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TELEGRAM TO QUEENSTOWN, IRELAND .-11 a.m. To Session.- Justices—(on ligne tiree', 1831). —By Ex tradition Act, " Stop ship City of Baltimore, & Captain, for Death-cause to the brothers Leech on May 7's Liverpool departure—without Coroner's copy log-inquest—if true, by steam-tug report.—Signed by Chief ' f Functional' Justices a the above (1842-3) Act. PETER BRANT BASQUET. May 8, 1862." CHARLES ACRERLET, J. P. t By 25 Hen. Hr. the Purser discargo-ree or steward is deputy-juror for Neighbours to the fact,' under Shipping Act NW, to avoid 10th Jan. t-Arbiter sequestration. —(No. 3). 'IIOURTON- ON- THE -WATER RAILWAY, Branch of Midland & Great Western.—Title doubts. WESTMINSTER COUNTT COURT. Lieut. CHARLES ACKERLEY, R.N., v. COLE, Solicitor, 36, Essex-street. (Before Judge F. Bayley).—On the rehearing-clause and sec. 81, touching 15s. costs against plaintiff on 23d April last, in loss of 6d. Stamp Act mem. and Folie-tax.' This tortuous suit for payment of loss of time, and con spiracy fraud (by def endants ' own letters to sign railroad con veyance, on Plaintiff's Wiltonte-- , Grey position in trade right of patenteeship 1840), with duplex use of name in a petition to the Master of the Rolls Court on 27th Feb., having the word Brydges De Lacy ' disbarr'd—to obtain a railway judgment, six days' before the expiration of 21st March—vide Gloucester journals of Ist, Bth, and 15th—as of unlawful annex foist of Justinian Institute Code, lib. in, tit. 26, 1S 8 (for their Guiaot and Brougham Soc :, Act 6 Amendment of the Law for the Benchers De Societate in Aurea-bulla, pax religiosa,' lib. I, tit. I, l 4), with Mercer Co'a L'expositionrs Civil bill decrees in N. Ireland. The Judge held tha t the Plaintiff's time lost was not tenable, tho' in his name Act, there being no contract. Plaintiff (with respect), maintained tly:t as re-hearing was admitted, so followed § 81,—reduction of costs with Rolls Registrar Disraeli subpoena fees, under judgment by default, on Defendant's non-appearance. This legal Procedure being granted, which by late act placed the Defendants in a cleft -stick, the Court were some what surprised by the hasty uprising of an Attorney for Mr. Cole, as of—Talbot v. Radnor and the Clapham Atkyns Chamberlayne trustees, by 1-2, Will. iv.,* rte. 54, ander which the Capt. (Ackerley) is heir 'in Chelten ham-let pivot remainder' for its Gt. Western Branch deed on _Baptist Hicks—life-title exchange—of Campden, &c. (as given in The Sun of 28th April). The Plaintiff reminded his Worship that as this case, although embraced contempt of the Rolls Court' and infringement of the Stamp Act—[the revenue on which must be increased to £BO,OOO a-year]—whereon he officially as the Meter-act-magistrate qualified at Worcester 1837, 41emanded the silencing of the intrusive Attorney of Cole, uv less he could produce his Sixpenny stamped mem q. ran:Jure of agency, since Advocates' College word disbarr' appliod to him, by State loss on this § Anglo-Indian habeas corpus juris question, under 14 Geo. Ind c. 83, This the J u dge admitted, on Defeant's contempt of Court, as of Stow St. Edward's, 14 J. I. His Y onour ordered the reduction of fees, and subpcena money of Plaintiff's witnesses to be returned, with permis sion of case-removal to Stow-tower County Court. • Note.—This Act of 1832 is the only one in which two brothers are named (to sue and be sued in all courts eccle siastical, military, and marine, under one name—Joseph Chamberlayne ONLY)—one in the Royal artillery, and the other [plaintiff, Charles, h i s' 'enry by law struck out i n R oyal xavy, pledged as the tI Montague Nulla 0' of 18 over the ' Catholic' Emancipation Act of 1829—for Sect burden to the 15th clause " a lay body corporate" (or as the French say, ' . faisant partee de leur police corporation seen nere')..a.n Primeval-tenet of Christianity—so Civil-service opposition of the War-office and Admiralty, &c., by refus ing to strike out of the Army and Navy lists the double and treble Christian names of fashionable and heraldic import. Now on final judgment, whence the parish-rate Guardiens (prior to 1603) successors in office, will, with back to the East enrobe their Siderial days-man as Sunday reader — seen by 58 canon of moral discipline—of late perverted by a gown warden-take for self-clerk assumption (on ministers money now ceased) of the rate- paid white Surplice. t By clauses 1 and 3 of the Bourton Act Co.s (on its hamlet unregistered Clerk of Peace Inclosure' award), they wish to forestall the four-miles circumference of the Stow Market tolls, by judicial extra -name quibble of its King's Foot Magistrate, by committee of foreigners in violation of the " A(lsm and Eve consorted" of 1822, for Criminal basis on 16 Car. 11,'s Tent fire-hearth, yr-tax 2s for Common law 6 Sc 6 Native Crt., of the one Arbiter, by sec. 29 of its rider, 8 Vic., c. 18—he being the Prince Consort' with the Indian lady II for title to American soil Rots.-law Gyre-on,' as cause for 1842's Man in God,&elaction of Peter B (nephew of Jos. trmt, of 1775 Stamp-act) as now colonial Stamp Income tax Chief, unpaid 20 years-11 yrs supported by plaintiff on stamp oath—for all the native coloured races—'ligne-tiree'd from the imbedded Spirit-'-level in Nob-equerry Constable- Staff Libre book of nature, without sect question. Une base' (qui fit Charmer la Race-noire si granda 53 Soto la lof civique ¢), peso avec Fierte I B veit que jamais PENGLAND' ne rearchande ) Quand it Coat par la mer leer dormer Liberte +l. • . * N. ] CHARLES 1 ,74 ACHERLRY, a • • 1-2 Will. Iv., NO. 54, Chamberlayne' sworn. ; 1 . • PETRI:. BASQUET, Income Tax Chief, 1842, unpaid.i .-+ . • China nu'ff wall circuit horizon of-'London, Maylo 1862, its Montezuma. 3: The Paris-gab 'Wight ship' Belgic-voc - nt Kalfatern lang Omega—" Het fchip snit wel, het i = rase in saylen, item, het is een klock-ship in fallen." Ilk or-ij x 1 (The Sun of 19 and 28th.) THEATRE-R 0 YAL. HAYMARKET. Lessee Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, JOHN JONES. Aber which, at half-past 7, will be performed (119th time) OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothcrn. Followed by the Spanish Ballet entitled THE STAR OF ANDALUSIA. Senora Perea Nene., Senor Ricardo, and the Corps de Ballet. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence ar. 7. OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. AA; Sole Lessee and .110 , nager —Mr. Edmund Falconer. A iii r - r. "0 f%A ' f ‘aKOSPI a Z eel is h. Messrs. Waiter Lacy, Addi son , Ch ar l es Selby, Geo. Melville, and Edmund Falconer Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss CI W. _ ara interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitty and Miss Lydia Thomson. To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T ILELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. p ric:es as usual. Doors open at half-past 8, to commence at Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, CASH V. CUPID. Mr. Widdicomb and Misa Maria Harris. Atter which, at a quarter to 8, HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Vechter. Np.W THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-- , Solo Prorrlator anti Manacrer, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVKI\TING, A PRIVATE INQUIRY : Messr j. L. Toole, Billinkr,ton : Miss K. Kelly and Miss K. Bland. To be followed by the new domestic drama, entitled DOT : qsrs. L. Toole, Emery. Killington, Stephenson ; Miss L. K e eley, Miss Woolgar, Miss 13. Simms, Miss K. Kelly, and 3lrs If. Marston. To cone' ude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAISE : Messrs. i• - Toole, Billing - ton, Emery ; Misses K. Kelly, Laidlaw, K. BUnd, and Mrs. H. Marston. Commence at 7. C I.NTERBLAT , HALL AND FINE A GALLERY. The nairaculoub. STECKEL at a quarter to 11. The renowned RU3ISE I T and NEWCOMB MINSTRELS at Nine o'clock. 'irand Selections from " La Sonnambula," by Miss Rus sell, with Band and full Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jon,gh mans. UNSWO ft Eli, in his celebrated Stump Speech " Or any other man," and EuGENE, the great Burlesque Singer and Dancer, at Ten o'clock. The best Comic talent in London. Messrs, Morton and Stanley beg to inform visitors to Lon don 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. run HE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET._ MA Y DAY," a cantata written by John Oxenford " e Oxenford, Be gg ars, ~a lso a music by G. A._Macfarreu ; Burns' Jolly - p cantata, with Geor ge . Linley's music, and d Operatic Selections by the entire company. _Full Band and Chorus.' company —Conductor, Mr. F. JO= Rumsey Etnd Newcomb's Ylng Trapeze Minstrels, and Unsworth and Eugne, in addition to a host of comic talent ; an d HEN RI and P/ AU on the Fl every evening. Private Boxes, 10 e . ad . Bail, Bd.; Balcony and S talls, Is. ; HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tni DAY.—Morning, 10h. 37m. Afternoon, 11h. Bm. To.monnow.-Morning, 1111. 39m.—Afternoon, h. in. NOTICE. Ail remittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun n ewspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. % • r Fwt, / • ••• j, THE SUN• LONDON, SATURDAT, MAY 10, 1862. The honourable member for Bucks summoned the method of SOCRATES to his aid ; with how close an imitation of the didactic method of the famous philosopher, we must leave the readers of PLATO and DISRAELI to determine. Wo only ask, on our part, not to be criticised more severely than the honourable member, if we ♦enture to imagine a dia logue to have taken place between the shade of the philosopher and the flesh and blood member, after his speech on Thursday night. Let us suppose, then, the philosopher accosting the modern states man, and somewhat to this effect : SOCRATES. Great son of ABRAHAM, I greet thee! I listened to thy eloquence last night—it was very unlike that of any of my old acquaintances ; yet it reminded me strongly of some of them in regard to its object. DISRAELI. You somewhat flatter me. How so ? Soc. Why, what did you mean by a policy ? Dis. You can hardly have attended. Did I not sufficiently illustrate my meaning Soc. Pardon my slowness, but kindly tell me. Dis. Well here is one—the policy of that deep plotter and arch-banterer, our Prime Minister, who sat on the other side of the House—the policy of arming heavily, not for defence, not to obtain any material aggrandisement, but that " England may have weight in the counsels of Europe"—the shrewd old gentleman calls that " moral power•" Soc. Ah, I understand, It is so like what we at Athens and Sparta used to do. You must not expect me to find much fault with that. It belonged to the very nature of an old Athenian. You know all about our plots and plans, and bloody battles too, for what we called " Hegemony." But pray, Mr. DISRAELI, as you insisted so much on a policy, give me another illustration by telling me what may be yours ? _ Dis. Oh, you can hardly doubt what that is ! Assuredly the one best for my native land. Soc. England, you mean, I presume. You are not thinking of Hebron. But you answer me with all the adroitness of your branch of the great Caucasian race. But what policy now may you deem the best ? Drs. Ah, my dear Socrates, no one knows better than you what a wide question that is—" the best" —shall we measure it by honour, wealth, or what you yourself used so often talk of—" power to bene fit our friends and to punish our enemies." Soc. You must find some other " best policy" than the last, for that would be pretty much like " arming to have weight in the councils of Europe," What shall I say then is England's " best policy ?" Dis. You are rather hard on me. I confess to a great sympathy with MEPHISTOPHELES—do you know him ?—(Socrates nods assent)—that ever denying, scoffing fellow. I do like negatives, so I will say then—not Lord PALMERSTON'S policy, not in Italy, not in France, not in Austria, not in America, not—but, not indeed, anywhere or in anything. Soc. "By the dog," well said ; boldly said at least. But, come now, will Mr. COBDEN'S and Mr. BRIGHT'S do ? Dis. Not at all. I could say, and did say, more for them than for PALMERSTON and his colleagues, who are wrong in everything—but I can't quite away with giving up the right of blockade, and cutting off our colonial expenditure, and weakening our present armaments. Soc. I thought you complained of your " bloated armaments." Dis. That was when I wanted to sting PALMER STON, and conciliate the Manchester School. When I wanted to please my supporters behind me, you observe I insisted on their necessity. In fact, SOCRATES, it was we Tories, who started with tremendous goodwill the last arming fit. I can't tell you how many millions our PAKINGTON got out of the country at the hazard of irritating France almost to an attack on us. Soc. Candid fellow ! then your policy, too, is an arming policy. Dis. Yes, when it is " best for England." Soc. No, don't come back to that again. But I think you also said it was " best for England" to keep the POPE, Prince of Rome. Dls. - Why, that depends on circumstances. Between ourselves there is neither better nor worse in the matter. Soc. I don't understand. Is not a free and united Italy best for England, as a commercial and as a free country. We, at Athens, used to try and spread democracy just as the Spartans did oligarchy. Drs. Well, you know we have more of the Spar tan in our notions on..our side_ of the House, A.t.the of the Dukes and Kings that have had to cut and run from Italy since 1859. Though most of them were like your old Greek tyrants—like some of the worst of them too. Soc. Still it puzzles me how anyone born in free England can feel for these fellows. We had an oligarchical faction even at democratical Athens, but no one would have said a word for tyrants. Drs. Perhaps not. But you see the POPE is one of them. Soc. And what of that ? Dis. Didn't you hear the Irish cheers, when I proved that he could not be turned out of Rome, and reside in any other country without becoming dependent on that country ; and then all the other Catholic countries would be aggrieved, and there would be quite an upstir. Soc. Bat I thought he was now as dependant on the French EMPEROR as if he lived at Avignon, and the other Catholic powers take it quietly ? Dis. Yes, yes, but it was not for me to talk of that—and I knew that Irishmen would not think of it. Soc. Oh, Irishmen!—Well then I think I do be gin to see what you think " best for England," and what your policy is. Dis. And what is that ? Soc. Is it not the best thing for England, that Mr. BENJAMIN DISRAELI should be at the head of the English Government ? Dis. Do not press me on that point, SOCRATES, you know my modesty. But what can make you think so ? Soc. Did you not say all you could without offending your followers, to catch Manchester votes ? Die. Of course. Soc. Have you not just pointed to the POPE'S illogical friends in Ireland ? Da. You are right, SOCRATES. Soc. - What policy does that policy indicate—is it not the p o li cy of getting all the votes you can ? DI s .—E xactly so. Soc.—Of getting them for whom, or for what ? Dls.—l must say again for the " best interests of England," and for the men to be in office who will promote those interests. Soc..—But as the deeds you would do would be so similar to these done now —a, you could not alter anything without losing some hupporters—are not the " best interests of England" identified with per sons, rather than things. Is not change of men " the best policy for England ?" Dls,—O SOCRATES, that is true. Soc.—And the man is the policy, and the policy the man. Dis.—Who can doubt it ? Soc.—And one word will represent the best Policy for England—and therefore your patriotic policy —and that word is—DISRAELI! Dis.—Alas that England knows it not ! Whatever else may come of this Japanese Em bassy to the Courts of Europe, it cannot but lead to the beneficent disclosure to Japan of the marvels of western civilisation. They are evidently no mere cut and dried diplomatists who have come over at last, after the lapse of so many centuries, on this quest e of, v , e thery extraordinary visit of investigation. The very way in which their inquiries are directed, h n v a or tu y a cha o r f oo t t h e e r of a° establishments the organiia -1 o calities they go in tion of which they examine jute the most minutzty. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, _EVENING, MAY 10, 1862. present instruction and that present entertainment mutually afforded to each other by tha English peo ple and the Japanese Ambassadors, there opens up to view in the perspective of the illimitable Future, the probability, or rather, we are almost tempted to say, now the almost inevitable certainty of new fields being thereby secured to the Commerce of Great Britain, and of a new and wonderful impetus being afforded to the already high but narrow Civi lisation of Japan. if it evidences any one thing more than another, beyond any doubt of it, betokens that they are, one and all of them, men of highly.cultivated minds and of very considerable enlightenment. As good fortune would have it, the very year of their advent amongst us is the year also of the Great International Exhibition. Their arrival is so timed, that, almost upon the morrow of their ap pearance in London, they were enabled to take part as spectators—conspicuous by the verYsimplicity of their rich silken raiment, among the golden and jewelled splendour of the corps diplomatique—in the varied and sumptuous pageantries of the cere monials of the Inauguration Day down at South Kensington. Yet but a very few days after their participation in those Imperial pomps, the three Ambassadors from Japan, with a chosen few, selected from their numerous suite of attendants, are visiting, upon successive days set apart for that purpose—now one of our great dockyards and ar senals—now the sick-wards and the operating room, and the dispensary at one of our great London hospitals. Going to each and all of these places, not, observe, as mere holiday sight seers, but—note-book in hand. Nay even with a skilled Japanese artist in their train—one whose ever-ready pencil is perpetually jotting down upon his tablets, pictorial mementoes of these (to them) outlandish scenes and people, here in England, there in France, storing up treasures of particularly Oriental art, destined in the course of time very considerably"to astonish the natives" far away in Japan with the most eccentric notions of our European scenery and our European doings. The Japanese artist, of course, like all his fellows in that craft, having not the slightest ❑otion in the world of such elementary qualifications for an illustrator as those acquired by a familiarity with chiaroscuro, with fore shortening, and with the simplest and most obvious principles of perspective. However scribbled over with blurred and jumbled memoranda, as what they saw and heard while upon their European pilgrim age in search of information—however grotesque and exaggerated, even into caricature, their "pencil lings by the way," while wandering from country to country, and from city to city, among these western nations of Christendom, we may be abso lutely certain of this, that the Japanese Ambassa dors when they return homewards will carry back with them such a mass of new ideas and of hitherto undreamt of knowledge, that the barrier of exclu siveness that has hitherto shut out Japan and the Japanese from the rest of the habitable globe, from the rest of the human race, can never be raised anew. Of that, at least, we may rest assured. If no further advantage result immediately from this remarkable expedition, that most desirable advantage of all must result from it. An impulse will be given, inevitably, through it to Japanese civilisation, such as the Japanese philosophers have never conceived to be possi ble in their wildest imaginings. Already, it is amusing to note, what it is, here and there, that has caused the greatest surprise to these high and mighty patrician travellers from Japan. What new ideas, " wrinkles" as your fast man calls them, have they not already picked up of late, now in Paris, now in London ! Notions of startling novelty to them, in regard to subjects, of the most widely contrasting and incongruous cha racter. Cookery ! Street Architecture ! Railway travelling ! Armouries ! Legislation ! Horticulture ! And so on interminably. People who can habitu ally swallow their dinners with the aid, alternately, of chopsticks and fingers, washing down their food with eopious draughts of warm water—(to us the homeliest and most effectual of emetics !)—have surely something to learn from our menage, as seen in the dining-room, and from the glimpses of the cuisine that are caught there so delightfully. From the white soup and the damask napkins, to the vinous enjoyment of the fruit and flowers that deco inifulkatt Cannot, but be a very world of ;Onders to the unsophisticated palates of these Oriental Islanders. It was but a day or two ago that they were carefully conducted all over those astonishing works of a warlike character, where the giant guns of Sir WILLIAM ARMSTRONG are being manufac tured with the apparant facility and the exquisite precision of so many toys. Among the other pro cesses there shown and explained to the Japanese, there was that one, for example, in which the stu pendous masses of solid metal are seen at the moment when they are being cut and pealed off in iron shavings as though so much cheese-parings. Another while—it was but an evening or two since—the Japanese were observed in that front gallery immediately over the clock of the House of Commons, immediately opposite the chair of Mr. Speaker—a gallery in which so many strange faces, black and tawny, red, white, brown, and yellow, are perpetually appearing and disappear ing ! There, while Mr. WALPOLE was exulting in the fact of his damaging modifications of the Revised Code, having been forced upon the un willing acceptance of the Government—their Ja panese Excellencies scanned for a while the out ward aspect, at least, of the great representative branch of our Imperial Parliament. They noted the general look of it, and the manners and customs of the place—even if, as was really the case, they could not understand a single syllable—that gal lery of the House of Commons not being previously the most suitable whispering gallery for a skilled interpreter between English and Japanese like Right of search conceded by Americans—mutual of course—England never asked it on any other terms—but on these terms the Americans have, hitherto, always refused it. We have assuredly to thank Secession for this. We question whether Mr. LINCOLN himself dare have signed such a treaty, but for the present relations between the North and the South. We may be perfectly certain that the Senate would not have ratified it unanimously, had the representatives of all the slave states been in it. The " breeding states," like Virginia, are of course opposed to a trade which tends to depreciate the value of their principal article of commerce, but the planting states naturally took quite the other view. They wanted cheap slaves. Above all the idle " mean whites," who constitute the majority of the Southern " aristocracy of skin," and whose votes returned Senators and Representatives to Congress, were eager to reopen the slave trade ; it was their avowed object that " niggers might be so cheap, that every white man might be able to wallop his own nigger." The new Southern constitution in deed embodied the prohibition of the slave trade ; but it was carefully and cleverly done in the Jorm which should compel the Border States to join the Confederacy. The Border States, Virginia, Ken tucky, Tennessee, and Missouri, were then thought by the original seven seceding states, to be their main bulwark—both DAVIS and LINCOLN then bid for them. LINCOLN has conquered three out of the four—but Virginia still remains to the South — and the prohibition of the African slave trade in favour of the home-bred negroes was a part of the original purchase money. But even with the Southern senators self-excluded from the Congress, the vote accepting the LYON SEWARD Slave-Trade Treaty, as the Americans term it, is very remarkable. It shows a prodigious change indeed in American feeling. For two rea sons such a treaty would have ruined the political prospects of its authors but a few years ago. One, that to grant to Great Britain the right of search, even in the most suspicious cases, would not have been endured. It had become, in American minds, identified with our old demand to take our sailors out of any American ship into which they bad escaped, or hired themselves, vi et armis. This was, of course, folly on their part, but it had be come a grand national watchword. And long after that dispute had passed away, we have endeavoured in vain to obtain the right in regard to vessels hoisting the American colours to cover the accused slave-trade. Another reason which would have made the acceptance of such a treaty by the Senate difficult, was that the moneyed man of the North were on the side of the slave-traders. New York chiefly was answerable for the ships and capital with which the trade was carried on. Religious and polite Boston, the city of WILLIAM ELLERY CANNING himself, took, it is said, its share also. The feeling of the moneyed classes of the North was shown in their strenuous efforts to save the wretched slaver captain, whom LINCOLN exe cuted unrelentingly a few weeks back. Great therefore must be the change which has sent us the information that a Senate, composed so largely of Northern men, unanimously passed a treaty on the slave trade, which Mr. LAYARD could declare, in our House of Commons, to be entirely satis factory. We await with some interest the publi cation of the treaty itself, which will take place On tho whole, it will not be denied that the North is improving its position with the haters of slavery, which is as much as to say, with all Englishmen. We have amongst us those who dislike, as well as those who approve, her demo cracy; we have those who could condescend to be irritated, as much as others are amused, by American swagger, bullying, and fire eating, in the be haviour of the great Republic towards other countries, and especially towards the old monar chies in Europe; but all Englishmen were of one mind respecting American slavery. We not only abhorred the institution itself, not only could have no fellowship with slaveholders, but we loathed the selfishness and hypocrisy of the Free States of the North, in their countenance given in any way to slavery—in their mean submis sion to slaveholding rulers—and in their signalising their love to slavery by keeping the district of Columbia a slave state, and treating the free blacks in the North with even more con tumely than the slaveholders did their negroes in the South. The change in the North is, we are aware, one of policy rather than of feeling. The truth is, the North is becoming every day mare and more con vinced that while the South has slaves to fight for, fight it will ; and that it is hopeless now to think of reuniting to the North a large body of slave States. This was Mr. LINCOLN'S and Mr. SEWARD'S policy as long as it seemed practicable. At length they became convinced that consistent freedom could be the only permanent bond between federal republics—then LINCOLN gave the word to offer to emancipate the Border States with compensation. The emancipation of the district of Columbia fol lowed. Now we have made the Slave-trade Treaty; and there are, at this time, a host of bills before Congress, proposing more or less energetic action on the subject of slavery. The South is at least conquering the North on one point—it is driving it to Abolitionism. When this result is fully at tained, then, indeed, we should not be surprised if impatient Europe broke the blockade—broke it in the interest at once of commerce and of the aboli tion for over of negro slavery. Mr. MACDONALD. A day or two after this visit of theirs to the Commons House of Parliament, the three Ambas sadors from Japan are tracked by the reporter to a scene of inquiry as different in its way from any they had yet visited while amongst us—King's College Hospital. The circumstance of their hav ing remained there within the walls of that excel lent institution assiduously pursuing their inquiries the whole time, for a period of upwards of two hours, indicates beyond an instant's further doubt, that the personages who have come to us from Ja pan as the chiefs of this memorable embassy are indeed, as we have already observed, men of unques tionable enlightenment. It is among the mutual surprises excited unexpectedly at every turn upon exceptional visits like these, paid to the institutions of a strange land by the representatives of a people very remotely situated geographically, and in consequence, unmistakeably foreigners it is, we say, among the mutual surprises ex cited at every turn upon these occasions, that precisely those very things that we should expect would surprise those visitors the most, really appear to surprise them the least And—vice versa, just so has it very recently fallen out in both ways with regard to the Japanese Ambassadors. At the in auguration of the Great Exhibition on May-Day their Excellencies comported themselves as though the astounding display there unfolded to view were of no ordinary description. Yet little more than a w eek elapses, and they are exclaiming with wonder in the Dispensary at Ri ng ' s C ollege, amaze d be yonddescription at the sight of that little grooved machine in which pills are ro l led and divide d ; a contrivance so long familia r t o every apothecary i n the United Kingdom ! We c annot b ut feel that i t i s as singularly enter tainingsuggestively te instructiveth e eo mn as g s w a e n l l d goings amongst us of these men from the far East before they take A their departure from our shores. And beyond that • • _„ What of the great war P—our readers are, per haps, impatiently asking. We are sorry to say that all tho last arrivals indicate no progress worth recording. The South being on its defence only has no progress to make. To hold its own is its progress. The North has not, since our last notice _of its position, taken a single Southern fort or work, or even made a move in advance. The army of the Potomac, now in one large division before York town, and two smaller ones under BANKS near Gordonsville, and M`DOWELL at Fredericsburg, still occupy their old positions. Some Federal gunboats have ventured, notwithstanding their fear of the Merrimac, to aid M'CLELLAN, but their shells did no harm to the Confederates. In the West also near and on the Mississippi, all remains yet with out movement. BEAUREGARD is still strengthening himself at Corinth ; HALLECK and the Northern generals combining and strengthening themselves for a final effort to drive him away, and the clever General MITCHELL " the astronomer," whose book is well known here, holds the hundred miles of railway by by which he cuts off the Eastern from the Western Confederates. It is not unlikely, however, that any day the news of an important battl6 may arrive,' VISIT OF PRINCE ORCAR OF SWEDEN't TO BIRMINGHAM. 'LATEST NEWS. BIRMINGHAM, FRIDAY EVENING. His Royal Highness Prince Oscar of Sweden arrived here from Oxford last night, a little after seven o'clock, having come down by the ordinary train. He was accom panied by Captain Cronstadt, of the Swedish Navy, and Colonel Kingscote, and was met at the railway station by Mr. H. Manton, the Mayor, and Mr. G. R. Collis, the Swedish and Norwegian Consul. His Highness went to the Queen's Hotel, in the Consul's carriage, apartments having been secured for him there, and in the evening the Prince visited the Town-hall, where a bazaar is just being held on behalf of the Queen's Hospital; later in the even ing he paid a visit to the Grammar School of King Edward 171., where he found a large company on the occasion of an amateur concert by the pupils. This morning his Royal Highness went to some of the principal manufactories. Among them were Messrs. R. W. Winfield and Son, brass-foudery ; Mr. Gillott's steel-pen works; the Birmingham Plate-glass Company's Works at Smethwick, where his Royal Highness witnessed the pro cess of manufacturing some immense sheets of plate-glass ; also Messrs. Lloyd and Summufield's glass works, where some new processes of melting glass were explained to him. A visit was also paid to Messrs. M'Callum and Hodgson's papier-mache works, and to Mr. Collis's works, where the process of electro-plating was shown. There, a comme morative medal was struck. On the obverse was the por trait of the Queen; the reverse bore the following inscrip- tion :—" Struck in commemoration of the visit of his Royal Highness Prince Oscar of Sweden to Birmingham, May 9, 1562." From Mr. Collis's, his Royal Highness returned to the Queen's Hotel to luncheon, and shortly afterwards left by the London and North. Western line for Crewe, where the Prince will inspect the company's works, under the gui dance of Mr. Ramsbettom ; he will afterwards go on to Bangor to see the bridges in that locality—those great works in which the skill and genius of Telford and Stephenson are fully displayed. Before departing from this town his Royal Highness, through Mr. Collis, presented Mr. Scott, of the Queen's Hotel, with a donation of £lO in aid of the funds of the Queen's Hospital. BRUSSELS, MAY 10. The Moniteur Belge of this morning says : His Excellency the Swedish and Norwegian Minister had the honour of entertaining at dinner, on Thursday,at the residence of the legation, in Stratton-street, his Royal Highness Prince Oscar, his Excellency the Danish Minister, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Russell, Lord Clarence Paget, Sir Edward Cust, Sir Hamilton Seymour, Admiral Washington, Captain Falbe, Colonel Kingscote, Could Cronstedt, Lieut. Robin, Mr. Charles Bile, and Mr. Dasent. The Marquis of Bowmont has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from Floors Castle, Kelso, N.B. " According to a bulletin sent from the Palace of Laeken yesterday evening, the pulmonary affec tion from which the King is suffering has taken a favourable turn, and the general state of his Ma jesty is more satisfactory," The Countess of Kinnoull's dancing parties are fixed to take place on the 2d and 9th of the next month. Viscountess Palmerston will give her second assembly this evening at Cambridge House. The Hon. Charles Murray, British Minister at Dresden, has arrived at Claridge's Hotel. Lady Caroline Kerrison has issued cards for an assembly on the 20th instant at her residence in Piccadilly. Sir James and Lady Ann Mackenzie have arrived at Claridge's Hotel for the season. Mr. and Madame Sabatier have left the Claren don Hotel for Paris. Mr. and Lady Louisa Cotes have arrived at their house in Grosvenor-street for the season. DEATH OF MRS. TURPIN.—We have to announce the death of Mrs. Sophia Anne Turpin, at the advanced age of 88. The deceased was the mother of Mrs. Henry John Wallack.—Era ST. PETERSBURG, MAY 9. The Journal de St. Petersbourg of to-day pub- lishes an imperial ukase ordering the State Bank to exchange notes for gold and silver on and after the 13th inst. The price of specie in exchange of bank notes is to be gradually reduced until it reaches the nomi nal value. For the present gold half-imperials are to be exchanged for 570 copecks, and the silver rouble for 110 copecks paper currency. It is stated in the New ark Tribune that Com modore Vanderbilt has made Mr. Lincoln a present of his steamer Vanderbilt, now lying at Hampton Roads, and has offered to sell his next best steamer to the Government, iron-clad, at a price to be fixed by its own appraisers. The annual regatta of Cannes took place on Sun day. The first prize of the first category was won by the Jeannette of Cannes, and the second by the Iris of Mar seilles. All the other prices were gained by Marseilles boats. Wolves are at present numerous in the forest of Orleans. A dog and a goat belonging to a keeper were a few nights back devoured by them ; a horse belonging to a farmer at Chateauneuf-sur-Loire has also fallen a victim to their ferocity, and that in a pasturage between the park wall and the river. It is probable that this latter was attacked by a whole band, as on the following morning nothing but the bones and part of the skin were found. RETURN OF THE ALL .ENGLAND ELEVEN.—Capt. Stephenson and his ten companions, who have been win ning fresh laurels in Australia, arrived at Alexandria with the overland passengers on Sunday last, the 4th inst., and left the following day for Marseilles, which port they were expected to reach on the 12th. They will in all probability get to London by the 14th, in time to receive a hearty "...I come home from the gentlemen of the Stirmy Club, who dine at the Bridge House Hotel on the 15th inst. ROYAL FREEMASONS GIRLS' SCHOOL.—The an niversary of the above institution it . aanouaed u, to gi t t r t ig master of the fraternity, has kindly consented to preside on this occasion, thus showing his anxiety for the success of this admirable institution. It will be the duty of all pro vincial grand masters, past and present grand officers, and all masonic brethren, to assist the noble earl, and show by their presence and contributions the zeal they feel in the success of this charity. From the warm interest the newly appointed secretary, Arr. Patten, has always taken in this charity, and his indefatigable exertions, it is to be hoped a very large subscription will be realised. INTERESTING DISCOVERY AT CHESTER.—On Tuesday, a Roman altar, in an excellent state of preserva tion, was found by some labourers who were digging near the city walls and behind the Corn Exchange. The altar is of the old red sandstane, and measures 28 inches in height. There are four rows of letters, in such a state that the whole inscription will be easily translated. A quantity of Saxon silver coins were recently discovered at Chester, which are now being sketched for the journal of the Numis matic Society. Among them are some of the reign of Edward the Elder, A,D. 901 and 925, which are gems of their kind. In the month of August the price of gold is to be 560 copecks, and that of silver 108 copecks. Further reductions in the price of bullion are to be announced by an imperial decree. FRANCE. PARIS, MAY 9. PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY.—The ship Blackwall, 838 tons register, Captain William Harrison, belonging to Messrs. R. and H. Green, of London, which left Adelaide on the 7th of January, has passed up Channel. She touched at St. Helena March 15, and spoke, March 8, lat 2 7 N., long 21 40 W., the Bride, from Sunderland for China ; April 1, lat 4 0 N., long 21 11 W., the Mussouri, from Cardiff for Aden ; and April 3, lat 5 0 N., long 20 15 W., the Syren, from Liverpool for Rio Janeiro. The Blackwall has experienced nothing but light winds and calms. She brings passengers in the cabin—Mr. F, Singleton and son, Mrs. Waugh and child, Mr. and Mrs. Mellor, Mr. Williams, Mr. Bury, Mr. M'Culloch, Mr. Oldham, Masters Dutton, and Buchanan, Misses Jennings, Mrs. Fothett and child, and 34 in the second cabin and steerage. Her cargo con sists of 2,058 bales, 3,975 pieces of copper, 22 hhds. of regulus, 48 bags of silver lead ore, 6,183 trenails, 2 bales of skins, 18 bales of leather, 49 bags of gum, 9 cases and one quarter-cask of wine, and 6 packages of sundries. The Presse of this evening says—lt is reported that the Marquis de Lavalette will postpone his departure for Rome until the 18th inst. The Patric of this evening states that the French fleet will prolong its stay at Naples during the pre sence of Prince Napoleon in that city. The decision of the Senate on the petition sent in by the Archbishop of Rennes is remarked on by several of the Paris journals; their appreciations, of course, being a reflection of their political opi nions. The Constitutionnel expresses itself in these :erms "M. Billault examined the question from an elevated point of view, as a statesman should do ; he firmly maintained the right of nomination conferred by law on the first functionary of the department. He showed the necessity of main taining prerogatives which have no other motive than that of order and peace in society ; M. Billault pointed out the evil precisely when he de. dared that the decree of 1852, which then served the Government as a means of arresting disastrous en croachments, now enables it to oppose exorbitant pretensions. The liberty of instruction is not in question ; for in the commune of Sel itself there exists a free school of religious brothers for boys, and another held by women for girls ; that which is demanded is consequently not liberty, for it already exists ; it is simply the municipal subven tion. Those who fan the flame,' said the Minister, ' ill understand the saered interests which they believe they are serving.' The effect of the speech in the Senate was immense, as it will be through out the country." BOURSE, May 9.—Business continues limited, but the market retains its firmness, and prices remain at the closing quotations of yesterday. For the Account, Threes, which opened at 70f 80c., receded for a short time to 70f. 75c., are now again at 70f. 80c. Railway Share Market also firm. The mar ket closed as follows : 41 per per Cents 9B Do.. end month 98 25 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 80 New 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 80 Credit Mobilie- B3B 75 Do. end month 843 75 BOVINE FREAK.—An ox, on its way down the Back-lane of Penzance, on Thursday last, towards the slaughter-house—dazed by the change to town from coun try life, or more in love with four and yeast than block or skewer—turned suddenly aside into the yard of Mr. B. Beckerleg, bread and flour dealer, and mounted the roof of his bakehouse, the eave of which reaches within a foot of the ground. After a plunge on the slates two of the slight beams gave way and his oxship fell through, with his fore feet on a dough-trough and his hind legs on the ground. Unabashed by this intrusion, he walked through an open door into an office, but could make nothing of the desks and books, so turned, walked through the room into tile bak e . house (now lit by a huge hole in the roof), perambulated this apartment, and made his exit into the lane by a 'manor yard and doorway. He seemed nothing the worse for this visit, although no doubt there was an extra bit of bruised meat in Saturday's market.—Cor nisi). Telegraph. Bank Shares 3145 Credit koneier 1555 Belgian 4i — Piedmontesc Fives 72 20 Italian Loan 72 Austrian Spanish Threes 62 75 Home Debt revs. DEATH DT A FALL FROM THE LAND'S END.— PENZANCE, Friday, May 9.—On Tuesday last a young man named James Cock, abed 28, and either a tailor or a shoemaker of Plymouth, arrived at Sennen on a visit to his father, who is the head lightkeeper of the Longships Light house, and was formerly of the Eddystone. Father and son had not met for 12 years, and it was arranged that the son should proceed to the Longships and see his father to-day. Yesterday afternoon young Cock left the lightkeepers' houses, accompanied by his two sisters, to see the Land's End and adjacent cliffs. One account that reached us last evening said the party struck across the crofts and ap proached the verge of the cliffs to the right of the famous promontory; another account this morning says the brother and sisters inspected the extreme western headland of England and returnee along the northern side of the pre cipices to look at the natural tunnel which runs directly through the Land's End. One thing is certain—the unfortunate young man ventured on the very edge of the rocks, which aro in some places grass-grown and treacherous ; his sisters, a little distance behind him, saw his feet slip, his hands thrown upwards, a desperate clutch at a projection a few feet downwards, and (while an agonising :exclamation, in which one of their names was mentioned, reached their ears) their unhappy brother falling down until at a depth of from 150 to 180 feet he reached the rocks and became a crushed and inanimate mass. They raised an alarm as quickly as pos sible. Mr. Toman, landlord of the First and Last inn, and many villagers of Sennen, hastened to the spot with ropes, and in half an hour the body was recovered, but in a dread ful state, every bone, apparently, being crushed. A coro ner's inquest to-morrow will elicit further particulars. A black flag was hoisted at the lightkeepers' houses on the mainland, and the three watchers on the Longships soon sad coloured 11:11/1ell3, but it was too late to put off in a boat, perceived the signal of death an d h o i sted the i r own and the father would not know of the melancholy fate Of his son until this morning. —Cornish Xelegrapht Cash. Account. Orleans 1315 .. 1312 50 Northern New ditto . 995 Lyons and Mediterranean 1116 25 .. 1116 25 Geneva 375 .. 377 50 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian .. Austrian Loirbard 605 .. 606 25 _ c PRUSSIA. Th. r,ussian Official Gazptio stoyal decree, convoking the Parliament for the 19th inst. ITALY. The following letter• has been addressed by Gen. Garibaldi to M. Baghino, instructor of the corps of Genoese volunteers, and who has just resigned his rank of major : , " Trescorre, May 5. "M. Baghino—What you have done for the corps of Genoese Volunteers is worthy of the praise of all good patriots. I feel I acted rightly when I advised you to place yourself with your companions at the disposal of the Government in order to put down brigandage. I then said a few words to induce you to despise the malevolence of those who apply the epithet of sold to them who take the necessities of the country, and not their own private opinion, for their guide. Even now I feel lam doing right in not inducing my son to withdraw his resignation, which was only given in consequence of deplorable circumstances which still continue. Let your friends persevere, as they have hitherto done, in remaining united and ready for the redemption of our oppressed brethren. Give my affectionate greeting to your brave companions. —Yours, &c., _ " GARIBALDI." BANK OF F.RAN CE. The following is the account for month ending Thursday, May 8 : ASSETS. F. C. .. 141,731,727 61 .. 276,030,113 - 615,014 83 Cash and ingots .. Cash at the branch-banks Bills due to be paid to-day. Bills becoming duo in Paris, of which 69,205,951 f. ic. are from tho branch banks .. 260,365,240 98 Bills in the branch-banks 228,767,012 Advances on coin and ingots .. 7,886,132 6 Do. in the branch banks .. 2,299,900 Do on French securities 157,212,900 Do in the branch-banks 9,805,900 Do on railway shares and bonds .. 41,323,400 Do in the branch-banks .. 22,076,900 Do on Cr6dit Foncier Bonds .. 328,900 Do in the branch-banks • • • • 255,000 Do to State by treaty, 1848 30,000,000 Rentes of the reserve-fund 12,980,750 14 Rentes, disposable funds .. 29,676,140 26 Rentes immobilised (law of June, 1857) .. 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank .. 4,000,000 Real property of branch-banks .. 5,945,321 Expenses of administration .. 1,414,576 18 Sundries .. 19,276,265 29 1,353,690,473 35 LIABILITIES. Capital 91,250,000 •• •• •• •• •• New Capital 91,050,000 Reserve-fund 12,980,750 14 New Reserve 9,125,000 Reserve-immobiliere .. 4,000,000 Profits to be added to Capital (Art. 8 of law June 9 1857) • • • • .. 2,316,503 57 Notes to bearer in circulation in Paris and the branch-banks .. 818,843,325 Do. to order (Post-bills) .. 6,055,631 81 Bills payable at sight .. 7,302,746 Acc. cur. of Treasury Creditor .. 104,314,519 86 Various accounts current 149,519,674 78 Do. branch-banks .. 32,215,766 Dividends to be paid •• •• •• 975,950 75 Arrears of values deposited .. 5,148,627 7 5 Discount, interest, and e x p enses .. 12,245,254 36 Re-discounts of the last h a lf-y ear .. 2,727,525 79 Sundries .. 2,799,197 54 1,353,69,473 35 _ENGLAA D, FRANCE, AND 4711. ERICA. The Paris correspondent of the Brussels Inde pendant tells the following amazing piece of news : had " The journey of M. Lavelette to London, which given rise to so many comments, is now explained; the ob ject of it was simply to induce England t o consent to a common intervention in America. The terms of this inter vention are fixed. It wid assume at first th e f orm of an offer of mediation ; if tho mediation is rejected, the two Powers will not shrink even from despat c hi ug a body of troops to impose it . It is certainly Fran co w hi ch has taken the ini tiative of this proposition; England has accepted it only on one c ondition—namely, the prev i ous settlement of the Roman question. The Imperial Government did not ex pect this demand. Hovever, it has not been willing to find itself stopped by this skilful diversion; and as it is very desirous of as early a conclusion as possible with Italy, it has lent an ear to the propositions from London, ardently supported, mor eover, b y Prince Napoleon. It therefore pro mised the recal of M. Goyon as the prelude to the evacua tion of Rome, and it has thus led the English Cabinet to c onfer• with it as to ar int erven ti o n in American affairs. This information comes to me from a good source, and I can guarauteo Re correctness." QUARANTINE REGULA2IONs. A deputation from the executive committee of the Social Science Association, charged with the con duct and management of the coming conference to be held in London, yesterday waited upon Lord Palmerston, at Cambridge-house, Piccadilly, to call his attention to the existing state of quarantine and practices in their effect upon international and cona mercial intercourse. The deputation consisted of Lord Talbot de Malahide, president of the public: health department of the association ; Dr. Milroy , Dr. Lancaster, Dr. Lewes, Mr, Stephen Cave, M.P. ' and Mr. Hastings. Lord TALBOT DE MALAHIDE introduced the deputation, and explained its object. He stated, that, in 1858, the committee appointed by the House of Commons forwarded queries upon the subject of quarantine regulations to all the principal ports of the world—a task in which they were helped by the Foreign end Colonial Offices. To those queries they had, through the ageney of the consuls at the several ports, obtained a large number of replies, and in them a large amount of information, upon receiving which they drew up a report, which had been presented to the House of Commons and ordered to be printed. In that report they recommended that the Government should send a commission to the Mediterranean, and to the prin cipal continental ports, to inquire into the actual quarantine regulations, and the effect of them ; and, secondly, that Government should annually lay upon the table of the House a statement of all the information upon the subject commu nicated to them by the consuls. It was the desire of the Social Science Association that these recommen dations should be carried out, as they were convinced that information would show that the quarantine system was open to very many grave objections, and often unnecessarily opposed the development of international and commercial intercourse, without affording any adequate protection to the public health. Mr CANE, M.P., and other gentlemen having similarly expressed themselves, Lord PALMERSTON said he was quite aware of the great inconvenience of quarantine regulations, and, so far as this country was concerned, was de sirous to abolish them altogether, but foreign Governments were not so enlightened as to allow even of this relaxation; but were it otherwise, they could not, he believed, attempt any such re form, so liable were the people of other countries, through an ignorance of sanitary laws, to sudden panics in respect to epidemic diseases. Some people, however subjected to the annoyance, seemed to like it. For instance, Mr. Frere, when he went to Spain, was placed in the Lazaretto, under the quarantine regulations, and immediately set to work to make himself comfortable, and for his amusement com menced the translation of a Greek play. When the days of his purification were expired, the authorities waited on him, and announced that he was at liberty to retire, which he refused to do until he finished the play, which was probably the "Prometheus Vinctus." At all events, the subject should have the earnest attention of her Majesty's Government. The deputation, having thanked his lordship, then withdrew. PARTIAL 2'o PO/SON. We have most of us hitherto been in the habit of looking upon strychnine as a deadly poison. We shudder at the mere mention of the word. We re member the Rugely tragedy, and see before us Palmer's wretched victim distorted in the agonies of tetanus. What does the reader say to a discovery recorded in the pages of the Pharmaceutical Journal, that there is a class of living creatures actually in existence who not only partake of this terrific poison habitually without injury, but who live upon it as their usual food, and thrive upon the diet ? The living creatures who ale given up to this abnormal pastime of devour ing strychnine, and who may be regarded as the opium -eaters of the animal creation, are minute beings resembling those which will sometimes be come developed by the mouldy Stilton. They are, bovvevpr, yin+ o.•umon cheese-mites, but so different from them that, when an attempt was made (to be presently alluded to) to induce some of the respect able cheese amateurs to change their diet for a nurse of strychnine, the poor thing.; died inconti nently as well-regulated mites might be ex pected to do. The unnatural mites, then, con cerning whose habits we have had these few words to say, were discovered by a gentlem an of considerable chemical attainments, while engaged in a microscopic examination of certain efflorescences which appear on the surface of medicinal extracts, " juices of plants concentrated to a semi-solid condition." Now, the most remark able thing about this was that the preparations themselves were of a nature which might reasonably have been expected to produce very injurious results upon animal life, while upon these mites they ap peared to exercise no evil influence whatever. Here were mites living upon extract of colocynth, which it must be admitted seems a rather choleraic diet, others upon taraxacum, and others yet upon strychnine, the extract of nux vomica.—Dickens's " All the Year Round." METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORE'S. The usual meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works was held yesterday at the office of the board in Spring-gardens, Mr. J. Thwaites in the chair. The financial statement was presented, which showed the total cash balances in the hands of the treasurer to be £59,946 2s 3d ; Government securi ties, £69,892 5s lld ; checks ordered but not pre sented, £18,273. The Chairman said he regretted to have to make any communication of a personal nature. His health had for some time been any thing but what he could desire, and on Thursday week previous he had consulted his medical adviser, who recommended that he should immediately ab stain for a time from all business. If he did not, the consequences would be of a most serious nature. The cause of his illness was anxiety and constant pressure on the brain, but he had himself to blame in the matter, as the members of the board had repeatedly and kindly advised him to take this step, and he would have acted wisely had he taken such advice. A physician of high standing had confirmed the statement of his own medical adviser, and had urged strenuously the necessity of an im mediate change, and for at least two months a re lease from all anxiety and business. HP muQt adz the inanlgonoc of the Board to accord him time for that purpose. Mr. Tite, M.P., said he had no doubt the Board would receive an announcement of so melancholy a nature with deep regret, for if at any time they needed the wisdom, prudence, and judg ment of their chairman, it Was at present. He moved—" That this Board receives ith great re gret the Chairman's announcem en t o f t h e state of his health', caused in a great degree by his devotion to the public service, and hopes that his temporary release will prove effectual in his restoration to that career of usefulness which he has so long pursued with so much advantage to the Board and the rate payers of the metropolis." Mr. Bristow, M.P., seconded the motion. It was put and carried une.- mously, as was a subsequent resolution, TI• at it be referred to the Main Drainage Committee to make arrangpmpnts during the absence of the chairman!' Various recommendations of the Building Com mittee were adopted. The board adjourned. THE MONTH OF MAY.— Who dons not hail the month of May, espeeially the whole tribe of honest anglers ? What a charming time it is for the enjoyment of the coun try. While anglers are preparing their rods, lines, and flies for their anticipated sport, let us walkout this be au tif ul May evening, calm and peaceful as it is, and view the moonbeams glittering on the winding stream —see the trouts rise on its surface, and let us inhale the perfume of the fresh mown grass, and the sweet scent of th e h awthorn bushes.as they w listenLetusarle in b toth yd e o r n esponsive songs of th e night ingaleser "bosky bourn." Most enchanting are the sunsets at this time of the year. Batt it is now evening, and amongst the objects to be noticed one of the most interesting is the glow-worm. Examine it. How it sparkles even in the moonlight, and looks, as one of our poets called it, a " moving diamond." The morning sun will, however, extinguish its Iamp.—EDWARD JESSE in Once a Week. A girl at a party was asked what made her face look so red, She replied, those horrid chaps. «_