The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-11 00:00:00

THE WELLINGTON, 160, PICCADILLY.
—Gentlemen are respectfully informed that the
SALOON DINING ROOMS are now OPEN for the Supply
of LUNCHEONS and DINNERS PRICE,
from One to Nine o'clock
p.m. THOMAS Superintendent.

HEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, the performances will oommenae with
A DUKE IN OIFFICULTIES. Mrs. Stirling, Miss F.
Haydon, Mrs. Wilkins, Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr. Buckstone,
Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, &ff.
After which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery
and effects, and all the original music by the late Sir Henry
Bishop, the melodrama of THE MILLER AND HIS MEN.
Commence at 7.

THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM.
Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
Decided Success of the Two New Dramas.
THIS EVENING, LOVERS' QUARRELS.
Alter which, a new original comic drama, written by Saml.
Lover, Esq., entitled MAC CARTHY MORE ; or, Possession
Nine 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, Jae.
Johnstone, J. Rouse ; Mrs. Winstanley, Miss Matilda Heron,
Miss Willard, &c.

LOYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
1. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING,. THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore,
Meadows, Garden, and Miss C. Leclercq.
Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Pechter. Sup-
ported by Messrs. Ryder, Hermann Vezin, graham, Shore,
Meadows, ; 3tisses heath, R. Leekreq, and Elsworthy.

EW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI,-
-1- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J.
L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E.
Thorne.
To be followed by the new drama, MAGLIORE, THE
PRESTIDIGITATOR. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole,
D. Fisher, tx.; Miss K. Kelly, Miss H. Simms, &c.
After which, OUR GAL. Miss Julia Daly, Mr. Romer,
Mr. Eburne, and Mr. Warde.
Doors open at halt past 6—Commence at 7.

CANTF,RBURY-HALL CONCERTS!!
Westrainster•road.
rroprietor........C. Morton.
A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera,
IL CORSARO,

(This opera has never been produced in this or any other
country,
except at these Concerts), having met with that de-
cided success which eharactise4 the most popular werks of
this great Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ;
together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI-
BIENTO, by Donizetti,
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss
Tyrrell, Mr. 11. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and
C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
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.

DAY.—Morning, 2h. 38m.—Afternoon, 2h. 56m.
To-moßnow.-Morning, 3h. 10m.—Afternoon, 3h. 26m.

TAB WEATHER.--SUN OFFIC/14.AFRIL 11, 1861.

THEISMOICIETBIt, IN THE SIIADZ.

M—highest since noon yesterday.
34—lowest this morning and during the night.
55 —this day at noon.

BABomBTEn.-30.45; falling.
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THE SUN.
LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1881.

" We were not geese"—said Lord PALMERSTON,
when the Tiverton butcher wanted to know what
he had done with the Reform Bill. The negative
assurance was quite superfluous—no one suspected
Whigs of being geese ; he might as well, therefore,
have put it in the positive form at once—" we were
foxes"—and " I, your member and Premier, was the I
most wide-awake old fox of the lot ; and, seeing a
capital opportunity of doubling on my own track
of last year, and running to cover, and to earth too,
in the lucky old Act of 1832, don't suppose for a
moment, that an old Whig fox like me would not
do it." And crafty, indeed, are Whigs and Tories
in their policy, and reasonably are they of one heart
and one soul—the PALMERSTON Government refus-
ing to bring in a Reform Bill, and the ex-DERBY
Government commending them as wiser in their
generation than the real Liberals. For, what is the
plain fact under the Act of 1832 That act gave
the middle classes a voice, the working classes not
even that ; but it gave the aristocracy all the power.
As Mr. BYNG, the then " father of the House of
Commons," said in his day, so we may say still—
" It is plain that we are living under an aristo-
cracy." The broad view of our representation is,
that the Reform Act enabled, doubtless, several of
the great centres of industry and population to
speak out, and thus whatever power the ultramontane
party have in the French Senate and Legislative
Assembly—the power of tongue—is given to the
middle classes, but that is all. The counties are
handed over, bound hand and foot, to the
landlords, and the numerous petty agricultural
boroughs are bestowed on the same enlightened
patrons of popular rights ; while all boroughs
with, say from 800 to 1,000 or 2,000
electors are consigned to the territorial and the
Stock Exchange Long-purses, ho take them at
market price, being greatly assisted in so doing by
the " Bribery and Corrupt Practices Prevention
Act"—an Act which is therefore to be renewed
this year.

flow can we wonder then at the secret indigna-
tion, hardly veiled behind the fig-leaves of decent
speeches and votes, which pervades the whole
Whig and Tory camp, towards such marauders on
the peace of the House as Mr. LOCKE KING and Mr.
BAINES. Dare they do it, they would vote them
pests and bores ; " black sheep " as the masons on
strike would say, betraying the great body of their
brethren. The country indeed, will not be in the
least surprised with the result of yesterday's vote.
It was quite looked for. It was known that the
Whig whippers-in had imitated the stonemasons
and picketed the gates to the Liberal side of the
house, and had induced quite a sufficient number to
stay away to insure the Tories a victory for them-
seivm and for the Government, whose members were
compelled like the Hungarians in Italy, to fight
on the side they would rather have voted against.
The 'Tiverton fox had not been " goose enough to
take the oaths and his scat since his match with
Mr. HoWCLIFFE. And so the whole affair went oft
as well as, indeed probably better, than the House
expected. Both sides will now be in excellent work-
ing order for the next election, come when it may.
Even the Tories on the hustings will look very
graciously on the " rabble" below, and with uplifted
eyes will exclaim, " Heaven forbid that we should
vote against intelligent and honest working men
obtaining the franchise ;—we only voted that Mr.
BAINES'S bill was untimely ; we did not vote against
the principle of working class enfranchisement; and
gentlemen of the working classes, if you will par-
don a pun, we took shelter in a Shoreham CAVE,
while a heavy shower from Yorkshire passed by.
We did not vote against you, but only that the
question of your enfranchisement be not now put,
[aside] "ve always mean to do whenever it should
be put.

The pretext
or .
available i incorrect returns is no longer
purposes they
before,
were correct enough for all practical
th‘ireyt
--ore, but they are now corrected, till
no one can impugn
bero-uathistical accuracy. The
net result as regards
.!, turns out to be, that
the present number of voters
in cities and boroughs
is 142,479, that a £6 franchise Nvooo—
known la
From
add 211,269,
making a total of (353,479.
causes, however, about twenty-seven
Per cent' of
those who might now be on the register, are not
found there, hence the probable addition to the
borough electoral constituency would not exceed
200,000. This is the actual addition, therefore, to

the present constituencies, which we are told would
be enough to swamp them! That is with all their
boasted intelligence, with their undoubted wealth,
and the, influence which must belong to intelligence
and wealth, the middle classes are told to believe
that a n addition to the constituency of one operative
for eN ery two middleclass men would destroy their
present supremacy ! We can only say if it would
they deserve to lose it.
Mr. BAINES must have had some courage and
nerve! to deliver his long and carefully prepared
speech to an assembly which he so well knew was
almost to a man dead against him. His arguments
were as conclusive as any could well be ; there was
an excitement on the subject of his Bill proved by
at least fifty meetings, and many of them very
spirited, in its favour ; there was on the other hand
the absence of such excitement as could be pro-
nounced dangerous and intimidating; and thus
curiously enough the vote of yesterday seemed to
affirm a new and third condition under which any
Reform of representation must not be granted. If
the people are in commotion bordering on revolu-
j tion, it has been ruled, as in tha days of Chartism,
that they must not be trusted with votes then. If
they are apathetic, or at least hold no meetings, it
i is said they do not ask Reform, it must not be
given them then. But now, if the medium is the
case, if they show in all the more independent
boroughs considerable interest in the subject, but
an interest equally removed from apathy and
violence—well—hem—it must not be granted then .'
Well may the working classes say " If you please,
gentlemen of the House of Commons, let us know
how we must behave to get a Reform Bill which
acknowledges our rights, only tell us what you want
and we will try to please you."
The whole thing is, however, a transparent hoax
played off by the aristocracy of what Major YEL-
VERTON termed " gentle blood," and the aristocracy
of wealth, on the middle classes. As in the times
of Chartism, the aristocracy hounded on the Chartists
to serve Toryism by opposing Corn Law Repeal
and every moderately liberal proposal, so now the
same aristocracy sets the middle classes against the
working classes; it recklessly endeavours to embitter
the too natural antagonism of the buyers of labour,
add the sellers of labour, and all for what—we say
deliberately to insure yet a little longer the reign
of the two old parties who have so long tossed the
Government of the State as a football between
them. The real dread of both Whigs and Tories
is, not that working men would overpower their
masters in elections, but that they would combine
with them; and that the combination would be for
cheap government, and for the more rapid advance
of Civil and Religious Liberty. Reduction of
Taxation, a House of Commons which would not
consent to send up measures for twenty years, to be
rejected each time by the House of Lords, and
bona fide Religious Equality for all sects—
these are the real objects of aristocratic dread.
It is fear lest the honest working-men of
England would unite with their masters to obtain
such things, that puts forward Mr. CAVE to pro.
pose, that the question of enfranchising 200,000
working-men shall not be now put—that musters
all the Tories to say it shall not—and that keeps
away scores of so-called Liberals, who, if they
were present would he almost compelled to say it

must be now put.
One more Reform fight there will yet be this
session. On Tuesday the 23rd leave is to be
asked to bring in a bill to enable every English-
man "to do his own voting "—freed from the •' in-
" fluence"of those on whom his livelihood may de-
pend, and frote. the temptations of those, who would
sap his electoral virtue by bribes. Of course no
one doubts the fate of a far"more vital reform, a far
more real and extensive enfranchisement than
those proposed by Mr. KING and Mr. BAINES.
It will follow them doubtless. But let the battle
be fought without discouragement. The defeats of
a righteous cause are a heavy loss to the victors,
and the vanquishtd are as ready as ever to renew
the attack. Indeed we have little doubt that Mr.
BAINES and Mr. KING fared all the worse, because
it was feared that their incomplete reforms might
add to the number of those who must vote for the
Ballot. A greater number of electors both in
boroughs and counties is little relished; but, the idea
of even the present constituencies being emanci-
pated from landlord thraldom is the most terrible of
all. Any reform rather than that of independent
voting !

Lord JoHN's challenge to the country is being
answered. The non-electors have been pronounced
indifferent as to their possession of the franchise.
The champions of Reform have been believed in-
sincere in its advocacy. The necessity for Reform
of some kind or another, of Reform, large or small,
partial or comprehensive—after being insisted upon
as most urgent by Administration after Adminis-
tration, after being formally promised year after
year in the Speech from the Throne, after being
made the plea actually for the last change of her
MAJESTY'S Government, has been cavalierly set
aside as imaginary, as illusory, by the very Coali-
tion pledged to recognise it. The people don't care

one straw for Reform !—that is the declaration now

made by the affected Reform Government, The people
being described thus, we presume, Els indifferent
to the question of Parliamentary change, whether
viewed in the abstract or regarded practically—
because Bristol is not again in flames, because the
unions are not once more mustering in arms ready
to march upon the metropolis, because the whole
country, north, south, east,west, is not a second time
what it was notoriously prior to the last Reform of
Parliament—ripe for insurrection. Because of
this—the Cabinet that turned out their immediate
predecessors upon the argument that they, forsooth,
were not sufficiently advanced Reformers, and that
it required a Whig Administration, or, at any rate,
a Coalition Government with a good infusion of
Whiggery in it, to carry a good and proper Reform
Bill, the dishonest Cabinet that slipped into office
upon this pretext above all other pretexts, now
derides the notion of attempting anything in the
way of Reform whatever ! Not a syllable anent
Reform in the Royal Speech addressed to the Lords
and Commons at the beginning of the present ses-
sion by the SOVEREIGN. Nit a scrap of a Reform
Bill prepared and red-taped, and set aside for use
at the first favourable opportunity, visible in any one
of the pigeon holes of any one of the departments
of the whole motley Coalition Government. The
Russian EMPEROR may, by a magnificent stroke
of autocratic magnanimity, emancipate 20,000,000
serfs throughout his vast dominions ; but a cluster
of statesmen pledged here in England to extend the
elective franchise to some extent, however re-
stricted, can find not a word of hope to whisper to the
6,000,000 non-electors, who nevertheless bear their
burden no less than the actual electors, bear their
portion of the awful burden of taxation now
advancing every successive year further and further
beyond the appalling sum total of £70,000,000.
All that Lord J. RUSSELL can ford it in his heart
to say to those who may hereupon experience any
sense of disappointment in this matter of Reform, is
that he waits for such a breeze of public opinion in
favour of it, that he waits for such a wave of public
opinion in furtherance of Reform as may eventually
cars a Reform Bill bodily over the Bar of the House

of Lords. That was the pretty little witticism
with which the Reform Question was shelved
at the beginning of this session, was summarily
cushioned by Lord JOHN RUSSELL ! The expres-
sion was witty enough, it is true, as a metaphorical
expression, but that was all. For when one has
said that it was witty, it is essential also to add
that it was evasive, that it was untrue, that its
dishonesty was most flagrant and most discreditable.
The Bar of the Peers ! say you, Lord JOHN RUS-
SELL ? Was that the obstacle i Why, all England
knows, for absolute certainty, that the fact was dia-.
metrically the reverse. England knows full well,
and remembers at this moment quite distinctly, that
whatever shape the Reform Bill of 1859, the Reform
Bill introduced into the House of Commons by Mr.
DISRAELI, might have been moulded into in com-
mittee (and it was of so plastic and elastic a
character that it admitted of being there moulded
into any shape), that that bill could then with
the utmost facility—would with the most absolute
certainty, have been carried triumphantly over the
Bar of the House of Lords by the noble Earl then
at the head of her MAJESTY'S Government. England
knows this, England remembers this, and thus
knowing, thus remembering it—while she listens
to Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S fribbling little witticism,
she judges of the wit who could venture to utter it
—accordingly !
Our veteran Premier's frankly avowed and
cheerily outspoken scorn for Reform, when con-
trasted by the country with the course thus pursued
in its regard by his noble colleague, the Foreign
Secretary, appears by the sheer force of that con-
trast—how shall we express it ?—absolutely re-
spectable. Lord PALMERSTON has never once, from
first to last, affected to be a Reformer. And so—
when he casts the Question aside with a laugh as a
plague and a nuisance, he in no way sullies his own
consistency. Referring to the manner in which
the Prime Minister, upon the occasion of
his recent hustings' duel or political
logomachy with the butcher - demagogue
down at Tiverton, Mr. GEORGE THomrsoN re-
minded the reformers of Southwark, on Tuesday
evening, that Lord PALMERSTON, when asked by
the butcher why he and his colleagues did not
reintroduce their Reform Bill into the House of
Commons this session, replied, with broad humour,
because her Majesty's Government were not geese !
" That," remarked GEORGE THOMPSON, on Tues-
day, " was as much as to say that those other
hon. members of her Majesty's Government who
might attempt to introduce Reform measures into
the House of Commons were nothing but geese.
It was in fact an avowal that all those in and out
of Parliament who urged on the cause of reform
were geese. He therefore addressed his brother
geese on that occasion, and as it was said fowls of
a feather flocked together, he was glad to see so
many of them before him. He would say, Geese
of England, know you not that you are six millions"
—of geese ? Well—yes—we will good-humouredly
accept Lord PALMERSTON'S phrase, as the eloquent
Reformer who spoke on Tuesday to the men of
Southwark accepted it : and we will say—
Yes, six millions of Geese, Lord PAL-
MERSTON ! But even the proverbial schoolboy,
the merest urchin who has but thumbed Mr. PIN-
NOCK'S catechism or Dr. GOLDSMITH'S Abridg-
ment of the old classic history, knows familiarly how
Rome, ancient Rome, the old heroic capitol of that
mistress of the then known world was saved—by
geese ! Bat Lord JOHN RUSSELL may laugh, and
so far with sufficient reason at such a reply to his
whistling for the breeze of public opinion, as that
vouchsafed by the fire-eating dealer in rhodomon-
tade who talked so braggadociosely the other day at
Southampton at the Reform meeting there, about
the cause of Reform being taken up and championed
by the ping-pang of our Volunteer Riflemen ! Arrant
nonsense like that may provoke nothing better
than a feeling of absolute derision in the breast
of every right-thinking Englishman. But when
a bold, clear-headed, rational, manly Reformer,
like the hon. member for Bodmin, Mr. JAMES
WYLD, can speak of her MAJESTY'S Ministers
and of their conduct in regard to Reform, as Mr.
WYLD spoke of them on Monday to his own Liberal
constituency—there is a significance in every
phrase, and in every turn of a phrase, that
may well scatter any sense of mere pleasantry from
the faces of the leaders of the Coalition. " When
it was remembered," said Mr. WYLD on Monday,
" that the present administration took office simply
on the question of Reform—when it was remem-
bered that Lord John Russell's resolution led to the
last dissolution of Parliament, when also a vote of
confidence at the commencement of Parliament
was taken upon this very question—it was no
answer for her Majesty's Government to say,
that the people are apathetic, for they took
office on that condition alone, and they were bound
as men of character, as men of feeling, to bring
forward a measure of Reform. Were the people
apathetic when Lord JOHN RUSSELL proposed his
resolution, or were they at the last general election ?
He contended that the people were not apathetic;
and he asked, did Lord JOHN want meetings simi-
lar to those held prior to the passing of the Reform
bill in 1832, so that they might manifest their wishes
by turbulence ?" The position now occupied, in
fact, upon this question of Reform by the Ministry
is, in both senses of the phrase, not tenable.
Conspicuous among the most popular of our politi-
cal axioms is the saving—" Measures not men." At
this moment in regard to the most important mea-
sures of all it is a phrase ludicrously inapplicable
to the existing Government. For in regard to this
Coalition the country may say, alas, with the
strictest truth—that it has the Men, but that it has
not the Measures.

The 'Marchioness (Frances Anne) of Londonderry
has arrived at Holdernesse House, Park-lane, from Wyn-
yard-park, near Stockton-on-Toes.

The Recordership of Brighton is vacant, it having
been resigned by Mr. Edwin James, Q.C. The salary is
£2OO per annum.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston arrived at
Cambridge House yesterday from Broadlands, Hants.

REPRESENTATION OF MARYLEBONE.—Yesterday
very great sensation was created throughout political circles
in the borough of Marylebone, by the publicity given to the
address of Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., announcing his inten-
tion of retiring from its representation in Parliament. Dur-
ing the afternoon several leading reformers of the borough
held consultations, and a general feeling was expressed that
steps ought to be taken to secure, if possible, some local or
resident candidate of position, who will fully and fairly re-
present the feelings of the great Liberal party in Parliament.
It is intended to call an early meeting to confider the steps
necessary to be taken with reference to the representation of
the borough, and if possible to unite upon the selection of a
fit and proper candidate to succeed Mr. James. Amongst
the names mentioned yesterday as being likely to come for-
ward were Colonel Romilly, who, it will be remembered, con-
tested the borough with Mr. Ed win James on the first occa-
sion when that gentleman was returned, but it is understood
that Colonel Remaly declines to come forward.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—The new season will open on
"Wednesday, the Ist of May, with a gigantic festival per-
formance of Haydn's oratorio, " The Creation," by a band
and chorus of above 3,000 performers, carefully selected by
the Sacred Harmonic Society from all tho leading musical
societies and choirs of the country. The oratorio will be
conducted by Mr. Costa. The soprano parts arc supported
by Mdlle. Titiens (her first appearance in sacred music in
this country) and Madame Rudersdorff, to whom the part
of Eve is allotted ; the tenor and bass by Mr. Sims Reeves,
Mr. Santley, and Herr Formes, who has justreturned to
London, and who will take the bass solos in the first and
second parts of the oratorio. The directors have also con-
cluded an engagement with Mr. Lumley by which the im-
portant assistance of Mdlle. Titiens and Signor Giuglini is
secured for a series of twelve opera concerts on Fridays in
May, June, and July. The flower shows will be on the
same scale as last season,

LAI Es T N E

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENOV:.
PARIS, THU RI 3DAY.

The 21foniteur of today announces th el; the in-
dividual amount to be paid by young m en of the
class 1860 for exemption from military stlrvice has
been fixed at 2,500 f.

NAPLES, WEDNESDAY Evm NING.

An order has been issued recalling all flo ldiers of
the ex-Neapolitan army who are absent liNom their
communes, or who attempt to disturb peal is order.
Arrests continue to take place.
Tranquillity prevails.

MADRID, THLCRSDAY.

According to advices from Lisbon the Piortuguese
Government has authorised the cultivatiom of cotton
in their African possessions.

THORN, Taw RSDAY.

A proclamation has been published at Warsaw,
in which Prince Gortschakoff exhorts ti to inhabi-
tants to maintain tranquillity, and states id hat he will
otherwise be compelled to proclaim a state of siege.
An ordinance has also been published specifying
the penalties which will be inflicted on. disturbers
of public order.

A police regulation has been issued prohibiting
those persons who were wounded in the, recent dis-
turbances from showing themselves in the streets.

Another police regulation prohibits 1;,1 to -carrying
of loaded canes.

Up to yesterday no fresh conflict has Laken place.

PARIS, PRIL 10.
The Paris papers publish the followirAg telegram,
dated Constantinople, 3d inst.:—
The rate of exchange has arisen alas i ningly, the
Turkish livre being at 162. It is expected to rise
still higher after the emission of the paper money,
which is imminent. A loss of about .'0 per cent.
will be sustained by the employes and the army.
A gloomy impression prevails in the capital, and
a financial crisis appears imminent. The value of
a gold Medjidie has already risen to 166. During
the Crimean war it did not exceed 120.

Money is scarce, and commerce is a lmost at a
standstill.
,The price of food is rapidly advancing
—that of meat is more than deubled.
A catastrophe is generally apprehended. Three
hundred Hungarians have left Constantinople for
Italy.

TURIN, AZPRIL 10.

In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies
Signor Brofferio put an interpellation relative to
the inquiry which had been instituted at Genoa at
the office of the Garibaldian committee..

Signor Minghetti replied, declaring that an in-
vestigation had taken place on account of the in-
dications of an illegal enlistment which the Govern-
ment absolutely wished to prevent.
Signor Brofferio then proposed an order of the
day, which was rejected by the Chamber.

Signor Ricajoli gave notice that ou Monday
next he should put interpellations relative to the
Southern army and to its commander.

The health of the Pope is not satisfactory.

COPENHAGEN, APRIL 10, EVENING.

At a Cabinet Council held on Monday last it was
resolved that the whole infantry force should be
doubled.

It is said that the whole army will be placed on

a war footing.

PARIS, APRIL 10.

The Pays of this evening, in speaking of the
provisioning and augmentation of the garrison of
Malta, remarks, " under reserve," "These arma-
ments are being made with the view t• the em-
barkation of an expeditionary corps."
The same journal says further—" The belief in
the prolongation of the French occupation of Syria
is not foreign to these precautionary measures.
The rumour is current at Malta that it is the in-
tention of England to-occupy a point of territory
between Upper Syria and Egypt."
The Pays and the Parte of this evening contain
the following :
" The number of victims who fell at Warsaw is
more considerable than has been stated. The late
events at Warsaw may be attended with conse-
quences in the provinces.
" The troops in Warsaw number 32,000 men.
" A renewal of the disturbances is apprehended."

CALCUTTA, MARCH 9.

A special army amalgamation commission has
been appointed. The following are the members:
—Majors• General Sir R. Napier, Sir R. J. H. Birch'
W. S. Balfour, F. R. Chesney, H. Eyre, and another
whose name is not known.

SHANGHAI, FEB. 21.
There is no news from Tien-thin.
The Yang-tze expedition has started, accompanied
by Messrs. Hamilton, Michie, and Ballance.
San-ko-lin-sin has been defeated by the Shantung
insurgents.
Business is slowly improving.

CANTON, MARCH 2.

Intelligence ha; been received from Japan to the
28th January, confirming the news of the murder
of Mr. Hoskins, the Srcretary of the American
Legation at Jeddo. Trade was interrupted.

BATAVIA, MARCH 2.

Immense damage and loss of life have been
caused by floods.
.The extent of the destruction
arid distress is incredible.

SINGAPORE, MARCH 9.

Advicea from Saigon state that the French and
Spanish captured five forts on the 24th February,
after an obstinate resistance.

MELBOURNE, FEE. 23.
Intelligence from New Zealand is to Feb. 11.
The Maories boldly attacked our troops on Jan
23 and Feb. 10, but were defeated.

The 57th Regiment had arrived from Bombay.

MELBOURNE, FEB. 23.

Heavy storms have been prevalent, and the
quantity of rain which has fallen is unprecedented.
The following are the departures of gold ships
sine() the last mail :

Oz.
Copenhagen, with
Empress of the Sear,
Owen Glendower ~...
Kleber
Kent
Marco Polo
Perp
f 9 I

Export of wool.

Bales.
14,167

THE CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN

MAILS.
MARSEILLES, THURSDAY MORNING.
The Vcctib, With the above mails, arrived at