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THE ISTEsTos, THE OVEILAND IDUTI. Mean Chlppgpeen• Ccatptos,tasess, Beekdose, sad C. Ilatasews Mrs. Wilkins, MIR C. Mathews. —A HANDSOME HUSBAND. Mr. And Mrs. C. Mathews. —And THE ODDITIES OF THE OHIO. The Led tress. riniciews. Twos ETWIIIe, THE xnaiirrrii OF "muses. IC The*, O. Melville, II edam arm I.MaMberre, Mimes C. end R. leelevani, MR Weeks * Kn. MorMalrry.—Asil 71111.10 E MAKILIED. (r. Meadows.—Ormememee at 7. Tans Nevem,. THE Cana AND TIN VISION . or. athadows ot the Pan and reanni.—Nr. I. W. MACE NirB INTEKTAINMENT —BIM= 110TH AND BROTHER SNEAK.—And LA NIALION DI /ANTI HIGH WATER AT LONDON RELDOL Tun DAT —Maralai, 1t An Attorneys, 1L •!a. To-Nealow—Monfaig, 1 57a Aftirsoss. lea LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 2. THE presentation of the Report of the Com mittee of Privileges brings the House of Commons face to face with its duty. The Committee have found no precedent so conformed to present cir cumstances as to save the House the trouble of asking itself what course is most in accordance with the spirit of the Constitution. That ques tion cannot be shuffled like the Reform Bill, and the answer made to it will fix the character of the House. The Committee of course could not look into the history of the country without finding the fundamental rule respect ing tax bills to be—" the Commons grant, " the Lords &went." But if the recent action of the House of Lords passes unchallenged, the next Committee will not be able to report that that great rule still subsists. The taxation of the pre sent year includes 1,400,0001. more than the Commons have granted. That is the simple fact, to disguise which we are deluged with verbiage and rhetoric, but which we hope honourable members will keep steadily in view. The Commons have approved and granted a certain amount of taxa tion, determined partly by grants of new taxes and partly by remissions ; and the Lords' taking one part of the scheme and not the other, have increased the national burden. If they have the right to do this, what becomes of the abso lute control of the House of Commons over taxa tion I It is no answer to say, the House of Lords has the right to reject a tax bill. A sharking bill-discounter who should take a new bill in re newal of a due acceptance, and then, detaining the first, should sue upon both, might to just as much purpose allege that they both bore legal stamps. The Lords have taken to themselves the power of determining, independently of the Crown and the Commons, how much the people shall pay in taxes, and in what manner they shall pay it. The House of Commons must decisively reject if it will not admit this preten• sion. And let not honourable members think they can divide their responsibility. Even if it were as true as it is utterly false that the nation was too obtuse to understand or too apathetic to feel the importance of this question, it would still be their duty to protect the ancient privilege of their constituencies to be taxed only by their own representatives. It may be that, as we are told every other morning, the House of Lords knows much better than the House of Commons what taxes can and what cannot be spared. The House of Lords is of coarse a very wise house. but itswisdom is not that of the people. When the House of Commons does wrong it is re sponsible not to the Peers but to the constituencies. No doubt the Lords could improve the Constitu tion for ns ; but representative and responsible go vernment is worth its inconveniences, and we do not want a Lords' Reform Bill. TRADE in the United Kingdom continues to be chiefly influenced by the extraordinary character of the season. The effect is seen in the high prices of food, both for man and beast ; in the uneasiness which these high prices are exciting amongst the labouring population ; in the firmness of the markets for such articles of agricultural produce as tallow and wool ; in the distress of thousands of agricultural labourers whom the farmers are unable to employ until the weather becomes more genial ; and in the inability of many retail shop keepers to sell, and consequently to pay for, the stocks of spring and summer goods which they had ordered from the wholesale houses. It is, perhaps, well that we should occasionally be impressed, by ocular evidence, with a sense of the embarrassments which the mere prolongation of an unfavourable condition of the weather can pro duce amongst a not inconsiderable section of the population. Still, these embarrassments are con fined to certain classes, and are not yet of a cha racter to affect the main springs of the national Prosperity. The revenue returns, the official sta tistics of the export trade, just published, as well as those relating to the consumption of imported commodities, all indicate that trade is fairly active, and the general condition of the nation prosperous. The unusually extensive consumption of all the principal articles of food and luxury, although that consumptimi is still largely outstripped by the accu mulation of stocks in our warehouses, is especially worthy of notice. The figures last published re late to the Innuth of May, and show an extremely large consumption of coffee, tea, sugar, wine, spirits, and tobacco. Whether, under the Mfluenoe of an unfavourable season, the ratio of increase will be maintained, is doubtful, but it would appear that there must be a much more general falling off in emplognent before the prospects. of the revenue from these articles will be materially affected. With regard to the export trade, it is deserving of remark that, although the general figures show an aggregate increase of about 4 per cent. in the shipments of our textile manufactures in the month of May, as compared with those in May 1859, tho increas e is entirely in yarns. There is, on the contrary, a decided decrease in the exports of the more finished manufactured gods—those which admit of the largest remuneration for labour—and it is thence justly argued that the export figures are really less encouraging than they appear to be at . , first sight. But if the increased demand for • plea by manufacturers on the Continent may be takeli as a sign of diminished political distrust the returns ass so far favourable. A great variety of reports on the condition of the green fruit crops have been received by the eminent firm of JOIMPH TRAMIS and SONS from every part the kingdom, and are well deserving of attention from their bearing upon the statistics of consumption generally, more especially with regard to the sugar trade. It would appear that the show of fruit blossom throughout the kingdom has, on the whole, been the most abundant known for many years. There was at one period a strong probability of an immense crop of every kind of fruit, including currants, goose berries, apples, pearl, cherries, raspberries, straw berries, plums, apricots, peaches, and nectarines. The prospects have since been materially modified by the very unfavourable state of the weather. The storms and continued heavy rains have spoilt a vast deal of fruit. Cherries, strawberries, and plums appear to have suffered especially. In the neighbourhood of London plums and wall fruit promise well, but there is a rather remarkable concurrence of testimony from the provinces that the yield of nearly all sorts of stone fruit will be short. From a general review of these reports, however, we conclude that, if the weather in July be forcing, the aggregate crop of fruit in the United Kingdom will yet be considerably above an average, notwith standing the extensive damage which has un questionably been sustained in many exposed or low-lying districts. It is interesting to notice, too, that the accounts from the foreigncurrant-producing districts are very favourable. According to some of the letters, 50,000 tons of currants will be shipped, if no mishap occur. The largest crop on record was 40,000 tons. Although, there fore, the price of butchers' meat is exorbitant, and that of grain and flour may yet rise, consumers will be glad to learn that there will probably be plenty of fruit, both at home and from abroad. The prosperity of some districts of England de pends almost solely upon the fruit crop. The principal feature in the reports from the manufacturing districts is the continued decline in the prices of cotton fabrics at Manchester. The advices from the Indian markets prove to be more discouraging than was expected, and the demand for that quarter has received a severe check. In nearly every instance sellers of cotton manufactures are obliged to give way in price, and even the concessions made are insufficient to stimulate business. The industry of the cotton district, however, continues active. The demand for woollen manufactures is like wise rather slack, in consequence of the cold rainy weather, but there is little actual complaint of the condition of trade. Prices are very firm, owing to the short supply and high price of wool, and the manufacturers generally are fairly employed. It is worthy of attention that the demand runs mainly on the fine qualities of wool—those in which labour and skill are moat largely employed. " Low wools," such as' Bunion and East Indian, have experienced little fluctuation in value during the last eighteen months. Consumers Are too well off, or too expensive in their tastes, to be content with coarse common goods. Servant girls now-a days wear garments of • texture which some years back could only be obtained by the wealthy classes. In the hosiery districts business is rather dull, pending the setting-in of fine weather, the want of which checks the demand for all kinds of " fancy" goods. The Nottingham lace trade is becoming more cheerful, her MAJESTY having deigned, as the local reports record with satisfac tion, to " wear flounces of Nottingham lace at " the State Ball " on Friday week. A special meeting of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce has recently been held to receive the report of the deputation which was appointed to visit Paris, with a view to the settlement of the details of the French tariff. It is observed with sa tisfaction that the deputation "express their " opinion from all they saw and could learn that " there cannot be a shadow of doubt that the " French Government wish for a good trade to " be carried on between England and France, and " that all steps taken by the present Conseil " Superieure de Commerce" (the Commission ap pointed by the Marmot, for the purpose of taking evidence from French manufacturers) " seem to have but one aim —viz., the creation of " a scale of duties which would produce a large " revenue for France." The immediate object of the French inquiry is probably to "arrive as " nearly as possible at an estimate of the degree " of protection which the French manufacturer " ought to have so as to be able to compete " successfully with the English manufacturer." The deputation have recapitulated the substance of the evidence given by them before the CounciL The points to which some of their statements applied were the relative merits of English and French workmen. The former, it is alleged, have the advantage where strength and durability are concerned, and the latter where taste and nicety are essential. The discussion extended to the wages paid to each—the rate being double in England of what it is in France ; and to the nature of the French articles, which are sent into our market at prices lower than those at which the English manufacturer can produce them. The effects of free trade in England were also, we are informed, adverted to. "At the " time when the English tariff was consider " ably reduced, the shops in even our rnanufac " taring town of Birmingham were gradually filled " with German steel toys, edge tools, cutlery, and " other articles. Our workpeople, seeing the " productions of other nations sold in their own " markets, soon began to make these articles, and " so successfully did they compete with them that " now but very few of such articles are imported " into England." It is thence inferred that the French will soon imitate our goods. We cannot help thinking, however, that our manufacturers have little to fear from this kind of competition. The belief that the new Russian loan, at the price fixed, would meet with little favour in this country, is confirmed. It is now said that the impression hitherto prevailing that the loan is • failure is not accurate, a number of large houses, both here and on the Continent, having afforded to it a material degree of support. That the English public, however, have held aloof is mani fest, and the indifference of the Stock Exchange and financial world is shown in the fact (a fact which, by-the-way, attests the honour able conduct of the agents for the loan in refusing to lend their countenance to any artificial operations in the market) that the scrip is barely saleable at par. The position of the negotiation furnishes a very remarkable proof of the disfavour, not to say discredit, into which foreign investments have of late years fallen. In vestors feel that it is better to employ their money at home, evi:n at a lower rate of interest. Captain Hoare, R. N., iN appointed Naval A ttaellif to ler Majesty's Embassy at Paria .. r , TICS • 310tri). • :1-tr- • THE CENSUS BILL. We give in another column the memorial on this subject presented to Lord Palmerston on Saturday, with the names of 167 members of parliament by whom it was signed. We are assured on good au thority that the number of signatures might have been raised to 200 if the presentation could have been delayed a few days longer. So powerful a re monstrance has rarely been presented to a minister. We understand that the gentlemen who presented the memorial took an opportunity of stating their convictions very fully, and that they impressed on Lord Palmerston the strong feeling which they had found existing in their constituencies on the sub ject. An bon. member sitting for one of the largest constituencies in the kingdom stated that on no other subject had he ever received so many letters from his supporters. Lord Palmerston admitted the strong claim which a memorial so numerously signed had upon the serious attention of the Government ; but those who oppose the ob noxious clause of the bill must not think that the necessity for exertion is greatly diminished. Those who do not come much in contact with our governing classes can form no conception of the absolute ina bility of many of our publiz men to look at propositions in which religious principles are involved from any other point of view than that of the politico-ecclesiastical system in which they have been brought up. If even they well understood that, a great advance would have been made towards undersanding the difficulties of those who cannot adopt it. But when the conduct of the civil government in matters of religion is in question, principles and maxims which to many millions of Englishmen of the middle classes are as the very alphabet of political science, are as unintelligible to our rulers as if they were the speculations of a Bhnddist sage. We trust, however, that the Government will have at least the political saga city to retrace its steps and retire from a path which, if persevered in, must have a disastrous effect, not only on its own fortunes, but on the per manent interests of the liberal party. The in justice which will be perpetrated if this measure is persevered is is such as will never be forgotten or forgiven. Cbt Court. The King of the Belgians, accompanied by the Count of Flandeni, took leave of the Queen on Saturday morning on his return to Belgium. The Queen held ► Privy Council and Court on Saturday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. At the court Sir John Crampton, her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary ►t St. Peters burg, was presented to the Queen at an audience by Vis count Palmerston, officiating for the Foreign Secretary of State. Sir Thomas Wyse, bar Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the court of Greece, was _presented to the Queen upon his snivel in this country by Viscount Palmerston. Sir Andrew Buchanan, K.C.8., her Majesty's Envoy Ex traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the court of Swn, was presented to her Majesty upon his arrival in this country by Viscount Palmerston. Sir William Gore Ouseley, H.C.8., her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minnie' Planapotentiary to Central America, was presented to the Qllll6ll at an audience by Viscount Palmerston. Earl Granville and Viscount Palmerston bad audience* of her Majesty. Ilse Prime Consort, the Priam of Wales, and the Doke of Saxe Coboorg, rude on horsebsok, attended by Liante neat-Colonel the Hon. D. de Hos. The Queen, scoompenied by the Princess Alive and Prism Leopold, and attended by the Hon. Horatio Stopford, took • drive in a carriage and four in the afternoon. Kajor.Gene ral the Hon. C. Grey attended on bomb**, The Prince of Wales went to the Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours in Pall.inall East. Her . Majesty and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the Primer Alice, the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of Saxe Coboorg, honoured the performance of the Royal Italian Opera, Cent-garden, with their presence in the evening. In attendance were the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Hon. Horatio Stopford, Lord De Tabley, Major-General the Hon. C. Grey, Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. D. de Roe, and Lieut. -Colouel KeppeL Yesterday the Queen and Prince Conant, the Princess Alice, the Prince of Wales, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, the Princesses Helena and Louise, the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the domestic household, attended Divine Service in the Private Chapel, Buckingham Palace. The Archbishop of York preached the sermon. Despatcher. from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands were received on Saturday at the Colonial *Sloe CABIN"? COUNCIL. The ministers assembled about 4 o'clock cm Saturday afternoon at Lord John Buren private residence in Chesham-plaoe, Belgrave. square, to bold a Cabinet Council, Lord John suffering from the effects of a cold which presents him lesving the house. The Dukes of Newcastle and Somerset, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Palmerston, Mr. Sidney Herbert, Lord Granville, Sir G. Lewis, Sir G. Grey, Sir C. Wood, and Mr. C. P. Villiers attended this meeting. The absentees were Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Gibson, Mr. Cardwell, and the Duke of Argyll. A Quebec letter of the 15th ult. says :—" The preparations for the reception of the Prince of Wales are everywhere being vigorously and liberally carried forward --tbs government are doing their part nobly. The old °overarmed House at Toronto is being fitted up for his royal highness and suite, and in this city the august visitor will be lodged in the parliament buildings, which will shortly be ready for his use. The government have granted 10,000 dots. in aid of the Provincial Exhibition (Upper Canada) to be hold at Hamilton. The Crystal Palace at that city, as well as that now building at Montreal, are wall advanced, and will be completed and ready for the reception of articles for exhibition about the middle of July. The Prince de Joinville left this city yesterday for Mon treal. His royal highness appears to have been highly delighted with the magnificent character of the scenery." Lord John Russell was much better last evening, and the noble lord, it is fully anticipated, will be able to resume his place in the House of Commons early in the present week. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll returned to their villa at Campdeo.bill on Saturday, from Cliefden, near Maidenhead. We are glad to learn that both the duke and duchess have recovered from their recent indisposition. The Earl and Countess of Dunraven, Viscount Adore, and Lady Augusta Wyndbiun Quin have left Ar now's Hotel for Dunraven Castle, Wales. The next meeting of the Fox Club, the " annual Ash dinner," will be held at the Trafalgar, at Greenwich, on Saturday, the 7th inst. It is reported that the Attorney and Solicitor- General for Ireland and Mr. Serjeant lemon will conduct the prosecution of the eleven Ritandmait lately arrested in the town of Dundalk. The anises for the comity of Louth commence on Wednesday next. Captain Charles Duncan Cannon, Vice-Conant at Pod, in the Black Pea, is appointed Consul for Abyssinia, to reside at Kaasowah, in the room of the late )(r. W. C. Piewden. Mr. Charles Edward Coleridge, of the South Wales Circuit, has been appointed Secretary to the Berwick. upon-Tweed Bribery Commission. Van or PRINCE ALFRED TO TM CAPR— A manage was sent down to the houses on the 18th, an nouncing the expected arrival of Prince Alfred, who is to accompany Sir George Grey on a tour through the colony. The Assembly have passed a resolution authorising the go-o- moor to upend any amount be may think pommy for receiving the mace with due honour. His royal highnesswill meet with an eatheakette reception, for her Majesty is I almost worshipped by the loyal colonists at the Caps. Be will have quite a new world imposed to him while travelling I among our Mork simpliendoded formes. TM only few le that in oar seal to oaks his day a pignut ass—and or mewled as be will be by a masher of einem sad gentle. mw—ha will have no opporteusity of swig w es we isro— One Nast New. lORTSAITS OF THE BELGIAN ROYAL FAMILY. PreViogs to the departure on Saturday of the King of the I Belgians for Ostend, his Majesty hoseuroi Mr. Mayall, the artist, of Argyll phis, Regent-street, with a sitting M a ° for the Queen's collection. At the first aittinE Mr. " Z s yi e ll wee fortunate in produdaga very happy and life-like portrait, and was not less successful with his Royal Highness the Count of Flanders, who also honoured him with a sitting. . 4 \ EVENING, jll LATEST INTELLIGSNCE. FRANCE. PARIS, MoIIDAY. The Marquis d'Antonini, the Neapolitan Minister at the Court of the Tuileries, has sent his resigna tion to Naples. The Monitsur of this morning announces the ap pointment of the Duke de Grarnmont, N. Bene detti, and M. de Talleyrand-Perigord, as grand officers of the Legion of Honour. NAPLES. (ST SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) (nom ova OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NAPLES, SATUIDAT. The people appear more tranquil. The police are being hunted down in the pro vinces. The constitution of 1848 is to be granted. NAPLES, Jinn 29, Nowt A state of siege has been established here. The city is quiet. The state of Baron Brenier is satisfactory. The constitution has not yet been published. MARSEILLES, JuN. 30. Letters from Naples to the 26th inst. announce the publication of s royal decree, dated Portici, the third article of which runs thus : An understanding is to be brought about with the King of Sardinia relative to the common inte rests of the two crowns in Italy." The police administration was quite disorganised. The chiefs were concealed. The King was still ill. THE HEALTH OF BARON BRENIER. NAPLES, Jina 29. The health of Baron Brenier is improving, and he will soon be able to resume his functions as am bassador. The King sends to the French embassy twice a day to inquire about his health. AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. VIENNA. JCLT 1. Since the meeting of German sovereigns at Baden, the Prussian Ambassador ' Baron Werther, has had several conferences with Count Rechberg, with the object of bringing about a perfect under standing between Austria and Prussia. The fact that Austria no longer insists upon a guarantee of the integrity of her dominions will greatly facilitate such an understanding. FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND. BERNE, Sou 1. It is abseiled that Switzerland will submit to the Conference the following question only Is it in the interest of Europe and the neutrality of Switzerland to leave the Simplon Pam perfectly accessible to France without demanding any fresh guarantees? Should this question obtain a solution unsatis factory to Switzerland, she would confine herself to taking cognisance of the declarations in which France engaged herself to assume all the military obligations resulting from article 92 of the final act of Vienna. — Switzerland would beeides claim the right ? incase of war, of militarily occupying the neutralised dis tricts of Chablais and Faucigny. Switzerland would also state her reserves, the insertion of which iu the protocols of the Con ference she would demand, and would maintain in principle all the rights which are guaranteed to her by treaties. THE UNITED STATES. QUEENSTOWN, SUNDAY. The Royal Mail steam ship Africa, Captain Shannon, which left New York on the 20th ult., arrived here at 7.25 a.m. She hrbigs 155 passengers and 201,212 dole. in specie for England. She leaded all the mails and proceeded for Liverpool at 7.45 am., all well. The steamers Bohemian, Hammon* City of Baltimore, and Illinois, had arrived out. The Baltimore Democratic Convention was expected to no minate Mr. Nokomis, of New York, for the presidency. The rejection of Mr. Douglas was considered certain. The dsamasUoa at Walker was said to be the Bay Islands belaeging to Honduras. I.33IIMSECIAL INTELLIGENCE. New You, Jain 19, Evglffiro.—Yeoey dull. Exchange on London, 109 g. Stocks animated. New York Central, 811, elf • Erie, 17 17 ; lllinois, 621, 621. Cotton inac tive. U 101 c. to 11c. Flour firm, but the advance in to checks business. Sales, 7,000 barrels. Corn and oats Wheat less buoyant. Provi sions firmer. Sugar active. Coffee firm. Freights firm. Corn to Liverpool, 70. to Bd. New Onbr-tNa, Jun IS.—Cotton unchanged. Sales to da, 500 bales. Sugars firm. BALTIMORE, JONI 18.—Flour dull and heavy. PIIIIJDZIPHIA, Jugs 19. ---Blvadetuffs generally active. QUEENSTOWN, SONDAT. The Royal Mail steam ship Arabia arrived here at 3.35 p.m., embarked mails and pureagets, and proceeded for Halifax and Boston at 5 p.m. All well. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, &MOAT Maar. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Ceylon, Captain Evans, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 185 pamengers, 1,3471. in specie, 1 421 bales of silk, value upwards of 140,0001., and 206 package s of general cargo. The Ripon left Gibraltar for the Eut on the 20th ulk Her Majesty's ship Supply, from Plymouth, had arrived at Gibraltar. Martin Eacalante, a British subject, has returned to Gibraltar after thirteen months' imprisonment in Cadiz. In May of last year he was captained by the judge of Chin chilla to nine years' penal servitude for attempting to change the religion of Spain by distributing copies of the New Testament. At Gibraltar, on the 26th of June, exchange on Lemke, 90 days, was quoted 50a; on Paris, 6.30; on Marseille' and Genoa, 5.31 ; on Madrid, eight days' sight, t discount ; on Cadiz, Malaga, and Valencia, par. Freights unaltered. IMPRISONMENT OP A BRITISH SUBJECT IN SPAM The Gibraltar Chronicle, of the 23rd ult., nays : "We are informed that Mr. Martin Facalante, a British subject, and • native of Gibraltar, has returned to this city after an imprisonment of upwards of 13 months in Cadiz. Mr. Fecalante was arrested in Vejer in May, 1859, for having given to various persons copies of the New Testament in the Spanish language, and was brought to trial on the charge of attempting to change the religion of Spain. The district judge decided that the charge was proved, and sentenced him to nine years' penal servitude. The severity of the sentence, compared with the particular acts charged against Mr. Escalante, excited much astonishment in Eng land. The subject was brought to the notice of the House of Commons, and many persons doubted whether, since the Inquisition has been abolished in Spain, and that country is now said to enjoy the benefits of constitutional govern ment, such • sentence could be in accordance with her laws. The friends of religious toleration and liberty of conscience will be glad to learn that Escalantes imprisonment is not sanctioned by the Spanish laws, but must he attributed to the ignorance of them on the part of • local judge. On an appeal being made to • superior court, the Auiliencia of Seville, that tribunal has annulled the sentence pronounced by the district judge, and declared Mr. Escalente innocent of the offence with which he was charged, and ordered the costs of the proce dure to be defrayed by the crown." Garibaldi has published the following decree at Palermo :—" Considering the Jesuit' and the Ligurian' have, during the sad period of Bourbonist domination, been the most energetic abettor' of despotism ; in virtue of the powers conferred upon me, it is decreed—' The corporation' of regulars existing in Sicily under the different names of societies and houses of Jesus and of the Redemptor are dis.olved. The individuals composing them are expelled from the island and their estates annexed to the domains of UM • " S. i •1 t . EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (now oux owx ITALY. SARDINIA. (now 0131 OWI PARIS, BINDLE EVENING. The crowd that besieged the Paula Royal to see Prince Jerome lying in state wu, u might have been expect d, much greater this day (Sunday) than yesterday. One of the immense " tails" formed by the police extended serous the Rue Rivoli on to the Carrousel and as far u the square of the new Louvre. The average time to get in, which yester day was four hours, was to-day at least five or six. It is announced that the Bishop of Troyes (Mgr. Co3nr) has been appointed by the Minister of Public Instruction and Worship to pronounce a funeral oration in the Invalidee on Tuesday. It appears to be certain that when Garibaldi heard of the new Neapolitan constitution he judged it right to hasten the annexation of Sicily to Sardinia, which he had at first desired to defer. Although the news from Sicily is very confused, the balance of testimony is th►t Prince Torrearsa and his two colleagues have withdrawn their resignations, which they had tendered in conse quence of Garibaldi not consenting to immediate annexation. . _ The protracted ailenoe of the Dfoniteur with regard to the attack on K Brenier tends to confirm a rumour that he was assaulted by a private enemy,and that there was nothing political in the affair. A paragraph in the German papers states that the Journal de Francfort, a widely circulated jour nal published at Frankfort in the French language, has been sold by the proprietor, Baron de Vrints, one of the Emperor of Austria's chamberlains, and a brother-in-law of Count Buol, to a French com pany. I bear that the purchasers are the wealthy and influential parties who proposed to publish in France the series of pamphlets which were nipped in the bud by the prosecution of M. Prevost Paradol. It is only wonderful that the vast amount of thought which struggles in vain for utterance in France, should not sooner have found a foreign channeL The French language is so universally spoken that a newspaper published on the Rhine by French politicians of talent and eminence will be as much read as if its office were in Paris. The Moniteur of this morning announces the pre sentation to the Corps Legislatif of the project of law relative to the calling out of 100,000 men of the class 1880. The Moniteur also states that the report on the Budget of 1881 has been laid before the Corps Legislatif. PARIS, SATURDAY. The Bourse has been very heavy in consequence of the news from Naples. Renter closed at 68.30, or I lower than yesterday. TURIN, Juice 27. Yesterday K de Talleyrand, by the Emperor Napoleon's orders, informed Count Cavour of the intentions of the Court of Naples, which were, however, already pretty . well known to ut through our minister, Marque; di Villamarina The following is what we have to make up our minds to. The tri-coloured flag, with the Bourbon lilies on it, is to wave over Naples ; a constitution is to be pro mulgated ; there is to be a new ministry • and an alliance is to be sought with Piedmont. But while the French government has confined itself to simply describing the scenery and performances of the first act of this new piece, our representative has sought, as he was bound to do, to foresee the development of the plot, and to find out whether it is to have a tragic or a comic ending. Accord ingly, we dare say that Count Cavour, who ix usually thought to be too precipitate in his deter minations, will in this case be accused of not receiv ing with sufficient readiness this Neapolitan pro gramme. After having sought to overcome Piedmont by hostility, Naples now seeks to conquer her by a perfidious alliance, and coolly salts her to commit suicide to save a doomed and mischievous Bourbon dynasty. But the snare is too obvious ;we shall not be caught, even if the Neapolitans should be foolish enough to be taken in by it. In the mean while the proceedings are going on for the recovery of the vessels captured by the Neapolitan cruisers. This morning Mr. Daniel, United States minister resident here, left for Naples. Mr. Daniel is of higher official rank than all the other representatives of his country in Italy ; so that his departure for Naples is not unimportant, more especially as just now United States men-of war are arriving here 'ram various quarters. The King of Naples, by one means or another, will be made to give up the captured vessels. Count Cavour had sent to Genoa urgent de spatches for Marquis di Villamarina, to be con veyed to Naples by the Morzambano. He was therefore not a little surprised this morning to find his despatches returned, with the intelligence that the Mozzambano had already left. Now, as the Mozzambano nail been telegraphed to wait for the despatches, Count Cavour was extremely angry. By an inquiry at the chief telegraph office, he was satisfied that the telegram had been sent off and delivered at the Admiralty in twenty minutes. A strict investigation will be made into the causes of this unitretemps, which in the present critical state of affairs might be attended with serious in convenience. _ . _ By the Washington, one of the vessels of Medici's expedition, sixteen more of those who were wounded in the battle of Palermo have arrived. Two of them are Venetians, nine Lombards, four Genoese, and one is a Tuscan. Conunendatore Spinelli, who is charged with the formation of the new ministry at Naples, is a man about 60 years old, of noble family, good educa tion, and respectable character. He has already held the office of Intendant of Naples and Director of the Archives of the Kingdom. He is a liberal, though moderate in his views, and not at all likely to take any original course of action. Signor Manna, who it is said will be one of his colleagues, is an honest man, but timid. He has great know ledge of political economy and financial matters, but is not exactly of the stuff that ministers should be made of. The same may be said of Signor Baldacchini who, rumour says, is also to be in the ministry. These men might be all very well in ordinary and peaceful times, in a country where everything had been long settled and reduced to routine, but for the government of Naples at such a moment as the presentthey are unfit. I know them personally, and I know that they have not strength to steer their course through the passions of an outraged people and the intrigues of a crafty and faithless court. Their very respectability is the re sult of a certain want of character and an obstacle to their success. In accepting this task they offer themselves up as a sacnfice to their country, for they will earn the gratitude neither of the people nor of the court. In 1848 Prince di Torella and Prince di Cariati were in a precisely similar position. Prince Cariati died broken-hearted at having been deceived by Ferdinand IL, at having lost his own reputation, which he bad kept stainless so many years, and at seeing his country ruined. We shall witness more of such catastrophes unless the Nea politan people have learnt as thoroughly as the ,rest of Italy the lesson of 1848. A letter from Rome, of the 23rd ult., says The Overbeck denvinstmtion took plane an Wednesday. 'Me artist was escottrd into the city from Polite Molls by a few friends and brother brushes in carriages and on honeback ; and the dinnei celebrating his 50th anniversary in Rome was solemnly eaten at the Villa di Malta; O►erbeck , with two cantina's and his more honoured guests, dining at one table and the common herd at another." THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON TAX BILLS. "The report of this committee, with a record of their proceedings, lists of bills, index, &c., occupies 98 pagm It appears that the committee held eleven sittings, the first taking place on the Ist of June. At the sseowl sitting it was resolved that a summary of precedents should be prepared by the officers of the house, under the direction of a chairman. At the third sitting, on the Ilth of Jane, this summary was laid before the committee, who pro ceeded to consider it. Two divisions took place relative to • proposed omission from the collection of precedents ; Mr. Sotheron Estcourt, Mr. Bouverie, Mr. Henley, Sir J. Pakington, and Mr. Bentinck, voting in one sense, and Mr. Bright, Colonel Patten, Sir W. Heathcote, Mr. Villiers Mr. Disraeli the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir (1: Grey, and Lord Hotham in the other. In the second division Sir J. Pakington and Mr. Bentinck were alone. Five sittings having been occupied in deliberations upon the summary, at the next sitting on the 25th of June, a draft report, proposed by Mr. Walpole, the chairman, ind another proposed by Mr. Bright, were brought up and read. A division then took place on the question whether the chairman's report or Mr. Bright's should be read a second time, and carried paragraph by paragraph. For the chair man's report there appeared 14 votes, viz., Lord Palmerston, Col. Patten, Sir W. Heathoote, Mr. Bouverie, Sir H. (Sams, Mr. Bentinck, Mr. 8. Estcourt, Sir J. Graham, Mr. Massey, Sir G. Grey, Sir J. Pakington. Mr. Henley, Lord Hothams and Mr. Disraeli. For Mr. Bright's report there voted, besides Mr. Bright himself, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and laid John Russell. Mr. More O'Farrell was absent. Several amendments on paragraphs were negatived, and others adopted, without a division. At the sitting of the 27th the following paragraph wan proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer : " No one of these bills, rejected or otherwise lost in the House of Lords, appears to have had for its object to repeal any tax constituting a large branch of the revenue, or im posing a burden of sensible amount. Of the acts which they repealed or altered, some had the supply preamble, but it cannot be certainly averred that in any of these cases the repealing or amending bill reduced the charge laid upon the nation. From the subjects and terms of the bills, or from other sources, it is in most instances plain that they were dealt with on legislative grounds other than those of finance ; nor is there any came which suggests a contrary conclusion." Seven members of the committee voted for this paragraph, viz., Lord Palmerston, Mr. Bright, Mr. Bouverie, Mr. Collier, Sir G. Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. and Lord John Russell. Nine voted against it, viz., Sir W. fleathcote, Mr. Bentinck, Sir J. Graham, Mr. S. Eetcourt, Sir H. Cairns, Sir J. Pekington, Mr. Henley, Lord Hallam. sad Mr. Disraeli. The voting was the same on the following paragraph, pro posed by Lord John Russell :—"For the rejection by the lords of a bill repealing a burden of more than a million of pounds a year upon the branch of industry, your com mittee can find no precedent whatever." A paragraph was then proposed by Mr. Bright :—" It does not appear that the Home of Lords has in any We, before the year 1880, rejected any bill, purely ono of taxation or re peal of taxation, materially affecting or interfering with the quantum of ways and means provided by the House of Commons for the service of the year." The ayes were 5, viz., Mr. Bright, Mr. Bouverie, Mr. Collier, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Lord J. Ruse sell. The noes—ll in number—included Lord Palmer. ston, Sir J. Graham, and Sir George Grey. The follow ing paragraph was then proposed by Mr. Bright " It may be well to state some facts in the ordinary prac tice of parliament connected with bills imposing or repealing taxes. The crown speaks only to the commons at the open. ing end closing of each session, or by menage, during the session, on the subjects of grants of money and supply for the service of the year. The lords are not asked for money, and are not thanked by the Sovereign for the sums grunted ; and bills granting supplies are presented by the Speaker of the House of Commons to the Sovereign, and not as other bills, through the officers of the House of Lords. The crown does not order estimates of expenditure to be laid before the lords ; they are furnished cooly to the commons ; and these estimates and any other documents relating to taxation and expenditure the commons never send to the lords, even though the lords should ask to be furnished with them. The lords, therefore, have no official knowledge of the necessities of the crown ; they cannot grant money ; they are never consulted as to the expenditure for the year, and hence they are not responsible for providing any portion of the supplies." Seven members of the committee voted for this paragraph :—Lord Palmerston, Mr. Bright, Mr, Bouverie, Mr. Collier, Sir G. Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Lord J. Russell. The noes were 10, in. eluding Sir J. Graham. This was the last division. The Gazette d'Augslntrg says :—" We are able to announce, upon good authority, that the Prince Regent in tends to return the Emperor Napoleon's visit at the Camp of Chalons immediately after his Imperial Majesty has taken up his residence there." ' ' A report is current in Paris that the Emperor will confer on Prince Napoleon all the political prerogatives enjoyedby Prince Jerome,particularly the post of President of the Privy Council and of the Council of Ministers, in the absence of the Emperor. It is stated that the Legislative Body, before its separation, will have a bill presented to it for giving Prince Napoleon the dotation of Prince Jerome, and the former is also to occupy in the PaLus Royal the apartments of his late father, and make a considerable ia creaae in his household. Notices of the first two appeals to the French Court of Csamation from the newly annexed provinces of Savoy and Nice wore given on Saturday. One is from • judgment of the Court of Appeal (now the Imperial Court) of Chasabery—the other from a provincial tribunal. A few days ago there appeared a letter from DL Seigle, Directeur de la Loire, on the reception the Or phennista have met with in England, and stating that they were all full of enthusiasm at the manner in which "the English nation, so impassible, treated them." In the last paragraph of his letter he complains .4 the rapacity of certain hotel keepers, and of the refund to receive them with their insignia of Orphennists. The Gazette de Francs prints, in its second page, that portion of the letter only which complains of the innkeepers ; and it is given in a form which would lead the public to believe that it was complete. But it does not print a tingle word of what the writer says about the favourable manner in which the OipheoniAs have been received by the public. Everything that lunt the remotest resemblance to praise in the letter the (la:ette de France carefully and meanly suppresses ; and it givca only the re marks on the innkeepers. "The bowels of the King of Naples," says the " prevent the Boy of Tunis from sleeping. The latter is about to promulgate a constitution and create ministries of the interior, foreign affairs, finance, war, and marine." - _ The American packet-ship City of Boston, which arrived in Liverpool on Saturday, reports that on the 22nd of June, in lat. 45, long. 30, she exchanged siznals with the Great Eastern, which had the fore and aft sails all set, and she was making good progress through the water. BRIDGEWATER HOUSE—By the kind permission of the Earl of Ellesmere an amateur concert will be given at Bridgewater Howie, os Friday evening next, in behalf of the funds of the Free Ward of the Royal Hospital fur In curables., at which Mr. Frederic Clay's Operetta, "Out of Sight," and a selection of miscellaneous nmeie, will be pre sented exclusively by amateurs. The entertainment is moder the patronage of her Royal Highness the D111:11,6 of Cam bridge, her Royal Highness the Grind Duchess of Mecklen bnro Strelitw, her Royal Highnesa the Princess Mary of Cambridge, and a very large number of ladies pitronenes. HANDSOME TESTIMONIAL—The Inquirer, of Saturday, records the presentation by his congregation of a testimonial consisting of a thomand guineas and a splendid silver salver to the Rev. Thomas Ibulgo, minister of Eisen-street Chapel, Strand. GARIBALDI—A numerous committee has been formed et Woolwich, and a public meeting convened to sympathies with Garibaldi and the Sicilian revolution. THE imnr.—Tlie discovery of the cornet, which is now visible a little after sunset in the north western part of the heavens, is due to M. Rumker, the astronomer of the Observatory at Hamburg, who first saw it on the 17th of April hint, and has determined its ale meets as follows : Longitude of perihelion, 45 deg., 10 min., 16 sec. ; longitude of ascending node, 8 deg., 35 min., 4 sec. ;inclination, 4$ deg., 9 min., 39 see. ; perihelion distance, 1.2691 deg. ; direction of motion, direct. Its tail has now become very •conspienous, having attained a length of 15 degrees. It will soon dieappear, however, since it is fast approaching the emu It will, however, be visible for the hut time during the pest eclipse, which will be total in Spain and Algiers. CRYSTAL PALACE--HALF-A-CROWN FOURTH DAT or THE ORPHIONISTB.--SATURDAT, JuNr 30. —Admissions on paymeat, 7,532; ditto hyseasou tickets, 6,874 ; total, 14.406; total visiton for week ending Satu rday, 64.204. Total visitors since opening of the Palace, June 10,1854, 8,642,580. 4 I II 1 t Ms.