The Sun. — London, England, 1859-07-20 00:00:00

THE COMMERCIAL, 73, Cheapside.—This Establishment is now RE-OPENED, under the ma nagement of Mr. R. Glover, from the London, Fleet-street. Dinner off the Joint, in the Coffee-room, with Vegetables, Bread and Cheese, &c., Is. tid. l'he Commercial Dinner of Soup, Fish, Entrees, Joints. Sweets, and Cheese, 2s. 6d, Ladies' Dining-room, with Female Attendant. Smoking, Saloon, The best of everything at prices to suit the temper of the times. CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERT, SATURDAY NEXT.—TITIENS, PICCOLOMINI, GIUGLIIrI, &c. ...Tickets at 011ivier's, 19, Old Bond-street. CRYSTAL PALACE.-GRAND OPERA CONCERT, on SATURDAY NEXT, JULY 23d, 1859. Madlle. TITIENS (her first appearance at the Crystal Palace), PICCOLOMINI (her first appearance at the Crystal Palace since her return from America), and Signor €UUGLINI, &c., &c. PROGRAMME. Parte Prima. - - --- Overture—" Midsummer Night's Dream". Mendelssohn Terzetto—" Qual volutta," Madlle. Titiens, Sig nori Giuglini e Vialetti(Lombardi) Verdi. Aria—" S' Ella ognor m'e fedele," Sig. Belart Rossini. Duetto—" Bell' imago," Mme. Garducci e Badiali (Semiramide) Rossini. Gran Scena ed Aria—Madlle. Titiens (Fidelio) Beethoven. Trio—" Troncar suoi di," Signori Giuglini, Aldighieri, e Valetti(Guglielmo Tell) Duetto—" Sull' aria," Madlles. Titiens e Pic colomini (Nozze de Figaro) Mozart. Sestetto—" Sola, Sola," Mesdlles. Titiens, Pic colomini, e Guarducci, Signor Giuglini, Aldi ghieri, e Badiali (Don Giovanni) Mozart. Parte Seconda. Quartetto—" Chi ma frena," Madlle. Piccolo mini, Signori Giuglini, Aldighieri, e Vialetti (Lucia di Lammermoor) Donizetti. Romanza—" Tu m'ami' mio bel Angelo," Sig. Giuglini (La Zingara) Aria—" Ah s'estinto," Mdme. Guarducci Mercadante. Manta Cariten) Dttetto—" Se inclinassi a prender mog,lie." Signori Belart e Aldighieri(ltaliana in Albert) Rossini. Aria—" Vedrai carino, ' Madlle. Piccolomini (Don Giovanni) o n Badiali Aria—" Non mi andrai," Sign (Nozzi di Figaro) Trio e Coro--.‘Vadasi via di qua,'Tutti Martini. Overture—" Oberon." Weber. Conductor, Signor ARDITI. Admission—By Two Guinea Season Ticket, Free Baby One Guinea Season Ticket, on payment of Two Shillin Six pence ; by Day Ticket, Five Shillings, or, if purchased on or before Friday, the 22d inst., Three hilling,s and Sixpence ; Reserved Seats, Half-a-Crown extra. Tickets at the Crystal Palace ; 2, Exeter Hall ; and at the usual Agents. YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Linder the slanazement of Mr. Charles Kean. I TO-MORROW EVENING, DYING FOR LOVE. After which, will be revived Shakspeare's Tragedy of HENRY VIII. Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. Chas. Kean ; Queen Katharine, Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with IF THE CAP FIN. Commence at 7. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. TFIIS EVENING the performances will commence with THE CONTESTED ELECTION. After which, KNOW YOUR OWN MIND. To conclude with HALLOWE'EN. Commence at 7. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Engagement of the Celerated Spnih Dancers. 3d Night of a New Burlesque, by a J. s Byron, Esq. THIS EVENING, DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND. Mr. and Mrs. Henri Drayton. Followed by (3d time) THE BABES IN THE WOOD. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne ; Miss Woolgar and Miss K. Kelly. Grand Ballet, by the Spanish Dancers. After which, ICI ON EARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Chas Selby, Billington ; Misses Keeley, Arden, and Laidlaw. and Mrs. Billing,ton. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Office 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 Swanborougb THIS EVENING, QUIXOTE, JUNIOR. Mr. J. Clarke. After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses Swanborongh, Oliver, and Lavine. Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE LADY OF LYONS. _ _ Commence at 7 o'clock. VERDI'S OPERA. OF MACBETH. The whole of the first Act of this Opera, now produced for the first time in this country (the remaining three acts being in course of rehearsal), is sung nightly at the CAN TERBURY HALL CONCERTS. THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, Consisting 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 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 will perform TWICE EACH EVENING, in addi tion to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JULY 20. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE, 81—highest since noon yesterday. 67—lowest this morning and during the night. 74—this day at noon. BA.nommTEn--30 . 08. WIND, S.S.Easteily ; light, with now fine sunshiny weather. In the night we had some heavy rain, and this morning, lightning thunder and rain. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 4h. oBm.—Afternoon, Oh. 15m, To-Moßßow-Morning, .sh. 32m.—Afternoon, sh. 49m. 4t,11 4 P: . _,jciauro„_4l 4. 4- 3! 4.. , 4 'r • - 0. o •to THE SUN. WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1859. There was a grand display last evening at St. Cloud. The Emperor NAPOLEON received the mem bers of the Senate and the House of Representa tives, and then gave his reasons for so suddenly abandoning the war—a war which was undertaken to serve the independence of Italy by going against the mind of Europe! Why, has not the Em peror NAPOLEON waged war against the mind of France ever since he attained to power ? No, no, the excuse comes too late, and will not now avail. He was evidently frightened at his sudden acquisition of military fame, and shrunk from working it out as his glori ous uncle would have chivalrously done. The pre sent NAPOLEON may conceive great deeds, but the first NAPOLEON boldly carried them out, and that before his opponents could have supposed the achievement possible. It now appears that the neutrality of England and the attitude assumed by Prussia, backed by the German effervescence, really appalled the liberator of Italy, and made him sue for a peace which the vanquished FRANCIS JOSEPH was but too ready to grant ! After the sacrifice of so many lives for little or no purpose, the grand presump tuous boast of the war has ended in smoke ! We could weep for the man who could have so falsified the promised hopes of millions, merely to extricate himself from so disgraceful a dilemma. NAPOLEON has made a false step, and the mind of Europe will not help him to repair it—nor the long suppressed mind of France either. Again, we can but pity him in his subdued extremity, and we do it in very scorn ! Frequently though attention has been drawn, before now, to the extraordinary injustice of the Income-tax as it has been hitherto, and as it still is, unhappily, to this moment assessed—the cruelty of the system was , perhaps, never more strikingly indicated than it was on Monday evening by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman the Member for Sheffield. Mr. ROEBUC K reminded the House that he spoke feelingly—he spoke, to a certain extent, from his own bitter personal experience. He spoke a professional man, and as a p ro f ess i on al man as who had in mid-career been suddenly stricken down with a severe and, at the first moment it appeared, alm ost fatal malad y . Fortunately for himself —fortunately for us all—the hon. and learned gentleman has long since recovered his health if not in all its pristine energy at any rate with a semblance of it —retaining throughout i n all its original vigour that clear, strong, virile in tellect which has now for fully one quarter of a century been dedicf ted consistently and undeviat ingly to the championship of the rights of the people and of the honour and happiness of the commonwealth. As a representative of the middle classes—as one called to the Bar—Mr. ROEBUCK might havebeen more actively dependent upon his profession—he might when attacked a few years since by that apparently mortal illness have been precluded entirely thenceforth from further participation in the labours of public life, from the continuance of his prolonged and energetic intellectual efforts. Paralysis is often and often thus seriously affecting the private fortunes of less eminent but possibly not less honourable members of that same and of other learned professions. Yet according to the present iniquitous,and most cruel, and most unjust assessment of the income-tax—the precarious income of the professional man--an income thus perpetually jeopardised by the very energy which creates it—is placed in precisely the same category with the permanent income derivable from the funds, or from landed possessions. So forcefully is the matter put in the few words uttered on Monday night by the hon. and learned gen tleman, the member for Sheffield, that we cannot possibly do better than repeat those words precisely as they have been recorded by the pencil of the reporter. Mr. ROEBUCK said— He wished to say a few words with a view to obtain a prospect of some relief for the labouring classes. He agreed with the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer in what he had said as to the unjust pressure of indirect taxation on the poor. But the right hon. gentleman said nothing of the unjust pressure of the income-tax on persons of small means. It was to the working classes that he himself belonged as a professional man, and for them he would speak. He would take the case of a man who had £l,OOO a-year from land, and of another who had £l,OOO a-year from his own professional exertions. He would suppose the two men to be 40 years of age, and they were taxed alike. At the age of 42, however, the professional man was struck with paralysis. and there was an end of his income. How unjust, therefore, that they should be taxed equally. He (Mr. ROEBUCK) said that the professional man was unjustly taxed. The right hon. gentleman had an objection to indirect taxation, because it fell heavily on the poor working man; yet here was a clearly proved case of injustice to the poor man, whose income depended on the precarious tenure of his brains, for whom the right hon. gentleman could express no sympathy. The reason was, that their numbers were few, and hence their case commanded no attention and received no redress ; but he would tell the right hon. gentleman that so long as that injustice remained uncorrected, so long would the class for whom he spoke continue to look upon the right hon. gentleman as a coward, who was afraid to do them justice." Those convincing and unanswerable words speak fur themselves. They have about them a pathetic as well as a logical persuasiveness. They ought in reason and in honesty to be weighed well in the balance by the House of Commons, when in Com mittee upon the Budget. There is surely an oppor tunity now before the house for the removal at last of the harsh and execrable anomal , —now when the abhorred income-tax is about to be abruptly more than doubled by the very man whose ingenuity but six years back hit won the specious scheme for its extinction in 1860. Before the tax is thus raised for the next half-year from sd. to 13d. upon all incomes above £l5O per annum, and to Bd. upon all below £lso—it behoves the House of Com mons to consider well whether it may not be yet possible to mitigate in some measure the cruelty, the harshness, and the absolute injustice of the'prc sent rate of assessment—to see whether it may not be possible at last to draw some rational distinction between incomes that are notoriously permanent and incomes that are deplorably precarious. At any rate, there is a chance before us that the pro posed increase itself may be modified in amount to a maximum of 3d. additional, instead of the mon strous aggregate increase to a total of 13d., as suggested by her Majesty's Chancellor of the Ex chequer ! There is the chance before us—we mean through the very reasonable amendment placed upon the papers of the House only this afternoon by the generous forethought of Sir H. WIL LOUGHBY. The chief fault we have to find with Mr. GLAD STONE is one of omission. If the house and the country were unanimous that they would have ships and seamen, soldiers and ordnance, costing some five or six and twenty millions—if they praised Sir JOHN PAKINGTON for all he had done in incur ring this charge, and even Sir CHARLES WOOD for his share in it—then, of course, Mr. GLADSTONE must screw the money out of somebody or some thing. Ready money, he says, he must have, and to beg he is ashamed ; so he talks about a million or two as a loan ; the rests he takes out in Income tax pure and simple. We say a loan of a million or two. We have not time to reckon exactly, but there is the £780,000 of the malt tax, for which he openly gives 4 per cent., which seems very much like a forced loan. Then, of the four millions of the In come-tax, two millions is to be taken half-a-year before it is due ; which, again, is a forced loan, forced, too, on rather harder terms. Altogether, we have considerably more than two millions fur n'shed by us, poor tax-payers, in advance, to our loan-hating Chancellor of the Exchequer. But the great omission we adverted to is, that he says nothing whatever of the principles of future taxation. Allowing, for argument's sake, that he made out his case for a kind of provisional Budget this year, that the Navy estimates were on a scale which we hope will not be required in future, and that the financial year had in great part elapsed, yet he might have given us a little twilight at least. Sir ROBERT PEEL, long before he avowed his conversion to free trade—perhaps, indeed, he had himself then but just got his feet on the threshold—avowed it as " the right of every man to buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest." Even the obtuse representatives of the counties saw the unwelcome light breaking, while Free traders hailed the first gray streaks of dawn. Now there was nothing of this at all in Mr. GLADSTONE'S oration. No one could from it form a guess which way his mind was working, though it is impossible to imagine that a mind of the high order of Mr. GLADSTONE'S could have spent its whole strength on the de tails of a Budget. Did no great principle, whether one popularly acceptable or not, loom before him as the polestar of his thoughts on taxa tion ? _ _ _ There is one of which he furnished a specimen to the House, one which both he and his predeces sor have adopted—we refer to the equalisation of taxation. It only came forward as a work which two or three Chancellors had completed between them—the equalisation of taxation between the three parts of the United Kingdom, chiefly in regard to spirits. What if Mr. GLADSTONE had announced that he must fully carry out this prin ciple That one self-evident resource for 1860-1 lay in the equalisation of the legacy and probate duties; we may add, in the equalisation of in surance duties. In regard, to the latter, a word or two will make our meaning plain. All combusti balte thepr operty is taxed, because it is combustible, rate, on the average, of three shillings per cent. on its supposed value. Such property taxes itself to about the same amount, to raise a common fund, by which the loss and ruin that might fall on individuals by fire is prevented ; to this voluntary tax, rendered necessary by the perishable nature of the property the Government, adds another: :\ ow we never could understand why.property,j4st because it is liable to the calamity THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1859, of being burnt, should be taxed with a special tax, 1 in distinction from property which is not de structable by fire. Equalisation of taxation would require that all the land and uninsured property of the kingdom should also pay a tax of three shil lings per cent. per annum. We wait for a proof that this is not simple equity. Repeal the duty on Fire Insurance, therefore, or lay an equal duty on the actual value of land corresponding to the duty on combustible property, which would still have the advantage, because it would not have also to impose on itself the voluntary tax. The probate duties, again, are a glaring in justice. They are so wickedly unequal that they will not bear a moment's discussion. The chief persons who escape them are those who, above all others, ought to pay them. All personal property pays probate duty without mercy ; but the vast estates of our landed gentry descend to their heirs with a much easier succession duty than others have to pay, while they pay no probate duty at all! In the mere equalisation of taxation Mr. GLAD STONE would find a mine of wealth. But he ven tured not a hint on the subject. Neither did we hear a word about duties on raw material—such as paper—that we can forgive. There is no dispute about that; but equalisation cf taxation is the word of terror to the aristocracy. Mr. GLADSTONE began it in his moderate succession duty ; let him curry it fully out, and he will yet deserve well of his country. Lord MALMESBURY was certainly a little hyper critical in objecting to the language and reasonings of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S communication to the Prussian Government. Impartial observers will commend equally the despatches of both the noble Lords. Lord MALMESBURY'S advice was appro priate to the views expressed in Germany when he wrote. He was quite justified in reminding the Regent of PRUSSIA that war with France meant the coasts of Prussia blockaded and its seaport towns bombarded by a navy which the glorious German fleet, although we enriched it with a good frigate a few years ago, could not pretend to meet He was right to let Prussia know that if bragging language were followed by attempts at correspond- ing deeds, Prussia must help herself as best she could. A mad war might be followed by a humilia ting peace, and England look on with indifference, thinking she had done quite enough in setting up the young Prince with a handsome fortune, with such a one as no German wife or husband ever brought, or is likely to bring, to an English Prince or Princess. When Lord JOHN wrote, things were more advanced. The allies were approaching the Mincio. Germans were beginning to talk big about the necessity of the four fortresses as a bulwark of Ger many ! Lord JOHN was quite right in undeceiving the vapourers of " Vaterland," and letting them understand that we knew just as much about the Quadrangle and its fortresses as Germans do ; and that we are quite certain that they should rather be regarded as a " menace to Italy" than a "bulwark of Germany." We thank Lord JOIIN for teaching the Prussians and other Germans that phrase—" a menace to Italy." It is the notorious fact. They are in Italy ; in a country where the mellifluent Italian alone is spoken, and where Ger man grates on the ear like a grunt or a growl. They are south of the Alps. They have been the sally-port of Austria's ruffians when she has sent them forth to trample Italians under the feet of Dukes and Popes, and the BOURBONS of the south —they have been worse than a menace, for they have been used to fulfil the threats they ever held forth. In 1848 all Englishmen held Lord PALMERSTON to be right in his view when he refused the offer o Austria to give up to Piedmont what she has now resigned to her, on condition of being permitted to retain Venetia and the fortresses on the Mincio. RADETZKY soon changed the face of things, it is true; but still his lordship's principle was sound. He would have had no justification for placing the heel of Austria again on Venice and Venetia. He well knew that Austria holding that position would ever be the pest of Italian peace ; that no settlement could be hoped for till the detested Ger man was driven off the soil his presence dis honoured. What was right then is right now. Austria has no moral right in Italy, and had Louis NAPOLEON fulfilled his promises, she would soon have had no place there. But we have adverted to the subject chiefly because it has an important bearing on the duty of English statesmen just now. We accept Lord JOHN'S view, that the Italians are right in think ing the fortresses a " menace to Italy," as what should be our guiding principle. Notwithstanding all the haste with which the belligerents attempted to patch up their peace they begin to feel already that to render it of any worth they must get it made a part of the public law of Europe. If any of the Gr eat Powers withhold their assent it will never be regarded as a peace for perpetuity. If some of the great judges in the court of nations will not ratify the settlement it may at any time be disturbed. A Congress was repudiated at first, now there is some talk of one, or of a Conference. At least it is acknowledged that the treaty when complete will have to be submitted to all the other Powers, and their sanction sought. If this, at least, be not obtained none of them will feel at all bound by an engagement in which they have not been consulted. Hence it is more than probable that if, ncminally, France, Austria, and Sardinia settle the business alone they will yet throughout be endeavouring to ascertain what terms will afterwards obtain the approbation of England, Russia, and Prussia. Our statesmen should then, we must think, be prepared to act on the basis of Italy for the Italians. They should decline to be a party to any peace which leaves Austria the ruler of a single Italian city. They have here a clearcourse. They need not interfere in settling the present quarrel, any more than they interfered in the quarrel itself. But, if they are asked for an opi nion, let the answer be,.We can proffer advice only on one basis, that Austria and France alike with draw from Italy. Our readers have seen how at Turin and at Florence the news of the conditions of the peace of Villafranca, was received with the utmost repugnance ; indeed at the latter place there was great danger of disturbance. So will it be in the Legations, so at Rome itself, so everywhere in Italy where the fate of Perugia is not decided at the hands of the Holy father's Swiss Apostles cf Mercy. Tuscany and Modena will never again be contented, never can be, under the rule of Princes who ran, not like the far better Duchess of PARMA, into neutral territory, but into the camp of the Austrians, and then literally joined in the battle against Italian liberties England never can be a party to saddling all Italy with even the honorary supremacy of the Potentate whose misgovernment is now the very k er nel of all the political evils of Italy. It is not English aversion to Popery whi c h re jects monstrous proposal. It is our h a t re d o f an y s th uc e h m a ere ecclesiastical rule whatever in civil matters. We hate the Government of Churchmen of any church. A Cardinal, or an Arellbihop of our own Ch urc h, we should equally reject, We have lately deprived our Ecclesiastical Courts, the last remnant of eccle siastical power in England, of all their civil work They will soon be a nullity. Irish Catholics would never hear of an ecclesiastical Viceroy or Sovereign. And what we would reject for ourselves we reject for Italians—well knowing, indeed, that they share, from present bitter experience, our senti ments on this point. Till these two main evils in the peace made in his fright by Louis NAPOLEON be eliminated, we hold, then, that England must leave both parties to agree to what they please, but not herself recog nise the agreement. Already things begin to look unpleasant everywhere, and we should be no way surprised if the retreat from Verona prove like the retreat from Acre, Moscow, or Torres Vedras— the beginning of the End. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Siit,—l have read with much satisfaction your article on the Chancellor of the Exchequer's finan cial statement, and very much regret to find that the iniquitous tax on precarious incomes is not only to be perpetuated but increased. I belong to that unfortunate class of individuals with incomes of less than £l5O per annum, and upon which I have to pay the tax. I don't so much complain of a tax if the requirements of the country compel it, but what I do complain of is, the very unfair way the thing is carried out. Take my own case. I am obliged to make a decent appearance and rent a house : my lodger, a skilled mechanic, who earns on an average £3 a week, laughs at the idea of paying income-tax, because, forsooth; he knows the collector will not take the trouble to ask him to make a return, and even if he did, being a weekly tenant, he could move off to another place where, perhaps, the collector wouldn't be quite so pressing. If working men are to be taxed why couldn't it be done on this principle—that all employers of labour should be compelled to take a stamped re ceipt for every £1 paid to their workmen ; it would not then fall so heavily upon persons like myself, who, by their peculiar positions, are obliged to make a true and correct return of every penny of their incomes, and everybody would then contribute according to their means. My income tax would be 12s. 6d., and my lodger would, in spite of him self be obliged to be honest, to the great relief o persons in the position of Your obedient servant, T. R. His Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg- Strelitz alai the Prince Adolphus of Meck lenburg-Strelitz have arrived in this country on a visit t her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, with whom the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz has been staying for some weeks past. The Prince and Princess de Ligne have left the St. George's Hotel. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn have left the Oatlands Hotel on a visit to the Countess-Dowager of Ellesmere at Cobham, in Surrey. _ . CRYSTAL PALACE.—MdIIes. Titiens and Piccolo mini, and Signor Giuglini, with other artistes of Mr. Lumley' s troupe, will sing at the concert on Saturday next. HAYMARKET TIIEATRE.—MiSS Reynolds, well known as the accomplished actress of high comedy at this house, will take her benefit to-night (Wednesday) when Mr. Tom Taylor's successful comedy, the. " Contested Election," will be followed by Murphy's " Know your own Mind," which has not been performed for several years. All the necessary measures have already been taken for sending back to their country the Austrian pri • soners at present in France. TIIE HOMEWARD AUSTRALIAN MAlL.—Letters from Malta of the 14th inst., announce the arrival there that morning of the Nepaul, and on the preceding evening of the Colombo, Peninsular and Oriental Co.'s steamer, from Alexandria, bringing no Australian mail, nor any tidings of its having reached Suez up to the 10th inst. DEATH OF HENRY GRATTAN, ESQ.—We deeply regret to learn that Henry Grattan, Esq., only surviving son of the immortal Grattan of 'B2, died on Saturday, at his residence, Clara, county Wicklow. Mr. Grattan was in Dublin a few days since, in excellent health and spirits, and seem ingly bid fair for along amd vigorous life. His death will be a severe loss to the Liberal party in this country. In early lift) Mr. Grattan represented the ctty of Dublin ; he afterwards represented the county of Meath for a con , siderbl',) period ; but since 1852 he has been comparatively in treivate life. Mr. Grattan was in his 72d year. Disease of the heart is said to be the cause of death.—Freeman's Journal. The Netherlands Land Enclosure Company have received intelligence that the Second Chamber has refused to sanction the bill introduced by the Dutch Government to confirm the agreement entered into with the company, and that consequently fresh negotiations are necessary, and will be immediately entered upon. LOUIS KOSSUTII.—The Birmingham Journal has learnt from private information that M. Kossuth's family were preparing to proceed to Italy, and were to have de. parted on Saturday, but the news of the peace arrested their preparations. On , Thursday eve n i ng they received a tele gram from M. Kossuth, announcing his safe arrival in Switzerland. He thus seems to have lost no time in leaving Italy immediately on the news of the treaty, and so escaped a conference with the Emperor. 'TIE AFRICAN SLAVE.—Yesterday morning Mr. Wakley held an inquest at the House of Detention, Clerk enwell, upon John Barde, otherwise Ajee Ojam, the poor liberated slave, who committed suicide in that gaol on the night of Friday last. Evidence of the facts, already known, having been given, the jury returned a verdict that the de ceased was found dead in his cell. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE AT LEEDS.—Mrs. Watts, the old woman whose throat was cut by a man named Abraham Fawcett, in Leeds, last Thurs day, is progressing favourably. Fawcett is also improving, and hopes are entertained that both will eventually recover from their wounds. THE ARMY.—The following is a return of the total strength of the army in 1858—viz., cavalry, 17,819 (including 7,972 in India) ; infantry, 150,569 (including 74,731 in India and 32,833 in the colonies) ; the horse ar tillery, 2,578; the foot artillery, 20,598 (4,848 in India) ; the enginneers, 4,176 ; the enrolled pensioners, 15,415; the embodied militia, 21 ,77 3 ; and volunteers, 1 5 ,1 22 . The total amount voted for the army, ordnance, and commissariat servcies in 1858 was £11,577,755 against £12,493,235 in 1857. SINGULAR STIOT.—A few day ago Mr. Sowerby, agent for H. E. Strickland, Esq., at . Apperly Court, was out, when he perceived several 'objects which, at a consi derable distance he thought were partridges. As they came nearer he saw they had white breasts and were not birds at all. Happening to have his gun with him he fired, and, on going up to his game, he found that he had killed not less than six weasels at a shot. The animals, which were all running in a row, had doubtless got upon the track of a hare or rabbit, and were hunting it down.—Gloucester Journal. VESUVIUS UNEASY.—At three a.m. on the morn ing of the 3d inst., says a correspondent writing from Vesu vius, the crater, in the direction of Pompeii, formed a fosse, so that it is impossible to ascertain its actual depth. Flames of various colours proceed from it ; the whole crater trembles, and the fissures which were made in it a few days since are now a bed of fire. Towards the Hermitage another opening has been made, with two separate " chimneys," one of which throws out fire-stones and the other pumice and ashes. The mouth from which the circular flames issued is now much enlarged. At the foot of the mountain, in the direction of Resina, a small crater has been formed, from which are ejected red-hot stones, weighing a pound each. About 200 feet below it a crater has been formed in a fosse, whence issued red-hot lava, which runs forward so violently that, if it took a straightforward direction, it must arrive soon in Resina or Portici. It branches off:however in three different direc tions. COMMERCIAL BANK OF LONDON.—The Com mercial Bank of London held its 21st half-yearly meeting yesterday—Mr. Mark Hunter presiding—when a report was read, which stated that the six months' accounts to the 30th June last showed that the net profit (including £1,401 2s. brought forward from last account) amounted to £14,575 19s. 10d., after payment of all expenses of management, and making provision for bad and doubtful debts. The directors had determined to declare a dividend for the half- year at the rate of seven per cent.. per annum. The divi dend would absorb £10,500, and after deducting £3,061 9s. for rebate on current bills, a balance of £1,014 10s. 10d. would remain to be ;tarried over to next account. The chairman having 'apologised for the absence of Mr. Cutbill, the manago':, in consequence of jll health, stated he hoped the repor',. would prove as satisfactory to the shareholders as to himself, as they were now enabled to increase the di vldend to a small extent—an increase which he had every reason to believe would be maintained. They had had great difficulties to contend with in consequence of in jurious reports circulated at the close of 1857 • but he be lieved that they had now overcome them, and that confi dence was returning ; indeed, only last month three accounts which they lost during the panic, came back to them in one week. The late war had caused them some anxiety, owing to their connections with Sardinia, which had been formed through their transactions with the Sardinian rail ways constructed by their friends, Mr. Brassy, Mr. Jack son, and others—gentlemen who had brought them a large amount of business without ever requiring one penny ac commodation ; indeed, they always kept large balances at the bank. Though some of their connections in Italy and Germany had suffered during late events, he was happy to say they had not entailed the loss of one shilling on the part of the bank. A variety of questions were put to the chairman, with the view, as it appeared, of trying to ar rive at a reason for the company's shares standing at some thing like 17 to 18 in the market for £2O paid, whilst the accounts showed that were the company to wind up to morrow the assets would realise about £23 per share. Of course no satisfactory reason could be given for the ano maly, but the chairman stated that everything was in the soundest possible position ; and though under a former manager losses had been incurred in the Henrietta street branch, under the energetic management of Mr. Chancey the mischief was being speedily repaired, and that branch was in a good and sound position. The report was adopted, and the retiring directors re-elected—a notice for placing the company under the provisions of the Limited Liability , Act being withdrawn with a view to its being brought for ward at a sikx,icd meeting, it being understood that the majority of the directors are opposed to such a step fsr the present. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20. The Moniteur contains the following :—Yester day evening the Emperor received the great bodies of the State, the Presidents of which, M. Troplong, Count Morny, and M. Baroche, addressed congratu lating speeches to his Majesty. The Emperor, in reply, expressed his thanks for their devotion, and then explained the reasons for his conduct during the late events. His Majesty said :—" Arrived beneath the walls of Verona the struggle was in evitably about to change its nature, as well in a military as in a political aspect. Obliged to attack the enemy in front, who was entrenched behind great fortresses, and protected on his flank by the neutrality of the surrounding territory, and about to begin a long and barren war, I found myself in face of Europe in arms ready either to dispute our suc cesses or to aggravate our reverses. Nevertheless the difficulty of the enterprise would not have shaken my resolution, if the means had not been out of proportion to the results to be expected. It was necessary to crush boldly the obstacles opposed by neutral territories, and then to accept a conflict on the Rhine, as well as on the Adige. It was neces sary to fortify ourselves openly with the concur rence of revolution. It was necessary to go on shedding precious blood, and at last risk that which a Sovereign should only stake for the independence of his country. If I have stopped it was neither through weariness nor exhaustion, nor through abandoning the noble cause which I desired to serve, but for the interests of France. I felt great reluctance to put reins upon the ardour of our soldiers, to retrench from my programme the terri tory from the Mincio to the Adriatic, and to see vanish from honest hearts noble illusions and pa triotic hopes. In order to serve the independence of Italy, I made war against the mind of Europe, and as soon as the destinies of my country might be endangered, I concluded peace. Our efforts and our sacrifices—have they been merely losses ? No. We have a right to be proud of this campaign ; we have vanquished an army numerous, brave, and well organised. Piedmont has been delivered from invasion; her frontiers have been extended to the Mincio. The idea of an Italian nationality has been admitted by those who combated it most. All the sovereigns of the Peninsula comprehend the imperious want of salutary reforms. Thus, after having given a new proof of the military power of France, the peace concluded will be pro lific of happy results. The future will every day reveal additional cause for the happiness of Italy, the influence of France, and the tranquillity of Europe." THE NEW SARDINIAN MINISTRY. TURIN, JULY 19. The new Ministry is formed. General La Marmora is Minister of War, and also President of the Council. General Dabormida, Minister for Foreign Affairs. Signor Ratazzi, Minister of the Interior. Signor Egtana, Minister of Finance. Marquis Monticelli, Minister of Public Works. Signor Miglietta, Minister of Justice. The post of Minister for Public Instruction is still vacant. TURIN, JULY 19. The Governor of Lombardy has addressed a cir cular to the editors of the journals, calling upon them to assume sentiments of moderation, and warning them that he will order the suppression or suspension of any journal which may utter invec tives against the recent events, by which at the same time the King and his august ally may be attacked. FLORENCE, JULY 18. Chevalier Peretzi has been sent to Paris on a special mission. GENEVA, JULY 18. Prince Napoleon arrived here yesterday, and will leave to-morrow for Paris. COPENHAGEN, TUESDAY NIGHT. Royal letters patent, dated Skodsborg, July 18, adjourn sine die the opening of the Holstein Pro vincial Extraordinary Diet, originally fixed for the 25th. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. PARIS BOURSE, July 19.—The mnrket still con tinues heavy. Threes have been'done at 68f. 65c., and are now at 68f. 40c. ; Mooilier varied from 805 f. to 815 f.; Austrian, 555 f. to 562 f. 50c. ; Lombardo-Venetian, 547 f. 50c. to 552 f. ; Orleans, 1,337 f. 50c. to 1,345 f. ; Lyons, 860 f. to 865 f. 50c. ; The following were the 4t per Cents. 96 25 Do. end month 3 per Cents 6B 20 Do. end month 6B 25 Last quotations : I Credit Foncier.... 660 Belgian 4f .. . .... IPiedmontese (5) .. 87 86 R0man.......... — Bank Shares 2900 Credit Mobilier Do. Account Austrian — Spanish Threes 43i 1 Home Debt 4l RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern . 925 .. 930 New ditto Bl5 .. 815 Lyons and Mediterranean Geneva Southern Western 550 .. 550 Eastern Sardinian Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 71c. ; money, 25f 5c.; three months, paper, 24f. 95c.; money, 24f. 92ic. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY NIGHT. The steamer Nova Scotian, from Quebec on the 9th inst., arrived at the bar about 5 o'clock this afternoon, where she was detained by the tide, but her mails were brought up by tender. The steamers Asia and Vigo had arrived at New York, and the Adelaide at St. John's, Newfound land. The steamer Hungarian, hence, landed her news at Father Point on the morning of the Bth inst., and it was forthwith telegraphed and published in all parts of the Unitsd States within nine days of the steamer's departure from Liverpool. The Hun garian reached New York the same night. ,The Nova Scotian brings about 130 passengers. The papers contain no news of importance. The Buebec timber trade continues dull, and freights had undergone no improvement. LATEST BY TELEGRAPH VIA FATHER'S POINT. NEW YORK, July 9, Evening The three steamers, Adriatic, Atlantic, and Baltic, comprising the Collins line formerly running between New York and Liverpool, were to-day sold to the Pacific Mail St amship Company, to be employed in the California mail services ; the price has not transpired. The steamer Bremen left here to-day for South ampton, with 120 passengers and 590,000 dollars in specie. The steamer Karnak arrived here to-day with Havan.nah advices of 2d lust, The yellow fever cases on board the shipping are said to be neither so numerous nor of so malignant a character as during the last two years. Clayed sugars had advanced one half rei per arroba. Molasses were without demand. WASHINGTON, July 9. It is now understood that the Russ - lan Govera- ment wholly repudiated the Perkins claim for am munition contracted for during the Crimean war, as being entirely without merit or truth. An effort is being made by interested parties both here and in New York to press on the admi nistration a treaty with the Mexican Government, stipulating for a perpetual right of way for the Tehuantepec Railroad, and and a right of way on a line with the Rio Grande in the Gulf of California for a consideration of 25,000,000 dollars. NEW YORK, July 10. Our cotton market is quiet and nominally un changed. Middling uplands 11-;c. to 117,c. Flour very heavy, and 10c. to 25e. lower ; wheat dull and drooping, Corn scarce and dearer. Provisions generally steady, except lard, which is heavy at 10,1 c. to 11c. per barrel. Sugar and coffee un changed. Spirits of turpentine 44c. and to 45c. The stock market is dull, but without much change. There is no material change in quotations for money and sterling exchange. Cotton unchanged. NEW ORLEANS, July 10. THE WEST INDIA MAILS. The Magdalena arrived at Southampton yester day. Her dates are —Jamaica, June 26 ; Demerara and Trinidad, 25; Panama, 23 ; St. Thomas, July 1. She brought home 163 passengers, amongst whom were the Archbishop of Trinidad, the Bishop of Gua daloupe, the French Consul at Porto Rico; Monsieur Belly, the contractor for the Nicaraguan canal; Dr Schezzer, of the Austrian frigate Novara, which is circumnavigating the world ; the Hon. A. Heslop, and Major Bovill. Amongst her cargo was specie to the value of 1,056,676 dollars. The Mag dalena's mails were landed at Falmouth, where she put in for coal. At Trinidad the rain hadbeen pouring in torrents, and the wet season might be considered to have set in. The crops were finished, that is, finished per force, there being no chance of continuing their gathering. As far as could be ascertained the pre sent crops shows a larger aggregate quantity of sugar than any which has been shipped-30,573 hogsheads, 4,015 tierces, and 2,198 barrels; of mo lasses, 8,022 puncheons and 139,-1 ; tierces ; of rum, 721 puncheons ; and of cocoa, 3,760,4001 b.—and, as there are many vessels not yet loaded lying in the Gulf, the probability is that shipments. when com pleted, will exhibit a handsome array of figures. At Demerara the exports during the fortnight were :—Sugar, 1,584 hhds., 111 tierces, 473 barrels, 1,334 bags : rum. 628 puns., 325 hhds., 91 brls. ; 652 feet hardwood timber ; 16,885 cocoa nuts. The Jamaica local intelligence is very meagre. The public health, " which a month or two ago," the Morning Journal says, " was very unsatisfac tory, the number of deaths on this side of the island having been very large," had considerably im proved, and, " for this time of the year, may be considered good." The revenue for the quarter ended 31st March last had fallen short of the previous quarters by £6,724 6s. 3d., the collections being, however, £615 19s. 11d, in excess of those for the March quarter of 1858. The deficiency was altogether in the Customs Department, the duties collected on im ports having been £8,700 17s. Bd. less than in the December quarter, whilst the amount of drawback was £224 14s. sd. more than in that quarter. At Barbadoes the weather had been highly favourable during the fortnight, rain having fallen every day and night since the last mail left. The old canes yet to be reaped had suffered, but the young crop had benefited infinitely more and was very promising. The produce shipped to date amounted to 28,487 hhds., 2,130 trcs., 4,480 brls., sugar; 6,154 puns., 180 hhds., 271 brls., molasses ; 305 puns., 250 hhds., rum ; 35 bales cotton ; 2,470 gourds aloes. The public health continued good. Two more men-of-war from the States were ex pected to join Flag-officer M'Cluney, who intended employing four vessels to intercept Walker and the other filibusters expected shortly to attempt a land ing in the neighbourhood of Grey Town. The Ame ricans have the corvette James Town, and there was also the steam sloop Racer in Grey Town Roads. Ile water on the bar of the river had decreased to 16 feet, but the heavy re:xis which had commenced were expected to deepen the channel. From Peru there are again accounts of a revolu tion. Col. Zeballos with 2,000 men had pronounced against the Government at Cuzco, and it was re ported that Cuchibamba and Cailloma had followed the example. In Chili the revolution is entirely at an end. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. VALPARAISO, MAY 31 The re-establishment of tranquillity throughout the Re public, consequent upon the suppression of the revolution, has,. during the past fortnight, given a great impetus to business. The merchants from the Northern and Southern provinces have, after a long absence, again come into the market—not only to make fresh purchases, but also to pay up their outstanding accounts. In almost every article considerable activity is gained. American sugar-3.25 dols. to 3.371 dols. in bond, per arroba (251b5.) • French ditto, 4.121 dols., duty paid ; Dutch ditto, 3 to 3.121 dols. in bond, 4.12 dols. to 4.184 dols., duty paid, six months ; Muscovado, 2.25 dols. to 2.37 dols., duty paid. Carolina rice, in bond, 6.25 dols. to 6.50 dols. ; Dadia ditto, 3.50 dols. to 4.50 dols., duty paid. Central American coffee, 20 dols. per 1001bs. in bond. In liquors the demand has been moderate at a slight advance. The demand for dry goods of all sorts has been brisk, and the best qualities found ready purchasers. Flour sells at 4 25 dols. to 4.271 dols. per 1001bs. for best Santiago brands, and 4.12 1-3 dols. to 4.18 dols. for Southern brands. Hides are abtive from 17 dols. to 15.50 dols., and in demand. Bar copper is quoted at 20 dols. per 1001bs., and regulus at 8.50 dols. of an assay of 50 percent. English coal, 16 dols., delivered on the coast of Bolivia. Coronel, 6 dols., at the mines. Exchange on England, 90 days, 461 to 47 pence ; on France, same time, 4.85 to 4f. 9 0 c. Freighes — Caldera to Liverpool, £2 10s. to £2 15s. ; to S wansea, £2 15s. to £2 17s. 6d. ; to Liverpool, £2 15s. WRECK OF THE PARAMATTA. The following are some additional particulars relative to the wreck of the royal mail steamship Paramatta, briefly referred to in The Sun of yes terday : The Paramatta left Southampton on the 17th ult. with about 60 passengers and the West India and Pacific mails, under the command of Capt. Baynton, one of the most skilful and careful commanders in the Royal Mail Company's service. She was 3,092 tons burden and 800 horse-power. She was a new ship, built by the Thames Iron-ship Building Com pany. She was likely to be a fast steamer, and was one of the largest and handsomest paddle-wheel steamers afloat. The Paramatta was intended ulti mately to - run from Southampton to Colon, the eastern en'l of the Panama Railway. She had a fine passage out, but as she approached within 50 miles of St. Thomas she ran ashore on a part of the Anegada Reef, known as the Horseshoe Reef, about 9.30 p.m. on the 30th ult. A boat• was put off to St. Thomas's to give intelligence of the disaster, and arrived there on the Ist inst. The whole of the Royal Mail fleet at that port were immediately sent to render assistance to the ill-fated vessel. The whole of the passengers, crew, mails, passengers' luggage, and cargo were saved. There was about 5 fathoms of water under the bow and stern of the vessel. She was to be rendered as light as possible, and then an attempt would be made to haul her off. It was supposed tl at she would have to be got off by her head, as there was another reef not far from her stern. Two hulks were sent out from St. Thomas to lift her bow up, and two anchors and two chain cables, which were taken out to her by the Med way, would be used to drag here from where she is stranded. The Governor of Tortola had ordered 150 black labourers to proceed to the Anegada Reef, for the purpose of rendering assistance. The chief fear as to her safety was the approach of the hurricane months. Captain Baynton was, how ever, in good spirits, and sanguine as to the vessel being floated. HER MAJESTY'S SHIP DAUNTLESS. A letter in a contemporary says :—" Understand ing that it is the intention of the Admiralty to send the Dauntless to the coast of Africa, I trust you will insert in your columns these few remarks, which may possibly deter the authorities from taking so unjust and dangerous a step. This ship is of all others the one most unsuited for that sta tion. She is badly ventilated, and cramped in her quarters. In her first commission, in the West Indies, she lost by fever nearly- half her officers, and between 80 and 90 of her crew. She is prover bially one of the most unhealthy ships in the ser vice. Her lower deck is not flush like other frigates, but is divided into two parts by her engines. This The Termagant, commissioned affects the ventilation. commissioned a short time ago for the coast, which, unlike the Dauntless, has a flush lower deck, was not sent there,"on account of her bad ventilation, the case being brought before the House of Com mons ; and this ship is appointed to take her place when there are so many others far better suited for that station, especially corvettes of the Pearl class. There is not a naval man who does not exclaim against the injustice and . cruelty of sendi ng th e Dauntless to the coast of Africa ; nor will any ablc bodied seaman join her, and, although she has been five weeks in commission, she still wants half her complement. Why of all others the Admiralty should pick out . the plague ship' for th e coa st of Af r ica it is difficult to imagine. I trust our brave tars may be yet spared serving in this ship on that unhealthy station, and that the Admiralty will re consider her destination, remembering experieitia docet, MANIFESTO OF THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA. The following is a translation of the manifesto of the Emperor of Austria, a summary of which we gave on Saturday : " When all concessions that were allowable, and compatible with the dignity of the crown and the honour and welfare of the country, have been ex hausted, and when all attempts at a pacific arrange ment have miscarried, there is no room fir choice, and what cannot be avoided becomes a duty. " This duty placed ine under the stern necessity of demanding from my people new and painful sacrifices, in order to place in a state of defence their most sacred interests. My faithful people have responded to my appeal ; they have pressed forward unanimously in defence of the throne, and they have made the sacrifices of every kind de manded by circumstances with an eagerness which merits my gratitude—which augments, if possible, the profound affection which I feel for them—and which was adapted to inspire the assurance that the just cause in defence of which my brave armies went forth with enthusiasm to the contest would be victorious. " Unhappily, the result has not corresponded with the general effort, and the fortune of war has not been favourable to us. " The valiant army of Austria has in this instance again given proof of its tried heroism and its in comparable perseverance so brilliant that it has commanded the admiration of all, even of its ene mies. I experience a legitimate pride in being the chief of such an army, and the country ought to feel indebted to it for having maintained vigorously, in all its purity, the honour of the Aus trian flag. " It is not less perfectly established that our enemies, in spite of the greatest efforts, in spite of the superior forces which they had for a long period been preparing for the conflict, have been able, even by making the greatest sacrifices, to obtain only ad -vantages not a decisive victory ; while the Austrian army, still animated by the same ardour, and full of the same courage, maintained a position, the possession of which left perhaps a possibility of re covering from the enemy all the advantages that be had gained. But for this purpose it would have been necessary to make new sacrifices, which cer tainly would not have been less bloody than those which have been made already, and which have deeply afflicted my heart. " Under these conditions it was my duty as 0 , sovereign to take into serious consideration the pro positions of peace which had been made to me. The consequences of this continuance of the war would have been so much the heavier, because I should have been obliged to demand from the faithful people of my dominions new sacrifices of blood and of money much more considerable even than those which had been made up to that time. And, not withstanding, success would have remained doubt ful, since I have been so bitterly deceived in lny well-founded hopes that this contest not having been entered into for the defence of the rights of Austria only, I should not be left alone in it. " In spite of the ardent sympathy worthy of acknowledgment which the justice of our cause has inspired, for the most part, in the governments and peoples of Germany, our natural allies, most ancient allies, have obstinately refused to recognise the great importance of the grand question of the dal; Consequently Austria would have been obliged all alone to face the events which were being pre pared for, and which every day might have rely dered more grave. " The honour of Austria coming intact out of this war, thanks to the heroic efforts of her valiant army, I have resolved, yielding to political cool' derations, to make a sacrifice for the re-establish' ment of peace, and to accept the preliminaries which ought to lead to its conclusion ; for I have acquir ed the conviction that I should obtain in any even t conditions less unfavourable in coming to a direct understanding with the Emperor of the French' without the blending of any third party whatsoever' than in causing to participate in the negotiation s the three great Powers which have taken no par t in the struggle. Unhappily I have been unable t° escape the separation from the rest of the empir e of the greater part of Lombardy. On the othe r hand, it must be agreeable to my heart to see th e blessings of peace assured to my beloved people' and these blessings are doubly precious to M e ; because they will give me the necessary leisul;/ for bestowing henceforth without distraction 13- ` my attention and solicitude on the friu tf u task which I propose to accomplish—that l' to say, to found in a durable manner the intq; nal well-being and the external power of Au stria by the happy development of her moral and ma t , e ; rial forces, and by ameliorations conformable the spirit of the time in legislation and adminiet e4 : tion. As in these days of serious trials and sae r , l ,, flees my people have shown themselves faithful my person, so now by the confidence with wh ic " they respond to ine they will aid in accomplishil works of peace, and in attaining the realisation ° my benevolent intentions. " As chief of the army, I have already express ea , to it, in a special order of the day, my acknowlecig_ inents of its bravery. To-day I renew the exp re', sion of these sentiments. While I speak to 1 1 - 1 : 1 0 people I thank those of their children who ha s ', fought for God, their Emperor, and their cou ntrr e I thank them for the heroism of which they 11 1vi 3 4 given proof, and I shall always remember ,`0 grief those of our brave companions in arms Iv have not, alas ! returned from the combat. (Signed) "FRANCIS JosErS• " Laxenbourg, 15th July, 1859." THE INCOME TAX. The Chancellor of the Exchequer will pro) or the following resolutions to-Morrow night in Co mittee of Ways and Means:— No. 1 INCOME TAX. That, towards raising the supply granted to her 3litie stP, in addition to the rates and duties granted and now cht i Z e, able under the act passed in the 16th and 17th years of her - t ieS jesty's reign, chapter 34, for granting to her Majesty da on profits arising from• property, professions, trades, did offices, there shall be charged, collected, and paid 7 for all ge respect of all property, profits, and gains, charged or c h arot able under the said act, either by assessment, contrac;o composition, or otherwise, the follo wing additional rate 6 duties, that is to say—upon any assessment made on the 4• nual value or amount of any property, profits, or gain s e be cept property, profits, and gains chargeable under Sch (B) of the said Act), the additional rate or duty of four Pe l t / o f for every twenty shillings of the annual value or arnoul l , fo r all such property, profits, and gains, respectively ; au' r e , and in respect of the occupation of lands, tenements, le, o f ditaments, and heritages, chargeable under Schedule (f 4 the said act, the additional rate or duty of two pence in P,; 0 4 land, and of one penny halfpenny in Scotland and Ir e 'ito respectively, for every twenty, shillings of the annual c a ei9 thereof, and such additional rates and duties res p e ctis, o t shall be collected and paid with and over and above the, Pct, moiety of the duties assessed or charged under the sa id No. 2. of Provided always, That where any dividends, interestv, due or payable half-Ye° other profits or gains becoming pays _ are assessed or charged half-yearly with the rate or t under the said act, there shall be charged upon the 10 1 1 asses sment or charge which shall be hereafter made on 0 , or dividends, interest, profits, and gains, the additional ra4l o duty of eightpence for every twenty shillings of the t'd yearly amount thereof ; and where any profits or 8 . 7,61 becoming due or payable quarterly are assessed or cha r + p quarterly with the rate or d u ty un d er th e sa id act, ' e stO shall be charged upon the first two quarterly assessl e or charges respectively w hi c h shall be hereafter tea r ot° such last-mentioned profits and gains, the additiona l t 1 or duty of eightp ence f or ev e r y twenty shillings ' 3 .0; quarterly amount of such last-mentioned profits and Poe , ' and the said additional rates and duties charged /n i x DI half-yearly and quarterly assessments respectively sh collected and paid with and over and above the rate! t io duties assessed or charged therein respectively wi de ' said act. No. 3. MALT CREDIT. • st ir ' That, toward raising the supply granted to her APi e the time limited for payment of the duty of excise 011,,,,,g0 by every maltster , or maker of malt, who shall have VI se curity by bond in the manner directed by the act,P o o°, in that behalf in respect of all malt begun to be made 8614 fr after the Ist day of October, 1859, shall be twelve w` - tot t e lieu of eighteen weeks after the making of such ace° return of duty as in the said act is mentioned. THIS DAY'S MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. The supply of English whe a t, i n t o • day's marlSetil'e/ very limited. Sales progress e d s l ow l y ; nevertheless ate was rather more firmness in prices when compare"' A Monday. Rather over 6,000 quarters of foreign wheat hat, r oi fresh to hand. There was no di s p os iti on s h ow n. chase any kind, yet the quotati ons were support 44 - floating cargoes very little was passing. The barley trade was hcavy, at barely late rates tie malt, next to nothing was doing, on former terms. ad Oats, beans, and peas we re dull, at late rates, gl value of flour was with difficulty supported. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK 00 0 Wheat. Barley, Malt. Oats. 370 English B6O [9O ; 220 ' 200 i A r, Irish Foreign ..[6,290 f 3,380 1 14,020 i ~.. v i WRIT E C 'JAPE L. rie S id; The trade is still h eav y, a t th e f o ll o wing P„ 45 Beef, from 2s 10d t o 4 s 2d ; mu tt on , 3s 2d tu, o rlci lamb, 4s 6d to ss 6d ; vea l, 3 s 8d t o 4 s 4d ; and r 2d to 4s 8d per 81b., by the carcase. BOROUGH HOP. There is scarcely any business doing in our ni„,,AarlcetabO " prices ar e a l mos t nom i na l. Th e d u ty i s ca ll e d tiAu 1/ 01rt PENSIONS ON LORD CLIVE'S FUND .---- turn of the House of Lords yesterday issued it aPPe- 410, o, last year in England there were 101 officers, 2,78 5 1 33 m 0 774 widows receiving pensions from Lord Clisre's the amount of £80,062.