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

BENSON'S WA TCHESI " Perfection of mechanism."—Novning Post. Gold Silver 2to 50 guineas. Send 2 st:rrps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, descrip tive of every construction of watch now made, with their prices. Watches sent to all parts of the kingdom free by post, or to India and the Colonies for ss. extra. 83 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London. E.C. Established 17419. Fr 1-IEII TR E-1L YAI, HAYMARKET. Lep,lee, Mr. J. B. Bv.e.kstone. TE! g EVENING the performanees will commen3e with JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. And THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Bucketone. Compton, Chippendale. Rogers, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. After which, the new comedietta, TITS EXCELLENCY, in which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear. To conclndo with THE Cmenc e HRISTE at NING. Com 7. POYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, will he performed A WONDERFUL WOMAN. Mr. A. Harris, Miss Heath, Are. Followed by UN TIGRE DU BENGALI:. And LES DEUX AVEUGLES. By the Zouaves. With the farce of A.S.S. After which, LA CORDE SENSIBLE. Characters by the Zouaves. Followed by AN AMBUSCADE AT INKERMAN. Commence at 7. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL- Sole rronrietor and Manager. Mr. Beni. Webster. THIS EVENING, JANET PRIDE. Messrs. B. Webster. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Stuart, C. Selby; Miss Woolgar and Miss Laidlaw. To conclude with IN AND OUT OF PLACE. Miss Julia Daly, Messrs. C. Selby and C. J. Smith. Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. Private boxes, Z 2 2s. ; Family Boxes, IL Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Ss. • Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, is. 6 d. ; Amphitheatr e, is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. - A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- -s- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY. Immense Success of "Mazeppa." A Grand MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on SATURDAY next, Aug 18, commencing at Two o'clock. This Evening. Lord Byron's splendid Hippo-drama of MAZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, with entirely new and beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and appointments, introducing the largest stud of highly-trained Horses, Po nies, Buffaloes, and Camels in the World. To be followed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders of the day. Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WERT. Director of the Arena—M. Felix Revolti. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from MARTHA. And Selections from DINORAH, TROVATORE, MACBETH, And numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, ls , Hall, Ad. Comte Vocalists—Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), and C. Marshall. The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised expressly for this Establishment), for the performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Negro delineations, anecdotes, Sac., in addition to the usual entertainments. The Fine Arts Gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER. , —SUS Ornaz, AUGUST 16, 1860. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 68—highest since noon yesterday. Ea—lowest this morning and during the night. 68—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.42; a sudden fall. WlND—South-Westerly ; fresh, with dull sultry weather, HALF-PAST Two.—Rain has comumiced. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIA DAY.—Morning, lh. 4m.—Afternoon, lh. 30m To-moßßow.-Morning, lh. 53m.—Afternoon, 2h. 15m ireao . • • J• s k .. ^ ', :ii ; • A v4 S i ' 4 ,9 e -.., - .4;,1 .r: ' ° Ss: --N/ 4-eq? 1 ? , L! ; r • THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1860. Pleasant news for Mr. GLADSTONE—those last tidings from the seat of war in China! According to the "latest intelligence" whence—it appears that the cost of our expedition thither may already be counted by millions—by millions sterling observe ! —not by mere hundreds of thousands. And recollect, moreover, that when these calculations were made there, at the actual seat of war, by a dispassionate and watchful witness—we were only yet in the midst of our warlike preparations ! The campaign had not yet been commenced. The first shots had not yet been exchanged between the belligerents. The allies were still getting everything in readiness to " open the ball" con spirito ! These preliminary arrangements, however, being so far advanced that when the despatches left there were, it was estimated, seventy-six British !pennants flying in those waters, and forty-five French pen nants altogether 121 pennants of the aggregate Anglo-French Expedition ! The calcu lation made merely i.n regard to our own commis sariat was of itself sufficiently significant—as many as 119 vessels (many o f them steamers) of various tonnage (the average being about 1,000 tons) having been chartered at freights ranging from a mini mum rate of 17s. 6d. tc. , a maximum of 225. 6d. Per ton per month ! Oalerwise, an expenditure each month in transports alone of £120,000, or an yearly outlay under this one head of £1,440,000 ! So that, upon the very face of it, there is evidence enough to show that our model financier (as so many had suspected from the very outset, and that, too, without posses sing mie scintilla of his sublime intelligence) was altoget her in error at the very basis of his elaborate calculat ions. All which goes far to yield a sort of a superfluous supplementary ex post facto justifica tion to the Lords for having secured to the revenue at the eleventh hour an odd million and a half which had boen rashly abandoned by a compliant House of Commons at the irrationally ill-timed suggestion of an experimenting Administration. Further justification, however, of that most pro viden t act on the part of our hereditary legislators is sur:!;ly not by this time required by any one not infected by the GLADSTONE craze, or the BRIMIT phobia, or the COBDEN hallucination. We are " in" the Chinese war now without any mistake whatever; and as rational men, nay, even as wise economists, must go through with it in earmest. Sir Hor E GRANT is there with his red coats, Admiral HOPE with his blue jackets and we may rest assured that in neither instance HOPE will have " told a flattering tale" when the history of this third expedition agaiwt th , ?, Chinese shall have been related. How much in earnest the conductors of this Chilnise ea,:pedition are, we now know clearly enough from the facts brought to light by these recently re ceived fragments of intelligence. Al rettdy the a rmies of the western allies had mus tered in tlut north—both of them in the Gulf of Pechele—the. French at Chefou, the English at l4licn-whan. 'hey were consequently within a a of (at th,l time the despatches left), r one hundrea ' miles from the mouth of the p e `uo the line of the Peiho being the v e r y bounda r y upon which, according to the general. belief of the natives, there would be made on the ;part or the Imperial or Celestial Govern ment, Ole mutt deter mined and even desperate re sistance! Meanw,„‘ , at Canton, our position had been rent lered sufliciet, tly secure, and even formi dable. The British r, there amounted to up wards of 3, 500 men, tellidi ng in this aggregate sepoy regiments, several one European a nd two I detach me nts, and a battc, ty ofßoyalA.rtillery. As an indication of the systemat is forethought with which the third . Chinese war is b eing thus at onc e d ar i ngly and cautiously commenced , it is interesting to note That the skilled and into illigent superintendin g surgeon upon Sir EDWA: 119 LUGARD'S column, during the late Indian campaign against the Bengal mutineers —Dr. GORDON, C. 8,, late of the 10th Foot, a man whose notable combinption of energy and ability has so recently won for him so muchhonourable distinction—had shortlybefore the last mails left Hong Kong, having been nominatei additional Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals to the Expedition ! Dr. GORDON having, immedi ately upon his nomination to that responsible post, made arrangements for forwarding all the sick and. wounded who might require change of climate (no such exceeding improbability at Kong Kong!!) to our Cape Colony—where they will be duly re ceived into the spacious Sanitarium recently esta blished there at Constantia. It is not—let it be remarked at once—simply that the first of the three routine signal cries has' been uttered (and acted upon) exclusively ! " Make Ready" has certainly been heard yonder towards the north of China—ringing like the clarion of a trumpet—reverberating along the ranks of the allies —echoing from ship to ship. We ourselves here at home may hearken to the resonance of the command—and recognise, even at this distance, the promptness with which it has been answered, by the gathering of the French at Chefou and of the English at Talien-whan, and of both together in the Gulf of Pechele. " Present"—is audible next—if only in the announcement conveyed by these last mails to the effect that upon the very morrow of their departure Lord ELGIN was to sail in the Feroze steam sloop-of•war, and Baron Gios the day afterwards in the Saigon— both of their Excellencies taking Shanghai as their rendezvous! The next tidings will give the third signal for the third Chinese war—(" the third" being " the charm ")—FIRE ! The rever beration of the answer given to that signal being tolerably certain (we may rest assured) to be echoed back from the walls of Pekin across Asia and Europe, to the bearing of 1,800,000 Parisians and of 3,000,000 Londoners—to the Allied 75,000,000 of Frenchmen and Englishmen. If there be one mode of national defence on which all England is agreed, it is that of Volun teers. We must leave Sir FREDERIC SMITH and Lord PALMERSTON to fight out the question, whether fortifying Portsdown Hill will soon be regarded as a Portsdown Folly, or whether it will be reckoned a wise step. Sir FREDERIC SMITH and Sir JOHN BURGOYNE are both opposed to it, and they of all men ought to know ; but the Prime Minister is the responsible judge in the business, and he says that Portsdown Hill cannot be forti fied by earthworks at a fortnight's notice. But whether we build fortifications at Portsdown and elsewhere, or not, we shall still need the. men to man them. The annual cost of garrisons, or of an army on foot sufficiently large to spare garri sons, would soon far exceed the first cost of the works. If we agree to build, we ought to agree also to train Volunteers, or we are only agreeing to a charge which will prove so intolerable that we shall soon give up in disgust the maintenance of the men which alone can render the fortifications of any avail. Volunteering is the taste of the day, and the Government would be highly criminal which did not do. its best to encourage the move ment. We confess we have often been surprised at the folly of Mr. COBDEN and the Peace party in ridiculing this movement. They know that it is hopeless to persuade the nation to dispense with an army—if so, we can hardly conceive of one to which the opponents of standing armies and the almost fanatical advocates of peace can so little object. First, and chiefly, as Manchester would say, it is cheap. Next, it cannot serve purposes of foreign ambition, except very indirectly ; and, again, it certainly would, as much as anything, deter any enemy from going to war with us. The Peace Society ought to give every volunteer a medal, and to inscribe on it the old, very hacknied, Latin motto which we need not repeat. There is one branch, however, of the subject to which nothing like adequate attention has yet been directed. We mean that of interesting the artisan and labouring class in the movement. It seems likely to spread fast enough among the trading, agricultural, and professional classes ; but no suffi cient effort has been made to enlist the co-operation of the bone, muscle, and sinew of our working men. Why is this ? Are the men distrusted ? Are we afraid to put arms in their hands ? Do we look on them as a kind of Scpoys who would need to be watched by a more trustworthy class ? _ This can hardly be the case, for the troops of the line are the very same class of men ; and it is noto rious that their discipline and training has a ten dency the very reverse of such perfectly groundless fears as we have mentioned. It will not be denied that the soldier has much more strongly than the artisan the sentiment of loyalty to his Sovereign. He is, directly, the servant of her MAJESTY—a QUEEN'S man ; and, if more formidable in case of mutiny, yet his tendency to mutiny is the smallest conceivable. It becomes to him disgraceful. It runs counter to all the habits and notions he has acquired. lie may, perhaps, always be relied on to act against a turbulent mob who are defying the QUEEN'S authority. Now, the volunteer, though not barracked off from the people—and so much the better for his health and morals—is, in so far as he is a soldier, under the same influences as troops of the line. He is the QUEEN'S servant. He has officers bearing her commission. He is pledged by an honourable engagement which it goes against all his feelings to violate. Above all, he learns habits of order, of implicit obedience, and comprehends, by practical experi pnce, the vast advantages of rational subordination. Scores of noisy Chartists would have made loyal volunteers, who would have been prepared to say to disturbers--" this will not do ; get to your duty, and then you may be listened to." We sometimes fear that unworthier motives fre quently influence other minds. We have known country lords express their dislike of working men being good shots ! And the men have a marvellous tendency to become so. Many of their operations require great correctness of sight. Only think of the ploughman steering his implement across a long field with such nicety that close inspection cannot detect a swerve ! It might be very incon venient to have such a shot as he would make, with his rifle in his hand, within one or two hundred yards of a hare or a pheasant ! That is one thing ; but, we reply, the volunteers' habits would not be those of the poacher. _ _ Another latent objection—one which nobody concerned thinks well to talk about is—the effect of extensive volunteering on patronage. It is easily foreseen that Horse Guards' patronage and volun teers are in an inverse ratio. The more of one the less of the other. Just at first the difference might, indeed, be but little felt ; but it is obvious that heavy army estimates would not be long tolerated if every district was its own defender. Now we know our old routinists can never believe in the efficiency of volunteers. All they have seen in the American war, all they now see under GARIBALDI, all they saw of the Hungarian armies extemporised by KOSSUTH and beaten only by two Empires and treason—all will not convince them of the real superiority of the volunteer fighting for his native land and his fire-side to the duly paid and perfectly organised machines„ which they are accustomed to wield. The commr may, however, is wiser ; and the harvest of patrol iage wouldgradually diminish as volunteers increase ;d. 'Whether this ought to stand in the way of Toll] nteers, let the country, however, decide. For ourselves, •cr e believe, that it would be of the highest service to o ur working men, to make volun teer corps accessible to them, while the country would gain an untold accession of defensive strength. Differing entirely from the Pharisees of Wimbledon, our belief is that we should de - % ate the working classes, by teaching them that they, too, could give something to their country. Their asso ciation with their officers would be that of mutual respect. It would have an influence somewhat like that of cricket, in mixing all classes on terms which raised the lower, while not degrading the upper. It would be a great adult public school, in which all would learn better to appreciate, and to stand by each other. And then what strong arms and hardy bodies we might have at once ! Men too, as full of emulation as their betters. There are, we think, certain obvious dangers in the move ment becoming too cliquish. We need not parti cularise them. Looking then, at the objections, unconfessed ob jections chiefly, on every side, we affirm that better than all the fortifications that could be devised would be Mr. H. BERKELEY'S living walls. The materials for them exist to any extent. The details are easy of an arrangement. Let some one—some Minister come forward, and say it shall be done, and all difficulties would vanish in a moment. We might as easily have a million or two of trained volunteer riflemen and artillerymen to swallow up an invader; as a few thousands merely to hold them in check. The Prince Boris Galitzin, Prince John Galitzin, and Count Levachoff, have arrived at Long's Hotel, from the Isle of Wight. _ The Duchess of Sutherland arrived at Stafford House, on Tuesday evening, from Trentham, Staffordshire, en route for the Continent. The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde have left town for Homburg, at which watering-place the noble marquis and marchioness propose to pass a few weeks. The Marquis of Bristol and family have left St. James's-square for Ickworth Park, Suffolk. _ L &TEST - Nit z".. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : The Marchioness of Salisbury and family have left Hatfield House, Herts, to pass a few days at Bourne mouth. The noble marquis, at the close of the Parlia mentary session, leaves to visit his estates in Scotland. The Earl and Countess Delawarr have left town for their seat Buckhurst Park, Sussex. GENOA, AUG. 15. The news published yesterday by some Genoese journals, announcing the landing of Garibaldi in Calabria, has not been confirmed. AUG. 15, EVENING. A Garibaldian steamer attempted to surprise and carry off a Neapolitan vessel of the line from the port of Castellamare. The attempts of the crew of the steamer to board were, however, repulsed, and the Neapolitan fri gates are pursuing the aggressor. No news has been received to confirm the fresh disembarkations of Garibaldians in Calabria. Tranquillity has been nowhere disturbed. Frances Countess Waldegrave and Mr. Harcourt, M.P., have returned to Nuneham Park, from visiting her ladyship's estates in Cambridgeshire. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained at dinner, last evening, at Cambridge House—the Earl and Countess of Bessborough, Lord and Lady Lyveden, Lord and Lady Elcho, Lard Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, M.P., and Mrs. Cowper, Hon. Henry Brand, M.P., Mr. Stanley, Mr. Montgomery, &c. Later in the evening her ladyship had a small party. TURIN, AUG. 15. The Opinione gives a denial to the reports pub lished in the French papers of a note having been sent by Austria to Piedmont relative to an inter vention in Italy in case Garibaldi should disembark in the kingdom of Naples. VIENNA, WEDNESDAY. The Emperor will prolong his stay at the Court of Bavaria until Friday next, and will then pro ceed to Posenhofen, whence he will return with the Empress on Saturday to Laxenburg. The sittings of the Committee of 21 members of the Raichsrath, which were interrupted on the 11th instant by the inauguration of the Salzburg and Munich Railway, will be resumed to-morrow. It is expected that the Committee will finish its labours on Saturday next, by drawing up the pro positions for the reorganisation of the Austrian Constitution, which, by a majority of 18 against 3, have been already ageed to. Count Clam Martinitz will, without doubt, be appointed to present the report, in the name of the Committee, to the }teichsrath. The choice of such a person is a sufficient indi cation that the conclusions of the Committee are constitutional. The general sittings of the Reichsratb, which will recommence about the 21st or 22d inst., will decide the future destinies of Austria. Viscountess Jocelyn will return to Cambridge House on Saturday next, from visiting the Earl of Gains borough, at Exton Hall, Rutlandshire. Lord and Lady John Russell and family left town yesterday morning for Scotland. Lord and Lady Foley will leave Grosvenor-square in a few days, for Worksop Manor, Notts. The Hungarian delegates intend to treat all questions in a completely independent manner, and declare that they will retire from the Council of the Empire if entire liberty of speech be not allowed. PARIS, AUG. 15. M. Declard, Consul-General of France at Alex andria, is appointed commissioner for the Lebanon question. He will meet Lord Dufferin at Beyrout. M. Scherer, First Secretary, Interpreter to the Emperor, charged to assist the general commanding the expedition, has set out to-day for Marseilles. There is a rumour of a coup (retut on the part of the King of Naples. The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., and the Hon. Mrs. Herbert entertained at dinner, last evening, at their residence in Belgrave-square—the Earl Somers, the Bishop of Oxford, the Countess of Newburgh, Count Strzelecki, Lord Rivers, Lady Truro, the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, M.P., the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstons, M.P., the Right Hcn. Sir Jas. Graham and Miss Graham, Sir John Acton, Mr. Hayward, &c. CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 8. News from . Syria has been received to the 29th ult. Fuad Pacha had arrested the principal civil and military functionaries. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afteFnoon at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. The Ministers present were—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Argyll, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir C. Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. C. P. 'Villiers, and the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell. ANTWERP, Aug. 15.—Lord Chelmsford and a portion of his family landed here this morning from the General Steam Navigation Company's ship Moselle, which vessel left London on the previous afternoon. The marriage of the Hon. Lady Alice Villiers, second daughter of the Earl of Clarendon, with L ,- )rd Slzel raersdale, took place this forenoon at St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge. Sir B. BRODIE.—A paragraph having appeared in some newspapers on the state of Sir Benjamin Brodie's health, we are authorised to state that he has lately under gone an operation for the improvement of his sight, and that a satisfactory result is anticipated. The United States' Mail steamship Vanderbilt, Capt. Lefevre, embarked mails and passengers from South ampton yesterday afternoon, on her passage from Havre to New York. CAUTION TO RAILWAY TICKET HOLDEAS.—The Wrexham Advertiser of Saturday last contains a report of a case of peculiar interest to the holders of season railway tickets. A young gentleman named Lockwood, who held a season ticket, entitling him to travel on the Great Western Railway between - Wrexham and Chester, was brought up before the borough magistrates on two charges of defraud - ing the railway company. On the 13th of July he got into a carriage at Ruabon, and took no ticket, riding to Chester and showing his season ticket at Rossett, where the tickets are collected. For this offence he was fined 295., and Os. costs. On the 9th of July Mr. Lockwood also got into the train at Ruabon, and took no ticket, and when he got out at Wrexham the station-master, in accordance with the bye laws of the company, demanded the full fare from Shrews bury, but this Mr. Lockwood refused to pay. In this case a fine of 40s. and Os. was imposed at the instance of the chairman of the magistrates. Mr. Brown, on the part of the Great Western Company, agreed to compromise a third charge against the defendant and Isis father, on pay ment of costs. Altogether Mr. Lockwood had to pay £4 2s. HEARTLESS ROBBERY.—Yesterday morning Mr. Payne, the coroner, held an inquest at the Red Lion Tavern, Cannon-street West, touching the death of Mr WilliaM Reynolds, aged 38 years, who resided at Charing- cross. The evidence proved that the deceased was proceeding down Cannon-street West to his place of business in Eastcheap, carrying with him a parcel, and walking sharply, when he was observed by another gentleman to stagger and fall. A respectably dressed man in a white hat, who is well known to the police, was passing at the time, and was asked to assist in removing him into a warehouse opposite, which he did, and was noticed at the time to feel for the deceased's gold watch, but being observed he desisted, and went away, when it was ascertained that he had taken the deceased's parcel. Medical assistance was sent for, but Mr. Reynolds was quite dead. The jury returned a verdict that the de ceased died from a diseased heart. Suspicious OCCURRENCE.—On Tuesday night the attention of some private watchmen on the wharfs in Tooley-street was attracted by the cries of " Murder," fol lowed by a sort of groan, when all was quiet. Supposing it to be a drunken quarrel with some sailors anti unfortunates in Tooley- street, which is frequently the case, no notice was taken of the matter. Yesterday morning, however, the body of a respectably-dressed female was picked up by some watermen near Horselydown-stairs, with several marks of violence, as if inflicted with some blunt instru ment. A shell was procured, and medical assistance sent for, when the body was removed to the dead-house. She is described to be about 23 years of age, with lavender coloured dress, white petticoat, gold ear-rings, with small blue stones in them, and Adelaide boots. Information has been forwarded to the coroner, who has ordered a post mor tem examination to be made of the body. DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY FROM EATING LOB STER AND ICES.—A painful feeling has been excited in the neighbeurisood of Wolverhampton and Tettenhall by the decease, at the early age of 28, of Miss Georgina Cope, second daughter of George Cope, Esq., of Compten, which took place, after a few hours' illness, at her father's resi dence on Wednesday last. The deceased was present at a private party in the suburbs of Wolverhampton on the pro vious evening, and partook of lobster and ices, which it is believed acted injuriously on a disordered stomach, and led on the following morning to a series of attacks of epilepsy, which terminated in apoplexy and death. Mr. Nownham, surgeon, of this town, was in early attendance, and all that medical skill and science could devise was brought to bear upon the melancholy case, but unhappily without effect. The premature death of the deceased, who was much re spected for her great amiability of disposition, will be deeply deplored by a largo circle of friends.—lrolverhampton Chronicle Slit W. G. ARMSTRONG AND lIIS WORKPEOPLE. —On Monday evening a most interesting. meeting, took place at the Elswick Engine and Ordnance 'Works, New castle-on-Tyne—very little short of 4,000 people attending a tea party there to celebrate the anniversary of the me chanics' institute, reading-room, and school of art, sup ported by Sir W. G. Armstrong and Co. and their eo . work p pie This firm now employ 2,000 men and lads—the e men, from the very nature of their occupation, being of the highest class of skilled workmen. There are 21 distinct workshops in connection with the ordnance department alone. Twelve cannon a week are turned out of these works, which have for a considerable period been going night end day. Oasses, it seems, are kept open during the win forilLe.nArannssdtrotnhgeiarnsdolnsiss, teachersbtsh.ien iemployed n by f i s r y o l r v k . partners. Seventy-'.ight young lads had attended the ornamental freehand drawing class, and 60 the mathemati cal class; and ono of the most interesting features of the meeting was the distribution of prizes amongst thoe who had excelled as students. A sil ver watch, gold chain, and box of tools, purchased by the managers and workmen, wore also presented to Henry Gurnell, ono of the appren tices, who had exhibited great personal h eroism in rescuing a drowning lad from the river Tyne. Sir John Fife, the Rev. W. Maughan, Mr. Barkas, Mr. Hutchinson, Mr. Glynn, and other gentlemen delivered speeches to the large assembly. NEW WHEAT.—A remarkably fine sample of new wheat was shown in Salisbury market on Tuesday. it was grown on the farm of Mr. Maslen, at Maddington, who commenced reaping on Monday. Achmet and Kurchid Pachas have arrived hero under arrest. Achmet Pacha has been sent back to Beyrout, after having been publicly degraded. Kurcha Pacha is to follow. Both are to be tried by mixed commissions. Rumours reached here yesterday of a massacre at Baalbeck. All is quiet at Aleppo. The Porte has given its answer to the Servian deputation. In reply to the first demand of the deputation, viz.—the recognition of the hereditary succession of the Obrenovitch family, the Porte refuses to acknowledge the abstract right but consents to the succession of Prince Michael. On the second point, referring to the residence of Turks in Servia beyond the boundaries of the for tresses, the Porte consents to be bound by the capi tulations forbidding such residence. Regarding the third point, viz., the claim of Servia for permission to frame a new constitution, the Porte refuses to accede, but will send commis sioners to inquire into the defects of the existing constitution. A local loan of 75,000,000 piastres is being nego tiated by the Porte. The Grand Vizier will not return so soon as was intended. " Messina, August 0, 1860." CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 8, Fuad Pasha has sent Kurschid Bey to Constan. tinople. The Marquis de LaNalette and the principal Ambassadors have energEtically protested, and ob tained that he shall be sent back to Syria with Achmet Bey. A conspiracy has been discovered at Bnjukdere, near Constantinople. The conspirators had formed the project of plundering the embassies. Nume rous arrests have taken place, and arms have been seized. It is asserted that the Porte has received a tele• gram, according to which the Mutualis had pil laged Baalbec and plundered the Christian inhabi tants. IHI SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1860. NORWAY: but I desire not to make further proof of it, Our I blood we will shell together on the bodies of the I enemies of Italy ; but between us let there be a truce. Accept, generous men, the right hand which has never served a tyrant, but which is hardened in the service of the people. I ask of you to constitute Italy without the slaughter of her sons, and with you to serve her and die for her. " G. GARIBALDI, A letter d AEA I)ronthcirn, August 7, gives some details of the coronation of the King and Queen of Norway on Sunday, the sth inst. The ceremony, according to the text of the Constitution, must always be performed in the ancient cathedral of that city : _ _ ;' The King arrived on the 3d from the camp near I)rontheim, and the Queen a few hours later from Christiania. According to precedent, the Royal procession walked to the cathedral ; the centre of the principal street, the entire dis tance from the Palace, was boarded and covered with scarlet cloth ; files of infantry were ranged on each side, supported by mounted cavalry. At 10 o'clock the procession left, the Palace in the following order :—Heralds, the King's Court Marshal with Staff, Marine and Military Staff, Staff of the late Kings Charles John and Oscar, Officers of the Household, Deputies from the University and Supreme Courts of Christiania, Swedish Represen tatives, Norwegian Storthing Heralds. " The Royal mantle, globe, sceptre, and sword, upon velvet cushions, were borne respectively by General Michelet, Chief Assessor Brun, Chief Justice Lasson, and General Bloch •, and the Crown by the Chief Minister of State, his Excellency G. C. Sibrun, Chancellor of the Order of St. Olaf, &c. " The King's canopy was borne by superior offi cers, and amptmen, or Lords-Lieutenant of pro vinces, The standard of the realm was carried by Major-General Garben and two chief officers. " Next followed Prince Oscar and Prince August, in the dress of cavalry officers, adorned with their various orders. " The Royal mantle, sceptre, and crown were borne by General Sorensen, General Glad, Chief Assessor Hjelm, and State Councillor C. Birch- Reichenwald. "The Queen was supported by State Councillors Petersen and Monichen, followed by the Baroness Wedel Jarlsberg, Mistress of the Queen's Court. Her Majesty's canopy was borne by Court ladies in white. " The procession was received at the cathedral doors by the bishops and clergy. The Bishop of Christiania pronounced a blessing upon his Ma jesty, God bless the King in his going out and his coming in from this time and for ever.' " The King took his seat upon the throne to the right of the choir, the throne for the Queen being opposite on the left. The Bishops of Bergen and Christiansand receive the Queen ; and, when all the procession were seated in order, the King and Queen knelt down, and the service began. After portions of Scripture, prayers, and singing, the Bishop of Bergen preached from Psalm lxxxv., 9, 12. After the sermon the King went up to he altar, and the crown was placed on his head by the Minister of State and the Bishop, the latter having anointed his Majesty upon his forehead, temples, breast, and wrist. " The herald announced to the Assembly, Now is CE;IXV. crowned King of Norway ; he and no other.' A salute of 112 guns was immediately fired. " The Queen went through the same ceremony, the Bishop only anointing her forehead and wrist. The herald announced, Now is Wilhelmine Fre derikke Alexandra Anna Louisa crowned Queen of Norway; she and no other;' and the guns gave another salute of 112 guns. " A grand chorus from the oratorio composed for the occasion by C. Arnold, with the words by Pro fessor A. Munich, concluded the ceremony, and the proce3sion returned to the Palace amid the cheers of the people." ROME. The Roman army, now at the disposition of General Lamoriciere amounts to 20,000 men. These troops the French general drills and exercises in cessantly. He is now with the centre of the army, examining the tieldworks and inspecting the nu merous corps he had posted en echelon along th• frontier of Tuscany and Romagna. He recently had a long interview with a foreign general, sup posed to be in the service of Austria ; but of the object of the conference nothing has transpired. Lamoriciere scarcely gives breathing time to his men ; he marches and countermarches them for the double purpose of exercising the troops and de ceiving the Italians as to their exact number. He orders eal•thworks and batteries to be constructed, then suddenly demolishes them to throw up others elsewhere. He thus keeps the officers of the artil lery and engineers continually in motion. He sees all and directs all himself. NAPLES. NAPLES, AUG. 11. The work of constituting the Chambers pro gresses, and u n l ess the operations of Garibaldi are successful, parliament will meet. But those opera tions are being pushed forward and are encouraged under the very nose of the government. The latest proclamation of the Dictator has arrived, and is as follows : "TO THE PEOPLE OF THE NEAPOLITAN CONTINENT. " Tho opposition of the foreigner, interested in our abasement, and internal factions, have prevented Italy from constituting herself a country. Now, however, it appears that Providence; has put ao end to so many misfortunes. The exemplary unani mity of all the provinces, and victory s miling every• where on the arms of the sons of liberty, are a proof that the sufferings of this land of genius are draw ing near to their termination. " Yet another step remains ; and that step I do not fear. If the slight means which have conducted a handful of valiant men to these straits are com• pared with the enormous means at our disposal at present, every one will see that the enterprise is not difficult. I would, however, that the shedding of blood amongst Italians should be avoided, and therefore I address myself to you, sons of the Neapo litan continent. I have proved that you are brave, _ _ . -..e.-~. THE BED SEA TELEGRAPH. A Government statement was made in the House of Lords last evening that the Red Sea telegraph has failed, "It has proved unserviceable, and there is little hope that it will be repaired." The Company by which this work was undertaken had a capital of £BOO,OOO, on which the British Govern ment have guaranteed 41 per cent. interest for 50 years free from all contingencies. There is every prospect, therefore, that the payment will prove a dead loss to the country. Whether this disastrous conclusion is to be attributed to a total impossi bility in the present state of telegraphic science of laying submarine cables, or to ignorance or mis management in this particular case, will, perhaps, be ascertained when the evidence taken before the Telegraphic Committee shall be laid before the public, At present it is reported that the Govern ment continue in telegraphic matters generally to defer to the opinion of one or more of the parties orgin ally connected with the promotion of the Red Sea line, and it is, therefore, to be assumed that they feel perfectly satisfied. If this conclusion is correct, there must be an end of all submarine attempts until some entirely new process shall have been discovered. Among the public, however, a very strong impression exists that the operations hitherto have not been conducted with such strictness as to settle the question, and that if all the records of submarine telegraph contracts could be produced they would furnish information on that point of considerable value to the public service. That the directors of the Red Sea Company individually have fairly exerted themselves to conduct the enter prise in a satisfactory manner is at the same time generally believed. The fault of selecting this costly line in preference to the land route by the Euphrates rests altogether with the Government. They are now again communicating with the Porte on the latter project, but no redress has been ac corded to the shareholders who were sacrificed, nor is there any prospect of rapid plsogress under Turk ish auspices. Meanwhile it appears doubtful whe ther even the cable originally destined for Fal mouth and Gibraltar will be laid, as since proposed, between Singapore and Rangoon. Two months back it was intimated that if anything was to be done this season a prompt determination must he made, but Lord Wodeliouse announced last evening that the question is still " under consideration," the Red Sea failure having produced complete dis couragement.— Times. THIS DArs MARKETS. . r CORN EXCHANGE. 17 , 1 f ERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. - Wheat, 59s 6d ; barley, 34s Od ; oats, 2Gs ld ; rye, 44s 9d ; beans, 46s 5d ; and peas, 41s Od. • - THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. Wheat, 57s 10d ; barley, 33s 4d ; oats, 26s 2d ; rye, 41s 10d ; beans, 46s 4d ; peas, 41s 3d ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 73,291; barley, 1,179 ; oats, 2,668 ; rye, 11; beans, 1,042 ; peas, 184 quarters. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. Although only a moderate supply of beasts was on °Tr in to-day's market, the demand for all kinds ruled heavy, and, in some instances, prices were 2d. per 81bs. lower than on Monday, the top quotation being ss. 4d. per 8 lbs. The show of sheep was seasonably good. Prime Downs and half-breds were steady in ♦alue, but long-woolled sheep were a shade lower. We have to report a very inactive in - quiry for lambs, at barely previous rates. Calves moved off heavily, at a decline us value of from 2d. to 4d. per 81bs. Pigs and mulch cows were dull, but not cheaper. Per Sibs to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 2 3 6 Second quality do. 3 8 4 2 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 10 Prime Scots, &c. 5 0 5 4 Crse. &inf. sheep 3 8 3 10 Second quality do. 4 0 4 6 a. d. s. d Primecrs-wool do. 4 8 5 4 Pine. S'thdowndo. 5 6 5 8 Large arse. calves 3 10 4 8 :1 Prime small d 0... 4 10 5 2 Large hogs 4 0 4 6 ; ) Small porkers .... 4 8 5 0 2d to 6s 6d. Lambs, 5s Suckling calves, 198 to 23s and quarter •old stora pigs 23s to 308. TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts Sheep and lambs 11,320 Calves Pigs FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts 562 Sheep 2 3OO Calves Cl , 315 Pigs MEAT MARKETS. NEIVGATr. AND LEADENHALL.7TELC supplies of meat are moderato; and a fair business is doing, as follows :- -Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 10d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 5s 2d ; lamb, 4s Sd to 5s 4d ; veal, 4s 4d to 5s Od ; pork, 4s Od to Ss 2d per Sibs. by the carcase. SOUTHALL, Aug. 15.—T0-day's market was moderately supplied with fat stock, and the trade ruled steady, as follows :—Beef, frvm 3s Sd to 5s 41 ; mutton, 4s Od to 5s Gd ; lamb, 5s 41 N Gs 4d ; veal, 4s Od to 58 Od ; pork, 4s Od to 1s 101 per Sibs to sink the offal. Romronu, August 15. We hal a steady demand, to-day, for each kind of stock. Prices as follows : Beef, front 3s 6d to 5s 4d; mutton, 4s Od to 5s Gd ; lamb, 5s 41 to (is 4d ; veal, 4s 01 to 5s Od ; and pork, 4s Oil to 4s 101 per Sibs ; suckling calves, 15s to 19s ; quarter old store pigs, 23s to 30s each; and mulch cows, £l4 Os to £l9 Os each. HAY MAIUK2TS. SmrrnFTELn.—Moadow hay, £3 Os to £5 5s Od ; new do., £2 15s to £1 lOs; old clover, £4 Os to £6 Os Od ; new do., £3 8s to £5 Os; and straw, £1 lOs to £1 16s per load. A slow trade. CUMBERLAND.—OId Meadow hay, £3 3s to £5 ss; new do., £2 15s to £4 lOs ; old clover, £4 Os to £6 Os Od ; new do., £3 lOs to £5 Os; and straw, £1 12s to £llBs per load. Trade steady. WHITECIIKPEL.—OId meadow hay, £3 Os to £5 5s Od; new do., £2 15s to £4 lOs; old clove], £4 Os to £6 6s Od ; new do., £4 Os to £5 5s ; and straw, £llos to £l l6s per lead. A moderate demand 'NCH PRESS.IREWARDS The Pope having, in his letter to the Patriarch of Antioch and the Maronite bishops, announced that he was prevented from sending more pecuniary assistance by the circumstance of his being placed in considerable embarrassment, the Siecle seizes on the occasion to inquire whose fault it is that his Holiness finds himself in such a situation :—" It is certain that if these embarrassments did not exist the Pope would feel paternal joy in sending larger sums to the Maronites. Bat whence come those embarrassments ? From the fact that the Holy See defends with puerile obstinacy a temporal power which is escaping from it, and which it cannot retain at any price. If, then, instead of playing at soldiers, as the Roman Govern ment does; instead of disbursing so many millions borrowed from a good people who might have em ployed them better; instead of purchasing at great cost muskets, rifled cannon, gunpowder, and ball— things which have little connection with Evangeli cal prescriptions ; if, instead of thus wasting pre cious resources, the Holy See would understand that Providence is evidently bringing back the Papacy to its primitive starting point—to Evan gelical simplicity and humility ; if the Papacy were spontaneously to abandon its temporal authority, which no human power can longer preserve to it — it is very evident that the Pope might immediately, with the sole resources of Peter's pence and the offer ings of the faithful, increase ten and a hundredfold the relief he sends to the Maronites. Charity would gain thereby, but the Holy See would gain still more. The Christians of the East must, then, know that, if the Roman Court does not give them more efficacious assistance, the reason is that it will not, inasmuch as it depends on itself alone to set aside in a single day the embarrassments of which it un justly complains. The Papal missive is also re marked on by the Cliarivari, although in a diffe rent point of view. It says :—" Given the follow ing situation : One of your friends, stricken in what is most dear to him, having lost by a catas trophe one of the members of his family, and you writing to him a letter of condolence, should you think of mixing up your own petty troubles with the expression of painful sympathy suitable in such a letter ? Certainly not. You would assuredly , never conceive the idea of choosing such an oc casion to lament over the difficulty of collecting your outstanding debts, to bewail your conjugal squabbles, to speak of the shooting pains in your corns owing to the rainy weather, or any other little annoyance peculiar to yourself. Whence comes it, then, that the Pope, in replying ;o the unfortunate Patriarch of Antioch on the sub ect of the Syrian massacres, has thought proper to ,neat of a host of matters in which that dignitary can hardly be expected to take much interest at such a moment ? Why has he blended with his consolations a short essay on politics, an epitome of the Italian question, recriminations against the House of Lords, and other things equally irrele vant ? Alas we have no doubt that, if left to his own impulse, Pius IX. would have felt that charity and respect for misfortune made it a duty for him not to lot his pen wander into these unseasonable deviations. But Cardinal Antonelli probably de cided otherwise." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EGHAM RACES-WEDNESDAY. The Egham Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 30 added; op tienal selling weights. One mile. 4 subs. Mr. J. Lowe's The Nun, 3 yrs (180), sst 81b (3, Plumb) 1 Mr. B. Land's Lord Milton, 3 yrs (180), sst lllb (J. Daley) 2 Mr. Saxon's The Quaker, 3 yrs (1150), Est 51b (Verraby) 3 Mr. J. Bird's The Nugget, 3 yrs (tsc), 6st 21b .. (Mills) 4 Betting-7 to 4 agst Lord Milton, 2to 1 agst The Nun, 5 to 1 agst any other. Won by ten lengths ; a good third. The Nugget beaten off. The winner was sold to Mr. Hughes for 150 gs. Tho Baron Stakes (handicap) of 5 sous each, with 50 added ; for two-yr-olds ; winners extra, the second to save his stake. Straight T.Y.C. 15 subs. Mr. Fleming's Nemesis, 7st 101 b (car. Bst) (G. Fordham) 1 Mr. G, Payne's Nunnery, 7st 101 b (L. Snowden) 2 Mr. W. Nelson's Selina filly, 7st 41b ..(Maidment) 3 Ellerton and Clotilda colt also ran. Betting-7 to 4on Nemesis, 4to 1 agst Nunnery. Won by six lengths ; a bad third. The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas; three-yr-olds, Bst 21b; four, 9st 51b ; five, 9st 111 b ; six and aged, 10st. Two miles and a distance. Mr. Saxon's Defender, 4 yrs, 9st 51b (L. Snowden) 1 Lord Stamford's Newcastle, 4 yrs, 9st 51b .. (A. French) 2 Mr. Rigby's Blue Jacket, 6 yrs, lOst (G. Fordham) 3 Merrimac and Sandy M'Pherson also ran. Amsterdam was struck out at 2 p.m. on Wednesday. Bettinc , 7 to 4 agst Blue Jacket, 5 to 2 each agst De. fender and Newcastle. Defender was in front throughout, and ran borne the winner by 40 lengths. The Town Plate of 50 soya (handicap). Straight half-mile. Mr. Peddie's Zit - ells, 4 yrs, Rst 51h.. Mr. Hodgman's Inder, aged, eat 121 b (J. Adams) 2 Mr. Fleming's Margery filly, 3 yrs, Gst 41b .. (J. Daley) 3 The following also ran :—Yon Stroom, Emotion, Tuccio, Codicil, King of the Forest, Sparta, Diploma filly, Morella. Lizzie filly, and Pararet. Betting-3 to 1 agst Inder, sto 1 agst Tuccio and Zitella, 10 to 1 agst King of the Forest, Parapet, Sparta, and the Margery filly. Parapet and the Margery filly were very fractious at the post, and ultimately Admiral Rouse went to the posto take the place of Mr. Starling, who officiated as starter, in the absence of Mr. E. Hubbard. " The Admiral" succeeded in effecting an excellent start, the Margery filly making running, closely followed by Sparta, Zitella, the Diploma filly, and King of the Forest. At the distance Zitella went to the front, with Inder at her quarters, and the former ran home the winner by two lengths ; the same between the second and third ; Sparta was fourth. The Magna Charta Stakes of 5 soya each, with 30 added, Optional Selling weights, &c. T.T.C. 5 subs. Mr. G. Payne's Tartlet, 2 yrs, (X 200), 7st (Drewe) 1 Mr. G. Lambert's Stella 2 yrs (X 100), Est ..(J Adams) 2 Mr. Matthew's Longhope, 2 yrs (X 100), Est 41b (W. Bottom) 3 Mr. S. Jacob's Russley, 2 yrs (X 150), Est 111 b (A. Edwards) 4 Betting.-5 to 4 agst Tartlet, 5 to 2 agst Stella and Longhope. Won by a head ; the same distance between the second and third ; Russley beaten off. LATEST BETTING ON TIIE COURSE. THOR HANDICAP. 4to 1 agst Defender (taken and offered) 10 to 1 agst Satellite (offered) 12 to 1 agst Moorhen (taken) 12 to 1 agst Gladiolus (offered) ST. LEGER. 3to 1 agst Thormanby (offered) 4to 1 agst The Wizard (offered) 12 to 1 agst Sweetsauce (taken) BETTING AT MANCHESTER, WEDNESDAY. We had very little betting to -day, and, as is often the case during such quiet days, there were some curious things done. For the Ebor Handicap, 9to 1 was taken and offered against Gladiolus ; and one gentleman laid 100 to 5 against Underhand, but upon the backer expressing a wish to go on at that figure, he offered 100 to 6, which, as it was not taken, we quote as his price. Defender met with some support at 12 to 1, and 100 to 6 was taken and offered against Horace. For the St. Leger 3to 1 was offered on the field. Closing prices : GREAT EDGE, HANDICAP. 9to 1 agst Gladiolus (taken and offered) 12 to 1 agst Defender (taken) 12 to 1 agst Cape Flyaway (taken 100 to 6 agst Horace (taken and offered) 100 to 6 agst Underhand (offered) THE DONCASTER ST. LEGER. 3 to 1 on the field (offered) EBOR HANDICAP.—YouArr Wm. GRAY requests that his subscribers will not speculate on the Ebor Handicap until they receive his next advice. A trial took place yes.. terday at -, and the horse he now recommends beat two of the best trial horses out this season. He is so confident of the result that, in the event of the horse he recommends being beaten, he will return the money paid for advice. Underhand was selected last year when at 33 to 1. The acceptance is very small this year, consequently the prices are less, but independent of this 100 to 6 can be obtained. Terms for advice to the end of the season, 15s. ; to the St. Leger, 7s. 6d. ; the York Meeting, 2s. 6d., and per centage. Address 15, Charing-cross, London. THE HARVEST IN BRITISH AMERICA.—A number of showers, succeeded by warm weather, has had the effect of completely ripening the fall wheat, so that harvesting had begun in the Upper Canada sections of the country. The weather had been all that could be desired, and by the end of the month the great bulk of the crop would be safely housed. The spring grains were rapidly ripening, and every thing promises a full crop of all cereals. The barley crop, which is unusually large, would turn out well. The quality of some of the new wheat crop brought to market had never been surpassed, and the samples of all the grains yet exhi bited equal to any ever before shown here. Business had been very dull throughout the week, and no revival could be expected until after harvest. There had been only a limited business in produce, and prices remained much the same.—Canadian News. THE POTATO CROP.—The Cork Constitution says —The fears entertained for the safety of the potato crop are unfortunately beginning to be generally realised. Throut Farmers who out Tipperary and Limerick, and in some districts iof . the county icnousnevtyeral localities, Waterford, t the dcrop farmershas baereen diggingdestructive o, The doing d. species so to the risk of leaving them in the groun damage ture roots and using them as food for pigs, preterrini, a at , t o h o ilearly soason, is of potato which has sustained the greatest is that known as the " black bull," which, almost unfit as an article of human I were sanguine of their s crops a or g l ince are now ranee of the p ants, which have discouraged by the app a f tni ht 13' assumed all the traditional c ha ra cteristics t.., of th e blight. The disease or distemper which a.. recetl spread amongst the pigs i s ascribed to the di e ased potatoes given to the animals as food. Good descrip tions of potatoes fetch from sd. to 6d. per stone in our oca markets. TABLE-TURNI G REA T CASE OF NG.—The P r i nce o f .• the tables on L ouis Napoleon Prussia turn i n g at the Baden A h. intervievv--ine . . On Friday Mr. Kinnaird will ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has made any repre sentations Government , to the Turkish or taken any steps, to influence them to demand the restoration of the Christian wom en carried off and sold by th e Druses. 'OR SAVING LIFE A2' SEA• The following rewards for saving life at sea have recently been awarded by her Majesty's Govern ment and the Board of Trade :—To Captain James Ducat, of the screw-steamer Vasco de Gama,of Glasgow, a telescope, in testimony of his humanity and services to the crew of the brigantine Breeze, of London, discovered in a sinking condition on the 28th of May last. To Mr. Thomas Livingstone, mate of the screw steamer Vasco de Gama, a quadrant ; and to Malcolm M'Lean, boatswain, Edward Living stone, Allen M'Lean, and William Scurffe, sea men, the sum of £1 ss. each ; in acknowledgment of their praiseworthy conduct in manning the boat of the said vessel and rescuing the crew of the Breeze, of London. To Hermann Kroger, master of the Finkenwarder fishing smack Dolphin, and to T. P. C. Bush, master of the second Hamburg Light Ship, the sum of £3 each, for services ren dered in saving the survivors of the crew of the Jenny Lind, sunk by collision with the Norwegian brig Dorothea, at the mouth of the Elbe, on the 23d ult. To Jan E. Visser, Jan D. Pokier, Job Dirks Kisser, Jacob Jaus Barker, Cornelis Yzaacks Visser, and Lolke Jans Kauger, forming the crew st . a Netherland lifeboat, a silver medal each for their services in saving five of the crew of the fishing sloop Elmer, of London, wrecked off the island of Auck land during a heavy storm on the 29th May last; and to Chevalier Dan. Wigbold Crommelin van Heeche ren, burgomaster of the said island, a gold medal, for his services in directing the salvage operations on the above occasion. His Imperial Highness the Emperor of the French has awarded to Richard Hayes, Richard May, and James May, masters in the British merchant service, Robert Martin, coast-guard officer, James Smith, Robert Thorn, and Joseph Blund, seamen, a silver medal each, for ser vices rendered to the Amphitrite, of Dunkirk, wrecked on the Falmouth coast in November last; to Mr. Thomas Small, French vice-consul at Lowe stoffe, a first-class gold medal, for services rendered , to the crew of the French vessel Jeune Mathilde, lost at sea on the 31st October last; to Mr. limes, master's-assistant, of her Majesty's ship Firefly, a gold medal, for services in directing the saving of the crew of the vessel Marie, of Vannes (date not given) ; to Mr. Coutanche, a silvermedal, for assist ance rendered to the Ouragan, of St. Malo, when wrecked in the Bay of St. Helier's on the 15th April, 1859. FRENCH RIFLED CANNON FOR GARIBALDI. I have been positively assured that ten rifled cannon, missing from the French arsenals, ar e, or will soon be, in the possession of Garibaldi. I can not vouch for the fact on my own knowledge, but I received the information from a very competent authority. General Turr's visit to Paris is said to have been connected with this transfer. What believe to be quite certain is, that Signor San Catelao , Garibaldi's envoy to the French Government, soli cited pormission to have rifled cannon for the Sici' Tian army cast in the French foundries. I cannot say what was the answer to this request, but it may perhaps be taken in connexion with the southward journey of the ten pieces of ordnance above mew tioned. General Turr, during his stay in Paris, 15 said to have had an interview with the Emperor, This is not improbable, for it is well known that bia Majesty takes pleasure in receiving the distinguished foreign emigrants who visit his capital, and that Italians, Hungarians, and Poles answering to that description have not unfrequently had audience 0 1 him, Doubtless, his own experience of exile has implanted in his breast a feelinc , of sympathy with such persons, and therefore his friendly and frequent reception of them should not awaken the suspicions of those Powers to whom they are known to be hos tile. We may presume it to be a question of senti ment, not of policy. As regards General Turr, hoW" ever, I can assure you that, whether he did or did not see the Emperor, he frequently saw Prince Napoleon. You are probably aware that the Hun garians, if they see a prospect of its bringing suc cour to their cause, are quite disposed to offer the crown of Hungary to the Emperor's cousin. 111 Imperial Highness should not overrate the compli' ment implied by this disposition. The Hungarians are much in the same frame of mind that the Lora' bards were in for some time before the war in Italy. To get rid of their then rulers they would , have accepted the government of the Grand Turk or of the great enemy of mankind himself. Of courser they would have cherished an arriere pensee of no for ever remaining under the sway of o° , undesirable a Sovereign as either of these two, I'll: they thought that any change would be progres s and an advantage.—Letter from Paris. MORE BRIBERY PROSECUTIONS.—It appears ...- Tha t proceedings have been commenced under the Corrupt Fr ac c i mos Prevention Act against three Conservative eleClOrS_ e Great Yarmouth, alleged to have committed acts of bribery at the last election for the borough, in 1859. The proceed; ings do not originate with the local Liberals, but with `"' gentleman in th metropolis, and arise out of the eviden o adduced before the select committee which disposed of th e , petition against the return of the pr esen t s itti ng m ember' for Yarmouth, Sir H. J. Stracey and Sir E. H. R. Lea °. A CASTLE TO BE SHOT FOR,—A letter from 0) ; logne, of the Bth inst., states that the inhabit a nts of th at city are occupied with the preparations for a grand festive . : which is to take place at the end of the present month ca the beginning of September. There is to be a general Gar, man shooting match, to which are to be invited Swiss, Be, gians, Dutch, and English. The prize to be gained je,„ castle, of the value of about £6,000, situated o pposite Pr Coblentz, with a magnificent view over that city, Stolze,a; fell, the Rhine, and the Moselle. The buildi ng i s perfecr,„, l new ; it is constructed according to th e f as hi on of middle ages, with drawbridge and towers. This, if 00 is great news for the rifle corps. FATAL POACHING AFFRAY.—Benjamin Ric b : gamekeeper to Mr. Naish,was sh o t w hil s t engage d i n watch; ing his master's estate, by a man named James Norris' working man at Chewton Mendip, Somerset, on Thureclqj "While on the:look-out on Mr. Naish's estate, the deceseq heard, as he believed, the discharge of a gun on a part g, o , the demesne. He hastened to the spot, and saw Norrie,' l e the act of preparing to discharge his gun at a rabbit. 11 ' . !, 0 demanded by what right he was there, but receiving X 0 answer was stepping forward, when Norris shot him in leg. The leg was amputated, but the unfortunate no" sank and died from the injury.—Shrewsbury Journal. WATERSPOUT.—On Saturday afternoon th e lower portion of Auchterarder was visited with a tremendel waterspout, which in a short time deluged the dwellings the inhabitants to an alarming extent. One of the breweri es , was inundated to a considerable de p th of water—so ma c ' so, that the barrels were floating on its surface. The ga r dens and crops have been considerably damaged. The waterfall continued only a short time. In the suburbs there was scarcely any rain. The thermometer has been much higher s ince.—Scotsman. SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT half-past eight o'clock, as Robert RamseY, a GOODS THE TRAFALGAR about STATION, NEWCASTLE. --On Tuesday morning , Rothbury, 23 years of age, and a goods guard ployment of the North Eastern Railway Company, I"' engaged in coupling some waggons at the goods station, he slipped his foot and fell across the rails. Three of the, trucks, one of which contained, we understand, five tons a' iron, passed over both legs. The poor fellow was ban; diately conveyed to the inrmary, where, from the serl ° te in n t a h ti e v e e ra, o :. ! nature of the injuries, it was found necessary to amputate both limbs. From the promptitude with which his juries were attended to hopes are entertained of his a" 11 mate recovery.—Northern Daily Express. A PROFANATION.—A tourist just arrived fro the Grand Chartreuse tells me that last Th urs d a y week, d i monks were horribly scandalised by the f ac t of a ' s to having, contrary to all regulations, obtained a dmission. o , the monastery, and passed the night th ere i n . Th e fair 1, 0 truder, an inhabitant of Valence, dressed herself in 11 10 clothes, and passed in with a party of gentlemen. In by morning she recorded the triumph of her euriositY„ carving her name and address in the door o f the ea u kl a which she slept. The Duchess de Berry was the her oin of a similar adventure some years ago, but there has ~,,"00 no instance of the kind since.—Letter front Paris. for A SHOT AT A SEAL.—A solitary seal ots apif some time haunted the Sound of Mull, opposite Scala r part of the shooting ground of the author of "The lig and the Loch," &c. Mr. Colquhoun drove over frona , residence at Glenforza to Scalastal last Tuesday, not forg et ` ting his rifle, in case " the sealch" should turn up. 14 0 ',' 9 morning he appeared at his usual fishing ground, but 200 yards from the nearest refuge. Mr. C. put up the 11 0 yards' sight, and shot him fair through the head. The n o was dyed with blood, and the seal floated. Before the e obT 4 could be launched, however, it had sunk, and as the wall Td itLiAnKtoEtt,brohaet. was too deep to see the bottom, the party had to wait t, B low ebb tide, when Iho seal was discovered at a considers ; „ depth. As Mr. Colquhoun was the only expert swimme rl l the boat, he plunged overboard, and at the first dive seieel; the creature by the flipper and raised it to tie surface, thi s lake leave traces of salt all over the soil. No fish can 1 . !,. 0 g hisTeHomEpaGnnioEnAs TdrasgAgLe in them ; and fresh meat steeped in them for twelve hours waters of 0 mire, or salt. From its centre rise nurne o , requires no other conserving preparation. To the e '" t a of the lake lies an extensive plain, covered in part w i l o mareteuixintias'ins like islands planted in a sea of s altpel Beyond this point commences the desert of the setly miles. The maledi c ti on of heaven seems to weigh hea"os on the solitude, which reminds one of the desolate shal e of the Dead S ea, where Sodom and Gomorrha were u e stroyed. 'Co the east were i naccess ibl e mountain rid„,geit and blood- co l eared rocks dotted with green spots; en e d flank undulated dark clouds; whilst thick vapours 1 0 '0 above their summits, like the smoke of a volcano upon re d azure sky. Light mists produced at twili g ht hov e _v amid its vague glimmer, and danced over the waters, leave ing like crape tinged with the most liv e ly pi n k; this cr on spread over the horizon a transparent veil that shed uf si 'li nature the charm of a faint light, which, as it grade or e rose to the summit of the mountains, assumed a 1 1 1 0 sombre hue, an indescribable, dismal appearance, r ip; filled the soul with sadness and the eye with tears. immense valley, of a lugubrious and funeral aspect, V7; l , to mind that of Jehoshaphat, the valley of graves. Aloce, posing silence continually reigns around this described la sts which might well be called the " Lake of Death." l o af sterile strand, on the porphyry of its banks, you never „ v ett the patter of the rain, the whistle of the wind, the falling from the trees, the chirp of the birds, nor the 6: 4 0 _ low's rapid flight, through the air. All is calm and gl like the vaults of a gigantic sepulcher. One would "/'y that God in the day of wrath had cursed these solitud e_ . a i ; ) , account of the crimes of the inhabitants, whose ash o e,% l ,o mouldering for many centuries beneath the sands . 1 o f deserts.—Seren rears' Residence in the Great Dese its North dinorica, ~.~~ TEE POPE A 4 dray exp( Wek EhON due Cott hay Ind to el mad the : POSE be n yen pose tllO vorl Gov and are t thos, culti .3 orpi IrriE ivhe Loa liab It NI trei IVO and the] prei the to t So ce( of an 3 , 3 1 ist