The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-09 00:00:00

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.

A crowded meeting of this society was held last
evening,Fir Roderick I. Murchison, vice-president,
in the chair.

The papers read on this occasion were a commu-
nication from Mr. Frank Gregory, who had been
despatched under the auspices of the society for the
purpose of exploring the north-western parts of
Australia ; a despatch from Governor Sir G. Bowen,
on the capabilities of the new colony of Queen's-
land for the production of cotton, and an account of
the attempt of Sir Richard Macdonald to penetrate
into the interior of Australia by much the same
route as had beenpreviously taken by Mr Stuart and
Mr. Babbage. All these communications partook
more of the nature of short letters than the regu-
lar papers usually read before the society, and the
chief interest in the proceedings lay in the discus.
sion to follow as to the value of Australia generally,
and Queensland in particular, as a cotton-growing
country. Sir G. Bowen's communication spoke in
the highest terms of the fertility of the land along
the banks of the:river Murray, in Queensland, and
of the immense extent of rich prairie soil capable
of producing cotton of the very finest quality. The
climate, though almost tropical, was remarkably
fine and healthy,,and it was found that the wool

even of the sheep did not deteriorate, gaining in
softness and fineness what it lost in weight. In
these parts of North-East Australia the progress of
colonisation was most rapid, and the boundaries of
civilisation and Christianity were extended at the
rate of 200 miles a year. Governor Macdonald's
communication stated that he started into the in-
terior from the south with an escort of mounted

police. He found, as he proceeded inland, that the
want of, water was very treat; so much so as to
meke this portion of the interior quite inaccessible
to cattle in the month of January. His party had
suffered much from the heat, thirst, and the hot,
dry, arid nature of the sandy soil over which they
had to travel. After journeying some days into
the interior they determined to equip' a lighter
expedition to endeavour to penetrate into
the Warburton track, and also to keep
along the route by which Stuart had en-
tered. The ordinary maps of the country were of
no use whatever, but fortunately they had with
them a small map which had been marked out by
Mr. Stuart, After leaving the Strangeway springs
they found they had no chance of falling in with
water for the next 45 miles. They carried on a
supply with them, much of which was unfortunately
lost, and continued forward till they came in the
tracks of Mr. Stuart's party, but met with no water,
and their privations become so severe that they at
last determined to return. Fortunately, one of their

scouts found a fine spring about two Miles a-head of
where they had halted, which restored both the
men and cattle. Had this not been providentially
discovered most of the cattle and many of the men
would have been unable to return to the Strange-
way springs.. While at the latter halting place a
man, who had apparently deserted from Mr.
Stuart's party, joined the camp, and stated that Mr.
Stuart was then surveying Mount Charles, and that
for some time past the whole party had been on half
rations. On the return of Sir Richard, however, he
found that supplies of provisions had been sent to
Mr. Stuart, which must have reached him about
that time.

In the discussion which ensued on these papers,
Mr. CRAWFORD said he sincerely believed. from
the number of authentic accounts he had heard that
the colony of Queensland was capable of producing
cotton enough to supply all Manchester. Unfor-
tunately, however, the climate was equally well
adapted for the cultivation of the sugar cane, and
he believed that that would displace the cotton. He
thought that the scientific geographical world had
now received sufficient evidence to show that the
interior of the vast continent of Australia was a
mere wild desert. Different exploring parties had
penetrated so far from the south and from the
north that h,d there been a range of mountains
in the interior—mountains of 7,000 or 8,000.
feet high—they must have seen them. With-
out such a chain of mountains there would
be no water, and without water there would be
utter sterility. Wherever such ranges exiated
there would always be water, and water in the
tropics meant fertility. Without such a range of
mountains India would be a desert. He could not
bring himself to think that Queensland was as good
a place as it was represented for sheep. Queens-
land was in the latitude of Canton, and Canton was
a great deal too hot for sheep. But of all places he
had heard of he believed it was most eminently
fitted for the cultivation of cotton ; and he had
himself seen samples of cotton from there, both
raw and manufactured, and he had rarely seen
better specimens of either. They were quite equal,
in his opinion, to the Sea Island cotton of Georgia
and South Carolina.

The Hon. J. BAKER, a member of the Legislative
Council of Australia, said he differed entirely from
the hasty observation made by the last speaker,
that the centre of Australia was a desert, and he
should not be doing his duty if he allowed such a
remark to go forth uncontradicted. Sir Richard
Macdonald was not an explorer. He had started
with Stuart's maps in his pocket, and yet he lost
his way. (Laughter.) He went round the wrong
side of Lake Tibbs, and missed the Hermit Range,
and what ho had called the Denison Range was
only the Hermit-hill of Mr. Babbage. Mr. Stuart
was a light, spare, active man, who could and con-
stantly did ride his 50 and 60 miles a day. Sir
Richard Macdonald was a man of 6ft. 2in.' and
weighed some 20 stone. What Sir Richard Mac-
donald, therefore, would call fatigue and privation
would very likely not be noticed at all by Mr.
Stuart, to whose labours he conceived the Geo-
graphical Society could not award too high a meed
of commendation. Now, Mr. Stuart himself had
said that !such of the interior of Australia was quite
equal in fertility and in rich picturesque beauty to
the Ohammeran hills, than which it was not pos-
sible to conceive a more lovely country. He
thought that the safety with which the exploring
parties had made and returned from the expeditions
to the interior proved that the country was not a
desert, though he by no means meant to say that
the whole of the vast interior would ever be
profitable to work or hold. The banks of the
river Murray and the whole of the splendid tract
of country which it passed through were also as
well adapted as the fertile plains of Queensland
for the production of cotton. A few thousand
pounds expended on that river in the erection of
some four or five lock gates would render navigable
an immense extent of water, the banks on either
side of which were equal in rich abundance and
luxuriance of soil to the valley of the Nile.
Lord ALFRED CHURCHILL did not think Mr.
Baker had at all overstated the advantages of Aus-
tralia as a fertile and good cotton-growinc, country.
Australia was at present essentially a pastoral coun-
try. It now supplied 50,000,000 lb. of wool a year
to the manufacturers of this country, and he had
not the least doubt that if the colonists took up the
question of cotton-growing they would do equally
well with that. He certainly did not think from
what he had heard that Queensland was at all too
hot for sheep. The alpaca or llama of South Ame-
rica had been introduced by Mr. Ledger, and the
animals appeared 'to thrive very well indeed. If
this important experiment succeeded, as there was
now every reason to believe it would, flocks of these
animals would add another and most profitable
branch to colonial industry. There could be no
doubt from all the evidence they had heard that
immense tracts of country were pre-eminently fitted
for the cultivation of cotton, and, in fact, there was
no known part-of Australia in which it could not
be cultivated. Mr. Stuart had proved that the in-
terior of Australia was not a desert, and the arid
expanse from which the hot winds came must be
lOoked for to the west of his new country.
A gentleman whose name we were unable to
catch, said he had been in Calcutta and in Queens-
land too, so he could judge of the relative merits of
the two climates, and the advantages were ineom.
PnrAbly in Wain of the htlerolcor, clizatile

' was unusually healthy, and vegetation was luxuriant
beyond description. As he had received honourable
Mention from the commissioners of the Paris Exhi-
bition for his samples of Australian cotton, grown
at Queensland, he knew, what the young colony
could do in. respect to that cultivation ; but cotton
required labour. Sheep (which he thought throve
splendidly at Queensland) fed themselves, but a
cotton plantation required hands to look after it, and
where were the colonists to get them? For a man
and his wife the settler had to pay £7O a year, and
the man expected to be allowed to smoke some
eight or nine hours out of the ten. He lit his pipe
to take out the sheep, and he lit it to smoke while
he lay down and watched them. (Laughter.) If
a settler going up the country wanted servants, he
went to the depot, when he was met by those he
wanted to hire with such questions as, " Are we
allowed to have visitors ?" " Will you have your
washing done out ?" and so on. And to terms like
these they were obliged to agree, and to pay wages
varying from £25 a year to £4O. He was certainly
an advocate for free labour, but in the face of such
facts as these he was obliged to admit that convicts
would do much more work in cotton plantations
than any men whom the settlers could hire in the
colony. He did not agree with the outcry thathad
been raised in the colony against the admission of
what they called Sir George Grey's pets—the con-
victs. On principles of morality and humanity,
they were bound to give such men a chance of re-
trieving their position by honest labour. That
they did so retrieve it was evidenced by the fact
that nearly all the principal men in South Australia
and New South Wales were the descendants of
those who had been sent out as convicts. He had
lived among them during one time for nearly a
year, and his experience of them was that they
were quiet and generally inoffensive, and, above
all, they were men that would work, for they were
well aware that their masters had the power to
compel them to do so, and that all their hopes for
the future depended on their industry. At the
same time, it would be useless sending out men
only. If women were not sent out with the men,
the men did not settle. If women were sent, the
men married, established their homes, and laid the
foundation of flourishing colonial communities. If,
under proper regulations and arrangements, con-
victs were sent to Queens land for 10 years, there
would be cotton enough coming from that district
alone to supply all Manchester. (Cheers.)
Mr. CHILDERS, M.P. also addressed the meeting
in support of the introduction of cotton plantations
into Australia ; and
Soon after 10 o'clock the proceedings terminated.

EXTRAORDINARY BANK ROBBERY AT NEII7

YORK.

About ten o'clock on th; morning of the 25th ult.
an extraordinary and ingenious attempt of robbery
was discovered by one of the employees of the New
York Exchange Bank, corner of Greenwich and Dey
streets. One of the porters, it appears, was unable
to unlock the vault door, and reported the trouble

,o one of the officers of the bank:A blacksmith was

sent for, but it was only by tearing away a portion
of the brick-work of the massive structure that in-
gress could be obtained. It was evident that some
person had been tampering with the vault, and the
officers commenced an examination of the premises
forthwith.

On opening the inner door of the vault they were
astonished to find a hole in the floor sufficiently
large to admit a medium sized man. A further
examination showed that the cavity extended in
the shape of a tunnel under the entire building, and
ended in the basement of a little frame building
next door to the bank. The tunnel which connected

the frame building with the bank vault was over
seven feet in length, and must have cost en immense

deal of trouble to the miners.
The safe, which contained between three and four
hundred thousand dollars in notes, specie, and cir-
culation, was found to be intact. An attempt had
been made to bore into the outer work, but the
burglars appeared to have succeeded poorly and
given up the thing in disgust. A tin box, contain-
ing about 1,000 dols. in uncurrent funds, belonging
to a broker named A. L. Pec3:, was found to be
missing, however. It had been deposited in the
vault merely, and fell an easy prey to the daring
thieves.

Information of the affair was immediately sent to
the General Superintendent's office, when detectivcs
were despatched to the premises to make all the
necessary inquiries. One of the officers, by way of
experiment, entered the frame building adjoining
the bank, and without much trouble crawled through
the subterranean passage until he arrived under-

neath, and actuany-entered the vault; the basement,
upon being examined, was found to be full of rag
carpets, and judging from the appearance of the
place, it was evident tiese carpets were manufactured
there. Some 50 or 60 bales of the carpeting had
been piled at the rear of the basement, with the
view, no doubt, of screening the operations of the
burglars while they were engaged in tunnelling
their way into the next building. Behind this
barrier was concealed the earth drawn from the ex-
cavation under the bank ; but, upon close inspection,
it was evident that the great bulk of the rubbish
must have removed to the street and carted off.

In the carpet store was found between five and six
hundred dollars' worth of burglar's tools, besides a
old wearing apparel and a demijohn of whisky.
The police took possession of the different articles,
and made the following inventory of the same :
One jack-screw, valued at 50 doll. ; one small ditto,
valued at 25 dols. ; one large crowbar, one small
ditto, one compound driver, two jemmies, one iron
bar, one large sledge hammer, three braces, one
hatchet, one foreplate, one hand-vice, three files, one
claw hammer, one screwdriver, one chisel, three
saws, one pivot, 56 drills, two cold chisels, two oil-
cans, one large iron poker, two spades, two shovels,
one carpenter's square, a large number of wedges,
two shirts, two pairs of overalls, a demijohn of

whiskey, and one mallet.
Mr. Peck, who appears to be the only loser by
the transaction, if we except the burglers them-
selves, has attacked the stock of carpets, and hopes
in this way to remunerate himself for the loss of
his uncurrent funds. He states that he came within
an ace of putting 3,300 dols. in city funds in the tin
box on Saturday afternoon. but finally determined
to deposit it in the bank. He had been in the habit
of leaving his box in the bank vault for over ten
years, and on vartous occasions it contained property
of much value.
The porter in the bank says he heard a dull,
heavy noise in the basement when he arrived in the
morning, but thought nothing of the circumstance
until he found he was unable to enter the vault. The

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suspicion then flashed across his mind that there
was something wrong going on, and he reported to
the president of the bank accordingly. The result
of the president's examination, confirming the
porter's suspicion, is already known. A subsequent
examination showed that in tunnelling:to the vault
the burglars had to pass through a heavy founda-
tion wall of stone, and also a lighter one of brick.
The line of the tunnel was not regular. It was
crooked, and at one point a detoir of night or ten
feet was made, although for what purpose we can-
not imagine. The way was cut through a mass of
sand and made ground. The tunnel was found to
be carpeted throughout, and strewn with books and
papers, which had been removed from the vault so
as to facilitate the movements of the daring ope-
rators.
The job was a long and tedious one, but the
burglars worked at it steadily, and had they not
miscalculated a little as to the strength of the safe,
they would have been handsomely rewarded for
their trouble. Besides the cash in the safe, there
was 20,000 dollars worth of railroad bonds belong-
ing to the president of the bank, which could easily
have been converted into gold.
Suspicion rests upon two well-known English i
burglars, who were arrested. by detective Keefe
about three months ago, and the police are using
every means to ferret out their whereabouts. It
is supposed that they belong to the same gang
who were engaged in the celebrated barge Emily
robbery about fifteen years ago. The ringleader
of the gang is now confined in the Toombs en an-
other charge. but it is supposed that the robbery
of the New York Exchange Bank was concocted
by him, and executed by two of his trustiest fol-
lowers. The detectives are hard at work trying to
unravel the mystery, and expect, in the course of
a few days, to bring all the guilty parties to
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THE PORTOBELLO TRAGE D
Never in my recollection did any )c currehea, 74- . Odg,
such a thrill of consternation throi tgh this ''it3.4B
the fatal omnibus accident at the Be rtobello-bridße
en Saturday night. The news past lea in all direc-
tions with electric rapidity that one c cf the omnibuses
had fallen into the lock chamber of ' the canal, and
that all __the_ passengers were _ dro wiled. It was
uncertain at first whether the oraniThus was going
out of town or returning, and the renxiety was in-
tense among persons who expected their friends to
be travelling by omnibus about that: hour. Multi-
tudes crowded round the scene of the disaster, and
cabs and cars lined the streets in the n 3ighbourhood.
Some years ago Mr; Wilson, a London gentleman,
established a line of omnibuses front the General
Post-office to Roundtown, running th rough Rath-
mines and Rathgar—the greatest ti loroughfares
about Dublin. During the day the " Favorite"
omnibuses ran every 15 minutes, and aft. er 6 o'clock
p.m. every half-hour. The line was very well con-
ducted, no serious accident having ever occurred
upon it before. On Saturday night the omnibus
No. 7 left Roundtown at 9 o'clock, and arrived in
the usual time at the Canal-bridge, to which there
is a sharp ascent on both sides. The driver pulled
up to let out a passenger on the bridge. While the
conductor was taking the fare the omnibus began
to back down the incline towards Rathmines. In
the 'effort to get on the horses, which were fresh
and spirited, one or both became restiff, the pole
got entangled in the harness, the driver lost con-
trol over them, the omnibus continued to back up
on the road towards Portobello Barracks, and then,
turning rather sharply round, it was pushed vio
lently up the rising ground to the lock basin, bursting
and passing through the wooden railing ; and before
The horses,
driver, and
Patrick
assistance could be rendered the omnibus,
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the anclwas dragged
the water alive by a policeman named Goffney,
who had been on duty in the neighbOurbood. No-
thing is known of the way in which the conductor
acted on the occasion. There were six inside pas-
sengers, all of whom lost their lives almost imme:.
diately. The scene was frightful. In a place the
most unlikely, where the possibility of danger
could scarcely be imagined, six human beings, shut
up in an omnibus, were plunged into a dirk cham-
ber, 16 or 20 feet deep, half full of water, shriek-
ing and struggling for help in vain. The horses
were plunging furiously, striking their hoofs against
the smooth slimy stone walls, splashing the water
about in their convulsive efforts for life. The people
on the bridge and around the place presented a
scene of wild confusion and horror, shouting for
help, rushing to and fro, striving to let off the water
to break open the omnibus, to do something to save
the lives of the passengers. All was vain. The cries
gradually died away. When, after an interval of
20 minutes, the top of the omnibus was broken in
with a hatchet, all were dead. The following are
the names of the victims :—Mrs. Byrne, aged 26,
and her infant child ; Mr. Gunn, proprietor of a
music establishment in Westland-row; a man
named Cunningham, a night watchman in one of
the docks ; Mrs. O'Connell, the wife of a solicitor,
from the county of Clare • Miss O'Connell, her
daughter, aged 18 years, who was at St. Patrick's
ball in the Castle a few evenings before, and was
much admired for her singular beauty. The two
last-named and the child were immediately removed
to Mercer's Hospital; the rest were taken to the
Meath Hospital, were every exertion was made to
restore consciousness by Drs. Smyly, Porter, Whar-
ton, Jameson, and other medical gentlemen. Dr.
Monk, who lives near the scene of the disaster, had
previously done everything that was possible to save
some of the lives, but all skill was in vain. Six
corpses await the coroner's inquest, which is to be
held at 12 o'clock to-day.
Many rumours are afloat on the subject—as to
the blame attached to individuals. Amidst the ex-
pressions of horror at the catastrophe, a feeling of
astonishment is universally expressed as to how the
thing could have occurred, even if the driver and
conductor were endeavouring to do it of set pur-
pose—why the conductor or some one did not seize
the horses' heads—how the omnibus could have
turned round in such away, and been forced just
into the spot that seemed most inaccessible, and also
at the same time most fatal. Multitudes are travel-
ling daily by these omnibuses, area a thought of
danger like this never occurred to any one.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LivEnrooL, April S.

OWEN V. HOLLINS.

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Mr. Conway appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr.
Aspinall for the defendants.
This was an action to recover damages for an ex-
cessive distress and for selling the plaintiff's goods
after tender of the rent. It appeared that the plain-
tiff, Margaret Owen, kept a beerhouse and also a
sailors' boarding house. The rent for the latter
was two guineas a-month, and in November, 1859,
was in arrear four months, less £1 paid on account.
The bailiff, who had been instructed to distrain
seems to have called on the plaintiff and to have
obtained £2 lOs from her, on the promise that
nothing further would be done in the matter. Ia
spite of this promise, however, which was re-
peated to her at the defendant's office, she found,
on returning to her house, that it had been gutted
from top to bottom of all her furniture, amount-
ing in value to about £7O. She hastened to the
defendant's office, where the goods were, but they
knew nothing of what had been done by the bailiff,
and proceeded to sell the goods, notwithstanding
plaintiffs offer to pay the rent if the £2 lOs paid
to the bailiff were allowed her in deduction. No
money or account was returned to her after the
sale, but the defendants offered to compromise
the case in a way which did not satisfy the plaintiff.
In the absence of any claim for special damages
arising from loss of profits by the lodging house,
the jury were confined to the value of the goods
taken, and the damage arising from refusal of the
plaintiff's tender of payment before sale, and they
returned a verdict for the plaintiff for £25.

POTTS AND OTHERS, ASSIGNEES, v. MEARES.
Mr. Monk, Q.C., Mr. Cleasby, Q.C., and Mr.
Ovens appeared for the plaintiffs; and Mr. Edward
James, Q.C., and Mr. biker for the defendants.
This was an action to recover the value of certain
goods and book debts delivered and assigned over
to the defendants under circumstances that made
the transaction a fraudulent preference as against
the other creditors of the owner, who soon after
became bankrupt.
It appeared that Myott, the owner of the goods,
was a grocer in Manchester, having one shop in
Stratford, New-road, and another in Oxford-street,
and that about the beginning of October last, the
bankruptcy of a person for whom he had been ac-
cepting accommodation bills brought him close to
ruin. Some evidence was given that letters,About
a fortnight before this date, and again within 24
hours of it, were sent to Myott, by Meares, pressing
for payment of a debt of £1,400 due to him. The
amount of his debts to other trade creditors was at

the same time £BOO, and, altogether, including the
accommodation bills which he had been accepting,
he was liable for £3,860. Meares, on receipt of a
letter from the debtor Myott on October 4, the day
after the bankruptcy of the drawer of the accom-
modation bills, had an interview with Myott in his
shop in Stratford, New-road; Meares the same
day met a traveller named M'Girr, and that even-
ing this traveller agreed to buy the stock and book
debts in the place of business in Stratford, New-
road. The stock was to be valued next morning at
6 o'clock, and it was accomplished in the course of
four hours. The estimated value was £554, and
the book debts, amounting to upwards of £6OO,
were sold for £3OO. A deed of assignment, drawn
by an attorney selected by the attorney of Meares,
was delivered to M'Girr on the 6th of October, to-
gether with possession of the shop and stock, andk
Myott, the debtor, handed over to Mearedo
\ WGirr gave his check for the amount, which
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ney to pay Meares, his creditor, or do what be liked
with it. About the same time the stock and
in oxford-street
fix-
tures, and goodwill of the shop
were sold to a person named Girdlestone. for £5O.
The learned Judge summed up
the evidenc.e, a.nd
£360 of the
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ney
jury at once found a verdict for the plaintiffs,
stating, in answer to a question
had he Judge, that
they were of opinion that therebeen a fraudu-
lent preference.
already recovered
book debts, for which £3OO only had been given,
The defendant bad
and this, together with the value of the stock, made
a sum of £914, the amount for which the verdict
was taken. -

egESTER CIRCUIT.—CIiESTER, April 6.
(Before Mr. Baron Channell and a Special Jury.)

HALL V. CRAWFORD AND OTTERS.
Mr. Baron Channel' summed up with great care
in this case, which has extended over three days,
involving a disputed right of footpath, explaining
to the jury the nature of a dedication, and the acts
from which it might be inferred or by which it
might be rebutted. He then commented on the
alleged acts of user on the one hand, and of the
interruption on the other, and concluded brtelling
the jury that a dedication by the owner of the land
to the public ought to be made out clearly
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THIS EVENING, LOVERS' QUARRELS.
After which, a new original comic drama, written by Saml.
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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, Jas.
Johnstone, J. Rouse ; Mrs. Winstauley, Miss Matilda Heron,
Miss Willard, dic.

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

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.—
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
PRESTIDIGITAIOR. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole,
D. Fisher, &a; Miss R. Kelly, Miss H. Simms, &o.
After which, OUR GAL. Miss Julia Daly, Mr. Romer,
Mr. Eburne, and Mr. Warde.
Doors open at halt past 6—Commenee at 7.

CANTERBURY-West minsterHALL-road CONCERTS!!
Proprietor.— ....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 charactise, the most popular works of
this great Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ;
together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI-
KENTO, by Donizetti,
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss
Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and
C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. M
The Comic Department comprises essrs. E. Marshall. A.
B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and
the Brothers Conrad.

John Martins Three celebrated Pictures will remain on
view a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the
Establishment

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Taus: DAY.—Morning, lh. 38m.—Afternoon, lh. 54m.
To-moßßow.-Morning, 2h. Bm.—Afternoon, 2h. 24m.

THE WEATHER.—SUN 071,1 C-2, Arita, 9, 1861.
THDEMOWETED., IN TIM SHADS.
47—highest since noon yesterday.
33—lowest:this morning and during the night.
47—this day at noon.
BAnoltrrnn-30.58 the highest this year as yet.
WIND—South-Easterly--light; with very fine weather,

After two divisions, and after considerable dis-
cussion, the London Coal and Wine Dues Bill was
read a second time last evening in the House of
Commons, upon the motion of the Right Hen. the
Home Secretary. Both of these unsuccessful divi-
sions were consequent upon amendments moved
and seconded by metropolitan members. Mr
ROUPELL, M.P. for Lambeth, moved the first of
these amendments, namely, one to the effect that
the debate should be adjourned—only 20, however,
voting for, as and many as 135 against, that amend-
ment. Mr. AYRTON, M.P. for the Tower Hamlets,
moved still later and still more ineffectually the
second and final amendment, namely, one to the
effect, " that in the opinion of this house the Coal
-z
Tax and the London Bridge Approaches Fund
should be continued until the 31st July, 1862"
—for one year, that is instead of ten, the period
of prolongation for the Coal Tax marked out in
the terms of the Bill now read a second time in
the Commons House of Parliament. Mr. AYR-
TON, we say, moved his amendment still less
successfully than his predecessor in these
ineffectual efforts to oppose the progress of the
bill through the Legislature—only 10 instead of 20
voting for, and 119 against, that amendment. So
that the former (Mr. Rournes) amendment was
defeated by a clear majority of 115 in a house of
160 members altogether—and the second (Mr.
AYRTON'S) amendment was rejected in its turn by
a clear majority of 109 in a house of 134 represen-
tatives. The overwhelming rejection of these
attempts to obstruct thdprogress of the bill through
the Legislature, is in itself, we cannot but think, of
some significance. It is because we regard it as
such that we have been thus designedly explicit in
the particularity with which we have related
how, in defiance of the arguments of
the metropolitan members, and of their
amendments pushed, each in turn, to a division—
[the hon. baronet the member for Westminster, Sir
JOHN SHELLEY, by the way, seconded last evening
both of these abortive amendments]--how in spite
of all attempts to oppose its advance the Bill was
nevertheless read a second time last evening; and
how it may now consequently be regarded as in a
fair way enough of being, before the session is much
older, ripened into a perfected enactment.
How is this, however, that we are thus evidencing
a disposition to sympathise positively in the efforts
now making (with every prospect of success before
them) for the prolongation of dues—we will take
the coal tax alone for the nonce here for a while
into our consideration—that we are actually
sympathising in an endeavour to prolong, for an-
other ten years, the duties levied upon all coals
coming into this metropolis, instead of sympathis-
ing, on the contrary, in the efforts made to set those
duties aside, at once and altogether, by the little
energetic minority led by some of our principal
metropolitan representatives ? Wait a while, how-
ever—those who may marvel at such an apparent
anomaly in our mode of reasoning upon this
matter—wait a while, and consider what it is that
is now actually proposed to be done through this
Bill, read a second time in the House of Commons
Bast evening—what it really and truly is that is
proposed to be done through this Bill by the
'Government. It is not that we contemn these
duties less, but that we do very much more
desire to witness the commencement, in real ear-
nest, of that long-hoped for project of metropolitan
improvement, known as the Thames Embankment.
And now to explain how it is that the prolongation
of the coal duties for another ten years, affects the
Prospects of this popular scheme of a Thames Em-
bankment.
Recollect, then, in the first instance, that the
duties levied upon coals are of three different kinds,
and that
they are levied upon all coal imported into
the city of
London, or within a radius of 20 miles
irr°lll some /51101 central point as St. Paul's Cathe-
dral. There
is a duty of 43. per ton levied for
p urely coli,ratien
f Bd., and the.. purposes—there is another duty
e vied, each of the twole •
t another of ld per ton
abrozleast mentioned, under
tlhe'autbority of yet tin
a". of Parliament.
if' he last mentioned duties,
The duty of -e.,a and
t lie duty of Id. per ton hero
to purposes of t appropriated
e rxclusively Public utility
a cnd improvement. Now regarding these im-
posts themselves, they are as a matter
course duties that we would gladly see a
of
o 'wept
a way summarily, never to be heard of , again.
Ind so far we, without doubt, are perfectly in
a greement with Mr. ROUPELL and Mr. AYRTON,
a; ad Sir. JOHN SHELLEY, in their opposition to

theft imposts as local taxes, in themselves ex-
cessively vexations. But let it be borne in mind,
before we thus summarily sweep them all away,
that they have been levied now for very
nearly
these last two centuries, in fact ever since
1666, the annul mirabilis commemorated by
" Glorious John," as the year of the stupendous
conflagration. And remembering that they have
thus been levied and paid for 195 years in all—let
us then see what is the precise nature of the good
that is proposed to be secured to the metropolis in
return—not observe ! for their perpetuation (the
bill now before Parliament aims at nothing so
preposterous) but—for their prolongation for ten
years and for no more than ten years additional !
Sir GEORGIt LEWIS explained the nature and bear-
ing of these advantages very succinctly and clearly
yesterday evening, moving, as we are glad.
to have to repeat that he did successfully, that
the bill be read a second time. He explained
for example, in the first place, that the fourpenny
duty, the one hitherto levied, as we have shown,
for purely corporation purposes, he proposes to
apply through a clause to be introduced when the
Bill is in Committee, to the extinction of certain
debts incurred by the City under Act of Parliament.
" He would now explain," he said last evening by
anticipation, " the nature of the debt to which he
wished to apply the duty. To make New Cannon-
street, the Corporation had borrowed £540,000, and
charged the same upon their revenue, the 4d. coal
duty being, by a vote of the common council, bur-
dened with this particular debt. He therefore now
proposed that the whole of this 4d. duty should for
ten years be appropriated to the payment of the
interest and principal of the debt he had mentioned.
As the radius of collection was to be diminished,
the estimate of the produce of the tax was consider-
ably less than what it now produced, and would
be about £60,000. The interest upon the debt
already referred to would amount to £21,000, so
that there would remain about £40,000 to be ap-
plied to the liquidation of the principal. In ten
years that would amount to £400,000, but
taking into consideration the operation of the sink-
ing fund, he calculated that the whole of the
£540,000 would be paid off in the time he had
specified." As to the two other coal duties, the duty
of Bd. and the duty of id. per ton, hitherto as we
have also shown already appropriated to various
purposes of public utility and metropolitan im-
provement, Fir GEORGE. LEWIS proposes now to
perpetuate for another ten years those two duties,
henceforth to be clubbed together under a single
duty of 9d per ton, and to apply that ninepenny
duty for ten years to come to the furtherance of
the grandest of all metropolitan improve-
ments, that namely of the Thames Embank-
ment. It is because of the proposed
most judicious application of the proceeds of
these otherwise odious duties, that we are not
by any means averse to their continuance for yet
one more interval of ten years' duration before
they-be, as we hope they may then be, as we-may
be pretty certain they will then be, abolished. By
that time the act of their abolition may be accom-
plished moreover with double satisfaction, for by
that time we may confidently trust that London
will be magnificently bisected by one broad line
at least, if not by two parallel broad lines of
Thames Embankment.

There are symptoms in America that the Repub-
licans are now encountering the usual difficulties
consequent on a party victory, and that they are
not a little perplexed by them. The PRESIDENT
himself is, we are told, not equal to what they

expected, nor equal to the amount of personal
government and action which he had himself
expected. He finds himself, after being for a year
or two a great local political hero, matched in his
own Cabinet with men his equals, and some of them
superiors in point of ability, and he is obliged to
defer to their counsels. It was supposed he would
have been a political Dictator, and he did begin in
that way ; his inaugural address, being in no
sense like our QUEEN'S Speech, an " advised"
address, but the work of his own mind
and pen. Since then he has had proof
that all his reputed firmness is not sufficient to
enable him to carry out the policy he wished with-
out money, troops, ships, or the requisite authori-
sation from Congress.
It is due to him, however, to remember that his
chief difficulties are not of his own creating. The
state of his military and naval force at home is en-
tirely the work of conspirators, over whom, as they
worked under the auspices of the willingly blind
BUCHANAN, he had no more control than he had
over the Man in the Moon. The same to a great
extent, perhaps altogether, may be said of what
will evidently prove one source of the greatest
embarrassment to him—the Morrill Tariff.
Too late the Republicans now perceive that
they may levy what duties they please, but
that it is not in their power to compel
shippers to send goods to the ports where the duties
are levied. If protection were the only object, then
this might indeed be a matter of indifference.
Unfortunately for Mr. LINCOLN and the Republi-
cans, which party passed the bill, they want
revenue and protection together. They intended
not to exclude foreign goods, but so to raise their
price by heavy duties that their own clumsy and
less competent manufacturers might command prices
in their own market, at which their awkward pro-
tected management would still leave them a profit.
From the last accounts which we have received,
they now fear losing both revenue and high prices

00. European produce goes to the southern ports,
ascends the Mississippi, and is distributed from St.
Louis, in Missouri, over the Three States .of the
Union. The smuggler keeps down both prices and
revenue ; the shipper to southern ports weakens
the Federal Exchequer, and strengthens that of
its southern rival. Mr. LINCOLN'S Government, by
its own most favourable estimate, does not expect
to raise more than 30,000 dollars by customs; it
will want fully three times that sum, and yet
soberer minds do not think that under the MORILL
Tariff half of it will be realised. So completely
has selfish cupidity defeated its own objects. A
loan is to be resorted to; but it has been badly
managed, and it is feared it will be unpopular.
It will be a great discouragement to the Repub.
lican party that the forts in the South will have to
be given up. Every hour it is expected that Fort
Sumpter will be evacuated ; the only compensation
being that, after some considerable amount of con-
troversy, the Americans have decided that the
name is to be reinforced if the fort cannot. The
grandson of the revolutionary hero after whom it
was named having declared that his grandsire
always signed not Sum—but Sump-ter.

The gallant Major ANDERSON will, we
fear, hardly deem this an adequate satisfaction
lu. having to quit a position in which he would

have liked Lv •I+nw what a soldier could do. Fort

Pickens is also, it is saga, « At starvation point,"
but even here, though this fort could
the Cabinet appears afraid to do it, because it would

be construed as an act of hostility by the Soutb.
"When this last fort surrenders the Southern Con-
vention. will have complete control of the Gulf of
Mexico. The Republican party seems much hum-

bled, and indignant at the prospect of being beaten
by the South in every military point.

There has been little additional movement on the
Secession question. The seven confederated States
hold their position, and seem likely to strengthen
it in Europe, by their much more favourable tariff ;
but no other States have yet joined the confedera-
tion. Missouri is even determined to stand by the
Union at all hazards; it will do so if even all the
other border States should secede. Arkansas voted
for the Union in Convention, by 39 to 35, but the
minority carried a proposal to refer the question to
the whole people. In Virginia the Secessionists
have nearly converted the Union majority into a
minority. North Carolina adheres pretty strongly
to the Union. In Texas the question seems likely
to issue in a State civil war. It will evidently be
long ere the States settle down into their final com-
binations. A Pacific Ocean Confederacy is even
talked of, and when once the mania for confedera-
tion has begun, we should not be surprised to see
California and Oregon set up for themselves ; and
perhaps even a fourth Confederation arise out of
the border States. " Manifest Destiny" is fast
splitting into fragments.

Who stole the note P—is the question yet unan-
swered. Indeed our Foreign Secretary now says,
point blank, I won't tell you. Mr. DUNCOMBE last
night, it will be seen, returned to the charge ; at
his last interrogation Sir G. C. LEWIS had con-
fessed that the note was brought to Sir RICHARD
MAY/4E, by a policeman. " The question I wish to
ask," Mr. DUNCOMBE said last night, " is whether he
will state the number and letter of the policeman
from whom Sir R. MAYNE received the note sent
by the Government to Count APPONYI for the
use of the Emperor of AUSTRIA in the Court of
Chancery; also, the mode by which the said
policeman became possessed of the note, and
whether he is still on the strength of the metro-
politan police ; if not, when he left it !"
This was driving our worthy Home Secretary to
rather close quarters. He knew that no other
speaker could, on a Tuesday night, get up and
re-catechise him, and back Mr. DUNCOMBE'S re-
marks, so he " rode the high horse.' He had before
said that neither he nor Sir RICHARD MAYNE had
given any instructions to any one in regard to the
note. That ought to have been enough. But he
had said more. He had taken on himself the
responsibility of any improper use which had been
made of the notes, if sue]; had been made, That
ought to have doubly satisfied his catechist. "Under
these circumstances," he added, " I do not think it
proper for me to give any further information such
as my hon. friend is asking. I will, however, state
that no step has been taken by the Government for
the removal of the policeman from the force."
By the rules of the house Mr. DUNCOMBE had
no alternative but to accept the dignified answer
of her Majesty's Secretary for the Home Depart-
'
ment ; but we fear poor Sir GEORGE has not yet
heard the last of it. A policeman is a public ser-
vant; his acts are as liable to be canvassed on
public grounds as those of the Prime Minister
himself. He is a person known to Sir RICHARD,
and if the policeman in his official capacity comes
to his principal in his official capacity, we are
entitled to know the whole truth, and known it
must be and will be. Our readers may have
noticed how fully the main point in KOSSUTH'S
affidavit is confirmed by the first acts of the Go-
vernment in opening the Hungarian Diet. It is
now clear that at the date of the printing of the
KOSSUTH notes, FRANCIS JOSEPH, the plaintiff,
was not King of Hungary. For the first
time the abdication of FERDINAND V. was
laid before both houses of the Diet by
Count D'APPONYI. ' The recent date of the docu-
ments, it is said, occasioned, as it well might do,
some biting remarks. Nothing can be clearer than
that all this time FRANCIS JOSEPH has been only a
usurper and a "pretended King" in Hungary. The
old law of Hungary is explicit on the course to be
taken in case of resignation. It lies with the Diet
to appoint a Regency, and, by acceptance, to make
valid the abdication. The Diet, however, never,
knew of the abdication, of even the Imperial crown'
except by the newspapers ; while in the form of
abdication itself, poor FERDINAND carefully
guarded against renouncing the crown of Hungary.
The proof of all this is now complete; it remains,
however, to be seen whether FERDINAND has at
last abdicated spontaneously or under coercion.

It will bo something marvellous if Poland and
Hungary do not come by their own through their
present movements. Now is their opportunity. Italy
has afforded them an example—an example testify-
ing in the most signal manner the capacity of
a grand but long down-trodden nationality to rise,
to scare away its oppressors, to break asunder its
political chains, thoroughly to vindicate its inde-
pendence. That example, we may rest perfectly
well assured, will prove in the end sufficiently con-
tagious. More particularly now that not only is
Italy consolidated into one compact Sovereignty,
but that England and France, constitutional
England and imperial France, have alike
pledged themselves to the principle of non-
intervention. From Warsaw arrives news that
on Sunday a grand popular demonstration
had taken place there; the military being called
out ; the Governor exhorting the people to disperse ;
the people consenting to do so if only the soldiers
were first of all withdrawn. While occurrences like
these are agitating the hearts of the patriots of the
ancient capital of the still living, though dis-
crowned and long prostrate, Nationality of Poland
—there is a consciousness all through Christendom
that in the dilemma of Austria (threatened as she
is with disruption in all directions, in Venetia, in
Hungary, in her Polish provinces), in the isolation
of Russia (with not one of her old despotic allies
left to her), in the pre-occupation of Prussia (con-
strained as she is to watch narrowly her perils in
the direction of the Rhenish Provinces, and her
hopes in the direction of Schleswig-Holstein), in
the pre-occupation also of Imperial France (a pre-
occupation of a wholly different character
from that of Prussia, being in a manner exclusively
selfish and self-aggrandising. the pre-occupation
consequent upon the development of the Napa
leonian policy)—in all this, Poland, and with her
Hungary also, may recognise her opportunity.
Whether the rekindled hopes of Poland and of
Hungary be now at length and definitively realised,
rests we do believe under Heaven in a very great
measure with the Poles and Hungarians themselves.

S Ao
I.PvT
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aAt t Pe
ni dI eLd 81.;-cHapits.
GRroeyy,alEliquiegnyhn-einss_
'Waiting to his royal highness, landed in the docks this
the POriji Prince
morning from her Majesty's yacht Fairy, Hon. Capt. Den-
man, from Osborne en route for London and Cambridge.
His royal highness was received on landing by Mr. P.
Hedger, and Mr. J. Levy, principal officers of the docks,
whom he thanked for their attention, and Mr. R. Beach
was in attendance on the part of the South Western Rail-
way Company. His royal highness appeared in the enjoy-
ment of the best of health, and left the station at 1130 a.m.,
fnr London.

CAltattiDuE, MONDAY EVENING.—His Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales, accompanied by the night
Hon. Major-General Bruce, Capt. Grey, and suite, arrived
here by the express train, at half-past six, and with their
attendants immediately took their departure in the royal
carriages, which were in waiting, for Madingley Hall,

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-APRIL 8.

LONDON COAL AND WINE DUES CONTINU-
ANCE BILL.
Order for second reading read. Motion made and question
proposed, " That the bill be now read a second time."
Debate arising, motion made and question put, " That
the debate be now adjourned." The house divided—
Ayes, 20 ; Noes, 135.

AYE s-20.
Angerstein, W. King, Hon. P. J. L. Paget, C.
Ayrton, A. S. Langton, W. H. G. Pease, Henry
Barrow, W. H. Layard, A. H. Puller, C. W. G.
Beaumont, S. A. Lindsay, W. S. Williams, W.
Coningham, W. Locke, J.
Douglas, Sir C. M'Mahon, P. TZLLERII.
Enfield, Viscount Mellor, J. Roupell, W.
Hanbury, R. Morris, D. Shelley, Sir J.
Question again proposed, " That the bill be now read a
second time :"—Amendment proposed, to leave out from
the word " That" to the end of the question, in order to
add the words " in the opinion of this house the Coal
Tax and the London Bridge Approaches Fund should be
continued until the 31st July, 1862,"—(Mr. Ayrton)—
instead thereof :—Question proposed, " That the words
proposed to be-left out stand part of the question :"-
-Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Question again
proposed, " That the bill be now read a second time."
Another amendment proposed, to leave out from the word
" That" to the end of the question, in order to add the
words " in the opinion of this house the coal tax and the
duties on wine should be continued until the 31st July,
1862,"—(Mr. Ayrton)—instead thereof Question put,
" That the words proposed to be left out stand part of
the question." The house divided—Ayes, 119 ; Noes, 10.

AYEB-119.
Adam,W. P. Freeland, H. W. O'Connell, D.
Adderley, C. B. French, Fitzstephen Padmore, R.
Atherton, W. Gallwey, Sir W. P. Paget, C.
Baring, Thos. Ge). Gard, R. S. Paget, Lord A.
Bass, M. T. Gavin, Major Paget, Lord C. E.
Beale, Samuel Gifford, Earl of Parker, Major W.
Beecroft, G. S. Gilpin, C. Paxton, Sir J.
Berkeley, H. Gladstone, Capt. Peacoeke, G. M.
Black, Adam Gladstone, W. E. Peel, F.
Bovill, Wm., Goldsmid, Sir F. Peto, Sir M.
Brooks, R. Gordon, C. W. Powys, L. P.
Buckley, Maj.-Gen. Gower, F. L. Pritchard, John
Burghley, Lord Greene, Capt. J. Proby, Lord. G. L.
Butt, Isaac Greg-son, S. Pugh, D. (Carman)
Buxton, C. Hamilton, Major Puller,C. W.
Caird, James Hankey, Thomson Rothschild Baron 31
Cardwell, Rt. Hn. E. Heneage, G. Rowley, Hon. R. T.
Cave, S. Hennessy, J. P. Russell, F. W.
Childers, H. C. E. Holmesdale, Lord Seymour, Sir M.
Clay, James Humberstone, P. S. Seymour, H. D.
Clive, George Hume, W. Sidney, Thomas
Cobbett, J.'3l. Jervis, Captain Smith, M. T.
Codrington, Sir W. Johnstone, Hon. IL Somes, Joseph
Cowper, Hon: W.F. Kingscote, Lt.-Col. Stanley, Lord
Craufurd, E. H. J Kinnaird, Hon. A. . Sturt, Capt. C. N.
Crawford, R. W. Lee, W. Sykes, Col. W. H.
Cubitt, Ald. Legh, W. Tite, Wm.
Cubitt, George Lennox, Lord G. G. Torrens, R.
Dalglish, Robert Lewis, Sir G.C., Bt. Trefusis, Hon. C. H
Dawson, R. P. Lowe, Rt. Hon. R. Turner, J. A.
Deedes, Wzn. M'Cormiek, W. Valetort, Lord
Douglas, Sir C. Mflins, R., Vance, John
Duke, Sir James Martin, J. Vansittart, Win.
Dunbar, Sir Wm. Mellor, John Villiers, Rt. Hon. C.
Dunne, Col. Miller, T. Watlington, J. W.
Egerton, W. Monson, W. J. Whitbread, S.
Estcourt, S. Montag-u, Lord R. White, Jas,
Ewing, H. E. C. Morgan, Major
Farquhar, Sir M. 31wray, William
Forester, Col. G. C. Nicol, William
Forster, W. E. Norris, J. T,

TELLERS.
Brand, H. B.
Knatchbull-Hugess

NOES, 10.
Barrow, W. H. Layod, A. H.
Enfield, Viscount Lock, John
Griffith, C D. Morris, D.
Hanbury, R., jun. Pease, H.

Roupell, W.
Williams, W.

TELLERS.
Ayrton, A. S.
Shelley, Sir J. V.

PRESENTS TO (CARIB ALDI.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,— Captain De Rohm has left England for Turin and
Caprera, with communications for General Garibaldi from
Mr. Ashurst, his English treasurer. Captain De Rohan is
also the bearer of various presents to the General of con-
siderable interest, including one to his daughter Teresita
from some English ladies cf distinction. Among the pre-
sents to the General was cne likely to interest him ♦ery
much, forwarded to London by Mr. Cowen, of Newcastle-
on•Tyne, consisting of a sea piece, painted by J. Scott,
bearing the inscription—" Ship Commonwealth, 853 tons,
Captain Garibaldi, sailed from Shields, April 14, 1854,
bound to Genoa."

As a work of art it is an effective and attractive picture;
but the General will receiTe it and value it most as a
present of a brave old Tyneriouth salt, who has saved his
pence for a long time in orchr to make the present to the
General, whom he was with 3ifllculty restrained from going
out to serve, though seventy years of age. Another
present carried to the General by Captain De Rohan, and
which was brought to town .3y Mr. Coningham, M.P., is
the Brighton watch, to whichis attached a gold cable chain
almost large enough and strcug enough to hold the Great
Eastern. The inscription uro'n the watch tells its own
story ; it is this :—" Seventeex thousand subscribers of one
penny each present this watch to General Garibaldi, in
admiration of his noble daring and patriotic devotion to
national freedom and liberty. Brighton, Sussex, England,
February 18th, 1861."—I am, bc.,

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THE SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1861.