The Sun. — London, England, 1866-05-14 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. The Duke of Somerset held a levee on Friday afternoon at the Admiralty. There were present— Vice-Admiral Sir E. Belcher, Vice-Admiral Sir R. Mundy, Vice-Admiral W. Ramsay, Rear-Admiral A. Farquhar, Capt. G. Tryon, Capt. A. Cumming, Capt. W. S. Brown, Capt. S. S. Stanhope, Capt. C. M. Buckle, Capt. L. J. Moore, Capt. Jas. Raw storne, Capt. A. T. Thrupp, Capt. H. J. Baby, Capt. F. A. Hume, Commander M'C. Alexander, Commander De Robeck, Commander J. D. Curtis, Commander T. K. Mackenzie, Commander H. M. Bingham, Commander M. Lowther, Commander C. F. Hotham, Commander H. E. Crozier, Lieut.-Col. W. Adair, R.M., Lieut. A. H. Webb, Lieut. W. C. Geary, Lieut. 0. S. Cameron, Lieut. G. Blakely, Lieut. J. Bruce, and Dr. Smert. Rear-Admiral Sir G. Ramsay, C. 8., on Friday went down to Woolwich aud hoisted his flag on board the Fisgard, on taking over his appointment to relieve Rear-Admiral the Hon. C. J. B. Elliott, as Commander-in -Chief on the south-east Coast of America. The new admiral, it is stated, will imme diately take his departure, and will transfer his flag to the 35 -gun screw frigate Narcissus. Rear-Admiral the Hon. J. R. Drummond, C. 8., will finally leave his residence at the Admiralty, Whitehall, on Saturday next, for Devonport, to assume his new appointment of Admiral Superin tendent of that station. The armoured iron frigateßellerophon, 14, Capt. E. Tatham, has returned to Portsmouth from her cruise in the Channel with the experimental gun car riages and their guns, and has now been berthed alongide the dockyard to discharge them to the shore again, the trials having been brought to a final conclusion. The committee of officers who have conducted the trial on board the Bellerophon met on board that ship for the last time on Saturday to close their report for the information of the Ad miralty. The trials on board the Bellerophon are supplementary to those conducted by Captain Key, C. 8., on board the Minotaur, with this addi tional feature, that the iron carriage and slide sent for trial by Sir William Armstrong was tested for the first time on board the Bellerophon. Four car riages with their slides have, therefore, been brought into competition in these trials—viz., Capt. Scott's iron carriage and slide, Sir William Armstrong's iron carriage and slide, and tho Royal Arsenal iron carriage and slide, and the Adiriralty wooden car riage and slide. The three iron carriages carried each a 12-ton 9-inch rifled gun, al :el the wooden carriage carried a 12-ton 10-inch rifled gun. The practice with the last-named gun was very limited in these trials on board the Bellerophon, owing to the compressors of the carriage failing ter hold the gun sufficiently secure when fired, although ti:e gun was only fired with shot and shell by 351 b. powder charges, instead of the full charge of 501 b., and then only as a lee gun. The Arsenal carriage gave way in several of the details of its fittings, breaking its running-in chains and the teeth of its wheels. The gun's weight is also only borne by the angle iron of the carriage frame—the trunnions of the gun reach ing short of the single side plate of the carriage on each side—and continuous firing from the gun must have eventually loosened the rivets and destroyed the carriage. The carriage was made altogether much too light for its work, and many of its mecha nical arrangements were fitted contrary to generally understood principles. The Scott and Armstrong carriages and slides were both well suited to their work and answered admirably, as did also their compressors. The running-in-and-out chains of the Scott carriage were very superior to those of the Armstrong, the latter being excessively slow. In point of simplicity combined with strength the Arm strong carriage appears to have the advantage over the Scott. In strength combined with ease and rapidity of working the Scott carriage has the ad vantage over all the others. The precise merits of the two carriages will, however, have to be defined by Capt. Key and the committee in their reports to the Admiralty. Mr. Cunningham's training and running-in-and-out gear, having been fitted to the Admiralty pattern wooden carriage was not much tested, yet quiet enough to prove its simplicity, efficiency, and ease in working, either in training the gun, running it in on the slide, or holding it in running out. The result of all these competitive trials on.board the Minotaur and Bellerophon may be very easily forecast. The Admiralty will select the best points of each of the carriages and slides that have been under trial, and with these under consideration will add other suggestions, and from the whole cause to be designed a carriage and slide which will be established as the pattern carrirge and slide for mounting heavy ordnance on the-broad sides of the ships of her Majesty's navy. If this — the usual official plan in such cases—possesses no other particular merit, it will certainly prevent any heartburning or jealousy by inventors at the car riage of the one having been preferred to thatof the other. The guns on the Scott and Armstrong car riages, mounted on the port broadside of the Belle rophon, fired the greatest number of rounds with 451 b. powder charges, with both shot and shell, at extreme elevation and depression and degrees of training. The wave of concussion appears to have been terrific outside the ship, the wooden sheathed hammock nettings being split up fore and aft over the ship's battery, but no damagewas done on board. It would be advisable to build the bulwarks and hammock nettings of all ships intended to carrysuch heavy guns in future of light iron plating. It may be observed, in conclusion, that the Bellerophon, like the Minotaur, would give no quick roll or lurch ing when in the Channel, and merely heeled over under sail at times from six to eight degrees. Be yond a certain bearing in the water these heavy iron ships, in fact, do not seem to feel the motion of a Channel sea, which they let run up their sides, and occasionally into their maindeck gun-ports, wishout even making an effort to "lift " to the wave. The Minotaur, Warrior, Bellerophon, and other heavily -armoured ships have all behaved alike in this respect among the moderate waves of the Channel. The steering of the Bellerophon during her cruise has been most satisfactory, the ship having answered her helm under all circumstances with great promptitude and certainty. u n d er sa i l alone she is described as being surprisingly handy and efficient for a ship with her proportion of rig to displacement. The ship now only wants her guns to make her complete as one of the finest as well as one of the most powerful and fastest ironclad men of-war in the world. Her present condition inboard is very creditable to Capt. Tatham, his officers, an, crew. The hired troopship Shannon, f r om Madraz, ar rived on Thursday evening at the Royal Arsenal pier, Woolwich, and landed her troops yesterday morning at 9p.m. They consisted o f three troops of the m e e ßrigade, Royal Horse Artillery , averaging 149 u each, and were commanded by Lieut.-Col. A . Whitle an d c of Major in ...a .. i apt. J. E. Watson, holding the rank pired a n d andl a- . There were likewise 86 time-ex 34th, and 88th i L nvalids belonging to the 77th, 20th, The landing Infantry Regiments, and Ist Royals. was unavoidably and debarkation of the bag gageshower, and the Shannon performed amid a heavy three steam tugs for theonpromptly left in tow of Artillery were provideddocks. The Royal square of the barracks, and with London quarters in the east the infantry earra u n n g t e i_l tem porarily accommodated in the Old were , Deputy- Assistant Old Hospital their removal to Netley. Ca ., pt ; directed th ngle Assistant Quartermaster Gen e r ments on the landing of the troops, who were es corted to the Roya l Artiller y p arade b y majo-Gen. Warde, C. 8., a nd the whole of his staff, an- ra were played up by the regimental band. The hired troopship Lord Warden, 84 days out, arrived at Woolwich on Friday evening, and landed her passengers and baggage on Saturday morning at the Royal Arsenal pier, The passengers consisted of tw o batteries of the 17th Brigade Garrison Artillery from Madras, many of whom have been stationed in India for various periods ranging up to 20 years. The following is the strength :—Capt. J. M. Macintyre (having held the rank of major in India), Capt. R. A. Baker, Lieuts. B. Yaldwin, W. E. Denison, F. Weston, and A. A. Newman, 168 non-commis 1- officers officers and rank and file, 19 women, and 43 ch dren ; also Mrs. Macintyreand five children, and 19 time-expired men and invalids belonging to the fol lowing infantry regimei4fs :—The 10th, 19th, 20th, _ 21st, 23d, 60th Rifle Brigade, and the Ist Royals. One death only occurred during the voyage, that of an invalid, ten days before sighting the British coast. The weather is reported to have been calm, and the health of the troops generally good. The sailing Indiaman Hotspur, C A pt. Toynbee, belonging to Messrs. Smith , o f London, arrived at Spithead on Saturday from Calcutta. She was towed i n to Portsmouth harbour on Saturday and disem barked her troops at the dockyard, whence they were transferred to the Royal Victoria Military Hospital at Netley, and their other destinations. The Hotspur's troop and passenger list comprised : —From Calcutta—Capt. Wallace, 101st Regiment, in military charge of troops on board ; Lieuts. F. 0. Fuller and A. Lloyd, 101st Regiment ; Dr. M'Far land, Royal Horse Artillery, in medical charge of troops ; Mr. G. Hadcock, Royal Artillery, and Mrs. Hadcock, and: four children ; Dr. Atkinson, Indian army, Mrs. Atkinson and Infant ; Capt. Dowler, 98th Regiment, Mrs Dowler, and infant daughter of Major Edwards ; Mrs. Lushington and child, Mrs. Turnbull and five children, Rev. W. Bailey, Mrs. Bailey, and two children ; Mr. W. M'Adam Stewart, Mrs. Thorn, Miss Leslie and three children of Mr. G. M. Jackson, 123 non-commissioned officers and men invalided from various regiments serving in India, with 17 women and 13 children. From the Cape of Good Hope—Two private soldiers dis charged from the 91st Regiment; Mr Corbett, Mrs. Corbett, and infant ; Mr. Spalding. The wife and infant daughter of Sergt.-Major Scott, 38th Regi ment, the infant daughter of Mr. Jackson of Bur hampore, and one invalided soldier died during the voyage. The Hotspur, immediately on discharging her troops at Portsmouth dockyard, was towed out of the harbour again, and resumed her voyage for London to discharge her cargo, consisting of 334 tons of indigo, 200 tons of rapeseed, and 78 tons of tamarinds, &c. The Field-Mashal Commanding-in-Chief has ap proved the following arrangements :—Ensign Sulli van, of the 26th Foot, to join the depot on the 14th inst., the battalion being under order to return home on being relieved by a regiment from North America. Ensign Phillips, of the 34th Regiment, to join the depot for duty as a supernumerary officer. Capt. Lees and Lieut Kerans, 84th Regiment, to proceed from the depot to the service companies in Malta on being relieved by Capt. the Hon. W. 11. Herbert and Lieut. Wilson, of the 38th Regiment, to join the depot companies on the 15th inst., in succession to Lieut Sinclair, to embark with draught. Thd following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Lieut. George R. Heneage, to the Bellerophon ; Lieut. Frederic J. Easter, Lieut. Frederick W. E. Kuper, and Lieut. G. 0. Moore, to the Jason; C. Alder, to the Duke of Welling ton ; Lieut. W. T. Down, to the Mullet ; Lieut. F. W. Edwards, to the Orontes ; Lieut. E. Scale, to the Asia; H. W. Death, paymaster to the Trinco malee ; L. H. Edwards, assist.-paymaster, to the Victory, for Admiral's office; F. A. Keogh, assist.- phymaster, to the St. George ; R. Osborn, clerk, to the Orontes; G. Finlay, assist. clerk, to the Bos cawen ; E. J. Fleet, master's assist., to the Jacob ; F. A. Haig, and J. C. Roughton, master's assist., to the Bellerophon ; F. Roberts, master's assist., to the Pallas ; W. J. Scullard, master's assist., to the Pearl ; R. H. Wellings, master's assist., to the Duncan; Commander R. A. 0. Brown, to the Vigi lant, vice Commander Byrom, invalided ; sub- Lieut. 11. J. Garbett and Sub-Lieut. G. B. Bedford, to the Pearl ; Sub-Lieut. H. T. Wright and Sub- Lieut. W. T. Morgan, to the Jason ; A. R. Sims and W. B. Almack, midshipmen, to the Pearl ; A. E. M'Murdo and G. Trower, midshipmen, to the Jason. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, & LINCOLNSHIRE. A \Vharncliffe meeting of this company was held at Manchester on Friday,2lr. Watkin, M.P., in the chair. The bills submitted were those for transferring to the Sheffild, Great Northern, and Midland Railway Companies, the powers of the Liverpool Central Station Railway ; for constituting the Great Nor thern and Midland joint owners with the Sheffield of the new line between Manchester and Liverpool, for enabling the Sheffield to widen portions of their main line, for a deviation in the Liverpool line near Manchester ; to transfer the West Riding and Grimsby to the Great Northern and Sheffield jointly; to authorise the South Yorkshire to widen and im prove a portion of their line ; and for new railways at Hatfield-chase, also between Manchester and Stockport, between Macclesfield and Warrington, and between Louth and Five-mile-house ; and ex tensions of the Hoylake Railway to Parkgate ; of the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's-quay Railway to Neston, and to Hoylake Railway, near Birken head ; and also of the Chester and West Cheshire Junction, at Chester, and to the river Dee and to N eston. The CIiAIRMAN, in moving formal resolutions ap proving the bills, for some of which the capital was found by local promoters, made reference to the failure of Overend, Gurney, and Co. He said it was a great calamity, and it was impossible to say what the panic it led to might bring about ; but he hoped people would have more sense than throw their property away simply because a number of speculators had chosen to inflate the responsibilities attaching to a moderate capital. This company had found the combination of which Overend, Gurney, and Co., under its modern management was an illustration, competing with them whenever they had to borrow money; and'different railway systems had found this same combination competing with them in the con struction of railways that ought never to have been made. There were in this country 400 to 500 miles of railway, very badly made—made at enormous prices —inefficient as means of accommodating the public, representing in great measure a fictitious value, be cause where £lOO,OOO was put down as spent upon them, really the value of the work done was only £50,000 or £60,000 ; and this sort of system of con structing railways before their time had been bols tered up by banks at a usurious rate of interest. He hoped it would put an end to a great deal that was going on in the country that was depreciating railway enterprise, not only as regarded the terms on which that enterprise must borrow its money, but also as regarded unfair competition set up in differentplaces. The resolutions were adopted, and the meeting was adjourned till after Whitsuntide for the con , sideration of other bills. Id MERTHYR, TREDEGAR, AND ABERGAVENNY, A special meeting of this company was held on Thursday at the offices, Abergavenny ; Mr. Isaacs in the chair. The CHAIRMAN explained that the meeting had been called to take into consideration the bill now before Parliament for the complete transfer of the undertaking to the London and North-Western Company. It was proposed that they should receive London and North-Western 5 per cent. guaranteed stock in lieu of their shares, and the directors were unanimous in recommending that the proposal be accepted. A resolution approving the bill was carried unani mously. The CHAIRMAN announced that there would be another meeting of the shareholders, and then the , any would be dissolved. corn: The gross traffic receipts N c Ompany's line for SOITTII. -tEs,olSnTthEil: deducted for £96,674, from which i,. . the four weeks ending th2es29l4stwoafsApril amounted to £94,080. To this was added £2,691, o ex pense of collecting and delivering goods, f Sc r c r . e , n l t e s aN a i n ng d taxes, tolls, sundries, and £4,394 for steam, packet service ; total, £101165. GovTerhnemeexnptenddituutrye; inccolumpdinegusraatt jeosr; (5,214 ), and expenses of steam packet service, amounted to £54,800, leaving a net sum o f ft::6days,The total re ce i p t s f or 11 weeks and ending as above, amounted to £250,384 and the expenditure to £159,512, leaving a net sum of £90,872. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts for the week ending the 21st of April on this company's line amounted to £6,447 for local passengers, to £2,688 for foreign passen gers, to £976 for mails, &c., to £14,537 for local THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 1866. freight and live stock—total, £25,752, against £25,523 for the corresponding week of last year, showing anincrease of £229. The total receipts from the Ist of January to the above date amounted to £388,609, and for the same period last year to £375,376, showing an increase of £13,233. be happy if they would support him and act with him as far as possible. (Cheers.) All he could say, for himself he should oppose this bill from beginning to end, and if the proposed scheme affecting Bridport was to be sustained, he should do his best to turn the present Ministry out. (Loud cheers.) Mr. J. Grundy proposed, and Mr. J. P. Stephens seconded, " That this meeting considers the Go vernment measure for the redistribution of seats to be a flagrant injustice towards this borough and the country at large." Carried amidst loud cheering. A petition to Parliament against the bill was afterwards laid upon the table, and received a large number of signatures. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. DEVONPORT.—Mr. Montagu Chambers, Q.C., accompanied by the Hon. Geo. Denman, M.P. for Tiverton, arrived in Devonport on Friday evening, and attended a meeting of Liberal electors. The learned candidate was well received, and in his speech said—" He utterly disapproved of the dis franchising clause of the Reform Bill. He did not say that merely to please the artisans in the dock yard ; but he objected to the 16th clause on prin ciple, that when they were seeking to extend the franchise it was an anomaly that they should dis franchise any class of men. He would urge upon the electors that the present election should be a rigidly legal one. No money should be spent on his part, except purely his private expenses, but what should go before the election auditor and be pub licly announced. If they would return him on those conditions he should be proud to be the represen tative of Devonport. The meeting pledged itself to accept Mr. Chambers as a candidate in the Liberal interest. Lord Eliot, the eldest surviving son of the Earl of St. Germans, is the other Liberal candidate, and they have commenced their canvass. Mr. W. B. Ferrand, ex-member, and the new Conservative candidates, the Hon. Regi nald C. Abbott and Mr. Raikes, addressed a large meeting of the Conservative electors of Devonport on Thursday evening, and were favourably received. Mr. Ferrand, in introducing the new candidates, inveighed against the Government for bolstering up the petition through which he was unseated after it had been abandoned by its original promoters. ABERDEENSHIRE.—The contest for the representa tion of this county promises to be a keen and ex citing one. The two candidates—Sir James Elphin stone (Conservative) and Mr. Dingwall Fordyce, of Brucklaw (Liberal) have now addressed the electors at some half-dozen places in the country, and usually together. On Friday they met the electors of the Aberdeen district in the Mechanics' Hall, Aberdeen. THE HELSTON ELECTION.—The Cornwall Gazette referring to the remarks upon the strange conduct of the Mayor of Helston in giving a casting vote in favour of the Liberal candidate, Mr. Campbell, has the following :—" We, unlike our contemporary, are at no loss to know where the mayor derived his ideas from, because the fact is familiar to us that he is in partnership with his son, Mr. Henry Rogers, the Radical leader' and paid agent of Mr. Camp bell, and therefore the mayor himself was virtually the paid agent of Mr. Campbell, and was stimulated in his decision, not only by partisanship but by pecuniary interest. His inspiration he received from his son, Mr. Henry Rogers, who said to him, ' Give your casting vote . and risk it.' He adopted that ad vice in opposition to the opinion of Mr. Campbell's other paid agent, Mr. Plomer, who told him he had no power to give a casting vote. Therefore our con temporaries are hardly dealing fairly with the mayor's intelligence when they impute his decision to ignorance. On the contrary, he was fully in formed on the matter, and his vote was deliberately given in contravention of the law for a personal as well as a party purpose, and in order to gain a brief Radical triumph." THE Bono UGH OF LAMBETH.—A meeting was held at the Camberwell Hall on Saturday, at which the following resolutions were adopted :—First, " That the borough of Lambeth has now above 500,000 inhabitants, and has on the register above 26,000 electors; this meeting is of opinion that the time has now arrived when it should be divided into two electoral districts, and that each district should have two members." Secondly, " That a deputa tion be appointed to wait upon the Right Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone to convey to him the views of the meeting upon the subject." Redistribution of Seats. DEMONSTRATION AT BRIDPORT AGAINST THE BILL. A large and influential meeting of the inhabitants of this borough took place on Friday evening last, for the purpose of taking into consideration the . _ course to be pursued with regard to the Government - • • measure for the redistribution of seats. A strong feeling of resentment was manifested at the pro posed linking together of this borough with Lyme Regis and lloniton. Mr. Alrrc u ELL, ALP., who was received with loud cheers, said he regretted extremely to have to visit them again so early after his last visit; and on what he might call a very distressing occasion ; and he also regretted the absence of his hon. colleague, who he felt shared the bulk of his opinions. He alluded, of course, to the bills that were before Par liament with reference to the reduction of the fran chise and the redistribution of seats. One of these bills affected so gravely, and in a manner which he considered so scandalously unjust, the constituency to which he had the honour to be attached by ties of more than a quarter of a century, and which he be lieved was also attached to him, that he thought it • his duty, to come down and state clearly what were his views on the subject of the redistribution of seats, to hear their opinion upon it, and also to state the course which he meant to pursue with regard to the further prosecution of the measures before the house. After a few words on the Reduction of the Fran chise Bill, for the second reading of which he voted, he said Mr. Bright publicly stated it was his advice to the Government to destroy all opposition by not letting the boroughs know beforehand what was to be their fate afterwards. He (the speaker) thought any Government which took such a course as that was very much to be blamed. Then followed the redistribution of seats, and it was upon this he desired to speak, because he felt the borough of Bridport had been treated with the most scandalous injustice —an injustice which, as far as he could make out from the return laid before Parliament, no other constituency in the country had experienced. He reminded them there was no reason why Bridport should be treated worse than any other constituency, for never was there a charge of bribery brought against them since his unhappy election there, 25 years ago ; it was a thriving and interesting town, and it was not a nomination borough, but as in dependent as any in the country. (Cheers.) He found by the Government proposal that they were to be clubbed together with two other boroughs, making a total number of population larger than any others which exist under any of the classifica tion of boroughs in the country which it is intended shall be represented by only one member. He was not at all satisfied with the reasons given by Go vernment for not bringing forward their bill for the redistribution of seats until they had got members pledged to the bill for the reduction of the franchise. That simply proposed there should be no disfran chisement at all, but that the boroughs should be mixed up together, in the hope that the 79 members who would be affected by the measure in considera tion of their boroughs not being actually disfran chised, would be induced to vote for the bill for the redistribution of seats. (Hear, hear.) He did not think that was the principle on which any Govern ment ought to bring forward a measure of that kind. (Cheers.) He should have been better prepared to support a bill which would totally disfranchise some of the small towns in the country which were purely nomination boroughs, such as the decayed places, Ashburton, Devon, or the town of Arundel, which contains only 1,500 inhabitants. He should have been better prepared to see a number of small towns disfranchised altogether, and moderate sized towns such as Bridport deprived of one member, without being mixed up with other towns, and the privileges so created transferred to the large unrepresented towns in the country. But this was not proposed in the present bill. But it seemed to him that the Government, upon the principle of popularity hunt ing, and trying to get all the support they could, had clubbed the boroughs together, had disfranchised nobody, and had made a present of half the seats to the county members, who were principally Conser vatives. (Hear, hear.) As to the remainder they must fare the best they can. (Hear, hear.) The united population of the Bridport boroughs would be 14,200, and this he said was larger than any other constituency. But independently of that they were proposed to be clubbed with no near neighbours. They might not so much object to the neighbouring town of Lyme, which was only eight on eo e nf o e f ss t e h d em it miles off, but they were to be mixed u p with a de owuth.ichllne k c anye de ed place rear e c d a l a l e n d y i o n n g i t o a n h , o altoge ther rather t w ould almost be p h r abl l e n fer toh e e t in o ix lo e s d e u th p e w f i r t a h nc s h n i e s h e places as these. (Cheers.) He had thoug ht it hi s • the subject, duty, therefore, to come down a and tahtee cshould his views upon The Fenian Revolution. The following despatches appeared in the Anglo- American Times of Saturday last : PRINCIPLE FUME 'IOUS, EASTPORT, April 28, 8 p.m. The Finnigan iggcitement continooes. Drillin is activ amongst the Irishers. Five rocks wur drilled yesterday in a nayberin farm, and the hole British Government was blowed up here larst nite, at an igcited publik meetin held, in the North skole hous. Second Despatch-71 P.M. FURTHER ARRIVALS OF FENIANS. Anuther detachment of Fenians hes arrived—a waggin lode consistin of 2, recrooted on the way— in fact, they was recrooted sevrul times. I had the infurmashin from one myself with I helped from the waggin, who told me he wuz pro vided with a pistul loded with ammunishun as wud kill forty rods round a korner, and anuther weepon as never mist fire. He wuz a strong man, pertickerlarly in the breth. He brethed spirited defyance on the British na shun Third Despatch-8 P. M. OVERTURES FOR TREATY. A depertation from the Provinces has arrived and made proposals to treet with the Fenians. Still Later-8 o'clock and 5 min. SUCCESS OF NEGOTIATIONS. The depertation has proberbly bin suksesful—hE ; is now treetin with the Fenians at the bar. A fire hez been lited in the stoav, and the b2►r rume is in a blaz uv igsitement. Later-8 o'clock, 15 min. MORE ARRIVALS-THE 0' M AHONY AND ROBERTS' Opinions of the American Press. The New York Herald boasts that " the amount of cotton which has come out of the South since the war closed has been equal in value to six or seven yeas ,-s' production of the precious metals in the wh' )le country. We do not mean equal in value on' ty in the same way that the corn, wheat, or hay cr op is estimated, but in a much more important a' ad wider sense. Cotton is not only an article of crime necessity for home consumption—not only *employs millions of hands and hundreds of millions .of capital among ourselves—•but it takes the same ,place as gold and silver in the commerce and ex- changes of the world. In this sense we say the three to four hundred millions of dollars' worth of cotton that has come out of the South since the war ciOse( 7 .l—in one year—is equal in value to six or seven years' production of precious metals in Cali- lornia and the other States and Territories on the Pacific side of the continent." The estimate of the cotton received is three hundred millions in gold. " Few probably," says the Herald, "have re flected upon the influence of this on the coun- try, on our condition and credit, and on the relative value of gold and currency. Suppose the. South had been merely a grain, coin, or stock producing country, or producing such other things only as a people consume within themselves, it would have had little or nothing to spare, or that the rest of the world would have required, when the war ended. Or suppose the Southerners could have used this valuable production during the war, what would have been the result ? Had not our navy blockaded their harbours and coast, and sealed up the cotton, what immense resources would have been, at their use. We know not how long the war might have been prolonged, or what would have been the end of it. We ought to give due credit to the navy for the invaluable service it rendered. But let us reflect upon what our condition would have been after the war was over, and would be for a long time to come, without this cotton of the South- The republic had raised upon its credit within, a short time sums of money which no nation had ever raised before, and more, probably, than any other could raise. Little short of a thousand 13:iillions had been expended in a year. But this extraordinary financial success must have been fol lowed by as great a revulsion and depression if we had not had the cotton' of the South." The Herald, in proof of what cotton has done for America by converting England into a "frightful example," as exhibited in 1814, says :—" She had accumulated an enormous debt, and her commerce er mines in 1859 has been forty millions of dollars. brutalised chattels ? If this is not a beneficent and I 'his State has now in operation one hundred and statesmanlike solution of our remaining difficulties, f t fty mills, cos ling about ten millions of dollars, be good enough to tell us why ! ith a capa: o - ity of two thousand stamps. The aye ' rage cost, of these mills is seventy thousand dollars. Two Attempts to Murder. The stting stting magistrates at Hertford were engaged for several hours on Saturday, at the Town-hall, investigating two attempts to murder and a charge of incendiarism of a most daring and extraordinary character. The first case was a charge against Charles Christmas to murder Mrs. Mardell, landlady of the Three Harts public-house, on Wednesday morning last. The prisoner went to the house in the morning, and also in the afternoon, and had half a pint of beer on each occasion. He went again about four o'clock, and as the landlady turned round to go into the beer cellar at the back of the bar the prisoner put his right arm round her neck and his hand overher face in which was some liquid which she thought was chloroform, while with his left hand ho tried to cut her throat. The prose cutrix being, however, a very powerful woman, threw him down, but not before ho succeeded in inflicting a slight wound in her throat and a very severe cut across her nose, nearly severing the cartilage, and also stabbing her in the mouth. As she became faint from loss of blood the pri soner managed to escape from her hold and ran off imme diately. A customer came in and saw the pitiable condi tion of Mrs. Mardell, and medical attendance being sought, Dr. Butcher promptly attended, and the wounds were dressed. The prisoner was stopped and taken into custody by a gamekeeper, who saw him run into a wood about a mile from the scene of his crime, and who handed him over to the police officer who was in search of him. The prisoner, who was only 17 years of age, and who said nothing in his defence, was fully committed for trial at the next assizes. Emma Whylls, aged 17, of prepossessing appearance, was charged with attempting to murder her mistress, Mrs. Elizabeth Hannah Rassingham, of Bengeo Temple Farm, on the Bth instant. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. Her intended victim is still too ill to attend, and her deposition was taken on Thursday by one of the magis trates. The above-named prisoner Emma Whylls, and Sarah Smith, aged 17, were then placed at the bar on a charge of setting fire to a wheat stack on Good Friday night last. The prisoners wore servants to Mr. Passingham, who is the secretary of the Herts Agricultural Association, and, though suspicion had rested on these two girls, the evidence was not sufficiently strong to justify their being taken into custody, until the girl Whylls was accused of the crime, and she then said that Sarah Smith carried the coals, but she (Whylls) bought the inciters and set fire to the stack, which was valued at £240. Neither of the prisoners when before the bench assigned any reason for what they had done, and they were fully committed for trial on the charge of arson. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH- SATURDAY. The present state of the money market caused the wheat trade to be less buoyant than it probably would have been, as many buyers refrained from operating ; still in the transactions which took place au advance of is per qr was established for all good qualities. The weather has been very stormy during the week, with a low tempera ture for the season ; still vegetation is progressing favour ably. • • White wheat (weighing 641 b), 50s to 51s ; old red aitto (weighing 651 b), 48s to 50s ; new red ditto (weighing 601 b to 631 b), 42s to 47s ; best malting barley (weighing 521 b to 531 b), 36s to 38s ; runs ditto (weighing 511 b to 521 b), 34s to 36s ; distilling ditto (weighing 501 b to 521 b), 30s to 32s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, 57s to 39s ; peas (maple), 36 5 to 38s per qr. Flour, 31s per sack. with the rest of Europe had been paralysed. The pressure of this debt and the demands of the coun try for supplies from abroad, together with the spirit of speculation that revived with the return of peace, drained the country of a large amount of specie. Years of depression, revulsion, and intense suffering among the mass of the people followed as a natural consequence. Now, suppose England had possessed in 1815 the same amount of cotton we found, or that she had suddenly discovered three or four hundred millions in gold, which would have been the same thing, how easily, comparatively, she would have passed through her troubles." The New York Tribune, of April 28, says :—The New York Times saw fit, last Wednesday, to lay down the following fundamental basis of recon struction :—‘, If there is anything fundamental in free institutions, it is the principle that all States and all people that are required to obey the laws shall be represented in the Congress which makes them. A Government which denies or discards this principle is a despotism—we care not what may be its form, nor under what pretext it may cloak its tyranny. Unless this is true, then the whole theory of free institutions, of self-government, of representative republics, is a cheat and a sham." Sincerely desirous of an early and complete restora tion of the States lately in revolt to their former and proper relations to the Union and to the steadfastly loyal States, we hailed the above as wise and just, and offered to unite upon and abide by it, without cavil or reservati on. W e urged the Times, and those with whom it is in general accord, to unite with us on that basis, and put an end to the existing complication —closing with this question :—" Is the Times ready to pledge itself to a hearty and consistent support, without condition or reservation, of this great, comprehensive principle ?" The Times gives no response to this respectful inquiry, but has, instead thereof, a tirade against Mr. Wendell Phillips and what is termed " the Radical Programme," which is set forth as follows :—" We apprehend that, when they can get their courage up to the sticking point,' this is precisely the course which the Radicals in Congress will endeavour to pursue Universal negro suffrage' as the condition sine .qua non of the Restoration of the Union, is now, and has been from the beginning of the session, the grand goal and object of all their efforts. They have cloaked it more or less, partly from policy and partly from fear ; but the time is drawing nigh when they can cloak it no longer. . . . All the talk and all the excitement that has been raised about Constitutional Amepd meats, equality of civil rights, status of the Rebel States, &c., has been simply dust thrown in the eyes of the public to cover the approach to the grand, fundamental, indispensable principle of universal negro suffrage, as the condition without which no Southern State should ever again be admitted to the Union. This is the secret of all the elaborate l ega l endeavours to prov e that the Union is de stroyed—that the States went out of it, and that they can get back only on such conditions as Con gress may prescribe. This is the reason why Stevens proclaimed them conquered States, deprived of all rights, excluded from the protection of the Constitution, and to be dealt with as conquered subjects, at the sovereign will and pleasure of the conquerors. This was the object of Mr. Shellabarger's studied legal argument in support of the doctrine of State suicide, and of his more recent effort to prove that, even if the rebel States are in the Union, they may rightly be held to have for feited all the rights of citizenship under the Consti tution. The feebler but still more zealous efforts of Hart, Ward, Holmes, and other Radical members from this State, have all aimed at the same thing— namely, to lay a foundation for demanding, at the hands of the South, universal negro suffrage as the condition of restoration." We judge that the above is inspired by another mind and penned by another hand than those who so justly set forth, in the same editorial column, " the principle" " funda mental in free institutions," only two days before. Possibly, the two may somehow be reconciled ; if so, we would like to see the feat attempted by the subtle genius of the Times. Let us have a clear understanding of terms. If by " universal negro suffrage" is meant that every negro shall vote, we favour no such proposition. We do not deem it best that even every white male adult citizen shall vote ; then why every black one ? Felons, idiots, lunatics, and many other classes are, for good reasons, excluded from the electoral body. What we contemplate and advocate as impartial suffrage implies only that no black man shall be debarred fr3m voting for any reason that does not likewise disfranchise a white man. This is precisely what we demand and insist on. Does the Times assent to it? If , so, there is no ground of substan tial difference between us. If it does not, then its harping on " universal negro suffrage" is vague and misleading. There is a large proportion of the American people who have forfeited their politi cal rights by rebellion and treason. There is another large portion who, having mainly been slaves till recently, have not yet been politically enfranchised. We propose that the political disa bilities under which these two classes now labour shall be at once and absolutely removed, so that no man shall henceforth -be disfranchised in any State because of his colour or because he has been a rebel. Why is not this just, fair, wise, nay even generous ? If the Republic can wholly forgive and restore to every forfeited right those who desperately sought her life, why may she not treat with equal favour those whose only offence is their colour—who are poor and ignorant only because they have been NOT T INGHAM—SATURDAY. There was a tolerable supply of wheat, and samples came to hand in fair condition. Sales were made steadily'', and late rates were exceeded by quite is per qr. Of barley there were only few samples showing, and these were taken off at about recent rates. The demand for oats was firm, and samples being in small supply prices were rather higher than last week. Beans were a very limited show, and the inquiry was of a healthy character, at is per qr more money. Old white wheat, 53s to 56s ; old red, 46s to 49s ; no'' white, 53s to 57s ; new red, 45s to 49s per 36 stone. Oats , old, 30s to 35s ; new, 24s to 30s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 50s to 53s ; new, 42s to per 47s 38s stone. LEIOES TER—SATURDAY. The supply of wheat was moderate, and samples changed hands at an advance of is per qr. Barley Avas 111 scanty supply, and prices remained without alteration. Oats were in limited supply and sold at prices in favour of the sellers. Beans advanced is to 2s per qr. New white wheat, 50s to 52s ; new red, 46 s to 495; old, white, 55s to 56s ; old red, 49s to 52s per 36 stone. Bar ley, for malting, 35s to 39s per qr.; grinding, 27s to 30s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 33s ; new, 278 to 32s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 50s to 52s ; new, 44s to 46s per 38 stone Fine flour, 40s to 42s ; seconds, 32s to 35s per 20 stone. YORK—SATURDAY. The supply of wheat at our corn market to-day via nett fair, and the inquiry was firm at about Is per tl more money. There was a small supply of barley, an d the sales made were at quite previous currencies. The quart, tity of oats brought to market was exceedingly scanty, Wn! a healthy demand was experienced at a trine over last week's rates. There were not many beans showing, and the inquiry proved brisk at advanced rates. New white wheat, 48s to 52s ; new red, 46s to 49s per 36 stone. Barley, for malting, 37s to 40s per qr. ; grinding 32s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 26s to 28s per 24 stone Beans, new, 42s to 44s per 38 stone. Malt, 64 s to 663 nom., 35s to 27s nor sack of 2801bs. Foreign Mail Packet List - - AO- -- MAILS DUE. 20 Australia and New Zealand, via Southamptoa., MaY Ditto, via Marseilles Jun e 14- Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet ...... June 4. Ditto, by French packet May 2 Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. • • May 25. China, Penang, and Singapore, via So ut h am pton MaY 20. Ditto, via Marseilles. May 11. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton May 14. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton MaY 21 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via South am pt on . May 1 4 " Ditto, via Marseill es May 23 Malta, Egypt, and Ad en, v i a S ou th am pt o n M a y 14. Ditto, via Marseill es gay 14. g ay 4 Mauritius, via Southa m pton Ditto, via Marseille t . Jun e 7. Newfoundland • • ..... MaY 2 3 ' June 4 ' Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet g a y 16 Ditto, by United States pack9t, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..Jay 1 , 1 ; West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerifre .. MAY t '' West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and Honduras) MaY 14 Cuba and Mexico [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Consumption, and all nervous, b iliO t s stomach, and liver complaints, in every stage , a re only ,s; gravate and accelerated by drugs of every description• u'ts perfec.ly curable by Du Barry's health restoring Revaleh°,4 Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases viThic il been considered hopeless ; such as indigestion (dyePeP,",,.r, cough, asthma, consumption, habitual constipation d'01; hcea, all gastric derangements, haemorrhoids , liver c ore plaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness' fevers, -the throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises 1 , 11 ,0, head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities. ertiP"-„1, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, P a pitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsY , crawl' s, at spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or set, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the pains in the pit of the stomach and between the eh Wilda; &c. We quote a few.—Cure, No. 46,270. Mr. James Rob er se d timber merchant, of Frim ley Surrey, of thirty years' dis cs f. lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement. and partial de vi l' 0 ness.—Cure, No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacob s, of e2LtrcAoo nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirit s, and fancies.—Cure, No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies , Lord-4 g 32• tenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. —No s, Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia , ner vousnel asthma, cough, const patina, flatulency , spasms. sickness. Pi% vomiting—Maria Jolly.- Cure No. 54,816. The Rev. Jarli e s s Ai fy Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, of indigestion and torl , "_,. of the liver, which had resisted all medical treatraeldi-be In tins, Ilb, 2s 9d ; 21b, 4s 64 ; 51b, lls ; 121 b, 22 "...,1 0 4 • 405.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street , L ou ;„,i n ; also Phillips, tea dialers, 8, King William-street ; lik e at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, BishOP S t; d e ; street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 3 30, S_Atr -54, Upper Baker-street; 103, Tottenham- court -ro a d Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notting-hill; St. Brothers, 65, Iligh-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's -term,' lie. John's-wood. London ; and all respectable grocers an d mists.—Beware of spurious imitations. r , t a h 6 s l . s, MONEY—On the 11th in ß st i . ington, the wife of Walter Money, Esq., of a 5 0 % t i 11 MAXWELL—On the 11th just - 3 ' , , at Scart tug Yorkshire,the TT Mrs. TT —CD. H. Maxwell, of a son• „l A. THACKER—On the 11th inst ,at 11, o.* tal-plac e 13.. ff lien , stA ton, the wife of Lieut.-Col. S. 'Thacker,B omb'`. Corps, of a son. Scarsdale -villas, etts.- Marriages. ~,i 11, IIoGG-11EID —On the 12th inst 1 R ntpark ' l' ll Robert W. Hogg, of Brighton, ege , _ raii l o be 0 . Sussex, to azL Reid, of Melbourne, Australia. Jam es WRIGHT —GUYATT —On the 12th inst., t St Ja ll ' a • voi ., el _ Westbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, Wm. Wright, .." - ` 1 ,1 1 .• Bucklands Wallingford, to Emma Sabina, eldest dallo ter of the late R. Guyatt, Esq., of B a rtley, Ila n°. Deaths. iottel MI K , LE ins t., the 11th in t., at Bournemouth, Char widow of the Rev. J. Keble, aged 60. Climbe la l''a -1 MAHON —0 n the 11th inst., a t 18, Grea t r _ street, Emily Anne, widow of the late G e n. Sir Thonui'' M'Mahon, Bart., G.C.B , aged 79. liarloS, STOCKWELL— On the 10 th . inst , at Edinburgh, Cecil CI, der, youngest son of Captain *Stockwell, 7 2d iiighls n aged 1 year and 3 h -eat TRACEY—On the Bth mon ins t t., s. at St. Leonard's-on-th 0 er _ S .. ' co. the Rev. 11. E. P. Tracey, M.A ., of Tavistock-t r,' _.......... W estic)urne- London : Print ed and Published by WILLIADIDS-,31W5142°. of No. 12, Strand, Puner, at ni, SUN OH I4O, of l in " Strand, l in the Preeinatt of the Savoy .1 th e Co Middlesex.—Monday, May 14, 1866. DIVISION. Moar Fenians arrived. The krew of a well knone pakit skooner hey just kom up from the worf. They air orl Fenians. Both of them air of the O'Mahoney fackshun, and tha repoodiate any treetin with the inemy. The treetin party is said to be of the Roberts' wing Later-8.30 P.M. A CONFLICT IMMINENT. A fite is imminent ! ! The millishy has been korld out ! ! ! The milishy dekline to act without instructions 'rom Washington ! ! ! ! The Selecmen desiriu to klose up the affair in a smorl, cheap way, hey telegrarfed for the Massa chusetts Stait Konstabulary I Seventh Despatch-9 P.M. THE CONFLICT RAGING. A spirited ackshun is now going on ! Orl present takin part except your correspon dent ! ! He is takin notes—principally greenbax !! ! Three tumblers hey been smashed, and a large jug full ov whisky. Irish pipers air cheerio on their kumpanyuns. The smoak hangs in dens clodes over the konflic. The bar-keeper has friternized with the Finni gans, and is agtively ingaged, with his shirt-sleves rolled up ; at every menshun of England's naim, he shuts in igscited stile, " Licker gentlemen, licker !" He evidently has grate effect on the assemblige. THE CONFLICT CONCLUDED-SAILORS VICTORIOUS. The konflik is closed, the sailor Fenians havin beaten their opponents by a coup d'etat. Futur movements air unsertin, as the O'Maho ney's is now prostrait under the bar kounter, and the saleors is reposin on a pile of bords in the frunt yard. They wuz ordered by thare kaptin to " get a board," and probably proseeded to the pile for that purpus. Eighth Despatch-10 P.M. THE AMBASSADOR RETIRES. The delegashin from the Provinses hes retired to his rume in bad oder, supported by the bar keper actin as rere gard. Ravin spent his money, it is eggspected he will have his passport in the mornin, Ninth Despatch-101 P.M. THE VERY LATEST. Oa is quiet. I have bin out on the dore step, and thare is no noose from the front —noboddy hangin round. Kommershal men may be interested in the re port, that since the Fenians hey arrived, whiskey has gorn down rapidly, and the demand for po ta ters exceeds the supply. Blue nozes hey disappeared from the market, and kabbages air so skurse, that some of our Seicemen actooally feel their heds in danger. Mining Intelligence. _- ~--- Gold has been found - in Richland County, Ohio, and a company has been organised to prosecute the discovery. From a few pans of surface soil $l2 worth of gold was procured. Gold, silver, and lead have been discovered in Lisbon, New Hampshire, and a company of Hart ford and Springfield capitalists have leased 600 acres of land for 100 years. Quartz taken from this property has been analysed, and found to yield per ton $867 in gold, and $l5O in silver. The antimony mine near St. George's Lake, on the Magagnadavie river, New Brunswick, is to be worked this summer. A quantity of the ore has been sent to New York and smelted, and is pronounced superior to any yet discovered in any part of the world, except that in France, and equally as good as that. The mine is said to be very extensive, and the gentleman who assayed some of the ore says it is of great value. The extent and value of the metalliferous deposits of the Portage Lake district have steadily increased from a mere beginning, ten years since, to a promi nent place in the copper-producing districts of the world. In 1855 the shipments of mineral from these mines were about 350 tons, or less than 300 tons of ingots ; in 1865 the exports of ingot copper were about 3,440 tons, and of mineral 300 tons, equal to say 4,600 tons in an unsmelted state. The market value of this copper, at the time it was sold, may be safely set down at over $2,000. The value of the product of the Minnesota Cop per Mining Company for 1865 was $132,146 75 ; total expenditures, $329,337 87 ; present value of the property at the mine, $339,617 56, or about $l7 for each share of the stock. The surplus of available assets are estimated at $82,717 05. The Minnesota has a paid-up capital of $366,000. Par value of its shares $5O. This company has paid out $1,760,000 in cash dividends. Its stock has been selling this week at 11. The Lake Superior mineral regions are supposed to contain valuable deposits of lead, which are just beginning to be developed. The Holyoke lead mine is making a very satisfactory exhibit. Their principal lode is 30 feet wide, and well charged with mineral from foot to hanging wall, giving a lack of about 5 feet. It is estimated that it will yield half a ton of ore per cubic fathom, and that its cost in stopping will be about $l2 per fathom. Another vein of silver lead has also been struck about 15 feet north of the first mentioned, which is said to be the biggest thing yet found in the Silver Lead region. Its specimens are very rich, the ore being of a much finer grain than any previously taken out, and closely resembling the richest ores found in Colorado. UNITED STATES GOLD AND SILVER PRODUCTS. —During the eighteen years that have elapsed since the discovery of gold in California the mines of the Pacific coast have added one tho usand millions of dollars to the world's stock of the precious metal. Australia and other cotemporary sources have pro duced as much more. Although these figures arc very magnificent, they have a very unsatisfactory aspect when placed by the side of the sum of the liabilities, present and prospectiv e, of the United States. Mining is still the leading pursuit beyond the Rocky Mountains. The receipts of uncoined gold and silver at San Francisco last year amounted to forty-nine millions of dollars, against forty-eight millions in 1864, forty-four millions in 1863, forty two millions in 1862, and forty millions in 1861. The area of the metalliferous region is steadily ex ; tending, and the miner contemplates with satisfac tion the fact that neither rain nor drouth, financial panics, nor periods of great inflation, need seriously affect his field of operations. The silver yield of Nevada amounted last year to sixteen millions of dollars, and the entire product since the opening of Artists' General Benevolent Institution. On Saturday evening the fifty-first anniversary festival of this institution was held at the Freema _ . _ sons' Tavern. The chair was occupied by Mr. A, _ _ _ H. Layard, M.P., who was supported by Sir Francis Grant, the new President of the Royal Academy ; Messrs. D. Maelise, R.A., Creswick, R.A., Weekes, R.A., Frith, R.A., Calderon, A.R.A., O'Neill, A.R.A., Horsley, R.A., J. C. Parkinson, Edmund Yates, &c., and a very large number of gentlemen, the majority artists and many other known patrons of art. It appeared from the report that the institution —which has been established to assist artists in dis tress, whether members of the:society or not, the only claim being merit and need—has relieved 82 appli cants, at a cost of £1,443, during the past year—the highest that has yet been recorded. The total net income amounted to £2,287 10s., and its invested capital was £22,000. The CHAIRMAN advocated the interests of the association in an able and comprehensive speech, urging that if there was one profession more than i another which was dedicated to the public, it was that of art. (Hear.) Ina recent speech of his friend Sir F. Grant, at the Royal Academy dinner, the President had dwelt on the want of room in the pre- sent building for the display of the works of art, and upon the heartburning and sorrow which the necessary rejection of pictures from that cause occa sioned to artists. Now artists were between a cross. fire of the critics, the public, and those important persons wno stood between the artist and the pub lic. The man of genius who wished to rise above the standard of public taste was the very man to whom this institution could be of the greatest ser- ...._ _ _ vice. (Hear.) The man of genius should look for that assistance, not as a favour, but as a right. Adverting to the influences which checked the suc- cessful career of artists, he referred to a case men tioned in the report of a portrait painter to whom assistance had been given, and who had suffered from the competition of photography. Who would be lieve that the sun himself would condescend to come from his high state and put himself in com petition with unfortunate terrestrials? (Hear, hear.) To some extent miniature painters did no t suffer b y this new competition, butline engraving had severel y suffered from the spread olphotography. For the time photography had paralysed two branches of art in this country. From the time of Cromwell downwards miniature painters and line engravers had held a high position, and both had a claim upon the support of the institu tion. The extension of our commerce, indeed, owed much to the progress of art in this country. (Hear, hear.) As to the management of this insti tution he ventured to say, that no other society ex celled it in the economy of its management, con sidering the funds which it had at its disposal. On all grounds he appealed for support to this institu tion. Ire appealed to those who enjoyed art, and were its intelligent and discriminating patrons; he appealed to the go-betweens between the artist and the public, who derived great profits from the pro fession— (hear, hear)—and he finally appealed to the public at large, because no part of the commu nity had done more than English artists to make the English school of art one of the foremost schools in Europe. The hon. gentleman next, after paying a graceful tribute to the memory of the late Sir Charles Eastlake, proposed the health of the new President, Sir Francis Gr ut, adding his belief that that gentleman would aid in the contemplated re -1 form of the Royal Academy in the most liberal spirit. Sir F. GRANT, in returning thanks, said that he believed when the proposed scheme which had been adopted by the Royal Academy for its reconstruc tion was before the public, it would be accepted as satisfactory ; and alluding to the prospect of a new gallery being built for the exhibition of the Academy, he hoped that space enough would be afforded, and adequate accommodation for the hanging of pictures in eligible positions obtained, to enable justice to be done to the largest number of exhibitors. In his character as President of the Royal Academy, he conceived it to be his duty to take an interest in every institution connected with art, and to extend his personal acquaintance to as many artists as possible ; and acting on that rule this institution would always receive his warmest support. The CHAIRMAN then said he had a statement to make, which he believed would be memorable in the annals of the institution. A gentleman, whose name he did not know, had made the following most liberal and generous proposal—namely, that he proposed to give land and build a house upon it for the education of a certain number of children of artists, on the condition that this institution would grant a fund for the support of the schools (Cheers.) This proposal came through Mr. Agnew, who in a noble spirit had offered at once to guarantee £2,000 towards the endowment of the school. (Cheers.) It behoved those present, their friends, and the public to endorse this offer, and by their additional assist ence make this school of the utmost value and im portance to the profession. (Loud cheers.) Mr. AGNEW, amid renewed applause, said the offer was of land and a house for the reception of, say, 50 children, and he knew a friend who would supplement this proposal by a sum of £2,000. Several other toasts were proposed and responded to, and the subscriptions in the room on behalf of the institution amounted to £933 15s. 6d. RECONSTRUCTED.—A young woman, possessed of a fine person and property, a member of ono of the oldest and most fashionable families in South Carolina, became engaged to a young man in her own grade in life, who was a major in the rebel service, and was to marry him at the termination of the war if he survived. If he did not, she was to remain ever true to her vows, and being a Catholic, had promised to enter a convent and become only the bride of heaven. They were a model pair of lovers, and all who knew them believed they were the embodiment of poetry, tenderness, and devotion to each other, that they lived what bards had sung and romances had described. They were like two blossoms on one stem—a planet and its ray. As usually happens, fate frowned on their feli city, and, jealous of their love, cut thematerial cloud of the sentimental major's being at Fort Wagner. Eloisa was mad with grief, and inconsolable for evermore. Her parents believed she would not and could not live ; and that if she did, she must be ref tof reason. Months passed. Charles ton fell. Columbia was threatened. Eloisa. remained. She was anxious to be slain by the barbarians who had murdered her lover. The Union forces arrived, but Lad something else to do than kill women, and Eloisa survived in spite of herself. She heard the regiment was in town that had charged upon the battalion led by her best-be loved, and she resolved to see the colonel and denounce him as the slayer of her prince and peace. Eloisa saw him, and had a tremendous scene. The colonel was handsome and gallant ; and when the fair girl thundered, as all her sex do at first, and then rained, he was touched and inter ested in the unknown woman. He comforted and con soled her, realising the truth of the idea that the heart is never so susceptible to a new attachment as when it is re covering from an old one. In four weeks she had learned to love the Yankee savage, and expressed her willingness to be his, while he was resigned, as most men aro, to be worshipped by her, if she were bent on any such folly. They were married in spite of the threatened anathemas of all her relatives and friends, and aro now in Europe.— . Charleston Letter. , Is H I -- ] ,II II 1 - ] Th, Biel ho o ti o „ ele,