The Sun. — London, England, 1862-07-24 00:00:00

LONDON, THITRSOAY ' EVENING, JULY 24: 1862: NEW THEATRE-ROICA.L, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benjamin Webster. This Evening, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. Benjamin Webster. J. L. Toole, dm ; Miss Woolgar, ,tc. And THE SHILLING DAY. dente of the South. As to our aristocracy, they instinctively side with the slaveholder, much as they detest slavery; the slaveholders being by origin and habit the aristocratic section of America. Both, parties, here alternately have news which gratifies or grieves them. Till lately the North had the odds of military success in its favour. The central and western border states, the Mississippi, and the Atlantic seaboard came under its power. The successes of the Confederates lay chiefly in re treats, and these, especially if we compare them with PCLELLAN's late retreat, were great successes. Each of them was effected without observation, from the presence of the enemy ; and each largely augmented the difficulties of the Northern generals. Bat since the 26th ult., the military successes have all been with the Confederates. M'CLELLAN'S army has not, indeed, " surrendered at discretion," nor the general fled to the shelter of the Galena gunboat. It has, however, been driven back to a distance of at least nineteen miles from the city has suffered " decimating" losses, and has probably been paralysed for any important effort, for the rest of the hot weather. Mr. LINCOLN does not indeed seemed disheartened, however much he may be dis appointed ; and we all like to see him posting off at once to his "army of Richmond," riding through its cantonments, and addressing his regiments in the genuine Yankee lingo. Whether his appeal for 300,000 men will be responded to as former appeals have been seems at present doubtful. Enlisting appears to go on but slowly. Some reinforcements —BURNSIDE'S from North Carolina --have already arrived, and are reported to be in fi ne trim and good spirits; 30,000 more should come fr om HALLECK, from the Mississippi, which, even if he can spare them, will take some time, as they must make a long circuit. With all these reinforcements, however, unless the Confederates are more weakened than is likely by the late battle, we shall probably find PCLELLAN unable to advance. But in the scene of the spring successes of the Federals, the Confederates, if the last reports are to be trusted, are resuming the offensive, and with success. The capture of a Federal regiment by a large bo3y of Confederates at Murfreesborough, near Nashville, in Tennessee, is an important announce ment, and as it comes from the North, it can hardly be disbelieved. It shows that though the Federals hold the western part of the State, and its southern border and railway, yet secession is very powerful there still, and in considerable military strength too. The reported capture, also, of 1,500 Federals at Baton Rouge, the city next above New Orleans on the Mississippi, will, if true, disconcert General BUTLER, the ungallant . hero of New Orleans, and startle even HALLECK at Memphis, witk the evi dence that he has an active enemy not a very great way off, and that instead of sending his men to M'CLELLAN he may need them for his own safety. The excitement in Kentucky is doubtless due to the recent successes of the South, and it is quite likely that the Border States, which, to their disgrace, are unwilling to accept emancipation even with com pensation, may give fresh trouble by their return ing secession feelings and hope. Whether or not this war is to be regarded as a war against slavery, as some friends of the North would have us believe—up to the date of the last advices, nothing is more conspicuous at Washington than the delicacy with which both Congress and the PRESIDENT handle, or even touch the subject. All the Generals are not quite so scrupulous. Gene ral HUNTER'S answer to some interrogatories re specting his arming slaves, quite puzzled the col lective wisdom of the Washington legislators. "He knew of no slaves within his lines. He had, however, a large number of loyal block persons, who would, he hoped, by the autumn, amount to nearly fifty thousand well drilled men ready to fight for the liberties of their country !" The Government and Congress, however, do not seem able tc go beyond employing black loyalists on any work but digging entrenchments and fortification service. For a loyal black actually to shoot a rebel white is not to be thought of. The white rebel must be shot by his peers only. Here, we naturally sup pose that, of all persons, the blacks have the most righteous casus belli against the Southern whites. If the North has a right to go to war for what they term their free political institutions, much more, as Englishmen will think, has poor Blackie a right to arm for the personal freedom of his race. The Houses and the Government are wis er , as they ima gine. They think they do much if they reward blacks who will do " any kind of war service" by giving the poor fellows the personal freedom to which they have as much right already as those who profess to give it. Perhaps the difficulty of recruiting white regiments fast enough, together with the losses caused by a Southern climate, may at last dispose even the timid gentry of Washing ton to accept the military services of black Ameri cans. It may even become the turning point of continuing the war, whether the North shall use the aid of the unfortunate Helots, who, they say, are the cause of it all. The Letter Carriers have gained no more than the Law Writers by the late advocacy of their in terests in the House of Commons. Sir GEORGE BOWYER did not, like Mr. Cox, push forward his motion to a division—but the hon. and learned baronet advocated the interests of his clients no more effectually than the hon. member for Finsbury. There, again, in effect there were obviously two sides to the question —only one of those two sides having been recognised by the advocate of the unfortunate complainants—this fresh cluster of men with a grievance ! Mr. GLADSTONE objected, with reason and upon the soundest principles, to the system here and there observable, according to which cer tain mistaken philanthropists are found to en courage the Servants of the Crown, now in this department and now in that, in a feeling of discon tent with their lot and their general treatment. If that system were permitted to extend itself, the Chancellor of the Exchequer insisted, it would be im possible to carry on properly the labours of Govern ment. And without doubt if large bodies of men are encouraged to believe that they are underpaid and overworked, and, in fact, altogether exceedingly ill -need and neglected, "it is more," said Mr. GLADsTea , m, "than could be expected from human nature, that they w ould not become discontented." Allth to b iswe e cannot,perfectl of course, but admit upon the instant y true ; we have not even one mo mentaryinclination to cavil at a single syllable immediately before uttered by the right hoe, gentleman to this effect. And yet —as Sir GEORGE 13 0 , v withdraw /ER quietly and sig nificantly observed there were no gric ommission to i b n e r e e n g no o d to this evances at all to Lae Post-o ffi ce, ibnegeohmispn2l:itnie77fifin connection w i th ~ there i nci u i r matter, we have seen, not one in quiry simply, but two distinct wouldent o them assured ly' l l l 7la e haver e a s , this deliberately i neti. inquiries of precisely t his chara c tuted within the last fiv e years —two separate a nd de of working in the elaborate inquiries into the m o smooth sail- Post-office department. Had all been whatever for ing there. had there been n o reason we may com plaint among the Post-office o fficials, be absolutely certain that there would not have been any Commission appointed to lock into the matter. And certainly that an investigation cf that i kind would noti within two years afterw:f (12 1 ha ve t been repeated. The homely old adage has it, that t there is no smoke where there is no fire. And be yond all doubt of it there has been much smoulder ing vexation, for the last ten or twelve years, at the Post-office, in St. Martin's-le-Grand —first of all as to the inadequacy of the pay ; and secondly, as 1 to the excess of the work portioned out among the poor letter-carriers. Again and again we have written upon the subject, in these columns, ourselves. So that the argument put forward on Thursday even ing by Sir GEORGE BOWYER was one in no way new to us. Not that we behold in the condition of the letter carriers generally that lamentable over-working and under paying, that the hon. and learned baronet can alone behold there, when looking into the management, or rather as he perversely regards it in this particular, the gross mis-management throughout, of this particular branch of the Post-office department. The Chancellor of the Exchequer remarked with some force, in regard to this one-sided view of the matter by Sir GEORGE BOWYER, that " I n estimating the pay of these men, that of t he ordinary British labourer should be taken into consideration. Why should his hon. friend," lie asked, "not take up the case of the police ? It might be said that half their lives spent in the streets at night, receiving y 9s . a w eek and upwards." Nevertheless, it on only they l would hardly follow that the existence of a griev ance in one direction justifies the maintenance of a lesser grievance of the same kind in another. Be cause the police are still more flagrantly overworked, and still more flagrantly unpaid than the letter carriers, it would not follow that the letter-carriers must perforce on that account rest contented. And, upon the mere surface of the matter under dis pute, there can be no question about it whatever, that, in the double respect already indicated, the condition of the letter-carriers as a class has . within the last few years, very considerably dete riorated. Their work being enormously increased, and their pay, by a cruelly inverse proportion, diminished. In demonstration of this, Sir GEORGE BowYER contrasted the annual receipta in 1845, and again in 1861, of twenty-five letter carriers. "In the former year (1845)" —as the hon. and learned baronet clearly showed— " twenty-five junior letter carriers earned £962, besides emoluments amounting to £2,364, making a total of £3,326. In the same year 25 junior carriers earned £1,324 Bs., and no additional emoluments. In 1861, the 25 senior carriers earned only £1,950, with £175 of extra emoluments, making a total of £2,125; and the juniors only £1,170. The result was that whereas in 1845 the average were £93 per man, in 1861 they were only £65, a sum on which it was impossible for a person to live in com fort and respectability." Now there is really and truly no possibility of getting over those figures. They speak for themselves. And unhappily the insufficiency of the pay has been only too often of late very distressingly demonstrated by the increasing frequency of prosecutions for peculations and other delinquencies. The truth is that the condition of the letter-carriers admits of improvement. They might be worse off, no doubt —it is an argument, that, of universal application. But, allowing that, it still must be insisted with some show of reason that their condition does admit of improvement. They have long complained. Let their complaints be put an end to definitively. Facts and figures beyond denial—as we have seen— show that their position has of late years deterio rated. Their responsibilities all the while increas ing ! If only in consideration of those responsibi lities, they ought at least as a class to be placed (as they manifestly are not at present) beyond the reach of a very painful and perpetually recurring .emptation. India may well be thankful that she had, as the adviser of Lord CANNING, a finance Minister who was not to be hectored into disobedience to hie duty to our Indian empire, by the Indian Secretary's lectures on obedience to himself. Like Lord CAN- NING, he fulfilled the duties of his post, notwith standing the interference of a Dictator Secretary, and having bearded the officialignorance of the Home Indian-office till India was safe, he now willingly places his office in the hands of the Home Govern ment. Whether any man of equal ability and in dependence will condescend to place himself under Sir CHARLES WOOD remains to be seen. Men of high capacity may honourably work under official superiors inferior in ability to themselves ; every monarch in Europe is thus served. In a practically aristocratic Government like ours, men occupy posts like those filled by Sir CHARLES WooD, because they are " their fathers' sons ;" hence the talent and genius of the country must frequently be sub ordinate, officially, to hereditary dulness; but, unless in such cases, the hereditary office-holders refrain from dictating to their subordinated superiors, we shall have dulness triumphant from the heads of departments to their humblest clerks. That Mr. LAING, in the absence of direct injunc tions, did not " consider himself a mere clerk bound to consult implicitly the wishes," not the cowman is of " home authorities"—tnat he in this case " felt himself responsible to Lord CANNING and to the public for exerting the best independent judgment he could,"—has tesulted.in two great benefits to this country r and to India. He was enabled to lower the protective duty of 10 per cent. on Manchester cottons—which not only injured Manchester, but also threatened to raise up a protected cotton manufac ture in India, which must, at some time, have suf fered by the withdrawal of protection. And in the next place—perhaps the most important fiscal re sult—he was able to remit the income-tax on the lower incomes, and to reduce it on the higher ones, and so to avoid creating a most dangerous discontent throughout India, and to prevent even probable dis turbances of the peace. Nearly three-fourths of the payers of the tax are relieved—consisting of the classes who suffered most from it—at a cost of only £250,000 ; while the surrender of the license tax has prevented feelings of " irritation and discontent being brought home to every village bazaar, and every artizan's workshop." Justice to Manchester and contentment to India were the awards of Mr. LAING'S financial system. Protective duties and general irritation would have been the results of the policy of our Dictator Secretary. It must, therefore, be grave considerations indeed shich could justify the policy of the Indian Secretary. Sir CHARLES WOOD'S speech satisfied us that he was wrong on both the main points of dispute with Mr. LAING. But that gentleman placed the matter in the clearest light by the letter addressed to us yesterday. We shall not repeat a word of its argu ments, because they can hardly be made simpler, and those who feel an interest in the details of the subject can look back to them there. He turns most justly and mercilessly Sir CHARLES WOOD'S own illustrations against h im, and we should thi n k every business man in the kingdo m will now see that Mr. LAING was right. Three poin ts h e has made out, we think, incontrovertibly :- I st , that the Railway Exchange ought not in principl e to be c h arged against revenue ; and that, even if it ought, it had b een actually paid ; 2 dl y, t h a t the advances t o Chi na " had been, when made, charged against the Indian revenue, and that, therefore, the " refunds ought to be Si r Cze4LES WOOD really placed among its credits ; 3dly, that he was not such, a financial dunce—which ventured more than to - - insinuate—as to a ppeal to unanalysed cash balances, using their gross amo►.nt as nroofs of the growth of the revenue. We apprehend the country - , - ;!4 think, as the result of this squabble, that Sir CHARLES WOOD is the wrong man in the wrong piece, and that were he superseded by Mr. LAIN G, India and England would then have the right man in the right place By this time the Thames Embankment is vir tually un fait accompli. The Committee appointed by the House of Lords—a committee consisting of Earl ST. GERMANS (chairman), Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE, Viscount DE VESCI, Earl Powis, and Lord LONGFORD—have settled the whole ques tion. They have heard counsel both pro and con; they have listened to the conflicting arguments patiently throughout; and they have decided at length once for all that the preamble of the Bill as amended by the Commons shall be affirmed. The Embankment along the northern margin of the River Thames therefore is to be carried out uninterruptedly along the whole of the route from Blackfriars Bridge to Westminster Bridge, the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, Mr. HORSMAN, Mr. GORE et hoc genus omne to the con trary, nevertheless notwithstanding. It is a sad pity of course that the public convenience in this I matter and the love of exclusiveness peculiar to the inhabitants of refined districts like Whitehall Gar dens cannot be reconciled. JOHNNY has had to " drive on," however, as his facetious Conductor, Mr. Punch, recommended him the other day : and —after all that warlike brandishing of the claymore and glittering of the ducal coronet of the BUCCLEUCHS that astonished the natives recently down at Westminster —the grand Scotchman has had to clear out of the way altogether. The Embankment will, consequently, in due course, be constructed according to the original plan set down : it will be 100 feet wide as far as the eastern boundary of the Inner Temple, and not less than 70 feet wide from that point to Chatham-place. The approach-road leading out of the Embankment, moreover, will be of an uniform width of not less than 40 feet, at a gradient of 1 in 30, communicating by means of approaches with Surrey, Norfolk, and Arundel Streets. It is further provided that A New Street shall branch off from the Embankment at the east side of the Middlesex end of Hungerford bridge, passing through the Savoy, immediately at the back of our own office, and terminating in Wellington-street, directly in front of the new western facade of Somerset House. Other side street communications, too, the Embankment will have all along its route, into the parallel roadway, now of the Strand, now of Fleet-street. While this grandest of all our Metropolitan improvements is in course of construction, it would be a lost oppor tunity not to take good care that along the whole track of the Embankment a line of trees should be planted, at reasonable intervals, as upon the Paris boulevards. river. THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. Yesterday the Speaker gave his annual dinner to the clerks and principal officers of the House of Commons. The following gentle. men were present :—Sir Denis Le Marchant, Bart., Lord Charles Russell, Mr. Erskine May, C. 8., Mr. Henry Ley, Mr. Rickards, Capt. Gosset, Mr. Frere, Mr. Vardon, Mr. Howard, Mr. Dyson, Mr. Gibbons, Mr. Rowland, Mr. Postlethwaite, Mr. J. B. Rose, Mr. Charles Pole, Mr. F. Gray, Mr. W. Hodgkin, Mr. W. Rose, Lieutenant-Colonel Forester ; chaplain, Archdeacon Drury ; private secretary, Mr. Alfred Denison. The new Spanish Ambassador to Paris, Genera' Jase Concha, will probably be at his post in the first week of August, and be will be received officially by the Empe- ror before the 15th at the Tuileries. " If we may believe," says the Pays, "a gene rally credited report, M. Bermudez de Castro, who, since the surrender of Gaeta, has represented Queen Isabella at the Court of Francis 11. at Rome, is to be recalled, and not replaced in that post. If this fact should prove correct, it may be considered as the precursor to the recognition of the kingdom of Italy by Spain." UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.—The Council, at their session on Saturday last, appointed Dr. J. Russell Reynolds Special professor of Clinical Medicine to the Col lege and Physician to the Hospital, in the place of Dr. Jenner, who now holds the office of Professor of the Prin ciples and Practice of Medicine in the College, with the Physicianship attached to it. THE WAR IN MONTENEGRO.—A letter from Corfu of the 12th says :—" Although so close to Monte negro, little is heard here of how matters are progressing in that country, but a great falling off in the despatch of Turkish troops is visible. Hardly a steamer now arrives, when before seven a week used to pass the island." Mr. Fisher, who has been station-master at King's-cross since the opening of the Great Northern line, has been compelled by ill-health to resign that appointment, and accept another with lighter duties. The public will, however, be pleased to hear that a committee is about to be formed for the purpose of opening a F. übscriptim list in order to present Mr. Fisher with a testimonial in acknow ledgment of the efficient and able manner in which he has discharged his duties to the travelling public generally. A literary loan attempted to be raised by M. de Lamartine not baying succeeded, he now proposes to start a lottery, for which he has obtained the authorisation of the Minister of the Interior; the sum to be raised being one million of francs. The price of the tickets has been fixed at 25c. THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.—The at tendance at the building yesterday fell with the fall of the barometer and the considerable fall of rain. The total numbers were only 50,065, of which 4,895 were by season tickets and 45,170 by payment. On the same day in 1851 the admissions were 45,774. Yesterday the men from the Victoria and Albert yacht visited the building, all the ex penses of their trip, we believe, being defrayed by her Majesty. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gentlemen passed their primary examinations in anatomy and physiology, at a meeting of the Court of Examiners, on the 23d inst., and when eligible will be admitted to the pass examination :--Messrs. Charles John Denny, David Evans, Richard Fennelly, William John Ready, and John Kendrick Wynne, students, of Dublin ; George Renton, Archibald Henry Foley Cameron, Ninian Alexander Wil liamson, and Robert Whittington Lowe, of Edinburgh ; John Thomas Jones, of Glasgow ; Robert Charles Moon, of St. Bartholomew's Hospital; William Moon Rogers, of University College; William John Wey, of the Middlesex Hospital; and Walter Thomas Beeby, of Guy's Hospital. WATERMARKS IN PAPER.—Mr. T. H. Saunders' specimens illustrative of his process of watermarks in paper, deservedly attracts much attention in the Great Interna tional Exhibition. It proves most incontestably that ela borate and artistic design in outline and in shade can be most successfully introduced, with the greatest effect. One of the sheets of paper, in addition to a b rder of the most chaste design, contains an exquisite watermark of the Virgin and Child, and various other devices, all of which show that the invention is of considerable commercial value in its adaptation to protection from forgery of bank notes, and similar important documents. Mr. Saunders has not only succeeded in gaining a prize medal for his invention this year, but he obtained a similar distinction in the Exhibition of 1851, also in New York, in 1853, and in Paris in 1855. NEW LIFEBOATS FOR PORTUGAL.—Yesterday some interesting and very satisfactory trials were made in the Regent's Canal Dock, Limehouse, with two lifeboats on the plan of the National Lifeboat 3 nstitution, built by the Messrs. Forrestt for the Portuguese Government. A large number of persons had assembled to witness the experi ments, and amongst others were Admiral Sir George Sar torius, M. Gore, Esq., R. Lewis, Esq , Messrs. Forrestt, Mr. J. Prowse, Mr. Peake, jun., &c. The boats are respec tively 32 feet long and 7 feet wide, and row six oars single banked. They were capsized by means of some tackling attached to an hydraulic crane. They self-righted instantly, and each boat discharged the water shipped in the opera tion, in 25 seconds. When 17 men were on board one of the boats, it was found that her gunwale was only just brought awash—thus showing her great stability and the difficulty that would be experienced before she would cap size. With 12 men on board it was found that the boat would still free herself of any seas she might ship. Alto gether nothing could be more satisfactory than the trial of each boat, and Sir George Sartorius repeatedly expressed his admiration of the experiments. Messrs. Forrestt are building four additional lifeboats for the Portuguese Govern ment; and they have also on hand several boats belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution. The Tynemouth, Appledore, Blakeney, Howtb, and Withernsea lifeboats are nearly ready to be sent to their stations. THE ASSAULT ON MR. PILKINGTON, M.P.-..A Government reward of £lOO has been offered for the appre hension of the person who committed the assault. A free pardon is to be granted in addition to any person givin g information excepting the actual robber. LATIA.,sr NEWS. AMERICA. We, Times, have received the following from our correspondent at Cork : (PER TIIE BALTIMORE.) " NEW YORK, JULY 12. " General McClellan has not been largely rein- " The Government cannot spare him any men from the existing divisions of the army. "The bombardment of Vicksburg still continues, and has now lasted for ten days. The city has been several times on fire. "By order of Commodore Farragut, 2,000 negroes are daily employed in digging a broad canal through the swamp on the opposite banks of the Mississippi, in order to turn the channel of the If the operation be successful, of which there s no doubt, Vicksburg will be left inland three miles from the new bed of the river. " The excitement in Wall-street continues un abated." PARIS, JULY 24. The official bulletin issued this morning an nounces that the state of the Princess Clotilde yes ,erday evening was very satisfactory. TURIN, JULY 24. The journals of this city announce the departure of bodies of young men from several Italian towns or Genoa. It is believed they intend embarking for Palermo. The Prussian Ambassador continues to fulfil the duties of Charge d'Affaires for Austria. PARIS, JULY 23. The Pays of this evening announces that General Forey will embark at Cherbourg on Monday next 'or Mexico. The Pays also states that the principal conditions of the French Treaty with Cochin China are the cession to France of three provinces, together with an indemnity of 20,000,000 f., and liberty of worship for Christians. BERLIN, JULY 23. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day a debate took place upon the treaty of commerce with France. Count Bernstorff strongly recommended its unani- THE JAPANESE AMBASSADORS AT BERLIN. BERLIN, July 21.—This has been a bustling day n Berlin. The Japanese have been to Court. They arrived here late on Friday night, and took up their quarters at . the Brandenburg Hotel, situated on the Gensdarmen-Market, one of the largest squares and market-places in Berlin. Be- for; their arrival and ever since, the house has been by a curious and admiri ng mo b . Th e besieged Japanese seem by no means displeased at the curi- , osity manifested by the permanent crowd before their residence. It heppens that the fish-market (where, according to the Berlin custom, the fish for sale is exposed alive in tubs of w a t er ) is held twice a week on the Gensdarmen- Market, and the report was spread.; that raw fish was a favourite delicacy with these distin- guished strangers, which had led to that particular hotel being selected for them. It has not trans pired, however, that they have been detected lunch ing at the tubs. At a quarter to 12 five of the royal state carriages, two with six horses and three with a pair, fetched the embassy and the Prussian officials appointed to attend them during their stay. For some time before carriages full of uniforms and full dresses had been driving from all parts of the town to the Palace, where, assembled in the great White Hall, the royal family, the ministers, the diplomatic corps, Field-Marshal Wrangel and a host of generals, the great officers of the Court, aides-de-camp, chamberlains, and gentlemen in-waiting on the Princes, the Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the two Chambers, commanding officers of regiments, staff municipal and academi cal dignitaries, real privy-councillors and privy councillors undistinguished by that prefix, and who, therefore, are exposed to the unpleasant suspicion of being mere shams, and such other functionaries as had received invitations to the solemnity. Count Eulenburg, late Envoy to Japan, received the Em bassy at the Palace entrance. Further on Count Puckler came to meet them. Beyond that the Over-ceremony-master, Count Stilifried of Alcan tara, interposed his ministry. There was a move from the Swiss Saloon to the Knights' Saloon, and his Majesty was pleased to transfer himself from the Red Velvet Chamber to the White Hall. Here things came to a climax. With many elaborate ceremonies the presentation took place. The King ascended the throne. The Crown Prince was to have taken his place on the second step thereof, and on his Majesty's right, but, for some reason as yet unknown, he did not appear. The Queen was present in the gallery, with the Princesses and their respective suites—all very brilliant, with many diamonds and in gorgeous array, as, imme diately after the Japanese had been presented to the King, her Majesty was to accord them a spe cial reception at her own Palace. The Ambassa dor and his double, on approaching the Throne, did but bow their heads ; the secretaries, who fol lowed, ducked considerably lower ; those who came in the next line, the paid attaches, converted their bodies into right angles and drooped their hands till they nearly touchedtheir toes, while the unpaid, in the fourth rank, bent till their foreheads almost touched the ground, and gave one the idea that they were near-sighted attaches, looking about to see if they could find the £l5O per annum they were to ar rive at after 4 years'service. What passEd in the way of conversation between Prince von Simodske, as the chief Ambassador is here styled, and his Ma jesty is unknown ; but the Count Bernstorff and a dragoman went to the assistance of the King, and between the Japanese tongue and Dutch and German it is to be hoped that all parties came to a good understanding. Finally, the aforesaid Von Simodake handed his credentials to the King, who was graciously pleased to hand them to Count Bernstorff, and to intimate to the Ambassador permission to leave the pre sence. Simodake bowed, and went about, and walked out of the hall, not turning again at the door to bow, which some people present thought rather strange, but presume it is Jeddo etiquette. The rest of the embassy backed out in a most defer ential manner, leaving nothing to be desired by the most punctilious. The whole business lasted but a short time. Lord A. Loftus and most of the prin cipal members of the diplomatic corps now in Ber lin were present. Also some English Artillery officers, now passing through Berlin on a profes sional tour and on their way to St. Petersburg. Their Crimean and Indian medals, honourable re cords of active service and famous campaigns, seemed to attract not a little attention. (N. o. 3,) BALLOON ASCENTS without "LE NOR NAN D'S" PARACHUTE DIP-FALL AID. l4lz3so.—The " Cruelty to Animals Act" advances as a reason for stoppage of these fra-foolery association excite ments, without wisdom being made manifest in case of col collapse retreat, at the over-three-mile 7,one-electric to gas within the balloon, as seen—over Wolverhampton's poor U n i o n mill' of the Dudley Somerie Swinford Exchan chute ge— at which point of 26. barometric transparency a a ought to have been spread,' on 17th July. the pure Mr. Coxwell's omission to tak e up, car-affixed, ox ygenic wax taper flame (as m ade by Jackson, of Picca dilly), used within its vehicle " the lamp of life," for nasal . inhalation— as other Aeronauts use against the 151 b sq. inch atmospheric pressure on the lung di for the 451 b in. on Blue-lip'd Glaisher suffering-dipsas, also descent of hy drogen gas-life circumvention —reminding him of Shen stone's couplet, on Qu'endrida of Tip•ton : " That in Clent, or Comback under a thorn, Lieth King Ken'elm with head off-sh l Orn," as the defunct ancestors of Emp. Conrad ii.'s G,-daughter Agatha, Malcolmmaternal 9' Liz-offspring, now in the ::;panish Escurial of Philip n., as kin of Edward 111. The now climax show aloft, Mr, with diluced full net expansion up-heave, evidenced the absence of Nitro-moist fog within the motive power, and presence of the dry elec tricity, by th e drowning-like effects on the system—the pit a-pat beat of his Tucked-up heart, o'er its diaphragm, sounded as the dirge music of the spheres,' whilst the wiry hair and ruffled paper gave at Monochord intimation that they were entering 'Paradise where the first pair meet' —in other words, a Wyndsor' Z-o'erhead Oicot region of the •whyre-•'Wulfra' Hampton of EDGAP:S sister's Nip-seite— prior to their PhEeton'd collapse bull's run, (paunch-like) to the Lang-hamlet of Oakham—en vise by xWrottesley's D°r6thy Dudley-Wardship of Bassett * Stamford. However I—This default of the authorities has a good for prevention, on c known gaseous change' at giddy heights— fl- as well as to man's re-aeriform-within , a s a pulse-rari cation of the breath, for p u rification of the blood agains t an y Prussian blue'skin-discolouration of hands 'at four miles loftiness', in absence of Win g ed life—shows a preced en for future Pendulumic-umbrella-like dipfalls—although opposed to the COXWELL aeronautic Miltonian ides, end Virgil's line— " Faciles dessensus Averni." • • • N .] Atkyns - Mon ta g ue C. ACKERT:ET, EX6e. 5 • • 1-2 W. Iv., x., 54, • Chamberlayne' Gie-sworn. P• • PETER BASQUET, Income-tax chief (1842 unpaid§ of 7 2 • China Ruff wall circuit horizon ofp—Londan, July 24. ▪g▪ , r , 1862) its INlontezuma'd Admiralty red flag, not in V) Brant's power to give up IMP. 1793 Chine, to lercy, and cause of Captain's xi-yr support, tho' kirk- ministers use his brains, and mock him &c. to death, for holding in 1820-25-27's Carib-protectorship oath on its £9O-yr retaining fee for his duty expenditure of £l6OO for Indian of America, which the Treasury refuse to pay or reply to their own unrelieved Sentry, appointments. To M. Handley and Bailiffs of Tame, (worth) Trent, Anker y river fishing charge under the P. Law 0. S. audits rate in aid on 3cl Eliza. in part of Guy's Hospital, of South-Ark bar' and Clapham. (See Sun April 19, 28, May 16, & July 19.) „F N " EVERY WEEK. ONE PENNY. ____ CRYSTAL PALACE.—TO-MORROW (Fri day). ONE SHILLING. Open from Nine till dusk. pALAIS de CRISTAL—BLONDIN par DESSUS les FONTAINES, k Quatre lleures, DEMAIN (Vendredi). CIRYSTAL PALACE. —TO -MORROW, B LONDIN will walk the High Rope over the Foun tains, and repeat se veral of his astonishing feats, including walking backwards and forwards, running, lying down, standing on his head, walking enveloped in a sack and blindfolded, turning somersaults, with his extraordinary gymnastic evolutions, at a height of 150 feet from the ground. The Band of the Coldstream Guards will perform during M. Blondin's perforraance, and at intervals. Orchestral Band and Great Organ as usual, commencing at half-past twelve. C A N " renowne d B 13 lj R Y HALL. Th per f or mers, DEBONNAIRE and The s), at Ten o'clock. ALT GONARD (from Pa Grand Selections from "DON SEBASTIEN" and "IL TROVATORE," Conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. Principal Artistes —Miss Russell, Signor Tivoli, and Mr. Raynor. Una-worth, in his celebrated Stump Speech, "Or any other man kate original), in conjunction with Eugene and Duley, forming the greatest Comic Trio in London. Also the following Comic Talent, viz, Mr. J. G. Forde, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Hollingsworth, and Miss Georgina Smithson. Gallery of Modern Paintings. T" OxF 0R 1.), 6, OXFORD STREET. " VIE DAUGHTER OF THE ISLES," a Cantata composed by LESLIE, Esq., and written by A. MATruisorr. Esq., in honour of the Marriage EVERY EVENING of her Royal High nes s the Princ ess Alice, , in ' ad dition to the us ual entertainments, which include operat i c selections by Miss Russell, Madame Enderssohn, Messrs. Morley, Greene, and Albert, with Full Band and Chorus ; the Comic performances of Miss Caroline Parkes and Mr. W. Randall, the Ethiopian oddities of Rumsey, Newcomb, Little Bob, Eugene, and Unsvvorth (the original "or any other man"), and the astounding feats on the Flying Trapeze of DEBON NAIttE. lls, ls. ; Priv ate Boxes, 10s. 6d. Hall, 6d.; Balcony and Sta THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Mr. D. Boucicault, sole Lessee. This Evening, THE SPITALFIELDS WEAVER. Messrs. Atkins, F. Robinson ; Sara Stevens. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. Boucicault, Mdrne. &c. To conclude with THE KISS IN THE DARK.Celeste, Commence at 7. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Bnckstone. This Evening, THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. After which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN Messrs. Buckstone, Sothern ; Mrs. C. Young, Miss Oliver, Arc. With MILY JARS. LA CON TRABANDISTA P erea Nena, &c. And FA Commence at 7. r forced: Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. This Evenin, THE RENDEZVOUS. After which, at a Kean, to 8, KING HENRY VIII. - Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean, &c. With THRICE MARRIED. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Sole Lessee and ManaFer, Mr. Edmund Falconer. This Evening, PEEP 0 DAY : Messrs. Lacy, Falconer, Addison ; Mrs. Bowers, &c. Followed by KILLAKNEY. Conclude with Selby COLLEEN BAWN SETTLED AT LAST. Charles and Lydia Thompson. Commence at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. This Evening, MAZEPPA : Mr. C. Mortimer. Brilliant Scenes In the Circle by the unrivalled Troupe of British and Foreign Equestrians. Concluding with a favourite Farce. Commence at 7. NOTICE. Ail retnittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY. —Morning, 12h. ft.—Afternoon, 12h. 35m, To..moßßoW.-Morning, 12h. 56m.—Afternoon, lh. 20m. --N,g ,f. 40 P R ~,,l'Y :7!".4 • Se . ` - ..j.: :.- -1: - ) Y . ''''' v4.1 " 7 6 .-' ‘,. ', l L Ui ' :; . • ;---- n4.*_..., '4. , ~,,,1.,,t ii,,, ...,,,, ..f i, 4" --- ) A .4Z,......., ', Ptg., (-.--- 4 , -, .' 'io `'. i• , j c ,: ' ,',/' ; ~---; :,'^- ''. i c- , ...+1 , 4,, ~:- y ..it ~. • ~.),c - -i rt:tl;,, ' •-•' '.... • !). --, . • ''-'7,-----=" _9:4-- , .. - `;....4.--,.. : ' f. . ~,,,, „ ,----,, L.:: ..,:. ;...,.,.., ~ , ,,I. i ~.. ,i 0 • io,. e5 .r. L(L,,,!3,,,,,, `....... '‘..1111Et,....!......._,HP,. ~.--'l7.nis-jr•-•*--r..-7t.,...'-"- THE SUN. LONDON, TitußsDAl, JULY 24, 18G2. Our English daily press, in regard to the American struggle, seems almost to have divided itself into the party of the North and the party of the South. w e need not mention names ; news paper readers know well where to look for the best and the worst repr esentation of ea c h s i de. W e do not wish, for our p art, to profess any me r it or i ous impartiality, but certai nl y we feel little inclination to undertake the advocacy of either side. We m ust confess that the faults of each rise so provokingly before us, if inclined for the moment to patronise either, that we cannot do it if We would. Each has its great merit, and each its great vice. The North fights to exclude slavery from the territories —well ; but then it also fights for a fugitive slave law, a reunion with Slave States, and to subjugat all North Americ a to its em p i re , fo r that is its ul e timate aim. The South fights for independence, a came dear to Englishmen, and independence of a most unaimable twenty millions of sovereigns -- well, also ; but again, the South fights to make slavery the corner-stone of a Southern republic. Such an arrangement of the pleadings may well render Englishmen indifferent to the success or failure of either belligerent. If we turn to other considerations, especially to the interests of Europe, the South has the advantage. She is willing to trade with the old world on free trade principles; and even the consiieration of the weaker so long and successfully resisting with many mi n d s. the stronger, has influence That it would be for the benefit of the civilised world that the ambitious, aggres sive, and arrogant Noll.hn should not expand itself territorially till it absorbs all North America into one empire, can hardly be doubted. These facts, with the present claims of Lancashire, would pro bably cause England to rejoice could the North be induced or compelled to acknowledge the indepen- mous adoption. A Prussian despatch was delivered yesterday at Vienna, in which the proposal of Austria to join the Zoilverein was rejected, mainly because Prussia is resolved to hold fast to the engagements into which she has entered, and because the present tariff is out of date. LISBON, JULY 22. Before the Lisbon Bank advertisement of the Portuguese Loan, contracted for by Messrs. Knowles and Foster, was published, applications were made here in excess of the £500,000 sterling reserved for Portugal. FRANCE. BOURSE, July 23.—The market, without having acquired any material improvement as far as regards the amount of business transacted, has shown rather more firmness, and the operations which have taken place show a slight advance on the closing rates of yesterday. Threes, for the Account, are now at 68f. 40c. Railway Shares quiet, but firm. The market closed as follows : 1 per Cents. 97 601 Do end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 40 New 3 per Cents Do. end month — Credit Mobilier 827 50 Do. end, month 827 50 BAIL' Bank Shares — Credit F oncier 1165 Piedmontes( Fives 7l 25 Italian Loan 7l 25 Roman — Austrian Spanish Threes — Home Debt Cash. Account. Orleans 997 50 .. 997 50 Northern 995 995 New ditto • -- • • -- Lyons and Mediterranean 1032 50 .. 1082 50 Geneva 357 50 .. 355 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian 492 50 .. 492 50 Lowbard ~ 612 50 .. 612 50 ITALY. The following is the speech of General Durando, Minister of Foreign Affairs at Turin, in reply to the questions put to him in the sitting of the Cham ber of Deputies of the 20th by M. Petruccelli " I cannot follow the hon. gentleman over all the vast ground he has skimmed over in his speech. I will keep within strict limits, and give few and plain answers to his questions. There has been no communication from England, either official or non official, of a nature to disturb our good understand ing ;with that Power. With Russia we have no transaction but what appears in the documents produced. Besides, the Russia of 1862 is under going a political transformation, and we shall find her favourable to our line of policy. France does not want our alliance in Mexico. The mission of Italy is that of constituting a link between the Powers of the West so as to mode rate their antagonism. In the affairs of Servia and Constantinople England has supported us. With Belgium we are in cordial con nection, and about to conclude a commercial treaty. The neutrality of Switzerland is guaranteed by all the Powers that signed the treaties of 1815 ; we cannot therefore conclude with that country any treaty of a defensive, and much less of an offensive, nature. But, if the independence of that country were menaced, we should defend it. A s to Gari , baldi's speech, I have been obliged to make it the subject of an official note. Concerning the question of Venice we have opened no negotiation whatever. Regarding Germany, we must unfortunately trust to time alone to gain ground in the opinion of her Governments. As to Spain, we must keep in mind the special position of her dynasty with regard to Naples. The question of Montenegro is very com plicated. As to Rome, I do not believe it will be united to the kingdom while lam in office. My ambition is limited to put that question in such a condition as to enable the people to see the goal not far off. We have performed prodigies of valour and of concord ; we must now perform a third prodigy, that of patience, which I assure you will bring us to Rome." It USSIA. The Poste de Nord, in an article on the recent fires in the capital and several provincial cities, says, the public of St. Peterburg is beginning to re cover from the terror caused by these conflagrations. Most of the fires occurred in the quarters inhabited by the poor . They w ere i mme di a t e ly attributed to incendiaries ; numerous arrests were made, many by the people themselves ; and the general alarm was increased by the circulation of anonymous let ters, that appeared to proceed from some kind of or ganised body. The Government, however, by taking the most energetic measures, appear to have stayed the work of destruction. Subscription for the sufferers are flowing in ; a commission has been ap pointed to examine the claim to compensation or relief, which amount to more than 3,000; and plans are under consideration for rebuilding the streets and bazaars destroyed, that it is hoped will prevent such calamities in future. The old Russian custom that collected the retail dealers in certain kinds of goods in the large wooden building called bazaars, is especially denounced, as uniting every condition dangerous both to the public health and safety. It is stated that this barbarous Oriental system ought no longer to be tolerated in a capital like St. Peters burg; and it is probable that the bazaars that have been destroyed will not be rebuilt. THE LATE GALE AT BOMBAY. Since the 9th June, when we experienced the first heavy fall of rain of the season, we have had rain nearly every day, with occasional squalls from the southward. On the nights of the 10th and 11th inst. there was a good deal of lightning with distant thunder over the ghauts. On the night of the 13th it rained heavily for several hours, and there were some very heavy showers next day ; but it was not until the night of the 14th that we had the real burst of the monsoon. From about 11 o'clock p.m. till noon of the 15th it ble w a fresh gale from S. S.AV with hard squalls which came up about every half hour. Fortunately the shipping in the harbour were well prepared for bad weather and no serious acci dents have occurred. The ships Virginia and Zouave dragged their anchors for a short distance and got foul of each other ; but we are glad to learn that with the exception of some injury to the stern frame of the former vessel and to the bulwarks of the latter, caused by the collision, no serious damage was done to either vessel. The Childwickbury also dragged her anchors and got foul of the Good Success, but happily without much injury being done to either. The Veteran and the Joshua were also in collision, by which the former vessel sus tained considerable damage to her bulwarks, &c. The tide of the 14th inst. was the highest that has been known in Bombay for the last twenty years. The sea made a clean breach over that portion of the Apollo and Arthur Bunders which jut into the sea, but without doing any material damage; and a great part of the sea wall on the Esplanade has been washed away. A portion of the Lady Jamsetjee Causeway, which unites the island of Bombay with Salsette at Ban dora, has been seriously injured on the Mahim side, and it was for a time rendered impassable to wheeled carriages. A large number of cocoanut trees were blown down in different parts of the island during the gale. The Peninsular and Oriental steamer Odessa, with the outward China mail, took her pilot (Mr. Coward) to sea, having had to slip the pilot boat to prevent her from filling and going down, owing to the heavy swell just outside of the harbour. The Orissa only made three miles in three hours after starting on her voyage—the wind and tide being dead against her. On the 15th the Peninsular and Oriental Com pany's steamer China arrived with the English mail of the 18th May from Suez and Aden, and it was found impossible (owing to the heavy gale then blowing), for several hours after her arrival, to land her mails and passengers. During the gale the wreck of the Beechworth went to pieces on the Caranja shoal, and was drifted on shore in different parts of the harbour. The gale has done considerable mischief on the sea board at Mazagon. Several native craft laden with grain, cocoa-nuts, &e., were driven on shore near the dockyard, and three lives have been lost. A number of men belonging to the crews of the wrecked boats swam as hore, and two men who clung to one of the wrecks until they were so exhausted that they would have been drowned but for the timely assistance rendered them, were saved by the exertions of Mr. Murphy, the Assistant Superintendent of the Harbour Defence Works, who caused a boat to be manned and sent to their rescue when no boat would leave the shore. Large quantities of timber in logs, several hun dreds of which have since come on shore, were float ing about the bay at Mazagon in all directions. These were washed off from the land at the War ree and Tank Thinners, and have caused great dama ge to the sea-walls and the harbour and dock works at Mazagon, as well as to the sea-wall in the c ourse of construction by the Elphinstone Land Company. A great portion of the Warree Bander road has also been swept away, and a deer cut through it. Imes of India. channel --T THE NEW CHINA TVAB. With reference to the urgent demand for troops from India, whinli is said to have been conveyed by the last China mail, the Bombay times of the 27th ult. says : We have repeatedly warned the home public that there would soon be a fourth China war upon our hands', from the nature of our conduct towards the Taepings around Shanghai, and advices of its commencement are already on their way to Eng land. Urgent demands are said to have come for ward from China to the Indian Government for troops—to do what ? To meet an aggression we have wantonly provoked, on the part of men who sincerely wished to be at peace with us, and to ea ter upon the conquest of the Chinese empire. For that is what is really before us. The events of the last two years have made it clear that all material power is on the side of the Taepings, and if we de stroy that power, we must hold the country our selves to find it at no distant date a ground of conflict with France—or abandon it to the worst excesses of anarchy. If, instead of madly warring upon the Taepings, we had placed ourselves in friendly relations with them, Shanghai might now have been a free port, and the Yangtse Kiang throughout its length as safe to European com merce as the Thames. We have deliberately espoused the cause of the most corrupt, weak, and cruel despotism the world has ever seen— a despotism hopeless, of reform or regeneration, and are about te, reap the bitter fruits of our policy. Our conduct towards these Tae pings has been *so wholly inexcusable, that were they to hang eviery European who falls into their hands none could justly blame them. What offence have they committed against us that our cannon and fleets are to be employed in destroying them, and our soldiery in capturing them and handing them over to the tender mereies of Mandarins to be dis- embowelled ? Have the Taepings no atrocities to avenge, that all our sympathies are with the bloody crew of whom Yeh stands out in our time as the type ? Here, as elsewhere, it is the undue prepon derance of our supposed commercial interests that decides our policy; and without staying to inquire what natural right and justice demand of us, we plunge headlong into a guilty strife, flattering our selvea that the "general interests of humanity"move us, We do trust this Taeping war will rouse the country to a searching and adequate inquiry into the matter. The Taepings are not the monsters they have been declared to be, and were European influences brought frankly to bear upon them, we might check their excesses at once, and lead them 'co the establishment of a settled and peaceful rule. VARIETIES. (From Punch. PETTICOATS AND PICKPOCKETS. What is enough for one is enough for two, is a saying supposed to warrant any man in marrying who is able to live. Whatever truth there may once have been in that maxim, there can be none now when wives have become so expensive as they are rendered by their excessive drapery. Of that, to be sure, it may safely be said, that what is enough for one is enough for half a dozen. No wonder that the Employment of Women question presses, and that young ladies are singing " We've got no Work to Do," and " Nobody Coming to Marry Me." This excess of apparel threatens to be as everlasting as the income tax; which it sorely aggravates. It is really a great bore. In every thoroughfare it establishes an effective blockade. It constitutes the fuel of that fire through which Fashion passes her children to Moloch. That may serve them right, and be of no more consequence than the moth's ex tinction in the candle ; but it is too bad that redundance of petticoats should bring a respectable man into troublre, as it did one day last week. A gentleman, called in a police report " A Member of the Society of Friers as," in business with his father at Macclesfield, was pulled up before Mr. Dayman, at Westminster, on a charge of having, at the Brompton. Exhibition, at tempted to pick a lady's pocket. Chowne, Sergeant E. 5, a detective in plain clothes, " had his attention directed to the prisoner," who was in the machine room among some ladies looking at the machinery, Chowne saw him there by the side of a woman "whose pocket it was his im pression he was trying to pick ;" and accordingly the officer took him up. He was walked off to the station, searched, taken before the magistrate, remanded for a week on bail in two sureties of £250 each, and reappeared on remand, when— " Mr. Smyth, on the part of the prisoner, stated that his client had only come to to win a day or two previously, and was there on the day in question with his sister, brother, and friends, to see his brother's machinery. His client could have no motive for committing a robbery, as he pos sessed considerable property, arid bore at Macclesfield & character unimpeachable for integrity. At the time alluded to by the officer his client vats pushing aside the hoops of the lady's crinoline in orP..er that he might have a better view of the machine." The evidence of Mr. Cobden and several other members of Parliament, and gentlemen, as to the character of the accused, fully bore out this defence, and the worthy Quaker left the Court, as Mr. Dayman said, without a stain on his reputation. Yes; but not without a scar on his feelings. left by seven long days' anxiety and fear. And all this grievous annoyance this gentleman incurred merely by pushing aside the hoops of a walking nuisance, and un punishable social evil. All men visiting the Brompton Exhibition, unless they want to be arrested for picking ladies' pockets, should keep their hands carefully in their own. How to dispose of your hands in an omnibus, veaere the muslin of your female neighbours extends over your stomach, howe's er convex, is a hard matter. En.tirely to preclude suspicion, you may perhaps resort to the expedient of holding them up over your head, and then you had better tell the passengers why you do so, lest they should think you a fool. A better plan will be to carry about with you a number of Punch, and, as soon as you have seated yourself, take it out and read. Everybody will allow that nobody can read Pundit and pick pockets too. Crinoline makes it necessary for you to guard yourself against imputations which may be cast upon you by any officious observer or malevolent woman. No doubt the huge hoops and enormous skirts of women do afford fa cilities to pickpockets. That would be a good thing, be cause it would very soon reduce petticoats within compfisgr if ladies' pockets, as fast as emptied, had not generally to be filled by their husbands and fathers. LATEST AMERICAN DESPATCH. By Horsemarine Teler aph. " Camp, Chickabiddy Chokee, Monday afternoon.—The Federal troops have won another splendid victory. Seeing that the rebels were approaching in great force at 6 sin' this morning, I issued my directions for a general advancer an order which our brave fellows were prompt to carry out. The advance was made in the identical direction as that in which the rebel army were proceeding, and was achieved, I need not say, with the most complete success. Astonishing to say, the whole of our front line escaped without a hurt; and with the exception of a few slight wounds and bruise° in the rear, I really have no casualties worth mentioning to report. A good deal of our baggage and some few hundred stand of arms we left upon the field for a strategic purpose+ and we likewise abandoned about a score of field-piene ° which were found to impede the rapid movement of our troops. " My next despatch will probably be dated from Rich• mond, which I intend to sack at half-past five o'clock 00 Saturday morning next. " (Signed) " General-Commanding. " To the Secretary of War." A STREAM OF ILL-LUCK.—The Metropolitan Railway has been inundated so often that it is a kind of misnomer to talk of it as the underground railway. A nl , re fitting ap pellation would certainly be, The Underwater Railway. A SILK GOWN THAT IS ONLY WORSTED.—It is a°'" only unfair but ungenerous to condemn Mr. Edwin Jamesfor his defence, simply because it happens to be extrem ely lame and impotent, andludierously laboured and evasive; for it is very clear, says Baron Bramwell, ever since the la te M.P. for Marylebone ha s b een di s b arre d , t h at hi s tsrg tv ments can be little better than ex-Q.C.'s (excuses). CHANGE OF NAME. --If the Board of Works deal in suc h dirty jobs as this Montagu -house business, we shall ha te to make an additi on t o t h e i r title. " The Board of W°rv"- of Darkness" would be highly appropriate. TRY AGAIN. —Punch is excessively glad that Gra% Duchess Constantine an d h er b a by are go i ng o n as wel la r could be expe c t e d . B ut h e d oes not k now w hy the la t l e ci is to be called Waelaw. The infant's birth was to be a 0 ° .4 omen for Poland, but the name certainly d o es not set a; such omen. Whacklaw, which must be uncoramonlY like Clublaw, is what the Poles have been receiving at Russian hands too long. Eh, Duke? AWFUL EFFECT OF FISHING ON TIIE HUMAN AT, 1:). Pherkins—"lt has occurred to me, Sam, that throwing e s ground bait is nothing mole or les s —as it were —a s p ed of advertising! 1 1 ' / ' WHAT MR. LAING DID WHEN HE BOASTED OF DIAN SURPLUS.—Hallooed before he was out of the The " Xeres ---- co,mida Sherry " at 20s. per dozen, W hich el can honestly 'recommend as a sound Dinner Wi ne, et e t e -1° lent ttavejur, considerable body, a fine colour , a nd tboronv't whoNsome.—Patriot. [This wine is exclusive l y th the Vintage Wine Company, and can only be had at e e• West End offices, 14, Bloomsbury-street, near Oxiord-Is•gd Gold, 18s. ; Pale, 20s. per dozen. Port , 20$. SalnPle s i is. Two dozen bent carriage free.]—Adv. imported evyr