The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-14 00:00:00

.IJILDHALL MEETING.—The unmistake-

able nkens of disapprobation from the various
speakers, under the chairmanship of the new Lord Mayor
(Finnis), disconcerted all from the moment of his opening the
business, e'en to the conclusion of the reading of its objects
to the noisy assemblage, soon became apparent by the fid-
getty proceedings of the chairman. To keep order Finnis
left his seat in charge of one of the bankers, and took up a po-
sition in advance of the platform, by the speakers. This un-
thought for movement placed "his lordship's" official seati
charge of his deputy, who front inadvertency, and fear of losing
as pest, quitted his station. Whence occurred a singular
surprise to the assembled multitude, namely, oa the vote of
thanks to the chairman being duly proposed and seconded,
a scene something like the ghost in HAMLET ensued,
When—up rose as of " itself," to return thanks from the
magisterial chair, on behalf of Mr. OSBORNE'S allusion to the
colonies, the American Indian Chief, Nutt BASQUE; in his
official chain and medal. He stated, in good English, that
his being set up by Palmerston, Aberdeen, and Derby as the
spirit of Peel and Webster's Income-tax Law of 1842, under
the ASEEMTON Commission—was none of his seeking. That
as the Parliament of Britain, under the Congress of Vienna,
had taxed all the colonies of North and South America, he
became, through election, the soul-personification of the In-
dian aid British fellow-citizenship, and although a sufferer
now six years of civil " bear-baiting" in England, he identi-
fied before them (under Captain ACRIRLEY'S providential
maintenance) the bearer of TIIIS Crown symbol of the city
safetyship and living-representative 15 years of the 1842
commission for the A B C liberties of the natives of the two
earthly continents of Asiatic-europe and America, as the
Muintos doctrine for universal colonisation, via Anglo-
Russia's Bahring Straits.
Peter B.'s case is to be seen in the Shipping assets of
Thursday, 12th March, 1857.

tor deliberating upon them in the upper branch
of the Legislature. Whenever Lord ELGIN has
spoken, however, during this interval of compara-
tive repose and privacy, he has invariably, to
our recollection, spoken rather, as it were, with
the calm and equally-poised judgment of a patriot
than with the passion or pique. of a mere politi-
cal partisan. Now that he is once more induced
to emerge into public life, he does so, conse-
quently, without any diminution whatever to his
prestige--on the contrary, be it said, with that
appreciable increase to his influence, which
naturally enough accrues from the mere
circumstance of a temporary and dignified
withdrawal from the political arena, after the
honourable completion of a series of distinguished
and protracted public services. It is now
eleven years since the date of his appointment as
Governor-General of Canada. Nevertheless he is
at present but in the forty-sixth year of his age—
the noble earl having been only thirty-five at the
period of his departure for the opposite shores of
the Atlantic, as the representative of his BM?,
juIIGN in the Two Canadas. He is, therefore, as
we have said, in the prime of his life, in the full-
ness of all his powers—equally removed, we may
believe, from the rashness incident to youth, and
from the timidity not unusually the concomitant
of old age. The very man apparently desired by
all parties under the existing emergency. A man
with large and wholesome experience. A man
with already well-proved sagacity and determina-
tion. Accustomed to the responsibility devolving
upon one of her MAJESTY'S representatives.
Habituated to think with promptitude, and to
act with vigour at a distance remote from the
central authority. Familiar with the onerous
and delicate duties of a plenipotentiary. 'Un-
biased, as much as one could reasonably expect an
English Statesman to be, by mere considerations
of Party. Inspired by a love of country.
Animated by a jealous regard for the national
honour. Interested, deeply and resolutely in-
terested, in the maintenance of the rights and
properties, and much more, consequently, in
the conservation of the lives and liberties of his
fellow-countrymen in far-away corners of the earth.
In one word, a thorough Englishman. Such we
conscientiously believe to be the especial merits
and qualifications of the nobleman who has just
been selected by the Prime Minister for the won-
derfully delicate task of conducting our diplo-
matic negotiations with the Chinese Government
in the capacity, with the authority, and under
the official designation of her Britannic MAJBSTY'S
Minister Plenipotentiary ansi Ambassador Extra-
ordinary.

expects her Princesses to marry husbands who
can support them—especially if they marry mem-
bers of a Royal family. That England would
much rather have had nothing to do in the Royal
marriage line with a country it despises more
than any other in Europe, but that, if the
young people are in love, why the country of
the husband must maintain the happy pair.
We have no objection to give our PRINCESS
ROYAL 50,000/. as a dowry, and to have done
with it. Against any further taxing of the
country to enrich a Prussian husband we firmly
protest.

FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS REWARD PER AN-
Num, then, to the electors, if they now speak
out. It is in a new Parliament that Courts and
Cabinets get through with such jobs as these.
Nothing will prevent something of the kind but
pledging the candidates to vote against it. It is
folly to talk of reducing expenditure if such
annual burdens are to be inflicted on us. If
taxpayers do their duty at the hustings, and on
that condition only, they ►ill obtain for them-
selves the reward of

"Thus far" ut inns.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE.—
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
Acting Manager, Mr. C. Mathews. Stags Manager, Mr. it
Roxby. Scenic Artist, Mr. W. Beverley.
Last Five Nights of the present Season.
Tho ambient Comedian, Mr. Charles Mathews, every (+vexing,

and Mr. and Mrs. Keeley.
Last 5 Nights of the Grand Christmas Pantomime, the
most magnificent ever produced on the English stage.
THIS EVENING, her Majesty's Servants will perform the
popular Comedy,
♦ CURE FOR THE HEARTACHE.

Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Keeley, Vincent, Til.
bury, Templeton, Carter, Walton ; Mrs. Frank Matthews,
Miss Cleveland, and Miss W. Oliver.
After which will be produced
SEE, SAW, MARGERY DAR;

Or, Harlequin Holiday, and the Island of Ups and Downs.
The' reduced prices as follows, varying throughout the
house to snit every one :—Galleries, 6d. and is.; Second
Circle of Boxes, ls. 6d. ; Pit, 2s. ; First Circle of Boxes,
2a. 6d. ; Dress Boxes, 3s. ' • Stalls, Es. ; Private Boxes,
10s. 6d., I'. is., 11. lls. 6d., and 21. 2s.

fp" OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE
THIS EVENING, will be performed
ILL
Shakespere's tr +gedy of
KING RICHARD THE SECOND.
King Richard IL, Mr. C. K an ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean.
Preceded by MUSIC HATH CHARMS.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. C. Dillon.
THIS EVENING, VIRGINIUS. Virginius, Mr. Charle
Dillon ; Virginia, Mrs. C. Dillon.
Followed by the gorgeous burlesque of CONRAD AND
MEDORA, Miss Woolgar, Mr. J. L. Toole, &e.
After which, a new farce, entitled MY FRIEND FROM
LEATHERHEAD, Mr. Toole, Miss Wilton, and Mrs. B.
White.

The box-office open daily, from 11 to 5, under the super
ntendence of Mr. Chatterton, jun.
Carriages conveying parties to the Private Boxes to se
down at the State entrance in Burleigh-street.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven,
with the successful new Comedy, in three acts, entitled,
DOUBLE-FACED PEOPLE. Characters by Mr. Buckstone,
Mr. Chippendale, Mr. Compton, Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Rogers,
Mr. Clark, Miss Reynolds, Mrs. Poynter, and Mrs. E. Fitz-
wir iam.
After which, it WICKED WIFE.

Under the heavy pressure of his ♦ery grave re-
sponsibilities Lord ELGIN may console himself
with this most reasonable conviction—that the
British People will not fail to remember, from
first to last, the exquisitely delicate and compli-
cated labyrinth of difficulties out of which the
Noble Earl is expected to extricate affairs at
Canton. Allowances cannot fail to be made
in simple justice, if only in consideration of the
unusual entanglement of existing differences.
And there is always this saving clause in every
such supreme emergency : the Gordian Knot, if it
absolutely defies all the unravelling adroitness of
Diplomacy—may at any moment be severed in
twain, as it were, by a single blow from the
trenchant glave of Britannia l Lord ELGIN must
remember that—Lord ELGIN will remember that,
while proceeding to the aid of Sir JOHN Bow-
RING, as well as to that of Sir MICHAEL SEYMOUR,
in his new capacity as her MAJEirY'S Plenipo-
tentiary.

Followed by LEND ME FIVE SaILLINGS

To conclude with Moncrieir o comic drama of THE
IRRESISTIBLES,

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.
THIS EVENING, will be performed the popular drama
of IRELAND AS IT IS. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams.
After which, A NIGHT AT NOTTING-HILL, in which
Mr. Wright and Pawl Bedford will appear.
Followed by a new Piece do C traetere, entitled IN AND
OUT OF PLACE. Mrs Barney Williams.
To conclude with the new original comic drama, called
BARNEY THE BARON. Barney O'Toole, Mr. Barney

LOYAL SURREY THEATRE,
Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek.

THIS EVENING, a new drama, entitled FRAUD AND
ITS VICTIM'S, Messrs Creswick, Shepherd, &e.
After which, an original farce, entitled, THE SERIOUS
YOUTH.
To conclude with LES ARTISTES RIVAUX. Mr F.
Clover, Mr. Tappin, &c.

THEATRE ROYAL, SADLER'S-WELLS,
Under the MAtt.igernent of Mc. Phelps.
"'THIS EVENING, OTHELLO. Othello, Mr. Phelps
Des(lemons, Miss R. Eburne.
TO couclvd3 with THE HANDSOME HUSBAND.
Liz I inU In,tJgt —3lxna,f;er, T.
Payne.--This Evening will be per/on-nod
THE LAMPLIGHTER.
Affer which, THE DEATH OF EVA, in which the
Howard Family will appear.
Followed by TETE BLUE JACKETS.
To conclude with MAID OR WIFE.
Commence at Seven. Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, 2s ; Pit, Is, ;
Gallery, 6cl.

Electors, do not forget Prussia I Many will
wonder what they are to remember—are VIET to
le

aeginning of the war, all through the war, and a
the end of the war ? Is it her bullying Neuchatel
and Switzerland, her getting the prisoners liberated
to avoid a conviction for treachery, and her now
playing the Emperor of the FRENCH false, and
Switzerland too, by refusing to settle the busi-
ness ? Yes—all and any of these if they please ;
but probably no effort of memory is needed—the
contemptible meanness, the avarice, self-seeking,
and political crouching of Prussia are never likely
to be forgotten by the generation which has wit-
nessed the war with Russia. But what have
Electors to do with Prussia just now ? Why
bring her up at the hustings in 1857 I Has Lord
PALMERSTON indicated any wish to maintain the
honour of England at Berlin or at Dantaic ?
Lord PALMERSTON will haVe to guard both the
honour and the purse of England in the new Par-
liament if we be not much mistaken ; and Prussia
will be the source of danger. We pray, as in
duty bound, for her Majesty Queen VICTORIA, for
his Royal Highness Prince ALBERT, for ALBERT
Prince of Wales, and for all the Royal Family,
the PRINCESS ROYAL surely included ; and amongst
our prayers we certainly ask that they may never
dishonour their position, nor disgrace their coun-
try, nor become channels to enrich German poverty,
or to satisfy German longings for the proceeds of
English taxation. We have had too much of that
already. LEOPOLD of Belgium and Queen AnE-
LA.LDE will never be forgotten. True or false, it
will always be believed that a German Princess
instigated a Monarch, shrewd in such matters, to
get her the enormous sum of 100,0001. per an-
num as the price of his signature to the Reform
Bill, and for what on earth could it be wanted but
for needy German Cousins ?
Wow the rumour has been that the New Par-
liament will be asked for 50,0001. per annum I—
for the interest of 1,000,0001. at 5 per cent., to
to marry the PRINCESS ROYAL to a Prussian
Prince ! Could Prussia and its Royal Family ce
degraded further in. the eyes of Europe, we
should say that such a mercenary transaction
would sink them yet lower. Happily for us the
credit of Prussia is not in our keeping ; for we
certainly would not discount a single draft on her
honour. But we must bethink ourselves of the
credit of our own Royal Family, and of our own
pockets. These are points for the busting 3.
Nothing made Queen ADELAIDE so unpopular
with the nation, nothing so indisposed it to mourn
for her death, as the repulsi►e Germanism which
taxed the people so unmercifully, either to enable
her to roll in wealth, or to enrich her poor Ger-
man relations. We would not have our young
Princess brought into the same mortifying posi-
tion. We should like our Royal Family to be
favourites with the country. They will be so if
only reasonable support is asked for them, but if
our Princesses are to cost us 50,0001. a year
each—.bless us—where is the end to be ? If the
daughters are to be salaried in thi - style, and the
sons in proportion ; and if the latter are to swal-
low up military sinecures retained as special
rewards for veteran service, Lord PALMERSTON
may rest assured that the country will think wo
pay too much for the whistle of Royalty, and that
the opinion will spread that a President is better.
Prodigiously less costly at least.

ROYAL OLYMPIC TFIEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan.
THS EVENING, (a new (tree, called THIEVES !
THIEVES ! ! Messrs. F. Robson, G. Vining, &c.
The new drama, by Tom Taylor, Esq., A SHEEP IN
WOLF'S CLOTHING.

Followed by the new farce, by Bayle Bernard, Esq. ,
called A SPLENDID INVESTMENT,
And A CONJI7GA L LESSON. Lullaby, Mr. F. Robson.
Commence at half-past Seven.

ALSTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.
THIS EVENING (first time) Shakspere'a Play of KING
HENRY THE FOURTH (first Part), with equestrian illus-
trations invented by Mr. Wm. Cooke. Hotspur, Mr. James
Holloway.
After whick, the SCENES in tie CIRCLE
To conclude with a ditplay of Equestrian SKILL and
SCIENCE.

Commence at seven o'clock. Dress I3exes, 4s. ; Upper
Boxes, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from IL , no charge for booking ;
Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d.
Box-43111w open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager,
Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-roarl.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow
ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
Selections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses,
Glees, Duets, dtc., via. : ;Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield,
Miss Brunel!, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta; Mr, J.
Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S.
Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling. P. Corri, Senor Antonio H.
de Sella, and E. L. Hime ; Masters Austin, Bennett, and
Cord; Messrs. Sam Collins, E. Mackney, and C. J. Wilkins,
Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.;
director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre., Rely. Suppers, dm, until twelve o'clock.

WATER, AT LONDON BRIDGIL
TEM DAY—ifornk 6 min. aft. 4 —Evening 20 mia. aft. 4
To-biossoW—lfforn. 33 min. aft. 4—Evening 48 min aft. 4

TEE WEATHER—Sur; Orncz, MARCH 14.
THZEMOILETEB, IN THN SHAD',
48 —highest singe noon yesterday.
44 —lowest this morning and during the night.
56 this day at soon.

BABOVITIB, 29.17—a great fall.
WIND, W.S.W.—Fresh, with occasional sunshine, and
heavy passing clouds.
It was quite stormy during the night, with rain.

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LONpON,-SATTIRDAY, MARCH 14, 1857

A distinguished statesman and administrator,
a politician skilled in diplomacy, a patrician in
the very fullness and strength of his mid-career—
JAMES BRITCEs Earl of ELGIN—has just been
selected by Ministers to fill the important and
office of our Negotiator with the Chi-
responsible
nese Government.

It is a jidicious appointment. All things con-
sidered, we believe the news of this appointment
will be hailed by the majority of the people
throughout the country with unalloyed and un-
affected satisfaction. Lord ELGIN has a name of
popularity among his fellow-citizens. He has
never yet damaged his reputation by a blunder.
A wonderful avowal to make in regard to any
public man nowadays ! His energetic and yet
eminently conciliatory administration of affairs in
Canada, won for him the applause of two
Ministers, the good-will of the whole community,
and the conspicuous approbation of his SovE-
itEIGN. Since his return homewards from his
great Colonial Governorship, he has lived fur the
most part in comparative seclusion—vigilantly
observant, n 9 doubt, of public events generally,
but refraining, in the majority of instances, from •
any direct participation in them, even as a sena- I

r Let electors be awake. There is the utmost
danger of a job. The Prince and the Premier
will need the voice of the country to enable them
to resist the urgency of German, especially of
Prussian, avarice. They must be able to reply
that England will not endure it. That England

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affairs. There were also some 2,000,0001. of
Consols, which the- 0-oirernor thought might have
been disposed of—at a gieat sacrifice, and
the sale whereof "might have strength-
ened the reserve by about one million."
His experienced colleague, Mr. HORSLEY PALMER,
however, differed completely from this view of
the case. Re said—" It would have been quite
impossible in the state of public feeling that then
existed to have gone into the market with a mil-
lion or a million and a half of securities, and
have found Bank notes for them." While Mr.
GLYN, an unexceptionable authority on such a
point—declared, "I should say from what saw
at the time—that a sale of a million or two mil-
' lions, which were the figures talked of, would
have been almost impossible, without knocking
down the funds to such a price as would have
caused a further panic." While Mr. BROWN,
M.P. for South Lancashire, doubted " whether
they could have been sold at all 1" and thought
that, were it even possible, " the remedy would
have been worse than the disease." The Ho-
nourable Gentleman gave the following graphic
account of the emergency—" There was a com-
plete want of confidence between man and man.
Hardly a contract could be entered into. Such,
indeed, was the general feeling of instability and
alarm, that by the last packet advices had been
sent by many firms to America countermanding
the orders which they had given for the importa-
tion into this country of articles of such prime
importance as food. The same distress prevailed in
other branches of trade at Manchester, and pro-
ducers of goods for foreign exportation there
were most unwilling to go on increasing their
stock, and were actively attempting to convert
their bills into bullion. In fact) both as to
imports and exports, we were at a dead lock. The
last accounts, too, from the United States were,
he feared, not so flattering as he could have
wished, either as to the supply of produce, or as
to any prospect of the exchange being such as
would prevent further demands on us for gold ;
and the alternative of either allowing the drain
to continue, until we parted with our remaining
gold, or, of permitting the people to starve.
The position of the country was simply this—that
mills and manufactories were closed and closing
—that operatives were being thrown out of work,
and that artisans and workmen of all sorts were
becoming in an equally distressed condition" 1! !
The measure and representative of value had,
in fact, almost altogether disappeared—with an
impending famine, neither flour nor cereal pro-
ducts of any description could find purchasers.
But better, far better, according to the heartless
theory of the bullionists, to permit the people to
starve—to see our famishing brethren perish in
the streets from actual hunger, than to relax a
single restriction, or endanger " the converti-
bility of the Bank note.;' The lives of the
people were as nothing when compared with " the
integri:.y of the standard!"

And yet, with these unquestionable facts, of
all of which he was perfectly cognisant, and which
we defy him to deny in the slightest particular,
MERCATOR has the reckless audacity--the un-
blushing hardihood—to declare, that " the Act
accomplished all its legitimate functions on the
occasion, and all went well (!) with the issue de-
partment 1" and to announce his conviction that
" the steady force of sound principles (!), the clear
deductions of scientific reasoning (I I), the emphatic
verdict of experience (! I), will not be hastily
overruled 1" If what we have detailed above be
the " legitimate results of the Act, then ought its
framers t)be held up to exeoration"---for never did
malefactors more eminently deserve condign pu-
nishment at the hands of a betrayed and exaspe-
rated people, driven bevpnd self-control by the
&Luemit,y or misery and destitution.

THE NEW FOREST COMMISSION.—The New Forest
Commissioners have been asked by Parliament togive an
account of their labours and expenses. As regards the
latter, Mr. Commissioner Gale has kept no account of
his travelling expenses, Mr. J. D. Coleridge " thinks
he has spent 701. and 801.,' and Mr. Barstow estimates
his expenses at 255. a-day. Nothing has been received
by the Commissioners for remuneration or expenses,
although they sat 32 (working) days at Southampton, 13
days at Lyndhurst, 12 days at Ringwood, 12 days at
Christchurch, and one day (6 hours) at Salisbury.
THE SUPPLY OF GUANO.—We have the satisfaction to
announce that the Government have engaged to station
a ship of war at the guano islands in Kooria Mooria Bair
in August, and that the trade will then be thrown open
to all British ships, and be protected by the Government
from all molestation. Messrs Hindson. and Hayes, of
Liverpool, the Government lessees of the islands, have
received official notification of these facts.
THE CASE OF PRACTICAL JOKING AT BRENTWOOD.—
A correspondent says :—" A memorial to Lord Palmer-
ston is now in course of signature by some of the jurors
impannelted in this case (who reside chiefly in this die-
trict), recommending a remission of the sentence passed
by Justice Cresswell on Cooper and the Hoofs, and the
substitution of a fine. In the event of the application
succeeding it is understood the young men have promised
to place 5001. at the disposal of the widow."—Chelms-
ford Chronicle.
Very serious loss has been incurred by tradesmen in
Southampton through the failure of Messrs. Copland and
Barnes, of London, who bad a contract for victualling
the Royal Mail Company's ships. Large quantities of
the victualling stores were supplied to Messrs. Copland
and Barnes by the Southampton tradesmen. A very
great sensation has also been caused in Southampton by
another failure, that of one of the most respectable men
in that town.
The report of the Bank of Egypt, preparatory to their
meeting on the 24th, states that business was com-
menced at Alexandria on the 7th of July last, and that
from that date to the 31st of December a profit was rea-
lised of 5,9411. The paid up capital was 125,0001. at
the beginning, and was increased to 187,5001, on the
31st of October. It is proposed not to divide the pro-
fits until the expiration of twelve months from the date
of opening.
STATE OF TRADE.—MANCHESTER, March 13.—The
advices in anticipation of the overland mail, Just to
hand, have bad the effect of strengthening the market.
In regard to India goods, and the prices for low qualities
of shirting's, madapollams, jaconets, and T-clothe which
were asked on Tuesday, have been fully supported. In
some cases manufacturers have been asking rather
higher prices. The same remark applies to yarns suited
to the markets in India, some numbers of which are in
fair demand. In other goods, such as cloths suited to
the home trade, and in other branches of the export
trade, there is no change.
The report of the Ottoman Bank has been issued pre-
paratory to the meeting on the 26th. The profits from
the commencement to the 31st of December have
amounted to 31,479/., and a distribution of 15s. per
share (being equal to 10 per cent, per annum) is recom-
mended, which will leave a balance of 12,729/. to be car-
ried forward. It is stated that the introduction of a
legitimate system of banking into Turkey has been fully
appreciated, that branches have been established at
Smyrna, Beyrout, and Galatz, and that a profitable ex-
tension of business may necessitate the payment of the
remaining instalment on the shares.
THE UNEMPLOYED LABOUR OP LONDON.—Yesterday
at the meeting of the directors and guardians of the poor
of St. Marylebone (Mr. Cole in the chair), Dr. Bach-
hoffner stated that extraordinary as it might appear,
during the recent pressure ou that parish, consequent on
the unemployed labour in the metropolis, Mr. Tubbs,
their assistant-overseer, had relieved no less than 24,000
casuals who had applied at that workhouse for relief.
The efficient and laborious duty was performed by the
assistant overseer in such a manner, that the present
board of guardians would not be doing its duty if it did
not, before going out of office, put some highly compli-
mentary record on their minutes as to the meritorious
conduct of Mr. Tubbs. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Anderson
seconded the motion, and after some observations, Dr.
B Ichlaoffner consented to add a similar compliment to the
relieving overseer's staff. It was then carried unani-
mously.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.—The
Hunterian lectures of the Royal Cellege of Surgeons
were commenced on Tuesday in the theatre of the college,
when Mr. G. Busk, F.R S., Professor of Comparative
Anatomy and Physiology to the college, delivered his
introductory lecture on the anatomy, physiology, and
classification of the invertebrate animals ; in which the
distinction between animals and plants was clearly
pointed out, as well as the principles of the classification
of animal'; and the scheme and object of the classifica-
tion proposed to be followed in the course of lectures
now about to be delivered.
THE DOVER MAILS —Copies of contracts made by the
Government since 1852 for the conveyance of mails be-
tween Dever and Calais and Dover and Ostend have
been printed by order of Parliament. According to an
agreement with Mr. Jenkings and Mr. Cburchward
in April, 1854, the mails were to be coeveyed at a
minimum speed of 13 knots an hour, by not less than six
steamers, each being at least 100 tons burden, and of
adequate horse-power. The Admiralty was empowered
to deduct 151. in every case where the mails were not
landed in tune for the mail train. The contract was re-
newed in June, 1855, and will last till the 20th of June,
1863.
THE DENISON AND LIDDELL CASES.—We (the Union)
are requested to state that the hearing of the appeal of
the A rcbdeacon of Taunton, in the court of the province,
no
will net. ee. ,t„
tat he esegsienning at the term. The court had inti-
mated its readiness to take the appeal, or so much of it
as could be heard before Easter, on Monday the 23d
• inst., and on alternate days following. But it is more
convenient to wait till after Easter, and to this the csurt
has given its assent. We have made inquiry in the
proper quarters, and cannot find that any day or time has
been appointed for giving judgment in the Westerton
case. Reports are various as to the nature of the deci-
sion ; but most of them agree in affirming that the
former judgments will be materially modified and the
cross retained.
POOH LAW MEDICAL REFORM A ISSOOLLTION.—A
meeting of medical students was held on Thursday
night at St. Martin's-Hall ; Mr. Layard, M.P., in the
chair. A number of resolutions (no less than eight)
—spoken to chiefly by medical students of the various
hospitals in London, and from Manchester, Bristol,
and York, were unanimously passed. The sub-
stance of the first four of these resolutions was as fol-
lows :—That reform was celled for in the Poor Law
medical relief system, as, in the first place, it
injured the efficiency of relief by crippling the
resources, limiting the powers, and lowering the
standard of skill among the administrators of
that relief ; that the remuneration of the medical man
employed was inadequate, and the supervision of their
labours improperly referred to unprofessional persons ;
and that the grievances set forth closely toughed the medi-
cal care and wellbeing of the suffering poor. The last
four resolutions were, that the delegates obtain petitions
signed by all the students in England and have them
presented to Parliament, and that thanks be given to
Mr. Groffin for initiating the movement, and to the
chairman for his kindness in presiding.
VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN
THE CIVIL SERVlCE.—Commissioners in Lunacy—Dr.
Robert Nairne, physician and lecturer on medicine in
St. George's Hospital, has been "appointed a commis-
sioner in lunacy in the room of Dr. John R. Hume,
deceased. The Dockyards—Mr. John Crealock, third-
class clerk at Devonport dockyard, has been promoted
to the second class, vice Dent, superannuated. The
Board of Trade—Mr. Richard S. Boles, principal coast
officer at the Quoile, has been appointed receiver of
wrecks for the Lough of Strangford. Mr. Edward
Harcourt Charles Heselden has been appointed a clerk
at the East and West India Docks in London ; Mr.
William Allan Curr has been appointed a clerk, general
business, in London ; Mr. Stanley Kingsford has been
appointed a clerk, Long Room, in London. Inland
Revenue Department
,(Stamp and Taxes Branch)—Mr.
I Thomas Wallace has been appointed a supernumerary
surveyor of taxes. (Excise lirancb)—Mr. W. W. Page,
supervisor of Crediton district, Exeter collection, has
been appointed supervisor of Newcastle district, Stafford
collection, at his own request; Mr. H. G. Chubb, ex-
aminer, has been appointed supervisor of Crediton dis
trict, Exeter collection ; Mr. G. Barber, examiner, has
been promoted to Halesworth district, Suffolk collec-
tion. East Indies—Captain A. R. Thornhill, first as-
sistant, has been appointed to officiate as resident at
Hyderabad pro tem., vice Mr. G. A Bushby, deceased.
Mr. F. Read has been appointed superintendent of
forests in Oude. Lieut. F. R. Pollock and Mr. F. H.
Cooper have been appointed deputy commissioners of
the second class in the Punjaub. Lieut. P. Maxwell
has been appointed an assistant commissioner of the
first class in the Punjaub. Captain J. E. Fraser, Lieut.
J. Perkins. Mr. S. S. Hogg, Lieut. T. W. Mester, and
Mr. R. F. Saunders, have been appointed assistant
commissioners of the second class in the Punjaub.—
Civel Service Cazette.
FIELD LANE NIGHT RETUGE.—A public meeting in
support of a new effort of the committee of the Field-lane
Ragged School in opening a night refuge for homeless
young females was held last evening in the schoolroom,
West-street, Holborn-hill, under the presidencyof the Earl
of Shaftesbury. Mr. Ta-well, thesecretary, read a detailed
statement of the causes which had led to the opening of
the refuge and the object contemplated. Among the
first who had come forward to the assistance of the corn.
mittee was the Earl of Shaftesbury, who had placed at JERUSALEIYL
their disposal 1501. The refuge was situated at the hot- A letter from Jerusalem of the 15th ult. says :
tom of Hatton-lane, and was open to public inspection "The Greeks are renewing their vexatious
pro-
day and night. It was presided over by a Christian ceedings towards other Christian sects. The Copts
matron, afforded a temporary, or even permanent possess a small chapel built against the monument
shelter to homeless women, and provided them with w
clothes that they might go forth in searof em- hich covets the sepulchre of the Saviour, and, as
ployment. The noble chairman, in dr it recently damaged in the disturbances which
meeting, said that he could not conceive a class with addressing the tookwas. place on the occasion of the Greek ceremony
of the 'sacred fire,' the Copts wished to repair it ;
higher claims on the sym of mankind than those
pathy
wretched women. They were brought into distress b but the Greeks demanded of the governor of Jeru-
salem to prevent them from doing so, on the pre-
various causes—some on arriving from the country to
get into service, others from being suddenly and harshly text that, in virtue of an ancient firman, they alone
turned out of their situations, and others, again,
from I had the right to make repairs in the Church of the
sheer distress. Many were married women, and
girls, Holy Sepulchre, even in the portions possessed by
of untainted character, and this circumstance, added to 1 other communions. It was subsequently ascer-
their, do wnright despair, imperatively called on all to come 1 tamed, however, that the Latins poss9ssed another
forward to their relief. The scheme was simple, very firman of a more recent date, which annulled
I
practicable, and wise in the extreme, and could not fail
wholly, or in part, that of the Greeks, both as re-
to achieve success. Resolutions approvibng thein_stitu- 1 garde themselves and other sects. The Greeks,
time were moved and passed, the speakers eing the Hon.
A. Kinnaird, M.P., D ; then abandoning their firman, declared that orders
r. Cumming, Mr. J. Payne, Mr.
Fordham, Mr. Vanderkist, and other gentlemen, from Constantinople gave them the right Which
At the Thames police-court on Thursday,K. Wo . I
tein was fully committed for trial for stabbin they claimed. The Copts represented that this
two men i was not so, and that the proof of it was that other
named Van Eveyke and Charles Felix. At the close of I communions had with.n a year made repairs in
the examination Felix was obli be
ged to conveyed to i ;their chapels ; but the Greeks have appealed to
the hospital, A. Constantinople, and as they are rich, powerful, and
'
,
private letter from Nice speaks very favourably of , unscrupulous, it is feared they will obtain a d
eci-
the health of the Dowager Empress of Russia. ' sion in their favour. The Copts have, however, it

LATEST NEWS.

A letter from Constantinople, in the Trieste Ga-
zette, says :—" The Custom-house officers of Galatz
lately seized a great number of Sclavonia,n books,
which were about to be smuggled into Bulgaria.
They contained, among other matters, prayers, in
which it is asked from Heaven to destroy the Otto-
man empire, and to give it to the Orthodox Em-
peror. What is singular is, that these books con-
tain a notice, according to which they have been
printed by order of the Emperor Alexander 11.,
and with the consent of the synod of the Greek
Church."

A letter from St. Petersburg of the 4th, in the
Debats, says :—" The -journali of this capital con-
tradict the assertions of some of the foreign press
on the subject of the movement of Rußsian troops
beyond the frontiers of Persia, and of the cession
of Persian territory to Russia, declaring that not a
word said about it is true.

"Despatches received at the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs," says a Paris letter in the Emancipation
of Brussels, "lead to the supposition that the late
caimakan of Moldavia, M. Balsche, expired from
the effects of poison."

The Imaum of Muscat, whose death on board a
British frigate was lately announced, having left
no legitimate heir, the English and French Govern-
ments, being the only Powers having representa-
tives in the late Imaum's dominions, have declared
in favour of Hilal, the eldest of his illegitimate
sons.

It is said that the French Government has de-
cided that the debt due to it by the Greek Govern-
ment shall be remitted, and the Emperor expresses
a hope that all the money due to France, and corn-
ing due by the Greek Government, will be expended
in useful public works in the interior of Greece.

The Paris correspondent of the Times (second
edition), in his letter dated yesterday, says:—
" Despatches have been received this morning
from the French Minister at Berlin ; they doubt-
less relate to the Neuchatel question, which has
the disadvantage of wearing out every one's
patience, except perhaps that of the King of
Prussia. It is said that M. Rosenberg is ex-
pected on. Monday to take part in the negotia-
tions. If it be true, as a Berlin paper affirms,
that the Paris Conference has not the right
to solve the question, it might as well dissolve it-
self at once. The new instructions are said
to be to the effect that the recognition of the rights
of sovereignty is the express condition of his Ma-
jesty's renunciation of that sovereignty. The
Emperor, I presume, now sees cause to regret his
extreme condescension to the King, and perhaps
but for the esteem in which M. de Hatzfeld is per-
sonally held at the Court of the Tuileries, his dis-
appointment would be manifested more strongly."

The following paragraph, from the Pays, the
Government journal, corroborates the statements
made some days since relative to an expedition to
be sent to the Chinese Seas by the French Govern-
ment :

"It has been said that a convention was
signed between France and England to regulate
the mode of co-operation between the two Powers
in the affairs of China, and it was added that
France had engaged to furnish an expeditionary
corps of 20,000 men against the Celestial Empire.
We consider it necessary to rectify both facts.
There has not been any convention 3.-s.-^r
uetween the two Governments.
There was merely an exchange of notes, which is
sufficient ; and, as to the very exaggerated amount
of the expedition, it is reduced to the already
known fact of ships and warlike stores placed under
the command of Rear-Admiral Rigault de Gen-

FRANCE.
PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.
Letters were issued yesterday convoking an ex-
traordinary meeting of the Council of State for this
day, under the presidency of the Emperor. The
object of the meeting was to come to some decision
on the long-vexed question of the tax on personal
property. The impost itself, as well as the best
mode of laying it On, has been discussed over and
over again, and has almost turned the hea,ds of
financi?rs. The only thing all seem unanimous
about is the necessity of providing for the deficit
by some tax or other. The newest project is the
imposition of 15c. on every 100 f. on each share or
" obligation," whether French or foreign, taking
as the basis the average value of such securities for
the last three years.

It appears the Russian Government have sent
orders to Bordeaux for the construction of a screw
steam frigate of 500-horse power, to carry 60 guns,
a screw steam corvette of 400-horse power for 30
guns, and a paddle-wheel steam yacht of 400-horse,
for the special service of the Czar. These vessels,
which were ordered three months ago, are far ad-
vanced towards completion. The corvette will be
launched in May, the frigate in September, and
the yacht in December. Other orders of a similar
kind are stated to have been also received.
A Paris letter, in the Independance of Brussels,
says that On Monday next, the first anniversary of
the birth of the Imperial Prince, an extensive pro-
motion in the army and Legion of Honour is to
take place, as well as the distribution of 1,200 mi-
litary medals ; also, that on the occasion three
days holiday will be given to the pupils of the col-
leges.
The Moniteur publishes a further list of French
officers, soldiers, and civilians who are authorised
to accept and wear foreign orders and decorations.
A Paris correspondent of the Nord of Brussels
writes :—" A report that M. Berryer, jun., had
been arrested is incorrect. He has left for the
"Chateau d'Angerville, in Beauce, with his father,
where both together will prepare the defence which
is to be made before the Court of Appeal. It is
said that M. Berryer will himself defend his son,
and that he has determined on closing his career as
a pleader with this defence."
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