The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-11 00:00:00

rEE SUN, LONDON, SIATURDeAY EVENING,' APRIL 11, 1857.

JJEIt MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
SEASON 1857.
The THE A.TRE will OPEN on TUESDAY, April 14, when
will be press. mtsd Donizetti's Opera of

LA FAV ORITA.

Leonora ' 1‘1? ille. SPEZIA.
Baldassari)
Fernando Signor GIUGLINI.
To be followed (first timA these 10 years) by the favourito

B'allet of LA ESMERALDA.
Founded on Victor Hugo's "Notre Dame de Paris."
La Esmeralda lVladlle. POCCHINI.
Claude Frollo Signor RONZANI.
AND
Pierre Gringoire M. MASSOT.

All the Boxes and Stalls having been disposed of for the
Subscription or Opening Night, the same Opera and Ballet
will be Repeated on THURSDAY, April 16 (it being an extra
night not included in the subscription).

A limited number of boxes in the Half Circle Tier have
been specially reserved for the public, and may be had on ap-
plication at the Box-office at the Theatre Colonnade, Hay-
market. Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each.
The doors will open at seven ; the Opera commences at
half-past seven.

THEA TR E-R OYA L, DRURY-LANE,
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
On EASTER MONDAY will be performed OTHELLO.
Mr. Charles Dillon and the Lyceum Company.
After which, CONRAD AND MEDORA and SEE SAW,
MARGERY DAW. Mrs. C. Dillon. Miss Woolgar, &c.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL
On EASTER MONDAY, will be performed
Shakespere's tragedy of
KING RICHARD THE SECOND.
King Richard 11., Mr. C. K, an ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean.
Preceded by A GAME OF ROMPS.

THEATRE ROYAL, Er AYMARKET.
Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
NEW ARRANGEMENT OF PRICES OF ADMISSION.
On EASTER MONDAY, and during the week, the new
rama of A LIFE'S TRIAL. Messrs. Buckstone, Comp-
ton, Howe, W. Farren, Rogers ; Mesdames Reynolds, Poyn-
ter. Fitzwilliam,
After which, for the first time, a Classical Love Story, un-
der the Applc-lation of ATAL A.NTA ; or, The Three Golden
Apples : in which Miss M. Oliver will appear ; also Miss M.
Wilton, her first appearance here, and Miss Ellen Ternan, her
first appearance in London.
Concluding with GRI\ISHAW, BAGSIIAW, AND
BR A DS II AW. Mr. Bnekstone.
In future the prices will be :
Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the
evening), fis. each. (No charge for booking.)
First Price. s. d. Second price. s, d.
Dress „Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0
Upper Boxes 3 0 Upper Bogs
Pit .
Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery ... 0 6
Upper Galldry 0 f No half-price to Upper Gallery.

ing upon him at last, upon any subject, for two
evenings together. A very different man—" this
HOGG," as he was scornfully termed upon a me-
morable occasion, by one of the NAPIERS (the
greatest of them), Sir JAMES WEIR, has been
abruptly turned to the right about by the electors
of Honiton. Then, again, a very notable Fox
—WILLIAM JOHNSON, to wit—has been no
less suddenly dismissed from Oldham, receiv •
ing a punishment as condign as any that Mr.
PANCKS (even if armed with a pair of scissors);
could have inflicted in a moment of supreme
wrath upon Mr. CASEY, the long-haired Pa-
triarch ! The Right Hon. EDWARD CARDWELL,
again, down at the City of Oxford has been in,
continently left in the lurch by his quondam
supporters—disgusted at the recent " trimming"
of one of the most promising of PEEL'S Boys !
Rochdale has rid itself for once and for all of a
namesake of his—Mr. MIALL, the very " type"
of Nonconformity ! And Lanarkshire, strangely
enough upon the very day Lord DOUGLAS dies,
throws overboard—a veritable political JONAH—
ALEXANDER BAILLIE COCHRANE, heretofore the
favourite, as well as the representative, of that
Conservative Constituency ! These are among the
list of the Rejected Notabilities—a catalogue
brought to a climax by the bowling down of the
Two Tellers, as coolly as a couple of ninepins, by
the sure aim and the starn resolve of the electors
of Manchester and Huddersfield. Perhap3 there
never was at any General Election before such a
clear sweep of conspicuous delinquents.

It is universally felt, not only in this country,
but in all parts of the Continent, that Austria
committed a great blunder in the abortive demon-
stration against Sardinia. An Ambassador should
not be withdrawn on trivial or insufficient grounds.
Generally speaking, it may be regarded as a dt I
berate and wanton insult, analogous to the cut
direct in private life. The suspension of diplo-
matic intercourse is the first step towards hosti-
lities. It is true that exceptional cases may arise.
There may be special causes which, with ample
explanations, might justify or extenuate the
measure. But there is nothing of the kind in the
present instance. The Cabinet of Vienna chose
to sulk on three points, viz.—the protection
afforded to political refugees in Piedmont ; the for-
tifications of Alessandlia ; and the reception of
subscriptions from other Italian States for that
purpose ; but chiefly on account of the freedom
of the press--a matter which is regarded by
Austria with a peculiarly evil eye. The
admirable answer of Count CATOUR, to which we
have already directed public attention in The Sun,
completely removed this ground from under the
Austrian feet. But although' it cannot be so
prominently put forward, it still rankles in their
heart,, and may be regarded as the real lapis
offensionis—the veritable grievance which they
would endeavour to remove by any means that
did not involve Austria in hostilities with any of
the Great Powers of Europe.
Were the matter to be decided between Austria
and Sardinia alone, it is probable that other steps
would rapidly follow that already initiated. But
VICTOR EINIMA.NUEL, by his chivalrous conduct
during the late war, has earned for himself a
name and a position which would not permit
France and England to stand tamely by while
their faithful and efficient ally, was unwarrantably
assailed. Austria knows this well ! and although
she may, to gratify her petty spite and vindictive
feeling, venture on a paltry affront, she could not
so far "screw her courage to the sticking point"
as to unsheathe the sword, and proclaim war
against the recognised " champion of Italian

THEATRE ROYAL, A D ELPHI
Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.

On EASTER MOND kY, will be performed the new and
orizinal domestic sketch, entitled WELCOME, LITTLE
STRANGER. Mr. Wrizlit, Mr. Paul Bedford, &e.
Followed by TILE ELVES, in which Madame Celeste will
make her first appearance
After which, A NIGHT AT NOTTING-HILL, in which
Mr. Wright and Paul Bedford will appear.

TRAND T FlEA.TRE.—Mana(rer, Mc. T.
PavnA.—On Easter Monday will be performed
RITTEI OAKLEY.

After which, WILLIAM TELL (Burlesque.) Mesdames
Leigh Murray, Cuthbert, Somers, &c.
To conclude with a Farce.
Commence at Seven. Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls. ;
Gallery, 6(1.

OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee. Mr. Alfred. Wigan.
On EASTER MONDAY, a new drama, called DADDY
lIARDACRE. Mr. Robson,
The new drama, by Tom Taylor, Esq., A SHEEP IN
WOLF'S CLOTHING.
To conclude with THIEVES ! THIEVES ! ! Messrs. F.
Robson, G. Vining, drc.
Commence at half-past Seven.

eIANTERBURY HALL. Westminster-road.—
‘,_} OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
selections from all the populn7 Operas, Madrigals, Choruses,
Glees, Ducts, &c., viz.: Miss E Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield,
Miss Brinell, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta ; Mr. J.
Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S.
Jones, J. Harker, W. Melling, P. COrli, Senor Antonio M.
de Soil a, and E. L. }Time ; Masters Austin, Bennett, and
Corgi; Messrs. Sam Collins, E. Mackney, and C. J. Wilkins.
Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.;
director, Mr. J, Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre•
cisely. Suppers, &e., until twelve o'clock.

IIGR WATER AT LONDON BRTDGE.
Tam DAY—Morn. 6 min. aft. 3 —Evening 20 min. aft. 3
Tn-14fonnow—Morn. 33 min. aft. 3—Evening 48 nin.aft, 3

THE WEATHER-SUN OFFICE, APRIL 11.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
59 -highest einee noon yesterday'
49 lowest this morning and during the night.
47 -thin day at noon.
BAROMETER, down to 29.42—n0w up to 29'55.
WIND, from N. to N.W.—Fresh, with heavy rain and
dirty, cold weather.

freedom I"
But there are reasons why Austria fancies
Abe can indulge in a little fluster and
" bunkum," as our transatlantic brethren
term it. She knows that Louis NAPOLEON par-
ticipates in her feelings of abhorrence against the
liberty of the press, and that he will Rot be likely
to object to a course which naturally follows in the
track of Count WALEWSKI, who, as President of
the Conferences at Paris, thought it consistent
It is really something remarkable to note the with his dignity to fulminate threats againab the
extraordinary vengeance wreaked upon those who journalists of Belgium, or of the official scribe in
voted in favour of Mr. COBDEN'S motion, by the the Afoniteur who assailed the English Press. He
constituencies. Out of the 265 Ayes, or " YEECS " fancied she had even more certain guarantees in
(including the Tellers), who walked into the lobby, England ! The influence of "Uncle LEOPOLD"
or, as the saying is, performed the kotoo into it, was strongly relied on, and the prevalence of
as so many atoms in the fortuitous concurrence " Germanism" at the Court of St. James's. But
t
(increased to 289 by the 24 who Paired. against those who calculate too highly on such elements
Government) ninety-eight are without seats in the may possibly reckon without their host ! It is
true that King LEOPOLD, who is closely connected
new Parliament. Just exlct'y two short of a
clear hundred ! Thirty nine have "retired "
by marriage with FRANCIS-JOSEPH, is also the uncle
modest gentlemen ! Fifty-nine have been
4‘ re_ not only of the QUEEN, but also of the Prince-
jected," some of them twice rejected—by different Consort, and that he is regarded as the
constituencies ! A cursory analysis of this melan-
very Ulysses of the House of Coburg, the chief
choly cat dove shows that cut of these " thirty- adviser of the policy pursued at Gotha. But
Lord PALMERSTON is not merely the Minister of
nine " retirements--" one " has been in Ireland,
" three " have been in Sc tland, and cc thirty_ the Crown ; he is also the Minister of the People
five" in England ! While of the "Fifty-nine " of Great Britain. The spirit so recently exile.
Rejections—" three" have been in Scotland, t bited on the several hustings throughout the
" eight " in Ireland, and "fifty-one" (" Think of length and breadth of the land must guide and
that Master BROOKE !") in England. Ninety- direct him on his course. It was not merely for
eight altogether, scornfully " walked out" of the the person, but for the policy of which he was
Legislature by their indignant Constituen_ supposed to be the representative, and any back-
cies ! Thirty-nine—shown the door ! Fifty. sliding on that point would inevitably be attended
nine—kicked out of it I That is literally with very untoward results. Whatever may be
the fact : and it is a fact in every way the views of Austria, or even of France, England
worth noticing. That, we maint lin, according to has no alternative. She must support VICTOR
a popular idiom, is about the size of it ! Viz.— EMMANUEL, so long as ho is deserving of assist-
" Ninety-eight !" According to the fatuous war ance, and there is no grave mistake on his part,
song, or insurrectionary ballad across St. George's or on that of his efficient and patriotic Minister,
Channel, we may now ask— Count CAYOUR.
"Who fears to speak of Ninety-Eight?" England, however, is brought into the scrape,
Assuredly, if any one, the Yehites or Cobdenites chiefly through the unfortunate system of Royal
—every individual Parliamentary atom in that Marriages. She "has no cousins"—but unfor-
ever-memorable fortuitous concurrence ! For it
tunately those who are brought into the country,
is a magio number, symbolical at once of ven- and who exercise an unconstitutional influence,
have. The present difficulty would not have geance upon themselves and of triumph to their
oc-
great antagonist, Lord PALMERSTON ! curred but for our unfortunate matrimonial
"Ninety-Eight—that sound of fear, alliances, and now that another is on the tapir,
Unpleaeing in a Yehite's ear !" that it has been decided on, and arranged
w
And out of that "Ninety Eight"—how many
without the advice of Parliament, it is
celebrities, small and great, good, bad, and in- ' essential that the utmost care and vigilance
different, have gone the way of all who are should be exercised. The House of Commons
inconsistent. The Lords, and Baronets, and may not be enabled to prevent the inausp. • minus
Honourables, and Right Honourables who have union that will render the PRINCESS ROYAL of
been thus summarily given the "go by," we have England the future QUEEN of Prussia, the first
already, upon a former occasion, enumerated. Be- cousin of the AUTOCRAT. But it should not en-
yond these, however, there are sundry notabilities courage that which will be regarded with sorrow
worth specifying incidentally. Foremost amongthe and regret by every true-hearted Englishman. It
Political Suicides, every one will note with a car- should not only refuse t ) sanct'on an extravagant
tain feeling of chagrin —we ourselves observe dower, but to bestow any dower whatsoever.
with a mingled sense of regret and indignation-- It would, of course, exhibit its wonted liberality,
the "Hon. Member for Nineveh," as Punch calls of which so many startling proofs have been
him, AUSTIN HENRY LAYARD—WIIO has pulled afforded, to German connexions, if the marriage
himself down, and tumbled himself in the mire, met its approbation. But when all the objections
and wilfully and perversely subjected himself to to that most unfortunate procec ding are taken into
all sorts of ignominious treatment down at Ayles- consideration it would be merely vindicating its own
bury, and afterwards down at Wigtownshire. We honour and character to refuse any participation
don't know when we have been more egregiously therein, or if it granted an appanage to couple it
disappointed than we have been in the instance of 1 with conditions that any future contingent right
Mr. LAYAB,D-...a young Politician who promisci to the British Croen should be permanently sur-
who entered rendered. We cannot contemplate the possible
so well and failed so deplorably—
the pee, annexation of Great Britain to Prussia without
the House of
.Commors as
A very , terror. The Government of England, through
and left it as the Little Pickle !
I a Prussian Viceroy, would occasion fearful
good Antiquary, and Archaeelogist, and Topegra-
eelamitie3, and the danger should be averted in
pher, no doubt of it, but a wonderfully bad Par-
liamentary Pepresentative. A Reformer so full g the first instance. There should be no temporising
of whims, and crotchets, and twists of judgment, lon such a point. Prince ALBERT ought to have,
ample means to
and warps of prejudice, that there was no count- i and we believe actually losses s,

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LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1857.

provide for a daughter in a match exclusively of.
his own making. He is in the annual enjoyment of
some Forty Thousand Pounds sterling of British
money, and, considering his other perquisites, he
cannot have much less than half-a-million already
accumulated. If, then, he desires to dispose of his
eldest child in opposition to the wishes of the
English people, he should himself provide
the dowry. This is a question that will probably
come before the new Parliament ere many
months have elapsed, and we earnestly hope
that every member will justify the confidence
reposed in his fidelity ; and that if it be
impossible to prevent a Prussian marriage, he
will, at all events, to the best of his ability, pre-
vent a Prussian dowry, which would be regarded
as a testimonial of the approval by the British
people of the ill-omened alliance.

could do it. But to "cook" an extended suffrage
with the Ballot would be very much like drawing
water with the sieve of the Danaides. Let, then,
the friends of the Ballot bestir themselves. Let
them ask to be as free as their cousins and bro-
thers in Australia. It will be hard to resist such
a demand, though of course resisted it will be
with all the pertinacity of men fighting for the
great stronghold of aristocratic despotism. The
outposts, however, have been carried in Victoria ;
the greater victory is now only a question of stra-
tegy and time.

We have now before us a copy of the VICTORIA
ELECTORAL LAW, being a return made from the
Colonial-office to the House of Commons. It con-
tains many provisions well worthy of attention
here, but it is the clauses relating to the Ballot
which we would commend to the impartial con-
sideration of Mr. DISRAELI, Lord J. RUSSELL, and
others, who pretend that neither France nor Ame-
rica are examples for us. It is rather wearisome,
to be sure, to be obliged to hunt up illustrations
of the successful working of the Ballot, and as we
bring them forward, to have them one after another
pooh-poohed, as if there was nothing in them.
It makes one believe that the fault lies not in the
examples, but in the thing. The executioner, to
whom the Irishman under the cat-o'-nine-tails
cried out, " hit lower," " hit higher," " not so
high," and so forth, exclaimed at last, as the story
goes, " why, I cannot please you, hit where I will I',
and we rather think the Ballot will not please
Whig and Conservative statesmen, let our example
be where it will. Great States or small ones,
Republican, Constitutional, or Despotic, if it be
but the Ballot they wince under, it is just the same.
France or America, Belgium or Sardinia, it is all
the same ; it does not work to their satisfaction.
That we quite believe. Still we cannot let
these gentlemen rest. Those who are on the
right and the winning side can afford to be good
tempered ; so, although it is a kind of surplusage,
we now give them another example. One which
her Gracious MAJESTY approves, and which they
as loyal subjects will approve therefore also. We
point them to the Victoria Electoral Law, and
invite their special attention to clauses XXXV.,
XXXVI., XXXVII., and XXXVIII. Also to
schedule F (the form of the Ballot paper), and
certain other subsidiary clauses. These clauses
establish the Ballot in Victoria. Indeed at the
very opening of the Act, it is declared that the
words " poll" and " vote" shall apply to and
include taking the voices or votes of electors by

The plan is very simple. The returning officer
is to provide a room, supplied with pens and ink
and a ballot box, into which no one but the officer
or his deputy, the scrutineera of each candidate,
and the voter may enter. Any other person en-
tering is liable to prosecution for a misdemeanour.
Each scrutineer has to make and subscribe a de-
claration, that "he will neither attempt to ascer-
tain for whom any elector shall vote, nor, by any
word or action, directly or indirectly, aid in dis-
covery of the same." The officer has ready a
number of printed forms of the balloting paper,
signed by the returning officer, and containing the
names of all the candidates. The elector, on
answering the questions reluiste to identify him
with his name on the register, has one of these
handed to him. The officer, however, first terites
on the paper the number opposite the voter's name
in the register. The voter takes the paper, and
erases the names of all the candidates but those
for whom he intends to vote, folds it so as to con
ceal the erasures, and passes it through the sli
in the ballet box.
It will be observed that it is not rendered abso-
lutely impossible to discover for whom the elector
voted ; but it is quite impossible for this to be
discovered unless a scrutiny should be demanded.
All the parties present are solemnly, indeed, under
the penalties of perjury, bound to secresy. Even
did they break their oaths, and attempt to dis-
cover for whom any one had voted, it must be a
very difficult, almost an impossible, thing to re-
member the number opposit3 a voter's name in
the register, to bear it in mind till the papers were
counted over, an;i by it then to identify the vote
with the persoia'. Every precaution, moreover, is
taken. The deputy in each district has to seal up
immediately all the papers, and forward them to
the ramming officer ; in like manner, after count-
ing up the votes before the scrutineers, the re-
turning officer has again to seal them up forth-
with, and transmit them to the Clerk of Council
or Assembly, by whom they are to be kept for tv;o
years; then, we presume, to be destroyed by hin3.
Such is the system of voting which is now law
in Victoria. We have already heard how satis-
factory was its working at the last election. Nor
is this merely a partisan account, for having tried
it at the general election, they like it so well that
it has been adopted at the municipal election also ;
and even at Sydney the new corporation is to be
elected in like manner. We might have preferred
to make it impossible to identify the vote of the
electors even for legal purposes ; but we have
known honest friends of the Ballot, persons who. I
would vote for it, and who yet thought its greatest
drawback was that in no case, however villanous,
could the culprit be brought to justice, or the
personated votes be deducted. It may be worth
something toremove the hesitation of such persons.
We must own that the arrangements to meet
cases of personation are -eery good. All votes
tendered for persons supposed to be dead or ab.
sent are to be placed by themselves and sealed up
separately.
Here, then, we have at length a 13allot Law in
British dominions, a law made rend c:aTied out
by Englishmen, and endorsed by the Home Go-
vernment. The excellence of 'its working is not
denied ; and it is a plain, tar
,gibin English fact.
The inhabitants of Victoria. resemble us more
nearly than those of perha-de any colony. They
have indeed but just left atm shores ; they are a
part of this generation, a pro t, in fact, of ourselves.
If the Ballot will work
work well here. Ono s teat)
-well in Victoria, it will
prior to universal adc
experiment
e way ,of example or ex?er
only further is it pos-
sible to go in th
); the next few borough or
)tion of the Ballot. That
would be, trying it
county elections.
T his would add nothing to our
knowledge ; but if,
any, we say, with t would satisfy the scruples of
RUSSELL and DIST "taAlElLOllleranhehaarytes,bturty
oint.e
objection MeasMeas rs.
—that the trial would convince the nation, and
settle the quest' ion.

THE GENERAL ELECTION.-GAINS

AND LOSSES.

Of the 654 members who will form the new
House of Commons, 630 have been already re-
turned, leaving 12 Irish counties to select the re-
maining 24 representatives. The English and
Welsh boroughs, including the Universities, return
335 members, and have exercised their privileges
by selecting 223 Liberals and 112 Conservatives.
The English and Welsh counties have returned 56
Liberals and 103 Conservatives, there being a
double return for Huntingdonshire, while Scotland
has contributed 39 Liberal members to the new
House of Commons, and only 14 Conservatives.
In Ireland parties have been more evenly balanced
—39 Liberals having been elected, and 42 Conser-
vatives. The relative gains and losses by each
party stand as under

Liberal Conservative
in
. gains.
s.
English and Welsh boroughs ...ga 37
.. 1,
English and Welsh counties* ... 23
... 1
Scotland .. ... ••• •.. 5 . 0
.
Ireland, at present ...
... 4 .... 7

Total ... 69 ... 27
Leaving a net gain of 42 seats, equal to 84 votes, in
favour of the Liberal Filly. The new Parliament
will comprise 171 gentlemen who had no seats in
the last House of Commons. Of the displaced
members 105 voted or pairad upon Mr. Cot►den's
motion, which produced the dissolution. Of that
number 62 voted in the majority and 43 with the
Government.

* Huntingdonabire double return.

We strongly advise
,our friends to take their
stand on the V Tictoria Lavv and Schedule F. There
it stands—a ,great fact ; a thing accomplished.
Let the uni. rersal demand ba for a Schedule F.
No Reform an will be worth having without it.
With it ar ly Reform 13'11 must be worth fighting
for. We do poi, ignore extension of the suffrage ;
but all a
grea in that. Without the &Hot, how-
ever, nc oing is easier than to " cook" an eaten.
sion of
DISRAELI could do it ;Lord
joir ale oriffrage.
Russgo, could do it. Almost any of us

HOLY THURSDAY IN PARIS.

PARIS, FRIDAY.—The ceremonies of Holy Thurs-
day were yesterday celebrated in the churches of
Paris with more pomp than usual. The attendance
wa:, great everywhere from morning till late at night,
and iu some places the tide of human beings leaving
one church to perform their devotions in others
hardly ceased for a moment. At the Madeleine,
St. Roche, Noire Dame, St. Sulpice, Abbaye-aux-
Bois, and Notre Dame des Victoires the attend-
ance was particularly numerous. Most of them
were fitted up magnificently. Representations
of the events connected with the Passion of the
Saviour took place in several of them, but that of
Calvary, at St. Roche, particularly attracted atten-
tion, and was the object of general veneration.
Amid the sharp rocky eminences arose the cross,
half covered with black cloth. A number of lamps,
partly concealed among the crags, shed a " dim re-
ligious light" over the chapel in which the tomb was
erected, while the cross itself, on which the brilliancy
was skilfully thrown, came out in bold relief. At
the Madeleine the tomb was erected in one,of the
side chapels, but the• effect, however in harmony
with the rather ostentatious ornaments of the inte-
rior of that church, was not so striking nor so
solemn as at St. Roche or St. Sulpice. The coffin
was covered with velvet embroidered in gold, and
above the whole rose a canopy of crimson velvet
surmounted with white plumes. At St. Eustache
the tomb was placed in the embrasure of the prin-
cipal entrance beneath the organ. At the doors of
all the churches ladies belonging to various charit-
able societies were stationed for the purpose of
making collections, and it was evident that the ap-
peals on behalf of the poor were not made in vain.
This day the same crowds throng the churches, and
in all of them there is preaching.

LATEST NEWS.

THE INDIA MAIL.

The steamer Bombay arrived at Trieste on the
10th of April, at 11 o'clock, in 117 hours from
Alexandria, having left Alexandria on the sth o

April.

The India mails left Alexandria on the sth, with
advices from Bombay to the 20th of March ; Cal-
cutta, to the Bth of March ; Madras, to the 13th of
March ; and Bushire, to the 25th of Februazy.
General Outram was about to send an expedi-
tion to capture Mohammerah, on the Karoon.

The embarkation of troops had commenced, and
an attack was expected to take plac3 about the 15th
or 20th of March.

The Persian army was again collecting at Burar-

Joon.

Another and more serious mutiny among men of
the 19th Native Infantry at Moorshedabad had
been suppressed by the presence of a small force of
cavalry and artillery.

At Bombay the money market was easier. In-
terest was reduced one per cent. The import mar-
ket was less active, owing to the holydays. Ex-
ports steady ; freights advanced ; exchanges 2s.
lid.

At Calcutta the Bank rate of interest was reduced
2 per cent. The import market was very firm ; ex-
ports were generally steady, but the demand for
indigo was rather less active. Exchange, 2s. 2id.
At Madras grey shirtings and mule twist in good
demand ; other, articles less active ; export un-
changed, freights looking up. Exchange 2s. 2kd.

BERNE, APRIL 9.
The Berne Gazette contradicts the assertion made
in some foreign journals of an indemnity of 60,000 f.
having been offered by Switzerland. Public opi-
nion is not absolutely opposed to the payment of a
sum of money, but it protests with energy against
any title being assumod by Prussia.

Intelligence has been received from Constanti-
nople to the 4th. The investigation relative to the
landing of arms on the coast of Circassia has been
terminated. The Sultan will decide the punish-
ment for such functionaries as are involved in the
matter. Ten steamers have been ordered in Eng-
land for the coast service of the Black Sea. The
town of Khulkal in Persia has revolted in conse-
quence of a scarcity of provisions. The governor
was obliged to take to flight.

FRANCE.
PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.
General Todleben, accompanied by several
Russian officers, yesterday visited the Hotel des
Invalides, where he was received with much cour-
tesy by the staff of that Establishment. The
general, who speaks French fluently, conversed
with several invalids who hadserved in the Crimea.
M. Emile Pereire, president of the board of di-
rectors of the Southern Railway Company, has
been promoted to the rank of officer in the Legion
of Honour.

The commission nominated last year on the
monetary question, composed of MM. Magne,
Schneider, Elie de Beaumont, Michel Chevalier,
de Parieu, Boinvilliers, and Ernest Andre, met
yesterday under the presidency of M. Schneider
—the Minister of Finance, M. Magne, being
prevented by other occupations from presiding.
The commission has ascertained from official re-
turns that the arrivals of the precious metals in
France exceed the exports by more than
1,500,000,000 f. ; and from inquiries made of the
receivers-general and their financial agents, it ap-
pears that never was there so much specie in France
as at present. In the departments where the ex-
pen es have not increased so enormously as at
Paris, the quantity of coined money is stated to be
immense, and the peasants who formerly carried
about them, or concealed, a piece of 20f. now do
the same with 100 f., or even in a greater propor-
tion. That fact tends to explain bow it is that
with a larger amount of the precious metals com-
ing into the country specie is anything but abun -
dant.

"Several foreign journals," says the Pays, "have
announced that Piedmont is about to form a
camp of 20,000 men at Alexandria. Our letters
from Turin do not confirm this statement. The
adoption by the Minister of War of the necessary
measures for the organisation of the manoeuvres
which take placa every year for the construction of
the pupils of the cavalry school of the Veneria
Reale, having been mentioned by the Military
Gazette of Turin, gave rise to the above-mentioned
incorrect announcement."

BOUUSE, April 10.—The following were the last
quotations :

Cash. tt. c.
44 per Cents

was engaged with the Government in negotiations
for the continuation of the Santarem Railway.
When the Lisbon correspondeut closed his letter
the House of Deputies was engaged in a very ani-
mated debate respecting the legality of the forma-
tion of Prost's Credit Mobilier Company, which
had given rise to Some disturbance in the house on
the previous day.

3:ier Cents 69 45

End of ln-onth.
-fr. --a.
91 75

New Loan

Bank Shares 4,185 Roman
Credit Mobilier 1,410 Austrian
Belgian 41
Piedmontese (5) 9l Home Debt
RAILWAYS—FOR CASEI.

fr. f r c
Orleans 1,485 c.
Western_ 79a
Northerni lOl5 Strasburg
Lyons . ..... 1,577 i— New Ditto ...... ....: 817i—
Mediterranean 2,140 Grand Central
Lyons Geneva
Midi - Austrian Cum. .... 7464