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MUTANT/Lk- CHM aflame., LADY AUDLEI"S SECRET.- The Hamadan Dancers—EKLPIIKOOR, THE MOUNTEBANK. Miss Clara St. Cease, Mrs. S. lane Muter E. Sanders, Messrs. Eigsrood, /Eton, Leslie, &c.—And RICII AND POOR, The recent conversations in the House of Lords on Ritualistic practices in the English Church sufficiently indicate the rapid spread of thee inno vations, and the concern which the progress of such a movement not unnaturally excites among the more sober-minded and reflective minds of the Establishment. The heads of the movement—the clerical advocates of incense, altar-lights, and vestments—so far from concealing their opera tions or attempting to veil their ultimate designs, proclaim distinctly their policy, boast loudly of their success in carrying it out, and, defying any interference with their operations, openly challenge their ecclesiastical superiors to the contest. In some quarters, indeed, the movement already assumes something of a crusading or missionary cha racter, and is extended by the aggressive machinery of public discussions and popular leo- THE _E**Ss SATUR: tures. Mr. HUNT, a country clergyman in the west of England, for instance, defended the ante` Reformation form of ritualism in a prolehgei puNio debate at Clifton five weeks ago, and recently delivered a lecture on the same subject at Bath, in which he strenuously maintained that ritualism I is essential io the reputation and support of the Christian religion. In the first lecture he offered onbehalf of a wealthysupPorter of Ritualism " that "if any congregation in the diocese wished to " adopt the vestments, he would purchase as " handsome a set as they could desire entirely at " his own expense and give it to them." It would no doubt be unwise to attach any very great im portance to such outbursts of zeal and enthu siasm if they were merely of an isolated or local character. But taken in connexion with other facts familiar to those who take an interest in ecclesiastical questions, it is impossible not to re gard them as signs of a powerful current that has already swept away many ancient landmarks, and threatens to submerge all that is distinctly Protestant in the service of the Episcopal Church. This is, indeed, the avowed object of the move ment, its leaders habitually denouncing every thing Protestant id the strongest terms. Mr. HUNT is reported to have stigm atised the change of the term " altar "in the Prayer-book as disgraceful to Protestantism, and to have remarked " that he " could not for the life of him see why any Pro " testant should go to church, the whole of the " Protestant religion being purely subjective." The Marquis of WESTMEATH, in presenting a num ber of petitions against these Romish practices of the Ritualists, stated that they prevailed in no leas than ten dioceses throughout the country, and that in many they were carried out by the clergy in direct defiance of the expressed wish and judg ment of their episcopal head. It is certainly not surprising that such a movement should at length have attracted the serious notice of the Episcopal Bench, of Convocation, and of Parliament itself. The only wonder, perhaps, is that it should have been allowed to attain its present proportions without any authoritative attempt having been made to control its extravagances or arrest its pro- gam. Looked at on this practical side, however, the subject is undoubtedly surrounded with serious difficulties. In a time like the present of active research and inquiry in relation to theological and ecclesiastical questions, there is a growing disinclination towards attempting to secure unifor mity of forms and practice within the Church by appeals to a legal tribunal. This unwillingness arises partly, perhaps, from a growing conviction of the comparative inutility of such appeals, and partly, perhaps, from an obscure sense of the ra dical unfitness of mere legal machinery to secure the end in view. Most generous and discerning minds instinctively recoil from any attempt to arrest the progress of eminent individual thought, or suppress the further development of ecclesi astical life, by more force. Where the departure from established usage has arisen mainly from mistaken views or misguided zeal, most liberal and enlightened friends of the Church would be disposed with the Bishop of RIPON to trust, in the first instance at least, to the good sense and good feeling of the innovators, and look for the correction of error from the gradual diffu sion of clearer light and fuller knowledge on the question in dispute. But after all, there is no doubt in many cases a point beyond which this policy of inaction cannot safely be carried. And it is certainly not only a fair but a very im portant question for the Church whether the Ritualist movement is not a case of this kind, and whether it has not already reached a point at which it is useless to expect any voluntary return to ordinary usage from the mere action of opinion, whether legal or otherwise. In many respects the movement is peculiar if not unpre cedented, and may, therefore, receive excep tional treatment. We take, for example, the novel and menacing form of an organized revolt against episcopal authority. In re lation to disputed administrative details, of which their ecclesiastical superiors are judges and directors, the Romanising clergy not only oppose, but ridicule, vituperate, and defy their bishops. This amounts, as the Earl of HARROWBY pointed out the other evening, to a virtual abandonment of the episcopal system. " The Church," he said, " was in danger of becoming anything but epic " copal. It was fast degenerating into a church " of independents ; save that, instead of each con " gregation having a right to determine what its " customs should be, every clergyman claimed the " right of determining on his own course without " reference either to his bishop or his congrega " tion. He hoped that the time would never " come when young men, full of the insolence of " youth and of imperfect knowledge, would be " allowed, in defiance of the feeling of their neigh " bourhoods and the authority of their bishops, " to set up a church which was neither Anglican " nor Protestant." Butapart from the revolutionary character of the movement in an ecclesiastical point of view, the practical evils it produces are of the gravest kind. It is fast introducing, espe cially in country districts, an element of bitter discord into congregations that have hitherto wor shipped harmoniously together. In many parishes the most intelligent, wealthy, and influential mem bers of the congregation have been driven away in disgust by the ceremonies of florid Ritualism. No previous movement in the Church ever produced, or was to anything like the same extent fitted to produce, such disastrous practical results. During the last quarter of a century it has frequently happened, no doubt, that an evan gelical incumbent was succeeded by a broad churchman or a high churchman, and many mem bers of the congregation would naturally, under such circumstances, regret the change. But the service remaining substantially as of old, they have quietly acquiesced in the substitution. But the new movement destroys what has hitherto been found a strong bond of union amongst all parties, high or low, lord or commoner, within the Estab lishment—the simple and decent Protestant service of the Anglican Church. In this practical aspect the ritualistic movement has a very serious bearing on the prosperity, and eventhe continued existence, of the national Church, and it may fairly be ques tioned, therefore, whether it may not ultimately become necessary to adopt the remedy suggested by the Bishop of LONDON. THE AUSTRIAN ARMY.—In consequence of nume rous applications to the Austrian embassy, we have been authorised to state that the notice issued by the Austrian War-office respecting the employment of medical men in the imperial army and navy does not apply to foreisnera. Only in case the number of medical men who studied in Austrian or German universities should prove insufficient will the Austrian War-ofike be authorised to accept the sevices of foreign surgeons. It will then issue a notice to that effect.—Times. - - The Berlin Town Council is in the market for a loan of three millions, to be issued at • discount of fully 10 per cent. The rate of interest, which minor be reduced during the first five years, is fixed at 5 per cent. The pro duce of this operation, the like of which has not been heard of in the last 50 years of Prussian history, is to be employed in public works to be constructed by the starving operatives. 011 Th CONTEMPOIL&RIES. (1:1413 DAY.; • 1 'THE PEURINAINB IN HANOVER AND 81101/T. • The war, says the Times, has now begun . in earnest. Count Bismarck knows the value of prompti tude, and, through the entry of troops into Saxony and Hanover, the resources of the northern states of Germany may be said to be from this time in Prussian hands. Roughly spealdag , the strength of North ern Germany is matched against that of the south. Leipeic and the northern part of the Saxon king dom will no doubt be seised at once by the Prussians, but the Austrians, having but a few miles to advance and the railway at their service, will establish themselves at Dresden. In Germany itself Prussia Boerne over-matched, and the late vote in the Diet shows a great disparity of strength. But on the other hand, in Hanover and Cassel the people seem likely to refuse their support to the policy of their governments. Should this example be followed in other of the minor states, the conclusions to be deduced from the vote of Thursday last must be worthless. But, assuming that these States, or the more powerful of them, enter seriously into the war, Prussia must prepare to drain every nerve in the strife. For the present all hangs on the chance of a ram- Plagn- In another leading article the Tines discusses the propositions of Italy, especially congratulating that coun try that in such a crisis her premier should be Ricasoli, whose long-continued absence from his Sovereign's council is supposed to have arisen from antipathies harboured against him by high powers, whom every man in Italy was anxious to propitiate. La Marmon" is at last in his own sphere, at the head of the army, and if he be the man to create an army, Ciahlini is the one to handle it. The hero of Marsala has nobly requested that Pallavicini, whose dashing spirit he appreciates, may take the com mand of some corps that would co-operate with him on the Alps. Of the look and mein of the discipline and training of the Italian army, the Times hears satisfactory accounts, but in the meantime it is greatly to be regretted that even one word of encouragement should have been held out to the Italians of eventual foreign aid. The mo ment Italy relies upon any other forces than her own she is lost. " From my friends defend me, 0 Lord," says the Italian adage; "against my enemies I will defend myself." It is in such signs as the repudiation by the Hanoverian and Hesse Chambers of the action of their government, observes the Daily News, that we may read the dissolution of the German Confederation. But Prussia has not waited for the result of the motion of the Hanoverian president, and either Count Bismarck has miscalculated or H mover has already lad her independence. Now is the time for Austria and her allies to act. The Emperor cannot leave the King of Hanover to feel the whole weight of Prussian power, after receiving his assistance in the Diet. He must march out, fall upon t h e Prussians in his front, and achieve some important success before Germany is dismayed by the boldness of his ad versary's initiative. And whenever he does that, it will be time for the Italians to try what they can do for their country. TAB FENIAN RAID. From the telegrams published to-day, the Times thinks we need not hesitate to derive the most satisfactory assur ances as to the issue of the foolish and criminal enter prise of the Fenlans in Canada. The United States government have not only stopped the movement but have put an end to the authority by which it was or ganised, and if undisciplined bodies of Fenian should still attempt to cross the frontier for purposes of rapine, they will be readily disposed of by such an officer as General Meade, with regular troops and gunboats at his disposal. The Times then hastens to express its sense of the admir able spirit displayed by the United States, and feels almost disposed to thank the Fenian for having given the Arne rheas ell occasion for displaying so coaspicuoualy their friendliness and good feeling. The prompt action of the American government, ob serves the Daily News, will surprise those only who are unacquainted with the traditions, feelings, and constant policy of the American people. The doctrine of non intervention and strict neutrality in the disputes of foreign powers was one of the bequests of Washington to the republic which he founded. The geographical and political position of the United States has enforced the counsels of the first president. Connected by the ties of an inherited civilisation and of an increasing commerce. with the nations of Europe, sad feeling therefore a keen interest in European vicissitudes, but removed by dis tance from the temptation to interposition, they have learned to give free play to moral sympathies without being impelled by them into political action. In spite of the Fenian levies which are said to be taking place in many of the cities of the Union, and the advance here and there of an unarmed mob towards the Canadian frontier, we may assume that the sorriest imposture of our time is at an end. THE WEEKLY PRESS. It is observed by the Saturday Review that when war once commences the contest will lose the eh- - hitherto imposed upon it by the passing wantonness M. Bismarck, and will grow into a vital battle between the liberal and the conservative elements in Germany. The ultimate issue of the contest, should it assume such a form, can scarcely be doubtful so long as France, armed and watchful, is seated among the row of interested spectators ; but much blood will be spilt before even Germany itself awakens to the nature of the problem to be decided. It will take some time before the populations forgive M. Bis marck for wrapping their homes in the flames of war ; but in the long run it is doubtful whether Austria will find it as easy to retain the sympathy of the German people as to secure the immediate adhesion of the German courts. Great wars, like great lawsuits, are not often in these days decided merely according to the pleadings ; and a month or two of intense and eager German excitement will cause the shortcomings of M. Bismarck to disappear before the real significance of the cause which M. Bis marck's lawless folly obscures and discredits. On the Reform Bill question the opinion of the Satur day Review appears to be that supposing that the govern in,nt measure cannot be carried within the ordinary limits of a session, it is at least to be de-mired that parliament shall h eve shown what sort of a bill it is prepared to pass ; but that the government scheme has not at present reached t Ist stage. In the opinion of the Spectator, the Emperor Napo 'ern adds distinctly to the magnitude of issues which seem to grow daily greater. Italy adheres to her original demand for Venetia as it stands ; but Prussia, scorning to put forward the Duchies as the ground of quarrel, now demands a reconstruction of the Bund, with Austria ex pelled from its limits, with herself, that is, alone and supreme among a world of little states. She is to control German policy, and the German fleet, and the German army, though the command-in-chief may be shared with Bavaria, under an arrangement evidently not intended to en lure. The princes may continue to live as lord lieutenants, in a monarchy one and indivisible, but all substantial political power will pass to the Emperor-King of Germany and Prussia. This is the very contingency which the Emperor Napoleon in his manifesto con siders so grave—the disturbance of the equilibrium of Europe for the benefit of a single power. On the other hand, all accounts from Vienna concur in the statement that the war in the south is regarded as of minor importance, that Kaiser and people are resolved to punish the " insolent audacity "of the rival house. Prus sia is to be crushed and compensation for Venetia found in a great acoession of strictly German territory—an object which Prussia will resist almost to the death. Her dynasty will not surrender the province won by so many years of battle and suffering, nor will her people consent to be regarded once more as citizens of a second-rate state. As the courts get excited the issues widen, till the masses begin to perceive that they are vital, and we seem once more on the threshold of a war in which tho combatants will be nations as well as armies, in which the prosperity of whole countries, the bone and sinew of entire popula tions may be engulfed. The Examiner thinks it impossible to suppose that, with a splendid army assembled within two days' march of the frontier of Silesia,Marahal Benedek will be left without or ders to enter and reclaim that ancient appendage of the im perial crown, wrested from it, under circumstances the most miserably infamous, by Frederick, yclept the Great. There would be something of poetic justice in the descendant of Marie Theresa re-conquering that oft-ravaged pro vince from the lineal successor of the spoiler. The population, long since changed, evicted, and reple nished, are now, indeed, if we are to credit Prussia, re- om iNrIVT;LU co ded bp their present rulers, and undesir' ows of furt revaltdista:But whowillsek theienginion ? Or which of the belligeelOs would hesitate sr 112Dment to occupy their peaeggil villages sfith salifingb or to waste their blooming fields, from any regard to this mere vulgar scruple about allegiance ? Silesia is doomed again, as in the days of the n years' war, to beooine the battle-ground of implacable 'eve foes, and to be the booty of the stronger. Which will he prove to be? On the whole the Economist thinks the Bank of England exercised • wise caution in not reducing their rate this week. As soon as full confidence is re stored in London, such a reduction would undoubtedly h a ve the best effect in bringing back notes from the coun t r y. But a premature re d u ction might defeat its own en d. If the Bank had reduce d on Thursday last, and was obliged within a short time by any untoward event to re trace its steps, credit would be more shaken by the relapse than it was strengthened by the reduction. We had better wait quietly a little till real credit is revived, and then we can show that it is so by the appropriate sign. PROPOSED ENLARGOLLEGE ENIENT OF UNIVER SITY C, LONDON. Tn a recent parliamentary debate, Mr. Gathorne Hardy alleged that the principle of educating in common young men of different religious creeds in institutions theologically neutral had been an almost complete failure in England. The existence and constantly growing success during a period of forty years of University College, London, is a sufficient refutation of this statement. It was established in 1826 ; and in 1830 a school con ducted on similar principles was founded in connexion with it. The creation in 1836 of the University of London, with power to grant degrees to students of Uni versity College and other academic bodies without distinction of creed, was not the only consequence of the existence and success of the earlier institu tion. The establislunent on similar principles of the Queen's Colleges and University in Ireland, and the partial opening of the Universities of Ox ford and Cambridge to those who have before been excluded from them by religious tests, may fairly be counted among the results which have followed upon the course taken by the founders of University College. The success of that institution has not been confined to example. It has itself outgrown the accommodation at first provided for it. When the ground for the college was bought and the architect's design accepted, it was wisely thought that the central portion of the building should be built first, and the two wings left to be added when need for them arose. That time has now arrived. erhe increase in all the classes of the college and in the junior school has created a want of more class rooms. To remedy this, the council, if funds could be raised, would probably build the southern wing according to the original design. In this they would place the junior school, and thereby gain for the use of the college the rooms which the school at present occupies. It is hoped that for the above purpose the pecu niary aid of the friends of liberal education will not be lacking. The sum of thirty or forty thou sand pounds at least will be wanted. All dona tions until spent upon the building will bo in vested, and the interest held sacred to the purpose of building the one wing proposed. Should more money be raised than required for the one wing, the surplus will be kept invested till it is wanted for the other wing. Cite Court. The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess of Macclesfield, Lieutenant-General Knollys, and Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel, honoured the Archbishop of Canterbury with their company at luncheon at Lambeth , palace yesterday. A deputation, introduced by Earl Fortescue, and consist ing of Mr. W. Ewart, M.P., Mr. James Yates, Mr. James Hayward, Mr. Edwin Hill, Mr. Samuel Brown, Mr. David Mocatta, Professor Frankland, Dr. Farr, Professor Leone Levi, and Mr. Frank Fellows, had an interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson at the office of the Board of Trade, yesterday, for the purpose of urging the insertion of clauses in the " Standard Weights, Measures, and Coin age Bill," for the purpose of legalising standards of metric weights and measures, and of inserting metric equivalents in the statistics of trade. A deputation, consisting of the following members of the House of Commons :—Lord Burghley, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Tits, Mr. Stackpool, Mr. O'Brien, Mr. Grenville, Mr. C. Edwards, Mr. Capper, Mr. Scholefield, Sir G. Bowyer, Mr. Ekyn, Mr. McKenna, Mr. H. Berkeley, Sir M. Peto, Mr. Hordall, Mr. Waterhouse, and Mr. 'Writ', had an interview with Mr. Childers, the Financial Secretary of the Treasury, on Thursday afternoon, on the subject of the superannuation of officers, as affected by the Bank ruptcy Bill. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat pester ,. day. The lords present were the Lords Justices Knight %erecter Bruce and Turner, and Sir E. V. Williams. CABINET COUNCIL.—There will be a Cabinet Council this afternoon at two o'clock, at Earl Russell's official residence, in Downing-street. The 'summonses were issued yesterday afternoon. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh honoured the Hon. Mrs. Grey with their company last night at a dance at St. James's Palace. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales will be the guests of Lord Delawarr, at Knole House, near Sevenoaks, on Friday, the 29th inst. • dis tinguished party have been invited to be present. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge returns to her residence at St. James's Palace to-day, from Cambridge Cottage, Kew. Lady Molesworth received at dinner last evening the Duke of Rutland, the Earl of Abingdon, Viscount and Viscountess Barrington, Viscount and Viscountess Done mile, Lord and Lady Aveland, the Hon. George and Lady Louisa Fortescue, Mr. and Lady Dorothy Nevill, Sir Frederick and Lady Elizabeth Arthur, Lady Rolle, Admiral Sir Thomas and Lady Cochrane, Mr. B. Osborne, M.P., and Mrs. Osborne, General Sir Hugh Rose, and Mr. Alfred Seymour, M.P. Madame la Duchess° de Colonna and suite have arrived at the Cavendish Hotel, Jermyn-street. We (Athoueum) understand that the future of the British Institution is not yet decided. The lease of the premises, as our readers will not have forgotten, will expire next year. Built for Alderman Boydell, in 1789, on the site of Dodaley's house, the present edifice or rather the lease of it, for 62 years from 1805, was purchased by the promoters of the British Institution for 4,500 i. and a rent of 125/. a year. The first exhibition took place on the 17th of February, 1806. The annual prize offered by her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales to female members of institutions in union with the Metropolitan Adult Education Associa tion has been awarded to Ellen Louisa Woollard, a domestic servant of the Lambeth evening classes, who has passed • satisfactory examination in needlework and elementary knowledge. The annual gathering of institu tions, clubs, ix., will take place at the Crystal Palace on Monday next, under the patronage of the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and other distinguished persons. The arrange ments for the day are most extensive, and in clud e athletic sports, concert by metropolitan choral societies, Ethardo, Chang and Mrs. Chang, gymnastic entertainment under the direction of Mr. Nelson Lee, the Vicorelli Brothers, balloon ascent, and other entertainments. SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE ENsunco WEEK. —Monday, Mathematical, 71 ; Architects, 8. Tuesday, Statistical, 8, " Economic Conditions of Highlands of Scotland," Duke of Argyll ; Horticultural, 3, General Meeting, and Lecture on " Fremontia Californica," Dr. Bateman. Wednesday—Meteorological, 7 ; Literature, 41; Geological, 8, " Structure of Red Crag," Mr. Wood ; " Supposed Remains of Crag on North Downs, Folkestone," Mr. Bristow ; " The Warp' of Mr. Trimmer," R.V. 0. Fisher ; " Faults in Drift Gravel, Hitchin, Herta," Mr. Salter ; " Flint Implements from the Little Ouse, near Thetford," Mr. Flower ; " Tertiary Formations of W. lathes," Mr. Guppy ; " New Genera of Carboniferous Glyptodipterines," " Systematic Position of Chondros teus," Dr. Young ; " New Gold Deposits, Eemeraldas, Ecuador," Lieut.-Col. Neale; "Geology of Paella Coast of Ecuador," Mr. Wilson ; " Remains of Halitherium, Malta ; " Fossil Chelonians, Malta," Mr. Adams. Thurs day, Numismatic, 7, Annual Meeting ; Chemical, 8, " Actions of Acids on Metals and Alloys," Messrs. Cram, Calvert, and Johnson ; Linnean,B, " Serttim Benguelense," Dr. Welwitach ; " Cortical Cuneate Rays," Dr. Sigerson " Lingual Dentition of some West Indian Gasteropodse," Messrs. Guppy and Hogg ; " Smaller Crustaceans," Mr. Edwards ; Royal, 81 ; Antiquaries, 81. Saturday, Bo tanic, 3,1. FENCE. . , THE CONTINENTAL WAR. It was stated in the Zarin of last Thursday that, irtibe event of the German Diet deciding in favour of the Austrian proposition for mobilising the Federal troops, the Prussians would probably enter both Hanover and Saxony. The telegrams from Germany announce that both those events have taken place, so that war now exists as a matter of fact. The German Bund, which has now existed for half a century, is dissolved. Prussia, the most powerful mem ber of the confederation, as a German power, has seceded and has invaded the territory of her late allies. It is a curious fact that Baron von Kubeck, the president of the Diet, has taken the very same ground which the Northern States of America took five years ago in reference to the South, and has denied the right of any one member of the Confederation to secede. He has asserted the indissolubility of the Diet. A conference of the States in alliance with Austria is announced for to-morrow, with a view of bringing Holstein within the Bund, and, if neces sary, of taking the offensive against Prussia. It is also a remarkable fact that the war which now exists is ono which is opposed to the sentiments of the entire German people. The manifes tation of public opinion as exhibited in the German press, and in the German assemblies, leaves no room for doubt on this point. This feeling even extends to the troops of the two powers more immediately engaged in the contest. It has been already stated as a significant fact that the Prussian band played the Austrian national air when the Austrians were being pressed out of Holstein by General Manteuffel. At Radatadt, when the Austria= a nd Prussians were retiring from that fede ral fortress, the troops on both sides fraternised together, they ate and drank at the same table, and treated each other not as enemies but as breth ren belonging to a common country. At the federal fortresses of Mayence and Frankfort, scenes of the same kind took place. The savage passions engendered by war m a y extinguish these generous sentiments. It is obvious that the Ger- Man people feel they are dragged into a political war, in which they have little interest, and it is not improbable that the course of events may de velop their feeling and aspirations in a way that is little expected by the political belligerents. The accounts from Italy leave no room for doubt that the Italian army was on the eve of a general movement. Garibaldi has requested his friends to give up feting him. " The time for action," he says, " has come, and we must postpone festivals till the Italian flag floats in triumph from the tower of San Marco." (NEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON'S LETTER. VIENNA, Juits 16. The French Cabinet has sent the letter lately addressed by the Emperor Napoleon to M. Drouyn de Lhuys to the French representatives abroad, together with a circular explaining the bearing of the letter. The Neue Freie Frew of to-day asserts that Prince Gortchakoff has sent a circular to the representatives of Russia abroad stating that upon the slightest violation of neutrality by France, Russia will abandon her present neutral attitude. PARIS, JUNE 16. The Moniteur of this morning re-produces the article published in yesterday's Covtatitutionuel, on M. Emile de Girardin's interpretation of the letter of the Emperor Napoleon. THE FEDERAL DIET. PARIS, Sint 16. It is asserted that the recent proceedings of the Federal Diet have determined several powers sig nitaries of the Vienna treaty of 1815 to doelare that in their opinion articles 64 and 63 of that treaty, which form part of European international law, have been violated. . _ FRANKFORT-01C-THE-MAINE, Jews 16. Prince Charles of Bavaria will be appointed commander-in-chief of the Federal army. PRUSSIAN OCCUPATION OF SAXON TOWNS. PRAGUE, Jusz 16. The entry of the Prussian troops into Saxony is fully confirmed. They have occupied Lobau and Zittau within the eastern frontier of Saxony, and also threaten an advance from the Prussian towns of Schkenditz and Zeitz, on the western frontier. The railway between Riess and Dresden has been destroyed. Passenger traffic and postal communication be tween Prussia and Saxony is stopped. The Crown Princess of Saxony proceeds to Vienna. The Saxon Treasury and valuables and the pro visions of the army have been transported for security to Bohemia. MECKLENBURG. BERLIN, Jcwi 16. It is expected that Mecklenburg will afford active support to Prussia for the defence of the Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein. HANOVER. HANOVER, JuN's 16. The King of Hanover and the Crown Prince set out last night fur the camp of the army, which is being concentrated near Gottingen. The Queen and the royal princesses remain here. It is rumoured that a ministerial crisis exists. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, drwr 16. Prince Sigismund, third son of the Crown Prince of Prussia, was taken seriously ill yesterday, but is a little better this morning. THE ITALIAN MINISTRY. FLORENCE, Jcics 16. The ministry is nearly constituted. Baron Ricasoli is appointed President and Minister of the Interior ; Signor Borgatti, Minister of Justice ; and Signor Brochetti, Minister of Marine ; Sinori Petti nengo, Scialoja, Jacini, and Berti retain their port folios. General Tamarmora is named Minister Adlatus to the King at the camp. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been offered to Signor Visconti-Veneta, and that of Agriculture to Signor Mordini, with what result is not yet known. The Austrians have interrupted all lines of com munication on the side of the Po and Mincio. THE HUNGARIAN DIET. PESTH, Jogs 15. The Lower House of the Hungarian Diet has agreed to the resolution proposed by M. Deak, de claring that no address shall be presented to the Emperor relative to the present distress in Hun gary, but that the Diet is ready to support his Majesty in all constitutional efforts which he may think fit to make in order to promote the objects I set forth in the proposed address. SPAIN. MADRID, Jun 16. Yesterday in the Senate the Minister of Mari us Bdared the Pacific expedition to be at an end. In the Chamber of Deputies the debate upon the Railway Subsidy Bill has commenced. THE CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. WYTHAAUMN.JuaIIt The Peainanhir and Oriental Oompanjs 'teenier Nyanza, with the heavy portion of the above mail, arrived off the Needles at 9.50 a.m. to-day. OVERLAND MAILS. BOMBAY MAIL. MARSEILLE73, Jcirs 15. The Manilla arrived at 7.30 p.m. all well. Th e mail leaves for London at 10 p.m. MALTA, Jun M, The Ceylon, with the heavy portion of the above mail, left Malta at 8 p.m. to-day. She may b e expected at Southampton on the 24th hut. OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILA The Ripon, from Southampton 4th in s t an t , arrived at midnight on the 13th, and left at non on the 14th for Alexandria. - The Syria, from Marseilles 13th inst., arrived at the 15th at 7 p.m., and leaves at midnight fa t Alexandria. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings at Nisi Prins in Middlesex.—(Before Lard (j Justice Erie and a Special Jury.) BEHR:WAN AND WITS r. Till eststten RAILWAY cntrtat This was an action to recover damages for injuries as, tamed by the female plaintiff in a collision which Is* pened at Colney.hatch on the 30th August last. The 4. fendants paid 100 guineas into court, and the only quails was whether this was sufficient compensation. Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. G. E. Clark for the plaintiffs ; and Mr. Sevin, Q.C., and Mr. ;Vie the defendants. The plaintiff, Mr. Bridgman, was a working man in lbs employ of a w b a rfinger who has premises neassWatetioe bridge, and his wife was a young woman 2i yeas of y% On the 26th August last Mrs. Bridgman and ha mother, Mrs. Stubbs, went by excursion train to Notes & ham, and returned on the 30th August. At Colney-kasit the train ran into some trucks which had been left um the line, and the consequence was a very serious secidest. Mrs. Bridgman was thrown down, and having been ha pal out of the train she was taken home in a cab. She did so consult a medical man for three or four days, but at the end of that time she procured some physic. She, hoverer, got worse, and was placed under the care of Mr. Adam, who found that she was seriously hurt. She was in heel for six weeks, and afterwards was taken to Kingston sad remained there five weeks. She did not recover, and wha she returned she suffered from weakness in the legs sad was unable to get out until March ; and down to the Fs. sent time she suffered a good deal. The fees of Mr. At. kinson and of other medical men who had been called It with the view of giving evidence against the company's doctors amounted altogether to 1151., and of course oiler expenses were incurred. Mrs. Bridgman was called. She got into the box skis difficulty, and was accommodated with a seat when as got there. She seemed to be in a very bad state of heal* and was so overcome that at the suggestion of the *se she was not questioned. Mr. Atkinson described the symptoms, and ennead his opinion that Mrs. Bridgman had sustained cowman of the spine, and be feared that paralysis would set is. She was better than she had been, but he believed that he should have to attend her for several months yet. Dr. Travers was also called, and he said that be keel that Mrs. Bridgman would recover in lit months or tem years, but he could not say that she would. At this stage of the proceedings an arrangement ea come to, and a verdict was taken by consent for 2000 beyond the ram paid into court. A similar verdict was taken in an action brought by Mrs. Stubbs against the company. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings at Nisi Prins at Westminster.— (Before Mr. Bird Martin and a Special Jury.) TRENTANOVE r. BOUCICAI LT. This was an action to recover a sum of money for two busts. Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., and Mr. D. Browne were for tbs plaintiff ; Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., and Mr. Holl for the de. fendant. The plaintiff was a sculptor in Wimpole-sheet, and the defendant the well-known dramatic author. In MO Mr. Boncicault called upon the plaintiff and employedlia to makes bust of himself and wife. Both busts were to beef marble, and the price of each was to be 50 guineas. Several sittings were given, and then they were suspended in cm. sequence of Mr. Boucicault going to Paris. There wereothse sittings on his return, but they were again stopped sad the bust never reached completion. Subeequently llt Beucicault became a bankrupt, and had received his discharge. Before that event he had pail the plaintiff 50/. on account, but no more moneyhavingbed received by the plaintiff he brought his action. It sr peered that it was the custom amongst sculptors to re. quire half-payment as soon as the busts had been taken a in clay, and the amount now sought to be recovered ins the di ff erence between half the awn agreed urn, en l the 501. which had been received. After the case had been opened, Mr. Baron Martin said the plaintiff and defendant wee both eminent in their respective professions, and it woad be well if they could come to some arrangement. Upon this suggestion a consultation took plax, and 4 was ultimately agreed that the matter should be referred to Mr. Foley, the sculptor, to say whet sum should , paid, and the learned Judge underteok, in the event a any question arising under the defendant's bankrupts:le which had been pleaded, to decide it, one of the jungle counsel to state the facts bearing upon the point. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) CAVLITHSH r. CAVENDISH AND ROCHEFOLTALLD. Dr. Spinks and Mr. Hudson appeared for the petitioner; Kr. Coleridge, Q.C., for the respondent ; andMr.Msttliert for the co-respondent. Before the trial commenced both the last-named gen& men complained that they had not received sufficient instructions, and that although they had reason to thick there was a good answer to the charges, they had not bees supplied with materials even for the cross-nimbi& tion of the witnesses. In particular, they were informed that a certain packet of letters, which were full of the most horrible obscenity, and which were alleged to liar been sent by the co-respondent to Mrs. Cavendish, were a fact forgeries. Sir J. Wilde, however, stated that sufficient opportunity had been afforded the respondents for maturing ties case, and he could not, therefore, allow the trial to be phoned. The learned counsel, therefore, retired from the suit... The parties were married in October, is 4 s , b y E P 4IIII license, at the Clarendon Hotel. The petitioner was Ng. George Henry Cavendish, the son of General Cavendish, et Burlington-prdens,and the respondentw.uMiss Emily " tonne ElizaWh Rumbold, • daughter of Sir Wm. Rumbeld. She had, however, lived the greater part of her life with her aunt and uncle, the Baron and Baroness Delmar, is France. The cohabitation was principally in Paris, sad there had been two children, a son and • daughter ' In 1857 Mr. and Mrs. Cavendish become acqnsinsm, with the Count Gaston de la Rochefowasidd, id* was then an attaché of the French embassy at the e ow of Darmstadt. In 1861 the Baron Delm ar died, w e parties came to England with his widow. On her des* which occurred soon after, Mrs. Cavendish wentback t• France, and had never since been home, her phi being that the coffee plantations in Ceylon wit# l she had inherited from her uncle, were involved in • lita* cation so complicated as to require her constant presage in Paris. In her letters to her husband she represented that she was rather poor, but she held out • bet s that they would some day be able to bare I house and live together. It was alleged, . 11 °!: ever, that all this time she had a magnificette enter. villa at Baden, at which she had on one occasion tamed the King of Prussia and 150 guests. Circurnstanta having come to the knowledge of her husleind which incited his suspicions, he caused inquiries .ts be made which led to his charging her wlit adultery with M. de la Rochefoucauld, at Bee Home, Hamburg, and Baden. The letters refs to were received by General Cavendish from an anon mons correspondent in 1860. He put them away am did not find them again till last year. They were sworn.W be in the handwriting of the co-respondent, and from til* ternal evidence it was suggested that they must bare keen addressed to Mrs. Cavendish. Evidence was given by a number of servants to show teat count lived in the respondent's house as its master. The court made a decree nisi, with costs. - - COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.) IN II T. N. MARK.—RRWARICARLIS CAN& Mr. Taylor, on behalf of the bankrupt in thl+ me. who was described as a gentleman, made an application court under the following extraordinary circumstaoss‘ The bankrupt had come to the co urt on his Ow petition, he had passed his examination, and obtained his discharge ; and assets had since been 'realised voSsie s _, 4 to pay all th e creditors who bad proved 20s. in the poussot and to leave a small surplus. It was now asked the that ths bankruptcy should be annulled , an d the surplus, after payment of the necessary expenses , returned to bank rupt. 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