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THE LAST EDITION of " THE SUN " supplied as soon as Published. containing all the LA rEsT NEWS and SI 3 ORTING INTELLIGENCE, by If. W. HARRIS, Newspaper Agent, 4, Biackiriars-road, London, S. TIHE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN '' supplied, as soon as published every Evening, by . ALEXANDBIt (late BItOOKS), Newspaper Agent, 24, Old Cavendish-street, Oxford-street. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tars DAY.—Morning, Bh. 7m.—Afternoon, Bh. 43m, Ta-Moßßow.-Msrning, 9h. 20m.—Afternoon, 9h. 50m !eV) "b* i5gr2,..,r4714 10.4 - Lm (t 4jIZ ) LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1866. .-.---- - -110. The rejection of Mr. LOCKE KING'S Real Estate Intestacy Bill by the House of Commons yesterday was only to be expected. If such a measure should be eventually carried, there will be a very strong opposition to overcome first, and a gradual change to be worked in public opinion. There is no doubt a good deal to be said on both sides as to the prin ciple of the measure. Like most social questions it has various aspects. On the one hand there is the plea for the equal rights of all the members of a family to share in the inheritance— a right freely admitted with regard to personal property in cases of intestacy ; on the other hand there is the not un reasonable fear that reiterated cubdivision will tend eventually rather to impoverish the whole than to lenrich all alike. An estate which may give compe tence and comfort to one may be comparatively valueless to half a dozen ; although the expectation of receiving a share may encourage the younger branches of the family to a life of listless expecta tion rather than of active personal exertion. It is true that Mr. LocKE KING'S measure was relieved of many of the less favourable features of a bill of this kind from the fact that it only referred to cases of intestacy. If a man has landed property which he wishes to preserve intact for his eldest son, it is not too much to expect from him that he will leave a statement of his wishes behind him. Some of the opponents of the bill brought forward a more for midable objection, when they asserted that its result would be to throw many small properties into the hands of the lawyer and the auctioneer. Mr. BRIGHT naturally spoke strongly in favour of the measure, and pronounced the tendency to accumu late large estates in one hand to be one of the most deplorable features of the times. Mr. HENLEY, however, declared his belief that the proposed mea sure would rather increase than diminish this ten dency, since it would not prevent the accumulation of large estates which are for the most part strictly entailed; but it would necessitate small estates being brought to the hammer in cases of intestacy, when those who wished to accumulate land would have increased facilities for doing so. As we have said, there was little question that the bill would be re jected by a decisive majority in the present position of affairs. Englishmen are naturally cautious and greatly influenced by custom and association. It will take some time to reconcile them to any consi derable change in the manner of transmitting land. At the same time, it would be well to examine the question, and without prejudice, in all its bearings. We have plenty of opportunities for information in the statistics of neighbouring countries. Let us therefore frankly consider how much we can profit by their experience or avoid their errors. The article in the Wiener Abendpost, the official journal of Vienna, naturally this excites pursued attention this juncture when the course by a power has given rise to so much animadversion, and caused so much dismay in certain quarters. This long discourse seeks to vindicate the policy of the Austrian Government The Treaty of Vienna is tthiseedgraasndtext upon which all proceedings are basede,naanraidatthiccelicio:rse followed by Vienna is stigma" upon Austria It is contrary to the principles of that treaty. i treigrphrtetabetidoonneo.'f' declared that the treaties "confer and Prussia the right of seeing that Certainly this is a fairer in- The chi the m d t a t t o al all, matter than any that the Prussians put upon it ; they to ignore the rests upon the declaration that seefeniargument in this the Schleswig-Holstein question ought to be referred article referred r o e f f ri er g re h to the Diet ; that seems to b 3 the a esire of the Vienna Government, and to give great offence to that of Berlin, perhaps for the same cause, and it THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 7, 1860. takes off the responsibility from the two German Powers. It is indeed to be regretted that this de cision was not earlier made by Austria, for it would have prevented the Prussians from obtaining such an ascendancy in many ways, as they have done. Very true were the reproaches here made about the course pursued by the Prus sians throughout this affair, and it is mid with perfect justice that had the.two Powers agreed upon a definitive settlement " of the treaties, there would have been no need of this appeal being made ;" but it is added, " all the efforts of Austria directed to wards obtaining the concurrence of Prussia to an arrangement which all the rest of Germany recog nised as right and lawful were unavailing." The pertinacity with which the Prussians upheld the right of Federal execution now militates against them in various ways, and, as the Abendpost states, it was not as a European Power, but as a member of the Confederation that she acted against Den mark. Very strong is the force of this satirical passage.—" If momentary advantages do not con stitute the fundamental principles of her policy, if she has preserved, despite her system of military conventions, separate alliances, and dallying with ,foreign Powers, one remnant of fidelity to Federal rights, she will submit to the decision of the Diet, as-Austria has determined to submit herself." We quite agree with this article in its denunciation of the policy that has of late been pursued by the Cabinet of Berlin, a belief in the destiny of the Prussian monarchy, has for a long time exercised a " dominating influence " upon them, and ,the sooner they change their tactics the better. The Moniteur du Soir, in its bulletin last evening, stated the reservations that Austria made to the ac ceptation of the Conference, and these had the ef fect of preventing any " thorough examination" of the Austro-Italian difference. It is said that the Baron Von WERTHER has presented to Count MENSDORFF the Prussian despatch, protesting against the convocation of the Holstein Estates, and accusing Austria of a violation of the Gastein Convention ; and this despatch is regarded as the prelude to the ultimatum which Prussia is expected to deliver to-morrow at the Federal Diet, so that it may be considered as the beginning of the end. We have no doubt that the Berlin Government will prefer to go to _war rather than draw back from their previous assertions and allow the Diet to settle about the Duchies. The news from Berlin asserts that the measures announced in the Diet by that Power violate the treaty of Gastein, and cause the suspension of the co-possession existing hitherto in the Duchies. The two Powers are now restored to the position and rights accorded to them by the Treaty of Vienna, which retains its " European validity." There is nothing in this affair so ridiculous as the way in which these treaties are declared valid or invalid in order to serve the turn of the disputants. The announcement of the French EMPEROR that he detested the Treaties of 1815 was the prelude to various other declarations for and against them in many directions. Here we have Prussia declaring that she will stand by these Treaties, and Austria asserting that the course pur sued by Prussia has violated them. Notwithstanding all these appeals to treaties, valid or invalid, as the case may be, it appears very probable that recourse will be had to an agency which reverses treaties and changes the plans of the wisest and strongest. The war which now seems imminent will no doubt have the effect of pro ducing a new order of things. Prince FRE DERIC CHARLES and the officers of his.staff had a farewell audience of the King of PRUSSIA yesterday, and they will proceed to the headquarters of the army in Silesia. It is expected that the KING will also proceed there in a short time. All is being done to incite and encourage the Prussian people to the contest. It is said by the semi-official Provinzial Correspondenz that the neutral Powers', have thanked Prussia for her readiness to support their efforts to preserve peace, and declared that she is now completely free to take her own course. This journal adds that Prussia, having decided to protest against the convocation of the Holstein Estates, will " no doubt follow up her protest by active measures." The troops are indeed already on their way to take possession of the Holstein garrisons that are unoccupied by Austria, so that this is in fact in some degree the commencement of hostilities. By next week, in all probability, some definite step will have been taken that will precipitate matters, and in the meantime there is sufficient to do in watching the various preparations that are in progress in various directions, all tending to the same lamentable result. Among all the startling revelations of workhouse management which have lately shocked the public mind, the Strand Union has usually appeared in a very favourable aspect. By common consent it has been one of the best managed in the metropolis-- the master and matron have been represented as unusually humane and intelligent, and the medical officer laborious and self-denying. The Commis sioners of the Lancet, who render such valuable service in exposing the miseries and deprivations of the wretched denizens of our vast State hospitals, fully confirmed those favour able impressions of the Strand Union, although they denounced the building itself as totally unfitted for its purpose. The situation of the workhouse is in itself unfortuate, and the buildings were declared by these gentlemen to be, on the whole, less suited to an infirmary than those of any other workhouse, although seven-eighths of the beds are occupied by sick or infirm paupers. Still their opinion of the management was, on the whole, favourable, and yet the revelations before the Poor law Board during the last day or two show a con dition of things which no person of the commonest humanity can contemplate without horror. At the root of all the unnecessary sufferings endured by the sick in these establishments is the miserable system of pauper nursing, a system which has been repeatedly and empathically condemned by every in dependent and experienced observer. Mr. FA RNALL'S views on this point are well known, and surely if there is any undertaking in which a certain degree of natural aptitude requires to be improved by careful training and patient experience it is that of nursing the sick ; yet in these establishments the mere fact of a man or woman being willing to undertake the duty i s cons id e ied sufficient, no matter ho dtes they may how ignorant, incapable, or infirm theirthe most eff physica lects,as incapacity pro in the cazd of a male nurse in the Strand Union, who was unable to lift x bedridden man, who was consequently afflicted 1% ith a dangerous bedsore. The revelations at these it. guinea show not so much isolated errors or misconduct, but something radi cally wrong with the whole ratem, which must be entirely remodelled and reorgan:sed if we would escape a national disgrace. THE ROYAL MARRIAGES. —V tre believe we are correct in stating that the folic swing ladies will be her Royal Highness Princess Holona's bridesmaids :—The Lady Margaret Scott, the Lady k laroline Gordon Lennox, the Lady Bertha Hamilton, the Ludy Katharine Phipps, the Lady Alexaudrina, Murray, filo I:utly Ernestine Edg cumbe, the Lady Elizabeth Parl:er, amd the Lady Muriel Campbell. Her Royal Highness . Yrioess Mary's brides maids will, we understand, be La dy Aneta, Yorke, Lady Cornelia Churchill, Lady Cecilia Diolyne ux, and Lady u eorgiana Hamilton.—The CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Wednesday Evening. . _ Politicians have not yet recovered from the sur prise and stupor produced by the articles in the Afoniteur and Constitutionnel as to the "reserva tions" of Austria. Every one seems to have been deceived. I have warned your readers in regard to the false news so freely circulated of late even in official papers. The Memorial Diplomatique, which claims such authority that great faith was placed in it, has been assuring its readers that Austria was disposed to do almost anything to bring about a pacific solution of the difficulty. Many other similar delusions might be cited. The Siecle says : " We will ask all impartial minds whether it be not always with the same blindness that Austria is hurried forward. In 1859, when she invaded the territory of the Peninsula, and now when she haughtily repulses the proposals made to her in the most courteous form by France, England, and Russia ? Austria, in acting thus, places herself be yond the pale of enlightened Governments." The following is from the Moniteur " Letters from Aleppo state that the Governor- General, Djedct Pasha, feeling the necessity of making provision for the population until the en suing harvest, has requested and obtained from the central Government permission for the admission, during three months, free of customs' duty, the im portation of corn and flour by the Alexandrette station. This measure came into operation on the 11th April, and will continue so till July 12. The present price of corn at Aleppo is 150 piastres the chambal, or 53ff. the hectolitre (1,000 quarts). If this price be compared with that of the cereals of France, it is evident that our corn and flour will find a very profitable sale, whatever may be the expense of transport from Marseilles to Alexandrette. The daily consump tion of the town of Aleppo is estimated at about 600 hectolitres of flour, and our commerce may calcu late that in three months 60,000 hectolitres of corn and flour will be consumed in that town alone. It appears certain that the resources of the country are exhausted, and that the populations there are in the same state of scarcity as the inhabitants of the town. If, as there is unfortunately reason to fear, the next harvest should partially fail, the country must require from foreigners at least a million hec tolitres of corn, or their equivalent in flour. In this respect, however, an accurate judgment cannot be formed until the last half of July, when the re sult of the harvest at Diarbekir, Mossoul, Hauran, and Anatolia will be known exactly at Aleppo." La Liberte gives the following sketch of the ag grandisements of Prussia. At the end of the 17th century Prussia was only a Duchy called Branden bourg, but the victory of Fehrbelin, at which Frede rick William triumphed over the famous Swedish infantry of Gustavus Adolphus, obta'n3d such re nown throughout Germany that the Emperor gave to the Duke de Brandenbourg the.permission to call himself King (1701) and recognised his kingdom. This made Prince Eugene say, " The Emperor ought to hang the Ministers who gave him such perfidious advice." If Prussia should intend to profit in the nineteenth century by its aggrandisement as it did in the eighteenth, by turning to advantage her neu tralities as well as her victories, Austria and Europe have not done with her. If her present ambition be equal to her ambition during the past, there is permanent danger to the peace of Europe. Frederick the Second (1740 to 1786) wrested Silesia from Austria in violation of trea ties, appropriated a portion of Poland, and forced Austria, by the peace of Teschen, to give up to her an important province of Bavaria. Fre derick William 11., successor and nephew of Frederick (1786 to 1797), enlarged his kingdom by the second and third partition of Poland, and by the annexation of the Principalities of Auspach and Parch'. Frederick William 11. recovered by the treaties of 1815 his ancient possessions, and ob tained more than half of Saxony, the Grand Duchy of Posen, the 'city of Dantzic, a poition of West phalia, the Grand Duchy of Berg, the Duchy of Juliers, the greater portion of the Electorates of Cologne and Troves and Swedish Pomerania. In 1834 Prussia acquired the Principality of Litchen berg. In 1819 the Princes of Hohenzollern ceded their Principalities to her. In 1835 Prussia bought the Grand Duchy of Oldenbourg for 2,000,000 of francs, a portion of territory on the Gulf of La Jaide, in order to construct a war port. She also was admitted among the States of the Baltic. In 1864 she purchased the Duchy of Lanenbourg with Austria from Denmark ; now she wishes to annex, without giving territorial compensation to any State in Europe, the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. This has been the progress of Prussia during little more than a century. From 3,000,000 of inhabi tants her population has become 18,000,000, and will reach 21,000,000. This, however, did not pre vent William I. from replying to the Municipality of Breslau, "May the royal word convince you that it is not with an ambitious view, but the duty of Prussia which may lead the King to call his people to arms." Among the projects of law just presented to the Senate is one for allowing a supplementary credit of 1,900,000 f. for the Ministry of Marine, and another for the supplementary credit of 52,157 f. for public education. The following is the result of the first day's races at Angers : —Prix Departmental, 2,000 f. : Pauline, 1; Novateur, 2. Prix Imperial, 4,000 f. : Gontran, 1 ; Berthe, 2. First Biennial Prize, 1866- 67, 2,000 f.: Penleven, 1 ; Westward Ho, 2. Prize given by the town of Angers (handicap), 2,500 f. : Rochefort, 1 ; Mevedes, 2. Cruise de Haies, Hedge Race (handicap) : Pronostu, 1; Lansquenet, 2 ; Fontain, 3. Batty, the lion tamer, has had another narrow escape with his life, and this time the injuries he received are rather serious. On Monday evening, when he entered the den, the animals seemed rather more excited than usual—it is supposed from the effects of the stormy atmosphere. Batty, to please the spectators, excited the animals still more by striking them with a whip. The lioness sprung upon him, tore his face with her claws, and also tore off a piece of his dress from the shoulder. Batty was thrown down, and the lioness seized his arm and dragged him to the other end of the den. This terrible sight produced alarm, and many of the ladies rushed to the door. Batty, however, ex tricated himself, and although the blood was per ceptible and his tunic torn, he preserved his coolness and compelled the animals to recede from him. This courage is worthy of a better cause. As it is the spectacle is certainly a dangerous one. When he came out of the den he was congratulated cor dially. His injuries are not alarming. The circular railway round Paris is finished, and locomotives can now traverse the whole distance, 40 kilometres (a kilometre is 1,000 metres). The last portion was between Grenelle and the beautiful new viaduct at the Point du Jour of Auteuil, and this is completed. This railway will add materially to the interesting features of Paris, and it will also prove of great convenience, particularly during the Exhibition. The term for the formal opening is not yet fixed. Rather a clever trick has been practised upon the proprietor of a hotel in the Rue Jacob. A gentle manly young man stopped there five days, and ran up a tolerable bill, for he lived well, and washed down his repasts with abundance of expensive wine. At the end of the fifth day he took the proprietor aside, and said he must return to Paris, but having been disappointed in the receipt of money he would leave his watch, and in order to show that it was good security they both went to a jeweller, who said that the watch was worth 250 f. The guest gave the watch to the landlord, but said he would keep the chain, as then no one would perceive the temporary absence of th e watch. Th e l an dlord was satisfied, and the y oung man departe d . S om e days afterwards he rec e i ve d a telegram, signed " The young man with th e watch," telling him that he knight sell it, pay hi s bi ll, and give the res t t o the waiter. On taki ng th e watch to the same watch maker, it was discovered that the young man had l in a second contrived to substitute for the gold watch, which the jeweller had valued at 250 f., a metal gilt watch, exactly similar in appearance, but worth only 12f. The construction of a railway from Armentieres to the Belgian frontier has been declared of public utility, and it will shortly be commenced. The workmen employed in removing the frag ments and rubbish at the private manufactory of M. Auben, at La Villette, have found the remains of the infant, nearly carbonised, to which the poor woman named Lacroix gave birth at the moment of the explosion, as I have already mentioned. A subscription has been commenced to relieve the rela tives of the victims ; and to-night, the 260th anni versary of the birth of Corneille, a benefit in their behalf is be given at the Theatre Francais. M. and Madame Gallot, residing at Vaugirard, have just died at a very advanced age. The hus band was 105 years and four mcnths, and the wife, who died two days afterwards, was 105 years and one month old. They both possessed their intellec tual faculties to the last, and but a few days ago they were at the market making their purchases. The Emperor had for several years allowed them a pension of 600 f. per annum from his private funds. M. Gallot, who does not leave any children, entered the service as a dragoon in the reign of Louis XVI. By order of the Viceroy of Egypt the antiquities of the Museum of Boulacq are to be sent to Paris for the Exhibition. They will be exhibited in a special locality to be called the Egyptian Bazaar. Fifty Egyptians, in national costume, will accom pany these interesting antiquities. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE WAR CRISIS. MUNICH, June 7. The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies on the address in reply to the speech from the throne has made its report. It proposes that the Cham ber should uphold a close union of the Middle States and a popular national representation as the point of departure for a German Parliament. VENICE, June 6. A meeting of the Municipal Council has been called for to-morrow to discuss measures for pro viding means of subsistence for the poor of Venice in case the city should be blockaded. TlAmeuna, June 7. The Prussian Ministry at this city has lodged an attachment upon all funds deposited by the Holstein Government in the Norddeutsche and other Hamburg Banks. MADRID, June 7th. Spain and Portugal have agreed to act in com mon for the defence of their neutrality in the event of an European war. FLORENCE, June 7. The King will arrive here this evening. The Chamber of Deputies has voted the financial bills of the Government by 145 to 40 votes. A correspondence has been published here be tween Gen. Turr and the Deputy Machi. The former alludes in his letter to the intentions of the Italian patriots to invade Dalmatia in case of war. Signor Machi replied that the Italians desired war only for the sake of liberating Italian provinces, but would respect the rights of other peoples. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE BAVARIA. SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 7. The Hamburg and American Co.'s steamer, Bavaria, from New York on the 2Gth May, arrived off the Needles at 12.35 p.m. to-day. FRANCE. BOURSE, June 6.—Two o?Clock.---Threes to-day opened at 63f. 35e., with more than per per cent. rise, but after attaining as high as 631. suddenly relapsed to 62f. 75c., still, however, maintaining an advance on yesterday of 221 c. Italian Fives, on the other hand, opened at 36f. 20c., or 40c. lower than yes terday, declined to 35f. 80e., and have returned to the opening quotation, being a fall of 40c. Credit Mobilier have a rise of 2f. 50c., viz., to 480 f., and Comptoir d'Escompte of 12f. 50c., to 680 f. Credit Foncier lose 5f., at I,oBof. Railway Shares are also quoted slightly lower. Northern have declined 5f., to 1,050 f. ; Lyons 21. 50c., to 777 f. 50c,; Aus trian 2f. 50c., to 280 f. Lombard and Saragossa lf. 25c. each, to 275 f. and 123 f. 75c. respectively. English Consols are telegraphed with an advance of for the day ; the charge for carrying over is per cent. Three o'clock.—The market has closed on the following quotations : 4 per Cents 9l 75 Bank Shares 3400 Do. end month — Italian Loan 36 60 3 per Cents. 63 Do. end month 36 35 Do. end month 62 75 Mexican Loan 3O Credit Afobilier ... 487 50 Do. Bonds 240 Do. end month ... 480 Spanish Threes Credit Fonder — Home Debt — Do. end month 1095 Deferred 'AYB. For Account. Orleans 782 50 Northern lO5O Lyons and Mediterranean 777 50 Southern 5lO Western — Eastern 487 50 Sardinian Austrian Lombard 276 25 North of Spain lO5 Saragossa 125 Ditto to Barcelona Roman — RIOT AT PLYMOUTH. PLYMOUTH, June 7. Last night a serious controversial riot took place at St. George's-hall, Stonehouse. Lectures had been in course of delivery there during the last week by Mr. Murphy, agent of the London Protestant Electoral Union, on the doc trines and practices of the Roman Catholic Church. Last evening the closing lecture was on the infal libility of the Church of Rome and the worship of the Cross. Shortly after it commenced, 150 Irish people, male and female, some armed with shillelaghs, made a concerted attack on the Protestants. Near the platform serious consequences would have ensued but for the conduct of some marines present. They promptly organised under the conduct of some of their non-commissioned officers, drove the rioters out of the building, and escorted the lecturer home, the meeting having closed. MISSRUSSELL'S CONCERT.—Miss Russell, neice of Henry Russell, the popular composer of " Cheer, Boys, Cheer," "Ship on Fire," " The Maniac," &c., dm, will give her annual Concert to-morrow evening, at the Canterbury Hall, when she will appear as Violetta in a selection from Verdi's opera of " La Traviata," and will also sing, during the evening, Dr. Arne's celebrated song of " The soldier tired of war's alarms," accompanied on the trumpet by Mr. Richardson, and also Willem Vandervell's charming ballad of "Fair Gertrude at her lattice sighed." The names of the principal artistes now in London !will be found in the programme ; and we have no doubt the concert will be un bon succk THE VOLUNTEER REVIEW IN LONDON.—The fol lowing notice has been issued from the War-office •--" The Secretary of State for War has approved of a review of Volunteers taking place iu London, on Saturday, the 23rd of June. Applications from corps which may be desirous of attending must be made on the prescribed form (W.O. Form 1,629), through the Lords-Lieutenant of their re spective counties, and delivered at the War-office on or before Saturday, the 16th iust., after which no further ap plications will b 3 received.—GEOßGE ERSKINE, Colonel. — War-office, June 6." THE ABYSSINIAN PRISONERS.—The following list of the prisoners released by the King of Abyssinia at the request of Mr. Rassam has been foi warded to us from the Foreign -office :—Mr. C. D. Cameron, her Bri tannic Majesty's Consul ; Mr. L. Korans, late secretary of Mr. C. D. Cameron; Mr. R. ll'Kelvey, late servant of Mr. C. D. Cameron ; J. Makerer, servant of Consul Cameron ; D. Petro, late servant of Consul Cameron ; A. Bardel, for merly in service of Consul Cameron ; Rev. H. A. Stern, missionary; H. Rosenthal, missionary; Mrs. E. Rosenthal; J. M. Flad, missionary ; Mrs: P. Flad ; A. Fled, Fr. Flad, and P. Find, children of the above Mr. and Mrs. Flad ; W. Staiger, missionary ; T. Brandeis, missionary ; K. Schiller and J. Essler, natural history collectors. The latest date from Mr. Rassam is April 9, 1866. PARLIAMEN TARP HOUSE OF COMMONS—JUNE 6. REAL ESTATE INTESTACY BILL. Order for second reading read ; motion made, and question proposed, " That the bill be now read a second time :" —amendment proposed, to leave out the word "now," and at the end of the question to add the words "upon this day six months." Question put, "'That the word now' stand part of the question." The house divided ; Ayes 84, Noes 281. AYES —B4. Allen, W. S Forster, C. Mitchell, T. A. Amberlcy, Via. Forster, W. E. Moffatt, G. Armstrong, L. Fort, R. Mor r i s , W. Bagwell, J. Fortes:me, D. F. Morrison, W. Baines, K Gilpin, C. Neate, C. Barnes, T. Glyn, G. C. Oliphant, L. Barry, C. R. Goldsmid, Sir F. °may. A. Baxter, W. E. Gower, F. L. . Padmore, It. Bazley, T. Grenfell, 11. R. Phillips, it. N. Bouverie, E. P. Gridley, H. Pim. J. Bright, J. Hadfield, G. Platt, J. Butler, C. S. Hamilton, E. W. T. Potter, E. Buxton, C. Hardcastle, J. A. Potter, T. B. Buxton, Sir T. F. Harris, JD. liobartes, T. J. A. Candlish, J. Henderson, J. Russell, H. Chambers, T. Ilibbert,d. T. Salomons,Aiderman Cheetham, J. H Men, I. . Seely, C. Corbally, M. E. Howard, C. W. G. Staniland, M. Craufurd, E. H. J. Kearsley, Captain Stone, W. Crossley, Sir F. Kinglake, Serj. J. Sykes, Col. Dilke, Sir W. Kinnaird, A. F. Taylor, P. A. Dillon, J. B. Lewis, H. Torrens, W. M'C. Dillwyp, L. L. Locke, J. Treveiysn, G. Duff, M. E. Lusk, A. Watkin, E. W. Eliot, Lord Mackinnon (Rye) White, J; Ewart, W. M‘Laren, D. Whitworth, B. Ewing, H. E. C. Marshall, W. TELLERS. Fawcett, H. Mill, J. S. King, P. J. L. Fordyce, W. Mills, J. R. James, E. NOES-281. Adair, H. E. Galway, Viscount Newdegate, C. Adam, W. P. Gaskell, J. M. Nicol, J. D. Adderley, C. B. Gavin, Major Noel, G. J. Agnew, Sir A. George, J. Northcote, Sir S. H. Akroyd, E. Gladstone, W. E. Norwood, C. Annesley, Col. H. Goddard, A. L. 0 Loghlen, Sir C Anatruther, Sir R. Goidney, G. O'Neill, E. Antrobus, E. Goldamid, J. Pakington, Sir J. Arkaright, R. Gore, J. R. 0. Palk, Sir L. Bagge, W. Gore, W. R. 0. Palmer, Sir R. Bagnall, C. Graves, S. It. Parker, Major W. Bailey, sir J. Greenall, G. Patten, Colonel W. Baillig, H. J. Greville, A. W. F. Pease, J. Barel.,y, A. C. Gray, Lt-Col. Peel, Gen. Barnett, H. Grey, Sir G. Peel, A. W. Barrow, W. H. Grey, T . Pennant, Col. Bar ttelot, Col. Griffith, C. D. Percy, Ettrl Liateson, Sir T. Grosvenor, Earl Phillips, G. L. Beach, Sir:,3l. Grosvenor, Lord R. Portman, W. H. B. Beach, W. Guinness, B. L. Powell, F. S. Beaumont, W. B. Gurney It. Pryse, E. L. Beecroft, G. S. Hamilton, Lord C. Pritchard, J. Bentinck, G. C. Hanbury, R. Rawlinson, Sir 11. Bcnyon, It. Hankey, T. Read, C. S. Beresford, D. Hardy, G. Rebow, J. G. Biddulph, Col. Hardy, J. Repton, G. W. J. Bingham, Lord Hartley, J. Ridley, Sir M. W. Bowyer, Sir G. Hervel, Lord A. Royston, Viset, Brand, H. Bay, Lord J Russell, Sir W. Brecknock, Earl of Hay, Sir J , St. Aubyn, J. Bromley, W. D. Hayter, Capt. A..D. Samuda, J. Brooks, R. Ileathcote, Sir W. Schreiber, C. Browne, Lord J. T. Henea4e, B Sclater-Booth, G. Bruce, Lord C. Henley, J. W. Scott, Lord H. Bruen, 11. Henniker, Lord Selwin, IL J. Buckley, E. Herbert, P. E. Selwyn, C, .f. Bulkeley, Sir R. Hogg, I.t-Col. Severne, J. E. Burghley, Lord Holland, E. Seymour, G. IL Burrell, Sir I'. Hood, sir A, Sheridan, It. B. Calcrait, J llornby, W. 11. Sile.iir. A. Calthorpe, F. IL Horsman, B. Smollett, P. B. Capper, C. Howes, E. Somerset, Col. E. Cartwright, Col. Iluddlestone, J. Speirs, A. Cave, S. Jardine, It. Stacpoole, ,Capt. Cavendish, Lord E. Jervoise, Sir J. Stanhope, J. B. Cavendish Lord G. Jolliffe, Sir W. Stanley, Lord Clinton, Lord E. P. Jolliffe, 11.., Steel, J. Clive, Capt. G. W. Jones, D. Stronge, Sir J. M. Cobbold, J. C. Kekewich, S. T. Stuart, Col. C. Cochrane, A. D. B. Kendall. N. Stuart, Lt.-Col. W. Cole, Hon. IL Kennard, It. W. Stanley, Sir U. S. Cole, Hon. J. L. King, J. K. Sturt, H. G. Colebrooke, Sir T.E. Kin., J. G. , Sturt, Lt.-Col. N. Colvile, U. It. Kuatelibull-Hugess Surtees, F. Conoily, T. Knight, P. Surtees. IL E. Courtenay, Lord Knightley, sir It. SyLes, C. Cooper, E. 11. Knox, Major W. S. Taylor, Colonel Cox, W. Lacon, Sir E. Tho.o d, J. 11. Crosland, Col. Laird, J. Thynne, Lord H. Cubitt, G. Lases les, E. W. Tracy, C. It. D. Cust, -Hon C. H. Leader, N. P. Treeliy, J. W. Dalkeith, Earl of Leatham, W. Trevor, Lord A. Davie, Sir H. lt, F. Lee in:re, sir E. Trollope, Sir J. Dawson, Captain Legh, Major C. Turner, C. Dickson, Major Lefroy, A. 'Tyrone, Earl of Disraeli, B. Lennox, Lord 11. G. Vandeleur, CA. Dodson, J. U, Leslie, C. P. Verner E. Dowdeswell, W. E. Liddell, li. G. Verner, Sir W. Duncombe, A. Lindsay, Col. C. Vivian, J. Dundas, F. Lopes, Sir M. Walcott, Admiral Dunne, Gen. Lowther, H. Walaegrave-Leslie Du Pre, C. G. Lowther, Captain Walker, Major U. Dutton, R. 11. Mackie, J. Walrond, J. W. Dyke, W. H. Mackinnon, Lyra.) Walsh, A. Dyott, Colonel AP.Lagan, I'. Walsh, Sir J. Earle, R. A. Mainwaring, T. Warner, E. Eaton, H. W. Manners, Lord Waterhouse, S. Edwards, Col. Manners, Lord G. Welby, W. E. Egerton, A. F. Marjoribanks, D. C. Western, Sir T. Egerton, E. C. Martin, C. W. Whalley, G. IL Elcho, Lord Merry, J. Whiteside, J. Ellice, E. Miller, S. B. Whitmore, FL Enfield, Viscount Miller, T. J. Wickham, H. W. Evans, T. W. Milton, Viscount Williams, F. 51. Eykyn, R. Mitlord, W. T. Winnington, Sir T. Bane Col. Moncreitf, J. Wise, H. C. Feilden, J. Ilionk, C. Woorld, B. T. Fellowes, E. Monsell, W. Wyndham, I'. Fer,gusson. Sir J. More, R. J. Wynn, C. W. W. Finlay, A. S. .siorttunt, Sir C. Wynne, W. W. N. Fitzwilliam, C. W. Morgan, 0. Wyvill, IL Foljambe, F. J. S. Morris, M. Forde, Col. Mowbray, J. R. TELLERS. Forester, Gen. Naas, Lord Hope, liere.ford Fester, W. 0. Near., sir J. hunt, U. W. Stoppage of Agra and Masterman's Bank. The apprehended banking failure which has been hanging over the money market for the past few weeks was unhappily announced last evening. The Agra and Masterman's Bank is closed. The attacks upon the establishment, perseveringly con tinued in all possible forms, but which failed to create a run on this side sufficient to break it down, have, it appears, produced a degree of alarm in India against which the branches in that country are unable to stand. The following circular has, therefore, been issued to the shareholders : The Agra and Masterman's Bank (Limited), Nicholas-lane, Lombard -street, June 6. Sir,—l am instructed by the directors to inform you, with deep regret, that they are compelled to suspend pay ment. The false reports of the bank's failure recently cir culated throughout Europe having extended to India, and the managers of the Calcutta and Bombay branches having in consequence telegraphed for assistance, which the direc tors in the present commercial crisis are unable to afford without too great a sacrifice of securities, they deem it most to the interest of the creditors and shareholders to suspend further payments, and to place the affairs of the bank in legal liquidation at once. The directors have no doubt that the creditors will be paid in full, and that with judi cious management in the realization of the assets the loss of paid up capital , will be inconsiderable.- 1 am, Sze., M. BALroun, General Manager. The amount of outstandingliabilities at this moment is not known, but the total must have been much reduced within the last month. In the balance sheet issued in March they reached £15,582,000, of which £6,816,489 consisted of balances, fixed de posits, and note circulation ; £2,217,350 of accept ance of bills drawn by branches ; £1,379,653 of acceptances under guarantees ; and £5,168,508 of acceptances on exchange accounts, &c. The nomi nal capital is £3,000,000, in shares of £5O, of which one half is paid up, and there is a reserve fund of £500,000. The company was formed in April, 1864, by a n amalgamation of the A gra an d U n it e d Service Bank, which dated from 1833, and the bank of Messrs. Masterman, Peters, Mildred, & Co.,which had held a high position in London for more than a century. it has branches at Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, Kurrachee, Agra, Lahore, Shanghai, Hong kong, Sydney, and Melbourne, and the effect of the disaster is likely, therefore, to be more widely spread than that of almost any other banking failure that could have occurred. Supposing the belief of the directors to be well-founded, that in the wind ing-up the ultimate loss of capital will be inconsi derable, it seems lamentable that no aid could be afforded to avert the calamity, since it may be questioned if there is any institution that has so large a body of .old and faithful customers, or whose breakdown could inflict so much misery on English public servants and private families in all parts of the world. To the general public who witness the distress occasioned by each bank failure—not so much from actual and irremediable loss as from the protracted anxieties that succeed the handing over of each establishment to the delays and uncertainties of the winding-up Court, and the scramble between accountants, solicitors, and liqui dators,—the total absence of any power to deal otherwise with such emergencies, and to prevent a sudden stranding from becoming a hopeless wreck, seems a heavy reproach to the reputation of the country. A combination of capitalists might at once by advancing a safe percentage to depositors, not only in such cases secure a business built up by the labour of a generation, but might also assume a position to work out the liquidation of the old accounts with a speed and efficiency that would save hundreds from ruin. But although all deplore that nothing of the sort is done, none seem to have the courage to come forward with a plan at the critical moment. In a few days the opportunity passes, and then there is nothing left but to let the estate drift under the management of those whose spirit is broken by failure, and who can do nothing except as machines to execute legal formalities conducted in tedious routine by indifferent and overworked offi cials. On the Ist of January, 1865, the Agra and Mas terman shares (£25 paid) were at 86 premium. On the Ist of January this year they had declined to 33 pm., yesterday they touched 15 discount, and last evening they closed at 8f discount. At the meeting in March the distribution was at the rate of 16 per cent. per annum. The number of share holders is about 900. _ • -; c c f. 0311 titular HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Wednesday. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princess Helena, left Windsor Castle for London at half-past 12 o'clock, attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole, the Hon. Flora 'Mac donald, and Lord Charles Fitzroy. Her Majesty travelled by special train to Pad dington, and proceeded thence, escorted by a de tachment of the 14th Hussars, to Buckingham Palace. Her Royal Highness Princess Helena was received at the Paddington Station by Lady Caroline Bar rington and Lieut.-General Hon. C. Grey, and , attended by them, visited the Botanic Gardens, Regent's Park, and afterwards proceeded to Buck ingham Palace. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess de Joinville, Princess Augustus of Saxe Coburg, and her Imperial Highness the Princess of Saxe Coburg (Princess of Brazil), visited the Queen in the afternoon at Buckingham Palace. Her Royal Highness the Dowager Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and the Duchess Caroline of Mecklenburg-Strelitz also visited her Majesty. The Peruvian Minister had an audience of her Majesty to present his credentials, to which he was introduced by the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., he r Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by General the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., her.. Maj esty's Master of the Cere monies. Sir Arthur Magenis had also an audience of her Majesty, on his return from his mission to Lisbon, to which he was introduced by the Earl of Clarendon• The Earl of Clarendon had an audience of the Queen. The Lord and Groom in Waiting were in atten dance. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Helena , left Buckingham Palace for Windsor Castle at half past six o'clock. The Prince and Princess of Wales, accompa panied by the Crown Prince of Denmark, drove out yesterday afternoon. LITERATURE. ONLY A CLOD. In one volume. Library Edition• Ward, Lock, and Tyler. The Sixth Edition of this work since its original publication, will be very m elcome indeed to the ad mirers of Miss Braddon, who are numbering 11 P now by hundreds of thousands. As a story, "On ly a Clod" holds its own with the best of them, saving and excepting always our prime favourite, " Aurora Floyd." The tale here told about " the valiant Cor nishman",—not " who slew the giant Cormoran"-- - but who passed, in a manner scatheless, certainly with no derogation from his honour, through the temptation of a sudden lift up in the social scale from being a humble soldier in the ranks to being the possessor of £30,000 a-year—fixes the reader's attention from the very outset, and sustains It to the very conclusion. The key-note is struck when Harcourt Lowther, the young ensign in her M jesty's Fifty-first Light Infantry—eating his heart out with nostaglia, otherwise homesickness, at nob Arthur, in Tasmania—on abruptly becoming awar e of his follower's change of fortune (in frightfully painful contrast to his own neglected position) sobs out "Not one ray of light—no, by the heaven above me ! not one—has dawned upon my life : and a valet, a private soldier, the fellow who scours n 3 Y, room and blacks my boots, has thirty thousan d a year left him !" From that moment th e Novelist, like the Ancient Mariner, hath her will—and we needs must listen until she has brought her narrative to a close. As a fiction crammed full with interest, the book under notice, like all Miss Braddon's, has a charm and facination of its own—insomuch that it is, like the rest of them, worth reading through again —after an in' terval. In its new form, it is an acceptable addition to a very brilliant series, and, as such, is secure of being widely welcomed. No Union with Rome: an Eirenicon. Being an Answer to the Reunion Scheme of Dr. Pusey. BY Alessandro Gavazzi, Minister of the Gospel in the Italian Church. Printed for the Author, 88, Newman-street, Oxford-street, and at Wes" ter ton's. We could not possibly do more complete just ice to the publication, the title of whieh has here UO ll given in full exa c tly as it i s g i ven .upon the boolc,.s own title-page—th oug h we were t o commen t upon It by the hour—than by transferring to our column s the following terse but crushing opinion pronounce' upon it by our manfully outspoken contempora r y' the Examiner. "We hope," says the Examiner, tc we may infer from the words ' Printed for the Author' at the f o ot o f th e titl e -p age th a t even °f the extreme anti-Popery party there is not a Pub lisher in London who would not be ashamed t° connect his name with such a book as this." Fie ther on our contemporary rema r ks that " the book itself are many passages of foul-mouthed 01 tolerance utterly remote from true religious feeling ; while they profess insolently to serve the cause God." And so on. Enough, however, has surely been said in those few words, in deservedly scornf ul reference to an effusion wholly at variance in Its very nature with the divine and benign genius of Christianity. MUSIC. HALF-A-DOZEN NEW SONGS, by W. T. Wrigh t —Published by Robert Cocks and Co., of Ne Burlington-street--While they will serve to enhan c e the reputation of one of the most popular of (* ballad composers, will charm the ears of all he lovers of true melody who may listen to thou tP . ; season, whether in concert-room, drawing-rooml, ° boudoir. " They tell me I am quite forgot words scarcely grammatical, but very pretty, i f, Mrs. Evans Bell : " Gentle Ray of Suillig h , t l ; o written by J. C. Tildesley : " She Sang among flowers :" poetry (it is poetry this time) by j• , 4 Douglas : "My Mother's Gentle 'Word," written : our well-known ballad-monger, J. E. Carpen ter e " Oh ! Chide not my heart," words by Mrs. Aly ine ; " The Music of Her Voice"—again a ballad writt e n by J. E. Carpenter—are the titles of these ella r r io „ ing ditties—ditties varied in their mer it, but to " criminate here in regard to the relative or prop°rso tionate value of which merit wo u ld b e nothing le than simply invidious. HALF-A-DOZEN PIANOFORTE PIECES--alo° ID 1) 1- lished by Robert Cocks and Co.—appear $ 7,1 taneously with Mr. Wrighton's Six New B all from the same prolific establishment. ; Resille," a Polka-Mazurka, by Alphonse Le' o , " La Folie," a Polka Brillante, by the same 0 1 0 ser ; "My Early Home," by Brinley Richards/ v„ composer of " God Bless the Prince of W 3l l le , " The Flower of the Season," by George Laul? t ,, embellished with a charming coloured frontisplerr'bo together with C. W. West's transcription of „ o n Parting Song" of Mendelssohn and his fanta sia ti airs selected from the " Clemenza di Tito," Int e a te this graceful and attracti ve co ll ec tion of plia' ° ; e d pieces—pieces not one of which need be disda l ba t by even the mor e f as tidi ous p r oficients t instrument. of . its jogging ---- Ghta cc( F LT ,,, 7, CARTOON FUN 's" t,ARTOON this week is delicious-- lei: stone astride upon a Moke (the poor bes-s t ' b io ve branded " Reform") switching it in the Val li by its tail, while calling out with derisive ene °l/1 ,‘,;11 on presently—Disraeli holding efo.e, ment, " Now, then, G. Up ! Why don't Y e r along !" --- . ~, little Mr. PUNCH, too, this week has one exquis''Th e ry bit of pictorial humour, running over with drop. _ ii Lon° in every line of it. The sketch is that of 9, ,, stre et /I street scene, headed "Quite Superfluous. Oa " Passenger (obstreperously)—" noy, Noy! . • ix r s - ' Bus Driver." All right, sir, we can see Ye ' we can see yer vith the Naked .Eye, sir I" to tia ° le °. R e do a or a 1) 0 Iv w a t. D A . 0 Dnu tx, ° 11( dr ela lri 44tl Do.