The Sun. — London, England, 1859-07-06 00:00:00

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Sean. THIS EVENING will be presented ShaksPeare's historical play of KING HENRY V. King Henry V., Mr. C. bean ; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean. After which. IF VIE CAP FITS. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKtT. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bucketone. THIS EVENING the THE will commence with a new Comedy, entitled THE CONTESTED ELECTION, in which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear, After which, MY 110TEER'S MAID. To conclude with THE WATER WITCHES. Commence at 7. N W - ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and 'Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Chas Selby, Billington ; Misses Keeley, Arden, and Laidlaw. and Mrs. Billington. Followed by THE HOUSE ? or, THE HOME ? Mr. A. Wigan, C, Selby, Billington ; Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Miss IL m u ms, Miss Laidiaw. Followed by THE FIRST GHT. Mr. Alfred 'Wigan, Billington, Miss M. Keeley. Nl After which, THE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Messrs. C: Selby and Moreland ; Misses Woolgar and K. Kelly. Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Moe open from 10 to 5 —no charge for booking. No fees to Servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING, the nerformances will commence with THE SPITALFIELDS' "WEAVER. Mr. J. Rogers. After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses Swanborough, Oliver, and Lavine. To conclud ithe w KENILWORTH. Commence at 7 o'clock. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE—This Evening THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Shylock, Mr. H. Teen ; Portia, Mrs. H. Vezin. To conclude with THE MASKED MOTHER. C ANTERBUR Y HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY, Westminster -road.—Open at Seven. EVERY D. EVENING during IE the week will appear THE ELEPRRE FAMILY, consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette, and Yulia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and EIGHT years. The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios evc.l written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi ?asiastic tica in Continental s o Musical Circles, and drawn forth tribute of praise from the P u blic Journals f France and Belgium. They will perform EVERY EVENING, a t NINE and ELEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.-aux OFFICZ, JULY 6, - THEEMOXETER, IN THE SHADE. 77 —highest since noon yesterday. 66—lowest this morning and during the night. 7g—this day at noon. BAB,oNETEB-30.38. South Westerly; light, with very fine, but hot weather. THE SUN. WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1859. Happily there is no real difference of opinion in this country as to the necessity of increasing the national defences, and as far as possible per• fecting their organization. The masterly and im pressive statement made last night in the House of Peers by Lord LYNDHURST is but the utterance in burning words of the sentiment cherished in the hearts' core of every trueborn Englishman. We are all agreed. There is nowhere a dissentient voice audible. Even Mr. COBDEN immediately upon his arrival at Liverpool—believer though he is in the efficacy of pacific arbitration—acknow- ledged with a manly and patriotic frankness that at all cost the independence of the nation must be cared for, and that nothing possibly could be too much to pay for the priceless boon of immunity from subjugation. Differing though the nine interlocutors did last evening as to the pro- priety of these open discussions in regard to the probabilities of a rupture with France, followed by a French invasion—the three dukes, the three earls, the solitary viscount, and the two ex-chancellors were but of one opinion as to the advisability (to say the very least of it) of maintaining the mili tary, and still more, if possible, the maritime forces of the country at their highest point of efficiency— ready at all times for any and every emergency Semper paratus—that should be our latest em- blazonmentupon the national escutcheon. " Ready, aye, Ready" —being at the same moment I the motto not alone of the heroic race of the NAPIERB, but of all the sympathetic millions of their countrymen, without distinction of place or party, of class or profession. Hence, indeed, the instantaneous response to the late poetic reveillez of the Laureate—as signalised .by the rising far and wide in all directions of the free corps of the volunteers and the riflemen. There may be al ways something ludicrous to the professional soldier in the notion of mere civilians enrolling themselves in a sort of impromptu National Guard—but the calamity of an invasion, be sure of that, would at once elevate even the " awkward squad" of a militia into something more than simple respecta bility. Danger would lend dignity to the un drilled. And the exchange of the yard measure for the Minie rifle, or the hoe for the revolver, would not necessarily be subject for ridicule—were the consequence of that exchange for once by ne cessity the actual fighting for Fatherland. There is that good old axiom, si vis pacem pars bellum, which cannot possibly be too often repeated. Even at the hazard of being stigmatized as an alarmist, the venerable ex-Chan cellor, Lord LYNDHURST, insisted yesterday upon the necessity of securing peace most effectually by the energy of our warlike preparations. Excepting only the new Lord President of the Connell (the Earl GRANVILLE) and the new Lord Privy Seal N s °race the Duke of ARGYLL), and the new First Lord of the Admiralty (his Grace the Duke of SOM ERSET ) each of the five other Noble Lords who spoke last ev ening heartily endorsed the opi nions, expressed with so much patriotic fervour by Lord LYNDHURST, when • inaugurating this most timely discussion. What, for example, were the solemn closing words, what w as the t hrill ing tion of the speech delivered immedis. perora tion after Lord LYNDHURST had resumed his seat by Lord STRAT FORD DE REDCLIFFE ? " 11, " exclaimed th e no bl e viscount, with extraordinary emphasi s , •e lx the warning was in time accepted, if we looked the danger fairly in the face, and employed all the means at our disposal, so far from there being any reason to apprehend danger, I do, so help me God! believe that if that hour of danger ever does arrive, it would be the brightest and most glorious day that ever shone on the destinies of this coun try !" It is the universal belief of all English men—lF ! Upon that one condition with that single proviso—lF ! Let but that be seen to, betimes, and there will not remain within the compass of these shores one solitary alarmist. It is the necessity of our seeing well to that, before it is too late, that has given rise to all these fre quent movements in favour of a national armament —not in the way of aggression, but of defence ! Lord HARDWICKE, in a kindred spirit, pronounced the address delivered by the noble and learned ex-Chancellor to be "as patriotic and useful as it was important." Lord BROUGHAM, while he insisted that we have no cause whatever to be mistrustful as to the course likely to be pursued by the French people, while he avowed, moreover, his own confidence in the Emperor of the. FRENCH, adds as powerfully as sententiously —" BUT, whether we trust him (NAPOLEON III.) or mistrust him, we certainly ought to trust to our selves, and without expecting war or dreading war, we ought to be prepared for it." Those wise and admirable words of Lord BROUGHAM'S express MA L. , 4'A X ll-.. '.4 ' . -7-----.! :c.. '- ? '4ll, iaall - '''',- i p • i: 'A m 0 „,,,i------7, 4• 7 ›.....!,.. ~ t ~,,„„, - "• 11 , • ^,,,,,,.. . hausted. By acting upon them the :safety and dignity of the country may be alike cared for most effectually. They ought to be inde libly imprinted on the national remembrance. Whether we trust this potentate or that, whether we look to this or that contingency, whether we await these or those eventualities—" we certainly ought to trust to ourselves"—and, condensing yet i'll lmore the solemn truth already so fully and elo quently expressed by Lord LYNDHURST—" without expecting war or dreading war, we ought to be prepared for it !" Besides, as Lord BROUGHAM put it irresistibly through the House to the country, and through the country to our Gallic neighbours—that French people upon whose integrity and friendship Lord BROUGHAM i relies, himself, so implicitly—" they had no right," Mid the noble and learned lord, " to complain of our being prepared when they had proved them selves to be so prepared." How well prepared they were Lord LYNDHURST had humorously enough indicated when commentjug, in the course of his most lucid and convincing harangue, upon the celerity with which one hundred and seventy th ou sand men had been transported suddenly from France into Piedmont, and conveyed thence still further beyond the waters of the river Mincio, with all their baggage and ammunition, with 200 guns and a siege train, winning the two great battles of Magenta and Solferino—the latter one of the bloodiest victories upon record and all th i s , an d much more—upon a peace establish ment ! All Lord LYNDHURST asks for ourselves is some proportionate, some equivalent peace establishment. Something considerably less than the warlike total of France, he thinks, and certainly with reason, will answer our purpose under the circumstances. But while France has her magnificent army of nearly 600,000 men always more or less in perfect readiness—Lord LYNDHURST deems a practicable total of 100,000 (inclusive of the militia) enough for our land de fence. The enhancement of the naval force, how ever, he conceives to be the essential security of our independence. The noble and learned lord's dis claimer of any desire whatever to embroil us with our Allies by expressing unnecessary jealousy of their ruler, was, perhaps, the happiest portion of all this brilliant and memorable oration. " If I am asked," said Lord LYNDHURST, " , Do you not rely upon the assurance and the courtesy of the Emperor NAPOLEON ?' I answer, ' I have great respect for that great personage ; but '—l am not going to enter into any explanation upon that subject. I shall leave every noble lord to draw his own conclusion, and form his own opinion. This, however, I will say, and say it with out impropriety, that if I am asked whether I can place reliance upon the Emperor NAPOLEON, I say with confidence that I cannot place reliance upon him, because he is in a situation in which he cannot place reliance upon himself. He is in a situation in which he must be governed by circum stances ; and I will not consent that the safety of this country should depend upon such contingen cies." Nobly, admirably, proudly, patriotically expressed. Who can quarrel with words in every way so reasonable in themselves ? Not even the French. Not even the Emperor NAPOLEON. By acting as Lord LYNDHURST wishes us to act ; by extending and reorga nising our military forces ; by increasing our navy at once in strength and efficiency—we shall only be taking a leaf out of the French. book. They cannot quarrel with us for emulating their own wise preparedness. If we need but one additional and irresistible incentive to the proposed increase of trouble and expenditure—that one supplementary and conclusive incentive may be found in those two thrilling words of warning with which Lord LYNDHURST closed his superb ha rangue— Vee victis ! words (as the noble and learned lord observed) of an import so solemn and so significant! This afternoon Sir CHARLES WooD, of all men in the world, with what we are fain to call at once the most consummate effrontery—has upon the papers of the House of Commons three notices of motion, demanding under this very date Mereurii, 6e die Judd, 1859, three " Returns"—returns hav ing reference not to his present (the Indian), but to his former (the ,Naval) Department of her MA JESTY'S Administration. The first of these suicidal notices of motion has reference to the screw steamers, demanding, in fact, under this head—a " return of the number of screw ships and vessels of her MAJESTY'S Navy afloat on the let day of Feb ruary in the years 1855 and 1858." The second is for a " return of the ships and vessels added to the navy between the 31st day of March, 1858, and the Ist day \of June, 1859, distinguishing those which were added in accordance with the general scheme of works for the year, and those which were added in consequence of subsequent orders ; and also of the frigates and sloops which would, have been launched according to the general scheme of works for 1858-9, but which were deferred on account of the men being removed to convert ships of the line." Tho third, having reference 'to the dock yards, is for a " return of the sums *voted, and of the sums expended for wages in the dockyards in . the years 1857-8 and 1858-9 ; showing in the lat ter year the sum inserted in the ori'ginal, in the revised, and supplemental estimates." The remark able curiosity evinced. by Sir CHARM s WOOD for precise and reliable information upon - these heads —is really only comparable, to our - .thinking, to the renowned inquisitiveness with whi( :At a monkey once upon a time (a monkey worthy o. F commemo ration by the pen of PILPAY) stretching its head eagerly round the muzzle c f' a piece of ordnance, peering anxiously down th 13 iron per spective [to see precisely what might c ome out of t], appliecta lighted match to the tone I L-hole! The prolonged expectation of another and it may be a final pitched battle may soon "cc 11 ne off," as the phrase goes ; for the Austrians as 1 : evidently Preparing for a desperate hazard r lt or about Ver ona, where they have the advanta g :e :of a large fortifi e d camp be on the right of the Adig :7 !. If they able to hold their ground, it ma : 7. serve to paralyse th e advance of the Allies 1.1 )r a time, but only f ore time, for there is lit t le chance against th e daring of the Fret .c h, now flushed with the ard our o f v i c t or y, an d conquer ing on under the - very eye of NAPOL EON, who rewards deeds of va l our on the very spt achievement. Thi s t o a soldier is d et it as life, while its immediate effCe valent to a muster-r o ll of on the an 50,000 fi 1 a One customer who pay s hi s way is i: l ined more than a dozen who trade o n " tl . e K. 1 " : y l t ios t f r troops i p lej s fri ; iSo it proves in war. A man who feels that 1 • as E xertions are sure of immediate reward and prof ~ d acknow ledgment, will dare the very devil, for glory, and his example best serves to stimulate others, so that an army fighting under such I 31 art - stirrinr , enthusiasm moves on to battle, reg: AN lless of all consequences but victory. " They march to death with militar y glee , "' It is in this consists the 'grand secret o f F rent h suc cess, and the EMPEROR knows his i nen too weil to let their ardour cool : no—he fans the flame -till the THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 6, 1859, LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office ;-- PARIS, JULY G. The Moniteur contains the follwing : " COCHIN-CHINA, SAIGON, April 22.—We have attacked the army of Annam, 10,000 strong. Be fore defeating the enemy we took a fort mounting 19 cannon or swivel-guns. " The loss of the enemy was 500 killed; our loss .4 killed and 30 wounded-7 of them severely." TRIESTE, JULY 5. An Austrian Prize Court has been established at Zara, the appeal from which is to lie to therourt at Trieste. General Clam-Gallas, commander of a corps 'armee, has arrived here from Verona. MARSEILLES, JULY 5. Advices have been received from Naples to the 2d inst. Prince 011ojano has been despatched to the Court of St. James on a reciprocal mission to that of Mr. Elliot to the Court of the King of the Two Sicilies. Advices have also been received from Rome to the 2d inst. The Giornale di Roma protests against the reports published of the massacre at Perugia, and promises a detailed account of what has really happened there. BERNE, JULY 5. The Austrians have withdrawn from Bormio, abandoning their provision chests and cattle. The Piedmontese are advancing towards the Stelvio pass. A letter from Berlin gives the following analysis of the circular addressed by the Prussian Govern ment on the 19th of June to the German Cabinets on the subject of the mobilization :—" The despatch says that by mobilisation Prussia takes a position in conformity with the exigencies of her present situation, without abandoning the moderate prin ciples which she entertains. The warlike prepara tions of Prussia, which are in accord with the military institutions necessitating the calling out of the iandwehr for the formation of the army, give to the voice of Prussia a weight in conformity with the increasing importance of the situation. The theatre of the war approaches the southern frontiers of Germany. The security of Germany and the dignity of Paris are sufficient reaso s for causing her to place her warlike pi l , - parations on the same footing as those of her neighbours. But Prussia has also duties to fulfil towards her allies, and the initiative taken in Ger many augments the obligations arising from them. Those duties, for example, require her to claim for the common country its just share of influence. A European question, so closely bound up with the European equilibrium, cannot be solved with out the adhesion and co-operation of Germany. The policy of Prussia remains what it was at the beginning of the Italian crisis, but she has raised her means of influence to the height of the situa tion. The object of Prussia is to put an end to the war which menaces the repose of Europe, to assure the influence of Germany, to unite in a common action her forces and those of her allies, and to pre vent dissensions in Germany. ' Prussia is resolved to pursue her task of pacification, and to establish peace on equitable and lasting bases. A letter from Solferino, dated June 27, says:— Having surmounted many difficulties on the day after the battle, I arrived here with the object of inspecting the plain, now famous in the military annals of Italian independence. The thousands who fell on the memorable day of Friday last were not yet all buried, so that I could see with my own eyes the dreadful and heartrending traces of that battle of giants. Many gallant fellows, who are now at rest, can yet be seen both here and at San Martino, stripped naked, and waiting for their last receptacle, which the gravediggers are preparing for them. The number of bodies being so great, hundreds of peasants of Rivoltel la , San P ietro, San Martino, Solferino, and Cavriana w ere enlisted to perform that painful duty. The scene presented by this mournful field is more affecting than that of Magenta. Not only was the slaughter far greater, but the intense heat of the season has, corrupted the bodies to a dreadful extent, and all the noble features of men's faces have been hideously decom posed by the process of putrefaction. As you may easily imagine, the stench has polluted the air Ito such a degree, that the surrounding vil lages are in great danger of typhus. Some c ases of that terrible disease have already been noticed in the hospital of Castiglione delle Stiviere, and amongst the rural population of Poz zolengo and Castel Venzago. The local and mili tary authorities have of course taken all necessary precautions, as for instance, that of spreading great quantities of lime both over the ground and within the graves, but they have yet been unsuccessful in checking the pestilential exhalations. The largest number of dead bodies said to be seen is at a place called San Martino, a strong position, where the Austrians had entrenched themselves during the night of Thursday. But, before entering on any details connected with the great fig ht which has been called by the Emperor the Battle of Solferino, let me describe, as briefly as possible, the nature and configuration of the ground on which it has been fought. From Lonato to Rivoltella the road, often not more than three or four Italian miles from the shore of the Lake of Garda, proceeds in several places through narrow defiles dug by nature through the chalky earth. Along the hilly part of the coun try, which, inclining towards the right, leads to Castiglione delle Stiviere, Pozzolengo, Solferino, San Cassiano, Cavriana, and Volta, may be seen a number of hamlets, farms, villages, and villas, sometimes high above the road, sometimes on its level or sunk deep in the valleys. Almost all of these villas are in the old Italian style, and are generally entered by the lofty arched gate so common in Italian country places of the sixteenth century. The gardens of these houses are generally gay with bowers, trellised walks, and the brightest profusion of trees, flowers, and shrubs. The traveller from Verona or from Riva will have seen the first speci mens of these gardens and villas on the Riviera di Garda. Imagine almost all the buildings from Valleggio to San Martino turned by the Austrians into a series of small fortresses. The hamlets had been fortified, and the gates of the villas barricaded as well as the streets of the villages. In point of fact, it was a vast entrenched camp, which the hilly nature of the soil rendered still stronger and more formidable. At the beginning of the past week, while the Austrians were supposed to be in full retreat towards the Mincio, they had erected between Valleggio and Goito twelve large wooden bridges, upon which their strong battalions were ordered to cross the river. A part of their army, which from the command of Count Gyulai had passed to the more able control of Gen. Schlick, as adlatus of Francis Joseph, had been placed in the fortified positions I have mentioned above, with .the double object of covering the crossing of the Mincio, and there making a stand if attacked by the allies. The vigorous military operations of General Schlick, who no doubt had been advised by Baron (less, were so successfully carried into effect that the Emperor and the King had the scent of them scarcely two or three hours before the action began. You will not have forgotten how, on Thursday evening, twelve hours before the deadly struggle had been commenced, I wrote to you from Lonato, where the headquarters of Victor Emmanuel had been established ; y ou w ill likewise remem ber that nothing of what I was then writing re ferred to the possibility of an i mm i n ent engage raentiThe fact is, that the secresy with which the Austrian movement had been accomplished had dissipated all alarm, and we expected to have no thing to do with the Austrians till we had arrived on the Mincio. This feeling of security on our part was so great that when, at 3 o'clock on Friday morning, scouts appeared at the Piedmontese headquarters stating that the enemy intended to attack our left wing, General La Rocca, the chief of Victor Emmanuel's staff, would not believe them, and treated the report as a pure invention. Happily enough, he had already decided on mov ing at dawn, and had taken all precautions required by the gravity of the circumstances. When his Majesty left Lonato our columns were already marching from Rivoltella towards San Martino, proceeding through those defiles -which skirt the hills facing the vast plain of Medole and Castiglione delle Stiviere. Our fifth division, which had been warned to be on its guard, was the ' first to meet the enemy's right wing, which, screened by the slopes of the hills, was marching in our direc tion. The action was thus carried on on our extreme left, which at that time was perhaps too feeble to support the shock of an overpowering force. It was received by a deadly fire of artillery, coming from four batteries on the right, which were pouring a shower of grape and canister. This division was compelled to stop, but inless than an hour, dividing itself into two columns, rushed to the assault, and succeeded in turning the flank of the enemy's posi tion, so that the way was cleared, and its onward march continued. Meanwhile, General Cucchiari had arrived at San Martino, a small hamlet stand ing on a steep hill and commanding the narrow defile from which Cucchiari's division was proceed ing: That position was defended by two Austrian divisions belonging to General Benedek's corps d'armee, and it was bravely defended too. In order that you may appreciate the courage of both parties, and the obstinacy of that deadly struggle, you ought to know that the first attack on San Martino had begun at seven o'clock in the morning, and that the position was not conquered and main tained until eight o'clock in the evening. During the course of those 13 hours San Martino had fallen six times into the hands of Cucchiari's division, and six times it had been retaken by the Austrians, till the last assult, assomplished at 8 o'clock, was deci sive in our favour. This is only one of the bloody episodes cf that memorable day. The deadly con test was equally fierce at Solferino, Cavriana, Pozzo lengo, Castellaro, Laguzzello, Monte Oliveto, and down in the plain as far as Medole. All these posi tions were defended by the Austrians with an obsti nate and unflinching courage ; all were carried by French and Piedmontese with a heroism which can only be compared to that which distinguished the days of Borodino and Saragossa. The Piedmontese columns of attack were led by generals and colonels; those of the French by marshals. The two allied monarchs were always in the thick of the fight. General La Marmora, one of the ablest military leaders of our time, was the first to enter Pozzo lengo, whilst Fanti, Durando, and Cucchiari, indeed each of the Piedmontese generals,had two or three orderly officers either killed or wounded by his side. The Piedmontese artillery did wonders ; the Ber saglieri and the two regiments of the Guard emu lated the valour of the famous Zouaves in storming the numerous positions of the enemy. On the French side General, now Marshal Niel, was the hero of the day, for ‘ though attacked by superior forces in the vicinity t f Medole, he was so successful in resisting the enemy's left wing, that he compelled it to bend upon its centre three hours after he had been attacked in the plain by the Austrians. By his wonderful success, Niel succeeded in frustrating the able plan of Gen. Schlick, which was that of severinc , the two allied armies and beating them separately. Instead of outflanking Niel's corps d'armee the Austrians were compelled to throw themselves on their centre towards the chain of those already famous hills, from which, if not routed, they were obliged to retire before the day was over. The deadly struggle, which was only suspended for an hour by the interruption of a tremendous hurricane, had begun at 5 c'clock in the morning, and was not over till dusk. Thirty of the enemy's guns, three flags, and 6,000 prisoners had by that time fallen into our hands. More than half of the guns were captured by the Piedmontese. As for the losses which the two opposing armies have sustained, I think they are not far short of 30,000 men placed hors de combat—an enormous loss when we consider that 300,000 men were actually engaged on both sides during the battle. The official returns of the Piedmontese army are now before me, and you may judge by these the dreadful slaughter on that me morable day. The first division had 6 officers arid 97 rank and file killed ; 25 of the first and 600 of the second wounded. The third division, 13 officers and 181 rank and file killed; 50 officers and 1,028 soldiers wounded. In the fifth division, which suffered the most, 19 officers were killed, and 62 wounded ; 279 rank and file killed, and 1,264 wounded. Another division had as many officers killed and woun decl, and more than 1,300 soldiers hors de combat. The bat talions of Bersaglieri have lost nearly all their officers, and had 500 soldiers hors de combat. Col. Beretta, of the 7th Regiment of the line, was killed; and two other colonels—one of artillery, Count Balegno—also lost their lives. General Arnoldo and two other generals were wounded; three had their horses killed under them. Four of the enemy's generals were also killed, together with half a score of the colonels and majors, We may therefore conclude that the battle of Solferino was one of the grea test which has been fought in our century. The Emperior of Austria was at Pozzolerigo when the fight began, but after an hour he started for Cavriana, from which place he retired when the battle was over. The enemy began to retreat at six o'clock, and succeeded in recrossing the Mincio in perfeA order. The last column of the Austrian army had scarcely passed the river at Goito when the stone bridge of that village was blown up, and the last means of communication with the left bank of the river destroyed. The hard fighting of Friday last has so much fatigued our soldiers that the army wants some days' rest before it will be able to re-assume its offensive operations. I think Peschiera will soon. be attacked. Prince Napoleon's corps d'armee is already on the right bank of the Po. Both the Emperor Napoleon and the King are anxious to precipitate the conclusion of the war in order to take in hand the Roman question, which, after the infamous priestly slaughter at Perugia, is become fraught with danger. I think the atrocities per petrated by order of the Pope in that town have been the cause of Count Cavour's presence in the allied camp. Yesterday his Excellency had a long interview with the Emperor and the King, and left last night for Turin in company of one of the youngest and ablest of the Piedmontese diploma tists,Cavaliere Nigra, who, since 1857, has acted as his secretary. FRANCE. Private letters from the headquarters of Prince Napoleon state that another great battle on the banks of the Adige is expected; and that the Aus trians were believed to have about 200,000 men in line. A captain of a regiment of infantry, engaged at Solferino, has written to his family in Paris, that such was the ardour of the French troops that in the afternoon, when the order was given to charge one of the last positions held by the Aus trians, the colonel told his men to leave their knap sacks on the ground, and that such as were too exhausted to advance might remain to guard them. Not a man, however, would avail himself of the permission, and the Colonel was forced to tell off a certain n umber of men, and to insist upon their remaining behind, very much to their disappoint ment. The 73d Regiment of the Line, commanded by Colonel O'Malley, of Vinoy's diviiinn, lost 15 offi cers and 150 men killed. The Colonel himself was slightly hurt in the leg. Volunteers are at present engaged in Paris for organising fresh battalions of Zouaves, and such is the desire of the soldiers here to be employed in active service that a considerable number of non commissioned officers have applied to be permited to form part ofthat body even as privates. Official reports from the seat of war are most satis factory, The Sardinian army will have the honour of taking Peschier, aided of course by the French gun-boat artillery, which has been tried, although up to this day serious operations had not commenced. The Emperor Napoleon will direct operations against Verona. Marshal Canrobert is at Goito with his men, whilst 111‘,11ahon commands at Valeggio. Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers is co-operating with the Piedmontese. Operations in the Adriatic have commenced. This day (Tuesday) a considerable force was landed some distance from the city of Venice. The Emperor of Austria has not left the seat of war. He is employed in concentrating all the forces of the empire; and according to despatches which reached Paris to-day he will fight to the last for his Italian dominions. The Empress Regent having been informed by M. de Monique, Prefect of the Gironde, of the vote of the municipality of Bordeaux in favour of the Army of Italy, caused the following letter to be addressed by the Minister of the Interior to that functionary : " Monsieur le Prefet,—The Empress has deigned to hand to me the letter which you sent on the subject of the vote of 20,000 f. by the Municipal Council of Bordeaux for the wounded of the Army of Italy. Her Majesty has been much gratified by the patriotic sentiments which animated the Municipal Council on this occasion. Have the kindness to be the interpreter of her thanks, and to make known that the Government has laid it down as an absolute rule is the sure result. True, they may suffer severely ; but then the charm of triumph over-balances every consideration, if they every stay to consider at all. Their native enthusiasm burns up like wild fire, and they rush on, feeling that " They can but die, and die but once, Examples to the world !" While the Austrians are collecting their scattered forces into another grand army, the French are by no means idle, for reinforcements are hurrying along from every quarter, all eager to share the glory and partake the dangers of the day. If the Austrians be defeated, then Verona falls as an immediate consequence ; Vicenza will open its gates and Venice must surrender in the very terror of its approaching fate, while the rest of Lombardy to the distant verge and confines of the Indian Alps, will bid the retreating Austrians a hearty, abrupt—but eternal bad bye. The Session and the Ballot. We have heard from a source which leaves us no room for doubt, that yesterday evening a meeting of members favourable to the, Ballot was called in the tea-room of the House of Commons, to consider the question of the mode of introducing the Ballot this session ; and that, by the smallest possible majority, in a rather small meeting, it was agreed to introduce it in no mode whatever, but to defer till the ensuing session, when the Reform Bill is to he brought forward, any motion on the subject• We are told that there was no want of earnestness among those present; that Mr. BERKELEY espe cially was very desirous to introduce the subject to the house while so many members were yet feeling pungently the evils which the Ballot alone can prevent ; that all the Irish members who spoke were decidedly of opinion that the extension of the suffrage in Ireland, unaccompanied by the Ballot, would be a curse, and not a blessing ; but that, by ;he very small majority indicated above, to which _ . . the two hundred and thirty-eight left the decision, it was thought best to defer the motion till " a more convenient season"—a season, which divines say, never comes. We are informed, also, that we shall soon hear— probably on Friday night, on the usual motion for adjournment—the reasons which make procrastina tion desirable. The Thames, the heat, and the partridges, we suppose, will be prominent among legislatorial considerations. Though such ardent friends of the Ballot, we are not of the impracticable class. Still, till we hear more authoritatively " the reason why," we can think of no good ones. Mr. BERKELEY is certainly right in what we are told was his own view of the case ; and though, we suppose, he must yield to a majority of any body with whom he acts, yet we must think that his followers ought to have listened to the counsels of their acknowledged leader. Of one thing we are quite confident—that there is a natural and fair desire throughout the country to know what the members of the new Parliament think on the Reform, on which alone all Reformers outside the house are in entire unanimity. If it be not too late, we should strongly counsel reconsideration in a larger meeting of Liberal members. Were Mr. JAMES WYLD in the house the subject could not be evaded ; and it will be hard if, because the want of the Ballot has—temporarily only, we hope — deprived him of his seat, the members should dis . perse unshrived on the most important of all Reforms. COURT ARRANGEMENTS. We believe we are correct in stating that her Majesty has no intention of foregoing her usual visit to the Highlands this summer, as stated by our Windsor correspondent in yesterday's impression. The present arrangements of the Court are as follow : On Thursday the King of the Belgians and the Count de Flandre will leave Buckingham Palace on their return to Brussels. On Friday the Queen and the Prince Consort, with the Princess Alice, will leave town for the Royal Pavilion at Aldershot, where her Majesty will remain until Monday. On Sunday the Queen will attend Divine service in the North Camp Church. The younger branches of the royal family will proceed on Thursday direct from London to Osborne, where her Majesty will arrive on Monday. On Wednesday next the Prince of Wales will leave Lon don for Holy rood, where his royal highness will sojourn until the arrival of his illustrious parents in Scotland, when the Prince will accompany the Queen to Balmoral, It is not expected that her Majesty will remain in the Highlands this season more than three weeks. A royal vist to Dublin and the Lakes of Killarney is con templated, but the state of affairs on the Continent will decide whether or not her Majesty can accomplish this trip during the present season. SURREY' THEATRE. On Monday night a new melodrama, entitled " The Masked Mother; or, the Hidden Hand," was produced here with eminent success. The piece was preceded by the first four acts of " The Merchant of Venice," one of the most finished productions of Shakespeare—the part o Shylock being sustained ty Mr. Hermann Vizen, who is nightly adding to his well-won fame. The character of Shylock seems to have been fated to erroneous misconcep tion for many years. Macklin first rescued the part from buffoonery ; Cooke improved upon his. personation ; and the elder Kean infused feeling into it, but did not divest it of the strong traits of avarice and revenge exhibited in the delineations of his predecessor. Inferior actors have copied these great artistes, and Shylock has become a kind of stereotyped representation on the stage, differing only in the varied shades of capacity each actor brings to the task. With Mr. Vezin we are. pleased to see it otherwise. He looks upon Shylock as the representative of the whole race of despised. and persecuted Jews at the period antecedent and at the time when Shakespeare wrote, and not as one solely animated by avarice and revenge. In his famous speech to Antonio, in the first act, in the terrific outbreak of his passion when bereft of his daughter, and in the trial scene especially, he invested the part with a sublimity tha t claimed our highest admiration. There he stood the un bending, inflexible type of a race no wrongs, no contumelies, could overcome ; and not merely the sordid villain usually presented on the stage. In the earlier scenes of the play he was equally fine. Where Tubal informs Shylock his daughter had given a certain ring in exchange for a monkey, he gave the following lines with intense pathos : " Out upon her 1 thou torturest me, Tubal ; it was my turquoise ; I had it from Leah when I was a bachelor ; would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys." The great beauty of Mr. Vezin's conception of the part is that the separate grades of the charaeter are marked as they are developed in each scene, and thus a succession of contrasted effects are produced, at once grand, original, and impressive. The Bassanio of Mr. Calvert was a careful piece of acting ; so was Mr. Cooper's Gratiano and Mr. Nevill's old Gobbo ; but Mr. Marshall's Launcelot was a decided mistake, to say the least of it. Mrs. Vezin deserves high praise for her Portia, and she gave the celebrated mercy-speech with fine effect; and Miss Cuthbert, as Nerissa, acted with much archness and vivacity. The spirited manner in which Mr. Calvert is redeeming the promise he gave at the commencement. of his mana gerial reign is worthy the highest commendation ; and we hope he will have no cause to regret the bold attempt he is making to revive the taste for the "legitimate" at the Surrey. THE NAVY ESTIMATES. The following is an abstract of the navy estimates, and the further supple mental estimate, with the sums already voted on account, and the sums remaining to be voted :—Wages to seamen a nd marines, £2,966,757; victuals for do., £1,242,859; Ad miralty-office, £145,957 ; Coast Guard Servic, Royal Naval Coast Volunteers, and Royal Naval Reserve, £286,057 ; scientific branch, £61,358 ; her Majesty's establishments at home, £153,089 ; her Majesty's establishments abroad, £28,083 ; wages to artificers, &c., in her Majesty's estab lishments at home, £1,527,782 ; wages to artificers, &c., in her Majesty's establishments abroad, £54,330 ; naval stores, &c., for the building and repair of ships, &c , £2,817, 130 ; new works, improvements, &c., in the yards, &c., £647,, 411• medicines and medical stores, £60,000 ; miscellaneous ser vices, £74,221; half-pay, reserved half-pay, and retirement to officers of the navy and Royal Marines, £718,311; mili tary pensions and allowances, £483,957 ; and civil pensions and allowances, £163,416. To these items there is to be added :1246,000 for conveyance of troops, and £1,006,337 for packet service, making a total of £12,682,055, of which £1,877,278 includes the supplementary estimate. Of this s um £6,311,7 23 h as already been voted, and £6,370,332 re mains to be voted. GliAer were bathing D . — n O g n at t he Sunday mouth w Southhi l e three E s kv r t er young melt Two BATHERS Dltep. v at Montrose, two of them, Robert Rej4, mason, and David Christie, an apprentice tailor, were drawn lout by the strong receding tide, and before assistance could be ren.lered they had disappeared. During the day a search was made for the bodies, but without success. The other lad, a writer's clerk, received assistance, and was saved, although in a state of utter insensibility. He has now, ily, recovered.-oSeetsman. oTY happi not to accept any subscription coming from the communal funds. A circular to that effect is about to be sent to all the prefects. " DUKE DE PADOUE." PARIS BOURSE, July s.—The market was buoy ant at the opening, and prices kept improving. A check was afterwards given to the upward move ment by sales for realisation. Threes rose from 63f. 95c. to 64f. 40c., and are now at 64f. Mobi lier varied from 700 f. to 685 f. ; Orleans, 1,270 f. to 1,265 f.. ; Lyons, 845 f. to 842 f. 50c. ; Northern, 925 f. to 920 f. ex. div. (36f.) ; Southern, 490 f. to 485 f. ex. div. (10f.) ; Austrian, 460 f. to 452 f. 50c. ex. div. (17f.) ; Lombardo-Venetian, 495 f. to 485 f. The following were the last quotations:— 4i, per Cents. 94 75 Credit Foncier.... 623 75 Do. end month — I Belgian 42 . — 3 per Cents 64 Piedmontese (5) .. Do. end month 63 95 Roman Bank Shares 2720 Austrian 82 50 Credit Mobilier 685 Spanish Threes .. Do. Account 685 Home Debt 38 75 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto BlO .. 810 Lyons and Mediterranean B4O .. 842 50 Geneva 495 .. 496 Southern Western . 530 .. 620 Eastern Sardinian — .. 395 Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 12 3 / 4 0. ; money, 25f 9c. ; three months, paper, 24f. 971 c.; money, 24f. 95c. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWARKET JULY MEETING—TUESDAY. Match, £l,OOO, £3OO ft, Bst 21b each. Chesterfield Course 3 fur. 212 yds. Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Loiterer, by Stockwell..(Fordham) Mr. F. Robinson's Apollo (A. Day) 2 Betting-6 to 4on Apollo. The non-favourite made the running, and won easily by a length and a half. Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs each, and only 5 ft if de clared, &c., to go to the second horse. New T.Y.C. 5 fur. 136 yds. 6 subs., 3of whom pay 5 sovs each. Baron Rothschild's Mentmore f 4 yrs, 9st 61b.... (Wells) 1 Duke of Bedford's Killigrew, 4 yrs, Bst 61b.. (S. Rogers) 2 Mr. S. Williams's Merry May, 3 yrs, sst 101 b .. (Daley) 3 Betting-6 to 4 agst Mentmore, 7to 4 agst Killigrew, 3 to 1 agst Merry May. Won easily by three-quarters of a length ; a length and a-half between the second and third. The July Stakes, a subscription of 50 sovs each, 30 ft, for 2-yr-olds; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 51b; the second to save his stake. New T.Y.C. 40 subs. Lord Portsmouth's Buccimeer, Bst 71b (J. Goater) 1 Mr. W. S. S. Crawfurd's Nicholas, Bst 71b (Flatman) 2 Duke of Beaufort's Blue Ruin, Bst 71b (A. Day) 3 The following also ran: Golden Pippin, Loiterer, Mazeppa, Harijdan, Lady Falconer, King of Diamonds, and Thessalian. Betting-6 to 4 agst Buccaneer, sto 1 agst Nicholas,"B to 1 agst Thessalian, 10 to 1 agst Loiterer. After going a short distance Buccaneer sailed away in front, followed by Nicholas and Blue Ruin. From the time of descending the hill the race was not in doubt, for the favourite running wide on the left, won by eight lengths ; half a length between the second and third ; King of Diamonds was a bad fourth, Thessalian fifth. The last two were Harridan and Mazeppa. Match, 100, h ft. Last half-mile of New T.Y.C. Sir J. Hawley's Twang, by Longbow, Bst 71b ... (Wells) 1 Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Empire, Bst 41b . (Fordham) 2 Betting-6 and 7t04 on Empire. A fine race, won by a head. Handicap Plate of £5O. .B.M. 7 fur., 196 yds. Baron Rothschild's Bastion, by Leopold, 3 yrs, 7st 31b .(Musgrove) - 1 Mr. Angell's Ochiltree, 3 yrs, Est 101b........(Seamans)t 2 Sir W. Booth's Artless, 3 yrs, 7st 91b (Cunnington) 3 The following also ran :—Gourd, Hebe, The Poacher, Ynysymaengwyn, Little Nat, and Eyebright filly. Betting-3 to 1 agst Ochiltree, 4to 1 agst Eyebright filly, 6 to 1 agst Bastion. A dead heat. The others pulling up, were headed by Artless, who was a bad third. Deciding Heat.—Betting 5 to 4 on Bastion, who won by a head. * Fordham rode Bastion, and Custance Ochiltree, in the deciding heat. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each ; for two-year-olds, 7st ; three, 9st 21b ; fillies and geldings allowed 31b ; the winner to be sold for 150 sovs, if demanded, &c. New T.Y.C. 3 subs. Mr. Barne's Fontarabia, by Orlando, 3 yrs, Bst 131 b (Flatman) 1 Mr. G. Fleming's filly, by Connaught Ranger, out of Pegotty's dam, 2 yrs, 6st 111 b (Custance) 2 Lord Strathmore's colt, by Whaley, out of Ravenstone dale's dam, 2 yrs, 7st (Teretta) ,3 Won by half a length. BETTING ON THE COURSE. DERBY. 12 to 1 agst Mainstone (taken) 14 to 1 agst Buccaneer (taken) 900 to 30 agst Canezou colt (taken) 1000 to 30 agst Brother to Rainbow (taken) - . We are requested to state that the last race on Thursday will be at three o'clock, and that the special train will leave at four. CARLISLE.-TUESDAY. The Corby Castle Stakes of 5 soya each, with 50 added; 2-yr-olds, Est 71b; 3-yr-olds, Bst 71b; m and g allowed 31b. 6 furlongs. Mr. Dawson nas Montrose, 2 yrs .. (Madden) 1 Mr. Forster's The Wren, 2 yrs (S. Forster) 2 Mr. Eastwood's Buttercup, 3 yrs (51bex.) (J. Snowden) 3 Logie o' Buchan's dam,colt, filly by Rarnton, and Tur nus colt also ran. Betting-5 to 4 agst Buttercup, sto 2 agst Montro se, and 4 to 1 agst any other. Buttercup, with the Logie o'Buchan's dam colt at her heels, made the running for about a quarter of a mile. Coming round the home turn, Montrose, on the outside, deprived Buttercup of the lead, was never after wards headed, and won easily by a neck. The City Plate of 30 soya, added to a handicap of 5 sovs each, 3 ft, all ages. Six furlongs. Mr. West's Rachel, by Daniel O'Rourke, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (Challoner) 1 Mr. T. Dawson's Annie, 2 yrs, Est 21b (Madden) 2 Mr. Jackson's Knayton, 2 yrs, 7st llb . (Grimahaw) 3 CrOsby and Susanna also ran. Betting—Even on Rachel, 5 to 2 agst Annie, and 7 to 2 agst Knayton. After four attempts, in all of which Knayton, Rachel, and Crosby showed temper, a straggling start was effected Crosby going to the front, with Rachel lying in his wake; Susannah, who got off a long way behind, whipping in: By the river side Rachel and Knayton passed Crosby. On entering the distance, the race was confined to the three placed, and Rachel ultimately won by a short head only. Three-quarters of a length between second and third. ACCEPTANCES for the Pox mile. The highest weight it has been raised to Bst 121' tion. Age st Ibl Bourgeois a 8 12 Prince of Denmark (inc. Sibs ex.) • • 4 8 6 King of Scotlan4. • 6 8 1 Jack S pr ing (mc. 81bs ex.......' 5 7 13 Vora. .... 47 13 Sta of the East 4 7 12 Tarred (inc. Blbs ex.) . Glen Eagle. Willie Wright 3 6 12 The Cumberland Plate of 100 sovs, added to a handicap quarter.st 71b sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, 5 ft, an d 3 on l y if d ec l are d. Two miles and a Mr. Lloyd nd Paul, 3 yrs, Mr. Williams nd Ronconi, 4 y rs , 6 s t (i n . 61b ( ex.)J . Do (Littley Doyle) ) 1 2 Mr. W. Hudson's S ecre t T reasure, 3 y rs , o s t 5 (Grimshaw) 3 The following also ran :—Borderer, Trip the Daitiy, Go a-Head, Prince of Denmark, and Maggie. Betting-2 to 1 agst Paul, 4to 1 agst Ronconi, sto 2 agst Borderer, 6 to 1 agst Prince of Denmark, and 8 to 1 agst !any other. Borderer was the first to show in advance, but in a few strides Ronconi passed him, with Paul, Maggie, and the others in a ruck at their heels. Going down the hill Ronconi was still at the head, at the bottom Paul and Borderer changed places, the former lying close up to the leader, Prince of Den • mark and Go-ahead, on passing along the river's edge, being a long way astern. Coming into the straight run Ronconi, Paul, and Borderer still held command, and in this order they passed the Stand the second time round. The Shepherd's Turn being gained Secret Treasure slightly improved her position, and Go-ahead, in making an effort for the front, ran against Trip the Daisy, and Mr. Bowes's mare came down on her head, thereby extinguishing whatever chance she possess p e a d nl Pass ing down the hill the colours of Ronconi, Secret Treasure, Borderer, and Trip the Daisy were il conspicu ous. No materia l chan g e took place unt the dis tance, when Paul came to the van, was not again headed, and won very easily by two lengths. Half a length between second and third ; the same between third and fourth. Trip the Daisy was fifth, Go-ahead sixth, M agg i e sev enth, and Prince of 'lDenmark the absolute last, being pulled up at the distance. The Holm Hill Stakes of 5 sove each, with 25 a dd e d . Si x fur. Mr. Hepple's Ch a llenger, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b (X3O) .. (Ward) 1 Mr. Dawson 's Premium, 3 yrs, 7st 31b (X3O) .. (Bullock) 2 Betting-5 to 2on Premium. Challenger made all the running, and won in a canter by two lengths. The winner, entered to be sold for £3O, was bought in for 38 guineas. The Grand Stand Handicap of 50 Boys for all ages. Once round. Mr. Jackson's Lottery, by Lord Lieutenant, 3 yrs, Est (Challoner) 1 Mr. Aspinall's Susannah, 3 yrs, sst 121 b .... (S. Foster 2 Mr. Kirkpatrick's Wellington, 4 yrs, 7st.. (L. Snowden) 3 The following also ran :—Rachel, M a uchline, Kennedy. Betting—Even on Lottery, 5 to 2 agst Mauchline, and 4 to 1 agst any other. Lottery led, with Rachel and Ken nedy for his companions. Along the flat, by the river side, Challoner took a pull at Lottery, and indulged Kennedy with the lead. At the bottom turn Lottery again assumed 'the command, and won, hard held, by a length ; three lengths between the second and third ; Rachel finished a head in advence of Mauchline. The races terminated at 20 minutes to 6 o'clock. [TEPRACT HANDICAP. One accepting being under 7st 91b, lb, and the others in propor- Age st lb Archduchess 3 6 12 Red Eagle 3 6 11 Birdbolt 3 6 10 L0ttery......... 3 6 9 Harefoot 3 6 8 Daniel (inc. Sibs ex) 3 6 5 Susannah 3 6 3 Gaylass .. ......... 3 6 3 Attraction Northumberland Duchess 3 5 11 LAW INTE 'THIS DAY.) WHITECHAPEL COUNTY COURT. LITIGATION EXTRAORDINARY.-LlOO COSTS.-DEBT • £.B 165.—F0X T. HURLEY. This case has been before the judge of the Whitechape County Court no less than thirteen times since February, 1859, and is of the following character. Plaintiff is a loan office keeper, of Whitechapel, and defendant is the widow of one Daniel Hurley, deceased, formerly of the Bank of England. Some little time before his death, Mr. Hurley borrowed a sum of money from plaintiff upon a promissory note, it is said to pay the premium due uponhis policy of insurance upon his life. Shortly after the death of Mr. Hurley, which occurred within a month or two of this borrowing, plaintiff asked Mrs. Hurley, the defendant, for his money, as she had received some from the Insur ance office. Mrs. Hurley said that she had no assets and all themoney had been disbursed in payment of deceased's debts. Feeling that he should have been paid, plaintiff took out a summons on the 13th January of the present year. This summons was appointed for hearing on 3d February, when it was adjourned at plaintiff's instance. On the 10th of February, the day appointed for the adjourned hearing, a verdict was pased quando acciderunt. On the 14th of March execution was levied. On the 18th the execu tion was withdrawn as premature, by order of the, judge. On the 18th of March a summons was taken out to compel defendant to show assets. On the 12th of April that summons was heard and dismissed. On the 13th of April plaintiff gave notice of application for a new trial, and on the 21st the order for a new trial was made. On thei 10th of May defendant was too ill to be examined, and was: ordered to pay £4 15s. 4d., a sum adjudged to be in her hands unaccounted for. On the 21st of May defendant gm() notice of an application to vary the order on proof of disbursements exceeding the , X 4 15s. 4d. On the 31st of May, defendant's attorney being absent, defendant was condemned in costs, £1 17s. 6d. Yesterday, the sth of July, an interpleader summons was heard, a person named West appearing as claimant of the property seized in execution. Mr. Barry, instructed by Mr. Perry, of Moorgate-street, rose on the part of the claimant, but Mr. Steadman, for the plaintiff and execution creditor, took an objection that, as required by one of the rules, five clear days' notice had not been given by the claimant of the nature of his property in the goods seized, and a list of such goods. Mr. Perry said that on the 29th June the notice was sent per message to the Registrar, but the Court having re moved from Osborne-street to its present site, the messen ger returned, having been unable to fulfil his errand. The notice was then posted on the evening of the 29th. Mr. Steadman contended that the notice should have reached the hands of the High Sheriff five clear days, and that as it had not done so his Honour had no jurisdiction. Mr. Barry said it had been posted and reached the court on the evening of the 29th June. His Honour decided that the notice was not sufficient, and that no cause being before him he could not give costs. If the parties were not satisfied with his law they could apply for a writ of mandamus to compel him to hear the interpleader. This is the last step in this most extraordinary case. The costs on each side have already reached above £5O, and the defendant has brought an action in the superior court for illegal seizure. Party feeling runs very high in this matter, one side alleging that Mr. Fox is an ill-used man, as defendant admits the sum to be due, but says she has no assets, and the other that defendant has been compelled to pay costs when she had no assets as deposed from the+ insurance money. CRIMINAL COURT.( THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice ,Wightman.) THE TRIAL OF DR. SMETHURST. This morning much disappointment was observable irr the court in consequence of the trial of Dr. Smethurst, who stands indicted for do wilful murder of Miss Isabella Bankes, being again postponed. The cause, we believe, which led to such an arrangement was occasioned by its being fully expected that the Lord Chief Justice of England, Sir A. Cockburn, would be occupied the whole of to-day with the Swinfen case in the Court of Exchequer, Guild hall. It was not before all the arrangements for proceeding with the trial of Dr. Smethurst to-morrow morning had been completed, that the Swinfen case was unexpectedly concluded. THE WALWORTH MURDER. William Abraham Moore was indicted for the wilful murder of his wife Sophia, by stabbing her with a knife. The facts of this case have so recently appeared in The Sun that it will be merely sufficient to revive the recollec tion by stating that the prisoner and deceased resided in. Trafalgar-street, Walworth-road, but very unhappily, in consequence of his imagining that his . wife was unfaithful. On the 23d of May, in the evening, a quarrel arose, which lasted till the following morning, when the prisoner, during breakfast, stabbed the unfortunate woman in the back with a common table knife. She lingered for about 70 hours after the injury had been inflicted, and expired in Guy's Hospital, declaring that the suspicions of her husband were totally unfounded. After Moore stabbed his wife, he absconded, and it was not until a reward of £lOO was offered for his apprehension, that he was captured in the vicinity' of Notting-hill. The jury found the prisoner guilty of manslaughter. Sentenced to transportation for life. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. USEFUL CAUTION.—A REGULAR SMASILER:—Edward Walker, alias Franklin, well known to the police as an utterer of counterfeit coin, was charged as follows : Alfred Greayes, barman to Mr. Rosse, of the King's lead, 48, Gerrard-street, Soho, said that at two on the previous afternoon the prisoner came in, called for two pennyworth of gin. and-water, and tendered in payment a counterfeit shilling. Witness told him it would not do, upon which he gave him a good shilling, and on receiving his change he went away. _ _ _ Mr. Bgadon—Did you detain the coin tendered you P The witness said he did not—they should have so many to detain. Mr. Beadon told the witness for the future never to re turn bad money, as it was of the greatest importance that the coins should be produced. The witness went on to say that at a quarter to six pri. soner came again, and, calling for a small quantity of gin, tendered another bad shilling, and he then called his master and gave him into custody. He was positive the second shilling was not the one first tendered—it being of a dif ferent reign. Remanded. THIS DAYS MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of English wheat fresh up to-day were very limited; but we had the bulk of Monday's supply on offer. The trade was in a most inactive state, and, in some in. stances, prices were a shade lower than last week. We were heavily supplied with foreign wheat. Millers generally purchased with extreme caution, and the quota tions were with difficulty supported. In floating cargoes very little was passing. We have to report a slow inquiry for both barley and malt, at late currencies. Oats, the show of which was only moderate, sold slowly, but at full quotations. Beans and peas were almost nominal in price. The flour trade was in a most inactive state, prices, however, no change took place. Oats. Flour. 640 550 6,930 1 80 sko bls ARRIVALS THIS WEEK Wheat. Barley. Malt. English 770 ' 1,130 Irish Foreign.,,.., 4,420 760 I BOROUGH HOP. Our market is very dull, and, although vermin is rather on the increase in some plantations, the duty is called £210,000 to £220,000. The value of hops is almost nominal. WHITECHAPEL. The trade generally ruled very inactive, as follorwg —Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 2d; mutton, 3s 2d to 4s &L; lamb, 4s 8d to 5s 6d ; veal, 3s 10d to 4s 6d ; and pork, 25 Od to 48 8d per 81b., by the carcase. THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, July 6.—Wind this day at noon, W.N.W.; light, pleasant breeze, with fine weather- PORTSMOUTH, July s.—Wind W. to S.W.—Sailed— Her Majesty's ship Locust, for Sheerness. SOUTHAMPTON, July s.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Nor man, screw steamer, for the Cape of Good Hope. PLYMOUTH, July s.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Corso, from Monte Video. Sailed—Copenhagen, for Adelaide, S.A. CARDIFF, July s.—Wind W.N.W.—Sailed—Mary A. 232 Bradford, for Demerara. GRIMSBY, July s.—Sailed—Prince of Wales, for Bahia. QUEENSTOWN, July 4.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived— Orient, from Rangoon. CLYDE, July s.—Wind W. — Arrived —Othello, from St. Jago de Cuba; Greenock, from Mauritius. Sailed — A. S. Tiley, for New York. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAEII.) LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Morning. Wind, N.E Arrived, July s. —lstria, from Buenos Ayres; General Parkhill, from Charleston. Arrived, July 6.—lmperial, screw steamer, from Calcutta; Mocander, screw steamer, from Trieste. GRAVESEND Wednesday Morning. Wind calm:; tide for hour's ebb ; fine. Arrived, July s —Puri, from Eleuthera. Arrived, July 6—Shimmer of the Seas, from Algoa Bay; Bellona, from Calcutta; Dione, from Table Bay; Anne Logan, from Panarra; Indiana, 'from Nelson's Bay; Cow per, from Ipla ; Richard Reynolds, from Memel ; Didbolk, from Trinidad ; L'Ady of the Wave, from Dunkirk ; Rose, from Antwerp ; Redbrugen, from Soderham ; Zetla,nd, from Quebec ; Louise and Samson, from Caen ; Mentor, from Worcum ;, G. D. Dawson, from Cleveland ; Dippe Visser, from Vc(orcum ; Strukshens from Porto Rica ; Oc tavia, from Calcutta. Sailed, .Jull; 6—Miles Standish, for Calcutta ; Belgium, for Ostend.