The Sun. — London, England, 1862-07-11 00:00:00

'r lil U N» EVERY WEEK. ONE PENNY. rrHEATRE-ROYAL DRURY.LANE. Dion Boucicault, Lessee. TO-NIGHT, FRIDAY, Jul' , 11, 186 , , the performances will commem.e at 7, with the SPITALI4IELDS WEAVER : Messrs. Atkins, F. Robinson, Sara Stevins. After which, THE COLLEE N BAWN : Messrs. Dion Boucicault, 11. Va.idenhoff, F. Robinson ; Madame Celeste, Jessie 51•Leau, Stevins. To conclude with THE KISS IN THE DARK Messrs. Atkins, Farrell ; Mrs. G. Jordan. Box-office open from 10 to 5. TriEAT.E.E-Ito rt HAN MAB,KET. Lessee Mr. J B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, at Seven, THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE. Mr. Compton, Miss Caroline Hill'' After which, at a quarter to 8, will be pertormed(l 72 d time) OUR AMERICAN UOUSLN. 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 de Ballet. To conclude with SHOCKING EVENTS. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee• Mr A. Harris. T HIS EVENING, THE RENDEZVOUS. AI essrs. niggle, Meadows, &c., and Miss Maria Harris. After which, at a quarter to F.ignt, KING HENRY VIII. Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. Charles Kean ; Queen Katharine, Mrs. Charles Kean. To conclude with THRICE MARRIED. Commence at 7. No half-price. OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Sole Lessee and 31anaer -Mr. Edmund Falconer. 205th Night of the 'ontinuons run of "Peep o'Day." THIS EVENING, PEEP O'DA Y ; or, Savournecn Deelish. Messrs. Waiter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, and Edmund Falconer ; 31rs. D. I'. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston, and Miss M. Hudson. After which, a new musical, pictorial, poetical, and ballet interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitty and Miss Lydia Thomson. Followed by a new Farce, entitled THE COLLEEN BAWN SETTLED AT LAST. Mr. Charles Selby and Miss Lydia Thompson. Actin.. Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till S. Commence a 7 NEW THEAYKE-KO YAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, D. Fisher, P. Bedford, Billington, C. J. Smith, Stuart, Eburne, &c. ; MiseWoolgar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Laidlaw. To conclude with THE SHILLING DAY. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Emery, bliss Latimer, Mrs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. 4STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. Revival of "Mazeppa." THIS EVENING will be performed MAZEPPA ; or, The Wild Horse of Tartary, with New Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations. To be followed by a brilliant routine of novel and daring Scenes in the Circle. Concluding with a Comb Ballet. In which the Misses Gunnis and the whole of the Corps de Ballet will appear. Commence at 7.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle. CANTERBURY HALL. The renowned Performers, DEBONNAIRE and AUGONARD (from Paris), will make their first appearance on Monday evening. Grand Selection from Donizetti's Opera, " DON SE BASTIEN," Arranged and conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. The Great Comic Trio, Eugene, Dnley, and Unsworth (the original of the celebrated Stump Speech, " Or any other man "). And a great array of other Comic Talent. T H O X F OR D , 6, OXFORD STREET. " THE DAUGHTER OF THE ISLES," a Cantata composed by H. LESLIE, Esq., and written by A. MArrmsoN. Esq., in honour of the Marriage of her If_oyal Highness the Princess Alice, EVERY EVENDIG, in addition to the usual entertainments, which include operatic selections by Miss Russell, Madame Enderssohn, Messrs. Morley, Greene, and Albert, with Full Band and Chorus ; the Comic performances of Miss Caroline Parkes and Mr. W. Randall, the Ethiopian oddities of Ramsey, Newcomb, Little Bob, Eugene, and Unsworth (the original "or any other man"), and the astounding feats of the miraculous STECKEL, Champion Trapezist. B a lcony and Stalls, s. ; Private Admission, 6d.; l Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tnis DA.T.—Morning, lb. 10 m. —Afternoon, lh. 40m. To-moituow.-Mortiing, 2h. sm. —Afternoon, 2h. 30m. NOTICE. Ail remittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at T he Sun office, 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. •••1 x rya ,l ~,, /.. , r :,.....„ _c-,,,,u•.-,-: ,_.,,,, L ~.,.-s--J.4-----,:1)4_,J ai ( tc „ i ., ::•;± ; - -4,,,s'Y ~.Jo- _,•) , t • - \' i .....„,,,. ~..,..,,,,; t . ~„_,,,,,,,........: 2). ,•,,- 0 ,,.,‘, ,:.,-,_,,.. -•;_. ...,, -,,, THE SUN. LONDON, FhIDAY. JULY 11, 1862. Colonel KNOX would, perhaps, do well if he were to think twice before again venturing in the British House of Commons to champion the cause of the Taepings. Some people may have imagined that the Prime Minister spoke in terms of exaggeration towards the close of the discussion which took place the other night on the motion of the hon. gentleman the member for Brighton. It is probable, however, that they will regard these words of Lord PAL MERSTON as rather feebly expressive of horror and loathing, if applied to the opposite side (that is to the Chinese themselves), when a narrative, which we publish in another part of our im pression of this evening, has been glanced at. It i s a narrative, the like of which has never, perhaps, before now, appeared in print, Pray Heaven, no other truthful record of the same kind may ever again make its appearance. ! We publish this dreadful s record of atrocities with re luctance. But we are constrained to do so from a sense of solemn duty. Besides—it were impossible now to gloss the truth over by an attempt at its suppression. It is too late for any such m i staken endeavour. Even supposing it to be still pos sible, we believe it would, if carried tont, have been monstrously mistaken. Such an effort at conceal ment, however, is impossible, as it happens: the appalling description given this evening in the Columns of The Sun, having already, this morning, appeared simultaneously in the columns of the , Daily ems and the Morning Advertiser. A glance at it, We repeat, will be quite sufficient. Nay, fur that matter we would almost defy any man of commo n h umanity, to say nothing of those who are possessed of anything like sensibility, to read what is there related, throughout. It is no affectation to comm ent upon those events thus. Our words are faint and feeble as expressions of horror and of indignation. It would require a vocabulary like that of TIMoN, when cu rsing Athens in his flight from it, to afford any °nett. ue remotest notion of the sense of abhorrence produced b a perusal of even the merest fr a g ments o f such a narrative of unspeakable abominatio n. Yet i s the narr ative the simple and literal record of facts. And a record of facts penned, moreover, by the hand of an English man. It describes—this astounding docum ent __ the treatment of the Taepings by the Chi nese not of the Chinese by th e Taeplegs! Let not the Prime Minister of England again taunt Colonel XNox, or anyone else, in the House or out of it, with venturing to advocate the cause of the Tae ping Revolutionists. Talk of the brutalities of these Taepings They are absolutely as nothing to the fiendish cruelties perpetrated upon them by the very race that we English, forsooth, and our impe rial neighbours, the French, are expected to aid and abet with our banded forces in trampling them down and suppressing them in their capacity as Revolutionists. The only marvel is, while glancing with a shudder down these records of infamy in the way of punish, mint, the only wonder is, as we turn sickening from the description, that there is no record there also of the ground opening under the feet of their perparators and swallowing them up. There—in that Celestial Empire, in that Flowery land of China—it is as If we were looking appalled down one of the vistas of DANTE's Inferno. It is like c,itaing a glimpse of " the abomination of desola ., All that the evil minds and the more evil hurts of human reptiles like the demons of the First French Revolution ever imagined,3gined, seem s there on that chi n cf:e soil, among thos e Chinese people, actually reaiised and enacted.. It isuesite extremity tical illustration, at PP the prue the IjGrl, of this Eastern hemisphere, of the ravings of the brutalised and brutalising Pere .Du cheane. Women as well as men, the wriest patriarchs and the veriest striplings, maidens and matrons, little children of both sexes, mothers with their infants in their arms and others as yet but enceinte, are described as having been thus promiscuously h u ddl e d toget h er as t h e v i ct i ms of those execrable ruffians—those dear friends and allies of ours, the Chinese ! Those dreadful bar barians, deeming all the rest of the world unci vilised but themselves! And whose Imperial forces we are expected to assist vi et colas, by land and by sea, in putting down the Taeping revolu tionists ! Why, after the merest momentary glance at the simple record here given of these proceedings in regard to the treatment of these Taeping pri soners, we are disposed to read Lord PALMERSTON'S expressions of horror and disgust, a night or two back, quite the other way. We should, in obedience to this natural revulsion of feeling, be even disposed to bestow our sympathy upon the Taepings, but that we know only too well that the latter are nearly of the same blood and temperament them selves. Colonel KNox Will do well, therefore, we repeat, in thinking twice before he again champions in the British House of Commons the cause of the Taeping revolutionists. But Lord PALMERSTON will do better still if he keeps somewhat more within check his overweening sympathy for the butchers of these Taepings, those wretched mis creants, their Chinese executioners. If anything in the wide world can induce Lord PALMERSTON to alter his views upon any subject, it must certainly be this hideous and overwhelming testimony against the Chinese, penned by the hand of an eye-witness, and that eye-witness an Englishman. Lord RUSSELL and GARIBALDI appear, after ali, to be very much of a mind. No means by whi c h two such different men could express their senti ments can well be more diverse, yet they substan tially concur. The generous hearted popular hero addresses the citizens of Palermo from a balcony ; the cold aristocrat writes to a cold brother aristo crat in Foreign-office despatches to an ambassa dor. Yet what it all comes to is that LOUIS NAPO LEON and the POPE are the two greatest enemies of Italy. The hero, in the city where he made the first step towards Italian unity, warns Italians against Bourbonism, ill requiting, as it does, the leniency with which it has been treated ; against Muratism, because it is essentially despotism, and still more be cause the relative of MURAT still " keeps the cancer in the heart of Italy at Rome." " I must tell you," he says, " this truth—NAPOLEON, the autocrat, the powerful tyrant of France, is not our friend. No. My words contain a disillusion, but the people of Italy must be undeceived. Ido not speak to you of the French people. Like ourselves they have need of liberty ; to-day, unfortunately, they are dragged down by despotism; but they are our brethren, and you must learn to distinguish between oppressor and oppressed. The people of France, the people of Germany, the people everywhere are our brethren." And next with a difference he comes to the capital of Italy and its Temporal Prince—" A third evil I pointed out long since to the people of Naples; to day I point it out to the people of Palermo : it is the POPE. Look to it that you distinguish true priests from false. The monks of the Gancia and other priests of Palermo, for example, who fought with us upon the barricades—note how they differ from the priests who surround the POPE in Rome, The first are the ministers of GOD, the second are the minis ters of the DEVIL." GARIBALDI is a Catholic, but not a Roman Catholic—a believer in a first Bishop, but neither a Papist nor a political Ultramontanist. We now come to the English Foreign Secretary ; adverting to a plan discussed in the Debats, of a mixed French and Italian garrison, his Lordship suggests, as better than that, that the French should with the POPE occupy, as a temporary ar rangement, the Vatican or ecclesiastical side of the city, and the King of ITALY the Civil City on the other side of the Tiber. In this position he thought time and circumstances would compel an amicable understanding. M. THOUVENEL half jesuitically replies that the plan, he feared, would be accepted by neither party—the POPE would be obstinate, and the Italian Government would accept nothing less than Rome for the capital of Italy. "1 he ut most that can be expected of us (says M. THOUVENEL) would be the restoration of Rome to the Romans." Amen ! says Lord RUSSELL. I never expected that the POPE would give way; he never has given way in times past to the most reasonable proposals; and any Italian Minister must hesitate or even re fuse, if asked to part with any portion of the capi tal of Italy. Even Lord COWLEY knew, without referring home, that England would be pleased with any arrangement which left " the Romans masters of their own destinies." In the following interview on the 28th March, M. THOUVENEL questioned the claims of the Italians on Venetia, and talked of the temporal rights of the POPE and of inter national law, on which matters Lord COWLEY found it not difficult apparently to silence him. What he could not alter was the stubborn will of him whom GARIBALDI terms the " autocrat and powerful despot of France." Ile saw little hope, and he ex presses his regret at seeing it, of "modifying by discussion or remonstrance the course which the EMPEROR'S Government is resolved to pursue." To this Lord RUSSELL replies, pointing out with spirit the despotism, the violation of international law, and the anarchical consequences of the EM PEROR'S wilfulness :—" Setting aside," he ob serves, "all difference between a Protestant and Roman Catholic Sovereigns, it is manifest that the principle thus upheld is at variance with the principles maintained everywhere else by France as well as by Great Britain. Rome is foreign terri tory ; the Romans are to have nothing, and foreign troops everything, to say to the form of its govern ment. This system can hardly be of long duration, it is too directly opposed to the maxims of inter national law and the wishes of the Italian people." What follows is a lesson for the Marquis of NOR MANBY as well as for the " Autocrat and powerful despot." a The RUSSELL French Government," says L or d , . 4 must Government of Itatlot make it a reproach to th e are not in a state of t Y that th e S ou th ern provinces ran q u illity, while the French flag protects the POPE In main w here every chief of bri taining a sanctuary gand s futueraen ifi. nc n u d rs a io r n e s fug o e n , and prepare his band for peaceful provinces." Thus we have two such widely m it erent men one in their opinion of the EMPEROR and the ° One must speak with the restrain t of diplool27t.E. courtesy, the other speaks with the frankue ss of patriotic and generous indignation. The Port is the very core of Italian evils. Did no such anti- christian monstrosity exist as a successor prO of a hum'ole Apostle and represcrAative of a humble SAVIOUR, who himself lived on charity and had not where to lay his he a d, arrogating t o himself despotic rule over an i n di gnant peop l e , supporting that despotism by foreign bayonets—did not this monstrosity exist, Italy would be politically at ease, and her provinces free from papal cut-tbroatzi. Equal in guilt, because the upholder of this religious , and political barbarism, is the Emperor of the THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 11, 1862. FRENCH—he it is who " tyrannically intervenes in a city where he has no more right to be than in London itself. Nothing can excuse the wrong. If he has political difficulties at home, that is no excuse for his saddling the Romans with a Go- vernment they detest, to suit his purposes. We only hope the issue may be a lasting severance between Italians and the Papacy they so justly detest_ Mr. PEABODY'S reception yesterday in the City of London was all that could possibly have been desired. It was as cordial and unaffected as it deserved to be. It did honour at once to the muni cipal body who bestowed it, and to the benevolent gentleman who was itsrecipient. The munificence of this merchant prince was of a nature so exceptional that it necessitated something exceptional in the manner of its recognition. Not every day, not even in every century is it, that a prosperous man of the world can be found with a heart large enough and a purse long enough to vindicate in a manner sohaveresplenden t been "provident his ardour ezn philanthropist.asamete inh te human a lf there form, like old ELWES or like JEMMY WOOD of Gloucester, who have starved themselves to hoard up treasures that have at last accumulated to use less millions sterling—by a beneficent compensa tion, reconciling us to our own race (caricatured in the persons of those misers who are of all men among the most miserable) there are other men, men of a very di ff ei e ,n r os e nt n e t tand t e y n p efo e nh a ter n ian d ray c , haracter, men s ve r r id y ie n n a l m e, e a s r , h e exposed ld te tenderly e the rly w w an ho d rols l de o ' vingly in the world's grateful remembrance. Such a benefactor of his fellow-creatures was that good old Tar, Captain CORAM, the Captain CORAM whose portrait HOGARTU painted, the Founder of our Foundling Hospital. Such another was that benignant and open-handed merchant, ROBERT COLSTONE of Bristol, whose schools and hospitals still flourish down in his native city, and up here also in the scenes of his residence during his long passed lifetime, in our ewn metropolis. Happily for the character of our age we have still recognizable among the merchant princes of the present generation, two noble-hearted men not unworthy of having their names enrolled in the same category with those of Captain CORAM and Mr_ COLSTONE, There is WILLIAM BROWN, of Liverpool ! And—American though the other is by birth, we may claim him as an English man by adoption—there is GEORGE PEABODY of London ! They are men—these noble-souled con temporaries—whom Princes might be proud to honour. They are men at any rate whom a whole people have learnt to respect and admire. The monuments of Mr. BROWN'S magnificent generosity are already conspicuous among the glories of that seat of commerce in England, the world's empo rium, the great seaport of Liverpool. As to the monument of Mr. PEABODY'S munificence, we all know what that is—we all recognise in the thought that suggested it the amplitude of his goodwill to his fellow-creatures. For this gift of £150,000 to the very poor of London, the City of London had yesterday the opportunity of expressing its grati tude to Mr. PEABODY, by the bestowal upon him of the honorary freedom of the Corporation in a gold box of the value of a hundred guineas, and by his reception afterwards at a superb civic entertain ment. Some few years hence the Parliament elected in 1859, under the auspices of the Tory CASTOR and POLLUX, will be reverted to as the Parliament of bigotry and reaction. It has set its face against the political reforms which both Whigs and Tories of former Parliaments had sanctioned, and has espe cially delighted in Wednesday musters against civil and religious liberty. Last Wednesday it signally maintained its reputation in the second, if indeed we ought not to call it the first, division of liberty. Mr. BOUVERIE'S Bill may not apply to a very large class, though it may be very much larger than is at present known. But in England we do not always inquire into the numbers who suffer under any grievance—if it be a real one, if the complaint be well founded, and especially if re dressing it inflicts no wrong on any one, we are ready to do justice to a small number or even to a single individual. It cannot be denied that, judged by the principles of religious liberty now acknowledged by all par ties, the clergymen whom Mr. BOUVERIE'S Bill would relieve have a real and a great grievance. They are subject to civil pains and penalties, penalties almost involving starvation, for exercising the plainest right of every Protestant and of every Englishman. Any of us may change our opinion after twenty-two years of age on any religious sub ject we please. We may reject the whole of the Thirty-nine Articles, though Dr. LUSHINGTON pronounces that legally they contain all truth; we may adopt the decrees of the Council of Trent, or we may deny Christianity itself, yet no penalty falls upon us. The unfortunate clergyman alone, who, when scarcely out of his teens, has subscribed the Articles and Prayer Book as a pass port to the Ecclesiastical service of the State, may never change his opinion, under penalty of being forbidden to earn his living in any other profession, and of being liable to prosecution and imprisonment at the mercy of any informer, if he resign the wealthiest living in the Church, and officiate as a clergyman teaching what subsequent inquiries con vince him to be true. Now this is surely simply outrageous. Yet relief from such penalties is so grudged by Hyper-Churchmen that Sir LAWRENCE PALK,-let not his name be forgotten in the annals of bigotry, induced 98 Englishmen to refuse it on Wednesday to their fellow Englishmen. The proceeding of Sir LAWRENCE and his 98 was mean, base, and false. The bill had passed not only the second reading, but that most conservative of ordeals, a select committee; it had been considered in committee of the whole house—several rights of those in whose behalf it was introduced had been surrendered to propitiate sheer bigotry and pre judice, and after all this, when the third reading was supposed to be merely a matter of.course, this enlightened Dorsetshire Baronet proposes its rejec tion on the third reading when opposition had not been anticipated. This was the dirty trick of a political sharper. Then to a trick worthy of the turf in its worst state, he added what was certainly an utterly false statement. Sir LAWRENCE, after wards, said he bad read the bill,—yet he affirmed, nor did he retract it, that the bill "asked that the House of Commons should exercise a power never assumed by the Pope of ROME in the haughtiest days of the Church—namely, to release priests from their vows." This is distinctly false; the bill leaves untouched the opinion about Holy Orders. The EnglandChure f l o i r o ta f odoing. and the Seceder may regard them as i ndelible or not, as they please, it only pro vides that th e c l ergyman who desires to renounce t c h o e un s t e y rvrnieecabers ° f 0 service of the Ch urc h s h a ll b e f ree f rcm penal tiesTh ur Church Romanis m a y i n regard g Bishops the man and as still i n Tioi demands that th,yraherB' if they like, the bill on ly piison, if he iloes not all not be abl e to p u t hi m in thinki with th e m. It ena bl es k him to earn his li v i ng 7,6 e 73 7 other man. How charactaistic is it of th e pride of a Chur c h f oun d e d by the cixpenterts Son, twelv e fi ebermcn and a tent maker—the latter boasting that he Worked at his trade rather than take fees or tithes—that this Church should new prohibit its " priests" from honest trade, and that not only while they do priest's work, but even after their consciences have compelled them to renounce it. Mr. ROEBUCK exactly hit the mark when, after the strong practical remarks of Lord HENLEY and Mr. BOUVERIE, he told the bigots that two ideas underlay all their opposition to the bill. The first —that a man could Control, govern, and altogether bind his opinions. The second—that there, was " something in the hands of a bishop whieb, when they were put upon a man's head, went through him and attached to him for ever." If a man having at 22 signed the articles, and, having read and thought on the subjects to which they relate, at 27 found as the result of honest inquiries that the evidence failed to support them, was it in his power to govern his opinion so as not to conform it to the evidence ? Yet the opponents of the bill told him that what he believed at 22 he must be lieve at 70, if he lived so long. Mr. ROEBUCK asked the House if any roan among them believed these two monstrosities—we regret to say that Si r LAWRENCE PALK and ninety-eight English gentle men said—yes. We cannot blame the House, however, for re jecting Mr. HENNESSY'S Bill, for reasons, how ever, very different to those which moved Mr. IVIIALLEY—its great defect in our eyes was its sec tarian character. Had it taken broad ground, and claimed equal rights for all denominations of Chris tians, we should have cordially supported it. It is, we think, overweening arrogance in the Church of Eng• land to claim not only all the great good things of the land, but if only a poor £5O is to be had in a gaol or a workhouse for ministerial services, to demand that the Church of England should have that too —to grudge to Nonconforming dogs, indeed, the crumbs which fall from her wealthy table. At present the ministers of all Nonconformists, Roman Catholics included, stand on a level. If prisoners desire their services they are at liberty to send for them. Mr. HENNESSY wants to elevate the minis ters of his Church above those of other Nonconform ing Churches in England. He wants also a little pay for them. We have no doubt that for the class of persons who fill our prisons, the uneducated Methodist minister would often be the most efficient instructor—he understands them better. But, as in everything else, the dominant Church excludes them from prison chaplaincies, because, for these, the State pays. It will never do, however, to carry sectarianism into gaols and workhouses. Those who sacrifice their liberty through crime, or even misfortune, must be content with the ministrations of the chaplain provided for them. The only thing really wrong at present is, the restriction of the choice of chaplains to the Established Church, when cases are constantly occurring of special adaptation of persons belonging to other sects for dealing with prisoners. EXECUTION OF TAEPING PRISONERS. The following account of the brutalities commit ted on the Taepings by the Imperialists, is from the pen of an Englishman, who was present, in company with both English and French officers and soldi€rs, at the execution by disembowelment of Taeping prisoners : " I went with the crowd to see the execution of t' e Tae ping prisoners that had been given up for execution into the hands of the mandarins by the English and French autho. rities ; or, what is the same thing, they took no rAasures to prevent the ruthless butchery of those they lent their aid to capture ; when, horror of horrors, how am I to describe the dreadful scene, or will it ever leave my memory ? Among these wretches were young and old, of both sexes, and of all ages and sixes, from the infant recently born to the man of eighty, tottering on his staff; from the enciente woman to the young maiden from ten to eighteen. The latter were pushed out by the guards among the crowd of ruffians as sembled, and were taken into sheds and by-places and de bauched, and again dragged back by the hair of the head to the Chinese guards, to await their turn for execution. Some of them had fainted, and were pulled along the ground to the executioners, who threw them on their backs, tore off their clothes, and ripped them from the lower part of the abdomen to the breasts, which were cut off and dashed with a curse in their faces. The bowels, as a matter of course, gushed out; but the cut was made in such a way—so skilfully and with such expertness, that the intestines were seldom injured. After a little time in this state of excessive torture, the exe cutioner thrust his hand into the chest and tore out the reeking heart, his victim looking him in the face all the while. A young female, apparently about eight months pregnant, who never uttered a groan or a sigh at all the previous cruelties she had endured from the surrounding mob, had her infant cut out of her womb, and held up in her sight by one of its little hands bleeding and quiver ing; when at the sight she gave one heart• rending pierc ing screech that would have awakened pity in a tiger, and after it had been in that state dashed on her breast, she, with a last superhuman effort, released her arms from those holding her down, and clasped her infant to her bleeding heart and died, holding it there with such force that they could not be separated and when thlis thrown together on the pile of, other carcasses. Ano ther young woman among the prisoners awaited her turn to be disembowelled, with a fine boy of ten Months old, crowing and jumping in her arms, had him snatched suddenly away from her, and flung to the executioner, who plunged the ruthless knife into his tender breast before his mother's eyes. Infants but rec.mtly born were torn from their mother's breasts, and disembowelled before their faces. Young strong men were diserebowellet4 mutilated, and the parts cut cif thrust into their own. mouths, or flung among the admiring and laughing crowd of Chinamen. But no tnote, I can write no 'More df these scenes; I can now only regret for ewer that I looked on the dreadful sight. lam no longer fit to be a soldier. I have been in many battles during the last twenty years, and in the thickest of the fight in most of them,where a raFe and thirst for Carnage is dreadful to reflect on after wardai but nothing heretofore that I have seen or heard of, or even read of, could be compared to the dreadful cruelty of the disembowelling execution. May Cod forgive England for the part she is taking in this war, and may the sin of the enormities she has assisted in perpetrating on the defence less 'worn en, and, innocent and helpless child, be removed from her door; and after the treatment English women and children met with froth the hands of the blacks in the Sepoy mutiny, it is truly wonderful that Englishmen should join in or countenance similar atrocities here. it is now ascertained for a certainty that B— and his companions, after having been tortured in every way that Chinese inge nuity and cruelty could devise, were afterwards mutilated and then disembowelled by the Imperialists; and for that reason the Chinese authorities would not produce their dead bodies, Poor F—, who came with me to sea the execution, fell down in a fainting fit, and was in that state carried away, and is now a raving maniac from the effects the dreadful sight had on him. We are now, with the money wrung from the starving poor of England, assisting those very monsters whose hands are dyed red in the blood of our countrymen, and for what ? For the sake of the golden trade derived from their country. Englishmen, what would be your feelings, had your fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, wives, and children, been served by Frenchmen or Russians as described above? Would you think that any amou n t o f r e ve n ge you could take on them would be halt sufficient ? But God, who looks with pity on the sufferings of His creatures, *sees all this, and hears all their cries of despair and agony ; and yet it must be all right, or else He would not permit it. I am well punished, you will say, for neglecting my kind good uncle's anxious desire for me to leave the army, and join him in Australia, and I feel so myself." BANQUET TO M. ROUHER.—An invitation was last week, addressed by 157 members of both sides of the House of Commons to M. Rouher, the French Minister of Com merce, then on a visit to London, to a banquet in honour of his eminent services to the cause of Free Trade. On receipt of this invitation M. Rouher returned to Paris, and, with the full approbation of the Emperor of the French, has now formally accepted it. The entertainment will take place at Willis's Rooms, on the 16th instant, Mr. Milner Gibson, as. President of the Board of Trade, presid ing. Places have been reserved on this interesting occasion for the Presidents of the various Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom. A wooded country is almost invariably a wet country. The climate of Italy has been much improved by cutting down many of the Appenine woods; mid Germany, owing to the clearing away of its dense forests, has obtained a similar blessing. Most likely this change has passed over our own country; many parts of it in ancient times w..re covered with forests, of which prehistoric traces may be often seen in quarries, and historic remains are occa sionally disclosed at a very low tide, or when a Log is being drained. Of late years the Brazilian Government deemed it necessary to forbid any more wood to be cut on the Organ moutAins, for it was found that the rainfall of Rio Janeiro, which lies at their base, was therPli , y bein inconveniently lcwered.—Once a Wok. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. REVIVAL OF " HENRY THE EIGHTH." There are not ii few people who maintain that the modern sensation drama, which made its ap pearance in this country some 40 yecra ago, and which has so reeentiy and generaly been surfeiting ) our visions, if not outraging our tastes, reached its climax at the Princess's Theatre at the hands of Mr. Kean. In that great system of " revivals" which made his management so famous, and which selected Shakespeare as their subject, on the groand of giving the greatest dra matic productions the greatest amount of illustra tion, they detect the sensuous principle carried out to its extreme audacity, in its most unscrupu lous subjection of the highest mind to the merest show. Mr. Kean, according to their view, was the most intense dramatic materialist, who, believ ing in form instead of spirit, erected means into the place of ends, and enthroned the senses in that of the soul. He was a sort of theatrical "Julian," who carried the public back from the true faith, the ennobling worship of the ideal—to the old and worn-out paganism of spectacle and move meat. There is some excess in this opinion, but there is also some little truth in it. In such revivals as " The Tempest," the" Midsummer Night's Dream," and more especially "The Winter's Tale," we cer • tainly think that Mr. Kean was justly obnoxious to these charges. 11 , hen under the plea of illustrating the Poet, the latter was most unscrupulously muti lated—whole scenes being cut out in order to intro dues) " effete—such as the astronomical phe nomena, thrust into the " Winter's Tale," which is would be as difficult to find in the play, as in the entire history of the drama, down to the date of their production, but one conclusion can be come to —that the entire aim of such a revival was, in the strictest sense, sensational. A great offence was committed, in order to create a great excitement. Shakespeare—who, of all writers, if only faithfully interpreted, tends to purify the taste by his higher impulse of the sympathies—was actually converted in to a stimulant of the verycraving he would restrain. He was made the vehicle for promoting a state of mind he is the most opposed to. Thus the double offence was committed not only of pandering to the lowest taste in mere spectacular display, but of degrading to that purpose the highest and purest instrumentality. Oa the other hand it is just as true, that in his King John, his King Lear, and, with some small exceptions, his Merchant of Venice, Mr. Kean was entitled to the praise of faithfully interpreting the poet, and rendering him the entire homage which, in other instances, had been denied. Here, true to his professed ob ject of simply illustrating the text, he was as honest as he was reverent—subjecting means to ends— placing the humanity in the foreground and its ac cessories in the back. Among the plays belonging to this category we must include " Henry the Eighth," with the one exception, however, of the embodiment of Katherine's dream, which, however beautiful, must be regarded as a mere sensation incident. There can be little doubt that this is a play well entitled to this homage. With the sole exception of " King John," it is the most dramatic of the historical plays, whilst it has tie characteristic of being also the most impressive and effecting. Where else has Shakespeare so painted the great moral of authority, the cares and dangers of domi nion, the gilded miseries of courts, the coroding jealousies of rank, the fatal penalties of ambition ? Sorrow and trial are here depicted as almost the heritage of kings and nobles. The higher the rank the sharper the pang, is the greater depth of Its deceptions. If its royalty has not the cruelty or craftiness of John's, scarcely less instructive is the picture of its arrogant and unbridled selfishness which consecrates sensuality by an abuse of the holiest rites. Scarcely less affecting than the story of either Margaret or Constance is that of the noble Katherine, who, in the possession of all virtues, is thrust away, in open shame, to die meekly of a broken heart ; and descending lower, what is there to parallel the courtier fate of Wolsey. So high, aspiring, and so crushed—who points the moral of all ambition in those memorable parting words, which compose alike for priest and layman the grandest warning upon record, save by mind.s that were inspired. We think, there fore that Mr. Harris was well warranted in reliev ing the usual flow of Mr. Kean's performances, which have been till now of the romaniic drama, by this Shakesperian revival, seeing that whilst it contains so much that must attract our London sight seers, it presents also so much in substance as well as exposition that must commend it to all playgoers. As the revival is a fac simile of its production by Mr. Kean some seven or eight years ago, we can have no occasion to dilate on the truth or beauty of its details, but may content ourselves with saying that they present every attraction which was felt on their first presentment—from the stinking reality of the trial and banquet scenes to the picturesqueness of the descending angels. It is only necessary to say that the play, for the convenience of our country cousins, is made to con , chide at the fourth act. We turn therefore to the aetingi which we eau praise without reserve. Mr, Kean's Wolsey is a much superior effort to its first presentment. It had then a physical vigour and a tettlessness which were as much at variance with its historical en they were opposed to its poetic truths it wanted relief and it wanted earnestness. All these defentg have disappeared, It is now a very deep and a very genuine performance, Which impresses as much by its dignity as it moves by its pathos. It is a conception s hich marks with singular skill the expiring struggle in the states breasts in whioh ambition and compunction strive to the last motetit for mastery, and doss not fail by many natural batches, to eaeite the sympathies of the spectator, whilst in its broad otitline it presents much to act en the imagination. Mrs. Resn's Katherine is also a per formance of the greatest merit. It le (me of those assumptions into which she has gradually ma: tura' with such perfection that we should vainly seek for any rival to it, whether in perception or in bearing. All the heroic spirit of the princess, which the poet has so wonderfully mingled with the loving soul of the woman, Mrs. Kean presents in all their: vividness and with a naturalness which evidences her rare amount of art. Tho Buckingham of Mr. Jordan was also very commendable, the great speech to the people being very feelingly delivered. The house, we need not say, was crowded to the roof by this revival, and the applause was loud throughout, Mr. and Mrs. Kean receiving their usual and well de served demonstrations. THE JAMAICA COTTON.—The cotton now being spun by Messrs. Dobson and Barlow, in the Western Annex, International Exhibition, was grown by the Jamaica Cotton Company, at Manchioneal, Jamaica. The seed of some of it was planted in the fall of last year, and picked from the trees in April and May of this year. The finest kind is from the green seed, common in the island ; the other from Egyptian seed, sent from this country. Ono has been valued a t Liverpool, on the 4th inst., by Messr s . St ea d B rothers, at 2s. 3d. to 2s. 6d. per lb., and the other at ls. 6d. per lb. The trees from which it is picked will, as they progress, give more and stronger cotton. They are perennial, and after the first planting will be attended with much less ex pense for cultivation than at first. Trees are now in bear ing in the island which were planted 40 years ago. The cost of labour is at the least from 30 to 50 per cent. less than that of slave labour in Cnba, New Or.eans, or Porto Rico; and though there may, in a few districts of Jamaica, be a scarcity of labourers fit for the hard work of the cane field, in many parts of the island the women and children, who are well suited for cotton picking, hctvo literally no thing to do, and consider the employment furnished by the company quite a providence. It being so, and millions of acres of the finest cotton land lying waste in Jamaica whilst our manufacturers are in a state of most distressing desti tution for want of cotton, there seems no reason why a vigorous and united effort should not now be made to supply the need of our manufacturers froth our own colonies, and thus to assist the West Indian landed proprietors, by giving a value to their land, as well as the emancipated peasantry, by affording a demand for their labour. The Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland hold their ,annual meeting this year at Wor cester, commencing on Tuesday, the 22d inst. The details of the programme are not yet defined, but it is under stood they willrembrace visits to the various archaaological. remains in the neighbourhood, with meetings, a temporary museum, and other 11e0s of furthering the objects of the society. LATEST . NEWS. THE BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, JULY H. The Nonitcur of this morning publishes the usual monthly return of the Bank of France, which shows the following changes compared with the June return : Cash in band. DECREASE. 24 2-5 millions. INCREASE. Bill discounted not yet due 61 1-5 millions. Advances -10 „ Bank notes Treasury balance -5 11 Current accounts PARIS, JULY 11. The Moniteur of to-day gives an account of the r c• on of the Emperor Bourges. His Majesty, in reply to the address of the Mayor, said that he intended to create a great mili tary establishment at Bourges, which, on account of its central position, would increase the defensive forces of France. In reply to the Archbishop of Bourges, the Em peror thanked him for his proofs of devotion, and added, that in the presence of injustice and excite ment he would remain immoveable in the line of policy which he had followed, and, While maintain ing intact sovereign rights, he would seize every occasion for expressing his respect for religion. MADRID, JULY 10. According to news received here from the city of Mexico, and published by the Madrid papers, a Provisional Government was established there on the 15th ult., composed of five leading citizens, who are charged to arrange general elections with a view of establishing a monarchy under the pro tection of Europe. It was the disagreement of M. Mon with the policy pursued by General Prim at. Orizaba which led to the resignation by the former of the Presi dency of the Chamber of Representatives. FRANCE. BOURSE, July 10.—Great heaviness has prevailed in the market to-day; Stock has been rather offered, and prices at present show a decline on the closing rates of yesterday. Threes, for the Account, are now at 68f. 30c, The Railway Share Market has been also dull. The market closed as follows : ft per Cents. 97 50 Do. end 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 35 New 3 per Cents Do. end month — Credit Alobi Do. end month 825 Bank Shares 3142 50 Credit I oneier 1760 Piedmontesc Fives 72 go Italian Loan 7O 50 Roman Austrian Span6h Threes — Home Debt IiAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1265 .. 1265 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1030 .. 1081 25 Geneva 345 .. 345 Sot , thern BOB 75 .. 810 Western Eastern Sardinian .. 360 .. 360 Austrian Lon , ba,rd AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY NIGHT. The Hamburg American Company's screw steam ship Bavaria, Captain Taube, arrived off Cowes at 7 p.m., with mails from New York of the 28th ult., and went on to Hamburg. She brings 199 passengers (of whom 21 are for Southampton, 65 for Havre, and 113 for Hamburg), 541,717 dols. for England, 248,400 dols. for France, and 10,000 dols, for Hamburg. The Bavaria made the voyage from Sandy Hook to the Needles in 11 days 23 hours. During the first three days she experienced strong easterly winds, and the latter part of the voyage westerly winds and fair weather. In lat. 43.30 N., long. 48 W., passed several icebergs. At 10 p.m. on the 29th ult., in lat. 40.44 N., long. 67 W., the Bavaria spoke the steamer Tett tonia, bound hence to New York. In the Senate, at Washington, on the 26th ult., petitions were presented in favour of a ship canal from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi, and of a bankrupt law. The bill to carry into effect the treaty with Great Britain for the suppression of the slave trade was passed, with only four dissenting vo t e s. The b;11 for the admission of Western Vir ginia was taken up, but pending its consideration the Senate resolved itself into a High Court of Im peachment, for the trial of 'eVest H. Humphreys, of Tennessee. The galleries were densely crowded to witness the proceedings. The members of the House of Representatives came in and filled the seats of the Senators, who were arranged upon a platform specially constructed for the purpose. The witnesses, including Colonel Polk, Parson Browniow, and Bailie Peyton, occupied settees on the outer circle. Two tables were placed in the area fronting the Secretary's desk, one of which was surrounded by the managers on the part of the House to prosecute the case, while the other was unused—the accused, with his counsel, not being 7.)resent. The proceedings were conducted with all the dignity becoming a High Court of Ink- peachment. The accused was found guilty on the first article of impeachment by a unanimous vote of the 38 Senators present; he was also found guilty on all the ether articles but one—that which charged a c o afiscation of the property of citizens of the United States. The judgment of the Court was I that Judge Humphrejts be removed from his office, and for ever disqualified tlom holding or enjoying any office of honour, trust, or profit under the United States. The Court and the Senate then ad journed. In the House, when the members returned from the Senate Chamber, Mr. Walton, of Vermont, as a question of privilege, caused to be read a commu nication in the Tribune in regard to " the Intel. ligencer Book Job," and introduced a preamble and resolution calling for an investigation of the charges contained in the communication. The resolution was adopted-10 2 to 8. The Senate Bill to pro vide additional medical officers in the volunteer service was passed. The members then again pro ceeded to the Senate Chamber to hear judgment pronounced in the impeachment case, and, on re turning, adjourned. The National Choral Society will give an open air choral performance in the gardens of the Royal Horti cultural Society, South Kensington, to-morrow (Saturday) afternoon. The choir will number 1,000 voices, and w ill be under the direction of Mr. G. W. Martin. The success of the National Choral Society's singing at the converse zkine of the Society of Arts en Wednesday, at the South Kensington Museum, has much increased the interest taken in the proposed open air performance. EARTHQUAKE IN MALTA AND CANDlA.—Con siderable alarm was caused a short time ago in Malta by several slight shocks of ea.rthquake. The first occurred at a quarter past 11 a.m., on the 18th ult. A smarter shock was experienced at ab,,ut 25 minutes past 6 on the morning of the 21st. The latter shock had Queen Adelaide' a curious effesctChurch. on the cross on the top of the steeple of Thiss cross and ball, both of massive stone, besides being slightly thrown out of their perpendicular, were turned round in their sockets more than 45 degrees. Instead of as originally placed, they looking fae e t odwuaer east.d s the Lettersnorth-east,now the 18th and 22d of Jtine several shocks were felt in that is!and, the most severe being that on' tlie 21st ult., when Several houses were shaken down. NO mention is made of toss of life. .'he shock of the 21st was also felt slightly at Catania, in Sicily. LAW---THIS DAY. SHERIFFS' COURT. (Before Mr. Kerr.) A HAYMARKET SUPPER-GREENFIELD V. HALLOWS, This was an action brought by a waiter to recover 10a. for a Haymarket supper, the defendant having paid 4s. 6d. into court. His Honour (reading) 6 and 7, Haymarket. Thss is a large sum to charge for a supper ? Waiter—There were six persons. His Honour—Oh ! Come, that is not so unreasomable for a Haymaker supper. Pray, of what did the supper consist ? Waiter—Salmon and cucumber. (Roars of law4hter.) His Honour—Salmon and cucumber. (Itenewed laughter.) Waiter—Ah, but it was pickled. (Great laughtor.) His Honoun—Well, go on—a Haymarket supper., Verdict for plaintiff with costs. SERIOUS STREET ACCIDENT.—MEAKLIN V. BURNS. This was an action to recover damages, plaintiff being a porter, and defendant a cab proprietor. Mr. Grey, for plaintiff, called witnesses, from whose tes timony it appeared that on the 12th March last pL tintiff was crossing from Cheapside to St. Paul's Churchyard, having a load of pictures on his shoulder, when he wa.l knocked down by a Hansom cab, and sustained serious; injuries, consisting of a fracture of the thigh and intern el bruises. He was confined in the hospital eleven weeks, and even now is not cured. In answer to this Mr. Beard called witnesses,who not only contradicted those called by plaintiff, but each other ; and his Honour, remarking that defendant's driver wes bound to keep a good look out at a public crossing, found for the plaintiff for £2O damages and costa. POLICE-THIS DAY. BOW-STREET. ROBBERY FROM A JEWELLER'S SHOP.—Francis Thyme, a young man, about 20 years of age, having lost his right arm, was placed at the bar charged with steal ing a tray of gold rings, the property of Mr. Henderson. Charles Creswell Brace said—l am an assistant to Mr. Henderson, a jeweller, in the Strand. About half-pas 't seven last evening I was in the shop with ray back tumid to the window when I heard a breaking of glass. I turned round and saw the prisoner's hand grasping the tray of 46 rings (produced) valued at £7O. Mr, Henry—Have you a wire guard to the window ? Witness—lt was not up last night. On hearing the crash I ran out and followed the prisoner, who turned down Buckingham-street, carrying tae rings with him. I came up with him in Duke-street when I collared him, rani he said, " Here's your tray of rings," which I took from him, and then he attempted to run away. Only one of the; rings is missing. • Mr. Henry—Do you wish to ask the witness any ques tions. Prisoner—l didn't break the window. The tray was put into my hand as I was walking along. Mr. Henry—The witness says he saw your hand in tho window. Prisoner—No, he didn't. I never put my hand into the window. Mr. Henry—He says he did. Prisoner—Wall, I say he didn't. Police-constable 581 said—l was on duty in the Adelphi Theatre when a person came up and told me I was wanted at the shop of Mr. Henderson. I went over, when the pri soner was given into my custody. The prisoner refused to give any address. He said he was just up from Bir mingham. Mr. Henry—Do you wish to say anything in answer to the charge, tecause I intend to send you for trial. Prisoner—No, I've nothing to say. The Magistrate thenifully committed him for trial. SUSPECTED ROBBERY.--A middle-aged woman, named Harrington, was charged with having a quantity of Bank of England no:es in her passession suspected of having been stolen. The prisoner was taken into cucitody last night in an in toxicated state, in St. Giles's, and on searching her at the station a number of Bank of England notes for £lO, four sovereigns, and some silver, the whole amounting to £ll9 65., was found in her pocket. She gave several accounts as to how she became pos sessed of the money. At first sheasaid it was given to her by her husband to pay a bill; afterwards that it had been given to her by her mother; and, finally, that she had picked it up in the New-road, near the Monument. Prisoner also said she had but a short time arrived in London fr)tn Plymouth, where she resided in Castle-street. Inspector Brimbacombe said the street in question was one of the lowest in the whole town. Mr, Henry remanded the prisoner. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A POOR NEEDLEWOMAN CHARGED WITH ATTEMPT ING SUlClDE.—Frances Green, a needlewoman, was charged with attempting to commit suicide. Norrish Pike, 51 C, was called yesterday morning to the Porcupine public-house, Castle-street, Leicester-square, and informed by the landlord that the defendant had at tempted to commit suicide by taking oxalic acid. He at once conveyed her to Charing-cross Hospital, where he left her, and this morning received the following certificate : "I certify that Frances Green has been an in-patient of the Charing,-cross Hospital, having taken oxalic acid, but now is in a fit state to appear at the police court. " WM. TRAVERS, Resident Medical Officer. " Charing-cross Hospital, July 11." The constable handed to the magistrate a bottle which contained oxalic acid. The landlady of the poor woman said the defendant had lately been reduced in her circumstances, and been living by taking in needlework. She had been in low spirits for the past few weeks, and she said she had done it bee luso she could not get food to eat. The defendant was very poor but very honest. Mr. Knox said if ho let the poor woman go she would be attempting it again. He would send her to the House of Detention for a week, where she would see the doctor, have proper food, and the benefit of the advice of the chaplain• If she (the landlady) attended in a week ho would give the defendant up to her. A HOUSEBREAKER FnusrßATED.—George Crome, a fellow with a villanous countenance, was charged as follows : James Rendle, 151 E, proved seeing the fellow in the middle of the night trying several doors in Charlotte-street, Portland-place, and Duchess-street, but at all of them he appeared to be disturbed. One door he opened with a key, but the chain being up he was unable to elver and shut the door again. The constable, then seizsd him, and found in his possession eight door keys, some of which opened different doors in the streets, a knife, two boxes of silent matches, a pair of goloshes (used by thieves to pull over boots so as to deaden the sound of their footsteps), and black bag. Mr. Knox—Then, except he had not a jemmy and a piece of liver for the dog, he had all the apparatus of a burglar. Constable—Yes, sir. He gave the address "Holborn." Mr. Knox said he should remand the prisoner that the constable might make every inquiry respecting him. He had no doubt something would be found out respecting him. Remanded. WESTMINSTER. DARING ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE.—James Fredk. Nissen, a decent-looking man, was charged before Mr. Ingham with attempting to commit suicide, under the fol lowing extraordinary circumstances : A police-constable of the Thames Police (No. 1) said that about five o'clock the previous afternoon he was in a Thames police-galley near Battersea-bridge, when he heard a loud scream from a female voice. He looked round to wards the direction of the screams, when he saw a female struggling with the prisoner. He went to the assistance of the female, who was the prisoneek wife. He took him into custody, and, with the assistance of some other con stables, conveyed him to the station-house. While being taken there, prisoner's wife said to witless " Mind, he has a knife in his pocket." Witness then got him down on his back, when the prisoner obse.-ved, "yes, I have a knife, and you shall have it." Witneso, with some difficulty, got a clasp knife from the prisoner's trousers pocket. (He produced the knife.) Mr. Ingham—What further evidence have you ? The constable added that the prisoner had attempted to destroy himself by forcing his head under the rand. He was not sober. Mr. Holden, inspector of the B division, said that he was seen by a man to run down the mud to the water. Mr. Ingham—ls his wife present? Inspector—She is, sir. The prisoner said he was very sorry for having made the a tt em pt he had on his life, and that he would not do so again.r. Ingham, after a suitable reprim an d, .di sc h arge d the b Dir. prisoner. The prisoner then left the court with his wife. BRISTOL COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—Mr. Charles Orme has retired from his office as registrar at this court, and Mr. Waterfield, late one of the registrars of the Bir mingham District Court, has been appointed by the Lord Chancellor as Mr. Orme's successor. Mr. M. D. Hill, Q.C., -Recorder of Birmingham, and Commissioner cf the Bristol District Court of Bankruptcy, is incapacitated by illness from discharging his judicial duties, and Mr. Alfred Hill, barrister, of London, has been deputed to act in his father's stead for a period of seven weeks. WELSH SALMON FISHERIES.—The recent Act of the Legislature with respect to Salm .n Fisheries is produc hg a good effect in Scuth Wales. The salmon pinks or fry, which have hitherto been offered for sale or taken home, are not now sought after, and when caught are re torned to the stream. The conservators of the various stream s are exceedingly vigilant, and offending fishermen !awe, in many instances, been convicted and fined, espe etally for fishing with nets the meshes of which were too meal!. ,n another year this noble fish will be more pieni j ail, as several streams are being deepened, and obstructions removed. _A splendid specimen, 321 b. in weight, was caught the other day in the Usk. i