The Sun. — London, England, 1859-08-13 00:00:00

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. tinder the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Fallen and Louis dei Franchi. By Mr. C. Kean. To conclude with A MIDSUMMER NIGH r'S DREAM. Commence at 7. T HEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, A NABOB FOR AN HOITR. THE CONTESTED ELECTION. After which, OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND. To conclude with HALLOWE'EN. Commence at 7. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. Followed by the new burlesque, THE BABES IN THE WOOD. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne ; Miss Woolgar and Miss K. Kelly. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. Mr. W. Smith's Benefit on Thursday, August 18. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Office open from 10 to 5 —no charge for booking. No fees to servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING, CAPTAIN CHARLOTTE. Miss M. Wilton. After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses Bwanborough, Oliver, and Lavine. Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE LADY OF LYONS. _ _ Commence at 7 o'clock. VERDI'S OPERA OF MACBETH. The whole of the first Act of this Opera, now produced for the first time in this country (the remaining three acts being in course of rehearsal), is sung nightly at the CAN TERBURY HALL CONCERTS. THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, vim, Jules, Juliette, and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and ZIGHT years. The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios eve[ written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi.. ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France and Belgium. Th e y will perform TWICE EACH EVENING, in addi tion to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, AUGU ST 13. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 75—highest since noon yesterday. 60—lowest this morning and during the night. 74—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.03. WIND, South-Westerly; light, and very fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY.—Morning, lh. 55m.—Afternoon, 2h. 13m. To-MORROW -Morning, 2h. 30m.—Afternoon, lh. 46m. CLOSE OF THE SESSION. The Parliamentary sessions of 1859 have at length, thank HEAVEN, been brought to a close! Those two sessions between which—as effectually as between the two stools of the adage—everything in the way of wholesome legislation has fallen to the ground. We have long since had quite enough for one year of all these fruitless bickerings of party, both in the Lords and in the Commons. We are heartily glad to be rid at last, for a brief interval, of those spiteful wranglings of faction, which have for a Ni hole twelvemonth precluded the nation from the merest chance of enjoying the realisation of any positive and practical legislative improvement. Unless something at present entirely beyond our ken should arise to necessitate the ex eeptioial and always unpopular labours of an autumnal session, the Gallery Reporters will have no more to do in their magic art of per petuating oratory by hieroglyphics, until February. Our ultra-reforming Premier will, in that case, have to curb his impatience as best he may during five whole months before he can seize the oppor- tunity he is known to court so eagerly for tho roughly remodelling and reorganising our existing system of popular representation As if in doubt as to that eagerness on the part of Lord PALMER STON and his colleagues, Lord DENMAN last evening gave notice in the Upper House, that " in the event of her MAJESTY'S Ministers delaying a reform bill next session, he would move for leave to introduce the bill so prematurely put an end to last session." It is a painful reminder—this prospective and con tingent notice of motion by Lord DENMAN—that we elose the Parliamentary labours of 1859, the toils of two sessions, the deliberations of two Par- 'laments, at precisely, and absolutely, and literally the same identical point, at which those labours, now upwards of six months ago (namely, on the 3d day of last February) commenced! And yet further—the Manner in which this outrageous waste of time has been brought about, the Cause of this monstrous wasting, and worse than wast ing, of a whole year, Lord DENMAN yesterday sen tentiously but most fully indicated when, in giving his notice of motion for 1860, "in the event of Ministers delaying a reform bill next session," (as they are known to have done, in truth, so often previously) his lordship observed, "He had given a silent vote for Lord DERBY "—adding—" he would now mention that he had received a letter from a gentleman, a cousin of his (Lord DENMAN'S) in which the writer said, I quite agree with you that Lord MALMESBURY has been unfairly treated. Nothing could be more constitutional, upright, and firm than the way in which he conducted the foreign business of the country." Yet it is notori ous that it was precisely by reason of that unfair treatment of Lord MALMESBURY, because of the wicked and intuitive perversion of his sayings and doings as Her MAJESTY'S Foreign Secretary, be- ' cause of the entire misrepresentation of his policy from beginning to end, that the last chance of the possibility of any real work in the way of whole some legislation for 1859, was lost to the country ! Simply for the sake of bringing back to office those .dear inevitable Whigs, so that the great families might yet once more cram the loaves and fishes down the insatiable maws of all the GREYS, and. all the ELLIOTS, and all the RUSSELLS Sixteen months exclusion from power having whetted their natu rally fine appetites from a hunger to a positive ravening for place and its perquisites. That is really the One Result of these two sessions of 1859—the 'Whigs are located once more in their old haunts in Whitehall! Sir CHARLES WOOD is en abled to dedicate his immense genius to the service of his country a Perfectly new character, namely, as the reorganizer of our Indian Empire, as the vir tual ruler of 200,000,000 of his fello w c r eat ures ! Sir GEORGE GREY is empow ered to draw a pretty handsome salary in the sinecure position of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Sir GEORGE LEWIS devotes his resplendent administrative capa cities to the conduct of the affairs of the Hom e Department. Lord JOHN RUSSELL is entrusted again with the management of that delicate and complicated loom of the Foreign-office, , 'cm-office where the fibrous threads of diplomacy are spun and inter woven—that same Lord JOHN who has already so frequently and signally illustrated his adroitness as tdiplomatist; for example, let us say, in the instance th e Vienna Conference ! When we recall these tl zings to mind—when we remember, moreover, tl ) at there, again, somehow or other, in the sacred p arliens of Downing -street and Whitehall, Mr. I .OWE, for instance, the high-minded and public s pirited Mr. LOWE, now of Calne, lately of Kidder xiinster, toils at the public desk and draws the aublic money—we are consoled, we are fain to re- I ;met our estimate of the fruitlessness of the two ses mons of 1859. If such are the result of these sessions, can they be regarded as wholly fruitless ? Have the Lords and Commons, but especially the latter, laboured in vain during the last stormy and anxious half-year, if—scanning the whole of this last weary volume of Hansard, surveying the whole of these sour debates and spiteful divisions—we find, as the result of all, the joyful return of the Whigs to Downing-street ? What is the postponement for another year of Parliamentary Reform ? Have we not compensation for this, full and complete com pensation—in the restoration of the Whigs to the offices of the Administration ! Common sense certainly tells us that we ought to make the most of this one Great Result of the Parliamentary session of 1859 —for it is a result that has been purchased dearly enough. The price of it is, among other things, the postponement not merely of Parlia mentary Reform (though that of itself is matter of sufficient consideration), but with Par liamentary Reform of every other kind of Legi slative Improvement. The Legal Reforms, among others, prepared for us at the open ing of the first of the two sessions last past those of the insolvency and bankruptcy laws, those involving the consolidation of the cri minal laws, those relating to the titles to land and to their registration—all have been given the go by—that the Whigs might be brought back to power ! In the eager struggling of the Whigs back once more to power, place, and patronage—we end the Parliamentary sessions of 1859, leaving the church-rates still unabolished. Because the Whig determination to wriggle back at any hazard, coute qui coute, at any cost of principle, of public spirit, or of consistency, the diplomatic labours of Lord MALMESBURY were first of all rendered powerless, and were afterwards flagitiously misrepresented. The precipitation of the war in Italy—was the adverse majority of 39 upon Thursday the 31st March, upon Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S paltry because entirely partisan and " dodging," resolu tions. Nay, the Times itself, the thick-and-thin advocate of the present Coalition in its rise and development, as afterwards in its formal installa tion, the very Times itself acknowledges this morn ing, in reference to the position of the late Govern ment, as far as its Diplomatic efforts to prevent the outbreak of war were concerned, that " a Ministry on sufferance immediately after a defeat in the House of Commons is naturally regarded with dis trust and comparative indifference by Foreign Powers." Now, remember that while as far as relates to the interests of Parliamentary Reform alone, there was not only every reason not to vote for Lord JOHN'S ridiculous resolutions, but, as we still believe, every reason to vote diametrically against them—as regards the influence of that untoward division upon the affairs of Europe even the organ of the then Opposition to-day acknowledges the result of the majority to have been—disastrous. To put the matter plainly, and in as few words as possible—To thrust Lord DERBY and his colleagues out of office, and to bring the dear old Whigs back again into power—the war in Italy (to say the very least of it) was precipi tated. For (to repeat the ipsissima verbs of the Times) " A Ministry on Sufferance immediately after a defeat in the House of Corn• mons, is naturally regarded with distrust and com parative indifference by foreign Powers." There fore, by reason of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S own act, the introduction (for purely selfish ends) of his in• sidious and paltry resolutions, the war in Italy was precipitated! He inherits now, in his Ministerial capacity as Foreign Secretary, difficulties for which he himself is in a very great and a very heinous manner responsible. Nothing hardly could have justified such a course at a moment so peculiarly perillous to the peace of Christendom nothing, cer tainly, could yield a shadow of justification to it below the immediate interests of the great ques tion of Parliamentary Reform, the problem of re organising and revivifying the whole system of our popular representation. But that those immediate interests were in no way at all advantageously affected by the momentary triumph ensured to the Whigs by the " dodge " of Lord JOHN'S Resolutions—the position of the question of Parliamentary reform at the present moment only too clearly and too painfully demon strates. On the contrary—as independent Liberals and thoroughgoing Reformers in the House, like Mr. ROEBUCK, and equally independent Liberals and no less thoroughgoing Reformers out of the House like ourselves, maintained loudly and strenuously at the time—the " immediate interests" of Parliamentary Reform demanded the rejection of those paltry resolutions, and the reference of the inadequate but improvable Bill of Lord DERBY and Mr. DISRAELI to the judg ment of the House of Commons in Corn mitteee. Had those honest recommendations been followed, we might now have had cause to exult in the happy triumph at last of the Cause of Reform—all that was evil in that bill being easily eliminated, all that was good in it as readily de veloped—developed even, had the House so willed it in Committee, to the approximation to Universal Suffrage, to the realisation of the Ballot, to the securing permanently, what we have now virtually, but irregularly, namely Quadrennial Parliaments ! But no : the Whigs, like true dogs in the manger, wanted the glory of the thing to themselves. If they could not give Reform, no one else should. Reform, in fact, appertaining exclusively to the Whigs, as the Times has the singular audacity (even for the Times) to express it today, as " the legitimate pro prietors of the doctrine !" The Whigs " the legiti mate PROPRIETORS" of the doctrine ! As if Reform belonged not to the - whole mass of the population ! But no—that is the . Whig creed. There may be free trade in everything else—but of Reform of all kinds (Heaven knows why), they are the impre scriptable Monopolists. Wherefore—not, of course, that they loved Reform less, but that they loved power more—the Whigs, led on by Lord JOHN, set aside the possibility of our getting Reform: securing, instead, the success of those insidious andpernicious resolutions. .1 As the first consequence of which, The Italian War became in a manner inevitable—the media tion of the discomfitted Ministry being rendered powerless for good by the selfish and partisan tactics of the Opposition. In the next place, the setting aside for yet another session of Par liamentary Reform, as well as of all other reforms, was ensured, as we have now the anguish of - witnessing! Everything was lost for ourselves, everything was imperilled for Christendom—so that the Whigs and their friends might only con trive, b y t h e grossest bribery in the elections, and ythe most flagitious misrepresentations in de bate, to worm their way back somehow, any how, by fair means or by foul, to the power greedily hungered after by themselves and their following. The end of it all being, that the Whigs are back again, an d that the nation' is expected to feel consoled by that one fact for having No Reform, a nearly Doubled Income Tax, and a very dubious degree of dignity in our Neutral position am ong the Great Powers of Christendom The immaculate counties ! But one petition, we believe, has beentried, or will be tried. Boroughs not only have been proved to be n ests of corru p tion ; ,; •• \ 'llVal MA Ahl , 4 , Hfriot.4,. r• m 0 0 10) ).• RO ,41 THE SUN. SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1859. TEE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 1859. old Norwich, or Gloucester, or Pontefract, where the unlucky " old freemen " are the scape-goats , the ten pound householders being supposed to be quite above sacrificing political principle to money ; but the " bran new " boroughs, with the polish of the Reform Bill not yet worn off—such as Wake field and Huddersfield—are proved to be steeped to the lips in bribery. Not even the Minos and Rhadamanthus-like presence of two brothers-in law of the great Birmingham Reformer availed to deter agents from giving, and Reform-Bill-made electors from receiving money for votes. All the while, however, the counties have been, with hardly an exception, free even from suspicion. We speak of our own side of St. George's Channel ; and we believe that hardly an elector of the fifty two counties, and their divisions, is suspected to have stained his hand with a bribe. One hundred and eighty-nine members represent the landed nobles and gentry of Great Britain ; and who ever dreamed that half-a-dozen of this virtuous phalanx °wad their seats to the ignoble vice of bribery—unless, indeed, the carrying of electors to the poll, and saving them from thirst and star vation on the road, can be construed as bribery. Pure and spotless, however, as their virtue must be reputed, who believes in it ? The truth is, that vices may be equal, or one worse than the other, yet the worst shall be the most respectable. " Plate sin with gold ;" let it be the sin of the Court, of the great, of the wealthy, and it loses half its odiousness, at least to the vul gar rich and the vulgar poor. Bribery, because a crime of the wealthy, is detested but half as much as it would be, if bribers as well as bribed were poor men. But the viler crime of " intimidation" is hardly loathed at all. It is the remnant of a noble feudal tyranny. Serfdom is indeed abolished. Compulsory service is no longer tolerated. But political serfdom is not only excused but defended. The tenant is considered, politically, as much the landlord's own as the soil ; indeed in some instances not only politically, but religiously, we have heard only this very year of old and excellent tenants being turned out of their farms because the worthy men preferred JOHN WESLEY'S hymn book to the prayer book; Wesleyans being generally, also, only too good Tories by half. If we mistake not, the nearly two hundred county members sit in the House of Commons in virtue of a meaner and more cruel vice than the one which has unseated so many Liberal members ; and which would, from all that oozes out before the committees, have unseated the Tory members in the same towns, had they been the winners and the defenders of seats. Bribery is at least a sacrifice on the part of the seducer. The briber tampers with the poor elector's principles, it is true ; but oftentimes he is a man in teo low a position of life to have either character or principles to lose. He does not, however, enslave him to himself ; he finds him, in the majority of cases, the slave of money, and dis posed to sacrifice anything to his god, and he enables him to sacrifice a vote. He confers a pleasure on the voter, though it be a depraving and unworthy one. The county candidate does just the reverse. He saves himself and:afflicts the voter. He appeals to his fears. The unfortunate tenant dares not think. Whether he lives beneath a Whig or a Tory landlord it is all the same. Lucky for him if his landlord's opinions really accord with his own, though even then he does not enjoy the pleasure of knowing that his vote is his own. But, if his political views be different he must vote white black ; he must perpetrate electoral forgery or submit to a penalty as bad as that incurred by many a forger. It is not easy to conceive the amount of conscious degradation endured by many educated men at the present day under the uniform system of voting by estates, not by individual tenants. Instances fre quently occur, as in the Southern states of America, in which estates, voters and all, are sold to a new master of opposite politics to the old one. Wives and families are not, indeed, separated from their parents, but they and filar parents would soon be sent a begging, or to the workhouse, to the slave states themselves, for all that the new landlord cares, if they ventured to thwart the purpose for which they were purchased. We have had these views openly asserted and defended only a year or two ago in Northampton shire, and, whether defended or not, no one doubts that they are acted on universally. It may be said that we hear but few complaints. We heard very few, during the latter part of their imprisonment from POERIO and his companions. Men cease to complain when complaint is useless, or, when it would but make their condition worse. A tenant openly uneasy because his political rights were filched, or taken as a part of the rent, though not specified in the lease by his landlord, would soon receive notice to quit. He would be regarded as a slave would in Carolina who did not conceal his wish for liberty. We have become accustomed to the sight, but when we open our eyes and look at it afresh, we can hardly conceive a more dreary one, politically, than that of the great majority of the counties of England. A part of the tenants, we may admit, concur in opinion with their land lords, but even they are conscious that they have only the advantage of a mental con formation which makes the fetters sit easy. The fetters are on them as well as on others. But all the rest live, converse politically, and vote, with the iron galling their souls. They may forget it more or less ; they may endeavour to make the best of it ; but whenever an election comes, escape from the consciousness of degradation they cannot. It is on the counties of England that the ballot would confer its noblest blessings. In boroughs it would save many a poor man from temptation, but in counties it would emancipate a whole and a large class. It would give tenants-at-will a will of their own. It would make the farmer a Free-man. One of the encouraging signs of the progress of the age may be found in the fact that many great business establishments have begun to turn their attention to something beyond trade and barter. The employers have, in many instances, anticipated the natural desire of their men by affording them the means of mental improvement and cultivation. In no case has this been more evident than in the various railway companies' establishments. The schools, and libraries which have been instituted under the auspices of the secretaries and heads of the companies have reflected honour on them for putting the means of mental cultivation and re creation within the reach of all those in their ser vice. The beneficial effect of this kindly encourage ment of literary tastes has just been forcibly shown at the Great Northern Railway establishment, where the employees have now started a little weekly journal for circulation among themselves. It is conducted, contributed to, and supported en tirely by members of the Great Northern staff; and it affords a very favourable impression of the degree of:intelligence and education they possess. Political and general news are very sensibly eschewed, since their publication would involve much unnecessary trouble, with no advantageous results, but all matters connected with the'railway world in general, and the Great Northern in parti cular, are treated of. Tales, and poems, and papers on gardening are among its contents, and, though only two numbers are as yet published, they pro mise fairly for its success and character. It is in teresting from the fact of its being the first publi cation of the sort—the fir.,t paper started exclu sively for the employees of railway companies. We heartily wish all success to its enterprising conductors, and hope it will not be the last of its kind, since it proves the intelligence and respecta bility of this large body of men, and the kindly feeling existing between employers and empl,ved. It is a fair sign that the " march of mind" is ad vancing at a rate suitable to the days of railways and steam engines. BODNIN ELECTION.—(Mis Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) We have much pleasure in stating that Mr. Wyld was this day elected member for Bodmin. Mr. Tremaync re tired, and there was no opposition. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : TURIN, AUG. 13. Count Arese arrived here yesterday. The King - visited Bergamo and Brescia, and was received with enthusiastic cheers by the population of Lombardy. An amnesty for small offences has been pro- claimed. Commissioners of the Governments of France, England, Prussia, and Russia, have arrived at Florence, and will be present at the discussion of the assembly. MUNICH, AUG. 12. The Chamber of Deputies, in to-day's sitting, re specting the motion for the formation of a central power in Germany, resolved, after discussing the motion, to reject it, by passing to the order of the day with 87 votes against 45. VIENNA, AUG. 12. Our Ministerial crisis still continues. A special commission, appointed by the Emperor, for work ing out the new constitution, sits daily. Count Rechberg, Minister for Foreign Affairs; Count Leo Thun, Minister of Public Instruction ; Count Clam-Martinitz, Chief of the Government of Cra covie ; Count Wolkenstein, Imperial Councillor ; and Baron Hubner, formerly Ambassador at Paris, take part in the sittings of the commission. An employe in the. Ministry of Foreign Affairs acts as secretary. It is fully confirmed that Baron Bach has ten dered his resignation because the reforms he pro posed were rejected by the Emperor; but it is cer tain there is no material difference between the pro gramme of Baron Bach and that of M. von Schmer ling, whose advice has since been asked. It is re reported that the commission for the working out of the constitution is equally opposed to the views of Baron Bach and M. von Schmerling, and that the new constitution of Austria will be founded on aristocratical and clerical power. The Austrian Correspondence publishes an article respecting different letters from Berlin correspon dents in German papers, which had announced that a confidential declaration, in reference to certain .passages in the Imperial Manifesto was made by Austria to Prussia. The Austrian Correspondence, although wishing for the best understanding to exist between the great German Powers, declares nevertheless the above statement to be unfounded. PARIS, AUG. 13. The illoniteur of to-day contains the follow- in g : The Emperor received yesterday Prince Peter of Oldenburg and the Persian ambassador. Marquis de Nerli was received yesterday by the Emperor, and handed two letters to his Majesty, one from the Grand Duke Leopold of Tuscany, and the other from the Grand Duke Ferdinand of Tusc any. SARDINIA. MILAN, AUGUST 9.—This city has for the last three days been keeping high holiday in honour of the solemn entry of Victor Emmanuel as King of Lombardy. He left Turin the day before yester day, at three in the afternoon, having in his suite a great part of the Parliament, who had received his gracious invitation to attend. Along the whole line he was greeted with shouts by the people. By half-past six the King reached the barrier of. the Eastern gate, where a magnificent pavilion had been erected. Here he was welcomed by the authorities, and the Mayor of Milan, Count Belgio joso, read an address, which was greatly ap plauded. The King replied in a few touching words, after which he mounted his horse, and the whole of his train mounted their's, except the senators and deputies, who rode in court carriages. The Corso of Porta Renza, otherwise called the Eastern Gate, is one of the most beautiful streets that any city of Europe can boast of. Conceive it filled with an immense throng, and all the balconies radiant with that beauty for which the Lombard women are famed ; to complete the picture, im agine an infinite number of banners and flags, so dense that they seemed to form a tended arcade. Along this enchanting scene rode the King, be tween two rows of the National Guard in their rich uniforms and perfect military bearing ; whilst a perfect rain of flowers, never ceasing for one instant, and rapturous cries of " Long live the King !" " Long live Italy !" poured down upon him amid the peals of the church bells. When the King and the royal cortege reached the famous cathedral—that mountain of sculptured marble, as Michael Angelo called it— they were welcomed under another pavilion by the clergy. Having entered the church, and listened to the Ambrosian hymn, the King, with his suite had not much further to go, for the royal palace is in the same square as the minister. Both on enter ing and leaving the cathedral the applause of the vast multitude was tremendous. That very morn ing, just as the ornamenting of the pavilion before the chief gate of the cathedral was completed, the same multitude had commenced a riot, accusing the municipal authorities of having hoisted the same flags and drapery that they had used when, greeting the Archduke Maximilian. They had spied out some yellow and black striping, which you know forms the Austrian cockade. Some Zouaves, having been told what the row was about, joined the malcontents, and in a very short time the pavilion was torn to shreds. Another canopy of some kind or other had to be extemporised, and so to suit the humour of the people, it was com posed of the tricoloured national flags alone- Yesterday he received all the constituted bodies of the state, and many deputations from the city and country. Among the guests at the banquet was the celebrated poet, Alessandro Manzoni. It is said, the King, in plain clothes and perfect incog nito, paid him a visit previously, at his own dwell ing. I hope this rumour will turn out to be a fact, and that virtue with genius combined has re ceived this mark of reverence from one of the best monarchs that adorn this age. In Milan there are still two divisions of the French army. Talking of them, permit me to relate to von an anecdote of much importance, the accuracy of which lam able to guarantee to you. When the news of the peace of Villafranca reached this place, the consternation was profound and universal. This feeling was soon changed into one of fury, and the aspect of the entire city became highly menacing. The colonel of the Piedmontese carabineers, Arnulfi, made it known to the commandant of the French garrison, who answered in a dry and cold manner, that having under his orders 20,000 French bayonets he laughed at ail the ill-humour of the Milanese. A few hours later the same commandant called upon Colonel Arnulfi, and with some anxiety begged him to state what the temper of the people was then . , and to ke e p hi m i n f orme d o f it. It was not diffi cult to detect the reason of the French comman dant's sulden anxiety ; he had been communicating ith his principal officers, who had assured him that they could not rely with full security on !heir men, as these shared more than was to be wished the sentiments of the Milanese. There the matter I ended ; and the people were calmed by some . influ ential citizens, who pointed out how fatal and useless any tumult would be. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY. Notwithstanding the large number of troops con veyed fr nn Italy to France, no accident occurred With the exception of a slight collision between two transports. The fleet from tne Adriasic has arrived at Toulon, and is laid up in ordinary, with the ex ception of some vessels that are being refitted and are taking in provisions. All the gunboats have been taken into dock. The steam frigate Islay and the steam cutter Monge still remain in the Adriatic. They have returned to Antivari, where they will, remain for some time, to protect the numerous transports laden with coal which were sent into the Adriatic to supply the steamships. The four regiments of Chasseurs d'Afrique are at present at Genoa, where they are to embark for Algeria. A letter from Pont Audemer, near Havre, says that the battery called l'HOpital is being mounted with twelve rifled cannon. An artillery officer has arrived at Honfleur to superintend the operations, and a provisional barrack is being erected to lodge fifty men. Similar preparations are being made at Feeamp, where a battery is to be erected on the sea coast, near the Casino. A letter from Cherbourg, dated yesterday, an nounces that the Imperial yach t Aigle will sail thence on the 16th for Biarritz, to be placed at the disposal of the Emperor and Empress for their mari time excursions. The construction of this handsome pleasure boat was commenced on the 7th of May, 1858, and she has just completed her trial trips. Her length is from stem to stern 270 feet, her greatest breadth of beam is 31 feet 6 inches. When fully laden she draws 13ft. of water. Her engines are of the nominal power of 500 horses. She is not provided with a screw, as it is found that such a propeller, though admirably suited to a ship of war, produces a trembling motion in the after cabin, which is by no means agreeable in a pleasure boat. The yacht in her trial trips accomplished 15 knots per hour. The Aigle, independently of her nauti cal qualities, is greatly admired for the beauty of her lines. Her hull is painted black, with two gold streaks, which meet at the head of a magnificent eagle. The Moniteur of Friday morning publishes the usual monthly debtor and creditor account of the Bank of France, made up to Thursday. The cor responding figures of the last month are added : DEBTOR. July. August. F. C. F. C. Capital of the Bank 91,250,000 0 91,250,000 0 Ditto, New Profits in addition to Capi tal (Art. 8, Law of June 9, 1857) 1,510,527 65 1,510,527 65 Reserve of the Bank New Reserve Ditto in landed property 4,000,000 0 4,000,000 0 Notes in circulation 733,983,675 0 735,894,725 0 Bank-notes to order.. 6,592,197 99 6,135,902 62 Receipts payable at sight 11,295,263 0 9,772,272 0 Treasury account current credit - or Sundry accounts current 255,835,690 92 181,305,261 34 Ditto with branch banks 27,381,955 0 31,316,584 0 Dividends payable. 1,641,937 25 Discts. sundry interests 4,347,544 58 3,441,766 39 Commission on deposits 1,664,576 16 9,759,288 42 Re-discounted the last six months Surplus of.paid •up bills Sundries 1,751,105 5 3,441,766 39 Total 1,436,773,982 89 1,366,098,814 59 CREDITOR. July. June. F. C. F. C. Cash in hand Cash in the branch banks. 350,143,278 0 353,664,393 0 Commercial bills overdue. 492,465 61 3,029,456 6 Commercial bills dis- counted, not yet due .. 245,265,860 61 207,871,906 43 Do. in the branch banks .. 287,043,451 0 255,649,488 0 Advanced on deposit of bullion. Do. by the branch banks.. Do. on Frenchpublic secu rities Do. by the branch banks 14,539,400 0 13,505,800 0 Do. on railway securities 120,196,859 80 62,994,588 0 Do. by the branch banks 30,204,050 0 30,053,250 0 Do. on Credit Foncier Scrip 700,600 0 738,900 0 Do. on branch banks Scrip 427,400 0 412,000 0 Do. to the State on agree ment of June 30, 1848 6 Govern. stock reserved Do. disposable Hotel and furn. of Bank Landed property of branch 59,600 0 361,500 0 578,700 0 520,000 0 5,000,000 0 65,000,000 0 2,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 2,198,388 18 52,198,388 18 4,000,000 0 4,000,000 0 banks Expenses of management Sundries 6,731,822 0 6,670,269 0 190,042 16 526,140 3 7,832,009 43 5,654,064 65 Total 1,436,773,982 89 1,366,098,814 59 PARIS BOURSE, Aug. 12.—The market has been again heavy, with declining prices. Threes, after having been done at 69f. 70c., declined to 69f. 35c., and are now at 69f. 45c. ; Mobilier varied from 845 f. to 837 f. 50c. ; Austrian, 562 f. 50c. ; Lom bards, 561 f. 25c. ; Orleans, 1,3701. ; Lyons, 872 f. 50c. ; Southern, 5151. ; Northern,, 9301. ; Eastern, 650 f. The market continued heavy to the close, when thu following were the quotations : per Cents. 97 —; Do. end month 97 25 3 per Cents 69 20 Do. end month 69 25 Bank Shares Credit Mobilier 837 50 Do. Account 867 50 Credit Foncier 660 Belgian 41 — Piedmonteso (5) Roman B6 Austrian — Spanish Threes Home Delft 4l 75 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern . 930 .. 930 New ditto Bl5 .. 815 Lyons and Mediterranean B7O • • 871 25 Geneva — • • Southern Western 560 .. 560 Eastern Sardinian 415 .. 412 50 Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 131 c. ' • money, 25f 121 c. ; three months, paper, 24f. 97±c.; money, 24f. 95c. PRUSSIA. A telegram from Berlin, dated the 11th instant, says :-- The state of King Frederick William is much worse since yesterday. Paralysis has gained his left side. His Majesty is almost in a state of un consciousness. Fatal results are feared. The Prince and Princess of Prussia arrived here this morning. PARIVIA. A Turin letter asserts that when Count de Reiset entered Parma his carriage was literally filled.with notes, both printed and in manuscript, bearing the words "We will be the subjects of King Victor Emmanuel." THE MILITARY POWER OF FRANCE. Paris, bent on its day of rejoicing, is paying little attention to politics. M. Granier de Cassiag nac puts forth in the Pays—apropos, it is pre sumable, to the coming military pageant—a long article headed " The French Army." M. Granier seems bent, of late, on making himself unpleasant, which one would not much mind if he could con trive, at the same time, to be amusing. His object seems to be to revive subsiding irritation. His efforts, I am happy to say, are generally blamed here, and in England they are not likely to attract attention or have any weight. His present article is a mere fanfaronade. It is the very essence of braggadocio. In a sort of desultory sketch of the progress of the French army, commencing with the capture of Rome by the Gauls, he places it above all others, past, present, and future. The French army, he says, has conquered the admiration o f th e world ; it has conquered, within the last five years the Russians and Austrians, who are evidently among the best armies in Europe; other nations may imitate French rifle guns and conical b a ll s, b ut they will never succeed in imitating French soldiers. It would be easy to remind him of a few things he has chosen to forget, but there is not much tempta tion to join issue with him on points which there can be no possible advantage in raking up. I pre fer giving you, by an extract or two, a notion of the tone and tendency of his article. He says : “Before the Revolution soldiers in France were raised as soldiers and sailors still are in England. Sub-officers, crowned with laurel, traversed Paris, mounted on carriages preceded by fifes and drums, and followed by carts laden with hams, fowls, and wine. At every public-house a halt was made, and recruits were enrolled who were seduced much less by the prospect of glory than by good cheer. The Revolution of 1789 created our present army. Civil and political equality has imparted to the soldier dignity, emula tion, and love of glory; the orgoisation of the Consulate and of the Empire has raised the army to its highest power by giving it, with discipline, the useful employment of allits strength. At the present day there exists not in the world an army at once better provided, better administered, better fed, better kept, better instructed, or braver thanours ; and when once there shall have been completed the service of maritime transports, which will permit the unexpected throwing of a corps d'armee on a point of the enemy's shore, the enemies of France, or those who are jealous of her, will have to think twice before provoking her." After this implied threat, M. Granier de Cassaig nac explains the causes, in his opinion, of the alleged superiority of the French army, which he declares to be such that Europe would in vain en deavour to balane3 the military power of France. French arms, he repeats, may, be copied, but not French soldiers, especially, he concludes, like an adroit courtier, " now that they have at their head a Sovereign who knows how to give and to gain great battles." PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-(THIS DAY). The ceremony of proroguing the Imperial Par li by Royal Commission, took place to-day with the usual formalities. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(THis DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at half-past twelve o'clock. NEW WRITS, On the motion of Mr. BRAND, new writs were ordered for Liskeard, in the room of Mr. Ralph William Grey, who has accepted the office of Steward of the Hundred of North stead; for Hertford, in the room of Mr. Cowper, who has accepted the office of President of the Board of Trade ; and for Berwick-on-Tweed, in the room of Mr. Erle, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. PONTEFRACT ELECTION. Mr. W. P. WESTHEAD drew the attention of the house to the contents of the report of the Pontefract elec tion committee, and proposed to make a motion with re spect to privilege. Mr. MALINS rose to order. He had a motion on the paper on the subject which should have precedence of that of the hon. member. The SPEAKER—The hon. member (Mr. Westhead) said that he proposed to make a motion on the question of privilege, and in doing so was strictly in order. Mr. W. WESTHEAD said he wished to notice particu larly the three last paragraphs of the report. [The hon. member read paragraphs 17,18, and 19.] The 18th paragraph proposed to replace Mx Childers in theposition which he occu pied previous to the withdrawal of the petition, but he con tended that the house had no such power. Under the cir cumstances and considering the favourable view of the committee with regard to Mr. Childers, he wished to know whether the hon. member for Pontefract would not feel called upon to resign. Mr. MALINS rose again to order, which he considered the honourable member was infringing, by asking an %hon. member such a question. The SPEAKER said that at present the hon. member was in order. Mr. WESTHEAD said that it was found by the com mittee that Mr. Childers and his agents were not guilty of any corruption from the commencement of the proceedings in connection with the arbitration :and the withdrawal of the petition, repeated that it was quite impossible for the House of Commons to restore the election petition in this case to its original position. He concluded by moving the production of the report. Mr. SELWYN said, as a member of the committee, he had proposed the 18th paragraph, on the ground that the memorandum as to the reference did not contain a clear agreement, and therefore that it was only fair to Mr. Childers to restore him to the position he occupied before the petition was withdrawn. The hon. and learned member referred to the case of a petition against the return of a member for Cork, where a mistake was committed, the petition being withdrawn instead of that for Limerick, and .when the house restored the member to his original posi. tion. He also alluded to another case, that of the borough of Norwich, where a similar course was adopted in consequence of a petition being withdrawn without the full authority of the principal. He suggested the same course should be pursued in the present instance. He would, therefore, move as an amendment that the order for re ference be declared null and void, and he suggested that the original petition should be placed at the bottom of the list. Sir G. GREY denied that the house had any such power. After some further discussion, Mr. OVEREND proposed that the whole question should be referred to the right hon. baronet the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and the right hon. baronet the member for Droitwitch. The suggestion of the hon. and learned member was ultimately agreed to, and the motion and amendment were withdrawn. The subject then dropped. TREATY WITH CHINA, &c. In reply to Mr. GREGSON, Lord J. RUSSELL said it was intended by the Emperor of China to ratify the treaty entered into between him and this country, and he would be invited to accredit a perma nent ambassador at China." SEIZURE OF THE "HERALD," ITALY. Mr. AYRTON asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, what steps have been taken to obtain compensation from the Government of Portugal for the seizure of the " Herald ;" and also to obtain compensation from the Otto man Government for the injuries and losses inflicted on British subjects at Juddah ? Lord J. RUSSELL said the subject was under consi deration. In reply to the other queition he had to state that their was no official confirmation of rumours which appeared in the Vienna papers as to the state of Italy. NEW WRITS—KINGSTON-UPON-HULL. On the motion of Mr. MALINS, the following were agreed to after some discussion :—To rescind the sessional order of the 27th of July last, requiring two days' notice of the issue of a writ, under certain circumstances.—That Mr. Speaker do issue his warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for a burgess to serve in this pre sent Parliament for the borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, in the room of Joseph Hoare, Esq., whose election has been determined to be void. MUSKETRY SCHOOL AT HYTHE. Lord ELCHO moved for an •address for copies of any reports relative to the instruction of volunteers in the Go vernment school at Hythe. Mr. S. HERBERT said the report was to the object in question. - Lord PALMERSTON said the Government were desi rious to afford every assistance for the formation of volun teer corps in the country. After some discussion the motion was agreed tot Some returns were laid pn the table, and some bills were were read a first time pro forma. COMMTSSrIOIV PROROGATION. At half-past two o'clock Sir G. CLIFFORD, the Usher of the Black Rod, summoned the house to the bar of the House of Lords to hear the Royal Assent given by commission to several bills, and the Queen's Speech on prorogation of Parliament. The SPEAKER, accompanied by several members, ap peared at the bar of the upper house, and at the conclusion of the Royal Speech returned. The names of the different bills which had received tha Royal assent and the Royal Speech were read (for which see Lords' report), which terminated the proceedings of the session. ELECTION PETITIONS TO BE TRIED IN THE NEXT SESSION. Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.—Joseph Slade and others, Robert James Roy Campbell, Colonel Wm. Lockyer Freestun. Carlisle.—John Park Arthur and John Graham. Barnstaple.—Sir William Augustus Fraser, Bart., Sir William Augustus Fraser, Bart. Roscommon.—Denis O'Connor and Patrick Graham. Great Yarmouth.—Joseph Bayly and Robert Pilgrim. Newry: —Robert Dempster and Thomas Cardwell. King's County.—D. Hume and John F. Cassidy. Chatham —George Wilstead and George Pattison. Dover.—Sir Wm. Russell, Bart. Carlow.—Henry Cary and Thomas Harris Carroll, Henry Cary and Thomas Harris Carroll. Dundalk.—Patrick Dowdall and Matthew M. Graham. Clare.—Nicholas Butler and John Barrymore Macna mara. _ _ Lyme Regis.—John George Sarsfield Macnamara Moore and George Nathaniel Shore. Peterborough.—William Vergette and others, Thomas Scoley and Henry Freeman. Athlone.—Robert Preston Bayley, James Wm. Fair, Lawrence Kelly and Thomas Gill. Norwich.—Josiah Fletcher and others, John Godwin Johnson and Roger Kerrison, Philip Back and Gardiner Christopher Stevens. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Aug. 12.—We have a quiet but steady market. Under ordinary circumstances, with the present demand for India, lower prices would have to be taken ; but in the heavy con tracts, extending over many weeks to come, for these goods, buyers generally have no advantage. They are not realising the extreme prices demanded a little time back ; but there is a difficulty in placing orders at anything under the actual prices hitherto given. In T-cloths there is a moderate business at full prices ; but there is less business for long cloths. Domestics are firm. Printers, especially of 26-inch width, are in good request, and manufacturers have a difficulty in meeting the demand. The makers of 36-inch shirtings are mostly pre-engaged: Yarns are less-actively in re quest, but prices are sustained. Cops and warps for Indian goods are an exception, being easier in price; but 16's to 24's water twist, for China and Bombay, continue dearer, as was the case on Tues day. The finer yarns from 60's to 100's are firm, and two-folds are in more request at full rates. Continental buyers of yarn are not buying so freely, but the general demand for these yarns keeps them at full rates. FATAL OCCURRENCE ON THE RIVER.—Last even ing, Mr. Langham, deputy coroner for Westminster, held an inquiry in. St. Martin's Vestry-room, relative to the death of George Murphy, aged 23, which took place under the following circumstances :—Ralph Phillips deposed that on the afternoon of Sunday last, the deceased, himself, and two young women named Sarah Spering and Susan Tarbot, engaged a smallboat at Waterloo-bridge, and proceeded up the river as far as Wandsworth, where a short stay was made. About a quarter before 10 o'clock at night they arrived, on their return, near Westminster-bridge, when witness, who was steering the boat, called attention to a green moving light, which they supposed belonged to a steamer, but the night was very dark ; shortly afterwards they discovered it to be a steamer, and endeavoured by " backing water" to clear her, but the tide was running with such rapidity that they were carried with much force nearly under the paddle-wheel. The captain of the steamer called out to them to be seated and quiet, but the deceased jumped up from the boat, and in endeavouring to get on board the steamer he .missed his footing and fell back into the boat, which was at once capsized, causing all four to be immersed in the water. The captain of the steamer threw out the life-belts to them, while they were all clinging to the boat, which was bottom up; witness caught one of the belts and was dragged on to the steamer, as was also Susan Tarbot, but George Murphy and Sarah Spering were seen to sink together, although every effort was made to save them. This evidence having been confirmed, the coroner summed up, and the jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death, attributing no blame to the captain of the steamer. THE MURDER AT LUTON.—AtI inquest was on Thursday opened on the body of the unfortunate woman. Jane Castle—the particulars of whose'death we shortly gave in our Wednesday's impression —before Mr. J. Eagles, jun., d epu ty- cor oner for the county of Bedford and a highly re spectable jury. Evidence was given as to the identity and finding of the body, and the nature of the wounds, after which the coroner adjourned the inquiry to Friday the 19th inst. In the meanwhile it was intimated that an applica tion would be made to the Secretary of State for the ap • pearance of the prisoner, who is in custody of the police an a remand from a private meeting on Wednesday last by a county magistrate, and the public examination before the Bonch is appointed for Monday next. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBOICNE, AuG. 12. Her Majesty drove out yesterday, accompanied by the Princess Hohenlohe and Princess Louisa. The Marchioness of Fly and Capt. Du Plat were in attendance. Their Imperial Highnesses the Grand Duchess Marie and the Princess Marie of Leuchtenberg dined with her Majesty yesterday. The dinner party also included hot. Royal Higness Princess Alice, Princess Hohenlohe, Prince and Princess Leiningen, the Count Tolstoy, Madame de Barikoff and Prince Kourakine, in attendance on the Grand Duchess; Baron de Brunnow, Lady Augusta Bruce. Rear- Admiral the Hon. George Grey, Col. Foster, Command in g Royal Engineers, South-Western District; Col. the Hon. Sir C. Phipps, and Sir George Couper. The Hon. Horatia Stopford has succeeded the Hon. Flora Macdonald as Maid of Honour in waiting. The Duchess of Kent took a drive yesterday. The Queen held a Council this day at Osborne, which was attended by his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, Earl Granville (Lord President), the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Palmerston, the Duke of Newcastle, Loll John Russell, Sir G. C. Lewis, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Elgin the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the Earl of St. Germans (Lord Steward), Viscount Sydney (Lord Chamberlain), the Marquis. of Ailesbury (Master of the Horse), and Earl Spencer (Groom of the Stole to the Prince Consort). At the Council, Parliament was orde red to be prorogued to Thursday, the 27th October. The Royal Speech for closing the session of Parliamen t was submitted and approved. Mr. Charles A. Hamilton was appointed to act in the absence of the Clerk of the Council in ordinary, and took the oathe of office. The Hon. William Bathurst was Clerk of the Council il l waiting. General Loven had an audience of the Queen to present a letter from his Majesty the King of Sweden, and was presented by Lord John Russell, the Queen's prinelP al Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Count Platen had an audience of her Majesty. Mr. Charles Lennox Wyke wai presented to the Queen at an audience by Lord John Russell, on being appoin ted to a special mission to Nicaragua. Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, and Earl Granville had audiences of her ga" jesty. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by Mai" Cowell, arrived at Buckingham Palace, at 10 o'clock yes terday morning, from Holyroo?. The Prince left the Palace at 11 o'clock for Osborne. Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Gran ville, Sir G. C. Lewis, Lord J. Russell, the Duke of No" castle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. C• P. Villiers, the Earl of Elgin, the Right Hon. T. Mi lner Gibaon, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the Earl of St. Ge r i mans, Viscount Sydney, the Marquis of Ayle s bury, Spencer, Count Platen, General Loven, Mr. Wyke, the Hon. Wm. Bathurst, and Mr. C. A. Hamilton left the Waterloo terminus of the South-Western Railwah by special train, at a quarter-past nine o'clock yesterday wa r t: ing, for Osborne. The Mi n i s t ers crosse d f rom G os port ' l. ' the Sprightly, and reached Osborne at one o'clock. 112 : Ministers took their depart ure a ft er th e P r i vy C ou ncil / a; half-past three o'clock, re- crosse d i n th e S pr i g htly, returned to town by special train on the South-Weste rn Railway. Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office yesterdaY to the Governor of Bermuda, the G overnors o f t h e Nor til ,. American Provinces, and the Lord High Commissioner 0 the lonian Islands. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will, with four codicils, of the Right BO' Edward Lord Bishop Maltby, D.D., heretofore Lord Bishop of Durham, were proved in the Loll don Court of Probate, on the 3d of August, byll lS sons, Edward Harvey Maltby, Esq., and the lie ° ' Henry Joseph Maltby,-M.A., Canon bf Durhaln , and Archer Thomas Upton, Esq., the three acting executors ; Robert Archibald Douglas Gres ley' ' Esq., the other executor, renounced. The is of considerable length, and bears date OC Tber 30, 1856, and the co di c il s respectivey 1857, 1858, and 1859. A pro v i s i on is Ind' . : for his wife by marriage s e ttl emen t ; til er ; is also an annuity for her life, as well 0. 0 legacy of £5,000, and many specifi c b eques ts. 1 his eldest son he leaves his estate at Alconbuq: together with a legacy of £7,000, and a feat', share in the residue. He also lea ves a p ec uniary legacy to each son and to his daughter, and many specific bequests to each of them. Th e l ega cies a; numerous, and most minutely described, leaving' a it would seem, remembrances to all his family ef ie relations, and his large circle of acquai n tances. Ja_. , has also made a disposal of his e pi sco pal robe s ' lawn sleeves, and consecrati on g l oves , he leaves to his wife and daughter, Mrs. Urquhar t ' , and leaves • his silk ro b es , go ld s h oe -b u cki:,: and stock-buckles to hi s son , C anon Maltby. `,„ the Master Warden and sc h o l ars o f t h e Univers'at of Durham he leaves all hi s go ld an d s i lver med al s and coins. To his successor t o th e bi s h opr i c be has given the portrait of himself by Sir William Beechey, also the leopard or pard stool used at Oae coronation of her Majesty Queen Victoria, and e i i,! the busts in the hall at Auckla n d Castle. 11e wished it to be understood that, upon Ill' resignation of the see, he presented his librall and books to the University of Durham, an invested in Consols a sum for a salary I . ° the librarian, and that £3OO might be 0, pended in printing a catalogue, and for other e% . " penses incidental thereto. Any manuscript se r mon! and theological writings worthy of being published shall be paid for out of the residuary estate. It has bequeathed to Lady August a P au l et, as a ma n ; of remembrance, Sir Joshu a R eyno ld s ' s works; an d to his. esteemed friend and quondam pupils Thetde Duke of Grafton, he ha s l e ft Wilki e ' s gallery . residue of his prope r ty h e l eaves amongst his three sons and his daught er . Th e personalty was sworn under £lOO,OOO. The will and two codicils of Li eu t.-Genel Henry Adolph us P roc t or, C . 8., late of Aber h aP l Hall, Montgo mery , were prove d i n Lon d o n u. 7, David Jones, Esq., and Edmund Henry Lyon, E s q'' the other trustee, and execu t or by a codicil havi n g renounced (the wife, who was sol e executrix by I , P ; f will, died in 1857). He has be quea th e d t o e ach °f his two sons an annuity for th e i r respect i ve liven' to be charged upon the estates ; a l so an annu itY,.. ts . his grandson, Edward Bernard C o l eman, an e n t i r e orphan, the son of his dec ease d d aughter, and 020 the decease of the last survivor of his two sons - a has settled the estates, w ith a l l the surplus dile accumulations, upon his said grandson, and that he and all others in s uccess i on thereto shall use t surname of Proctor, and bear his arms with the ' t own ; and obtai n a li cence from the Crown for th e purpose. The personalty sworn under £7,00 0 . ~ The will of Ed mun d d e PenthenyEst of Harley-street, Cavendish-square, was proved 0 , London by hi s w id ow, t h e so l e executrix, to Wt ° a he has bequeathed all his money, property, effects in Great Britain absolutely,—//histra , e London News. BO THE COAST DEFENCES.--Six guns, weiguillv de r, tons, with gun-carriages, platf orms, & c ., cases of pos°,lo, shot, and shell, were landed at North Shields on Tues' o i r for the defences at Tynemo u th, w hi charo rapidl yapPrc'anel ing completion. On Monday evening Mr. Emuluat Young was nominated Fi rst Lieutenant, and Mr. -I er y Second Lieutenant o f th e Tynemouth V o l un t eer Artill ent , Corps. This corp s h as b een recognised by the Govern Wed 0 and will be i mme di ately enrolled. They will be train -port, work the lar ge guns at Tynemouth and Clifford ' s which comprise the defences of the Tyne. The Northu t o berland Artill er y Militi a are now stationed at Tynern°ool garrison, and the whole of th e d e f ences o f t h e south-01,1a coast of that county are now i n t rus t e d to Northumbellc— men. oral/ NAVAL DEFENCES.—A writer in a contenlP-, . 0 1; says :—" The Secreta r y t o th e Ad m i ralty, in explaftbe the bill for the 'Naval R eserve o f S eamen, ' stated al t o Admiralty had carried out the recommendation 01 the Committee for Manning the Navy' with regard to t o Marines. Now, as the committ ee gave good reasons Oros increase of 5,000 to the Marine corps, and the corll, only been augmented (by an orde r o f t h e late board) 2109. men, the statement is not altogether fair to the b ° Ao eo The reserve of Marines on shor e (i nc l u di ng artiller y) not not exceed 3,500 men; the great er part are raw re arr and not one-seventh of the whol e are suff i ciently disoil)m— -,,, e 4 for service in the fleet at the present time." THE ARCHIEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.—This Rua quarian body has just terminated its meeting at Car P ope The papers read were long and interesting, inoludiug by by Mr. Cory on the churches of Cumberland, a leetw'gr. Mr. Newton on th e di scover i es at Boudron, a p a per by t he Hugh M'Kie on ancient remains, &c., discoveredin„ J. sewers of Carlisle, o ne on H olme Cultran Abbey by nfiod• Simpson, and seve ra l ot h ers too numerous to be sP°,',dou Excursions were ma d e b y the arehreologists to „. 0 ,-) ?• Castle, near Corb r id ge , to Corby Castle, the seat of fir' a 1 H. Howard, wh o en t ertained the company with "shear grace and a hearty spirit ;" and to Brougham-bw" Penrith. A most delightful time was:spent. THE PRINCE OF WALES AND PRINCE ALF RE DJ br On Tuesday morning Prince Alfred, attended ce Cowell, arrived a t Edi nburgh on a visit to the r in sa va° Wales, who is at p resent residing at Holyrood. Th e au' day the two Princes made a journey to Abbotsford,loo.- 'elrose and Dryburgh Abbeys, and witnessed all tbew e d' ing objects of interest in the "Land of Scott." O n seir° - nesday th e P r i nce o f Wales, who visits the Univer sitYfessor ral times a w ee k t o rece i ve the Instructions of Prof Lyon Playfair, attended, with his Royal brother, a ets° 15y the profess or on the chemical phen om ena onin the with the processes of calico printing and dyeing. nue oP'o evening the Princes an d su it e h onoured the `',ll Theatre with their presence and took their sent° in t he Prince of Wales's box, The performances were - oi a lar ht, and lively ch arac t er an d seemed to give then', grea t daub to Prince Alfred in particular. itte e THE SOIREE TO MR, ' . :OBDEN.--.The col 3 eke ts. have distrib u t e d up t o Tb ursday night nearly 1,500 " 800 Mr. Cobden will be the guest of John Fenton , _ s o' banker, of Crimble-hall, near Rochdale, formerly rePl::„bor tative of that borough, The Hon. T. B. Jubb, late me n ' J. of the Legislative Assembly of St. John, the guest, ssleYP Ashworth, Es q, Air, Tattersall, M.P., Mr. F. ur ° , o M. P , and MT, Leatham ' M.P., of H u ddersfield, buivar ti mated their intention of being present.—Manchester u than.