The Express. — London, England, 1862-07-12 00:00:00

THE FORTUNE COPPER MINING 00WPANY d WIRTZ= ADETILLLU (Limited). Capital £BO.OOO, In 40.000 Shane of al each, LI thereof to be paid on application for shares, and a further sum et LL per share at the ezpiraUon of two months from the date of allotment. Thomas Gooch, log. (11eMa.GPOch and Cowen), ea, London wall ;director of tho Bank of Loadon',. Charles Holland, Faq., LiverpooL Frederick Levi, Non. Mourn P. UM and Co.), London and Adelaide. William Frederick Moore, Noy. (Mews. William Jackson and Co.), 7. Great Wincbsotorotrost, City, EC. George Nicholas, Faq. (Miyake of Um National Discount Com ny), Abchurchdane, City, B.C. SOLlMTorts—Mesars. Patinas and Wing, Clement's-lame, City, B.C . BAXIEKRI—Basik of London, Threadneedle.fareet, City . Booms—Mews. George Burnand and Co., ea, Lombard-demi, City. ACCIITAIY-11.. Nicholas, Fag. Odires-9, Procedural-street, City, EC. This Company Is formed foe the purpose of purchasing and minting two valuable freehold mineral properties, known as tha Wheal Fortune and Wheal Virgin Min.. situated 30 miles from the shipping port of Gerakiton, In the Champion Bay district of Western Australia. The propery comprises 130 acres ;if freehold land with the minerals, and was obtained direct from the crown In the year 1850, by local adventurers, who subscribed a limited capital, which was expended in the purchase of the land and the necessary mining plant, leaving a balance of only 8.300 to com mence operations. Three shafts are already sunk to the respec tive depths of 8, 12, and VS fathoms, and several distinct copper lodes and lead-bearing croak-muses discovered. From one or two of the former SO tons of copper ore have been raised and transmitted to this country, and sold at Swansea, by public ticketing', between February 14, 1800, and June 10, left, the per ecotone of which for puce copper averaged 24, end realised the sum of £18,109 Oa ad., as is evidenced by the following transcript of the ticket males thereof. In addition to which, about 100 tons of tick lead ore have been obtained from a cross course, and sold for L 837. A further parcel of 100 tons of copper ore is advised at the port, ready for sbipment. Altogether the clear profit during the two years was !AIM, on the initial wort log capital of £BOO, exclusive of the purchase as aforesaid. The operations at the mines are continued, and the yield of ore in creases as the works progress, so that proportionate receipts may be anticipated. The copper ore was consigned to Messrs. Wm. Jackson ►nd Co., of Great Winchester-street, London, and sold to their order at Swansea—namely . _ _ . Tone Produce. Proceeds. / 44 241 £l,BBO 17 7 c((( 19 166 19 61 2,367 11 9 11 19 July 31. Lord Realm „ „ West Australia .f 47 !1 1 890 13 4 3 October 9. Dakhla 1 I 1 9 1 9 362 16 11 1861. March U. Oryx 63 21 ) 946 3 2 28 21 June 18. Tartar 12821 1 2,887 17 0 102 21 July 16. Lord &Wm 1862. June 10. Gloucester 360 24} 6,629 12 6 „ „ Tartar 66 241 1,072 8 0 Date of Sale. Ship. ISM. February 14. Damler .. „ 89. Atalanta .948 £ l °! These remarkable results from so small en outlay, and limited labour. without steam power, testify to the great value of the property, and warrant the formation of the present Company, In order that the nneecoeewwrryy machinery may be erected, and the mineral resourcesgeaerally and fully developed underesperienced management with adequate and skilled labour. The purchase of these nimble freehold mineral properties, including the existing plant, dc., without any restrictive rights or royalties, has been agreed for upon the follow terms, namely, £lO,OOO in cad; and 10,000 paid.up shares on rnent of the property. All charges for promotion, advertisements, brokers' commis- Mon, besides all preliminary, legal, and other expensn, up to and including the coats and fees of registration of the Company, have been defined and agreed for at A 4 per cent, upon the nominal capital of the Company. Applications for shares may be made to the bankers or broken in the annexed form but no application for less than On shares, or a multiple of Ave, will be considered, nor unless a deposit of Al on each share applied for is previously paid to the bankers of the Company. The allotment will be made in full according to priority of application. To the DircCtors Company of Western Australia iLimltedL Clarrunam.—Having rut to your Bankers, the Bank of London, for In the Fortune Copper Wining C,ompany of Western Australia (Limited , I herehy agree to acmpt such Shares. subject to the provisions of the Joint Mock Com panies Acts. Name Address Date The above form, when Med up, is to be lett with the Bankers on payment of the deposit. ALLEN'S PATENT PORTMANTEAUS and TRAVELLING BAGS with square LADIES' WARDROBE TRUNKS, DRESI3 a UrtAGS, with Aver elw DISPATCH BOXER, WRITING end DRESSING CABISS, and NO other articles for Noma or continental travelling. Illustrated catalogues by poet for two stamps. Also Allees Barrack Furniture Catalog*, ot Portable Bed steads, Drawees, Easy Chairs, Waalihand-stands, Canteens, &a., by J W. peel tor two stamps. ALLEN, Nan ' etrand, Lamer" W.C. and Patentee, 22 and al. Wad 000 REGENT-STREET. LONDON. mit i aMAPPIN BROTHERS (by t to his I Nalsety Napoleon III .), filLr i laglaM t Teelso- Silver Dresaing.case Manufacturers, and Cutlers, Q1111)1111 . 11 Cutlery Works, ilhanield, have the honour to announce that hey have COMMENCED BUSINESS at the WEST-END of LONDON, hp opening PREMISES at tki, EGENT -STREET, with a large collection of t their inanniactures, and they hope to receive, they will endeavour to await, an extendon of tho favours hitherto awarded them at their City Establishment, 67 and IS. KING WILLIAMMREET. HHARMONIUMS.—NEW MODEL MUM. ILIA sod WJOD. 101. lagsat4tresi. FII N, EVERY WEEK, ONE PENNY. Elite ersrMS. TO 001UIMPONDIDIT& ,dvertleementa Intended for " 11;e1Rpr 3ea" London Evening Paper, must be at the din, le, Bonverte4treet, by Two o clock on the day of publication. ainlAIM. TEO Imams, TEI HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE. Was Ha—OUR ODUSIN. Mara lotham, isuckstorm 31.ra Young, Illasollear.—LA 0014TRAILANDISTA. Perea Nees and Senor Mongu.—And SHOCKING EVENTS riuwelorrik Tma EviN/NO, THZ HENRY TEE EIGHTH. Mews. Charles Kean. Jordan, Potter, Raymond, J. F. Cathcart, Everett, Oarden, and Meadows: Mrs. Charles Kean and Maws Chapman.—And THRICE ALUZZIED. sr. JAIIIIITIL rm imam ORD= THE 1061.—t ma OR 7O Meows. 0 Vial Dewar, sad F. Matthews Mrs. F. Matthews, mid Taraer.—AM PRINCZ ARAB= BRITANNIA. Tea Vann. THE itTiliNa . ON - A POOR TOTING MAN! Maim J. Rayoolds, W. croaked, !Inwood ; Mrs. Z. Yarnold. THY by Mr.Bydney sad Nre.Goorzw—THE ENCHANTRESS OF TILE FORE6l.—And AMERICAN SLAVERY. lIATJSPEC—Aik; wbkh SCENES IN THE CIRCLE. Ildile. Masottl.—To coaalacto with THE YAM= BACHILOIL. —Comae:we at 7. HIGH_ WAVER AT . LONDON mums Tan DAY .—Alorlinin Afternoon s ft. 355. To-miaow—Morning. Ms. Oen— Attersoos. 3a. 25. LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 12. KING LOUIS of Portugal is about to espouse the Princess Pis, daughter of the King of ITALY. The French official prints boast that the Emrssoa recommended this match, and even hint that it is a step towards loosening the old connexion of Por tugal and the North of Europe, and bringing it to a more natural sympathy with the East and the policy of the South. We attribute very little im portance to such doctrine. The transplanting of Princesses from the North of Germany to the cli mate of Lisbon has not proved favourable to health or to longevity. In choosing an Italian Princess his Majesty King Louis takes a wife accustomed to his Southern clime, and ooming from a consti tutional land. As to any league of the South hostile to England, we do not believe in it, and if we did, we know how weak a tie is marriage upon policy. The wife of Vicroa EumsNurs. and the mother of his children was an Austrian Princes& With regard to the old and close connexions between Portugal and Great Britain, a variety of circumstances have concurred to loosen it, and to throw Portugal more and more under other influ ence than ones. In the first place, whether from the difficulty of getting it or the cheapness of clarets, the taste of the English has become weaned from port wine. It is little more than a tradition among the rising generation, and preserves its only votaries in the fast dimi nishing numbers of those who still retain the habits which prevailed at the commencement of the century. Our fiscal legislation has followed the same path with :our taste, and has allowed French wines to compete with those of Portugal ; greatly to the diminution of our trade with thglt country, the legislators of which show very natn rally the wish to retaliate. One of the most striking results of this has been the recent unex pected and unwelcome notification of the Penin milar and Oriental Steam Company that its vessels will cease plying to and from Lisbon. There are other reasons for this announcement than the declining popularity of port wine. For these packets formed the chief chain of com munic►tion not only between Portugal and England, but between Portugal and Europe. But since rail roads traverse France as well as Spain, the traveller from Lisbon is placed within a few hours of Paris and of all other European countries. The same revo lution has taken place in correspondence and its facilities. The electric telegraph not only accom panied but anticipated railroad communication ; and instead of writing a letter by one packet to get an answer by the next, the merchant of Lisbon or Oporto uses the electric telegraph, and tells his wants in London almost before the British steamer could leave the Tagus. If the use of our Penin sular packets has been superseded, it is not by any relapse, but on the contrary, by the pro gress of civilization. The tendency is certainly to knit new links between Portugal and her con tinental neighbours, from whom the want of roads as well as political hostility estranged her, and also to weaken considerably those which united Portugal to England. If there be somewhat in this displeasing and regrettable, there is at least the consolation that it springs from no fault of either country, but from the natural course of things. When English influence thus declines in Portu gal, and English example ceases to have sway, it is satisfactory to think that these may be supplied by the Italian connexion. There is such a want of affinity between Northern and Southern races, that it has been difficult to inoculate the one with the sentiments or institutions of the other. The liberal systems of government now pre vailing throughout all the kingdoms of the South of Europe cannot but excite, encourage, and im prove each other. The isolated condition of Spain and Portugal has tended to render both torpid, and to deprive them of that multiplicity of in teresta and variety of motives which give political, industrial, and social life. Italy has the seeds of all this in her to a far greater degree than any other Southern region, and no doubt will take the lead amongst them, strongly influencing the future of Spain, of Portugal, and of Greece. Already we note a certain similarity in the representative assemblies of these Southern coun tries. Their tendency is not to divide, like similar assemblies in the North, into two great sections of Conservative and Liberal. They break rather into a number of small fractions, bound together leas by a principle or an aim than by the trust in their respective leaden. We see in Italy a Minister upholding his power and commanding a majority by colleagues and ad herents from every fraction of the Chamber. In Portugal a name seems indispensable to con stitute a Government. A Tuterfaa, or a Sat- DANHA, or a Louis sufficed. But since the great personages of the revolutionary or constitutional struggle have died off, and left successors of more doubtful talents and more question able notoriety, the utmost difficulty has been found in constituting a government, or en dowing it with the power necessary to work. The constitutional rigime of Portugal has the same diffi culties as in other countries—a budget of which the expenditure exceeds the income, and that at a time when an unusual amount of expenditure is called for to construct and complete the national railroads, so as to place the country on a par, even in matters of defence, with its powerful neighbours. The complaint is that Portugal retains too large an army and too redundant an administration to allow of the economy and the credit requisite for the indispensable working and outlay. In all that relates to religious politics the Por tuguese Government and Chambers have been most fortunate. They have shaken off all that was dangerous or onerous, without diminishing in the least the respect for religion amongst their popu lation. They have wisely defeated an attempt made by the French monastic authorities to intro duce ecclesiastical sisterhoods in the country under the pretence of tending the sick. In France these companies of Sisters not only tend the sick, but have got by degrees a complete monopoly of female education. It was the presence of • similar band of Sisters in Mexico which gave rise to the chief complaints and quarrels of the French with the Government of that country. Thus warned and menaced on all hands, the Portuguese Government wisely de termined to cut the root of the evil, and the French Sisters have politely and without violence been induced to re-embark with their parapher nalia and pretensions. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING JULY 12, 1862. APIPAIkB IP MEXICO. VITILTHEB OORRIMPONDENCIL This morning about 40 pages of correspondence relating to Mexican affairs were issued from the Parlia mentary Printing-office. This oorrespondenoe includes letters from the British Minister at Madrid, respecting the proceedings of the Spanish cabinet ; communications from our representatives, diplomatic and naval, in Mexico, con cerning the proceedings of the French ; a copy of the con vention of Puebla, concluded but not ratified ; and letters from Lord Cowley, reporting the comments of the French Foreign Minister. M. Thouvenel acknowledged the right of England to conclude Use convention, but expressed regret at the probable exercise of that right ; and, on the ground of objections to some of its provision% the British government declined to ratify the convention, Earl Rummell expressing his pleasure that circumstances enabled us " with honour to avoid that which would appear to widen the po litical separation between England and France with regard to Mexican affairs." The French government manifested great satisfaction at this determination, and asked permis. thin to announce it to the legialatite body. Earl Russell replies that there is no objection to this, as doubtless the mamas would at the same time be stated. What those reasons in detail are, and the present aspect of the (mee ting, will be gathered from the following despatch from the Foreign Minister to Sir Charles Wyke, with which the cor respondence concludes: " Foreign-office, June 27, 1862.—5ir,--Her Majesty's government have considered with great attention your despatch of April 29, and the convention signed by you at Puebla on April 28, of whicha copy was enclosed in your despatch. They have also received a copy of the additional convention aimed by you, by Commodore Dunlop, sad General Doblado, at Mexico, on the 12th of May, and enclosed io yourdespatch of the llth ult. Her Majesty's govern meat have no doubt that you and Commodore Dunlop were quite right in separating yourselves from the French after the declared intention of the French commanders to move their troops on Mexico, with a view to overthrow the government of the President of the Mexican republic. Had you consented to join in that movement, you would, in the opinion of her Majesty's government, have acted is direct violation of the convention of London, and in con travention of those principlos: of non-interference in the internal affain of other countries upon which the foreign policy of her Majesty's government is based. Her Majesty's government are rejoiced to think that you bare toads it clear to the world that her Majesty's government well not swerve from a policy which is so conducive to the maintenance of the principle of national independence. Nor can anyone deny that when you had thus regained your freedom of acting you were at liberty to negotiate a convention with the Mexican government. There can be no doubt, indeed, that it is not only strictly the right, but it is also strictly the duty of the British government to obtain for British sob jade in Mexico reparation for the wrongs they have suffered, and compensation for the frauds and the robberies of which they have been the victims. But in seeking to obtain this redress, the British government are determined to abide by the principles they profess, the obligations they have con tract:it, and the great rules of policy by which the nation is guided. Viewed in this light, her Majesty's government do not find that the convention of Puebla contravenes either the principle of non-intervention or the general en pgenuot contained in the convention of October '3l, 1861, that the contracting parties should not by their action in Mexioo seek any territorial dominion or separate advantage for themselves. It only proposes to do that which England, France, and Spa r n desired to do jointly, and which, since the rupture of Oriraba we moat all do separately, namely, to obtain redress for just complaints'. But when the convention is examined with • view to ewer tsiu its conformity to the great rules of policy by which the British nation is guided, her Majesty's government are not satia6Bl with come of its provisions. For iodine% this convention recognises in a most inonveuieut manner the probable conclusion of a treaty between Mexico and the United States, by which Mexico would obtain a loan from the United States, and the United States a security for that loan in the Veit waste lands of Mexico. It has since appeared that this treaty between the United States and Mexico will not be ratified, nor even be sub mitted to the Senate for the purpose of ratification by the President of the United States. Her Majesty's govern. ment understand that the ground upon which the govern meet of the United States have come to the determination not to ratify this treaty is, that by advancing money to • power at war with Francis the United States wou ld aid one of the belligerent parties. The same objection does not, indeed, apply to Great Britain, became if the conven tion were ratified we should withdraw money from Mexico instead of advancing money to Mexico. But the objection felt by her Majesty's government to the convention of Puebla is that this convention with Mexico is interwoven with another treaty the provisions of which ax not fully known to her Majesty's government, sod which, if briught into operation, might possibly affect the independence of Mexico. The convention which you have aped proceeds to provide that, in case the treaty with the United States shoe dr not be ratified an interest is the same property in the waste lands should be vested in the British government. But the title to this security might be dis puted, the church lands might be resumed, and while the essertion of such a title might involve this country in conflict with other powers, and with Mexico itself, its abandonment' ' might render us liable in an inconvenient degree to the claims of the British bondholders. The supplementary article, sigoed at Mexico on the 12th of May, providing for the occupation of certain Mexican porta by British navel forms, is open in • greater degree to objections of the rune nature. For these reasons her Majesty'sgovernment,whilestiol intent upon obtaining redeem from Mexico for British sub jecta, will decline to ratify the convention of Puebla and the supplementary snick' of Mexico of the 12th of May. As you were not instructed to sign this convention, bee Majesty's government can refuse to ratify it without the smelled imputation of breech of faith. You are therefore instructed to inform General Debts lo that her Majesty is not be advised to ratify the convention of Puebla of the 28th of April, or the supplementary article sign( i at Mexico on the 12th of May.—l am, br.c., (Signed) " Itoeszu,." CIVIL LISP PENBIO7B. The following is a list of all pensions granted between June 20, 1861, and June 20, 1862, and charged upon the Civil List :—Mies Elizabeth Rely and Mies Marie Josephine Faucet (a joint pension), 1001. (in consideration of the late Dr. Rely's long career in the public 'or rice, and of the merit of the scientific medical works of which he was the author). Mr. Richard Cori, 501., in addition to his former pension of 501., (on account of the great value and utility of his father's dis coveries in the working of iron, and of his failure to derive any pecuniary benefit therefrom). Mm. Mary Cross, 1001. (in consideration of her late husband's merits as a painter, and of her straitened circumstances). Mm. Jar Fonblasque, 100/. (on account of her husband having been 44 years in the consular service, and of his death having been caused by an attack made upon him while at his post at Belgrade, by a Turkish soWier, when his family was left entirely unpro. riled for). Dr. John Hart, fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons is Ireland, 751. (in consideration of hi re tributions to the screen of anatomy and physiology, and of his being afflicted with blindness and broken health). Mr. Charles Mackay, 1001. (in consideration of his retrain time to poetry and to general literature). Miss Emma Robinson, 751. (in consideration of her many romances, hie torical plays, and other contributions to periodical litera ture, of admitted excellence). Mr. George Rainey, HUI. (in consideration of his labeling in the field of minute ana tomy and physiology, and of the many works on the subject which he boa given to the public in the transactions of learned societies without receiving any pecuniary remuneration). Mr. Leitch Ritchie, 1001. (in acknowledgment of his labours to enrich the literature of his country, and to elevate the intellectual condition of the poor). Mr. Thomas Roscoe, 501. (in consideration of hie literary labours). Mr. John armor, 100!. (in consideration of hie contributions to liters. tare, and of his career of usefulness at bore, and of educa tional Labours among the natives of fettle, in spite of his being blind from within two years of his birth). Mr. bane Taylor, 1001. (in public acknowledgment of his eminent services to literature, especially in the departments of his tory and nhilowiphydanug a period of more than 40 years). Mr. John Wade, 501. (in consideration of his ortributkes to political literature, more especially during the time of the Reform Bill of 1832). Mrs. Janet Wilson and Mir Janie Wilson, 1001. (a joint pension, in coesideration ajar eminent services of the late Professor George Wilson, of Edinburgh, as a public teacher, and a scientific man). — Total, 1,2001. WAR-otrien, JULY 11. 37th Regiment of Foot.—Major-General Sir Thome/ Simeon Pratt, K.C.8., to be colonel, Ties Lieutenant-General John Foam, de. ceased.—Gozette. Fontenot-omen, JULY B.—The Queen has barn plumed to approve of Nenhorßras Fernandes u Vics-Coasul at Bombay for his Majesty the King of Portugal and the Altr:—Guam& RISKIFIATION OF KIRKCALDY &MORK —A vacancy is immediately etpected io the repr sentation at the Kirkcaldy Burghs, by the retirement of Colonel Fer man, M.P., who him served the constituency sines 1841. Several candidates in the liberal interest have already been spoken of. be eoun. OSBORNE. :DU IL The Queen drove out yesterday. Lord Charles Fits• Boy attended on horseback. The Primo of Wales and Prince Alfred returned to Osborne hat night at a quarter before 8 o'clock. . . The Connie; of Desert and the Hon. Victoria Wortley have succeeded the Duchies of Athole and the Hon. Emily Cathcart as Lady and Maid of Honour in Waiting. The Vioeroy of Egypt, accompanied by his nephew Mita kph& Emits, and attended by the Hon. Charles A. Murray, Zultlicar Pacha, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and several other members of his suite, was present at the distribution of prises at the International Exhibition yesterday, where his Highness represented Turkey. The Prince Otioeort's Memorial Committee had a meet• log yesterday at the Pekoe of Westminster—preeept, the Earl of Derby, the Earl of Clarendon, the Lord Mayor, sad Sir C. L. Eastlake. Despatches were received yesterday at the Coloniel-odice from the Governor of Owed& Despatches were mat to the Governors of Gibraltar and Malta. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS LOUIS OP EWA Soon after noon on Wednesday last the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, which had left Cowes roads on the previous evening, arrived at Antwerp, having on board their Royal Rightness!' the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse and their writes. The Count of Flanders, who had arrived from Brussels in the morning, went on board the yacht to pay his respects to their royal highneesee, and to welcome them to Etrussels. On quitting the vessel the royal party were saluted by a salvo of 24 guns, and the crew manned yards and cheered most lustily. The princess, who was dressed in deep mourning, wee naturally the object of much attention as her royal highness walked front the yacht to the royal carriage in waiting at the landing-place, where were stationed a guard of honour from the garrison ►nd a regimental band. Amongst the officials present were Lord Howard de Walden (the British Minister at Brusaels), H. Lambert (the consul for Here), and the civil and military authorities at Antwerp. On arriving at the railway station at Brands, their royal highneama were received by the Duke and Duchess of Brabant and the Prussian Minister, and were conducted to the palace. The royal tmveitets continued their journey to Germany on Thursday. HER MAJINIT'II JOURNRY NORTH. —Her Majesty and the royal suite will leave Windsor for Balmoral Tuesday, the 22nd inst.; and Mr. Dunbar, of the railway refreshment rooms here, his received instructions to prepare breakfast for the royal party on the following morning. Her Majesty, it is said, will remain about an hour at the general terminus and then proceed northward.—Perdatkire Advertiser. PRINCE LOUIS OF HOME --OSBORN; JIIIT 5. The Queen, Sovereign of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, has been graciously plowed by letters pateet, trader the Great Seal of the Order, bearing date this day, to dis pense with all the statutes and regulations observed in re• pad to installation, and to grant unto his Grand Ducal Highness Priem Frederic William Lords of Here, Knight of the said Most Noble Order, full power and authority to exercise all rights and privileges belonging to a Knight Companion of the said Most Noble Order of the Garter, in as full and ample a manner as if he had been formally in stallei, any decree, rule, or usage to the contrary notwith standing.—Gazdte. The Duke and Duchess D'Ayen and the Duke de NOSIUSS have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from Peri& Her Royal Highnesa the Duchess of Cambridge entertained a distinguished party at dinner hat evening at her royal highness's apartments in St. James's Palace. Atter dinner her royal highness received a select party. The Duchess Dowager of Norfolk and Lord and Lady Foley have left town for Worksop, Nom, and for Gap sell Hall, Sheffield, to attend the funeral of the late Lady Edward Howard, appointed to take place to-day. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington entertained at dinner last evening, at Apdey House, their Same High imam the Grand Duke Bernhard of Sere Weimar, the Prince and Princess Hermann of Saxe Weimar, the Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton, the Earl Granville, the Princess Obelensins, the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailsebary, Marchiooesn of Ely, Lady Susan Ramsay, Earl of St. Germans, Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Sydney, and the Grand Duke's Aide de-Camp, Count Schleinits. His Excellency Baron de Benet hu arrived at Farrance's Hotel from Saxony. Lord and Lady Hatherton have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley equate, for Dover. Lord and Lady Otho Fitzgerald entertained at dinner last evening, at their mansion on Oarlion-houte terries, the Duke of Leinster, \raiment Newry, the Earl and Countess of Clancarty, Lady de Roe and the Hon. Mies de Roe, Sir Ralph and Lady Howard, Sir &brie Land seer, Sir Edward Baker, and Mr. and lady Jame Repton. The marriage was celebrated, on the Bth, at the British Legation, Brussels, of Sir Rutherford Alcoa, K . C. 8., H.B.X's Envoy Extiaordinary and Minister Plenipoten tiary in Japan, to Lucy, widow of the Rev. John Lowder, IL A., late British Ohaplain at Shanghae, China. Lady Alfred Paget gave birth to a daughter on Wednesday Lit Earl Cowley has left the French capital for London. A relative of Mr. Ewart, M.P., says the Bristol Mercury, has been presented to the vicarage of Bishop's Canniags, rendered vacant by the death of the Venerable Archdeacon Macdonald. The rev. gentleman, whobears the same name am the worthy M.P., was for upwards of 20 years curate of Pimpenze, a small parish in Dorsetehire. On the Consideration of Fortifications (Provision for Expenses) Bill, Sir G. C. Lewis will move to leave out the proviso in clause 2, and insert the following proviso : "Provided always, that it shall not be lawful to apply any of such sums to any work not specifically named in the schedule, nor to apply to any work any greater sum than that which is set down in the schedule u the total esti- mated cost of the work, nor for her Majesty's principal secretary of Mate for the war department to enter into any contract involving the expenditure in any district of • greater sum than is hereby and by the act of the 23rd and 24th years of Victoria, chapter 109, authorised to be ex pended during the period ending on the Lt day of August, 1863, without inserting in such contract • condition that the same shall not be binding on the said principal secretary until it has lain for one mouth upon the table of the Home of Commons without disapproval ; and the rid instruct shall have so power of validity until it shall have lain for one month upon the table of the House of Comma with out disapproval, anima previous to the lapse of that period such contract shall have been approved by a resolution of the said house." A parliamentary return issued this morning states that the number of proposals end plans for the pur pose of shot-proof ships submitted to the Admiralty be tween the lst of May, 1859, and the let of May, 1862, amounts to 590. The whole were, in the Brat instance, referred to the Comptroller of the Navy and the assistant officers of his department for consideration and report ; 85 were subsequently referred to the committee on iron plate; 19 to Captain Hewlett, commanding the gunnery ship at Portamonth ; and Ito a specie committee. Oa the 12th ult. there were 37 plans and proposal under consideration. We learn from a parliamentary return, issued this morning, that 4,359 troops of her Majesty's service am now stationed is China, and 1,556 of ber Majesty'. Indian service (Benpl and Ponjaub Native Infantry). The latter receive Indian allowances out of the Imperial Fund. There are also 70 pus lamas, paid by Crest Britain, now in Chine. Mr. Balfe's cantata for Mr. Sims Reeves is en titled Mamma. Dr. Bennett announces a new overture for the Philharmonic Jubilee Galant on Moeda, next. The statues of Lords Eldon and Stowell, which are mated, seven feet and a half high, of marble, and were coeunenoed by Chantrity for New College Ante-Chapel, have been placed in the new Library of traivenny CoUep, Oxford. Mr. Woodward has oommenoed photographing AU the most important drawings in the library of Windsor Castle. We (Adicaanas) trust this action will not be omi finsd to the architectural drawings. It is known that many MBS. by L. da Vinci exist there, together with cer tain drawings unpublished and reported to be of great in teract. THE SUGAR DUTIES. REPORT OF THE PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE. The select committee appointed to inquire into the operation of the present scale of sugar duties, with especial reference to their almearment upon a classification according to the quality of the sugar, have reported the following resolutions to the house :—"Resolved,—That it is the opi nion of this committee, I. That the amount of revenue now derived from sugar could not, with justice to the consumers of the lower classes of sugar, be raised by any uniform duty applicable to all classes. 2. That it is not possible to charge sugars with duties varying exactly with the quality or value. 3. That it is necessary to maintain the principle of a scale of duties, with standards designed to include several I classes of sugar within each range of duty. 4. That the duties ought to be so regulated as to encourage the largest possible supplies of sugar from the various sources of pro- duction, in whate►er form the same may be importd, whether as refined sugar, or in combination with other sub stance' to be afterwards separated by the process of refill ing. 5. That the existing scale may be rendered more equitable by such an alteration as shall admit, at lower re lative rates of duty, the inferior portion of the sugars which are now liable to pay 12a. Bd. and 16e. respectively. 6. That sufficient evidence has been laid before the corn. mittee to warrant the conclusion that such alterations might be made without any important risk to the revenue. 7. That the evidence does not justify the committee in re commending the adoption of refining in bond." ROYAL Hoiricurrunm, SOCIETY.—We under stand that the Preach Minister of War has, at the request of the council of this society, kindly permitted the bands of the ZOWIVINI and of tie Gendarmes of the Imperial Guard to prolong their stay in London until after Wednesday next, for the purpose of performing in the gardens of the society until then. But for this permission they were to have left London to-morrow (Sunday). Those who are engaged in the revival meetings at Enniskillen have been in the habit of walking in pro erasion through the town, singing hymns, when coming home from the camp meeting. They were on two or three occasions insulted by the mob, and they prudently gave up the practice. The meetings are said to have been attended daily by multitudes—some from a great distance. The heavy rains on some days did not damp the zeal of the People. _ _ _ Regattas crowd thickly next week—Tewkesbury on Tuesday, Royal Cork Yacht Club on Tuesday and Wed nesday, Royal Yorkshire Yacht Club on Wednesday and Thursday, Wallingford on Monday, and Ranelagh and Waltoa•oa•Thames Amateur on Saturday. The cricket matches next week are—Surrey v. Bent (return), at The Oval, on Monday; Gentlemen of the North v. Gentlemen of the South, at Lord's ; Gentlemen of Surrey Club v. Gentlemen of Eases, at The Oval ; All England v. Captain Handley's Twenty-tv% at Grantham ; and United v. Twenty-two of Chichester, at Chichester, co Thursday. The Cunard steamer China was to leave New York on the 2nd instant, propelled by one eaglea only, the other eosins having bees damaged. i . =.~. - LATEST INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE AND RUSSIA. The Patric of last evening contains the following communication, with the signature of Louis Bellet : We believe that the negotiations between the govern- Meta of France and Russia have had • favourable result, and produced a general understanding between the two powers. r - The principal points as to which this understanding bas been effected are said to be these :—Franoe and Ronda have some to an agreement es to the mode of inquiring into and solving the questions that refer to the position and interests of the Christians of the East. France, stipulating on behalf of the Roman catholic, aad Russia on the part of the members of the other churches, have, by mutual con cessions, attained a complete accordance of their news on this point. The two powers have alto arrived at an identical appreciation of the affairs of Italy ; while admitting the necessity of recognising existing facts, they have come to au understanding as to the manner in which iffis desintble that the Cabinet of Turin should enter on the subject of quas i lions that still remain unsettled, principally with the object of avoiding every act from which difficulties; for Europe might arise, and dangers for Italy herself. Finally, the understanding between France and Russia bu a reference to a settlement of the dispute that has so long existed between Denmark and the German powers. We do not wish to give these statements more importance than they, perhaps, really possess : but it seems to us difficult not to see, in their general bearing, the indications of an alliance between the two governments. POLAND. The Gazette de St. Petersbourg, of the 6th inst., publishes the following despatch from the Grand Duke Constantine to the Emperor : _ . Warsaw, .1 we 4. ion, the Coosa of To-day the Council of State, the Municipal Council, and the Society of Credit, have waited on me to offer their congratulations. I have been especially affected by the compliment' of the oaken of the army. The regiments have asked parmimion to send deputations to-morrow, to coogratulate me. My health is good : I have no fever. The amnia is named Jarosinski, a head workman in the shop of a tailor. (arurEa's Tazae Alga.) FRANCE. PARIS, JULY 12. The Mositeur of this morning announces that the Emperor arrived yesterday at Vichy, and that the Empress is staying at St. Cloud. The Moniteur also says :—" The news from Mexico of the 15th ult. published in the Madrid papers has not been confirmed." THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, ICILY 12. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Tagus, with the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 59 passengers, 2,130& in specie, and 337 packages of cargo. The screw steamer Livonia arrived at Lisbon on the 7th inst. On the 10th the Tagus spoke the steamer Aiisa. On the 30th ult. she discovered theißritish barque Garibaldi waterlogged and abandoned off Piniche. The crew were saved. LISBON, JtILT 7. The Lisbon merchants have memorialised the Postmaster-General to allow the Alexandria steamers to touch at this port. It is said the government are about to raise a new loan in London on the security of their bonds. The amount mentioned is about three millions sterling. The money is to be applied to the deve ilopment of railways. A patent slip and yard for the repair of ships is about to be established at Lisbon. This is much needed, in consequent* of the high charges made by Portuguese shipwrights. The subscriptions for the children in the schools left by Sisters of Charity have reached a large BUM. The new work of Victor Hugo, entitled " Les Miserables," has had a large sale here. The weather is hot. The vine disease is spread ing. Trade extremely dull Money very scarce. Exchange rising—on Loudon, 3 months, 531 ; on Paris, 530 ; on Amsterdam, 421 ; Hamburg, 44 ; Genoa, 526 ; Three per Cent. lisntes, 45k ; Coupons ditto (deferred), 43j ; Lisbon Bank, 650 ; Oporto Commercial and Mercantile Banks, 252 martin. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's of from the Peninsular and Orien tal Steam Navigation Company, July 12 : CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAIM The Valetta, with the above maim, arrived at Marseilles at 9 a, m. this day. The mails were to leave for London at 11.30 a.m. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (mom OUR owx PARIS, FRIDAY EVCNING. The following paragraph appears in the Pays : It has been rumoured to-day, on the one hand, that Juarez has fled and give, up Mexico to us, and on the other, that General Lorenoez has received a cheek. We have been unable to correct these two contradictory pieces of news for the very sufficient reason that no serious information can reasonably be expected from Mexico till to-morrow or the day after, when the tianastlantic packet Vera Cruz wiU arrive. A telegram from Madrid, published by the journals "under all reserve," speaks of a provisional government of five notables having been appointed I to make an appeal to the people on the question whether there shall be a , monarchy under the protection of Europe. I think it not doubtful that some important news from Mexico has arrived, and from the way in which the preliminaries are ushered forth here, I feel convinced that Lorencez has met with fur ther reverses. Reinforcements to the extent of 30,000 men are talked :of in Bullier's Correspondence to-night, and General Mirandol is appointed to command the cavalry. Nothing very remarkable has occurred to-day at the trial of the 54 conspirstori. An advocate, M. Duport, told the court that his conscience oom pelted him to throw up the brief which he held for a prisoner named Joanne, since he found that his client had no confidence in him, and he was much leas disposed than he had been to speak for his client. He therefore prayed the court to assign this prisoner another counsel. The president said that this application, although no doubt justified, was very embarrassing to the court. He called upon K Crimieux, as the senior member of the council of discipline, to recommend some young advocate, and K Dupont would of course be happy to remain in court and help his successor to a knowledge of the case. The explanation of the unwillingness of counsel to de feud Joanne is that, by his own admission, he was a spy, and bad enticed some of the prisoners to his house with • view to take down their names and get them arrested. One witnem fur the pd. soners deposed that Sarget, a principal witness for the prosecution, was • spy of that most odious kind called an agent prorazatusr, and that he told several people in a drinking shop that the Emperor had bought a great many estates in Spain, that he was putting by money in foreign countries for a rainy day, and that, in consequence, there was no coin to be found for commercial purposes. A guts. tion arose Whether some chemical preparations, bought by one of the prisoners at Miot's pharmacy, were intended to sharpen tools, or to make gunpowder. On this point K Boudet, a member of the Academy of Sciences, was called as a scientific witness, and he deposed that the substances in question were more calculated to blunt tools than to sharpen them. In cross-ex amination he said he bad made no experiments, but that the assertion that the preparatious could possibly be wanted for sharpening tools was absurd a priori. _ _ _ M. Duleau, the old grenadier of La Vieille Garde who, as already stated, has received the Cross of the Legion of Honour, for giving evidence against Victor Hugo in the matter of Cambronne'e not, has written a letter to the Esprit Public, which fur ther illustrates the value of his testimony. He says that when introduced by the prefect tothe Duke of Magenta the latter shook hands with him, tapped him on the stomach, and said, " Napoleon is still there ;is he not, my brave fellow ?' Duleau de- poses that this condescension on the part of a mar. shal of France quite upset him, and he shed tears. Thereupon the marshal and the prefect, to add to his confusion, both kissed him ; and then they asked him what be had got to live upon. Duleau, who, though moved, does not appear to have lost his presence of mind at this solemn crisis, answered modestly that he bad nothing at all, as the little fortune he once possessed had been all spent in bringing up his children. The marshal and the prefect, still practical, then assured him that henceforth he should never want for anything, and asked which he would rather have for his reward—a pension or a decoration 1 "Which. ever you please, gentlemen," he responded, quite overpowered, and so be left them. But when outside the door he met his son, who seems to be a young man of parts, and on his representation that it would look better to say he should prefer the red riband, he went back and said so. The high autho- rities spoke in a manner qxiite calculated to soothe the fortunate man's feelings at this anxious moment, for they said " Very well, my good fellow ; make yourself quite easy ; all will go well." It is plain, therefore, that the barren riband claimed by the shrewd son's advice is not intended to be a bar to the more substantial benefits which the prudent father very naturally looks for. The Bourse is somewhat firmer, and has nearly recovered from the fall of yesterday. Rants rose sc. for cash and 100. for aooount, closing at 68fr. 25c. and 68fr. 45c. Mobilier rose 2fr. 500., and the Italian Loan lk. In railways there is scarcely any change. RIPORT.-(TRI8 DAY.) IT. JOLT It, • I.N. L 1L LICE L L nonseii id 62 B.LL 0 4 111112 IMMO& U. 43 62 60 15.8. L t r Ansfuen UM 62 fa 8. L. Or O. Poznan 29.66 II 60 LW. Ir 1 GALWAY Sum= allay= $T 66 LW. fir OM 1 liOto 29.37 68 56 W.B.W. 6r 0 Inizron !IMAM hamouse 22.52 02 e 0 W. r 4 19.65 60 60 LW. Sr 0.45 5 Poznan ..29.14 60 69 W.S.W. 8r 4 reirreltoolll. 29.62 69 68 W. n On Dorn t 25.66 MI se B.S.W. Its 0. I Loins 29.61 67 66 W. iv - Tunny Sousonoos 29.47 61 60 S. Or 0.27 Saran 29.47 62 60 8.1 r 5 HILIOOLANT , 29.72 66 /4 W. D lIIINDAY. MONDAY. 8.8. W. to W.N.W., BOOMAND. W. to N. ft Si fresh, rainy. strong. & to W., strong, rainy. landia. &W. to N. W... dna( to moderate. W. Conga.. W.& W. to N.N.W., fresh. &&W. to W.N.W., 6.W.lgeadan. W. to N., fresh to strong, rainy. moderate. &W. to N. W., fresh, B.E. IgaLain. N. W. to N.E., mode. As seal above. & to W., treat, some I. 00AST. W. to N., and S.K., rain. matter Ate. An act of discourtesy on the part of the Royal Academy (says the Atticrueuet) is to be gracefully redeemed by the hospitality of • few individual 'artists and lovers el Art. It is no secret, that when M. Lays was in Louden, in May last, one of the forty proposed that he should be invited to the Academy dinner, and that the Council re. jetted this proposal. The reason anigned for this dieccar key was, the want of precedent for inviting a foreign artist to a table at which scores of official and titular nobodies every year sit down! What the Academy refused to give M. Leys, a private committee propose to give M. Gal.. isit—a dinner, a welcome, sod a recognition. Lord Graz trills will take the chair, supported by MOMS. W. P. Frith, W. K. Thackeray, Clarkson Stanfield, Frederick Taylor, Thomas Baring, M.P., Baton Marochetti, Sir Edwin Land. seer, Sir C. Eastlake, Louis Highs, S. Hart, Daniel Men lise, and other gentlemen. The dinner will be given on Friday next, at Willis's Rooms. The Independence Belge publishes two letters from Matamoros, written by M. Houma; a well Imown Belgian bract, whom the American civil war had forced to fly for his life from Texas, where he had been travelling fee scientific purposes. He states that before the surrender of New Orleans not only did the planters burn their cotton, soder, steam cotton-presses, and refineries, but some of them horned even their slaves. They collected them all, man, women, and child, in the buildings destined to the flames, looked than in, and whilst the fire was doing its work, they themselves kept watch outside armed with rifle' to shoot down any desperate wretch who might attempt to leap from the burning roof. A letter from Alexandria of the 29th June, in the Prop* of Lyons, mays :—" The rise of the Nils has com• meowed, and the government, in view of the inundation, le adopting preamitioriary measures. The heat is exterdwe here. The works on the Isthmus of Suez are being nrpti ma ;nest energetically. 'rime are upwards of 25,000 men at peered employed io cutting the canal. The sews from the Lebanon is sot satisfactory, as it is mid that the Drums of the Hamm testify some intention of again ruing whist the Christians." The Berlin papers say that Prince William of Baden, who commands the Prussian Artillery Regiment of the Guard, has got long leave of absence in order to make the campaign m llexko with the French army. The Cape of Good Hope government have agreed to pay half the mail subsidy for eaaveying the Cape made to and from EN:Mod. The Lords of the Admiralty have not exactly made up their minds se to the nature of the armour with which the sides of the Agincourt, Minotaur, Northumber land, and Prince Albert are to be protected. It WU originally intended that the plates to be placed on those ships should be 51 inches thick, on • teak backing of 9 inches, but the experiments of Monday have induced their loalabige to pause, and they have requested the different coat/actors to send in estimate* of the cost for reverting, is the oath of the above.natned ships, to the old Warrior plan of 41 Web*s iron and 18 Wins of task, if, on due eensidensties, it should be decided wpm abandoning their first intentions. —Army cad Nary Gazette. ENGLISH CONSEDVATIVIS AND ITALIAN LIBERTY.—.L i< sot strange that a country with prospects so brilliant r these of Italy should fail to conciliate to its rising teeter the 'apathy eta large polities' party in this country ; that the tries, wbo in nothing if notprotsrtant, should look with hardly diesabled ill•will on the lorious and soulrirriag sperado, and be never weary o f grumbling that all the brepplasee rod all this glory have been wrongfully wrong twat SO beetle of those who possessed the right Divine to arks tick fellow-creatures miserable; that they should MM is far their advantage to dep reciate a movement Win its own surpassing interest, is evidently in dieestith of free thought and inveetwfion, if sot ea r* Si or Anglicanism! la the lourcherkbed hatred el the P. only felt whoa It serves as a ter withholding rights sad privileges tress their latholic fellow-chimes, and doss era the Bross corona church become lovely is their eyes whoa waited is alliance with the oppressors and eaderre of arialad t—rileot I 7: 41 kr