The Sun. — London, England, 1862-07-23 00:00:00

" F U N " EVERY WEEK ONE PENNY. ORYSTAL PALATO-MORROW (Thurs • day). ONE SHILLING. Open from Nine o'clock till pilLAis de CRISTAL.—LES GRANDES EAUX.—DEALAIN (Jeudi), Quatre Heures. CRYSTAL PALACE.—The GREAT FOUN TAINS, TO-MORROW, at Four, will comprise the following : The Six Fountains on the Upper Terrace. The Two Prince of Wales' Fountains. The Large Central Basket Fountain. The Two Graceful Water Temples. The Forty-eight Tazza Fountains. The Nix Boiling Fountains. The Grand Cascades and W ater falls. The Eight Dancing Fountains. And the whole of the varied and beautifully designed Fou tains and Cascades of the GREAT LOWER BASIN, whin al one cover a surface of five acres, numbering Twelve Thou sand jets, discharging. Twen ty Thousand Gallons of Water per minute, including,' Les GR.ANDES EAUX, which attain the altitude of 234 feet. CANTERBURY HALL: ' owned Performers, DEBONNAIRE and The I' ol° AUGONARD S trom Paris), at Ten o'clock. 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All rem ittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DA.Y.—Morning, 11h. 35m.—Afternoon, h. m. To-monnow.-Morning, 12h. 6m.—Afternoon, 12h. 35m. poop. __.....1......."'"" C.' , ,---- .--,-, T. "-: q ck =- -- t-- V ....„. - , -- ..,,T_, H---, • ,„,„ , _ ..,,, b „, .i • 3,0 • _,.0 i 1 ~, ,, t , u,,,,,,.. THE SUN. LONDON, "WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1862, There can be, and will be, but one opinion throughout the whole British Empire, we might say w i t h ou t exaggeration, throughout the whole civilised world, on the duty of Parliament to make the best possible provision for the daily increasing suffering in the cotton manufacturing districts. What is the best provision may well be matter of discussion, but with half a year before U 9, during which legislation would be impossible without an extraordinary session, it would have been criminal for Parliament not to take into consideration the means by which such an extraordinary emergency could be met. It may be, as Mr. BOUTEEIE seems to think it will, that parish rating will meet the parish difficulty—but that is certainly not the general opinion. It may be wise, as the general rule that the property in a parish shall be altogether exhausted before the relief of its poor is thrown on an adjoining parish (though we cannot think so), but this is not an ordinary case. It is not a crisis brought about by the common process of over-manufacturing, and a subsequent glut. We all feel that the case of the North is, so far as the inhabitants of the districts are concerned, as genuine a calamity as a flood or a drought, or a potato rot, Ordinary rules and existing laws cannot be expected to suffice in such a case. It is early yet to express any decided opinion on ?lr. VILLIERS' plan, but we must say that pre viously to the discussions of the parties interested, *w hich will be sure to bring out all the probabilities Of its practical working, our impression is favour able. But two principles have been suggested, one that of guardians being empowered to raise loans on the security of the rates • the other that of ex tension of the area o f charge,: when a parish be comes incompetent to support its poor. We do not see why both powers should not be given. The chief objection would be, that no is arish would raise a loan which it must rep ay by instalments, when it eould resort to the adjoining parishes, and ulti mately to the county, and so avoid future liability. Probably it would be so. Yet there may be parishes so situated that a loan would be its proper, possibly its preferred resort. parishes may have spirit enough, like individuaP, to prefer borrowing to throwing themselves on the union rates. Be this as it may, the principle of resorting to a T h e difference between larger area is a fair one. Mr. VILLIERS'S proposal and the existing law is, that help may be sought from the wider area before When its the suffering parish is itself begga red. rates exceed by two-thirds the average expenditure, which, during the three preceding years, had been incurred for the support of the poor, such parish is to have a claim upon the common fund of the Union to which it belongs. Unions at present divide the poor into two classes, one settled in the several parishes for which each parish pays separately ; the other, the poor which are irremoveable from the Union, and belong to no particular parish. The fund which supports the latter is the common Union Fund, and on this the Government , proposes a to throw the burden of the excessive cr. ar . ge caused to particular parishes b y the p resent To this fund, the parish seeking aid itself contributes, so that, it bears a part of the additional charge which it brings on the common fund. Mr. VILLIERS does not eonsider the case of a distressed Union is likely to occur ; should it do so, the ma chinery is ready to hand by which the county rate cou ld be made chargeable to the mount required. There is little weight ws think in Mr. BouvutE's objection, that the p rinci p le Of the ol d Poor-haw is dusk. violated by the Government proposals. The old law be argu es requires persons to put their hands into their own pockets, for the relief of their poor ; t h e new proposal would enable them to put their han ds into those of their neighbours. But this would raise a very old question—" Who is my neighbour ? and the manner in which that question was answered by the highest autho- rity is little favourable to Mr. BOITVERIE'S notions. He would make the other parishes of the Union pass by a suffering parish like Priests and - - Levites; Mr. VILLIERS would have them act the part of good Samaritans. Public feeling will, we are inclined to think, go with Mr. VILLIERS. Mr. BouYERIE is terrified by visions of " profusion and extravagance," that there will be cases of imposture is quite certain ; just as every great distant battle is sure to generate beggars with limbs lost in it, who never left their own country. But Lancashire is a county certainly not wanting in intelligence, and quite capable of guarding against anything like general profusion or extravagance. The general objection that the distress has not yet reached the point at which additional legislation is necessary, will meet with few sympathisers. The poor law returns show an immense increase of pauperism already ; but the distress is far wider than is indicated by these returns. The Savings Banks accumulations have saved thousands hitherto from resorting to the relieving officer, and submit- ting to what they feel the lowering act of taking money which they have not earned. There can be no doubt that the pawnbroker also has, for the pre sent, done his sad part towards lightening the parish rates. These sources of support are, however, nearly dried up, and a rapid accession to the list of reci pients of relief is now to be expected. As the sup ply of cotton also continues to diminish, the prices which must be given fcr the little to be had —indeed, its absolute insufficiency to feed half the mills—will deprive increasing numbers of em ployment. We must confess that ever since we perceived the backwardness of Lancashire to operate in India, and the consequent failure of the large hoped-for supplies thence, we could but fear the worst for next winter. To lose almost at a stroke more than a billion pounds of raw cotton, and to find its loss met by only about 150 million pounds, as the increased production of other coun tries, is the fact we must grasp if we can. Nearly all who lived on working that billion pounds of cotton must be out of employ next winter. We re peat—not to foresee, and not to make legislative pro vision for the consequences, next winter, of such a fact, would have been criminal neglect in the Go vernment and Legislature. We only add our wish that the intelligence of what our Parliament has to do, and the melan choly reasons why it has to do it, would awaken some compunction in the Federal Government of America which is, now, the guilty cause of all this starvation and distress. We are sorry to fear that to the North, the sufferings of Lancashire are only a cause of grim and cruel satisfaction. They will bear their own extra taxation with somewhat of malignant satisfaction, because it enables them to bloekade cotton ports and distress millions of Englishmen. be then read a second time, and that his Grace The Duke of BuccLeucH's conduct last evening in the House of Lords ought certainly to put to shame Mr. HoRsMAN and his backers. His Grace acted like a sensible man ; and, with a due regard to his own dignity, announced at once, yesterday, his intention to offer not one particle of opposition to the carrying out in its integrity of the whole scheme of the Thames Embankment. The Govern ment Bill was in consequence advanced another stage in the House of ,Lords. It was read there a second time, and is next, of course, to come forth with under the consideration of their Lordships in Committee. It has already, we know, passed through all its stages in the House of Commons. But—only after going through there, a whirl of op position—sometimes carried on in the most acri monious spirit—sometimes renewed almost with an appearance of malignity on the part of those chiefly concerned in originating it. All the effer vescence, so long bottled up in regard to this question, however, it would seem, passed off in the popular branch of the Legislature. It was there so repeatedly ventilated that by the time it comes to be quaffed in that " other place," it turns out, as a mere theme for de bate even, to be essentially " stale, flat, and un profitable." There is no opportunity left for any further personalities, even if there had been any inclination in the Lords to indulge in them. The discussions provoked in the Commons by the right hon. member for Stroud had pretty well ex hausted all the personalities that could have been applied to the subject in dispute, by way (if that had been possible) of somehow impeding its further progress. Hence, it can hardly surprise a nyone upon reflection that no sooner had Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY resumed his seat upon the Treasury Bench in the Lords yesterday, after moving that the Thames Embankment Bill the Duke of BUCCLEUCEI should hasten at once to intimate, as we have said, that he, for one, intended in no way whatever to oppose the pro- jected improvement. While, however, the public generally would hardly feel in any way surprised that the Duke, as a rational man, and therefore as one instinctively alive to what was due to his own dignity in this matter, should so have resolved to offer no opposition to the Bill, his Grace's con duct in so doing, we repeat, ought to carry a cer tain sense of shame to Mr. GORE, and Mr. HORS MAN, and other disinterested sticklers for the main tenance of the privacy of Whitehall Gardens. The Duke of BUCCLEIJCII, we observe, expresses himself, at the outset of his remarks, as having felt himself aggrieved at what he terms " the most un fair manner " in which his name had been refered to, in connexion with this whole project of a Thames Embankment. For the •vri)- 1, 0 1 2, 1 , 0- , . , . , , we would remind his Grace, he is altogether in debted to those over-zealous " friends " of his who filched the renewal of his lease of Montagu House from the Treasury, under (to say the least ~ i t) such extremely odd cir cumstances ! To these oth er o b sequ i ous an d sycophantic "friends" who rashly ventured upon altering the wh ole scheme i n t h e Thames Embankment Committee — dirty work, this, of seven of the committeemen ! To "friends," ( one and thoroughly those other , l , l ill-advised en),who_. as much in " (one or two of them, members of that same committee,and participators : e s v o doin outraging all sense of the e gloriesproprieties in doing attempted to brazen it out that the mean and: subservient modification, foisted into the whole Plan as revised sub rosa, should be allowed to hold go o d 1 The route followed out along the northern margin of th e r i ver Thames, from Biackfriars towards Westminster, sudd e nly stopping short at the corner of Whitehall gardens, for the purpose (a Nording to this mod est proposition of the Seven committeemen !) of easing the traffic by causing it at that particular point to diverge into Parliament-street !To these very questionable friends of the Duke of BUCCLEUCII, his grace is alone indebted, we would remind him, for his name having in ti ,:v way whatever bec ome mimed up in the transaction, or . ' in the discussions THE SUN LOND which took place in regard to it during the passage of the bill through the House of Commons. To three men above all others may we consider his grace in this matter to stand very heavily indebted. First of all, to one who is unhappily as yet name less—meaning the individual, whoever he may have been, who contrived so cleverly to " dodge " Mr. DISRAELI out of his signature to that very important paper which pledged the Treasury to the renewal of the lease of Montagu House ! That very renewal of the lease which Mr. DISRAELI had him self before then so peremptorily and distinctly re fused to countenance! The other two " friends "of his grace in this affair of Whitehall-gardens and the Thames Embankment—don't we all remember who they are? Their names are at any rate not lying perdu in this attempt at a dirty, muddy eva sion of the Thames Embankment immediately oppo site Whitehall-gardens, but especially opposite that sacred part of Whitehall-gardens adorned by his grace's /I ew town palazzo, Montagu House ! To Mr. GORE and to Mr. lIORSMAN, but to the latter gentleman especially,theDuke of BUCCLEUCII is more largely indebted in this a ffair than it is very easy for anyone upon the spur of the moment to calcu late. There are other kinds of candour in a friend (so-called) than that peculiar description of candour from enduring the effects of which Mr. CANNING, in the famous couplet of the "Anti-Jacobin," so pas sionately besought Heaven that he might be spared. And throughout the whole of the late discussions in the House of Commons in reference to the lease of Montagu House, and especially in reference to the alteration (in one sense so petty, in another so monstrous) insinuated into the scheme of the Thames Embankment by the seven obsequious committee men—Mr. HORSMAN was, in the Duke of BIJC CLEUCII'S regard, so painfully " candid" from first to last, that his grace might, in the recent recol lection of his very painful experience in this matter, echo from his heart Mr. CANNING'S agonised sup- plication,— ~ But, of all ills, good Heaven, Thy wrath can send, Save, save, 0 save me from the Candid Friend I" Fortunately for himself, the Duke of BUCCLEUCH has known how (upon the first opportunity) to shake his reputation free from these candid friends of his, who were for dragging his great name down into the dust and mire, in the hope of keeping the vulgar daily trail of London Traffic, tho common place stream of 'busmen, and cabbies, and costermongers, and the like, from coming be tween the wind and his nobility ! " 0 for an ounce of civet, good apothecary !" There is no help for it now—the river front of Montagu House must needs be desecrated after this deplorable fashion. The House of Commons has decided it. The Duke of BUCCLEUCH consents. The tall Mr. HIGGINS "has his way," much after his wont. " J.o."—According to Mr. DICKENS'S whimsical way of expressing it— has put an end to another " J. 0.8." So that after all, the Duke's men—" Flunkeys," Mr. CARLYLE would probably be disposed to call them—have toiled and moiled—in vain. The River Thames is to be Embanked continuously upon the northern side from the bridge at Blackfriars to the bridge at Westminster. Just as the " Night Poaching Prevention Bill has passed its second reading in the Commons—a trial takes place, founded on a sad poaching affray of 1848, as if to remind all of us of the evil which this bill is designed to foster and protect. Its better title would be, " The Game Preservers Indemnity Bill ;" for, its real object is to save landlords who gather together their game in such flocks and herds, and in such exposed places, as to invite the poacher's visits, the expense attendant on watching it. It is gang poaching which is the occasion of all the murderous battles between poachers, and game keepers, and it is just gang poaching which Lord BERNERS' Bill is sure to increase. Mr. HENLEY, whose lead his brother Tories would have wisely fol lowed on this occasion, showed them unanswerably, how certainly the poachers woohl protect them selves by numbers against the interference of the solitary county policemen, as they now do against that of bands of gamekeepers. Gang work will be increased not lessened, when it will be necessary the poachers' safety from sunset till eight nex morning. Our readers have probably almost forgotten the frightful affray near Beverley, in which Jex, the gamekeeper, was murdered after having first en deavoured to murder the poacher, and his assistants badly wounded. Seven men were tried for the of fence at York, and four of them are still undergoing penal servitude for the offence. The onenow tried, convicted of assaulting a watcher with intent to kill, and sentenced to three years' penal servitude, escaped the police for a long time, but was at last captured in a brick yard near Scarborough. That JEX was savagely murdered, and that the others were attacked, is true, but that JEX was as ready to commit murder, for he and his two companions attacked eight men, and could have no hope of success but by murderous violence, is equally true. If nothing can excuse the extreme violence of the poachers, neither can anything excuse that of the - watchers. All the game in the preserve was surely not worth the life of one watcher or one poacher ; but both parties had gone out armed with deadly weapons, both in tending to fight rather than not to capture, or to be captured. It is really horrible to think of the bloody mindedness with which both keepers and poachers sat out on their rounds. The reason is obvious. The brutal stringency of the laws which pro. tect the wild animals called game, and the bar barous severity of their administration by the clergy and game preservers, make poachers desperate in resisting capture. At the same time they know that the keepers will be equally desperate to catch them. Hence, as the distant or extensive preserve is an irresistible temptation, the dangers are risked, and these fierce, bloody contests are the result. Now, we hold that the last thing the law of the 1.. a ahuula ao is to encourage this inexcusable mode of game preserving. We mean, of course, not the preservation of what we may call a natural head of game in such numbers and over such an extent of wood or country as may furnish ample manly sport, but what is now understood by game preserving. When the pheasants roost in the woods as numerously as hens on a farm-yard tree, or hares issue from them in flocks almost like sheep, destroying far more generally than the same number of sheep wuuld consume —this is the social crime which law ought to discourage, not to protect. It is in vain to make more stringent laws to prevent poaching and the murder and demorali sation consequent on it while these allurements to the vice exist. Game preserves ought to be known to the law very much as houses of ill-fame and gambling are—as a nuisance to be abated, not in stitutions to be put under the special charge of the county police. Least of all ought arbitrary and irresponsible powers, against poachers, to be in trusted to the police much like those now assumed by the gamekeepers. The result will be as was well pointed out by Mr. HENLEY and others, that the P°lieen 'an now respected as a thief-taker, will be bitterly hated an d assa il e d as a ga mekeeper. In • deed the " u nties will have to double their police to save the gam e _ Preserver's pockets. Ono of our co ntemporaries, from whom we ex- pected a more sportsmanlike view, has taken up the cause of these game-preserving landlords, repre senting them as the poulterers, in this article, for the nation. Will these should-be sports men thank him for the argument. It is, in a modified sense, true. We know of some sad tales of game-selling meanness, and we also know that in multitudes of cases the exa cerbated feeling of the keeper towards the poacher arises far more from his interference with the gamekeeper's own profits than with his master's pleasures. But to this argument, otherwise, the an swer is simple. Let those wbo desire to breed game for the market do so avowedly and as a busi ness—let them make proper arrangements to keep and feed the wild animals within enclosures suit able for their protection ; let such properly fenced in limits have fair protection by law ; they will be a directly commercial undertaking, and the crea. tures fed at the cost of the proprietor, and kept like other fowls, as far as possible, from wandering into other persons' property will be fairly recognised as property themselves. Such a preserve would be very differently regarded from game maintained in a style which endeavours to combine those incom patibles—poultry-yard ease of killing, and, field sport. We should have no objection to a bill, were one requisite, to facilitate growing game for the market. Game for sport ought to need no protec tion but trespass laws, and the law of good feeling between a benevolent landlord and well affected enantry and peasants. Out of the "Personal Explanations" which were made yesterday in the House of Lords by the Earl of CARNARVON and the Duke Of NEWCASTLE re- spectively, there have come forth more distinctly than ever to the recognition of the public at large, ono or two extremely gratifying facts in respect to our Colonial Civil Expenditure. Speaking hastily the other evening, and somewhat .onfuscaly withal, though in the midst of a really able speech, the Earl of CARNARTON intimated, as plainly at least as his words could be understood, that, whereas the Civil Colonial Estimates were in, 1856, £320,000, they had expanded so rapidly since then, that they had swelled at last, in 1862, to the enormous amount of £937,000. The youg Earl's statements, however, and not the Civil Colonial Estimates, were what happened to be (in Mr. DISRAELI'S phrase) "bloated." His Grace the Colonial Secretary yesterday, however, took the Earl's two statements in turn—and, at the first puncture, how they collapsed ! In stead of £356,000 being the Civil Colonial Esti mates for 1856—" for £356,000," said the Duke of NEWCASTLE, " read £122,000." Again, instead of the total of these estimates in the financial year last past being, as the Earl intimated, £937,000—f0r £937,000, quoth the Duke, read £113,000. In each instance, but especially in the latter instance, a wonderfully agreeable and consolatory drop down ! Having explained that his noble friend had probably erred in his second estimate (that for 1862), by including in it, among other items, such sums as Treasury chest, £242,000; captured negroes—bounty on slaves £55,000 ; commissions for suppression of the slave trade, £lO,OOO ; consuls abroad, £167,000 ; services in China, Japan, and Siam, £86,000 ; North American boundary commission, £4o,ooo—the Duke of NEWCASTLE assured the Lords yesterday, and through them the country, that the truth is these colonial expenses are steadily and appre ciably diminishing'; Fluctuating every now and then, of course, as they diminish— but still, upon the whole, undeniably and re cognizably diminishing. Enough, in proof of this being the fact, when it is remarked that while, as we have already seen, the Colonial civil estimates were, altogether, in 1856, 122,0001., they were in 1857, 185,0001. ; in 1858, 141,0001. ; in 1859, 183,000/. ; in 1860, 163,0001 ; in 1861, 112,0001., and in 1862, 113,000/. Will not this, of itself, be sufficient to console Mr. GOLDWIN SMITH, the Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford ? And will it not do something towards silencing that learned scholar's most unpatriotic proposition for the dismemberment, virtually, of the British Empire ? ,o DEPARTURE OF THE COURT FOR SCOTLAND,— Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by his Royal High ness the Prince of Wales, with the junior members of the Royal family, and the ladies and gentlemen of the Royal suite, left Windsor yesterday evening at 6 50, by special train on the Great Western line, under the charge of Mr. Gooch, locomotive engineer. On arriving at Leamington, a distance of 90 miles, at 9 25, there would be a stoppage of ten minutes for refreshment ; the train would arrive at Bushbury Junction, 1271 miles, at 10 42, and enter upon the London and North-Western line, arriving at Whit more, 155 miles, at 11 34 ; at Preston, 1961 miles, at 12 61 a.m., where the engine would take water; at Kendal Junc tion, 2581 miles, at 2 39, where the engine would take water ; the Royal party then proceeding on the Caledonian line to Carlisle, where they would arrive at 4 7, distance 3081 miles ; thence to Aboyne, 582 miles, at 1 50. After remaining at Balmoral one month, the Court will return to Scotland. THE GREAT WESTERN .KAILwAY COMPANY'S I SERVANTS.—Yesterday the 7th annual rural fete in aid of the Great Western Railway Widow and Orphans' Fund was held in Englefleld Park, which was kindly granted for the purpose by Mr. Richard Benyon, M.P. for Berkshire. The directors of the company caused special trains to be run from Lendon, Oxford, Ilungerford, Reading, and other places, to Theale, the nearest station to the park, to which they were conveyed by omnibuses which were in attendance. Large numbers of the company's servants attended, and amusements of various kinds were provided for their benefit. In the evening there was dancing, there being present Mathew's quadrille band, the band of the Paddington Rifles, and that of the Ist Berkshire Volunteers. After having spent a very pleasant day the visitors were convoyed home by special train. THE ORLEANS PRINCES.—The following is an extract from a letter addressed by an officer of the Guards, who was present with tae army of General M'Clellan, to a field-officer of the same corps. It is dated, head-quarters, seven miles from Richmond, June 8 :—" The French Prin ces are here, and we see a good deal of them—in fact, when our tent went astray I lived in the tent of the Count de Paris and the Duke de Chartres. They are two of the best j uuog fellows 1 have ever met, and are among the most active and best of General M'Clellan's staff. The Duke de Chartres has perhaps been educated more as a soldier than his brother, but both are thorough good officers. I cannot speak too highly of them. Under fire they are just as pleasant and agreeable as at other times. Their uncle, the Prince de Joinville, we like very much ; he is a superior man. The officers of this army have a great regard for them. General M'Clellan told me that he considered the two Princes as the beat officers on his staff, and that he could not please the young Duke better than by sending him out for a long ride at night." REPRESENTATION OF KIRKCALDY.—The Sheriff has appointed Friday for the nomination, and Saturday for the poll, should one be required. Mr. It. S. Aytoun, in his address, says his political opinions are Liberal, and his de sire is to act in conjunction with the Liberal party. He entirely approves the foreign policy of the Government, and considers that in the present crisis of events no man is so ab'e to overcome the difficulties that may arise between Europe and America as Lord Palmerston. He approves the measures of defence and for strengthening the navy which have been adopted, and would support a well-consi dered measure of reform. Lord Schomberg Henry Kerr is to contest the burghs on Liberal Conservative principles, and has also issued an address. REPEAL OF THE HOF DUTY.—A great gathering is to take place in Lord Harry Vane's park, Baltic Abbey, near Hastings, on Thursday, the 31st inst., in celebration of the repeal of the excise duty on hops. A dinner will be given, and in the evening entertainments of all sorts will be provided. Amongst those who have promised to attend are Lord Harry Vane, M.P., Viscount Pevensey, M.P., Sir J. V. Shelley, Bart., M.P., Sir E. Filmer, Bart., M.P., Sir Brook Bridges, Bart., M.P., Sir T, M. Wilson, Bart., the Hon. 11. Brand, M.P., Mr. X T. Bass, h a m, M.P., Mr. Dodson, M.P,, Mr. E. C. Ege rton, M.P . M 1 ) , Mr. P. W. Martin, M,P., M. F. North, 1‘1.,, and Mr. A, J, 13ereaford Hope, M.P., Mr. Coning_ LATE►Sf NEWS. PARIS, JULY 23. The Moniteur of this morning says : " Some inflammatory symptoms have necessitated the application of leeches to the Princess Clothilde. This measure had the good effect which was ex pected. " The Empress visited the Princess on Tuesday evening." TURIN, JULY 22, Evening. The rumours current to-day on the Bourse of the disappearance of Garibaldi, and his having set out for an unknown destination, are unfounded. Ho was at Palermo this morning on his return "rom Trapani. At Marsala he was slightly indisposed. CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 22. The conferences upon Servian affairs begin to day. The Italian Minister arrived here on Sunday last. MADRID, JULY 22. The Epoca of to-day says : Spain, in re-establishing relations with Italy, would reserve to herself liberty to always defend the Italian dynasties, united to her by the ties of kin dred and the rights of the Papacy. LISBON, JULY 22. Before the Lisbon Bank advertisement of the Portuguese Loan, contracted for by Messrs. Knowles and Foster, was published, applications were made here in excess of the £500,000 sterling reserved for Portugal. BERNE, JULY 22. In reply to the protest made by the Swiss Government against the words lately uttered by General bixto relative to the aou...,ution of the Bishopric of Ticino by Italy, the Italian Government has stated that it will disavow those words on the first opportunity, and that it is the interest of Italy that Switzerland should remain intact. BERLIN, JULY 22. To-day, in the Chamber of Deputies, M. Reichens perger asked for information respecting the recogni tion of the Kingdom of Italy by Prussia. Count Bernstorff replied, that the Government did not, in recognizing the Kingdom of Italy, ac knowledge the principle of nationalities. He said, also, that guarantees had been given in the de spatches of General Durando, and that it was in the interest of Prussia to recognize Italy. Count Bernstorff concluded by stating that the Catholic Powers had recognized that kingdom, and that Prussia need not be more Catholic than they. THORN, JULY 22. According to authentic reports received here from Warsaw, the Government had discovered a wide spread conspiracy, in consequence of which nume rous arrests had been made during the night. Some pupils of the preparatory school were among those arrested. PARIS, JULY 22. The Paris papers of this evening publish the fo' lowing telegram:— " RAGUSA, JULY 21, EVENING. " On Friday and Saturday last 50,000 Turkish troops attacked the Montenegrins, who, numbering about 15,000, and being short of ammunition, fell back uron the line of Sagaratz. Both sides suf fered heavy loss, but the advantage remained with the Turks." FRANCE. BOURSE, July 22.—The market has been almost deserted by speculators, the settled fineness of the weather now beginning to attract them to the country and to the sea coast. Business has con sequently been very limited, but prices well main tninorl Thrace, for the Account, arc unvaried at 68f. 40c. Railway Share Market without anima tion. The market closed as follows : It per Cents. 97 45 Bank Shares 3225 Do. end month.... Credit 1. oncier ll7O 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 30 Italian Loan 7l 15 New 3 per Cents .. Roman Do. end month.... Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 822 50 Spanish Threes 5O/ Do. end month.... 825 Home Debt .. — RAM, 'AYS. Cash. Account. 992 50 .. 995 Orleans Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1081 25 .. 1080 Geneva 357 50 Southern Western Eastern ... ..... „ Sardinian - Austrian Lombard INDIA. We have received our letters and papers by the steamer Benares. (From the limes of India of June 28.) We hear that the Government of Bombay has received a telegram of a battle between Dost Alaho med and the Heratees. Nothing definite is known, but it is believed the Ameer has lost several chiefs of note. News has been received from the Dost Mehomed's camp up to the 2d June, on which day the Ameer moved forward from Candahar to the banks of the Urghundab, a distance of about six or seven miles. The ruler of Herat is said to have recalled his son and brother from Subzwar to Herat, intending if Furrah falls to hold only Herat in strength. Sir dars Mahomed Ameen Khan and Mahomed Shereef Khan expected to be before Furrah by the 7th or Bth of June, On the sth June the Ameer's camp had reached Bagh Muzeer, four marches from Candahar. Sirdar Shere Allee Khan, tile heir apparent, had gone on to the river Helmund to push across the troops. The Heratees had evacuated the fort of Kush. The people of the Furrah had refused supplies to the garrison, and had sent messages to the Ameer's troops to hasten on to their relief. The rumours recently circulated by the North 'West papers, as to the probability of a rising in Oude, are without foundation. The report that Feroze Shah is in Ahmed Jan's camp near Herat, is generally credited by the people. Defalcations to a considerable amount have been discovered in the office of the Collector of Income Tax at Bombay ; they have been traced to a native subordinate. ~Y Sir Bartle Frere, it is said, intends to make Sat tara again a military station, as before Sir George Clerk's time. About £5,000, of which amount native merchants have given nearly £2,000, has been collected in Bombay for the operatives of Lancashire. The sup posed Nana, who was arrested some months ago at Kurrachee, has been released by order of the Government of India. The man has been proved to be a professional beggar. The Government of India has obtained trust worthy information that the movement of Sultan Ahmed Jan upon Candahar has not been made with the support of Persia, and has resolved not to in terfere with Affghan politics. Ills Excellency Sir Hugh Rose is said to be pre paring a report upon his recent tour on the Punjab and Scinde frontier. An Englishman named Rudd has been sentenced to be hanged at Calcutta for shooting a native in th e Punjab. Except an Irish soldier who was hanged in 1855 fur shooting a comrade, this will be the first instance of a European being executed in Calcutta since it became a British possession. A petition has been presented for the man's reprieve. The China mail, arrived here on the 19th June, is said to have brought an urgent demand for troops to be sent from India, our small force at Shanghai being considered in a somewhat critical position. The Taipings have repulsed the allies with less, and killed the French Admiral (Protet). The public sale of the Banda and Kirwee Prize jewels commenced at Calcutta on the 3d June. The sale will occupy 15 days, and is estimated to yield little short of a million sterling. The Bhore Ghaut Railway Incline (G. I. P. Railway) will be opened for public traffic either in January or February next. The ship Blue Jacket has been totally -wrecked on the Saugor bank at the mouth of the Hooghly. The Rao Saheb is to be tried at Delhi on charges of treason and the murder of British subjects, CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, JULY 23. The papers to hand by the Angio-Saxon, from Quebec on the 12th inst., amplify a portion of the advices received from the United States, previously reported by telegram via Londonderry. The following was the latest telegram at Quebec from New York. It is dated July 11: " The Tribune says the President returned to Washington last evening. Nothing has transpired as to what was done with General M'Clellan. Our letter from Fort Monroe says he went to see for himself, and learn what changes, if any, were needed; that all was going on satisfactorily; the troops were well rested, and ready to a man for another fight. The new position is impregnable, and the roads to Richmond, 19 miles by land, are dry and favourable. The Burnside reinforcements have all gone up the river. They are in fine health and spirits, splendidly disciplined and efficient. Burn- side is an intimate friend of M'Clellan's, and wil be next in command. Another correspondent says On the arrival of the President at Harrison's Land ing, Gen. M'Clellan, with several other generals, visited him on board, after which the President and generals held a private conference for half-an hour. They then proceeded to Gen. Sumner's head quarters, when they took to horse, with the view of Vibiting the Hue of entrenchmwnts. Coming into the trenches the President was welcomed with great enthusiasm. He was not satisfied with riding in front of the army, but dismounted and ascended the ramparts in view of the enemy's Pickets. The President briefly addressed the soldiers. He said he had come to see for him self, and that he should go back satisfied. It was said they had been whipped—it was not so, and never would be! He knew the men around him would prove equal to the task before them, and never give up without going into Rich mond. He declared his confidence in the army and its commander. The party continued their route along the lines, and at nine in the evening returned to General M'Clellan's. On 'Wednesday morning, after a conference at the head-quarters, the President started on his return. The _Herald's despatch says the President is satisfied that affairs on the peninsula are in a much better condition than have been reported. He gave credit to M'Clel lan for having in no way exaggerated the facts. He has seen for himself the necessity of reinforce ments to the army, and returns with the conviction that General 2.l.‘Clellan is in the proper position ; that the army is devoted to him, and full of con fidence in his ability ; and that all he required shall be done without delay." 'Washington advices of the 9th state that an im portant manifesto, in the shape of a proclamation from) the President, defining the future policy of the Administration on the great question of the hour, is not improbable at an early day. Mr. Lin coln had been waited on by several Senators and members of the House, and would be visited by a large delegation should he be able to receive them, urging him to issue a proclamation in the tenour of the bill reported in the Senate requiring generals commanding departments to accept the services of all persons going within the Federal lines. A bill had been reported from the Senate Mili tary Committee, which was unanimously agreed to, authorising the President to accept the services of all persons of African descent for the purpose of working on fortification, digging intrenchments, and, in fact in doing any kind of war service. They are to be paid compensation, and, with their fami lies, are for ever to be free when discharged from such service, any law or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. It was expected that it would pass both houses without any delay. The correspondence between the War Department and General M'Clellan had been transmitted to the house, in response to a resolution of inquiry. General M'Clellan says, in the course cf his ex . planations:— • " Those who have originated the false statements concerning the 'White House yard and spring are, in fact, as stated in my despatch of the ith inst., enemies of this army and the cause in which it is fighting. They have imposed upon the Sur geon-General, and caused him to make official re presentations which, on examination, proved to be unfounded in fact, and which are disrespectful to his superior officer. They have unnecessarily occu pied the attention of the Secretary of 'War, and have interrupted the commander and the medical director of this army in the midst of their most arduous duties." A CURIOUS TRIAL. The Civil Tribunal of the Seine has just given judgment in a suit instituted under the follow ing singular circumstances :—ln May, 1861, a M. Moynat, of Villej ust, a retired agent-de-change, possessing property to the amount of about 30,000 fr. a year, married a widow named Huby, and six weeks later the husband, after a violent quarrel with his wife, committed suicide. By the marriage contract M. and Mme. Moynat had each left the whole of their property to the sur vivor. That clause of the contract the natural heirs of M. Moynat now attempted to annul, in accordance with Art. 955 of the Code Napoleon, which declares that such donations may be re voked on the ground of the ingratitude and un worthiness of the donee. They alleged that pre viously to her marriage Mme. Moynat had led a most disorderly and dissolute life, a fact which she had managed to keep from her husband's knowledge; that, almost immediately after the marriage, she formed an illicit connection with a schoolmaster named D—; that this conduct on her part gave rise to frequent quarrels between her and her husband, after one of which he committed sucide by blowing ont his brains ; and that, after that lamentable event, she cohabited with the person above mentioned and conducted herself in the most disgraceful manner. The heirs of M. .Moynat, in consequence, now applied to the Tribunal for permission to prove the above allegations with a view to further proceedings, for the pur pose of annulling the donation made in the mar riage contract. This application was opposed by Mme. Moynat, - whose counsel declared that the allegations were a tissue of contemptible calum nies, invented for the sole purpose of injuring his client's reputation. He maintained that M Moynat's suicide was not caused by his client's mis conduct, and that if her husband had had any just cause of complaint against her, ho might easily have taken steps for revoking the donation, whereas the draught of a will found among his papers was altogether in favoar of his wife. After hearing the Procureur Imperial, who opposed the application, the Tribunal decided that it must he rejected, on the ground that the allegations relating to facts which occurred previously to the marriage could be no proof of ingratitude for a favour not yet con ferred ; that the charge of adultery could only be brought by the husband himself, and that what took place after his decease did not constitute acts of ingratitude which could b e admitted as a groun d for revoking the donation. CHARING CROSS RAILWAY AND THE LAST OF HUNGERFORD INlARSET.—Yesterday another sale of this property, comprising the range of shops forming the colon nade of Hungerford-market and the street communicating with the Strand, and which nearly completes the disposal of that extensivo I.roperty, was effected by Mr. Marsh, the company's auctioneer, including the two well-known raverns in front of which the Paddington and Camden town omnibuses had their stations. THE L ritIOND. Nearly all the articles that appear in the journals are prepared expressly to deceive. There is not a word of truth in them, except by accident. Cor respondents of newspapers make this man or that general a hero, or a coward, according as they are instructed by the owners of the papers. Few people wade through the columns of accounts that appear. For instance, in the late seven days of attack and slaughter of our army M'Clellan lost. 60,000 dead, wounded, and missing. Nearly all are in the hands of the rebels, dead, dying, and wounded. It is not likely that they will have much mercy, even if they haye means to do the wounded good, or provisions with which to feed them. The rebels also lost very severely, for our men were like cornered rats—they had to fight on their own hook or be cut to pieces, and they slaughtered back. It is said the rebels lost 75,000 killed and wounded. I will say one-half that amount, that is 37,000, making the total of dead and wounded at 97,700. I have carefully sifted the reports, and have conversed with many who were on the battle-field, or rather in the great slaughter 1 yards, during the seven days, and I do not think ,hat the result will show that I am far out of the way in my estimates. This will be known to every person north, east, and west. It will cool the ardour of tens of thousands—not because the men were killed in such enormous masses in a fair stand-up fight, but because 60,000 of our men were killed and wounded through the blundering ignorance of a general who ought never to have been trusted to command more than a corporal's guard. I presume he will be changed. If he is not, I do not think there will be many volunteers who will come forward and enlist for cer tain death under him. His army is now reported at 70,000 men. He had 220,000 when he left Wash ington city to take command. We know that the deaths by sickness have been fearful. Soldiers who➢ have returned have for some weeks reported the deaths at over 1,000 to 10,000 a week. This would give 90,000 less by sickness, 66,000 in the last seven days' slaughter, 70,000 left on the 3d July last, making up the total of 220,000_ Of course he will be reinforced at once by men sent from the division. of Ha lleck.—Letter from .Neto York. PRESIDENT LEV COLN ON THE SLAVE QUESTION. Major Jack Downing, writing from Washington, gives us the following account of Mr. Lincoln's difficulties in regard to this danmosa lutreditas;—" Washington, June 15, 1862. Surs,—l've been kinder sick Bence I writ you last. The truth is, this clymate in the spring is raely very weaknin to the constitushin. Linkin, too, has been terribully anxus about war noose, and the nigh approach of hot weather. But the great subjeck which the Kernel and I have been considerin is the contrabands. What is to be done with 'eta ? That's the question, and Linkin says he would like to see the feller that can tell him. One night Linkin got a big map, an he set down, and Now,' ses he, Major,' let's take a look at all creashin, and sec ef ther aint sum place whar we kin send these pesky kinky heds, and get rid of 'em." Wal,' ses I r Kernel, I'm agreed.' So we went at it. First Linkin put his finger on Haty. Now,' ses he, thar's an iland that jest suits the nigger constitushin. Suppose they go thar ?" But,' see I, ' Kernel, they won't go, an ef they did, they wouldn't do nothing.' Wal,' ses he, no matter ef they wort trouble us here enny longer.' But,' ses I, ther's one more resin. The iland aint large enuff to hold all the niggers— four millions or thereabout.' Wal,' ses he, ther's Central Ameriky—what do you think of that spot ?' Wel,' ses I, Kernel, that's a fine country, naterally. The Creator fixed it up on grand skale, but you can't make a treaty with it enny more than you can count the spots on a little pig, when he keeps running about the hull time. The truth is, you can't tell who'll be President of it from one morning to the next, and the niggers you send ther might all get their throats cut jest as soon as they landed' Wal,' ses Linkin, that's a slight objection. But let's turn over to Afriky. Ther's Libery ; how would that do, Major?' says I, Kernel, that country is about the biggest humbug of the hull lot. Fust off, sum rely good peepul thought it was going to amount to sumthin, but after 40 years of spendin' money on it, there aint enny more chanst of civilizin' Africky in that way than there is of makin rifled cannon out of a bass-wood log. A few dominys, who can't find enny boddy willing to hear 'em preach, hey got hold of it, and are making a good thing out of it. As for sending our niggers ther, why it would take all the shippin of the world, and more money than Chase could print,by steam in a year.' Wal,' ses Linkin, whar on arth kin we send 'em ?" Now,' ses I, 'Kernel, I've got an ilee of my own about that matter. I think they are best off wher they are, and jest as they are, but ef you must get rid of 'era I would send 'em all to Massa-chews its I Peepul who are so anxus to have other folks overrun with free niggers, ought be willin to share some of the biessins themselves. So let all that are here in Washing ton be sent rite off to Boston.' Yes, that might do,' says Linkin, but then, ef they are entitled to their freedom, they orter be allowed to go where they are a mind to.' But,' ses I, 'sum States won' have 'em at all, and they can't go there. So, what's to be done ?" Wal,' ses Linkin, tell you 'what it is, Major, this is an almity tuff subjek. I know sumthin about splittin rails, and what hard work is gtaerally, but this nigger question has puzzled me more than enny thing I ever got hold of before. Wal,' says I, Kernel, I can explain the resen why.' Ses he, Let's hear you, Major." Well,' ses I, Ker nel, where do you carry your pockit-book ?' Ses he, What on arth has that to do with the subjek?' Seal, Hold on, you'll see.' Wal,' says he, I always carry it right there, in my right-hand trousers pocket.' Sea ID Didn't you never have a hole in that pocket for a day or two, and have to put it in sum other?' Ses he, Major, I have.' Ses I, What did you do with it then ?' Wal,' says he, I put it in my left•hand pocket, but it kinder chafed my leg there, cause it warn't used to it, and it also felt mity onhandy. So I put it in my aide cote pocket, but every time I stooped over it would drop out. Then I put it in my coat tail pocket, but I was kept all the time on the qui rivers, afeerd some pickpocket would steal it. At last, in order to make it safe and sure, I put it in the top of my hat under sum papers, but the hat was top heavy, and over it went, spilling every thing. I tell you I was glad when my pocket was fixed, and I got it back in the old spot.' Now,' ses I, ' Kernel, that's jest the case with the niggers. The minit you git 'em out , of ther place, you don't know what on arth to do with 'em. Now we've been here all the evening searchin over the map to see of we can't find sum place to put 'ern, just as you did with your pocket -book. Put 'em wher they belong, and then you won't have no trubbil; Linkin didn't see egzaxly how I was gwine to apply the, story, and when he did he looked kinder struck up. V'en I saw that I had made a hit on him I follered it up. Ses I, Kernel, this Government ain't out of order, as Seward and Chase kontend. They are only tryin to run it the rong way—that's what makes all the trubbi.i. I wunce had a thrashing masheen, and I sold it to old Jim Dumbutter, and after he got it he said it warn't aod for nuthin—that it wouldn't run, &c. So I went over to see it, and I vow if he did'nt have the masheen all rong eend foremist. I went to work at it, and, after a leetle while, it went of like grease, just as slick as a whissel. You see old Dumbutter didn't onderstand the masheen, and therefore he couldn't make it go.' Now, ses I, Kernel, our Constitushin is a Demmycratic masheen, and it's got to be run as a Demmycratic masheen, or it won't run at all Now, you see, Seward is trying to runit on his higher law' principle, but it warn't made for that, and the konse kence is, the thing is pretty nigh smashed up.' "—Ctncznnatt Weekly Enquirer. SHIPPING-THIS DAY. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH), GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived, July 22 —Sop hia, from Emde n; Emanuel, fro m Norkoping ; Pilot, fro m Soderham ; N eptunus and Leentj e, Ju ly 23—Moor of Venice, f rom S myrna; Free' Arrived, from trom D G a r n o t n s i i n e g ; e Cu Sinette, from Nyki o bi ng ; Kath l ee n, a c e , from Fayal. Saeuner, from Oldskgornsoick ; Furet and Lionne, from GravelineS ; Jetje 801, from Groningen ; St a dt, Iron , owcastle and Middlesex, Tor Calcutta. he Bellegra, from T DEAL, Wednesday Morning. e t dc lo idt y;;rom north, for Havre; West Rio de Jaueiro, oi Taganrog, for Hull ; Moral, o h l :a pSlr m ::::h b risee i i irg, from Bremen, for 'West Indies. Passed in tow—Victor, from Quebec, for London. THE MISSING HIGH SHERIFF OF LEICESTEW SHIRE.—RECOVERY 01' HIS BODY.— During the last fey ( days Inspector Smith, an officer of the Leicester police force, has been in search of J. B. Winstanley, Esq., high sheriff of Leicestershire, whose mysterious disappearance has been already noticed in our columns. On Monday afternoon a telegram was received at Leicester Castle, whilst the assiz es f or t h e county were b e i ng h e ld, s t a ting th at Inspector Smith had discovered the body of Mr. Winstan: ley, at Coblentz, on the Rhine, where it had been fo und fiGating in the waters of the river Moselle, It is fully be lieved that the deceased gentleman had lost his reason' Wandered on to the Continent, and at Coblentz precipita4de himself into the water whilst in that state of min d. also learn that Mr. \Vinstanley passed through B oulogne' where he pas=ed two bank notes. This sad event has ! er minated the career of a kind and considerate landlord, a u , Ai useful and generous gentleman of the county, an d his is most deeply deplored by all classes of perso ns. cluster Guardian. oulogne, P 1 1 el fo x be Dal 3 It 17.4§.); o.