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Price ls. 6d.—Rod Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London. MACNIVEN & CAMERON'S '0 EN OWNED WAVFRLEY, OWL. PICK WICK, and WAVERLEY BARREL PEN, ON A NEW PRINCIPLE. " The Owl' pen is suitable for fine writing, and glides over the paper in the most easy and graceful manner. This is par excellence the lady's pen. The 'Pickwick,' from its flexibility, is well adapted for business purposes. The Waverley 'is sure to become a favourite ; its flexi bi:ity is so great that it will entirely supersede the use of quills, and to professional men will be invaluable. The Waverley Barrel Pen' possesses the same qualities as the foregoing."—Court Journal. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. This EVENING, BLUE DEVI I S : Messrs. Howe, Bnckstone, jun. ; Mis. F. Wright. After which. HOME: Messrs. Sothorn, Chippendale, &c. ; Mesdames Cavendish. Hill. &c. Followed by A REGULAR FIX: r. sothern. Concluding with HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS: Messrs. Bnckstone, Howe, Kendal; Miss F. Wright, Miss F. Gwynn. TILEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHt. TIM EVENING, at 7, DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr Geo Bel more and Mrs Leigh Murray. At 8, EVE: Mr Benjamin Web to 8, LIFE FOR LIFE: 'trigs Neilson, Mr. A. Stirling, Mr. ster, Mr H. Neville, Miss Furtado, Mrs Alfred Mellon. Ite. And DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL? Mr. G. Belmore. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs.Swanborongt. IIIIS EVENING, at 7.30, FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Buften. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton; esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Button. To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Tins EVENING, at 7, BLOW FOR I3LOW: Messrs. W. Farren, "Vernon. David Fisher, J. Clarke: Miss Lydia Foote. At 9. 5, the new burlesque e: CORSICAN BOT HERS: Messrs. J. Clarke, Marshall. Andrews, and Eurlstone : Mesdames Julia St. George, Berend, Braman, and C. Thorne THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. THIS EVEVING, THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. After which MONEY: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Mr. G. Honey, Mrs. C. Horsman, ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M Oliver. THIS EYENINO, at 7.30, IN FOR A HOLIDAY. Followed by A ROVING COM3IISSION. And THE MILITARY BILLY TAYLOR. To conclude with CLAI7DE DUVAL: Mr. Day, Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers, Miss M. Oliver, Miss K. Bishop. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton This EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montagne, Addison, Glover, and Bancroft• Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. Afterwhich, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. Tnrs EVENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment. Immense Success of BARBS BLUE. The OnlTLeon CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and tiaturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALIIAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLET; Promenade Concert. Band of CO. Begin at 8. Is. Box-allot open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regerre-pack. OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, (1. pk - IV. 1 1) . 4:!‘.1:4434,..,___ 1.;.>"7. A t:41)1, . .Pr--Vz-sr,.-7S . ( i.41, i 4 . 4 . • •, ~ ~ " 1-4 --t--,0%--. ?._: , 44,3t4 LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1869. Since NAPOLEON 111. has been in power as the supreme ruler of France, there have been rumours of every imaginable description afloat in regard to him, frequently rumours of the most sinister and always of the most extravagant description. He was a sworn member of the Carbonari. He was reso lutely bent upon avenging w aterloo. He was re- England. Il e was going, for solved upon invading certain, to abandon the POPE to the tender mercies of the Italian Revolutionists, lie was, as a fatalist, firmly convinced of the truth of some mysterious prediction, to the effect that he would die in the streets of London. As proof of his identification with the Carbonari, the EMPEROR and his wife were all but destroyed by that " noble gentleman ' but base assassin, Signor ORSINI. As to avenging Waterloo—well, there it is true, Rumour, though in in a very Delphic way, spoke very oracularly. For has not the EMPEROR avenged Waterloo, and avenged it magnificently, by his loyal alliance of France with England during upwards of twenty years, in peace and in war, on the battle-field and in the Council Chamber? As to his invasion of England—so long said to be looming in the future—well, there again, Rumour has been so far justified that he has certainly enterel our capital in triumph, but then it was as a guest, and without his army. His abandonment of the SOVEREIGN PONTIFF has been so entirely part and parcel of his European policy, that he it was who by the aid of his arms and of his diplomacy brought Plus IX. back from Giteta to the Eternal City ; and it was his present Minister of State, M. ROUHER, who solemnly averred, and that not so very long ago either, that France never—ja mais—would abandon Rome to the Revolution. As to his MAJESTY'S conviction, as a fatalist, that he will eventually die, here, in the streets of London—well, it never seems to occur to any one of the fatuously credulous people believing in the EMPEROR'S cre dence in that absurd prediction, that he would show himself to be the most wantonly misguided of mor tals, if—so thinking—he laid himself open to its ful filment by ever courting the catastrophe. Ludicrous, however, though all these lying rumours have been in respect to the French EMPEROR, the absurdest that has ever yet sprung into existence in his regard is this, that he himself, through his own police agents, got upthese recent insurrectionary movements in Paris in order that he might put them down immediately afterwards. The notion is nothing less than abso lutely preposterous. The astutest Sovereign in Christendom is the unlikeliest man in the whole world to be playing with those edged tools ! He, if any man, has studied French History with an eye, and a judgment, and a conscientious scrutiny of the keenest investigation. If he understands any thing upon earth it is the French character. Born in the purple—the first of all the Imperial Princes—in the old Bourbon Palace of the Tuileries, whither he was to return home, upwards of forty years after th's date of his birth, himself as Emperor—NAPOLEON 111. acquired the wisdom of experience and of observation in the best school of all, that of adversity, for a very' long interval in exile, for six years together as a student-prisoner in the Fortress of Ham—a wisdom the stores of which he has more recently had the op portunity of wonderfully enhancing in more than a score of years of supreme power as ruler of France, since the time when that supreme responsibi lity first passed into his hands. The notion of the successor of Louis PHILIPPE, wantonly and wilfully, provoking a collision in the streets of hp.tween the mob and,the police, is heynn.l a moment's question of it the most extravagant impu tation yet directed by the enemies of the EMPEROR against his character, and against his capacity as a ruler of men. It is not simply a denial of his good faith, but of his common sense. WHATEVER be the fate of the Irish Church! Bill, the debate upon it in the Upper House has afforded one of the strongest arguments ever urged for the retention of the bishops in the House of Lords. No one, whatever be his views upon the great question now before the country, whatever be the religious communion to which he belongs, can read without a glow of pride the speeches which have been delivered by the Arch bishop of CANTERBURY and the Bishop of St.DAvm's on the one side, and by the Bishop of DERRY and the Bishop of PETERBOROUGH on the other. The first were fine specimens of cogent logic ; the second were even finer specimens of magnificent rhetoric. In truth, nothing grander than the speech of the last named prelate has been heard since this question was first raised, nothing grander, we had almost ven tured to say, has ever been heard in either House of Parliament. It is impossible not to feel that the House of Lords, nay, the whole nation, would have sustained a heavy loss if it had been deprived of these speeches ; it is impossible not to regret that one result of the Irish Church Bill will be the exclusion of Bishop ALEXANDER from Parliament or to rejoice that the bill does not involve the exclu sion of Bishop MAGEE. Altogetherit must be admitted that the reputation of the Upper House as a debating assembly has not only been maintained, but greatly enhanced this week. There is something, after all, in " blood and culture." One of the most satisfactory features of this great debate is the unanimity with which the leading peers on both sides of the House have agreed to repudiate the antiquated objections respecting the Coronation Oath and the Act of Union. The Bishop of PETER BOROUGH-by far the most effective debater against the bill—commenced his speech by referring to these objections with a candour that was only just short of being contemptuous. Considering the vehemence withwhich they were urged on the hustings and have since been urged at the "demonstrations, considering too that there are still one or two peers who believe that these objections have weight, the plainness with which Dr. MAGEE shelved the absurdity of them is worthy of all praise. He could well afford to dispense with such lumbering weapons as those. As well might the modern artillerist resort to the old fashioned hooped guns of three hundred years ago, as an orator of the Bishop of PETERBOROUGH'S type insist that an Act of Parliament passed nearly seventy years ago was binding for all time, or that the QUEEN, having promised Parliament not to alter the laws, is not free to accept any alterationof them when Parliament sanctions it. There was, however, one fallacy which ran through the whole of the Bishop of PETERBOROUGH'S speech, and also through those of the Archbishop of DUBLIN and other members of the Opposition. They spoke of the Church being sent forth stripped and naked, and waxed elo quent and pathetic over the pitiable spec tacle. We need hardly remind our readers that it exists only in the imagination of the speakers. A. Church which starts upon its new career with between seven and eight millions sterling—with nearly double the income per head of its members that the English Church now enjoys from endow ments—can hardly be in the deplorable plight that . these two prelates represented. Another incident worth notice is that there is still a strong feeling among individual peers of both parties in favour of a concurrent endow ment of the Roman Catholic Church. We all know that Lord RUSSELL desires this, and Bishop THIRLWALL, Lord PENZANCE, and even Bishop MAGEE himself would seem to prefer it. But the second and the third of these frankly admit that the nation will not have it, and that the time is, there fore, gone by for proposing it. While the Conservative Cave grows larger every day, while Lord DERBY'S old Cabinet colleagues entreat him not to reject the bill, and so throw away the opportunity which now offers for amending it, the talked-of Liberal Cave has come to nothing. Earl GREY has too often called down upon himself HOOD'S sarcasm that " He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles." and it was generally supposed that he would be found going against the party with whom he is nominally associated. But he has done the opposite. His speech was one of the most argumentative and logical that has been delivered against the policy of Lord DERBY and his friends. He pointed out, as the Duke of RICHMOND did after him, that while it may be doubtful how far the nation has ap proved the details of Mr. GLADSTONE'S measure, it has unquestionably approved the main principles, and that there is not the smallest reason to suppose that a fresh appeal to the country would produce a different response. He pointed out, too, how good an opportunity the Peers would have of altering the bill if it went into committee, an opportunity that would never recur if the bill were rejected. He reminded his fellow peers that in yielding to the will of the House of Commons in this matter now, they would but follow the example of that House when, thirty-one years ago, it yielded to the will of the House of Lords upon the very same question—the Iri s h Ch urc h— an d f or a similar reason —because the nation supported hes judicious o f Lord the Upper as it now supports the Lower House. T RUSSELL,remarks, and she the w approvingthat hat all hope 44 hreoamr, hear any divisions among the Liberal parties is now cut away from the Conservatives. In speaking thus, Lord GREY did such good service that he may well be pardoned for the ill-natured remarks which he made as to the origin of the present controversy. In fact, he answered them himself ; he himself refuted his own accusations. Finally, all those who love the Constitution, and deprecate any violent change, such as would result from a conflict between the two Houses and between the Lords and the nation, cannot sufficiently express their gratitude to the Peers who, like the Duke of Ricirmorin, the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, and the Earl of CARNARVON, have separated from their party or their order in the hope of sparing this country a great calamity. THE SUN, LONDON, THU - HSI - JAY EVENING, JUN J 17, 180'J. LATEST MULL WINCE (REUTER'S 7ELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEW Yorm, June 16. According to advices from Havana, cholera has assumed an epidemic character at Huevitas. The insurgents have Turned the towns of Niguas and Camerones. BOSTON, June 16. President Grant, accompanied by Mr. Boutwell, Secretary of the Treastry, and Admiral Farragut arrived here this moriing. They were received by the Governor of the State and escorted to the capitol by a military guard of honour. Compli mentary addresses were delivered by the Governor, the officers of the State, and members of the Legis lative body. The President briefly returned thanks for the cordiality of the welccme given him, acknowledg ing that Massachusetts had largely contributed to his election to the Presidency. The State Legislahre of Florida have ratified the Negro Suffrage Axendment. The State Treasurer of Missouri announces that the principal and interest of the bonds will here after be paid in coin. The internal revenue receipts since the Ist of this month exceed eighteen millions of dollars. PHILADELPHIA, June 16. The Government sanctions the publications of the following version of Mr. Motley's instructions : He will explain to the British Government the cir cumstances attending the rvjection of rue Altinamo, treaty, without committing America to any parti cular policy. Mr. Motley is not instructed to pro pose any settlement of claims, but to secure the temporary postponement of the question, hoping when the present excitement subsides that England will invite renewed negotiations. He is not autho rized to announce the readiness of the United States to make any propositions, or to demand the payment of claims, but to assure the British Government of the sincere desire of the United States to have the dispute adjusted on terms honourable and satis factory to both nations. He is also instructed to state that the Neutrality Proclamation is not in itself a cause for demanding compensation, or a separate ground of complaint, but that, taken with subsequent acts, it was unfriendly, as show ing a feeling of hostility to America during the late war, and resulting in losses requiring repara tion. PORTUGAL. LISBON, June 15 (Evening). The Queen has embarked for Bordeaux to-day. The friends of the Duke of Saldanha aro making great preparations to give him a brilliant reception on his arrival. SPAIN. MADRID, June 16 (Evening). The reports of the formation of a new Ministry are premature. The Regent, Marshal Serrano, will take the oath on Friday, before the Cortes, in conformity with a ceremonial agreed upon at the close of to-day's sitting. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 15 (Evening). The Levant Herald of to-day states that the Porte has sent instructions to its Ministers abroad to protest against invitations given by the Viceroy to foreign Sovereigns to attend the opening of the Suez Canal as his guests. The Porte says that such invitationg .Izould emanate from thn 1+ 4 .1 ..n.. an A 4 the Suzerain of the Viceroy. The English Ambassador, and other foreign re presentatives, have left for their summer residences on the Bosphorus. One of the Sultan's wives has given birth to a Prince, who has been named Alehnied Chilket. AUSTRALIA. MELBOUP.NE, May 23. The members of the Legisllative Assembly, who were lately expelled for bribery, have been re elected by their constituencies. The associated bribers were declared guilty of breach of Parliamentary privilege, and were com mitted to jail. The Judges, however, upon being appealed to declared the warrant of committal in valid, and ordered the parties to be released. al to the Privy CoPuanrcliil.ament intends to appe The submarine cable to connect Tasmania with Australia was successfully laid by the Telegraph Construction steamer Investigator on the Ist inst., and is working satisfactorily. The agricultural statistics are favourable. The Intercolonial Commercial Conference has adopted resolutions recommending a fiscal confede ration of the colonies• The Victorian Ralway Loan h as b een w i t hd rawn from the London market. Trade is dull. SYDNEY, May 20. Several storms, shipwrecks, an d fl oo d s , accom have occ urre d on th e coast . panied by loss of life, with 100 sla ves on b oar d, h as A. slave corvette, been captured in the South Sea. The slaves have been released, ancrthe ves3el sent as a prize to Sydney. Advices from New Zealand confirm the late massacre of settlers and friendly natives at Mo haka, but the latest news is more favourable. INDIAN MAIL. SUEZ, June 17. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer China, from Bombay on the Ist inst., arrived here at 11 p.m. yesterday. FRANCE. PARIS, June 17. The Official Journal of this morning publishes a telegram of yesterday's date from Saint Etienne, stating that the troops had arrested a number of miners who were trying to prevent others from working. As the troops were returning to Saint Etienne a mob assailed them with stouts and pistol shots to rescue the prisoners. The troops fired upon their assailants, who took to flight, leaving 33 of their number in the hands of the troops, by whom they were conducted to Saint Etienne. From six to ten of the rioters were killed, and four or five soldiers more or less injured. BOURSE, June IG.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : 41 per Cent. .... 102 50 - End of month... 3 per Cent ..... 70 32 End of month._ 71 25 Credit Mobilier 250 End of month... Credit Foneier _l5BO -- End of month._ Bank Shares 2895 Ital!an Fives 56 80 End of month — Ottoman Loan Do. Debt 44 75 Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred — Cash Orleans , Northern ... 10989 Lyons and Mediterranean Southern.... Western Eastern Sardinian • • — 50 Austrian 766} Lombard 5139 North of Spain Saragossa Roman 6O RAILWAY CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY, June 16. The examination of the prisoners at Bicetre goes on rapidly. Four hundred and eighty have already been set at liberty, and the Patric expects that the vast majority of the remainder will follow. The semi-official paper remarks that the persons arrested are easily separated into two classes, those who were mixed up with the rioting mob, sight-seers, and the like, who were arrested en masse ; and the really culpable dis turbers of the peace. When the wheat is thus separated from the chaff, there will, says the Patric, be only about 200 left. As to the imprudent and foolish folk who, with out being rioters themselves, yet mingled with those who were, the Patric thinks that the arrest and detention will be sufficient punishment for their indiscretion. No doubt it will. The board and lodging at Bicetre is so indiffe rent, not to speak of the inconvenience and ignominy of several days' detenti on, that the more respectable portion of the martyrs will beware of riotous crowds for the future. The majority of the individuals arrested consists of the dregsof the Parisian population ; almost all are under age, and many have undergone previous condemnations. The bar is greatly excited at the arrest of two of its members, MM. Bocquet and Laferriere. A petition has been drau,n up at the Palais de Justice, and receives numerous signatures. The petitioners offer to become bail for their fellow-barristers, and ask for their provisional liberation. Some journalists who were incar cerated have been set at liberty ; but the press prosecu tions arising out of these disturbances will be very numerous. Meanwhile certain individuals have been reaping tue reward of the folly of which they were guilty about a month ago. Three students have been tried by the Cor rectional Tribunal for resisting the police during the disorders of May 13th. One had thrown a leather case filled with papers in the face of one agent, another had struck a sergen t twice in the head, a third had incited his compa nions to rescue some students who had been taken prisoners. They were very lightly dealt with, the highest penalty inflicted being a fine of £4. Three workmen were likewise charged with seditious proceedings. Their offence con sisted in posting up a song entitled " Nommons Itaspail," the name of which explains its Tw o of Clem NI ere sentenced to a fortnight's imprisonment, and the other, who was the author of the delightful production, to two months'. The strike in the neighbourhood of St. Etienne con tinues. The earlier accounts gave the impression that the turn-out had been a riot provoked by the news that Paris had risen and overturned the Government ; but the affair has since developed into a regular strike. Very exten sive, too, are the demands of the miners, comprising both a reduction of the hours of labour and an increase of wages, besides lesser changes. The suspension of work continues in all the region of the Loire, but some isolated mines are recommencing business. These have to be pro tected by detachments of soldiers. The Duc de Persigny is very little satisfied with the reception accorded to his epistle. The journals of all shades unite in condemning it, on the ground that it is indefinite and purposeless, complaining of the present situation, and yet suggesting nothing. The Duc promises a second epistle, in which he will be much more explicit. To make Paris a seaport has been one of the hobbies of several French sovereigns. The only possible means of realising this idea is by a ship canal, for the Seine is so shallow that nothing with greater draught than a barge can get up it. But still the Parisians like to imagine that they are a seafaring people. They have built a curious vessel with three masts, entitled the Paris-Port-de-Mer. This ship, which of course is of very small draught, has been lying some time off one of the quays. Yesterday, however, she was towed down the river, and is about to adventure with a full freight of goods to China. One of the most remarkable instances of religious monomania I ever met with is recorded in a Rouen paper. A working stove-fitter of ChAtean-Thierry (Aisne), aged about 40, a married man and father of a family, was found a few days back in his garret, lying on a cross, which he had himself constructed out of old rafters, and to which, in imitation of the death of Jesus Christ, he had actually nailed his two feet and one of his hands. He was removed to the hospital. Lord Lyons has left Paris for London, to be present in the House of Lords at the debate on the Irish Church Bill. AGRICULTURAL PROSTECTS. A cold spring, the heavy rainfall; the changeable weather of late, and the provoking succession of heat and cold, wet and sunshine, with which we are being visited, have together made up a most anxious timefor the farmer. Few periods of the year are more critical than the present. The weather is day by day telling with the greatest effect upon the crops, deciding the quantity and the quality of the various harvests. Wheat is just bursting into ear ; the other cereals are spewing their the hay harrcab is being gathered in; and the whole of the agricultural dis tricts are eagerly watching " the signs of the times." The reports received from all parts of the country regarding the state of the crops betoken this anxiety. Everything turns on an "if." If the wet and cold forsake us for a space, if we have real summer weather for a time, all will be well. But the continuance of the unsettlement forbodes ill. Already the cold has retarded the develop. ment of the crops, and will cause a late harvest. Should the weather still continue unfavourable, the results will be disastrous. The sun shone out gloriously last week, and (so the farm ers say) did more good in four days than is often done in a fortnight. "Itis an ill wind that blows nobody good," and if we shall not have more than an average yield of wheat, there will be a large harvest of straw. If the barley looks had, the peas and beans are more than promising. If in some cases the clover and artificial grasses are behind, the meadow bay is almost universally good. Advices from all parts of the country tally most singu larly. The weather has been almost identical throughout the land, and the crops have progressed simultaneously. Perhaps Northumberland presents the most discouraging feature of them all. Wheat in this county looks very thin and exceedingly poor. It promises only half of what was gathered in last year. Barley, on the other hand — which in most other districts has been thinned and damaged by the wind—is in Northumberland good, reported to be the best looking of any crop. Farther south, in South Lanca shire and South Cheshire, the land has absorbed a good deal of wet without any very serious injury, and where good drainage is provided wheat looks well enough. In Yorkshire also—in the larger portion of it, at least—the wheat is very fair on good lands. But throughout the northern counties especially a late harvest must be expected. Some districts are more forward than others. Hardly any, however, expect to get in their crops so early D. usual. In this matter the year 1869 is the very opposite of 1868. Last year the cereals were safely carried nearly a month earlier than the " calendar time." The need of warmth is insisted upon in the case of most of the other crops, as of wheat in the north. Barley throughout is reported unpromising. Beans are the very reverse ; and peas, where grown, are in the very best condition. The root crops are not so forward as might be wished ; in some cases the crusted earth has retarded them a little ; but they look healthy, and promise well. Meadows, hay, and pastures give great delight to the grazier, but in many cases the grass crops uncut are beginning to rot at the bottom, and the univer sal wet of the last few days has spoiled the hay in forward districts. The Midland crops are much the same as those further north. The reports speak more decidedly, perhaps, of a late harvest. In Shropshire it will be mere than a fort night after the usual time, and in Warwickshire will be at least a week behind. Farmers having sown heavily of barley in some parts of the first-named shire, will lose seriously by the bad yield. Potatoes are also very bad in the neighbourhood. The other root crops look well. In Staffordshire the root crops are late. In Cambridge the marigolds are sickly, and the swedes are attacked by flies. In Buckingham the peas are very good ; the beans and potatoes are in first-class condition. In Norfolk and some of the Eastern counties, the barley promises an average crop, and will amply repay the farmer for planting. On heavy soils, both in Norfolk and in Suffolk, the wheat is stated to be in capital condition. Throughout the Eastern district a very large breadth of land has been given to peas and beans ; the crops are large and advancing to perfection. Oats in the same district look up better than elsewhere, and betoken an average yield. In the South and West late harvests are also certain. The oat crop promises well in most cases. Potatoes alto gether seem thriving. In South Hants the farmers are just now vowing vengeance on the wire -worm, which is re ported to be doing a great deal of damage to the wheat and barley crops. The cereals have not yet recovered from the cold, and some accounts say it is doubtful whether they will do so. Taking the reports as a whole, they point to an average wheat crop to be gathered late ; to a poor barley crop, also late ; to average root crops, good pots• toes, and—if the insects will only spare them—a fair yield of swede and mangold ; to fine gatherings of beans and peas, as abundant as we have had of late years. These reports, however, will necessarily be much modified by the unusually wet, cold, and windy weather of the last few days. 'rhe wheat is now very generally in blossom, and the rough winds must be most damaging to the prospects of the farmer. The state of the weather is now a cause of the utmost anxiety. in a strong gale on Tuesday from the north-east .0 vessel was wrecked off Dunbar, and six lives were lost. Tht name of the vessel is unknown. 111 R. KURE'S ANNUAL CONCERT. Mr. Kuhe's concert, which is always considered one of the great events of the musical season, took place yesterday afternoon at St. James's Hall, and long before the commencement of the programme a brilliant audience occupied every seat in the spacious building. The vocalists were Madame Adelina Patti, Mdlle. Vanzini, Mdlle. Grossi, Mdlle. Lieb hart, Miss Edith Wynne, Madame Florence Lancia, Mdlle. Drasdil, Madame Sainton-Dolby, Mdlle. Titiens, Signor Mongini, Herr Reichardt, Mr. Ver non-Rigby, Signor Foli, M. Jules Lefort, and Mr. Santley. The instrumentalists : Violin, Madame Norman-Neruda ; violoncello, Signor Piatti ; harp, Mr. - John Thomas ; and pianoforte, Mr. Kuho. Such an array of talent is seldom to be met with in a single programme, and when we add that we had neither absentees nor excuses we have said suffi cient to convince every lover of music that the con cert must have been one of extraordinary goodness. Part 1 opened with Kreuzer's trio " Trenne nicht das Band der Liebe," by Madame Lancia, Ilerr Reichardt, and M. Jules Lefort, which was given with much excellence, the soprano part more espe cially. Then came the first of the many beauties which followed, viz., a duo for pianoforte and vio loncello—Mendelssohn's " Thema con variazoni," by Mr. Kuhe and M. Piatti, and a more masterly performance certainly has never been beard within St. James's Hall. The execution of M. Kuhe was extraordinary, both as regards finish and delicacy of touch, and the intense ex pression M. Piatti drew from his instrument called forth the most enthusiastic applause. On hastily glancing down the programme we find it will be an impossibility in our limited space to particularise every item of the concert, we must therefore content ourselves with selecting some of the most prominent, and to carry out that intention we come to Mdme. Titiens' Aria " Non mi dir." Never has the en chanting composition of Mozart been more finely sung, and at its conclusion the audience were completely carried away by the iperformance, and an encore was insisted on. The great vocalist, with that good humour for which she is so remarkable, at once complied ; but instead of repeating the air, she sang " The Last Rose of Summer," which actually converted the enthusiasm into a positive extacy of delight. On silence being restored, Mongini appeared, and sang Donizetti's romance from "La Favorite," " Una Vergina," with remarkable power and sweetness. Miss Edith Wynne sung Benedict's beautiful ballad " Rock Me to Sleep," the composer splendidly accompanying the vocalist. Then came a duo from Figaro, " Sull' aria," by Mdmes. 'Miens and Patti, and here again another triumph was achieved, but this time the audience were gratified with a repetition of the aria, to their intense delight. Mr. Sautley's singing Schira's aria, "to t'amai," with Piatti's violoncello obligato, was superb. Mr. Kuhe having given another exempli fication of his wonderful power and control of the pianoforte by the performance of a brilliant arrange ment of his own of the airs from "Dinorab," Mdme. Patti again appeared, and this time she created the greatest enthusiasm by her singing the old Scotch song, " 'Twas within a mile o' Edinburgh town," which was increased by her wonderful rendering of the finale to "La Sonnambula." Madme. Vanzini sang Meyerbeer's " Robert toi que j'aime " with re markable brilliancy. Mdme. Norman-Neruda per formed a solo on the violin with a firmness and purity of tone that was truly astonishing. Mr. John Thomas gave a brilliant fantasia on the harp, and Drasdil sang two English ballads, the one by Benedict, " I murmur not," eliciting the greatest amount of applause. Mdme. Sainton-Dolby sang a ballad by Plimpton ; but the truth must be told ; time, and wear, and tear have not spared even the voice of the once great contralto. Mdme. Lieb hart met with rather a discomfiture, for, notwith standing:all herlittle playful eccentricities, herVulk shied "Ruck ruck" fell very flat. The concert, as a whole, was really a splendid one, and we congratu late Mr. Kuhe on the great success which attended the brilliant entertainment. THE GLOBE 711E.17 RE. Last night " Blow for Blow" was produced at this theatre, Mr. William Farren appearing in the part of John Drummond, and Miss Foote in her two characters, Mildred Cradock and Alice Petherick. The drama was excellently mounted, and its performance gave the utmost pleasure to a very well-attended house. The brilliant bur lesque of the Corsican Brothers continues to elicit the warmest applause. The company at this pretty little theatre is now particularly good, and with a judicious selection of pieces the successful issue of the season will be a certainty. The Globe is now certainly one of the most attractive amongst the many theatres in the metropolis. MARKE7 S---7 MS DAY. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. Jun© 17.—Sales probably 15,000 bales, possibly more The market firm and advancing. TUE UNIVERSITY CRICKET WEEK. The cricket match between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge commences on Monday next, and during the present week both elevens are taking preliminary practice on the metropolitan grounds. Each h a s played a match with a strong eleven, and each has proved victorious. On Alonday Cam bridge encountered the Marylebone Club and Ground at Lord's, and on the same day Oxford met the county eleven of Surrey at the Oval. The last proved a very hollow affair. The Surrey men took the batting first, and were all out for 94 runs ; nobody making any good score, except a colt, Mr. Akroyd, who got 23, and Stephenson 21. The University then accumu lated the large total of 362, Pauncefote heading the list with 123, and Evetts and Hill each making 73. Surrey tried again, but could only reach 172, leaving Oxford the winner by an innings and 98 runs. The match at Lord's was much finer, Cambridge ex hibiting some very good batting against the first - class bowling of Wootton and Grace. Mr. Thornton's play in particular was admirable. The University scored 87 and 181; the club only 82 and 70, the famous W. G. Grace obtainingnearly half the whole. This, it will be seen, was a less decisive defeat than that of Surrey by Oxford, but the merit of the two elevens must not be judged by the scores. Lord's is the more difficult ground of the two ; moreover the bowling of Surrey has become so weak of late years that the county, once the strongest in England, is quite incapable of making a stand against a powerful eleven. At Lord's, on the other hand, the bowling was of the highest order. The general opinion is that the Cambridge team is the stronger. It includes not fewer than five good bowlers, and its batting team is extremely powerful. Oxford is not so well furnished with bowlers, and its batsmen are hardly so uniformly good as the Cantabs. The match, however, promises to be one of the most interesting of late years. The official declaration of the poll at Nottingham was made on Wednesday, when the Mayor declared the num bers to be—For Seeley, 4,627; for Seymour, 4,517 ; ma jority for Seeley, 110. Both gentlemen addressed the crowd from the hustings. The Globe, the Conservative organ among the evening papers, still believes that the Lords will throw out the bill, and publishes a prominent article urging the Con servative peers not to expect that amendments will be accepted by the Government, but to vote against the second reading. An abstract of the general parochial receipts and expenditure on account of the highways of England and Wales has been published. Tho total income for Englisb roads is £647,586, of which the greater part is contributed by local taxes, and only £4,723 by turnpike trusts. The total expenditure for the year was £644,072, the largest items being £239,550 for manual labour, and £118,286 for team labour. The North Wales expenditure exceeded income. The inquest on the persons killed by the late boiler explosion at Bingley was resumed on Tuesday, when some very remarkable evidence was given. It was stated that a defective and inefficient safety-valve, taken from an old and smaller boiler, had been applied to the boiler destroyer; and also that the deceased engine tenter had either in ignme ance or recklessness tied down the steam whistle, which might have warned off danger if the safety-valve failed to do so. He had even weighted the safety-valve, so as to Prevent its operating. The inquest was acltourne. THE IRISH NATIONALISTS ON TUE LORDS AND MR. BRIGHT. The usual weekly meeting of the Irish National Association has just been held. The subjects discussed were the probable course of the Lords on the Church Bill, and Mr. Bright's letter on the Lords themselves. As to the first topic, the chairman declared that " the bill, and nothing but the bill," and the billin its integrity' would be accepted in Ireland. No tampering with JO principles would be listened to. Mr. Bright's letter was praised as "far-seeing and suggestive." The Bev. Mr. O'Hanlon advised the holding of an aggrefiste meeting in Dublin if the Lords should venture to 01 6 ' the bill. THE CRISIS. The Guardian of yesterday, in referring to the political crisis, says :—" What, after all, will the Lords de Although during the last fortnight this has been t he constant question, the daily mutual salutation, as It were, of all sorts and conditions of men, 110 °ne . even now attempts a confident answer—few at ten3P any answer at all. The course of the debate, so far as it has gone, points, in our view, to the probability that thet bill may pass the second reading, but will be wrecked e a later stage, either in the Upper House itself or bl a collision on amendments introduced there, too larg e to be accepted by the Commons. The speeches of the Primate, of Lord Stratford—we might, perhaps, a dd ,, o Lord Carnarvon himself—tend this way. Lord Granyluei skilful and judicious, as usual, took pains to disclaim on the part of the Government any indisposition • to accept alterations, even alterations of iropor tance, provided they did not affect the Priri. ciple of the measure. We are glad to hear i t ; vin shall be glad of the opportunity of seeing how f ar they will go in this direction ; and to throw out the bill ill the face of such a declaration would be merely to clial len e and wilfully precipitate a conflict which may possibly avoided altogether. B u t, s p e aking frankly , W d must say that this possibility, though it exists l a ought by no means to be thrown away, is slender. S h°ll it be cut off now or fail hereafter, we must look forivar`i to a conflict between the two Houses and to a Per i°6l ! great agitation and constitutional disturbance—to a resig ° " - tion perhaps of the present Ministry, followed bY the :: speedy return to power. But to the maintenance °f Irish Establishment we cannot look forward. The fate - the Establishment was decided by the election of la st year ! what we have now to care and provide for is the future or the Church." THE WEATHER. The weather is really most extraordinary. L ast 5 7 1 t about this time the papers were full of letters recorchl extraordinary high temperatures ; now in manY P arts ° the kingdom fires are necessary. In June IS6S un der a people were perspiring from every pore, temperature of 81 degrees ; early in Feb last, when snow would have been seasonable and fros °tsf . would have been in time, the heat was the one topic 0 conversation, and Mr. Allnatt registered 71 deg e the rays of a declining sun, and over 55 deg. 111 d the ripening shade. Now when sun is wahente at for the harvest, at a season when inten se is expected, th e t em p era t ure i n no c ase exceed s 53 deg; mb ha eoe v nn e thb fa lo l e l fN e v n isTin in the East, and the wind In Lond on it i s 49 ; i n Shi e ld s as l ow as 43. S licivier ch fall of snow in S co tl an d i s reporte d . o g v a e m g a b l e e r , ewrh the i cil w in o o u n l d t h h a o v f e o a n r v b on the coa st 119's LABOUR AND TRADE IN LANCASiIifi Agitation having ceased in Preston with resPeet thewages and hours o f wor ki ng, th e em i g ration selienles cotton operatives a re rece i v ing increased attentio The Power-loom W eavers ' E m i gra tion Society seer° likely to compris e a very l arge propor tion of the unionists' and numbers al so among it s mem bers many t e non-unionists. Alt oge th er a b ou t 450 weavers are contributing 0°- to the funds, at the rate of 2d. per we t„ for one " share " or passage ; in some instances es as 2s. Gd., and even more than that, is paid by the Wein' hers of one family. The Weavers' Union has always beeo a weak society, b u t i n th e ma tt er o f e migration that ell .of operatives evinces a surprising unanimity. The be s general among them that the " thinning of the labour market," which is the real end in vie w, will h better both for those who go and those who stay , auel society receives accessions every night. A few clays 94° , firm in Manchester apprised the committee thatl\less';: Hintermeister Brothers, the proprietors of the C 111". tenango Cotton Mills, in Madison County, about tell hours by rail from the city of New York, wan ted a number of first-class weavers, and the committee interst! to turn that knowledge to account. They state that if who would they had tild n e o m w igr 2 a l t , e ooo to t -m he e y rro c s o v u . could Atfi thend2oOinPeeertshro,,sg held in their institute, the weavers are told 11°4.4” hundreds of men and women are now walkitc the st re ,, e 7i despondingly, willing to work, but unable to ti n ; employment (which is true enough), and that the state 11 : this country as regards labour will never be bette than now, as the competition with n sc° : Germany, Belgium, and other continental States 15 too formidable to allow of hope for a favourable change. Thus are the operatives urged to contribute to, and pr e ; pare for, self-expatriation. Every one of the mer ebe .d r of the emigration society, without exception, it is sandl has joined it with the expressed desire to emigrate, ~.0 the first " batch " for deportation will be ballotted telt week. The Spinners and Minders' Association hav e f O r many weeks sent off on an average from six to eight of th i T h members per week, and on Monday last six men' w . families, left Preston for Liverpool, and w ere to ems, there on Wednesday for New York in the steamer° Nebraska. The cotton tradeof Preston is in much the 53111 . condition as it has been during the past few months—r4e bably not quite so bad, but still so very little iniPrereatb‘o to be scarcely worth remark, and the general trade of town is pronounced on all hands to be " as b ad as it eeltlitt be." In Blackburn there has been a s li g ht iraprove tne , il d to the cotton trade, and this has in some mea sure ten but, diminish the rage for emigration in tha t town' ~. though there has been no large despatch of emierrautscis America recently, twos and threes are stil l draugh te own occasionally. About SOO workpeople have been th e r sers , out of employment at Enfield by the failure ag ° s e f Felix, Leach, and Co., consequent on th e stoPPgiou Messrs. Livesey and Thorpe, of Liverpool. A veil ser and k e ere with strie has ccured in Blackburn among carpenters, o r the masters having refused toth comply their demand of a reduction of the hours of w f r is bed from 54 to 40 per week. The masters "'lloilo to adopt the hour system of lAyment, or 54 w ith per week, at G4d. per hour for average workme n ' 3r t he some minor stipulations, and these being refused biiotila men, they suggested that the whole question n ot be referred to arbit ra ti on ; but the men wow" at a comply. The matter was argued a few da y s age t ed public meeting o f mas t ers an d men, b u t they separs, last without agreeing on a single point ; an d on SaturdaY 0 from 200 to 250 o p era ti ves struck v‘ work and entered ilPfe. r ie re ' what appears to have within it all the elements a tracted struggle. The strike extends to Parlo r ` w , , tb° the masters and men are respectively connected ita , err Blackburn associations. In Wigan the master briek le/ il r ; 13 have withdrawn their notices of • e3teent by t behavehe but the operative joiners and carpenters in that toWO submitted to a like prorsal. A Cabinet Council will be held at the 0 111631 1 re ; sidence of the First Lord of the Treasury, Dowlai'3s-svrec on Saturday. The Duke of Wellington, it is stated, has exPo jilsb r e '" his intention of voting for the second reading of th Church Bill. The Conference of the Methodist Ne w Con nCeti°i:3; now meeting in Ealifax, have adopted, by a largo a petition iu favour of the Irish Church Bill. Mr. Muntz, the junior member fo r BirmDgbaillb; has given notice that on Friday evening he Will a t„ t ol Chancellor of the Exchequer if the expe nse of the ' - d ev Commission to inquire into the Irish Church ha s be di s ascertained, and if there be any objection to la y it upon table. 7 ,atb This (Thursday) evening Colonel dio intends to ask the First Lord of the Treasury letter read at a public meeting at Birmingham on 31°L ' cl : 1 7 c signed John Bright, and which has appeared in the journals, was written by the President of the Board of 72 0 " - ; and, if so, whether the Government concur in the opini°l3- therein expressed. Say d) POLITICS IN THE PLAYGROUND. .011 afternoon, f in River•street, Chester-road, Hulme, a unru bel o young boys and girls, some Catholic and others V°. testant, were quarrelling about the Conservative dernolv stration of the previous day, when one of the disputalit4; Ellen Higgins, a mere child, was assaulted and knock down, receiving such serious injuries that she -died in c on ' w hether sequence. ENCLOSURE OF LANDS.—The whole quantity O land which has been enclosed in England and Wales, t he in the process of being enclosed, since the passing a Enclosure Act of 1845, is 614,804 acres ; to be reserved fol exercise and recreation, 1,742 acres ; to be reser ved forla bour ing poor, 2,223 acres. ft may safely be assume d that not Ivor! than three-fifths of the 614,804 acres (or 368,000) are waste of a manor, and upon which allo tmen ts for exerclo; and recreation, or for labouring poor, could be req uite by tho Enclosure Commissioners, _