The Sun. — London, England, 1862-05-28 00:00:00

1 1 11 EAT RE-RON HAYMARKET.I Lesi,ce, Mr. J B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE WO LF AND THE LAMB. I After which, at half-past 7, will be performed (133 d time) OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Followed by a new Spanish Ballet entitied LA CONTRA BANDISTA. Senora Perea Nena, Senor Ricardo, and the Corps de Ballet To conclude with THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE. ()YAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer. 167th Night of the continuous run of " Peep o'Day." THIS EVENING PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savo urneen Declish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, and Edmund Falconer - Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston, and Miss M. Hudson. After which, a new musical, p i c torial, poetical, and ballet interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitty and Miss Lydia Thomson. To conclude with the new farce en titled I COULDN'T HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at hall-past 6, to commence at Box-office open daily from 11 tlll5. Caramel:loe a 7 ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THE LOST LETTER : Messrs. Wid dicombe, 'Jiggle ; Miss Howard and Miss Rose Leclercq. After which, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Fabien and Louis de Franchi, Mr. Charles Kean ; Messrs. Jordan, Everett, R. Cathcart, Meadows, c. •,Mesd Fielding, Ch a pman, R. Leclercq, Henderson & , and Chapm es an. To conclude with THRICE MARRIED. Commence at 7. No half-price. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- Bole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, a new domestic drama, entitled DOT : M e yers. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billington. Stephenson ; Miss L. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, Miss H. Simms, iliss K. Kelly, and Mrs. H. Marston. To be followed by THE OCTOROON. Messrs. Dion Boncicault, Emery, Jamison, Billington, P. Bedford, Phillips, Stephenson, Powell, Romer ; Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Mar ston, Miss Latimer, and Miss Denvil. Commence at 7. CIA NTERBUR HALL AND FIN E Ah7TS GALLERY. The miraculous STECKEL at a quarter to 11. Grand Selections from " .I.ucrezia Borgia," by Miss Rus sell, with Band and full Chorns, conducted by Ms. Rus sell, Great success of UNSWORTII, in his celebrated Stump Speech " Or any other man " (the 9rigine.l), and EUGENE, in his Burlesque Singing and Dancing-, at Ten o'clock. JOE BROWN, the renowned American :Prize Jig Dancer, for a f.'w Nvoiklrit only . Also the following Comic favourites --Mr. Randall, Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. J. G. Forde, and Miss Caroline Parkes in her new entertainment. be to inform visitors to Lon- Messrs. Morton and Stan le y don during the Exhib be t weenthe GALLERY of PAINT INGS well be Open, free the hours of Twelve and Two o'clock on and after Monday. THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.- ..i. Every Even i n g.—lEfENßl and PFAU on th e Flyi n g T ra p e ze (last two weeks). - The unrivalled Ethiopian Come dians, Eumsey and 'Newcomb's Minstrels, and Unsworth and Eugene, in addition to a host of comic talent.—Operatic Selec tions and the cantata of " MAY DAY" (by G. A. Macfarren) and the "Jolly Beggars" (by G. Linley), supported by the entire company, including Miss Russe , Mdme. Enderssohn, Messrs. Morley, Greene, and Albert.—Full Band and Chorus. Mus i c al Director, Mr. F. Jongh mans . Hall, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, le. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. WS. WOODIN'S CABINET of CURIO . SITIES—NewIy Polished and Re-Iined—POLY GRAPHIC HALL, King William-street, Charing-cross, TO-NIGHT, and every Evening, at eight (except Saturday), with new characters, music, songs, and dances. The and scenic ill us trations and effects, entirely new, painted by Performance the direction of Mr. William Callc ott. Morning ' , S a turday, May 31, at 3. Stalls , 3s. • area, 28. ; amphitheatre, is. Box-office open from eleven to o fh e. Haymarket, in his fiv Mr. Woodin as Mr. Sothern, te celebrated character of "Lord Dundreary, ' Morning and Evening. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TAIS DA-Y*--M°llaing, lh. 45m.—Afternoon, 2h. 2m, To-stoiatow.-Morning, 2h. 22m.—Afternoon, 2h. 40m, NOTICE. All remittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1862, Editors are, after all, not infallible ! The Ballot was carried, nay, carried twice over, municipally as well as electorally, by a majority of more than thirty. Our great Anti-Ballot contemporary is contemptible enough—bat the Ballot in a majority, and of thirty, too !—no scorn can be too extravagant, then, to bestow upon " the erazy old question." The worst is, the madness seems very much like that of the ca nine race—the "crazy old ques tion" seems to drive certain Whig Peers, and Editors also, quite crazy—they cannot hear the ballot mentioned without foaming at the mouth, l os ing self-command, attempting to utter sentences about legitimate influence, and fleeing from it as the sufferers from hydrophobia are said to shun water. We cannot wonder at all this perturbation. Protectionists of every class are always in a dread- ful fright at the thought of free competition. Our commercial and agricultural protectionists have got over their panic, and now like the change; but those of France are still in the midst of their fever, and shuddering at the thought of their neighbours obtaining British iron and textile fabrics cheaper and better than they can make them. Jnst such, and just as unreasonable, is the terror of the Times, and the Whig and Tory aristocracy at the thought of the ballot. They can imagine no other mode of manufacturing representatives than that by which the electors are now manipulated— and by which a bounty is bestowed on the posses sors of land and of money. If these wealthy men and landowners had to enter the electoral market in unrestricted competition with men of merit, they think the game would be quite up with them. If a good landlord had to trust to his goodness, and a millionaire to the benefits he conferred on his locality, they fear it would go hard with them, end that the intelligent interloper might sometimes outbid them. We do not wonder at it. These political protectionists have been nursed up, like the agriculturists by the corn laws, to rely not on their political merits, but on their power to bribe and coerce. It seems useless to try to comfort them; --just as the agriculturists expected to be deluged with Lord DERBY'S millions of quarters from the little port of Tamboff, and exclaimed—" What would beuome of thorn if wheat went below fifty-six shillings per q uarter ?" so the present political proprietors of boroughs and counties are perfectly bewildered at the thought of asking an elector's vote, without a much more powerful argument to use than that of personal fitness to serve the elector in Parlia ment. That, now, is, of course, always the nomi nal one, but a far more effective one is never directly mentioned, unless, perhaps, in places that have lost Wakefield and Gloucester, or in a ll shame, like counties in which some tenant farmers seem to show a little impatience. We can assure the intending candidates that they will find the Ballot itself, notwithstanding its awful aspect, a very improving, not injurious, thing. It will only make better members of them, not turn them out, just as the Repeal of the Corn LAws made the farmers better agriculturists, but did not eject them from their farms. We can have no doubt that repeal of the present Aristgeratie Candidates Protection Laws would be followed by what would be equivalent to a fine process of draining, marling, cloying, manuring, straightening fences, and the like, amongst a great number of the members. That would be all the difference ; the members would be improved by having to rely on their merits, but the class of persons returned would remain nearly the same. We fear, however, any attempt at consolation is as much thrown away as t would have been on I,he old protectionists. Be- 4 ` q i - -T,L.L i t )1 ' • AAP, 4 , Irs 4 ' • ".0 -• • M. THE SUN. Aides, too many have no inclination to merit the suffrages of tenants at will, or ten-pounders and freemen, when they can now enforce them, or buy them pretty cheap. Lord PALMERSTON, whatever others might do, was not the man to lose his temper. An attempt to count out the House before the Ballot motion came on, and while Mr. DILLWYN was speaking was obviously the chief stratagem on which the old Whigs had relied—and failing that, they were not prepared so soon after to beat Mr. BERKELEY and Mr. SMITH. Mr. BERKELEY, like a good General, although well equipped, we doubt not with his usual Ballot ammunition, thought that would keep, and determined to come to the vote at once—they had not answered his indeed unanswerable arguments of last year and other years, so he would take a vote on the old unanswered argument. And the vote showed that eighty-three members thought it worth while to come down and support the bill, while only thirty-three cared to oppose it. That much must at least be conceded on behalf of the Ballot. Lord PALMERSTON had not the good luck to be in time to say " No" to Mr. BERKELEY ; he was there, however, just in time to vote with a smaller minority against a per missive Municipal Ballot Bill, which served his purpose almost as well. Including Mr. WYLD's bill, this is, we believe, the third majority which has been obtained by the Ballot ; and that it will in due time compel an effective 1 1 majority, one which shall force it through the IHouse of Peers, is as certain as that the people are advancing in intelligence, and in consciousness of their right to be able to give their electoral and municipal votes without hazarding their social comfort, or their pecuniary interests. While our upz , Acbti - voa iA tho mo."-•-•r" 4 -4‘"15 a tricts are suffering t;everely from a lack of the raw material consequent upon the closing of the Southern ports by the Federal blockade—while our population in the Fen Districts are suffering again in their turn by reason of the late deplorable floodings from the Wash and from the Humber— while Ireland is tortured in parts because of a still scattered and intermittent scarcity—an important town and district in Holland have just now sus tained a calamity worse in some respects, because less easily reparable, than any resulting from either a lack of Cotton, of Food, or of Employment, or even, be it said, from a temporary inundation. Enschede, recently destroyed by fire, is now disco- vered to be a mass of ruins over seventeen-twentieths of the area covered by it. Almost every portion of the town thus consumed in one all-mastering con flagration having, moreover, been unhappily unin sured ! So that the 4,000 inhabitants who are thus, " at one fell swoop," rendered houseless are, as a matter of course, not only houseless, but also, in a great measure, absolutely destitute. The spectacle witnessed there just now in those melancholy suburbs of Enschede must bear a resemblance—(of course upon a miniature scale, and done into Dutch) —to the spectacle witnessed upon the outskirts of London now very nearly two hundred years ago, that is in 1666, when the Great Fire of London, beginning at Pudding-lane and ending at Pie corner, sung by DRYDEN and commemorated by the "Monument," was dying out slowly over acres upon acres of smouldering embers. The misery caused by the recent conflagration at Enschede is upon a scale of course almost insignificant by comparison, but so far as it goes it is not a jot less bitter or disas- trans of its kind than that more wide spread misery which called even the voluptuous CHARLES from his orgies at Whitehall to the end that he might personally co-operate in the universal efforts then made to alleviate it. At Enschede it is true that there are but 4,000 souls who are sufferers from the late destructive fire; but those 4,ooo—men,women, and children—are Iv at —,,L 1: lings having been completely destroyed. They , are penniless—all their goods and chattels without exception having been swept away by the same irresistible element that consumed their abodes. During the conflagration, of course, many lives were lost—now from suffocation, now from falling rafters or masonry, now from some unpremeditated auto-da-fe. We are commenting, therefore, merely upon the condition of the actual survivors. And already it is consolatory to know that the sympathy excited in their regard is as earnest as it is wide spread. According to the last advices from Hol land, given in our impression of yesterday, as much as 100,000 guilders had even then been poured into the coffers of the Central Relief Committee from the sub-committees organised promptly in all principal towns and cities of the kingdom. What notoriously tends to enhance the eagerness of the benevolent in these humane endeavours to ameliorate as effectually as possible the anguish caused by this abrupt affliction to the unfortunate population of the town thus all but totally de stroyed, is the knowledge that that population is deprived en masse, not only of its homes and its subsistence, but of the very means of gaining its su'osistence. It is satisfactory, to be sure, to know ' at the same time for certain—as we do—that the : machinery employed in the manufactories lately re , duced to ashes by this terrible conflagration at Enschede was well ensured, by the wise forethought of the owners, in the principal English Offices for Fire Insurance. A happy circumstance no doubt to the employers, but a very faint and remote con solation indeed to the employed. Time, to them, is everything. And as surely as Rome was not built in a day, so surely in like manner a reasonable inter val must elapse before the poor, destitute, houseless, penniless, workless operatives of Enschede can have the consolation of beholding that town rebuilt, the great manufactories there reconstructed from base ' ment to roof, new machinery again put together therein, and themselves enrolled once more as thrifty, zealous workmen in the old favourite establishments. Before that happy time can come, it is a terrible ordeal that they will all have to pass through as best they may. And con scions of this, the sympathisers with them are already sending from the outlying districts of Hol land, more especially in the immediate vicinity of Enschede itself, not merely money, but together with that, creature comforts, as absolutely necessary for existence as clothing and provisions. Turning their regardnorthwards towards the borders of that smouldering mass of ruins, lately the busy and thriving town of Enschede, the poverty-stricken peasantry of Tipperary, the unemployed i o peratives of Lancashi re, the 0 i t n h s e h i r e, half-swamped an , but a labouring population of Lin c o lnsh ir e, may find ample reason eno ug h , m d o o s t th e im pressive and persuasive one also for hope and for manly endurance. The remarkable calamity which has just befallen a happy and flourishing town of Holland will, at any rate, be a reminder to them at once that their own sufferings are not so very exceptional, and that here again—in the instant and universal sympathy manifested upon the occa sion of any great public calamity—is another affecting verification of the poet's dictum, that " One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." Aid, timely and sufficient aid, can never be wanting at any of these dire emergencies—no matter what the geographical position of the scene afflicted by any such sudden or inscrutable visitation. Is it THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, EVENING, MAY 28, 1862. not b. 'till in the remembr anoe of us all, how, some six teeneventeen g or . y ears ago, munificent contri ir , from all parts of the world b u tions were s e tt to swell the :funds collected for the alleviation of the sufferers Prot a the Irish famine and pesti lence, among the caul 'ributors to those funds being princes as alien to each other as the POPE at Rothe and the SULTAN at Constantinople ? And as for home assistance to our own people, portions of whom may be borne down for awhile by passing afflictions, have we no t had that but very recently and re splendently 17 c•, Os sterling s ignalised by the rapid collection of erling in aid of the orphans and widows at the Hartley Colliery pit ? We English have a pretty direct interest in this great American quarrel—we watch with solicitude the arrival of naval and military news ; but slavery, cotton, and Canada are all at stake in the conduct and results of this war. Even England's greatest enemies cannot deny her the honour of having made the cause of slavery her own ; France boasts of being the only country " to go to war for an idea,' , but all the world knows that England has spent almost the cost of a war in abolishing slavery and struggling with the slave trade. Abolition of these twin monsters is the cause of all Englishmen. We cannot deny, then, and do not wish, that the war has done more for the suppression of the slave trade in America than has been done since 1812, the last American war with England. The veteran Lord BROUGHAM was able in the House of Lords to congratulate the Government on the treaty which it had just signed, and which, we learn with pleasure, was proposed first by Mr. SEWARD him self to Lord LYONS. On this subject Mr. LINCOLN has been thoroughly consistent. It was an act of high moral daring, for which we desire to award r first I-my tain—one of the very worst of his class—and thus carry ont the law of the United States, whose ter rors had been perfectly idle during the presidencies of BUCHANAN and his still feebler predecessors. To hang, too, in the teeth of petitions and remon strances, which, to their everlasting disgrace, the merchants and moneyed men of New York sent up to save him. On this follows the treaty, which nothing but the most thorough good faith on the subject could have drawn from an American Cabinet. To concede the mutual right of search, although limited to the waters in which the slave trade is carried on, was a really magnanimous act for an American Minis ter ; and; often as we have had to censure Mr. SEWARD, we have so much the more pleasure in recording that on a subject on which the American mind is filled with the strongest prejudice, he yet rose superior to it himself, and did not truckle to a vulgar popular feeling in this great object. The possibility of landing slaves at Porto Rico, and thence transferring them to Cuba, is evidently one that had not struck either of the diplomatists, and will doubtless be well guarded against, as soon as it is mentioned at Washington. Even slavery itself has received already some severe strokes, and is likely to receive more. It is but fair to aoknowledge the constitutional and other complications of the case with which Mr. LINCOLN had to deal ; still it can be but regretted that the worst difficulty of all is the Northern aversion to negroes. The North cannot endure the idea of a large number of free blacks living amongst them in a condition of civil equality. They term it amal gamation, and pronounce it impossible. Still every Northerner of whatever party knows that slavery is the origin of this costly and fatal war. He re members that, while nothing more was proposed than to exclude it from the territories, and thus to consecrate all the increase of the Republic to freedom, this roused the ire of the South, was tie cause of their repudiation of LINCOLN and of the war. The South went to war for the power to 4 Thn ATess.fh viacia4o/1 friw +llO rirrht ration explicitly recognising the Divine Right of slavery, avowedly making it the corner stone of the Confederation. The North would allow it to be only a municipal, a State institution. Adhering to that view, the North has still contrived to deal some severe blows at slavery itself. It has abo lished it in the Federal Government's own municipality, the district of Columbia, and thus branded it with Federal reprobation; and it has proffered to aid the Border States, and. others too, to purchase the emancipation of their slaves. Both acts proclaimed that the evil was one which the Government felt itself justified in removing at a heavy eost. if the Border States dislike, at pre sent, the offer, this leaves the intention of the Government the same, and does not make it less likely that eventually the fortunes of war may make them but too glad to accept it. The war has of course had its own peculiar effect on the institution. The Generals have had rather different inclinations in the matter, some caring most to deprive the rebels of the help of their slaves, others being most concerned about not depriving loyal Southerners of their property. Gradually, however, the fact has become apparent that but few who owned this species of property were loyal to the Federal Government. Indeed, the wonder is how slaveholders ever worked at all in a Fede ral Government with States entirely composed of freemen. The very air breathed by the two seems so different that instead of wondering at the pre sent explosion, we may well Wonder that it did not come sooner. The Generals, therefore, find, as might be expected, in the genuine slave States, that such a thing as a loyal master is hardly known. One after another they have be come practical abolitionists within the circum ference of their military control, at the numerous places they have captured on the Atlantic coast. They find the slaves remarkably attached to the locality in which they live ; staying behind when their masters have fled, willing to work indus triously for wages, and what is most interesting and striking of all, very eager to learn to read, and as apt to learn as white children. School masters have had to be sent for, and they report that the ardour of the poor creatures for instruction is quite touching, that it quite grieved them to witness the hitter disappointment of those for whom they had not primers sufficient, and that they will devote any amount of time and effort to acquiring the power to read. Surely a race so industrious, and so eager to improve that the hearts of Northern schoolmasters are deeply touched with the sight, can hardly need to be colonised out of the country. They cannot, after all, be so unfit for freedom, and must be valuable unskilled labourers. The last device of the General is that martial law and slavery are incompatible. So General HUNTER, having proclaimed martial law in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, has also declared all slaves in these three States " for ever free." May he soon be able to give effect to his proclamation. To cotton and Canada we must advert on another occasion. But the. effect of tho war, so far as slavery and the slave trade is concerned, has hap pily been, if nbt a ll w e co u ld wish, yet strongly in the directi on i n w hi c h a ll E ng l an d f ee l s interested. A blow has been struck at the slave-trade, in the best temper on th e part o f Amer i ca, f or w hi c h brit for the war we might have waited many years ; while slavery itself is gradually giving way before mili tary necessities and the better knowledge of the North. The account forwarded by the Generals, 1 and the schoolmasbrs of negro industry for wages, partiality fd home, and eagerness for instruction, seem tc have told on the Northern mind, and are likel! to do so yet more. Indeed, they open a prospect for safe emancipation which did not exist before. Abolitionism will be stript of half its terrors, fcr the better disposed, at least, when the real charaeor of the negro peasant is better understood. MADAME' .31,4R10'S LECTURE. Madame Mario delvered her concluding lecture upon Garibaldi and laly last night to an audience which filled St. Jameas Hall. Mr. Stansfeld, M.P., presided. Madame Maio received as a welcome an enthusiastic demonstration of applause. Her lec ture contained the history of the events which took place from the time Garibaldi landed on the Cala brian coast until the Two Sicilies, having been annexed to Italy, till conqueror returned to his home in Caprera. It need hardly be said that a survey, contained in an hour's lecture, of the im portant and thrilling !vents which passed during that interval, must necessarily have been rapid and general. But the deeeription given by Madame Mario was neyertheleso, in the strictest sense, com plete and symmetrical. It gave to every event its due proportion, and vas indeed a true picture in little of the campaign. Madame Mario's descrip tion of the battle of the Volturno was one of the clearest, calmest, and, at the same time, the most thrilling narratives we have heard in a lecture room. The style of the fair lecturer is peculiarly easy, fluent, and unconstrained ; her language, even where it is most brilliant, is spontaneous and un exaggerated. It is almost entirely conversational, and although always eloquent, never aims at the declamatory. We do not mean to express a concur rence in all the opinions which Madame Mario uttered in relation to Italian politics, and are far, fr Am nrrnntinu► he. eat , ....edto of the Into Count Cavour, to whom sbe appears to entertain sentiments of the strongest antagonism. But with out endorsing all the lecturer's views, we can speak in the warmest terms of her eloquence, her enthusiasm, and the impression she produced upon her audience. COURT CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, MAY 26. Her Majesty, their R)yal Highnesses Prince Alfred, Princess Alice, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, Princess Helena, and Princess Louse, attended Divine service yes terday at Balmoral. The Rev. Dr. Caird officiated. The Ladies and Gentlenen in Waiting and the House hold were also present. Prince Alfred, Princess Alice, and Princess Helena, also attended the service at Creithie Church. Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell, left Balmoral this morning to join her Majesty's ship St. George. A deputation from the Voodstock Union, consisting of the Duke of Marlborough, Sir Henry W. Dashwood, Mr. C. E. Thornhill, and the Ray. J. Dodd, had an interview with the Rigkt Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., yesterday at the office of the Poor -law Boari, Whitehall. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governors of the North American Provinces. Despatches were sent to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. Among the publications of marriages made two days back at Brussels was that of Baron Charles Perigord de Talleyrand, Minister of France at the Court of Brussels, and Madlle. Vera Berordoli, of St. Petersburg. Cardinal Prince Schwtrtzenberg, accompanied by eight bishops, left Vienna for Rome on the 24th inst. The Oat-Deutsche Pod of Vienna says that the state of health of the Empress does not respond to the hopes which had been entertained from the residence of her Ma jesty in a southern climate. A grand demonstration is to take place in Ipswich to-morrow, on the occasion of the launch of the lifeboat, presented by that town to the National Lifeboat Institu tion. _ _ The Emancipation Society of Genoa has just held a sitting extraordinary, in consequence of recent events. The President made a violent speech, in which he blamed the sanguinary acts at Brescia, and declared that the Italian democracy and the volunteer army felt immense confidence in Garibaldi. One of the members, M. Malatesta, proposed an address to the general. The motion was adopted unani mously. THE JAPANESE AMEASSADORS.—NENV CASTLE ox-TYNE, Tuesday evening.—The Japanese Ambassadors, who arrived in this town from the south last night, district, proceeded this morning by special train on the Blyth and Tyne Railway to North Seaton Colliery. They were met there by Mr. George Baker Foster, Mr. Thomas C. Foster, Mr. Jobling, and others, and one of the princi pal members of the Embassy descended the mine with two of his suite, the other two ambassadors remaining at bank. The Japanese official who descended into the mine was taken about half a mile into the face of the workings, and was shown the process of bringing away a quantity of coal by firing a shot, and he had afterwards pointed out to him the method by which coals are brought to the bottom of the shaft by an incline, and the machinery of the mine gene rally. The pumping apparatus was also explained to him, and he appeared to take a very intelligent interest in the arrangements for working the mine generally. After par taking of luncheon at the colliery, the party returned to Newcastle, but too late to give them an opportunity of viewing the engine works of Messrs. Robert Stephenson and Co. They left by the quarter past 4 train for Carlisle, en route to Liverpool, but before departing the principal members of the embassy expressed through Mr. Macdonald their deep obligation t) the Mayor and the authorities for the attention that had been paid to them during their short visit, A large crowd assembled to see them away. They appeared to be delighted with the manner the people cheered them. CRYSTAL PALACE.—The Grand Archery meeting af Thursday and Friday next will be the first great gathering of Toxophilites this season, which, including as it does members from all the leading archery societies, will prove of unusual interest, and its effect wilt be considerably heightened from it taking'place at a time when the beautiful grounds in which it is held are in their greatest perfection, the rhododendrons, with the other American plants, being in full bloom. Among the different societies sending com petitors to this meeting we may mention the Royal Toxo philites, the Cheshire Bowmen, the York Archers, the Devon and Exeter Archers, the Lichfield Archers, the Wor cestershire Archers, the Woodmen of Arden (Warwick shire), the Enfield Archers, the Ivanhoe Archers, the West Somerset, the Bath, the East Norfolk, the Long Milford, the Queen's Royal, the St. Leonard's, the Breconshiro, the Cheltenham, the West Bells, the Buccleuch, the Thames Ditton, the Dawlish, the Anglesea, the Aston-park, the Edgbaston, and the Grand National societies. The present champion of the United Kingdom and the ex-champion will both be present. SOHTII KENSINGTON MUSEUM.—During the week ending the 24th of May the visitors have been as follows :—On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, free days, open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., 11,531 ; on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, students' days (admission to the public, 6d.), open from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m., 1,079. Total, 12,613. From the opening of the Museum, 2,728,491. Museum of Patents, South Kensington Number of visitors for the week ending May 24, 3,243 ; total number since the opening of the Museum free daily (May 12, 1858), 545,650. TEE HOP PLANTATIONS.—ROCHESTER, MAY 27. —Seldom have the hop plantations throughout Kent, gene rally, exhibited a more promising appearance than is the case this season, everything indicating an unusually large crop. Aided by the remarkably fine weather of the past few weeks the plants are everywhere growing vigorously, the bine coming forward strong and rapidly. As yet very little vermin is to be seen, and in most of the high, rich lands the plants are all that can be desired. In a few plan tations, the two or three cold nights recently experienced have slightly affected the young shoots, but these are now regaining their former appearance. Most of the large factors still hold considerable stocks, and the exports are still heavy, upwards of 40 tons having been sent abroad during the week ending Saturday last, while the imports during the same period were nil. ESCAPE OF THREE CONVICTS FROM MILLBANK PRISON.—On Monday morning three convicts, one under sentence of transportation for life, the other two for 14 years, made their escape from this prison by breaking through the top of the building; after which, by removing some slates and a large flag and making a rope of their sheets they let themselves down, and got clear off. The police were immediately apprised of their escape; but, though measures were instantly adopted for their apprehension, they have not as yet been retaken HORRIBLE ACCIDENT IN A SUGAR REFINERY. —On Monday an accident of the most horrifying nature occurred at the sugar works of Messrs. Crossfield and Co., Vauxhall-road, Liverpool, Thomas Lee, a workmen em - ployed by Messrs. Fawcett and Preston, was sent to the sugar works to assist in fisting up an engine; and during the dinner hour he visited the " crushing room." He commenced to play with a man named Ball, and was chas ing him round the machinery in the room, when he slipped under an iron rail, was caught by the teeth of the sugar- Crushers, and literally ground to atoms. For hours the machinery could not be entirely freed from pieces of flesh aad bone of the unfortunate man's body. LATEST NEWS. AMERICA. CORK, MAY 28, 8 A,M. ARRIVAL OF THE ETNA. NEW YORK, MAY 17. General M'Clellan's head-quarters are on the Panmunky river, 27 miles from Richmond. The Confederates are fortifying the city, and are said to be prepared for a desperate resistance. Considerable anxiety is felt for the safety of General Halleck and the army of the south-west. Beanregard has been largely reinforced at Corinth. Secretary Stanton has prohibited the circulation of any news from Halleck's army or that of Beau regard until it shall have been supervised and approved by the War Department. General Hunter, the Federal General in command of the Southern Military Division at Hilton Head, South Carolina, has issued a proclamation, declaring that martial law exists in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida ; that martial law and slavery are in compatible, and that, therefore, all slaves are hence forth made free in those States. The proclamation has excited great displeasure and alarm throughout the North, and the President has been called on to disavow it and to remove General Hunter from his command. The President has published a proclamation, raising the blockade, under several restrictions, of New Orleans, Port Royal, and Beaufort, on and after the let of June. The Federal flotilla is reported off Fort Morgan, at the entrance of the Bay of Mobile. Great alarm prevails at Mobile and Charleston. Savannah has not been attacked by the Federal military or naval forces. On the morning of the 17th the Etna passed the Great Eastern, coming to anchor off Sandyhook. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 16. Money easy. Gold, 3 per cent. premium. Exchange dull. Bankers' bills, 1138. Stocks active, with a tendency to decline. United States Six per Cent., 1881, 1041; New York Cen tral, 89/ 1 ; Illinois, 621 ; Erie, 391 t. Cotton firm—middling Uplands, 27-Ic. to 28c. Flour steady and fair demand. Wheat dull. Corn firm, and fair demand. Provisions heavy and declining. Coffee steady. Sugar and molasses inactive. PARIS, MAY 28. The Moniteur of this morning announces that the Emperor and Empress have received the Prince de Carignan in a private audience. TURIN, MAY 27, EVENING. Despatches from Naples announce that the officers of the 4th Legion of the National Guard have pro tested against the recent conduct of the 3d Legion. The 24th Legion has been disbanded in conse quence of the demonstration made by that body. It has, however, been promised that it shall be recon atituted. A band of coiners has been discovered at Pistoja. MADRID, MAY 27. The Minister of Marine stated to-day in Con gress that the Government would construct seven iron frigates. It has also been announced that the documents relative to the Mexican expedition will shortly be communicated to the Chamber for discussion. The entire Spanish press publish articles refuting the late article of the Patrie. According to news received here from Portugal, the royal troops had energetically repulsed 2,000 insurgents at Mouri. FRANCE. coLy Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten tiary at Japan, has arrived in Paris, and is staying at the Hotel du Louvre. General Miramon, ex-President of the Mexican Confederation, has also arrived in Paris with his family. Among the three new senators whose names ap pear in the Dioniteur is M. Ingres, the eminent painter. This tribute paid to distinguished talent, and to distinguished talent alone I believe, is highly approved in public. The five deputies of the Left in the French Legis lative Body have proposed the following amend- ments to the budget of 1863. To Article I. to add this paragraph : " Between now and the approaching session a parlia mentary inquiry shall be made upon the situation of each administration, the number of persons employed in it, and upon the means of ameliorating the public service either by decentralisation or by reduction of expense. Until that inquiry shall have been terminated no fresh office shall be created, nor shall any existing place which may become vacant by decease, retirement, or resignation, be filled up." On Article 1, Ministry of War, 3d section : " The effective is reduced by 100,000 men." In Article 60 to add the paragraph : " The budget of the city of Paris shall be controlled, dis cussed, and voted by the Legislative Body in the same form as the State Budget, as long as the municipal council shall be nominated by the Executive Power, by virtue of the law of Article M. of the law of the sth of May, 1855." Article 63 (new) to be thus worded : "Pluralism is interdicted. No one can accumulate the salaries of several offices, employments, or commissions, in whatever branch of the service, if the salaries united ex ceed the sum of 30,000 f, All previous dispositions con trary to the present article are abrogited. "J. FAYRE. "E. PICARD. "E. OLLITIER. "A. DARTMON. " HENON." BOURSE, May 27.—The market has been in rather a feverish state ➢ but no very material variation in prices has taken place. Threes, for the Account, are now at 70f. 15c. Little doing in Railway Shares. The market closed as follows :.... 4t per per Cents ... 97 40 Bank Shares 3140 Do. end month.... Credit Fonder 1575 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 70 2:5 Piedmontesc Fives 7l New 3 per Cents .. 69 45 Italian Loan 7O 70 Do. end month.... 69 40 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... Spanish Threes 52 50 Do. end month.... Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern .... New, ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1108 75 .. 1110 Geneva 370 .. Southern 845 .. 842 50 Western • Eastern Sardinian 377 50 .. 375 Austrian Lombard 593 75 .. 592 50 PR USSIA. A Munich letter, in the Moniteur, has the fol lowing A conclusion has perhaps been too hastily come to, that the Prussian troops are about to enter the Electorate of Hesse. That eventuality, however, preoccupies the public mind in Germany. It would be difficult for such an extreme measure to be adopted, without the spe cial authorisation of the Diet, even should the Cabinet of Berlin allege that the affair was not a Federal one, but an almost personal difference between William I. and the Elector. Art 11. of the Federal compact is formal. In virtue of the fourth paragraph of that article, the members of the Confederation cannot, under any pretence, make war on each other, but must hand over to the Diet the settlement of any dispute which may arise between them. If the Diet cannot suoceed in so doing, the parties interested must submit them selves without appeal to the decision of an Austro regal Court constituted expressly -to judge the affair. That stipulation, without Which the Confe deration could iiot subsist, is the safeguard of the weak against the ambitious inclinations of the powerful, which are also protected against their own excesses. There is consequently nothing to authorise the belief that Prussia will, on the ques - • tion of Hesse, depart from the common rule, and subsititute purely private considerations for the Federal right." - AUSTRIA. The Press of Vienna of the 24th says : " The discussion on the Military Budget for 1862 was commenced to-day in the general assembly of the Finance Committee. Count Rechberg, M. de Schmerling, and Count Dagenfeld, Minister of War, were present. The expense of the army amounts to 136,414,277:f10rin5, which are covered to the amount of 7,757,39711., by receipts accruing to the military administration. There remains, therefore, to be furnished by the budget a sum of 128,656,8801, including 1,084,43811. for the Modenese troops. The committee, founding its opinion on the number of the effective strength in time of peace, demanded from the Government its motives for increasing that number, and a proof of the necessity of such an increase. They replied that, in the present state of affairs, it was necessary to have in Venice and the adjoining country a considerable force ready to take the field; that it was also indispensable to have troops on the south-eastern frontier of the empire ; and that it was those arrangements which had com pelled the increase to be made." ME INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. The most remarkable circumstance to be noted for yesterday in connexion with the Exhibition was the great difficulty of getting to it in any vehicle, whether carriage, brougham, cab, or leviathan omibus. There seems to be but one avenue leaving to the building from town, and nothing can be clearer than that that avenue will be blocked up for the greater part of each day next week, if some means be not adopted to relieve and divide the enormous traffic, The increase in our moving population is percepti ble in every part of the town, and there is an ex traordinary pressure on all our means of convey ance, the people complaining even in far-off Isling ton that the omnibuses are too few for the passen gers. But in the neighbourhood of the Exhibition the inconvenience is becoming so manifest as to require immediate remedial measures. There was a dead-lock for nearly ten minutes yesterday at one time opposite Albert Gate, the confusion being very much increased by the private carriages which kept constantly dashing out of the park. Two things require imperatively to be looked after—first, a better supply of cabs and omnibuses ; and second, means of entry on all the four sides of the build ing. The first point will not be so easily settled, because the parties most interested-- namely, the omnibus proprietors—did not take the matter in time, and are now vainly endea vouring to make shift by starving all other lines to feed the Exhibition. All Chelsea is in a ferment, and indignation meetings are talked of because the route from town has been changed, and the " regular riders" are obliged either to get down at the end of Sloane-street or submit to be taken round three-quarters of a mile. To add to our difficulties, the price of horses has risen enor mously, whilst the wear and tear of horse.•flesh is double what it was a month ago. The Manchester company have rendered good service, and the General Omnibus Company promise great exertions next week ; but of what use is any increase of vehicles if there be no room for them to pass up and down This second point is what the commis sioners and the police authorities will have to look to, and the sooner it is done the better. All this confusion, however, might be avoided by taking advantage of the Iron Steamboats, and dis• embarking at Cadogan Pier; for certainly it must be admitted that a short trip on the river is much more preferable to the close atmosphere inside, or the inconvenience outside, of our metropolitan omni buses. The advantage of adopting the river con veyance, besides being much more pleasant, is more economical, for the fare from all parts of the City to Chelsea is only 3d. The interior of the building was not more than comfortably full, but the company seemed to enjoy themselves exceedingly. It is true that some visitors to the picture galleries felt offended at the rule which obliged them to leave their umbrellas and parasols at the entrance. The British lion in some instances clung to his umbrella as an institu tion, and the British lioness exhibited equal reso lution with regard to her parasol ; but a little a wise and "necessary regulation. An umbrella may be useful to paterfamilias when pointing out the beauties of a Gainsborough or a Turner to his admiring progeny, but if, carried away by his en thusiastic admiration of the master, the cicerone should poke it into the eye of a portrait worth perhaps a thousand pounds, he would only be unwittingly inflicting an injury on the object of his art worship. The parasols are most dangerous to the sculpture, the statues being within reach of a short weapon ; and we actually ourselves in curred the severe displeasure of an elderly female yesterday by arresting the point of one in full charge against the nose of " La Legatrice," one of the most charming and delicate works of art in the whole building. A touch might do irreparable mischief in such a case, and therefore we trust that the British Feral, both male and female, will submit for the future to be disarmed before they enter the realms of art. We were glad to perceive that our suggestions respecting the pianos had not been without their effect, Regular performances, by competent hands, now take place at different hours, and add much to the pleasure of a visit. Miss Ellen Bliss attracts crowded audiences round one of Kirk man's powerful instruments by her brilliant play ing; and there are also some foreign performers, whose names we should be happy to give if we could obtain them. One of them played with general approbation on an ebony cased instrument in the front of the French court, and there were others of more or less merit in nearly all the foreign departments. The number of visitors during the day was as follows :—Season tickets, 5,227 ; by payment, 12,496 ; total, 17,723. THE EASTERN FISHERIES.—The mackerel fishery has been commenced by the Great Yarmouth boats, and tolerable progress has been made. The Lowestoft boats will also begin operations next week. The spring herring fishery is virtually over, and cannot be said to have been successful. Sir De Lacy Evans is on Friday to move, " That, in the opinion of this house, no further postponement ought to take place in giving effect to the promises of Government, that the command of regiments should no longer be pur chasable, and that the promotions to that rank should hence forth be regulated by selection upon the responsibility of the Commander. in-Chief." SNOW IN SUMMER.—The weather during the greater part of this week has been broken and uncongenial, and on Thursday morning the mountains of Keeper and the surrounding hills were actually capped with snow I What :'an :appearance in the month of May I-IVenagh Guardian. The mercantile udvices from New York this week indicate, amid all the speculative Wildness on the Stock Exchange, consequent upon the flood of paper currency, an increasing feeling of alarm and discouragement among the leading merchants and financiers. Each new victory is followed by the discovery that the people in the vanquished district are unanimously opposed to the Washington Go vernment, and that no obedience can be obtained from them except such as is enforced by strong military power. " Thus far," it is said, "no Union feeling whatever has been dis covered in the South—and it is now no longer expected." The loss of life, on both sides, was beginning to be felt among the families of every part of the country, and it is probable that for extent of misery there has rarely in the history of the world been a struggle presenting more cruel results. Speculators and contractors, however, continue apparently in high spirits. No Tax Bill has yet been passed, and the politicians, it is said, seem to have arrived at the conclusion that any attention to that point is unne cessary. ' " The people, in fact, think that in paper money they have found the philosopher's stone." In the absence of the ordinary commercial demand money is universally forced into Government stocks, which experience new in flation on every telegram announcing that the rebellion "crushed out" in th e course must at length positively be of a few further days. The deposits in the hands of the New Yerk banks have risen to £23,000,000, an increase of While in the same interval the £1,200,000 having o sp cc e u ci r e red ha i d n t e h x e pe l r a i s e t n week, d ek a decrease of nearly £700,000. The importations o f f oreign merchandise from the Ist of January had amounted to £12,373,000 against £12,820,0 0 0 in the corresponding period of last year, and £17,140,000 in the corresponding p er i o d o f 1 860 . CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY, Tues day, May 27.—Admissions on payment, 1,343; ditto by 80580 n tickets, 531; total visitors 1,874. MISS TOD. V.Acirm.AN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—As the public has taken some interest in the recent case of "Miss Todd's coachman," I think it possible that the enclosed copy of a letter just received by me from that lady's brother may also prove not uninteresting. The only observation I shall make upon it is that I took out the summons against Miss Todd's coachman, and not against that lady herself, with whom I have nothing earthly to do. If Miss Todd thought proper to thrust hersel f before the public in a cause which the public has almost unanimously considered a bad one, it was her own doing, not mine. Mr. Todd is, of course, free to carry out his fool ish threat ; but I think, on consideration, he will deem it better not to do so. Yours obediently, ESSEX. 21, Chesham-place, Belgravia, May 27. " Cranstoun-house, Addison-1 oad, May 26. "My Lord,—Yea have thought proper to insult my sister, and hold her up to public execratigli. I consider your conduct to be unworthy of a nobleman and a gentle man. The days of duelling are over, or I would address your lordship in a different language. But, as lam not a man capable of taking another man at a disadvantage, al though you do not scruple to assail a woman, I think it right to tell your lordship that I shall take the earliest opportunity of inflicting on your lordship a castigation, which you will have at yo' x leisure an opportunity of com paring with that of tb.b castigation properly inflicted by my sister's coachman on my sister's stubborn horse,—l re mains yours, "JAMES ELLINGTON TODD." [Would it not be advisable for Mr. J. E. T.'s friends to look to him.—ED. Sun.] .7iIDDERNINS7 BR ELECTION. KIDDERMINSTER, TUESDAY. The election took place to-day, each candidate declaring his determination to poll to the last man, and each, of courco, confident of his victory. At the opening of the poll the Government candidate got their men to the polling booth, and obtained a considerable majority at once, which somewhat dispirited the Conservatives, who, however, subsequently effected a gradual re duction of the Liberal advantage. At half-past three the contest was virtually over, the numbers being— Colonel White (L.) 227 Mr, Talbot (C.) ..... 220 Majority for Colonel White 7 There were some skrimmages in the course of the day, and a few " bloody noses and cracked crowns," without which a Kidderminster election would hardly be complete. One man was killed last night, through over zeal for his party. Meeting a cab in which was supposed to be a voter kidnapped, he rushed to stop it, was knocked down, driven over, and died almost in the . street. At 4 o'clock there was an immense concourse of persons in front of the hustings. Both the candi dates were there, and there was half an hour's in dulgence in cheering and groaning. Soon after 4 o'clock, The Mayor, Mr. Pemberton Talbot, said it was his duty, as returning officer, to declare that Col. White had been returned member for the borough by a majority of ten votes. This announcement was followed by great cheer ing and uproar, in the midst of which Colonel White briefly addressed the populace, expressing his acknowledgments for the honour done him ; but he was inaudible except in his im mediate vicinity. Mr. Talbot also addressed the electors. There was a strong body of police round the hustings, besides some two or three hundred special constables, and it is said a body of military was in the immediate neighbourhood, in case of any popu lar outbreak. Happily their services were not re quired, and at 5 o'clock all was quiet. P.ARLIAIIIENT.A.R.Y DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MAY 27. THE BALLOT. Motion made and question put, " That leave be given to bring in a bill to cause the votes of Parliamentary electors to be taken by way of ballot." The house divided— Ayes, 83 ; Noes, 50. AYE ti -- 83. Atherton—Kix W GPEEM,"T;arat. J. RCEIKII.TJ.IS. Baines, E. Hadfield, G e o. Russell, F. W. B Beale, S Baxter, W. E. Hennessy, J. P. ScholefieAd, W. azley, Thomas Ilibbert, J. S cully, V. amuel Black,Hodgkinson, G. S e y mour, D i gby Blake Adam Hutt, W. Sh eridan, H. B. , J. A. Kershaw, J. Smith, J. B. Bright, J. King, Hon. P. Smith, Augustus Buchanan, W. Kinglake, A. W. Sullivan, M. Butler, C. S. Langton, H. G. Sykes, Col. W. H. Caird, James Lawson, W. Tite, Wm. Cobden, R. Lee, W. Tollemache, Hon.F. Cogan, W. H. Lindsay, W. S. Villiers, Rt. Hon. C. Collier, R. P. McEvoy, E. Vivian, H. H. Cox, W. Mills, T. Waldron, L. Cranford, E. H. J Mills, J. H. Westhead, J. Crossley, Frank Monson, W. J. Whalley, G. H. Dalglish, Robert Morris, D. Whitbread, S. Diliwyn, Lewis L. Morrison, W. Wr ite Jas. Douglas, Sir C. O'B r i en , P . Wihcox, B. M. Doulton, F. O'Conoi Don, The Williams, W. Duke, Sir James Onslow, Guildford Wood, W. Ewing, H. E. C. Padmore, R. Woods, Henry Foley, Hon. H. W. Paget, C. Wyld, names Forster, Charles D. Pigott, Francis Freeland, H. W. Pilidngton, James Gibson, 'T. M. Potter, E. Gilpin, C. Powell, J. TELLERS. Berkeley, !lon. H. Fermoy, Lord NOES-50. Arbuthnott, Gen.ll. Kekewich, S. Palmer, Sir E. Marne, H. J. Kelly, Sir F. Palmerston, Visct. Baring, Sir F. Kennard,R. Parker, Major W. Beecroft, G. S. Knatchbull-Hugess Philipps, J. 11. Bernard, Col. Lacon J. C. J. Sir E. Selwyn, Bramley-Moore, J. Laird, Slett, . Burke, Sir T. J., Bt. L ennox, Lord G. G. Steemolr, JohnP. Chapman, J. Leslie, W. Steuart, A. Disraeli, Benjamin Longfield, Robert Turner, C. Finlay, A. S. Lowe, Rt. Hon.R. 'Vandelur, Col. Garnett, W. J. Lytton, Sir E. B. Verney, e Sir Harry Gurney, John H. M`Cormick, W. Walcott, Adm. J. E. Handley, John Mackie, J. Walpole, S. H. Hartopp, E. B. Martin, J. Yorke, lion.E. Hay, Sir J. Mills, A. Hotham, Gen. Lord Mitford, W. T. TELLERS. Howes, Edward Montagu, Lord R. Miller, T. flume, W. Northcote, Sir S. H. Murray, William HER MAJESY'S THE47RE. Last night the cantata composed by Verdi for the opening of the Industrial Exhibition was performed for a second time at Her Majesty's Theatre, with thelgreatest eclat. The audience attracted by the announcement of its repetition greatly exceeded that of Saturday, and the enthusiasm the execution of the composition excited was intense. Although there was scarcely a fault observable on its first performance, last evening, however, it appeared that greater precision and smoothness had been obtained in the choruses, while Mdlle. Titiens seemed to have taken fresh inspiration, and sang the parts allotted to her with unsurpassing magnifi cence. The applause at the conclusion was immense ; and it was not until after the talented composer had been twice led forward by Madlle. Titiens that the enthusiasm subsided. ROI AL ITALIAN OPERA. " Martha" was last night given for the first time this season, with Madame Penco as Lady Enrichetta, Signor Delle Sedie as Plunkett, and Mario as Lionel. "Il suo sguardo" was sweetly given by Madame Penco and Mario, and " The last rose of summer" was so overflowing with tenderness and expression that an encore and call for Ma dame Penco followed. Mario gave the delicious melody " M'appari tuti amor," s ith such taste and fervour, that so completely enchanted the audience that an entire repeti. tion:of the whole had to be given before silence could be procured. Della Sedio and Didiee sang with their accus tomed excellence. The opera has been mounted in a style of surpassing beauty. LORD JOHN'S afPßOm.pri Sent to UNCLE SAM in reply to the demand for the Emily St. Pierre. My first word's my last, You'd MISS EMILY fast, And you might have looked after her better ; But now she's eloped, Or as you would say, " sloped," Pray, SAM, don't you wish you may get her? —Punch. THE SUNDAY BANDS IN THE PAEKS.—The seventh season was commenced on Sunday last, with great success, the number of persons present awl the financial results in Regent's -park being equal to any previous year. As usual the vast audiences met and retired with the most perfect order. The experiment of chairs inside the enclo sure was also much approved, indeed had there been three times 300 they would have had occupants. As a finale the National Anthems of France, Italy, and England were given, and we understand that of Germany is to be intro duced on Sunday next. PURCHASE OF FOXFIOUNDS BY THE YOUNG EARL OF EamwTox.--A few days ago, the Noith War wickshire pack of foxhounds was sold by auction near Leamington, at which the Earl of Eglinton and Winton attended, along with the most of the foxhound " masters" of England. Lord Eglinton bought two of the highest•. priced couples, the one at 125 guineas, and the other at 70 guineas,