The Sun. — London, England, 1859-07-05 00:00:00

ON CE A NV EE K. No. L, price 3d. London : Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie-street. . ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. "Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING will be presented Shakspeare's historical play of KING HENRY V. Kin Henry V., Mr. C. Sean; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean. After which, IF THE CAP Firs. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lame, Mr. J. B. Buckatone. THIS ETENING the performances will commence with new Comedy, entitled THE CONTESTED ELECTION, in which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear, After which, MY MOTHER'S MAID. To conclude with THE WATER WITCHES. Commence at 7. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Chas Selby, Billington ; Misses Keeley, Arden, and Laidlaw. and Hrs. Billington. Followed by THE HOUSE ? or, THE HOME ? Mr. A. Wigan, C, Selby, Billington ; Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Mi ss IL Simms. Miss Laidlaw. Followed by THE FIRST NIGHT. Mr. Alfred Wigan, Mr. Billington, Miss M. Keeley. After which, THE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Messrs. C. Selby and Moreland ; Misses Woolgar and R. Kelly. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past six--Commence at seven. Box Moe open from 10 to 5 —no charge for booking. No fees to servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with THE SPITALFIELDS' WEAVER. Mr. J. Rogers. After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses Swanborough. Oliver, and Lavine. To conclude with KENILWORTH. Commence at 7 o'clock. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE—This Evening LOUIS XL Messrs. Hermann Vezin, B. Potter, C. Calvert, Mrs. C. Calvert. To conclude with THE MASKED MOTHER. C A NTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Weatminater-road.—Open at Seven. EVERY EVENING during the week will appear THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, Oonsisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz, Jules, Juliette, and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and LIGHT years. The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios evct written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawnforth enthu idiotic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France and Belgium. They wl4 ill perform EVERY EVENING, at NINE and ZLEVo'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER:SmI OFFICE, JULY 5. THEILMONETEB., IN THE SHADE. 77 —highest since noon yesterday. 62--Inwest this morning and during the night. 72_—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30 . 40—rising fast. WIND, North Westerly; rather fresh, with fine cloudy weather and sunshine. It was very sultry last evening, the thermometer being up to 74 at sunset. THE SUN. TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1859. Our prediction has been fulfilled—or rather it should be said perhaps more correctly, our selection has been adopted by the head of her MAJESTY'S Government. Immediately Mr. COBDEN'S refusal of the post set apart for his acceptance became known on Saturday, we pointed out in our impres sion of that evening, the man who according to our opinion ought most appropriately and fittingly to be nominated at once to the seat thus left vacant at the council board of the Coalition Cabinet. Our remarks though brief were so explicit in themselves that we cannot more distinctly indicate our senti ments at this moment in the matter than by quoting verbatim et literatim, without any alteration what ever, the precise words used by ourselves on Satur day evening, when referring to the last and crown ing appointment requisite to complete the newly organised Administration. Having commented at some length upon the indisputably pure and lofty civism which had manifestly prompted the refusal by the hon. member for Rochdale of the triple honours of a seat in the Cabinet, the Presidency of the Board of Trade, and the right honnourable distinction of an enrolment among the ranks of the Privy Councillors of the SOVEREIGN—we added these words at the close of our second leading article on Saturday : "There remains, however, for the Premier now to decide, as speedily as may be, the question—Who shall be nominated to the post in the Administra tration still left vacant by the self-abnegation of the Great Free Trade Leader of the political school of Manchester. And here we cannot but recall to mind one name strangely enough passed over alto gether in the formation of this singular Coalition Government. Who could more appropriately be inducted to the post of the Presidency of the Board of Trade, or to that of the Poor Law Board (supposing the latter to be vacated by Mr. GIBSON'S acceptance of the former), than the eminent pre cursor in the House of Commons of the great apostle of Free Trade principles, the Right Hon. CHARLES PELHAM VILLIERS—(in age, two years Mr. COBDEN'S senior—six or eight in Parlia mentary experience)—who, we ask, could more fittingly be inducted to the vacant seat than the Right Hon. CHARLES PELHANI VILLIERS, for now ♦ery nearly one quarter of a century the distin guished Liberal representative of Wolverhamp ton ?" Our selection has been now, two or three days afterwards, adopted—the vacant seat in the Cabinet having been judiciously awarded by Lord PAL MERSTON to the right hon. gentleman the member for Wolverhampton. The representative of Ashton under-Lyne having exchanged the Presidency of the Poor Law Board for that of the Board of Trade —the former office (thus vacated in its turn) has been offered to, and accepted by, the very man we ourselves at once specified as the right claimant for the unoccupied seat in the Cabinet. Mr. VILLIERS thus becomes, at last, a Cabinet Minister by an act, as it were of poetical justice. The seat in the councils of the nation, declined from un impeachable motives by the member for Rochdale , has been awarded eventually to th e member for Wolverhampton. It is only, however, when fifty seven years of age that the Right Hon. CHARLES PELHAM VILLIERS obtains the dignity of a Cabinet Minister. Tardily though the honour has come to him—it has come to him at length, nevertheless. It is between six and seven years since Mr. 'VIL LIERS first kissed hands as a Privy Councillor, upon the occasion of his nomination in the last Coalition, in the December of 1852, to the post of Judge- Advocate-General ! A post which the right hon. gentleman continued to occupy uninterruptedly throughout that and the succeeding Administra tion, namely, during no less than five years and a quarter—resigning office in that capacity only when Lord PALMERSTON, in the March of last year, was abruptly expelled from power as the chief of her MAJESTY'S Government. However slowly, however reluctantly, however ungraciously, the great public services of Mr. VILLIERS have at length been recognised. The ultra-liberal, ultra reforming champion of Free Trade Princi ples in the House of Commons—the people's representative whose name will long be honourably borne in remembrance in our Parlia mentary history as that of the man whose annual motion, years and years before the abolition of the obnoxious Corn-laws in ' 845.1846, ventilated the doctrines of Free Trade betimes within the walls of the Legislature—the worthy disciple of ADAM SMlTH—the not unworthy successor of WILLIAM HIISKISSON—the efficient precursor of RICHARD COBDEN—the energetic forerunner of -N c e 4 Aita ) NIF 4111b0Q1 0* bR oir .*,,v62,* PEEL, " the great Parliamentary middleman"- -CHARLES VILLIERS, long overlooked as one of the foremost among the principal authors of the Free Trade system, has at last (not, however, as we have seen, until he is fifty-nine years of age) assumed the high distinc tion he has long since so signally merited. He is no longer grudgingly admitted into the outer circle—among the administrators " Not in the Cabinet." He is one of the sacred number of the Sixteen. And the particular department over w hi c h Mr. VILLIERS has now been placed most sagaciously by the Premier, is, among all the vari ous departments of the public service, perhaps the very one for the discharge of the duties of which the right honourable gentleman is most peculiarly and happily qualified. As one of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the operation of the Poor-laws, Mr. VILLIERS is surely " the right man in the right place," when installed, as we now rejoice to see him installed, as President of thelPoor-law Board in this new Coalition Government. It cannot be forgotten—we at any rate, for one, have not by any means forgotten—how entirely the great services done to the cause of Free Trade by CHARLES VILLIERS were contemned and posi tively ignored in 1845-1846 by almost universal consent. When everyone else almost who had striven in any way to advance those beneficent principles received the utmost possible degree of exaggerated glorification CHARLES VILLIERS, who had fought the good fight for years and years previously in the House of Commons, was abso lutely, with the majority, lost sight of altogether. Precisely the same ungrateful treatment was the recompense awarded simultaneously to another great but overlooked champion of Free Trade, General (then Colonel) PEYRONNET THOMPSON, the gifted author of the witty Corn Law Catechism, originally published in the pages of the Westmin ster Review. Nothing, absolutely nothing, was given—even empty praise—at the time of the triumph of Free Trade Principles, either to PEYRONNET THOMPSON or to CHARLES VIL LIERS in recognition of their resplendent ser vices in the cause of the advancement of those principles, during the period when the advocates of them might be counted almost on one's fingers ! Yet at the very same time Sir ROBERT PEEL was allowed, as he nobly deserved to be, Sir ROBERT was allowed by general acclamation — (simply because of his magnanimous recognition of the truth at the eleventh hour)—to cap the climax of his enviable popularity and immense reputation ! Mr. COBDEN receiving from that great statesman's generosity not merely the lion's share, but actually the whole of the glory of the triumph, just won, as Sir ROBERT said, by the hon. gentleman's " unadorned eloquence." Mr. COBDEN got more even than this—he received, in fact, all but " a plum," in truth exactly £70,000 as a national testimonial. Mr. WILSON fingerGd in his turn a minor testimonial to the tune of £lO,OOO sterling. And so on with some of the others. But CHARLES VILLIERS' reward was—Nothing. PEYRONNET THO3IPSON'S reward was—Nothing. Precisely, in the same way—the Times, which had been dead against Free Trade during all the years throughout which the principles of Free Trade had been earnestly, strenuously, and pi:eseveringly advo cated by The Sun—our contemporary, the Times, because it recognised the truth at; last, and at the eleventh hour declared the Leagu e' to be " a great fact," monopolised the credit to which it had no title whatever, namely, that of doing yeoman's service to the cause in , N hat WILLIAM WYNDHAM dubbed nearly a century since, the fourth estate And now, the Tin te s, whose silence in Mr. VILLIERS' regard in 184:5-;1846 helped to ignore his really great services in t he advancement of Free Trade principles—the Time's again is con verted at the eleventh hour, or rather it should be said now actually at the twelfth--the Times is induced to acknowledge Mr. VILLIERS' claims to reward—only, however, when M;r_ VILLIERS has been rewarded IVe, at any rate, Lave not waited for any such signal for this particu tar recognition. We, at any rate, have all along a ppreciated the merits, the career, the services of the right. hon. gentleman the member for Wolvo,rhampton, now one of the Sixteen Ministers of thea Crown, under the revived title of the Coalition Gc rvernment. What is this extraordinary stateg lent in regard to the electioneering compromise down at War minster ? It is surely scarcely era dible that any Liberal nobleman in the land can h ave authorised proceedings so outrageously unconst: itutional ! Yet according to the explicit statemela ± contained in the last number of our provincial c ontemporary, the _Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette, •we are to be lieve that the Marquis of LANSDOV NE tolerated acts in no way in accordance with his most honour able reputation. According to that local newspaper the inquiries recently instituted in Terence to the late Election Riot at Caine were preme A.urely brought to a close by a compromise, appende d to the record of which we find in the journal aforesaid this astounding and really scarcely c , )receivable an nouncement,—" Lord SHELBURNE Ind his agent at Bowood," says the the reporter c f the Devizes Gazette "had been subpoenaed for ti i e defence ; and , had the case proceeded, it has been 1 publicly stated that it would have been proved that on the morning of the nomination 120 labouring men, employed upon Lord LANSDOWNE'S estates were summoned to Bowood, where they were regaled , A ri ith strong beer, put into companies of twenty, ord( •ed to go into Caine in different directions, so a 5 not to appear coming from Bowood, and having Tseen Mr. LOWE and his friends safe in the Town-h 11, to take pos session of the front of the building :and not let any body go in, which instructions, it is stated, they carried out, as far as they could ; zas it was only by great efforts on the part of se' r eral voters not belonging to Mr. LowE's party, t hat they were able to effect an entrance into the I i all—that after the nomination, having accompan, 7 4 Mr. LOWE back to his quarters, they were ag •ain refreshed, and a large number of the, stroz igest of them were selected, and ordered to come again on the morrow." Nor is th is all: the reporter adds, " The object of subpoenaing Lord SHE LBUR NE was to prove frori t his own lips his kn ow l e d ge o f t h e a bove arrangeint 3nt, he having been present at the assemblage of t he men in the court-yard hermore, "It at Bowood." And furt having got wind that it was intended to bring these facts and others of an intimu lating nature before the public had, it is said, consi, lerable influ ence in bringing about the comproin'll ,e, and of thus setting at liberty the whole of the defendants." Are we to accept all this as proven, or as admitted ? Will Lord SHELBURNE remain silo?, t under the direct, and Lord LANSDOWNE un df r :the indirect , imputation ? Will the " agent at Ro l vood" breathe not a syllable in rejoinder ? -e are " paus ing for a reply," we are driven irrel Asti ':aly to reflect upon the sufficiently remarkable .c oim lidenoe that Mr. LowE's electioneering history fabou LO.s so oddly with these unpleasant kind of runic.= s and re miniscences. " 'Tis passing strf range !" Whether the locality be Calne or Kidder minster # " it's all one for that !" There are brick-b ats flyinvg—hcads broken—(once it happened, by t he A ay, tc , be the right hon. gentleman's own !)___ them are . riote THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 5, 1859, ,AR, The Queen received at Buckingham Palace yesterday afternoon an address cn the throne from the Convccation of the Clergy. The Archbishop of Canterbury, attended by his officers, and with the members of the Upper House in their convo cation habits, arrived Ft Buckingham Palace at 10 minutes before three o'clock. :Es Grace was accompanied by the Prolocutor and the menbers of the Lower House of Convo cation. The officers and members of the Upper House present were, the Vicar-General, Dr. Travers Twiss ; the Registrar, Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. ; the Apparitor-General, Felix Knyvett, Esq. ; the lishop of London, and the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The members of the Lower House of Convocation present were, the Dean of Brisbl, Prolocutor; Deans—Westminster, Worcester, Norwich, Wells ; Archdeacons Bickersteth, Hale, Tattam, Bentirok ; Proctors for Chapters—Rev. R. Hervey, Gloucester; Rev. Chancellor Morgan, Llan daff ; Hon. and Rev, S. Waldegrave, Salisbury. Proctors for the Clergy—Mr. Riddell, Canterbury ; Mr. Randolph, Winchester ; Mr. Frmcis Cobb, Actuary. The Queen was conducted by the great officers of State to the throne. The Prince Consort was on her Majesty's left, and the Prince of Wales was on the Queen's right. Sir G. C. Lewis, S3cretary of State for the Home Depart ment, attended her Majesty. Viscountess Jocel:n, Lady in Waiting, and the officers of the royal househdd, occupied their usual stations near the Sovereign. Her Majesty's Hoi. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms lined the Throne-room, under command of the Lieutenant. The members of tle Convocation were introduced from the Green Drawing-roou to the presence of the Queen. The Archbishop if Canterbury, attended by his officers, and the Upper Howe following, advanced to her Majesty's right. The Prolocutor and members of the Lower House stood on the Queen's left. His Grace read and delivered the address to her Majesty. The Queen retuned the following most gracious answer : " I receive with sincere satisfaction the renewed assur ance of your loyal and affectionate attachment to my throne and person. " I heartily concur in your feelings of gratitude to Al mighty God for the restoration of tranquillity to my Indian dominions; and it is my earnest desire that the govern ment of that country should be conducted in the spirit of mildness and charity which is the distinguishing attribute of our holy religion. " I rely upon the Christian sentiments of my subjects for supporting the pacific policy which has consistently guided my councils. "It will ever be my anxious wish that all measures may be adopted which have for their object the diffusion of true religion among all classes of my people, and which may tend to render the national church an efficient instrument for promoting the spiritual welfare of the increasing popu lation of this realm." The Archbishop of Canterbury received the answer from her Majesty, and, kneeling, had the honour of kissing hands. The Prolocutor, the Dean of Bristol, knelt before the Queen, and had honour of kissing her Majesty's hand. The Archbishop, and the members of both houses, then withdrew. The court was attended by the officers of the household. The Yeomen of the Guard lined the Grand Hall, under the command of Capt. Morton Herbert, the Exon in Waiting. A guard of honour of the Grenadier Guards, with the band of the regiment, was on duty in front of the grand entrance. river. owing telegram : Baron Henry de Triqueti had the honour of submitting to the inspection of the Queen and the Prince Consort two statuettes in carved ivory. The Prince Consort, attended by Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge, visited the South Kensington Museum yesterday morning. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Oporto, attended by Captain Keppel and Vicomte de Campanhaa, visited the United Service Institution, in "Whitehall-yard. LATEST NEWS. THE WAR IN ITALY. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : VALLEGGIO, JULY 4. The French army, increased by Prince Napoleon's I corps, will operate against Verona, whilst part of the Sardinian army begins the siege of Pesehiera. The Emperor having. sent back the wounded Aus• trian officers without exchange, and having re quested an exchange of prisoners, an Austrian officer has arrived with the announcement that the Emperor of Austria will also send back without exchange the wounded prisoners of the allies, and that his Majesty is equally disposed for an exchange of other prisoners. TURIN, JULY 4. On the 29th ult. the Sardinian army more closely invested the exterior fortifications of Peschiera, situated on the right bank of the Mincio. Our army crossed the river on the 30th for the purpose of investing Peschiera also on the left bank of the TRIESTE, JULY 5. Advices have been received from Corfu to the 28th ult. The screw liner Marlborough, four sailing ships of the liue, and one aviso steamer, originally bound for Athens, on receipt of important despatches last week, took another direction. • The frigate Euryalus, having on board Prince Alfred, has also been ordered to proceed on its way with all speed. The Russian steam service between Odessa and Trieste has been discontinued. VIENNA, JULY 4. The Austrian Correspondence contains the fo' FIUME, JULY 4. It is asserted that the French, amounting to 10,000, have disembarked at Lussienpiccolo. The bridge to Cherso has been destroyed. TURIN, Ivry 4 The Monitore di Bologna of the 30th ult. pub lishes a letter of Count Cavour, addressed to the Junta of Bologna. He says,— " The Government of the King cannot accept the union of the Romagna with Piedmont, but will direct the Roman forces to concur for the purpose of obtaining Italian independence." The official Piedmontese Gazette announces that the Chevalier d'Azeglio has been appointed General and Commissioner Extraordinary, purely military, for the Roman States. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, AMY 4 In to-day's extraordinary sitting of the Federal Diet Prussia brought in new and further proposals respecting the establishment, extension, and com mand•in-chief of the corps of observation on the Rhine, which has already been resolved upon. M. d'Usedom left immediately afterwards for Berlin. The Moniteur of yesterday (the 4th) publishes the reports of the commanders of the several corps d'arinee engaged in the battle of Solferino. They are all addressed to the Emperor, and give in minute detail the movements of each corps during the day ; they do not add any fact of importance to the official report of the whole battle, published by the French Government on the previous day. 'Marshal Regnaud de St. Jean d'An gely, Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Guard, especially notices the effective service done by the artillery of his corps ; he says, " The Artillery of the Guard distinguished itself by the precision of its fire and the successive ;choice of its positions. Whenever it had to encounter the enemies bat teries, it very soon silenced them." The losses sus tained by the Guard are not stated in the report. Marshal Baraguay D'Hilliers, Commander of the Ist Corps, after describing its successes, adds that " they were not obtained without serious loss." Two Generals, Ladmirault and Dieu, were wounded " dangerously," and General Forey slightly ; four Colonel—Taxis, Brincourt, Pinard, and Barry, are wounded ; also four Lieutenant-Colonels Valet, Moire, Hemar, and Sevier. A Lieutenant-Colonel, Ducoin, and four chefs de bataillon—Kleber, Saint- Paer, Angenin, and Guillaume, are killed. Ten chefs de bataillon are wounded. The total number of officers killed and wounded in the Ist Corps is 234 ; of privates about 4,000. Marshal M'Mahon describes the loss of the 2d Corps as "unfortunately very heavy ; it could not be otherwise." General Auger, Commander of the Artillery of the Corps, had his arm torn off at the beginning of the engagearient by a cannon ball : three Colonels, Douay, Laure, and Herment, are killed; the total of officers killed is 19; wounded, 95; privates killed, 192; wounded, 1,266 missing 300. The 3d corps -had 3 officers killed and 12 wounded; privates killed and wounded, 250. The 4th corps,. under Marshal Niel, lost 46 officers and 586 :privates killed ; 207 o fficers and 3,417 privates wounded ; 7 officers and 541 men aro returned as missing. The report of the Sar dinian army states that all the four divisions of which it is composed were engage d, and that its loss is 49 officers killed and 167 w ounded, 642 privates killed an.d 3,405 woun ded, 1,258 missing. In one division three colonels were killed, and sonic of the regiments lost one-fourth of their whole number. A letter from Marseilles of July 2, says is with extreme regret that I have to call your at tention to the misconduct of the authorities in Marseilles and in Paris towards certain Austrian officers, prisoners of war. Nineteen Austrian offi cers, taken prisoners at the battle of Magenta, gen tlemen by education, feelings, and position, and whose bravery on the field of battle won the un grudging a dmiration of their opponents, were brought here nearly a fortnight ago, in the mer chant steamer Ville de Lyons. Three of their num ber were allowed to leave for some town in the in terior a few days back, but the remaining 16 are still kept close prisonurs on board the steamers under the most stringent regulations and offensive conditions imaginable. The Ville de Lyons is moored in the loasin of the Joliette, the waters of which are so charged with putrescible substances as to be the colour of port wine, and thicker than the sewage of the Thames in its foulest state. The stench which arises from the surface of the basin is the vilest that ever offended the nostrils of man, proceeding from the admixture of city drain age with sea water, and which chemists call, I believe, " sulphuretted. hydrogen." The Medi terranean being a tideless sea, the filth stag nates and intensifies in the basin, from which there is no proper outlet, until it fills the air with the seeds of nan sea and disease. Yet in the midst of this polluted atmosphere the Austrian prisoners are kept waiting until it may please the French. Minister—whether of War or of the Interior I know not—to narle the town where they are to reside. Surely so -simple a matter does not require a fort night to settle. The Austrian officers have not yet 'oeen allowed their parole, and, seeing the delay ta,', K en by the Minister in giving the permission, 'they applied to th.eGeneral in command atMarseilles for leave to walk on shore two hours a day at any period he might appoint, in order that they might breathe a purer air, and take the exercise necessary for the preservation of their health. But the General has not yet condescended to favour them with t - L reply—an unmannered act which will excite as m ach indignation in France as in the rest there are abundant visible and audible evidences of confusion, disgust, and indignation. While other Parliamentary notabilities may be, and sometimes are, preceded by a shower of bouquets while they walk the streets of their happy boroughs at election time, and receive the plaudits of their constituents —Mr. LowE drags after him an uncomfortable trail of brickbats and potsherds. It is simply a coincidence, of course—but still it is curious enough even as a coincidence ! We can only hope that the beer down at Bowood was of the " right tap" —and not the bludgeons ! The rigour of battle has been softened since the grand day of the 24th June ; for now we find that the Emperor NAPOLEON, wishing to mitigate the wounds of war, has been actuated by a generous humanity, and has sent back the wounded Austrian officers without exchange. In this noble act of sympathy for the sufferings of his fellow-men, he has been cordially met by the youn g Emperor of AUSTRIA who, acting on the most chivalrous benignity has sent back the French wounded officers who have fallen into his hands. He has also consented to an exchange of prisoners, so that we hope this is but the beginning of a nobler era in the perils of war than has yet been manifested on either side. If the Austrians were wise, even now, they might save the lives of thousands—nay, tens thousands—by yielding to necessity with a good grace, instead of struggling against fate with an obstinacy which must entail more disgrace, and become eventually more disastrous. But it is idle to advise, for men in:thepresent perplexity of the Emperor FRANCIS JOSEPH, misled by his over experienced yet presumptuous generals, will tempt his fate, and fight on until the hour of destiny has struck his doom! We can really pity a young Prince so fallen from his high estate yet struggling against fate. He has committed himself too much and has accomplished too little. Perhaps his Generals may look upon him in the light of an incumbrance, whose orders they are bound to obey, even against their own better judgment. It is a maxim with us that " the King can do no, wrong"—but with despotic monarchs the presumption to doubt the infalli bility of Sovereign wisdom were " flat blasphemy !' But time and circumstance laugh at these grave assumptions, just as the flowing tide urged on its irrespective wave regardless of the behest of CANUTE. And so it was, and so it ever will be, for kings are but men after all, and none the better for their ill abused dignity. We expect in a few days that the Emperor NAPOLEON will give a good account of the Aus trians at Verona, while the King of SARDINIA is pressing hard the siege of Pescheira. We now hear that a French force of 10,000 men have landed at Lussienpiccolo, on the coast of Istria, in the vicinity of Pola, and the bridge to Cherso has been destroyed. If the French mean to attack Pola, which contains the remnant of the Austrian Navy—a place very strong by nature, but rendered doubly strong by art, then we may feel bound to watch the progress of events with more solicitude than usual, for Pola is another Malta in the Adriatic, and might become more formidable than pleasant in the hands of a strong naval Power. L01?D J. RUSSELL AND THE BALLOT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. DEAR SlR,—Allow me to thank you for the very able article in Friday evening's Sun, on the recent correspondence between Mr. Samuel Morley and Mr. George Russell. I confess to being surprised that Lord J. Russell did not personally reply to such an influential con stituent as Mr. Morley, and I entertain doubts whether Mr. George Russell has correctly repre sented the opinions of Lord J. Russell in his reply to Mr. Morley. Mr. Russell's reply is certainly inconsistent with Lord John's latest expression of his views on the question. LORD JOHN RUSSELL. MR. GEO. RUSSELL. " I confess I have modified " Lord John Russell con my opinion this far, that Ido tinues to be of opinion that not think if this mode of vot- the evils to which, in his ino- were adopted, that it would view, the Ballot would give lead to those injurious conse- rise, would prove greater quences which I formerly an- than those which at present ticipated." Speech in the exist."--Letter to Mr. S. Mouse of Commons, Api i/12, Morley, June 24, 1859. 1859. The letter is obviously wrong. Lord John does not continue in the same opinion, because he him self in April said he did not hold the opinion attri buted to him in June by his secretary. If the letter be a correct statement of his present opinion, he does not continue of any opinion, but has gone back to that view which in April he abandoned. The letter, contrasted with the speech, gives rise to various questions. • Does Lord John know what his opinion on the Ballot really is? Was Mr. Russell's reply to Mr. Morley a correct expression of the noble lord's present views on the Ballot ? • Was the modification of Lord John's views in April a trap for votes, like his celebrated promise to reconsider the Ballot question at the election of 1857 ? Perhaps Mr. Russell will reply to these ques tions.—Yours faithfully, A CITY ELECTOR Guildhall•chambers, E.C., July 4, 1859. STEAM VESSELS.—A return moved for by Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., and ordered to be printed on the 10th of June, shows that on cr before the Ist of January last, there were 1,854 steam vessels registered in the United Kingdom, with a tonnage (gross) of 682,433. The Echo de l'Est of Nancy states that the corps d'armee of Marshal Pelissier, wLich is destined to observe the frontier of the Rhine, is to be completely formed and established in its cantonments by the 15th of this month. It is to consist of 160,000 infantry, 12,000 cavalry, and 400 cannon. THE COURT OF PROBATE.—A Government Bill enables the Cemmissioner of Works to acquire a site for the purposes of the Court of Probate and other courts and offices. The property to be dealt with includes offices and buildings in Great Knightrider -street, and the College of Advocates and Doctors of Laws. TIIE TEA TRADE, July 4.—The deliveries in Lon don estimates for the week were 845,9941 b., which is an in crease of 54,3491 b. compared with the previous statement. GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—Her Majesty's Emi gration Commissioners chartered two vessels yesterday after noon, the 4th inst.—viz., the Bermondsey, 507 tons, to sail from Southampton for Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, at £l3 3s. 6d. per statute adult, and the John and Lucy, 1,236 tons, to sail from Liverpool for Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, at £ll 7s. 3d. per statute adult; the former vesgel to be ready for the reception of passengers on such day as the Commissioners may appoint between the 18th and 25th of August, and the latter any day between the 22d and 29th of August. Each ship must be supplied with 50 fathoms of chain cable in addition to the quantity re quired for the Australian voyage. The DOVER ELECTION PETITION.—The arrange ments for the immediate prosecution of the petition against the return of Sir H. J. Leeke, K.C.8., and K.H., and Mr. W. Nicol are now nearly completed. Some of the first coun sel are now engaged, and, we understand, the revelations likely to come to light, involving the honour and position of several fellow townsmen, will be of an astonishing nature. The whole machinery made use of in corrupting the voters and in securing votes will be brought to the light of day, and it is not unlikely that more than one will be made the sub ject for prosecution, and not a few will be disfranchised. Sir James Graham's committee of inquiry will, in all pro bability, come off after the petition.—Dover Chronicle. TREMENDOUS STORM AT CHATHAM.—The neigh bourhood of Chatham and Rochester was visited at an early hour on Sunday morning by one of the most tremendous storms of lightning and rain ever experienced, which lasted upwards Of an hour, and from its fury more resembled the typhoons of tropical climates than anything previously witnessed in this country. For about an hour before the storm commenced the heavens were brilliantly lighted up, almost without intermission, with the most vivid flashes of sheet lightning, which followed each other in rapid succession, occasionally accompanied by peals of thunder, the wind at the time being easterly. Shortly after 12 o'clock the rain began to fall in torrents, coming down literally in sheets of water, the flashes of lightning being incessant. Many of the streets and nearly the whole of the lower parts of Chatham and Rochester were soon flooded, and in places were rendered altogether impassable. In low situations the celiars and lower parts of the houses became filled with water, which, as the rain continued to descend, kept on increasing. At Melville (naval) Hospital a considerable portion of the establishment was filled with till nearly halfTpast one yester water. The agriculturists of the iwighbourhood will suffer immense loss, in consequence of the wheat having been beaten down. After raging day morning the storm abated, and the remainder of the day was beautifully fine, with intense heat. MR. BENEDICT'S CONCERTS. Thelast of these concerts took place yesterday afternoon, in St. James's Hall, before a brilliant and fashionable assem bly. Renowned as Mr. Benedict has been during a long series of years for organising programmes of unprecedented interest, he probably never offered to his numerous aristo cratic patrons a more splendid musical treat than that of yesterday. There was an efficient orchestra, directed by Mr. Benedict himself, one of the most musician-like of con ductors, whose labour was shared in the lighter vocal pieces (",the pretty Italian songs," as learned old Sebastian Bach would have called them) by Signor Arditi, and in the piano forte aceompaniments by Mr. Lindsay Sloper. The orches tral prelude to the concert was Weber's overture to " Der Freischutz," and the first air was " Madamina," from "Don Giovanni," sung with care by Sig. Marini. M. Engel then gave a specimen of his talent on the harmonium, choosing for his theme the serenade from the same inimitable opera, and exhibiting the capabilities of the instrument to eminent advantage. To this succeeded a very pretty song by Mr. Benedict, entitled " The Troubadour's Serenade," which Herr Reichardt did his utmost to make effective. Next came Hummel's " Rondo Brilliant in B flat" (on a Russian theme), for pianoforte and orchestra, one of the capital works of its composer, and the difficulties of which are insurmountable by performers, however expert, who have not diligently applied themselves to the genuine school of pianoforte playing—from Bach, Mozart, and Dussek, to Hummel himself, as a professor of the instrument and a master of its legitimate resources second to none. At Mr. Benedict's first concert no one can have forgotten the effect produced by Herr Leopold de Meyer (pianist to his Majesty the Emperor of Austria) in one of his own brilliant solos. So flattering, indeed, was the recep tion accorded to the distinguished " virtuoso," that it was natural Mr. Benedict should secure his services for the next occasion. M. de Meyer plays with, rather than plays on, the piano, so marvellous is his facility; and the charm attached to his performances is greatly enhanced by the fact that his mechanical dexterity and power of hand are united with a touch which, in subdued passages, and in the execution of graceful ornament and " floriture," has never been excelled. This time M. de Meyer did not play a solo, but joined Miss Arabella Goddard in a duet of his own composition, for two pianofortes, founded upon themes from the " Trevatore." A more showy production of its kind was never listened to. After this remarkable display came the Scotch ballad a A nn i e L aur ie," by Mademoiselle Vaneri, an English singer with an Italian name, for an introduction to whom the musical public is indebted to that indefatigable artist finder, Mr. E. T. Smith. We have rarely had to notice a musical entertainment on a vast scale—a "monster concert" in the fullest accepta tioia of the term—in which there was so little to condemn as trivial and superfluous, so much to eulogise as refined and excellent. A speech lately delivered by M. de Kant, Presi dent of the Agricultural Society of Provins, contains some curious information with respect to the production of wheat in France. Forty years since there were only 4,600,000 hectares of land under wheat in France, and the average pi oduce did not exceed 11 hectolitres the acre. At present there are 100,000,000 hectolitres of wheat raised and the average produce is 15 hectolitres the hectare. Within the last 40 years, consequently the production of wheat has nearly doubled in France. Now, as within the same period the population of France increased only by ono-fifth, it is easy to calculate how much the condition of each individual has been improved by the addition made to his food. Ano ther consequence is, that France grows nearly sufficient wheat for her own use without having recourse to a foreign supply. It is expected that when Algeria becomes sufficiently colonised, France, instead of being an importer of wheat, will become a great exporter. A letter from Odessa of the 18th of June states that 30,000 ehetweits of wheat were sold the preceding week at a reduction of 25 copecks the chetwert. Accounts from Algiers of the 28th of June an nounce that the corn crops in that colony will give a favourable result this year. The wheat, oats, and barley are already cut and stacked; the quality of the wheat is superior to that of last year. The price of wheat at Algiers is from 2f. to 3f. the hectolitre dearer than in France. A letter from Lyons states that the orders received by the manufacturers from the United States compensate them for what they have lost by the war in Italy. It is feared, however, that the failure of the silk crop this year will create serious difficulties for next year. Cocoons are quoted at 7f. the kilogramme. The water sawing-mills at Bugey (Doubs) are engaged night and day in cutting deal planks for the sup ply of the carpenters of Lyons in making boxes to pack stores for the army of Italy ; in addition to which there is a lar g e demand for building purposes both at Lyons and in the South of France, so that the timber trade is at present unusually prosperous. Confidence has been somewhat restored in French commercial circles since the battle of Solferino. It is ex pected that Venice will shortly fall into the hands of the Allies, and that a speedy conclusion to the war in Italy may bo anticipated. The rapid progress made in the war and the late victories possess another advantage in the eyes of the industrious classes—they diminish the chances of the war becoming general. The apprehension of the German Confederation engaging in the quarrel is greatly diminished. ANDOVER GREAT WOOL FAlR.—This important mart was held on Friday. At an early hour a large azTival of wool had taken place, and by 1.1 o'clock in the mornin g 138,000 fleeces were pitched, being the greatest quantityever known. The number of dealers was large, and busi ness very brisk, which continued throughout the day, and at the cloSe of the fair a generl clearance was effected at the following prices :—Teg wool, 40s to 42s ; mixed, 38s to 40s ; Ewe, 36s to 37s 6d. LocomonvEs.—A Bill of Mr. Garnett, Mr. Wilson Patten, and Mr. Ridley enacts thefollowing scale of tolls to be levied by corporations, commissioners, trustees, and other persons—viz., for every locomotive attached to any loaded waggon or carriage ls. ; for every waggon, wain, or carriage, drawn by such locomotive, and having the fel loes of the wheels not loss than six or more than eight inches in breadth, the sum of 3d. for each pair of wheels; for every waggon, wain, or carriage, drawn by such locomo tive, and having the felloes of the wheels not less than eight inches in breadth, the sum of 4d. for each pair of wheels. E v ery locomotive must consume its own smoke. The reason for the bill is recited in the preamble, to wit, that the use of locomotive is likely to become common on turnpike-roads for drawing waggons and carriages ; and the existing Turnpike Acts do not provide for the coutingenqi of Europe. Nor is this all ; the prisoners are pro hibited from holding intercourse with the inhabi tants of the town, none of whom are allowed to go on board the prison-ship. None, I am sure, will feel more annoyed and humiliated when they learn the ill-treatment of the Austrian officers than their valiant opponents on the field of battle—the officers and soldiers of the French army, and when the news reaches the ears of Napoleon 111. we may expect a signal vindication of the honour of France and of her character for humanity. The number of prisoners brought here by the Eldorado was 135, 121 of them wounded Austrians, with 40 wounded Frenchmen. The French Gene ' ral, Wimpfen, who was wounded at Magenta, has arrived at Toulon. 400 conscripts arrived yester day for regiments in Algeria. In the second or inner basin of the Joliette are two large steam transports, one of which is the Pomone, loading railway waggons and locomotives for Genoa. Within the last few days a considerable number of troops have embarked for the seat of war, but they are brought down early and late, to avoid obser vation. The Vienna Gazette, the official journal of Aus tria, publishes two letters on the battle of Solferino, one dated from Verona, the other from Villafranca. The latter, which from the position assigned to it, appears to be considered important, declares that the Austrian army fought at Solferino from ten o'clock in the morning to eight in the evening against forces three times more numerous. It says that the battle was one of the greatest ever fought, and that at midday on the 24th the Aus trtan army had the advantage. " But," it continues, "an attack made by the enemy en masse on our centre, a manoeuvre almost always employed by the late Napoleon, decided the success of the day, and caused our army to beat a retreat. The gain of the enemy only consists in ;the° differ ence between his losses and ours." It concludes as follows :—" The aggressive system of the French who thus far have always advanced, may have attained its culminating point. The Austrians re crossed the Mincio solely because the position between the enemy and the river was no longer tenable." FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY PARIS BOURSE, July 4.—The market has been buoyant, but with a limited amount of business doing. Confidence in the restoration of peace ap pears to be gaining ground in the minds of specu lators. Threes opened at 63f. 40c., and after im proving to 63f. 90c., are now at 63f. 75c. A rise of per cent. on the English Consols contributed to the steadiness of the French market. Mobilier varied from 665 f. to 680 f. ; Austrian, 445 f. to 447 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,242 f. 50c. to 1,262 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 835 f. to 840 f.; Northern, 942 f. 50c. to 950 f. The following were the last quotations :- 41- per Cents. 93 90 Credit Foncier.... 635 Do. end month 93 80 I Belgian 3 per Cents Do. end month 63 80 Roman B2 Bank Shares 2720 Austrian Credit Mobilier 672 50 Spanish Threes Do. Account 675 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 952 50 .. 950 New ditto BO5 .. 840 Lyons and Mediterranean 837 50 .. 840 Geneva 490 .. 497 50 Southern Western 525 . „ 520 Eastern Sardinian 385 .. 390 Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 251. 121 e. ; money 25f 9c. ; three months, paper, 24f. 971 c.; money, 24f. 95c. more favourable climate—a change much needed after their sufferings last year. As to commercial affairs it is difficult to know what to say. There is nothing doing ; freights are as low as ever. Company's paper has not' im proved. The new 51 per cent. loan is quoted at 6 discount, which is caused by the power of paying in to that loan half the amount in 5 per cent. paper at par as cash. The Supreme Court has decided that as the North- Western Bank of India has lost one-third of its paid-up capital, it has ceased to exist save for the purpose of being wound up, and a meeting of share holders is called for August, for the purpose of winding it up. In the meantime the bank is, of course, closed. CHINA. The following is from the China Mail of May 5 : "The Hon. Mr. Bruce, the Minister to Pekin, and the new superintendent of British trade in China, arrived at Hong-K on g, in the Magicienne,on the 26th ult., but did not land officially till the 2d inst ~ when he assumed charge of the superintendency. On Fri day he goes from this to Canton, in order, it is pre sumed, to settle the site for the new factories, and shortly after will depart for the North. It is genterally understood that his permanent residence will be at Shanghae. Another arrival has been that of tle new naval commander, Rear-Admiral Hope, C.B. Sir John Bowring leaves for England by this mail, after ten years in China, but no news has arrived of the appointment of a successor. In these cir cumstances the Acting Governorship devolves on Colonel Caine, the Lieutenant• Governor, who has been connected with the colony since its formation. Another colonial change is the resignation of the chief magistrate, the Hon. Tudor Davies, who has accepted the office of Commissioner of Foreign Revenue under the Chinese Government. "As we anticipated there has been little foundation for the rumours in regard to the re-establishment at Canton of the old Cohong, or authorised association of merchants, having the exclusive privilege of dealing with foreign traders. A lengthy corre spondence on the subject between MT. Consul Alocc's and Hang, the Comptroller of Maritime Custom at Canton, shows there is no intention of re-establishing the Cohong, but that the principal Chinese foreign dealers in foreign goods at Canton desired to do so in order to put a stop to smuggling." " COMMERCIAL. " HONG KONG. The export of tea to Great Britain this season amounts to 55,602,100 lb., against 69,176,100 lb. last season, showing a decrease of 13,574,000. To the United States the export amounts to 28,547,400 lb. The export of silk this season to Great Britain is 65,228 bales, against 56,434, or an increase of 8,794 this season. The Pekin takes about 1,883 bales. To Marseilles the ex port amounts to 7,859, and the Pekin takes about 244. SHAN GHAE. EXCHANGE AND BULLlON.—Exchange on London opened at 6s. Bd. for first-class credits, with a very limited supply of bills, and has declined to 6s. 7d., with the same scarcity of paper, documentary paper being in equally limited supply, at id. to :id. over above rates. Closing quotations : On London bank bills, six months' sight, 6s. 7d. First-class credits, six months' sight, 6s. 71d. Documents and other bills, six months' sight, 6s. Bd. per tael. On Bombay bank drafts, three days' sight, R. 306- On Calcutta bank drafts, three days' sight, R. 309. Lon don drawn, accepted, R. 310—per 100 taels. FREIGHTS.—To London and Liverpool : .E 1 to £2 for tea ; £4 for silk per ton of 50 feet. To New York : 5 dols. to 6 dols. for tea ; 15 dols. for silk, per ton of 40 cubic feet. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. SHIPS OF WAR. At Hong Kong.—British frigate Cambrian ; steamers Coromandel, Inflexible, Magicienne, and Sampson.;• gun boats Clown, Dove, and Janus ; French steamers La place, Marseau, Pregent, Rose, Saone, and Scotland. Macao.—Portuguese lorcha Amazona. Canton River.—British bri g Bittern ; steamers Adven ture, Assistance, Fury, and llesper ; gunboats Bustard, Drake, Firm, and Kestrel. Canton River.—British gunboats Leven, Slaney, Stanch , Watchful, and Woodcock ; French frigate Capricieuse, and steamer Lily ; and American frigate Germantown. Amoy.—British brig Acorn, Foochow.—British brig Camilla, gunboat Banterer. Shanghai.—British frigate Actwon ; steamers Cruiser, Highflyer, and Nimrod; gunboats Algerine, Forester, Haughty, Lee, Opossum, Plover, and Starling. Ningpo.—British gunboat Cormorant. Japan.—American steamer Mississippi ; Russian steamers Askolde and Strelvet ; Dutch steamer Bali. ARRIVALS FROM GREAT BRITAIN. At Hongkong, April 29.—Julia, from London. At Shanghai, April 16.—Crest of the Wave, from Liver pool. DEPARTURE FOR GREAT BRITAIN. From Hongkong, April 28.—Hafis, for London. From Foochow, April 17,--Thracian, for London; 19th, Alipore, for London. INDIA AND CHINA. By extraordinary express, in anticipation of the Overland Mail, we have received our letters and papers from Calcutta, Bombay, and China. The Calcutta and China despatches arrive by this mail in consequence of the wreck of the Alma, the mail carried by that vessel having been placed on board the Ellora, which arrived at Marseilles on Sunday. The dates are Bombay, June 4 ; Calcutta, May 17 ; and Hong-Kong, May 5. SAUGOR, MAY 27. All India appears to be moved with indignation at the fiat of the Viceroy, releasing the Nawab of Furruckabad. Go where you will, from veterans or cadets, from old unimpulsive civilians and gentle hnmane women, you hear but one strain of alarm and lament, that this conspicuous bloodshedder has been exempted from the law made by a clemency which embraced the wellbeing of worlds—" By man shall his blood be shed." The Nawab of Fur ruckabad has been released, red with the blood — Lord Canning himself owns that he is convicted of that monstrous guilt—of 62 Christians : English men, Englishwomen, English ladies, and dear Eng lish children. The wretch has been let loose on the world, free to repeat his crimes, if he should ever find an opportunity in any of those patches of territory which approach and surround our dwell ings, which are not counties of British India. The Nawab of Furruckabad is released from death ! re leased from transportation, released from every penalty of our law ! Surely there is only one man in the whole British empire who acknowledges the magnitude of the criminal's guilt, and discerns no extenuating circumstances. The discontent, amounting in fact to actual mutiny at Meerut, Allahabad, and elsewhere, with respect to the claim for bounty, appears to be sub siding. The impression of the soldiers, who in asserting ideal rights, forgot their loyalty and obe dience, is that they have intimidated their superiors, and have carried their point ; and as none have been punished for insubordination, either the de mand must be granted or the mutiny is only deferred—and even if it is granted, there will soon be some other pretext for getting up a clamour and a claim. There must be very little ingenuity among the malcontents of the Indian army, if they cannot easily get up a cry to prove their legitimate title to 20 rupees a head quite as specious as that which Lord Clyde has considered worthy of serious examination at Meerut. The law, it is certain, can not wipe off the old bond as far as bounty is con cerned, and make it binding in the matter of pensions. The Crown either succeeds to the engagements of the Company or it does not. If it does, the malcontents are fighting for even less than a shadow. If it does not, there is not an old soldier in the Company's army who can claim a fraction of pension from the Crown. Soldiers of Royal regiments enlisting from the home service to the Indian service arc of course in a totally different position. They contract a specific engagement de novo. They relinquish their boon of returning to Europe which is their right for a valuable consideration. They give a quid pro quo, which they were not bound to give by any pre vious engagement or precontract. With the esreaietncom pany's recruits it is qu ite different. He b artered a year or two agoa a m certain oneyn s idt term co of servitude ; e and, in India, w d e ia, on fixed pay , for r on the death of his employer, he declares the con tract void, and demands to tear the bond, in order that he may get the same money, and sign the same bond again. According to this view of the case it would have been the pleasantest way of making money in the world to enlist as a recruit the day before John Company's demise, and a few hours afterwards to ignore the pretensions of John Com pany's heir, who demands that the contract should be fulfilled. The Crown is in fact both the master and the heir of the East India Company, and in either of these relations is entitled to the servie: s of the soldier without paying the price of the arti cle in the shape of bounty twice over. We may be thankful that there Was non e of this discontent while the war with the sepoys was at its height. There are no enemies of any mark in Cenfral India any more; but the predatory bands still infest the country here and there. A few days ago the dakh runner, or postman, was stopped by a band of this description, and th e rebels cutoff his nose and one ear. Cholera p revails to a frightful extent in the Banda district; but it has not assailed the Euro pean reglrnent or community. Two of the band, however, of the 19th Madras Native Infantry have, I regret to add, fallen victims to this scourge. The troops at Saugor-12th Lancers, 43d, Royal Artillery, Mein's troop, and others—have a far MAR YLEBONE ELECTION. THE NOMINATION.—(THIS DAY.) The nomination of a fit and proper person to fill the seat in Parliament for Marylebone, caused by the elevation of Sir B. Hall to the peerage, took place this forenoon at the hustings erected in Park . crescent, Regent's-park. Lord Fermoy was accompanied to the. husting o by Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P. ; James Wyldt Esq. ; and several other influential gentleman ; while the other candidates for the honour, Colonel Dickson and Major Lyon, arrived most numerously attended. There was a very large attendance of electors. The RETURNING OFFICER (George Tamplin, Esq.) having read the writ, urged upon all present to assist in preserving Order while the friends of each candidate addressed them, as without Elden" tion it would be impossible fairly to judge who WO best fitted to represent the large and imp.: rtant borough of Marylebone in Parliament. Mr. Ross then came forward to nominates Co l . Dickson as a fit and proper person to fill the vacant seat. He assured the electors that if they chose the gallant gentleman as their representative they would secure the services of a most unflinchin g ad" vocate of reform, one determined to protect to the utmost of his power the local interests a f the borough of Marylebone. (Cheers and hisses...) Mr. COLLINS seconded the nomination of Oolong Dickson. The Hon. ARTHUR KINNAIRD, M.P., proposed Major Lyon. He felt certain he was the best man that could be selected, as he was an honest Liberal, a man of progress, and an ardent advocate of Ad ministrative Reform. He was for a strict neutralitY as regarded the present war, and for a liberal and extensive system of education. (Cheers.) Mr. MITCHELL seconded the nominatiotn of Major Lyon. Mr. P. GRAHAM proposed, and Mr. Fumilsg seconded, Lord Fermoy. Mr. FIIEWEN also proposed Sir Eardley Wilmot as a candidate, but the hon. gentleman NM s not fortunate enough to obtain a seconder. Colonel Dickson, Major Lyon, and Lord Fer mop then made a declaration of their political send meats, which have already frequently been pub lished in The Sun. The RETURNING OFFICER called for a shoN v of hands for Colonel Dickson, upon which about one third of those present held up their hands. :For Major Lyon very few complied with the invitation, but for Lord Fermoy an immense number ap peared, amidst waving of hats and loud cheers. The election by show of hands was then deck xed to have fallen on Lord Fermoy, but a poll was de manded on behalf of Colonel Dickson and Major Lyon. The request was complied with, and it was ordered that the polling should commence to morrow morning at eight o'clock and finally close at four in the afternoon. The proceedings then terminated. A private letter from a soldier wounded at the battle of Solferino states that his regiment, which entered the field not 2,300 strong, lost 500 in killed and wounded ! " another regiment of the same b r i ga d e, which suffered severely at Magenta, was so cut up at Solferino that it is quite unable to resume the campaign until completely re organised. The writer in this letter speaks in the highest terms of the French artillery, which continued to fire front five in the morning to seven in the evening. A regiment of Chasseurs of the Imperial Guard is said to have suffered terribly. The colonel charged a regiment of Austrian Cuirassiers, but the horses of the Chasseurs were too light to resist the heavy Cuirassiers, and they were absolutely ridden down. A private letter from Toulon, dated yesterday, in forms us that the naval preparations were never more actively carried on than at present. Similar accounts have been received from Brest. it . Prussia, is said, has given positive assurances that the recent measures with respect to her military forces are not taken with a view to hostilities, and that France ruay remain peeectly tranquil on that score. Something it was absolutely necessary to do to calm the effervescence in per tain of the German States, but the advance of an army to the Rhine is not meant as a menace, and it should not he a cause of disquietude to the French Government. Proposi tions are s iid to 1 e 'n cc ntemplation, when the proper mo ment comes, with a view to the settlement of the Italian. question. England, Prussia, and Russia will take the initiative.