The Sun. — London, England, 1858-06-24 00:00:00

rim SUN, LONDON, would not interfere with a comprehensive measure of reform. Mr. GREAVES opposed the bill. The hou-e divided. The numbers were— For the second reading B7 Against it Majority against it --38 The bill was consequently lost. PIERS AND HARBOURS BILL Mr. PAULL moved the second reading of this bill, the object of which was to save the expense of procuring private bills for the erection of piers and formation of harbours by the substitution of some general authority for that purpose, viz., that when a scheme bad received the approbation of the Admiralty it should be considered a public bill, and passed as such. Mr. S. WARREN seconded the motion. Lord LOVAINE doubted if they were justified at, this period of the session in reading so important a bill a second time, and he suggested that it should be read a second time and withdrawn for the purpose of its being introduced early next session for further considera tion. After some remarks from Mr. McMahon, Mr. W, S. Lindsay, and Mr. Ridley, Mr. FITZROY objected to the principle of reading bills a second time pro forma, and thereby pledge them selves to a certain course. As there was a committee bitting to consider the state of private business, he thought this bill should stand over, and he suggested the withdrawal of the bill. Col. WILSON PATTEN considered the bill, at this time of the session, should be withdrawn. If it had been earlier in the session, he should have voted for the second reading, in order that the subject might be investigated. It was one of great importance, and he agreed with its principle. Admiral WALCOTT fully concurred in the principle of the bill. Mr. WALPOLE had no objection to the house read ing the bill a second time pro forma, and he concurred in the opinion that it had better be withdrawn. Mr. PAULL stated his readiness to withdraw the bill. The motion for the withdrawal of the bill was objected to, and the house divided on the original motion. For the second reading 136 Aagainst it . 33 Majority for the second reading... —lO3 The bill was then read a second time. Mr. PAULL, in deference to the suggestion made, moved its committal this day three months.—Agreed to. WEE DON ESTABLISHMENT. Colonel BOLDERO moved the discharge of the order of the day for the adjourned debate on Weedon establish• meet. He would bring the subject forward on a future day in supply. Mr. D. NICOLL objected to its discharge. Mr. WALPOLE said it was not usual to object to such a course when bon. members had an opportunity, of brining the subject forward on another day, with a better prospect of ultimate succelP. Col. BOLDERO said he intended to move a resolu tion in accordance with the motion before the house, and bring it forward on the first supply night. After some discussion, the order was read and dis charged. LETTERS OF CREDIT. Mr. HORSFALL obtained leave to bring in a bill to make letters of credit transferable. The other orders were disposed of, and the house ad journed at 25 minutes past five o'clock. AFFAIRS OF THE LEVANT. (From the Daily ems.) Eas!ern difficulties spring up as fast, and even faster, than negotiation can settle them. The affairs of Montenegro and of Canclia have scarcely been smoothed and put in a way of arrangement, than another and a more serious event otartles Diplo macy, and promises to interrupt the Conferences of Paris. These Conferences were actually taking place for the desired and avowed purpose of plac ing the dominions of the Sultan under a general European guarantee, and yet at such a moment and with such a negotiat on pending in Paris, Turkey and Austria have concluded a separate agreement and alliance, by which the latter Power engages to send forces to Bosnia in case of any insurrection in that province. This is the old case of Russia and the Principali tia4. On the score of contiguity, and of the danger arising to absolute Governments from turbulence or agitation on their frontiers, Russia not only marched armies, whenever it pleased, over the Piuth, but obtained the forced consent of the Porte to its doing so. It was this which produced the war ; and the i war, if it have any remit, must have that of finally putting an end to such agreements. The Powers undertake to supersede Russian action upan Turkey by a genet al and preconcerted action ; and yet in the very teeth of this law, which it sought to esta blish, Austria has concluded a separate agreement with Turkey for the contingent occupation of Bc snia. The fact is that Austria is now very openly play ing the same game which Russia did of old. Austria guides the acts, and. directs the councils of the Porte ; demands and obtains the liberty of interfering in its name in those provinces, which it finally hopes to appropriate. Bosnia is just as much an ject of Austrian ambition as Moldavia is of Russian ; and catering to the one is just as impolitic and unjust as catering to the other. Austria is as menacinc , a neighbour to Turkey as Russia could be. Up to 1857, indeed, the power of Russia was so preponderant, owing to her fleet in the Black Sea, and to the prestige accruing to her from having recovered Hungary for the Cana of Vienna, that Austria, as the weaker Power, rillied to the Porte, and carried on its resistance to Russia under Turkish ensigns, as it were, and in the Turkish cause. But since the war Russia has ceased to be a Mr. WARREN considered the legi-lature ought not I naval Power in the Euxine. Austria 'not only ' to interfere in matters of this kind. Lord Mansfield was considers herself the exclusive patron of Bosnia and the illustrious f ennderof the mercantile law in one of its Servia, but dictates her will in Bucharest itself. great aspects, and that learned authority said the neer- The agents of Austria predominate England cantile law fl iurished most when it was not interfered er with by the State, but whenit was leis alone to deal having put herself under the wing of Count Buol. Ail this is but a m!re shifting of danger, a change with matters connected w ith it s own we lf are . He had , a fundame n t a l o bj ec ti on t o t h e princ i p l e o f t h e bill. H e of preponderance, a substitution of one de potism believed the unexpected but sure effect of the bill would and military power for another in the affairs of the be to drive capital outof trade. Money was advanced by Levant. . capisalists to a great ex ent to traders fer the double o' ject England and France have one interest in their of increasing the means and furthering the interests of dealings with Turkey, and that is to prevent that those to whom the capital was advanced, but this bill empire or its provinces from becoming the prey of would prevent its continuance, and the effect would be either of its great neighbours. Austria and Russia to cripple trade by diverting the salubrious stream of capital from th e channels of corn-have precisely contrary interests. Both wish to merce. This bill, if carried, would d:sturb exist- 'encroach; both wish to extend their empire and ing partnerships. It would inflict loss on the influence, and both further their views, now by mist sober and small enterprising traders, and prevent intrigues wi . h the Christian, now by ascendancy their becoming legitimately large traders, at the Porte. Both have the interest of keeping, Mr. M. T. BAINE3 supported the bill. The objet- as far as they are able, the Western Powers from tions that bad been made to it were more of detail than meddling with the provinces and the people they of principle. He considered one of the leading effects e l hope to influence and annex ; and they save ad the bill would be to check fictitious trading and fal4e mirably attained this end by the clause of the credit, and these were the persons who mostly Treaty which prevents all armed vessels from en ' dreaded the passing of this measure. There could be taring the Black Sea. England has thus been in no harm in empelling firms to give in formation under duced to trust to Austria as the guerdien of those this bill they were compelled to give on pleas of abate- provinces against Russia, forgetting that such =ant, after putting the creditor a great and unnecessary Powers can agree at any moment for their own expense, mutual profit, and for the discomfiture and exclu- Mr. WEGUELLIN bad a strong objection to the sion of the Status of the West. principl e and, the details of the bill. Parliament might . n o t t o re ul t o ere' l transactions What is most suspicious in the conduct of Austria but it should be g a e e nti e rel • rem lefc la to individual; is its throwing obstructions in the way of the Paris themselves to pertly!). He t'o y ougAt it was impossible Conference comingto any conclusion respecting the to separate the details of the bill from its principle. He Danubian Principalities. Austria has evidently as • denied that b us i ness was carried on under false pre- little desire as Russia to see Danubian questions tents,, for tradesmen trusted only those they settled under the common consent of Europe. Cotnit know. (Hear, hear.) The public were mostly Buol has acted all along with England in this interested in knowing who left a firm, and not question. But England, although opposing the who joined it because the f ormer generally' took their Union and insisting on Hospodare, cannot, with capital with them, ard that information spr ividei for by its announcement in th e Gaeate under th e head of any degree of consistency, propose the abolition of dissolations of partnership. conststutional government. Austria opposes the Mr. SPOONER concurred with much that had been thing and the name, and is not satisfied until Molele said sabout the details and machinery of the bill, but the Wallachia be assimilated to Hungary. Owing to question before the house was whether or not they this, as well as for other reasons, the Congress of should recognise the principle that a person who gave Paris has made no progress ; and this last affair of credit should have the means of ascertaining to whom Bosnia, for which Sir Henry Believer has been he wag giving credit. He agreed with the principle of - hastened to Vienna, - has, we may - say, given the the bill, but he disagreed with many of its details. He coup de grace to the Conferences. suggested to the noble lord not to press his bill th's It was whispered some fortnight back that the session, for no one would be disposed to go into a corn- Diplomatists of th e C on f erences had taken a great inittee.room, in the present state of the Thames—(hear) step towards the settlement of what they were en -and hear evidence, and enter into a discussion that gaged in. Embroidering, or exaggerating, or leap must last for weeks or months—(Lear, hear)—before they i b to a conclusion ie , upon this theme, the Patric, could get sufficient practical information on which to Count n W ws 1. saper, announced that the ques fcnud a practical bill. : : l„f tion of the union_ was decided in the negative. Mr. CARD WELL said publicity was the principle The_ Conference,_ however, has not even yet gone the bill. Secrecy was no part of free-trade, and was no ornament to commerce. The objections that had been so far. For as the affirmation of the Union could railed to the bill ought not to find favour in that house. not take place without considering what prince He, however, concurred in the suggestion that it was would be chosen, so the Hospodorare cannot be desirable there should be delay in order to ascertain r d -established without deciding the constitution whether the commercial community of the country were and the mode cf election that are to accempany it. ready to adopt or reject the principle and details of the The discussion in the Conference on these ques measure. He should support the second reading of the tions assumed at one time, it is said, a very serious bill if his noble friend passed his motion. f amt. When England, supported by Austria and Mr. HENLEY considered the house and the country Turkey, proposed its plans, the reply o f F rance was, bad not sufficient information on which to deal with the that this experiment had already been made of old, measure before them. He was not prepa r ed t o a sk the and ,hadepro' duced its results; and that if it was house to affirm or repeal it until they had had an hives tlgation into the subject by a geramittee of the house. noel arropoeed to repeat the experiment, France Mr. GURNEY opposed the bill. would' not oppose, but at the same time it wou ld Mr. HORSFALL agree d t o the pr i nc i p l e of the bi ll, not approve , or by so approving take upon itself but objected altogether to the details. the responsibility of a system which it knew must Colonel PATTEN said that though his name was on fed, and lead to great disasters. If France and the back of the bill he hoped . the second reading would not be passed at of late a period of the session, as thereabrogation Russia persisted in holding this language, it wo!.ild we need not say, amount to a complete W4B no chaeee After some reoe! a o r a k s e n f e r g om it this year. of the Treaty of Paris ,. two of the chef powers The bill was a sweiltehe,tl r e a o w , Lord GonsaicH. . next year by . with a view to inquiry early committee. withdrawing from its priucipal stipulation. Had The motion and amenadmenti were witUrawn, and the Lord Palmerston kemained in order for the second reading would have Len the issue of powerthe e E n u f :l r t e p u r e o .6 b s_ ab'y a the bill was discharged.total. ELECTION COMMITT o EES SCRUTINY BILL, breath—England and Austria guaranteeing the integrity of Turkey, and .France and Russia On the motion for the second readin g cf this bill Mr. S. WARREN moved th e second time this day six months. The present administ. ation is, however, not so Mr. LOCKE supported the bill, unreservedly Austrian as the last, and evidently After some remarks from Mr. Barrow,aims at bringing the Courts of the Tuileries Mr.Steuart, and Vienna t o something Steoa of an accord. This is and Mr, Walpole, z., Mr. COLLINS, who introSuced the bill, asked the a , difficult, and, we believe, an impossible t house to affirm its principle this session, and send it t o And, indeed, it is apparently under a select - committee as early next session as possible, tla:ekidea that shs is losing the unqualifi d adhesic n • Mr. WMAHON said the object of the bill was t o of England that Austria has gone upon her own hook. r to conc l u d e t h ese unfortunate hole-and-corn e prevent scrutiny, or a break of residence after the , 3let July, and as th a t- was th e l a w of Ireland, be saw no oh t iic r a ° ;,: i e a s . with Turkey for the military occupation o' jeotion t o it s b e i ng app li e d i n E ng l a nd. As bit by bit 1 reform legislatio n was th e o bj ec t c f the day, he saw no Ira? su c h an i nextricable labyrinth has our policy reason why th e bill should not b e passe d thi s - sess i o n. lc _b -en led -by want of a straightforward, resolute purpose. The future fate and condition of the Da nubian provinces should have been decided by England and France, counselling their ally, Tur key, after the fall of Sebastopol. Lord Palmerston should have stuck out, not for the beggarly village of Bolgrad, but for that half of Bessarabia which Russia consented to cede at Vienna. That would have removed Jassy from the line of the Russian frontier, and would have formed a Principality un der the Sultan's suzerainty that Russia and Aus tria must have been made to respect in their own interests as well as in the interests of Europe. Instead of such straightforward and manly policy we first went to war, and after baying conquered, we invited those whom we had defeated and those who would not help us, to participate in the settle ment. Of course they have made use of the liberty given them to render all settlement impossible and to leave things in a still more unsatisfactory state than they were in before the war. We are glad to see that, however complicated these Levantine questions may be by the events of Bosnia, the insurrection of Candia is likely to ter minate. The Turks, however, are likely to give trouble, as we see from the outrage upon the British Consul at Belgrade. In the whole of Servia there is but this handful of Turks who garrison the cita del of Belgrade. Their isolation amongst the Christians only increases their fanaticism, and as their ignorance is such that they do not know friend from foe, and could not distinguish between Eng lishmen and Russians, we aee the result. No good can come of Mussulman garrisons in Christian countries except to breed mutual exasperation and provoke mutual slaughter. THE THAMES, TO WIT. At a respectable, well-conducted boys' school, the dining-room, which was also that in which the boys spent most of their time, became subject to a disagreeable smell. No account could be given of it. The young gentlemen were cleanly in their habits—rather particular than otherwise. The room was well built, the servants did their duty, the situation was airy. It was a perfect mystery. The master came and snuffed about ; his lady took a whiff of it and walked out ; the builder was sure about the drains—they were sound and well trap ped ; there could be no rats, for there was no open ing. What could it be ? As summer came on, in spite of open doors and windows, the smell got worse ; the boys became pale and headachy, soon tired over their lessons, and got off their feed. By and by two or three were taken home, and the thing was talked about. So the master, finding all was at stake, sent for the builder, and told him he must find it out at any cost. As the smell could not come from the walls or the ceiling, it must be from the ground. The carpenter therefore ripped off the skirting, and tore up a good piece of the floor. Then the mystery was revealed, and was as horrible to the eyes as to the nose. The fact was, that through the combined efforts or neglects of butcher, cook, and carver, the young gentlemen had often a quantity of fat or underdone meat on their plates. When they sent up their plates for a second supply they found it apparently adjusted to the unconsurned remanets from the first, and therefore short of the new demand. A hint r two from the master explained the fact, and took away hope of a remedy. .So the young gentle men, with a legerdemain of their own, smuggled fat and "red" under the table. After dinner they smuggled all into one or two convenient holes they had found in the skizting and the floor. The practice had gone on for months and years, and the result may be imagined. The boys had been living, in fac, over putrefying remains equivalent to several dead carcasses. Strange to say, in their blessed ignorance of chemis.ry, they never once connected the daily deposit with the nuisance. The hole was all-devouring and bottom less. It might go to the heart of the earth for aught they knew. The master was answerable for the sweetness of the room. Of course the floor was re moved, the abyss emptied and purged ; and for the future-the schoolmaster bore in mind that, though boys have strong stoinachz, they have often delieate palates, and like fat and " red" as little as Plofes sor Liebig says they ought to do. What is this London but just a respectable, well conducted school, and we all a parcel of school-boys, getting rid of a nuisance without a thought of the consequeuccs ? We just make a hole in the floor, and down with all, nobody knows where. Of course, it all turns up in time, and that wi h a vengeance. There is nothing people are so blind about as con sequences every step vf wh'elr is not before the eye. In fact, that anything should ever come to light again after being once under ground is a surprise. There are in this country several rivers that flow under ground for miles, and people seek a surprise by dropping straws and bits of paper above, and watching their reappeance ,bolow. In these cases we look for the reappearance, and are disappointed at ies failure. When we wish to be rid of a thing, we forget it altogether. Add to this universal neg lect of consequences an almost equal thoughtlessness as to the effect of combination, of multiplied results. Union is force, for ill as well as for good. Here is a nuisance to be multiplied by three millions. It is bad enough in Ireland, where the family, the pigs, the horse, the cow, and the poultry live in one room, and where the filth is only occasionally trans ferred from the ground inside to the ground outside the door. It is bad enough in a Swiss chalet, where the cattle and servants sometimes occupy the ground floor, the family that above, and thence to the roof is all barn. An Englishman cannot sleep for the solid stanch that pervadts that Noah's ark, and impregnates the very timbers. No wonder half the family are goitred. But when, instead of one such chalet, with its accumulations of many years, its dozen brute occupants, and half-dozen human, we have half a million habitations all huddled round one huge cesspool,_it may take time to develop° the nuisance, but time will cer tainly de it. On this point we mey be sure as Holy Writ that "our neglects will find us out." If we are content with staving off the eril we shall some day have "to eat our peck of dirt" all at once. That means a good deal in the matter of London. It once meant the Great Plagtie and the Great Fire. What monstrous birth of time it will next mean, what hideous pest or frightful scourge, no man can now tell. What is not yet duly apprehended is, that the present snug, comfort Able, selfish way of getting rid of nuisances does not get rid of them. It only postpones and accumula . es. It is one of those habitual delays which even Virgil says peopled hell. It is a jointsto::k c.,mpany, with limited liability, as we all fondly believe ; but when the crash comes we shall all suffer. Everything indi cat:s A positive accumulation which must certainly prove worse, because more active and more unbear able, than the dead w e i g ht o f t h e N a ti o n a l Debt on England's shoulders. That which issues from the sewers in.° the Thames is daily becoming more deleterious. It is impregnated with .the gas we burn in our lamps, and other gases the Toduct of manufacture or natural putrefaction. No settling, .no filtering, no deodorizing can ma terially mend it, and they who talk of these processes can hardly know. what Thames wa•er is between the bridges. Every known abomina tion, with many an unknown one, finds its way into the sewers, or directly into the Thames. There; as we all know, it passes and repasses before our eyes, and it is by no means certain that the more• solid part of what is committed to the raver ever finds its way to the sea. A float. dtAcing.:, up and down with the tide affords very little indication as to matter which settles and forms mud, or inapngnates it. So there is absolutely no measuring how far the aceuniiilAtion may go on, with a continual increase in the matter, in the area, and in the variety of noxious ingtedients. That increase must be in a much' greater ratio than the increase of the me tropolis. The - eaburhs of London, the fields, the gardens, and the waste places, to which offensive matter was taken only a few years ago, are daily receding, and the handiest and cheapest course for everything is to let it down the ever-ready sewer. So the work grows upon us. No scale that was likely to be adopted thirty years ago would be suf ficient now, and the probability is, that if we do something immediately—that is, in the course of the next ten years, which is all the promptitude we can expect—it will be barely sufficient by the end of the century, unless, indeed, something comes to stop the glowth of London. These considerations, which are of a most sub stantial and practied character, indicate that the country should apply much more earnestness and el - 1 , 1.2y to the subject. They show, as we conceive, that we ought to have a much more effective ad reieistrat;on for the subject. The metropolitan s e ;w v n i ,o d i evidently idest the n agtil authorities. e t s b i g e n y a o r f e t n h iell:2ship ought to be cot - sAueted with the view of doing something, riot of doing nothing, which is i t id u e t n ed t , th w a i t ll t g h o e ou throwing schemes at one another to all eternity. t r a n boa i m i t s et is, forrs prepared aass lwareg f se o . r earn a e very large plain, iarg e t e x o a o pli t id h y i e a t a t u r r w e f —that expenditure incurring each week during the Russian war. B-- fore it is assumed that the nation must pay the oewPlt:oissnesent: rival Boards bill, 1. - t us know how much the metropolitan die •riet3 will hear. Thece is much more reason in applying a coal tax to such a purpose than to the construction of new streets in this or that ft voured locality. A correspondent who writes a very able letter suggEsts that it is an absurdity to mike the Comtnissfoner of Works a poli tical functionary, going in and ou'. The rea son of the existing practice is the infusion of new spirit and new ideas by the change, but the elange may be from ability and zeal to incapacity and indifference. The real truth is, the work is so important and critical that we shrink from committing ourselves to any one man. But what is to be done ? The responsibility must not always be reason against it. It is a serious thing to select a profession, to marry, to choose a residence, or a school for our chiidren ; but we do these things nevertheless. Even though the choice may not always be the best, almost any choice is better than no choice at all, and the worst thing we can do is to sit still and do nothing. When, there fore, we have done away with the double Govern ment for India, may it not be time to amalgamate and simplify the administration of Public Works as far as the metropolis is concerned ? The present system has the unhappy effect of multiplying ideas and dividing the attention that should grasp and decide upon them. A host of engineers are invited into the controversy, and plenty of plans are put on paper for carrying out this or that scheme ; but the very problem to be solved has not yet been decided on. This is not a question simply for en gineers, who are apt to deal too exclusively with the material, and to put human beings out of the question. A very good farmyard may be a very bad neighbour, especially when it comes 'twixt the wind and your drawing-room. A farmer does not care for this ; he snuffs it up, and thinks of a heavy crop. Engineers are sometimes equally biased in favour of ingenious construction, and useful con version ; so let us have them, but let us also have the best men England can find to set them the work to be done.—Times. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—June 23. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—WESTMINSTER. (Sittings at Nisi Pries, before Lord Campbell.) HANDLEY AND OTHERS V. STACY. Mr. Edwin James, Q C., Mr. Lush, Q.C., Mr. Godfrey (of the Chancery bar), and Mr. Gates ap peared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Sergeant Shee, Mr. Huddleston, Q. C., and Mr. Needham for the defendant. This was an issue directel by the Court of Chan cery to try whether a certain paper writing, dated the 15th of December, 1853, and which purported to be the last will and testament of Thomas Eld ridge, of Tauxhall, was or was not his last will and testament. The plaintiffs were the next of kin of the tes tator, and tli-3 defendant was the devisee, who under the will was entitled to the whole of the testator's.property, about 10,0001., with the excep tion of an annuity of 1001. a-year left to the defend ant's youngeit daugh`er. The defendant having to establish the will, his case was first proceeded with, but, though it occu pied the whole day, it was not neatly concluded when the court adjourned. FOUL STATE OF THE COURT AND PASSAGES. In the course of the day, Mr. James called the attention of his lordship to the foul state of the count and passages. Lord Campbell said that, if he were assured that the state of the atmosphere was such as to be dan gerous to the lives of the counsel, jurymen, and witnesses, he should feel it to be his duty to ad journ the court. His lordship inquired whether there was any medical men in court ? Mr. John Bredall, who was attending the Court as a witness in the cause which was being tried, here came forward, and, being swo n, in an wer to questions put by Lord Campell, he said he was a surgeon, at No. 3, Moorhall place, Kennington lane, and had been compelled to leave the court three times in consequence of ihe bad smells. The atmosphere in court became irrespirable, and it was quite as bad in the passages. The smells came from the Thames, or from sewage of some kind. He gave it as his opinion, as a medical man, that it was dangerous to breathe this atmosphere. He thought it would be dangerous to the lives of the jurymen, counsel, and witnesses to remiiri. It would prsd uce nr:laria, and perhAps typhus fever. Lard Catnpl;ell said that, in the di charge of his duty, he would adj )urn the Curt ; bu , address ing the counsel, his lordship said that if they were willing to remain he was quite ready to do so. Mr. Sergeant Shoe said the counsel were ready to do whatever his lordship thought best. L.7 . .rd Campbell sail he would not keep the jury men against their will. The - jury said the smelt was very offttmive in the pas3ages, but they didnot stile!' it so much in court. TLetrid thin proceeded. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. WESTMINSTER. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Westminster, before Justice Cockburn, and a Common Jury.) HELM WELL V. HOBSON AND ANOTHER. Mr. Serge mt Hughes and Mr. Bell were for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Mleaulay, Q C., and Mr. Archibald for tho defendants. This wag an action for libel brought by the libra rian and manager of the Derby Mechanics' Insti tute against the defendants, the proprietors of the Derbyshire Advertiser. The libel complained of was the following, paragraph, pliuted in that publi cation " Mr. and Mrs. German Reel's Entertainment and the Librarian to the Mechanics' Institute.—On Friday evening Mr. and Mrs. German Reed gave their admi rable entertainment at the Lecture-ball, Derby Some of our readers may probably have remarked that this entertainment was not announced in the Derbyshire Advertiser, and as the ornies ion was equally unjust to our ioierest and Mr. and Mrs. German Reed's, we may with propriety mention the cause of it here. It appears (and we state the fact from a converswion with Mr. Reed himself) that Mr. Helliwell, the librarian to the Derby Mechaeic's Institute, received instructions from Mr. Reed to advertise the entertainment in the D.rby papers, and .to forward the usual free tickets to the editor of each journal. Presuming on his position, and thinking, perhaps, that be could with safety gratify a personal feeling towards this j )urnal, Mr. Helliwell di-- regarded these orders. Tae advertisement was forwarded to the Mercury and Reporter, but neither advertisement nor ticket found its way to our office. Mr. Helliwell should knew that he will not be allowed to pursue with impunity a similar course cf conduct to that of which we have had to complain. The sulject is only worth alluding to in order to plan) professionals who may intend to vi. it Derby on their guard, so that they may not in future Le defrauded of that publicity which they dosir=.." The declaration laid the meaning to be that the plaintiff had acted dishonestly and improperly in his said office, and disregarded his instructions and duty in order to gratify personal feeling towards the defendant 4, who pleaded "Not Guilty," and that the paragraph was true in substance and face. It appeared that in the autumn of last year Mr. and Mrs. German Reed, by the agency of a Mr. Blagrove, agreed with Mr. Helliwell to give their entertainment at Derby on certain terms, but it seemed clear that all the arrangements . in. the country were to be made by Mr. Helliwell, and that, beyond expressing a wish for publicity, Mr. Reed had given no specific instruc ions as to the the insertion of advertisements in any.particular paper. Mr. Carson, a reporter on the Advertiser, finding that the paper had not received-tiny direc tions to advertise or any tickets for the entertain ment, called on Mr. Helliwell and inquired the reason of the omission. These two gentlemen gave a very different account of what passed at that interview. The former stated that the plaintiff made very inconsistent excuse?, whence he inferred personal feeling, and the latter alleged that be told Mr. Carson that ho should give, or that be had giVen, the advertisement to the Telegraph, and that he should have the next turn • that on..being asked for ticreri he' intimated to Mr. Carson that if he left his name on a card at the door he would be admitted, upon which he said, "You are a rubbish ing lot, and I'll publish you next week." Much contradictory evideace was adduced, a detail of which would not interest the reader, the learned judge several times suggesting a settlement, and giving it as his opinion that the whole dispute was based on a series of misunderstandings. Mr. Macaulay, in addressing the jury for the defence, said that it was a touch-and-go case on the very verge of the law, which had been kept seething and smouldering since December in London, to put money into the pocket of Mr. Flewker, the attor ney for the plaintiff, and that it ought to have been tried at Derby in March. The Lard C.iief Justice, in summing up, re repeated that there had been mistakes and miscon ception on b o th s id es, an d t h at i t was a grea t pity that the d e f en d ants i a d not made a raceful apology and withd rawn ' t h e i r secon d p l ea. H e then went carefully thr oug h the evidence, commen ting upon the different versions given of the conversations between . the pl a i nt iff an d M r . C arson , and Tire eveutu ell e jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Danriges, 251. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS —YESTERDAY. The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' amendments to the Edinburgh and Glas gow and Stirling and Dunfermline Railways Bill, and Fife and Kinross and Kinross-shire Railways Bill, were considered and agreed to. The Severn Valley Railway (Extension of Time) Bill was considered, and ordered to be read a third time. REGISTRATION OF PARTNERSHIP BILL. Viscount GODERICH moved the second reading of this bill. The object of the measure was a very simple one. It merely proposed that all persons who entered into partnership, or who traded either under other names than their owe, or under the indefinite appella tion of a " company," should be required to make known to the public who and what the partners were. To obtain that object he proposed that the names of persons so trading should be entered in a register, and be open to the examination of all persons interested and requiring information. That being the single object of the bill, it appeared to him to be worthy the considera tion of the house, first for reasons which recommended the adoption of such a system necessary, and then be cause he thought he should be able to show that the adoption of such a system had received the sanction and approval of a large portion of the commercial commu nity. He thought no one would deny that the greatest facilities should be afforded to the trading public of knowing who the parties really were with whom they were dealing. The present system of persons trading under the name of old and respectable firms admitted of great fraud. There were numerous instances of such frauds on record, but be would not detain the house under the present state of the surrounding atmosphere —(hear)—which he thought ought to be remedied with out delay—(hear)—by entering at great length into them, but he should content himself with quoting two instances, which,would illustrate the whole working of the system, and which it was the duty of the house to take im snediate steps to remedy. One was the case of Mr. Stephens, who was connected with the Eastern Banking Company, who in his examination before the Scotch Bankruptcy Court admitted he was the head and sole representative of a variety of firms, each trading under a distinct and separate name; and the other was a recent case in Dundee, where a person in insolvent circumstances had for a number of years maintained a false position and credit on the faith of the name of the firm. The bill bad been introduced at the request and on the approval of all the Chambers of Commerce in that part of York shire which be bad the honour to represent. The history of the bill was this: In 1856 the Commercial Association of Manchester took the subject into their considera tion, and, with the aid of legal assistance, they drew up a paper on the subject in accordance with the heads of the bill before the house, and the machinery it pre vided for carrying out its object. Ia 1857 the heads of the paper referred to were submitted to the considera tion of the Mercantile Law Conference, presided over by Lord Brougham, and at that conference a resolution was agreed to approving of the principle embodied in this bill. The Chambers of Commerce of Leeds, Brad. ford, Sheffield, Huddersfield, Manchester, Bristol, Wel verhampton, and other places in England had petitioned the house in favour of the bill, and the Chambers of Commerce of Edinburgh and Dundee had petitioned that its provisions might be extended to Scotland. It was true that a petition had been presented from Manchester against the bill, and if that was to be urged as a reason for the house not approving of the bill, he had a right to say that he bad a larger number of the commercial community in its favour, whose opinions, he contended, were entitled to weight and consideration in that house. The bill had been characterised as an in quisitorial measure, but he thought it an inappropriate appellation. If the commercial community were un willing to receive such a measnre, that would be a suf ficient reason for the house rejecting it, but that was not the case, and he hoped the house would agree to his motion. The motion having been seconded, Mr. COLLIER considered the hill would inflict injury on the trading community without a corresponding ad vantage. The bill would press heavily on the poorer classes, for if it were carried any two costermongers or fish-women who joined in a speculation only one day would be obliged to pay half a-crown each for registra tion before they could recover the value of the goods they had sold. This bill was inquisitorial in is charac ter, and would comp:icate and perplex the already diffi cult question of partnership. This measure was a step in the wrong direction. It was re-enacting protec tion, which was contrary to, the principles of molern legislation. The commercial community did not require the measure, but the registrars generally throughout the country. They were the prime movers in the affair. They had a strong organisation throughout the country, and they were continually agitatine roe ist ration, and he believed trey would never be satisfied till they had registered everybody and everything. If the shop keepers of the country really knew what the bill, if carried, had is store for them, they would unanimously rise against it, and petition for its rejection. He moved the second reading of the bill this day six months. Mr. MOFFAT2 seconded the amendment. He con sidered the bill would prove a mockery, a delusion, and a sham wit, regard to the trading community. Mr. BUXTON was in favour of the mea=gre. It would be a protection to the country. It d.cl not med dle with the law of partnership. It left that where it was, and a'l it proposed v. as to provide a check against dishonest firms carrying on business under false pretences. Many of the objections to the bill c mid be considered and, if necessary, remedied in committee. They did not apply to the principle of the tiil. The main evil in this country, as contradistinguished from most others carrying on large commercial transac• tions was, that firms were allowed in this country to re tain and to use their original designation and titles, when the old and monied partners hal retired from the concern, and young men of no capital traded on the reputation and credit of the old concern. THURSDAY EVEINFING, JUNE 24, 1858. of mutton, value9s., the property of James Holmes his master, and the latter for feloniously receiving the same, well knowing it to have been stolen. Mr. Ribton appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. F. H. Lewis defended alines ; and Mr. Sleigh was for Haines. This was another prosecution by the Butchers and Salesmen's Association, and frem the evidence given in support of the charge it appeared that the prisoner Caines was in the service of Mr. Holmes, a butcher, in Silver-street, Golden-square, and had to carry out meat to customers, among them the proprietor of the Scotch Stores. On one occasion, when he was going to that establishment with some loin of mutton to be cut into chops, he was watched in consequence of suspicion being entertained as to his honesty, and was seen to take with him a piece of mutton which had not been ordered. He was followed to a publichouse, where he was joined by the other prisoner, and the meat stolen by Caines was found in a tcol basket such as carpenters gene rally use, which he (Haines) had with him, It seemed that they had been in the habit of meet ing there for some time past, the one having his tray and the other his basket, and it was in con sequence of considerable quantities of meat being missed from time to time that a watch was put upon Caines. Both prisoners received a very good character from several witnesses. They were found guilty, and recommended to mercy. The Court sentenced them each to eight months' hard labour. Williams Collins and Mary Collins, and Thomas Brain were brought up for judgment. They had pleaded guilty to keeping brothels at 29, Cirences ter-place, and 4, Buckingham-st ree t, F i t zro y- square . Mr. etcalfe, instructed by Mr. Randall on be half of the parish of Maryleboue, was for the pro secution ; Mr. Ribton for the defendants. These prosecutions were instituted by direction of the parish authorities of Marylebone, and it ap peared that the defendants had continued the nui sance which led to the proceedings after the ses sions at which the bills were found. Mr. Ribton urged that, as the defendants had now given up the houses, a nciminal jugdment would bo sufficient to meet the justice of the case. The Court sentenced William Collins to three months' hard labour, and a fine of 405., Mary Col lins to three months' hard labour, and Brain to six weeks' hard labour. John Chambers and Ann Jones, alias Chamber, convicted of keeping a brothel, 1, Barron-street, Pentonville, were sentenced each to two months' hard labour. (Before Mr. Payne.) David Ryan, 21, was indicted for stealing a watch, value 41., the property of John Galvin (printed in the calendar "Galoin.") Mr. Way prosecuted, Mr. lorry was for the prisoner. - The prosecutor deposed that he lived at John's hill, St. George's, and on the 14th June the prisoner followed him and a black man, the steward of an American vessel, into a ;public-house, and asked him to buy the ticket of a watch. Scme conversa tion took place about watches, and they went to his (prosecutor's) house, when some watches were shown to the black 111.10, who wanted to purchase one. The charge against the prisoner was that he pur loined one of the watches so exhibited, and the evi dence of the black man and Mrs. Galvin, in addi tion to that of the prosecutor, clearly proved the case. The jury found him guilty, and he was sen tenced to six mon th s ' b ar d labour. THE QUEEN V. RATHEO2•TE.—THE QUEEN V. KELLY. These were cross indictments arising out of a case of assault. The defendant Raftbone, who was prosecutor in the case of Kelly, lodged in the house of the lat.ter, 37, Upper Baker-street, and in consequence of s,nnething which had occurred, Rathbone rushed into Kelly's room and struck him. Kelly ejected him by force, and he then ran up stairs and procured a cane-sword, with which he made a thrust at Kelly, but without effect, and a constable was called in. In ejecting Rathbone from his room Kelly gave hint a black eye. An amicable arrangement having been come to between the parties through their counsel, no evidence was offered on either indictment, and the case was sati.lactorily terminated by each defendant being found not guilty. Mr. Metcalfe was for Kelly against Rathbone ; and Mr. Sleigh for Rathbon3 against Kelly. Susannah Bishop, 33, Ella Bishop, 24, and Cattlietine Bishop, 22, sisters, described in the calendar as daily governesses, were indicted for stealing three gold rings and other articles, of the value of 31., the property of Emma Boisormade. A second indictment charged them with stealing a pair of drawers and other articles, value 2/. thepro perty of Susannah Cla c k an d another ; and a third indictment charged Ella and Catherine with steal ing a lace fichu and a lace lappet, value 161., the property of Daniel Bedell. Mr. sleigh and Mr. Hawthorne were for the prosecution ; Mr. Thbton and Mr. Kenealy de fended the prisoners. The particulars connected with these charges have been filly deailed in the police reports. The prisoners evidently were accomplished shoplifters, and in two cases they were found guilty. In the other they were acquitted, it being admitted that one of them commit'ed the theft, thougli it could not he shown which of them it was. Susannah was sentenced to nine, and each of the others to 12 months' hard labour. Frederick Stephens was indicted for stealing ss. which had been intrusted to him to give to another person as a Christmas box from his mater, Mr. Hicks, glass merchant, St. George's-street. The jury acquitted him. Mr. Hawthorne prosecuted, Mr. Kenealy de fended the prisoner. Johanna, Folf-y, 30, was indicted for unlawfully assaul,ing and beating Julia Foley. Mr. Abram was for the prosecution, Mr. lorry for the prisoner. This case ar,:se out of an Irish row. The par ties, who a•e relatives lived in Nightingale -build ings, Limehouse. Two men go., fighting, and the women interfered. The prisoner got hold of the forefinger of the prosecutrix's right hand and bit off the fit joint, which she spat out of her moult), and it was produced in c - iurt in a glass bottle. She was found guilty and sentenced to three months' hard labour. 2VIr. Payne said he had received a letter respect ing two soldiers who refused on the previous day to uncover in court, which he read to the jury, the strut - ) jurymen being then in the box as when the soldiers' case was tried. It was as follows : " Orderly.room, Grenadier Guards, Horse Guards, June 23. " Sir,—l am directed by the commanding officer of the regiment to inform you tiiat, his att en ti on h av i ng been drawn to remarks in different newspapers relative to the conduct of a non-commissioned officer and two privates of the Grenadier Guards at the Middlesex Ses sions at Westminster, he begs to express his regret that these men did not immediately comply with the order to take their caps off; but at the same time begs to re mark that upon inquiry into the case he finds they acted entirely under a misconception of orders, and without any intention of treating the court with contempt, as cer tain members of the Bar are stated to have remarked. "The serjeant was actually on duty, having to take charge of the corporal of the Stafford Militia, who was a prisoner, and for this reason thought he was justified in refusing to obey an order at variance with the orders of the regiment and the custom of the service.—l have the honour to lu' sir, &a, . _ . • "J. M. BUSGOYNE, Caftaini . Thip, he said, was moot satisfactory, and *was just what might have been expeaed from the highly honourable and gentlemanly feeling of`. the com manding officers. He was quite sure at .. tlie . tinie that no formal orders were in existence for soldiers not to uncover in a court of justice, and that the re fusal of th.-se particular men to do so was by a mis take. This letter put the matter right, and there fore ho communicated it to the jury. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.--June 23. - - - (Before the Assistant-Ju IgP, at Westminster.) George Curry, 13, James Webb, 23, Wm. Baker, 17, and Tnomai ate. n and Richard Tadnell, who surrendered were i n di c t e d for stealing 1021 b. of fat, the property of Stephen Camden. Mr. Ribton and Mr. John Daub tr were counsel Ea. the prosecution, Mr. Metcalfe was for Taclaell, and Mr. Sleigh for Bacon. The three other pri soners were not defended, The prosecutor was a bone raerclant at White chapel, and the property in question was stolen from his premises on the 31st of May. The evidence more or less tended to implicate all the prisoners, but an alibi vvas proved on behalf of Tadnell, who was acquitted, as were Bacon and Curry ; Webb and Biker we re conv : c • e d an d sentenced—the for mer to 9, and th e Mte. to 6 month's hard labour. Ceorge Cain e p, butche-, and Cha-. Haltlo2, a car penter, Were inlicted—t he former for stealing 131 b. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—June 23. _ MANSION-HOUSE. —John Jones was brought u p on remand, charged with stealing a cotton hand kerchief and a sovereign from Henry Smith, in Petticoat-lane, on Sunday last. The prosecutor deposed that he went to the " Lana" for the purpose of getting some clothes a bargain, having his money, a sovereign, carefully tied up in a corner of his pocket handkerchief. While making his way through a crowd he saw the prisoner with a handkerchief, which he fancied to be his own, in his hand, and finding upon feeling his pocket that his handkerchief was gone, he de sired the prisoner to return it . or he would give him into cust o dy. B ut the prisoner, instead of b doing so, pushed him on one side, while a man, who was evrdently a confederate, pushed him on the other, and so they kept him playing between them like a shuttlecock till a policeman came up and took tke prisoner, the other man getting away, and most ' likely carryirg off the spoil, as neither sovereign nor handkerchief was found on the prisoner. A policeman said ho had in vain attempted, since Monday, to Lind the prisoner's residence. Prisoner—. W by, I havn't got any residence. I :ern always about the country, and came from Hitchin last Saturday. I never took the man's handkerchief, I assure you, sir. Pros: cutor—Pleaa , , c,y lord, ho said at the sta tion that Lo was a, conjuror, and at all events he conjund my soy( reign out of my pocket ; I wish he could conjure it back again, for I am a poor man, and worked very hard to b a able to save it. The L rd M a yo r —lt' s a ver y hard cw A.e. reyou a conjuror, prisons r ? Prisoner—Yer, and a "worry honest one, too." I ve no doubt The Lord May - or-01r, indeed. you do the thimble-trick as you go about the coun try. But, however that may be, it was a shameful thing to rob this poor man of his money. Prisoner (impudently)—Oh, I don't believe he lost any money. I dare say he lost his handkerchief, but he don't look a man who could be worth a so vereign, and he has only trumped out this tale be cause he thinks you will give him one from the poor-box. - The Lord Mayor—That's an impudent defence, and only makes your case worse. I shall send you to prison for six weeks, with hard labour. The Prisoner (with a knowing leer)—Then I should prefer to have the case decided by a jury. The LLord Mayor—But I have preferred to de cide it myself. The Prisoner—Then there is no choice for me ? The Lord Mayor—No choice whatever, except to go prison for six weeks. The prisoner—Oh, very well—that's justice, I suppose. He was then locked up. GUILDHALL. Sarah Lee, a respectable middle-aged woman, whose address on the charge sheet was at Mr. Pearce's, 104, Broad-street, Rotherhithe, was charged on suspicion with robbing Mrs. Walsh, the wife of a draper at Battersea, of her purse, containing two sovereigns and 30s. 10d. in silver. Mrs. Walsh said.—l was going to Goodyear's, in St. Paul's Churchyard, yesterday, to purchase some hats, when my little boy expressed a wish to visit the Cathedral. I accordingly took bin in ; and while there this lady (the prisoner) came and sat down close by my side. Her dress was spread out over mine when she sat down. She asked me if the service was over, and upon my telling her I, could not inform her she entered into conversation about the paintings in the dome. There was a young man sitting at the other end of the form, and my son was walking about looking at the monu ments. When my son returned to me this lady rose, and wishing me very gracefully good morning, she walked away. I then went to the door without looking back, and just as I was going out I missed my purse from my pocket. Alderman Mechi—What kind of purse was it ? Witness—lt was a long purse, with two odd slide rings. Alderman Mechi—How much was in the purse ? Witness—Two sovereigns and 30s. 10d. in silver. Frederick Walsh, a lad about 12 years old, said— I am the son of the last witness. We left Battersea about 9 o'clock in the morning and stopped about an hour at Pimlico. We walked into the city. Mr. Martin—What money did your mother bring out with her ? Witness—Two sovereigns, Sir, and 30s. 10d. in silver. It was in a long purse with two different rings. James Phillips, draper, at 212, King's-road, Chelsea, said—l saw the prisoner and Mrs. Walsh sitting down together, and when I took my seat they both rose. Mrs. Walsh went out of the north door, and the prisoner went round the cathedral and down the west aisle inspecting the monuments. In a few minutes Mrs. Walsh returned greatly confused, and in looking for the prisoner she was going out of the south door when I called her back. We then pro ceeded round the cathedral and found the prisoner looking at the monuments in the aisle leading to the west door. Mrs. Walsh sail she had been robbed, upon which the prisoner handed over what pro perty .he had about her to the policeman, and ex pressed a wish to be searched. Police-countable 343 said—l found on the pri soner a purse containing two half-sovereigns, ls., and an old coin, a gold wat3ll and chain, and a letter addressed to the prisoner. The Prisoner—That letter refers to a Post-office order which I received, and had just got cashed at the Post-office. Alderman Mechi (after reading the letter) said— I feel hound to say that this letter shows the pri soner's connections are highly respectable, and satisfactorily accounts for the money found upon her. There is not the slightest ground for the present charge agair:st you, ::adam, and I am ex ceedingly sorry you shou'd have been placed in such a cruel position. Thero is no evidence to throw the remotest suspicion upon you, and you will therefore leave that bar without any stain upon your character. Tile prosecutrix walked all the way from Pimlico, and it is therefore pos sible she may have lost her purse before she got to the Cathedral ; for we all know that it is no difficult matter to find 100 thieves between Cha ring-cross and the city. In addition to wbit•h when the purse was missed this lady did not at tempt to leave the Cathedral, as any guilty per son would have done, but waited to inspect the monuments. The prisoner was then liberated, and the pro secutrix was cautioned to be more careful in future, and not giver a person into custody until she had some evidence of the fact, WORSHIP-STREET.—John Hoare, a middle aged man, described as a labourer, was charged upon his own confession, wi h violently assaulting Mary Hoare, his wife, and thereby causing her death. Critchell, of the R division, said—Last night, at 11 o'clock, I was on duty in Bell-gre3n, Syden ham, when I saw the prisuner standing against a fence, and I heard him say, "I hope God will forgive me for what I have done." I asked him what it was he had done, and he replied, "Go below, and you will hear what I have done ; it is very bal. He then hesitated, but added, " There was a piece of work at home, and I took the pokei-, struck my wife with it, and murdered her.". Prisoner—That iz false ; I did not say that I had mandered her. Officer—Yes, be did say "murdered her." I then asked him where he came from, and he told me Sarah's place, Brick-lane, Spitalfields. He was peifectly sober, and said no more about his wife then ; but I afterwards asked him where he did it, and at what time, and he said about a fortnight ago. I then took him into custody and at the station at Sydenham he made a statement to the sergeant on duty, who took it down in writing. By the Prisoner—When you first met me you were standing on the footpath, and when you said " Go below," I thought yin meant me to go down the hill to a public-house, as persons were about. Strgeaut Strength, 49 R—About a quarter past 10 last night I was in lower Sydenham, and saw the prisoner in cuslo.ly of the constable Critchell, who, in his hearing, told me what he has now stated upon oath. While at the station-house prisoner exprelsed a desire to make a statement, as he was very unhappy. I gave him the usual caution, and then took down in writing this confession, which he signed. He afterwards remarked that his wife was buried at Bow Cemetery. Tile Sergeant then read the following :—" About a fortnight ago I was at home with my wife and the girl. Some words arose, and the girl took up the poker ; I thought to strike me with. I got it away from her, and then my wife took up a stool and struckme on the head, causing a wound. Ihad the poker in my hand, and struck her cn the ribs with it. She called police-constable 81 11, but he seeing the blood on my head refused to take the charge. My wife got ill, and went to the London Hospital. They wished her to stay, but she came home, got worse, went again, stayed a few dam.- and returned. I fetched some medicine from a dcctor's shop near Vhitechapel Church, buf. she died on the following Monday.—John Hoare." Sergeant Strength—When the prisoner signed this he was sober, but excited. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Have you ascertained how far this-is correct ? Sergeant Strength—I have not had time, sir, to make minute inquiries, but I b.dieve the woman died from violence. Mr. D'Eyncourb—l will remand the prisoner, and let the officer alluded to in the statement then be present. Prisoner—l had been drinking. I recollect no thing about it. _ _ The accused was then ordered to be brought up on Wednesday next. SIIICIDE.—An inquest was held yesterday at the Goldsmiths' Arms, Sonthwaik-bridge, on the body of Emma Bell, aged 22. The deceased bad for som e ti me cohabited with a photographic artist,. with w h om s h e lived u happily, in consequence of jealousy on he r p ar '. On TAsday, after quarrelling with him, s h e t oo k a quantity of cyanide of pota sine,, and died almost directly. Verdict, " Temporary Insanity," ENGLISH INFLUENCE IN GERMANY. —The Paris Presse cemplains of the decline of French i, fluence in Germany. It affirms that a general senti men t o f aversion towards, France predominates in Germany, an d a dd s that th i s feeling is unconnected with political motives. The " dis int4eeted, cosmopolitan, and humanitarian genius of France," has only (it Opines) teen temporarily eclipsed in Gerniany - by the "genius of E , gland." "During more than two centuries," says the Prase, " Au tria was dietinguisbed by her regard for France. Our lan guage, our customs, our literature, ruled uequ -eticeed. This tended to soften the harshness and the excesses of the governmental system. In 1820 this influence com menced to wane; but nevertheless the Frenchman could still hold up Lis head in the streets of Vienna. To-day, it is sought to extinguish it entirely, and English in fluence is visibly dethroning that of France. Our wares, our books, our custom., have ceased to obtain preference in Vienna. The English tutor has repl aced in great fami lies the French Lute r ; English literature has supplantee that of Fleece. The Austiian capital is now utterly given up to everything English. Doubtless this rude Anglo-mania does not please ail parties, even in Vienna. Sincere Catholics deplore it in particular. But their complaints are lost in the mania which has seized upon the government to which they appeal ; for the Engli alliance cannot be purchased too dearly." TIIE VINE DISEASE. I The following new and important facts concern ing this operation form the subject of a paper just pre4entecl to the Academy of Sciences by M. de is Vergne :—" 1. The oidium does not spread to any ; alarming extent, except when the temperature is day and night above 20 deg. Centigrade (68 Fehr), as is the case in the neighbourhood of Bordeaux, from the end of May to that of September. When ever northern winds prevail in the interval, or frequent winds lower the temperature considerably, the growth of the oidium is stopped, to acquire fresh vigour as soon as the sun adds warmth to the humidity with which the parasite is saturated. The same vine plant is not always equally subject to the attacks of the oidium, nor at the same time of the year; nor are different species of vines equally in vaded in different soils orsituations. Hence, the °pc' ration of sulphuring need not extend to every point attacked, or be repeated during the whole duration of the malady. 2. The action of the sulphur is circumscribed, and almost strictly local. Its cu rative properties have no effect below the tempera ture of 20 deg. ; hence the warmth necessary for its action is preciselythat which favours the growth of the oi lium. As wind and rain carry off the sul phur, this substance can only protect the vine during a limited period. Moreover, it does not re' store grapes already spoilt to their normal condi tion. Butsulphur destroys the shoets of the oidium of recent formation, and thus prevents it from spreading. It is a great mistake to think that too much sulphur cannot be administered to a vine; the particles of flower of sulphur contain minute portions of sulphuric acid, which, when accumu lated to excess, will burn the plant itself, often in juring it irretrievably. Fifty kilogrammes of sul phur per hectare, if properly administered, are quite sufficient for a season. 3. As the vine-grow ing districts of France are deficient in hands, it bee comes a matter of importance not to increase the labour of cultivation unneceQsaaily by untimely sulphuring. No vineyard is attacked by the oidium at once throughout it whole extent ; there are al ways some vines' that are the first to betray the ex istence of the enemy, and it is they that point out the proper time for sulphuring. They are generally situated near buildings or ditches, or trees casting a shade over them. Whenever a whitish or farinace ous spot appears on the leaves or stem of these plants, in a temperature exceeding 20 deg. by night as well as by day, it is certain that all the vines are attacked, although the eye cannot discover a trace of the fungus elsewhere, and then every plant of the vineyard must be sulphured at once." While we are on the subject, we may add a few practical, remarks just published by the committee of the Accademia dei Georgofili of Florence, appointed to inquire into the results obtained from sulphur during the years 185'6 and 1857. The committee state in their report that although the oidium appeared in those years to be naturally on the decline, yet the beneficial effects of sulphur, could not be denied. The operation was con ducted with more or less care in different localities, which circumstance accounts for the dif ferent degree of success obtained The wines were excellent • the slight sulphu rous t as t e t h ey some times haddisappeared in a short time. The wash ing of the grapes immediately after th e t y i ng o f t he vines with from 51b. to 711'. of glue dissolved in 1001 b. of water, and with the addition of a little flour or clay, had produced excellent effects. Laying the vines down, so as to bring the grapes as near as possible to the ground, had also been found advantageous. Lastly, the report mentions the curious fact that the grafting of American vines upon those of Tuscany produces a great in crease in the quantity of grapes, and that vines r graftt d are little liable, if at all, to be invaded by the oidium. But this system is attended with two serious drawbacks—the wine-grower loses the pro duce of two years, and the wine obtained, though extremely abundant, is inferior in quality.—Ga/ig na e i's Msssenger. Country Markets. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET JIINt 22. Supplies of all kinds these last six days small. Oat straw, from 7s Od to 108 Od per kemple of 16 stones;` tron ' • wheat do., 8s Od to 9 s Od ; b ar l ey d o., 8s Od to 9. 6d. Hay from 10d to 13d. EDINBURGH MEAL—JUNE 22. There were in the market today 12 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2301 b imperial, which sold at 40s Od and a. DALKEITH MEAL MARKET—JuNu 21. There were in the market to-day 7 bags of oatmeal, oof barleymeal, and 0 pot barley. Sales dull. Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs First. Second. Third. imperial Barleymeal, per ditto -s Od —a Od —s Od Peasemeal, per ditto Flour, new, per ditto —s Od —s Od —s 0. 1 Pot-barley, new, per ditto —a Od =s Od —s Od. DUBLIN—JUNE 22. Our corn market to•day was as dull as possible ; in fact business was confined to mere retail to supply the wants of the moment. White wheat, 263 6d to 288 6d ; red ditto, 24s Oct to 26 g 6d; ditto now, a Od ; barley, malting, 13s to 17s Od; grind' jug, —a to —a ; oa.s, old, 15s to 16s Od; ditto, new, -"" to —s Od; oatmeal, 149 6d to 16s ad; bare, new, —a to — 4 Od ; rapesotd, —s Od to —a Od per brl ; bakery,' norm, 144 Oa' to 183 61 per owt ; Indian corn, 349 01 to 26 : ad I'll° 430 lbs. BRISTOL SUGAR—JUNE 23. The market has been quiet this week ; indeed, ocarceir, any sugars but Barbadoes have been offering, of which fine• kinds maintain their value, while brown and moist BO'S have been selling rather cheaper. No transactions in run► to report. COAL MAR Prices of Coals per ton at • s d. Wylam Walker Primrose 0 Taufield Moor l2 9 Tan fi old Moor Butes 12 0 Hastings Hartley 14 9 Holywell ........... ..... l4 0 North Percy Hartley l3 Wallsend,&c. Framwe11gate,,.,..,,,,,,14 Eden Acorn Closo l4 9 llarton . 13 Braddyll l5 0 Baton Lyons Main l3 Ships at marker "...—Jurric 23. the close of the market Wallsend, &o. s _l4 S . _l4 ..14 Benson. Whitworth !lough Halt Brown's Moor Haigh Main 13 aetton l6 Lambton 16 Hunwick l4 d Powell's Duffryn Steam 20 0 roes l6 ° South Hatton l6 3 Efaswell 16 6 Stewart's 13 6 !Thorp l6 t, 71 ; sold, 42, LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL—JUNK 23. STOCK EXCHANGE—The market was firm _at . the °Par ing, but closed quietly. Subjoined are the closing prices :"; Dutch Rhenish, 4,1 die--Grald Trunk of Canada, 10 ; —Caledonianp, 39 1— Blackburn, 10i Birkenheadet 69 i—Chester and Holyhead, 171 A —Eastern Counties , 12A —Great Western, 49 i',—Lancashire and Yorksbirfr 89j B—East Lancashfre ' 88i 91—London and N o rth: Western, 90—Sheffield, 364 7--Midland, 918 , British, 12 6-13erwicks, 22 1 i—York and North NW and, 35:1—Leeds Northern, 22f i—Dovers, 20 7.16 - :: • Groat Western of Canada, in MANCHESTER, JUNE 23. . _ STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market opened rather Sr and a moderate busine ss was d one, b ut pr i ces were we towards the close. Leeds, 893—Birkenhead Stock,' 6P -- Trunks, Blackburn; 103—Dover; 20/I—Midlands? 91il—Sheffields, 37a—London; 90!,—Eastern Counties' 124. BIRMINGHAM, JUNE 23. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was a steady market here to" day, and a fair amount of business doing. Great WOO% closed at 49f —Ditto, Birmingham Gu aran t ee d Stock, • 73—North Stafford, at 5A —South Stafford 10 A. BIRTHS. 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