The Sun. — London, England, 1862-07-26 00:00:00

Be not a f r aid'-.-MENDELSSOIIN-.^‘ 1 even I .ems BALLOON ASCENTS without " LE NOR MAND'S" PARACHUTE DIP-FALL AID. MEAto.—The " Cruelty to Animals Act" gives as reason for stoppage of these R. c. Coarrsfra-foolery association ex citements, without wisdom being manifest in case of col lapse retreat,--at the Over-three-mile Zone-electric to gas 'within the balloon, as seen—over Wolverhampton's poor 4 Union mill' of the Dudley Somerie Swinford Exchange-- at which point of 26in.-bar*rneter transparency a Pariselo* ought to have been spread,' on 17th July. Mr. Coxwell's omission to take up, car-taxed , the are oxygenic wax taper flame (as made by Jackson , of Picca dilly), used within its vehicle " the lamp of life," for nasal inhalation — as other Aeronauts use against th e 151 b sq. inch atmosph,ric pressure on the lungs--accounts for the 451 b in. on Blue lip'd Glaisher suffering-dipsas, also t wat of hy drogen gas-life circumvention —reminding him of Shen stone's Tulchan's straw-calf coup let (on Qu:endrida of Tip'ton), for bringing down the milk : " That in Clent, or Comwacb, under a thorn Lieth, Bing lien'elm with head off-shorn.' as the defunct ancestors of Emp. Conrad IL's G.-daughter Agatha, Malcolm m's maternal P'Liziffspring, now in Spa nish Escurial of Philip 11., as Saxon kin of Edward Hr. The now climax 16—en• show aloft, with di-laced full net expansion up-heave, evidenced the absence of Nitro-moist fog within the motive power, and presence of the dry eleo tricity, by the drowning-like effects on the system—the pit a-r at beat of his Tucked-up heart, o'er its diaphragm, sounded as the dirge music of the spheres,' whilst the wiry hair and ruffled paper gave at Monochord intimation that they were entering "Paradise' where the first pair Inset' —otherwise, a Wyndsor' Z-n'erhead 0/cot Cole region of the ivehr-'Wulfra' Hampton of EDGAR'S sisters—jahn-scite prior to their Phze'on'd collapse-paunch-like, bull'srun, to the Lang-hamlet of Oakham-ft —en Palmerston's zulchan pope vise by x Wrottesley's D°rAthy Dudley-Wardship of Bassett-wilton *Stamford. This Soh d I default in authorities has a good for fire- damp low-prevention, on known gaseous chinage at giddy heights -RS well as man's safe re-aeriform-withn, as a pulse-rarifi cation of the breath, for purification of the blood against any Prus-police blue'skin-discolouring of hands at four miles loftiness', in absence of Winged life—shows a precedent for future Pendursonbrella dipfalls although opposed to the COIWELL aeronautic Miltonian idea, and Virgil's set-troy 9th criseord line— " Facilis defcendsus Wverni." •• • • .] Atkyns- Montague C. g ACE-ERZ:ET, Ex6c. 2 • • 1-2 W. iv., No. 54, ' Chamber layne' Gie-sworn. • PETER BASQUET, Income-tax chief (1842 unpaid • f C• 1 • China nuff wall circuit horizon of,--London, July 26. • 1862) its Montezuma'd Admiralty red flag, not in Brant's power to give up IMP. 1793 China, to lereV, Ja.. and cause of Captain's zl•yr s upport, tho' kirk-Qn's. ministers use his brains, and mock him &c to death, Intimorito (respose) della voce, Padrone au l'onde,' for holding to 1820-25-37's Carib-protectorship oath on its £3O• yr retaining fee for his duty expenditure of £l6OO for Indian of America, which the Treasury refuse to pay or reply to their own unrelieved Sentry, appointmen's. To M. Jefferies, & Hailiffs of Tame-(worth), Stour-Trent Anker 1 river fishing under Poor Law 0. S. audits, March 25, end its Rate in aid on 3d-Eliz. on part of Guy's Hospital by CARL. v. and Hen. 8, 1822, of South-ark 'bar' and Clapham State-executive trustee*ship. (See Sun April 19, 28, May 16, & July 19.) V . , 4 1u N " EVERY WEEK, ONE PENNY. CRYSTAL PALACE. - MONDAY NEXT. ONE SHILLING. Open from Nine o'Clock till dusk. PALAIS de CRISTAL. BLONDIN par dessus les FONTAINES, LUNDI PORCHAIN, Quatre Heures. CRYSTAL PALACE. --MONDAY NEXT. BLONDIN will give one of his extraordinary perform an 'eB on the HIGH ROPE over the Fountains at Four o'Clock on Monday next. In addition to h is usual feats, he will, by special request, perform a series of daring gymnastic evolut ons on a slack rope suspended over the high rope. He will also be wheeled across th e rope by Mr. Punch. The rope, upwards of one hundred an d twenty feet high, extends the whole length of the Terrace. During the ascent the Mountains will be played. The Band of the Coldstream Guards will be in attendance. After the ascent the Military and Orchestral Band of the Company will be united, and perform Meyerbeer's and Auber's Exhibition Mus,c in the Great Orchestra. Shi,uld the weather prove unfavourable londin's perform_ i t nces will be given on the high rope in the ß Centre Transept. A NTERBURY HALL. Th e renowned Performers, DEBONNAIRE and A LTG 01 1 A ll D (from Paris) , at Ten o'clock. Grand Selections from „ DO N SEBASTIEN" and "IL TROVATORE," Conducted by Mr. Jonglimans. Principal ArtiSteb—Miss Russell, Signor Tivoli, and Mr. Unsworth, in his celebrated Stump Speech, " Or any other man " the original ) , in conjunction with Eugene and DuleY, forming the greatest ( . 0m c Trio in London. Ms the following* Comic I alent, viz, ,Tr. J. G. Forde, , Jr. Marshall, Mr. Hollingsworth, and Miss Georgina Smithson. Gallery of Modern Paintings. T H E OXFOR D, 6, OXFORD STREET. " TF E DAUGHTER OF THE ISLES," a Cantata composed by 11. LESLIE, Esq., and written by A. MATTUISON Esq., in honour of the Marriage of her lioyal Highness the Princess Alice, EVERY EVENING, in addition to the usual enttrtainments, which include operatic selections by Miss Russell, MI a4arne Enderssohn, Messrs. Morley, Greene, and Albert, with Full Band and Chorus ; the Comic performances of Miss Caroline Parkes and Mr. W. Randall, the Ethiorian oddities of Rumsey, Newromb, Little Bob, Eugene, and Unsworth (the origins; "or any other man"), and the astounding feats on the Flying Trapeze of DEBONNAI Hall, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, ls. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Mr. D. Boucicault, sole Lessee. This Evening, THE SPITALFIELDS WEAVER. Messrs. Atkins, F. Robinson ; Sara Stevens. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. qtr Boucicault, Mdme. Celeste, &c. To conclude with THE Commence KISS at IN TIIE DARK. 7. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckstone. This Evening, THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. After which, OU Mrs. A ERICAN COUSIN : :siessrs. Buckstone Sothern ; C. Young, Miss Oliver, &c. With LA CON , TRABADISTA : BerCeaommenc Nena, e at 7.&c. And FAMILY JARS. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Pro rietor and 'IT arager, 3fr. Benjamin Webster. This Evening, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. Benjamin Webster, J. L. Toole, &e.; Miss Woolgar, ac. And THE SHILLING- DAY. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee and Manpger, 3lr. A. Harris. This Eveninz, THE RENDEZVOUS. After which, at a quarter to S, KING HENRY VIII.: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean, Sze. With THRICE MARRIn 7. ED. Comme ce at ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Pole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. This Evening, PEEP O'DA' : Messrs. Lacy, Falconer. Addison ; Mrs. Bowers , &c . } allowed b y KI LLAicNEY: Conclude with '1 HE COLLEEN BAWN SETTLED AT LAST. Charles Selby Com and men Lydia Ti ompson. ce at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W Batty. This Evening, MAZEPPA : Mr. C. Mortimer. Brilli an t Scenes In the Circle by the unrivalled Troupe of Briti s h an d Foreign Equestrians. Concluding with a favourite Farce. Commence at 7. NOTICE. All 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. IGEI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS D ll Ay. .....morning, lh. 40m.—Aftern,9on, 2h. 3m. TO-SIORILONV.-Morning, 2b. 20m.—Afternoon, 2h. 35m. fr', 4 ( 404 1 ,4, , ,.. 4 V; t 0,ii .' , ~- - ..,,,,T.,..1:1•oo, , 4,.. --„,„, Te r .: .•,i(:----,9-A'A:.s.,Tatc.zt,i, ;~TS,, -, ± , - - 4- , 4 , - - -(. - Z - • ' "s - _,. , 1P: - 'i':4 - ': - •. - ‘,`P .$.- , -%,1--5 1 .i, , , '; , ,..4r - ,! . .. - .7::,.., ,', •V ` - ',A\ '''''''----45.-----,-!...4\6•241..,..__Y....7,:__ -0144 . - THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, JUL Y 20, 1862. Gold at seventeen per cent. premi um; silver at eleven, Exchange 1284• Such is the news by the Scotia from New York on the 16th. It is pretty certain, therefore, which w ay business men in the North will soon begin to turn their mind s . They have, i n d ee d, p ro b a bly seen w hat was comin g long enough. The a l m i g hty masses may be igno rant enough of the laws of political economy, con tractors and protected trades may reject them with the disbelief of self-intere s t, b u t th e merchants and bankers, and monied men generally, have doubtless quite well understood all along what was meant by excessive issues of inconvertible paper and excessive creations of Government Stock. The multitude, how ever, now begin to see their position. They at first endeavoured by violent measures to better it—and called for prohibition of the export of gold and silver, it appears, however, that their " unrivalled consti tution," amongst its other excellencies, contains a provision explicitly forbidding such a prohibition. They turn round, therefore, now, like the fox in the fable, and declare they can do quite as well without gold. That home trade may be carried on with legal tender paper, while not issued in excess of requirements, is a matter of experience, as well as demonstration of theory ; but, after all the gold is gone abroad, and, under a system of Protection, how is a foreign trade to be sustained ? American wheat will not afford double freights, and return cargoes will bs out of the question. To us the crash seems to be rapidly aPproaching in the North. Concurrently with this earthquake in the m oney-market, a newlflood of taxes is pour ing over the land, and will bring home to e very working man, every tradesman, every • moneyed man, the actual cost of the war. Hitherto hardly anything has been raised by war taxes, and a people who never know what it is to keep up a war establishment in time of peace, much less to meet by taxes a war of aggression, will now have to pay taxes on everything they eat, drink, or handle, on all artificial, and almost on natural, light. Such a monster tax bill, beginning with advertisements and ending with zinc, even Old England never beheld. Its very oddity and mon strosity delights this strange people at first ; it pleases them, because it certainly " whips' all the tax bills of other countries—it says to the world, " See how the Yankees can beat all the world in taxing as in everything else." But it will soon become a sober reality, under which every housewife, and every husband returning home to his diminished allowance of comforts, will soon begin to wince. When in addition to this the North-Western farmer cannot sell his wheat, and the New York and Boston merchant cannot make a foreign venture, we may be sure the murmuring at the war will soon bocome a groan, the groan a cry of anger, and at last a universal shout, to which no Government, least of all an Ame rican Government, can afford to turn a deaf ear. We do not wish to make too much of a monetary panic and exaggerated taxation, but we strongly suspect that these will be found much more efficient advocates for peace than even Southern successes. The latter, indeed, provoke to fight again, at least as much as they dishearten. The former rather provoke to resist the demands of those who manage their fighting. Moneyless and tradeless, the North will come to its senses. . The military position has b e come seriously changed. M'CLELLAN with his army may be, and we believe are, in a healthier position for the summer and a much stronger position for defence. But he marched up the Peninsula not to defend himself, but to attack and capture Richmond. For this ho is certainly in no position now. He cannot invest the city ; he can attack it only as the en trenchments of an army, just as we attacked Se bastopol ; and even if he be reinforced largely it can only be after a long conflict that he can expect to succeed. It is, however, unquestionable, allow ing for all the mendacity of rumour, that the South has quite changed its aspect since this great repulse of their foe. Even in Kentucky we find martial law required to keep down the inha bitants of Lexington, while in its neighbour State southwards, Tennessee, the Confederates have made a bold and successful dash on Murfrees borough, and Nashville, its capital, is likely to fall again into their hands. An attack was hourly ex pected when the mail left. Some doubts are said to be entertained of the recapture of Baton Rouge, on the Mississippi, by the Confederates; should it not prove true, it yet shows how much fear there is of attacks in those parts from the remainder of BEAIIREGARD'S army, who also are keeping HEL LECK in constant alarm at Corinth and Memphis. Some time back there was a report that the Seces sionists throughout the Border States, and the West, so far as the Federal arms had penetrated, intended to rise and give trouble in numerous places at once ; their present vivacity gives countenance to the sup position that such a rising had long been planned and that the success at Richmond has been the spark to fire the long laid train. The Federals will, we expect, now have a difficult task to hold what they have gained. Their reserves are pretty well ex hausted, and recruits come in but slowly; only 15,000 of the 300,000 have yet been obtained. M'CLELLAN, if he is to be successful, will need more than can be raised, and it is not unlikely that, encouraged by recent successes, the Confede rates will attack or harrass the Federal armies in every quarto. We shall not be at all surprised to learn that the Federals are soon hard pressed every where. In this state of things it is almost ludicrous to find the Senate passing at last a Confiscation Bid. Sixty days' grace are to be allowed the "Rebels," and then if they do not lay down their arms and return to their allegiance, they are declared guilty of treason—penalty death ! and confiscation of property, slaves included !"Slaves of rebels to be set free ! The PRESIDENT to have power of pardon, or to pass a minor sentence of five months' im prisonment and ten thousand dollars fine. We may imagine JEFF. DAVIS and STONEWALL JACK SON glancing over this Washington Bill--" treason" committed by eight millions of people. "Death," yes , if you don't get killed first—confiscation of property ; yes, when you can get at it. " Freeing slaves of rebels,"—rather too late for that, gentle men, you should have done that last spring twelve month. Such a proclamation then might have made each of us afraid to leave his plantation. Now our very slaves know better than to trust you. They know you care not a straw for them, and they are not disposed to trust your selfishness. The PRESIDENT, it is said, will veto the bill. Whether because he does not wish to make himself look ridiculous, or because he still cherishes a lin gering hope of reclaiming the South as penitent wanderers, and is therefore unwilling to offend them, we are not told. Throughout he has manifested a strange credulity in regard to the power of con ciliatory dealing with slavery. Like Toryism here, it is a thing never to be propitiated. No privi leged class, whether slaveholders or territorial, or clerical aristocracies, or protected interests, will ever be won by concession. They have always an instinctive perception that to let the least daylight into unjust advantages is to them a real danger. There will be, they know, no end to con hut eoualitv. The feeling which fights the Wednesday battles, political and ecclesiastical, in our House of Commons, is identical with that which in the Southern States refuses to change in the least the relations of abso- late mastership and unmitigated slavery between the White lord and the negro. Mr. LINCOLN will fle d , as we fo un d i n th e West Indies, that such an atrocious Crime as slavery can only be crushed. The guilty will never be wooed from, or modify, such a crime as slavery. On the whole, notwith standing M'CLELLItx's bombastic oration, and the PRESIDENT'S visit and encouraging speeches at his camp—if we survey impartially the whole military g e ld, and the political and monetary condition of things in the North, ther e seems a likelihood of a turn of the tide in favour of tho South, and of weariness war in the N orth. wear of the I nc id en t a lly the subject of the internal decoration of the new HOUSE'S of Parliament, was ag a i n venti_ lated, for a brief interval, last evening in the go uge of Commons. There was a time when we had thi s question discussed continually, both within and without the walls of that beautiful Palace of the Legislature. Happily, however, there is not so much reason for anxiety upon the matter as there used to be. Slowly, but steadily, the adornments of that ornate and majestic edifice have, during the last few years, increased and multiplied. Carving, statuary, stained glass, frese)es, and even upholstery of an artistic character--have lent their aid in the entwinement of the architectural beauties of the building. Caviller there may be, there must by a sort of necessity be id; SUN, LoNnoric SATURDAY, EVENING, JULY 26, 1862. who will object to these decorations, here and there, when examining them in de- tail. But there can hardly be found anyone, we should suppose, having the smallest pretensions to taste or discrimination in matters of art, who will seriously be inclined to quarrel with the effect any where produced within the structure as a whole. The secret of which is that in the conduct of all this elaborate work of decoration so much of the artistic genius of the age has been combined! Sir CHARLES BARRY, though occasionally throwing off designs of more or less excellence in their way as architectural improvements of the metropolis, as visible, for example, in the instance of the sombre 1 and solid pile of the Reform Club (eclipsed since then, however, that has been by the increase of the marble glories of the Carlton), or, as the happier instance of the completed fasgade of the Treasury —Sir CHARLES BARRY otherwise dedicated the whole of his large energies and of his many great gifts to that " labour of love" (to him) the perfecting, so far as it might be practicable in one lifetime of his noble master piece, the NewthePalaecxeercaitseWeosftmihnisster. eminentPre- J abilities, that gre at revivalist of G ot hi c architecture in England, the late AUGU STUS had assiduously en d eavoured to forwardWELEY uclN the internal adornment of the National Palace, and had done this with a devotion and an enthusiasm worthy of so magnanimous and distin guished a contemporary genius! Labouring on in this way, heart and soul, until suddenly stricken down by a terrible disease, rapidly, but in some respects it may be followed by an otherwise deplo rably premature death at the early age of forty ! An age wonderful, considering all that PUGIN had ac complished within so brief an interval, and bearing in mind the completeness and solidity of the repu tation he has left behind him. A sculptor of great gifts, moreover, followed the same way taken by BARRY and by PUGlN—the chisel and mallet, fortunately for the nation, not failing from his grasp until nearly the whole task alloted to uim had been done—namely, the " carvelling out" of the numerous figures of kings, and warriors, and statesmen, and English Worthies generally, now gazing stonily down from the niches, visible at every nook and corner and " coign of vantage" of that huge and sumptuous edifice. Within it, however, all this while, every visitor to the building will remember there have been other brains and other heads at work energetically and devotedly. Among those how many of the most illustrious of our always few, but almost always into the bargain rarely gifted Royal Academicians. Passing up that magnificent old Hall of RUFUS, where so many of our Sovereigns, between the CoN QEROR and VICTORIA have sat enthroned upon their coronation, the visitors to the Legislative Palace at Westminster, advancing up the lofty flight of steps at the head of Westminster Hall ! turning to the left into a gallery containing on either side of it the white marble life-size effigies of the Dii Majores of our Lords and Commons, Masters of Oratory like BURKE, and PITT, and Fox, and SOMERS, and that greater PITT, known vari ously in the two grand phases of his splendid career as the Great Earl of CHATHAM and the Great Com moner ! Passing through this sculpture gallery, the visitor to the House will remember that cen tral core and heart of the whole labyrinth of this Legislative Palace—whence a lobby to the right leads to the Lords, and a lobby to the left (confronting it) to the Commons. Advancing along which latter passage, those who have been there but once will perfectly well recollect the frescoes decorating compartments upon the walls on either hand, the brilliant produce of the artistic powers of E. M. WARD, R.A. Immediately on the right, upon crossing the threshold, there is a representation, for example, of CHARLES 11., when a young Prince, flying for his life, disguised as a sorrily clad page, one WILL JONES (for the which tide " BosconEL") and so on through all these hietorical pictures, accord ing to the whim or fancy of the artist in selecting his incidents. Besides the painter of these frescoes in particular, there are others among his contem poraries who have for some years past been simi larly occupied in other parts of that superb Palace of the English People, yonder down at Westminster. Academicians all of them, and eminent each, even among the Royal Academicians. COPE, another— HERBERT, another—DANlEL MACLISE, illustrious among the most illustrious artists of his age, having to the same end but very recently, in the high interests of his noble profession, produced one of the grandest works of art England possesses —the colos sal fresco of WELLINGTON and BLUCHER meeting towards the close of the famous 18th of June, 1815, on the " foughten field of Waterloo. It was in regard to the frescoes especially that the remarks of Mr. CAYENDISII BENTINCK and of Mr. W3I. COWPER wer• yesterday uttered. The former referring to the rumoured deterioration that some among the beautiful works of art have suffered already, since the recent date of their production. Happily, the last among them. MACLISE'S " Waterloo," marks an epoch in fresco painting here in England. No paling, no vanish ing of the colours now—thanks to the marvellous invention of fresco painting in " water glass," there successfully applied upon a gigantic scale by the daring brush of MACLISE. Apart from our recollection of the water glass system, however, as a perpetuator of the fresh and hitherto evanescent beauties of this wonderful art of fresco painting, it is satis factory to bear in mind what was said yes terday by Mr. COWPER in reference to the capabilities of the building, in one of the great halls of which he was then speaking, in reference to its capabilities as a receptacle for works of art of this character. " Although he was not disposed," he said, "to agree with those gentlemen as to some causes of the decay of the frescoes, he was yet not of opinion there was anything in the walls or atmosphere of the Houses of Parliament wt ich would prove inju rious to the fresco paintings. But it seemed to him that there was some defect in the colouring, in relation to which the thin pellicle of the carburet of lime on the surface of the walls might be sup posed to exercise some chemical agency in combina- tion with other colours, of which yellow ochre formed a part. He, however, hoped it would be found that the decay of the frescoes would be pre vented." Then came the Minister's reference to the new water-glass process. Upon the virtues of that marvellous process we certainly, we must admit, place very much of our reliance—but it is a reliance that VV9 are sanguine time will prove not to have been ill-founded. Yesterday we alluded to the opportunities that are before us still—for the removal here of our " Middle Row" of the Strand, there of that other "Middle Row" down at Westminster. The Palace of Justice, we said, will yield one of these opportunities. While, for the other, we shall etand indebted to the completion of the Thames Embankment. The Palace of Justice, in truth, when we are actually constructing it, will, in a manner, necessitate the obliteration of Holywell street and the circulation re spectively of St. Mary le-Strand and St. element tioU a Danes, Th ® comple the Thaniel3 rilbau khl ent at its West r` minst ~ coming, a s it will, we er hope, " patly" upon the completion, not so very long beforehand, of New Westminster Bridge and of the New Palace at Westminster, will equally, we must hope, as a matter of certainty, necessitate the obliteration from the map of the metro polis of King-street, Westminster! The block of houses standing between the line of King-street and the western extremity of the line of Parliament-street, requiring quite obvi ously to be pulled down and carted away as a glaring obstruction. All that official part of the West-end, from Downing -street down to the river, one of the ablest of our Ministers of Public Works during the last quarter of a century, meaning the present Lord LLANOVER, then—it is scarcely half-a-dozen years since—Sir BENJAMIN HALL, cast a covetous eye upon, in his administrative character of Chief Commissioner. Sir BENJA MIN HALL, at the time we are here alluding to, actually proposing to buy considerable plots of ground in that direction —with a view to the reali sation of certain truly imperial improvements. All the land wanted by Sir BENJAMIN—We will call him by his present title, Lord LLANOVER —all the land wanted by his Lord ship in that direction, and with the object in view already specified, we could have had then (but a single lustre since !) for, at the outside, £2,000,000. Property always in a thriving and improving capital goes on increasing in value. It has within the last five years gone on increas ing and increasing in value beyond all ordi nary calculation. Land that we could have bought for the nation then for £1,000,000 or £2,000,000, we should now have to purchase by something not very far short of from £10,000,000 to £20,000,000. That—five years ago —was one of our opportunities ! It can now only be looked back to as a misused, an utterly lost opportunity. We remember the old classic myth of the sibylline leaves. Lord LLANOVER brought them to us then—and they were in abundance — and they could have been had for comparatively a song. Mr. COWPER may bring them to us in his turn—when their number will be found to have shrunk by an inverse proportion to the extent to which their cost has become magnified. As far back indeed as 1852, a committee of the House of Com mons decided in favour of the very purchase we are here alluding to a purchase that has nevertheless not yet been adventured upon ! Alluding to the appointment of that committee, of which, by the way, he himself had been a member, Lord LLANOVER, in Tuesday evening's debate in the Lords, took occasion to remark that "it (the committee) came to a resolution that it would be extremely desirable that the whole of the ground between Downing -street and Great George-street should be purchased by the Government. They had arrived at that conclusion, after hearing the evidence of several competent witnesses, and amongst them Mr. HUNT, now a sur veyor of works. It was shown clearly that if the site in question was purchased, a great saving would ultimately be effected when the ground was required for the erection of public offices. A report to that effect was made to the House of Commons, and in consequence of that report he was directed to issue notices for plans, and several plans were deposited. One of those was considered most excellent; but the whole scheme was afterwards given up." It was, we repeat, a missed opportunity. Remember ing it as such, let us now take particularly good care that when any similar opportunity arises, as Arise it will sooner or later, let us take particu larly good care that then, in that new form, we seize it. LATESr NEWS. CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (PER SCOTIA.. " NEW YORK, JULY 16, 3 45. The Senate passed the Confiscation Bill on Saturday by a majority of 27 against 13. It gives the Confederates 60 days to lay down their arms, and declares guilty of treason all who after that time shall not return to their allegiance. The penalty of treason is death, and confiscation of all property—that is, slaves, included. The slaves of rebels are to be set free. The Presiden! is to have the power of pardon, or to pass the minor sentence of five years' isaprisonment ani a fine of 10,000 dols. It is believed that the President will Yet() the Bill. The Confederates have taken Murfreesborough by a daring movement. The Government is alarmed for the safety of Nashville, and is concentrating troops in that city. Th© Confederates have also recaptured Baton Rouge, on the Mississippi, the State capital of Louisiana, and threaten New Orleans. Vicksburg still holds out, and the Confederates boast that it is impregnable. A mass meeting summoned to aid the Govern ment on the question of enlistment was held last night in Union-square, but was not numerously attended. Volunteering for the new army of 300,000 men makes slow progress, and the qnestion of a con scription continues to be discussed. It is asserted, on high authority, that General M 'Ciellan is to be superseded by General Halleck in command of the Army of the Potomac. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 15. Gold, 17 per cent. premium; silver, 10 per Exchange on London, 1291. Stocks depressed, and the market dull, United States Six per Cents., 1881, 10 ; Treasury 7-30 Bonds, 1031; Certificates of Indebtedness, 99 ; Green Backs, 107 ; New York Central, 891 ; Erie, 331 ; Illinois Central, 564. Flour in fair demand. Breadstuffs generally firm. Cotton in good demand—middling uplands, 45c. Provisions active. QUEENSTOWN, JULY 25. The Royal Mail steamer Scotia arrived here at MO p.m. She brings 249 passengers and 752,216 dols. in specie. She landed 84 sacks of mails, 36 passengers, and proceeded at 3 p.m.; all well. (PER SCOTIA, via ROCHE'S POINT.) NEW YORK, JuLy, 16 The confederates have disappeared from General M'Clellan's front. General Jackson is reported to be moving in the direction of Fredericksburg. Fort Darling has been strengthened with iron clad batteries. The Confederates are everywhere making pre parations for a prolonged struggle. The Confederates are within 15 miles of Nash ville. An attack is hourly expected, and aetive preparations are making for resistence. Lexington, in Kentucky, has been placed under martial law. The Confederates, under General Morgan, are reported to be advancing upon the town. Th© Confederates are stated to be making mys terious movements in the neighbourhood of Corinth. The bombardment of Vicksburg continues with- out result. Some doubts are entertained of the truth of the Southern report of the capture of Baton Rouge. The citizens of Memphis have been ordered to take the oath of allegiance, or to leave the city within five days. The Confederate Governor Moore, of Louisiana, has issued a violent proclamation forbidding all intercourse of the inhabitants with New Orleans for any purpose, and declaring that the faith of the people in final success is nowise shaken. The Confederate General Van Dorn has issued a proclamation declaring his intention to protect the banks along the river Mississippi to the last extremity. The Federal General Pope has issued a stirring address to th© army in Virginia, declaring his in tention to lead them speedily against the enemy. President Lincoln has transmitted a Bill to Con gress compensating any State abolishing slavery. The Senate has passed a Bill admitting Western Virginia as a State, with a clause providing for gradual emancipation. It is reported that, to facilitate enlistment, Vo unteers will be received for one year's service. An additional tax of lc. per lb. has been im- posed on sugar. A lady in New Orleans named Phillips has been sent to Ship Island for laughing derisively upon her balcony during the passage of the funeral of a Federal officer, The British gunboats Lan drail and Rinaldo are at New Orleans. The Congress has postponed adjournment for one day. President Lincoln is expected to send a Message to Congress referring to the Confiscation Bill. It is reported be will either veto the bill, or re turn it with suggestions for modifications. The majority of the members for the Border States repudiate President Lincoln's emancipation scheme entirely, but the minority favour the plan. Their reply to the President will shortly be pub lished. A mass meeting was held in Union-square yes terday. The meeting was not so numerously at tended as that in April last year. Resolutions have been passed favouring persistent efforts to crush the rebellion, and declaring empha tically that foreign armed intervention would be resisted with all the strength of the country. The majority of speakers favoured the employ ment of negroes in the war. The Senate has passed the Militia Bill, with an amendment limiting the emancipation to the slaves of rebels. The Confederate guerillas are becoming very active in the Border States, destroying property and burning the bridges. They had captured two small towns in Missouri. The Persia has arrived out. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JULY 15, Evening. Money easy. Gold, 17 prem.; silver, 11 prem. The scarcity of coin causes great distress among the population, and no remedy is as yet proposed. Exchange, 128 i. Stocks heavy. New York Central, 891.; MI; Erie, 331. Cotton buo yant —middling upland, 44c. Flour improving„ and sc. higher. Wheat and corn advancing, and 11c. dearer. Provisions, good inquiry. Sugar, coffee, and molasses, market very firm. PARIS, JULY 26. The Paris papers of to-day publish the following BELGRADE, JULY 25. "The convention concluded between Vefik Effendi and M. Garaschanin stipulated that the Turkish army should remove to a distance of three hours' journey from the frontiers of Servia. " Notwithstanding this convention, however, Omar Pasha has just ordered the whole Turkish army to approach the Servian frontier." CETTIGNE, JULY 24. " The Turks have fallen back from Sajaratz to Spuz, after having been beaten with great loss by Kirko on Saturday last." BERLIN, JULY 25. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day the three treaties of commerce with France were adopted by 264 against 13. The minority was entirely com posed of Roman Catholic members. The votes were taken by calling out the names of the respective deputies. The Minister of Finance thanked the Chamber in the name of the Government for their great un animity and the respect paid to the wishes of the Goveinment. He hoped that great benefit would come from this important measure of peace. The Government of the King would continue to pursue the course upon which it had entered. Fresh proofs of the unity prevailing among the people were never wanting when the honour of Prussia was in ques tion. THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. Yesterday the weather exercised its usual bene ficial influence on the attendance, especially of what are called fashionable visitors. The total numbers were 27,650, of which 19,912 were by payment and 7,938 by season tickets. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Saxony and his brother, Prince George, were among the very early arrivals, and remained in the building all day. For the first time on a half-crown day a school visited the build ing yesterday. It was the Puttenham National School, and all the expenses of their visit to and from were defrayed by the Rev. W. A. Duckworth. On Monday and Tuesday next Chatham Dockyard will be closed to enable all those employed at that large establishment to visit the Exhibition. The South-Eastern line has made arrangements to con vey the operatives direct from Chatham to the Ca dogan-pier, Chelsea, and back again, at the low fare of Is. 6d. each person, and at this tariff have pro vided conveyance for about 3,000 each day. In another fortnight, after the close of the Houses of Parliament, it is intended to make Saturday a shil ling day, changing the second high-priced day in the week to Thursday. CRYSTAL PALACE. The attendances for the past seven weeks hav e amounted to nearly half-a-million of persons, or about seventy thousand per wef k. The Exhibitors and Refreshment departments have in consequence been crowded with customers. As the country and foreign excursionists toLondon for the International Exhibition increase, so it is anticipated will the visitors to the Palace increase. All strangers seem to think a visit to the Sydenham Palace as indis pensable as a visit to the Exhibition, particularly as it is the policy of the Directors to add to the many attractions already provided by some speciality each day in the week. Thus, on Monday, Blondin walks the high rope across the Fountains. O❑ Thursday he gives one of his graceful performances on the low rope in the centre transept. The Great Fountains will be played on Tuesday and Friday. On Wednesday Mr. Cox well, the mronaut, whose scientific ascent at Wol verhampton for the British Association in his new large balloon has created so much interest, will make his first voyage in London with that balloon. Partial ascents will be made during the afternoon, and as the car will hold sixteen persons, it is pro bable Mr. Coxwell will be accompanied by a full omnibus load of visitors in his novel aerial trips. The visitors from a distance may be well in formed of the arrangements for each day, the list is published on Friday and Saturday for the en suing week. Saturday being the only half-crown day in the week is usually a more select day. In addition to the opportunity for a quiet stroll through the Fine Arts Courts with their unrivalled collections, there is usually an afternoo❑ concert by some celebrated artistes, aided by the fine band of the company, and a display of the upper fountains. The gardens and grounds of the Palace are now in their prime : flowers and foliage at their best. The beds on the terraces and the Rosary have been kept back by the unseasonable weather, but the sun of the last few days is now bringing them out into astonishing beauty. The view of the surrounding country from the terraces, and from the superb dining rooms in the South wing are m ist charming, while to those who do not mind a little fatigue, the panorama spread out before them when at the top of the lofty water-towers is without its equal. The whole of London spread out as a map, the windings of the river, the extensive views into Middlesex, Essex, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and Berkshire, show a beauty of home scenery which cannot be sur passed. Attendants with telescopes are provided in the tower galleries to point out surrounding ob jects of interest. The drawing for prizes in the Art Union takes place on Thursday, 31st, Each subscriber for each guinea subscribed receives as payment of the amount a ceramic or other work of art, in addition to the chance of a prize in the drawing. Last year some of the most important prizes were gained by subscribers abroad. FRANCE. BOURSE, July 25.—The arrival of Consols with a rise of per cent. has given firmness to the mar ket, but without producing any advance in prices, Threes, for the Account, in the little busin2SS doing, remaining firm at 68f. 40c. Railway Shares little dealt in, but quotations generally well maintained. The market closed as follows per Cents .. 97 Do. end month.... 68 7i 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 45 New 3 per Cents Do, end month — Credit Mobilier 825 Do. end month 827 50 RA ILI Bank Shares 3180 Credit I , oncier 1172 50 Piedmonteac Fives Italian Loan 7l 30 Roman — Austrian Spani.-1 Threes — Home Debt FAY'S. Cash. Account. Orleans lOOl 25 .. 1001 25 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1085 .. 1083 75 Geneva Southern Western Eastern .... Sardinian .. Austrian Low bard 808 75 .. 810 - 555 - .. 550 - 537 50 .. 535 - 370 - .. -- - 490 - .. 490 - 613 75 .. 612 50 ITALY. The following is the reply of Count de Bernstorff to the interpellation of M. Rechensperger, in the Prussian Chamber of Representatives, on the affairs of Italy : " Gentlemen,—The member who has put the questions considered my refusal to reply to the mo tion brought forward last week as a want of respect towards the representation of the country. But that is by no means the case. I did not reply then because the matter was still in a state of negotia tion ; it has only just been definitely terminated, the King having received yesterday the envoy of King Victor Emmanuel, who delivered to him a letter by which this latter Sovereign notifies the title that he has taken of King of Italy, and asks to have it recognised. The reply to that letter, and the official notice of the recognition, left Berlin yes terday evening, and the affair was only terminated by that step. Concerning the questions before us, I will at first say, with regard to the principle of nationalities, that we do not recognise it by the act in question. We nevertheless take it into ac count to a certain point, but our intention is in no wise to recognise it in an absolute manner. The accomplished fact has been recognised, and nothing more. That the fact is accomplished appears to me a thing perfectly clear. There is thus no reason to draw ulterior consequences from it. The King dom of Italy is only recognised in its present state, and we do not recognise any possible consequences which may be connected with it; we have, on the contrary, made express reserves on that sub ject. In what concerns pacific dispositions in the point of view of public law, which the honour able gentleman who has addressed the inter pellations to the Government thinks necessary for the recognition of a new Power, we believe they are to be found in the explanations given to us, and which will be found in the despatch of General Durando, already published in the public journals. I had intended to communicate it to the Chamber, but as it has already become known to the Assembly through other sources, there is no longer any need to do so; besides, I do not think it my duty to go farther into the considerations re specting public law put forward by the hon. gen tleman, or to justify here the recognition in detail. We think that it was for the interest of Prussia to accomplish that act, in order to place ourselves on good relations with a great and powerful country like Italy.' We have not done more in that matter than the other great Powers of Europe, with the exception of those who have particular dynastic reasons for not doing it. Be sides, as far as regards the feelings and consciences of the Catholic subjects of his Majesty, I do not think that they need be more susceptible than all the other Catholic Powers of Europe. France, Belgium, Portugal, and, as 1 have just said, all the Catholic Powers, with the exception of Austria and two others, have in fact recognised Italy. As far as now regards the pretensions of the kingdom of Italy to Rome and to Venetia, they may exist in theory, but the Government of Turin, by the de claration it has made, has expressly promised that it will not seek to realise them by pacific means. Will it succeed ? That, history will make known to us. All the rights of third parties are, more over, reserved in the recognition, and we have done nothing by that act which can prejudice those rights." 1 POLAND. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) WARSAW, JULY 19. Ever since the arrival of the Grand Doke Con stantine here there is no end of congratulatory visits, addresses, and illuminations, among the dig nitaries of State and the Russian generals; and the birth of a young Prince, who was christened Waclair, a name of sclavonic origin, gave an addi tional motive for those manifestations. Efforts are being made, and all sorts of reports disseminated, that the newborn, from the name be bears, will one day become an heir toa Polish king, and the police were active in persuading people on that ground to illuminate the town. However, the success was very insignificant, hardly one-fourth of the houses in Warsaw contained any lights at all, and the lower classes were so provoked at this partial de monstration that a row on that account took place, between them and the police, the latter having been worsted. After this disagreeable occurrence fresh arrests were made, a laige number of persons con veyed to the citadel, where, it is reported, the Russian generals freely employ the flogging system while the prisoners are undergoing their examina tion. Of the assurances so often given that reforms will be introduced, and the rigours of the state of siege diminished, nothing as yet has come to pass, and the people, usually doubtful, are now becoming quite incredulous. Faith and confidence spring from the acts, and as there is nothing that could in any way show the change of the present system here, as well as in other parts of ancient Poland, the nation remains in the same situation as before, calm and dignified in attitude, which causes much uneasiness to the Government. A few days ago the official Gazette announced that two innccent persons imprisoned were set at liberty by order of the Grand Duke —one, John Wojczynski, at the solicitation of his aged father, and the other, Michael Konarski, on the score of a severe illness. The release of Wojczynski was couched in terms derogatory to his personal dig nity; and I am sure that the prisoner, had he been aware of the fact, would have preferred the con tinued incarceration in the Citadel to such an act of mercy. The most important piece of news, and one Which took us all here by surprise, had been the arrival of Mr. Taczanowski, member of the higher Chamber of the Prussian Parliament, who was summoned by the Grand Duke Constantine. No one can imagine the meaning of a short interview between this visitor and his highness, and his speedy return to Berlin. For the elucidation of this extraordinary occurrence, it may be stated that Mr. Taezanowski is a Chamberlain of the King of Prussia, a favouiite at the Court, and quite isolated from the circle of the Polish Deputies at the Diet of Berlin ; and it is rumoured that in case a Pole were to be nominated President of the Grand Duchy of Posen, he would probably be appointed to that post by the Prussian Government. One may almost suppose that the visit of Mr. Taczanlwski related to his acceptance of the Presidency of the Grand Duchy. I stated in my last communication the mili tary execution of several officers, and mentioned that one private, Leon Szezur, had been condemned to undergo the punishment of 600 lashes and to be transported to Siberia for the part he took in the conspiracy now fast spreading in the Russian army. The execution of the sentence was carried into Effect with all the refined cruelty which so emi nently characterises the barbarous Russian -Go vernment. The soldiers who performed this ope ration were by command served with extra rations of wodke, a spirit made of corn, resembling the Irish whisky, and thus, half intoxicated, they luxuriated in inflicting their lashes on the poor man's body, and even his face, that he is not ex pected to survive. Talk now of the Emperor's "benevolence and good intentions," his alleged de termination to abolish corporal punishment in the army, when scenes of this kind occur in the 19th century, and in the midst of our boasted European civilisation. Despite such unheard of tyranny and the vigi lance of the Government, the anonymous press cou tinues its wide circulation of revolutionary prints, which are eagerly read by the people and the army, and are sure to produce their results. You can hardly speak to anyone but he is acquainted, with the contents of these publications, and nothing can stop that propaganda except an entire re modelling of the social fabric in Russia, and of restoring to Poland its constitution, and the -rights guaranteed by it. The Russian. organs abroad, like Le Nord and some of the French and English journals, evidently misinformed, are continually praising the acts of the Emperor Alexander 11., as if he had accomplished wonders in his empire. Far from denying to Caesar what is due to Caesar, I maintain that such a course is most injurious to the Emperor himself and most unjust to his subjects, who hitherto have only been lulled into delusion that great reforms will be granted to them, and were actually announced on paper, but none of which has yet seen the light of the day. On the other hand, the Emperor, natu rally addicted to pleasure and copious libations, forgets in the midst of his pleasure that he has high and important duties to discharge, and thinks het has already inished when he sees his praises snug by the venal press in the West of Europe. General Luders has been granted a pension of 10,000 roubles annually for his services in Poland, a tax levied upon the Polish Treasury instead of coming from the Russian funds, since he, as a Rus sian General, was sent here to oppress and not to govern. Such is the treatment of the Polishnetion. by Russians. THE ASSAULT ON A WAITER 13Y A GEN 7 LEMAN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I have read the report in yesterday's publi cation of the charge of assault preferred against me at the Southwark Police Court, which is in all re spects accurate sa far as the evidence is given, but as I was unprepared to answer the case owing to the charge having so recently been made, and being without professional assistance, allow me to state for the satisfaction of my friends and numerous acquaintances, that I have since instructed my soli citors to take immediate proceedings, which I have no hesitation in saying will thoroughly vindicate the course I took on the occasion in question. Apo logising for troubling you.—l am, yours faithfully, EDWARD SUMNER G . COLPOYS. 3, College Crescent, July 26, N.W. THE COTTON FAMINE. The following is the variation in the amount of pauperism in the undermentioned unions, on a com parison of the third with the second week of the present month. The total number of paupers in the second week of July in the section of unions marked (a) was 67,025 ; in the section (b) 25,042 ; and in the section (c), 49,423 : (a) Eleven unions have more : Paupers. Ashton-under-Lyne. 3.50 Birmingham Burnley Bury Chorlton Haslingden .... Manchester.... 450 (5) Eight unions are, in respect of the amount of pau perism, the same as in the previous week :—Bolton, Co ventry, Ecclesall, Bierlow, Macclesfield, Sheffield, Stoke upon- Ttrent, W arrington, and Wigan. (c) Six unions have less : Paupers. Oldham Rochdale Salford 230 Stockport l3O Total 2240 Paupers. Paupers. Blackburn ........ 50 I Nottingham Chorley .......... 30 Preston .. 9O Leeds ............ 80 I _...._ Liverpool ........ :160 ( Total 48 0; FRT;;DERICK PURDY, Statisticr4l Department, Poor-law Board July 25. Yesterday his highness the Viceroy of Egypt sent to the Lor d Mayor, by Nubar Bey, the princely donation of £l,OOO towards the fund for the relief of the distress in Lancashire and Cheshire. The London Relief Committee held a meeting at the Mansion -house yesterday. The total sum sent to the Lord Mayor up to the time of the committee meeting, including the gift of the Viceroy, was re ported by Mr. Pickering, the cashier, to be £19,258 10s. odd, of which £12,700 had been remitted from week to week, during the last three months, to the local relief committees for distribution by them in about 40 towns, suburban districts, and villages, in which the distress appeared to be most prevalent. Yesterday, after two hours of careful and anxious consideration of letteri and reports addressed to the Lord Mayor during the past week by the chairman of the local relief committees, principally clergmen and other leading inhabitants, describing the pro gress and character of the distress as it presents itself to their own observation, the committee re solved upon sending a further sum of £2,850, divided into 25 grants—viz., to St. George's, Oidham-road, £150; All Souls, Ancoats, £100; St. Peter's, Old ham-road, £100; Hyde, £250; Dukinfieid, £250; Livesey, £100; Whitton, £100; Chorley, £5O ; Miles-Platting, £5O; Royton, Oldham, £5O; Mot tram, £5O; Millbrook, Manchester, £5O; Billing ton, £5O ; Tint w i s tl e , £100; Stockp ort, £ 250 ; Staley bridge, £250; Ashton-under-Ly ne, £250; Enfield, &c., £lOO ; St. Barnabas, O ldham -road, £100; St. Catherine Newton, Ma nc h ester, £5O; Blakeley, £5O; St. Philips, Man c h ester, £100; St. Thomas's, ditto, £5O ; Middleton, £lOO ; and Bax enden, £5O. These sums will, as heretofore, be distributed by the various relief committees in the several places, acting upon their own local personal knowledge of the wants of the communities among whom they live; and they make, with the money previously remitted from the Mansion•house to the distressed region, to be expended in timely relief, an aggregate sum amounting to £15,550 down to last evening. It Will be grateful to the public, who hate given cf their abundance and are still giving to this work of humanity, to know that the letters which are d a il y addressed to the Lord Mayor acknowledging grants by the committee, express the most fervent gratitude for the timely assistance which has thus been afforded in mitigating the dis tress of the famine-stricken people. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday an accident, attended by fatal consequences, occurred about two miles below Spetchley station of the Bristol and Bir mingham Railway, when a man named Stowell was killed, and another named Hemming received a severe wound of the scalp, but is in a fair way of recovery. It appears that they were labourers on the line, and that after dinner they laid down near the rails, where they fell asleep. The goods train coming up at the time went over the head of Stowell, completely smashing it, and wounding gemming on the scalp. BE 3 / 3, N, M~ N e P~ Sp ep Tu an (Or 17 sib I ( ga an