The Sun. — London, England, 1862-06-20 00:00:00

EXPARATION OF ‘corcrit.cn & STATE-MART' EYRE JUSTICE, On W. Ilaclss'at, of Corby-la-time R, N.ampton 1591, gib bee d in Cheapts ide by Q. Bfizajesu 'in carts,- cceli's knpfunday zenith to Al-r s orpy g 2' 30" ideclin. of Pole-fair soteral Lat. its Nr.mconformist Anderson stangrider of 9 June. So 20 yrs e Peter-chained Prometheus' of '42 3"rby Indn , 3ty, as Ar Atichrist by the (Will death-Crt.) law, in God, without rheatricum Ecelesiasticum mime'ry by French-british fi/ibasters, for Mexi-letter-of-marque war-issue. JAPAN'S EMPIRE-Its Nip% Quebec-missio n of Pektn's river '<fork dat-as England's Privy-Council on Carib's (St Tonsi-taanebrog'd to Porto Rico by whiteflag with red ball, as Fore-top' d over by Dutch Co-text-Jesuit order),-Virgin-ile's law, for "sea lands an d salt-shores resumption life-trust" as Afric's BgYPt, 1828, Red sflag white Crescent St., Luci mark-See 7 Imes' of June 11. This 199-yr Te',egraph, for allies' treaty in token of trade' on retrospect 2 9 :34 yr to Earth's meridian long. Act 1841, c 39, by Articles 1,10, under La testa Hollanda&-board for E, Ind. Co's yellow Coppsr-crown revision every 14 yrs, signed 26-Aue;ust, 1858, b Russian Count Ignatief in 1859 , under Pekin!'B Xun-Tien ('sin Treaty-in Al-Corea's Vi and 'Ki demands), obedience to the heaven's Zenith ++ sol ata-meter sphere fate 'Z overhead' -spiral earth-fist. Thus distinct ft 6 the t- planeterry Sun's declination N. and S. for Scythia's Dead-Crt, 1580 in Ton- cinin's Le Chua, on Edw. m's Hanza 1338 Duchy: c h a ncery Crt. hi{ of Macao's /eudalle C a b o t age as England itself of the isles, 50' pied-de-Roi,' against the Tartar-british Paputipugis Itidslave trade, on 7th Pii's tnotu 12 May 1814-16, Thibet-Jesuit-reset petition by Paul° Mas garin & others on Castle-BeYs of Java Coroa de Molucco. Not of my Danish puer Jan. 14-llay set on Coorg-Ne paul seniory 3ty against nullified (Ben tinek=a-and Stuart - Canning's native E. Ind. trust '25 & '62-evictions), thro' yxecutor's ' in-and-in' Marriage ; by Hen. 7 and B's Fiscal I Privy Council Will Act-only three being now left. You'll register the old Te( - S ra. cone Chss-speak' LE montee Ru'civic limit-wall of China, as Jezes horizon of London, 409. N., on H. B's Troy 1526-81 Re;cite of Exchequer, and take out the Yedo copy of standard Pigmeter weights' for exemplification, of red moon on white sqr., in red flag of the Menam-cab° empire of Aro isles, Borne' on Eliz.'s Troy 'BB in J. I'e ' gall-4 letter on Sicily's font in skyset-link 'twist Man and God, its still-Laird Pirpentine :.. • fly audits.' Tell the Freehaired Tail-men-That this results from my Macao charge, as of Ric. IL's Wilton line of Holland (on the Holy alliance abolition, of Christ kings), 29th August, 1825 by 11 G. m c 55,1772°/ 74-based on 14 G. in., c 83, and the MINT -unit in 4-6 W. 4, c. 63, as th' Earth's TROY, re stored by 1824, G. iv. c. 74-suspended one year to kill off its life and death 1815 justice-men' for 6 Jan. '26 Romish motu-so cause, of 12 Leo's Hanza white Mitre being set on Criminal law exchequer deeds (by reason of yr-1246 at Milli_ grant for '3B Abbot's mitre in precedent for 1004 s canons for a parish Gown' from he Tuthill-fair _Brampton rates for the two warden daysman-investiture), over which,-as the Jesu-police have no right to touch the fiscal meters-if not removed, I will sign for the peopl e ' s rights without work house crop'ng by Ruh artar-C+tialas of 1842's China-slave shaved Jesu mark of Macartney's '92 ftvord S CAR, & 6-Har ness, on Brant adoptisercy, so Moravian Chelsea - act to Bri tish misrule by U.S. l- ce nt papal confusion, lately seen i n Pekin summer palace -to out 'Norton'-Simcoe-ism. eir The suspended act 1824-25 on es,' 'A., was reset by 'A clause' 35-7, and I, its Antichrist State,:swall martyr to 1843, for spirit-level inter-'-national oathing to all office, 'Without Sect-creed ask, by a Staff-inset. -spoy'ze right. THus on ' water trespass,' YEH'S ask of Li s b o n's Macao Goa's governor in 1857-(so to Rome's dead- eye Papus) who was England's 1594 Stil -laird of N. Guinea 1713 and 1826- River -King Wersfa Judge Conservator' on Brazil-marshal Beresford's Baton N. rouge submission to Admiral Hamond's flag-lieut. Ackerley as Sir C. Stuart, for facing in Manilla's Haerille Court-the Redmans Tycoon, by Gaspe's Jeeskin'd neutral hreB at Q. An's Buty offi., W.minster, 1841 act. Your Philipii ll.'s At-kin MISSION was to P. Ga s ecoyn the -ty of A.D. 1667, with Angl"nutch executive of H olland, as of Leicester's creation 1585, so Cromwell & Lou is xrva t 55, yea'd by Parliament-16 Car. sfs-Grafton - pen net '72 for Phillipine-iles 6 & 6 native jury-1764-Scholastic teach of Red Indians by Act of 1832 for America's Behring's land on Rub' troy-wt. guarantee of Dutehloan extend "_!_r New foundland-1820 as Crown colony An ti p odean to N. Zealand, Siam, and-its Ceylon trop'arctic //word de a p!ndencies, bar ing the Belge-jesu re- statue' d Pedro T. at Rio Jan. '62. You'll now see into the May 14 Bar'ing-Bruce visit (lead ing by Labuan Macdonald, to the son ASHBURTON treaty) of my state-set-and afterwards to Northumberland-house to bow before the Supreme Indian IMP. portrait of Joseph Brant, (Stamp act Sagpmothean Chef of 1774-'93 of British Chinese Afric'd America), my uncle & Freeman predeces sor to my now Siderial-crown, by Income-tax Basquet'd as p. Nwewarr, Chief, one of your race under '3l's ' ligne tires for Washington § Texas-extradition act, 1843-its alien's having no French white' flag for their Co-chin Le Bua. Annam assumption vers Colberti's l'annee 1821 of 1557 Calvin Co's foist on my Meximicmac Brazil-Canton sponsor ship '25, with Ind. lady, as Prince Consorted for law-so all £ e gifts-not being Y'r Queen's, but my Ind. ally's! BY eßraganza tax, Ye are the up-out'd 1582 Deyro-suma low Santo Gregory red-letter Papists, severed from state 11-kub c 'ship- coroner f so, not of the peoples 'mats-maly-ftr pole Zenith Court, of elect Tycone over the provincial Dal mi-6,and district Sio-mi-6. If so ? ' Rip' or Ratify by meter oath as East-Searehmen on the Nipon water flag limit of .Port Gaspe pasin, by high contracting parties' April 7, 1862, W.-u. Seward &R. Pemell, City niQ'd LYONS ; Amer. Ind. Co'mission'rs by Art, I, rule 2 within the territorial water, of the other (L'aiitreteme neutre) party' in Carib's Right of search 'mother earth's legistatrices in Brantm Peter.§ Know I By 28 H. m., as Pekin's .< the W.minster- tidal Octagon-tower flag of Parliament, when 1265 sitting at the Q-Kieh , Aid 'Apt-ery-house, was of Red Sarsinet with Gold Gragon 4 Tetra-conic ' thus the Portugue-mason change of your national Reds) into a merchant church flag by Ma cao'd Rips (1549-94-1606), under an Edin. St. John's grip Dutch Japan Lodge 3ty with China, NavigasacKS signed Feb, 1663-64 by Tycoon, BORT & Dods, whereby a White flag with Red-moon ball, was.set as the Jetfengo emblem of your hued-Tail Orient-lodge Embassy in London. Hence, by Span'sh-dutch 1143ja,x 3ty, in mexi-Anahuaq' reciprocity to perpetuate (loft's-french Cusvre on Art. 10, the ' Japan admiralty Coin-flag will be from 1862, Red ' pierced white square, with Red moon'-for ever, [by E. India Co's As-sign-ian Coge Cofar's Arab-persia Gulf, in Baron Loyola Mascarenhas, Palm 'erst'ons refugee 1808-list, to '62]-Thus on Charles V. &12 Leo, 1521-Luther 3ty' on Clement 14th Jesuit abolition-to Ackerle'an layman succession in Labra dor 1769-72 for Surrogate ingressu and egressu will-probate on Sir Philip Francis, to 1818-Cook, and 'Burton-crescent statu'd Craiamer-Major Cartwright, on Ackerley's 1820-25, still on £9O a-year unrelieved H-8 State duty. as Vile fain qui (fit Armer la race-rouge si grande 2 En la loi § civique), pese avec Hanfete . Oil l'on volt que jamais l'ENianAND' ne naarchande Quand it faut par la mer leur donner Liberte. -a+ . . * N.l Atkyns- Montague C AORBRLEY, El • • 1-2 W. IT, N.. 54, Chamberlayne' Gie-sworn. ?. • PETER BASQUET, Income-tax chid (1842 unpaid§ cif • China Rub' wall circuit horizon ofaaLondon, Juns 20. g a 1862) its Montezuma'd Red flag of E. I n d.-H s ., no t 414' in Brant's power to life-give to H. isercy in 1792. ' So Paris White ship' in red flag, 1189-Elelgee-voesnt Ka/fateren skiff' Het /chip saylt wel, het is ras in saylen, item, het is een klock-ship in failese-by Cape Nab"awa. t By 7. 25 Hen. in. the Purser discargo-ree or steward is deputy-juror for ' Neighbours to the fact,' under Shipping Act to avoid Mid/sex Ty-cone Coroner's sequestration in log default on death or Offences to the Chinese-by the 1842 British Emigra triad-sesu Soc : (Belly-skin Vac-sign marks s. A. c.' of Sandwich-isles, justral, Chlfornia-Peru h u t-p o ll -tail-tax, by Spanish safcgedule goldfinders, on Art. 8, to on T and IN heady-money as of the King's Post Indian trust), for their Sky-drama season-augury, of no Cone-sub stantial halt-in their Heli-0/impic-sham Y -sect-et with rights as free-born Englishme,nthO tail-less victims, (See Run April 19, 28, May 16, & 7 Imes June 11.) T t1147,A TE-R 0 t ri r II A Y MARKET. Lessee Mr. J B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, a Household Picture, under Two Lights, entitled THE WIFE'S PORTRAIT. Mr. Howe, Mr. W. Warren, Mrs. C. Young., After which, at half-past 7, will be performed (1 4th time) OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Followed by anew Spanish Ballet entitled LA CONTRA BANDISTA. Senora Perea Dena, Senor .Ricardo, and the Corps de Ballet. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOS VOYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manag - er -Mr. Edmund Falconer. 1 87th Night of the - ontinuons run of "Peep o'Day." THIS XVENING,PI;E r O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Decl;sh. ''' es tr's• Waiter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, and Rra and Falcone! : Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston, and Miss M. Hudson. interludo After *h id , " a new musical, pictorial, poetical, and ballet , emi tted KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitty and Miss Lydia T hor ,_ ' To conclude 'N.-I'th 'the new farce entitled I COULDN'T DELI 11. — "u wacters by r. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and mi ss Lydia ThOrn M peon. Acting AT —muLger—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Do. 8 1 : 1) en emit at ti h i a vi lf . -past R, to commence at r p o x-office ope ~n deity Cranmertae n. 7 ROYAL PitINURSS' S I.vmsee, Air A. ii an,, THIS El,l THEATRE. , 1 .- I NG_ ' TOO Mien 017 A GOOD THING. , I1,1,1`( IN(}, Visa M. Harris. After which, T 111'' cf)III .4acanEits. 1,- , b and Louis de Franchi, ill'r• Charles. _ an; Messrs. Jordan, aien Everett, R. Cathcart, 11readows, dre a . tid; l"darne Fi Chapman, R. Leclercq, Henderson, ,_ 4N. ch apin ß an. elding, To conclude with THRICE MA I, it 1 .D. . Commence at 7. LN_ohalf-prlce_ NEW THEATRE-R0 L, Sole Proprietor and :113nagor, Mr. B. Webster. TO-NIORT, IC I ON PARLE FRANCAISE: Il eum J. L. Toole, Billingt on , E mer y . Mi ss es K. Kelly , Laidlaw, E. Bland, and Mr& 11. Marston. ' To be followed •-•Y T liE OCTOEDON. gessrs• Dion Boucicault, Phillips Stephenson,Elm'oewrYehj, airnzoltret;,;ll4llrisnltouvii,lll:;tilonec,lf3oirrds: ston, a Latimer, and Miss Denvil. To conclude with THE WRIT I.ING DAY. 3 re' s "'• L. Toole, P. Tedford, Emery, miss Latimer, Mrs. If. Lcwfs. Commen , e at 7. H A L L. AN T ERBUR - y ST ECKEL, The Greatest Trapeze l'crforrner in the World, at 10 o'clock Immense success of the Grand Selection from Donizetti's Opera, "DON SE BASTIEN," (Produced here for the first time in this country). Arranged and conducted by Mr. .longhmans. Principal Artistes—Miss Russell and Signor Tivoli. The Great Comic Trio, Eugene, Duley, and Unsworth (the original of the celebrated Stump Speech, " Or any other man "). Also the following . array of Comic Talent, viz.:— E. Marshall (in Paul Pry), J. G. - Forde, A. B. Hollings worth, Miss Georgina Smithson, r.nd Joe Brown, the re nowned Dancer. T H E OXFOR D, OXFORD STREET. The miraculous STECKEL, Champion of the Trapeze, In new and unapproachable feats. Verd 's "LA TRAVIATA," "IL TROVAToti..r: _ BF. li sts OCCA, dm. G A. Mactarren's "MAY Vocalists Miss Russell, Madame Endcrssohn, Messrs. Morley, Greene, and Albert. Full Band and Chorus. Musical Director, Mr. F. Jongliumns. Comic-111,s Caroline Parkes, Mr. W. Randall, and those Bob rival le ene d Ethic:T ian Comedian, Rumsey, Newcomb, Little ti , Eug,and naworth (the origin al "or any other man'';• Admission, 6d. ; cony and Stally, ls. ; IYvate Boxes, jOs. f3d. Shortly will be produced Verdi's Grcat International Exhibition Cantata. LUNDON lornin LRIDGE THIS 81 " Chn.---Afternoon Bh. 30 m. 70-.HOHHOW.-Monlin , `-' 7, 9 h. Gli-L__A_ftertloort, gh. _ DEATH (F A CE.NTENARIAN.—bavid Munro 3t.. -.' r Gow, a thatcher, the oldest m an in this pariah, di ed at Sa l burn on Wednesday last, at the advanced age of 103 y.„, e. Though for a number of years he was unable to work, h e stained his faculties to the last.—invogorclon limes. NOTICE. Ail 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 Tice Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. ..v.t r A • • I.l' ,tce .;15 . ril THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1862. Sir MORTON PETO has again appealed to the public in its own behalf. We noticed recently his " Letter to one of his constituents on iron ships and fixed forts," a lettefentirely in accordance with the views we have expressed on the whole subject, from the time when. Lord PALMERSTON, in the hey-day of his power, determined to hurry into ezecution his costly crotchet of land fortifications. We are now indebted to Sir MORTON for a yet fuller defence of the policy sustained so ably in his letter, i n a pamphlet of nearly a hundred pages. It is published by W. MITCHELL, 36, Charing-cross, and we r ecommend every re a d er w h o cares t o mas t er 1 this subject, so pecuniarily and nationally important to us all, to procure the pamphlet. We can assure him that it will interest as well as instruct him. For, written by an intelligent, clear-headed man of business, it is so free from professional technicalties on the one hand, and from oratorical and bewilder ing special pleading on the other,that every sensible man will fully appreciate its arguments. Sir MORTON PETO was almost challenged to come forth in explanation, and in defence of his views. In their singular report the Defence Commissioners, and their associates, had published that they "were desirous of examining Sir MORTON PETO, M.P., who had publicly expressed opinions on the subject of their inquiry, but that he had requested to be excused from attending." This looked, of course, as if he feared to meet their cross-examination. It turns out, however, that he would have been quite willing to attend, but he required, as a rea sonable condition, a copy, or at least a perusal, of the evidence the commissioners had taken on this second reference of the subject to them. The reader will remember, that when the Government found the House would not listen to further waste of money on the Spithead Forts after the affair of the Monitor and the Merrimac, Sir G. C. LEWIS shuffled off the subject by promising to refer the subject afresh to the same Commissioners whom Lord PALMERSTON had used, in the first instance, to get this ambitious fortification scheme forced on the country. Every impartial man felt, of course, that this was but trifling with the business. The Commissioners were pledged men. They had led the Premier to begin a great military folly, at a vast cost to the country, and it could not be expected that they would, come what might, give a verdict against themselves. Nor did they. Out came their report on the 20th of May, and having taken to themselves four other members, we will not say worse than themselves, the 'last report of the whole was certainly worse than the first. It is so, because, while they say that " they ad here to their opinion expressed in their report of the 26th of February, 1861, that the combined system of forts and floating batteries therein re commended, will be not only the most economical, bat the only really efficient mode .of providing for the defence of Spithead"—they say this in the teeth of the fresh evidence they had obtained. This is the charge which Sir MORTON PETO completely establishes against them. The larger part of his pamphlet is occupied in reviewing the evidence they obtained, and on which they gave a verdict for themselves and their co-respondent Lord PALMERSTON. He makes out the clearest possible case for a new trial, on the ground that the Com missioners' report is contrary to the evidence. Wit ness after witness is against them. - Witness after witness who had some time back been favourable to fixed forts, is now against them, or thinks them costly superfluities, or emphatically asserts that the money were better spent on iron ships. Based by the independent witnesses, the Commissioners call in Government servants, whom they thought they could rely on to sustain the foregone conclusion of themselves and the Premier ; but of these, too, they might •well take up BALAK'S complaint of BALAAM, for they called them to bless fixed forts, and they all, more or less directly, blessed the iron ships of Old England. Never was there a case of more com plete break down. Never was a report presented, before, in such contrariety to the bearing of all the opinions and facts on which it professed to be founded, One chief point is the value of fixed forts against moving iron vessels. Indeed, on that point, almost all may be said to turn. The evidence was con clusive, that even granting that guns could be made which would pierce the Warrior at the distance of a thousand yards—the requisite condition—it would yet ba• almost a miracle for the fort to hit her while in motion. Even Sir W. ARMSTRONG was as clear as the rest on the difficulty of hitting the moving object, and some of the practical and scientific men show most clearly the reasons of the difficulty. The Commissioners, at their wit's end .to make out a case from artillery as it is, tried to justify their pet scheme to Sir J. F. SMITH by appealing to the future. It would take three years to construct the forts (or follies) ; might they not by that time rely on heavy guns which would penetrate iron plates at a thousand yards? The honest veteran experi menter here told the amateur Commissioners a bit of his mind. " Ans. : I do not give a fraction for assertions of that kind. r have been engeged in waking experiments the greater part of my life, and I k now h ow li tt l e you can re l y upon expects tiotao _ 1 oked, the evidence leaves but one con elusion on the minds of impartial readers, that no forts co u l d materially interfere with an iron ship Massing them, dis re ,, a • rding them, and placing her self where she could bombard Portsmouth easily d . . c oug h • Bat the "combinati on " —that is the thing, says Lord PALMERSTON—the co mbination of forts which could only get a chance shot at the moving enemy's ship with our iron ships Alas, the misfortune is, that the evidence assures us that we mast have as many ships even if we hare the forts a s if had not them ! So far from b e ing economical, th e f orts, we are told by the witnesses, because they could. not follow the enemy's vessel, would not enable es to dispense with a single ship The forts, therefore, will be simply an enormous addition to the expense. Wo:se than that, they will require a s many gunners to work them as would man ten Warriors. Meanwhile, the money spent in building them would provide us a fleet which if France were to become our assailant, would enable us to defend Portsmouth by placing our selves before Cherbourg or Brest. The ablest wit nesses all agreed that it was far more important to lay out our money in iron ships which could meet the enemy anywhere, than on fixed forts, which be might evade, or near which he might never come. Much, again, has been said on defending Ports- mouth as any arsenal at any cost, but, besides the inefficiency of helplessly fixed forts, our arsenal system itself is now antiquated. Iron ships must be built in the yards of our great navigable rivers where there is every convenience for the work, and stores must be kept in future further inland, and far out of the reach of all bombardments. Rail ways and telegraphs make this perfectly easy. Nothing destructible need lie within reach of an enem y's fire. Much stress has been laid too on defending our merchant fleet anchored at Spit ' head, by the forts. The naval witnesses agreed that this was absurd, since an enemy's iron ship would steam about amongst them, destroying them at leisure,while the helpless fixed forts could only look on, as a shot fired by them at the enemy would be much more likely to damage the wooden merchant men. Looked at, indeed, from every point of view, the Spithead forts will be a criminal waste of the nation's money, because not only will they be of the least possible use, but the evidence proves what common sense would have anticipated, that the same amount of money spent in iron ships would have made us far safer. We believe this holds good to the uttermost. A iron ship is as perma nent as a fort, and worth half a dozen forts. We hope it is not too late for the House of Cora. ' mons to interfere to stop the " woeful waste," pointed to by Sir MORTON PETO on page 18—that of the vast amount now being spent on new forti fications at some dozen places; and on a plan which Mr. BIDDER convinced these unbelieving Commis sioners, was untenable. Six or seven millions of ulyncY. it is to be fenrpri, ore being ouuk. v. -rrlial, will be of no use at all—on fortifications which modern artillery will crush at once, and which will leave as much necessity as ever for iron vessels to do their work. We must, however, refer the reader again to Sir M. PETO'S pamphlet, which ought to _settle this question with the House of Commons. Under the pretext of moving for copies of further correspondence relating to the future navigation of the Godavery, the hon. member for Stockport originated, last evening, in the House of Commons a very full'and a deeply interesting discussion upon that vital question, just now, with.our manufac turers in the North Cotton Famine. As Mr. SMITH remarked, in the very outset of his speech, in bring ing forward this motion, to a numerous class of labourers in this country, that the Cotton Famine is, to all intents and purpose, in serious truth, nothing less than a Food Famine. Withou t adequate supplies of the raw material, in our cotton manufactories there is a falling off in the amo une of employment furnished to that particular class of our industrious population. Thousands are not employed at all, or, if employed, are on short time—many of the busiest factories are closed altogether ; and what begins with a Cotton Famine ends, in too many instances, in a dearth of the very means of subsistence. The precise situation of affairs, for a long while past, in regard to the Cotton Trade is, by this time, perfectly well understood. The American Civil War shuts out from the English Market the ordi nary supplies of cotton from the cotton-growing States of the late United, and now fatally and (as we are most of us beginning to recognise) permanently Dis-United States of the Great Confederation. The Southern States—those now known . as the Confederated States, having JEFFER SON DAVIS as their President—were, until the out break of this lamentable struggle, the principal source from which our manufacturers derived their annual supplies of cotton. They are so now, alas! no longer. Our regrets, however, at this serious in terruption to our labours as importers, first of all ' and manufacturers afterwards of the Sonth.grown American cotton now denied to us, have wholly and entirely a reference to the immediate evil conse quences resulting from it. Eventually we are firmly convinced that the result can alone be advan tageous. It can alone be advantageous to us, we mean of course for inasmuch as it will surely tend to render us independent of other countries or colonies than our own for all future supplies of an artiele so essential to one branch of our industry in manufactures. The little lesson we are now learning will not—we may be certain.of this—be learnt in vain. It was but very recently that we took occasion to particularise the opportunities lying open before us to the east and to the west, and to the south, in both hemispheres, and at our very antipodes —opportunities by wisely availing ourselves of which we may in a very few years render ourselves easily enough independen of America, independent of any foreign power what ever for our all-essential supplies of the raw material of cotton. Eight distinct directions we pointed to as open to the choice of our enterprise in this way—particularly of our engineering enter prise, as applied to this branch of agriculture. Egypt, Asia Minor, the borders of the Gulf of Comachio, the eastern coast of Ceylon, certain among our 'West Indian possessions, Australia, and the ' north island of Neiv Zealand were recently pointed to as holding out especial temptations. Above all —in many respects attention was drawn, and has often been drawn, of late to the obvious possibility of our obtaining large and profitable supplies of cotton in future from our Asiatic empire, from various parts of that vast and fertile peninsula of Hindostan. Several of the most important chapters in the remarkable work to which we then more especially directed public attention, relate, in point of fact, to the facilities placed at our command in this way by the capabilities of the soil of India as applied to cotton cultivation. It was in reference to its exposition of the suit ability of vast tracks of land in Hindostan for cotton planting, that the debate of yesterday in the House of Commons possesses, to our mind, so much interest for all ranks and classes of patriotic Englishmen. The possibility, nay the probability, of turning India to inestimable account in this manner was distinctly admitted last evening in the most explicit manner by the right hon. baronet the Secretary of State, to whose care are entrusted those vast and magnifi cent possessions. Sir CHARLES WOOD distinctly "stated the steps which had been taken by the Government to increase the supply of cotton, ob serving, thereupon, that all the evidence yet pro cured tended to show that the same means which had been employed in the cases of sugar, silk, and indigo would be equally successful in the growth and improvement of cotton ; and, he added, he had no doubt that before long, if a remunerative price were paid for Indian cotton, we should be, if not independent of other countries for- the supply of this article, supplied from India to a considerable extent." This, observe, from no private member below the gangway, upon a back bench, p ossesse d by an i n f a t ua ti on about some No a r di it be d eeme d surpr i s i ng i n can pet k )rrject, but—from one of the Sec retaries o f State, speaking from his official post in front of th e Treasury bench, and there expres sing opinions, carrying with them the i weight inherent n them as th e utterances of one ng members of her MAJESTY'S any wa y that Si r C HARLES WOOD, as Secretary of St a te for Government. of nt. the le I n dia, should speak thus hopefully and even confidently. For an that really and truly can anywhere be recognised as impeding in India the particular branch of agriculture here alluded to, that of cotton planting, may be defined at once as removable obstacles : to wit— the rudeness of the implements, the necessity of works of irrigation, the poverty of the ryots, and their dependence upon the soucars, or native bankers. Take a single ease in point on what can even now be accomplished in spite of these kinds of obstacles. There can be no doubt of it that in Dhurwar cotton has been pro duced, as the result cf Mr. SHAW'S experiments, equal in quality and length of staple, and tenacity of fibre, and so forth, to the very kind of cotton (the ordinary Orleans) forming the bulk of the raw material used in the majority of our manufactures. Improve the implement—systematise the irrigation —elevate the condition of the ryots, rendering them independent of those native bankers, the soucars, under whose heels they may now besaidtobe ground down helplessly—above all, afford the advantages of cheap carriage between the inland and the coast, by multiplying the railways, and among other things by opening up the navigation of the river Godavery, and England may begin to look confidently to her own Indian possessions for her future supplies of Cotton. What will be the verdict of the wives of England on Captain CARNEGIE ? What their opinion of the jury's verdict which released him from all responsi bility for having his wife "made beautiful for ever ?" If they acquit the captain, what will be the groan d of the acquittal—will it be " that really Mrs CATINFMF. might fr, r) for her o walbeauty out of a private income of £7OO or £BOO a-year;" or will they, which we gentlemen hope is the case, own that a lady ought not seriously to pledge her husband's credit without letting him know what she is doing. Happily, whether they agree with this last view or not, the law does ; and our better halves are instructed by Baron WILDE that the turning point of liability on the part of their lords is, whether the creditor had good reason or not to think the husband was aware of the expense his wife was incurring. In the case before us, judge and jury were all of opinion that Captain CARNEGIE had no knowledge of the cost atwhieh his wife was purchasing renewedcharms —for balls it would seem more than for her hus band—that Madame RACHEL did not think he had, and that, therefore, she must be nonsuited when demanding the debt as from him. But should Mrs. CARNEGIE get off so lightly ? If she has, as the captain said, a private income of £7OO or £BOO a-year, and if she was so eager to be enamelled and made beautiful for ever, and to appear in public without a high dress, and to recover a lost and faded complexion, and to smooth over the scar of an abscess on her breast—as to be ready to give a thousand pounds to accomplish all this, and, if this was accomplished, why should the "enamel ler" lose all her money. Her charge might be ex orbitant, but who shall set a price on works of such high art ? To think of a lady whom other ladies had talked of as scarred in her breast, com ing forth a beauty in her own eyes and in those of her lady's maid ; of her " wearing a white tulle dress, smothered with feathers, to represent a snow storm ;" of the lady being able to tell the enameller, " I looked very lovely indeed, as my maid will tell you "—to think of this lady being unable out of £BOO a year to find money for the enameller, it really does strike us that Madame RACHEL'S case is somewhat hard. It would have been very hard but for the aeon• strosity of the charge. It was this, we apprehend, which really upset her—it looked so like, we much fear that it was, a gross attempt to get an extra. vagant amount of money out of husband and wife through the fear of exposure. Madame RACHEL'S advertised fees were high enough in all conscience. Five guineas for attending a lady for a ball without enamelling. That seems fair—but 160 guineas and upwards.for enamelling a lady when we are told that the process consists in applying a few cos metics, and has no resemblance to the process from which the name is taken, but the beautiful soft ivory whiteness imparted by it—this does seem some what monstrous. Still, if ladies resort to the advertiser, it is not for them to complain of the charges. In this case, however, Madame RACHEL made a more than questionable use of the " up wards" appended to the 160 guineas; no lady could expect it would involve her to more than five times the amount. So, we suppose, Madame RACHEL is now left to try her remedy against Mrs. CARNEGIE, which we certainly should not advise her to do ; a lady who with such an income had only her jewels to offer the enameller, is not likely to have much money hereafter—and perhaps a jury might cut down the bill to an amount which would not meet the costs of prosecution. Madame RACHEL regretted that the case should come into court, " because ladies require secrecy." She well may, for she has doubtless done much to limit her practice. At every ball and meeting of the fashionable world the whisper will now go round amongst the envious of one sex and the doubtfully admiring of the other--" Is she enamel led P" There will be scrutinitings and whisperings, and comparisons of past with present charms, to an extent unknown before. Madame RACHEL'S name will be invoked by spite, and will titt er on the lip s of the quiz. A new class will be created by this trial—that of the " enamelled fair." The funeral of the late Earl Canning will take place to-morrow morning. The procession will leave Grosvenor-square soma after 10, and will reach Westmin ster-abbey at half-past 11 o'clock. Some friends of the de ceased peer wi I follow in their private carriages ; but the greater number will assemble at llo'clock in the Jerusalem chamber or the Abbey, to which they will be admitted by tickets, delivered to them upon application at No, 10, Grosvenor-square, FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE ON THE CHARING CROSS RAlLWAY.—Yesterday morning, shortly before 11 o'clock, a frightful accident took place at the massive iron railway bridge in course of construction across the roadway in the York-road, Lambeth. William Cobbett. aged 25, a riveter, residing at 17, Frances-street, Waterloo-road, George Hawkins, aged 19, living at 5, Tanner-street, York road, and some others, wore at work on a kind of swing. scaffold upwards of 36 feet from the ground, and while driving in red hot rivets the bolts securing the scaffolding suddenly gave way with a loud noise. Cobbett was instantly hurled to the ground, his head coming in contact with the pavement, and Hawkins, after falling a short distance suc ceeded in grasping a prejecting piece of iron, where he re mained some moments until rescued, while some other workmen most narrowly escaped. The two unfortunate men were at once conveyed to the Westminster Hospital, where they were promptly attended by the house surgeon, who found Cobbett to be perfectly insensible, having the left leg fractured in a fearful manner in two places, as well as concussion of the brain, which leaves him in a most dan gerous state. The other man was slightly injured, and is going on favourably. THE BLIND AND DEAF AND DI7III/3.—At the late meeting of the International Philanthropic Association it was resolved to appeal to the Government to grant a com• mission to inquire into the condition of the blind and deaf and dumb, and the prevalent causes of these maladies. The proportion of blind people in the whole population of the United Kingdom is lin 1,000. In England the number is 19,200, and the proportion to the population 1 in 1,046. Of the deaf and dumb there are 19,000 in the kingdom, or about 1 in every 1,690. CHINESE SUICIDE.—A touching instance of this occurred at Canton some years ago, in the case of a young accomplished girl, who had been unfortunately married to a brutal husband. When on a visit to her parents, she complained to a small party of her unmarried s!sters and cousins of the misery she endured, and declared her intention of drowning herself. "Oh I" said these young ladies, "if that is married life, we shall drown ourselves too." So they all joined hands together, and, walking into a fish pond, became brides of death.—" Six Weeks in a Tower;" in Blacks ood's Magazine. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA• ROBERTO IL DIAVOLO. Our two operas seem to have resolved on a little racing at this moment, and, we might add, with the view of winning the Great Exhibition Stakes. Her Majesty's had the start on Saturday, and at a pace which is likely to continue, The Italian Opera went off last evening, and before the night was over came up with its opponent in very !land some style. This contest certainly promises to be a "neck-and-neck" affair, and all we can say in the matter is, that we hope the " run" will be a good one, and that the public, as they ought to do, will freely back their favourites. Seriously, we rarely remember a work produced at two contending theatres in which the general claim to excellence was so nearly baianced as on this occasion. At Her Majesty's ye may venture to say the special interest is the more attractive. The Alice of Madame Titiens, which towers so grandly over Jenny Lind's, will scarcely be sup posed to find a rival in Madame Pence's. This lady is an artist of indisputable claims — thoughtful, effective, and satisfactory in every thing see does—whose vocal gifts, like her mental, if not extraordinary, are always pleasing. She exhibits the highest amount of talent, but she is not a woman of genius. However she may move or content you, she can never surprise, or electrify. Her Alice is far above an average performance. It is earnest, natural, and well-intended from the first note to the last; and, in certain passages of the music, is as good as need be listened to. Her delivery, for instance, of the first aria, "Va mi disse," is so pathetic and sincere, that it elicited a recognition which was as marked as it was well deserved. Still her Alice is not that of Madame Titiens. It wants al. of voice and soul, the unequalled tones and the kindling passion which give the latter in all she does a pre-eminence now that is beyond dispute. Genius has always the distinction that it is equal to all occasions, and in every character there is some climax whose thorough mastery is essential to the entire fulfilment of its conception. Such, for instance, in the character of Alice, is the encounter with Bertram beside the Cross. Here, to be merely satisfactory is compara tively to fail. The task is not merely to excite the sympathies, but to appease the imagination; and if the genius is wanting which can do that, we mea sure the attempt by what it needs, much more than by what it accomplishes. The difference of feeling _ . in this scene is a sufficient gauge of the two con• ceptions. Whilst Madame Penco merely expresses terror, Madame Titiens exhibits horror, and the profounder view, of course, is the more impas sioned and impressive. And proportionately this distinction applies to the highest moment of the scene. When Madame Titiens flies to the cross, in order to repel the detected Bertram, as we have already said, she suggests a seraph in the act of defying the arch-fiend. Her look and bearing have positive grandeur. The soul of the peasant suddenly expanded by a high religious impulse, invests her frame for the mo meat with absolute sublimity. Madame Penco flies at this height with no such force of wing. Her effort does not want energy, but it is more of the limb than of the spirit. It is an inspiration of the stage rather than of a great poetic feeling. We consider the Alice of Madame Penco quite as good as Jenny Lind's, but it certainly is not one to be compared with Madame Titiens. To the Isabel also of the other theatre the palm must be conceded. Signora Carlotta Marchisio sings not only with all the brilliancy of Madame Miolan Carvalho, but with the advantage of a voice that is far more sym pathetic, and of an expression that is always truer because it is more emotional. It is no discovery to mako now that the charming Parisian song stress is almost wholly devoid of feeling. Her Princess Isabel is one of those vocally perfect but entirely passionate perform ances, which have denoted her from the first, It is another instance of the manner in which she torments us with the look of a woman whilst she charms us with the perfection of a mere musical instrument. In the cavatina of the second act she wanted the fire of Signora Marchiso, and in the " Robert toi que j'aime" of the last she wanted the emotion. When we come to the gentlemen of the Italian opera, the balance turns the other way. No comparison, of course, can be insti tuted between Signor Armandi and Signor Tamberlik. It is not' the latter's superior energy. or even voice (as heard last evening), that estab lishes his pre-eminence—it is his profounder feeling and more perfect art, which supply him with an unerring standard in prescribing to his energy its exact amount and limitation. Thus he never sings spasmodically. He is never powerful on set occa sions, or gives us strength because he can give it, or as a mere matter of variety. His force is but a more vehement demonstration of his feeling; and as it springs out of it, co-exists with its most delicate expressions. His tenderness is always quite as conspicuous as his force, which, of course, it serves to intensify by the mere fact of its contrast. As an instance in the Roberto how pathetic is his sense of shame andgrief after his ruin by the game sters—and his filial expression throughout the masterly trio with which the opera concludes, It is these evidences of delicacy that delight his hearers quite as much as the superb energy he manifests in this and other charac ters, and which have served to place his fame on so distinct and sure a basis. But even a higher acknowledgment is due to the great performance of Herr Formes, whose Ber tram stands apart from anything that has been seen for many years. Though he was labouring under a hoarseness which compelled the printing of an apology, such was the striking ideality of his conception and treatment of the demoniac being, that it almost stifled disappointment at his vocal incapacity. The scornful grandeur, and malignant transport which stamped his bearing, and varied his expression from the first scene to the last, showed an unusual reach of art, whilst in the human element that mingles with and almost atones for the demoniac—the paternal feeling of Bertram, he was not wanting in the tenderness necessary to complete this strange conception. As a little instance of the originality which marks this effort throughout, we may refer to his action in the gaming scene, in which, by an unseen darting and clutching of his hand over the shoulder of Roberto, he seems to snatch fortune from him and direct the course of the dice. His terrible struggle at the voice of the demons, and frenzied rush into their cavern in order to learn his own and his son's fate, was one of the grand things of the night, only matched by the proud solemnity with which he declaimed the invocation, and afterwards watched in grim repose the successful working of his spell. Had his voice only been able to sustain his superb conception his p er _ formance would have been one of the most striking that has ever been witnessed on these boards. Trio Raimbaldo was again an im provement in the hands of Signor Ned- Baraldi, whose charming voice and earnest expres sion gave the utmost effect to the descriptive ballad Regnava un _tempo," in which he details Roberto's history. The choruses, we need not say, were absolutely perfect, being at this theatre—given with all the fire as well as light and shade, which make them such an enjoyment to the public. The band exhibited of course its usual Perfection under Mr. Costa. Upon these two points undoubtedly this house maintains its superiority in the production of this opera. As respects the spectacle it must also be allowed to be most success ful et this house, both on account of the historic air which is given to the accessories; and the trium phant effect of the Abbey scene, which presents one of the most masterly achievements we have yet wit nessed by Mr. Beverley, animated and enforced by a continuous movement that is as poetic as it is striking. The gaunt and mouldering remains of the Abbey, whose skeleton outlines in the moon light loom into such mystic dimness, expand their impression into an effect that is wholly indescriba ble, when the reanimated nuns glide about them in their endeavours to allure Roberto to his pur pose, with a grace aed picturesqueness that. still further enhance their beauty. The effect of this scene alone must make this reproduction popular. The house, we need scarcely s ay, was I crowded in every part, and the satisfaction of the • most warm and decisive character. LATEST NEWS. THE MIDDLE LEVEL COFFERDAM. LYNN, FRIDAY, 8 A.M. The dam was closed yesterday at 3 p.m. It stood the high water of this morning's tide with out yielding. It is now perfectly secure, and may be said to be practically accomplished. PARIS, JUNE 19. The Petrie of this evening states that the rein forcements about to be sent to Mexico are about 12,000 men. TURIN, JUNE 19. Garibaldi arrived here during the preceding night. It is stated that the decree suspending the for mation of national rifle clubs in Lombardy is about to be rescinded. INDIA AND CHINA. CALCUTTA, MAY 29. Goods and twist firm. Freights, 65s (supposed for dead weight) ; seeds to London, 72s 6d. Exchange, 2s Old. MANILLA, MAY 15. Freights, £6. (From Telegraph to India Company's Station Jubal.) SHANGHAI, MAY 3. The rebels hay', again been repulsed, with great THE SUN LODON, FRID EVENING, JUNE 20, 1862. loss. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Shirtings active. Tea unchanged. Silk dearer. Settlement during the past fortnight, 3,000 bales. Export to date, 64,700 bales. Exchange on London, 6s, 2d. Freight, 100 s. to 120 s. CANTON, MAY 10. Gray shirtings unchanged. Tea active. Total export to date, 90,612,0001 b. Exchange on London, 4s. 61d. (By Telegraph to Point de Galls.) CALCUTTA, MAY 29, Shirtings quiet. Mule twist unchanged. Indigo unaltered. Copper declining. Exchange on London, 2s. Old. Government Securities—Four per Cents., 931 ; Five per Cents., 105. Freight, 655. BOMBAY, MAY 30. Cotton lower. Linseed and twist firm. Government Securities—Five and a Half per Cents., 113 i. Freight declining. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, JUNE 19. The Vectis and Ripon, with the above mails, will leave at daylight to-morrow for Marseilles and Southampton respectively. The Ripon may be expected at Southampton about the 3d of July. _ The Simla and Ottawa, with the London mails of the 20-26th of May, left Aden on the 10th instant (correct date), for Calcutta and Mauritius respec- tiv ely. FRANCE. The Constitutionnel publishes the following article in prominent type, signed Paulin Limay rac " From the numerous extracts from the English newspapers, which we have published day by day, it is visible how the idea of a mediation in America has gained ground in England. In France that idea has been no less warmly received, and we have before us more than 100 provincial journals which, in reprinting the articles from the Constitutionnel, gave their adhesion to it. Can such an expression of public opinion in two great countries like France and England remain without effect ? We do not think so ; we entertain the profound conviction that the cause is gained, and that mediation is simply a question of time. From our very heart we wish that the hour for that mediation would strike as soon as possible. Where is the man who does not grieve at the thought of the torrents of blood which may still be shed, of the devastation which daily increases in America, and of the suffer ing which threatens the industrial classes of Europe ? But we never deceived ourselves ; it is evident that mediation cannot be proposed with the certainty of rejection. It is for the Governments to seize upon a favourable opportunity. We hope that the moment is not far off, and, more than ever we are convinced that mediation is the only means to put an end to this terrible struggle. To the friends of humanity and of peace we repeat—' Medi ation is the only possible termination of the war. To the friends of liberty and of the dignity of man we repeat—' Mediation is the best guarantee of the abolition of slavery.' " BOURSE, June 19.—The arrival of the English funds with an improvement of a per cent. has failed to impart any animation to this market, which still continues dull, but without any material decline in prices, Threes, for the Account, being now at 68f 30c. The Railway Share Market is also heavy, and with a downward tendency on some of the lines. The market closed as follows : 41 per per Cents 96 50 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 35 New 3 per Cents Do, end month 6B 35 Credit Mobilier, 847 50 Do. end month B4B 75 BAILI Bank Shares 3180 Credit Foncier 1620 Piedmontest Fivqs 72 85 Italian Loan 72 80 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt rSts. Cash. Account. Orleans 1275 .. 1277 50 Northern New ditto . .. Lyons and Mediterranean 1103 .. 1105 GPneva —• • - Southern 845 .. 845 -- Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard 607 25 603 05 DESTRUCTIVE FlRE.—This morning, shortly after 12 o'clock, a destructive fire broke out in the premises belonging to Messrs. R.Kelly and Co., hat manufacturers, at No. 43, Little Charlotte-street, near Rowland Hill's Chapel, Blackfriars-road. The discovery was made by Police-constable 275 of the M division, who saw flames suddenly shooting over the house top. At first he ima gined that the chapel had taken fire, and he alarmed the neighbourhood. Having aroused the inmates of the diffe rent houses in front, he kept the door of the front house closed until the arrival of the brigade. The fire was then confined to the factory behind, , a building about 50 feet long, and two floors high. Mr. Henderson, the chief officer of the D district, arrived in a few minutes, fol lowed by Mr. Boucher, with the engine belonging to Christ Church parish, and others from the Waterloo-road, Fiturd. ringdon-street, the powerful steam land engine, by S and Mason, under the command of Cap tain superintendent of the Brigade, and Engineer J. followed in rapid succession. Plen t y of water h a ving been thd fire could Shaw,rrhd, Shard p e procured the engines were set to. work, but ainsdcwonosrikdienrg inot p l b e e m e e x n t t i s n gui weresh e d d e s t u r n o t y i e l d t h . e Thest stock c loss,k in w trade h origin it no i f s sttuhnedfierreiosondo,twkinlloNbrae covered . by insurances. The H ANDEL FESTIVAL. —The provincial singers en gaged to come to Londonidefioyr tsheeleHeteadndtehlaPnesotnivaanl yarfeormmoerre more numerousoccasion and At the opening of the International Exhibition about 500 were brought from the country districts; on the present occasion upwards of 1,200 of the best choralists have been selected from the various towns where the greatest choral ability is to be found. Many of the singers arrived in town in the early prt of the week, but the bulk of them come by excursion trains reaching London this afternoon. At half-past six this evening they will with the Metropolitan Chorus meet in Exeter-hall for the final choral rehearsal. The following are the principal towns from which the chorus are engaged :—Bradford, Birming ham, Nottint ham, Ely (Cambridge), Bristol, Hereford, , Gloucester, Nomich, Worcester, Manchester, and other provincial towns, CIVIC BANQUET TO 7HE BISHOPS, Yesterday evening a banquet was given by the. Lord Mayor and the Lady Msyoress, at the Man sion -house, to the Bishops. Among the company were :—The Bishop of London and Mrs. Tait, the Bishop of Oxford and Miss Wilberforce, the Bishop of Llandaff and Mrs. 011ivant, Bishop of Lincoln and Mrs. Jackson, Bishop of Bath and Wells and Lady Auckland, Bishop of Ripon and Mra. Bicker steth, Bishop of Bangor and Mrs. Campbell, Bishop of Worcester and Miss Philpott, Lord Lyttelton, Bishop of Killaloe, Bishop of Kilmore, Bishop of Meath, Bishop of Tasmania, Bishop of Sierra Leone, Bishop of Sydney, Bishop of Nova Scotia and Mrs. Binney, Bishop of Colombo, Bishop of Ontario, Bishop of Honolulu, Dean of St. Paul's and Mrs. Milman, Dean of Westminster and Mrs. Trench, Archdeacon and Mrs. Hale, Archdeacon and Mrs. Utterton, Rev. Canon and Miss Dale. After the customary toasts had been disposed of, The LORD MAYOR proposed "Prosperity to the Society for the Propagation of th•.e Gospel in Foreign Parts," and in the course of his remarks observed that the society had' an income of about £BO,OOO, and supported 400 missionaries, and that the number of colonial bishops was now aug mented to upwards of 40. The Bishop of London, in responding, observed that although the society had existed for 200 years it was still working vigorously, and there had never been a period when its agency was so much required. When the society was first established England had but few colonies, or plantations as they were then called. Now she had dependencies all over the wor:d, and wherever the English name was known the Church of England was anxious to send the Gospel. The LORD MAYOI3 proposed " The Bench of Bishops," and expressed his deep gratification at finding the Church represented by about twenty prelates. The Bishop of LICHFIELD,. in responding, said he was old enough to remember a time when the bishops were set down as an idle body of men, but no ()Ike could now apply to them• such language. Every one must now admit that they belonged, in one sense, to the working classes. (Cheers:) Among the remaining toasts vv as that of " The Clergy," coupled with the name of the Bishop of Bangor, who preached that day for the Propagation Society at St. Paul's. The Bishop of BANGOR briefly returned thanks. Among the remaining toasts were "The Lord Mayor," proposed by the Bishop of Oxford ; " The Colonial Bishops," acknowledged by the Bishop of Sydney ; " The House of Lords" and " The House of Commons ;" " The Lady Mayoress ;" "The Magistrates of the City ;" and "The Sheriffs." COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, a Court of Coomon Council, specially convened for the purpose, was held at Guildhall to consider a proposition origi nating at a meeting of some of the principal mem bers of the corporation at the Mansion House, on Monday last, for giving a grand civic entertainment to the distinguished foreigners and other eminent persons visiting London during the International Exhibition. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor presided, and there was an unusually large attend ance of members, especially of the Court of Aldermen. Mr. Deputy HARRISON, pursuant to notice, pro ceeded to move a resolution on the subject. In matters of that kind, he said, they were usually guided by precedent, and he found one for the course he was about to propose in the entertainment given by the corporation of London in honour of the Great Exhibition of 1851, and which her Majesty graciously deigned to grace with her pre sence. On that occasion, as now, the corporation, regarding itself as the head of the great commer cial community of the City of London, felt that it behoved them to offer some mark of attention to the distinguished persons visiting the metropolis ; but even if there had been no such precedent, he sub mitted there were circumstances at the present time which would have justified them in creating one. (Cheers.) From the best information he had been able to obtain he found that there was now, or would shoe tlybe,a larger number of distinguished foreigners in this country than at any former time. The chief among them was the Viceroy of Egypt, n most friendly ally of this country. (Cheers) There• was no intelligent and patriotic Englishman who did Llot know or who had not a grateful recollection of the: friendly offices which Said Pasha rendered this country during the recent calamitous disturbances in. India, spontaneously opening, as his Highness did, at that great crisis, a highway through his territory for the transport of our troops and munitions of war to the theatre of the rebellion, and so contri buting materially to restore tranquillity and our prestige and dominion as a nation. (Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Deputy Harrison) could scarcely conceive anything which at this time would be more likely to afford the merchants and citizens of London greater satisfaction than to pay some distinguished mark of attention to so illustrious a personage. (Cheers.) Several other eminent individuals were expected here in the course of the summer. Prince Napoleon was to arrive in London to-day—a gen tleman whom he knew the corporation of London would be delighted to number among its guests. (Cheers.) Prince Carignan, he had also reason to believe, would arrive in a day or two, and other dis tinguished persons whom they would wish to honour. He submitted the corporation would do well to avail themselves of such an opportunity for giving a suit• able reception and entertainment to some of our most distinguished allies. (Cheers.) He believed that such a mark of attention would afford unquali fied satisfaction to persons in this country high in office and station, the more so as, unhappily, there were circumstances which for a time precluded the usual hospitality being shown to distinguished. strangers. Presuming that, as on the kindred occasion in 1851, the Common Council would appoint a committee in whom they could confide for deter mining the character and directing the arrange. ments of the proposed festival, he moved—" That an entertainment be given by this corporation to the distinguished foreigners and other eminent persons visiting London on the occasion of the International Exhibition." (Cheers.) Mr, KELDAY, the chairman of the City lands' committee, expressed the pleasure he felt 'in seconding the motion. The resolution was then put by the Lord Mayor, , and carried with acclamation. On the motion of Mr. Deputy H A RRISON, a com mittee was then nominated for making the requisite arrangements for the proposed entertainment, consisting of Alderman Humphery, Sir John Mus grove, Sir F. G. Moon, Salomons,Carter, Lawrence, Phillips, Gabriel, Allen, Abbiss,Dakin, Besley, Gib bins, and Rose, with a common councilman for each of the 26 wards into which the City is divided. Certain standing orders of the co urt , which w o uld h av e precluded them from their authorising the necessary expe nditure for the f es ti va l w ith ou t pre v iu notice, were also susp en d e d for th e occas i on. o Mr. 11. L. TAYLOR, in particular, and al so M r . Morisse. sought to have some limit fixed to the proposed HARRISON, amid loud cheers, on the oth derided the no ti on c pdu, t t. M e y hospitality by any figure of arithmetic as unworthy the corporation of London. The great majority frn hDaen cost. the court falling in with this view the committeeo were left with an unlimited credit as to the expenditure. WAIFS OP THE OCEAN.—The Tvne steamboat owners have secured another prize. On Thursday morning the steamtugs Ranger, Pioneer, Great Northern, and Rey nard, which went off on Monday night in search of a second derelict ship passed by sailing - Vessels on the edge of the Dogger Bank, about 80 miles from Tynemouth bar, brought her to the offing bottom up. The diver to the River Tyne Commissioners has been down in the diving bell, examining her this forenoon. Six feet of her foremast is standing, one of her anchors is hanging at her bows, but with the stock gone. Her stern frame is gone, so that her name has not been ascertained, and her cable, v bich has been dragged along the bottom of the sea, is quite bright. She is laden with tallow and hemp, and is supposed to be an Italian vessel, which was beund with a cargo of that de scription to Leith in September last, but which has been missing with her crew ever since. This afternoon an at tempt will be made to cant her on to her bottom with a parbucle, when the mystery that hangs about her fate, and that of her crew, may bo explained. The Mary of Exeter, which was brought into the Tyne on Sunday on her broad , . aide, has been got Ola to the Dertwick Sand and dried.