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

W HEAT RE-ROYAL, HAYMA RKET. 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, lec. Alter which, at half-past 7, will be performed (142 d time) OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Followed br a new Spanish Ballet entit►ed LA CONTRA BANDISTA. Senora Perea Nena, Senor Ricardo, and the Corps do Ballet. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. IOYAL LYCEUM THEA TRE. J Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Foto:mien 17 th Night of the continuous run of "Peep o'Day.'t THIS E VENIN G,'PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneerafeelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, and Edmund Falconer 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 EEL? IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as 11Sual. Doors open t i lls -past 8, to commence at F. Box-of fi ce open daily from 11 Commences 7 OY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Lessee, Mr A. Harris. For the Benefit of Miss Maria Harris. THIS EVENING, TOO MITCH OF A GOOD THING. Viss M. Harris. To be followe ' by PLAYING WITH FIRE. Mr. John Brougham, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Jordan, Mr. Widdicomb, Mrs. Weston, Misses Rose and Carlotta Leclercq. Fs To conclude with THE FIRST NIGHT. Commence at 7. No half-price. NEW THFATRE-R0 Y AL, ADELPHL- Sole Proprietor 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. Messrs. Dion Boucicault, Emery, Jamison, Billington, P. Bedford, Phillips, Stephenson, Powell, Romer; Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Mar ston, Miss Latimer, and Miss Denvil. Commence at 7. AND FINE CANTERBURY HALL ARTS GALLERY. The miraculous STECKEL at a quarter to 11. Grand Selections from " Lucrezia Borgia," bY Miss Rils Jon sell, with Band and full Chorus, condu cted by Mr. gh mans. Great success of UNSWORTII, in his celebrated Stump Speech " Or any other man " (the original),nanodclEockUGENE, in his Burlesque Singing and Dancing, at JOE BROWN, the renowned American Prize JigDanCer, for a few weeks only. Also the I ullu ve lug COMIC In v ul I lee} —Mr . Hauottli, /dr. Hollinnew gsworth, Mr. J. G. Forde, and Miss Caroline P ar k es in her entertainment. Messrs. Mort Exhibit Stanley beg to inform visitors to Lon don during theion that the GALLERY of PAINT INGS well be Open, free. between the hours of Twelve and Two o'clock on and after Monday. H v OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.— Evening.—The uprivalled Ethiopian Come gey 'the .N i ewco , m , b s Minstrels, EUGENE and T ant, E rt very irt UNSWORTII (t.n rig nal or any other man"), in addition to a host of other comic talent—Operatic Selections and the cantatas of the "3011 y Beggars " and " MAY DAY " (sup vorted by the entire company. Full Band and Chorus. )lusical Director, Mr. F. anghmans. Dail, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, ls. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. In rehearsal, Verdi's " Great International Exhibition Cantata," and will be produced shortly. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Mrs DAT.—Morning, 7h. 38m.—Afternoon, Bh. sm, To-monßow.-Morning, Bh. 42m.—Afternoon, 9h. 20m, 4 NOTICE. All remittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOlrig 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. s • 4 O t t ) ` • il'ue , 4 ' 4 11/4"L-1.1. 4 4 4.310 , ~.Li ~~~ THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1862. Another extraordinarily comprehensive Oration it will be seen was delivered yesterday by ,Lord BROUGHAM. It was pronounced by the noble and learned Lord, before an immense and influential auditory, from the platform of Exeter Hall. And it celebrated the inauguration of the sixth annual Congress of the National Association for the Pro motion of Social Science. The range taken by the venerable orator was as vast and as varied as that of the very scheme of the Society on which he (more fittingly than any other man now living) has been chosen to preside. It realized the sonorous verse of JOHNSON at its very outset, this elaborate harangue delivered yesterday by Lord BROUGHAM, who therein contrived with the ease of one endowed with an all-embracing and orbicular genius, a skilled master in all the sciences, a ripe student in all the ologies, to— " Survey mankind from China to Peru I" Listening to the introductory portions of the inaugural address which was read last evening to the National Association by its President, it was like watching LE PERE RODIN in EUGENE SUE'S Juif _Errant, turning slowly but glibly upon its axis, with the touch of a reverent finger, an effigy of the Globe, over which the aged form bent in meditation. With this difference, however, that M. RODIN'S influence is deseribed to have been as malific upon the fortunes of his fellow-men as Lord BROUGIIAM'S is known to have been benefi cent. Otherwise there is the same sense of intel lectual power, far-spreading and long-sustained--a power unconquerable with years—a power exer cised for good or for evil through successive gene rations and in either hemisphere. After paying a most just and a most eloquent tri bute to the memory of the lamented Prince Consort, the noble and learned President of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, at once carried the minds of his hearers with him in his keen but rapid survey of the condition of the variou s powers of the earth. Now his glance of commendation was turned upon tha CZAR'S eman cipation of the serfs throughout his vast dominion. Now to the enlightened improvements introduced by the SULTAN CALIPH into the hitherto chaotic jumble by the Turkish Finances. Now to the hopes dawning fur Austria that her long es resources kindred e gleeted commercial even yet be developed hop which have already so Ca • riled away the imagination of the honourable member dlebaremr for edgentle man, the highly impressionable re actionary Shef field. Lord BROUGHAM had words o f we ighty import to pronounce a lso u p on the lamentabl e tendencies noticed of late in the p o li cy of the Prussian Government. He had heartfelt gy m _ pathies to articulate in regard to the prospect, of unity in the Roman peninsula. He had allusions to make, allusions in some respects fraught with encouragement in their way in regard to the de- Telopment in France of a Parliamentary and Con stitotional Government. His observations upon the fratricidal war still raging in North America, w ill be t u rned to with the liveliest in however, terest and the most eager curiosity by all classes not only in this the old mother country, but in the Northern and Socthern States of the now divided confederation. Of the concf sa ernme lon nt of the Right very recently made of there by the Federal G ov Search, Lord BROUGHAM speaks thus emphatically : "I regard this as the second real blow struck at the slave trade. The fist was the Act which I had the bappinss of passing through Parliament just half a century ago for punishing it as a great crime instead of treating it as mere contraband law soon after adopted by America, but never till of late really executed. Let us hope that our Govern ment may be encouraged by this important success to use with Spai n a language no longer capable of being misunderstood, and peremptorily to demand the execution of the contract for which she rece ived so large a sum of money, and which she has ever since most scandalou s l y broken in a l l manner of ways, making the slave trade a regular means of enriching her colonial Governors sent to recruit their ruined fortunes by bribes from felons, the result being the importation into Cuba of forty thousand negroes yearly." Natu rally enough, after taking into consideration the actual state of things on the opposite shores of the Atlantic, Lord BROUGHAM turns his glance home wards immediately afterwards, with a view to con sider briefly the probable effect of the American War upon ourselves, upon our own people here in England, but more particularly in our manufacturing districts. And here, we note at once the noble,and af fectingpatienceevidenced by the population actually thrown out of work by a lack of the raw material required in the cotton factories. He commends not only their wise patience under privation, bat their rational forethought also manifested in their en deavours to mitigate its evil consequences. This being evidenced of course by the progress already made, and still making, in the cooperative move ment. Not only does Lord BROUGHAM (es is but natural) rejoice over this spectacle opened up to the view of all in those afflicted districts in the North, but he especially notices likewise the significant fact that in spite of the many and great inducements there are to crime by reason of this wide spread distress, there is actually observable there a very marked diminution in the number of commitments. By a readily comprehen sible transition, the noble and learned lord turns from the consideration of the number, more or less of our criminals, to an examination of the many schemes that have, of late years especially, been suggested, with an eye to their more judicious treat ment. He gives the palm, we observe, to the Irish system, and fairly flings down the gauntlet of open challenge at the feet of Sir JOSHUA JEBB, calling upon the latter to make good the claims of his own system (if he can) to perform. The WINDHAM Lunacy Commission, the ROBERTSON Court-martial, the arbitrary powers claimed of late by one or two of our Colonial Go vernors, the questionable capability of the Benchers to uphold as it requires to be upheld, that is, vigi lantly and promptly, the honour of the Bar of England, the different suggestions recently thrown out with a view to facilitate and simplify the trans fer of land—these and other themes are passed in swift but searching review before us as we follow the majestic course of this stream of grave thoughts, poured forth in language of sedate and impressive eloquence by the genius of Lord BROUGHAM. Re ferring, towards the close of his address, to the long and (of late, we all grieve to remember) the bitterly "vexed" question of Popular Education in this country, the noble and learned lord we are rejoiced (though in no way of course in the slightest degree surprised) to learn, expresses himself decidedly in favour of the Re vised Code. Our surprise could only have been in this matter had his opinion been otherwise. " De voted," says Lord BROUGHAM (now in his eighty fourth year) " to this great subject for upwards of half a century, having presided over the celebrated Education Committee in the one house, and brought forward various measures in both, and obtained from my colleagues in the Ministry of 1830 the first grant of public money, the origin of the rapidly increasing yearly grants, and of the Privy Council jurisdiction, I may be pardoned for feeling a peculiar interest in the expenditure of the sums given, and in the progress of the plan, and for shar ing largely in the astonishment felt by all reflecting men, real friends of education, at the attempts made to assert a vested interest in teachers or school inspectors, because they have been engaged and employed—a determination to insist upon payments by the State, but to exclude all effectual valuation of the instruction paid for. A check of boundless expenditure, and correction or prevention of systematic abuse, was the chief object of the revision applied to the code. This became the subject of violent controversy, and though some of the best portions of the plan remain, much that was highly important has been -abandoned." Commending no less emphatically the endeavours now being promoted by some of the most earnest among our practical philanthrophists to assist large classes of the gentler sex either to new employments or to judicious emigration, the noble and learned President closes his harangue by recommending the society to enter upon its labours this session promptly and energetically. And certainly the systematisation of these labours cannot but be appreciably promoted by the delivery of a discourse at the outset so philosophically com prehensive as the one last evening pronounced at the inaugural sitting by Lord BROUGHAM. Perhaps many of the readers of our paper, pub lished on the Derby Day, gave little attention to a parliamentary paper which we quoted on the con dition of the French navy. We pass lightly over the wooden ships—in these our superiority is incon testable. Lord CLARENCE PAGET told us in Feb ruary that we had 61 screw liners (four of them on the stocks), 53 frigates (nine of them on the stocks), and altogether a steam fleet of 680 vessels, of which 525 were actually afloat. And this against 319 French steamships afloat and 41 building. The liners being but 36, the frigates but 42. The in teresting question is what is the truth, OH official authority, respecting the iron navy of France. What about Lord PALMERSTON'S thirty-six iron plated ships ? We can only say, that if any of our readers will turn back to The Sun of Wednesday, and look over the items of the report they will certainly be in no panic. Whatever the number ordered, planned, and begun, the work is going on at a pace which cannot alarm the most timid. Only four iron plated ships are now ready for service, and the rest making such slow progress that had we occasion to put on the full power of our public and private yards, we might be prepared to run them all down as they came out of port. The two nearest completion are, of course, the Solferino and the Magenta. They are naval monu ments of land victories—the French not having many naval victories from which they could name thei r figure i n ships. As a large proportion of the me n who their naval conscriptions are but lands men, perhaps this is more appropriate in their case than it would large two be in ours, These two ships are deckers, the Solferino mounting 52 guns, which probabl y the Minister of Marine would now not unwillingly exchange for a battery of fewer and far more powerful guns, on C a pt. COWPER COLES' principle. We can f ee l no doubt that were Cap tain COLES' new vessel to come into conflict with the Solferino, she would serve her f ar worse t h an the Monitor did the Merrimac, prob a bl y s i n k h er, certainly send her into port ag a i n , The Solferino and the Magenta bad a great deal to be d ose to them in May, when Captain HORE visited them. B oth are much delayed by a spur for which ea c h i s wait ing—that of the Solferino is to wei g h 16 tons. It m ust be fixed before the upper plating is add e d . There is little appearance, even if the work be hastened, of these ships being ready before next year. When we look at the report on the character or state of the rest, they certainly can cause us no alarm. The French seem to act on the principle of beginning a great deal, but proceeding very slowly with it. Instead of all being life and activity in their dockyards, they have v v T.ykiiicleed enough cut A , THE SUN LONDON, FRID NY EVENING, JUNE "6, 1862. out to emp.loy thousands of men, but seem quite at ease loitering along with a few hundreds. Thus at Toulon there are four 36-gun ironsides com menced, and o n one of them of 300-horse power, " a fair numbs it of men are employed," and she is to be finished first ; but of three others we find such accounts ViS six, or five, twenty-fourths com pleted—or " frame up, but very few men working on it." So at Brest thxee are begun—but it is added " little doing." Of one line of battle ship we are told that she is in the same state in which she was 18 months ago. The larger proportion of the "ships," as Lord PALME/tSTON termed them, turn out to be but floating batteries intended for the defence of the months of the principal rivers, and not qualified to go to sea at all. Five are actually but small vessels " built in compartments and can be taken to pieces for the purpose of easy transmission." It is impossible to read this unquestionably im partial report, a report drawn up by gentlemen who certainly would not underrate what they saw, and not to learn a lesson or two from it. There is obviously not a trace of rivalry of England in all that is doing. The French Government is bat slowly, though with steady slowness, building what it does build, in accordance with the lessons taught by their iron batteries before Kinburn—a lesson our Admiralty had equally—though Sir JOHN PAKINGTON in his wasteful zeal to " recon struct" the navy, perversely did it with wood, leaving us the enormous cost rf reconstructing his reconstruction. Had Sir JOHN been but ordina rily susceptible of instruction by facts, we should, at perhaps half the cost, have been largely ahead of France in ironsides. We are now, indeed, the stronger, we might have been twice as strong as we are, had not our millions been flung away by the 'Tories on wood. Sir JOHN rubbed his eyes indeed at last, but it was when he had a spent a fivepenny income tax to little purposo. We think it also clear that we ought not to re peat Sir JOHN'S example of a wasteful panic haste. We have not yet, we may be quite certain, found out all we shall soon know of iron-plated ships and heavy ordnance. We can hardly doubt that the French slackness in building is not merely due to financial reasons. France wishes to profit by others' experience. Like her, let us be as careful to avoid building too fact, as building insufficiently. Let us have the smallest sufficient number of the best kind of iron-sides known, but let the PAKINGTON folly teach us a lasting lesson of the enormous cost of overbuilding while everything is in a transition state. There is one result to which we must come —we must have ships of war built, not of iron and wood, but of iron only. Hitherto two difficulties have stood in the way-Ist. The difficulty of making the piates so a part of the hull as to give strength to the vessel, though this is said to be obviated. 2dly, The fact that the experiments show a greater resisting power from wood and iron combined than from iron alone. Still, it is so certain, that a purely iron ship, accident apart, will last for ever, while the wood in combination with iron decays more quickly than even wood alone—that iron hulls must be had. Till our engineers and mechanics attain this, we ought not to build a single superfluous ship. No candid man will now pretend that the conduct of the French Government requires that we should be extravagantly hasty. We may as well add, that what we are actually doing in the way of constructing ironsides is ample. On the 24th of February Lord C. PAGET said that we had fifteen iron-plated ships built or building, eleven of them to be afloat this year ; that in 1863 we should have another afloat, and in 1864 three more. And these are not like the little warehoused gunboats, or river floating batteries of the greater part of the French ironsides, but powerful vessels, varying from upwards of 4,000 to upwards of 6,000 tons burden. Then there is Captain CoLEs' vessel ; and since the Merrimac and Monitor affair, orders have been given to convert into cupola ships several of our existing liners. We may surely feel secure enough against any eventualities for the next year or two. The Heralds' College will not thank Lord LLAN OVER any more than Mr. ROEBUCK for advertising the tricks of their trade. Open and recent as the decisions of judges have been on the subject of changing names, yet probably very few English men, beyond legal circles, had any idea that they were at liberty to take any surname they pleased, except by incurring the unknown cost of Heralds' fees, or of an Act of Parliament. That Lord LLAN OVER, a law-maker, too, and technically a member now of the highest court of appeal in the coantry, should not know the law of the case, may well excuse the ignorance of the rest of us. However, whatever worth the knowledge be of, after the amusing case which came before the House of Com mons last night, all Englishmen will know their privileges. They will be aware that amongst the other franchises enjoyed by the millions of this happy island home, even those who have not the electoral franchise, are free to elect a new surname. They can be represented in society by the aristo cratic name of HERBERT, instead of wearing out life under the not to be identified names of SMITH, or JONES, or ROBINSON. Nothing, on the autho rity of Lord Chief Justice TYNDAL, is requisite but that a man " should cause himself to be known by the name, and perform public acts under it,"--it is then the judge says his real name. It is so even for the purposes of receiving property by will, when the testator has required the legatee to take any name he mentions. In the case of DAVIS V. SELBY LOWNDES, the judge observed that " there was no necessity whatever to apply for the license of the SOVEREIGN, which, though a graceful deference, and a facile announcement of the act, was no way enjoined by law. Mr. LOWNDES had taken the name' of SELBY, which was all the testator had required him to do and he had 'taken' it just as legally by assuming it and performing his public duties under it, as if he had obtained the royal license to do so." Now it is very natural that those who have adopted the more costly means of giving publicity to their aristocratic alias, should resent another's intrusion on the same alias without payment of aristocratic fees, being content with advertisements in local papers, and with circulars to friends. It is also natural that the recent acquirers of such an aristocratic name as HERBERT should take alarm at an invasion of that surname by the JONESES. One JONES did it; but that JONES had married the daughter of Lord LLANOVER ; and Mr. JONES of Llanarth became Mr. HERBERT of Llanarth. but when Mr. JONES of Clytha, without going either to Parliament or to the QUEEN, set the example of sty ling himself a HERBERT by the cheap and easy process of advertisement, we do Lot wonder that the Peer of the realm took the alarm for his daughter's style and title. It seemed, as Mr. HENLEY would say, as if there was to be an " ugly rush" of JONESES into the Herbertcy ; and Heaven defend the identity of the HERBERTS of Llanarth if all the JONESES followed the ex ample of th e J ONES of Clytha. We can h ar dl y wonder th a t L ord LLANOVER wished to main tain the f ences and palisades of royal licenses around the HERBE RTS already within, and to tolerate no outlying HERBERTs. Lord LI!,A,NOYER'S f r i ends;made as good a defence as might be for the displeased peer, yet most readers will think that he laboured under two disadvan tages—one, ignorance of the law of the case, for had he known this he would hardly have refused the application of Mr. JONES for an introduction at court, to a seat on the bench, and to rank in the militia. The other disadvantage of temper, probably, was the cause of the ignorance, for had he not grudged the extension of the name of HERBERT he would doubtless have asked his solicitor's advice, who would have told him at once that he had better not begin a contest over the busi ness. Well,—out of even Lords' mistakes good may arise. 'Tis something to know that we may call ourselves what we please, and that our act is as potent we had supposed Royal letters patent, alone, to have been. We should not be surprised if we had quite a rush, after this, from the lists of SMITHS and BROWNS, and from the not unfrequently almost intolerable names which some, through no fault of their own, inherit, to the region of euphonious sounds, and not unpleasant meanings, and even into that of aristocratic descent. Lord LLANOTER may have unwittingly inaugurated a measure of Nomi nal Reform. THE AMERICAN CRISIS. LATESi NEWS. ARRIVAL OF THE PRINCE OF WALES AT MALTA. MALTA, JUNE 6, The Royal yacht Osborne arrived here at seven 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. TURIN, JUNE 6. In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies yester day Signor Inghetti (Minghetti ?) approved the declaration of the Ministry. He considered that if the Government was strong and the country well organised Italy might speak loudly, and Europe would listen. Signori Lineo, Bertani, and Massari supported the motion for an inquiry into late events, and denied that the country placed confidence in the Ministry, ROME, JUNE 3. The French troops have seized two waggons laden with arms, near Albano, which were being escorted by Pontifical gendarmes. CASSEL, JUNE 6. The Kasseler Zeitung of to-day says :—" The Elector, taking into serious consideration the recon struction of the Ministry, has ordered Major-Gen. Lossburg to form a new Cabinet. The Municipal Council of Cassel has unani mously Toted M. Oetker the freedom of the city.: MADRID, JUNE 5. Eighteen ships are assembled at Alicante, it is believed for a political purpose. A telegram from Portugal states that troops have been sent to repress the disturbances in the villages of the North. LISBON, JUNE 4. Yesterday about 600 persons from the villages of Mouzon and Villaduras revolted, and raised cries of "Long live the King!" "May religion prosper !" "Down with the taxes !" TURIN, JUNE 5. The formation of six new brigades of infantry has been resolved upon. Austria continues to despatch troops from the Tyrol into Venetia. The report that the Austrian army was being reduced is unfounded. Some furloughs only have been granted. A great military force has been concentrated in Venetia. Many students have been expelled from the University of Padua. News has been received here from Naples that the Canon of the Cathedral of Naples has been condemned to lose his prebendary for showing dis respect towards King Victor Emmanuel. THE HERZEGOVINA. SCUTARI, JUNE 3. A certain number of Montenegrins had assembled in the village of Musterovici in the Montenegrin district of Kalunska, to the west of the Turkish camp. On Sunday, the Ist inst., Abdi Pasha ordered General of Brigade Osman Pasha to drive them from this position with six battalions, four field-pieces, and Irregulars, under the command of Djellal Bey. Osman Pasha attacked energetically, but the Montenegrins, setting fire to the village, fled in disorder. At the same time Abdi Pasha, from his position at Bielapavlovich, observed the approach of 8,000 to 10,000 Montenegrins, commanded by the Prince and his father in person, who hastily marched against Osman Pasha. He immediately despatched in that direction two other battalions, two guns, and irre gular troops, following himself with one battalion, one gun, and some Bashi-Bazouks. Before the arrival of the Montenegrins Abdi Pasha was able to occupy the heights behind the village of Yenikoi, near Osman Pasha's right, where, some days previously, a Montenegrin tower had been razed. The Turks had scarcely taken up this position when the Montenegrins vigorously attacked in two divisions, approaching within 150 paces, and sustaining the murderous fire of the Ottoman in fantry. The attacks were renewed with fury on both sides, but, although the Montenegrins succeeded for an instant in repelling a portion of Turkish irre gulars, they were unable to resist the onset of the infantry of the Ottoman line, and were forced to beat a retreat, which soon changed into disorderly flight to the highest mountains, pursued by . the Turkish troops. The panic of the Montenegrins was so great that they omitted their usual custom of an occasional halt to fight while upon their retreat. The Montenegrins' loss is stated at from 500 to 60u killed, 230 of whom could not be carried away. The Turks had 3 regulars killed and 48 wounded; while of the irregula►s 23 were killed and 65 hurt. A great quantity of muskets and ammunition and three saddle horses fell into the hands of the Turks. FRANCE. The Petrie of this evening says ".The report that Corbeba and Vera Cruz have risen in insurrection is unfounded. Despatches of the 14th ult. state that the inhabitants of Mexico are becoming every day more favourable to the intervention of France. The forfeiture of political power by Juarez has been everywhere proclaimed." BOURSE, June s.—The English funds have again arrived with a decline of per cent. That fact has caused a degree of heaviness in this market, and closing rates of yesterday have been with difficulty maintained. For the Account, Threes are now at 70f 40e. Railway Share Market quiet, and with little variation in quotations: The market closes as follows:- 41 per per Cents 97 30 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 35 New 3 per Cents Do, end month 69 55 Credit Mobilier 825 Do. end month 832 50 RAILWAYS. Bank Shares 3125 Credit 1. oncier 1620 Belgian 4t — Piedmontesc Fives 72 Italian Loan 7l 95 Austrian Spanish Threes 52 50 Home Debt Cash. Account. Orleans 1295 1300 Northern New ditto • • Lyons and Mediterranean 1103 75 .. 1112 50 Geneva.. Southern .. Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lon•bard ...... 851 25 855 -- 553 75 .. 551 25 562 50 .. 562 50 618 75 .. 518 75 613 75 .. 613 75 GREECE. --- There is a Ministerial crisis at Athens. All the members of the Miaoulis Ministry have tendered their resignation. The King is undecided. He hesitates to form a Ministry out of the Opposition, and he cannot find any man of mark to take upon himself the responsibility of Government. The Egyptian yacht Faid Gahaad, moored at the Royal Arsenal-pier, Woolwich, is undergoing some altera tions in her machinery at the hands of the artisans of the Royal gun factory, special permission having been accorded for that purpose° by the Secretary of State for 'War. A number of surface condensers and improved steam pipes were yesterday taken on board. The Pasha yesterday sent information to the authorities of the Arsenal that he should most probably inspect the department this afternoon, ac cording to the intention expressed by the Hon. Mr. Murray on his arrival. A guard of police is stationed at the en trance of the pier, with strict orders to prevent any person whatever approaching the platform, or interfering with his Highness's privacy, for which purpose a curtain has been hung along the whole length of the bulwarks facing 41 ° pier, TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,-A few words on the American crisis may not be amiss, and perhaps with all his sagacity John Bull may overlook the present opinions on the Continent with refer ence to the policy of Great Britain respecting the almost end less struggle in tho United States, Hitherto there has ever existed a certain sympathy be tween England and America, but (to use a metaphor) when two great boys are engaged in a long and equally contested fight, it becomes expedient for some bigger boy to interfere ; and this is the more generous policy, rather than to see two great nations pull and hack each other to pieces. Having just returned from the Continent, I could not fail to remark that it is the opinion of a great many Prus sians and Germans that the rclicy of non-interference and cold neutrality in all foreign dilemmas, may lead to dan gerous eonseguenees in dangerous times, and some authur with truth observes— "The world forgetting is the world forgot." It is the usual remark that war stops trade and wastes money, and that if France and England were only united on the part of the South, war would soon be terminated, and our American brother Jonathan would in reality be indebted to his maternal and fraternal relation John Bull, —and no one with one grain of sense can overlook the be nefits of an amicable relationship with the United (or rather disunited) States of America, should Political clouds at any future period darken the political horizon of Europe, when it becomes expedient to look at our future possibilities or probabilities from more than one point of view.—Yours obediently, AN OBSERVER. MEXICO. The following is the document by which the city of Vera Cruz formally revolted against the Govern ment of Juarez, and proclaimed Almonte Presi- dent: -- " The chiefs, officers, and citizens who subscribe this do cument, having assembled in the Municipal Palace of the honourable city of Vera Cruz, on the 3d of May, 1862, Colonel Don Jose Sanchez Facio stated that, considet ing the afflicted condition of the nation, it has become indis pensably necessary to reject the present form of government, together with the authorities established under it, because, both being the effect of a licentious demagoguism, the Re public has not had a single day of tranquility since the de claration of the Constitution of 1857, and that the violent condition of the country, both past and present, demands an efficacious remedy to put an end to the destructive civil war which has soaked the soil of Mexico with blood, cans• ing the loss of thousands of lives, and the almost complete ruin of the country ; that the errors, mismanagement, and crimes of all kinds of the so-called Constitutional Govern ment have reached their culmination in the inconsiderate conduct it has observed in its foreign relations, even going so far as to compromise Mexico, in an unequal and silly strife with the groat Powers of Europe ; for all which reasons it is most requisite that we shonld disown the present order of things and nominate a Dictator of the nation and of the Mexican forces now in arms, in order that he, being obeyed by them, may come to an un derstanding with the leaders of the European expedi tion, and at the same time promote the establishment of a Government that shall offer guarantees for the lives and property of Mexicans, and the foreigners of all nations now resident in the territory of the republic. Therefore, in ac cordance with the plan already proclaimed in the interior of the country, the Colonel submitted for the examination of the meeting the following articles : " 4 1. The authority of the actual President of the Re public is disowned. " 2. General Don Juan N. Almonte is recognised as the Dictator of the Republic and the supreme leader of the forces that shall adhere to this plan. " ' 3. The said general is fully empowered to enter into an understanding with the chief of the allied forces that are now on the territory of the republic; also, to convoke a National Assembly, which, taking into consideration the deplorable condition of the country, shall declare that form of government that may be decided upon as most conve nient to establish, in order to destroy anarchy at the root, and secure to the Mexicans that peace that they have so long desired, to the end that they may repair the numerous losses that they have suffered during the civil war that has for so many years distressed the whole republic.' " 4. This resolution shall be communicated to his Excel lency General Juan N. Almonte, and at the same time he shall be informed of the entire confidence entertained by this garrison and neighbourhood that on this solemn occa sion he will not deny his services to the country, which now, mere than ever, urgently needs them. " And all the gentlemen present, after due consideration, having accepted the above plan, they signed the document on the day mentioned in the following order."—(Signed by 150 persons.) Several of the influential names that appear in the act declaring the city of Cordova for Almonte are protested against by their owners, they saying they were falsely placed there, and without their sanction. Zaragoza has defeated Marquez, and this seems to be a decisive defeat, although Marquez got away. He has been deposed, and Cobos placed in his stead. Almon te has addressed the following proclamation to the citizens of Puebla : " Poblanos,—From the city of Cordova I had the honour of addressing all my countrymen, in order to explain to them the character in which the French army treads our soil, the motives which, under these circumstances, induced me to present myself among you, and the final object of my patrio tic intentions. But, now that I find myself among you, it is very pleasant to me to address you more particularly, if not to repeat what I have already said to you beforehand, at least to congratulate you that, under the shadow of a friendly flag, you are once more in possession of your liber ties, and can, without fear of fresh persecutions or vicissi tudes, enjoy Sour property and social rights, and manifest your will in order to contribute to the establishment of a moral, respectable, and durable Government. " This is a necessity, countrymen, which makes itself felt less by words than by the dark and disgraceful picture everywhere presented by the nation, in all parts of which the most violent and shameful passions have rule, leaving rivets of blood, and mountains of ruin, desolation, and scandal in their train. It is requisite that the evil should cease; this, however, cannot be accomplished, unless a Government is raised up superior to all the passions, to all the mean interests, and all the bastard professions of par tisans, and that has before its eyes only the common good and the glories of the nation. But you know that this great enterprise cannot be the work of a single individual, unless he can rely upon the active and effectual co-operation of all enlightened men, and of all who have moral and mate rial interests to defend in society. To remain cool specta tors in so solemn a crisis as the present would be a crime repugnant, not only to patriotism, but even to private in terests, as it is intended to seek protection and guarantees for all persons and fortunes. " Poblanos,—lt would be a grave insult to pretend to urgo you to lend your co-operation to the national cause, when you hare already given so many exalted proofs of your valour, your patriotism, and the noble and enlightened principles that animate you. I glory that you rally to the call that I make to you in the name of the country, and that you hasten to tender the sacrifices that may yet be de manded before society can rest on those bases which wril insure a durable peace, destroying for ever both anarchy and the evils that accompany it. " These only are the wishes of your fellow-patriot, " JUAN N. ALMONTE. " Puebla, May, 1862." THE MAN INJURED IN THE ATTACK ON MR. MELLOR.---A corresrondent has called our attention to the case of John Hooley, the cellarman in the employ of Mr. Letherbrow, of St. James's Chambers, South King-street, who was wounded in the arm and knee by the pistol shot fired by the assassin Taylor in his attack upon Mr. Aleller. The wounded man is still at the Royal Infirmary, where he is progressing favourably ; but in the meantime his family are deprived of his earnings and support. He has a wife and one child, and Mrs. Hooley is expecting har second confinement daily. Mr. Letherbrow has liberally assisted her; and he will be glad to take charge of any donations that any kindly disposed persons may be inclined to make for the relief of her necessities. THE PRINCE OF WALES. Constantinople letters and journals to May 28 have reached us, but their contents, with the ex ception of what relates to the proceedings of the Prince of Wales, are not of much interest. The following is a summary of the principal incidents connected with his Royal Highness's stay from his arrival, on May 20, down to his departure on the 27th : " On the evening of the 20th, the dinner party at the British Palace was confined to the Royal suite and the staff of the Embassy. On 21st his Royal Highness visited Admiral Mustapha Pasha on board the steam frigate Taif, which had escorted the Osborne from the Dardanelles. Later in the day he visited the Capitan Pasha at the Arsenal, over which he was conducted by his Highness, and inspected the workshops and the new frigates and line-of-battle ship on the stocks. In the evening, a small but distinguished company, including their Highnesses the Grand Vizier and Capitan Pasha, the Marquis de Moustier, Baron Prockesh Oesten, Lord Hobart, Sir Adolphus Slade, K.C.8., and a few other high officials,were honoured with invitations to meet his Royal Highness at dinner. On the morning of the 22d, he visited the Bazaars in strict incog., accompa nied only by the Prince of Leiningen, Mr. Mowat, first attache, and one aide-de-camp ; and in the afternoon proceeded, in nearly similar privacy, through Galata across to the Old Seraglio, over which and its adjoining kiosks he was conducted by Mustapha Pasha , the mehmindah, attached to his Royal Highness by the Sultan. Thence the Royal party proceeded to the Treasury, the Mint, the Armoury, the mosques of St. Sophia, Sultan Ach met, Sultan Bayazid, and the Suleymanie, return ing to Pera by the old bridge and the Petit Champs des Morts. The 23d being the gala day of the week at the Sweet Waters of Europe, his Royal Highness honoured the Capitan Pasha by accept ing an invitation to luncheon at the kiosk of his High ness in the poet-sung Valley. From the windows of this elegant little lodge he had a near and full view of lively, Mtuiptougued, Laud crowd of Turks, Greeks, Armenians, Persians, Cir cassians, and Franks of every nation of Europe, who make up the Friday monde of the Sweet Waters—afloat in caiques, stretched in pleasant kief on the grassy and shaded banks of the stream, or moving about afoot, on horseback, or in quaint and gaudily-decked arabas between hill-side and river— wild barbaric music gipsy songs blending with the noisy murmur of the whole. The dinner party at the Embassy in the evening included Kiamil Pasha, Mehemet Djemil Pasha, the new ambassador to Paris, Hadji Mirza Khan, Hussein the Persian Mi nister, Count Dudzeele, the American Minister and Mrs. Morris, Lord and Lady Hobart, aria General Chesney. On the 24th the Sultan paid his Royal Highness one of the most graceful of the many compliments received by him during his visit. About 9 a.m. the Prince and those of his suite who were to attend him during the day's excursion, were leaving the Embassy palace-gate, when his Highness the Capitan Pasha met him with a mes sage of congratulation on the day—the Queen's birth-day—and an intimation that, in honour of the day and of his Royal Highness' presence during it in Constantinople, his Majesty had ordered the release of all British (Maltese and lonian) subjects confined in the police and debtors' prisons of Stam boul, for slight offences or small debts—his Majesty granting a free pardon in the one case, and in the other paying the amounts due out of his privy purse. After acknowledging this act of Imperial courtesy, his Royal Highness proceeded on board the Osborne and steamed up into the Black Sea, some half a dozen of miles past the Blue Symphlegades—far enough to have a full view of the coast on either side of the entrance to the strait. The yacht then turned and landed the Royal party at Kanlidja, where the Prince breakfasted with Fuad Pasha. This over, his Royal Highness and party crossed to Buyukdere, and taking horse there proceeded at en almost unbroken gallop to the forest of Bel grade. An hour sufficed to glance at the historic tree which sheltered Godfrey of Bouillon, and the hardly less historic cottage that lodged Lady Mary Montagu. Then to horse again, and bridle hardly drawn over the eighteen miles of intervening road, till Prince and party alighted at the palace gate about 6 p.m. In the evening, the invitation to meet his Royal Highness at dinner included Mumtaz Effendi, the Minister of Finance, the first secretary of the Sultan, the Italian, Spanish, and Hellenic charges d'affaires, M. Rothan, the first secretary of the French embassy, and Count Ludolf. On the 25th (Sunday) his Royal Highness attended divine service in the Embassy chapel, when the Rev. C. B. Cribble preached to a very full congregation. In the afternoon, the Prince crossed to Scutari, and, under the guidance of Major Gordon, R.E., visited the British Cemetery and the neighbouring Turkish barracks and hospital, occupied by our troops during the Russian war. Early in the day his Highness Ali Pasha has been the bearer from the Sultan to his Royal Highness of the first class of the Osmanie in brilliants. And a propos of this, we may mention that amongst the jewels which stud the decoration thus presented—the first of the new Order con ferred on any foreign sovereign or prince--is one of extraordinary size and purity of water, which was formerly worn in a ring by Solyman the Magnifi cent. On Monday, his Royal Highness was the guest of the Sultan at a magnifient luncheon given at the imperial kiosk at the Sweet Waters of Asia. This entertainment was all the more special a mark of his Majesty's desire to do exceptional honour to his illustrious guest from the fact of its being wholly without precedent in the annals of Ottoman court ceremony. Both the Grand Duke Constantine and the Duke of Brabant breakfasted, en particulier, with the late Sultan on the occasion of their visits to Constantinople ; but his present Majesty resolved to pay a much more remarkable eompliment to the British heir-apparent, and for this purpose invited his Royal Highness to a quasi-public defeuner, at which for the first time in Turkish history his Majesty's chief ministers and other distinguished personages were to sit at table with the Padischah. This novel act of hospitality—which is significant of more than a mere expression of his Majesty's extreme cordiality towards the royal traveller —took place about half-past one p.m., in the dining mile of the exquisite little building whose exterior, at least, is so well known to local residents, and whose whole interior is a chef-d'o3uvre of the riehest orna mentation. His majesty the Sultan occupied the end of the table—an oval one—and on his right sat the Prince. Next to his Royal Highness sat Sir Henry Bulwer, and, below his excellency, A'ali Pasha, Prince Leiningen, and Kiamil Pasha in the order named. On the left of the Sultan sat their Highnesses Fuad Pasha, the Capitan Pasha, and the Seraskier. The chef de cuisine for the occasion was Mr. Petala, of the Hotel d'Angleterre at Therapia, whose staff of waiters served outside the dining room; inside, the service was performed by Palace servants in the new Imperial livery—blue with white facings. During the hour and a half for which the luncheon lasted, his Majesty's private band played at intervals a choice selection of operatic airs, and at its close God Save the Queen.' The usual finale of coffeeand pipes wound up the entertainment, and, as a memento of the event, his Majesty imme diately afterwards asked his Royal Highness's acceptance of the magnificent narghileh which he (the Prince) had smoked on the occasion. This very beautiful apparatus, which was gorgeously chased and thickly diamond-studded —its estimated value being nearly £3,ooo—was shortly afterwards sent on board the Osborne in charge of Arifi Bey, th e first dragoman of the Divan, and was accompani e d in another box by a splendid suit of the new Zouave uniform, the gift of his Majesty to Prince Alfred. In the afternoon his Royal Highness received at Embassy palace their Highnesses Murad Effendi— the heir-apparent—Hamid Effendi, Reshad Effendi, and Kemal-Eddeen Effendi, the neph ews of his Majesty and sons of the late Sultan. On the 27th, which brought this round of visits, to a close, his itsiguhat-lseHe i i n g g h s i; e s andr receive v e r e t d a i n t h m e e nt Grand s Vizier A'ali Pasha, and the Capitan Pasha at the Embassy, where their highnesses delivered the Sultan's mes sage of valedictory compliment, and afterwards joined the P! ; Lce at lunch, couple of hours later, the Magicienne got under way, as avant-courier to the royal yacht,- and saluted the - Turkish flag - a 8 she proceeded out into the Marmora. At half-past 6 p.m: the Prince embarked from the palace stairs, and the Osborne shortly after headed south, under_ a royal salute from the Fetie,which, as also the ad joining corvette, dressed and manned yards as the yacht steamed past. His Royal Highness will halt . at Myteline to visit Troy, after which he will pro ceed - without further stoppage to Athens; and , thence, after a look-in at Malta, to Marseilles and Paris." THE NA VI. By direction of the Admiralty, arrangements are to be made at Chatham Dockyard for the reception of the members and friends of the National Asso ciation for the Promotion of Social Science who are desirous of visiting that establishment for the pur pose of inspecting the iron ships building and in progress. Every facility is to be afforded the mem-. bers of the Association on the occasion of their visit to the dockyard. Mr. Isaac Watts, chief constructor of the navy, paid a visit to Chatham Dockyard yesterday, and spent some time in the inspection of the iron frigate Achilles, and the armour-plated frigate Royal Oak, both of which are being pressed forward in their construction, in order that they may be completed as early as possible. Mr. Watts also inspected some of the armour-plates recently delivered at the dockyard which have been rejected by the officials in consequence of their not coming up to the stan dard of excellence prescribed by the Admiralty. Admiralty orders have been received at Chatham for spare vent pieces to be in future supplied to all Armstrong guns on board the various ships, in the proportion of three each to the 1 00 - pounders, 70- pounders, and 40-pounders, and two each to all Armstrong guns of a smaller size. The paddlewheel steam sloop Vesuvius, 6, from Portsmouth, which arrived at Plymouth on Wed nesday, was placed yesterday of Keyham steamyard to have defects made Erma_ The paddlewheel steam storeship Ithadamanthus, with gettr, from Woolwich, which arrived at Plymouth on Wednesday, was hauled yesterday into the basin at Keyham yard. The repairs of the screw steamship Warrior, 40, Captain the Hon. A. A. Cochrane, at Plymouth, having been completed, she will proceed from Ha moaze to-day into the Sound. Steam was got up yesterday on board the frigate Galatea, Capt. Maguire, and she proceeded from Hamoaze outside Plymouth breaker, for the purpose of testing her engines ; after which she returned to the Sound. The following vessels have been chartered by the Government for the conveyance of military and other stores to the stations named :—The Kirk ham, 1,061 tons, for Calcutta ; the Queen of Eng land, 876 tons, for Bombay; the John Scott, 655 tons, for Madras ; the John Romilly, 216 tons, for St. Helena ; and the Polly, 388 tons, for the Cape of Good Hope. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Lieuts. F. B. Herbert and S. L. F. Paul, to the Sanspareil when recommissioned; Lieut. H. Dunlop, additional, to the Euryalus ; A. St. J. Leacock, naval cadet, to the Trafalgar; John Coogan, surgeon, to the Cormorant ; J. R. Anderson, assist.-surg., to the Dauntless; T. Jeans, first-class assist.-engineer, to the Rifleman ; J. Rice, first-class assist.-engineer, to the Asia, for the Swinger ; J. H. Manley, assist. -paymaster, is changed to the Philo tuel ; J. T. Price, clerk, to the Edinburgh; and F. M. Sims, clerk, supernUmerary, to the Fisgard. The following gentlemen have been nominated naval cadets B. Turner, C. Lewis, and L. E. Winty. The following appointments have been made in the Royal Naval Reserve :—To be Lieuts., Charles Gill Chivers and ItobertW.Ker. To be Sub.-Lieut., M'Gowan Donan. THE ARMY. Instructions have been received at Woolwich by order of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge, Commander-in-Chief, to hold in readiness for early embarkation to India a number of gunners and drivers of the Royal Artillery, amounting in detail to 2,751 of all ranks, to be sent out in small detachments, in vessels to be taken up specially for the service. A detachment belonging to the depot brigade, consisting of 200 non - commissioned officers and gunners in command of Captain Hill, 15th brigade, yesterday returned to hsadquarters,Wool wich. They had completed the required gunnery instructions at Shoeburyness, and were plaeed on the roster for India, and ordered to be supplied with the necessary equipment and kit. Other de tachments from Woolwich and Sheerness, now at Shoeburyness, are undergoing a similar course of instruction. LITERATURE. Astronomy in a Nutshell. By Lieut. Morrison, R.N. Second Edition, pp. 32. The appearance of the Second Edition of this remarkable little scientific brochure within so brief an interval since the date of its original publication, shows that it has "gone off" —as quickly, one might almost say, as by a sort of literary detonation! It has quite evidently told—this daring incursion into the realm of the Newtonian Astronomers, by the author of " The Solar System as it is, and not as it is Represented." Mr. Morrison has here given within the brief compass of these few pages what he defines by a second title, as " The Leading Problems of the Solar Sys tem solved by Simple Proportion only, on the Theory of Magnetic Attraction." The undertaking adventured upon by the author is as audacious in the magnitude of its design as it is succinct and lucid in the manner of its exposition. His argu ment at the very,outset is that " The day is at hand when astronomy will be as generally understood as it is easily comprehended ; and then the world will laugh to scorn, as I do, the fallacious nonsense, which has made of the beautiful simplicity of the handywork of the Greet Creator, a maze, a mystery, and a matter, forsooth, for the highest ' intellect' only to be able to penetrate I Whereas, God has given to nearly every man sufficient natural talent to understand most of the works of His hands, though none living may hope to penetrate the great mystery of His Being." To this end Lieut. Morri son has written this popular litttle treatise, entitled Astronomy in a Nutshell—to this end he wrote the more elaborate work setting forth his novel and startling explanation of the " Solar System As It Is"—a work at once dubbed by the dithencrum, " the NEW PRINCIFIA !" And assuredly no one can take up and thinkingly examine either the book or the pamphlet in which Lieut. Morris9n's ideas are set forth in very clear and comprehensible language, twoitshayoutthreecleoagsntisoint it, recognising that ingenious, th at i t is cer tainly the theory he adv ances is, very remarkable. BEAUTIFUL SUN. warm beams near and afar, B eau tiful Sun I shining brightly on high, gleam of th e l ast twinkling star, Sm ili ng above in the pale East ern sky, When the first rays of morning o'ershadows the skies, All radiant in beauty thou'lt proudly arise, Thus we see th ee at dawning thy race has begun, Beautiful, radi an t , glorious Sun, Beautiful Sun, gl or i ous Sun, Checking,l7.Sheddinge We see thee at dawning thy race has begun, Beautiful, radiant, glorious Sun ! Beautiful Sun ! at th e noontide hour, Cheering thy w arm glance, boundless thy power, Sweet is thy presence o'er valley and hill, Reflecting thy charms in the stream and the rill; When the sky is unclouded mid glorious blue, How genial thy smile, how warm and how true, Or when dark clouds may veil thy race thou'lt still run, Shedding glory around thee, beautiful Sun, Beautiful Sun, glorious Sun, When dark clouds may veil thy race thou'lt still run, Shedding glory around thee, beautiful Sun I Beautiful Sun I when far in the West, We see thee sink down as a traveller to rest, Gilding the clouds with thy fast fading beam, Smiling around as a radiant dream, Inviting our thoughts to bright realms above, Revealing the hand of Omnipotent Love, So sweetly thou sink'st when thy day's race is run, All radiant in glory, beautiful Sun. Beautiful Sun, glorious Sun, Sweetly thou sink'st when thy day's race is run, All radiant in glory, bescatiful Sun! Canterbury, CLARA LOVA , .).; 1 I E r '`