The Sun. — London, England, 1860-08-16 00:00:00

BENSON'S WATCHES " Perfection of mechanism."—Morning Post. Gold Silver 2 to 50 guineas. Send 2 stamps for 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 hdia and the Colonies for ss. extra. SS and 34, Ludgate-hill, London. E.C. Established 1749. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lowe, Mr. J. B. Bncketone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. And THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Buckstone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. After which, the new comedietta, HIS EXCELLENCY, hi which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear. To ooncindo with THE CHRISTENING. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCE SS'S THEATRE.-- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, will be performed A WONDERFUL WOMAN. Mr. A. Harris. Miss Heath, &c. Followed by UN TIGRE DU BENGALE. And LES DEUX AVEUGLES. By the Zouaves. With the farce of A.S.S. After which, LA. CORDE SENSIBLE. Characters by the Zouaves. Followed by AN AMBUSCADE AT INKERMAN. Commence at 7. A i" LPIII, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, JANET PRIDE. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Stuart, C. Selby; Miss Woolgar and Miss Laidlaw. To conclude with IN AND OUT OF PLACE. Miss Julia Daly, Messrs. C. Selby and C. J. Smith. Commence at 7. Box-eflice open from 10 till 5. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, 4 1 1. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, is. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. BATTY. Immense Success of "Mazeppa." A Grand MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on SATURDAY next, Aug 18, commencing at Two o'clock. This Evening, Lord Byron's splendid Hippo-drama of MAZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, with entirely new and beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and appointments, Introducing the largest stud of highly-trained Horses, Po nies, Buffaloes, and Camels in the World. To be followed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders 43f the day. 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 Revolt!. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from MARTHA, And Selections from DINORAU, TROVATORE, MACBETH, And numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, ls, Hall. 6d. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. f eorge Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), and C. Marshall. The ETIIIOPUNS, 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 Fine Arts Gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 16, 1560. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADB. 68—highest since noon yesterday. 59—lowest this morning and during the night. 68—this day at noon. BAnomETER-29.42; a sudden fall. WlND—South-Westerly; fresh, with dull sultry weather, HALF-PAST Two.—Rain has commenced. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, lh. 4m.—Afternoon, lh. 30m To-monnow.-Morning, lh. 53m.—Afternoon, 2h. 15m re ..,.:, , ~,,, ,i(.. .• 3 / 4 --,-- )--e,,.,,__,,,-,,,..,:z1Ft- - , \ ~', -,..., E.-.1,„„,,--✓4„,„__,...., ! ,-,.,,, , ..1,,.. i•,i 0 • 0 -,,,F6 r e • Tz , ----- 77.- - , -- - - .... __;:-: *, -. • .N-4,-...., - THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1860, Pleasant news for Mr. GLADSTONE—those last tidings from the seat of war in China ! According to the "latest intelligence" whence—it appears that the cost of our expedition thither may already be counted by millions—by millions sterling observe ! —not by mere hundreds of thousands. And recollect, moreover, that when these calculations were made there, at the actual seat of war, by a dispassionate and watchful witness—we were only yet in the midst of our warlike preparations ! The campaign had not yet been commenced. The first shots had not yet been exchanged between the belligerents. The allies were still getting everything in readiness to " open the ball" con spirit° ! These preliminary arrangements, however, being so far advanced that when the despatches left there were, it was estimated, seventy-six British pennants flying in those waters, and forty-five French pen nants altogether 121 pennants of the aggregate Anglo-French Expedition ! The calcu lation made merely in regard to our own commis sariat was of itself sufficiently significant —as many as 119 vessels (many of them steamers) of various tonnage (the average being about 1,000 tons) having been chartered at freights ranging from a mini mum rate of 17s. 6d. to a maximum of 225. 6d. per ton per month ! Otherwise, an expenditure each month in transports alone of £120,000, or an yearly outlay under this one head of £1,440,000 ! So that, upon the nu face of it, there is evidence enough to stow that our model financier (as so many had suspected from the very outset, and that, too, without posses sing► one scintilla of his sublime intelligence) was altogether in error at the very basis of his elaborate calculations. All which goes far to yield a sort of a superfluous supplementary ex post facto justifica tion to the Lords for having secured to the revenue at the eleventh hour an odd million and a half which had been rashly abandoned by a compliant House of Commons at the irrationally ill-timed suggestion of an experimenting Administration. Further justification, however, of that most pro vident act on the part of our hereditary legislators is surely not by this time required by any one not infected by the GLADSTONE craze, or the BRIGHT phobia, or the COBDEN hallucination. We are "in" for the Chinese war now without any mistake whatever; and as rational men, nay, even as wise economists, must go through with it in earnest. Sir HOPE GRANT is there with his red coats, Admiral HOPE with his blue jackets and we may rest assured that in neither instance HOPE will have " told a flattering tale" when the history of this third expedition against the Chinese shall have been related. How much in earnest the conductors of this Chinise expedition are, we now know clearly enough from the facts brought to light by these recently received fragments of intelligence. Al ready the armies of the western allies had mus tered in the north—both of them in the Gulf of Pechele—the French at Chefou, the English at Talien-whan. They were consequently within a distance (at the time the despatches left), 'of one hundred miles from the mouth of the Peiho the line of the Peiho being the very boundary upon which, according to the general belief of the natives, there would be made on the p art of the Imperial or Celestial Govern ment, the most determined and even desperate re sistance! M ean 'svelte, at Canton, our position had b ee n rendered sufficiently secure, and even formi dable. British forcet there amounted to up wards o f 3,500 men, includin g i n this aggregate one European and two ofito_ egl . me . nts, several sepoy r a battery detachments, and y Artillery. As an indication of the s y stematic foretho ught with w hi c h the third Chinese war is being thus at one, daringly and cautiously commenced, it is interesti ng to note that tat) skilled and intelligent superinte n di ng Wipe* Upon fit EDWiID I'VGAZ 4 a IO 001UVA, during the late Indian campaign against the Bengal mutineers—Dr. GORDON, C. 8., late of the 10th Foot, a man whose notable coubination of energy and ability has so recently won for him so muchhonourable distinction—had shortlybefore the last mails left Hong Kong, having been nominated additional Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals to the Expedition ! Dr. GORDON having, immedi ately upon his nomination to that responsible post, made arrangements for forwarding all the sick and wounded who might require change of climate (no sueh exceeding improbability at Kong Kong !) to our Cape Colony—where they will be duly re ceived into the spacious Sanitarium recently esta blished there at Constantia. It is not—let it be remarked at once—simply that the first of the three routine signal cries has been uttered (and acted upon) exclusively ! " Make Ready" has certainly been heard yonder towards the north of China—ringing like the clarion of a trumpet—reverberating along the ranks of the allies —echoing from ship to ship. We ourselves here at home may hearken to the resonance of the command—and recognise, even at this distance, the promptness with which it has been answered, by the gathering of the French at Chefou and of the English at Talien-whan, and of both together in the Gulf of Pechele. " Present"—is audible next—if only in the announcement conveyed by these last mails to the effect that upon the very morrow of their departure Lord ELGIN was to sail in the Feroze steam sloop-of-war, and Baron GRos the day afterwards in the Saigon— both of their Excellencies taking Shanghai as their rendezvous! The next tidings will give the third signal for the third Chinese war—(" the third" being " the charm ")—FIRE ! The rever beration of the answer given to that signal being tolerably certain (we may rest assured) to be echoed back from the walls of Pekin across Asia and Europe, to the bearing of 1,800,000 Parisians and of 3,000,000 Londoners—to the Allied 75,000,000 of Frenchmen and Englishmen. If there be one mode of national defence on which all England is agreed, it is that of Volun teers. We must leave Sir FREDERIC SMITH and Lord PALMERSTON to fight out the question, whether fortifying Portsdown Hill will soon be • regarded as a Portsdown Folly, or whether it will be reckoned a wise step. Sir FREDERIC SMITH and Sir JOAN BVRGOYNE are both opposed to it, and they of all men ought to know; but the Prime Minister is the responsible judge in the business, and he says that Portsdown Hill cannot be forti fied by earthworks at a fortnight's notice. But whether we build fortifications at Portsdown and elsewhere, or not, we shall still need the men to man them. The annual cost of garrisons, or of an army on foot sufficiently large to spare garri sons, would soon far exceed the first cost of the works. If we agree to build, we ought to agree also to train Volunteers, or we are only agreeing to a charge which will prove so intolerable that we shall soon give up in disgust the maintenance of the men which alone can render the fortifications of any avail. Volunteering is the taste of the day, and the Government would be highly criminal which did not do its best to encourage the move ment. We confess we have often been surprised at the folly of Mr. COBDEN and the Peace party in ridiculing this movement. They know that it is hopeless to persuade the nation to dispense with an army—if so, we can hardly conceive of one to which the opponents of standing armies and the almost fanatical advocates of peace can so little object. First, and chiefly, as Manchester would say, it is cheap. Next, it cannot serve purposes of foreign ambition, except very indirectly ; and, again, it certainly would, as much as anything, deter any enemy from going to war with us. The Peace Society ought to give every volunteer a medal, and to inscribe on it the old, very hacknied, Latin motto which we need not repeat. There is one branch, however, of the subject to which nothing like adequate attention has yet been directed. We mean that of interesting the artisan and labouring class in the movement. It seems likely to spread fast enough among the trading, agricultural, and professional classes ; but no suffi 'tient effort has been made to enlist the co-operation of the bone, muscle, and sinew of our working men. Why is this ? Are the men distrusted ? Are we afraid to put arms in their hands ? Do we look on them as a kind of Sepoys who would need to be watched by a more trustworthy class ? This can hardly be the case, for the troops of the line are the very same class of men ; and it is noto rious that their discipline and training has a ten dency the very reverse of such perfectly groundless fears as we have mentioned. It will not be denied that the soldier has much more strongly than the artisan the sentiment of loyalty to his Sovereign. He is, directly, the servant of her ,MAJESTY—a QUEEN'S man ; and, if more formidable in case of Mutiny, yet his tendency to mutiny is the smallest conceivable. It becomes to him disgraceful. It runs counter to all the habits and notions he has acquired. He may, perhaps, always be relied on to act against a turbulent mob who are defying the QUEEN'S authority. Now, the volunteer, though not barracked off from the people—and so much the better for his health and morals—is, in so far as he is a soldier, under the same influences as troops of the line. He is the QUEEN'S servant. He has officers bearing her commission. He is pledged by an honourable engagement which it goes against all his feelings to violate. Above all, he learns habits of order, of implicit obedience, and comprehends, by practical expert ence, the vast advantages of rational subordination. Scores of noisy Chartists would have made loyal volunteers, who would have been prepared to say to disturbers—" this will not do ; get to your duty, and then you may be listened to." We sometimes fear that unworthier motives fre quently influence other minds. We have known country lords express their dislike of working men being good shots ! And the men have a marvellous tendency to become so. Many of their operations require great correctness of sight. Only think of the ploughman steering his implement across a long field with such nicety that close inspection cannot detect a swerve ! It might be very bacon- venient to have such a shot as he would make, with his rifle in his hand, within one or two hundred yards of a hare or a pheasant ! That is one thing ; but, we reply, the volunteers' habits would not be those of the poacher. Another latent objection—one which nobody concerned thinks well to talk about is—the effect of extensive volunteering on patronage. It is easily foreseen that Horse Guards' patronage and volun- ,eers are in an inverse ratio. The more of ono the less of the other. Just at first the difference might, ndeed, be but little felt ; but it is obvious. that heavy army estimates would not be long tolerated if every district was its own defender. Now we know our old routinists can never believe in the efficiency of volunteers. All they have seen in the American war, all they now see under GARIBALDI, all they saw of the Hungarian armies extemporised by Kossunr and beaten only by two Empires and treason—all will not convince them of the real superiority of the volunteer fighting for his native aid end Sr sido to the duly *4 And porflOtlY' IHE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1860. organised machines, which they are accustomed to wield. The community, however, is wiser ; and the harvest of patronage would gradually diminish as volunteers increased. Whether this ought to stand in the way of volunteers, let the country, however, decide. For ourselves, we believe, that it would be of the highest service to our working men, to make volun teer corps accessible to them, while the country would gain an untold accession of defensive strength. Differing entirely from the Pharisees of Wimbledon, our belief is that we should elevate the working classes, by teaching them that they, too, could give something to their country. Their asso ciation with their officers would be that of mutual respect. It would have an influence somewhat like that of cricket, in mixing all classes on terms which raised the lower, while not degrading the upper. It would be a great adult public school, in which all would learn better to appreciate, and to stand by each other. And then what strong arms and hardy bodies we might have at once ! Men too, as full of emulation as their betters. There are, we think, certain obvious dangers in the move ment becoming too cliquish. We need not parti cularise them. Looking then, at the objections, unconfessed ob jections chiefly, on every side, we affirm that better than all the fortifications that could be devised would be Mr. H. BERKELEY'S living walls. The materials for them exist to any extent. The details are easy of an arrangement. Let same one—some Minister come forward, and say it shall be done, and all difficulties would vanish in a moment. We might as easily have a million or two of trained volunteer riflemen and artillerymen to swallow up an invader; as a few thousands merely to hold them in check. The Prince Boris Galitzin, Prince John Galitzin, and Count Levachoff, have arrived at Long's Hotel, from the Isle of Wight. The Duchess of Sutherland arrived at Stafford House, on Tuesday evening, from Trentham, Staffordshire, en route for the Continent. The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde have left town for Homburg, at which watering-place the noble marquis and marchioness propose to pass a few weeks. The Marquis of Bristol and family have left St. James's-square for Ickworth Park, Suffolk. The Marchioness of Salisbury and family have left Hatfield House, Herts, to pass a few days at Bourne mouth. The noble marquis, at the close of the Parlia mentary session, leaves to visit his estates in Scotland. The Earl and Countess Delawarr have left town for their seat Buckhurst Park, Sussex. Frances Countess Waldegrave and Mr. Harcourt, M.P., have returned to Nuneham Park, from visiting her ladyship's estates in Cambridgeshire. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained at dinner, last evening, at Cambridge House—the Earl and Countess of Bessborough, Lord and Lady Lyveden, Lord and Lady Elcho, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, M.P., and Mrs. Cowper, Hon. Henry Brand, M.P., Mr. Stanley, Mr. Montgomery, &c. Later in the evening her ladyship had a small party. Viscountess Jocelyn will return to Cambridge House on Saturday next, from visiting the Earl of Gains borough, at Exton Hall, Rutlandshire. Lord and Lady John Russell and family left town yesterday morning for Scotland. Lord and Lady Foley will leave Grosvenor-square in a few days, for Worksop Manor, Notts. The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., and the Hon. Mrs. Herbert entertained at dinner, last evening, at their residence in Belgrave-square—the Earl Somers, the Bishop of Oxford, the Countess of Newburgh, Count Strzelecki, Lord Rivers, Lady Truro, the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, M.P., the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., the Right Hon. Sir Jas. Graham and Miss Graham, Sir John Acton, Mr. Hayward, &c. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. The Ministers present were—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Argyll, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir C. Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell. ANTWERP, Aug. 15.—Lord Chelmsford and a portion of his family landed here this morning from the General Steam Navigation Company's ship Moselle, which vessel left London on the previous afternoon. The marriage of the lion. Lady Alice Villiers, second daughter of the Earl of Clarendon, with 1, - )rd Skel mersdale, took place this forenoon at St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, Sir B. BRODIE.--A paragraph having appeared in some newspapers on the state of Sir Benjamin Brodie's health, we are authorised to state that he has lately under gone an operation for the improvement of his sight, and that a satisfactory result is anticipated. The United States' Mail steamship Vanderbilt, Capt. Lefevre, embarked mails and passengers from South , ampton yesterday afternoon, on heryassage from Havre to New York. CAUTION TO RAILWAY TICKET HOLDERS.—The Wrexham Advertiser of Saturday last contains a report of a case of peculiar interest to the holders of season railway tickets. A young gentleman named Lockwood, who held a season ticket, entitling him to travel on the Great Western Railway between Wrexham and Chester, was brought up before the borough magistrates on two charges of defraud. ing the railway company. On the 13th of July he got into a carriage at Ruabon, and took no ticket, riding to Chester and showing his season ticket at Rossett, where the tickets are collected. For this offence he was fined 295., and 6s. costs. On the 9th of July Mr. Lockwood also got into the train at Ruabon, and took no ticket, and when he got out at Wrexham the station-master, in accordance with the bye laws of the company, demanded the full fare from Shrews bury, but this Mr. Lockwood refused to pay. In this case a fine of 40s. and 6s. was imposed at the instance of the chairman of the magistrates. Mr. Brown, on the part of the Great Western Company, agreed to compromise a third charge against the defendant and his father, on pay ment of costs. Altogether Mr. Lockwood had to pay £4 2s. HEARTLESS ROBBERY.—Yesterday morning Mr. Payne, the coroner, held an inquest at the Red Lion Tavern, Cannon-street West, touching the death of Mr William Reynolds, aged 38 years, who resided at Charing. cross. The evidence proved that the deceased was proceeding down Cannon-street West to his place of business in Eastcheap, carrying with him a parcel, and walking sharply, when he was observed by another gentleman to stagger and fall. A respectably dressed man in a white hat, who is well known to the police, was passing at the time, and was asked to assist in removing him into a warehouse opposite, which he did, and was noticed at the time to feel for the deceased's gold watch, but being observed he desisted, and went away, when it was ascertained that he had taken the deceased's parcel. Medical assistance was sent for, but Mr. Reynolds was quite dead. The jury returned a verdict that the de ceased died from a diseased heart. SUSPICIOUS OCCURRENCE.—On Tuesday night the attention of some private watchmen on the wharfs in. Tooley-street was attracted by the cries of " Murder," fol lowed by a sort of groan, when all was quiet. Supposing it to be a drunken quarrel with some sailors and unfortunates in Tooley-street, which is frequently the case, no notice was taken of the matter. Yesterday morning, however, the body of a respectably-dressed female was picked up by some watermen near Horselydown-stairs, with several marks of violence, as if inflicted with sonic blunt instru ment. A shell was procured, and medical assistance sent for, when the body was removed to the dead-house. She is described to be about 23 years of age, with lavender coloured dress, white petticoat, gold ear-rings, with small blue stones in them, and Adelaide boots. Information has been forwarded to the coroner, who has ordered a post mor tem examination to be made of the body. DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY FROM EATING LOB STER AND IcEs.—A painful feeling has been excited in the neighbourhood of Wolverhampton and Tettenhall by the decease, at the early age of 28, of Miss Georgina Cope, second daughter of George Cope, Esq., of Comptsn, which took place, after a few hours' illness, at her father's resi• dence on Wednesday last. The deceased was present at a private party in the suburbs of Wolverhampton on the pre vious evening, and partook of lobster and ices, which it is believed acted injuriously on a disordered stomach, and led on the following morning to a series of attacks of epilepsy, which terminated in apoplexy and death. Mr. Newnham, surgeon, of this town, was in early attendance, and all that medical skill and science could devise was brought to bear upon the melancholy case, but unhappily without effect. The premature death of the deceased, who was - much re spected for her great amiability of disposition, will be deeply deplored by a large circle of friends.-IVolvcrhanipton Chronicle. SIR W. G. ARMSTRONG AND HIS WORKPEOPLE. —On Monday evening a most interesting meeting took place at the Elswick Engine and Ordnance Works,New castle-on-Tyne—very little short of 4,000 people attending a tea party there to celebrate the anniversary of the me chanics' institute, reading-room, and school of art, sup ported by Sir W. G. Armstrong and Co. and their work people. This firm now employ 2,000 men and lads—the men, from the very nature of their occupation, being of the highest class of skilled workmen. There are 21 distinct workshops in connection with the ordnance department alone. Twelve cannon a week are turned out of these works, which have for a considerable period been going night and day. Cias. , c,s, it scorns, are kept open during the win ter for the instruction of workmen and their sons, teachers being employed by Sir W. G. Armstrong and his partners. Seventy-eight drawing class, l n a g s lads and 6 h o a d tlie at m te a n t d h e e d ma t t h i e ornamental freehand cal class; and one of the most interesting features of the meeting was the distribution of prized amongst those who had excelled as students. A silver watch, gold chain, and box of tools, purchased by the managers and workmen, were also presented to Henry Gurnell, one of the appren tices, who had exhibited great personal heroism in rescuing a drowning lad from the river Tyne. Sir John Fife, the Rev. W. Maughan, Mr. Barkas, Mr. Hutchinson, Mr. Glynn, and other gentlemen delivered speeches to the large assembly. NEW WHEAT.—A remarkably fine sample of new wheat was shown in Salisbury market on Tuesday. It was grown on the farm of Mr.. MasisA, st Mstidivite* who onmetwell mpirpt 014 )104dAyi LATEST E WS., The following telegrams have been received Plt Mr. Reuter's office : GENOA, AUG. 15. The news published yesterday by some Genoese journals, announcing the landing of Garibaldi in Calabria, has not been confirmed. AUG. 15, EVENING. A Garibaldian steamer attempted to surpris e and carry off a Neapolitan vessel of the line from the port of Castellamaro. The attempts of the crew of the steamer to board were, however, repulsed, and the Neapolitan fri gates are pursuing the aggressor. No news has been received to confirm the fresh disembarkations of Garibaldians in Calabria. Tranquillity has been nowhere disturbed. TURIN, AUG. 15. The Opinione gives a denial to the reports pub lished in the French papers of a note having been sent by Austria to Piedmont relative to an inter vention in Italy in case Garibaldi should disembark in the kingdom of Naples. VIENNA, WEDNESDAY. The Emperor will prolong his stay at the Court of Bavaria until Friday next, and will then pro ceed to Posenhofel, whence he will return with the Empress on. Saturday to Laxenburg. The sittings of the Committee of 21 members of the Reich srath, which were interrupted on the 11th instant by th 3 inauguration of the Salzburg and Munich Railway, will be resumed to-morrow. It labours is s expected o It the Committee will fini s h it s lab next, by drawing up the pro positions for tii6" ieUrganisation of the A us t r i an Constitution, which, by a majority of 18 agai ns t 3, Saturday t have been already ageed to. Count Clam Martinitz will, without doubt, be appointed to present the report, in the name of the Committee, to the Reichsrath. The choice of such a person is a sufficient indi cation that the conclusions of the Committee are constitutional. The general sittings of the Reichsratb, which will recommence about the 21st or 22d inst., will decide the future destinies of Austria. The Hungarian delegates intend to treat all questions in a completely independent manner, and declare that they will retire from the Council of the Empire if entire liberty of speech be not allowed. PARIS, AUG. 15. M. Declard, Consul-General of France at Alex andria, is appointed commissioner for the Lebanon question. He will meet Lord Dufferin at Beyrout. M. Schefer, First Secretary, Interpreter to the Emperor, charged to assist the general commanding the expedition, has set out to-day for Marseilles. There is a rumour of a coup d'etat on the part of the King of Naples. CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 8. News from Syria has been received to the 29th ult. Fuad Pacha had arrested the principal civil and military functionaries. Achmet and Kirchid Pachas have arrived here under arrest. Achnet Pacha has been sent back to Beyrout, after having been publicly degraded.. Kurcha Pacha is to follow. Both are to be tried by mixed commissions. Rumours reached here yesterday of a massacre at Baalbeck. All is quiet at Aleppo. The Porte has given its answer to the Servian deputation. In reply to the firq demand of the deputation, viz.—the recognition of the hereditary succession of the Obrenovitch family, the Porte refuses to acknowledge the abstract right but consents to the succession of Prince Michael. On the second point, referring to the residence of Turks in Servia )eyond the boundaries of the for tresses, the Porte consents to be bound by the capi tulations forbiddng such residence. Regarding point, viz., the c l a i m o f Servia fo r io t n hird to frame a new co ns tit u ti on, the Porte r e m the is la accede, but will sen d commis sioners to inquire into the d e f ec t s o f th e existiug constitution. ► P efs es A local loan of 75 ,(00,000 piastres is being nego tiated by the Porte. Thewill not return so soon a s was intended. Grand Vizier COI s( STANTINOPLE, AUG. 8. Fuad Pasha, has s(nt Kurschid Bey to Constan. tinople. The Ambassadors Marquis have de Lavalette and the p r i nc i pa l energetically protested, and ob tained that he shall be sent back to Syri a w ith Achmet Bey. A conspiracy has teen discovered at Bnjukdere, near The conspirators had formed the ring the embassies. Nume rous taken place, and arms have been pa Constantinople,rrproject je es et tarrests o hfhave vpei u seized. It is asserted that the Porte has received a tele• gram, according to which the Mutualis had pit. laged Ilundered the Christian inhabi tants. Baaibee and ROME. The Roman army, now at the disposition of General Lamorieiere amounts to 20,000 men. These troops the French general drills and exercises in cessantly. He is now with the centre of the army, examining the fie!dworks and inspecting the nu merous corps he lad posted en echelon along the frontier of 'Tuscany and .Romagna. He recently had a ion interview with a foreign general, sup posed to be in the service of Austria; but of the object of the conference nothing has transpired. Lamoriciere scarcely gives breathing time to his men ; he marches and countermarches them for the double purpose of exercising the troops and de ceiving the Italians as to their exact number. He orders earthworks and batteries to be constructed, then suddenly demolishes them to throw up others e lsewhere. He thus keeps the officers of the artil lery and engineers continually in m o tion. He sees all and directs all himself. NAPLES. • NAPLES, AUG. 11. The work of constituting the Chambers pro gresses, and unless the operations of Garibaldi are successful, parliament will meet. But those opera tions are bein g pushed forward and are encouraged under the very nose o f th e governmen t. The latest proclamation of the Dictator has arrived, and is as follows : TO THE PEOPLE OF THE NEAPOLITAN CONTINENT. " The opposition of the foreigner, interested in our abasement, and internal factions, have prevented Italy from constituting herself a country. Nov, however, it appears that Providence has put an end to so many misfortunes. The exemplary unani mity of all the provinces, and victory smiling every. where on the arms of the sons of liberty, are a proof that the sufferings of this land of genius are draw ing near to their termination. _ _ " Yet another step remains ; and that step I do not fear. If the slight means which have conducted a handful of valiant men to these straits are com pared with the enormous means at our disposal at present, every one will see that the enterprise is not difficult. I would, however, that the shedding of blood amongst Italians should be avoided, and therefore I address myself to you, sons of the Neap°. !NIA COntintiata hoe proye4 Wit you (44.* trays► but I desire not to make further proof of it. Our blood we will shed together on the bodies of the enemies of Italy ; but between us let there be a truce. Accept, generous men, the right hand which has never served a tyrant, but which is hardened in the service of the people. I ask of you to constitute Italy without the slaughter of her sons, and with you to serve her and die for her. " Messina, August 6, 1860." " G. GARIBALDI, NORWAY. -- - A letter dated Drontheim, August 7, gives some details of the coronation of the King and Queen of Norway on Sunday, the sth inst. The ceremony, according to the text of the Constitution, must always be performed in the ancient cathedral of that city :--- " The King arrived on the 3d from the camp nriar Drontheim, and the Queen a few hours later from Christiania. According to precedent, the Royal procession walked to the cathedral ; the centre of the principal street, the entire dis tance from the Palace, was boarded and covered with scarlet cloth; files of infantry were ranged on each side, supported by mounted cavalry. At 10 o'clock the procession left the Palace in the following order :—Heralds, the King's Court Marshal with Staff, Marine and Military Staff, Staff of the late Kings Charles John and Oscar, Officers of the Household, Deputies from the University and Supreme Courts of Christiania, Swedish Represen tatives, Norwegian Storthing Heralds. " The Royal mantle, globe, sceptre, and sword, upon velvet cushions, were borne respectively by General Michelet, Chief Assessor Brun, Chief Justice Lasson, and General Bloch ; and the Crown by the Chief Minister of State, his Excellency G. C. Sibrun, Chancellor of the Order of St. Olaf, &c. " The King's canopy was borne by superior offi cers, and amptmen, or Lords-Lieutenant of pro vinces. The standard of the realm was carried by Major- General Garben and two chief officers. " Next followed Prince Oscar and Prince August, in the dress of cavalry officers, adorned with their various orders. " The Royal mantle, sceptre, and crown were borne by General Sorensen, General Glad, Chief Assessor Hjelm, and State Countillor C. Birch- Reichenwald. "The Queen was supported by State Councillors Petersen and Monichen, followed by.the Baroness Wedel Jarlsberg, Mistress of the Queen's Court. Her Majesty's canopy was borne by Court ladies in white. " The procession was received at the cathedral doors by the bishops and clergy. The Bishop of Christiania pronounced a blessing upon his Ma jesty, God bless the King in his going out and his coming in from this time and for ever. ' " The King took his seat upon the throne to the right of the choir, the throne for the Queen being opposite on the left. The Bishops of Bergen and Christiansand receive the Queen ; and, when all the procession were seated in order, the King and Queen knelt down, and the service began. After portions of Scripture, prayers, and singing, the Bishop of Bergen preached from Psalm lxxxv., 9, 12. After the sermon the King went up to the altar, and the crown was placed on his head by the Minister of State and the Bishop, the latter having anointed his Majesty upon his forehead, temples, breast, and wrist. " The herald announced to the Assembly, Now is Carl XV. crowned King of Norway ; he and no other.' A salute of 112 guns was immediately fired. " The Queen west through the same ceremony, the Bishop only anointing her forehead and wrist. The herald announced, Now is Willielmine Fre derikke Alexandra Anna Louisa crowned Queen of Norway; she and no other;' and the guns gave another salute of 112 guns. " A grand chorus from the oratorio composed for the occasion by C. Arnold, with the words by Pro fessor A. Munich, concluded the ceremony, and the procession returned to the Palace amid the cheers of the people." TEE RED SEA TELEGRAPH. A Government statement was made in the House of Lords last evening that the Red Sea telegraph ,has failed, "It has proved unserviceable, and there is little hope that it will be repaired." The Company by which this work was undertaken had a capital of £BOO,OOO, on which the British Govern ment have guaranteed 41 per cent. interest for 50 yvars free from all contingencies. There is every prospect, therefore, that the payment will prove a dead loss to the country. Whether this disastrous conclusion is to be attributed to a total impossi bility in the p resen t s t a t e o f te l egraph i c science of laying submarine cables, or to ignorance or mis management in this particular case, will, perhaps, be ascertained when the evidence taken before the Telegraphic Committee shall be laid before the public. At present it is reported that the Govern ment continue in telegraphic matters generally to defer to the opinion of one or more of the parties orginally connected with the promotion of the Red Sea line, and it is, therefore, to be assumed that they feel perfectly satisfied. If this conclusion is correct, there must be an end of all submarine attempts until some entirely new process shall have been discovered. Among the public, however, a very strong impression exists that the operations hitherto have not been conducted with such strictness as to settle the question, and that if all the records of submarine telegraph contracts could be produced they would furnish information on that point of , considerable value to the public service. That the directors of the Red Sea Company individually have fairly exerted themselves to conduct the enter prise in a satisfactory manner is at the same time generally believed. The fault of selecting this costly line in preference to the land route by the Euphrates rests altogether with the Government. They are now again communicating with the Porte on the latter project, but no redress has been ac corded to the shareholders who were sacrificed, nor is there any prospect of rapid progress under Turk ish auspices. Meanwhile it appears doubtful whe ther even the cable originally destined for Fal mouth and Gibraltar will be laid, as since proposed, between Singapore and Rangoon. Two months back it was intimated that if anything was to be done this season a prompt determination must be made, but Lord Wodehouse announced last evening that the question is still " under consideration," the Red Sea failure having produced complete dis couragernent.—nnes. THIS DAYS MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. IIAtERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. Wheat, 59s 6d ; barley, 34s Od ; oats, 26s ld ; rye, 44s 9d ; beans, 468 5d ; and peas, 41s Od. THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. 'Wheat, 67s 10d ; peas, barley, 33 a s 4d ; oats, 26s 2d ; rye, 41 s 10d ; beans, 46s 4d ; 41s 3 ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK . -- Wheat, 73,291, barley, 1,179 ; oats, 2,668 ; rye, 14; beans, 1,042 ; peas, 184 quarters. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. Although only a moderate supply of beasts was on offer in to-day's market, the demand for all kinds ruled heavy, and, in some instances, prices were 2d. per 81bs. lower than on Monday, the top quotation being ss. 4d. per 8 lbs. The show of sheep was seasonably good. Prime Downs and half-breds were steady in value, but long-woolled sheep were a shade lower. We have to report a very inactive in quiry for lambs, at barely previous rates. Calves moved off heavily, at a decline in value of from 2d. to 4d. per 81bs. Pigs and milch cows were dull, but not cheaper. Per Blbs to sink the offal. d. s d Crse. & inf. bea s t s 3 2 3 6, Primecrs-wool do. 4 8 5 . 4 Second qualitydo. 3 8 4 2 Pme.S'thdowndo. 5 6 5 8 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 10 Large erse. calves 3 10 4 8 Prime Scots, &c. 5 0 5 4 Prime small do 4 10 5 2 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 8 3 10 Large hogs 4 0 4 6 Second quality do. 404 6 ) Small porkers Lambs, 5s 2d to 6s 6d. Suckling calves, 19s to 235; and quarter •eld store pigs, 23s to 30s. TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts l,OOO Sheep and. lambs 11,320 Calves .......... 520 Pi g 5............ FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts ...... 562 Sheep Calves Pigs MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.—The supplies of meat are moderate; and a fair business is doin g , as f o ll ows : —Beef, f rom 2s 10d to 4s 10d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 5 s 2d ; lamb, 4 8 8d t o 5 s 4d ; veal 4s 4d to 5s Od ; pork, 4s Od to 5s 2d per 81138. by the carcase. SOUTHALL, Aug.ls.—To-day's m ar k e t was moderately supplied with fat stock, and the trade ruled steady, as follows :—Beef, &ant 38 8,1 to 5s 4d ; mutton, 4s Od to Os 6d ; lamb, 5s 4d to Gs 4d ; veal, As Od to. 5s Od ; pork, 4s Od to 4s 10d per 81bs to sink the offal. Romroun, August 15. —Wo had a steady demand, to-day, fur each kind of stock. Prices as follows : Beef, from 3s 6cl to 5s 4d; mutton, 4s Od to 5s 6d ; lamb, 5s 4d to Gs 4d ; veal, 4s Od to 5s Od ; and pork, 4s Od to 4s 10d per Sibs ; suckling calves, 15s to 19s ; quarter old store pigs, 23s to 308 each; and milch cows, £l4 Os to £l9 Os each. HAY MARKETS. SM ITHFIELD.—MertiIow hay, £3 Os to £5 5s Od ; new do., £2 15s to £l. 10$ ; old clover, £4 Os to £6 Os Od ; new do., £3 8s to £5 Os ; and straw, £1 104 to £1 16s per load. A slow trade. CUMBERLAND.—OId Meadow hay, £3 38 to £5 ss; new do., £2 15s to £4 lOs ; old clover, £4 Os to £6 Os Od ; new do., £3 lOs to £.5 Os ; and straw, £1 12s to £l. ltis per load. Trade steady. WHITECHAPEL.—OId meadow hay, £3 Os to £5 5s Od; new do., £2 15s to £4 10s; old elovel, £4 Os to £6 6s Od ; n ow d o ., £4 Os to a Se; =a £llOB to £llO per Ind, A aolitais ditamd THE POPE AND THE FRENCH PRESS. The Pope having, in his letter to the Patriarch of Antioch and the Maronite bishops, announced that he was prevented from sending more pecuniary assistance by the circumstance of his being placed in considera'le embarrassment, the Steele seizes on the occasion to inquire whose fault it is that his Holiness finds himself in such a situation :—" It is certain that if these embarrassments did not exist the Pope would feel paternal joy in sending larger sums to the Maronites. But whence come those embarrassments ? From the fact that the Holy See defends with puerile obstinacy a temporal power which is escaping from it, and which it cannot retain at any price. If, then, instead of playing at soldiers, as the Roman Govern ment does; instead of disbursing so many millions borrowed from a good people who might have em ployed them better; instead of purchasing at great cost muskets, rifled cannon, gunpowder, and ball— things which have little connection with Evangeli cal prescriptions; if, instead of thus wasting pre cious resources, the Holy See would understand that Providence is evidently bringing back the Papacy to its primitive starting point—to Evan gelical simplicity and humility; if the Papacy were spontaneously to abandon its temporal authority, which no human power can longer preserve to it— it is very evident that the Pope might immediately, with the sole resources of Peter's pence and the offer ings of the faithful, increase ten and a hundredfold the relief he sends to the Maronites. Charity would gain thereby, but the Holy See would gain still more. The Christians of the East must, then, know that, if the Roman Court does not give them more efficacious assistance, the reason is that it will not, inasmuch as it depends on itself alone to set aside in a single day the embarrassments of which it un justly complains. The Papal missive is also re marked on by the Charivari, although in a diffe rent point of view. It says :—" Given the follow ing situation : One of your friends, stricken in what is most dear to him, having lost by a catas trophe one of the members of his family, and you writing to him a letter of condolence, should .you think of mixing up your own petty troubles with the expression of painful sympathy suitable in such a letter? Certainly not. You would assuredly never conceive the idea of choosing such an oc casion to lament over the difficulty of collecting your outstanding debts, to bewail your conjugal squabbles, to speak of the shooting pains in your corns owing to the rainy weather, or any other little annoyance peculiar to yourself. Whence comes it, then, that the Pope, in replying to the unfortunate Patriarch of Antioch on the sub ject of the Syrian massacres, has thought proper to treat of a host of matters in which that dignitary can hardly be expected to take much interest at such a moment ? Why has he blended with bis consolations a short essay on politics, an epitome of the Italian question, recriminations against th e House of Lords, and other things equally irrele vant ? Alas ! we have no doubt that, if left to his own impulse, Pius IX. would have felt th a t c h ar it y and respect for misfortune made it a duty for him not to let his pen wander into these unseasonable deviations. But Cardinal Antonelli probably de cided otherwise." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EGITAM RACES-WEDNESDAY. The Egham . Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 30 added; op- tional selling weights. One mile. 4 subs. Mr. J. Lowe's The Nun, 3 yrs (£80), sst 81b (J. Plumb) 1 Mr. B. Land's Lord Milton, 3 yrs (L 80), sst Illb (J. Daley) 2 Mr. Saxon's The Quaker, 3 yrs (£150), Est 51b (Verraby) 3 Mr. J. Bird's The Nugget, 3 yrs (£80), Est 21b .. (Mills) 4 Betting-7 to 4 agst Lord Milton, 2to 1 agst The Nun, 5 to I agst any other. Won by ten lengths ; a good third. The Nugget beaten off. The winner WAS sold to Mr. Hughes for 150 gs. The Baron Stakes (handicap) of 5 sovs each, with 50 added ; for two-yr-olds ; winners extra, the second to save his stake. Straight T.Y.C. 15 subs. Mr. Fleming's Nemesis, 7st 101 b (car. Bst) (G. Fordham) 1 Mr. G, Payne's Nunnery, 7st 101 b (L. Snowden) 2 Mr. W. Nelson's Selina filly, 7st 41b (Maidment) 3 Ellerton and Clotilda colt also ran. Betting-7 to 4on Nemesis, 4to 1 agst Nunnery. Won by six lengths; a bad third. The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas; three-yr-olds, Bst 21b; four, 9st 61b ; five, 9st 111 b ; six and aged, 10st. Two miles and a distance. Mr. Saxon's Defender, 4 yrs, 9st 51b .... (L. Snowden) 1 Lord Stamford's Newcastle, 4 yrs, 9st 51b .. (A. French) 2 Mr. Rigby's Blue Jacket, 6 yrs, lOst .... (G. Fordham) 3 Merrimac and Sandy M'Pherson also ran. Amsterdam was struck out at 2 p,m. on Wednesday. Betting 7 to 4 agst . Blue Jacket, sto 2 each agst De fender and Newcastle. Defender was in front throughout, and ran home the winner by 40 lengths. The Town Plate of 50 soya (handicap). Straight half-mile. Mr. Peddie's Zitella, 4 yrs, Bst 51b (Plumb) 1 Mr. Hodginan's Inder, aged, Est 121 b (J. Adams) 2 Mr. Flooring's Margery filly, 3 yrs, Est 41b .. (J. Daley) 3 The following also ran :—Von Stroom, Emotion, Tuccio, Codicil, King of the Forest, Sparta, Diploma filly, Morella. Lizzie filly, and Parapet. Betting-3 to 1 agst Inder, sto 1 agst Tuccio and Zitella, 10 to 1 agst King of the Forest, Parapet, Sparta, and the Margery filly. Parapet and the Margery filly were Yery fractious at the post, and ultimately Admiral Rouse went to the post to take the place of Mr. Starling, who officiated as starter, in the absence of Mr. E. Hubbard. " The Admiral" succeeded in effecting an excellent start, the Margery filly making running, closely followed by Sparta, Zitella, the Diploma filly, and King of the Forest. At the distance Zitella went to the front, with Inder at her quarters, and the former ran home the winner by two lengths; the same between the second and third ; Sparta was fourth. The Magna Charta Stakes of 5 soya each, with 30 added, Optional Selling weights, &c. T.Y.C. 5 subs. Mr. G. Payne's Tartlet, 2 yrs, (£200), 7st (Drewe) 1 Mr. G. Lambert's Stella, 2 yrs (X 100), E s t .. (J Ad ams) 2 Mr. Matthew's Longhope, 2 yrs (£100), Est 41b (W. Bottom) 3 Mr. S. Jacob's Russley, 2 yrs (£150), Est lllb A. wards) 4 Betting.-5 to 4 agst T ar tl e t , s to 2 ( agst Ed an Stella d Longhope. Won by a head ; the same distance between the second and third ; Russley beaten off. LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE. EBOR HANDICAP. 4to 1 agst Defender (taken and offered) 10 to 1 agst Satellite (offered) 12 to 1 agst Moorhen (taken) 12 to 1 agst Gladiolus (offered) ST. LEGER. 3to 1 agst Thormanby (offered) 4to 1 agst The Wizard (offered) 12 to 1 agst Sweetsauce (taken) BETTING AT MANCHESTER, WEDNINDAY. We had very little betting to-day, and, as is often the case during such quiet days, there were some curious things done. For the Ebor Handicap, 9to 1 was taken and offered against Gladiolus ; and cite gentleman laid 100 to 5 against 'Underhand, but upon the backer expressing a wish to go on at that figure, he offered 100 to 6, which, as it was not taken, we quote as his price. Defender met with some support at 12 to 1, and 100 to 6 was taken and offered against Horace. For the St. Leger 3to 1 was offered on the field. Closing prices : GREAT EBOR HANDICAP. 9to 1 agst Gladiolus (taken and offered) 12 to 1 agst Defender (taken) 12 to 1 agst Cape Flyaway (taken 100 to 6 agst Horace (taken and offered) 100 to 6 agst Underhand (offered) THE DONCASTER ST. LEGER. 3 to 1 on the field (offered) EBOR HANDICAP.—YOTJATT Wsr. GRAY requests that his subscribers will not speculate on the Ebor Handicap until they receive his next advice. A trial took place yes terday at —, and the horse he now recommends beat two of the best trial horses out this season. He is so confident of the result that, in the event of the horse he recommends being beaten, he will return the money paid for advice. Underhand was selected last year when at 33 to 1. The acceptance is very small this year, consequently the prices are less, but independent of this 100 to 6 can be obtained. Terms for advice to the end of the season, 155.; to the St. Leger, 78. 6d. ; the York Meeting, 2s. 6d., and per tentage. Address 15, Charing-cross, Louden. THE HARVEST IN BRITISH AMERICA.--A number of showers, succeeded by warm weather, has had the effect of completely ripening the fall wheat, so that harvesting had begun in the Upper Canada sections of the country. The weather had been all that could be desired, and by the end of the month the great bulk of the crop would be safely housed. The spring grains were rapidly ripening, and every thing promises a full crop of all cereals. The barley crop, which is unusually large, would turn out well. The quality of some of the new wheat crop brought to market had never been surpassed, and the samples of all the grains yet exhi bited equal to any ever before shown here. Business had been very dull throughout the week, and no revival could be expected until after harvest. There had been only a limited business in produce, and prices remained much the same.—Canadian News. THE POTATO CROP.—The Cork Constitution says —The fears entertained for the safety of the potato crop are unfortunately beginning to be generally realised. Through out Tipperary and Limerick, and in some districts of th county Waterford, the crop has been destructively attacked in several localities, and farmers are digging up the oing , imma ture roots and using them as food for so to the risk of leaving them in the ground. The species damage is that of potato which has sustained the greatest _ known as the " black bull," which, at season,thi . eaVy arm is pigs, pref?rrino- t, s almost unfit as an article of human f 9d who of the p ants, which were sanguine of their crops a fortnight since . .aerres now discouraged by the appearance have assumed all the traditional c h a racteristics l of the blight . The disease or distemper whi ch has I..cen y spread amo ngst the pigs is ascribed to the disFased potatoes given to the at the Baden animals as food. Good descriptions of potatoes fetch from sd. to 6d. per stone in our local markets. GREAT CASE OF TABLEA URNING.—The Prince of Mr. Kinnaird will askthe i P n ru ter s visiaewtu.frinugyiter tables on . L , uis Nap oleon , n Affairs whethe Secretary rkish Governorr he has made any repre sentations to the Tueut, or taken any steps, influence them to demand the restotation of the Christian of S O ta n te F f r o i r d Po yrei, n ft w crata code Ott aci sold N' Nu Drum RETVA.RDS FOR SAVING LIFE AT SEA. The following rewards for saving life at sea have recently been awarded by her Majesty's Govern ment and the Board of Trade :—To Captain James Ducat, of the screw-steamer Vasco de Gama, of Glasgow, a telescope, in testimony of his humanity and services to the crew of the brigantine Breeze, of London, discovered in a sinking condition on the 28th of May last. To Mr. Thomas Livingstone, mate of the screw steamer Vasco de Gama, a quadrant; and to Malcolm M‘Lean, boatswain, Edward Living stone, Allen M'Lean, and William Scurffe, sea men, the sum of £1 ss. each ; in acknowledgment of their praiseworthy conduct in manning the boat of the said vessel and rescuing the crew of the Breeze, of London. To Hermann Kroger, master of the Finkenwarder fishing smack Dolphin, and to T. P. C. Bush, master of the second Hamburg Light Ship, the sum of £3 each, for services ren- dered in saving the survivors of the crew of the Jenny Lind, sunk by collision with the Norwegian brig Dorothea, at the mouth of the Elbe, on the 23d ult. To Jan E. Visser, Jan D. Dokier, Job Dirks Kisser, Jacob Jans Barker, Cornelis Yzaacks, Visser, and Like Jans Kauger, forming the crew et a Netherland lifeboat, a silver medal each for their services in saving five of the crew of the fishing sloop Elmer, of London, wrecked off the island of Auck land during a heavy storm on the 29th May last ; and to Chevalier Dan. Wigbold Crommelin van Heeche ren, burgomaster of the said island, a gold medal, for his services in directing the salvage operations on the above occasion. His Imperial Highness the Emperor of the French has awarded to Richard Hayes, Richard May, and James May, masters in the British merchant service, Robert Martin, a, coast-guard officer, James Smith, Robert Thorn, and Joseph Blund, seamen, a silver medal each, for ser vices rendered to the Amphitrite, of Dunkirk , wrecked on the Falmouth coast in November last; to Mr. Thomas Small, French vice-consul at Lowe: stoffe, a first-class gold medal, for services rendered to the crew of the French vessel Jeune Mathilde, lost at sea on the 31st October last ; to Mr. Haines , master's-assistant, of her Majesty's ship Firefly, a, gold medal, for s erv i ces i n di rec ti ng th e sav ing °,. 1 the crew of the ve sse l M ar i e , o f V annes (d a te not given) ; to Mr. Coutanche, a silver medal, for assist" ante rendered to the Ouragan, of St. Malo, When wrecked in the Bay of St. Helier's on the loth April, 1859. F.RENJII _RIFLED CANNON FOR GAI?IBALDI. I have been positively assured that ten rifled cannon, missing from the French arsenals, are, or will soon be, in the possession of Garibaldi. I can: not vouch for the fact on my own knowledge, but received the information from a very competent authority. General Turr's visit to Paris is said O have been connected with thi s t rans f er . What f believe to be quite certain is, that Signor San Cata Garibaldi's envoy to the French Government, 5 011 : cited permission to have rifled cannon for the Sicl: Tian army cast in the French foundries. I cannot say what was the answer to this request, but it may perhaps be taken in connexion with th e southwa rd journey of the ten pieces of ordnance above men' toned. General Turr, during his stay in Paris, 114 said to have had an interview with the Emperqs This is not improbable, for it is well known that In! Majesty t ekes pleasure in receiving the distinguishe d : foreign emigrants who visit his capital, and tha t Italians, Hungarians, and Poles answering to tha t description have not unf r eq u e n tly had audience 0 ' him. Doubtless, his own experience of exile ha! implanted in his breast a feeling of sympathy viqty; such persons, and therefore his friendly and frequslo reception of them should not awaken the suspic ion s of those Powers to whom they are known to be lino: tile. We may presume it to be a question of sentl ment, not of policy. As regards General Turr, hove ' ever, I can assure you that, whether he did or d i d not see the Emperor, he frequently saw Prince Napoleon. You a r e p ro b a bly aware that the Hun ,. garians, if they see a prospect of its bringing sue' tour to their cause, are quite disposed to offer tll . O crown of Hungary t o th e E m p eror 's cousin. Ills Imperial Highness should not overrate the comply ment implied by this disposition. The Hungarians are much in the same frame of mind that the Lori . r bards were in for some time before the war it Italy. To get rid of their then rulers they woul d t _ have accepted the government of the Grand Turk 01 of the great enemy of mankind himself. Of course , they would have cherished an arriere pensee of 1 1 ° 1 . : for ever remaining under the sway of 1 “: undesirable a Sovereign as either of these two, they thought that any change would be progres‘ and an advantage.—Letter from Paris. MORE BRIBERY PROSECUTIONS.—It .0 00 proceedings have been commenced under the Corrupt KA' a f tices Prevention Act against three Conservative eieetors Great Yarmouth, alleged to ha ve c o mm itt e d ac t s o f bribey,, , at the last election for the b oroug h, i n 1859. Th e proceed; ings do not origin a t e w ith th e l oca l Lib era l s, b ut w ith it gentleman in the metropolis, and arise out of the evidell, ° ! adduced before the sele c t comm itt ee w hi c h di s p ose d of D I : petition against the return of the present sitting membe rs for Yarmouth, Sir H. J. Stracey and Sir E. H. R. Lae° ll ' A CASTLE TO BE SHOT FOR.—A letter from C ° ; logne, of the Bth inst., states that the inhabitants of thti, city are occupied with the preparations for a grand festi7 which is to take place at the end of the present month the beginning of September. There is to be a general q., 1 , man shooting match, to which are to be invited Swiss .? P' l3 gians, Dutch, and English. The prize to be gained ig l u , castle, of the value of about £6,000, situated o pposite 11 , Coblentz, with a magnificent view over that city, Stoll i fels, the Rhine, and the Moselle. The buildin g i s perfe c ,,, e new ; it is constructed according to the f as hi o n of middle ages, with drawbridge and towers. This, if W l "' is great news for the rifle corps. FATAL POACHING AFFRAY.—Benjamin Bi ch : gamekeeper to Mr. Naisb 4 was shot whilst engaged in Watch"; ing his master's estate, by a man named James Norris/ working man at Chewton Mendip, Somerset, on Thurstlati While on the:look-out on M r . N a i s h' s es t a t e , th e deceefi f heard, as he believed, th e di sc h arge o f a gun on a part the demesne. He hastened to the spot, and saw Norr4,l the act of preparing to discharge his gun at a rabbit. demanded by what right he was there, but receiving,,,,,'" answer was stepping forward, when Norris shot bim in t he leg. The leg was amputated, but the unfortunate Ms" sank and died from the injury.—Shrewsbury Journal. WATERSPOUT.—On Saturday afternoon the lower portion of Auchterarder was visited with a tremendous waterspout, which in a short time deluged the dwellings of the inhabitants to an alarming extent. One of the brewerie s was inundated to a considerable depth of water—so much so, that the barrels were floating on its surface. The gar' dens and crops have been considerably damaged. Th e waterfall continued only a short time. In the suburbs there was scarcely any rain.• The th ermometer has been mu ch higher since.—Scotsman. SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT THE TRAFALGAR GOODS STATION, NEWCASTLE.-0 11 Tuesda morning/ about a na ti v e of half-past eight o'clo c k, as Robert Ramsey, Rothbury, 23 years of age, and a goods guard in th e em ployment of the N or th Eastern Railway Company, wag engaged in coupli ng some waggons at the goods sta ti o n, he slipped his f oo t an d fell across the rails. Three o f the trucks, one of whi c h contained, we understand, fi v e tons 0 f iron, pas se d over b oth legs. The poor fellow was lint :a(/ ' diately conv e y e d t o t h e i nfirmary, where, from the s erious nature of the i n j ur i es, it was f oun d necessary to am putate both limbs. From the promptitude with which his riff" juries were attended to hopes are entertained of his ulti' mato recovery.—Northern Daily Express. A PROFANATION.—A tourist just arrived fro ° the Grand Chartreuse tells me that last Thursday week the monks were horribly scandalised by the fact of a la d !, having, contrary to all regulati ons , o bt a i ne d a d m i ss ion '- the monastery, and passed the night therein. The fair i% truder, an inhabitant of Valence, dres se d h erse lf i n ree n ,, e clothes, and passed in with a party of gentlemen. In tf morning she recorded the triumph o f h er curiosity b., carving her name and address in the door of the cell i s which she slept. The Duchess de Berry was the heroine of a similar adventure some years ago, but there has been no instance of the kind since.—Letter from Paris. A SHOT AT A SEAL.—A solitary seal has fo r some time haunted the Sound of Mull, oppo s it e Scalast'l. part of the shooting ground o f th e au th or o f "The MN' and the Loch," &c. Mr. Colquhoun drove over from his residence at Glenforza to Scalastal last Tuesday, not forget Ling his rifle, in case "the sealch" should turn up. Neat morning he appeared at his usual fishing gr ound, but full 200 yards from the nearest refuge. Mr. C. put up the 20 0 yards' sight, and shot him fair through the head. Th e set' was dyed with blood, and the seal floated. Before the c obble could be launched, however, it had sunk , and as the wate r was too deep to see the bottom, the party had to wait till low ebb tide, when the seal was discovered at a considerabl e depth. As Mr. Colquhoun was the only expert swimmer riff the boat, he plunged overboard, and at the first dive seined the creature by the flipper and raised it to th e surface, when his companions dragged it THE GREAT SALT LAKE.--The waters of this lake leave traces of salt all over the soil. No fish can riv e in them ; and fresh meat steeped in them for twelve hour s requires no other conserving preparation. To the eas t ': of the lake lie s an ex tensive plain, covere d i n p ar t with ar t em i s , mire, or salt. From its centre rise numerous mountains like islands planted in a sea of saltpetre, Beyond this point commences the desert of the severi t y m i les . The malediction of heaven seems to weigh heavily on the solitude, whi c h reminds one of the desolate shores of the Dead Sea, Where Sodom and Gomorrha were dc' str9y e_ d • To the ea s t were i naccess ibl e mounta i n r idges' and blo od-coloared rocks dotted with green -1) t • on their fla - nk undulated darkclouds; whilst • b- o s ' vet' thick vapours mope d above their summits, like the smoke of a volcano upon to: azure sky. Light mists produced at twilight hovere d amid its vague glimmer, and danced over the waters, look ing like crape tinged with the most lively pink; this craP ° spread over the horizon a transparent veil that shed uP °la nature the charm of a faint light, which, as it gradually rose to the summit of the mountains, assumed a more sombre hue, an indescribable, dismal appearance, that filled the soul with sadness and the eye with tears. This immense valley, of a lugubrious and funeral aspect, recals to mind that of Jehoshephat, the valley of graves. An h n " posing silence continually reigns around this described la.le, which might well be called the "Lake of Death." On its sterile strand, on the porphyry of its banks, you never hear the patter of the rain, the whistle of the wind, the leay. e . s falling from the trees, the chirp of the birds, nor the swat' low's rapid flight, through the air. All is elm and gloomy like the vaults of a gigantic sepulcher. One would say _ that God in the day of wrath had cursed these solitudes en account of the crimes of the inhabitants, whose ashes lay Mouldering, for many centuries beneath the sands of the / deserts.—Seven rears' Residence in the areal Poe?* F i 11 7 fr r 4 otquifr4, r an op th mi thl Po be (i.e are tho cull we ani the Pre] the to t Sol ced of an( 3p 3 Ne Inc