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.._~- BENSON'S W A TCHES.I " Perfection of mechanism." —Morning Post. Gold hilver 2to 50 guineas. Send 2 stamps for flcnson't 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 se. extra. 33 and 34, LucLrate-hill, London, 1749. Tii EATItE-12,0 Y AI., 1-4.AYMAitIi.E T. Lessee, Mr. J. Z. Buckatone. THIS E'ENING the performances will vommence with THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Buck stone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Mrs. C. Mathews, Miss Weekes, and MrS. Wilkins. With HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. Mr. C. Mathews. To conclude with THE ODDITIES OF THE OHIO. By the Leclercqs. }. the question that is, whether the electoral power should be taken from landlords and millionaires, and conferred on the electors themselves — will not brook persistence in putting to them all the little question, what is your religious profession? They will excuse his excuses for evading surrender of aristocratic power, but they will not excuse his sacrificing those whose support he asks to the party who desire to take his place, and that too on a pro posal very offensive to them, while its withdrawal will wrong no one. It is wonderful how often the Whigs in office have been their own enemies. We all remember how Radical members, when censured by some for not letting Lord PALMERSTON eject the Tories almost as soon as he had let them in with the intention of so doing, re plied, Ist—We will support Tories as readily as Whigs, while their measures deserve it, but they added, 2dly, in very suggestive tones—per sonally, if we have representations to make to Mr. DISRAELI and his colleagues, we must acknow. ledge, we are treated with a measure of respect and cousideration'to which we have long been strangers. There is no disguising the fact, that the very man ner of the Tory leaders in refusing to accede to the wishes of the " Advanced Liberals," secured them more goodwill than the Whigs gained by their haughty cold compliance with the requests of their supporters. While men are men, so it will be, we may say so it ought to be. Courtesy is not fawning, and we heard it from many members themselves that the gentlemanly courtesy of the Tories in office, when compared with "the cold shoulder" so often turned to them by the Whigs, was one important element in the success of the former. There is barely time for Lord PALMER STON to "consider his ways." The irritation is becoming marked. Numerous members have de clared they cannot and will not disoblige their active supporters as well as go against their own feelings ; and the sooner Lord PALMERSTON permits Sir G. C. LEWIS to give up the words, which we are now assured he forced en the Home Secretary, the better for his party. The House of Commons only did its duty last night by a timely division on the subject of com pensation. Sir RICHARD BETIIELL, indeed, took the amendment very angrily, but the country has only to regret that similar amendments have not been proposed or successful in many other cases. The evil of compensation for the loss of offices or of practice, under a certain arrangement of things, is very great. There is not only the direct cost to the country of the reforms which have been made, but the hindrance to many de sirable reforms. We want to get rid of some antiquated court or mode of procedure ; it is very desirable all acknowledge ; but then there is the frightful cost of compensation, a charge saddled upon the country for years to come. We are even now paying heavily for compensation to the gentlemen who had to give way under the first bankruptcy reform; and while, like JOB'S messen gers, they are annually making their sad demands upon us, behold another Bankruptcy Bill becomes a sheer necessity, but it tells us the same sad story —we must pay those who did service under the old one for long years to come of doing nothing. We question whether it would not be well to enter at once upon a better understanding with all officials in every department in the country ; a Re solution of the House, perhaps, might give warn ing, that henceforth compensation eo nomine, should cease ; that every person accepting office of any kind in the Government or administration of the country, must take into consideration the probability, or the contrary, of the employment which he under- takes, ceasing to be necessary. This principle might have an extensively retrospective applica tion, but its future application would of course be easy. It might be a clause in every act creating new or modified services, that should the act be repealed and the services be no longer required, those who performed them should have no claim to compensation. The question of retiring pensions is altogether different; even in regard to that, the fairer principle is to pay all persons what will enable them fairly to provide their own pensions by savings, or by the purchase of Deferred Annui ties; still the country will never, knowingly, see old servants treated shabbily. It is for Courts and the Horse Guards to pass over old Peninsular veterans in favour of Palace scribes. Reformers would do wisely, we think, to get into some authoritative shape the principle which really decided the vote of last night,—that men in the prime of life, able yet to do plenty of work, ought not, simply, be cause their particular offices were abolished, to absorb the hard-earned money of the country without continuing, in some other form, to render a quid pro quo. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY and the House deserve onr thanks, but the Bankruptcy Bill must not be thrown up because Sir R. BETf{ELL, its able proposer, desires to fee the lawyers so splendidly at the cost of the country. The intelligence from British Columbia is any thing but satisfactory. General HARNEY is at it again, and this time somewhat rancorously. There is a decided objection, it appears, on the part of that amiable Marplot to the recently devised arrangements for the solution at last of the San Juan problem, by means of a joint Anglo-Ameri can occupation of the disputed little insular ter ritory. According to General HARNEY, this scheme of a joint occupancy of the island is altogether inadmissible—the United States claiming there still to the last the sole right of sovereignty. Now all this, it cannot but be remembered, is directly counter to the designs of General SCOTT, the Pacificator, as he may be called, on behalf of the Government at Washington. General SCOTT'S proposition—the proposition eventually acceded to by Governor DOUGLAS —was, it cannot be for gotten, the temporary location upon the little island of San Juan of a small body of troops, separated from each other by the breadth of the island, and holding joint possession of it thus until the question of Sovereignty should be ultimately decided by deliberate diplomatic negotiations be tween the respective Governments. The chief pro portion of the American armament actually disem barked a year ago upon the shores of San Juan, and encamped there like so many filibustering marauders, General SCOTT contrived to have with drawn to the mainland, leafing upon the disputed island no more than Captain HUNT'S small com pany. At another part of San Juan, distant about fifteen miles from Captain HUNT'S party, a force of British marines was landed in March last by order of Admiral BAYNES, with all regard to military etiquette and with all desirable courtesy to the military occupants of the island already there in the service of the United States Government. Thus matters continued to be situated for the best part of a quarter—the question of sovereignty being left wholly in abeyance for ulterior decision by mutual consent of the British and American Governments. The utmost unity all the while prevailing between the English Marines and Capt. HUNT'S Company. According to all that can be learnt in regard to their mutual bearing, more ladmirable discretion could hardly have been shown upon either side than has been shown under Commence at 7. RO YAL 1 3 It INCES S'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, will b 3 performed THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Phelps. To conclude with THRICE MARRIED. Mr. Meadows, Miss C. Leclercq, &c. Commence at 7. ADEL if NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole proprietor and Manager, Mr. Ben). Webster. Reproduction of the powerful Adelphi drama, "The Flowers of the Forest." _ Ninth week of the popular American Actress, Miss Julia Daly Tr, es ,NENEN(I, THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. Messrs. J. L. Toole, r . Bedford, Billirwton, Stuart, Eburne, C. J. Smith, Powell, Romer ; Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly, Mrs. Billington, Miss Laidlaw. After which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSIN. Messrs. Stuart, C. Selby, Billington, Eburne, Miss Julia Da;y, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and Mrs. Chatterley. • Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Bs. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, Bd. Acting Manager —Mr. Wm. Smith. FRENCH PLAYS-ST. JAMES'SB. THEATRE. Directeur, M. Talexy.—Lessee, Mr. I'. Chatterton. M. LECLERE. Mdlle. DUVERGER (her last appearance but one). THIS EVENING, LES FEMMES TERRIBLES. Mdlle. Duverger. ANTENOR POLTPIIEME. rolypherne, by M. Leclere. Orchestra Stalls, 7s. 6d. ; Balcony Stalls, ss. ; Pit, 2s. Gallery, ls. Private Boxes, from Two Guineas Commence at 8. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wit. BATTY. NOTICE !—A Grand MID-DAY PER FOR lIANCE and JUVENILE FETE on THURSDAY, June 28.—Slendid Equestrian and Gymnastic Ent, rtainment.—Commen p ce at 2 o'clock. New Engagement, for nine nights previous to his departure for the Continent, of the Greatest Rope - Dancer in the World, HERR CHRISTOFF, and the popular French Clown, MONS. L'EPINE. MADLLE. LEONTINE received with enthusiastic applause. fhe superb Hippo-drama is a decided success. On Monday, June 25, 186 u, and during the week, the En tertainments will commence with the Grand Historical Spectacle in Three Acts, entitled "FAIR RosA)IOND, or the AMAZON CRUSADERS." To be followed by an incom parable display of Equestrian Achievements in the Scenes of the Arena, supported by the most talented Artistes in Europe, Including Madlle. LEONTINE. To conclude with a Popular Farce. Doors open at half -past 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. CON , CERTS. CA NTERBUR Y HALL THIS EVF.NING, C. H. GOIJNFA UST.OD'S OPERA- First Time in this Country. Faust Mr. Henry Herbert. Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard. Siobel Mrs. Anderson. Marg,uerite ..... Miss Russell. Conductor Mr. Jonghmans. And selections from Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, is Hall, 6d. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic\ and W. T. Critchfield. The AFRICAN OPERA TIiOUPE, their first appearance since 1852, consisting of ELEVEN STAR PERFORMERS, who will give the whole of their inimitable entertainment every evening. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, JUNE 26, MO. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 67—highest since noon yesterday. 53—lowest this morning and during the night. 68—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.9 2 . WlND —Westerly; light, with fine weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY.—Morning, 7h. 3m.—Afternoon, 7h. 30m. To-monnow.-Morning, 7h. 58m.—Afternoon, Bh. 30m. , 41149 - • r • - =444. THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1860. Mr. DISRAELI has made a very clever move. When he headed the deputation from his own party to Lord PALMERSTON, he incurred not the slightest risk himself, since if he failed he would lose no support ; at the same time he tempted Lord PALMERSTON to commit himself with a very active : section of the Liberal party, and, marvellous to say, the bait took ; the wary old Premier was caught. Ho saw a phalanx of Tory strength, headed by Tory leaders, consistently on their part, offered him, if he would persist in a little scheme which had (it is now said at his instigation) been issued from the Cabinet workshop. The temptation was too strong. Now, he seemed to think, I shall get my way after all : every man shall record his reli gious profession and that of his household, de spite these Dissenters and Radicals; Mr. DIS RAELI doubtless withdrew, pretty sure that he had at once served his own friends and irretrievably damaged Lord PALMERSTON with his. It might have been all very well for Lord PAL MERSTON to stick to his Census crotchet and his " Religious Profession" column in the census schedule if he could do without the " Radicals and Dissenters." He knows, however, as well as Mr. DISRAELI, that in the present state of politics neither party can have a majority without them. But Mr. DISRAELI has this advantage—the Radi cals will not be angry with him for asking Lord PALMERSTON to stick to a High Church scheme after the latter had proposed it; all their anger will centre on the man who not only proposed the obnoxious column, but who gratefully accepts Tory aid against his own supporters to en• able him to maintain it. We have observed that many of his " advanced Liberal " sup porters are already remarking that it would have been better for them if-the Tories had been in office ! Mr. DISRAELI, they say, would never have insulted them, never have teased them on a most annoying point, by proposing a " religious profession" column. They do not blame him for clutching a godsend from the Liberals, but they affirm that he would not have done the thing himself. They are comparing the fair treatment they experienced at his hands, for perfectly independent. support, when he was last in office, with their present mal treatment, as they consider it, by the leader of the party whom they are expected to support. Already we observe that a list of mem bers, much larger than the Government majority, is associated with a committee for resisting the " re ligious profession" clause to the uttermost, and they seem to be determined either to conquer or to throw Lord PALMERSTON overboard. We do not wonder at this. We have warned the Cabinet that it might, and probably would be so. A c o • nsiderable number of the Liberal members and their Sthe upporters are exceedingly annoyed by impertinenc e of the question to be put to them ; and all persons of common sense must see that it is a clear schem e to magnify most irrationally the Church of England against Dissenters, by a return which must give it a most un just preponderance of numbers. Between the annoyance and the injustice of Dissenteu without whom the Liberals cannot return fheir members, the tide is running strongly ; it will cer t a i n l y tell on the next election, and we should think on Some of the divisions, even at this period of the ses sion. Unless, indeed, Lord PALMERSTON beat a timely retreat we should not be. at all surprised if he find our warning to by true—that men will re sent a gratuitous insult in a small matter, far more bitterly than difference of opinion on a great one. The same earnest Liberals who would give Lord the ballot—Din PALMERSTON, for instance , t ime on THE SUN, I,ONDoN, TUESDAY •EVENING, JUNE 26, 1860. circumstances, it will be admitted upon all hands, of peculiar delicacy. All which, as might have been imagined, were results that proved, to use a popular idiom, anything but nuts to General HAn- NEY. A lover of hot and tart sayings and doings there—these lukewarm milk-and-watery proceedings were anything but palatable to the intended Lord of Misrule. They had no savour to his palate. They palled upon his appetite. His gorge rose at them—and there were rumours at last that Captain HUNT was likely to be recalled. The gallant officer was said to be too partial to the English; he was described as having too many English proclivities ! Besides, was there not the very man for his substitute dis- coverable in the person of his well-known pre decessor, Captain PICKETT ? Captain PICKETT was the original occupier of the island of San Juan. He it was who first carried out the filibusteTing designs of General HARNEY upon San Juan, by suddenly landing upon its shores and seizing it in the name of the Republican " powers that be" at Washington. It is equally certain, it is true, that Captain PICKETT was pur posely, designedly withdrawn from San Juan by orders of General SCOTT, thereby making good his claim to be regarded as a diplomatic pacificator by carrying out the amicable compromise already particularized. Captain PICKETT was then with , drawn by General SCOTT'S express direction for the simple reason that Captain PICKETT was so furiously, rancorously, rabidly un-English, or, in other words, so much of a thick and thin Harneyite. Captain HUNT being on the contrary an officer and gentleman of the most conciliatory manners, and one with his mind wholly unwarped Iby any of these narrowminded and irrational pre judices against the Britishers, was selected for that very reason, expressly upon that ac count to be the American officer in com mand during the delicate juncture of this joint occupancy. For that very reason, upon that express account, General HARNEY at length, when he could endure the " situation" no longer, determined upon exchanging Captain HUNT back again for Captain PICKETT. Than this nothing could well be, under the circumstances, more insensate. Nothing cer tainly could be more exquisitely irritating. It is a retrogressive step, however, that has actually now been taken—that has not simply been medi tated. Half General Scott's good work has by this one act been undone. The partially unravelled difficulty is again being tossed back into its former state of entanglement. Not only does General HARNEY send back his anti-English lieutenant to the disputed island, in the person of Captain PICKETT, but he sends him back to San Juan with an official order containing instructions haughtily intimating that he has no authority whatever to accept a joint occupancy ! In other terms, the United States still obdurately lays claim, through General HARNEY, and General HARNEY, in his turn, through Captain PICKETT, to exclusive possession of the Island of San Juan by right of Sole Sovereignty. Now, everything considered, this iniquit ous claim, thus insolently revived, cannot possibly be allowed by England without turpitude, without degradation, without seriously militating against her interests and lowering her prestige in that portion of her vast and world-wide dominions. We sincerely believe that the question at issue has only to be discussed with candour between the two Governments to be set at rest very speedily to the complete satisfaction alike of Ame ricans and Englishmen. It is sheer folly however, it is nothing less than absolute fatuity to allow of its remaining any longer as a soi t of bombshell charged with detonating mercury to be tossed to and fro at the whim of a flippant fillibuster like General HARNEY his supe rior General SCOTT, the Government at Wash ington itself to the contrary notwithstanding. Matters have at length reached that point that England can no longer with dignity admit of slurring over for the time being this San Juan diffi culty by means of a compromise that can be whistled to the winds at a moment's notice. In lieu of a temporary compromise we have the necessity thrust on us of insisting upon a speedy and per manent settlement of the long disputed line of demarcation between the United States territory, and the British North American possessions. It is interesting to record, as another evidence of loyalty to the Crown, in one of its many small, remote, and scattered possessions that the legisla ture of Bermuda has just now voted unani mously, and by acclamation, a thousand pounds sterling to defray the expenses of any entertain ment that little colony may possibly have the privilege of according to his Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, in the event of his Royal Highness touching at those islands on his return from his approaching visit to the two Canada. Viewed in relation to the resources of the little colony, the sum itself is nothing less than munificent ; and the spontaneous and enthusiastic manner in which it has thus been voted upon a mere contingency im parts to it, as an evidence of loyalty, a peculiar value and significance. We can only hope that circumstances will admit of his Royal Highness paying the wished-for visit to the Ber mudans prior to his return homeivards; so that another bond of sympathy may thus, through the agency of the heir to the Crown of England, him self, link more closely and indissolubly than ever another of our far off colonies with the old Impe rial father-land. THANKS TO OUR VOLUNTEERS. The Queen has done her part. The Commander in-Chief has done his part. Both have thanked the Volunteers as they richly deserved for the splendid proof they gave on Saturday that England had a National Defence which all Europe must respect. Even the philanthropic Lord Shaftes bury has done his part, and come forward to demand afreskthat the employers of the Volunteers show theirTratitude by freely and universally conceding the Saturday half-holiday for dril:. And their masters may well do it; for the money market will be easier, and trade the better, for the sense of security imparted by our 122,000 Volunteers We venture to suggest that our House of Com mons, and we are sure on this point there would be no dispute between the two Houses, should "Thank the Volunteers" too; and we beg to propose that they tender to each and all of the Volunteers in the name of a grateful country, the " Freedom of Eng land"—the Elective Franchise embodied in a spe cial Act of Parliament. Giving militiamen a vote, though laughed at, was excellent in principle,. but we are sure that a " Volunteers Franchise Bill," would be carried with acclamation through both Houses. fisetlrde.i t z . the a n fIA report had reache d Ancona that the Fren ch garrison at Rome wo uld be au g mented b y the number of 15,000 men, at the same time that the foreign troops in the pay of the Pope would.be removed from the oily. VACANCY IN THE R EPRESENTATION 01" DONEGAL. —The decease of Sir E. S. Hayes , Bart., causes a vacanc y in the representation of the county of Done g al. Mr. Alex. J. R. Stewart, of Ards, has stated h i s intention of offering himself as a candidate. It is also rum oured that a son of a the Marquis of Abercorn, Lord Hamilt on, will be in the Miss Coutts has issued cards for a gran d enter tainment to their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge,etrbeed i t p a r rl y n G c e r s a s n dD Mary, u ch e o s n s s t o h f r ak 1 e nbu g proximo.h Cards of invitation are also issued for concerts on the 3d L and 10th of: the ensuing month. VOCAL ASSOa 'AMES'S HALL. Next Friday the last Subscription Conc , ,rt will take place, and those who desire a musical treat should avail themselves of the final opportunity for this season. Some of the pieces in the programme are most promising, par ticularly the charming cantata from the " May Queen," which will be taken by Miss Stabbach. Madame Catherine Hayes will also appear, and her renowned talent Cannot but add greatly to the attractions of the evening. She will sing a French and an Italian air. Among the choruses will be the "Ave Mari.' and the " Ode to St. Cecilia." Isle. Charles 11a116 will perform on the pianoforte a sere made from Mendelssohn, with orchestral accompaniments. Miss Messent, whose pleasing voice is familiar to all con cert-goers, will sing a romanza from Rossini's " Guillamme Tell." Mr. Santley will be among the singers. The choruses will be given by the members of the Vocal Asso ciation, and the band will be on the largest scale possible, and will include some most eminent artists. So that, altogether, there is a fair chance of this sixth concert being, if the last, not the least in the ranks of the season's enter tainments of this popular association, who have attained to a considerable degree of excellence in their peculiar style, and whose performances offer the advantage of lit - ailed prices to those for whom that is an object. A 4 _DE I,l' H 1 THEATRE. The favourite Adelphi drama of "Flowers of the Forest" has been revived at this theatre with well -deserved suc cess, the leading parts being supported in very effective style by Messrs. Belford, Toole, Billington, and C. J. Smith ; Mrs. Mellon, and Miss Kate Kelly. No pret tier, more interesting, or more picturesque melodrama of the peculiar order to which it belongs has ever been produced than " Flowers of the Forest," and the genuineness of its merit is satisfactorily proved by its general and enduring popularity. Miss Julie Daly's engagement continues, and still proves highly attractive. A new play by 41r. Bridge man, of which report speaks very favourably, is in active preparation. IIIE VOLUNTEER REVIEW OF SATURDAY. GENERAL ORDER. HORSE GUARDS, S.W., June 25, 1860. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has received the commands of the Queen to convey to the several Volun teer Corps reviewed by her Majesty on Saturday, the 23d instant, the very great satisfaction with which she observed the rapid progress they have made in military discipline, and the degree of perfection at which they have arrived. The steadiness and precision with which they performed the Parade movement, leave little doubt in her Majesty's mind, that, if they continue to be actuated by the same zeal they have hitherto evinced, a moderate degree of drill, in terfering as little as possible with their usual avocations, will rencl..r them a most valuable auxiliary to her Regular forces for the defence of the country. Much as her Majesty's admiration was excited by the soldierlike bearing of the various corps passed in review, a still deeper impression has been made on her mind by the proof which the Volunteer movement throughout the coun try affords of their devotion and loyalty to the Throne, and their anxiety to second her endeavours to ensure the secu rity, and thereby the prosperity of the Kingdom. The General Commanding-in-Chief is further directed by her Majesty to mark especially her sense cf the zeal dis played by the Officers of Volunteers Commanding Brigades and Corps, and to notice particularly those Battalions and Companies which, regardless of personal inconvenience and expense, came from distant counties to join in the dis play of loyalty and patriotism, which will render the 23d of June, 1860, memorable in the annals of our times. The General Commanding-in-Chief having thus given expression to her Majesty's sentiments regarding the Volunteer Force, commendation on the part of his Royal Highness would be superfluous ; but he desires to offer his thanks for the support and co-operation he has received, on this occasion, from the Officers of the Regular Army em ployed during the day, and, more particularly, to refer to the excellent arrangements made by the Inspector of Volunteers and his Assistants, which were so well seconded by the intelligence and orderly conduct of the various Corps present. By Command of his Royal Highness, the General Commanding-in-Chief, JAMES YORKE SCARLETT, Adjutant-General. TEE GRPAT EASTERN. QUEENSTOWN, TUESDAY. The Marco Polo has arrived here. She landed mails and eight passengers. On the 20th instant, in lat. 47.48 north, lon. 22.50 west, she passed the Great Eastern, steaming very fast. PARLIAMENT 'RI' DIVISION. HOUSE OF COcl - MONS—JuNE 25. BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY (SALARIES, &c.) Resolution 1. " That the salaries, allowances, remunera tions, and retiring annuities, and compensations which may become payable to certaia persons appointed under or affected by any Act of the present session for amend ing the law relating to bankruptcy and insolvency in England, shall be charged upon the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland." Amendment proposed, to leave out the words "and com pensations." Question put, " That the words and com pensations' stand part of the resolution :"—The house divided ; ayes 98, noes 111. AYES-OS. A dam,W. P. Gilpin, C. Murray, William Bagwell, J. Glyn, G. G. Newport, Viset. Beaumont, W. B. Gordon, C. W. Paull, H. Bethell, Sir R. Gore, J. R. 0. l'ortman W. H. B. Blencowe, J. G. Graham, Sir J. R. G. Potts, George Brady, John Gregson, S. Re ton, G. W. J. Bridges, Sir 8., Bt. Grey, Rt. Hn. Sir G. Robertson, D. Calcutt, P. Gurdon, B. Rogers, John J. Cardwell, Rt. An. E. Hadfield, Geo. Russell, Hastings Castlerosse, Vist. Hanbury, R., jun. Russell, A. J. E. Cave, S. Hankey, Thomson Russell, Sir Wm. Childers, H.,C. E. Hayter, Sir Wm. Salt, Titus __ Clay, Jaines , Reidlam, Thos. E Seymour, Sir M. Clive, George Henley, Lord Seymour, Digby Close, M. C. Hennessy, J. P. Somes, Joseph Cowper, Hon. W. F. Hill, Hon. R. Stanley, Lord Craufurd, E. H. J Kershaw, J. Stanley, 0. Crawford, R. W. Kinglake, Serj. J. Taylor, Hugh Crossley, Frank Kingscote, Lt.-Col. Thompson, H. S. Davey, R. Knatchbull, W Trefusis, Hon. C. U. Deasy, Rickard Laing, S. Valetort, Lord Divett, Edward Langton, H. G. Villiers, Rt. Hon. e. Dodson, John G. Lanigan, J. Walpole, S. H. Dunbar, Sir Wm. Lennox, Lord H. G. Warre, J. A. Duncombe, T. S. Lindsay, W. S. Welby, W. E. Dundas, Frederick Lindsay, Colonel Wemyss, J. Enfield, Viscount Lygon, Hon. F. Willcox, B. M. Esmonde, John Mackinnon, W. A. Woods, Heru7 Estcourt, S. 31 - alins , R., Wrightson, W. B. Ewart, William Manners, Lord J. Wyndham, Capt. H Ewart, J. C. Marjoribanks, D. C Fortescue, Hon. D. Martin, P. W. Fox, W. J. Massey, W. N. Gibson, T. M. Miles, Sir W TELLERS. Brand, H. B. Huatchbull-Hu,vss NOES-ill Agnew, Sir A. Ewing, 11. E. C. Lennox, Lord G. C Arbuthnott, Gen.H. Fen:my, Lord Locke, Joan Ar.nn, A. S. Filmer, Sir E. Lockhart, A. E. Baines, E. Finlay, A. S. Long, R. P. Baxter, W. E. Forester, Col. G. C. Macaulay, K. Bazley, Thomas French, Fitzstephea Mackie, J. Beach, W. W. B. Gallwey, Sir W. P. Mills, A. Beale, Samuel Gard, R. S. Monsen., Rt. Hn. W Beecroft, G. S. Garnett, W. J. Morgan, C. 0. S. Bellew, R. M. Gaskell, J. M. Morris, D. Bernard, W. S. Greenall, G. Mowbray, Rt. Hn. J Blackburn, P. Greenwood, J. North, F. Bond, J. W. Grenfell, C. P. Northcote, Sir S. Bouverie, E. P. Gray, Willia m Padmore, R. Bouverle, P. P. Gurney, John H. Paget, C. Boyd, John Hamilton, Lord C. Palk, L. Bright, J. Ilanmer, Sir J. Parker, Major W. Brooks, R. Haggard, M. D. Peacocke, G. M. Butler, C. S. Henley, J. Rowley, Hon. R. T. Caird, James Herbert, Col. P. E. Selater-Booth, G Churchill, Lord A. Hodgkinson, G. Scott, Sir W. Clifford, C. C. Holmesdale, Lord Shelley, Sir J. V. Clinton, Lord R. Howes, Edward Smith, Augustus C o l e brooke, Sir T.E. Hunt, G. W. Stansfeld, J. Collins, T., jun. Ingestre, Viscount Stirling, Wm. , Copeland, W. T. Jervis, Captain Steuart, A. Dal,f.,rlisli, Robert Jolliffe, Sir W. Talbot, Hon. W. C . Davie, Sir H. R. F. Jones, D. Thynne, Lord H. Deedes, Wm. Kendall, N. Tottenham, C. Dent, John Dent King, J. K. Trollope, Sir John Dillvvyn, Lewis L. Knight F. Vance, John Douglas, Sir C. Knox, Major W. S Vane, Lord H. G. Dunlop, A. Lacon, Sir E. Walcott, Adm. J. E Dunne. Col. Lawson, W. Walker, James It Du Pre, C. G. Lefroy, A. Winning,ton, Sir T. Egerton, A. F. Lee, W. TELLERS . Ellice, Rt. Hon. E. Legh, G. C. Willoughby, Sir H. Evans, T. W. Legh, W. Barrow, W. H. REPORTED RESIGNATION OF MR, GLADSTONE. The B i rm i ngham Post of yesterday says :—" A private telegram from London last night states that the long-expected rupture of the Palmerston Cabi net has commenced. The course which Ministers purpose to adopt in reference to the late vote in the House of Lords, and lo questions of finance gone rally, has caused Mr. Gladstone to determine to re sign. Our correspondent says, He is virtually cut.' He adds, No other resignation as yet." The following, in reference to the floating ru mour of political circles for some weeks past, is from the ,s'eotsinan of yesterday. These general as sertions mean little, but the known relations of the paper question give them a value in the present instance :--" Mr. Gladstone is, we have reason to believe, about to resign. office. No other member of the Cabinet according to our information, likely to accompany him in this step. The cause of Mr. Gladstone's resignation is, we assume, a difference of opinion with the majority of his col leagues as to the proper course to be taken- by Government in consequence of the rejection of the Paper duty Bill by the House of Lords. But here we speak by inference rather than by positive in formation." A STLEY'S ROYAL AAI PHITTIEATRE.—The per foimances at the Royal Amphitheatre, last night, were honoured by the pres en ce of their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold, attended by their suite. The Peninsular and Oriental steamer Malabar, the stranding of which in Gelle harbour was announced yesterday, is a comparatively new ship of 1,080 tens and 200-horse power. She had on board at the time of the disaster £267,740 (including £103,541 for the Government) on English account, and £14,706 on French, together £282,446, the whole of which will probably be recovered. Her other cargo Was not very valuable. The Peninsular and Oriental Company aro their own insurers, and will consequently lose the value of the ship. roughly estimated at £70,000 or £BO,OOO. By arrangements with the Treasury the Australian mail-boat is to go on to Sydney as heretofore. 1 4 ,1 r N E W Thi) following telegrams have been received at r. Reuter's office : PARIS, TUESDAY. The Monifeur contains a decree proroguing the session of the Legislatif Corps until the 14th July. The illoizitcur also contains the appointment of an agent of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, at Marseilles, in the person of M. Gaillard de Ferry, and the nomination of M. Fleury, as Consul-Gene ral at London ; the latter gentleman at present holding a similar post at Barcelona. PARIS, JUNE 26. In consequence of the death of Prince Jerome, all the guests of their Imperial Majesties left Fontainebleau yesterday. The Court will remain there until the end of June. During July the Em peror and Empress will take up their residence at St. Cloud. The Emperor hus renounced his in tended voyage to Plombieres. The visit to Nice and Chambery is adjourned until the month of September. VIENNA, JUNE 26. Besides the Colonel Lowenthal, who already discharges the functions of military commissioner at the Austrian Embassy in Paris, a chef d'escadron of the staff will be added as military attache. It is said that great improvements are about to be introduced in the Austrian army, after the French system. The Marquise de Moustier is about to proceed to Brussels on a visit to her parents. The French Ambassador will remain at his post. VIENNA, JUNE 25. The budget contains the following items : Ministry of Police, 2 3-5 millions of florins; ditto Foreign Affairs, 2 2-5 millions of florins; ditto Public Worship, 4 millions of florins. The Austrian Gazette is informed that Signor Petrulla's programme of reforms for Naples includes a general amnesty, a popular cabinet, a constitutional form of Government, and a free press. The Wanderer announces that Brambillo and Mandolfo have been released from prison. TRIESTE, JUNE 26, The statement of the Turin journals that the captain of the Port of Pola had compelled a mer chant vessel,sailing under Sardinian colours,to hoist the Pontifical flag, is incorrect. The captain only explained the new Austrian regulations relative to ships belonging to the provinces annexed to Pied mont, which orders that no vessels from Tuscany, Modena, and the Legations shall hoist the Sar dinian flag in an Austrian port. These regulations, however, do not compel such vessels to hoist the flag of any other nation, FRANCE. It appears by the official Customs' returns pub lished in the Monitear of Tuesday last that the Imperial decree removing the duties payable onthe importation into France of articles of first necessity used in manufactures has produced a great increase in that branch of trade. The cotton, for instance, on which the duty was paid increased from 51,730 kilogrammes in May, 1859, to 588,173 kilos. in May, 1860. There has likewise been a considerable increase on the importation of wool. The quantity on which duty was paid in May, 1859, was only 2,027,000 kilogrammes ; it increased in May, 1860, to 7,853,200 kilos. The increase is the more re markable, as the decree removing the duties did not take effect until the 7th May. On the other hand, the stocks in the bonded stores have diminished very considerably. There were 211,644 kilo grammes of cotton in the stores on the last day of May, 1859. There were but 71,548 kilogrammes on the last day of May, 1860. There were 28,862 kilogrammes of wool in store on the same day in 1859, and but 14,110 in 1860. The diminution in the amount of the Customs' duties received in May last as compared with May, 1859, is enormous. It is 8,057,556 f. This, however, is the result of the new commercial system inaugurated by the Em peror, and was expected. The increased consump tion, the consequence of low prices, will, it is believed, repay the Government for the temporary sacrifice. It is stated positively that the Council of State has rejected the propositions of the Commission appointed by the Corps Legisla4f to examine the bill for granting a loan of 40,000,0001 to the French manufacturers. The report of the commission re commended that a great financial and industrial association should be established, with power to ad vance 300,000,000 f. to French manufacturers requir ing assistance, to be repaid by instalments within 10 years, the Government to advance this company 40,000,0001. The Corps Legislatif are of opinion that this would be the most expedient mode of assisting the manufacturers without adding to the national debt, thus substituting the action of a pri vate company to that of the State. The Council of State are of a different opinion; they recommend a direct loan. As it is not probable that the Corps Le t eis/atif will yield to the Council of State, the only mode of preventing a conflict between these two powerful bodies is the suggestion of some other arrangement which may meet the ap probation of both parties. The Governor of the Bank of France has opened a list for indivi• duals willing to subscribe to loans t o he raised by the Ardennes, the Bordeaux and Cette, the Dau phine, the Orleans, the Western, the Paris and Lyons, and the Strasburg railway companies. The Paris and Lyons Company propose to issue 275,000 bonds at 293 f. 75c., to be repaid at 500 f. each by annual drawings, with interest at 15f. per annum; the Orleans Company 200,000 bonds, at 293 f. 75c. ; the Western 170,000 bonds, at 292 f. 50c. ; the Strasburg 154,000 bonds, at 292 f. 50c. ; the Bor deaux and Cette 100,000 bonds, at 2921. 50c.; the Ardennes 100,000 bonds, at 291 f. 25c.; the Dau phine 24,000 bonds, at 291 f. 25c. The subscrip tion list is to be closed on the 2d of July next. The weather has changed considerably for the better within the last two days, and it is to be hoped that. it will continue as fine as it is at present. This is a critical moment for the wheat crop, which is now in blossom. The accounts received from the south of France continue to announce the favourable appearance of the grow ing crops. The reports from the wheat-growing districts in the neighbourhood of Paris represent one-third of the wheat crop to be excellent, one third passable, and one-third bad. All will depend on the weather; a scorching sun is now as much dreaded as rain. Letters from Algiers state that the wheat crop in the province of Oran was much injured by the excessive heat which set in at the moment it wee arriving at maturity. The last ac counts from the north of Italy announce that the wheat crop is ripening, but that the present har vest cannot be reckoned among the most abun dant. The news from Germany announces that the constant rain has seriously injured the rye crop. This is the more unfortunate, as the people of Germany rely upon that grain for their subsistence. The change in the weather has had a favourable effect on prices in the Paris flour market last week. Flour of the four marks has fallen 1 f. the sack of 157 kilo gratnnw-% The factors declared on Saturday 2,751 sacks of Wear, of which 71 sacks are of first quality, sold for delivery within 30 days at prices varying from 671. to 701. the sack. There was more wheat offered for sale by farmers last week than the week preceding. They still, t owever, demand the pre vious pt:iees. The millers refused to give more than 42f. 50e. the sack of 120 kilogrammes for the prirnest samples of wheat, and from 39f. to 41f. for other samples according to quality. There were offers at these prices from merchants from Poitou, Nivanois, Allier, Burgundy, and Chalons. The accounts of the oats crop are favourable, and that grain is more offered in the Paris market. The Minister of War signed a contract on Wednesday for the delivery in Paris of 5,300 quintals of oats field he did not quit until all hope had vanished, at 21f. 75c. the quintal, being a diminution of 19c. 1 and he then returned with the Emperor to Paris. the quintal as compared with a contract signed At the time of the second abdication, Jerome the 23d of May. Travellers who have passed quitted the capital on the 27th June, and after wandering about for some time in France and through Champagne state that the rye crop is Switzerland, re-joined his wife in Wurtemburg, equal to any ever seen in that rye-growing district. where the allied powers permitted him to reside, The spring barley, likewise, has an excellent ap- provided he remained in privacy and had none pearance ; not so the winter barley ,- which is bad of his countrymen in his service, In 1816 his both in the north of France and in Belgium. father-in-law conferred on him the title of Prince de Montfort, and for 30 years he resided ire turns The telegraph has supplied us with the prices of at the Chateau of Bamburg, near Vienna, Trieste, the provincial corn markets held on Saturday : and Florence. In 1836 the Princess his wife died, " Arras—A fall of lf. the hectolitre on wheat. having born three children—Jerome, Count de Prices, 19f. to 26f. 75c. the hectolitre." it Dijon— Montfort, who died at Florence 1817 ; the present il de. Magnificent weather. Large offers of wheat , and Prince. Napoleon, and one daughter, the Princess sales difficult. A fall of lf. the hectolitre on i n fe - Math Prince Jerome, in his own name, opened negotia rior quality." " Marseilles—Fine weather. Corn tions with the Government of Louis Philippe, and w market quiet. African wheat 37 f. the measu re o f was permitted to re t u rn temporarily to Paris in 160 litres. ; Irka, 37f. ; Danube, 34f. 25c." " Metz 1847. After the revolution of 1848, and the elec -1,467 hectolitres of wheat sold at an average of tion of his neph ew as P res id en t o f th e Republic, 30f. 95c. the 100 kilogrammes. The weather is at Prince Jerome was ma d e G over nor-General of the Invalides, and soo n a ft er ra i se d t o the rank of length most favourable for the blossoming of the Marshal of France. Aft er th e cou p d' e t a t of 1851, wheat." " Montereas—Pine weather. A fall on he was made President of the Senate, reinstated in wheat of lf. the hectolitre." . his title of French Prince, and provided with a There was a good demand for beef and mutton at military household, a civil list, and a national resi the market of Poissy on Thursday last. The de - den ce. In the absence of the Emperor, he on several mend for veal was not so good as at the preceding occasions presided at the Council of Ministers. The deceased Prince was always remarked for his market. There were 1,868 oxen. offered for sale, of Liberal opinions, even at a time when opposite which 1,638 were sold at prices varying from if 23 c views were prevalent. His talents as an adminis to if 48c the kilogramme ; 282 cows, of which 263 trator were undoubted; and if his tastes led him sold at from 94c to if 32c the kilogramme ; 11,938 to prefer the calm course of private life to the more sheep, of which 10, 547 sold from if 28 c to if 58e responsible duties of a sovereign, his ability was always found to be equal to the position in which the kilogramme ; 725 veal calves, of which 714 sold fortune had placed him. from if 64c to if 90c. BOURSE, June 25.—The market has been de pressed, with limited business doing. The Bank of France announced to-day its half-yearly dividend, which is fixed at 68f. Last year it was only 53f. Threes, after having been done at 68f 70c, declined 7118 VISIT OF THB ORPBRONISTS TO TEE CRYSTAL PALACE. Yesterday, at precisely three o'clock, a party of above 3,000 gentlemen from France made their bow to and acquaintance with an assemblage of a good many thousands of the British public. The meeting was most friendly and cordial on both sides, each party seemed quite delighted with the other. One might almost have supposed that treason had been at work, for the eyes of the French on their arrival were met on every side by the familiar aspect of the " tricolour." Marching, division by division, in the direction of the great orchestra, situated in the central transept, they found it already, as though by magic, portioned out into 28 compartments, each inscribed with the name of a French province, em blazoned on crimson shields, surmounted by wreaths of evergreens and flowers. Gilded eagles, were every where conspicuous ; busts of renowned compatriots started from backgrounds of palms and shrubs, sug gestive of triumph; while in front of the organ the likeness of an enormous eagle, with out-stretched wings gave extra significance to a trophy of tri coloured flags. An emblematical device, represent ing two hands grasped in cordial amity, with scrolls around the wrists of each, upon one of which was labelled " France," and upon the other " Eng land," was symbolical of the work in hand—a to 68f 45c ; Mobilier varied from 673 f 75c to 667 f 50c ; Orleans, 1,342 f 50c to 1,340 f ; Northern, 9821 50c to 980 f ; Lyons, 878 f 75c to 875 ; Austrian, 527 f 50c to 523 f 75c ; Lombard, 503 f 75c to 501 f 25c. The follo . wing are the last quotations :- 4i, per per Cents 96 90 Credit Foncier .... 845 Do end j Belgian 44- 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 45 Roman — Bank Shares 2782 50 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 671 251 Spanish Threes — Do. Account 671 25 j Home Debt - RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1342 50 .. 1340 Northern 985 .. 982 50 New ditto B7O .. 870 Lyons and Mediterranean 875 .. 875 Geneva 4OO .. 400 Southern 5lB 75 .. 517 50 Western .... Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard , .. friendly trial of strength, in which the Frenchmen were to show their English brothers the excellence they had achieved in In art which the example of a Handel has enabled us to brit g almost to perfec tion in this country. The issue was honourable alike to the competitors, who exhibited such vigour, energy, and skill, and to those before - whom they competed, and who greeted their efforts with such. genuine enthusiasm. The first piece in the programme yesterday 'vas our own national melody, " God save the Queen," which the Orpheonists sang in English, to the evi dent satisfaction of the audience. The other choral pieces were as subjoined :-- TEE LEATH OF PRINCE JEROME. We regret to announce that this sad event, which for some days past has been considered probable, took place yesterday afternoon at five o'clock. When the Emperor went to Villegenis on Saturday afternoon, the Prince was tranquil, but so weakened that no hope could be entertained of any perma nent amendment. Prince Napoleon and the Prin cess Clotilda, who have been in constant attendance on the illustrious patient, were supported in their work of affectionate duty by the other members of the Imperial family, all of whom had assembled at the Prince's residence. In the evening the Prince, although exceedingly enfeebled, was in possession of his faculties, and received the last consolations of religion from the hand of the Cardinal-Archbishop of Paris. Towards night, however, his Imperial Highness sank into a kind of lethargy, nature seeming to have worn herself out. In the morn ing, as the same insensibility still continued, H.l.H.'s :medical attendants was that all hope was over, and announced in their bulletin that the Prince was not only reduced to the greatest degree of weakness but had become insensible. The Prince, however, still held on during the day until at the hour we have mentioned he expired calmly and totally exempt from pain, The loss of his Imperial Highness, who was the last surviving brother of Napoleon I. will be a great affliction to the present Emperor of the French and the other members of the Imperial family, to all of whom he was greatly endearei by his many amiable qualities. The deceased was in his 76th year. The following is a biographical notice of the Prince Prince Jerome was born at Ajaccio on the 15th December, 1784, and was the youngest brother of the Emreror Napoleon I. He was brought to France in 1793, and educated at the College of Juilly, and on his brother having been raised to the high dignity of First Consul, Jerome entered the navy as midshipman. In 1801 he was pro moted to the rank of lieutenant, and, in command of the Epervier corvette, accompanied the expe dition to St. Domingo, under General Leclerc, his brother-in-law. He was sent to France with the news of the successful landing of the troops, and again returned to the West Indies, and cruised off Martinique. Having been driven from that station by the English, he put into New York. He visited Philadelphia, and on the 24th December, 1803, married Miss Elizabeth Patter son, daughter of a rich merchant at Baltimore. This union displeased Napoleon, and, after a year passed in the United States, Jerome was compelled by his brother to return to Earope, and he landed with his wife at Lisbon in May, 1805. Jerome left for Paris, and the lady went on in the ship to Amsterdam. On arriving - in the Texel an order had been received forbidding her to land; she, in consequence, proceeded to England, and took up her residence at Camberwell. On the ith July, 1805, her son Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte was born. Still the Emperor Napoleon would not re cognise the marriage, nor was the lady permitted to enter France. In the March previous a special decree of the Council of State declared the marriage to be null and void. The Emperor next applied to the Pope for a bull annulling the union, which, however, his Holiness had not the power to issue, and he wrote a long letter to Napoleon, explaining the reasons. Young Jerome, after having been subjected to a temporary disgrace, was, at the end of 1805, charged by the Emperor to proceed to Algiers to claim from the Dey the release of 250 Genoese, who were detained in slavery; he was successful in his mission, and landed them all in safety at Genoa, where he was received with great honour. He was afterwards appointed to the command of the Veteran line•of-battle ship, and went with seven other ships-of-war to cruize in the West Indies. On his return'thence, he cap tured six English merchantmen, but he was pursued by an English fleet, and his vessel stranded off the coast of Brittany. On reaching Paris he received the cordon of the Legion of Honour, was promoted to the rank of admiral, and created a Prince of the Empire. In the following year he quitted the naval service, and soon after obtained the command of a body of Bavarian and Wartemburg troops, at the head of which he directed the blockade of Glogan, and reduced the fortresses of Silisea —servic* for which he was made a General of Division in the Imperial army, on the 14th March, 1807. On the 7th August following he married the Princess Fre derica Caroline, daughter of the King of Wurtem burg, and immediately after the marriage was pre-: claimed King of Westphalia--a kingdom created expressly for him. The young king, then only 22 years of age, made himself much beloved, and surprised the world by his administrative skill. He replenished his exche quer by a loan from the Jews, Whom he repaid by the concession of perfect religious freedom, observ ing that "No man ought to interfere with the exercise of the religious worship of another. Every subject should be as free to observe the rules of his faith as the King himself. It is the civil duty of the citizens only that the laws of Government ought to regulate. I hope I shall never have cause to regret that I favour and pro tect the Israelites of my kingdom." His conduct was not, however, alwaTs in accordanc e w i t h the ideas of the Emperor, w lo several times summoned him to Paris to remind him in a more or less severe manner what obligations the possession of a throne imposed on him. In 1812 he was appointed to the command of a corps d'armee formed of German troops, and dis _ tinguished himself at the battle of Otrowno and Mohilew. In October, 1813, he was compelled to retire before the Russians, and at the leheadirstopfhsariae, French detachme nts he returned to which he afterward 3 left precipitately on hearing of the issue of the battle of Leipsic. In 1814 lie rejoined the Queen at Munich, and after re s idi ng at. Trieste and Naples returned to Pari s i n April, 1815. During the hundred days he was pre ll sent at the ceremony of the Champ de Mai, as well the sittings of the Chamber of Peers,ad where as at a he had h a seat as a French Prince. He command in the campaign in Belgium, was wounded at Hougou mont, and distinguished himself at Waterloo, which PART I. Hymn—" Veni Creator" " Chant de Bivouac" " Depart du Chasseur" Septuor (" Huguenots") PART 11. Chorus—" Les Enfaias de Paris Adam. Chorus—" 0 Isis" Mozart. Part-song—" La Retraite" Laurent de Lille. Part-song—" Le jour du Seigneur" Kreutzer. " France! France !" The hymn, " Veni Creator," was a good specimen of smooth singing—nothing more. The sonority rather than power and depth of the bass voices, the perfect balance of the different vocal parts—not one unduly predominating over the rest—and the essen tially musical tone of the " ensemble," could not, however, escape remark. In Kucken's lively " Chant du Bivouac" (a choral arrangement of an air known in English as "The Young Recruit," which Mademoiselle Jetty Treffz introduced so often at Jullien's concerts), these qualities were more sali ently brought out; and this was followed by an encore, to which the Orpheonists answered by re peating the last verse. The " Depart du Chasseur" (Mendelssohn's exquisite " Lebe wohl"), was given with delightful softness and faultless in tonation. The duel scene from the " Huguenots" —which (with 4,000 more voices) is said to have produced such an electric effect at the Palais de l'lndustrie on the occasion alluded to—was by no means so successful as had been anticipated, the only striking passage being Marcel's solo —" Ah ! quel chagrin pour ma vieillesse"—allotted to the basses. That this elaborate and eminently dramatic concerted piece should by any device be brought within the sphere of a multitude of voices, seems very improbable; nevertheless, we shall be glad if the Orpheonists will afford us another op portunity of correcting the unfavourable impres sion elicited by yesterday's attempt. In the second part there was another failure—" 0, Isis" (an ar rangement of Sarastro's first air, with chorus, in " Die Zauberflote"—an opera only known to the French by a pasticcio, entitled " Les Mysteres d'lsis," upon which the late Sophr is so severe in one of his letters from Paris.) In the middle of this our worthy friends " broke down," and were com pelled to recommence, taking, however, a noble re venge by the unqualified sucsess of their second essay. Conradin Kreutzer's part-song, "Le Jour du Seigneur," is a sombre affair at the best; but the remaining three pieces in the second part were perfection in the fullest sense of the word. These, too, were the more welcome, inasmuch as of all the pro gramme contained they most completely revealed the French type and attained the French ideal. " Les Enfans de Paris" (improvised by the late .Adolphe Adam, in the stormy period pf li3ol l and first performed at the Porte Bt. Martin), is, though simple and unpretending, a master piece of character and expression. This, and "La Retraite" of M. Laurent de Lille—in its way no less thoroughly characteristic, original, and striking —won rapturous encores. Both were triumphs of choral execution, displaying a com mand of light and shade that we have rarely heard equalled, never surpassed, combined with " pAigtiOn (the term may here be allowed to pass) - pf which the French alone have the secret. In the " Retraite" a gradual progression (crescendo) from the softest "piano" to the loudest "forty", and subsequently of a retrogression ("di m i nuen d o ") from fortissimo to pianissimo, produced an effect little short of magical. The close beat of a receding corps of drums was imitated by the voices to admira tion ; and as the sound died away into something so nearly approaching silence that the ear was on the stretch to apprehend it the illusion was perfect. " France ! France !"—set to some stirring patriotic words by M. Vaudin (principal editor of the journal called the Orpheon), and composed expressly for, this festival—M. Ambroise Thomas ( t. tg whom are indebted for Le Caid and other popular operas) has succeeded in producing a chorus not only strik ing in itself, but eminently fitted occasion. This, too, -.—admirably executed, like its predecessors —was received with the liVeliPSt tht;sia.sna. Touched, no doubt, by such a frank manifestation of sympathy on the part of their English hearers, the Orpheonists again upelcriee..l telly broke next into ,‘ God save the queen ;" and as one good turn deserves another, the audience, on their side, shouted for " Partant pour la Syrie," wh i c h was sung and played as only the French can possibly sing and Play their own national air. Then followed cheers and counter-cheers, waving of }cats and handkerehi e f s _, and other manifestations of goo dwill, which brought the first day's perfor mance of the Orpheonists ists in England to a conelu-... s ion flattering alike to whose gratification they had so zealously and suc cessfully lab o • ui• e d . Nothing, in fact, conld have been more hearty and spontaneous on both sides. ELECTION OF CITY 01%I'ICERS. The liverymen of the City of London assemble 4 yesterd ay, and held a common hall at the Quil47. hall, for the purpose of electing the sheriffs and the other city officers for the ensuing year. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor presided, and the following aldermen were also present :—Sir P. Laurie, Humphery, Copeland, Cubitt, Sir F. G. Moon, Mechi, Ruse, Conder, and Lawrence; Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Phillips, Mr, Alderman and Sheriff Gabriel ; the under-sheriff -4, 43:c. Mr. Deputy HARRISON proposed Mr. Abraham Lusk, citizen and spectacle maker, to be one of the sheriffs for the ensuing year. Mr. JAMES P. JONES seconded the nomination. Mr. Alderman Abbiss, the second sheriff, was merely nominated from the chair, it not being cus tomary, in the case of an alderman being appointed sheriff, to have any proposer or seconder. Both gentlemen were elected unanimously, and they respectively returned thanks. Mr. Scott (the Chamberlain) and the other City officers were then unanimously re-elected, and the hall was dissolved,