The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-07 00:00:00

AN OFFICER KILLED BY A TIGER.

We regret to have to record the occurrence of a
most melancholy accident that has occurred near
Neemuch, in the death of Lieutenant Charles Newel
Grant, of the 2d European Light Infantry. An
officer, writing to us from Neemuch, under date the
26th March, says :—" A party cf officers, vtoc2ald),
tain Baumgartner, young Hemstead,
Crawford, of the 13th N. 1., and poor Grant, of proceededt
on a shooting expeditionto Ruttunghuurr, 3
oOfmailteisgoeffr,
The first day they obtained khubeb h
which was shot without any
On Sa•urday forenoon they a:Tacglatititi
inafoprpmeneidn got..
wteirger some five miles
which sgpeot they proceeded, and
laerachsgeNavevreehlyim. arrehoeuPbleeaostf
the presence of a very
from their camp, to
coming up with the
le short jungle, and after
!igevrery
evening,found the
barrels, wounding
o t r
h bei
brute again about
tbheeantinmgafdoer oliffi
him,
when some shots were
thes again hit. ile then turned to the
where poor Grant was in advance of all, and
be `vas
him fired •
fourfired orun
and be
in
at him ; the brute then seized
him, the beaters bolted, and the tiger commenced
to bite and claw poor Grant fearfully, carrying
him off to some distance. The other officers were
or right
seeinghts
only aware of the occurrence by hearing Grant
cry out t,) Baumgartner to come and kill the brute.
The latter, in the most plucky and brave manner,
ran to the spot, and found the tiger on the top of
Grant crunching his arm. Baumgartner had only
as he is, he went
one barrel loaded (his shikaree had also bolted with
his rifle) ; but like a fine fellow .
close up, and placing the muzzle. just behind the
animal's shoulder, fired, and seeing that even then
the tiger would not relax his hold, drew his re-
volver, and fired the five barrels into its head.
Hemsted then came up and fired two shots into the
savage beast's head, when it died ; but before poor
Grant could be extricated the brute's -jaws had
actually to bo forced open. Poor Grant was then
removed in a dooly into Neemuch, hut unavoidably
some twenty odd hours elapsed before his wounds
could be dressed, owing to the distance he had to
be carried. On reaching Neemuch Doctors Arnott
and Wright were immediately in attendance, and
did all that human skill could, but the poor fellow
I breathed his last on Tuesday afternoon, the 25th
oa instant. The tiger was of the largesv mp
i7re,
.a.
I miring twelve feet in length."—Po v"e wr

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porary consideration of the House of Commons in
Committee of Ways and Means—the Paper Duty
Abolition Resolutions ! After having loudly and
energetically enveighed amongst various others by
Lord ROBERT CECIL, by Mr. BENTINCK, by Sir L.
PALE, and by Lord CLAUDE HAMILTON—it Was
agreed to nevertheless ! Hence many instantly
jump to the conclusion that the battle, such as
it was fated to be, upon this matter has been
at length fairly fought out, and that the whole
question is at last pleasantly and definitively
settled. There is no division—Mr. DISRAELI
deprecates the notion rife among his more
ardent followers, that there is to be any division
—direct antagonism so far is waived for this night
at least "by particular desire"—and the resolution
is quietly agreed to accordingly. Hence the street
posters of our penny contemporaries announce in
conspicuous characters this morning the glad
tidings—Withdrawal of the Tory Opposition to
t
Paper Duties ! " Wait a'wee," however—the
Party Banquet is not yet over—" there be pippins
and cheese to come." Hear what Mr. DISRAELI
has in a quiet manner to intimate to-
wards the close of last night's proceed-
ings in Committee of Ways and Means. "As
to No. 4 Resolution," says the right hon. gentle-
man—" No. 4, which passed in a remarkably thin
House, although I was myself present, and that
relates to the paper duty, I beg to say it did not
pass unobserved. I said that I thought it was con-
venient for the House that the resolution should
pass, reserving to myself or any other hon. member
the privilege at another stage of taking exception to it,
and it was clearly so understood by the Government.
From the manner in which this resolution has
been brought forward, and the mode in which it is
hereafter to be presented, as I infer from the speech
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in bringing on
his budget, in the shape of a bill, this house will
have fewer opportunities than usual of expressing
its opinion, and at the same time, as far as the other
house is concerned, their power of revitan will be
entirely abolished. These are reasons why we should
proceed with these measures with unusual delibera-
tion. It would be highly unbecoming to adopt
a hurried or precipitate course, and therefore I
would wish to know from the Government
what are their intentions with regard to the
report upon these resolutions, when they in-
tend to bring in a bill, and, generally, what is
to be the course of business in respect of these
resoluions." Whereupon, as a matter, of course,
Mr. GLADSTONE explains, in answer to those in-
quiries, what it is he really proposes to do. He
proposes, he tells us, to move the report of the
resolutions to-morrow (that is to-day), and there-
upon to present to the House A Bill or Two Bills
founded upon these resolutions. As is customary,
the first reading of it, or of them, will be allowed
to pass at the time pro forma. The second reading
the Chancellor of the Exchequer then wants to
have on Thursday evening—the Bill or Bills
having in the meantime been printed and placed
in the hands of members on Wednesday, i.e., to-
morrow. The Opposition leader will not hear of
this proposition, however, regarding the suggested
course as " one pressing the business into precipita-
tion." After something very much like a wrangle
between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the
ex-Chancellor, the Leader of the Opposition—the
date set apart for the second reading—[Mr. Dis-
raeli proposing Monday next (and even that
conditionally upon certain contingencies) in
opposition to Mr. GLADSTONE'S request for Thurs-
day]—the date to be set apart for the second read-
ing is left undecided. It will come under the
consideration of the House this evening, when we
hope that for the advantage of trade, in fact for the
benefit of the community generally, a medium course
will be steered between the Sylla of procrastination
and the Charybdis of precipitation. The nation is
getting tired of this perpetual worry and delay.
People want the matter at last settled off-hand and
definitively.

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gioU WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tate DAY.--Morning, 12h. 30m.—Afternoon, 12h. 38m.
To-moußow.-Morning, 12h. 58m.—Afternoon, lh. 18m.

THE WEATHER.—Surt OFFICE, MAY 7, 1681,
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
54—highest since noon yesterday.
41—lowest this morning and during the night.
47—this day at noon.

BAROMETER--30.06.
WlND—Easterly; with cold dull weather.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1881.

The remaining resolutions upon the Budget were
yesterday disposed of satisfactorily. Almost all of
them if not passed nemine contradicente, at any rate
without a division. The fifth resolution, the one
amending and extending the act of last session,
which imposed an excise duty upon licenses to all
persons keeping places of refreshment, from the
humblest little cook's shop to the most resplendent
confectioner's, was—in deference to the storm of
objections directed against it last evening, in Com-
mittee of Ways and Means—withdrawn altogether.
The eighth resolution, moreover, the one proposing
the imposition of a stamp duty upon licenses taken
out by house agents (not being licensed appraisers
and auctioneers), was, although not absolutely
withdrawn, waived for the time being, in '
order that certain proposed modifications
might be introduced in it a little later on
after mature deliberation. Excepting in these
instances, however, the remaining resolutions fared
admirably well under the circumstances. Inso-
much that the Chancellor of the Exchequer must
have been more than compensated for the late
delays in the progress of his Budget by the accep-
tance (so far) of the bulk of his resolutions one
after another, and the withdrawal (so far) of every-
thing like perverse or immediate antagonism by the
Opposition. Bitter things were said last night, as
a matter of course, in regard to these re-
solutions. Bat—they were, turn by turn,
agreed to! The pill occasionally was so exceed-
ingly nauseous that—no wonder—the Opposi-
tion made many a wry face while swallow-
ing it. The whole flavour of each separate bolus,
moreover, coming out all the more strongly
because the gilding had been clean rubbed off the
salutary contents of the Budget under what may
be termed, without extravagance, the triturating
influence of the late energetic discussions—parti-
cularly after the excruciating "rub" of Thursday
night's or Friday morning's division, with its
Ministerial majority of Seventeen. The Op-
position, we suppose, must console them-
selves by sipping Mr. GLADSTONE'S claret—
to take the taste out of their mouths
as far as may be possible. At any rate—delicious
or disgusting—there are the resolutions, and one
afteranother these resolutions have been swallowed.
Only, the House of Commons, in its elaborate pro-
cess of intellectual and legislative digestion, has—
what with reports returned, and first and second
and third readings, and considerations of measures
clause by clause in Committee prior to their final
stage of development into an Act of Parliament,
that last stage of the third reading but just now
mentioned—the House, we say, with its intricate
machinery of legislative digestion, has, so to speak,
as many stomachs as a cow. It is essentially
ruminant. And so—while it has undoubtedly, as
we have remarked, so far swallowed one after
another the majority of Mr. GLADsToNE'S resolu-
tions—it will yet again after a little while be
"chewing the cud of sweet and bitter fancies" with
each of these half-digested morceaux ! True, it
swallowed no less than seven of these resolutions
yesterday. But one after another the cud of each
will be mumbled again more or less deliberately.
In Committee of Ways and Means the House
yesterday then (to be explicit) agreed to the
notablest resolution of all upon the catalogue, the
one abolishing, on and after the first of October,
all the duties of excise, and all allowances and
drawbacks of or in respect of such duties now
and heretofore payable upon paper and card board
of any denomination. [VS, ith what reservation
this particular resolution was agreed to, however,
we shall presently see specified]. In the same
manner the House in Committee of Ways and
Means agreed to the resolution increasing the
Excise duty on
'Chicory. It agreed to the reso-
lutioncharging a duty of three guineas upon an
additional license to be taken out by
any licensed
dealer in spirits, authorising him to sell spirits
by retail in any quantity not less than a quart
bottle, not to be consumed on the premises. It
agreed to the resolution imposing duties on houses
or agreements for letting furnished houses for
any term less than a twelvemonth. It agreed
to the resolution reducing the stamp duties
upon licenses to hawkers and pedlars,
trading in a certain manner, and under cer
tain circumstances--a boon to some, at least, of
the nomadic trade of the merry rogue Autolycus.
It agreed to the resolutions charging a stamp duty
of Is. per cent. (instead of the ad valorem stamp
duties hitherto levied') upon Foreign Bills of Ex-
change for the payment of any sum exceeding £5OO
sterling. It agreed, in fine, to the last on this
motley list of resolutions—to the resolution,
namely, charging a duty of ss. upon licenses to be
taken out by persons selling table-beer by retail
lid. per quart measure.
at a price not exceeding

And now, reverting to the first on this string of
resolutions brovght last evening under the tem-

The Americans cannot expect that the English
" will stand any nonsense" on the subject of
blockades and privateering. The questions put by
Mr GREGORY last night, although they could not be
all answered without further consideration, have
been answered by the Government so far as to
show that we shall expect the Americans of the
Northern States who represent the old Govern-
ment with whom we are in direct relations, to
adhere to the principles which they have hitherto
enforced exclusively for their own advantage. If
they see fit to blockade the Southern ports, one of
their most natural means of dealing with the Seces-
sionists, they must not blockade by proclamations
merely. They must have a sufficient force before
each port to prevent all ingress and egress. If
they can spare so many ships for the service, so
much the better for them. But though the
South has no navy ; and though its mercantile
marine is of a very humble tonnage, it can grant
letters of marque to adventurers of all nations ;
such letters have been already we are told granted
to some ships which have left Southern ports, and
it is :quite within the range of possibility that
American ships which have left this coantry with
English. consignments on board, may be met with
by an armed vessel sailing under Mr. JEFFERSON
DAVIS'S authorisation, which will take her into
some Southern port.

On one point T.ord lons RUSSELL was quite
clear—the claim of the Southern confederacy to
act as belligerents, and therefore to issue letters of
maraue. He instanced as perfectly in point the
case of Greece in 1825 whose belligerent rights
our Government had acknowledged, though the
Greeks were in open rebellion against an old
monarchy. They had not even the claim which
the members of a Confederation can better set up
to sovereign and independent rights if they choose
to use them. It was then laid down in what seems a
reasonable way, that " the character of belligerency
was not so much a principle as a fact ; that a
certain degree of force and consistency acquired by
any mass of population engaged in war, entitled
that population to be treated as a belligerent ; and
even if their title were questionable, rendered it
the interest, well understood, of all civilized
nations so to treat them." It is clear that if these
views be not acted on privateers would become
pirates in self-defence. They would consider their
own occupation a just one, according to the laws
of war, and if treated as pirates when captured
by any nation, woe to the crews of such a
nation who might fall into their hands.
Obviously the sooner two parties contending
in civil war come to au understanding to respect
the rules of civilised warfare the better for
humanity. Mr. LINCOLN'S only pretext for
treating the Southern cruisers as privateers; is,
his own construction of their position as engaged
in lawless rebellion, but Lord JOTIN
RUSSELL'S
observations will convince him that it will be at
his peril if he should thu.s dare to break rules
which have been acknowledged so long back as
1825. Most just, however, is the retribution the
American Government has brought on itself.
[t refused to concur in the abolition of
)rivateerine..„ at the time of the treaty of
Paris. It now finds that every vessel belong-
ing to the Northern ports whie,h may be at

Shanghae or at Canton, at Liverpool or London,
may be seized ere it reaches home by its own
cherished device. Nay, an agent of Mr. DAVIS
might secretly give letters of marque to a vessel
in any of these ports, which might leave in com-
pany with the Northern vessel, seize her at once on ,
the high seas and sail off with its prize. Before
the burning of the Merrimac and the other ships,
the United States Navy List comprised seventy-
eight armed ships, besides tenders, &o. Of
course, many of these were ships on the List
only, yet a considerable , proportion of them
were in commission, or could easily be fitted for
sea: There were ten ships of the line, all but the
Pennsylvania, which was 120, of 84 guns. Ten
frigates of 50 grans each ; twenty sloops of from 22
Ito 16 guns ; three brigs of from 6 to 4 ; seven first-
class steamers, with the Merrimac at their head ;
sex second-class of from 13 to 14 guns; and fifteen
third-class of from 9 to sguns; besides seven paddle-
wheel war steamers. l‘\Tany of these were on distant
stations protecting American trade there; and now,
if JEFFERSON sends or hires privateers all over the
world, it is not easy to see tow Mr. LINCOLN can
recal them all. He will probably need them at
home, especially the smaller vessels, to make his
blockades effectual, for his heavy ships of war will
be but of little use against the nimble craft, whom
alone he will have to fear. He will have to en-
counter not broadsides, but the " rakish gull-like
craft" which can break his blockade, and smuggle in
arms, ammunition, and supplies, or foreign goods,
or overtake with ease the heavily laden trader.
In regard to the land struggle Mr. LINCOLN
ought to have every advantage if it be carried on
in Virginia, or any of the approachable States ; not
only is all the power to manufacture arms and am-
munition almost exclusively with the North, for
Harper's Ferry in Virginia, now destroyed, was
the only arms manufactory, of importance in the
Southern States, but he has vastly the superiority
in men themselves. The following are the latest
militia returns from the d

SLAVE. STATES.
Alabama .. 70,6621
Arkansas
Delaware
Florida
Georgia 78,699
Kentucky 88,979
Louisiana 91,324
Maryland .. 46,864
Mississippi
Missouri
North Carolina
fiou t h Carolin 9,
Tennessee 71,252
Texas ' 19,796
Virginia

Total . . 962,298

Lifferent States:—

FREE STATES.
California 207,730
Connecticut 51,605
Columbia .. 8,201
Illinois
Indiana 53,913
Maine
Massachusetts 57,868
Michigan 97,094
Minnesota
New Hampshire
New Jersey 81,984
New York
Ohio
Pennsylvania 350,000
Rhode Island
Utah....., 2,821
Vermont .... 23,915
Wisconsin

Total

LAI EbT NEWS.

AUSTRALIA.

PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY MORNING,

The ship Southampton, 971 tons register, Capt.
Bryant Tonkin (belonging to Messrs. Money
Wigram and Sons, London), has passed up Chan-
nel, 105 days from Melbourne, having sailed
January 20.
She has 20,000 ounces of golddust, and a cargo
of 2,063 bags copper ore, 564 cakes and 2,723 tiles
of copper, GO casks tallow, 54 bales leather, and
1,235 bales wool.

A few of the free States have not sent returns, but
they are of trifling importance. The above num-
bers, it may be said, are on paper chiefly, but
they are not more so for one side than the other ;
they are moreover in about the ratio of the-popula-
tion, and we should expect that the present
tremendous excitement would rather increase
the numbers than otherwise. What the North
wants is a General. The Veteran SCOTT is
more fit for the Council of War than the field. He
and JEFFERSON have a bitter personal hatred for
each other ; but the latter has, we believe, years on
his side. He has at least shown hitherto the
greater promptitude. Probably, Mr. SEWARD'S
peace-at-any-price counsels embarrass Gen. SCOTT.
The time is passing away, however, for hesitation.
Either a short sharp war, or an immediate settle-
ment, are the most desirable altenatives for both
sides.

The Southampton brings 140 steerage passengers
and four in the cabin, viz,, the Rev. Father 111‘Don-
ald, Dr. Dukes, and Messrs. Ormond and Joseph,
some of whom landed at Dartmouth yesterday.
In lat. 55.30 S., and from long. 146 to 120 W.,
many icebergs were seen; from Melbourne to Cape
Horn, which was rounded February 26, calms and
light variable winds prevailed; from the Cape to
the South-East Trades light northerly winds; south-
east and north-east winds from April 21 to May 2;
since which northerly. The Line was crossed
April 1.
The Southampton spoke, March 3d, the barque
Melrose, 40 days from Portland Bay, for London ;
27th, ship Berkshire, 40 days from London, for
Bombay ; April Ist, ship Empress of the Sea, from
Melbourne ; 4th, barque Albinoes, 14 days from
Maceioo ; 21st, barque Castries, 30 days from St.
Lucia, West Indies ; 25th, ship Tasmanian, 16 days
from Savannah—all four for Liverpool; 28th, ship
Lydia, 24 days from New York, for Antwerp ; May
Ist, brig Caroline, 32 days from New York, for
Cork ; 2d, at 6 30 p.m., lat. 50.20 N., long. 13.12
W., the steamship Great Eastern, steering to the
westward, under paddle and screw ; also on the 2d,
barque Pratt, 109 days from Bengal, for Falmouth;
and the bark Roseberry, steering to the westward;
3d, ship Britannia, from Liverpool, for Montreal.
At 8 o'clock on Sunday evening the Southampton
was off Dartmouth under whole sail, working
against a light easterly wind.

THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS ALICE.—The
Prince Louis of Hesse Darmstait, who is to be united in
marriage with her Royal Highness the Princess Alice, is
the son of Prince Charles (brother of the reigning Grand
Duke) and the Princess Elizabetb of Prussia (daughter of
Prince William, uncle to the King', and was born Sept. 12
1837.

The Duke and Duchess of Manchester arrived at
their residence is Stanhope• street 3 esterday evening, from
Kimbolton-btreet, Huntingdonshire.

The Earl of Dudley has arrived at Dudley House;
Park-lane, from Scotland.

The Countess Dowager of Glasgow and Miss
Catherine Sinclair have arrived at 18, Chesham-place, for
the season,

TURIN, MAY 7.

The Chamber of Deputies, in its sitting of yester-
day, approved the Government Bill for raising
36,000 men in the Neapolitan provinces, to be fur-
nished in two levies.

The anniversary of Garibaldi's expedition to Sicily
has been celebrated at Genoa.

Perfect order prevailed.
The military movements in Venetia continue.
Signor Torrearsa has been sent on a mission to
Sweden and Denmark.

Sir Clifford and Lady Constable have arrived at
Claridge's Hotel, from Bill ton Constable, Yorkshire.
Major-General Basil Brooke and Mrs. Brooke
have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from
Ireland.

ROME, MAY 5 (via Marseilles).

The address of the inhabitants of Rome to the
Emperor Napoleon, requesting him to withdraw the
French garrison from Rome, already bears thousands
of signatures. The sheets which have been signed
lie at the French Embassy.
On Thursday last the Pope gave a grand dinner
to the French and Pontifical Generals.

By order of the Pope, the Catholic Club, which
had been established by a society of Frenchmen,
has beeen dissolved,

VIENNA, MAY 7.

The Official Wiener Zeitung of to-day announces
that the Emperor has granted an annual pension of
3,000 florins to the widow of the late Minister of
Finance, Baron von Bruck.
The Austrian Gazette of today publishes a letter
from 'Herr Toll Piener, the present Minister of
Finance, in which he testifies to the honesty and
integrity of the late Baron von Bruck in the dis-
charge of his official ditties.

Married, at St. Mary's Church, on Thursday last,
Mr. Maclean, of Upcott House, and Freethy, county
Somerset, grandson of the late Colonel and Lady Mar-
garet ➢✓Maclean, to Grace, daughter of the late William and
Maria Ashburner-Brodie-Marshall.

The Tuscan Zt[onitore announces that the Em-
peror of the French has sent the public library of
Grosseto, which has just been opened, a copy of his works
elegantly and richly bound.

The Regno d' Italia announces that the Neapo-
litan clergy are signing a petition to the Pope, praying him
not to persist in the fatal path in which his Government
is engaged, and to renounce his temporal power.
DR. LIVINGSTONE. Accounts have been re•
ceived from the African coast to March 3. Dr. Living-
stone and Bishop Mackenzie had gone up the river
Rovooma to endeavour to find a passage by that river into
tha interior, which would occupy about three months.
The others forming the mission remained on the island of
Johanna. Her Majesty's ship Wasp had been wrecked
near Tongo Bay.

PESTH, MAY 7.

The congregation of the district of Fiume has
unanimously adopted a resolution rejecting, for
the third time, the request of the authorities of
Agram to send deputies to the Croatian Diet.

SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 7.

The Union Company's mail steamship Athens,
sailing hence for the Cape, takes out in sovereigns
£20,000.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Tagus, sailing hence for the Peninsula, takes out
in sovereigns for Lisbon £3,022.

BERLIN, MAY 6.

In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies,
M. von Vincke's question with reference to the
affair concerning Capt. Macdonald was discussed.
M. von Fincke expressed his regret at what he
termed the tirades pronounced by Lord John
Russell and Lord Palmerston. He spoke of the
esteem in which Prussia had always held the
English alliance, and recalled its historical tra-
ditions. He continued as follows :—" The alli-
ance with Prussia is likewise a necessity for Eng-
land on account of the positions taken up by the
other great Powers."
Baron von Schleintz, the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, thanked M. von Vincke for having afforded
him an opportunity of stating his own views on the
subject. Baron von Schleintz said that the impres-
sion produced in Prussia by the words of Lord
Palmerston with reference to the affair was of a
most regretable and painful character. He con-
tinued as follows :

THEATRICAL ,PERFORMANCES IN MUSIC HALLS.
—Yesterday afternoon a special session of the magistrates
of the Kensington district was held at the Holland Arms,
Kensington, before Robert Tubbs, Esq., chairman, Sir G.
E. Hodgkinson, the lion. E. C. Curzon, Colonel Elsey,
Captain Hensler, and a full bench of magistrates, when
the application was made by Mr. T. B. Simpson, the pro-
prietor of Cremome-gardens, for a license for theatrical
performances, or stage plays, in accordance with the terms
of the 6th and 7th Viet., cap. 56, to twe erections in the
gardens, well known as the Marionette-theatre and the
Ballet-theatre. Mr. Powell, solicitor, appeared on behalf
of Mr. Simpson, and handed in a petition, which was read
by the °Jerk to the magistrates, and from which it appears
that Mr. Simpson had during his occupancy of Cremorne-
gardens, for years past, been duly licensed for music and
dancing, and during that period he had been accustomed
to exhibit for the amusement of the public certain perform-
ances in two buildings or erections known as the Marionette-
theatre and the Ballet-theatre. These performances had
been of a very harmless description, and the petitioner had
never given nor attempted to give any regular theatrical
exhibition or stage plays, but he was advised that in con-
sequence of certain proceedings recently taken at the in-
stance of some of the managers of the metropolitan
theatres against persons holding musiclicences, doubts had
arisen as to the legality of many of the performances that
had been heretofore given under the impression that the
terms of the music license authorised the same. For the
purpose of protecting himself against an infringement or
violation of the law, he now applied to the magistrates for
a licence under the 6th and 7th Vic., cap. 68, for theatrical
performances, or stage plays, to extend to the two buildings
known as the Marionette Theatre and the Ballet Theatre,
but he further stated that he had no intention of availing
himself of the licences for any purposes other than those of
the class of amusement heretofore given at the gardens.
The Bench, after considering the matter, unanimously
granted the licenses, and after disposing of some other busi-
ness the court adjourned.
THE ALLEGED INNOCENCE OF THREE OF THE
DiLwonur BURGLARS.—We have already stated that an
investigation is being made into the alleged innocence of
three of the men—Jackson, Barnes, and Maudsley—who
were convicted at the late Liverpool assizes along with two
other men, Haydock and Corbridge, for an outrage and
burglary committed at the house of Mr. Bourne, farmer,
Dilworth, near Ribchester. Mr. Dean, solicitor, of Black-
burn, who defended Jackson at the trial, visited Kirkdale
Gaol on Saturday, and was engaged five hours in an exami •
nation of llaydo3k and Corbridge. He examined them
separately, and each corroborated the other in almost every
particular. The statements thus made by the two convicts
who admit their guilt, are so strikingly confirmatory of the
statements made by the three men, who assert their inno-
cence, that the friends of the latter are very much encou-
raged to persevere in their efforts to got up such a represen-
tation to the Home Secretary as may lead to an investigation
by the authorities, which may result in the men's innocence
being established. One of the men, in the course of his
examination on Saturday, also made a confession with re-
spect to the West Bradford robbery, for which one Charnley
was convicted at Wakefield, and sentenced to 12 years' peual
serf4t4de,----4/4itcheMi. awinfian,

" Lord Palmerston does not recognise in a neigh-
bouring nation of equal rank with England the
same noble and just conscientiousness with which
he directs the destinies of a great nation. Without
underrating the value of an understanding with
England, I may say that Prussia, thank God, need
not in any way sacrifice her independence for the
friendship of any Power."
Baron von Schleintiz then communicated to the
Chamber a note which he had addressed to Count
Bernstorff, the Prussian Ambassador at London, and
which Lord John Russell was to receive yesterday.
In conclusion, he expressed a hope that the good
understanding which was necessary to all Europe
would not be disturbed.

FR AN CE.

PARIS, MAY 6.

BOURSE, May O.—The market continues firm,
and the prices of Saturday have been well main-
tained, with a fair amount of business doing.
Threes, for the Account, are now at 69f 45c.
Railway shares also firm.

The following were the last quotations :-
41 per per Cents ... 96 35 Credit Foncier 9BO
Do end month.... 96 35 Belgian 4/ —
3 per Cents
Do. end month G9 50 Roman
Bank Shares 2899 ' Austrian .. 6B/
Credit Mobilier 718 75 ' Spanish Threes.... 49
Do. Account 720 Home Debt

THE 0

rrHE STTN, LONDON, TUESDAY' EVENING, MAY I, 1861,

MAIL.

These papers have reached us from Bombay to
April 12, but their contents, of which eve subjoin
the summary of the Bombay Gazette, are singularly
unimportant :
The English Mail of the 4th March arrived in
Bombay 28th ult.
The intelligence received from England of the
charges which had been made affecting the charac-
ter of the Financial Secretary of India in connec-
tion with the Great Western Canada Railway Com-
pany, has produced a painful impression on the
public mind. The result of the inquiry into the
circumstances, promised by the Secretary of State
for India, is looked for with much anxiety.
India is quiet, and the best interests of the Em-
pire are in a state of progress.
The great evil, with which the material welfare
of a large portion of the people of the land has so
long been pressed, remains unabated. The Famine
still prevails and extends. The distress has not
yet come to the worst. The European resources
have been nearly exhausted, while th!: wealthy
natives, as a class, have as yet lamentably failed in
their natural duty towards their famishing fellow
countrymen. There has been a pretty general fall
of rain in the North-West. _

The system, which has bean tried and proved a
success in the Punjaub and Oudh, of admitting
native chiefs and gentlemen of rank and influence
to a share in the administration of the Govern-
ment, by entrusting such of them as may be
deemed qualified by their general character and
their intelligence with magisterial and revenue
powers, has been introduced into the North Western
Provinces by the Lieu enant Governor. It will
have the effect of restoring the aristocracy of the
country to their true position.
The Indian Penal Code, which was to have come
into operation next month, has been postponed till
next January. This postponement is in consequence
of the present stage of the criminal Procedure Bill,
which has to pass its third reading, and which con-
tains several sections that are not likely to pass
without much discussion.
Everything is settled in Sikkim, and the troops
were expected back by the end of last month.
The country is still kept in ignorance of the
details of the amalgamation scheme, except as these
are revealed in the radical changes which are very
gradually and cautiously being made in the mili-
tary service. The committee's report went home
by the last Calcutta Mail.
The branch of the public service which is trem-
bling most in view of its apprehended fate, is the
India Navy. The service is considered doomed,
and as suspicions are like bats which fly in the
dark, all sorts of rumours are afloat as to its pro-
bable fate.
One of the Mysore family of State Pensioners,
Prince Kootoobudeen, was most barbarously and
brutally murdered on Sunday evening the 31st
ult., at his house in Garden Reach, Calcutta.
Our celebrities are at Mahableshwur : His Ex-
cellency the Governor, the Commander-in-Chief,
and the Lord Bishop. The weather is certainly
hot, and every one is justified in leaving Bombay
whose duties admit of it.
Our community has been considerably agitated
by the summary dismissal by Government of Mr.
F. Hutchinson from the office of Collector of Bom-
bay, and from the public service. He has been 42
years in the uncovenanted service of Government,
and was the fist of his class to hold so high an
office as that of Collector of Bombay. There has
been some misunderstanding about remissions of
valuation in cases of encroachment where the land
has been occupied for more than 20 years, remis-
sions which have been going on under a number of
collectors before Mr. Hutchinson bec tme chief of the

office ; Government think they have lost revenue in
consequence, and Mr. Hutchinson's explanations
have not been deemed satisfactory. He has,
therefore, been summarily dismissed. This treat-
ment of the head of the uncovenanted service
is regarded as a severe blow to the service.
There has been a disruption in the Bombay
Chamber of Commerce. Thirteen of the oldest
firms have seceded. The secession, in point of num-
bers, is a small minority ; but in point of respecta-
bility and influence, is very powerful. As they are
considered to have acted unwisely, it is believed
that they will reconsider the step they have taken
and return. It seems very unjustifiable at the pre-
sent time to weaken the influence and diminish the
strength of such an important body without very
valid reasons for doing so.