The Sun. — London, England, 1862-05-17 00:00:00

I . yap = OR (Ns,. 3) ==, RATIFY. JAPANESE MISSION Co's—liATAY'D Balen uouge'—ENTLACOD RITER•`R' GENTLEMEN, By Articles 3.—.18, and 21, under texte Hollandaise' for 11 years' revision, signed on 26th August, 1858, and attested by the Russian intermediate, Count Ignatief in 1859, under Pekin'm Run-'Tien-('sin Treaty in ' Alcor's Vi and Si' capitulation), Obedient to the heaven's Zenith++sol. You are hereby called on to register the old La Montie Q' civic limit-wall of China, as the Jeso-horizon of London, 40 , s north, at England's Receipt of Exchequer, and take therefrom the Yedo copy of Standard weight for regional exemplification, under your red moon' disc mark—of the Menan uamboyia empire of the Borned Yle's, as of Q. Eliz. and J, t's En naam' Sicily fent recognition. fou will explain to his highness the Tycoon that this measure results from my sole oath charge on the Holy‘ Alliance of Christian-clubs Abolition, 2 9 th August , 1825 by 11 Geo. 111, c 55—founded on 14 Geo. Ili., c 83, 1774—f0r universal meter•rod of the world's empyreal spirit -level guidance—restored in 1824, suspended one year to kill off the life and death' 1815 justice-men' for the Romish Pope —so cause of the illegal white Mitre' being set to all the criminal law exchequer deeds, over which, if not removed the writer will sign for the people's equal-a-rights. or The suspended 1824 Act -. became re-incorporated in 1835--and writer its State-Lwall Trustee sworn 1837. Your MISSION was for this purpoy'ze to unite the treaty of Feb., 1664, with the Anglo-Dutch Executive to Holland as of Leicester's cTeate 1560-85 so Cromwell and Louis xiv., 1665, affirmed. by Parliament, of 16 Car. Ir., re-embody'd with Phillipine 6 & 6 native jury -1764-Scholastic teaching the Red indians by Act of 1832 for making N. W. America Behring's land-guarantee of Dutch-loan extends to New foundland-1820, as Crown colony Antipodean to New Zea land, Siam, and its Ceylon tropic //word dexpendencies. You'll now see into the Bar'ing-visit (May 14, leading ty Macdonald, to the son ASIII3I7IITON Treaty) of my state-aemociate—and afterwards to Northumberland-house to pass before the Supreme Indian portraiture of Joseph Brant, (the stamp Act Chief of 1774 SagOmoth of Anglo- America, west to east), the uncle and predecessor of the Siderial-crown Officer now Income-tax Freeman here unto ElasQuerd as one of your race under ' ligne tire& for the -Washington Texas—Extradition act, 1843—its alien's having no French white flag for their Cochin's-China Annam assumption (vers l'anneo 1821 Colbert/ ?-Restau ration?, on my s p onsors hi p. By etter, save disoved acts Ye are of the out'd-15 85 Dairy-sum or high Sinto Papists state, separated from the n - kub 9 mhip- coroner t s o, no t o f th e peop l es ' Ma ts-maiy-/tr.polo elect-Ty-cone Zenith courts—under the provincial Dai tai-O and di s trict Si o - m i-6. If so —Y ou 'll h ave to Rip' or Ratify for China—as the ea s t mos t L i g ht -men—since my water flag-limit review by the hi g h contracting ' Am. Ind. ig parties, W. Seward and R. B. Pemell, nicknam'd Ly on Cora Toners by Art, 1, rule 2 withi n the territorial waters of the other (L'autre neutre)party'—eart mother earth's legistatrice Brantw in P.§ , the Feb. n16g6104; For your satisfaction (7th April), and Dutch Japanese treaty with China Oct. ° 1663 1 to signed by Tycoon, w ith B O RT, Vander Does '&o.' whereby the White flag with a red moon wa emblem, as displayed over your s declared your national (Embassy in London. • Une base' qui (fit Armor la nstee-r.oug, , esi grande Sous la loi civique ), pose avec Fterte • OS l'on voit que jamais I'ENGLAND' ne rearchande Quand it faut par la mer leur dormer Liberte . -°- . + . . w N .] CHARLES ACKERLEY, Ei • • 1-2 W. iv., N... 54, Chamberlayne' Die-sworn. a• • PETER BASQUET, Income-tax chief (1842, unpaid.s • • China nu', wall circuit horizon of-. London, May 17, 1862), its Montezuma-Texas-peace Red Flag. So Paris gab-'Wight ship' t 3 elgiee-vocant Kalfateren skiff ✓ Om-eget " Het /chip saylt wel, het is ras in reylen, —item, het is eon klock-ship in /ailen." Yed°-G-aw ! t By 25 Hen. lir. the Purser discargo-ree or steward is deputy-juror for Neighbours to the fact,' under Shipping Act Onus, to avoid Ty-cons Coroner's sequestration. (See The 84 of April 19, 28, and May 16.) THEATRE-RO YAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee Mr. J B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. After which, at half-past 7, will be performed (125th time) OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck stone Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. F(Jilowed by a new Spanish Ballet entitled LA CONTRA.- BANDISTA. Senora Perea Mena, Senor Ricardo, and the Corps de Ballet. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Cotnmenoe a 7 OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer. 158th Night of the ^ontinuous run of " Peep o'Day." THIS EVENING, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, and Edmund Falconer : Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston, and Miss M. Hudson. After which, a new musical, pictorial, poetical, and ballet Interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna 'Whitty and Miss Lydia Thomson. To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 8, to commence at ". Box-office open daily from 11 tills. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, CASH V. CUPID. Mr. Widdicomb and Miss Maria Harris. After which, at a quarter to 8, HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Pechter. Commence at 7. No half-price. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, A PRIVATE INQUIRY: Messrs. J. L. Toole, Billing - ton ; Miss K. Kelly and Miss K. Bland. To be followed by a new domestic drama, entitled DOT : Messrs. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billington, Stephens on ; Mi ss L. Keeley, Mis s Woolgar, bliss H. Simms, Miss K. Kelly, and Mrs. It Marston. To conclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAISE Messrs. J. T. Toole, Killington, Em e ry ; Misses K. Kelly, Laidlaw, K. Bland, and Mrs. 11. Marston. Commence at 7, CA NTERBURY HALL A UTS 'GALLERY. The miraculous S The renowned RU3 ": ECKEL at a quarter to 11. T rSEY and NEWCOMB MINSTRELS at Nine o'clock. Grand Selectle, f , from "La Sonnambula," by Miss Rus Pell, with Ban's and lull Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jongh• mans. UNSW • OR /11, in his celebrated Stump Speech " Or any other rrian," and EUGENE, the great Burlesque Singer and Dancr.r, at Ten o'clock. The best Comic talent in London. Messrs, Morton and Stanley beg to inform visitors to Lon 'lion during the Exhibition that the GALLERY of PAINT INGS well be Open, free, between the hours of Twelve and Two o'clock on and after Monday. THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET_ " MAY DAY," a cantata written by John Oxenford, music by G. A, Maefarren ; Burns' " Jolly Beggars, " also a cantata, with George Linley's music, and tirand Operatic Selections by the entire company. Full Band and Chorus. -- Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Rumsey and Newcomb's Minstrf,ls, and Unswortk and Eugene, in addition to a host of combo talent; and HENRI and PFAU on the Flying Trapeze every evening. Ii all, 6d. ; Balcony and Stalls, le. ; Private Boxes, 10e. tid. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY.—Morning, 4h. 4m.—Afternoon, 4h. 28m. To-moßßow.-Morning, 4h. 55m.—Afternoon, sh. 18m. NOTICE. Ail remittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Bun 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. 44 a. 1:4 • lw 1.1. 4f-A; o'7'4 rrit4 ol2l 11+,2 1r ~. . ~: ~ ~ ~•J THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1862. We conf ess we had Fresh American surprises! far less idea that Yorktown would be evacuated so soon, than that New Orleans might be captured. Besides the descriptions given us of the present works, th e memory of L or d C ORNWALLIS ' S defence to the last against overwhelming odds by land and by Sot, impressed on us the opinion that the position must be a very strong one. Indeed it is but to glance at a map, sufficiently large, to see that it must be so. We will not, however, repeat our descriptions. This strong position which threatened to present to M'CLELLAN himself such difficulties as he had witnessed before the Allies at Sebas topol, has been surrendered as the Southern half of that city was, when the Malakoff had fallen. The Confederate GORTSCHAROPTS will also speak of the retreat, perhaps as a great success, and so it was in the important sense that it was accomplished without tho enemy's k now _ ledge, and was therefore undisturbed by him. This, however, necessitated the leaving behind a large number of guns, and much military equipage. The reasons for the evacuation we can of course only conjecture. The Confederates may have good grounds, i n d eed, for concealing the true on es . The most direct cause would seem to be that the arrival Of several irou-plated gunboats from the North had compelled the Merrimac to keep at Norfolk, and that, delivered from the fear of her, the other Con federate gunboats were able to ascend the two rivers, and to co-operate irresistibly with the forces on land. Besides the presence of three Federal armies in Northern Virginia, all more or less ' threatening Richmond, and perhaps able to take the Yorktown Confederate army in the rear, must have had its weight. The Confederate Generals would wish to be nearer the centre of their operations ; at Yorktown they were at one end of their work. The expulsion of the Confederates from York town, where it is repeatedly stated in the de spatches that the works were found to be exceed ing strong, can, after all, only be regarded as a great victory. It was followed, also, by the oc cupation of Williamsburg, higher up the penin sula between the rivers, after a fierce battle, in which one division of the Federals suffered severely, but as the result they took a thousand prisoners, and, it is added, a thousand wounded prisoners. Thus far, therefore, the Federal success seems to hare been complete. APCLELLAN, however, does not count his work easy. He represents the Con federate army as larger than .kis own, and says emphatically, "We shall have other battles to fight, before we reach Richmond." lie also finds the conveyance of supplies difficult, but " he would do what he could with the force under his command." These latter remarks are probably intended to put his opponent, Mr. STANTON, the Secretary for War, in the wrong with the public. Whether the disheartening effect of the fall of New Orleans and Baton Rouge, on the Mississippi, had any influence in causing this retreat, it is im possible to say; but the movement, if expedited by the Southern misfortunes, was yet, in all probability, chiefly decided by military facts in Virginia itself. The Confederates have, unquestionably, lost, both in prestige and substantially, at New Orleans and Yorktown. In each of these fields they are now pushed more closely than ever; and a decisive de feat, in either, must be fatal to the military pro spects of the Confederacy. Even should they gain a battle, or prolong the contest, by carefully keep ing to the defensive, still the North has shown such strength as, It appears, the f3outh have Liu means of resisting, except for a short time. Meantime there are signs of some impending change. The Federal Government itself appears to be really concocting measures to remove the com mercial blockade. The policy is, probably, to throw on the Confederates, in the eyes of Europe, the blame of withholding the cotton. The mails to New Orleans are also to be reorganised ; and thus, both natives and foreign countries, are to feel the benefit of the places being brought again under Federal Government. All pretext for foreign intervention, unless against the South, is thus to be taken away. Meantime the French Ambassador, who lately went to Richmond, is now off to Yorktown. Why he goes, no one really knows in one case more than in the other; still the activity of the vivacious French man, whose strong desire for an amicable settle ment is not concealed, can but lead to the supposi tion that he moves about, in an unofficial way, to further the object he is known to aim at. It may be regarded as certain that the Federals will not treat now, except on the basis of a reunion. If, when so long unsuccessful, they did not despair, it is to the last degree improbable that, after the conquest of Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and the victories of New Orleans and Yorktown, the Government would be allowed to treat with the rebels for any kind of independence. The South would have to be content with the honour of a resistance, which has been successful far beyond anything expected at the outset. It has shown that it can not be trifled with, and that under every disadvan tage, It may make honourable terms; but any terms now made must be substantially a capitula tion. It will require, in all probability, another important victory or two to lead to such a result. The only reason why an early settlement of this bloody strife betwe:n brethren in race and language can be at all feared by Englishmen is, that it would leave the slavery question where it stands. The North would never forward emancipation but as a necessary measure of war. With the exception of a small minority, the Northerns would gladly sus tain slavery in the plantations; and a settlement now would be, therefore, the perpetuation of slavery for generations to come in many of the Southern States. If the South resist successfully till want of money incline the North to emancipation, then, and then only, shall we see it adopted. Perhaps it may be the particularly keen edge given to their appetite for extortion by their recent "doings" (literally) with poor " Mussoo" on his way to and from the Great International Exhibi tion. Perhaps it is the fine opportunities latterly afforded to them in the same way by those adven turous " Unprotected Females" who have taken to driving hither and thither, with an admirable au dacity, in your genuine patent safety Hansom. It may just perhaps be that they have latterly had such a glut of " fares" to choose from, now that our London streets are so over-crowded with footsore sightseers. Whatever the reason may or may not be—it is quite obvious that the London cabowners are becoming more than ever litigious, and the London cabdrivers more than ever remarkable for their matchless combination of cool effrontery and flagrant extortion. The members of the former class, that is the class of the cabowners, possess one adventurous champion of their rights so bent upon doing battle for their vindication that he is actually going to carry into the Court of Queen's Bench his disputed claim for an odd sixpence ! The problem about to be submitted by him to the consideration of the Lord Chief Justice being, whether or not "a Baby" may strictly speaking be regarded a$ " a Person !" The said infant being brought or not, according to the decision of the Court, within the mean ing of the Act of Parliament referred to. It is a nice distinction enough in itself, and one that all the mothers of England, who have a knowledge of its being now on the tapia, will look for with eager curiosity. As to the cab drivers, considered at this moment altogether apart from their employers, the cabowners, it will be borne in mind, of course by all who have ever been in the habit of engaging them, that—at their best and under merely ordinary circumstances—they are (as a perfectly unique set of specimens of the gnus homo) distinguished by a variety of very interesting peculiarities. These were some of them brought out very vividly to view a few years back, when the minimum fare of " sixp ence " was formally in augurated, in lieu of the old eightpenny mile's worth of jangle and jolt. It will be in the recollec- tion of most Londoners, that first of all , as the eery earliest consequence of that unwelcome twopenny drop to the injured race of " Cabbies" — came a very solem n and affecting display on their part of Virtuous Indignation. Paterfamilias with the in o,an ra T . o p ro jeo: on n is his w in cipient gout i n hi s toes , 11 f • • ater amilias going shop ping,ay to the G rea t W es t ern f or way to. the Eastern Conn ties for Cambridge, u yfoto-nAlldj', shtOttt—"loo-iknend. don and South West ern, say to the right and the left, up street and d own street —sent post-haste across the square to the stand— round the corner to the public-house—for a cab, for any cab good, bad, or indifferent. All in vain. The cabmen had turned sulky. They had struck. The course pursued by them in this manner, was followed, however, as a mere matter of course, for a very brief interval indeed. Like all the Strikes that ever yet have been heard of, the cab strike , turned out to have really injured only the very class AND FINE THE SIIN, LO X DON, SAPURD ) 7 EVENING MAY 17, 1862 it was designed to benefit—namely, in this instance, the cab-owners and the cabmen. Soon enough they were ranged again at every stand, and plying business in every thoroughfare—aad all, of course, for what to them appeared the wretched legal payment at the rate of sixpence a mile—an arrangement they seemed hardly able to swallow, out of their disgust for it. Different modes were tried by the more quickwitted of the craft at the outset of this unpalatable sixpenny regime. Now it was articulated in the tone of the finest irony, with a disdainful glance at the six pence lying in the palm of the large brown hand (and certainly looking very small there), Cabby sarcastically recommending his fare very earnestly not to waste his money like that by riding in a cab ! Now the sixpence, having first of all been looked at with disgust, was pocketed with a sort of tearful anguish—with a smothered " Well, it is enough to break a man's heart, it is "—though, perhaps, all the while you had just been driven round a couple of turnings to the house of some near neighbour. " As near as yourself," Cabby would interject, pro bably, if he heard the explanation. Once, after a momentary altercation, the feeble jibe was hurled after his sixpenny fire—the Cabman while uttering the words, not making even the faintest show of an intention to descend from his box in pursuit—the loudly-shouted but excessively feeble retaliation of " It's a bad one !" As the eels have, according to the popular facetia, become accustomed, by long usage, to skinning, so have the cabmen got accustomed also to their misery of sixpence. Whenever they can, however, by some other device—upon the principle of diamond cut diamond—they strive, of course, to get their compensation. Occasionally, of course, in this doubtless (from their own point of viow) laudable effort. eoine it , Q€ a trill() too near the wind in their attempt to " do" their passengers, and yet to steer clear the while of that emporium of cheap justice—the very sound of the name of which is " unpleasing in a cabby's ear" —the office of the police magistrate ! As about the last case in point in this way—a case in which not one cabman only, but three several cabmen in succession came to grief—there was the charge brought home the other day before Mr. AItNOLD, a charge really brought "home" to three cabmen one after another by Dr.BucilaNAN, of Widham Hill, Ware. It was the cool and deliberate refusal in each instance of a fare—there being a heavy rain at the time—and a lady in company with the complainant. A refusal by three different cabmen of a fare, under these circumstances, be cause the direction or the distance happened not perhaps to be to the liking of these amiable pick. ing and choosing Jehus ! After fining and repri manding the three delinquents in turn, the worthy magistrate, we cannot but rejoice to ob serve, intimated very pointedly to Dr. BUCHANAN —who is described by the reporter as a gentle man "far advanced in years"—that " the public were greatly indebted to him for bringing these cases forward." An acknowledgment all the more deserved by the complainant, when it is borne in mind that he had taken the trouble to travel this tv miles for the express purpose to take out the three summonses. If ever the cab fraternity have wanted well looking to, it is certainly the case that they do now, while the Exhibition is at its height. For the benefit of Mr. SOTHERON ESTCOURT, and of the 288 political Churchmen who stayed to the last and followed him into the lobby to vote for his resolution, we transcribe the following from a Liverpool paper :—" Above EIGHTY FOUR THOU SAND POUNDS has been subscribed to the fund for building a memorial hall in the metropolis, and erecting new chapels in the provinces, in celebration of the Bicentenary of Nonconformity. Some pro moters of the movement are sanguine that even this magnificent sum will be doubled during the current year." Lest our readers should have forgotten it, we add Mr. ESTCOURT'S resolution, which the poli tical Churchmen thought better than the abolition of Church-rates, or than the proposal of Mr. BRIGHT, to take away the power to enforce the rate ; this, then, is his resolution :—" That it is unjust and in expedient to abolish the ancient customary right, exercised from time immemorial by the ratepayers of every parish in England, to raise by rate amongst themselves the sums required for the repair of their church, until some other provision shall have been made by Parliament for the dis charge of those obligations, to which, by custom or statute, the churchwardens, on the part of the parish, are liable." Now we have heard of a former House of Com -1 mons so wise that it voted a pound-note and a shilling to be worth a guinea, when not a member who voted would have parted with the guinea, if he had it, unless the holder of the pound -note offered him the note, and seven shillings additional, instead of one for his guinea. Much the same is the wisdom of the 288 who actually voted that the churchwardens were liable to obligations, meaning pecuniary obligations, when, by the confessed law of the land, they are not liable, except in conjunction with a majority of the rate payers ! The late Home Secretary, in the absence of the present one, showed them this beyond dis pute. W 3 pass by this Hibernicism in the alleged facts of the ESTCOURT resolution—and just ask the hon. member, and his majority of one, what " other" Provision they want Parliament to make. Why cry to Parliament like the Waggoner to Hercules when they see Dissenters everywhere putting them to open shame. It was but the other day that the Baptists, not the largest sect by several of Dissen ters, wanted £30,000 to build the largest place of worship in London for a popular young preacher of their body—they put their shoulder to the wheel, and the noble building, near the Elephant and Castle, was opened without a penny of debt upon it. In the paragraph we have quoted, the Inde pendents, we are told, intend to celebrate the ejec tion of their forefathers from the Church of England through the Act of Uniformity, by erecting new chapels, and a hall in commemoration of the event ; —forthwith we learn that £84,000 are raised al ready, with the prospect of the sum being doubled before the Bicentenary year is expired ! Now we know not how the 288 feel when they read such facts. We can only say for ourselves that we blush for the political Churchmen who urge all sorts of sophisms in favour of casting their Church on parish relief, while the Dissenters are above taking it, and not only support themselves honestly by independent effort, but support them selves handsomely. Mr. ESTCOURT'S resolution comes to this—that it is "unjust and inexpedient" to deprive the Episcopal Church of parish relief where she can get it. Where the parishioners will let her continue a pauper, maintained by the parish rates, she may ! Like the parish stone-breakers, she cannot subsist Viltliu.t, relief ! She has not, like the Dissenters, the inherent vitality which lives and thrives by its own vigour. She cannot beg; to give she is unwilling. All is up with her if she cannot enforce help from the parish a —if sh e cannot, like other paupers, drag those who refuse her.piirisb relief bef o re the magistrate. and for c e to if of venerable Now , on them beh venerable old Church, we beg to differ from such • a notion of her. Not a great many years ago it might indeed have gone hard with her, if she could not have relied on the parish. She was a pauper in spirit, as well as in fact. Things are changed now. Her pauperism is the remnant of a bygone age. She only wants to be shut out of the workhouse, and she could main tain herself as well as the self-supportiti g churches ; not only as we'i, but better. For, in the first place, she has endowments worth, some say, altogether, ten millions per annum ; while the Free Churches of the land, as Mr. BRIGHT termed them, have hardly any. In the next place, indeed, the con sequence of the former, the Dissenters have to raise not only the funds for purposes corresponding to the parish rates voted for the Church, but also the funds requisite to support their own clergy. Then, again, it is indisputable that, as the rule, the wealth of the country goes with the Parish Rate Church, and that the middle class incomes, and weekly wages, are what enable dissent to keep off the parish books, and to live independently. Shut the workhouse door on the Church, deprive her of compulsory out door relief, and she has life enough, and health enough, and wealth enough to maintain herself, and all her children. To us this political pauper• ising of the Church seems ineffably disgraceful. For the honour of the Church the sooner the disgrace is confessed, and the ignominious dependence cast off, the better. The best of her sons feel this deeply, and blush to be dragged through the mire by such model Churchmen as the Duke of MARLBOROUGH and Mr. DISRAELI. The Tories once followed him and Protection, that is, State relief, for landlords, just as they now follow him and rates, that is, parish relief for the Church. They will, if he live the ordinary life of men, be as ashamed of his leadership in the latter cause as in the former. In each case he came in at the eleventh hour, to fc.111,1 5 ,catiaci for party ....bjeets. lie will fail in the second as he did in the first. The Act of Toleration and Parish Rates for the Church can no more co_exist, when attention is called to their in consistency, than the great maxims of ADAM SMITH and protection. Mr. ESTCOURT is not very likely to heed our advice, but we can have no doubt that he and his party would deliver themselves from a great plague if they would adopt it. It is, that they would march off with the honours of war, by accepting Mr. BRIGHT'S compromise, offered them, as they confessed, in a kindly spirit, and so pile their arms, which they have been wont to brandish when Dis senters objected to relieving such able-pursed paupers at the parish cost. Retain, says Mr. BRIGHT, all the machinery by which you have been accustomed to levy your rates—Churchmen are used to this machinery, and probably can work best with it ; but, renounce the power to enforce the rate against the unwilling. So you would relieve your selves from the stigma of parish pauperism ; you would manage according to your old habits, while those habits would be invigorated by the conscious. ness of an appeal to generous independence. We have certainly reason to thank Lord ELcuo for one of the most delightful hoaxes ever auda ciously perpetrated upon a Lord High Chancellor. Quite unintentionally on Lord ELello's part—but still a hoax. The explanation given last evening in the Commons shows the whole affair to have been, from first to last, the merest equivoque. The noble and gallant Colonel of the London Scottish Volunteer Corps on Tuesday has a few minutes hurried talk with Mr. SPEAKER—Lord ELCHO standing by the Speaker's chair while they are chatting together—the right hon. gentleman's at tention distracted all the while by the presentation of petition after petition by various members. A rifle match was then talked of, in fact, by Lord ELCHO as in preparation, the noble lord add ing that many members of the House of Commons felt particularly interested in it, his lordship at the same time showing a roll of paper that he carried in his hand, and asking the Speaker's name to it. " I answered," observes the Speaker afterwards in explanation, "that I was very busy, that I could not spare a moment to read the paper, nor did I see a single word it contained." And later on he remarks, that " Wishing to dismiss the subject, I said in joke the only part I could take would be to fire a shot with the Lord Chancellor." Thereupon —himself " fired" by this good-humoured intimation in an off-hand way on the Speaker's part, that he was what you call " Game "—Lord ELCHO darts off at a tan happens by good duck forthgeentlo. lovers s is o l f ord a sh j i o p ke, by ill-luck for the gravity of those august personages the Speakers of the Lords and Commons Lord ELerro happens to light upon the Lord Chancellor in the nick of time just as he is quitting the House of Peers, and thereupon gives him the challenge —vicariously ! " I have heard with amaze ment," writes the Speaker afterwards to Lord now —" I have heard with amazement that the Lord Chancellor announced last night in the House of Lords that he had received a a challenge to a rifle match from the Speaker of the House of Commons--a challenge from the House of Commons to the House of Lords." It should be remembered, however, by all, that the announcement was not at any rate volunteered. It will not be for gotten that it was extorted from the Lord Chan cellor by the solemn inquiries addressed to him on Thursday evening by the Earl GRANVILLE. It is a ludicrous affair from beginning to end. And yet one that appears to have originated in the most natural manner possible. The result of it all being, as the result is almost invariably with nearly every official inquiry that was ever instituted, that— nobody is to blame ! MISSING VESSELS.—The Modern Times sailed from New York on the 6th of February for Bristol, and has not since been heard of. The Beatrice, of Boston, sailed from Cardiff on the 10th July for Hongkong with coals, and has not since been heard of. INNS OF COURT RIFLE VOLUNTEERS.—The bat talion of this corps will parade in marching order in the King's Bench-walk, Temple, at 3 15 p.m. to day (Saturday) previous to proceeding to Epsom to take part in the field day there, under the command of Colonel M'Murdo, C.B. THE YELVERTON MARRIAGE CASE.—In the Edinburgh Court of Session, on Wednesday, Mr. Fraser opened the debate for the pursuer (Mrs. Yelverton) on the completed proof; and after speaking for about three hours the case was adjourned till Thursday morning. The Seoto man says :--t' It is expected that, owing to the extent of the proof and documentary evidence printed in the record, each counsel who is to speak will occupy several morning sittings, and that the debate will, therefore, extend over two or three weeks." THE ROBERTSON COURT-MARTIAL. DUBLIN, Friday Evening.—This day Sir George Brown, Comman der of the Forces in Ireland, had before him the officers of the 4th Dragoon Guards at the Royal Hospital, KiLmain ham, and announced to them the final decision of the hors© Guards in reference to the late court-martial. Colonel Bentinck retires on half-pay. Lieutenant Harran loses his adjutancy. All the officers who signed the " round robin" were severely rebuked. LADY WYN DHAM'S JEWELS.—Yesterday the action, Garrard v. Giubelei, was brought before the judges in the ExchEquer Chamber. It was brought against the defendant for goods supplied s to Lady Sophia Wyndham before her marriage with die aetendant. An objection was taken that this being the debt of the wife before her mar riage, the wife ought to have been joined as a co-defendant. The learned judge before whom the case was tried was applied to to amend by adding the name of the wife, and the amendment was made, but leave was reserved to move to set aside the verdict for the plaintiff if the Court was of opinion that the Darned judge had no power to make the amendment. The Court of Common Pleas having heard the argument upon motion, came to the decision that the judge had not the power to make the amendment. Their lordships affirmed the decision of the other courts. The new guest of the Emperor Napoleon, Said Puha, Viceroy of Egypt, has garind At LATEST NEWS• NAPLES, MAY 16. The official Giornale di Napoli, in speaking of the endeavours of the Garibaldians to organize an expedition to the Tyrol, says— " The Government is determined not to allow it self to be forced into action. It will not abandon the initiative in regard to the sacred interests of the country." Garibaldi has made intercession to obtain the re lease of the officers who have been arrested, but the authorities have not yielded to his request. MILAN, MAY 16, Evening. Among the persons who have been arrested on account of the scheme for organising an expedition to the Tyrol are Colonel Nullo, aide-de-camp of Garibaldi, and Signor Palazolo. MADRID, MAT 16, Evening. A Ministerial Council was held immediately on receipt of the official reports from Mexico. The conduct of General Prim finds numerous ad mirers in Madrid. The Senate has, without any discussion, passed the Bill for the Settlement of the Debt of 1823. CADIZ, MAY 16, EVENING. Advices received here from Havannah to the 30th April announce that the Ist brigade of the Spanish Expeditionary Corps from Mexico had disembarked there. General Prim was at Vera Cruz, superintending the embarkation of the remaining Spanish troops. CADIZ, MAY 17. Additional advices received here from Mexico state that Juarez had announced his resolution of resisting the French, and was making warlike pre parations. Civil war had broken out in Mexico. The Monarchists were said to have obtained some ad- vantages. NAPLES, MAY 15. The official Giornale di Napoli publishes an article on the arrival of Prince Napoleon, which it considers as a fresh proof of the friendship of France. The article continues thus :—" This feeling might, however, give rise to premature hopes in reference to the Roman question, which, instead of hastening the solution of this question, would only obstruct the steps already taken, and which must certainly lead to a result. We believe we may state that the arrival of the Prince still more assures the cordial understanding between the Emperor and the King, and will facilitate a common action, for which the two Governments are closely united, without, however, hie Imperial Highness having any mission to make special propositions to the King. THE BOMBAY MAIL. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have received the following telegram : "MARSEILLES, SATURDAY MORNING. " The Massilia, with the Bombay Mail, reached Marseilles at 5 a.m. this day. " The mail leaves for London at 11.30 a.m." COCHIN CHINA. Under the head of "Latest Intelligence," La Presse says : " A despatch from Cochin China announces, that after entering Vinhlong at the head of his troops, Admiral Bonard organized two moveable columns, which were im mediately directed on Mi-au, where the Annamites have concentrated their forces. " The transport Rhone has conveyed from Saigon to Shanghai detachments of French troops destined to com plete the garrison at the latter place." RUSSIA. The Gazette de la Bourse of St. Petersburg contains the following communication from Oren bourg " In consequence of the considerable demand fcr cotton, an importation of this article from Central Asia took place for the first time this year during the winter. Caravans of 30 to 50 camels, laden with cotton, have come to Orenbourg, and it is by this road that the greater portion of the crop of last year has been brought from Boukhara; next sum mer cotton is expected from Khiva, and the remain der of that of Boukhara. The price has not yet been fixed ; it is generally fixed at the fair of Nijny. The Boukharites are willing to sell their cotton at from 7r to 7r 15 copecks the poud. Hitherto the prices have kept up 7r 30c to 7r 50c. For the winter con veyance to Moscow lr 10c were paid per poud. EThe pond is equal to 36.10 lb. avoirdupois English.] " It is only recently that the importation of this article has assumed large dimensions. In 1850 only 5,000 pouds were imported from Central Asia. Since 1855 cotton bas become the most considerable article of our external commerce; this year the im portation rose to 156,000 pouds, and since then cotton maintains the first place. The merchants understand the quality of the cotton of Boukhara and Khiva. It is capable of being improved and its production developed in Central Asia; at least, such is the opinion of Russian merchants who have visited those places. Recognising the high import ance of this article of produce for our industry, we sincerely hope that it will attract the serious atten tion of our influential men." FRANCE. BOURSE, May 16.—The market still in the same inanimate state, but without any material change in prices. Threes, for the Account, are now at 70f 60c. The Railway Share Market is also quiet, but up to the present time former rates have been pretty well maintained. The market rallied towards the close, and left off as follows : 41 per per Cents 9B Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 75 New 3 per Cents Do. end month — Credit Mobilier 835 Do. lend month B4l 25 RAJLI Bank Shares 3140 Credit F oncier 1550 Belgian 4} Piedmontesc Fives 7l 75 Italian Loan 7l 40 Austrian .. Spanish Threes 52 50 Home Debt Cash. Account. Orleans 1325 .. 1325 Northern New ditto - • . —• Lyons and Mediterranean 1107 50 .. 1110 Geneva 370 371 25 Southern B5O 848 75 Western ... 562 50 .. 560 Eastern Sardinian 385 .. 390 Austrian Lombard M. MlßEs.—lt appears by the accounts from Paris that M. Mires has recommenced business at his old offices in the Rue Richelieu, and has issued a prospectus of a new financial undertaking, which the Moniteur has re quested the French journals not to republish. The pro spectus starts by stating that M. Mires is the greatest financier the world has ever seen ; that it is owing to him that credit has been re-established in Spain; and that if " circumstances known to all the world" had not interfered wilh the success of his Turkish loan, it would now have presented a profit of £ 4,000,000 to the subscribers. He then announces for the 17th inst. (to -day) the opening of a subscription for a new operation of the same sort, the details of which are not given further than that it is a " State " loan, the particular State not being specified. The capital required is £8,000,000, and £BOO,OOO is to be paid on sub scribing, in the form of a deposit of 10 per cent. Half the "profit" of the transaction is to go to M. Mires and the shareholders in his late bony, mei half to tho cml36ori6r. It is not stated how this profit is to be made, but it is esti mated at £2,400,000; so that the half for the subscribers will be £1,200,000. This will be at once paid to the sub scribers, who will thus get back their deposit, with 50 per cent. profit, remaining only liable for the remaining 90 per cent. of their subscriptions. The whole thing reads like a jest, or the creation of the disordered imagination of a mad man. It is probably the first time since the days o the South Sea bubble that subsciptions have been publicly in vited to a scheme the nature of which is not divulged; and the affair would not be worthy of notice but for the Fans • graph in the Moniteur, whi c h tion to it,—ZintiB; - naturally must direct Eaten- THE TbRICISII BA7H. Dr. Barter, who has laboured so long and so successfully in Ireland in bringing the Turkish Bath into general use, both as a curative agent and a positive luxury, opens his splendid establishment in Victoria-street, Westminster, to the public on the 19th instant. The building is, of its kind, without parallel in the metropolis, and everything that the most lavish expenditure, combined with good taste, could effect has been done to provide for the comfort of those patronising the new establish ment. Dr. Barter has brought the whole of his accumulated experience to bear on the present undertaking, and the attendants he has engaged are selected from the numerous baths that have been established by the Doctor in all the principal towns in Ireland. Some idea of the extent of the establishment may be formed from the fact that between 500 and 600 baths can be given in a single day. During the present week the baths have been opened to a select company, and the general opinion of those who have availed themselves of the polite invitation of the Oriental Bath Company has been that of unqualified praise. In order that the pub lic generally may avail themselves of the luxury, the price of admission has been fixed at a very moderate sum, and this, coupled with the admirable manner in which the bathers are attended to, will be sufficient to insure the most extensive patronage. The Doctor proposes to erect four or five similar establishments in other parts of the metropolis. THE LIVERPOOL POLICE AND THE BETTING HO USES. A few days ago the Liverpool police were engaged in apprehending a number of betting men who were in the habit of resorting to certain houses for the prosecution of their calling, and who also circulated betting lists, which it was alleged had a very bane ful influence on the young men of the town. A number of the betting men were consequently brought before the magistrates, and each fined £lOO. Not content, however, with this success, the police determined to indict the keepers of the betting-houses, and placed men on special duty to ascertain in which houses betting was know ingly and wilfully allowed to take place. The result of the investigation induced them to lay informa tions against the following persons who have Tublie houses in Liverpool where betting is carried on to a considerable extent :—Owen Perry, Richmond street ; Thomas Davis, Haughton-street • David Richardson, Market-street; and John Murdock, Leigh-street. These men were yesterday (Friday) brought before the Liverpool magistrates, charged under the 16th and 17th sections of the " Act for the Suppression of Betting Houses," with know ingly and willingly allowing betting to take place in their establishments. The first case which was heard was that of Owen Perry, Richmond-street. A police officer stated that on the 7th inst., ho went to the defendant's house, and saw a number of betting men laying wagers against horses which were to run in certain races, and supplying the persons around them with betting lists. He asked for a list, and having received one bet against a horse which was to run at Newmarket. At this time the landlord was in the room, saw that betting was taking place, and made no attempt to suppress it. Mr. Conway, barrister, who appeared for the de• fendant, contended that the terms of the act only had reference to houses which were wholly devoted to betting purposes, and as Es client was not one of this class the information had not been sustained. The magistrates thought differently, however, and fined Perry £su. The cases of the other men were similar, and they were each fined £5O, with the exception of Murdock, who was discharged, as the information under which he was apprehended could not be sustained. Mr. Charles Mathews, the foremost of English light comedians, says Galignani, with Mrs. Mathews, is at present in Paris enjoying a holiday trip. Miss Faucit, whose distinguished merit in several tragic characters is still remembered with pleasure, is also in Paris. THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.—NEW YORK, May 3.—There are many Northern ships at New Orleans, if they have not been destroyed, which were confiscated and sold by the Confederates. Among others the Aballino, of Boston, Ariel, American Union, and Milan, of Bath. ST. MATTHEW'S, SPRING-GARDENS.—The Rev. Henry Drury, M.A., Prebendary of Salisbury, and Chaplain of the House of Commons, has consented to preach to morrow at St. Matthew's, Spring-gardens, in aid of the ordinary church expenses. TRINITY SUNDAY ORDINATIONS.—A third course of twelve lectures on the Reading of the Church Service will commence on Wednesday, 21st inst„ at 10 a,m., and will be continued four times a week—free to all candidates for ordination. Gentlemen desirous of attend ing are requested to call on Mr. D'Orsey, at his rooms, on Saturday, 17th, at 6 30. The channel between Cronstadt and St. Peters burg and Oranienbaum, and almost as far as Krasnaia Gorka, was clear of ice on the Bth, and the communication by steamboats was opened. The Neva, in the morning of the same day, was completely clear of ice, but in the evening was again filled up by the breaking up of that in Lake Ladoga. The students of the University of Copenhagen are making grand preparations to receive their Swedish and Norwegian colleagues, who are expected to arrive in the Danish capital on the 12th June. The students of Upsal, 300 in number, have engaged for their private use the Swea steamboat. THE METROPOLIS ROADS.—Yesterday, at noon, the Commissioners of the Metropolitan Turnpike Roads north of the Thames, Mr. Lambert Jones in the chair, met at their office, 22, W hitehall-place, to put up to auction the several tolls within that district which were to be let for one year from the Ist of July next. The tolls of nine of the roads were offered, but there was competition for only two of them, viz., the Kilburn. and Edgware, and the Maryle bone and Finchley. The former last year were let ter £3,510 ; yesterday, after much competition, they were knocked down to Mr. Proom for £3,830. The latter last realised £2,170 ; yesterday they were let to Mr. Bolton for £2,290. One hundred pounds was required by the com missioners to be put down as a deposit before bidding; the deposit used to be £4O. CRIEFF—THE EARN.—The salmon fishing on the Earn sinee the season opened has been the most unproduc tive which has occurred the last twenty years. Owing to the almost continuously flooded state of the river during March the greater part of the spawned fish were taken down seawards, and but few kelts were killed. The clean salmon captured have not been numerous ; but the river has been in fine ply for trout fishing the last two weeks, and anglers generally have been very successful in killing large basketfuls. The bygone spawning season has been the best which has occurred for a long series of years on the Earn, for the river in all directions during the last two weeks is literally swarming with young fry, which will leave for the sea with the fist spate.—Scotsman. STRIKE OF PITMEN.—The strike of pitmen in Nottinghamshire has extended from the Cinder Hill Pits to those of Kimberley and Newcastle in the same district, belonging to Mr. T. North. A general open air meeting of the men belonging to the three pits was held on Thurs day, at which it was unanimously agreed that they should all demand the same advance as those of Cinder Hill had done, and discontinue their work until it was granted. Be tween 600 and 700 hands are therefore entirely without means of subsistence. At the meeting, it was stated that the average amount earned by the hardest workers per day was 2s. 3d. If the proprietors would let them nano a check-machine man, to be paid by themselves, and adopt the ordinary standard of weights, they would return to work. NICE QUESTION OF INSURANCE—IMPORTANCE ' OF HALF AN Hourt.—On Wednesday, Sheriff Ogilvy, Dundee, issued an interlocutor, finding the owners of the ship Eliza—which was lost on Peffer Sands on the night of the 26th January, 1860—entitled to recover the amount of a policy of insurance effected on the hull and materials of the said vessel. In a note appended to the interlocutor, the sheriff-substitute says :—" The only question at issue here is one of fact, and it is simply this, whether the schooner Eliza struck the Peffer Sands before or after mid night on the 26th January, 1860. If the vessel struck be fore 12 o'clock at night, the defenders are liable; if after 12, they are not liable." After remarking on the evidence at some length, the note concludes—" The sheriff-substi tute's opinion, after the most careful review of the evidence is, that the vessel did really strike about half-past 11 p.m. en the 26th January, and he has accordingly given effect to that view. —Scotsman. LAW OF LANDLORD AND TENANT IN FRANCE. — f An applicati on was made on Thursday to the President of the Civil Tribunal by M. Marmuso, a cutler of the t Bazaar t du Temple, for the purpose of obtaining an o r t d r e f r er o ing • with his landlord to abate an alleged nuisance, n interfering applicant's the peaceable occupation of counsel stated that his client had his taskhen. a exclusivelyon f l o e r a c se o n i l ! the bazaar, which had been fitted up ,- r the proprietor, re centlymercial purposes, but that A learned-.- a parti ally maskedfish, or rather a seal. That chang© let a part of it to the exhibitors a li hts had been suppressea, annoyed by incessant drumming dur and his client was so his client's shop, but iodnlbeeun bearable He thereforeen the m,demandedyeadsounrteeos. had not o n o l f y fleaysehrianiggoafselgectric lights by night, that ing the day, named to' report due for the injury already required to obviate the annoyance for the future, and - ate the indemnity his s at P a ° n s i expert hai'lldsdi should estimate The landlords counsel 's counst opposed the application, and declared that the exhibition did no injury wh a t ever to M. Marmuse, but must rather benefit him by making his shop better known to the public. After hearing a brief reply from the other side, the President decided that there were no grounds for granting the order 4410140 d, THE DARING CASE OF HOUSEBREAK- ING AT TRANIVERE. The two scoundrels who broke into the house of Mr. Arthur, Sea Bank Villas, Tranmere, on Wed nesday afternoon last, under circumstances already detailed in the Liverpool Mercury, were brought up yesterday at the County Hall, Abbey Street, Birk enhead, the magistrates on the bench being Sir E. Cust, Messrs. J. W. Harden (county court judge) R. Bryans, B. Derbyshire, J. Younghusband, and J. B. Case. Mr. Superintendent Hammond, in briefly stating the case, said that between three and four o'clock on Wednesday afternoon the prisoners were observed loitering about Mr. Arthur's house, and ultimately they were seen to enter by the back door. Information was immediately communicated to Mr. Edward Corris, joiner and builder, who went to Mr. Arthur's front floor and rang the bell. As no person answered, he went round to the back door, which was closed, but he forced it open, Upon entering the premises he discovered the two prisoners, who, without speaking, attacked him with two life pre servers, and beat him in an unmerciful manner—to such an extent that he was confined to his bed, and consequently was not able to attend to give evidence. Notwithstanding the murderous treatment be had received, Mr. Corris followed the prisoners until be became exhausted from loss of blood and the pain he was suffering. Fortunately, the housebreakers were pursued by the police and apprehended—one in the- Chester-road and the other in Queen-street, in Lower Tranmere. In the possession of one of the prisoners was found a gold breast 7 pin, which was identified as being stolen from Mr Arthur's house, and a quantity of jewellery, consisting of brooches, pins, rings, &c., was picked up near where the other prisoner was captured. The marks left on the boxes and drawers in Mr. Arthur's house corresponded with the house breaking implements discovered in the possession of the prisoners.—Mr. Hammond added that another house had been broken into in Higher Tranmere, and there was no doubt that the prisoners were the men who had committed the act. Miss Arthur was then called, and she stated that the house was left in charge of the servant girl, who was absent from the premises only a few minutes. She identified the articles of jewellery produced. The bench ordered the prisoners to be remanded until Monday next. _ _ . The prisoners, who are not known in this neigh bourhood, gave the names of Robert James and. Peter Jenkins. They are each abaut 25 years old, and respectably dressed. The third Clan, who was watching outside whilst the prisoners were in Mr. Arthur's house, has not yet been apprehended. We are glad to state that Mr. Corris, although his injuries are of a very serious character, was mush better yesterday, and hopes are entertained that in a few days he will be able to leave his resi dence to give evidence against his murderous as sailants. When it became known that he had been brutally attacked by housebreakers, a general fee!- ing of sympathy was evinced in the township, towards Mr. Collis, who is an old and respectt3d tradesman of Tranmere. 211 E MIDDLE LEVEL, OR MARSH LAND, DELUGE. LYNN, FairAy. The deluge in Marshland, from the bursting of the banks of the Middle Level Cut, has increased in extent daily, and competent persons say this morn ing that there are 30,000 acres of land inundated. Never was there such a panic felt in Marshland ; the vast fens are one sea, and at high tide there is not less than eight or ten feet of water on the land. It was found on Wednesday needful to abandon the dam which the 50) men had been attempting to construct for nine days, and the engineers doter mined to construct a dam in connexion with St. Mary's Bridge, about a quarter or half a mile up the cut from the ruin of the sluice. The bridge was a wooden structure of some considerable strength, and the floor was used as a platform upon which several pile-driving engines called "monkeys" were fixed; and up to yesterday morning piles were driven into the bed of the river till about three-quarters of the width was dammed. Several independent gentlemen and engineers prophesied that the bridge would in a few hours be washed away, and then it would be next to impossible to construct a dam across the channel. On Thursday th. tide was very high; it overflowed the bridge, lifting' it bodily. The creaking of the strained timbers gave warning, and all the men got off; the scene was frightful, and matters were brought to a crisis by a barge iaden with gravel breaking from her moorings wart dashing against the new piling ; the result was that the bridge was shattered and with a terrific crash went to pieces. Several other bridges are gone dur ing the night, and now there is hardly any obstacle to prevent a steamboat from going several miles up the cut and through the breach to paddle about the fens. The greatest dissatisfaction is felt on the spot with the engineers and the Middle Level Commissioners, who have to all appear ance failed to realise fully the disaster of the district. It is believed by practical men that within a week of the destruction of the sluice the water might have been effectually stopped from running out of the Ouse into the Cut, and this would have saved all the subsequent catas trophes. Rightly or wrongly, the public have ex pressed in no measured terms their opinion t:bat the authorities have not done all that could have hew done to avert the dread consequences which have been realised. They seem to be paralysed, and it really looks as if the-sea were again about to regain her ancient landmarks. They have now decided to do nothing for the present, and nature is having its way, not the slightest effort being made to check its power and progress. It is now feared that to night's tide will flood all Bardolph Fen. Already a portion of land on that side of the Cut is under water. The 25,000 or 30,000 acres of land that are now flooded with salt water were in the occupation of about 200 tenants, a number of whom being small farmers will feel the disaster the greater, One poor fellow had by a life of industry and: perse verance saved enough money to purchase some 60 acrss of land a few months ago, and he had got his first cropping on it, and now it is all under water,. and he is under the impression the he is ruined. So great is the excitement in the neighbourhood that a steamboat has been put on to run every hour to and fro. It is a fortunate circumstance that after to-day the tide will get less, and it is to be hoped that the best engineers in the country will be brought down and requested to devise some means of constructing a dam during the low tides. It is very likely that the water will remain on the land all the summer, from the inadequacy of the district for drainage, not that this is the principal outlet. The engines which remain in the fens for drainage purposes are clogged with the water and cannot work. The expense already incurred in the matter of repairs is said to be not less than £lO,OOO. There is a rumour here that the government has taken some steps with the Middle Level Commia ys With the a pp aren t possibility sioners in the matter. The destruc tion of property is h estimated at of a the millionole So vast is the ruin that the Middle Level drainage w ill have to be all done over agai n . ew of fen mone district being drowned. The Prussian Ministry of Marine has purchased men-of-war in E ng l and—a frigate and two corvettes. LIGHTHOUSES IN THE RED SEA.—" The works for the execution of lighthouses in the Red Sea," says the Moniteur de la Flotte, " are being executed with rapidity. The Zafarana, situated in the Gulf of Suez, has been lighted since the beginning of January, and the Ushruffec, which is placed in the Jubal Strait, and the Dedaley on the rock of that name in the middle of the Red Sea, will be in use before the end of the present year. Those three light houses belong to Egypt, and are maintained at the expense of the Egyptian Government. The Peninsular and Orien tal Steamboat Company has undertaken to deliver by its vessels in passing the oil for lighting, and the necessary provisions for the keepers." A private letter rrow 1-h.r Trubert, a memter of the Cour des Comptes, and his wife, who is the daughter of M. Piscatory and granddaughter of Gen. Foy, were rigorously searched by the police on their passage thr ugh that town on Thursday and Friday last. Madame Trubert would not submit to be searched unless f ,rce were employed, but this was not resetted to. The luggage was closely searched, as if treasonable letters or papers wet e sought alter. Nothing, however, was found, and M. and Madame Trubert, who were going to London to the Exhibition, were, after some delay, allowed to con tinue their journey. I