The Express. — London, England, 1861-08-02 00:00:00

! Tete 0113 rt%%. i r n i l 1J / - /-• i r .•• o ` . ' • A, Na 4.672.] r. CALCUTTA, calling at MADRAS.—The osn known clipper avilhary xtesaashlp 11. 1 1 DY JOCELYN. .3: 1.e.. :ssl power,tlthlitT W I..vnimamkr. now Is Victoria troths. Cricks, will leave on the 13th august • . pa...en.pes at aa.l lariat Gravesend on the • th I ha ma.zhilternt slop, lola expressly (or the India trkle. has bees thortnittlaly refitted. liax arstedte aceonmenla. te.s and aid .a.. •I I apt r§rlo (-,1 tamp o n. T o t.dhsse.l the ete7Xein)..r lly llieldstaadlna steam , shlp len rkcee. this: amt. Shl horse pores., s ash/. tlte serrke 1.111 hr e• Nit I Itucti on the l:th of each sue , „hag swath In l hdlooltu auxillar) ste.l3l tca.ol. Toms. . . tell T. Thornhill, Commander. kax ',VTOL /401 . 111 1.221 .. a. 11 %right, I orornander. 1111 IT .2.t111 . It. W. Welsh. ConintandtT. Ix nll‘ . .t . 1,146 w. taprooms. I.koranadr. . _ *4140 . O. W Vonter. Ormioder. I.a Irrithl w panaa.n which th, te.4 rscord those of Irst-rtar ~,Ana shwa apply to Mcwww. NRINDLAY mod On.. LI, Pamir. • at.dtegrt. a W.. M. left. A LYUED NUTT btu., iSO. „k in ha and, EC. or at lA+ "dices of the Ltd India and L 04. 0 SWPOIII C.WPWAY .I.WoWed . 0. litartawimas. LC. RICHARD MOM threntary. 1,1191 RR. MI)NEY WIORAII and SONS' (of the liteetWall yard. London LISA d PACKET BUM ts Ar.i %LI t.—Vor II LLINII• it P, Port Phillip. Merl (te Isere tar lA. ha no Tr ISUA Y, .1 A otnist. calling at ilyesoetic, es.. solemn I clipper ship Vii:101111i L, I,lw toes register. r 4 itl.l" El. L Commander. . Iyhw Its the lest futile p.ka. this .hip forma rare of 11, o,rs. Money Wipe= ant Sons carheated line of paeket•, which comprises the Suffolk, •Itmes, a. el Tear Pnton. Norfolk, 1.111“.131•111,V. awl other fast, fa ...MIK and .ell known Alpe, built and lilted e‘pnonly fir the pisseseif trek h. Austraha. Herm., ommodAt ott. for all classes . paseresers are 11111011A1.41.1. aldi she r tll expertenem.l . —Poe freight or immane Apply to SI LP, tls. A LEM ikt 7:11 4 11.1111:A sigh Mesas. Moues Wlaram an sons, Ite, .t met. —Paimett..,ers by this hoe 'f pas eels are o.n -.0.! from Paddington to Plymouth Sufi-class for wood-class Wes. sad sicaeol-chrse let third-claw Irma ILLY STEAM COMMUNICATION to it! W Z ir You Ulm I.—The LI VIOIIIIOL, 311 W TOM bud 71111LADILPHIA *TEA Id SHIP CIIMYANY Weed despatching Or* flit-teentrad tram scum 1 , 44a1ia••=1114 Qmsesdowi ".681 11411E " Wi lad d i lM i rt LT le NRM TOIL =I Uhl' hti , Wedareday. August 7 PITT OY MASIIIMITIII4. Wednesday. August 14. 111..44041W. Wesheadar. Amused ti. Ad every moroselllta4 WeJaealay . (VAR pure, It. 17. wet 21 ruin. as, aceardiart to at ammo s• dation. Forward pater. athe se, hertediur all provisleas asked. Parrnaers ,* casaida and the Western Rates hooked Week* re very 414414nbuygois 1. mu —Foe further particulars ipply to WILLIAM IN MAN, rt. W 4141 Utirpoul . .r to at lot awl MACIT, Q. Kilts Witham Meek tlty. RE-ZSTABLISHMENT of RI-MONTHLY VAILA b nRAIT% &WI rill NA --GM. W. wily ‘ThEy sod Co. teee lifigtonne histo •1116+u.re thet the ado.. MAIL 41.1tb WIC Ea be MOW 311Wun 2toth Ingsat, sod eontiouotl on 4th and 7 etlt a even somaeW A..uthanapt.ol. mini 10th mod loth 1114 Mard.illm--41verimiod tared tI4hIOOS, 13. itegentetreet. S.W mod be. Lookohdbetnel, KC. G REAT WEMTERN RAILWAY. CHEAP EXIT SPOON. an stYI*RDAY, Alum 10, au EXIT/010N TRAIN wIR kses Yaddinsranu at 330 It 10.. an.l Reading at 4.5& PAL. for IRENCIDITEI and STEOI D. 120. and 0.. Olouesater and rbeltenhane. 14.. and 1... Rom sad Herefned. 1.. re• laniag nu Tuesday. August 13. tnna Heretcod at 5p.... and adernueduate stations as per balla G REAT WEKTERN RAILWAY. nell'SUtY, a moist 11, an VACUA/110N TILAIN 6111 leave hidinetnn at T e 5 • m . and Reading at 6.50 tee OXFOSD, la 61 awl M . Wnre,der and %batten. 10a. awl Ga. : hanbiu7, I. and s.. Iw andoutnn And Wantak. 10a al. aad h.: Pleat latd-un sad Ifirmingiuun, tat and 7a. Weft larnintrieh, terdnetturt. and 1111.6.11. lea 61. and le. 61. : and Wolrer• Isasoo. lee. and m., maiming the sane day r per ROYAL INSURANCE OOMPANY , 29, Lom iluispoo baratrest. lesdars,, sad loyal Insurauce•bullaingt, Subscribed Capital. 1%000.000. Pail up and accumulated fund. exceed £700,000. lereanUle Insurance, of e%et) demerlption to the port of Lou. dos mid eidallhery freely entertained. Tbjs Company h ever Itself by promptitude ott illimaity in the settlement of dolma INVESTMENT of SAVINGS anti CAPITAL. 71oCoNIERVATIVq1AND SOCIETY Share Department, Avers Casa. per Depordt Department, Your per Cent. motto. The Interest tt arrant., (rued halt.yearly, and with. Lamb at axed periods, according to the amounts, largo and _allll. No poolaershlp liability, mod the taking of land 4 en optima Prosamteses and "free of charge. CIIAR Ms LEWIS SEISEN, thieretary. Meek Norfolk.street,Striunt, Loalca. W.C. CALH ADVANCES MADE, without delay, by LONDON iiivnirmoirT COMPANY Maned). INIA, es &porn of deeds. blUs of este, or other err := l t alres ‘erwatty. reverAble by too Lostahnenta. Depositor. Owed b per sea. d l astotote above Ch (MOW, £ 1125 00 lb three et AM awl Ai mai Preepectaree mut Maw sent tree monMeebbea. AMDRIW lAML ROBY. Mase h the Member. GOLD CHAINS.—WATHERSTON awl 11100 DIN beg to call the attention of the piddle to the nut or INVOICE which they deliver with (laid Olard tlialso purchased at their nouietaaowy : i a d. Tu worlubastehlp at patteru chain, 66 Inches long To Ils tarsi gold. writhing on. g. /13 k hid. pen ounce. Mint pries Cpea this eyeless. the QVALITY. 11111011; aM VALUE o lit pad are certified. mod ipeareaked Ye the preset: Welber lee awl fireriee hada Ow o fair reemeries es the work le charged soceefilmg lie intricacy or Litsio),. F 7led IiFtWiDEN, Cleklestiba—ldeaufactory. fa M Ileariette , street, torout-peden. 1/041/". sad La Met Amen node .4 Chaim led Jima/ley be 1 each. Tide lialiklimest clone at Sim lathemale& mad oe estardsysat lemu" (ALYRID WKBB MI AS) NNW MOM AND AUTO= STOCK tor she WariSisood aril& ANGOLA WA 11100111116, To sow replete sal turns Sri nine TTIKI.IIII WINO illrbilded Wham aoldnin l• 73. saumnaisr. Lugo VIA-SQUAIIt. IN who Is soli tvaimpeted %via OW woos InMIME IM Moor- Sag Is kis ms. DITAILISKYD YINNSUANT. MIL OILIBRATZD " INDDIPZICSABLE Prim o. 'wog it psalm sad lacteres A*" Wks Taman*. sr allimen. ben reimmeriftled is T AW M Illswedisista, sad & MINI NM sox. Omer el illmelam ari &we ONOwitilmok samir Aid niitidwal Osnor si Teliminbemiaes. eirl Illsimark& counsw swam YIN M lsiallse& Yorkshire. TEE ATTENTION of LADIES in particularly galled to the LOCK STITCH SEMI SO. MACHIN E. otaui• billira4 by WIILLLUt and t% IL/lf /S. whkh t, ncommeoded he aloggellgy sod thoroughimeme of conatrnetloo. eonifmetnem, deipame of 11011 ell mead AWL .P.." 1. g'SSe 0f....t llegoginsgt, quaver= et lisovemest, beauty sod excellence of S ab. egr I aggHta. w gnaoi in SipH's". owl durability of seam. ang economy am S . him MI. biad with great ra• roil memo , le t. ealliVect, alai elegant. --Odious W lionsa.Mk Osionlkinw. RUPTURIB—nO PATENT SELF ADIVIIITINS 011111 AN 11111,4, acting effectually without wit vosareolded u 1 the faculty tor the care W_ MIMI ed TYR .weeny finalityce of a good trine ban reilellog power. witheet anstecramary pireesure on the PM Abele& 'Ma daintide object Is ake• obtahmed la a Ins Nessumberellwlli *am ipl enamor pad MAIM . EGG ad Go, rissisaft. W. HAIR RISTORIP, Pnverved, and Beautified lc IWO, IYOWLAXDri MACAltsAft OIL—TIM ele gising MI rrovaste halr from Whoa rid or turainc eq. weak \sir. cleaners It true scurf nail ilandria, eld mane IS beautifully irr.ft. ',nutria earl gtoory. In the d Wbbibere the Mani. nrul Weietschloa it Is antallinz ow, anon Vat children It is especially woos- Ended. at boobs the bege of a beautiful bead of ho r. while Mlibliodasllea lOW tire 'misery al royalty. awl the 0111111M/411 11101111. i amstantly reels. of IY ohcee . afford the best mlsareat pm*. of Its ruerim —Price *L. 7a, 10s. bd. trritomarand ktarimall . awl Vs. per bottle. Caution—Ask Mr Ilkaismar nual et 10. ilattoteggardea, aad by MINN, yerteabsra. nUININZ. v 4. all WWII al weakness and ague MR Ise MATZEN EVINISI WINE. file(Mulesawl by Dr. Nara and the %Qua Preftsks. Preyerrod misty by R. ~ ' 4 . 4T1, . 14:, 2 IlarlDn's.infrA OrrewerriA Leedom. Sok, by an . I :br . t...t v ... b atl an wrzepals. AIL • Anna Wboisseis DR. RICORD'S ESSENCE of LIFE restores asealeal to the lead Mattered eaessiltatkons lu ..41 eats Fallen Is Imporeible. Its effects are perseansat. neeeseary --Sold Men ea, with full Instructions, or Mr dassititlee tor /t/a, sent anywhere. carefully ca meatd restittannser_paaallee ..rder —vole agent Weak MUT. tip. 'mad. Bragred at Stationers' Mall JOZEAVEI 00PAHINE. —Copsiba and Cubebe oft *ammo Its hint rinnedles, bat these Ara," are of a lON.. taste noll edam aid ...casino colicky pale& mass* yllaurk dislashaasa Joseati has enc.:vetted la rendering e ing thentssate attantb. rfectty I n noc wow. by _"." ',abbe all the fUtlktill properties This wawa hum adopted by the Yurt. Academy of Medkine after i" , it .ik kan a thousand trials in Pare.. and the different Loudon tiL• Mt. nommen, fin, it and St. Bartholomew a. ;rows CAlc a h nd ls In f* C hub . .4 Pink Nagar., Inn a carne, I about sineither or chronic diorao. a. t i ne earaolut tr. ad. free Ay pod, Prencl.. hensiek 49. Haymarket, Loudon Pam. and aU chemist& UNTY BANKING 'ANY. 1, in 23,000 Shares of LSO each. *erre Fund—Al2.s,ooo. Wag. John Fleming. Eag. Edward Huggins, Esq. William Champion Jones, Esq. James Laming, Ewa. William Lee, Req, Y.P. Maar 11114, My., 11. P. - - - ('or), Eat. Nicol, Fay.. M.P. Otte AAA MANAMA William Heitman, Ray. Head lake. 21. Lemberdstreet. At present temporarily at the !loath Lisa House, Threadneedle- Mreel At the HALF YEARLY MEETINH of the Proprietors held on THI It UAY, the Ist of August. lent, at the London Tavern, Riaoloiniteatteet. the following Report for the Half -year eliding the nith of June, IMR, was mail by the secretary. IWAM CHAMPIIVS JI Eat.. la the Chair. RENIRT. your Directon have the plensurc to lay before the Proprietors of the Rank their Report and lialance-sheet for the sin months ended on the 30th of June last 'thew accounts hare been examined, and signed by the Auditors. The) -.hos a net profit for the haltyear of at i,473 3a. 4.1., after poi mint of Interest to cwitomers J:47,451 On. 1.1.. and of the ex. proses at the Head "Mee ant branches, Income Tat, Retrate on Bills discounted and not due, and making pito Won toe had and d.wnttul debts. Vino' Directors have declared n ItiVi.k.llot of 5 per Cent. for the lull year owl of t u net profit, as above stated, and carried for ward the balance of £111,473 Sz 41. The Dividend •1111 be pm able at the Head OWee, or any of the Branches, on modeller Monday. the 12th inst. LONDON tai tvlui C' Nal-up - 11.50 U.,, . NRIP Th , oolne T)ringliant Ikrlk.ir,l, 14.1.. I'. Phollp I:1)th, Li., .1.4%n William hurni,..t. , r, 11.41. Chariot Salirtair) I;utlur. , MALANCI .I•HLIT Or Tin LON WA AM. 4MCATT BANNIM) COXPANT, wT JUNE, MI. DL Tg. i'apital paid up lte.eree Yawl anemia due by the flank for outamera balances, dr... LS,o6altls 1 7 wbluties oa acceptances and endorsement, by the Hank, cheater notes, and Warn at Nadia secas 11 I 5,073.34 e 13 1 Pruiit snit loss balance hniiicht (runt hut account 3.728 14 11 limas Priiiit hie the half your. atter inaltina pnislabin fur bad and doubtful debts 102,121 8 8 16:0'4 3 7 .1.6,761,1% 16 8 CR. By cash hand at Head-Milos 11114 branches MUM) 1 9 Cash placed at ail NM notice C 1,251,900 6 4 Ibrestments, : Doscrtiment sad guaranteed stocks . . 600,042 14 5 Other stocks and securities.. 110,006 17 11 Discounte.l Mils, notes, arid 809,052 12 1 temporary advances to ,us. tomery in torso and country 4,188,096 15 7 Advances to customers on special securities 4,509,751 16 1 Freehold premises In Lornhard.stn:el, and Mch,daalane, freehold and leasehold pro perty at the branches., with Wares sad Infinity Interest paid to customers 47,451 U 6 Marie, and all other espouses M headsteice and branches, including income tan on pcosts and salaries 65,295 11 10 A:8,76008 Id 8 PROFIT AND 1.4 , 88 .1100DVNT. To Interest paid to cuiirmen; — ---• A 47,451 0 5 Expenses as above Iteliate on bills not due, carried to !new ac count Dividend. of 5 per cent. for the battles"— - 86,000 0 0 Haulm carried forward .3163360 $ 7 By 'Wane, brought forwud horn last amount.. 5.3,731 14 11 coma prod' for the hairiest, alter making proviaton for bed and doubtful debts .. iskin $ 8 111174,810 S 7 We, the undersigned, hare examined the foregoing balance. sheet, Slid hare found the same to be cornet. ,Sltuted, FRED HARRISON, HENRY OVERTON, • Auditors. JOHN WRIUHT, London and County Hank, July 25, itlel. The foreg••log Report having refit by the Sieeretary, the folMwing Rs volutions were proposed and unanimously adopted . 1. That the Report he received and adopted, and printed for the use of the shareholders. 2. That the thanks of this meeting he given to the bard of Directors for the able manner iu which they have conducted the affairs of the Company. W. C. JONk.S, Chairman. The Chairman haring quitted the chair, It wee resolved and carried unanimously : That the cordial thanks of this meeting be presented to coaduct in Cbarn=irosisa. keg.. for hls able and courteousthe Aland; P. P. BLYTH, Depety•Chainnan. Estraeted Iron the Minutes. MOW R. P. NICHOLS, Ihreretary. L ONDON &ad COUNTY BANKING COMPANY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a DIVIDEND on the capital .tuck of the Company of IS PER CENT. foe the Half year ending the rioth June. 1061, will be PAID to the Proprietors, either at the chief temporary. Mies, South Sea House. Thread needle-street. or at any of the Onnpaity's branch banks, on and atter lIONDAV, the 12th inet —lty eminent the Board, W. IA . KIWAN, General Manager. South Sea Mouse, Threadneedle-attest, Anion 1, 1861. THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, High Noboru. 112.011 N es 11.0:11111.DAY, A 10. THE GLADSTONE CLARET Iti. par dozen naafis. 7e. lIId per dome plan. a pars Trona wins ; Sae M. Julien Claret. 19a. queen Ma N. plans ; amyl= Part and Ibany, 24. par doss I sold at am ; aid aniseed Para, tram /In to 844 /In : tau pm, old Irlab and scotch i= a , l lla. par : mina yam 01,1, laa old hatch Brandy. tram 181 le IS& per pin ; best London Oils. 911. to Ma pat gar& Tama oda —JAMIE 1. MCCLEAN, lad, akea•-maisk &W. A LEXANDER'S A-LA-MODE BEEF HOUSE, sm. eatakbaked 17* lii, TkYwfiradeet, Haymarket, W. WILLOW'S SELF-ACTING MEAT SCREEN - MEM& II hate joint of meat with a mere handful of coals. naming is trefeffine . the meati# o.a stifully roasted in every park and all the gravy and nutritsous propertses retalmeL Paw tsa. Y. B. These surprising effect, are produced by idea- Ille eamosetnitlos of best. BAILLOVVII — POTATO STEAMER ; an infal- Ole neetbaill sf making Ws svenrlto vegetable in panda Sea Pines lb, b., M. HARLOW'S AUTOMATON CINDER SIFTER, .L.P warranted to ewe one too of medals Wind hfa 13a ea. ED WI 10 nom) ARLOIVE PATENT CASK STAND. No mute, or sediment disturbed b wIL rem lb Wiling east in s mouth. Price at and HARLOW'S SELF-ACTIN IeirPRON TAP. Li No rent pre numbed . nn mom /at beer er emir wbui. Pries es ed.. ditto *lmmo plated, 9a—Apply dine{ to JAMB UIWW, palmate., N , Klee Willinns•trost, WAsiries.lionse. lee Ilia Ids wee mad eddnes Is on eery article all alben are Marione Inidtalket. Ingssrlialis gratin lebblidied lab (VALLS by &mew Coal e? sad Railway.- 11*Wavy mad lllmple ta—ZIA mid 's ?RICH for Hatton and larobtort Wallies( We beet beam sea Oe. l, tra, direct trees Ur golligrige by forgo den mere. Hartlepool, tbe. beet small, Ile. INLAND—by RAILWAY: Jlllkaleof , ?IL and tea . Clay Cram. eta and Hargeboy, Ito.: Hartley, 17a ed. per too—net cask Deny mad, sassed, to soy part of Leedom AU emigre to be Dewar bed in LIA sod Co., Chief °ekes. North Leedom Railway atotweq HlpMr7 . lallagtom, or ranaelobe. N.B. No negate employed. Sixth Itetition. Jut peletatted. typist IS stamps. DritILITY and IRRITABILITY (M en t a l an d yrea . the Owns, symptoms Illfccia, and Habeas& "Vestment By T. H. V LOMAN. 11 .0.. l'hystelan to Me Ostend lesSolace latter carriers' Provident Inatttatioe. de. Ales, pot tree. it. stamp.. The LNG LlBll MALADY — INDIGESTION matt KILHVOUINt.. 4 .4. From Um Author.* Lloydequare. Larks, W.C. PAOPIZ/SII OF Law Wnnaa.—The 111804 half yearly returnee( the east of ismaistassiase and out-door relief of paupers have beet issued for the liallUvear ending at Lady.day but ; they comprise the whole of England and W i de., with a slight reactional exception from which the Poor-law Board have no return. The expenditure for the half•year was 2,073,3941., an increase of 9'5 per rent. as compared with the corresponding half of the previous year. The iocrease extends over the entire kingdom, and animated in Suffolk to no less than 23 . 1 par cent, and la Fran. Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire to lft or more, in Lei. oestershire to 16'4, in Warwickshire to 21. in Nammontla• shin t 01914, in Notts to WI; while, no the other hand. in the Weet Riding it was only 5 . 5, in the North Ridirsii 11, and in Lancashire 29. This increase dd expenditure to at. tributed not merely to the severity of the weather at Christ mas throwing such large numbers out of employment, but also to the great rise in the price of food. The average pries of wheat was 55.. 11d. a quarter, whereas in the correspond ing period of the previous year it was not quite 43a. 10d. Mutton and beef (according to the Lambeth return) rose from se. 2iL to 7a. 101 d. per stone of 141 b., and potatoes from 6d. portico to 105 e. The cost of relief to the irre movable poor was 32/ per cent. of the coat of relief to the other paupers-4i proportion higher by 1 per cent. than in the previous year. LANCAAHIRE AND Y0111E:OHRE RAILWAY.—At a meeting of directors of this company, on Wednesday, it wee decided to recommend to the proprietors, at the next meet ing, to declare a dividend for the half-year at the rate of 54 per cont. per annum (lees income tax), out of the net earn ings of the half-year. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2, 1861. IMPERIAL P, HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY, Avousr L ROYAL COMMISSION. At four o'clock the Royal Commissioners (the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Newcastle, and the Duke of Argyll), took their meats iu frost of the throne, and in com pliance with the summons of the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod (Sir Augustus Clifford), the Speaker, attended by several members of the House of Commons, having ap peared at the bar of the House of Lords ; The royal assent was given to the following bills:— Piers and Harbours ; Turnpike Trusts Arrange ments ; Harbours ; Passengers (Australian Colonies); Metropolitan (Police Force Pensions); Railway Com panies Mortgages Transfer (Scotland) Drunken ness ( Ireland ); Landlord and Tenant Law Amendment; (Ireland) Act Proceedings: Vaccination ; Voters (Ireland) ; University Elections ; Dublin Revising 13arriaters ; Lunatic Asylums (Ireland) Act Continuaocej County Cass (Ireland) Act Continuance ; Local Government Act Amendment ; Locomotives ; Tramways (Scotland); FAst India (Civil Service) ; immoveable Poor; Crown Suite Limitation ; East India Council, Ice • County Surveyors, Ise. (Ireland) ; l'ub lic Works (Ireland) ; Advancement and Repayment of Money' ; Attorneys sad Solicitors (Ireland) ; White Herrin,/ Fishery (Scotland); Turnpike Acts Continuance.; Ordnance Survey Continuance ; Criminal Proceedings Oaths Berlin(; Glasgow and Malagavie Junction Rail way ; Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railway ; Devon Valley Railway ; Lynn and Hunstanton Railway • Cockermouth i Keswick, and Penrith Railway; Gre at Western Railway ; Kirkcudbright Railway ; arid Symington), Bigger and Broughton Railwa Companies ; Caledonianßailway (K 'utherglen and Branches) ; Cornwall Railway • Victoria Dock Gas ' • Birmingham lin , provement ; Cork 'sad Macroom Directßailway ; London I sad North-Wortera ItailwlT (additional wen) ; Somerset Central Railway • South Wales Mineral Railway ; Stock port Ilietries swiss g West 'Mann amid noun vane, Railway Companies ; Worcester Bicenyard, and Leomin ster Railway ; Llanelly Railway it'd Dock • Monmouthshire Railway sad Canal ; St. George's Harbo ur ; Southampton and Batley Railway ; Stourbndge Railway ; Swamies Har bour Trust; , Ellesmere, and Whitchwth Rail way. ; Petenfield way ; Westminster Life lautrasee Society ( dissolution ) ; West of Fife Mineral Railway, and Charlestown Railway and Harbour Companies; Ramsey Railway ; Caledonian Railway (Stooehouse Branch) ; Cale donian Railway (Cleland Branches) ; Forth and Clyde June tics Railway ; Atkinson's Trust Estate ; and Mackinnon's Estate. The Royal Commiesloners then retired, and at 5 o'clock the Loma CarAncn.Lot took his meat on the woolsack. LEICESTER-SQUARE Lord REDESDALR celled attention to the present state of Imicester•sgaare, and said that u great doubts existed upon the sub,jeet of its improvethent he would ask leave to introduce a bill for the purpcee of enabling the parties in terested in the square to make the necessary improvements on the valuers' of the Great Globe. -- ii; iaiii;il;:cii; iiiiiinT THE LEASES, Be., BY INCUMBENTS RESTRICTION BILL. .011 the motion of Lord Litlrm.row, the Common.' amend ments to this bill were agreed to. THE PORTPATRICK HARBOUR (SCOTLAND) BILL. On the motion of the Duke of Sonia= the Commons' amendments to thW bill were agreed to. THE METROPOLIS GAS ACT AMENDMENT BILL. This bill was read a second time. THE LACE FACTORIES BILL _ The Duke of NEWCASTLE moved the second reading of this bill, and in dole; so said he was anxions to explain the position in which the bill stood dace the amendments were made in it by the House of Commons. The other house had made two important alterations— one in regard to the time to be allowed for meals, and the other as to the age when children should be admitted into the factories to work full time. The age originally in the bill was 11, but the Commons hail made the age 13. The masters thought that age would he very inconvenient and prejudicial to the children employed in these factories, and that they might not be employed at all. It had been since agreed by the committees of the masters and workmen that the age of 12 should be inserted in the bill. With respect to the time to be allowed for meals it had been originally proposed that the persons employed should take their meals in batches, so that the mills should not be entirely stoprid. This proposition had been nega tived in the 'ommons, and is coneequence a new claws had been framed in order to meet the difficulty re and it was exported that the committee of workme c nitl accept it. But they were indisposed to do so. The masters might have attempted to carry the bill without the assent of the workmen, but they were unwilling to do so, or to drop the bill, and consequently they would agree to the alteration made in the Commons in this respect. Alter ations might be required in a future session, but he thought their lordships would feel that to pass the bill in its present state would not prejudice future legislation. He hoped also that the conduct of the manufacturers of Nottingham would be borne in mind if they made an application to par , hament for alterations suggested by experience of the working of the measure. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY was satisfied the bill would be of great benefit to the town of Nottingham, and particularly to the great number of children employed in the lace factories. The manufacturers had shown their ' anxiety to promote the welfare of their operatives by readily furnishing every information in regard to their works, and if, owing to the peculiarities of their trade, ally difficulty arose in the operation of the bill, he should be one of the first to support soy remedy that might be pro posed. The bill was then read a second time. The Gunpowder, As., Act Amendment Bill and the Epis copal and Capitular Estates Act Continuance Bill passed the second reading. APPROPRIATION OF SEATS (SUDBURY AND ST. ALBANS) BILL. The report of anteadmeate to this bill was received. INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. The Industrial fiel;OYelSootlaadlitill, and the Industrial Schools Ball were reed a third time and passed. CRIMINAL LAW CONSOLIDATION BILLS. ;fir , e;SOr;;; and AbriticWil;ii,ei;;criniiiia swat.. Repeal Bill, the Larceny, /sc., Bill, the Mslicioui Injuries to Property Bill, the Forgery Bill, the Coinage Offences Bill, and the Offeror* Await the Person Bill amorally passed through committee. The following bills also paned threegb committee : Public Works and Harbours Bill ; Lewd Clerk Register i Abolition Bill ; Durham traivarsit Bill ; Trustee' ) Bill • Conjugal Rights ( ) Bill ; and tan lik:ilding Act Amendment Bill. built sada the superintendenoe of Mr. Lewoock, the Admi ralty wetor, who, on the 4th March but, reported to the AdmfraMy thet the steamer Hibernia was " in every respect Ilt to be employed for the oceveythee of the mails between Galway sad the United Staten, is accordance with the con tract with the Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Navigation Compauy." Mr. WHITBREAD replied that it was true the vessel in question vas being built by Mr. Lewoock, but under the superiatimience of his superior officer. ENLISTMENT IN INDIA BILL. nth bill iTainiWiTtiiiiii tiii» ;14 MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT AMENDMENT BILL The report of amendments to this bin wee received. REMOVAL OF IRISH POOR BILL. The report of amendments wee received. INDEMNITY BILL. nip bill was rend; Thirdiiiieandpaessd. The Draionge of Land Bill, the Public Offices Bite Bill, and the P002)0011 British Forms (India) Bill paned through committee. WINDSOR SUSPENDED CANONRIES BILL The house went into committee on this bill. After some remarks in opposition from the Earl of CHICHEITZIR. The committee divided on clause 2 : - - For the dame Against it The bill was then re The Public Works (Ireland) Bill, Edinburgh University Bill, Inland Revenue Bill, Stamp Duties on Prolate, Bill, and Revenue Departments Accounts Bill puled through committee. _NEWSPAPERS, &e., BILL. Lord REDE'tDA LE understood slit a noble lord oppo site intended to move the mooed reading of this bill. As the house hr! already impresses," its opinion on this bill he hoped that the uuble Led would not press his motion at this period of the @maim. The bill bad not been introduced into the other house till the 22nd of July, and it appeared to have been run through at late boon without attracting any notice. Lord STU ATHEDEN was not aware that the forms of their lordships house permitted a bill to be debated with out notice, and be must therefore decline to discuss the measure till to-morrow. Their lordships roes at *eves o'clock. HOUSE OF 0031SIONS. --THIIILLIDAY, Aua. 1. The house met at four o'clock. NEW MEMBERS. Sir G. Garr took the oath, end his mat for Morpsth on rwelection. Bir R. PERL took the oaths sod his scat for Tamworth on welleetion. 111.rVirtWoori took the oaths and bb seat for the City of Loodoo, in the room of Lord J. 110110111, Dow Earl Rus sell, called to the House of Peers. The boa. member was introduced by Berm Rothschild and Mr. Crawford. Mr. Coos took the oaths sod his seat for Audover, the room of the Lord Mayor, resigned. ROYAL COMMIS: HON. Dna Rod appeared at the table sod summoned the boons to the Hone of Peers, to beer the royal assent given to certain bills, for which see Lords' NOTICE OF KAM. Mr. A. MILLS gave notice that early next session be should mil the attention of the house to our colonial and military expenditure. THE IRON-CASED SHIP DEFENCE. Mr. HENNESSY milked the junior lord of the Admiralty Tether it use true that the iron -awed ship Detente was being THE SUEZ CANAL Mr. 0111WFITH wired the First Lord of the Treasury whether amounts had been received from the Consul Gene ral in e y giving the assurance that no forced labour is being e iid, or will be employed, on the works of the Suez Lord PALMERSTON—A report has been recently re ceived free our Coaxal General in Rapp. who has mad* a tour along the line of the intended canal. From that = it appears there is a coneiderable amount of forced employed Mere. The labourers are paid by the company very libera ist im i t i they are brought there without very much co their wishes. (Laughter.) Mr. GRIFF asked whether the noble lord would pay attention to that subject in relation to the obligations to the Pecks ? MAYNOOTH COLLEGE. Mr. WHALLEY asked when the returns ordered by the house oaths 15th of May last, relative to Maynoal College, would be peaented. Sir R. PEEL said there was no objection to the returns, but he thougst it was not desirable they should be given in the terms of he notice, inasmuch as it was assumed as • fact that sone Roman catholic prelates in Ireland bad signed a document attaching to their signatures territorial titled. That would bring those prelates under the Eerie sisetical Titles Act, and therefore he thought it would be advisable to alter the wording of the motion. Mr. WH 'Y wished trap tight boa. baronet would peepordist isskeitleassairadst THE DUKE or YORK'S COLUMN. Mr. C. BENTINCK asked the First Commissioner of Works whether the Board of Works could obtain power to remove the iron care which are ►t present placed upon the respective summits of the Monument aml the Duke of York's Column ; and if no, whether such cages might not be replaced by some other protection against accidents ? Mr. COWPER] admitted that the iron ftge at the top of the column was a great disfigurement. He found it had been placed there by the trustees of the subscribers who built the monument in consequence of the suicide of an unfortunate musician, who threw himself from the top. The trustees were quite willing to allow anyother protec tion to be substituted which would be a leis disfigurement to the column ; hut he (Mr. Cowper was not aware at pre sent how that object was to be at THE GALWAY CONTRACT. TO answer to Colonel FRVICH Lord PALMERSTON said he would endeavour to rend the evidence taken by the committee in regard to the termi nation of the Galway contract, and give an answer on the subject before the prorogation of parliament. General BUCKLEY linked the Secretary of State for War whether his attention had been called to the state of the Megan transport, and whether the facts stated in the Times of the 30th ultimo were correct. Sir G. C. LEWIS said that no information had been re ceived on the subject at the War-aloe. THE CASE OF THOMAS CARTER. Sir G. C. LEWIS mid he would take that opportunity of making a short statement with regard to the case of Thomas Carter, which had been recently before the house, Having received • copy of the evidence on which the conviction was founded, it seemed to hint the depositions of the wit nesses were so meagre that the imprisonment already re ceived was sufficient to meet the justice of the case, and he bad therefore given directions that the prisoner should be discharged. (Hear, hear.) AMERICAN CONTRACTORS. Sir G. BOWYER asked the Secretary to the Admiralty if it was advisable or safe to rely on American contractors for our supply of navy beef for the ensuing year, taking into consideration the disturbed state of the United State. and the threatening tone of the Notthern American prise towards this country. Lord C. PAGL'T replied that we cured our own beef, and had no contract on the subject with any foreign country. PAROCHIAL AND BURGH SCHOOLS (SCOTLAND) (No. 2) BILL. Upon the order of the day for the consideration of the Lath' amendmente, The LORD-ADVOCATE explained that the measure would do an act of justice to the schoolmasters in Scot land, and put an end to those sectarian differences which had hitherto been the great obstacle to the spread of edu cation in that country. After a few words from Mr. ADAM, The Lords' amendment, were thee agreed to. OFFICERS OF RESERVE (ROYAL NAVY) BILL Upon the motion for the third reading of this bill. Kr. LINDSAY pointed out some details in the ovula tions which he stated would cause this valuable bill to work effectually. He then again called attention to the naval armaments of France, and repeated his oft-made statement that he had obtained accurate information as to the pre parations of France ; but again admitted that if the state meats of the government that France had 20 iron-cased ships were true, England must have 30. He urged that attempt. should be made to come to some understanding between the two countries as to the amount of their respective naval armaments. STANILAND spoke in the same sense on the latter Lord C. PAGET said that his statements referred to a totally distinct period to that at which Mr. Lindsay ob tained his information ; since that online had been given to all the French dockyards to proceed with the iron ships, and they were in progress. With regard to the officers of naval reserve, everything would be done to consult their feeling and their position in the event of their being culled into active ser►ice. Mr. WHITE suggested that it was our own preparations wilich caused a reaction in the French dockyards. Lord PALMERSTON—My hon. friend ham drawn a we elusion not warranted by the facts. He infers, because no active execution of these new ships had begun when the inquiry of my hon. friend the member fur Sunderland took place, that the subsequent commencement of them was owing to our preparations. In point of fact we had made no preparations, because the orders issued for easing wooden ships with iron and the laying down of new IMO cased ships are very recent, and subsequent to what the French have does. Thu real history of the cue is simply this. In December the French government took the resolu tion of ordering ten additional iron ships, ten in addition to those six which were known before, but they had doubts, as to the proper mode of constructing them. Those doubts were to be solved by experiments made with La Glair% which was found to be faulty. They remained from that time till May in suspense, and it was not till May that, haeiug settled certain doubtful points which bad not been settled before, and which were settled by the experiments obtained by the cruising of In Moire, they gave the order' actually to proceed with those ten iron ships. Their keel. were already down end the building was commenced ; and therefor*, as my noble friend has said, the investigations made by the boo. member for Sue• derland took place at a time when the order had been deter mined upon but not actually given to the dockyards ; and therefore anybody going to the dockyards would find that there was nothing to be seen, because those ships were com menced some time after the inquiries of my honourable friend. With regard to the other question, which is one of great importance, namely, whether the British govern ment should enter into communications with any foreign government —I do not confine my observations merely to France, but with any foreign government—the result of which would be to impose a limit on the naval forces of the several countries, that is • question of very great difficulty. (Hear, hear.) Though on the first blush that might appear to be an expedient and politic thing, I think that any British government would pause long end hesitate before it entered into any agreement with any foreign power to limit the amount of force, naval or reinter', which this country ought to maintain. (Hear, hear.) We ought to judge for ourselves according to the circumstances of the moment. I am afraid that any agreement with any foreign power— and if there lie an agreement with one there should be an agreement with several foreign powers, for we have not only to consider France, but the United Notes of America, and Spain, which is growing into importance, and other states having navies—would lead to interminable doubts and disputes. It would be noreseary to have officers watching whet is done there, and they must have officers watching what is done here. Suspicions would be awakened, and questions of good and bad faith would arise; and I am afraid that instead of promoting peace and concord, on the contrary, such an annugement would produce discord and ill-feeling. (Hear, hear.) The bill was then read a third time and passed. The Probate end Letters of Administration Act (Ireland) Amendment Bill was read a second time. The Lords' amendments to the Tramways Act (Ireland) Amendment Bill, the Naval and Medical Supplemental Feed Society Bill,the Salmon Fisheries Bill, and the Dealers is Old Metals Bill were considered and agreed to. The order for the second reading of the Marriages (Ire lead) Bill was discharged. EDUCATION. Mr. NEWDEGATE said the boo. member for Peter• borough, who was not at that moment in the hoses, had given notice of his intention to call attention to the report at the Committee of Council on Education, eo far as re garded the report of the inspectors of Roman catholic schools receiving grants of public MODS], and torte why the reports of certain inspectors, namely, lb. Mora and Mr. Marshall, had been omitted from the report prasentad to parliament. He (Mr. Newdegate) wished to sit whether some questions bad not been addressed to the Committeeof (Bt%mped, ld. Additional.) [TWOPENCE Council respecting the system of the grants to the British schools in Waler, and as to whether dna securities ware taken for religious instruction in such schools. After an observation from Mr. WHALLET, Mr. LOWE considered that the three questions to which the hon. member for North Warwickshire alluded were of ao abstract nature, and at the same time controversial in character. The gentleman who had sent them was a clergy man of the church of England, who was rather fond of drawing out the Privy Council. The department had so much real business to do, that it never entered into mere controversial discussions. With respect to the question of the boo . member for Peterborough , he admitted that the report of Mr. Morell, the Roman catholic inspector of schools, printed last year, contained much that was objectionable. The report of this year was also rather objectionable, and therefore he bad suppressed it altogether. He thought that in this matter the hon. member gave him rather hard measure. Last year he blamed them for printing Mr. Morel's report, and thin year he found fault with them for suppressing it. The Mbulated reports which were published contained all sleets saritittormatloa. an observation from Mr. HEITICESST, • of the coons taken hy the Vice-President of the of Trade, the house adyourised at a quarter past six o'clock, until two to-morrow (this day). AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, THINUIDAT. The Montreal Ocean Mail Steamship Company's screw steamer North Briton, Captain Borland, which left Quebec on the 20th ult., arrived at the bar of the Mersey at 1 o'clock this morning. The latest papers from New York are to the morning of the 18th ult., and as our previous advime by the Persia were to the evening of the 17th, there is very little additional news. The Quebec journals are to the 20th, but the intelligence from the States contained in them is quite meagre. In the United States Senate, on the 17th ult., a memorial was presented by Mr. Pearce, of Maryland, from the police commissioners of the city of Balti more, now confined in Fort M'Henry, solemnly asseverating that they have been guilty of the coin miaaion of no traitorous acts, and asking the inter position of Congress on their behalf. The memorial was referred to the judiciary committee. A bill was introduced from the committee on naval affairs, and immediately passed, providing for a temporary increase of the navy. This measure looks to the suppression of privateering. The bill to provide for the better organization of the military establishment was taken up, amended by the addition of a section providing for a retired list in the army and navy, and subsequently recom mitted to the military committee. The house asked a committee of conference on the Volunteer Bill, which was granted. In the house a resolution was introduced by Mr. Holman, of Kentucky, providing for the extension of the powers of the select committee appointed to examine into the contracts made by the War Department. It was passed after conaideiable discussion. The house then debated the Tariff Bill iu committee of the whole until the hour of adjournment, the principal point of difference' among members being in reference to the proposed increase of duties on tea, coffee, and sugar. The New York World of the 18th gives the follow ing summary of affairs : " The grand army, under General M'Dowell, marched into Fairfax Court-house at noon yester day, meeting with no resistance. The rebel force was drawn up in the west side of the town in the morning, and the inhabitants expected a battle, but about 9 o'clock the troops precipitately fled, leaving much provision and camp equipage. "General Patterson, with his column, twenty-five thousand strong, on Monday moved from Martins burg in the direction of Winchester, and on Tueeday was i n pursuit, and about eleven iles in the rear of General Johnston. " Another battle has been fought in Missouri on the 16th. Eight hundred Federal troops, in pas senger cam on the North Missouri Railroad, were fired into at Milvile, thirty miles above St. Charles. The battle was undecided when the despatches were sent. " On Friday night three companies of the Second Kentucky Regiment attacked and entirely routed six hundred rebels on the Kanawha river, near Barbourville. " The government has decided that no more fugitive slaves are to be allowed iu the camps, or to follow the army. " The volunteers whose terms are about to expire will be returned to their States iu time to be mus tered out at the expiration of their service." The trial of the Savannah privateers commenced on the 17th at New York, and was adjourned to the 23rd. The situation of affairs at the latest date, and the commercial intelligence from New York, have been already published in the telegram from Lon donderry. to know why. It was said at first that secrecy was thought desirable on account of the loan, but now it is thought that Cialdini is waiting for orders from Turin to see whether the arrest is to be confirmed. It seems that Mgr. Storm is most seriously compromised in the Bourbon oonspiracy. A Naples letter of July 23 in the l'atric nays : Some very important arrests have been effected in the provinces within the last few days. Among the chiefs of bands the names are cited of Raphael Testa Celestiuo Alto piedi, in the campagno of Venus° ; Michael Prete, in the environs of Brindisi; Francesco S►verio Taracco and An ' tonio Fioriti, and others of less note. It is confirmed that the village of Spinelli has been set on fire. Two of the richest proprietors of Calabria, Baron de Ba rocco, senator, and Baron Berlingeri, whose immense pro. perty comprises half a Calabrian province, have organised • force of 800 horse among their own tenants, and will bunt down the brigands without pity. Baron Berlingeri's father was killed a year ago by two brigands who are now at the head of a formidable band. ITALY. The Opinions of Turin states that the private subscriptions to the Italian loan amount to 963 millions of franca. Among the principal subscribers there are—Rothschild, of Pans y for 150 millions ; Bolmida and Barbarous, of Turin, for 123 millions; Duke Galliera, Bellinzaghi, and others, 114 mil lions ; Kceingswarver, of Paris, 56 millions ; Gen. Bolavoli, 13,400,000 f ; Erlargen, of Frankfort, 36 millions •, Goldsmid, of Frankfort, 20 millions, skc. It is understood that all these subscriptions are subject to a reduction of 42 per cent. General Cialdini has imagined a new method for putting a stop to the constant applications for places under government. By a decree of the 24th ult. he has ordered that all the names of the ap plicants for placiesdepending from the Department of the Interior and Police shall be published, together with the names of those who recommend them ; and this system has at once been inaugurated by the publication of the names of 23 individuals, who had made their application the day before ; two of them asking for any kind of place whatever. The Manitnento of Genoa announces that M. de Mdrode bad an interview with General Boxes on the 24th July at Civita Vecchia, in consequence of which the General immediately set out for Rome. Although the telegraph from Rome duly contra dicted the arrest of Cardinal Sforza ' Archbishop of Naples, it appears by all the latest letters that the arrest really took place, and, moreover, that the cardinal is still in cunt:Ay. The following details are given by a Turin letter, dated July 29, in the Presse : - All the mystery relative to the arrest of the Cardinal Archbishop of Naples is not even yet cleared up. ()sin ewy mortals only learned the news by a despatch from Paris, where the rumour circulated. I knew of it on Finlay evening, and it was only the neat day after confirmation that I ventured to send it to you. This is what occurred:— General Cialdiui Rent word by telegraph that he had put Cardinal Stores under arrest, believing that be had suffi cient evidence to .bow that he was an accomplice in the Bourbon conspiracy recently discovered. " Shall I main. taM the arrest?" asked Cald ul, " Wait," was the answer. Subsequently, the conned of ministers deter ' mined that the archbishop should be retained in custody. It is not easy to get at the bottom of mysteries of this kind. Yesterday evening, for instance, M. Minghetti assured one of my friondi that the news of the arrest was not true ; but another minister, less diplomatic in regard to facts, admitted that it was ; and this morning an am baseador assures me that he has transmitted the intelligence to his government by telegraph. This act of vigour pro duces the best effect here, and the rather because, for the last month, it has been whispered that in case of the Pope's death Cardinal! Stoma would be his successor. Of course you know what is meant by the . arrest of an arch bishop in Italy : be is not dragged to prison, but remains in his palace, with his little court and his cook, and is merely guarded so as not to be lost sight of. When he wishes to take an airing he is escorted by a priest in the confidence of the government, and if he travels a convent on has line of march is assigned for his residence. A Turin letter of the same date, in the Opinion Nationale, says : The Cerdinal Archbiahopof Naples was arrested on Friday night. This news, now news no longer, however, has not been published in any journal, and people are much pursled ITALY AND SWITZERLAND. The following despatch from the Swiss minister at Turin to the Federal Council has been received at Mr. Reuter's office : Turin, July 19. Monsieur le President,-1 regret to have to inform you that Baron Ricauoli, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, has announced to me the determination of the Italian govern ment to withdraw the permission accorded to the Swiss lately in the service of Francis 11. to remain at Naples, not withstanding that it was one of the conditions of the capitu lation of Geste. General Cialdini and M. Pouts di San Martino had de manded the withdrawal of this permiation, because they felt assured that it would bring our countrymen into trouble, the animosity of the people designating them u the former, sad probably the fetus, soot* ci Francis IL I have energetically protested against this resolution, and have written a letter to that effect to the Minister, a copy of which I enclose. Unhappily I fear that our countrymen sometimes manifest their sympathies in a very imprudent manner. For instance, a consul who is universally known as a reactionist pve a grand diaper on the day on which he heard of the death of Count Cavour. All the guests who were invited, with the exception of seven or eight Swiss, were wise 'cough to stay away. Those who accepted the invitatiou had evidently a right to do so, but it was not prudent, considering that at the time Chiavone and his men had taken the field, and the return of the ex-King was daily announced. The ambassador of the state for which this consul acts has addressed a despatch to his government co the subject, in which he severely censures the conduct of the consul. This despatch was given me to read —Re ceive, be., A. fourrz. A passage in the letter from the Swiss Minister to Baron R' icasoli, referred to in the above, runs thus: M. le President,—Allow me towy that without the two renolutions of the Federal Assembly, which cancelled the capitulation, and the military service of the Swim abroad, it may be doubted whether the revolution which has united the Two Nair* to Italy would have taken such an course. Italy has therefore but to thauk SwitzerS which did not hesitate to sacrifice the interests of 15, of her countrymen to the liberal CUM. THE POPE'S HEALTH. We read in the Perseneratua of Milan a letter from Rome, from which tho following is an ex tract: I break the silence which I have kept for some time, to give you a piece of news which, though old, is not suffi ciently recognised. The Pope is ill. Ile ham not only the chronic affection of the legs, which are swollen and covered with large sores, but he has a disease of the heart, which may carry him off at any moment. Dr. Carpi gives it as his opinion that he cannot live three months. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. The Oat-Deutsche Post of Vienna, of tho 28th July, says : Ms Path Gazette contains a circular of the Judex Curia to all the law authorities, ordering that the principles pro visionally established by the Cunal Conference for the ad• ministration of justice are for the present to servo u the rule foe all the tribunals. The Comitat of Haschau has passed with enthusiasm a vote of thanks to Baron Vey, Coast Swain, M. lle Szegenyi, and M. Edouanl Zsedeuyi for having sacrificed their high functions to their patriotic fidelity and convictions. The Agram Gazette publishes the text of the re solution of the Croatian Diet relative to its rela tions with Hungary. It is only necessary to peruse that document to be convinced that the changes made in it, after lung discussions, have not softened the spirit or lessened the bearing of it. It is a formal renunciation of a real union with the crown of Hungary, and the conditions to which it sub jects any negotiations for the purpose of preparing a closer union are of a nature to render the estab lishment of it, if not impossible, ut least exces sively difficult. The representatives of the military confines in the Diet of Croatia have addressed a petition to the Emperor of Austria, in which they say: "Our greatest complaint is of the excessive severity of the military service. Out of • population of 1,082,000 souls the Confine% have to supply on an average 60,000 men—that is one soldier for every 18 persons ; and in time of war, on deducting women, children, the sick, and the old men, scarcely any valid men remain in the country. In the rest of Austria only one man in 140 is taken, so that the contingent of the Confines is six times greater than that of other Austrian provinces. Owing to this state of thiogs the wars in Hungary and Italy made 30,000 widows sod 60,000 orphans, and as in war it is always the Bower of the nation which is taken, our race is decimated and our na tional power reduce d such NI extent that other races increase and become strong at our expense. That is why the population of the Confines declines instead of augment ing. In 1847 the number of inhabitants of the Confines was 1,110,000, and it is now nearly 20,000 lees. That is certainly a terrible tax on blood, and we have paid it for 300 years ! TURKEY. THE SUSPENSION OF THE ;" LEVANT HERALD." The Levant Herald, of the 24th ult., announces its own suspension, news of which has reached us by telegraph. The Herald gives the following additional in formation respecting the reforms that are being carried out by the new Sultan : Amongst the myriad other abuses which grew into established system at the Ministry of War under the regime of Rise Pacha, was the enrolment as officers of many hundreds of his own and his frieu,be pipe -bearers, cavern's., boys, and other dependents, with every rank from lieutenant up to that of colonel. It is needless to say that these gentry neither understood nor rendered military ser vice, but they nevertheless drew pay and rations more regularly by far than the most deserving subalterns , or field officers is the corps (Carom& of Itounielia, Lek, or Arabistan. Such, too, was the case with mores of juvenile sons of the disgraced minister's parti sans. Crowds of these unfledged warriors held the rank of bimbashi, caimacani, and even mir-allai, and drew both the pay and rations of their grades. At one fell swoop Namik Pacha has annihilated this whole army of parasites, sending the chibouquejees and cavgees back to their pipestricks and ffingana the boys to whatever they are fit for, and the sons to the proper charges of their fathers. It is reckoned that no fewer than a thousand " officers" have been thus at once got rid of. Besides this important elimiusaion, th e r m. merons body of officers, native and foreign, who are not engaged in active service, are to be at once placed on half-pay, without ration'', the latter being allowed only to those of them who have been twenty years on the muster-rolls of the army. Similar weeding is to take place smarms' the civil employes of the department, which will result in the clearance off of several hundreds of useless kiatas and other subordinate minecurista. In addition to these wholesome changes, the new minister has already abolished the system of sfsimar, or "recommendations," by which the most worthless of the classes of officers above re ferred to passed ►t once over the heads of the most de serving who did not happen to possess the vicious influence by which these passports to promotion were obtained. The whole system of contracts is also to undergo the most ra dical changer, after the accomplishment of which such jobs as public rumour lays to the joint account of Mr. Falange and the late bead of the department will, it is hoped, be no longer possible. Besides these important reforms in the central adminis tration—the total of which wall, it is reckoned, effect a saving of 3:1,000,000p. a year--confidential commissioners are to be sent to the headquarters of the various corps dames, to ascertain by direct comparison of the regimental mister-rolls with the men actually um& r arms, the exact effective strength of each regiment, division, and corps d'arasle. In those of Irak and Arebisten, enormous dis crepancies between the late seraskier's returns to the Grand Council and the force positively under arms in these two corps, are expected to be discovered. In both of them the actual will, it is believed, be found to be short of the nominal strength by fully one-third. Such are a few of the wholesome reforms inaugurated by the new minister. Others of hardly less importaute are is contemplation ; to these we shall refer in an early number.