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

- 1 0P1 ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the afanagement of Mr. Charles Kean. - THIS EVENING, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Fabien and Louis dei Franchi. By Mr. C. Kean. To conclude with A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Commence at 7. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. I ,THIS EVENING, A NABOB FOR AN HOUR. THE CONTESTED ELECTION. After which, OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND. To conclude with HALLOWE'EN. Commence at 7. ISTEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. Followed by the new burlesque, THE BABES IN THE WOOD. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne ; Miss Woolgar,and Miss K. Kelly. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Office open from 10 to 5 —no charge for booking. No fees to servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING, CAPTAIN CHARLOTTE. Miss M. Wilton. After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses Bwanborongh, Oliver, and Lavine. Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE LADY OF LYONS. _ Commence at 7 o'clock. VERDI'S OPERA OF MACBETH. Th e whole of the first Act of this Opera, .now produced for the first time in this country (the remaining three acts being in course of rehearsal), is sung nightly at the CAN TERBURY HALL CONCERTS. THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, oonsisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette, and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and EIGHT years. The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios ever written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France and Belgium. They will perform TWICE EACH EVENING, in addi tion to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICM, Ararst 7. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 71—highest since noon yesterday. 6.s—lowest this morning and during the night. 74—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.92—falling. WIND, South-Westerly ; light, with fine weather Some rain in the night. AL G. 8. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 75—highest since noon yesterday. 67—lowest this morning and during the night. 74—this day at noon. It&RomETEA-29.82—5ti1l WIND, Oath -West ; light, and very sultry. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, 9h. sm. —Afternoon, 9h. 46m. To-Moimow-Morning, 10h. 31m.—Afternoon, Ilh. 12m. THE SUN. MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1859. It may be as well to particularise, in a few words, the chief among the various changes recommended with a view to the better manning of the British Navy—by the Royal Commissioners. And before enumerating these suggested improve ments—improvements suggested, be it remembered, by the highest authorities, and after the maturest deliberation laid in a substantial report before Par liament—it cannot but be encouraging at once to observe that the estimated cost of the whole of these measures would not (according to the report) exceed—not a very alarming sum (even to Mr. WILLIAMS)—£6OO,OOO. For six hundred thou sand pounds sterling at the outside, it is calculated that the country might realise all the advantages suggested by the Royal Commissioners. And those advantages ? Well, they are not very numerous—but they are, beyond a doubt, to our thinking very important, and very worthy of con sideration. The Commissioners propose, then, in the first instance, and speaking in round numbers, to secure to the Royal Navy for the purpose of any sudden emergency that might arise 50,000 additional men, seamen, marines, volunteers, and coastguards. men. Fifty thousand additional men just for emergencies ! Namely, 4,000 reserved seamen— not a very extravagant reserve of tars, this, surely? Together with these 4,000 reserved seamen-11,000 marines ashore ; 12,000 coastguardsmen, of course, as their very name implies, distributed along the coast at the different stations ; some 3,000 or 4,000 ordinary volunteers—making thus, in all, an aggre gate of 30,000 ! An aggregge. yet farther in creased to the total already mentioned of 50,000 —by 20,000 Naval Volunteers to be drawn ingeniously from the merchant seamen scattered through our various ports a body of men always numbering actually in those parts not less than a clear 100,000 altogether. It is conceived— and not very irrationally, we think, by the com missioners—that 20,000 out of that 100,000 might be rendered easily enough available for the Royal Navy, by the holding out to them of a few suffi ciently alluring inducements. Such inducements, for example, as actual pay for whatever leisure time might be consumed in practice—pensions secured to them at fifty years of age, or, at the latest, at fifty-five—payment at rapid intervals — admission into the coastguard service—and, last and not least, shelter under the palace roof of that grand old hospital at Greenwich, of our maritime and national Invalides. It is thus that the Commission proposes to secure for the Royal Navy for periods of emergency, whenever they might unhappily arise, a perpetually available addition of 30,000 men. To recapitulate them succinctly-4,000 tars in reserve, 11,000 long-shore marines, 3,000 or 4,000 ordinary volunteers, and 20,000 naval volunteers, procurable from the 100,000 merchant seamen at all times to be found scattered among the ports of Great Britain. And all this the Commission dis tinctly estimates might be accomplished for about £600,000. Those £600,000, by the way, including besides the augmentation (by 5,000 men) of the marines, and the annual augmentation (by 1,500) of the boys enrolled in our maritime service, and entered on board training ships such as the Bri tannia! The number of boys so entered at present being no more yearly than five hundred in all — we should by the adoption of that one sug gestion alone secure no less than two thou sand annually of those stripling tars, who are for warlike purposes the hope and the glory of England. Hereupon we cannot possibly do better than quote some most sagacious, most patriotic, And admirably timed remarks, which appear in the course of a masterly paper upon the " State of the Navy," in the new number of the Edinburgh. The reviewer therein observes, in reference to the sug gested improvements in our maritime organisation: Tide tendency of the reforms and improvements loudly called for, and gradually obtained, in the ad.minis tration of the military and naval depart ments i s ,to break down those al:elusive professional barriers wi 'tich have so long been the bane of the service. Tb •c true strength of the army and navy of England is that they are identified by the closest ties v rah the nationals feelings, the en terprise, the industry, and thy: ingenuity of the country. WI ten the gallant forces in the Crimea were at their • dreariest hour, crushed by a foe more powerf ul than the Russians, sanitary scienos,elril ; administration, ;female devotedness, and national ietermination snatched them back from the verge of destruction.. Civil engineering, which nowhert achieves greeter triumphs than in this kingdom, has gradually enabled Mr. FERGUS. SON to conquer the prejudices arrayed against his system of fortification, and Sir WILLIAM ARM STRONG to mount his guns upon our batteries. Whatever may be the resources of the royal dock yards, they are equalled if not surpassed by the immense private establishments which form part of the ship-building power of the United Kingdom ; and, in the fabrication of machinery, the workshops of the Clyde and the Thames are constantly lend ing their forges to the Government. There is too great a tendency in purely naval critics to argue the question as if our whole maritime strength were comprised in the Navy List and the dockyards. The reverse is the case ; and the true problem we have to solve is to render these vast resources promptly available for the defence of the country, which at present they are not." As a striking foreign recognition of the too noto rious fact that they are not, the reviewer then quotes the opinion to that very effect, expressed in 1851 before the Commission d'Enquete, by Captain de MONTAIGNAC. Appended to this, however, immediately afterwards, are the impressive words recently addressed to her MAJESTY by her own Royal Commissioners. Those words are in many respects, we cannot but think, very remarkable, and in their tendency fraught with encouragement. They are these :—" Your MAJESTY," say the Commissioners, " possesses in the merchant service elements of naval power, such as no Government in the world enjoys. It is true, that hitherto no suf ficient organisation has existed for securing to your MAJESTY the immediate command of these re sources. During a long peace, reliance has been placed, either on the improbability that danger would arise, or on the efficacy of impressment to furnish the means by which danger could be con fronted and overcome. Changes in public senti ment, and in the circumstances of the case, have shaken that reliance. We rejoice to believe, that by improvements in the administration of your MAJESTY'S Navy, and in the regulation of the merchant service, other resources have in the meantime been placed within the reach of your MAJESTY'S Government, and that it is now in their power to substitute for untrained compulsory service, a system of defence, voluntary, effective, and calculated to draw closer to your MAJESTY at the moment of danger, the loyal enthusiasm of those on whom your MAJESTY will rely. We therefore humbly and confidently submit to your MAJESTY the adoption of measures which, while their primary object is the protection of this country from the hazards of war, must at the same time improve the position and elevate the character of the British seamen in the two services, and unite them together in the firm bonds of reci procal good feeling and of common interest." Let those two services so be brought together, so bound by common ties of sympathy each to each, and the Commission will not have sat in vain. There would remain no hazard then of the recurrence of these periodical fits of national, and we may say also of rational, solicitude. Englishmen will then have practically recognised—recognised in deed as well as in word, the literal truthfulness of those thrilling words of the patriotic lyrist : " England needs no bulwark, No towers along the steep ; Her march is on the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep." If the Ballot Society bas not risen yet to the magnitude of a "great fact," the facts which con stitute its best arguments keep flowing in from every quarter. Melbourne has borne its perfectly satisfactory testimony to the success of leaving every elector to " do his own voting," irrespective of the influence of the briber, the intimidator, and even the personal canvasser; and that colony is now waiting with some curiosity to see what will be the working of the ballot with a suffrage almost " uni versal." Meantime the news arrives of its success in the oldest Australian colony—the colony which must contain the largest number of those who have eitker been criminals, or been brought up by those who have been convicted of considerable crimes, the colony where the " currency" must, we may sup pose, largely preponderate over the "sterling." An extract, which we give in another column, from the Sydney Morning Herald, can hardly fail to interest all our readers at this time. There is one point which at /east will inevitably attract at tention in its relation to the builders' strike. The really odious thing in these strikes is the despotism of noisy, arbitrary demagogues over prudent and industrious men. It is but too certain that work ing men are the worst of tyrants over each other, and that many a poor man who would gladly con tinue to labour steadily his ten hours and take home his wages on Saturday night dares not do it. Many persons fear similar conduct if the fran- 1 chise be made to include the class which now orders a strike at the Messrs. TROLLOPE'S, and certainly not without reason. It would, to be sure, be but adding the intimidation of one class more to that of the landlords and others who practise it so largely already, but wchave in timidators enough already, and it is not, it must be confessed, desirable to hazard its increase ; we want, rather, to get rid of that which already exists. It is, therefore, gratifying to observe that on this point the Sydney journal testifies very expli citly : " The working classes have enjoyed the benefit of the Ballot ; not in relation to their em ployers, but in reference to each other." The Editor goes on to observe with truth enough, " There are everywhere noisy, dogmatical, and oppressive men, who, by force of will, domineer over their neigh bours. Thus many, rather than incur the opposi tion and contempt of people with whom they have daily to work, have often voted against their incli nations and their conscience. From this necessity they are now (by the Ballot) relieved. If the despotism of wealth and official authority is to be deprecated, how much more oppressive is that grinding insolence, which, clothed in vulgar and oppressive forms, assumes the name of liberty." Our readers may remember how at Berwick, here, and it was once the case, we believe, at Stockport, the working men combined to intimidate the trades men with whom they dealt ; all this intimidation of each other, and of the class just above them, is found to be, in Sydney, counteracted by the Ballot. The general testimony of this writer on the spot, and one evidently not biassed in favour of the bal lot, is that " the ballot has tended greatly to abate the outward excitement of the election, and to give every man ample freedom in exercising his fran chise." There has been, we are told, in Sydney, as was the case at Melbourne, " much less impor tunity.manybee have n deemed Mentlu'os haveuel g e l ss t to felt indi s p ose d to ask what pr i o ) p u e rh r e t a o se co s n u c p e p a o l :t and deimt demand pledges, since the class of men who would give pro mises under pressure are just the class of men who would avenge themselves by breaking them." Officials in Government employ are mentioned as specially benefited by the Ballot ; and though the writer anticipates that attempts at fraud will be made, he does not think it difficult, as we know it cannot be, to counteract them. The " bunchin,,, system—that of voting in regiments—is broken up by the impracticability of the requisite surveillance. The Australian " poor man," richer there, as here, than many who are obliged to dress better, is now ), - 41 , V -- % I E. ork 1; 01,11:. 4'll it, or. " W.. ✓ °116" " ° • „'I'M, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 18594 lord of the soil," but we are told that in his con duct at this first election, " he has shown a calm appreciation of h: is influence, and, on the whole, has nothing to be ,ashamed of in the result." One singular accident of secret voting, almost a ludicrous one, we cannot but notice. "It has stimulated betting to a considerable degree." We certainly do not to encourage such a practice, not only on the score of morality, but in the inte rest of electoral purity itself. But we accept gladly the testimony' it furnishes to the possibility of secrecy. If it were thought that any one could know how the poll was proceeding, there would be no betting. We hope our readers will read the entire extract. It is not a long one, and is sug gestive enough. We have just read with much interest a small pamphlet on the Italian question, which will at least furnish new views to many of its readers, and we should say some instruction also.* It com mences with the remark of a foreigner to the writer, " L'aristocratie Anglaise est fort heurease," and the news of the peace of Villafranca, which came next day, only, says our author, confirmed the remark on which the foreigner had more than once in sisted ; for the " condemnation of the war by the English aristocracy was justified, although every reason which it had assigned for that condemnation was wrong." The three arguments, as we all know, were, that Italy had never, since the fall of the Empire, been independent of foreign rulers, and that it was vain to hope it could ever become so ; that the principle of nationality on which Italians claimed indepen dence is chimerical ; and that the war could only result in overt or virtual French conquest, and the substitution of French for Austrian domination. To each of these arguments Mr. ARNOLD gives a full reply. With regard to the first he can appeal to the facts of history ; after sketching, truthfully, the process of Italian emancipation from feudalism, he shows that from 1310 to 1494, nearly two hundred years, Italy was free from the foreigner, and was divided into five purely Italian States ; States which struggled indeed vehemently with each other, but which were at least Italian, and would have struggled till one obtained the prepon derance, as in England and other countries once in the same circumstances. The natural development of Italy was hindered, however, by CHARLES VIII. appearing in Italy at the head of a French army at the close of the fifteenth century, and by the other great powers following him in the sixteenth. The favourite scoff of the Times and the aristocracy is thus effectually got rid of, if indeed it be possible to " refute a sneer." The " nationality" argument against unfortunate Italy is also cleverly argued, though we cannot agree with it throughout. If, however, Mr ARNOLD successfully maintains the claims of Italy to a national existence on his grounds, which he does, she might claim it a fortiori, on what would be called more extreme views of the subject. The parties who claim nationality must of course be dissatisfied with their present connection, but they must also " belong by nature and origin to a great nationality." Cornwall and Wales could not, for want of the latter condition, resist absorption by England and complete fusion with her; and Brittany has for the same reason amalgamated in fact and feeling with France. Mr. ARNOLD observes that there are but two other countries besides England—France namely, and Italy, which have any historical grounds for " crying with such just humiliation and de spair in undergoing a foreign rule, uncle lapsus!" Not even the great Powers, Russia, Prussia, and Austria, have any glorious past—any history, art, or literature—in which they can take a Rational pride, like that which Italians can feel in theirs. Italians are not more separated by language and political changes from the SCIPIOS and CESARS than we are from our ALFRED ; and they must, as we have so often remarked, feel it most keenly that, with their vast superiority in intellect, civi lisation, taste, in all that constitutes modern refine ment, they should be degraded beneath the rule of such a brutal, and comparatively uncivilised, con glomerate of half-barbarous races as Austria. Certainly Austria has no nationality in either its language or history. As certainly Italy has both historically, and as speaking one language— a language rich in literature from the days of PLAUTUS—one of the noblest nationalities of Europe. But the third reason—the fear of a war of conqnest—this certainly, before the event, ap peared to be one not easy to impugn. It was an apprehension only, but surely not an unreasonable one. Perhaps, generally, the apprehension was less that France should annex territory —even Savoy than that Louis NAPOLEON should render himself through a necessarily subservient Sardinia, vir tually supreme in Italy, and that, in the interests of Imperialism, he should use all his power to pre vent the development of constitutional freedom in that country. Now Mr. ARNOLD does assign strong reasons for thinking that a war of conquest, in the literal sense, would have been unpopular, even alarming, to the French peasantry and shopkeepers; but that they were eventually rather pleased with a triumph of French arms over those of Austria, and a short but brilliant war limited to that coun try. He is strongly of opinion that the Emperor is really the approved, and even the admired, cer tainly the trusted of the great body of the people— of all but the several small parties opposed to him ; but, with these, as comprising the education, the talent, and the good-breeding of France, English men are most in contact, and from them they de rive their impressions of the estimation in which he is held. He is the man of the superstitious anti-aristocratic plebs and army ; but the natural ob ject of aversion to all there is of birth, intellect, and refinement in. France. The chosen monarch of the rural mob and the pretorians ; the iron-handed despot over the class through which alone France can keep the lead of European civilisation. Thus, at least, we must interpret Mr. ARNOLD, though he professes a style which would not, we imagine, frighten the post-office authorities of Paris, or the Minister of the Interior. Mr. ARNOLD thinks that the chief reason which induced Louis NAPOLEON to make peace so sud denly was the threatening attitude of the French Clergy. They were frightened for the POPE, and they began to beard him in the the Univers—the zealot journal for the most degrading aspects of Popery. Our author believes his fear of the power of the clergy to be newly groundless. " The Catho licism of Europe out of France need have occa sioned him no apprehension whatever. In Italy itself, the seat of the Papacy, its moral force is per feetiy insignificant. Nowhere is the party of the Priests so little loved or respected as there, where it is best known. In France it is more powerful; but even in France it has no real hold on the masses of the population, and the Emperor dan gerously overrates its power." Through this, how ever, he submitted to a peace at which " his own mortification must have been immense." As to the part we should take in the final set- tlement to result from ,the peace, Mr. ARNOLD justly thinks that Lord PALMERSTON should avail himself of the admirable position he took in 1848, and refuse to be a party to any settlement for Italy which leaves Austria in Venetia. LATEST NEWS,, The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, A CC., 8, The 111oniteur of to-day contains the following : The Emperor left yesterday for the camp at Chalons, where his Majesty will stay several days. The Minister of the Interior, the Duke of Padua, is appointed officer of the Legion of Honour. PARIS, AUG. '7. The IWoniteur of to-day contains the following. : " The Plenipotentiaries charged with the mission of concluding, from the preliminaries signed at Villafranca, a definitive treaty, were to have arrived on the Gth of August at Zurich." The Moniteur contains also a paragraph stating that Marshal Canrobert had despatched as early as 10 a.m. the troops of the division Renault, in order to cover the right flank of the 4th corps d'arinee ; while the report of Marshal Niel on the battle of Solferino had stated that Marshal Canrobert had brought up his supports only at the end of the day. The conession of the railway from Toulon to the Italian frontiers, with a branch to Draguigan and another branch from Privas to Brest, has been granted to the Mediterranean Company. The Moniteur contains also a report of Admiral. Romain Desfosses on the last operations of the French fleet in the Adriatic. BERNE, AUG. 6. Letters from Zurich state that a guard of honour h-is been placed before the Hotel Baur, where the Conferences are to take place. M. Desambrois has arrived and has been welcomed by the mem bers of the Government. The first sitting of the Conference will take place on Monday next. ZURICH, AUG. 7. A deputation of the Government of Zurich, attended by their ushers, paid a visit this morning, after mass, to the representatives of France, Pied mont, and Austria. On Thursday next the Govern ment will give a dinner to the ambassadors. MILAN, AUG. 7. To-day, at 60.30 p.m., the King of Sardinia en tered the toivn, accompanied by his Ministers, by the Members of Parliament, and the municipal bodies of Turin and Genoa. His Majesty passed through the Corso on horse back amidst the enthusiastic acclamations of the people. A Te Deum was performed at which his Majesty was present, and he afterwards received the autho rities of the city. This evening a grand illumination took place. The aspect of Milan during this national fete is very imposing. TURIN, AUG. 6. The Sardinian Government has recalled the Sar dinian commissioners and authorities at Parma and Piacenza. Chevalier Jocteau, Minister Plenipotentiary of Sardinia, at Berne, has been appointed second re presentative of Sardinia at the Conference of Zurich. The King will make his entry into Milan to morrow, at six p.m, BELGRADE, AUG. 5. The Pacha of the fortress of Belgrade has given cause of provocation to the Servian Government by ordering, without any right, the construction of a rampart round the town. He has likewise ordered a plan for the alignement of Belgrade to be made, which the Servians wish to prevent. The Pacha has also ceded to an Austrian company a plot of ground within the fortress for the purpose of orga nising a system of protection against smuggling into Servia. It is feared that serious complications may arise. The population is in an excited state. ST. PETERSBURG, AUG. 6. The construction of a railway of the length of 700 versts between Moscow and Saratow has been authorised. The capital of the company will be 45,000,000 roubles, in 4;50,000 shares of 100 roubles each, with a Government guarantee for 80 years of 41 per cent. THE CONFERENCE. (From yesterday's iloniteur.) The plenipotentiaries empowered to change into a definitive treaty the preliminaries of Villairanea are to meet this day (August 6), at Zurich. These plenipotentiaries are : For France—The Baron of Bourqueney and the Marquis of Banneville. For Austria—The Count of Colloredo and the Baron of Meysenberg. For Sardinia—The Chevalier des Ambrois. MARSHAL CANROBERT AND MARSHAL NIEL. (From the Moniteur.) The marshal commanding the 3d corps of the Army of Italy has objected to a passage in the re port of the battle of Solferino, addressed to the Emperor by the commander of 'the 4th corps. His Majesty has ordered the insertion of the following note : It i 3 said in this passage that the 3d corps only gave its support to the 4th towards the end of the day. Nevertheless, upon his arrival at the N illage of Medola, Marshal Canrobert sent the first troops of Renault's division by the Ceressa road for the purpose of covering the right flank of the 4th corps. The presence of these troops had, therefore, as its result, from ten o'clock in the forenoon, to remove from General Niel all apprehension as to the attacks he might have to fear on his right flank, which was only guarded by three of his battalions. It is just, therefore, to acknowledge that Marshal Canrobert had already given useful support to the 3d corps, before the hour when Renault's division came and occupied the village of Rebecco in order to enable General Niel to withdraw from it a part of Luzy's division, at the same time that the first brigade of Trochu's division was fighting in tne midst of the troops of the 4th corps. Besides, General Niel cou ld not have the intention, in his report to the Emperor, to incriminate in any way the conduct of Marshal Canrobert, whose chivalrous character is well known. * England and the Italian question. By Matthew Arnold, London: Longman, A WORD FOR MR. _ROEBUCK. We may not generally approve of his principles, but we cannot but admire and respect the man. He is a genuine Englishman, and, however exaggerated his views may be in some respects, no one ques tions that he has at heart the welfare of his coun try. He possesses, too, in that weak and attenuated frame of his, the courage of a lion. He dares to speak the truth, and to speak it boldly. With such a man a corrupt cause could not possibly triumph. He would tear it to tatters, and expose in all its hideousness, its gross hypocrisy, and its wicked injustice. We have, therefore, great hopes that, if not in the present session, at least in the next, Mr. Roebuck will•turn his attention to the corrupt election practices, as revealed before the Committees. We care not on which side such practices may prevail, although, as we have shown, up to the present time, it is not to the Conservatives that such charges can be laid. But, in connexion with either party, this bribery and corruption is an intolerable disgrace to our Parliamentary system. We think, with Mr. Roebuck, it is folly to suppose that candidates at elections can be totally ignorant of the costly efforts exercised in their behalf. The stream of bribery and corruption does not flow but from a well-supplied fountain-head, and the mem ber of Parliament, who will courageously trace the evil to its source, will merit and obtain the appro bation of his country.—Bath Chronicle. EXPLOSION OF GUNPOWDER AT BALLIN COLIG. About half-past 10 o'clock on Saturday morning an explosion of gunpowder occurred at Ballincolig Powder-mills, which was attended with the de struction of human life to a deplorable extent. The scene of the disaster was the storehouse at the western extremity on the banks of the river, known as No. 1, Dusting-house, but by others de scribed as a refining-house. At that hour five men were engaged at the house in removingthe powder stored in kegs, into a boat on the canal, by which communication is effected between the several de partments of the mills along the banks of the river. The unfortunate men thus engaged were blown to pieces. Three of the bodies when discovered are described as black masses of flesh and bone, only distinguished by fragments of dress which hung by them. Of the bodies of the other two not a limb remained —but their relations might be seen wandering over the anjacent fields, picking up black fragments of flesh and bone, which no doubt formed part of their living bodies two hours before. The cause of the disaster must for ever remain a mystery, as not one of those who knew it, if indeed any of them knew it, now survive to account for it. As to the dusting-house or refining-house at which the catastrophe occurred, not as much as a stone of it remains ; for the very ground on which it stood has been blown and rooted away as if a mine had exploded beneath it. The house was situated at the extremity of a fence planted with fir and other trees ; these trees were torn up from the very roots and now lie scattered about the fields. On the other side of the river, by the roadside, are four or five small slated houses, the roofs of these were shattered and knocked away by the mass of stone from the exploded refining-house. One work man is missing, but the five are probably the only sufferers. Further information will, of course, be elicited on the inquest. AD.EIP.HI THEATRE. Mr. Benjamin Webster's benefit took place at the Adelphi Theatre on Saturday evening last, and his charming theatre was rendered doubly attractive on the occasion by the pro. duction, for that night only, of a new drama, entitled " One Touch of Nature." The plot is as follows :—Mr. holder (Mr. B. Webster), a humble tailor, is deserted in early life by his wife, who elopes from him with their only infant child, a daughter. Abandoned in turn by her seducer and dying in misery, scions les reyLs, she writes penitently from her deathbed to her ruined and heartbroken spouse, to in form him of the fact, adding that she has lost all clue to the child, now arrived at adultage, but that ho will recognise her whenever he may find her, by the marvellous resem blance to herself, of course at the period of her girlhood and innocence. Like Dickens's boatman in quest of little Em'ly, he devotes his life to a monomaniacal search after his lost child, whom at last he discovers in the person ofa fashionable young actress, Miss Constance Belmour (Miss H. Sinim). The poor tailor haunts this lively lady like a shadow, but with a strange distant reverence, instead of at once making himself known'to her, till he meets her accidentally at the chamber of a gay dramatic author, Mr. Beaumont Fletcher (Mr. Bf l iington), whose propriety she surprised by a visit, hav'ng squeezed his hand the day before, her pretence being instruction as to a part assigned to her in his forth coming play. The wretched llolder, who copies the author's manuscripts, and who knows the piece by heart, is re quested to go through the scene with the fair artiste. This scene describes the meeting of a father u,:th a long lost child. The sequel can easily be anti c ip a t e d, the yea rr i ng parent glides imperceptibly from the cold words he is pro nouncing by rote, into an impassioned announcement of his actual relationship to the actress. Mr. B. Webster's admirable delineation of the character of Holder is an artistic petibrmance of the very highest order. We need scarcely add that the piece was well received. Mr. Webster, who was loudly called for at the fall of the curtain, came forward and said : " Ladies and Gentlemen—l need not tell you that the origin of this piece is French, and that I am merely the re producer of it to you. I beg at the same time to express my gratitudl for the patronage bestowed on me on the pre sent occasion, and during the time since I have opened this new theatre. Doubtless it has met with your approval ; at least, upon all hands I hear encomiums. It is most grati fying to me ; and I regard the completion and opening of the new theatre as one of the proudest events of my life. Be assured, I shall endeavour, as far as my abilities go, to please you ; and if I succeed in meriting your approbation, I shall achieve all that I have venturedto hope for." (Cheers.) It is expected that her Majesty will shortly take a cruise for two or three days in the Victoria and Albert. —Court Journal._ Saturday being the birthday of his Royal High ness Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, second son of her Ma jesty, the bells of various church steeples in the metropo lis rang forth merry peals, and the flags were hoisted at Somerset House, the Admiralty, and other Government offices. We understand a marriage is about to take place between Lord Bingham, eldest son of the Earl of Lucan, and Lady Cecilia Catherine Gordon Lennox, youngest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Richmond. His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Con stantine, soon after his arrival at Hyde, honoured Mr. C. F. Hancock, the jeweller, of Bruton-street, Bond-street, with an interview, and his Imperial Highness was pleased to favour him with his commands. Lord Brougham, on being asked what he thought of the Face just concluded, replied, " ft is like the peace of God—past all understanding." —Court Journal. The King of Sardinia is said to have been so horror-struck when he heard of the peace concluded be tween the two Emperors, that he attempted to commit suicide.—Court Journal. At Lord Northwick's sale a picture by Patrick Nasmyth brought £750., Poor Patrick never made more than .£GO a-year I This picture, full of beauties, was the labour of a fortnight. " Genius and its rewards are briefly told." Patrick sleeps in Lambeth 'Churchyard. A Roman villa has been discovered by Mr. W. Spickerneli, at Carisbrooke, in the Isle of Wight. It is in the valley which extends to Bowcombe, below the castle, and near the valley of Carisbrooke. We understand that the Royal Commission will speedily be issued for the amendment of the law and evi dence in courts of equity. It will be presided over by the Lord Chancellor, and will comprise the leading law lords, and other high legal functionaries. Mr. Labouchere's title will be Baron Taunton, of Taunton, which place he represented in the House of Commons for more than 30 years. We are enabled to state that there is not the slightest foundation for the statement put forward by a high Church paper, that the Bishop of Exeter intends resigning his bishopric. His lordship, who is 82 years of age, is in perfect health, and has lately been discharging his duties as a canon residentiary of Durham Cathedral. Harald . papers that lin'ol\lt,eNwEW' ZealandZ EAL theAN D.—lt country,atappears the S particular from seasons,. is invaded by arm i es o f caterpillars, which clear off the gram crops as co mp l e t e l y as if mowed down by a scythe. With the view of counteracting this plague a novel impor tation haA been mad e . It is thus noticed by the Southern Cro.NN—" Mr. Brodie has shipped 300 sP a rrcws on board the Swordfish, carefully se l ec t e d f rom the best hedgerows in England. The food a l one , h e i n f orms us , pu t on board for them cost in :US. This sparrow question has been a long - . stambng joke Auckland ; but the necessity to farmers of small birds to keep down the ,grubs is admitted on all sides. There is no security in New Zealand against the invasion of myriads of catterpillars which devastate the crops.' Mr. Brodie lira acclimatised the -leas.an t which is a bundant . in the north. The descent from the pheasant to sparrow is somewhat of an anti-climax; but should the latter mul tiply, the greatest benefit will have been conferred on the country."—Au,traiian COLl,liti - E PRECEPTORS.—At the meeting of the council of th college held on the 6th inst ., the Rev. Benjamin Hall Kennedy , D.D., head master of Shrews bury Grammar School, was unanimously elected president of the council for the ensuing year. The Rev. J. 1,. Mayor, 1).D., head master of King's College School, Lon don; the RCN'. J. S. Howson, M.A., head master Taylor the Collegiate Institution, Liverpool ; and the Re v. W. Jones, M.A., head master of the Collegiate School, Syd,en ham, were elected vice-presidents cf the council. 1.130 following gentlemen were elected members of the collega.— The Rev. Samuel Clark, M.A., Principal of the 'Training College, Battersea; W. Knighton, Esq., LL.D., Ewell College, Surrey; Leonce Stievenard, Esq., lecturer on the French language and literature, King's College, •London ; Mr. C. V. Dolbe, St. Ann's School, Streatham; and Mr. Philip Marks, Amblecote School, Stourbridge, THE VILLAFRANCA PRELIMINARIES. A letter from Frankfort-on-Maine says The mystery of Villafranca still engages public at tention, and the parties to it seem determined to baulk the hopes of an explanation. It may, there fore, not be amiss to place with some detail the progress of events before your readers. On my ac curacy they may rely. On the 4th of July the pro posal of a basis of mediation, now known as the seven points, was communicated to Lord John Russell by Count Persigny. Lord John refused to recommend the project, but agreed to communicate it to Austria, simply and without comment. On the sth he therefore laid it before Count Ap ponyi, by whom it was made known in Vienna on the 6th: On the 7th the French Minister in 'Berlin applied to Baron von Schleinitz to propose an armistice, at the same time proposing terms on which mediation might be entered on. These terms contained four points (not seven), and were identical with those afterwards agreed to hy the Emperor of Austria, with tire' exception that Venetia was to be erected into an independent duchy for the Archduke Maximilian. Baron von Schleinitz at once refused to entertain the project of a mediation on this basis, and took time to con sider the propriety of proposing an armistice. Between the 7th and Bth the armistice was agreed to by the principals without intervention, and on the Bth the news was communicated to Baron von Stlleinitz by the French Minister in Berlin. It took him of course by surprise, and he instructed the Prussian Charge d'Affaires in Paris to ex press to Count Walewski his astonishment at the answer of Prussia on the subject of the armis tice not having been waited for. At the same time he instructed him to state, that after holding a council, it had been decided not to propose the armistice, as it did not then seem oppor tune. Both propositions were thus originally French. At Villafranca the Emperoi- Napoleon showed Francis Joseph the project in seven points, giving him to understand that the neutrals were not averse from adopting it. Then he at once brought forward the four points proposed, and re jected on the 7th at Berlin. They were 1. Cession of Lombardy. 2. Erection of Venetia into a Duchy. 3. Confederation of Italian States. 4. Restoration of the banished Dukes and an amnesty. On the second point the Emperor Napoleon yieldid to the reasoning of the Emperor of Austria, that he could not be expected to resign what he still held possession of. This is a somewhat lengthy statement, but you may depend upon its being in every point correct. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY. PARIS BOURSE, Aug. 6.—Prices have had an upward tendency, but business was not very brisk. There was a report that the Government is inclined to reduce the customs duties on imports. Threes opened at 70f. 15c., then receded to 69f.-95c., and again rallied to 70f. 25c. Mobilier varied from 860 f. to 867 f. 50c. Austrian, 570 f. to 573 f. 75c. ; Lombards, 570 f. to 572 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,375 f. to 1,385 f. ; Lyons, 880 f. to 882 f. 50c. ; Southern, 520 f. to 525 f. ; Northern, 940 f. to 945 f. The following were the quotations : 41 per Cents. 97 25 Do. end month .. 97 -- 3 per Cents. 7O Do. end month.... 70 25 Bank Shares. 2850 Credit Mobilier .. 865 Do. Account ..... 867 50 Credit Fonder Belgian 4f 9B Piedmonteso (5) Roman B7 Austrian Spanish Threes — Home Debt 42 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 937 50 .. 940 New ditto B2O .. 820 Lyons and Mediterranean 822 50 '.. 822 50 Geneva — 542 50 Southern Western 565 .. 565 Eastern - Sardinian Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 71c. ; money, 25f sc. ; three months, paper, 24f. 95c.; money, 24f. 94c. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 6. The Royal Mail steamship Canada, Capt. Lang, has arrived with the New York mails of the 26th ult., Boston of the 27th, Halifax of the 29th, and telegraphic advices from the former via the latter port to the evening of the 28th. She has brought 250,000 dols. on freight. The screw steamhip North Britain, hence, arrived at Quebec on the 25th ult. ; the steamship New York, from Bremen, arrived at New York on the 25th; and the Royal mail steamship Europa, hence, was off Boston on the 27th. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times gives the following heads of a treaty de spatched to the United States Government by its Minister in Mexico : " 1. Right of way across the Northern States between the Rio Grande and ports in the Gulf of California, with guarantees for their protection and safety." " 2. Right of way and valuable privileges of transit secured to the American Company holding the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. " 3. The privilege of erecting and maintaining warehouses at the termini of the several transit routes. " 4. The right of transporting troops and muni tions of war over such routes, and to send troops to protect them, in default of Mexico fulfilling that duty. " 5. Free entry and transit of goods belonging or consigned to American citizens in Arizona through the ports of the Gulf of California and across Sonora. 6. Entire and unquestionable freedom of reli gious worship throughout the Republic. 7. A clause indicating the willingness of the Mexican Government to accept a modified form of protection at the hands of the United States—in other words to solemnise another treaty in form, and one of alliance, offensive and defensive, but in substance creating a protectorate whenever the United State s s h a ll s i gn if y her willingness to enter into such engagements." A Washington despatch of the 25th ult. says : Mr. Gould, who came from England in the steam-ship Canada, passed through Washington this morning, en route to Mexico. He is attached to the British Legation in that country and con veys important despatches thither." The St. Louis Democrat gives an account of the burning of a negro and the hanging of two others at Marshall on the 19th of July. The one who was burnt had murdered his master. The Democrat says :—" While the sheriff was conveying him a n tke to prison he was set upon by the crowd and from a t n h d at t o o ffi ok ce t r h . en T oe he tw m o ob oth th e e r n proceeded o t n o o tl o le f gaol o 'remitted an them had attempted the lif e of a citizen of this place, and the other had j ust c outskirts out rage upon a young white g irl. After the mob got the negroes together they proceeded to the of the town, and selecting a proper place, te negro who killed Hinton to a stake, got a quan tity of dry wood, piled it around him, and set it on fire. Then commenced a scene which, for sickening horrors, has never been witnessed before in this or perhaps o ther place. The negro was stripped his waist, toand barefooted. He looked the picture any of despair; but there was no sympathy felt for him at the moment. Presently the fire began to surge up in flames around him, and its effects were soon made visible in the futile attempts of the poor wretch to move his feet. As the flames gathered about his limbs and body he commenced the most frantic shrieks and appeals for mercy—for death— for water! He seized his chains ; they were hot, and burnt the flesh off his hands. He would drop them, and catch at them again and again. Then he would repeat his cries, but all to no purpose. In a few moments he was a charred mass, bones and flesh alike burnt into a powder. Many, very many of the spectators who did not realize the full horrors of the scene until it was too late to change it, re tired disgusted and sick at the sight. May Mar shall never witness such another spectacle. If the horrors of the day had ended here it would have been well, bat the other negroes .were taken and hung—justly, perhaps, but in violation of law and good order. They exhibited no remorse. One simply remarked, that he hoped before they hur g him they would let see the other boy burnt." It is stated in 'New York that a memorial re questing Mr. Sickles to resign his seat in Congress, had received the signature of 1,400 of his consti tuents, and that in the Eighth Ward a public meet ing was to be held to make the request openly. NEW YORK, JULY 28, EVENING. The steamship Jura, of the Cunard line, arrived here to-day from Liverpool. The sales of cotton in this market during the past two days foot up 3,000 bales, at an advance in prices of 7,-, l c. per lb. Mid land uplands close at 12c. Flour is firm, and quotations have slightly advanced. Wheat also is firm, and prices have gone up 2c. per bushel. In dian corn is dull, and prices have a declining ten dency. NEW ORLEANS, JULY 27. The sales of cotton yesterday and to-day . foot up 3,500 bales, and the market is firm' at Mc. for middling. Nothing has been done since the recep tion of the Europa's news. Cotton freights to Liverpool are id. COMMUTATION OF CAPITAL SENTENCE.—John Benjamin Haynes, who was left for execution at Win chester, and respited last week has bad his sentence com mutcd,to penal servitude for life. The report of the raedi cal inspector as to his state of mind, and the absence of motive or premeditation, decided the Secretary of State in considering him a fit subject for the exercise of the Royal prerogative of mercy. FIRES AND DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY.— Shortly before 1 o'clock this morning a fire took place on the premises of Mr. Bland, silk mercer, Blackfriars-road, near Surrey Chapel. The moment the occurrence became known an alarm was given. The Royal Society's escape from Surrey Chapel attended, and the conductor was for tunate enough to bring down in safety the inmates, con slating of three persons, but another rolled himself fr o m one of the upper windows and alighted without sustaining the least injury. A plentiful supply of water having been procured, the flames were subdued. About the same time a fire also broke out at the oil refinery formin g a port i on of the soap factory of the Messrs. Howes, in Upper Ground street, 131ackfpars- road. The land engines and steam float ing machines were kept in full play, but at half-past 1 this morning the flames were still progressing, though it was hoped that all danger of any further extension of mischief was over. The amount of property consumed must be very great, INTRODUCTION OF THE BALLOT IN NE" SOUTH WALES, AND ITS SUCCESS. firs T t he el l e a e s t t io m n ai b i y fro th m e S b y a d l i l l o e t y o b f ri t y e s apcacroluiamntseonft ofthe New South Wales. The ballot law is identical 1n has been eminently successful. At elections principle with that of Victoria, and its working in in g this colony under the open voting system we have read of "the unblushing intimidation of landlord ism.s and the revival of some of the worst features of English elections." On one occasion we read . . 1 the Sydney Empire " Mr. Parker, the Prime ter of the colony, took his seat beside the returning officer, noting in his pocket every vote that w recorded." This state of things is passed awaY. • 185 9 9 The Sydney Morning Herald of 13th June, says : to a " The first operation of the ballot has been MiTs o : large extent successful. In this community it was never necessary to disarm wealth of its authority, or to prevent the upper classes'—if there are ~ such—interfering with th e lower classes' 11 there are such. The ball o t h as t en d e d greatly to abate the outward excitement of the election , and to give every man ample freedom in exercising his franchise. The objection of Sydney Smith that the ballot would lead to lying, to the violation of promises, and the indulg ence o f ma li c e, no doubt could be sustained were all the voting papers traced to their owners. It is however. possible in the present state of society to devise a scheme a which would not be liable to some su ch objections 1 : One thing is clear—that there has been much less, importunity. Men have felt indi s p ose d t o ask what many have thought proper to conceal, and it has been deemed useless to purchase support, or to ae; it g m i a v n e d pm p r l o ed ie g s es s , u s n in d c e e r th p e res c s las ur s e o a f re m j e u n st whow° those who would avenge themselves by breaki ng them. We have no doubt that many votes have been de posited in the box that never would have been (riven under the open system. People have fol lowed th e i r rea l i nc li na ti on. Th ey h ave b een enabled to do so without apparent inconsistency. They hav e reserved to themselves the power on some future occasion to take the opposite course. They are in a condition, having voted for a man to-day, to op pose him to-morrow ; or agreeing with him upon only one point, upon which he has commanded their support, they can resist him everywhere else. To no class of men is the ballot a greater boon than to the officers of Government. Under the late ore: tem they were marked men. Human nature mus t be differently constituted if, where an election is sharply contested, official candidates preserve a r magnanimous indifference as to th e di s p o sal 0 1 votes which they have the power to reward or punish. Happily for the employees of Govern ment, and, indeed, for those of all other great in stitutions, they have now the right to express their own predilections, a n d t o w ithh o ld th e i r su pport from men from whose p o liti cs th ey di ssen t. All they have to do is to keep their own counsel, and to maintain among themselves an understanding that it is necessary for their mutual protection that this secrecy should not be violated. The working classes have enjoyed the benefit%f the ballot, not in relation to their employers, but in reference to each other. There are ev er y w h ere no i sy, dogmat i cal , and oppressive men, who, by force of will, dominee r over their neighbours. Thus many, rather thal i ! incur the opposition and contempt of people wite, whom they have daily to work, have often voteu against their inclinations and their conscience. From this necessity they are now relieved. If the despotism of wealth and official authority is to be , deprecated, h ow muc h more oppress i ve i s that grinding insolence which, clothed in vulgar an d aggressive forms, assumes the name of liberty. No doubt, as the experience of our politicians enlarges, means will be found to obstruct the free operation of the ballot, and to corrupt the ballot-box. Every' thing will depend upon the fidelity of th e returning officers, and we hope the time is far distant when we shall have so fa r debased our moral sense as to make it posse' ble to find men abandoned enough to betray so sa cred a trust. This will however, demand our vig i " lance. If the ballot is worth having, at whatever cost it must be had in its purity. There is one thing in connexion with the ballot of which mos t persons have become conscious—that it has 8670 - lated betting to a considerable degree. The r esult of the election has been forecast by many, but the calculations have been so various, and upon data s° perplexed and confused, as to admit of great dif ferences of opinion. Not more than two of the caw didates could have been said to have had anything like certainty of election. The show of hands 0 3 the day of nomination represented the more active partisans of the city, and comprehended the inh a " bitants from both of its political divisions. Thus" there was ample scope for varieties of opinion, an d we fear that there has been an amount of gambling which is not altogether creditable to the comae:" nity. Our fellow-citizens should remember that these bets are a minor form of corruption, and that elsewhere they have led to shameful excesses. A" are far more in danger of having the ballot-bo% stuffed or perverted, by persons having a largo stake in the issue, than by the influence of mere political profligacy and enthusia sm . Th e p ow er o f directly influencing the voters has changed in some measure the complexion of a popular election. The system of bunching is no longer so practicable, be cause an agreement of this kind can on l y exten d to a very small number of electors. That surveillance by which men were forced almost to act in regi ments is broken by the secrecy of the ballot. It has thus happened in many instances, that votes were given to candidates whose policy and position in the Assembly will be diametrically opposite. This has evidently moderated the tone of the candidates- They have felt that they could not calculate upon each other for support, and thus they hav e been less inclined to close combination. There has been a remarkable absence of the 01 " party cries. The last survivor is the " poo r man"—whose po r t ra it h as yet to be delineated . _Does it not show the poverty of our political V C '' . cabulary, that we apply to the mass of the eon' munity a word which commonly awakens pitl: often s o c l ose l y a l l i ed to contempt. The " poor man!" Who is he ? Not the man that sits by the wayside begging, but the strong, sturdy labourer or mechanic, whose earnings are greater than those of many confidential clerks ; who values himsel f upon his dignity and intelligence ; who represents "' himself as the very b one an d s i new of society, an who is very apt to cheer the sentiment that the only sort of men the world ought to tolerate are the pp eonl st s ei a c i idlavni"ts with willoot rh inventeis r n i d . yt term—hackneyed e_ m fertility hlai ccnneyaoeyfd die'ipn every newspaper and 'i'c o us n olS onle phrase Surely the tongue. There ar e no " poor men" in the colony, except those who ar e under the hand of misfortune, or who are degraded by vice. It is a term of cant ; and, used as clap' trap, it has in it a considerable taint of abomina tion. At all events, the " poor man" is now th e lord of the soil, and the dominant power in the community. In his conduct throughout this fir st election we are bound to say he has shown a calat appreciation of his influence, and, upon the whole, he has nothing to be ashamed of in the result. ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA• COWES, AUG. 6. The annual ball took place last evening, and was very fully attended, there being upwards o f 200 persons present. The largA promenade or lounge in front of the Castle was fitted up in a verl tasteful manner. The last match for the S qua drol! Money termi na t e d th e procee di ngs o f the week alOl took place to-day, but the' formidable list of OW; entries, as announced on Saturday l as t, was re d u ce' to the following seven :—Arrow, cutter, 102 tons , Mr. T. Chamberlayne ; Beatrice, schooner, 208 tone' Mr. J. E. W. Rolls ; Wildfire, schooner, 59 ton* Mr. J. Turner; i ' Gipsey Queen, scho oner , 190 tons,: Sir H. B.Houghton, Bart. ; Brun e tt e , cu tt er , 7" tons, Col. S. Smith ; Ala rm , sc h ooner, 248 to ns, Mr. J. Weld ; Osprey, cutter, 59 tons, Col. R. Huey. The contest was for £lOO for the firs" vessel, and £25 for the second, and was open tf, yachts of any squadron, an d, a l t h ough the orig i nf list of entries included th ree yachts belonging t o other clubs, the starters were all included in the Royal Yacht Squadron, except the Wildfire, wilie' belongs to the Victori a S qua d ron, at Ride. '' very good start was eff ec t e d at eleven o'clock, t course being, as usual, round the Warner, a. ll thence back to Egypt, an d then to Cowes--,tvne" . round. The wind was li g h t from the S.S.W., but ,; there was a murky s k y , and it was hoped that the breeze would freshen as the day wore on. The Osprey started and w as o ff f i rst, closely followed by the Brunette, and Arrow third. On rounding the Warner for the second time t il : Alarm had jib e d b e f ore either of the vesse ls was in sight, a n d s h e continued to lead down "- Cowes. The Wildfire and Osprey made a pot% race, off Osbo rne , a b out a mile between them, til Osprey aste rn . Th e t i me on arriving at Cowes a t the finish was thus taken : H. M. 8. Alarm Wildfire 4 51 5 27 32 15 Osprey The Ala rm wou ld thus have won, but a pro test was entered aga i nst h er s h e having set a jib.topsill on her return from the Warner the second tinle: and as this was against the regulations, the prote s t was held t o b e goo d b y the committee, and thus til Wildfire will receiv e th e fi rs t pr i ze and the O s preJt , the second. A few days since her Majesty kindly forwarded £l5 to the committee of the squadron, to be O il ; tended for by the crews of the yachts in rowing matches. To thi s sum the members of the squadr o /: subscribed more, and this afternoon some y e " spirited rowing among the men was the result. 4