The Express. — London, England, 1861-07-22 00:00:00

VICTORIA (AUSTItALIA) RAILWAY LOAN, trued under the antbsrity el the Rattner Lola Act of lßall4llellitstre .4 Vidal*. KG XXIV', att. , altib c ""m• Nev. hi. len. balloted .• An A-t to authorise the rafting of Imes /or the eutiatructluti of Railways," to be carded by the lustM Dtbottutrc, hearing interest at the este of els per exam pee annum, In amounts of t.,Soi and the/ each. secured Is the consotniated resent's/. of %Intone. and redeemable on IM• lat of October, Isits The ('.emitter appointed by the all associated Austsslian haulm es agents ill this counto ,4 the Government of liktuela for the fetwol,ation of Ott LOAD. HKR/91V taVR NOME ghillie, sill i.e ready to f VATtora FURTHER PORTION of the above Ilatllol DEISENTI X 1.1.100.4100 sterling, by PI BLit' TI.:N DLR. at the Lomb,. and Westminster Bank. at Two o'clock preeisely. VII the after...it of ill(' RABAT. the 25th instant. up too Inch thin scale,' Tenders will be received there from all inflow who may to, ward the awe, addremed to the Chair. num of the Vomnuttee 40,1 endorsed Tenders for the Victoria Ms per cent attend in perfOn thefOnlUL In ca,Cst of mouldy t I Tel.', rs. 10)004 the amount to be 10~4, they will • subjet 1t,,.. 'incest., iliniiiititton. A ilepoit of per..' t on the amount of each tender mast 's peel told to the Loud.... Anil Westminster Bank. The ten ders will tins. be 11l the prisierice of an r. atkudiu¢. and nit publicly. ..rid the purchmiera forthwith declared 1.. be Os. have "tiered the !Patient price not under the polonium loci toasty :lied, and which shall be ciiiiLtinesi In a w Paler Placed on the table before the teibkrin are ..peered. Trot, N 1.% the mine person at carious prices must be made out end tele. ately, and parties most be careful not to endow tit, deposit io, the sealed tender. Tenders at a priee to. eluding fractious of A allillAng other Albui invent,: will out be Thin dcbentliren r.. ontru•t.d for all be Iteliverable to the soh- Pathan, at the Lontl.l and Wentinlnater Bank OP ►'rblay, the loth Aikfaxt ,R .‘t. upon p I)iinnt of the balance due thereon. rurrha.orn tht Liebetatires will be entitled to the interest avenged loon the I• April last. Princtikil aiol let, real paiahle In Loudon at the London awl Wentniinater hank . tot Loubot Joint Stuck Bank. Interest pantile on the April and lot October In each year by avupm. 14 , r flu Raul of N, Mouth %Yalta D. ra.t_. .. D. Q. Ilsoniiurs. ~. Ju.J. Cummins. ■Jauuml N'estby. For Mr Motif .4 Magnilris For tht• I Ilion Bank al Australia... Fur the I lank of VI. tarts Yor tlo. Lon.tou lb &Tiered nook a Ass. India For the r"knobl Bask et Australria. m. % thur Agobtk, IL: Latium' Jul at Bunk IV. J. Lsoastar. Loudon, July 17. 1111. ONOOND-HAND PIANOFORTES. CILAMES. UAL.; sal Oa. how a bars• asaortateut at aaaamliaad Pisa ,furls. by Ye most alaemad 'Qattara at peaky named price&-1111. ItageaS4trerA. T .OYBII/8 HYDROSTATIC TEA and COFFER .41.4 PILIXOLAI , III.-1 io 100,000 eon Woos mod ha • aoomoot. Ormot owing. 10,010 nos is. E%orywhoro. *matt v.—J. OULU& agent, 21. Coaraoweireet. Meat-esd klap6t. 100, lopoo4olroot, W. ONO. ANITH AND DAD pints irvißiEf - or bACVEEP FEET, Ural& awl Culinary Nu gold he la., , and ra. Farina, by all ananiaba, groan, &v. MANI: VACtOlti 13. LITTLIt 201ILL1RD82., nagnal42, W. gite erortoli. ro ”UMPOWDI3I7II. librlissmbis bladed br "The Ripirss " Labe Wombs Pam nub be et the odes. 10. Boaverlorbert. Tye ebb* as be day or pabllearkb a4y muaia! TAD Rvienan, NACCHCS AND ANZADNL—MY LORD AND 111' LADY Ur. aad 0. Matbrwa—CDDL An A IsER. r. Mathews slid Ms fumy Wrighl—And Tt• AN t. THE T A ULLA. Mr. Complea--Ocousaa. as 7. rFilitAill'S t TEL Emma), .t HOMESTEAD STORT.—And HAMLET. Megan Y•Mter. Epter, shank lisman Veain. Meadows, sad Toilet . Mimes Llsworthy sad WIWI" lodetty. MRITAVM(A. Tio• tram; THE A RTIAATSTLII'MPM. Mr. Iteraolds and Mrs. E Varnott —singing by Mmes. Mlldehrsed bat Ormande. —lmlkt tram Mt: KING INF Tin amusaiNs.—lflfth Act of MACBSTEL—And DICK Tl:LTlN.—Comimmos st ba•pasS p. RION WATIII AT LONDON SWOON TEN DAY —Morslna IX On Afteraces. Th. 271. To lISIOW —Yenta& OL No Allyruys. 3h. 11.. LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 22. TO OUR READERS. ?PORTING LNIIILLIGE-NCE. A late edition of the E"press is published every eveoirg during the racing season, containing the results of the day's races. Ac often as 9%1..0i-female voices are heard com plaining through the press of the stubbornness of the bachelors, of the at once Epicurean and economical spirit of the age, and of the increasing difficulty of disposing of daughters in the holy bonds of matrimony, the " social evil" is brought forward to account for the embarrass ment. A monster evil it is ; but it has so long existed amongst ns that one does not see how it is chargeable with any growing reltie tame of the higher class of Englishmen to wive. We say " higher," for in the ranks employed in active industry, untroubled by ideas of caste or fashion, the complaint is not made. Although the " social evil " must spread its temptations for the young ahopman or the superior artisan, it is never pre tended that it can compete with or obstruct that desire for a home, and that respect for family ties, in which alone a sane man can imagine happiness. Where there are position and fortune, the advantages of the marriage state over an irregular mode of life are still more manifest, so much so that the latter can scarcely ever be the result of deliberate choice. An unhappy chance, or disappointment and recklessness, can alone drive men to the pironer. And writers, when they comr ire the two kinds of life, and represent the attractions of the one as seriously damaging the other, take a tales and selfish view of marriage, whilst they as ignorantly, we hope, exaggerate the advantages of unlicensed unions. We should be inclined to attribute the paucity of marriages in a certain class of life, to a social evil of quite a different kind, to the pride and ex clusiveness of the circle from which the complaints are supposed to come, to the eternal straining of eyes upwards, and never casting them down—in a word, to the circumstance of the ladies of gentle rank refusing to take account of those levelling and lowering changes which have been at work in the upper strata of society, and which the male portion of it have been obliged to recognise. Years back the clam of English gentry might be measured by the landed rental of the country. On it, and iroon the patronage which it could com mand, thi: class subsisted. What are the revenues of land now compared with the annual wealth of tho country And how different are the laws which govern the economical state of society then and now ! Then, a young man's expectations and prospects were a sum in plain arithmetic ; the few who made fortunes and rose to eminence from obscurity used to be objects of wonder and heroes of domestic fable. At the present day, of what is composed the great mass of Englishmen, even of the well-born Of a struggling crowd of hopers, striven, and earners. The prizes are a thousandfold in number of what they used to be, and so are the competitors. It Is a beneficent rule of nature that women are born as nearly as possible in proportion to men. Each human being can find his partner in the opposite sex. But the young women are taught to look ex clusively to such partners as the old state of society sufficiently provided, but which in the new form not a hundredth part of the developed race. They want assured fortune, fixed property, rental. This forms not one-tenth even of that class of men who will assuredly one day enjoy comfortable incomes and prosperous living. The consequence is that men must wait to marry ; but in waiting they get fastidious, and young women become more fasti dious towards them, so that in the end they often do not marry at all. All this can be reduced to a formula. As long as the higher class of the country consist of youths of " certain prospects" and landed property, they can marry early. And as they give the tone to society, other youths contrive to marry young also. When the majority of young men of a country are earners, and have only " prospects" to offer, whilst young women will not accept such uncertainties, the girls of the generation in which the change takes place go without husbands, men waiting and taking younger girls as they can get them. When the transition is complete the female generation adapt themselves to it. But the period of transition is hard, except to those who are wise enough to discern that it is an abnormal epoch. Nor are parents having fixed and assured property the only parents who look to nothing less than assured and ample fortunes for their daughters. The great struggle of a considerable portion of the earning class itself is to get out of the society of earners and enter the higher circles, where assured fortune is alone admitted. What is the consequence ? That they are looked down upon and set aside by the society into which they thrust themselves, whilst they are ignored by the class to which they really belong. Is it to be wondered at that girls thus treated remain spinsters I Nor are the parents to be pitied for ',lacing their children in those posi tions where there are literally no prizes for them in the wheel of fortune. Our contemporaries threw the great blame of paucity of marriage upon the "social evil." It would be more just, perhaps, to attribute the " social evil " to the paucity and difficulty of marriage. There is a country peopled by our race, where this evil is scarcely known to exist. What kills itf Early marriage, the fair prospects of every youth, the absence of rules of caste and prohibitions of fashion which permits, if we may be allowed the expression, free trade in marriage. It is proposed to remedy the great canker by ex erting the omnipotence of fashion, and making it open its anathemas against those men of fashion who indulge in " temporary connexions." We may be sure that fashion does its utmost to punish them. But fashion is powerless in this case, for it is the voice of the wealthy, the well-born, the young, and we may add of the self-indulgent. Better far for the end in view it would be to banish fashion altogether, and put common sense, fair equality, and manly morality in its place. It would be very easy to enumerate a host of causes which in the present age apparently mili tate against marriage. There are clubs that make bachelors comfortable, and give them society without the trouble of seeking it—there is the Divorce Court, and the reports of the cases brought before it, as much calculated to terrify the single world from entering the marriage state, as clubs are to induce them to dispense with it. But the heart of man is no:. made to be satisfied with substitutes for what it naturally aspires to. Clubs and divorce courts will not prevent young men from marrying ; but absurd social pride and artificial social obstacles may do that which nothing else can. As to the sorrows of Belgravia, real or imaginary, they deserve no sympathy. If Belgravian spinsters fume, or Belgravian mothers fret, let theirs be the punishment, as theirs is the fault. A suctrr continues to rest upon commercial en terprise throughout the kingdom. There is an almost universal complaint that business is dull, profits small, and money tight. Money is tight in a sense somewhat different from that in which the term is understood in Lombard-street. Every person who has to make payments delays doing so as long as is decent or possible, chiefly because this is the way in which he is himself served by his debtors. Neither do stocks of goods move off with the ordinary freedom. N% net ever encouraging inferences may be extracted from the general statistics of trade, there is no doubt whatever that it has lost its elasticity, and that considerable disappointment is at present felt by the mercantile public, by whom, individually and collectively, a steady and con stant increase in transactions and in profits is re garded as the natural condition of business in • thriving community like ours. Although the aggre gate of the transactions of the nation is still very large, this condition of progress is now wanting. Its absence is to be traced in • great Immure to the failure of the last har vest, and to the vast expenditure which that calamity has entailed on us as a nation. In the first place, there is the foreign aspect of the outlay. It is true that we import every year a very large quantity of food, the supply raised at home being uniformly inadequate to the wants of our teeming population. It is only when the tribute which we pay to the foreigner for food increases greatly that we feel any pressure. We would ask our readers' attention to the statistics of the im ports of breadstulls, because they exhibit at • glance the real causes of the present paralysis of enterprise. The imports of grain of all kinds, as well as flour, for the last seven years have been as follows: OZADI AND nova. bepoirle la 11154 i 31,780.283 „ 1885 17,508,700 „ 1864. WA:81,422 „ 1987 19,380,867 MS 15,152,811 „ 18911....... .............. Total is NM years .111111,883.4176 Annual average for six year Y 19,1180,613 Imports in 1860 111,671,918 Now, the nation was not at all distressed by being required to pay the heavy sum of 119,883,8761. to the foreigner for grain and sour 'during the six years first referred to. It will be noticed that for that period the average annual amount was almost exactly twenty millions sterling. This sum appears very large, but we have set it down as a regular item of the national outlay, have provided for it, and do not feel the strain in the least. Twenty millions a year for breadstuf . is quite in the ordi nary count, of trade, and but for this the numerous States which supply us would probably be com pelled to go without • large portion of the useful commodities wherewith our manufacturers square the account. It is interesting to remark, too, that, with the exception of the year 1855, when the grain imports sank 2,471,9131. below the six years' average (namely, to 17,508,7001.), and of 1856, when they rose 3,058,809/. above it(namely, to 23,039,4221.), the extreme variation has been only between 18,042,0631. in 1859, as tbs lowest, and 21,780,2831., in 1854, as the highest annual amount. But 1860 has gained for itself quite • distinctive character as a year of heavy imports—that is to say, of seriously enlarged foreign outlay. Instead of 19,980,613/., the average amount for the six years, we were obliged to import in 1860 31,671,9181. of breadstuff*. The difference is no leas than 11,691,305/. Com , paring the imports of 1860 with those o 1859, the increase is larger 13,629,8551. It must be obvious to the merest tyro in political economy that a difference of twelve or fourteen millions sterling in the disbursements for a single article of consumption must make an immense difference in the power of the nation to consume other articles. And if it goes on eating, drink ing, and consnming other commodities at the usual rate, forgetful of the exceptional strain which these large imports entail, it is guilty of extravagance, which must be atoned for THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 22, 1861. at some time. Economy and retrenchment ought to be the order of the day until the cause of pressure is removed. And it is precisely because the country is economizing, and spending less upon other articles, that trade is dull, that goods do not sell, that manufacturers and shopkeepers alike oomplain, and that there is a kind of conges tion of the circulating medium. But the figures given above do not represent by any means the full extent of the pressure to which we have been and still are subjected. They show what an extraordinary sum we had to pay in 1860, but the payments in that year were not by any means so heavy as they have become since. Every one knows that the effect of a bad harvest is not fully felt until the year following the one in which it occurs. Information regarding the value of our imports has not yet been brought down by our easy-going official statisticians to a later date than the end of April. Let us content ourselves with this for the present, and see how the money has gone for the first third of the present year. The value of the grain of all kinds and flour imported in the first four months of the last three years is shown below : GRAIN AND FLOUR. Imports in four months of 1859 Ditto ditto 1.860 Ditto ditto 1861 Being, if continued, at the rate of All 1869 £13,152,135 per annum. All 1860 11,73 ,0(31 „ All 1861 !! ,306,305 These figures are startling. For the firs t four months of the current year we have paid at the rate of no less than 37,306,305/. per annum, tho total for the extraordinarily heavy year 1860 having been, as before stated, 31,671,9181., and the annual average of the six years being 19,980,6131. Or looking, for the moment, merely to the four months, we find that we have paid in that short period in hard cash 8,522,434/. more than in the same period of last year. It is a somewhat remarkable coincidence that this differ ence is of nearly identical amount with the sum which we have sent in gold to the United States since the beginning of last December. Our conso lation must be that we have now got through the worst of the difficulty. We cannot be made to go on importing at the same enormous rate much longer. Should the yield of the coming harvest approach an average, our requirements, as regards foreign supplies, will slacken, and this will involve • certain relief. Everything depends on this year's crops. The exhaustion which a drain of gold for corn occasions is easily understood if we reflect that the commodity which we import is not used for any manufacturing or industrial process, and does not reappear in the export trade. A large business in grain is essentially a one-sided trade, advantageous, of course, to those of whom we buy it, but very exhausting to ourselves. It may almost be reckoned, indeed, that the 13,629,8551. which forms the sum paid for corn in 1860 in excess of that paid in 1859, repre-1 sents an absolute loss to the nation—the measure of the lees which it sustained through the i failure of the crops. But this was not the whole of the loss, for, as we have seen, the same features are strongly impressed on the whole course of trade for the current year. It is very instructive to contrast the effect of • large importation of grain with that of a large importation of an article of raw material of manufacture, such as cotton :—ln 1860, we imported of grain and flour, 31,671,9181., and we have nothing whatever to show for that colossal sum. In the same year we imported 35,756,889/. of cotton, and what we had to show for it was cotton manufactures exported to the value of 42,141,5051., besides cotton twist and yarn ex ported to the value of 9,870,8751. These two sums make 52,012,3801. ; and if we also include in the account the immense value of the cotton fabrics consumed amongst our own population, the profits made out of the 35,756,889/. of raw ma terial becomes enormous. Such is the difference between paying thirty millions for corn and thirty millions for cotton. The one sum is sunk—gone ; the other, after figuring on the side of imports, vivifies the export trade, and throws profit into the hands of merchants, shippers, brokers, manu facturers, and operatives. The various insurance offices in London have decided to subscribe among themselves 7,000/. to be invested in the names of trustees, for the benefit of the widow and children of the late Mr. Braid wood. The amount is to be contributed by each in proportion to its London business. Sir George Cornwall Lewis Las appointed the Right Hoe. Sir W. G. Hayter, Bart., M.P. ; the Right Hem Sir W. G. Hylton' Jolliffe, Bart., M.P. ; Sir James Clark Rat. ; Yajee-oeseral Sir Joshua Jebb, H.C.B. ; sad Dr. Hood, to be a Council of Supervirios for the sew Criminal Lusatia Asylum at Broadmoor, is the county of Huta The Hon. Thomas Grosvenor has been appointed napaki attache to her Majesty's mission at Berlin, and Mr. Prank Lasosike to the similar rank at Madrid. Frederick Saunders, Iraq., of the Ceylon Civil Service, his been promoted le be tremerer of tb►t is/and ; and George Vane, Esq., to be priacipal collector of customs in that colony ; T. S. Stephen, E.., to be deputy collector; and W. D. Wright, landing surveyor, St. John's River, Colombo. Charles H. J. Ouyler, late treasurer of Hom an; hse bass appointadreosivar-gronaral of Trinidad. Henry Thonleett, Commander R.N., has been appohtted harbour muter, mutat magistrate, sod emigra tion amour, Hoeg Aug. The Rev. diorge Washington bar been appointed Caenler Orphan at Oairo. THE EX.PERSIR or THIS CHINA WAR. -A parlia mentary return gives the estimate of the sum required to be voted in the year ending 31st March, 1862, to defray ex. pewee consequent on the late naval and military operations in China, beyond the ordinary grants for navy and army services, at 1.000,0001. - - LORD JOUR RUSSELL'S New TITLE.—Some of the paper have stated that Lord John Russell's title would be Earl Ludlow. This is a mistake, which probably owed its origin to the fact that Lord John Russell has inherited from the Linke of Bedford an estate in Ireland, which he be queathed to his brother, as it was bequeathed to him by Lord Ludlow, and which (with the profits that had accrued tram the estate) be coosidend himself entitled to dispose of without trenching on the large property belonging to the ducal Mateo. This princely property the late duke left, not oily unimpaired but largely imprvred ; but he left to his fa vourite and distinguished brother the casual inheritance which now enables Lord John Russell to take his rightful place amongst the foremost in rank, as he has ever been in intellect and patriotism, in the laud. Lord Joho Russell will retain iu his earldom the illustrious name of Russell, to which he has been so long attached, and which be has done ea much to illustrate. He will meet his coostituente at Gtildhall, on Tuesday nest, to take his leave, and will not span appear in the House of Commons, where he has won No many triumphs during the last 40 veers. But he has not the slightest notion of giving up pull., life—as some of his opponents are glad to assert, without any knowledge or foundatioo.-06server. THE PREBIDRNT'E Mammas—Very few of the Paris journals remark on the American President's message. We end the following abort notice in the Prase :—" The Avalon to the Foreign Powers is very brief, and less hos. tUo than might have bend apprehended after the disoontent araifested by the American press against Ragland and France. Mr. Lincoln roamed that several Power had for • moment adapted measures with a view to a speedy disso httion of the Union, but he is happy to be able to say that the sovereignty of the United States is now respected by all the Powers. In a word, the Preeident's marge is more calm in tone than it appeared to be from the telegraphic despatches, however unshakeable may be his determination to carry on the war to the end." SAMARITAN FREE HoerlTAL.—The number of patients treated at the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women and Children, Felwards•etrest, Portmanaquare, during the week ending July 20, was BGS, of which 2134 were new elms. int Court. 08BORNF, JOLT 20. The Duke and Duchess of Montpensier and Princess Isabella left Osborne to-day, attended by Colonel Solis. Lord A. Paget also attended the royal party to Ports mouth in her Majesty's yacht Fairy. _ JULY 21. The Queen drove out yesterday, accompanied by Priacem Helena, Princess Louise, and Prince Leopold, and attended by Lord A. Paget. Prince Arthur rode on horseback. The Prince Consort, the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, and Princess Alice, attended by Countess 13riihl, Count Fiirstentein, Lieutenant• Colonel Obernits, and the Hon. Colonel Hardinge, visited the Royal Military Hospital at Motley. The Marquis of Breadalbano arrived on a visit to the Queen. This morning Divine Service was performed at Osborne, by the ltev. G. Prothero, before her Majesty, the Prince Con sort, the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold. The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting and the domestic household attended. 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 Vis count Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Gran ville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, Lord J. Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir George Grey, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell. Captain Wilmott had an interview with Lord John Russell, at the Foreign-office, on Saturday, on the subject of the sky, trade. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Conocil sat on Saturday. An appeal from the High Court of Admiralty, " the Annapolis" (part heard), was continued. Lord John Russell will go to the House of Lords as Earl Russell ; the second title, to be borne by his son, will be Lord Ampthill. We understand that it is the intention of her Majesty, by the advice of her responsible ministers, to mate Admiral the Hon. Sir Maurice Fitalardinge Berkeley a peer, by the title of Baron Berkeley. of Berkeley Castle. It is now definitively settled that her Majesty will arrive at Kingstown ou this 2Srd of August, and that she will stay at the Viceregal Lodge until the 28th. Although it was expected that her Majesty would hold a drawing•room at the cost* there is reason to believe that such is not the case. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred may be ex pected in England in about a week. The young prince will proceed at once to Osborne, and will enjoy a leave of absence of about a month. The Duke of Argyll, after the Cabinet Council, on Saturday afternoon, suddenly left town for Paris. We are informed that his grace in the afternoon received a telegram from the French capital, conveying intelligence of the illness of the Duchess of Argyll, who had accompanied her mother and brother, the Duchene (Dowager) of Suther land and Lord Albert Lemon Gower, to the continent. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury will give an entertainment at Hatfield House, Herta, on Wednes day next, to a numerous and distinguished circle. The Marchioness of Sligo's dance, previously announced for to-day, is postponed to Wednesday, the 24th. The Earl and Cotinteas Stanhope left town on Saturday for their seat, Mayan* Park, Rent. The Earl of Monut-Edgeumbe has left Farranoe's Hotel, to go oa baud his steam•saeht at Deptford. Lord and Lady Muncaster have left town for Warier Priem Peekhaste& Lord and Lady Ashburton leave Bath House to day for the Grange, Hants. Loral and Ltly Colchester will leave town in s few dap for Paris. A marriage is arranged to take place with Mies Des Vont; eldest daughter of Lady Cecilia Des Vostm, and Major Slade, son of the late Sir John Slade, Bart. Lady Moleaworth entertained at dinner on Satur day evening, at her residence in Eaton-place, his Royal Highness the Duke d'Aumale, their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess Edward of Sine.Weinser, the Dowager Duchess of Beaufort, the Duke of Wellington, his Excel lency the Italian Minister, the Earl and Countess de Grey and Ripon, the Fan Granville, the Earl of Wilton, the Earl of Dudley, the Marchioness of Ely, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Lord and Lady Aahburton, and Lord Dufferiu. A small circle assembled in the evening to wit ness the performance of Us Cericc by Mlles. Damps and Alice Thiric, M. Fecktor, and Mr. A. Barrie. Counta Anatole and - Wladimir Orloff Davidoff lava let the Clarendon Hotel for Perim. Sir John Bowring arrived at Southampton on Saturday by the Para We regret to learn that Sir John was so ill that he had to be canted on shore. The Duke of Somerset has been appointed Cuatoe Rotulorum of the Isle of Ely, in the room of the late Duke at Bedford. Sir George Lewis, it is stated, will be transferred from the Home•o(sos to the War-office, and Sir Gloms Grey, resigning the Chasieellorship of the Duchy of Lan caster, is to resume the anus of Home Secretary. To the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster Mr. Cantwell is to be promoted, and Mr. Chichester Fortescue, without • seat in the cabinet, is to snowed to the office of Chief Se cretory for Ireland, vacated by Mr. Cardwell. It would seem (observes the Times) that the government have great confidence is their popularity when they than boldly ea counter the chances of four elections in addition to the con test impending for the city of London. . - Mr. Cole», a gentleman residing at Middleton house, Longparisb, within four miles of the town, of con siderable wealth, and a staunch conservative, has come for ward as a candidate for the representation of Andover. He was returned member for Andover, in conjunction with Kr. eubitt, in 1847, in opposition to the Hon. Newton FeHowes, now Feu 1 of Portsmouth, and Hr. Liialoner Smith. Ho sat for the borough till 1887, and was then defeated by the Hon. Dudley F. Fortescue. There is no opposition au. sounced at present. . . . On Saturday, by permission of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, preparations commenced for the erec tion of a marble monument on the north side of the oaths deal, midway between the north and wait entrances, to the memory of the late Lord Melbourne. The Council of the Royal Dublin Society have unanimously resolved to recommend the society to comply with the conditions attached by parliament to the grant. This recommendation will be taken into oonsideration at tee special meeting of the society summoned for Thursday next. The camp meetings at Enniskillen, which have sow been in progress more than a fortnight, will close to noonow. It is Mid that 10,000 persons were on the camp ground yesterday week, including visitors from England and Bootland. An inquest was held on Friday on the remains of Lord Walter Butler, who bad been found dead in his bad the day before at his residence in Dublin. He had been subject for a long time to severe epileptic eta, and it ap peased from the medical evidence that epilepsy was the cams of his death. Verdict accordingly. An association Ina been iormed for promoting freedom of public worship in the Church of England, by abolition of the pew system, and revival of the weekly offertory. The Hon. Colin Liadsay is president, and among the vies-presidents are the Earl of Durham. Lord Talbot de Malabide, Sir Stephen B. Glynn., Bart., the Rector of Livapool, Mr. W. Ewart, ILP., Mr. Gilbert (treenail, M.P., to. Tii DIMS OF BUCLINGHAL—WO are sorry to learn that the Duke of Buckingham is in a very precarioes state of health. The accounts received last night gave a more favourable view of his Grace's intim ; but we fear only slight expectations are entertained of his ultimate recovery. The Marquis of Obandos was summoned to town yesterday in oonsequence of the illness of his father. Ten BISHOP or DIIRRAM—From information received by the relatives of the right rev. prelate on Saturday, we are apprised that his lordship was rather better, but could not be pronounced out of (lamer. THIt C tRDROMI4 CASE—The first division of tire Court of Session, Edinburgh, on Friday unanimously sus tained Lord Jerdswoode's interlocutor in this celebrated case, which repelled the pleas of the free church asserting the incompetency of the action. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REVI7I . B TELIGLICB.) AMERICA. BATTLE AT CARTHAGE. (LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO HALIFAX.) NEW YORK, JUL: 11. A battle occurred at Carthage, Missouri, on the sth inst., by 1,200 Federal troops attacking 4,000 rebels. The Federalists finally retired, with the loss of 8 men killed and 45 wounded ; while the enemy, it is said, lost over 250 men. The Federal troops are fast concentrating, and the rebels in that sec tion are expected to be utterly routed within a day or two. There was some brisk skirmishing yesterday near Laurel Hill, Western Virginia, between the Federal troops and the rebels. A battle is expected to occur to-day by General McClellan attacking the entrenched position of the rebels. The Senate has passed a bill, authorising the employment of 500,000 volunteers, and appropria ting 500,000,000 dole. for the war. The House of Repieaentatives has passed a bill authorising a loan for 250,000,000 dollars. The Senate has expelled a member from one of the seceded states. The wife of Professor Longfellow was accidentally burned to death at Boston yesterday. KEW YORK, JULY 9, Evan o. (Per Europa vii► Boston and Queenstown.) Colonel Taylor, who bad arrived at Washington with a flag of truce, bearing despatches from Pre sident Davie to President Lincoln, has been sent back without any answer. The contents of the despatches have not trans pired, but are reported to be frivolous, and the sending of the despatches only a ruse to gain in formation. Congress has passed a resolution to consider business concerning naval and military appropria tions only. All private bills are to be referred for consideration to next congress. Bills have been introduced for the repeal of the tariff of 1861, and the adoption of the 1867 tariff, and also for abolishing all ports of entry below Baltimore. A resolution has been passed asking the Presi dent for the correspondence with Spain relative to the incorporation of San Domingo, and what pro test, if any, the Federal administration had made against the insolent and aggressive conduct of Spain. 6,000,000 dole. have been voted for the payment of volunteers. The President's message and the report of the Secretary of the Treasury are generally approved in New York. General Patterson has been reinforced at Mar tinsburg. General Johnson is reported to be in the neigh bourhood of that place with a large force of confede rates. A mutiny bas broken out among the Garibaldi guard at Washington, and is not yet quelled. The Argo from Southampton has arrived out. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JULY 11. Exchange.—Bankers' hills, 107. Stocks buoyant. Illinois Central, 674. Erie, t 3. New York Central, 75j. Cotton firm, and prices continue to advance. Middling Upland, 15f. Breadstuff" remain fiat and declining. Provisions QUEENSTOWN, JULY 22. The Royal Mail steamship Europa, which ar rived here at 2.20 a.m., left Boston on the 10th, and Halifax on the 12th inst. She brought 108 passengers, and diamonds, value 2,625 dole., for England, and 899 do's. for Havre. She landed all mails, except those for Liverpool, and 10 passen gers, and proceeded at 2.30 a.m. All well. PRUSSIA AND FRANCE. The bidtpendatice Beige says :—" The King of Prussia's journey to the camp at Chilons becomes every day more probable, and it is said that the number of troops will be increased to 50,000 in honour of the royal visit. The King, when sounded as to his intentions, intimated his inclination to go, and at the same time his wish to be protected from the erroneous interpretation of which his visit might be the object in Germany by a letter of invitation from the French Emperor, which if necessary could be published. Probably the letter which General Ney took to Baden to felicitate the King on his escape from the recent attempt on his life, meets the desire expressed by his Majesty. Such at least is the opinion of some circles in Paris." PRUSSIA. The following is the reply made by the King to the address presented to him by the deputation from Berlin : We had but just met under happy,and we did not expect to meet under sad, cimumatanees. The visible favour of God has saved me from death, for, reflecting on what took place when the attempt was made, I am certain — unless I am to believe in a miracle—that the Almighty could have alone saved me. This is not the first time that in our counts) , also, alas ! crowned heads have been exposed to such attempts, my late brother having twice encountered a similar danger. Still my heart is the same. I can assure you that my sentiments and the love which I feel for my people, have not, and will not vary, and that the principles on which I have governed for the last three years will remain unaltered. We see by this attempt what political ettremee lead to. The author of the crime has not exhibited the smallest indica tion of madness from first to last. Ile exhibits a calm re flection. He twice saluted me very politely, so that I thought some old acquaintance existed between us. Bet he only meant to assure himself of my identity. Let us then not close our eye', for where will regicide lead us? Recollect the events of the last two months. Think on the approaching elections. That is what we must think of ; rt is in that direction we must act, for it is only by re sults of that kind that I can understand the real state of things. I have on this occasion received so many proofs of affection from all quarters, that I am deeply moved and affected. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. ITALY. The following proclamation has been issued to his troops by General Cialdini : Soldiers!—lt has pleased the King's government to entrust to me the command of the sixth corps—the fatigues, the services, and the abnegation of which I have applauded at a distance. lam happy to add my efforts to yours, and I trust that we shall succeed in restoring order to this beautiful part of Italy, and to purge it of the bands of brigands who infest it. We shall succeed in associating to ourselves the popular and liberal element of the country—an aid which we shall not want. I invoke it with confidence and shall accept it with gratitude. You know that difficulties do not deter me, and that a want of energy is not my failing. I know of what valour and constancy you are capable. To arms, then, with perfect confidence! Fortune smiles on that who take them up for country and liberty. General HZ/lIT Cisumn. TURIN, JULY 21. The journals Ii Popolo and L'ltalie of to-day an nounce that the brigands have given a banquet within eigbt miles of Naples, to celebrate the ap proaching return of Francis 11. The Nationale says :—" The Minister of War has ordered the distribution of 30,000 rifles amongst the National Guard of the province of Naples." AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Jour 20, EVENINC. Count Moritz Esterhazy has been appointed Minister without portfolio. MONTENEGRO. VIENNA. JOLT 21. Omer Pacha bas landed at Ragwia, awl was re ceived with military honours. Re will leave frame. diately for Antivari in order to have a conference with the Prince of Montenegro. HUNGARY. PESTH, JULIr The Feather Lloyd of to-day says : " Counts Apponyi and Mailath will for the present remain at their poets. " Count Forgach, the new Chancellor of Hun. pry, has declared to the Councillors of the Aulio Court his determination to act according to the constitution and the wishes of the nation. " A circular to the Obergespaine is in course 0. preparation, urging them to act in concert accord; mg to the constitution." FRANCE. PARIS, JULY 93, To-day M. Mfrs lodged an appeal from the sentence pronounced against him in the Police Correctionelle. The loss by the fire in the property rooms of the Grand Opera is estimated at one million franca. The performances will not be interrupted, as the scenery of the pieces played this season is in the Opera-house itself. Six persons were injured at the lire. THE PARIS BOURSE. PARIS, JULY 20, 3.22 P.M. Tho Bourse continues inanimate. Rentee closed heavy at 67.70, or sc. lower than yesterday. AMERICAN MAILS. QUEENSTOWN, JULY at The Royal Mail steamship Africa arrived here at 3 p.m., embarked mails, passengers, and latest telegrams, and proceeded at 4 p.m. for New York. All well THE BOMBAY MAIL. The Valetta, with the above mail, arrived at Marseilles at 2 p.m. yesterday (21st). The mails were to leave for London at 4 p.m. DENMARK. The Cologne Gazette confirms the fact of Den mark, on the recommendation of the Great Powers —which are desirous, above all things, of prevent ing the complications which would arise from a federal execution—having consented to make grad great concessions with regard to the demands of Germany. The Diet of Frankfort has put off its vacation in order to settle this affair, which, in truth, admits of no delay. As to the question whether Denmark will take advantage of existing ' circumstances to incorporate Schleswig, a ministerial journal of Copenhagen affirms that such is not the intention of the Danish cabinet, but that if Schles. wig herself should demand a more intimate union with the kingdom, the latter will not make any objection. The same journal contradicts the state. ment that the Danish cabinet has entered, with other powers, into the formal engagement to renounce any partial or absolute incorporation. Advicea from Turin state that the Hungarians who were in that capital are gradually dispersing, a fact which indicates that there is no idea of undertaking any. thing in that quarter this year. Two sons of Kossuth, who are engineers, are said to have taken situations in a railway oonipany. The Marquis Camille Caracciolo di Bella, who has just left Turin to present to the court of Portugal the notification of the accession of Victor Emmanuel as King of Italy is not only a deputy but a literary man, and a Miami of long standing. Ile is the descendant of Duke de Caracciolo, who was hanged in 1799 from the yarl. arm of his own vessel. The National Institute of Geneva has just pub. lished the programme of an agricultural exhibition which is to be held in that city in the early part of October. The farmers of the department of Haute-Savoie, as well as thoie of the arroudisseruent of Gex, will be admitted to exhibit on the same conditions as the Swims. A letter from Baden of the 18th says :—" Becker displays the greatest calmness and tranquillity; be deeps well, and has a good appetite. He declares that according to his political convictions he could not have acted other wise than he has done. He gives the idea of being a fairly educated man, and in hie examination has answered with great frankness and sincerity. He pandits in armerting that he had no accomplice. His trial will take place before a jury at Bruchaal. He may be condemned to death, but it a not certain whether according to the existing laws be will be so. Under any circumstances, the general opinion is that the King of Prussia will not allow him to be ex. ecuted." --- INUNDATION OP rim RHINE.—The Gazette de Lausanne states that the Rhine hits overflowed and inns. dated the Rheinthal. The districts of &lets and Senn• weld have suffered by the giving way of a dyke, but mod &savage has been done in the Rapt. district. On the morning of the 7th inst. the Rhine had risen higher than at any vend since 104—some say since 1817. THE EUPHRATES VALLEY ROUTE TO INDIA.—It la not too much to say that there is no existing or projected railroad that can for a moment compare, in point of intend and importance, with that of the Euphrates Valley. It brings two qua rters of the globe into juxtaposition, aged three continents—Europe, Asia, and Australia—into co. relation. It binds the vast population of Hiodestan by sa iron link with the people of Europe ; it inevitably entails the colonisation and civilisation of the great valleys of the Euphrates and Tigris, tho resuscitation in a modern shape of Babylon and Nineveh, and the reawakening of Ctesiphon and Bagdad of old. It will also settle the mail route to and from Australia and China—an element of prosperity of very great importance—fur the passenger traffic from the Australian (release' exceeds one hundred weekly, and ere the railway can be completed will be five times that number, of whom more than half will take the shortest route ; while the number of emigrants from this country who will prefer a passage of 40 to over $0 days may also be fairly expected to be very large. Like most of the other railways for which India is indebted to Mr. Audrey, this line from Seleucia to Jabot Castle, though complet. is itself, is reganled by him as the parent of further lines, whose construction will depend on the success of the parent line, and will gradually lessen the distance between the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf.—Loadon and CAI h 4 Telegraph. ROYAL YACHT SQL'ADRON.—At a general meet jog of the members of the Royal Yacht Squadron, held!st the Castle, Cowes, a few days ago, for general business, the following members were present, Commodore the E at i;of Wilton in the chair : Henry Tborold, Richard Freedland George P. Renthick, M. P. ; W. B. Ponsonby, F. P. Delete, Radcliffe, H. J. Adore, If.P., Colonel Sir Anthony Sterling, K.C.B, Sir Thomas Whiebeote, Bart., John E. W. Rolls, John Wardlow, Lord H. Cholmondeley, Esrl Vane, Lindesay Shedden, John Harvey, H. M. Hammersley, Arthur H. Davenport, Sir Henry Oleander, Bart.. and Earl of Dalkeith. The following candidates were balloted for and elected members of the squadron : Lord Aber dour, Merlin, schooner, 64 tons ; James! Edward Brad. slum, Destiny, schooner, 144 tors ; W. J. Parson, &raid°, schooner, 143 tons ; and the following captains of the Royal Navy, Thomas Seumarez and James H. Cockburn, as honorary mendsers. It was also ordered that an annual subeenption of 101. be in future paid by the Royal Yacht Squadron to the National Lifeboat Institution, instead of U. as heretofore, Lord Henry Choluiondeley, as a member of the committee of its management, . 0,1 other gentlemen bearing their testimony at the same time to the great and national importance of the operations 4 the Lifeboat Institutioo. Four yachts were wrecked on oar coasts last year. The Earl of Reese and Lord Willoughby d'Eresby, who respectively subscribe Si. a year to the Lite. boat Society, have with other yacht owners, reeratfY sup plied their yachts' Crew/ with excellent cork jackets , similar to those worn by the crews of the lifeboats of the institution. The next meeting of the members will take place at the Castle on Friday, August 9, being in the regatta week, far the election of members and general business. COLLEGE or PRECEPToRS. —At a meeting of the earned of this cor po ration on Saturday. the Rev. B. H. Kennedy, D.D., bead master of Shrewahury Grammar School, was re-elected president of the council for the ear. rent year ; and A. Hill, Esq., F.C.P., of Bruce Castle ; the Rev. J. S. Howson, M.A., of the Collegiate lustitunee. Liverpool ; and the Rev. J. R. Major, D.D. Head Master of ring's College School, London, were reelected %we' presidents. Dr. E. T. Wilson, F.C.P, was elected tree. surer, and the following as members : Mr. W. H. Carter, 8.A.. Jersey ; Mr. J. E B. Eldridge, Royal !Chu/ Asylum, Chelsea ; Mr. H. H. Godwin, Royal Milk-5 Asylum, Chelsea ; Miss Hubbard, Margate ; Mr. G. luu burns, Hawkhurst ; Rev. J. A. Milne, M.A.,Head Master Of the Grammar School, Kingston, Jamaica Me. .1. • Sampford Peverell ; Mr. B. Southall, Osweltry ; J. C. Weekopf, Enniskillen. At the same meetil u. the diploma of Associate wee granted to Miss A. A. Bi of the Royal Asylum, B ri xton.hill , and to Miss • • 'L Rogers, of Kiog's-road, Chelsea, who bad paused the re. quilted exarninatiou for that degree. It was announced Chet the General Medical Council has placed the College of ceptors in the list of institutioos whose first -clans certificate' are to be recognised as guarantees of good gene"' education.