The Sun. — London, England, 1860-06-25 00:00:00

THE IV AVY. The Channel squadron, after an anchorage of 15 days in St. Margaret's Hope, Firth of Forth, left its. moorings on Saturday afternoon, and under canvass, with auxiliary steam power, proceeded down the Firth and stood out to sea. The squa dron, in passing the narrow straits at Queensferry, proceeded in single line, the leading ships being the Royal Albert, 121, flagship of Sir C. Fremantle, the Mersey, 40-gun frigate, the Edgar, 91, flagship of. Rear-Admiral Erskine, and the Donegal, 101, followed by seven other ships of the line and the Diadem frigate. The greyhound corvette, 17, ac companied the Royal Albert as a tender. On pas sing Inchkeith, and getting into the outer bay of the Firth, the fleet formed in two lines, and stood out south-west in the direction of St. Abb's Head ; the Royal Albert, the Donegal, the Aboukir, the Conqueror, and the Centurion, with the Greyhound forming the south line, and the Edgar, the Trafal gar, the Algiers, the Mars, the Diadem, and the Mersey, in the north line. A number of steamers conveyed the fleet down the Firth. The public enthusiasm excited by the visit of the Channel squadron in the Forth can scarcely fail to give a stimulus to the service in the south-east of Scot land, where for many years a fleet of war-ships had nut been seen ; and great disappointment is felt that the fleet has not been able to make the tour of the north of Scotland and Ireland, as was antici pated. It was expected that the squadron would reach Yarmouth-roads yesterday afternoon. The launching of the fine screw corvette Orpheus, 21 guns, took place at Chatham on Saturday after• noon with complete success. This is the third I vessel completed and launched from Chatham dock yard during a very short period. A large number of persons were present on the occasion. The Orpheus, although inferior in point of size and ton nage to many of the noble line-of-battle and other ships recently launched and now in progress at Chatham, is nevertheless a fine specimen of the Modern class of 21-gun screw corvettes, and her symmetrical proportions, and fine outline, viewed as she lay on the stocks before the launch, excited very general admiration. As regards her archi tectural design and build, it may be stated that she has been little more than two years in progress, her keel having been commenced on the 12th of May, 1853. She has been constructed from the designs of Admiral Sir Baldwin W. Walker, K.C.8., Sur veyor of the Navy, under the superintendence of Mr. 0. W. Lang, the master shipwright, and his assistants. The following are her dimensions : Length, extreme, 22Gft. Gin. ; length between per pendiculars, 197 ft. 2 in. ; breadth, extreme, 40ft. Biu.; breadth for tonnage, 40ft. 4in. ; breadth, moulded, 39ft. Bin. ; depth in hold, 24ft. 2in. ; bur den, in tons, 1,705 55-94. She is to be furnished . with a very heavy armament, and :is pierced to carry 21 guns, which will be thus disposed : Twenty 8-inch guns on the maindeck, eaela of 60 cwt. and Bft. 10in, in length ; and one 68-poun der pivot gun, of 95 cwt. and 10ft, in length. Her propelling power will consist of a pair of 400-horse power (nominal) trunk engines, by Messrs. Hum phreys and Co. She is to be immediately fitted with her machinery, and prepared for service. The next vessel to be launched at Chatham dockyard will be the Atlas, 91 guns ; the launch will take place on the 21st of July. The Bulldog, 6, paddle, Capt. Sir F. L. M'Clin tock, sailed from Spithead yesterday at noon, pro ceeding to the Channel by the Needles passage. The Blenheim, GO, screw, has been placed in N. 7 Dock at Portsmouth for examination of her bottom, &e. Admiral E. Harvey, accompanied by his Staff, with Captain Schomberg, of the Steam Ordinary, made a minute inspection of the vessels in the first class steam reserve at Sheerness on Saturday, The vessels inspected were the Meanee, 80, screw, 400 horse-power ; Challenger, 21, screw steam corvette, 400-horse-power, Charybdis, 21, screw steam cor vette, 400 horse-power ; and the Bullfrog, May flower, Carnation, and Fly gunboats. The gallant admiral expressed his gratification at the efficiency an 1 cleanliness of the respective vessels, but espe cially of the Meanee. The screw steam gunboat Violet, Lieut.-Com mander Eugene C. Batty (tender to the Coastguard ship Eagle, 50, at Milford Haven), arrived at Ply mouth on Friday evening. The Violet, en route, was employed surveying the Scilly Islands for the purpose of fortification, and had on board Captain Edward Sothan, R.N., her Majesty's ship Blen heim; Col. Prescott, Royal Artillery; and Major Potter, Royal Engineers. The Violet, after leav ing the islands, touched at Penzance and Fal mouth. The lighter Hamoaze, Webber, master, is load ing at Plymouth for Pembroke ; the Sinbad, Thos. Moore, master, sailed on Saturday for Chatham and Deptford. The paddlewheel steam-sloop Hecate, 6, from Spithead, arrived at Plymouth on Friday en route to Vancouver's Island. Lieut. C. G. T. Knowles is appointed to the paddlewheel frigate Terrible, 21, Capt. Glass, C. 8., at Plymouth. The screw steamship Orion, 91, Capt. Fre r e, in Kcyham steamyard, has received her repaired shafting and will be soon ready to vacate No. 3 dock. The sailing corvette Havannah, 19, has been towed from the higher moorings in Hamoaze, and was moored on Saturday to the jetty in the Devon port Dockyard, where she will discharge her har bour gear and stores, and be sent to Cardiff as a school-training ship for boys. The crew of the screw steam gun-vessel Wrangler, 4, at Devonport, were paid wages on Thursday. The paddlewheel steam tender Avon, 3, G. Day, second master commanding, returned to Ply mouth on Saturday night, from Falmouth. She brought two boys from the Russell, for the Im pregnable. Her coal bankers were replenished on Saturday. The paddlewheel steam-sloop Geyser, 6, at Ply mouth, was put in commission on Saturday morn ing by Commander Jackson. The lighter Tortoise, H. Hoskings, master, from Plymouth, arrived at Liverpool on the 21st inst. ; she was appointed to sail for Devonport on Satur day. The Dockyard lighter Devon, J. Jennings, mas ter, from Plymouth, arrived at Pembroke on the 19th inst. The guardship in ordinary Royal Adelaide, 104, at Devonport, is to be superseded by the frigate Stag, 44. The Royal Adelaide will be fitted for a training ship. The paddlewheel steam tender Advice, M. Ray mond, stcond master commanding, having had de fects made good, took on board supernumeraries and botne passengers, and left Plymouth on Satur day for Clneenstown. Steam was got up on Saturday on board the screw steam troopship Himaiaya, Capt. Seccombe, in Keyham basin, Plymouth. The new gun vessel Penguin, 4, was hauled off from the Devonpert dockyard and taken to her mitorings on Saturday. The chartered troopship Grainger, 1,400 tons, _ C apt. Gumme r , w hi c h arr i ve d at Gravesend on Saturday from the Cape of Good Hope with several hundred troops and military invalids on board, dis embarked her troops the same day at Customhouse quay, h en the non-commissioned officers and men Were The c imm o • ed iately forwarded t o Ch a th am garrison.Ne mpetiti - admis s i on as examination of ca n did a t es f or a pprentices i n Ch a th am and Sheer ness dockyards commenced on Friday at Chatham dock commenced t r he Civil Service Commis numberyi sioners. The oneicandidates who presented themselves Was 42, dockyard, and 19 from shuedeing 23 from Chatham The Megrera, screw troopsrrss. Berson, arrived at Spithead"P'eommander lien from Corfu, Malta, and Gibr l yesterday afternoon, a tar, her from 13th dates the two latter ports being respective) 18th inst. She has brought hom e 400 the ith and naval invalids, and a n um b er of private military andpassengers, among the latter of whom are L ord F. Ker, lately commanding her Majesty's ship Marlborou g h Lieut.-Col, Hamilton, 25th Regiment. The Me4aral experienced fine weather during the passage home until crossing the Bay, when she fell in with thiek weather, which continued up Channel. The inva lids will disembark alongside the dockyard to-day. The following appointments were made on Satur day at the Admiralty :—Geo. Green, chief engineer, to the Geyser; Wm. Saunders, Ist class assist.•en gineer, to the Colossus, for service in the Biter; John Singer, 2d class assist.-engineer to the Wel lington, as supernumerary ; Jas. T. Page, 2d class assist.-engineer, to the Orion ; Immer Fielden, 3d class assist-engineer, to the Geyser ; Wm. H. Nicholson, 3d class assist.-engineer, to the Welling ton, for charge of the machinery of the Sheldrake ; John Symons, acting 3d class assist.-engineer, to the Geyser; G. R. Bissaker, 3d class assist.-engi neer, to the Hawke; Wm. H. Sedgwick, 3d class assist.-engineer, to the Ajax; Robert Humphreys, assist.-surgeon, to the Fisgard ; J: M. Wortley, assist.-paymaster, to the Dauntless ; R. K. Heaven, secretary's clerk, to the Victory ; W. Crump, clerk, to the Greyhound ; A. H. Carlyon, assist-clerk, to the Terrible ; and A. Smith, assist.-clerk, to the Colossus. THE ARMY. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, as General Commanding in Chief, accompanied ley General the Hon. Sir James Yorke Scarlett, K.C.8., the Adjutant-General, and attended by a numerous Staff, is expected to leave town this morning for the camp at Aldershott, in order to receive her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and illustrious party on the Queen's arrival at the camp to-day from Buckingham Palace. As announced on Saturday, her Majesty and the Prince Consort will pass one night only at the Royal Pavilion. The detachment of the YBth Highlanders which was sent from Edinburgh to Hamilton, on account of the riots eaused by some of the West York Rifles, returned on Saturday. A banquet was given to the Highlanders the evening before leaving Hamil -1 ton. The Royal Ayr and Wigton Rifles, under the com mand of Lieut.-Col. Sir J. Fergusson, M.P., were inspected on Thursday by Major-Gen. Douglas, In spector-General of Militia. The regiment mustered 812, exclusive of officers, and there were no sick in the hospital. The General minutely examined the proficiency of the company officers, the clothing and appointments of the men, their acquaintance with the new musketry instruction, the ability of the volunteer non-commissioned officers for recruit drill, with which he was much pleased, and the interior economy of the regiment. In the afternoon the regiment, after marching past, was pit through various field volutions by the commandant, at the close of which the reviewing officer, addressing it, expressed his satisfaction with the progress made during training, and with the absence from crime by which the conduct of the men had been distin gu; shed. The 2d Derby Militia, Chatsworth Rifles, com pleted 27 days' training on the 19th, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Cavendish. The regiment wos inspected on the 16th by Major-General Douglas, Inspecting-General of Militia, who com• plimented the officers and men on their soldierlike appearance and efficiency in the field. The men came up well, there being only 16 absentees, and their conduct in the town has been excellent. Till? VOLUNTEER 1?.EVIIR1V: (From the Times.) Saturday was one of those surprises for which no one can be prepared without a careful consideration of the character and the history of this country. Hyde-park saw an army such as it had not seen for half a century ; an army such as any General would be only too glad to find in his hands at the hour of need, ready for action—we might say even anxious for it—which has sprung into existence from the mercantile, professional, and other civil classes within the brief space of a twelvemonth. In num ber, upwards of 20,000 ; in stature and strength, in bearing, in step, in order, and all that is supposed to be difficult of acquisition evee in the case of the youngest recruits, there was little a General might desire, had he to etvounter an army of veterans. Could Queen Victoria have stamped on the earth with the significance of the old boast, she could not have raised legions more prepared for the work, or more terrible to a foe. Our readers are aware that, except in the case of the Volunteers in 1803, there never was such an army assembled in this country for several centuries. That former movement is not to be disparaged, for it saved the country ; but the Volunteers of 1860 are a very different set of men from the Volunteers of 1803. The soldiers, for soldiers they are, we now possess are picked men in every sense of the word. They are men who spend theirour n money, and still more precious time. They come for ward with a free heart, with no inducement but love of their country and their own sense that the lot has fallen upon them, and that they are called upon to be its defenders. As a rule, they are a finer body of men than our Infantry of the Line. Their drilling has been done so quietly in out-of-the-way places, and often under cover, that no one could anticipate such perfection in so short a time, unless he happened to be himself in the Victoria Rifles or some other crack corps. Of course, there were dif ferences, which in this place it would be invidious to name, but the best corps on the ground only showed what the others might be in a few weeks if they gave sufficient time to it. Fortunately, most fortunately, this noble body of men and this high personal discipline were not marred in the manage ! ment of Saturday, which had been left, we believe entirely, to General Al'Alurdo, Inspector of Volun ' teers. The troops kept the best time. The com panies followed at equal distances with the even flow of a continuous stream. Had the operation been rehearsed several times over, instead of the fifty corps having never seen one another till that hour, it could not have been better executed. It must have been a matter of amazement to the spec tators, as they recognised their friends in the suc cessive corps, to reflect that out of such peaceable materials so terrible a force had been composed. No doubt, these twenty thousand men look very like other people at home; but on Saturday they made an army that any Emperor might regard with con fidence or alarm. If people will be so good as to remember the lan guage that has been used in Parliament and else where about volunteering and the rifle fever, about fancy uniforms and sharp-shooting, and other un- English tastes, they must admit that this has been a discovery and the demonstration of a new truth. We who are thirty millions;----not so contempti ble a population compared even with the largest empires of the civilised world,—have been called an unmilitary race; and on terra firma, it has been said, we must acknowledge even our next neighbour to have much the better of us. Saturday gives the lie to this old vulgar error. Give us time,—and it is impossible to wage war without giving time,—and we shall prove that we only want training to be as good soldiers as any other people. We do not know ourselves what there is in us, or the boundless versatility of our race. Everything great in the country has come out unexpectedly. We were the last nation of Europe to have colonies or foreign dependencies. Three hundred years ago Spain and Portugal had immense foreign possessions and trade ; we had none. Since then we have founded and thrown off the United States, and we s till possess I nd i a, British America, Australia, and othe r p o p u l ous co l on i es or immense territories. Till about two hundred years ago we had hardly a n avy . A hundred and fifty years ago, while France had sp l en di d canals, and the Low Countries a compl e t e system of inland navi gation, there was hardly a canal in this country. About the same date our road s were probably as bad as the worst in Europe. Our school of land scape painting, now the first in the world, reckons scarce a century. In mathematics an d physical science we were behind all nations till Sir Isaac Newton and his contemporaries. We mo s t o f its remember when there was not a mile of railway, and many when there was not a steamship, in these islands. We might add various manufactures that have been imported or invented at no great distan ce of time, and have attained a gigantic scale. On these examples, and with the encouragement of Saturday, we venture to assert that it is in our power to become a great military nation, and that we shall become one . F rance compe t es with our navy, and we shall compete with her army. Our Volunteers will be much better soldiers than any she can rely on from the spontaneous zeal of her people, and the day will come when every man capable of carrying a musket will be enrolled as a Volunteer. The thoaghts of many a spectator on Saturday were carried back to the days of his youth, when he saw a similar scene on the same ground, under somewhat different circumstances. An invasion was then actually threatened and prepared. We were not successful abroad, and we hastily enlisted the whole defensive strength of the country, and made a great show both in London and the provinces. Every country town had its V o l un t e e rs , w h o were Paraded in the market-place, and burnt plenty of P.owder on the 4th of June and other grand occa sions. Th at had the desired effect of demonstrating our str ength to ourselves and to our neighbours. What strange recollecti ons m us t have presented CN,' LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1860. themselves to those who had witnessed the Review of 1803, and what a waste of years must have vanished as they gazed I There was a Prince of Wales then, as now ; though his Royal Highness needsnot our assurances that he made a better figure than his august predecessor of the Georgia n age . There was one present on this occasion, splendid in the uniform of the Life Guards, whose life spans the long war and the long peace. Lord Combermere was present at the outbreak of the war in 1793. Another familiar to all Londoners, marched past as a private volunteer on Saturday, who had done the same before George 111. in 1803. But we doubt whether an experienced foreign critic who expressed unbounded admiration on Saturday, and said he would never desire to command a finer corps d'armee than he then saw pass before him, would have said the same on the former occasion. The Volunteers of the last age had no such weapon as our rifle, nor had they the opportunities of practice which the better class of men reviewed on Saturday will probably enjoy. Every one of these, it must be considered, is a Volunteer in every sense of the word, in circum stances to avail himself of all the training that is offered. In every one of them, too, we seethe leader and earnest of a dozen other men as good as himself who would tender their services on any emergency sufficient to justify in their eyes the temporary usurpation of military functions. For picturesque beauty the scene could hardly be mended. There was, indeed, an utter want of that campagne surface, or that amphitheatre, which has usually been selected for reviews. London has no Campus Martins or Champ de Mars. The surface at Hyde Park is, in fact, an elevated plateau, sink ing at the extremities into low wood and water. The spectators being arranged along one side of this plateau and the troops on the other, the latter showed only their front rank, the rest of the mass reseding down the slope. Accordingly, the great force in the field was only perceptible when, as it were, it melted into motion, and flowed round the field past the spectators and the Royal stand. All the adjuncts of the scene were as pic turesque as could be desired. The troops of the Line who kept the ground afforded a pleasing con trast to the uniformly dark or neutral tints of the Volunteers. The trees were crowded with spec tators, and we fear that many will never recover the ruthless damage done to their branches through the aspiring tendencies of the populace. The most striking moment was when the Volunteers, having formed again in their original position, first saluted the Queen, and then raised a cheer which, if it lid not rend the sky, certainly returned some of its thunders. The cheers were responded to from every side and corner of the Park, and we are sure there was not a man between the Kensington and the Bayswater roads who did not feel within him self the making of a soldier. Whatever the worth of such emotions, of the demonstration itself there can be no doubt, for it proves England to be at heart a military nation. (From the Daily News.) The Grand Review on Saturday was in all respects a triumph, such as those who witnessed it are not lik sly to forget. No such sight has been seen in our days. We have had indeed military displays that have been on various accounts bril liant and impressive, but none so perfectly national, none that combined elements of such peculL'r and stirring interest as this great pacific demon stration. The moral significance of the whole is summed up in the one fact of being a Volunteer movement. Those fine bodies of trained men that marched to the ground on Saturday with a precision that delighted professional critics knew nothing whatever of military discipline a year ago. At most twelve short months, and in many cases little more than half that number, have sufficed to convert a hundred thousand busy citizens into effective soldiers. No busi ness or professional occupations have been sacri ficed to produce this result. It is the rich fruit of scanty leisure freely dedicated to a noble pur pose. Under these conditions the change appears little short of miraculous, and we cannot wonder at the exclamations of surprise, admiration, and delight which greeted the Volunteers on Saturday. But the explanation is simple enough. The perfect discipline of the men represents the energy and determination that has been thrown into the move ment. The sudden creation of this great national army is a miracle which the love of "England, home, and duty," easily works amongst a brave and patriotic people. It expresses the stern but en thusiastic attachment which hue liberty inspires. The mere whisper of danger to the land that en joys it, and the institutions in which it is embodied has profoundly moved the whole nation. It has summoned bands of volunteers in every part of the country to the unaccustomed discipline of arms, and, were danger imminent and threatening, the same impulse would multiply their number tenfold. This is the meaning of the demonstration of Satur day. It was the fete-day of constitutional freedom; and everything conspired to render its proceedings worthy of the occasion. As a mere spectacle no thing could be finer than the appearance of the Park at the mustering of the Volunteers. The day was of the best possible kind for out-door activity and enjoyment, bright and cheerful, but not too brilliant, bits of blue sky chequering the masses of cool grey clouds that moved slowly across the sky, and a pleasant breeze tempering the heat and giv ing freshness and elasticity to the air throughout the day. Then the arrangements on the ground were most picturesque. The actors and spectators enclosed the open spaces of the Park so as to turn its beauty to the best accouut. They were arranged in a vast amphitheatre, or long ellipse, lying north and south, the eastern line being a crescent of gaily-dressed spectators, and the longer western line covered with masses of the volunteer troops in position, each line having as a background a noble screen of wood. The intervening space was brightened with moving uniforms, and animated with martial music ; while all round surged the great tide of. the many-voiced and ever-moving multitude. Such a crowd of excited holiday-keepers has not filled the metropolitan Park for many a day. No praise, however high, could well be deemed excessive for the Volunteers themselves. In their discipline and soldier-like bearing they exceeded the expectations of the most sanguine. If there were any who doubted either of the reality or na tional value of the movement, those doubts must have been set at rest. No proof could well be stronger of the deep hold it has taken of the na tional mind than was given on Saturday. Apart from the time devoted to the arduous work of drill ing, these Volunteers have spontaneously taxed themselves to what is in the aggregate an enormous amount. Taking:eight or nine pounds as a mode rate average for the outlay of each in dress and accoutrements, the various corps throughout the kingdom, consisting for the most part of men be longing to the middle and mercantile classes, and necessarily of moderate means, have contributed nearly a million towards promoting the most vital and effective part of our national defences. This pecuniary contribution is no slight sacrifice, but the time and energy given to the work of training is a still stronger proof of earnest and devoted pa triotism. But the sacrifice has not been in vain. We may see already how much good the movement has effected at home in the altered tone of public feeling. It has steadied the more excitable portion both of the press and of the people, and prevented them from running, as heretofore, into the discredit able extremes of offensive bravado or senseless panic. We have happily lost the old tone of inso lent swagger in referring to other countries or speaking of ourselves, once too prevalent, but which is only a sign of conscious weakness. The country is no longer distracted with alarm by doubtful tele grams, by excited appeals from home agitators, or false rumours in foreign journals. Our dangers, whatever they may be, are certainly not less now than they were twelve months ago. But the tone of public feeling is very different. There is a calm ness and quiet confidence springing up in the pub lic mind, which blended with increasing vigilance and determination is the happiest sign of conscious strength. The demonstration of Saturday will deepen and intensify these feelings throughout the country. There is another important aspect of the Grand Review which ought not to be overlooked. It goes far towards settling the vexed question of our national defences. Every one must have felt, in looking at the almost endless succession of fine consecrate o o n ri sce s oc t ur h an a tt t er y p t a hc s oe s ui e rl d dh b ovor e u fo ss r s before the Queen on Saturday, th a t such a force w as a f ter all about the best protection. possess. . 1 e is V u o r l e un t t o e er military troo d troops that; rill; eu triedffn e t t i t s v h o eel soldiers, ee have rfes c le q l u fpoi prove, oc e ve d e. i h wf e et khmne they y w h b l a eeydegdeo certain, n a e n d s o s a k m i lul mostc o much, in comparatively quiet times, they would do tea times more in seasons of actual alarm. There is, in. fact, nothing that men of this stamp would shrink from in a crisis of national danger. Prevention is: better than cure ; and the possession of such a forc'a is undoubtedly the best security against their actin services in the field ever being required. While this is amongst the most effectual, it is at the salute time the most economical of all national defence s. Military men are just now debating whether various schemes of stone fortifications would be useful anal effectual or not; but no man doubts the use and'. value of themassesofliving fortificationsthat parada in the Park on Saturday. If an invasion ever were to take place, the business would in the end be • settled not by stone walls, but by the masse.4 of men. that could be brought to oppose the foe. Ilre need. scarcely waste time in discussing, or money in expe riments as to the best protection against invasion, when we have before us the simple maxim— " Multiply the volunteers and we are safe." That,, ' we belieye, is the actual truth. Two hundred and fifty thousand of well trained Rifle Volunteers would effectually prevent this contingency. We earnestly hope that some means may be devised for extending the movement, so as to embrace all classes, and thus make the force not onl3 :large, but what it ought to be in the truest sense—national. We have the best possible material for effective rifle troops in the more skilled and intelligent workmen and artisans of our large towns. They would gladly join in the movement, but they cannot afford the preliminary expenses. Surely some means might be devised for meeting this difficulty; and if so, while it still continues to spread amongst other classes, we should in a few months obtain double the present number of volunteers. With 250,000 volunteers in regular training the question of national defences would be practically settled in the cheapest and most expeditious manner. (From the Morning( Herald.) "High sight it was and haughty," the scene wit nessed last Saturday in the world's metropolis. We can recall no grander ebullition of patriotism to mind than that displayed at the first review of our Volun teers. It boots not to speak here of the equipments, marches, and manoeuvres; how citizen soldiers wheeled, and circled, and pressed on in dense, un broken columns to the word of command; what accuracy, precision, steadiness of movement were exhibited by battalions of civil recruits ; how the chivalry of England, Ireland, and Scotland com peted in noble rivalry, and what corps excelled, where the nation contended with spontaneous emu lation, in martial bearingland all the pomp and cir cumstances of war—these things belong not our argument, and they deserve a separate notice. But that mighty heaving surge of national Volunteers with its ridge of bayonets and crest of rifles, its never ceasing sweep and resistless swell, was a spectacle worthy of the pen that sketched " Mar mion." To us, however, it appertains to " point a moral" rather than "adorn a tale," and so far as we can gather up in one view the thoughts that rise be fore the mind's eye on beholding such a manifesta tion as that of Saturday last. To us, then, the great feature of note was this, that every person present at the review appeared to have a personal interest therein. That marvellous picture of Thucydides, where he describes the departure of the grand armament for Sicily, at once took posses. sion of the faculties. Every one gazed at the assembled Volunteers as though they knew and re cognised in that dense phalanx many an acquaint ance, many a friend, many a relation. It seemed as though this idea was uppermost—" Yonder is a gallant, imposing, devoted array of patriots, every man ready to lay down his life in defence of father land, The Sovereign of the realm will this day acknowledge and publicly testify her approbation of that spirit of self-denial and generous patriotism which is the embodiment of that vast mass. Hence forth every man of them bears a charmed life ;' he is consecrated to Isis country's service in his country's need, and yet I claim many among them as my own friends." It was not, therefore, as a mere military demonstration that we can contemplate the review of our Volunteers. The gorgeous array of soldiers hired to defend their country may strike the senses and dazzle the outward vision, and convey to the spectators a bewildering notion of splendour, and magnificence, and terror; but it never appeals to the feelings, save on very rare occasions. This, how ever, was the distinguishing characteristic in Sa turday's demonstration, for the absence of flaring costume and glittering equipment was the most marked of external features. A military review inspires most men with a chilling sense of cold steel, hard stocks, formal salutations, arid stereo typed mechanical motions, and is neither congenial to the habits nor feelings of Englishmen. Our Volunteer review acted as an electric battery upon the whole assembled myriads ofspectators ; it struck a chord which vibrated through the metropolis and the empire, and thrilled again responsive to that very spot where one universal chorus of acclama tions greeted the Queen of England. But there was no note of defiance heard in that vast assemblage. The conviction that reigned in every breast be tokened more self-reliance than threat or menace breathes. There sat that confidence of calm assurance on every countenance which defies fear, No heart quailed or felt any misgivings, because the triple brass in which it was en c ased bad never admitted the shafts of doubt. Let, therefore, no foreign prince or power affect umbrage at the volunteer movement. We know, indeed, that when last organised, it was to hurl back the challenge of war across the Channel. Napoleon I. was lying in wait for a spring upon our shores, but though he chafed long in his lair, the intended victim was delivered from the peril. In 1803 we find it stated that England could muster over 300,000 volunteers, but then the danger appeared imminent and all but present, and accordingly the object aimed at was near, tangible, and generally recognised. No oee out of all that myriad throng of last Saturday seemed impressed with any such feelings as those which throbbed in the heart of the country some GO years ago. There was no al lusion to France, no mention of Napoleon once heard, though the calm, self-possessed, undoubting confidence which pervaeed all was also mingled arid softened by a sentiment of gratitude that such a force existed. It was felt to be well for us that the Volunteer movement was resuscitated, but no one cared to justify the general conclusion on any spe cific grounds. " There," we said to ourselves, " are our national defenders ; it may be that they will not be needed, but come what may, it is better to be prepared." And we are glad that this is the spirit in which the movement has been conceived and carried out, for whatever originates in panic is apt to partake of the nature of its first cause, and proves as transitory as spasmodic. It is not, how ever, to any single object or to any single genera tion that we wish this movement to be confined. The last European war in which we took part taught us many a useful lesson, though at an im mense cost. One of the most expensive and sug gestive of warnings was this, that it is not desirable to depend on foreign mercenaries. This, indeed, is a fact illustrated in the downfall of many empires, but it was brought home to us more nearly in the Crimean war. How, then, is a commercial people to be trained up to arms except by some such sys tem as that of our Volunteers ? It is not enough that our regular army and navy be supported by voluntary enlistment. Conscription and the press gang arc happily unknown in this age of our coun try, and they could never be adopted again. But however honourable to the national spirit, and how ever satisfactory, the gratuitous self-sacrifice of our countrymen to the cause of their native land is not likely to be fostered and strengthened, but rather to ebb and decline by a studied depreciation of the profession of arms. Moreover, our previous de fences are not sufficient, even now, to guarantee the security and integrity of our dominions. On every policy and healthy pa triotismground, b r e e f h o o r v e e , s ofo us i g to h encourage, extend, and render permanent that movement which, on Satur day last, was stamped with the national signet as one of the defences of this kingdom. We confess it seems to us a reproach not free from dishonour to our fair fame that some 30,000,000 of people, whose ancestors conquered in every region of the globe, both on land and sea, should be liable to repeated panics on account of events in a country separated by the ocean and which not fifty years since was totally vanquished. No wonder we suffered in our influence when we invited ridicule and the finger of scorn. When the Cobdenic era of peace shall have broken upon the world, when wars cease in all lands, and the voice of strife is hushed for ever, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and ambition and cupidity are merged in universal content — when, in short, human nature assumes the attri butes of the Divine—then, and not till then, can we afford to ignore the profession of arms. We trust that the demonstration of last Saturday is but the preface to a drama of many acts. We rejoice, also, that its success was beyond cavil, and beyond all I anticipations ; for there were not wanting those who have " damned" the movement " with faint praise." Our Volunteers may now go on their way hopeful and assured of no stinted meed of national approbation. Already they have lived down the sneer of fools and the slander of factions, and silenced every voice save that of commendation. Their self-sacrifice and ingenuous patriotism is re cognised and appreciated by their fellow-citizens, and the highest and the most revered personage in the state watches with a glow of admiration their noble and disinterested efforts in behalf of their country's safety. Let them, then, persevere and still add to their ranks in the proud consciousness that theirs is the cause which ennobles man and immortalises heroes. (From the Ifforntni Post.) Could the old Greek poet who sang to his coun trymen that " not stone walls, but stout hearts" formed the sure defence of cities—could he have witnessed the scene which the capital of England presented on Saturday afternoon, he would have acknowledged that the citizens of modern, equally with those of ancient, States arc imbued with a perception of that truth. The review of the Volun teers in Hyde-park gave an earnest to the coun try ; the account of its details will convey to all foreign Courts an impression of the real, practical, business-like manner in which the question of the national defences has been taken up by the English people, of the intensely patriotic feeling which it reveals, of th e s pi r it o f se lf- sacr ifi ce w hich it dis plays, and which it in a far higher degree sug gests. England has not exchanged her sword for the ledger, as gloomy pr o phets had once predicted, andjealous rivals had been led to hope. All the wealth and spl en d our , a ll t h e l uxur y and ease, of a highly-developed civilisation have neither dead ened nor dulled the instincts by which suecessiye generations of Englishmen have been bound to their island home ; nor, if we may judge by the glorious spectacle of Saturday, are they at all likely to paralyse the energies -which the first pro spect of ,any real danger would call into play amongst our people. No similar movement that has taken place in Europe since the commencement of the present century can at all be compared to the great national arming of which we have just nessed the first peaceful exhibition in the capital. The great Volunteer movement, some sixty years ago, sprung up under the menace of an immediate invasion of our shores. The great arming of all Germany in 1813 took place amidst the excitement and the enthusiasm of an actual struggle ; it aimed at throwing off the foreign yoke under which many of the fairest provinces and proudest cities of Ger many then groaned. But the present Volunteer movement in England is all the more imposing from its very calmness. It is emphatically pru dential, precautionary, anticipative. The serried masses of armed men that on Saturday rolled past their Sovereign, and, at the termination of the review, rent the air with shouts of enthusiastic loyalty and devoted patriotism, were composed of individuals who are sternly preparing themselves for the work of soldiers, because they have first, coolly and calmly, formed their conclu sions as politicians. They feel that their lot has been cast at an eventful crisis in the history of the world ; that, look to what quarter of the horizon they may, the thunderclouds are seen to be omi nously piled up, and the storms threatening ere long to burst, and, remembering the part which their country has played in the past annals of the world, they are resolved that the coming tempest shall not find it unprepared, or unable to hold its own, even ' amidst the shock of battle and the clash of arms. How utterly insignificant, when compared with the national spirit and feeling which the spectacle of Saturday revealed, how utterly insignificant are the questions respecting the relative fitness of this " noble lord" or that " right hon. gentleman" to hold the seals of this or the other Secretaryship of State, of the special training and peculiar dexterity by which a diplomatist may contrive to extract a Cabinet secret or unravel a Court intrigue —nay, how trivial, beside this great fact, appears even a considerable extension of the electoral suffrage to the people ! These are but the accidents of a nation's prosperity and power; the essentials lie in the in flexible resolve to be felt and respected as a nation. By what electoral machinery a people shall be re presented at home, by what diplomatic traditions and usages its interests shall be represented abroad, would be questions not worth a thought if there did not at the same time exist in the heart of the people itself the high resolve to watch over its own safety and to uphold its honour. We may have Eastern questions, or Western questions, Italian, or Ger man, or French questions; but " the Independence of-England question" is the one by which, after all, the others will be solved. As a military display, as a proof of the earnest ness and zeal with which the one hundred thousand Englishmen, of whom the bands in. Hyde Park formed but a small portion, are now performing their self-appointed duties, the review on Saturday far exceeded the most sanguine expectations. Old military men, by no means disposed to judge over leniently of these modern train-bands, loudly ex pressed their satisfaction and surprise at the great progress made in so short a period and under such comparatively disadvantageous circumstances. The men who during the last six months have so untir ingly and uninterruptedly continued their drill may at least have the satisfaction of feeling that in no real campaign are they likely to be exposed to more inclement weather than that which has pre vailed during the period of their apprenticeship in arms. But the glow on their manly counte nances and the play of their athletic limbs showed that burgher and yeoman have alike benefited by exercises which, whilst the first of national duties, are not the least in the class of invigorating 'sports. It was a great scene, and it was one in which the spectators all felt that they, too, possessed as deep an interest as the more immediate performers on that stage. Female beauty and affection were there, not merely to embellish and adorn the scene, but to contemplate, it might be, the mimic shadows of stern realities of war, in which a father or a hus band. a brother or a son, was preparing to play his part. The Sovereign before whom these martial bands swept past, for whose person, whose family, whose throne they would offer up their lives, must have been inspired by the proud consciousness that, by the faithful discharge of every domestic and public duty, she had made the loyalty of her people to be something very different from a mere abstract principle or political necessity, that it wound round her throne with the tenacity of strength of' the deepest personal reverence and love. She must have felt that, should a day ever come like that in which Elizabeth told her assembled troops at Tilbury that she feared the attempt of no foreign potentate or prince against this country, for she felt secure in the affection of her own subjects, having always so lived and reigned that she had no cause to fear those whose happiness she still endea voured to promote—in the event of Such a day of trial again breaking upon England, she, too, may hold, with equal right, and, by God's blessing, with equal success, a like language to her people. Not the least recommendation in our eyes of the memorable scene on Saturday was its truly pacific character. No sane man could for a single moment dream that the classes who contributed to swell the ranks of that armed host would ever blindly and recklessly plunge their own country in war, or seek to assail the independence of any neighbour ing State. Shortly after the conclusion of the war in 1815 the venerable statesman who so lately poured forth the prophetic strains of his old expe rience to the youth of Edinburgh, and who but a few nights ago denounced in the House of Lords the cruelties and the horrors of the Neapolitan Government, summed up the guarantees for the pacific dispositions of our country in the memorable sentence, " Britain is bound down to keep the peace in rccognisances of eight hundred millions." There are none whom these recognisances more strongly bind than the citizen soldiers of the volun teer force. All their pursuits, and pleasures, and prospects—all their interests and hopes—are bound up with the interests and the hopes of peace. We do not speak now of those of aristocratic name and ancient lineage who have enrolled themselves in the volunteer ranks as heartily as their ancestors half a dozen centuries ago would have obey e d th e call of their Sovereign to do the knight's service by which their broad lands were held. We speak of the scholar who has left the desk, of the merchant who has left his counting-house ' of the flower of our artisans who give up the time which is their chief capital, of the great capitalists themselves whose names would be good on any Exchange of Europe for half a million. If such men have armed it is in the spirit of forecast which prompted the Latin counsel, "If thou desirest peace keep still prepared for war." In the great drama of national as of individual life Hamlet's remark holds good, that " the readiness is all." We desire to preserve peace for ourselves ; we have no wish to disturb the peace of others. But the peace of great empires rests on the con sciousness of power —of power exerted to further the lasting aims of truth and justice. A peace on connivance, a peace by sufferance, a peace preserved only till the first opportunity of war, a peace little better than a hollow truce, is no peace at all ! Such a peace only saps away the self-respect which is the first foundation of a nation's greatness. Nor is that a peace which would basely ignore our duties towards other civilised States, be they weak or strong, or the obligations —most sacred when con tracted towards the weak—or the claims that may be 'addressed to England to redress the injured and succour the oppressed. The peace which England desires, the peace which she demands, the only peace which she would accept, is such a peace as will secure the equal fellowship of nations—the fellowship based on justice and "including mercy." That peace she has now donned her armour to promote and to maintain. By the deaths of Generals John Mackenzie and Sir Robert Harvey the following army promotions will take place :—Lieut.•.Generals Sir John Bell, Colonel of the 4th Foot, and Sir S. B. Auchmuty, Colonel of the ith Fu siliers, to be Generals; Major-Generals H. G. Broke, Colonel of the 88th Regiment, and P. E. Craigie, Colonel of the 31st Regiment, to be Lieut.-Generals ; Colonels Gold, 65th Regiment, and C. A. Lewis, Grenadier Guards, to be Major-Generals; Lieut.-Colonels Sulivan, sth Lan cers, and M‘Gee, 3d West India Regiment, to be Colonels ; and Majors H. C. C. Somerset (Staff• office of Pensioners) and Francis Carey, 26th Regiment, to be Lieut.-Colonels in the army.—. Army and Navy Gazette. The Calcutta advices by the last mail mention that a notification had appeared a few days previously, in timating that on the Ist of June the Government would re ceive tenders for the conversion, at the option of holders, of the outstanding Treasury bills, amounting to about £590,000 into Four, :Five, and Five-and-a-Half per Cent stock. Same misapprehension having arisen as to this trans fer in the Bazaar, where it was regarded as a fresh loan, a second notification was put forth, explaining that the mea • sure was merely a conversion of one form of debt into another, and further stating that the Government had no intention of enteri ng th e Indian money-market as bor rowers during the financial year ending the 30th of April, 1861. 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A writer in a contemporary says :—Reluctant though I am to enter further upon the subject of Neapolitan outrages in Sicily—atrocities committed under a reign of terror which is now in such a fair way of being put an end to, yet sceptics and in quirers so overwhelm me that I would fain leave it to your better judgment to decide on the propriety of admitting these lines into your columns. Three summers passed on Mount Etna, with fre quent visits throughout other portions of the island, extending from Syracuse to Palermo, between the years 1842 and 1851, afforded me some knowledge of the people in that paradise of Europe, of their amiability, of their sufferings, and of their naturally indolent habits of life, though volcanic excitability of temperament, all so admirably described by one who has probably seen less of them, yet with far more acute discernment—l mean your inimitable correspondent there at this moment. _ _ In the year 1847 I had visited the crowded under-sea dungeons of the notorious prison-fortress at Ischia, led through them repeatedly by the well-known and excellent Dr. Monti, who had been more than 40 years the official M.D. there, and beneath whose care and eventual cure I was then taking advantage of the extraordinary vol canic baths of Cassamicciola. He there, with ill concealed though officially restrained disgust, called my attention significantly to certain dark charnel corners and mysterious appliances, all evidently so arranged as to strike terror into the unfortunate prisoners from whom it might be thought necessary to extort political confessions. Such were the sights which afterwards mada those chambers at Palermo somewhat familiar to me, although my report of them, even at the time, seemed scarcely credited by some, and could be fully corroborated only by those who had visited them in their first-opened, un touched condition; as, in fact, they had been hastily bricked up and concealed when the revolution took a sudden turn against the Royal cause in February, 1848. I was at that moment on a visit to Mr. Marston, the American Consul there, whose influence among the Sicilians was' almost equal to that of our own venerable, talented, and highly-respected. Consul, Mr. Goodwin, and adjoining whose house was the prison into which we had seen the 48 sbtrri, the hated spies and torturers under the Neapolitan sys tem of police, just then humanely brought to save them from the raging vengeance of the infuriate mob. With that gentleman I immediately joined the returning crowd; curious to see the place where they had been captured, which was at the distance of some streets; and when we reached it we found the excited populace venting their harmless indig nation by merely throwing from its windows the papers, books, and furniture, until their attention seemed to be drawn to a portion of the building into which they had not penetrated—had not, in fact, discovered any visible entrance. It was soon, however, found and forced, as has been described, and the scene then disclosed within excited such a fresh outbreak of quite uncontrollable fury . as threatened that foul and horrible outrage which actually ensued, and which, for our own safe . ty,. called us homeward, past the prison where the sbtryt were secured, but not before we had time to realise the astounding scene before us, which impressed us with the idea that the ill-fated apologist for the bodies affixed to the wall spoke false in the vain hope of saving his life, inasmuch as they hung there loosely, and crouching almost on the floor, their flexible weight bearing them down far below the points of suspension, in writhing attitudes such as expiring sufferers might be supposed to die in, and winch would not, we imagined, be the case had they been nailed up as rigid corpses. We noticed, moreover, that some of the rooms, all opening into each other, appeared to have been used as mere charnel chambers—not uncommon in Sicilian houses and convents—their tiers of stone shelves mostly piled with bones and rags ; others, especially the largest, seemed adapted to living subjects, for there stood vessels or the remains of them, evidently used for food and water—sufficient proof of what had been so long transacting there ! However, we hastened homewards, soon heard the volleys of musketry which disposed of the wretched sbirri, and met the .shrieking mob of men and, alas ! women, triumphantly bearing on poles and bayonets their bleeding heads and dissevered limbs, with wild expressions of the most savage execra tion—admitting certainly of no palliation except in the frightful provocation—the maddening, the overpowering conviction that they were thus avenging the blood of their own parents, children, or relatives, who had so long been missing, and whose fate had been till now a mystery. I have reason to believe that the last sad act of this frightful tragedy rather injured the immediate cause of Sicily—so utterly disgusted some whose high position might have enabled them to serve it, and whose sympathies had hitherto been with the revolutionists, but who had not actually witnessed the intense provocation in those fearful chambers, or visited them until they had been somewhat cleansed from their foul contents and their worst features so effaced, that their ears were thenceforth almost closed against the popular report of them, and their reputed horrors appeared only as one of those hideous tales with which the streets of Pa lermo are confessedly too often rife. THE NEW TAXATION IN INDIA. The following exposition of the new taxes, for the information of the natives, has been published by authority :-- " From information which the Government have received, it appears that much misapprehension prevails among the people as to the nature of the new taxes which are about to be imposed, espe cially the income tax ; and that many rumours are flying about which have no foundation in fact. The laws for carrying out these mea sures are under consideration of Government. As soon as the details are settled the fullest information will be given to the people; but in the meantime, seeing that Government is desirous that its loyal and faithful subjects should know the exact reality of the new measures, and should not be troubled with needless and groundless apprehensions, it is ordered that the following brief explanation be made known to all men : " 11. When in February last Mr. Wilson pro posed new measures before the Legislative Council at Calcutta, he promised that three things should be observed in arranging the taxes—namely,— " 1. That the taxes shall fall justly and equally on all classes according to their means, whether European or native, whether great or small, whether servants of the State or not. "2. That the unavoidable trouble or inconveni ence to commerce, or industry, or consumption, or production, shall be as small as possible. " 3. That every endeavour shall be made to avoid offending the religious views and rites of the natives of India. " 111. Now, these promises will be most care fully and scrupulously observed. " IV. The tax upon incomes and profits will in no case exceed 4 per cent. per annum, and even less will be taken if less should prove sufficient. " V. In the management of the tax the following detailed points will be attended to : " 1. The an angements will be made through the collector or other revenue authority to whom the people are accustomed, and with the collector will be associated other officers of proper rank and ex perience. There will be no new machinery. " 2d. Each man liable to the tax will render a return of his own income. If he cannot state it ex actly, he need not give any account; it will suffice that he give an approximate estimate. " 3. Any man who does not like to state his in come to the tehseeldar, or other ministerial revenue officer, may give in his returns under a sealed enve lope to the collector himself, oz to some officer of rank specially appointed for the purpose, and may have his assessment made by such officer. " No man will be required to take an oath as to the amount of his income or profits. "5. The statements of income and assessment will not be read in a public office, nor made public in any way, but will be kept under seal, so that secrecy may be preserved. "6. The assessment of the tax will not be in trusted to ministerial officials, who may practise corruption and vex the people ; but the collector and the English officers will themselves make an estimate, after looking at the returns, according to their judgment. " 7: The books or accounts of people will not be looked at, nor will balances be struck, nor will wit nesses be called, nor will questions be asked, nor will any detailed inquiry be made, nor will any affairs or tran sac ti ons b e expose d, n or will trouble of this kind be given, provided that people commit , no fraud and b e h ave f a i r ly t o the Government. If, indeed, any man s h a ll o f his own free will make a statement, or produce a book, or adduce evidence, then the officer will attend to the same ; but other wise the production of such books or papers will not be demanded. "8. The collector or other English officer will, according to his own opinion, and with the infor mation he possesses, fix each man's tax. If no ob jection be offered by the taxpayer, then no inq u i ry will be made, and the tax will be paid quietly. " 9. The assessment on each man will be made by the English officer, but not by Pu nc h ayet and Choudrees, except in those places where such a plan b m y ent i ma y be more convenient to the people. I n such cas es indeed the assessment may be mad e Pun chayet. But even when the general a ssess made by the Punchayet of a place, any perm e who prefers it may have his additional assessment made separately by the English officer. " 10. If any man shall desire to have his assess mmt settled at a fixed sum for a term of three or five years, the collector will be authorised to ar range accordingly. " 11. If any employe or Ministerial officer shall unnecessarily interfere with the private affairs of any man, or shall attempt extortion, or shall reveal any particulars stated in the returns, he will be severely punished. " VI. Now, all men will perceive that when the above conditions are fully and strictly . carried out it is impossible that tyranny or oppression can arise, or that the people can be put to unnecessary trouble. " VII. Further, the very poor people of all classes will be excepted altogether from the above income tax; also all landholders and cultivators, except the very wealthiest portion, will be entirely exempted. All soldiers ofthe Queen's army, whether European or native, below the rank of commissioned officer, will be exempted. And all income which shall be proved to be devoted publicly to the religion of the people will be free from this tax. " VIII. In short, the income tax will fall only on , whether European or na ti ve , and. the rich people on those persons who are in comparatively easy cir cumstances. Since all the European officers and gentlemen, including even the Governor-General and Viceroy himself, are subject to this tax, it is evident that the English people in India are willing to share the burdens of the State, together with the natives. " IX. Lastly, as the income tax is to be levied on account of special necessity and pressing emer gency, the term of the act will be limited to five years. "X. The licence-tax will have to be paid by all artisans, traders, and professional people ; but then a poor man will only have to pay one or two rupees a year. And among the professional people liable to this tax there shall not be included either the minister of the religion of the people or the minis ters of justice, or the servants of Government, or the officers and men of her Majesty's army, Euro pean or native. " XI. Besides the three taxes which have been ordered—namely, the income tax, the licence tax, and the tobacco tax—the Government has no inten tion of levying any more imposts from the people. " XII. The Government regret to be obliged by necessity to levy these imposts; but the administra tion must be carried on in such a manner that peace and security may be permanently maintained, and that the life, honour, and welfare of all the people may be preserved. For these purposes of good go vernment the money is absolutely required, and must be levied, and there is really no help for it. It is well known to every one that in time of need all Governments do levy various special taxes from their subjects, and the said subjects knowing the necessities of the Government which protects and cherishes them, always pay such taxes willingly. This has been the ancient custom of India, and this has been the practice of every king from the earliest ages down to the time of the British rule ; and after much reflection the British Government con siders that the above-mentioned taxes are those which will be the justest towards all classes, and which'in their operation willbe easiest and lightest for the people. And from this explanation of what has been firmly resolved upon all men will see how anxious the Government is to nourish its people, to consult their convenience, and to study their hap piness." COUNTRY MARKETS. STAMFORD-JuNE 23. We had a middling supply of wheat at yesterday's corn market. Buyers purchased cautiously, but full rates were paid. Wheat 54s to 59s I Oats.. 27s to 31s 56s to 62s I Beans 46 s t o 48 s BarleyW h t e d o • ...32s to 35s Ditto, old 46s to 48s LEICESTER-JUNE 23. There was a less supply of wheat to-day, but in fair condition, and trade steady. White wheat, 57s to 62s —red, 56s to 60s per 36 stone; a very heavy inquiry for barley, grinding, 34s to 365; malting, 40s to 46s per qr. ; oats, 28s to 36s per 24 stone. Beans—old, 51s to •—s, new 42s to 46s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 42s I Seconds, 38s J Thirds, 29s per 20 stone. NORTHAMPTON -JUNE 23. At this corn-market wheat was in moderate supply, with a rather heavy trade, at about the rates of this day se'nnight, ranging from 56s to 59s for white, and 52s to 's6s for red: There was a fair business passing in barley, malting 3Ss to 445, grinding 35s to 37s per qr. Oats in fair sale, the turn in seller's favour, quoted at 32s to 358 per 24 stone. Beans, old, 48s to 50s ; peas, 40s to 465. Rye, 36s to 40s; malt, . 68s to 72s ; flour, 33s to 37s per sack. NORWICH-JUNE 23. The supply of wheat was only moderate to .day, and the farmers not being disposed to submit to lower terms, com paratively little business was done. White wheat. 60s to 65s I Red wheat 56s to 60s Malting•barley....42s to 46s I Chevalier barley 34s to 40s Distilling d0......25s to 27s I Oats.. 24s to 28s Flour, 36s to 40s Od per sack from the miller. CAMBRIDGE--JUNE 23. There was a moderate supply of wheat, and, with sn inactive demand in the trade, white moved off at 533 to 673, red, 50s to 53s per 36 stone. There was a small show of barley to-day ; malting-, 34s to 40s ; grinding, 303 to 34s per 30 stone. Oats at 28s to :.:Os for new; old oats, 28s t• 348. Beans in limited supply, and a steady sale—new, Os to 48s ; old, 44s to 46s per 38 stone ; peas, 40s to —s per 36 stone. White cloverseed, 86s to 89s; red, 463 to iO3 per quarter. DUBLIN—JUNE 22. A moderate show to-day, and the trade ruled extremely dull, at unaltered quotations for all articles except fresh feeding oats, which were 6d dearer. s. d. s. d. Wheat, white 33 0 to 3 0 Do., red 3l 0 to 33 0 Do., new Barley Oats Do., black l5 0 to 15 6 a. d. a. d. Do., new — 0 to 0 Bere . l3 0 to 14 0 Rapeseed 2O 0 to 23 0 Oatmeal l6 0 to 17 6 Bakers' flour Indian corn THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) .. .. • • July 10. Do. (via Marseilles) July 4. Bahamas and Havana (via New York) .. July 4. Canada, &c. (via Londonderry) .. June 20. Cape of Good Hope, &c. .. July I. China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) July 2. Do. (via Marseilles) June 27. Gibraltar (via Southampton) J une 20. India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) July 2. Do. (via Marseilles) June 27. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. June 26. Do. (via Marseilles) July 4. Lisbon, Brazils, Buenos Ayres, Bcc. .. July 5. Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto . July 1. Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. June 26. Do. (via Marseilles) .. June 27. United States, California, &c. (%ia Cork) • . June 21. Western Coast of Atrica, Madeira, Teneriffe .. July 10. West Indies and Pacific, Carthgena, Cuba, &c. June 29. The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa mentons a fact of some importance touching the capture, by the Neapolitans, of the American clipper with volunteers on board. The Neapolitans hail stated that the capture was made in the waters of Ponza, which, lying opposite to Gaeta, are certainly theirs ; but it now turns out, from the statement of a Captain Denigri, just arrived at Genoa, that he was on the 10th off Mon tecristo, a bare rock not far from the Island of Elba, and there saw a Neapolitan frigate with the prizes in tow. The difference in latitude between Montecristo and Ponza is not less than a degree and a half, or about 100 miles. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gentlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations for the diploma, were admitted members of th e College at a meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 22d i nst., viz. : Messrs. John McDonnell, Milton-road, Stoke Newington ; Henry Croncher, Bexley ! gent; Jame s M ark Morris. West Bromwich ; Augustus Frederick Elliot, Exeter, Deven ; William Henry Brecknell, Gateshead, Durham; Chris topher "Williams, Willlton, Somerset; and George Har rison, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor -square. BIRTHS. CARPENTER.—On the 21st inst., at 1, Sutherland -gardens, Maida-vale, the wife of Alfred B. Carpenter, Esq., of the Middle Temple, bar rister-at -law, of a daughter. CHANCE.—On the 20th inst., at 6, Lansdowne-place, South Lambeth, the wife of J. F. Chance, Esq., of a daughter. RICHARD.—On the 22d inst., at Wimbledon, Mrs. G. W Richard, of a son, MARRIAGES. BLAND—WADDIXGTON.—On the 21st inst., at Caversham Thomas Davison Bland, of Kippax-park, Yorkshire, to ton Susanna Emily, y oungest d aughter of H. C. Wadding q., of Caversham Hall, Suffolk. M‘DotTG ALL—MILEs.—On the 21st inst., at St. Peter's, Colonel APDougall, Commandant Staff College, Sandhurst, only son of Sir Duncan M‘Dougall, K.C.F., to Adelaide, y ounges t d aug h ter of the late P. J. Miles, Esq., of Leigh Court, Somersetshire. 1)J ATHS. G ORDO/C.—On the 22d inst., at .Hastings, Miss Gordon aged 71. _ - LIGGINS.—On the 22d inst., at Kensington, Joseph Lig gins, Esq., aged 69. AlAcKENzin.—On the 14th ult., at Inverness, General J. Mackenzie, of Gairloch, the second son of Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Bart., of Gairloch, aged 97. MAUDE.—On the 21st inst., at the residence of his sister, Lady Dunalley's, Monkstown, Dublin, the Hon. and Rev. J. C. Maude, rector of Enniskillen, aged 68. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of MOUdah ;PM 25, 1860,