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

.THE.. JITA,Jr Z._ fashional4e.company assembled to witness the re- view. The Victoria' and Albert RoYal steam-yacht, Th e "tdmontoil Royal Middlesex Regiment of Captain the Hen - .7. - Deiinfah berthed - alongside Rifl es „is -g t assemble, at Barnet on the 15-h of July, the, uorth quay of the steam Bassin in Portsmouth for 21 iys training. yard. She is in the hands of thefactory authorities ~The.. . men: belonging to the, outh Devon Militia having the necessary repairs to - her damaged ma- sire appointed.to assemblefOr training at Plymouth chinery effected. • on the sth of July s under the, personal command of The Sidon, - 22,,paddlewheel frigate, . Capt. Craw- Lord Cliurston. ford, in the ip basin. at,Portemouth,has her masts " alongside, and-will shipthem from the inner sheers of the basin. The Pearl, 21, screw corvette, at Portsmouth, has been placed in the , steam basin , She is to be pre pared foithe second-class steam reserve. The Mike of Wellington, 13.1,. - screvf steamship, was undocked at Portsmouth on Saturday, and re moved to the moorings up- the harbour. The Melpomene, 51, screw frigate, Capt. Ewart, had her crew paid adVance of wages' on Friday and left Spithead wider steam for Liverpool on Saturday. The Urgent, screw steam troopship, Commander Hire, has been placed in. No. 'T dock at Portsmouth. The Neptune, 91, screw steam two-decker, Capt. Sir W.Hoste,Bart. (the first of the "reconstructed" three-decked sailing s hips)steame d mit ofP ortsmouth harbour on Saturday in charge of (apt. G. T. Gordon, commanding the steam reserve; to the trial ground in Stokes lay to test her speed at the measured mile. Mr. G. Murdoch, in spectorof machinery afloat, with Mr. Miller, from - the steam factory, superin tended the trial. The results gave the ship a speed of 111 knots; draught of water forward, 19 ft. 3 in.; aft, 22 ft. 3 in., without her guns, men, stores, &c. Revolutions oengines, 62 ; pressure of steam, 20-5; force of wind, 4 ; temperature in stoke-hole, 104 deg. ; barometer, 30-25. The result of the trial is considered h,ighly satisfactory, but as this trial has been made at such a light draught, another will take place when, the ship appioaches nearer to her sea going trim. The engines are by Ravenhill, Salkeld, and Co., with 500-horse power, nominal; 71 inch cylinders, with a 3feet stroke. The steam frigate Amphion, 36, having completed her alterations and repairs at Chatham, has been taken out of dock, and will be attached to the second division of the steam reserve in ordinary at that port. The screw gunboat Victor, 6, 300-horse power, has been taken into No. 2 dock at Chatham Dock yard, for the purpose of being repaired and fitted for the steam reserve in the Medway. A letter received at Plymouth from an. officer states that the screw steamship Cmsar, 91, Capt. Frederick, arrived at Havannah on the 15th ult., all well. The writer says,—" On the Bth, we met with a terrific squall, such as few on board had. ever experienced. Our ship passed through it gallantly, and was so steady that a tall jug in my cabin was unmoved. When the awful darkness rolled away and the supernaturally black green sky gave place to. blue, we saw the Diadem far astern with her main and mizen yards both gone." THE - . HEAD-QUARTERS OF THE c • ALLIED ARMIES. 'The following letter has been received from Milan, dated Tune ‘: Decidedly there_is to be no new edition of the famous attack on the bridge of Lodi. The Aus trians, wiser than their forefathers, or perhaps made wiser by their own experience at the Ponte di Buf falora and Pante di Magenta, have taken the pre caution of destroying the bridge. Well, where there is no bridge, no bridge can be taken. Had this been done to General Bonaparte, as was intended, in 1796, it would have been a serious inconvenience to him, for it woilld have delayed his following on the heels of the retreating Austrian army. As for us, Nous nous- en inoquons.' The circumstances are widely different. The passage of the Adda might have offered some difficulties to the army of the French Republic, which was scarcely so large as one of our corps d'armee, but it is no obstacle worth mentioning for an army like that of the - Allies; and then we -have not the same interest to press back the enemy's foices as General Bonaparte had. In his time the Austrians had, militarily speaking, little or no hold in Upper Italy. Once or twice beaten in the open field, they had to make the best of their way to the. Tyrol and Carinthia ; all they could do was to leave a few thousand men in Mantua, and the war was ended until they could collect in the mountains fresh forces, and attempt to regain the lost ground. Now this is all changed. The'Austrians have in the heart of Upper Italy a kind of Sebastopol, connected with the rest of the empire, not by long, inhospitable steppes, but by excellent roads, and in many parts even by rail- ways. Austria can thus, even better than Russia, cOneentrate all her forces at this extremity, which i has been prepared for the purpose by the work of years and the expenditure of millions. Any pres : sure on her retreating .army would only bring it nearer to its stronghold, from which it ought never to have come out ; and no pressure would be suffi cient to get into the stronghold together with the retreating army. In one word, General Bonaparte ended his campaign at the Mincio ; we have to be , gin there the second and more serious phase of it. It is well known that the Austrians are preparing on a grand scale for this decisive phase of the Ita lian campaign. They have changed their comman der, Who has contrived to lose at least 50,000 or 60,000 men in less than a week. ' " The King left last night, the Emperor this morning—a sign that the campaign is about to be gin again. The sooner the better. The distances are so small that we may hope to be in time to take advantage of the demoralising effect of the first blows, and anticipate the reinforcements ex pected by the Austrians from the interior. "Milan, to him who saw it during the presence of the Allied Sovereigns, seems almost a city of the dead. It is as if the burst of enthusiasm had exhausted the vital power of the city, and as if it required some repose to recruit its strength. The ' communications, which had been interrupted by the war, are being gradually re-established. The rail way from this to Como has already begun to run ; that to Magenta will very likely be opened to the public as soon as it is no more required for the army. When this is done there will be, with the exception of the little distance from Magenta to the station of San Martino, an uninterrupted railway communication to Turin and France. What an advantage for reinforcements and stores ! The steam store ship Rhadamanthus, 3, Master Commander F. Sturdee, from Woolwich, arrived' at Plymouth on Saturday with supernumeraries, • boilers, machinery, &c. The screw steam troopship Simooni, 3, Comman der J. M. Cooke, from Scotland, arrived at Ply mouth on Saturday with the Fifeshire The steam tender Avon, 3, Second Master J. H. Lawrence commanding, left Plymouth for Portland on Friday evening, with the Cone Committee, com- ' prising Vice-Admiral F. Martin, Capt. A. W. Jer ningham (of the Cambridge), Capt. H. Stewart, C.B. (Impregnable), and Capt. R. S. Robinson (of the Wellington). The system (Redl's) will be adopted by all the ships in the squadron, and the committee will report. Lights on the cone prin ciple will be used. for night signals. The crew of the screw steamship London, 90, in Plymouth Sound, were paid advance of wages on Friday. The paddle steam vessel Locust, 3, Lient. J. B. Field, commanding, from Sheerness, arrived at Ply mouth on Friday with supernumeraries. The lighter Aid, J. Grandy, master, from Chat ham and Portsmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Fri day. Orders have been received at Devonport to cop per the Donegal, 101, np to her deep water line. The screw steam gunboat Snap (tender to La Hogue), Lient. W. F. Johnstone commanding, from Greenock, arrived on Saturday at Plymouth, where she will be thoroughly repaired. The Snap brought some men for the London, 90. The paddlewheel steam vessel Advice, Second- Master M. =C. Raymond, having completed her re pairs, left Plymouth on Saturday for Queenstown. At Bovisand Point, near the eastern entrance to Plymouth Sound, preliminary arrangements have been made for the erection, close to the water's edge, of turf batteries, which will extend from the flagstaff to the gate. In the naval appointments in The Sun of Satur day the name of -" A. Cogar," master's assistant to the Hannibal, should have been " Arthur Cazaly." The periodical inspection of the Royal Marine Artillery took plane. at Fort Cumberland, near Portsmouth, on Friday. The inspecting officer, Ma " On the Venetian line the Austrians have carried away the locomotives and most of the carriages, but the deficiency will be supplied as we advance ; as for damaging the line itself, they could do little. except here and there a bridge, -which can be re stored in a very short time. " The new Governor of Lombardy scarcely ap pears in the foreground, so quietly and smoothly does the organization of the country go on. As you saw from the decree which I sent you yesterday, as little as possible has been changed, the object baing not to deVise the best possible government, but one that should be ready for the emergency. All that has been done, therefore, is to remove the number of foreigners whom. the Austrian Govern ment employed in the public offices, and to concen trate the government in the hands of responsible persons with considerable power, instead of the collective body .which•had been such a nuisance in the late Austrian Administration. jor-Gen. Wesley, accompanied by Major Rodney, of the Royal •Marine Light Infantry, arrived on the ground at 11 a.m., and was received by the troops, under Col. Fraser, with the, usual salute ; after which they broke into open column right in front, marching past in slow and quick time, and per. formed a variety of other manoeuvres. At the con clusion of battalion inspection the detachment just returned to head-quarters from service in her Ma jesty's ship. Pearly and with her famous Naval Bri- Fade in India,.were called to the front bypilia Ma jor-General, and addressed. by him in warm terms on their Conduct while on service in India, where they had, if possible.-added lustre to the corps to which they belonged, and afforded a good example' to those pf, their comrades who had not as yet had an opportUnity of distinguishing 'Themselves in the face of an enemy. The general and staff afterwards visited the laboratory; where nearly 200 men' were employed in the different brOaches of their prOfes- Sion. At 2 p.m. the lab Oratory b.ndrepositorycatirses being gone through, practice Commenced with . a Shell gun with naval shell froth the works of the FOrt, a park of . field guns of heavy calibre on the beach; and a rocket brigade firing 31b. and 121 b. rocketS. ,Th e precision and accuracy of the firing, at various ranges fromo t o 1,600 yards,_the bursting of the shells at the *of 'deSired, haihfttiti flie heavy - gRn on 'the' woilaTand the 'field pieces and howitzers on the beach, were such as could only be witnessed on a practice day . of this corps. `The day's proceed ings conclnded practice at a butt; from a bat tery at 600 yards 'distanee';'representing a section of .a line-of-battle-Ship, armed with 8-inch guns, which were handled with all. the activity of seamen gunners. Apt the conchision of the practice, Major- General Wesley returned frOna the Fort. to Ports mouth, -this concluding the gallant Gelieral's spection in. the S.W. district. The Royal Marine Light Infantry were inspected at.Forton and Brown and Th urs d a y. Down on Wednesday "In the financial organization of the country the same system has been followed as in the political one. Here are the two . decrees which relate to it : " eVITTonio EIMANUELE, &C. Seeing , our decree of the Bth inst., considering the necessities of the national war, and in virtue of the c„xtraordinary powers conferred upon us by the law of the 25th. of April last, on the proposal of our Council of Ministers, we have ordered and we order as follows :- 1.. The direct and. indirect taxes which exist at , present - in the Lombard provinces are, provi sionally maintained, excepting What is changed by the following article i--- " As to all that concerns the sale of articles belonging to the Regia Privativa,* the posts, tele graphs, •aiia CustOin-houses, the taxes, laws, and legulations now in force in the other parts of the .4.3.py,a1 States will be applied in Lombardy by special order of the Governor. , assimilation completed, the Custom honk lino between Loinbardy and the other pro linCeS Will be suppressed. • " 'We order that the present decree, provided with. the Seal, of the. State, be inserted in the arphiVes of the Government, calling on every one whom ; it ".concerns ,to respect it and make it re speofed.' , • ' - "Another decree orders as follows : • ' " ' 1. Henceforth, during -the war, the munici palities; or those who enforce the Excise duties, can exact no tax from or lay any obstacle in the -way of the importation and exportation, deposit, or consumption of any kind of provisions which may be _furnished for the service of the national and' allied troops, either directly through the instru mentality of the military administration or by private enterprise. and requisitions. . .." ' 2., If hereafter it should be proved that, by• the dispositions, of,the preceding article, the com munity has received a mach smaller revenue from , the,._ Excise and octroi than the average of the last Zw s9' exceptions, two years it will receive an equitable compensation for its losses. 4 4 3• A ny law or disposition contrary to the present one is abolished: ' , ,„ Man, , .. ii " ' VITTORIO EMMANUELE. " Thus, .Milan, i j toT e er 9 ; what - . Lombardy will Present bythe same forms bwhichbe governed haye existede hit a b x e e r s t , o a ; u the y o L u o w m i b i l a rsdesewillthe was insupportable will be, and is already, have to PaY thc cie sam th e at t understrang e c A tuas submittedtr i a n tto rule under a self-chosen 3r Cheerfu 7 t h y 7 Go vernment. Every ,one thinks it natural, and, should there be greater sacrifices, they will bear them equally well. Here lies the whole Italian question, turn it is you foreigner matter ' s a ' like Jerome Paturet, go and se arch af ter the best, not of Republics, but "Govern ments, and find it t oo; he Wi.ll not be less detested than he has been u nder th'e spirit-killing bureaucratic system., t which a bean kept uplitherto'in Lombardy. rZ feeling, or call it instinct—animal instinct, if you like - ,--Lbut so it is;': As the gray and red partridge pill not ,dwell together, so it is with so me races, and more - especially With the German and Italian. Nothing can ever conciliate them. . "As the two cannot dwell together, and neither will yield, they must fight for it. The proclama tions of both the Emperor and the King say clearly enough that the thing is not done yet, and that the Italians must help themselves as far as they can. The appeal has not been in vain, for within the lasi tWo . days aboVe 4,000 volunteers have enlisted from this town alone. ,The display of military splenl dour dnrinc , the presence of the Allied Sovereigns has, no doubt, contributed to attract the youth, but even without it there Would have i been a fair con-: tingent. ' A proof in this respect is the success of Garibaldi, who, in spite of whit .he had to pasS through, and in spite of the little attraction which a sniall bodynf men; with greatcoats for uniformsy and often scanty, fare, presented, still contrived tO 'le 6l.l ' l. l ,l 'rgeli e ,on the road. It is on the peasantry ,in the nprth.and the, cities, both in the mountains Itiaiu.the'll,pluinEi, that we may chiefly reckon fof active ,c9 -operation. ~ . :. I THE ARMY. - The ex p er iment of placinga largenumber of the troops quartered - at Chatham. garrison - finder can vas; which:Was_ Made last suminer, baring been I attended with c onsiderable success; both as regards' the health and ! discipline e. me% a:llother 'camp has been' formed also thii 'rear dn the vacant ground outside the barracks, and within -the fortifications; in order to relieve the crowded Chatham barra:elts, occupied by the East India depots, comprising the; first and second - battalions. The spot selected fore, the formation of the cainp is exceedingly ele-! -rated one within the Spur battery, the site' being ; the same as that chosen for the eamp•last year. The ground, having a sloping surface, is well • drained,' and well adapted for encamping treops. A, number of commodious tents have-- , been .pitched by the troops, each tent being capable of aceommodat-' ing'several men together, with bedding, camp fur niture, &e. The mostq.igid rules have been' framed to secure the health andcleanliness of the men who are to be placed under canvas, and all the sanitary details will be - carried ` out under the direction of the medical officers of the garrison hospitals. A sufficient number of tents having been erected, the depots of the 10th and 29th Regiments, attached to the second. battalion, vacated. their quarters in Chatham barracks On Saturday • afternoon, and marched into camp, where .they` will remain during, the summer. Before the troops were allowed to gO under canvas all the tents were inspected by, Major-General Eyre, in order that he might satisfy himself that nothing was wanting to promote the health of the soldiers..: During' the time they are in camp the men will sleep on portable—bedsteads, the _ p rac ti ce o f s l eep i ng on t h e groun d hav i ng b een found excedingly detrimental to the health of the troop,. Three officers and 94 men, 2 officers'., wives,,2 soldiers' wives and 4 • Rifle Bri_gade • children of the 2d battalion 3d battalion it ri e th 3 officers and 102 men of. the Chester to Gravesend Brigade, will proceed from Win ; Clarence, for Cale ld t for embarkation. on board the the depot of the 100 tali. on ithe 23d inst. 50 men ;of Regiment will also proceed Gravesend, on tbe sa me d Wight, for embarkatio n ay, from P ar kh urs t, I s l e o f on board the Violet, for Gibraltar. Forty invalid soldiers, several of t Mare o England in th e Easte rn on h whom returned have arrived at the military hospital at Great Yarmouth durin ,, the past week. ..The enrolled pensioners of the Bristol district, • under the command of Lieut.-C ol. Whitm ore ing completed their six da y s' exercise, were a i l :: spected—on Saturday on. Durdhani.down: by Col' • M‘Murdo, C. 13 , Commandant of the Milt arylrain The men performed a series,of evolutions an: a , vs* , ran-like style,-and were complimented by th e re : viewing officer on were efficiency. A large and Afaibpolies of the Government, such as salt, tobacco, guwiyider, etc. " Int! T rf ,fr i n ‘- : 1 THE SIMF ~;LONDON, MONDAY - EVENING, JUNE- 20, 1551. THE PANAMA:R:OUT THE AUSTR4L":I4II--A , a i• The following Iptterlitti imp addrestigictte,a eon. temporary t— ; • • • ' 4' " Sir,-The 'long ea-fo_r tender has o( last appeared (conveyance of mails fd Syariby and 'tci bourne, 'via Panama and N'eW Zealand)::" 'l' trust you will find space,in the olumns of your valiable: journal for these fe* lines, as they are P'entied'by one who has not only travelled thb Panami and Suez route, but has visited 37'1s1thOin the SOntit Pacific and has been a resident . id,Net. Zealand foy upwards of 20 years. nom' experience it is my intention to suggest to the contractors of 'this line , the names of two or three places suitable fOr their stations, as well as a few remarki"Upon the route generally, and my reasons for such suggestions. The boon so long sought for and . now about to be conferred upon the Australian colonies; will not only be of the greatest importance to' the Australians, but to the company accepting the tender, providing the contractors display a liberal feeling towards the Australians, which feeling they may rely upon will be responded to by the colonists. I - 'am glad to find that the feelings of the Vidtorianslare now in favour of this line. It is- well-known ? ast all events among ourselves, that Jour- imports and exports are annuallrhetween' and 60• millions sterling, consequently a fortnightly mail with the mother country is much required; pasSengers from the Australian colonies will not (with fait exceptions; and on emergencies) pay- 1:120 7 -to be transferred from there here, neither will they pay 7d. an ounce freight on gold dust when a -.sailing -vessel .will bring it home for 3d. per ouncei„,:l, find that by the last - Royal Mail steamship _Oneida,, , from Ans-. tralia here, her passengers were 114,, gold on freight 177,000; rates of adult passengers,•£9o,eaeh. ; In the last of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's vessels, Emu, from Australia,. there _were only 14 passengers (excluding 6 front Adelaide). passage money by the Peninsular and- .Orientaf.£l2o for adults, European servants. £69; geld on freight about £3,000 (hardly worth, mentloning).. The last departure of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Com pany's ship Teviot took out.to Australia 31 passen gers; the last departure of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's ship Ceylon took out only nine passengers to Australia ; the Great Britain. auxiliary screw steamship,fremAnstralia to Liverp:Ool, comes home round Cape 'Tern in 65 days, bringing. 325 passengers (first, second,a:fid third elaSs).; passage money ranging from £l5 to £70.,a head per - adult, and upwards of £lOO,OOO 'word of gold--the freight on gold ' , presume at a reasonable rate. I maintain that any steam company, assisted"with a large and handsome subsidy, can without loss to their shareholders (but with a good profit) carry backwards'and forwards to the colonies pasSengers (first, second, and third class) for the same reason able sum as auxiliary steam or sailing vessel com panies who have no subsidy. This is not only a consideration for the directors of the fortunate con tractors of the present line, but a very serious con sideration for their shareholders,' ' If the 'present contractors for the Panama line will consider their own interests combined with the interests of the colonists, they will do well, - and tli,e. colonies will prosper under their contract, it not, they will shortly find a most determined and successful oppo sition with the auxiliary and sailing 'ship companies especially from Liverpool, into which port the major rity of the passengers and bulk of cargo and gold has for years been imported from the said colonies; where one passenger comes home overland from the colonies, 50 come "by sailing vessels, and for every ounce of gold imported here overland' 5;000 come by sailing vessels. Freight on gold on--£12,000,000 at 7d. comes to £350,000; but at 3d. the Same comes to £150,000, making a difference to. the exporters of £200,000 annually. The Panama line, when fairly established, will, without a doubt, be known as the Australian route, and .be supported - by the Australians liberally. The Suez line will, as usual, be called the Indian route: -A second •postal line between the colonies and Englgnd, has long been songht for even by all the• colonial governments, and the colonists generally, -appeareto i be of the same opinion. The geographical features of a colony cannot be changed, but the establishment of the Panama route, the advantageS-Of the earliest point of departure, or the earliest arrival may be shared by more than one colony, and-thus thelocal existing jealousies of the Australian colonies will be brought to a termination, and all ,the colonists mutually benefitted, as well as thousands of our merchants, by this fortnightly line. ..It Must be borne in mind that the Panama route is numb. less' liable to ob structions than the Suez route in ease. of European war. Some people imagine that Panama is annn-- healthy route ; such ideas are absurd: it passengers by that route are at all alarmed the have only to walk from the steamer's deck in crap-theß4cif-G9, into the railway carriage ~hi +h Ny4l 7 ,p,ordr.Githo3l across the isthmus and in.4oalitivatvef'4k . o4 4 , lantic Ocean in the short spa.c,o..pckflic•PSAUttaT hour and a half. The Panafria tette home fro colonies is a pleasant route . coiApared.to r th - C-Eitez route, where the hot winds and_. cakes ..ititgwßed Sea for three or four months to anillie".the• slightest description of .clething:almoSt intolerable' to passengers. Not long afterthe - fortniOtily . inaili to these colonies is established we Shall reiffilie,fa, weekly mail, as our trade is increasing . - So rapidlY, Few, perhapS, Will believe that the ' tninag.eem ployed between New Zealand and New ciAtli:li l 'abliS is greater than the tonnage einployed: l 4,oo NeW Smith Wales and‘Londen, the forineibelliio,oo9- and the latter 45,000 tons annually. ~ Thoranaraa route will in all prObabilitys'oyen , aip,i,a ip.v.r.,, trade between the Australian' eolenies,''and.,:'geiitth Aine rica, Central and North America, as', we las,with 1, many islands in the Sc' Pacific, man..' iv'hi,ch ,tf r 'are not far distant' from' New'"t outh•A. ales ' or New Zealand, especially the Fijii Isla, ei,7Most viiluable grOup. Our Ouye l iiiiTtehts'tm..:4l.onen chants here are in complettleltii•anC . o not enly:of. the value of these island 'Vat. 'oo:tliafe r k; .- YO4s, which aninialfranibutittalnair litttate&i ' liou , sand§ of•potinds sterling seine dr - ,viiinVi. m: 1 ; ii etre. pearls, pearl shell, becefi ' 10'ine*, - .,.;1 1 41‘. Weed, cocoa nut and sperm oil v ,:tertel§eiShell,*arbrocrt, . sugar, and a small'Onaility Of 'eoffte aiicVeritton, &c., nearly the whole" of which trade has for the last twenty years keertearr.lel;#n,by;l3ietlirlena than in a very 'quitt4iirligitt.tfi‘ii+PlielieVe that small steamers will,shortly be runnine• fr'eiit'some of these groups of - small 'islaifaS iiliitly'of Sydney and New Zealand, when the PinanntfolAii , fs fairly established,' and that the tine' iS I Ave far - distant when theseiSlandS will be to, the AtisfihtdOiii colo nies what the West India IslailS'were to ifgland ' before the emanoipation'ef tilp Stares: -Why-should not Australia b a&its 'ipT6e And §ngiti4Silinds - ','w when its importS and exports in'eVlVieelf.4';fild'6o mil lions " sterling' annually? With' With' regard to-the steamers between Panama Mid Sydney, my Opitlion is, that five should be, eiriployed-:.•: -Ifill'abitW is to be the calling station, there is little doubt hat the French Government *ill' allow •ft hanetsnme sub-, sidy to the contractors,'for n'oftnif tlreeotii-eyance, of their mails there, but teeNt.Of t aittlarittie which I shall presently refer to. -If Tabittris heti fo be a calling station I can name blit oritWei other islands, equally good, , biit- -whereYei the'rnitiway•station i , may be between Panama and. Sydney, tliwsth and, a Ist class boat should be kept there itiase Of need. The two steltinersto• he employed between Panama land theliklPWarstatign, should be built somewhat upon the Gravesend boat model large enough to carry 300 ~ ,or , 400 passengers,,, making, ey_ery allowance for ventilation' for tropical pagtiges... It will be between Pan6ina - Ond the half-waystation that the great daily runs will be made froth 14 to: 17. miles an honr—Mill-pend sailing: . If proper boats are placed here in course of a reasonable time the passage to NeW Zealand mak be made 'in 39 or 40 days, and to Sydney in 44 or 46. days. The other two boats between Sydney and the half-way station should be poWerful boats. ' Beljevino.' the Peninsular and Oriental Company are at Under any penalty or fine for the non-fulfilment' Of their contract for the Australian line via' Suez, I do not see why the present contractors Should be placed under heavy penalties via Panama. In place Of the Government munificence of alloWing £5O per diein for'eny num ber, of days under the contract time, they might in crease this sum to' . £soo,'Vat in - My hiimble opinion penalties and fines are all humbug. -- - Having made a feW I'd/harks 'upon this-route, I will now name two liorts in New Zealand most likely to suit the contra - tot.% viz.,-Mongorini. and Auckland. MOngonni- is aqsliug , little 'harbour; li;ve ll se C e a n P 27 of shi sheltered from all" Winds.'and-Sea swell; with a safe entrance from Dohbtlesi, or, as se rile callit, Loris- N mi r l 3 , 4 y, and is about three hours' - 'sail .from the New ps a tZ anchor ealand a ha th rb e o .s ur am l e time. Should this thiontelliasn'd port of entry, be fixed upon, a coaling wharf will have to be Made, also conve niences for Nv i t t er i n , (of which there is'a never.: failing supply). One objectibh to this'port by the Tew Zealand Government would be, that they would be compelled to - pla ce a small-steamer' on the line between Auckland.. a n d mOn gonni for the Con veyance of the mails and - passengers, which would Cost from £4,000 to £ 5 ,000:a year. 'Any 'provisions ay- be obtaine d .here.„ ~., au m pposing . thi s t o b e th e the French Gay ca lling port, eminent' at XeW'Cak donia could send one of their steamers hereto be in readiness to receive their mails .r 74., ...,m.Fran c e and Tahite via Panama,. Upon the mail steamer's arrival. . They could then I'o lll l l . to - New aiqc.lgnia, which would net take theme a longer time_,; tJan it would take the mail - stearner.to .go.. fromAvcingonni to Sydney. Such tiding the , easo,-the Fren c h at N e W Caledonia would have ;the 'Sallie tinie• to..answ e r their letters" by the horneivag and saao. :bud' as the Sydney people, for which accontiodation the French subsidy would naturally be - expected, but should the mails be landed at - Auckland, it would' only make a day and.a half, or two days' difference to the Vrench, but give' theni ttiriple time to answer their letters. Auckland, the seat ; of Government, certainly has.a prior 'claim to:Mongonni,especially if ithe interest of the bulk of population is, to be considered. Being the seat of Government. it is the head-quarters• of'the military forces and com missariat department, ' which province Contains about. 40,000 of the nativ:e population, the latter being very valuable to any steam,Cempany in the: coaling department. The -entranee•tek the harbour of Auckland. is first-rate, with ,ample, room for a large fleet to anchor, its entrance heing so very ac cessible ; there is no lighthouse at• present ; no yes sels have been lost there since the foundation of the i colony, which says much for its harboni. About seven or eight • years ago, , anticipating that' the Panama line of steamers would call:there, a mei , candle firm went to a great expense in building a coaling wharf, ,and for watering the steamers, which I have no doubt could now be purchased or leased at a reasonable price or rent. ,In fact, Auck land is already well prepared for the mail line, should its steamers call there. In that case I re commend the contractors of the Panama line to come to some arrangement with MesSrs. Coleman and, Co., pho are under contract with the New Zealand Government to carrry our mails to and fro between New Zealand and the Colonies, with a subSidy of £24,000 a year. If an amicable arrangement could be made the Panama boat could remain in Auckland for ten days during the time the Colonial boat took the' mails and passengers to Sydney -via .Manakan, during which time she could , coal, clean, and if necessary repair. Manakan is a fine extensive bar harbour ; the bar is of no inconvenience to a large steamer, there being sufficient water for a line of battle ship. The distance of this harbour from Auckland by land is five and a half miles ; a tram road is now being made between the two ports, and telegraph wires to the heads Of Manakan from Auckland. One great advantage in, the Manakan route will be splendid , and extensive coal fields which hate lately been discovered- there coming down•to the edge "of. the 'Manakan waters; there has also been-another coal field lately discovered at Wangaree harbour, about filly Miles north'of Auck land, both of which samples of coal have been tested and reported , upon most favourably 'to the govern ment by Dr. 110311*tter;' 100 'IS the geographical and scientific officer of the - kotrian frigate, Novara. If a satisfactory arian7fiemb,neannot be made with Messrs..Coleinan: dna co:I recommend Mongonni the port for landing and taking on board the mails and passengers' ' ::as the detention there need not be more than a few hours, and the course from there towards Panama' should be made in the variable latandes..Some people fancy that Welling ton, in Cook's 'Straits,' would suit to call at on the homeward voyage from Sydney, provided. the • steamers did not go to Auckland on their way out, but I consider it would not only be very unsatis factory to the contractors but to New South Wales colonists, whom we may thank for being the originators of this line, and whom the public have to thank for its handsome subsidy, granted by their Parliament, of £50,000 annually for 10 years. The contractors would also lose 'about . three, days on each voyage by going the extra distance. Another :reason for not making Wellington one of the calling ports is that the insurances on ships and cargo are nearly half as much 'more to Wellington as they are to .Auckland. SOme .of the daily papers have , stated that little interest appears to be taken in this tender, but I can assure them that there neter was a mail contract tendered for by the Govern , ment that has in a very quiet manner created such a sensation, and in place of three I believe there will he six tenders for it: Should Ibe able to give any of the contracting parties any further informa tion, I•shall be happy to do so.—l am, &c.„ WALTER"! BRODIE. 4, Sutherland-place, Westbourne-grOve North, Bayswater, J - une 2. THE NEW MINISTRY. (From the _Morning Herald.) The Palmerston Administration, after a whole week employed in reconciling " discordant sections," and after infinite labour, has slowly emerged into being. 'For the moment, then, the difficulties are smoothed. Exclusion from office and an ill-con- cealed desire to obtain ime and. power have con tributed to unite in one Cabinet politicians holding opinions essentially distinct, and to demonstrate :that the strength of a Government consists in the want of union amongst its members, And yet this xis taking place at a political crisis more grave than -any that has arrived since the infamous Peaee of .Tilsit. This is no laughing matter ; it is matter rather for 'serious reflection and bitter disappoint ment. It would be almost impossible to exaggerate .the . danger arising to England and - of Europe froth ;the accession to power of the Ministry whose names we publish to-day in our columns. "Th"ellio - st important question at this moment is that of our foreign policy. Two of the great powers of Europe are engaged in a deadly feud ; another power has practically declared that she must be prepared for war; . and, in order to be ready to strike as soon as the decisive moment shall arrive, has ordered that her powerful army shall be put on the footine• of active service. A fourth great power has plainly indicated that, un less—what seems most improbable—the war is localised she can no longer decline to participate in the contest. To complete the existing complication —to render it scarcely possible for this country s to preserve that -strict neutrality demanded by the national interests and the national wish, nothing was wanting but an Administration of which Lord Palmerston should be the nominal chief and Lord John Russell the Foreign Secretary. Lord Palmer ston is pledged to maintain the French alliance, no matter how derogatory that alliance may become to English honour, no matter how contradictory to British interests. Lord John Russell has held out hopes to Italian patriots which it will never be in his power to carry out, and virtually, if not actually, the two Ministers are secretly pledged to a revolutionary war. We acknowledge as strongly as any one the wrongs and grievances of Italy, but we believe that there are remedies worse than the disease; - and if the chief actor in the bloody scene now acting on the continent of Europe be sincere in his professions even he May find to his cost that he is but the child of circumstances. Its creed is fatalism ; and it may be said that, so far, he has ' been justified by success ; but he may find that he :has rased a'storm which, 'strong as he is, he will be--unable to calm. In such a case where would El/gland be, with Lord Palmerston, as Premier and Lord. John Thissell as Foreign Secretary. Fortunately, however, the new Cabinet can -scarcely hope to hold together for any lengthened period. Individual abiliiy isnot the only—not even the; chief element to be desired in the cornposition :of a Government, and one of the most prominent - evils in the present Ministry is its divided leader ship. We did not require Lord Granville's indis creet revelations" to inform us that Lord John Russell had taken the Foreign Office by, storm, and ,now that he is in possession of the citadel he will hold his own against all Comers, and make entire ' independence of action a condition of retaining a nominally subordinate position. If he was indis creet as Home Secretary' e will be indiscreet as Foreign Minister, and in his . new position the slightest indiscretion may entail very serious con 'sequences, even if it did not plunge the country into war. Lord John is now in the position of a constitutional monarch who refuses to be restrained by constitutional checks, and we merely ask whether such a state of things is not anomalous and dangerous? What, then, shall we say of the new Chancellor of the Exchequer? Public opinion —that-is,-of course, Whig public opinion — pointed unanimously --to: - Sir C. Lewis but important considerations and the necessity of making large concessions to the Peelites combined'to place Mr. Gladstone in the more distinguished post, and to condemn the less ingenious but more reliable financier to the comparative retirement of the , Home' Office. Then there is Sir Charles Woods who *as lately, censigned by a Palmerstonian organ to political oblivion, but who, after notablehis success in half ruining our navy, As sent to exercise his facultieS for nial-adminig , tration in the post vacated by Lord Stanley. The juxtaposition of these two names is all 'the comment that need bestowed on this singularly ill-aclVised. appointment, unless, indeed, we add, for•the benefit of all who think it a national.and paramount duty to keep up the,British iiavy, that the Admiralty, is now banded-over to-that- " conipicuous -novelty, as his friends call him, the Duke of Somerset, and to 'thatiliScreet nobleman, Lord Clarence Paget, who 1 oug cer ain yt o thank his stars for thelate oppor tune dissolution of Parliaments- It would be too long to go through the whole list of the new Cabinet. We shaWnierely congratulate the Colonies on their new Tractisian Minister; whose - opinions on colonial subjects, as on most. other subjects, are so reinark ably in accord With those of his colleague, Mr. Cobden. This s then, is the new administration, constructed at the cost of so many sacrifices of opinion, and presenting types of nearly every school of politicians in the House of Commons, united t so far as we can see, by no bond of union but the absolute impOssibility of forming any other combination with the most moderate 'hopes of suc cess. It is certain that the Whigs have only waived their personal pretensions for the present in order to bide their time. They know that so anomalous a collection of "fortuitous atom's" can have no per maneritekistence, and they will take their seats in Parliament '.with the expectation of vacancies in the new Cabinet which they count upon occupying. The most ludicrous feature in the present Go vernment is the thoroughly Palmerstonian manner in which the extreme Liberals have been " done." They have been cheated, bamboozled, and disap pointed; They were no sooner drawn within the fatal eirdle of IVillis's Rooms than their' doom was ine that critical occasion all w as made .• • sOth' and easy for them, extravagant prothises were given, the olive branch was tendered by knowings k and practised hands, and with Syren notes their souls were lulled into acquiescence. They believed.—yes, even Mr. Bright believed —that the veteran leaders .had learnt a salutary lesson, and were no longer disposed to deny a- voice in the Cabinet to Men who for many a long year have constitned the real strength of the Liberal party, as they have always exhibited the greatest - honesty of purpose. Wous -mons change tout cela was to be the.motto of the Palmerston or Russell Administration. And so, by way of fulfil ling:these gracious promises, and satisfying these natural dekres, in a Cabinet Of sixteen members we find the real Liberal party represented by Mr. Cob den and Mr.- Milner Gibson, one at the Board of Trade, the other at the Poor Law Board. The pre sence of two such men is just enough to disturb the Cabinet, and to endanger its existence, but not enough to give more than nominal weight to the party whose opinions they. are supposed to repre sent. It is easy to conceive complications w hich are certain to arise before long. To a Reform Bill theon Ministers are pledged, b u t imagine a discussion wn _ the reform question between M r. Gladstone, h o cleaves to small boroughs, - and Mr. Cobden,itha who would probably sweep them all down as w scythe. The difficulty is not •to di s cover subjects on which they are likely to disagree, b. And it is ut those on which they might be supp osed to a gree imagined that the Lib eral p arty: mere be satisfied by 'e mockery of a so miserable a concession —a ss concession.' No wonder that dissatisfaction is ex pressed by the Liberal organs. No wonder that the praise of Palmerstoman journals is strongly tempered with indignationethaetrs. the ef a t p h p e oi o n i t d m l e v nt h. of Sir Charles Wo od and g school. No 'worsder that speculations are already rife even in Liberal circles as to whether the Cabi- net can 'hold together till the close of the session. THE - FI .L. ,AtA - mATIC COiOLEGE.—We are glad to le'arA that, at a meeting of ,the executive committee of the Royal Drama tic College, the charter of inco r p ora ti on was presente o . by v i r t ua ,of whilch the present , executive committee becOmb the council until the 'first annual meeting, which, will 1* held in 14ay, AVP understand that the council will a t once take immediate steps foi determining the site Of the college, and Mak , itirrangenients for laying the foundation stone, &c.—Era. THE WAR' IN than they did with the old. We give lord Derby and his colleagues every credit for their desire to preserve a strictneutrality.--Their new blue book abundantly proves that. Whatever other fault may be found With it, at least it shows in every page the desire of the Goveinnient for. peace. ' But it shows also that they were pursuing a very blind Policy, and one not at all likely: to secure the object they had in view. Jt is net too severe a, thing to say of them ;that they plactid the Anglo-French alliance in , the ( greatest peril. They were fast:drifting' from France 'to Austria, and would soon have reached the point, ;at which they 'Ay duld have lost all influence with both 'owers. Having, then, alliance With neither, either ;might have drawn us into war, and din drawing us have involved. the rest of Europe. Under the policy iof the present Goyernthent we may expect bettet Things, and it is an augury of good that they corn pence their administration.. at, a time when . the 'acts of the allied Sovereigns have- dissipated so ,completely the fears that prevailed when the war commenced, 'and have drawn the sympathies of England more powerfully forth both towards the 'ltalian cause itself and towards the Sovereigns who have so gloriously espoused it. This is one of the surest pledges of our, peace and neutrality, for nothing would be SO likely to enlarge the war as a feeling amongst other Powers that• England had no sympathy with it, and would therefore support them in espottsing the side of Austria. - . . (From the: Mot nhig' Rose.) - If the last few days have not been marked by exciting tidings from the seat of war, the absence of these is compensated by .the rapidly-increasing political effect of the victories already won. When first the possibility of a war in!behalf of the Italian cause was mooted, there were not wanting those in very influential places, both here. and abroad, who refused to acknowledge that there was any such thing . at Fall as -an -Italian cause: Our own Government did not scruple to brand the patriots of Italy as discontented' spirits, and to censure as wantonly ambitious the natural efforts of Sardinia on behalf of Italian freedom. King Victor Emmanuel was denounced as the accomplice of France in a deep game to be played at the reckless cost of many lives for an impoSsible stake, and English and foreign newspapers vied with each other in denunciation of all ,the parties concerned. But it . was mainly against Napoleon , 111. that the fiercest ' , Fulminations were hurled. Some of our daily and wepkly contemporaries had no words strong enough to-4tigmatise the cunning, the treachery,the blood 'Arfstiness; and the despotic tyranny 'of the Monarch of France.. His purposeivas. asserted to be nothing Ids than the subversion of the peace of Europe and the - destruction of the balance of power. He was declared to be ia .league with Russia against Eng and Austria. - The two Were• to combine their forces and • overrun Europe • and when the spoil' came to be divided a French ? Scivereign - was to rule in Italy, and Russia Nvas to:posiess the. lon g- coveted, supremacy of Constantinople: ' Absurd.' and'iinpqs-.. sible as this was, there were journals that a'ffirmel it and thousands of-intelligent persons who believed it. In every railway carriage, on every exchange, and at every dinner-table this empty nonsense was freely uttered: 'There was, `it was Said, ;no . Italiarr cause, and no appreciable reason for the Franco-Sardinian alliance. . The Eraperbr of the • Frerich was., de nounced as wishing to I ,‘ plunge:. Europe into "War," ivithOut cause or. prov.ocation.y.-",A4e eontraire, it Was denied that the AustrianS Were oppressive; and the Times went, so far us io.avii*in a leading article that, in. the, present Conditien,Of the Italian, peasantry, the rule•of AUstr:ia, was a good thing. There was a general incredulity as to the .sincerity of those who, proposed to emancipate - Italy. Even many of the Italians themselves, though they had no doubts about. the grievance, were not without mis givings at ;the thought; of a: Fyench army,of great magnitude within their borders.- IV-hen at last the Austrian, army invaded Piedmont, and Napoleon himself headed the French-troops, and went forth to the succour of Sardinia, the same relentlesS hate and the same disparaging predictions pursued him. He was overrating his powers, their . said: He might be successful in politicaradrainistration, but gene ralship. was out of the question. I . He' would fail . in the field, and peril at once his reputation and his throne. • - • • Sucl:S not six . weeks ago, was :the language uttered by leading newspapers and important poli tical personages. What do we bear now P Success has brought its usual vindication ; and, ottliOse who were loudest in their denundirtions or suspicions, the more generous openly confess their predictions falsified so far, and the rest either keep silence or pervert.the truth to suit their purpose.- , It has come to light that the Italians - have a griev.ance,: that the Austrian Emperor and not 'Napoleon hashegun " the plunging . into. war ;", that,the Allied Sove reigns -are acting with wisdom and moderation ; that Napoleon is not .failing as a general,. but has displayed, considering that he, was never on a field of battle before, the most 'suiPtising powers, knd has acconiplishbd runpreedderited successes; that he has taken nothing but fame .by. hese ; that he has declared he will take nothing 'else ; that he is most anxious to localise the war and define its objects ; and that up to this '.:moment he has ful filled, not the part of the conquerer of Italy, but of her deliverer. We repeat that these things have been .and are being dettonstrated in the sight of the world, and cannot be gainsaid. , -They vindicate at once the Emperor; theling, and :the -cause. One of the first and most natural effects. is the impression all through Italy that this is thecrisis of her fate. Accordingly, wherever the expulsion of the - Austrians make it possible, the .Italians lift up their voice for liberty. All the towns and provinces . of Lombardy are united in their allegiance--pending a final settlement—to the King of Sardinia. Parma and Modena follow suit. The exigencies of the war require the withdrawal of the Austrian soldiers in the Romagna, but no sooner is the last foreign bayonet out of sight than the. people, declare for - Victor Emn tanitel. At Rome -a popular movement could be organised at any moment, but regard for - the 'Pope, • with whose spiritual rule the , allied armies are. not at war, makes a revolt inexpedient. They do itot, therefore, rise ; but theY express their feelings, .I,clich . are strictly' in unison with those of their allied champions. .:7.1n the - Two. Sicilies the popular feeling is grewing strong, but the Allies are not at war with FrancisflL, and therefore no rising of his subjects is promoted. When the future of Italy becomeg a part of the treaty of peace it will be impossible for Naples, as for Mime, to persevere in _modes and principles of government repugnant to those which* have been consecrated by such copic 'us 'sacrifices of blood.'-- • : •-;-• - ---Vv c are justified, under ;all these _circumstances in as sertiug that. the,effects of the war, so far, have - been as satisfactory as'its' achievements in the field • have been brilliant. And not the, leastimportant is the effect ou this country...Mi.:Bright ilia honour able justice to the Emperor .of the_ Vrench and. to Ent fluid when he stood up iii Parliament the other nig ,ht for the maintenance of the French alliance as 'the-t ieStr•-iecurity for , the i preservation of English new / ality.' We may expect that with the new Gd verem aent these considerations wiilhaye me re weight - DR. GODFIAI - 'AND UNLAWFUL AS- brought home by Mr. Rochester, and to have re- SEMBLAGES .IN TY HITECHAPEL. I presented that she had means of_ getting an easy livelihood in Edinburgh; she induced thr.-s,ubject of this narrative to leave the town without much compunction, and without. many promises except those of gay companionship. In Edinburgh the two girls parted,und the Newcastle female appears to have reconciled herself to her mode of life, for she never wrote home 'herself or, endeavoured to get get others to do so, though one of her companions , found means to communicate with her friends. Her father was not aware of her having left the town till two or three days after • her departure, which affords a glimPse of the kind of life she had been previously leading. The young woman, , however, seemed penitent' and thoughtful, and it is to be loped may have seen enough of , the, miseries of an nfamous life to abandon it.—Newcastle Chronicle. On Saturday, .Dr: John Godfrey, of No. 3, Mount-place, Whitechapel, who was the defen dant in nn: action for seduction, when a verdict Was returned in his favour, but who was un successful in .a prOsecution for libel againgt Mr. Wm. Newton, -proprietor and editor of the East 'London Observer, came to the Thames Police Court, in company with several of his neighbours, to prefer charges: against . some persons , for riotous conduct and threatening and annoying him. A stout and robust elderly man,named Burchell, who curie into the building with his nose bleeding an hour pre viously, asked Mr. Selfe for a warrant against Dr. Godfrey for lasSaulting him in the Whitechapel road. Mr. Selfe said a summons would do, and granted, one. Dr. Godfrey said the man was a per fect blackguard,, and grossly provoked him. He was willing that the case should be gone into at once. Mr. Selfe said the summons would be made returnable on a future day, and he would then hear the defence. Edward Bingham, travelling.bag maker, of 90, Goswell-street, was charged with an obstruction. George Palmer, 218 K, a police-constable, said there were 400 or 500 persons assembled in Mount place, opposite Dr. Godfrey's house. There were many thieves and abandoned women amongst them, and they were hooting and hallooing. No person could pass on one side of the road. The prisoner was there near the doctor's own door with a cluster of 30 persons or more around him, and he told him to be moving. The prisoner said he knew nothing about the case of Dr. Godfrey, and wanted to hear a-little about it. He refused to move away, and was taken into custody. Mr. Selfe—Now, prisoner, you hear what the policeman says. The prisoner—l do, sir. I came from the City to Turner-street on business, and heard a shouting and hallooing. A man was telling me all about the affair, and the policeman ordered me to go away. Mr. Selfe—The, policeman did what • was quite right. I . Every one adds to the nuisance. It wis a great nuisance for decent people passing along the road, and - also for the inhabitants, for persons to assemble in front of Dr. Godfrey's house. You have right theie at all. You don't live in the district. Prisoner--No, sir., I. went to Turner-street, Whitechapel to transact business. Mr: glft:s-I*You had better transact your business than mik_with disorderly mobs. You don't seem to haveMeii - guilty otany actual breach of the peace. You keep away from there ,in future. If you are brought before me again I will send you to prison. You are€d,ischarged, EMmannel Romaine, a Jew boy, of No. 2, Brick lane, Spltalfields, and Mary Ann Messenger, a mar-.' ried woman; were charged by Donovan, 212 K, with riotous conduct. The constable said the footpath was blocked up in front of Dr. Godfrey's house, and the prisoner Romaine,. who he believed was a thief, was making a noise and shouting. He told him to go' away, and he said he would not, and would stop as long as he liked. He took the lad into custody, and on the way . to the station-house the female prisoner inter fered, abused Dr. Godfrey, and called him most horrible names. She worked herself to a pitch of ungovernable fury. Selfe—Let me have a specimen of her lan guage. The constable did as he was desired. The lan guage was revolting. The woman Messenger denied all that was al leged against her, and said she saw the doctor lift his foot to kick the boy and went to his assistance. Mr. Selfe-L-You had no right there' at all. The woman said there was a mob assembled. Mr. Selfe—That is the very reason you should not be there. The boy, I see, lives at No. 2, Brick lane, He had no right there. The boy expressed his sorry for having offended, and was told to go about his business and keep away from mobs. Dr. Godfrey` confirmed the . statement of Donovan, the policeman, in every particular, and complained that, he.was annoyed and insulted, not by his neigh bours., with whom he was on the best of terms, but by 'low blackguards, thieves, and women of the town, who dame from a distance, and assembled about his house and acted in a most disorderly BAILERS' SHORT-TIME MOVEMENT. On Saturday evening last a crowded public meeting was held at the Literary Institution, Royal-hill, Greenwich, for the purpose of explain ing the principles and objects of the Bakers' Short time Association, for limiting the hours of labour, and for the abolition of nightwork. About 200 members of the metropolitan branches of the asso ciation—from the West•end, City, Kingsland-road, Stepney, &c., arrived in vans, coaches, and other vehicles, and proceeded to the meeting, accom panied by the band, composed of workmen from the factory of Messrs. Penn, engineers, who volun teered their services on the occasion. The chair was occupied by Mr. G. BENNETT, of Blackheath, who observed, that he fully co incided with the objects of the meeting, and believed that the journeymen bakers through put the kingdom might be relieved from their present excessive toil without injury or incon venience to the public. It was a great social movement, which he felt certain would succeed, as it would be promoted by every true philanthropist and Christian. Mr. BLAKEMORE proposed the following resolu tion :—" That this meeting being deeply sensible of.the evils resulting from the present system of conducting the baking trade of - the metropolis and its' suburbs, considWthat the abolition of night work, .and 111 . 6 limitation of the period-of labour for journeyrnenLto 12 hours-per day, is imperatively' necessary. for their physical recreation, and mental , moral, and social improvement." . He referred to the evils which the present system ofnight work entailed: upon the men, who were de prived of those social and' domestic comforts enjoyed by -the rest. of the community, and who were altogether shut out from the means of culti vating their intellectual capabilities by becoming members of literary institutions &c. They had;., been truly described. as the "white slaveS of Lon don," but if they were true to themselves, they would be enabled to obtain the sympathy and co operation of the public, and shake off those tram mels which crushed. them both physically and men tally. Mr. NAUGHTON seconded the, resolution, and observed that, considering the hours of labour, the journeymen bakers were about the worst paid class of men in the metropolis. The resolution was supported. by an address from Mr. ROBERTS, and unanimously adopted, as were others in support of the objects of the meeting. A vote of thanks to the Chairman closed the proceedings. manner. •• Mr. Selfe said the female prisoner had mixed herself up in a most discreditable manner with a disorderly mob, and had used most foul and offen sive language towards' . Dr. Godfrey. He would advise her to reform her own manners and language before she set up as . a censor of others. He would not have these distptbances. They were contrary to law. ,People had better attend to their own business than interfere with others. He gave directions to the pOlice to bring before him any sons annoying Dr. Godfrey, and he would punish them, and then called upon the woman to find bait to keep the peace. At the earnest intercession of the prisoner's hus band he was allowed to become her surety in the sum of Dr. Godfrey said he was apprehensive of further annoyance and threats from the low characters who assembled in front of his house. Mr. Sclfe—l hope what I have just done will operate as a caution to others. If there are any further disturbances I will punish the offenders. You have a right to be protected from insult and annoyance. Dr. Godfrey—lt has been going on now for four monthS, ever since a verdict was recorded in my :favour in the Court of Common Pleas. It is the result- of conspiracy against me. Mr. Selfe---It is, very disgraceful. Speak to the ,policc. , -inspector, who will have a force of men to i prevent annoyance and breaches Of the peace. Inspector Hayes—l have a force of men there now, and s4ll have extra police constables there Dr. Godfrey—l expect a riot to-night. The people of Whitechapel will pome into the road and, attack the blackguards with sticks if they assemble near My door this evening. . Mr. Selfe—You can depend upon the police force for protection. The police force is ,a .most efficient body. Dr. Godfrey then retired. REPORTED ABDUCTION l'.1?031 NB T CASTLE. • r the name of Mr. On Friday a-gentleman, giving George Rochelter, of Sunderland, waited upon us, and made a statement -which led us to believe that he had discovered 'a gross system of procuration, by which several girls had been induced. to leave their parents in Newcastle and adopt an infamous course of life in Edinburgh. He stated that on Tuesday last, at half-past six in the morning, he was walk ing along-the Canongate, Edinburgh, and observed a young female with a short tartan petticoat. Her appearance indliced him to speak to her, and he in quired whether , ! she would sit as a model to an artist. She expressed her willingness, and told him where she was living. Some hours afterwards, having followed her thither, and availed himself of the opporrunity of further conversation, it came out that the girl belonged to Newcastle, and had been induced, to leave her native place by a woman whose name . did not transpire. Mr. Rochester stated that this, person had offered the girl employ ment, and thus induced her to go to Edinburgh, where she subsequently abandoned her. Our in formant made further inquiries, and learned that another girl from,Newcastle wa s in a house returnof bad repute in Edinburgh, and was desirous to home. Mr. Rochester induced the first-named to return,-and she is now with her father. From the statement made we were left in no doubt ,that Mr. Rochester believed t h at a o o, n infamu system of procurat ion was going by which in s nocent young f e males were entrapped by promises o f em pl o yment, and placed in circumstances where a virtuous life was almost impossible. We felt it• our duty, therefore, carefully to investigate the ma tt er , so that the dreadful facts should stand ex posed, ;suing trueiead ascertained the reputed residence of the i s ; f a ther, we went thither. A few barefooted and ragged children, the elder of them with a baby in his arms, were sitting on the dstoiolri darker lessstep of a house in a poor district of the town: We entered stair_ c ase, which had been built for wealthier a dark passage, and ascended ainhabitants at the in g d days e bygone. wbat Arriving uppermost land ing out of breath, one of Lur or five doors was pointed to us as the residence of the family for which knocked, a man of w'ewere inquiring. Having door to us about cauti ous l y , and d r) i O n y l e n a i r r s e d o f o age nr o r p r a e n n d e d . the A word or two sufficed to obtain entrance. The large square room, with a chairs, fitting a smallchapel-like window badly in iteframe ' contained two ricketty wood en oblong wooden table of shaky ap pearance, a fourpost bed, two or throe ragg ed and shoeless children, a stout-looking girl of 17, and the implements of an artist, Whose oil painting of a steamer leaving Tynemouth hung upon the wall. The story of the family was a sad one indeed. The father is a house painter, with some notions of art ; his wife had taken to _drinking _ and havincr se t a 14. example to the children , ha d been convicted for roving goods stolen- by her son. The young man anallis mother are now undergoing the punish. to which they were sentenced. The eldest girl commenced her course of dissipation by joining- the dancing parties at the low publichouses, to oi.e of which , she was accustomed to. go for some time before her mother's iraprisonment, and at which she met the p.erson named as " Polly," who induced her finally to go to . Edinburgh. This woman seems to have been about the same age as the female COUNTRY MA_RKETB. LEICESTER—JUNE 18. At to-day's market there was a large show of wheat, which sold heavily at 2s per quarter less ,money than last week. White, good, sold from 50s to 51s ; inferior, 48s to 495. Red wheats realised 46s to 48s. Barley was by no means an active sale, and prices- nominally unaltered. Oats quiet. Beans came sparingly to hand, and last week's prices were fully supported. NOTTINOHAM---JUNE 18. A fair supply of wheat, and sales difficult, at a decline of, '2s to 3s per qr. Oats were at former prices. Barley was Beans not in much request, and rather lower. White wheat, new, 508 to 54s Barley,•grinding 28s to 31s Red do. ...... 46s to 48s. Oats, old, .. 3os to 34s Old white sos to 52s New do 27s to 324. lied do. 44s to 413 s I Beans.. 50s to 555 , Barley, nialting....34s to 44 Beans, new to 52a NORWICH—JUNE 18. There was a small show of wheat, and farmers were un willing sellers at ls-to 2s per qr. decline. The trade in barley was slow at last week's rates. Beans were in limited supply. Oats were unaltered in value. , White wheat: 50s to 52s I Red wheat. ..... . . 42s to 45s Flour, 30s Od to —s per sack from the miller. • ROCHESTER--JUNE 18. . , The business done in wheat and flour was very restrictedat , is per qr and sack cheaper, with few buyers. Barley an d oats Is per qr lower. Beans , and peas the turn cheaper. Wheat ....4451t0 50s I Oats.. 23s to 27s White d 0..., 44s to 54s I B eans 44s to 49s Barley ... 28s to 42s I Peas .....40s to 47s YORK-JUNE 18. - --- - The wheat trade was inactive to-day, and the business done was at 2's to 3s under therates of the preceding week. Beans were firm. Barley, oats, and peas were a very dull trade, at previous prices. 23s to Wheat ' ..44s to 46s 25 Oats.... Whitedo . . .... ..,. 46 s to 48 s Beans 48s to 504 Barley ' .2Bs to 32s Ditto, old —s to —1 Malt, 66s to 68s per gr. i flour, , - , --s per 20 stone. DUBBIN JUNE 17. There was an extremely dull market to-day,. and a large majority of the samples of everything remained un sold. Wheat was fully le and oats 3d to 6d cheaper than on Tuesday. Barley, though scarce, barely supported last Tuesday's currencies. Indian coin only saleable in retail at late rates. o. d. 8. d. Y. d. .. a. Wheat, white 28 oto 30 01 Do., new .. •.. 11 6to 13 0 Do., red 27 6 to' 28 0 Bere Do., new .... 23 ' 0 to 26'0 ' Rapeseed Barley .• • ... 15 otol7 0 O atmeal l4 6 t016 0 Oats .., .. .....'l4 0 to 15 3 Bakers' flour Do., black.... 13 6to 15 , 0 Indian corn - , LOCAL SILIRE MARICA'TS. Liv.Eii,poOLL:fliNE 18. The market was lifeless. to-day; but prices pretty steady. Birkenheads, 691—Leeds Northern, -44 s—Blackburn,lll -8--Forth British, 54 55—Great Western of Canada, 141 I—Grand Trunk of Canada' 81* "A-GreatWestern , 55 —Sheffields, 36F-Tilledoin'ini,?Bol—Lancashire and York shire, 90 I—.LondOilind-Nbith-WeStertis, 90 901 —Dutch Rhenish, 61 dli,L;Eigt Lancashire, 88, 89—Berwicks, 88 -I—Midlands ; 99-1'99-FCheStoi and Rolyheads, 48 9 Eastern Counties; . 11ki 2 --Difvers, .20 .1 18. • , There was little doing, and .prices closed rather firmer. Yorks, 74—Leeds Old Gas, 180. , .. • BIBMINGUAid—juNE 18. There was a very steady business done in this market to-day. Midlands, 09 .100—South Staffordshire, 10 13 London and North-Westerns, 90 9 0i—Worcester and Birmingham. Canals, 13i. 141 2 -01 d Union Mill, 10' 111-- Birmingham-Waterworks, 37., Birmingham Banking Co., MANCTItSTER-A7NE 18. Th er e was a limited business doing, and the market was dull. Dovers, 29 5 -16—Midlands, 991—Loudon and North Westerns, 94t. [AnvEurisnmENT.l---Holloway's Ointment and Pills.-- Throughout' the whole mineral' kingdom no medicine can be found so harmless; Ya . sO effective, as Holloway's pre parations, which are entirely extracted from vegetable sub stances, and posSess the rare qualification of potency for good and impotency for evil: , They must purify, regulate, repair, and ,strengthen the human body under every ailment; irrespective alike of the nature or duration of the disorder, and the habits, age, or constitution of the patient. They are equally beneficial in the•complaints of balk sexes, however modified by the individual's peculiarities. Hollo way's infallible remedies have not their properties impaired by time or climate, and are everywhere purchasable. These qualifications have secured for these medicaments a patron age as extensive as they merit. • BIRTHS. CAMPBELL.—On the 13th inst., in Argyllshire, Mrs. Camp bell, of Kilberry, of a son. GORE. On: ' th e .l7th inst. at 8, Bedford-square , Brighton, the wife of Capt. Gore, R.A., of a son. OTTER.—On the 17th inst., the wife of Chas. Otter, Esq., of 13, Leinster-gardens, Hyde-park, of a son. .—O TuEvonn the 16th inst:, at Rokeby Rectory, n. York shire, the wife of the Rev. Geo. A.Trevor, of a son. MARRIAGES. , v e . L A i G it eui r t E mr . - R CI — o G I .:G e n en . th G Ee theaE i N R I — y e to Ellen, youngest daughter. of the late William Carter, 7e:l6th Green, t James's, Pic (.3.oGur.tGiireeennr,y,Cc.Barin., thiarthrdenssohniroef Esq., of Troy, Jamaica: • SHAW—JONES. —On the 16th inst, at St. Pancras, Samuel, street-square, city, to Alice, only child of Edward Jones, the youngest son of the late T. C.. ..Sha.w, Esq., of New- Esq., of 62, Mornington-road. DEATHS. Fairlie cun. On the 15th H of Bilb in Argyllshire, James, the CAMPBELL.— • Ingham, Esq., son of the late Captain Wm. Cuningham, 44th B,egt. Madras N. 1., aged 22. GnisoN.--On the 17th inst., at Sandown, Isle of Wight, Cuinfrra:nts ru ll A ° 3 f t . C li o n u t C h a e nll3 l b 3 t e Charlotte, wife of Thomas Gibson, Esq., of Clarence terrace, Regent's-park, aged 86. Musno.—On the, 16th inst., at Neivport, Barnstaple, Lieut.-Colonel Chas. Adolphus Monro, late 74th Bengal Infantry, aged 76. PRICB.—On the. 16th inst.; at 124, Bishopsgate-street witheut,„Mrs: Charlotte Pricei age 4.76. TEPIAN.-:-0114„he , 15th, inst., at 20 3 Gunter-grove, West 13rompton, G,.A. Thorn, Esq, aged 52. WATIrcuii,RCIT:-.-On the 15th i ns t., at North Ch arferd ',house; near Breamore, Rants, Samuel Whitchurch, aged 72. _ - - - • _ LONDON : Printed and published by MU ItI)0 YOUNG of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy; in the countY of Middleeez, Monday, June 20, 1850. l q.,