The Sun. — London, England, 1860-06-18 00:00:00

BENSON'S WATCHES. " Perfection of meolianism."—Morning Post. Gold Silver 2to 50 guineas. Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, descrip tive of every construction of watch now made, with their prices. Watches sent to all parts of the kingdom free by post, or to India and the Colonies for sa. extra. 33 an , l 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Established 1749. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMAIU Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buskstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with SHOCKING EVENTS. Mr. Compton. To be followed by THE FAMILY SECRET. Messrs Chippendale, Howe, W. Farren, Villiers, Buckstone, Mrs. B. White, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Mrs. Wilkins, and Miss Amy Sedgwick. After which, a new farce, entitled FITZSMYTHE OF FITZSMYTHE HALL. Messrs. Buckstone, W. Farren, and Rogers ; Mrs. Wilkins and Miss Henrade. To conclude with THE ODDITIES OF THE OHIO. By the Leclercqs. Commence at 7. VOYAL PRINCES S'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Phelps. To conclude with THRICE MARRIED. Mr. Meadows, Miss C. Leeleres c. Commence at 7. ADELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. .Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster. Eighth week of the celebra' ed American Actress, Miss Julia Daly. THIS EVENING to commence with THE SERIOUS FAMILY. Mr. Leigh Murray, Mr. J. L. Toole, and Miss Woolgar. After which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSIN. ?flaws. Stuart, C. Selby, Billington, Eburne, Miss Julia Daly, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and Mrs. Chatterley. Followed by DINGRATI UNDER DiFFICULTIFS, Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Ebarne, C. J. Smith, Miss E. Kel'y. Box-office open from 10 till 6. Private boxes, £2 25.; Family Boxes, IL Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, as. ' • Pit Stalls, 23.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 1s .; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. FRENCH PLAYS-ST. JAMES'S THEATRE Directeur, 31. Talexy.—Lessee, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. M. LECLERE. THIS EVENING, LES FEMMES QUI PLEURENT, en un tide PARIS QUI DORT, piece en quatre actes Blai reau, by M. Leclerc. Orchestra Stalls, 7s. 6d. ; Balcony Stalls, ss. ; Pit, 25."; Gallery, ls. Private Boxes, from Two Guineas. The next appearance of Mdlle. Duverger will be duly• an nounced. Commence at 8. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- .!:11 , - Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wll. _BATTY. New Engagement and First Appearance in London of Madlle. LEONTINE, the Renowned Equestrienne from the Cirque Imperiale, St. Petersburg. Immense Success of the Gorgeous Hippo-drama—the New and Splendid Scenery, the Magni ficent Costumes and Decorations, the intensely interesting and thrilling incidents with which It abounds, render it the most superb and beautiful production ever placed upon this stage. On Monday, June 18, 1860, and during the week, the En tertainments will commence with the Grand Historical Spectacle in Three Acts, entitled "FAIR ROSAMOND, or the AMAZON CRUSADERS." Succeeded by an unusually brilliant programme of the Scenes of the Cirque, introducing the celebrated British an i Continental Equestrian Artistes, including 3ladlle. LEONTINE, in their unequalled perfor mances. Concluding with a Popular Farce. The magnificent Chandeliers manufactured by Messrs. De- Ides and Sons, of Houndaditch. Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. CONCERTS.- CANTERBURY HALL THIS EVENING, C. H. GOUNOD'S OPERA, FAUST. - first Time in this Country. Faust Mr. Henry Herbert. Mephistophele3 Mr. C. Bernard. Siobel Mrs. Anderson. Marguerite Conductor. Mr. Jonghmans. And selections from Dthorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, is, Hail, 6d. (7omia Vocalists --Messrs. G eerge Hodson (the Irish Come d!an and Mimic). and W. T. Criiehfield. The AFRICAN OPERA. TitOUPE, their first appearance since 1532, consisting of ELEVEN STAR PERFOAMERS, who will rive the whole of their inimitable entertainment every evening. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATIIEL...SUN OFFICE ; JUNE 17, 1860. THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE. 61 —highest since noon yesterday. 51—lowest this morning and during the night. 52—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.60. IVIND—North-Easterly ; fresh, with dirty rainy weather. It rained all night, and still continues. It rained 26 hours, from midnight on Saturday till about 2 o'clock on Monday mornin g. JUNE 18. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAME. 51—highest since noon yesterday. 50—lowest this morning and during the night. 63—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.87. ; a rise of a quarter of an inch since yesterday. WlND—Westerly ; light, with fine sunshiny weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 12h. 53m.—Afternoon, lh. 16m. To-moßnow.-Morning, lh. 38m.—Afternoon, 2h. Om. 4 , ,-e, ti ,c!? i' , :::•i..• .., ~.....,..?,,, .....,, T , ~, W,".-,..i ,/,,:,:;.,--',_l * . 'A .-- a t- . -0.. e.,• i n n,,, -, ..i,Z: •,, %- t„... - -, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1860 rival7Ptilitical parties made their feats in shipbuild ing part of their boasts on the hustings at the last election. The vast size of his army, far beyond anything requisite for defence, had been long known; but, soon after the Crimean war, a naval commission revealed the fact that his navy had been steadily increased also. Its magnitude was equal to our own, with no need for it whatever, for honest purposes; and it became quite clear; that he had not only mustered an army from which he could spare Zany day 100,000 men, against whom we could not bring 30,000 ; but that he had pro vided the means for placing them on our shores at a few hours' notice. Soldiers, railways, steam ships, a naval conscription were all in readiness, certainly not to defend France, whom none threat ened, but in sufficient strength to attack England at pleasure. Some of the French journals, and some confiding men at home, laugh at our periodical panics. But it has no been merely a periodical thing. A pru dent untrenabling fear has grown with the reason able causes for it. If the EMPEROR chooses to keep a uselessly large fleet, but only an army from which he could not spare men for an invasion ; or if, on on the other hand, with an army big enough to overrun Europe, he would limit his means of trans port,—in either case no immediate danger would threaten England. He does the very reverse ! He creates a combined naval and military force avail able at a day's notice, and specially adapted for an attack on England. Russia is the only Power, be sides ourselves, which could even pretend to dispute the mastery of the seas with him ; and of her, as a naval Power, locked up now in the Baltic, and frozen in there for six months in the year, he could have no fear, He has created his vast fleet, a fleet manned in four-and-twenty hours by his conscrip tion,—he has created it against England, either to overawe her while he lords it elsewhere, or to invade her, or both. It were childish not to see this ;it were folly to despise the fact. We must look it in the face. We must be able to present a counter fact. What shall that be ? Mr. COBDEN himself, a determined peace man surely, but yet one who retains his English com mon sense, has acknowledged that with our colonies so widely scattered all over the world, we need three ships to every two of the EMPEROR'S. Even he, too, has said, that he would as readily Tote a hundred millions as fifty, for insurance against a probable attack. The question is, then, are we to go on for ever in creasing our navy and coast fortifications, at an enormous cost, because our neighbour chooses to make himself every year more dangerous to us An armed peace is becoming to us, and indeed to all Europe, more costly than war, by its intoler able annual drain on our revenue. There is not a household in England, above the class of working men, which is not heavily mulcted this year, to pay a yet heavier penalty next year, be cause Louis NAPOLEON is become the danger to all. If we do not fear him, it is because we tax ourselves, and deprive ourselves of domestic comforts, that we may feel safe. From ten to fifteen millions at least of our taxes are but in surance against the army, the navy, and the worth lessness of the professions of NAPOLEON 111. Can we wonder at the question we hear so often gravely asked will not open war be cheaper ? If Louis NAPOLEON, will not consent to a navy two-thirds only the size of ours—if he will not reduce it at once to that amount—if he will not allow us to take suitable guarantees for the observance of that proportion—so long as he keeps an army disposable for invasion of his neighbours—then will it not be cheaper, dreadful as the alternative may be to destroy Cherbourg at once, and convert it into a Sebastopol, and to destroy also one half of his present navy ? We will not now answer this frequent interrogatory, but we warn the Emperor of the French that it is uttered in England with increasing frequency. Either he must reduce his navy, or it will become necessary to reduce it for him. Who will not wish a happy and prosperous voy age to the Great Eastern ? The Leviathan steam ship having slipped her moorings in the Southamp ton waters at 8 a.m. yesterday (Sunday the 17th June, 1860), and having, as we have all learnt with interest, threaded in safety " the narrow and tortuous channel" down the Solent and through the Needles, is now, by this time, fairly on her first ocean voyage. With wind fair, and everything promising a good passage, we will hope for the very best for her; the quickest passage on record, let us trust ; the smoothest; and, to complete all, a comfortable anchorage at length within the bar at New York, in the United States. Until the voyage has actually been accomplished we can expect only the most fragnientary jottings by the way in regard to the great ship's doings and whereabouts. Where she was sighted, for example, the speed she was going at, and so forth. Even before she had well got away from our shores we read with interest the telegraphic intimations given to us thus fragmentdrily. Yesterday evening, let us say, at ten minutes after seven, when the great ship was sighted from the Camera on the Hoe ; or, again, a little later, say at twenty minutes after eight, when she was apparently in a line with the Eddystone lighthouse. At about which time and place the telegram says tersely—" Wind southerly ; very light : fOur or more funnels smoking : paddle and screw going : no canvas set "—every scrap of which news has its interest. After all her trials, and delays, and acci dents, then, the Great Eastern, it is consolatory to think, now is at length actually " off " on her first deep - sea voyage. Not a man or woman amongst us but will wish her heartily Godspeed to the end. She is freighted well with these good wishes from home; and we cannot doubt for an instant but that her welcome, on her approach to the shores of America, will be propor tioned in cordiality and enthusiasm to the magnitude of the whole entciprize. Her first gallant Captain, her great and gifted Engineer, have neither of them, unhappily, sur vived to witness the consummation of their hopes. But their intentions are at length in her regard being carried out with admirable precision. Nothing appears to have been' overlooked in the way of cautious preparation. Everything seems to have been scrupulously done that could be done with the utmost degree of forethought. The Board of Trade has given. its assistance in the way of advice, and that advice has been carefully attended to without any mistaken hesitations about the in crease of expenditure. If ever an enterprise de served to succeed, this bold and unparalleled enter prise of the Great Eastern has deserved it unques tionably. Money, skill, industry, patience, genius, courage, ingenuity—have all been lavished upon it. Every one who has had anything to do with it, from the highest to the lowest, has nobly done Lis duty. lAA Us now rest confident in our earnest hope that all these immense and protracted labour s are about to be recompenced, and that the history of the Great Eastern, hitherto made up of anxious, or painful, or disappointing incidents, will hence forth be one long record of voyages, safe and swift, and largely remunerative. THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1860. -ob.- LOUTS NAPOLEON was born in the year 1808 ; and what he does he must do quickly. He can hardly, with common prudence, have laid plans requiring very energetic personal action, or even severe personal attention, for more than the next ten years ; but Europe must feel, unless bereft of reason, that those ten years will be for her years of the most watchful solicitude. We really have no wish whatever to be needless alarmists ; no wish to incur the denunciations of the Manchester School, several of whom are men of pre-eminent abilities, as well as unquestionable integrity, though like other men liable to be one-sided in their -views ; nor have we the slightest wish to say a word need lessly irritating to our neighbours across the water, or to their very clever iuler. But we must claim for ourselves the right to discuss the bearings of notorious facts, and assert for our country the neces sity and duty of not being behind the hour. We have had very practical lessons lately. The cost of our army and navy trebled; our taxation rising to more than the really unimaginable sum of £70,000,000 ; our Income Tax raised to ten pence, with the intimation that next year it may be a round five per cent. on the labour, of our bands or our brains. A report of a defence com mission, which, although leaving the heart of the country undefended, may run us up a bill of £12,000,000,--these are some of the lessons which the dullest can understand, and which remind us that there is, somewhere, a cause for all this. That cause is FRANCE, ; France, especially under the present regime. We do not pretend that the EMPEROR is the sole cause; the Prince DE JOIN VILLE, under the rule of the Citizen King, also M. THEIRS, under the same Monarch, and even M. GUIZOT, though in a more diplomatic and dirty Iray, all showed that the delight of France is to outwit England ; and the two former that it was her delight to be able to defy her by bayonets and broadsides. LOUIS NAPOLEON has but succeeded to an inheritance, of which the general condition is, that France should hold the whole Continent in suzerainty, and the special one that England should b e , lolaioled for the deeds of NELSON and of WELLINGTON. LOUIS NAPOLEON is, however,. beyond all com parison the most able, the most cunning, and the most determined of Frenchmen with whom we have had to do as the promoters of the policy of French aggrandizemcnt. It may ho a necessity to a military tenure of the throne; but the fact is undoubted. Till the days of IOTNVIL LE , T ULIPS, and GUIZOT, we had no el:mit , Wh t ever of alarm ; and even for them we hardly put Ourselves out of the w ay. But, with the seizure of the Empire by the refugee from our shores, our rulers of every party soon felt that their course must be changed. Amidst all their cordial professions and words they felt that their deeds must be changed ; and so er - tirely did the country sympathise with them, that LATEST E The, following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : CONGRESS AT BADEN BADEN. says :—" Several cardinals have, it is stated, pro posed to the Pope, in order to meet the wants of the State, though to a very limited extent, to sell the last estate NN hi ch remains in the hands of the Sacred College. This property, which is situated on the banks of the Lake of Trasimene, scarcely yields a revenue of more than 16,000 f, a ycar,which serves to enable their Eminences to carry out cer tain ancient rights ; and, among others, that of pre cedence at Pontifical ceremonies. lam not aware whether his Holiness has consented to this sacrifice so generously offered." BADEN, JUNE 18. A conference was held yesterday afternoon at the residence of the King of Bavaria, and was attended by the four Kings and by the Grand Dukes of Hesse, Darmstadt, and Nassau. Before dinner the Emperor Napoleon presented the Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour to the King of Hanover. In the evening there was an assemblee at the villa of the Duchess of Hamilton. At this assem blee the Emperor took leave of the Sovereigns, all of whom were present, and departed at 10 p.m. for Strasburg. PARIS, MONDAY. The Emperor :arrived at the Tuileries at ten o'clock this morning. A Council of Ministers was held immediately afterwards. The Itloniteur of this morning publishes the fol lowing despatch : " BADEN, SUNDAY. " A grand dinner took place to-day at five o'clock, in the Ducal Palace of Baden. " The Emperor leaves at 10 p.m., and will arrive in Paris on the 18th inst. at 10 a.m." BADEN, JUNE 16. The Emperor, after his arrival yesterday, dined with his suite. At about 8 30 p.m. the Prince Regent, who yesterday paid the first visit to the German Sovereigns, sent Lieutenant Von Loen to present his compliments to the Emperor. It was the Emperor's intention to visit the Prince Regent first. The Prince Regent, however, came at 830 p.m. to the Villa Stephanie, and remained with the Emperor till 9 15 p.m. The Emperor then in tended to surprise the Duchess of Hamilton, daughter of the Grand Duchess Stephanie, but did not find her at home. He thereupon took tea with the Grand Duke of Baden, the Dukes of Weimar and Coburg, who reside in the Duke of Baclen's palace, only being present. To-day a grand dejettner, attended by all the Sovereigns, took place in the Old Palace. This morning the weather was very fine. The Emperor, the Prince Regent, and the other Sovereigns break fasted at the Grand Duke's palace. To-morrow they will dine at the Grand Duke's chateau, a little dis tance out of Baden, Yesterday, at a concert at the Kursaal, the public opinion was that the congress of the Sovereigns would strengthen peace. This morning, at 8 o'clock, the Emperor, while taking a promenade on foot, was surrounded by a great number of persons. It is reported that the Duke of Nassau has arrived, and that the Emperor of Austria is expected. This evening there will be a meeting of the Princes at the Palace, which will be illuminated. The Kings of Saxony, Bavaria, and Hanover have again visited the Emperor. At 5 p.m. they will all dine at the Grand Duke's palace. The Emperor will most likely leave for Paris on Sunday at 10 p.m. SATITaDAY AFTERNOON. It is stated on good authority that at yesterday's interview with the Prince Regent the Emperor Napoleon repeated his peaceful assurances, and said that he desired the interview in order to express them verbally. The Duke of Nassau arrived here to-day. PARIS, JUNE 17. The 3loniteur says— " The Empress has visited Prince Jerome. The health of his Imperial Highness has improved." TURIN, JUNE 16. Advices from Naples to the 13th inst. state that several columns of troops had been concentrated to be in readiness to march upon the places which might be threatened. Ammunition and provisions had been sent to the Abruzzi. Emmanuel Caracciolo had been appointed Mi nister of General Police, in place of Ajossa. Signor Rosica had been appointed Minister of Public Works. Advices from Palermo to the 10th inst. state thal Garibaldi was actively organising his army. The convocation of a Sicilian Parliament accord ing to the laws of 1848 was shortly expected, for the purpose of ratifying the proclamation which decrees the forfeiture of the rights of the Bourbons, and the union of Sicily to the kingdom of Sardinia, under Victor Emmanuel. JUNE 17. M. Thouvenel and the Marquis d'Antonini were present at the interview of the Commander de Martino with the Emperor Napoleon. It is stated that the Emperor, in reply to M. de Martino, said, " Six weeks ago I could have ac cepted, and should have been happy to accept, the role of a mediator, but posterior engagements pre vent my doing so to-day." MARSEILLES, JUNE 16. Ads ices from Rome state that an official despatch had been received from Naples giving details of th© capture of the two steamers with Garibaldians by the Neapolitan frigate Fuhninante. These steamers, ,whieh displayed the Sardinian and Ame rican flags, had on board 25,000 muskets, 32 can nons, 2,000,0001 b. of powder, and a considerable sum of money. 800 armed passengers were made prisoners, and were, together with the steamers, conveyed to Gaeta on the 12th inst. General Lamoriciere had despatched troops to the Neapolitan frontier. It was asserted that Piedmont had promised to prevent an invasion of the Papal frontier, unless such invasion was in consequence of a declaration of war by any Power. This declaration of Piedmont was said to have been communicated to the Pope. A letter from Naples of the 12th inst. mentions, under great reserve, a rumour that 2,000 Garibal dians, supposed to be commanded by Col2M(deci, had landed at Catanzaro, in Calabria. Letters from Palermo to the Bth inst. estimate the forces of Garibaldi at 4,000 men. Seven persons found plundering had been shot by order of Garibaldi. The order for the evacuation had greatly dis couraged the Royal troops. Garibaldi had opened a national subscription on behalf of the war. The Archbishop and all the noble families in Sicily had subscribed. MARSEILLES, JUNE 17. The brother of the Emperor of Morocco, with the Moorish Ambassador and a suite ofls persons, have arrived here. They were received with military honours. They will leave for Paris on Tuesday or "Wed• nesday. ROME. A letter from Rome, in the ,Siecie, says:—"l must relate an anecdote relative to St. Peter's pence. The Duke Torlonia, on being personally asked by the Pope for a loan of five millions of crowns, is said to have replica - An the negative, adding, 'lf your Holiness had not taken from me the monopoly of salt and tobacco, I could have done it.' On the Pope urging the request, the Duke took from his pocket a note, and said, ' This is an account of the funds which Cardinal Antonelli has transmitted to England. Make him give you those, and I will ne gotiate them immediately !' The treasurer has ad dressed a circular to all the cures directing them to make a collection among the families in their parishes, in favour of the Government, which is re-. duced to great extremity. The smallest sum, says the circular, will be accepted, and if not given as a donation, will, after six months, receive 8 per cent. interest. A great extension of spiritual advantages is also promised: - The expedient has not been at tended,with success, and a report is now current that all the mmasteries will have a forced loan imposed on them, against which the monks loudly exclaim." Another letter from the same place, in the Nonde, LITBRATU_RE. to be allowed to smoke a pipe. One being handed to him, he was directed to take a long and deep inhalation; this accomplished, he desired no more, and his rueful face brought the mirth of the party again upon him." An Arctic Boat Tourney in the Autumn of 184 By Isaac I. Hayes. Bentley. During the last few years the public have be come familiarised with Arctic adventure. In fact since the first fears were entertained for the safety of the ill•fated Franklin expedition, more has been written about the ice encumbered regions, than had been previously indited since Baffin and Byld in a little vessel of fifty-five tons, penetrated the un known to nearly 78 deg., almost as high a latitude as modern success with all its improvements has yet attained. Without entering upon the debateable ground, whether the risk of human life and expen diture of capital entailed by Arctic expeditions is compensated for by the possible results, all must feel that the history of the adventures and trials encountered by enterprising and energetic men, while endeavouring first to carry on an ex ploration in the face of geographical and physical difficulties, and eventually to save life, travelling in the midst of an Arctic winter, almost without food, insufficiently clothed, and through hostile savages, has a deeper interest and calls forth more sympathy than the best written and most thrilling romance which ever emanated from the pen of the most celebrated author. Mr. riayes' narrative comprises only about four months, being an account of a boat expedition conducted by himself in the autumn of 1854—t0 endeavour to reach Uppernavik, a Danish settlement on the coast of Greenland, the most northern outpost of civilisation in that quarter. He accompanied, in the capacity of surgeon, Dr. Kane's expedition which sailed from New York in the spring of 1853, in the brigantine Advance. Although the ostensible object of the undertaking was to search for Sir John Franklin, it appears that Dr. Kane had likewise a desire to find his way to the North Pole, wherefore instead of proceeding up Lancaster . Sound, or Jones's Strait, he pro ceeded to the head of Baffin's Bay, through the north water and up Smith Strait, when owing to his want of information concern ing the set of the ice in that comparatively unexplored region, his ship became locked in Bens selaer harbour in lat. about 79 deg., which was destined to be ber last resting place. In the au tumn of 1854, the crew of the .brig being all more or less afflicted with scurvy, it was determined that part of them should make an attempt to reach Uppernavik, and send assistance to those remaining with the brig. Mr. Hayes undertook the conduct of this party, who consisted of eight persons, and a curious combination they were, as he describes them later in the work. But in fact, we opine that such a general mixture of races was but natural when we remember that the expedition was an American one. Some idea of the difficulties of tra velling in such a climate may be gathered from the following passage : " Although with plenty of furs one may generally be warm enough in the open air, at almost any temperature, )et I am compelled to say that a sleeying bag is no very desirable place in which to spend the night ; for, if you ex pose your head you run great risk of freezing that most sensitive organ, the nose ; and if you haul your head within doors, or close up the mouth of- the bag, you run equally great risk of smothering. It is a nice operation, and one requiring some piactice, to adjust a proper mean between these extremes." It was a desperate undertaking, but they were so circumstanced that any alternative was justifi able rather than remain all crowded together in a small vessel. They overcame their first difficulties, reached • a warmer latitude, and were confident of success, when a sudden change took place. Win ter prematurely closed in on them, and they were frozen up on a barren icebound coast; after great suffering they ultimately returned to their companions at Bensselaer Harbour, in the middle of December, and the whole party the next spring reached Uppernavik. Mr. Hayes is a writer of considerable ability. His descriptions are able and vivid, and his narrative is plain and straightfor ward, and bears the stamp of truth throughout. Many of the mishaps which befell our travellers were ridiculous enough, nnd the quiet way in which the author refers to such misfortunes is highly amusing. As regards camping out, he remarks :-- "As we came across the ice, John had discovered a wounded duck sitting behind a hummock, and secured her with an oar. A fire was kindled in a crevice in the rock ; the saucepan was half filled with seaewater, and the four quarters of the unfortunate eider were soon boiling in it. The head was knocked out of the bread-barrel, and eight biscuits were added to the contents of the pot. " We were too cold and too nearly famished to wait with much patience, and the stew was speedily pronounced done. Plates and spoons we had none, so each one handled his share of the duck, and then we took turns with the lid for the soup. "This hot meal warmed us up a little, but with it van quished our stock of comforts. With a cup of coffee, or even tea, we should have made out very well. " There *as a gloomy prospect for the night. Nowhere could we find protection against the wind, which not on ly swept in from the sea, but came furiously down upon us through the rocky gorges. We had not as much as a blanket to cover us, and the cold gust blew most cruelly through our water-soaked cloth coats and canvas panta loons. We . clambered about in the darkness along the rocky ledge, under a great black wall, hunting in vain for a lee; but no sooner had we found a place which seemed to offer us protection, than the wind shifted. Indeed, it seemed to blow, in ono and the same minute, from every quarter of the heavens, north, south, east, and wes t ; and when it could not get at us from either of these directions, it rolled down over the clefts and fell upon us like an avalanche. We returned to the place where he had landed, and erected an extempore tent. One end of an oar was thrust into a crack in the rock, the other end was sup ported upon the barrel. Over this was spread the sail. After securing the corners with heavy stones we crawled in, but we thus obtained only a sorry protection. The wind came in on every side. Bonsall and Godfrey finally gave way under the pressure of fatigue and long exposure, and shivered themselves to sleep. would have given much to be able to forget, in like manner, all care and trouble; but it was out of the question. Unable longer to bear the cold, I threw myself out from the sail, determined to thaw my frozen blond by a run about the island. John fol lowed, muttering something like, I believe, they could sleep with their heads in a tub of water.' " The party consisted of eight persons, and after considerable trouble they reached the open water, but scarcely had they started when hard weather overtook them and they were compelled to bring up at a bare rock : " We were surprised about noon by the appearance of an Esquitnaux. He came up the beach, and was as much astonished as ourselves. We recognised him as one of those who were at the ship last winter. His name was Amalatok. After exchanging salutations, he seated himself upon a rock with a cool dignity quite characteristic of his people, and began to talk in a rapid and animated manner. He was dressed in a coat made of bird-skins, feathers turned inward ; bear skin pantaloons, hair outward ; tanned seal skin boots, and dog-skin stockings. He told us that he • lived on the eastern side of the island ; that he had a wife, but no children ; that his brother, who had a wife and children, lived with him ; and that they had been visited by white men (Icablunet) not long since. They were evidently the same people whom Dr. Kane had met on his southern journey in August. Judging from our visitor's description, his house was distant from our camp about three miles. It could be reached, he said, only by climbing over the mountain, which was a difficult undertaking; or by walking along the beach at low tide. He carried in his hand two little auks, a bladder filled with oil, a coil of seal thong, and two or three pieces of half-putrid walrus flesh. He was on an excursion round the island to set fox-traps; and the flesh was intended for bait. While talking with us, he took up one of his auks, twisted off the head, and, inserting the index fine-el. of his right hand under the inte guments of the neck, drew it down the back—and in an instant the bird was skinned. He then ran his long thumb nail along the breastbone, and as quickly produced two fine fat lumps of flesh, which ho generously offered to anybody who would eat them. He evidently intended a. great courtesy; but the raw meat coming from such hands and treated in this manner was not to our liking. Petersen explained to him that we had just breakfasted, and begged, most politely, that he would not rob himself. It did not please him that we declined his hospitality; which was kindly meant, and was bestowed in a manner which showed plainly that he felt the importance of proprietorship. He did not wait for further invitation, and took his lunch with a gesto quite refreshing to see, washing it down with a drink of oil which, in turn, he offered to us ; but again we were compelled to commit the discourtesy of declining. the proffered attention. The remainder of his oil, which fur nished us fuel for cooking two meals, the other bird, and the coil of thong, we purchased of him for three needles. He had, he said, no stock for his whip, and he begged for a piece of wood. We gave him a splinter from a piece of board, which we carried to patch thb boat in case of ac cident. Notwithstanding his greasy face, matted hair, ragged dre ss , an d di sgust i ng propensity o drink oil, he vas the most decent-l oo ki ng na ti ve I h a d y e t seen ." - Eventually when they thought themselves almost out of danger their way was blocked up by ice, a council was held to decide what to do, to return or risk an advance at all hazards, and the result was that there was but one voice in the company— " Uppernavik or nothing, here it is." " That's what I mean, and so do I," were the prompt re sponses. The thing was' settled. Once when camped on the coast they met with a friendly na tive, the description of whom is cur i ous enoug h , but further on the reader will find stranger charae teri performing on the scene— " Our savage friends were kind and generous. They anticipated our every wish. One of the young women, true to the instincts of her sex, ran off to the valley, with a dozen boys and girls at her heels, and filled our kettles with water. Kalutunah's koona (wife) brought us a steak of seal, and a dainty piece of liver. All smiled at the slowly burning canvass wick of our lamp, and at the sputtering salt fat ; and the chief sent his daughter for some dried moss and blubber. We gave them a share of our meal, offered them a taste of coffee, and passed around some pious of ship-biscuit. The biscuit proved too hard for their teeth, and, until they saw us eat, they could not divine its use. They laughed and nibbled at it alternately, and then stuck it into their boots—their general temporary receptacle for alt curiosities. They made wry faces over the coffee, and a general laugh arose against the Angek k, who persisted in taking a drink of the hot liquid. We had, altogether, an amusing time with them. Tho evening bring warm, we sat upon the rocks for several hours; and after supper, our men lighted their pipes. Thivapped the climax of our strange customs. The Esquirnaux seemed amazed, and looked first at us, then at each other, then at us again. They evi dently thought it a religious ceremony, Ewing how solemn were our faces. At length I could not abstain from a smile; the signal thus given was followed by shouting, clapping of hands, and general confusion among the troop. They ran about, puffing on their cheeks, and imitating, as nearly as they could, the motions of the s mokers. Kalatunah, who was determined to try everything, begged Every . country has its customs, but what may be the height of politeness among one set of people is not always acceptable to others, as the be haviour of a certain widow will show who paid a visit to our adventurers when established in their intended winter quarters— " We tendered to the widow the use of our cooking appa ratus ; but she seemed disinclined to be troubled with it, and the food was eaten raw. The man, her companion, broke off piece after piece of his frozen walrus, and the widow skinned and devoured her birds with no less rapidity. Four lumme of respectable size disappeared in an astonish ingly short space of time. She very kindly offered to share with us; and, singling out the astronomer, who occupied the seat next to her, she made him the special object of her regard, chewing up for him a large lump of bird-flesh ; but Sontag was compelled to plead a full stomach. So great a courtesy she did not expect would be declined under any pretence, and she seemed quite mortified ; but nothing daunted, she passed the lump over to me; but no, I could not oblige her. With quite a desponding face she crossed the floor and tried Whipple. Not meeting with success in that quarter she came back to Mr. Bonsall, who was al ready quite a philosopher in making his tastes sultkrvient to his physical wants. ' Now, for it Bonsall !' cried Peter sen. These words of encouragement had the effect to call forth a hearty laugh on all sides ; which, being understood by the widow, she has lily withdrew her offering of friend ship, bolted it herselY, and in offended silence went en with her work of skinning birds and swallowing them. We all felt that henceforth we should have an enemy in the widow. " This widow greatly interested me. She ate birds for conscience sake. Her husband's soul had passed into the body of a walrus as a temporary habitation, and the Ange kok had prescribed that, for a certain period, she should not eat the flesh of this animal ; and since at this time of year bear and seal were scarce, she was compelled to fall back upon a small stock of birds which had been collected during the previous summer. "This penance was of a kind which every Esquimaux undergoes upon the death of a near relation. The Angekok announces to the mourners into what animal the soul of the departed has passed; and henceforth, until the spirit has shifted its quarters, they are not to partake of the flesh of that animal. This may be a bear, a seal, a walrus a lumme, a.burgomaster-gull, or any other embraced within their limited bill of fare. " The widow had one practice which, notwithstanding that it related to the same serious subject, caused not a little amusement. tier late husband, for whose sake she refrained from eating walrus, met with his death last Upernak (summer), by being carriect out to sea on a loose cake of ice to which he had imprudently gone to watch for seal. The tide having changed, the floating raft was disen gaged from the land ; and, in full view of his family and friends, the poor hunter drifted out into the middle'of Baf fin's Bay, never to be heard of more. It happened that during the evening, the name of this hunter was mentioned several times, always in terms of warm praise, and each time his widow shed a copious flood of tears. Petersen told us that all strangers were expected to join in this ceremony. Our first attempt, I fear, made a poor show of sorrow ; but the second was perfect of its kind. The motions could not have been surpassed, even had the cause of grief been a rich banker, and the mourners his heirs. The tears were hardest to manage; but a sufficient quantity found their way to the surface to satisfy the bereaved one that her grief was appreciated by us, and she resumed her lively manner, so far forgetting our former discourtesy in our present respect for her sorrow, she tried again to treat us to munched meat." The history of the Esquimaux dogs, the manner in which they are harnessed, their ferocity, and other useful and amusing information, will well repay perusal. The difficulties which are encountered and overcome, the danger arising from the treachery of the savages, and the determined perseverance under all circumstances of the hardy explorers, cannot fail to command success for Mr. Hayes' graphic and interesting volume. 721 E CONGRESS AT BADEY-BAD.EN. taking a modest compensation to herself and throw ing a huge booty to her accomplice? The crowd of Sovereign Princes seems to have been terribly afraid that Prussia would play them false, and the hot haste with which all the chiefs of the Fatherland hurried to the spot where Prussia and France were to meet must have given Napoleon 111. some materials for thought as to the unity and mutual confidence of these small potentates. When he heard on Friday last of their grave conference among themselves, we fear that he must have smiled even as Gulliver smiled when he awoke and found that the men of Little Lilliput had combined, to tie his limbs with their pigmy bandages. The Princes said, and they say still, that all Germany is united; that the Kings will not be tempted to swallow the Princes, and that the Emperor will not be permitted to take black-mail from the Kings. But why did they all go to Baden Baden ? Que diable allaient ils faire dans cc galere ? Why did they make this public manifestation of their distrust of each other, and of their dread of the mighty stran ger ? Who shall now tell who has been tampered with? But how eloquent and certain would have been the reply to this Imperial temptation if they had all stayed away ! As it stands, the news from 'Baden Baden reads like a parody of old histories, in which sonie Eastern conqueror gave audience to some scores of subject kings, and ended by yoking them to his chariot. It would seem as though M. About were appointed charioteer upon this occasion, and were instructed how to bend their necks a n d whither to direct them. The coincidence between this Congress and this pamphlet is unpleasantly instructive ; but the matter now in hand is more important than that of Savoy, and will be worked more craftily. - (From the Daily News.) The great fame and prestige of Louis Napoleon need not surprise any one who observes how dili gently even his enemies labour to exalt it. His servants and followers can find, even with the ut most care, comparatively few occasions for their praise ; but the fears of his adversaries, magnifying all that he does, and supplying all that he might do, to influence the course of the world, abundantly make up the deficiency. If the breast of the French Emperor is open to flattery, he must be peculiarly gratified at the unwilling tribute paid him in the superstitious dread of a considerable class of our countrymen. Unworthy of Englishmen as is this morbid sensitiveness to every breath of wind that blows from France, it might be unwise to check it if it subserved any useful purpose, if it helped us better to understand the policy and measures of a government to the influence of which in Europe we can never be indifferent. But it has a directly con trary tendency. Louis Napoleon has been to Baden, and has there met the Prince of Prussia, four Kings, and several lesser Sovereign Princes f Germany. If any friend. of the Emperor were required to describe all the circumstances of that meeting, he would think him self fortunate if he could explain himself so as not to wound the amour-propre of France. But the theme is taken up by an inveterate opponent of the Emperor, and straightway his Imperial Ma jesty is set on a pedestal and exalted as an idol be fore whom all Germany is bowing down. M. Guer -roniere could not have performed this service for his master; only an English journalist could do the work. The Emperor, it is notorious, exide scended to invite himself to this party. He carried. complaisance so far, that to have refused to receive him would have been downright incivility. He was willing to travel above three hundred miles and to cross his own frontier. Certainly this is rather the facility of a bagman looking out for business than the state of a suzerain receiving homage. The sudden journey of the King of Hanover to Berlin, and the explanations which the Prussian. Ambassador at Vienna has had to give to the Foreign Minister of Austria, show, among a crowd of other facts, the thoughts which the impending meeting of the Prince Regent and the Emperor awakened at the Courts of Germany, The King of Hanover must have reflected with some mis givings on the part not only inimical but insult ing to Prussia, which his Plenipotentiary had been playing at Frankfort for the last twelve months, from the date of the discussions about the direction of the military forces of Germany during the war in Italy &rim to the debates on the Hessian constitution. Throughout the whole of that period the Government of his Hanoverian Majesty betrayed a jealousy of Prussia as paltry as it was intense. The readiness, let us hope the thankfulness, of the King of Hanover to accept the generous invitation of the Regent to meet him. at Baden is sufficiently explained. But although the position of Hanover marks it out as the terri tory which in any reconstruction of Germany should. contribute to the aggrandisement of the Prussian. monarchy which is desirable in the interests of liberty and peace, there is no German State which has not a legitimate interest in the relations which. Prussia may form with France. By encouraging the Princes of Germany to be present at this meeting with the Emperor, the Prince Regent has taken the most effectual means of calming the apprehensions of his neighbours, and at the same time gained an opportunity of appearing as the central figure in a rare and illustrious German assembly. How it can serve the cause of Austria to proclaim in London that she is delighted at this spectacle, we are at a loss to imagine. At Vienna, as our columns have shown, they hold very different language. Germany does not just now offer a very inviting field for a potentate speculating on the' cupidity of his neighbours. There is not there, as in Italy, a foreign enemy strongly entrenched, and not to be ex pelled without external aid. The active elements, or rather the elements which an appeal strong enough to rouse Germany would call into activity, are, first, nationality, and next, liberalism, and both of these, as far as they have been at all mani fested, are against France. Moreover, easy as it might be for Louis Napoleon to tempt one German Potentate to acquiesce in his plans by offering hint the spoils of another, it would be difficult to make things pleasant, when, as at Baden, he had to do with all. If it is really necessary to account for the meeting which has just taken place by the state and prospects of Europe —if the weakness of Louis Napoleon, so often exemplified in seeking unnecessary inter views with legitimate hereditary sovereigns, and a natural and right desire on his part to allay the feeling which recent debates in the Prussian and. ether German Parliaments have disclosed, are thought not to explain it adequately —we should be prompted to look outside Germany for the reasons which make the Emperor desire to guard against a second outbreak of anti-Gallican sentiment on the eastern frontier of France while he is making war. But when those reasons cannot be pointed out to the public eye it is not the office of the journalist to exercise invention in the cultivation of distrust. • (From the Times.) In the very popular opera, "Lucrezia Borgia," perhaps the most popular piece is the drinking log, in which the patrician youths pledge each Mher in poisoned winecups and laugh at the thought of the morrow. It will be remembered also that a fine effect is produced by a distant requiem which comes from the neighbouring monastery and mingles with the notes of the song of revelry. We do not know whether they had a good opera company at Baden Baden ; but if they had we hope that either the King of Bavaria or the Prince- Regent of Prussia did not omit to command a representation of the' Borgia." There is a certain degree of relation between the plot of that opera and what has been going on at Baden. Those Baden Baden revelries are not unlikely to be fol lowed by the decease of several bodies politic. At Baden a number of people of very great families were yesterday making themselves very jovial under great difficulties. The banquets, the concerts, the illuminations, the agreeable surprises, the race be tween crowned heads to pay each other delis ite compliments, the "agreeable unanimity of the Prince," the playful run of the Emperor after the Grand Duchess Hamilton, and the sportive "fugit inter salices" of the Grand Duchess, the taking of tea with the Duke of Baden and of counsel with the Sovereigns of Weimar and Coburg—how sug gestive it all is of innocent joviality and almost primitive frankness ! Yet, in the midst of it all comes, deep and sullen, from the far distance, the sound of the requiem. It was so prepared by the master of the position. Medio de fonte leporum a French pamphlet is bubbled out, and the noble re vellers are at once reminded that the golden cloud which is now reflecting light upon them has a very black reverse. M. About is the individual who had been selected to point the moral of this Baden Baden Congress, and to put the list of agenda be fore the assembled potentates. The result of his labours seems to come to this—" Trust me and put yourselves at my mercy, and you shall find my mercy is great. Doubt me, and all you doubt shall certainly be done unto you." This pamphlet is the turning of the first sod; it is the opening of the first parallel ; it is the first spadeful of earth out of the sap. "If you are thus always in a flutter about the designs of France—if you will insist that we are fixed upon the design of the frontier of the Rhine, you will provoke, and even actually compel us, to take that frontier." Austria has heard this before, and so has Piedmont. Belgium has also heard it, and it has been tried even upon England. It is the old common form. A little ordinary sagacity would enable any one to mark out the future stages of the proceeding even down to the Grand Cross bestowed on the Minister by whom the affair will be hermetically sealed. We can see it all as easily as professor Owen can draw a sea serpent from a cast scale or a dropped fang. It will progress somewhat in this wise :—At a convenient period we shall hear that Napoleon 111. is distressed at the pressure which the conscription exercises upon the industry of the country. He will awake to the conviction that an army of 700,000 men is an anachronism in the nineteenth century. He will by that time have looked carefully at England, and will have found that she has for many years continued to hold her rank as a first-class Power with a fraction of this force. And why has she done so? his meditating Majesty will ask. Simply " because she has no frontiers," his sud denly-enlightened Majesty will answer. The next natural step in the Imperial cogi tations will be,—and why should not France be in this respect like England ? Why should France have any frontiers ? She has even now almost ar rived at that beatitude. On the west and north west she has the sea. On the south and southeast, thanks to recent acquisitions—she has great moun tain ranges. On the north she has the neutralised kingdom of Belgium. On the east she has Switzer land, also neutralised. But, alas ! between Stras burg and Belgium there is an unprotected line—a break in the frontier wall through which all the armies of Europe may at any time pour, and which requires half-a-million of men to keep France secure from invasion. Almost within sight of Baden Baden the peaks of the Vosges mountains may be counted. They are all French by natural position, but some of them are Bavarian by unjust treaties, and these are as dangerous to France as were the slopes of the Alps of Savoy. Then Prussia comes in, presenting a flat frontier and first-class fortresses. How can France be at peace while her side lies thus open ? But behind this unprotected flat little line of territory lies a broad river, which is a natural boundary of itself. If France could push forward thus far she would be secure. She would then have nothing to fear, and she might disband her army, cease her conscriptions, and leave the world at peace. Has no one heard anything like this put forward already ? We dare not assume to ourselves the credit of having invented this ingenious reasoning, for, if we mistake not, it is already chronicled in diplomatic archives. Very wolf-like as it sounds, it has its song as well as its shout, It is not so very disastrous to those who stand on the wrong side of the boundary. ir, as. M. About says, " France should sacrifice her private susceptibilities to the general good and the future peace," and if it should be necessary for this purpose to take the r esponsibility of defend ing the left bank of the Rhine, some of that goodly company at Baden must be absor bed. A portion of Oldenburg must fade out of the map of th e Middle Rhine; Hesse -Homburg must disappear; and Pi ussia even Saxe-Coburg must contribute one of her little morsels of sovereignty to form a French prefecture. Bavaria must give up an outlying dependency ; must liess e m -D a V e ln a s n ta at t fTl u s s a t c s r n i f re. sev ß el u .a t n a g l e l ; great Fublic objectsinvolve individual inconveniences; and, after all, there is such a thin g as—com pensation. How ' and 20 o ti ee puissant s y o u, Hanover, ann Nassau, and Meining en , a nd es se Cassel,. Powers, winch tLnd Ho r h e e m n i z n o d l eurs of the trib e o f insects you • you that all the little terri insects Linnvous found born with con nets marled GOVERNMENT ENHORATION. Her Majesty's upon their heads, and called " Corohati'—how ay , Emigration Commissioners have given notice of their in tention to receive tenders on Thursday next, the 21st inst. 2 Are e content 'Adelaide, South Australia, to be tories shall be fused ? Is Prussia will' for a vessel to proceed to ing to n lay • Piedmont, if France is read yto fight a . ready for the reception of her passengers on such day as in Germany like that she fought eanipmgri the coramissionera .! appoint between the 24th of July Lombardy, and the 2d of August, THE INDIAN COUNCIL AND Tdx INDIAN ARMIES. A writer in a contemporary says : There are those who consider that the present constitution of the India Council involves an unne cessary expenditure, and whether the annpunce meat made by the Secretary of State does not go far to confirm this view is for the public to judge. The question of a local European army or no local European army was brought before the members of the Indian Council by Sir C. 'Wood, with a regret that her Majesty's Ministers considered a local Eu ropean force unnecessary. The opportunity was thus given to the Council to state individually or collectively their opinion ; but they one and all declined, sheltering their silence by adding that her Majesty's Ministers having come a decisioni: was too late for them to express assent or dissent. This is the official annonncement of the Secretary of State, and the Council of India must not be sur . prised if the public at large and the members of the late CompaO's service consider it high time that their functions should cease and their labours end. There is no doubt that had the-Indian Council a rea lly strong case they would have fought it out, if ld eve not n a spark of independence e x i s t i n that body, for m easures of importance are c h anged, altered, modi fied, ehraNvleajelsetfftshlkelivniiesetreersy, andfied , theor withdra wn Council s by should and Governor-General of India in the lurch, and by their silence have allowed an important, and as many think a vital question to silence, if, pass in ence, as the public suppose, they are the men to represent the real interests oflndia. Now that the " opinion" of the Council is pro mulgted, it is to be hoped that no further delay will occur in at once announcing the final decision that in future there shall be but one army in India, and this vexed question be for ever set at rest. What can the opposition do in the House of Commons if Lord Stanley opposes the bill on Thursday —why waste the time of Parliament ? It is a pity that the bill cannat include the aboli tion of the Indian Council, for it is clear that they have neither the power nor the will to state their opinion, and that they are a costly device to mis lead the Indian community. In conclusion, I must add that the Council show wisdom in their silence —there canr be two armies in India. FRANCE. BOURSE, June 16.—The market has been heavy. Threes, after having been done at 68f 25c are now at 68f 45c ; Mobilier varied from 662 f 50c to 665 f ; Lyons, 872 f 50c to 875 f; Orleans, 1,335 f to 1,337 f 50c ; Northern, 977 f 50c to 980 f; Eastern, 598 f 76c to 600 f ; Southern, 516 f 25c to 517 f 50c. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents 97 Credit Foncier 835 Do end month.... 96 90 I Belgian 44 97 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 45 Roman Bank Shares 2860 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 666 25 , Spanish Threes — Do. Account 668 7 5 Home Debt - RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1335 .. 1337 50 Northern 982 50 .. 980 New ditto — -- Lyons and Mediterranean 877 50 877 50 Geneva.. Southern 515 517 50 PRUSSIA. The Prussian Gazette of the 16th inst. publishes the following article : " This day the Emperor Napoleon arrives at Baden- Baden to greet the Prince Regent on German soil. It was the desire of the Emperor, expressed in the most obliging terms, to give to the Prince Regent this proof of his peace ful and friendly sentiments. Prussia has reason to rejoice at these advances, and to appreciate without prejudice their incontestable importance. $‘ Prussia has no cause to wish to trace new objects for her policy; that policy has always been frank, upright, con ciliatory, and tending to preserve the peace of Europe on ifs tried foundations : it will maintain that character. But the difficulties of the times have aroused anxieties which Europe will be glad to see dispelled by the friendly ex• change of ideas between two powerful Sovereigns, whose attitude always exercises an important and often a decisive influence on the destinies of Europe. Germany will be satisfied if the Emperor of the French strengthens the con viction of the Prince Regent that the policy of France is pacific as well as rigorous ; and France will se) a precious pledge for the continuation of its friendly relations with us in the fact that the Emperor Napoleon will hear from the Prince Regent's own mouth the sentiments and intentions of that straightford and moderate policy which is the inva riable rule of the acts of his Government. " Simultaneously with this meeting, which attracts the general interests of Europe, another event of a most auspicious nature occupies the German nation ; it is the Congress of eminent Princes of the German Con federation. It had long been the ardent wish of all sincere patriots that, after so many differences which have recently agitated to internal existence of the Germanic States, a personal interview of the Sovereign of Germany should revive and strengthen the sentiment of concord. The world will be enabled to convince itself that, among the German States, there may exist differences of opinion on this or that important question of home policy, but that those diffe rences will always fade away before the powerful union which links these States together on all questions of national independence and greatness. " Never will thn discord of factions be able to weaken bonds which, under all circumstances, connect the North and South by indissoluble links. " We therefore dare to express the hope that the Confe rence at Baden will revive the confidence in a prosperous and assured future for Europe, and, at the same time, con solidate one of the most p-owerful mainstays of that future, the union of Germany." DEP.; .RTURE OF THE GREAT EASTERN. SOUTHAMPTON WATERS, JUNE IG. The Great Eastern, in the course of another hour or so, will have commenced her first real voyage, which it is sincerely to be trusted will be of such a character for speed and comfort to all on board as will redeem the vessel from that unfortunate repu tation for ill luck and mishaps which up to the pre sent has so dogged her chequered career. That this same reputation sticks close to her even now may be judged from the fact that the passengers who have committed their fortunes to her are few in the extreme, and only amount in all to some ten per cent. of the numbers that were expected. Of these only two are ladies. Even now, in all the hurry andlustle of departure, when the last packages are coming off and the last messages being sent on shore, no one can look at the condition of the ship with out being forcibly impressed with the idea that she still leaves a couple of days too soon for the thorough organisation and finish that was promised. In all essentials, however, the ship is perfect, and two or three days at sea in calm weather will soon do all the rest, so that, on the whole, her appearance at New York may do her no discredit. Opinions vary very much, however, as to the time when ber ap pearance off Jersey Island will be made, as none allow her less than nine days for the run, under the most favourable circumstances, while the majority lean rather strongly to the belief that it will occupy from 12 to 16. the reasons given for anticipating the latter very low rate of speed a re th a t th e cause of the forward boilers priming so much during the last trial trip has been found to be the feed pipes having become very foul, and not allowing the pas sage of sufficient water to keep them well supplied. Since then they have been cl eane d as we ll as was possible under the circumstances. If this has been effectual, well and good ; • if n o t, a l ow pressure o f steam must be maintained throughout the run, and as a matter of course, the speed w ill b e re d uce d i n proportion. • It is to be hoped, on th e o th er hand, that as the engines get into good work ing trim these diffisulties, if they really exist, will disappear, and as each day's steaming vessel's draught f our i nc hes, probability that with calm weather therewil lighten i s e every y a good average run of nine or ten days may be made. It will, however, certainly be a very diffe rent run from what she could easily have made had her bottom been relieved of th e wee d s an d slime which encumber it. One thi ng w hi c h i s likely to tell much against a first vo y age i s th a t, w ith the present state of tne weather, fogs are likely to pre vail across the Atlantic, and this, with the im mense quantity ofice which is reported in the track, would, of course, render full steaming almost out of the question. These anti c ip a ti ons , h oweve r, are all the merest conjectures, the only thing certain being that the vessel is really about to start; and when this is accomplished, in the face of the predictions that she would not leave this year, who knows but after all she may equally disappoint the ill-boilers by making as good a passage as the Adriatic ? In proper trim, however, the performances of the Adriatic would be a slow standard of comparison with what the Great Eastern can really do if she only gets fair play. Underpowered as she is, she still has the speed in her, as sailors say, and will yet make some of the shortest passages to what ever the port of her destination may be hereafter. It is not improbable even now that the vessel will not leave England to-night, as between 40 and .50 of her crew arc still ashore, having been paid in ad vance and given a few hours' leave yesterday. Some may be behind time, but there is not the least doubt of their joining to-night, as nearly all are said to be Naval Reserve men, who, being mostly men of good character and first-class able seamen, are much sought after by the large steam companies, as crews to be depended on. In case of this delay occurring, the Great Eastern will probably remain off Spit head for the night, though not coming to anchor. OFF THE NEEDLES, 10 30 A.M., SUNDAY, JUNE 1 7. The Great Eastern slipped her moorings in the Southampton waters at 8 a.m., and although the weather was both thick and stormy she proceeded to thread the narrow and tortuous channel down the Solent and through the Needles, under the pilotage of Mr. Bowyer. The weather was far too thick and stormy to render sift for her to have got away last night ; perhaps it is as well she, did not, as on psssing Hurst Castle a large troop• ship could be plainly distinguished fast among the rocks near the- Needles, no doubt having been forced there by one of last night's squalls. The wind, for our present course, is fair, and everything seems to promise a good passege, though perhaps not a very quick one. PLYMOUTH, SUNDAY EVENING. The steamship Great Eastern, Captain Vine Hall, hove in sight fromthe Camera on the Hoe at ten minutes after seven o 'clock this evening, and was apparently i n a line with the Eddystone light h-)use at 20 mi nu t es a f ter eight. Wind southerly, very light. Four or More funnels smoking. Paddle and screw going ; no canvas set. After heaving in sight she Kiemed to hug the land so as to be bet ter off the port her engines observed, an d th en stee red a more southerly course, which t oo k her three miles at least outside the Eddystone. While were slowed fo r a s h ort ti me . When last observed the Great Eastern was steering a course which would take her clear of the channel, but. if bound to call off Falmouth she would arrive there about mit:night.