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VoneATELOCK MEMORIAL FUND. President, H. B. H. the Duke of Cambridge; E..G., . £25 0 $ l John Thomas Leslie, C. 8., Officers, lion-Commis- Stoned, Staff, and Mon of the East India Company's Depot, Warley Barracks, one day's pay . • • • • • 6: 3 0 A list of other contributions Trill s hortly bo Published. Babscriptions received at the bankers', and thADAIR, e CommiHon. secttee•roOrt. , 9, Pall-mall East, S.W. Major May 13,1858. TO • THE SPORTING WORLD. 10EER S G SHOOT I TA N G LKIN AND GROUSE The undersigned is at 24, BREWER-STREET, REGENT imizzT (in a line with Glasshouse-street), until the 10th Ji37, with all the necessary Clothing for Deer Stalking, Shooting, and Salmon Fi-hing ; and some new and ilsautiful Tweeds for town weer, &c. Plaids, Tartans, Socks, Cloaks, Winceys, &c. A large stock of the famous Highland Cloaks, for town i*d country use, and for Deer Stalking. The favourite Flora Macdonald Cloaks for Ladies, in all the siihionable colours. The Highland Dress made up. Roem open from two to ss o'clock, until the 10th July, /dun Macdougall returns to Inverness. May, 1858. D. MACDOUGALL , of Inverness. --- jj " M it j T E R ORE SOVI T' STHEATRE. TITIENS, ALBONI, GIUGLINI, THIS EVENINEk TUESDAY, June the 22d, will be Presented Verdi's opera, IL TROVATORE. Leonora, Madlle. Titiens; Azueena, Madame Alboni ; WAnrieo, Signor Giuglini ; Ferrando, Signor Vialetti ; and Il Conte di Luna, Signor Aldighieri. To conclude with the entirely New Ballet Divertissement, by M. Massot, entitled LA REINE DES SONGES. The principal characters by Madlle. Marie Taglioni (her last itkp pearance but one), Mesdlles. Annetta, Rosa, Pasquale, Norlacchi, and M. Durand. The Opera will commence at S o'clock. A limited number of Boxes have been secured to the public. Price 21s and 31s 6d each, which may be had at the Box Office, at the Theatre. " R ye R MAJEST le. YTitiens.'S THEATRE,— Mdl The Direction have the gratification to announce that, by telegraph received this day, it has been intimated that the swans of the Imperial Theatre at Vienna not being com pleted, the cone of Meddle. Titiens will be prolonged for a Tort time, and the previous refusal withdrawn. TO-NI3H r, TUESDAY, June 22— IL TROVATORE. Medlic. Takla And LA REINE DES SONGES, with 'Latino. Taglioni. THURSDAY, 2lth (Extra Night), LUCREZII BORGIA. Rutile. Takata. SATURDAY, 26th, a favourite opera, in which Madlle. Titiens will appear. TUESDAY, Jane 29— LUISA MILLER will be repeated. Madlle. Piceolomini ; Duchess Frederica, Medium Alboni ; Rodolfo, Signor Ginglini ; Walter, Signor Vialetti ; Wurm, Signor Castelli ; and Miller, Signor Beneventano. A pplications to be made et the Box-office at the Theatre, ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GARDEN, NEW THEATRE. Fra Diavolo. To commence at half-past 8 o'clock. THIS EVENING, TUESDAY, June 22, will be performed Auber's 0 p era, FRA DIAVOLO, Zerlina, Madame Bosio ; Lady Allcash, Madlle. Marai ; Il Marchese, Signor Gardoni ; Lorenlo, Signor Neri•Baraldi ; Matteo. S.gnor Pohnini ; Beppo, Signor Tagliailco ; Giacomo, M. Zelger ; and Lord Allcash, Signor Ronconi. Conductor—Mr. Costa. LA BALTARELLA, in the third act, will be danced by Madile. Zena and M. Des-,laces. Prices of Admission 2—Boxes—pit tier, Si. 158. 6d.; grand tier; 6/. 6s ; first tier, s'. 55.: second tier, 2/. 12s. 6d. ; orchestra stalls, 11. ls. ; pit, 10s. 6d. ; amphitheatre stalls, 10s. 6d., 75., and ss. ; amphitheatre, 2s. 6d. Application for boxes, stalls, and pit tickets, to be mada At the Box•ofce of the Theatre, under the portico in Bow. Street, and at the principal musicsellers and librarian'. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. NEW THEATRE. Further arrangements : THIS EVENING, TUESDAY, June 22, Auber's Opera, FRA DIAVOLO. BOliko, Mallti, Roneotd, Glardoni, Neri-Baraldi, Taglialleo, Polonini, and Ze'ger. "La Salterella" danced by Zina and Desplaces. On THURSDAY NEXT, IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA. Rosini, Madame Bosio ; Bertha, Madame Tagliafico ; Figaro, Signor Ronconi Bartolo, M. Zelger ; Basilio, Signor Tagliafico; Morello, Sig. Soldi ; and Almaviva, Signor Mario. After which, the Ballet Divertissement entitled LA BRESILIENNE. Principal characters by Madlle. Zina, Madlie. Delechaux, Madlle. Esper, Madlle. Zelia, Mr. Payne, and M. Desplaces. SATURDAY NEXT, June 26, will be produced Flotow's Opera, entitled MARTHA. Bosio, Didiee, Mario, Graziani, Tagliatico, Zelger, Rossi, and Soldi. [he Incidental Divertissement will be supported by Madlle. Zina, Madlle. Delechauz, and M. Desplaces. On MONDAY NEXT, a (RAND EXTRA NIGHT, will be repeated Sieyerbeer's grand oyera, LES HUGUENOTS. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, will be presented MUSIC HATH CHARMS. After which, Sba.kspere's Play of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Shylock, Mr. C. Kean—Portia, Mrs. C. Kean. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Burkstone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. Followed by AN UNEQUAL MATCH. Messrs. Buckstone Chippendale, Compton, W. Farrell, Rogers, Clark, and Miss A. Ssdgwick, Mrs. B. White, Miss Lavine, and Mrs. J. Fitz 'william. After which a Classical Extravaganza, entitled PLUTO AND PROSERPINE. Orchestra St...IN (which may be retained the whole of the evening). 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. e. d. Second price. s. d. Dress Boxes. Upper Boxes... ..... ..... 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 it Gallery THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. On WEDNESDAY, June 23d, for the Benefit of Mr. GE )RGE TURPIN (Box-Book Keeper), A COMICAL COUNTESS, in which Miss Talbot will ap pear for this night only. After which. AN UNEQUAL MATCH. Followed by the new farce of A STRIKING WIDOW, by Mr Buckstone, Mr. W. Farren, and Mrs. B. White. Te conclude with JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. rfIHEA.TRE ROYAL, SADLER'S-WELLS. .....ADELPHI COMPANY for ELEVEN NIGHTS, commencing LAST EVENING.—SoIe Manager, Mr. Benjamin Webster—Directress, Madame Celeste.—Great Attraction.—No advance of Prices.—Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. C. Selby, Messrs. Billington, Gar den, C. J. Smith, J. Blani, Moreland, R. Romer, Waye, &c.; Madame Celeste, Miss M. Wilton, Miss Mary Keeley, Miss Arden, Mrs. Billington, Mrs. Chatterley, Miss Laidlaw, Miss Hayman, dm. THIS EVENING, will be presented THE GREE N BUSHES. Madame Celeste, Miss Mary Keeley, and Miss Arden ; Messrs. Paul Bedford, Charles Selby, Billington, and Garden. After which, OUR FRENCH LADY'S-MAID. Mr. Ben. Webster and Madame Celeste. STRAND THEATRE. —Lessee and Directress, Misa Swanborough.—Thii Evening will be presented MARRIAGE A LOTTERY, supported by Messrs Emery, Ray, Belford; Mesdames M. Oliver, Portman, Victor and Selby. After which, a new Burlesque, entitled THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS. Messrs. Charles Youngl Turnsr, &c.; Misses M. Oliver, Swanborough, &c. To Conclude with MY WIFE'S SECOND FLOOR. • The eharacters by Messrs. N. H. Swauborough, J. W. Ray, Chas. Young, Mesdames Leigh Murray, M. Ternan, and C. Melville. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The higeompany of Vocalists are engaged for the pc - formance w o: Eblections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS ' CHORUSES, GLEES DUETS, &c., viz. :—Miss Russell, Sir s . Badzey, Miss Bru nell, Miss Ray, Madame Bart o l e tti Mi‘s Montague, M rs . Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson! Ilea F. JORgillnfiTlE, Mr. Renshaw, S. ouer, J. Barker, W. Melling, Sl,llOl An.onio, E. L. Rime, Mr. Badzey, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Bernard Messrs. John G. Forde, dud E. Mack uey. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Mr. Courtnay ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, dre., until twelve o'clock. Mr. AUGUSTUS BRAHAM will appear every Evening in a Selection from "LA DAME BLANCHE" (THE WHITE LADY), first produced at the Canterbury Hall. English words by Desmond Ryan, Esq. THE WEATHER—Stm Ormuz, JUNE 22• THISKOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 75—highest since noon yesterday. 62—lowest this morning and during the night, 77—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30.40. WIND, North-westerly; light, with fine elonly weed or. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TIM DAY—Morn. 54 min. aft. 10 —Even. 25 min. aft. 11 Te-liou.sow—Morn., 0 min. aft. o—Even., 5 min. aft. 12 . 4 , 41 1 70 • -Z„;1) I Le c - 7\ " • LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1858. Government new Gov of India Bill has bees printed, and 18 now in the hands of the 0011111,112- uity. It is francied in accordance with the wisi es of the majority of the House of ° ominous, as enunciated in the five resolutions already sanc tioned or indicated by the s p eeches of the leading and moat influential M e mbers. There can, then.- fore, be but little doubt as to its ultimate success, more especially as the Palmerstonian organs, inch ding the leviathian, are compelled to speak of it is respectful terms. As might have been anti cipated, they sneer at the alterations that have been made, although they are compelled by the exigencies of their position to admit the m to be decided improvements. But surely the object should be to obtain the legislation which would prove most beneficial both for Eng land and for India, and the mode by which that great desideratum may be accom plished is a matter of comparatively trivial im portance. It is measures, not men, that should receive popular support ; and although it may be derogatory to a despotic power to follow, in place of leading public opinion, we should con sider it the i m p era tive duty of a constitutional Cabinet to respect the opinions of the chosen representatives of independent constituencies. A little discussion took place in the House of Lords as to whether the resolutions should be submitted far consideration before the bill framed thereon was fairly ventilated in their chamber. The Government very judiciously decided that such should not be the case. It was the views of the popular branch of the Legislature that they desired to ascertain, before framing the bill, which should afterwards run in its course with those " born to statescrafc." The inconvenience of carrying the resolutions through two assemblies, possibly of (inflicting views, pari passu, must be obvious. One side must be preferred, and that would be calculated to give offence to the other, and to render it more querulous respecting the points where the " golden apple" was accorded to its rival. yet to be mentioned, and the history of that is of all perhaps the most curious. This autograph has, oddly enough, once or twice been supposed to have been lost irrecoverably. It was known to have existed, and was supposed thus to have been lost beyond the chance of redemption, acci dentally burnt perhaps or otherwise destroyed— until it was discovered in 1768, to his great de light, by Mr. ALBANY WALLis, a solicitor. It was then found by Mr. WALLIS among the deeds of that very same estate in Blackfriars (of which this was the ancient mortgage deed) at that period (1768), in the possession of a clergyman of Oxted, Surrey, the Rev. Mr. FEATEERSTONHAUGH. It was then presented to GARRICK. It was after wards said to have been lent by Mrs. GARRICK to Mr. GEORGE STEVENS, the commentator. It was then reported to have been lost again—appa rently without hope of recovery. Lost some where—nobody knew where Lost sometime— nobody knew when. Lost by somebody —nobody knew whom ! So matters continued in regard to this remarkable—when, lo ! and behold, it comes to light again, and happily, too, in a perfect state of preservation. The ghost of a suspicion is swept clean off the outbarred 'scut cheon of poor Mr. STEVENS' reputation. It now turns out that, after all, the treasure must have remained in the possession —or, at any rate, to have returned into the possession —of Mr. ALBANY WALLIS, the attorney. The partner in the business belonging to Mr. WALLis was the father of the present, or rather, we should now sey, the recent possessor. And now we do really hope that, for once and for all, we have done in regard to this inestimable autograph, with these most tantalising and bewildering mysterious dis appearances. It has been purchased by Mr. BooNx, of Bond-street—Mr. BOONE acting on behalf of the Trustees of the British Museum. So that henceforth, like the signature in FLonro's " Montaigne," the autograph is the national prc perty. Instead of bringing it home for merely 1001., or even 1401., the nation has given just 3151. for this jewel of a manuscript. It is well. Not a farthing of that will be grudged. It was a golden opportunity, and glad we are that the opportunity was not lost—any more than the Autograph. The Master." Everybody who has read this charming book, bears the passage tenderly—al most tearfully—in recollection. It might apply equally well to " Old Pimos," dead fifteen thousand miles away in his Indian grave, as to " Codd Colonel," dying calmly in bed among the poor pensioners of the Asturians. Read the words again—they are worth it—and so applied they will be found not a jot less appli cable—" The boys of the school, it must be said, had heard the noble gentleman's history, and had all got to know and love him"—for TaomAs NEWCOMB read HENRY HAVELOCK. For a mo ment think of the noble gentleman as "Old PELOS" instead of " Codd Colonel" —and a new significance will be given to the memorial meeting holden on Thursday last at the Charter House, a meeting of old Carthusians. It was convened, this meeting, for the purpose of initiating measures for commemorating the services •f Sir HENRY HAVELOCK and his brothers-in-arms, both naval and military—fallen in the service of their country, whether in the wars of the Crimea or of the Bengal Presidency —and formerly educated together in the old school, when " little, laughing, red-cheeked, white-headed, grown-boy Carthusians." Among the contemporaries of " Old Phlos " present on Thursday—were the late Minister of War, Chairman of the meeting, Lord PAN/LURE ; the Right Rev. the Bishop of ST. DAVID'S, the Right Hon. Sir 0. CaEsswErz, Sir C. EASTLAKE (President of the Royal Academy), and Mr. W. TILA OILMAN, the celebrated novelist. It was decided by those assembled together on the occa sion, that, by a marble tablet, to be inscribed with the names of the heroic departed, as also probably by a prize to be hereafter established by way of commemoration, that the memories of HAVELOCK and his compatriots should be kept green among the haunts of their childhood—the monument, of course, being created within the walls of the Charter House, and the prise connected with the foundation. The Dean of Peterborough —evidently, by voca tion, a wag as well as a church dignitary—im proved the melancholy occasion somewhat whim sically by treating it in a facetious point of view —in a speech which, we are told by the reporter, produced shouts of laughter from the juvenile Carthusians. However the incident may be re garded within the walls of the Charter House, it can scarcely fail to be regarded without those walls with the holiest inte rest. And probably the knowledge of last Thursday's doings will two months later on be enspiriting in the midst of that terrible sum iner campaign in Rohilcund some toil-worn, strife weakened, but heart-whole Carthusian. True that the movement is somewhat after date with reference to the Crimean dead, and be it added in regard to Sir HENRY HAYELOCK him self—yet it is happily, as the old proverb says, " better late than never," and so honour to the generous memories of old and young Carthusians. The bill is strictly in accordance with the explanations given by Lord STANLEY and Mr. DISRAELI, and seems fully and fairly to carry out the views accepted by the House of Commons. There may, of course, be some modification; but the principles have been virtually sanctioned, and the House will not be disposed to change its mind, or subject itself to a charge of tergiversa tion, for the purpose of improving the position of the Palmerstonian malcontents. Having already explained the nature of the measure, there is but little to say as to its details,, save that they are entirely in accordance with the deductions drawn from the speeches of the lead ing members of the Government. There is to be a Secretary of State ; a fifth, in place of a Presi dent ; and it shall not be necessary for the Presi dent of the Board of Control, if appointed to that office, to undergo a new election. Lord STANLEY has already been three times elected within 15 months. The independent constituency, who honoured themselves by the election of such a man, dispensing with his attendance the last time, in consideration of the arduous duties that devolved on him, would be the first to approve of this alteration from the established rule which, if maintained, would only lead to inconvenience and delay, when prompt action would be of the ut most importance. THE LATE MEETING AT ST. JAMES'S HALL. At a numerously art naed meeting of laymen, communicants of the Church of St. Barnabas, held on the 17th of June, 1858, the following resolutions were moved and passed unanimously : " 1. That whereas the charge lately made against the Rev. Alfred Poole, at a meeting held at St. James's Hall, June 11, 1858, are scandalous and false, and are calculated to prejudice his appeal to the Archbishop, this meeting deelares its heartfelt sympathy with, and undiminished confidense in, Mr. Poole as their minister, who, by his spotless life, and unceasing labours amongst them for 7 years has won the affection of all classes of his people. "2. That this meeting declares its admiration of Mr. Poole's conduct in the trying and difficult circumstances in which he has been placed ; and that to the best of its belief during his seven years' ministrations at Sc. Barnabas he has uniformly acted with discretion, and not exceeded in his teaching or practice the doctrines or discipline of the Church of England. " 3. That this meeting, consisting as it does wholly of communicants at[St. Barnabas, distinctly denies that it is the practice of the clergy to require confession as a prepa ration necessary to the reception of the Holy Communion ; but it asserts, on the part of the clergy and of the laity, the right of the latter to the [practice of confession and the benefit of obsolutian, as set forth in the service for 'Order ing of Priests,' in the ' Exhortation in the office of Holy Communioni' and the 'Order for the Visitation of the Sick,' in the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England. "4. That this meeting has heard with the utmost indig nation of the foul aspersions cast, at the meeting at St. James's-ball, upon the reputation of ladies of the most un blemished character, whose one: tions and kindness among the poor in the district are held in the highest estimation by every one here present, and the greatest confidence is felt by this meeting that the offertory alms have never been misapplied by the clergy or district visitors. "5. That this meeting cannot separate without expresiing its fervent attachment to the Book of Common Prayer, ane its assent to the following passage, extracted from the 36th canon of the English Church :—" That the Book of Com mon Prayer, and of ordering of bishops, priests, and deacons, containeth in it nothing contrary ) the Word of God, and that it may lawfully so bo used." "ti. Resolved—That a copy of these resolutions ba for warded to the Bishop of London, with an urgent request that his lordship will reinstate the Rev. Alfred Poole in his curacy, or be pleased tostate, for the satisfaction of the district, the grounds of his dismissal. " 7. Resolved,—That a copy of these 'resolutions be for warded to the Archbishop of the province." Four of the five Secretaries of State and four under Secretaries may, at the same time, sit in the House of tiommons. This is an essential proviso in consequence of existing enactments. But all should be qualified. There is no just reason why any restriction should be plaeed on the Government, who should be authorised to place the most influential and experienced heads of each department in the position where their services could be most beneficial to them, the QUEEN, and the country. 1 sale by auction would certainly appear a curious theme for comment in this particular part of our impression. Yet one has recently occurred, at the mart of a celebrated firm of auctioneers, to which we would here briefly direct public atten tion for a few moments—regarding (as we do) one item in this sale to be a subject of very gen eral interest, and from its significance, a cause, in a great measure, for national exultation. We allude to the sale, on Monday last, at Messrs. SOTHERY and Wiramrsores, of a rare collection of oil books, until very recently the property of a well-known Shaksperian commentator. The lite rature comprised in this collection was illustrative of the Early English Drama, including among it many choice editions of plays by MARSTON ; HEY WOOD; BEN JoNsort—above all, of SHAKSTERE. Among these last-mentioned various curiosities, such as the copy, date 1600, of " The Excellent Historie of the Merchant of Venice, with extreme Cruelty of SHYLOCK; the Jew, towards the said Merchant, in cutting a just Pound of his Flesh, and the obtaining of PORTIA by the Cuoyse of Three Caskets :" or, again, the 1619 issue of "The most pleas‘nt and excellent-conceited Comedy of Sir JOHN FALSTAFIE and the Merry Wives of Windsor, with the swaggering vaiue of Ancient PISTOL and Corporal! NYM." It is not, however, to the vending of these choice versions of renowned originals that we would here direct the popular observation : any more than we would descant at length upon the hammer falling at the price of 861. for " The most excellent and lamentable Tragedie of Romeo land Juliet,' as it hath been sundrie times pub likely acted by the KING'S Majestie's servants at the Globe"—vended by JOHN SMETHWIQX, Anno D. 1609, "at his shop in Sainte Dunstane's Churchyard, in Fleete Street, under the Dyall." The lot we here wish to refer to, was the last lot sold at this auction on Monday by Messrs. SOTHEBY and Wilactsrsorr. It was one of the only autographs of WILLIAM SHAISPERE DOW extant— one out of those Six famous Autographs. Three out of the Six are signatures to the Immortal Bard's last will and testament—one upon each of the three sheets of paper upon which that re nowned will is written—a document preserved among the most valuable MSS. belonging to the nation in the Prerogative Office of Doctors' Com mons : one of these three autographs being de plorably mutilated, another being very bold and legible, and the last having a superfluous stroke or so in it, as if from a tremor in the poet's hand as he wrote. A fourth signature was that most perfect of all the autographs of &WESTER; dis c )vered some years back in a • small folio volume, after having been as many as sixty years in the possession of the Reverend EDWARD PATTESON, Minister of Smethwick [the ridiculous name is somehow becoming quite Shaksperian] near Birmingham. It is on the fly-leaf of the first edition of FLORIO' S " Translation of Montaigne.' The volume was sold by auction in 1838, and was purchased for 1001. by the Trustees of the British Museum—where it has remained ever since, of course, tenderly preserved among the most precious of the national treasures. Twenty years after that purchase another, the sixth of SHAKSPERE'S autographs, has just been purchased at an auction—also for the Trustees of the British Museum. But before we speak of this sixth autograph, we have yet to particularize the fifth—the autograph affixed to the Deed of Bargain and Sale, which was sold by auction in 1841, being purchased for 1451. by the Corpo ration of the City of London ! This extraordi nary purchase having been afterwards denounced in Court of Common Council as "a most wasteful and prodigalexpenditure," thestep was vindicated, for, inasmuch as "it was not very likely that the purchase of the autograph would be acted upon as a precedent, " for," quoth the defenders of the act, rather superfluously, " SHAKSPERZ stood alone in the history of the world." wo wonder, in remembrance of this act of grace and generosity on the part of the London Corporation, no wonder that in referring to the incident CHARLES KNIGHT exclaims, "Honoured be those who have thus shown reverence for the name of SHAKSPERE 1" Bat there is the Sixth autograph of Sitsitsrzaz The New Bill will doubtless receive fair consi deration from both branches of the Legislature. Anything in the shape of factious opposition is now out of the question, and we doubt not that a wise and statesmanlike measure for the future government of India will receive the Royal As , ent before the close of the present Session. The paper duties are doomed. The resolution unanimously adopted by the House of Commons last night, w;th the assent of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has sealed their fate. They cannot survive next session, and we may congra tulate our contemporaries of the Fourth Estate, zind the community at large—the greatest gainers by the change on this additional felicitious resul t —of the accession to place and power of Lord DERBY and his efficient coadjutors. The only Member who ventured to impeach the proposition of the Right Hon. Member for Ashton, was Sir G. C. Liam. He said quite enough to show that if he remained at the head of the financial department, the anxiously looked for fiscal changes would be deferred to the Greek kalends I But Mr. DISRAELI is a man of a very different calibre of intellect. He gained his earliest laurels as an author, giving promise of the future fruit which was then, germinating, and with a clear knowledge of the trials and difficul ties that await a juvenile genius, he could sym pathise with the demand, although the stern exigencies of State policy, and the imperative claims of the public creditor, prevented him from immediately granting the required relief. If, however, Lord DERRY and Mr. DISRAELI be in office next session, if the earnest cravings of Lords PALMERSTON and JOHN RUSSELL and their adherents should be disappointed, we may reason ably hope that the last remaining " tax on knowledge" will be abolished, and that journalism will be freed from its greatest impediment—the fiscal fetter—by which it was enchained. A telegraphic despatch has been received in Paris an nouncing that the steam frigate Impetueuse, despatched from Toulon for the Adriatic, anchored at Gravosa, near Ragu,a, on the 18 , h inst. The Irnpetueuse is to replace the ship of the line Eylau. It is said that the Montenegro question is to be arranged oy coinirai-sioners sent there to define the boundariei. In that case Admiral.Turien de Lagraviere, who commands the French ships in the Adriatic, will act for France. Two steam gun-boats, the Fulminante and the Aigrette, are to be sent to the Adriatic to facili tate Admiral Julien de Lagraviere's communications with the shore. The nuptials of Lady Agnes Grosvenor, daughter of the MarquP and Marchioness of WeAminster, and Sir Archibald Islay Campbell, Bart., are to be solemnised at the close of the present month. MAIL TO THE UNITED STATES.—On Wednesday (to morrow) the screws+earner City of Washington will sail with the mails for the United States from Liverpool to New York. The Post•offfce box at Liverpool will close at 7.30 a.m., with late fee at 8.30 a.m., and on the land ing-stage a little. after 9 a.m. EXTRA MAIL TO JAMAIOA.—An extra mail will be despatched from Liverpool to Kingston, Jamaica, on Thursday next, the 24th inst., by the screw steamer &Madill. Letters will be received at the Liverpool post on that day till 4.15 p.m., and till 4.30 p.m. with a late fee. It has been intimated that the late Ahmed Pasha, so unfortunately drowned in the Nile, has left by will the sum of 20,0001. to the individual from whom he acquired his knowledge of the French language during his visit to Rini.. Needless to say, the professor was not a master, but a mistress. One of the Paris journals, having declared what is be lieved to be the truth, eoncerning the hopeless state of M. de Pens, whose digestive organs are so much injured that n r remedy can stop the incessant vomiting, has received a warning, And instructions to contradict the statement. The editor of the Pays has also been re primanded for certain criticisms which appeared in his paper concerning the English Ministry. -Court Journal. A DANGEROUS FALL.—A young man in the employ of Mr. Wilson, farmer, Cairngarroch, Stoneykirk, was on Tnursday last sent by his master to warn some folk for peat-nutting, and, to save some travel, be bad takes a foot-path leading along the edge of the Cairngarroch heughs, and by some means fell over one of them ; fortu nately it was not perpendicular, but. rather inclining to a declivity, computed to be nearly 300 feet in depth. Over this the youth rolled ; and it is truly a-tanishing how he eacaped, not having received a single fracture of bons, although much bruised and out ; some of the nails of Lis fl.tgers are torn off, caused by his desperate efforts to re gain a footing, the time-worn rock giving way at every clutch. When hurled to the bottom, stunned by the fearful descent, he lay from six o'clock on Thursday evening until two o'clock on Friday efternoon, when he was discovered in his perilous situation, and at once taken care nf, and is now fast recovering from the effects of his fall.— Wigtown Free Press. REDUCTIoN or POSTAGE ON LETTERS TO MAR• TINIQUE, GUADELOUPE, AND Cunacoa.---,,0n the let of July next, and thencef ir ward, the postage upon letters conveyed isy packet between the United Kingdom and Martinique, Guadeloupe, or Cu-- rag ra, will be reduced to the uniform British rate of sixpence the half-ounce, and AO on according to the usual scale. This postage must ba paid in advance, or the letters will not be forwarded.—Rovrasin HILL, Se cretay r. THE BOMBAY MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, Monday — Toe steamship Valet a, Csptai i Robert., arrived this afternoon, with the heavy partion of the above mails, , pas' Is of the value of 222,0001, 6 cases of tortoise-hell, 1 case of shawls, 3 boxes of di spatchee, 23 cases of sUk, 1,534 hales of raw silk, and 33 packages of sundries. She brings 40 passengers, among whom are Colonel and Mrs. Jacobs, M j a and Mrs. Morris, Colonel Bellasie, and Dr, James. The Valetta spoke the following ships :—Jnne 9, the Vectis, steering south-east ; 13th, Judas, off Galita ; 17th, the Engli=h bargee Lady Stan. le off Cape Vincent ; War, the Northam, off Stsrt Point; 2lst, steamship Riwin Fox, off St. Alt an's Head. The dates of sailing were Alexandria, June 8; Mal a, 11 ; Gibraltar, 16. Gibraltar exchange on 143u don at 90 day s' date, 49i. The East India Company's troop-sh . p Trafalgar, Captain Ta) lur, arrived at Gravesend on Saturday from India, with a large number of sick and wounded troops on bo rd. The detachmen's, con sisting of four wen of the 12th Lancers, three men of the let Royals, two sergeant?, three corporals, and two privates of the 84th tZegiment, and twenty-seven men of the 43rd Light Infantry, with three women and twelve children, embarked at Madras on the 27th of February, and sailed on the following day, the voyage occupying 113 days. The Trafalgar touched at St. Helena on the 30th of April, and sailed on the 2d ult. During the voyage I no deAths cccni red on boajd. This is another of the beneficial results which has followed the abolition of the Palmerstonian dictatorship, and the ejectment of his chief henchman, Sir GEORGE C. LEWIS, from Downing -street. Should he by any unfor tunate chance be restored, the tax on know ledge will be maintained, the Leviathin will still pay its 38,0001. per annum, and we shall pay what would be a very handsome sal iry for an efficient and talented writer. We taro not for the competi tion that it may produce ; we are for free trade in literature (and in money) as well as in com modities. In the olden time a man's hand guarded his head--now, the head shall protect the pocket; aad we rejaioe at the unrestricted com petition that may ensue, albeit we have nearly reached the allotted life of man, and can bail even the Times as a younger brother. But it is not only for literary duty is desirable. I t opera tes th e coarse de purpasest that the abolition of the opera tes very prejudicially Packingor other scr iptions of paper are required,for purposes, and the Excise restrictions and regulations, consequent on the tax, are more burdensome, even then the pecuniary impost. Besides, a hope has been held out of a total revision of the fi sca l system. The Palmerstonians themselves admit that Lord DERBY does not promise unless be means to perform ; and thus, if the noble lord remain in power, we may reasonally hope' for what would never be attained under the sway of PALMERSTON, WOOD, LEWIS, and Co. "The bays of the school, it must be said, had heard the noble gentleman's history, and had all got to know and love him." Mr. THACKERA readers will remember the sentence—it occurs in his last chapter of his History of the NEWCOILES. The reference is to Codd Colonel—dear old Tuolcas NEWCOME-jUSt before (the close of his life) he suddenly cries Adsum 1 "and 10, he, whose heart was as that of a little child, had an swered to his name and stood in the preience •f TFIE subt LONDO_N,_ TUESIYAY fry ENING, rtINE 22 1 185!8. TIE YEfLANE-ITALIA N OPERA. 4 •kJ FST I_ KJ • We have already noticed Mr. E. T. Smith's suc cessful endeavour to improve the quality of his en tertainments while preserving their unprecedented cheapness. We have noticed the important acces sion to the strength of the company in the person of Madame, Pauline Yiardot ; and we have now to mention another remarkable accession—that of Madame Persiani, who appeared last night in the " Puritani." Nay, more : we expect to announce in a few days a third accession as important as either of the above—that of the veteran Tamburini, who, it is positively stated, has accepted an engagement at tbis theatre. Tamburini enjoys a green old age, with the mens sana in corpore sano. He will show no great decay of his great powers ; and we may look for a Don Giovanni at Drury-lane by the only actor living who is capable of sustaining the cha racter. Persiani's appearance last night drew an immense audience, by whom the celebrated prima donna was most warmly welcomed. She looked extremely well—even youthful, and acted with the grace and feeling which are so well rEmembered. Her voice has lost some of its strength and volume ; but it has its old flexibility and clearness. In the fine quartet, "A te, o cars," she sang with exquisite sweetness ; and in the favourite " Son vergina vez zosa," she was as light and brilliant as ever. The opera, as a whole, was not as well supported as the 4 ' Barbiere di Siviglia." Signor Naudin's Arturo is a coarse imitation of Mario ; and Badiali's Gior gio was a careful and intelligent performance, but sadly defective in vocal power. AT. JAMES'S lIALL-OHRISTY'S MINSTRELS. The second day concert of this talented black band took place yesterday at St. James's Hall. It was divided into three parts. The first consisted principally of separate airs, chiefly by Messrs. Rayner, Collins, Wambold, E. H. Peirce, and Christian, who has a most extraordinary power of voice. The second part was devoted to burlesque dancing and playing chiefly ; and the third comprised the burlesque Italian opera. The peculiar merits of this band, both collectively and individually, are too well known to require now much elaborate description. We can only say their plaintive airs are as serious and beautiful as ever ; their comic as characteristic ; and their bur lesque as grotesque and humorous. Neither their vivacity nor their expression of character seem to have been dulled nor abated by frequent repetition; and their audience laughed as heartily and listened as eagerly to the entire entertainment as ever. The audience had on this occasion the addition of the scholars of the Licensed Victuallers' School, they having been invited, and their approbation was fully shown by the intense enjoyment they manifested and the laughter they indulged in. An announcement was made that the concerts, having been remarkably successful, would be continued during the day occasionally, the evening perform ances still continuing in King William-street. HER MAJESTY AT THE UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTION. The Queen and,the Prince Consort, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Brabant and the Count of Flanders, paid a visit to the United Service Institution in Whitehall-yard last evening. Her Majesty was attended by the Duchess of Atholl ; the Prince Con fa)rt and the Duke of Brabant and the Count of Flanders were on horseback, and in attendance were Col. Seymour, Col. Bouverie, and Baron d'Overchie de Nerische. Her Majesty and illustrious party arrived at a quarter before six o'clock. The chief object, it was understood, of the royal visit was to see the model of Sebastopol just placed among the interesting collection of the institution. The Queen and the Prince Consort and their distin guished friends next viewed a beautiful model of the English cemetery at Cathcart's-hill, the tombstones and gravee of each noble and gallant soldier being clearly show'. Captain Siborne's model of the battle of Waterloo was then inspected by the illustrious company. Her Majesty expressed a wish to visit the other apart ments, and subsequently went over the steam model room, where portraits of the notorious Yeh and his father were placed for her Majesty'sinspection, the armoury, tire. Among the valued relics presented for the Queen's inspection were the signal book of the Chesapeake, secured when that ship was captured by the Shannon ; Capt. Cook's chronometer, which is now wound up daily; the Arctic relics, obtained by the different expeditions sent out in search of Sir John Franklin; and Sir Francis Drake's walking stick. Among the interesting objects submitted to her Majesty was a piece of the timber of the Russian man-of-war the Twelve Apostles, after its immersion for one year in the harbour of Sebastopol, the wood being completely riddled with worm holes. In juxtaposition a piece of English oak was shown the Royal party, which had been buried in Calais harbour for three hundred years, which, beyond being blaek by the action of the sea water, was quite sound. In an adjoining room was the cage in which Mrs. Noble was carried about during her captivity in China—a rude wooden construction, barely spacious enough to afford comfort to a Cochin China fowl. After paseing :an hour, the Queen and the Duchess of Brabant, attended by the Duchess of Athole and Col. Bouverie, left for Buckingham Palace. The Prince Consort, with the, Duke of Brabant and the Count of Flanders, remained until a quarter past 7 o'clock. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY. The Emperor, the Empress, and the Prince Imperial arrived at St, Cloud yesterday evening, at seven o'clock. Their Majesties and the Prince Imperial are in the enjoyment of excellent health. In addition to Marshal Bosquet, Marshal Can rob,,rt also intends going to Plombieres, and remaining there during the stay of the Emperor. We published two days back from the Moniteur a statement respecting the sale of landed property belonging to the Hospice des Orpheliues at Roche fort. The official journal had not indicated the source from which the article emanated, and the inference generally drawn from the silence observed on that point was that the document had proceeded from the Minister of the Interior, under whose authority such establishments are placed. At pre sent the Moniteur contains a rectification on that head, and states that the note •in question ori ginated with the department of the Minister of Marine. The Non/iteur publishes the official return of the Customs revenue for the month of May, amounting to 18,127,885 fr., being a decrease of 604,476 fr., as compared with the corresponding month of last year. The receipts of the first five months of thepre sent year have been 73,758,17Gfr., or 5,538,851 fr. less than in the same period of 1857. Taking as the point of comparison the five months of the two years, the items which show the principal falling off are sheep and cattle, 31,311 fr. ; mahogany, 81,813 fr. ; potable liquors, 3,490,5261 r. ; cocoa, 27,245 fr. ; coffee, 1,263,145 fr. ; raw cotton, 156,669 fr. ; linen and hempen thread, 169,296 fr. ; oleaginous seeds, 173,800 fr. ; indigo, 90,440 fr. ; raw wool, 481,116 fr. ; rough castings, 677,5831 r. ; bar iron and steel, 132,615 fr. ; silver and gold, 45,944 fr., the amount imported of the former being 3,228,690 fr., and of the latter 886,171 fr. ; nitrate of soda and potash, 34,272 fr. ; pepper, 50,668 f. ; raw and spun silk, 13,685 f. ; foreign sugar, 242,989 f. ; linen and hempen cloth, 222,387 f. ; sundries, 1,545,229 f. The articles which show an improvement are French colonial su g ar, 1,696,001 f. ; corn, 756,767 f. ; raw hemp and flax, 122,061 f. ; cochineal, 19,430 f. ; tallow, 6,150 f. ; coal, 566,398 f. ; oil, 209,337 f. ; copper, 6,049 f. ; rough salt, 16,102 f. ; and sulphur, 26, 389 f. The Moniteur de l' Armee contains the following —" The Nuremberg Correspondent published re cently a Berlin letter announcing that dealers were visiting various parts of Germany and purchasing for the French Government horses for military service. That statement, which has been repeated by several journals, is completely false. The French Government has given no one the mission of purchasing horses abroad, and the resources of France completely suffice to meet the ordinary requirements of her cavalry." BOURSE, June 21.—The folio wing were the closing quotations per Cents 94 25 Do. end month 94 3 per Cent. ..... 68 15 Do. end montb 6B 10 Bank Shares Credit Fonder Belgian 4,1 ... Piedmontese (5) Roman 9l Austrian Credit Mobilier ... 630 —i, Spanish Threes Do. Account 622 f li ! Home Debt Orleans Northern New Ditto 740 Lyon and Mediteran— 730 N3w Ditto Geneva RAILWAYS.— FOR CASH. Midi Western 586 Strasburg Grand Central Sardinian Austrian SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 17th do not contain any political news. The Government was collect ing funds from the provinces to pay the half year's dividends ; it had received 1,920,000 reals from Andalusia, and was expecting large ones from Castille, Valencia, and other provinces. The Seville newspapers say that the odium has done scarcely any harm to the vines of the Sherry district of Serey de la Frontera. The same journals state that English societies c'rculate great numbers of bibles tracts, professions of Protestant dc., in Andalusia. A letter from Belgrade of the 11th says : " After the dispersion of the band which endea voured to cut down the English flag, nothing ex traordinary has taken place here, except that the Council of Ministers has assembled, and that the foreign consuls were admitted to its deliberations. The English consulate is now protected by a de tachment of 25 men of the regular troops. It is said that the Turks are much excited against the Christians." Accounts from Teheran of the 20th May an nounce that the young Crown Prince had been s riously ill. Fortunately, the European medical man attached to the Court, Dr. Polak, had suc ceeded in subduing the malady, and the Prince had recovered. According to letters from St. Petersburg, the Duke de Montebello, the French ambassador at the Court of Russia, is to accompany the Emperor Alexander in his visit to Archangel. Another Berlin letter says :—" Prussia has con voked a general meeting of tke Zollverein at Han over, and has, in conjunction with Bavaria and Saxony, drawn up a report setting forth the resul t of the negotiations at Vienna, and discussing the points which were not decided on there. This re• port is to be communicated to the States forming the Zollverein." The German Universal Gazette contains an on dit to the effect that Prince Alfred of England will shortly arrive in Berlin and enter the first regi ment of the Guard, in order to become acquainted with the Prussian military service. The Chamber of Deputies of Hanover in its sitting •f the 18th rejected by a majority of 43 the proposition of the Government for the creation of several secondary articles. The Chamber also re jected by a majority of 41 the demand of a credis for the construction of three new infantry barracks. GREAT FIRE AT FRESH - WHARF, LONDON BRIDGE. Yesterday mornieg a fire, involving the destruction of property even to a greater amount than the one that took place on Saturday night at Limehouse, broke out on Fresh Wharf, Lower Thames-street, adjoining Lon don bridge. The premises are well known to most steamboat passengers paseirg along the river, as covering an immense space of ground, on which stood a great number of lofty warehouses, containing in the whole property valued at more than a million sterling. It appears that about a dozen men employed on the wharf had their attention directed to huge bodies cf smoke as black as soot issuing from the loopholes and windows of the silk floor. Feeling satisfied that a fire bad occurred, they at once gave information to Mr. Charles Clark, the inspector of the wharf, who sent for Mr. Inspector Kilbey, at Seething lane. Mr. Inspector Mitchell next arrived with a body of police, followed by numerous engines of the London Brigade, and that of the West of England Company, bringing with them Mr. Superintendent Braidwood, Acting-foreman Bridges, and several other officers. A good supply of water was obtained from the land • side of the premises, on which tho engines were made to play ; but the fire continuing to spread, the two steam floating engines were sent for, and the one stationed at Rotberhitbe, and that from Southwark- bridge arrived in little nore than a quarter of an hour. The whole of this force was called into full operation, but the flames continued their ravages until they reached the upper floor, and although the water from the goats kept falling in torrents, the firemen could not prevent the roof being destroy,d. It, however, quickly fill in, and enabled the firemen to throw about 2,800 gallons of water per minute from each of the floating engines, the water ran down through the different flours and completely saturated them. By 12 at noon, just four hours and a half after the commencement of the misfortune, the firemen began to see that their labours were successful, and no apprehensions need be feared of any further extension of the mischief, but so great was the body of fire which 'even then remained in the three upper floors, as to preclude the possibility of the fire being entirely extinguished until late in the evening. The property known to be destroyed must be enor mous. It was stated that one house alone had 25 000/ worth of silk in the building, but although the infor mation was obtained from an official of the wharf it is to be hoped that he has made a mistake in the amount. The lessee of the premises, it is understood, was Mr. linibb, the wbatfinger. During the fire one or two accidents occurred. An engineer, named Holloway ► employed on one of the scam-fl .ats, got his hand entangled iu a cogwheel, and will probably have to undergo amputation. A bri gade fireman ► named Crosby, was severely injured in the same way. TUE GREAT FIRS AT LIMERoUSE.—At the great fire, which took pace on Saturday night, at the extensive boat-building promisee of the Messrs. Forrestt, Lime house, we regret to state that six life-boats, belonging to the Royal Natiosal Life-boat Institution, were also un fortunately consumed. The life-boats were nearly all completed, and arrangements were about to be made to send them to their stations at Cromer and Bacton, Nor fog( ; Frazerburgh, in Scotland ; and Rosslare and Kil more on the Irish oast. Some life-boat fittings, cork life-belts, liquid life-boat compasses, cordage, and other valuable stores, were likewise entirely lost to this phi lanthropic institution, which has of late years been inakin 4; such great efforts to supply the coast with ofh c.ent life-boats. THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON TBE WESTERN RAIL WAY. BISHOPSTOKE, JUNE 21. Beyond the facts elicited at the inquest, and the names and particulars of the sufferers by the accident which occurred last night, there is very little to communicate in addition to the statement with which I furnished you by telegraph. The cause of the carriages getting off the line seems involved in inextricable mystery,. The fol lo sing is a list of the deceased and injured passengers as far as known : William Helsey, aged 40, steel, copperplate, and lithographic printer, of No. 8, Seacual-lane, Sarah Lovell, aged 22, niece of the deceased, sustained severe injury to the soft parts of the left arm, an extensive fracture connected with the elbow joint, and the light shoulder lacerated to a great extent, laying bare the ligaments, besides considerable prostration of the us tem. She is still in great danger. Eugene Perin, aged 24, basket maker, of Leather lane, has an extensive lacerated wound of the left arm, producing a fracture connected with the Elbow joint. The injury to the soft parts is so extensive that his life is still considered in danger, and some days must elapse before any steps can be taken as to amputation or other wise. These axe the only two cases left here, all the rest having gone on to London in the train. Six medical gentlemen were in attendance upon the sufferers last night—viz , Dr. Fox, son of Mr. L. 0. Fox, surgeon, of Broughton, near Romsey ; Mr. Brooks, surgeon, of Bit.hopstoke ; Dr. Hearne, Mr. Welch, and Mr. Hine, of Southampton ; and a gentleman who was a passenger in the train, described on his card as "Docteur Piedeoel, 3, Boulevart. de Sebastopol (Rive Gauche)." 'The two surviving patients remain under the care of Dr. Hearne at the Junction Hotel. The inquest on the deceased man Helsey was com menced at 4 o'clock this afternoon, at the hotel, before Mr. J. H. Todd, county coroner, and a respectable jury. Mr. Archibald Scott (traffic manager), Mr. W. F. God eon (superintendent of traffic), and Mr. John Strap? (resident engineer), were in attendance to watch the case on the part of the South-Western Railway Company. Having been sworn, the jury proceeded to view the body of the deceased, which presented a frightful appearance, the skull being dreadfully fractured and smashed, laying open to view the top of the spinal cord. They next examined the line, which afforded no clue whatever to the cause of the accident. The carriages went off the line at the points, and appear to have been dragged about 50 yards before the spot was reached where Het sey was killed. Singularly enough, two cf the carriages got safely on to an inner line of rails, dragging along the third-class carriage, which contained the suf ferers, between the two lines until the coupling chain _broke. Nut the slightest injury was dune to the rails, and even a scratch on the ground is scarcely to be seen. When the carrisge turned over the deceased's head came in contact with the lever of the points, which caused the injuries to his skull, and the ground and broken iron are stained with the poor fellow's blood. On returning to the jury-room, Tee Coroner observed that he had held his office longer than this railway had been opened, and it was only right he should say this was the first case of a passenger being killed on the line in which he had been called on to hold an inquest, although an extensive portion of the railway ron through his district. This was a fact creditable to the management of the South-Western Company. Mrs. Eliza Helsey, widow of the deceased, was the first witness examined. She stated that the train came up from Portsmouth at about the usual pace, and she observed nothing peculiar until the moment of the acci dent. All of a sudden, as they approached the station, she found the carriage turn round like a top, which was the first thing noticed calculated to produce alarm. There were about 30 persons in the carriage, which was a third class one. Deceased was standing up looking out of the carriage, when it turned over on its side. They all fell together in a heap, and deceased's head struck 'on a bar of iron which was on the line He had a cap ont which came off. Oa looking towards her husband she saw the iron under his teed, and his head crushed and bleeding very much, end the brains scattered about. He never spoke or moved afterwards. Witness was bruised. They had a niece with them, who was sitting on the same seat as her uncle, and she was very nearly killed. Every assistance was immediately rendered, but elle could not recollect how she was got out of the carriage. Several doctors and others came, and all was done that eeuld be done to assist them, and every attention paid by all parties. Witness could form no possible idea of ths cause of the accident, and had no complaint to make ci any nature. Wm. Tilbury Fox, M. 8., of the General Lying-is; Hospital, York-road, London, was nex t examined -el was in the Southampton train yesterday evening a -fen minutes before 8 o'clock, and saw the Portsmouth trail ) shut off steam a long way down the line. I lost sight of the train for a few seconds by some intercepting buildings, and when we pulled up to allow th e Portsmouth train to go on a-head, I looked out of the window and observed some confusion at the station: Hearing that some carriages had got off the rails got out and walked up the line, and found a third-clas e carriage turned over on its side. The railway servant° were engaged in taking out the passengers, and part 0 } the carriage roof was kni eked off for that purpose. then saw the deceased lying on his left side, with his face on the ground. I saw at once that he was dead; skull being extensively fractured. An iron bar running along the side of the carriage was lying upon the uppe r side of his head, and forced into it. Seeing that be We s dead, and other passengers were seriously injured, I at' tended to them. I did not so,e the deceased removeds but saw him again afterwards when he bad been take° into the waiting room. He had an extensive fracture of the skull, which was laid open in such a manner the/ death must have been immediate. John Gibbons, the engine-driver in charge of the 0' cursion train from Portsmouth, said that nothing re markable occurred until the train arrived at the static ° at 7.48 p.m. The steam was shut off two miles frora the station, and the train ran in at the rate of about W ei l or eight miles an hour. After turning the curve Ib e got about 20 yards from the points when I f e lt a slid': jerk of the engine, as if something was not quite right . I immediately saw a man in front of the engine holdlua both his bands up as a signal to stop. I reversed We ll ; gine and stopped the train in about 20 yards. There wera 18 carriages in the train. I then got off the engine se t went back, and found a third-class carriage tu r ned ci l a on its side. I assisted in getting out a little girl, also the deceased, who was quite dead. The eagl e and 14 of the carriages were on the 'eloper line, and eagle guards' -van and a first-class carriage were on the leer line against the platform. I can form no idea w hates ;s as to the cause of the separation, and can only acoc tl • , b for the third.class carriage being turned over by d separation. I examined the rails, and could see noth ic to explain the accident. Only one carriage turn` v a o i, over. There was another carriage off the rails vib l did not turn over. I saw the pointsman at the proPel place. I cannot say whether the carriages got off at I , m o points or after passing them. If the &loin tsman had 10 go the points before all the carriages had passed 01 that would not account for the accident. bi° John Titheridge, pointeman on duty, explained, duties, and his compliance with them on this oce4 ol° ,y He held the handle till all the carriages were P:o the points, but if he had not done so the effect would o ,, have been to throw the carriages off the line. The po lo ; were self-acting, and were only held to insure pcsi t a l o i safety, and save wear and tear. All the carriages 1 356- ‘ lO the points on the right line, and immediately afterveal he observed that some of the carriages had separel' e o from the train, two being on the inside line, and ",.• turned over between the two lines. There might 13° 4 been another off, which witness did not notice. Witns_s, saw no more at that time, as he had to remain at his 5* --0 the Southampton train being expected. He could no idea whatever as to the cause of the accident. p% looked over the line afterwards, but found nothing ivr ° with either the rails or the points. Benjamin Barrett, the guard of the tr a i n , saw a th ir d l d ' class carriage jump and go off the lin e e n the right 1 3111 : 60 . about the time they passed the points. Could not count for the separation, but had no doubt it occuere u ib • the time the jerk was felt. Went back and looked a t : o points, and found everything all right. The train not going faster than eight or nine miles an hour. Mr. Henry Wilmer, station master, at Bishopstolho, was present this morning when the carriages Wer e 4 10 mined by Mr. Ireland, of the carriage department, the defect or imperfection whatever was found either lo d id wheels, axles, or framing of any of them which *°• - ,0 account for the accident. One axle of the evertu r° carriage was slightly b e nt, but th a t appeare A %,(l Lave been caused by the fall. Every rneari! o t ► been adopted to ascertain the c ause o f the eceL" - to but without success. Nothing had been doneuo the points since the accident, and they had been to without any repair or alteration. Aree" The only other witn e ss examined w as George ' t he thorn, a puintsman on duty at the bridge, who ea, W A pot carriages go off the line and one turn over, but citu v et know from what cause. signalled the engine -oti to stop, which was done as speedily as possible. tha t, The Coroner briefly summed up, remarking of though there was no evidence to establish the eau' ye a the carriages getting off the line, they negatively Pf u o ir that no blame attached to any one, and that no f a. 9 duct existed. for Tne jury returned a verdict of "Accidental 'a exonerating the railway company and their offiel blame. I t THE LATE TRAGICAL OCCCIRRENQE AT ISLINGTOI-00 will be remembered that Mr. Hughes, the fathe r (:),, 0 0 0 ceceased man, stated at the inquest that when b l 'i o o. left home he had a watch and money in his posseee'od it is satisfactory, however, to know that upon fie 3re f 01 0 the bedroom of his unfortunate son he found on e tl d the drawers lucked, and upon opening it he cliscoveref the missing watch, chain, and money. The body A female was interred at tke Abney Park Cetnetet.ro of verdict of felo de se having been returned in the c t i' v ist , the man, tie was Lurie,' at Finchley Cemetery he" the hours of nine and twelve on Fiiday night. ocyter LEGAL CHANGES IN SCOTLAND.—The Lord Ad V , e tiC e Mr. Inglis, is to be elevated to the bench as Lord., e 0 I st Clerk ; like his predecessor in office, Mr. Inglis steps d tet o rti once from the position of Dean of Faculty lb ° Advocate to the all but highest legal position at t' pill posal of the Crown. His successor as Lord.Advvo,t. Os. be the present Solicitor - General, Mr. Charles Plors For tho Solicitor Generalship there seem s a B . e sr , scramble. The psi ties meet freely named a re ' so rer Ge o rge Dutidas, Mi. Get:4;e I j aLUD, Mr. DAvid Jo bs and Mr. Archd. Boyle. It is rular.ured that Ai r , ser Mackerzie Land-.ay, one of the pri n cipal Clerks e i v, r6., sioo, has iesigne.l, and that Mr. Arad. . ie brother of the Lord President of the Court of Sie bl°Or to be Lib 511Ceeil6or,—a/avow jp a dy Mad, THE MODEL OF SEBASTAPOL. This morning the members of the press were favoured with a private view of a splendid model of the Russian stronghold in the Black Sea, which has just been added to the United Service Museum, Whitehall. The model is the work of Col. Hamilton, C.B. Grenadier Guards, and is about as fine a specimen of this kind of workmanship we ever witnessed. It is based chiefly upon the survey of the officers of the Royal Engineers, and the Quartermaster General's Department, while a portion is based upon the plans of the Sardinian and Russian armies. It may there fore be pronounced the only accurate model of the seat of the late war in the Crimea. The country represented ex tends north and south 14 miles from the river Belbec to Balaklava • and east and west 16i m il es f rom th e Chem nese lighthouse to the Mackenzie farm and Varnutka val ley, on a scale of 11 inches to the mile. It comprises and distinctly shows the sites of the flank march of the allied armies towards Balakle.va, on the 25th September, 1854; the general position of the Russians in their advance to the battle of Balaklava, and the position occupied by the allies on Oct., 1854 ; the advance of the Russians on Nov. 5, 1854, to the battle of Inkerman, and the position taken up by the allies on that day ; also the advance of the Russians on Aug., 1855, to the attack of the French troops on the Federekine heights, and the movement of the British and Sardinian armies to the support of their allies; the siege works of the allies against Sebastopol, and the Rus sia defences up to the capture of the town on Sept. 8, 1855. The plan also shows the position of the camps of the English, French, Sardinian, and Russian armies to wards the end of the siege ; the railroad, and various roa is of communication ; the entrenchments constructed by the English in front of Kamiesch ; and also the posi tion of the allied fleets off the harbour of Sebastopol at the close of the siege, derived from the logs of the several men of-war, and from the French Admiralty. The colouring of the model is extremely beautiful, and reflects the highest credit on all patties concerned in its production. Her Majesty, who inspected the model last evening, was pleased to express her admiration, in very flattering terms, of the genius and talent of Col. Hamilton, the constructor. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty the Queen held a Court yesterday after noon at Buckingham Palace. M. Juan B. Alberdi bad bis first audience of the Queen, and delivered his credentials as Envoy Extraor dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Argentine Confederation. His Excellency was introduced by the Earl of Malmesbury, the Qieen's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Major- General the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., her Ma jesty's Master of the Cermonies. Sir John Crampton was presented at an audience by the Earl of Malmesbury to take leave, as her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to St. Petersburg. Sir Arti;ur Ma; his was presented to the Queen upon his return from abroad. The Hon. Edward A. J. Harris was rr,:‘sented to the Queen at an audience by the Earl of Malmesbury, and kissed hands on being appointed her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to Berne. The Earl of Maluae4bury had an audience of her Majesty, The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by the King of the Belgians, the Duchess of Brabant, and the Princess Alice, honoured the performance of the Phil harmonic Concert at the Hanover-square-rooms with their presence in the evening. The Royal suite con si-ted of the Duchess of Manchester, the Duchess of Athol!, the Hon. Beatrice Byng, &c. &c. PRINCE ALPRgD AT KINSALE AND CORK. KINSALE, JE 19. Prince Alf re d, accompanied by his tutor, Lieut. UN Cowell, R.E., the Rev. Mr. Jolly, chaplain, R.N., and Dr. Winter, arrived here last evening, at 5 o'clock, in the Admiralty steam yacht Black E ag l e, M aster P etley. The officer com manding the Coast-guard at the station, Commander St. Leger, R. N., happening to see the steamer arrive in the harbour, and come t o anc h or o ff S c il ly, i mme di ate l y go t into full•iress uniform and put off. The royal party in about half an hourlan ded at Dennis's-quay, and immediately made for Mr. J. Black's yard, wherea two-horse outside car was procured the driver bein g D a ni e l Ly nc h. They then I proejeded t o nnisshannon, 9 miles up the Bandon river. On returning to Kinsale crowds met the Prince, who at Dennis's-quay ran down the s t e p s i n t o th e g ig, and imme diately laid hold of the rudder ropes. Before shoving off, his Royal Highness stood up, and bowed in acknowledg meat to the cheers of th e i n h a bit an t s . I n the evening Captain St. Leger, R. N., dined on board ; and Colonel Wilson, Bth King's Regiment, a ccompanied by Major Wheatson, during the P r i nce ' s a b sence paid their respects. This morning the Black Eagle left for the westward, it being the i n te n ti on o f Hi s R .yal Highness to visit Bantry, Ks lusare, &c. Letters are ordered to be forwarded on to Tarbet, at the mouth of the Shannon. LADY MORGAN.—The answer to inquiries for Lady Morgan yesterday were favourable; and it is to the noneur of literature to observe the public sympathy which has been accorded to the precarious state of one of its most eminent female professors in this country. Lady Morgan has made through her social position a new claim upon literary dretinction, and we heartily wish her recovery both fvr her own sake and for ours. tifo - The F ing the 1 Tea has Public sa For the 1 fair inqt have bee moderate plantatio owing to sale, has tions hav and the 1 Tallow liz the spot i livery, 51 cwt. The Li' steadily, tion. 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