The Sun. — London, England, 1859-08-20 00:00:00

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, THE WIFE'S SECRET. Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with A MIDSUMMER NIGIH'S DREAM. Commence at 7. THEATRE -ROYAL , HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, EALLOWE'EN. THE CONTESTED ELECTION. After which, OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND. To conclude with A NABOB FOR AN HOUR. Commence at 7. XTRW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI. 11 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENLNG, the performances will commence with THE WRECK ASHORE : Messrs. Billington, P. Bedford, Stuart,W. Smith, Eburne, MissWoolgar, and Mrs. Billington. After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT. Marie, Miss Rebecca Isaacs ; assisted by Messrs. P. Bedford, Garden, Moreland, Mrs. Chatterley. Followed by the new burlesque, THE BABES IN THE WOOD. Messrs. C. Marshall, Paul Bedford, C. J. Smith, Elourne ; Miss Woolgar and Miss K. Kelly. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. Woos open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box (Jake open from 10 to 5 —no charge for booking. No fees to servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING, THE MAID WITH THE MILKING PAIL, After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses Elwanborough. Oliver, and Lavine. Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE LADY OF LYONS. Commence-at 7 o'clock: "VERDI'S OPERA OF MACBETH. The whole of the first Act of this Opera, now produced for the first time in this country (the remaining three acts being in course of rehearsal), is sung nightly at the CAN TERBITRY HALL CONCERTS. THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY , - - Jules, Consistin of three Juvenile V, viz., and Juliag Delepierre, aged, respectivel iolinists y, FOUR, , SlX, Juliette and EIGHT years. The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios ever written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France and Belgium. They will perform TWICE EACH EVENING, in addi tion to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 20. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 77—highest since noon yesterday. 61—lowest this morning and during the night. 75—this day at noon. BARomrrint-30.22. WIND, Northerly, if any; light, with fine weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, sh. 31m.—Afternoont sh. 48m, To-Moßßow-Morning, 6h. Bm.—Afternoon, 6h. 30m, a- , ...,.., . • • r ~,T.0.0 r • Mg, -- I ' - .. -.. 'fit) , q S ‘ -- ei 'l r, ' s : : 1 ,- - lt , ' D RO IT 4 11 . THE SUN. SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1859. The Conferences at Zurich seem to be at a dead lock ; for Austria, true to her avaricious policy, wants to saddle Sardinia with nearly all the debts incurred by her forced loans on the Italian Pro vinces, or Duchies. In fact, nothing will satisfy Austria but having her own way ; and that the Emperor NAPOLEON insists she shall not have. The end of these mock Conferences, for we cannot call them any other, will be a total failure, or we shall be much mistaken. It is not in the nature of things that a State made up of the most dis cordant nationalities, gathered together by intrigue, violence, and all sorts of villainous jobbery, should relax its hold upon any one of its victims without a very stern pressure of persuasion. Meantime the EMPEROR of the FRENCH is play ing a part of magnanimous character so unlike Austrian policy that he must now support his own views—keep faith with the Italians, and he need not care one rush for all the grand but feeble fuss of Austria. It was but yesterday that the Marquis FON TANELLI proposed in the National Assembly of Modena a resolution declaring the forfeiture of the Austrian dynasty d'Este to the Duchy, and the banishment from the State for ever of every Prince of the House of Hapsburg-Lorraine. The Assembly unanimously resolved to take the ques tion into consideration, and the proposal of the Marqnis FONTANELLI was received with three rounds of applause. Again, the same spirit displays itself in other parts of Italy, and in the National Assembly at Florence the motion under consideration was for annexing Tuscany to Piedmont, as follows :—" The Assembly declares that it is the firm desire of Tus cany to form part of a strong Italian kingdom, under the constitutional sceptre of VICTOR IMMA NUEL II." This motion was unanimously seconded, the movers being Prince STROZZI, Marquis MANzI, Counts DELLA GIIERARDESCA, FRANCHESCHI, PIC COLOMINI, and BORGIIESI, and M. ADAMI. Such being the state of furor, among not only the peoples, but their august Representatives, what hope has Austria for recovering her stolen, but happily, lost property in the life, liberty, and labour of the oppressed Italians ? We hope the Emperor NAPOLEON will be firm in his purpose, and England will support him in his determination to let the Italians have fair play, by being left to themselves. While we are just writing a telegram has ar rived, announcing that this very day the several States of Italy have agreed to enter into a league offensive and defensive for insuring the indepen dence of their own dear native land. The question which apparently must be settled next session is now fairly again before the people ; and Rochdale has had the honour of opening the inter-sessional discussions. War, we may hope, there will be none to divert attention. The late Government was ejected because their Reform Bill did not satisfy the country ; the present Govern ment is avowedly a Reform Government—Reform has now been for more than ten years a promised Government business. Whigs and Tories have both tried their hands at it, and neither have given satisfaction ; and the matter has been so amply discussed, that every phase of the subject has been looked at. It seem s , therefore, inevitable that the PALMERSTON Cabinet should boldly grapple with it. Whether it be by an autumn session, which is the right course—too right, we fear, to be attempted— or by its becoming the AARON'S rod to swallow up all the regular Parliamentary business of 1860 —late this aut umn or early n ext spring —we must deal with Reform. It was, therefore, naturally enough the chief subject of the speeches of Messrs. Co B l3 and BRIGHT at Rochdale. The second evening, espe to the non-electors and cially, was devoted to the coming Reform Bill, in which, it is t o be presumed, they are chiefly interested. It ought in all reason to be so. They are the party on whom it is proposed to confer that great bless ing, a thousandth or a ten-thousandth part in a member of Parliament. Mr. COBDEN, however, tells the non-electors, with his wonted honesty, that he does not think they care very much about the privilege which the chiefs of parties seem so desirous to bestow upon them. Mr. BRIGHT re ferred, indeed, to the hundred meetings which con demned the disfranchising clauses of Lord DERBY'S Bill; but Mr. COBDEN had referred to the small extent to which the eloquent addresses and agita tion of-Mr. BRIGHT, last autumn, were followed up, in places to which he did not go. There were, however, several reasons for this ; Mr. BRIGHT'S Bill was supposed not to be meant as a practical one. It was regarded as an attempt to show what would be considered a moderate demand by a man of the people. Then a measure was looked for from the Tories, and there was an indisposition to act till it was seen in what course action ought to flow. Then, when the bill was before us, it had so much good mingled with the objectionable, that a large section of Reformers were disposed to take the good, and to endeavour to get rid of the bad. Thus there has been reason for the apparent want of enthusiasm which Mr. COBDEN notices. After all, however, the improved condition of the great mass of our working classes has diminished their interest in political questions. They can earn good wages without help from the Legislature they have seen that the disposition of the upper classes has rather been to legislate for them than even for their masters, and they think they could gain little by a vote. This very fact, however, if it be the fact, should be the strongest argument with the timid classes. It would be most unwise to wait till some convulsion at home or abroad brought the great mass of the now better educated, and therefore more powerful working men, to knock clamorously at the door of the constitution for ad mission. By all means let us open it and ask them to walk in, and not take no notice of them till they burst it open, and stare us in the face in a temper not too amiable. In the corn-law controversy, Mr. COBDEN'S forte was convincing antagonists. Mr. BRIGHT, as now, was the orator to rouse, by his impassioned appeals, his own party to an irresistible onset on their anta gonists. Mr. COBDEN was the man to carry the flag of truce, and to say to them " You will gain by surrender." With a certain dogmatism of style, he invites a real confidence in his cause, and a good nature equal to that of the late Lord ALTHORP, which tells powerfully with Englishmen. People like to be saved the trouble of thinking. A man who speaks positively, yet goodnaturedly, therefore at the same time disarms their hostility, and fur nsihes them with a short cut to truth—or what they take for truth. And, following his old course, we observe Mr. COBDEN addresses himself to the electors ; to the class which fears lest its own power should be attenuated by diffusion amongst so many more. To them he says the working men, as fellow electors, can do you no harm. They would soon da mage themselves and learn better if they could, as you learned in regard to your protective laws of all kinds ; but they won't do it. They might pre fer an income tax to a tax on tobacco and tea, but that would all be for the good of trade and com merce, of which you will get your full share. They may, moreover, become dangerons as outsiders— take them in and all will work smoothly. Mr. COBDEN is quite come round to one of our long-expressed opinions, that bit-by-bit reform, as Lord JOHN RUSSELL haughtily designated every substantial reform when proposed independently, is, after all, the most practical course. He would, there fore, deal with the Extension of the . Franchise, the Ballot, the Redistribution of Seats, and shorter Parliaments, by separate Bills. We are satisfied that this is the only wise course. A whole string of alterations at once, is the very thing which frightens the feeble and fearful amongst our legislators ; and one house at least has such a number of them that it is essential to remember that we have a house of old lords— ladies, we might almost say—to do with as well as a House of Commons. We have no objection to let the suffrage come first in time, if Mr. COBDEN prefers it, since he shows that he does not consider the Ballot as second to it in point of importance. His testimony on that subject to its position in America is admirable and valuable. It works too truthfully to be gainsayed by any one, and corro borates the vast mass of evidence now accumulat ing, that as a means of saving our constituencies from demoralisation, it is worth all the praise which has been bestowed upon it. We believe that if it were tried at but one election, every one would be as ashamed to condemn it as they now would be to censure the adoption by Parliament of a free-trade policy. We cordially welcome Mr. COBDEN'S strong com• mon sense as an auxiliary in the cause of Reform He will convince thousands whom Mr. BRIGHT would irritate; and while many listeners must give the palm for a more ardent oratorical genius to the member for Birmingham, all will yet feel that Mr. COBDEN is the man to conciliate more opponents, and to indicate what can be done. In our curiously-complicated system of constitu tional government there arc several processes that are apparently valueless to a superficial observer, but that really and truly have a certain and some times a very singular efficacy. There is the peti tioning of Parliament, for example—a habitude among our politicians that, to a careless looker-on, must seem, of course, quite useless, mere waste of time, and utterly preposterous. A private member, during the Parliamentary ses sion, upon any evening you please except Sunday, Wednesday, and Saturday, rises in his place from one of the back benches, shortly after five o'clock, and mumbles a few words which nobody cares to listen to —that nobody even affects to listen to. The rest of the members are talking together. Mr. Speaker is in the midst of of a laughing conversation with one of his intimates. The clerks of the house in getting ready for the more serious business of the sitting. The Sergeant-at Arms, in his tights and silk stockings, perched on that little bench of his far below the gangway like a verger or a beadle in full dress, is goodnaturedly scribbling an order of admission for some applicant. The strangers up aloft are endea vouring to recognise the ringlets of one right hon. gentleman, the whiskers of Lord JOHN, the nose of Sir CORNEWALL LEWIS, and are of course propor tionately elated or dejected as the familiar features are recognised or remain undiscovered. The reporters in the gallery opposite are mending their pencils or running their glance down the orders of the day and the notices of motion, printed on those blue-white sheets of paper, curiously introduced with the old monkish prefix of those dog-latin dates, as though it were impossible for an official document to mention, in plain English, that the day was, let us say, Tuesday, the 9th of August. But we have left our private member all this while mumbling from his back bench—and, generally, speaking, he has very little indeed to say upon these occasions. Depositing his hat upon the seat behind him, or retaining it carelessly in one hand While he talks, he holds, you will observe, in the other, a roll of paper, that looks to the uninitiated Particularly statesmanlike and oratorical. If you know no better you fancy you are going to hear a speech—it looks so remarkably like that inevitable scroll represented in the grasp of the sculptured effigy of so many great Parliamentary celebrities— a hollow baton of paper like that Mr. GLADSTONE right ig i n t that hn. is playing with (in the true rhetorical style) care worn photographic likeness of the h gentleman published by the Messrs. MAULL and POLYBLANK. Don't be alarmed —the business of the evening is not going to be unnecessarily d e _ layed by one who is a mere unnoticeable unit amonc, the aggregate of the six hundred and odd repre sentatives. It is only a Petition that the hon. member for Blankborough is presenting from the parish of Pig-cum-poke, down in Wheat- • shire, praying that so-and-so and so-and-so may be taken into the consideration of that Hon. House, and so forth. The hon. gentleman has done mumbling, however, and shuffles down, by the steps at the gangway, down to the floor of the House, up to the table—upon which (in the midst of a won derful litter) he lays the important roll of paper, the Petition—and the thing is_done, the ceremony is over, and the member goes back to his seat again or lounges out of the House. If you watch these kind of proceedings only for a very few minutes you will see the rolls of paper beginning to multiply on the table—and you are about to wonder perhaps what will be done with them all, when one of the Clerks of the House, in barrister's wig and gown, gathers them all up in a bundle, off the table, and tumbles them underneath it. You more than sus pect now the fate of those petitions ! 0 the surfeit of the waste-paper baskets of the House of Com mons, as well as of all those public offices in D ownin g street, and in the purlieus and precincts of White hall! Yet it would be altogether a mistake to imagine for an instant that it is after all more waste of time petitioning Parliament. Nothing of the sort. Those apparently fruitless and frivolous scrolls are in truth the straws and feathers, showing which way the wind blows. And occasions not unfrequently arise when such a storm of petitions all streaming in one direction pours into the House, that the members of the Administration recognise with one accord that the time has indeed at length arrived when something must really b 3 done in the way of legislation upon this particular matter, whether it be to remove a grievance or to secure an improvement. In another way there is often much real good effected by means of those apparently idle Deputa tions waiting from time to time upon one or other of the members of her MAJESTY'S Government. There is a strong family likeness, of course, in all these deputations. At a particular hour accord ing to appointment a number of hack cabs and pri vate broughams clatter down to the fag-end of that dingy and disheartening eta de sac called Downing street, described so very humourously and truth fully but a few months since by Sam Slick, of Slick fills, otherwise Mr. Justice HALIBURTON. A mis cellaneous cluster of gentlemen pours into the cheerless little waiting room on the ground floor to be ushered up the staircase, soon afterwards, in a straggling procession, and then introduced, bowing and bowing, into the presence of the noble lord or the right hon. gentleman. There were several spokesmen ; a number of ques tions are asked and answered ; the Minister replies in a few general terms to the whole of the argu ments, leaving his hearers, when he has done speak ing, in a mist of doubt as what really may be the drift of his observations. There is a great deal of suavity, and a great deal of amenity, sometimes a little jocularity is indulged in, the deputation thanks the noble lord or the right hon. gentleman, as the case may be, for his extraordinary courtesy—and the thing is done. The deputation is bowed out again—but its sayings and doings are reported next day in the newspapers. That is the chief value of it. That is what effects its object, by giving its doings publicity and imparting to them an air of importance. There was that deputation, for example, that waited the other day upon the Prime Minister in regard to the Designs for the New Foreign-office. Its proceedings have already been recorded at length in our columns, and in those of our prin cipal contemporaries ; and hence more especially our hope that good may come of it. The argument wished to be enforced by the deputation has thereby obtained an opportunity of being very generally ventilated. The reasoning of those who spoke upon the occasion will force its way home to general conviction. It will command the attention of the public after having secured the notice of the Premier. It was a deputation of architects representing the views of 200 out of the 230 members of that profession who (in this and other countries) had responded to the appeal of the French Government for designs in a grand competition. These designs for the projected new Government offices, we remember well examining, in several instances with admira tion, in some, with wonder, as they hung thei a in bewildering profusion upon the temporary screens erected in Westminster Hall. It is worthy of notice, by the way, that among the members of the deputation to Lord PALMERSTON on Wednesday, there were some of the chief prizemen in the late competition, Mr. H. B. GARLING, for example, as well as Messrs. BANKS and BARRY, who had severally the honour of being personally presented to the First Lord of the Treasury. It is in urging the suffi ciently obvious claims of these gentlemen that the deputation possesses, we conceive, a peculiar inte rest and significance. How those claims have been overlooked was forcibly expressed by one of the members of the deputation on Wednesday—Pro fessor DONALDSON, who, addressing himself ear nestly to the Premier, maintained that the deputa tion ought in fairness to bring under the notice of the Government " some of the indignation felt by a majority of the competitors and of non-competing architects at the real result of the competition. Not," said he, " that they were:dissatisfied with the decision of the judges who, it would be remembered by his lordship, had agreed with their professional advisers in placing designs that were not Gothic at the head of the lists of premiums. He condemned the exertions which were made to reverse the effect of those decisions by some of the dilettanti, which were rendered nugatory by the committee consequently appointed, as the com mittee came to no conclusion. He also laid consi derable blame on the Chief Commissioner of Works for having attacked the integrity of the system of competition, which ought to be founded on the prin ciple that the award of the execution should, wherever possible, follow that of the prize." The reason of this is apparent at a glance. And we earnestly hope it is a reason that will yet be accepted and acted upon at the authoritative in stance of the noble viscount at the head of the Administration. THE " TIMES" AND TIIE BALLOT SOCIETY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—Allow me to contrast the reports in the Times and the Manchester Examiner of Mr. Cob den's speech to the non-electors of Rochdale, so far as respects his allusion to this society:— "I am for keeping the "I am for keeping the question separate from other questions separate. There questions, and I have always is a society in London orga advised the Ballot Society in nised for the purpose of ad- Londonto confine itsattention vocating the ballot. I have to this matter alone."— advised them always to keep Times, Aug. 19, 1859, their society separate from all others. They have, I believe, some supporters in Rochdale. That society is worthy your support, and will, I hope, go on advocat ing the ballot,'and adducing, as it is adducing, the best possible arguments to show its morality and efficiency." —Manchester Examiner, Aug. 19, 18.59. An accurate report of what Mr. Cobden said ought not, I submit, to have omitted his commendation of this society, and I beg leave, through your columns, to call the attention of your readers to the omission.—Yours respectfully, WM. 'WICKHAM, The Ballot Society's Offices, Hon. Secretary. Guildhall-chambers, Aug. 19. THE! !SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST; [2O, 18b9 LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr, Reuter's office : MODENA, AUG. 19. To-day a member of the National Assembly, the Marquis Fontanelli, presented to the Chambers a proposal declaring the forfeiture (decheance) of the Austrian dynasty d'Este to the Duchy, and the banishment from the State for ever of every Prince of the House of Hapsburg-Lorraine. The Assem bly unanimously resolved to take the question into consideration, and the proposal of the Marquis Fontanelli was received with three rounds of ap plause. BERNE, AUG. 20. At the banquet given by the Austrian Ambassa dor in honour of the birthday of the Emperor Francis Joseph, Count Colloredo said that the fact of all the plenipotentiaries being present proves that our work of peace will be crowned with success. TURIN, AUG. 20. A defensive league has been concluded between the states of Central Italy. Prince Hercolani, the Delegate of the Government of the Legations, has signed the act of accession to the league. VIENNA, FRIDAY, AUG. 19. Count Leo Thun has declined to accept the post of Minister of the Interior. Count Goluchowski is said to be also opposed to enter into a ministerial combination. Since the return of the Emperor to Vienna, no council of the ministers still in power has been held. There is a report that Austrian corps d'arnzee are to be concentrated near Rovigo on the road to the Legations and Modena. VIENNA, FRIDAY, AUG. 19. The official Wiener Zeitung contains a list of nu merous military promotions and distinctions made on account of the battle of Solferino. The Minis ter of the Interior, Baron Bach, is named as ambas sador to Rome. Other changes in the Cabinet are still expected ZURICH, FRIDAY, AUG. 19. Yesterday a conference took place between the Plenipotentiaries of France and Austria. A mes senger of the French Cabinet has arrived here and has quitted again for Paris. At the banquet given by Count Colloredo, Mr. Doubs proposed the health of the Emperor of Austria, and Count Col loredo, in his toast, the permanence of the friendship between Austria and Switzerland and the Govern ment of Zurich. PARIS, FRIDAY, AUG. 19. The report that the Grand Duke Constantine will leave the Isle of Wight to proceed to Biarritz, is considered to be without foundation. The Grand Duke will, on the contrary, proceed direct from England to St. Petersburg, to be present at the fetes, which are about to take place there on the 6th of September, when the hereditary Prince becomes of age. • FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY. A letter from Paris, in the Nord, says:— " The decree of amnesty applies to the persons condemned for the invasion of the Constituent Assembly on the 15th May, 1848, and releases Blanqui, who is detained in Corsica, and allows Raspail, Louis Blanc, Albert, and others to return; Hubert, another of the condemned in that affair, was pardoned long ago, and has obtained a con cession of a railway in the Doubs. There are still in confinement a certain number of the persons who were transported after the insurrection of June, 1848; and they will profit by the decree. The amnesty opens the gates of France to MM. Felix Pyat, Ribeyrolles, and others who were con demned for the insurrection of Tune, 1849. M. Guinard, colonel of the artillery of the National Guard, who was condemned for participation in the same affair, has already been. pardoned, and even rehabiliated. The decrees issued after the coup d'etat of the 2nd December, 1851, applied to three categories of individuals :-1. Those who took part in the insurrection against Louis Napo leon, President of the Republic, and who were ordered to be transported to French Guiana ; namely, the representatives Marc Dufraisse, Greppo, Miot, Mathe, and Richardet. Of these Miot is in Algeria, Dufraisse is at Zurich, and I know not what has become of the other three ; 2. The representatives of the Legislative Assembly who were expelled for an indefinite period from France namely, Victor Hugo to sc Algeria hrec hor and de the Fio tt E Coloniessq uiros, Cha rras , an d 59 ; others; and 3. The representatives expelled tem porarily—namely, 4MM. Duvergier de Hauranne, Creton, General de Lamorieiere, General Chan gamier, Baze, General de Flo, General Bedeau, Thiers, Chambolle, Ch. de Remusat, Jules de Las teyrie, Emile de Girardin, General Laidet, Pascal, Duprat, Edgar Quinet, Anthony Thouret, V. Chauffour, and Versigny. Of the second category of representatives, four, Joig,naux, Theo. Bac, Dupont (de Bussac), and Mathieu (de la Drome), have already been authorised to return to France ; and of the third, the only ones who remain in exile 'are Generals Changarnier and Bedeau, and MM. Pascal Duprat, E. Quinet, and Versigny. M. Pierre. Lerona, who has never been comprised in any decree of expulsion, lives at Jersey with his numerous family, and has always been free to re turn to France. The decree applies to condemna tions of the press, and consequently to Proudhon; also to all the persons who were arrested after the attempted assassination of the Emperor on the 14th Jan., 1858." According to the Algerian journals, the successes of the French in Italy, have afforded great plea sure to the Arab populations under their rule In honour of those successes, and also of the con clusion of peace, an influential Arab chief, the Khalifa of the Mina Ben-Abd-Allah ould Si el Arabi, who is a commander in the Legion of Honour, gave a few days ago a grand fete to the French au thorities and the native chiefs of his district : General Hugo, commanding the subdivision o Mostaganem, accompanied by the sub-prefect and mayor of that town, arrived early in the morning at Bel-Assel, the Khalifa's residence. At about a league from the house, they were met by the aghas and caids of the district, mounted on magnificent horses, and carrying the long Arab musket ; the Arabs were accompanied by flags and music, and presented a brilliant appearance. Near the house was an Arab camp, containing a great number of tents. The khalifa had caused a sump tuous banquet to be prepared for his guests ; and when they were seated, sheep roasted whole sus pended on long poles, and a multit'ade of dishes containing meat and fowls, &c., were brought in in stately procession. The caids collected in the courtyard in groups of ten or twelve, and the dainties prepared were distributed to them ; those of the Sahel, having attained a certain degree of European refinement, fed themselves with a spoon, but one spoon served for several of them—each tak ing a mouthful with it in turn, and then passing it to his neighbour. At the khalifa's table, after the repast was finished, a toast was drank with enthu siasm to France, the Emperor, the Empress, and the Imperial Prince ; and the caitls outside joined in ajplauding it. The whole party then proceeded to the camp, where a grand fantasia took place. It consisted, as usual, of races, of charges of imaginary ene mies, accom panied by the incessant firing of muskets, wrest ling and feats of strength. After these rejoicings the party returned to the khalifa's resiidt ;nee, where a supper, as plentiful as the preceding meal, was prepared." The next day the French - general passed the Arab chiefs and their goums in review, thanking them in a brief speech for the interest which they mani fested in Fiance, and they responded by cries of " Long live the Emperor !" The general and the other functionaries then took their departure. PARIS BOURSE, Aug. 19.—There has been but a limited amount of business doing, but the tone of the market is rather firmer. Threes, after having been clone at 69f. 5c , improved to 69f. 25c. ; Mo bilier varied from 823 f. 75c. to 830 f.; Austrian, 557 f. 50c. to 562 f. 50c.; Orleans, 1,355 f. to 1,369 f. 50c.; Lyons, 865 f. to 870 f.; Southern, 510 f. to 512 f. 50c. The following were the last quota- ions : 41 per Cents. .... 97 50 Credit Fonder 660 Do. end month .. 97 50 Belgian 41 — 3 per Cents. 69 05 Piedmontese (5) Do. end month.... 69 15 Roman B5 50 Bank Shares 2BOO Austrian — Credit Mobilier .. 825 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 827 50 Home Debt 4l 75 RAILWAYS. ___ _____. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 927 50 .. 927 50 New ditto BlO .. Lyons and Mediterranean 865 .. 868 75 Geneva 530 .. 532 50 Southern Western 555 .. 560 Eastern Sardinian 4lO .. 412 50 Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 14c. ; money, 25f, 10c. ; three months, paper, 24f. 96c.; money, 24f. 94c. ITALY. A Turin letter says :—" The news which we re ceive from Zurich is to the effect that the plenipotentiaries at their third sitting encoun tered a stumbling-block in the shape of the question relative to the public debt. The case could not be otherwise, as M. Desambrois left this city with orders not to recognise or accept for Piedmont any other than the speeial debt of Lom bardy, which was estimated at 125,000,000 francs. Now, that sum does not amount even to one-half of the debt of the Lombardo-Venetian Monte (for merly the Mont Napoleon), which is 275,000,000 Austrian lire. But from that sum must be de ducted the share of Venetia, the loan of 1854 called National, the purchase of the railway from Milan to Monza, which Austria afterwards sold, and the price of which she retained at Vienna, Stc. Thus then the calculation of 125,000,000 fr. made by the Sardinian Government was perfectly equitable and just. That was perhaps a reason for doubting that Austria would accept it ; and in point of fact, the Piedmontese Cabinet has learned from Zurich that she not only wants to throw on Lombardy the 270,000,000 of the Lombardo-Vene tian Monte, less two-fifths for Venice, but that she requires to be relieved from 200,000,000 florins of the generai debt of the empire, which would make 500,000,000 fr. Austria bases her calculation on the population of Lombardy, which, being one seventh of the whole population of the empire, ought, she maintains, to take one-seventh of the whole debt. One would say that Austria, in the last campaign, gained victories instead of sus taining reverses. However, in this way of act ing, she has succeeded so often that she will no doubt persist in it. In this state of things France has become a mediatrix ; and she proposes to the two parties, if my information be correct, to split the difference. The Sardinian Cabinet has, how ever,it is said, sent to Zurich, a counter-proposition consisting in accepting the charge of 200,000,000 florins, provided Austria will cede all Venetia. This proposition has, however, no chance of being accepted; but by a modification of it, it is hoped that Austria may be induced to cede the half of her quadrangle, Peschiera and Mantua, which form part of Lombardy, and the giving up of which would be a guarantee for the maintenance of peace." The terms of the motion now under considera tion by the Tuscan Assembly, for annexing Tus. cane to Piedmont, are as follows : " The Assembly declares that it is the firm desire of Tus cany to form part of a strong Italian kingdom, under the constitutional sceptre of Victor Emmanuel II." This motion was unanimously seconded, the movers being Prince Strozzi, Marquis Manzi, Counts Della Gherardesba, Francheschi, Piccolomini, and Borg hesi, and M. Adami. AUSTRIA. A Vienna letter says :—" Our Ministerial crisis seems to be drawing to a close. Of the numerous candidates for office mentioned by public rumour not one has been selected. We now learn that Connt Agenor Goluchowski, governor of Lemberg, has been summoned here to be Minister of the In terior. Report says that M. Bach retires into pri vate life, and will not again take office of any kind." NAPLES. A letter from Naples of the 15th, in the Presse, says:—"We are approaching either a solution or a dissolution. The 4th regiment—that which main tained its discipline in the Champ de Mars—is now in open revolt. Its commanding officers, despair ing of being able to restore obedience, announced to the soldiers that if they wished to leave they had only to write their names on a sheet of paper. The sheet was in a few moments covered with sig natures, and the chiefs then, seeing that it was useless to contend against such unanimity, went to consult a superior authority. They were sent back to the soldiers, and told to promise them all they required —pay, uniforms, federal crosses, &c. Many of the men were delighted, and shouted Viva el Re.' Some of them, however, felt mis trust, and Major Latour, the Swiss envoy was waited on by a deputation and asked for more po sitive assurances. Major Latour did not allow him self to be influenced either by the caresses of the Government or by the falsehoods of the officers. He pursued his way with great independence and probity, telling the soldiers who came to consult him that they were being deceived by their chiefs, that their colours would be taken from them on the 25th, en the demand of the Confederation and by . order of the King, who could no longer refuse that justice. The result was a general defection. The 13th battalion of Chasscurs, which has been enrolled since the rupture of the capitulations, has now joined the malcontents. Yesterday several officers of the 4th Regiment, fearing a revolt in their quarters, and threatened, as they said, with massacre, passed a part of the night in a café of San Potito. All the police were on foot to watch over the city, the army, and the lazzaroni. The Royal Guard has been summoned from Caserta. As the reward for his straightforward conduct, Major La tour has met with a very cold reception from the authorities ; he has been watched like a suspected person, and, notwithstanding his official character, it has been in contemplation to send him out of the kingdom. This was a bright idea started by the police in order to simplify difficulties. Fortunately, Gen. Filangieri is a man of sense, under whom such follies would be impossible. However, this may be Major Latour has perfectly succeeded in his mission, and the 4th Regiment leaves this very day." ELECTION BY BALLOT IN ADELAIDE.—The re sult of the city election, as I presume you already know, was in favour of Mr. Owen, who polled 6EB votes to Mr. Blyth's 224. The affair was as quietly conducted as a Quaker's meeting, forming a contrast to one of the last elections under the open voting sy stem, where a body of mounted police had to ride through and through the crowd to quell an incipient riot, and so peaceable indeed as much to disgust various politicians of the old school, who still sigh for the good old electoral days of beer and bribery and broken heads.—Correspondent of Melbourne Age. DISINTERESTED LOVE.—Yes ! man has a strong yearning for disinterested love ; much more so than woman. Once convince a man that you love him, truly for himself —for his own self—independently of riches, rank, station, position, or any of the thousand-and-one advantages he may be possessed o f— on ly, I sa y, make him feel that, and you need not be very nice about the mode in which you go to work. Men aro as voracious as boa-constrictors, they will swallow almost any quantity of flattery, provided al ways that it be offered at the right time. It won't do to flatter one man in the presence of another. Be careful of that; but let a woman take the lucky moment, seize upon the right opportunity, and she may make a man—ay, in spite of all his wondrous sense and reason—her slave for life.—Millicent Neville Abroad. MR. TOWNSIIEND, LATE MEMBER FOR GREEN wicii.—Mr. John Townshend, whose career as M.P. for the borough of Greenwich, recently attracted public atten tion, has become the lessee of the Theatre Royal, Leicester, and has announced his intention to open the establishment for the season with a full corps from the metropolis, THE LATE REAR-ADMIRAL HENRY DUNDAS TROTTER. The late Admiral Trotter, to high professional and general attainments, united a kind and gener ous heart, and a frank and most urbane manner, which made him universally beloved, both in the discharge of public duties as an officer and in pri vate life. Cut down while yet in the vigour of manhood, and in the daily exercise of those acts of practical benevolence which appeared to be a main object of his life, he has left behind him an example well worthy of imitation by the members of the service which he adorned. Having obtained the usual preliminary educa tion for the naval service at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, out of which he passed in an unusually short time, and after serving for a short time on the North Sea station, Mr. Trotter, as a volunteer of the Ist class, proceeded in May, 1819, in the Eden, Captain J. E. Lock, to the East India station, where he participated in many hazardous boat enterprises against pirates, by whom the Per sian Gulf was at that time infested. He was pre sent at the destruction of Ras el Kyma, the head quarters and principal resort of these desperate freebooters, and assisted in the burning or sinking of all their vessels by an expedition under the joint command of the late Admiral Sir Francis Collier and Major-General Sir William Grant Keir. In 1822 Mr. Trotter was appointed by Sir Henry Blackwood, commander-in-chief on the station, act ing lieutenant of the Leander ; and on his return to England in the following year his promotion was confirmed by the Admiralty. Lieutenant Trotter next joined her Majesty's ship Hussar on the West India station ; and while in this vessel he was par ticularly mentioned by Capt. Harris, her comman der, in a despatch to :Sir Laurence Halsted, the commander-in-chief, for his gallant conduct in the capture of a band of pirates at the Isle of Pines. Obtaining his promotion in 1830, Commander Trotter was appointed to her Majetty's ship Curlew, which he commanded for nearly four years on the Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa sta tion, and—the admiral being at the Cape—he was left for a considerable period in the responsible charge of the latter division of the station. His capture while in the Curlew of the notorious pirato ship Panda is perhaps one of the most striking in stances on record of determination and persistent adherence to duty in a case of this kind. For fifteen months Commander Trotter was on the track of this vessel, and he eventually came up with her in the Bight of Benin, when the piratical crew took to their boats, and for a time escaped. The Panda was at once boarded by her captors; but they bad been but a short time in possession of their prize when she blew up, causing the immediate death of two officers, wounding severely many of the men, and seriously injuring the commander himself, who was with difficulty extricated from between the shattered deck and bulwarks before she sank. The captain, the chief officer, and five of the crew of the Panda, were eventually taken, under circum stances of considerable difficulty and danger, and not without a personal struggle between the com mander and the pirate chief. They were sent to England, and from thence to the United States, where they were tried and convicted as pirates and felons for an atrocious piracy committed on a brig belonging to Salem, United States, in September, 1832. They justly suffered the extreme penalty of the law. A letter from Joseph Peabody, and bearing 100 other signatures, conveyed to President Jackson the feeling common throughout the United States regarding the perseverance, gallantry, and good conduct of Commander Trotter on this occasion. In a similar spirit the Lords of the Admiralty, in awarding Captain Trotter his promotion, so well earned, thus addressed him through the secretary : " My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having had under their consideration your exertions while in command of the Curlew, in the capture of the piratical vessel Panda and her crew, and the per severance displayed by you in circumstances of ex treme difficulty, and involving you in great personal responsibility, for which, and the protection thereby afforded to American commerce, you have received through his Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the thanks of the President of the United States, are pleased, as a mark of the sense which my lords entertain of your conduct, to promote you to the rank of captain in the royal navy." With the exception of being for a short period in the Britannia, 120, as flag captain to Admiral Sir P. Durham, commander-in•chief at Portsmouth in 1838, Capt. Trotter was ashore from 1834 to 1840, when an enterprise in every way suited to his tastes, and promising full scope to his long-cherished de sire to explore the interior of Africa and ameliorate the condition of her benighted sons, was unexpect edly opened to him. The expedition to the Niger originated in the noble and philanthropic mind of the late Sir Fowell Buxton, and was espoused by the Government of the day, more especially by Lord J. Russell, then Secretary of State for the Colonies. Capt. Trotter was selected by the Admiralty as the man, fitted by habits, inclination, general acquirements, and know ledge of the African coast, to command such an enterprise. Throughout his career in the service ho appeared to have been destined to wage constant war against those enemies of the human race— pirates and slave dealers. Ho was able and active, in the prime of life, and most enthusiastic in the object of such a mission. He was accordingly ap pointed to her Majesty's ship Albert, in command of the expedition which left England in May, 1841, and entered the Niger on the 13th of August of the same year. On tho 27th of August the expedi tioh had reached Ibu, 1.20 miles from the sea, 40 miles below the apex of the Delta; and on the 2d September it was at Iddah, the capital of the Eg garah country, where rocks, consisting of ferrugi nous sandstone, were for the first time seen. Up to this time the expedition had been fortunate beyond all expectation. The Delta had been passed, and the valley of the Niger was about to be entered under circumstances seemingly most auspicious. The crews were in the best possible condition, and looked forward with a buoyancy of feeling to the period when the vessels were to ascend the river, while they contemplated with delight the novel and diversified scenery of the high land before them. But fever of a malignant character broke out in the Albert, and almost simultaneously in the other vessels, and shortly after the expedition reached the confluence of the Niger and Tchadda, two of the vessels composing it were obliged to re turn to the sea. The Albert, with the commander of the expedi tion, advanced higher up, as far as Egga, the Nufi capital. On the 3d October all hopes of penetrat ing further into the interior of Africa received a finishing blow, for Capt. Trotter, the arduous, en terprising, and kind coman der, was n ow t a k en w i t h fever ; and besides Dr. M‘William and Dr. Stanger, only three or four whites were fit for duty. " Those only," observes Dr. M'William, " who were with Captain Trotter from first to last in the expedition and had an opportunity of observing with what un ceasing zeal, what untiring energy, he devoted himself to its grand objects, can form any idea of his painful sacrifice stern necessity compelled him to make when he issued the order to turn the vessel's head downwards, and relinquish designs which his benevolent mi n d h a d so l ong and so ardently cherished." The Niger expedition, although thus repulsed by an enemy against which no human effort could prevail, a n d so f ar unsuccess f u l i n achieving its immediat e o bj ec t s , was b y no means fruitless in important results. A very considerable addition was made to our knowledge of the river, of the various countries on its banks, and of the climate, which cannot fail to be useful to future explorers of this interesting region. Lord Stanley (now Earl Derby), who had suc ceeded Lord J. Russell at the Colonial•office before the return of the expedition to England, in convey ing through the Under-Secretary of State his sense of the services of those employed in the expedition, expressed his admiration of the zeal and ability manifested by Capt. Trotter and those under his command "in the attempt to . execute the objects of the expedition under very difficult circumstances, and at great personal risk to all who were engaged in it." At the outbreak of the Russian war, Sir James Graham, then First Lord of the Admiralty, appointed Capt. Trotter as Commodore and Com mander-in-Chief of the Cape of Good Hope Station. Here the commodore's administrative powers and active benevolence were, as elsewhere, fully dis played. He originated and liberally contributed to the Cape Town Sailors' Home. On his urgent representation to the Admiralty he was enabled, through their liberality, to restore a small village near Simon's Bay, founded may years ago by the late Admiral Sir Jahleel Brenton, as an asylum for captured slaves, and which had latterly fallen into decay. During his three years' period of command, although he was ever at some humane work, such as those to which we have alluded, the onerous, varied, and more strictly professional duties of the station were conducted with remarkable zeal and success. On quitting the station Commodore 'Trotter re ceived from Governor Sir G. Grey the warmest, acknowledgments, and an earnest recommendation to the Secretary of State for the Colonies for the services he had rendered to the colony and to his country by his cordial and activeco-operation during a period of great anxiety to South Africa, where nothing shcorliltodf havefirm availedanddecidtcod a measures, ,ert an promptly taken, o other Kaffir war. On the commodore's arrival in England from the Cape command, t wo years ago, h e was apparently in good health ; hut those who had the opportunity of observing him closely could not fail to perceive that after the Niger expedition he , was occasionally subject to severe headache, and other symptoms indicating that he never got quite rid of the effects of the fever from which he barely escaped with his life. The close of Commodore Trotter's life career was sudden ; but it came upon him while he was em ployed in a manner in harmony with his whole life. He had just been renewing, at the Admiraly, an ap plication in behalf of an officer formerly under his command, who possessed no title to Government favour bc.yond great professional and other merits, when he was suddenly struck down with paralysis, which proved fatal in a few hours. His remains were followed to their resting-place in Kensal-green by his bereaved relatives and many of his more immediate friends in the naval service as well as in private life, including two of his old companions in the Niger expedition. THE NAVY. Letters dated Juty 15 have been received at Ply mouth from her Majesty's ship Havannah, 19, Capt. Thomas Harvey. She was then in Panama Bay, and had just returned -from a short cruise on the coast of Central America. The crew were all well, and expected to leave shortly, by Cape Horn, for England. She will probably be paid off at Ply mouth, from which port she sailed Oct. 13, 1855. The paddlewheel steam-sloop Hydra, 6, Comman der R. V. Hamilton, recently returned, with crew' sick, from Sierra Leone, steamed from Plymouth Sound on Thursday into Hamoaze, and went along side the Argo hulk. She will undergo a thorough repair, and an effort will be made to discover the cause of some most offensive effluvia which rises from between her timbers. _ A court-martial assembled on Thursday on board the flagship Impregnable, at Plymouth, for the trial of Mr. Alfred Barren, additional paymaster of the Eagle, for drunkenness. He was sentenced to be dismissed the ship and placed at the bottom of the list for two years. It is expected that the Channel fleet will leave Spithead this morning for a cruise of eight days off Ushant, at the end of which time it will -return to port for three days, when it will again - put - to sea, and being joined by her Majesty's ship Coisar, from Devonport, will cruise until about the 20th Sept., when it will form two divisiGas, one of which, it is supposed, will winter at Bantry Bay and the other at Portland. The Pioneer, 6, screw, Commander H. Reilly, at Spithead, is under orders for foreign service. The Mersey, 40, screw, Capt. H. Caldwell, C. 8., got under weigh at Spithead yesterday, to make an official trial of her screw, but owing to the prim ing of her boilers the trial was ag a i n d e f erre d until to-day. The Pcictiers troopship left Spithead yesterday's in tow of a steam-tug for London, for the purpose of being docked and examined as to the cause of her leaking. Letters received at Portsmouth from her Majesty's ship Arachne, dated Port Royal, July the 26th, speak of a terrific hurricane encountered by that v-ssel on the 25th of June, on her passage from Vera Cruz to Port Royal, in which she lost the greater part of her canvas and one of her quarter boats. She had been 32 days making the passages lmtween the two ports. The Sidon, 22, paddle, Captain R. B. Crawford, was officially inspected, and her crew paid advance of wages, at Spithead yesterday. She is under orders for foreign service, and is expected to sail on Monday next, calling at Devonport for final instruc tions. The Arrogant, screw steam Coastguard ship, Capt. L. G. Heath, C. 8., arrived at Spithead yester day from Southampton -water. After taking out her powder and shell she will go into Portsmouth harbour, when Capt. W. Edmonstone and the offi cers and crew of the Dauntless will take posses sion of her, Capt. Heath and officers and crew of the Arrogant turning o ver t o th e D aunt l ess, w hich will supply the Arrogant's place in the Southamp ton river. The Gorgon, 6, paddle, Commander Bedford C• T. Pim, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the Downs. Edward Pearce has been appointed surgeon to the Tortoise ; W. J. Grundy, master's assistant to the Mars ; and Francis Oliver, assistant-paymaster to the Dauntless. THE ARMY. Mr. S. Herbert, Secretary of State for War, paid an official visit of inspection to Woolwich Arsenal on Thursday, and likewise transacted business at the Royal Artillery barracks with Major-Gen. Sir R. nacres, commander of the garrison. The busi ness connected with the departments of the War office at Woolwich occupied 41 hours, after which. Mr. S. Herbert returned to Foot's Cray, the resi dence of Lord Herbert. An Admiralty telegram was received at the Royal. Marine barracks, Woolwich, yesterday at noon, stating that it was the intention of the Board to inspect the division at half-past one that day, and. that the clerk of the works was to be in attendance at that hour at the new marine hospital (the erec tion of which is now suspendedin consequence of the strike). An order was immediately issued by the colonel commandant, commanding the whole available force of the division to assemble in the barrack square, in heavy marching order, at fi ve minutes to one. The division, which consists of 280 effective men, is composed entirely of recruits from two to four months in the service, with the excep tion of officers' servants and other employed men. Their lordships were accompanied by Sir. J. Liddell, C. 8., M.D., F.R.S., Medical Director-General. The names were those enumerated yesterday, with the exception of Rear-Admiral Sir B. Walker, who was yesterday absent. Having inspected the division under arms, their Lordships proceeded to visit the men's quarters, i n f ront of which about 250 newly admitted recruits, about to commence a course of elementary drill, were drawn up in double line. They then en t ere d the Battery Department, and witnessed the worki ng o f th e h eavy ships ' guns, t h e firing three mimic volleys, and sundry manoeuvres , all of which were p er f orme d w i th great alacrity an d precision, under the command of Capt. Clavell. The Lords Commissioners were thence conducted through the schools, the wards and offices of the in firmary, and terminated their inspection by a tho rough examination of the suspended works of the Ne w hospital. B e f ore l eav i ng they expressed their satis faction at the general appearance and efficiency of. the young co r p s , an d t h e indefatigable exertions of the drill sergeants and others under whose care and instruction they h a d so rap i dly attained that high state of discipli ne w hi c h they had remarked wi th infinite satisfaction. It was stated that within the last four months draughts consisting of no less than 1,200 men have been despatched from Woolwich for ships commissioned for service. THE HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY. A detachment of this corps now stationed at Seaford, for ten days permanent duty, under com mand. of Major Robinson, was inspected on Tues day last by General Douglas. The General arrived at half-past six o'clock a.m. and witnessed the rifle practice at various distances up to 500 yards ; the detachment afterwards as sembled for full dress parade, marched past in slovr and quick time, and performed several manoeuvres. The General made a very minute inspection of each company, and many inquiries as to the con stitution of this corps, which is the most ancient in the United Kingdnm ; ne expressed himself highly gratified at the rifle practice, under the superin tendence of the musketry instructor, Lieut. Field (who obtained a first-class certificate at Hythe) a 5 also with the steady and soldierlike manner i 1 which the manoeuvres were gone through. At the conclusion the Genera addressed the commanding officers, and most warmly compli mented the officers and men on their efficiency ; he remarked upon the " physique" of the men, and said they reminded him of what soldiers formerly were. The General then impressed upom the offi cers and men the absolute necessity of keeping lIP their rifle practice, observing that soldiers weirs formerly looked upon as mere machines, but that now that man was considered the best soldier wil° exhibited the greatest intelligence, and was able to destroy the greatest number pf the enemy i n the shortest prssible time. The artillery company was the oldest volunteer corps in the kingdom, and he did not doubt that the members took such pride in the service that they would continue to be number one, as they had always hitherto been. VOLUNTEER RIFLE CORPS.—An effort is 12 " r being made to form a company at Grantham. In Ems" a conference has been held at Chelmsford by gentlemen from Colchester, Ilford, Havering-atte-Bower, Brentwood, and the local corps, for the purpose of considering the uniform to be worn by the various companies formed in the county. It was resolved that the colour of the uniform should be dark g reen , an d t h e h ead dress either a shako or foraging cap. The cost of the dress and accoutrements is estimated at Li Cs. The tea market has been flat and inactive, a con dition attributable partly to the season of the year, and also to the heavy stocks of duty-paid parcels held by the dealers. There are many descriptions which could now not be dis posed of except at a reduction. Some disposition has been manifested to buy saltpetre at the late decline. Fine Ben gal commands 37 5 . 6d. t o 38 s. per cwt., b ut th e business has been small. The Netherland Trading ComPanY' B annual spice sale on the 16th inst. went off at the average valuations, and black pepper realized an improvement. Rum maintains the advance noticed last week. In East India indigo nothing of importance has occurred since the termination of the quarterly sales. The British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Corn have announced a dividend for the half-year ending in hale at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the A shares, and. per cent, on lig) Q,