The Sun. — London, England, 1858-08-06 00:00:00

IIER I N E " I G B tl . l YL TSRAN.TI2TIAEATRE TO-MORROW (SATURDAY). Augmt 7, will be repeated Verdi's Opera, LA TRAVIATA. Violetta.Madlle.Piecolomini Flora Bervoix, Madame Gratringha ; Al'redo, Signor Guigllni; bottom Grenvil, Sigler Cnstelli ; and Germont Giorgio, Signor Aldighieri. The National Anthem will lollow the Opera. After which, by general desire, a Scene from Balfe's Opera, LA ZINGARA, in which Signor Ginglini will sing the admired Ballad. "Ah si ben mio to milmi" ("Then you'd remember me"). To conclude with a Divertissement, in which 3ladlle. Boschetti gill appear. Applications to be made at the Box-etEcc of the Theatre. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Last Night but One.—ReAuced Prices. THIS EVENING (FRIDAY), August 6, will be repeated LA FIG r.IA DEL REGGIMENTO. Maria, Madlie. Piccolomini ; La Marchesa, Madlle. Sondina ; Tonto, Signor Belart; Ortensio, Signor Castelli ; and Sergente Sulpizio, Slenor Tialetti. And toe Last tleene from Donintti's I MARTIRI, comprising the celebrated Duo, "Ii soon dell' arpo angelicke:" Paolena, Madlle. Piceolomini ; Ponta°, Signor Ginglini. And a Divertissement in which Madlle. Boschetti will appear. Pe Opera commences at 8 o'clock. atalls, 12s. 6d.; boxes : grand tier, £3 35.; one pair. £2 12s. 6d.: it tier, £2'2s.; two pair, £1 55.; three pair. 155. ; gallery boxes, 10, M.; pit, 3s. 6d.; gallery stalls, 3s. 6d,; gallery, is.; may be had at the Box-odlee at the Theatre. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. —NEW THEATRE. The nobility, gentry, StlbACTiViel,?, and the public are respectfully Informed that the season will terminate to-morrow week. There will be no extra n‘ghts. Last Night of MARTILL—Last Night but Four. TO-MOREOW (SATURDAY), August 7, will be perfortnefl(for the last time this season), Flotow's MARTHA. Lady Enrichetta, Madame Bosio; Nancy, Madlie. Didi6e ; Plum- Yett, signor Graziani ; I ord Tristano, Signor Tagliatico; Sceriffo di Richmond, 31. Zelger ; and Lionello, Signor Mario. Conductor, Mr. Costa. The Incidental tevcrtissement will be supported by Madlle. Zina, Madlle. Delechaux, and M. Desplaces. The Opera commences at half-past 6. Pit tickets, 10s. Gd.; amphitheatre stalls, 10i. 6., 76., and 5s • amphitheatre, 2s. 6d. Second tier boxes, £2 126. Gd. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING will be presented Shakspere's Play of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE : Shylock, Mr. C. Kean ; Portia, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by the Farce of DYING FOR LOVE. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough. THIS EVENING, ASMODEUS: or, The Little Devil's Share: Miss Marie Wilton, Mrs. Leigh Murray, &c. After which, LOVE IN ALL CORNERS; Messrs. Belford, C. Young, Mesdames Leigh Murray and M. Ternan. To conclude with GOOD FOR NOTHING ; Nan, Miss Marie Wilton. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road. — OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The following company of Vo calists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, fie., viz.:—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badsey,,Miss Brunch, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, *ilia Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson; Tie* P. Jonghmans, Mr. ilenahaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Ilime, Mr. Badzey, Senor Tiroll, Mr. Cozens, !;elk Mr. Barnard. and Mr. St. Albyn. Mr. Yanin, John G. Yorde, and E. W. lifackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmo nium, Mr. Courtney ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at even o'clock precisely. Suppers, &e., until twelve o'clock. THE SUN. FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1858. The Old and the New World are now united. The magical link which permits the instantaneous com munication of intelligence has been completed within a few days. We shall receive intelligence from New York, and, indeed, from distant parts of the Union, more speedily than from villages in Surrey or Mid dlesex. The directors of the company have achieved a great triumph, and they may feel natural exulta tion at the extraordinary work just accomplished. There is no " royal road" to success in such mat ters. It was a great experiment, in which they had to pay very dearly for each of the painful lessons which they received. They were trespassing on un known ground. There were irregularities that might prove destructive to their undertaking—casualties against which no vigilance could guard were not only probable, but were freely predicted by those prophets of evil who, CAssANDnit-like, always foresee complete failure to every new project. They were not, however, deterred by gloomy vaticinations, or even the double failure. They knew that they had done everything that could reasonably be anticipated, that although they could not command success, they unquestionably deserved it, and notwithstanding the delays and losses sustained, the victory of science has been decisive. In our impression of ye3terday we stated that the Agamemnon had arrived at Valentia, and was about to land the end of the cable. The Niagara had at the same time reached Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. The miraculous undertaking was thus virtually ac complished. There were " good signals" between the ships, as there soon will be between Europe and America. The weather was, it appears, unfavourable, but still the ships engaged in the mighty work pur sued the even tenor of their way, and kept up corn municati-ms with their consorts, with a brief excep tion, which occurred on the first evening. It was on the 18:h July that the Agamemnon left Queenstown, on what was by many considered the forlorn hope of paying out the cable. It was said that she was overweighted—that the cable was not pro perly adapted to the purpose, and that failure was inevitable. The directors, however, remained firm. They knew that they had dome all that man could do, and they left the result in the hands of Providence. The croakers have, however, been for once com pletely foiled. Their favourite, " I told you so," is no longer applicable. They cannot take credit for what they pretend to be emanations of wisdom, but which are really but ebullitions of spleen and male volence. They succeed2d for a time in reducing the quotations of the shares to about onc-fourth of their actual value. But the pr,c;ne fraternity, who tres passed on that dangerous ground, have already hrd ample CIIISC to repent their temerity. It was a " hornet's nest" that they upset, and they must take the conscquenczs of their own fully and recklessness. It is not, however, as a mere matter of X. s. D. that the question is to be considered. We must re gard it through a brighter medium. The two great natioosof the Ang-10-Sycon nice eV.] now communicate with each other at a moment's notice. Any tempo rary irritation may be soothed by a fair and cand id explanation, and that which is for the benefit of both countries may be promoted. Orders to purchase, or to countermand, may be given 2.t a moment's notice, and gentlemen engaged in mercantile affairs can make their calculations with safety when the element of uncertainty is removed. But it is even of greater importance in po litical matters. We shall not enter at any length into that subject, but we may indicate the nature of the case by a simple interrogatory " What would it have been worth to Great Britain if the tidings of the Indian mutiny could have been received a month sooner, and the auxiliary force despatched at a proportionably early period ?" It might not have been possible to have averted the massacre at Caw npore, or to have preserved the lives so dear to all, from the brutal rage of NANA. SAIIIB, but the ordeal of the inmates of the Residency at Lucknow, of the fugitives at Agra would have been shortened, and many of the vacillating chiefs would have been saved, by the speedy triumph of the British arms. It may be said that there could be nothing of the grind with America. That they are not in any degree dependent on u, nor could our countrymen be endan gered by acts of barbarism such as those above referred But there are many other modes in which dan gers may be averted, and these will be valuable be tween the Cabinets of St. James's and Washington. If the glorious undertaking bad cast ten times the amoun', and if there were not the expectation of a single dividend, it would be worth the entire outlay. Happily, however, the shareholders will receive a t least 6 per cent. on their investments, which, we must confess, they have Ivell merited by their judici ous and 'patriotic entcrpri::c. It is sufficiently significant, w take it, latest Ministerial candidate who has trade his ap pearance before his would-be constituents has ex pressed himself in the most unmistakeable manner in fivour of reform generally. This, of course, is no other than Mr. KExe - wicrr, the proposed Derbyite successor of the newly-created peer, the Right Hon JOHN Lord CHURSTON, as representative of South Devonshire. Mr. KEKEWICII has addressed the electors of South Devon in language the most clear and uncompromising. He proclaims himself to be at (a ce a supporter of the Reform interest and a supporter of Lord DERBY'S Administration. The two things are rapidly becoming syuonymons. The chops ictUAllY Cff 4 Cted Already dozing the We t t stormy session of the Imperial Legislature, under the auspices of Lord DERBY'S Government, justify in a remarkable manner the expectations indu .. ed in from the out-et by the more advanced Lib-rals, to the effect that the successors of Lord PALMERSTON and his colleagues would prove thems& , es to be sooner or later the real, in place of the merely nomi nal, Reformers. Have they not done so distinctly and that bAimes ? Have they not positively ac ceded to the prevailing wish of the more rational observers of the representative system by yielding 1 up frankly and without a murmur one of the once dreaded points of the Charter? The property quali fication of members hasgone to the winds, thanks to the broad-minded and generous spirit of toleration in spiring the present Government. The Ballot may follow. The Extension of the Franchise in all human probability will be vouchsafed before much longer. There yet possibly may come the long denied and much wished-for redistribution of the Electoral Districts. " There be pippins and cheese to come yet." The fruits of the session last past were but a foretaste, let us hope and believe, of what , is destined to follow rapidly afterwards. The admis sion of the Jews to a seat in Parliament—the waiving of the old need of £3OO a-year as the requisite amount of property appertaining to every borough member—the subversion of the double government of the Indian Empire—the commencement of those great labours of reorganisation which must now in evitably end in the overthrow of the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly, after an uninterrupted exist ence of two hundred years, counting from the date of its inauguration in the reign of King CHARLES IL—these, and a variety of minor, and many of them most admirable, innovations inscribed upon the statute book as acts twentieth and twenty-first VICTORIA, chapters so and so, authorise the most sanguine to look forward hopefully to the future era, as reformers, of the thirteen Ministers of the Crown, now presiding over the destinies of our vast and complex empire. As to the Reform Bill itself—not reform vaguely and indefinitely here and there, bit by bit reform at this point and at that—as to the Reform of all re forms, the general reform of our Parliamentary system, promised now for a long while past from year to year : it is rational to expect, upon that point par ticularly, that the DERBY Ministry, for the very reason that they among all our rulers have Not promised it, will be the very men to bestow it, unasked, upon the community. It will be remembered distinctly how the Prime Minister, on acceding to power, deprecated in the strongest terms the folly and the indecorum of keeping the question of reform in the abstract perpetually dangling before the eyes of the population. It is certainly transforming JOHN BULL into a political TANTALUS. It is goading him on continually to the idle task of yearly toiling up wards like another SISYPHUS, only to enjoy the me lancholy spectacle, at the close of each session, of beholding his aspiring hopes borne down again to the very depths of disappointment. Remembering whies protracted, undeniably painful, and even, be it said, ignominious experience on the part of the nation in regard to the question of Parliamentary Reform, and remembering, too, how pityingly it was referred to by the present Leader of her MAJESTY'S Govern ment, upon the occasion just particularised, we can not but feel that it is a misfortune not likely to be repeated under the regime of the Earl of DERBY and his colleagues. To them we look confidently for the realisation, and not for the gratuitous and perverse dis appointment of the cherished hopes of the population. Recollect how it was formerly in regard to other great questions—to the question of the Repeal of the Corn Laws, for example, and to the question of Catholic Emancipation. In each instance the work was accom plished, not by a Whig, but by a Tory Government. The imposts upon foreign corn and other cereal im portations were removed under the Premiership of Sir ROBERT PEEL, as the Roman Catholics had been previously emancipated from all their grinding political disabilities under the Premiership of the Duke of WELLINGTON. Besides which, it is but just and grateful to remember that the now Prime Minis ter of England, when occupying a seat in the House of Commons, first of all as Mr. STANLEY and after wards as Lord STANLEY, personally and most materially aided in carrying the majority of the great ameliorative measures of those times, the Reform Bill itself, the Test and:Corporation Acts, the enactment bestowing the glorious boon of Negro Emancipation—assuredly the very Statesman whose genius should thus ulti mately ripen into that of a Reforming First Lord of the Treasury. Ministers hold at this moment within their grasp their own destinies as a long-lived or a short-lived Administration. Will they falsify the hopes they themselves have so clearly and generously encou raged ? It cannot be supposed for an instant that administrators who have proved themselves already in so many ways to be men endowed with more than a merely ordinary share of sagacity should entertain for one moment the notion of acting in a manner so purblind and so insensate. They have giTen us golden auguries—it yet remains that those auguries should be fulfilled. A deputatio❑ on the subjtct of the Powers at pre sent exercised by till pilice had an interview with 31r. Secretary %Val!): le, at the 11 , 1nt..-office, yesterday. The dep•:tation consisted of the II )ri. Henry Berketey, M.P., Mr. P. M.P., Mr. F. M. Caleutt, 31. P., Sir Henry E. Austen, ntd Mr. NV. Adam Smith. Despatches were received yesterday, at the Colo uirl office, the 6 , 7 , vernor the Falkland IslarolF. Drspa'ehes were scut from the fliee, yesterday, to the tilvcr: , o:s of the Care of Clew! Hope, Natal, and :St. Helena. A Sheffield constituent of Mr. noebuck has taken him to task about the sudden illness wl ich was altee«l as the reason for his non-attendance at the meeting to be hell at Manchester last Wednesday on the subject of the Principalities, pointing out that Mr. Reeleick spoke in the house on the night before. Mr. Roebuck thus explains the affair :—" A Wallachian gentleman a-ked me if I would go to a meeting at Manchester on the subject of the Danubian Princi pagriee. I said Yes,' if a midday meeting was held on Wednesday, but as I was bound to be in the house on Tuesday evening, and to attend a meeting of ba• le proprit texts on Thursday at midday, the meeting must be he held at midday, Wednesday, if I were to atteell it. The gentlemen of Manchester, however, fixed the meeting for Wednesday evening, which would have forced me to travel all niebt and work all day on Thursday. This my strength do, and I said so. In tl.c me w an o t u i l m d e n0t 4,00 O en t a i b ek le et n s ie ha t el o and as e wa b s e resolved evening bad t h o cen be so p l r d ese a n t present meetingon t v d some excuse Blanchester, d to he and by illness, so g The Sheffield gentleman is " pained and perplexed" by this account of the affair. ' TUE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. — At the monthly general meeting held yesterday at the society's house in Hanover-square, Mr. John Gould, F.R.S., Vice- President in the chair, his Excellency Admiral Count Platen, Miss Atkinson Rcv. G. W. Brackenridge, anti_ Messrs. S. Ware and IV ' . D. Speer were elected Fellows of the society ; and the Earl of Hopetoun, the Lord Methuen, Hon. and Rev. F. Curzon, and Messrs. C. Ratcliff e C. 1). Riddell, Titus Salt, A Salvia. jun. ; W. H. Biss, W. Staitcs, C. Chapman, H. Carneew, C. J. Kennard, W. K. Bayley, J. Bowman, E. M. Abbott, J. Savory, W. F. Moore, and 11. Guedeila, and Mrs. Vi v i an were propose d as candidates I r the Fellowship ; and Prefers or Van der Hoeven and Dr. Sebtecel, both of Leyden, as foreign members. Among the additions to the menagerie the most Interesting novelties ate the young Indian pheasants, of which a very consid , rable number have been" hatched. These birds are of five spectre —vie., the trona', the cheer, the purple kaleege, the white crested kaleege, and the black-backed kaleege. All of them are perfectly hardy, and the surplus stock will be disposed of to fellows of the society in September, with a view to their being acclimated in this country. MIDDLESLX HOSPITAL.—The quarterly court of the governors of this charity was held yesterday, in the beard room cf the institution, Charles-street, 13ernere street—Lie lit.- Col. Fenniog in the chair. The report of the rommitfee of management spoke in favourable terms, both of the general and c f the sanitary condition of the 'respired. During the last three months there had been only four eases of erysipelas occurring in the wards, but none oi them proved fatal. On the 20th of Jur,e, when the summer heat was at its highest, a boy was brought to the hospital in a complete etate of exhaustion, epparently killed by tha cx cessi‘e warmth c f the weather. Tee proper restore tires were, howe ver, resorted to, and in a few days the lad sees discharged in perfect health. The care end atteii ion of the medical steel' were such as le is fl'urcl the most complete saiiefeetion to the pettelite, and to all connected with the institetion—owing, hew ever, to the great increase in the number of out-patients, it Ives now desirable to appoint a fourth surgeon, to be resident in the establishment. The number of patients at present in the hespital was stated to be 24.3, which was about the deity average at the praz , ent seasen. The collec tor reported the accession of 18 new subscribers to the roll of the governors, representing £49 2s. per annum, and others bad raised their annual cont r ib ut i ons by had withdrawn their s u b scr i pt i ons, and twothree more had reduced theirs, in all £4 48., so that th e S th .s Bt se gain to the hospital was, on the year, £5O 3s. In the poor boxes there was (some of it farthings, the contributions of d the committee; empowere d to a pp oin t a poor patients) found 13s. 4d. These reports_ were adopted, sofourth surgeon, when the proceedings terminfittd 112 the usual giShrier. VISIT OF 111,11 MAJESTY TO PRUSSIA. WOOLWICH, AUG. 5. The royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Capt. the Hon. J. lkninan, will take up her moorings off Gravesend imme diately on her return from Cherbourg; and it is expected that her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Con sort will embark at Gravesend i;n Tuesday next, on a visit to the Prince, and Princess of Prussia. On the order being received at Woolwich dockyard to lay down moorings at Gravesend for the royal yacht during the present week, it was considered that her Majesty would disembark at Gravesend on returning from Cherbourg; but this state ment is founded on error. A numerous party of shipwrights, riggers, &c., have left Woolwich for Gravesend, to make the necessary arrangnments for mooring the vessel and con structing the brow, &c., for the embarkation. ..., , i , ..„ • , : ` , :l ,l , .....: .lll ' le ‘k... , # . ~ „ ,,..v,..A , ,,, s —, 4; i ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. Last evening H6rold's celebrated opera of " Zampa" was produced at the above theatre, with Madlle. Parepa, Madame Didie-, Signor Tamberlik, Signor Neri-Baraldi, Signor Tagliafico, and Signor Ronconi in the principal characters. The music of "Zampa" has long been well known in this country, and probably no more familiar or popular a piece exists than its tuneful, brillian►, and highly spirPed overture. We need cot say that this, which rarely escapes a redemand when even tolerably executed, was roost enthusiastically encored on the present occasion, played as it was to perfection by the magnificent band of the Royal Italian Opera. " Zampa" is, on the whole, a very fair specimen of the French school of opera comique, to which it completely belongs. The best pieces are those in which the dramatic element predominates, such, fur instance, as the humorous trio, " Che ces' e," and the quartet " Giusto ciel qual trist' oggetto." Tune, nevertheleis, abounds—light, "spark ling," and gay enough, certainly; although frequently trivial, and destitute of that peculiar captivating grace which characterises Auber. The harmonisation betokens a laudable desire to avoid the common-place,' but is not un frequently far-fetched and extravagant. The instrumenta tion is very brilliant, and what is termed "effective ;" but the voices are too often rendered subordinate to It. The opera was excellently performed, and beautifully put upon the stage. Signor Tamberlik had, like Signor Mario in " Don Giovanni," to contend with the disadvantage of singing a long and arduous part intended ~by the composer for a baritone. Of course, with all his , ,efforts, he could not possibly manage' to give his tenor voice that peculiar tonal colouring which appertains specially to the bari tone ; but Signor Tamberlik certainly made the best of the matter, and elicited demonstrations of approval, unanimous as they were well-merited, both by his singing and acting. His delivery of the bacchana lian song, " Che l'onda gorgogliante," was full of reck less jollity and fierce mirth ; and his acting through out tie list scene of the first act, where Zampa, having in sarcastic defiance placed his ring on the finger of his " marble bride," tries vainly to remove it, was exciting as truthful. In the second act Signor Tamberlik's musical and histrionic powers were most strikingly displayed in the long and difficult scena,"Canailla e la," the pretty barcarole " Leggiadra Donzatla," and the finale (the best morceau d'eoeemble in the opera), in which, just before the com mencement of the final quick movements, be took a high B natural with that extraordinary power which he possesses beyond every other tenor singer in that elevated region of sound. Signor Tamberlik's success in this new and some what ungrateful character was in short complete. Of Madlle. Parepa, too, who made her first ap pearance this season oa the present occasion as the heroine of the opera under notice, we can speak in terms of the heartiest praise. As an actress, this young lady is intelligent and clever; and, as a singer, she is already highly accomplished, as was sufficiently proved last night, when she executed all the important and difficult music entrusted to her with great taste and rare skill. Her voice, both powerful and flexible, enables her to give the fullest expression to all that artistic knowledge prompts her to undertake, and thus the result of her efforts is as satisfactory in its vocal charm as in its science. Madlle. Parepa is unquestionably a young singer of great " mark and likelihood," and we believe that Mr. Gye will find it to his interest to bring her, in future seasons, more frequently before the public than hei has hitherto done. That car. ful and extremely clever artiste, Madame Didiee, did ample justice to the small parts assigned to her, and the same amount of eulogy is due to Signor Tagliafico. Signor Ronconi also, in a part well suited to his powers, was admirable, and would have been still better had he been quite perfect in his recitatives. The recitatives, by the way, have of course been added for the Royal Italian Opera, the dialogue (as everybody knows) bring spoken in the origi nal work according to the usage of the Parisian Opera Cornique, for which "Zampa" was composed. The prin cipal tenor part was very creditably sung by Signor Neri Baraldi—the baud and chorus all that could be wished. The house was well attended. The Queen's box was occupied by Lord and Lady Raglan, the Dowaaer Lady Raglan and the Hon. Misses Somerset, and:the lion. R. Dundas. Among the fashionable com pany present were—His Excellency the Portuguese Minister and the Countess Lavradio, the Duchess of Richmond, the Duchess of Wellington, the Marchioness of Conyngbam, the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, the Countess of Essex, the Earl of Hopetoun, the Earl of Lucan, the Countess of Tankerville, Viscountess Palmerston, Count Louis Corti, Lady William Russell, Lord Cranstoun, Lord St. Maur, Lord and Lady Arthur Hay, Lady Otway, Lady Jane Hay, Hon. Cecil Duncombe, Hon. William Ashley, Hon. F. Cadoean, Sir George Armylage, Sir John Lowtber, Sir William de Bathe, Col. de Bathe, _Col. Bigge, Capt. Fermor, Greville, M. Oliveira, M. Santop,M. Mendota, Mr. H. Webster, Mr. and Mrs. Howell, Mr. Napier thurt, M.P., Mr. Antrobus Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., Miss Byrne, Mr. Cox, Mr. S tone, Mr. Elliott, Mr. Zanzi, Mr. A. K. Ootu, Mr. J. N. Ashley, Mrarere May, &c. His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Neck lenburg-Strelitz will leave on his return to Germany on Sunday evening. The Hereditary Grand Duchess and the youne Prince Adolphus will remain a few weeks longer with the Duchess of Cambridge before leaving for Strelitz. Prince d'Angri Doria (Grand Chamberlain to his MAjes'y the King of Sicily), M. Verdies, and M. Francs coni, have arrived at Matiriey's Hotel, from Naples. His Excellency the Duke of Malakoff has issued cards for a grand banquet at the French Embassy on the 15th inst., in celebration of the Emperor Napoleon's birth day. The Duke and Duchess of Montrose and Lady A;nes Graham left Bel 4 rave-square,yesterday, for Buchanan Castle, Stirlingshire, for the autumn. The Duchess (Emily) of Beaufort and Lady Edith Somerset intend to leave town on Monday next for Dupplin Castle, Perthshire, on a visit to Viscount and Lady Blanche Du, plin. The Marquis of Lansdowne haq lefr town on a visit to Mr. Henry 'Drummond, M.P., at Albury Park, Surrey, fir a fee• days. Tl:c 'Marquis arid Marchioness cr.A.thla have left the Clarendon Hotel, for Paris, en route to their Palac,, The Earl and Countess of Haddington left Berkeley-square, yts'erday, for Tyningharne House, near Prestoriki:k, N. 1.3., for 0;2 autumn. The Earl and Countess of Galloway and family left Own a filw days slice for Galloway House, Wigton shire. The Earl and Countess of Manvers will leave town on Tuesday next, for 'Moresby Park, Notts. The Dowpger Countess of Craven and the Hon. Frederick Craven Come to town to morrow, from Hampstead Marz.hall. Visnunt Palmerston left Cambridge House yester day for Ireland. Her la's ship will leave in a few days fur Brockett hail, Herts. The Lord Chancellor and Lady Chelmsford and the Hon. Miss Thesizer come to tqwn to-day from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury at Hatfield House, Herts. Lord Ashburton has returned to Bath House from Southampton. Lord and Lady Harriet Ashley leave town to-day for Brockct Hall on a visit to the Viscounte , s Palmerston. Lord Crewe has arrived at Crewe Hall, Cheshire. Lady and Miss llarvey have left the Brunswick Hotel on a visiting tour. The Count Revert!low has left the same establishment for St. Leouards. Lady Seymour has arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. The Right Hon. the Speaker and Lady Charlotte Denison lefiCarlton House -terrace on Tuesday for Ossington Park, Notts, where the right hon. gentleman and her lady ship make a short stay, and then depart for a tour of visits in Sc Aland. The Hon. Henry and Lady Amelia Blackwood left town yesterday for Hineltinbroke, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Sandwich. The lion. Frederick Calthorpe left town yesterday fur Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. Munday and family have arrived at Maurigy's Hotel, from a continental tour. Mr. George F. Wilbraham, the High Sheriff of Cheshire, has appointed Saturday next for the nomination for North Cheshire. Mr. Wilbraham Egerton, a son of the late member, is the only candidate in the field, and th ere is every reason at present to suppose that he will- -be retur ne d w ithout opposition. M UN IFICENT BEC L UE3T:—We are informed th at t h e late Mrs. Elizabeth Hutchi s o n of H yde - park, who died last month, has left the r esidue of her p ro perty to be di v ided between St. George's H os pi t al , the charity called the Honselesa Poor, and Queen Charlotte's Lying -'n Hos pital. The executors are Mr. Skirrow, of Bedford-row, and Cant. Robson, of Aldershot, who have proved the will undcr £43,000. am TREMENDOUS CONFLAGRATION AT BERMONDSEY.— Yeourdny morning, between the hours of two and th ree o'clock, a flue, attended with considerable destruction of property, broke out on the extensive range of manufacturing premises belonging to Mr. W. Harrison, tanner, Willow welt, Bermondsey. The discovery . was made by some nt the woikpeeple living on the premises, and at the time of the disaster, was filled with a vast amount of stock. Owing to the combustible nature of the stock, the fire spread with amazing int.:lily, and was soon known by the flames burst ing through the roof and illuminating the city and south side of the river. This, as might be expected, caused a 2tAlEral turn out of the engines of the London Erhode front Touley- st i eet, Southwark- bridge-road, ‘Vat ling-street, IVateiloo-load, West of England, and the South Eastern Railway, upon reaching the scene of the conflagration the firemen found that the fearful element had extended into several of the adjoining premises, owing to the want of water from the mains of the Southwark Water Company Cooper, and Bridges;t the district b ut it for w e a m s for nearly half an hour. At length, however, the firemen got their engines to work, under the direction of Mr. F. Henderson, foreman, engineers e e x n t g in in g e u e i r s s h eduntil Holloway, the following damage was done :-51r. W. Harrison, tanner, bark barn , sheds, and eng i ne h ouse d es t ro y e d ; Mr. J. Chisholm, chemical works destroyed; G. and W. Almonds, army contractors, currier's shop destroyed, and contents in warehouse considerably R damaged • ii PR. awes and Richard son, fellmongers, 160 feet b cause unknown. Thy I y 30, considerably damaged; find other cam), q los s win fall on the Anchor, Pl l conix) LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE FETES AT CHERBOURG. (FROM CORRE:! , PONDENTS OF THE MORNING POST.) CHERBOURG, TUtSDAY, Arr.. 3. This morning there appeared in all the public places of Cherbourg an Address from the Mayor to his fellow-cit'zms. This document is so completely in sympathy with the feelings now universally pre dominant, that it is worthy of being placed amongst the records of Cherbourg in the year 1858. The Mayor speaks what the people think. here is his statement as to the claims which Napoleon 111. has upon the love and gratitude of the Cherbourgians : " Beloved fellow citizens, —In 1852 we asked the Emperor to enrich our country with a railroad. Our request was acceded to; and Lis Majesty comes to-day to inaugurate that great line which unites our city with the capital. "The third dock of our military harbour is finished. The Emperor haq been pleased to preside at its immersion, and so to crown the completion of that magnificent arsenal which excites the admiration of the entire world. " His Majesty also comes to inaugurate the monument that you have raised to Napoleon the First, and, by his pre sence at this imposing solemnity, to enhance the eclat of the homage you have wished to reader to the potent founder of the Napoleon dynasty. " The Emperor, his noble consort, the august mother of the prince upon whom repose the dearest hopes of our coun try, has deigned also to come amongst UP. "If all France has, at this moment, its eyes directed towards Cherbourg, it is because all its cities would wish to enjoy, like ours, the happiness of receiving the Sovereign who has, at the same time, exalted the glory of our arms and secured the prosperity of the country; it is because Cher bourg is pre-emidently the privileged city. "Is it necessary for me to excite your enthusiasm? No; I know your patriotic sentiments; and I foresee that every where in this progress their Majesties will, be received with enthusiastic acclamations, the Sincere dernonttration of your devotion to the Empire. "Your houses will be decorated and illuminated during the entire time that our august guests remain. " We all know how much we are indebted to the Go vernment of the Emperor, and we shall be delighted to be able, on this solemn occasion, to lavish upon him the proofs of our love and our gratitude. (Signed) " LE MAIRE LUDE." Upon this document it is only necessary now to make a single observation. It is with reference to the last two paragraphs, where the Mayor asked his fellow-citizens to decorate the exterior of their dwell ing, and to manifest, by their acclamations, their attachment to the Sovereign. A portion of this ap peal was unnecessary, for the wishes of the Mayor had been anticipated. Each householder has been, in accordance with his means, occupied for the last two days iu the outward adornment of his habitation; and, therefore, a person walks under streamers, ban ners, bannerets, with crowns, and laurels, and gilded eagles; or there are preparations for grand illumina tions ; or there arc rich tapestries to depend from the windows; or there is to be painted canvas to cover the walls, so that to-morrow Cherbourg will look like a city, not of the western world, but a re presentation of one of those fanciful abodes which the richness of an Eastern imagination first created, and then embodied in au Arabian tale. Even as it is be seen this day, with its numberless banners, flags, and streamers, and glistening golden eagles, the town of Cherbourg is a very pretty ob ject—nestling, as it appears to do, under the protec tion of the Mountain of Roule, a huge mass of bleak, frowning granite, crowned with a fortified barrack, it presents a very charming spectacle to the stranger who will take the trouble of looking at it from one of the jetties that run out into the har bour. The jetties of Cherbourg are magnificent pieces of masonry—from 20 to 30 feet broad at the top, and as smooth under the foot as the flagged pavement in Regent-street. One of these jetties, on which I was to-day, was quite a holiday scene—a fashionable promenade crowded with visitors, speaking all sorts of languages, and occasionally making bargains either with the owners Of telescopes for the hired loan of their instruments, or eneleavouriug to per. suade the numerous istorman boatmen plying about to accept something like a reasonable sum to take them out for the purpose of visiting three of the French ships of lvar, which hare been drawn up in front of the commercial port, for the purpose of gra tifying the public by inspecting them. The city of Cherbourg, as seen from the sea, has the appearance of a compact block of houses, almost hidden by a breakwater, and protected from attack in the front by forts, which are rocks in the midst of waves, crowned with cannon, and protected on its left flank by the Mountain of Itoule, and on the right by the great fortification, the military port to which I referred in my letter of yesterday. Of this city there are, I find, various accounts given —some maintain that it existed in the time of Caesar, others think it is of a more modern date; but one thing is certain—not only have all traces of the Roman Cher bourg disappeared, but even the Cherbourg of the twelfth century has been obliterated, to of ird space for the fortifications that are constructed around it. The most remarkable instance of the extent to which these demolitions have been carried is to be found in the destruction of a church which had been built by one of the Queens of England—the illustrious Em press Maud. She had, it seems, been overtaken by ten i tied at a fearful storm, in the year 1145, a n d, the peril to which her lif was exposed, she made a vow that if Heaven should, in its mercy, permit her to e , cape, she would raise a church in honour of the Virgin Mary in the first place in which she was per 'flitted to land, and commemorate the happy event by designating the proposed place of worship as " Our-Lady-of-the-Vow." The ship of the Empress Maud ran into Cherbourg ; and, in accordance with her vow, on the very point— Chanterayne, where her foot touched the earth, there was built a chapel called " Notre - Darne-du-Voeu." That church had to be destroyed, but within the last few years another church with the same name has been erected in Cherbourg between the streets La Ponduere and Sainte-llonorine, where are still to be found some of the monuments that were in the ancient building. The Cherbourg that is said to have been coeval with Cwsar has disappeared,leaving not a trace behind —the city of the mediwval times has heorobliterated, and the modern Cherbourg, the Cherbourg that arose out of the ruins of the reign of Louis XV.— the Cherbourg of Napoleon I.—is no longer recog nisable ; for it has decked itself out in holiday trim — and as the Cherbourg of Napoleon 111. has covered itself with flowers and tapestry to welcome the Sovereign, and the Sovereign's guests, within its walls. To see it, and to witness its fete, visitors are coming hourly into the town in all sorts of ways, and by all possible modes of conveyance. The sea is sending strangers from abroad, and feom different parts of the coast of France, and they arrive hourly in steamships, and in sailing -vessels, whilst the new railroad is taxed to its utmost powers to convey the numbers that press for places in its carriages at the different stages along the line. I have not heard what was the exact number poured forth this day on the arrival of the two trains at seven in the morning and eleven o'clock ; but I am told it was on both occa sions marvellous to behold the crowds that rushed out on each occasion to seek - for, and no doubt to find (if they will pay well for it) the accommodation they desire to have. I have referred to the bygone history of Cher bourg. I have looked into all the books and pamphlets published for the use of visitors on this occasion ; and I cannot avoid making the remark that in none of them do I find the slightest reference made to the capture and destruction of Cherbourg by the English in the month of August,l7s6. This is certainly carrrying complai sanc e very far. There can, however, be no mi s t a ki ng t h e m otive—it is the desire of those who so act that nothing shall be said or done by them calculated to shake the existing alliance betwea Engltuid auk rouge, or t 0 batevfeze with the personal friendship of the Sovereigns for each other. CAEN, TUESDAY, AUG. 3. About ten o'clock this morning the Imperial train destined to convey the Emperor, Empress, and Imperial suite, arrived at St. Cloud from the Paris station of the Havre Railway. The weather was most favourable ; a bright sum mer's sun and cool breeze seemed to invite the denizens of the city to enjoy the sylvan attractions of the country, which just now in France have scarcely commenced to assume the varied hues of changing autumn. At the appointed hour two car riages approached the St. Cloud station. In the first was his Majesty the Emperor, accompanied by Mar shal Valliant, Minister of War ; the Generals Niel and Fleury, aide-de-camps ; Marshal Magnan ; M. Mocquard, Secretary of the Emperor ; and M. Reinc, deputy, &c. Shortly after the carriage of the Empress arrived. Her Majesty was accompanied by the Imperial Princ?, the Duchess d'Essling ; Madames de Lab4doyere and de Lourmel, &c. The Imperial party were soon seated in a magnificent salon, built expressly by the Orleans Railway Com pany for this occasion. The Imperial State waggon is fitted up with blue silk drapery and mirrors. In the centre of the salon was placed a magnificent gilt table, on which a bouquet of choice flowers rested. This central carriage communicated with an open waggon (fitted up with great taste, more espe cially for the Emperor) and a refreshment salon decorated in white and gold. Nothing could be more elegant and commodious than these gala car riages, which were designed by M. D'lvry. Messrs. Brassy and Lock, engineers and contractors of the Cherbourg Railway, also accompanied the Imperial party. The Cherbourg Railway is, in point of fact, the Havre line as far as Mantes, 57 kilometres from Paris. There were a few members of the press, I should observe, accommodated rith seats in the Im perial train. The staff of -the Railway Company were in attendance, consisting of M. Lapeyrier, the director-in-chief; M. Poiree, engineer; M. Cleve, M. Meyer, M. Dupare, M. Bochet, and M. Bonnaffe, inspector-general. Thus freighted, we glided through the pasture lands of Normandy, passing green fields and gothic churches and thatched farm-houses, which remind one strongly of England's country life, agri culture, and scenery. The first station at which the Imperial train halted • was Evreux. Here the Prefect, the general of the department, and the municipal authorities, with M. Barodie at their head, awaited their Majesties. Flowers and flags, triumphal arches, and crowds of peasants, greeted the Imperial party. A throne erected near the station, and decorated with Imperial emblems, was occupied by a group of elegantly dressed ladies. After the authorities bad paid their respects, some 30 unmarried girls, dressed in white, gauzy toilettes, with a cordon of green gauze passing over the shoulders and tied at the waist, approached her Majesty, and presented her with bouquets. Her Majesty received them with that courtesy and grace peculiar to the Empress of the French. A kind word or a kind look awaited all who neared the Im perial group, as if anticipating the embarrassment under which most of these good country people la- boured. This ceremony over, we proceeded through a highly-cultivated country, rich with harvest wealth ; the ripe corn strewing the fields—the dark sylvan screen in the distance—the glittering stream wander ing through the green meadows, and here and there some gothic spire, backed by a blue and cloudless sky, told of a distant village. The country through which we passed is rich with agricultural wealth, and attractively picturesque. The train again halted at Lisieux. Here cere monies similar to those already narrated took place, whilst groups of country people, lining the railway station, were loud in their exclamations of Vive le Empereztr ! Vive la Imperatrice ! In fact, the pro gress of the Imperial party was characterised through out with the utmost enthusiasm on the nart of the peasantry, who had collected at every station on the line, even where the train did not halt. It ia quite unnecess - try to detain the reader with a repetition of the various receptions which the Em peror and Empress received at the towns where the Imperial train drew up for some half hour or ten minutes, as the case might be; the same scene on such occasions took place, that is to say—official welcomes and Imperial recognitions, flags and mili tary music, groups of country people, the men in blue smock-frocks, and the women in white caps of every conceivable form. One or two carriages wait ing for their owners on the quiet country road leading to the stations, corn fields, or green pasture meadows, divided by hedgeS, as in England, arc the general characteristics of the scenery from Mantes to Caen, in the immediate vicinity of the iron way, whilst in the distance you occasionally get a little hilly ground or a dark wood. As we approached Caen, it was evident, from the crowds of country people who pressed towards the road side, that we had reached a large and important town, and that the arrival of the Imperial train had created considerable excitement : " The marches of great Princes, Like to the motions cf prodigious meteors, Are step by Etcp observed, and loud-tongued fame The harbinger to prepare their enterfalornents." It was six o'clook when the Emperor and Empress received the salutations of the good people of Caen. Her Majcsty appeared to have made a fresh toilette in honour of the crowd of officials and ecclesiastics who awaited her. She now wore a pearl grey dress, trimmed with black lace, and a white bonnet deco rated with roses. During some portions of the journey the Empress was covered with a straw coloured wrapper (which protected her from the dust), and wore a hat and feathers, according to the manners and customs of tra velling ladies of England, who thus often pro vokingly hide their pretty faces. At Caen the pro gramme of the journey was faithfully carried out. The order of the day says Their Majesties, on arriving at Caen, will be received by the mayor and all the local authorities. The mayor will present the keys of the town to the Emperor. The Emperor and Empress will proceed through lines formed by the troops to the Prefecture, where the mayors of the department will be assembled. The Empress will hold a reception of ladies, and a magnificent bouquet will be presented to her Majesty. At seven o'clock the Emperor and Empress will give a grand dinner, and at nine o'clock will proceed to a ball at the Hotel do Ville." These ceremonies accomplished, fatigued and well covered with dust, ,by the obliging courtesy of the railway authorities of our train I contrived to get a room in one of the crowded hotels of Caen. A wash and a hasty dinner, anti conver sation with the landlord on the impossibility of obtaining a carriage, the hour arrived for the ball. If the truth were known I have no doubt every one of us who had that day arrived from Paris would rather have undressed for bed than rushed into a wilderness of crinoline. But the thing was to be done—so off we started on foot to the hotel of the Mayor. The streets of Caen were crowded with women in pretty white caps, and men in country costumes. The town, universally illuminated, pre sented a most picturesque appearance. The houses are irregularly built, and in the old part of the city make up a broken gable-end bit of old street scenery such as an artist would like to meet with. You also continually came upon old gothic churches and buildings, which look dark and mysterious and ro mantic. Every house last night (for I am now writing at four o'clock a.m., Wednesday), was lighted up with many-coloured lanterns and deco rated with flags . or wreaths of flowers festooning about the small quaint windows of some of the an cient dwellings, which reminded us of old women absurdly dressed up for a wedding in the finery of younger people. The Mayor of Caen possesses magnificent accom modation for dancing. The large hall of his muni cipal hotel was on the present occasion decorated with Imperial emblems. A good band and plenty of / 41 * lamle_eYery 09 gay ; and AN NOO4 00 the ging peror and Empress arrived dancing commenced with a heartiness and vivacity difficult for me, who had travelled all day and gone through no end of fatiguing ceremonies, to comprehend. The ladies of Caen, judging from the display of last night, arc more beautiful than the fair creatures who make us happy or miserable in Paris. Their features are more regular, and they have a frank and pleasing expression —with a pretty never-ending smile—un less all those charms and attractions were the result of the Imperial visit. When I left the ball, the Em peror and Empress were making themselves very agreeable ; and fat old gentlemen, in courtly uni forms, and full dress military were crowding round about their Majesties in dense and anxious groups painful to look upon, even at a distance. Your readers must imagine the rest, for I came away from the festive scene early to write this letter. I believe I have nothing more to add about the events of the day. Caen, I need hardly remind you, has long been a favourite residence for the English. In the days of poor Beau Brummel, up to the revolutionary period of 1848, a little colony of her Majesty's subjects lived here, because they found Caen cheap, and for other more romantic reasons. There are, however, fewer English here now, although one meets a considerable number of unmistakeable John Bull faces amongst the white Norman head-dresses of the women. One can easily imagine Caen would suit admirably an English emigrant. The climate is English, even to frequent rains ; the gothic architecture makes one feel at home, and there is something in the large build look of the people, which inclines us to think they are not altogether strangers. When the Cherbourg Railway has double lines, and steam communication with the English coast is thoroughly organised, I have no doubt hundreds of British travellers will visit Caen on their way to Paris. Its historical recollections are remarkably in teresting to Englishmen. The Conqueroes grave, in the church of St. Etienne, which buildink reminds us of so many twelfth-century gothic fragments of our own country; the quaint and picturesque archi tecture of the town generally; the castle, identified with the Duke of Somerset (1459) ; the famed Peru gino, which suggested Raphael's " Sposalizio;" the charming, fresh, green scenery of Normandy—will assuredly attract our countrymen. I have before me a little book, entitled " Chemin de Ter de Paris a Cherbourg," which gives a brief account of the interesting country through which we have travelled, the historical recollections of which are as attractive as the scenery is picturesque. PARIS, THURSDAY, AUG. 5. The circular of the Minister of the Interior on the application of the "Usurpation of Titles Bill " inspires the Constitutionnel with this remark :—" The ministerial circular closes all discussion on the appli cation of this bill. The bill has become law and will be executed ; but let it be known that the Imperial Government, which is not only desirous of content ing public opinion, but which also guarantees the interests of all, and obtains respect far principles, will obey this time, as on every other occasion, its favourite maxim. The latter was recalled to the memory of the prefects by M. Delangle when he said The precautions in question would fail to attain the desired result were they to serve as a pre text for useless inquiries and for vexatious acts of inquisition. " The Minister of Public Worship has just addressed the following circular to the Archbishops and Bishops : " Monsiegneur,—At the moment when the solemnity of the 15th August (the Assumption) will invite the faithful to celebrate the anniversary of the Emperor's fete, their Ma jesties will invoke the Patron Saint of France in one of the most venerated sanctuaries raised by the faith of our fore fathers. The people, who see with the mast lively grati tude the Chief of the State g , ) through our provinces and nquire into their wants, will unite with all their hearts in the prayers put up that day in the humble chapel, and in thanking Providence fin the blessings conferred on our country, they will supplicate it to continue to watch with equal solicitude over the life of the Emperor, the Empress, and the Prince Imperial. The clergy, who are never for getful of services rendered to religion and to the country, will earnestly unite in_those sentiments of pima* gratitude, j and I am, therefore, Menseigneur, certain of responding to the wishes of the faithful and of their pastors in begging you to order that a solemn Te Deuni or thanks giving shall be sung on the 15th, after divine service, in all the churches of your diocese. I request the Prefect to concert with your Eminence the measures to be taken for this religious ceremony. Accept, &c. ROULAND." The Presidents of the Consistories of the Reformed Church, the President of the Directory of the Church of the Confession of Augsburg, and the members of the Central Jewish Consistory have re ceived a similar circular. Accounts from Martinique and Guadaloupe of the 13th announce that everything was proceeding satis factorily in those colonies. The coolies, whose en gagements have expired, had, for the greater part, contracted fresh ones. The customs receipts of Mar tinique show that the exportation of coffee for the first six months of the present year amounted only to 2,628 kilos. According to a telegraphic despatch. received in Paris, the Belgian Chamber has rejected by 53 votes to 39 the Antwerp Fortifications Bill. There were nine abstentions. Prince Jerome the day before yesterday visitci the residence which is in course of construction for Queen Christina at Ste. Addresse, near Havre. His Imperial Highness, on leaving, presented a sum of money to the workmen employed there. M. Delangle, Minister of the Interior, has not been able to proceed to ` ,- ;herbourg, the duties of his office detaining him in Paris. M. Billault, who came to Paris to pay his respects to the Emperor, on his return from Plombi6res, has again left for his estate near Nantes. PARIS BOURSE.—The market exhibited the usual dulness at the opening, but there was afterwards a sudden rally, owing to the favourable receipts of all the railways. Threes, after having been done at 68fr. 35c., improved to 68fr. 50c.; Mobilier from 615 fr. to 618 fr. 75c. ; Austrian, 62611. 25c. to 628 fr. 75e.; Orleans, 1,260 fr. to 1,270 fr. ; Lyons, 765 fr. to 772 fr. 50c. ; Northern, - 917 fr. 50e. to 92cfr. ; Eastern, 650 fr. to 660 fr. ; and Southern, 512 fr. 50c. to 517 fr. 50c. The following are the last quota- Aons:-- Pr. Ct. 41 per Cents O6 50 Do. end of month Three per Cent. Do. end of month 6B 55 Bank Shares 3,090 Credit Mobilier 627 50 F Do. account RAIL Fr. Ct. Cr&lit Fonder GOO Belgian 41 Piedmonteses B9 50 Roman tin — Austrian — Spanish Threes — Home Debt — - WAYS. _ _ Lsh—Fr. Ct. Orleans Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean ..... New ditto Geneva Midi Western Eastern 920 - 777 50 772 50 Account—Fr. Ct. .. 1,270 -- .. 922 50 785 ..775 -- 582 50 515 - 605 - 657 50 Grand Central — Sardinian ........... .• . Austrian. 415 - 630 - PRUSSIA. A Berlin letter, in the Debats, says:—" The Fe deral Assembly, instead of confiding the negotia tions with Denmark to commissioners named by the Diet and by the Cabinet of Copenhagen, as was pro posed in the last Danish answer, has preferred to admit the Danish representative into the united committee charged with those negotiations. The reason of this decision is, that the Diet as a body could not treat on a footing of equality with one of its members, although that member should be the King of Denmark, for in doing so it would have attributed to a part a preponderance equal to the whole. Several journals have spoken of a Russian note, which is said to have been delivered to Prussia and to other German Governments, and the object of which is to secure a favourable reception to the Danish answer. I can positively state that no note of the kind has ever been sent to the Prussian Go vernment. Under the assurance that the Cabinets will approve of anything that may be done for the i 4 lCA'egge of tin r4stimAati ;au, the pualling of A lime. of-battle ship is to be commenced in the course of this summer. The Prince Admiral is now-at Hom burg, whence be will go to Jahtle to inspect the works of the port." The following is the text of the resolutions of the "Council of Defence" of Belgium, dated the 7th April last, on which is based the Government Bill for the fortifications of Antwerp : "The Council of DeLiner, af . ter having carefully examined and discussed the pr, jnt presented for completing the en trenched camp at Antwerp, giving to the town the exten sion it warns for the development of its basins and its mer chant shipping, and giving likewise to this great citadel a def'ensive value in proportion to the high degree of import ance of its pt;sition, has the honour to propose to his Majesty the King the following measures :-1. Tne aggrandisement of the town to the north, with a superfices of more than 200 hectares, and limited by a bastioned enceinte in earthworks extending parallel to the bend of the river from Austtuweel to the Schyti bastion. This enceinte should be preceded by a large fosse, and a covered way with an advanced fosse; it would be protected by a vast inundation. 2. The establish ment of a casernated battery on the river at the starting point of the new enceinte. 3. The construction of a pentagon in earthworks on the left bank of the Scheldt, opposite the village of Austrnweel. 4. The aggrandisement of Fort Sainte Marie, and the reconstruction, by means of the funds voted for the defence of the Scheldt, of La Perle and Saint Philippe forts. 5. The construction of five new forts solidly constructed, forming the first line in advance of the en trenchment of the existing camp. 6. The transformation of Fort No. 2 into a fort like the preceding. 7. The coastruc tion of two forts, one in advance of Merxem, the other in ad vance of Derne, in order to prevent the enemy f r om esta blishing himself bombard the town on the tongues of land which rise above the level of the inundations of these places. The Council his besides unanimously resolved :-1. That it is indispensable to augment the importance of the projected fort, in advance of the existing fort N 0.5. 2. That it is extremely urgent to complete the system of defence of Ant werp, and that in consequence it is of the highest degree of importance that the Legislature shall vote the whole of the credits necessary for the execution of it, in order that the works may be commenced without delay, be continued without interruption, and be completed with the least possible delay. Lastly, that the complete execution of the system of defence of Antwerp will permit the demolition of a certain number of the existing fortresses. (Signed) "DR MEAL CITAZAL DE LANNOT RENARD." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 31st ult. do not yet record the arrival of the Queen at Gijon, but they publiSh telegraphic despatches stating that on the 30th ult. her Majesty, with the King and royal chil dren, was at Mieres, in the Asturias. These de spatches add that in the Asturias the Queen was re ceived with extraordinary enthusiasm, the people having flocked down from the mountains to see her Majesty, and that numerous triumphal arches were erected on the road on which she was to pass. At Nam, on the way to Alieres, the illustrious per sonages partook of breakfast. It is related that at Leon the Queen appeared on a balcony to show the little Prince of the Asturias to the people; but that as it was dusk they could not ace him well, and ac cordingly her Majesty had a lighted candle brought, and held up before his face ; this little incident in creased the popular enthusiasm. At Oviedo, where the Queen was to go after leaving Mieres, a triumphal arch was to be erected in loaves of bread, and after the Queen should have passed through it the bread was to be given to the poor. The palace in that town in which the Queen was to stay had been pur chased by the municipality for presentation to the Prince of the Asturias. The Novedades had been seized. From new postal arrangements the mail from France is henceforth to reach Madrid before mid-day, instead of at half-past eight in the evening as here tofore. AMERICA. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. SOUTHAMPTON„ AUGUST 5. The steam-ship Fulton, with the Anterican mails and advices of the 24th ult., arrived off Cowes this afternoon en route from New York to Havre. She reports the arrival out of the Kangaroo and America from Liverpool. There is no news of importance by this arrival. The Secretary of the Navy is making arrange ments to send a sufficient force to Paraguay to make the American flag respected there. The eight new sloops of war for which appropria tions were made at the recent session of Congress are ordered to be constructel The New York Herald says there is good reason to believe that the American Government is now ill a fair way to acquire the island of Cuba. From Kansas we learn that Gen. calhoun bas issued certificates of election to all persons elected under the Lecompton constitution, by which the Free State party have a majority in both houses of the Legislature. The following late intelligence has been received from Santa F 6 : " A despatch from Independence, dated the 19th ult. er United States express to Booneville, says the Santa F 6 mail has arrived, with dates to the Ist ult. All the water courses on the route were very high. " Great preparations were making at Santa Fe to cele brate the Fourth of July. " The surveying party on the Canadian ricer report, the ciuntry splendid, with abundance of water and grass, and every way suitable fur a railroad. "The mail pasty had suffered nr mol.station from the " Some of the trains which left here in the spring had arrived at Santa Fe. Tkose on the Plains were getting along finely. The grass was never better." The New York cotton market on the 23d was dull—prices unchanged. Supplies of wheat were scarce. Provisions were steady. Freights were firm. Sterling exchange was quoted at 1091 to I-, with a moderate business doing. The aspect of the money market is quiet, as usual at this season of the year, and the rates of interest have not undergone any material variation for several weeks. There is at present cvcry indication of con tinued abundance and case in the market for months to come, or, at least, until the revival of trade. The current rates vary from 4 to 6 per cent. on good business notes, according to the grades and dates of maturity. The stock market is very well sustained, with a fair business in progress, considering the large number of business men absent in the rural districts. CRFMORNE GARDENS.—The file of the season-- Mr. Simpsen's benefit—came off yesterday, and certainly that gentleman has no rea , on to complain of the Fates or the attendance. The weather was most propitious, and the thousands present could not lead any one to suppose that either the London season was closed, or teat there were rival attractions at Cherbourg. The gardens were most elegantly decorated—es they were to have been on the occa sion of the nobility's fite on the 9:h if July, hal not St. Swithin taken umbrage and determined to show his power even before his accustomed period. The Marionettes were in full force; there were morris and maypole dances; the ballet of the Valley of the Sweet Waters attracted the lovers of the poetry of motion ; the Cirque Orienthl received additional life from the presence of Millar, the self-ap pointee teeeen's jester; are] the illuminations and fireworks exceeded all previous displays. The grand circular platform ft r the dances looked extremely magnificent, and the carpet with the armorial bearings of the families of the late lady patronesses being laid down, there was the novelty of a carpet dance, which appeared to be highly appreciated. At the conclusion of the fireworks C: istoforo Buono Core—Christopher of the Good Heart-- the "Italian Salamander," exhibited within the Ashburuhane ground his dress for preserving the human body from fire. A room being prepared and surrounded by a large fire, Cristo foro-Bueure-Core walks-in-and out with the moss - perfect com posure, though it must be admitted that the dress in which Ire is enveloped is the ugliest of the ugly. At the conclu sion he took off his mask to convince the audience that be was a living man, and that there was no deception. The exhibitor invites the attention of scientific men to his invention, which, if there is no deception (and we have no reason to suppose that there is) will prove most useful to firemen and others who arc engaged in endeavour log to preveut the loss of life which too often occurs at the conflagrations necessarily incident to large and crowded towns. Mr. Simpson end Mr. Adams, his manager, were most areidttous in their attention to the comfort of the eon:t eeny, who appeared determined to put to the test in every way the resources of the establishment to meet their re quirements —a test which was most amply answered. We understand that Mr. Simpson proposes to evince his grati titude to his supporters by repeating thefite throughout the week at the ordinary prices. OPENING OF THE NEW PICTURE GALLERY AT THB CRYSTAL PALACE.—The new picture gallery at the Crystal Palace was opened to private view yesterday, and appeared to be generally approved. The former gallery was situated at the north wing of the building, and, indepen dently of its inconvenient and remote position, was ill adapted to the purpose fur which it was Intended. The new gallery is in the south, on what may he called the "first floor." It extends from the transept to nearly the whole length of the gallery, and contains a "hanging surface" superior to that of any cif the metropolitan exhibitions. It is divided into four compartments—the first devoted to works by the old mestere, co te mencing with the early Italian schocl ; the second containing modern paintings; the third water-colour drawings, and the fourth photographs, of which there is a superb collection. The gallery may be ap proecked either from the centre nave or from the tran sept ; and as the compartments are all on the one floor, the visitor is enabled to examine the works without being compelled to pay the penaltY of ascending and descending long flights of steps, which formed so serious a dtawbaek to the former gallery. The light is alruittel entirely from the roof, as was thee case at the late Art-Treasure , Exhibition, and the paintings have been hung with much taste by Mr. Wass. The weans now exhibited do not possess that uniform excellence which the directors are desirous of securing; but we are informed that many artists of eminence, including several of the academicians, have promised to eoutribute t 9 the collec tion. The arrangement and details of the new gallery have been carried out under the direction of Mr. David Prlcee one of the directors, whose efforts to improve the fine art department are creditable to his taste, and will, when fell , : matured, add another feattirc to the Already noultrow' Attritctitai of tin FA/ tice, . - THE SUN, LOI\iDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1858, •