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After which. HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, &c.: Mesdames Cavendish, Hill. &c Followed lyi A REGTTLA R FIX: r. -othern. Concluding with HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS: Messrs. Buckstone, Howe, Kendal; Miss F. Wright, Miss F. Gwynn. THE,ITRE-IZOYAL, ADFLPHT. •Fnrs EvENTNG. at 7, FW.IESTIC ECONOMY: Mr Gen Eel nto an 1. Mrs Leigh t!urray. At 8, EVE: Mr Ben iambi Web to 8. LIME FOE Miss Neilson. Mr. A. Stirling, Mr. star, Mr 11. Nor lie. Miss Furtado, Mrs Alfrefl Moilon. g o n-I DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR, WIFE TO CAMBERWELL? Mr. G. Belmore. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. 'I HIS EVENING. at 7.30, FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke Miss ilufton. JOA NOF ABC: Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton; • esdames noodall, Lydia Maitland, Button. To cone.lude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS EVENINII, at 7, BLOW FOR BLOW: Messrs. W. Farren, Vernon. David Fisher, J. Clarke: Miss Lydia voote. At 9. 5, the new burlesque 'III CORSICAN 1 .- 3 T HERS': Messrs. J. Clarke, 11Iarshall. Andrews, and Hurlstone : Mesdames Julia St. George, Berend, Brennan, and C. Thorne THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. Tins EvE'TNG, THE MISTRESS OF TIIE MILL. After which MONEY: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Mr. G. Honey, Mrs. C. Horiman, &c. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Oliver. Ting F:YENING. at 7. 2 0. iN FOR A HOLID Y. Followed by A - ROVING COM And THE MILITARY BILLY TAILOR. To conclude with CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Day, Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers, Miss M. Oliver. Miss K. Bishop. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton Tnrs EVENiNG, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, IL J. Montague, Addison, Clover. and Bancroft: Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. Afterwhich, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET, Tits F,vENtsn, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment. Immense Success of BARBE BLUE. The Only Leon CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Nig,ht, at 8 Wednesdays and ,‘.'aturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLET , Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at 8. ls. Box-ale( open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mrndays, 6d. Children under twelve. 6d LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1869. Since NAPOLEON 111. has been in power as the supreme ruler of France, there have been rumours of every imaginable description afloat in regard to him, frequently rumours of the most sinister and always of the most extravagant description. He was a sworn member of the Carbonari. He was reso lutely bent upon avenging Waterloo. Il e was re solved upon invading England. fie was going, f or certain, to abandon the POPE to the tender mercies of the Italian Revolutionists. He was, as a fatalist, firmly convinced of the truth of some mysterious prediction, to the effect that he would die in the streets of London. As proof of his identification with the Carbonari, the EMPEROR and his wife were all but destroyed by that " noble gentleman ' but base assassin, Signor ORSINI. As to avenging Waterloo—well, there it is true, Rumour, though in in a very Delphic way, spoke very oracularly. For has not the EMPEROR avenged Waterloo, and avenged it magnificently, by his loyal alliance of Franc.! with England during upwards of twenty years, iu peace and in war, on the battle-field and in the C.,uacil Chamber? As to his invas:oa of Eagland—so long said to be looming in the fatur,t—will, there again, Rumour has I.nen so far justified that he has certainly entere 1 our capital in triumph, but then it was as a guest, and without his army. His abandonment of the SOVEREIGN PONTIFF has been so entirely part and parcel of his Europeal policy, that he it was who by the aid of his arms and of his diplomacy brought Pius IX. back. from Gaeta to the Eternal City ; and it was his present - Minister of State, M. ROL'IIER, who solemnly averred, and that not so very long ago either, that France never—ja mais—would abandoi Rouse to the Ravolution. A, to his MAJESTY'S conviction, as a fatalist, that he will eventually die, here, in the streets of London—well, it never seems to occur to axy one of the fatuously THE SUN, LONDON, TPURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 17, 1869. credulous people believing in the EMPEROR'S cre dence in that absurd prediction, that he would show himself to be the most wantonly misguided of mor tals, if—so thinking—he laid himself open to its ful filment by ever courting the catastrophe. Ludicrous, however, though all these lying rumours have been in respect to the French EMPEROR, the absurdest that has ever yet sprung into existence in his regard is this, that he himself, through his own police agents, got up these recent insurrectionary movements in Paris in order that he might put them down immediately afterwards. The notion is nothing less than abso lutely preposterous. The astutest Sovereign in Chris'enclom is the unlikeliest man in the whole world to be playing with those edged tools ! He, if any man, has studied French History with an eye, and a judgment, and a conscientious scrutiny of the keenest investigation. If he understands any thing upon earth it is the French character. Born in the purple—the first of all the Imperial Princes—in the old Bourbon Palace of the Tuileries, whither he was to return home, upwards of forty years after the dAte of his birth, himself as Emperor—NAPOLEON 111. acquired the wisdom of experience and of observation in the best school of all, that of adversity, for a very long interval in exile, for six years together as a student-prisoner in the Fortress of Ham—a wisdom the stores of which he has more recently had the op portunity of wonderfully enhancing in more than a score of years of supreme power as ruler of France, since the time when that supreme responsibi lity first passed into ' his hands. The notion of the successor of Louis PHILIPPE, wantonly and wilfully, provoking a collision in the streets of Paris, between the mob and the police, is beyonl a moment's question of it the most extrayagaut impu tation yet directed by the enemies of the EMPEROR against his character, and against his capacity as a ruler of men. It is not simply a denial of his good faith, but of his common sense. WHATEVER be the fate of the Irish Church] Bill, the debate upon it in the Upper House has afforded one of the strongest arguments ever urged for the retention of the bishops in the House of Lords. No one, whatever be his views upon the great question now before the country, whatever be the religious communion to which he belongs, can read without a glow of pride the speeches which have been delivered by the Arch bishop of CANTERBURY and the Bishop of St. DAVID'S on the one side, and by the Bishop of DERRY and the Bishop of PETERBOROUGH on the other. The first were fine specimens of cogent logic ; the second were even finer specimens of magnificent rhetoric. In truth, nothing grander than the speech of the last named prelate has been heard since this question was first raised, nothing grander, we had almost ven tured to say, has ever been heard in either House of Parliament. It is impossible not to feel that the House of Lords, nay, the whole nation, would have sustained a heavy loss if it had been deprived of these speeches ; it is impossible not to regret that one result of the Irish Church Bill will be the exclusion of Bishop ALEXANDER, from Parliament or to rejoice that the bill does not involve the exclu sion of Bishop MAGEE. Altogetherit must be admitted that the reputation of the Upper House as a debating assembly has not only been maintained, but greatly enhanced this week. There is something, after all, in " blood and culture." One of the most satiscaeory features of this great debate is the unanimity with which the leading peers on both sides of the House have agreed to repudiate the antiquated objections respecting the Coronation Oath and the Act of Union. The Bishop of PETER BOROUGH—by far the most effective debater against the bill—commenced his speech by referring to these objections with a candour that was only just short of being contemptuous. Considering the vehemence with which they were urged on the hustings and have since been urged at the " demonstrations, considering too that there are still one or two peers who believe that these objections have weight, the plainness with which Dr. MAGEE spewed the absurdity of them is worthy of all praise. He could well afford to dispense with such lumbering weapons as those. As well might the modern artillerist resort to the old fashioned hooped guns of three hundred years ago, as an orator of the Bishop of PETERBOROUGH'S type insist that an Act of Parliament passed nearly seventy years ago was binding for all time, or that the QUEEN, having promised Parliament not to alter the laws, is not free to accept any alterationof them when Parliament sanctions it. There was, however, one fallacy which ran through the whole of the Bishop of PETERBOROUGH'S speech, and also through those of the Archbishop of DUBLIN and other members of the Opposition. They spoke of the Church being sent forth stripped and naked, and waxed elo quent and pathetic over the pitiable spec tacle. We need hardly remind our readers that it exists only in the imagination of the speakers. A Church which starts upon its new career with b tnh e e t aa w tr l e tyh e l e d% Englishsevenit ble and he chuei.i incomeih tnp per rw he enjoys millions ja.odys of s f t ir e to r si l n i ng e members d w o i w t 1 - ments—can hardly ba in the deplorable plight that these two prelates represented. Another incident worth notice is that there is still a strong feeling among individual peers of both parties in favour of a concurrent endow ment of the Roman Catholic Church. We all know that Lord RUSSELL desires this, and Bishop THIRLIVALL, Lord PENZANCE, and even Bishop - MAGEE himself would seem to prefer it. But the second and the third of these frankly admit that the nation will not have it, and that the time is, there fore, gone by for proposing it. While the Conservative Cave grows larger every day, while Lord DERBY'S old Cabinet colleagues entreat him not to reject the bill, and so throw away the opportunity which now offers for amending it, the talked-of Liberal Cave has come to nothing. Earl GREY has too often called down upon himself Hoon's sarcasm that " He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles." and it was generally supposed that he would be found going against the party with whom he is nominally associated. But he has done the opposite. His speech was one of the most argumentative and logical that has been delivered against the policy of Lord DERBY and his friends. He pointed out, as the Duke of RICHMOND did after him, that while it may be doubtful how far the nation has ap proved the details of Mr. GLADSTONE'S measure, it has unquestionably approved the main principles, and that there is not the smallest reason to suppose that a fresh appeal to the country would produce a different response. He pointed out, too, how good an opportunity the Peers would have of altering the bill if it went into committee, an opportunity that would never recur if the bill were rejected. He reminded his fellow peers that in yielding to the will of the House of Commons in this matter that enuoswe, when, hen , woud b thirty-one l ut follow years thea ago, exampleit yielded of to the will of atOisofonntih e tbhe l ec i a :ll lls s er e is h o t f hce L h O u r n d rac s thi 1 -0 1 i p la O n n ds u t i h lfi e wo r y r e t e l: a t sas h ill-n e niel U ar pper as it now supports the Lower House. These judicious remarks, and the approving " Hear, hear " of Lord RUSSEL L , s h ew that all hope from any divisions among the Liberal parties is now , eut away from the Conservatives. In speaking tl ms, Lord GREY did such good service that lie may well be pardoned for the ill-natured remt .rks which he made as to the origin of the pies .ent controversy. In fact, he answered them himse If ; lie himself refuted his own accusations. Finally, All those who love the Constitution, and deprecate arr: violent change, such as would result from a. conflict between the two Houses and between the Lords and. the nation, cannot sufficiently express their gratitude , to the Peers who, like the Duke of RicirgoNo, the , Archbishop of CANTERBURY, and the Earl of CARNARVON, have separated from th.air part y or their order in the hope of sparing thin count ,ry a great calamity, LATEST INTELI MENU (REU'ER'S TELEGRAM.) CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY, June 10. The examination of the prisoners at Bicetre goes on rapidly. Four hundred and eighty have already been set at liberty, and the Patrie expects that the vast majority of the remainder will follow. The semi-official paper remarks that the persons arrested are easily separated into two classes, those who were mixed up with the rioting mob, sight-seers, and the like, who were arrested en masse ; and the really culpable dis turbers of the peace. When the wheat is thus separated from the chaff, there will, says the Patrie, be only about 200 left. As to the imprudent and foolish folk who, with out being rioters themselves, yet mingled with those who were, the Patrie thinks that the arrest and detention will be sufficient punishment for their indiscretion. No doubt it will. The board and lodging at Bicetre is so indiffe rent, not to speak of the inconvenience and ignominy of several days' detention, that the m ore respectable portion of the martyrs will beware of riotous crowds for the future. The majority of the individuals arrested consists of the dregsof the Parisian population ; almost all are under age, and many have undergone previous condemnations. The bar is greatly excited at the arrest of two of its members, MM. Bocquet and Laferriere. A petition has been drawn up at the Palais de Justice, and receives numerous signatures. The petitioners offer to become bail for their fellow-barristers, and ask for their provisional liberation. Some journalists who were incar cerated have been set at liberty ; but the press prosecu tions arising out of these disturbances will be yen , numerous. Meanwhile certain individuals have been reaping the reward of the folly of which they were guilty about a month ago. Three students have been tried by the Cor rectional Tribunal for resisting the police during the disorders of May 13th. One had thrown a leather case filled with papers in the face of one agent, another had struck a sergent twice in the head, a third had incited his compa nions to rescue some students who had been taken prisoners. They were very lightly dealt with, the highest penalty inflicted being a fine of £4. Three workmen were likewise charged with seditious proceedings. Their offence con sisted in posting up a song entitled " Nommons Raspail," the name of which explains its nature. Two of them were sentenced to a fortnight's imprisonment, and the other, who was the author of the delightful production, to two months'. The strike in the neighbourhood of St. Etienne con tinues. The earlier accounts gave the impression that the turn-out had been a riot provoked by the news that Paris had risen and overturned the Government ; but the affair has since developed into a regular strike. Very exten sive, too, are the demands of the miners, comprising both a reduction of the hours of labour and an increase of wages, besides lesser changes. The suspension of work continues in all the region of the Loire, but some isolated mines are recommencing business. These have to be pro tected by detachments of soldiers. The Duc de Persigny is very little satisfied with the reception accorded to his epistle. The journals of all shades unite in condemning it, on the ground that it is indefinite and purposeless, complaining of the present situation, and yet suggesting nothing. The Duc promises a second epistle, in which be will be much more explicit. To make Paris a seaport has been one of the hobbies of several French sovereigns. The only possible means of realising this idea is by a ship canal, for the, Seine is so shallow that nothing with greater draught than a barge can get up it. But still the Parisians like to imagine that they are a seafaring people. They have built a curious vessel with three masts, entitled the Paris-Port•de-Mer. This ship, which of course is of very small draught, has been lying some time off one of the quays. Yesterday, however, she was towed down the river, and is about to adventure with a full freight of goods to China. One of the most remarkable instances of religious monomania I ever met with is recorded in a Rouen paper. A working stove•fitter of ChAteau-Thierry (Aisne), aged about 40, a married man and father of a family, was found a few days back in his garret, lying on a cross, which he bad himself constructed out of old rafters, and to which, in imitation of the death of Jesus Christ, he had actually nailed his two feet and one of his hands. He was removed to the hospital. Lord Lyons has left Paris for London, to be present in the House of Lords at the debate on the Irish Church Bill. ANIERICA. NEW URIC, June IG. According to advices from Haiana, cholera has assumed an epidemic character atlluevitas. The insurgents have burned the towns of Niguas and Camerones. ThsToN, Jute 16. President Grant, accompaniedby Mr. Boutwell, Secretary of the Treasury, and Admiral Farragut arrived here this morning. Ttey were received by the Governor of the State acid escorted to the capitol by a military guard of honour. Compli mentary addresses were deliverk by the Governor, the officers of the State, and members of the Legis lative body. The President briefly returned thanks for the cordiality of the welcome given him, acknowledg ing that Massachusetts had largely contributed to his election to the Presidency. The State Legislature of Florida have ratified the Negro Suffrage Amendment. The State Treasurer of Missouri announces that the principal and interest of the bonds will here after be paid in coin._ The internal revenue receipts since the Ist of this month exceed eighteen millions of dollars. PHILADELPHIA, June 16. The Government sanctions the publications of the following version of Mr. Motley's instructions : He will explain to the British Government the cir curnatancea attending the rejection of the Alalcyanam treaty, without committing America to any parti cular policy. Mr. Motley is not instructed to pro pose any settlement of claims, but to secure the temporary postponement of the question, hoping when the present excitement subsides that England will invite renewed negotiations. He is not autho rized to announce the readiness of the United States to make any propositions, or to demand the payment of claims, but to ass ure t h e British Government of the sincere desire of the United States to have the dispute adjusted on terms honOurable and s ttis factory to both nations. He is also instructed to state that the Neutrality Proclamation is not in itself a cause for demanding compensation, or a separate ground of complaint, but that, taken with subsequent acts, it was unfriendly, as show ing a _feeling of hostility to America during the late war, and resulting in losses requiring repara tion. PORTUGAL. LISBON, June 15 (Eveniug). The Queen has embarked for Bordeaux to-day. The friends of the Duke of Saldanha are making great preparations to give him a brilliant reception o❑ his arrival. SPAIN. MADRID, Julie 16 (Evening). The reports of the formation of a new Ministry aro premature. The Regent, Marshal Serrano, will take the oath ou Friday, before the Cortes, in conformity with ceremonial agreed upon at the close of to d-ty's sitting. Tu HKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 15 (Evening). The Levant Herald of to-day states that the Porte has scut instructions to its Ministers abroad to prote3t against invitations given by the Viceroy to foreign Sovereigns to attend the opening of the Suez Canal as his guests. The Porte says that such invitations should em mate from the Sultan as the Suzerain of the Viceroy. The English Ambassador, ai.d other foreign re presentatives, have left for their summer residences on the Bosphorus. One of the Sultan's wives has given birth to a Prince, who has been named Mehmed Chilket. AUS 1 RA LIA. MELBOURNE, May 23. The members of the Legisllative Assembly, who were lately expelled for bribery, have been re elected by their constituencies. The associated bribers were declared guilty of breach of Parliamentary Privilege, and were com mitted to jail. The Judges. however, upon being appealed to declared the warrant of committal in valid, and ordered the parties to be released. Parliament intends to appeal to the Privy Council. The submarine cable to connect Tasmania with Australia was successfully laid by the Telegraph Construction steamer Investigator on the Ist inst., and is working satisfactorily. The agricultural statistics are favourable. The Intercolonial Commercial Conference has adopted resolutions recommending a fiscal confede ration of the colonies. has been withdrawn The Victorian Ralway Loan *rom the London market. Trade is dull. SYDNEY, May 20. Several storms, shipwrecks, and floods, accom panied by loss of life, have occurred on the coast. A. slave corvette, with 100 slaves on board, has been captured in the South Sea. The slaves have been released, and the vessel sent as a prize to Sydney. Advices from New Zealand confirm the late massacre of settlers and friendly natives at Mo haka, but the latest news is more favourable. INDIAN MAIL. SUEZ, June 17. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer China, from Bombay on the Ist inst., arrived here at 11 p.m. yesterday. FRANCE. PARIS, June 17. The Official Journal of this morning publishes a telegram of yesterday's date from Saint Etienne, stating that the troops had arrested a number of miners who were trying to prevent others from working. As the troops were returning to Saint Etienne a mob assailed them with stones and pistol shots to rescue the prisoners. The troops fired upon their assailants, who took to flight, leaving 33 of their number in the hands of the troops, by whom they were conducted to Saint Etienne. From six to ten of the rioters were killed, and four or five soldiers more or less injured. BOURSE, June 16.—Three o'clock—The markt, closed as follows : 41 per Cent. End of month_ per Cent End of month 7l 23 'redit Mobilier 230 - End of month — redit Foncier 1580 -- End of month — RAILWA' Bink Shares 2895 -- It t.l 4 au Fives 56 80 End of month — Ottoman Loan Do. Debt 4l 75 Spanish Threes Homo Debt — 1 Deferrod ...... s. Cash Orleans .. 923 f Northorn :.....•••• 10981 Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 625 Western Eastern . Sardinian Austrian 50 7661 Lombard 5131 North of Spain Saragossa Homan GO AGRICULTURAL PROSTECTS. A cold spring, the heavy rainfalls, the changeable weather of late, and the provoking succession of heat and cold, wet and sunshine, with which we are being visited, have together made up a most anxious time for the farmer. Few periods of the year are more critical than the present. The weather is day by day telling with the greatest effect upon the crops, deciding the quantity and the quality of the various harvests. Wheat is just bursting into ear; the other cereals are sheaving their strength ; the bay harvest is being gathered in ; and the whole of the agricultural dis tricts are eagerly watching " the signs of the times." The reports received from all parts of the country regarding the state of the crops betoken this anxiety. Everything turns on an "if." If the wet and cold forsake us for a space, if we have real summer weather for a time, all will be well. But the continuance of the unsettlement forbodes ill. Already the cold has retarded the develop ment of the crops, and will cause a late harvest. Should the weather still continue unfavourable, the results will be disastrous. The sun shone out gloriouslylast week, and (so the farm ers say) did more good in four days than is often done in a fortnight. "Itis an ill wind that blows nobody good," and if we shall not have more than an average yield of wheat, there will be a large harvest of straw. If the barley looks bad, the peas and beans are more than promising. If in some cases the clover and artificial grasses are behind, the meadow hay is almost universally good. Advices from all parts of the country tally most singu larly. The weather has been almost identical throughout the land, and the crops have progressed simultaneously. Perhaps Northumberland presents the most discouraging feature of them all. Wheat in this county looks very thin and exceedingly poor. It promises only half of what was gathered in last year. Barley, on the other hand — which in most other districts has been thinned and damaged by the wind—is in Northumberland good, reported to be the best looking of any crop. Farther south, in South Lanca shire and South Cheshire, the land has absorbed a good deal of wet without any very serious injury, and where good drainage is provided wheat looks well enough. In Yorkshire also—in the larger portion of it, at least—the wheat is very fair on good lands. But throughout the northern counties especially alate harvest must be expected. Some districts are more forward than others. Hardly any, however, expect to get in their crops so early as usual. In this matter the year 1869 is the very opposite of 1868. Last year the cereals were safely carried nearly a month earlier than the " calendar time." The need of warmth is insisted upon in the case of most of the other crops, as of wheat in the north. Barley throughout is reported unpromising. Beans are the very reverse ; and peas, where grown, are in the very best condition. The root crops are not so forward as might be wished ; in some cases the crusted earth has retarded them a little ; but they look healthy, and promise well. Meadows, hay, and pastures give great delight to the grazier, but in many cases the grass crops uncut are beginning to rot at the bottom, and the univer sal wet of the last few days has spoiled the bay in forward districts. The Midland crops are much the same as those further north. The reports speak more decidedly, perhaps, of a late harvest. In Shropshire it will be more than a fort night after the usual time, and in Warwickshire will be at least a week behind. Farmers having sown heavily of barley in some parts of the first-named shire, will lose seriously by the bad yield. Potatoes are also very bad in the neighbourhood. The other root crops look well. In Staffordshire the root crops are late. In Cambridge the mangolds are sickly, and the swedes are attacked by flies. In Buckingham the peas are very good ; the beans and potatoes are in first-class condition. In Norfolk and some of the Eastern counties, the barley promises au average crop, and will amply repay the farmer for planting. On heavy soils, both in Norfolk and in Suffolk, the wheat is stated to be in capital condition. Throughout the Eastern district a very large breadth of land has been given to peas and beans ; the crops are large and advancing to perfection. Oats in the same district look up better than elsewhere, and betoken an average yield. In the South and West late harvests are also certain. The oat crop promises well in most cases. Potatoes alto gether seem thriving. In South pants the farmers are just now von ing vengeance on the wire -worm, which is re. ported to be doing a great deal of damage to the wheat and barley crops. The cen.als have not yet recovered from the cold, and some accounts say it is doubtful whether they will do so. Taking the reports as a whole, they point to an average wheat crop to be gathered late ; to a poor barley crop, also late ; to average root crops, good pota. toes, and—if the insects will only spare them—a fair yield of swede and ma,ngold ; to fine gatherings of beans and peas, as abundant as we have had of late years. These reports, however, will necessarily be much modified by the unusually wet, cold, and windy weather of the last few days. The wheat is now very generally in blossom, and the rough winds must be most damaging to the prospects of the farmer. The state of the weather is now a cause of the utmost anxiety. in a strong gale ou Tuesday from the north-east a vessel was wrecked off Dunbar, and six lives were lost. pi, name 01 tin YO5Ol 41_11111E120WD. MR. KUB S ANN UAL COA CERT. Mr. Kuhe's concert, which is always considered one of the great events of the musical season, took place yesterday afternoon at St. James's Hall, and long before the commencement of the programme a brilliant audience occupied every seat in the spacious bui!ding. The vocalists were Madame Adelina Patti, Mdlle. Vanziui, Mdlle. Grossi, Mdlle. Lieb hart, Miss Edith Wynne, Madame Florence Lancia, Mdlle. Drasdil, Madame Sainton-Dolby, Mdlle. Titiens, Signor Mongini, Herr Reichardt, Mr. Ver non-Rigby, Signor Foli, M. Jules Lefort, and Mr. Santley. The instrumentalists : Violin, Madame Norman-Meru ia ; violoncello, Signor Piatti ; harp, Mr. John Thomas; and pianoforte, Mr. Kuhe. Such an array of talent is seldom to be met with in a siegle programme, and when we add that we had neither absentees nor excuses we have said suffi cient to convince every lover of music that the con cert must have been one of extraordinary goodness. Part 1 opened with Kreuzer's trio " Trenne nicht dais Band der Liebe," by Madame Lancia, Herr Reichardt, and M. Jules L6fort, which was given with much excellence, the soprano part more espe cially. Then came the first of the many beauties which followed, viz., a duo for pianoforte and vio loncello—Mendelssohn's " Thema con variazoni," by Mr. Kuhe and M. Piatti, and a more masterly performance certainly has never been heard within St. James's Hall. The execution of Kuhe was extraordinary, both as regards finish and delicacy of touch, and the intense ex pression M. Piatti drew from his instrument called forth the most enthusiastic applause. On hastily glancing down the programme we find it will be an impossibility in our limited space to particularise every item of the concert, we must therefore cow eat ourselves with selecting some of the most prominent, and to carry out that intention we come to Aldine. Titicns' Aria " Non mi dir." Never 1)9.3 the en chanting composition of Moz-irt been more finely sung, and at its conclusion the audience were completely carried away by the performance, and an encore was insisted on. The great vocalist, with that good humour for which she is so remarkable, at once complied ; but instead of repeating the air, she sang " The Last Rose of Summer," which actually converted the enthusiasm into a positive extacy of delight. Ou silence being restored, Mongini appeared, and sang Donizetti's romance from "La Favorite," " Una Vergina," with remarkable power and sweetness. Miss Edith Wynne sung Benedict's beautiful ballad " Rock Me to Sleep," the componer splendidly accompanying the vocalist. Then carne a duo from Figaro, " Sull' aria," by Mdmes. Titiens and Patti, and here again another triumph was achieved, but this time the audience were gratified with a repetition of the aria, to their intense delight. Mr. Santley's singing Schira's aria, "Io Carnal," with Piatti's violoncello obligato, was superb. Mr. Kuhe having given another exempli fication of his wonderful power and control of the pianoforte by the performance of a brilliant arrange ment of his own of the airs from "Dinorah," Mduie. Patti again appeared, and this time she created the greatest enthusiasm by her singing the old Scotch song, " "Iwas within a mile o' Edinburgh town," which was increased by her wonderful rendering of the finale to "La Sonnambula." Madme. Vanzini sang Meyerbeer's "Robert toi quo j'aime" with re markable brilliancy. Mdme. Norman-Neruda per formed a solo on the violin with a firmness and purity of tone that was truly astonishing. Mr. John Thomas gave a brilliant fantasia on the harp, and Mdlle. Drasdil sang two English ballads, the one by Benedict, " I murmur not," eliciting the greatest amount of applause. Mdme. Sainton-Dolby sang a ballad by Plimpton ; but the truth must be told ; time, and wear, and tear have not spared even the voice of the once great contralto. Aldine. Lieb hart met with rather a discomfiture, for, notwith standing;all herlittle playful eccentricities, herVolk shied "Ruck ruck" fell very flat. The concert, as a whole, was really a splendid one, and we congratu late Mr. Kuhe on the great success which attended the brilliant entertainment. THE GLOBE THEA 7 RE. Last night "Blow for Blow" was produced at this theatre, Mr. William Farren appearing in the part of John Drummond, and Miss Foote in her two characters, Mildred Cradock and Alice Petherick. The drama was excellently mounted, and its performance gave the utmost peasure to a very well-attended house. The brilliant bur lesque of the Corsican Brothers continues to elicit the warmest applause. The company at this pretty little theatre is now particularly good, and with a judicious selection of pieces the successful issue of the season will be a certainty. The Globe is now certainly one of the most attractive amongst the many theatres in the metropolis. MARK E 7 S- 2 lIIS DA I'. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. June 17.—Sales probably 15,000 bales, possibly more The market firm and advancing. TUE UNIVERSITY CRICKET TVEF:K. The cricket match between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge commences on Monday next, and during the present week both elevens are taking preliminary practice on the metropolitan grounds. Each has played a match with a strong eleven, and each has proved victorious. On Monday Cam bridge encountered the Marylebone Club and Ground at Lord's, and on the same day Oxford met the county eleven of Surrey at the Oval. The last proved a very hollow affair. The Surrey men took the batting first, and were all out for 94 runs ; nobody making any good score, except a colt, Mr. Akroyd, who got 23, and Stephenson 21. The University then accumu. lated the large total of 362, Pauncefote heading the list with 123, and Evetts and Hill each making 73. Surrey tried again, but could only reach 172, leaving Oxford the winner by an innings and 98 runs. The match at Lord's was much finer, Cambridge ex hibiting some very good batting against the first - class bowling of Wootton and Grace. Mr. Thornton's play in particular was admirable. The University scored 87 and 181; the club only 82 and 70, the famous W. G. Grace obtainingnearly half the whole. This, it will be seen, was a less decisive defeat than that of Surrey by Oxford, but the merit of the two elevens must not be judged by the scores. Lord's is the more difficult ground of the two ; moreover the bowling of Surrey has become so weak of late years that the county, once the strongest in England, is quite incapable of making a stand against a powerful eleven. At Lord's, on the other hand, the bowling was of the highest order. The general opinion is that the Cambridge team is the stronger. It includes not fewer than five good bowlers, and its batting team is extremely powerful. Oxford is not so well furnished with bowlers, and its batsmen are hardly so uniformly good as the Cantabs. The match, however, promises to be one of the most interesting of late years. The official declaration of the poll at Nottingham was made on Wednesday, when the Mayor declared the num bers to be—For Seeley, 4,627 ; for Seymour, 4,517; ma jority for Seeley, 110. Both gentlemen addressed tho crowd from the hustings. The Globe, the Conservative organ among the evening papers, still believes that the Lords will throw out the bill, and publishes a prominent article urging the Con servative peers not to expect that amendments will be acceptod by the Government, but to vote against the second reading. An abstract of the general parochial receipts and expenditure on account of the hiehways of England and Wales has been published. The total- income for English roads is £647,5E6, of which the greater part is contributed by local taxes, and only £1,723 by turnpike trusts. The total expenditure for the 3 car was .£6.14,072, the largest items being £2.7,9,550 for manual labour, and £118,286 for team labour. The North Wales expenditure exceeded income. The inquest on the persons killed by the late boiler explosion at Bingley was resumed ou Tuesday, when some very remarkable evidence was given. It was stated that a defective and inefficient safety-valve, taken from an old and smaller boiler, Lad been applied to the boiler destroyer; and also that the deceased engine tenter Lad either in ignoi• awe or recklessness tied down the steam whistle, which might have warned off danger if the safety-valve failed to do so. He had even weighted the safety-valve, so as to =event its operating. The inquest was adiournee. TILE IRISH NATIONALISTS ON VIE LORDS AND MR. BRIGHT. The usual weekly meeting of the Irish National Association has just been held. The subjects discussed were the probable course of the Lords on the Church Bill, and Mr. Bright's letter on the Lords themselves. As to the first topic, the chairman declared that " the bill, and nothing but the bill," and the bill in its integrity, would be accepted in Ireland. No tampering with its principles would be listened to. Mr. Bright's letter was praised as "far-seeing and suggestive." The Rev. Mr. O'Hanlon advised the holding of an as,gregate meeting in Dublin if the Lords should venture to reject the bill. TILE CRISIS. - The Guardian of yesterday, in referring to the political crisis, says :—" What, after all, will the Lords do? Although during the last fortnight this has been th e constant question, the daily mutual salutation, as it were, of all sorts and conditions of men, no one even now attempts a confident answer—few attempt any answer at all. The course of the debate, so far as . has gone, points, in our view, to the probability that the bill may pass the second reading, but will be wrecked at a later stage, either in the 'Upper House itself or by a collision on amendments introduced there, too larg e to be accepted by the Commons. The speeches of the Primate, of Lord Stratford—we might, perhaps, a dd of Lord Carnarvon himself—tend this way. Lord Granville, skilful and judicious, as usual, took pains to dis claim on the part of the Government any indisposition r to accept alterations, even alterations of iropo• tance, provided they did not affect the p rim ciple of the measure. We are glad to hear it ; We shall be glad of the opportunity of seeing how far th e y will go in this direction ; and to throw out the bill in the face of such a declaration would be merely to challeer and wilfully precipitate a conflict which may possiblY_": avoided altogether. But, speaking franklY, must say that this possibility, though it exists and ought by no means to be thrown away, is slender. Sh ould it be cut off now or fail hereafter, we must look folio'', to a conflict between the two Houses and to a period 0' great agitation and constitutional disturbance—to a resign!' tion perhaps of the present Ministry, followed by th eir speedy return to power. But to the maintenance of the Irish Establishment we cannot look forward. The fate of the Establishment was decided by the election of last year; what we have now to care and provide for is the future e l the Church." THE WEATHER. The weather is really most extraordinary. Last Year about this time the papers were full of letters recording extraordinary high temperatures ; now in many P arts o fq the kingdom fires are necessary. In June I°`'" people were perspiring from every pore, under a temperature of 81 degrees ; early in Feb ruar i, last, when snow w ou ld h ave b een sea sonable andfros'i would have been in time, the heat was the one topic °f conversation, and Mr. Allnatt registered 71 d e g' 13 i n the the rays of a d ec li n i ng sun , and over 55 deg• wan ted shade. Now wh en th e ripening sun is for the harvest, a t a season w h en intense beat is expected, the temperature in no case exceeds 5 3 d eg. In London it is 49 ; in Shi e ld s as l ow as 43. sh owere have fallen in the East, and the wind on the coast hes been blowing a gale, which would have done credit to the month of November or the month of March. d besvl fall of snow in Scotland is reported. LABOUR AND TRADE IN LANCASIIIO Agitation having ceased in Preston with resPect to wages and hours of working, the emigration schemes °f the cotton operatives are receiving increased attention. Power-loom Weavers' Emigration Society seeins Ti likely to comprise a very large proportion of the union a ists' , nd numbers also among its members many of the non-unionists. Altogether about 450 weaver s are 11°" contributing to the funds, at the rate of 2d. per week for one " share " or passage ; in some instance s as mesa' as 2s. 6d., and even more than that, is paid by the W hers of one family. The Weavers' Union has always be en ° a weak society, but in the matter of emigration that cie s The of operatives evinces a surprising unanimity. belie f is general among them that the " thinning w illthe labour market," which is the real end in view, better both for those who go and those who stay, and the fire: receives accessions every night. A few days eg ° Hi rr a in Manchester apprised the committee that gesso. t meister Brothers, the proprietors of the Ch it ' tenango Cotton Mills, in Madisonabout to County, hours by rail from the • city of New York, wanted number of first-class weavers, and the committee intend to turn that knowledge to They t hat account. state t if they had pers Low £l,OOO they could find 200 who would • emigrate to-morrow. At the rneeti cg .,„ 4 held in their institute, the weavers are told 11 " hundreds of men and women are now walking the streetS be despondingly, willing to work, but unable to 611 c! employment (which is true enough), and that the state this country as regards labour will never be bet icter than now, as the comp e titi on with Ain cr3 ;' Germany, Belgium, and other continental States ' s too formidable to allow of hope for a favourable clieDge. Thus are the operatives urged to contribute to, and r; pare for, self-expatriation. Every one of the Ineuwe..; of the emigration society, without excepti on, it is sel has joined it with the expressed desire to emigrate, and the first " batch " for deportation will be ballotted this week. The Spinners and Minders' Association 1 10° f % many weeks sent off on an average from six t o eight of their members per week, and on Monday last six wen' ivni families, left Preston for Liverpool, and were t° c— e ; bark there on Wednesday for New York in the s teare 0 Nebraska. The cotton trade of Preston is i n much the set°, condition as it has been during the past few months—Pdl:s bably not quite so bad, but still so very l ittle iinpruve the of to be Scarcely worth remark, and the gen eral trade could town is pronounced on all hands to be " as bad as it be." In Blackburn there has been a slight iruPres vernerl d to the cotton trade, and this has in some measure ten buts diminish the rage for emigration in that to wn; for though there has been no large despatch of emigrantesaoui America recently, twos and threes are still draugh t 00 occasionally. About 800 workpeople ha ve been tlherssre• out of employment at Enfield by the failure of eo f Felix, Leach, and Co., consequent on the stoPPagrios Messrs. Livesey and Thorpe, of Liverpool. A very ~,,a strike has occurred in Blackburn among the iuh l i er- iv ith carpenters, the masters having refused to corell 34. king their demand of a reduction of the hours of °r is iod from 54 to 49 per week. The m asters ; o re to adopt the hour system of payment, or 54 w ith per week, at 64d. per hour for averag e wor ,„ t he some minor stipulations, and these being refused re fused P b • 7 oo ld men, they suggested that the whole qt no t veer 0t 0 be referred to arbitration ; but the men comply. The matter was argued a few daYa ago sepa rate public meeting of masters and men, but they last without agreeing on a single point ; and on Sattir ° l .,oo from 200 to 250 operatives struck work and entered 11;0. what appears to have within it all the elements of V i ' ere tracted struggle. The strike extends to Dariv n ', l the the masters and men are respectively connected with the Blackburn associations. In Wigan the master brielo'er have withdrawn their notices of payment by the 1 , 9 ,0 but the operative joiners and carpente rs in that toWn." submitted to a like proposal. A Cabinet Council will be held at the offi cial e re t: sidence of the First Lord of the Trea sur y , DoWniog-s.+ r-e on Saturday. pAsea The Duke of Wellington, it is s tated, has ePr— 5 T 1 i i his intention of voting for the seco nd reading of the Church Bill. The Conference of the Metho dist New Conn now meeting in Halifax, have adop ted, by a large rn a j °l3 ' a petition in favour of the Irish Church Bill. ivgb fir° Mr. Muntz, the junior m ember for Birrnl3; has given notice that on Friday evening he Will a t o t ol Chancellor of the Exchequer if the expense of the 1, ;" 0 °ll C omm i ss i o n to inquire into the Irish Church bas 'l,O ascer t a ined, and if there be any objection to l a y it uP table. - k -ratb This (Thursday) evening Colonel "- intends to ask the First Lord of the Treasury wbe,.tbernor letter read at a public meeting at Birmingham on . 51°-g i i i c signed John night, and which has appeared in the lA .— , journals, was written by the President of the Board o f Tro det and, if so, whether the Government concur in the oP icd°l3l therein expressed. ,s,,e, sPtatpurt,:nt, were e IN TIIE PLAYGROUND. — 011 StinCl ?,l af . ternoon, in lliver.street, Chester-road, Hulrne, a nuow`" of young boys and girls, some Catholic and others Vr°. quarrelling about the Conservative detn°ll‘ tralun of the previous day, when one of the disputant", Ellen Higgins, a mere child, was assaulted and Itilec l ' ed down, receiving such serious inj uries that she died ill COT) sequence. ENCLOSURE OF LANDS.—The whole quantity °I land which has been enclosed in England and Wales, or if in the process of being enclosed, since the passing' of t he Enclosure Act of 1845, is 614,804 acres ; to be reserved 'at exercise and recreation, 1,742 acres ; tobe reserved forlabour ing poor, 2,223 acres. It may safely be assumedthat notntord than three-fifths of the 614,804 acres (or 368,000) are laud/ waste of a manor, and upon which allotments for exer ci% j and recreation, or for lab ourin g p oor, could be require( by Ow Enclosure commissioners.