The Sun. — London, England, 1860-07-10 00:00:00

BENSON'S WATCHES.' " Perfection of mechanism."—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 post, or to India and the Colonies for ss. extra. 33 anti 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Established 1749. T H EATILE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lesaee, Mr. J. B. Bnekstone. THIS FTENTNG the performances will commenee with THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Buck stone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Mrs. C. Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. After which, the new farce, entitled FITZSMYTHE OF FITZSMYTHE HALL. Messrs. Buckstone, W. Farren, and Rogers ; Mrs. Wilkins and Miss Henrade. To conclude with THE ODDITIES OF THE OHIO. By the Leclercqs Commence at 7. ItOYA L PRINCES S'S THEATRE.- Lessee. Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, will be performed RICHELIEU. Mr. Phelps. To conclude with BOWLED OUT. Commence at 7. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. s o le eroprietor and Manazer, Mr. Benj. Webster. Reproduction of the powerful Adelphi drama, " The Flowers of the Forest." Eleventh week of the American Actress, Miss Julia Daly. THIS , :VENING, THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Billinrton, Stuart, Eburne, C. J. Smith, Powell, Romer ; Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly, Mrs. Billington, Miss Laidlaw. After which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSIN. Messrs. Stuart, C. Selby, Billington, Eburne, Miss Julia Daly, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and Mrs. Chatterley. Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, IL Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, 3s. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith. FRENCH PLAYS-ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Directeur, M. Talexy.—Lessee, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. EVERY EVENING. Madlle. Delphine Fix.—Positively the last Week but Three. TO-NIGHT, LES PROJETS DE MA TANTE. And LES PATTES DE MOUCHE. Madlle. Delphine Fix and M. Paul Devaux. Orchestra Stalls, 7s. 6d. ; Balcony Stalls, ss. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. Private Boxes, from Two Guineas. Commence at 8. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. - 1 .71 Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wit. BATTY. In consequence of the immense success of the MID-DAY PERFORMANCE, ONE MORE will take place on Saturday, July 14, to commence at 2 o'clock. On Monday, July 9, 1860, and during the week, to com mence with the immensely successful Grand Historical Spectacle in Three Acts, entitled "FAIR ROSAMOND, or the AMAZON CRUSADERS." To be followed by Scenes in the Cirque, supported by Madlles. De Berg, Monet, and Leontine ; Messrs. Fernando, L'Epine, F. Watson, and Herr Christoffi ex. &c., artistes of unequalled celebrity. Conclud ing with a Laughable Farce. 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 Revolti. CONCERTS CANTERBURY HALL THIS EVENING, C. H. GOUNOD'S OPERA. FAUST. first Time in this Country. Faust Mr. Henry Herbert. Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard. Siobel Mrs. Anderson. Marguerite Conductor Mr. Jonghmans. And selections from Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, is, Hall. 6d. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic). and 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, ac., in addition to the usual entertainments. The zallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, JULY 10, 160, THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 65—highest since noon yesterday. 49—lowest this morning and during the night. 62—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.12, WIND—E, to E.S.E ; moderate, with dull weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIN DAY.—Morning, 6h. 12m.—Afternoon, 6h. 31m. To-moßßow.-Morning, 6h. 51m.—Afternoon, 7h. 12m. A terrible massacre of the Christians in Syria has been commenced by the fanatical Druses of the Lebanon. Unless England and France interfere betimes between the Maronites and their mur ierers, the whole of the believers in CHRIST in those regions will have been ruthlessly destroyed, their cities sacked, and the intervening'country laid waste and barbarously devastated. The butchery indeed has already, as we have said, begun in dreadful earnest. Insomuch is the position of the unfortunate Christian population of Syria recog nised to be perillous by the Allied Governments of Western Europe, that while our own rulers have without an instant's hesitation caused two British men-of-war to proceed to Beyrouth instanter—the French Minister for Foreign Affairs (M. DE THOU VENEL) has forwarded instructions to the Imperial ambassador at Constantinople (the Marquis DE LAVALLETTE) " directing him," says REUTER'S Telegram, " that France from feelings of humanity as well as in consequence of former conventions to inform the Porte concluded with Turkey, is bound to put a stop to these horrible massacres !" Nay, it is added explicitly in these instructions that the Turkish authorities not being capable of defending the Sultan's own subjects, France will concert, with the other Powers, the most efficacious means for preventing the continuation or recurrence of the sanguinary deeds being enacted in Syria between the range of the Lebanon and the shores of the Mediterranean. How much more urgently is not this intervention of the chief Powers of Christen dom required, if it can be proved that far beyond any mere lack of capacity on their part to defend the SULTAN'S own subject, those Turkish autho rities have actually been implicated with the Druses in the massacre of the Christians in Syria ! Such, in point of fact, is understood already to have been absolutely the case. It is notorious, we believe, from one extremity of the Levant to the other, that the heathenish Druses of the Lebanon have found not only connivance, but direct encouragement among more than one of the Mussalman officials of the Tur kish Government. Time and again there are indications not less clear in regard to Turkey than in regard to Austria that the whole fabric of the State is crumbling away from its very foundation. The sick man is even now once more sickening. The time is obviously approaching when he must be sick unto death. Ever since the Turk took Con stantinople—he has had one foot in the grave. That conquering foot of his planted haughtily upon the soil of Europe l Theorists tell us that every Child bor n i n t o th e wor ld h as th e see d o f t h e particu lar dis ease that must triumph at last (unless anti cipated by accident) latent in its new-born consti -Aution. It has been so throughout all these four centuries past during which the Mahommetans have held dominion in Europe among the nations of Christendom, triumph, in that ln that very crowning a pp ar enteuhnination of the star of the Turk there was manifest to those who can read history aright, to those who are endowed with any clearness of politial prevision, the source v of inevita ble defeat, the germ of inexorable decline tahnedEdai East t solution. If the slope of Ru ss i a is towardsi as the poetic and philosophic historian of France has remarked—the gravitation of Turkey is as un doubtedly back again into Asia Minor. The Eu ropean rule of the Turk has been all along an anomaly. It has -never been accepted by Christen dom, it has only been tolerated. The beginning of the end of that *same anomalous rule may, with the strictest accuracy, therefore, be said to date from the hour of its original foundation. Re peatedly, 'during the lapse of the last four hundred years, there have been indications that so soon as the Christian Powers cared to cast aside their conflicting jealousies, to abandon each its selfish ambition, to combine their influence and their interests harmoniously together, the doom of the Mussulman authority in Europe would upon that instant have been pronounced. That combi nation has often been impending over the Moslem's Ottoman like another sword of DAMOCLES. Nor can we conceive that the Sultan-Caliph could by any pos sibility have retained authority over his European do minions until now, but that Europe had called down upon : itself the 'perpetuation of this unnatural and anomalous power upon the southern borders of Christendom, by participation in, or connivance at a Crime crying aloud to Heaven for vengeance in the form of some such deadly retribution. History has not forgotten to record in luminous characters — in characters the glory of which can never fade—that Vienna, that northern and western Europe were saved from the horrors of devastation and possible conquest by the armies of the Mahometans through the ever memorable intervention of the heroic Poles under the glorious SOBIESKI. Nor has history for gotten to relate since then in characters of blood how that matchless service done by Poland to the whole Christian race was re compensed, not yet a century back, by the ever infamous and dastardly partition of the land of SOBIESKI, of KOSCIUSKO, and of STANIS LAUS. In the retribution called for by that detest able act we may recognise the source of the continuance even until now of the Turkish sway in Europe—a prolongation of power by a State so effete and worn-out (surviving thus among all the vigorous races of our modern Christian civilisa tion t) otherwise we may say altogether is explicable. Again and again the Mahometan rulers at Constantinople have found their real support in the contentions of the rival Powers of Chistendom. Until at length only six short years ago we all remember how the allied armies of France and England fought and bled and died under the walls of Sebas topol to save from the lawless and ambitious grasp of the Russian Autocrat the fair and beautiful city of Constantinople. Happily for the Turks, how ever, they have had now for the best part of the last half century upon the Imperial throne of the Sultan-Caliph, a prince sufficiently enlightened to strengthen his expiring power by the creation of something like the eidolon of the soul of liberality under those ribs of death the:framework of the old Turkish Government. Such has been advantage secured to the power of the Sublime Porte during the reign of the present Sultan, ABDUL MEDJ ID, in pursuance of the policy previously inaugurated by his great and gifted father and predecessor. Notwithstanding which sagacious policy, however, the doom of Turkey is " coming out to view " day by day more and more legibly, as one may see, upon the wall of the. Sultan's Palace upon the shores of the Bosphorus. It comes flashing to us again in these announce ments of the electric telegraph—those tidings of the butchery of our fellow Christians in Syria by the Druses of the Lebanon, pagan fanatic hearken on in their terrible work of murder and desolation, first by the secret sympathies, afterwards by the open encouragement of the Mussulman officials representing the authority of the Turkish Govern. ment. The massacres in Syria threaten in point of fact to open up yet again, it may be at last for once and for all, that problem, the solution of which has been so often postponed, that problem, long since world-famous under its different phases as the Eastern Question. The crimes of the Druses, the complicity in those crimes of the Mussulmans, now seem to require that that Question shall at length be definitively answered by some united action on he part of the dominant Powers of Christendom. Poor Lord NORMANBY seems to be haunted by a spirit from Italy, which neither Lord WODEHOUSE nor Lord BROUGHAM can lay, and which allows him no repose. Since his model Italian Court has had to go on tramp, all at Florence has gone wrong. The arch-sinner MAZZINI has had more influence than ever. The Provisional Government has been far more tyrannical than the Lieutenant of Austria. His letters, of course from parties perfectly disinterested, assure him that all is tyranny and misrule ; doubtless the postcripts add that the Florentines sigh for the glorious days of Ducal freedom. Then, steaming in fancy across to Sicily, he sees GARIBALDI, if not personally cruel and barbarous, tolerating barbarities in others; and seeing that, against the laws of nations, he has at the voice of a nation assumed the Dictatorship, he is held responsible for all the misdeeds of the in furiated Sicilians. Unlucky man ! Neapolitan soldiers and police have provoked the natives to retaliate for imprisoning and torturing patriots and innocent citizens, and even for crucifying them on the walls of their prisons ; and GARIBALDI is to answer for the blows struck by the hands he has untied! Lords BROUGHAM and WODEHOUSE—rather hard though, two against one—won't give up either the Provisional Government or the noble Italian Gene ral. All Lord BROUGHAM can say to the first charge is, that he too has letters from Florence, but they happen to be of a diametrically opposite character to those of Lord NORMANBY. What can we say to it ? " Who keeps fat oxen must him self be fat;'' and we suppose " who correspond with noble lords must themselves be noble." It is plain, therefore, that nobles, like other folk, must agree to differ. On one point, however, we imagine there is very little difference of feeling in England, and probably Lord NORMANBY is in a minority of one in this country, although he could muster a respectable show of ducal partisans at Florence. All England saw the DUKE run off to the Austrian camp with pleasure, and is exceedingly well pleased that he should keep where he is. Judginc , from all appearances, the vast majority of the DUKE'S old subjects, and of Italians generally, down to the very heel and toe of the boat, share our pleasure. It is no doubt from our partialities in favour of Italian freedom, that we all feel dis posed to put more faith in Lord BROUGHAM'S than in Lord NORMANBY'S correspondents. And then for General GARIBALDI, certainly Lord NORMANBY had better have let him alone. He can neither change the general feeling of Europe and the whole civilised world, nor alter facts. And the notorious fact is that GARIBALDI, a self-taught man, is one of the most remarkable combinations of amiableness, firmness, and military and ad ministrative skill that perhaps ever appeared With the - heart of a child to weep tears of tender joy, as the hostage prisoners were given up by the last of the Austrians who quitted Palermo, he is yet the rigid disci plinarian who will, like our CROMWELL, " stand no nonsense," and who would shoot with his own hand a follower who mutinied against his orders, or com mitted violence and degradation. The admiration of British admirals and sailors - is not bestowed on a Captain o f cut-throats. It does appear, an d we may regret it, though who amongst us can wonder at it, that the willing agents of Neapolitan tyranny who were foolish enough to remain at Palermo are often the victims of popular vengeance,— "These miserable agents of the old Bourbon tyranny," writes a correspondent of the Morning Post, " who are popularly termed rats,' are now expiating fearfully the long series of cowardly cruelties which they wreaked on the Sicilian people. To the cry of A rat ! a rat ! ' you will see as many as five or six thousand persons furiously chasing their victim ; and each man in the crowd seems anxious to strike his own separate blow. These acts of ferocity ill become a people engaged in a straggle for the most precious of all possessions—a secure and well-founded liberty. When, in the earliest of my letters, I wrote that the dominant feeling in this population was not love of Italian in dependence, but hatred of Neapolitan tyranny, I was not at all mistaken." There is no proof whatever that GARIBALDI con nives at all this ; his own nature is above it. Our Government has positive information that he takes the strongest measures he can to prevent it. He is not the man to like the biggest villain on earth to be hunted to death by five or six thousand of his former victims. It were more creditable to him to punish the wretch by due course of law —or, if he were the tool of others who but used his base nature for their atrocious purposes, to leave him to the penalty of universal abhorrence and of his own re morse. As Lord WODEHOUSE observed, " There could be no doubt that General GARIBALDI deserved the highest credit for the general spirit of modera tion he had shown since the commencement of these transactions—and it must not be forgotten that if, in the excitement of the revolution, some outrages were committed by the people of Sicily, outrages had also been committed by the royal troops which were perfectly well known to the world, and which certainly had not been surpassed by anything done by the people of Sicily." And most truly did Lord BROUGHAM retort—" I believe there has been no cause known in the world which has met more universal acceptance than the cause of Sicily, with Gen. GARIBALDI at its head, against the tyrant of Naples and his emissaries, whether in the form of sbirri, policemen, or soldiers—and those soldiers, I firmly believe, only for a season remaining under allegiance to that King. I am told there is a constitution imposed upon Naples by a certain high authority elsewhere. That will be a complete failure, in my firm belief ; and in my entire and hearty hope and prayer it will fail entirely to save that detestable tyrant." We need hardly add that to the last prayer of his lordship we most heartily say—AMEN. Voluntaryism is the glory of Englishmen. All their greatest works are the works of Volunteers. Our unrivalled manufactures, our railroads and telegraphs, our vast commercial navy—nay, though we have an establishment, half our religious teaching also —are the work of volunteers. We are a people who do nothing so well as what we do by our own impulse. Protection was ever really alien to our nature, bonuses much more so. Untie our hands, give us a clear stage and no favour, and we ask no more, is the language of our commercial men ; and the spirit is in our artizans and workmen too. They do not relish having everything done for them—" a fair day's wages for a fair day's work," is with them the summum bonum. Duo, panem et circenses, the cry to which not distant neighbours tend, is not that of the Englishman—we trust never will be. All in keeping with our character, then, is the glorious movement which received yester day at the Crystal Palace its crowning acknowledgment of Royal and public favour. " 7he citizens their own defenders"—is the toast which should always complete that of " our Volun teer Riflemen." " Defence, not defiance," is the motto which was conspicuous yesterday. We will not be over critical, but we should rather say defence and defiance too—for if we are really de fended we defy all who may be disposed to attack us; and if there be none whom we need to defy, there are none against whom we need take defen sive precautions. " Defence, not aggression," is what our Riflemen mean ; and they mean it, be cause there are a people who can sing by thousands in our Crystal Palace, who can with the most un- feigned sincerity and cordiality appreciate our peaceful feelings when they come to see us, but who are yet so volatile and fickle—as they were even in the days of JULIUS C.ESAR—and, moreover, so fond of military glory, that we can nevzr feel sure what they will do. Left to themselves they might be merry and good tempered enough with us. But in the hands of a successful usurper who must keep his seat by diverting their thoughts from domestic despotism; who obtained it by the aid of 600,000 pretorians every now and then eager for some martial exploit; who builds a vast fleet, simply and solely to vie with us on the ocean, and to place himself in a position to intimidate us ; they are not safe neighbours, and it is indigpen sable that we should be able to defy him to do his worst. Thanks to our Volunteers, we can now defy all who may ever cogitate evil against us, and defy them in our own way. A continental standing army, in point of numbers, we never can have. Indeed, at the cost per man of our army Mr. GLADSTONE must not only be thankful for paper duties, but re impose all he has abolished, if we were to have an army like that of France. But volunteers we are by nature, and as volunteers we can do our work. Happily, nothing has occurred to mar the national celebration of the past few days—fine weather, not too hot or too cold; the absence of painful accident, and unabated enthusiasm from the day of Review to the day of the presentation of the prizes at the Crystal Palace, have rendered the entire fete of nine days all that could be wished. In some minor matters practice will make perfect ; but as a whole the Review and the meeting of the Rifle Associa tion has been all that could be wished. We need not advert at length to the yesterday's meeting. The account of it will be read with in terest all over England, and it speaks for itself. POMPEY thanked CICEItO for preserving him a capital where he could celebrate his triumph, and it is no more than justice to thank the Crystal Palace Company for providing a building and grounds where our Rifle Volunteers could receive their prizes among the thousands who desired to do hem honour on the day. Pleasant was the addi on of Swiss competitors and S wiss winners of Switzerland shares with us our in .-...„..),... _ 5,,,, , a 6_,,,.,.u,.,4.4. y, -,-A.,,,,..-„ , ,,, ) .., , g- k _., __ .. _,,,, . . ;At. : 4 -'-',".,, , , - - , :i. , 0 4 ~,,,,, . ' it 1. • • p ... , i -. —4; ' 4- 1' •it o , 4 'Jim IT '4 /.: t• , ..1., ! 1.,...... - .- ' i. - '' '‘.-- A , " . ' ."j." THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1880. THE SUN, LuivpON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 10 1860. E grounds must be provided every where. We do not believe in impossibilities. They are to be had, and must be had. The landlords of England will de termine that they shall not be wanting. There is one point on which we strongly insisted, however, many years ago, and we do so still—the importance of alluring our artizaus and operatives to spend their half-holidays in the healthy entertainment of Rifle drill and practice. We will not dwell further on it just now. But our idea is that every respec table workman ought to be enabled to form a member of this truly national guard. LATEST E 'kV S. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, JULY 10. Yesterday afternoon Prince Metternich had a long conference with M. Thouvenel, at the hotel of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, in reference to the initiative which France has resolved to take in favour of the Christians in Syria, as well as to claiming the concurrence of the Great Powers on the same subject. In consequence of this conference Count Hoyos, secretary of the Austrian Embassy at Paris, left last evening with despatches from Prince Metter nich for the Austrian Cabinet at Vienna. FRANKFORT, JULY 10. The German Sovereigns have renounced their project of holding special conferences at Baden, being of opinion that a definite understanding would be more easily brought about by confiding the negociations to their ordinary representatives at the Federal Diet. Besides Frankfort being a more central point the Plenipotentiaries accredited to the Diet are much better informed than special envoys would be. In the meantime there is a frequent exchange of views between the German Courts, with the object of concerting the instructions to be given to their representatives at Frankfort. PARIS, TUESDAY. The Moniteur of this morning contains a decree appointing Vice-Admiral Romain Desfosses to the rank of Admiral. The Moniteur also contains the appointments of a vice-admiral and six rear-admirals. TOULON, JULY 9. Yesterday two men-of-war left this port to rein force the French squadron at Naples. NAPLES, JULY 7 (via Marseilles). It is asserted that the Ministry has obtained the Royal assent to the removal of General Nunzianto and the Count Camarilla of the former reign. ROME, JULY 7. The Irish volunteers are leaving Rome for Spoleti, where a corps of 10,000 men is to be concentrated before the fortress. The total number of Irish who have arrived or are expected amounts to 400. The army is being paid at the same rate as when on service in the field. VIENNA, JULY 10. The inhabitants of the Italian provinces which have been annexed to Piedmont, on arriving at the Austrian frontiers with Sardinian passports, have not, up to the present time, been allowed to pass, as the Cabinet of Vienna, in recognising Sar dinian passports, would have recognised the legi timacy of the annexation, With the view of re establishing the facility of communication between Central Italy and Austria, without compromising any principle of rights, the Imperial Government has adopted the following measures : Every native of the Italian provinces annexed to Piedmont, provided with a regular passport issued by the former Government of these pro vinces, will receive at the Austrian frontier against the deposit of that passport a card of circulation, with which he will be freely admitted to the whole empire. CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 7. Fuad Pasha has been sent as Imperial Commis sioner to Syria, to which country the Turkish Go vernment is sending considerable reinforcements. PARIS, YULY 9. Orders have been sent to Admiral Jehenne, who is now at Naples, directing him to leave with the Donawerth and Ey lau, and to cruise before Bey rout, in order to protect the Christians. The English Government has likewise sent two men-of-war to Beyrouth. FRANCE. BOURSE, July 9.—The arrival of English Consols with a fall of per cent. has caused a backward movement in this market, and Threes, after having been done at 69f., are now at 68f. 70c. Railway Shares have also declined. The following are the last quotations : V- per per Cents ... 97 05 Credit Foncier BBO Do end month.— . 97 20! Belgian 41 97 25 3 per Cents Do. end unnth 6B 70; Roman — Bank Shares 2820 — 1 Austrian .. — 'redit Mobilier 681 25 : Spanish Threes.... 48 25 Do. Account 6Bl 25 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1357 50 .. 1360 Northern .... New ditto 875 872 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 886 25 .. 885 Geneva 382 50 .. 382 5)- Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard SICILY. The illustrious and venerable Admiral Ruggiero Settimo, who crowned in 1848 his long and pa triotic life by his active intervention in the Sicilian insurrection, and by the skilful manner in which he directed it as chief of the Executive Government, has received the following letter from Garibaldi : " Highly esteemed, and very dear Friend,— If any favour of Providence could make a man bow before it with deep gratitude, it is certainly that which has been conferred on me by the events which have lately taken place in Sicily, and in which I have been happy enough to take part. These brave people are free—joy is depicted in every countenance, and the streets resound with the cries of delight of those who have been released. And, nevertheless, a melancholy voice arises from the multitude, ' Rug giero Settimo does not appear—the father of the Sicilian people—the veteran of the independence of the country—the venerable exile is not here to share in the universal feeling of satisfaction. The hearth of the Italian patriarch is deserted and cold. Oh, come ! man of Sicily, come ! to fill up the mea sure of the joy of your people, who remained worthy of you—who suffered during 12 years all that the most atrocious tyranny could inflict, and who did not bend a knee before an inexorable ruler. Your arrival in Sicily will be the finest of our national fetes.—Yours, affectionately, " GARIBALDI." After the insurrection of 1848 had been put down in Sicily, Ruggiero Settimo retired to Malta, where he has since resided. Letters from South Australia reach to May 19. The Legislative session was opened on the 27th April. The Ministry proposed removing the 5 per cent. ad valorem duties on miscellaneous goods. The Port Adelaide harbour dues are to be abolished. Trade is represented as depressed, but the pastoral and agricultural prospects wore improving in consequence of abundant rains. Copper was firm at £lO2 per ton; Burra Burra shares at £l3O. 'The banks were buyers of bills on England at par, and sellers at 2 per cent. prezniutil AUTILILIA AND NEW ZEALA:ND, MELBOURNE, MAY 17, The Malta delivered the March mail via Marseilles in 48 days. The London dates were up to the 19th of March. The Malta reached Nepean Bay on th e 4th of May, and Hobson's Bay on the 6th. The ample telegrams were published here and in Sydney on the 47th day, but as there was some derange.• ment in the Red Sea cable we have no supplemen tary telegrams to the end of the month, as usual of late. The intelligence from Taranaki, New Zealand., is up to April 26. There had been no otherskirmishes. The insurgent natives had retired fromm, the presence of the troops, and the officer in command, Colonel Gold, was collecting his forces and preparing for further operations. The New South Wales Con tingent had arrived, and the others must have ar rived soon after, as the City of Hobart has returned to Hobart Town. The total Australian contingents will exceed my last estimate, and will amount to nearly 800 effective troops. In the meantime there is no appearance of an immediate settlement, though it is reported that the Bishop had counselled the Governor to make peace on any terms. This, I think, would be to repeat the errors of former Governments, and only invite a renewal of exorbi tant demands and fresh hostilities. The loss of the natives is ascertained to have been 150 men, with a very large proportion of chiefs—namely, 17. This dispirited the natives for a time, and probably caused their retirement from the face of our forces. Yet the chief Wirimu Kingi seems to act with consi derable judgment. He is endeavouring to connect his movement—which in its origin was purely a dis pute about the old Taranaki claims of his section of the Nga-ti-raukawa---with the Maori King move ment of the Waikattos. For this purpose he has either ceded or offered to cede (I cannot yet collect from the scattered accounts whether the cession is accepted and completed) his claim to the disputed block of land at Taranaki to the Maori King. In the meantime an assembly of the Waikattos chiefs and people deliberate on the state of the country. They are invited to " come armed." I have searched the papers in vain in order to learn by whom this assembly is summoned. The principal chief of the Waikattos is Te Whero-Whero, who has always held friendly relations with us. I have not seen him for many years, but from my recollection he must be getting old, and his influence may have given way to that of younger and less friendly chiefs. It is among the Waikattos that the scheme of a native king originated, and has found most favour. They also have been rather cautious in selling much land to the Government. They have always a desire to have Europeans among them, to live in amity with them and afford them the example of European arts ; but they have been indisposed to part with such an extent of land as they were aware would in a few years make the Pakeha the dominant race. Now, it will not be very difficult for Wirimu Kingi, who is shrewd and not to be despised as an enemy (and I speak from personal knowledge), to show that his object, though by different means, is similar to that which the Waikattos have at heart. 'lf he succeed and the Waikattos declare in his favour I have no doubt that they could muster 2,000 fighting men. We, however, are not without our Trinobantes in those parts, and the necessities of our position will compel us to take advantage of old native feuds and use one cluster of tribes against another. Nene, the chief of the Nga-pui, who joined us against Heaki in the Bay of Islands affair, and now enjoys a pension of £lOO a year for his services, must, like Te Whero-Whero, be waxing old, but his influence must still be considerable. The Waikattos and the Nga-pui cannot have forgotten their old feuds in E. Hongi's time, and the old flame may be easily fanned. The Nga-ti-awa, always our firm friends, can have no great love for the Wiakattos, and the Taupo , tribes are more likely to go against the Waikattos than with them. Thus, if the Waikattos join Kingi, it must lead to a gene ral war, and in that case we must fight and win, for no alternative would be left to us, except to be knocked on the head or be driven out of the country. This I do not think 50,000 Englishmen will submit to, even from all the 50,000 or 60,000 natives com bined. For the sake of humanity, I do hope that the insurgent natives will soon come home to the conviction that we must prevail in the end, though at the cost of great destruction of property and some loss of life. These wars are most disastrous to the natives in their consequences. A war once de clared among the tribes, they all turn out. Even the women join them as attendants, so that none are left to till the ground. Famine or the diseases of scarcity , follow, of course. There has been a disposition ex pressed on the part of many of our volunteers to offer to serve in New Zealand, and I have no doubt that if the necessity should become great a volunteer corps from Victoria could easily be col lected. Our volunteers number 2,000, and they are in a state of great efficiency, except that the home Government, though the money for the purpose was long since remitted, have not yet sent out the most efficient weapons. These volunteers have been .a_ 'nimbly trained by Uaptain Dean Pitt, inspector of musketry, who holds the- local rank of lieutenant colonel. He has devoted himself with great energy to this duty, and the men have done great justice to his able instructions. They are clothed in a neat inexpensive gray uniform, and look, as they are in fact, a fine body of well-trained troops. Of course, a large„proportion of them could not leave their families and occupations here, but I am pretty sure that if the question were put by authority, " Who will volunteer for service in New Zealand ?" a very strong contingent would be the result. The Kiandra (Snowy River) diggings have been brought almost to a standstill by the severity of the weather, and especially by the quantity of rain which has fallen ; but there cannot be any doubt of their productivenes s' and that they will become th e seat of a large population in the early spring. The whole range of the Australian Alps is undoubtedly auriferous. Gold has been found in various locali ties on the spurs of the ranges, or rather in the gullies between the spurs, down even to Gippsl land on the Bass's Straits portion of our territory: The Snowy River itself runs south through our territory, and empties itself into Bass's Straits. The escort returns show conclusively the produc tiveness of the new goldfields. The following are the monthly returns for the first four months o . 1859 and 1860 : 1859. ' ' 1860 Jaivary February March 30;029 „ April Total Increase, 1860 23,688 oz. Now, this last figure corresponds very nearly with the quantity of gold taken down to Sydney from Kiandra—namely, February, 64 oz. ; March, 8,234 oz. ; April, 15,341 oz. ; total, 23,639 oz. If the last figure be maintained as an average—l mean the return for April—the production would be very nearly 200,000 oz. a-year, and there is every reason to believe that it will greatly exceed that amount. The other New South Wales goldfields yield 280,000 ounces per annum. In Gipps-land, on the same mountain and river system, we have now many private prospecting parties out, and the As sembly of Victoria has just voted £30,000 to be ex pended in " prospecting." It may be asked, why " prospect" when there are so many goldfields in the colony unexhausted and incapable of exhaustion for centuries ? The answer is this. The old goldfields are now no longer suited to the surface-diggers, and this uneasy, restless class are continually in search of fields were they can obtain a good return fortheir independent labour without much capital being ne cessary, and thiS field for enterprise the "new rushes" .afford. At Ballarat the most profitable mining, is now carried on by companies of 'about 80 men, with costly machinery—. Some of their shafts are sunk 4621 feet,. many 300 feet. POSTAL COMMUNICATION WITH AUSTRALIA.— The New York advices, which stated that the subsidy of £75,000 far the Panaina 'route had been voted by the Syd ney L-gislature in favour of the company proposing for that amount i (which appears to be the Maritime Steam Company), are not confirmed by the present mail. It seems, however, that at the departure of the mail, May 14, Mr. Campbell had moved a vote for the Suez postal service, which was negatived on the ground that no provision h a d been made for the Panama route. This would naturally enforce such a provision, and if the New York advices left Sydney after the departure of the mail, the probability is in favour of the New York account, which may be con firmed by next arrival. In that case, the advantage of the Panama line will be made all the more manifest. '' LANDSMEN'S SCULLEBS RACE. —An exci ting scullers race, for £lO aside, came off yesterday, from Put ney to Mortlake. The competitors, both landsmen, were William Wallington, of the Victoria Rowing Club; and James Nelins, of the Prince Albert Aquatic .Club ; and betting was level, several poisons being present from the respective clubs. Wallington winning the toss, they got a way together, rowing in old-fashioned boats. They had only gone :AO yards when they fouled, and had a fresh start; they then rowed another ding .dong race for upwards o f a quarter of a mile, and fouled a second time. A third time they started, and rowed level to Craven-cottage, where elins began to lead, and was well clear to beyond the Crab tree. From here' allington giadually came up, and was just clear at Hammersmith, when Wallington, rowed away, and won easily. He trained at the Feathers, Wands worth. • WEB OF THE SPIDER A REMEDY FOR FEVER.--• In the Indian Lancet for Ist April is a communication from Dr. Donaldson, recommending the web of the common' spider as an unfailing remedy for certain -fevers. It is stated to be invaluable at times when quinine and other ante-periodics fail in effect or quantity, not only ; from its efficacy but because it can be obtained anywhere without 'trouble and without price. This reinedy,:it was Ob'seri4d, was used a'centmly kick by the poor iri ,the fens ol,tineoln shire, and' by. Sir James. 111‘Gregor in the West Indies. The doctor, ;ow uses cobweb , pills in all his.wbrst cases, and is stated to have said that he has never since he, tziel them'lost a patient from fevee—ifotei and Queries. prizes. suppressible attachment to personal and political liberty, and has preceded us, in guard ing the precious treasure from foreign aggression by the use of the rifle. We welcome them as eom- petitors in skill with the weapon which is to be the defender of our homes. We are pleased to share the honours of the week with them. And we shall at least send them home to praise the results of our year's training, and to praise st:11 more the steady hands of our skilful artisans who provided them with rifles which throw into the shade those seized by the Emperor of the FRENCIL And now the volunteering must go on, and the practice of the Volunteers must be steadily kept up. We believe it will be; every rifleman will now feel that good marksmanship is the point of honour, and will not fail to reach it if he can. Practice THE ANNEXATION OF SAVOY. Further correspondence relating to the affairs of Italy, Savoy, and Switzerland was laid before par liament last evening. The series, extending to nearly 250 pages, consists chiefly of correspondence with the various powers respecting the annexation of Savoy to France. The following dispatches will show the position in which the question rests as between the English and French Governments : LORD J. RUSSELL TO EARL COWLEY. Foreign-Office, May 15, 1860. My Lord,—After the communications which have passed with various courts of Europe on the subject of the neu tralised districts of Savoy, her Majesty's Government think the time is come to define and fix the position they mean to assume on this question. The Treaty of Vienna and the Act of Guarantee of Swit zerland of the 20th November, 1816, provide that, in case of war between neighbouring powers, certain parts of Savoy, namely, the districts of Chablais, Faucigny, and part of the GeneVois, shall be comprised within the neutrality of Swit zerland, and that no troops other than those of the Con federation shall occupy that territory so long as the war shall last. Her Majesty's Government consider that this provision was made no less in the interest of Switzerland and of Eu rope, than in that of Sardinia. The documents in their possession, the records of Geneva, and the correspondence of M. Fictet de Rochemont lately published, appear to them amply to bear out this position. It appears to them that if France and Sardinia were desirous of making a treaty by which the Sovereignty of Savoy should be transfeired to France, it was the duty of Sardinia to confer with the powers who signed the treaty of Vienna before completing the cession of territory of which she was not merely the Sovereign, but of which she held the deposit for purposes of Swiss independence and Euro pean security. It appeared to her Majesty's Government that if this was not done by Sardinia it ought to have been done by France before French troops should occupy Savoy. But if neither of these were done, it seemed clear to her Majesty's Govern ment that the defect could only be cured by the offer on the part of France of inch ample guarantees as should be an efficient substitute for the security which the provisions of Article XCII. of the Treaty of Vienna gave to Switzerland in consequence of Savoy forming part .of the dominions of the King of Sardinia. Her Majesty's Government are of opinion that an under taking by France to fulfil in time of war the obligations of Sardinia in respect to the neutralised parts of Savoy forms no such efficient substitute. Her Majesty's Government are likewise of opinion that the arrangements hitherto suggested by the Government of France form no such efficient substitute. Her Majesty's Government do not see any other efficient substitute which could be found, but one, which giving a military frontier to Switzerland, should comprise southern shores of the Lake of Geneva, and the Alpine Passes to the Valais. • To such a cession the French Government have declared they will not consent. The argument upon which this refusal is founded is the vote of the people of Faucigny, Chablais, and the Genevois. But the mode in which this vote was taken deprives it, in the eyes of her Majesty's Government, of all authority. Had the population been asked whether they would remain under the House of Savoy, or prefer to become subjects of the Emperor of the French, the answer might have been doubtful. But when the King of Sardinia had already ab solved them from their allegiance, discarded them as hic subjects, and ceded them by treaty, tbo only question which remained was between France and anarchy. No alterna tive was offered, and no real choice could take place. Her Majesty's Government omit all argument as to the propriety of a vote by universal suffrage for the purpose of confirming a treaty. It is the first instance of such a pro ceeding, and the circumstances have not been such as to encourage a repetition of it. The question remains, what is to be done ? Her Majesty's Government are not of opinion that Switzerland, even if she had the means, would have the right to resist the occupation of the neutralised parts of Savoy by the French civil and military authorities. But her Majesty's Government must decline to take any step which may confer any additional validity on the Treaty of Turin of the 24th of March. In their opinion that treaty weakens Switzerland, and diminishes one of the securities of Europe for the maintenance of Swiss neutrality. If a conference of the European powers is summoned your excellency will attend it on the part of Great Britain. But in the conference your excellency will hold no other language than that which is contained in this and my former dispatches. If the conference should not be convoked her Majesty's Government will instruct you further; and in that case you will inform me of the reasons for which the Government of France declines to summon a meeting of the great Powers, which the Federal Council of Switzerland has so constantly demanded. You will, of course, fully understand that nothing is changed in that part of the Treaty of Vienna which binds the powers who were parties to it to maintain the neutrality of Switwc.rland.—l am, &c. _ _ ( 1 - 11 1T. ,, a) J. 11U85r1.14, EARL COWLEY TO LORD J. RUSSELL (RECEIVED MAY 19). (Extract.) Paris, May 18, 1860. I have had the honour to receive your lordship's dispatch of the 15th instant, informing me of the position which her Majesty's Government mean to assume on the subject of the neutralised districts of Savoy. • This matter has not been alluded to by M. Thouvenel or myself for some time. M. TROUVENEL TO COUNT PERSIGNY.-(COMMUNICATED TO LORD 7. RUSSELL BY COUNT PERSIGNY, JUNE 22.) (Translation.) Paris, June 20, 1860. M. le Comte,--The Treaty of Turin having received its definitive sanction, and the transfer of the territories ceded by the King of Sardinia having been effected, the moment is come for the Government of the Emperor to conform to the obligation which it has taken of coming to an understanding, both with the powers who signed the General Act of Vienna and with the Swiss . Confederation, on the subject of the contingent neutralisation of a portion of Savoy. The object of this understanding, as I had the honour of remarking to you in my communication of the 10th of April last, should, according to us, consist in reconciling Article XCII. of the Act of Vienna with Article 11. of the Treaty of Turin. This reconciliation it is proposed to sanction by diplo matic] stipulation, destined to a place in the law of Eu rope. For the attainment of this object several courses are open to the powers. The question may be brought before a conference. An exchange of notes might be likewise agreed upon, if it were thought preferable, by which the government of the Emperor should assume towards the powers who guaranteed Swiss neutrality, and towards Switzerland, the obligations contracted by Sardinia. Finally, it might also be pronounced in favour of a pre liminary negotiation between France and Switzerland, the object of which should be to determine the reciprocal rights and duties resulting from the neutralisation, which would be done by re-modelling and completing the treaty signed at Turin between Sardinia and the Swiss Confederation in 1816. The government of the Emperor is ready, for its part, to choose the course which the other cabinets shall prefer,' and which shall seem to them best suited to the circumstances. I confine myself, in case they should decide in favour of a conference, to reminding them that the majority of them have already recognised the propriety of meeting at Paris, and that Sar dinia and Switzerland have established in favour of their participation in its labour, considerations the jus tice of which has been admitted by his Imperial Majesty's Government. You will read this despatch to Lord John Russell, and give him a copy of it.—Receive, &c., (Signed) TIIOUVENEL. LORD J. RUSSELL TO EARL COWLEY. Foreign Office, June 25, 1860. My Lord,—l transmit to your excellency herewith a copy of a despatch from the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Emperor of the French to his Majesty's ambassador at this court, which was delivered to me by M. de Persigny on the 22d instant. In this despatch M. Thouvenel declares that the time has arrived for France to come to an understanding with the powers of Europe, with a view to put Article XCII. of the treaty of Vienna in harmony with Article 11. of the treaty of Turin. This can be done, according to M. Thouvenel, in one of three ways : 1. By a conference of the powers who signed the treaty of Vienna; or 2. By an exchange of identic notes in which France should undertake, and Europe should acknowledge, that France was bound to Europe and to Switzerland by the same conditions by which Savoy has been hitherto held by Sardinia ; or 3. By a preliminary negociation between France and Switzerland, with a view to • determine their reciprocal rights and duties. Of these three modes her Majesty's Government prefer the first.: It is that which has been asked by Switzerland, the power most interested in this question. It is that which is most likely to lead to a frank discussion and a friendly ex planation. Her Majesty's Government accept the proposals of France that the subject of the conference should be the means of reconciling Article XCII. of the Treaty of Vienna with Article 11. of the Treaty of Turin ; that the place of the conference should be Paris ; and that Switzerland and Sar dinia should participate in its deliberations. —I am, &c., (Signed) J. RUSSELL. • M. Dupeuty, who►.on the conclusion of the cam paign in Italy, was charged to seek in the archives of Milan for letters of Napoleon 1., has arrived in Paris with a con siderable number of documents likely to prove of interest to the corumissi,n charged with the publication of the Em. peror's correspondence. He has ascertained that a volumi nous series of letters of Napoleon I. are preserved at Vienna, but the Austrian Government has hitherto de clined to communicate them, 14: ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES. PLYMOUTH, MONDAY AFTERNOON. Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle's Channel squadron, consisting of the flagship Royal Albert, 121, Captain Henry T. Lacon ; the Donegal, 101 Captain Henry Broadhead; the Aboukir; 90, Cap tain Douglas Curry ; the Greyhound, 17, Com mander Francis W. Sullivan ; the Conqueror, 101, Captain Edward S. Sotheby, C.B. ; the Trafalgar, 90, Captain Edward G. Fanshawe ; the Centurion, 80, Captain Henry G. Rogers, C. 8.; the Edgar, 91, Captain James E. Katon ; the Algiers, 91, Captain George W. D. O'Callaghan; the ME rsey, 40, Cap tain Henry Caldwell, C.B. ; and the Diadem, 32, Captain James H. Cockburn, under canvas only, with a smart breeze a little to the southward of east, hove in sight from Mount Wise at half-past 8 o'clock this morning in two lines. They then formed one line, and stood in for the port. At half-past 10 o'clock the ships wore in succession, and went away to the westward. Shortly after they came in sight more to the southward. Their funnels are up ready for use. The only ship likely to enter the Sound is the Diadem, which is said to be short of fuel. The Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe, in his steam yacht, near the Royal William Victual ling-yard, is waiting the approach of the Prince of Wales. The Hero continues inside the Break water ready for sea, and arrangements are made for the expected departure of his Royal High ness to-morrow (Tuesday) morning. Her escort, the Ariadne, will probably take the Osborne in tow. The Flying Fish has gone on to Newfoundland. PLYMOUTH, MONDAY EVENING. Sir Charles Fremantle's squadron, which arrived off the port this morning, formed two lines, rang ing about north and south, in the afternoon to re ceive the Royal yacht, which hove in sight at 7 o'clock, and was saluted by the Impregnable and other ships in Hamoaze. On rounding the west end of the Breakwater the yardarms of the Hero, St. George, Emerald, and Ariadne, in the Sound, were manned, and the three last-named and the Plymouth Citadel saluted. At half-past 8, when the Prince left the yacht to join the Hero, the Emerald and the Citadel repeated the compliment. The weather is extremely fine, and thousands of the inhabitants were assembled on the heights. DEPARTURE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES. PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY, 5 A.M. The Royal yacht, with the Prince Consort, left the Sound by the south-eastern channel at 4 15 a.m., under the customary salutes. The Hero continues in the Sound, and will not leave before 8 o'clock this morning. 8 A.M. The screw steamship Hero, 91, Captain Seymour, with his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, has left the Sound for Quebec. ART UNION OF ENGLAND: GENERAL MEETING —(THIS DAY). The first general meeting of the subscribers to the Art Union of England was held this day at the Hall of Illustration, 14, Regent-street, The Hon. Major Fitzmaurice occupied the chair. The first annual report of the president and com mittee was as follows : " In presenting their first annual report, the committee think they are justified in congratulating the subscribers upon the success which has attended the Art Union of England in its first brief season. Although only five months have elapsed since the necessary authorisation was obtained, from the Board of Trade, for the establishment of this Art Union, and the period of its operations has, there fore, been in great part postponed to the after part of the London Art-Season; still above 160 agents have been ap pointed in various parts of the country, and 1,450 subscri bers have been entered upon the lists for the current year's distribution. The appointment of many of the agents is se recent that they have had but little time to work, and the number of the subscribers sent up by them has been conse quently limited. On the other hand, some of the agents who have teen in activity from the first establishment of the Union have sent in as many as from 20 to 80 each. • A fact affording fair grounds to form a judgment as to the future operations of the association when once completely established. "Indeed, it may be observed, that so strong was the im pression on the minds of some of the friends of this Art Union of the disadvantages under which it would labour at its-inauguration, if it commenced its operation at so late a period of the year, that it was urged by them upon the • committee to consider the propriety of deferring the open ing of the subscription lists until the season 1860-6 1. , Their counsels, however, did not prevail, the committee feeling confidence in the strength of their cause—in the interests of art and the art-appreciating public, which this undertaking assumed to promote; and they trust that the result which will this day be laid before the subscribers will be held to have fully justified the course they adopted. It need hardly be remarked that next year the Art-Union. of England will no longer labour under the disadvantages which have attached to it in the first few months of its existence, having now the full season before it to work in, and its next distribution of " prizes being fixed to take place at the opening instead of the close of the London. Exhibition apaAnn of isni_fhi. subscription iist closing on tne ze h " The subscribers need hardly be reminded that a dis tinguishing feature in the plan of the Art-Union of Eng land consists in the distribution of the whole amount of the annual subscriptions, less working expenses, in prizes for the purchase of works of art publicly exhi bited during the season, no portion of the funds being set apart for the production of prints, books, statuettes, ornaments in iron work, or other works of reproduction or manufacture for presentation to sub scribers—this practice, though adopted to a considerable extent in other Art Unions, being considered by the com- , mittee to be contrary to the spirit in which such associa tions are originally established and to the intention of Parliament in legalising their proceedings, the words of the select committee of the House of Commons in their report on this subject being, ' We look upon art unions as instru ments for the encouragement of art rather than joint -stock companies for procuring to contributors particular returns for their respective shares. The art union mast remember - that its province is not to secure the accumulation of a con siderable fund in order to gratify a large number of subsori bers, but encourage and direct art as far as they may be enabled.' • It is not for the committee at this time to enter upon any lengthened arguments in support of the policy upon which this association was founded, and which they are happy to say has met with declared expressions of approval from a large num ber of the subscribers, as well as from many influential professors of the arts, and from those who record public opinion in the columns of the press. But it may be per— mitted to them to point out to how important an extent the course adopted by the Art Union of England will affect inf . • operations in the encouragement of original creative art of the country, as measured by the amount to be distributed in prizes among the members. The print and statuette publication business, being in some sort a commercial risk, is necessarily attended by a considerable amount of eats-' J3lishment expenses—insomuch that take the Art Union of London as an example, it will be found that upon a course of years an average of upwards of 30 per cent. of the gross revenue has been expended in prints and other works of reproduction and manufacture, and about 25 per cent. upon establishment expenses, leaving less than one third (in the year 1859 less than a fifth) for distribution for the purchase of original works of art. "And in another art union where the publication system is adopted, results even less satisfactory than the above as ' regards deductions from the funds for purposes other than the distribution of original works of art appear to have been, displayed over a series of years ; and so unfavourably has the process worked in the last year (1859-60) that, after several times deferring the distribution of prizes, an " in- terim" report has been published by the committee, by which it appears that the working expenses alone have amounted to above £5,300, out of a gross sum collected of £10,500, being at the rate of more than 50 per cent. " The committee advert to these facts not with a view of drawing invidious comparisons between themselves and, others labouring in the cause of art, but simply in snpp #o . of the principl e o f ac ti on w ith w hi c h t h ey set ont. in,their undertaking, and in order to show h ow th e strict adhesi* to it will materially affect the economy;of this institution; in which, avoiding all speculative ventures, they will act simply as trustees between the , subscribers and the art labourers of the country. By the statement of accounts it appears 'Witt the total amount of subscriptions received for the season now closing al to . the has been £764 18s. 6d. and that there has been expendel, (including the reserve fund of five per ;cent.) the sum £348 13s. 3d., leaving a balance of £416 ss. 3d. available for distribution in prizes. the lun d e e x r p ta en ki s n es gs in of va th ri e ab k li n first "Considering starting ofa d i , n t c h id e e n ee t mmittee trust that the outlay in the present case not will...be consi dered excessive. They, however, are so,_co nv inced which the ex that it is much in advance of the propor ti on sb su b sequent penditure will bear to the income in 7110 (l of years, that they have resolved to distribute only X 238 las, 3d . the account ulti mately next year, leaving p esent season' mately chargeable to the yea r -r 1861, 11' To this end. 200 tickets for the distributed re presenting is amount £llO, will this day beto the first 200 names of subscribers wh o shall not rec • eive prises on the Present occasion; the a mount Being k 861, as on account of charged against the income of the year 1 tickets •_ preliminary ex- These deferre d will not be considered in penses. to incapac i tate the the light of prise- .recipient from parti cipating. 1n t h e quinq uennial di stribution of the Special , be appropriated Prise Fund, to , amongst subscribers who have not receivea any prise during the five preceding years. conclusion, the committee would respectfully call upon the subscribers and the public generally to give their cordial support to the future operations of a society so eminently calculated to promote the encouragement of the arts of design amongst all classes of the community, and to give legitimate encouragement to native art to an extent never before attempted by any public movement," The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, congratulated the meeting on the success which had attended their first year's operations. He thought that it augured a bright future for the institution, which he had no doubt in a few years would become one of the most extensively patronised arts unions in the kingdom. They had adopted a most economic system of management, whereby the great bulk of the subscriptions would be ex pended in prizes for distribution amongst the sub% scribers, and not swallowed up in incidental or unnecessary expense. (Cheers.) The report entered very fully into their affa;rs—past and for the future—that he would' not detain them by any further remarks, particularly as the most interest ing part of the day's proceedings was the drawing for the prizes. (Cheers.) The motion for the adoption of the report was carried unanimously, and the drawing for the prizes was then proceeded with.