The Sun. — London, England, 1859-06-20 00:00:00

THE NA VY. The Victoria and Albert Royal steam-yacht, Captain the Hon. J. Denman, is berthed alongside the north quay of the steam basin in Portsmouth yard. She is in the hands of the factory authorities having the necessary repairs to her damaged ma chinery effected. The Sidon, 22, paddlewheel frigate, Capt. Craw ford, in the s hip basin at Portsmouth, has her masts alongside, and will shipthem from the inner sheers of the basin. The Pearl, 21, screw corvette, at Ports-mouth, has been plaeed in the steam basin. She is to be pre pared for the second-class steam reserve. The Duke of Wellington, 131, screw steamship, was undocked at Portsmouth on Saturday, and re moved to the moorings up the harbour. The Melpomene, ST, screw frigate, Capt. Ewart, had her crew paid advance of wages on Friday and left Spithead under steam for Liverpool on Saturday. The Urgent, screw steam troopship, Commander Hire, has been placed in No. 7 dock at Portsmouth. The Neptune, 91, screw steam two-decker, Capt. Sir W. Hoste, Bart. (the first of the " reconstructed" three-decked sailing ships)steamed out of Portsmouth harbour on Saturday in charge of Capt. G. T. Gordon, commanding the steam reserve, to the trial ground in Stokes Bay to test her speed at the measured mile. Mr. G. Murdoch, inspector of machinery afloat, with Mr. Miller, from the steam factory, superin tended the trial. The results gave the ship a speed of 111 knots; draught of water forward, 19 ft. 3 in.; aft, 22 ft. 3 in., without her guns, men, stores , &c. Revolutions engines, 62 ; pressure of steam, 20.5; force of wind, 21 ; temperature in stoke-hole, 104 deg. • barometer, 30.25. The result of the trial is considered highly satisfactory, but as this trial has been made at such a light draught, another will take place when the ship approaches nearer to her sea going trim. The engines are by Ravenhill, Salkeld, and Co., with 500-horse power, nominal ; 71 inch cylinders, with a 3 feet stroke. The steam frigate Amphion, 36, having completed her alterations and repairs at Chatham, has been taken out of dock, and will be attached to the secon d division of the steam reserve in ordinary at that port. The screw gunboat Victor, 6, 300-horse power, has been taken into No. 2 dock at Chatham Dock yard, for the purpose of being repaired and fitted for the steam reserve in the Medway. A letter received at Plymouth from an officer states that the screw steamship Caesar, 91, Capt. Frederick, arrived at Havannah on the 15th ult., all well. The writer says,—" On the Bth, we met with a terrific squall, such as few on board had ever experienced. Our ship passed through it gallantly, and was so steady that a tall jug in my cabin was unmoved. When the awful darkness rolled away and the supernaturally black green sky gave place to blue, we saw the Diadem far astern with her main and mizen yards both gone." The steam store ship Rhadamanthus, 3, Master Commander F. Sturdee, from Woolwich, arrived at Plymouth on Saturday with supernumeraries, boilers, machinery, &c. The screw steam troopship Simoom, 8, Comman der J. M. Cooke, from Scotland, arrived at Ply mouth on Saturday with the Fifeshire Militia. The steam tender Avon, 3, Second Master J. H. Lawrence commanding, left Plymouth for Portland on Friday evening, with the Cone Committee, com prising Vice-Admiral F. Martin, Capt. A. IV. Jer ningham (of the Cambridge), Capt. H. Stewart, C.B. (Impregnable), and Capt. R. S. Robinson (of the Wellington). The system (Redl's) will be adopted by all the ships in the squadron, and the committee will report. Lights on the cone prin ciple will be used for night signals. The crew of the screw steamship London, 90, in Plymouth Sound, were paid advance of wages on Friday. The paddle steam vessel Locust, 3, Lieut. J. B. Field, commanding, from Sheerness, arrived at Ply mouth on Friday with supernumeraries. The lighter Aid, J. Grandy, master, from Chat ham and Portsmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Fri day. Orders have been received at Devonport to cop per the Donegal, 101, up to her deep water line. The screw steam gunboat Snap (tender to La Hogue), Lieut. W. F. Johnstone commanding, from Greenock, arrived on Saturday at Plymouth, where she will be thoroughly repaired. The Snap brought some men for the London, 90. The paddlewheel steam vessel Advice, Second- Master M. C. Raymond, having completed her re pairs, left Plymouth on Saturday for Queenstown. At Bovisand Point, near the eastern entrance to Plymouth Sound, preliminary arrangements have been made for the erection, close to the water's edge, of turf batteries, which will extend from the flagstaff to the gate. In the naval appointments in The Sun of Satur day the name of " A. Cogar," master's assistant to the Hannibal, should have been " Arthur Cazaly." The periodical inspection of the Royal Marine Artillery took place at Fort Cumberland, near Portsmouth, on Friday. The inspecting officer, Ma jor -Gen. Wesley, accompanied by Major Rodney, of the Royal Marine Light Infantry, arrived on the ground at 11 a.m., and was received by the troops, under Col. Fraser, with the usual salute ; after which they broke into open column right in front, marching past in slow and quick time, and per formed a variety of other manoeuvres. At the con clusion of battalion inspection the detachment just returned to head-quarters from service in her Ma jesty's ship Pearl, and with her famous Naval Bri gade in India, were called to the front by the Ma jor-General, and addressed by him in warm terms on their conduct while on service in India, where they had, if possible, added lustre to the corps to which they belonged, and afforded a good example to those of their comrades who had not as yet had an opportunity of distinguishing themselves ix the face of an enemy. The general and staff afterwards visited the laboratory, where nearly 200 men were employed in the different branches of their profes sion. At 2 p.m. the laboratory and repository courses being gone through, practice commenced with a shell gun with naval shell from the works of the Fort, a park of field guns of heavy calibre on the beach, and a rocket brigade firing 31b. and 121 b. rockets. The precision and accuracy of the firing, at various ranges from 830 to 1,600 yards, the bursting of the shells at the spot desired, both from the heavy gun on the works and the field pieces and howitzers on the beach, were such as could only be witnessed on a practice day of this corps. The day's proceed ings concluded with practice at a butt, from a bat tery at 600 yards distance, representing a section of a line-of-battle-ship, armed with 8-inch guns, which were handled with all the activity of seamen unners. At the conclusion of the practice, Major eneral Wesley returned from the Fort to Ports mouth, this concluding the gallant General's in spection in the S.W. district. The Royal Marine Light Infantry were inspected at Forton and Brown Down on Wednesday and Thursday THE ARMY. The experiment of placing a large number of the troops quartered at Chatham garrison under can vas, which was made last summer, having been attended with considerable success, both as regards the health and discipline of the men, another:camp has been formed also this year on the vacant ground outside the barracks, and within the fortifi ca ti ons, in order to relieve the crowded Chatham barracks, occupied by the East India depots, comprising the first and second battalions. The spot selected for the formation of the camp is an exceedingly ele vated one within the Spur battery, the site being the same as that chosen for the camp last year. The ground, having a sloping surface, is well drained, and well adapted for encamping troops. A number of commodious tents have been pitched by the troops, each tent being capable of accommodat ing several men together, with bedding, camp fur niture, &c. The most rigid rules have been framed to secure the health and cleanliness of the men who are to be placed under canvas, and all the sanitary details will be carried out under the direction of the medical officers of the garrison hospitals. A sufficient number of tents having been erected, the depots of the 10th and 29th Regiments, attached to the second battalion, vacated their quarters in Chatham barracks on Saturday afternoon, and marched into camp, where they will remain during the summer. Before the troops were allowed to go under canvas all the tents were inspected by Major-General Eyre, in order that he might satisfy himself that nothing was wanting to promote the health of the soldiers. During the time they are in camp the men will sleep on portable bedsteads, the p rac ti ce o f s l eep i ng on t h e ground hav i ng b een found excedingly detrimental to the health of the tro o p s. Three officers and 94 men, 2 officers' wives, 2 soldiers' wives, and 4 children of the 2d b a ttalion Ri fle Bripd e , with 3 officers and 102 men of the 3d battahon Rifle Brigade, will proceed from Win chester to Gravesend for embarkation on board the Clarence, for ]ooth on the 23d inst. 50 men ;of the depot of the o Regiment w ill a l so p rocee d Gravesend on th e same day from Parkhurst, Isle of Wight, for embarkation on board the Violet, for Gibraltar. Forty invalid soldiers, several of whom returned to England in the Eastern Monarch, have arrived at the military hospital at Great Yarmouth during the past week. The enrolled pensioners of the Bristol district, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Whitmore, hav ing completed their six d a y s ' exercise, were in spected on Saturday on Durdham-d own T by Col. M'Murdo, C. 8., Commandant of the Military rain. The men performed a series of evolutions in a vete ran-like style, and were complimented by the re viewing officer on their efficiency. A large and fashionable company assembled to witness the re view. The Edmonton Royal Middlesex Regiment of Rifles is to assemble at Barnet on the 15th of July, for 21 days' training. The men belonging to the South Devon Militia are appointed to assemble for training at Plymouth on the sth of July, under the personal command of Lord Churston. THE HEAD-QUARTERS OF THE ALLIED ARXIES. The following letter has been received from Milan, dated June 12 : " Decidedly there is to be no new edition of the famous attack on the bridge of Lodi. The Aus trians, wiser than their forefathers, or perhaps made wiser by their own experience at the Ponte di Buf falora and Ponte di Magenta, have taken the pre caution of destroying the bridge. Well, where there is no bridge, no bridge can be taken. Had this been done to General Bonaparte, as was intended, in 1796, it would have been a serious inconvenience to him, for it would have delayed his following on the heels of the retreating Austrian army. As for us, Nous nous en moquons.' The circumstances are widely different. The passage of the Adda might have offered some difficulties to the army of the French Republic, which was scarcely so large as one of our corps d'armee, but it is no obstacle worth mentioning for an army like that of the Allies ; and then we have not the same interest to press back the enemy's forces as General Bonaparte had. In his time the Austrians had, militarily speaking, little or no hold in Upper Italy. Once or twice beaten in the open field, they had to make the best of their way to the Tyrol and Carinthia ; all they could do was to leave a few thousand men in Mantua, and the war was ended until they could collect in the mountains fresh forces, and attempt to regain the lost ground. Now this is all changed. The Austrians have in the heart of Upper Italy a kind of Sebastopol, connected with the rest of the empire, not by long, inhospitable steppes, but by excellent roads, and in many parts even by rail ways. Austria can thus, even better than Russia, concentrate all her forces at this extremity, which has been prepared for the purpose by the work of years and the expenditure of millions. Any pres sure on her retreating army would only bring it nearer to its stronghold, from which it ought never to have come out ; and no pressure would be suffi cient to get into the stronghold together with the retreating army. In one word, General Bonaparte ended his campaign at the Mincio ; we have to be gin there the second and more serious phase of it. It is well known that the Austrians are preparing on a grand scale for this decisive phase of the Ita lian campaign. They have changed their comman der, who has contrived to lose at least 50,000 or 60,000 men in less than a week. " The King left last night, the Emperor this morning—a sign that the campaign is about to be gin again. The sooner the better. The distances are so small that we may hope to be in time to take advantage of the demoralising effect of the first blows, and anticipate the reinforcements ex pected by the Austrians from the interior. "Milan, to him who saw it during the presence of the Allied Sovereigns, seems almost a city of the dead. It is as if the burst of enthusiasm had exhausted the vital power of the city, and as if it required some repose to recruit its strength. The communications, which had been interrupted by the war, are being gradually re-established. The rail way from this to Como has already begun to run ; that to Magenta will very likely be opened to the public as soon as it is no more required for the army. When this is done there will be, with the exception of the little distance from Magenta to the station of San Martino, an uninterrupted railway communication to Turin and France. What an advantage for reinforcements and stores ! _ " On the Venetian line the Austrians have carried away the locomotives and most of the carriages, but the deficiency will be supplied as we advance ; as for damaging the line itself, they could do little, except here and there a bridge, which can be re stored in a very short time. " The new Governor of Lombardy scarcely ap pears in the foreground, so quietly and smoothly does the organization of the country go on. As you saw from the decree which I sent you yesterday, as little as possible has been changed, the object being not to devise the best possible government, but one that should be ready for the emergency. All that has been done, therefore, is to remove the number of foreigners whom the Austrian Govern- ment employed in the public offices, and to concen trate the government in the hands of responsible persons with considerable power, instead of the collective body which had been such a nuisance in the late Austrian Administration. "In the financial organization of the country the same system has been followed as in the political one. Here are the two decrees which relate to it : " VITTORIO EMMANTJELE, &C. " Seeing our decree of the Bth inst., considering the necessities of the national war, and in virtue of the extraordinary powers conferred upon us by the law of the 25th of April last, on the proposal of our Council of Ministers, we have ordered and we order as follows : "' 1. The direct and indirect taxes which exist at present in the Lombard provinces are provi sionally maintained, excepting what is changed by the following article : " 2. As to all that concerns the sale of articles belonging to the Regia Privative,* the posts, tele graphs, and Custom-houses, the taxes, laws, and regulations now in force in the other parts of the Royal States will be applied in Lombardy by special order of the Governor. " This assimilation completed, the Custom house line between Lombardy and the other pro vinces will be suppressed. " We order that the present decree, provided with the Seal of the State, be inserted in the archives of the Government, calling on every one whom it concerns to respect it and make it re spected.' " Another decree orders as follows : 1. Henceforth, during the war, the munici palities, or those who enforce the Excise duties, can exact no tax from or lay any obstacle in the way of the importation and exportation, deposit, or consumption of any kind of provisions which may be furnished for the service of the national and allied troops, either directly through the instru mentality of the military administration or by private enterprLe and requisitions. " 2. If hereafter it should be proved that, by the dispositions of the preceding article, the com munity has received a much smaller revenue from the Exci se an d oc t ro i t h an th e average o f t h e l as t two years it will receive an equitable compensation for its losses. " 3 . Any law or disposition contrary to the present one is abolished. " VITTORIO EMMANUELE. Milan, June 9, 1859.' "Thus, with very f ew except i ons, Lombardy w i ll be governed for the present by the same forms which have existed hitherto ; the Lombards will have to pay the same taxes, and you will see the s pectacle that wuhnaaterwas insupportable will be, and i s a l rea d y , strange submittedian rtuole natural,wh whole le Italian and, question, turn it as cheerfullyu n der the r e i s fi e t e h s they e , a self-chosen Go vernment. Every one th inks it will bear you like. Let the fo re i gner, t s h h e o m uld eci t u h a e l r l e y bweelreaHt greater e s a l e i like Jerome Paturot, go and search after the best, not of Republics, but Govern ments, and fi nd it too ; has he will not be less detested than hebeen under the spirit-killing bureaucratic system .which h as been kept u p hitherto in Lombardy. It a matter of feeling, o r call it instinct—animal instinct, if you like—but so it is. As the gray and red partridge will not dwell together, so it is with some races, and more especially w ith the German and Italian. Nothing can ever conciliate them. " As the two cannot dwell together, and neither will yield, they must fight for it. The proclama tions of both the Emperor and the King say clearly enough that the thing is not done yet, and that the Italians must help themselves as far as they call. The appeal has not been in vain, for within the last two days above 4,000 volunteers have enlisted from this town alone. The display of military splen dour durinf , the presence of the Allied Sovereigns has, no doubt, contributed to attract the youth, but even without it there would have been a fair -eon- tingent. A proof in this respect is the success of Garibaldi, who, in spite of what he had to pass through, and in spite of the little attraction which a small body of men, with greatcoats for uniforms, and often scanty fare, presented, still contrived to recruit largely on the road. It is on the peasantry in the north and the cities, both in the mountains and in the plains, that we may chiefly reckon for active co-operation. * Monopolies of the Government, such A 3 salt, tobacco, gunpowder, &c, THE PANAMA ROUTE AND THE AUSTRALIAN LINE. The following letter has been addressed to a con• temporary : " Sir,—The long-looked-for tender has at last appeared (conveyance of mails to Sydney and Mel bourne, via Panama and New Zealand). I trust you will find space in the columns of your valuable journal for these few lines, as they are penned by one who has not only travelled the Panama and Suez route, but has visited 37 islands in the South Pacific and has been a resident in New Zealand for upwards of 20 years. F rom experience it is my intention to suggest to the contractors of this line the names of two or three places suitable for their stations, as well as a few remarks upon the route generally, and my reasons for such suggestions. The boon so long sought for and now about to be conferred upon the Australian colonies, will not only be of the greatest importance to the Australians, but to the company accepting the tender, providing the contractors display a liberal feeling towards the Australians, which feeling they may rely upon will be responded to by the colonists. I am glad to find that the feelings of the Victorians are now in favour of this line. It is well known, at all events among ourselves, that our imports and exports are annually between 50 and 60 millions sterling, consequently a fortnightly mail with the mother country is much required ; passengers from the Australian colonies will not (with few exceptions, and on emergencies) pay £l2O to be transferred from there here, neither will they pay 7d. an ounce freight on gold dust when a sailing vessel will bring it home for 3d. per ounce. I find that by the last Royal Mail steamship Oneida, from Aus tralia here, her passengers were 114, gold on freight £77,000 ; rates of adult passengers, £9O each. In the last of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's vessels, Emu, from Australia, there were only 14 passengers (excluding 6 from Adelaide) ; passage money by the Peninsular and Oriental £l2O for adults, European servants £6O ; gold on freight about £3,000 (hardly worth mentioning). The last departure of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Com pany's ship Teviot took out to Australia 31 passen gers ; the last departure of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's ship Ceylon took out only nine passengers to Australia ; the Great Britain auxiliary screw steamship, from Australia to Liverpool, comes home round Cape Horn in 65 days, bringing 325 passengers (first, second, and third class) ; passage money ranging from £l5 to £7O a head per adult, and upwards of £lOO,OOO worth of gold—the freight on gold I presume at a reasonable rate. I maintain that any steam company, assisted with a large and handsome subsidy, can without loss to their shareholders (but with a good profit) carry backwards and forwards to the colonies passengers (first, second, and third class) for the same reason able sum as auxiliary steam or sailing vessel com panies who have no subsidy. This is not only a consideration for the directors of the fortunate con tractors of the present line, but a very serious con sideration for their shareholders. If the present contractors for the Panama line will consider their own interests combined with the interests of the colonists, they will do well, and the colonies will prosper under their contract, if not, they will shortly find a most determined and successful oppo sition with the auxiliary and sailing ship companies especially from Liverpool, into which port the majo rity of the passengers and bulk of cargo and gold has for years been imported from the said colonies ; where one passenger comes home overland from the colonies, 50 come by sailing vessels, and for every ounce of gold imported here overland 5,000 come by sailing vessels. Freight on gold on £12,000,000 at /d. comes to £350,000 ; but at 3d. the same comes to £150,000, making a difference to the exporters of £200,000 annually. The Panama line, when fairly established, will, without a doubt, be known as the Australian route, and be supported by the Australians liberally. The Suez line will, as usual, be called the Indian route. A second postal line between the colonies and England has long been sought for even by all the colonial governments, and the colonists generally appear to be of the same opinion. The geographical features of a colony cannot be changed, but the establishment of the Panama route, the advantages of the earliest point of departure, or the earliest arrival may be shared by more than one colony, and thus the local existing jealousies of the Australian colonies will be brought to a termination, and all the colonists mutually benefitted, as well as thousands of our merchants, by this fortnightly line. It must be borne in mind that the Panama route is much less liable to ob structions than the Suez route in case of European. war. Some people imagine that Panama is an un healthy route ; such ideas are absurd. If passengers by that route are at all alarmed they have only to walk from the steamer's deck in the Pacific Ocean into the railway carriage which will convey them across the isthmus and into the steamer in the At lantic Ocean in the short space of time of about one hour and a half. The Panama route home from the colonies is a pleasant route compared to the Suez route, where the hot winds and calms in the Red Sea for three or four months together make the slightest description of clothing almost intolerable to passengers. Not long after the fortnightly mail to these colonies is established we shall require a weekly mail, as our trade is increasing so rapidly,. Few, perhaps, will believe that the tonnage em ployed between New Zealand and New South Wales is greater than the tonnage employed between New South Wales and London, the former being 41,000 and the latter 45,000 tons annually. The Panama route will in all probability open up a new trade between the Australian colonies and South Ame rica, Central and North America, as well as with many islands in the South Pacific, many of which are not far distant from New South Wales or New Zealand, especially the Fijii Islands, a most valuable group. Our Government and our mer chants here are in complete ignorance not only of the value of these islands, but of their exports, which annually amount to man y hundreds of thou sands of pounds sterling, some of which exports are pearls, pearl shell, beech le mere, sandal wood, cocoa nut and sperm oil, tortoise-shell, arrow-root, sugar, and a small quantity of coffee and cotton, &c., nearly the whole of which trade has for the last twenty years been carried on by Brother Jona than in a very quiet manner. I firmly believe that small steamers will shortly be running from some of these groups of small islands north of Sydney and New Zealand, when the Panama route is fairly established, and that the time is not far distant when these islands will be to the Australasian colo nies what the West India Islands were to England before the emancipation of the slaves. Why should not Australia have its spice and sugar islands, when its imports and exports are between 54 and 60 mil lions sterling annually ? With regard to the steamers between Panama and Sydney, my opinion is, that five should be employed. If Tahite is to be the calling station, there is little doubt that the French Government will allow a handsome sub sidy to the contractors, for not only the conveyance of their mails there, but to New Caledonia, which I shall presently refer to. If Tahite is not to be a calling station I can name one or two other islands equally good, but wherever the midway station may be between Panama and Sydney, the sth and a Ist class boat should be kept there in case of need. The two steamers to be employed between Panama and the half-way station, should be built somewhat upon the Gravesend boat model, large enough to carry 300 or 400 passengers, making every allowance for ventilation for tropical passages. It will be between Panama and the half-way station that the great daily runs will be made from 14 to 17 miles an hour—mill-pond sailing. If proper boats are placed here in course of a reasonable time the passage to New Zealand may be made in 39 or 40 days, and to Sydney in 44 or 45 days. The other two boats between Sydney and the half-way station should be powerful boats. Believing the Peninsular and Oriental Company are not under any penalty or fine for the non-fulfilment of their contract for the Australian line via Suez, I do not see why the present contractors should be placed under heavy penalties via Panama. In place of the Government munificence of allowing £5O per diem for any num ber of days under the contract time, they might in crease this sum to £5OO, but in my humble opinion penalties and fines are all humbug. Having made a few remarks upon this route, I will now name two ports in New Zealand most likely to suit the contractors, viz., Mongonni and Auckland. IViongonni is a snug little harbour, sheltered from all winds and sea swell, with a safe see s n ho entrance from Doubtless, or, as some call it, Loris ave tonships Bay, and is about three hours' sail from the N I orth Cape o f N ew Z ea l an d. In this harbour I portat anchorof entrya at onebe fixedan dthe upon,samae time. coaling wharf will have to be made, also conve niences for watering (of which there is a never failing supply). One objection to this port by the N e w Zealand Government would be, that they would be compelled to 1 p ace a small steamer on the line between Auckland and Mongonni for the con veyance of the mails and passengers, which would cost from £4,000 to £5,000 a year. Any provisions ma y be obtained here. Supposing this to be the calling port, the French Government at New Cale donia could send he of their steamers here to be in readiness to receive their mails from France and Tahite via Panama, upon the mail steamer's arrival. They could then return to New Caledonia, which would not take them a longer time than it would take the mail steamer to go from Mongonni to Sydney. Such being the case, the French at New Caledonia would have the same time to answer their letters by the homeward and same boat as the Sydney people, for which accommodation the French subsidy would naturally be expected, but should the mails be landed at Auckland, it would only make a day and a half, or t wo day s ' diff erence to the French, but give them ample time to answer their letters. Auckland, the seat of Government, certainly has a prior claim to Mongonni, especially if the interest of the bulk of the population is to be considered. Being the seat of Government it is the head-quarters of the military forces and com missariat department, which province contains about 40,000 of the native population, the latter being very valuable to any steam company in the coaling department. The entrance to the harbour of Auckland is first-rate, with ample room for a large fleet to anchor, its entrance being so very ac cessible ; %ere is no lighthouse at present ; no ves sels have been lost there since the foundation of the colony, which says much for its harbour. About seven or eight years ago, anticipating that the Panama line of steamers would call there, a mer cantile firm went to a great expense in building a coaling wharf, and for watering the steamers, which I have no doubt could now be purchased or leased at a reasonable price or rent. In fact, Auck land is already well prepared for the mail line, should its steamers call there. In that case I re commend the contractors of the Panama line to come to some arrangement with Messrs. Coleman and Co., who are under contract with the New Zealand Government to carrry our mails to and fro between New Zealand and the Colonies, with a subsidy of £24,000 a year. If an amicable arrangement could be made the Panama boat could remain in Auckland for ten days during the time the Colonial boat took the mails and passengers to Sydney via Manakan, during which time she could coal, clean, and if necessary repair. Manakan is a fine extensive bar harbour ; the bar is of no inconvenience to a large steamer, there being sufficient water for a line of battle ship. The distance of this harbour from Auckland by land is five and a half miles ; a tram road is now being made between the two ports, and telegraph wires to the heads of Manakan from Auckland. One great advantage in the Manakan route will be splendid and extensive coal fields which have lately been discovered there coming down to the edge of the Manakan waters ; there has also been another coal field lately discovered at Wangaree harbour, about fifty miles north of Auck land, both of which samples of coal have been tested and reported upon most favourably to the govern ment by Dr. Ho2hstetter, who is the geographical and scientific officer of the Austrian frigate, Novara. If a satisfactory arrangement cannot be made with Messrs. Coleman and Co. I recommend Mongonni the port for landing and taking on board the mails and passengers, as the detention there need not be more than a few hours, and the course from there towards Panama should be made in the variable latitudes. Some people fancy that Welling ton, in Cook's Straits, would suit to call at on the homeward voyage from Sydney, provided the steamers did not go to Auckland on their way out, but I consider it would not only be very unsatis factory to the contractors but to New South Wales colonists, whom we may thank for being the originators of this line, and whom the public have to thank for its handsome subsidy, granted by their Parliament, of £50,000 annually for 10 years. The contractors would also lose about three days on each voyage by going the extra distance. Another reason for not making Wellington one of the calling ports is that the insurances on ships and cargo are nearly half as much more to Wellington as they are to Auckland. Some of the daily papers have stated that little interest appears to be taken in this tender, but I can assure them that there never was a mail contract tendered for by the Govern ment that has in a very quiet manner created such a sensation, and in place of three I believe there will be six tenders for it. Should Ibe able to give any of the contracting parties any further informa tion, I shall be happy to do so.—l am, &e., WALTER BRODIE. 4, Sutherland-place, Westbourne-grove North, Bayswater, June 2. TILE WAR IN ITALY. (From the Mot niny Post.) If the last few days have not been marked by exciting tidings from the seat of war, the absence of these is compensated by the rapidly-increasing political effect of the victories already won. When first the possibility of a war in behalf of the Italian cause was mooted, there were not wanting those in very influential places, both here and abroad, who refused to acknowledge that there was any such thing at all as an Italian cause. Our own Government did not scruple to brand the patriots of Italy as discontented spirits, and to censure as wantonly ambitious the natural efforts of Sardinia on behalf of Italian freedom. King Victor Emmanuel was denounced as the accomplice of France in a deep game to be played at the reckless cost of many lives for an impossible stake, and English and foreign newspapers vied with each other in denunciation of all the parties concerned. But it was mainly against Napoleon 111. that the fiercest fulminations were hurled. Some of our daily and weekly contemporaries had no words strong enough to stigmatise the cunning, the treachery, the blood thirstiness, and the despotic tyranny of the Monarch of France. His purpose was asserted to be nothing less than the subversion of the peace of Europe and the destruction of the bal ance o f power . H e was declared to be in league with Russia against Eng land and Austria. The two were to combine their forces and overrun Europe; and when the spoil came to be divided a French S overe i gn was t o ru l e in Italy, a nd Russia was to possess the long-coveted supremacy of Constantinople. Absurd and impos sible as this was, .there were jo urna l s th a t a ffi rme d it and thousands of intelligent persons who believed it. In every railway carnage, on every exchange, and at every dinner-tab le this empty nonsense was freely uttered. There was, it was said, no Italian cause, and no appreciable reason for the Franco-Sardinian alliance. The Emperor of the French was de nounced as wishing to "plunge Europe into war," without cause or provocation. Au contraire, it was denied that the Austrians were oppressive; and the Times went so far as to avow in a leading article that, in the present condition of the Italian peasantry, the rule of Austria was a good thing. There was a general incredulity as to the sincerity of those who proposed to emancipate Italy. Even many of the Italians themselves, though they had no doubts about the grievance, were not without mis givings at the thought of a French army of great magnitude within their borders. When at last the Austrian army invaded Piedmont, and Napoleon himself headed the French troops, and went forth to the succour of Sardinia, the same relentless hate and the same disparaging predictions pursued him. He was overrating his powers, they said. He might be successful in political administration, but gene ralship was out of the question. He would fail in the field, and peril at once his reputation and his throne. Such, not six weeks ago, was the language uttered by leading newspapers and important poli tical personages. What do we hear now ? Success has brought its usual vindication ; and, of those who were loudest in their denunciations or suspicions, the more generous openly confess their predictions falsified so far, and the rest either keep silence or pervert the truth to suit their purpose. It has come to light that the Italians have a grievance : that the Austrian Emperor and not Napoleon has begun " the plunging into war ;" that the Allied Sove reigns are acting with wisdom and moderation ; that Napoleon is not failing as a general, but has displayed, considering that he was never on a field of battle before, the most surprising powers, arid has accomplished unprecedented successes; that he has taken nothing but fame by these ; that he has declared he will take nothing else ; that he is most anxious to localise the war and define its objects ; and that up to this moment he has ful filled, not the part of the conquerer of Italy, but of her deliverer. We repeat that these things have been and are being demonstrated in the sight of the world, and cannot be gainsaid. They vindicate at once the Empermy the King, and the cause. One of the first and most natural effects is the impression all through Italy that this is the crisis of her fate. Accordingly, wherever the expulsion of the Austrians make it possible, the Italians lift up their voice for liberty. All the towns and provinces of Lombardy are united in their allegiance—pending a final settlement—to the King of Sardinia. Parma and Modena follow suit. The exigencies of the war require the withdrawal of the Austrian soldiers in the Romagna, but no sooner is the last foreign bayonet out of sight than the people declare for Victor Emmanuel. At Rome a popular movement could be organised at any moment, but regard for the Pope, with whose spiritual rule the allied armies are not at war, makes a revolt inexpedient. They do not, therefore, rise ; but they express their feelings, which are strictly in unison with those of their allied champions. In the Two Sicilies the popular feeling is growing strong, but the Allies are not at war with Francis 11., and therefore no rising of his subjects is promoted. When the future of Italy becomes a part of the treaty of peace it will be impossible for Naples, as for Rome, to persevere in modes and principles of government repugnant to those which have been consecrated by such copious sacrifices of blood. We are justified, under all these circumstances in asserting that the effects of the war, so far, have been as satisfactory as its achievements in the field have been brilliant. And not the least important is the effect on this country. Mr. Bright did honour able justice to the Emperor of the French and to England when he stood up in Parliament the other night for the maintenance of the French alliance as the best security for the preservation of English We may expect that with the new Go hese considerations willhve more weight neutrality. than they did with the old. We give Lord Derby and his colleagues every credit for their desire to preserve a strict neutrality. Their new blue book abundantly proves that. Whatever other fault may be found with it, at least it shows in every page the desire of the Government for peace. But it shows also that they were pursuing a very blind policy, and one not at all likely to secure the object they had in view. It is not too severe a thing to say of them that they placed the Anglo-French alliance in the greatest peril. They were fast drifting from France to Austria, and would soon have reached the point at which they would have lost all influence with both Powers. Having, then, alliance with neither, either might have drawn us into war, and in drawing us have involved the rest of Europe. Under the policy of the Present Government we may expect better things, and it is an augury of good that they com mence their administration at a time when the acts of the allied Sovereigns have dissipated so completely the fears that prevailed when the war commenced, and have drawn the sympathies of England more powerfully forth both towards the Italian cause itself and towards the Sovereigns who have so gloriously espoused it. This is one of the surest pledges of our peace and neu t ra li ty, f or nothing would be so likely to enlarge the war as a feeling amongst other Powers that England had no sympathy with it, and would therefore support them in espousing the side of Austria. THE NEW MINISTRY. (From the Moiwing Herald.) The Palmerston Administration, after a whole week employed in reconciling " discordant sections," and after infinite labour, has slowly emerged into being. For the moment, then, the difficulties are smoothed. Exclusion f r o m office and an ill-con cealed desire to obtain place and power have con tributed to unite in one Cabinet politicians holding opinions essentially distinct, and to demonstrate that the strength of a Government consists in the want of union amongst its members. And yet this is taking place at a political crisis more grave than any that has arrived since the infamous Peaee of Tilsit. This is no laughing matter ; it is matter rather for serious reflection and bitter disappoint ment. It would be almost impossible to exaggerate the danger arising to England and of Europe from the accession to power of the Ministry whose names we publish to-day in our columns. The most important question at this moment is that of our foreign policy. Two of the great powers of Europe are engaged in a deadly feud ; another power has practically declared that she must be prepared for war; and, in order to be ready to strike as soon as the decisive moment shall arrive, has ordered that her powerful army shall be put on the footing of active service. A fourth great power has plainly indicated that, un less —what seems most improbable—the war is localised she can no longer decline to participate in the contest. To complete the existing complication —to render it scarcely possible for this country to preserve that strict neutrality demanded by the national interests and the national wish, nothing was wanting but an Administration of which Lord Palmerston should be the nominal chief and Lord John Russell the Foreign Secretary. Lord Palmer ston is pledged to maintain the French alliance, no matter how derogatory that alliance may become to English honour, no ma tt er h ow contrad i ctory to British interests. Lord John Russell has held out hopes to Italian patriots which it will never be in his power to carry out, and virtually, if not actually, the two Ministers are secretly pledged to a revolutionary war. We acknowledge as strongly as any one the wrongs and grievances of Italy, but we believe that there are remedies worse than the disease; and if the chief actor in the bloody scene now acting on the continent of Europe be sincere in his professions even he may find to his cost that he is but the child of circumstances. His creed is fatalism ; and it may be said that, so far, he has been justified by success ; but he may find that he has raised a storm which, strong as he is, he will be unable to calm. In such a case where would England be, with Lord Palmerston as Premier and Lord John Russell as Foreign Secretary. Fortunately, however, the new Cabinet can scarcely hope to hold together for any lengthened period. Individual übiliiy is not the only —not even the chief element to be desired in the composition of a Government, and one of the most prominent evils in the present Ministry is its divided leader ship. We did not require Lord Granville's indis creet revelations to inform us that Lord John Russell had taken the Foreign Office by storm, and now that he is in possession of the citadel he will hold his own against all comers, and make entire independence of action a condition of retaining a nominally subordinate position. If he was indis creet as Home Secretary he will be indiscreet as Foreign Minister, and in his new position the slightest indiscretion may entail very serious con sequences, even if it did not plunge the country into war. Lord John is now in the position of a constitutional monarch who refuses to be restrained by constitutional checks, and we merely ask whether such a state of things is not anomalous and dangerous? What, then, shall we say of the new Chancellor of the Exchequer ? Public opinion —that is, of course, Whig public opinion —pointed unanimously to Sir G. C. Lewis, but important considerations and th e necess it y o f making large concessions to the Peelites combined to place Mr. Gladstone in the more distinguished post, and to condemn the less ingenious but more reliable financier to the comparative retirement of the Home Office. Then there is Sir Charles Wood, who was lately consigned by a Palmerstonian organ to political oblivion, but who, after his notable success in half ruining our navy, is sent to exercise his faculties for mai-adminis tration in the post vacated by Lord Stanley. The juxtaposition of these two names is all the commen that need be bestowed on this singularly ill-advised appointment, unless, indeed, we add, for the benefit of all who think it a national and paramount duty to keep up the British navy, that the Admiralty is now handed over to that " conspicuous novelty," as his friends call him, the Duke of Somerset, and to that discreet nobleman, Lord Clarence Paget, who ought certainly to thank his stars for the late oppor tune dissolution of Parliament. It would be too long to go through the whole list of the new Cabinet. We shall merely congratulate the Colonies on their new Tractarian Minister, whose opinions on colonial subjects, as on most other subjects, are so remark ably in accord with those of his colleague, Mr. Cobden. This, then, is the new administration, constructed at the cost of so many sacrifices of opinion, and presenting types of nearly every school of politicians in the House of Commons, united, so far as we can see, by no bond of union but the absolute impossibility of forming any other combination with the most moderate hopes of suc cess. It is certain that the Whigs have only waived their personal pretensions for the present in order to bide their time. They know that so anomalous a collection of "fortuitous atoms" can have no per manent existence, and they will take their seats in Parliament with the expectation of vacancies in the new Cabinet which they count upon occupying. The most ludicrous feature in the present Go vernment is the thoroughly Palmerstonian manner in which the extreme Liberals have been " done." They have been cheated, bamboozled, and disap pointed. They were no sooner drawn within the fatal circle of Willis's Rooms than their doom was sealed. On that critical occasion all was made smooth and easy for them, extravagant promises were given, the olive branch was tendered by knowing and practised hands, and with syren notes their souls were lulled into acquiescence. They believed--yes, even Mr. Bright believed —that the veteran leaders had learnt a salutary lesson, and were no longer disposed to deny a voice in the Cabinet to men who for many a long year have constitued the real strength of the Liberal party, as they have always exhibited the greatest honesty of purpose. Nous avons change tout cela was to be the motto of the Palmerston or Russell Administration. And so, by way of fulfil ling these gracious promises, and satisfying these natural desires, in a Cabinet o f s i x t een mem b ers we find the real Liberal party represented by Mr. Cob den and Mr. Milner Gibson, one at the Board of Trade, the other at the Poor Law Board. The pre sence of two such men is just enough to disturb the Cabinet, and to endanger its existence, but not enough to give more than nominal weight to the party whose opinions they are supposed to repre sent. It is easy to conceive complications which are certain to arise before long. To a Reform Bill the Ministers are pledged, but imagine a discussion on the reform question between Mr. Gladstone, who cleaves to small boroughs, and Mr. Cobden, who would probably sweep them all down as with a scythe. The difficulty is not to discover subjects on which they are likely to disagree, but those on which they might be supposed to agree. And it is imagined that the Liberal party w ill be satisfied by so miserable a concession—a mere mockery of a concession. No wonder that dissatisfaction is ex pressed by the Liberal organ!. No wonder that the praise of Palmerstoni an journals is strongly tempered with indignation at the appointment of Sir Charles Wood and others of the old Whic , school. No wonder t hat s p eculations are already rife even in Liberal circles as to wheth er th e Cabi net can hold together till the close of the session. TIIE DRAMATIC COLLEGE.—We are glad to learn that, at a meeting of the executive committee of the Royal Dramatic College, the charter of incorporati on was presented by virtue of which the p resent executive committee become the counc il until the first annual m ee ti ng, which will be held in May, 1860. We understand that the council will at once take immediate steps fir determining the site of the college, and make arrangements for laying the foundation stones DR. GODFREY AND UNLAWFUL AS IN WHITECHAPEL. On Saturday, Dr. John Godfrey, of No. 3, Mount-place, Whitechapel, who was the defen dant in an action for seduction, when a verdict was returned in his favour, but who was un successful in a prosecuti on for libel against Mr. Wm. Newton, proprietor and editor of the East London Observer, came to the Thames Police Court, in company with several of his neighbours, to prefer charges against some persons for riotous conduct and threatening and annoying him. A stout and robust elderly man, named Burchell, who came into the building with his nose bleeding an hour pre viously, asked Mr. Selfe for a warrant against Dr. Godfrey for assaulting him in the Whitechapel road. Mr. Selfe said a summons would do, and granted one. Dr. Godfrey said the man was a per fect blackguard, and grossly provoked him. He was willing that the case should be gone into at once. Mr. Selfe said the summons would be made returnable on a future day, and he would then hear the defence. Edward Bingham, travelling-bag maker, of 90, Goswell-street, was charged with an obstruction. George Palmer, 218 K, a police-constabl e , said there were 400 or 500 p ersons assem bl e d in ount place, opposite Dr. Godfrey's house. There were many thieves and abandoned women amongst them, and they were hooting and hallooing. No person could pass on one side •of the road. The prisoner was there near the doctor's own door with a cluster of 30 persons or more around him, and he told him to be moving. The prisoner said he knew nothing about the case of Dr. Godfrey, and wanted to hear a little about it. He refused to move away, and was taken into custody. Mr. Selfe—Now, prisoner, you hear what the policeman says. The prisoner —I do, sir: I came from the City to Turner-street on business, and heard a shouting and hallooing. A man was telling me all about the affair, and the policeman ordered me to go away. Mr. Selfe—The policeman did what was quite right. Every one adds to the nuisance. It wAs great nuisance for decent people passing along the road, and also for the inhabitants, for persons to assemble in front of Pr. Godfrey's house. You have no right there at a ll. Y ou don't live in the district. Prisoner—No, sir. I went to Turner-street, Whitechapel, to transact business. Mr. Serfe— . You had better transact your business than mix with disorderly mobs. You don't seem to have been guilty of any actual breach of the peace. You keep away from there in future. If you are brought before me again I will send you to prison. You are discharged. Emmanuel Romaine, a Jew boy. of No. 2, Brick lane, Spitalfields, and Mary Ann Messenger, a mar ried woman, were charged by Donovan, 212 K, with riotous conduct. The constable said the footpath was blocked up in front of Dr. Godfrey's house, and the prisoner Romaine, who he believed was a thief, vas making a noise and shouting. He told him to go way, and he said he wo u ld no t, an d wou ld s t op aglong as he liked. He took the lad into custody, and on the way to the station-house the female prisoner inter fered, abused Dr. Godfrey, and called him most horrible names. She worked herself to a pitch of ungovernable fury. Mr. Selfe—Let me have a specimen of her lan guage. - The constable did as he was desired. The lan guage was revolting. The woman Messenger denied all that was al leged against her, and said she saw the doctor lift his foot to kick the boy and went to his assistance. Mr. Selfe—You had no right there at all. The woman said there was a mob assembled. Mr. Selfe—That is the very reason you should not be there., 'The boy, I see, lives at No. 2, Brick lane. He had no right there. The boy expressed his sorry far having offended, and was told to go about his business wad keep away from mobs. Dr. Godfrey confirmed the statement of Donovan, the policeman, in every particular, and complained that he was annoyed and insulted, not by his neigh bours, with whom he was on the best of terms, but by low blackguards, thieves, and women of the town, who came from a distance, and assembled about his house and acted in a most disorderly manner. Mr. Selfe said the female prisoner had mixed herself up in a most discreditable manner with a disorderly mob, and had used most foul and offen sive language towards Dr. Godfrey. He would advise her to reform her own manners and language before she set up as a censor of others. He would not have these disturbances. They were contrary to law. People had better attend to their own business than interfere with others. He gave directions to the police to bring before him any sons annoying Dr. Godfrey, and he would punish them, and then called upon the woman to find bail to keep the peace. At the earnest intercession of the prisoner's hus band he was allowed to become her surety in the sum of £4O. Dr. Godfrey said he was apprehensive of further annoyance and threats from the low characters who assembled in, front of his house. Mr. Selfe—l hope what I have just done will operate as a caution to others. If there are any further disturbances I will punish the offenders. You have a right to be protected from insult and annoyance. Dr. Godfrey—lt has been going on now for four months, ever since a verdict was recorded in my favour in the Court -of Common Pleas. It is the result of conspiracy against me. Mr. Selfe—lt is very disgraceful. Speak to the police-inspector, who will have a force of men to prevent annoyance and breaches of the peace. Inspector Hayes —I have a force of men there now, and shall have extra police constables there to-night. Dr. Godfrey- I expect a riot to-night. The people of Whitechapel will come into the road and attack the blackguards with sticks if they assemble near my door this evening. Mr. Selfe- You can depend upon the police force for protection. The police force is a most efficient body. Dr. Godfrey then retired. REPORTED ABDUCTION FROM NEW- CASTLE. On Friday a gentleman, giving the name of Mr. George Rochester, of Sunderland, waited upon us, and made a. statement which led us to believe that he had discovered a gross system of procuration, by which several girls had been induced to leave their parents in Newcastle and adopt an infamous course of life in Edinburgh. He stated that on Tuesday last, at half-past six in the morning, he was walk ing along the Canongate, Edinburgh, and observed a young female with a short tartan petticoat. Her appearance induced him to speak to her, and he in quired whether she would sit as a model to an artist. She expressed her willingness, and told him where she was living. Some hours afterwards, having followed her thither, and availed himself of the opporrunity of further conversation, it came out that the girl belo nge d t o N ewcas tle, and had been induced to leave her native place by a woman whose name did not t ra n s pi re . Mr. Rochesteran stated that this person h a d offered the girl employ ment, and thus induced her to go to Edinburgh she subsequently- abandoned her. 01 1 r forruant made further inquiries, and learned that another girl from Newcastle was in a houseo return f repute in Edinburgh, and was desirous to home. Mr. Rochester induced the first -named to return, and she is now with her fath er. we were le ft in no dou Fom b r ttha te t h Mr s . tate going on, by which in nocent young Rochestermen statement rn believed that an infamous system of procuration was females were in e entrapped ireums ta b n y e p es ro w m h i e s r e e s of employment, and placed a virtuous life was a lmost impossible. W e felt it our duty, therefore , carefull y to investigate the matter, so that the dreadful facts should stand ex posed, if true. Having ascertained the reputed residence of the girl's father, we went thither. A few barefooted and ragged children, the elder of them with a baby in hi s arms, were sitting on the doorless step of a house in a poor district of the town. We entered a dark passage, and ascended a still darker stair case, which had been built for wealthier inhabitants in days bygone. Arriving at the uppermost land ing somewhat out of breath, one of four or five doors was pointed to us as the residence of the family for which we were inquiring. Having knocked, a man of about 50 years of age opened the door to us cautiously, and inquired our errand. A word or two sufficed to obtain entrance. The large square room, with a chapel-like window badly fitting in its frame, contained two ricketty wooden chairs, a sma l l oblong wooden table of shaky ap pearance, a fourpost bed, two or three ragged and shoeless children, a stout-looking girl of 17, and the implements of an artist, whose oil painting of a steamer leaving Tynemouth hung upon the wall. The story of the family was a sad one indeed. The father is a house painter, with some notions of art ; his wife had taken to drinking, and having set a bad example to the children, had been convicted for receiving goods stolen by her son. and his mother are no w u ndergoing the pun The young man punish ment to which they were sentenced. The j eldest girl commenced her course of dissipation by joining the dancing parties at the low publichouses , to ore of which she was accustomed to go for some time before her mother's imprisonment, she met the person named as ~P ollyi and at which rs woman seems," who indu ce d her finally to go to Edinburgh. This to have been about the same age as the female brought home by Mr. Rochester, and to have re presented that she had m eans of getting an easy livelihood in Edinburgh; she induced the subject of this narrative to leave the town without much compunction, and without many promises except those of gay companionship. In Edinburgh the two girls parted, and the Newcastle female appears to have reconciled herself to her mode of life, for she never wrote home herself or endeavoured to get get others to do so, though one of her companions found means to communicate with her friends. Her father was not aware of her having left the town till two or three days after her departure, which affords a glimpse of the kind of life she had been previously leading. The young woman, however, seemed penitent and thoughtful, and it is to be hoped may have seen enough of the miseries of an infamous life to abandon it.—Newcastle Chronicle. BAKERS' SHORT-TIME MO VEMENT. On Saturday evening last a crowded public meeting was held at the Literary Institution, Royal-hill, Greenwich, for the purpose of explain ing the principles and objects of the Bakers' Short time Association, for limiting the hours of labour, and for the abolition of nightwork. About 200 members of the metropolitan branches of the asso ciation—from the West-end, City, Kingsland-road, Stepney, &c., arrived in vans, coaches, and other vehicles, and proceeded to the meeting, accom panied by the band, composed of workmen from the factory of Messrs. Penn, engineers, who volun teered their services on the occasion. The chair was occupied by Mr. G. BENNETT, of Blackheath, who observed, that he fully co incided with the objects of the meeting, and believed that the journeymen bakers through out the kingdom might be relieved from their present excessive toil without injury or incon venience to the public. It was a great social movement, which he felt certain would succeed, as it would be promoted by every true philanthropist and Christian. Mr. BLAKEMORE proposed the following resolu tion :—" That this meeting being deeply sensible of the evils resulting from the present system of conducting the baking trade of the metropolis and its suburbs, consider that the abolition of night work, and the limitation of the period of labour for journeymen to 12 hours per day, is imperatively necessary for their physical recreation, and mental, moral, and social improvement." He referred to the evils which the present system of night work entailed u p on th e men, who were de prived of th ose soc i a l and domestic com f or ts enjoyed by th e res t o f the community, an d w ho were altogether s h u t ou t f rom the means o f culti vating their intellectual capabilities by becoming members of literary institutions, &c. They had been truly described as the " white slaves of Lon don," but if they were true to themselves, they would be enabled to obtain the sympathy and co operation of the public, and shake off those tram mels which crushed them both physically and men tally. Mr. NAUGHTON seconded the resolution, and observed that, considering the hours of labour, the journeymen bakers were about the worst paid class of men in the metropolis. The resolution was supported by an address from Mr. ROBERTS, and unanimously adopted, as were others in support of the objects of the meeting. A vote of thanks to the Chairman closed the proceedings. COUNTRY MARKETS. LEICESTER-JUNE 18. At to-day's market there was a large show of wheat, which sold heavily at 2s per quarter less money than last week. White, good, sold from 50s to 51s ; inferior, 48s to 495. Red wheats realised 46s to 48s. Barley was by no means an active sale, and prices nominally unaltered. Oats quiet. Beans came sparingly to hand, and last week's prices were fully supported. M-Ju 18. sales difficult, at a decline of former prices. Barley was ad rather lower. Barley, grinding 28s to 31. Oats, old, .. 3os to 34g New do 27s to 32i Beans. 50s to 55i Beans, new .. 46e to 52g NOTTINGH. A. fair supply of wheat, and 2s to 3s per qr. Oats were at Beans not in much request, al White wheat, new, 50s to 54s Red do. 46s to 48s Old white sos to 52s Red do.. 4 4 s to 46s Barley, malting 34s to 43. NORWICH-JUNE 18. There was a small show of wheat, and farmers were un willing sellers at is to 2s per qr. decline. The trade in barley was slow at last week's rates. Beans were in limited supply. Oats were unaltered in value. White wheat. 50s to 62s J Red wheat 4 Flour, 30s Od to —s per sack from the miller. to 455 ROCHESTER-JUNE 18. The business done in wheat and flour was very restricted, at is per qr and sack cheaper, with few buyers. Barley and oats is per qr lower. Beans and peas the turn cheaper. Wheat 448:t0 508 I Oats.. 23s to 27a White do 44s to Ms I Beans 445 to 49s Barley YORK-JUNE 18. The wheat trade was inactive to-day, and the business done was at 2s to 3s under the rates of the preceding week. Beans were firm. Barley, oats, and peas were a very dull trade, at previous prices. Wheat .44s to 46s Oats . 23s to 25s White]do .46s to 48s I Beans ...48s to 50s Barley .28s to 32s Ditto, old ........—s to —0 Malt, 66s to 68s per qr. ; flour, —s per 20 stone. DUBLIN—JUNE 17. There was an extremely dull market to-day, and a large majority of the samples of everything rema ined un sold. Wheat was fully is and oats 3d to 6d cheaper than on Tuesday. Barley, though scarce, barely supported retail at currencies. Indian corn only saleable in at late rates. s. d. H. Do., new ll 6 to 13 0 Bere lO 0 to 12 6 Rapeseed 26 0 to 29 0 Oatmeal l4 6 to 16 0 retail Bakers' flour Indian corn 29 0t032 0 s. d. s. d. Wheat, white.. 28 0 to 30 0 Do., red 27 6 to 28 0 Do., new .... 23 0 to 26 0 Barley Oats ' l4 0 to 15 3 Do., black l3 6to 15 0 LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL-.TUNE 18. The market was lifeless to-day, but prices pretty steady. Birkenheads, 68 691—Leeds Northern. 44 s—Blackburruf, Ilk I—North British, 54 ,;s—Great Western of Canada, 14a i—Grand Trunk of Canada, 8: f--GreatWestern, 55- -Sheffields, 36/—Caledonians, 80I—Lancashire and York shire, 90 I—London and North-Westerns, 90 90; —Dutch Rhenish, 6 1 .1 dis.—East Lancashire, 88 89—BerwIcks9 , 88 }—Midlands, 991 99'—Chester and Holyheads, 48 Eastern Counties, ilk f—Dovers, 20 4 5-16. LEEDS—JUNE 18. There was little doing, and prices closed rather firmer. Yorks, 72 Leeds Old Gas, 180. BIRMINGHAM -JUNE 18. There was a very ste ad y business done in this market to-day. Midlands, 99 100—South Staffordshire, 10 13 9 London and North -Westerns, 90 90f —Worcester and Birmingham Canals , 13f 14 —Old Union Mill, 101 1.11-- Birmingham W aterworks, 37i—Birmingham B an ki ng Co., MANCHESTER-JUNE 18. There was a limited business doing, and the market w as dull. Dovers , 20 0-16—Midland s , 99i—Loudon and North Westerns, 904 k. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—.HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills Throughout the whole mineral kingdom no medicine can be found so harmless, yet so effective, as Holloway's pre parations, which are ent i rely extracted from vegetable sub stances, and possess the rare qualification of po t en cy for good and imp o t ency f or evil. They must purify, regulate , repair, and strengthen the human body under everY ailment, irrespeCtive a]ike of the nature or duration of the disorder, and the habits, age, or constitution of t h e patient. They are equally beneficial in the complaints of both sexes, however modified by the individual's peculiarities. Hollo way's infallible remedies have not their properties impaired _" by time o r c li ma t e, an d are everyw h ere purc h asa ble. The qualifications have secured for these medicaments a patron age as extensive as they merit. BIRTHS. CAMPBELL.—On the 13th inst., in Argyllshire, Mrs. Camp bell, of Kilberry, of a son. GORE.—On the 17th inst., at 8, Bedford-square, Brighton, the wife of Capt. Gore, R.A., of a son. - OTTER.—On the 17th inst., the wife of Chas. Otter, Esq., of 13, Leinster-gardens, Hyde-park, of a son. TREVOR.—On the 16th inst., at Rokeby Rectory, York shire, the wife of the Rev. Geo. A. Trevor, of a son. MARRIAGES. GREEN—CARTER.—On the:l6th inst., atSt. James's, Pic cadilly, Lieut.-Col. G. W. G. Green, C. 8., thud son of the Rev. G. W. Green, Court Henry, Carmarthenshire, to Ellen, youngest daughter of the late William Carter, Esq., of I roy, Jamaica. SILAW—JONES. — On the 16th inst., at St. Pancras, Samuel, the youngest son of the late T. C. Shaw, Esq., of New street-square, city, to Alice, only child of Edward Jones, Esq., of 62, Mornington-road. DEATHS. CAMPBELL. — On the 15th inst., in Argyllshire, James, the infant son of John Campbell, of Bilberry. CUNNINGHAM. — On the 13th inst., William Fairlie Cun ingham, Esq., Fon of the late Captain Wm. Cuningham, 44th Refit. Madras X. 1., aged 22. GIBBON.—On tho 17th inst., at Sandown, Isle of Wight, Charlotte, wife of Thomas Gibson, Esq., of Clarence terrace, Regent's-park, aged 86. MuNno.—On the 16th inst., at Newport, Barnstaple, Lieut.-Colonel Chas. Adolphus Munro, late 74th Bengal Infantry, aged 75. PRICE.—On the 16th inst., at 124, Bishopsgate-street without, Mrs. Charlotte Price, aged 76. THORN.--On the 15th inst., at 20, Gunter-grove, West Brompton, G. R. Thorn, Esq., aged 52. Wnurcnuncn.—On the 15th inst., at North Charferd House, near Breamore, Hants, Samuel Whitchurch, Esq., aged 72. 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