The Sun. — London, England, 1862-08-06 00:00:00

REEVES, SIM S TO-MORROW, at 3.30. MR, SIMS R EEVE S will sing the " Pilgrim of Love," "The Guiding Star," and "The Bay of Biscay," at the Popular Concert TOMORROW at the CRYSTAL PALACE. ANTERBURY HALL. The renowned Performers, DEBONNAIRE and AUG ONARD (from Paris). Grand Selections from "DON SEBASTIEN" and "IL TROVATORE," Principal Artistes— Miss Russell, Siznor Tivoli, Mr. Raynor, and Mr. Russell Grover. The ryreat Comic Trio, Eugene, Duley, and Unsworth the original Stump orator, "Or any other man." Also the fol lowing Comic favourites—Marshall, as " Lord Dundreary ;" J. G. Forde, A. B. Hollingsworth, and Miss Georgina Smithson. Visitors to London are informed that the Picture Gallery is open to the public on Sunday evenings. I rx E OXF OR 1), 6, OXFORD STREET. " TFE DAUGHTER OF THE ISLES," a Cantata composed by H. LESLIE, Esq., and written by A. BLATTIIISON Esq., in honour of the Marriage of her Boy al Hi g hness the Princess Alice , EVER of her NG, in addition to the usual entertainments, which 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 14.thiot lan oddities of Rumsey, Newcomb, Little Bob, Eugene, and Unsworth (the originae "or any otherand the astound in g feats on the Fl y in g Trapeze of DEBONNAI.K. Hall. rl.; Balcony and Stalls, ls. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Mr. D. Boucicault, sole Lessee. 'lbis Evening. A KISS IN THE DARK. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. Boucicault, Mdme. Celeste' 'Yo conclude with . THE ARABS OF THE DESERT.' A Troupe of the Beni-Zougr,Zom.T. Commence at 7. TH EATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckstone. BALANCETHE OF COMFORT. After Th i s Evening, w hich, OLP. AMERICAN COUSIN : Messrs. Buckstone, iothern ; Mn'. C. Young, Miss Oliver, With LA CON TRABANDIS.UA Perea Nena, Sc. And DEAF AS A POST. L' l4 'l -7 1' • `~:-•.. T TIE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1862. Everything still—in Central Italy, in Northern —appears to be in active Italy, in Southern Ital y preparation. GARIBALDI'S Proclamation from Pa lermo, calling the youth of Italy to arms, and giving them as a battle cry, " Rome or Death"—has not only, as we know, been promptly answered by the KING'S counter Proclamation from Turin, declaring any and every such summons to arms to be trea sonous and insurrectionary—but this royal counter proclamation we now learn has been formally placed in the hands of GARIBALDI by a deputation from Gen. CUGE A, headed by the Duke DELAVER MIRA ! Receiving this deputation in the midst of his personal friends alid attendants, General GARI BALDI is said to have at once " repelled their en treaties." He is described, indeed, to have evi denced so deep and profound a disrelish for anything at all in the way of mere temporising, that he refused to receive from tho hands of these same messengers a letter written to him by his intimate friend General MEDICI. The Royal Proclamation has, therefore, manifestly failed in altering the hero's plans and de terminations. In truth, GARIBALDI had already too f at eammitud himself to allow of his turning back -without an appearance of humiliation. He had drawn tha-aw- ord. He has now apparently flung away the scabba r d . According to the latest advices from Sicily, GARIBALDI—after this interview of his with the bearers of the xi , o'sProclamation—still remains in the interior of the island mustering his forces. A Civil War may faere 'mrtrequently be fairly con sidered to have begun. we have no alternative in arriving at this conclusion. After GARIBALDI's spoken words--- ca n i _ la g written and the volunteers on h is banners, ' , Rome t , ' nrmp—and inscribing the KING's P r - or Death!" Aft er oclamation, pronouncing every such call to arnisLrktitorous to the interests of his Crownas Sc'ywatiGN After GARIBALDI'S rejeCtiOn of that rathe r sharp remonstrance from VICTOR EMMAN UEL . After all this—it is surely not too much to assert that the standard of Civil War is as actually, at this moment, unfurled among the Italians as it is among the Americans. RisTAZZI, we.observe, in the Chambers at Turin, has the indecency and the ingratitude to depre ciate the services rendered to Italy by GARIBALDI ! Affecting to acknowledge all the claims of GARI BALDI to the public gratitude—the Prime Minister, nevertheless, had the flagrant hardihood to deny that the liberation of Naples and Sicily was due to him, that is to GARIBALDI alone ! GARIBALDI only con quered there, said RATAZZI, because he bore aloft the standard of Italian Unity, and spoke in the name of VICTOR EMMBNUEL ! Was anything ever more monstrous than this, or more heinously ungratefui? Ye t — italicising but one little pronoun—we would even, echo as th e s i mp l e t ru th (with a different emphasis, however, from that of RATAZZI) these o therwise painf u l and cruelly ungrateful words of the Italian Prime Minister. Yes—we repeat the mi a i s fer's own words, with this trifling difference of orer b as is--GARIBALb i only conquered there, in • in Sicily, the Soul an d in Naples, " be cauEe he bore aloft the standa r d of Italian Unity, n ame of Vterca tt , and spoketh e -.MMANITEL GARIBALDI, an d GARIBALDI alone, could have ac complished it. As well might NAPoLt ort have performed in 1815 his miracle of the " Return f rom Elba" by deputy, by sending that handful of hi s Old Go#rds over from Porto Fermi° to Cannes, under the command of some favourite aide-de-camp, as GARIBALDI'S wondrous achievements in Southern Italy, in conquering the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, and then handing it over to King VICTOR EMMANUEL, could have been accomplished by any other than GARIBALDI ! It is to the shame of RATAZZI, as Prime Minister of the KING, that he could utter, as he actually did utter on the 3d inst., in the Chamber of Deputies at Turin, these very words " General GARIBALDI has not given the Kingdom of Daly to the House of Savoy ; he does not represent Italy ; he has only powerfully contributed towards its formation, and he has done so by his programme : " Italy and VICTOR EMMANUEL." Was not the Minister ashamed to utter that old dynastic phrase now no thing more than a discreditable misnomer—" the House of Savoy ?" Did he not blush to depreciate thus the name, and the glory, and the services of GARIBALDI ? Talk—as the Ministers of Italy have done more than once of late—talk thus ungratefully of GARIBALDI !! and gratefully of NAPOLEON !! ! Why—if the " King of ITALY" and his Ministers will thus flagrantly pervert the truth let us have the truth fairly " out" in this matter. King VICTOR EMMANUEL owes one half of his kingdom (the Northern half) to the assas sin-hand of Onsim ! And the other half (the Southern half) he owes to the matchless heroism of GARIBALDI ! This is a simple truth that we are enunciating. The signal for the war of indepen dendence in Italy was fired by the hand of ORsINI in the Rue Lepelletier ! Let there be no more of this babble about Italy's gratitude to NAPOLEON 111. The French EMPEROR has been paid for what he has done. That disinterested and magnanimous potentate, not satisfied with winning military glory in the field as Generalissimo in the campaign of Magenta and Solferino, must needs receive, after all was apparently accomplished in the matter, a s ubstantial quid pro qu o in th e s h ape of Savoy an d Nice, with so many hund re d s o f thousands of cert ain human live-stock called Nizzards and Savoyards l Whereas in the instance of GARIBALDI it has been quite otherwise. He handed men to the King—the whole of the King dom of the Two Sicilies. For the which he is now denied even the recompense of a bare ac knowledgment. " Alone at Corioli, like an eagle in a dovecot," he had " fluttered" those Volscians, the royal army of the Bourbon Sovereign of the Two Sicilies—and now, forsooth (to the cry of " Gratitude to our august ally the Emperor NAPOLEON !"), GARIBALDI is ungratefully declared by the Italian Premier never to have done of himself what he himself and no other could by possibility have ever accomplished ! Wider and wider apparently at least looking at the mere surface of events, wider and wider grows the division that has sud denly yawned between GARIBALDI and the Government. GARIBALDI being still the fore most man of all those 25,000,000 Italians! The Government at Turin having still at its head, in the person of RATAZZI, the Prime Minister—how shall we describe him ? Well, we will write of him in so many words—as not so much the patriotic adviser of the King of ITALY as the creature of the Emperor of FRANCE ! No wonder with men like RATAZZI at the head of affairs, that GARIBALDI should at length, in very disgust have boldly broken away. Yet must all the well wishers of the popular cause in Italy grieve at heart over the fatality of a conjuncture which has driven thus asunder from each other the Hero of Italy and the Italian Government. If only—this is the last shadow of a hope to which they are driven—if only it mi„ht even now, at this apparently alarming and disastrous crisis in the Italian movement—if only it could all be proved to be some deep-laid scheme, or plot, or ruse in which Hero, King, and Minister might turn out to have been secretly all this while in collusion ! That is the last faint glimmering hope to which the " Friends of Italy" cling—as straws are clutched at in a shipwreck—now that GARIBALDI and the Government are to all appearance drifting further and fatally apart ! Even the most deliberate murders have different degrees of guilt. Probably the revolting one at Fordingbridge, that of Mr. BRADDELL in the room of a public hotel, in the presence of two other per sons, and the one at Brighton by the soldier on guard, were each of them as deliberate as any com mitted by violence could be. The most disgusting of the three might indeed be the least so, for the most probable supposition has always appeared to us to be, the very commonplace one, of a mind be wildered with fear of a criminal assault being brought home to him if the witness lived. The horrible brutality of the Fordingbridge murder, however, compels us to assign to it the highest degree of guilt. No " extenuating circum stances" could have been thought of even by a French jury —no " recommendation to mercy" by an English jury, for a ruffian who un provoked, prompted only by worse than brutal passion, commencei his attacks on the honour and Ilife of a perfectly innocent girl. The Irish agrarian murders, of which that of Mr. BRADDELL was one, are one degree less guilty. There is the mitigation, such as it is, of a large class of a man's peers sympathising with the crime. Of course we denounce this very sympathy as a savageism not to be tolerated in civilised life, and itself, when it shows itself in shielding and pro tecting the murderer, deserving a punishment only second to death. Still we are all liable to the influence of the sentiments of those who form our cirele. The late Lord CAMPBELL, when Attorney -General, defending Lord CARDIGAN for shooting Captain TUCRETT, appealed to the sympathy of noble lords with the noble duellist, because they might any of them be in the position of a man committing what none now enY to be murder. Sympathy with duel-murder ing shield e d L or d C ARDIGAN , an d t h e At torne y. General : ailed to identify his man!" Happily that sympathy with duellists is now held to b e r . °llB criminal by th e c l ass which onc e c he r ished it ; it is al zu in all respects parallel with the murderous eya, pathy f Irishmen with their fellows who murder for real or itna g. i n ,Z , gets his r e „,„ .e wrongs. A wrong or h w a r r o d n e g h e i d P ma n is brooded over till the He thinks such honourable to hi; i s revenge as a challenge was e ver thought t o be to a duellist, a nd h orridly bad as I both sentimen ts really are, we must, in . ula both estimating the guilt, allow f or their effect on the tab of the duellist and the agrarian murderer. to us c learly less th an • When we come to the military murde r at Brighton, the guilt seems and the made no any of the other cases. The j ur y , indeed, recommendation to mercy, language of that excellent judge, Baron MAR TIN, was fearfully explicit :—" He felt it right to say that he could not hold out to him the sligh'iest, hope that mercy would be extended to him, and he should be leading him astray if be were t o do so. When one man shot another in the manner he did, if ever the punishment of death was to be inflicted, it appeared to him it was impossibl e to avoid it in such a case , and he therefore exhorted himself to prepare to undergo the great change that inevitably awaited him." We do not find fault with the Baron's remarks ; Rf F N " EVERY W E E ONE PENNY, THE BILLINGSGATE FISHING COMPANY (Limited), is formed for amal2amating the interests of Thames Sm 'ck Owners. The proprietors of 5 cutters and s macks have agreed to enter the • on , pany. The mo-t suc cessful fisherman in Viav land will be t e manager of the e fleet. he books of the fishermen prove that the pr,fits over a series of years have been full 25 per cent., so that by e c c an cn° be y a ~00d dividend Will be secured. A large 11-et more cheaply managed than a small one, and combination will enable the Company to regulate the supplY of fish. The latch a deposit, Capital is .£50,0G0, in shares of £5 each, cla 1° id . or otter et application, of 10s. per sh re must be pa , „, sr DAY of REcEIv ING APPI. ICA I lONS, MON- D . I", the 11th of August. BANKERS—The Imperial Bank, Lothbury, Office, 27, LeaueLhall-street. L. OLRICIC, Secretary (pro tern.) CRYSTAL PALACE. - T 0 MORROW U (THURSDAY), ONE SHILLING. Open from Nine in the I%lorning till late in the Evening. Commence at 7. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Pro- rietor and M arager, Mr. Benjamin Webster. This Evening, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. Benj THE amin Webster, J. L. Toole, &c.. ; Kiss Woolgar, Ice. And SHILLING DAY. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee and Manage r, Mr. A. Harris. This Evening, THE RENDEZVOUS. After whi c h, at a quarter to 8, NG HENRY VIII.: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean, &c. With THRCoICmmeAnE MIED. ce R a R t 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. This Evening, PEEP O'DAT : Messrs. Lacy, Falconer. Addison - Mrs. Bowers, &c. }ollowed by KIL LA tiNEY. Conclude' with 7 TIE COLLEEN BAWN SETTLED AT LAST. Charles Selby and Lydia Thompson. Commence at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. This Evening, MAZEPPA : Mr. C. Mortimer. Brilliant Scenes in the Circle by the unrivalled Troupe of British and Foreign Equestrians. Concluding with a Comic Ballet. Commence at 7. NOTICE. Ail remittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. BIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THrs DAY.—Morning, lOh. 3m.—Afternoon, 10h. 48m To-moßnow.-Morning, 11h. 30m.—Afternoon, h. in TIME SUN, LO N DON, WEDNESTINY EVI t we are certain enough that he acted as he felt became an adminstrator, 'not a maker of the law and a guardian of the lives of the community. Yet, on the whole evidence as reported, we do not think that this is a case which calls for the punishment of death, and we believe this will be as general an opinion, as, that the murderers of IVIARTANN HALL and Mr. BRADDELL ought to be hung. We need not say that the law must unmistake ably teach that men cannot be permitted to brood over the wrongs they receive from another till they work themselves up to taking the life of the in jurer. But FLOOD'S case is the case of the victim of an illegal system, and one under which he had suffered even corporally and cruelly. Our readers will see that the provocation he had received was of a kind far less than that which has led hundreds to murder in duels, and less, indeed, than provoca tions for which nations go to war and murder by wholesale. Mock court-martials are tolerated in the regiment, in which those who displease their fellows are tried and sentenced to punishments which are anything but a mocsery. Twice, it appears, poor FLOOD, in pursuance of one of these sentences, had been stripped and flogged by his comrades with a doubled belt ; and though he bore the character of a quiet inoffensive man, yet the deceased who bore that of a very violent and a busive man, had gone to him while he was on duty on the day the affair happened and made use of bad language to him, and he was served with a sort of formal notice that he was to be tried by a court martial for leaving his saddle dirty, and was told that he would be flogged as he had been before. This was no doubt the immediate provocation to the crime. That he was somewhat the worse for drink is probable, for " it likewise appeared that during the afternoon of the Bth of June the prisoner hail drank two pints of ale, end that while he was on guard some girl with whom he was acquainted took him a couple of glasses of rum, and there is no doubt that he was to some extent the worse for liquor when he committed the act." But the wrongs of past " court martials," and the dreaded ignominy and suffering of another flogging, which the violent and abusive man who threatened him well knew he could secure, were what unhinged his mind. We apprehend the universal feeling will be that such infamous persecution of men who have borne for four years a good character, by the violent, the abusive, the bullies of the regiment, must be put down before a man is hanged, because they drive him to murder. No one, of course, will excuse the murder, but every one will feel that so large a share of the guilt falls on the actors in these courts martial, that the punishment of the murder they caused should be shared by all. Coming as this does after the case of rubbing off a poor man's skin with sand and s crubbing-brushes, the public will expect that justice be first done on the inmates and managers of barracks. We submit that secondary punish ment is the only proper one for FLOOD under the circumstances ; and that the quantum of punish ment remitted, if it can be computed, should be dis tributed in full measure to the members of these cruel courts-martial. Mr. SPENCE labours most industriously, we must add very intelligently, in the cause of the South. Whether he writes in a morning contem. porary or in a fifty page pamphlet, such as we have just received, what he writes will be always worth reading ; but it must be remembered that it is the pleading of an advocate, and the South is his client. We do not object to this. He is not a blind advocate. He aims to meet objections fairly ; indeed, chiming for ourselves, so far as our senti ments are concerned, very much of the judicial feeling, we have been struck in perusing his able pamphlet with his frequent expression of views, which have already appeared in the comments we have made on the American quarrel. We can therefore cordially recommend his pamphlet on the "Recognition of the Southern Confederation," to the attention of all our readers, although there is much in it with which we cannot agree. Mr. SPENCE decidedly advocates Recognition of the Southern States by the Governments of Europe. Like all, so far as we know, who do so, he does not dream of intervention, which would be an act of war; nor of recognition as an isolated act, but urges that England, as the most interested in the cessation of the war, should take the lead. France would certainly require no solicitation, and all the other European nations which manufactured cotton would be ready to follow. It was proved by Mr. WHITESIDE, and distinctly assented to by Lord PALMERSTON, that the simple recognition of the Southern Confederacy would not be an act of war, not one of which the North would have any right to complain. It would involve no aid ; it would do nothing more than assert the opinion of our Go vernment, that the South had existed long enough as an orderly Government, and had shown suffi cient vigour in defending its independent existence, to entitle it to recognition as a de facto Government. His reason for bringing forward the subject now is, that now is the time when a recognition of this kind, although it would involve no intermeddling with the quarrel, might both save America the hor rors of another bloody and useless campaign, and open to our operatives a prospect of much earlier relief. There is a pause in America now. Another campaign has not the slightest chance of terminat ing more favourably for the North than the present one, without a second army as large as that which has been raised this year, and a proportionably outlay and debt. The outlay must, this time, be enormous, for recruiting is not done so cheaply as it was last year; and a whole host of corrupt job bers will be again enlisted as advocates for the pro secution of a war ao profitable to their dishonesty. If the voice of reason is to be heard at all, it must be heard before all the expence is incurred, and all the soldiers enlisted. And the suggestion is that that the testimony of Europe to the tie facto posi tion acquired by the South must have great weight with all the reflecting people of the North, and must dispose them to peace. One point, somewhat casually mentioned at the beginning of the pamphlet before us is, we think, the all important one—Do we feel reasonably sure that the North never can subjugate, much less sub jugate and retain, the South ? If that really is the opinion of England and of Europe, if the evidence of facts before us makes it fairly certain, then, the sooner we openly avow the conviction, and act on it to the extent of recognition, the better. It is hardly to be doubted that its effect would be so far to embolden the South, while it would bring the North to reflection, that with the offers of mediation r o ll in t e s hz te u t st follow, even Yankees would hardly be as to scorn the collective voice of Europe. if the re could werea: any reasonable hope that the North the South to inot only conquer but reunite ledge the latter ; b itself,uit would be unfair to aoknow the South has made ht it ?could be equally unfair, if u depeadeuce secure, not to ac knowledge the fa2t. other countries to d 7 oT Our s e t should, in that case, tcowtchigtsetoofthe South, to g operatives, and il t? v, 60 far as i n us we should o e indeed to the North itself to save * Richard Bentley, New Burlington. street. lay, from bloodshed and financial ruin. All, it ap- • pears to us, turns on this, We are not warranted in preventing the suppression of a mere rebellion ; on the other hand, we are not warranted in remain ing indifferent to horrible and purposeless carnage in America, and destruction of our own and other nations' trade. We observe that Mr. SPENCE. holds the opinion, on which we have often emphatical►y insisted, that the law of necessity authorises us, if we think wise to do so, to refuse respect to a blockade which excludes us from an article indis pensable to the support of millions of our popula tion. We strongly incline to the belief that we all of us erred in conceding to the North liberty to blockade us from cotton. Yankees might have blustered, but they would have been compelled to respect the reasonable firmness of all civilised nations. As to the temper which European recognition would provoke in the North, we do not believe it could be more maliciously violent than what already exists there. Nothing but fear of cur strength, per haps equal fear for their own dollars which they see take wings so quickly in war, keeps these arrogant people quiet. It will keep them quiet still. Their spite will evaporate in boastful threats. The slavery argument we have more than once refuted. After all, in recognising the North we have recognised an inveterately pro-slavery, Fugitive-slave-Law-mak ing Government. Nor is what it has done of an emancipationist tendency at all to its credit; it has all been done, not from hatred to slavery but from hatred to the South. Had the North commenced with the Abolition flag, we could have respected it —and we have been willing to think the best of what it has done ; but, reviewing all, we must own that we see in it little but compulsory virtue. We entirely differ from Mr. SPENCE on this subjfct. We do believe that had the Northern people been right-minded towards the negro, the motto, " GOD defend the right" would have emancipated the slave, and preserved the Union. We, too, have looked into the question, and the result is entire disbelief in the pro-slavery twaddle about the dan gers of immediate emancipation—that is of imme diate justice—immediate cessation of the most fla . grant un-Christian and hateful of wrongs. While, then, we confess that the question of re cognition belongs pre-eminently to our Govern ment, we confess that our own impressions in its favour, and we believe those of the greater part of Englishmen have become stronger with every month of this now, as we deem it, hopeless war. On one condition we think our Government would be bound to insist that the slave-trade under the Confederate flag should be declared piracy, not merely as an article in their Constitution liable to repeal by themselves, but in the form of a mo s t solemn compact with us never to be altered without our consent. With such a proviso we think slavery would be quite as likely to come to an end in an in dependent South, as in a Federal Union with a North which hates negroes and loves the profits of slavery itself. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and Princess Mary and the Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz have left town on a visit to Lady Marian Alford at Ashbridge Park. His Serene Highness Prince George of Solms has left town for West Cowes, Isle of Wight, for a few days. His Excellency the Hanoverian Minister has left Grosvenor-place to visit his estates in Hanover. His Excellency Vely Eddin Rifaat Pasha, with his family, have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Paris. The Marquis of Lansdowne and the Earl and Countess of Shelburne have left Berkeley-square for Rich mond for a few days, when the Earl and Countess of Shel burne will leave for Scotland. The Earl of Powis has left town for Folkestone, en route to the Continent. The Earl and Countess of Warwick, after a pro tracted tour in Italy and Switzerland, have just returned to Warwick Castle, the fine old feudal seat of the family in Warwickshire. The Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare have left town for a tour of visits on their way to their seat in Ireland. The Earl of Dudley left his residence in Park lane yesterday for Whitley Court, Worcestershire, whence, after a brief stay, the noble earl goes to his shooting quar ters in the Highlands. The Countess of Kinnoull left Rutland-gate yes terday for Worthing, Sussex, for a few weeks. Field-Marshal Viscount and Viscountess Corn bermere have arrived fr( , m Buxton at Combermere Abbey, where they are to receive a succession of visitors during the autumn. Lard Harris has left his residence, South-street, for his seat, Belmont, Feversham, Kent. Sir George Cornewall and Lady Theresa Lewis and Miss Lister have left Kent House, to join the circle assembled at Ashi idgc Park, Berkhampstead. The Prince of Orange started yesterday evening by the Chatham and Dover Railway for Dover, en route for the continent. Previous to his departure his Royal Highness honoured the establishment of Mr. C. F. Han cock, of Bruton-street, Bond-street, with a visit, and was pleased to favour him with his commands. THE WORK OF THE SESSION.—The House of Commons has voted in Committee of Supply sums of money amounting in the whole to £43,401,639 ; or, deducting votes for last year's deficiencies, £42,373,371. The interest on the National Debt and the charges placed on the Consolidated Fund, of course, do not require to be annually voted. THE MIDDLE LEVEL.—The removal of the water from the long inundated land by the side of the Middle Level drain makes slow progress. Bardolph Fen, at the Outwell end of the great sheet of water, has, however, been cleared, and some of the soil has been ploughed during the last few days. The land thus again made available for cultivation bears, however, but a small proportion to the whole tract of country inundated. The syphons are ex pected to be got to work in about 10 days or a fortnight, and it is expected that the operation of draining oil the accumulated water will then be greatly facilitated. The great breach in one of the banks of the cut is being filled up, and the ruins of the sluice are also in course of re moval. THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.—There was a slight decrease in the numbers at the building yesterday, though apparently a large increase in the visitors from the country. The total admissions up to five o'clock were 56,836, of which 51,714 were by payment, and 5,092 by sea son tickets. The picture galleries and machinery annexe were crowded to an inconvenient excess throughout the whole day. In other respects nothing took place worthy of special remark. During this week the date at which 'he shilling Saturdays will c•,mmence is to be fixed, but beyond this change no alteration will be made, or any fete or cere mony take place till the closing day and distribution of the medals. CONVICTS AT LARGE.—In the year 1861 and last quarter of 1860, 1,672 male convicts were released on licence in England, and 301 female convicts in 1861. In the 8/ year from October, 1853, to the end of 1861, 10,507 male convicts and 962 female convicts have been released under orders of license. 1,124 of the men and 73 of the women have since been returned to convict prisons under sentence of penal servitude or transportation ; and 849 of the men and 68 of the wom en h ave h ad the i r licence revoked for lighter offences, m a ki ng a total of 1, 9 7 3 men and 141 women who have f or f eite d tneir licence . Of th e men , however, only 535, or 5 per cent., f or f e it e d their li cense for the more serious crimes, and 10 per cent. of the women; the rest were for the lignter offences of larceny, theft, vagrancy, assault, and various misdemeanours. MURDER IN DERBYSHIRE,—On Saturday even ing, about eight, Sturston, near Ashbourn, Derbyshire, was the scene of a most brutal murder. It a pears that as Mr. Tomlinson, of Sturston Hall, w loading hay out of a field adjoining his residence, two of his men, who were engaged in "pitching," having had some ttitercatiun relative to the amount of work each was capable of performing, one of them, an Irishman, named Swaney, unawares, tbreely attacked the deceased, a young man named Thomas Stanley, dealing him blows and kicks alternately, until the poor fellow lay a corp se on t h e spot. Th e pr i soner a fter., wards made his escap e , b u t h as s i nce b een capture d by the constabulary in a barn at Little Park, near Okeover-hall, the seat of the high sheriff of the county, and is n ow sa f e ly lodged in the A s - n b ourn l oc k- up. Th e. unfor t u nate y ou ng fellow who so su dd en l y met his death bore an excel lent character, and had only been married five wc.C.i.o. the prisoner is a tall, powerfully-built man, standing about 6 f eet 2 inches in heiot. CrlAltl"-C"5B RAILW AY .-Yesterday the third greatiron bridge, carrying this line over Bridge-road, was comm ence d b y t h e contractors, those over Stamford-street and Bl ac kf r i ars -road being successfully completad. The works and:foundations for the one to earry the line over the Borough-road to the London-bridge sta tion are also progressing. late Southwark AT RUST 6, 1362. 103. 7 AL I7ALIAi'T OPERA. MADLLE. PATTI AS DINORAH. At length the character of Dinorah has found an adequate interpreter. That quaintly passionate conception of the demented Breton girl—whose mingled gaiety and pathos—almost amuse as much as they attract us, and whose natural romance so well illustrates the strange and poetic attributes of the primitive region she belongs to—involves so much pecularity—as to demand for its due embody went no small amount of adaptation. The bereaved Dinorah in the first place is no ordinary peasant. She is not only a type of the Celtic spirit, but of its most antique and express retreats—she is the very ideal of the rustic Breton—as free and buoyant as its mountain winds—as fresh and graceful as its forest flowers—as wild and fantastic as its mysterious ' torrents—that now slumber in their shadowy pools—and now leap in the summer sunshine. Her delirium, again, is one that is not of an ordi nary kind. It is wholly devoid of melancholy. As she wanders her native ravines in search of her lost lover, it is in the momentary belief of meet ing him. She is therefore intensely happy; whilst the pathos of her position—by a very subtle touch of art—is made to reside in her unconsciousness, which mercifully shields her from realities. To interpret her aright, therefore, two conditions are demanded. First, the expression of what may be called the natural romance of the Breton character ; next, that spirit of buoyant gaiety which she de rives from her delusion. It is incumbent on us to say that neither of these conditions have till now been fulfilled on the London stage. Whilst Mdme. Miolan Carvalho is much too cold and impassive to make any duo approach to the one, Miss Lousia Pyne has a natural pensiveness which disqualifies her in a great measure for the fulfillment of the other. Mdile. Patti, on the contrary, both in per son and in genius, seems to have been exactly con stituted to unite the most perfect rendering of the two. Her performance breathes the very life of th© strange and antique region it refers to. It combines all its simple, eager feeling— all its rustic natural grace, and all its free, fantastic movement—with that spirit of enjoyment that is not only so proper to the conception, but so neces sary to soften much that might otherwise be pain ful in it. At the same time, by virtue of her pas sion, Dinorah is thoroughly in earnest, and the few occasions on which she is permitted to reveal her inmost feelings —to Madlle. Pat! i's artistic sense are quite sufficient to become the key to which she is enabled to modulate the entire expression of the character. Such, for instance, is the solemn fervour with which she delivers the romance, " L'incanta tore della montagna ;" and sueh, again, the tender ecstacy with which she wakes, in the last act, to the happy fulfilment of her dream. her musical execution was of a piece with her dramatic. M(yerbeer, a consummate master, has not thought of bestowing on his rustic heroine music that should be brilliant, simply be cause it was gay and buoyant—but rather music which should be quaint and fanciful, in order that it should be true; and the happy manner in which :Mlle. Pattie seizes every point of his intention and gives to its entire scope the utmost reali , „y, whilst elevating it by a grace and feeling wh ic h are proper to herself, forms another of her many claims to the reputation she has won, Thus, her opening aria, " Si Carina," which she addresses to her lost goat, expressed most strikingly the playful tenderness that forms a part of the concep tion. The dancing duett with Corentino conveyed to the full its fantastic spirit; whilst in the great gem of the opera—the most fanciful and piquant of its composer's recent inspirations --the ombra Leggera." She converged, as it were, in a focus every feature of the design, and whether in warmth, enjoyment, grace, freedom, playfulness, or quaintness rendered it a triumph that removed it from all contemporaneous rivalry. The enthusiasm of the audience, which had been frequently roused by her performance, at this point honestly culmi nated in a very vigorous re-demand, with which she complied, to the extent of repeating the con cluding movement. In the last act, oddly enough, Mayerbeer has given his heroine little to do; but here Madlle. Patti's earnestness was quite sufficient to sustain the great impression of her previous exertions, both lyric and dramatic, and render her the central object to the final descent of the curtain. Altogether we consider this per formance one of the greatest triumphs she has yet achieved. Equally superior on the ground of its ori ginality and its truth, it is not less a testimony to the range than to the surprising depth of her dramatic powers. As distinct f rom h er Z erlina in its dreamy ardour as in its more playful and fantastic spirit, it has all the exuberance of her Martha, and all the vigour of her Norina. It cannot fail, therefore, to become one of her most attractive characters tor the future, and to form in the ensuing season one of its most prominent distinctions. Madlle. Patti, wo need scarcely say, was repeat. edly called for during the even i ng, ar)d at the close was very warmly summoned by the entire voice of the house. Oa the general merits of the performance we can have no occasion to enlarge Nions. Faure resumed the Hoel —with all that excellence, which marked his debut in it—all that vigorous sense of the character —the gloomy and absorbed treasure-seeker, in whom avarice, for a time, has deadened all just and tender feeling; and who, on the awakening of his better nature, at rho sudden danger of his be trothed —reveals in the delivery of the " Sei Vendicata"—so touching a proof of his remorse. Signor Gardoni, as the " Corentino," also sustained his previous fame in it as a highly artistic effort ; whilst Madame Nante Didiee as the young goatherd in her delightful ballad "Panciulle the it core" again rousedthe audience to all their old delight at her grace and spirit. The band and chorus of course dis played all their old distinction s on this occasion, and the entire performance was of a character to explain the gratification which it gave to a very crowded house. CRYSTAL PALACE. - In addition to the regular attractions, a popular concert will be given to-morrow after noon, in which Mr. Sims Reeves and other 'vocalists will take part. To enable a large num . ber of visitors to hear well it will take place on the Great Handel Orchestra. Mr. Reeves will king three of his most popular songs--" The Pilgrim of Love," " The Guiding Star," and " The Bay of Biscay." The concert will commence at half past three. LANGHAM HOTEL COMPANY. The establishment of the Langham Hotel Company is proceeding in a highly satisfactory manner, and in a very short time another splendid building will be added to the metropolis. The site of the proposed hotel is that now occupied by Mansfield House and Gardens, Langham place, and some ide a of the magnificence of the proposed hotel may be formed by the fact that it will exceed the Gros venor Hotel in size by one-half. A. provisional agreement has been entered into with the present lessee of the grounds, and, whether for the salubrity of the position, the beauty of the aspect, or its central situation, success must attend the undertaking. The hotel will contain 303 bedrooms replete with everY comfort, besides extensive and splendid sitting, smoking, coffee, and billiard-rooms. The share ,it will be seen from anothe r part of the paper, closes on list the Bth inst. A conflagration broke out this morning near Loughton-bridge, Essex. For some lime danger threatened the homestead of Mr, Frith, but the fire fortunately was confined to tw hayricks. A fire also broke out in a hayrick zear Norwood this morning. The accident in both oases no doubt arose from. overheating of the hay. The halt -yearly meeting of the Wimbledon and Croydn. Railway Company took place this morning at the a sew ndon-brid ge Tenninus. The proceedings only occupied W 4 e. The report was unanimously adopted, The summons taken out by Mr. Metcalfe, the barrister, agaiDst the Duke of Sutherland for assault was not proceed e 6 with this morn i ng , mutual explanations having talt2n, place on both sides. AULD LAING SYNE."—S"ne time ago, says Mr. Laing, when India it was necessary to resort to torture in older to squeeze the taxes cut of the natives, the pressure of the rates was so heavy that the population to a great extent grew ease-hardened to the business; indeed, one whole sect to hie knowledge became quite Hindoo-rated ! Punch. LATEST 'NEVVR THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA (Per the City of New York.) NEW YORK, JULY 26. For the last three days a general feeling of un easiness has prevailed in all circles. The recruiting still languishes in New York and throughout the North, and the call for a draught increases in intensity. General Halleck's appointment to the command of the army is received with moderate satisfaction. Mr. Seward is to remain in the Cabinet. The number of guerilla bands increases in Ken tucky, Tennessee, and Missouri. A plot has been discovered, in which some of the principal inhabitants of St. Louis are implicated, to seize that city on behalf of the Confederates. The Governor of Missouri has called out the State Militia, and forbidden the sale of arms. General Stonewall Jackson threatens General Pope in the valley of the Shenandoah, and great movements are daily expected, both in that quarter and at Richmond. The Federal Commodore Farragut has left Vicks burg with his flotilla for New Orleans. Vicksburg is still uncaptured. Ex-President Van Buren died on the 23(1 inst., in his 79th year. ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT EASTERN STEAMSHIP. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY MORNING. The Great Eastern, from New York on the 26th ult. at midnight, arrived off the Bar at about 11 o'clock last night, and in the Mersey at 9 this morning. She brought over 400 passengers, 6 500 tons of cirgo, and some specie, the amount of which is not yet ascertained. Her news has been anticipated. TURIN, AUG. 5 (Evening). . ... To-day, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Minister of Finance presented the Budget for 1863 amidst applause. The discussion on the Neapolitan railways then commenced, In conformity with the proposal of the committee, the Chamber entered into a discussion on the com parative merits of the plan proposed by Count Bastoggi and that proposed by M. de Rothachilde. The discussion will be continued. NAPLES, AUG. 5 (Evening). General Cugia sent the Duke Delaverdura and Deputy Laloggia to Garibaldi with the proclama tion of the King. Garibaldi received them in the midst of his friends. He repelled their entreaties, and would not even receive a letter from his friend, General Medici. It is said that he is marching into the interior of the island pursued by the troops. On the Roman frontier an Italian battalion en countered some brigands, supported by Papal Zouaves. After defeating them the Italian troops pursued them into the woods of Castro, in the Papal territory. They now remain in possession of the territory occupied by the brigands. TOULON, AIM. 5. Twelve hundred troops are on their way here from Lyons, and will embark to morrow in the Cacique. Their destination is said to be Civita Vecchia. MARSEILLES, AUG. 5. Letters received here from Rome announce that the steamer Castor had given chase to an Italian steamer, which appeared to have men on board wearing blouses. The Italian vessel directed its course towat ds Leghorn. NAPLES, AUG. 5. Colonel Nullo and 24 volunteers have arrived here, but have not been allowed to disembark. The hundred volunteers who lately returned from Palermo have likewise been prevented from,disem barking here. PALERMO, AUG. 5. Yesterday eight battalions of troops and a bat tery of artillery left this city for the province of Corleone. Three hundred volunteers are said to have laid down their arms. It is reported that Garibaldi left Fieuzzi imme diately on hearing of the royal proclamation. TURIN, AUG. 5. Popular demonstrations have taken place at Brescia and Florence. Shouts were raised of " Long live Victor Em manuel! To the Capitol! Rome or death !" Intelligence from Rome states that a bomb had exploded in the offices of the Osservatore .Romano. No one was injured. PALERMO, AUG. 5. Garibaldi is still in Corleone. The Italian troops have occupied the positions of which it was believed he intended to take pos- session. The spirit of the troops is excellent. It is still believed that everything will be ar ranged without the employment of force. PORTUGAL. LISBON, AUGUST 2. The Infanta Donna Isabel Mafia has returned to Lisbon. The Minister of Justice has issued an order pro hibiting the clergy, under penalty of imprisonment, from preaching against the Government. The King is at present sojourning in Cintra. The collection for the support of the children left in the schools of the Sisters of Charity has been very successful, and amounts to a large sum. The works have been commenced for erecting a pavilion in the Black Horse square, for the recep tion of Donna Maria Pia, the future Queen. The heat is very intense throughout Portugal, and the vine disease is again prevalent. The harvest is very short in the provinces. It is considered that the present Ministry wish to reform the Chamber of Peers. 1 --- THE BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE THA UPTON, WE DNESDAY MAILS. SOU MOANING, The Royal Mail Company's steamer Magdalena, Captain It. Woolward, has arrived with these mails, 113 passengers, L 13,392 in specie, seven packages of diam•mds, 700 rolls of tobacco, 250 barrels of tapioca, 44 bales of ipecacuanha, and 172 packages of sundries. Business was very dull both at Buenos Ayres and Montevideo. Exc han g e at B uenos Ayres, 65 to 6 6 per ounce; at IVlontevedeo, 40td, to 41d. the curren t dollar. At Rio the coffee market was inactive, and qu o _ tations were nominal. An advance of 1,000 per arroba in the price of cotton had taken place at Bahia. Freights to Channel, 40s. to 42w, 6d. ; 30s. to 325. 6d. Exchange 26d. 90 days; firm at that price. FRAN CE. BOURSE, Aug. s.—There has been but a very limited amount of business doing, but the market has been pretty firmly maintained at about the closing prices of yesterday. Tnrees, for the Ac count, have alternated between 68fr. 90e. and 69fr. Railway Shares heavy. The market closed as fol lows : 1 per Cents. 9S Do end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 69 tiew 3 per Cents .. Do, end month.... Credit Mobilier.... 847 50 Do. end month.... 850 Bank Shares 3200 Credit I. oncier 1195 Piedmontesc Fives 72 20 Italian Loan 72 35 Roman Austrian Spani,h Threes S(J Home Debt .. }IA IL 'AI S. Cash. Account. Orleans lO2O .. 1020 Northern New ditto - • • . Lyons and Mediterranean 1107 50 .. 1106 25 Geneva 350 .. Southern 827 50 .. 828 75 Western Eastern .. „ 540 .. Sardinian Austrian Low bard 615 .. 617 50 POLAND. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) WARSAW, JULY 29. Two of the vexatious restrictions which the Go vernment has invented, apparently with no other purpose than to goad the people into insurrection, have at last been removed. The Saxon Garden has been partly opened, and the inhabitants of Warsaw are allowed to go about the streets at night without a lantern. It is still forbidden, however, to go for a walk outside the gates cf the town ; and no dimi nution is perceptible in the number of political arrests. The Municipal Council has worthily com menced its more important labours, by appointing. a commission, composed of the President of the town and four of its members, to visit and report upon the various prisons. One of these was visited by the Commission on the 20th„ and the report, which was the result of their investigation, was for warded through the Municipal Council to the Com mission for Home Affairs. This report has not appeared in the Warsaw papers, the Government having forbidden them to publish it. It has, however, found its way to some persons who will doubtless transmit it abroad. I have no time to enter into all the details which disclose the horrible state of the rooms, over-crowded with people of both sexes, and even with children of four years of. age, from whom the mothers would not be separated. The want of accommodation, for there are no beds in the rooms, the filth that prevails in them, the poisonous air which the prisoners are condemned to breathe, many of whom are without a shirt, and covered with vermin, not being able to provide themselves with the necessary ap parel—the scanty and miserable food that is given them, consisting of a basin of coarse sour soup and one pound of black bread, ren der the prisons of Warsaw equal to those of Naples during the time of the Bourbons, and certainly worse than the aasemates of Spiiberg and Kufstaia, of which Austria is so proud. When one remem bers that the 14,833 persons which the report states to have been confindd from the Ist of January last to the 19th instant were so for trivial offences, suck as not carrying a lantern, or travelling without a passport, it is frightful to contemplate the wicked ness of the Russian Government, which exhausts itself in so cruel and refined tyranny. Although the authorities have not permitted the publication: of this report, Muchannon, the Director of the Police, is about to act on it, and has issued a de cree throwing the whole blame on the police em ployes, which, however, has deceived nobody, as it is notorious that what was done, or rather left un done, in the prisons, was with the full knowledge and sanction of all the members of the Government,, from the Acting Viceroy downwards. Every day brings us some new regulation or decree tending to improve the wretched cone,ition of the country, but, alas ! all is on paper only— and a clever delusion is thus practised on the Euro pean public who easily imagine that good and sound reforms have actually been int , 2nded. Such is not the case. Nothing has changed ; the police and the military are still our masters, and woe to him who dares to disobey them. Hence the arrests never cease. The authorities are sadly vexed at the deep mourning worn by the ladies—the absence of any sort of amusement—the passive dissatisfaction which reigns throughout the whole population. And how can it be otherwise, in the midst of the Russian terrorism. It is, indeed, ridiculous to pro mulgate such a new law, either as regards the peasant's question—the admission of the Jews to the enjoyment of civil rights in the development of public instruction, when the first police agent or soldier is invested with a power to destroy every thing. How is it possible to attach credence to those proclamations, when the first violators of them such as Hatsfeld Chrulew and Kryzanowskay, instead of being themselves imprisoned and tried, are loaded with honours and fortunes, and even some of them still retain their official position. It is, I am told, decided to restore the custom. frontier between the so-called kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, Volhynia, and other ancient Polish possess.ons, forming part of the Russian empire. Such an act would be tantamount to a new partition of Poland, and to a positive refusal of the intended reforms to all parts of ancient Poland, which is the only guarantee of upholding them in the kingdom. Moreover, such a policy would be most pernicious to Russia herself, as by granting autonomy to the kingdom alone the other provinces would be in in cessant ferment and excitement, and in the end cause the abolition of those reforms in the king dom. Unless the Emperor is merely deceiving the Poles and Europe by trumpeting his "good inten tions," he must be sadly deficient in what the English call " good sense" to act as he does both here and in Russia. VARIETIES. (From Fun.) What is the tourist's best motive for travelling ?—A loco-motive. What is the difference between a coat and a baby P—The one I wear, the other I was. FUN-EREAL JoKE.—A mausoleum ought to be called a no more so-leum. If M'Clellan is the "Young Napoleon," is not Stone wall Jackson the "Young Wellington"! A GOOD EXAMPLE.—Her Majesty, in her capacity of Duchess of Lancaster, has lately given £2,000 for the relief of the distressed operatives in the cotton districts. Thus, while other sovereigns in Europe strive to acqui re p ower by g the " Qu een of Hearts. " " playing the knave," our gracious rul er w i ns the affections of s h Lm ers u ub T j L e y cts c boysTs,AplaYr cTORY.—Th a t able Federal finan cier, c i er , M This . h i C a h e e T is sadly in " ant of money to carry on t h e war. s curious whe n we recollect the very large k o n the b an k (of the Chi c k ahominy river) lately re . ceived by y G e neral M'Clellan. P er h aps, however, t h e monkey's allowance there o bt a i ne d was not found availab l e f or cash paymenpayments.c hec PERPETUAL MOTION DISCOVERED AT LIST.—Th e progress of FUN in public opinion. ECCLESIASTICAL QUESTION.—I s a versicle the same 45 a tune-isle ?—We pause for a reply. CAUTION TO YOUTH. --Avoid him who draws the long bow, for of a surety such a ene is a n-arrow-minded man' —Solon in the Strand. What prevents the running river running away P --Why' it's tide up. A SEASONABLE RIDDLE. Wire corn in August like a jaundiced fellow ? Because the blade becomes uncommon yellow ! DEATH OF SIR E. P. COFFIN.—The death of Sir Edward Pine Coffin, C. 8., for many years senior Commis" " 4 7 General in'her Majesty's service, is announced. li e was born at Eastdown, Devonshire, in 1784, and entered the commissariat service in 1805. He became Assistant Commissary-General in 1809, Deputy Commissary-Gen eral in 1814, and Commissary-General in 1840. During the tamine of 1845.6 he had charge of the relief operations et Limerick and on the west coast of Ireland. He was knighte d by patent at the termination of that service. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. —TnB directors of this company have determined to recommend to the proprie tors, at the general meeting on the 23d inst., to declare e dividend for t he half-ye a r en di ng t h e 30th of June last at _ the rate of 10s. per cent. per annum on the origin al stook of the company, giving for the half-year £ 2 s s. per cent. t: the original stock, £3 per cent. to the B stock, and £1 10 0 • per cent, to the A stock, r - are de c Ch ins 3 pc 3 pc NeN Rec Ind 33ri