The Sun. — London, England, 1862-06-07 00:00:00

NONCONFORMIST MARTYR TO CHIIECH & STATE UNION. Wm. Hackett, of Corby-le-time-H—Oundle' .691, gib teed in Cheapside, by Q. Eliza-jesu's (' in carte-emir) to zenith Al Corby's 62' 30"' mi-declin. of polar star, Pa3toral to Lat. for the Nonconformist stang-rider of 9 June mem'. JAPANESE MISSION—its Kathnd Nipon from Pekin's Meer -efork-4:4—of England's Privy Council in Carib's Lucia Virgin isles, Denmark'd te ' Porto Rico.' The allied treaty for Juge de Paix et Amide token of trade by Articles 1,3, 18, 21, under coin-texts Hollandaise' for E • Ind. yellow Copper crown revision every 14 yrs, signed 26-August, 1858, by Russian Count Ign.atief in 1869, under Pekin's Xun-Tien-('sin Treaty—in Al-Corea's Vi and 'Ki demands), Obedience to the heaven's Zenith ++ sot Ate-meter sphere fate 'Z overhead'-spiral earth-fiat, distinct from the Sun's n planeterry declination N. and S. for fre3 Japan's Cantonal-1.586 in Ton-Quin's Le Chita c. a., on Edw. lll's 1338 Duchy-chancery Crt, hit of Macao's feud al is Cabotage as England ' itself' of the Isles, 50 pied-de-Hoi,' against the Tartar-british Papuapugis China-manslave trade. You are called to register the old TeGra-cone Le montee Rucivic limit-wall of China, as the Jeso-horizen of London, 40e N ., _ as England's 1581 Receipt of Exchequer, and take out Yedo copy of standard Pigmeter weights' for regional exemplification, of red moon on white sqr.' in red flag—of Menan-caba empire of the ArrO Isles, Borne 6, on Q. Eliz. and J. r.'s Ennaam to Sicily's* font in alt' skyset link, (as between Man and God) its ' Serpentine : : .. • fly audits.' Explain the Free-haired Tail-men as of Our fathers, that this results from my sole Macao charge, as Holland (on holy alliance abolition of Christian I clubs), 29th August, 1825 by 11 G. m c 55,1772—based on 14 G. tn., c 83,e , '74for the one miNT•rod, by 5-6 W. 4, c. 63, as th' Earth's TROT spirit level, restored 1824—suspended one year to kill off its life and death 1815 justice-men' for 6 Jan. '26 Romish motu—so cause, of 12th Leo's white Mitre' being set on all Criminal law exchequer deeds (by reason of yr-1246 Tolice• grant for Abbot's mitre in precedent for 1604's canon-'5B for a parish Gown' from the Tuthill-fair Brompton rates for the two wardens daysman-investiture), over which, if not removed I will sign for the people's rights, without work house crop'ng by Ruff-ctians of 1842's bald pated Chinese tartar shaved in Jesu mark of Macartney's '92 (word CAR, & 6-Harness, so u.s. t-Cent papal British Moravian act mis rule by confusion, lately seen in Pekin summer palace. ta" The suspended 1824 Act became re-incorporated in 1835—and writer its State-.wall mar tyr under 1837-43, for the lineal spirit-level inter-a-national oathing to all offices, without sect-creeds ask,by Staff.—.inset-pey'ze right. Thus on ' water trespass,' YER'S ask of Li s bon's Macao Co.'s governor in 185 7 — (50 ?of the Remi sh Papaus) who was England's 1594 Stil-laird of N. Guinea 1713 and 1826, kings Gersfa Judge River Conservator, on B r azil-marshal Beresford's Baton N. rouge submission to Admiral G. He lmond' s flag-lieut. Montague Ackerley, for facing in Court the nect-man's Tycoon of ile Typinsan.'",byskiinst'aj, Jesse in the Kurille }LA's at Q. An's Bitty office, w.miier Your Philipii ii. reasetorr was to P" unite the treaty 'ID? 1667, with Angle Dutch executive of Holland, and marshes as of Leicester's creation 1585, so Cromwell and Louis 1655, yes'd by Parliament, of 16 Car. ii., re-X-embody'd on Phillipine-isles 6 & 6 native jury-1764-Scholastic teaching the Red indians by Act of 1832 tor making N. W. America Behring's land-gn a rantee of Dutch-loan extend to New foundland -1820 as Crown colony Antipodean to N. Zealand, Si a m, and its Ceylon trop' arctic word dexpendencies, bar ing the Belge-jesu re. statue(' Pedro T. at Rio Jan. '62. You'll now see into the May 14 Bar'ing-visit (leading by Lebuan Macdonald, to the son ASHBURTON treaty) of my state-associate —and afterwards to Northumberland-house to pass before the Supreme Indian portraiture of Joseph Brant, (Stamp Act Sagemoth Chief of 1774-'93 of Anglo- Chinese America, west to east), uncle and predecessor of the now Siderial-crown Income-tax Freeman herein Basqu eta' d as P. NW' warr, one of pour race under the ligne tir6e for Washington Q Texas—extradition act, 1843—its alien's having no French white' flag for their Co-chin Le .134412-• Annam assumption vers l'annee 1821 Colberti's de la Pe ron:fir. 1549-restaurate,' on my Meximicmac Brazil-Canton sponsorship '25, with Ind. lady, as Prince Consorted. BT letter, save disproved acts, Ye are of the out'd -1585 Dairy-soma or' high Sinto Papiss, separated from the state 3-kub'ship - coroner f so, no t of the peoples 'mats-mat.y-f tr pole Zenith Court, of elect Tycone over the provinc i al Dal mi-6, and district Sio-mi-6. If so ? or Ratify by meter oath as East-Searehmen ' on the Nipon water flag limit of Port Gaspe Pugin, by high contracting parties, April 7, 1862, W.-m. Seward &R. Pemell, City niced LTONS ; Amer. Ind. Co‘naission'rs by Art. 1, rule 2 within the territorial water, of the other (L'aiitrewise neutre)party in Carib's Hight o. search m other earth's legistatrices in Brenta, Peter.§ Know I By 28 H. in., as Pekin's the W.minster tidal Octagon-tower flag of Parliament, when 1265 sitting at the Ei Adieh'Apt-ery - house, was of Red Sarsinet with Gold Dragon `4 Tetra-conic' thus the Portugue-papal Tartar change of your National-river Red flag disc-.o 1 by the Macao'd Rips (1594-1618), under an Edin. St. John's grip Dutch Japan lodge 3ty with China ' July 1663 to Feb. 1664 —signed by Tycoon, for BORT & Das, whereby a white, flag with red moon was set as the Gaduchy emblem o'r your Tail-hut'd embassy in London. Whence in Mexi-Anahuaq' reciprocity to perpetuate the Ravoyers cuivre on Art. 10, the Japan Admiralty Coin-flag will be from 1862, Red 'pierced white square, with Red moon thereon'—for ever. Une verge qui (fit Armer la race-rouge si grande • Pour la loi civique §), pese avec Fierte I 04 l'on voit qua jamais I'ENGLAND' ne marchande • Quand it faut par la merleur donner Liberte +4 • • * N. ] CHA.RLMS AOKERLRY, hti el • • 1-2 W. IT., N.. 54, Charnberlayne' Die-sworn. • • PETER BAsQuET, Income-tax chief (1842, unpaid. • • China Ruff wall circuit horizon of-- , London, Juno ▪ gp, 1862), its Montezuma-Texas-peace Red Flag. So Paris-' White ship' in red flag, 1189—$elga3-vocint Ka/fateremilo skiff Het (chip seylt wel, bet is ras in mien, —item, het is een klock-ship in fallen' —by Cape ‘G'awl. t By 7. 25 Hen. in. the Purser discargo-rev' or steward is deputy-juror for Neighbours to the fact,' under Shipping Act aid'onus, to avoid Ty-cone Coroner's sequestration in log default on deaths or Offences to the Person by the 1842 British Emigra triad-;esu Soc:, Belly-skin Tae-sign marks c' of Sandwich Isles, Australia, California, and Peru hut-poll-tail-tax, by Spanish goldfinders. (See The Sun of April 19, 28, and May 16.) ;HEAT HE-RO Ai., HAYM A RKET. 1 . Lessee Mr. J B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, a Household Picture, under Two Lights, entitled THE WIFE'S PORTRAIT. Mr. Howe, Mr. W. Farren, Mrs. C. Young, Ste. Alter which, at ball-past 7, will be performed (143 d time) OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. F o ll o wed by anew Spanish Ballet entitled LA CONTRA BANSTA. Senora P D erea ena, Senor Ricardo, and the Corps de Ballet To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. oyAL LYCEUM THEATRE. 1 , Sole Lessee and Mana,ger. —Mr. Edmund Falconer. 176th Night of the continuous run of "Peep o'Day." THIS E VENIN G, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, and Edmund Falconci : Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston, and Miss M. Hudson. After which, a new musical, pictorial, poetical, and ballet interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitty and Miss Lydia Thomson. To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. as usual. Doors open athalf -past 6, to commence at r, Box-office open daily from 11 tills. Commence a 7 Q OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, PLAYING WITH FIRE. Mr. John B ro ugham, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Jordan, Mr. Widdicomb, Mrs. Weston, Misses Rose and Carlotta Leclercq. After which, the Mystic drama, THE ANGEL OF MID NIG Ft I . Messrs. Shore, B. Patter, Ryder, Cathcart, Wid dicomhe J or dan, Meadows, Raymond ; Mi ss Elsworth y , Miss Fielding : , and Miss Henderson. Commence at 7. No half-price. STEW THIATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI.- -1-1 Sole Provrietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, a new domestic drama, entitled DOT : Messrs. J. L. Toole, Emery. Billington, Stephenson ; Miss L. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, Miss H. Simms, Miss K. Kelly, and Mrs. H. Marston. To be followed by THE OCTOROON. Me ssrs. Dion ,?ucicauit, Emery, Jamison, Billington, P. Bedford , P hilli p s, 'tePhenson, Powell, Romer; Mrs. Billlngton, Mrs. H. Mar ston, Miss Latimer, and Miss Denvil. Commence at 7. V 1 NTERBu ay HALL AND FINE A wrs GALLERY. The miraculous STECKEL at a quarter to 11. Grand Selections from " Lucrezia Borgia;" by Miss Rus sell, with Band and cull Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jongh mans. Great success of Insi Kw speech '' Or any other Orli, in his celebrated Stump .the original), and EUGENE, in his Burlesque Ong and JOE BROWN, the ren:_ d Dancing, at Ten o'clock. ...ed American Prize Jig Dancer, for a few weeks only. Also the following' Comic favourites -Mr. Randall, Mr. n,d ling sworth, Mr. J. G. Forde, &nd Miss Caroline Parkes in her new entertainment. Messrs. Mortol! and.Stan le Ybegtot f Lon don d ur ing the Exhivation that th e 0 147 111 , isitors to Lon- DIGS well be Open, free between the hours of of PAINT- Two o'clock on and after Monday, of Twelve and ________._.--...____ ..:ET.- --------_ ►i HE OXFORD, 6, OXFsati tv A Every Evening,.—The unrivalled Ethiopian- dians, Rumsey and Newcomb's Minstrels, Eu,.,Come- UNSWORTH (the original "or any other man'•), i, addition and • to a host of other comic talent. —Operatic Selections and cantatas of the "Jolly Beggars " and " MAY DAy , 1 1 the ported by the entire company. Full Band and Choi Musical Director, Mr. F. Jongnmans. Dail, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, Is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. ed . In rehearsal, Verdi's "Great International Exhibition Cantata," and will be produced shortly. lIIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TnIF: DAY. —Morning, Bh. 42m.—Afternoon, 9h. 20m. To- Af oRR"r•-Mnrning, 9h. 50m.—Afternoon, 10h. 19m NOTICE. All remittances are, henceforth, t o be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. , ~,, 66 } 9> .:n,-i• ;.., f- ' •,• . :1 \ , " 2: ,1 A: r - ,4 1, , :".-- '. ( c 5- ~... k N -- . 1 ' ,;-, '.7 , t .5e 1- .. 14-1, ‘Asg;:: , :- , -1..i. , :'1 7 - ,,-,- _ - ' 4. V"- , . ~) cc,i": - -ri• 1 , , A 1 .4 r...., bi - ,-- , 1 ,•;i" , t I f( t ' ',- . , ... ' I . ."*.; • ." .., '- ''.4.' . 'll7 %,', fr ‘ );••• , '-'fl' • (r:::••••••zt...,. ~-:,,.. i • ,(•.',..,,,•••• .„ 2 ,, • , , '.... , -,' , ....4'...._" 7: , 4 ... ....„:„...i.-r-rv,.F.1.1 .fir : -—= ~ \„„.1. , ~7 - „ THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1862. The Social Science Congress, it will be observed, is now in full activity in its several departments. The noble and learned President's advice is being folloß ed with a will. The proceedings in each several section are conducted from day to day, in their respective chambers, promptly and energeti.. cally. In the Second Department, that is, the Department of Education, for example yesterday, the Very Rev. the Dean of ST. PAUL'S, the poet, dramatist, and man of letters, Dr. MILMAN, opened the proceedings most effectively by the de livery of an inaugural address on Education. Among those who were present upon the occasion being Lord BWRiGHAM, Sir J. KAY SHUTTLE WORTH, Mr. J. G. BOHN, and other distinguished persons at once recognisable even in that very numerous audience. In the course of his observa- tions upon the system of " cramming" for " show purposes," the very rev. prolocutor remarked,— " That the ostentatious exhibitions of schools, how ever necessary to keep up public interest—which , after all, was the most vigilant inspection—seamed to have a tendency to become mischievous. If," said Dean MILMAN, " school examinations was made a spectacle to the neighbourhood which was to be excited and astonished in order that its support might be gained, it was too much to expect that the innate vanity of the best of men would not be tempted to sacrifice to the brilliant proficiency of a few the less effective progress of the many. It inevitably became a kind of flower show. The rare and beautiful plants would be selected for exhibition, put in the best light, and watered up, to the highest perfection, while the rest were left to pine, and dwindle, and grow downwards intOskilfully-managed obscurity." Is it not a grave reminder to us, this, of that truth ful but grotesque comment by Mr. DICKENS upon the " forcing system" in Dr. BLIMBER'S Classical Academy for young gentlemen ? A system the evil consequences of which are aptly illustrated in the person of our old '• young friend," Mr. TooTs, who there (under Dr. BLThatsER'S fostering care, or rather under that moral cucumber-frame of his forcing sys- tem) was made to blow, and blow, and blow, until he was at last only a stalk! Speaking of the education anterior to that of the schools Dean MIL MAN appeared to be pretty much of the same opinion with NAPOLEON the Great, who attributed the manifestation of great intellectual powers in the man in so considerable a degree to the tender care of the mother in childhood, Every great man, he maintaine3, had inevitably a mother in some way remarkable. Heartily glad are we to note in this portion of the Dean's oration the particular stress laid by him upon the necessity of a good sanitary code for the nursery. " The first duty of national education," he insisted, "was the health of the children." According to WORDSWORTH, " the child is father of the man :" and in the develop ment of the intellectual powers both of the child and the man, the sedulous attention at all times paid to the preservation of the mens sana in corpore sano is always of the very first importance, and is always repaid by the happy results that invariably and inevitably 'follow it. "A sickly child," the lecturer argued, "might be very intelligent, over-intelligent, but in general, quickness of intelligence would be much affec t ed by universal spirits, and universal spirits rested on healthfulness." It is especially noticeable by the way in regard to many of those who were remark able during their after lives, brief or lengthened as the case might be, that they were at the outset of their career, especially remarkable for their appa rent dullness and stupidity. It is actually recorded thus by MOORE, in regard to RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN, that brilliant and accomplished genius who succeeded, just to perfection, in so many de partments— " Orator, Dramatist, Statesman, who ran O'er each string of the lyre—and was master of all ?" An " incorrigible dunce" he was pronounced to be by his first schoolmaster : so, at least, we are assured by his biographer. And, if it be in any way possible, still more extraordinary is the cir cumstance of the like opinion having been expressed by Ms first schoolmaster upon " the marvellous boy who perished in his pride"—THOMAS CHATTER TON. A fact related by all his biographers alike, from DAVIS and Dix down to the last of them— DAVID MASSON. As a contrast to all which evidences of seeming slowness in the growth of even the most precocious intellects, there is the evil consequences resulting from the injudicious encouragement of a totally opposite manifestation ! There is the blowing, and blowing, and blowing of the Mr. TOOTSES " known to fame" for their short interval of intellectual life and social renown—those per fectly intolerable ephemerides (as they may be called) of celebrity—wretched little imps of popularity each recognised in turn as a pheno menon Who ever heard that the Calculating Boy was in after life renowned for his skill at logarithms P It is a matter of absolute notoriety that Master BETTY, who some seventy years ago made the town ring with his plaudits under his histrionic name of glory, " The Young Bosoms," grew up to be about the dullest actor anywhere discoverable, the veriest stick of a used-up walking gentleman 1 And so on through a deplorable variety of instances. Perhaps the Infant 'MOZART being the one exceptional case (the reader but too well remembers the corollary) justifying by such exquisite outpourings of his ripened intellect as the " Magic Flute" and " DON GIOVANNI," the marvels of his premature improvisations upon the piano while yet an inhabitant of nursery. No wonder can it be in any way felt amongst us that Dean MILMAN, in his admirable address yes. terday upon Education (an address, by the way, which was delivered in the Council Chamber at Guildhall), should deprecate so very earnestly the exercise of moderation in the efforts made " first of all," both at home and at school, to develop the powers of the child's intellect. The Address of Dean MILMAN yeste , •day, it should be remarked, had reference, from first to last, exclusively to the Education of Childhood. And so graceful, so genial, so enlightened was it throughout that it eminently well deserved the earnest commendation pronounced upon it at its close by the venerable President. Some of our contemporaries have surely put a wrong construction on the rejection of the Militia Ja.whllibehy laytheae Canadian Parliament, and the consequent chan ge of . vitts Ministry. On the face of the accounts arrived th ere were t wo causes f or it— one, the d esire to unseat a Ministry ; another, a general opi n i on that a bad one. It a t i h a e to bi b ll e w bo a t s h i c n os m tl a y and nyresp eu ec m ts l . brous, and not to make enough o f th e vo l un t eer element. I n a colony, far more than at home, vo l u nteers must be a pri me reliance ; and if the bill did not recognise this, it must have bee n very defec tive, indeed. We cannot imagine that the rejection to do with of this particular bill has anything m ore the rejection of the principle of colonial self . defence, than had the rejection of Lord RUSSELL'S sch eme for that of Lord PALMERSTON'S, which had also the effEct of upsetting a Ministry—with the rejection of the duty - of home defence. The Canadian press itself adverts to the posai-1 bility of the defeat of the bill being misunderstood in England, especially as the Lower or French Canadian members were the greater part of the majority against it. They advert to the possibility of the loyalty they showed when the Prince of WALES was there, and especially when, during the Trent affair, the French Canadians, with their ecclesiastics at their head, took the lead in provid ing most hospitably for our troops during their THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, EVENING, JUNE 7, 1862 passage westward being thought evanescent. But tbey quite take it for granted that we shall soon perceive their real object—to provide, namely, for their defence only in the cheapest manner, and in the way best adapted to the habits of the colony. On the other hand, we cannot think with others of our contemporaries, that no danger menaces Canadian independence from the side of America. It is true that, if this war lasts as long as it quite probably may, the States, whether United or divided, must come out of it much exhausted both in men and money. But the danger of war from a nation depends quite as much on its temper as on its means. The revolutionary w.i.rs of France were carried on without money, and by a conscription which drained every village of its young men. And if America leave off the war exhausted, she will long retain the excitement, unsettlement, and belligerent tem per generated by it. Her bitterness against Eng land seems to have been increased rather than diminished ; indeed, in proportion to the gratitude the North owes us for not insisting on our moral right to our cotton supply, seems to be its annoy ance at having anything to thank us for. The one solitary act of good will we have to thank her for in return—the passage of troops through Maine, a state filched from English territory —was ill received by the people ; and as to the slave-trade treaty we must thank their military and party necessities, not their good-will to us, for that. For ourselves, though no mortal can foresee how the war will end, and in what condition it will leave the States, we must think that Canada has quite as much to fear as to hope from its ces sation. Every thoughtful man can easily conceive two or three possible and not unlikely terminations, which might render the North alone, or North and South united, willing to apply the Monroe doctrine northwards, and to complete the re-united Federa tion, or to compensate the maimed Northern one, by attempting to stretch the United States to the North Pole. We are told, and we must say we believe it, that the dream of these Northern States, in which the South, before its secession, joined, is, that the Grand Republic is to include the whole of North America, from the Isthmus to the Pole. That it is to be the great military and naval re public of the world, that it is to give law to Europe itself, and indeed, in the Yankee phrase "to whip all creation." The swaggering joke, like many another joke, being but the laughing representation of a grave sentiment or purpose. Does Canada, even French Canada, wish to be one of the States which sends representatives to Washington ? We never knew the respectable Canadian yet who did. Independence, either with or without England, Canada is as little disposed to to part with as New England itself. Of inde pendence, the essential condition is to be pre pared to resist all who would invade it. Hitherto we have nurtured in Canada the idea of military dependence on us, and if she has not has tened the arrangement which would enable her to sustain the first shock of an American attack, we must thank ourselves for such being the case. Canada, however, by this time understands that now she must be her own chief defender. We can not again provide her chief military strength. We can be a most efficient ally—we can co-operate with our fleet—we can furnish a quota of troops, but there must be an available Canadian army ready, on fair warning, to defend Canadian territory. This is the price of the independence she actually enjoys. We are sure she will be willing to pay it. She shows us no favours now, commercially or otherwise. Her revenue is largely and unwisely, we think, derived from taxes on the productions of our industry ; she has, in fact, set up for herself, though she makes good use of her connection with the old firm ; and, as the management and profits are wholly hers, she must see to their insurance against ordinary dangers. It is an attractive speculation—the future of America. An obvious possibility is a virtual French conquest of Mexico, and real rule of that fine but now wretched country from Paris. A Southern Confederacy, larger or smaller, according to the results of the war; a Northern Federation, and, of course, a kind of British Federal kingdom more northern still. We do not believe that such a result is at all to be deprecated. We have none of Mr. BRIGHT'S and Mr. COBDEN'S faith in the political virtues of either North or South, or of both together. We think a monster republic on the old model would be a mon ster nuisance on the earth ; indeed, what we may call the late Republic was fast becoming so. A great military republic would be as proud and as half crazy with the notion of its great strength as the builder of " great Babylon," and quite as mueh disposed to annex, or to fight with, "nations not a few." If the Mexicans should bring themselves really to welcome a French protectorate we will not say they could do much better. On account of the distance it must be always, probably, a mild and popular one, the country would be saved from anarchy ; its natural riches would then quickly develope themselves, and what we think politically even desirable, the all-grasping republicans would have a neighbour whom they dare not attempt to swallow. At present—though the scene might change in a month—all looks like Mexico occupied for an indefinite time by a French army ; a Southern Confederation not to be reunited, though perhaps vanquished in the field; a Northern Federation angry as a hyaena in a cage; and a Canada for bidding it to burst its northern bars. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing•street. The Ministers present were :—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Earl Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir G. C. Lewis, Sir Charles Wood, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Card well, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. A new society has just been organised at Paris under the honorary presidentship of the Minister of State. It is called the National Society of Fine Arts, and its object is to sell on the most advantageous terms the pictures, sta tues, drawings, &c., exhibited in its galleries, and to divide amongst the existing members of the society the profits, if any, derived from those works. The president of the so ciety is M. Theophile Gautier, and the director M. Marti net, the printseller. The first exhibition commenced last Monday, and contains several pictures by Hebert, Gudin, Barrias, Baudry, &c. A letter from Rome of the 30th ult. says :- 4g mgr. de Merode presented himself at an early hour yes terday morning to the Pope. He is not only Minister of Arms, but the most witty visitor at the Vatican, and the author of innumerable bon mots. ' I have the honour,' he said on entering, ' of announcing to your holiness that the Spanish fleet has arrived at Rome by the railway.' It was in that manner that he ushered into the Pope's presence 25 Spanish bishops wearing enormous hats, larger and longer than the classical one of Basile on the stage, lined with green, and having exactly the form of a boat. The expres• sion of Mgr. de Merode was too exact to suit the taste of the Spanish bishops, who sulked, and did not attempt to conceal their ill-hur39ur." THE VOLUNTEER ENCAMPMENT n A s t l S° is t three p.m. a body o f vo l un t eers , su pplied with il l 1 e E ct y N by their own . —The obj e ct o f thi s mus t er on th e 14th triarteiloyn unders and t t e h n e ts c , om ab m l e a a n n d d of willin g t n o era pla ce l his Royalse les High nessn the C ommander-in. Chief may appoint, for 4 8 h ours, or longer if necessary ; but those to whom it may be more themselves convenient to return to their own homes the same evening will do so. The London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway Company will convey such volunteers who may form a part of this force, there and back for is Gd, the tickets to be available from the 14th to the 17th June; but these tickets are only to be obtained through their own commanding officers. There is, we find, to be a regatta on the 16th, and the duties of the camp are to be followed by a publio din ner and a ball.—Chelmsford aircnide. LATEST NEWS. PARIS, JUNE 7. The Moniteur of this morning contains a notifi cation of the blockade of the Mexican ports of Tampico and Alvarado. TURIN, JUNE 6. In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies to-day Signor Rattazzi said : "The Government has never encouraged pre mature hopes of a solution of the Roman question. We ought to employ moral means to demonstrate our unshaken will to occupy our capital, and to convince Europe of our right. The Government alone ought to regulate the armaments. It has never sent money to Garibaldi, and has always refused to join in the expeditions which were proposed." The Chamber rejected the motion for an inquiry into the late events, and adopted by 189 to 33 the following order of the day : " Having heard the explanation of the Ministry in reference to the recent events the Chamber approves its conduct, and is confident that it will always maintain the authority of the law and of Parliament." Twenty-eight members abstained from voting. PARIS, JUNE 6, Evening. The Patrie of this evening says that both France and Russia reject the proposition of the Porte to participate in defraying the expenses of reconstruct ing the cupola of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. The same journal further says: "It is asserted that France and Russia have equally rejected the proposal of the Porte to cause the other Catholic Powers to contribute to this outlay." The Patrie adds ; "It is impossible to foresee the future if the Eastern question is transferred to this ground, and if two great Powers, formerly enemies, but now allies, should see all the Christian populations in the East group themselves around them." The Temps of this evening publishes a letter of General Klapka, in which he renounces all inter vention in the direction of the affairs of the Hun garian Emigration. BELGRADE, JUNE 6. Yesterday a Servian policeman of this city, who was ill-treated by the Turkish officers of the Guard, wounded a Turkish soldier after having fired two pistol-shots. The gates of the citadel were closed, and commu nication between it and the city was suspended. Crowds assembled within the city. Tranquillity being restored to-day, the communi cation with the citadel has been re-opened, but the garrison still remains under arms. MALTA, JUNE 6. The Royal yacht Osborne arrived here at 7 o'clock yesterday morning. The Doris and Magicienne followed. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales landed at 11 a.m., amid great popular rejoicing. The Prince will leave for Marseilles to-morrow evening. FRANCE. BOURSE, June 6.—The market has been heavy and inanimate, but with little variation in prices, Threes for the Account, alternating between 70f. 40c. and 70f 45c. Railways quiet, but firm. The market closed as follows : t. per per Cents 97 50 Du owl month 07 75 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 40 New 3 per Cents Do. end month.... Credit, Mobilier..,. 830 Do. end month 832 50 RAMA Bank Shares..,... 3140 °rod% F oncier 1025 Belgian 41. ... Piedmontesc Fives. 72 20 Italian Loan . Austrian .. — Spanish Threes 52 Home Debt .. 49 'AYS. Orleans Cash. Account. 1287 50 .. 1286 25 Northern lO6l 25 1065 New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1107 50 .. 1112 50 Geneva.. 365 Southern 853 75 .. 853 73 Western Eastern •• • • Sardinian...... Austrian Lorr bard FOREIGNERS IN DISTRESS. The annual festival of the Society of Friends of Fo reigners in Distress was held yesterday at the London Ta vern, Mr. Sheriff Cockerell in the absence ofthe Lord Mayor occupying the chair. The present time, when so many fo reigners are in London, is peculiarly opportune for drawing attention to the strong claims which this society has, not only on national, but on universal sympathy, for moral and pecuniary assistance. Benevolent in design and admirable in its administration, its objects are to grant aid to indigent foreigners without distinction of country or reli g ion, espe cially to those not entitled to parochial relief, and to furnish gratuitous passages to those desirous of returning home, the numbers asking for such assistance being neither few nor far between. There are in London certain trades, liable, like all others, to the various fluctuations of com merce, to which most foreigners on arriving in Eng land betake themselves, and the consequence is that any temporary derangement or stoppage immediately throws a vast number of applicants on the funds of the society. This, owing to the suspension of our trade with America, has been more particularly the case during the past year. No fewer than 633 cases appear on the books of 1861, against 566 in the year 1860, while grants of no less than 296 gratuitous passages have been made to disappointed workmen eager to return home. Owing to these unexpected calls on the funds of the society, the directors have been obliged to encroach on their capital by the sale of £5OO Three per Cents. Notwithstanding this extraordinary measure, they found themselves on March 1, 1862, not only without a balance, but actually anticipating the income of the present year. A loan of £l5O had been contracted to restore the finances of the Almshouses for Indigent Fo reigners, so great had been the demand on their resources. Under such circumstances the pecuniary prospects of the society were anything but cheering, and it is hoped that the annual dinner will go far to restore a balance— and, if we may judge from the amount collected, we have no reason to doubt that the hope will be ful filled. An excellent dinner having increased the chari table tendencies of the guests present, the various loyal and customary toasts were quickly disposed of. Mr. Sheriff Cockerell then proposed " Success to the Society," and in the course of his speech dwelt upon the forlorn and desolate condition of a foreigner in this great city without friends or resources, and with none or but small acquaintance with our language. London, the great resort for foreigners whom political offences or the pangs of want had driven from their native land, was, he said, an inviolable asylum where the advocate of national liberty might always find a safe re fuge. The casualties of shipwreck also threw many stran gers on our coasts, and it was the object and the pride of such societies as these to minister to their distress and pro vide for their wants. Since the establishment of this society, 56 years ago, 100,419 persons had been relieved by its agency—a fact which, joined with its unsectarian cha racter, strongly recommended it to the favourable conside ration of all nations. The society in the past year had afforded a relief of £l3 each to 74 pensioners, of £2O each to 10 pensioners, of £5 4s. each to 65 pensioners, and of from ss. to 7s, a month to 9 others, while 23 aged persons dwelling in the almshouses had received 7s. 6d. weekly numerous applicants receiving a sick allowance of ss. a week. These facts were more eloquent than words ; and when, in conjunction with them, it was stated that the funds of the society were not in so prosperous a condition as was desir able, he had not the slightest doubt that the company would appreciate the past efforts of the society, and enable them to renew them in the coming year. Several toasts were then drunk, after which the secretary announced that the total subscriptions amounted to £1,686 Ss. 6d., including a mu nificent gift of £lOO from the Queen. The musical arrange ments of the evening, under the direction of Mr. Benedict, were of a very superior class, and were much enhanced by the voices of the members of the Vocal Association, whose rendering of Kucken's air " Come Dorothy," was a most exquisite musical treat. Mdlle. Anna Whitty's " Non pm mesta" was excellent, as was also the duet of the Misses " Giorno d'orrore." It is seldom such singing is heard at public dinners, and we suspect that its presence was due to the musical tastes and requirements of the German guests, who mustered in very strong numbers last night. Mr, Higgs, as toastmaster, was all that could be desired, INDIA. By the overland mail we have advices from BMll* bay to the 12th May. The 'I imes of India of that day says:— _ " The arrival of the English mail of the 18th ult., with telegraphic advices of the battle at Corinth, and the progress of the American war, is the chief event of interest in the Western Presidency during the fortnight. Sir Bartle Frere still continues at Bombay, having held his first levee and durbar in the Town-hall, and presided at the first convocation of our University. The rains are now within a fortnight or three weeks of us, the heat becoming intolerable. Affairs all over India are stagnant and uninteresting. The first session of the Supreme Legislative Council has been closed by Lord Elgin in person, and the time and place of its reassembly no man knows. Mr. Laing's budget is still engag ing attention in the country, and seems to have pleased all parties, although the readers of this journal will not need to be told how far short it stops of the reforms we have consistently advo cated, and believe we shall see Mr. Laing eventually carry. _ . " Commodore Wellesley returns to Europe by the steamer leaving Bombay this day. His departure is regretted by all who have come in contact with him here, and that may be said to be the entire population of the island. The Indian navy has never had such a commander as the one under whom its career closes. From the days of Sir R. Oliver to those of Sir H. Leeke, an incessant stream of com plaints from the service poured into the press : from the hour Commodore Wellesley hoisted his fltg we have never heard a word uttered against him. His unaffected considerateness towards, and interest in the officers and men of the service, are inva riably spoken of with warmth. In a word, Com modore Wellesley, to a sound common sense and honest geniality, unites the undefinable but always all-prevailing qualities of a thorough English gen tleman. "It is difficult to express adequately the regret with which the Indian navy regards the retirement of its commander-in•chief. The feeling is deep and universal, and offers a marked contrast to the temper of mind with which earlier removals were regarded. In the rough but forcible praseology of the service itself, Commodore Wellesley is loved for that he has never committed an act of injustice.' Were the commodore not retiring ostensibly ' on leave,' the navy would have got up an ovation to him of no ordinary kind. The commodore has won the public regard by the liberality with which he has identified himself with us, proving himself ever ready, with no thought of self, to aid every work of usefulness or benevolence amongst us. We sin cerely trust that higher honours are in store for him at home, and that he may be spared many years to their enjoyment—a hope in which every reader of these columns will heartily join. " The Phcenix describes Mr. Laing on the occasion of delivering his budget as looking as well as at any time since his first arrival in this country. The hon. gentleman, itis true, does not outwardly present the semblance of robust health, but if our experience of India entitled us to offer an opinion, we would say the appearance of the hon. gentle man was that of one to whom the climate had, in a short time done its worst, and failed to knock over, and who, if he does not overwork himself, need not dread another hot season in the country. Thinking thus, we shall be glad to hear that Mr. Laing has not decided on going to England this year, but has made up his mind to spend the en suing hot months at a sanitarium not so distant from Calcutta as to preclude his keeping watch over the working of the financial system he has initiated, and the completion of which he must naturally desire to effect under his own supervision. We hope, therefore, that the rumour that Mr. Laing is not unlikely to spend the summer months in Dar jeeling will turn out to be a true rumour. To those who have had the pleasure of hearing Mr. Laing, we need not say that he is a most agreeable public speaker. Indeed, bating a little feebleness of voice, there are few, very few, parliamentary men of the present day who could manage to render a financial statement, of nigh two hours' duration, as pleasant to listen to as WEIS Mr. Laing's budget speech.' " We trust very earnestly that Mr. Laing uitay continue with us for some years to come. He is better than a merely able man; he is an honest one. Shaking himself clear of the notion that India is to be governed for the interests of England, he avows himself financial trustee of the millions here, and in doing so, he is taking the very surest measures to make the relations of the two countries profitable in the highest degree to each. A policy of selfish ness brings with it its own Nemesis, a fact which the press of Calcutta cannot yet clearly recognise. "According to the Ilurkaru, Mr. Laing goes home by the first June steamer, and hopes to re turn to Calcutta again in November. The honour able gentleman's health has much improved of late, but his medical advisers are averse to his running the risk of staying through the rains, and it is for the interest of the public that their recommenda tion should be attended to. Major-General Cunningbame, C. 8., commanding Scinde Division, has been transferred to the Bengal presidency, and will be appointed to the command of the Lahore division. The military community at Kurrachee are under the greatest obligations to this officer for the many improvements be has car ried out in the camp, and his departure will be greatly deplored. " The court-martial upon Paymaster Smales, of the Inniskilling Dragoons, is still dragging along. The exposure of a great scandal seems imminent in connect;on with this case. " General Showers is about - to commence opera tions against the insurrectionary tribes of the Cossyah Hills. " The Nawab Ikram-ood-doulah, a member of the royal family of Lucknow, and ono of his agents, have been found guilty of forgery of certain papers purporting to be a title to a pension for alleged ser vices during the mutiny. The delinquents were heavily fined." COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Times of India.) May 12.—Money is still abundant. The Bank has re duced its rate to 6 per cent. for Icans on deposit of govern ment securities and for the discount of private bills. Rates on England have still a downward tendency. The busi ness done for this mail is as follows : Bank bills, 2s Oad to 2s Old; first class local credits, 2s Old to 2s Oid ; docu ments, is 0 5-16 d to 2s Old; the lower are the closing rates. Government securities are a shade lower, and are now worth as follows : Fours, 95i ; Fives, 105 ; and 5i per Cents., Mi. IMPORTS,—We have to report another fortnight of con tinued activity in grey goods, -which have changed hands to a large extent, generally at the rates quoted in our last. Importers met the demand very freely up to the ar• rival of Galle telegram on the Bth, being apparently anxious to reduce stocks before the rains. The advices then to hand being of an encouraging nature induced more firmness on the part of holders, and prices for many staple makes have since advanced twa annas per piece. Dealers have now more confidence in the maintenance of prices, and are pur chasing with more spirit than hitherto, being anxious to lay in stocks to hold over the rains in anticipation of higher prices then ruling. Bleached and printed fabrics are still dull, and unchanged in value. Twist is in excellent de mand at advanced rates. Metals of all kinds are dull of sale, and nominally unchanged in value. EXPORTS.—COTTON.—Our market for this staple has continued firm throughout the fortnight, and chiefly in con sequence of adverse winds preventing the arrival of sup plies prices gradually but steadily advanced up to the Bth inst., when Broach sold for Rs. 231, Dhollera Rs. 226, and Oomrawuttee Akote Rs. 216. On the following day (9th instant), the mail of 18th arrived, and her favourable ad vices at once caused a sudden and material advance, and we hear of several purchases effected at extreme rates, such as Rs. 240 for Dhollera, Rs. 220 for Compta. We do not think, however, that much business will be done at the prices now demanded by dealers, more especially as supplies are now arriving more freely in consequence of a change of wind. FREIGHTS.—The past fortnight has been an unprece dentodly dull one for this season of the year. Arrivals from England, end more es?ecially from Australia, have continued to increase the already heavy supply of tonnage in our port, while a long continuance of southerly winds has kept back the country craft laden with cotton from the northern ports. To add to this a partial strike among the cartmen and coolies rendered it almost impossible for seve ral days to screw and ship cotton. These influences have combined to make freights very dull, and although the rates we quota are nom i na l ly almost the same as those our last circular, still very little business has been_trans. _ acted. We quote rates as dull at—To Liverpool: _Y. 0 17 3 7; X£3 2s. 6d.; seeds, £ 1 15 s. To London : C o tt o n, z seeds, 42 7s, 6d. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT L SIiTUIJOA'. On Thursday, a meeting of this institution was held at its house, John -street, Adelphi, Thomas 4 Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., in the chair. There were also present—Admiral Sir George Sartorius, Capt. Sir Edward Perrott, Bart., Admiral Washington, F.R.S., hydrographer of the Admiralty ; Admiral Cator, Colonel Palmer, Admiral M'Hardy, Admiral Gordon, Capt. De St. Croix, and Capt. Ward, R.N., inspector of lifeboats to the society. The Secretary read the minutes of the previous meeting. The committee offered a double reward, amount. ing to £45, to be paid to the crew of the institu tion's lifeboat stationed at Caistor, on the Norfolk coast, in admiration of their daring and persevering services in rescuing in the night, during a fearful gale of wind, and under the most adverse circum stances, the crew of seven men of the schooner Trial, of Poole, Dorset, which was totally wrecked on the Barber Sands. A reward of £4 10s. was also voted to the crew of the Howth (Dublin Bay) lifeboat for assisting to bring into port, during a gale of wind, the schooner Liberty, of Dublin, and her crew of four men. Payments, amounting to £ll 45., were also made to the crews of several of the lifeboats of the institution for putting off in re plies to signals of distress from vessels, which, how ever, had afterwards got out of danger. It fre quently happens that the lifeboat has to put off often in the middle of the night on a fruitless errand, but on such occasions it would not be safe to hesitate for one moment. A reward of £7 was granted to the crew of a salmon coble, of Benholm, Scotland, for going off in a terrific gale of wind, and through a heavy surf, to the rescue of two out of three of the crew of a fishing-boat, which, hav ing shipped two heavy seas, instantly went down, carrying with it one poor fellow, and leaving the other two men struggling for their lives on the sur face. A reward of £2 10s. was also voted to the crew of a coast-guard boat, for putting off and saving, amidst considerable danger, four persons from the sloop Robert, of Barrow, which, during stormy weather, had been dismasted in Douglas Bay, Isle of Man. Several other rewards for saving life from various wrecks on different parts of the coast were afterwards voted. A report was read from the in spector of lifeboats to the institution of his recent visits to some of its lifeboats on the south coast of Ireland, and on the Welsh coast. He found all the stations,with few exceptions, in a state of efficiency. A great demonstration had taken place at Ipswich on the 29th ult., when the life boat presented by that town to the institution was launched into the River Orwell, amidst the acclamations of some 20,000 people. The success of that important and humane undertaking was mainly due to Mr. Bate man Byng, of Ipswich. Miss S. Lechmere had pre sented to the institution £3OO to pay for the Withernsea life boat and its transporting carriage. Legacies of £lOO each had also been left to the society by the late William Lupton, Esq., of Sal ford, Lancashire, and Dr. T. C. West, of Kingston upon-Hull; Payments amounting to about £5OO having been made, the proceedings terminated. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will of Colonel Sir William Lockyer Free stun, K.C.T., of Belvidere, Weymouth, Dorsetshire, and of Gloucester-square, London, was proved in the principal registry, on the 23d ult., by his relict, Josefa Benita Lady Freestun, sole executrix. This military officer had served with distinction in the Peninsula on the staff of General Sir De Lacy Evans and in Syria, and received the Spanish orders of knighthood of Charles M., San Fernando, and Isabella. Sir William represented Weymouth in Parliament from 1847 to 1859, and also held the offices of magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Dorset. The testator, who only attained to his fifty-eighth year, died at his town residence in April last,having made his will the month preceding which is very brief, and disposes of the property, real and personal, principally to his relict. There is a singular bequest to Lord Palmerston of a watch and appendages, worn by , Sir William (the testa tor), which. ho (31i. William) rorriooto thmt his lordship will do him the honour to accept. To his faithful nurse he leaves a legacy of £360, and a liberal bequest to another servant. The testator has also commended to the kind consideration of his relict his brother Charles, residing in Tasmania, and the widow of his brother Edward of Western Australia. The will of Lieut.-General William Vincent, late in the army of the East India Company on Bengal establishment, was proved in London by the relict, sole executrix, who first administered thereto in the Supreme Court, Calcutta, at Fort William, the testator having died at Mussoorie, in British India, possessed of considerable property in that settlement. The will, which is of moderate length, was executed in India in 1857, and attested by M. Kempson and A. B. Sampson, of the Mus soorie Schools, is purely a family disposition. The testator has bequeathed to his relict a life interest in certain property and estates, leaving to her the furniture, wines, stores, carriages, and horned cattle, together with a residence for her own use absolutely. To two of his daughters certain estates are bequeathed; and to his two other daughters and his son a division in certain pro perty amongst them on the youngest attaining twenty-one, or the daughters on marriage, in which the relict takes an equal portion with the three latter children, she being also appointed residuary legatee. The will of John Nicholson, Esq., of Tilling bourne, Surrey, was proved in London by his brother, William Nicholson, Esq., sole executor. The personalty sworn under £lBO,OOO. The testa tor, who died in December last, had executed his will in the mouth preceding ; it is exceedingly brief, consisting only of two folios. This circum stance is rather remarkable, taking into considera tion the large amount of property particularised and bequeathed. Mr. Nicholson was possessed of realty as well as personalty, and has disposed of it amongst his family. To his motheran annuity of £2,000 is be queathed, and to each of his three sisters a legacy of £20,000. All the rest of his property, both real and personal, is devised to his brother, Mr. W. Nichol son, of that extensive and long established firm of Messrs. John and William Nicholson, distillers. The will of James Shoolbred, Esq., of Tottenham court-road, and of the Elms, Acton, was proved in the Court of Probate on the 2d inst. by John Young, Joseph Jordan Knight, and James Shoolbred, the executors. The effects were sworn under £250,000. The testator bequeathed his leasehold premises in Tottenham-court-road to his James, and the residue of his property equally amongst his children.— Illustrated London it ews. POTATOES.—Strangely enough, as the season hastens to a close, prices get up, prime samples now bring ing from 255. to 275. per boll, while retail rates are from ls. 4d. to ls. Bd. per peck —.Perthshire Advet User. THE COAL SUPPLY TO THE METROPOLIS. — The supply of coal to the metropolis from the various coal fields in the kingdom still shows a great diminution, and is one of the best tests of the state of trade. For the month of May just ended the railways have carried 37,957 . tons 2 cwt. less than in the corresponding month of 1 8 61 , the canals, 754 tons less ; but the arrivals seaborne have increased 13,048 tons. For the five months of the current year ending the 31st of May ult., the troengsat 9 _e cwt. t., 244,388.5 ea. diminution is still more striking, and amounts in the egg tons 9 cwt.—namely, railways, 166,360 borne, 74,678 tons; and canals, L 3,350 tons. For theondon last month the entries into have been as follows : London an d North-Western, 41,367 Chatham and D over, 1 48 tons tons 4 owt. ; Great IN3, 6 0 5 r 5 thert t 1 0 , n5 37,0 1 9 8 9 t e o w n t s . ;2 Great W es tern, W es tern, 6,61 2 ton s ; Midland, 3,610 tons ; South !Eastern Counties , and Southend, 36 t ons —total, Grand Jun c ti on Canal during a 9 c s t v e t9 r o n ; , t 0 2 1,n , 6se7nlld9ot cn o w n s tT. 6 i cwt.bau‘hr Tilbury, 105,1 the same month has brought 1,774 tons 15 cwt. ; and by sea there has been received from Neu castle 92,339 tons ; Sunderland, 80,242 tons; Hartlepool mid West Hartlepool, 57,3E7 tons; Welsh coal, 15,350 tons ; Blyth, 2,238 tons; Middlesborough, 4,591 tons; Duff, 627 tons; small coal. 1,330 tons; cinder... 11,954 tons—total, 282,287 tons. The total tonnage for Tre present year is--railways. 668,968 tons ; sea-borne 1,391,970 tons; canals, 5,135 tons 10 cwt.— total, 1,965,474 tons 19 cwt., against 2,209,863 tons 8 cwt. for the first five months of 1861. THE INDIAN TARIFF. A movement has been commenced in East Lan cashire to urge upon the Government the necessity of at once repealing the remaining duties of 5 per cent. on cotton goods and 31 per cent. on cotton yarns imported from this district into British India, with the view to create an improved trade, and thereby alleviate the vast distress and suffering now endured by thousands of factory operatives. A large out-door district meeting on the subject is to take place near Blackburn this afternoon, when a deputation of from 16 to 20 persons representing the various manufacturing towns in East Lanca shire, will be appointed to wait on Lord Pal merston and Sir Charles Wood. On Wednes day evening a meeting of the operatives of Great Harwood, five miles north-east of Black burn, was held in the National school. Mr. Richard Chippendale presided. He said he was surprised that Mr. Wilson should have adopted any policy antagonistic to free trade, and more especially after he had seen the blessings experi enced by the people of the manufacturing districts through it, in increased employment, plenty, and prosperity. Mr. Laing had found a surplus in In dian revenue of about £1,600,000. Of this he pro posed to spend £146,00 on educational purposes, in addition to what they were spending, and spend ing, and £38,000 on public works. Sir C. Wood, on finding a surplus, had foregone a portion of the import duty on cotton goods, and they had there fore a plea for the injustice of the tax,and a surety, if they would but work, that it would be repealed. The best way to understand the effect of the tax was to see how it affected Great Harwood. They had 3,500 looms in the town, and if they produced six "cuts" each per week of 811 b. shirtings, their weekly produce would be 21,000 pieces. Allowing 50 weeks per year for working they would produce 1,050,000 pieces of the value of £525,000. Each loom paid a duty to the Indian Government of £7 10s. per year when engaged in the manufacture of Indian cloth. All they now asked for was the carrying out of the policy free trade, believing that the abolition of the Indian tariff would do much towards alleviat ing the existing depression in trade. William Fielden moved—" That the Government policy in retaining the duty of 5 per cent. on cotton goods, and 3f per cent. on yarns, now levied under the Indian tariff, is a grievous hardship on the suffer ing people of this district, in opposition to the com mercial tendencies of the age, and destructive to that freedom of trade which has been attended with such happy results ; we therefore pledge ourselves never to cease agitation until the duties are entirely repealed." They bad learned in the past, he said, what agitation could do. It carried out the Reform measure in 1832, the repeal of the Corn Laws in'lB46, and the passing of the Ten Hours Bill more recently, from all of which they received material benefit. Moses Rede beard seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. Isaac Bradshaw proposed and Allan Duxbury seconded the adoption of a memorial to Lord Palmerston and Sir Charles Wood, from which we extract the following clauses:—" That your petitioners have borne with patience and re signation the distress which has resulted from the American war, believing that the cause of the dis tress is beyond the control of the Government of this country, but they protest against any acts of her Majesty's Government which shall add to their distress by protective duties upon our exports of manufactured goods. That your petitioners re gard the imposition of duties upon yarns and manu factured goods imported into British India as a vio lation of the principles of free trade, and injurious alike to the interests of her Majesty's subjects in India and to the inhabitants of the British isles. That your petitioners have seen with satisfaction the desire on the part of her Majesty's Government to reduce the duties upon manufactured goods im ported into India during the present Session; but they would earnestly impress upon her Majesty's Ministers the importance of an entire and imme diate abolition of the Indian tariff, as being in ac cordance with the policy and principles of all Libe ral Governments." A committee, consisting of eight operatives, was then formed to carry the object of the meeting to a successful issue. YELLOW FEVER. At the meeting of the Epidemiological Society on the 2d inst., Dr. Babington, P.R.S., president, in the chair, a paper was read on the recent prevalence of yellow fever in some of her Majesty's ships of the West India squadron on their arrival at Hali fax, communicated by Dr. Slayter, the health offi cer of the port. These ships, all of them steamers, were the Firebrand, Spiteful, Jason, Racer, Barra (mute, and Mersey. Many of the details respecting the large amount of sickness and death among the crews of several of these vessels are of painful public interest. When the Firebrand reached Halifax from Jamaica at the beginning of last July it was found that she had lost 10 of her men during the passage, and that no fewer than 79 were on the six :list, many of them moribund. The attendants were of course exhausted from constant watching, and there was general dejection among all on board. Several fresh eases and 18 deaths occurred after the ship's arrival. Altogether the Firebrand lost 49 of her crew since the first appearance of the disease on board. Its malignancy had been much aggravated by the bad state of the atmoshere in her 'tween decks, where there could be no ventilation, as the port holes had been closed in consequence of the stormy weather which had prevailed. The Spiteful fared nearly as ill as the Firebrand, for she lost 10 of her crew during the passage from the Bahamas, and there were 46 on the sick list on reaching Halifax. Her total loss amounted to 36. The Racer had 61 of her crew attacked with the fever, and of these attacks 20 were fatal. Five of the deaths occurred on the passage from Nassau. The case of the Jason is especially worthy of notice. She arrived at Ha lifax on the 2d Sept., 1861, after a voyage of 19 days from the Gulf of Mexico, where yellow fever had appeared on board about the end of July. During the passage 46 fresh attacks and 10 deaths took place. While at Halifax the ship was cleansed out, and accumulations of filth removed from her hold. Her ventilation, too, was considerably im proved by taking down obstructive bulkheads and by cutting fresh hatches in the upper and lower decks. She sailed from Halifax in the middle of November on her return to the Gulf of Mexico. Within 10 days of her departure fever of a typhoid character began to manifest itself among the crew. During the next three months or so occasional cases of the fever occurred, and the general state of health on board was not s atisfactory. I n March, while the ship was off the Mexican coast, an d a f ter asudden weather, the northerly winds havi change ceased,and the e a state of the atmosphere supervening, th e f ever cases assumed c closemuggy the malignant type of decided yellow fever. In consequence of this she had again to leave the tropics for a cooler latitude, and she returned to Halifax a second time within six months. Notwith standing her former purification the bilges of the ship were never perfectly sweet, and at times were very offensive. These brief statements indicate that the sanitary and hygienic condition of many of our ships of war is anything but what it ought to be, and t h ey point, moreover, to some obvious defects in their condition. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, June 6.—There has been a good deal of business in yarns for all markets, at very extreme rates, and some considerable parcels of yarn made from American cotton have been swept out of the market, so that this class of goods is getting v e ry scarce. The business h as b een general for all markets, and prices are about id. dearer than on Tuesday. In cloth there has been less activity. After the large business in .the beginning of the week the market has naturally toned down a good deal, and there is much less business doing, but very full prices are maintain( d. What busi ness does offer is mainly for Eastern markets, and cloths suitable for those markets. In long cloths, T-cloths, and domestics the market is quiet.