The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-17 00:00:00

THE SUN; LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MA RC H 17,

T RE: ATM,: ROYAL, D U LAST E.--
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
acting Manager, Mr. C. Mathews. Stage Manager, Mr. L.
Roxby. Scenic Artist, Mr. W. Beverley.
The eminent Comedian, Mr. Charles Mathews, every evening,
and Mr. and Mrs. Keeley.
Last 3 Nights of the Grand Christmas Pantomime, the
Caost magnificent ever produced on the English stage.
THIS EVENING, her Majesty's Servants will perform
A CURIOUS CASE.
Followed by BETSEV BAKER.
After which will be produeerl
SEE, SAW, MARGERY DAW ;
Or, 7.larlequin Holiday, and the Island of Ups and Downs.
The reduced prices as follows, varying throughout the
house to snit every one :—Galleries, ea. and ls. ; Second
Circ'a of Boxes, 18. (d. ; Pit, 2s. ; First Circle of Boxes,
2s. 6d. ; Dress Poxes, 35.; Stalls, gs. ; Private Boxes,
10s. Cd., I'. Is., 1/. Ils. Cd., and 2/. 2s.

LOYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE,
THIS EVENING, will be performed
Shakespere's tragedy of
KING RICHARD TFIE SECOND.
King Richard 11., Mr. C. K an ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean.
Preceded by MUSIC LEATH CHARMS.

OYAL LYCEUM TREATRE
Lessee, Mr. C. Dillru.

THIS EVENING, will bo performed the new drama, in
five acts, by Westland Marston, Earl_ entitled A LIFE'S
RANSOM. Lord Revesdale, Mr. C. Dillon ; B.lncroft, Mr.
Stuart ; Felicia Revesdale, Mrs. C. Dillon.
Followed by gorgeous burlesque of CONRAD AND
MEDORA. Miss Woo'gar, &c.

After which, a now farce. entitled KF PRIEND 'mom
LEATHERHEAD. Mr. Toole, Miss Wilton, and Mrs. B.
White.

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

tf`orein Policy we need no explanation what:yen
Its character and its tendencies have been illus-
trated, beyond the shadow of the shade of any
mis:tonception, by a public career of now half
century's duration. A career which has now for
many years been the glory and the boast of Eng-
land. A career already, as the world recognises,
historically illustrious. A career which long since
extorted a memorable panegyric from a great
living rival and contemporary. One which ha::
not only won for the present Premier the enviable
+AI,3 of "THE BRITISH MINISTER," but which
.received upon a notable oecasicn the for-
mal, deliberate, and enthusiastic approval of
Parliament, and which has now at length, in the
tallness of time, and at a crisis of extraordinary
emergency, left the British Minister par excellence
without one single compE tit 3r in popularity
among the ranks of living English Statesmen. It
is solely in regard to his views and intentions as
to our Home Policy that wo are solicitous, as we
intimated yesterday, to have a formal Political
Manifesto from the hand of Lord PALMERSTON.
And for thus untentionally but authoritatively
enforcing this demand we esteem ourselves i❑ the
present instance as it were under a personal
obligation to the Noble Earl the Leader of her
MAJESTY'S Opposition.

Mr. COBDEN has clone his best to befeol the
country, but it is to be hoped the country can
well look to itself. He has sent down an issue to
be tried at the hustings and the polling booth,
which the Cabinet had settled satisfactorily, and,
no thanks to him, if that too rare opportunity—.
a GENERAL ELECTION—be not thrown away upon
the savage YEN, and the most savage of the
semi-barbarian Chinese. It will require all the
efforts of all hearty Liberals to prevent the great
sep'ennial chance from being wasted about what,
only in the most indirect manner, concerns our
own domestic progress. The last Parliament was
elected to decide an issue already settled, Protec-
tion—that was almost entirely a waste election ;
as a Parliament for the country it accomplished
nothing but the passing of a few bills, which had
been waiting some time, which their parents could
not reject, and which their foster-parents thought
it well to get the credit of. Let electors take
care that they be not again taken in. If it were
needful to sacrifice everything to bury Protec-
tion, it is not necessary to waste an election on a
Chinese War—DISRAELI and Lard JOHN have
at last acknowledged that practically that business
is now settled ; that the nut Parliament will
have little to do with it ; that in a word, if
COBDEN were Prime Minister, he must fight it
out.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET,
THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven,
with the successful new Comedy, in Ore," acts, entitled,
DOUBLE-FACED PEOPLE. Characters by Mr. Buckstono,
Mr. Chippendale, Mr. Compton, Mr. W. Farrell, Mr. Rorers,
Mr. Clark, Miss Reynolds, Mrs. Poynter, and Mrs, E. Fitz•
wit lam.
After which, A WICKED WIFE.
Followed by THE L'TTLE TREASURE.
To conclude -with A KISS IN THE D A RIC.

THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPHI.
Lessee--Mr. Ben. Webster.
THIS EVENING, will be performed the popular drama
•f IRELAND AS IT IS. Mr. and Airs. Barney Williams.
After which, A NIGHT AT NOTTING-HILL, in which
Mr. Wright and Pawl Bedford will appear.
BARNEY THE BARON. Barney O'T,ole, Mr. Barney
Williams.
Followed by a now Piece de CAractere, entitled IN All*D
OUT OF PLACE. Mrs Barney Williams.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE,
Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek.
THIS EVENING, a new drama. entitled FRAUD AND
ITS VICTI Mes:irs. Creswick, Shepherd, &c.
After which, an original farce, entitled, THE SERIOUS
YOUTH.
To conclude with the Spanish ballot, EL DESCUID ADO.
Sancho, Kr Buck.

THEATRE ROYAL, SA.DLER'S-WELLS.
Under the Management of Mr. Phelps,
THIS EVENING, lON. Characters by Mr. Thep!, Mr,
F. Robinson, Miss M. Eburne, &c.
To conclude with THE POOR, GENTLEMAN.

TR A. ND THE IT RE.—Manager, M. T.
Payne.—Thin Evening- will be per ,brraed
DO S7TAKF, ITANDS.
After which, THE DEATH OF ETA, in which the
lloward Family will appear.
Followed by COUSIN CITERRY.
To conclude with THE BLUE JACKETS.
Commence at Seyon. Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, 2a. ; Pit, ls. ;
Gallery, Gd.

Mr. COBDEN teals us the Ministerial Programme
.r: PALMERSTON—no Reform and a Chinese War.
We care not what programme Manchester chooses
to assign to the Ministry ; no man better knows
than Mr. COZDEN, that the country can, if it be
only awake, put what it pleases into a Ministerial
programme. He has seen the Corn Laws repealed
by the Parliament elected to maintain them, and
buried by another elected to revive them. THE
Electors of England CAN make a REFORAI PARLIA-
MENT of one chosen to reverse a COBDEN crotchet on
the Chinese War. Will they do it ? Will they
allow themselves t 3 be All tified by cotton spin-
ners and Peace Society men ? We do not know,
however, yet, that we aro not unjust to cotton
spinners. If they stand by those amongst them who
first uttered their voice on receiving the news of
the COBDE'N-GIBSON triumph, -they will demon-
strate plainly that cotton spinners do not surren-
der English common sense to the men of crotchets.
Our readers will nee that the two great classes
who need political reform have spoken out. The
represented and unrepresented have each made
' their demand. The represented want a free vote,
and the unrepresented a place on the regiAor.
The BALLOT and the SUFFSAGE j these are the
words which must not be forgotten ou the hust-
ings. There is no fear whatever about Lord
PA.LMERSTON and China. The Premier is safe
enough, and we are glad he is. The penitents
all over the country loudly proclaim that PALMER-
STON cannot be ejected. Reformers are free, there-
fore, to fight their own battle. They cannot en-
danger the Government, but they can put reform
into the Ministerial programme. We aro confident
that Iv the country pronounced for the Ballot and
Household Suffrage, or any other suffrage, that
PALMERSTON would carry what they asked. He is
a Conservative, they say, at heart. We believe
it. We believe the same of Lord JOHN RUSSELL.
Lord Joraer, cafe-lit for party purposes, would not
like to move an inch beyond the Reform B it,
and no Tory would care t ) repeal it. Neither
would Lord PALMERSTON. But as surely as Lord
PALMERSTON sits on the Treasury benches, so
Yesterday the E;rl of Dzary, in the course or surely would he, if Mr. HATTEIt told him, after
hi' really remarkable address to the House of the elections, that three-fourths of the con.stitu-
Lerds—ostensibly upon the Income Ti!x., but encies had voted for the Ballot and the Suffrage,
virtually upon the existing Sinie!ion came himself initiate both, or, it may be, put them in
down with one energetic and sledge-hanimer blow the QUEEN'S Speech.
upon ourselves. treexpected as the blow was, It is the fault of Reformers themselves if Lord
and fermidible as any How dealt by one s PAI,fERSTON be not a Reformer in the next
puissaet in Debate and so author tvivo ire Puri- Parliament. No man amongst the Premier elms
Lion could hardly fail to he, we do.re say it may objects less to reform,—it is the bother of it he
be survived. The Noble Earl had been recently dislikes, and ho carts nothing about it. He would
embarrassed, it will be remembered, by taunts infinitely rather reform than go over, he and
violently directed against his Party through that to the Opposition benches. Who imagines that
Chink in it-3 Armour—the semi-recognised and Lord PALMERSTON would quit the Treasury
demi-authentic weekly organ of 11.2 r MAJE3TY'S benches from aversion to reform ? He is of too
Opposition. Lord Dann; net unreasonably, genial a temperament, in fact, to go out upon any-
determines, therefore, to avail himself of the thing that a majority of his countrymen were
very earliest opportunity for retaliation. He eager to have. He would rather, like ell the
resolves—acting upon an old and time-honoured rest, let reform alone, but he would much rather
plan—to carry the war, if possible, at once into take it up than hand it over to some one else, or
the Enemy's Camp. To accomplish which pur- be at variance with the bulk of the people. We
pose, however, he obeys in the present instance, have now, then, in our hands just the very in-
we cannot but think (to say the very least of it.), strument to put Lord PALMERSTON right, and we
a most eccentric inspiration. Resolved, as we have in him a Premier who would give us quits as
have intimated, upon carrying the war without good a Reform Bill as the Vienna Lord, and per-
any more ado forthwith into the Enemy's Camp haps a better one. It is just now remitted to us
--What, after all, does the Earl of DERBY actu- to see, pie quid detrimenti respublica capeat, and if
ally decide upon to this end? What, but, plainly Lord PALMERSTON do not turn reformer, we may
and literally, upon taking exception to the line of justly exclaim, 7103, 7103-populi desumus ! The
argument pursued not by any partisan newspaper, commonwealth is in our hand', and it will be our
not byanyreeogniaedofficialorgan of Lord PALMER- fault, ours alone, if we use not our power.
eToN'S Government but
t by a journal of long-sus. Reformers have been lulled to sleep by coalition
tained
a and thoroughly established independence. Ministers, and divided by war. There is nothing
Lard Drawrretortsupou thosewhohavetaunted his now to excuse inattention. A war in China can be
Party, as before intimated, by directing retention no pretext for their not going heart and soul int)
to earnest opinions expressed by ourselves, by a reform. Seven weary years may await them, if
pointed reference to the
views advanced in The they demand not, now, shorter parliaments sun_—an organ the Noble Earl described last electoral serfdom at intermediate elections, and
night ix the House of Lords as "a news- the next general election, if they do not insist
paper which warmly
suPPerti the ier
Non le on the Ballot; and a relatively diminished constit-
Viscount, and—asserts his claim to the confidence
uency, if they do not require an extended fran-
chise. my Lord DERBY.—but of the country."chise. The House of Commons makes Ministers, what under?
how, upon what Plea, upon 4nding, but the people makes the House. It is useless
upon what clearly indicated stipulations Why, whining and moaning to HERCULES when our own
indicated by the obviously and notoriously as was shoulders to the wheel is all that is wanted. Let
Tery views of ours which were referred to yester- any one but take that notable and impartial Redday in the Upper House by the distinguished Book, "Doll's Electoral Pacts" let him • jus t
Leader of her MAJESTY'S Opposition—upon the turn to the proportion of voters to the population,
net popu t' lon,
nct simply implied, but rather upon the distinctly and notice the miserable fraction of the
population
and explicitly defined condition that Lord PAL- i entitled to a vote ; let him glance over the pare-
MERSTON prove himself to be indeed woethy of graphs innumerable informing whose " influence"
that confidence by a manly enunciation betimes I predominates in the borougha—i•
nto the counties
of the guiding principle; particularly in regard ' ho needs hardly to trouble himself to 100k—let
to our Home Policy, which are intended te actu- I him add to this all he remembers of bribery and
ate and regulate the movements of the' corruption in 1852, and, then, let him ask whca
Noble Viscount's government. In regard iD his ! ther Reformers can, with decency, be content to

OYA.L OLYMPIC THEATRE,
Lece, Mr. Alfrod Wigan.

THIS EVENING, fa new. -f.,ree, called THIEVES !
THIEVES ! ! Messrs. F. Rob3on, G. Vinin, dtc.
The neTy drima, by Toni Taylor, 'Mg.., A SHEEP IN
WOLF'S CLOTHING.
Followed by the new farce, lsy Bayle Bernard, Esq.,
0171c1 A SPLENDID INVESTMENT.
And A BLIGHTED BEING. Mr. F. Robson, kc.
Commence st balf-isast Seven.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMP MTH E A TRE.
Lessee and, Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.
THIS EVENING (first week) Shakspere's Play of KING
HENRY THE FOURTH Part First), with novel and effec-
tive equestrian illuqrations invented by Mr. Wm. Cooke.
HotErar, Mr. James Holloway. -
Alan, a number of amusing Entertainments, ennelnilinx
with a Brilliant Display of Equestrian SKILL and SCIENCE,
by first-rate artistes, in the SCENES in the cirmr:

Cornmetce at seven o'clock. Dress B3xes, 4s. ; Upper
Poxes, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from 17,., no charge for booking ;
P.t,28. ; G 1114317, Is. ; Upper Gallery, GI.
Fox ogee open from Eleven till Four. Stae:e Manager,
Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun.

CA.NTERBTJ RY II ALL, Westmi ngtex-roal
OPEN EVERY E VENING. —The follow.
in company of Vocalists are engagod for the performance o
Selections from all the popula.,.. Operas, Madri;als, Choruses,
Gleci, Duets, &c., via. Miss E. Peerco, Nfrs, J. Caul;:eld,
Miss Brunel!, 3fiss Summers, and 3farlarne Marietta ; Mr. J.
Canlleld, Herr F. Jonzlimans, I', Grover, T. Farrant, S.
Jones, J. Barker, W. Me'lincf. P. Cori, Senor Antonio M.
tie Solla, and E. L. Hiroo; Nfasters Austin, Bennett, and
Corri; Messrs. Sam Collins, E. Afo.ckno.y, and C. J. Wilklus.
Pianoforte, M..r. Coed Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun ;
director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pro-
01111Y. Suppers, &e., until twelve o'clock.

leave our electoral laws and constituencies as they

are.

We do hope that Liberals will not be shame-
faced or dilatory. Addresses already show that
candidates are sensible of the rights of electors to
free voting, and of non-electors to the suffrage.
These are the fundamental pointy. They are to
all the rest what the Repeal of the Corn-laws was
to all other monopolies. Carry the BALLOT,
indeed, and you will carry all the rest. Untie
the voters' hands, and they will unfetter the non-
electors' hands—and both will then demand, at
least, Triennial Parliaments. Church Rates,
Jewish disabilities, army reform, and we know
not what reforms, will follow. The BaPot is the
way to all. If we could pin a member t) only
one thing, we would have his word of honour, that,
life and limb permitting, he would be in his place
and vcto for

THE BALLOT.

Everything in the latfet intelligence from
China confirms us in our often-expressed convic-
tion as to the absolute necessity of at once
strengthening our forces at Canton, and confroet-
ing our Asiatic assailants with all the might and
energy of a groat military and maritime expedi-
tion worthy of sustaining at all hazards the glory
of our imperial reputation. It is, we repeat, in
the interests of prudence, of economy, of huma.
nity, that we demand these prompt and vigorous
warlike demonstrations against the Chinese. The
violaters for fifteen years of the solemnly-ratified
Treaty of Nankin, the insolent and audacious in-
sulters of the National Flag, the murderers of
the English civilians on board the Thistle, the
poisoners of the British residents at Hong Kong,
the miscreants setting a price of so many taels and
candarins upon the head of every Englishman,
and thereby, holding out an infamous bribe, cal-
culated to instigate most effectual'y the very
scum of the Chinese mob to assassination--surely
barbarians such as these demand at our hands the
retort of an instant and overwhelming retribue
tion. Particularly is this rendered necessary
when it is observed, in regard to these same per-
fectly Harmless and wholly Innocent and altoge-
ther most Exemplary Chinese—the model nation
mawkishly eulogised by Mr. Menaßl" COB-
DEN and beelavered with preposterous pane-
gyrics by my Lord DEBBY—(Doves though they
be 1 and Planters of Olive ! and Dealers in
Peose-wter Diplomacy ! Fighters with Feathers
and Pelters with Sugar-plums !)—actually are
emp7oying all this, while every bloodthirsty con-
triranm within reach of the most lawless despot-
ism upon the Earth's surface, with a view to the
destruction not merely of the little band of
armed Englishmen in the Chinese waters, but
also of the unarmed British residents at Victoria
and elsewhere, including amongst their number
both women and children. Prudence, humanity,
and justice alike call for vengeance, instant and
signal vengeance, upon these miscreant Chinese !
Upon the poisoners of Hong Kong ! Upon the
cut-throats of the Thistle ! Upon the incendiaries
of cur factories, and the robbers of our merchan-
dise ! Upon the savage emissary of the Celestial
E;nperor, who has held out the tempt scion of
bloodinomey to the assassins of Englishmen 1
According to the nows just received by the
Overland nail from China, it is satisfactory to
know that already retributive measures had been
adopted at Hong Kong. ALLUM, the principal
baker of the colony, together with two or three
of his chief accomplices in the crime, having
been summarily tried before a council-of-war fcr
mixing arsenic in tho bread supplied to the Par-
Ives, and the Moormen, and the British residents
indiscriminat3l; 1 Convicted of which atrocity,
it appears that these wretched men were at once
most deservedly led forth to execution. Among
the Cuatonese again, and up )n the waters
of the Estuary leading to the City, mea-
sures no leap prompt and vigorous seem to have
been meanwhile energetically carried out by the
maritime forces under Admiral Sir MICHAEL SEY-
MOUR. A course of proceeding all the more ad-
visable under the circun3Aenoes—seeing that Mr.
COBDEN'S. Model "Sucking Doves" the Chinese,
have been there most deliberately and systemati-
*ally resorting to every means within their reach
to obstruct the British forces as much as pssible,
and to do as much damage as they could by any
means contrive to do, to British lives and British
property. Sinking junks in the narrow channels
wherever they could find the opportunity for so
doing, to the end that our progress up the Pearl
River might be retarded. Cemtnit'ing arson
whe'rever a torch could be set to a Beit!sh Factory.
Resorting to the Drug, and the Dagger, and all
the more dastardly means for secretly caueing
Death familiar to the hand of the Hireling Mur-
derer. Atrocities which have forced Admiral
SEYMOUR, even with the restricted powers at his
1.113;333A to the most energetic and resolute mea-
sures of retaliation. Insomuch, that while pru-
dently withdrawing his men ficim the untenable
positions at the Ditch Folly, and the Bird's-Nest
Furl-, and the Factory Gardens, retiring to the
Macao Passage, and retaining possession solely
of the Teetetum Fort—the British Ad

ral had contrived to set firs to the suburbs

at Shameen Fort, and t) bombard the city
with the Niger, the Eacounter, and the
Barracoutl. The rathor remarkable "brush," which
is spoken of in our adrices from Bombay, as
having tAken place between the Samson and an
enormous mandarin fleet of no less than 150
war junks--while it reminds us of GULLIVER

swimming among the fleet of the Ulliputians—iu-
' dicates plainly enough, surely, what might be
accomplished off-band by an adequate force of
British men-of-war, aided by a corresponding
military armament Let a warlike expedition,
worthy of England, be forthwith despatched
against the Cantonese, and there wi►l soon be an
end of this deplorable bloodshed and of these
lamentable conflagrations. here, as in many
other instances, wherein war is declared—energy

is humanity, and daring prudence ! For this

rational prudence and genuine humanity—for
this vigour and determination—England looks with

oonfidenee to the Cabinet of Lord EiALMERSTON.

The Peace-at-any-Price Meeting held yesterday
,Jvening at the Freemasons' Tavern, was, all things
Considered, one of the most indecorous, if it were
not actually one of the most despicable, demonstra-
tions within our remembrance. It will tend, we
feel perfectly satisfied, to confirm in the most sig-
nal manner possible, the now notorious unpopu-
larity of Mr. COBDEN—the present Member fox
the West Riding of Yorkshire. It will effect, no
less signally, we fear, what we regret a vast deal
more than the final bursting up of the swollen
bladder of the demagogic reputation of the Great
Political Bagman—destroying, we mean to all
appearance, the last vestige of any hope we might
still have cherished, as to the once auspiciously
rising Political Fame of the gifted Resurrectionist
of the Nineveh Antiquities. Alas ! after the
melancholy exhibition made by Mr. LAYARD last
evening, on the platform of Freemasons' Hall--
"Farewell, a long Farewell" to the Parliamen-
tary repute of a Young Politician in whose re-
gard we formerly, and we must say most
foolishly entertained, the very highest, and the

moat elevating anticipations ! The wretchedly
unpopular and unpatriotic sentiments enunciatA
yesterday by Mr. LATAED upon the occasion of
this Packed Conclave cf Brummagem Philanthrc-
pists, may be regarded, we conceive, as virtually
ringing the knell of the legislative life of the pre-
sent Member for Aylesbury ! A blunder all this
on his pact, not so much inatt,tr perhaps for our
astonishment, when it is borne in mind how a
veteran representative of the people like Mr.
ROEBUCK—appropriately enough the Chairman of
yesterday's proceedings has stumbled, and
bungled, and floundered over to the wrong side in
the midst of the Oratorical Skrimmage of the
Chinese Controversy ! It has long since been
jocularly understood among all classes of obser-
vers that if ever Mr. ROEBUCK really did after all
take office he would so the most aptly under the
name, style, and title of "The Dissenting Minis-
ter !" Generally, however, his dissent has been
a dissent on the popular side, or, in other words,
upon the Right Side : for, as Jumus has said so
grandly and so wisely, " The People are seldom
wrong in their opinions, in their sentiments,
never 1" But, unto, now, we cannot call to mind
any occasion at all in his protracted political
career in which Mr. ROEBI7OE has so erred in judg-
ment, as opposed at once to the earnest opinions
and the conscientious sentiments of the popula-
tion, as he has notoriously and irremediably done
in the matter of this Chinese Controversy. By
his vote, and still more by his virulence in uphold-
ing that vote of his, he has, so to speak, set an
indelible brand upon his reputation. Mr. LAVARD
has done the same foolish thing, identically. Mr.
COBDEN being beforehand with both them in assum-
ing that Tattoo of Combination which must long
remain the Taboo of unpopularity. And so it
comes to pass—perhaps, after all, not so very
unnaturally—that these three Chieft tins of the
newly-organised and very mongrel Peace Party
yesterday danced together, moat amicably, upon
the platform of Freemasons' Hall, not a War
Dance of course, but a Peace Dance—a strange
sort of a maudlin political saraband—amidst the
deafening hubbub, the mingled cheers and hisses
of a most tumultuous assemblage of lookers-on !
It ought in reason, however, to be remembered,
after all, by Messrs. ROEBUCK, LAYARD, and
COBDEN, that if they have consented at Est to
squat under the same wigwam, and calmly smoke
t,gether the Caluaatt of Peace, they are at last, by
the People at large, fairly " smoked" themselves !

TELEGRAPH TO INDIA YIA THE RED

SEA.

LATEST NE WS.

THE FORTIFICATION OF ALESSANDRIA.
The Sardinian Chamber has graLted an extra-
ordinary credit t) the Ministry of fire millions for
the carrying on of the fortifications of Alessaudria,
by the overwhelming majority of 106 votes
against 14.

An immense Remotion has been produced by
this vote, which is interpreted, by the enemies of
Italy, as a demonstration of distrust, if not of
hostility, towards Austria.

Private letters from the Chinese Seas state that
the baker at Hong Kong who had taken the lead
in a conspiracy to poison the Europeans had been
arre:ted, tried bofore a Council of War legally
constituted, and convicted of an attempt to poison
the English Charge d'Affaires and his family. The
man was condemned to death and shot, together
with three of his accomplices.

This eztunple had produced a deep impression
on the lower classes in Hong Kong.

It is said that the Treaty of Peace with Persia
contains one or two articles which have not been
published.

There is reason to fear the Awitrian Govern-
ment will turn a deaf ear to the welt-meant coun-
sel of England and France, and recall Count Paar
from Turin. The order has rof yet been issued,
but persons who are in a position to know what
is intended say that in a very few days the diplo-
matic relations between Sardinia and Austria will
be entirely broken off.

The members of the Conference on the Neucha-
tel question are enjoying a long vacation, and no
one can say wLen they will be ready to resume
work. A day or two ago it was stated that a note
had been addressed by the French Government to
their Minister at Berlin, to be of course communi-
cated to the Prussian Minister. We now learn that
it was couched in rather energetic terms, the sum
and substance being„ that if the King of Prussia
did not make up his mind to do something the
Conference would go on without his representative.
M. de Hatzfeld has received the instructions which
he expected from Berlin ; they are not deacribod
as likely to bring matters to a close, though they
may afford occasion for a third meeting of the
Plenipotentiaries, when it is to be hoped. that some-
thing like business will be got through. The Swi.,,s
Envoy has also received additional instructions
from Berne. A letter from Berne, of the 14th,
states that the delay in the negotiations has pro-
duced a very unfavourable impression throughout
most of the cantons.

FRANCE.
PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.
A letter from Copenhagen, of the 15'h, in the
Monitcur, say, :—" The general treaty which has
been no 2otiated between Denmark and the principal
maritime States of Europe for the Euppresi .n on
the Sound dues was signed yesterday in this capi-
tal. Acciirding to the terms of this document,
the dues of all kinds, to which vessels were sub-
jefted in passing the Sound and the Bclt,, mill be
completely done away with from the 1.1 of April.
Denmark also engages to suppress for certain
kinds of merchandis-, and to materially reduce
fur others, the dues whic'i she has hitherto received
for transit on the canal of the Eyder and on the
rou'es which unite the Baltic to the North Sea.
The maritime States on their part engage to pay
to Denmark as compensation, in one or more in-
stalments, an indemnity representing the average
for five years of the revenue of the present Sound
dues, capitalised at the rate of 4 per cent."
BOURSE, March 16.—The following were the last
quotations :
Cash. fr. c. End of Month.
4i por Cents
3 per Cents 7l 71 20
New Loan
Bank Shsroa 4,105 Roman . . B9l
Credit Mobilier 1,42? 50 Austrian
Belgian Five 5......... Spanish Threes
Pietmontese (5) 9l 25 Home Debt
RAILWAY-5-170R CA3II.

fr. . fr c
Orleans 1,470 c
Western -
Northern -
Lyons ......1,595 -- New Ditto -
Mediterranean 1,9D0 Grand Central -
Lyons Geneva -
Cette B5O Austrian Cum.....,. 783 -