The Sun. — London, England, 1860-08-21 00:00:00

BENSON'S WATCHES. " Perfection of mechsuilem."—Morning Post. Gold Silver 2to 50 guineas. Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, descrip tive of every construction of watch now made, with their prices. Watches sent to all parts of the kingdom free by poet, or to India and the Colonies for ss. extra. 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Established 1749. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnakstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with HALLOWEEN. And THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Bnckstone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. After which, the new comedietta, HIS EXCELLENCY, In which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear. To conclude with THE CHRISTENING. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. performed THE LADY OF 1 /THIS EVENING, will be THE LYONS. Mr. G. Melville, Miss Heath, &c. / /After which, CRUEL TO BE KIND. A. Harris, Misses C. and R. Leclereq. To conclude with THRICE MARRIED. Commence at 7. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, JANET PRIDE. Messrs. B. Webster. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Stuart, C. Selby ; Miss Woolgar and Miss Laidlaw. To conclude with IN AND OUT OF PLACE. Miss Julia Daly, Messrs. C. Selby and C. J. Smith. Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, is. ; Pit Stalls, 2.0.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, ed. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- ..4-x. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. BATTY. Immense Success of "Mazeppa." A Grand MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on SATURDAY next, Aug 25, oommencing 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 ides, Bu ff aloes, 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. WEST. Director of the Arena—M. Felix Revolt'. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from MARTHA, And Selections from DINORAH, TROVATORE, MACBETH, And numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, le, Hall. 6d. Combo 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, &c., in addition to the usual entertainments. The Fine Arts Gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.—Srx OFFICE, AUGUST 21, 1860, THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 67—highest since noon yesterday. 55—lowest this morning and during the night. 66—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.—. WlND—West-North-Westerly; light, with fine weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 4h. 40m.—Afternoon, sh. lm. To-moßnow.-Morning, sh. 23m.—Afternoon, sh. 45m. Itt* \_ ‘A,41,1_ , !..,'"'-`, \ .4.4-ji.4, ''''. k s c 1 : A ° l - t - t - - ' 4 "...n IL' - 71 4 1;.! • • t ' ' L - -5:',,..,,e THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1860, What means all this talk, by Austria, of not per mitting GARIBALDI to land in Naples without making herself an advance beyond the Po or the Mincio ? Does it really mean anything at all but—talk ? If it does, are we to believe that Germans in their senses can suppose that France or England will tolerate such a liberty ! After the letter to "my dear PER SIGNY," can the Kings and Dukes of " Father land " doubt that France well knows that England is after all a safer coadjutor than any or all of them, and that France to maintain her posi tion must act with England, not against her ? Hence the clear statement by the EMPEROR that he accepts the principle, out and out, of non-inter vention in Italy ; which perhaps was, to England, the most welcome paragraph in the letter. Evi dently the EMPEROR was desirous to show that he was consistent also in this, for he took pains to point out that in Southern Italy he was fettered by no treaty engagements whatever. He was heartily willing to let Italy settle itself. The EM PEROR is therefore pledged by Villafranca to make Austria respect the line of the Mincio ; and by his letter to England he is pledged to concur with us in compelling all would be intermeddlers to keep their distance while GARI BALDI and the BOURBONS are squaring matters as they best can. But, says Austria, GARIBALDI has, verbally, already threatened the Quadrilateral. And right he is in doing so ; and Austria knows that she has no right to be there for him to threaten. But mere words will not suffice as the basis of an inva- Sion of other States. When GARIBALDI sails for Venice, or marches for Mantua, will be time enough for Austria to act. One would think she had had lesson enough on the perils of precipitancy at the Ticino and Magenta to last her for half a century. And are we really to believe that Prussia is back ing Austria in this mad talk—that the stupid Ger mans are again taking up the pretext, that a part of Italy is the southern defence of Germany—that Germany must really, project beyond its natural boundary, the Alps, in order to be safe ? But 1 , two can talk in that strain ; and more ' than two. Not only, as Lord JOHN RUSSELL told this same Prussia, it might be more justly said that the Quadrilateral was a menace to Italy than a bulwark of Germany; but in some coming time Italy may turn the tables and say, a good Quadri lateral north of the Alps, and looking towards Vienna, is a necdssary defence for Italy. A little - while ago, the story was that Prussia declined to guarantee Austria her Italian possessions, or to mount guard ever Bohemia and Hungary—both, it seems, at last, dissatisfied and mutinous while she defereded them ; but now, the rumour is, that Prus sia, arta the other Veddledoms of Germany, are all (desirous to uphold Au stria in Italy ; and that they 'ill be guardian angels over her home despotism, should angels of Freedom ,threaten to visit Venetia from the south ! After all we can hardly regard these rumours Is more than leelers. KOSSUTH is yet alive ; and !Hungary ready .for the first opportunity. Even i"iroats are not to l,'e trusted as they were, though t ' l leY are always to be purchased by promises of Pillage and violence. But do these German sim telet"s really believe that England would be neutral if . Austria were active ? Do they think that the ,coautty in which .the Premier's lady, the Wife of the C hancellor of the Exchequer, and of Ford PALm t 11 ' 1. °N'S chief Bistwo-maker, stand at ti Le head of a s u b s , -ription list for GARIBALDI—the CI mntry in Which 300 Volunteers are had as soon is s asked —in which the working men sub tribe to present him with hin a his sword—in favour is Ministerial ape , W hie/2, every seheered to the Cello in the House of - Commons. Do these G ?rman princes really think that we will stand by and :we Austia shed the blood o f Garibaldi ans Woe to the Ministers - who shoald do so, is all We can Atty. Austria kvows that we have a fleetin the 34 - e‘ titerranean, one that knows all about Venice, TrioF,te, Pola, and so me other places which the Fro/ ach visited last year, besides having its head wit hin very easy s team of Naples. Nothing is, Wes irra . epe, more .curtain than that the uneon- X 9 TY , • 4 t: '4! fr,r .A Perhaps:there is not one single department of ad ministration that admits of more numerous exploits being achieved in it, than the department variously known as that of Public Works, of Woods and Forests, of Parks and Palaces. A whole world of improvements lie open to the choice of the Chief Commissioner. If he is a man of ambition, of energy, of enterprise —he can satisfy ;the promptings :of his nature at once, and estab lish for himself while so doing an eminent and enduring reputation. Whatever he puts his hand to he accomplishes in the way of an actual improvement, small or great, remains thence forth substantially behind him, after he has quitted office, as a monument of his administration. There is every inducement to a Chief Commissioner of Public Works to do Something Anything. Vanity prompts him to action, among other noble incentives. If this Minister in particular wishes to acquire a name for himself—he has every facility for doing so. The materials are ready to hand—upon all sides—and in the utmost conceivable abundance. There are evils to be got rid of—there are benefits to secure. He can —if he only resolves to set about it in earnest— adorn the Metropolis en the one hand, and ensure, upon the other, in a variety of ways, the comfort and convenience of its vast population. Consider only for a few moments even some among the more conspicuous opportunities afforded for bene ficial action in this way to our Chief Commissioner. There are the Thames Embankments. The securing of these alone would constitute any Chief Commissioner in perpetuity the Benefactor of the swarming millions of people inhabiting London and Westminster. Coupled with an energetic development of the main drainage scheme, divert ing the sewage matter of the metropolis from the river, would render the Thames once more the Silent Highway—the noblest thoroughfare sweeping through the capital —a source no longer of pesti lential diseases, but a broad channel of salubrity—a current securing to the metropolis of England its beautification and purification. A resolute Chief Commissioner, putting his shoulder in veritable earnest to the wheel of change in these two in timately, almost inextricably associated particulars, might, if only in earnest, secure to London within a reasonable interval of time—the accom plishment of the Main Drainage Seheme, and the building up, on either side of the river, here on the Middlesex side, there on the Surrey side of the two noble, broad, majestic, parallel lines of the Thames embankments. These embankments —properly constructed, duly planted with trees— might readily eclipse the sylvan vista of the very finest of the Parisian Boulevards. Subsidiary to this—perhaps the noblest possible metropolitan improvement of all—subsidiary to this there is the opening up freely to the public—with out any further traffic-stricture of a petty toll-gate with its clicking-valve of a turnstile—the opening up freely in this way to the public of how many of our finest bridges ! Waterloo-bridge, for example, the envy of CANOVA-or at least the object of that great sculptor's unstinted admiration. The iron bridge at Southwark, and so many of the other minor bridges over the Thames above Westminster! There are vacant sites, too, in the very heart of our metropolis, tempting a really energetic Chief Commissioner to fill them up with public works of conspicuous utility and importance. The site of the old Fleet Prison, for instance, on the east side of Farringdon-street, for years past as much a memento mori in its way as a caput mortuum. Descending to mere minutiae, there is even a vacant pedestal standing this long while in one corner of the Finest Site in Europe —not spelt, however, by any means the Finest Sight in Eu rope—beseeching the statue (equestrian, if possible) of some one, of any one among our English Worthies (if only by way of contrast to that royal ostler, GEORGE the FOURTH, leading his charger to water at the adjacent fountains !)—a vacant pedestal, we say : imploring some statue, any statue that might suggest itself as appropriate to the imagina tion of an enterprising Chief Commissioner. Then there is the completion of Nelson's Column to expedite—there is the fagade of the National Gallery to reconstruct—there is the projected Palace of Justice (say upon the proposed site between Clement's Inn and Carey-street) to raise from its foundations—there is the long talked-of viaduct to build at Holborn Hill there is Smithfield to turn to good And then to remember the almost certain dimi nution of consumption, and the consequent diminu tion of employment. It is no trivial evil when every individual of a family living on wages has to buy some article of wearing apparel or some domestic article less. What a tale does this tell at Manchester, Bradford, Leeds, Sheffield, Coventry even, and the Potteries. There is no trade unaffected when even the poor cannot possibly lay out on manufactures what they have already been compelled to expend through the higher price of food. Then follow short time, lowered wages, and too often some Secretary POTTER rises up and exasperates all the suffering by getting his sub-despots to order a general strike. The demagogue forces social suicide on those who, left to themselves, would have experienced tempo rary privation merely. No terms of condemnation can be too severe for the ignorant men, for it is most charitable to believe them ignorant, who stir up their unreflecting but naturally patient as well as industrious fellow-men, in reality, to take ven geance by idleness on Providence for a bad harvest and its inevitable consequences. We may hope, however, for some good out of the evil. At present our taxation is enormous — unreasonable. More than seventy millions sterling, besides borrowing for fortifications and for India, in a time of profound peace, shows something utterly wrong. The leaks must be found out and stopped. We may go on very well with them when sailing before the wind, but already the enhanced prices of all provisions are telling fearfully on the returns of our Board of Trade. They will tell yet more. And if so, and if the rate of expenditure be kept up through the year, the " elasticity of our trade' will not save Mr. GLADSTONE from a deficiency next spring. Then it will begin to be asked, in sober seriousness, whether we are really obliged to pay seventy millions for public purposes merely— whether less than thirty millions will not suffice to defend us, seeing France spends nearly ten millions a year sterling less, to keep us all in a fright ? And it will be asked whether we do not pay too much for such 'whistles as CARDIGANS, LL'CANS, and AIREYS, and featherbed field-mar shals, and all the glories of the Horse Guards ? and whether at the Admiralty, the men who give £365 each for anchors, which drag half a mile in a storm, and reject those which never move in the same storm, and cost but one-fourth the money, are just the men to see us well served on the cheapest :erms. In many ways, a little check may do both go vernors and people no harm ultimately; the only thing one feels much is the sufferings brought on the poor. Would that it might teach them the lesson of better providence ! The painful fact is, that families living on wages, and paying no In• come-tax, but earning twice or three times as much as thousands who do pay Income-tax, the instant a time of hardship comes have immediately to resort to the pawnshop. This improvidence, together with too general intemperance, are the ruin of our industrious poor. Were they as economical as they are industrious they would be the wealthiest ope ratives in the world, and they could cease work without being ruined. EXTRAORDINARY WEATHER. TO THE EDITOR OP THE SUN. Sin,—l have been requested to furnish you with a brief statement of the extraordinary weather of the past three months, in comparison with the same months of 1859. Peg. Deg. Greatest heat in shade, June, 1859, 80.4—J une, 1860, 73.5 f/ PP July, 1859, 89.5—J u ly, 1860, 77.0 PI PP Aug., 1859, 86.0—Aug., 1860, 73.0 Colder in 1860—June 6.9 deg. ), July, 12.5 deg. If Aug., 13.0 deg. In June, 1859, the temperature rose to 70 on 20 days. June, 1860, » ~ 70 on 7 days. July, 1859, » ~ 75 on 28 days. July, 1860, PP „ 75 on 6 days. July, 1859, PP /9 80 on 14 days. July, 1859, II „ 85 on 5 days. July, 1860, PP p, 80 on no day. Aug., 1859, ~ 70 on 25 days. Aug., 1860, , 9 „ 70 on 2 d a y s . Aug., 1859, Pf „ 80 on 6 days. Aug., 1860, IP „ 74 on no day. In June, 1859, the temperature was low; it reached 92.2 deg. in 1858, and 91 deg. in 1846 ; the two lowest years being 1843 and 1852, when it only reached 77 deg., or 3.5 deg. above that of June, 1860. In July the temperature reached 91 deg. in 1852, and only 77 deg. in 1843, being the same maximum as in 1860. In August the temperature reached 92.5 deg. in 1856, and was as low as 74.5 deg. in 1845, or P 5 deg. hotter than in 1860. account somehow, anyhow almost we might say, rather than leave in its present lamentable state of _ total unadornment. Instead of attempting to carry out in genuine earnest any one of all which obvious, and some of them urgently required improvements, our present pattern Chief Commissioner has been directing his immense energies to spoiling, as far as he can pos sibly contrive to do so, the most beautiful of all our London "lungs"—more beautiful than any one of the parks—Kensington-gardens ! Mr. COWPER makes his Horse-ride—as the itinerant musician made his violoncello—all out of his own head ! And we have no reason to doubt that he could as truthfully as the itinerant musician aforesaid, add that he has plenty of wood left for many similar achieve- meats. The perverseness with which the road in question was originally made at Mr. COWPER'S behest The temperature in 1860 fell to within 2.5 deg. of the freezing point in June, to within 4.5 deg. in July, and to within 9.0 deg. in August on the grass. There has been a large amount of ozone. In June, 1860, the amount of rain was about the average, in July half an inch in excess; and in August already nearly an inch beyond the average for the whole month. In the last 40 days 35 have been rainy. I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, E. J. LOWE. Highficld-house Observatory, Aug. 19. without anybody asking him to make it) has only - .. been equalled, it has even—if that be in any way •• - - possible—been surpassed by the stubborn obstinacy with which he refries to consent to its removal. A petition for its retention has been got up with Meat effort, and signed (after much touting) by o'ne or two thousand individuals. Another peti- tion (addressed to the QUEEN herself and not to her Chief Commissioner) has been signed on the Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, with the Princes Nicholas and Eugene Roma noffski, attended by Count Stroganoff and a large suite, have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Torquay. Their Ex cellencies Baron and Baroness de Brunnow were present to meet them at tho Great Western terminus, and accom panied them to the hotel. other hand (pleading for the removal of the ride) by front thirty to fort✓ thousand persons! Yet the former little selfish class-plea is now being advertised flagrantly—we should rather say at once impudently—as having been eminently successful! After which—the matter surely cannot be allowed to rest quietly in its present position: COWPER'S FOLLY—that is, the Horse Ride—must be got rid of, and that immediately. The Prince and Princess Hohenlohe Schilling furst and Prince William Hohenlohe have arrived at Long's Hotel from the Isle of Wight. His Excellency the French Ambassador and the Countess de Persigny have arrived at Albert-gate House from a tour of visits in Cornwall and Devonshire. _ _ The British Trident, from Melbourne, has brought gold to the value of £llO,OOO. trollable feeling of this country would compel any How—rests now with the inhabitants of Kensing- Ministry, be the consequences what they might, ton, Bayswater, Marylebone, Knightsbridge, and to aid GARIBALDI against the odious Hapsburgs, the surrounding population. should they attempt to interfere in behalf of the equally loathed Bourbons. It would never be en dured that we should spend our blood and treasure to prevent the oppression of the SULTAN and the waning independence of Turkey, and that we should quietly permit Austria to crush, if she could, the new-born liberties of Italy. We have no objection to the cry —" Germany for the Germans," as against a French invader ; but we claim equal respect for the cry " Italy for the Italians," as against the Empire of the HAPSBURGS and the stick. Never again will England and France permit the most brutal of what are called civilised Governments to bastinado, imprison, shoot, and hang every lover of freedom from Verona to Naples. That day is past. The sooner the doomed HAPSBURGS know it the better —if, as was said by the prophet to another Royal madman, "it may be a lengthening of thy tran quillity." The third week of August, and harvest hardly anywhere even begun. But yesterday we took a hasty run through parts of four southern counties —Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire— and uncut, for the more part green crops, here and there turning colour more or less, were what we beheld everywhere. The crops were, on the other hand, frequently fine, sometimes very fine ; perhaps they would, the wheat crops at least, have been generally so, but the heavy storms have laid many fine fields very much, and so early that the weeds have risen vigorously through, and the grain and straw must be materi ally injured. In the district we refer to harvest must be a month later than a toles ably early one, and a full three weeks later than the average time. That prices should rise under such circumstances is indeed no more than must be expected, and but for the large importations we should certainly have had by this time something like famine prices, and that with full supplies on the ground before our faces: Of course all our hopes for a favourable harvest, and a winter with satisfactory employment for la bour, are centred in the weather of the next two months, and in Him who " giveth the appointed weeks of harvest." His hand at such a time as this it were almost irreverence not to remember ; probably there are but few whose minds can realise the consequences of a general damage to our harvest who have not frequently turned their inmost thoughts with a silent aspiration to the Giver of all Good. True, in this country no one needs to starve. There is the workhouse for the needy. But great—indeed often fatal—it the privation which an Englishman and an Englishwoman will ofttimes undergo before they will accept even out door relief. Till the independent spirit is once broken, it is painful to think what individuals will suffer before they will " go to the parish," and still more before they will go into the house. ~~ `~. nu SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1860. The Duke of Devonshire and Lady Louisa Cavendish have arrived at Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, where his grace is entertaining a select party for grouse shooting. The Duchess of Sutherland has arrived in Paris. The duchess does not intend to make a protracted stay in the French capital, as her grace is expected to join the duke and family at Dunrobin Castle, Sutherlandshire, early in the ensuing month. The Marquis of Bath, who on leaving town went to Longleat, his lordship's princely seat in Wilts, has since left for his shooting quarters in the Highlands. The Earl and Countess of Eglinton are about to receive a succession of visitors at Eglinton Castle, Ayr shire. The Earl and Countess of Limerick and Viscount Glextworth have arrived at their seat in Ireland for the autumn. Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Redcliffe and the Hon. Misses Canning have left Grosvenor-square, for Pencarrow, on a visit to Lady Melesworth. Lord Llanover has left London for Naples and Sicily. Lady Llanover proceeds to Bonn, on a visit to her sister, the Baroness de Bunsen. Sir Alexander Cockburn, the Lord Chief Justice, left town yesterday for the north of Scotland, for grouse shooting. The Right Hon. Henry Herbert, M.P., and Mrs. and Miss Herbert left town at the close of the past week for Muckross, the family seat in Killarney. THE PREMlER.—Viscount Palmerston has honoured Mr. J. E. Jones, the eminent sculptor, with sit tings for his bust during the past week. An admirable likeness has been obtained. The installation of the New Sicilian magistracy took place at Palermo on the 9th. Tho members all took the oath to the constitutional statuto of the Piedmontese kingdom. The accounts from the hop districts continue very bad. Last year's hops are 10s. per cwt. dearer than last week. A letter from Genoa of the 15th in the Siecle says :—" Garibaldi has been suffering severely for some days past from articular rheumatism, to which he is unfor tunately very subject, and has been even confined to his bed. Accounts from Cork announce the sudden death by apoplexy, it is supposed, of Colonel Reynell Pack, C. 8., half-pay of the Fusileers, and deputy-quartermaster-gene ral of the south-western district. The Espero of Turin says that the Duke de Chartres has resigned the commission which he had ac cepted in the Sardinian army at the time of the war against Austria, on the ground that he cannot draw a sword against his relation, the King of Naples. A few days before her Majesty's arrival at Bal moral the Electric Telegraph Company completed the com munication by telegraph between the castle and the metro polis. Messages can now be sent direct from London to Balmoral without detention at any of the intermediate stations. The wires are in daily use. FROM BALMORAL TO BERLIN.—An interesting experiment was recently made to obtain a direct telegraphic communication between Balmoral and Berlin, a distance of nearly 1,300 miles. A short conversion took place, the telegraph clerk at Balmoral informing the Berlin clerk that the Balmoral time was 2 p.m., the clerk in the Prussian capital replying that it had just struck 3, and that the sig nals were as distinct as if the distance had been only a few miles. The electric telegraph wires are now extended to Balmoral for the service of the Court during her Majesty's stay in the north. During the last ten days 8,740 men have em barked from Genoa for Sicily. These expeditions cost enormous sums of money. Every steamer is supplied with provisions for ten days, although the ordinary passage is only 30 hours ; and each commandant of a brigade of 1,000 men carries with him a sum of 50,000 f. for the support of his men until further orders. THE CASE OF THE REV. MR. HATCH.—We understand from good authority that the friends of Mr. Hatch are about to indict Mrs. Plummer for perjury.— Swindon Advertiser. GREAT SWARM OF LOCUSTS IN RUSSlA.—Alarm ing accounts have been received in St. Petersburg of the appearance of locusts in some of the southern provinces ; the wheat crop has suffered most from their ravages, espe cially in the Government of Kherson. It is remarked that this year, for the first time, locusts have not attacked the flax fields. THE CATTLE TRADE.—NORWICH, Aug. 18.—At to-day's market there was a very large supply of store cattle —in fact, the numbers on offer were considerably in excess of the demand. Business consequently proceeded slowly, and prices had a downward tendeacy. The same state of things prevailed with regard to sheep, and lambs were ls. per head lower. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS IN SCOTLAND. —From the early part of the week the weather has not been favourable for harvest. A considerable amount of rain has fallen since Wednesday, the quantity amounting to fully 0.80 inch. The barometer continues low, remain ing almost stationary at 29 inches ; and the atmosphere is close and sultry, with an almost entire absence of sunshine. Reaping on a few fields commenced on Monday, but opera tions have since been suspended. It is expected, however, with favourable weather, that several farmers will begin to cut on Monday. The rains, it is gratifying to state, have not injured the crops, which all continue highly promising. —Scotsman. VOLUNTZERS.—The undersigned, being a com mittee of officers commanding volunteer rifle corps in the metropolitan district, having observed that numerous Friendlyschemes haveb Societies, n published is he decline d tto purporting to be promise the Volunteers'r support to any society for the present. A gener a l sc h eme for Great Britain, with the patronage of the Secretary of State for War, is under consideration which the publi c an d th e volunteers will b a i nvited to join :—Lieut.-Col. Earl Gros venor, Colonel th e Marquis of Donegal, Lieut -Col. Hicks B L e ie r u es t io -C rd o , l. c t a h p e t. Hon C. H. Bruce, Lindsay, Glover, Capt. Spottiswoode, and Capt. Martineau. THE EXECUTION OF PRICE.—WARWICK, Mon day.—The execution of Francis Price for the murder of his sweetheart, at Birmingham, in April last, took pl ace thi s morning. The scaffold was erected over the entrance to the new gaol, which has only been occupied within the last few weeks. There was as immense crowd of persons to witness the execution. At ten o'clock the under-sheriff, the gover nor of the gaol, an d Price, ascended the 'scaffold, and on reaching the front of the railing he signified his intention to address the crowd, and in a few short sentences he ac knowledged the justice of his sentence; the cap was then adjusted, the fatal bo:t withdrawn, and he ceased to live. A SUSPECTED MtßDEß.—Yesterday Mr. Waklev resumed an inqui ry at tho Marylebone Workhouse into the circumstances attencling the death of John Conway, aged 45, a member of a burial club, whose life was supposed to have been sacrificed b. the administration of poison. The inquiry had been adjoarnod in order that medical evidence might be produced. Tte chemist who analysed the contents of the stomach was ?aamined yesterday. He had been unable to discover and traces of poison, and, after a good deal of evidence had been received from various witnesses, the jury returned a -redid, " That death was produced by acute peritonitis, or inflammation of the stomach and in testines, but how that inflammation was caused there was no evidence to show.o JERSEY J USTICE.--The criminal law of the island appears to be most strangely administered. Last summer, 1859, a girl found guilty of infanticide was bailed out for £lO. A year or two before, a man who shot his sister, and was tried for m anslaughter, got off scot-free among the cheers of his party. More lately, two drunkards quarrelled in a gig, and one tried to seize the gun of the other, the other in the scramble shot him and wounded him ; the wounded man got well, but the aggressor was sentenced to se ven years' tr ansportation, and hi s p ro p er ty was confis cated to the lord of the manor, thus punishing his innocent family by a barbarous feudal law. Some time ago, a poor little French boy was killel by a blow by a Jersey butcher boy, whom the French or jury entirely a cqu itt e d. N o or English resident is said to have muc h c h ance with an islander in the civil courts, and on an occasion lately, when by some accident or mistake justice was done, the Jersey man were heard to exclaim as he went out: "What a shame it is that foreigners should be allowed to beat us in our own courts."— Once a Week. THE Moons AND FORESTS.—The 12th of August, the beginning of the grouse season, fell this year on Sun day. Shooting was consequently deferred until the follow weather was favourable, and we are glad expectations we had been led to form, from inquiries made in vari ous par t s o f t h e Highlands, have b een amply realised. Sport smen i n E ng l an d were naturally t in o g le m am morning. . the e he in credulous; but thousands of partridges and pheasants had perished before their eyes in the long-continued floods of June and July. But wehadno such long disastrous weather in the Highlands. There was no excess either of rain or draught, heat ce cold, and the broods of grouse were placed in favourable circumst a nce s both for hatching and rearing. Hence the splendid bags trade on the 13th. The birds are not only very numerous, bet tbey are far above the average o f year s in health, strength, and condition. Since 1855 there has not been so favourable a commencement of the grouse season in this quarter, and omitting that annusnarabilis in the records of grouse shooting, we might go back a great many years before finding a better season for both quantity and quality. The accounts from the far north are not so favourable, we believe ; but we have very few returns as yet from either Sutherland or Caithness. From the forests we learn that deer are an average in number, and they are in good eoudition. — lnverness Courier. STRANGE SUICIDE.—Some men cannot execute so melancholy an act as that of suicide without eccentricity. An instance of this was afforded on Monday last at Lecure, near Havre. A cap was seen in the water with a string of ho end of it I" The s t r ing was pulled, a paper, detailing th e cause o f hi s h av i ng a tch n oer d ls s st Ur rairn e ogu :ll l : uaitianathtdeta label upon which w as wr itten, "Pull ' re was the late writ er o f the label, with made away with himself, carefully cor k e d up i n a b ottle in his poc k et , w ith his name and addr ess , " F ranco i s F o li ot, o f V a ndrimare." 'FARADAY.—Hi s l ove o f k now l e d ge i s so pure that it is the same thi ng t o hi m w h e th er any a dditi o n to the stock is made by him se lf or some b o d y e l se. V ery gre at men, such as he is noix-, cannot afford to let leiser men do all they can, and to help thsrh to do it, without an uneasy thought about their own position and credit ; but it is a test of a man's real greatness whether he is aware of this, or whether he is still subject to a jealousy which he might have left behind long ago. The highest man of all is he who does not consider the thing, one way or another, but simply rejoices in something being gained, and does not care about who has the credit of it, hi m self or another. Probably Farad ay d oes not care. He cer t a ialy never stops to discuss it; never steeps to urge any personal claim; never wastes precious thought and time in settling his own position, or calculating his own greatness. B u t h e always has l e i sure and patience for other people's claims. He h as sympathy for every new success, and the most winning respect and tenderness f or ever y modest and sensible eff or t i n that di rect i on. Wh a t his power is a of sympathy for in his lectures to every class of persons. No treat that can be offered can tempt scientific men to forego a lecture of Faraday's, while children, when ho addresses them, understand all he tells them, or can go up to him afterwards to ask him to settle their difficulty. The same simple hearty symyathy is always ready in his heart for the child who is trying for the first time to dis corn invisible things, and for the discoverer who is treading on his heels in his own path. Thus does he justify the view which excited i-3ir H. Davy's smile—that the spirit of the philosopher should be amiable and liberal.—Once a Week. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : TURIN, AUG: 20. Signor Canofari has left for Paris. Baron Winspeare has been appointed Neapolitan Minister at Turin. The Official Gazette of Turin publishes a circular, addressed by the Minister of the Interior to the Governors and Intendants-General, in reference to the formation of volunteer corps to join the National Guard. NAPLES, AUG. 19 (via Genoa). It is said that at Foggia two companies of dra goons and several artillerymen have joined the insurgents. GENOA, AUG. 20. Official advices received from Naples assert that the Neapolitan troops on the Calabrian coast fired, on the evening of the 14th inst., upon a brig coming from Malta, loaded with arms and ammunition. The vessel stranded and was taken by the Neapo litans. BERLIN, Auci. 21. The official _Prussian Gazette designates the statements of the Nord in reference to the points determined upon in the interview at Toplitz as pure inventions. BOMBAY M AIL. The Delta, with the heavy portion of the above mail, left Malta at 4 p.m. on the sth, and may, therefore, be expected at Southampton about the 24th inst. The China arrived at Suez from Bombay on the 10th August. OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS The Ripon, from Southampton on the 4th, reached Malta on the 14th inst. at 9 a.m„ and left for Alexandria at 4 p.m. The Vectis, from Marseilles on the 12th, arrived at Malta on the 14th instant at 7 p.m., and left for Alexandria at 11 p.m. FRANCE. BOURSE, Aug. 20.—The same stagnation as re gards business continues, but prices have up to the present hour been maintained as on Saturday. Threes, for the account, are now at 67f 95c; Or leans, 1,362 f 50c ; Northern, 952 f 50c ; Lyons, 883 f 75c ; Austrian, 480 f; Lombard, 471 f 25e. The fol lowing are the last quotations :- 41 per'per Cents ... 97 85 i Credit Foncier BBO Do. end month.... Belgian 41 9B 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 90 1 Roman Bank Shares .. — Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 680 -- 1 Spanish Threes 4B 25 Do. Account 676 25 j Home Debt his own yacht. Before sailing, the Prince protested in the most formal terms, both in speaking and writing, against the violence thus done to him. My honour,' said he, obliges me to declare that the reasons alleged for my banishment are altogether unfounded. As a constitutional Prince, I have done everything in my power to induce my nephew to give liberal institutions to the country, in the hope that the Government might be maintained. One who is so anxious as I for the liberty of Italy can not be the cause of troubles.' The person selected to communicate the order to the Prince was General Palomba, formerly his preceptor, and who has always remained attached to his person. The Ministry, which seemed in a rather precarious position last week, appears to be consolidated now. The Prince has always been regarded as the most talented member of the royal ;family ; the Count of Syra cuse, his brother, we are assured, has already gone over to Piedmont. As for the Count Trapani, the youngest of the King's uncles, he is now selling off his horses and furniture, and pays no attention to politics. The departure of the royal family is con sidered imminent. All their most valuable move ables have been taken to the palace at Gaeta, where the Queen-Dowager still resides." RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans .., Northern .... New ditt 0.... Lyons and Ma literranean 885 .. 883 75 Geneva • • 362 50 .. 365 Southern Western .. Eastern Sardinian . . Austrian Lombard .. 472 50 .. 471 25 SICILY. There appears to be no doubt that Garibaldi has left Sicily, not, he )wever, for the mainland of Naples, but for the water .s of Sardinia. He announced his departure in the following address to the National Guards of Messiina, delivered from the balcony of his house : " I am sumin oned elsewhere by my duty, and must quit you, 0 Sicilians ! It is now time for Sicily to think seriously and vigorously of her own defence. Yes, - you must henceforth defend your selves alone agai nst whoever may attack you! I have done for yo u all that was possible for me to do. At present; Italy requires that I should go elsewhere, Dip) omacy has not been able to check me, and I will pc)sitively not come to a compromise with it." It was in the - Washington that Garibaldi left, having 1,000 men. with him. A letter from 'Turin, dated August 17, says : "Garibaldi came yesterday quite unexpectedly to the Island of Mad:alena (about 10 miles west of the north coast of Sardinia), where he took in 150 tons of coals for the use of his steamers. With less cer tainty I inform you that he might perhaps have been at Genoa la s;t night, or he may arrive there this morning ; any, 1, in short, it is possible he may have arrived here I st Turin to confer with an exalted personage. A letter in the .N ord says :—" The Calabrias have certainly been the Ltheatre of the first hostilities in the States of the int .inland, and at the same time of a small advantage E rained by the Neapolitan troops. Facts have confirme d what I before mentioned as to the presence of Ste tcco at Reggio, where he was engaged in organisi ng a band which was to be in creased by partial 1: 'tidings. The electric wire to Baguara was cut in , the night of the Bth, and the commandant 'at A ltaflumana was warned that masses of the enema 7 were concentrating themselves in the plain of Mati niti, above Cannitello, evidently with the intention of endeavouring to render them selves masters of Al taflumana. This attempt was however repelled by ' the troops, who also prevented some invasions at C. annitello. A body of 200 men however succeeded n landing ma another point and penetrated into the interior of the country, where they are closely pur, sued by the Royal troops. The Naples official jour nal concludes its recital of the above affair by pra icing the firm attitude assumed on this occasion by 11e inhabitants of the province and of the district o f Reggio." The following is an extract from a Naples letter of the 15th :—" The% news to-day is Garibaldi ha s b een organising the landing of hi and superintending a volunteers in Calabria for the last fou r days without encountering opposition, the steamer Tukery (l, ate Veloce) yesterday attempted to cut out the Neap olitan man-of-war, Monarqne, from the port of Ca s tellamare, and only failed for want of files to cut t he chain cable of the anchor. The following. are the particulars of the affair : For twelve hours prfsviously a vessel had been seen cruising in the roads tead and Gulf of Salerno under the English flag, - without attracting the attention of the coast-gupard At nightfall she was seen at the southern , oxtremitT of the isle of Capri. At 11 o'clock she stopped opposite the dockyard of Castel lamare, and lowered her boats, which were imme diately manned, and rowed off to the Monarque, for the purpose of cutting her cables. All this had been done with such expedition that the boats reached the Neapolitrm vessel unseen by the sen tinels on the dock. As the sailors of the Tukery were beginning to out the cables, the alarm was given onboard the other vessel, and several musket shots were fired, by which Commander Acton was slightly wounded and two of the sailors killed. The captain of the Tukery, having ascertained the im practicability of cutting the cables, returned to his vessel and steamed off to sea. The alarm caused by this attempt soon spread to Naples, where the troops and National Guard were called out, and re mained bivouacked all night ; but their services were not required. - While these facts were occur ring, the Ministry sent to Prince d'Aquila his pass ports, and ordered him, in the King's name, to leave Naples the very night, the Stromboli frigate being placed at his disposal for the purpose. The Prince asked the general who brought the order, what could be the motive for this extraordinary measure, and was told that its object was to pre vent the effusion of blood. The Prince expressed his astonishment, and refused to embark on any vessel of the royal navy. As Grand-Admiral of the Imperial Navy of Brazil, he at once sent for the commander of a frigate belonging to his brother-in law, the Emperor of Brazil, which was lying in the roadstead of Naples, and made arrangements for the Princess, his wife, and their two sons, to go on board that frigate, while he himself embarked is . '~ ROME. The Minister of War at Rome has issued a notice to the effect that he will receive tenders for 15,000 blankets for the troops. According to a letter from Rome, in the Perse verenza of Naples, the army of General de Lamori ciere consists, on paper, of 33,714 men, of whom 22,000 are under arms, with 1,000 horses and 20 pieces of cannon. If, however, the garrisons which must be left in every town—it might almost be said in every village of the Romagna—to maintain the authority of the cardinals and the legates, be de ducted, it will be seen that the General-in-Chief will have but few men to lead to the assistance of the King of Naples, as his intention is represented to be, should any necessity for such a course arise. THE FRENCH EXPEDITION TO CHINii. The Union de la Sarthe publishes a long letter from a gentleman connected with the medical de partment of the French expedition to China. The following are some passages from the letter in ques tion, which is dated May 28, on board the Rhin, in the roadstead of Woo-Hing :—" The town of Hong Kong has a population of 70,000 or 75,000 souls, and presents an admirable coup-d' mil when seen from the sea. On entering the town and passing along the principal street, the visitor is astonished at the beauty and richness of the Chinese shops on either hand. They are filled with the most curious articles of the East; China crapes, procelain vases o f the most valuable kind, camphor-wood boxes, laciw ered furniture of all descriptions, &c. Every' thing is arranged in excellent order and i n good taste. The shopmen are well-dressed and ex" tremely polite ; one sits at a desk with a camel; hair brush in hand, for they do not use pens, and sets down in the Chinese character every article sold ; others are employed in displaying the g oods to the gaze of the stranger, and this they do so cleverly, as often to decide the hesitating pur chaser. At short intervals near the shop door* may be seen a Chinese money-changer, seated at a small counter covered with rolls of sapeques, the current coin of the country. In our evening ra mbles through the town we often heard the sound of music and female voices singing. One night we made bold to enter a house where we heard a con cert, at the risk of being thought intruders. Our intrusion, however, was not resented, for the per sons present immediately offered us seats, and made signs for us to stay and hear. The room we° on the first floor, extremely clean and neat, well lighted by large windows with blinds, which opened on a balcony towards the street. Four musicians, with stringed instruments, castanets , and a tantam, accompanied a young female who sang and also played a kind, of guitar. Near her stood several of her companions, who were to sing in their turn. They appeared not to be above 12 or 13 years of age, and were really pretty for Chinese. These ladies indulged in a cigarette from time to time, and handled their palm-leaf fans very gracefully. In the middle of the room stood a small table covered with sweetmeats and tea-things. On one side sat three or four merry-looking Chinamen, who listened most attentively to the music, and at intervals blowing clouds of tobacco smoke from their mouths and nostrils. At the top of the room, on a divan, reclined two more men who were smoking opium, and seemed to enjoy it amazingly. When the singers, whose voices were too shrill to be melodious , had all sung in turn, the persons present drew round the table and prepared to do honour to the supper. Nor were we forgotten, for the gentlemen invited us to take a cup of tea and some sweetmeats , which we found not at all bad. Then, not wishing to be thought too intrusive, we withdrew, after thanking our entertainers as well as we could." IL4IL WAY INTELLIGENCE. SOUTH WALES. The directors of this company state in their re port that the receipts for traffic during the half year ending the 30th of June amounted 1° £170,577, as compared with £160,062 in the cor responding half of 1859, showing an increase al £10,515, of which £2,115 was derived from pas senger traffic, and £8,399 from goods traffic. II: dividend for the half•year on the ordinary stock 01 the company at the rate of 2 per cent. per annuray leaving a balance of £1,979 to be carried forward , is proposed by the directors. AUSTRIA. The following are the principal passages of the , report which the Austrian Minister of Finance, as mentioned by telegraph, has addressed to the Emperor Francis Joseph on the financial situa tion of the empire, and in which he proposes expedients to cover the deficits of 1860 and 1861 : —" In the budget of the present year (1860) the deficit is estimated at 87,700,000 florins (each 2fr. 40c), to which must be added 7,600,000 florins of expenses not foreseen when the budget was drawn up, so that the total deficit is about 95,300,000 florins. On the other hand, the ex penses of administration are less than was antici pated for the first six months of 1860, the civil ones being 3,370,000f1. The Minister admits that the civil administration will cost at least five millions less than was expected; and the interest of the debt 7,500,00011. less ; and he also anticipates that cer tain sources of revenue (the tobacco and salt mono polies) will produce six millions more than was ex pected. The deficit of 95,300,00011. will therefore be reduced to 55,500,000f1. To cover that deficit the Minister proposes to employ the indemnity for the Lombard debt, 21,200,00011. of the partial hypo. thetical assignations omitted on the account of the new loan, 5 millions; the instalments assured on the new loan 46 millions, and the probable in stalments; 6 millions at least of the loan issued in Italy in 1859 ; and some extraordinary receipts for 3,500,00011. The Minister estimates these re sources, partly positive, partly probable, at 76,500,000f1., which not only covers the above-men tioned deficit of 1860, but leaves a surplus of 20,700,00011. As to the deficit of 1861, the Minister estimates it at 44,065,00011, He even admits that the sum necessary to cover it will be only 34,065,00011. That deficit would be covered by the surplus of the Italian indemnity of 21 millions, and by the probable payments on the loan with prizes for 13,800,00011. In conclusion, the various resources would give 34,800,000f1., which would produce a surplus of 735,00011. above the deficit. The surplus of 20,700,00011. of 1860 would remain applicable to 1861, unless that sum, as the Minister says, should be appropriated to the military budget of 1861, which requires above 13 millions of extraordinary expenditure. The Minister observes that even in presence of this favourable result for 1861 and 1860, it must not be forgotten-1, that this result is partly obtained because it includes the additional war-tax to the amount of 13,400,00011. on indirect taxes, and 19 millions on direct taxes, making a total of 32,400,000f1.; 2, that it will be necessary to appro priate the Lombard indemnity to the amount of 42,300,00011. during these years to the budget ; 3, that the receipts derived in 1860 and 1861 from the loans will still further increase the debt, and the burden of the interests. The Minister esti mates the deficit for 1862 at about 43 millions, and for the year following at 49 millions, but he thinks that the expenditure may be :reduced by about 24 millions, viz., 8 millions on the civil administration, 5 millions on the agio for exchanges, and 11 millions on the military administration. The deficits men tioned therefore would be reduoed 19 and 25 mil- ons." AMERICA. LONDONDERRY, TUESDAY, The Montreal Wean Company's mail steamship Bohemian, Captain Grange, from Quebec, on the th August, has arrived. The Prince of Wales left Frederickstown on the 7th inst. His Royal Highness was expected at Gaspe on the 12th, and at Quebec on the 17th inst. The Duke of Newcastle had been unwell, but had recovered. A serious insurrection of the negroes was re ported in the guano island of Lombrero, and caused excitement among the merchants interested in the guano trade. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Au&. 10. Stocks active. Exchange unaltered. Flour and wheat dull and heavy. Corn firmer, and in good demand. Oats, pork, and beef dull, and unchanged. Lard heavy. MONTREAL, AUG. 11. The weather since the beginning of the week has been hotter. The harvest accounts are favourable. Flour dull, but firm. Sales-8,000 at 5 dols. 45e. to 5 dols. 60c. Wheat, no sales. Peas in good de mand. Ashes have declined. Pots and pearls 5 dols. 70c. to 5 dols. 75c. LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO FATHER POINT. NEW YORK, AUG. 11, EVENING. The Adriatic, from Southampton, has arrived out. Stocks have slightly declined. Prpduce markets are generally unchanged. NEW ORLEANS, AUG. 10, Cotton quiet. Middling is quoted 10c. to lOic. Sales of the week, 2,500 bales ; receipts of the week, 1,600 bales. THE PENINSULAR MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 21. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Sultan, Captain Cook, with the above mail, has arrived. She brings 36 passengers, £2,290 in specie, and a general cargo of fruit, &c. On the 20th inst. she spoke the Massilia, steer• ing south-west. _ _ _ The Count de Bolhao had arrived at Lisbon by the Magdalena. Lisbon exchange on London—three months, 54! ; on Par'is, 5 30. THE. JERSEY CRAPAUDS.—The erapauds are perhaps the most characteristic of all the island produc tions. The word is generally supposed to be the French for toad; but the Jersey crapaud is a distinct animal. Those who know old pictures, will remember certain inu Lginary creatures in the temptations of St. Anthony, and certain batrachian demons found only where no one we aid wish to go after death—such are the Jersey crapauds. "W*e recollect mistaking one in the moonlight for a small dcg lying in the road; to our surprise instead of jumping up it waddled off. In the sister island of Guernsey thdy are said not to exist at all; hence the soubriquet of cra pauds as good-naturedly applied by the people of one island to that , et . the other.--Once a Week, TAFF VALE. Assisted by the amount reserved from the pre ceding half-year, the directors declare a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum upon the stock of the company, and on the amount called up on the £2O shares, payable on the 6th Sept. next. NORFOLK. it appears that the directors of this company.in tend to recommend the proprietors at the ensuing half-yearly meeting to declare a dividend at the rate of £1 10s. per cent. for the half-year ending 30th June, SOUTH YORKSHIRE. The half-yearly meeting of this company wa s held yesterday in Doncaster. The report Wa s . , adopted, and a dividend upon the guaranteed and ordinary capital, at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, was declared. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. Lady Byron's Will :—The will and codicil of the Right Hon. Anne Isabella, Baroness Noel Byron, relict of the poet Byron, and Baroness Wentworth in her own right, acquired in the year 1856, was proved in her Majesty's Court of Probate by th e Right Hon. Stephen Lushington, D.C.L., one of the executors and trustees, power being reserved to Lord Byron, the other execut or an d trustee, to prove here' after. The personalty was sworn under £60,000. The will is of great length, and bears date, with the, codicil, April 30, 1860. Th e B aroness has devised the estate of Oxneyfield, situate at Darlington, in the county of Durham, to her grandson, Ralph G o rdon Noel King, the son of her daughter Ada and tile Earl of Lovelace, which is entailel upon his issue , and, in default thereof, then to her grandsoo , Viscount Ockham ; and that the inheritor of the estate shall use and acquire by royal license the surname of " Milbanke, which was her lady' ship's maiden name, her father being the late Sir Ralph Milbanke, Bart., who, upon the death of his brother, Thomas Noel, late Viscount Went worth (title now extinct), acquired by sign manual also the name of " Noel." To her said grandson, Ralph Gordon, she also leaves a legacy of £25,000. To her granddaughter, Anne Isabella Noel King, she leaves a life interest in all other her estate, and on her decease to be divided amongst her children ; and given her all her jewellery, household furni ture, and articles of virtu absolutely, and ar pointed her residuary legatee. To Mrs: Greig daughter, grandda ug ht er, and my £3oo—" who has b een a true friend to my Follen, Esq., of B os t on, U.S., £3OO, "to assist him in the difficulties h e w ill h ave to contend with in his disinterested advocacy f or th e r i g h ts of the coloure d self." To Charles race." To the Hon. Amelia Murray, the Misses Bathurst and Skerrett, each a legacy of £3OO for charitable purposes. To the Revs. J. H. Young, F. E. Tower, and T. B&dcock, all of Leicester shire—incumbents under her patronage—she leaves to each a legacy of £lOO to distribute as they may see fit amongst the poor of their respective parishes. To Dr. W. King, £3OO. There are many other legacies and several annuities. Lady Byron was in her 66th year, and died at her residence in Regent's-park, on the 16th of May, 1860. Dowager Baroness St. John (Lady Vaughan) : The will and codicil of the Right Hon. Louisa, Dowager Baroness St. John, formerly of Spratton, Northamptonshire, of Bletsoe and Melchbourne, Bedfordshire, and of St. Leonards-on-Sea—first the wife of St. Andrew, Baron St. John, and after wards the wife of the Right Hon. Sir John Vaughan, Judge of the Common Pleas, whom she survived—were proved in the London Court of Probate, and administration granted to her sons, —viz., the Right Hon. St. A n d rew B eauc h a mp, Baron St. John, and the Re v . Ch ar l es Lyndhurst Vaughan, M.A., two of the execu t ors . The Rev. W. W. Hume, of St. Leonards, the other executor, having renounced. The pers ona l es tate was sw orn under £45,000. Her Lady s hip has bequeath e d to the f am il y estate her son, Baron St. John, and to her two daught ers , some pecuniary legacies in token of affe c ti onate remembrance ; her daughter, the Hon. Mrs. L ou i sa e M al a l c e l d eo s d p ,h r a a v tt i e n u g , rheceerivedas a gift youngest dau ghter, Emily, theellwpifreevoifdSediriCharles Edmund ish am, B art., being w To her said two d aug h ters h er Ladyship leaves her jewellery and personal orna ments ; and to her son Charles she be quea th s a ll her plate aad household furniture, and also leaves him a life interest in the sum of £6,000. which, at his decease, is to be divided amongst his children; and has appointed her said son Charles residuary legatee. There are also bequests to her grand children. She gives the sum of £5OO towards the repairs of the parish church of Bletsoe (the patron age of the living is vested in the barony.) To each of the following charitable institutions she leaves £loo—viz., the Northampton Infirmary, the Bedford Infirmary, the East Sussex and St. Leonards Infirmary, and to the Middlesex Hos pital. To her own nurse £lOO, and a year's Wages to all her servants. The will bears date December 11, 1857 (signed " Louisa St. John"), and the codicil is dated Oct. 14, 1859. Baron de Hochepied Larpent, of the Holmwood, Dorking, who died on the Bth of June last, had made his will on the 12th of January preceding, which was proved in the principal registry by his relict, the Baroness, and his brother-in-law, the Rev. Frederick J. H. Reeves, of East Sheen, the acting executors. The personal estate was sworn under £5,000. He bequeaths to his wife, the Baroness, all his furniture, household effects, and carriages absolutely, and a life interest in his estates, which on her decease are to be divided amongst his children, with one exception—namely, to a daughter whom he states is already provided for. He has left his copyhold estate in Knights bridge to his third son, in trust, to see to its en franchisement. The will bears date the 12th of January, 1860.--Illustrated London News, Aug. 18.