The Sun. — London, England, 1860-07-18 00:00:00

THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Uwe, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING the Dertornaanoes will commence with THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Buck stone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Mrs. C. Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Airs. Wilkins. After whiich, the new comedietta, HIS EXCELLENCY, in which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear. And THE BOARDING SCHOOL. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, will be performed TILE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Shylock, Mr. Phelps. To conclude with BOWLED OUT. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THETE.- Mr. A. HARRIS begs to announce that h hash tered into an arrangement with the Company of ZOIJAV ES, origi nal founders of the Theatre at afire then' during the Crimean War, where, under th e enemy' y they gained such renown, and have sinee performed in the principal theatres of France, Vienna, Madrid. Brussels, Constantinople, Milan, Turin, Ber.in, Stockholm, Gibraltar, and Lisbon. The ZOUAVES will make their first appearance in Eng land on Monday, July 23, in a novel and varied entertainment. The battles in which these Artists were engaged are Alma, Balaclava., Inkerrnan, Malakoff, and Sebastopol. ADELPHT, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Last 3 Nights of the popular Adelphi drama, "The Flowers of the Forest." 12th week of the favourite American Actress, Miss Julia Daly. THIS ~S ENING, THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford Billington, Stuart, Eburne, C. J. Smith, Powell, Romer; Miss Woolg,ar, K. Kelly, Mrs. Billington, Miss Laidlaw. After which, THE FOOL OF THE FAMILY. Mr. Paul Bedford and Miss Julia Daly. To conclude with OUR GAL. Miss Julia Daly, Messrs. Eburne, Ward, and Romer. • - Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l. Orchestra Stalls, 55. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, 3s. s • Pit Stalls, 21.; Pit, ls. 6 d. ; Amph itheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith. FpRENCH PLAYS—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Directeur, M. Talexy.—Lessee, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. EVERY EVENING. Positively the last Week but Two. TO-NIGHT, LE MOULIN DE BLESINET. Nadile. Marie Basta. And LES PATTES DE MOUCHE. Madlle. Delphine Fix and M. Paul Devaux. Orchestra Stalls, 7s. 6d. ; Balcony Stalls, ss. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 15. Private Boxes, from Two Guineas. Commence at 8. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY. In consequence of the continued success another MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on Saturday next, July 21, 1860.—Commence at 2 o'clock. Every evening the entertainments commencing with the Spectacle Of FAIR ROSAMOND Or the AMAZON CRUSADERS. with incomparable Scenes in , the Cirque, and a laughable Farce. On MONDAY next, July 30, the popular Spectacle of MAZEPPA will be produced. Doors open at halt-past 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena—M. Felix Revolti. CONCERTS.- THE WEATHER.--SUN OFFICE, JULY 18, 1560. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 63—highest since noon yesterday. 54—lowest this morning and during the night. 71—this day at noon. BARomETER-29.94 ; falling. WlND—South-Westerly ; rather fresh, with cloudy weather preceding the Eclipse. CANTERBURY H F.VENIALL G THIS N. C. H. GOUNOD'S OPERA. FAUST. First Time in this Country. Faust Mr. Henry Herbert. Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard. Siobel Mrs. Anderson. Marguerite ...... Miss RusselL Conductor .... -.Mr. Jonghmans. And selections from Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, is, Hall. 6d. romic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come. dlan and Mimic), and C. Marshall. The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised expressly for this Establishment) , for the performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Negro delineations, anecdotes, &c., in addition to the usual entertainments. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, lh. 21m.--Afternoon, lh. 46m. To-moußow.-Morning, ' 2h. 9m.—Afternoon, 2h. 32m >ft , 'a° ll " . jv 7:tiN., 1e7 , -- • g ~-. 0 1 44T„,.. , ,-,-.,,,,,,,, t• ki44.'>:7,4:5,,, . ~,, ..;...__..... , .:-1. - 1,•,-?,. -, %,.: ' . 41 , -,l=t: ' '' 7s. 4 - 5 , 1' , .".-4 , 1 1 .....,**,, ...' ' . . 1 ,41 -:. K;.,‘":• 1- 7 - Er. ', '''' ' ' ''`' ~ • , - ~k, ' ./Fili v :' " .. 4, I' •It 0 ' '3 4 e ,--- . b•l — F; ir -`‘ 6., t. THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1860. The China war has completely settled another quarrel. The battle between the Lords and Com mons might yet have become a fierce one, but money is proverbially the sinews of war, and the Chinese have emptied our Treasury. " Unconsti tutional," "insulting," " aggressive," " innovating," as was the return of £700,000 by the Lords to the Commons, the latter do not know what to do with out it. Setting aside the fortifications business, even the £700,000, barely enables thG Chancellor of the Exchequer to balance accounts for Chinese treachery up to this time—while a much heavier bill is yet in prospect, before the war is ended, for next year. The Exchejuez balances, which should have gone in diminution of the Old Debt of the country, had to be taken to pay off the bill which the Tartar General SAN-KO•LIN has compelled us to run up. It was under these circumstances, and while the pleasure of escaping additional Income-tax by mulcting the Gin Drinkers, was fresh in the minds of Honourable Members, that Lord FER3IOY brought forth his resolution last night. Its fate was matter of certainty. The House dared not carry it, if it "meant business," while if it was, vox et prceterea nihil, it would have been foolish to carry it. 'With the Chancellor of the Exchequer we place the resolution under the last description. It was conspicuously, almost ostentatiously, nothing but words. After a commencement, which was but _ a second edition of what we have already had, it added, that " it is incumbent on this House to adopt a practical measure for the restoration of its rights and privileges." Why this was worse than the famous resolution of the mice to bell the cat. The practical measure, to prevent future aggressions of Pussy, was indicatedby that, though it had, of course, one little disadvantge. But Lord FERMOY proposed to escape that difficulty by what even the mice would not have resolved. Only think of the poor timid little things proposing," that it is incumbent on the mice to adopt a practical measure, to preven the aggressions of the cat." They would have been about as wise, we imagine, as Lord FERMOY with his motion. The trembling little animals had no more doubt on the necessity of a practical measure than Lord FERMOY had ; probably not so much ; for in truth we question whether Lord FERMOY wanted a practical measure ; if he did he ought to have proposed it. We strongly suspect, indeed, that the motion was a hustings one ; and that its supporters regarded it as such. They all knew that it was sure not to be carried, and that they might at the same time look tt little bold, and yet run no hazard. We would not saY this of every one of them. Some of them, doubtless, so resent the Peers' interference that they Would vote for fifty synonymous resolutions against it, but the generality of them surely thought of nothing but the next election. Mr. GLADSTONE justly asked, "To what does this resolution a mount ? To so many words, and no more than - words • it does not advance one inch to a practical solution of the question, while it gives to the country an appearance of being in earnest without any pledg e or guarantee for our sincerity. So far as words are concerned, we have used them in sufficiency." We have indeed, and we object as strongly as Mr. GLADSTON E to any thing more which has the aspect of mere bluster. The truth is the Chancellor of the Exchequer has settled the question. He has taken the £700,000, and thereby condoned the offence, or so much of it as was left by the very harmless resolu- ions of Lord PALMERSTON. After having ca. the proceedings of the Lords a " gigantic innova tion," he is willing, as Mr. OSBORNE observed, when he finds himself pressed for money, to put all this in his pocket, and defer all considerations of constitutional necessity. We must also, with Me. OSBORNE, throw the blame of the whole difficulty on the House of Commons. The Lords, as he observed, acted correctly but unconstitutionally. Correctly in a financial point of view, though tech nically, they had no knowledge of our finances ; but, acting on their real knowledge, they used a technical right to redress a financial wrong by an unconstitutional wrong. No one will now probably dispute this view of the case ; and since we are such a practical people we are but too likely to acquiesce in the facts as they stand. It is, indeed, instructive to witness the struggle of zeal for our House of Commons' liberties, with knowledge of our having misused them. The indignation against the Lords is no doubt both extensive and just, but. yet it speaks with bated breath because every speaker knows that the thing the Lords did, wanted to be done. Of the many who attack the Lords hardly any defend the Commons. Did any one note the incident which closed the proceedings which marked the inauguration of the fourth session of the International Statistical Con- gress as reported in our impression of yesterday. It occurred immediately at the close of the address delivered by H. R. H. the Prince CONSORT—when , Lord BROUGHAM, the veteran champion of the Negro, seeing among the number of those present his excellency the American Minister, observed signifi cantly in the hearing of all there assembled—" I hope my friend Mr. DALLAS will forgive me reminding him that there is a negro present, a 11len2ber of the Congress." Whereupon says the reporter in parenthesis —(" Loud laughter and vociferous cheering")—adding directly, " After the cheering had subsided Mr. DALLAS made no sign"—being in fact, we may presume, rather non-plussed, or what we call in familiar parlance, in a quandary. But it is remarked—the negro in question, who was understood to be a Dr. DELANY, rose in the midst of loud cheering and said—" I pray your Royal Highness will allow me to thank his lord ship, who is always an unflinching friend of the negro, for the observation he has made, and I assure your Royal Highness and his lordship that I AM A MAN." No wonder it is added in the report that this novel and unexpected incident elicited a round of cheering very extraordinary for an assem- blage of sedate statisticians. There are few, if any, thank GOD ! in this country who will not concur in regarding it as an incident (simple though it is) in the highest degree impressive and affecting. What newspaper. will President BUCHANAN think when he comes to hear of it ? Will he not feel somewhat riled that the diplomatic representative of America did not avail himself of so tempting an opportunity to utter a sober and formal protest against an outrage to the Majesty of Republican Americain his Excellency's person—an outrage all the more flagrant, seeing that it was done in the presence of delegates from so many remote corners of the globe, and actually within ken of the Royal CONSORT of the English SOTEREIGN ! The presence of a negro anywhere in an assemblage of Englishmen, he could not but feel would be regarded by those gentlemen as no out rage at all upon themselves. That would be their " look out"—their whim, their crotchet, their absolute delusion, or whatever we may please to call it. But to a free American citizen, and what is more, to a diplomatic representative of the en lightened Democratic Government at Washington how great the indignity, how heinous the offence, how sickening the insult to all the more delicate susceptibilities of the highly sensitive, refined, and liberalised United-States'-man ! For Mr. DALLAS himself we doubt not the wound inflicted is not alto gether so entirely beyond the reach of assuage ment. He may find an anodyne anywhere he lists to look for it in all this social system of this broad free land of ours. But with Mr. BUCHANAN, we may be sure it must be otherwise. IV hen reading the record of the incident, what, we cannot but won der, will be his emotions—how will those profound emotions of his manifest themselves? Will the President faint, or burst into a flood of tears, or become hysterical ? We could almost:wish that he had some fetish upon which to relieve his agonised feelings, like that doll into thehead of which MAGGY spitefully hammered so many nails and tin tacks, in that old garret, in the Mill on the Floss —or, again, like that hideous figure-head belaboured by the little demoniacal dwarf, QUILF, as having about it a shadowy resemblance to his boy enemy, KIT. By way of bringing Presi dent BUCHANAN'S excited feelings upon this subject to a climax, we could almost wish that he had simultaneously with the receipt of this irritat ing intelligence (about the incident above referred to) become aware in that most appropriate abode of his, the presidential palace, aptly callel the " WHITE Rouse," of those complimentary allu sions to himself written (upon the same subject matter of the negro race) by the great Poet VICTOR HUGO, penned from his place of exile in Jersey. Elsewhere, this evening, we give VICTOR HuGo's characteristic letter in its entirety, the epistle addressed by him (in ackowledgment of thanks for his eloquent defence of brave old JOHN BROWN) to the negro-editor of the Progres, of Hayti, M. E. HOURTELOUP. In this singularly characteristic com munication it will be seen that VICTOR HUGO main• tains that—by reason of the death of JOHN BROWN —" Henceforth the American Union, in spite of all that is said in President BUCHANAN'S disgraceful Message, must be considered as broken." Coming as a sequel to galling comments like those from the pen of VICTOR HUGO, the incident of Monday surely cannot but prove to President BUCHANAN actually excruciating. Advocates of slavery are themselves by the way so particularly thin-skinned in regard to what they deem " outrages" of this description that one can hardly help wondering how upon a subject of this kind— a mere question of the epidermis—they pos sibly can be thus particular "to a shade." The t r uth being, however , of course, that their love I for the negro is not even skin-deep. Has it never penetrated to their cognisance how in tense and measureless are the scorn and abhor rence excited by the pitiable display of these irra tional prejudices ?—to say nothing of the inhu manity they engender ! In answer, how ever, to all the wretched arguments of the Advocates of Slavery there have gone forth west wards towards the " WHITE House " of President BUCHANAN those few but solemn words articulated at London, penned at Jersey—Dr. DELANY, the negro delegate at the International Statistical Con gress, exclaiming "I AM A MAN "—VICTOR HuGo writing himself " YOUR BROTHER" at the close of his letter to the negro editor of the Hayti The fears for Damascus seem to have been but too well founded. This still populous city, the oldest known city, if we remember rightly, in the world, has been attacked by the savage Druses, and fire and sword have done their work. The ac counts differ slightly, some say only "many," others more definitely 500, of the Christian inhabitants '~ k.~~. THE SUN, LONi)Olir, WEDNESDAY`i r :: 4 EVENtNO, JULY 18, 1860. have been massacred, and many women carried off to the harem ; while so great has been the reckless- ness or audacity of the murderers, that they actu- ally burnt down the European consulates with the exception of the English one. The noble ABDEL KADER reappears, as the protector of the Consuls— o his house those of France, Russia, and Greece, fled for refuge. All the other towns of Syria are of course in jeopardy and fear. Aleppo is threatened, and the towns on the coast will pro- bably owe their safety to the arrival of European ships of war. It is much to be feared that the Turkish authori ties in those parts, if not in collusion with the mur- derers, are very undecided, and probably not un- willing to allow the slaughter of as many Chris tians as they can, without committing themselves too far. Whether anything official will be done by FUAD PASHA remains to . be seen. He and the Go vernment at Constantinople must know that the European Powers will not now be trifled with ; indeed, the SULTAN ought to be told, as politely as diplomacy can do it, that the general murder of Christians by INlahomedans, which seems to be the frenzy of the hour, must be stopped either by him, or by Christian powers taking possession of his dominions. More than four hundred years have the Turks been tolerated in Europe, and much more than double that time have they been suffered to drive Christianity from its earliest seats, or to oppress it in every way ; but this can be endured no longer. If Christians really cannot enjoy the common rights of citizens among Mussulmans, then the voice of Europe pronounces that the Mussulmans must give way, and even retire, if need be, not to Asia merely, but to the deserts and steppes from which their an cestors emerged. They cannot be allowed longer to extinguish in blood the only remains of Asiatic Christianity and civilisation. Asiatics well know what Europeans are in com parison with themselves. A letter from Tyre shows us what the smallest conceivable force may effect. That ancient town was threatened by a band of Druses and Mutvalis marching upon it ; when an English yacht, the Claymore, belonging to Mr. HARVEY, entered the port. The Chiefs of the Christian communities begged him to take measures fcr saving the town, and Mr. HARVEY resolved measures to do what he could with his little ship and crew. He laid his vessel in such a position that her four small guns bore upon the principal street, armed his crew with muskets, swords, and pistols ; then landed, examined the approaches to the town, and placed his men accordingly, having first caused the women and children, and more valuable pro perty, to be placed in safety. The plunderers within the town soon apprised their confederates without, of the aid which had arrived, and the latter believing that an English ship of war was in the port, and that English troops had been landed, left the town unmolested. It is impossible not to speculate on what the issue of all this agitation in the East will be. The Mahomedans were the soul of the Indian mutiny ; the tempters almost certainly. While the massacre at Jeddah, the cruelties in Candia, and now these outbreaks in Syria, must surely have some common origin. The SULTAN venerated as the head of their faith, is not feared even by his own almost nominal subjects in Asia ; he is nearly powerless to keep them from such out rages as these, quite in harmony as they are with his own faith, although at variance with his own interests. It is impossible to deny that events seem to be forcing on the Christian powers, in the inte rests of humanity, the assumption of supreme power in the East. " The sick man" becomes every year feebler, and probably nothing but the almost insuperable difficulty of agreement as to division of the spoils can long avert a final settlement. The disfigurements of Kensington Gardens are fast multiplying. Recently it was that absurd filtration scheme of Mr. HAWKSLEY that broke up the ground at the north-western extremity of the Serpentine, in one of the most beautiful and seques tered portions of this the most beautiful and pic turesque of all the London Parks—broke it up so ruthlessly and disgracefully, to be littered with rubbish of the most unsightly kind, from skeleton pumps and heaps of gravel to stucco vases and statuary worthy only of some Cockney Elysium, like the " Heagle" beloved of yore by Miss JEMIMA EvANs and her " young man," Mr. SAMUEL WIL KINS, the journeyman carpenter. Before the £7,000 voted in a moment of hallucination by the House of Commons—for the payment of the ex penses of this engineering folly—were quite expended, remorse, happily, seized upon the consciences of the holders of the public purse, and the project was abandoned. The false steps taken by the House of Commons were retraced—but there at that ill- fated spot in Kensington Gardens, there between Bayswater and the Serpentine, there, alas, still re main those lamentable stucco decorations, together with a great deal of rubbish, still not carted away ! And now—as if some disastrous fa tality hung over these Gardens—the very man who was chiefly instrumental (to his honour be it said) in ridding us of Mr. HAWKSLEY'S dirty and ridiculous scheme of filtration—the very Minister of Public Works, of Woods and Forests, of Parks and Palaces (or whatever may be his official title)—the same identical Chief Commis sioner who had thus auspiciously inaugurated his sdministrative career by securing to the West-end the preservation of Kensington Gardens in all their pristine beauty and seclusion Slr. WILLIAM COWPER, of all men forsooth, has just followed up this good work by one of the most arbitrary and unjustifiable, and flagrantly intolerable proceedings (in those same Kensington-gardens) upon which First Commissioner ever yet adven tured. Thanks to Mr. JAMES, however, this per verse and ill considered act on the part of Mr. COWPER is to be brought formally under the consi deration of the House of Commons on Friday evening. The Minister is then to be asked by the hon. and learned member for Marylebone for an explanation as to this—we can call it nothing less—audacious innovation : the cut ting up of the green turf of Kensington gardens (by a broad sweep around and across those gardens) for the special advantage of the fashionable ladies and gentlemen who have hitherto disported themselves ,in Rotten -row— during the choicest hours for the . floneur in all the gay season—as equestrians. Because the member for Marylebone has determined upon asking 111 r. COWPER on Friday evening for some explanation as to all this—the former has been the object of all kinds of coarse sarcasms and petty, spiteful imputations. Flunkeyism has been talked of—though certainly we shorld like to know whether flunkeyism might not rather be looked for in the one who, with a profound scorn for the convenience and comfort of all the rest of the community, shows a. disposition to pander solely to the luxurious whims and fancies .of the " cream of the cream, " fine ladies and fine gentlemen. If the Com mons shculd unhappily decline to interfere and the Minister refuse to pull down the iron hur dles he has had erected without consulting public opinion in any way first of all—perhaps when one or two little children have been trampled todeath under the heels of the hack of NOB or SNoii, per haps then, if not before then, COwPER'S ; Folly may, like HAWKSLEY'S Folly, in the fulness of time, be abandoned. r r - LA i .N E b ‘„, The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office PARIS, JULY 17. A telegram from Naples, dated yesterday, an nounces the fall of the Ministry. De Martino alone remains in office. Disturbances have taken place. The Royal Guard fired upon the people. One or two were killed. Several were wounded. NAPLES, JULY 14. Patrols are constantly traversing the streets. The moderate party is full of apprehensions con cerning the future course of events. An inspector of the former police was stabbed the day before yes terday in the Strada di Toledo. Proclamations of Garibaldi and Settembrini against the Bourbon dynasty have been distributed here. The first one says, "I am Royalist, but prefer Victor Emmanuel, who will lead us against the Austrians." JULY 17 (via TURIN). A conflict has taken place between the troops and the people, in consequence of a popular mani festation in favour of the refugees who had disem barked at Naples. Several persons were killed. The Ministry has been dismissed. The Com mander de Martino alone will remain in the new Cabinet. TURIN, JULY li. Signor Amari has arrived from Sicily. Signori Manna and Winspeare, the Neapolitan Plenipotentiaries, were received to-day by Count Cavour. The news from Naples of the formation of a new Cabinet, of which the Commander de Martino is a member, has been confirmed. BOMBAY MAIL. The Bombay, with the above mail, left Aden for Suez on the 4th inst. at 8 a.m. (correct time). CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS (Due in London 27th inst.) The Simla, with the above mails, left Aden for Suez on the 9th inst., at 6 p.m. (three days early). The Pera, from Southampton on the 4th, reached Malta on the 12th inst. at 11 p.m. MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS AT DAMASCUS. BEYROUT, JULY 11 (via MARSEILLES.) The Christians of Damascus no longer quit their houses. The French Consul displays the greatest energy, being supported by Ab-el•Kader, with 1,200 Algerians. M. Portalis, a French cotton-twist manufacturer, on the Lebanon, has saved the Christian inhabitants of the neighbouring villages, having granted a re fuge to 1,800 persons, and driven back the enemy. The Pasha affects to negotiate for peace, but the Maronite tribes are claiming indemnities. M. La Farina's expulsion came direct from the Dictator. The Ministry had no knowledge of the measure. M. La Farina was allowed only half an hour to prepare for his departure. He sent to Ad miral Persano, 'who commands the Sardinian fleet, requesting. a boat to take him on board, and em barked immediately, being accompanied on board the Admiral's vessel by the chief of the Palermo police and the officer commanding the detachment sent to arrest him. It would seem that only three Ministers have resigned, and the Official Journal of Sicily does not even mention the resignation of M. Daita, Minister of the Interior, who is replaced by M. Interdonato. The two other new Ministers are M. Ern ante and M. Amari. The former is a poet of no great note. He took a leading part in the Sicilian Revolution of 1848, and was named Minister of Justice. He belongs to the Unitarian party. M. Amari is the most eminent man in the Ministry. His " History of the Sicilian Vespers" is well •known throughout Europe, and has met with a success in Italy fully justified by its excel lent style and strict impartiality. He is also known in Italy by other literary works, and among them is the translation, with notes, of an Arab author of the 13th century, which is held in great esteem by Orientalists. He also took a prominent part in the Sicilian Revolution of 1848. The Piedmontese journals have become less hos tile to Naples, and appear to regard the possibility of an alliance with more composure ; although they still object that the alliance cannot be concluded until the constitution is in actual operation, and the convocation of the Neapolitan Parliament has made known the real sentiments of the nation. A Naples letter in the Siecle says :—" During the late reactionary movement, the soldiers in the Pizzofalcone barracks raised cries in favour of Prince Louis, the Queen's eldest son. That circum stance led to a sharp altercation between M. Liborio Romano, the head of the police, and Count de Cutrofiano, military commandant of Naples, who resigned in consequence, to the great satisfaction of everybody. General Viglia has been selected to replace him." The Iride of Naples announces that a petition to the Ministers, praying for certain modifications in the application of the provisional law on the press, was lying for signature at its offices. "We feel the utmost satisfaction," says that journal, " in being able to inform the whole country that from the 24th June to this day, the different Ministries have not had a single application fora place. The revolution we so much desired has therefore not been made by place-hunters. It was very different in 1848. The country has made great progress since then." SICILY. Gen. Medici has issued the following proclama. tion : " Sicilians ! The cause of liberty and indepen dence, the common cause of all, unites you. You, the first and the only ones, have commenced the struggle against the oppressor; you have fought valiantly, you have been victorious. Your arms are blessed. We, volunteers from the battles that have illustrated the fields of Lombardy—we hasten to join you at the call of duty. We have already fought together; we will fight again, and we shall again be victorious, because we are united. Brave young men of . . . . , make yourselves vo lunteers for the defence of the common country and of liberty, like us. Garibaldi, our supreme chief, has called me among you ; his name alone is our programme, and he is the guarantee of all. Some of my officers, in concert with your municipal authorities, are charged to enrol you. We shall all remain soldiers to the end of the war. Join, then, in numbers ; come, and swell the ranks of my army. I shall be proud to command you. We shall render entirely free the ancient and glorious land of your birth. Animated by one single principle, we will consecrate the pact of solidarity at the foot of Mount Etna, we will renew it at the foot of the Lion of St. Marc, to break the foreign fetters that enchain it, and we shall behold the glorious tricolor flag flow upon the Capitol. " MEDICI." FRANCE AND SAVOY. M. de Thouvenel has addressed the following circular to the representatives of France at foreign Courts : " Paris, June 20. " Sir,—The Treaty of Turin having received its final sanction, and the cession of the territories ceded by the King of Sardinia having been accom plished, the moment has arrived for the Government of the Emperor to conform to the obligation he un dertook to come to an understanding, as well with the Powers that signed the general act of Vienna as with the Helvetic Confederation, on the sub ject of the eventual neutralisation of a portion of the territory of Savoy. The object of such understanding, as I informed you in my commu nication of the 7th of April last, ought in our opinion to consist in putting the 92d Article of the Treaty of Vienna in accordance with the 2d Article of the Treaty of Turin. It is this accordance which it is sought to effect by a diplomatic stipulation destined to be inserted in the public law of Europe. "To attain this end various paths offer them selves to the Powers. The question may be brought before a Conference. One might also, if thought preferable, agree upon an exchange of identical notes, by which the Government of the Emperor would assume upon itself and towards the Courts guarantees of the Helvetic neutrality, and towards Switzerland itself the obligations consented to by Sardinia. Finally, one might also decide upon a preliminary negotiation between France and Switzerland, the result of which should be to determine the rights and duties resulting from the neutralisation which would take place by remodelling and completing the treaty signed in 1816 at Turin, between Sardinia and the Helvetic Confederation. The Government of the Emperor is ready, for its part, to take the path which the other Cabinets may prefer, and which may appear to them most suitable to the circumstances. I con fine myself, in case they should decide upon a con ference, to call to mind that the majority of them have recognised the propriety of holding it at Paris, and that Sardinia and Switzerland have, with a view to participate in its labours, advanced claims the justice of which is admitted by the Go vernment of the Emperor. " You will please read this despatch to -, and leave him a copy. " TIIOUVENEL." FRANCE. PARIS, JULY 17. Admiral Hamelin, Minister of Marine, has re ceived, from the Commander-in-Chief of the French squadron in the Levant, the following despatch : " Beyrout, 11th. " An attack on the Christians commenced at Damascus in the afternoon of the 9th. By the evening there had been a great number of men killed and many women carried off to the Harems. All the Consulates, with the exception of the Eng lish, have, it is said, been burnt. The French, Russian, and Greek Consuls took refuge at the residence of Abd-el-Kader. The attitude of the Turkish authorities at Damascus was, as every where else, rather injurious than useful. Three thousand Turkish soldiers arrived here to-day on board a line-of-battle ship and two frigates. The alarm of the Christians increases. The Commis sioners Vely and Namick-Pacha are expected with impatience." BOURSE, July 17.—The accounts which are being daily received of fresh acts of barbarism com mitted against the unfortunate Christians in Syria and other places under Turkish rule, giving rise to fears of serious complications in the East, has had a depressing influence on the market, which has lost much of the firnness which has been visible for the last day or two. Threes, for the Account, are now 680 f 90c. Railway and other securities are also offered. The following are the last quota tions : 41 per per Cents ... 97 50 Credit Foucier B9O Do end month— . —; Belgian 41 — 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 90, Roman Bank Shares . 2820 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 705 Spanish Threes 4B 2.5 Do. Account 706 25 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans l3BO .. 1376 25 Northern 960 .. 961 25 New ditto B7B 75 .. Lyons and Mediterranean 895 .. 895 Geneva 377 50 .. 375 Southern 506 25 .. 507 50 Western ... 5BO .. 582 50 Eastern Sardinian 405 .. 405 • Austrian. Lombard ITALY. A letter from Marseilles, of the 15th, says : " We have had a Garibaldian steamer here since yesterday. She is the old packet the Helvetie, formerly belonging to this port, and which the Dictator, when he bought her, christened the Washington, and she carries the American flag. The captain of this vessel, who wears a bright red costume, is armed to the teeth, carrying in his bel a brace of pistols and a formidable poignard. The object of this visit to Marseilles is not known." Adyices from Palermo state that the order for LITERATURE. Castle _Richmond. By Anthony Trollope, author of the " Bertrams," &c., &c. 3 vols. Chapman and Hall. This author has been some years before the public, but recently he has particularly distinguished himself. There is something standard and solid in his writings which conveys the unmistakable impression that, whether or no the reader approves the subject-matter before him, he is dwelling on something out of the common. This story of " Castle Richmond" deserves encomiums for its vigorous style, bold sketches, free spirit, and fine language. The plot of the story is not new, but in some measure a novelty is introduced at the con clusion. Of the persons introduced into these pages some stand' out in bold relief, made bright with the glorious feelings that animate them ; others hover in the distance dim and dark with their night-shade purposes. Owen Fitzgerald is a fine dashing speci men of a hero, he is most calculated to attract at first sight, but on further acquaintance he does not impress so favourably. There remain the daring spirit and the high sense of honour, but there lurks in the background too much self-reliance and too much assumption in his bearing. He spoils the effect of his really excellent qualities by being too conscious of the value himself. He had no right to insist on Clara Desmond being engaged to him on the strength of his having made a transient im pression upon her inexperienced . and uncultivated mind in youth. True, she might have waited long and wandered far before she encountered a braver defender or a more devoted lover; but that was not the question, and 0 wen would have shown more real appreciation of that love he so vaunted had he recognised the .sacred force of engagements. Entered upon in sunshine, they should not be iightly cancelled in storm. No man possessed of proper self-respect would have yielded to the sug gestion made by Owen to Herbert to take the estates not his own by law, and to give up the bride he considered his own by solemn contract, and whom no fatal discovery of first mar riages could take from him. In the time of trials the latent qualities come forth grandly to proclaim what good there is in the nature, and Herbert, who might to some have appeared a tame spiritless youth beside his princely rival a Malcolm Groome to serve as a foil to a Roderick Dhu—has certainly the advantage, He was not a particularly strong character ; he had been reared in luxury and unnerved by prosperity. His path seemed smooth for his feet ; his sky above seemed fair and serene, when suddenly the danger loomed in the distance. He was exposed to as hard a trial as could test the spirit, and try the heart of any man, and doubly hard to a youth, and above all one so circumstanced. He could have hardly met with a more crushing blow than the news im parted to him by Mr. Prendergast. Sir Thomas, his father, had married his mother, while her former husband lived, and gone was the bright future, and vanished every hope of happiness. Such agony comes seldom in a lifetime, but when it falls in the morning of one's days it is over whelming. In this emergency Herbert came out in a very creditable manner, and Clara certainly reflected honour on her sex for constancy and courage. Owen, on the contrary, behaved in a very unbecoming manner. The fact of his refus ing to take possession of the estates on the death of the unhappy Sir Thomas was not in itself sufficient to indicate his character. There was something noble inherent in his nature which when left to itself could never triumph in the agony of another, and his relation's bitter affliction made their dwell ing-house as sacred from his entrance as master, as if all the certificates in the kingdom had been unimpeachable witnesses to the authenticity of the marriage, and the death of the first husband at the right time been affirmed and ratified by a hundred witnesses. But real merit 'consists in being true in all things, and it is no sacrifice to relinquish what we prize not. Broad lands and lofty titles 0 wen did not want ; but he wanted what Herbert prized more—the Lady Clara for his wife. It was mean to attempt to com promise faith and feeling with empty names and sordid dross. Herbert acted to the spirit of the immortal truth expressed in these lines— "Honour an 3 shtme from no condition rise ; Act well your part—there all the honour lies." It could not affect his merit, whether Abraham Mollett reposed beneath the churchyard turf, or whether, for the affliction of many, lie survival to cumber the earth ; but it did affect his fame if he made unworthy compromises, and showed all he cared to keep and feared to lose were the treasures that must one day meet the moth and the rust- Lady Clara is at first 'not very enthusiastic about her engagement; but when trouble comes, she rouses herself to look it in the face, and in the light of her own conscience she acts rightly. Before submissive to her mother, she now summons up spirit to eonfront her; and what that scheming parent has disavowed and annulled by allindignant protests, she attests and ratifies. She renews her engagement with the outcast, who must begin life again ; and the bonds of that second contract are more strong, more steadfast, and more sacred than the first, as they are made in the dark hour of peril, and under the weight of the crushing visitation of affliction. In the brilliant novel of " The Ber• trams," the author has sketched a scene of the Solicitor-General in love, and goes on in his felici tous manner to descant upon the charms of court ship when rambling in the fair fields and gazing on the sunny landscapes ; and apostrophising his readers, supposed to be looking from the dreary ways of middle life upon the gay and genial paths of youth, he exclaims, " Never again, unless we are destined to rejoin our houris in Heaven, and to saunter over fields of asphodel in another and a greener youth, never again, oh ! my compatriots, shall such joys be ours." But there is more to im press in the gloom of Desmond Court when the un happy pair, seen to take their last farewell of love, and light, and hope—there is more to proclaim and attest the majesty of real attachment, than in the brightest scene of summer days, when the prospect without only heralds that within. The Countess of Desmond is a most unplcasing woman, full of vanity, which would have been unseemly in a girl, but was perfectly intolerable in the mother of a marriageable daughter. One feels quite indig nant with her throughout, and she never con ducted herself in a suitable manner towards - Clara. Lady Fitzgerald is very much to be pitied, her life was indeed a sad one, and she had the misery of seeing at last that the dark mystery which enshrouded their lives brought her husband to a premature grave. Sir Thomas was a very weak man or he would not have submitted to the tyranny of Mr. Mollett without trying to do some thing to establish the truth in a final manner. A man of stronger judgment would have seen the futility of making terms with one so unscrupulous, and a man of higher principle would not have gone on in the same way as if Lady Fitzgerald's husband had not been found to be alive. Some scenes are most graphically . . described. One of the most effective is the visit to Hap House of the rival plot ters. 0 wen there shone out in his true colours, as scorning anything that resembled subterfuge, and disdaining to listen to the suggestions of a worth less nature like that of Mollett. Mrs. Jones, the old attached servant of Lady Fitzgerald, is quite a sketch of nature, in her ignorance, her terror, and her devoted zeal to the cause of her mistress. Mr. Prendergast is an apt type of the worldly wise, yet he was very kind-hearted, and he was honest enough to take himself to task when in time it was discovered that though Mollett was the Mr. Talbot of Tally-ho Lodge, who was Lady Fitzgerald's first husband, yet that the marriage was illegal, as he was already married and his wife was alive to prove it then. lt may appear to some that this denouement is not probable, and would have been better omitted, but the story is a very ingeni ous one, and this last event goes far to prove the folly as well as fault of remaining quiescent under the exactions of tyranny and the encroachment of designing knaves. Had Sir Thomas roused himself to meet the emer gency he might have discovered the fact o Mol lea's first wife, and so have saved many serious consequences. Castle Richmond, Desmond Court, and Hap House were doubtless the objects of envy to many neighbours in humbler habitations ; but they might have spared their jealousy, for over each hung a shadow of guilt, vice, and error. The proud keep of Desmond Castle was ruled by a mis tress whose position was not adequately main tained, and whose friends did not come forward to give her their countenance. Hap House, whose owner might have had the world to choose from, and whom no ties confined in his course, and whom no dark secret overhung, chose the evil part in his early days, and seemed to glory in it instead of being annoyed when anyone referred to his life. There is no merit in such boldness, however much a fearless character is to be admired. Owen's ease amounted to what might be called recklessness, and his spirit, as his admirers termed his manner, was very like impudence. If, as one night suppose from some allusions made, he is the author's favourite, he is not a deserving one, for he is too self-conscious and too indifferent to the feelings of others. Over Castle Richmond there was spread a pall, which came upon the joyous young spirits who dwelt there, and seemed to crush all life, and hope, and joy out of their hearts and lives for ever. One connecting link joined to cast the dark cloud, and exercise the • fatal spell over the doom and destinies of the denizens in the three man sions, and it shows the power of one evil mind when we remember that it was the work of Mollett that effected all this ruin. It is not only in the story, which is powerfully narrated and skillfully concerted, nor in the characters, which are in some instances sharply defined and vividly illustrated, but it is in the general style and tenour of this work that we recognise the result of a superior intelligence in the design, and the han diwork of a master-touch in the execution. The book has, of course, some errors, and there may be those who call it excessively improbable and greatly exaggerated. However, it is not the matter so much as the manner that is the test of the power of the writer; and, though the story has its drawbacks and imperfections, it is undeniably of a first rate order of merit, in many of its glowing descriptions and in many of its thrilling passages. " Castle Richmond" could never be a novel that was slighted or disregarded, for it contains too much in it of a style that enforces attention and awakens thought. Numerous as are the fictions of the day, those are still few and far between that seem the expression of deep conviction which springs from profound re flection, which are written rather because the author has something to say than because he must say something in penning the manuscript. This work mast be ranked among the 'superior novels of the season, whose entertaining but evanescent productions it has every promise and prospect of long surviving. Reminiscences of an (ild portsman. By Colonel J. P. Hamilton, K.H. Longman. This is an entertaining narrative of the experiences of a sportsman of the old school, an officer who dis tinguished himself in the old war. For the charm is broken, and wars and rumours of wars are to be found on every side, and those of Wellington and THE Napoleon are no longer to be spoken of as the late war, but as matters of history. Colonel Hamilton has suffered the agiction of loss of sight for the la'bt twenty years, but that his memory has been true to him is shown by the vivid and minute details into which he enters in describing the plumage and habits of the various birds and quadrupeds which have come under his notice as a sportsman, Having spent a considerable tine in the island of Sardinia, he describes the country, its resources both in agriculture and manufactures, as well as game ; in fact, although these volumes are dedicated to sports by field and flood, the author never misses an opportunity of communicating useful information or amusing anecdote to the readers. The Colonel, before enter ing upon his experiences, gives a short sketch of the game-laws of ancient times, and remarks upon the severity of the Norman laws relating to venery, which enacted that whosoever was found killing game without the consent of the king should have his eyes put out, but a murderer could reconcile himself with justice by the payment of a fine That the severity of the forest laws drove great numbers of the English peasants into exile in early times, to the injury of the then thinly inhabited country, and to the benefit of foreign potentates, who were only too glad to obtain the services of the hardy Anglo-Saxons. We find this fact both mentioned by historians and poets. Scott introduces it in the " Lady of the Lake," when John of Brent, in ex plaining the cause of his being in Scotland, says : " An exile I, by forest laws, And merry Needwood knows the cause." It is an ominous fact that in countries where a despotic Government has been maintained con tinually the laws relating to game are the most stringent; not that some English country magistrates neglect to enforce with the utmost rigour the penal ties which the law authorises them to inflict upon poachers. Colonel Hamilton has been a practical as well as a keen sportsman, as his remarks about training dogs testify—" I rarely allowed my game keepers to break in my pointers or setters. The error of these substitutes is a want of judgment i n the punishment of the dogs, and Stonehenge says' "It is much easier to take the courage o ut of the very boldest animal than to put it into a timid one ;" but gamekeepers resemble some schoolmasters, whose motto is, "spare the rod and spoil the child." Some of the military anecdotes are good, one in particular of Sir D. Dund as, when in coin. mand of from eight to t en thousand cavalry that, however on Bagshot-heath, showinggood a soldier he might be, he s ufferedfrom a slight in charity moral drawback, wh ich to th e departed we will not call by its prope r name. The horse of a trooper of the 7th Light Dragoons having fallen while going through some manoeuvre, the leg of the rider was broken. The surgeon was about to cut the boot away to relieve o sir, they are my boots--thev the injured limb, when Sir D. boots,eccolna exclaimed, eodf' Theyth e 8 1 th ill Light Lla , s coming up, not be eut. , , and supplied the privates with boots. 0 author, who at the time held a lieutenancy in it the Greys, vouches for the truth c,f this anecdote, neEds no comment; happily colonels of regiments are no longer clothiers. The following recipe for dressing a hare is a French _.... one, and has certainly novelty, if nothing else, to re commend it, at least as far as hares are concerned in civilised countries ; it being a common practice among savages to cook their prey in the skin 'without opening it. Shakespear must have been unac quainted with the Frenchman's mode of cookery when he wrote—" An old hare is very good meet in Lent ": - " In an old French book on sporting, written by a French nobleman, the following curious recipe for dressing an old hare is thus given :—' The dish is one which I invented after having killed a hare one day in Lent, which hare was so old and so dry, that it was impossible to separate the ears with the hand, although we endeavoured to do so several times. In order to make it tender, the idea struck me only to paunch it, and immediately afterwards to pat it on the spit without skinning it, heating two shovels red hot ; and to economise the bacon, I cut two slices of it as if for larding, and fastened them with thread to two laths, passing the thread between the rind and the fat of it, in order that it should not burn, and when my hare's skin was dry enough, I set it on fire with a firebrand. The fur being burnt, I took one of the heated shovels, and put the bacon against the hare, making it drop upon it, and continued with the shovels. which were heated one after the other, till I saw that the skin was separating from the body, and then I could take it off easily with the tongs, (which may also be done by the hand,) and after ha ving detached it I basted it again with the bacon, and afterwards with strong vinegar, and seeing it roasted enough, I made a sauce, which may be made sweet or a la poivrade, ac cording to taste. This hare, old and hard as it was before being roasted, was more tender than a leveret kept three days, from which, on cutting it, gravy ran out as from a leg of mutton, for being tough and dry are two things which cause roast hare to be bad. And after being thoroughly experienced in this cooking the late king, Louis XIII., ordered me one Twelfth-night at Versailles, to dress him a hare, which had just been taken, and fit to make the trial, being very old and very tough. He was also curious to see it roasted in the kitchen. His Majesty found if, so tender and excellent, as also did those who had . . the honour of dining with him, that nothing remained but the bones. I give this recipe,' continues the Frenchman, that sportsmen, when they have taken a hare in the coun try, and go for their refreshment to a poor public-house, where nothing is to be had, may speedily prepare a dinner, and return immediately to their sport.' " After describing most of the birds to be found. in Europe, giving instructions to young sportsmen, and railing with all the vindictiveness of an old sports man at the tame and butcherly practice of modern would be sportsmen, with a servant to load their second guns in well-stocked covers, the author brings his amusing narrative to a conclusion with some clever remarks on hawking, a pastime of ' our forefathers, which he hopes to see revived. Many of our readers have doubtless read of Mous tache, the celebrated French poodle, who accom panies the army of Italy—distinguished himself at the Battle of Marengo—was present at Austerlitz,. and fell gallantly at the Siege of Badajoz. The author gives his biography as follows: "Addison says that the dog has been the companion of man 6,000 years, and has only learned one of his vices ; that is. to worry his species when he finds him in trouble. Tie a saueepan to a dog's tail, and another dog will fall on him. Put a man in prison for debt and another will lodge a detainer against him. "The French poodle is a quiet and sagacious creature. The life and adventures of thefoilowing arehighly interest ing. Moustache was born at Calais, 1799. At the tender age of six months he was disposed of to an eminent grocer at Caen, who treated him in the kindest manner. But, strolling about the town one day not long after his arrival, Moustache happened to come upon a parade of grenadiers. They were brilliantly equipped. Their spirits were high, and their drums loud. Moustache, instantly smitten with their fine appearance, cut the grocer for ever, slunk out of the town, and joined the grenadiers. He was dirty and tolerably ugly, but there was an intelligence, a sparkle, a brightness about his eye that could not be overlooked. We have not a single dog in the regiment,' said the petit tambour, and at any rate this one looks clever enough to forage, for himself.' The drum-major assented, and Moustache attached himself to the band, and was soon. found to possess considerable tact and talent. He had already learnt to carry admirably, and ere three weeks were over he could stand with as erect a back as any private in the regiment, act sentinel, and keep time in the march. Soldier-like, he lived from paw to mouth. He endured the fatigues of Mont St. Bernard with as good a grace as any veteran in the army. , They were soon near the enemy, and Moustache, having become familiar with the sound of mus ketry as well as of drums, seemed to be inspired with new ardour as he approached the scene of action. The first occasion on which he distinguished himself was this. His regiment being encamped on the height above Alexandria, a aetachment of Austrians from the Vale of Balboo at tempted a surprise during the night. The weather was stormy, and the French had no notion that the Austrians were advancing so close. The camp was in danger, but Moustache was on the alert, walking his rounds as usual, with his nose in the air. He soon detected the Germans. He gave the alarm, and the Austrians rapidly retreated. Next morning it was resolved that Moustache should thenceforth receive the ration of a grenadier. He was noW cropped a la militai7e, a collar with the name of the regi ment was hung round his neck, and the barber was ordered to comb and shave him once a week. In a skirmish which occurred, Moustache received a bayonet wound in his left shoulder. He was not perfectly recovered from this acci dent when the great battle of Marengo took place. Lame as he was, he oould not keep away from so grand a scene. He kept close to the banner, which he had learned to recog nise among a hundred, and never gave over barking until the evening closed upon the combatants. The sun of Austerlitz found him with his chasseurs. In the heat of the action he perceived the ensign, who bore the colours of his regiment, surrounded by a detachment of the enemy. He flew to his rescue, barked with all his might, did all he could, but in vain. The ensign fell covered with wounds but not before, feeling himself about to fall, h e hal wrapped his body in the folds of his standard. Five or Si% Austrian soldiers still remained by the ensign to obtain possession of the colteirs he had so nobly defended; Moustache having thrown himself on the colours was on. the point of being pierced with bayonets, when a timely discharge of grapeshot swept the Austrians into oblivion. The moment that Moustache perceived that he was de livered from his assailants, he took the staff of the French banner in his teeth, and strenuously endeavoured to disen gage it, but ineffectually. He succeeded, however, in tear ing away the silk, and with this glorious trophy returned to the camp limping and bleeding. One day a chasseur, mistaking the dog,' hit him a mice blow with the flat side of his sabre. Moustache, piqued to the heart, de serted from his regiment, attached himself to some dra , goons, and followed them into Spain. On the 11th March, 1811, he was killed by a cannon ball at the taking of Bads ' joz. He was buried on the scene of his last glories, collar, medal, and all. A plain stone, with the simple inscriptions ' Ci-git le brave Moustache, ' was placed over his grave; ; but the Spaniards afterwards broke the stone, and the bones of the poor animal were burnt by order of the Inqul" sition." Thus his enemies did him honour, dog though he was, for were not his remains treated as those of great men have been, by cowards who sought to revenge themselves on the dead. The exulting Royalists exhumed brave Oliver Cromwell. The Republicans of France dug up the body of De Le , Roche Jacqueline, and the bigoted Inquisition of Spain burned the bones of poor Moustache. tire's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines. Lou gman. The History of Iron is concluded, and this num ber is devoted principally to Lead, Leather, a nd Linen. Under the head of Lucifer Matches we find a computation of the number of matches manu factured in the United Kingdom and France. It has been estimated," he says, " that the English and, French manufacturer s o f ph osp h orus are now producing at the rate of 300,000 lbs. of common phosphorus per annuref nearly the whole of which is consumed in making lucifer matches. In compounding the emulsion for tipping the f I matches, the German manufacturers make thre e p oun ds phosphorus suffice for five or six million s o f matches. f we suppose only one-half of the French and English aw mial product of phosphorus to be employed in making matches, this will give us 250,000,0.00,000 of matches as the annual product consequent on the consumption of one-half of the French and English phosphorus. We need not sup' pose this to be an exaggerated statement, when we consider the daily product of some of our match manufactories. lately had occasion to describe the process of a London fce' tory, which produces 2,500,000 matches daily. For this purpose, 14 3-inch planks are cut up ; each plank produces 30 blocks; each block, of the dimensions of 11 inches long , inches wide, and 3 inches thick, produces 100 slices, each slice 31 splints, each splint 2 matches : thus we have-14 30 x 100 x3l x = 2,604,000 matches as the day's work of a single factory in London. At Messrs. Dixon's factor,' near Mannester , from 6,000,000 to 9,000,000 of matches are produced daily."—Tomlinson. According to Dr. R. Beettger, the best composition for lucifer matches is—phosphorus, 4 parts ; nitre, 10 ; fine glue, 6 ; red ochre or red lead, 5 ; and malt, 2. THIS DA Y'S MARKETS. There was a good consumptive inquiry for oats, the shelf of which was rather extensive, at full currencies. in price, but the Both beans and sn h :s wheat rhel trifling. thery business doing in them was . teas f il i r o : n :r n trade, offer in an t d o p . d r a i e y e; were the turn highir. There was morn fi p r e i a n Scarcely Enl i market. The business done, therefore, was much r3stricteat but at prices fully is per quarter above last week's quota• Lions, and u seful foreign Fine Wheats were rather dearer, an the value of other kinds was well supported. Floating cargoes were held at full quotations. We had a fair demand for barley, at extreme rates. Malt, h ow ever, moved off slowly, on former terms. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. English .... .... Whe4t.29o 1 160 : 1 450 Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. Irish.. ......... .. Foreign .... - 5,520 1,700 I 15,050 1 800 — sacks' 9.160 brio. WHITECHAPEL. The trade generally is heavy, and prices have a drooping tondency. Beef, 3s 4d to 5s Od ; matton 3s 6d to 5s 2d; lamb, 5s Od to 6s Od ; veal, 4s Od to 4s 10d ; pork, 3s 6d to ös Od Sibs. by the carcase. BOROUGH HOP. There is still a good business doing in hops, on r ather higher terms. The plantation accounts continue ud iv vourable. THE SILK CROP.—According to a circular of Messrs. Arles Dufour and Co., of Lyons, the silk crOd although not entirely terminated, is sufficiently a dvanc, e „ to allow an estimate to be formed of its general re sit " ' The harvest in Europe is considered to be far more abilw dant than last year, but the mixture of seed from an extra ordinary variety of sources has caused the proportio n - A r inferior cocoons to be much larger than at any period. The prices paid for cocoons are still very A i 'b to and such as will bring the cost of new silk very nearOroi. an equality with previous quotations. Transactions, 11 , t _ ever, have been rather limited during the past fo rtni q; manufacturers being provided with sufficient supplies the execution of orders in hand.