The Sun. — London, England, 1859-08-13 00:00:00

RO YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the olanagement of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Fablen and Louis dei Franchi. By Mr. C. Kean. To conolnde with A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Commence at 7, THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnckstone. THIS EVENING, A NABOB FOR AN HOUR. THE CONTESTED ELECTION. After which, OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND. To conclude with HALLOWE'EN. Commence at 7. .nW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHL ole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. Followed by the new burlesque, THE BABES IN THE WOOD. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne ; Miss Woolgar and Miss K. Kelly. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. Mr. W. Smith's Benefit on Thursday, August 18. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Office 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, CAPTAIN CHARLOTTE. Miss M. Wilton. After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses Swanborough, Oliver, and Lavine. Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE LADY OF LYONS. _ Commence at 7 o'clock. VERDI'S OPERA OF MACBETH. The whole of the first Act of this Opera, now produced for the first time in this country (the remaining three acts being in course of rehearsal), is sung nightly at the CAN TERBURY HALL CONCERTS. THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, Oonsisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette, and Julia 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 evct written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu siastic trib u tes of praise from the Public Journals of France and Belgium. They will perform TWICE EACH EVENING, in addi tion to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 13. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 75—highest since noon yesterday. 60—lowest this morning and daring the night. 74—this day at noon. BAROMETER--30.02. WIND, Sonth-Westerly ; light, and very fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, lh. 55m.—Afternoon, 211. 13m. To-Moßaow-Morning, 2h. 30m.—Afternoon, lh. 46m. - , I. hog,. si* . , THE SUN. SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1859. CLOSE OF THE SESSION. The Parliamentary sessions of 1859 have at length, thank HEAVEN, been brought to a close! Those two sessions between which—as effectually as between the two stools of the adage—everything in the way of wholesome legislation has fallen to the ground. We have long since had quite enough for one year of all these fruitless bickerings of party, both in the Lords and in the Commons. We are heartily glad to be rid at last, for a brief interval, of those spiteful wranglings of faction, which have for a whole twelvemonth precluded the nation from the merest chance of enjoying the realisation of any positive and practical legislative improvement. Unless something at present entirely beyond our ken should arise to necessitate the ex ceptioial and always unpopular labours of an autumnal session, the Gallery Reporters will have no more to do in their magic art of per petuating oratory by hieroglyphics, until February. Our ultra-reforming Premier will, in that case, have to curb his impatience as best he may during five whole months before he can seize the oppor tunity he is known to court so eagerly for tho roughly remodelling and reorganising our existing system of popular representation ! As if in doubt as to that eagerness on the part of Lord PALMER STON and his colleagues, Lord DENMAN last evening , gave notice in the Upper House, that " in the event of her MAJESTY'S Ministers delaying a reform bill next session, he would move for leave to introduce the bill so prematurely put an end to last session." It is a painful reminder—this prospective and con tingent notice of motion by Lord DENMAN—that we close the Parliamentary labours of 1859, the toils of two sessions, the deliberations of two Par liaments, at precisely, and absolutely, and literally the same identical point, at which those labours, now upwards of six months ago (namely, on the 3d day of last February) commenced ! And yet further—the Manner in which this outrageous waste of time has been brought about, the Cause of this monstrous wasting, and worse than wast ing, of a whole year, Lord DENMAN yesterday sen tentiously but most fully indicated when, in giving his notice of motion for 1860, "in the event of Ministers delaying a reform bill next session," (as they are known to have done, in truth, so often previously) his lordship observed, "He had given a silent vote for Lord DERBY "—adding—" he would now mention that he had received a letter from a gentleman, a cousin of his (Lord DENMAN'S) in which the writer said, ( I quite agree with you that Lord MALMESBURY has been unfairly treated. Nothing could be more constitutional, upright, and firm than the way in which he conducted the foreign business of the country.'" Yet it is notori ous that it was precisely by reason of that unfair treatment of Lord MALMESBURY, because of the wicked and intuitive perversion of his sayings and doings as Her MAJESTY'S Foreign Secretary, be cause of the entire misrepresentation of his policy from beginning to end, that the last chance of the possibility of any real work in the way of whole some legislation for 1859, was lost to the country ! Simply for the sake of bringing back to office those dear inevitable Whigs, so that the great families might yet once more cram the loaves and fishes down the insatiable maws of all the GREYS, and all the ELLIOTS, and all the RUSSELLS Sixteen months exclusion from power having whetted their natu rally fine appetites from a hunger to a positive ravening fo r place and its perquisites. That is really the One Result of these two sessions of 1859—the Whigs are located once more in their old haunts in Whitehall! Sir CHARLES WOOD is en abled to dedicate his immense genius to the service of his country in a perfectly new character, namely, as the reorganizer of our Indian Empire, as the vir tual ruler of 200,000,000 of his fellow creatures Sir GEORGE GREY is empowered to draw a pretty ,handsome sala r y in the sinecur e position • o f Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Sir GEORGE LEWIS devotes his resplendent administrative cape -cities to the conduct of the affairs of the H ome Department. Lord Joris RussELL is entrusted .again with the management of that delicate and o omplicated loom of the Foreign-office, where the ft broils threads of diplomacy are spun and inter wc wen—that same Lord JOHN who has already so fret tuently and signally illustrated his adroitness as a di plomatist; for example, let us say, in the instance of - the Vienna Conference ! When we recall these thi ugs to mind—when we remember, moreover, thw, t there, again, somehow or other, in the sacred purl 'lens of Downing• street and Whitehall, Mr. Low X, for instance, the high-minded and public spirit red Mr. LOWE. now a c Calne,lately of Kidder minsl toils at the publi► ! desk and draws the public money—we are console d, we are fain to re tract ur estimate of the fruitlesoness of the two ses- sions of 1859. If such are the result of these sessions, can they be regarded as wholly fruitless ? Have the Lords and Commons, but especially the latter, laboured in vain during the last stormy and anxious half-year, if—scanning the whole of this last weary volume of Hansard, surveying the whole of these sour debates and spiteful divisions—we find, as the result of all, the joyful return of the Whigs to Downing-street ? What is the postponement for another year of Parliamentary Reform ? Have we not compensation for this, full and complete com pensation—in the restoration of the Whigs to the offices of the Administration ! Common sense certainly tells us that we ought to make the most of this one Great Result of the Parliamentary session of 1859 —for it is a result that has been purchased dearly enough. The price of it is, among other things, the postponement not merely of Parlia mentary Reform (though that of itself is matter of sufficient consideration), but with Par liamentary Reform of every other kind of Legi slative Improvement. The Legal Reforms, among others, prepared for us at the open ing of the first of the two sessions last past those of the insolvency and bankruptcy laws, those involving the consolidation of the cri minal laws, those relating to the titles to land and to their registration—all have been given the go by—that the Whigs might be brought back to power ! In the eager struggling of the Whigs back once more to power, place, and patronage—we end the Parliamentary sessions of 1859, leaving the church-rates still unabolished. Because the Whig determination to wriggle back at any hazard, coute qui coute, at any cost of principle, of public spirit, or of consistency, the diplomatic labours of Lord MALMESBURY were first of all rendered powerless, and were afterwards flagitiously misrepresented. The precipitation of the war in Italy—was the adverse majority of 39 upon Thursday the 31st March, upon Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S paltry because entirely partisan and " dodging," resolu tions. Nay, the Times itself, the thick-and-thin advocate of the present Coalition in its rise and development, as afterwards in its formal installa tion, the very Times itself acknowledges this morn ing, in reference to the position of the late Govern ment, as far as its Diplomatic efforts to prevent the outbreak of war were concerned, that " a Ministry on sufferance immediately after a defeat in the House of Commons is naturally regarded with dis trust and comparative indifference by Foreign Powers." Now, remember that while as far as relates to the interests of Parliamentary Reform alone, there was not only every reason not to vote for Lord JOHN'S ridiculous resolutions, but, as we still believe, every reason to vote diametrically against them—as regards the influence of that untoward division upon the affairs of Europe even the organ of the then Opposition to-day acknowledges the result of the majority to save been—disastrous. To put the matter plainly, and in as few words as possible—To thrust LordDERBY and his colleagues out of office, and to bring the dear old Whigs back again into power—the war in Italy (to say the very least of it) was precipi tated. For (to repeat the ipsissima verba of the Times) " A Ministry on Sufferance immediately after a defeat in the House of Com mons, is naturally regarded with distrust and com parative indifference by foreign Powers." There fore, by reason of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S own act, the introduction (for purely selfish ends) of his in sidious and paltry resolutions, the war in Italy was precipitated ! He inherits now, in his Ministerial capacity as Foreign Secretary, difficulties for which • he himself is in a very great and a very heinous manner responsible. Nothing hardly could have justified such a course at a moment so peculiarly perillous to the peace of Christendom nothing, cer tainly, could yield a shadow of justification 'to it below the immediate interests of the great ques tion of Parliamentary Reform, the problem of re organising and revivifying the whole system of our popular representation. But that those immediate interests were in no way at all advantageously affected by the momentary triumph ensured to the Whigs by the " dodge " Lord JOHN'S Resolutions—the position of the question of Parliamentary reform at the present moment only too clearly and too painfully demon strates. On the contrary—as independent Liberals and thoroughgoing Reformers it, the House, like Mr. ROEBUCK, and equally independent Liberals and no less thoroughgoing Reformers out of the House like ourselves, maintained loudly and strenuously at the time—the " immediate interests" of Parliamentary Reform demanded the rejection of those paltry resolutions, and the reference of the inadequate but improvable Bill of Lord DERBY and Mr. DISRAELI to the judg ment of the House of Commons in Com mitteee. Had those honest recommendations been followed, we might now have had cause to exult in the happy triumph at last of the Cause of Reform—all that was evil in that bill being easily eliminf.ted, all that was good in it as readily de veloped—developed even, had the House so willed it in Committee, to the approximation to Universal Suffrage, to the realisation of the Ballot, to the securing permanently, what we have now virtually, but irregularly, namely Quadrennial Parliaments ! But no : the Whigs, like true dogs in the manger, wanted the glory of the thing to themselves. If they could not give Reform, no one else should. Reform, in fact, appertaining exclusively to the Whigs, as the Times has the singular audacity (even for the Times) to express it to-day, as " the legitimate pro prietors of the doctrine !" The Whigs " the legiti mate PROPRIETORS " of the doctrine ! As if Reform belonged not to the whole mass of the population ! But no—that is the Whig creed. There may be free trade in everything else—but of Reform of all kinds (Heaven knows why), they are the impre scriptable Monopolists. - Wherefore—not, of course, that they loved Reform less, but that they loved power more—the Whigs, led on by Lord JOHN, set aside the possibility of our getting Reform: securing, instead, the success of those insidious and pernicious resolutions. As the first consequence of which, The Italian War became in a manner inevitable—the media tion of the discomfitted Ministry being rendered powerless for good by the selfish and partisan tactics of the Opposition. In the next place, the setting aside for yet another session of Par liamentary Reform, as well as of all other reforms, was ensured, as we have now the anguish of witnessing ! Everything was lost for ourselves, everything was imperilled for Christendom—so that the Whigs and their friends might only con trive, by the grossest bribery in the elections, and by the most flagitious misrepresentations in de bate, to worm their way back somehow, any how, by fair m eans or by foul, to the pow e r greedily hunge re d a f ter by themselves and their following. The end o f it a ll b eing, that the Whin, are back again, and that the nation is expected to feel consoled by that one fact for having No R e f or m, a nearly Doubled Incom e Tax, and a very our Neut ra l pos i t i o n us degree of dignity in . Powers of Christe n d om. amongdubio the Great The immaculate counties ! But one petition, we believe, has beentried, or will be tried. Boroughs have been proved to be nests of corruption ; not only THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 1859: old Norwich, or Gloucester, or Pontefract, where the unlucky " old freemen " are the scape-goats the ten pound householders being supposed to be quite above sacrificing political principle to money ; but the " bran new " boroughs, with the polish of the Reform Bill not yet worn off—such as Wake field and Huddersfield—are proved to be steeped to the lips in bribery. Not even the Minos and Rhadamanthus-like presence of two brothers-in law of the great Birmingham Reformer availed to deter agents from giving, and Reform-Bill-made electors from receiving money for votes. All the while, however, the counties have been, with hardly an exception, free even from suspicion. We speak of our own side of St. George's Channel ; and we believe that hardly an elector of the fifty two counties, and their divisions, is suspected to have stained his hand with a bribe. One hundred and eighty-nine members represent the landed nobles and gentry of Great Britain ; and who ever dreamed that half-a-dozen of this virtuous phalanx owed their seats to the ignoble vice of bribery—unless, indeed, the carrying of electors to the poll, and saving them from thirst and star vation on the road, can be construed as bribery. Pure and spotless, however, as their virtue must be reputed, who believes in it ? The truth is, that vices may be equal, or one worse than the other, yet the worst shall be the most respectable. " Plate sin with gold ;" let it be the sin of the Court, of the great, of the wealthy, and it loses half its odiousness, at least to the vul gar rich and the vulgar poor. Bribery, because a crime of the wealthy, is detested but half as much as it would be, if bribers as well as bribed were poor men. But the viler crime of " intimidation" is hardly loathed at all. It is the remnant of a noble feudal tyranny. Serfdom is indeed abolished. Compulsory service is no longer tolerated. But political serfdom is not only excused but defended. The tenant is considered, politically, as much the landlord's own as the soil ; indeed in some instances not only politically, but religiously, we have heard only this very year of old and excellent tenants being turned out of their farms because the worthy men preferred JOHN WESLEY'S hymn book to the prayer book ; Wesleyans being generally, also, only too good Tories by half. If we mistake not, the nearly two hundred county members sit in the House of Commons in virtue of a meaner and more cruel vice than the one which has unseated so many Liberal members ; and which would, from all that oozes out before the committees, have unseated the Tory members in the same towns, had they been the winners and the defenders of seats. Bribery is at least a sacrifice on the part of the seducer. The briber tampers with the poor elector's principles, it is true ; but oftentimes he is a man in too low a position of life to have either character or principles to lose. He does not, however, enslave him to himself ; he finds him, in the majority of cases, the slave of money, and dis posed to sacrifice anything to his god, and he enables him to sacrifice a vote. He confers a pleasure on the voter, though it be a depraving and unworthy one. The county candidate does just the reverse. He saves himself and afflicts the voter. He appeals to his fears. The unfortunate tenant dares not think. Whether he lives beneath a Whig or a Tory landlord it is all the same. Lucky for him if his landlord's opinions really accord with his own, though even then he does not enjoy the pleasure of knowing that his vote is his own. But, if his political views be different he must vote white black ; he must perpetrate electoral forgery or submit to a penalty as bad as that incurred by many a forger. It is not easy to conceive the amount of conscious degradation endured by many educated men at the present day under the uniform system of voting by estates, not by individual tenants. Instances fre quently occur, as in the Southern states of America, in which estates, voters and all, are sold to a new master of opposite politics to the old one. Wives and families are not, indeed, separated from their parents, but they and their parents would soon be sent a begging, or to the workhouse, to the slave states themselves, for all that the new landlord cares, if they ventured to thwart the purpose for which they were purchased. We have had these views openly asserted and defended only a year or two ago in Northampton shire, and, whether defended or not, no one doubts that they are acted on universally. It may be said that we hear but few complaints. We heard very few, during the latter part of their imprisonment from POEM() and his companions. Men cease to complain when complaint is useless, or, when it would but make their condition worse. A tenant openly uneasy because his political rights were filched, or taken as a part of the rent, though not specified in the lease by his landlord, would soon receive notice to quit. He would be regarded as a slave would in Carolina who did not conceal his wish for liberty. We have become accustomed to the sight, but when we open our eyes and look at it afresh, we can hardly conceive a more dreary one, politically, than that of the great majority of the counties of England. A part of the tenants, we may admit, concur in opinion with their land lords, but even they are conscious that they have only the advantage of a mental con formation which makes the fetters sit easy. The fetters are on them as well as on others. But all the rest live, converse politically, and vote, with the iron galling their souls. They may forget it more or less ; they may endeavour to make the best of it ; but whenever an election comes, escape from the consciousness of degradation they cannot. It is on the counties of England that the ballot would confer its noblest blessings. In boroughs it would save many a poor man from temptation, but in counties it would emancipate a whole and a large class. It would give tenants-at-will a will of their own. It would make the farmer a Free-man. One of the encouraging signs of the progress of the age may be found in the fact that many great business establishments have begun to turn their attention to something beyond trade and barter. The employers have, in many instances, anticipated the natural desire of their men by affording them the means of mental improvement and cultivation. In no case has this been more evident than in the various railway companies' establishments. The schools and libraries which have been instituted . under the auspices of the secretaries and heads of the companies have reflected honour on them for putting the means of mental cultivation and re creation within the reach of all those in their ser vice. The beneficial effect of this kindly encourage ment of literary tastes has just been forcibly shown at the Great Northern Railway establishment, where the employees have now started a little weekly journal for circulatiox among themselves. It is conducted, contributed to, and supported en tirely by members of the Great Northern staff, and it affords a very favourable impression of the degree of:intelligence and education they possess. Political and general news are very sensibly eschewed, since their publication would involve much unnecessary trouble, with no advantageous results, but all matters connected with the railway world in general, and the Great Northern in parti cular, are treated of. Tales, and poems, and papers on gardening are among its contents, and, though only two numbers arc as yet published, they pro mise fairly for its success and character. It is in teresting from the fact of its being the ffist publi cation of the sort—the first paper started exclu sively for the employees of railway companies. We heartily wish all success to its enterprising conductors, and hope it will not be the last of its kind, since it proves the intelligence and respecta bility of this large body of men, and the kindly feeling existing between employers and employed. It is a fair sign that the " march of mind" is ad vancing at a rate suitable to the day s o f railways and steam engines. BODKIN ELECTION.—(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) We have much pleasure in stating that Mr. Wyld was this day elected member for Bodmin. Mr. Tremayne re tired, and there was no opposition. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Router's office : TURIN, AUG. 13. Count Arese arrived here yesterday. The King visited Bergamo and Brescia, and was received with enthusiastic cheers by the population of Lombardy. An amnesty for small offences has been pro claimed. Commissioners of the Governments of France, England, Prussia, and Russia, have arrived at Florence, and will be present at the discussion of the assembly. MUNICH, AUG. 12. The Chamber of Deputies, in to-day's sitting, re specting the motion for the formation of a central power in Germany, resolved, after discussing the motion, to reject it, by passing to the order of the day with 87 votes against 45. VIENNA, AUG. 12. Our Ministerial crisis still continues. A special ' commission, appointed by the Emperor, for work ing out the new constitution, sits daily. Count Rechberg, Minister for Foreign Affai.s ; Count Leo Thun, Minister of Public Instruction ; Count Clam-Martinitz, Chief of the Government of Cra covie ; Count SVolkenstein, Imperial Councillor ; and Baron Hubner, formerly Ambassador at Paris, take part in the sittings of the commission. An employe in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs acts as secretary. It is fully confirmed that Baron Bach has ten dered his resignation because the reforms he pro posed were rejected by the Emperor; but it is cer tain there is no material difference between the pro gramme of Baron Bach and that of M. von Schmer ling, whose advice has since been asked. It is re reported that the commission for the working out of the constitution is equally opposed to the Tiews of Baron Bach and M. von Schmerling, and that the new constitution of Austria will be founded on aristocratical and clerical power. The Austrian Correspondence publishes an article respecting different letters from Berlin correspon dents in German papers, which had announced that a confidential declaration, in reference to certain passages in the Imperial Manifesto was made by Austria to Prussia. The Austrian Correspondence, although wishing for the best understanding to exist between the great German Powers, declares nevertheless the above statement to be unfounded. PARIS, AUG. 13. The 3loniteur of to-day contains the follow- ing : The Emperor received yesterday Prince Peter of Oldenburg and the Persian ambassador. Marquis de Nerli was received yesterday by the Emperor, and handed two letters to his Majesty, one from the Grand Duke Leopold of Tuscany, and the other from the Grand Duke Ferdinand of TuscAny. SARDINIA. MILAN, AUGUST 9.—This city has for the last three days been keeping high holiday in honour of the solemn entry of Victor Emmanuel as King of Lombardy. He left Turin the day before yester- day, at three in the afternoon, having in his suite a great part of the Parliament, who had received his gracious invitation to attend. Along the whole line he was greeted with shouts by the people. By half-past six the King reached the barrier of the Eastern gate, where a magnificent pavilion had been erected. Here he was welcomed by the authorities, and the Mayor of Milan, Count Belgio joso, read an address, which was greatly ap plauded. The King replied in a few touching words, after which he mounted his horse, and the whole of his train mottrlted their's, except the senators and deputies, wherode in court carriages. The Corso of Porta, Renza, otherwise called the Eastern Gate, is one of the most beautiful streets that any city of Europe can boast of. Conceive it filled with an immense throng, and all the balconies radiant with that beauty for which the Lombard women are famed ; to complete the picture, im agine an infinite number of banners and flags, so dense that they seemed to form a tended arcade. Along this enchanting scene rode the King, be tween two rows of the National Guard in their rich uniforms and perfect military bearing ; whilst a perfect rain of flowers, never ceasing for one instant, and rapturous cries of " Long live the King !" " Long live Italy !" poured down upon him amid the peals of the church bells. When the King and the royal cortege reached the famous cathedral—that mountain of sculptured marble, as Michael Angelo called it— they were welcomed under another pavilion by the clergy. Having entered the church, and listened to the Ambrosian hymn, the King, with his suite had not much further to go, for the royal palace is in the same square as the minister. Both on enter ing and leaving the cathedral the applause of the vast multitude was tremendous. That very morn ing, just as the ornamenting of the pavilion before the chief gate of the cathedral was completed, the same multitude had commenced a riot, accusing the municipal authorities of having hoisted the same flags and drapery that they had used when, greeting the Archduke Maximilian. They had spied out some yellow and black striping, which you know forms the Austrian cockade. Some Zouaves, having been told what the row was about, joined the malcontents, and in a very short time the pavilion was torn to shreds. Another canopy of some kind or other had to be extemporised, and so to suit the humour of the people, it was com posed of the tricoloured national flags alone. Yesterday he received all the constituted bodies of the state, and many deputations from the city and country. Among the guests at the banquet was the celebrated poet, Alessandro Manzoni. It is said, the King, in plain clothes and perfect incog nito, paid him a visit previously, at his own dwell ing. I hope this rumour will turn out to be a fact, and that virtue with genius combined has re ceived this mark of reverence from one of the best monarchs that adorn this age. In Milan there are still two divisions of the French army. Talking of them, permit me to relate to you an anecdote of much importance, the accuracy of which lam able to guarantee to you. When the news of the peace of Villafranca reached this place, the consternation was profound and universal. This feeling was soon changed into one of fury, and the aspect of the entire city became highly menacing. The colonel of the Piedinontese carabineers, Arnulfi, made it known to the commandant of the French garrison, who answered in a dry and cold manner, that having under his orders 20,000 French bayonets he laughed at ail the ill-humour of the Milanese. A few hours later the same commandant called upon Colonel Amalfi, and with some anxiety begged him to state what the temper of the people was then, and to keep hi m i n f orme d o f it. It was not diffi cult to detect the reason of the French comman dant's sudden anxiety ; he had been co mmunicatni With his principal officers, who had assured hi=;ni that they could, not rely with full security on their men, as these shared more than was to be wished the sentiments of the Milanese. There the matter c ende ittia c ; and t il citizens,le i pow,c,hpole pointed n - te calmed dti b io c some in tialafini di useless any tumult would be. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY. Notwithstanding the large number of troops con veyed fr,nn Italy to France, no accident occurred with the exception of a slight collision between two transports. The ficet from tne Adriasic has arrived at Toulon, and is laid up in ordinary, with the ex ception of some vessels that are being refitted and are taking in provisions. All the gunboats have been taken into dock. The steam frigate Isley and the steam cutter \longe still remain in the Adriatic. They have returned to Antivari, where they will, remain for some time, to protect the numerous transports laden with coal which were sent into the Adriatic to supply the steamships. The four regiments of Chasseurs d'Afrique are at present at Genoa, where they are to embark for Algeria. A letter from Pont Audemer, near Havre, says that the battery called l'Hopital is teing mounted with twelve rifled cannon. An artillery officer has arrived at Honfleur to superintend the operations, and a provisional barrack is being erected to lodge fifty men. Similar preparations are being made at Fecamp, where a battery is to be erected on the sea coast, near the Casino. A letter from Cherbourg, dated yesterday, an nounces that the Imperial yacht Aigle will sail thence on the 16th for Biarritz, to be placed at the disposal of the Emperor and Empress for their mari time excursions. The construction of this handsome pleasure boat was commenced on the 7th of May, 1858, and she has just completed her trial trips. Her length is from stem to stern 270 feet, her greatest breadth of beam is 31 feet 6 inches. When fully laden she draws 13ft. of water. Her engines are of the nominal power of 500 horses. She is not provided with a screw, as it is found that such a propeller, though admirably suited to a ship of war, produces a trembling motion in the after cabin, which is by no means agreeable in a pleasure boat. The yacht in her trial trips accomplished 15 knots per hour. The Aigle, independently of her nauti cal qualities, is greatly admired for the beauty of her lines. Her hull is painted black, with two gold streaks, which meet at the head of a magnificent eagle. The 3loniteur of Friday morning publishes the usual monthly debtor and creditor account of the Bank of France, made up to Thursday. The cor responding figures of the last month are added : DEBTOR. July. August. F. C. F. C. Capital of the Bank 91,250,000 0 91,250,000 0 Ditto, New Profits in addition to Capi tal (Art. 8, Law of June 9, 1857) 1,510,527 65 1,510,527 65 . Reserve of the Bank .. New Reserve Ditto in landed property 4,000,000 0 4,000,000 0 Notes in circulation.— . . Bank-notes to order... . Receipts payable at sight 11,295,263 0 9,772,272 0 Treasury account current credit'or Sundry accounts current 255,835,690 92 181,305,261 34 Ditto with branch banks 27,381,955 0 31,316,584 0 Dividends payable. — 1,641,937 25 Discts. sundry interests 4,347,544 58 3,441,766 39 Commission on deposits 1,664,576 16 9,759,288 42 Re-discounted the last six months Surplus of paid •up bills Sundries 1,751,105 5 3,441,766 39 3,374,426 59 3,761,983 Total 1,436,773,982 89 1,366,098,814 59 CREDITOR. July. June. F. C. F. C. Cash in hand Cash in the branch banks. 350,143,278 0 353,664,393 0 Commercial bills overdue. 492,465 61 3,029,456 6 Commercial bills dis- counted, not yet due .. 245,265,860 61 207,871,906 43 Do. in the branch banks .. 287,043,451 0 255,649,488 0 Advanced on deposit of 59,600 0 36i,500 0 578,700 0 520,000 0 bullion Do. by the branch banks. Do. on Frenchpublic secu rities Do. by the branch banks 14,539,400 0 13,505,800 0 Do. on railway securities 120,196,859 80 52,994,588 0 Do. by the branch banks 30,204,050 0 30,053,250 0 Do. on Cr&lit Foncier Scrip 700,600 0 738,900 0 Do. on branch banks Scrip 427,400 0 412,000 0 Do. to the State on agree- went of June 30, 1848 65,000,000 0 65,000,000 0 Govern. stock reserved 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 Do. disposable Hotel and furn. of Bank Lauded property of branch bank; - 6,731,822 8 6,670,269 0 Expenses of management 190,042 16 526,140 3 Sundries Total 1,436,773,982 89 1,366,098,814 59 . „ PARIS BOURS; Aug. 12.—The market has been again heavy, with declining prices. Threes, after having been done at 69f. 70c., declined to 69f. 35c., and are now at 69f. 45c. ; Mobilier varied from 845 f. to 837 f. 50c.; Austrian, 562 f. 50c.; Lom bards. 561 f. 25c. ; Orleans, 1,370 f. ; Lyons, 872 f. 50c. ; Southern, 515 f. ; Northern, 930 f.; Eastern, 650 f. The market continued heavy to the close, when the following were the quotations : per Cents. 97 Do. end month 97 25 3 per Cents. 69 20 Do. end month 69 25 Bank Shares 2825 — 7.:redit MoLDier 837 50 Do. Account Credit Fonder 660 Belgian 41 . — Piedmontese (5) B5 25 Roman B6 Austrian — Spanish Times Home Debt 4l 75 RAILWAYS. , Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 930 .. 930 New ditto Bl5 .. 815 Lyons and Mediterranean B7O. 871 25 Geneva — • . Southern Western 560 --- .. 560 - 650 —Eastern 650 Sardinian 415 :: 412 50 Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 131 c. ; money, 25f 121 c.; three months, paper, 24f. 97±c.; money, 24f. 950. PRUSSIA. A telegram from Berlin, dated the 11th instant, says : The state of King Frederick William is much worse since yesterday. Paralysis has gained his left side. His Majesty is almost in a state of un consciousness. Fatal results are feared. The Prince and Princess of Prussia arrived here this morning. PARMA. A Turin letter asserts that when Count de Reiset entered Parma his carriage was literally filled with notes, both printed and in manuscript, bearing the words "We will be the subjects of King Victor Emmanuel." THE 2IIILITARY POWER OF FRANCE. Paris, bent on its day of rejoicing, paying little attention to politics. 'M. Granier de it Cassiag nac puts forth -in the Pays—apropos, is pre sumable, to the coming military pageant—a long M. Granier article headed "The French Army:" seems bent, of late, on making himself unpleasant, which one would not much mind if he could con trive, at the same time, to be amusing. His object seems to be to revive subsiding irritation. His efforts, I am happy to say, are generally blamed here, and in England they are not likely to attract attention or have any weight. His present article is a mere fanfaronade. It is the very essence of braggadocio. In a sort of desultory sketch of the progress of the French army, commencing with the capture of Rome by the Gauls, he places it above all others, past, present, and future. The French army-, he says, has conquered the admiration of the world ; it has conquered, within the last five years the Russians and A Austrians, who ar e ev id ently a mong the best armies in Europe; other nations may imitate French rifle guns and conical ball s , b ut tey will never succeed in imitating French soldiers. It would be easy to remind him of a few things he has chosen to forget, but there is not much tempta tion to join issue with him on points which there can be no possible advantage in raking up. I pre fer g i v i ng yo u , by an extract or two, a notion of the tone and tendency of his article. He says Before the Revolution soldiers in France were raised as soldiers and sailors still are in England. Sub-offiCers, crowned with laurel, traversed Paris, mounted on carriages preceded by fifes and drums, and followed by carts laden with hams, fowls, and wine. At every public-house a halt was made, and recruits were enrolled who were seduced much less by the prospect of glory than by goodcheer. The Revolution of 1789 created -our present army. Civil and political equality has imparted to th.a_ soldier dignity., emula tion, and love of glory; the organisation of the C onsu l a t e and of the E mp i re h as rais e d th army to its highest power by giving it, with discipline, the useful employment of allits strength. At the present day there exists not in the world an army at once better provided, better administered, better fed, better kept, better instructed, or braver thanours ; and when once there shall have been completed the service of maritime transports. which will permit the unexpected throwing of a corps d' armee on a point of the enemy's shore, the enemies of Franco, or those who are jealous of her, will have to think twice before provoking her." After this implied threat, M7Granier de Cassaig nac explains the causes, in his opinion, of the alleged su p er i or ity o f th e F rench army, which he declares to be such that Europe would in vain en deavour to balance. the military power of France. French arms, he repeats, may be copied, but not French soldiers, especially, he concludes, like an adroit courtier, " now that they have at their head a Sovereign who knows how to give and to gain great battles." T HIRD EDIT I ON. SUN OFFICE, Six o Clock. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-(THIS DAY). The ceremony of proroguing the Imperial Par liiment, by Royal Commission, took place to-day with the usual formalities. Shortly after two o'clock the Lord Chancellor and the other peers named in the Commission entered the house in their scarlet robes, and took their seats in front of the throne. The usual preliminaries having been gone through, The LORD CHANCELLOR then directed the Usher of the Black Rod to summon the " faithful Commons to the bar of their lordships' house to hear the Royal assent given to certain bills, and also her Majesty's most gracious speech proroguing Parliament." The Usher of the Black Rod then retired, and in a few minutes the Speaker and a number of the members of the House of Commons appeared at the bar. The Royal commission having again been read, the Royal assent was then given to the following bills : Income Tax Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) ; Stamp Duties; Military Savings Bank; Universities Incorpora tion Act Amendment; Queen's Remembrancer ; County Cess (Ireland) Acts Continuance; Universities (Scotland); Constabulary Force (Ireland) ; Manufactories (Ireland) Acts Continuance; Cambridge University Commission Continuance ; Law of,Property and Trustees Relief Amend ment; North-Western Territory (British America) Coinage; Probate and Letters of Administration (Ireland) ; Turn. pike Trusts Arrangement ; Railway Companies Arbitra tion ; Marriages (Lisbon) ; Imprisonment for Small Debts ; Militia Law Amendment ; Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Ireland) Act Amendment ; Customs (No. 2) ; East India Loan ; Militia Pay ; Reserve Volunteer Force of Seamen ; Government of India Amendment ; Inclosure Acts Amend ment; Stock-in-Trade Exemption; Ecclesiastical Juris• diction Continuance; Episcopal and Capitular Estates Act Continuance ; Corrupt ,Practices Prevention Act (1854) Continuance ; Weights and Measures Act Amend ment ; Turnpike Act Continuance ; Dublin Police ; Chari table and Provident Societies ; Inclosure ; European Troops (India) ; Divorce ; Sale of Gas ; Charitable Trusts Act Continuance; Sessional Division; Law Ascertainment So ciety; Poor Law Board (Paymentof Debts); GalwayHarbour and Port Amendment; Fishing Vessels passing the Nore ; Chester and Holyhead Railway; Westminster New Bridge; Newcastle-under-Lyme Burgess Land; Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway ; Chichester Harbour Embank ment; Herne Bay and Faversham Railway (Margate Ext.) ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, and East Lancashire Railway Companies; Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax Junction; Nuneaton and Hinckley Railway ; Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway; Berks and Hants Extension Railway; British and Canadian Telegraph Company; South Staf fordshire Railway; London and North-Western Railway (Denton to Staleybridge) ; and several other bills. The LORD CHANCELLOR then rose and read HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH. C° My LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, "We are commanded by her Majesty to release you from further attendance in Parliament, and at the same time to convey to you her Majesty's acknowledgments for the zeal and assiduity with which you have applied yourselves to the performance of your important duties during the session of Parliament about to close. " Various circumstances have occasioned inter ruptions, and prevented the completion of important mea sures which her Majesty pointed out to the attention of her Parliament at the beginning of the present year, but her Majesty trusts that these matters will be taken into your consideration at an early period of the next session. "The war which has broken out in Northern Italy hav ing been brought to a close by the peace of Villafranca' overtures have been made to her Majesty with a view to ascertain those held by the great Powers of Europe, for the purpose of settling arrangements connected with the pre sent state and future condition of Italy, a plenipotentiary would be sent by her Majesty to assist at such conference, but her Majesty has not yet received the information ne cessary to enable her Majesty to decide whether her Ma jesty may think it fit to take part in any such negotiations. " Her Majesty would rejoice to find herself able to con tribute to the establishment of arrangements calculated to place the general peace on satisfactory and lasting founda tions. "Her Majesty, in accordance with the stipulations of the treaty of Tiensiag, has instructed her plenipotentiary in China to - repair to the Imperial Court at Pekin; and her Majesty trusts that such direct communication with the Imperial Government will h ave a b enef i cial effect upon the relations between the two countries. " Her Majesty commands us to inform you that she looks forward with confidence to the continued mainte nance of those friendly relations which so happily subsist between her Majesty and all foreign Powers and States. " Her Majesty is glad to be able to congratulate you,on the complete restoration of tranquillity in her Indian do minions. " It will be her earnest endeavour to promote their in ternal improvement and to obliterate the traces of those con flicts which her Majesty witnessed with such deep concern. " The financial arrangements of that portion of her Ma jesty's empire will continue to engage her Majesty's serious consideration. " Her Majesty has had much satisfaction in giving her assent to the bill which you presented to her for the forma tion of a naval and military reserve force. A complete and permanent system of national defence must at all times be an object of paramount importance. " Gentlemen of the House of Commons,— " Her Majesty commands us to conveyto you her cordial thanks for the readiness and zeal with which you have provided the necessary supplies for the year. My Lords and Gentlemen,— _ Her Majesty commands us to expess to you her heartfelt gratification at witnessing the general wellbeing and con tentment which prevail throughout her dominions. The happiness of her people is the object dearest to her heart. At the termination of the reading of the Royal Speech, - - - - - The LORD CHANCELLOR said—By virtue of the commission which has jnst been read, I declare, in the name of her Majesty the Queen, that this Par liament is prorogued until Thursday, the 27th day of October. During the proceedings few visitors were pre sent. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(Tms DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at half-past twelve o'clock. NEW WRIT On the motion of Mr. BRAND, new writs were ordered for Liskeard, in th e room of Mr. Ralph William Grey, who has accepted the office of Steward of the Hundred of North stead ; for Hertford, in the room of Mr. Cowper, who has accepted the office o f P res id ent of the Board of Trade ; and for Berwick-on-Tweed, in the room of Mr. Erle, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. PO NTEFRACT ELECTION. Mr. W. P. WESTHEAD drew the attention of the house to the contents of the report of the Pontefract elec tion committee, and proposed to make a motion with re spect to privilege. Mr. MALINS rose to order. He had a motion on the paper on the subject which should have precedence of that of the hon. member. The SPEAKER—The hon. member (Mr. Westhead) said that he proposed to make a motion on the question of privilege, and in doing so was strictly in order. Mr. W. WESTHEAD said he wished to notice particu larly the three last paragraphs of the report. [The hon. member read paragraphs 17,18, and 19.] The 18th paragraph proposed to replace Mr. Childers in the position which he occu pied previous to the withdrawal of the petition, but he con • tended that the house had no such power. Under the cir cumstances and considering the favourable view of the committee with regard to Mr. Childers, he wished to know whether the hon. member for Pontefract would not feel called upon to resign. Mr. MALINS rose again to order, which he considered the honourable member was infringing, by asking an hon. member such guestion.. The SPEAKER said that at present the hon. member was in order. Mr. WESTHEAD said that it was found by the com mittee that Mr. Childers and his agents were not guilty of any corruption from the commencement of the proceedings in connection with the arbitration :and the withdrawal of the petition, repeated that it was quite impossible for the House of Commons to restore the election petition in this case to its original position. He concluded by moving the production of the report. Mr. SELWYN said, as a member of the committee, he had proposed the 18th paragraph, on the ground that the memorandum as to the reference did not contain a clear agreement, and therefore that it was only fair to Mr. Childers to restore him to the position he occupied before the petition was withdrawn. The hon. and learned member referred to the case of a petition against the return of a member for Cork, where a mistake was committed, the petition being withdrawn instead of that for Limerick, and when the house restored the member to his original posi tion. He also alluded to another case, that of the borough of Norwich, where a similar course was adopted in consequence of a petition being withdrawn without the full authority of the principal. He suggested the same conm, should be pursued in the present instance. H@ would, therefore, move as an amendment that the order for re ference be declared null and void, Etna he suggested that the original petition should be placed at the bottom of the list. Sir G. GREY denied that the house had any such power. After some further discussion, Mr. OVEREND proposed that the whole question should be referred to the right hon. baronet the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and the right hon. baronet the member for Droitwitch. The suggestion of the hon. and learned member wax ultimately agreed to, and the motion and amendment were withdrawn. The subject then dropped. TREATY WITH CHINA, &c. In reply to Mr. GREGSON, Lord J. RUSSELL said it was intended by the Emperor of China to ratify the treaty entered into between him and this country, and he would be invited to accredit a perma nent ambassador at China. SEIZURE OF THE " HERALD"—ITALY. Mr. AYRTON asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, what steps live been taken to obtain compensation from the Government of Portugal for the seizure of the Herald ;" and also to obtain compensation from the Otto man Government for the injuries and losses inflicted on British subjects at Jeddila ? Lord J. RUSSELL said the subject was under consi deration. In reply to the other question he had to state that there was no official confirmation of rumours Which appeared in the Vienna papers as to the state of Italy. NEW WRITS--KINGSTON-UPON-HULL . On the motion of Mr. MALINS, the following were agreed to after some discussion :—To rescind the se ssional order of the 27th of July last, requiring two days' notice of the issue of a writ, under certain circumstances. — T hat Mr. Speaker do issue his warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for a burgess to serve in this pre sent Parliament for the borough of Kingston-upon - Hu ll, in the room of Joseph Hoare, Esq., whose election has been determined to be void. MUSKETRY SCHOOL AT HYTHE. Lord ELCHO moved for an address for copies of anY reports relative to the instruction of volunteers in the Go vernment school at Hythe. Mr. S. HERBERT said the report was to the object in. question. Lord PALMERSTON said the Government were desi rous to afford every assistance for the formation of volun teer corps in the country. After some discussion the motion was agreed to. Some returns were laid on the table, and some bills were were read a first time pro forma. COMMISSION PROROGATION. At half-past two o'clock Sir G. CLIFFORD, the Usher of the Black Rod, summoned the house to the bar of the House of Lords to hear the Royal Assent given by commission to several bills, and the Queen's Speech on prorogation 01 Parliament. The SPEAKER, accompanied by several members, ap peared at the bar of the upper house, and at the conclusion of the Royal Speech returned. The names of the different bills which had received the Royal assent and the Royal Speech were read (fo r which see Lords' report), which terminated the proceedings of the session. ELECTION PETITIONS TO BE TRIAD IN THE NEXT SESSION. Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.—Joseph Slade and others, Robert James Roy Campoell, Colonel Wm. LockY er Fr eestun. Carlisle.—John Park Arthur and John Graham. sir Barnstaple.—Sir William Augustus Fraser, Bart., William Augustus Fraser, Bart. Roscommon.—Denis O'Connor and Patrick Graham• Great Yarmouth.—Joseph Bayly and Robert Pilgrim• Newry.—Robert Dempster and Thomas Cardwell. King's County.—D. Hume and John F. Cassidy. Chatham.—George Wilstead and George Pattison. Dover.—Sir Wm. Russell, Bart. Carlow.—Henry Cary and Thomas Harris Carroll, TIC Cary and Thomas Harris Carroll. Dundalk.—Patrick Dowdall and Matthew M. Graham• Clare.—Nicholas Butler and John Barrymore Mac]ls - Lyme Regis.—John Georg e S ars fi e ld M acnamar a Moore and George Nathaniel Shore. Peterborough.—William Vergette and others, Thont l9s Scoley and Henry Freeman. Athlone.—Robert Preston Bayley, James Wm. Fa ir ' Lawrence Kelly and Thomas Gill. Norwich.—Josiah Fletcher and others, John God° Johnson and Roger Kerrison, Philip Back and Gardiner Christopher Stevens. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, AUG. 1 2 ' Her Majesty drove out yesterday, accompanied by th e Princess Hohenlohe and Princess Louisa. The Marchiolle° of Fly and Capt. Du Plat were in attendance. Their Imperial Highnesses the Grand Duchess 1 404° and the Princess Marie of Leuchtenberg dined with h er Majesty yesterday. The dinner party also included 11 " Royal Higness Princess Alice, Princess Hohenlohe, Erin!and Princess Leiningen, th e C oun t T o l s t oy, M a dame u `i Barikoff and Prince Kouraki ne , i n a tt en d ance on th e Gra n Duchess ; Baron de Brunnow, Lady Augusta Bruce. Re ar ; Admiral the Hon. George Grey, Col. Foster, Commanding Royal Engineers, South-Western District ; Col. the o°' Sir C. Phipps, and Sir George Couper. The Hon. Horatia Stopford has succeeded the K en. Flora Macdonald as Maid of Honour in waiting. The Duchess of Kent took a drive yesterday. The Queen held a Council this day at Osborne, Nv l l iell was attended by his Royal Highness the Prince Censo r " Earl Granville (Lord President), the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Palmerston, the Duke of Newcastle, Lord P hil Russell, Sir G. C. Lewis, the Chancellor of the Exchall i . , er ' the Earl of Elgin the Right H on . T. Mil uer Gib s on, 141-a Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, the Right Hon. E. Cardwe ll ' the Earl of St. Germans (Lord Steward), Viscount Sydney (Lord Chamberl a i n ), th e M arqu i s o f Ail es b ury (Master °f the Horse), and Earl Spencer (Groom of the Stole to the Prince Consort). At the Council, Parliament was ordered to be prorogued to Thursday, the 27th October. The Royal Speech for closing the session of Parliam ent was submitted and approved. Mr. Charles A. Hamilton was appointed to act in the absence of the Clerk of the Council in ordinary, an d toot the oathe of office. The Hon. William Bathurst was Clerk of the Council in waiting. General Loven had an audience of the Queen to presen t a letter from his Majesty the King of Sweden, and via l : presented by Lord John Russell, the Queen's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Count Platen had an audience of her Majesty. - - - - - Mr. Charles Lennox Wyke was presentdd to the Queue at an audience by Lord John Russell, on being appointe d to a special mission to Nicaragua. Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, and Earl Granville had audiences of her Ma jesty. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by Ditra.Or Cowell, arrived at Buckingham Palace, at 10 o'clock Yes es terday morning, from Holyrood. The Prince left the Palace at 11 o'clock for Osborne. Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Gran ville, Sir G. C. Lewis, Lord J. Russell the Duke of lles" castle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right lion' C. P. Villie rs , th e Earl of Elgiu, the Right Hon. T. 1411° m. ~„,„,- Gibson, the Ri g ht H on. E. Cardwell, the Earl of St. ilv' t mans, Viscount Syd ney, the Marquis of Aylesbury, Spencer, Count Platen, General Loven, Mr. Wyke, 0 Hon. Wm. Bathurst, and Mr. C. A. Hamilton left the Waterloo t erm i nus o f the South-Western Railwa y, ts. , special train, at a quarter-past nine o'clock yesterday 10°r ; big, for Osborne. The Ministers crossed from Gospert o the Sprightly, and reached Osborne at one o'clock. 1 Ministeis took their departure after the Privy Council, at half-past three o'clock, re -crossed in the Sprightly, and returned to town by special train on the South-Wes t Railway. • Despatches were sent from the Colonial-offic e yesterday to the Governor of Bermuda, the Governors of the 1 0 `,:i American Provinces, and the Lord High Commissione r the lonian Islands. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Aug. 12.—We have a quiet 13//t steady market. Under ordinary circumstan c .t with the present demand for India, lower Priv: would have to be taken ; b u t i n the heavy eer; tracts, extending over many weeks to conie, these goods, buyers generally have no a dvantag e ' They are not realisin g th e extreme prices demand -0 a little time back; but there is a difficulty 1 00 placing orders at anything under the actual Pr ic to hitherto given. I n T- c l o th s t h ere i s a mo d e ra 0 business at full prices ; but there is less busil g , for long cl o th s . D omest i cs are firm. Printe t, especially of 26-inch width, are i n goo d req uel e and manufacturers have a di ffi culty in meeting Im demand. The makers of 36-i nc h shirtings to.re mostly pre-engaged. Yarns are less actively in__,`, ns (pest, but prices a re sus t a i ne d . Cops and v 11; for Indian goods are an excep ti on, b e i ng eas ier price; but 16's to 24's w a t er twist, for China tiombay, continue dearer, a s was th e case on 0 day. The finer 'yarns from 60's to 100's are nriie 0 and two-folds are in more request at full ro'oo • Continental buyers of ya rn are not b uy i n g freely, but the general demand for these r r keeps them at full rates. L: THE ARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE,--T his - 10 10. quarian body has just ter m i na t e d its meeting at Ca rl The papers read were long and interestin g , i n cluding by by Mr. Cory on the churches of Cumberland, a lect ur lttr• Mr. Newton on the discoveries at Boudron, a paper by Hugh M'Kie on ancient remains, &0., discovered ill, I. sewers of Carlisle, one on Holme ultran Abbey by' t „ e fiea• Simpson, and several others too numerous to be sP e ',.don• Excursions were made by the archaeologists to r • Castle, near Corbridge, to Corby Castle, the seat of 0. 0 . n. H. Howard, who entertained the company with 8 11, 3 ar grace and a hearty spirit and to Brougham-ha"' Penrith. A most delightful time was:spent, THE PRINCE OF WALES AND PRINCE ALF RE D ' o r On Tuesday morning Prince Alfred, attended bY; al of ;, Cowell, arriv e d a t E dinburgh on a visit to •the Pra l s ol Wales, who is at present residing at Holyrood. T a no day the two P r i nces made a journey to Abbotsforufwd- Melrose and Dryburgh Abbeys, and witnessed all the i ' ve d. ing objects of interest in the " Land of Scott." OA see nesday the Prince of Wales, who visits the UniversitYfesscr ral times a week to receive the instructions of F r , ° ec turn Lyon Playfair, attended, with his Royal brother, the by the professor on the chemical phenomena col a ti l e 0 , with the processes of calico printing and dyeing. Que en evening the Princes and suite honoured the the Theitre with their presence and took their seats var i e d Prince of Wal es ' s b ox. Th e performances were of aelight, Mid lively ch arac t er an d seeme d to give them grea t a to Prince Alfred in particular. to THE SOIREE TO MR. C OBDEN .—The cora; „I keto. have distributed up t o Th urs d ay n i g ht nearly 1,500 Mr. Cobdea will be the guest of John Fenton, _ sew . b i: l 4ti l it er ci f ° t l h C a T t of the Legislative Assembly of St. John, the g u ,f,,„ ss leff imb borough.l e- hall, T n h e near rR Hon.oc Rochdale, l ß e,. Ju formerly bb, l late e r e nsci p t r e l oitl. Ashworth, Esq. ; Mr. Tattersall, M.P. Mr. F. '_ . `" ave M.P , and Mr. Leatham M.P., of Huddersfield, /va r. t a i i m .an at . ed their intention dbeing present.--Manchester u