The Sun. — London, England, 1862-06-18 00:00:00

SUARATioN ois CHURCH & STATR-MART' EYRE JUSTICE, On W. Hackett, of Corby-le-time R, N,ampton 1591, gib bed in Cheapeide by Q. vizajesti'in chart°. emir l o w - fu n - day Zenith Al-Cor/3y g2' 30" ideclin. of pole-fair to nat. its , Nonconformist stangrider' of 9 June. so 20 yrs, Cruelly-chained Prometheus' of '42 3 9 rby Indn 3ty, as Antichrist by the (Will ? death) law, in God, without Theatricum Ecclesiasticum mime'ry. TAPAN'S EMPIRE—Its NipOn Quebec-mission .e.J of Pekin's river -<fork as England's Privy-council Carib's St. Luei-(sanebrog'd t 0 Porto Ricocb C°Wlntfteflag with red ball, as Fore-top' d over by Dutch Co-text-Jesuit order),-Virgin -ice's isalt-sjhores order),-Virgin-ile's law, for sea lands leader of June 11. resumption life - trust,. 2 See Tim es ' --a This 199-yr Telegraph, for allies' treaty in token of trade, by Articles 1, 10, under ' La texte Hollandaise -board for E. Ind. Co's yellow Copper-crown revisio n ever y 14 y rs, si gned 26-August, 1858, by Russian 1859,CountAlatioerfeain,avi and under I Pekin's Hun-Tien-('sin Treaty—in :c demands), Obedience to the heaven's Zenith ++ sol sea-meter sphere fate 'Z overhead' -spiral earth-fat. Thus di s ti nc t f r o the r- planeterry Sun's declination N. and S. for S cy thi an- Jahpan's 1580 in Ton-Quin s Le Chua C. J., on Edw. lll's 1338 Duchy -chancery Crt, hr , .. of Macao's teudalk Cabotage as England ' itself of the isles, 50; pied-de-Roi,' against the Tartar-british Papuelifugis hidslave trade, on 7th Pii's motu 12 May 14-16, Thibet-jesuit-reset petition, by Paul° Mas - /ravines & others, on Castle-Rdy's of Java Corea de Molucco without my D'anish Jan. 14th May % - set on Coorg-Nepaul puer seignor:y 3ty against nu lifled Bentinck=--and Stuartm -Canninff a native E, Ind. trust '25 &'62-evictions. Yo rl 11 register the old Tel3ra cone Ch , s-speak' Ls montee lite civic limit-wall of China, as Jeza's horizon of London, 0 ..i.)Q N., on H. B's Troy 1526-81 Relcito of Exchequer, and take out the ' Yedo copy of standard Pigmeter weights' for exemplification, of red moon on white sqr., in red flag of the Menam-cabe empire of Aro isles, Bornet on Eliz.' s Troy 'BB in J. I 's Am:Metter on Sicily's as fret in alto skyset (link 'twist Man and God) on its 'turpentine : : .. • fly audits.' Tell the Free-haired iail••men, as of Our forefathers, that this results from my sole Macao charge, as Holland (on the Holy alliance abolition, of Christ kings), 29th August, 1825 by 11 G. mc 65 i772.'74—based on 14 G. m., c 83, and the MINT-unit in 5-6 W. 4, c. 63, as th' Earth's TROY, re- Stored by 1824, G. i v . c . 74— suspen d e d one year to kill off its life and d'eath 1816 justice-men' for 6 Jan. '26 Romish motu—so o-ause of ' 12th Leo's white Mitre' being set on all a £riminal, exchequer deeds (by reason of yr-1246 all _ grant ?or ' Abbot's mitre in precedent for 1604's c anon- 58 r for a pari s h G o w n ' f rom th e T u thill-f a i r B rom pton rates the t fo the two warden daysman-investiture), over which, —as Jest.-police have no right to touch the fiscal thout work meters —if not tri reeved, I will sign for the people's rights ' konse crop' ng by Ruff i)Y4 2 8 China-slave shaved Jean mark of Macartney's '92 two' `-•'' +CA R, . 3c 6 ` / " 1.- ness, on Brant adopt -liercy, so rt.s. k -Cent papal Moravian Chelsea-act to British misrule by 'confusion, lately seen in Pekin summer palace—to eras, 'Norton'-Siracoe-ism, ' The suspended act 1824-25 on C' was reset by `A clause' in '35-7, and I, its Antichrist State ,wall marty r to 1843, for spirit-level inter-' - national oathing to all office, without Sect-creed e.sk, by a Staff-inset.—.poy'ze right. Tuns on watcl,r trespass,' YER'S ask of Lisbon's Macao Goa's governor *in 1857—(50 to Reme's dead-eye Paps) who 'was Englaw:i's 1594 Stil-laird of N. Guinea 1713 and 1826- River-litag , Gerefa Judge Conservator' on Brazil-marshal Beresf.'ord's B4ton \ rouge submission to Admiral Hamond's tla -lieut. Aekerley as Sir C. Stuart, for facing in Manilla'g F...uriile Court—the Redmans Tycoon, by Gaspe's Jez"skin'd ventral hrt's at Q. An's Bnty o ffi ce, W .m i nster, 1841. I Your Philipii IL's At-kin MISSION was to FE" Clafcoyn the 3-ty of A.D. 1667, with Angl'nutch executive of Holland, as of Leicester's creation 1585, so Cromwea & Louis XIV., t 5.5, yes'd by Parliament-16 Car. if s-Cirafton.-pennet '72 for Phillipine-files & 6 native jury -1764-S c h o l as tio teach of Redlndians by Act of 1832 ror America's Behring's land 18 Rug troy-wt, guarap:,,ee of Dutehloan extend ' 7 'r New foundland-1820 as Crown colony Antipodean to N. Zealand, Siam, and its Cey'Aon trop'exctic fjword de x pendencies, bar ing the Belge-,,esu re- statue'd Pedro I. at Rio Jan. '62. You'll no:w see into the May 14 Bar'ing-Bruqe visit (lead ing by Labuan. Macdonald, to the son ASHBURTON treaty) of my state-set—and afterwards to Northumberland-house to Tyas - a before the Supreme mdian portraiture of Joseph Brant, (Stamp act Sagomothean Chef of 1774-'93 of British Chinese America W. to E.), my uncle & Freeman predeces sor to my n ow Sid er ial-crown, by Income-tax Basquet'd as P. Nwl,'w ar r, Chief, one of y our race under , 3 l, s 'ligne tiree for Nic as hington § Texas—extradition act, 1843—its alien's raving no French white flag for their Co-chin Le Bua- A nnar a assumption vers Colberti's Vann& 1821 of 1557 Calvin Co's foist on my Meximicmac Brazil-Canton sponsor ship '26, with Ind. lady, as Prince Consorted for law—so all L s gifts—not being Y'r Queen's, but my Ind. ally's! BY l'Eraganza tax, Ye are the up-out'd 1582 Deyro-sum& low Sinto Gregory red-letter Papists, severed from state x-kub 9 ship- coroner f so, not of the peoples 'mats-nta y-ftr pole Zenith Court, of elect Tycone o.yer the provincial Dal na i-6,and district Sio-mi-6. If so ? Rip' or Ratify by meter oath.es East-Searchmer, on the Nipon water flag limit of Port Gasp 6 pasin, by 'nigh contracting parties' April 7, 1862, W.-H. Seward it R. Pemell, City niQ'd LYONS ; Amer, Ind. Co‘mission.' - rs by Art, 4, rule 2 'within the territorial water, of the other (L'atitrewise neutre)party in Carib's Right of seare d ' mother earth's legistatrices in Brantm Peter.¢ ' 'Know 1 By 28 H. 111., as Pekin's .< the W.minster tidal Octagon -tower flag of Parliament, when 1265 sitting at the Q-Kish Aid 'Apt-ery-house, was of Red Sarsinet with Gold (mot ragon 4. Tetra-conic thus the Portugue-mason change of your national Red•o t into a merchant church flag by Ma cao'd Rips (1549-94-1606), under an Edin. St. John's grip Dutch Japan Lodge 3ty with China, Navigasaelii. signed Feb, 1663-64 by Tycoon, BORT & Does, whereby a White flag with Red-moon ball, was set as the Jetfengo emblem of your hued-Tail Orient-lodge Embassy in London. Hence, by Span'sh-dutch 3ty, in mexi-Anahuaq' reciprocity to perpetuate Goa's-french Cuivre on Art. 10, the Japan admiralty Coin-flag will be from 1862, Red ' pierced white square, with Red moon'—for ever, by E. India Cots J -sign-lan Coge Cofer' s Arab-persia Gulf, on Baron Loyola Mascarenhas, Palm'erst'ons refugee 1808-list, to '62—Thus on Charles V. &12 Leo, 1521-Luther 3ty' on Clement 14th Jesuit abolition—to Ackerle'Fma layman succession in Labra dor 1769-72 surragatorir.l ingressu and egrousu will probate of Sir Philip Francis, to 1818—Cook, and Burton-crescent statu'd Cranmer Major Cartwright, on Ackerley's 1825 and still on £9O a-year unrelieved State duty. . 5 7 - Gm base qui (fit Armer la race-rouge si grande ria En la loi icivique), pose avec Fierte, . . 00 l'on volt que jamais l'ENcirAND' ne rearchande Quand it faut par la merlenr donner Liberte. h 4"f • • * N.] Atkyns Montague C. ACKERLEY, El • • 1-2 W. IT., N.. 54, Chamberlayne' Qie-sworn. 4 . • PETER BASQUET, Income-tax chiet (1842 unpaid of • China Rut wall circuit horizon of , - , London, June 18. I Q 1862) its Montezuma'd Red flag of E. Ind.-Hs., not in Brant's power to life-give to H. lercy in 1792. So Paris White ship' in red flag, 1189—/3elgae-voomt ICaZfateren-t" skiff Het [chip traylt wel, het is ras in sEylen, item, het is een klock- ship in failen'—by Cape Nab 9 awa. 1' By 7.25 Hen. in. the Purser discargo-ree or steward is deputy-juror for neighbours to the fact,' under Shipping Act to avoid Midlsex Ty-cone Coroner's sequestration in log default on death or Offences to the Chinese—by the 1842 British Emigra triad.Jesu Soc :, (Belly-skin Vac -sign marks S. A. C.' of Sandwich-isles, Austral, Calfornia-Peru hut-poll-tail-tax, by Spanish it fehedule goldfinders, on Art. 8, as OUT' and ' IN' heady-moneyof the Montague Indian trust), for their Sky-drama season-augury, of no Cone-sub stantial reality in their Heli-Olymp'an-game Sect—but with rights as free-born Englishmen—hitherto victimised. (See Sun April 19, 28, May 16, & Times June 11.) T HEATRE -ROYAL, HAY MARKET, Lessee Mr. J. B. Buekstone. THIS EVENING, a Household Picture, under Two Lights, entitled THE WIFE'S PORTRAIT. Mr. Howe, Mr. W. Farren, Mrs. C. Younfr, &c. After which, at hall-past 7, will be performed (I`2d time) OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchant, Mr. Buck. stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothcrn. Followed by a new Spanish Ballet entitled LA CONTRA BANDISTA. Senora Pena, ena, Senor Ricardo, and the Corp 4. do Ballet. TO conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GIIOS r. ROYAL LYCEUM THEAT}U, Sole Lessee and Manat, , er —Mr. Edmund Falconer. 185th Night of the ^ontinuous run of "Peep o'Day." THIS VEN G, rEE O' DAY ; or, Savournoen Deel ish. Itessrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Si lby, 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 Llesrlud Lydia Thomson. e, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitty anti TO co nclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T Mtee L...a7 Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and a Thompson. Prices ft . ikt ting ISlanap , ,er—Mr. F. B. Chltterton. t", 130x.. o flir'2'2 boors open at half-past et, to commence at ''Peaclaity from 1I till 5. ~ ~Ct`.ICQCQ a . 0 OYAL ---iii"-'--"--------""--7,, ni , ctit'... Mr tv. itarrle. 1 PRIN CESS'S THEATRE. l T HIS EVENIN G , TOO Mr .11f. Harris. MUER OF A GOOD THING. After which, THE C°IISICA and Louis de Franchi, Mr. c h „, ie N BROTHERS. Fabien R. Cathcart, Meadovrs, A':(_,eailesdMarnesessrs.Flieolradinagn: Everett, Ch apma n, H. Leclereq, Henderson, a] ; To conclude with THRlCE'llAa ti ,.. \ _ 4 ' Chapman. Commence at 7. No h a i t i '2_ l ?. Pnce. Llf i'Aii - CF - ittn. E,,, 1 i - ~ i)i n , p Kelly, Laidlaw, Solo i'ropriptor and 31,3naaer, Mr. B . wo :_! Hi, 70 -NIO'ITT, ICI ON PARLE PRAlkTem s ; te r. J. L. Toole, Billington, I:m2ry ; Misses K. Kell K. Bland, and Mrs.ll. "Marston. To be tollowed by O T HE OCTOROON. Messr B . Di Boueicattit, Eme r y J'imison, Billinon, P. Bedford, Philen Ste P be nson, Pow - ell, Romer ; :In's. Binington, Mrs. IL 11 / 1 1 .': stop, Miss Latimer, and Piss Denvil. To conclud e with THE Sill! LING DAY. 3Tessrs. J. L. Toole, I'. Bedford, E mery, a! iss Latimer, Arrs. 11. Lewis. Commen(e at 7. HALL CANTp. R B U R y STECKEL The Greatest Trapeze Performer in'the 'World, at 10 o'clock. Grand Selection, at a quarter to Ten, from the Opera , DON SERA.sTIEN,” One of the most important works of the late Maestro, Doni zetti (produced here for the first time in this country). Ar ranged and conducted by Mr. Jongfn" . Principal Artiste—Miss Russell. The Great Comic Trio, Unsworth, Eugene, and Duley, with the celebrated Stump Speech, " Or any other man " the original\ in ad.lition to the followirg array of Comic Talent, viz.: -E. Marsh3ll (in rew songs). J. G. Porde, .A. B . Hol lim sworth, Miss Georgina Smithson, end Joe Brown, the renowned American Dancer. H E 0 X F OR D, OXFORD STREET. The miraculous STECKEL, Champion of the Trapeze, in new and unapproachable feats. Verd,,f; "LA TRAVIATA," "IL TROVATOIZE," BOCCANEGRA," do: do. ; G. Linley , ' , s " JOLLY BEGGARS ; " G.A. Macfarren's "MAY DAY. Principal lists Miss Russell, Madame Enderssohn, Messrs. EPrley, Greene,. and Albert. Full Band and Choru s . Musical irector, - Mr. F Jonghmans. ...alias Caroline Parkes, Mr. W. Randall, and those unr , ivalled 2dll.,9psan Comedians, Rum sey,Newcomb, Little Bob, Eugene, "uaun worth (the original "or any other man"). ]yell. ed.; Balcony and Stalls, Is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. Shortly will be produced Verdi's Great International Exhibition Cantata. • HIGH WATER 'AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIg DAY.—Morning, sb. Z 2 na.—Afternoon, sh. 55m. rA"o-moßßow.-Moraing, 611. 20m .—Aft ernoott 6h. 46rn, SNOW IN JUNE. or the laq few days the weather has been exce ss ively cold, and h all and snow have crnedTibuday last, l es are i fallen in several distric t s in the north , ornied about six o'clock in t he evenin g , we ° that the snow and h ail fell so thickl y near the farms Messrs. M‘liessack, Culblair, and Cruickshanks, elo of that the farm servants amuse d themselve s by makin g balls and pelting each other with the unseasonable material ) —lnverness Advertiser. NOTICE. All remittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at He Sun oMce, 112, etrand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. ft 4 , ' , o vityrr )5 4 *11,1 „ t e r itr; Vq,...%.,,Ak . ) Altnr.,,n, THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1862. Another arrival from America tells of more fight ing, and this time the balance of success is doubtless with the Federals; but as usual, their gunboats are the chief victors. In Virginia they appear to have suffered even more than was at first reported—the announced losses of 300 and 3,000 have now swelled to 7,000, and as the information is from Northern sources, and there has been time to ascer tain pretty exactly, we fear that these last figures do no more than represent the least loss suffered by the Federals on the last of May and the first of June. Well may the Confederates claim the vic tory, for if to have killed or disabled 7,000 of their opponents, and to carry off all their guns and bag gage, although they could not eventually drive them from their ground, be not a victory, we hardly know what is. In the valley of the Shenandoah, iu West ern Virginia, from which Gen. JACKSON had driven BANKS, the Federal General, has again gained an advantage by his skill. BANKS returned reinforced to the south of the Potomac. FREMONT, who was "over the hills and far away" south-west, by forced marches and with his wonted energy, crossed the mountains and offered battle to JACKSON, who re treated, and FREMONT occupied Strasburg. He then followed JACKSON to Harrisonburg, further south in the valley, but the retreating General led him into an ambuscade, and inflicted "heavy loss" on him. FREMONT has daring and energy, but, as so frequently, the Southern General shows supe rior skill. But it is in the West, this time, that the Fede rals appear to have the success altogether on their side. It must be remembered that the accounts we have are wholly one-sided, and not only are they from Northern sources exclusively, but they are all such only as it pleases the Government and the War Office to publish. According to these ac counts the Federals are completely triumphant on the Mississippi. First we have some account of the army which evacuated Corinth, and we are told that General POPE, who is certainly one of their abler men, had come up with the retreating Confederates thirty miles south of Corinth, and was "pushing them hard, and capturing prisoners" in large num bers. But on the Mississippi itself the Federal success is complete. They have taken, or what is the same thing, the Confederates have evacuated Fort Wright, and the Federals have steamed on past Fort Randolph and two other forts to Memphis itself. It would seem from this that all opposition is now crushed along the shores of the river from Ohio to Memphis, the commercial capital of Ten nessee. But we are told that Memphis did not fall with out a naval battle, which resulted in the complete destruction of the Confederate fleet—one boat only escaped ! If so, the Federals are now com pletely masters of the Mississippi, for nothing is left on its waters sufficient to withstand for an hour the Federal gunboats from New Orleans and Cairo united; indeed, it is doubtful whether the Confe derate fleet destroyed did not consist of all their Mississippi gunboats, which remained, united. The remaining forts on the banks are of no importance whatever before such a naval armament as can now be brought to attack them. We shall probably hear that, at Memphis, as at New Orleans, the anti- Union feeling is very strong. Preparations had been made, we know, to destroy the sugar and cotton there, but whether they were carried out, we are not yet informed. There is a little information also from Richmond and Charleston, but it is somewhat obscure or unre liable. Report says that the Monitor has forced ;the obstructions by which the Confederates delayed the Federal gunboats under the guns of Fort Dar ling, about seven miles below Richmond on the St. Tames River; but the report rests as yet only on the authority of one Philidelphia paper. Another piece of information is from Southern papers, and tells us that the Confederates had repulsed 2,000 Federal troops, who landed on " James Island, opposite Charleston "—an island on the south side of the harbour, opposite to the city, and from which it could doubtless be bombarded, if the Federals could be guilty of such an act of barbarism. The account says that the enemy was repulsed; but a later despatch, from the Confederate General, describes the " enemy as in front of him, under cover of his gunboate. What do not the Federals owe to their gunboats ! This looks, of course, as if the North had at last determined to atta►k Charleston itself, the prime mover of sedition. The reason they have left both it and Savannah, in Georgia, so long, after they have apparently been in their power, is said to be the diversion of Confederate troops from Richmond. They keep force enough near both cities to compel the Confederates to maintain yet larger armies there. Ono piece of intelligence s occupying but pailt of a line, ought to be printed in letters of gold, were it not that the results will chiefly be in paper. At last we read—" The Tax Bill is passed !" We all began to think it never would be. We are curious to'see how it will work; but that cannot be known till months, and quarters, and half years, and even Years have gone by. Nearly everything conceiv able le taxed—domestic now, as well as foreign ; and the old story of the Englishman taxed into his earn° i tself will be repeated in American taxation. A perfect army of excisemen must cover the land if the taxes are to he levied, and the cost of collection must be enormous , patronage....,,, Government will tow and ,r a splendid part of the Fe derallls spoils of office." The have ,t o b usvt receivedatesab taxes e,os fresh e and aas lemu r uleaci incon vertible calculation it s own inconvertible p l „ er . ' Led to sustain the the windbag of estimates the p r io u d s u t ce s o ti f il th bee at all beyond the interest of the pricked we cannot yet foretel; paper war. How long it will be before iGtosvuerrenlymeeanntneortedbiet visery long. , , At the close of the recent session of the Social Science Congress, the members held a convivial meeting at the Crystal Palace down at Syden ham. Such, in effect, is the order of the day now in England at the end of all sessions, Social, Scientific, Charitable, or Parliamentary. A dinner is the one inevitable sequence. There are always "Pippins and cheese to come" whenever the 1a• hours of any body of Englishmen are drawing near their conclusion. All the eleemosynary in stitutions in the country celebrath the anniver sary of their foundation, respectively, by a ban quet at the London Tavern, at Freemasons' Hall, tr at some other well-known place of public en- 111 E SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1862, tertainment. In this way yearly one sees an nounced by advertisement dinners (each duly pro vided with chairman, sometimes also with vice-chair men, always with a procession of stewards, having one and all of them a mystical rod of office, and invariably led off at all the toasts by a loud-lunged fugleman in the shape of a practised toastmaster) —certain among these dinners, by the way, being of the most unappetising name, style, and title imaginable. The Orthopedic hobbles in one while— the Cancer Hospital has its festival at another—and so on through " all the ills that flesh is heir to" — benevolent people readily finding some distressful plea for having a feast for the purpose of swelling the funds of some favourite hobby or another among our practical philanthropists. It was only the other day, in illustration of this popular rage for dinners in England, that some of the more enthusiastic pro moters of the Main Drainage movement took it into their heads to glorify the progress already made, and still rapidly making, in that great subter ranean improvement of the capital, by actually partaking of a magnificent dinner down in one of the largest of the Sewers! A locality of rather revolting associations, one cannot but feel, such as any one might have imagined would have scared away the revellers invited to the demonstra tion, instead of attracting them to it. Yet no— the whole scheme was so perfectly en regle here in England that the dinner in the Sewer was a decided success, and was very numerously attended. The rage for banquets at the end of a session is aptly enough illustrated in the political world, year after year, immediately prior to the prorogation of Parlia ment, when, by an invariable custom, her Majesty's Ministers, in agreeable conclave assembled, go down the river to consume the immemorial whitebait with lemon juice squeezed over it, and the particu larly thin slices of the inevitable brown bread and butter. It is one of the oddest customs surely in the wide world for any circle of " Potent, grave," and if not "reverent," at any rate right honourable " Seigniors" to adhere to. And yet, odd though it be, oddest of the odd though it be, it is decidedly Rot one of those " more honoured in the breach than the observance." And so Ministers, as a matter of pleasant necessity, as one of the most agreeable among their bounden duties, consume their White Bait Dinners imme diately before the commencement of the Grouse Shooting. So, likewise, among the general com munity : whatever we may be about—getting up a public company—adding a new wing to an asylum —welcoming some distinguished servant of the Crown—bidding goodepeed to another—always, invariably, unavoidably, comes the celebration of the event liy a banquet, with the inevitable et ceteras of speeches alternately of a complimentary character, and by way of acknowledgment. It is hardly a circumstance to be surprised at, therefore, that the principal participators in the promotion of the interests of the Social Science Congress should bring their labours to a close in the way already mentioned, viz., by a dinner in the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. If by nothing else this dinner was elevated above the level of ordinary festivities of this description, not so much, we will say, by the character of the association of whose labours, this year, it was the amiable termination as by the casual utterance of an anecdote in one of the after-dinner speeches delivered towards the end of the proceedings. The speaker being the Right Hon. J. W. NAPIER, the Irish ex-Lord Chancellor. The subject at once of the speech and of the anec dote being tjie President of the Social Science Asso ciation. Anything relating to the personal history of a great man like Lord BROUGHAM, is at all times welcome to the nation proud alike of his genius and of his career. At this advanced period in his career, while his rare and comprehensive genius is still at its brightest, the interest that cannot fail to be awakened in the minds of all by particulars such as those which have just been formally brought to light by the recollections of the Right Hon. J. W. NAPIER,-it would be difficult to exaggerate. Lord BROUGHAM is now in the eighty-fourth year of his age, with his encycloprediac intellect unclouded, and with his every energy still so well strung and so full of healthful vigour, that the youngest man who might in any way have been reasonably selected to preside over the recent sessional labours of the Social Science Association (even if he could at the same time have been :endowed with Lord BROUGHAM'S mental capacities and his peculiar aptitude for the office) could not have acquitted himself better of the responsibilities devolving upon him in his post as President. But adverting to the anecdote, we would here recall to public recollec tion, the anecdote mentioned the other day quite incidentally by the ex-Chancellor for Ireland—Mr. NAPIER, in reference to the extraordinary length of time, duritg which Lord BROUGHAM'S life had been devoted to the interests of the whole human race, observed, that "He (Mr. NAPIER) remembered some years ago meeting an old and re.. spected lady in the north of England, who knew Lord BROUGHAM very many years ago. She hap pened to be the only lady present at a party when all the original founders of the Edinburgh Review, including his lordship, dined together after the second number of that publication appeared. It had been arranged that none-should know who were the authors of the different articles in the Review except the editor, and, of course, the writers of those articles. On that occasion, which I believe was in 1 1802, the lady's husband remarked that the writer of a certain article he had read was fit to be anything. Mr. BROUGHAM observed, " What ! do you think he is fit to be Lord Chancellor ?" The reply was, " Yes, and I tell you more, he will be Lord Chancellor." Probably his lordship still re- membered old Mrs. FLETCHER. [Lord BROUGHAM —Perfectly.] She had the happiness to live years afterwards, and to see her friend Lord Chancellor of England. Not, by any means, alone as Lord High Chancellor of England, however, will the name of HENRY Lord BROUGHAM, be hold by his fellow crountrymen, in future times, in grateful remembrance. Personally, of course, the date of his taking his place on the woolsack marks the culmination of what, in Napoleonic, and cer tainly, also, in pegan, phraseology, may be called the Star of his destiny. But since the brief but brilliant period of his career as Chancellor came to its close, Lord BROUGHAM has advanced instead of retrograding or even of remaining stationary. As the Irish ex-Chancellor NAPIER well remarked the other evening, when Lord BROUGHAM quitted the woolsack "he did not descend to an inferior position." Still he hold his own as the " Hero of Humanity." ' The POPE is in a passion—but then it is excusable, for we ought-in. fairncss to view it as the temporal Passion of the temporal POPE—the temporalities being beyond all doubt the real cause of it. To e) be sure, it is hardly in keeping that he should• hurl such ecclesiastical and religious denunciations against these political offenders ; but then again we should remember that we all naturally fight with the weapon we are used to. The cause of the wrath is secular, the attacks are secular too, but these or the P OPE t h in k s s h ou ld be, the good thi ngs are, a spirit ua l prince ; and so they of they become religious matters. But Protestants who arc so scandalized at seeing the Bishop of ROME rail at the assailants of his temporalities seem to forget the ways and manners of English and Irish Protestant Bishops. Let any one lay his finger on the temporalities of their church, although they are but a comparatively very modern gift of the nation, and what a stir we have. Even the temporalities of the graveyards—of dust, ashes and corruption—were not surrendered a few years back, till the clergy actually got the temporality perpetuated when the work ceased ! Let any one look, too, at the language in which a small party of unquestionably intelligent men are assailed, who, under the style and the title of the Liberation So ciety, propose to relieve the Ghurch of England of the temporalities given to it by the State, and to restore them to the giver for secular purposes. It would not be easy for his Holiness to surpass in bitterness the epithets bestowed upon the Voluntaries by the bishops and clergy of our own country. Even if any one assails that eccle siastical monstrosity, which no Statesman worthy the name has ever defended, the Church of Ireland —if it is asserted that the Church of a few thou sands ought not absorb all the national ecclesiastical wealth of a people of six or seven millions—the Pro testant hierarchy will wax as warm as the POPE himself. Equal dealing in Religion is a crime. The true Religion—that is, my religion—ought to have all the money; so argue British as well as Roman Popes. We should, indeed, rather recommend HARRY of EXETER, and SAMUEL of OXFORD to study the POPE'S allocution. It would refresh their spirits. They could apply it, as they might apply one of DAVID'S anathematizing Psalms to the domestic enemies of the Church ; always meaning, by the Church, those temporal blessings of it which cul minate in Bishoprics. They might enrich their vocabulary—rich enough, perhaps, at present. Here are a few flowers of this kind of Vatican rheto ric—"men who are enemies of the cross of CHRIST"— " associated by a nefarious alliance "—" blaspheming what they ignorant of"—" by depraved acts endea vouring to weaken the foundations of our most holy religion and human society"—" crafty artificers of fraud and mendacious fabricators"—practizers of "melancholy and diabolical acts"—" debasing the knowledge of all—diffusing deadly poison—exer cising unbridled licentiousness of life and depraved desires"—" extinguishing every idea of justice, truth, right, honesty, and religion"—" deriders of the most sacred dogmas of Christianity"—men who " perversely assert that the civil power can inter fere in matters which belong to religion"—who assert that "Divine revelation is even injurious to human perfection—is imperfect—its prophecies and miracles the comments of poets—and that oar Lord JESUS CHRIST himself, horrible to be spoken, is a mythical fiction." They are " turbulent worshippers of perverse dogmas"—nay, they rival the Titans of antiquity—for " they arrive, also, at that degree of impiety and impudence, that they endeavour to attack Heaven itself, and take away GOD. himself from the midst of it." But enough for a sample—the fertility of the POPE'S invention really does amount to a kind of inspiration in this line ; but whether VICTOR EM MANUEL, RICASOLI, and RATTAZZI, or GARIBALDI and CRISP', will recognise their photographs, here, may be questioned. An arrow which hits the mark is more effective than a thunderbolt which misses it, and probably all bystanders will see that these bolts of heaven or of hell, it is really hard to say which, bury themselves in the ground, and leave the intended victims scatheless. In their way they surpass even the last papal effusion, and, we must confess, leave far behind the productions of the English anathematisers. As, however, these latter want the power more than the will, we commend them to the study of the POPE'S Allocution. What he really can hope to gain by it, at this time of day, it is hard to tell. Neither French nor Italian politicians are likely to be much moved by such ecclesiastical abuse. It will rather do them good. Every educated man revolts from or laughs at it and even the illiterate do not believe it. If his poli tical opponents were irritable they would have but to leave him to himself, and he would quickly have to vent his curses from the mire. They have too much good sense probably to let him down with a sudden jerk, but he has a warning already in the reduction of his army, that he must soon receive temporally, the due reward of his temporal deeds, at the hands of ',hose whom he curses. DEATH OF LORD MUNCASTER,—We have to record the demise of the above nobleman, vho died on the 18th ult. at Castellamare, near Naples, in the 31st year of his age, after a short illness. His lordship succeeded his father as fourth baron and eighth baronet in 1838, and married, in 1855, Lady Jane Grosvenor, daughter of the Marquis of Westminster. Lieut.-Col. Herbert Watkin W. Wynn, M.P., is, we regret to learn, seriously indisposed at his seat in Wales. Yesterday the accounts were more favourable, but the hon. and gallant member is still not considered out of danger. A serious accident occurred on Friday to Lord Francis and Lady Osborne, when driving in a phaeton from Castleconnel towards their residence at Clonsingle, county of Limerick. In the narrow part of the bog-road, on the New port line, th e vehicle in which they were travelli ng came i n collision with a donkey cart, which completely overturned it, and we (Limerick Chronicle) regret to state that Lady Osborne sustained severe injuries ; his lordship was not much hurt. Mrs. Ellen Hope has presented to the National Lifeboat Institution t 340, in memory of her late husband, the Rev. F. W. Hope, for the purpose of enabling the in .stitution to station a new lifeboat and transporting carriage at Appledoro, on tho north coast of Devon, where some fearful shipwrecks take place nearly every winter. THE CORONERSHIP OF MIDDLESEX.—The writ for the election of two coroners for Middlesex—the central and western divisions—under the recent order in council, will bo forthwith issued from the Crown-office, the Middle sex magistrates having der ided the question as to the coro nership of the Duchy of Lancaster. The election cannot take place within seven days of the Sheriff receiving the writ, and must b,:? within 14 days. The freeholders cannot poll out of the district in which their property is situated. The nothination for the central division will take place at Marylebone, and for the western division at Brentford. The expenses of the Sheriff are to be paid by the candi dates in equal proportions. The polling is confined to ono day. Mr. Humphreys has been assigned by the Middlesex magistrates, at their late meeting, the eastern division, and the salary has been fixed, including all expenses, at 4500. The salary of the late coroner, Mr. Wakley, was £l,BOO a-year, :and it is expected that the same will be divided be tween the two coroners to be appointed for the central and western divisions. THE NEW STREET FROM SOUTHWARK TO THE WESISINSTER BRDGE-ROAD. This new communication between the Borough and the Southwark-bridge-road has made considerable progress during the last fortnight, and in consequence it is expected that in less than a fortnight the line for foot traffic will be open thus far. For some time the street has been formed a short distance west of the Borough Market. From this point to the Southwark bridge-road the formation of the street has been continued. The vaults for the houses which are to be built in connec tion with them aro nearly all formed on either side of the way, and the foot pavements over them are nearly com pleted. The subway is erected above half the distance, and at each end of this portion of the line the roadway is being laid down with solid blocks of granite. The contractor also commenced on Monday last the formation of the line to the west of the Southwark-bridge-road, between that spot and Blackfriars-road, which can be rapidly proceeded with, as there aro not many houses to be cleared away to make room for the further extension of the street. _ Letters from St. Petersburg state, that the Japanese ambassadors are shortly expected in that city, After having visited the Russian capital, Vienna, Berlin, &c., they are to return to Paris, to be present at the fetes of the 15th August, then proceed to Marseilles, and embark for Suez, THE WARRIOR.—A number of sailors paid off at Plymouth have gone to their homes at Queenstown and the surrounding localities by this ship. They represent her as a most uncomfortable vessel at sea in bad weather. She not only ships seas fast, but leaks copiously through her ports, and leaves scarcely a dry article to the mon on the main deck, LATEST NEWS. THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (PER HIBERNIAN,via QUEBEC AND LONDONDERRY.) NEW YORK, JUNE 7, Morning. The Confederates have evacuated Fort Wright. It is reported that the Federal fleet has passed Fort Randolph, en route to Memphis. The late engagement before Richmond was more severe than was first reported, the Federal loss being now estimated at 7,000 men. The Confede rates claim the victory. General J. Johnston is reported to be seriously wounded. Gustavus Smith now commands the Confederates before Richmond. General Halleck reports that General Pope is 30 miles south of Corinth, and is pushing the enemy hard. He had captured a large number of pri- soners. General Jackson has made a successful retreat. Vicksburg papers of the 31st ult. report that Vicksburg had not been taken. The Federal Navy Department has ordered the construction of 15 more gunboats. The Senate has passed the Tax Bill. Cotton has been taxed by the Senate at half a cent. per pound. Mr. Sumner has offered a resolution in the Senate that the appointment of military Governors for Southern States was contrary to the Federal con stitution and laws. Reports from Key West to the 30th ult. state that a Federal frigate from Vera Cruz had brought information that the French had been repulsed by the Mexicans, and were retreating on Vera Cruz, with heavy loss. The City of New York, Persia, and Bohemian have arrived out. (LATER BY TELEGRAPH TO FATHER POINT.) NEW YORK, JUNE 7, Evening. The Fortress Monroe correspondent of the Phila delphia Press says it is reported that the Federal gunboats had passed the Confederate batteries on the James River below Richmond, and that the Monitor had passed through the obstructions sunk in the river by the Confederates. This report is not yet confirmed through any other source. The Kangaroo and City of New York, sailing hence to-day, take out 1,000,000 dols, in specie. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JVNE 7, Evening. Money abundant. Gold, 4} per cent. pm. Exchange steady; bankers' bills on London, 114 t. Stocks heavy. Cotton quiet. Provisions dull. (LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO CAPE RACE.) NEW YORK, JUNE 9, Morning. A naval engagement has taken place on the Mississippi, near Memphis, resulting in the de struction of the Confederate fleet. All the Confederate vessels were destroyed but one. Memphis surrendered immediately afterwards, and is now in possession of the Federals. - Southern papers state that the Federal forces 2,000 strong, had landed on James Island, opposite Charleston, under cover of a gunboat, and that some fighting had occurred, in which the Federals were repulsed. _ _ A late despatch from the Confederate General Girl says:—" The enemy is now in front of me under cover of his gunboats. An advance is imminent," It is stated from Southern sources that Fort Morgan, commanding the entrance to Mobile, was attacked on the 4th inst. EVENING. General Fremont has occupied Harrisonburg, Beyond Harrisonburg he came upon Gen. Jackson fell into an ambuscade, and suffered heavy loss. Jackson was expected to make a stand at Forl Republic. , COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money abundant. Exchange advancing. Bankers' bills, 1151. Stocks buoyant. Cotton quiet. Gold 41 per cent. premium. CANADA. QUEBEC, JUNE 7. The Canadian Parliament will rise on the 9th inst. The Railway Amalgamation Bill has passed both houses, after undergoing considerable modification. The new tariff, increasing the duties on tea, sugar, and other articles, will probably come into operation on the 9th inst. BERLIN, JUNE 18. The semi-official Allgemeine Preussiselie ( Stern) Zeitung of to-day concludes an article on the recent measures in Electoral-Hesse as follows: "In the whole of Germany there exists no diffe rence of opinion as to the inevitable necessity of rapidly progressing with this urgent question. " Prussia is the lout able to look quietly upon any intentional hesitation on the part of the Elec toral Government. " We confidently expect that no such hesitation will occur, and that it will not, therefore, be necessary to give to the undiminished military arrangements of Prussia that effect which was only postponed on account of a hop© of the readiness of Cassel to carry out the desired reforms." FRANCE. BOURSE, June 17.—The market continues in the same inanimate state, but without any further re- trograde movement in prices, Threes being main tained at 68f 40c. The Railway Share Market is quiet, but in general firm. The market closed as follows: It per per Cents 97 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 35 New 3 per Cents Do, end month 6B 40 Credit Mobilier 855 Do. end month 853 75 B.ATLi Bank Shares 3180 Credit Fonder 1665 Piedmontese Fives 72 85 Italian Loan 72 80 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes 52 75 Home Debt .. 49 50 UT'S. Cash. Account. Orleans 1277 50 .. 1280 Northern ..... New ditto 995 -- . 5 Ly o ns and Mediterranean 1105 .. 1105 Geneva 365 .. 366 25 Southern ........ 846 25 .. 843 75 Western. .. 550 .. 551 25 Eastern .... ....... ~. 550 .. 551 25 Sardinian .. 382 50 .. 381 25 Austrian e 517 50 .. 616 25 Lonntard 5 613 75 .. 613 75 THE FIRE AT ST. PETERSBURG.—It is' stated from St. Petersburg that of the £1,000,000 property esti mated to have been destroyed by the recent fires only about £220,000 was covered by insurance. The question as to the calamity having been. caused by incendiaries seems still in some degree to be doubtful. One writer observes : "Whether it was caused wilfully or accidentally I cannot say. Several arrests have been made of officers. There are always some few young madmen, but you may be assured that the soldiers and the people are to a man with the Emperor. The serf question has dissatisfied some pro prietors, and among these there may be grumbling and a little more,' but as for 'insurrection' or general disturb ance that is impossible. The ' million' are for law and order and the Emperor." CRYSTAL PALACE.--The preparations for the Handel Festival aro now proceeding with great vigour. The stands are nearly all placed, the refreshment counters on each side of the orchestra have been removed, the niches behind filled in with statuary and drapery, and additional seats arc being erected in the galleries. The ticket-offices at the Crystal Palace and Exeter Hall were crowded with applicants for tickets the whole of yesterday. The sale of 78. Gd, rehearsal tickets will close to-morrow. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. Mademoiselle Marie Battu, who made her first essay last night before an English audience, is a very young singer (not yet 20, we believe), already enjoying a certain reputationin Paris, where, little more than a twelvemonth since, she made her debut at the Theatre Italien. One of the pupils of the celebrated Duprez, Mademoiselle Battu has never studied in the Conservatoire, nor. if we are rightly informed, has she ever sung in French opera. Under these circumstances, she claims the indulgent criti cism to which every new aspirant is entitled, and which should on no account be withheld from timid inexperience. This indulgence may be extended with the less chariness inasmuch as Mademoiselle Battu, in addition to youth and a prepossessing ex terior, possesses the germs of unquestionable talent, and exhibits, moreover, a degree of promise which at her years is well worth nurturing. Her voice, a light soprano—though at present deficient in power, and more or less unequal throughout its register— is of extremely agreeable quality, and some of its natural tones, when unforced in the delivery, are exquisitely sweet and pure. That she has real musical feeling was evidenced last night in more than one passage; and that she is by no means without the instinct of dramatic expression was ren dered equally apparent. The character of Gilda in " Rigoletto," was a severe ordeal for an untried and un known artist to brave in presence of such an audience as that of the Royal Italian Opera, which even the elaborate vocalisation of Madame Miolan Carvalho could not persuade for one instant to forget the in comparable performance of Angiolina Bosio, or force to believe that a singer with voice, taste, man ner, and execution essentially French would ever prove entirely acceptable in a part deservedly rank ing high among the highest creations of the modern Italian stage. That Mdlle. Battu is just as eminently French in style as Mdme. Carvalho, without Mdme. Carvalho's practised experience in the vocal art, is undeniable, and that this would, in some degree, militate against her entire success was to be anti cipated. But with extreme youth in her favour, and the fact of her not having yet had time or opportunity for straining the capabilities and da maging the freshness of her voice by constant expo sure to the musically artificial atmosphere of the Thntre Lyrique, Madlle. Battu may, and doubt less will, get over that peculiar mannerism, which, of all national idiosyncracies, is the most antago nistic to the pure Italian method. Many parts in her performance were charmingly unaffected; some few (as, for example, the duet with Signor Mario in Rigoletto's garden) were marked with genuine sensibility ; others by a natural ease,.whioh, when further study shall have brought with it the self-composure that alone insure to a singer unfail ing command of her resources, may help Made moiselle Battu to be become what at present she is far from being—a thorough artist. Her defects of style and execution were most conspicuously de clared in the beautiful melody which Gilda sings be fore retiring to rest; but, as we have every hope that she will eradicate these in Lime, we shall not• dwell upon them in detail. The audience, evidently prepossessed by the youthful grace and modest bearing of the young singer, warmly encou raged her throughout her arduous task; and we may, without hesitation, pronounce her first appearance a fair and legitimate success. " Rigolette" is Signor Verdi's masterpiece, and there are few modern operas in which the fine orchestra and chorus of the Royal Italian Opera aremore effective. Last night there was not a fault to find, and the entire performance wad a genuine musical treat. The first representation of "Robert le Diable" is announced for to-morrow night. INDIAN PRIZE MONEY, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Six years have now passed since the Indian mutiny, and the army of Central India have as yet received no prize money. Surely there must be some mistake, for it is not just or equitable that old soldiers and officers should receive no reward for their long, patient, wearisome campaign of twelve months under a burning sun, excepting a silver medal, I am, Sir, your-obedient servant, NOTHING FOR NOTHING. June 15. THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S NEW ORDER IN CHANCERY. TO THE EDITOR OP TIIE SUN. SlR,—The law appears to be very clearly defined by section 64 of the " Chancery Amendment Act, 1852," that the Lord Chancellor should have imme diately after the making and issuing of his order of the 16th May, 1862 (and which was not published until the 29th May), laid it for approval before both Houses of Parliament, and that if either house should within 36 days thereafter pass a resolution, resolving that the whole or any part of such order ought not to continue in force, then that it should cease to be binding. Whether this order has been so laid before both Houses of Parliament, as pre scribed by the statute, I must leave to hon. and right hon. members to decide. At all events, it is to come into operation to morrow, the 18th of Inne, a day glorious in history, but whether it will be so for the Lord Chancellor remains to be proved. The 36 days allowed by law, even if reckoned from the date of the order, will not expire until Saturday, the 21st inst.-1 am, &c., TOIIN ROBERT TAYLOR. 13, Brownlow-street, Bedford-row, June 17. WAKEFIELD BOROUGH ELECTION EXPENSES.— S. F. Harrison, Esq., the auditor of election expenses, has published an abstract of the expenses of Sir J. C. D. Hay and Mr. Smethurst, at the last election. The total expenses of Sir J. Hay were £817155. 4d., and that of Mr. Smethurst, £717 is. 9d. At the --- Club the stakes now played for at whist exceed even in amount those played at Crockford's in its palmiest days, and are beginning to attract attention, as few but those who are gifted with large fortunes and plenty of ready money can indulge in them.—Court Journal. A PLEASING CEREMONY.—A pleasing instance of the friendly feeling entertained by the Methodists to wards the Established Church occured at Walkden Moor, Woreley, near Manchester, in Whitsun week. On Friday the Sunday schools connected with the Church, VTesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, made their annual procession through the district, amounting in the whole to upwards of 1,200 scholars and teachers. The three schools met in the centre of the village, when the incumbent, who was head ing the Church school, invited the managers of the two Dissenting schools to unite and sing a hymn together, which was cheerfully and heartily agreed to, the various banners being ranged side by side, and the young people mixing freely one with another. After two hymns had been sung the incumbent of the district delivered an address in the open air, in which he exhorted both teachers and . scholars to value highly the great and blessed privileges afforded them by the Sunday school, and how it behoved those who were desirous for the extension of the Redeemer's kingdom on earth to cultivate a kind feeling for all deno minations of Christians, and avoid party spirit, which was so contrary to that manifested by the blessed Redeemer while on earth; that the day was fast approaching when pastors, teachers, and scholars would be standing side by side before the judgment seat, where all distinctions of sect and party would be unknown, when each one would have to give in his account to God. The union of these schoolsan gave the greatest satisfaction to the inhabitants generally, who testified their approbation by pronouncin. gteheesrchenaYde they had that day witnessed as ono of th e happiest that ever happened at Walkden Moor. FATAL ACCIDENT.—Ye evening, M . r. Bedford held an inquest at amcbapouluos tTey dl6ehvadoei feettnsfhtosomertt force ea : gp d so aot ACClDENT.—Yesterday o dr t Y r kh6. e H 4 , b o la s : ptwi appeared plastererbrought h e r 1 o n g the death of William Armstron , cornices in front of the Wellington-barracks, St. there e from the ground, when a ronlaFdd;eidraytolfaasltl against that ployed in colouring the ornsamreangeet,tel: the i n s e t Ti an d d en in e g e t o h n a a t w la n d i d l e e r e to the ground. The men are t s h u a d t de o n n ofg w u h s i t eh h w e and the la a dder and a we ight and a rope to secure the ladder at the top. d i s n e t ' o o d e o s t ed The deceased persisted in resting this weight just on the edge of the building., instead of placing it properly on the roof, although he had been often cautioned by the foreman not to do so. This, it was alleged, was the cause of the ladder being so easily upset, as the weigh; fell with the ladder. The medical evidence showed that death must have been instantaneous, from the ribs being completely driven into the lungs. The jury censured the foreman for not seeing tht t the ladders were properly secured before he allowed the men to ascend them, and ultimately returned a 1 verdiot of accidental death, THE BATTLE Al PUEBLA. The following is the official report of General Zaragoza, addressed to the Mexican Minister of War, respecting the above engagement : " Army of the East,Headquarters, Puebla, May 9. " After having commenced my retrograde move ment, starting from the Cumbres de Acultzingo, I arrived in this city on the third inst., as I already have had the honour to inform your Excellency. The enemy followed me at a small day's distance, and having left the rearguard of the 2d Cavalry Brigade, consisting of about 300 men, to obstruct his advance as far as possible, I proceeded, as al ready stated, to Puebla. Immediately issued orders to place the heights of Guadaloupe and Loreto in a regular state of defence, and I hastily completed the fortifications of the place, which had hitherto been neglected. " On the morning of the 4th I ordered General Miguel Negrete, a most distinguished officer, to take the head of the Second Division under his orders, 1,200 strong, to be prepared to fight directly he should give the signal, and to occupy the heights already mentioned of Loreto and Guadaloupe, which were provided with two batteries of field artillery and mountain guns. O❑ the same day I formed out of the brigades Berrizabal, Diaz, and Lamadrid, three attacking columns, consisting, the first of 1,082 men, the second of 1,00) men, and the third of 1,020 men, all infantry, with the exception of 550 horse, under Gen. Antonio Alvarez, to whom I en trusted a field battery. These troops remained assembled on the Place San Jose till noon ; they then returned to their quarters. The enemy passed the night at Azamoc. " At 5 o'clock on the morning of the 6th of May our troops advanced in *the order of battle I had assigned to them, and which your Excellency will find in the accompany sketch. I ordered the Com mander-General of the Artillery, Colonel Zeferino Rodriguez, to distribute the rest of his guns on the ramparts of the town, placing them under the orders of Gen. Santiago Tapia, Military Commandant of the State. " At 10 a.m. the enemy was discerned, not taking the necessary time to encamp, and advancing his attacking columns—one towards the heights of Guadaloupe, about 4,000 strong, with two batteries ; the other, not so numerous, probably 1,000 men, threatened our front. This attack, which I had not expected, though I was aware of the daring of the French army, modified my plan, and decided me to take the offensive, I consequently ordered the Ber- riozabal brigade to attack at double quick step, to reinforce Loreto and Guadeloupe, and the mounted carabineera to take the left of the infantry, to charge at an opportune moment. " Shortly afterwards I ordered the battalion 1 Reforme,' of Lamadrid's brigade, to go to the sup port of the troops on the heights, and which were becoming hotly engaged, I advanced a battalion of sappers of the Ist brigade, with orders to occupy village situated almost on the summit of the ridge-. It arrived in such good time that it stopped the ad vance of a column sent to that point in a hand-to hand engagement. The French made three sudden charges, but were each time repulsed. The cavalry placed to the left of Loreto took advantage of the opportunity, and charged them vigorously, prevent ing them from re-forming and making another at tack. " While the battle was being waged hotly on the heights a no less desperate struggle was taking place in the plain, to the right of my front of battle. " General Diaz, with two corps of his brigade, one corps of Lamadrid's brigade, with two field pieces, and the remainder of Alvarez's brigade, met and drove back the enemy's column, which was advancing boldly against our positions. It fell back on the Hacienda de San Jose, where it was joined by those we had driven from the heights, and who, already reorganised, prepared to defend themselves, and again sounded the charge. I could not . attack them, because they had a n umerical force superior to mine. I therefore ordered General Diaz, who was eagerly following them, to halt, and satisfied myself with holding a threatening attitude. " The opposing forces remained in face of each other till 6 o'clock in the evening. The enemy then withdrew to his encampment at the Hacienda de los Alamos, while our troops gradually returned within their lines. " The night was passed on the field of battle, where we picked up the dead and wounded of the enemy. This occupied the whole of the following day, and, though I have not a correct return of the loss of the French, I am told it is not under 1,000 killed and wounded and eight or ten prisoners.* I have to point out to your Excellency the conduct of my brave companions ; the glorious action which has just been fought speaks well for their courage, and suffices to recommend them. " The French army fought most vigorously. " I conclude by informing you that at the same time I was preparing the defence of the national army I was obliged to order the brigades O'Horar and Carvajal to watch the seditious assembled in considerable numbers at Matamoros, a circum stance which, perhaps, saved the enemy from a total rout, and deprives the little army of the East of the opportunity of a victory which would have immortalised its name. " J. ZARAGOZA. " Head-quarters, Puebla, May 9, • " To the Minister of War at Mexico. • The Paris lioniteur, which publishes the above, adds the following note, after stating that it has not as yet re ceived General Lorencez's despatches : " According to a letter worthy of belief, dated Puebla, May 10, and which has been communicated to us, the loss of the French army would be :42 men hors de combat ; that of the Mexican army, 240 wounded and 146 killed," THE SPECIAL COMMISSION IN IRE- LAND, The Special Commission for the counties of Lime rick and Tipperary was opened on Monday after.. noon at Limerick. The judges of the commission, Mr. Justice Fitzgerald and Mr. Baron Deasy, were received at the station by the high sheriff of the county, Captain Croker, of Ballinagar, and the sub sheriff, Mr. George Hoare. The Right Hon. the Attorney-General, Mr. O'Hagan ; the Solicitor.. General, Mr. Lawson ; Mr. Sergeant Sullivan, and Mr. De Moleytas, Q.C., are counsel for the Crown. The streets presented no appearance of anything un usual during the morning ; but towards three o'clock groups of people collected at the railway station and also near the court-house. It is under stood that three persons will be brought to trial at Limerick—namely, Thomas Beckham, w h o is charged with being one of the persons who mur dered Mr. Francis Fitzgerald on the 18th of May last; Denis Dillane, who is charged with conspiring to murder Mr. Fitzgerald; and John Punch, charged with having written a threatening letter to Mr. Hamilton Langley. At three o'clock p.m. their lordships took their seats on the bench. The court houses l ful ly on occupied,hav i ng tbheoeung read,h not and n r odwtdheed grand nd The Royal wascom j ury panel called over, Mr. Justi ce Fi tzgerald ad dressed the grand jury at some le ngt h on the or i g i n and object of the commission, and the cases which it would be their duty to inquire into. A minutes before five the gra n d j ury came into court to2 with a true bill against Thomas Beckham for the wilful murder of Francis Fitzgerald. Thomas Beck ham was then arraigned, but did not answer to the question whether he was guilty or not. Mr. Coffey (his counsel) said the prisoner was deaf, and asked to have a plea of " not guilty" entered, which was done. The court was then adjourned to the follow ing morning at ten o'clock. We learn by British and Irish Magnetic Tele graph that Beckham was found guilty last evening of the murder of Mr. Fitzgerald, The sentence was deferred. THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The Royal Agricultural Society of England will hold their great agrL. cultural show in Battersea-park, commencing Monday next, the 23d of June, and continuing open to the public until the 2d of July, On Thursday the 26th, Friday the 27th, and Saturday the 28th June, a public exhibition of steam cul tivators at work will take place, under the auspices of the society, near Parningham station, in Kent, to which place cheap return tickets will be issued by the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, from the Victoria and London-bridge termini,