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ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.I Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vinina. SUMMER SEtiSON.—Doors open at Mali-past Seven, performances commence at Eight o'clock precisely. THIS EVENING, a New and Original Drama, in Three Acts, by Watts Phillips, Esq., entitled THE HUGUENOT CAPTAIN. Principal characters by Mrs. Stirring, Miss Neilson, Miss Augusta Thomson; Mr. Geor_e Honey aid Mr. 'Vining. Grand Ballet 130 ota berni ats nde, w will ,in hich appear.N MM. lageo ew let, Ci'odoche, Comete, nd Norma scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds. NEW THEATRE -ROYAL ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, at 7 precisely, TUE FAST FAM I —Y. Messrs. Billington, J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford. It. Phillips, Ashley. Eburne ; Mrs. A. Mellon (blisi Woolgar). Miss H. Simms, Miss Fut-lad°, %liss Smith, Miss Seamen, Miss God son, and Mrs. Lewis. To conclude with a Burlesque Opera, called HELENE • or, T.iken from the Gieek. blessrs. J. 'roole, Bediori, K. Phillips, Ashley, Eb u rne ; Mrs. A. 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FOR THE LATEST POLITICAL and SPORTING INTELLIGENCE see the Late Edition of " The Sun" at Mr. Blake's, Queen's Head, Windsor street, Uxbridge. B ENSON, J. W., by Special Appointment to the Prince of Wales. BENSON'S WATCHES. Prize Medal, 1 Sent Safe by Post. EN SON'S ILLUSTRATED PAMP.IILET, 2d. BENSON, Old Bond-street and Westbourne grove. Steam Factory and City Show-Booms, 58 and 70, Ludgate-hill. HIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 2h. 44m.—Afternoon, 3h. 3m. T J -Moratow.-M , &rning, 311. 20m.—Afternoon, 3h. 40m. /F 4. 7 t% ,„„ g,L -- %;10.6 4 , WAX LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1866. The King of PRUSSIA. has received the deputa tion of the Chamber of Deputies, which presented to him the address of the House in reply to the Speech from the Throne. Of course he made the most of the " almost unanimous manner in which it was voted." There was the old story of being forced to draw the sword, which is as unfounded as ridiculous, and the same profession of thanks to HEavEN for the recent victory, which is carried to au extent that, under the circumstances, seems al most profane. After all these forms had been gone through, the KING touched upon the more important subjects of the discourse, and he acknowledged the purport of his policy in a manner more truthful than complimentary. First of all, that much-dis puted point of the organisation of the army was referred to, and the Deputation was informed that the superiority of the new plan over the old system would now be recognised. Then followed the " vexed question" par excellence that has so long and so completely estranged the KING and the Chamber, namely, the " Budget," and it certainly appears to be rather a contradictory statement which the KING put forth. He began by stating that the Government never disputed the rights of the Chamber respecting it, which sounds strange enough when we remember how they acted in defiance of its expressed wishes on the subject. As for the indemnity which was now asked for, it was in conformity with many previous propositions of the Government, only the House would not then consent to them. One piece of truth appears, strangely enough, amid such a tissue of false assertions ; it is said that the Constitution con tains no article applicable to such a state of affairs. Surely this is the most fitting comment that can be made on it, and it contains a severe censure on the management of the Government in thus striking out a new line for themselves. Effrontery cannot possibly go further than it does with the rulers of Prussia. And what can exceed the coolness of the KING in telling the deputation that in the event of a recurrence of a similar state of things he should act the same as he did before, which was a most im pertinent announcement, i to say the least of it? And, in order to turn off the awkwardness of the avowal, lie added that, after such an address as he then re ceived, the renewal of the controversy was impos sible. Such an addenda was idle, however, be cause nothing is more likely than that the deputies and Government will again be opposed to each other, when the first excitement of the present success is over. No doubt the KING was not sorry to have a good pretext for giving utterance to his opinions on this awkward topic, when he knew that he should not be contra dicted, and while he was surrounded with all the prestige of the recent glory of the war. The annexation bill is not yet decided upon, and the numerous amendments that have been brought forward have greatly retarded its progress. It would seem as if the Deputies were even more greedy and grasping than the Government, and at all events their language is more explicit and to the point. All the various proposals agree in one thing, and that is, that there should be an immediate absolute union of the annexed States with Prussia, and Herr V I RCHOW actually moved that the German Parlia ment should be consulted as to whether the Prus sian Constitution should not be introduced into the annexed States. Count BISMARCK gave his decision that an immediate absolute union might take place, but that it was not advisable for the Prussian C o nstitution to be immediately introduced ; and, above all, lie objected to consulting the German Parliament on the subject. Really 'it is quite a satire on the much talked-of Germa n unity to find all these disputes taking place respectin g the dis posal of States that are supposed to be free, or at all events united by their awn wish to Prussia. It would, no doubt, be an arbi trary course to pursue to force into them the Prussian Constitution, but at the same time we do not see that they will be much better off under the plan of Count BISMARCK. He has said that until the said change takes place the Government must be left at liberty to facilitate matters by Royal decrees, and thus settle the relations be tween these States and Prussia. The Prussian Constitution might be introduced next year, Who knows, however, to what strange plans and pecu liar measures the Berlin Government may resort in that interval? On the whole we are of opinion that the places in question would have fared better had they been at once ab solutely joined to Prussia, instead of being left to the disposal of the Government ; there would have been more to look after their interests at any rate under the former circumstances than under the latter. There seems to be much disquietude in high places in Berlin relative to the course adopted by some journals in animadverting upon the part played by Italy in the recent war ; and the official Gazette of Saturday says that Italy has been the " faithful ally" of Prussia, and that all should speak of that kingdom with respect. The fact is that some of the politicians of Prussia are sharp enough to see that the Italians have made a great deal of fuss, and in reality achieved nothing, or next to nothing, notwithstanding all their pretensions. Nothing can allay the doubts and suspicions that are rife in Paris just now respecting the movements of the Prussians. The last news that circulated was to the effect that the Landwehr or militia was mobilsied, and, whether true or not at present,:no doubt it will be so before long. At any rate this shows how ready the French are to be lieve anything and everything of a detracting nature about their allies, and, perhaps, not without good cause. No official contradictions or Ministerial statements can suffice to obliterate an impression when it is once fairly fixed in the minds of a people, and thus the French cannot be dis abused of their notion that the Berlin Government arc very inimical to them. It is said that Saxony will not be treated so. well as some supposed, for that a war contribution will be levied, and that, furthermore the King of PRUSSIA. is to command and organise the Saxon army. If such an arrangement takes place it will be an insult to the French Go vernment, and will be stored up in its memory with the numerous other provocations received. The news from America is of great importance and interest. The Philadelphia Convention has hitherto fully realised the hopes and expectations formed of it, and has proved that President JOHNSON was quite right in relying upon the good sense and justice of his countrymen. The power and influence of the Radicals have long been on the wane, although inside the walls of Congress their arrogance and assumption have remained un diminished. The tyranny of a faction which suc ceeded in keeping the whole country in disturb ance, and in maintaining the lingering traces of the great feud between North and South, has at length grown intolerable to the public. Men of real patriotism were grieved to see the progress of their country hindered and its internal prosperity retarded for no possible good. The black man was perhaps as great a sufferer as the white Southerner from the fanaticism of the Radicals, since without according him actual aid they filled his mind with exciting visions of lands and money given to him by the Government, and fostered the feud between white and black, which must tend to the disadvan tage of the latter. For some time past it has been evident that the independent public were growing weary of the manner in which the affairs of the country were being car ried on by the Radicals. They manifested the bitterest hostility to the PRESIDENT, and thwarted his views by every means in their power ; but means have been found to show unmistakeably that they are not the real representatives of the American nation. The Philadelphia Convention is the signal that the country has broken the yoke, and upon the important question of national repre sentation will declare its own convictions. America has never been friendly to tyranny, and her people are never at a loss when they are once roused to re sist oppression and to assert constitutional principles. The Radical vision of preserving the Union by keeping the South in subjection to the North, of ruling a great country by the one half trampling on the other, belongs to the almost forgotten excite ment and intolerance of war—it could never be seriously entertained in a time of peace and reflec tion. The Southern people, in fact, would not have remained so quiet as they have done under the ex clusion of their representatives from the Assembly had they known the sympathies of a large party in the North were with them, and that if they had patience justice would ultimately be done. The impossibility of the Congress deciding fairly on the many points of Southern legislation which come before it without hearing both sides of the case has become so manifest that a further continuance of the exclusion was felt to be intolerable. The Con vention has passed resolutions declaring the Union and the Constitution to be restored, and that neither Congress nor Government could deny representation to any States, and they further urge upon the people to select none but men who acknowledge this prin ciple. As a further reproof to the Radicals and their attempts to force negro suffrage upon an unwilling people, the resolutions declare that the right to prescribe qualification for the elec tive franchise is reserved to States. "No State can withdraw from the Union, nor by its action in Congress exclude another from the Union." The resolutions also tender sincere support to President JOHNSON. This is a triumph which the PRESIDENT has well earned, and which he owes to his own firm and enlightened statesmanship. fie has acted throughout on the principle which dictated his message to the Convention. "The People," he said, " must be trusted ; the country would be restored, and his faith was unshaken as to tlwhisie,teirndeuslsatiwmyoaenta d e re success." Patience and perseverance o r wonderful changes. w e h o a n a g g e:. tha A t Vh a o t w th o e uldashseamming ve be of a National Convention the delegates from Mas sachusetts and from South Carolina would enter arm in arm? The fact was creditable to bothsides, and proved that the intolerance of the New England States had been greatly exaggerated by interested parties. All who are interested in the welfare and progress of the Great Republic must watch with the deepest interest the proceedings of the Convention, which are so evidently directed to great public ends, and so well calculated to restore leg p i w sl i a d t e iv -s ee r q e u a a d l ing ity and internal content to al l parts ofthe States. on a battle without knowing very clearly w DON QUIXOTE is not the on l y hero who carries on is fighting with, or what he is fighting for; and we are afraid that a good many of our modern enthusiasts, if submitted to a severe test, might display the same ignorance. We must not pre sume to say that any considerable proportion of the Reformers now bestirring themselves in the popular cause are be ranked in the same category, but we may very fairly question whether many of 'them know exactly how matters at present stand. Few persons whose professions have not brought them into familiar contact with those dreary volumes which contain the details of our constitutional law are fully aware what does or does not constitute a right to vote. Men whose time is taken up in other ways cannot be expected to master half-a-dozen blue books ; but it is only reasonable that they should be fully aware what they are agitating for, and to secure an efficient Reform Bill for the future they must be well acquainted with the inaccuracies and hhort... ME SUN, LONDON, NON OAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1866. ...... coming's of the present electoral law. •A little manual* has just been issued which will be very serviceable to all who are setting themselves in good earnest to the consideration of Parliamentary Reform. The subjects treated in it are borough registration, county registration, who may and who may not vote, who may and who may not be elected. Proceedings before, at, and after an election ; and last, not least, bribery, treating, and undue influence. Many of these points are very suggestive, and the reader cannot fail to be struck with the contrast between the precepts of the existing electoral law and the practice of a contested election. Many similar inconsistencies will occur to the Reformer as he turns over these pages, which give very clearly and succinctly the substance of all that a would-be- voter needs to know. The whole question of Reform is one which cannot be left in abeyance much longer, and, in preparing for the new camp, the information given by Mr. GIL BERT'S little brochure may not be unserviceable. *A vote for boroughs and counties. low to obtain and maintain one. By T. Gilbert, jun., Parliamentary and Registration agent. W. S. Johnson. CORRESPONDENCE PROYI PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Sunday Evening. The Moniteur announces the reception by the Emperor of the letter by which his Majesty the King of Prussia notifies to his Majesty the decease of his Highness Prince Antoine Egon Charles Frederic de Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, who died from the wounds he received at the battle of Koniggratz. There was a Cabinet Council yesterday at St. Cloud, at which the Emperor presided. King William received, on the 21st inst., the deputation from the House of Lords of Prussia, charged to present to his Majesty the address in answer to the Royal Speech. After a few touching words upon the bounties which Providence has heaped upon Prussia, the King added that they could not conceive to what extent, in his quality of Prince " born in purple," he was grieved to be com pelled to deprive so many of their Sovereigns of their States. He had to sustain before accomplishing this a terrible internal struggle, and it was solely the conviction that the interest of the country com manded this rigorous measure which had induced him to act in this manner. The King charged the deputation to report these words to the House of Lords. The Memorial Diploniatique gives some parti culars respecting the mission of the Empress Char lotte of Mexico to Paris. After her last interview with the Emperor her Majesty thought fit to send a despatch to her husband, and said she should delay her return to Mexico until he should receive an answer from the Emperor. ller Majesty will remain for a portion of the time at Brussels with her brother, the King of the Belgains. Her Majesty while in Paris had an interview with M. Fould, Minister of Finance, which lasted two hours. Some of the papers imagine that her Majesty was, to a certain degree, successful in regard to the financial portion of her message. I have some reason to be lieve the contrary. A Brussels paper states that the Empress will not return to Mexico, but that her husband, after abdicating the throne, will re join her in Europe. The following is from the Siecle:--" The almost unanimous vote of the address by the Prussian Chamber of Deputies has caused some surprise. The facility with which the progressive party made concessions necessary to come to an understanding with the other factions of the Chamber was by no means expected. We believe the course adopted may be explained by the impatient desire of the whole Liberal party to put an end to the Constitu tional conflict, and to return to a normal position. The recognition of the rights of Parliament by the King and the request of a Bill of Indemnity being accepted as a sufficient concession on the part of the Crown, the Liberals hastened to come to a com promise upon that basis." The Correctional Tribunal has decided against the claim of M. Leopold Brouillet to have an article in serted in the evening Moniteur in explanation of some statements made in the course of a report of the proceedings of the Legislative Body. The Court also ordered the complainant to pay the expenses. The decision is on the following grounds :—" That the report of the Parliamentary proceedings placed every evening at the disposal of all the journals being a document emanating from authority cannot furnish the ground, on the part of those third parties who may be mentioned in it, to claim from the managers who publish it, either for a reply to the statements or for proceedings for injury or defa mation." Seeing that among the demolition of houses to widen the approaches to the new square to be made by the Theatre Francais will be that of the house where the illustrious Corneille died in 1684, I took a stroll to the Rue d'Argenteuil. Above the first floor of the house No. 18 in that street there is a black marble tablet on which is inscribed, " The great Corneille died in this house on the Ist of October, 1684." At the bottom of the tablet are the words " Erected in 1826." It appears that it was only in 1826 the discovery was made that Cor neille died in this house. In the court-yard of the house, to which there is free access, is a handsome bust of Corneille, and upon a crown of laurel over the bust is written "Le Cid, 1636." There is also the sentence written by Corneille himself to the effect that to himself alone he owed all his renown. At that time of day the Rue d'Argenteuil was a fashionable quarter of Paris. Now it is a narrow winding street with a considerable ascent, all flag stones, and no pavement on the side. Old curiosity shops, cob blers and dirty-looking fruiterers shops, possess it. At the bottom of the Rue d'Argenteuil there was once a cobbler's stall, to which, according to tradi tion, the poet ran nimbly down one fine morning, to get his shoes mended. Dangeau, who called him self the patron of men of letters, to whom Boileau dedicated " L'Epitre sur la Noblesse" says in his " Journal de la Cour de Louis XIV," " The good man Corneille died yesterday. He was one of the most skilful in our time in making comedies." The sentence of death pronounced against Louis Collignon, found guilty of drowning a child nine years of age in the Seine, has been commuted to hard labour for life. I gave you the particulars of the case at the time. The evolutions of the ironclad squadron being concluded, the vessels have returned to the Gulf of Juan, where they will be stationed for some weeks. The weather was intensely hot both yesterday and to-day. The air has been peculiarly oppressive and enervating to-day, with slight showers of hot rain. A case, which excites some interest, will be brought before Orleans before the Tribunal of the Seine in the course of the week. A short time ago a boy, Albert sonofth s e em P i r e in a c ry, eof sh A d lon so a i c e o e , w o a f s t o h n e a b v o is y i s t having offended him while he was playing with them, he threw a stone at a young child named Yvonneau, and seriously injured him in the face. The father of the child claims from his Serene Highness Grimaldi, Prin ce o f Monaco, payment of a sum of 15,000 f. as damages, and also a yearly pay ment of 6,000 f. Some articles having been missed from a mercer's shop in the Rue St. Florence, suspicion fell upon one of the shop girls. The proprietor sent for her to his room, and told her that as she was suspected of having robbed him he should take her to the commissary of police. The girl said she was ready to accompany him, but requested permission to go to her room for an instant. She went upstairs, and immediately jumped out of. the window. When taken up both her legs were broken, and she was conveyed to the Hospital St. Louis in a hopeless condition. The last victim of the accident at the Emperor's fete has been identified. She is a girl of 22, named Octavio Deceinhick, a native of Westroolk (Bel gium). She had been engaged as a femme de chanibre by a lady residing in the boulevard Malesherbe, and was to have commenced her duties on the fol lowing day. It is feared that others of the injured persons will not survive. Yarious days have bee' mentioned for the &par ture of the Court for Biarritz. It will not take place till the beginning of next month. Their Ma jesties will remain there about a month, and it is said that the Empress of Mexico will return to Paris about the same time as the Eniperor and Empress. General Prim and several of the officers who took part in the Spanish insurrection are now at Ostend. La Liberte persists in its arguments to prove that he Mexican Empire is falling to ruin, an opinion, t says, which is shared by many people, and par- titularly by the holders of Mexican Stock, who allow the Six per Cents. to decline to 28f. and the Bonds to 172 f. The Empress of Mexico, it adds, shares in this view, for she will not return. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE AND SPAIN. PARIS, Aug. 27. Yesterday, at St. Cloud, the Emperor received Senor Mon, who presented his credentials as Spanish Ambassador to the French Court. Replying to a speech from Senor Mon, the Em peror expressed his deep sympathy for the Spanish nation and his sincere friendship for Queen Isabella. THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. BUCHAREST, Aug. 26. * Prince Charles is on his journey through Mol davia, and has everywhere been received with en thusiasm. In several of the towns through which he has passed thousands of the rural population had assembled from the neighbouring districts in order to welcome their new Hospodar. Prince Charles will arrive at Jassy on Tuesday next. AMERICA. (By Atlantic Telegraph.) NEW YORK, Aug. 23 (Evening). Gold, 1501. Exchange on London, 160 Z ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 1101 ; Middling Upland, 34. NEW YORK, Aug. 24 (Evening). Gold, 148+. Exchange on London, 157 ; 5-20 United States Bonds, noi. Cotton, middling upland, 34. FRANCE. PARIS, Aug. 25.—Two o'clock.—No new fact of any importance has occurred to influence the mar ket, yet there arc signs of improvement. Not only has the late rise been firmly maintained, but it shows signs of continuing. But little business is transacted, but what there is has a decidedly up ward tendency. French Threes were done at 69f. 35c., or 10e. higher ; Italian Fives at 54f. 10c., or a rise of 25c. ; Mobilier at 650 f., or 4f. 25c. higher ; Credit Foncier and Comptoir d'Escompte at 1,325 f. and 875 f., the same as yesterday. There was not much activity in the railway market. Three o'clock.—The market has closed without any important change :- 4 per Cents 9B 50 Do. end month 3 per Cents. 69 30 Do. end month 69 40 Credit Mobilier 645 Do. end month 650 Credit Foncier 1335 Do. end month 1340 - It A LL Bank Shares 3600 Italian Loan 54 20 Do. end month 5-1 20 M ex ican Loan Do. Bonds 2B 50 172 50 ''' 7 Sp an ish Threes Home Debt 34 50 Deferred - - 'LYS. For Account. Orleans BBO Northern 1142 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 877 50 Southern 532 50 Western 5OO Eastern Sardinian . — Austrian Lombard 398 75 North of Spain lO2 50 Saragossa — Ditto to Barcelona — Roman — ROSITERVILLE GARDENS. —The spirited pro prietor of these pleasureable grounds has, since ithas ceased to be a proprietary and eaw n an i ti e thtii r henc g i ed at once into his own hands, made a marked improvement in them, and beautiful andfas they over were they are doubly so cps top a ahm t at present. oecfai oorbuysastanh dei Groat m rfa re-decorationsor most om a s t mta n skill tgho e the r aec uttias Gothicnhteae s d t e ts o Banquetmhi it, j v : ee whicht than a ee nu n i csa odl replete u i sl andbe y in fas tidious in places of this description. In fact, without being invidious, it isssui genet-is. Although no advocates for cheapness, at the expense of eomfort, we find both combined here, which, added to the civility of the attend ants, render a dinner here very enjoyable. Since Mr. Jones became the solo proprietor, he has erected in the grounds a small but elegantly arranged theatre. No refresh ments, no smoking, no vociferous encores are permitted, while everything here, as elsewhere throughout the estab lishment, is conducted with the utmost propriety. The amusements in the theatre consist of a very fair concert The ballet of " The Mountain Sylphs," for which, however creditably performed, the stage is perhaps too small, con cluding with the excellent burlesque of "Orpheus and i purydice," the cast for which is well assigned, and the per formance altogether very excellent. Dancing takes place at intervals to the strains of an excellent brass and quadrille band, either on the circular platform or in the Gothic Banquet-hall. There wo may observe the arrange ments being so orderly as to remind us of a well regulated ball-room. Mr. J. Seaton presides at his old post as M.G., his benefit, by the way, taking place on Wednesday next, when ho is safe for a bumper, especially as the carte du jour is on a very extensive scale. We have no space to mention the many attractions of the grounds themselves, whose mqssy fountains and sylvan shades afford a pleasant retreat for those who seek retirement. BURNS'S COTTAGE.—It was stated in The Sun of Thursday that tho cottage in which Burns was born at. Alloway, near Ayr, is about to be sold. In mentioning this fact the Inverness Courier says :—" The cottage—lite rally a clay-built thatched hut—remains in much the same condition in which it was left by the poet's father, built with his own hands in December, 1757, 13 months before the birth of his illustrious son; but since that time two rooms and a large hall have been added communicating with the cottage. Tho elder Burns had several acres of land adjoining the house, as ho intended carrying on busi ness as a nurseryman ; but after nine years' occupation he sold the property for £l2O. The land connected with the cottage is now curtailed to five acres, and a sum of £3,000 is asked for the whole. The rent is nominally £7O a year, but the last two tenants were, we believe, both bankrupt. One tenant went deranged and another shot himself ! Pot about 60 years the cottage has been kept as an alehouse. Curran, the Irish orator, visited it in 1810. We found,' ho says, the keeper of it tipsy. He pointed to the corner on one side of the fire, and, with a most ma/-a-prvos laugh, observed, There is the very spot whore Robert Burns was born.' The genius and the fate of the man were already heavy on my heart ; but tho drunken laugh of the landlord gave mo such a view of the rock on which ho foundered, I could not stand it, but burst into tears.' We should be glad to see this classic little property fall into the hands of some respectable person, instead of being continued as a low tippling-house, the disgust of t he neigh bourhood and of all strangers visiting a spot hallowed by so many interesting and affecting associations. Some per sons, we hear, are willing to give about £2,000 for the house and land, in order that they may be kept in a cre ditable manner, and that the cottage of t he p ious father of the Cottar's Saturday Night' may be saved from further degradation. England has lately secured for the present age and for posterity the birthplace of Shakspere ; could not Scotland do the same for Burns ? The banks of the Avon are not holier ground than the banks of the Ayr or the Doon." THE Hor TRADE.-0a -Wednesday last several new provisions in the Act of the 29th Victoria, chap. 37, to amend the law to prevent frauds and abuses in the trade of hops, came into force. Growers and others are now required to mark each bag or pocket with the year when the hops were actually grown, the true progressive number, and the gross weights of the same, under a penalty of £2O. It is now an offence to mix hops of different quali ties and value, and pen a l t i es are recoverable on persons selling or exposing f or sa l e h ops i n bags not marked, or not properly :n ar k e d. I t i s enac t e d that "no person what soever shall, after the 21st of August, 1866, take or suffer to be taken any hops of foreign growth out of the bags in which they are i m p or t e d an d re -bag them in British bags or pockets in o r d er t o se ll , d i spose o f, or export the same as British hops ; under a penalty of £lO for every hundredweight and after that rate for a greater or lesser quantity." One half of the penalty recovered is to go to the complainant. The former Acts, passed in the reign of George 111., are recited as having been found ineffectual to prevent frauds in the trade of hops . THE M ONARCII—Messrs Penn and Son, who so so successfully turned out of hands the engines of her Ma jesty's ship Bellerophon, are, we understand, likely to be called upon to supply the machinery for the new armour plated turret ship Monarch, now building on Mr. E. J. Reed's designs at Chatham. The Monarch will be 5,100 tong and 1,190 how poyfer,—Amry rind oYarl/ acmct• The City Pumps and Wells. Dr. Letheby, the medical officer of health for the City of London, has just presented a report to the Corporation on the quality of the water from the pumps and surface wells of the City, a subject which at this time has an especial interest. In con sequence, he says, of, the numerous applications lately made to him for information of the quality of the water supplied by the several pumps of the City he has thought it necessary to report the average results of his numerous analyses of these waters during the last five years. Altogether there are 35 pumps in the City, from which the public are in the daily habit of drawing water for drinking purposes, and the quantity of saline and organic matter in the gallon ranges from 26.63 grains to 129.73 ; that of the New River during the last month being but 17.16 grains, and of the East London 18.18. Only six of the City wells yield water with less than 50 grains of solid matter in the gallon, and there are but two others with less than 70 grains. Ten of them contain from 70 to 80 grains per gallon, nine have from 80 to 90 grains, two from 90 to 100 grains, and there are five wells in the City, namely, those in Aldgate High-street, in Bishopsgate-street, by Dunning's-alley, in Leadenhall-market, in Milton street, Cripplegate, and in St. Nicholas Olave churchyard—the water of which contains from 100 to 130 grains of solid matter per gallon. In most cases, too, the constituents are remarkably indica tive of the source and nature of the pollution. The wells of the public meat markets, for example—as those of Newgate, Aldgate, and Leadenhall—are charged with the peculiar filth of those localities ; indeed, the water furnished by the well in Leaden hall-market contains nearly 40 grains of common salt pergallon, besides a large quantity of nitre and organic matter, all of which is derived from the hides exposed for sale. The wells of the city church yards and their neighbourhood are also strongly tainted with saltpetre and ammonia, the former to the extent of from 20 to nearly 30 grains in the gallon, doubtless the final product of the decay of the animal matter buried in the neighbouring grave yards. Others of the public wells show the pre sence of the more or less oxidised products of sub stances which had escaped from adjoining drains and sewers ; and nearly all of them are so largely impregnated with compounds which had percolated through the foul soil of the city that they are entirely unfit for domestic use. Where the soil is well protected, and the pump is away from any especial source of pollution, as is the case with the two pumps at Guildhall, the water is but moderately tainted with impurities; but even there it is dangerous to use the water for drinking purposes, for there is no saying how soon it may become foul from a neighbouring sewer or cesspool. As most of these waters are bright and sparkling, and have a cool and agreeable taste,. they are much sought after for drinking purposes; but tha coolness of the beverage and the briskness of its appearance are dangerous fascinations, for they are both derived from organic decay. In fact, the dead and decom posing matters accumulated in the soil are partially changed by a wonderful power of oxidation, and thus converted into carbonic acid and nitre. These give to the water the agreeable qualities which are so deceptive ; and although they are so frequently drunk without any apparent injury to health, yet it cannot be that the products of such corruption can be admitted into the human body without danger of insidious mischief, and at the present time there is the still greater danger of the impuri ties of the soil passing unchanged into the water, and being a source of quick and certain in jury. In illustration of this, Dr. Letheby refers to the remarkable outbreak of cholera which occurred in the parish of St. James, Westminster, in the autumn of 1854, and which was traced to a favourite pump in Broad-street. It was noticed on that occa sion that the disease was confined to a small area in the neighbourhood of the pump, and that, of 73 persons who died during the first few days of the visitation, 61 had drunk the water. It was even observed among persons who were living in the same street, and occasionally in the same houses, that those only were attacked who drank the favourite water of the pump. But, more remarkable still, it was ascertained that persons who lived at a distance from the parish, and who had the water sent to them because of its supposed purity, were seized with cholera and died. A full inquiry into all the circum stances of the case proved that the well had become charged with cesspOol drainage, and had thus ac quired its poisonous action. The pollution had per haps being going on for years, and yet this water had not betrayed it until a slight excess of organic impurity brought out its dangerous properties. As in the case of most of the City pumps, its cool and sparkling qualities had gained for it such a high re pute in the neighbourhood that it was a favourite Water and was generally drunk. Another case oc curred at West Ham in Surrey, in the autumn of 1857. Suddenly at that place there was a visitation of cholera in a row of 16 cottages that were ap parently isolated from epidemic influences. It showed itself along one side of the street, where in a few days 13 persons were attacked with the disease, seven of whom died. Dr. Elliott, the health officer for the district, suspected from his inquiries that the common pump on that side of the street had been concerned in the mischief ; its water was therefore examined, and it was found to be polluted with the soakage of the adjoining sewer. At once the use of it was interdicted, and, to make the matter certain, the handle of the pump was taken a way,and from that moment the further spread of the disease was arrested. In further illustration of this subject, Dr. Letheby refers to the cholera visitations of 1848-9 and 1853-4, during which time there were two striking examples of the influence of such water in the propagation of disease. The southern dis tricts of London, comprising nearly a fifth of the population of the metropolis, were visited most severely with cholera at both of those outbreaks, ani the persons . who suffered most on each occasion were those who drank the worst quality of water. The inhabitants were• supplied by two rival com panies, who obtained their water from the Thames at different parts of its course. In one case the water was charged with a larger amount of organic matter than in the other ; and, although the condi tions of the population were in every other respect the same, yet this had the effect of augmenting the mortality to a frightful extent. In the second visi tation of the disease the circumstances of the supply were changed ; the water of the old company, which was formerly the worst, was now the best, and the severity of the disease was changed likewise; for those who partook of the still bad supply suffered as before, and their mortality was three and a half times greater than their neighbours' it being at the rate of 130 in 10,000, instead of 37, and a similar tale might be told of the cholera visitation of many other places in this country. All these, says Dr. Lethehy, are warnings of the danger of using water polluted with sewage, or the drainage from cesspools ; nor are the perco lations from the graveyards t.f a city less inju rious, for experience has demonstrated that these also are a prolific source of disease. He refers to one instance only, on the authority of Sir James APGregor, who relates that when the British Army was in Spain about 20,000 soldiers were buried in a rather small space of ground, and after two or three months the troops who drank the water from the wells of the neighbourhood were attacked with dy sentery and malignant fevers. The cause of the mischief was clearly traced to the hardly recogniz able impurity in the water from the shallow wells. llere, however, in the churchyards of this city, there are the remains of ten times such a buried army undergoing decay, and in the whole of the metropo lis, in a space of ,not more than 218 acres, there were buried not long since as many as 50,000 dead in the year. In a generation of 30 years this would give us a-million and a half of decomposing bodies in the surface soil of London ; and through this the water percolates, to find its way into the porous stratum which supplies the shallow wells of the metropolis. At best the change of this corruption is but imper fect, for although the presence of ammonia and saltpetre tells us of an ultimate process of decay, yet it also indicates the more than possible danger which accompanies it. All these considerations, he says, should force upon us the conclusion that water from the surface wells of the metropolis, contaminated as they dre with the refuse of drains, and the soakings from graveyards, is unfit for public use, and that no natural process of oxidation can render it safe. Dr. Letheby advises, therefore, that none of the water furnished by the city pumps, nor by any of the pumps of London, should be used for domestic purposes. Accident on the Great Eastern Railway. KING'S LYNN, Sunday Morning. An accident of a fatal character took place yes terday afternoon, on the Great Eastern Railway, near Ely. Amidst the confusion and distress occa sioned by this dreadful catastrophe, the following are the best particulars I could glean last night, but as I purpose visiting the scene of the accident to day, I shall supply you by a later train with the fullest particulars I can glean. During the summer months the Great Eastern Railway runs an excur sion train from Peterborough to Yarmouth and Lowestoft, in connexion with the Midland and Great Northern systems, leavipg Peterborough at 2.30, and crossing the great level of the Fens, via Ely and Norwich. It appears that the train pro ceeded as usual yesterday afternoon in perfect se curity until close under the shadow of "Ely's sacred fane," when, from some cause not yet ascertained, the engine left the line, dragging after it four of the carriages, which were immediately piled on each other in a frightful manner, the shrieks and groans of the occupants being heartrending and truly ap palling. The driver of the engine was killed on the spot, and four of the passengers so seriously in jured that but little hopes are entertained of their lives being saved, whilst a large number of passen gers received injuries of a less serious character. LATEST PARTICULARS. ELY, Sunday Afternoon. That a greater loss of life did not ensue upon Yesterday's accident is evidently due to the making up of the train, which consisted of an engine, a brake, a composite carriage, next to which was a first-class smoking carriage, next a second-class carriage, and three third-class carriages. The pas sengers, about a hundred in number, were nearly all iu the last three carriages. On proceeding to the scene cf the accident I dis covered that it occurred about 400 yards before reaching the junction, after rounding a curve, and the most likely cause of the accident I have heard is, that the poor fellow who is dead was driving the engine at very high speed. Rumour says the train was proceeding at the rate of 60 miles an hour, and, from a result 1 shall presently have occasion to allude to, this does not seem at all improbable. The engine appears to have left the metals on the left-hand side, and after running along on the gravel and sleepers for some distance, turned round to the left and plunged down the incline through the fence into a potato field at the back of a gatehouse and some cottages, forming part of the hamlet of Queen Adelaide, between Ely and Prickwillow. After the engine had got some little distance in the field it half buried itself in the earth and turned over on its right side, then coming to a standstill, the couplings between the brake and the second-class carriage seemed to have broken, and the brake turned right over on end to the en gine, smashing itself almost to pieces, and burying both the engine-driver and guard beneath the debris. The fireman, only hurt in the shoulder, crawled out and turned off some of the works of the engine. To prove the great speed at which the train must have been proceeding, the carriages liberated from the engine and brake pushed along past them, the whole train going past the engine on the left hand side. The composite carriage turned over topsy turvy, and was smashed, and the smoking carriage turned on to its left side ; the second-class carriage also turned over, but the three thirds only lost two wheels each and were slightly over. The bulk of the passengers being in the last three carriages escaped with but slight injuries, though severely shaken and much frightened, and they began to scramble out of the windows. Information was immediately conveyed to the Ely station, and the station-master, Mr. Barnes, at once proceeded on an engine to the scene of the accident, and having set a staff of men to work to clear away the debris and extricate the missing driver and guard, and other persons, he sent for some carriages and an engine, and removed the bulk of the passengers to Ely. Two of the passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Grounds, of the Griffin Hotel, March, who, it is believed, were in the composite carriage, were found, and both appeared to be very seriously injured. They were conveyed to a cottage close by, and were speedily attended by Mr. Muriel, jun., surgeon, and were afterwards conveyed to the Lamb Hotel, where they now lie. A ladypassenger was also got out apparently much injured. Miss Coward, from Wakefield, was en route for North Walsham by Norwich. She has been removed to the Lamb Hotel. The names of the other passengers who may be said to be seriously injured are Mr. Legge, the son of a shoemaker at Ely, and Mr. Hills, jun., merchant. After some little work the poor fellow Fuller, who acted as guard, was got out of the wreck alive, and only just so, for in addition to the injuries he had received he was almost smothered. Brown, the driver, who has been in the company's service for a quarter of a century, and is everywhere spoken of as a steady, industrious man, was quite dead when found. The majority of the passengers, besides those referred to above, proceeded to their homes to avoid alarming their friends. Later in the evening Mr. J. Robertson, superinten dent of the Great Eastern Railway, arrived, and everything was done to relieve the sufferings of the injured, the rails which were broken both on the up and down lines by the train going off the metals having been repaired, the traffic was resumed. An inquest will be held to-morrow on the body of William Brown,•the engine-driver. The following circular memorandum, headed i‘ Extension of Seamen's Leave by Magistrates," has been issued by the Admiralty and has been promul gated at Woolwich :-- "It appearing that seamen, when on leave and unable from illness to rejoin their ships at the proper time, some , - times obtain extension of leave from the magistrates, their lordships desire it may be made generally known that men cannot bo granted extension by any civil authority what ever. Whenever a man is prevented by illness from re joining his ship at the expiration of his leave he must in form his captain of the fact, and send at the same time a medical certificate, or ho will be marked "run" on the ship's books. "By command of their Lordships, " NV. G. ROMAINE." DOVER AND CALAIS INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY.— The suggestion for making a tunnel beneath the bed of the English Channel wherein to lay this long-pro jected lino has been condemned as impracticable, whilst the feasibility of constructing suspension or girder bridges with spans of from seven miles to 21 miles has been considered questionable ; nor has the tube upon the Channel bed, protected by a bank of stones, been received with much greater favour, notwithstanding the success of the Pneu matic Despatch Company. The latest proposition is that of Mr. Charles Boutet, who claims that ho can, at a cost of £16,000,000, construct a gigantic pontoon bridge, with all the necessary appurtenances, and to get the work open for traffic in five years. There will bo openings for the conveyance of ships navigating the Channel at each end of the bridge, and the bridge will be provided with light houses, refreshment buffets, ordinary carriage ways, and four rows of gas lamps by way of illumination. Mr. Boutet considers the French will readily alter the gauge of their railways when the bridge is completed.—lllining Journal. THE UNITED STATES MISSION TO THE CZAR.— The St. Petersburg Journal mentions that Mr. Fox and the other members of the United States Mission, after the interview with the Emperor, expressed a desire to see Kom missarow, who saved his Majesty's life. Having been con veyed to Peterhoff for this purpose, Mr. Fox, addressing Kommissarow, said : Sir,-1 have come hero to express to you my personal respect, and to congratulate you in the name of the United States at having been chosen by Divine Providence to save a life so dear not only to Russia but to the whole world. These words having been inter preted for Kommissarow he returned thanks. The Ame ricans present then shook him by the hand, and asked him for his photograph. Kommissarow, with much emotion, promised to send it, and desired M. Abaza, the interpre ter, to express his deep gratitude to hie friends in the new world. • ----- NEWS FROM THE DEEP.—A bottle was picked up on Christchurch ledge on Sunday, tho 24th, by James Bartlett, fisherman, containing a paper written in pencil as follows:—" Whoever picks this up, please send to Major Hill, Brook-villa, Cheshunt, Herts. Off Ushant, boat half full of water; provisions getting scarce; water gone. — RICHARD PERREN•" hurt Cirmbr HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, Saturday. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, and attended by Lady Churchill, lion. Emily Cathcart, Sir Thomas Biddulph, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Dr' Jenner, Mr. Sa,hl, and Mr. Legg, arrived at 13a 1 " moral yesterday afternoon at three o'clock. The Prince and Prihcess of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh visited her Majesty. The Duke of Edinburgh, attended by the Hoe. E. Yorke, remains at Balmoral. Their Serene liighnesses Prince and Princess Soltykoff left town yesterday for Brighton. The Duke of Wellington has had capital shooting at Glenfield, his shooting quarters in Inverness-shire, Sin° his arrival there from the south. The Duchess of Welling ton is passing the autumn at Tunbridge Wells. The Duke of Argyll left Inverary Castle a feW days back for Mull, for a few weeks' shooting. The Right Hon. General Peel, M.P., the Secre tary of State for War, left town on Friday evening to join her Majesty at Balmoral. The right hon. and gallant gentleman will remain in attendance on the Queen abou t a fortnight. The Earl of Dalhousie is receiving a:select party of friends at Invermark, Brechin, for the shooting on tii4l adjacent moors. Viscount Ingestre has gone to the north of Scot land for grouse shooting. The Marquis of Sligo has left Pencarrow, the seat of Lady Molesworth, for Fort Eliot, on a visit to the Earl of St. Germains. The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury and Ladle ° Ashley have left Brockett Hall, Herts, where they ha" been staying with Viscountess Palmerston, for Tunbridg ° Wells. Lord and Lady Harriet Ashley are still at Brockett Hall. Viscountess Jocelyn, accompanied by Vise ount Jocelyn and Hon. Miss Jocelyn, passed th rough town on Friday last, from the Pyrenees, to join V iscountess Palmerston at Brockett Hall, Herts. The Hon. g i ' ss Jocelyn is greatly improved in health. Lord and Lady Blantyre are receiving a select party at Erskine House, N.B. Lady Sherborne and Hon. Mr. Maurice Wing field have left town for Homburg. Admiral Sir Augustus Clifford and Miss Clifford have received the Dowager Marchioness Townshe nd and Lady Audrey Townshend, the Earl of Shrewsbury ar id Talbot, and Viscount Melville, at Westfield during t he regatta week at Ryde, in the Isle of Wight. 9 Le Baron Ludovic de Potesta has left Catal di Hotel for Paris. A marriage is arranged between Mr. BaskersllB Glegg, eldest son of Captain Baskervyle Glegg, of Writhing" ton Hall and Gaynton Hall, Cheshire, and Miss Brady f Cole, second daughter of Mr. George Beauchamp Cole, ° Heatham House, T wickenham, and granddaughter of 01° late Lady Elizabeth Cole. SOMEBODY WHO EVIDENTLY LIKES IT ! —For the following remarkable paragraph we are indebted to the Reader of Saturday last, which says with reference to the announced suppression or withdrawal from publication of Mr. S winburne's disgraceful volume of libidinous verse' The Pall Mall Gazette is the only journal besides ourselves which has had the courage [precisely the right word !) P I :, praise what is really good in S winburne's "Poem s and Ballads," and to affirm that he has made progress be l ce', "Atalanta in Calydon." We have indicated the direction in which his strength lies. He is, though that is dale' by our contemporary, essentially a Pagan [that apparent/I being a very trivial circumstance indeed in the estimation of the Reader], perhaps not so much in his amours [obserfe the grammatical construction of this sentence !], bat decidedly so in his contempt for a humble and repentance demanding faith. [As for the rest of this astounding Pe ra , graph in the Reader it is surely hardly to be crediten..l The paragraph being, in fact, continued as follows Athemeum is wrong in stating that his book is w ithdra oll , from circulation. It is only a question of a change e'" publisher, a private affair with which the public have o c : thing to do. Indeed, as the Pall Mall says, there is that cannot and ought not to be suppressed. We trust r' Swinburne will soon give his envious detractors W ll° cannot understand him the best rebuff, by producing som thing free from that too erotic admixture which has laid hi e ' open to the sneers of poetasters with not one-half of hi ll courage or inspiration. CRYSTAL PALACE.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Lady Gera Somerset, Lord George Paulet, and Colonel Hom e Pur l ' witnessed the display of great fountains and the ascent et Signor Ethardo on Saturday afternoon. The last gee ballad concert of the season takes place to-day at 01. 0 o'clock. Tho palace will be brilliantly illuminated lin t nine o'clock at night. MR. SOTHERN.—This gentleman has re ceived : beautiful epergne, value nearly £2OO, subscribed pi b ho friends, as some slight recompense for the annoyance - lately had to endure from his spiritual persecutors. ADELPHI THEATRE.—Mr. J. L. Toole announe',, his annual benefit at the Adelphi Theatre for `Veda r, next, and, as usual, celebrates the event by bringing ,v ward some special novelty for the occasion. The,Gowen of "Paul Pry" will be revived, in which Mr . Toole vii" represent, for the first time, the inquisitive hero. 14-iil'ooe farce will then be produced, entitled "Keep Your v a Locked," in which Mr. Toole plays the principal partl a t ri o the burlesque opera of " Helen ; or, Taken frets Greek," winds up the programme. 5 0014 LYCEUM THEATRE. —Mr. Boucicault's new w- -- „ 0 called " The Long Strike," will be produced at t he Lice- ip Theatre on the first night of the winter season, early in October. Mr. EYRE.—The ex-Governor of Jamaica, 1111. Eyre, has received invitations to banquets at Bath, Olitirr, penham, and Cambridge. A committee is in c ourse GI 14.°0 elation for the collection of an " Eyre Testimonial ciis. Defence Fund." Several noblemen and gen tlemen Of 01 tinguished position have already expressed their aPP rO of the movement. of THE SUSPENSION OF THE HABEAS CORPUS 14•Clito, IRELAND.—The present act expires on the Ist extended and by a new one just issued the suspension is eittell oA 0 for 21 days after the commencement of the nex t sessi Parliament. FRENCH BEEF.—The Paris police have J , "'" T aal covered a clandestine slaughter-house for horses, %It , daily passed its products on the market as beef. Tk e roto missary found under a shed a horse partly cut uP, tae others still living. A journeyman butcher found e l/ premises was arrested, and seals placed on the doors•_;6o Out of Nikolsburg comes the story of a Prt ib°- soldier having been vigorously thrashing a Jewish regal:, when Count Bismarck happened to pass. " What, t t o has he done 2" asked the Count, as the soldier stoPP°l the salute him. "He was abusing the Prussians," ree l of 1110 soldier. " Not so," cried the man ; "I spoke well ~0 Prussians-only of Bismarck." - The tittering of t' hh d standers revealed to the unhappy Jew the mistakei',eeatet made. "Let him go," said Bismarck quietly; g" men than he have done that." A 13 9, BIR3IINGIIAM AND MIDLAND FREEDUE- „,, ASSOCIATION.—The monthly meeting of the corainitb w i fili this association was held on Tuesday morning' The August, at the office in New-eitreet, Birminghael: Dave receipts of money during the month was reported ' c ' cu pee boon £133 2s. 6d., the goods shipped for the fr i ° difn' £134 3s. 10d., the length of the days, the finanft o tho t culties under which this country is suffering, tir o causes now mentioned, as somewhat limiting ierA-0006 the more active operations of that association. " 1 7 . os pe other pleasing facts mentioned at the committee 07000, daily was felt to be peculiarly interesting. A S ell ieti of a venerable and much esteemed member of the Se e fre ed" Friends, who had repeatedly assisted the cause of and tbeis men, had recently lost first an admirable wife, ll tb the their adopted daughter, both of whom showe d sv i t p t ie° survivor a tender sympathy with the ernancipate:hdressed of America. A few weeks since this gentleman Burites:"/ a letter to Mr. B. Cadbury, in which he w rites 0 0 0 " Thou will wonder that when assistance WO „ w ore needed nine months ago I did not aid the freedae:doitth liberally. I will tell thee how it was. Before th wo o of my lamented wife we adopted a valuable young ha Ve as our own child, for whom, since my great leaP bou t th e been endeavouring to provide a competencY• time my valued friend-- lost his son it pleased, etellfeel venly Father to take her to Himself, and thong"- she ad asleep under such a peaceful assurance of thong"- is indeed a painful bereavement. She.was tr„ ng s e! solace of my declining years ; her tender fe . eq 1. ,,f0r 0 behalf of the suffering freed slaves were such t lo , t the issue of her complaint was feared she begg e ll the,l l " sell every article of silver and remit the wer, l o , Could she have anticipated what I am doing . _ o n",. .os wo to: she have rejoiced. The last few days of her is ill to be with her ; indeed, it seemed uncertain to! might be taken first, so the subject so nea r ; s tisi ec . heart was not named. Still it is an unspeo.ka 0 1 .. ,: iig htee. tion to he able to do what what would have s le her." The circumstance alluded to in this toucr.roo for itshethfereegidfteeolfeeprerodppeeretyplaen. d The eh eteomtinheavteaelupexes.:ilat osevro:g dial vote of thanks to this excellent gentleTan_ ,0 • tea* is likelstet; also reported that the approaching wm re time of great physical need amongst them, f nil the cola of feeling in the South renders th moult to en do w, people and their teachers especially dus:full Al a It appears the coffers of several of the most t, me n,. can associations imperatively need repieno— if..." fact cap inel is v cial and IN ) &tie Der Dri( Bo ] i ti N I i'ec, soli ztet are (;1, at b ee b aN WE 0 0 1 l ti li a Its