The Express. — London, England, 1866-07-09 00:00:00

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To-YORROW—ltoraing, oh. Om /diatom, Oh. Dm. LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 9. THE past week has been fruitful of striking events not only political but financial. The news of the probable suspension of the war hardly a fortnight after its outbreak has been followed by the wildest fluctuations on all the Stock Exchanges of Europe. In London we have seen the unexampled rise of 15 per cent. in one day in Italian bonds. An upward movement to this extent has never before been known, although in the disastrous panic of 1859 an eveugreater fall took place in some secu rities. If confidence is a plant of slow growth, distrust on the other hand is quickly generated, and is not easily cast aside. Hence, notwithstand ing that the increased value of public investments shows to a certain extent a subsidence of the re cent panic, an equally strong proof that the dis turbance has not altogether gone by is afforded by the state of the money market. If we have, at all events, got rid of wild alarm, uneasiness still prevails. None are disposed tolend, and all are bent on strengthening their pecuniary position at any cost, a course of action which is entirely fatal to credit. And yet it requires but a slight impulse to bring back commerce to its normal state. Unfortunately the decision rests for the moment with those who from want of prudent courage or ordinary ability, or from the less worthy desire of securing momen tary gain, are unqualified to deal with a national difficulty. The Bank rate of discount remains at 10 per cent., and there appears little probability that a reduction will be made this week, and perhaps not in the next. For two months, therefore, a pres sure will have been inflicted on commerce, the effect of which is beginning to be thown in the Board of Trade returns. Atiiongh the exports for last May were considerably in excess of those in the corresponding month of 1865, they exhibit a marked diminution when compared with the,earlier months of the present year. This unfavourable movement will be more conspicuous in the future, the effect of a panic being in these cages rather prospective than instantaneous. Old engagements must, of course, be fulfilled, but new enterprises are rigidly shunned. Trade has been brought to a comparative standstill, and our leading financiers do little or nothing to bring about a revival, but rather act in a contrary direction. The maintenance of the Bank rate at a panic point is especially cal culated to perpetuate this want of confidence, as everybody but the Directors is clearly able to per ceive. It seems strange that a fact so patent to all should escape the notice of those who by their official position have the best means of ascertain ing it. The dilemma remains, that the course of action of the Bank is dictated either by want of appreciation, or by the simple mercantile view of getting out of the situation, regardless of others, with the utmost possible profit. The plea for not reducing the rate of discount last week is of course the falling off in the reserve. At the close of every quarter the Government payments always cause a temporary decline in this item, but it almost as speedily recovers. The Dotes and coin that are withdrawn at these periods return within a very short interval, and hence this usual displacement of the circulation seldom or never enters into the calculation on the expe diency of a rise or fall in the discount rate. At the corresponding period of last year, for instance, the minimum was as low as 3 per cent., and the movements caused by the quarterly payments were on a larger scale than on the present occasion. In 1864 there was nu great difference front 1866. The following are the figures for the three years : Decrease of Reserve. Decrease of Bullion. 1864 954,890 1865 1,429,527 1866 1,153,329 Now, the same argument that would be urged against therelaxation of the present terms of 10 per cent. will equally apply to an increase from 3 per cent. in 1865, and from 6 per cent. in 1864. Yet, in neither of these two years was it considered ne cessary to protect the reserve of the Bank by the adoption of so-called restrictive measures. It would have been felt that to do so would be taking an unfair advantage of trade. In a similar way to use the ordinary diminution at the end of the quarter in the bullion and reserve as an ex cuse for continuing the present artificial pressure in the money market is equally unworthy of a national institution like the Bank. But even this policy defeats its own object, if the object is to increase the reserve. As long as the distrust caused by 10 per cent. is allowed to work its way, bankers and merchants will persist in hoarding notes. The circulation in the hands of the public is still about five millions in excess of the ordinary amount, and it is hopeless to ex pect that any material proportion of this sum will return to the Bank as long as confidence is prac tically non-existent. Let the causes which pro duce this abnormal desire to provide against unknown and consequently magnified contVigensies mem, and trade will soon expand 'es its former tit- Zia lume. The present state of ty 4411111/1/ 1 insuring B ritish credit ab seer:- quences week by week. 1, • of b - tames, and the greater part of tlerffhlties we raiglve from America and Australia are steadily taken for exportation to the Continent. It is evident., how ever, that these importa.ase becoming inadequate to the demand, and henCe l there is reason to fear - withdrawals from the Bank may at any moment comment.. • The Directors probably see that this result is imminent, but they also fail to see that the remeiff "they adopt is precisely etismisted to aggravate instead of to check the evil. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. gals DAY. ) THZ NSW MINISTRY. Lord Derby's explanation to-night ought, the Tines thinks, to be simple. He hs again called upon to un dertake the government of the country, because a liberal administration has failed to command the united devo tion of the liberal party. Nevertheless, it would be rash to conclude that the fate of this cabinet will be that of its predecessors, for it is much stronger than they were, and encounters a splendid opportunity. Lord Stanley is scarcely in office before he is called upon to exercise his discretion under the most delicate circumstances. The mediation of the Emperor of the French between Prussia and Austria can scarcely be conducted without some refer ence to England ; and, indeed, if we are not misinformed, the French Emperor has already expressed a wish that our good offices may be united to his. In the gun question, too, the new administration may distinguish themselves but it is matter of regret that the naval department should not be more ably filled. It is perhaps true that no govern ment can live upon administrative capacity alone, but the Taws believes it will be wise to abstain from any pre mature plans of action, and that neither parliament nor the country will be disposed to press the new ministry for pledges of future legislation. The Herald dwells on the admirable way in which the legal patronage of the new government has been exercised. It is even willing to forget and forgive all that has been said about Lord Chief Justice Lsfroy, now that he has made way for Mr. Whiteside, in whom is found so con spicuously the clear intellect, the firm will, the rapid per ception, the unwavering constancy, the strict impartiality, which go to make up the character of a pure and perfect judge. Having commented on the remarkable fact that Prussia has been allowed for many years to have • monopoly of the breech-loading rifle, and observed that if things had been allowed to go on • little longer the Emperor of the French would have been obliged to submit to whatever Prussia should ordain till some similar weapon bad been placed in the hands of his army, the Tines observes that his Majesty, as it is, seems to have hit on the right moment for intervention-each of the three belli grrents being probably in • state of mind which tends towards pacific councils. There is some I reason to fear, however, that the enormous favour which France would bestow upon Italy in handing her over Venetia will be counterbalanced by some equally enormous advantage given to France as an equivalent in the form of ceded territory. There is nobody to dispute the claim, and there is a memorable precedent in the case of Nice and Savoy. The crucial question would be the I resolve of Prussia to place herself in • position which would give her an indisputable predominance over the whole of Germany. The proportion of the power of Prussia to the power of France will thus be considerably augmented. Will the Emperor of the French venture to apply to this case the principles he applied in the case of Nice and Savoy to Italy The Daily Ners remarks that the delay arising from the French offer of mediation will only be mischievous if it should encourage the Austrian government to raise pre tensions which cannot be admitted. Prussia naturally declines to place the advantages it has won at the hazard of a verbal misunderstanding, and there is nothing un reasonable in the conditions which the King imposes as an indispensable preliminary to an armistice. It is to be hoped that the precautions he is I taking may prepare the way for a durable peace. Another great battle would be a less misfortune to the belligerents than such a peace as that of Zurich, which settled nothing, and condemned the neighbouring States to keep up enor mous armaments at a ruinous expense, merely to delay a solution which everybody foresaw to be inevitable. The Times would have the overtures of the Emperor Napoleon supported by this country ; but a neutral government should remember in what position it would be placed by either the acceptance or the referral of what is practically • summons to the successful belligerent to cease from follow ing up his advantage. What is taking place in Germany is a great national revolution ; and it will be most hazard ous to attempt to check its development. The Emperor of the French may desire to make the interest of France the measure of the world's progress, but there is no reason why we should join in his intervention and entangle our selves in the schemes of which the cession of Venetia to France forms a part. No elaborate intricacy of devices can obscure the fact that the mediation which gives, and is designed to give, the use of a new army to an exhausted belligerent, and snatches the prize of war from the victor, lis for all practical purposes an alliance. Austria seeks by I the very act of concession to defraud Prussia and degrade Italy. The Kings of Saxony and Hanover might as well have made their dominions over to the Emperor of Russia on the outbreak of war, as Austria give Venetia to France. Whatever others may do we ought not to be parties to a policy so disingenuous and full of danger. The Morning Putt comes to the conclusion that if the Prussian minister can be content with a great gain of power in North Germany the pending negotiations will probably terminate satisfactorily. But if this will not content him, then hostilities will be resumed, but on a still greater scale than before. In the latter event Prussia must be prepared to encounter the hostility of every state which desires to preserve the European balance of power. The Herald assumes that Prussia can retain her eon quests only on condition of ceding a large slice of them to Franee, and if she does this Austria, as soon as she had renewed her army, and provided them with a rifle equal to the needle-gun, might renew the contest with the hearts of all Germans on her side. The Herald hints that in Italy the Emperor Napoleon may make the freedom of Venetia the price of the independence of Naples. The Standard continues to manifest hostility to Italy, characterising her demand for • portion of the Quadri lateral as impudent, and describing her as a defeated enemy. The Telegraph points out that, abandoning the very province for which he has fought two bloody wars, Francis Joseph takes a spiteful pleasure in wounding where he cannot strike. Smitten with judicial blindness to the very last, he will not see that, as he must give up the prise, mere common sense would teach him to do so with • good grace, and to make ► friend of a sensitive but gallant foe. The Star does not expect any demand for Italian annexa tions, though the Emperor possibly may demur to an aggrandisement of Prussia, whether sanctioned by the mechanism of a German parliament or any other machi nery, unless on condition that France shall receive some territorial compensation from Germany. The Star much doubts, however, whether the Emperor, whatever his in clinings, means to go to war in such a cause. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY in refusing M. Huron and his two assist= permission,, to visit the lamely wards leppetteema7 the Daft Miseitreinarks e of 00 worst vioes of the ihanslie ment.• 4nds haunt fear of 4e a r, add*Liu. posi • condu eir h ital Vireablishmenie with priso animas,' the reamed' why the guardians have eCesi ly /idled to do justice to the thousands of sick pooretit trusted to their charge. The incident shows, too, that the Poor-law Board has only the shadow of power, and that the pretence of control is little more than a sham. The Tetemp.% says that General Peel, on entering the War-office, will find some 60,000 rifles undergoing trans formation, and will diecoyer that the capacity of the Enfield factory is equal to the conversion of 40,000 regulttipn ;one kets into Snider breech-loaders annually. Tn obedience to an inexorable preemie of public opinion, General Peel is not likely to be slow in adapting the machinery at Enfield to the increased requirements of the hour. With that ceaseless ingenuity and that disposition to learn which distinguish the Americans in a far higher degree than ourselves, the lessons of the fight at Dnppel,were weighed, discussed, and tested at Springfield, Pittsburg, and Boston, while they were heedlessly neglected and over looked at Woolwich, Birmingham, sad Myths. From the very commencement of the American war, breech-loading muskets were employed in the Federal army. At the present moment no fewer than four American breech loaders—the Berdam, the Cochrane, the Mont Storm, and the Spencer—are competing for the favour of the British public, and the Telegraph thinks the valuable experience of war established beyond peradventure, we will not say the superiority, but the efficiency, of the last-named weapon. The Star supports the petition of Mrs. Gordon presented to the House of Commons the other night by Mr. J. Stuart Mai, and contends that the answer of the new government to this demand for justice will form a good indication whether the spirit of English ministers or that of Jamaica planters animates the conduct of our affairs. MI. M.LANEOUB P.kCTS. The Times commends to the earnest attention of both the late and the present government three bills which are now in an advanced stage in the House of Commons. The first is a general public health bill ; the second, a bill constructed by the late government on the foun dation of Mr. M'Cullagh Torrens` proposal for im• proving the poorer quarters of towns and the dwellings of the labouring classes; and the third, a bill for improving the system of public vaccination. These three bills represent the result of nearly eleven years' work in the office of the medical department of the Privy Council, and they are of the utmost importance to the health and general well-being of the country. At t►e least, it is not too much to say that, if they pass, they may make a difference e some tens of thousands of deaths annually. It is to be hoped that this disappointing ses sion may at least be signalised by the passage of three measures of such urgent importance and such incalculable benefit. The ehereler dim:caller, al the Whiteehapel gaardiagui THE NEW MINISTRY. The following is a complete list of the new Ministry : CABINET. FiRST LORD OF THE TREA- SURE CHANCELLOR OF THZ Em- CHZQUES Mr. Disraeli. Home Szcarrasor. . . SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN Areal as SECRETARY TOR THE COLO NIES SECRETARY FOR WAR. . SECRETARY FOR INDIA . FIRST LORD OF THE ADMI- RALTY Sir J Pakington. LORD CHANCELLOR . Lord Chelmsford. PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL Duke of Buckingham. LORD PRIVY SEAL. . . . Lord Malmeabury. CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER. . . . Earl of Devon. CHIEF COMMISSIONER OF WORKS Lord J. Manners. PRESIDENT OF POOR LAW BOARD Mr. Gathorne Hardy. PRESIDENT OF BOARD OF TRADE Sir S Northcote. POSTRANTRR-GENRRLL . . Duke of Montro.e. JUNIOR Loos OF TRH TRILASURY. Hon. G. Noel. I JOINT SECRETARIES TO THE TREASURY. Colonel Taylor. Mr. G. W. Hunt. UNDER-SECRETARIES. HOME DEPARTMENT . . . Lord &AMOY'S. FOREIGN AFFAIRS. . . . Mr. E. Egerton. COLONIES WAR Lord Longford. INDIA Sir J Ferguson. JCICIOR LORDS OF THE ADMIRALTY. Mr. Du Cane. Admiral Dacres. Sir J. Hay. Admiral G. H. Seymour. Admiral Milne. SECRETARY TO THE ADMI RATY ATTORNEY-GENERAL . . . Sir H. Cairns. SOLICITOR-GENERAL . . Mr. Bovill. VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD or TRADE . . . Mr. S. Cave. • JUDGE-ADVOCATE-GENERAL MT. Mowbray. SECRETARY TO THE POOR Lew• BOARD . . . . Mr. R. Earle. VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL IRELAND. LORD-LIEUTENANT . . . Marquis of Abercorn. CHIEF SECRETARY . . . Lord Naas. LORD-C H A NCELLQR . . . Mr. Brewster. ATTORNEY-GENERAL . . Mr. George. SOLICITOR-GENERAL. SCOTLAND. LORD-ADVOCATE . . . . Mr. Patton. SOLICITOR-GENERAL . . Mr. S. Gordon. THE HOUSEHOLD. LORI) CHAMBERLAIN . . Earl of Bradford. LORD HIGH STEWARD Duke of Marlborough. VICE-CHAMBERLALN . Lord Claud Hamilton. COMPTROLLER . . . . Lord Royston. TREASURER Lord Burghley. MASTEN. OP THEBORSE . Duke of Beaufort. MASTER OF THE BUCK ROUNDS • This office was offered to Lord Dalkaith, bat not accepted• THE NEW BARONETS.—The following are the gentlemen upon whom the late ministry have conferred beroneteies, in addition to Mr. Edward St. Aub7m—The Rev. Henry John Ingilby, of Ripley Castle, lorkshire, and Harrington, Lincolnshire, late rector of West Keel, near Bolingbroke ; Mr. Charles Henry Tempest, of Broughton Hall, Skipton, Yorkshire , and Broomlands, near Nantwich, Cheshire (this gentleman succeeded to the property but nos to the title of the late Sir Charles Tempest) ; Mr. Dudley Coutts Majoribanks, of Guisachan House, Beauty, Inverness-shire, M.P. for Berwick-sin- Tweed ; Mr. John Ennis, of Ballinahovren, Waterf or d, Governor of the Bank of Ireland, and chairman of the Midland Railway of Ireland. The new baronets will pro bably be Facetted to-morrow. A NV ONDERFUL Hisrottv. —A writer in the Boston rertiree (U.S.) says :—" Some of us who have been rending in Itfackwood's Mawa:ine for the past year a so-called ' History of the Confederate War for Indepen dence,' have been wondering how the writer would put the conclusion. For month after month he has driven the Federal armies before him like chaff. Every meeting was a Confederate victory. A handful of rebels were all that were wanted when the myriads of the north drew near. So quickly were the loyal bests disappear. ing as the chapters flew by —so swiftly were the Confederates swarming on to their enemy's cities—that I have thought as I read, either he or I must be dreaming ; for if he was awake then secession was trium phant after all, and the North reduced to the position of a fifth-rate power. It seems, however, by the June number, that Major Heros Von Borcke, the writer, left the South, and ran the blockade while the war was at its height, so that his professed history of the struggle is nothing more than a sketch of the beginning of it. But the story does not amounteven to that. Taken as a whole, the pages are simply written for the glori fication of the author. On nearlyevery page, we reed of &devi -1 tures rivalling those of Munchansen. His stature istheadmi• ration of the whole of the South, and the terror of every Yankee. Not a woman looks at him who does not streight -1 way fall in love with him. Does a regiment waver—Von Boreke dashes to the front, waves his sabre, and it flies by to victory. For every dan gerous service he is she first to volunteer, and though he got winged at last, fora long time scornfully rode unharmed through the Yankee forces; taking as many prisoners as he liked, and being embraced a dosen times a week by all the generals within reach. There n was such a wonderful Von. No natural gift denied him and the gods ea his side —hs needs the bullet in his shoulder to remind him even now that he is mortal. The South wept when he fell, and was hysterical when he departed for )la nd. His deeds deserve to be sung by Lowell, and en graved by Cluikshank." JULY 9, • Wks Court;, WINDSOR v aM s .7 7. .nooompanied by P elningen, drove out _,, with Princess Beatrice ningen, drove in the grounds this morning. Princess and Prince Leopold also went out driving. The Queen, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, Prince LeoPbiai and the Princess of Leioingen, left the Castle this afternoon at 20 minutes before 4 o'clock, for Osborne. The suite in attendance consisted of the Duchess of Roxburgh', Liemt.-General Hon. C. Orey, Lieut.-Colonel F. Cave'sdish, Lieutenans Stirling, Mr. Bahl, and the Master of the Household. 4j The The Princesses Victoria and Elisabeth of Reese, atbeaded by,Lsdy Caroline Barrington, left the Castle at half-pest 10 o'clock this morning for Osborne. OSBORNE, JULY 8. ris Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, and the Ladies and Gentle men in Waiting, arrived at Osborne yesterday at a quar ter past 7 o'clock, having crowed over from Gosport in the royal yacht Alberta. Prince and Princess Christian of Schleewig.Holstein, attended by Lady Susan Melville and Major• General Sey mour, C. 8., met her Majesty on landing at the Trinity Pier, Cowes. The Queen and Prince and Minims Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended the service at Whippingham Church this morning. The Rev. G. Pro thero officiated. The Prince and Princess of Walftn, attended by the Countess of Morton, Lord Harris, Lieutenant-Gene's' /Imlay', and Major Grey, went to Farningham on Satur day, where the Princess laid the foundation stone of the new buildings of the Home for Little Boys. The Prince of Wales presided at a dejenner given in honour of the occasion. The Prince and Primiess of Wales, with the Countess of Morton and Major Grey in Waiting, attended divine ser• vice at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday. The Duke of Edinburgh also attended the service. The communion service was read by the Lord Bishop of London, Dean of her Majesty's Chapels Royal, tho Rev. B. Peace, and the Rev. H. Melvin. Anthem—" How dear are thy counsels."—Croteh. Mr. Goss presided at the organ. The sermon was preached by the Rev. IL Melrill, from Exodus, cb. 23, v. 30. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers present were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, Lord Stanley, the Earl of Carnarvon, General Peel, Viscount Oranborne, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Right Hon. Sir J. Pakington, the Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote, Lord John Manners, and the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Canada. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the North American provinces, Bermuda, and the Falkland Islands. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales and household will leave Marlborough Home on Monday next, according to previous arrangements, for Sandringham, where their royal highnessea purpose to pass a few weeks before going to Scotland for the autumn. The Earl and Countess of Wilton received his Excellency the Prussian Ambass►dor and the Countess Bernstorff, the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, the Dachau (Emily) of Beaufort, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricards, the Earl and Cawdeas Stanhope and Lady Mary Stanhope, the Earl and Countess of Derby, the Earl Cadog►n, the Countess Vane, the Earl of Shrewsbury, Viscount and Viscountess Grey de Wilton, Count Pahlen, the Bishop of Oxford, General Sir Hugh Rose, G.C.8., Mr. Baillie Cochrane, M.P., and Mrs. Cochrane, ac., at dinner, on Saturday evening, at their residenoe in Grosvenor square. The Earl and Countess of Malmeabury received • select circle at dinner on Saturday evening at their re sidence, in Stratford-place. Among the guests were the Marchioness (Louisa) of Waterford, the Earl of Tanker vile, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Viscount and Vin t:mates, Cranborsie, Lord and Lady Egerton of Tatton, Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, the Right lion. Sir Robert and Lady Emily Peel, the Right lion. the Lord Chief Justice of England (Sir A. Cockburn), Mr. and Ron. Mrs. W. Rose, Colonel Sturt, Mr. Delane, &c. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mn. Gladstone left their residen.:e in Carlton-house- terrace on Saturday, on a visit to Lord and Lady Cran- worth at their seat near Bexley, Kent. It is stated that Colonel Edwards, M.P. for Beverley, and Mr. William Williams, of Tregullow, will be raised to the dignity of baronets. Tho Marquis of Lansdowne, it is said, was playing whist at White's when he was seized with paralysis, and the marchioness, who was at once sent for, was at a ball at Devonshire House. There was to have been a party at Lansdowne House on the very night of the day on which the marquis died. •The Earl of Lanesborough died on Saturday afternoon at his residence in Stanhope-street, Park-lane, after a short illness. NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION.-( THIS DAY.) WIMBLEDON, MONDAY MOR!CING. This morning, at a comparatively early hour, the Camp was all bustle and activity, many of the volunteers being stirring before the reveillee, which was sounded at 6 o'clock, although no actual business of the meeting was fixed to commence until 1 o'clock. Tents were soon deserted, and it was an interesting sight to witness the many recognitions and cor dial greetings between volunteers from different parts of the kingdom, who had again met together to take their share in the coming contests. It was a reunion of men engaged in the same laudable purpose, and one of the most friendly and pleasing character. The improved sanitary arrangements provided this year by the council were brought into requisition in a most ex tensive way this morning, and were fully appreciated. There are at hand all the appliances and comforts of a gen tleman's home, and too much praise cannot be bestowed upon Mr. Jennings for the way in which he has executed the duty entrusted to him, of remedying &defect which has hitherto, with justice, been complained of. The assemblage at breakfast in Mr. Jennison's refresh ment saloon was the next event of the day, and the bracing air of Wimbledon-common no doubt assisted them materially in doing justice to the ample fare that was pro vided. On looking round the camp, as all appeared to have tolerably well settled down in their quarters, it pre sented a finished aspect. Indeed, in some instances the tents and approaches to them wore a very tasteful appear ance, flower gardens bad been improvised, and they almost invited anyone to spend • week or two in camp life for the purpose of enjoying the comforts which appear to reign around. The London Scottish have again displayed their large flag with the rampant lion, which can be seen above the rest from all parts of the common, whilst the entrance to their chief marquee is ornamented with back-horns and other national emblems. The London Rifle Brigade also display • large flag bear. ing the arms of the City of London, and they have secured for their camp one of the finest sites to be found over the whole common, it being situate on the top of " M`Donald Heights," the plain studded with tents lying before them, and in the distance a fine view of the Kingston-road, Kew Gardens, Petersham, and bounded by the lofty trees of Richmond Park. The Victoria. have again occupied the valley, their camp, which is pitched in a circular form, being sepa rated and enclosed, but where all is conducted with a military regularity. As the shooting commenced at so late an hour this day we are unable to give any detail. NEW Carnes. —The Marquis of Westminster, at whose es • magnificent new church has recently bean erected and consecrated at Fonthill, in Wiltshire, has just given 2,0001. towards the erection of a new church in the pariah of Bt. James, in the town of Shaftesbury, Dorset. The proposed edifice is estimated to cost between 3,0001. and 4,000 t., and will when :milt afford seat mom mcdation for upwards of 400 persons. T INTELLIGENCE. All rrAL W OF THE CESSION OF NETIA. tosigThe'uly 6 comments as follows on the cession of Venetia to France : ' The fears which, out of regard for the national honour. we entertained yesterday with the grey — leit caution . ; have unfortunately to-day become a reality. Now, let missy it at once; far betterto have leftthe sword in the mebbsni; better to be discomfited in a new and bard fight—better to for get Venice and her woes than possess it at the met of insults, and—of Frame. Against the inclemency of fortune, and the delays of time, Italy, long tried in suffering, and in the painful habit of expec tancy, would have opposed her faith, the tenacity of ' her resolves,so much had her misfortunes strengthened her temper and consolidated the relations of fraternity and I reciprocal good feeling of her people. The misfortune I which has come upon us has moreover at expect of such perfidy that one more severe could not happen to a nation which respects Itself. Austria, who before boasted of haviag " struck us on the hips with the fist of the left hand," now cedes Venetia to France, thereby deprives us of the opportunity of rescuing it, humiliates our national right, and touches to the very quick this young Italy, who ardently desired to re-establish in face of the world the reputation of her doubted valour. The blow is an atrocious one, for it deprives us at once of friends and enemies. Forlorn Austria escapee, and poor Venetia is presented to us covered with our shame. And,to crown our anguish, Austria's charity is conveyed through France, from which we always get the most costly ideas and the most imperative counsels. Are we fallen so low that we must seriously ask if it be true that Italy has overturned five thrones and placed 500,000 men in arms ? Was it all but a solemn mockery? In Italy we believed we were fighting, and there was an idea that a have army, Inferior to none in the ardour of battle—that 40,000 volunteers who had left their hearths and homes to fight possessed valour and arms equal to any other troops in Europe. It was ell a mistake. We essayed vain miracles. The enemy sometimes deigned indeed to make a slaughter of us, and then he treats with others about the fate of this despised Italy ! We ardently desire to believe that bat one cry will be raised throughout the entire Peninsula—let us tear the offer ing ; let us teach this insolent foreigner that a people does not barter its future in a chap man's fashion, and that Italy, however poor in intelligence, has memory and experience enough to re collect that gifts basely acquired are soon heedlessly loot. But it is said we shall have Venetia at all event s ; we shall acquire the dreaded Quadrilateral, and it is not possible to join in battle with a retiring enemy; let us even make a golden bridge for him to cross over ; betides if the plan I. elabo rated in France it is useless to resist. It Jibed to submit and sacrifice our pride to the exigencies of a European peace. It is false. Let the government take notice that at this solemn moment it is not given to compromise with impunity the destinies of the nation, and that over all there watches as the final and severe custodian of the country—the people. The people and parliament, we hope, will render impossible this infamous com pact. What will our brave army say, condemned to bear the mark of the gash of the 24th, without the hope of avenging that day ? What will the King say, he who came upon the field with the sword of Palestro sad St. Martino to fulfil the vow made at the tomb of King Carlo ? Austria insulted the exile of Oporto, and now she insult.; the son. PROCLAMATION OF KOSSUTH TO THE HUNGARIANS. The Allotrza contains the following proclamation from Kossuth to the Hungarian soldiers : Valiant Magyars,—Under the protection of the brave and high-minded King of Italy, in the name of God and of the country, we hoist once more the standard of Hungarian freedom. Hither, ye valiant ! the post of the Magyar is here. The Austrian is our enemy, not the Italian. From the Austrian the sons of our country have never h►d anything but chains, shame, and misery. The Italians gave an asylum to the exiled Hungarian, received him with hos pitality, succoured him, and held him in respect. A just God will avenge it on the Magyar, if he rewards this by fighting with the Austrian against Italian liberty. The Italian has a right to Venice ; she belongs to him ; she is his daughter. Italy belongs to the Italians, Hungary to the Hungarians. Out with the Austrian from Italy ! out with him from Hungary ! This is Nature's law ; this is justice. You owe no obedience to the Austrian. By forced recruiting you have been dragged to war contrary to the laws. You owe him no fidelity. That perjured race was by a law passed in the Hungarian parliament of 1849 for ever excluded from the royal throne of Hungary, and it was decreed that every Hungarian who should thenceforth remain under the Austrian ban. nen would be guilty of the crime of high treason to the nation. That law has not been abolished, and therefore your fidelity, your anus, and your oath are due to your country. He is a deserter who remains under the Austrian flag, for he deserts the sacred cause of his country, he becomes the assassin of his own nation, which Austria keeps under the yoke, despoils, oppresses with continual taxation, and drags to the edge of extreme wretchedness. Here or there you ought to do battle—do battle then for your country and not for its oppression. If you enrol yourselves under the national standard the war will cost us little blood—if on the other hand you continue under the flag of your country's oppressor, you will have to pour out your blood in streams, because precisely in proportion to your valour will the struggle be prolonged. Away, then, from her hated ranks. Hither, then, ye valiant ! There victory itself would prove a curse ; here, in a glorious death, you will have the blessing of a nation. The sacred standard of the nation is raised here, and it awaits you. Hasten to it. Hither, through me, Garibaldi calls you—he whose liberating arm is with us to open a passage to the country, and to enable the entire nation to rise and burst its fetters. It cannot be that beneath the Austrian uniform, which bears the badge of slavery, the Magyar heart does not be►t. In the Magyar's hands even the bayonet and the sword ought to think. Hither, then, ye valiant, where flutters the tricolour flag. Beneath it is glory, justice, and your true place. I call you—l whom the nation once chose for its leader to conquer independence. In the name of God and of the nation I call you. In the sacred name of the country I order and command you. Come hither because you can proceed from here to liberate the country. Long live the King of Italy ! Long live the halo-Hungarian alliance! Lung live the nation ! Issued from the headquarters of the King of Italy, June 24, 1866. THE AUSTRIAN ARMY.-SPECIAL CORRE- SPONDENCE. The Timcs this morning contains a page of cone spondence from the Austrian headquarters, coming down to the 30th ult. The writer (understood to be Mr. W. H. Russell) found himself almost in a battle-field on reaching the railway station at Joseplustadt, and describes the following PAINFUL SCENII. The railway station at Josephstaalt is some distance from the fortified city of that name. It is something like a similar establishment in England, except that there is a small group of trees on the platform between the rail and the refreshment saloon, and little tables and seats laid out in the shade. These were now occupied by wounded men, of whom many were lying on the ground; they were Jagers, linesmen, and cavalry soldiers, and most of them were wounded in the foot, or band, or arm, from which I inferred that the more severely wounded had been taken away in some of the heavy trains which passed during the night. Inside the r efreshment-rooms, first and second class, as with us, with a long bar in the outer mom for all corners, the lime sight met the eye. On entering the inner room an officer who was smoking • cigarette saluted me, and I was about to sit down close beside him till I saw a pool of blood under the bench, awl perceived that his foot was terribly shattered. He wee a general officer, I think, from his gold-braided collar, or a staff officer of rank. AU the ocher places were taken up in • similar way and every few minutes another sufferer was brought in and examined by the doctors, or a vacancy was made by taking oat others, and putting them in the carriages of the train about to go southwards. The outer and larger room warn equally full. One cheeg•looking Tyrolese, who spoke a little Hann, told me there had been a severe encounter with day near &alit:, higher up on the rally., an Austrian oorps had been surprised times the number of the enemy, and k severely. The needle-guns, he said, enabled' fire so fast then was no getting at better," said he, " but they fire three time* u., Another soldier who was shot through both bey on• fee a akar, 1,14-be eeedel wet liglifliiir mouth of his own accord. !lei said " i ipt ii i... devil full of cunning and 'not lialsai r. -mereorr z Out have bee a( kart 151riasa — - - . wounded in the rooms, but timing iii WI i when the 'upon' s probe tanididd 'a cle‘tha to i or one was raised from the floor or ' 't dthA , bearers. The strictest surveillance is exereised , thing and everybody in the Austrian r fact is more than once alluded to in correspondence. He was specially neoeuity of secrecy in the course of AN rwritavirw WITH MARSHAL The Commandant of the Police, who cigar at the portico, received us iuul risirs—maseive stone, through vaulted , ante•ahamb►n, filled with officers sad through the folding doors there wu a gli hall, like a great German sal24-4-nianger , filled at each side with some 60 or down to begin dinner/. Feldzengineister Benedek wag seated about hall: wa] left, and talking loudly and with mud seeing me he rase and began a short address man acting as correspondent of a Vienna officer of Engineers, warning him against genoa by letter or telegraph which would The correspondent stood se the es al on the conclusion of Ilia warning Bomodek, bowing to me, sad, in Gerson, end asked me if I tutdentood what plied In the affirmative, and then he relied on my promise to do no harm which I was repaired. The dinner was r —soup of rico sad vegotabko,6oui/14, rout cheese, with decanters of white and red Hanged** * and water. Then came cheese, coffee, and shi ft During dinner Feldseugineister von Ilensedek spelo a peatedly in clear ringing tones to officers se they e ss from time to time ; he read despatches and round was during the meal The talk all round was loud and free and genial. Meets of all ranksienw together—generals, captains, colonels, lieutenant 1!) 0 was young Prince Faterhazy, who had just rititha miles that day, and wee still ready for duty. fl. in a handsome Hussar uniform, was Baron As who bad left his seat in the Hungarian plaits to fight the Prussians. There, in another gay an k uniform, wee young Hunyady ; and thers ess Liohtensteins, Festetics, and many another t o, sentative of historic names and families, is la w white and brown, and light blue and grey o w old and covered with orders, others yougiT berning for distinction. Cigars were banded rand, a lighted and smoked, and after an hour at table tie w b party retired and the Feldseugmeister took his leave fin and went to his private apartments. In hal features be resembles Sir John Pennefatber, features are rather sharp, his actions and tame are and energetic, energetic, his figure is lean and Wiry, the Irak sharply cut, the eyes dark and exoeedingly penetrating—his whole bearing that of a soldier. On the 29th the correspondent moved lA* head-quarters, seeing on each side of him oh left tens of thousands of men sleeping on the!iil in their great coats regardless of the morning!. , He arrived at Dubernitz near noon, where a dug position was taken up in expectation of a attack from the Prussians. At Dubernits head-quarters train was blocked in a none lane for several hours by the enormous )ii; of troops proceeding from west to east, being concentrated in preparation for a bilk On the morning of the 30th the headquais train began to move more regularly, though dm was still no cessation of the march. The ni aides were lined with men who had lain dons rest. Many of them were dressing their feet ma in folds of linen, and seemed worn out, &mini' few limped as they marched. At every twos three miles were a regiment of foot or him bivouacked in the fields, the men still glee* and the thin curling smoke from the camp% mingling with the mists, which slowly mein& fore the sun. Early as it was, the people kith villages were all up and lining the roadsides, vii terror in their faces, and propitiating the sore with large pitchers of water. Here Mr. Rua{ we regret to say, met with an accident,* thrown from his vehicle with such Ihs that an iron hook cut into his soli severing a small vein, his face becoming covereisd blood. The only consequence, however, he* was that he received much commiseration fro the country people as one who had been Tumid in action, and he arrived in camp with Bernoulli' honours of war. The halt was at Sadowa, nis in a short time thetiews came of Prussian succor and everything was hastily packed up, and de headquarters train ordered to Nechanitz. The tend of the inhabitantsat thesight of the retreatingsro was now at its height. The victory at Jicin Eisenstadt had enabled the Prussians to turn left flank of the Austrian position, and let slip cavalry on the rear. At half-past 3 in the _ . _ noon a group of Prussian horsemen were coming from a wood, but the vast booty bi them was too big for their jaws. It imam, _ but s pleasant position for the Au as s rapid retreat was out of the qi _ _ _. At 4 o'clock the train reached Ti a considerable town, but abandoned by most of inhabitants. The town was intended as a place, but the Austrian colonel decided to pi l l on to Koniggratz. When about an hour from 1 0 4 place, a mass of cavalry were seen riding as MO: they could, apparently to cut the Austria .lic a from the fortress, and a race began. 4 THR RACE TO KomarmArz. Pell-mell they came, and pell-mell our train 10 mingled with them. " What, in the name of Hawn. is it all '^ " Why, we have been beaten by the Pr's& again. They have taken GO carriages of the return • munition, and 30 squadrons of their horse are MOO us at full gallop." "All make for the fortress," Ira cry, and on we swept in furious haste, thrall" village and suburb-Angers and foot soldiers t2l along the sides of the road, artillery and galloping, till we reached a sort of Gear hastily thrown up in front of the inundated gelds ill• which the Prague highway leads to the city. Here pieces were in position to command the causeway, Al i body of infantry lined the trenches. Further on wr see troops moving through the meadows, and the pi!" pets, bristling with guns, were crested by the s halassrd the Austrian artillerymen. At the outer gate . ikt i was a confusion beyond description--oflicess , in hand, swore and threatened the drivers d w P vehicles, who tried to fi t two carriages in • sp ace "' would only hold one ; but it would answer no pullol_j9 dwell on the disorder, for at last we got through, F 17., over the outer moat and the main, over draw brid i o under portal till the panting horses drew up in the Ring of Koniggratz, about half-past 8 o'clock at after a day quite full enough of war's alarms, and via perfect certainty that we were to be besieged till Faao 4 meister von Benedek came to our succour. refollig The needle-gun, as may be imagined, is t, to repeatedly by Mr. Russell. 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