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THEATRE-ROYAL,HAYMAR KET. Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, MY WIFE'S MOTHER. Messrs. Chippendale, Bowe, Gordon, &c. ; Mesdames Snowden, Hill W. ight, &c. After which, BROTHER SAM. Messrs. Sothern, Buck tote, Compton. &c. ; Mesdames ..nowdon, Moore, &c. To conclude with NO SONG NO sUPPER. Compton, Chippendalejarren, &c. ; Mesdames Moore, Wright, Keeley, To commence at 7. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, AD ELPHI. - Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr B. Webster. 'l'lllS EVENING (the Annual Benefit of Mr. B. Webster), THE IRISH. TIGER. Att.r which, at 8. THE LADY OF LYONS. Pauline, Miss Bateman, supported by Messrs. Jordan. Addis n, Bil lington. Ashley, Eburne, Stuart; Miss Elsworthy, and Mrs. liiilingtcn. To conclude with THE STEEPLECHASE; or, In the Pigskin. Mesas. J. L. Tools, l'aul liedlord ; Miss K. Kelly. Commence at 7. NTHEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII.- T HF; EVENING, July 1, LAST NIGHT of tho WINTER. SEASON and ANNUAL BENEFIT of Mr. BENJAMIN WE RSTER, on which occasion Miss Batemin has offer , d her valuable services, and will repeat her last g . n at cc ea!ion 01 Pauline, in THE LADY UN' LYONS. Ai r. Addison and Miss Elsworthy have also cheerfully given their services. With other Entertainments. Atter " the Lady of Lyons," Mr. Webster will addres. his friend!, the Public, MISS BATEMAN will repeat her last great creation of Pauline, in the LADY OF LYONS, for the Benefit of Mr. Benjamin Webster, THIS EVENING, July 1. MR. JOHN E. OWENS, the AMERICAN COMEDIAN. Mr. JOIIN E. OWENS will have the honour of making his First Professional Appearance in England, On MONDAY EVENING NEXT, July 3, at the NEW THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL In his mu terly and famous personation of SOLON SHINGLE, an effort entirely unlike the outré stage „ Yankee," already exhibited upon the English stage, but which has been enthusiastically receivel by the public and by the critical press of the United States, North and South, as a truthful, eloquent, and vigorous interpretation of a familiar American " character." In New York this personation was given by Mr. Owens for ONE 1! UNDRED AND SEVENTY (170) CONSECUTIVE NIGHT. , , and became the acknowledged "sensation" of the season, attracting crowded audiences nightly during that period. The drama of SOLON SHINGLE will be liberally pro duced with entirely,NEW SCENERY, representing interest ing A3IEIfICAN STREET and 110.kiE VIEWS, and with a east embracing the beat talent of the Company. 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Year by year they tell us the same tale of marvellous prosperity, of a revenue so buoyant that important reductions or remissions of taxations only serve to occasion a temporary de crease, and every lightening of the public burdens becomes ultimately a source of profit to the revenue by enlarging the area of the consumption. The diminution of the receipts usually precedes a large increase from the very same source, and the policy which has converted our Post-office from a costly establishment into a continual source of profit seldom fails to produce a similar effect when ap plied in the other directions. The reduction of the Tea Duty, which has necessarily produced a diminu tion in the Customs, will very probably before long have a very contrary effect, owing to the increase in the number of consumers and in the quantity con sumed. Notwithstanding any reduction of the kind made this year, however, the Customs only show a decrease of £208,000 against the corresponding quarter of 1864. The Excise comes very nearly to the precise amount of the similar quarter, being £4,865,000 against £4,864,000. The year shows a decrease on the customs of £517,000 owing to the loss on sugar, but the Excise exhibits a steady in crease of £893,000 during the last twelvemonth. This is a pretty sure test of the internal prosperity of the people, and we have additional evi dence to the Nome effect i the increase of £19,000 under the head of Stamps, and the larger amount of £290,000 under the Post office ! The principal decrease of the year is one which was fully anticipated from the reduction of the Income Tax, which occasioned a loss of very nearly a million to the revenue. But if we are not to expect reductions and remissions with such a revenue, when are we to expect them? The only matter of regret is that the lavish expenditure in official quarters should necessitate such an immense expenditure, and that there appears to be no choice between being helpless and unprepared in time of emergency and spending fabulous sums annually for the maintenance of our armaments. There is, happily, no ground for fearing that our public revenue will not be amply capable of bearing any burdens we may impose upon it ; but that is no reason why we should waste the national means for the pleasure of seeing how easily we can meet our obligations. There are few subjects of greater interest to the public, or more important in a sanitary point of view, than that of space. As each year witnesses the increase of traffic and the numerous additions to railways, so do we find more frequent and fatal encroachments upon the space about and around the metropolis. Great care and caution are requi site in order to prevent the prevalence of this practice, and it is most satisfactory to notice that the recom mendations of the Select Committee on this subject are very strong, and that they seem to have been resolved to lose no chance of preventing the mis chief as much as possible. If all, or indeed only the most part of these suggestions, be carried out no doubt great advantages will accrue to the e‘mamu nity, and we shall not have the annoyance of find ing so many encroachments made upon open space and such inroads committed on commons, heaths, and other places where fresh air and freedom have hitherto been enjoyed. One of the most admirable of these proposals is that " a Board be appointed to act as trustees for the preservation of commons and open spaces within the metropolitan area." This will be a great protection, and the rights of the matter can thus be properly investigated, instead of these important things being left .to the mercy of interested parties and the scanty consideration of selfish speculators. It is proposed that this Board should cause an " accurate survey" to be made, so as to ascertain the present extent of all forests, com mons, and open spaces. Further, that they should be authorised to inquire into the particulars of any place about which special rights are re served, or particular claims are put in, if they consider that the public interest require such a course to be adopted. This is an excellent arrangement, because a great deal of harm is done by the faulty course pursued in many cases, and when the harm is done people exclaim about the evil too late. it is likewise stipulated that the Board should have a locus standi to be heard upon all railway bills, or other measures proposing to interfere with any open space in the metropolitan area. The main objects of these proposals are to prevent inclosures, and to secure the benefit and convenience of the public thereby. It is earnestly to be trusted that all possible heed may be given to these hints, and that many of them may be speedily adopted. There can be no doubt what ever that something decisive ought to have been done in this matter long before this, for by this time many grievous innovotions have taken place, and much has been done to materially injure the welfare of the community. Unfortunately there is always so much to get over in these cases, and so many ex cuses are made for delay, that it often happens that nothing is done until the evils assume a great magni tude. The Select Committee appear to have en tered fully into the merits of the case, and to have been sedulous that no efforts of theirs should be wanting to effect the very desirable object in view, an object the importance of which both now and hereafter cannot be too much overrated. It is incumbent upon the authorities that they should strive with might and main to put these proposals into practice, and to allow those schemes to be realised, for it is only by these or similar means that we can avoid the stigma attaching to our time of sacrificing everything to material advantage, and destroying what we should regard as the means of promoting and preserving health, a benefit and blessing to those now around us, and a rich posses sion to be held in trust for the generations to come after us. Nothing can justify the wilful disregard that has been paid to this subject by those who ought to have known better, and it is high time that they seek to amend their ways. A very suggestive and striking article has been published by a Leipsic journal in reference to that great question of Schleswig-Holstein settlement, respecting which the minor German Powers have found themselves so grievously mistaken. They have too late discovered that they have been made tools of for Prussian ends ; that the shrewd, though unscrupulous, Minister at Berlin, while professing disinterested anxiety to maintain the rights and dignity of the Diet, has really entrapped them into aiding the designs for the aggrandisement of Prussia ; and that, so far from having extended the influence of their Confederation, or of having really enfranchised the people of the Duchies, they have, by their arbitrary conduct towards Denmark, weakened themselves by strengthening their aggres sive neighbour, and brought Schleswig-Holstein under the oppressive despotism of Von BISMARK. The writer we have referred to is clear-sighted enough to foresee the probable consequence of Prussia's unchecked success in her designs upon the little northern kingdom. " There is no reason," he says, " to presume that the policy of annexation will once spontaneously halt in its course—will im pose upon itself moderation of its own accord." Upper and Lower Austria may presently expect to be incorporated with the kingdom of the HOHEN ZOLLERNS, with just as much right as Schles wig and Holstein, and the steady encroachments of Prussia are evidently full of danger to the national liberties of the whole of the neighbouring States. The appetite of Prussia will not be satisfied with what it has already obtained ; it will be constantly seeking more ; and neither powerful speeches nor the resolutions of majorities will avail against it, unless they are supported by the requisite material strength. Only Austria, says the writer referred to, has the necessary bayonets, and her presence in the Duchies is absolutely indispensable as a security for the rights of the Northern Marches. The time has now come, he declares, for the non-Prussian Governments to coalesce in counteracting their threatened destruction by common action, and he proposes that a great National Parliament should be called together, that a union should be formed between Austria and the minor German States, so that, by united and powerful action, they may present a resolute point to the encrocch ments of Prussia, which only offers them union on condition of the total surrender of all indivi dual independence. If these ideas gain ground in the smaller States, as assuredly they must do eventually, Prussia will, in grasping at the Duchies, have lost the coveted position of head of Ger many. Her unscrupulous conduct towards Den mark may yet bear bitter fruit ; and if Aus tri4 144 only liberality and enlightenment THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 1, 1865 sufficient for the crisis she has now a grand opportunity before her. The internal re latiorts of Germany must be put upon a new foot ing , and the national independence of the peoples mwt be no longer subservient to the caprices of petty despots. It is quite time that the mother ,States awoke to the danger which threatens them from Berlin, if they would escape the fate which they themselves have helped to bring upon Den mark and the Duchies. Sir HUGH CAIRNS was fully justified in bringing before the House of Commons the subject of the imprisonment of Consul CAMERON in Abyssinia. A worse-manged affair than this has been on the part of our Government cannot well be imagined, and, it seems very desirable that some notice should be taken of it before the session closes. Sir H. CAIRNS truly described his subject as one which was a matter of interest to many families, and which would be one of interest to the whole country if the circumstances of the case were better known. It is almost incredible that our Foreign-office should have so misconducted this affair ; and the faulty arrangement is the more to be deplored be cause the unfortunate captives are not yet set at liberty. How long, may we ask, is this state of things to continue, and how often are we ,to hear the same jargon about the danger of alluding to the affair because it will exasperate the authorities in Abyssinia. Many accounts have reached this country concerning the treatment of these unhappy individuals, and yet no progress is made in effecting their liberation. They are not only in confinement, but are subjected to most harsh and rigorous treat ment, so that it would appear impossible for the EMPEROR to augment his cruel course unless he put them to death, which is not likely, though his assumption is great, and our reception of it most tame and unsuitable. It has come to a pretty pass if we are to permit an English Consul, the repre sentative of our country, to be chained. A tempo rary detension in prison might perhaps be passed over if the circumstances of the case were very peculiar, but to allow such insults as these is really intolerable. Mr. LAYARD'S reply was as un satisfactory as it well could be, and, indeed, about on a par with the remarks of Earl RUSSELL, when the question was taken up in the House of Lords some time back. He seemed anxious to throw the blame of the affair upon Captain CAMERON, as if because he had exceeded instructions, or mistaken orders, he was to be treated in this fashion. Besides, all the Ministers who address Parliament on this topic appear to forget a very important thing, which is that the honour of the country is concerned in this affair, and that it is scandalous to allow matters to proceed to such a length, and then not to take any active steps to mend them. Sir H. SEYMOUR very properly put the case when he said that it was very desirable to know what the Govern ment intended to do in the matter for the future. This is what we all want to know ; and the public are not likely to be satisfied with Mr. LAYARD'S as surance that all that can be done "in prudence" will be done. There is a time when action is called for ; and this is one of those cases in which it be hoves a Government to be up and stirring, and not to compromise the rights of individuals and tamper with the honour of the country. American Literary Intelligence. From Trubner's American Literary Record. Miss ABIGAIL DODGE !—Gail Hamilton, whose terse, vigorous writing and masculine way of thinking led a re viewer in the Athemettni not long since to speak of her with a masculine prefix is really a Miss Abigail Dodge, a resi dent in the quiet town of Hamilton, Massachusetts—quite a heroine in her neighbourhood, and we have no doubt an earnest, sincere, and devoted woman. Sho has made for herself quite a name in American periodical literature, as nearly half-a-dozen books testify. Her latest contribution appears in the last number of the " Atlantic Monthly," under the title of " A Prose Henriade," really a paper, written with remarkable freshness and vigo tr, upon hens. Why do ladies persist in adopting fanciful titles ? " A Paper on Hens or Chickens" would have been an infinitely more attractive prefix, and would really have told its own tale, while that given may be turned by wicked wits, with very little alteration, into one by no means flattering to the author. It is astonishing how anxious many authors are to mystify the public as to their writings, by the adoption of far-fetched combinations which really give no idea as to the meaning of their effusions. A title, to our thinking, should be a plain, straightforward explanation of the sub ject of the volume. Of course there may bo instances where prudence requires some slight modification. Wo remember when the " London Review" was in embryo, difficulties arose in consequence of there being a quarterly review bearing the same name. The projectors were advised to call the new bantling the " London Weekly Review ;" but one of our most distinguished travellers, who was as sociated in the undertaking, quietly suggested that there was a capability of a bad pun in the word " Weekly" which might be used to damage the forthcoming journal, and hence this title was tabooed. Gail Hamilton's latest book, " Skirmishes and Sketches," consists of a collection of papers on various subjects. Here is one under the title "Pictor Iguotus," a warm-hearted, thoroughly appreciative essay on Poor Blake, the artist. " When William Blake,' , she writes, " flashed across the path of English polite so ciety, society was confounded ; it had never had to do with such an apparition before, and was at its wits' end. But some Daniel was found wise enough to come to judgment and pronounce the poet-painter mad ; whereupon society at once composed itself and went its way rejoicing." Ano ther essay, bearing the name " The New School of Bio graphy," is a very smart criticism on the mushroom bio graphical literature of the war. "We aro thrilled to-day," she says, "with the telgram announcing the brilliant and successful charge made by General Smith's command, and according to that inevitable law of succession by which the sun his daily round of duty runs wo shall be thrilled to morrow with the startling announcement that General Smith was born in —" kte. &c. With a keenly satirical pen she dissects this biographising brood. Her work en titled "A New Atmosphere" is the least agreeable of all her books. She fancies she has found a grievance, and she nurses it with a vengeance. The status of woman she considers most unsatisfactory, the marriage system which prevails equally so, and she forthwith denounces both one and the other. We agree with her that there is, and always has been, a groat deficiency in the education of woman with regard to marriage. It is a serious question for society to consider in how many marriages the wives are fitted to perform the duties of the married state. It becomes a sub ject worth inquiring into, whether there ought not to be some systematic training with marriage as the end in view —but to denounce marriage because so many are unfit to to fulfil its duties is alike illogical and unwise. Her other works are entitled "Stumbling Blocks," " Gala Days," and " Country Living and Country Thinking." LIVES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.—In addition to the numerous Lives, Sketches, Poems, &c., which have been issued to meet the demand for information as to President Lincoln which his untimely death has created, we are glad to observe that there is a promise of something more sub stantial and more worthy of the man and of the country he governed. It is with pleasure we note that Mr. Robert Dale Owen, author of that well-written and able book, "Footfalls on the Boundary of another World," and more recently of a book not yet sufficiently appreciated, " The Wrongs of Slavery," is engaged upon a Life of the late President, which it is expected will form two 12mo. volumes of about 500 pages each, and be issued within two years by one of the largest publishers in Philadelphia. In addi tion to this, Mr. S. G. Holland, better known as " Timothy Titcornb," is also at work upon a smaller " Life," while the Hon. Isaac N. Arnold, of Illinois, is preparing a History of Mr. Lincoln's Administration. In England we have had numerous newspaper articles upon the late President, ser mons and addresses on his death, and a biography by Mr. Bacon. This last, however, has been too hastily prepared to be of permanent value, but still it is one which will for a time satisfy the public demand. In France we notice a publication by Achille Arnaud, "Abraham Lincoln, sa naissance, sa vie, sa mort : avec une recit de la guerre ;" the first part of a Biography, by Alexander D'Englehem ; and also a Life by Lesperut. In Germany, as yet, we have no formal biography, but the national admiration for Mr. Lincoln is sure to bo met very shortly by a full and suit able biography. TIIE GENERAL ELECTION.--The dissolution of Parliament will take place on the day of the prorogation, and the writs for the new elections will be sent out on the sumo evening. WOOL FAIRS.—The country wool fairs have now commenced. At Swindon the supply was small, though there was a large attendance of dealers. Sales were effected at the following rates :—South Downs, 50s. the tod ; half bred ewes, 535.; half-bred tegs, 5Gs. At Newbury, on Tues day, about 3,500 tods were on offer. Prices were from 495. to bls. ; and for long wools, 565. to 595. At Hungorford on Wednesday there was a good supply and a good demand, prices lasing much as At ether fairs. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) SPA-IN. MADRID, June 27. The Novedades still maintains the existence of a crisis in the Ministry, arising from the Italian question, and points out the vagueness of Senor Posada Herrera's reply to a question put to him on the subject in Congress. His reply was by no means so positive as the declarations of Marshal O'Donnell on the subject of recognition, which proves, says the Novedades, that the Ministry have been obliged to amend their first utterances, and that this concession is the beginning of many others that they will have to make in order not to succumb. " Their plan is to gain time . , avoiding for the moment the settlement of the Italian question until the Cortes are closed in order to prevent their fall." The Gobierno, a neo-Catholic organ, believes that the Ministry have hastily undertaken more than they can accomplish both with respect to the Italian question and that of the ecclesiastical liquidation, an expression which is shared by the Novedades. A meeting of 50 members of the monarchical and dynastic section of the Progressist party was held last night at the office of the Progress Constitutional, at which resolutions were adopted condemnatory of the policy of withdrawing from political action, and stating that this fraction would go to the elections in order to promote the organization of the Liberal party. They would also support all liberal mea sures proposed by the present Government, which they believed was more liberal than before, having having profited by experience. It is publicly stated among the Progressists that, provided the Ministry do not abandon the course upon which they have entered, the great majority of the party will quit their retirement and take part in the elections. The Novedades, however, one of the Progressist organs, publishes an article, in which it maintains the policy of withdrawal, and considers Marshal O'Donnell's accession to power as dangerous to the country as that of Narvaez. " Both," it says, " have falsified the constitutional system, both have introduced political immorality in official quarters, and both have left blood-stained pages in our con temporary history." The Epoca says :—" Judging from information received from abroad and from Logrono (the resi dence of Espartero) two different tendencies exist among the Progressists. One desires a radical change in Spain, the other a great constitutional modification. Neither the recognition of Italy nor the election by provinces do away with the obstacle which the present constitution of the Senate offers to the Progressists. Should it be found impossible to pass the electoral law under the present state of things, and it be decided to issue it by royal decree, the Progressists wish in the latter case that a step further should be taken by the re-establishment, of the Constitution of 1837." " It is needless to add (continues the Epoca) that unless extraordinary events arise the Cabinet can not carry their policy to such an extreme. For our part, we believe, that the conflict with the Senate is far from being incapable of settlement upon con stitutional ground." LITERATURE. The Uttermost Farthing. By Cecil Griffith. Three Vols. Saunders and Utley. . _ After wading through ably-written sensation novels, in which probability is sacrificed to effect, and wilful crime is sought to be rendered interesting, or the less attractive productions which publishers send into circulation in the hope that the announce ment of their being written by " ladies of rank" may secure a remunerative sale, it is refreshing to the critic to meet with such a book as the one under notice. Of " The Uttermost Farthing" we may conscientiously say that, taking story, style, and the skilful manner in which the plot is worked out together, there are few existing novel in our lan guage which may justly be accorded a higher rank. The power with which the various passions which agitate the human heart are delineated—the horror of crime, the pity for suffering virtue, and con tempt for worthless vanity, excited by turns in the minds of its readers, combined with the morality untainted by a morbid justification of vice which it inculcates—are certain to secure for this book, not an ephemeral popularity, but an enduring and honourable place in the light literature of our country. The story is essentially sad—perhaps it might have been well were it relieved by some scenes of passing happiness—but its sadness points a moral, and no one can rise from its perusal without having a firm conviction engraven upon his memory that murder, even when perpe trated not from premeditated intention, but from giving way to the unrestrained violence of an ill regulated temper in a chance encounter, carries with it, even though publicly undiscovered, it own secret but terrible punishment, Catherine Mahen, a rich and beautful heiress, without fixed principles, humanity, or heart, and only influenced by vanity and self-love, after rejecting many good offers has arrived at an age when she desires to be married merely to avoid what she considers the disgrace of being classed as an old maid ; and, for want of other admirers, encourages the attention of Alan Vallery, a mere boy, many years younger than herself, of reduced family and wayward temper, until he becomes madly attached to her. While he is absent, having obtained a situation in London, two Italians —one, Regagni, her cousin—the other, Varese, a former playmate of Catherine's—come on a visit to her family place in England. Regagni is a conspirator for Italian liberty, and knowing that his relative, at the death of a very old grandfather who resides with her, must be rich, introduces his friend, in the hope that should his suit prove suc cessful his future's wife's fortune may be devoted to forwarding the cause he is so desirous of pro moting. Varese wins the consent of Catherine to their union, on the eve of his departure for London, to accompany Regagni so far on his way to Italy. Alan Valery overhears the engagement, and mad at the frustration of his hopes, wanders from home, unfortunately meeting Varese on a lonely pathway which he had been directed to take to shorten the route to the station. An altercation ensues, and the Italian dies strangled in his adversary's grasp. From that undesigned crime arise the complications which render the life of Alan miserable, and entail temporary misfortune on every person connected with him. To quote extracts would give no idea of the book ; to be appreciated it must be read. This work is reported to be the first attempt in literature of a very young author ; we can with pleasure say, that it gives ample promise of a bril liant and successful career. FRANCE. Prince Lucian Murat is at the present moment engaged in writing a history of his father, which will appear about the end of the year. The Moniteur publishes an imperial decree making one promotion to the grade of commander, two to that of officer, in the Legion of Honour, and six nominations to the rank of knight. A nailmaker named Joly yesterday appeared before the Tribunal of Correctional Police to answer a charge of having used threatening lan guage towards several nailmakers to induce them to leave their work and join him and others in a strike for higher wages. The offence having been fully established by the evidence of M. Segrun, a master nailmaker, and of one of his men, the Tri bunal sentenced the accused to three months' im prisonment and 16f. fine. The new buildings of the College of the Prince Imperial at Vannes were inaugurated yesterday in presence of the Archbishop of Paris, M. Dump, Minister of Public Instruction, and M. Monnier, Rector of the Academy. The ceremony was pre ceded at eight in the morning by the first commu nion of a great number of the pupils. The boys, to the number of 450, were afterwards inspected, and two of them addressed short speeches to the Arch bishop and M. Duruy. A breakfast afterwards took place. A Marseilles letter says that at a general meeting of the shareholders of the Rostand Sugar-refining Company, held on Saturday last, the balance-sheet showed that the liabilities were 26 millions and the assets 19. The deficit is therefore 7 millions, esti mating the premises and plant at cost price. The meeting appointed M.M. Grandoal, jun., Roux, and Rivet as liquidators, to wind up the affairs of the company. The journals of the centre and south of France state that a general rain set in there on Thursday morning, and appeared likely to continue, greatly to the satisfaction of farmers and gardeners, whose crops had begun to suffer from the long drought. Vegetables have seldom been so dear in those dis tricts as during the last few weeks. BOURSE, June 30.—The market has presented an appearance of activity to-day, and the tendency of transactions is again towards improved rates. French Three per Cents., for the Account, are quoted at 66fr. 70c., and Mobilier Shares at 722 fr. 50c. The Stock of the Italian Loan remains stationary, at 66f. 80c. The markets have evinced less firmness towards the close. Credit Mobiliers have receded 15fr., and the other Securities have been done at lower rates, and left off as follows :- 41 per Cents 95 45 Do. end month 3 per Cents. 66 65 Do. end month 66 60 Credit Mobilier Do. end month 707 50 Ditto Threes 4l 25 New Mexican Do. Bonds 320 Russian — Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred Roman 73 Bank Shares Credit Foncier 1255 Italian Loan 66 75 Do. end month 66 70 'ATS. Cash. Acct. Orleans Bl6 25 ... 815 Northern lO5B 75 ... 1055 Lyons and Mediterranean 833 75 ... 833 75 Southern 577 5 50 ... 575 Western 523 7 ... 522 50 Eastern Sardinian . 307 50 ... 305 Austrian —: ... 418 75 Lombard 486 25 ... 486 25 North of Spain 155 ... 156 25 Saragossa 313 75 ... 317 50 Ditto to Barcelona lO5 ... _ THE NETHER STOWEY MONEY-ORDER ROBBE R Y. —Henry Norris, the clever rogue who, by pretend ing to be a Post-office inspector, obtained a number of money-orders from the Nether Stowey Post-office and afterwards uttered many of them in London, obtain ing cash to the amount of over £5OO, was arrested on Thursday in Dublin. Two accomplices were arrested with him. In 1852 Norris effected a very clever robbery of a mail bag at Bridgewater, but he was caught, convicted, and sentenced to ten years' penal ser vitude. In 1856 he was released on licence, but was convicted in the same year of uttering base coin, and sent back to prison. In 1859 he was again released on licence, and in the same year was once more convicted of uttering forged notes. In March of this year he was, for the third time, released on licence ; in May he perpetrated the fraud at Nether Stowey; and in rather less than six weeks from the date of that fraud he is again in custody. His clever ness has done so little for him that in 13 years he has had but six mouths of liberty. Nur has it done much for his confederates. The man who assisted Norris at Nether Stowey is undergoing a sentence of ten years' penal servitude. Up to the time of his arrest on Thurs day Norris had managed to get cash and goods to the value of about £lOO from tha Dublin shopkeepers, by means of forged Post-office orders. One hundred and ninety-one blank orders, the Nether Stowey metal stamp, a cheque upon the Union Bank for £5OO, as well as other valuables, were found upon the prisoner. Norris gave his name as Captain Hamilton, Confederate navy, but other wise called Henry Norris, and several aliases. His com panions described themselves as Charles Somerville, tailor, Plymouth, and William Harris, professor of languages, London. The prisoners have been remanded. According to present arrangements the prisoner will not be examined at Bow. street, the Irish charge against him being of a much more serious character. The Breadalbane Title and Estates. The earldom of Breadalbane, and extensive estates of the late marquis, including Taymouth Castle, and others, of the annual value of upwards of £70,000 a year, are now the subject of litigation in the House of Lords. Since the death of the late marquis three claimants have appeared for the title and estates, and their respective claims are now the subject of litigation, not only here, but before the Court in Scotland. The first claimant is Donald Campbell, formerly a Lieutenant in the 57th Regi ment, whose petition to the Queen was a few days ago referred by her Majesty's Attorney-General to the Committee of Privileges of the House of Lords. Lieutenant Campbell claims to be descended from John, the eldest son of the first Earl of Breadalbane. John A. G. Campbell, of Glen fallock, D.L., and J.P. for Perthshire, claims, not as descended from the first earl, but as a collateral descendant. This claim Mr. J. A. G. Campbell's cousin, Lieut. Charles Win. Campbell, of the 19th Bengal Cavalry, disputes, on the ground that his uncle, the grandfather of Mr. J. A. G. Campbell, was not lawfully married, or rather that, at the time of Elizabeth M. Blanchard's marriage to Mr. Camp bell, in 1782, her former husband, Christopher Lud low, was living. Mr. Ludlow was a medical man at Sodbury, and on Mrs. Ludlow eloping with Captain Campbell, her husband was so distressed that he removed to America, and died in 1784, two years after the alleged marriage to Captain Campbell. The counsel retained by the various parties are the Attorney-General, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, the Solicitor-General of Scotland, Sir Hugh Cairns, Mr. Rolt, Q.C., Mr. James Anderson, Q.C., Mr. Downing Bruce, Mr. Geo. Patton, Mr. James Adam, and Mr. Dundas Grant. In 1681 Sir John Camp bell was created Earl of Breadalbane, with a special remainder to which of his sons he should nominate to succeed him, whose issue failing, to the heirs male of his body, which, failing, to his nearest legiti mate heirs male. The Earl died in 1716, having had issue three sons, Duncan, the eldest (ancestor of Lieutenant Donald Campbell) ; John, second son, whom his father nominated as his successor in the earldom and estates, in consideration of John having agreed to pay certain debts of the family. John, the third earl, and grandson of the first earl, died in 1782, when, according to the limitation in the original patent, the estate and title ought to have reverted to Duncan, the eldest son, of his male representatives. At this period, however, the descendant of Duncan was under some disability in consequence of having taken part in the troubles of those days, and was, it is stated, absent from Scotland. No act of attainder, however, appears to have been passed. The next heir male, however, a descendant of an uncle of the first earl, in the absence of the descendants of Dun can, took up the title, and obtained possession of the estates. The third earl had carefully pro vided for the descendants of Duncan turning up, for, in a deed of entail executed by him, he alludes to the fact that some of them may have been overlooked or omitted, and that by the entail he was then creating, the honours and estates might be separated, which was contrary to the spirit and meaning of the entail of 1704, and of the entail he was then creating ; and he specially - provided that the party who had made good his title to the earldom in court of law, the same person should be entitled to the estates. John, the fourth earl, died in 1834, having first obtained a new patent as a baron of the United Kingdom, and also a marquisate in 1831. On the death of the late marquis, in 1862, the present claims were made, and will probably be the subject of litigation for some time. A letter from Montfort (Var) states hat a violent thunderstorm burst over that town and neighhour hood two days since. Hail fell incessantly for more than half an hour, and almost entirely destroyed the corn crops, olives, and vines. The damage on one estate alone is estimated at 20,000 francs. All the trees within a considerable circuit were stripped of their leaves by the hailstones, which were nearly as large as walnuts. M. Death, the publisher, has been condemned to a fine of 500 f. for having offered for sale, without conforming to the stamp regulations, the speech of Prince Napoleon at Ajaccio. The fourth number of the Tribune Ouvriere, a weekly journal, has just been seized by the police, and also a pamphlet, published some time back, entitled " Les Hebertistes." A Teheran letter of the 9th June announces the death of Mgr. Salviani, the Armenian Catholic bishop of Erzeroum. The funeral honours were rendered with all the solemnity possible. M. Renan, the author of the " Vie de Jesus," arrived at Marseilles the day before yesterday by the steamer from Alexandria. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, BETTING AT MAN CHES TER.-FRIDAY. There was only a limited attendance at the Subscription Rooms this day, and the Stockbridge events occupied the principal attention of those members present. A few small books having been opened on the Goodwood Stakes, how ever, several bets were made on that race, but in the ab sence of any stable commissions, comment on the transac tions would be superfluous. For the Derby of 1866, Student was supported to win a few hundred at 100 to 7. Closing prices GOODWOOD STAKES. 100 to 8 agst Claremont (taken) 100 to 7 agst Alabama (taken) 100 to 7 agst Suspicion (taken) 100 to 7 agst Harry Brailsford (taken) 100 to 6 age. Baldwin (taken) ST. LEGER. 9 to 4 agst Gladiateur (offered) 17 to 2 agst any other (offered) THE DERBY. 100 to 7 agst Student (taken) STOCKBRIDGE RACES—FRIDAY. Match-100 sovs, h ft. New mile. Marquis of Hastings's Tippler, 5 yrs, 12st (Mr. H. Wombwell 1 Mr. Coventry's Warwick, 4 yrs, lOst 41b (car. lO s t 61b (Mr. H. Wilkinson 2 Betting-6 to son Tippler, who waited until they reached the enclosure, when he went up and won by a couple of lengths. The Stewards' Plate of 100 sovs, added to a sweepstakes of 10 sovs es ch, 5 ft, 3-yr-olds and upwards; weight for age; winners extra, with maiden allowance. Two miles. 47 subs. Mr Henry's Blackdown, 5 yrs, 9st 41b (Fordham) 1 Lord Portsmouth's Sydmonton, 2 yrs, 7st 121 b (inc. 12Ib extra) (Cannon) 2 Marquis of Hastings's Ackworth, 4 yrs, Bst 81b (Custance) 3 Mr. J. Day ns. Harcourt, 4 yrs, Bst 81b (T. French) 4 Brahma and Scarborough also ran. Betting opened at 6 to 4 agst Sydmonton, and 3 to 1 agst Blackdown, and closed at 6 to 4 agst Blackdown, 2 to 1 agst Sydmonton, 4 to 1 agst Brahma, and 10 to 1 agst any other. Scarborough got away in front and carried on the running to the stable turn, where he bolted, and in so doing left Blackdown in possession of a clear lead, Harcourt going on second, with Brahma, Ackworth, and Sydmonton lying up. These positions were retained to the brow of the hill, where Brahma improved his position, and, in company with Ack worth, followed the leader into the bottom. Here the three were joined by Sydmonton, Harcourt at the same time gave way, as did also Brahma, as they neared the rails. The issue was thus left with the three, who ran in company to the stand, where Ackworth was disposed of. Sydmonton, at the same time, was brought up on the right of Blackdown, and, getting to his shoulders half a dozen strides from home, appeared to be winning, but dying away as they came on he was beaten, after a fine rice, by a head; a bad third. Match, O 0 sovs. Bush in. Marquis of Hastings's Birague, 3 yrs, Bst _lolb (Fordham) 1 Sir F. Johnstone's Loaf Sugar, 2 yrs, Bst (S. Adams) 2 _ . The betting opened at 6 to 4 agst Loaf Sugar and closed at 5 to 4 agst Birague. Birague made all the running, and won in a canter by three lengths. The Troy Stakes of 50 sovs each, h ft, for 2-yr-olds; colts, Bst 10Ib; fillies, Bst 71b; with certain allowances. Bush in. 47 subs. Lord Portsmouth's Robin Hood, Bst 71b (Wells) f w.o. Mr. Merry's Student, Bst 71b (including 31b extra) (H. Covey) Lord Stamford's Chibisa, Bst 101 b (H. Grimshaw) 3 Mr. W. Day's Rather High colt, Bst 71b (S. Adams) 4 The following also ran :—Jack-in-the-Green, Mr. Pitt, Doralice colt, King Hal, Venturesome, Mineral, Sealskin, and The Black Prince. Betting-2 to 1 agst Robin Hood, 3to 1 agst Student, 7 to 1 agst Rather High colt, 8 to 1 agst King Hal, and 100 to 8 agst Chibisa. Three failures preceded the actual start, in which they left the post in close company, but as they approached the brow of the hill the Rather High colt, in company with Student, Venturesome, Chibisa, and King Hal, were ob served slightly in advance of the favourite on the right, and Doralice colt, Jack-in-the-Green, and Sealskin on the left. They ran thus into the bottom, where Robin Hood appeared to mend his position, and as they reached the rails Chibisa also drew towards the leaders, whose numbers were lessened half way up by the retirement of Venture some and King Hal. At the enclosure Student took a decided lead, followed in a few strides by Chibisa and the favourite ; the latter, who evidently is a bad be ginner, at the point got upon terms with his horses ; at the stand ho headed Lord Stamford's colt, and catching Student half a dozen strides from the chair was enabled to make a dead heat of it. Chibisa finished third, two lengths in their rear, the Rather High colt fourth, close up with whom came King Hal and Sealskin, who were fol lowed by Jack-in-the-Green and Mr. Pitt side by side. The Doralice colt, Venturesome, and Black Prince were the three last. Lord Portsmouth and Mr. Merry subsequently agreed to divide the stakes, and Robin Hood walked over. The Hastings Plato of 100 sovs, added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sous. each. Half a mile. Sir F. Johnstone's Historian, 4 yrs, 7st 31b (S. Adams) 1 Capt. Gray's Audax, 3 yrs, 7st (II. Covey) 2 Sir C. Rushout's Cedric, 3 yrs, 6st 71b (Heartfield) 3 The following also ran:—Lord Douglas, Durham, Jane Shorn, No Name, Blackbird, Senorita colt, Scarborough, Puebla, Imogene, Lade Florence, Lansdown, and Jassy. Betting-7 to 4on Historian, 7to 1 agst No Name, 10 to 1 each agst Cedric and Jassy, 12 to 1 agst Audax, and 20 to 1 each agst Durham and Jane Shore. The flag was lowered to an admirable start. Durham, on the far side, was the first to show in advance, but after running a few strides he gave way to Cedric, No Name, Puebla, Jane Shore, Blackbird, and Scarborough, who ran in a body into the bottom, where Historian and Audax came up on the right and waited upon the leaders to the stand ; hero Cedric was beaten , and Adams bringing the favourite to the front, won very cleverly by a length and a half; Audax defeated Cedric by a head for second ' • Bl ac kbird was fourth, Jassy fifth, Scarb oroug h s i xt h , and Jane Shore, Imogene, and Puebl a nex t. L a d y Florence was last. The Danebury Nursery: Stakes, a free Handicap of 10 sovs each, 5 ft, with 200 added, for two-yr-olds. T.Y.C. 14 subs. Sir F. Johnstone's Miss Lavinia colt, 781 (S. Adams) 1 Mr. J. B. Starky's Matild a , E s t (T. Sadler) 2 Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Slender, 7st 61b (Covey) 2 The following also ran:—Stockbridge, Mother o'-Pearl, Arethusa, Alberta, Venture, and Monitress. Betting--5 to 2 (at first 6to 4) agst Slender, 3to 1 agst Matilda, sto 1 agst the Miss Lavinia colt, and 8 to 1 agst any other. Matilda, with Slender and the Miss Lavinia colt lying up, made the running to the stand, where the last named came out and won by a length and a half ; half a length between the second and third ; Stockbridge was fourth, Venture fifth, and Arethusa next. The rest were beaten off. Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, with 50 added, for 2-yr-olds and upwards ; weight for ago, with selling allowances. Half a mile. Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Menace, 4 yrs, 7st 131 b (£6O) (Fordham) 1 Marquis of Hastings's Cotytto, 2 yrs, Gst 71b (£6O) (Heartfield) 2 Mr. Bevill's Usher, 4 yrs, Bst 91b (£100) (Custance) 3 Marquis of Hastings's Lady Egidia, 3 yrs, 7st 81b£60 (Ca ( nnon ) ) 4 Mr. W. Day's Vera filly, 2 yrs, 6st 41b (X6O) ... (Sadler) 5 Menace :made all the running, and won by a length ; half a length between the second and third ; and a neck between the third and fourth. The Portsmouth Plato of 50 sovs, added to a sweepstakes 5 sovs each, for 2-yr-olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b. The winner to be sold for £lOO. T.Y.C. 5 subs. Marquis of Hastings's Sweet Anne (Pordham) w.o. The Uxbridge Plate (Handicap) of 50 sovs, added to a sweepstakes of 10 SOTS each, 5 ft, for all ages. Bush in. 16 subs. Mr. G. Angell's Attache, 3 yrs, 7st Mb (Perry) 1 Marquis of Hastings's Catalogue, 3 yrs, 7st 21b (Morris 4 Mr. Brayley's Viceroy, 3 yrs, Est 121 b (S. Adams Mr. Samuel's Tilt, 3 yrs, Est 131 b (Covey 4 Mr. H. Goater's Filbert, 3 yrs, Est 11Ib (Storey 5 Betting-5 to 2on Attache, and Bto 1 each agst Cata logue and Viceroy. The favourite, with a slight lead of Catalogue and Vice roy, made the running throughout, and a close race home between the three ended in favour of Attache by a length ; a dead heat between Catalogue and Viceroy for second place. Tilt finished a bad fourth. The Westmoreland Plato of 50 sovs, added to a handicap sweepstakes of 5 sovs each. New mile. 26 subs. Capt. Gray's The Swift, 3 yrs, 7st 51b ............ CCovey) 1 Marquis of Hastings's Tippler, 3 yrs, Bst 71b ...(French) 2 Sir E. Baker's Hersey filly, 4 yrs, Est 131 b ...(S. Adams) 3 The following alsNran :—Historian, Golden Dust, Bow Bell, Olivia, Kill-'em-a\•4l-Eat-'em, and Duenna. Betting—Even on the Hersey filly, 4 to 1 agst Bow Bell, 8 to 1 agst The Swift, and 10 to 1 agst Tippler. The three placed (as nearly as wo could make out through the heavy rain) ran in front throughout. The Swift winning easily by three parts of a length, a bad third, Historian was fourth, Duenna fifth, Bow Bell sixth, and Golden Dust last. The Savannah Herald states that Mrs. Jefferson Davis intends to reside temporarily in Georgia. ORATORS--PAST AND PRESENT.—It is a frequent complaint that in oratory we of this century are beaten by the last. We do not believe it. We do not be lieve that the century which has produced Lord Derby and Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Bright, Brougham and Canning, is one whit behind that which witnessed the great performances of Fox and Burke and the two Pitts. There is a difference between the two sets of orators, un doubtedly. There is more of rhetoric in tho elder race. The more modern orators are much the more plain spoken ; they eschew high flights ; they do not lose them selves in the mazes of metaphor ; they stick more to facts and deal with syllogisms. It is characteristic of a ration alising age—an age that is sceptical on many points, and above all things sceptical of words.—The Shilling Magazine for July. c en t tiro) HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, June 30. The Queen, with her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice, drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon. Prince Leopold, attended by Mr. Buff, took a carriage drive. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena and Princess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Bar rington, the Hon. Flora Macdonald and Colonel the Hon. D. de Ros, went to London and honoured the performance at her Majesty's Theatre with their presence. Afterwards their royal highnesses re turned to Windsor. The Queen of the Netherlands arrived at the Castle this morning to visit her Majesty, and remained to luncheon. The Queen was attended by Baron Bentiuck, the Netherlands Minister, and the ladies and gentlemen of her suite. Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Helena and Princess Louise, attended by the Hon. Caroline Cavendish and Lord Charles Fitzroy, went to the station of the Great Western Railway to meet the Queen, and accompanied her Majesty to the Castle. Her Majesty the Queen, attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, and the gentlemen in waiting, received the Queen of the Netherlands at the Castle. Between 3 and 4 o'clock the Queen of the Nether lands returned to the station, accompanied by Princess Helena and Princess Louise, and left Windsor for London. The Prince and Princess of Wales. At one o'clock yesterday the Princess of Wales was churched at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. Her royal highness was accompanied by the Prince of Wales and attended by the Countess of Macclesfield. The Dean of Westminster and the Sub-dean of the Chapel Royal officiated. The Prince of Wales, attended by the Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe, Lieutenant- General Knollys, and Lieut.-Colonel Keppel, honoured the Archbishop of Canterbury with his company at dinner at Lambeth Palace in the evening. The Queen of the Netherlands, Yesterday morning her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands paid a brief visit to Westminster Abbey, and, after returning to Claridge's Hotel, Brook street, proceeded to the terminus of the Great Western Railway at Paddington, whence her Ma jesty travelled to 'Windsor by special train on a visit to Queen Victoria and the royal family. Her Majesty reached Windsor shortly after one o'clock, and was received on the platform of the station by the Princesses Helena and Louise, who accompanied her Majesty to the Castle in one of the royal car riages. Shortly before half-past three o'clock the Queen of the Netherlands returned to the station, accompanied by the two princesses, of whom her Majesty took an affectionate leave and then returned to Paddington by the special train. On reaching London her Majesty honoured the Countess Dowager of Jersey with a visit, at her ladyship's residence in Berkeley-square, and also paid several other visits. In the evening her Majesty dined with the Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe- Weimar. The Condition of Workhouse Infirmaries. • -0- The Lancet commissioners on the infirmaries of work houses publish this week in that journal the first part of a detailed report : they describe the system in vogue at the metropolitan houses. They point out that, besides the in mates of the " sick wards" proper, an immense population of the infirm crowd these houses, whose condition is lamentable. ThesO aro commonly classed with the "able bodied," and lead a life which would be like that of a vege table, wore it not that they possess the doubtful privilege of sensibility to pain and mental misery. The commissioners invoke special sympathy for the infirm, and indicate the absence of necessary provision for their comfort, nutrition, and possible restoration. They maintain that if all the infirm were medically treated, there would be a very large per-cent:ago of recovery, and an important saving of the rates. Owing to the numbers of patients nominally assigned to each workhouse medical officer, many of the evils complained of are unavoidable in the present state of management. The workhouse system is a more simulacrum of real hospital accommodation, although pretending to afford treatment in London for 7,463 "sick," and nominally for about 7,000 "infirm," but in reality for a much larger number. As the result of their personal inspection of the " sick" wards, they divide the London workhouses into throe classes : 1. A class in which the accommodation is irremediably bad, and in which the buildings ought to be altogether abandoned. 2. A class in which, with certain alterations, the build ings might be retained for the treatment of chronic disease and infirmity. 3. A class in which the buildings are capable of being developed into really good hospitals for the treatment of all kinds of disease. In all the infirmaries there are great defects as to classi fication and separation. The ventilation is in all cases imperfect, owing to the insufficient supply of cubic space, in many cases aggravated by essential defects in construction. The recognised al lowance would be at least 1,000 cubic feet to each bed ; little more than 500 is the rule—in some cases there is con siderably less. The washing arrangements are generally bad ; in several cases the patients were found washing iu their chambef utensils. The bedding is frequently inade quate to beds ; in some cases little more than 5 feet in length, and commonly less than 6 feet, which should bo the regulation length. The system of nursing is defec tive, and great evils arise from the deficiency of organised night-nursing, the pauper nurses often terrorising tho patients, and sycophantic to the officials. The quality of the provisions is generally good, but the cooking is not always so; the dietaries are often good, but very varying in their nutritive value, and not adapted to the chronically infirm. The medical officers are overburdened with work, underpaid, and frequently placed in a false position. As to the prevention of epidemic disease, great improvements have been introduced lately and with good effect ; but more remains to be done. The classification of disease is very imperfect. The reporters advise the application of the general system of the voluntary public hospital to these great national infirmaries, as far as practicable, and sug gest that by a carefully considered measure of concentra tion, means might be devised for economically obtaining results which would relieve the public conscience wit bou t burdening the Exchequer in an important degree. ADELINA PATTI'S FIRST CONCERT AT THE ST. JAMES'S HALL ON WEDNESDAY NEXT.—Tho great topic of the day is Adelina Patti's Morning Concert, when sho will appear no less than seven times. Among the interesting features in the programme are—Ave Mari; Gounod Polacca, Bellini ; Trio, Costa ; the duo " Sull' aria," with Mlle. Pauline Lucca; Duo, Don Giovanni, with Signor Graziani ; Scotch song, " Within a mile of Edinburgh Town." The fair songstress will also introduce a now song written expressly for her by the Baroness Willie de Rothschild, the words by Arsene d'Houssaye. THE DRAMATIC COLLEGE FETE AND FANCY . FAIR will, as usual, take place at the Crystal Palace on the 15th and 17th of July. The committee are making great exertions to provide attractions for the occasion, and in addition to the usual stalls, at which most of the metro politan actresses will preside, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Paul, assisted by a swarm of pretty girls, will officiate as bees in a vast hive now in course of construction, and in which they will dispose of all sorts of elegant trifles in the way of fans, gloves, portemonnaies, music, autographs, &c. Mr. Toole is again to the fore with a panorama illustrative of his song, " The Norriblo Tale," and he will likewise assist at a waxwork exhibition. Mr. Clarke, of the Princ• of Wales' Theatre, will direct and enact the arch-conspirator in " Richardson's Show," and Mr. Burnand has written him a wonderful lecture on " Comparative Anatomy." Mr. Bucketone will take charge of a burlesque circus, and the show of animals at Wombwell's this year will embrace some marvellous specimens of the animal kingdom. With this promise of novelty the charity should benefit largely by the fete this year. Is CHOLERA IMPENDING ?—To us in Britain a somewhat alarming circumstance is the news which has just been announced in Galignani's .31essenger, that virulent cholera has broken out, and is rapidly on the in crease, in Alexandria. The daily deaths in a week rose from 3 to 61. The present summer with ourselves has hitherto been rather a close ono ; we have had but ono rattling thunderstorm over London. The cholera seasons in this country, we have noted, always followed close and oppressive summers. Let us hope to have soon a good thunderstorm or two to clear the air and sweeten the ground.—Builder. 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