The Sun. — London, England, 1862-06-12 00:00:00

HEAT RE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, a Household Picture, under Two Lights, entitled THE WIFE'S PORTRAIT. Mr. Howe, Mr. W. Farren, Mrs. C. Young, (tc. After which, at half-past 7, will be performed (147th time) AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Followed by anew Spanish Ballet entitled LA CONTRA ANDISTA. Senora Perea Nene, Senor Ricardo, and the rps de Ballet. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOS - - - OYAL L Y CEUM THEATRE. -kV Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer. 180th Night of the continuous run of "Peep o'Day." THIS EVENING, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Waiter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, and Edmund Falconer ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston, and Miss N. Hudson. After which, a new musical, rectorial, poetical, and ballet tnteriude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitty and Miss Lydia Thomson. To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at Box-office open daily from 11 tills. commence a 7 noyAL PRINCESS'S THEATER Lessee, Mr A. Harris. TFIIS EVENING, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING. liiss M. Harris. After which, at Eight o'clock, LOUIS XL Dlr. and Mrs. C. Kean. Supported by Messrs. J. F. Cathcart, B. Potter, Everett, Shore, R. Cathcart, Raymond, &o. ; Miss Chapman, and Miss N. Chapman. To conclude with THRICE MARRIED. Commence at 7. No half-price. NEW THI ATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. TO-NIGHT, ICI ON FABLE FRANCAISE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, Billington, Emery ; Misses K. Kelly, Laidlaw, K. Bland, and Mrs. H. Marston. To be followed by THE OCTOROON. Messrs. Dion Boucicault, Emery, Jamison, Billington, P. Bedford, Phillips, Stephenson, Powell, Romer; Airs. Billington, Mrs. IL Mar ston, Mies Latimer, and bliss Denvil. To conclude with THE SHILLING DAY. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Emery, Miss Latimer, Mrs. H. Lewis. Coiimence at 7. AND FINE CA NTERBURY HALL ARTS GALLERY. STECKEL, the Greatest Trapeze Performer in the World, at 10 o'clock. Grand Operatic Selection, conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. Principal Artiste, Miss Russell. Great Comic Trio, Unsworth, Eugene, and Duley, includ array of Comic Talent, ing the celebrated Stump Speech, •• Or any other man " the original), in addition to the following Viz. : —Mr. E. Marshall (in new songs), Mr. J. G. Forde, Mr. Hollingsworth, Miss Georgina Smithson, and Joe Brown, the renowned American Dancer. A Grand Selection from Donizetti's Opera, "Don Sebas tien," will shortly be produced, for the first time in this country. T F , 0 D 6, OXFORD STREET . The miraculous STECKEL ! ! Champion of the Trapeze. Operatic Selections, and the Cantatas of "THE JOLLY BEGGARS " (by G. Linley) and "MAY DAY " (by G. A. Maciarren). Principal Vocalists - Miss Russell, Madame E n derssohn, Messrs. Morley, Gr eene, and Albert. Full Band and Chorus. Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Comic—Those unrivalled Ethiopian Comedians, Rumsey and Newcomb's Minstrels, EUGENE and UNSWORTH (the original "or any other man"), W. Randall, and Miss Caroline Parkes. Dail, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, is. ; Private Boxes, 108. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TBIS DAY.—Morning, lh. 20m.—Afternoon, lh. 48m. To-moßßow.-Morning, 2h. 15m.—Afternoon, 2h. 40m. NOTICE. All remittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. ( )„, ' 0:%; • A r"r • 110 ' N. `l - , ' THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1862. The POPE is now playing his last innings for the stake of the temporalities. While the Japanese Ambassadors are starring it over Europe, Rome is busied in canonising her Japanese martyrs. Of the merits of these martyrs it is not for us to judge. Rome has her own process for ascertaining them ; but if the Japanese be right, and we cannot doubt that they are so substantially, the merits for which they are canonised are specially appropriate to the present position of his Holiness. They were mar tyrs to the extension of the political power of Rome ; for, acting on the policy which has brought down the wrath of most European States, Catholic no less than Protestant, on their order, these Jesuit missionaries sought, by association with political parties, to secure for the Holy See political ascen dancy in Japan. They fell, therefore, martyrs to the temporalities of the Church, not indeed in defending, but in acquiring them. Hence we find the assembled cardinals naturally using the occasion on behalf of the earthly prince dom of their spiritual lord, Not fewer than 21 cardinals and 244 bishops sign an address, of which as the telegraph brings it to us, the burden is the " temporalities" of the Church. They declare the necessity of temporal power to spiritual indepen dence ; they, modestly of course, approve all the old gentleman and AN T ONELLI have done; they exhort him to continue firm in his resistance, and finally condemn the errors which their infallible head had condemned before—the errors, we sup pose, of VICTOR EMMANUEL and of CAVOUR, RICASOLI and RATTAzzi ; we may add those of Father PASSAGLIA also. The bishops and cardi nals ought to know their own business best; but bystanders will have their opinions, and to us this splendid affair, and this out-and-out address, seem like the precursors of an impending fall. 'When eccle siastics counsel the Pope to " resistance," English men are apt to recollect Mrs. PARTINGTON and the Atlantic. Hitherto, no doubt, Rome has done much by obstinacy, but Rome was never in exactly her present situation before. She has now for the first time a tree and united Italy around her—an Italy quite ' wi lling to leave her all the spiritual honour she desire s , but impatient to possess the temporali ties which they justly hey Justly enough assert belong to themselves. Indeed, the Italians desire to augment the honours of the . city by accepting it as their ca pital, while they wogla leave those of the POPE intact, for they rightly regard his temporal power as his disgrace, a mere usurpation, temporarily upheld by foreign bayonets. But what can the longer heads amo ngst this large assembly expect to gain by this grata allow and their pretenti o us address P Can they h oi)tl to pose on th e common s ense of even Roma n o ath : i - e powers by getting up a kind of religious ASTLres, in which, as a eorrespondent informs us, the tawdry taste went so low as to drape the real beau ties of St. PETER'S architecture and statuary with yellow, and crimson, and velvet, and to complete the theatrical character of the exhibition by lighting up 10,000 or 15,000 candles ? Of course a vast multitude was got together to witness such a gorgeous spectacle; but, how significant is it, that the troops had to receive special directions as to the degree of tumult which would call for their inter vention ! The fear of cries for VICTOR EMMANUEL and for a United Italy were, even amidst all the splendour, before their eyes. It reminds us of BELSIIAZZAR'S feast. If Pope, Cardinal, and Bishops could not read the handwriting on the wall, there were those who could, and they had the prudence to respond to it by military arrange ments, to keep quiet the gazing and wondering crowd. As to the cif. ct on those on whom the fate of Papal temporalities depends, there can be little doubt. A vulgar display and show, intended to appeal to the icaaginatioas of women and illite rate country priests and peasants —a display at which the intelligent actors in it must have in wardly, and now and then with averted faces' have laughed heartily —such an exhibition before Europe can only have been regarded as a defiance of intelligence by an appeal to illiter acy . Bow the EMPEROR responds to it is seen by two sig nificant facts. M. LAVALETTE, ANTONELLI'S p er ial schoolmaster, arrives at Rome in the midst of the fete, and the EMPEROR, resolves to have a new election of his Legislative Assembly. So little does he fear the effect of adding a score of guardian Saints to the protectols of the Vatican. It must also have occurred to even the least observant of the Assembly, that the French protectors of Papal temporalities are now reduced to one Brigade—a Brigade soon, perhaps, to sail for Mexico. It is now sixteen years since Lord GEORGE BEN TINCIK, in one of his earliest speeches in the House of Commons, raised a good-humoured laugh against himself by avowing his earnest wish to witness the installation in Downing-street of " a stable Govern ment." Falling from Ms lips, the phrase bore about it so whimsical a construction ! Upon the very morrow of the day upon which the words fell from the lips of the noble lord, the late member for King's Lynn, we remember having ourselves first directed public attention in these columns to what, remembering Lord GEORGE'S antecedents, might almost be said to have amounted to a lapsus linguce. The laughter provoked by that somewhat unlucky expression, employed as it was at a moment when that noble and gallant scion of the House of Rut land, that Preux Chevalier of the expiring lance of the Protectionists wished to be at his gravest — wished to impress the House by the solemnity of an almost pathetic utterance—the laughter, we say, thus unwittingly provoked did not speedily die out. It was echoed far and wide throughout the country. Lord GEORGE BENTINCK did not soon hear the last of it. Just now in a somewhat similar plight is Mr. WALPOLE. The Right Hon. Gentleman, by rea son of his astounding withdrawal of the Amend ment entrusted to his care by his Party —its withdrawal, as one may say, at the eleventh hour and three-quarters, upon the eve of " The Derby"—has given rise (on his part most unintentionally and undesignedly) to a series of jokes at his expense, as—in the words affixed to the famous caricature—" The Man Wot didn't "—bring the DERBY Government in ! Mr. DISRAELI him self was the first of the great parliamentary joke masters to raise the laugh rather cruelly against his late right hon. colleague. The Leader of the Oppo sition, with his usual serio-comic air at these times, with raised eyebrows, and a countenance expressive of affected dejection, appealing to the sympathy of his hearers upon that momentous Eve of " The Derby " for all such as might have the lamentable ill-luck to behold, just at the crisis of the great race their chosen Favourite—bolting ! The humorous member for Liskeard, however, almost immediately afterwards topped the happiest joker of them all, by his exquisitely ludicrous sug gestion in regard to that carefully selected Favourite of the Conservative Opposition, not so much that he was afflicted with the vice of Bolting as that " somebody had got at him." Those who had wit nessed the whispered confabulation that had been going on just before the startling withdrawal of Mr. WALPOLE'S Amendment on the 3d inst.—the whis pered "asides" that had been exchanged between the right hon. gentleman and some of the more crotchetty members of the Opposition recalcitrants, such as Mr. BENTINCK and others—best appreci ated upon the instant the full force of Mr. Os- BORNE'S ridiculous but most felicitous suggestion as to the real cause of what had just then happened. Another amusing commentary of a similar char acter has just now been thrown out upon the same grotesque incident by another member of her Ma jesty's Opposition. Upon the occasion of a Con servative demonstration - which took place on , Friday evening at Maldon, Mr. Du CANE thus facetiously remarked, in regard to Mr. WALPOLE'S certainly eccentric and to some extent still incom prehensible proceedings :—"lf," said the hon. gen tleman, " I may venture, in these days of Ascot and the Derby, to use for a moment the language of the turf, I would say that in my humble opinion the train ers of our Conservative stable committed a slight mis take in entering a horse at all for the ' amendment race,' and that they committed another an 3 far more serious error in the choice of the jockey they selected to ride him. We all of us know that, according to the laws of the turf, if you have entered a horse for a race, and you have reason to doubt the quality of his four legs, you may always scratch him up to the moment of starting ; but when the starting flag has been lowered, and the race is fairly commenced, if your jockey deliberately throws himself off, it is somewhat apt to shake public confidence in the honesty of the stableman." It is Mr. OSBORNE'S thought again—only differently expressed. All that there is now left for the right hon. member for Cambridge University to do, is to bear the laugh that he has excited against himself as best he may. He cannot possibly hush it up. The laugh must be laughed out. Mr. WALPOLE has appealed to the risibility of all too directly to allow of its suppression. What lent especial poignancy to the absolute absurdity of his proceedings on the 3d instant in the House of Commons, was his exag gerated and almost, one might say, awful solemnity of look, and voice, and delivery, in rising to explain to the House his withdrawal of the Amendment. The House will not easily forget what it then wit nessed. The incident will long survive in its recol lection. And it is certainly one in no way calcu lated to enhance its hitherto high estimate of Mr. WALPOLE'S dignity either in debate or in state manship. Turning from a consideration of Mr. WALPOLE and his cushioned Amendment, Mr. Du CANE, upon the occasion we are referring to, that is, on Tuesday evening, down at Maldon, happily enough reprobated our present system of war like expenditure in a time of peace as an egregious persistence among the nations in play ing out a ruinous game of " beggar my neigh bour." We certainly cannot see the force of another lok he e irbttel o s f re: h:: :e: by or the way, however—namely, where a frivolous laugh among his Conservative heare rs down at Maldon, by deriding Mr. COBDEN'S his diplomatic services to induce the Emp eto , of the FRENCH t o consent to a dis iwahoutlbde ta b k e e tt M er r. th e e o n ß D b E o N th fa f i o r r ly F a r t an h c i e s I armament." w ould that, in ser i ous t ru th, th e w G o o r v d er l nm l e t n m t and for England. The ladies on the ladies—h cm can We overlook such a topic ? When they discus s Ito° rinatory Edu cation, when they present pap ers on how to employ the 600,000 of their sex who cannot . ' ll 7, ua these islands, which permit not double blessedness to a ny man, we listen to them with respectful attention. But when, like Miss FRANCES COBBE, they come forward and teal us how they may make themselves yet " more of women," and of yet more worth to us all, we are dubious. Let not Miss COBBE look frowningly—our doubts are all to the credit of the ladies as they are. It is hard for us to wish to change them. We look at our chosen ones—we who have only made our choice as yet, and we who have sealed it many years ago at the altar — and can Miss COBBE be displeased with us if we question the possibility of change for the better, Miss COBBE may tell us that she could turn our angels into archangels—but we shrink, almost, from the thought ; with our. angels we have grown familiar; to exalt them to archangels would be to make them a little too awful for ordinary mortals. And then again, should Miss COBBE persuade us that archangels would be as pleasant testable com• panions as angels, and yet far more potent in some respects for the family welfare, she makes a demand upon us which requires some disinterestedness. We ourselves should derive little of the benefit. Our lot and that of our sons and daughters who are come of age, is fixed. It is our lasses under twelve or fifteen at most, who must undergo the exalting process. It is the generation whom we shall look upon as we are leaving life, who are to be blessed with women and wives such as England has never yet beheld. Those amongst us who have such young daughters she would remind that we surely wished to do the best for them ; and we hope we should not deny this. But then would come our request, in return, to be assured that what she proposed was the beet. It might be so; but then the old predilection, just adverted to, for our ladies, as we have them, would steal over us, and we should ask to be permitted to think over at leisure all the more important points in her argu ments. We should instinctively fear whatever threatened to make our young daughters too much unlike their mothers. If we leap at once to Miss COBBE'S chief practical proposal, we may be sure that the great majority of our male readers would at once hold up their hands in astonishment. It is nothing less than opening University examinations to our girls, and training them to pass ! Miss COBBE must not be surprised to learn that most of the young men would at once exclaim, let me have one of those who stuck in mathematics, or Greek, or Latin. Miss COBBE will tell us that this, which we are apt to think an instinct, is neither more nor less than an ignorant prejudice. This part of her argument is thus con densed in one report of her paper :—" A classical education did not make a woman masculine. It was as absurd to teach a girl French because a boy learned Latin, as to make her eat mutton because the boy ate beef. The assimilation of mental and bodily food both suited the natural constitution. A woman's mind is made by the CREATOR wholly different from that of a man, and in everything she does, art, learning, or philanthropic labour, these differences come out. She works not like a man, from without, by force of will and legislative power, but from within, by persuading and inspiring. To educate a woman to the utmost is only more and more to educe her womanliness; to make her more, not less, a woman. A sound and solid education is even more needful for her than for a man, her natural quickness leading her to shallowness and hastiness of conclusions." How can we refute such arguments ? Indeed, we have no wish to refute them. Miss COBBE her self is quite aware of the argument which, if not mentioned, yet, in reality, makes her own secretly suspected, for she " begged both men and women to put aside the prejudices which the obnoxious and ludicrous ideas attached to that popular ogress the strong-minded female, brought upon all subjects connected with the claims of women. She would rather have the sex remain in Beeotian ignorance than assist in the multiplication of the strong minded woman ;' but she again maintained that no system of education could remove the difference between the natures of man and women, which de pended not on accidental circumstances, but on the instincts implanted in them by the Creator." The audience seemed to listen to the paper with unusual interest, and to have greeted it with hearty applause. We may well suppose, therefore, that whether the London University open its examinations or not, Miss COBBE has made some converts, and that mothers, and perhaps fathers, will have returned home to try the recommendations of the clever lee• turer. And surely there is a great deal to say for them. When the power to read and write was a singular acquisition for a female servant, she felt it to be a distinction which often made her almost as unplea sant in the kitchen as the "strong-minded woman" is in the social circle. But already the reading and writing servant feels herself no wonder, though not long ago she did as much as anything to create a prejudice against popular education ; and if a more solid education were customary for girls of the middle classes and upwards, the distinction of strong-minded women, and the temptation to display the supposed strength offensively, might vanish together. What, then, would be the effect on girls of being fed with the same educational diet as boys ? Miss COBBE would say they would be girls still, and as much so as ever. Original differ ences of mental temperament would develop them selves as strongly as ever, whatever the instruction. Partaking daily of the same family meals does not interfere with the different muscular and general development of the sexes ; why should the same mental food not nourish equally well the female and the male intellect ? The lily and the rose flou rish side by side in the nursery ground with the young oak and pine. I Well, all this may be so. We half incline to the belief ourselves that had not custom made a certain course of education feminine and another masculine, we might never have supposed that any amount of such school teaching as we give our boys would spoil our girls and eventually our women. We, too, should deny that a cultivated woman was likely to be a less good wife and mother than an ignorant one, or that, as SYDNEY SMITH said, " a woman's love for her children depended on her ignorance of Greek, and that she would he likely to desert an infant for a quadratic equation." Feminine instinct is too strong to be destroyed by even inappropriate education, but it would not be easy to prove that a generally more solid education for girls would be inappropriate. The difficulty, we apprehend, would be to adjust the claims of what have acquired the name of " accomplish ments." While these—Miss COBBE must forgive us the sentence—while these have the preference in the " matrimonial market," her arguments will tell but little practically. And, somehow, the husband is apt to prefer his wife's having made pleasing acquisitions in which there can be no rivalry with his own, or which do not, it may be, qualify her to detect that his exercises were done for him at school, and that he passed with the " pol" at the University. We must conclude with the Chairman of the section, by saying that if we had the power of conferring degrees, we should be most happy to propose that Miss COBBE receive from us the degree of M.A.—mistress of the art of discussing a subject with sound reason, with infi nite grace, and with perfect propriety. BURIALS BILL.—Sir M. Peto's Burial Bill has been considerably altered by the select committee. The bill now begins with a clause providing that the parish clergy man, if required by " the relative having the conduct of the f uneral" of any person entitled to burial in the parish, must grant permission for the burial to take place without any service at all; this appears to be an adaptation of the prin ciple of marriages before a registi ar. Upon the applic a ti on also of thi s "relative having the conduct of the funeral," the clergyman may, if he think fit, grant permission to the minister of any religious denomination to perform at the graves burial service other than that of the Church of England, but a proviso is now added—" that such service, holy Scripture." If the _ if not according to a publi shed ritual, shall consist only of prayers, hymns, or extract s from holy perm ission is refused, the clergyman must state his reasons to the bishop's registrar, who is to transmit the statement "both consecrated them he Home Secretary. A clause has been added, providing and unconsecrated u w n h c e o r n e se a cra p t u e b d li g c r c o e u m tp.' "Y th e ir t bi a l l i r i a s not to authorise the service 111 the consecrated ground. use 04 a new burial THE SUN LONDON, THURSDAY, EVENING, JUNE 12, 1862 LATEST NEWS. MADRID, JUNE 11. The discussion on Mexican affairs was continued in Congress to-day. Senor Calderon Collantes admitted having de clared that a monarchy was the best form of government if the Mexicans were favourable to it ; but that he would support no form of government by force. He had also declared that he should see with displeasure the throne of Mexico occupied by any other than a Spanish Prince. Senor Collantes said nothing to indicate what would be the future policy of the Spanish Govern ment in Mexico. ST. PETERSBURG, JUNE 12. The Journal de St. Petersburb of today publishes an Imperial decree, appointing the Grand Duke Constantine Namiestnik, and the Marquis Wielo polski Chief of the Civil Government and Vice- President of the Council of State. General Luders is ordered to continue to discharge the functions of Governor until the arrival of the Grand Duke. The Northern Bee publishes t strong article in reference to the late great fires, And advocating the immediate formation of volunteer fire brigades, to be composed of citizens. PARIS, JUNE 11. FRANCE. The Patrie of this evening says:— "It is asserted that negotiations will be shortly opened at London for the drawing up of mediatory proposals to be made simultaneously by England and France to America. The Chamber of Deputies will discuss the finan cial state of the country on the occasion of the first bill being presented to it, destined to cover the deficit of 1862. VIENNA, JUNE 11. According to advices received here from Athens the new Cabinet is composed as follows : President of the Council and Minister of the Interior General Causei Minister of War H. Spiromilo Minister of Marine Minister of Public Worship M. Hatziokas Minister of Finance Minister of Justice M. Kliopulas Minister of Foreign Affairs M. Thocsaris THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 12. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Alhambra, with the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 50 passengers, including Lord and Lady Kensington and family, £1,511 in specie, and 719 packages of cargo. She spoke the Tagus on the 9th, and the Magdalena on the 11th. SIAN. Bo URSE, June 11.—The market continues heavy, but prices have been maintained at about the closing rates of yesterday, Threes, for the Ac count, being now at 68f 80c. The Railway Share Market quiet, but with trifling variations. The market closed as follows:- ft per per Cents 97 10 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 85 New 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 75 Credit Mobilier..„ 859 Do. end month B5l 25 Bank Shares 31G0 Credit Fonder 1670 Piedmontese Fives. 73 Italian Loan 72 70 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes, 52 , 5, Rome Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1292 50 .. 1295 Northern New ditto .. . 980 .. -. Lyons and Mediterranean 1112 60 .. 1113 75 Geneva.. 367 50 .. Southern 856 25 .. 852 50 Western .. Eastern ... , Sardinian Austrian Lombard 6lB 75 .. 618 75 THE CAPTURE OF THE STEAMSHIP CII?CAS,SIAN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—We beg to enclose a copy of an extract from the steamship Circassian's logbook, showing how she was taken by tho Americans, and shall feel obliged by your publishing it in your valuable paper.—l am, Sir, yours truly, (Per procuration of Z. C. Pearson and Co.), THOMAS P. JOHNSON. TURIN, JUNE 11. ( Hull, June 10. COPY OF THE LOG OF THE BRITISH STEAMSHIP CIRCASSIAN, FROM BORDEAUX Fon HAYANNAH. " Sunday, May 4, 1862,10 a.m.—The ship arrived midway between Matanzas and Havannah. At 10 30 a.m. we were met by the American war steamer Somerset. She hailed us, and requested us heave to, so that she might send a boat on board to overhaul us, but of this we took no notice, being bound for Havannah, with a general cargo for that port, the same being British and French property. In consequence of our refusal she immediately fired a blank shot across our stern, which at an interval of two minutes, or somewhat less, was followed by a round shot across our stern, and immediately afterwards by two shells in shccession, one of which carried away the whole of the fore rigging on the port side, also striking the bunt of the fore sail and splitting the sail, a splinter from the shell at the same time wounding one of the crew on the arm. Finding that we were only risking the safety of the ship and the lives of the crew, we hove to, when they despatched a boat on board of us, de manding all papers connected with the ship and cargo, which were immediately handed to them. After examining the ship's papers and the hold, and broaching the ship's cargo, they took a copy of the manifest and list of the crew; these were sent on board the Somerset to the captain, the boat return. ing soon afterwards with the first lieutenant de manding bills of4ading, manifest of cargo, ship's articles, and French clearance, the bill of health from Bordeaux, the bill of health from St.T-homas's, both being signed by the Spanish consuls, which he took on board the Somerset to the captain. Shortly afterward the first lieutenant returned with several officers and men, a number of marines, and engineer's staff, and they finally took charge of the steamship Circassian in the name of the President of the United States, without assigning any reason for so doing. Immediately the marines came on board they were drawn up in front of the saloon door, and loaded their rifles and fixed bayonets in the faces of the captain and officers of the steamer Circassian, the Englibh ensign being hauled down, and the American ensign hoisted in its place, and the whole of the crew of the Somerset at once commencing cheering vociferously, which they kept up for several minutes. 1 p.m.—Captain Arthur (Acting Master from the Somerset), with a number of men, came on board and took charge, and sent a hawser on board the Somerset, which vessel then took us in tow, steering for Key West, where we arrived at 4 30 p.m. of the following day, the ship touching the ground as she came in, the shock being dis tinctly felt. Soon after the ship was taken in tow the crew were mustered by the first lieutenant, and about half of the seamen and firemen, with the chief and second engineers, were sent on board the Somerset. "8 a.m. of the sth of May.—The two engineers, with the boatswain, were sent back to the ship. 1 p.m.—Seven more men and the third aid fourth officers, with the third engineer and boilermaker, were sent on board the Somerset. 6 p.m.—The third officer and third engineer were sent back again. " May 6, 10 30 a.m.—The whole of the crew of the Circassian were sent back on board from the Samerset, and the American ensign hauled down from the peak of the Circassian, and the English ensign hoisted in its place, but the ship still under seizure by the American authorities, Capt. Hunter having frequently requested permission to go on shore to see the English and French Consuls, but was each time refused. Since the ship struck yes terday we find her to be making a good deal of water. " Note.—The English ensign was hoisted on the first appearance of the American steamer and kept flying until compelled to haul it down, the ship steering at the time south-west by west, half west, with Morro Lighthouse right ahead, by good obser vations that morning. " EDWARD HUNTER, Commander. " Wm. C. K. JOHN, Chief Officer." COPY OF PROTEST SENT, PER FIRST LIEUTENANT, TO THE CAPTAIN OF THE SOMERSET, BY CAPTAIN HUN TER ON THE SEIZURE OF THE STEAMSHIP CIRCAS- " Steamship Circassian, May 4, 1862. "Sir,—l beg to protest against the seizure of the steamship Circassian, under my command, now on the high seas on a voyage from Bordeaux to Havannah, with a general cargo of merchandise, the same being English and French property. You assign no reason for this, in my opinion, ille gal act. "The expenses against the American Govern ment for the seizure of my steamer will necessarily be enormous. "I again beg to distinctly inform you that we are bound to a foreign port, and are British owned. " I have the honour to be, sir, " Your most obedient servant, " EDWARD HUNTER." A PERSON OF (NO) CONSEQUENCE.---I believe I am the best-tempered man that ever lived. I know lam the most patient and long-suffering. My inner conscious ness reveals to me that any less eminently endowed with amiable qualities would have given way, years ago, either to transports of anger, or settled down into a brooding or confirmed misanthrope, tried and tempted as 1 have been. I will state my case in the fewest words I can. My father was the youngest son of a younger:son, who never would— or, I believe, could—do anything for his own support. I was bora to the family gift, and so thorough a gentleman that by no possible exertion could I have procured myself one day's sustenance. I inherited something under three hundred a year, which the world called eight, and my creditors believed to be two. I had some reasonably good connections, none of whom cared to hear about, or recog nise me ; a tolerable share of good looks, and a disposition which, for gentleness and sweetness, I never knew matched. It was my impression that, vita these gifts and graces, a man might float down the stream of life (I never wanted to breast the current) pleasantly, not giving himself any espe cial calling, nor taxing his energies for any peculiar craft. I could " live," in fact—and, if I only knew how, live pleasantly. Young as I was, and with no very wide expe rience of the world, I discovered that, though society has its especial caresses and favours for great celebrities, yet its most permanent favourites are, so to say, very ordinary com monplace people, with nothing brilliant or remarkable about them ; just as; in our daily food, the staple should 1. something as devoid of taste as possible, so, in our daily in tercourse, we ought to have ce:tain poisons without any flavour of peculiar excellence, or an y sp i ce o f s p ec i a l ability, people, in a word, who would be to our intellectual wants 4 what the ordinary twopenny l oa f i s t o ou r hunger. I will be this," said I to myself; " I will be in that category e of the useful things which outlive all caprice and 87 12 a all changes of fashion," and I b eco me so, and with considerable SUCCOSo,—.DiCl6eiies the Xear PORTUGAL. LISBON, JUNE 7. The Lisbon merchants regret the withdrawal of the Peninsular Company's steamers. Slight disturbances still occur in the province of the Minho. It is said that the clerical party have made political capital out of the question of the Sisters of Charity. About 70 of the Sisters are about to leave Portugal in the French war steamer Orinoque. It is proposed to again form a National Guard in Lisbon, on account of the unsettled state of political matters. Dom Luiz still resides at the Palace of Ajuda. No date has yet been fixed for the projected mar riage of the King. The vine disease is said to be again making its appearance. Trade dull. Money scarce. Exchange on Lon don 53Z ; on Paris, 5 32 ; on Hamburg, 48 ; on Amsterdam, 423 ; on Genoa, 526; Three per Cent. Rentes, 461 ; Coupons, ditto deferred, 42 ; Lisbon Bank, 556 ; Oporto Commercial and Mercantile Banks, 258 milreis. WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING. The Royal Mail Company's steamer Atrato, Captain Woolley, arrived at 2.30 a.m. She brings 256 passengers, 1,076,704 in specie, and 2,898 packages of cargo. Jamaica advices are to the 24th ult. Business was very dull. Weather hot, and slight showers of rain had fallen. Public health good. Both the commissions appointed to inquire into the circum stances connected with the late fire had reported that the disaster originated at the Red House bakery, that it had occurred accidentally, and that it would have been easily subdued had prompt mea. sures been adopted. The revenue returns for t March quarter showed the total receipts to be £63,946 Os. ld., being a decrease of over £lO,OOO on the previous quarter, and of over £3,000 on the corresponding quarter of last year. The decrease is attributed to a falling off in the import duties, caused by the recent dulness in trade. An attempted military insurrection in Hayti, instigated by M. Salomon, the principal Minister of State during the Soulouque regime, had failed, owing to the vigorous measures taken by the Go vernment. Over 70 arrests had taken place, and snspected persons were still being captured at the date of latest accounts. At Demerara trade continued very dull, and nothing was doing txcept in provisions. Stocks of flour were much reduced, transactions limited, and advanced prices demanded. Codfish very scarce, and a lot of Newfoundland, from Barbadoes, was lotted at 6 dols, per quintal. East India rice heavy, and market quiet. Tonnage in full supply, and rates declining. Very partial showers had fallen, and rain was much wanted in some districts. Very little business was doing at Grenada. The sugar crop had almost terminated, and the scant yield from the canes fully realised the worst antici pations. The plantations were also suffering from an unprecedented severe drought. The ship Foster, Captain Ingram, from St. Helena and Ascension, with guano, had grounded off Grand Bacolet Bay, and become a total wreck. From the South Pacific we have intelligence of a Ministerial crisis at Valparaiso. The Secretaries of the Interior, Treasury, Public Worship, and War, had all resigned. The President had not completed his selection of the new Ministry. Exchange on London, 45d. to 451 d. ; Paris, 41 65e to 4f 70c. Tonnage scarce, and freight transactions in conse quence very trifling. 0 n a t ' i h i e e 2 C l o s q t u o i f m A bo p:i n l. d Serenas Railroad was opened All was quiet in Peru, and the elections along the coast had passed off peacet:bly, San Roman being victorious in most places. Exchange on Lon don at Litna, 37d. por Great indignation was felt throughout Chili against the policy of England, France, and Spain with respect to Mexico, and co , ...ieties were forming in all directions to oppose by every reasonable means the threatened change of the Republican system of Government. An attempted revolution in Guat i omala had been discovered in time to prevent any serious results. The bark Harpley, of Hartlepool, from Glasgow for San Francisco, had struck on the sands off R'.faleja, which port she was entering for supplies of provisions and water; she had broke in two at the ebb tide and become a total wreck. ROYAL HORTICULTURAL GARDENS. The second fete of the season was celebrated at these gardens yesterday by visitors walking about during the brief lapses that intervened between the showers of rain. It was Chiswick weather, without the Chiswick accessories of shady walks and luxuriant trees. If it is really meant that these gardens are to retain the public favour with which they started last year, a little more must be done in the way of planting them with shrubs and flowers. At present these so-called gardens are a mere suc cession of lawns and terraces, throughout the whole extent of which scarcely a flower is to be found. Some banks of rhododendrons have been planted at the southern end, but when once the visitor has passed these no other blooms are to be seen till he enters the conservatory at the other side, where there are certainly flowers enough of the rarest and most beautiful kinds. Surely, when the society has Mr. Eyles for their chief manager of the gardens, they ought to bo able to accomplish anything in the way of out-door flowers. Last year every one was willing enough to admit the excuse for the want of them in the fact that all the parterres were only hurriedly finished a day or so before the opening, but the interval that has elapsed since has afforded ample time for planting at least a few rose trees, lilacs, or any flowering shrubs that would make the name of garden appear somewhat less misplaced than it does now. Beds of bottle-green glass, red tile, or crushed slate, are well enough in winter to supply with colours the place of flowers that cannot bloom, but something more than these stony deceptions is re quired at Midsummer. Yesterday, the " show" was arranged under the arcades at each side of the gardens, for the hideous tents that blocked the windows of the refreshment rooms, having been found neither wind nor water proof, were very wisely not used on this occasion. The exhibition of flowers by no means came up to that superb display shown in the first fete. In fact, as a flower show it was much beneath the average standard. The best plants were shown in the con servatory, where they were grouped together with the most admirable good taste, so that the effect of the general show in this department was exceedingly beautiful. The stove and greenhouse specimens were very good, but there was not much in the others to call for special remark. Great curiosity was evinced to see the rare flowers of the hand tree, which was shown yesterday in the conservatory in full bloom, the first time that it has ever flowered in this country, in spite of all the care and skill that have been brought to bear to force it into blossom. The flowers very closely re semble the shape of the human hand, and from this the shrub takes its name. One of the best, and cer tainly the most interesting sections of the exhibition, was the competition to gain Sir Wentworth Dilke's special prizes for fruit and flower decoration for the dinner-table. There were an immense number of candidates for this honour, three-fourths of whom plagiarised more or less upon Mr, March's beautiful designs, which took the prize last summer, and even that which gained the first on this occasion only differed in the arrangement of its flowers, the glass stand being almost precisely similar to those shown by Dobson and Pearce in the Exhibition. The second prize was given to Mrs. Pickering, a sister of Mr. March, whose flowers were most exquisitely arranged in the glass-handled baskets in which Lady D. Neville gained the prize at the first fete. The Messrs. Veitch took the first and second prizes for the flowers arranged for the drawing-room, no other competitors approaching the quiet good taste of their specimens. Some objects were sent in to this class which were simply hideous—so bad, in fact, that one required to look at them attentively to understand the process by which good flowers could be made to look so utterly unbecoming; while others were mere confused bushes—everything uppermost, yet nothing seen. One of the nearest approaches to prize-taking was by Messrs. Elkington. Their flowers were short of the mark in arrangement, but the silver and enamelled vases in which they showed them were perfection, though, of course, for these alone no awards could be given. The display of roses was small, though good considering how totally the insects have de stroyed these flowers this year. So, also, was there a fair exhibition of plants of variegated foliage. Only one of the great French fountains has been set to work, or rather play; yesterday, however, this endeavoured to make up for the want of the assistance of its colleague by working with such energy that no one could pass near it without getting wet. Its drizzle at last became such a nuisance, in addition to the rain, that it had to be stopped entirely. If Durenne's fountain, close by (which is still, we are sorry to say, unfinished), behaves in a similar way, there will be no entering the gardens from the Exhibition at all. CIVIL SERVICE Q UESTIONS, (From Fun.) FINANCE. State the connection between bank stocks and paper collars. Would the introduction of teetotalism in the city prevent money from getting tight? What effect has the introduction of penny ices had upon the national debt ? Was Archimedes a bank director, since we read in his tory he was the first to apply the screw ? HISTORY. What authority have we for the story that Homdr wrote the " Iliad" on the flagstones of the Parthenon 'with a stick and a bottle of blacking ? In which corner were Tarquin's pocket handkerchiefs usually marked, and by which of the maids was it generally done ? Enumerate the battles won and the services rendered to the State by Sir 11r. W. Dilke, especially the particular cne for which he was made a baronet, and refute the calumny that it was only because he had a great deal of money. SOCIAL SCIENCE. To which should you give the palm for brutalized igno rance and barbarity,—lrish Itibbonmen or Australian Aborigines ? Judging from recent courts-martial, in what respect does the military interpretation of the term, "officers and gen tlemen," differ from the vulgar and civilian idea of the same ? MUCH NEARER THE MARE:.—" LITTLEJOHN," in an excellent leader in the Weekly Times, calls the British sol dier, as ho exists at present, a "machine," Had he said a thrashing-machine, he would have been much nearer the mark. WHY is the "Hallelujah Chorus" a good piece to end a concert with ?—Eecause it is always best to wind up with a llandel. NEW NA3lE.—Puseyism is for tho future to be called liomccopathic Roman-Catholicism. AGREEING WITH A DTFFERENCE.—A lady looking into a bonnet shop window, said, " Oh, Adolphus, what sweet things there are in the window 1" Adolphus (enthusias• t`.cally)—'• Yes, by Jove, these girls are splendid I" BlLLS.—There are various kinds of bills before us which are so peculiarly associated with serious matters that we must really pass them over as quite beyond a joke. A heavy bill it is impossible to treat lightly. A bill diseminter once showed us one of this kind, which was so heavy that nobody could be found to take it up at all. Accommodation bills, improperly so termed, for they seemed to put every body to the greatest possible inconvenience, ought always to be avoided. Having been taught this moral lesson con cerning bills, we should, of course, never think of going out of our way to meet one. If you want to see how a bit of paper will run—which is a very curious experiment —get somebody to draw a bill on it, then you may back it to any amount, and you will be surprised to find how soon you have outrun the constable. LORD DUNREALLY.—Lord D.—What, beaten agai n I `Well, national expenditure is one of those sort of things that no fellah can unclerstt.nd. SUICIDE ON BLACKIIEATII.—Yesterday morning, as a young man named John Gunn, residing at east and some Greenwich, was crossing Blackheath, he had his attention arrested by seeing a man's hat and walking stick, lying on the edge ofa pond, a short distance from the Prince of w e er ." O 'a t t i e e r d ' Wales tavern, and looking more closely he saw the body of a man in the pond• i o raised an alarm, the persons came to his assistance. The body was get out of when it was found that the deceased's:l:Ors clays past together with a pocket handkerchief. Th e cognised as that of a gentleman who Lad ft body was re been stopping at the principal tavern in th having he had lived very freely, and, fastening his it is s e l"ality, whet° hands together to prevent the possibility of ex hausted his means, he destroyed himself,uPP''sed' out 3f the water. A few articles , h , his Marriott, struggling7B, Lonolca found on deceased's person, and the addtrreisflzi,,ngvalue were Eccleston-squ ire-mews, ." HARMONY FOR MEXICO.--The idea of the c rt cert in which England, Franc ; and Spain were to t part in Mexico has been abandoned, and, instead of that performance, France will oblige the Mexicans with a so/o. —.00;c4. THE DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE IN BLACKFI?IAR,S-ROAD, The following are some further particulars rela tive to the melancholy affair in the Blackfriars road, reported in our yesterday's impression : For the last four years, or nearly so, a married man, named Joseph Mockford, has occupied apart ments at 189, Blackfriars-road, the other portions of which are in the occupation of a gentleman named Pearce, who entertained the highest respect for his ledger, and ivho now speaks of him in the highest terms of praise as a steady and respectable man, a loving husband, and a doating father. He filled a confidential situation in the service of Mr. Meredith of the saw mills, Bankside, with wages and perqui sites averaging £2 ss. per week. He had three cell dren, two girls and a boy, an infant ; and he lived a happy life enough until the end of April last, when his wife died after a very brief illness, and he once became an altered man, moody, miserable, and gloomy, and frequently, in vague terms, expressing an intention of making away with himself. To these threats, however, his friends attached no very serious importance, supposing that time would re concile him to the loss of his wife, and that he would gradually reeume his former habits. Upon the death of his wife, his sister resigned a situation in the City, and at his desire went to keep house for Mockford, and take care of his two elder children. The youngest, an infant, about six weeks old, he committed to the charge of its grandmother by the father's side. This arrangement appears to h we worked to his entire satisfaction, and on Sun day last it was agreed that Mockford, with his two eldest children, should take tea with the mother of his late wife, that he should sleep at her house that night, and that the children should be left there fcr a day or two, while his sister was to go to her mother's, and stay there for a similar period. The sister accordingly went on her visit, and it was supposed that Mockford and his children had gone on theirs. According to this arrangement, he should have returned home to sleep on Monday, but did not do so, and as, when Tuesday came, he still remained absent, Mr. Pearce thought it only prudent to send to his sister to ascertain when he would be likely to return. The reply was that the sister had not seen him since she left home on Sunday, but that she would imme diately go to his father-in-law's, to inquire there. She went herself, and found, to her great surprise, that Mockford had not been there at all. Upon this, the whole family became greatly alarmed, and mak ing their way to the Blackfriars-road, the father and mother, sister and sister-in-law, roused up Mr. Pearce, who had gone to bed, and obtained admis sion to the house, with the result already reported. Upon a more minute inspection of the apartment it became apparent that Mockford had acted with full deliberation in taking the lives of his children and himself. The children, it is known, were rather partial to castor oil as a medicine, and on the chair before referred to as having a carving knife upon it (there was also a fork) was a teacup, containing a little castor oil, with some sediment at the bottom, the remains, it is presumed, of poison, which had been administered in the oil. There was also a phial lying under the table,.which it is presumed bad contained that poison before it was mixed with the oil, although the exact nature of it has not yet been discovered. The two poor children were named respectively Catherine and Emily—the former being seven and the latter four years old. When their bodies were discovered one was lying on her face and the other on her left erm. The action of the poison seems to have been rapid, and so great was the change from their natural appearance, that Mr. Henderson at first imagined them to have been dead for three or tour days. By the aide of their bodies two pillows were found lying—one with and the other with out a case, the latter being completely satu rated with blood; and this, together with the gene ral appearance of the room, leads to the supposi tion that Moekford was kneeling on the pillows, looking at his children, when he inflicted the stabs which brought about his death, arid that he after wards dragged himself to the chair by the window, and sat there till he bled to death. The stabs must have been inflicted with the utmost coolness and deliberation. He had on only his trowsers, shirt, and flannel shirt. The first were loose about him, and the shirts —which have no perforation over the stabs—must have been lifted and hold up with one hand, while he struck the knife into his abdomen five or six times with the other; so that every ap pearance warrants the conclusion that he had long contemplated the terrible deed. It should be added that under the table was found a chamber-utensil containing apparently some vomit matter, and it is thought probable that he in the first instance at tempted to poison himself, but that, throwing up the poison, he then had recourse to the carving knife. The vomit matter was at once sealed up by the direction of Mr. Henderson, who is engaged with another medical man in making a post mortem examination of the bodies. The inquest will, it is expected, be held this day. Alockford was 35 years old, and up to the death of his wife, on the 27th of April last, a strong and healthy man. MARKETS-THIS D.A.Y. MARK LANE. bit ERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. Wheat, 54s 7d ; barley, 34s 3d ; oats, 23s Id ; rye, 43s 6d ; beans, 40s 9d ; and peas, 37s 6d. THE Six WEEKS' AVERAGES. Wheat, 57s Od ; barley, 36s 2d; oats, 23s ld ; rye, 39s sd; beans, 40s 3d; peas, 408 2d, ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 54,491; barley, 1,434; oats, 7,174 ; rye, 10 ; beans, 3,706 ; peas, 102 quarters. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The supply of beasts here to-day being on the increase, the demand for all kinds ruled inactive, and, in some instances, prices were rather lower than on Monday. A few Scots realised 4s. Bd., but the more general top figure was 4s. per 81hs. About 200 Spanish beasts, via South ampton, were brought forward. Prime sheep moved off steadily, at full currencies; but inferior qualities were dull at barely late rates. The best Downs sold at from 4s. 10d. to ss. per Blbs. The lamb trade was in a sluggish state, on f:Tmer terms. No quotable change took place in the value of calves. The supply was only moderate. Pigs were quite as dear as on Monday, but mulch cows were a dull inquiry. _ _ Per 81b. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. , s. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 0 3 21Primecrs-wool d 0.4 6 4 8 Second quality do. 3 4 3 8 ; Pine. S'thdown d 0.4 10 5 0 Prime large oxen 3 10 4 4 Large orse. calves 4 0 4 6 Prime Scots, e‘ - c. 4 6 4 8 Prime small do 4 8 5 0 Crse. &, inf. sheep 3 8 3 10 I Large hogs 4 0 4 4 Second qualitydo. 40 4 4 I Smal porers 4 65 0 Lambs, 5s 4d to 7s 6d. Suckling calves, lOs to 225; and quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 30s. TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts Sheep and lambs 9,420 Calves Pigs, 3OO FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts 350 Sheep and lambs 1,020 Calves Pigs MEAT MARKETS. NEWCIATE AND LEA.DENDALL.--The supplies of meat are moderate, and the trade rules steady, as follows:—Beef, from 3s Od to 4s 2d , mutton, 3s 10d to 4s 8d ; lamb, 6s Od k) 6s 8d ; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d ; pork, 3s 10d to 5s Od per Blbs by the carcase. SOUTHALL, June 11.—Only moderate supplies of fa t stock were on offer here to-day, and the trade ruled steady, as follows :—Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 6d; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 10d ; lamb, 6s Od to 7s 2d ; veal, 4s 43 to 4s 10d ; and pork, 4s Od to 5s Od per Blbs. to sink the offal. Romrenn, June 11.—All kinds of stock were in good request at very full prices. Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s 8.1 ; mut ton, 3s 8d to 5s Od ' • lamb, Gs Od to suckle 4 veal, 4s 2d t o 4s 10d ; pork; 48 Od to 5s Od per 8 1 b ; g calves, lOs to 19s; quarter-old store pigs, 19s to 28s each; and milch cows, £l4 Cd to £lB 5s each. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.— dow hay, £ 2 Os to £4 15 s Od ; clover, £3 lOs to £4 15s 01C11ea;and straw, £1 16 s t o £ 2 Os per load. A fair demand.AND..— Cum I\lea-low hay, £2 O s to £4 16s ; clover maL do., lOs to £4 15 s; and straw, £1 16 s to /2 Os per load. Trule dull. WurrncgArr.n.- 11 1eadow hay, £2 Os to £4 15s; clover £3 las to £5 17s ; and straw, £ 1 16 8 to £2 Os per load. SupplY tolerably good. COAL N (Prices of Coal per Tort a ARE ET. t. the close of 1130 market Walls End. s. d. Bell's Primrose l2 0 Carway and Duffryn Malting ..,.,,.G3 0 Do. Anthraeite 21 0 Wylare l5 0 Hastings Hartley l4 9 Hartlepool West Hart • ley .............. l4 3 WeBt Hartley l4 South Pearet h .ll 0 l'antield Moor 11 3 15 0 [:denMain d. s. Eleugh Hall 15 3 Framweilgate 15 3 Haswell . 16 9 Caradoc Stewart's.... l6 0 South Kelloe. 15 9 Eolith Het. cn l6 9 Tuust all WI larncl ate Jamo= l4 0 Bre ddyll's Hetton... 15 9 Iletton .. l6 9 Cassop ........ ... Rid d ell ..... l4 6 104 ; soli, 57. Walls End. Hunwicic l4 0 Ships at market, A VOLUNTEER CORPS NEARLY POISONED.—Con. sidereble excitement was caused in Skipt en by the rumoured poisoning of nearly 40 members of the Burley - Volunteer Corps. It appears that the corps visited Slzipton on Tues day under the - command of Captain Forster, for the pur pose of taking part in a rifle contest, and on their arrival between 40 and 60 partook of bread and cheese at the Black Horse, They were subsequently seized with violent pains and the symptoms of poisoning, and about 20 of the cases assumed a serious character. The greater number of the men, however, afterwards rallied, and, with the exception of four, were enab'cd to return to their homes. The four are expected to recover, but the state of two_causes som anxiety.