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GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.- NATIONAL RIFLE CONTEST. The RETURN TICKETS at a Single Fare for the double journey, issued to Volunteers in uniform from Scotland and all stations as far west as Manchester inclusive, will be avail able for return on any day up to and including TUESDAY, 10th July, instead of up to SATURDAY, 7th inst., as pre viously arranged By Order. London, Sing's-orosa Station, July 7, 1860. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAIL WAY.—WDIBLEDON RIFLE CONTEST. —The Return Tickets at a Single Fare for the Double Journey which have been issued, via London and North-Western Railway, to Rifle Volunteers in Uniform, from stations in Scotland, and stations north-east of Bletchley, Rugby, Crewe, Manchester, and Preston inclusive, will be available for return on any day up to and including Tuesday, the 10th July, instead of the 7th July, a s previously arranged. Euston Station, July 7, 1860. By Order. BENSON'S W A TCHES. " perfection of mechanism." —Morning Post. Gold Silver 2to 50 guineas. Send 2 stamps tor Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet descrip tive of every construction of watch now made, with their prices. Watches sent to all parts of the kingdom free by post, or to India and the Colonies for ss. extra. 13 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Established 1749. rip EATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Loesee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS F:TENING the performances will commence with THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Buck stone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Mrs. C. Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. After which, the new farce, entitled FITZSMYTHE OF FI rZSMYTHE HALL. Messrs. Buckstone, W. Farren, and Rogers; Mrs. Wilkins and Miss Henrade. To conclude with THE ODDITIES OF THE OHIO. By the Leclercqs. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. — Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. This ES - VENT-NM will be performed THE MERRY WIVES OF vvrNDSott. Juhu Falstaff, Mr. Phelps. To conclude with THRICE MARRIED. Mr. Meadows, Miss C. Lecleroq, &c. Commence at 7. ADELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole eroprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Reproduction of the powerful Adelphi drama, "The Flowers of the Forest." Tenth week of the popular American Actress, Miss Julia Daly THIS r:VENING, THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Billington, Stuart, Eburne, C. J. Smith, Powell, Romer ; Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly, Mrs. Billing,ton, Miss Laidlaw. After which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSIN. Messrs. Stuart, C. Selby, Killington, Eburne, Miss Julia Daly, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and Mrs. Chatterley. Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, XL Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 48. ; Front Circle Stalls, 3s. ; Pit Stalls, 2a.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d. Sating Manager—Mr. WM. Smith. FRENCH PLAYS-ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Directeur, M. Talexy.—Lessee, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. EVERY EVENING. Madlle. Basta —M. Paul Devaux. LES CAMP DES BOURGEOISES. LES FEU AU COUVENT. M. Paul Devaux. L'HONNEUR EST SATISFAIT. Orchestra Stalls, 75. 6d. ; Balcony Stalls, 6s. ; Pit, 25. - ; Gallery, Is. Private Boxes, from Two Guineas. Commence at 8. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMP HITHE ATRE.— Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. BATTY. Notice. —The Entertainments on Monday Evening last having been honoured by the presence and approbation of their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold and suite, and other distinguished visitors, the magnificent Hippo- Drama, and the Novel and Wondrous Scenes in the Arena forming the programme on the occasion, will be repeated every evening till further notise. Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena--M. Felix Revolti. CONCERTS.- CANTERBURY HALL THIS EVENING, C. H. GOTJNOD'S OPERA FAUST. First Time in this Country. Faust Mr. Henry Herbert. Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard. Siobel Mrs. Anderson. Marguerite 6 ,14•.• Miss RusselL Conductor Mr. Jonghmans. And selections from Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, ls , Hall, 6d. Combo Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic). and C. Marshall. The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised expressly for this Establishment). for the performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Negro delineations, anecdotes, &c., in addition to the usual entertainments. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Esening. THE WEATHER.—Eux OFFICE, JULY 7, 1560. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 65—highest since noon yesterday. 50—lowest this morning and during the night. 63—this day at noon. _ BAROMETER-30.3G. WlND—Easterly ; moderate, with fine weather, but ra ther cool for the 7th of July. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 4h. 26m.—Afternoon, [4h. 44m. To-MORROW.-Morning, sh. lm.—Afternoon, sh. 18m. 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For those three consummately adroit —although utterly powerless and even (as we were the first to intimate) ungrammatical—Resolutions were so dexterously introduced to the consideration of the House of Commons by our veteran Premier, that they won for themselves the support of men of all parties above or below the gangway, upon the Ministerial side or upon the side of Her MAJESTY'S Opposition. To recognise this, it is only necessary to glance down the division lists, where, in the huge majorities, will be found associated amicably thoroughgoing Independents, like Mr. TIORSMAN ' and Mr. ROEBUCK, together with the leaders alike of the Opposition, and of the Government. Nay, evidence enough of the miscellaneous charac ter of the supporters of the Prime Minister's Reso lutions can be recognised in the mere record of the contrasting numbers upon the division. The division of last night--for the first was merely a division upon the question of the adjournment of the debate, whereas its successor was a division taken upon the amendment to the first resolution—showed an insignificant minority of 52 in favour of the amendment, against a vast majority of 369 in favour of the untouched first Resolution. A clear majority, in fact, of 317, in a house (exclusive of tellers and Speaker) of 421 members!! It is almost the only other thing worthy of note, moreover, in regard to these divisions yesterday in the House of Commons, that while Mr. BRIGHT voted with the majority against the adjournment of the discussion —he quitted the house immediately afterwards, and took no part whatever in the subsequent divi sion—the division upon the amendment to the first of the three resolutions. His name appears nowhere in that second division list—although there, as in the previous majority shine conspicuously the I ?Atrase of the Right Hon. MILNER GIBSON, and of the Right Hon. W. E. GLADSTONE. This circum stance, altogether, is certainly not without its sig nificance. The Hon. Member for Birmingham appear s to have felt that the notable speech de livered by him last evening, at the close of the dis cussion, was, to all inten.s and purposes, and in all conscienc e' sufficient. Upon whomsoever of any un eonstitutiono.l the guilt concession to the Lords might devolve, it assuredly could not d evo l ve -upon hi m ! e had public' washed hi s h ands of it. •He had reprobated with all the strength supplied by his am ple vooabu' i of language arF of Saxon -yn lish, what he believed, f rom the firstwhgt he leelieves still consistently a n d ' a unflinchingly to possibly the last, to be a lamentable, and • b Y (he fears it as it may prove in the end ) a fatal paltering the inalienable and almost immemorial priv ileges of the British House of Representatives! A, vo t e other, after that resolute speech, one way or the was a matter obi in his estimation; o f su preme indifference., .And so Mr. BRIGHT, w'..th a certain dignity and consistency, withholds his name altogether from the division list upon what he deems (while not opposing it) to be the first of a series of trivial and impotent resolutions. There is perfect consistency, too, about the silence and the vote of the right hon. gentleman the President of the Board of Trade. If we say nothing whatever about the dignity either of his silence or of his vote, we may at any rate venture upon asserting that there.is discernible in their regard an undoubted consistency. But in regard to the speech and the vote of the right hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer! There certainly are discernible —viewing vote and speech together —neither dignity nor consistency. Mr. GLADSTONE, in his bold, almost audacious, speech of Thursday even ing, gave utterance to what we cordially pronounced yesterday to be " noble words," in themselves ! But—supposing his vote of last night to be fol lowed by nothing whatever of that " action," which he insisted on as absolutely necessary after what he had denounced as a " gigantic innovation"—his vote and his speech must be regarded, we repeat, (when viewed together), as entirely devoid both of dignity and consistency. The right hon. gentle man has before him a distinct alternative—it is an alternative of his fabrication. Either he must make good his loud•spoken promise of "action," or he must escape from the ignominy of Ministerial insignificance by manfully resigning. He has frequently before now had to eat his own words—he has eaten enormously of them during the present session, when he was pledged to rid the nation at last of the incubus of the Income-tax, and when, upon the contrary, he doubled it ! And at the mere anticipation of having thus publicly to eat his own words, it will be remembered that he got a sore throat that gave him a momentary re prieve very opportunely. It now remains to be seen whether, in addition to all this, Mr. GLADSTONE is prepared, within this same year, to show that he has appetite for eating "humble-pie" meekly at the united bidding of Lords aid Commons, of the Op position and the Government ! The jealousy with which the House of Commons has always hitherto regarded any attempt upon the part of the House of Peers to infringe upon the sacred and inalienable privileges appertaining to the popular representatives, we are not prepared to regard as waivedor even relaxed by the proceedings of yesterday in St. Stephen's—by the resolute close there and then of the discussion, by the overwhelming majority in favour of Lord PALMERSTON'S resolu tions. IN hile Mr. BRIGHT could invoke so grandiosely—and with such a reproachful signifi cance implied in the mere denunciation of those renowned patriots and historic statesmen—the shades of PYM, and COKE, and SELDEN, and GLEN VILLE—we cannot but remember that there, upon that division list of yesterday, are names, not one jot less worthy of acceptance as earnests, severally and unitedly, of deathless devotion to the interests and the principles of constitutional liberty—as guarantees (beyond even the words of Mr. BRIGHT and the actions of Mr. GLADSTONE) of a steadfast loyalty to the whole scheme and fabric of our Con stitutional Government. That fabric, as Mr. HORS MAN eloquently reminded the House and the coun try, during the course of his masterly oration in support of the Premier's Resolutions—that vene rable and vaunted fabric of our Constitutional Government is not one but tripartite; it combines within it the blended energies of the King, the Lords, and the Commons. And of this elementary truth at the root of our Constitutional form of Government, the result of last night's proceedings may be regarded as the latest, and not the least, notable enunciation. A careful perusal of the report of the Defence Commissioners will satisfy any reader that these gentlemen have gone both thoroughly and consi derately into their work. Their single business was to consider and report upon the state of the Kingdom, more especially its dockyards and arse nals, in reference to a sufficient defence against in vasion. They were to have a due regard to works already begun or authorised, and, not of course to overlook reasonable considerations of expense. Their primary object was, however, to inform us what works were actually requisite to put the dockyards and arsenals into such a state of defence, that we might feel no fear for these essentials to our mari time safety. The Channel is, indeed, as they observe at the commencement of their report, and as we all of us well understand, our first line of defence ; and a Channel fleet, thanks to successively earnest Lords of the Admiralty, we now have. Bat of what use would a Channel fleet be to us, in case of an invasion, if it had to leave a great part of its strength to pro tect Portsmouth and Plymouth against surprise, or against the bombardment and destruction of the arsenals. With a large part of our navy absent, as it must ever be, on foreign stations in Europe and in the colonies, we could, not without an enormous feet indeed, be able to protest our 300 miles of assailable coast, and our dockyards, too, by the fleet alone. Yet protected the latter must be. They are the base of operations, indeed, for a fleet. In them all repairs after an action must ee made, and to them our ships must resort to obtain fresh supplies of naval stores. It must be plain, therefore, to every judgment that a reasonable channel fleet can be at liberty to concentrate its strength on an invader, only on condition that its nautical, home, and re cruiting place are in perfect safety. A pretty careful reading of the report, and the evidence, has satisfied us that the commissioners have done their work well. It is indeed for 119 to consider whether we prefer an imperfect security, such as the works already in progress will furnish, or as perfect a one as the nature of the case admits of. The latter it was the business of the Com missioners to point out to us, and they have done it. They have set out from Woolwich, visited in succession Chatham, Sheerness, Dover, Ports mouth, and the Isle of Wight, Portland, Ply mouth, and Milford Haven, and then crossed over to Cork, and they have given us for each place piers of the minimum defences required for security against bombardment, either by sea or by land; and, against capture, for the purpose of complete destruction. It is obvious that all three are objects not only possible, but natural, for an invader to attempt. A few well placed guns, either in a battery on shore, or on the decks of gunboats lying at Spithead, would infallibly set our arsenals in a blaze, and would give us a vivid picture on our own shores, of the mischief our mortars did at S weaborg. But what must we be doing, some may say, to let them place batteries and gunboats in a posi tion to effect such inischiof? Let us see. We have but to make one supposition, that an enemy had disembarked on some part of the undefended 300 miles of coast, a sufficiently large army to be able to spare a small detachment to throw up- and maintain a mortar battery within five miles of Portsmouth, which with its present defences might be done with perfect ease ; and with rifled artillery they might blow up and burn everything there Which was combustible. Now there is no manner of do u bt t h at with the aid and certainty o f s t eam , fi fty thousand men might be landed in three or four THE SUN, LONDON SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 7, 1860. hours at sunrise; and, long before our small army' could be collected to impede them, might make all secure for another army to land under cover of the works the first had thrown up. If we had, as is but too possible a case, an army not more than suffi cient to hold them in check, they might easily spare a detachment for such an all-important attempt as that of crippling the nursery of our navy at Portsmouth. Success in that object being also half way towards enabling them to march in safety on London. But by sea—how would they get at Ports mouth? Unless we had there a much larger part of our fleet than we could spare, iu case of its being wanted to prevent or embarrass a landing on the open coast, it would seem to be but too easy. Cap tain HEWLETT tells us (Quest. 244) that though wooden ships might be destroyed by the continued fire of forts which might be (but which are not yet) erected on the Isle of Wight and other places, if they attempted to anchor at Spithead ; yet that iron-clothed vessels could not be kept out; that no shot could hurt them at 2,000 or 3,000 yards dis tance ; but, that they would lie quietly in mid channel and bombard the place ! Boarding would then be the only thing which could be resorted to. The testimony of sailors was indeed strong as to what screw wooden ships could stand in slowly passing well-built forts, and a well-directed fire ; much more so as to what iron-plated ships could do, by the aid of tide and steam, passing along rapidly. On the other hand, another authority thought that even a couple of well-placed guns could destroy any ship ; of course if she were not in motion. What, then, has to be done is to render any position, either by sea or by land, untenable, if it lies within five miles of the Dockyards. That is, a circumference of thirty or forty miles must be either naturally impracticable for an enemy, or rendered so. The_ works already existing nearer the arsenals would have their value, especially as an inner line of defence in case of a siege, and for the retreat of the defenders of the outer works; but it is only considerably advanced works which could save our magazines and and naval stores, from the fate suffered by those of Sweaborg. We cannot, of course, enter into the details of the land and sea defences required by each place. Portsmouth is every way the most important, as it is not only our largest establishment, but is vir tually apart of the defences of the metropolis ; on it the fleet must rely which would have to prevent or mo lest an army landing on the south coast with a view of marching on London. It has a fine outer defence in Portsdown-hill, but then its great extent makes it both costly to fortify, and it would require a large garrison to man the works. On the sea-side lies the Isle of Wight, like a huge man-of-war anchored abreast of the harbour's mouth, but it seems the island itself needs a formidable armament, and a large crew not only to render her destructive to the enemy, but to prevent his boarding her, and making use of her to injure us. It is indeed not a little remarkable that Plymouth and Milford Haven have each a smaller island situated at the very entrance of the harbours, as if moored there by nature for their defence. Even Cork has its Spike Island directly fronting its narrow entrance, only some little way within it. But we need not dwell on details. Whether the twelve millions, and it will be more probably double that sum if we begin, must be spent on Dockyard forti fications, will be decided by most men from more general considerations. They will ask themselves whether, from political reasons, they think there is any need yet to sink so much money ; and, if they decide that there is, then their fears will not rest satisfied with anything less than defences which no enemy will venture to attack. We must, how ever, return to the subject. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS-JULY 5. TAX BILLS. Order read for resuming adjourned debate on question, " That the right of granting aids and supplies to the Crown is in the Commons alone, as an essential part of their constitution ; and the limitation of all such grants, as to the matter, manner, measure, and time, is only in them." Question again proposed ; debate resumed ; question put and agreed to. 2. Motion made and ques tion proposed, "That, although the Lords have exercised the power of rejecting bills of several descriptions relating to taxation by negativing the whole, yet the exercise of that power by them has not been frequent, and is justly regarded by this house with peculiar jealousy, as affecting the right of the Commons to grant the supplies and to provide the ways and means for the service of the year." Amendment proposed, after the word "relating," to insert the words " amongst other matters." Question proposed, " That those words be there inserted." Debate arising, motion made and question put, " That the debate be now adjourned." The house divided—Ayes, 36; Noes, 433. AYES-36. Alcock, T. James, Edwin Pease, H. Angerstein, W. Lanigan, J. Pigott, Francis Baxter, W. E. Leatham, E. Robartes, T. J. A. Beale, Samuel Locke, John Scully, V. Bouverie, E. P. McEvoy, E. Shelley, Sir J. V. Butt, I saac McMahon, P. Sheridan, H. B. Dalglish, Robert 3lellor, John Stuart, Col. Dillwyn, Lewis L. Noble, J. Vivian, 11. 11. Esmonde, John O'Connell, D. Westhead, B. Evans, T. W. O'Douoghue, D. Wyld, James Greene, Capt. J. Onslow, Guildford TELLERS. Hadfield, Geo. Osborne, Bernal Fermoy, Lord Ingram, 11. Paget, C. Whalley, G. H. NOES-433. Acton, Sir J. Fortescue, C. tS. Napier, Sir C. Adam,W. P. Franklyn, G. W. Newark, Lord Adderley, C. B. Freeland, H. W. Newdegate, C. N. Agnew, Sir A. Gallwey, Sir W. P. Newport, Visct. Antrobus, E. Galway, 'Viscount Noel, G. J. Arnott, Sir J. Gard, R. S. North, Col. Ashley, Lord Gaskell, J. M. North, F. Atherton, W. George, John Northcote, Sir S. Ayr'on, A. S. Getty, S. G. Ogilvy, Sir J. Bagwell, J. Gibson, T. M. Owen, Sir J. Bantle, H. J. Gifford, Earl of Packe, C. W. Baines, E. Gilpin, C. Packe, G. H. Ball, E. Gladstone, W. E. Paget, Lord A. Baring, A. 11. Gladstone, Capt. Pap, - et, Lord C. E. Baring, Sir F. Goddard, A. L. Pakenham, Col. Baring, Thomas Goldsmid, Sir F. Pakington, Sir J. S. Baring, Thos. Geo. Gordon, C. W. Palk, L. Bathurst, A. A. Gore, J. It. 0. Palmerston, Visct. Bazley, Thomas Gower, F. L. Parker, Major W. Beach, W. W. B. Greenall, G.. Patten, J. W. Beamish, F. B. Greenwood, J. Paxton, Sir J. Bective, Earl of Gregory, W. H. Peacocke, G. 31. Beecroft, G. S. Gregson, S. Peel, Sir R. Bellew, R. 31. Greville, Col. F. Peel, Gen. Bentinck, G.C. Grey, Rt. Hn. Sir G. Peel, F. Bentinck, G. W. P. Grey deWiltou,Lord Pennant, Col. Benyon, R. Griffith, C D. Pevensey, Viscount Berkeley, H. Grogan, Sir Edward Philips, J. 11. Berkeley, F. Grosvenor, Earl Pinney, Wm. Bernard, W. S. Gurdon, B. Pollard Urquhart W Bddulph,'Col. R. 31. Gurney, Samuel Ponsouby, A. Black, Adam Gurney, John H. Portman W. H. B. Blackburn, P. Haliburton, Justice Potts, George Blake, J. A. Hamilton, Lord C. Powys, L. P. Blencowe, J. G. Hamilton, Jas. H. Pritchard, John Bonham-Carter, J• Hamilton, Major Proby, Lord. G. L. Booth, Sir R. G. Hanbury, R., jun. Pugh, D. (Carmar.) Botfield, Beriah Ilanbury, Captain Puller, C. W. Bouverie, P. P. Handley, John Ramsden, Sir J. W. Bovill, Wm., Hankey, Thomson Redmond, J. E. Boyd, John Hanmer, Sir J. Repton, G. W. J. Bramston, T. W. Harcourt, G. G. V. Ricardo, J. L. Bridges, Sir 8., Bt. Hardy, Gathorne Ricardo, 0. Bright, J. Hartington,Marquis Ridley, Sir M. W. Bristow, A. Bossard, M. D. Ridley, G. Brocklehurst, John Ifeadlam, Thos. E Robertson, D. Brooks, It. Heathcote, G. H. Roebuck, J. A. Brown, James Ileneage, G. Rogers, John J. Browne, Lord J. T. Henley, .J. Rolt, J. Bruen, henry Henley, Lord Rothschild, Baron L. Buchanan, W. Hennessy, J. P. Rothschild Baron:3l Buller, J. W. Henniker, Lord Roupell, W. Buller, Sir A. Herbert, H. A. Rowley, Hon. R. T. Burghley, Lord Herbert, S. Russell, Lord J. Butler, C. S. Hervey, Lord A Russell, Hastings Buxton, C. Hill, Hon. R. Russell, A. J. K. Cairns, Sir H., Hodgson, K. D. Russell, F. W. Calthorpe, F. H. Holford, R. S. Russell, Sir Wm. Cardwell, Rt. Hn. E. Holniesdale, Lord St. Aubyn, J. Carnegie, Hon. C. Hope, G. W. Salomons,Alderman Cartwright, Col. H. Hopwood, J. T. Salt, Titus Castlerosse, Vist. Hornby, W. H. Salt, Thomas Cave, S. Horsman, E. Scholefie.d, W. Cavencllsh, Lord G. Hotharn, Gen. Lord Sclater-Booth, Cayley, E. S. Howard, Hon. C. Scrope, G. P. Cecil, Lord R. Howard, Lord E. G. Selwyn, C. J. Cholmeley, Sir 31. Humberstone, P. S. Seymour, Sir M. Churchill, Lord A. Ingestre, Viscount Seymour, 11. D. Clifford, C. C. Jackson, W. Seymour, Di„ by Clive, George Jervis, Captain Shafto, R. D. Close, 31. C. Jervoise, Sir J. Sibthorp, Major Cobbold, John C. Johnstone, Sir J. Smith, J. B. Cochrane, A. D. Jolliffe, Capt. H. Smith, Sir F. Codrington, Sir W. Jolliffe, Sir W. Smith, 31. Cole, Hon. H. A. Jones, D. Smith, Abel Cole, J. L. Kekewich, S. Smith, S. G. Collier, It. P. Kendall, N. Smyth, Col. Collins, T., jun. Kennard, C. Smollett, P. Coningham, Wm. Kershaw, J. Somerset, Col. E. Cooper, , '. W. King, J..K. „..,., Somerville, Sir W. Cowper, Hon. W.F. Kinglake, A. W. Somes, Joseph Copeland, W. T. Kiugscote, Lt.-Col. Spooner, R. Corry, H. T. -, Kinnaird, Hon. A. Stafford, Marquis of Craufurd, E. H. J Knatchbull, W Stanhope, J. B. Crawford, It. W. Knatchbull-Hugess Staniland, M. Crook, Joseph Knight, F. Stanley, Lord Crossley, Frank Knightley, R. Stirling, Wm. Cubitt, George Knox, Lt.-C01.8.W. Steuart, A. Curzon, Viscount Knox, Major W. S Stewart, Sir M. R. Dalkeith, Earl of Lacon, Sir E. Stracey, Sir 11. Darner, L. S. W. D. Laing, S. Stunt, H. G. Davey, R. Langton, H. G. Sullivan, M. Davie, Sir H. R. F. Lefroy, A. Taylor, Colonel Davie, Col. F. Legh, G. C. Tempest, Lord A.V. Dawson, R. P. Legh, W. Thompson, H. S. Deasy, Rickard Lennox, Lord G. C. Thornhill, W. P. Deedes, Wm. Lennox, Lord H. G. Thynne, Lord E. Denman, G. Leslie, C. P. Thynne, Lord H. Dent, John Dent Levinge, Sir R.G.A. Tite, Wm. Dickson, Col. Lewis, Sir G.C., Bt. Tollemache, Hon.F. Disraeli, Benjamin Liddell, Hon. H. G. Tollemache, J. H. Dodson, John G. Lindsay, Colonel Torrens, R. Douglas, Sir C. Lockhart, A. E. Tottenham, C. Du Cane, Chas. Long, R. P. Trefusis, Hon. C. H. Duff, 31. E. Longteld, Robert Trollope, Sir John Duff, Major. Lovaiue, Lord Turner, J. A. Duke, Sir James Lowe, lit. lion. R. Upton, General Duncombe, W. E. Lowther, Col. 11. C. Valetort, Lord Dundas, Frederick Lowther, Captain 'Vance, John Dunkellin, Lord Lyall, G. Vandeleur, Col. Dunlop, A. Lygon, Hon. F. Vane, Lord H. G. Dunn, John Lysley, W. Vansittart, Wm. Dunne, Col. Macaulay, K. Verner, Sir Wm. Du Pre, C. G. Mackie, J. Verney, Sir Harry Dutton, Hon. R. H. Maguire, J. F. Villiers, Rt. Hon. G. East, Sir J. B. Mainwaring, T. Walcott, Adm. J. E. Edwards, Major H. 3lalins, It., Walker, James It Egerton, Sir P. Manners, Lord J. Walpole, S. H. Egerton, E. C. 3larjoribanks, D. C. Walsh, Sir J. B. Egerton, A. F. Martin, P. W. Walter, John Egerton, W. Martin, J. Warner, Edward Ellice, Rt. Hon. E. Massey, W. N. Warre, J. A. Ellice, E., jun. Matheson, A. Watkins, J. L. V. Elnaley, Viscount Maxwell, Col. Wallington, J. W. Elphinstone, Sir J Mildmay, H. Welby, W. E. Emlyn, Viscount Miles, Sir W. Wemyss, J. Enfield, Viscount Miller, William Western, I'. S. Ennis, John Mills, A. Whitbread, S. Estcourt, S. 31ilnes, R. 31. Whiteside, Rt lln J. Euston, Earl of Mitchell, T. A. Whitmore, H. Ewart, William 3littord, W. T. Williams, T. P. Ewing, H. E. C. Moncreiff, J. Williams, W. Farquhar, Sir 31. Monsell, Rt. Hn. W. Wood, Rt 'ln. Sir C. Fellowes, Edward Monson, W. J. Woodd, B. T. Fenwick, Henry Montagu, Lord R. Woods, Henry Ferguson, It. Montgomery, Sir G. Wrightson, W. B. Fergusson, Sir J. Moody, C. A. Wyndham, Sir H. Filmer, Sir E. Morgan, C. 0. S. Wynn, Col. Finlay, A. S. Morgan, Major Wynn, Sir W. W. Fitzgerald, W. S. Morris, D. Wynne, W. W. E. Foljambe, F. J. S. MoStyn, Hon. T. E. Wyvill, 31. Forde, Lt.-Col. W. Mowbray, Rt. Hn. J. Forester, Col. G. C. Mundy, William Forster, Charles 3lure, David Foster, W. O. Murray, William Brand, H. B. Fortescue, lion. D. Naas, Rt. Hn. Lord Dunbar, Sir Wm. TELLERS. Question put, " That the words be there inserted." The house divided—Ayes, 52 ; Nees, 369. AYES-52 Alcock, T. Fermoy, Lord Pease, IL Angerstein, W. Forster, C. Pigott, Y. Baines, T. Goldsmid, Sir F. ll.PollardUrquhart,W Baxter, W. E. Greene, J. Salt, T. Bazley, T. Hamner, Sir J. Scully, V. Beale, S. Kershaw, J. Seymour, W. D. Bouverie, Hon. P. P.Lawson, W. Shelley, Sir J. V. Butt, I. Leathani, E. A. Smith, J. B. Collier, R. I', MacEvoy, E. Somerville, Sir W. Craufurd, E. 11. J. '&'Mahon, P. Turner, J. A. Crossley, F. Maguire, J. F. Vivian, li, IL Dalglish, R. Mellor, J. Westhead, B. Denman, Ilon. G. Aronson, lion, W. J.Whalley, G. II Dent, J. D. Noble, .1, W. Wyld, J. Dillwyn, L. L. O'Donoglm e , Th e U Douglas, Sir G. Onslow, G. Esmonde, J. Osborne, It. B. Ewart, W. Paget, C. James, E. Ewing, H. E. C. Paxton, Sir J. Locke, John TELLERS. BRITISH NATION" LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION. The annual general meetinp,. of this association was held at the chief offices, 291, Regent-street, London, on Satur day, the 30th ult.—George Bermingham, Esq , in the chair. The report of the directors and auditors was read by the manager, Mr. Henry Lake, from which it appeared that since the last report the directors have received the follow ing : NEW BUSINESS. 1,559 Proposals for Assurance of And have issued 1,096 Policies for the Assurance of Giving a new annual premium income of £309,036 0 0 212,440 0 0 6,828 13 0 TOTAL SUMS ASSURED. 7,505 Policies are en the books of the Association assuring. Giving an annual premium income of 72,200 2 5 The invested funds and property, irre spective of the subscribed capital, amount to And the annual revenue on the same is The gross annual income, therefore, from 181,15 G 1 11 8,970 0 0 81,170 2 5 all sources is The number of deaths which have oc .. curred is 55, and the sums paid and payable under these amount to 12,475 13 9 The usual vote of interest on the paid-sip capital was passed, but the directors did not recommend at the present moment any increase of interest to the shareholders, as the time was approaching when, as provided by the deed of constitution, an actuarial investigation of the affairs of the association must be made, with a view to a distribution of the profits. The proprietors would not fail to observe the advantages resulting from the concentration of influence which has lately been effected, nor the rapid increase which is daily being made to the income of the association. The advantages also of a moderate paid-up capital would become apparent when it is considered that two pounds out of each one hundred pounds of the present premium income would yield a dividend of 20 per cent. upon the present paid-up capital, and this, too,without inflicting a tax upon the policy-holders. The report was unanimously received and adopted. The retiring directors and auditors having been re elected, The following duly qualified shareholders were elected directors :—George Frederick Anderson, Esq William ' Clarke, Esq., Hen r y I),ffell, Esq., John Geary, Esq:, Flammill, and Sainuil Smith, Esq. After the usual routine of business, votes of thanks were given to the directors, the manager, and other officers ; and an acclamatory vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the business of the meeting. SII"KING ACCIDENT AT A CRINOLINE FAC TOILY.—On Tuesday morning, a shocking and fatal acci dent happened at the crinolin© factory of Messrs. Wright, Hobson, and Co., N e w George-street, Sheffield. It ap peared that Sarah Ann Murphin, aged 17, who worked at the factory, went into a room in which she had no business to go, and for some purpose or other ascended a ladder. While on the ladder her dress was caught by a revolving shaft, and she was whirled round several times. Before any assistance could be given her she was killed, •-• ' , T r .• r NE ?"- 114 ADVANCE OF GARIBALDI ON MESSINA. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : P2 4 .RIS, JULY 6. A telegram from :Naples, dated yesterday even ing, announces that Garibaldi has marched against Messina. Active negotiations appear to be decidedly going on between Naples and Turin on the subject of a common action of the two Courts in the affairs of Italy. BADEN, JULY 6. Notwithstanding the denials given by some newspapers, it is certain that the Prince Regent during the late Conference here drew the attention of the other Sovereigns to the state of things in Italy. The King of Naples had directed the Marquis d'Antonini, the Neapolitan Ambassador at Paris, who is well known to the Prince, to request his Royal Highness to defend in the Conference the monarchical interests threatened in Sicily. The Prince Regent, in reply, gave the Marquis to understand that he acceded to his request, and his Royal Highness not only remarked during the Conference upon the state of affairs in Italy, but also caused an exchange of views on that question to take place between the Powers in the ordinary diplomatic course. THE INDIAN MAILS. MARSEILLES, JULY 6. The Bombay and Australian mails have arrived here. The dates are, Sydney, May 14 ; Melbourne, May 18; Mauritius, June 7 ; and Bombay, June 7. BOMBAY, JUNE 7. General Oatram's protest against an amalgama• tion of the two armies has been anonymously pub• lished. Disturbances have taken place at Banswarra. MADRID, JULY 5. A Royal decree prorogues the session of the Cortes. The official Gazette announces that an exhibition of the fine arts will be held at Madrid at the end of October. BOMBAY AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. The Delta, with the heavy portion of the above mails, left Malta at midnight on the 2d inst., and may accordingly be expected at Southampton about the 11th inst. The Nepaul, from Mauritius, and Benares, fiom Australia, reached Suez on the 27th and 28th June respectively. The Nepaul brought the Bombay Mails and pas sengers from Aden; the Northam remaining there for a new shaft. AIR. BUCESTONE'S ANNUAL BENEFIT. On Wednesday next, July 11th, Mr. Buckstone takes his annual benefit at the Haymarket Theatre, and there are few who stand less in need of any addition being made to this preliminary announcement. The long period through which the valuable services rendered by Mr. Buckstone as manager, author, and actor, have been recognised by the admirers of the dramatic art, and the ever-recurring inte rest with which the public hail the successive manifesta tions of his histrionic talents, would show at once that no appeal of the kind could be more generally or more heartily responded to. But the occasion will be rendered peculiarly significant by Mr. Buckstone on this evening delivering his Annual Address, in which the past and future progress of the theatre under his direction will be reviewed and indi cated. There will be two new comedies represented, in which Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews and Miss Amy Sedgwick will perform, and a variety of entertainments will be added, which will ensure a most entertaining evening. The high estimation in which Mr. Buckstone is held will e sure to fill the theatre this night with one of the most brilliant and crowded audiences of the prolonged season.— Era. COWES, July s.—The Prince and Princess of Leiningen arrived at No. 1, Parade-terrace, West Cowes, on Monday last. Captain the Hon. Joseph Denm ,n and family arrived at White Rose Cottage on Wednesday. Lord Colvile has taken No. 1, Solent-terrace; the Hon. Mr. D. Liddell, Cambridge House. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, and Prince William of Nassau visited Prince Leiningen at No. 1, Parade-terrace on Thursday. VISIT OF THE PRINCE OF WALES TO CANADA. — It is expected that the Royal yacht will arrive in Plymouth Sound from Spithead ou Monday afternoon, that the Prince of Wales will proceed immediately on board the Hero, and that at daylight on Tuesday morning she will sail for Canada. Her convoy, the steam frigate Ariadne, from Portsmouth, arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday afternoon. The new works - of the Grand Surrey Docks and Canal Company, comprising a deep water dock of 16 acres, a basin of three acres, and a lock 250 feet by 50 feet, with a depth of water on the till of 27 feet below Trinity stan dard, were formally opened to-day by the admission of several vessels, among others the Coronet, from Cronstadt, of 872 tons register. SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.—A most important advance has just been made in the science of submarine telegraphy. On Saturday, the 23d ult., Mr. W. P. Pig gott laid, and satisfactorily worked, an experimental cable between Ryde, in the Isle of Wight, and Alverstoke, on the main land, which cable had the remarkable peculiarity of being uninsulated, and of having neither india rubber nor gutta percha in its composition.—The Photographic News. VOLUNTEER REVIEW AT LIVERPOOL.—In ac cordance with instructions from Colonel M'Murdo, and with the concurrence of the Lord-Lieutenant, Colonel Browne, of the 4th Brigade Lancashire Artillery Volun teers, has arranged with the commanding officers of Vo lunteers in Liverpool for a review at Aintree Racecourse on the 14th inst. All the Volunteers in the county have been invited to attend and take part in the proceedings. The Volunteers of Manchester are endeavouring to arrange for a review on Newton-heath in August next, when the presence of her Majesty is hoped for. THE POPE fAND HIS IRISH SUPPORTERS.—In a letter from Rome in the Union (France) we read :—" Most of the Irish who have come here to take service under the Pope are fine men, and a certain number of them have already been in the army. The passion of the Irish for strong drink is unfortunately too well known ; and three complain opens pelea i ago onn; i a t t b h e wastmuo door an t kv h ao e cause of a painful accident. Some of the volunteers, w h en tforf i wo n lahb a ome, s nion t n a tga t h e ssetey o en f rfty, aan intoxication, attempted to force o fancied d ordernstththem, o a dthey take re a s ovn to weree - arrested. General de Lamoriciere, who is determined that strict discipline shall be maint a i ne d among the troops under his command, has intimated th a t these Irish shall be brought to trial before a court martial." PREVENTIBLE RISK IN FAST RAILWAY TR AVEL LING.—In a report to the Board of Trade (just published) on the accident at Hatfield in April, when a Great Northern train, after a n p d a s p over l a rail passenger, that had lostbeen h turned,is llife, Colonel gotoff thexc , sta'es that the whole weight of the train was line, lr about 100 tons, and the total weight on the wheels to which break blocks could be applied was hut about 20 tons. N ow a train at Hatfield , trav ellin g down an. incline of 1 in 200 at the rate of GO miles an hour (a frequent rate of that train at that point), could not have been stopped by these breaks in less than three - qu arters of a mile. Col. Tolland says this is a very unsatiifactory coriditipn attending fast railway travelling, and that su ch quick trains ought to be them furnished to c a h n Nciv that thisi e bewith stoppedan in amounta third of creak power can be done by means of continuous breaks, which , aug ment the retarding power three or fbur fold. Two years o di s S e t r an w c ago the Board of Trade sent to all railway companies a re port of the successful working of such breaks on the East Lancashire Railway, where a train of 90 tons, supplied. with 80 per cent. of break power, travelling at the rate of 53 miles an hour down an incline of 1 in 120, was stopped after running 235 y ar d s . The carriage in which Mr. Pyln rode was not thrown over on its side until it was 408 yards from the spot where the 4ccicleAt occurred. .IY~i.IL'aT.:!I OUT WARD MAILS. The Malta, with the London Mail of 12-19th March, arrived at Melbourne on the 6th May. The Ripon, from Southampton on the 20th June, arrived at Malta on the 30th June, and sailed for Alexandria at midnight. The Vectis, from Marseilles on the 29th June, reached Malta at 10 p.m. on the Ist July, and left for Alexandria at midnight. GALLE, JUNE 10. Lord Elgin and Baron Gros have proceeded on to China. Only 92 boxes of specie have been recovered from the wreck of the Malabar. Sir Henry Ward has been appointed Governor of Madras. SYDNEY, MAY 18. The commercial crisis is over. Disastrous floods have taken place. MELBOURNE, MAY 19. The rebellion in New Zealand is extending. The departures of gold ships since the last mail are the Agincourt with 43,608 oz., and the British Trident with 27,000 oz. Business at Adelaide is flat. Rain plentiful. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY. The Minister of the Interior has addressed the following circular to the Prefects : " Paris, Ist July. " Monsieur le Prefet,—lt is not solely for the maintenance of public order that the Administra tion has received special powers from the law on the press, but likewise for the protection of public morals. _ The stories which in the lower columns of a journal offend all right feelings, do as much, or perhaps more harm, than the political declama tions which, in the upper columns, might attempt to agitate the public mind. This easy literature, seeking for success only in the ribaldry of its por traitures, the immorality of its plots, and the strange perversity of its heroes, has of late as sumed a lamentable and melancholy develop ment. Having obtained admission into nearly all periodical publications, and even taking advantage of their regular appearance to keep in continual suspense and stimulate unceasingly the ardent curiosity of the public, it profusely disseminates the inexhaustible fantasies of the most licentious imaginations. The more seiious journals have even granted it an as - ylum ; it penetrates with them into the privacy of the domestic circle, and when it has thus been admitted into families, neither youth nor innocence is safe, from its contagion. Nor is this all; by the side of the political jour nals, which lend it their publicity for the sake of the subscribers whom it may attract or retain, we have seen a host of minor publications spring up devoted exclusively to the cultivation of this unwholesome literature, and issuing weekly, at the lowest possible price, hundreds of thousands of copies to satisfy the avidity of their readers. By all who still retain some regard for propriety and good taste, the state of things is deeply de plored, and it is high time to apply a remedy. The popular mind has a right to more wholesome food ; and corrupting the heart must no more be tolerated than perverting the mind. I therefore call your most vigilant attention, Monsieur le efet, to this point ; against the political jour nals the decree of 1852; against the others the laws on the distributing and hawking of printed works, supply all the means of effectual repression. Besides, for those journals which have a prop er feeling of their dignity and of their obligations to ward public propriety, a mere caution, I am sure, will suffice. As to those, if:such exist, which, from eagerness to make money easily, 9r from inability to take a higher tone, should persist in such publi cations, use all the severity of administrative mea sures; and, if necessary, remembering that th ere are penal laws to protect public morality, sen d t h em for trial before the tribunals.—Accept, & c ,, " BILLAULT." The Bishop of Faenza was condemned on the 3d to three years' imprisonment, and a fine of 4,000 fr., for contempt of the Royal authority. M. Ch. de la Varienne," says the Siecle,"has arrived in Paris from Sicily, charged to represent, provisionally, the interests of the new Sicilian Government. The approaching arrival of official envoys is announced." The following "communicated note" is published in the Moniteur de l' Armee :—" After the campaign of Italy an anonymous letter was received by the Minister of War against an officer who was ac cused of not having done his duty during the battle of S3lferino, where he fell into the power of the enemy. An inquiry took place, and another officer was proved to have written this cowardly denun ciation, for the purpose of securing to himself a favour which he feared might be disputed by his comrade. He has been definitely excluded from the ranks of the army for this dishonourable conduct." BOURSE, July 6.—The market continues very I )ll9Tant, and securities of all kinds are in demand. 'Threes have varied from 68f 95c. to 69f 10c. ; Mo bilier, 697 f 50 to 705 f ; Lyons, 885 f to 890 f; Or leans, 1,365 f to 1,370 f; Northern, 987 f 50c to 990 f; Austrian, 532 f 50c to 534 f; Saragossa, 530 f 50c to 540 f. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents 97 20 , Credit Foncier .... 877 50 Do, end month 97 25 Belgian 42 3 per Cents Do. e. d mt,nth 68 95 Roman Bank Shares 2820 I Austrian 82 redit Mobilier 692 501 Spanish Threes.... 50 Do. Account 693 751 Home Debt RAILIYATS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1365 , 1360 Northern New ditto 1 yons and Mediterranean 886 25 .. 886 25 Geneva 370 367 50 Southern 520 .. 520 Western - Eastern Sardinian 4ll 25 strian .. 527 50 .. 528 75 Lombard .. 605 - The American clipper and the Utile steamer, just released by the Neapolitan Government, arrived at Porto-Ferrajo on the 3d, with all their passengers on board. A communication from Naples in the Constitzt tionnel says :—" Some Calabrians, who had been confined for the last four years in the prison of Santa-Maria-Apparente, in this city, for the sole reason that they belonged to the same country as Milano, came on the 28th ult. from their prison into the city with a certain number of their friends who had carried to them the order for their re- , lease. At the corner of the Grottone di Palazzo they met a company of marines, commanded by Captain Potenza. They were ca!led on to disperse, but being ignorant of the new measures, they did not immediately obey. Some musket shots were fired at them, and they were then charged with the bayonet. Five threw themselves on the ground, pretending to be dead, in order to escape being killed, but one of them, named Mar chiano,.was seriously wounded." A new journal, paid by the Government, is about to appear at Naples under the title of ll .Risorgi mento. It has published its programme, which may be summed up thus :—Alliance with Piedmont and Liberty. It is to defend constitutional prin ciples with the House of Bourbon at the head of the State. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY. The United States steamship Arago, Captain Lines, with dates from New York to the 23d ult., has arrived. She brings 219 passengers and 818,410 dols. in specie, of which 150,000 dols. are for Eng land and the remainder for France. The Arago spoke the following ships : On June 23, in New York Bay, bound in, the American ship J. M. Bogurton and the Italian bark M. Posero ; on the same date exchanged signals with the American ship Eliza, bound east. On July 4, in lat. 40 42, long. 14 5, exchanged signals with the American ship Corramus, bound west. At the same time exchanged signals with the brig Carmina, bound east. On July 5, lat. 49.52, long. '7.50, exchanged sig. nals with the American steamer Vanderbilt, from Havre and Southampton for New York. July 6, off the Start, passed the French ship Sourabaya, of Havre, bound west. QUEENSTOWN, JULY 6. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's steamer Vigo, Capt. Jellard, with dates from New York to the 23d ult., has arrived. She states that the surveying steamer Walker had sunk from a collision off Absecom Light. 20 persons were drowned. NEW YORK, JUNE 23. Exchange, 1091 to 109.4, The specie engage ments per Vigo and Arago amount to 1,500,000 dollars. NEW ORLEANS, JUNE 22. Cotton dull ; middling, 101 c. to 11 1 4 c. Sales of the week, 11,000 bales. THE NA VI. Two of the contract-built gun vessels, the Linnet and Pigeon, having been surveyed at Chatham dockyard, have had a few deficiencies made good at the expense of the contractors. Both vessels have been coppered and completed, and on Thursday were put out of dock. The Torch, 5, Commander F. Smith, screw gun ves,,el, fitting at Chatham for the coast of Africa, will be out of the hands of the dockyard workmen to-day, and as soon as she has received her sailing orders will leave the port, probably on Tuesday next. By an Admiralty order, warrant officers in the Royal navy may retire from active service at 60 years of age without survey or prejudice to their rate of pension. Warrant officers' widows will also be entitled to their annuity in the event of their husbands' death after one year's service as a war rant officer, instead of 10 years' as heretofore. Sea men and Marines are also to be entitled to their good conduct badges at the end of three years, in stead of five years as before. The, Ariadne, 26, Capt. E. W. Vansittart, sailed from Spithead for Plymouth Sound at 7.30 p.m. on Thursday. The Prince of Wales, 131, screw three-decker, at Portsmouth, bas been placed in dock to have her valves fitted and receive her copper. The Osborne, Admiralty steam yacht, Master Commander G. K. Bowers, according to present orders, will sail from Portsmouth for Plymouth to morrow. Seyed Mahommed el Shamee, the newly accredited. Ambassador from the Emperor of Morocco, a Trea surer of the Imperial Palace, and one of the most wealthy magnates of the empire, yesterday went over the various departments of the Arsenal at Woolwich. Commander J. H. Brown, RN., registrar-general of seamen and shipping, yesterday exhibited his newly invented battle signals at Woolwich for the approbation of the Board of Admiralty. They were hoisted experimentally at the masthead of the flagship Fisgard, Commander the Hon. J. R. Drummond, and were pronounced a most im portant improvement on the present flag system of battle signals, the flag being subject to flap and twist, and thereby become unintelligible, whereas Capt. Brown's system can be made oat under every variation of weather. Mr. Thomas and other officers attached to the Fisgard proceeded up the river as far as the irregularity of the current permitted a sight of the masthead, and reported that in the present hazy state of the atmosphere the signals might be seen with sufficient distinctness at a distance of four miles or more. They are formed of strong iron wire frames, covered with slight canvass painted black, and distinguished by shape, regardless of colour, b u t bl ac k i s m o s t discernible. Tey are made to fold up when not in use, and weigh about 201 b. each. A second trial is ordered to take place on the 10th inst. on the departure of the Prince of Wales for Quebec, when the signals will he hoisted to test the fact as stated by Captain Brown, that the smoke from the funnel of the :ship and the guns will not interfere with the reading of the signals. An exquisitely formed model, on an unsually large scale, of the attack, siege, and capture of a strongly fortified town has just been completed at the Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham, by the sappers and miners, who have been occupied about 12 months in the undertaking, under the superintendence of Captain H. Schaw. The model, which is unique of its kind, describes every incident connected with a siege, the works being constructed according to Vauban's theory of fortification, and the whole worked nut with the utmost fidelity. Since the work has been completed it has been in spected at Brompton barracks by a number of offi cers of all branches of the service, all of whom concur in pronouncing it one of the most perfect as well as interesting models of the kind eve i r Jnited structed. It has been forwarded to Service Institution, where it will rema in Meer of the on exhibition, a non-commissioned. part in its Royal Engineers who took a leading t part in time from head construction having been specially arrangement of the model. quarters to superintend the putting togethcr and 'Thomas st Cann, J. Barrett, G eorg e J. Tomlin, second day at the Admiralty . The following appointm en t s were made yestfr d'Acre ; W. J. Atkins o master, to the St. e seconddd mmaasstteerr,,totto the Nile acting V ie ll i n ct iN o T i i. 3 l-e ; ; T it h assist.-surg., to the Geyser ; G. M. Eyles, acting Agamemnon ; George E. Farr, acting the Maolcienne ; John ' acting assist.-surg., B. to the ''''' assist.-surg., to the Ag . . Miall, acting a ssist. -sung., Centurion ; Henry Rickard, acting assist.-surg , to the Impregnable; John Mockridge, acting assist.-surg., additional, to the Chesapeake ; Henry C. Jones, first-class assist.- i . en gineer, to the St. George ; John Pitti s' nay- 1 mas ter, additional, to the Victory ; George Gran-- didier, paymaster, to be secretary to Rear-Admiral Stopford; and F. H. Chown, assistant paymaster, I to be secretary's clerk to Rear-Admir a l St op f or d. I NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION. The first grand competition of the Volunteers n the use of their weapon will close this evening. The firing has been continuous on every day since Monday ; there has been no interruption by any casualty, or other serious cause, and the weather has been fine throughout. Yet ten hours per diem have not sufficed for the firing for all the prizes. As the proceedings roust conclude this evening, it was determined yesterday to withdraw the prize of 50 guineas given by Miss Coutts, as it was evident there would not be time enough to decide the con test for it, without throwing all the other ar rangements into confusion. When the competitors are numerous, the time required to decide a con test at three different ranges, and those the longest, is very considerable. It is not an affair of minutes, like a race ; it may rather be reckoned by hours. The firing of a rifle match is not in the least like afeu de joie. The rifleman is deliberate in his shooting ; with a good sum of money, to say nothing of the honour, depending on the twitch of his finger, he must not throw away his shot. To see a competitor in the act of aiming, no one would mistake the process for an amusement. It is a se rious and solemn thing, and should not even be spoken of lightly. The calculation of angles he is working would confound a Kepler; the elevations and depressions are measured by the breadth of hairs, and " allowing for the wind" alone is such a difficult business that he might well envy the animal that is said to see it. The power would be an inestimable advantage. If anything is wrong with the " sights," it adds to the complexity ; and complaints on this point have been numerous. The opportunities of regulating them have been few and imperfect. The Swiss, it is remarked, are generally slower in their aim than those of the English school. The introduction of a prize for which time has not been previously provided is a very disturb ing agent. But the present meeting will have fur nished valuable experience for future years, for this competition will undoubtedly become an annual one. Two series of prizes, seven in all, were opened and decided yesterday. They were the Prince Consort's prize of £lOO ; the Silver Cup given by the London Rife Brigade, value 50 guineas ; and a rifle given by Mr. Smith, value £35. The competition for these three prizes was restricted to the winners of the " all corners" series, who are 28 in number, and to the 20 second best shots made in that contest. There were, therefore, 48 competitors, to fire' c lo rounds each, at the three longest ranges, 800, 900, and 1,000 yards. There were 1,440 shots fired for this series alone, with the following result:—` . His Royal Highness Prince Albert's prize of .ElOO was gained ,by Capt. R. Lacy, 33d Infantry, and of the School of Musketry at Hythe. Capt. Lacy made 22 points at the three ranges. He used an ordinary Westley Richard's rifle, the barrel of which, however, is on Mr. Whitworth's principle. It is a cheaper weapon, and not so highly finished as the Whitworth rifles, used at the long ranges. Capt. Lacy's shooting was admitted to be the best of the whole week. It is an instance of how scien tific training tells. The second prize of this contest, the Silver Cup given by the London Rifle Brigade, was gained by Lawley, sergeant of the 2d Derbyshire Volun teers, and one of Lord Vernon's gamekeepers. He made 18 points. The third prize, the rifle given by Mr. Smith, value £35, was won by Mr. Peter, one of the Swiss champions, with 18 points. In the shooting for the tie Lawley won. The next series of prizes were four in number, open to all corners, for breech-loading rifles only, not exceeding 101 b. in weight, five rounds, at the long ranges of 800 and 1,000 yards. The first prize- was £5O, given by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ; the , second, third, and fourth, -X3O, £2O, and £ll 1 ls., were given by Mr. W. Richards. The first prize, the Duke of Cambridge's £5O, _ . .. _ was gained by M. Knecht, a Swiss, who at all the ranges made 10 points. The second prize, £3O, was won by Captain Lacy, the winner in the preceding match. He made 9 points, again with the \Vestley Richards rifle. The third prize, £2O, was won by Turner, Ist Berkshire, 8 points; and the fourth, £ll 1 ls., by Edwards, 4th West York, 8 points. Peter in this contest also made 8 points, but on the shooting for the ties Turner and Edwards won. The Queen's prize of £250, exclusively for Volunteers, will be shot for this day, the firing to commence at 9 a.m. It will scarcely be decided till the evening. The firing for the Duke of Wellington's prize will commence at 8 a.m. The rifle offered by the Swiss as a prize for the Volunteers only, but excluding the 40 who are qualified for her Majesty's prize, will also be con tended for this day. . _ It is due to the official military departments to say that they have given most valuable assistance to the Council of the Association during the whole of the proceeding. The War-office authorized the supply of targets, flags, and tents for the meeting, and deputed General Hay,, the Commandant of the Musketry School of Hythe, to superintend the firing, a duty he discharged with hearty goodwill, and a professional ability unrivalled in his depart ment. He was assisted in other portions of the duties that fell on the Council by Colonel Bewes, Colonel Kennedy, Mr. Fairbairn, and Lord Elcho. Keeping the register of the shots and making it up day by day was one of the most difficult and complicated parts of the work, especially with regard to the ties. The lists could not, as a rule, be made perfect till a late hour each evening. All the arrangements of the firing during the week have worked so successfully, and the natural advantages of the ground, especially for the longer ranges, are so decided, that if the meeting is held again next year, no better locality than Wimbledon can possibly be selected. The influx of company and customers has some what soothed those who, having rights of common on the ground, at first opposed the selection of their waste for the purpose it has so well served. They made stringent conditions that the butts should be thrown down again, and the ground restored to its original state. The work of restoration will begin next week, the tents will be struck, the fencing taken away, and Mr. T. Scott and his corps of nav vies, who dug and delved and drained, and raised the earthworks with such celerity, may begin their levelling operations. But to Wimbledon and its commoners we should imagine the week's meeting has produced a richer harvest than if the 6,000 acres had been laid down in wheat. The objections will be much softened next year. The prizes will be presented to the winners by Mr. S. Herbert, the President of the Association, on Monday at the Crystal Palace. Members of the National Rifle Association will be admitted free to the great fete to be held at the Crystal Palace on that occasion on presentation, at the doors, of their passes, which can be obtained at the office, Pall mall- e ast. E TREATY WITH FRANCE. Yesterday was issued, with the Parliamentary notices, the copy of a second additional article of the Treaty of Commerce concluded between her Majesty and the Emperor of the French, signed at Paris on the 27th ult. This article is as follows: . "It having been found impossible to conclude the nego tiation of the arrangement which is to fix, according to t o o f paragraph 1 of Article XIII. of the Treaty of Commerce concluded between Great Britain an .o d tdhsfi r hix an d c h e b , British January last , merchandise the r ate oi imported the por specific ted int into duties France,to be w i levied thi h period stipulated by the said artiele r , i parties have considered it advisable, in , the interest of the invested with arrangement with a view to insure respective commerce of the her e w l ecenuaatnnehrtdrseiil:grsner,elaadtdno:dma gradual execution ne a ceu f s r ti e ido s en : of the aforesaid Treaty within Pe. the oliCifiatiheetYPrench, on the other, the Queen of the full' I p n ow ere consequence thepartof whereof, United Kingdom of Great Britain .i the hu es tirur,:dflua Treaty following establishing the specific British merchandise imported into wi article h an aN d ,e of eg h r i e s e M d a u j p e o s n t s y int t hbg h eyl o of it ryc.omprise bar and pig the first of which shall separate conventions shall du ‘ t ‘ i , e ln s steel .andworkedhe mmetals, machinesthe third , a l i tools e r and r t i m e l e e c s h o a f - France, three be successively Paa ts id of all sorts ; the second, yarns and manu facturessttoeadbmeo concluded ; o f the 23defjantia production and manufacture Britl 2 .'‘l . i i p 'hes,e conventions shall be negotiated, en iron um erated concluded, o n nel u Article d e d , an d ratified in such a manner as to come into force with re spect to the Articles to which they apply, at each of the periods fixed by Article XV. of the Treaty of which they e w o ll v i e b h r t tli on th s e e shall tn h p e l e e a ( , )n e Il e l t ;1 d e N d e a v n e d r t r h e e t i l fi e s e s d the o l r a e s t t h o e f l t e li t e o s e t. November next. " The present additional article shall have the same force and validity as if it had been inserted in the Treaty of Com merce of the 23d of January last. It shall be ratified, and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged at Paris within four days at latest from the date of its signature. "In witness whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms. " Done at Paris this 27th day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1860. . (L.S.) a COWLEY. (L.S.) " E. InouvENEL The ratifications were exchanged on the Ist of this month/ GAME CERTIFICATES BlLL.—This bill, intro duced by the Government, has been printed. It pro poses the following scale of gamo certificates or licenses, to be granted by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue : From the sth of April to the sth of April, £3; from the sth of April to the 31st of October, or from the Ist of No vember to the sth of April, £2; gamekeepers' license in Great Britain, £2; dealer in game in England, £2. A number of exemptions from liability to duty are continued from former acts—such as hunting deer or coursing hares, and taking woodcocks and snipes with nets or springes, and the tenant of lands may by himself or those he permits take or destroy conies.