The Sun. — London, England, 1862-07-28 00:00:00

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An rem i ttance s 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 deb due in respect thereof. HIGH WATER AT LOYDO.N BRIDGE. Ti is DAY.—Morning, 2h. 55m.—Afternoon, 3h. 12m. To-monnow.-Morning, 3b. 30m.—Afternoon, 3h. 46m. :., , :- - -7," 4 t , c., ,-. , 2 ) ..:.-_—:Th:ir s ',:,' r,•4") , v .<•:,..• 1-..tk .:', ~; - : j ; ,--, ,FI, 4 t....,_____ •,, • .1, , c f .. .54:":4 ' '' ' -* ' le- n '6'211E>.,,' , - 7-_- ,-,-,---.4.01' THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 28, 1862. Another opportunity now appears to be coming within our reach, by promptly availing ourselves of which we nasy realise, earlier than we could have reasonably hoped for under the circumstances, a portion at least of the judicious design to which w e alluded on Saturday—the project suggested a few years back by Lord LLANOVER. His grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH seems now to repent him somewhat of his bargain in regard to the renewal of the lease of Montagu House. And yet it is hardly that either. For the " bargain" —so far as it was abargain in his eyes, an arrangement decidedly in his grace's favour—may surely now be con sidered in a manner as " off." In vulgar parlance, to use one of the homeliest phrases in the verna cular, the gilt is fairly rubbed off the gingerbread. There is the renewal of the lease sure enough. There is that document, upon the strergth of which old Montagu House has been pulled down—a considerable part of the materials of being it ground into powder and turned into concrete—upon a solid substratum of which concrete new Montagu House has been built. Pre cisely, however, at the very time of its completion as an edifice—fire-proof and water-tight—the whole advantage of this renewed lease of the acre and a half of Crown land upon which the edifice has been erected—the whole advantage of the re ne'a'al, at any rate in the estimation of the Duke of 331 -Tee tern, has been spirited away by a rude Hey! Presto- of the House of Commons in Committee. The Duke' s town house, it is true, is there—just finished. 3 t only requ i res to b e appropr i ate ly fur nished with v pholdstery of suitable splendour, to be a t once habitable. But —while all this is indubi tably correct— alas! the charm of the whole place ha? vanished. An e fi cctual close hcs been put to his Grace's delightful 6aydreana of making the river front of his renovated town house_ again, and more than ever—a secluded green "pleasaunce." delectably Instead of which —horror upon horror —the broad thoroughfare along the Thames E m b ankment is to pass immedi a tely bencatlt the win does of Montagu House as now built—between the shrubberies and the river Thames ! Omnibuses, cabs, drays, carts, NW • ggons, lumb er i ng an d light-wbeeled vehicl es of all descriptions, the Duke finds now, to his utter dismay, are to be perpetually clattering to and fro with all the Babel and uproar incidental to London traffic—directly in the very fort-ground of the charming river view principally for the sake of quietly enjoying which the new residence of his Grace has been reconstructed upon so elaborate a plan, and at so considerable an expense. No won the Duke of EECCLEUCH repents of his bargain, under these altered circumstances. No wonder that we now learn his Grace is disposed to be quit of rt altogether if only the Government will let him! The renewal of the lease, it will not easily be for gotten, was again and yet - , again peremptorily re fueed. And this not by cue Chancellor of the P 'ellecitter, but by thrf c successive Chancellors of 111°11lacquer. Among these so refusing it being to otter than the eery rif,;•:t. honourable gentleman w ' h i °) ". !'ulcio . t.ph is subsetibed to the fatal (Icon treljt eprieding the boor, ~ :ought with such eager pertinacity and rel u' 6 G with such remarkable unanimity, by Administrator' alter Administrator. Mr. DTSEAELI': Eigtia4cre havin g been really and we Le m ! FiZtiSfitli, Obtained trona him surrep truiy, titiousle. o;Lervilz it is impossible to imagine length made a eon that the fact of his having at I cession th a t h e had prerviouslY and emph at i cally in an y way ha ve escaped decli ne d to ma k e could ~, _. THE 'SUN, LONDON IVIONDAY EVE vrYq, JULY 23, 1861 CRYSTAL PAL A CF.-TO:MORROW. ONE SHILLING. Open from Nine o'Clock till dusk. DALAIS de CRISTAL.—LES OR AND EAUX—DE MAIN (Mardi), 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 six Boiling Fountains. The Grand Cascades and Waterfalls. The Eight Dancing Fountains. And the whole of the varied and beautifully designed Foun tains and Cascades of the GREAT LOWER BASINS, which alone cover a surface of five acres, numbering Twelve Thou sand Jets, discharging Twenty Thousand Gallons of Water per minute, including Les GRANDES EAUX, 234 feet. high the recollection of the right hon. member for Bucks. Assuredly it is inconceivable that it could so utterly have slipped from his remembrance, that he should actually taunt Mr. GLADSTONE for having done what he (Mr. DISRAELI) did when the matter came to be looked into—viz., the occa sion of the Treasury Minute directing the renewal of the lease! The astounding eh arge brought against Mr. GLADSTONE by Mr. DISRAELI, in reference to this very singular transaction, affords proof positive, indeed, that the latter right hon. gentle man's signature was obtained, as we have said, surreptitiously. It is hardly too strong language to assert that, through some subordinate, and, at present, invisible agency, the necessary hiero glyphic was obtained very cleverly upon the sly. So that when "B. DISRAELI" was scrawled upon that vexatious Minute, it was so scrawled upon a document cleverly insinuated among a heap of other papers requiring the Minister's signature. Upon Mr. ORMSBY GORE, in a great measure, rests the responsibility of having looked after his Grace the Duke of BUccLEUCH'S interests in the matter of this lease altogether. He was undoubtedly the official who had the opportunity of forwarding the Duke's views, and who, so far as he could, officially appears to have endeavoured to forward them. The valua tion of the land upon which Montagu House stands, surrounded by its garden and its shrubberies, was made, it is true, by Mr. PENNETHORNE. But that valuation was attested as a fair one by Mr. ORMSBY GORE! And as to the fairness of the said valua tion, without any doubt, the least said the soonest mended. While Government itself is now pay ing there for the purchase of land in the immediate neighbourhood of Montagu House at the rate of £lOO,OOO an acre—the Duke of BTJCCLEUCH (thanks to Mr. PENNETHORNE'S valuation, attested by Mr. GORE) obtains his acre and a half at Whitehall gardens from the Government at the rate of less than a fifth of that price ! From 1856, for ninety-nine years, Montagu House and grounds are to be held by the Duke and his descendants at a yearly rental of £Bso—a rental representing a capital of £20,000. The lease thus renewed still of course holds good. No attempt has yet been made to recall it—upon the plea of its being a renewal in some way or other surreptitiously obtained by some over-zealous par tizan of the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, of course, acting in the matter thus adroitly, without the Duke's knowledge. Deprived of his privacy, however, his grace is understood to be willing. and not only willing, but even anxious, to back out of the transaction altogether. Ic will tend at once to relieve everyone of a difficulty if his grace is taken at his word promptly by her MAJESTY'S Govern ' ment—and new Montagu House accepted at once as the nucleus of a new pile of Government offices duly to be divided among the departments. Two points of considerable interest are illustrated by the details of the news just received from the States. The political difficulties of the North, and the views of the South itself on the present position of things. We find Mr. LINCOLN in a double difficulty. Both Congress and the Border States perplex him ; the action of Congress doubtless increasing his difficulty with the former. Slavery is of course his trouble; the Border States evidently do not like State abolition of slavery, and at a meeting of the members from the Border States to Con gress they have passed some clever and specious resolutions for Mr. LINCOLN'S consideration. They remind the PRESIDENT of their practical loyalty in having raised the 80,000 men required of them to fight for the Union, and affirm their willingness to raise their proportion of the new call. With such a preamble they point out that, under the constitution of Kentucky—the princi pal of these States—it would require four years to take the sense of the people in Convention, and after that it would need an Act of Congress to complete the Act of the State, and it would even then be uncertain whether Congress would remain disposed to vote the money. These 'cute Ken tuckians, therefore, propose that specific legislation by Congress should precede legislation by the State. To obviate, moreover, the delays of organised State action, the Border State representatives think that the offer should be made at once, and directly to the individual citizens of the Slave States, and then the question would be at once solved, and in time to aid the Government. Congress would at once prove its willingness to appropriate the money, and the people of the Border States would show their readiness to aid the Union, even at the sacrifice of a radical change in their social organisation. They conclude their representations to him with the loudest professions of attachment to the Union, de claring that even if the Government were over whelmed in its struggle with secession, the Border State will not jein their broken fortune to the Southern Confederacy, but seek elsewhere new alliances and a new career. The PRESIDENT could not, of course, resist such affectionate loyalty ; and a day or two after this programme was agreed on by the Borderers, he sends a draft bill to Congress to carry out at least one part of their demand. The resolution passed by Congress, stated only its willingness to co-operate, by pecuniary compensation, with any State in the emancipation of its slaves. If Congress was sincere in the reso!ution,, it ought to be willing to put the slave States, by a positive act, in the position to demand the money of the Government, if it agitated the question of abolition and carried the measure. Otherwise the very agitation of the subject might render abolition necessary, and Congress might then be ruinously slow in providing the funds. Mr. LIN COLN'S Bill therefore proposes to pay for the slaves as every thing else is paid for in America by appealing to the future for money; it provides that when ever the PRESIDENT of the United States shall be satisfied that any State shall have lawfully abolished slavery within and throughout such State, either immedi a tely o r gra d ua lly, it shall be the dut y of the President, assisted by the Secretary of the Treasu ry, to prepare and deliver to each State an amount --... of six per cent. interest-bearing bonds of the 'United States equal to the a g g rega te value, rhead, of all the slav e s within suc h State an rep orted by the census of 1860 ; the whole amount for a ny oue bt !ate b e ing d e li vere d at on ce if the abolishment inter es t to begin e, or in equal instalments if it be g r adual , run ning on each bond at the time of deliver y, and not before." Perhaps by the " gradua l , abolition he understands, amongst other methods, that w hi c h the Border members su gg est, of indiv iduals wh o preferred it, emancipating their slaves, a n d receiv ing the Government pay a t once. If so, and if Congress accept the PRESIDENT'S Bill, we may hope to sec a good beginning in the way of emanci pation in the Border States, unless, indeed, every individual slaveholder should prove so tenacious of absolute power, as to prefer retaining Accepting money at suc h a cr i s i s f o r slave property as the present. his slaves to The PRESIDENT is, however, more embarrassed with the Confiscation Bill. We described it on Saturday, and the reader has seen that if pressed to the let ter it would be a virtual decree of eman cipation after sixty days. It is probably this which makes the PRESIDENT hesitate. When the mail left he was busy preparing objections and amend ments, to which, it was understcod, he would en deavour to obtain the consent of Congress. It seems wonderful, after the late repulse from Rich. mend, that the PRESIDENT should hesitate to givt his assent to any anti-slavery or abolition measure. The Border States would not, as they are now loyal, be touched by it ; and what can he propose to him self by endeavours to conciliate Virginia and the cotton States? Very plainly, however, the North is beginning to see that willing or unwilling to abolish slavery, it has no other chance of success. The bombastic proclamation of 111‘CLELLAN we have already had, we have now the simpler one of JEFFERSON DAVIS, thanking his soldiers as their PRESIDENT, on behalf of the country, for " the series of brilliant victories" they had won. The Southern PRESIDENT thus states the main facts of a struggle which, had they occurred on the other side, would assuredly have given outlet to a much fuller stream of rhetoric :—" Ten days ago," says Mr, JEFFERSON, "an invading army, vastly supe rior to you in numbers and in the material of war, closely be:eaguered your capital, and vaunt. ingly proclaimed its speedy conquest. You marched to attack the enemy in his entrenchments ; with well-directed movements and death-defying valour you charged upon him in his strong positions, drove him from field to field over a distance of more than 35 miles, and, despite his reinforcements, compelled him to seek shelter under the cover of his gunboats, where he now lies, cowering before the army he so lately derided and threatened with entire subjuga tion." the President thinks they have done enough for glory; but, their suffering country, and the cause of constitutional liberty—he should have added and of buying and selling men and working them like cattle—still demands from them further efforts. He expects them to study to promote their o pan efficiency, and now, we believe for the first time utters a threat to the North, in his address to his soldiers, which we do not recollect that this wary man has ever made use of before. If the North will not grant peace, he now proposes to compel her to do so. Washington is to tremble again. They are not, now, to stop short with de fence ; "your one grand object being," he says "to drive the invader from your soil, and, carrying your standards beyond the outer boundaries of the Confederacy, to wring from an unscrupulous foe the recognition of your birthright, community, and independence." Has the South any project of the kind in view. JEFF. DAVIS has not hitherto uttered empty threats, any more than he has con cealed teal defeats—when he threatened a naval exploit, he performed one which gained the atten tion of the whole world—and with a general like JACKSON, whose movements are just now very ob scure, it is by no means impossible that the north of the Potomac may soon need the services of Gen. M4CLELLAN. Of course, nothing can be asserted yet on any reasonable grounds respecting the nest probable military movements. In Virginia we have POPE, the new Federal commander in the west of that State, addressing his men as if he intended to drive all be fore him; but we remember that JACKSON is yet free to move when he pleases from Richmond to Washington itself. We hear from the South that no siege guns were captured, but only light pieces, which had to be recast. We are also told of an iron-clad boat building at Rich mond, but of great difficulty in obtaining iron. Still, we read in the Southern papers of great confi dente that the invader will soon be driven out, and of families who had left, returning to Richmond. Vicksburg, on the Mississippi, still holds out, and the Border States are beccming alive with insurrec tion. Such facts, with the difficulty the PRESI DENT finds in raising his 303,000 men, and the abolition tendency of various public measures, may all mean that the fearful result is fast approaching —that either the South, by its present efforts, will abolish the Union, or the North must abolish Slavery. Another act of munificence on the part of the SOVEREIGN has now to be announced. According to the information with which we have been honoured this forenoon by the noble earl the leader of her MAJESTY'S Opposition, the QUEEN has contributed a sum of £2,000 to the Fund now being collected from all ranks and classes of her MAJESTY'S subjects for the relief of the Distress in Lancashire. The incident is, of course, exactly the reverse of being in any way unprecedented. It is only another added to a very long list of similar royal benefactions during the now quar ter of a century's reign of Queen VICTORIA. Her Most Gracious MAJESTY has ever evinced her instant readiness to come to the relief of suffering, whenever that suffering has been brought to her MAJESTY'S knowledge. Occasionally, this prompt munificence of the QUEEN has been evidenced in a very signal manner, and under peculiarly impres sive and afflicting circumstances. It was thus, it will be remembered, in the instance of that sudden and appalling affliction which befell the poor col liery village down at the New Hartley Pit, where upwards of 200 poor fellows were doomed to a dreadful death by the horrible . results of an instant's accident. Then—who can forget it ? —her MAJESTY not only contributed a mu nificent donation to the funds being raised for the widows and the orphan children of the deceased colliers, but sent a kindly, tender, benignant message cf her heart's sympathy to the afflicted people of that village—a message flashed by electric telegraph from the palace of the widowed QUEEN, down to that sor row-stricken neighbourhood, down by the new Hartley Pit. Here, once more, the QUEEN evi dences her active sympathy with the afflicted, by adding her donation of two thousand pounds ster ing, to the other gifts of money accumulating, in lesser sums, for the alleviation of the privations resulting from the Cotton Famine in the North of England, but more particularly in Lancashire. We hope Mr. COBDEN'S high authority will not send our Manchester friends to sleep. It may be true that their immediate business is to spin and weave, not to grow cotton. They cannot, as a body, become agriculturists in the tropics, and no such Utopian absurdity is demanded of them. The feeling, and the complaint widely uttered is, however, that Manchester has not done what might be expected of her. We looked for energy and skill equal to almost any emergency, we find her threatened with a famine of the staff of life to her trade, and she succumbs. We must fold our hands, she says, till the cotton comes again; how we know not—but come it will, though vie do not move hand or foot. shr ew d , long-headed Lancashire men of en edu cated cl ass wanting employment altogether, Eng OW, just whil e th ere mus t b e h un d re d s of sharp, land will believo that India might find them it, wit h advantage to both countries. They already have the main point in their educaiion, a thorough know ledge of the quality of the different kinds of cotton ; suc h a ki/owlecige as would take an uninitiated person a long time, ind ee d, to attain. Why can not firms organis e a plan to send an umber of these men as agents to India. They would only need interpretei.s. A very little time would teach them the mechanics of cotton cleaning, they could go with prices in their hands to the natives, even to the ryots themselves, which would almost stagger the poor creatures, accustomed to sell their crop at half, or a third of its worth, to a usurer, who, besides charges them fifty per cent. for the advance to grow it. and it may be presumed that their presence with the rupees in their hands, and a little advice as to the kind of preparation of the wool required to obtaiu them, would soon work a complete revolu tion in the quantity and quality of Indian cotton. Could the Indian Government but devise a good and easily worked contract law, to make advances secure; and advances be then made by Manchester monied men operating through bankers resident in:lndia, at 124 per cent., the current interest there, the ryot enfranchised from the usurer, and with the certainty a huger of his cotton for double or treble the price be has usually got for it would be quite a new man. Mr. COBDEN has had many lectures lately on med dling with things which he does not understand, but he ought, we all suppose, to understand Manchester business. We differ from him, therefore, with all proper modesty, but we do certainly think that it is the business of every man to attend to any thing requisite to the prosecution of his business. A soldier's business has been always understood to be fighting, yet we find ancient and modern generals agreeieg that attention to the commissariat is one of the most important duties of a commander. His men are good for nothing without food ; and as cotton mills are equally worthless without their food, it would seem that their commanders are equally bound to attend to the cotton commissariat. Perhaps the most interesting inauguration of a Public Drinking Fountain that there has yet been witnessed anywhere in all Loudon was the one which took place on Saturday last on Islington Green. It was in reality a twofold inauguration —the inauguration of a Drinking Fountain and the inauguration of a Statue. The Fountain, the gift of many —among those donors being the New River Company. The Statue, the gift of one —namely, of Sir MORTON PETO, the Member of Parliament. It represents this latter presentation to the locality, the vera effigies in white Sicilian marble (8 feet 6 inches in height) of the revered and honoured hero of that whole neighbourhood, the worthy old knight Sir HUGH MIDDELTON. Besides the name of Si r HUGH MIDDELTON inscribed upon the gray granite pedestal from Devonshire, there are there legible also the dates of his birth in 1555, and of his death in 1631—at the ripe old age of seventy six, an age as ripe as his memory is still green now after more than tcso centuries. There has surely hardly ever been erected before now any more suitable memorial of one of the Great Worthies held deservedly in grate ful remembrance, than this Fountain and Statue to the memory of the contriver of the New River supply of water to the metropolis, good old Sir HUGH MIDDELTON. A benefactor of the inhabitants of Londott—just as SHAKSPERE was a Poet for the people of England, of the British Empire, of both hemispheres, wherever the English language is understood—" not for an age, but for all time !" Sir HUGH MIDDELTON'S beneficent project proving in effect a priceless boon in its way not merely for his ovs n contemporaries, but for all after generations. Happily as our gifted Chancellor of the Exchequer has often spoken before now upon the most di versified themes, and upo I the most various occasions, the right honourable gentleman has hardly ever addressed himself to a miscellaneous audience more felicitously than he did on Saturday. The subject seemed to be congenial to him, and he himself in the best possible mood for its appropriate treatment. Among the few genuine improvements and decorations of the metropolis that we may re gard with unaffected satisfaction, it is a gratifica tion to know that we may now count this Drink ing Fountain on Islington-green, surmounted (thanks to Sir MORTON PETO) with that happily thought of white marble statue of Sir HUGH MYDDELTON. LATEST NEWS. PARIS, JULY 28. The Moniteur of this morning announces that the Progres, of Lyons, has received a second v“ruing for publishing in its number of Thursday last a correspondence from Paris, reporting incidents as having taken place in the discussions of the Council of Ministers which were completely false. TURIN, JULY 27 (Evening). Yesterday, in the Chamber of Deputies, the dis cussion was continued on the question put by Signor Petrucelli, relative to the foreign policy of the Government. Signor Mordini desired that Parliament should resound with language of encouragement to the Roman people to break their chains, although respecting the French flag. Ile asked if the House had ever thought what would be the atti tude of the Government in the case of an insurrec tion at Rome. Signor Mordini believed that the Franco-Russian affiance would be dangerous to Italian interests, and that the Anglo-French alli ance was necessary to ensure the peace of Europe. He thought also that Italy should fortify herself and place herself in a warlike condition. Other speakers spoke against the foreign policy of the Italian Government. TURIN, JULY 27. The Syndic of Marsala has published an account of Garibaldi's visit to that city on the 19th inst., on which occasion Garibaldi made a speech against the Emperor of the French exceeding in violence all his previous speeches. It is asserted that the Government has sent orders by telegraph for the removal of the Syndic from office. The Prefect of Palermo has tendered his resigna tion, which has been accepted. General Brignote is spoken of as his successor. THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 28. The Royal Mail steamship Tasmanian arrival here this morning with the above mails, 134 passengers, 1,494,233 in specie, and 1,200 packages of cargo. FRANCE. BOURSE, July 25.—A further rise in Consols of per cent. has imparted additional firmness to the market, and the business done has been at an im provement on the closir.g rates of yesterday, Threes, for the Account, after having been done at 68f. 60c., are now firm at 68f. 50c. Railway Shares quiet, but firm. The market closed as follows : .11 per Cent 5....... 97 35 Do end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 68 60 New 3 per Cents .. Do, end month.... Credit NI obilier , 826 25 Do. end month.... 827 50 RAIL' Bank Shares 31'0 Credit Fonder llBO Piedinontes( Fives 71 50 Italian Loan 7l 30 Roman Austrian Spani,h Threes — llome Debt .. 4B 25 rAYs. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto - • • • -- Lyons and Mediterranean 1088 75 .. 1087 50 Geneva Southern BlO .. 810 Western Eastern ..., Sardinian 370 .. _ Austrian Loirbard SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM. The Emperor of the French has graciously pre sented fine specimens of Gobelins and Beauvais tapestry to the South Kensington Museum. The presents were notified by the following decree from Marshal Valliant : " Palais des Tuileries, Paris, July 12, 1862. "Monsieur l'Administrateur,—l hasten to inform you that his Majesty the Emperor, wishing to ac knowledge the gracious welcome which has been given to the French jury by the Directors and Committee of the South Kensington Museum, has condescendingly authorised me to present to that establishment, in his name, the productions of the Gobelins and Beauvais manufactories which are in dicated below, viz. : " A tapestry representing Christ at the Tomb, alter Caravaggio, as a specimen of the produc tions of the Gobelins. " A fauteuil, as a specimen of the works of Beauvais. " Receive, &c., the assurances of my high con sideration, (Signed) " VAILLANT, " Marshal of France, and Minister of the Household of the Emperor." "M. Badin, Director of the Imperial Manufac• tories of the Gobelins and Beauvais." AUSTRALIAN SovERI•;IGNS.—The Commons' select committee, on the subject of legalizing the circulation in the United Kingdom of sovereigns coined at the Sydney branch of the Royal Mint, report that this coinage is increasing, and was about £BOO,OOO in the first quarter of the present year. These coins are of equal fineness and weight with the Tower -hill sovereigns, and the Master of the Mint is equally responsible for them ; yet they have the privilege of circulation in certain colonies only. The only difference is, that the alloy being more of silver and less of copper, the Sydney sovereign is not considered so durable as the English ; but there is no sufficient inducement to cause the systematic introduction of light Australian coin into our home circulation. The limited privilege of circulation is, of course, a disadvantage to the Australian coinage. The committee propose that an end be put to this distinction, and recommend that the existing Sydney gold coinage be withdrawn from circulation, and that gold coin be issued from the branch mint there, having as nearly asp saible the same alloy as that of London, and having currency wherever gold coin minted in London is current; that it have a mint mark to distinguish it; that it be kept at such an amount as to prevent any undue inducement to the im portation into the United Kingdom of gold in coin rather than in bars ; and that the charge for the branch mint should be provided for by permanent appropriation by the Legislature of New South Wales rather than by an annual vote. BRITISH FISHERIES.—The annual report of the British Fishery Commissioners show the great success of the new brand:ng system. The fee of 4d. a barrel for branding herrings yielded only £2,644 in its first year, 1859 ; £3,865 in 1860, and £4,422 in 1861. Yet the fishing in 1861 was not extraordinary ; the gross cure was less than in 1660, but the branding of the export ex ceeded those of 1860. 33,433 more barrels were branded, and the export reached 390,313 barrels. The Scotch herrings have in a great degree displaced those cured by the Dutch in the foreign markets where they meet, and last year upwards of 20,000 barrels were exported direct from Scotland into Holland—the commencement of a trade which, it is hoped, may in future years emulate that of the Prussian ports, and develope, as that did, from small beginnings into the large proportions it has since reached. In the year 1861 12,961 boats, manned by 42,751 fishermen and boys, were employed in the herring and cod and ling fisheries of Great Britain, and the boats, nets, and lines employed were of the deviated value of £783,037—an increase over the preceding year of 432,841 and of 321 in the number of fishermen. JUDICIAL STATUTES.—Mr. Ewart, on Friday, will ask the Government what steps have been taken to put the judicial statutes of Scotland and Ireland on the same footing as England, THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. The number of visitors at the Exhibition on Saturday was 26,353, of whom 9,779 were admitted by season tickets, and 16,563 paid their half-crowns at the doors. The Crown Prince of Saxony and Prince George, his brother, spent some time in the building, examining more particularly the Eastern Annexe and the Austrian Court. The Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz and her son Prince Adolphus, the Duke of Cambridge, Princess Mary of Cambridge, the Frince de Joinville, the Count of Paris, the Duke of Chartres, and the Prince of Orange, were also among the visitors. Messrs. Hol lingsworth, the papermakers of Maidstone, treated 400 of their workmen to the Exhibition on Satur day. This is the first body of workmen which has visited the Exhibition on a half-crown day, and Messrs. Hollingsworth justify the extra expenses to which they were put by the selection of this day on the ground that their people see twice as much of the contents of the building es they would on a crowded shilling day, and that by sending them on Saturday they only lose half a day's labour instead of a whole one. This sensible view appears to have been taken by other employers, for we understand that Messrs. Betts, of Aylesford, propose to send 500 of their men next Saturday, The singing bullfinch still continues to exercise his talent for the benefit of the distressed cotton districts very profitably. Ho seld( m continues long without an audience, and on Saturday he realised more than £lO. His contributions to the fund during the 'week have exceeded £3O. Few people seem to experience much difficulty in finding their way to him, but, for the benefit of strangers, we may point out that he is to be found at the back of the Swiss Court, under the gallery. Messrs. Aube and Linton, the exhibitors of the bull finch, have just added to their display a won derful piece of horological mechanism in the shape of an astronomical and geographical clock, which, though very little larger than an ordinary drawing-room timepiece, gives 35 different de monstrations on 26 separate dials. Besides striking the hours, half-hours, and quarter-hours, it shows he revolution of the sun, the solstices and equi noxes, the months, days of the month, and days of the week, the equation of time, the changes of the moon, and the time of day at 22 of the principal cities in every quarter of the world. The pendulum is a most ingenious and complicated contrivance. It is a compensation formed of nine branches, and carries at its lower extremity a dial which indicates the variation to the eight hundredth part of half an inch, and by its own internal mechanism regulates itself to the temperature. The clock is the work of M. Gretillat, of Confranc, Switzerland, and occu pied 23 years in its construction. Among his numerous purchases at the Exhibi tion, the Viceroy of Egypt has carried off the beautiful globe of cut glass exhibited by Mr. Brock well, and has ordered several others of the Barna pattern as ornaments for the handrail of the stair case leading to the state cabin of his yacht. Preparations have already been commenced for the closing ceremonial, which will be one of un usual splendour. The price of admission for the day has been fixed at £l, so that it will be good economy for those who wish to attend to purchase 30s. season tickets at once. The following return of total admissions for last week and the corres ponding week of 1851 speaks well for the increas ing popularity of the Exhibition : 1851. 1852. Monday (U.) 70,640 67,562 Tuesday (Is.) Wednesday (ls.) Thursday (Is.) Friday (2s. 6d.) .. 26,882 .. 27,850 Saturday (55.) 274,139 296,715 A comparison of the payments is, even more favourable to the present Exhibition. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.—A most inter esting and instructing little brochure upon Paraffine is being gratuitously circulated at the stalls of the Messrs. FielC of Lambeth, in the eastern annexe; it therein de tails the discovery and history of this wonderful product, and ft would seem that no other exhibitor of it has ventured to place candles made therefrom perpendicularly into chandeliers, thus proving that the one great difficulty which presented itself in its early development had been luccessfully coped with and overcome. We are further informed by these gentlemen now that these candles are being imitated in so many quarters, it is their intention to stamp all of them with their trade mark and their name for the future. HER MAJES7Y'S THEATRE-CLOSE OF THE SUBSC_RIPTION. A brilliant audience assembled on S2.turdar at the close of the forty subscription nights which the entrepreneur, Mr. Mapleon, had announced as " the season." I; must Lot be supposed, however, that her Majesty's Theatre closes with the splendid performance of " Roberto it Diavolo," by the un exampled cnet T;hich the directorate has this season brought together. Mdlie. Tietjens' Alice, Carlotta Marchisio, Signori Armandi, Bettini, Vialetti, and Gassier, form a body of executants of Meyerbeer's great opera, which it would be difficult to rival in any opera-house of Europe. It is but justice to Mr. Mapleson to fully endorse the statement he so modestly makes in his address, which we here subjoin, prefacing it by the remark that the gene ral opinion of those who have watched the exertions of his almost improvised management is, that it has achieved more than could reasonably have been expected, and has exhibited unwearied energy and liberality to its close. A course cf conduce whicn fully deserves a future liberal subscription and the confidence of the opera-going public, should Mr. Mapleson essay—which we sincerely trust in the interests of art he will—the arduous post of director and lessee next year. The address above alluded to is couched in these terms :- 10 THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY VISITING HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE I cannot allow the opera season of 1862 to terminate without tendering you my heartfelt thanks for the kind support and liberal patronage you have accorded me during this my first season of directorship at her Majesty's Theatre. It would be in vain to deny that during the past season a few shortcomings may be laid to my charge; but when the magnitude of the undertaking, on which I entered at a very short notice, is taken into consideration—two weeks only having been allowed me for preparation—l trust they will be deemed unimportant. The chorus, during the early part of the season, was not, on some occasions, all that could be wished, but I was corn • palled to organise a new one, many of the members being entirely unacquainted with each other. By next season I shall be prepared with a chorus which I trust will be worthy of your approval. 1 feel I may with pride draw your attention to the orchestra, which includes some of the most accomplished executants in Europe. In this respect I venture to claim your approval, and to point to the unanimous opinions of musical critics on its merits. I may also be permitted to hope for your approval of the varied repertoire which 1 have been enabled to present to you. I do not dwell on Signor Verdi's new Cantata, or MeyerLeer's chef d'oeuvre " Robert le Diable," given with the greatest completeness and effect, but I beg respectfully to point to the thirteen different operas which have been brought out during the first season of my management, and to the very al le manner in which they have been supported. Such artistes as Signora Giuglini, Vialetti, Gassier, Santley, Zucchini, &c.; Mesdames Trebelli, Louisa Pyne, the Sisters Mar chisio, and Tietjens (incomparab y the greatest artiste on the European lyric stage), together with Arditi, need no eulogy from me. I content myself with drawing your at ention to the fact that the first representations of nearly all these operas were given on subscription nights, and were not reserved as attractions for extra performances, which in many instances is now the practice, It Is my intention, during the next six months, to make myself acquainted i.ersonally with any talent that exists abroad, in order that I may be ahe, next season, to t lace before you a galaxy of talent unrivalled in London, sup ported by an orchestra and chorus complete in every parti cular. In the production of operatic spectacle I shall be greatly assisted by some very extensive alterations that are to be made in the theatre, which will render the stage more capacious, and the task of producing each opera with com pleteness more easy of accomplishment. I hope you will not deem me presumptuous in troubling you with this short resume of what I have done, and what I intend doing. The position of director of so great an establishment as her Majesty's Theatre is one which, while surrounded with risks and troubles, is not unaccompanied with pleasures— I may say honours; in both the latter I shall have largely shared, if I have succeeded in gaining your approbation for the past, and your good wishes and patronage for the future. J. it MAPLESON. At the close of the opera the National Anthem was sung. A supplementary season of eight nights is announced, at reduced prices of admission, to begin to-morrow, Tuesday. ETON COLLEGE-ELECTION SATURDAY. This time-honoured festival at Eton took place on Saturday last, and, the weather being remark ably flue, there was a large assemblage of the nobility and gentry, chiefly old Etonians and friends of the students, among whom we noticed the Earl of Harewood, Lord Hichinbroke, Lord Vaughan, Lord Ebury, Hon. Mr. Grosvenor, Lord Castlecuffe, Lord Dargan, Hon . : Mr. Elliot, Henry Eaton, Esq., Walter Whitmore, Esq., Sir W. Fraser, Hon. Cap tain Edwards, Hon. Captain Trefusis, Captain Byng, Captain Pennant, Cute, Esq. (of the Vine), Earl of Jersey, Horace S. Pierce, Esq„ Hon. Captain Clive, M.P., G. W. Hope, Esq., M.P., Lord Dun glass, Hon. Mrs. Hope and party, Herbert Lang ham, Esq., and Miss Langham, Miss Thackeray and party, Miss Ward, Lord Kircaldy, Norman, Esq., Countess of Egmont, the Misses O'Kess, Cap tain Bulkely, H. Wrench, Esq., the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor and party, &c. The customary speeches in the Upper School on Election Saturday were for the first time dispensed with, and the former part of the day was chiefly occupied by the visitors in inspecting the magni ficent hall and chapel, and visiting the houses of the masters, not omitting to pay their respects to that old and esteemed veteran of Eton, Mr. Lee Marchant, who, we regret to learn, is retiring from Eton in consequence of a serious efsiction. At three o'clock the Provost and Fellows of Eton, the Provost of King's College, Cambridge, the two posers, Mr. Earle and Mr. Whiting, the clergy of Windsor and Eton, and other personages, num bering nearly 100, proaeeded to the College Hall, where they partook of a sumptuou , banquet, the venison being supplied by her Majesty from the Great Park. The college graces ante and post prandium being chanted by the choir of Eton, led by Mr. Mitchell, the organist, and the customary loyal and college toasts were given by the Provost of Eton, who occupied the chair. Between four and five o'clock the rifle corps of the collegians, under the command of Captain Sel wyn, marched into the playing fields, and went through several interesting evolutions with steadi ness and precision, and at seven o'clock the crews of the upper and lower boats left the Brecas to pay their usual visit to Old Sarley. The precession was in every way similar to that on June 4, with the exception of the eight selected to row the -Westmin ster, which crew rowed by themselves, viz.:— Captain Lawes, of the Monarch; Captain Kings lake, Pochin, and Griffiths, of the Victory ; Captain Selwyn, of the Prince of Wales; Captain IL P. Senhouse, of the Britannia; Captain A. Brassey, of the Dreadnought ; and Captain Trench, of the Thetis; Needham, coxswain ; uniform, white cap and wrapper, and Eton blue coat. After partaking of a capital spread, provided by Layton Brothers, the royal confectioners, and drink ing the customary toasts, the crews returned to Windsor-bridge, wuere an excellent display of fire works were discharged from the eyot in the pre sence of thousands who crowded every available spot in that vicinity, whilst the Qrews pulled past several times, after which the band of the Grenadier Guards played the National Anthem, and the stu dents returned to the college. There will be an extra week's holiday this vaca tion, which commences on Friday next, in conse quence of the marriage of the Princess Alice, and another week wilt be given in days, during next half, in consequence of the appointment of the new head-master, the Rev. E. Balston. The present advices from New York report a rise in grain, and say very little about the northern harvest. It is probably good, but far short of that of last year in quan tity, and after the waste for the army shall hava been pro.. vided for the surplus for exportation may prove moderate, Even, however, it it were large, there would be reason to doubt if it could he supplied to Europe on terms such as have heretofore overborne the competition of Russia and other grain-producing countries on this side, since the rise in the rates of lab,. ur and freight consequent upon the intro duction of the prohibitory tariff will make a serious differ enct, in that re-pest. Meanwhile it is admitted that what evrr may be the result in the North there is no danger of starvation in the South, and that the tales hitherto circu lated by the ),Vashingi on politicians of impending scareit3 throug'aout the C o nfederate States have been wholly false The Nov York, Journal of Commerce, en the autho rity of letters from Federalists on Board the Missis• sippi flotilla actually says that the production of Indian corn i n that region has been so gre a t t h at i t i s " a puzz l e as to what will be done with it." " The banks of the Mis o i ss ippi from Memphis to Vicksburg," it is added, " are waving fields of it," THE ATIEMPTED MURDER IN SHAD WLLL. At the Thames Police Court this morning, Walter Hill, N man of colour, late cook and seaman of the ship Ben Nevis, from Sarinan, who stands charged with cutting and wounding a prostitute named Honora Morris, better known as Mad Notah, in Bluegatt-fields, Shadwell, yesterday morning, was brought trom the statiot -house in King David-lane, Shadwe 1, to the station-house in Arbour st,eet, Stepney, adjoining the Thames Police-court, this morning at ten o'clock. An immense number of persons were attracted in and near King David lane, and Inspector Allison, of the K Division, took the precaution of sending him out the back way in charge of four police constables to avoid the crowd. It soon transpired that he was on his way to the Thames police-court, and by the time he reached Arbour-square a mob of 500 persons, chiefly the scum of Shoreditch, were following at his heels. He was quietly lodged at the station-house without any ex hibition of feeling whatever. The sympathy of the few reTectable pers ns assembled in and near the police-court, before the arrival of the magistrate, Mr. Woolrych, was decidedly in favour of the unfortunate prisoner, who had been plundered of his money, and stripped of every thing he possessed in a vile den by the most infamous thieves in the distr ct. It was rumoured that the woman, Honors Morris, died of her wounds this morning at 1 o'clock, and much excite ment prevailed. However, on the arrival of Mr. Dyte, house-surgeon of the London Hospital, at the Thames Police-court, shortly after 11 o'clock, he at once allayed the prevailing excitement by stating that the woman was alive, and progressing as favourably as could be expected, co sidering the many wounds she received. She lost very little blood, in fact scarcely any at all, and he saw no rea son why she should not recover. At p esent the result was extremely doubtful. The prisoner is a native of Et. Thomas, in the West Indies. At twelve o'clock, when this report was despatched, the magi3trate had not commenced the hearing of the night charges. Hill will not be arraigned until two or three o'clock in the afternoon. The evidence against him is com plete. Many persons saw him inflict the wounds on the unfortunate woman, who will not under the most favour able circumstances be able to attend the court for the next three weeks. The prisoner will be remanded for a week as a matter of course. POLICE-THIS DAY. MARLBOROUGH• STREET. MIDNIGHT MARAUDERS IN PARK-LANE.—A NOVEL DODGE —Charles O'Hara and Sarah Clarke were charged with loitering in Park-lane, for the purpose of committing a felony. Benjamin Lees, 341 A, proved seeing the woman on Saturday night in Park lane near the railings opposite Mount-street with the male prisoner. She then left him, seeing a gentleman approach, and seized the gentleman's arm. The gentleman walked on, the female walking at his side, and the male prisuner keeping a little behind, but fol lowing them. The gentleman then shook the female pri soner oft, and she crossed the lane and spoke to the male. prisoner. A second gentleman coming along, the female prisoner crossed over, seized him by the arm, and walked by his side, the male prisoner, as before, following a short distance behind. He (Lees) then stood back, and heard the wotnan, as she passed him, say that she " Didn't want any more of the 'skilly' at the House of Correction." He then took the prisoners into custody with assistance, Some other evidence having been given, the prisoners were, committed for a month each with hard labour. Two rough fellows named Lee and Kelly were also• charged with loitering in Park-lane for the purpose of com— mitting a felony. The prisoners were seen by Rough, 310 A, loitering in Park-lane. He kept a watch on the prisoners, and saw them put out three of the street lamps near Holdernesse House (the residence of the Marchioness. of Londonderry) and Gloucester House (the residence of his Royal Highness the L tike of Cambridge), the better to. carry on their nefarious pursuit. After some time the pri— soners were taken into custody, but not till they had had a severe struggle with two officers. Smith, 163 B, proved that the two prisoners were well known carriage thieves, and that Lee had been in custody tor robbing linen carts and for other offences, and he thought if a remand were granted he should have a charge against Lee for robbing a carriage. The mother of one of the prisoners stepped forward, but was silenced on Smith stating that she had also had three months herself. The prisoners were remanded. WESTMINSTER. DISGRACEFUL TREATMENT OF A RESPECTABLE TRADESM4N.—Mr. Prospere Barbeere, an upholsterer, at 22, New-road, Sloane•square, was charged with being drunk and disorderly. Police-constable 318 B, said that between twelve and one on the previous night the defendant was in the New-road, drunk, and creating a great disturbance by quarrelling with some Irishwomen. As he was disturbing the neighbour hood he told him repeatedly to go away, and as he refused, and the neise continued, he took him to the station. It was urged, on the part of the defendant, that he had. been most disgracefully treated by the police. He was standing at his own door, when be was accosted by some Irishwomen from a court opposite, and abused. The po liceman then came up, and instead of sending the Irish women away, coarsely and unch illy told defendant to go indoors or he would take him into custody, and upon his asserting his right to stand at his own door, and refused to , go in, the constable eeized him by the collar and took hins to the station-house. He denied that he was drunk, and added that, although bail was offered for his appearance, it was refused until seven in the morning. Two witnesses were called, respectable neighbours of the defendant's, who confirmed his statement in every par ticular. Mr. Dayman discharged the defendant. He said the policeman had no tight to order him into his own house, but should have dispersed the Irishwomen, who were really the cause of the disorder. The policeman had been guilty of excess of duty in the transaction. SIR HUGH MYDDEL7 ON' S STATUE. On Saturday a very interesting ceremonial took place at Islington-green. The statue of Sir Hugh_ Myddeltcn just erected, and the drinking fountains introduced in graceful combination with the effigy of that distinguished engineer, were solemnly in augurated, the Chancellor of the Exchequer taking part in the cremeny. The work was exposed to view for the first time on Saturday, and Finsbury may now be congratulated on having been first to erect a public statue which is historically in keep ing with the district, which occupies a really good And commanding position, and which need not fear to encounter foreign criticism. The site of the statue and fountain is on Islington-green, a few yards from one of the entrances to the new Agri cultural-hall. The figure of the knight, executed by the late Mr. Thomas, the sculptor, is Bft. 6in. in height.. It is carved in white Sicilian marble, and represents Sir Hugh in the costume of the latter pirtion of the 16th century, with badge, and chain, holding in his left hand a scroll containing the plan of his great and useful work, inscribed with the words " New River." The statue stands upon a pedestal of gray Devonshire granite, on the front of which is the inscription, " Sir Hugh Myddelton, born 1555, died 1631." The base beneath the pe destal is of Portland stone, and on the right and left of the pedestal ate two seated figures of boys partly draped, with hair entwined with bulrushes, and beneath them pitchers, from which the water pours into the basins. The figures and basins, like the statue, are of Sicilian marble< The New River Company have undertaken to supply the fountain with water; and with some of the great city companies have also contributed to the cost of its erection. At one o'clock the local authorities, consisting of the chairman and members of the vestry of St. Mary, Islington, directors of the New Agricultural Hall, directors of the New River Company, &c., assembled in the new Agricultural Hall, which was placed at their disposal for the occasion, and being joined by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Sir Peto, marched in procession to the site co Islington-green. On arriving. within the enclosure , t he vicar, the Rev. Daniel Wilson, read a prayer suitable to the occasion. At its close the figures was unveiled amid loud applause on the part of the bystanders, and sir M. Peto presented the statue to the Rev. D. Wilson, as chairman of the vestry,' briefly expressing his satisfaction that the first work o art erected publicly in the borough should be a tribute to the memory of one of the great and good men to whom England owed so much of her material development, adding a hope that many migh t be ,simulated to follow the example of Sir Hug h. \lyddelton, wh..,se memory they that day e ndea . : voured to perpetuate. Mr. Harvey, chairman t the su b- cotemitt?e, in like mauner,handed ove r the pedestal an d f ounta i ns on the part of the subscrl,: oers to th e R ev . D . 'Wilson, who accepted the t on behalf of the vestry, and trusted it would long' continue a s a memor i a l o f t h e no bl e generosity o, its donors. The CHANCELLOR of flab EXCHEQUER, filling Cup with water at one of the fountains, whicn begah` 0 play simultaneously with the unveiling of the figures, said —lt is my plessant duty to dt clare this , untain open. I have only to add that I think it a great honour to be the first person to drink the water that proceeds from it ; an d t o assure you t hat I drink to all your very good health. (Laughter and applause.) tip 13