The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,- WEDNESDAY 7.EVENING, APRIL 3, 1861.

THEATR g-ROYAL, HAYMARKET,
Lemee, Mr. J. B. Baastone.

TER I EVKNINC4, the performances will commence with
A DUKE IN DIFFICULTIES. Mrs. Stirling, MISS F.
Haydon, Mrs. Wilkins, Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr. Buckatone,
Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, tee.
After which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery
and effects, and all the original musio by the late Sir Henry
Bishop, the melodrama of THE MILLER AND HIS MEN.
Commence at 7.1

THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM.
So,e Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
Two New
Drs.—Reappearance of Mr. John Drew, and
3dappearance of Miss Matilda Heron.
THIS EVENING, THE TWO GREGORIES.

Atter which, a new original comic drama, written by Saml.
Lover, Esq., entitled MAC CARTHY MORE ; or, Possession
/tins Points of the Law. John Drew, J. Johnston, Forrester,
J. Rouse, Medlin; Misses Rawlings, Hudspeth, &c.

To conclude with a new drama, NEW YEAR'S EVE ; or,
The Belle of the Season. Messrs. H. Neville, Villiers, Jas.
Johnstone, J. Rouse; Mrs. Winstanley, Miss Matilda Heron.
Kiss Willard, ctc.

iIOYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee and Manazer, Kr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore,
Meadows, Garden, and Miss C. Leclercq.
Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Sup-
ported by Messrs. Ryder, Hermann Vezin, Graham, Shore,
Meadows, ; Misses Heath, R. Leclercq, and. Elsworthy.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL—
Sole Proprietor and Manazer, Mr. B. Webster.
Great Attraction for the Easter Holidays.-7d appearance
this season of Mr. B. Webster and Miss Julia Daly.
THIS EVENING, a new drama (2d time) MAGLIORE,
PRESTIDIGITAJOR. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole,
D. Fisher, &c.; Miss K. Kelly, Miss H. Simms, etc.
After which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSIN.
Miss Julia Daly.
Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.

CANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS!!
Westminster-road.
Proprietor........C. Morton.
A Grand Selectio from Verdi's new Opera,
n
IL CORSARO,

(This opera has never been produced in this or any other
country, except at these Concerts), having met with that de-
eadd suocess which charactise+ the most popular works of
this great Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ;
together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI-
SENTO, by Donizetti,
principal Artistes—Miss Russell. Madame Maria, Miss
Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and
C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghsaans.
The Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A.
B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and
the Brothers Conrad.
John Martin's Three celebrated Pictures will remain on
view a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the
Establishment.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tins DAY.—Morning, 7h. 44m.—Afternoon, Bh. 26m.
To-moRROW.-Morning, 9h. 13m.—Afternoon, 9h. 58m.

THE WEATHER.—Svx Orricm, APRIL 3, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADS.
a—highest since noon yesterday.
41—lower ;this morning and during the night.
51—this day at noon.

Bal omETER-29.78.
wip—Westerly—light ; with cloudy, but fine, weather.

Yesterday, Mr. ROEBUCK renewed his attempt
to vindicate himself before his constituents, and
this time with far better success. A vastly larger
hall, and a quieter audience, enabled him, at least,
to " have his say out." From the charge of cor-
ruption in the Galway packet affair, if any one,
friend or foe, could believe that he had been guilty
of it, his vindication was complete indeed. And as
to his vote on the division which led to the downfall
of the DERBY Ministry, those who were gulled by
the meeting at Willis' Rooms, and who now have
to whistle for their Reform Bill, are at least not the
men to condemn Mr. ROEBUCK. Had a larger
number voted with Mr. ROEBUCK on that occasion
we should have at least had, by this time, seine
measure of Reform. The readers of The Sun may
recollect arguments at the time having a very
strong resemblance to those of Mr. ROEBUCK, and
for the plain reason that they had the common
paternity, not of party, but of common sense. Mr.
ROEBUCK, yesterday, said—" What was my argu-
ment It was this, that we were in a majo-
rity that the friends of Reform in Parlia-
ment were in a majority. I was given
to understand that Lord DERBY'S Adminis-
tration, having learnt by experience, were will-
ing to bring in a better bill than before. We
said, We can make what we like of the bill in
committee ; let us pass it. Lord DERBY is in a
majority in the House of Lords, and can pass it
there. 'We shall get a Reform Bill if we keep
these people in, but as sure as we turn them out
we shall have no Reform Bill from the so-called
Liberal Party.'"
On the Austrian question we must differ alto-
gether from Mr. ROEBUCK—the story of the
lucrative contract he entirely denies ; indeed it was
probably regarded only as a joke by Mr.WHITE and
his hearers ; and Mr. ROEBUCK'S denial of any-
thing of the kind is more than sufficient. Some '
may think that the courtesy of all classes in Austria
to :NIX'. ROEBUCK may have had its influence on his
views ; and we may well believe that when the
chief men of Vienna, in all the perplexities of such
new work to them as devising schemes of repre-
sentative Government, had the great English
Radical among them, their deference to his know-
ledge and opinions must have been gratifying
enough. Here is Mr. ROEBUCK'S own description
of what passed between the Austrian pupils and
their English instructor—the passing compliment
to Sheffield also must not be overlooked :—" I gave
the Austrian Government a certain bit of advice.
Now what was that advice ? As your representa-
tive, I was very well known in Austria, and I re-
collect one gentleman saying, We have known
that name 30 years ; we know that he is what is
called a Liberal' in his country ; but nevertheless,
we rather like Liberal men." lam merely saying
what they said. I dare say they were wrong.
They listened to me. They said, He is an old
Parliamentary politician, let us hear his advice.
My advice was this—and it was given openly and
boldly to the Prime Minister—' Give your people
a Parliamentary constitution ; give them thorough
going self-government ; in their municipalities let
them govern themselves, and have a Parliament to
represent the Austrian empire. My object is to
make you good friends of England. I understand
the position of Austria, and I know that the best
friend of England is in this country. In order to
hind England to you, you must do these two things
—give yogi people a liberal constitution, and con-
nect yourselves commercially with England.'"

Thus far all was well enough, but the meeting
quite differed from Mr. RoEsuck on the question
of Austria in Venetia. He might be as pleased as
he liked to find the. Austrian young people loving
our literature, and learning liberalism from it; he
might aid Austrian Statesmen in their endeavours
to understand the essentials of Representative Go-
vernment, but what could be said for defending the
detestable occupation of Venetia' Literally
nothing, h ut the old state of the strength of France
in the opp osite corner of Italy. But, except the
occupation of Rome, which cannot now last for
ever, Franc,? is no nearer Italy in the Western, than
Austria is in the Eastern Alps, Without her occupy-
ing the Quadr.qateral and Italian ground. The
independent of France is,
true way to make Italy
strong ; and the Quadrilateral
surely, to make her
-ary position in Italy. If the
is the strongest milit
Italians held that, at :d were attacked by France,
the Adriatic would enable
the Mediterranean and
r weight into the Italian
England to throw / ~e
scale with irresistible effect
But we noed not 4 rgue a case in which all Isir.

ROEBUCK'S ingenuity will certainly fail to convince
Englishmen. This country cannot endure—what-
ever he may think—to see " the hoof of the brutal
Austrian" on the Italians in Venetia. He may tell
what tales he pleases of the good nature of the
Austrian civilians ; but all the world knows that
the HArsz taws are a brutal, remorseless, super-
stitious, and selfish family ; it knows also that Aus-
trian officers and generals are bloody savages, who
shoot patriots and flog matrons and maidens, and
send us occasionally a HAYNAU to let us see what
gentle creatures they are. The meeting passed,
therefore, in conclusion, two resolutions with which
probably all England will agree, one acquitting Mr.
ROEBUCK of anything like bribe-taking; and the
other expressing their best wishes for constitu-
tionalism in Austria, and for the liberation of
Venetia from its hateful oppressors. Mr. ROE-
BUCK'S friends in Vienna will see that even he could
not persuade 3,000 Englishmen that Germans ought
to occupy Italian ground.

Conscious that we are yet scarcely midway in the

Parliamentary Session of 1841, that little has yel

been accomplished in the way of practical legisla-
tion (saving and excepting in the advance made by
the Attorney-General's Bill for the reform of the
laws relating to Bankruptcy), and that so much
consequently yet remains to be done and said before
the Lords and Commons shall again have been pro-
rogued—we are beginning to have a wholesome fear
before our eyes of the sleepless nights preparing
for Mr. SPEAKER, and of the appalling number of
additional pages about to be contributed to the
voluminous records of Hansard during the next
spring and midsummer. If but one-half of the
honourable members who speak during each session
would but have some bowels of compassion !
Parliament might then with some advantage to the
community become less of a Parliament, and the
Legislature more of a Legislature. Considerably
less would be said and a very great deal more done.
If only one moiety of the great throng of talkers
could be induced somehow to curb and crush down
that cacoethes loquendi which appears to evidence
a morbid condition of the intellect quite as waste-
ful in its way as the caooethes scribendi annually
contributing so much printed matter (under
the truth-telling designation of waste paper)
to the butter shop and the trunk makers !
It is an old complaint this against the too-much-
talk of the House of Commons. And it is a complaint
that—(it can hardly be forgotten)—rose to its
loudest at the close of the last session : when,
comparatively speaking, nothing at all was accom-
plished, at any rate in the shape of a single great
measure of legislative improvement, and when so
very much had been said with no other result that
could be recognised than the saying of it. Yet
often as the loquacity of Parliament, but particu-
larly the loquacity of the House of Commons, has
been commented upon out of doors in terms of
reprehension, has it ever occurred to the generality
how very much more of the time of the session is
consumed in talk, that never by any chance resolves
itself into short-hand notes—into copied-out manu-
script—into printed columns of parliamentary
reports in the daily newspapers—into printed pages
of Hansard, that Hecatomb, or Mausoleum, as it has
been called of Oratory, or rather, for the most part,
of mere Speechmaking ? The Reporters in the
Gallery, in truth, confer more benefactions—nega-
tively, that is to say by their very reticence—upon
the general community than the latter has perhaps
ever yet dreamt of; certainly more than the public
at large has ever yet thought of appreciatively. Is
it to be supposed that the parliamentary reporters
never require to mend their pencils—never ward

off cramp in their agile fingers by intervals

of leisure, when (to adopt one of Mr. DISRAELI'S
pungently suggestive phrases in C'oningsby),
" Wishy is up and Washy follows"—that they
never enjoy, sotto voce, a little companionable chit-
chat in the Gallery ? All those compact little
speeches sprinkled through the long debates, as
reported in our columns, and in those of our morning
contemporaries—speeches, when printed, so con-
veniently squared into paragraphs, paragraphs that
the eye can glance through in a few seconds : have
not each of those been elaborately delivered, not
stenographically in the third person, but in the
blatant first —" Sir, I cannot but think, upon
mature consideration. Sir, I most entirely con-
cur with the right honourable gentleman. Sir,
I this, I that, and I the other "—have not all the
changes been rung on all.those wretched old parlia-
mentary platitudes, time and again, during this very
last month of March and the preceding February ?
About nothing of all which—thanks to the obdu-
rately, and generously discriminative inattention of
the Reporters in the Gallery—the multitude out of
doors never hears cr even sees. The blunted pencils
of the short-hand writers save them beneficently from
the infliction—those pencils that, strange to tell,
always do require so much extra polishing and sharp-
ening whenever that long-winded Sir VERRUM SAP
unhappily catches the Speaker's eye, or when—with
his hatful of documents to be referred to, and
quoted from (as occasion may require, and as it
very often does), and with his orange in his coat-
tail pocket—there rises, for one of his long innings,
Mr. ENDLESS VERBOSITY, one of the recognised
Bores of the House, one of those miraculously ap•
petizing Dinner-Bells, capable upon the instant of
driving away even the least hungry with an anticipa-
tive relish to a quiet chop at BELLAMY'S ! Recollect-
ing what is thus spared to him by the discreet inat-
tention of the Reporters, the general reader of the Pa-
rliamentary debates as published in the newspapers
has reason to exclaim quite as earnestly as the
jaded sentry in HAMLET—" For this relief much
thanks." He can hardly estimate, however, the
full extent of his obligations. Tho calculation of
its magnitude is a task almost beyond the powers of
Mr. BABBAGE'S machine to compute. Only those
know it who have often witnessed the slow torture
to which at these times the first commoner in the
land is subjected, that right hon. gentleman whom
the nation but inadequately compensates with an
income at the time of £5,000 per annum, and the
prospective certainty of a'peerage. It is by reason
of our painful recollection of last year's over-talk-
ing in Parliament and of this session having barely
warmed to its work (we should say rather to its talk)
that we are driven perforce, during the Eastern re-
cess, into these reflections.
And wonderfully apropos to these same reflections
are many passages contained in the brilliant Inau-
gural Address recently delivered (March 4) in the
Queen Street Hall, at Edinburgh, to the Associ-
ated Societies of the great Scottish University, by
their new Honorary President, Professor W. E.
AYTOUN—an " Inaugural Address " which has
been, within the last few days, published by the
Messrs. BLACKWOOD. From the pages of this
timely brochure' we are tempted to make two or
three extracts, which we would earnestly commend '
to the crowd, not of orators (for they are few), but
of talkers (for they are many) in the British
House of Commons. Let some, at least, of these
latter take to heart what the learned Pro-

* 46 Inaugural Address of W. EDMONSTOUNE AYRTOUN
hto the Associated Societies of the University of Edinburgh,
March 4, 1861." Bvo, pp, W, BI,&CIiWQOP said Sc,*te

fessor there says of the Gift of Oratory, and of
the Art of Speaking :

" I do not maintain that it is within the power of every
man to become an orator, in the sense of being eloquent, for
eloquence implies the combination of rare and extraordinary
gifts. It is much of the same nature as poetry, which we,
for lack of a better word, denominate the result of inapira.
tion. You cannot, by precept or otherwise, teach a man to
become a poet, unless the Divine faculty is already within
him ; but it is in the power of almost any one, through
pains and practice, to become a tolerable versifier, as the
countless small octavos and duodecimos of rhyme which
annually issue from the printing-press do most abundantly
testify. In like manner, any man may become a fair public
speaker if he will resolutely apply himself to the task. The
rules that regulate the form of a spoken discourse, by which
I mean its framework and proportion, are few and simple;
and these once thoroughly mastered and duly kept in mind
there is no fear that the speech will be deficient in con-
gruity, harmony, and precision. But a thorough compre-
hension of those rules is absolutely indispensable. People
who have studied, or have never heard of them, are almost
sure, when they address an audience, to ramble from their
subject, to use wearisome repetitions, and to lose the thread
of their discourse ; and that is a primary cause of the nume-
rous ineffective addresses which are so often delivered
in the senate, from the pulpit, and sometimes even
at the bar. There is an an art in speech-making as there is
in building. You must know how to use the level and the
square, else, to a certainty, your work will be clumsy, out
of proportion, and irregular."

Cannot some at least of the most garrulous
among the smaller fry of debaters fit on the fan-
tastic and elastic cap here provided for them in
the following ?

" The first requisite for a public speaker is undoubtedly a
deliberate and careful consideration of his subject. That
is due to the audience, and also to the speaker himself, for
no prudent man will attempt to discourse upon any topic
with which he is not thoroughly conversant and familiar.
The ancients, indeed, who attached very great importance
to oratory as a science, invented a system, known as that of
the commonplaces, by means of which, as they averred, a
man might discourse fluently and plausibly upon any sub-
ject whether he knew it or not. But a moment's reflection
will convince you that such speeches must be of a very in-
ferior quality—mere windbags of Eolus, and quite ineffec-
tual towards producing persuasion, which ought always to
be the aim of the public speaker. The notion, however, is
not yet entirely exploded, or the practice abandoned ;
for we do occasionally meet with men who seek rather to
tickle the ears of their audience by high-flown images and
bombastic declamation, than by solid argument and appo-
site instances to enlighten and persuade. That is not a
style of oratory to be either cultivated or commended. It
makes no lasting impressiox—it serves no rational purpose
in short, it is little better than—
A tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.' "
Here, in fine, are some particularly useful hints
that we do heartily commend to the Windbags
of the House, with a faint vague hope that, by
a few among them, they may be acted upon :

" Our friends the reporters, to whom public speakers are
often under great obligations, could tell you that if they
were to take down almost any extempore speech verbatim
and exactly as delivered, and allow it to be published with-
out revision, it would be found full of blemishes, faults,
repetitions, and bad grammar, which escape observation in
the course of a brisk or earnest delivery, but which would
not for a moment be tolerated in any author. The process
of speech is much more rapid than that of writing. A
man may easily enunciate within an hour more matter than
he could have composed in twenty ; and there are very few
writers indeed, who, while engaged in composition, do not
find themselves compelled to make frequent pauses, either
for the purpose of selecting the fittest word, or for that of
giving a more elegant turn to their sentences. My own
bolief is, that almost all the speeches which are quoted and
referred to as models of oratory were either composed in
the closet previous to their being delivered, or afterwards
subjected to a most anxious revision. In one respect the
ancient orators had a material advantage over their modern
successors. They might at their leisure entirely recast
the speeches which they had delivered, with the largest
amount of addition and interpolation, and bequeath them
to posterity as the records of their extempore geniuli, with-
out the smallest fear of detection. The Greeks and
Ro-
mans had no daily newspapers to waft within a marvel-
lously short time the substance and matter of every im-
portant speech to a much larger audience than that which
was present at its delivery. It therefore behoves modern
speakers to be at all times careful as to expression, for the
reading audience, if I may use that term, is much more
critical than the other, being swayed by none of those in.
fluences which a skilled and graceful speaker can exert over
those whom he addresses."

Closing our extracts, however, from Professor
AYRTOUN'S Address, we can only wait for the
coming debates with mingled dread and trepi-
dation.

Lord Clyde arrived at Chatham on Saturday, and
attended divine service at St. Mary's Church. It was the in-
tention of his lordship to inspect the troops yesterday morn-
ing, on Chatham Lines, but owing to the bad state of the
weather, and the rain coming down freely, the troops,
which had assembled on the ground in heavy marching
order, returned to their barracks, the inspection having
been cancelled by the major-general.
The Countess of Westmoreland has arrived at
Carson House from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Beau-
fort, at Badminton. His lordship is expected in town on
Friday from Northampton.
Frances Countess of Albemarle and Colonel the
Hon. Peregrine Cust will leave town on Saturday on a visit
to Lord Churston, at Lupton House, Devonshire.

A marriage is stated to be arranged between Mr.
J. Eyre, a Roman Catholic gentleman of large property in
Ireland, and the Lady Milford. Her ladyship is a daughter
of the Earl of Wicklow, and married in 1854, as his second
wife, Robert, late Lord Milford, whose title became extinct
on his death in 1857.
The armour ship, built at Bordeaux for the
Pacha of Egypt, has just been launched.
The Austrian Government has entrusted Count
de Salmon with the mission of reorganising Transylvania
on the basis of the laws which formerly constituted the
political code of that country.
Joseph Staudigi, the renowned bass singer, died
in the State Lunatic Asylum, Vienna, on Thursday last,.
At Liverpool yesterday, Mr. James Croasdale,

a cap manufacturer, recovered £l,OOO from the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Company, as compensation for injuries
sustained during a collision near Wigan.
THE REVIEW AT BRIGHTON.—The following is
the address of General the Hon. Sir James Scarlett, the
Adjutant-General, to the assembled commanding officers at
the termination of the manoeuvres :—" Lord Ranelagh and
gentlemen, I have much pleasure in expressing to you the
entire satisfaction with which I have witnessed the pro-
ceedings of to-day. Having been commanded by the Sec-
retary of State for War to attend officially and inspect the
evolutions of this force, I shall have extreme satisfaction in
reporting that they have reflected the greatest credit, not
only upon you, gentlemen, who have commanded brigades,
but also on yott who have commanded battalions, and on

the volunteer forces which you have respectively commanded.
I have compared these evolutions with those which it has
been my duty to see frequently performed by the line; and
when I consider the comparatively limited opportunities of
assembling and exercising in large numbers which the vo-
lunteer force has enjoyed, I am not only gratified but com-
pletely astonished at the perfection with which the various
manoeuvres have been accomplished. I think the volunteer
force is under a debt of gratitude to Lord Ranelagh, as well
for the able manner in which he has laid down the pro-
gramme of the day's proceedings as for the energetic and
skilful manner in which he has commanded this large force.

I beg to assure you that it will be a great gratification to
me to present so favourable a report of the day's proceedings
to the War-office as the complete success of this day war-
rants me in doing." The rank of the commanding officer
of th© 3d Battalion of the 4th Brigade is at present Major,
not Colonel; the 6th Surrey (Esher corps) were the Ist
company of that battalion. The 2d Battalion, 4th Brigade,
consisted of the 4th Corps (Havant), sth Corps (Ports-
mouth), 6th Corps (Gosport), of the Rants Rifles.
MELANCHOLY DEATH.—On the evening of Good
Friday Mr. J. Rawlinson, chief clerk in the general ma-
nager's department of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin•
colnshire Railway Company was drowned in the river Irwell,
at Manchester. Ile was endeavouring, it is supposed, to
cross the river by the Pomona gardens ferry and missed
his footing, so that he fell into the water, and all efforts to
rescue him were unsuccessful. 'I he coroner's inquest was
attended by several officers of the company, including Mr.
Ross, the secretary, as a mark of respect for the character
of the deceased. A verdict of accidental death was re-
turned.

NEW LONDON CHURCIIES.—The Bishop of London
has appointed Tuesday, the lth inst., for the consecration
of the new church of All Saints, Kensington-park, which
owes its erection mainly to the munificence of the Rev. Dr.
Walker, rector of St. Columb Major, after the model of
whose beautiful church in Cornwall the church of All
Site is formed,

LA7" E 8 T N.E W. S.

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.
PARIS, APRIL 3.

The Momteur of to-day announces that Couni
Rodolph d'Ornano has been raised to the rank o:
Marshal of France.

The Constitutionnal publishes an article signed
by its secretary, M. Boniface, explaining the letter
of Prince Murat to a friend at Naples, which has
been published in some French papers.
The article says that the letter was only written
for the purpose of giving some explanations, and
adds—

"We are authorised to declare that this docu-
ment is altogether of an individual character, and
in no way engages the policy of the Government,
to which it is evidently opposed."

VIENNA, WEDNESDAY.

The Oesterreichische Zeitung says :—" Upwards
of 250 Hungarian volunteers, provided with Mol-
davian passports, have embarked for Constantinople
with the intention of proceeding to Naples."

CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 27.

Sir Henry Bulwer has presented a project of
financial reforms to the Porte, advising the publica-
tion of the Budget, retrenchment in the expendi-
ture, the consolidation of the public debts, and the
issue of guaranteed paper money.
This scheme has been well received by the Divan.
Troops have been hastily sent to the coast bor-
dering on Montenegro.

TURIN, APRIL 2.

Garibaldi left for this city immediately after his
arrival at Genoa to-day. He had a conference
with the King at noon, the result of which is not
yet known.

GENOA, APRIL 2.

Garibaldi left Caprera on Sunday evening last,
and has arrived here. It is believed that he will
proceed to Turin.

POSEN, APRIL 1.

Riots took place yesterday at Kalisch. A
multitude of about 3,000 persons made a noisy
and insulting demonstration (Katzenmusik) before
the house of the captain of the district. The win-
dows of the house were smashed, and the captain
fled to the cadet school amid the shouts and yells
of the people.
His deputy was likewise insulted.

Similar demonstrations afterwards took place
before the houses of the President of the Tribunal
and the Inspector of Schools. ,

Order was re-established by the military.

ST. PETERSBURG, APRIL 2.

It is said that Prince Gortschakoff has addressed
a circular, dated the 20th ultimo, to the Russian
representatives abroad, stating that " Russia and
Europe have witnessed the proof that the Emperor,
far from deferring, takes the initiative by granting
reforms, and prosecutes them with perseverance."
" The Emperor," continues the circular, " de-
sires that what he has granted should become a
reality and open to Poland a path of regular
progress."

WARSAW, APRIL 2.

Another proclamation, addressed by Prince
Gortschakoff to the people, has been published,
which says :

" The important moment compels me to again
address to you words of reason.

" The institutions which have been promised you
guarantee the dearest interests of your country,
religion, and nationality. These institutions will
be siuceiely carried out.
" Avoid disturbances, which the Government
cannot approve, and which would impede all pro-
gress."

PARIS, APRIL 2.

The Pays of this evening says :—" It is said that
General Ulloa is the bearer of a petition to Prince
Murat signed by 750,000 persons, 80,000 of whom
are inhabitants of Naples."

TURIN, APRIL 2.

In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies
Signor Alassari made an interpellation in reference
to the affairs of Naples. He maintained that there
would be no safety for Italy unless she was united.
He criticised the present organisation of the Nea-
politan provinces, and proposed several remedies,
one of which was the suppression of the Council of
Lieutenancy.
Signor Paternostro expressed his regret that a
factious minority had caused anarchy in Sicily.

MM. Amari and Crispi are expected to reply to
this accusation.

The Minister will answer the interpellation to-
morrow.

BERNE, APRIL 2.
The Turin Military Gazette, having published an
article proposing to France, Italy, and Austria,
the partition of Switzerland, Count Cavour has
officially dec:ared to the Federal Council that this
article does not represent the policy of the Italian
Government.

QUEENSTOWN, APRIL 2.

The Hon. Wm. L. Yancey, of Alabama; Judge
P. A. Rost, of Louisiana ; and Colonel A. Dudley
Mann, the Special Commissioners of the Southern
Confederacy to England and France, were to sail
from Savannah on the 27th ult. for Southampton.

LISBON, APRIL 3.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship
Oneida, with the Brazil mail, will leave for South-
ampton at 7 a.m. to-day, with 57 passengers,
£24,G26 in specie, and 3,220 bags of coffee.

PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY MORNING.

His Royal Highness 'the Duke of Cambridge has
arrived here, accompanied by General Foster and
Colonels Chapman, Jervois, and Bingham. His
Royal Highness was received by Major• General
Hutchinson, commander-in-chief of the district,
Col. Owen, Brigade-Major Kirk, Capt. McKinnon,
and Lieut, Rimmington, aides-de-camp.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY.

The recognition of the kingdom of Italy by Eng-
land does not modify the provisional attitudo of
France towards Sardinia. At least the temporary
interruption of diplomatic relations between France
and Turin seems likely to continue.
The Patrie of this evening says :—" Gen. Ulloa
has arrived in Paris."

The same journal publishes trews from Vienna,
announcing that the Emperor had rejected the
democratic prograinme of the Hungarian leader, M.
Deak, who demanded the absolute separation of the
Administration of Hungary from that of Austria.
The Emperor declared that he intended to abide by
the reforms he had already granted.
It was thought that in consequence of this state
of things Baron Schmerling would withdraw his
resignation.

The last conference on the commercial treaty
between France and Belgium was held yesterday ;

. _
the treaty itself will be signed to-day. M. Chasse-
loup Laubat, Minister of Marine and Colonies, has
returned from L'Orient, where he witnessed the
launch of a new frigate, La Couronne, of which
the iron plating is inserted between a double lining
of timber. This is a new mode of arming vessels.
The Minister will set out for Toulon in a day or
two, perhaps for a similar purpose.
Changes in the Ministry are spoken of, M. de
Persiguy leaving the Home-office ; M. Forcade d•
la Roquette surrendering the Finances to M.
Fould, and taking the Public Works ; and M.
Rouher, the present Minister of the department,
accepting the post of Minister without portfolio.
M. de Germiny is also spoken of for the Finances.
Lord Elgin is expected in Paris on Thursday en
route for England.

BOURSE, April 2.—The market has been quiet,
but prices well maintained, at the rates of yester-
day—Threes, for the Account, alternating between
67f 85c and 97f 95c. Railways firm.
The following were the last quotations :-
4i per per Cents ... 95 45 , Credit Foncier 940
Do end month.... 95 55 Belgian 4f.. —
3 per Cents
Do. end month 67 65 Roman
Bank Shares 2890 Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 645 Spanish Threes —
Do. Account 650 ' Home Debt .. 47

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1861.