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

C RYS TAL PALACE.-TO-MORROW.-ONE SHILLING. Open at Nine. GREAT MEETING Ot CHARITY CHILDREN. One of the most pleasing sights of the year. CRYSTAL PALACE.-FIVE THOUSA ND CHILDREN of the METROPOLITAN CHARITY SCHOOLS will SING at the Crystal Palace, on the Great Handel Orchestra, TO-MORROW (Tuesday). July 8. The children, in their various coloured dresses, will assemble on the Orchestra at Three o'clock , for the perfor- mance. Mr. Buckland, vicar choral of St. Paul's, will conduct the Music; Mr. Coward will preside at the Organ. Prin cipal Solo Trumpet, Mr. Harper. Festival Drums, M r . Harper. Festival Drums, Mr. Chipp. Doors open from Nine o'clock until dusk. Frequent Trains from all Stations. c hildren under twelve, Si x Admission, One Shilling ; - pence. A limited number of reserved seats will be pro. vided, Half-a-Crown each, which may be had at the Ticket-stands in the Crystal Palace. ci=l------RYSTAL PALACE GREAT FESTIVAL of the CHILDREN of the CHARITY SCHOOLS TO-MORROW. PROGRAMME of the MUSIC to be Sung at Three o'clock. Old Hundredth Psalm. Adeste Fide les. Luther's Hymn. (Trumpet Obligato, Mr. Harper.) Hallelujah Chorus. Chorale from Costa's Eli. Jerusalem the Golden (Worms). Chorale, " Sleepers wake l"—St. Paul. (Accompanied by Brass Band.) God save the Queen. _ _ Conductor, Mr. henril3u - Ckiand. Organist, Mr. James Coward. Trumpet Obligato, Mr. Harper. Festival Drums, Mr. Cbipp. " F UN" EVERY WEEK , ONE PENNY. THEATRE -ROYAL. DRURY-LANE Dion Boucicault, Lessee. TO-NICaTT, Monday, Jul" 7, 188', the performances will commence at 7, with the SPITAL FIELDS WEAVER: Messrs. Atkins, F. Robinson, Sara Stevins. Aftcr which, THE COLLEE BAWN : Messrs. Dion Boucicault, H. Vandenhoff, F. Robinson ; Madame Celeste, Jessie M'Leau, Stevins. To conclude with THE KISS IN THE DARK : Messrs. Atkins, Farrell ; Mrs. G. Jordan. Box-office open from 10 to 5. TH.EAT RE-RO Y A 1.. HAY MARKET Lessee Mr. J B. Buckstone.__ ----- ---•- THIS EVENING, at Seven, THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE. Mr. Compton, Miss Caroline Hill, Arc. After which, at a quarter to 8, will be performed(lBBth time) OUR AMERICAN .SoCOUSIN Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck stone ; Lord Dundreary, r. thena. Followed by a new Spanish Ballet entitied LA CONTRA BANDISTA. Senora Perea Nena, Senor Ricardo, and the Corps dc Ballet To conclude with SHOCKING EVENTS. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING. hiss M. Harris. After which, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Fabien and Louis de Franchi, Mr. Charles Nun; Messrs. Jordan, Everett, R. Cathcart, Meadows, &c. ; Mesdames Fielding, Chapman, R. Leclercq, Henderson, and N. Chapman. To conclude with THRICE MARRIED. Commence at 7. No half-price. 0 YAL LYCEUM THEATRE. .1-1) Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer. 201st Night of the continuous run of "Peep o'Day." THIS EVENING, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, and Edmund Falcone/ ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston, and Miss M. Hudson. After which, a new musical, pictorial, poetical, and ballet interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna AThitty and Miss Lydia Thomson. Followed by a new Farce, entitled THE COLLEEN BAWN SETTI.ED AT LAST. Mr. Charles Selby and Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 tills. Commences 7 INT EW THFA'I'RE-ROYAL, ADELPEII.- Sole Pronrietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. r" THIS EVF.NIN , 4, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, D. Fisher, P. Bedford, Billington, C. J. Smith, Stuart, Eburne, &C.; MissVfoolgar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Laidlaw. To conclude with THE SHILLING DAY. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Emery, Miss Latimer, Mrs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BArrTv. Revival of "Mazeppa." THIS EVENING will be performed MAZEPPA ; or, The Wild Horse of Tartary, with New Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations. To be followed by a brilliant routine of novel and daring Scenes in the Circle. Concluding* with a Comic Ballet, in which the Misses Gunnis and the whole of the Corps de Ballet will appear. Commence at 7.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle. C ANTERBURY HALL, STECKEL, The Greatest Trapeze Performer in the World, at 10 o'clock Immense success of the Grand Selection fronDonizetti'S" Opera, " DON SEBASTIEN," (Produced here for the first time in this country). Arranged and conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. Principal Artistes—Miss Russell and Signor Tivoli. The Great Comic Trio, Eugene, Duley, and Unsworth (the original of tie celebrated Stump Speech, " Or any other man "). Also the following array of Comic Talent, viz.:— E. Marshall, J. G. Forde, A. B. Hollingsworth, Miss Geor gina Smithson, and Joe Brown, the renowned Dancer. ru H E ---- 0 .. ,9, L L,Ict 1) - a Cantata composed by H. LESLIE, Esq., and written by A. MATTIIISON. Esq., in honour of the Marriage of her hoyal Highness the Princess Alice. EVERY EVENING, in addition to the usual entertainments, which include operatic selections by Miss Russell, Madame Enderssohn, Messrs. Morley, Greene, and Albert, with Full Band and Chorus ; the Comic performances of 3liss Caroline Parkes and Mr. W. Randall. the Ethiopian oddities of Itumsey, Newcomb, Little Bob, Eugene, and Unsworth (the original "or any other man"), and the astounding feats of the miraculous STECKEL, Champion Trapezist. Admission, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. NOTICE. All remittances 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. ~ ..,;;i.,; 4 ui:;.---Yk- ~..,.'' , . A‘,061, Ai. 4 >'•_= , ,l — T - 3 ,.- -4 „ -- ' *-;: -4. •;)--. •:,....•,,r347 - - ,4. - ~, x „,.....:. • —) A -. ' -- A., &.tv ‘k---2.14; 1 K t-13, .itattiFf: A .-..... • 31 <-. . s )if. - • t•- - - - j - e' -- „iii-. t. 4_ , Nk , ...- ~.... THEIPSUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY_ 7, 1862. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1862. We have a great deal of writing on and about America by the Africa, but not many new facts. Even of the battle just fought near Charleston, re ported first to be one " with great loss on both sides," we have only the additional information that the Confederates claim the Victory—a claim we had little doubt they would be enabled to make from the former account. We ought to be satisfied on behalf of General M'CLELLAN, for he seems to be very well satisfied himself. We learn from him that he is advancing step by step, the ground contested, every foot of it, by the Confederates, still he says I the pickets of the left of his army have been consi derably advanced, f:nat after a sharp resistance, lIEINTZEL3fAN and. HOOPER were where ho wished them to be, and that he had gained an important position. H e appears to be working strictly ac cording to rule, hazarding nothing, pushing on his works gradually to besiege the place, and paying little attention to clever surprises bywhieh the enemy must yet harrass him not a little. Whether, any where, the Federals provided the 4th of July ora _ tors with a topic for military glorification of the North,the accounts just received do not enable us to guess ; they all look the other way. The North is showing vigour in Congress, in creating paper money, imposin g taxes, and confis cating the slaves of rebels. It has agreed to the Secretary of State's demand for £30,000,000 more of demand notes, and finally passed the tax bill. Amongst other taxes is one after the Turkish fashion, on what should be it,s chief export, cotton.. For the benefit of New 2ngland manufact,.,rere, it is to pay half a cent ( s ine farthing) per The per-ceniage is, howe cer, on the pre. sent price •; and if it were much, larger it wwild all go towards the, ercourwKerneut ultimately of Indian grog.. th Perhc.ps nothing better could happen for India than a tax of cent per cent laid on An ' Ticsll cotton by Americans themselves. In that tts'4e, all manufacturing nations would com bine to Encourage Indian growth. It is exceed int; ly difficult to mak e out anything like the truth respecting what flat Confederates are doing with their cotton. One account assures us that a planter has burned .£25,000 Worth of his cotton—another, that only the exasperated bands of defeated Con federate soldiers have burned some city stores —then, again, that Memphis is actually shipping cotton to the North. We suspect the truth to be that none has been destroyed, except such as the Federal trzoops would be certain to seize as prize, an d appropriate to rewarding themselves. If even the P.:deral generals would purchase a planter's crop, why should he refuse to sell it ? The money would do him and his State more service than the cotton would do the Federals. It could even be I used for the purchase of arms. General BUTLER, at New Orleans, is reported also to be proceeding with his harsh vigour. The last account of him is that he actually hung a respect able eitizen for the very great offence of being pre sent, though it is affirmed not taking an actual part, in hauling down, the Federal flag As if blood only, not a temporary imprisonment, must atone for such a crime! This was a fair sequel to his proclamation, and his defence of pro claiming respectable ladies, who might be unable to restrain their indignant glances at Federal soldiers, to be on a level with the women who welcomed strange soldiers with amatory looks and mercenary caresses ! Now we are told that this man who has not been recalled by Mr. LINCOLN, has sentenced " an Alderman, and a gentleman, who was chairman of the Ladies Re lief Committee, to hard labour with ball and chain in Fort Jackson." It appears, as if the Northern Generals were doing the utmost in their power to disgust the Southerns with their rule. Of the armies of the West we hear nothing by the Africa. We have a strong suspicion that BEAUREGARD has contrived to get round a considerable number of his men from the far west, to the aid of JACKSON in the Shenandoah Valley, and to the defence of Rich mond. Ths reception accorded on Saturday evening to the Sovereign of EGYPT by the LORD MAYOR of LONDON was felicitously described by one of the speakers " as one of those happy impromptus which are the characteristics of our manners, as one of those graceful a propos which are the highest ornaments of our social happiness. In former days," continued the right hon. gentleman, " when Egyptian halls were visited and investi gated with the energy of a BELZONI or the genius of a BUNSEN, great treasures were discovered which we have all appreciated, and which have alike astonished and perplexed Europe ; but I think I may say, my Lord Mayor, that when your illustrious guest quits this room to-night he will bear from this Egyptian hall treasures which even Egypt will not despise —treasures not less valuable than those discovered by a BELZONI or a BUNSEN, for he will carry away from this hall the sympathies of an enlightened community and the respect of a free people." More even than this, we trust, that his Highness will bear with him when he quits the shores of England. To gether with the sympathies of an enlightened community and the respect of a free people, he will return homewards, we hope and believe, ma turely confirmed in the resolution to maintain the policy upon which, since his accession to power, his Government has wisely adventured. His Highness's visit to this country we cannot but regard as, under the circumstances, singularly op portune. If for nothing else, the International Exhibition would be deserving of our grateful re membrance, for, inasmuch as it has drawn thus into personal communication with our leading statesmen, the present gifted and keen-witted ruler of Egypt at a juncture in the history of Egypt so momentous to the fortunes of his native land and to the desti nies more or less of very many of the principal powers both of Asia and of Europe. It so happens that during the brief interval of the PACIIA'S so journ in London as one of the most distinguished among the royal visitors to the International Exhi bition at South Kensington, there comes an inkling ' one of those formidable secret compacts between ambitious rulers which hare so often before now changed the character of an age and modified the balance of power throughout a whole continent. The understanding now rumoured to have been for some time past upon the cards, and in active prepara tion, is of a nature, at the first whisper of it, calcu lated to awaken the curiosity of races as remote from each other as those that people Egypt and England as those of Germany and Hindostan. It is an alli ance in effect that is now stated to have been secretly arranging itself this long while between the diplo matic agents and emissaries of France, of Italy, and of Russia. At the earliest hinted intimation of this compact entered into between the CZAR, the KING, and the EMPEROR, an instant sense of its importance, of the importance of the mere supposi tion of it, even if we regard it at once as a purely idle and groundless conjecture —a sense of the import ance of the mere idea of such an alliance, offensive and defensive, between France and Italy and Russia, has manifested itself instantaneously, and, as it were, instinctively, in England, in Prussia, in Austria, in Turkey, in Egypt ! It will spread rapidly onwards, we cannot for one moment doubt, far away, via the Red Sea, threading the eastern Archipelago, past e'dylon, and northwards thence throughout the 'length and breadth of the three great Presid',lnces of Hindostan. Supposing the whole runaour to be proved eventually to have sprung from the vaguest and idlest of all possible hallucina tions, it will not have flitted in vain comet-like across the political horizon of Europe, if it but rouse us at length to a recognition, clear and precise, of the opportunities now actually within our reach, now absolutely at this very juncture at our command— opportunities by availing ourselves of which t th e perillous chance of any such secret compact like the one talked of as even now afoot, may b;,, in the simplest and yet securest manner possil,le, effectually frustrated beforehand. As affording us these very opportunities which are here alluded to, it is hardly matter of suprise that English statesmen especially have exulted in the almost s ,'..caultaneous appearance u p on the throne, here of Egypt there of Turkey, here the viceregal th';one of a Pacha, there of his Highness's liege lord or Suzeraine the Sultan Caliph, of men as re _ \ rnerkable for their enlightenment and for their capacity as those two contemporary Sovereign s . i ing S u l tan Since th e reigning Pacha of - EGYPT, since thereign or p A . a u l eni' a at Constantin op l e, assumed respectively the ~ - -ei ns o f G overnment, reforms of a the Tv veritably Er .ro PeAti char ac t er h ave set in both for irks and for th e E br = ig hter epoch is opening gyptians. A n e w an d a to each o f th ose two great m deplorably theb misgoverned ly and fertile, 4 1::it a guarantee hithertod countries. permanence of fi n b a y n c i t a h l e reorganization Sultan AB ABDUL t L w A h z i l e z h , Turkey th ese improvements in th ere i s , that economic was inaugurated immediately upon his succession to his turbaned crown. As a guarantee of a like permanence in 1 the improvements inaugurated by the reigning 1 , Pasha of EGYPT, there is the nota bl e recognition by him of the rights of labour throughout his 1 dominions, those sacred rights hitherto ignored so lamentably and ruinously by one after another of his predecessors. Let but the Sultan and the Pasha persist in carrying out r eso l ute l y t h e w i se an d humane policy upon which each has with such con summate sagacity adventured, and the hope of success to any m tliaccs betweenopomppseacotatou . the r ambitious eviving 1 , kings and emperors, as I energies of E g ypt an d o f Turk ey , must fade out 1 and vanish utterly. With a practical eye to the material advancement of the interests of the country and of the people over which his Highness presides as Sovereign, the PACHA of Egypt could hardly, we are persuaded, act more wisely before he quits England than by acquainting himself thoroughly with the estimate formed here, among our mercantile and engineering men of eminence, as to the cotton producing capabilities of the rich alluvial soil of that wonderful Delta of the Nile. This is a minor detail,ofcourse, butstill it is one which at this moment especially calls for his high ness's very serious consideration. Upon it may be dependant more than he or perhaps even the most farseeing among us may dream of in our philosophy. Gentlemen must have game to shoot, and game dealers to sell them to. Perhaps, we may add, citizens must have game to eat ; for what would a dinner, in the season, be without its game. So thinks Lord BERNERS. But, unfortunately, there for t They . oneof believe are a set of the wickedest men in the country , who have very o confused town's peoplenotions likingon the game first e p point. their courses, and they believe in dealers who shall purchase game from the sellers on the most approved free trade principles, but they cannot be made to see that the landlords should be the only wholesale dealers in game. They know it to be very profit able to sell, yet they will not comprehend that it is any particular man's property to sell. The unique incident to all game, that it can, and does, run or fly as far as it pleases; that it subsists, now on this man's turnips or crops, now on another's, now on the heather, or the common, which, with equal stupidity, he will not comprehend to be only con ventionally common—all this confuses rustic logic in regard to property, nor can the villagers of any hamlet in England be brought to regard one of their number who bags a hare, in the same light as the man who steals a fowl or a pig, or even a cat. We are not disposed to do battle for poachers as a class, though we utterly disbelieve the charge that they are ready to indemnify themselves by appropriating the farmers' hens, geese, or turkeys, for ill-success in beating a cover or a stubble. The class of hen roost robbers are quite a different class to that poachers ; they are more akin to common thieves ; and their village neighbours, who suspect them of such frauds, are pleased when they are dis covered. We have seen this pleasure openly shown as a farmyard pilferer was being conveyed to pri son, while the same peasantry would have only said of a poacher " poor fellow, he is unlucky, he's got into the hands of those parsons and squires, and they'll make him smart.'' Now, as there have been game laws ever since the times of feudalism, and laws stringent enough, in all conscience, it must be admitted that if law could have created the sentiment of property, it has had ample time to do so, in the case of game. Why has it utterly failed to do so ? We say utterly failed, because we believe that there are hardly 50 villagers in the kingdom, and perhaps hardly a greater number of farmers, who, if sure of immu nity, would not appropriate every head of game they conveniently could. We speak what we know in writing thus—what we know, too, in one of the best cultivated and most intelligent of the agricultural counties of England. The only excep tions are where, as in a few cases, the landlord takes almost the whole village into his pay, or where, which is the most pleasing case of all, the landlord is so esteemed by the farmers and the peasantry, that they take an interest in pre serving what interests him. Such cases, too, we have personally known—and such a village we have known to be as hostile to the destroyers of the landlord's game as to the robbers of the hen-roost. Now, it strikes us that these few exce parish towards a deserving proprietor, give the key to the true relation of game to property in general. Whatever of property there is in it, is of the kind which ought to appeal for its pro tection to the good will of a neighbourhood rather than to a savage and barbarous code administered by the persons whose judgments cannot be dis interested. It is a plain fact that the decisions of the magistrates—the clerical magistrates espe cially—are never believed by the village to be im partial. The gamekeeper, commonly quite as bad a character as the poacher, is generally the chief witness ; the magistrate, usually a game pre server, or a game preserver's friend, is the judge. The former and the poacher are sworn enemies ; the latter, in regard to game, is held to be a tyrant. Justice is believed to be out of the question; and probably there is more perjury in game cases than even in those which come before Sir C. CRESS WELL, and that without the compensation of a judge of unquestioned impartiality. It is next to impossible to secure an impartial administration of game-laws. , ptional But this arises from the fact just noticed, that game is not a proper subject for law at all. It may be made more and more dangerous to meddle with —but not a step will have been gained towards promoting respect for it as property. The powers with which Lord BERNERS proposes to arm the police will only create towards them the feelings now cherished towards gamekeepers. The respect now felt for the police as the protectors of what all acknowledge to be property, will not be felt when once they are regarded as the squire and the clergyman's instruments for the protection of " GOD'S wild creatures." Lord BERNERS bill, we are confident, even in its amended form, will damage seriously the position of the county police. They are even now looked on very much as the landlords' spies on poachers, they will be regarded, if this bill becomes law, as the landlords' county paid gamekeepers. Let, rather, the fact be looked boldly in the face, that to prohibit any one from killing a wild animal is a violation of that universal instinct to gratify which the prohibition is made a law. The instinct of pursuing, and capturing or killing, things which can get away, begins with us in childhood, and where such things are to be found commonly lasts for life. The chase in every form is a human in stinct. The instinct of attachment to, and respect for property is almost opposed to it. We only think of chasing that which no individual can appropriate. If now, as we have observed, hun dreds of years do not suffice to overpower this pri mary instinct, is it not almost equal to proof that it requires to be be met in some other way. Fair trespass laws would be respected—the humblest cottager resents the trespass on his garden. But, abstinence from meddling with wild animals ought to be regarded as a concession asked by those who require it from the goodwill of their neighbours. It would be at once acknowledged that the poacher had no more business in the land lord's - woods than he had in his house. And it may well be that the unnatural protection given by the law to certa i n w ild crea t ures i n th em , gene rates the f eel i ng of essential injustice which has brought thi ngs to thei r presen t p as s. Undoubtedly, as thin gs now stand, game and the ga me laws are the cause of a large proportion of the crime in rural districts. Poachers soon become idlers and adventurers, and often something worse. We have no sympathy, of course, with the class ; but when the question is, what makes them I' we are ine)ined to Arrange causes in the following order :-1. The contravention of natural instincts in converting wild animals into property. 2d. The harsh laws necessitated by a violation of nature. 3d. The harsh and one-sided administration of those laws. 4th. The preservation of game by landlords for battue shooting, in such numbers as to increase the temptation to the poachers. If this series of causes be correctly given—and we think it is—the true remedies must be of a different kind to those proposed by Lord BERNER& Among the most remarkable phenomena now visible to the gaze of all Europe are the self-com mand and tho self-abnegation of GARIBALDI. These to a reflective observer are even more wonderful in their way than his heroism and his audacity. Another might possibly have dared, though per haps none other could so marvellously have accom plished, his extraordinary exploit two years back in conquering Sicily with the aid of a thousand fol lowers, and taking Naples afterwards, as one may say, single-handed. But there can certainly not be named any other " Leader of Men," Soldier or Politician, Statesman or Diplomatist, Orator or Administrator, who could dream of emulating this extraordinary man in the display of those two qualities we have alove particularised—his self command and his self-abnegation. For years the political liberation of Italy has been the dream of GARIBALDI'S life. For the rea lisation of that beautiful day-dream he has sacri ficed everything. To the furtherance of that one cause he has dedicated his every energy. To it he has given his whole life, his name, his fortune, his reputation. For it he , has proved himself in every way to be a man wholly and absolutely un purchaseable. For Italy, for the sake of the Ita lians, he has been contented to be used, time and again, simply as an instrument for the carving out of her fortunes—an instrument alternately, as occa sion required, to be employed and thrown aside, and while so lying" thrown aside," but too often, (as especially during the last twelvemonth) most ungratefully neglected. For anything like neglect or ingratitude to himself individually, however GARIBALDI appears really to care just absolutely nothing. It is when his trusty followers have come to be treated in like manner, by the powers that be, that the whole soul of the hero rises at times in protest, in sheer disgust and indignation. One of these crises of conspicuous neglect and ingratitude is just now being passed through by GARIBALDI and his Garibaldians. The Italian Govern ment, strengthened in the presence of Europe by the tardy but formal recognition of it at last by the Russian Autocrat, seems to avail itself of the opportunity to avow its repudiation of GARIBALDI, for inasmuch as that great Cap tain may be held responsible for, the doings, or even for the meditated doings, of his Garibaldians. Here especially it is that we recognise—at these overshadowed periods of his truly wonderful history —the real greatness of the man, the purity, the scope, and the altitude of his magnanimity. Here it is that we perceive his readiness to sacrifice his own fair fame, if need be, to the glory, and the power, and the unity of the land he loves. LATEST NEWS. INDIA. (BY TELEGRAPH TO GALLE AND FROM SUEZ.) CALCUTTA, JUNE 15. Shirtings tending downwards. Mule twist quiet. Exchange on London, 2s. Old. Government Securities.—Four per Cents, 931 ; Five per Cents., 105. Freights 629.6 d. BOMBAY, JUNE 16. Cotton declining. Piece goods quiet. Government securities.—Five per Cents., 105 t. Freights dull and declining. CHINA. (BY TELEGRAPH FROM SUEZ.) SHANGHAI, MAY 21. Nangpo and Tsangpon have been wrested from the Taepings and restored to the Imperialists. Admiral Protet has been killed. Native troops have been sent for from India to protect Shanghai. A cargo of arms and ammunition has beet seized and confiscated by the allies. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Gray shirtings improving. Silk active. Tot& export 67,500 bales. Exchange on London, 6s} 2d. CANTON, MAY 26. Gray shirtings unchanged. Tea higher. Total export 93,000,000 lb. Exchange on London, 4s. 60. AUSTRALIA. MELBOURNE, MAY 24, Total export of gold since the departure of the last mail, 78,750 oz. Trade has decidedly improved. Exchange on London has declined 1 per cent. Exchange on London at Adelaide and Sydney un altered. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. On Saturday Graziani and Mdlle. Patti appeared, the former as Plunkett and the latter as Lady Henriette, in the opera of " Martha." Last year Mademoiselle Patti's Martha was pronounced one of the most genial, fresh, and thoroughly charming impersonations of the day ; and Saturday night gave no reason for modifying in any sense that favourable opinion. With Signora Mario and Graziani as the two enamoured farmers, the opera could hardly be otherwise than effectively represented ; and indeed seldom has its light, sparkling, and occasionally somewhat trivial music been listened to under more favour able circumstances. Mdlle. Patti's unaffectedly touching aebrwsati,f , C.. 4 .L Su ---up its Signor Mario's " :Tappan tntt 'amor" was, as usual, the essence of refined expression. This evening we are to have the " Sonnambula ;" to morrow " Un Ballo in Maschera" (with Madame Pence as Amelia and Mademoiselle Battu as Oscar) ; Thursday, 'Don Giovanni;" Friday, "Le Prophets" (Madame Didiee replacing Madame Csillag, as Fides) ; and Saturday (first time) " Don Pasquale"—with Mademoiselle Patti, Signors Ciampi, Dells Sedie, and Mario in the principal characters. LYCEUM 7HEATRE. A new farce, entitled "The Colleen Bawn Settled at Last," was produced at this theatre on Saturday, and met with a reception usually accorded to trifles arranged for the purpose of affording a hearty laugh. The fun consists in the discovery that the beautiful Eily O'Connor, whose fame has become so universal in London, is no other than the daughter of Lord Dundreary. Miss Lydia Thompson, as Eily, acted with her usual sprightliness, and executed an Irish jig in capital style. Mr. Selby made up well for Lord Dundreary; and altogether the farce fully answered the purpose for which it was produced. T►he extraordinarily successful drama of "Peep O'Day " continues to attract large and delighted audiences, and it is pleasant to find that Mr. Falconer is still successfully reap • ing the fruits of his own talent and industry. Her Majesty, with the Royal Family and suite, will arrive at Windsor Castle on Tuesday, the 22d inst., where they will stay only one night, as, on the following day, they will take their departure for Scotland.—Court Journal. THE VICEROY OF EdYPT.—TFIO fete to be given by the Viceroy of Egypt, on his yacht on the lfith inst., is to take place one hour earlier than formerly proposed. The party will assemble on board the yacht at half-past 4, and will sit down at 5 o'clock. A special steamer for the con veyance of the guests invited will leave Westminster bridge at 3 o'clock precisely. The Count de Meudon (Prince Napoleon) gave a banquet on Friday last at the Clarendon Hotel. The guests invited were—His Highness Prince Frederic of Holstein, Admiral Baron de la Ronciere, Vicomte de Brimont Brassac, Mr. Senior, Mr. Bates, Messrs. Estivaat, Persoz, Javal, Dewinck, Kcenigswarter, Doucet, Fossin, Jules Duval, Bar bier, Foucou, Dr. ',Creche, Colonel de Franconiere, Colonel Ration, Baron de Pussin Amory, Mr. Longperier, &C. The report that the Prince of Wales had pur chased the pony mare of Mr. Mathews, which obtained the first prize at Battersea last week, is incorrect.—Coin t Journal. MR. SOTHERON-ESTCOURT., M.P.—We are happy to hear that the health of Mr. Southerta-Esteourt, has great'y improved. The Acclimatisation Society wil l hold their annual dinner on Satu r d a y nex t, a t Willis's Rooms , W hen several new dishes of tropi ca l animals and birds will be pro vided for the company, which is fast increasing its num bers.—Court Journal. Commander Goodenough (1858) is to succeed Captain James R. Veitch (promoted) on board the flag ship of the Channel squadron.—Artny and Navy Gazette. By the death of Lieut.-General John Fraser the Colonelcy of the 37th Regiment is rendered vacant.—Artny and Navy Gaztete. THE TROOPS IN CANADA.—The Canadian Staff will soon have dwindled to proportions like those which it possessed before the Trent affair caused such a large acces sion to its strength. Major-General Russell will shortly take the command of the brigade at Aldershott which Col. Haines held from the period of his departure up to a few weeks since. Major-General Rutnley also returns, taking over the office of Inspector-Goneral of Infantry from his locum tencns, Major-General Lawrence. Colonel Lysons' return wo have already announced, and Colonel Mackenzie, the Deputy. Quartermaster •General, has also come back. Of the officers employed on particular service neatly all aro in England. Major Pearson has resumed his post as De puty-assistant Adjutant. General at headquarters, which, however, he may be expected to vacate in a few weeks, his reg ular five years of Staff service having nearly expired when he went to Canada. Ilejor-General Napier remains in Canada, and as long as the two battalions of guards are in the colony wo may presume that Lord Frederick Paulet will continue on the St a ff. At ',resent we hear nothing and in dicating a probability of their return before next year, several of the officers not relishing colonial service have sent, or are about sending, in their papers. The let bat talion of the Military b ear i n g in mind that the train is now m uch required in our large camps, and is scarcely ne eded in Canadian , t h ere seems but little reason for keeping the remaining bat talion in the colony. Train is to b e brought home ; and, These homeward movements indicate either a desire to leave the Canadians more to their own devices in the event of attack, or a disbelief in th ose aggres sive movements of the Federals, when their hands are clear lof the South, which appear to be apprehended in some quarters,—..arn2y ame Navy Gazeete, FRANCE. BoußsE, July s.—The market continues to im prove in firmness and animation, but prices up to this time show no improvement on the closing rates of yesterday, Threes, for the account, being un varied at 68f. 45c, Railway Share Market also firm. The market closed as follows : 4t per Cents 97 25 Do, end month — Bank Shares 3140 Credit Fancier — 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 50 New 3 per Cents Do. end month — Credit Mobilier 827 50 Do. end month — Piedmontesc Fives 73 30 Italian Loan 7O 75 Roman — Austrian Spanish Threes — Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Orleans 1275 Northern .... lOO6 25 .. New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1037 50 .. 1091 25 Geneva.. — Account. Southern Western 813 75 .. 816 25 553 75 .. 552 50 Eastern 541 25 :: 640 - Sardinian Austrian Lombard 490 - 492 50 6.8 75 .. 611 25 CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, JULY 6. The Royal Mail steamship Africa arrived here at 2.15 p.m. to-day. She brings 186 passengers and 63,791 dols. in specie. She landed all the mails and 13 passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 6.30. All well. The Africa experienced very foggy weather and easterly winds. NEW YORK, JUNE 24, Evening. The Confederates claim the victory in the battle fought near Charleston on the 16th. No Northern account of the engag ement has been yet received. 1 MILLCI.I4 &ALIALU is •-• to West Point to consult General Scott. The judgment against the Circassian declares that papers were found on board giving conclusive proof of a deliberate intention to run the blockade. The Federal War Department has offered two dollars premium and one month's pay in advance to all recruits. No material change has oecurred at New Orleans. General Butler has condemned one alderman and the chairman of the Ladies Relief Committee to hard labour with ball and chain in Fort Jackson. The controversies between General Butler and the foreign consuls continue. The acting British con sul Coppell, having asked information concerning the oaths to be administered to foreign residents, General Butler replied that no answer would be given until Mr. Coppell's credentials and preten sions were recognised by the British Govern ment and the Federal Executive. All attempts at official action on Mr. Coppell's part must cease, his credentials having been asked for, but not exhibited. _ Great excitement prevailed on the Isthmus of P anam a. A body of General Mosquera's troops having landed at Aspinwall, the Governor of Panama had ordered the citizens to arm themselves, but eventually compromised by permitting Mos quera's troops to go to Panama. Both Houses of Congress have passed the Tax Bill. The tax imposed upon cotton amounts to half a cent. per lb. A Committee of the House of Representatives has passed an amendment authorising the issue of one hundred and fifty million dollars demand notes, with the privilege to the Secretary of the Treasury to issue notes of less value than five dollars. The Bremen and the Etna have arrived out. [LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO HALIFAX.] NEW YORK, JUNE 26th, Evening. General M'Clellan reports officially that the pickets on the left of his army before Richmond had been considerably advanced, under a sharp resistance from the Confederates. The pickets and lines of the Federals under Generals Heintzelman sod Hooker were where he wished them to be. The affair was over, and he had gained his point with little loss. Notwithstanding strong opposition, the Confederates were driven out of their camp in front. The ground gained was a swamp, with thick un derbrush, beyond which is an open country. The position gained is considered important. The House of Representatives has passed the Treasury Note Bill. Both Houses of Congress have passed the Pacific Railroad Bill. The New York Tribune says that General Jack • Non has been checked, Generals Fremont, Shields, an d Batiks having combined their forces. The Jura has arrived out. Money abundant. Gold 91 per cent. premium. Exchange unsettled at 120 to 1201. Stocks ad vancing. Cotton buoyant; middling upland 3G, Provisions steady, A report Which lately emanated from Madrid regarding the renunciation of his claims to the Spanish throne by Don Juan de Bourbon seems to have been well founded. In consideration of this act, it is alleged, the Queen reinstates him in his rank and titles, and re-conveys to him the large forfeited estates of his father, Don Carlos. Should the Prince in his new position retain the temperate an d lib eral v i ews o f g overnment he has frequently avowed during his residence in this country, the arrangement may have a beneficial i n fluence on Spanish p o li t i cs and also on Spanish credit, since he is known to entertain a strong opinion with regard to the stigma that must rest upon the nation so long as the confiscation practised on the English bondholders shall remain unremedied; ky.Z THE ROYAL MARRIAGE ACT. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT . ) It was well observed by a morning contemporary, on the occasion of the late Roy al Marriage, that the late Princess Charlotte was the first Royal personage who broke the old custom of marrying for freereas of State policy, thereby ex ercisin g her own choice in marriage, and not being fettered by the tyranny of political and compulsory marriages. We all know how happily her marriage with the present King of the Belgians turned out, and the reasonable prospect there appeared, had her life been s pared, we should have had an illustrious raced of kings. The recent national calamity cause too much recurrence to the melancholy and no timely death of this illustrious Princess for us to say anything further about it here. Suffice it to say, it was speedily followed by t h e marriage s of three of her Royal Highness's uncles , which were entirely State marriages, they all hav in g Throne. as it was said, for the sake of an heir to the That the aforesaid royal weddings turn ed out happily, and that one of them has been the weans, givingunder God's blessing, of u s one of the best, purest, and most virtuous Monarchs tha t ever sat on the throne of these realms, is a too-well -11°w°. fact to be further alluded to. married, The Prince Consort, whose premature death last winter was so justly and universally deplored, has left a numerous progeny behind him, m an y of wil°sl„ have not yet emerged from childhood, an d only two have as yet entered upon the lottery of wedlock: titers, There are as yet four sons and three da u g matrt it is to be hoped, destined to enter in to hol y to be mony. Now it is not, we entreat her Maj est y lieve, with an idea or intention of furtheringa n ol s 1 " _ Price proper flirtations of any of our you n g Princesses, when we ask whether they may not be one and all advantageou sl y releas e o from the cruel fetters and restrictions in the Royal Marriage Act. That Act was pas sel/ ib got e "' 1772, during the reign of an obstinate a nd ll Well though it must always be remembered, we tioned, well-meaning, and virtuous monarc h ' „ths And, as we said in a former article , some olei".0 ago, it was passed in consequence of the Itol a ' k i e ; dignation at the respective marriages of the of Gloucester and Cumberland, the King's (at that time) two surviving brothers , ".-0 not long previously contracted marriage Nvith 1 t h e n dividuals not of blood royal. Luckily it Was there too late to annul these aforesaid marriag es, but ou was then as now a rising young Royal faun'''. ti P A et whom the fetters of the said Royal Marriage ['of fell most cruelly upon. And it is w ith a vie preven ting a similar state of things in the p rese ai Royal family that we' advocate an unc onditia % and total repeal of that most iniquitous measure. • every walk of life it is, and has alway s been, c°11,.: sidered one of the choicest privileges of life to allowed to choose one's own partner in inar riag a l Why, in the name of common sense , is the goy ? family to be the only excep ti o n to this rule Why should they be debarred from a P rivi . l , g s t which is allowed to the humblest and olea:'," 6o of the Queen's subjects? Her Majesty hersell has ever shown every desire not to follow autiquii ru les and worn-out precedents, and to act up t o the te of reason and common sense, altho u g h those State marriages which took place in 1818 for the salreeii an heir to the throne, turned out happily and vies " and gave us three most excellent royal duobessi is one of whom after wards became our Q ueen, se admitted on all hands to have been the best aa ee a Consort as well as Queen Dowager Eligia% ever saw. Yet it must be rememberg°eau they, on the other hand, put the ; try to a serious expense which cou ld at 01,1.10 time ill be spared, as we were suff er i ng from the pressure of a return to a state of profound Peacd from a war of nearly a quar ter of a century, a% the transition from the former to the latter stat i of things almost reduced us to a state of natieoat bankruptcy. And it is, moreove r, well known tha our late King William IV., when Duke of Clarenc e ,' wished to have married, an d could have married Clarence' different times of his life three great rich heiresses: all of whom were wi llin g to have become roya l d uc h esses , only the Royal Marriage Act pre vented him. Now, surely it should be the deverutyi ' and object of t he Le g islature to prevent, by means in its power, any return Moved a state tae of t hings as we h ad at the time to in days of our late Royal family. It has been said that as wel! the marriages, both of the Queen herself, a s those of her two daughters, the Princesses Roe, ant Alice, were all marriages of affection, and 00 , 1 ' of mere State policy, and therefore we shoula imagine it to be her earnest d esire 'to allow the same privilege to her younger children that s he a herself and her two eldest daughters have enjoy e . S before them. Bygones are bygones, an d the 104,1 past never to be recalled ; but the great use of log; tory is as a precedent for the future, to be folloWeu when it has been good, and to be avoided whenit has been bad. HURRICANE AT DEAL --- On Saturday evening the town of Deal f s : visited by one of the severest storms of th under , lightning, hail, and rain, we have ever witn esse It commenced with a gentle shower abo ut fic o'clock. The wind was south-east, the air hali ti g. been peculiarly oppressive for an hour previouse: the storm appeared to cone from a westerly di re ,,,,„. tion. The clouds were observed to obscu re the 61V0 rapidly, so that we passed from broad daylight t dusk in about three minutes, when the rain de .i : tended in torrents afterwards mingled with halLa stones of a large size, with the wind biowing in complete circuit, whirling the descending rain in 7 most extraordinary manner, it appearing to bloW_ v from all quarters. For about 10 minu tes the sv.adr of the elements was fearful, the lightning very ivl the storm lasting half an hour, the main street at the town being completely flooded. Th effects 9. the north end of the town have bee n of a fearful character ; the ravages committed will c onvey sore s idea of the severity of the storm. The fronts of the houses at Sandown-terracepresent a comylete wreck of glass, also the houses at the north end of Beach: street, many having scarcely a whole pane , left, and but few but what are more or less more particularly the Royal Exchange, Globe house, &c. Several buildings are partially unreofe.d, t he chimneys blown down, &c. The fronts oh houses beyond Alfred-square, in Lower-street, all more or less suffered. One of the most ream _ boats attached able effects of the storm was on four boa _ sandow c-terrace. to the last capstan ground near . gb i n g with her injured, One boat, about 30ft long, and contents about 15cwt ., blowbottom upwards on to the promenade, and thrown . b ran through the :ferjo-m the beach on. pped its further progress. pttom of the boat and_sstf°t. to one of the handposts, long., was blown from Anoi.her beat, aboutthe 1 carriage way, carrying away the beach across tion of a strong fence round the in its flight a F or . was whic. Betts, and finally lodged it in meadow of Mr' A from where hm eauow 150 yards i;oats w ere also blown a con she laid. distance from the salve spot, and so much. con siderable d a s to be rendered almost useless, The dare9ge o th o e t other the centre Towf corn f i e lds in the neighbourhood to the westwar d have the appearance of having been rolled. .At Walmer the effect of the storm was scarcely felt. DEATH OF MR. JOHN EDWARD ERRINGTON, C.E. —We regret to announce the death of this eminent engi neer, whose name was intimately associated with that of the late Mr. Joseph Locke, M.P., in the history of railway enterprise in this country. Mr. Errington, who was of an old Northumbrian family, was born at Hull in the year 1806, and for upwards of 30 years was actively engaged in the development of the railway system, especially upon those lines connecting Englasid and Scotland, and, toge ther with Mr. Locke, was engbeer to the Glasgow and Greenock Railway and Dock, the Lancaster and Carlisle, the East Lancashire, the Caledonian, the Scottish Central, I Scottish Midland, and Aberdeen Railways. About the year 1850 Mr. Errington was appointed, jointly with Mr. Locke, consulting engineer for the northern division of the London and North-Western Railwajt, and since that time has constructed many branches and ext. Insions of that sys tem. He was also engineer in chief to the London and South-Western Railway, and superintended the construc tion of the lines just completed connecting tt.: at system with Exeter and th e W es t o f E n gland. Like his 10 0 part ner, Mr. Errington was a strong advocate for econon:v in the first cost of c o n s t ruc ti o n ; and the lines executed un . his directions all bear testimony to this. Mr. Errington will be regretted by a large circle of professional and private friends, whose confidence and regard he had acquired by his unfailing integrity and high professional honour. THE EFFECTS OF THE EXHIBITION UPON CABBY. —RETIRING FROM TRADE,—A nattily dressed, red-nosed cabman, named David Jones, badge 10,213, and whose gravity had not quite returned after his recent potations, was on Saturday charged at Marylebone Police-court with being drunk, and incapable of taking care of horse and cab. Police-constable John M'Garry, 51 D, deposed—About two this morning I was on duty in Gloucester-square, when I saw a cab standing in the centre of the road apparently without any person on the box. I went to it, and turning' - --- my lamp on, found the prisoner asleep with his head lying on the top. (Prisoner—Very good.) I called to hira, th a n en a F UN ERAL OF GENERAL BRUcE.--The remains of receiving no answer, I shook him till he a woke. Major-General Bruce, Governor of the Prince of Wal es ' were interred on Wednesday in the family vault, i 3 the found that he was so drunk as not to be able to stanido,uagnodt I drove him to the station. Mr. Mansfield—l:eyre,s my abbey churchyard of Daniel mline. The Hon. T. C. Bruce, your license ? Prisonet —You don't wan t ,tiltathat will do as brother of the deceased, was chief mourner. There was badge ; you can take the number of that *Prisoner—Can't numerous attendance, although the funeral was intended .tn., well. Mr. Mansfield—No, it will "ot.rt upon that. It's be strictly private. The company assembled at Broom-hall, you take my number, and make 3 re Z"„%i n g on it (thi s is the seat of Lord Elgin, and there Canon Stanley read a d po u r , tion of the burial service, and prayers were also effete r . no good having the license ; there'so-•sutZtes having to mark in allusion to the custom of the ia,a,501 license). mr. Mans- b y t wo of the Presbyterian clergymen of the. neighbourhoo.aa., all convictions on the back of t" to have it produced I shall The mourners proceeded in carriages to the place of burial , about three miles distant. As the coffin was lifted from field—l must sec i eva.Aliother cabby, who was in an is outside wth the license. AthoeluaberehsreitnEag Edward o r ar e rd a ds t wreath as disco ver red on it which bere t " A last token of love and respec from then, or he will be detained till and Alice." nge' hese Monday. Ac. remandur . rt ll , IsaaniysdfiLcue Cabby laiNtkl a l:(t l ihrl d . e7asfl°Yefer: G° went out, and after a couple of seconds re duced the license, stating that the foreman had BATTLE OF BOSWORTH FIELD.--The London arcbsoolo absence Pr° p r isoner—l hav'nt touched any thing for ments for a larg o ga th er i ng o f local and Lot' 'ea boy. • t rda an d the •b I had was a gists this be i ng actively carried till yes y; l as t Jo b on fatuous battle field, are cheeological t gave me something t o d r i n k, and I know no out by the Leicestershire Architectural and. Ar „ le d the day fixed snore- i m t o b n y th a e swell who You may mark all you like on the license for what Society. Wednesday, the 6th of August, is . more- for I don't mean to drive after the summer—l shall for tae excursion from Leicester to the highes t battle be I care, the -111 r Mansfield ordered him to Pay a fine of Si.field, where an extempore description of plat eretire • from a raised Prisoner —That will do. (Turning to his wife he reque s t e d ' delivered by the Rev. Canon Trollop, iirGliercur reicesters arra her "to square it up," which she did by paying the fine.) form placed there for the purpose.— point of the FATAL ACCIDENT TO A STATION-11L4S TER ON THE EASTERN VALLEYS _RAILWAY. On Saturday morning an accident occured at the Cwmbran station of the Eastern Valleys Railway, by which, apparently from a very trivial cause. Mr. John Morgan, the station-master, was knocked down, and so severely injured that he died very shortly afterwards. The deceased, who was about 40 years of age, was a married man, with a wife (now in her confinement) and two children, and he had had many years' experience of the business of the rail way, On the morning in question one of the down trains arrived at the Cwmbran station at about a quarter past eight o'clock, and was attended on by the deceased, who was to all appearance in his usual good health. After the train had started Joseph Simmons, the guard, observed Mr. Morgan walk across to the last carriage as if for the purpose of speaking to some person, and then saw him sud denly whirled round, as if from collision with the moving carriage, and thrown down between the train and the platform. The guard at once gave a signal to the engine -driver, James Benson, who lost not a moment in obeying it, and the train was at once brought to a stand-still, and the guard and engineer jumped from their respective posts, and ran back to the place where deceased had fallen. They found him in a sitting posture, and in full possession of all his senses, but complaining of great pain. He expressed his conviction that his injuries were of a serious nature, and in reply to the questions addressed to him said he suffered in tensely in his chest. He had received no wounds, and had not beea run over by any of the wheels, but had been crushed between the carriages and the side of the platform. Simmons and Benson removed him to his house, where medical attendance was procured, and every attention rendered to him. His case, however, seemed hopeless from the first, and after lingering in pain for about three hours, death put a period to his sufferings. The cricket matches for this week are :—This day, at Lord's, Gentlemen of England v. University of Oxford. Monday, at Sheffield, Surrey v. Yorkshire (re tun ). Wednesday, at Lord's, Oxford Harlequins v. Cam bridge Quidnunes. Thursday, at the Oval, Gentlemen of the Surrey Club v. Free Foresters. Thursday, at Morley, All England Eleven v. Twenty-two. Thursday, at South ampton, United N. Twenty-two Gentlemen of Hants. Fri day and Saturday, at Lords, Eaton v. Harrow. THE WORK OF THE SESSION.—Up to Saturday 30 public acts and 116 local acts had received the royal assent. THE MISSING CALCUTTA SHIPS.—No tidings whatever have turned up relative to the three missing ships from Calcutta for London—the Arethusa, 946 tons ; the Nugget, 1,062 tons ; and the Moultan, 863 tons. The fact of their being all posted at Lloyd's during thG week as missing vessels leaves no hope that they ever will be heard of, an opinion prevailing that they must have been caught in a dreadful typhoon, and foundered. CAPE MAILS.—The Union Company's Cape Royal Mail steamer Norman, Captain William Ladds, left Plymouth yesterday afternoon with the usual monthly mails for Ascension, St. Helena and the Cape of Good Hope. She takes out 27 passengers, among whom are seven of Christy's Minstrels to amuse the Cape folk. INVERNESS.—DEATH OF MISS MACPHERSON or BELLEVILLE.—We regret to announce the death of this estimable and accomplished lady, at a very advanced age. She was the daughter of the well-known Mr. James Macpherson, the translator of Ossian. Miss Macpherson was much beloved throughout Badenoch, where she lived during the greater part of a long life. The eldest son of Sir David Brewster—who married the late Miss Macpher son's sister—succeeds to the property as heir of entail.— Inverness Courier, A GENEROUS INTERNATIONAL DONATION.—The Finland Marine Insurance Company at Abo have forwarded through Messrs. Rew, Kington, and Co., the very liberal donation of £5O to the National Lifeboat Institution, as a mark of their high appreciation of the important services the lifeboats of the society are frequently rendering to the crews of shi t s of all nations wrecked on the coasts of the United Kingdom. GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION. -- Her Majesty's Emigration Commissioners chartered three ve-sels on Thursday afternoon, the 3d inst.—viz., the Eastern Empire, of 993 tons, belonging to Mr. James J. Frost, of London to sail from Plymouth for Sydney, New South Wales, at £l3 10s. per statute adult, to be ready for reception of pas sengers on such day as the commissioners may appoint be tween the 14th and 25th of August; the Utopia, of 949 tons, belonging to Messrs. James Baines and Co., of Liver pool; and the Assaye, of 733 tons, belonging to Mr. J. Stewart, of Greenock, to convey Indian emigrants from Calcutta to Trinidada ;suerti o ; t th eaxl.l ,f e tl r Bn m ns e . rt; the 01 £ 3b 1 te 2 h 4 pn s l fa . 7 9 ea d dn . ua p at e r r tvi t e at d u i s te .. po 1863. salo - f - the - ; and the Ist of December, 1862. THE GOODS TRAIN ACCIDENT AT BROUGHTY FERRY.—Everything being in readiness, shortly after day light on Thursday morning the diver descended, and after a great amount of labour succeeded in detaching the couplings of the waggons, more than half of which were afterwards hoisted up and landed, either on the beach or in shallow water. A great quantity of the goods was also recovered, the flax and linens being secured, and it is now believed that the wheat will be the greatest loss, the salt water swelling it and rendering it almost useless. The coals will not be recovered. Considerable curiosity was manifested by the crowds who thronged the pier -head during the day to witness the diver in his singular dress descending and ascending. The plant is more or less in jured, the break-van being seriously smashed; but it is anticipated that the damage done will not be so heavy as was at first supposed. The diver will continue his perilous labours till the whole of the waggons and recoverable goods are saved.—Dundee Advertiser. THE ARSON, NEAR FOLKESTONE.—The man, John Horsley, who was apprehended skulking off from the fire at Plain Farm, near Farm, near Folkestone, on Thurs day morning, was brought before the magistrates the same day, and remanded to Monday, without going into the evidence. On Friday afternoon an inquest on the body, found among the burnt straw in the farm-yard, was held in the Town-hall, Folkestone, before John Minister, Esq., coroner, and a carefully selected jury. After an inspection of the body, which is that of a boy 13 or 14 years of age, evidence was taken, and ultimately the jury returned a ver dict that " The unknown deceased met with his death at a fire on the premises at Plain Farm, and that the prisoner, John Horsley, wilfully set the premises on fire." The Coroner—" That is a verdict of wilful murder. It will be my duty to commit the prisoner for trial at the assizes." The commitment was then made out,