The correspondence relating to the recognition of Victor Emmanuel as

King of Italy has been published. On the 19th of March, a notifi- cation to the British Government of the assumption of the title "King of Italy" by Victor Emmanuel was made by the Sardinian ambassador at this Court. The recognition of the King of Italy took place on the 30th of the same month, when Lord John Russell wrote to the Marquis d'Azeglio :

"having laid your communication before Her Majesty the Queen, I am commanded to state to you, that Her Majesty, acting on the principle of re- specting the independence of the nations of Europe, will receive you as the Envoy of Victor Emmanuel IL, King of Italy."

The new King of Italy has now been recognized by Switzerland England, Holland, Belgium, Sweden, Portugal, and the United States.

The Earl of Elgin landed at Dover on Thursday. He was received by a salute of cannon, a crowd, and a deputation from the civic au- thorities, who presented an address, a performance in which, if praetice really does make perfect, they ought to be more proficient than any other corporation in Great Britain. Lord Elgin made a graceful and appropriate reply, in the course of which he said :

"After the great achievement of an advance on Pekin—an achievement which will occupy, I venture to say, a conspicuous place in the history of the world— after that achievement was accomplished, it became the duty and office of diplo maey to endeavour to turn to good account the advantages it was calculated to ensure ;—in the first place, to punish with necessary severity deeds of bad faith and cruelty, but, above all, to remember that we did not go there for the purpose of making conquests, but,in order to establish relations of amity and mutual bene- fit between our own country and the most populous nation on the earth—a nation containing four hundred million souls, who, no doubt, still labour under the dis- advantages and exhibit the defects which ignorance of the world and isolation engender both 'in individuals and society, but who, nevertheless, are a people eminently industrious, peaceable, intelligent, and commercial, and who are, '

therefore calculated, when the shackles and trammels which impede the true exercise of their natural energies shall have been shaken off, to contribute largely both as producers and consumers to the sum of human prosperity and mutual well-being," (Cheers.)

Mr. Gladstone's penny taxes have not turned out well, and have given abundance of trouble. On Tuesday a number of Loudon mer- chants waited upon Mr. Gladstone, and presented a memorial, sum- ming up the evils of the said taxes.

" 'rims the tax of 4 per cent, on the Customs revenue is equivalent to little more than a fee of Is. upon every entry for payment of duty in the United King. dom. Payment of all such fees was abolished about twenty-five years since, as being alike unwise and impolitic ; but the tax as now levied requires special cal- culation for every entry, and the employment of a series of figures which, under the existing forms of business, have in each case to be repeated several times, thus causing an immense number of varying calculations for an income of little more than 50,0001.

"The one penny stamp on units of entry is yet more intricate, vexations, and obstructive, owing to their varying and complex application—in some cases including many packages in one unit, in others, dividing one package into several Units ; so that it has been found necessary to establish 'a tariff of units.' Thus, While large sacrifices of revenue have been made to establish simplicity and fireedom in the national tariff, this tax has engendered the necessity of establish_ ing a small tariff, which brings its irritating and hindering powers into action upon every article, however unimportant or insignificant, of the imports or ex- ports of the United Kingdom, frequently stopping the delivery and clearance of cargoes, involving delays, consumption of time, and obstructions to commerce, for which the revenue of 130,0001., raised upon the entire commerce of the country, is an utterly inadequate compensation. "Again, the penny stamp on delivery orders has been prolific in delays, contention, and difficulty of collection, raising nice points of law as to ownership, and from its nature constantly open to variation in its application ; it is believed that this tax yields little more than 5000/. per annum, while its application has given rise to more annoyance and discontent than any other source of Customs revenue.

"The threepenny tax on warrants (which appears to yield the small sum of 90001.), although net liable to many of the objections which exist in regard to these other taxes, yet is found to be extremely partial in its application, being mainly paid in the port of London, in consequence of such documents being little used at the other ports ; tending also to the gradual disuse of a most valuable commercial document. So also the tax on bills of lading proves in practice unequal, troublesome, and inquisitorel."

Meetings in aid of the Indian Famine Relief Fund have been held without cessation during the week in the great towns of England, and in Scotland Edinburgh, in Ireland Dublin, setting the example, therd has also been a conspicuous display of the most eager benevoleneee It is computed that in a fortnight not less than 60,000/. have been subscribed, of which 44,000/. was, yesterday, on the way to India. The Queen has subscribed 500/. and the Prince Consort 2001. The iron-cased frigate "Resistance," was launched on Thursday at Millwall. She carries 32 guns, will have engines of 600 horse-power, and her tonnage is 3668. She was originally built as a "rain," and. her bows still retain the swan-breasted shape. On Saturday the 'Defence will be launched at Newcastle, and we shall have four of these ships afloat, and four building.

Rear-Admiral Sir Henry Keppel, who it may be remembered escorted Sir George Grey on his voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, has, "at his own wish," been superseded, and Rear-Admiral Richard Laird Warren will proceed to take command of the ships on the south-eastern coast of America.

The fitting up of the royal yacht Victoria and Albert is now in rapid progress. Men have been employed on her night and day. She is to carry the Empress of Austria from Madeira to Trieste as soon as possible.

Rear-Admiral Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, K.C.B., arrived in Funchal Roads, Madeira, on the 14th of March, thus having made the passage, notwithstanding the bad weather he encountered in the Channel, in ten days. The lower rigging of the Narcissus had settled down a little, and as soon as it was set up the Admiral would leave for Sierra Leone ea route to Ascension. The letters from the ship were dated the 15th of March, and it was expected she would sail again on the following day.—Army and Navy Gazette.

The see of Madras, which has become vacant by the death of the Right Rev. Dr. Thomas Dealtry, includes the whole of that presidency, and is worth 25001. a year. The appointment of a successor will devolve upon Sir Charles Wood, the Secretary of State for India. The diocese consists of 141,923 square miles, the population 13,500,000, and the number of clergy about 140. The French Government have resolved to erect a new consulate in England, and have fixed upon Leeds as its seat. M. Boiaselier, the Chancellor to the Consul-General in London, has been appointed Consul hi Leeds. M. Gleizal, Chancellor to the Consul at Newcastle-ou-Tyne, has been named to succeed M. Boisselier in London. IL Thibaudier, the Secretary of the Consulate at Newcastle-on-Tyne, succeeds M. Gleizal as Chancellor. The New York Herald publishes some account of the new American Ili- dater in Europe. "Charles Francis Adams, the new Minister to England, comes of a family prominent in American history. He will be the third of his family, running through three generations, who has represented the United States at the Court of St. James's—the grandfather, the father, and now the grandson. Mr. Adams is the son of the sixth President and grandson of the second President of the United States, and is himself a prominent, and admitted to be one of the most talented and less pretentious of the representatives of his party. As a member of Congress, author, and lawyer, he has always been esteemed a scholar of a high order, and a gentleman of fine social qualities. William L. Dayton, the new Minister to Fiance, is a native of New Jersey, a graduate of Princeton College in that State, and a lawyer by profession. He began his public political career in the Senate of his State in 1837, and one year afterwards was elected to the honourable position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey ; in 1841 he was appointed United States' senator to fill a vacancy, and subsequently filled a full term in that important position. In politics at the time alluded to he was a free soil Whig, and he maintained to the fullest extent the right of Congress to legislate with respect to slavery in the territories of the United States, on, which subject he expressed his views in a speech on the treaty with Mexico in 1847. Ile was an intimate friend and influential adviser of Pre- sident Taylor. In 1856 .Mr. Dayton was nominated by the Republican Con- vention as their candidate for the Vice-Presidency of the United States, with Mr. Fremont as the candidate for President. In 1857 he was appointed Attorney-- General of the State of New Jersey, which office he now holds. George P. Marsh, the new Minister to Italy, is a native of Vermont, and a graduate of Dartmouth College. Mr. Marsh early adopted the profession of the law. In 1835 he was elected a member of the Supreme Executive Council of Vermont, and in 1842 became a representative in Congress, retaining his seat in that body, by successive re.alections, until 1849, when he was appointed by President Taylor to the post of Minister Resident at Constantinople, which office he creditably filled for four years. In 1852 lie was charged by the Government with a special mission to Greece. He travelled extensively in Europe. In 1853 he was appointed one of the Commissioners to rebuild the State House at Montpelier, Vermont. In 1857 and 1859 he served as Railway Commissioner in that State. In 1814 he was chosen one of the Corporation of the University of Vermont."

A school, in honour of the memory of the late Sir John Henry Pelly, and entitled the Petty Memorial School, has been erected by the grateful parish of West Ham, Essex, and on Wednesday it was inaugurated in the presence of Lord Graliville, President of the Council.

A Court of Directors of the East India Company was held at the East India- house, on the 11th inst., when Colonel Sykes, l'., was elected chairman for the year ensuing.

The equestrian statue of the late King of Sardinia, Charles Albert, by Baron Marochetti, was received at the St. Katharine Docks on Saturday for shipment by the screw steamer Chester. The statue is packed in several cases, one of which is 15 feet long and 10 feet high. The pedestal of polished granite, a fine sped-. men of English workmanship, was executed at Peary°, and is now in course of

shipment, • Lord Brougham intends to leave his chateau at Cannes, in the south of France, early in the ensuing week, for Paris, in which capital the noble and learned lord will make a brief sojourn on his way home.

It is currently reported that there are 200 Irish solicitors, be they more or less, in London just now in search of the six Crown Solicitorships vacant by the death of Sir Matthew Barrington.—DaUy News, April 9th. The Dublin Evening Hail says that the chief secretaryship of Ireland is likely to be vacated by the translation of Mr. Cardwell to the Colonial-office, in consequence of the Duke of Newcastle's acceptance of the governor-generalship of India.

A bust of William Pitt, by Nollekens, has been presented by Lord Granville to the National Portrait Gallery in Westminster. A small miniature of Mrs. Fry, with Newgate-bars in the background, has recently been added to the collection; whiNt a head—life size—of Horace Walpole, by some unknown artist, has been suspended on the staircase. A manuscript of John Huss, hitherto unknown, was discovered a few days since by Professor Holler in the Imperial Library at Prague. It is a fragment of a diary written at Constance.

Under the heading of "French Beneficence," the Dublin Morning News publishes a list of the subscriptions received by Bishop Dupanloup after his appeal in the church of St. loch. The total sum despatched to Ireland, it appears, was 5901. 3s. 3d.; and it will no doubt astonish the French people, who were deceived in.o giving so much money by stories about the state of semi-starvation in which their Celtic co-religionists were existing, to find that the principal portion of their subscriptiode has been divided amongst a number of well-established and thriving religions institutioni in Cork and Dublin. The St. Petersburg Gazette states that a young man called the other day at a bookbinder's shop in St. Petersburg, with seventeen portraits of the Emperor which he desired should be set in frames of cherry-coloured velvet, with the following inscription in letters of gold: "In memory of the Enfranchisement of the Serfs, March 5th, 1861.

An "international dog-fight" has occurred at New York ; that is, a champion British bull terrier has fought wit h a champion American dog of the same kind. The English dog Bess," beat the American "Rosie." The New York Herald is full of the details of the business.