munication with Sicily and Naples.
" The Swallow screw steamsloop has been
ordered to Corfu.

4' NORMANBY."

The appointment strikes us as judicious. Mr.
Reed is eminently Corrervative in all his senti-
ments and sympathies, and is one of the last men
in the country who would be likely to enter upon
such duties in a spirit of reckless disregard of the
rights of other nations or or the requiremmts of
public law. At the same time he cannot fail to ap-
preciate the importance of the mission which he is
to fill, and we are confident he will discharge his
duties in a spirit of enlarged statesmanship, and
with a view to the interests of civilisation through-
out the world.

Mr. Reed will, as a matter of COUrBO, be pro-
vided with very full and explicit instructions for the
guidance of his official conduct. That they will en-
join upon him the most careful abstinence from
everything which can involve us in causeless war
with China, or entangle us in the qiurrels and aims
of European Powers, it is safe to assume. At the
same time, we take it for wanted he would not be
sent to China if it were not expected that he will
have something to do. It is known that England
and France have resolved to make an effort to
secure for themselves the right of being represented
by Ministers resident at the Imperial Coat t. There
are abundant reasons why this request, so reasonable
in itself and so thoroughly in conformity with public
usage and public law, should be conceded. We
trust that Mr. Reed will be instructed to urge the
desire of the United States, that the application
should be granted, and that an American Minister
should also have the right of residence at Pekin.
We do not expect much in the way of concession
from the secluded and complacent Monarch who
rules the destinies of the Central Flowery King-
dom ; but it is quite possible that evou he may un-
derstand the propriety and policy of conceding a
demand so just in itself when wiruest ly Tressed by
the three great Powers of the Christian world.
Our trade with China is already large, and is cer-
tain to increase. It is carried on at great disadvan-
I age—bycot; cessions to, and under regulations from,
the Chinese authorities, which are as humiliating as
theyare embarrassing, and without any of the safe-
guards which rec')gnised international law throws
around the commerce of the civilised world. If it is
to be continued it should bs pat upon a more just
and equitable footing. And we hope the result of
Mr. Reed's mission may be to secure for it a degree
of protection suited to its importance and to the
spirit of the age.

2•HE GRAND DUKE COL STANTINEAT TOULON.

The following letter from Totion of the 24th
gives an account of the furtber proceedings of the
Grand Duke Constantine :

" The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
packets }'era and Euxine arrived on the 9th • from
Alexandria. The Euxine left for Marseilles on the
same morning.
" The Vects steamer arrived from Marseilles with
the overland London mails of the 10th, on the 15th.
" The Colombo returned on the 22d, in the morn-
ing, bringing a telegraphic despatch from Suez, an-
nouncing the arrival there of the European steamer
from Australia, with the mail, but no tidings what-
ever of the missing Oneida. The Colombo left
for Southampton on the afternoon of the,22d.
" The Cambria arrived from Marseilles on the

" The representation given on Thursday evening
at the theatre in honour of the Prince was ex-
tremely brilliant. The house is rather a barn than
a theatre, but by, dint of flags and other ornamen-
tations, it was transformed into something really
handsome inside. The amphitheatre was arranged
with fauteuils for the Prince and his snits, and the
other persons who accompanied him. His Impe-
rial Highness reached the theatre about eight o'clock
in an open carriage, accompanied by Baron Du-
bourdieu, the-maritime perfect, Admiral Behrens,
and General Totleben. The other officers of the
squadron followed in other carriages. On the
Prince and his staff entering the house, they were
warmly greeted by the audience, and the orchestra
immediately struck up the Russian national
march. The representation of the "Mousquetaires
de la Reiue " then commenced. During the per-
formance an enormous white cat, doubtless an
amateur of music, came on the stage, and gambolled
about for some minutes, in spite of all the efforts
.of the persons there Leo drive it off. The movements
of the animal appeared to cause great amusement
to the Grand Duke, as well as to the audience.
The Prince, on leaving the theatre, expressed his
satisfaction at the manner in whichithe opera had
been performed. The next morning, after break-
fast, the Prince went to visit the line building yard
of the Mourilloe. The large sheds, upwards of
500 metres in length, built for s otiug timber, par-
ticularly struck his attention, as did also the large
Wenn saw-mills. He asked numerous questions
from the different persons who acted as his guides,
and took notes of all he saw. The Prince after-
wards visited the new fortificationce and alse
Fort Lanialgue. In the afternoon, he went
on board the Bretagne line-of-battle ship • to
partake of a dinner given by Admiral Trehouart.
The Prince returned to the maritime prefecture
about seven o'clock, to prepare for the grand ball
given there by Admiral Dubourdieu, and which
was an excesdingly brilliant affair; the only draw-
back was that the number of invitati,,ns given was
FO great that the rooms could not contain them all
conveniently, and several persons left without
having beets able to penetrate into the. Grand
Salon. With that exception the let-3 went off most
admirab'y. Toe variety and splendour of the'urli-
forms, the elegance and richness of the ladies'
dresses, prescnt,al a charming coup d'ocil, and
when altar midnight the re ms became less crowd-
ed dancing weut on with great spirits. The Grand
Duke and the officers of his squadron tOoka very
active part iu the dance, an amusement of which
the Prince appeared to be particularly fond. This
morning the,Prince did not quit his apartments
be-
fare breakfast. He passed agreat part of the after-
noon in visiting the fortifications, and stopped two
hours at the Pyrotechnic School. He frequently
interrogated the artillery officers on points of its
erganisalion, sad dictated notes to his aides-de-
camp. At• four o'clock he visited the naval hos-

pita!, and expressed his admiration at the order and
reguiarity which prevailed in that establishment.
He was accompanied by the surgeon of his own
vessel, who had in the morning been present at the
dressing of the patients. That officer se...ined par,
ticulaily struck with the eboi;.;e quality of the food
supplied to the convalecent, and remarked, We
cannot equal this in Russia ; half of our time we •
should not be able to procure the medicaments you
nse or the food you di-tribute.' The Princ3 went
s'oArly through all the wards, caking a number of
questions, and expressed great admiration at the
manner fn which everything Wa3 conducted."

THE ITALIAN OPERA.

(From the Dublin Daily Express of April 27.)

night of the 20th with the overland Aurtralian mail,
and the Etna on the afternoon of the 21st, with the
heavy mails from Southampton, the former having
had remarkably fine, the latter very boisterous,
weather throughout the voyage.
" Up to the 14th of April no tidings had reached
Alexandria regarding the missing steamer Oneida,
from Aiistralia.
Commodore Shepherd, Superintendent of Wool-
wich Dockyard, accompanied by Admiral Eden,
yesterday inspected the gunboat Slaney, and ordered
her to proceed to the Arsenal to ship her-ammuni-
tion and steam down to Greenhithe to be adjusted,
and sail with all despatch for the westward to join
the squadron under orders for China. The gunboat
Leven, having had the damages to her screw pro-
peller repaired, returned to Greenhithe to be swung,
and is ordered to join the squadron with all pos-
sible speed. The freightship Violet, which arrived
at Woolwich-pier the latter end of March, sailed
thence yesterday for China, laden with about 800
tons of war stores. Mr. J. W. Rawnsley and Mr.
Branscombe, of the Military Store Department, and
some officers ofthe Medical Corps, took passage in
the Violet for service in China.
Sir Charles Wood, First Lord of the Admiralty,
who is on a visit to Sir Augustus Clifford at Ryde,
embarked yesterday forenoon on board the seam
tender Fire Queeo, Master-Commander W. F. Pa,nl,
and visited the Naval Hospital and other establish-
ments at Gosport. Sir Charles was accompanied by
Sir 13,ddwin,Walker, Surveyor of the Navy ;
Col, Greene, the Director of Admiralty Engineer-
ing and Architectural Works ; and his assistant,
Mr. Scamp, and was conduced by Captain
Superintendent Sir C. Dacres over the gunboat
berthing slips, the new burying-ground for the
Naval Hospital,* situated at the western
extremity of the slips, and the new washing
apparatus of the hospital, the supply of water
for the machinery of which is found insufficient. It
is proposed to increase the number of sheds for
berthing gunboats at, Ilasiar, and, as the last well
sunk to obtain water for the washing machinery
has by some means caused the admission of salt
water into the well supplying the hospital with
water, it has been mooted whether it would not be
advisable to fill the well up, and endeavour to ob-.
twin water for washing the linen of the establish-
ment from Titchfield or Roundown, or some other
not very distant locality. The First Lord remained
about an hour on the Gosport side of the harbour,
and then crossed over to Portsmouth. The new
burying-'rouncl at Haslar Hospital, which has been
very le:alutifully laid out and ornamented with
ch .iee shrubs and trees by Capt. Dacres, pleased
Sir Charles greatly. •
The Winchester, 50-gun sailing frigate, Captain
Wilson, late flagship on the China; station' arrived
at Spitheoul yesterday forenoon to be paid oft: She
has mace a long passage, and has brought no news.
She has on hoard 50 naval invalids, 27 military,
and 84 of the crew of the sloop liittaq•n (made a ten-
dea to the present flagship on the China station),
with the following officers of that vessel :—Lieut4.
Walsh and Robinson; Mr. Johnson, master ; Mr.
Gurney, paymaster • Mr. Newton, assist.;surgeon ;
and the gunner, boatswain, and carpenter (warrant
offiCers). The Winchester has been upwards of
five years in commission.
Capt. the Hon. J. R. Drummond, C. 8.,K.L:11.,

Toe announcement, of the fare Nell appearance in Doh-
lin of Miss Catherine Hayes lent much additional
interest to the attractions of the ;terror:flat ce of S iiur-
day night, and brought en audience whicii crowded
every part of the house. Fcr some years past the name
of Catherine Hayes has been famous throughout the
world. Not a,!one in suety Italy and sprightly France
is it greeted with apelsuse, but throw ;hour the vast
reeion of the United States, in the rei.nete valleys of San
Francisco, amongst the planters of the West Indies, the
descendants of Pizarro and Almagro in Peru, the nabobs
of India, tfie gold diggers of. the Australian ifields, and
the grave Dutch settlers of Java, her sweetest notes and
most impassioned songs are remembered with enthusiasm.
It required' no crdinary woman to brave the dangers of
such tray( 1 ; it was the thought of no ordinary songstress
to give the most refined of European pleasures to the
dwellers in those remote and savage regions. She re-
turned to the. British, islands with talents unimpaired,
and in a Isegthenell visit to her native land has proved,
by the representation of characters never before enacted
by her, the range of those thients, and the still corn-
manding, powtr else wields. To one of these we refer-
red when speaking of the artistes triumph in " Trozn-
tore ;" another demands notice in reference to line opera
of Satuiday night, Donizetti's "Lucrezia Borgia."
Here, as in ether parts, Miss Hayes had to c3ntend with
the majeatic impersonation of (xlrisi, to whom nature has
accorded much that fits her for the enactment of the
terrible scenes of lyric tragedy, as it has Mies
Hayes for more graceful and therefore less thrilling
parts ; and yet with a lull remembrance of what Grisi
was arid is in the role of Lucrezia, speaking of her as
an actress, we say, without fear of contradiction, that
in aorne points it was surpassed by the performance of
Miss Hayes. This observation particularly applies to
the whole of the first act. In the second the balance'
trembles between the two. In the last terrible scene
the agony of the wretched mother was more horribly
drawn by the songstress of Milan, the grief more ten-
derly depicted by the songstress of Ireland. We have '
seldom seen a stage picture more grand than the au -
tamed look of bold indignation that promised retribu-
tion, when one of the noble; tore the mask from he -
face in the first act, and the warm applause of the
audience rose to enthusiasm when, with perfect origi
nality, as her tormentors dispersed, the haughty and in-
sulted princess threw herself upon her knee, her arm
outstretobed, her eye Cashing, and her whole counte-
nance lit with the diabolic hope of vengeance. Upon
this picture the curtain fell, and amidst a storm. of ape
plause the artiste was called to the front. In the scene
with Don Alphonse there were native majesty and grace
combined, and throughout the while second act, without
effort, there was undoubted originality. Of the Pecu-
liarities of the last scene we have already spoken. After
the second act, again, and twice after the green curtain
bad fallen, Miss Hayes was called to the front and
greeted with genuine enthusiasm. Should it so happen
that Mica Hayes, as we under,tand to be her present
determination, will not again visit this city, regarding
her not only as Irish vocalist, but as an artiste in the
abstract, in many points "we shall not look upon her
like again."
Signor Badiali had little comparatively to do in th
part of Don Aiphonso, but be did it in such a way as to
cast into complete shade all other artistes who have at-
tempted it in Dublin. His noble voice, managed with a
skill but too rarely possessed, was heard throughout with
pleasure, and in the " Vieni mid Vendetta" lie Was
rapturously encored. Volpini acted well, but his voice
does not suit the character of Gennaro, and with the deli.
cious notes of Mario still falling on our CiU", the unplea-
sant middle voice of Volpini, which he ro profusely usled
on Saturday night, was by no means calculated to raise
that artiste in our esteem. For such parts as Pc:Olio and
Edgard() oat ute has fitted him ; Gennaro should not be
included in his list.

Me Excellency the Lord Lieutenant was present, and
remained in his bex until Ilisa Hayes came a second
time before the curtain.

is appointed private secretary to the First Lord of
the Admiralty, vice Mr. T. Baring, resigned.' Capt.
John M'Neil Boyd is appointed to the command of
the Meander, 44, coastguard frigate on the Devon-
port station, vice Drummond.
The Devastation, 6 guns, paddlewheel seam-
sloop, Commander Edward Marshall, arrived at
Sheerness. on Sunday, last from Devonport and
Pertsmouth. Shp has brought rcuud with her sea-
men and petty officers from Devonport for the Vesu-
vius. An Admiralty order has arrived for her to
make good all defects and be ready for foreign 'ser-
iice. She will be taken into the fit' ing basin for that
zairpose forthwith.
The Cumberland is ordered to be out of the hands
of its 3 dockyard authorities, 'at Sneerness, by the 9th
of May next, and to be ready for sea 10 days after
that date.
Lieut -General Sir Wm. Codrington' M. P. , with
his brother, Rear-Admiral John T. Codrington, and
Mr. Archibald, proprietor of the Acadian iron mines
in Nova Scotia, visited Woolwich Arsenal yesterday
morning t inspect the machinery departments; and,
accompanied by Mr. Anderson, they passed about
two hours examining the steam machinery employed
in the manufacture of percussipn caps, bullets, fuzes,
&c., with which the large room of the laboratory
is furnished.
Captain H. B. Saunders's No. 2 Company was
yesterday withdrawn from the Horse Brigade of
the Royal Artillery en cam ped on Woolwich-common
and was ordered to the sth Battalion Fort. The
horses were distributed to the Military Train, and
regimental depot, when the company marched down
from the encampment and were told off to barrack
quarters.
Her Majesty's steamer Locust went to Woolwich
yesterday from Sheerness, and conveyed a party of
Marinekto head-quarters who were discharged from
the 50-gun sczew steam-frigate Euryalus, and the
21 screw steamship James Watt.

THE LATE FIRE IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD.—Up to
last Saturdays tremendous amount of property had been
secured from the ruins of the premises belonging to Mr.
Goodyear, in St. Paul's Churchyard, includino, several
thousand bonnets ; but what is better, the whole of the
books, &c., belonging to the firm were found uninjured,
in one of Marr's pstent fire-proof safes, consequently
the business can be shortly resumed.
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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY IT sr ENING, AP.RIL 2P, 1857,,

LAW .AMENbMENT SOCIETY.

The fret general meeting of this society since the diE.-
solutiOn of Parliament was held yesterday evening at
No. 3, Waterloo place, and was numerously attended.
Mr. Ilea,:lam, M.P., took the chair.
The SECRETARY (Mr. Hastings) read an address of the
cAmcil of the society on its resuming its fourteenth ses-
sion. It was as follows : . . . .

After the long adj )urnment of the Society confegnent
on the dissolution at Parliament, the council have thought
it advisable to follow the 'precedent established at the
commencement of the present session, especially as it
seemed to be approved of by the members, and to ad-
dress some observations to the society on those topics of
lavi reform which are now prominently before the public
notios.

fere in any way with marriage settlements, but enables
a married woman, in the ab=sence of a 'settlement, to re-
tain her own property and earning, as if she were a
fernrn 'pole, making her liable at the same time on her
own debts and engagements. The society has lately
received the valuable evidence of Mr. David Dudley
Field as to the way in which such a law has worked
in America, and nothing can he more conclheive than
the statements of that gentleman. His only objection
to the alteration 'Made in the law of his own State, New
York, as concerns married 'women, is that it does not go
quite ae far as he could %Nish ; but he entertains no doubt
as to the beneficial effect which it has already exercised,
and bears witness that it commands the approbation of
alt classes in the State. The example of a population
which bas inherited our laws, language, and customs,
can hardly be without weight ;. but were it otherwise,
the feeling which has arisen in our own country, and
which increases daily, will enforce tbo•atteution of the
Legislature. It is a remarkable fact that more than one
of the public bodies which were represented at the late
Mercantile Law Conference sent up this subject as one
of those on which the laws of England most required
amendment ; not on account of the hardship sustained
by married women, but in respect to the difficulties
which' the present state of the law imposes on their cre-
ditors. Tee soliCitor of the London Association for the
Protection of Trade states that the present state of the
law is a constant source of loss and annoyance to trades-
men, and that such an alteration as would make mar-
ried women the owners of their own property, and re-
sponsible for their own debts, would greatly increase the
safety of trade transactions. It is evident that any
measure ,which dealt only with earnings would leave this
portion of the grievance untouched ; and for this, no
less than for other well-considered reasons, the council
trust that the Subject will be dealt with by Parliament
in a comprehensive way. It has been currently re-
ported that her Majesty's Government intend to bring
forward a measure to remedy the evils complained of,
and the council sincerely trust that the rumour will
prove to have been correct ; but should that, not be so,
the bill prepared•by the society will again be proceeded
, with.

. 3IIISISTEL OF JUSTICE.
In the address of the council at the opening of the pre-
sent session of the society, the necessity of giving, in all
efforts for law reform, the most prominent place to the
question of a minister of justice was insisted on, and a
hope was expressed that strong support would be given
to Mr. Napier's motion for the appointment of such an
officer, which; in a letter to the secretary, be had ex.
pressed his intention of making at an early opportunity
in the House of Commons. The council can now con-
gratulate the society on the adoption of that motion by
the house, and on the pledge given by Government to
carry out the wish thus' expressed by the Legislature.
It cannot be concealed that the organisation of a depart-
ment of justice is attended with some difficulties, and
more especially as to the question in whose hands the
supreme direction of such a department is to ibe vested.
It has been proposed that the minister of justice: should
be an independent officer of state, having a seat in the
Cabinet and the House of Commons ; but to this it is
objected that the existence of such an officer would not
be compatible with the political influence of the Lord
Chancellor, who is at present the representative of law in
the Cabinet. Whatever weight attaches to this objec-
tion seems to apply to another proposition, of making
the Home Secretary Minister of Justice, with the
additiouil evil of still further burdening a depart-
ment which is at present supposed to he fully
occupied. Beth these plans seem to be grounded on
the popular feeling, to which it is hardly possible to at-
tach too much imptSrtance, that proper security for the
vigilance and activity of snob a department is only to he
obtained by its direct responsibility to the House of
Commons. The society a -few years since approved of a
plan submitted to them, which it was thought would in
a great degree meet the complicated requirements of the
case, and, without interfering with the position of the
Lord Chancellor, would make the department of justice
sufficiently responsible. It was proposed in this report
that a Board of Justice should be established on the
same footing as the Board of Trade ; that the Lord
Chancellor should be the president; and that there
should be in addition a vice-president with a seat in the
House of Commons, and a permanent non-parliamentary
secretary, with a competent office and staff. The council
have not yet heard any other proposal which seems to
promise on the whole a more satisfactory solution of the
difficulty than this ; and they have little, doubt that a
department well organised after such a plan would not
only be able to deal with all current questions of law

amendment, but would also find in itself arnpls resource,'
for the consolidation of the statute law and the revision
of bills as they pass through Parliament.
TRANSFER OF LAND.

Since the society last met, the commissioners ap-
pointed some time since to consider registration of title
with reference to the sale and transfer of land are under-
stood to have finally agreed to their report. The subject
of their deliberations has been frequently before the no-
tice of the society, and indeed it was a paper read by
Mr. Strickland Cookson at one of our general meetings
which first impressed on the public mind the expediency
of a registration of title as opposed to a registration of
assurances. It was chiefly in consequence of the notice
which that paper attracted, and the discussion which
ensued on it, that a select committee of the House of
Commons was appointed to investigate the subject, the
result of their investigation being a recommendation to
the Crown to issue the commission from which the recent
report bas originated. As the commissioners comprised
among their number several influential members of the '
society—the Attorney-General, the Right Hon. Mr.
Lowe, Mr. Headlam, M.P., and Mr. Cookson—it was
to be anticipated that the views which had been first
mooted at our meetings, and bad afterwards obtained eo
retch approval, would meet with full cent detaion ; and
the council, still deeply impressed with the soundness
and practicability of those vieiles, are happy to
find that the report of the commissioners seems to be in
a great measure in their favour. A system of registra-
tion of title is recommended for adoption by the Legis-
lature, and is elaborately worked out in its details ; and
whatsoever may be the opinion of individuals as to *rime
of these details, it will be generally conceded that no
plan for the simp!ification of the transfer has been put
out to the public in so exact and tangitle .a form, or
which has furnished such solid ground for expecting t
great diminution in the cost of conveyances and the un-
certainty of titles. The council do not attempt to go at
the present moment into the numerous and minute ques-
tions arising in the scheme of the commissioners ; this
task can be far better performed by a committee, and
they recommend tbat the principles and details of the
registration report should be at once referred to the real
property committee, who will of course be ready to re-
ceive any euggestiens concerning it.