The Sun. — London, England, 1862-05-24 00:00:00

State embankment —to the sea Y—So stop all Pensions, and Pay, above £365-yr ; no Queen's nor Ministers' money, Default on Russell's (1683, N. Bedfordkvel Carr-), attaint. JAPANESE MISSION Co's., its KATHAY Baton Rouge Erma- ot—of 'n ' England's Privy Council. By Articles 3.—.18, and 21, under' texte Hollandaise' for 14 years' revision, signed on 26th August, 1858, and attested by the Russian intermediate, Count Ignatief in 1859, under Pekin's Xun-Tien-('sin Treaty—in Alcor's Vi and oaputelation), Obedient to heaven's Zenith +A- Rol Aza-meter Spiral-sphere fate 'Z overhead' earth-fiat, distinct from the Sun's planeterry declination N. and S. for Free Japan's Cantonal-1586 in Ton-Quin's Le Chua c. ;., on Edw. lll's Sceptre Chancery Court, hsi of Maca6 Cabotage guard as England itself' of the Isles, against Tartar-british Chinaman-slave—pirates. You are hereby called on to register the old La Montee Q' civio limit-wall of China, as the Jese-horizon o f London, 409 N., as England's 1581 Receipt of Exchequer, and take out Yedo copy of Standard Pigmeter weights' for regional exemplification, under your red moon' disc mark—of the Menan-caVyian empire of the Borneo ice's, on Q. Eliz. and J. z.'s Ennaam to Sicily's a. font in alt o skyset link, (as between Man and God) so Serpentine : : fly audits.' Explain to the Tycoon's Free-haired Tailmen as of our fathers, That this results from my sole Macao charge, on Holy Alliance of Christian-clubs, t Abolition 29th August, 1825, by 11 G. in. c 55—founded on 14 G. m., c 83, 17740" for the one Nefean meter -rod of Earth's empyreal spirit-'-level guidance—restored in 1824, suspended one year to kill off the life and death 1815 justice-men' for '26 Romish-pope —so cause of his illegal ' white Mitre' being set to all the criminal law exchequer deeds, over which, if not removed the writer will sign for the people's rights, without any Ruff-C4.tian 9 S.A. c." coolie marks of 1842's bald pated Chi nese Tartar shaved mark of Macartney's '92 /word, CAR, and <e-harness foist—for a §-papal British government mis rule by confusion—as seen in Pekin summer palace. 40.• The suspended 1824 Act-. became re-incorporated in 1835—and writer its State,-'..wall trustee under 1837-43, for the lineal spirit-level inter- °-national oathing for all offices, without sect creeds idea—on Staff inset-poy'ze sight. Titus on water trespass,' YEH'S ask of Lisbon's Macao Company's governor in 1857—(0f the Remish Pope) ? who was England's 1594 Stil-laird of Guinea of 1712 and 1826, Kings Gerefa Judge _River Conservator, on Brazil-marshal Beresford's baton N. rouge submission to Admiral G. Ha • mond's flag-lieutenant 11 Montague II Ackerley—for facing in court the Red-man Tycoon Imper.ttor, by law as typio in the u4-i's in Q. Ann's Bnty office, Westminster, 1841 act. Your P. Council 9- MISSION was to unite the t rea ty 'Ap. 1664, with Angl ° Dutch executive of Holland , its mar she s as of Leicester's create 1560-85 so Cromwell and Louis xxv., 1655, affirmed by Parliament, of 16 Car. 11., re-embody'don Phillipine-isles 6 & 6 native jury-176 4- Sch olastic teaching the Red indians by Act of 1832 for m aking N. W. America Behring's land-guarantee of Dutch -loan extends to New foundland-1820 as Crown colony Antipodean to N. Zealand, Siam, and its Ceylon trop'Axctic fjword de x pendencies. - foul] now see into the May 14 Bar'ing-visit (leading by Labuan Macdonald, to the son ASHBURTON treaty) o f my state-associate—and afterwards to Northumberland -house to pass before the Supreme Indian portraiture of Joseph Brant, (Stamp Act SagOraoth Chief of 1774-'93 of Anglo- Chinese America, west to east), uncle and predecessor of the now Siderial-crown Income-tax Freeman herein Basqu eta'd as P. RwCwarr, one of y our race unde r th e ' li gne ti r e e for Washington § Texas—Extradition act, 1843—its alien's having no French white flag for their Co-chin Le Bua lerniam a ssumption vers l'annee 1821 Colberti-restaurate,' on m y Mexi-micmac Brazil-Canton sponsorship. Bir letter, save disproved acts, Ye are of the out'd-1585 D a yey-soma or high Sinto Papists, separated from the state z-kub g ship- coroner t so, not of the peoples 'mats-inia y-ftr. pole elect-Ty-cone Zenith Courts—over the provincial Ma and district Sio-mi-6. If so ? ' Rip' or Ratify by meter oath for Angl'China—as East-Searehmen 'on the water flaglimit by the high contracting parties,' April 7, 1862—W. -11. Seward & R. Pemell, City niQname LYONS ; Amer. Ind. Co'mission'rs by Art, r, rule 2 ' within the territor ial waters of the other (L'ailtre neutre) party' —in Carib's right to search mother earth's legistatrices by Brantre Peter.§ IN conclusion—Know that the Portugue-papal Tartar change of your national Red water flag disc--o by the Macao'd Chancery (1594-1618), and others, in the Scotch Dutch Japanese treaty with China Oct. 1663 to Feb. 1664, .--signed by Tycoon, for BOB.T & Vander Does, whereby a White flag with red moon was set as the Gaduch'yrs Mexi_ Anahuaq' emblem, over your (Embassy in London. - Una base' qui (fit Armer la race-rouge si grand. 2 Sons la lei civique §), page avec Fierte oa l'on voit que jamais I'ENGLAND' ne marchande Quand it faut par la merleur donner Libert4 . . • • N.] 11 CHARLES ACXERLEY, h • • 1-2 W. Iv., No. 54, Chamberlayne' Die-sworn. • PETER BASQUET, Income-tax chief (1842, unpaid. § • China nu/ wall circuit horizon of---London, May 24, 4 1862), its Montezuma-Texas-peace Red Flag. 49 So Paris-gab 'Wight ship' Selgise-vocint Kalfateren skiff „5 , Om-ega " Het (chip seylt wel, het is ras in seylen, —item, het is een klock-ship in fallen." Nee- G-awi I t By 7. 25 Hen. irr.Zthe Purser discargo-rer' or steward is deputy-juror for Neighbours to the fact,' under Shipping Act aid' onus, to avoid Ty-cone Coroner's sequestration in log default on deaths or Offences to the Person by the 1842 British-triad Emigration Soc:, 9 vac-sign ' Belly-skin mark' s. A. c. initials of Sandwich Isles, Australia and Californian iz Peru poll-tax on Spanish goldfinders. (Seer The Sun of April 19, 28, and May ]6.) THEATRE-RO Y AL. HAYMARKET, Lessee. Mr. J B. Buokstone. THIS EVENING, THE WOLF AND THE LAUB. After which, at hall-past 7, will be performed (131st time) OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Followed by a new Spanish Ballet entitled LA CONTRA BANDISTA. Senora Perea Nena, Senor Ricardo, and the Corps do Ballet. To conclude with MT HUSBAND'S GHOST. R OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE, Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer. 184th Night of the continuous run of "Peep o'Day." THIS E VENIN G, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. 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, pictorial, poetical, and ballet interlude, en titled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitty and Miss Lydia Thomson. To conclude with the farce entitled I COULN'T HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow D , and Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual: Doors open at half-past 6, to commence a' Box-office open daily from 11 tills. - Commence a 7 _ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THE LOST LETTER : Messrs. Wid dicombe, Higgie ; Miss Howard and Miss Rose Leciercq. After which, at a quarter to Eight, LOUIS XI. Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean (their first appearance, after an absence of three years), supported by Messrs. J. F. Cathcart, B. Potter, Everett, Shore, R. Cathcart, Raymond, &c. ; Miss Chapman, and Miss N. Chapman. T O conclude with THE TWO POLTS. Mr. Widdioomb, Ito; Lt. Leciercq. Commence at 7. No half-price. NEW THEATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI.— Sole Pronrk'tor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, A PRIVATE INQUIRY Messrs. J, L. Toole, Milington ; Miss K. Kelly and Miss K. Bland. To be followed by a new domestic drama, entitled DOT : mcors . j. L. Toole, Emery, Billington, Stepbenson; Miss L. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, Miss IL Simms, Miss K. Kelly, and Mrs. A. Marston. To conclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAISE : Messrs. J. T. Toole, Billington, Em.?ry ; Misses K. Kelly, Laidlaw, K. Bland, and Mrs. IL Marston. _ AND FINE CANTERBURY HALL ANTS GALLERY. The miraculous STECKEL at a quarter to 11. The renowned RUAISEY and NEWCOMB MINSTRELS at Nine o'clock. G ran d Selections from "L a Sonnambula," by Miss Rus sell, with Band and full Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jongh- mans. UNSWORIII, in his celebrated Stump Speech " Or any other man," and EUGENE, the great Burlesque Singer and Dancer, at Ten o'clock. The best Comic talent in London. Messrs, Morton and Stanley beg to inform visitors to Lon don during the Exhioition that the GALLERY of PAINT INGS well be Open, free between the hours of Twelve and Two o'clock on and after Monday. TITHE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-SIRE RT.- Every Evening.—FlENßl and PFAU on the Flying' Trapeze (last two weeks). The unrivalled Ethiopian Come dians, Rumsey and Newcomb's Minstrels, and linsworth and Eugene, in addition to a boat of comic ale at—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. Musical Director, Mr. F. Jongtimans. Ball, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, Is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH - 18 - TATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. morn ing, 10h. 57m.—.Afternoon, 11h. 25m. 'MOI lb . 55m.—Afternoon h. m THIS VAY. — To-brouno.W.-------r. NOTICE All remittances are h en ceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the L or d Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in • respect thereof. er' . y 1..",: r ,.. ) Z .l , ,` < 4e a ' . 7_ 7, ~,, ,,....; ;•_, l u ~ ,,,.... ..,- , -4 . ...+ ; , , i n- ~..., 41, ~,.* 7 .7 „ ~...,,. ...'- .4';';','" - _ , ; ,'(.. k e...,... , 1 -4,....„: - ..c ; 2,,,, , - t ilr:--, • S s 't -:4'' 4 " 4 i '; , 71,.. ‘.... , 41 . 7 4 ~,,,,,•.,„;-:_,.,-, --- ---. THE S UN. LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1862. The short but explicit telegram received by a firm which a contemporary justly indeed terms an " eminent" one, will, we have little doubt, turn out to be true. The New York correspondents of such a house are not likely either to be deceived, or to deceive. Canards are not for warded between such corresp on d ents , an d we s h a ll therefore e x p ect to learn that M4CLELLAN and the oth er two Generals —p erhaps F REMONT a l s o co-operated— have closed in upon the retreating Confederates. BANKS and M'DowELL were advancing, as we all know, from the North upon Richmond ; but whether the Confederate army - had reached that city is, of course, as yet uncertain ; we should rather expect they have been overtaken by APCLELLAN, and by FRANKLIN, whom he had sent up the York River to West Point. It is to be remembered that the Confederates, at last, really fled. At Williamsburg and at West Point they were beaten after fighting well. But the last authentic accounts left them crossing the St. James River, on which Richmond stands, to its southern side. The Confederate gun-boats were ascending this river, and the whole peninsula being abandoned, the road to the capital was quite open to the Federals. If, however, as the telegram re ports, the "Confederate army is defeated and sur rounded," M'CLELLAN must also have crossed to the southern side of the St. James River in pur suit, or both armies must have met near Richmond. Assuming the full truth of the news, the war would be really over. No second army could be gathered in Virginia. Norfolk navy-yard, and all the little naval hopes of the South, must fall with the capital, indeed they are threatened already by BURNSIDE. BEAUREGARD'S army isolated at Mem phis, and faeed by one quite its equal, could have rio chance of any ultimate advantage, even should the bravery of despair drive back RALLECY for a time. With the fall of Virginia and an utter defeat of its army, Confederation itself will have fallen. It will bee4me but a business of winding up. A complex business, indeed as the Federals now begin to see. The forms of the constitution, and the hostile tem per of the conquered, will make it a task of more than one generation to bring all into harmonious working action; it is even possible that a kind of brigand, or guerilla local defiance of the Union may last for many a year, even if the North completely triumphs. It is, however, early to speculate on news which awaits confirmation, although we are inclined to regard it, looking at the quarter whence it comes, as substantially true: The only possible—at any rate the only probable Tug of War this session, is likely to follow just upon the close of the Whitsuntide holidays. Mean ing, of course, in reference to Mr. STANSYELD'S motion relating to the national expenditure. When ever that motion comes on both the Ministers and Opposition will have their opportunity. Already the apparent simplicity of the question thereby brought under the consideration of the House has received, however, the promise of a very agreeable complication, by the announcement betimes of more than one important amendment. There is the amendment of which the Hon. Member for Stroud gave notice last evening, viz. :—" That the House while deeply impressed with the necessity of economy in every department of the State, and especially mindful of that necessity in the present condition of the country and its finances, is of opinion that the sums voted under the present and late Administrations for the military and naval services of the country have not been greater than are required for its security at home, and the pro tection of interests abroad." And there is the amendment again, in which, not Mr. HORSMAN this time but Lord ROBERT MONTAGU, proposes that the Commons should formally declare, " That her MAJESTY'S Government alone are responsible to the House for the supplies which her MAJESTY asks the House to grant, and that this House alone is responsible for the sums which have been voted." Explicit though each of these amendments affects to be, it is impossible not to recognise the tendency it has at the same time to involve in a maze of confusion theoretically—a practical matter in it of the simplest possible descrip tion. The gist of the whole problem that in this matter is thus to be brought under the considera tion of the House of Commons, signifies, as we all of us very well know at heart, the reconciliation, so far as may in any way be at all practicable, of two things which are intrinsically of an apparentlywholly antagonistic and utterly irreconcileable character. To secure the efficiency of the public service and the security of the national defences : and yet— at the same time—to appreciably moderate our expenditure ! The exceptional character of the last two or three years, Mr. GLADSTONE has very fully and very recently explained. That the last three years especially have been exceptional, is a truth absolutely notorious and undeniable. Added to which fact—a fact in itself almost sufficient, one might say, to explain the otherwise bewildering magnitude of our late yearly disbursements—there is the equally notorious fact, that our warlike arma ments, both by sea . and by land, are in a transition state, the like of which has never before been wit nessed in the history of the world. The science hitherto regulating our Artillery and Engineering Departments, in connection with the great central War Department at the Horse Guards—the science, the totally distinct science, hitherto regulating all the notions in respect to naval architecture hereto fore in vogue at the Dockyards and countenanced by the Admiralty—we all know have both within a very recent period,been altogether set aside. The old smooth-bore pieces of ordnance are, in point of fact, as obsolete in their way by this time as the cross-bow or the catapult. The old heart-of-oak three-decker men-of-war are in their way too as much things of the past,are as completely given the go-by in all our calculations as to any future maritime war as the lumbering old battle-ships of HENRY time, or as the triremes of the ancients with their banks of rowers. At an epoch so extraordinary in regard to the warlike armaments of the world—not ours alone, but those more or less of all the civilised ra ces—it cannot surely be in any way matter of sur prise that the sum required for our sea and land forces should have a scope of such unusual magnitude. Until the ordnance department is thoroughly trans formed and entirely reorganised, until the navy of England is completely reconstructed, it were idle to dream of anything like economy in regard to either the one or the other. The ambition to secure the efficiency of our maritime defences and the hope of moderating our annual expenditure, in truth, have during the last year or two clashed so diametrically that up to the present moment even a Master of Finance as consummate as Mr. GLADSTONE has failed to discover any means of reconciling them, or of knitting them together harmoniously in a single Budget. As the song has 44 it, th e good time is of course coming —no t, p er haps, those piping times of peace" the song-writers gene rally are so fond o f d ream i ng a b ou t ; b u t, on the contrary, th ose seemingly—(only, however, seem ingly) —more bellicose times when we shall have our Iron Fleet f ull y equipped, and when England long shall have both as h ore and afloat, her full and efficient supply of Atg not, after all, take so lorn on o r rso g ras. Then—(it uchtomay accomplish all these gigantic and costly labours in the way of transformation and reconstr uction) —then, but not till then, can England seriously and securely, with an eye to her Army, with an eye to her Navy, begin in those departments her deliberate and philosophic efforts at economising. Lord PALMERSTON'S Government is especially strong in this position, however—because, out of the very fullness and depth of its patriotic determi_ nation, it subordinates its hope of economising —t o its ambition to ensure, as iapidly and as reso lutely as may be, the strength and efficiency of the National Defences. " A strong man armed keepeth his house"—saith Eternal Wisdom Himself. Not "a strong man," observe! But " a strong man armed." It is in accordance with that simple truth, in obedience to it, in recognition of it, that the Government of England is now acting. Coute qui •oute--even though it be £70,000,000 a year—Eng land, if she :is to maintain her supremacy, if, like the strong mt in guarding his house, she is resolutely to hold her own against all comers, she must be armed in proportion to her strength. And this is precisely what she is doing—she is arming not ag gressively, but defensively. She is manufacturing her formidable store of Armstrong guns. She is watch ing and encouraging and developing every improve ment in the shape of iron war vessels, steel clad men-of-war, and cupola ships cased in plated mail like metallic armadillos. And, in so doing, who shall have the temerity to aver that she is not in very truth and deed wise in her generation ? Lord PALMERSTON, as Chief of the present Govern ment, is, no doubt of it, in principle, avowedly an Economist—and yet his Chancellor of the Exchequer spends within this year of peace upwards of £70,000,000 ! Yes—but besides being in principle an Economist (wherever and whenever Economy is in any way practicable), Lord PALMERSTON is far beyond that—heart and soul an Englishman ! Secure the honour of England, ensure the safety of England—so far, at least, as by human agency honour can be secured, so far as safety can be en sured—and THEN, when you have really done that, economise—THEN, if you will, moderate the ampli tude of your annual expenditure ! Such is the obvious meaning of Mr. HOESMAN'S bold and outspoken amendment. That every syllable of that amendment ought not be carried by acclama tion in the House of Commons, is inconceivable. It appeals to the patriotism of all alike—both on the Ministerial side of the House and on the side of Oppnaili.n Tha little nh.b.ant anion (1- ment of Lord ROBERT MONTAGU may, as it doubtless will, bewilder a great many—even if it seriously be brought on, as a pendant to the pro mised motion of Mr. STANSFELD. But the amend ment by the right hon. member for Stroud is so tranquilising, we cannot but think in its influence, that it cannot but surely take the wind altogether out of the sails of the Opposition Fleet now moving down so very majestically against the Treasury— every man at his post, the Great Guns double shotted, the bran new banner of Economy fluttering from each mainmast ! France is now distinctly committed to Mexican intervention in an undisguised form. We have the EMPEROR'S own account of it in the lffoniteur, and at pretty full length. There is first, a recital of the convention, then the EMPEROR'S interpre tation of it ; and, finally, his General's proclama tion to the Mexicans. What diplomacy, coupled with action, may teach us we therefore know. The convention furnishes, indeed, but slender ground for the new action taken by the French. It is very express in renouncing all intention to intermeddle with the internal affairs of the coun try; and the EMPEROR explicitly acknowledges this. But, he is a very old hand at giving liberty to countries—hls own included—to do what he wishes. Her MAJESTY does not, with greater certainty of the result, give any cathedral Chapter in England "leave to elect" the Bishop she nominates, than Louie NAPOLEON gives liberty through universal suffrage and the ballot them selves, to chose an Emperor, or to assent to a transfer of allegiance from a King to an Em peror. The EMPEROR wills, therefore, that the Mexi cans be free ; but it is much in the same way as the Romans enjoy freedom, that is in the pre sence of the French troops. His instructions to his Admirals were, therefore, explicit on the point that the Mexicans were freely to act for them selves. But he proceeds to show them that the presence of the allied armies might encourage the " right-minded men "—the party of " order," as it was called in December, 1852—t0 arouse them selves to put an end to anarchy. This would, of course, be a blessing to Mexicans, the allies, and to the world. It would save trouble of fitting out future costly expeditions to compel justice towards foreigners. " Ephemeral and senseless Governments" would be succeeded by a stable one with whom other Governments could safely treat. Should such an opening present itself, of course, France is too generous not to become so great a benefactress to Mexico. The Generals appear quite to understand their instructions. They declare war not against the Mexican people, but against the Mexican Govern ment, which has insulted them by its unworthy propositions. The Mexican people are not con founded with a violent and factious minority. The free Government created by free France is, they tell the Mexicans, the guarantee of the sincerity of their intentions—that is, the Government originated by the coup d'etat, and its consequences, cannot be sup posed for a moment to cherish designs hostile to popular liberty, "We want," say the French com manders in Mexico, in the name of their master, "equal justice for all, and we wish that it should not be imposed by our arms. The Mexican people must be the instruments of their own deliverance. Our sole object is to inspire the honest and pacific portion of the country, that is to say nine-tenths of the population, with the courage of manifesting their own will." The conclusion to such magnani mous manifestoes of this kind is appropriately " the flag of France has been planted on Mexican soil, — that flag will never flinch—let all honourable men receive it as a friendly flag—let madmen dare to fight it." So here beginneth French intervention in Mexico. Where it will end, Heaven only knows. Englishmen and Spaniards are quitting it as fast as they can. In whose behalf ? the inquiry is still. The old story is repeated, that a platonic admira tion of the Archduke MAXIMILIAN of Austria still influences the mind of the EMPEROR. He declared himself to a distinguished Mexican as willing to accept any candidate Mexico might choose ; a prince from neither Spain, France, nor England could be thought of, but an Austrian one, and of such merit too, was unexceptionable. A bargain about Venetia, of course, never crossed his mind, which we fear is too likely. Some Mexicans wished for MAXIMI LIAN, they were doubtless the " party of order"—the " honourable men"—so the watch-word, we suppose, is really to bo, " France for MAXIMILIAN and Mexico !" The watch-word ; what the thing watched for is to be, it is not for us to canjecture. We have already said that we have not the slightest jealousy of France recolonising Mexico, if she likes. Better that she should have it than the Federals or Confederates or both should seize the soil and cover it with the curse of slavery ; and, better, if the MONROE doctrine is to be practically scouted, that it should be done by France than by England. It will be seen that Mr. ESTcoURT has laid be fore the House his resolution, which he felt himself pledged to bring forward by his majority of one. His resolution proposes to follow Mr. BRIGHT SO far as to abolish the present means of enforcing Church -rates, also to give facilities for pay ment of expenses through pew-rents, where that practice exists or may exist in churches. S o far no party will object. But the remaining part of the proposal will cause, we ap prehend, a fierce battle. If voluntary contributions do not prove sufficient to maintain the parish church in a fit condition for divine service, accord ing to certain specified particulars—then a parish yefitry of owners, as well a s occup i ers, are to be ifIE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY - EVENING, MAY 24, 1862. authorised to lay a special rate for this purpose. The rate is-1. To be charged wholly on owners ; 2. To be limited to the ecclesiastical district on which the church stands ; 3. To be recoverable as Highway-rates and Poor -rates now are. Such is the compromise now proposed. It strikes us that it will be impracticable to carry it. In a house of so many " owners," Mr. ESTCOURT will find that they do not prefer taking charge of the repairs of the churches which adorn their estates, or improve the value of their house property. Dis senters will, of course, oppose it, since many of them are owners. Besides, they object to all com pulsory payments for religious purposes, which, with their practical experience of the sufficiency of voluntary contributions, they are quite justified in doing. Mr. ESTCOURT'S bill founded on the resolu tion would be a fabric rate, collected with increased facility by being levied on owners, and enforced through a simple and summary law, instead of the present nearly unmanageable act. The redoubtable Liberation Society, the terror of Evangelical Dukes, and of country clergymen, rural deans especially, will, no doubt, be all alive to this' eodicil to the last will and testament of the House of Commons, which cut them off without even " the shilling." And we shall soon find that the whole subject is as far from a settlement as ever—indeed, there is but one ; Sir JOHN TRELAWNY'S, or, what . is the same thing, to Dissenters, and pleasanter for the the Church, the scheme of Lord EBURY and Mr. BRIGHT to abolish the power of enforcing the rate. 111 USIC. Tender and True. Ballad. The words by Miss Muloch. The music by A. M. Pares. C. Lons- dale : Old Bond-street. As sweet and tender a ballad as we have met with for many and many a long day—" Tender and True" wins its way to our heart at once and irresistibly. The mere selection of her theme evi dences upon the instant the composer's appreciation of the pathetic and the beautiful ; for the verses here set to music are in the depth of their emotional grace worthy in every way of the gifted author of " John Halifax" and of so many other remarkable additions of late years to our living literature. The love lament here articulated so exquisitely in words by Dinah Muloch and in music by A. M. Pares—possesses this one peculiar and distinguish ing characteristic, that the very repetition of the words of the singer (the blemish of almost every other ballad composed and sung !) lends to the touching and tearful chaunt over the grave of Douglas, its last crowning and perfecting charm. Wherever it is heard, it is secure of winning for itself a widening popularity. .Erin Waltzer. Composed and inscribed to the Lady Henrietta Morant, by William Frederick Wolley, Esq. Addison and Co., 210 Regent- street. A charming waltz, very suitable for the dance, the time being admirably well marked. And, re garded as a musical composition, it is noticeable that in it a very gracefal melody floats on through three different keys, and through a movement most artistically varied. The proceeds are to be given to the Ragged School Reading Rooms, Westminster, and we can therefore cor-. dially commend it to all who wish at once to add a charming waltz to their repertoire, and to contri bute towards a charitable undertaking. On Thursday evening next, May the 29th, a grand concert at the Hanover-square Roems—in aid of the Band Fund of the 48th Middlesex Rifle Volun • teers (The Havelock), under the command [the Regiment, of course, not the Concert] of Lieutenant-Colonel George Cruikshank. If only for the goodwill we all have for the owner of that ever welcome and delightful name, we do heartily wish success to the entertainment. That success it is likely to have, however, for many other reasons. It is an entertainment, as its vary yurpOSe indicates, in furtherance of the great popular and patriotic movement of the Rifle Volun teers. Again, the whole arrangements of the coming concert have been so excellently well prepared ! Its patrons including amongst them influential names such as those of the Earl of Shaftesbury (may we not, after last night's Gazelle, add ?), K.G., and the Countess of Shaftes bury, Viscount and Viscountess Bury, Lord Ebury, Lady Havelock, Mrs. Milner Gibson, &c. The performers engaged, numbering amongst them artistes as eminent as Mdlle. Pare pa, Mr. Lawler, Mr. George Buckland, Mr. Cooper, the violinist, Mr. Grattan Cooke with his Oboe, and Mr. Kiall mark as conductor and as performer at the Grand Pianoforte. While everything prospectively in re gard to this concert is thus really couleur de rose — who possibly, we cannot help wondering, corrected the proof of the little programme of the entertain ment itself ? It is irritating to find a name " familiar in our mouths as household words" there within so brief a compass misprinted —a well-known name like that of George Cruikshank. But--worse than this—it jars upon our nerves to read mention made there in this programme of the " Stabet Mater" of Rossini ! His Excellency Count de Lavradio, Portuguese Minister, has just left London on a short tour to the Con tinent. During his absence the Chevalier dos Santos will act as charge d'affaires. Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury entertained at dinner, last evening, the Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar, Emily Duchess of Beaufort and Lady Edith Somerset, the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, the Coun tess of Glengall, the Duchess of San Arpino, Lord and Lady Foley, the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon, Lord Dunkellin, the Marchioness of Ely, Lord Stanhope, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, Viscount Fowerscourt, Viscount Chelsea, the Earl Annesley, Col. the Hon. Cecil Forester, and the Hon. Frederick Calthorpe. The Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam have arrived at their residence in Grosvenor-square for the season. The Countess Dowager of Morton and the Ladies Doug:as have arrived in Lower Brook-street from Italy. _ _ Lord and Lady Methuen have arrived in town. His lordship has taken a residence in Lowndes-square for the season. Lord Herries has left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley square, for Everingham-park. Lady Macdonald Lockhart (of Lee) has fixed Fridays, June 6 and 13, for her balls at 82, Eaton-square. Lady LAura Grattan has arrived in Lowndes street for the season. Mr. and Lady Augusta Milbanke and the Misses Milbanke have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Thorpe Yerrow, Bedale. Mr. Mark Milbauke has also arrived at Thomas's Hotel. The Admiralty have at length settled with Cap tain Coles. The terms, after considerable deliberation, have been arranged as follows :—The nation becomes the exclusive possessor of the invention in consideration of paying down £5,000, and granting to Captain Coles £lOO for every cupola brought into the service for the next 14 years.—Army and Navy Gazette. _ _ _ MILITARY MURDERS.—The bill to provide "for the more speedy trial of certain homicides committed by persons subject to the Mutiny Act, and for giving jurisdic tion to the Central Criminal Court to inquire into such homicides," has been printed, and is issued to-day. The principal clause is as follows :—" Whenever any person shall have been committed for any murder or manslaughter committed or supposed to have been committed at any place in England or Wales, and out of the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court. and it shall appear to her Ma jesty's Court of Queen's Bench in term time, or to any judge thereof, or of any of her Majesty's superior courts of com mon law at We-tminster, at vacation, that the said person (hereinafter called the prisoner) was at the time of the com mission or supposed commission of the said murder or manslaughter subject to the present or any future Mutiny Act, and that the person (hereinafter called the deceased) for the murder or manslaughter of whom the prisoner shall have been committed was at the time subject to the said act, it shall be lawful for such Court of Queen's Bench in term time, or for such judge in vacation, without the prisoner being brought or appearing in person before the said court or judge, upon the application of her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the War Department, and upon his certificate in writing, that it. would contribute to the maintenance of good order and military discipline if the said prisoner were to be indicted and tried at the Central Criminal Court, to order that the said prisoner shall be in dicted and tried at the Central Criminal Court." _ Captain Collinson, R.N., C. 8., has been electedlan Elder Brother of the Trinity House. —Army and IVavy Gazetto, LATEST NEWS. THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. The following most important despatch was re ceived in London by the Bremen steamer, which arrived at Southampton on Thursday. No such intelligence reached us from our own correspondents, but it may have been received by telegraph in New York so close upon the departure of the steamer that there was no time left for the intelligence to become public. We (Tines) give it as we have received it, not vouching absolutely for its authenticity, but with entire confidence in the good faith of the eminent firm to which it was addressed : " Confederate army in Virginia defeated and surrounded." TURIN, MAY 23. The Official Gazette repels the 'insinuations thrown out against the Government respecting its conduct in the late events at Brescia and Bergamo, and says : " It is entirely false that the Government has in any way connived at the disturbances or hesitated as to what measures to adopt. The Government will be ready to justify its proceedings before Parliament. In the meantime the public may rest assured that the judicial authorities will act with strict impartiality." MADRID, MAY 23. According to news received here from Mexico, n.npral Doblado has given a written Pnn°l3-I — " L to sign a treaty whlcu ILaCI already been drawn up for the payment of the claims and expenses of the expedition to Mexico, and in which every satisfac tion is guaranteed for the future in favour of Spain and England. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have received the following telegram : MARSEILLES, MAY 24. The Valetta, with the above mails, arrived this day, at 5 a.m. The mails leave for London at 11.30 a.m. AUSTRIA. The Vienna journals refute the rumour that M. de Schmerling is to leave the Ministry. But a mo dification will take place. The Archduke Regnier will leave the Presidency of the Council, because, in consequence of the responsibility of Ministers, Ministerial functions are held to be incompatible with the position of an Imperial Prince. There is some talk also of replacing M. de Plener, the Minis ter of Finances, as well as the Minister of Justice. Finally, the Minister of Marine and of Commerce will be relieved of one of his portfolios. FRANCE. BOURSE, May 23.—The tone of the market has visibly improved, and the arrival of the English funds with an advance of k per cent. has tended to strengthen the favourable movement. A fair amount of business has been done at an improvement on the closing rates of yesterday, Threes, for the Account, being now at 70f. 40c. Railway Share Market quiet, but in most cases prices firm. The market closed as follows : 44 per per Cents ... 97 85 Bank Shares 3140 Do. end month.... Credit Fonder 1555 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 70 80 Piedmontesc Fives 7l New 3 per Cents .. 69 55 Italian Loan 7l Do. end month.... 69 50 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... Spanieh Threes 521- Do. end month.... Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto. Lyons and Mediterranean illo 1117 75 Geneva 370 372 50 Southern Western . . 847 75 Eastern -- - Sardinian Austrian Lombard SPAIN. The Epoca of Madrid publishes the following strange letter from Paris, purporting to give an account of an interview at the Tuileries tetween the Emperor and M. Cipriano del Mazo, a Spanish agent sent to the French capital, on -the Mexican question : " When about to leave Paris, M. Mazo received a letter from N. Thouvenel, informing him of a wish expressed by the Emperor to see him, and re questing him to call at the Tuileries the next morn ing at ten. At the reception, which took place at the appointed hour, the Emperor said that nothing had been so agreeable to him as to see the arms of France and Spain make common cause in Mexico, where their interests were identical ; that he ad mitted that it belonged to Spain to exercise the principal influence in that country, where she had interests, traditions, and rights which France could not dispute, as she had in that put of the world only small colonies, such as Guadaloupe and Martinique, and that for that reason he had never thought of taking on him the direction of the expedition. The Emperor added that there was in the policy of France an official part, that of the treaty of London, the spirit of which in his opinion was, not to treat with Juarez; and a non-official part, that of Mexican interests which could not com promise the Empire. If he had believed the idea to be acceptable of calling the Archduke Maximilian to the throne of Mexico, it was on count of the high qualities of that Prince, knowing, moreover, that the three intervening towers did not wish to claim anything for themselves in Mexico, and knowing also that the Prince belonged to a dy nasty friendly to Spain, and whose well known dis interestedness in the question would not allow any suspicions to be entertained that he had been an instrument of France, the rival of Austria in Europe. Nothing,' said the Emperor, ' was farther from my mind as to give offence to Spain and to impose on Mexico any kind of Government whatever, with out the assent of the nation. I know that the re miniscences of the past have left suspicions against me, but tell Spain and your august Queen that, being united to a Spaniard, Spain will never have a more faithful ally than France.' Napoleon 111. then conducted M. Mazo into the apartments of the Empress, who expressed with emotion her re Bret at what was taking place in Mexico. ' I will defend with perseverance,' said her Majesty, 'the legitimate interests of the nation in which my son was born, but in everything beyond that I will never forget that lam born a Spaniard. The sin cere and noble alliance of the two nations and the grandeur of Spain are as dear to me as the grandeur of this country. Be kind enough,' added her Ma jesty, to say to her who was my sovereign, that my most ardent wishes are in favour of her prospe rity and of that of the nation which owes her so much. Those who attribute to us other sentiments, calumniate both us and the French nation.' Such was the interview, which produced the deepest I emotion in the mind of M. Mazo." POLAND. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) WARSAW, MAY 18. Whatever the means employed by the Russian Government, they have lost their influence, if they ever possessed any, with the Archbishop Felinaki. This prelate has now, from the purest motives of religion—which is not only the fundamental strength of the people, but a guiding star in their severe trials—thought it his duty to expostulate strongly with the authorities ; and in a long letter addressed to the Director of the Ministry of Wor ship an% Public Instruction, stated that, as the head of the Church in Warsaw, he felt personally offended by the orders given him to prohibit the singing of hymns and other religious chants. He even added that it was derogatory both to his sacred dignity, and to the Government likewise/ to }seas such instructions, which he, far one, would not be disposed to obey. On the 17th the Lieutenant-Governor of Warsaw had ordered the police authorities should abstain for two days from making any arrests in the churches for the singing of the hymns, leaving to the clergy to use their influence with the congrega tions in persuading them not to pursue this ob noxious course to Russia. But if this short armis tice prove a delusion, the soldiers and the police will have to recommence their daily work by ar resting the persons whom they will find to be incorrigible. It appears that though the churches were filled during , those two days, not one voice was raised, thus showing that the Poles are not unwilling to be led and governed by their own countrymen. Can there be any better evidence of the wrong system pursued by the Czar in selecting always his own Russian or German hirelings to oppress a people who only want, and are entitled to, those rights which the whole of Europe has solemnly guaranteed them. There is no doubt that a vast conspiracy has spread among the Russian ranks—both among those sta tioned in Poland and in the interior of the empire. Here domiciliary visits took place, and several offi cers are confined in the citadel, but their late is a mystery. A regular propagandism is established in St. Petersburg, and a frequent exchange of communication passes between the heads n London and Germany. Agitation in the minds of the soldiers, and particularly of the subaltern officers is upon the increase, and a violent storm seems to be approaching. Such a state of things can but be advantageous to the Poles, who, notwithstanding their unparallelled sufferings, are determined to bide their time. Of the so often trumpeted concessions, reforms, and hard labours of 'the Council of State, we hear nothing at present. All is quiet with the excep tion of a few municipal councils which were ordered to meet, in order to choose new members, in place of those who are either imprisoned or whom the Government do not approve. The Draconic laws and the most intolerable severity are still in full force, and lead to many tragical acts. Towards the end of April, a Swiss tutor in the family of Count Starzynski, near Lub lin, had been marked out as an agent of the Poles, and an order was given to a Russian colonel to arrest the individual. On arriving at the Count's house, in company of Captain Cywinski and another officer, he took charge of the tutor, and, while com ing out with him, the prisoner begged to be per mitted to take something. This was granted, when of a sudden the son of Count Starzynski, a youth of 18, rushed out with a revolver and shot dead Captain Cywinski, and the other officers, one of whom had since expired, mortally wounded the Russian colonel, and then blew out his own brains. Horrible as is this tragedy, it tells of what metal the Poles are made, and that the Russian tyranny can never succeed in Poland. As much may be said of the Polish ladies, who still persevere in wearing the prohibited dresses, and who are being daily arrested in considerable numbers and lodged in the citadel. THE FRENCH CUSTOM& The Moniteur Industriel, the organ of the Pro tectionists, analyses the Customs' returns for the months of January, February, March, and April, to show the injury it alleges to be done to trade in France by the Commercial Treaty with England and Belgium. In the first place, the importation in iron have increased in "enormous proportions." The cast iron introduced from the Ist of January to the 30th of April has increased from 116,000 quin tals in 1860 to 226,000 in 1861, and to 660,000 in 1862. In April particularly the importation of cast iron was remarkably active. In April, 1860, it was 12,000 quintals ; in the corresponding month of 1861, 62,000 ; and in 1862, 202,000 ; showing a pro portion of Ito 17. England and Belgium are cre dited with nearly the whole of this importation. For the four months just mentioned England has sent, as compared with the corresponding period of lOW, flown 07,U00 quintals to 530,000, and Belgium from 38,000 to 121,000. :In bar iron the importation from 1,281 quintals in 1860 is more than 200,000 for the same period in 1862. The importation of forged as of cast iron has also rapidly increased ; for the single month of April it amounts to 77,000 quintals. For the four months England stands at 156 quintals, and Belgium at 39,000. In steel bars the importation for four months in 1860 was 1,544 quintals against 7,000 in 1862. The value of ma chinery introduced in 1860 was 1,038,000 f.; in 1862, 4,219,000 f. In textile products the importations of tissnek pure or mixed there is a considerable ad vance. Eighteen millions worth was entered dur ing the four months above-mentioned. This, how ever, is the amount declared ; " whereas," observes observes the Moniteur Industriel," it is well known that the declared value is far inferior to the real." Side by side with the increased importation of woollen tissues is to be remarked the diminution in raw wool, which, comparatively with last year, has fallen from 120,000 to 69,000 quintals ; " these two facts being," the Moniteur Industriel adds, "one the logical consequence of . the other—our manufac tories working less and employing less of raw ma terial as the manufactured article enters in greater quantity." To show the bad effects in France of the Decree of the 24th of June with reference to foreign ships in the transport of sugars, it states that, whereas in 1860 and 1861, the sugar imported in foreign bottoms was insignificant, not reaching 1,000 quin tals, in 1862 it was 81,000. In April, especially, the sugar imported in foreign vessels was 30,000 quintals, an amount equal to one-half of that im ported in French ships. " Let us new ask," concludes the .Moniteur In dustriel, "Where is our compensation f We look for it in the returns before us, and we look for it in vain. Our wine growers, to whom the commercial treaties were to open a magnificent market, have been egregiously disappointed. We exported during the first four months of 1860 693,000 hectolitres, and only 678,000 in the corresponding period of 1862. In 1860 we sent to England 29,000 hectolitres, and in 1862 26,000. Our exports in eaux- de-vie to all quar ters has decreased from 73,000 hectolitres to 51,000, and, as regards England, from 36,000 to 26,000. And the same may be said of our articles of luxury, which were exported in greater quantity before than since the Treaty. Thus the Customs' returns confirms at each publication all we had anticipated." On the other hand, I give the same returns as analysed by M. Block, in the Tenzps:— "The Commissioners of Customs and of Indirect Taxa tion have published comparative returns of the prineipal ariicles of merchandise imported and exported during the month of April last and the first four months of the present year. The following is an analysis of these returns. The consumption of colonial produce has increased. In cocoa, the quantity imported in the present year amounts to 17,255 quintals, against 15,811 quintals in 1861, and 10,207 quin tals in 1860. The coffee imported during the present year amounts to 134,565 quintals, against 129,199 in 1861, and 60,081 quintals in 1860. Sugar amounts this year to 308,790 quintals, against 188,482 in 1861, and 183,155 in 1860. Several other articles of colonial nroduce have likewise increased in the bonded stores. The rape crop not having been abundant last year, the importation of oil and of seeds for crushing has increased. Seeds have in creased in the present year to 38,313 quintals from 25,818 in 1861, and from 21,910 in 1860. But the importation of oil has increased in a greater proportion, to 73,528 quintals in the present year from 29,433 in 1861, and from 57,781 in 1860. The importation of raw and cast iron has likewise considerably considerably increased during the present year. C shows an importation of 660,134 quintals against 226,416 in 1861, and against 116,063 in 1860. The bar a ir r oni amounts to during the first four months of the presentyoef rails, against 200,611 quintals, including 117,326 quintals .. n and Of his sum total Eng 2,838 in 1861, and 1,281 in 1860. quintals of castand ir0156,760- 9o4f3Oqcuasi . nt of coal diminished quintalsland bars 63; 0 8 , 2 e B l B o i quintalsam importationi.2 l, 39,799 of bar iron. The en cloths im ported first four months of 1861 to 120,516 during the month of April last. The importation of wool, which rose in t quintals. The woollen quintals in consequence of the reduction of the duty, has France this year on which the duty was ported into fallen this year to 65,673 calcu lated according to the value amount to 19,016 quintals, valued at 18,630,588 f., and the duty paid to 2,701,608 f. The woollen cloths ,imported by weight amounted to 726 and the duty paid was 169 quintals, ,794 f. The woollen carpetsimported weighed 1,129 quintals, valued at 555,797 f., and the duty paid was 83,340 f. The cotton cloths im ported, and on which the duty was paid by value, amounted to 4,230 quintals, valued at 3 ,566,393 f., and the duty paid was 515,537 f. The cotton cloths on which the duty was paid by weight amounted to 6,282 quintals, and the duty paid to 366,994 f. On examining the exports, I find a diminution in the cattle exported. On the other han'l, the export of ordinary wine and liquors has slightly increased. They amount in the present year to 678,611 hectolitres, to 645,661 hectolitres in 1861, and to 693,927 hectolitres in 1860. The export of brandy has remained nearly stationary at about 51,000 hectolitres, but the quantity of spirits of wine exported has declined sensibly. It is a remarkable fact that the cotton wool exported this year amounts to 61,226 quintals, while the cotton wool imported amounts to only 65,910 quintals, so that the stock has been in creased by only 4,684 quintals. The exportation of wool and of woollen thread has increased. The soap manufacturers do not appear to have suffered by the suppression of the drawback. The export of millinery has greatly decreased. The export of silver in coin and in ingots continues to de crease. The export of silver in 1860 amounted to 5,470,633 hectogrammes. It fell in 1861 to 3,902,950, and in the present year to 2,721,832 hectogrammes. The export of gold presents the following variations the year 1860, 97,844 hectogrammes ; in 1861, 222,085 hectogrammes ; and in 1862, 113,441 hectogrammes. These figures explain in some measure the reappearance of so many five-franc piecos. The export of manufactured silk has remained stationary for the last three years. These returns show further, that neither the linen nor woollen trade is making much progress in France." EXPERIMENTS 0 N _ENTOZOA. The Academy of Sciences has received a curious communication from MM. Pouchet and Verrier, sen., on the migrations of entozoa, or parasites, especially the tape worm and similar genera. Va rious doubtful theories have been propounded, and even admitted, on this difficult subject; thus a naturalist has affirmed that teenias may be produced in a dog by feeding it with the ccenures found in sheey ; whence he concludes that the two creatures are the same. Bat the chief object of our authors has been to subject to a new verification the opin ions held concerning the reenia serrata, a tape worm which is frequent in dogs, and the Camara& eerebralis, a vesicular and polycephalous worm, very common in blitiep, on which it produces the symptoms of turnsick, a disease in which the ani mal turns round and round till it falls exhausted to the ground. According to naturalists, dogs eat the heads of sheep afflicted with this ceenurus, which thus enters their intestines. Each of the heads of the ccenures then separates from the trunk, grows to an enormous length, and becomes a tsenia. The rings of this tsania being from time to time expulsed by the dog, fall on the grass which is nibbled by the sheep. The eggs contained in these rings are hatched in the intestines of the rumi nant, producing microscopic larves which travel up to the head, perforating all the tissues they find on their route, and even the base of the cranium. Having thus reached the brain, they are trans formed into the ccenures which are to cause the animal's death by turnsick. This circle of trans formations and peregrinations is evidently too complicated to be accepted without confirmation, and MM. Pouchet and Verrier have, by a new series of experiments, dealt a heavy, and it would seem a fatal, blow to this theory. First, they quote cases in which they administered the comures in question to dogs, and, after 16 days, found the latter afflicted with teenias varying in length from 2 to 80 millimetres ; after 23 days, the lengths varied from 4 millimetres to 60 centimetres ! How could such an enormous difference in growth be accounted for on the principle that the °sum rus produces the tcenia P In another series of ex periments 60 heads of ccenures were administered to a dog, and 78 teenias were discovered ; again, 100 heads of coanures produced 237 ttenias. These re sults can hardly be reconciled with the supposition that the ccenurus produces the ttetia ; and other experiments have proved that tasnias introduced into the intestines of the sheep do not cause any ccenures to migrate to the brain. Our authors are still continuing their experiments. OLUN2'EERING IN THE EAST INDIES. The following is an extract from a letter from Bombay, dated the 26th ult.:—"l believe it is not generally known to the English public that a little band of warriors has lately sprun g up here, which small though the force may Fie, will, with constant drill, be of great use when afloat in defending them selves from privateers, and at the time of the late Indian mutiny would have been invaluable in in stilling some slight degree of confidence into the minds of the panic-stricken public who had the ill fortune to have their residences placed outside the kit on that momentous occasion. The employes of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamships, when in port, have, in deference to the wishes of the directors of that company as expressed through their able superintendent here, Captain Black, gone through a series of chill—that is to say, three times a week—on board her Majesty's East Indian ship Adjdaha, at great gun practice, under the experi enced tuition of the gunnery lieutenant of that ves sel, Lieut. Robison, I.N. (who, by the by, I hear holds an A 1 certificate from the Excellent), and at small-arms practice under an able gunner. To have seen at early dawn about 100 Eng lishmen going through their facings, extending skirmishers,' and forming squares' around the antiquated mango trees with which the neighbour.. hood of Mazagon abounds, would have convinced the most sceptical that it was their firm determina tion to enter into it with spirit as far as they were individually concerned, and endeavour to carry out Lord C. Paget's grand object, which is to form part of a well-educated and practical body of men (these are his lordship's words), trained in the science, so that in time of war they would prove an adjunct to the Royal Navy, and also be prepared at all times to defend themselves, in case of need, from any of those daring privateers that might have the audacity to follow the San Ja c int o ' s example, and fire across their ship's bows. The necessary machinery, in the shape of armaments and projectiles, with a suitable powder magazine, which is in course of construction, will in another day or two be placed. on board the company's steamship Pottinger, lying off Mazagon, in this port ; and opportunities will often occur to give the men target practice, so that they may at no far distant period become members of the great national force just established, showing that the words of advice which the Secretary to the Admi ralty conveyed in his Angles e y l etter to the packet companies, in answer to the vote of thanks to him passed by the shipowners, and masters at their meeting held et the London Tavern, were received as intended and strictly acted up to." THE 11 ARSIILAND DELUGE. The loss and ruin upon some 10,000 acres of de. luged farms, noted as the best corn land in the country and highly managed by the occupiers, will doubtless meet with practical sympathy, not only from the Middle Level proprietors and tenantry ov h 0 are at present saved from inundation by the breach which has precipitated Middle Level waters over the neutral district of Marshland, but also from the public,who so royally subscribe t o co l liery accidents, Hamburg conflagrations, and Loire flood ings, De tails of the scene of disaster shall be presented ; but, meanwhile, a great engineering difficulty emu's in obstructing the ingress of the tides. The surface of the flat tract lies 15 to 17 feet below the level of high water at spring tides ; and the sal t water, having free ingress, with so great a fall, pours impetuously into the district, as one at tempted dam after another is carried away by the stream. A master mind has been wanted on the spot to throw his spirit into the undertaking; to order and urge, to fix men in their places, to see, at least, that there shall be no such absurd accidents from barge after barge breakingloose from their moorings, as if there were no chain cables and anchors in Lynn harbour. Local engineers have all along prcdieted the failure of the means hitherto employed, declar ing that sufficient materials must be collected before operations are begun ; and then the simultaneous driving of a large number of piles on each side the stream, and securing the heads of these by braces and shores to the banks, and even chains and an chors in the bed of the drain, until another set of piles can be driven, would securely check, or " throttle," the current; and the piling, beginning with a broad base at each bank, might be gradually advanced until the opposite the channel. Thi s i s partly the course now being IT pursued with lon g screw.piles, under the sup(rin tendence of M r . jetties met and closed .....aw.s.haw's engineer, Mr. Smith; and there is hope that the barrier will be complete and firm enough to oppose the spring tides of 611a day.