The Sun. — London, England, 1859-07-12 00:00:00

( - INCE A WEEK. V No. 3 will contain a New and Original Poem by ALFRED TENNYSON, with an Illustration by J. E. 311ILLAIS. Price 3d.—Office, No. 11, Bonverie-street. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. %hider the sianagement of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING will be reyived Shakspeare's Tragedy of HENRY VIII. Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean ; Queen Jiatharine, Mrs. C. Kean. After which, IF THE CAP Firs._ Commence at 7. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with r. new Comedy . , entitled THE CONTESTED ELECTION, in which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear, After which, MARRIED FOR MONEY. To conclude with THE WATER WITCHES. Commence at 7. "MEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI. 1 ..L1 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, ICI ON FABLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Chas Selby , Billington ; Misses Keeley, Arden, end Laidlaw. and Mrs. Billington. Followed by THE HOUSE ? or, THE HOME ? Mr. A. Wigan, C, Selby, Billington ; Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Miss A. Simms. Miss Laidlaw. - F r olroTved by THE FIRST NIGHT. Mr. Alfred Wigan, Mr. Billington, Miss M. Keeley. After which, THE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Messrs. C. Selby and Moreland; Misses Woolgar and K. Kelly. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Oboe open from 10 to 5 —no charge for booking. No fees to Servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING, VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark, Miss A. Burditt. After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses Swanborough, Oliver, and Lavine. Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE LADY OF LYONS. After which, CAUGHT BY THE EARS. Mr. J. Rogers Slid Miss F. Hughes. Commence at 7 o'clock. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE—This Evening THE MARBLE HEART. Mr. Leigh Murray. After which, DELICATE MOUND. Mr. and Mrs. H. Vezin. To conclude with THE BRIGAND. Mr. Charles Pitt. CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY, Westminster-road.—Open at Seven. EVERY EVENING during the week will appear THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, Oonatating of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette, and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and EIGHT years. The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios evc r written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France and Belgium. They perform EVERY EVENING, at NINE and ELEVM I o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments. - THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JULY 12. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 82—highest since noon yesterday. 71—lowest this morning and during the night. 82--this day at noon. BAnoarrrEs-30 . 22. WIND, Sonth-Westerly ; light, with burning hot weather. THE SUN. TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1859. It were almost idle to speculate on the labours of the forthcoming Congress, if Congress there be. The matter in dispute has been' so far settled by the force of arms, that diplomacy, to be effectual, most conform to what has been done, and not pre sume to undo with the pen what has been achieved by the sword. If a Congress do enter into settlement of the Italian question, it had better begin by at once acquiescing in the total recognition of the inde pendence of Italy. What the future views of the Emperor NAPOLEON may be, time alone:can make clear. That he has kept his own counsels pretty close hitherto, we all know ; and he may endeavour to make the best use of present victory for future adventure. But enter prise often stumbles on the very threshold of its own success : and NAPOLEON, like other wonder fully-gifted children of fortune, may live to curse his own luck, and the unexpected turn of that wheel which spins all the faster in weaving the last thread of destiny ! We hope it may not be so. We trust the EM PEROR may not be beguiled into a vague belief that there is no limit to an ambition so wisely and so successfully managed hitherto, and that he may not be betrayed into over-confidence' of his good fortune by the splendid illusion of its vastness. A man never repents truly but once, and that once is when it is too late ! Now, an Emperor is but a man after all, and even he must bow the lofty head when the hardness of the heart is stricken by the fatal dart. To counsel experience to such men is only to ex pose one's own folly by endeavouring to correct the folly of others. Even our GEORGE the Fourth— " the politest and best behaved gentleman in Eu rope," had matters all his own way, from the depth of the blackest ingratitude to the buffoonery of the vilest adulation!—he could not imagine that the race of perfidy was really run until Nature whispered into his ear for heart he had none—the time is come !—on which he faultered to those around his uneasy chair— " Can this be death !" and so he expired—leaving no friend to lament .his exit. 'Yet he was a great Prince for the time being. And there an end. Concede Sir JAMES GRAHAM an inch, and soon enough, and with the most perfect sang froid, he appropriates an ell to his own purposes. Last evening, in the House of Commons, the inch asked for by the right hon. baronet, with the most cool complacency, was really and truly nothing more than the postponement for a fortnight of any further consideration of the Lords' amendments in the Red Sea and India Telegraph Company (No. 2) Bill, then and there returned to the House of Com mons for its agreement. But that mere inch of a postponement might, if granted,have led positively to the full ell of a most flagrant repudiation. Speciously as the insidious argument of the mem ber for Carlisle was put last evening, and yet more speciously though that argument was enforced by the right. hon. member for Oxford University, in his authoritative Ministerial position as Chancellor of the Exehequer—the gist of the whole matter lay after all, as the phrase is, in a nutshell. Hap pily, so thought the majority of those present yes terday in the popular branch of the Legislature. A clear majority of forty-seven in a house of 312 (including Speaker and Tellers), decided against Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S amendment and for the Lords' amendments. The minority, altogether numbering 130, included several of the Cabinet Ministers, comprising among these the First Lord of the Treasury himself, and the Right lion. the Chancellor of the Exchequer. There, too, were the Right Hon. the Chief Secretary for Ireland, the redoubtable Whig ex -Secretary- for the Colo nies, and that other Whig ex -Secretary of State (erst for the Home Department), 110 W partially shelved as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Together with Sir GEORGE GREY, Mr. LABOU METE, and Mr. CARDWELL—the catalogue of the defeated reveals, here Friend BRIGHT, there Friend GILPIN, yonder the Right Hon. W. MONSELL, and yonder the Right Hon. R. LOWE. They are rapidly getting inured to defeat these powerful and well- disciplined Ministers. Scarcely have they settled down upon the Treasury benches and attempted for a few nights to conduct the business of Pa,rli4ment, when lo ! and behold they have ', ,, - 4# 4 I QUI, ' 4.,! ~ ' _ ~, 4 .....A 0 , 1 . 4,..-0 i.• • A ' 41,.... )00 , 11 ' c . 5 ., , ..,;,, 1 r --- . 7j ' Ai.* ;',.;, • •••• 14 (0 0. 10, ,,,,N ....., .•••• : ...• . .....ep :45;._ ..4 , , , ,,, , , ,, 41, , , , ,• I 7 . . ,' ..... 11 10 40 •it -.. 4 "";‘ ''' bit ',, , n , , ~,, F:'' '.; 011 * , eRO t'. , Nr i 4 ~ .., ,„,.1.....v.,2..... •tkr...... already, within these few first evenings, had to submit to two or three defeats in rapid succession. Like the Austrian host in Lombardy, they have shown themselves perfect masters in the difficult tactics required in retreat—they have, like their German prototypes in northern Italy, preserved their discipline to the last with stoical in difference while being conquered. An im- pression gaining ground, however, among ob servers, in spite of all this apparent unity of action among them even while defeated, that the powerful Coalition presided over by Viscount PAL MERSTON, no less surely than the powerful empire ruled by the House of Hapsburg, is composed of materials so heterogeneous, so entirely wanting in th e first essential of all for preservation or perpetua ion—coherence--that we may in each instance .00k forward with entire confidence to the inevit able catastrophe of an internal disruption. Hence the source of dissension may be discerned at a glance here in the mutual hatred notoriously subsisting between Croat and Hungarian, between Bohemian and Tyrolese, between German and Transylvanian. Here no less surely may we note the premonitions of ulterior decay in the common hostility no less notoriously influencing in their affectedly amicable relations with each other, Whig and Peelite, Canningite and Radical, Conservative -Liberal and Liberal-Conservative. Perhaps of all the victories recently won over the unhappy Austrians by their formidable antagonist, the most notable and the most signal has been the arrangement of this startling Armistice. As probably, among all the recent defeats of the Coalition Ministry, that suf fered by them last nigbt was, all things considered, the most lamentably ignominious. The significance of Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S amend ment was this—that it was intended as a slight to the late Government ! That_Government had had the high moral courage, last year, to enter into an agreement, at all hazard of responsibility, for the lay ing down, as speedily as might be possibly managed, a continuous submarine and overland telegraphic cable the completion of which would bring the mother country at length into instantaneous com munication with her vast Asiatic empire in Hin dostan. Recollect that at the date at which this ag greement was made—that enormous empire was still imminently jeopardized by the perils resulting from the then yet unconquered Sepoy insurrection. Everything at that period combined to force upon the attention of the nation and of the Government the necessity of bringing the East and the West thus together by the magical agency of the electric telegraph. After mature delibera tion the only feasible plan then apparent was de cided upon by the Government—happily not a Whig Goverenment, for in that case the whole project would still have remained to this very day altogether in nubibus, floating about in vague re ports and idle references, in the empyrean of Circum locution! As we have said the Departments being last year in the hands of Administrators who were not Whigs—something was actually decided upon in the matter of the Red Sea and Indian Telegraph. An understanding was actually arrived at between the Company and the Government. The latter, among other things, guaranteed to the former for fifty years to come 41 per cent. upon all capital—a guarantee involving annual payments by the Exche quer of £36,000 upon a paid-up capital of £BOO,OOO —annual payments which would, of course, be enhanced to £45,000 per annum in the event of that capital of £BOO,OOO being raised to the proposed total of £1,000,000. But, in return for this, there would not only be the electric telegraph laid down between England and Hindostan via the Red Sea, but the priority of the use of that vitally important means of instantaneous communication was to be gua ranteed upon all occasions that might be required by the Company to the Government. There was a distinct quid pro quo. Granted that those annual payments of the Exchequer might in the course of the stipulated half-century have reached a total of £2,250,000 sterling. Yet, whatever the expenditure, supposing it even to have attained that maximum —two millions and a quarter—those two millions and a quarter would have been spread over fifty years, and might by that time have secured us upon many and many an occasion in the interim from the peril of altogether losing our Orien tal possessions. Let it be borne, however, particularly in remembrance now that the partisans of Lord PALMERSTON'S present Government are declaiming against what they deem the monstrous extravagance of the DERBY Ministry, in guaranteeing 4 1 ,- per cent. during fifty years to the Red Sea and India Tele graph Company, that the preceding Government, the Government actually presided over by our pre sent First Lord of the Treasury, guaranteed for five-and-twenty years, not 4i per cent., but 61 per cent. to the Mediterranean Company for laying down a telegraphic cable between Malta and Cag liari. We object not in the least to the Committee of inquiry into contracts —on the contrary, we deem the appointment of this Committee to be one in every way most judicious and most desirable. But—as regards the Bill actually before the House last evening the time was gone by long ago for any such root and branch reconsiderations. It was simply preposterous for Sir JAMES GRAHAM to propose the re-examination of this contract by the Committee of Inquiry now when £400,000 of the capital of the Company has already been actually paid up—now when 1,159 miles of the telegraphic wire have been already paid out along the route successfully —now, in fact, when the great enterprise is already partially accomplished upon the solemn guarantee of her Britannic MA JESTY'S Government! A postponement like the one proposed last evening by Sir J. GRAHAM would either moan (what would be folly) just Nothing, or it would mean (what would be not less monstrous than disgraceful) the threat of Repudiation. Re pudiation may be all very well for Sir JAMES GRA litm and Pennsylvania, but it will never do at all, we may rest assured of that, for JOHN BULL and Britannia. So said the House of Commons last evening—a house of 312 confirming by a clear majority of 47 upon division that the Lords' amendments should be at once ac cepted in confirmation of the contract entered into last year by the late Government. It is worthy of particular observation, by the way, as illustrative once more of the extraordinary consistency mark ing the Parliamentary proceedings of the right hon. gentleman the member for Oxford University, that while Mr. GLADSTONE, fn the course of his impressive remarks in the discussion of last even ing upon the contract for this Red Sea and Indian Telegraph, observed in solemn and memorable words, words worthy of falling from the lips of a Chancellor of the Exchequer : " The matters we are dealing with are of the extremest delicacy, and the public faith ought not only to be sustained, but ought not even to be suspected"—the right hon. gentleman, by way of supporting this high standard of national integrity, actually supported that insidious, and specious, and sinister proposition for a p os tponement, which we have said either meant Nothing, or meant, at least, the Threat of Repudia- tion. Attention was called last evening by Mr. KIN NAIRD to the opportunity presented by the pulling down of Berkeley House, for the opening of a suit- THEt-SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, 3 ULY 12, 1859, LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : VERONA, JULY 11 (via VIENNA). The Emperor of Austria, accompanied by Gen erals Hess, Grunne, Kellner, Kollenstein, Roming, Schlitter, and several other officers of the Staff, went this morning to the interview with the French Emperor at Villafranca. , TURIN, JULY 11. The Official Bulletin of to-day publishes the text of the convention of armistic. Besides the articles already known, it is said the belligerent armies will keep the positions which they now occupy. The railways to Verona, Peschiera, and Mantua may, during the armistic, be used to carry provi sions to those fortresses. Peschiera and Mantua are being provisioned, and the provisioning of the former will be completed in two days. The works, offensive and defensive, of Peschiera are to remain in their present state. The convention is signed by Generals Valliant, Martinfrey della Rocco, Hess, and Meurdorf. BERLIN, MONDAY, JULY 11. The Prussian Gazette publishes an article in which the earlier proposals of Prussia and the latest proposal of Austria to the Federal Diet are placed in comparison. The article says, among other things, as follows : Austria intends, by its proposal, to request the Prince Regent to accept the post of Commander in-Chief of the Federal army. The possessor of the chief power in the States of Prussia can never be personally responsible to the Diet. The article concludes thus : It is easy to perceive how that a member of the Federal Diet, which is at the same time a belligerent Power, can make a proposal, the acceptance of which would render dubious all unity of action, and force Germany to commence a war, by which it would be ruined. The Federal Diet has to choose between the proposals of Prussia and Austria. It can accept the former; or, by the acceptance of the latter, deprive Germany of all power of action, even also of the power of energeti cally negotiating for peace. It would also lower the military power of the German States to the organisation of the old army of the German empire. The German nation will not doubt for a moment on which side lie thes recognition and desire for that which is now above all things needed for the Fatherland.' " BERNE, JULY 11 The Federal assembly has elected the President of the Swiss Confederation for 1860 in the person of the Federal Councillor M., Frey-Herossee. M. Knusel has also been chosen Vice-President. M. Ziegler has been re-elected Chief of the military general staff. TRIESTE, JULY 1 Yesterday fourteen war steamers were still ai Lussin. A Paris letter in the Independence of Brussels gives the following account of the circumstances which preceded the armistice : " The Ethperor of Austria having caused a de mand to be made in the French camp if it were not possible to obtain the remains of Prince Windis chgratz, who was killed at Solferino, the Emperor Napoleon caused them to be sought for—and they were recognised partly by his uniform, and partly by some letters from his newly-married wife, which he had about him. The corpse was placed in an artillery waggon, and conveyed, ac -1 companied by an officer of the staff and an escort, to the Austrian head-quarters. The officer ex pressed to the Emperor the condolence of the Em peror of the French ; and his Austrian Majesty (who was just recovering from a somewhat severe indisposition) begged, not without emotion, the officer to convey his thanks to the Emperor Na poleon, and to e xpress his sorrow at the death of so many brave men in the French army. This led to some remarks on the cruel necessities of war, and from what was said the Emperor Francis Joseph was able to perceive that those necessities were re gretted as much by his opponent as by himself. The Emperor Francis Joseph afterwards sent the son of Gen. Urban with a flag of truce to the French camp, as is kliown, and the Emperor Napoleon by an autograh letter proposed a suspension of arms. It is added that the latter has carried his courtesy to the extent of neutralising, for the signing of the preliminaries of a truce, the town of Villafranca, although the usages of war would have justified him in requiring those formalities to take place at his own headquarters." The National Gazette of Berlin also contains the following : " The armistice which has just been concluded in no respect constitutes peace; we may even ask if the two powers have seriously put an end to hostilities. It is possible that Austria only seeks the means of renewing in a more efficacious man ner her cry of alarm ; whilst Napoleon 111, tends to isolate Austria still more, by casting on the Cabinet of Vienna the responsibility of refusing reasonable conditions. However, that may be, Prussia is placed in the most favourable situation, as her intervention now no longer depends on the variable chances of war. She can decide in a manner perfectly independent on what side the fault lies, in case the negotiations should fail, and can choose afterwards the position which she should assume. For her mediation she can desire nothing better than to see the French stop at the Adige and accept definitively the meeting of a con gress. In the new phase in which negotiations are about to enter the resolutions to be taken at Frankfort are of the highest importance. The principal basis of any action consists in the unity of diplomatic and military action in the hands of Prussia. It is known that our Government has made new propositions in that spirit relative to the adjunction of the corps d'armee of the Germanic Confederation to the Prussian army, and relative to the chief command of the other confederate corps." The Cologne Gazette, in an article entitled " Armistice and War," says :—" The news of the armistice between the Emperor of Austria and the Emperor of the French is the more happy that the advantages of the armistice, at least at the first glance, appear to be altogether for Austria. We can make that declaration, fur according to our accounts, and they come from a good source, the situation of the Austrian army is deplorable. Corn manded in an uncertain and incapable manner, it has always been inferior to its adversary, in spite of its ardent efforts. It certainly has never fled, it has never been pursued, but it has always been beaten, and to fall back constantly must in the end discourage the bravest soldier. Lombardy is lost ; the Miracio itself has no longer the prestige which was attached to its name ; the Franco-Sardinians have crossed it as as they would any ordinary river, and they have set to work to take from the celebrated quadrangle the terror which it has hitherto inspired, by be sieging all its fortresses. In the Austrian army it is not merely discouragement which prevails, but disorder and extreme confusion. The food of the soldiers is bad. The war was commenced with order in the finances, and the necessity of procuring money has led to the adoption of desperate mea sures. Moreover, the Austrians, though on their own territory, are in a hostile country, for treason surrounds them. And the French, by means of their fleets, were sending troops to disem bark in their rear, and were preparing to besiege Venice. If besides the Emperor of Austria casts his looks further—that is to say, in his own States beyond the Adriatic_ what he sees is not calculated to console him. Everywhere discontent, excited by his system of government, breaks out; the voice of the people able carriage-way from Trafalgar-square into St. James's-park through Spring-gardens. Although the opportunity appears to be in a fair way of being lost—chiefly by reason of the cordial con currence in the depreciation of it evidenced yes terday in the remarks of both the late and the pre- senr Minister of Public Works, Lord JOHN MANNERS and Mr. FITZROY—We are still san- guine that something better will come of it in the end than that wretchedly little stone lane trailing from between DENT'S and FARILANCE'S —from the " Finest site in Europe" to the most royal of our beautiful London Parks According to the - arrangements already _chalked out in this direction, we are at any rate certain of this—that that miserable little line of communication will be considerably widened.. A passage, it is at present proposed, shall run through that angle of Spring gardens, a passage (paved, as is the present one) extending in -width twenty feet and in length one hundred and fifty feet. There, moreover, upon one side of it will rise in lieu of that dingy dirty old red brick tenement known as Berkeley House, the:new mansion of the Metropoli tan Board Works—a building the cost of which is estimated at some £15,000, and one which will have, we are tol 1 by a competent witness, like the member for Bath, some pretention to architectural beauty, not merely in its internal arrangements, but in its external appearance. As to the funds to be drawn upon in liquidation of whatever expense might be incurred :in the opening of the proposed new road into St. James's Park, we confess to have some sort of liking for the double-barrelled suggestion fired off by Lord DUN CAN last evening—Urst, that the Crown revenues should not to this end be in any way tampered with, revenues which have belonged to the Crown from a period antecedent to the Norman Con quest, revenues, moreover, having a suffi cient drain upon them already in divers other directions—and, secondly, that the resources of the metropolis itself should be looked to in the matter, this metropolis being, as Lord DUN CAN .rather superfluously reminded the house, the wealthiest in the world, sixteen of its parishes alone boasting the enormous assessable rental of 16,000,000 sterling ! And surely it would only be appropriate, it would be fitting, itlwould be, above all, auspicious, to have a noble and conspicuous improvement like this carriage roadway into St. James's-park through Spring gardens, secured to itself by the metropolis upon the very threshold of these new buildings for the Commissioners of the Metropolitan Board of 'Works. The children" of the poorer classes might recreate themselves much more healthfully and comfortably, for that matter, in that ",triangular piece of grass railed in at the north east end of the park," and upon the absurd railing of which Mr. H. HERBERT last night very pro perly animadverted. THIN) EDITION. TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN FRANCE AND AUSTRIA. REUTER'S TELEGRAM. PARIS, TUESDAY, A message posted up at the Bourse announces that a treaty of peace has been signed between Austria and France. Rentes, 70. LA TV AMENDMENT SOCIETY. Yesterday evening the usual fortnightly meeting of the Law Amendment Society was held at their rooms, Waterloo-place, Lord Brougham in the chair. Mr. HASTINGS read the report of the Criminal Law Committee on the law of false pretence in the sale of goods. The report, after referring to the difficulties which surrounded the subject, arising in some measure from the fear of any in terferenc with the free course of commerce, a jealous care of the old common law principle, caveat emptor, and the diversity of opinions among the most eminent judicial authorities with respect to enactments re lating to fraudulent pretence, proceeded to say that hitherto the vendee aggrieved by the purchase of goods bought on the misrepresentation of the ven dor had no other remedy than a civil action for the recovery of his loss, as the criminal law took no notice of the cheat upon the individual, and allowed an indictment only when the fraud affected the public interest. It then reviewed the decisions of the Court of Criminal Appeal in the case of the " Queen v. Roebuck" and the " Queen v. Bryant," and contrasted the judgments of Chief Baron Pol lock with those delivered by Mr. Justice Willes and Mr. Baron Bramwell. The first-mentioned judge held that when the false pretence was made in the case of a bona fide sale, it behoved the purchaser to be on his guard, and that the vendor was criminally irresponsible ; whereas the other two held that if the vendee parted with his money or goods upon the false representation of the vendor, then the lat ter was by statute indictable for the offence. The re port concluded with a strong recommendation that Parliament should be requested to settle the law in the point under dispute in the spirit of the latter view of the case. Mr. VAUGHAN thought some measure should be adopted to put an end to the growing immoralities of trade. The remedy of a civil action was no remedy at ull, for it might so happen that the plaintiff, instead of obtaining redress, would have to bear the burden of the cost. As it was at present a criminal offence for a man to obtain money or goods by making a false representation of himself, his character, or employment, so it should be an indictable offence if lie on the sale of goods made a false representation with respect to the quality or quantity of his goods. That would put the law of buyer and seller on a bona fide and tangible foun dation. Mr. W. HAWES thought it better to allow things to remain as they are than interfere with the pos sibility of doing more harm than good. There would be a constant race between the law and the manufacturers, and the latter would win the day. It was only the other day he had seen some bales of Manchester goods which were never out of Eng land, bearing a French trade mark. The buyer was not imposed upon by the device , n or p ro bably would the man to whom he might in his turn sell them. The false representation was intended for the colonial not for the home market. The discussion was continued by Mr. Chisholm Anstey, Mr. Charles Clarke, Mr. W. Hawes, Mr. 'lasting, and Mr. Edgar; after which the report was adopted, and the proceedings of the evening closed in the usual manner. We learn with satisfaction that the Earl of Derby and Mr. Disraeli have accepted an invitation to a banquet to be given in their honour by the Merchant Taylors' Com pany at Merchant Taylors' Hall, on Saturday evening next. The preparations making for the banquet are on a magnificent scale, and the general company will include the elite of the great Conservative party. There is now but one French ship of war before Venice. LORD ELGIN'S MISSION TO CHINA.—From Parliamentary paper just printed it appears that the cost of the Earl of Elgin's special mission to China amounted to 511,500. THE RIGHT HON. MR. GLADSTONE'S VISIT TO THE lONIAN ISLANDS.-It appears from an official docu ment just issued, that the expense of the special mission of the Right Hon. Mr. Gladstone to th e l on i an I s l an d s amo unted to £2,lba 14s. 9d. THE WEATHER. —Some idea of the effects of the long continued dry weather in Dublin may be gathered from the fact that the Corporation have issued apublic no tice stating that the supply of water with which they are served has become deficient even for domestic and manu facturing purposes. The consequence is that the waterin g of the streets in the southern districts of the metrop o li s i s to be curtailed, and the inhabitants of the most popul ous and fashionable portion of the city subjected to all the miseries of a perpetual dust storm. Sue h a deprivation as a short supply of water is a perfect novel Or in Dublin. demands the dismissal of the men who occupy the 1 highest places in Church and State, in civil anal military affairs ; and Hungary, in particular, threatens to become another Lombardy. An ar mistice must therefore be welcome to Austria; and the more so that it will give her the possibility of obtaining new allies in order to prevent France from extending her views beyond Italy." The Journal des Debats proposes a plan for the settlement of the Italian question, according to which Piedmont should be increased by the an nexation of Lombardy, Venetia, and the Duchies of Parma and Modena ; the Legations would remain in the power of the Pope, and the Grand Duchy of Tuscany be given to the Duke of Parma, his mother still acting as regent. The same journal points out the great difference which exists between the circumstances of the present armistice and those connected with that which preceded the treaty of Campio-Formio in 1797. "At that period," says our contemporary, " the Venetian Government had declared against France, and drawn on herself the anger of the all powerful conqueror. But such is not the case at present, as Venetia is now the representative of Italian independence, of which she was in 1848 and 1849 the last asylum." " The attitude which Austria has so suddenly assumed at the Diet of Frankfort," says the Nord, " has caused deep indignation in Prussia. Austria, in proposing to the Diet, where she has at her disposal a docile majority, to ap point the Prince Regent of Prussia to be Com mander-in-Chief of the Federal army, had no other object in view than to thwart the proposi tions of Prussia, who had demanded the union of the Federal Contingents to the Prussian army under the command of the Prince Regent. In other words, Austria wishes to render the authority and policy of Prussia, as a great European power, sub ordinate to her position as a co-federate power, that is to say, to place her at the discretion of Austria. This new attempt of the Cabinet of Vienna is perhaps the reply to the successful mis sion of Prince Windischgratz, and we think that our correspondent at Berlin is not mistaken in sup posing that at the moment when Austria hurled this defiance at Prussia, she had determined to dispense with the assistance of the latter, and to come to a compromise in Italy." The Bourse Gazette of Berlin states, on what it considers good authority, that when the Prussian proposition for establishing a corps of observation on the banks of the Rhine was brought forward for decision at Frankfort, Holland voted against it, and Denmark reserved its vote. As to the minor States of Southern Germany, they re served the right of asking for more categorical explanations as to the intentions of the Prussian Government. _ _ The National Gazette of Berlin, of the 9th, says :—" The Russian answer to the Prussian note sent, on the 27th ult., to the two neutral Powers, has arrived here. On the whole, the Russian cabinet approves of the Prussian views, but reserves certain details for future discussion. The answer of the English cabinet has also arrived; it endea vours to dissuade Prussia from adopting any ener getic course of action." FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY, PARIS BOURSE, July 11.—The conference be tween the two Emperors, which has taken place this morning, has strengthened the hopes which were before entertained of approaching peace, and prices at first improved. Later in the day large sales for realisation were effected, and quotations again receded. Threes, after having been done at 68f. 50cf, declined to 67f. 80c. ; Mobilier varied from 815 f. to 785 f. ; Austrians, 675 f. to 555 f. ; Orleans, 1,350 f. to 1,335 f. ; Lyons, 870 f. to 860 f.; Northern, 945 f. to 935 f. ; Eastern, 655 f. to 645 f. ; Southern 520 f. to 515 f. A rally took place towards the close, when the following were the last quota tions : 41 per Cents. .... 95 50 I Credit Fonder Do. end month; .. —— l Belgian 4 2 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 15 Roman B2 50 Bank Shares 2BOO Austrian Credit Mobilier .. .79.5 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 800 , Home D ebt 4O 50 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto Bl5 .. 820 Lyons and Mediterranean B7O - .. 8 7 5 Geneva 530 .. 525 Southern Western 545 .. 545 Eastern Sardinian 425 -- •• 417 50 A us t r i an Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10c. ; money, 25f 21c.; three months, paper, 24f. 95c.; money, 24f. 900. AUSTRALIA. The Monica, Captain Jackson, arrived at Liver pool yesterday from Melbourne. The Monica left Port Philip Heads on the 19th of April, and brings 33,000 ounces of gold dust. She saw a large num ber of icebergs to the westward of Cape Horn, be tween lat. 54 and 57, and was detained ten days in soundings by light baffling winds. The Monica left the Heads in company with the clipper Mindora. THE PENINSULAR MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY, 1.45 A.M. The Sultan has jest arrivel, bringing the Penin sular mail, 21 passengers, £6,534 in specie, and a general cargo. There is not an item of news. AMERICA. • LIVERPOOL, JULY 11. The Anglo-Saxon has arrived with the Canadian mails of the 2d inst. On the 2d she passed the steamships North American and the United King dom. The number of persons killed by the railway ac cident near Chicago was 37. The England, the Anne Bruce, and the Gustava, from London, and the Thalia, from Newcastle, have arrived at Quebec. NEW YORK, JULY 1. The Saxonia sailed to-day with 100,000 dols. in specie ; the Kangaroo and the Ocean Queen, which sail to-morrow, will take a million and a half. Cotton buoyant at unchanged prices. The Stock Board had adjourned to the sth, Spirits of turpentine, 44c. to 46c. ; rice, firm com mon to prime, 31c. to ; freights unchanged; flour receipts li,gnt ; State and Western steady. without material change ; superfine State, 5 dols. 40c. to 5 dols. 90c.; extra State, 6 dols. 30c. ; round hoot' Ohio, 6 dols. 25c. to 6 dols. 70c.; common to extra Western, 6 dols. to 6 dols. 50c. ; Southern unchanged; 6 dols. 26c. to 6 dols. 75c. for mixed to good ; and 7 dols. to 8 dols. 75c. for fancy and extra. Wh ea t very quiet ; new amber Georgia, 1 dol. 55c. Corn quiet and unchanged. Pork dull; mess, 16 dols. to 16 dols. 12c.; prime 12 dols. 62c. to 12 dols. 76c. ST. LOUIS, JULY 1. Mr. Wise started in his balloon (with which he intends crossing to Europe) on his first experimen tal voyage this evening. The weather was favour able, and the balloon took a direction towards Lake Erie, but when last seen was pursuing a course due east. Cincinnati, July 2.—The balloon passed six miles north of Port Hayne at four o'clock this morning. Sandusky City, July 2.—The balloon passed er this city at seven o'clock this morning. Cleveland, July 2.—Balloon passed Fairport, some miles east of here, at 9.30 a.m., and was seen to nearly touch the water ; it rose, again, and dis appeared in a north-easterly direction. NEW ORLEANS, JUNE 30. Cotton rather inactive, and unchanged in price. JULY 1. Middling Uplands, at to 111. The sales for the week add up to 7,500 bales, and the receipts 1,100, against 3,500 for the sacra period last year. The export for the week odd up 18,000, and the total export to date £1,718,000. Receipts at the ports ahead of last year, 110,000 ; ditto at all southern ports, 7,000 to 8,000 ; crop, 54,000. Freights to Liverpool, M : exchange unaltered. HAMILTON (CANADA WEST), JULY 2. Snow fell on the 21st of June; to-day's tempe rature 88 in the shade. Crops look well. MONTREAL, JULY 2. Flour firmer; pot and pearl ashes, 590 dols. to 598 dols. OTTAWA, JULY 2. Millers' super extra flour, 7 dols. 50c. ; pork 7 dols to 9 dols. per 100 lb. ; beef, 6 dols. per 100 lb The crops, though somewhat late, promise well There is a large supply of timber. THE NAVY, The Victoria and Albert Royal yacht, Captain . the Hon. Joseph Denman, will leave Portsmouth • harbour for her moorings off Osborne early this morning. Her Majesty, his Royal High ness the Prince Consort, with a part of the members of the Royal family, attended by the ladies and gentletnen of the Court, arrived by special train at the Royal Clarence-yard, Gosport, shortly after 6 pm. yesterday, and were received by the different military and naval authorities, and a guard of honour of the Royal Tipperary Militia. The Royal party immediately embarked on board the Fairy, and left for Osborne under the usual salutes from the men of war and garrison, the ships in harbour and at Spithead being dressed out in colours, with manned yards. Preparations were yesterday commenced at Wool wich for launching her Majesty's screw steam frigate Galatea, which is to take place in August. The screw steamship Aboukir, 91, Capt. Schom berg, arrived in Portland harbour on Friday even ing from Plymouth. The Hornet, 17, screw, Commander Viscount Gil ford, will pay off at Portsmouth on the 14th inst. The crew of the Simoom screw troopship were paid down at Portsmouth on Saturday last, and granted 30 days' leave of absence. The Fire Queen paddle steamvessel, Master Com mander F. W. Paul, has been docked in No. 1 Dock at Portsmouth, for the purpose of cleansing. The Bacchante, 51 - , screw frigate, will, according to present arrangements, be launched at Ports mouth on the 30th inst., the preparations for which are fast progressing towards completion. She has received her first coat of paint down to her load waterline. The Supply iron screw storeship. Master-Com mander W. H. Balliston, arrived at Spithead from Boudroun Bay and Malta at 4 p.m. yesterday. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Commander C. E. Sidebottom, to the Agamemnon; Lieut. Josiah H. Hatchard, to the Cossack ; Lieut. P. W. Stephens, to the Vulcan ; Lieut. W. Howorth, to the Impregnable ; S. J. W. Moriarty, Master (additional), to the Wellington ; Andrew J. Armstrong, Master to the Gorgon ; John Williams, Second Master, to the Forward ; H. H. Edwards and H. A. Arundell, Midshipmen. to the Scout; Wm. F. Lapidge, Paymaster, to the Tra algar ; and James Wortley, Clerk, to the Neptune. THE ARMY. We have authority for stating that there is no foundation for the statement of our Chatham corre spondent to the effect that Sir John Burgoyne has retired from the service, and has resigned his office as Inspector-General of Fortifications. All that has been done is to readjust the War Department, and Sir John Burgoyne's services remain, as they have been for upwards of 50 years, at the disposal of his country. The Ist brigade of Garrison Artillery, equipped for infantry practice,'"and furnished with 15 rounds , of blank cartridge ; and .the 4th brigade of Field Artillery, furished with an equal amount of ammunition for their guns, were yesterday assem. bled in marching order at 11 o'clock, on the Artil lery-parade, Woolwich, and were marched to the review•-ground, and drawn up in contiguous quar ter-distance columns, the infantry forming [the centre, flanked on either side by the guns of the 4th brigade. Arrived about the centre of the Com mon, a heavy fire of artillery was opened from a battery of guns stationed on the eminence at the rear of the Cadets' Academy, whereupon a rapid advance was ordered, and after a sharp conflict, in which various unsuccesfful attempts were made to capture the enemy's position, they were ordered to retreat. The troops were commanded by :Major- General Sir Richaad Dacres, K.C.8., Commandant, attended by Lieut.-Col. Hopkins, C. 8., Royal Ma rine Light Infantry, Major Reilly, A.D.C., Brigade- Major Shaw, Deputy-Assistant-Quartermaster-Gen. Capt. Freeth, and other officers of the garrison. Yesterday the corps of the Royal Engineers and the East India Sappers and Miners, now at Brompton barracks, Chatham, were drawn up on their parade-ground for the purpose of hearingread the finding and sentence of a district court-martial, which assembled on Saturday last for the trial of a Sapper of the Royal Engineers, named Williams, who was tried on the separate charges of having, used highly insulting and offensive language to wards a non-commissioned officer of the corps, for trying to knock down a corporal who was in the execution of his duty and for making away with his regimental necessaries. The prisoner has only been about 15 months in the service, and a short time ago was sentenced to 112 days' imprisonment for knocking down a sergeant and a corporal. The Court found him guilty of the present charges, and adjudged him to receive 50 lashes, and also to be imprisoned for 56 days. On the finding and sen tence of the Court being submitted to Major-Ge neral Eyre for approval, the sentence of the cor poral punishment was commuted to 42 days' hard labour, making 98 days' imprisonment the prisoner will have to undergo. The infliction of corporal punishment in the Royal Engineers is exceedingly rare. A VISIT TO _ROBINSON CRUSOE'S ISLAND. While on board the ship Golden Rocket, lying at Greenwich Dock, °ye were permitted by Capt. C. N. Pendleton to examine his log book, in which he gives an account of his visit to the Island of Juan Fernandez (Robinson .Crusoe's Island). The ship was on her lass passage to this port from Boston, and had on board 55 passengers (25 of whom were ladies), who intend to make California their future place of residence. Getting short of water, Capt. Pendleton decided to stop at Juan Fernandez for a further supply, and therefore shaped his course thither—the island being nearly in his track. At 6 p.m. on the evening of March 24 they doubled the eastern end of the island, and at 7 rounded to off the Bay of St. Joseph, at the head of which the few inhabitants now remaining on the island are located. The facilities for loading water at the island Capt. Pendleton represents to be not very good. The casks must be taken on shore and filled, roiled back into the water and parbuckled into the boat. While the crew were at this work the passengers rambled off in different directions to make discoveries. The island is 25 miles long by about four in breadth. The land is very high, rising in rugged, precipitous peaks—one of them, called Tunkque, 3,500 feet above the level - of the sea. The peaks are generally overhung with clouds. The valleys are exceedingly fertile, the grass growing to the height of six or eight feet. Figs, strawberries, peaches, and cherries abound in their season. The Golden Rocket was there in the season of peaches, and the valleys and hill sides were full of trees loaded down with delicious fruit. Captain Pendleton bought four barrels of the inhabitants, and the passengers about as many more. Strawberries flourish best in December and January. There are three remarkable caves in the sides of the hill facing the harbour about 30 feet in length, 25 in width, and about the same in height. The inhabitants now number but 14, of whom Messrs.. Day and Kirkaldie, from Valparaiso, are the chief persons ; they have been appointed over seers of the island by the Chilian Government. Formerly a penal colony, numbering 500, was located here, and the caves above mentioned were used by them, but the projett was found to be im practicable, and the convicts were taken back to the mainland. The Golden Rocket anchored on the opposite side from that upon which Selkirk lived, and there being a mountain to cross to reach the Robinson Crusoe abede, no one ventured to make the journey. The best landing is on the eastern side, but the water is 20 fathoms deep at the head of the bay, and in some places so bold is the shore that a boat tied by her painter and drift ing to the limits would be in 75 fathoms. An im mense number of goats are running wild over the island, and an abundance of fish are taken on every coast. The water is obtained from a number of never-failing rivulets trickling down over the rocks from the cloud-capped mountains.—San Francisco Times. Advices have been received from Suez that 550 bales of silk, worth about £50,000, have been saved in good condition from the wrecked steamer Alma, and placed on board her Majesty's steamer Furious, which left Moorshed gerah for Aden on the 24th June, Much of the baggage had likewise been saved and forwarded to Aden. TENDERS FOR THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—The decision on the tenders sent in for the Australian mail ser vice by the Panama route has not yet been made, and we believe there is ground for supposing that it may be delayed until after the inquiry of the select committee of the House of Commons on postal contracts has been concluded. We understand that seven tenders were sent in ; amongst others by the Peninsular and Oriental, the Cunard, and the Royal Mail Companies; by Messrs. Croskey, and Messrsand . Se Leymverour, Peacock, and Co., and by .Iklessrs. Howard . Australian and New Zealand Gazette. HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION, BROMPTON.—On Sunday muffin.. the Right Hon. and Right Rev. Lord Auckland, Bishop of Bath and Wells, preached a sermon at St. Andrew's Churchico, on behalf of this hospi tal. In appealing for aid, his Lordship stated that, since the opening in 1846, no less than 6,750 in-patients and de rive o benefit been relieved, many of whom had derived the greatest . The hospital now accommo dated 200 in-patients, provided with every comfort so re quisite to the disease, and which the poor could not obtain at their own homes. At least £B,OOO was required for the necessar y annual expenses, to meet which the regular annual subscriptions did not exceed £3,000, leaving the difference Atobre a m i e d e ing up te by t kl he on u at n i r o e n m s churches,unremitting e attention leg a- f cthiee medical fte officers and nurses, he concluded by, pointing out that 114 persons were actually waiting admission. collection was made. at the cicse of the service. LAW INTEL. THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Peers Present—The Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Cranworth, Lord Wensleydale, Lord Chelmsford , and others. APPEAL.-LORD KENSINGTON - V. BODYERIE, ET AL. The further hearing of this important appeal, from a decision of the Lords Justices, was resumed this morning by Mr. Lloyd, Q.C., for the respondent. The question raised is, whether the appellant, tenant for life in posses sion, paying interest of mortgages, securities, and surplus payments of the ,mortgage debt, becomes mortagee for such excess surplus payments of the mortgage debt. The respondent contended that the tenant for life in possession is precisely in the same situation as a mortgagee in possession, whose duty it is, not merely to keep down the interest by payment, but also to pay off the mortgage debt with the surplus rents and profits of the estate, after paying interest. The learned counsel, in support of his argument, referred to the following cases :—Lord Car ringdon, vol. I. Young and Colier's Chancery Cases ; Smith and Whiteford, 3 De Gex, M‘Naughton, and Gordon, p. 741; Sharwin v. Shakespeare, before the Lord Justices, Chancery Cases, p. 517. Mr. Elmsley, Q.C., followed on the same side. [The case was proceeding when we went to press.] POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(71118 DAY.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. SHAMMING FITS.—A GROSS IMPOSTOR.—LENIENT PUNISHMENT.—JohnBaiIey, a labouring man, was charged as follows : Meeking, a constable of the C division, 333, said that at a little before eight on the previous night he saw the pri soner sitting down on the steps of a door in Cockspur • street, with a crowd around him, and he apparently in a fit . He spoke to him, and he said he was "very bad, that he had no home, but came from Norfolk.' A gentleman, sym pathising with the prisoner, believing he was really ill, gave him some money. The prisoner said he had no money but a penny, which he exhibited; but he (the constable) putting his hand in his pocket found he had other money. He asked him why he didn't go to the workhouse, upon which he got up and walked away. Some time after a young man told him he was wanted at the United Service Club, Pall mall. On going there he saw the prisoner, who had beep. drinking, and on asking him what was the matter, he said he had had " a fit," and at once observiug he was the same man he took him into custody. On the way he tried to get rid of some money by dropping it down the leg of his trousers. The gentleman had promised to attend the court. Prisoner—l don't remember anything of it. Mr. Beadon—l do not believe you. A more outrageous blackguard I never met with. Do you suppose Ido not know you ? Your language to me when you were here on the last occasion was of the most abominable description possible, and if ever you come to this court again I will commit you for trial as an incorrigible rogue and vaga bond. Committed for one month, with hard labour. THE GREAT EASTERN. The progress which, during the last four weeks, has been made in the fitting and equipping the Great Eastern steamship for sea has been so rapid, that within a month it is expected her steam wilt be up and she will be on her way across the Atlantic. The noise of workmen, and swarms of boats and little steamers hovering around her constantly, all show that " Brunel's Folly" is yet a thing of life and hope, and of certain completion. The three iron masts of the Great Eastern were designed by Mr. Brunel, and they have been constructed by Messrs. Finch and Heath, of Chepstow. These huge iron columns rise 122 feet above the upper deck, and have a diameter of 3 feet 6 inches for a. height of 70 feet, when they decrease gradually to 2 feet 6 inches at the cap. The three masts are now on board, and the first of them was lifted into its place on Saturday. Its weight above deck is about 40 tons ; the two others are ready for hoist ing, and will be in their places in a few days. The three wooden masts, which are in their places, were supplied by Messrs. Ferguson, and are magni ficent spars. They are not built masts, but are single '. sticks," as they are called. The fore and mizen-masts are 140 feet in height, and 34 inches: in diameter at the deck ; the jigger -mast is 122 feet in height, and of the same diameter. The trees which form these masts have been brought more than 13,000 miles to occupy their present position.. The trees are New Zealand pines. The topmasts are 76 feet in height, and 22 inches in diameter, or nearly six feet in circumference at their base. The spars, too, are of giant dimensions. The main yard is 120 feet long, and at its centre it is a yard in diameter, thick and strong as the masts themselves at the deck. The ship is built in water-tight compartments; and so completely water-tight are they, that a few days since the foremost one was filled with 6,000 tons of water pumped into it from the river, and not a drop escaped into any adjoining portion. The object in pumping this mass of water into the fore part of the ship was to bring her down at the bows and raise the stern while they fixed the screw. This weight brought her down till, said one of the men " her nose touched the water." She went down 11 feet forward, and was raised 7 feet aft; a por tion of her keel was, in fact, raised out of the water; and yet, so strong and so rigidly is she built, that under this enormous strain the ship did not deflect an inch. The engines for working the paddles, it is said, may be completed in a week. Everything is in its place—cylinders, and pistons, and gover nors. The engine for working the screw is in the. same state of forwardness, and on Thursday the steam was got up for the first time in the boilers of the screw engines. All that mass of iron, now inert and immovrble, will in a few days upheave rnd drive the ship through the water with 12,000 horse power. The steam will be generated in boilers holding more than 500 tons of water, and requiring 250 tons each day to feed the furnaces which heat them. Down in the depths of the engine -room the engineer will receive all his orders from the cap tain and mate by an electric telegraph. There will be accommodation provided in the first instance for 45 officers of all ranks, and for a crew' of 350. The first class portion of the ship will be fitted up in the first grade with 800 beds and sofas. In the second grade there will be accommodation for 400, and in the third grade about the same number. This accommodation for about 2,000 per sons for the first voyage will leave untouched some acres of saloons and vacant space in other parts of the ship. The part usually devoted to steerage passengers in other vessels will not be touched at present, and the passengers to be carried in the first trip will be all first-class, but of different grades, each grade occupying a separate deck. The cabins are roomy and commodious, admirably ven tilated, and the dining-rooms are lofty. The first trip will be made to Portland, in the State of Maine, and will, it is announced, be made early next month. The sums which had been expended on the ship up to the time of its memorable launch amounted. to £640,000. The original shareholders had not new company a 3O, 000 in shares,l a p w o a w s - e f o r r in t to d r raise h m a o c r a e p i m ta o l n o e t y x3 , for the purpose of purchasing the ship and equip ping her for sea. Of this sum, £165,000 was to be given to the original proprietors, and the remainder was to be applicable for finishing the ship. Nearly the whole of the shares were taken by the old pro prietors, so that the ship still remains in effect in the same hands. The contract for finishing the whole of the works was given to Mr. Scott Russell for a sum of £125,000, and everything was to be completed by the 4th of September. A premium of £l,OOO was also given for each week before that time that the contractor could complete the works- The whole expenditure on the ship up to the time of its going to sea will be 1:070,000, and probably" some incidental charges and contingeneies will bring the whole up to the round sum of £1,000,000. THIS DAY'S MARKETS. HAY MARKETS. meadowolh ay i4 £ o 3 s Os to to a £4ss lOs; ; re: d d o o. , S ; £l 4 l3T O Hl s °F t s o iEt rlis O°s ; l4; and straw, clover,Xl 58 to £1 lOs per load• A 'good demand. CUMBERLAND.—OId meadow hay, £3 5s to £4 15s ; new do. £3 10s to £4 10s; old clove?, £4 Os to £5 lOs; nevi do., £4 Os to £4 lOs; and straw, £1 5s to £1 10s per lead• Trade rather brisk. WHITECHA.PEL.—OId meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 150; new do., £3 lOs to £4 Os ; old clove, £4 Os to £5 100 ; new do., £4 Os to £4 lOs ; and straw, £l4s to £1 9s per load. Both hay and straw were in request, at extrena e rates. COLONIAL. TEA.—The market remains very firm, and prices gene rally are inactive. The advices by the Overland Mail all: nounce a deficiency in the shipment s compare d w ith 10" year of about 17,000,000 of lbs. SUGAR.—There has been rather more inquiry for the better qualities, and previous prices have been fairly euP: ported. In the refined market a s t ea d y b us i ness h as bees done in dried goods, at slightly advanced rates. COFFEE. —For colonial descriptions there hs.s been more demand, and a slight improvement has ta!en place in values. Stocks in hand, however, comared with- those .° a the same period of last year, show csnsiderable deficieneii RlCE.—There have been very few trarlsactions, al l prices are a shade easier. SALTPETRE.—The expectations of peace have lessened the demand, and no dealings of any impo):tance have be en recorded. TALLOW.—The market has been very heavy, the fc . dt alings entered into being at slightly reduced rates. v , „ i. Y.C. on the spot i s quote d 54 5 ., an d la3t three months 0 4 ' 9d. per cwt. The Bristol Advertisvr, one of the cheap liel y° ' papers established after the repeal of the newspaper stator laws, has this week ceased to exist, after passing throl; the hands of 'two or three proii - .3etaries, figuring in Court of Bankruptcy.