The Sun. — London, England, 1859-08-08 00:00:00

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Fabien and Louis dei Franchi. By Mr. C. Kean. To conclude with A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Commence at 7. ►THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckatone. ,THIS EVENING, A NABOB FOR AN HOUR. THE CONTESTED ELECTION. After which, OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND. To conclude with HALLOWE'EN. Commence at 7. NENV THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. Followed by the new burlesque, THE BABES IN THE WOOD. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne ; Miss Woolgar and Miss K. Kelly. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Office open from 10 to 5 —no charc , ,e for booking. No fees to servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING, CAPTAIN CHARLOTTE. Miss M. Wilton. After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses Swanborough, Oliver, and Lavine. Followed by TILE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE LADY OF LYONS. Commence at 7 o'clock. VERDI'S OPERA OP 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 Deleplerre, aged, respectively, FOUR, six, an d 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 Omcm, Arm) ST 7. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 71—highest since noon yesterday. 65—lowest this morning and during the night. 74—this day at noon. BARomETE2,--29.92—falling. WIND, South-Westerly; light, with fine weather. Some rain in the night. AUG. 8. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 75—highest since noon yesterday. 67—lowest this morning and during the night. 74—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.82--still falling. WIND, South •West ; light, and very sultry. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, 9h. sm. —Afternoon, 9h. 46m. To-MORROW-Morning, 10h. 31m.—Afternoon, 11h. 12m. THE SUN. MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1859. It may be as well to particularise, in a few words, the chief among the various changes recommended with a view to the better manning of the British Navy—by the Royal Commissioners. And before enumerating these suggested improve ments—improvements suggested, be it remembered, by the highest authorities, and after the maturest deliberation laid in a substantial report before Par liament—it cannot but be encouraging at once to observe that the estimated cost of the whole of these measures would not (according to the report) exceed—not a very alarming sum (even to Mr. WILLIAMS)—X6OO,OOO. For six hundred thou sand pounds sterling at the outside, it is calculated that the country might realise all the advantages suggested by the Royal Commissioners. And those advantages ? Well, they are not very numerous—but they are, beyond a doubt, to our thinking very important, and very worthy of con sideration. The Commissioners propose, then, in the first instance, and speaking in round numbers, to secure to the Royal Navy for the purpose of any sudden emergency that might arise 50,000 additional men, seamen, marines, volunteers, and coastguards. men. Fifty thousand additional men just for emergencies ! Namely, 4,000 reserved seamen— not a very extravagant reserve of tars, this, surely ? Together with these 4,000 reserved seamen-11,000 marines ashore ; 12,000 coastguardsmen, of course, as their very name implies, distributed along the coast at the different stations ; some 3,000 or 4,000 ordinary volunteers—making thus, in all, an aggre gate of 30,000 ! An aggregate yet farther in creased to the total already mentioned of 50,000 —by 20,000 Naval Volunteers to be drawn ingeniously from the merchant seamen scattered through our various ports a body of men always numbering actually in those parts not less than a clear 100,000 altogether. It is conceived— and not very irrationally, we think, by the com missioners—that 20,000 out of that 100,000 might be rendered easily enough available for the Royal Navy, by the holding out to them of a few suffi ciently alluring inducements. Such inducements, for example, as actual pay for whatever leisure time might be consumed in practice—pensions secured to them at fifty years of age, or, at the latest, at fifty-five—payment at rapid intervals— admission into the coastguard service—and, last and not least, shelter under the palace roof of that grand old hospital at Greenwich, of our maritime and national In valides. It is thus that the Commission proposes to secure for the Royal Navy for periods of emergency, whenever they might unhappily arise, a perpetually available addition of 30,000 men. To recapitulate them succinctly-4,000 tars in reserve, 11,000 long-shore marines, 3,000 or 4,000 ordinary volunteers, and 20,000 naval volunteers, procurable from the 100,000 merchant seamen at all times to be found scattered among the ports of Great Britain. And all this the Commission dis tinctly estimates might be accomplished for about £600,000. Those £600,000, by the way, including besides the augmentation (by 5,000 men) of the marines, and the annual augmentation (by 1,500) of the boys enrolled in our maritime service, and entered on board training ships such as the Bri tannia! The number of boys so entered at present being no more yearly than five hundred in all— we should by the adoption of that one sug gestion alone secure no less than two thou sand annually of those stripling tars, who are for warlike purposes the hope and the glory of England. Hereupon we cannot possibly d o b etter than quo t e some most sagacious, most patriotic, and admirably timed remarks, which appear in the course of a masterly paper upon the " State of the Navy," in the new number of the Edinburgh. The reviewer therein observes, in reference to the sug- gested improvements in our maritime organisation : —" The tendency of the reforms and improvements loudly called for, and gradually obtained, in the telministration of the military and Puval depart ments is to break down those exclusive professional barriers which have so long been the bane of the service. The true strength of the army and navy of Er gland is that they are identified by the closest ties with the national feelings, the en terprise, the industry, and the ingenuity of the cowatry. When the gallant forces in the Crimea were at their dreariest hour, crushed by a foe more powerful than the Russians, sanitary se;, e nce , civil administration, female devotedness, an d national determination snatched them back frc an the verge of destruction. Civil engineering, wi tick nowhere achieves greater triumphs than in '4 l e, Ie , ke-t - N;; A N • ..- o ,„ O p ' OLT , I : 4 HE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1859. cs duct at thi soil," but we are told that in hi s this kingdom, has gradually enabled Mr. FElit lUg. 'lord of th e s first election, " he ha s s h own a ca l m con - SON to conquer the prejudices arrayed against 1 aPPreciatir in of his infl uence , an d, on t h e w h o l e, system of fortification, and Sir - WILLIAM AItM STRONG to mount his guns upon our batteries. has nothir ig to be ashamed of in the result." Whatever may be the resources of the royal do&- One sin gular accident of secret voting, almost a yards, they are equalled if not surpassed by the ludicrous. one, we cannot but notice. "It has immense private establishments which form part of stimulat ad Letting to a considerable degree." We the ship-building power of the United Kingdom ; certainly (lc , not wish to encourage such a practice, and, in the fabrication of machinery, the workshops not only on the score of morality, but in the inte of the Clyde and the Thames are constantly lend- rest of elect oral purity itself. But we accept ing their forges to the Government. Th er e is too gladly the teatimony it furnishes to the possibility great a tendency in purely naval critics to argue of secrecy. U' it were thought that any one could i the question as if our whole maritime strength know how the poll was proceeding, there would be \ wer e comprised in the Navy List and the no betti ng . W'e hope o ur rea d ers w ill rea d th e dockyards. The reverse is the case ; and the entire extract. It is not a long one, and is sug true problem we have to solve is to render these 1 gestive enough. vast resources promptly available for the defence of the country, which at present they are not." As a striking foreign recognition of the too noto rious fact that they are not, the reviewer then quotes the opinion to that very effect, expressed in 1851 before the Commission d'Enquete, by Captain de MONTAIGNAC. Appended to this, however, immediately afterwards, are the impressive words recently addressed to her MAJESTY by her own Royal Commissioners. Those words are in many respects, we cannot but think, very remarkable, and in their tendency fraught with encouragement. They are these :—" Your MAJESTY," say the Commissioners. " possesses in the merchant service elements of naval power, such as no Government in the world enjoys. It is true, that hitherto no suf ficient organisation has existed for securing to your MAJESTY the immediate command of these re sources. During a long peace, reliance has been placed, either on the improbability that danger would arise, or on the efficacy of impressment to furnish the means by which danger could be con fronted and overcome. Changes in public senti ment, and in the circumstances of the case, have shaken that reliance. We rejoice to believe, that by improvements in the administration of your MAJESTY'S Navy, and in the regulation of the merchant service, other resources have in the meantime been placed within the reach of your MAJESTY'S Government, and that it is now in their power to substitute for untrained compulsory service, a system of defence, voluntary, effective, and calculated to draw closer to your MAJESTY at the moment of danger, the loyal enthusiasm of those on whom your MAJESTY will rely. We therefore humbly and confidently submit to your MAJESTY the adoption of measures which, while their primary object is the protection of this country from the hazards of war, must at the same time improve the position and elevate the character of the British seamen in 'the two services, and unite them together in the firm bonds of reci procal good feeling and of common interest." Let those two services so be brought together, so bound by common ties of sympathy each to each, and the Commission will not have sat in vain. There would remain no hazard then of the recurrence of these periodical fits of national, and we may say also of rational, solicitude. Englishmen will then have practically recognised—recognised in deed as well as in word, the literal truthfulness of those thrilling words of the patriotic lyrist : " England needs no bulwark, • No towers along the steep ; Her march is on the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep " If the Ballot Society has not risen yet to the magnitude of a "great fact," the facts which con stitute its best arguments keep flowing in from every quarter. Melbourne has borne its perfectly satisfactory testimony to the success of leaving every elector to " do his own voting," irrespective of the influence of the briber, the intimidator, and even the personal canvasser; and that colony is now waiting with some curiosity to see what will be the working of the ballot with a suffrage almost " uni versal." Meantime the news arrives of its success in the oldest Australian colony—the colony which must contain the largest number of those who have either been criminals, or been brought up by those who have been convicted of considerable crimes, the colony where the " currency" must, we may sup pose, largely preponderate aver the " sterling." An extract, which we give in another column, from the Sydney Morning Herald, can hardly fail to interest all our readers at this time. There is one point which at least will inevitably attract at tention in its relation to the builders' strike. The really odious thing in these strikes is the despotism of noisy, arbitrary demagogues over prudent and industrious men. It is but too certain that work ing men are the worst of tyrants over each other, and that many a poor man who would gladly con tinue to labour steadily his ten hours and take home his wages on Saturday night dares not do it. Many persons fear similar conduct if the fran chise be made to include the class which now orders a strike at the Messrs. TROLLOPE'S, and certainly not without reason. It would, to be sure, be but adding the intimidation of one class more to that of the landlords and others who practise it so largely already, but we have in timidators enough already, and it is not, it must be confessed, desirable to hazard its increase ; we want, rather, to get rid of that which already exists. We have just ,read with much interest a small pamphlet on the _ltalian question, which will at least furnish new v.iews to many of its readers, and we should say saam e instruction also.* It com mences with the rem. trk of a foreigner to the writer, " L'aristocratie Angla ise est fort heureuse," and the news of the peace of 'Villafranca, which came next day, only, says our author, confirmed the remark on which the foreigner• had more than once in sisted ; for the " condemnation of the war by the English aristocracy was justified, although every reason which it had assigned for that condemnation 1 It is, therefore, gratifying to observe that on this point the Sydney journal testifies very expli citly : " The working classes have enjoyed the benefit of the Ballot ; not in relation to their em ployers, but in reference to each other." The Editor gees on to observe with truth enough, " There are everywhere noisy, dogmatical, and oppressive men, who, by force of will, domineer over their neigh bours. Thus many, rather than incur the opposi tion and contempt of people with whom they have daily to work, have often voted against their incli nations and their conscience. From this necessity they are now (by the Ballot) relieved. If the despotism of wealth and .official authority is to be deprecated, how much more oppressive is that grinding insolence, which, clothed in vulgar and oppressive forms, assumes the name of liberty." Our readers may remember how at Berwick, here, and it was once the case, we believe, at Stockport, the working men combined to intimidate the trades men with whom they dealt ; all this intimidation of each other, and of the class just above them, is found to be, in Sydney, counteracted by the Ballot. The general testimony of this writer on the spot, and one evidently not biassed in favour of the bal lot, is that " the ballot has tended greatly to abate the outward excitement of the election, and to give every man ample freedom in exercising his fran chise." There has been, we are told, in Sydney, as was the case at Melbourne, " much less impor tunity. Men have felt indisposed to ask what many have thought proper to conceal ; and it has been deemed useless to purchase support or demand pledges, since the class of men who would give pro mises under pressure are just the class of men who would avenge themselve s by breakinc, them." Officials in Government employ are mentioned 6 as specially benefited by the Ballot ; and though the writer anticipates that attempts at fraud will be made, he does not think it difficult, as we know it cannot be, to counteract them. The , g bunching,' system—that of voting in regiments--is broken up by the impracticability of the requisite surveillance. The Australian " poor man," richer there, as here, than many who are obliged to dress better, is now was wrong." The three arguments, as we all know, were, that Italy had never, since the fall of the Empire, been independent of foreign rulers, and that it was vain to hope it could ever become so ; that the principle of nationality on which Italians claimed indepen dence is chimerical ; and that the war could only result in overt or virtual French conquest, and the substitution of French for Austrian domination. To each of these arguments Mr. ARNOLD gives a full reply. With regard to the first he can appeal to the facts of history ; after sketching, truthfully, the process of Italian emancipation from feudalism, he shows that from 13W to 1494, nearly two hundred years, Italy was free from the foreigner, and was divided into five purely Italian States ; States which struggled indeed vehemently with each other, but which were at least Italian, and would have struggled till one obtained the prepon derance, as in England and other countries once in the same circumstances. The natural development of Italy was hindered, however, by CBARLES VIII. appearing in Italy at the head of a French army at the close of the fifteenth century, and by the other great powers following him in the sixteenth. The favourite scoff of the Times and the aristocracy is thus effectually got rid of, if indeed it be possible to " refute a sneer." The " nationality" argument against unfortunate Italy is also cleverly argued, though we cannot agree with it throughout. If, however, Mr ARNOLD successfully maintains the claims of Italy to a national existence on his grounds, which he does, she might claim it a fortiori, on what would be called more extreme views of the subject. The parties who claim nationality must of course be dissatisfied with their present connection, but they must also " belong by nature and origin to a great nationality." Cornwall and Wales could not, for want of the latter condition, resist absorption by England and complete fusion with her; and Brittany has for the same reason amalgamated in fact and feeling with France. Mr. 'ARNOLD observes that there are but two other countries besides England—France namely, and Italy, which have any historical grounds for " crying with such just humiliation and de spair in undergoing a foreign rule, uncle lapsus! " Not even the great Powers, Russia, Prussia, and Austria, have any glorious past—any history, art, or literature—in which they can take a Rational pride, like that which Italians can feel in theirs. Italians are not more separated by language and political changes from the SCIPIOS and C.F.SARS than we are from our ALFRED ; and they must, as we have so often remarked, feel it most keenly that, with their vast superiority in intellect, civi lisation, taste, in all that constitutes modern refine ment, they should be degraded beneath the rule of such a brutal, and comparatively uncivilised, con glomerate of half-barbarous races as Austria. Certainly Austria has no nationality in either its language or history. As certainly Italy has both historically, and as speaking one language— a language rich in literature from the days of PLAUTUS—one of the noblest nationalities of Europe. But the third reason—the fear of a war of conqnest—this certainly, before the event, ap peared to be one not easy to impugn. It was an apprehension only, but surely not an unreasonable one. Perhaps, generally, the apprehension was less that France should annex territory even Savoy than that Louis NAPOLEON should render himself through a necessarily subservient Sardinia, vir tually supreme in Italy, and that, in the interests of Imperialism, be should use all his power to pre vent the development of constitutional freedom in that country. Now Mr. ARNOLD does assign strong reasons for thinking that a war of conquest, in the literal sense, would have been unpopular, even alarming, to the French peasantry and shopkeepers; but that they were eventually rather pleased with a triumph of French arms over those of Austria, and a short but brilliant war limited to that coun try. He is strongly of opinion that the Emperor is really the approved, and even the admired, cer tainly the trusted of the great body of the people— of all but the several small parties opposed to him ; but, with these, as comprising the education, the talent, and the good-breeding of France, English men are most in contact, and from them they de rive their impressions of the estimation in which he is held. He is the man of the superstitious anti-aristocratic plebs and army ; but the natural ob ject of aversion to all there is of birth, intellect, and refinement in France. The chosen monarch of the rural mob and the pretorians ; the iron-handed despot over the class through which alone France can keep the lead of European civilisation. Thus, at least, we must interpret Mr. ARNOLD, though he professes a style which would not, we imagine, frighten the post-office authorities of Paris, or the Minister of the Interior. Mr. ARNOLD thinks that the chief reason which induced Louis NAPOLEON to make peace so sud denly was the threatening attitude of the French Clergy. They were frightened for the POPE, and they began to beard him in the the Unieers—the zealot journal for the most degrading aspects of Popery. Our author believes his fear of the power of the clergy to be neat ly groundless. " The Catho licism of Europe out of France need have occa sioned him no apprehension whatever. In Italy itself, the seat of the Papacy, its moral force is per fectiy insignificant. Nowhere is the party of the Priests so little loved or respected as there, where it is best known. In France it is more powerful; but even in France it has no real hold on the masses of the population, and the Emperor dan gerously ocerrates its power." Through this, how ever, he submitted to a peace at which " his own mortification must have been immense." As to the part we should take in the final set- * England and the Italian question. By M a tthew Arnold. London ; Longman. tlement to result from the peace, Mr. ARNOLD justly thinks that Lord PALMERSTON should avail himself of the admirable position he took in 1848, and refuse to be a party to any settlement for Italy which leaves Austria in Venetia. A WORD FOR MR. ROEBUCK. We may not generally approve of his p r i n ciples, but we cannot but admire and respect the man. He is a genuine Englishman, and, however exaggerated his views may be in some respects, no one Ties tions that he has at heart the welfare of his coun try. He possesses, too, in that weak and attenuated frame of his, the courage of a lion. He dares to speak the truth, and to speak it boldly. With such a man a corrupt cause could not possibly triumph. He would tear it to tatters, and expose in all its hideousness, its gross hypocrisy, and its wicked injustice. We have, therefore, great hopes that, if not in the present session, at least in the next, Mr. Roebuck will turn his attention to the corrupt election practices, as revealed before the Committees. We care not on which side such practices may prevail, although, as we have shown, up to the present time, it is not to the Conservatives that such charges can be laid. But, in connexion with either party, this bribery and corruption is ax intolerable disgrace to our Parliamentary system. We think, with Mr. Roebuck, it is folly to suppose that candidates at elections can be totally ignorant of the costly efforts exercised in their behalf. The stream of bribery and corruption does not flow but from a well-supplied fountain-head, and the mem ber of Parliament, who will courageously trace the evil to its source, will merit and otain the appro bation of his country.—Bath Chronicle. EXPLOSION OF GUNPOWDER AT BALLINCOLIG. About half-past 10 o'clock on Saturday morning an explosion of gunpowder occurred at Ballincolig Powder-mills, which was attended with the de struction of human life to a deplorable extent. The scene of the disaster was the storehouse at the western extremity on the banks of the river, known as No. 1, Dusting-house, but by others de scribed as a refining-house. At that hour five men were engaged at the house in removing the powder stored in kegs, into a boat on the canal, by which communication is effected between the several de partments of the mills along the banks of the river. The unfortunate men thus engaged were blown to pieces. Three of the bodies when discovered are described as black masses of flesh and bone, only distinguished by fragments of dress which hung by them. Of the bodies of the other two not a limb remained —but their relations might be seen wandering over the anjacent fields, picking up black fragments of flesh and bone, which no doubt formed part of their living bodies two hours before. The cause of the disaster must for ever remain a mystery, as not one of those who knew it, if indeed any of them knew it, now survive to account for it. As to the dusting-house or refining-house at which the catastrophe occurred, not as much as a stone of it remains ; for the very ground on which it stood has been blown and rooted away as if a mine had exploded beneath it. The house was situated at the extremity of a fence planted with fir and other trees ; these trees were torn up from the very roots and now lie scattered about the fields. On the other side of the river, by the roadside, are four or five small slated houses, the -roofs of these were shattered and knocked away by the mass of stone from the exploded refining-house. One work man is missing, but the five are probably the only sufferers. Further information will, of course, be elicited on the inquest. ADEIPRI THE2ITRE. Mr. Benjamin Webster's benefit took place at the Adelphi Theatre on Saturday evening last, and his charming theatre was rendered doubly attractive on the occasion by the pro. duction, for that night only, of a new drama, entitled " One Touch of Nature." The plot is as follows :—Mr. Holder (Mr. B. Webster), a humble tailor, is deserted in early life by his wife, who elopes from him with their only infant child, a daughter. Abandoned in turn by her seducer and dying in misery, selonX les regl,',s, she writes penitently from her deathbed to her ruined and heartbroken spouse, to in form him of the fact, adding that she has lost all clue to the child, now arrived at adultage, but that he will recognise her whenever he may find her, by the marvellous resem blance to herself, of course at the period of her girlhood and innocence. Like Dickens's boatman in quest of little Em'ly, he devotes his life to a monomaniacal search after his lost child, whom at last he discovers in the person of a fashionable young actress, Miss Constance Belmour (Miss H. Simms). The poor tailor haunts this lively lady like a shadow, but with a strange distant reverence, instead of at once making himself known to her, till he meets her accidentally at the chamber of a gay dramatic author, Mr. Beaumont Fletcher (Mr. Billington), whose propriety she surprised by a visit, having squeezed his hand the day before, her pretence being instruction as to a part assigned to her in his forth corning play. The wretched Holder, who copies the author's manuscripts, and who knows the piece by heart, is re quested to go through the scene with the fair artiste. This scene describes the meeting of a father with a long lost child. The sequel can easily be anticipated, the yearning parent glides imperceptibly from the cold words ho is pro nouncing by rote, into an impassioned announcement of his actual relationship to the actress. Mr. 13. Webster's admirable delineation of the character of Holder is an artistic performance of the very highest order. We need scarcely add that the piece was well received. Mr. Webster, who was loudly called for at the fall of the curtain, came forward and said : "Ladies and Gentlemen--I need not tell you that the origin of this piece is French, and that I am merely the re producer of it to you. I beg at the same time to express my gratitude for the patronage bestowed on me on the pre sent occasion, and during the time since I have opened this new theatre. Doubtless it has met with your approval; at least, upon all hands I hear encomiums. It is most grati fying to me ; and I regard the completion and opening of the new theatre as one of the proudest events of my life. Be assured, I shall endeavour, as far as my abilities go, to please you ; and if I succeed in meriting your approbation, I shall achieve all that I have ventured to hope for." (Cheers.) It is expected that her Majesty will shortly take a cruise fr two or three days in the Victoria and Albert. —Court Jourdal. Saturday being the birthday of his Royal High ness Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, second son of her Ma jesty, the bells of various church steeples in the metropo lis rang forth merry peals, and the flags were hoisted at Somerset House, the Admiralty, and other Government offices. We understand a marriage is about to take place between Lord Bingham, eldest son of the Earl of Lucan, and Lady Cecilia Catherine Gordon Lennox, youngest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Richmond. His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Con stantine, soon after his arrival at Ryde, honoured Mr. C. F. Hancock, the jeweller, of Bruton-street, Bond-street, with an interview, and his Imperial Highness was pleased to favour him with his commands. Lord Brougham, on being asked what he thought of the peace just concluded, replied, " ft is like the peace of God—past all understanding." —Court Journal. The King of Sardinia is said to have been so horror-struck when he heard of the peace concluded be tween the two Emperors, that he attempted to commit suicide.—Cou rt Journal. At Lord Northwick's sale a picture by Patrick Nasmyth brought £750. Poor Patrick never made more than £6O a-year ! This picture, full of beauties, was the labour of a nrtnight. " Genius and its rewards are briefly told." Patrick sleeps in Lambeth Churchyard. A Roman villa has been discovered by Mr. W. Spickernell, at Carisbrooke, in the Isle of Wight. It is in the valley which extends to Bowcombe, below the castle, and near the valley of Carisbrooke. We understand that the Royal Commission will speedily be issued for the amendment of the law and evi dence in courts of equity. It will be presided over by the Lord Chancellor, and will comprise the leading law lords, and other high legal functionaries. Mr. Labouchere's title will be Baron Taunton, of Taunton, which place he represented in the House of Commons for more than 30 years. We are enabled to state that there is'not the slightest foundation for the statement put forward by a high Church paper, that the Bishop of Exeter intends resigning his bishopric. His lordship, who is 82 years of age, is in perfect health, and has lately been discharging his duties as a canon residentiary of Durham Cathedral.— • SPARROWS FOR NEW ZEALAND.—It appears from the papers that in New Zealand the country, at particular seasons, is invaded by armies of caterpillars, which clear off the grain crops as completely as if snowed down by a scythe. With the view of counteracting this plague a novel impor tation has been made. It is thus noticed by the Southern Cross—" Mr. Ilrodie has shipped 300 sparrews on board the Swordfish, carefully selected from the best hedgerows in England. The food alone, he informs us, put on board for them cost £IS. This sparrow question has been a long- . standing joke in Auckla n d ; b u t th e necess ity to farmers of small birds to keep down the grubs is admitted on all sides.. There is no security in New Zealand against the invasion of myriads of catterpillars which devastate the crops. Mr. Brodie has acclimatised the pheasant, which is abundant in the north. The descent from the pheasant to sparrows is somewhat of an anti-climax; but should the latter mul- tiply, the greatest benefit will have been cont . ( rred on the country.''—A rest ealia n CoLLEOE Cl'. PItECEPTORs.—At the meeting' of the council of this college, held on the 6th inst., the Rev. Benjamin Ilall Kennedy, D.D, head master of Shrews bury Grammar Sidit,ol, was unanimously elected president of the council for the - ensuing- veer. The Rev. J. Mayor, 1),D,, head niastur of Bind's College School, Lon don; the Rev, J. S. Howson ' M.A., head master of the Collegi,te Institution, Liverpool • and the Rev. W. Taylor Jones, M.A., head r o a s t er o f the 'Collegiate School, Syden ham, were elected vic e . p res id ents c f t h e cou ncil. The following gentlemen were elected members of the college : The Rev. Samuel Clark, M.A., Principal of the Training College, Battersea; W. Knighton, Esq., LL.D., Ewell College, Surrey; Leone° Stievenard, Esq., lecturer on she French language and literature, King's College, London; Mr. C. V. Dolbo, St. Ann's Sch oo l, Streatham ; and Mr. paip Marks, Arablocote School, Stourbridge. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, Aua. 8. The 211oniteur of to-day contains the following : The Emperor left yesterday for the camp at Chalons, where his Majesty will stay several days. The Minister of the Interior, the Duke of Padua, is appointed officer of the Legion of Honour. PARIS, AUG. 7. The lilonitelir of to-day contains the following : "The Plenipotentiaries charged with the mission of concluding, from the preliminaries signed at Villafranca, a definitive treaty, were to have arrived on the 6th of August at Zurich." The Moniteur contains also a paragraph stating that Marshal Canrobert had despatched as early as 10 a.m. the troops of tile division Renault, in order to cover the right flank of the 4th corps d'arinee ; while the report of Marshal Niel on the battle of Solferino had stated that Marshal Canrobert had brought up his supports only at the end of the day. The conession of the railway from Toulon to the Italian frontiers, with a branch to Draguigan and another branch from Privas to Brest, has been granted to the Mediterranean Company. The 16loneteur contains also a report of Admiral Romain Desfosses on the last operations of the French fleet in the Adriatic. BERNE, AUG. 6. Letters from Zurich state that a guard of honour Ins been placed before the Hotel Baur; where the Conferences are to take place. M. Desambrois has arrived and has been welcomed by the mem bers of the Government. The first sitting of the Conference will take place on Monday next. ZURICH, AUG. 7. A deputation of the Government of Zurich, attended by their ushers, paid a visit this morning, after mass, to the representatives of France, Pied mont, and Austria. On Thursday next the Govern ment will give a dinner to the ambassadors. MILAN, AUG. 7. To-day, at 60.30 p.m., the King of Sardinia en tered the town, accompanied by his Ministers, by the Members of Parliament, and the municipal bodies of Turin and Genoa. His Majesty passed through the Corso on horse back amidst the enthusiastic acclamations of the people. A Te Deum was performed at which his Majesty was present, and he afterwards received the autho rities of the city. This evening a grand illumination took place. The aspect of Milan during this national fete is very imposing. TURIN, AUG. 6. The Sardinian Government has recalled the Sar dinian commissioners and authorities at Parma and Piacenza. Chevalier Jocteau, Minister Plenipotentiary of Sardinia, at Berne, has been appointed second re presentative of Sardinia at the Conference of Zurich. The King will make his entry into Milan to- morrow, at six p.m. BELGRADE, AUG, 5. The Pacha of the fortress of Belgrade has given cause of provocation to the Servian Government by ordering, without any right, the construction of a rampart round the town. He has likewise ordered a plan for the alignement of Belgrade to be made, which the Servians wish to prevent. The Pacha has also ceded to an Austrian company a plot of ground within the fortress for the purpose of orga nising a system of protection against smuggling into Servia. It is feared that serious complications may arise. The population is in. an excited state. ST. PETERSBURG, Auo. 6. The construction of a railway of the length of 700 versts between Moscow and Saratow has been authorised. The capital of the company will be 45,000,000 roubles, in 450,000 shares of 100 roubles each, with a Government guarantee for 80 years of 42 per cent. THE CONFERENCE. (From. yesterday's Moniteur .) The plenipotentiaries empowered to change into a definitive treaty the preliminaries of Villafranca are to meet this day (August 6), at Zurich. These plenipotentiaries are : For France—The Baron of Bourqueney and the Marquis of Banneville. For Austria—The Count of Colloredo and the Baron of Mersenberg. For Sardinia—The Chevalier des Ambrois. MARSHAL CANROBERT AND MARSHAL NIEL. (From the ,1110 niteur.) The marshal commanding the 3d corps of the Army of Italy has objected to a passage in the re port of the battle of Solferino, addressed to the Emperor by the commander of the 4th corps. His Majesty has ordered the insertion of the following note : It is said in this passage that the 3d corps only gave its support to the 4th towards the end of the day. Nevertheless, upon his arrival at the village of Medola, Marshal Canrobert sent the first troops of Renault's division by the Ceressa road for the purpose of covering the right flank of the 4th corps. The presence of these troops had, therefore, as its result, from ten o'clock in the forenoon, to remove from General Niel all apprehension as to the attacks he might have to fear on his right flank, which was only guarded by three of his battalions. It is just, therefore, to acknowledge that Marshal Canrobert had already given useful support to the 3d corps, before the hour when Renault's division came and occupied the village of Rebecco in order to enable General Niel to withdraw from it a part of Luzy's division, at the same time that the first brigade of Trochu's division was fighting in tne midst of the troops of the 4th corps. Besides, General Niel could not have the intention, in' his report to the Emperor, to incriminate in any way the conduct of Marshal Canrobert, whose chivalrous character is well known. THE VILLAFRANCA PRELIMINARIES. A letter from Frankfort-on -Maine says :—" The mystery of Villafranca still engages public at tention, and the parties to •it seem determined to baulk the hopes of an explanation. It may, there fore, not be amiss to place with some detail the progress of events before your readers. On my ac curacy they may rely. On the 4th of Julythe pro posal of a basis of mediation, now known as the seven points, was communicated to Lord John Russell by Count Persigny. Lora John refused to recommend the project, but agreed to communicate it to Austria, simply and without comment. On the sth he therefore laid it before Count Ap pony i, by whom it was made known in Vienna on the 6th. On the 7th the French Minister in Berlin applied to Baron von Schleinitz to propose an armistice, at the same time proposing terms on which mediation might be entered on. These terms contained four points (not seven), and were identical with those afterwards -agreed to by the Emperor of Austria, with the exception that Venetia was to be erected into an independent duchy for the Archduke Maximilian. Baron von Schleinitz at once refused to entertain the project of a mediation on this basis, and took time to - con - :" sider the propriety of proposing an armistice. Between the 7th and Bth the armistice was agreed to by the principals without intervention, and on the Bth the news was communicated to Baron von Schleinitz by the French Minister in Berlin. It took him of course by surprise, and he instructed the Prussian Chargé d'Affaires in Paris to ex press to Count Walewski his astonishment at the answer of Prussia on the subject of the armis tice not having been waited for. At the same time he instructed him to state, that after holding a council, it had been decided not to propose the armistice, as it did not then seem oppor tune. Both propositions were thus originally French. At Villafranca the Emperor Napoleon showed Francis Joseph the project in seven points, giving him to understand that the neutrals were not averse from adopting it. Then he at once brought forward the four points proposed, and re jected on the 7th at Berlin. They were 1. Cession of Lombardy. 2. Erection of Venetia into a Duchy. 3. Confederation of Italian States. 4. Restoration of the banished Dukes and an amnesty. On the second point the Emperor Napoleon yieldid to the reasoning of the Emperor of Austria, that he could not be expected to resign what he still held possession of. This is a somewhat lengthy statement, but you may depend upon its being in every point correct. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY. PARIS BOURSE, Aug. 6.—Prices have had an upward tendency, but business was not very brisk. There was a report that the Government is inclined to - reduce the customs duties on imports. Threes opened at 70f. 15c., then receded to 69f. 95c., and again rallied to 70f. 25c. Mobilier varied from 8601. to 867 f. 50c. Austrian, 570 f. to 573 f. 75c. ; Lombards, 570 f. to 572 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,375 f. to 1,385 f.; Lyons, 8801. to 882 f. 50c.; Southern, 520 f. to 525 f. ; Northern, 940 f. to 945 f. The following were the quotations :- 4t per Cents. 97 25 Do. end month 97 3 per Cents - Do. end month 7O 25 Bank Shares Credit Mobilier Do. Account RAILWAYS. Credit Fonder Belgian 4± . 9B - (5) B6 Roman B7 Austrian — Spanish Threes Home Debt 42 Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 937 50 .. 940 New ditto B2O .. 820 Lyons and Mediterranean 822 50 .. 822 50 Geneva — . 542 50 Southern Western . 565 .. 565 Eastern Sardinian 420 .. 425 Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 71c. • money, 25f Sc.; three months, paper, 24f. 95c.; money, 24f. 94c. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 6. The Royal Mail steamship Canada, Capt. Lang, has arrived with the New York mails of the 26th ult., Boston of the 27th, Halifax of the 29th, and telegraphic advices from the former via the latter port to the evening of the 28th. She has brought 250,000 doll. on freight. The screw steamship North Britain, hence, arrived at Quebec on the 25th ult. ; the steamship New York, from Bremen, arrived at New York on the 25th; and the Royal mail steamship Europa, hence, was off Boston on the 27th. The Washington correspondent of the New York Timer: gives the following heads of a treaty de spatched to the United States Government by its Minister in Mexico 1. Right of way across the Northern States between the Rio Grande and ports in the Gulf of California, with guarantees for their protection and safety." " 2. Right of way and valuable privileges of transit secured to the American Company holding the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. " 3. The privilege of erecting and maintaining warehouses at the termini of the several transit routes. " 4. The right of transporting troops and muni tions of war over such routes, and to send troops to protect them, in default of Mexico fulfilling that duty. a 5. Free entry and transit of goods belonging or consigned to American citizens in Arizona through the ports of the Gulf of California arid across Sonora. "G. Entire and unquestionable freedom of reli gious worship throughout the Republic. " 7. A clause indicating the willingness of the Mexican Government to accept a modified form of protection at the hands of the United States—in other words to solemnise another treaty in form, and one of alliance, offensive and defensive, but in substance creating a protectorate whenever the United St a t es s h a ll s i gn i fy her willingness to enter into such engagements." A Washington despatch of the 25th ult. says : " Mr. Gould, who came from England in the steam-ship Canada, passed through Washington this morning, en route to Mexico. He is attached to the British Legation in that country and con veys important despatches thither." h g a iv n e g s in a g n o a f c t c w o o un o t th o e f rs tl a ie t b u ' r r n h i e n g St o . f L a ° n u e is gr il o e a m n e t r h a e t Marshall on the 19th of July. The one who was burnt had murdered his master. The Democrat say . prison s :— h " e W w h as ile se t t he u s p h o e n riff by w th as e erod and conveyingtakenw him to negroes.roceed edotnoethoef from andthat tooffiokce gaol nivooboththeernP t r iien li ce he tN them had attempted the life of a citizen of this place, and the other had just committed an out rage upon a young white girl. 1 After the mob got the negroes together they proceeded to the o u t s ki r t s of the town, and selecting a proper place, chained te negro who killed Hinton to a stake, got a quan tity of wood, piled it around him, and set it on fi r e. Then commenced a scene which, for sickening horrors, has never been witnessed before in this or perhaps any other place. The negro was stripped to his waist, and barefooted. He looked the picture of despair; but there was no symcathy felt for him at the moment. Presently the fire began to surge up in flames around him, and its effects were soon made visible in the futile attempts of the poor wretch to move his feet. As the flames gathered about his limbs and body he commenced the most frantic shrieks and appeals for niercy—for death— for water! He seized his chains ; they were hot, and burnt the flesh off his hands. He would drop them, and catch at them again and again. Then he would repeat his cries, hut all to no purpose. In a few moments he was a charred mass, bones and flesh alike burnt into a powder. Many, very many of the spectators who did not realize the full horrors of the scene until it was too late to change it, re tired disgusted and sick at the sight. May Mar shall never witness such another spectacle. If the horrors of the day had ended here it would have been well, but the other negroes were taken and hung justly, perhaps, but in violation of law and good order. They exhibited no •remorse. One simply remarked, that he hoped before they hung him they, would let see the other boy burnt." It is stated in New York that a memorial re questing Mr. Sickles to resign his seat in congress, had received the signature of 1,400 of his consti - - tuents, and that in the Eighth Ward a public meet ing was to be held to make the request openl y .. NEW YORK, JULY 28, EVENING. The steamship Jura, of the Cunard line, arrived here to-day from Liverpool. The sales of cotton in this market during the past two days foot up 3,000 bales, at an advance in prices of ac, per lb. Mid land uplands close at inc. Flour is firm, and quotations have slightly advaneed. Wheat also is firm, and prices have gone up 2c. per bushel. dian corn is dull, and prices have a declining ten dency. NEW ORLEANS, JULY 27. The sales of cott on yeste.rday and to-day foot up 3,500 bales, and the market is firm at 11-Ic. for middling. Nothing has been dme since the recep tion of the Europa's news: Cotton freights to Liverpool are id. COMMUTATION OF CAPITAL SENTENCE.— John Benjamin Haynes, who was left for execution at Win chester, and respited last week has had his sentence com muted to penal servitude for life. The report of the medi cal inspector as to his state of mind, and the absence of motive or premeditation, decided the Secretary of State in considering him a fit subject for the exercise of the Royal prerogative of mercy. FIRES AND DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY.— Shorily before 1 o'clock this morning a fire took place on the premises of Mr. Bland, silk mercer, Blackfriars-road, near Surrey Chapel. The moment the occurrence became known an alarm was given. The Royal Society's escape from Surrey Chapel attended, and the conductor was foi - tunate enough to bring down in safety the inmates, con sisting of three persons, but another rolled himself from one of the upper windows and alighted without sustaining the least injury.. A plentiful supply of water having been procured, the flamea 'Were subdued. About the same time a fire also broke out at the oil refinery forming a portion of - road. The l an d eng i nes and steam the soap faCtory a the Messrs. Ho wes, i n Upper Ground the in full pl a y , b ut at half-past 1 this float ingstre machinest B 1 c l r i w a e r r se kept morning the flames were still progressing, though it was •hoped - that all danger of any further extension of mischief was over. The amount of property consumed must be very great. • INTRODUCTION OF THE BALLOT IN NEW SOUTH WALES, AND ITS SUCCESS. first election by the ballot of the Parliament of The last mail from Sydney brings accounts of thc, New South Wales. The ballot law is identical 11 1 principle with that of Victoria, and, its working has been eminently successful. At elections in this colony und er th e o p en vo ting system we have read of " the u n bl us hi ng i n ti m id a ti o n of landlord ism and the re v i va l o f some o f th e w orst features of English electi ons ." O n one occ a s ion we read In. the Sydney Empi re " M r . P ar k er , th e Prime minis; ter of the colony, took his seat beside the returning officer, noting in his pocket every vote that W as recorded." This state of things is passed away' The Sydney Morning Herald of 13th June, 1 85 ' says The first operation of the ballot has been to it_ large extent suc cess f u l. I n thi s commu nity it was never necessary to disarm wealth of its authority, or to prevent the upper classes'—if there sr!, such—interferin g w ith th e lower classes there are such. The ballot has tended greatly le abate the outward excitement of the election, and to give every man ample freedom in exercising his franchise. The o bj ect i on o f S y d ne y . Suit t that the ballot would l ea d t o l y i ng, to th e violatio a n, of promises, and th e i n d u l gence o f ma li ce , no don!! could be sustained were all the voting pap.ei,7 traced to their owners. It is however, in the present state of society to devise a scheme which would not be liable to some such objections • One thing is clear—that there has been much less, importunity. Men have felt indisposed to ask many have thought proper to conceal, and it ir e : been deemed useless to purchase support, or to d o mand pledges, since the class of men who volu i. ", give promises under pressure are just those 'tv.g e " would avenge themselves by breaking them. " have no doubt that many votes have been de posited in the box that never would have We i _ given under the open system. People have of possible. lowed their real inclination. They have been enabled to do so without apparent inconsistency. They ila' reserved to themselves the power on some future occasion to take the opposite course. They are 111 a condition, having voted for a man to-day, to op pose him to-morrow ; or agreeing with him upon only one point, upon which he has commanded their support, they can resist him everywhere els e ' . To no class of men is the ballot a greater boon than to the officers of Government. Under the late sr.; tem they were marked men. Human nature Illus.! be differently constituted if, where an election is sharply contested, official candidates preserve v' t magnanimous indifference as t o th e di s posal e` votes which they have the , power to reward e` punish. Happily for the employees of Govern' ment, and, indeed, for those of all other great stitutions, they have now the right to express their own predilections, and to withhold their supPr„ from men from hose politics they dissent. they have to do is to keep their own counsel, an to maintain among themselves an un d ers tanding that it is necessary for th e i r mu t ua l protection tha t this secrecy should not b e v i o l a t e d . The w orki ng classes have enjoyed th e b ene fit o f t h e b allot, not 1111, relation to their employ ers , b u t i n re f erence to e ac h other. There are eve r y w h ere no i sy, dogma tical, and oppressive men, who, by force of will, domine er over their neighbours. Thus many, rather tha n incur the opposition an d contempt of people with whom they have daily to work, have often vot e against their inclinations and their conscienc e ' From this necessity they are now relieved. If the despotism of wealth and official authority is to b deprecated, how much m ore o p press i ve is that grinding insolence which, clothed in vulgar ar o aggressive forms, assum es th e name o f lib er ty. 11 doubt, as the experience of our politicians enlarg es ' means will be found to obstruct the free operation of the ballot, and to corrupt the ballot-box. EvelZ: thing will depend u p on th e fidelity of the returning officers, and we hope the time is far distant when we shall have so fe: r debased our moral sense as to make it Po ser ble to find men abandoned enough to betray so s f r cred a trust. This will however, demand our Nig . lance. If the ballot is worth having, at whateve r cost it must be had in its purity. There is 011 e, thing in connexion with the ballot o f which most persons have become conscious—that it has s alsa: lated betting to a considerable degree. The resalb of the election has been forecast by many, but th e calculations have been so various, a n d u p on deal . perplexed and confused, A s to a dmit o f gre at du ferences of opinion. Not more than two of the can didates could have been said to have had anything like certainty of election. The show of hands 0n the day of nomination represented the' more active partisans of the city, and comprehended the inh s : bitants from both of its political divisions. Th il i there was ample scop e f or var i et i es of opinion, 1111- we fear that there has been an amount of gambling which is not altogether creditable to the coma 111; nity. Our fellow-citizen s s h ou ld remember that these bets are a minor fo rm o f corrupt i on, an d that elsewhere they have led to shameful excesses. We are far more in danger of having the ballot-bo% stuffed or perverted by persons having a larg° stake in the issue, than by the influence of mer e , political profligacy and enthusiasm. Th e power 0 1 directly influencing the voters has changed in some measure the complexion of a popular election. The system of bunching is no longer so practicable, I:** cause an agreement of this kind can only extend 10 a very small number of eleCtors. That surveillance by which men were forced' almost to act in regi' ments is broken by the secrecy of the ballot. It has thus happened in many instances, that votes were given to candidates whose policy and position in the Assembly will be diametrically opposite. This has evidently moderated the tone of the candidates. They have felt that they could not calculate upon each other for support, and thus they ha!: been less inclined t o c l ose combination. The'"- has been a remarkable absence of the old party cries. The last survivor is the poor man"—whose portrait has yet to be delineate d ' Does it not show the poverty of our political V C " cabulary, that we apply to the mass of the Coin' munity a word which commonly awakens pity' often so c l ose ly a lli e d t o contempt. The " man !" Who is he ? Not the man that sits by ti'v wayside begging, but the strong, sturdy labourer or mechanic, whose earnings are greater than those, of many confidenti a l c l er k s ; w h o values himso u" upon his dignity and intelligence ; who represent-1 himself as the very bone and sinew of society, a i r,, who is very apt to ch eer th e sentiment that tiLw only sort of men the world ought to tolerate es e ., the said "poor m en ." Surely the fertility of 01 ' politicians will invent some phrase which may pense with this ridiculous term—hackneyed iii every newspap er an d on every tongue. There are no " poor men" in the colony, except those who II under the h an d o f misfortune, or who are degrade' by vice. It is a term of cant ; and, used as clap trap, it has in it a considerable taint of abominr tion. At all events, the "poor man" is now th e lord of the soil, and the dominant powel• in the community. In his conduct throughout this first election we are bound t o sa y h e has shown a ear appreciation of his influence, and;upon the whole , he has nothing to be ashamed of in thefrresult. ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON-IiEGATT4' COWES, AUG. 6 . a The annual ball took place last evening, an f was very fully attended, there being upwards 4) ; 200 person s present. The larg..! promenade lounge in front of the Castle was fitted up in a veu„ tasteful manne r . Th e l as t ma tch f or t h e Squadr o n Money terminated the proceeding s o f th e wee k a nd took place to-day, but the formidable list of fifteen entries, as announced on Saturd a y l as t , was re d u ced to the following seven :—Arrow, cutter, 102 too* Mr. T. Chamberlayne ; Beatrice, schooner, 208 too* Mr. J. E. W. Rolls; Wildfire, schooner, 59 tons , Mr. J. Turner; Gipsey Queen, schooner, 190 ton!: Sir H. B. Houghton, B ar t. ; Brunette, cutter, l u tons, Col. S. Smith ; Al arm , sc h ooner, 248 ton* Mr. 3. Weld ; Osprey, cutter, 59 tons, Col. R. S ' Huey. The contest was for £lOO for the fir s vessel, and £25 for the second, and was opea yachts of any squadron, and, although the list of entries included three yachts belongingL" other clubs, the starter s were all included in til Royal Yacht Squadron, except the Wildfire , wiliet, - belongs to' the Vict or i a S quadron, at Ryde. L A' very good start was e ff ecte d at eleven o'clock, course being, as usual, round the 'Warner, of thence back to Egypt, an d then to Cowes-201 round. The wind was li ght from the S.S.W., there was a murky sky, and it was hoped that t; ' breeze would f res h en as the day wore on. 1:lim by Osprey star ted an d was off first, closely followed the Brunette, and Arrow third. On rounding the Warner for the second time the Alarm had jib e d b e f ore either of the vess e ls was in sight, an d s h e continued to lead down to Cowes. Th e Wild f i re and Osprey made a pre% „11, race, off. Osborne, ab ou t a m i le between them, ~, Osprey astern. The time on arriving at Cowes at the finish was thus taken : Alarm H. M. S. 4 51 2 3 Wildfire 5 27 15 Osprey The Alarm would thus have won, but a Po te lt was entered a ga i ns t h er, she h av i ng set a jib. topsil_i on her return from the Wa rner th e secon d 0 11 9 7 and as thi s was aga i nst the regulations, the protest was held t o b e goo d b y the committee, and thus he Wildfire will receive the first prize and the °slow the second. A few days since her Majesty kindly forward! ! £l5 to th e comm itt ee o f th e squadron, to be eT, tended for by th e crews o f the yachts in row in g matches. To this sum the members of the squadr on subscribed mo re ,, an d thi s a f ternoon some ve ry spirited rowing among the men was the result.