The Express. — London, England, 1862-06-30 00:00:00

SZOOND-RAND PIANOFORTES. CLAIM, BILLLI. and WOOD b•v• • lams sesorbeant et . s e c . dirad PLadorlso• by tb• wet seletased esti" •1 pokily Mooed rel.:ea-IBL ampateatar••• ONO. WITH AND CO PURI EIfTRAOToraiIVZW FEET, ler lanais sad Oalimy Um Sold Is IC. L. 116., smo4W. padusts, Di Jal_thaufas, penes, as WM4I:IIIACTORY. 111, PORTLLNDAT., itagsai.ail, W. gite enaregigi. TO COERESPONIOLVT9. Avert!temente Intended for "The Express• London Evening Paper, must be at the °See, 10, Bouverle4treek by Two o dock on the day of put:Air:WM HAYMARCIT. Tame gram°, THE HATITEET DAY OF MY LITE. Mlas IlilL —OCR AMERICAN COUSIN. Mama &Ahem Onokaton• . kin. Vona& Missollver.—LA COteTRABANDIETA. Pares Nona and Senor Maragaa.—And SHOCKING EVENTS. PRI NCIOS‘II. Toe Evians3, TOO i)ITCH OF A GOOD THING. —THE OORSICAN BROTHERS. Mears Charles Less, Jordan, Shore, R. tnthatrt„ Everett, Garden, and Leedows : Maass Fielding, IL Leclerc% and Chaproan.—And THRICE YLERUID. BT. /AIMS. Tins EsnrQO, rsraiiiiiiiibei.-1 1 71INDS OR FOES. Yews. (Mom Vining, Dewar, and F. Matthews ; Mrs. F. Matthews, Yl see Hebert and =en Thrum—And MRCS ARAM& BILITANIITA. THE Roiaid OVA POOR YOUNG RAN I Mums. J. Remolds. W. Craotord. Ibprood Yarnold. —Singing by Many Sydney and Mn. G. H . Georp—AKLlJClai 81AVF.RY.—And TUN IDOLATOTM.—Combamoe M 1111. RION_ WATIS AT LONDON SUDO& TKO DAT —lowiWur. 3h Asit...7.llifitTrn 0013. 4b. MIL TO.XOIIIOIf —l/Orning. 4h. 30131..... AltiThOOD. 4b. 464 h. LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 30. THERE is still nothing in the whole course of trade to compare in importance with the condition of the cotton interest. The put week baa been marked by a fresh access of alarming symptoms. The whole trade is " staggered " (to use the not very elegant expression of the market reports) by the extraordinary and indeed unprecedented move ment which has taken place in the price of cotton. The letters from Liverpool, dated Friday afternoon, describe a degree of excitement unparalleled in the experience of the oldest frequenters of the market. The total stock of cotton in the port of Liverpool is now so small that it is remarked that " the mills of Great Britain alone could consume " the whole, if at full time, in four weeks." The total quantity is but 213,270 bales, against 1,123,000 at the corresponding date lest year. Neither is there any prospect of an early supply. The entire imports of cotton this week having been but 18,094 bales, while the week's transactions have reached the unprecedented amount of 158,870 bales, it is easy to see how swiftly the available supply is being absorbed, and how seriously the future of the trade is regarded by those most com petent to form an opinion. The prevalent ex citement is increased by the smallness of the pro spective supplies from India, the country upon which chief reliance has been placed. Instead of the shipments of cotton from India having in creased in proportion to the urgency of our re quirements and to the great stimulus implied in the immense rise in the price, the mer cantile reports show that the quantity of Surat growth now afloat for England is 45,000 bales less than it was at the corresponding period of last year, being only 240,000 bales, against 285,000 in 1861. There is, therefore increasing and well-founded alarm with regar d ! to the prospects of supply. Spinners, speculators, and exporters seem to have at last made up their minds that they are able to ascertain the precise extent, not only of the existing stocks, but of all the supplies which can come from any quarter, and that they can, so to speak, grasp them all without running a risk of having their calculations deranged by some new turn in events or by the sudden development of some fresh source of production. As soon as they have arrived at this conclusion they precipi tate themselves greedily upon the very small stock in port at Liverpool, and it is the pecu liar feature of the past week that they have been snatching it up as fast as possible, quite re gardless of price. The vast extent of the trans actions affords the beet idea of the energy of the demand ; we should probably be greatly within the mark in estimating at between 2,000,0001. sand 2,500,0001. the value of the 158,870 bales of cotton which have been dealt in within this single week at Liverpool. Buyers being appa rently almost careless as to what prices they gave, but solely intent upon gaining possession of the article, the advance has been to an extent never before known within an equal per;od of time. Quotations are described u " rambling " and unsettled, but the rise up to Friday night ap pears to have ranged generally from Id. per lb. at the lowest, to lid., and in a few instances to 2d. At the present moment, when we are anxiously endeavouring to hurry on India in her task of cotton production, it is interesting to observe that the advance has been relatively the greatest in Surat cotton, which on Friday evening was ltd. to lid. per lb. higher than in the previous week. The ordinary reader will perhaps better understand the importance of this movement by reckoning that 10. per lb. is equal to an addition of about 15 per cent. to the previously exorbitant cost of the commodity. It is worthy of remark, too, that no kind of cotton has lagged behind, the advance having extended to American, Indian, Brazilian, Egyptian, and every other available description. Nor is this the full extent of the movement in the cotton market : we have hitherto spoken only of the week's business up to Friday night, but the telegrams of Saturday afternoon's date, now before us, announce undi minished excitement, transactions larger than ever (30,000 bales having been dealt in on Satur day), and a fresh rise of id, to ld. per lb., which is equal of itself to one moiety of the advance that occurred in the whole week up to Friday. A very good idea of the effect that has been produced upon the cotton trade may be obtained by comparing the present prices with those cur rent at the corresponding period of last year, when, be it remembered, the market was greatly disturbed by the events in America. Ordinary New Orleans is now worth 1314. per lb., against 7d. in 1861 ; middling New Orleans, 14id. against Bd. ; ordinary Pernambuco, 13d. against 81d. ; ordinary Egyptian, lOid. against 7id. ; and ordinary Surat, 9d. against 40. It may thus be said—and more particularly with regard to American and Surat sorts, which form the great bulk of the staple consumed in this country—that prices are nearly double what they were at this period last year. _ _ _ We have now to see what effect these remark able movements in the price of the commodity will have in the manufacturing districts, hereto fore hives of industry, but now distinguished amongst the communities of the kingdom for en forced idleness, privation nobly borne, sad an all-pervading gloom. It is not necessary for the sufferers to entreat the attention of their fellow-countrymen to their already pain ful situation, or to the increasing bitterness of their trials, for the gaze of the whole country is rivettod upon the sad spectacle now presented, and there %- Tag EXPR E SS, MONDAY EVEN" is a ceaseless prayer for their speq‘' Their case is one which the most wale* amongst us will soon be forced to take into anxious consi deration. "It is believed," we read with pain in the reports from Manchester, " that, great as " the distress among the operatives has been, the " severity of the crisis is only beginning to be " felt." The ground assigned for this conclusion has unfortunately only too much reason on its face—namely, that many manufacturers who have hitherto kept their mills open will not face the risk involved in the extraordinary prices to which the raw material is being forced up. It is • peculiarity of the time that while nothing but discouragement has surrounded the legitimate trader, the speculative spinner or manu facturer—he who had (sufficient recklessness to make goods on speculation and hold them for the anticipated cotton famine—may now realise a for tune. This is one of those times when regular industry is deranged and replaced by rank specula tion, and when the most successful man is as likely as otherwise to be the un scrupulous adventurer who goes for a fortune or for ruin to those with whom he has dealings. But notwithstanding the extent of the rise which has taken place in the prices of cotton goods, it has been largely outstripped by the rise in the raw material, and the consequence is that many manufacturers, discouraged by the apparent impossibility of getting prices adequate to the vastly enhanced cost of cotton, are now considering whether they had not better give up the struggle. It is extremely probable that the advance of about 20 per cent. which, as show a above, has occurred during the past week in the price of cotton, will prove a signal for the dosing of a large number of establishments in the manu facturing districts, and the public will therefore du well to prepare themselves for still more painful accounts from that quarter. The great body of consumers of cotton goods have hitherto felt the effect of the dearth of the material much less than might have been expected, the disturbance having been singularly slow in its progress down from the fountain head of supply to the retail consumer. But this exemption does not seem likely to continue much longer, and per it is quite as well that it should not do so, for there are some minds too careless and apa thetic to notice the most remarkable phenomena of commerce, yet which can be effectually roused into a selfish attention by a sudden rise in the price of articles of common use or wear. It has frequently been observed during the Mille of the present dis turbance in the cotton business that the home trade—by which term may be understood the houses that act as purveyors of cotton goods to the retail dealers and to the British public—have slackened their purchases with each rise in prices at Manchester. But now that prices have reached a point never known before, the Manchester ad vice/ report that " the home trade are buyers, at " the advance, of nearly all classes of yarns which " enter into the consumption of the country." Some rather important inferences are suggested by this state of things, for the internal trade of the country in cotton goods is estimated by a competent authority—Mr. BAZLEY, M.P.— at 30,000,0001. sterling annually, and it is pro bable that the retail prices represent a consider able advance upon even that great sum. It would be interesting to know whether the reluctance of the home trade to respond to the rapid ad vance in the prices at Liverpool and Manchester has not caused a very material reduction in the stocks of goods throughout the country. If this be so, the consumer will be required all the more sud denly to pay advanced prices. Certain it is that, in face of the rise of nearly one hundred per cent. which has been attained during the last twelve months in the cost of cotton, we consumers have not been required to put our hands into our pockets to anything like a proportionate extent, after making full allowance for those elements of coat in the production of goods—such as the price of labour, of capital, &c. —which have not varied in an equal degree with the mere material. Any intelligent person who will take the trouble to push inquiries either at a wholesale or retail establishment, will easily discover that the effects of the cotton famine, hitherto mainly confined to the operatives and their em ployers, are at last beginning to overtake the con sumer. The arrival of affairs at this point w"1 probably open up many new and interesting questions, and stimulate ingenuity in the discovery or development of substitutes for cotton and for cotton fabrics. PRoasac TRAVSLIAERS.—Let people travel not for show and reputation, but for enjoyment. Let them cease to identify travel with the French travail. The eye knows the food that agrees with it as well as the palate, and forcing on it what it does not seek produces 'esthetic indigestion. If a man has no eye for art, let him confess it to himself at least, if he do not spread it abroad to the world, and let him select the pursuit that will give him most enjoyment, instead of wearing out his eyesight, his patience, and his legs, by rushing through long stretches of picture and statue galleries. If be can only enjoy a good field of beans, and a meadow with a prize -ox in it, why should be render himself miserable =mug cataracts and precipice A man of no small celebrity, whose chosen field of inquiry and enjoyment was among animals, when he arrived at Rome, went forthwith to the pig-market, and was not ouly able to see something new and interest. ing to himself, but also to impart some fresh unhackneyed &ketches to the world. I know a man much interested in manufactures, an able and benevolent man, who has done • deal towards the civilisation and education of the manila°. w r i ng population. He travelled in Switzerland once, are- fully avoiding all the grand scenery, but examining with minute interest the turkey-red calico works, and the manufactory schools. You might have supposed from his talk when he returned, that Switzerland was a flat nein. 1 1 teresting country, conspicuous chiefly from its manufsc tures and its educational establishments. —Blackrooorts amine for July. SUNDAYS IN ma FIELD& -" I don't doubt it, Butter, and I don't presume to condemn any man who, hay ing made earnest search after truth, amves at different conclusions to my own. But speaking of church-going and church-goers (the point we started from), you will allow that there is a good deal of humbug amongst those advanced philosophers of the present day, who, whilst they sneer at the hollowness and formality of church services, the insin cerity of preachers, and the worldliness of congregations, prate about ' natural piety' and ' worshipping God in the fields' under the canopy of heaven. Such people talk edify ingly enough about the sins of church-goers—their inconsis tencies, their criticisms of bonnets and fashions, their worldly gossip as soon Is they leave the house of God ; but it often strikes me that there is as much humbug in the nu timental sort of religion these teachers profess, as in that of the most inconsistent stickler for orthodoxy. People don't go into the fields to worship God. They go for air, for ex ercise, for a pleasant Sunday walk—to gather primroses when there are any—to wipe the dust of cities off their feet, and Watt those pure natural pleasures which are instincts with man. John Bunyan perhaps, or the meditative Cow per , might pray out in the fields ; saints and martyrs may , have done rt stores of times, but our oieetesintheientury figiorkf:h.rhd.r.'ldzitt; working ti"wo would ma be e ( lnaa their I Z= disciple) saying hi& prayers anywhere about Hampstead or Blackheath. No, it requires more spirituality of mind than we moat of us parer, to worship God amidst such sur roundings. We ought to, and I dare say often do for • me meet, feel our thoughts elevated to the Great Giver of ell things at the eight of sunshine and pees leaves and way ' side flowers ; but we can scarcely dignify such transient emotions—mere impulses wrought by the influences of the 1 hour—with the title of worship.*—Prasees Magarise for July. Errons or BRRADITUFTS mow Although the exportation of breadituffs to Great Britain has not been carried oat so extensively as was at first anti tipated, it I gratifying that enough will be accomplished this mason to test the home market, In regard to pries, and the keeping qualities of our wheat and flow dunes se long a voyage. The ship Lillie; which pissed the Heeds yesterday, bound for Liverpool, has hoe laden with 21,603 Imp of wheat, 2,060 begs dour ( m an ge portion of which wee from Geeloogl, 520 Mids. Vic 617 bap ms, 241 bake wool, 96 casks tallow, n o casks , bourse paper. P • gbe Conti. . ; 06B011" J 18. The Prince a Wales, attended by Lieslemant- General the Hon. C. Grey and Captain Grey, Mused to Osborne from London last night at half-past seem o'clock. 8011 DAY, JUNI 29. Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell, arrived at Osborne yesterday from her Majesty's ship St. George, at Spithead. Prince Charles, Princess Charles, Prime Lou* Prince Henry, Prince William, and Princess Anna of Here arrived at Osborne yesterday from London. The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, attended by Cap• Min Grey and Major Cowell, went over to Southampton in the Fairy to meet the princee and prinoeeeea,and conducted them to Osborne. The suite in attendance consists of Baroness von Schaeffer, Baroness von Roeder, Baron von Ricca, Baron von Grolman, Captain von Western°ller, and Captain von Zangen. taw . THE ItTOZEGT OF EGYPT. Her Majesty, it is .id, has signified her luter to confer the Mabry Grand Cross of her Order rat the on his Highness the Viceroy of Egypt, u an acknow ledgment of the important services rendered by him to this seutry. His highness left the Fin, the residence of Mr. Lashing, on Saturday morning, and, attended by the Has. Marks A. Murray, honoured the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton with his company at breakfast, at their residence, Hamilton House, Arlington-street. He paid • visit in the afternoon to the show of the Royal Agricultural Society, in Battersea-park, and in the evening honoured their Excellencies the Turkish Ambassador and Madame Manna with his company at dinner, at their residence, in Bryairston-square. The guests also com prised his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, his High. near Mustapha Pacha, his Excellency Maxim Bey, the Duchess of Wellington, Earl Granville, M. Van de Weyer (the Belgian Minister), Baron Bentinck (the Netherlands Minister), the Countess Penigny, the Marchioness of lay, Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Ailsabury, Viscount Sydney, Viscount Palmerston, the Right Hos. W. E. and Mrs. Gladstone, the Hon. Charles Augustus Mur ray, and Colonel Tyrwhitt (in waiting on the Duke of Cambridge). The Viceroy left the residence of the Turkish Embassy yesterday afternoon for Woolwich, and went on board his steam-yacht. The Liverpool Albio• of to-day states that the Viceroy ia expected there on Sunday next. On the following day he will be taken on • tour of inspection through the town, and probably enjoy • sail on the river. In the evening of the same day the Mayes gives a banquet at the (Town Hall, in compliment to his highness, who will be present, with a number of distinguished guests. WEIDA!' . N. W. to W. 9. W.. fresh SOOTIAND. to strong, shoe em W. to N., strong in InELUm. north, mndorate else where. N.W. to &W., fresh, W. CIITILAL. fine. _ _ N.N.W. Ln W.8.W., B.W.Eint,AND. fresh. one. N. to W., fresh, fine. B.E. ENGLAND. N.N.W. to W.S.W., lr. Cow moderate, fine. drag to moderate. W.W. to 8.W., mode rate to fresh, some oda. W. to S., moderate floe. arir. to R.E., mo derato, showery. I.N.W. to 8.8. W., he* Sae. V. to& sod 8.5, mo derate, 'bowery. FORTIFICATIONS.-Two parliamentary returns were issued this morning, showing the amount in detail of the sums of money already spent upon, and required to corn. plate, the fortifications in 55 places, of which the contra are Portamouth, Plymouth, Pembroke, Portland, Gravesend, the Medway and Sheerness, Chatham, Dover, and Cork. The estimated ant of these works is 5,680,0001. The estimated expenditure on the works up to the 31st of next month is 900,0001. ; the amount proposed for 1862-3 is 1,200,0301. ; and the further amount required to complete the works is A 580,0001. The total sum paid for lands is 1,030,0001. 'the balance available to meet payments on account of works in August next is 70,0004 Tun brooms TAX alnico 1798. -This morning a return was issued to parliament of every Income Tax Act from the year 1798 to the present time, distinguishing respectively the various rates, exemptions, annual produce, and dates of each. The abatements and exemptions in some of the years are curious. In 1798 ten per cent. was abated from the duties to moons hay ing more than four and less than eight children born in wedlock, and under 21 years of age ; 35 per cent. was allowed to persons having eight children ; and 20 per cent. to those having 10 or more. The amount of duty assessed in the various years was as follows : - 1798 1,855,996/. ; 1799, 6,048,6211. ; 1800, 6,244,438/. ; 1801: 5,628,903/. In 1802 the duties were repelled. In 1803 the duty assessed was 5,341,9071. ; 1804, 4,111,924/. ; 1805. 6,429,5991.; 1806, 12,822,0561. ; 1907, 11,906,8581. ; 1808, 13,482,2941. ; 1809, 13,631,9221. ; 1810, 14,453,3204 ; 1811, 14,462,7761. ; 1812, 15,488,546/. ; 1813, 15,793,691/. ; 1814, 14,188,037 1 . ; 1815 , 15 , 642 , 3381 . Then occurs a lapse until 1842, when the duty produced 5,606,5481. ; 1843, 5,5041571. ; 1844, 5,476.4971. ; 1845, 5,711,2241. ; 1816, 5,791,0671. ; 1847, 5,834,795!. ; 1848, 5,793,5431. ; 1.849, 5,729,5771. ; 1850, 5,754,4471. ; 1851, 5.845,7194 ; 1852, 5,889,8261. ; 1853, 7,133,0391. ; 1854, 14,358,0901. ; 1855, 16,545,5084 ; 1&56,16,915,3321. ; 1857, 7,905,525/. ; 1858, 5,758,9051. ; 18119, 10424,8871. ; 1860, 11,594,0021. This is the last total in the return. The amount received in 1861 "cannot be furnished at present." Ma. Nona's, M.P.-We are glad to state that the breathe( Mr. Ingham, ILP., has greatly improved, sad that the hon. gentleman is gradually recovering from the effects of his recent somewhat severe illnees.-Berwick Warder. THE WEATHER AND HATMAKING.-During the pant week the weather has beep most propitious for hay makieg. lc this neighbourhood a large number of rieb have been made in prime condition. Some were carted in the preceding week too soon, sod are now smoking away from Wog' over-heated. We expect to hear of some of them igniting, to the loss of the farmer. -Salisbury Journal. Du Plat in also in animism*. Prince and Princess Charles, Prince Louis, Prince Henry, Prince William, and Princess Anna, of Hesse, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Do Plat, Equerry to the Queen, and by Baroness von Schaeffer Bernstein, Baroness von Roeder, Baroness von Schenck.zu.Schweinsberg, Baroness von Grapey, Baron von Ripon, Major von Groimam, Captain von &ages, sad Captain von Waterweller, went on Saturday morning to the International Exhibition, where they were received by Earl Granville, Sir C. Wentworth Dias, and Mr. Fairbairn, her Majesty's commissioners, and Mr. F. B. Sandford, secretary and general manager, who conducted their highneues to the machinery department, where Mr. D. K. Clark, the superintendent, attended them during their inspection of the machinery in motion. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Prince and Princess Charles of Hesse, after their return to the Palace Hotel. Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar visited Prince Louis and Prince Henry of He... At 25 minutes past two o'clock Prince Louis of Howe, Prince and Princess Charles, Priam@ Ann►, Prince Henry, and Prince William of Hesse, left the Palace Hotel for Osborne, Isle of Wight. Their Highnesses, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Du Plt, and by the ladies and gentle. men of their suite, went to the private station at Vauxhall, and travelled on the South Western Railway by a special train to Southampton. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturdlrreasiniy at the official residence of the First Lord of the in Downing-street. The ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir G. C. Lewis, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Card well, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial °eke from the governors of Vancouver's Island, British Columbia, Hong Kong, Labnen, and Ceylon. Despatches were sent to the governors of the North Ame rican provinces, and to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY.—His Grand Ducal Highness Prince Louis of Hesse, the future husband of her Royal Highness Princess Alice, accompanied by his brother, Prince Henry of Hew, and the following rela tives, hie Grand Ducal Highness Prince Charles and her Royal Highness Princess Charles, and their Grand Ducal Highnesses Prize* Wit lam and Prisons Anna of Hems, sad attended by Lient.-Oolosel Da Hat (Equerry to the Quests), Captain you Westerwelles, Berman von 'Schaeffer-Bernateio Baremem von Roeder, Baroness von Schenthoin- as Chancy, Baroness von Neva, Major von Grolmaa, and Captain von Bingen, embarked from the docks this afternoon at 5 o'clock, on board her Majesty's yacht Fairy, Mader Com mander D.W. Welch, for Osborne. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, attended by Captain Grey (Equerry to the Prince of Wiles) and Major Cowell, B.E. (Governor to Prince Alfred), came over from Osborne in the Fairy to meet the illustrious party. The royal party was received by Mr. P. Hedger and Mr. Jobe Levy, princi pal oMoersof the docks, and Mr. R. Godson (whoaccompanied the special train, which left London at 2.40, and arrived in the docks at 4:40), and Mr. R. Beach were in attend ance on the part of the South Western Railway Company. The arrangements made by the dock and railway officials for the embarkation were effected without the slightest con- Bud= or impediment, and their efforts in this direction were carried out to the satisfaction of the royal party. On Monday, their Royal Highs/ages the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary of Cambridge, with other members of the ens' teasel, will embark from the docks for Osborne at one o'clock, on board the Fairy, to attend the marriage ceremony on the following day. His Royal Highness Prince Frederick William of Prussia and his Serene Highness the Grand Duke of Saxe- Coburg arrived at Dover yesterday afternoon. Their Royal Highnesses crossed from Calais in the steam packet the John Penn, Captain Piddock. On landing their Royal Highnesses were received by General Seymour and Colonel Cavendish, who conducted their Royal Highnesses to Birmingham's Lord Wardea.Hotel. Their Royal Highnesses left Dover at a quarter past four by the South Eastern Railway Com pony's line for Osborne. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge honoured the Earl and Countess of Nalnicabury with his ecimpany at dinner on Friday evening. The following were invited to meet his royal highness :—The Prince and Prin. ors Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton, the Marchioness of Ely, the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, Lord and Lady Colville, Dowager Lady Truro, Viscount Roy ston, Hoe. R. Meads, Mr. Door'. Russell, he. Colonel Tyrwhitt was in waiting on his royal highnses. The Count de Meudon (Prince Napoleon) gave • banquet, last evening, at the Clarendon Hotel, to hie Royal Highness the Prime de Cana' ono. Among the distin guished persons invited to meet his royal highness were— His Excellency the Italian Minister, M. Merimee, Generil da Cigala, Mons Panisrl, Marquis de Condense, Colonel de Franconian; Baron de Pugs, Chevalier Crespi, Count del Mayen, Chevalier Compare, Colonel &eon, AL Longpe'rier, Marquis da ammo, Captain de Cigala, We (Post) understand that the Baroness Brun eow's health, which has been much impaired of late, is now somewhat better. His Excellency Count de Brandenbourg gave a grand dinner on Saturday evening, at the Clarendon, to a large party of Prussian gentlemen at preeent in London. The Earl Granville entertained Viscount Palmer ston and a select party at dinner on Saturday evening, at his residence in Bndon-stniet. Lord and Lady Blantyre leave town to-day on a tour in Germany. The Duke and Duchess d'Aumale dined with the Earl and Countess of Derby on Saturday evening in St. Jamm'sequare. There were present to meet their royal higtineseas at dinner, his Excell,ney the Austrian Arabes. soden and the Countess d'Apponyi, and the Countess Marie Panmgarten, his Excellency Count Vitsthum, the Duchess of Inverness, the Earl and Counter of Hardwicke and LeAly Agnate Yorke, Earl Cowper, Viscount Hamilton, General and Lady Align Peel, and Lord Stanley. After dinner the Counties of Derby, in oempliment to the royal guests, had a brilliant company sasemb'e I. Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe Weimar and Prinoe and .Princeas Her mann of Saxe Weimar wee, among the visitors. Mr. NielColquhoun Campbell, advocate, bae been appointed Sheriff of Ayrshire, in the place of Mr. Criatison, deceased. Her Majesty the Empress of Austria has arrived at Kimiegen. Her appearance is that of a delicate invalid —pale, with much suffering. She cannot walk without support, from the feebleness of her limbs. Her Majesty has taken several baths, bat does not yet appear to have been benefited by them. She is not very much pleased with the place. The cause may be--at least in part—foxed in the state of the weather, which is still cold and showery. The Empress's father and der eldest brother, Duke Louis of Bavaria, do everything io their power to render the resi dence agreeable. Her younger brother, Prince Charles of Bavaria, is shortly sr:pasted, and will remain for the season. _ . The Princess Conte, who has been for some time at Vieoes, has left for Path. Tbs princess will shortly proceed to Hsdea•Bsdso, where she will be rejoiaed by the prima . - The newly-born infant of the Queen of Spain has reerawd no lee than 124 sawn ! The birth was extremely sadden—the slate authorities sod deputies baring barely time to reach the pekoe io order to " a►lat," as the phrase is i at the royal wrooschemeot. THE MARRIAGE OF PRINCESS ALICE. (Frost the Court Jouneal.) Her Majesty's gift to the Princess Alice is a beautiful bithelet stu dde d with peirle and diamonds, with the likeness of the Queen and the Prince Consort, set round with pearls and diamonds; on the top the royal coronet, and at the bottom the likenesses of the Primer Alice and the Prince Louis, with their monopsms. The Queen also pp to the pnocan with three nap, which are in accordance with the prevailing fashion of gifts at peat weddings, namely, • ring of diamonds, one of emeralds, and one of rubies We believe the production of these thef t!' ammo of jewsller'a work was intrusted to a great home sear lisnovirequare. The Priam of Wales's present to his sister on her mar riage is a gime, or bodice, of emerslde and diamonds, and • tiara of the same precious stones. The royal bridesmaids preesat • tea service of silver gilt. The Prises Consort's presents were prepared lest year, before December ; they con sisted of two braestets, a splendid brooch, and • tiara of 1 1 diamonds and emeralds. We believe her Royal !Darer the Prince. Royal will present the Prim:sea Alio& with • handsome ebony dressing-case, ornamented and lined throughout with the richest silk velvet, fitted with highly chased, engraved, and engine-turned gold•mounted arterial, the crown and cipher elaately worked on etch. It was made by Mr. West, of St. James's-street. Soon after the marriage the prince and primes will leave Osborne for St. Clare. The death of the arand Dachau of Hesse has, it seems, caused some change in the plans and arrangements of Prince Louie and the Princess Alice ; for there moms to be ' no doubt now that the prince and princess will reside for some time in the year, if not permanently, at Darmstadt, where, indeed, a residence is being prepared for their re ception. Their first sojourn will be, however, at Frogman. A considerable portion of the trousseau of Princess Alice is ' already packed up for transmission to the Continent. The foreign royal family to be present at the wedding as the Ist of July will be the Crown Prince of Prussia, hums and Princess Augusta of Sam-Coburg, Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Cohen and Gotha, Prises and Princess Charles of Hesse, Prince Henry of Hew, and Prince William and Princess Alma of Hesse. _ . . . . 'We und7;sland that, is coesequence of the strict privacy with which the royal marriage ceremony will be performed on Tuesday next, that the princess will only be attended to the altar by bridesmaids of the royal family--namely, the Primer Alice's three sisters and the Princess Anna of Hesse. . . . We haw that in conseqoasios of the indisposition of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York will officiate at the marriage of the Princess Aline and Prime Louis of Hesse. expectedlt is that her Majesty will again •irit Windsor oa the 21st of July for a few days previous to her departure for Scotland. The Queen will reside at Balmoral until the middle of September, when her Majesty intends visiting Germany. On or about the 15th of October ber Majesty will again take up her residence at Wrodaor Culls for the 'winter sewn. . _ The royal ;ensure will be required to leave off their mourning' for two days wily, the let sod tad of July. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) MOIDAT. A 80. B L maw . 20 .10. L 67 is 11: W. 1.0. L Z. --. r 2 Amumill ... 29.47 52 49 W. r 4 tam Maw= 10.74 06 49 W. o 1 51060e941 79 66 61 N.N.L r 3 Possavia 29.87 61 49 N.W. o 7 GALWAT .. 06 60 60 W. 0 1 9411,1111.1 A Qtrustroww 30.07 60 56 N.W. r 6 /101. s a Lei . - farouvoi. Mks= EsTmookl 29.99 110 66 N.N.W. 4 r Juan 31.03 67 66 W. 4 62 6.16 PORTWID. roirremooro 29.92 60 65 N. 4 r Dora Lomat 29.90 16 ES N. 3 tr 0. • - Y4anot cm 9042101u911 0).4 66 61 N.N.W. 3 Zr 0.18 8 48.6280 . - r 6 561.100LA1D I:ITEST INT4GENOL RUSSIA. The incendiarism in Russia is spreading from St. Petersburg to the provinces. At Tiflis, on the 18th of May, ten houses have been burnt ; at Mobilew on the 9th twenty houses, at Czernichow on the 11th forty-four houses, 133 shops, and the church. Acts of incendiariam at Novgorod are reported, but details are wanting. Among the numerous arrests which have been made, much is said respecting the disappear ance of Colonel Rattoffsof, aide-de-camp of the Emperor. Re is accused of being affiliated to the secret societies, and in correspondence with " the Korokol." What adds to the sensation produced by this incident is the fact that the colonel, now pointed to as a revolutionist, is the son of the gene ral who by his revelations rendered the insurrection of 1826 abortive, and who was thenceforth always the devoted confidant of Nicholas. ROME. A letter from Rome says : It appears certain that Y. de Lavalette is directed to place the following before the Vatican :-1. The goverment of the Emperor is Mall disposed to guarantee to you Rome end the Camp•gna. 2. Are you willing that we should stipulate for an arrangement between Italy and you on that basis? 3. Would you prefer • congress of the catholic powers? From the manner in which these ideas ere presented they may Hirer novel. In reality there is nothing but the old project of the Guerronni4e pamphlet, to which the cardinal still replies, "We cannot enter into any arrangement with Piedmont until it has restored what it has taken from us. We have been confirmed in this course by the meeting of bishops, and we adhere to it more than ever. As for your guarantee, and the guarantee of the powers, to prevent Piedmont from going any fur ther, we wish for it, and we thank you for it before hand. A congress is desirable, but we would not accept its conclusions if they were not in conformity with our rights. A oongrees intending to do justice to the Holy See we desire ; • mamas intending to accept accomplished fads, though it might guarantee to us Rome and the Campagna, we refuse.• (zurria's =ionAx.) CALCUTTA AND CHINA (HEAVY) MAILS. GIBRALTAR, Jugs 29. The Ripon, with the above mails, left this day at 6 p.m. She may be expected at Southampton on the 4th July. The non, in tow of the Sultan, left for South ampton at the same hour. '• TGI, JUNE 30, 1862. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE NEWS FROM MEXIOO.—THE HIRES CASE. Osom ma owl coaamonnorr.) PARIS, SUNDAY RIMMING. The Petrie now publishes despatches from Gene ral de Lorencez and other news front Mexico (rid Southampton), showing the entire falsehood of all the hardy assertions with which it has been amusing the public every day for weeks past. There was a general engagement (not merely, as we have been told fifty times, a rash reoonnaissanoe of Zouaves) before Puebla, and the French were repulsed with heavy lona. They did retreat to Orizaba, as we heard long ago from New York, though the French journals, till very lately, stoutly maintained that the news was not true. General de Lorencez, accounting for his defeat, bit terly laments the " deceitful assurances " that the citizens of Puebla would rise to wel come him, in the " full confidence" of which he had attacked the place ; be thus gives the fullest and most valuable confirmation to 3L Jules Favre's statement that the expedition was undertaken on the strength of mistaken suppositions. These despatches admit the loss (enormous in proportion to the strength of the little army) of 460 killed and wounded at Guadeloupe alone, and General de Lorencez, in congratulating hie force on the forti tude with which they effected their retreat to Ori zaba, mentions that they had to carry with them 345 sick. The Constitutionstel says that the Forfeit (ship— not General Forfait, as stated by a misprint in one of my letters), which has just left Cherbourg, will touch at Vera Cruz, to inquire whether General de Lorencez stands in need of the 1,500 reinforce ments now on their way out, and that if he says yes they will land there at once, but if otherwise will go to Martinique and wait there till October. The Temps fails to find in M. Billault's " much applauded" speech any clear and precise exposition of what French policy in Mexico really is. The minister, it says, seems to have jumbled up together two essentially distinct motives of action :—L The desire, which everyone must hold justifiable, to obtain national satisfaction for injuries received ; and 2. That propagandist policy which would urge France to make herself the purveyor general of happiness for all other nations. That such a lucid mind as M. Billault's should have been entangled in this confusion is a sure indication of a bad case. The writer (M. Nefftzer) denies the analogy attempted to be estab belied between the war in Mexico and the war in Italy. Whatever be the faults of Juarez' govern ment, it cannot be denied that it is a national one. The French army did not cross the Alps to make the Italians vote, but to turn the Austrians out of Italy. Moreover, that intervention, while re lieving the Italians from a foreign oppressor, was justified in the eyes of France and of Europe by a palpable French interest, which was opposed to Austrian preponderance in the peninsula. But nothing can be more revolutionary than the "gene rous, humane, and liberal policy" advocated by M. Billault in parte of hia speech " it would serve as an argument for declaring war against any government whatsoever under the pretext that its popularity required to be tested by an appeal to universal suffrage." After adopting the observation of the Side that if it be really a duty incum bent on France to put universal suffrage in motion in foreign countries she could not do better than begin with Rome, where she has the power to do as she likes, the Temps objects especially to the remarkable phrase in the official speech that "Juarez' perjured government must disappear before the breath of France," and inquires what is the true meaning of the declara tion that if Mexico is too worn out by anarchy to accept the salvation tendered to her, "we shall do justice for ourselves and abandon Mexico to hie wretched fate." Taken literally this might infer that if Mexico failed to form a government pleas ing to France the latter would no longer concern herself with the protection of her subjects in that country. The Temps proves very sufficiently that a nation cannot divest itself of the duty of demanding and obtaining justice for its people in foreign parts on any such groans's, and leaves to be inferred what it probably thinks it imprudent to state, that the " unfortunate lot " which hangs over Mexico is that of being permanently occupied by France as a conquered country. It is a curious illustration of the strength of that exaggerated patriotic code of French sentiment which holds that whenever a French soldier is killed, in no matter what cause, his blood must be avenged by more slaughter before the justice of the quarrel is considered, that the Temps feels con strained to separate itself from one part of M. Jules Favre's argument. That orator had the courage to submit to the Corps Legislatif that since the Mexican expedition had been undertaken on the faith of representations by General Almonte and other refugees, as to the feeling of the country, which.turned out to be unfounded, ►nd inasmuch as French military reputation stood much too high to be affected by an accidental reverse sustained by a handful of man against fortifications, the manly course would be not to persevere in an error, but to accept overtures for peat*. The Temps says no; it is impossible to treat at present, bean se French arms have received a check ; " that check must be effaced" before even the liberal Temps will hear reason. Procureur-General Dupin did not make a long speech in the Mires case. Why should he have given himself much trouble I He had no opponent, and probably knew pretty well what the judges with whom he sits on the same bench, pari paint, were going to do. I take leave to say (without any referenoe to the merits of the particular case of Mink) that this "appeal in the interest of the law" is a great blemish in the much vaunted Code Na poleon. Surely it shocks the conscience that when a man is definitively acquitted by a court of com petent jurisdiction, another court should be allowed to sport with his reputation "in the in tereate of the law," and decide, without hearing him, that in point of theory be ought to have been found guilty ! Even at Rome they will not make a saint without hearing what the devil's advocate has to say against the nomination. But here the Court of Caseation, after listening to a one-sided speech from the crown lawyer, is allowed to place solemnly upon record the gravest imputations upon a man's private character, in the very matter in re spect to which he had been previously white. washed, under circumstances far better adapted to the elimination of a fair decision. This anomaly is, I submit, a far greater evil than a bad precedent. And when I use that word it is necessary to explain, that a precedent is of nothing like the importance in France that it is in England. Consult a French advocate, bring him a case in point, such as in England would have all the force of an act of par liament, and he will cite to you with a smile the favourite proverb, Lea an*, sent bons pour aux qui la obtiennent—that is, judgments are good for the parties who obtain them, but have very little effect upon similar cases—and will tell you that in spite of many precedents you need never despair of get ting the Court of Caseation to contradict itself (se &lager). Therefore, there is even less excuse here than there would be on the other aide of the water for such an absurd proceeding as a criminal appeal, where there is nothing to be tried but a pure abstraction. K Dupin was very witty at the expense of Mires and the Court of Douai. He represented that tri bunal as being now, in the estimation of the public, not a court of "appeal," but a court of " hope" for all desperate causes. In answer to the argu ment that Mires' practices were very common in Paris, he said non tam speetandum quid Roma faetum est quam quid Jeri oportet. Moreover, commercial usages were best proved by the opinions of competent commercial men, and the Tribunal of Commerce of Paris, in accord with the indignant protests of numerous bankers, repudiated the doctrine of the Court of Douai. Mires, he said, o far from conforming to the practice of giving a depositor notice when he was going to be " ex°. cuted," contented himself with sending a kttre de faire parte—a letter announcing a mans death, and that he is going to be buried. He expressed regret that the Court of Douai had not compelled Mires to disclose the names of the influential personages to whom he said he had given five millions of Pam peltma shares. The court pronounced judgment last night. It declares the judgment of the Court of Douai erro. none, in so far as it justifies the selling of shares deposited as security while representing to the clients that the shares were still in existence in the strong box, and it stigmatises that "transaction as fraudulent." That is the principal point. On most of the other grounds, and particularly on the question relating to the Pampeluna Railway, the judgment below is confirmed. The Court of Douai is ordered to insert this judgment of the Court of Caseation in its records. To avoid misconception, allow me to say that, while objecting to the prooedure which allowed this theoretic appeal, I am far from objecting to the abstract doctrine of the Court of Caseation. Indeed, it coincides with an opinion I expressed on the first impression when the case first came on for trial in Paris. The Indbpendance publishes the copy of a letter addressed by the Count de Chambord to many of his poli tical adherent'. It appears that they have remonstrated against the order to abstain tram voting at elections, and have obeyed lees from reasonable conviction than profound attachment and respectful deference. The Count de Chem• hoed is of opinion that there could neither be sincerity nor dignity were the royalists to take part in the elections of France. The representative of Charles X., claiming title to the throne through him and his ancestors, is shocked at the want of purity in eleo time, at the want of liberty in the deliberations of the chamber. But, lest we should be too much roused to enthusiasm by professions of so great liberality, we are speedily reminded of the necessity which exists for the independence of the Holy See, of respect fur its sovereignty, for catholicity, and Christian civilisation, all menaced in the tenderest point. Though thus defending the previous con duct of his partisans, the Count de Chambord is willing to give them more license for the future. He is content that for the sake of supporting the church his adherents should enter the political arena, that they should exercise the franchise for the sake of selecting the eupporters of the Pope. For the rest, the policy of the exiled house consists of continual protestations and unceasing abstinence from political functions. A letter from Alexandria says :—" Egypt at this present moment is in the happy position of requiring bat the smallest possible space on the pages of cootemporsry history, and that little simply for the purpose of recording an appearance of prosperity, the reality cif which it is diffi. cult to see any reason to doubt, while its durability, it is at least equally certain, is entirely under the control of the rulers of the country. So far, nothing can exceed the sue. caw that has attended the conclusion of the loan. Now has become plentiful to • degree never known before ; sod this, in a country where so many improvements are 'lopped for want of capital, is no smell matter. At present, government bonds having five to ten month" to run are readily discounted at 4i to 5 per cent per annum, this discount being the only interest derived from the investment. Six mouths ago, similar paper could with I difficulty be negotiated under • loss of 15 per cent. pe r annum. The government, at the Name time, finds itself free from the harrusiog cares and difficulties with which it wee so lately beset. The question that remains, however, is whether the government is fully alive to the newesity of applying the money it has obtained from Europe 'Viral and solely so its legitimate objects, and of coutiouing to keep its expenditure in doe rubjection to available revolts. * One of the staff of the British Star writes to $ contemporary :—" Sorties his triumphed, and Turkey saved. The last number of the Brian\ Star hes appeared ' this week. The proprietor, seeing the d ang er likely . tO moult to the ' balance of power,' if he were to centimes eileulating his highly.revolutionery articles on the Grob Exhibition is the Ottoman empire, has wisely deckled** discontinuing the paper. This decision will, lam sure, give wee to the paternal heart of the noble earl et the heed of ear Fcesigntddes."