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THE SUN LONDON, THURSO Y EVENING, JUNE 19, 1862. rlia - EAT RE-ROY AL, HAY MARKET. Lessee Mr. J. B. Bucketone. TilIS EVENING, a Household Picture, under Two Lights, int tticd THE WIFE'S PORTRAIT. Mr. Howe, Mr. W. Fa .rren, Mrs. C. Young, dtc. After which, at half-past 7, will be performed (1 5 3 d time) IDUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Followed by anew Spanish Ballet entitled LA CONTRA BANDISTA. Senora Perea Nena, Senor Ricardo, and the Corps de Ballet. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. 0 YAL LYCEUM THEATRE. +-no Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer. Vieth Night of the continuous run of "Peep o'Day." THIS EVENING, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, :and Edmund Falconer ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston, and Miss M. Hudson. After which a new musical, pictorial, poetical, and ballet Interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitty and Miss Lydia Thomson. To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T DELI' IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and %Use Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 8, to commen ce at Box-office open daily from 11 till 3. Commence a 7 oYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr A. Harris, THIS EVENING, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING. litss M. Harris. After which, at EiQht o'clock, LOUIS XI. Mr. and llfrs. C. Kean. Supported by Messrs. J. F. Cathcart, B. Potter, Everett, Shore, R. Cathcart, Raymond, &c. ; Miss Chapman, and Miss N. Chapman. To conclude with THRICE MARRIED. Commence at 7. No half-price, NEW THRAIRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHL- Role Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. TO-NIGHT, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAISE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, Billington, Emery ; Misses K. Kelly, Laidlaw, K. Bland, and Mrs. H. Marston. To be followed by THE OCTOROON. Messrs. Dion Bouelcault, Emery, Jamison, Billington, P. Bedford, Phillips, Stephenson, Powell, Romer; Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Mar ston, Miss Latimer, and Miss Denvil. To conclude with THE SHILLING DAY. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Emery, Miss Latimer, rArs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7, C ANTERBURY HALL. STECKEL, The Greatest Trapeze Performer in the World, at 10 o'clock. Grand Selection, at a quarter to Ten, from the Opera, " DON SEBASTIEN," One of the most important works of the late Maestro, Doni seat .roduced here for the first time in this country). Ar ranged and conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. Principal Artiste—Mts., Russell. The Great Comic Trio, Unsworth, Eugene, and Daley, with the celebrated Stump Speech. Or any other man " (the original), in addition to the following array of Comic Tal en t , viz.: —E. Marsh a ll (i n new songs), J. G. Forde, A. B. Hol lingsworth Mime Georgina Smithson, and Joe Brown, th e , renowned Ametican Dancer. T 0 XFO R D,, " OXFORD STREET. The miraculous STECKEL, Champion of the Trapeze, in Ile an d u napproachable feats. wireraca "LA TRAVIATA," "IL TROVATORE," " SIMON BOCCAItEGRA," &c. &c. ; G. Linley's "JOLLY BEGGARS ; " G. A. Maciarren's " MAY DAY. ' Principal Vocalists - Miss Russell, Madame Enderssohn, Messrs. Morley, Greene, and Albert. Full Band and Chorus. Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Comic—Miss Caroline Parkes, Mr. W. Randall, and those 'unrivalled Ethiopian Comedians, Rumsey, Newcomb, Little Bob,Eugene,and Uneworth (the original "or any other man"). Admission, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, ls. ; Private Boxes , 10s. 6d. Shortly will be produced Verdi's Great International Exhibition Cantata. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TRIG DAY.—Morning, 711. 101;1:I.—Afternoon, 7h. 32m. To-xo RROW.-MOrnin g , lh. Om.—Afternoon,Bh. 30m. NOTICE. AR remittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. f 'Cif 1 ‘ . .. 0 ;:u ::1'. ...r." -- ,. ,_ 4 ,....ti ... 4 7 - . -, .;;.'' • _ , 1 iE %. ~. .4 . 4 N 4 > s ". ' 4.., , , i t #4. 3 .....4 .. ai l : o t I.' 1.745 4 , .;,, 1; ,ij _. .. , ; ... 4 ....:, t i i .i.. 7 4 4 . 7 . 411147:47,!) ' fl@~ ` THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1862. The house was occupied last night in considering the cases of two very different classes of persons— more different, perhaps, now, than they were three or four score years ago—tiplers and clergymen. The alterations in the Tippling Act are required by justice to the trade, and the only question was whether the provisions of amended act should be extended to the vending of beer, wine, and cider. Again justice was readily listened to, it being agreed that as the traders in those articles had received no fair notice of the proposal to apply the bill to them, they ought to be let alone for the year at least. There was also a formal objection of some weight. But when the house got from spirits to spiritual men, the debate became quite lively. It was Mr. BOUTERIE'S Bill, as amended before a select com mittee, which came before the house. The object of the bill was the very simple one, as it would appear to most persons, of enabling a clergyman to renounce his profession ; and while renouncing it, and of course all its emoluments, to be held free from any disabilities attached by law to that profession. Justice here would seem to be as plain as in the case of tipplers, and those who minister to the desires of tipplers. An officer in the army or navy if he give up his profession, is no longer bound by its rules or amen able to its authorities. Why should a clergyman if he withdraw from the Church be any longer re sponsible to bishops or the ecclesiastical courts. Why should he not be as free as the officer who has fold out is from responsibility to the Horse Guards or to courts martial ? Yet all sorts of difficulties were raised on this very simple affair. Mr. NEWDEGATE was afraid that the seceding clergyman might in the very place where he had been officiating, and where he would have many persons attached to him, open an opposition shop, and preach in opposition to the doctrines of the Church. To which the proper answe r seemed to be, though it was not the one made—« and why not, if w e really have religious freedom in this country ?" We are surely not will ing to renew the Five Mile Act of CHARLES 11., by which the ejected clergymen were compelled to keep at that distance from their own parishes. If the people wish for th e seceding clergyman as their teacher, Would Mr. NEWDE GATEseriously deny them that right, or eould he if would? Why, the very denial, if we were his parishioners, would send us to him every Sunday in defia nce of all the laws and bishops of England. Another discussion arose on a curious point—what should be the declaration made by the seceder to secure him the privileges of relief from all disabili ties consequent on his having taken holy order s _ the Select Committee's Bill says it must be a de. claration of conscientio us di ssen t f r om the doctrines or discipline, or both, of the Church. Mr.GRIFFITII's wished it to be only a declaration of a wish to be free from all "civil disabilities, disqualifications, restrictions, and prohibitions, to which he was sub• ject as being in holy orders." In either case the bishop MS to record the declaration as a depriva tion. The House did not relish, generally, this very rational amendment. Rational, we say, be cause a clergyman might have other reasons than those of dissenting from the Church for wishin g t o be free from active service in it. He might, for instance, find that he had mistaken his calling. That he was better adopted for civil than religious business, and, in that case, why should he be held bound to obey canons which forbid him any means of earning his livelihood but that of a school master? However, the House in its wisdom thought that, to get rid of his disabilities, the clergyman must turn Dissenter. It was observed that after all there was little in it, since not one gentleman in the house probably agreed, lite rally, to all things in the Prayer Book, so that a declaration of dissent would be easy enough. the question Then came whether the bishop should be left with the pow er of eircommunica tion. As the bill did away with all penalties in the clergyman's case, it was thought that the Bishops could do little harm by such empty spite, i and not be likely to incur the odium of it. But the most amusing thing of all was that th e Select Committee—and the House was s ith it— were exceedingly anxious to prevent the seceding clergyman from becoming a member of Parlia ment. It seems almost ludicrous, bit Mr. Bou- TERIE said that on no disputed po . nt was there so large a majority in the committee on the side of what seems like intolerance and persecution in its way. Two of the oddest of reasons were as signed: Ist. The seceding clergyman ought not, it was said to be placed in a better position than those who did not secede. Why not then grant the right to be members of Parliament to clergy men as well as to the other servants of the State ? If a clergyman suited the electors and wished for the post, there seems no reason why he should not fill it. Mr. MIALL was an ex-dis senting clergyman, and lie might have been elected while a clergyman. Why put church clergymen in a worse position than those of Dis senters ? But there was a reason No. 2, and that was, that the select committee were " unwilling to admit within the house gentlemen who, in their capacity of ministers of religion, might have had an opportunity of acquir ing great influence over the minds of those with whom they had been brought in contact !" Mr. BOUVERIE seemed to disclaim this fear himself but his sapient majority in select committee were overpowered by it! So the bill is still to contain one little penalty —one certainly which could never be felt twice in a century—on the clergyman who dissents. He may not represent his fellow-men in the House of Commons! Can folly go further ? What the House of Lords will do with the bill we cannot guess. SAMUEL of Oxford will of course fight hard for the indelibility of the very holy orders which he confers. Twenty years ago there was established by Government what was called, in 1842, " The Female School of Design," but which has since expanded into " The Female School of Art and Design." It originally had its home in Somerset House, like the Royal Academy. It migrated thence to the Strand. From the Strand it went to Gower-street. From Gower -street it has gone to Queen-square, There it now remains, with every appearance of having at length reached its perma nent habitation. It is presided over by a Committee of Management. It has within the last ten years had entered upon its books not very far short of a thousand scholars. At the very lowest computation since 1852, there have been 846 students who have there sought, and we need hardly add received, regular and systematic instruction. At the present moment upwards of a hundred (107) pupils are now enrolled in the various classes of the establishment. No less than 72 out of these studying with the full intention of afterwards earning their livelihood by the employment brought within their reach by the instructions they are now receiving. It is conspicuous among the social problems for which thousands of philanthropic minds and hearts are now earnestly endeavouring to find a solution—this delicate and difficult and really momentous problem relating to the dis covery, if possbile, of suitable fields for Female Em ployment. The extraordinary changes which have within the last half century affected almost every branch of indistry, of art, and of science, have dealt the most harshly, as it happens in many par ticulars—(none can gainsay the truth of this asser tion : it only too painfully defies contradiction) — with the gentler and weaker sex, with the female portion of this busy and populous community. One after another, different departments of toil hitherto fitted expressiy to the delicate hands of women, have been closed against them. What was ac complished by manual labour, by actual manipula tion is, now done by machinery. And even when these new Mechanical Contrivances are of a nature allowing of their manipulation still by the hands of women as let us say in the instance of those exquisite little contri vances the Sewing Machines—the work that now may readily be accomplished by one " hand," for merly required for its completion the sedulous attention, from sunrise to sunset, and even long after sunset far on towards midnight in many a wretched candle-lighted garret, of several female labourers. Too many of these, of course, among the humblest class, being as miserably under- paid as they were deplorably overworked. But among the better portion of these gentle labourers are now, for the most part, thrown entirely out of the reach of remunerative occupation —among those who have, now-a-days, a new and, until very recently, for the most part, an apparently insu perable difficulty in discovering any means by which they could support themselves and those dearer to them often than their own lives, and entirely dependent upon them for their mainte nance—the Female School of Art and Design is gradually becoming more and more a central point from which radiate, for them one and ail, Hope and Encouragement. It is, we firmly believe, the germ or nucleus of a vast future advan- itags to the female toilers, furnished to society by the exigencies, too often by the bitter misfortunes, of the middle classes. Daughters of clergymen and medical men, many of the pupils in this admirable institution have been and are : young ladies sud denly constrained by the feree of adverse oircum., stances to earn their own bread, and the bread often of the elder and 3 ounger members of a suddenly impoverished family. Educated in the Female School of Art and Design —now we rejoice to know securely established in Queen-square—they have been enabled, they are month by month being ena• bled to do t/11s—to accompiisu vv io.s. tAnuyaLavi , v c..v and indescribable comfort to themselves what would otherwise have been next to an impos sibility. No wonder, seeing the good that is being effected in this most interesting institution, remembering the time that has now Elapsed since the date of its original establishment, and the progress that has been made by it from that period of its foundation a score of years gone by —no 'wonder, we sa y, length have intimated that the QUEEN should at her gracious determination to place the Female School of Art and Design formally under Her IVlAJEsrive Patronage. A kindly resolu tion, on the part of the SOVEREIGN, brought to the k o. the Com m i ttee by a welcome com municationnw addressed to the 1 Lady who acts as the 's Secretary. A letter written at Osborne Palace, dated the 25th of April, and p enne d b y order of the QUEEN , by Her MAJEB T - T ' s Private Secretary :-.-ii Dear Madam," says Sir CRARLES PHIPPB, " I have the pleasure of informing you that Her 3,lajesty the QUEEN thinks that the time has come when she may grant her patronage to the Female School of Design. You have had great and trying difficul ties, and I happy t o th i nk you are i n a far way to overcome them, and yo u w ill h ave my best wishes far your success." From that gracious communi cation from the QUEEN, we cannot but rest as sured, will date in a very exp ress an d ;par ticular manner the happiest period of prosperity for this growing and thriving institution. On Tuesday last, in furtherance of its interests, the Female School of Arts and Design had convened, in its behalf, at the Mansion House in the City of London an important and influential meeting, presided over by the right hon. the Lord Mayor, a meeting held for the avowed purpose of rendering that admirable institution self-supporting. As an inaugurative meeting of this kind we cannot but pronounce the assembly on Tuesday a great and decided success. The subscriptions there and then raised were very encouraging and satisfactory. The re solutions passed were very sensible, very practica ble, and very much indeed to the purpose. Who is there who knows anything whatever about the in ` stitution and its doings, that will be disposed for one instant to deny, or even to doubt, the reason ableness of this one ?—" That, in the opinion of this meting, the Female School of Art, in Queen-square, which enables young women of the middle class to obtain an honourable and profitable employment, and which, at the same time, tends to cultivate taste in ornamental design, is well entitled to public confidence and support." Or, again, of the follow ing?—" That this meeting gratefully acknowledges the support and countenance which her MAJESTY has been graciously pleased to afford to this institution by honouring it with her special patronage, and regards this distinguished honour as an additional incentive to increased exertions on the part of its friends." The most practical, however, of all is the resolution here immediately subjoined :—" That the success which has at tended the past operations of this school affords every encouragement to increased exertions to secure its continuance, and that for this purpose it is most desirable that the necessary funds should be raised to provide accommodation for at least 160 pupils, and thus to render it a permanent and self-supporting institution." From the accordance to the Female School of Art and Design of the Royal Patronage, and from the meeting of Taesday at the Mansion House, a meeting formally con vened, as we have shown, with a view to render the institution self-supporting, we believe will date the commencement of a new and auspicious epoch for the Female Labourers of the Middle Classes in this country. The Manchester School has two somewhat in compatible predilections—it desires economy, and it desires also direct taxation. In the debate of Tuesday night Sir F. HEYGATE dropped, almost incidentally, in concluding, a remark of whose truth we have been long convinced. Having observed that the evidence taken before the Income•tax Committee, showed it to be a bad tax, he made against it a very serious charge—he said, " the facility with which large sums were collected led, in Ms opinion, to extravagance ;" hence, he thought it should be reserved for cases of emergency when the various classes of the people would readily pay it, without any disposition to quarrel about the un fairness, with which it pressed upon them, in the endeavour to meet a particular crisis. This great evil of an income tax ha■ often struck us ; and we may frankly confess that experience has been our chief instructor. At one time we thought direct taxation likely to be a stern teacher of eco nomy, and possibly it might be so were all taxation direct, and did the governing classes pay in proportion to the value of their property, to the land tax, succession duty, probate duty, and in come tax. This, however, they will never do. And, to this hour, the proprietors of half a county see the personalty left to maintain widows and orphans heavily taxed to probate duty; while, without a blush, they transmit or inherit their vast estates with no such charge at all ! Direct taxation will never lie in the form which will induce our tax imposers to economise. It will always press more painfully on the classes struggling to live decently on small incomes, than on the wealthy landowner and fundholder. But the " fatal facility" of Sir F. UxTOATE is the great danger of the income tax in the hands of high-minded, but ambitious Premiers. Lightly do they feel what to the many is a consciously painful infliction. A penny or two more income tax, in the way of prolongation of high war rates, especially, is an easy thing; nor hes it been found difficult to create panics which should make it seem necessary to add a few pence. While ever so small a germ of income tax is left, the panic -mongers, when it suits their purpose, can get up an alarm, and ask for more men to spend their time in pro ducing nothing but consuming a great deal. When, too, there is the ready resort of raising the rate of income tax, there is the strongest temptation to step far beyond the line of legitimate self defensive armaments, and to create such naval and military establishments as shall enable us to play more or less of the Dictator among the nations. There is only the check of the slight grumbling from the more helpless classes of sufferers. The wealthier and more aristocratic have sons, or nephews, or cousins, or friends charged upon the army or navy votes, and therefore with a little well simulated sorrow, they vote the estimates which shall pro vide an aristocratic occupation for their Hopefuls. Very difficult, and much more effective is the check imposed by having to raise customs and excise duties. Unlike the income tax the additional penny duty on articles of consumption, does not always bring its penny into the Exchequer. Con sumption diminishes; and if the penny more duty brings three farthings, or even a halfpenny into the Exchequer, a finance Minister must be satisfied. This has been urged as an advantage on the side of direst taxation. In theory it seems beautifully true. But practice reveals two fearful drawbacks —one, that though the additional penny on the Income-tax, like an addition to a parish rate, brings in its penny, it does so by augmenting injustice already too grievous to be patiently borne in times of peace. The second is that on which we are now dwelling, that this very facility of extort ing a sure and certain sum by another turn of the screw, disposes Governments to give the turn, and get the money. Facility of "raising the wind" makes spendthrifts of Governments as well as of individuals; and it is not facile to raise large BUMS by Customs duties; it is facile to raise them by the Income-tax. impression, We have therefore a pretty stron g that we shall never see Retrenchment in earnest or a peaceful policy abroad, till we lay the Income tax on the shelf, to be used only when we are actually attacked, at home or in our colonies. We regard it as a nettled point that our Customs, Ex cise, and other sources would supply ample arma• ments for a defensive policy. We need not, and ought not, to make faster progress with our arma ments, already enormous, and capable of great re duction, than our taxation, apart from the Income tax, would enable us to do. Of course, if ten millions were not wrung from us by the screw direct, it would fructify to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's benefit in increased trade and con sumption. And we must confess that we have l ittle doubt th a t if we repeate d t hi s au t umn an d n ext spring our forefathers' policy of 1816 we should keep our money in our pockets and the nation be equally secure —perhaps more so. The King of Pr uss i a w i ll proceed about th e m iddle of August t o Ostend, where his Majesty will pass, as is his custom each year, a few weeks. The Prussian Minister at Turin, Count Brassier de Saint. Simon, left Berlin three days back to return to his post. 46 We believe," says the A reutz Zeitung, " that he carried with him no instructions relative to the recognition of the Kingdom of Italy. THE VICEROY OF EGYPT. His Highness the Viceroy of Egypt was seized with sud den indisposition yesterday, which prevented his highness leaving his yacht and proceeding to the Turkish Embassy in London, for the purpose of receiving a deputation from the Church of Scotland. The address will therefore be re ceived this day (Thursday) at Woolwich. THE VICEROY OF EGYPT.a-His Royal Highness Said Pasha yesterday visited the Royal gun-factories at Woolwich. Accompanied by a single attendant carrying an umbrella, he left the yacht at half-past 9. Senior Inspec tor Brine, in charge of the r. olice detachment in the Arsenal, who speaks French, was in waiting, and with him the Vice roy proceeded towards the gun-factories. A number of guns burst at proof, some of which are the experimental hooped guns, attracted his attention, as well as various old pieces of ordnance recovered from wrecks. During the inspection of these relics the heads of departments arrived and:were most cordially received by the Viceroy, who was soon after joined by Mr. Larking. The visitors then pro ceeded to the forge, and the Pasha, having been accommo dated with a chair, witnessed the operation of rolling out the coils, welding, &c., and spent two hours in the factory examining with interest each branch of the department, and the complete manufacture of the Armstrong gun. The process was explained by Mr. Anderson with the aid of diagrams. Mr. Larking translated what was said into Arabic. At 12 o'clock the Pasha returned on board the Faid Gahaad, and at 1 10 proceeded by her Majesty's special train to London. Since the 13th inst. the Belgian State railways and the Northern of France and South-Eastern Railway Companies have granted to travellers from Brussels and other places tickets available for one month, to go to Lon don via Calais and Dover, during the Exhibition, with a reduction of 25 per cant. on the ordinary fares. During the last two or three years the French Government has paid great attention to the cultivation of 'fish, both in salt and fresh water, as an alimentary neces sity. The principal person to whom France is indebted for most useful piscatorial labours is M. Coate ; his nomination of inspector, both of the river and coast fisheries, appears in the Illoniteur. The Paris journals state that M.Dentu, the pub lisher, is about to marry Mdlle. Decamps, daughter of the celebrated painter, who lost his life by the accident last year at Fontainebleau. According to letters from Warsaw, nine Polish ladies accused of having participated in singing hymns and reciting prayers considered by the police seditious, were re moved from the citadel of that city on the 10th, and trans ferred to convents. The Invalide Rune publishes an Imperial ukase of the Emperor of Russia, raising General Luders, Lieuten ant of the Kingdom of Poland, and temporarily Comman • der-in-Chief of the first array, to the dignity of Count of the Empire of Russia, as a reward for his services. "We are authorised," says the Patrie, " to con tradict a rumour which has prevailed within the last day or two of the departure for Kerlin of Baron de Bismarke Soh eenhausen, the Prussian ionbassador. The envoy of King William has not left Paris." Advices from Toulon state that orders have been transmitted from Paris to have several vessels taken from the Mediterranean squadron to carry out reinforcements to General de Lorencez. The steam line-of-battle ships St. Louis and Imperial are spoken of aslikely to be appropriated to the service in question. Similar orders, it is said, have been sent to Cherbourg and Brest. The Professorship of Greek in Durham Uni versity, with a Canonry Residential in Durham Cathedral annexed, has been conferred upon. the Rev. T. S. Evans, M.A., one of the Assistant-Masters of Rugby School. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—The weather this week has continued dull, and unfavourable for the de velopment of the cereal crops in the eastern district. A warm forcing period is now required, but, instead of such a state of things, the skies have been Lull and lowering. On Tuesday evening a considerable qaantity of rain fell, and the outstanding hay crop must have been drenched, Yes terday morning showed no improvement, rain still continu ing. There are some complaints as to mildew and insect ravages, but probably these are only of a very partial cha racter, and, taking affairs generally a few fine forcing days would no doubt work wonders. SINGULAR PHENOMENON :4n the afternoon of Monday, the 9th inst., the hamlet of Aldreth, Haddenham, was visited by a severe thunderstorm. In this place there are two cottages standing in a late place, occupied by Daniel Cockle and John Stokes, labourers. About five yards from Cockle's house, and in an adjoinmg field, there is a young elm tree. The tree was struck by lightning; the fluid travelled from thence in a very indirect line to the furthest house, entering the back door, whica was open. Ann Stokes, aged fourteen years, was standing in this room, not facing the doorway, but near the middle of it, and in a line with the door. The electric fluid struck the girl's lower extremities, paralysing both feet, and producing an imprint upon the left leg and thigh of the colour of scarlet, and in every respect resembling the tree itself, viz., the trunk, branches, and the leaves, and in the most beautiful model form it is possible to eonceive. She has regained the use of her limbs, and the daguerreotype appearance is fading away. Strange to say her dress was not in any way in jured by the electric fluid.— Cambridge independent. MORE OUTRAGES IN IRELAND.—The Mullingar correspondent of the Freeman's Journal, writing on the 16th inst., says:--" Last night a number of men went to the house of Mr. Kelly, farmer, of Ballinlug, one of whom fired a shot, lodging the contents in the beck door, They then went to the house of one of his workmen, named Donnellan, and having obtained admittance pulled him and his brother out of bed, and beat them severely with whips and sticks, and cautioned them to give up land they had taken from Mr. Kelly. On going away they fired a shot. Two parties have been arrested on suspicion." The Clon mel correspondent of the same journal writes :—" On the night of the 14th inst. several persons, all armed, came to the house of Edward Hayden, of Curraheen, a respectable farmer, and commenced firing shuts. Hayden, on going out in the morning, found a grave dug and two threatening notices lying therein, threatening him and his herd with death. It is believed that this was done to intimidate Hayden proceeding with an ejectment at the Cashel quarter sessions, which ho had served on a party for the recovery of a small farm." CRIME AT NAPLES. — The Paese of Naples relates the following crime, committed in that city on the 7th : " An English gentleman and lady named Porter, had fixed their residence at the hotel called locanda di Europa, but used generally to dine elsewhere. On the day alluded to, Mrs Ann Porter, who is stated to be about 70 years of age, felt herself unwell, and bade her husband go and dine alone' which he did, and after dinner went to the play. On his return home he knocked at the door repeatedly without re ceiving an answer, and finding upon inquiry that his lady had not been seen since he had left, he caused the door to be broken open, when, to the dismay of all present, Mrs. Porter was found on the floor, weltering in her blood. She had been stabbed with a stiletto in three places, and, not content with this, the assassin, finding he had not succeeded in dealing the death blow, had struck her head several times violently against the floor. A sum of 3,000 f. had been carried off. Medical aid having been procured, the lady was brought to life again, and hopes are entertained of her recovery. The police immediately took possession of the premises, arresting all the inmates, from the landlord down to the lowest menial, and an inspector was appointed to superintend the searching of the house. Nothing has as yet transpired, but suspicion has fallen upon one of the porters of the hotel not enjoying a very good character." THREE CHILDREN SHOT.—A most distressing occurrence happened at Sicklesmere on Monday afternoon, three little girls being shot. Abour a quarter to six the girls, whose names were Emma and Ellen Clover and Mary AIM Woodgate, aged respectively six, three, and two years, WCtC playins tilde of the toll-gate, when their attention was attracted by some crab apples growing on a tree standing in the fence of a garden belonging to a Mrs. Upson. The children attempted to get some of the apples, and a little boy who saw them ran in and told Mrs. Upson that they were after the apples. She took no notice of what the boy said at first, but, on his going a second time, said she would come and see after them, and took a gun which was hanging up in the house, saying she would frighten them with it. A neighbour, Mrs. Wright, who was with her at thelime, told her to mind that it was not loaded, but she said, " Oh, no, it is not loaded." She went out, taking with her the gun, which she presented at the children, who were about twenty yards from her ; when, either from the nipple catching her dress or the pressure of her hand, the gun went off, severely wounding the eldest girl and slightly injuring the other two. Two of the children were at once sent home, buc the injuries of Emma Clover proved much more serious, the having ,been struck by no less than 47 shots, all over the front of her body, on both thighs, the left leg, and both her arms and hands, some of the shots having penetrated more than two inches. The woman, on seeing what her thought lessness had caused, became so excited that it was neces sary for Police-constable Grimsey to remain with her all night to prevent her doing herself an injury. She declares that she was not aware the gun was loaded, and expresses the greatest regret for what had happened. She is in the custody of the police, and will be brought before the magi strates to-morrow. The poor girl Emma Clover remains in a precarious state.—Bury and'Norwich Post. THE LATE STRIKE OF THE LONDON MASONS. — The master builders have, it appears, generally accepted the terms upon which the masons consented to close their strike last week, and the men who remained out had been pretty well absorbed in the various yards and shops. A large number have been taken on for the Albert Mausoleum, now in course of erection in the grounds of Frogmore House. The men have avoided as much as possible going into the establishments of those employers who made themselves most conspicuous in enforcing the hour system, some of whom have vainly endeavoured to get back their old hands, generally first-class workmen. The total number of opera tive masons now employed in London is considerably less than just previous to the strike last year, the majority of those who struck having during the continuance of the strike obtained employment in the country. LATEST NEWS. ST. PETERaBURG, JUNE 19. The Journal de St. Petersburg of to-day publishes an Imperial decree, authorizing the Governors of the provinces to proclaim martial law should incen diarism break out. The sentences of the courts-martial are to be confirmed by the Governors. Rapine, murder, incendiarism, and destruction o the crops are punishable With death. MADRID, JUNE 18. According to intelligence received here from Mexico, Sir Charles Wyke, Commodore Dunlop, and General Doblado have signed a treaty satisfy ing the demands of England. The ratifications of the treaty Were exchanged at Mexico. TURIN, JUNE 13, EVENING. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day the following Address to the King was proposed : " The Bishops assembled of Rome have cast grave insults upon our country. They have denied our national right and have invoked foreign violence. Let us reply by proclaiming our determination to maintain intact the national right of the metro polis of our country, suffering violence at the hands of masters whom she repudiates. The words pro nounced at the Vatican have declared all negotia tions impossible. This language removes every ground for the hesitation which has long dis played the moderation of the Italian people. When ecclesiastics, forgetting their ministry, put forth wishes for reaction ; when ruffians carry desolation from the Pontifical territory into the Southern pro vinces, Europe ought to be convinced that the authority of the Italian King end people only can settle the Roman question. After a short discussion, the Address was voted almost unanimously. ST. PETERSBURG, JUNE 18. The Journal de St, Petersboury of to-day an nounces that the Governor-General has determined to close the Chess Club in the capital, which, ac cording to the official statement, was used as the centre for disseminating false reports. It has likewise been decided to shut up the pub lic reading-rooms, on account of their proprietors distributing revolutionary publications. SEINILIN, JUNE 18. Hostilities in Belgrade were suspended yesterday afternoon. The damage caused by the bombardment is in considerable. The families of Austrian subjects in the city took refuge on board four steamers, and came to this place. FRANCE. Under the head of Latest Intelligence" La Presse publishes the following : " A Ministerial Council was held yesterday at the Palace of the Tuileries, under the presidency of his Majesty the Emperor. " Vice-Admiral Jurien de la Graviere has arrived in Paris. He goes to Fontainebleau to-day, ac companied by the Minister of Marine. " Great activity prevails at Toulon. Six steamers and four large transports are getting ready to convey troops to Mexico." A bill was laid before the Legislative Corps on Monday demanding a sum of 15,000,000 f. for the Mexican expedition. It was agreed unanimously to refer it to the Commission on the Budget, who, of course, will report favourably. Twenty-five millions of francs (a million sterling) were yesterday paid in to the French Treasury by the Spanish Minister for expenses incurred by France in 1823 in bringing back King Ferdinand VII. to Madrid, restoring the Government which the Spanish people had overthrown, and subverting the Constitution. The ratifications of the conven tion between Spain and France were exchanged, and tt receipt in full of all demands given for that im portant service. This Spanish indemnity, coming so opportunely, will more than cover the present demand, and leave 10,000,000 f. over and above for future contingencies. The following is the expose des molifs of the bill demanding supplementary credits for the expedi tion to Mexico:— " Gentlemen,—ln the Emperor's Speech to the great Bodies of the State on the 27th January last this phrase occurs We should not be en gaged in a struggle with any one at present, if in Mexico the proceedings of an unscrupulous Go vernment had not obliged us to join with Spain and England for the protection of our countrymen and for the repression of violent acts against humanity and the law of nations.' In the interval which has elapsed since that time, England and Spain have thought fit to withdraw their troops from Mexico, and a small French corps of 7,000 men has re mained to continue alone the operations commenced in common. That body of men, notwithstanding its very moderate number, will not fail, in its mis sion of civilisation, but will issue victoriously, we are quite convinced, from the trials which may await it. But, whatever may be our confidence in its ultLmate success, prudence always commands us to place ourselves in a position to provide against all eventualities of war, and it is with that object that the Government applies to the Legislative Body before the session terminates for the credits neces sary to convey, according as they may be required, such reinforcements in men and stores as may be found indispensable. The first reinforcements may be sent out at once. Such is the object of the bill for supplementary credits which we now present ; seven millions being for the War Department, and eight for that of the Marine. It is well understood that the said credits cannot receive any other des tination than the expedition to Mexico. On every point where our flag is engaged,' says the report of the committee on the Budget, we will support it energetically.' The Government ex pected nothing less from the patriotism of the Leglbittctve Duay, Ewa it has a a. .., uu.litlettee that a unanimous response will be given to the appeal now made to it." BOURSE, Juno 18.—The market has, up to 'the present time, undergone but a very slight retrograde movement, but the same want of animation in busi ness prevails, speculators all holding aloof from anything in the shape of important operations. Threes, for the Account, are now at 68f 30c. The Railway Share Market also heavy, and with a downward tendency. The market closed as fol lows :- 4t per per Cents ... 96 90 Bank Shares 3180 Do. end month.... Credit I oncier 1666 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 35 Italian Loan 72 65 [COW 3 per Cents .. 68 25 Roman Do. end month.... 68 35 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 845 Spanish Threes — Do. end month.... 848 75 Home Debt .. 49 50 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1277 50 .. 1280 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1103 .. 1102 50 Geneva 365 365 50 Southern Western Eastern ... 650 .. 550 Sardinian 3BO .. 380 Austrian Lombard . 6ll 25 .. 612 50 THE MURDER OF MR. FITZGE.RALD. DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. Beckham was sentenced to-day. The execution is fixed for July 16. John Punch, who was found guilty of sending a threatening letter to Mr. Hamilton Langley, a road con tractor, has been sentenced to four years' penal servitude. The remaining case is adjourned. The Crown solicitors do not propose to send up bills against the Delanes at present. "It is wrong to take snuff," said a Yankee philo sopher, "for it teaches the nose a bad habit, and a man la always euro to follow his nose 1" AMERICA. ROCHE'S POINT, QUEENSTOWN, JUNE 19, 8.40 A.M. The Kangaroo, from New York on the 7th inst., is now coming in, SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 19. The North German Lloyd's steamer New York, from New York on the 7th instant, passed Hurst Castle Telegraph Station at 10 a.m. to-day, THE BRAZILS. RIO DE JANEIRO, May 26 (via Bordeaux.) The Caxias Ministry fell from power o❑ the 21st inst. The Opposition, composed of Liberals under the leadership of M. Ottoni, and third party Mo derate Conservatives, headed by M. Zacharias Goes de Vasconcelies, obtained by a perfect surprise and a subtle Parliamentary manoeuvre a majority of one on the discussion of the Address. The Caxias Ministry may, in fact, be considered to have lost tho day through the absence of four members, who, from their own declaration, would have voted in their favour. On being defeated, Ministers proposed the dis solution of the Chamber, but the Emperor rejected this measure, and summoned M. Zacharias to re quest him to form a new cabinet. This was a difficult undertaking, as the leading members of the Opposition and of the third party declined the invitation to form a new Government with M. Zacharias. At the end of 48 hours the following list was formed : CONSERVATIVES. Minister of the Empire—Senor Zacharias Goes de Vasconcellos. Minister of Foreign Affa.irs—Carheiro de Campos (Senator). Minister of Agriculture—sa et Albuquerque. LIBERALS. Finance—Dias de Carvalho (Senator). Justice—Fartado. War—Baron de Porto-Allegre. Marine—Jose Bonifacio de Andrade. Whatever may be the composition of this Minis try, it appears impossible for it to command a majority in the Chamber. The very vote by which it came into power proves this. It is, besides, very probable that the youngest of the Ministers, M. Jose Bonifacio de Andrade, will seriously disagree with the Minister of Finance upon an important question on the order of the day re lative to the fusion of the banks and banking unity, the solution of which affects some important interests. NATIONAL CHORAL SOCIETY. Mendelssohn's magnificent oratorio " Elijah" was performed last evening at Exeter Hall by the mem bers of the National Choral Society, under the im• mediate direction of Mr. G. W. Martin. It was in every respect an effective and admirable perfor mance, and the engagement of Madame Laura Bax ter, Miss Eleanora Wilkinson, Miss Fosbrook, Mr. Swift, and Mr. Weiss as principal singers ensured a careful and artistic execution of the many and important vocal solos. There was an immense audience—quite as numerous as one is accustomed to find at Exeter Hall during Passion Week ; and, judging by constant enthusiastic applause, the exe cution of this noble work g ave unqualified satisfac tion. The band and chorus consisted of no less than seven hundred performers, and in each department there was never-varying fidelity to the score, de lightful smoothness, and modulations of melody as clear and decided as could have been desired. The well-known and highly appreciated chorus, "Be not afraid," and the quartett and chorus, "Holy, holy, holy," were most effective. Madame Laura Baxter rendered with consummate and true artistic skill " Woe unto them," and "0, rest thee in the Lord." Miss E. Wilkinson gate "Hear ye, Is rael" remarkably well ; and in all the concerted pieces she sang unexceptionably. Nothing possi bly could be finer than the manner in which the concluding chorus of each pa t t, "Thanks be to God" and " Then shall your light," was given. Mr. Weiss, Mr. Swift, and Mr. Regoldi contributed much to performance. the general effect of the entire THE ENGLISH OPERA ASSOCIATION. The first general meeting of the shareholders in the above company was held yesterday (Wednesday) in the large room, at St. James's Ilall. In the absence of the Earl of Westmoreland, Col. H. P, de Bathe took the chair. Ihe SECRETARY (Mr. Cawood) read the notice convening the meeting, and also the report o f t h e executive committee. The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report, which was seconded by C. W. HosKYNs, Esq., and carried unanimously. G. Woon, Esq. (of the eminent firm of Cramer, Beale, and Wood), proposed the following gentle men to be the executive committee, viz :-- The Right Hon. the Earl of Westmoreland, 0.8., 8, South Audley-street, W. ; J. H. Arkwright,Esq., 6, Buckingham-gate, S.W. ; the Hon. F. IL F. Berkeley, M.P., 1, Victoria-square, Pimlico, S.W. ; Frederic Davison, Esq., 24, Fitzroy-square, W. ; Col. H. P. de Bathe, Scots Fusilier Guards, 60, Pic cadilly, W.; the Hon. Seymour Egerton, Ist Life Guards, 7, Grosvenor-square, W.; C. W. Hos kyns, Esq., 27, Berkeley-square, W.; Edwd. James, Esq., Q.C., 24, Upper Wimpole-street, W. ; A. H. Ross, Esq., 60, Portland-place, W., which T. L. LEMMENS, Esq., seconded, and it was carried with acclamation. Robert Addison, Esq., and George Wood, Esq., were elected auditors. The accounts, up to the 31st of March, were pre rented. The chair was then taken by Edward James Esq., Q.C., and a vote of thanks given to Colonel H. P. de Bathe, which terminated the proceedings, MR. J. J. HAITE'S CONCERT. Last evening Mr. Haite gave a musical enter tainment, in the great hall of the Whittington Club, which was thoroughly filled by a very re spectable audience. The programme was extensive, and sufficiently varied in character to test severely toe vu.4l rautl ivatruuiPntal pnvah;l;l4.= rtf' „ formers, several of whom appeared in public for the first time. The selections, with a few exceptions, were from the pen of Mr. Barton, and did great credit to his poetic taste and judgment as a song writer. There is enough in this programme to make a reputation 'considerably above mediocrity. The whole of the collection was set to music by Mr. J. J. Haite, and as several of the performers were pupils of Mr. Haite, the entertainment had quite an original character. Mr. Carder opened the entertainments by an over ture on the pianoforte to Alfred the Great, in which he displayed wonderful powers of execution, and in this, as well as in a sonata in C, at a future stage of the proceedings, he earned and received unmistake able marks of approbation. The vocalists were — Miss Annie Barton (a pupil of Mr. Haite), Miss Smiles, Mrs. Watson, Messrs. Thomas, Watson, and Bates. Mr. Watson distinguished himself on seve ral occasions, as did also Mr. Thomas, the latter having a profound bass voice which in the choruses told wiih powerful effect. Miss Barton and Miss Scailes were encored several times, and similar com pliments were awarded to the male professionals, both vocal and instrumental. Ma and d At the commencement of Watson replaced Mr. Cardertheatsectred piano, r the numbers conclusion of the perform ance. performed his duties with g reat success until the Fem present, and their high a pp reciation of the entertain ment, we think M r. Haite and Mr. Barton hav e reason to regard t he whole performance as a g reat success, and to repeat an entertainment which gave u nmixed satisfaction and encouragement for sthucehfuture• In the letter which we published yesterday stat ing Mrs• Ellen Hope's gift of £340 to the National Life boat Institution, in memory of her late husband, it should have been stated that it was given by her "as the execu trix" of her late uusband, ''''". .=.vo 271 E, INDIAN IMPORT DUTIES. Yesterds y a numerous and influential deputation from the (7,1 , eratives of various manufacturing towns n Laneash ire waited upon Sir Charles Wood, at the India-I louse, for the purpose of presenting me,- 1 - norials pra, Sing for the abolition of the duties im— p ° se a on British manufactured goods imported into , I'adia. Colonel WILSON PATTEN, in introducing the de putation, read the memorial from the operatives of Blackburn, which he said contained the gist of the memorials from other towns. It set forth that the memorialists were wholly dependent on the coi 'don trade, which by the unhappy events of the Fast year had become so terribly convulsed as to deprive thousands of persons of the means of living. The memorialists urged that there had wig hin the last three months been a large falling off in the quantity of English manufactured goods int pox ted into India, and concluded by asking that the existing imposts should be totally repealed. Col. Patten pressed on the attention of Sir C. \Vood the fact that the object of the deputation was not con fined to the removal of the Indian duties; they desired also to call the earnest attention of the G overnnient to the necessity of giving every encou ravement to the increased supply of cotton, upon which quite as much depended as upon the reduc tion of the Indian duties. Th sprayer of the memorial having hew supported by various speakers, Sir C. WOOD replied at some length. Having expressed his admiration of the manner in which_ the operatives in the distressed districts were bear ing their misfortunes, and dwelt upon the cause of them, he proceeded to refer to the arguments which had been brought forward . with regard to the Indian import duty on cotton goods, which was the ground, of compinint. With regard to the reduction asked for, he had only to state that he could not afford to part with tho duty. What might he done in time in the way of reducing the expenditure he could not say ; but no effort would be spared in order to effect a reduction. Cm.3toms duties, however, were one of the sources of revenue most easily raised, and till he saw his way to the imposition of some other duties he could not spare these. With regard to the cultivation of cotton in India the Government were giving it all the encouragement they could, by providing increased facilities for transit. His belief was that the supply of cotton in India might be very la:gely increased, although this could not be done at wee. He hoped, however, that in the course of time the increase would be so large that our manufacturers would cease to be dependent ou the American supply. Colonel WILSON P AMEN said he thought the deputation had a right to ask Sir Charles not to give any encouragement to the people of India to believe that this would be a permanent duty. Whether erroneously or not, it was thought in Eng land that this tax was raising up a competition against our home manufactures, and although it might not be possible now to reduce the duty, it was to be hoped that no encouragement would be given to a rival manufacture which it was thought might be got up if these duties were continued. Sir C. WOOD said no such promise or assurance could be given. THE BURSTING OF THE FLEET DEL CII. Since our last report of the bursting of this' sewer another breakage, and that of a most serious and extensive character, has taken place, foz ming a con tinuation of the original defection of the great sewer of the Fleet. The scene of the disast er i s th a t p ar t o f th e new Victoria-street, from Farringdon-street, at its northern end, where the entrance of the tunnel of the Metropolitan line is to be seen. About half-past two yesterday afternoon the foreman of the men employed by the surveyor of the district observed that the roadway south of the part at which the navvies were working appeared to be gradually sinking, apparently within its own area, as though the sewer below—at this spot 10 feet in width—was about to collapse. Within half an hour after this the signs he had noticed became E. C unmistakable that the men who were at work in the broken sewer, in the roadway making good, and at the contiguous walls of the railway line, were at once ordered to leave their work for fear of injury to life or limb. Shortly afterwards, the mas sive timber supports, which had been carefully placed as shores against every available part of re sistance, began to crack in a most ominous and alarming manner, and a few minutes afterwards upwards of 20 feet (lineal) of the firm and appa rently substantial battery wall, about 25 feet high and 5 feet thick, was shoved off en masse into the deep cutting. By and by a further portion of the road sank in the same manner, forcing several other yards of the wall down; and finally, the remainder —giving a total of about 150 feet in length of the wall, which fell inwards with a terrible crash, though the brickwork held together in a remark able manner. The effect of the sinking of the roadway by this second breakage of the sewer has been to fill it up altogether, nearly the whole length from Ray-street to Vine-street, at its intersection of Victoria-street, a short distance south of the Clerkenwell Sessions house, the result of which, we regret to say, has been the forcing of the great body of water into the large open space of the railway near the mouth of the tunnel. Fortunately, from the indications given by the gradual sinking of the ground in Victoria-street, time was given to obtain assistance. Not a moment was lost. Mr. Cooper, the surveyor of the district, and his assistant surveyors, Mr. Jay, the contractor for the works on this portion of the line ; Mr. Cor dell, his principal assistant ; Mr. Cavick, of the Me tropolitan Board of Works ; Mr. Phillips, of the Holborn Board of Works, and other men of emi nence in their profession, were very soon upon the spot, and viewing the calamity at once in a practical manner, they saw that as the damage done to the sewer could not then be helped, the only thing that could be done was to turn their atten tion to the diversion of the rapid current of the ditch, so that it might run, not into the rail way line, but through an artificial cutting to the spacious low-lying waste land on the west side of the street. In order to accomplish this great but necessary task, several hundreds of men proceeded to invest the Fleet some yards above the mouth of tunnoi, digging a trench suffioicutly wide to carry the water from that point of the sewer by the side of Victoria-street, southward to Vine-street (nearly 300 feet), when it is the inten tion of the engineers, if they find upon inspection that the sewer below towards Farringdon-street is capable of receiving it and in a sound condition to turn it in that direction. Fortunately no one has sustained personal injury, DONIZETTTS ~ DON SEBASTIEN," AT 211 E CANTERBURY HALL. st ced Di t rp a h o A r s idreCd:lui rteeiheonne of the opera larger itsel f was composed ... bfrroomughDtoonuizteetttit'shiosphearail,otfhe" DmoannaSgeebnaiesitiir of is true to the old enterprising instinct, which has selections from operas in anticipation of the themselvesinlB73, ou r r he same year ba in which " Don Pasquale" was composed, and although per formed on the continent, has not yet found its way to this country. It formed a portion, however, of the prospec tive programme of the Royal Italian Opera for the season, but whether the promise to produce it will be fulfilled_ re - mains to be seen. From the specimens of the music, as given in the selection prepared by Mr. Jonghmans, we should say that the criticisms of the continental press are borne out--that the opera contains more rich and charac teristic music than is to be found in some of the other works by this composer. The interpretation of the selection is con - fid ed to Miss Russell (Mine. Stoltz performed the part of Qaid a in the opera), Signor Tivoli, Mr. Raynor, and Mr. Green, and the invariably efficient chorus of the establishment. Some of the most charming music in the selection falls to Signor Tivoli. " Lisbon, dear I my native land," is a rich, plain tive melody, and this air and the carearole, " Row, seamen, row," are rendered with the artist's usual taste and feeling. The music allotted to Miss Russell having been written for a contralto, and the music itself, as far as we can judge from the selection, not being the most brilliant in the opera, the singer has not those opportunities for display which her acknowledged abilities entitle her to have opened up for her; but her singing in the duet with Mr. Raynor was marked with her accustomed excellence and finish. The force of this selection lies in the ensemble. The chorus of Arabian women, " Of our land the sweetest flower," is cap tivating in its simplicity, whilst the soptuor and finale to the opera 0913,tain music of the highest degree of merit, k