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The fate of the Atlantic cable still remains a 1 matter of uncertainty, although the merest frag ment of intelligence is eagerly watched for, and and every conjecture brought forward is discussed and re-discussed. One thing alone is certain,—the spirit of the shareholders remains undiminished, and with true English perseverance they show no signs of despondency or hesitation, but are fully prepared to raise more money if necessary, to con vert their shares into stock, and to make every effort and sacrifice rather than abandon the great national undertaking in which they are engaged. At a meeting of the company held yesterday at the London Tavern more than a hundred shareholders were present, and, notwithstanding the trying sus pense of the time, the greatest unanimity and calmness prevailed. The Chairman, the Right Hon. J. S. WORTLEY, frankly confessed that he proposed the resolutions which he had to submit to them under a disadvantage, seeing that they were framed in a very different state of things. A week ago he said he had expected that at this meeting he should be able to congratulate them upon their success, but, notwithstanding the present disappointment and anxiety, he repeated his former exhortations to persevere. It was, he remarked, Universally admitted that the undertaking in which they were engaged was one of the greatest the world had ever known, and would, if successful, be productive of incal culable benefit to mankind at large. It was also generally believed that at some time or other the great enterprise - would be safely accomplished. Let the shareholders, then, still rely on the commercial power, energy, and courage of the English people, and let them still persevere and hope for a better turn of fortune. This straightforward and man ly appeal was received with cordiality by the meeting, and, at least, whatever the eventual result they have proved themselves, by their eon may be, !galley and steadfastnes s, full y ca p able of carrying out the work, provided it can be ac complished. There does not appear t o have been any extravagant disappointment or excessive panic among the members of the com pany. They were, doubtless, prepared when they commenced. the work for repeated delays and failures, and it was not likely, however desirable, that the line would be laid down without any hindrance, and, whatever alarmists may say, they have yet to learn that the present experiment is a total failure, and that the cable itself is altogether lost. A letter from Captain SECCOMBE, of H.M.S. Duke of Wellington, is well worthy of attention. This gentleman, while offering no opinion as to the cause of the accident, suggests that it is extremely probable that the cable had been cut and buoyed a few hours before the failure of the telegraphic communication she signalled " blowing hard," so that when it was discovered that some thing was wrong with the cable it would not have been prudent to attempt heaving it in, or to have stopped the ship and held on by the cable. " Let us hope, then," says Captain SECCOMBE, " that the cable has been cut and buoyed, and the great shi_o and her two consorts are lying by, waiting a prof pitious moment to recommence operations." With proper precautions the buoy can be readily found, and unless the cable has parted and the end irre trievably gone, there is no need to despair. At al/ events it is certainly premature to abandon hope while we are as yet quite in uncertainty as to the origin, nature, and probable result of the accident. The Address of Thanks from the Reception Committee of Pesth to the Emperor will be read with interest ; and, indeed, it deserves to be so, on account of its significance at the present time. The address bears reference to his Majesty's visit, which has caused so much satisfaction, and given rise to hopes of the most flattering nature. The feelings thus experienced are expressed in the most extra vagant and enthusiastic terms, and it would seem as if the visit of the Emperor had been the one thing needed to infuse perfect delight and inspire the most confident hopes. This committee was formed in order that the sentiments of the citizens might be fully and fairly expressed, and that some distinct idea might be entertained of their meaning. So far as can be judged by the perusal of this address, they seem to have carried out the purpose which was entrusted to them with zeal and efficiency, and to have faithfully discharged their duties. The " glorious task," as it is here emphatically called, of settling the forms in which the " unbounded delight and enthusiasm of the metropolis should be displayed," has been performed with much energy and earnestness. The chief object which the com pilers of this address have set before them as most desirable to further is the recognition of the good ness of the Emperor in paying a visit to the place, and it is fervently declared that his Majesty has by this generous act consolidated his popularity, as it were, and that the grateful feelings that animate the Hungarian hearts cannot be overestimated. Between the three mountains and the four rivers, and also in " the gem of the country," its metropo lis, these ideas prevail. It is rather difficult for more collected and less demonstrative people to comprehend fully all at once the great excitement that prevails concerning such an event as the Emperor's visit. To us it may seem an everyday occurrence, and a natural sequence to constitutional government ; but it is not so in Hungary. There a most unfortunate race have had to contend against great and apparently insurmountable diffi culties, and it must be borne in mind that the visit of the Emperor, in conjunction with other favour able circumstances, is in some respects an era from which to date a regenerative policy, and to hail it as a sign or symbol of future welfare is neither presumptuous nor premature. This address seems a good augury for the Emperor as the result of his new schemes ; and surely he can have no higher motive to induce him to proceed, and no better end in view, than to gain the confidence of the people, and win hearts as well, as merely securing his sovereign sway. The more he travels through his dominions, and affords himself an opportunity of witnessing the effect of rules and statutes, the better it will be for his own honour and the happiness of the people over whom he reigns. The Board of Trade have at length been roused to vigorous action respecting the formidable cattle disease that is daily extending its ravages. They have addressed a circular to the various railway companies throughout the kingdom, pointing out to them that the disease is likely to be greatly extended by the traffic on the railway lines, unless most care ' ful attention is paid to the cleansing and disinfect ing of all trucks, cattle sheds, &c. The Board, therefore, urges that the companies should stringently enforce the observance of all possible precautions as a public duty, and certainly considering the immense number of cattle which are now conveyed by rail, and the great risk which the animals run from the exposure and fatigue, independently of coming into contact with any infected animals, the directions are valuable. They would have been more so had they been issued when the disease first showed itself in the metropolis ; but the officials have some excuse to plead in the uncertainty which attends the origin of the malady. It is now stated, in opposition to the theory of the introduction of the plague by diseased foreign cattle, that it has principally origi nated in the home dairies, for that the inquiries formally instituted by the Market Committees have elicited the information that up toSaturday no foreign beasts had been affected in the markets. At the same time, it must be remembered that well authenticated statements were given to the public detailing the outbreak of the disease in some parts immediately after the purchase of foreign cattle. Indeed, even if we accept the theory of the diseasebeing partly due to atmospheric influence, we must still admit that those animals are most likely to be attacked which have undergone the hardships and exposure conse quent upon a sea voyage, and the rough treatment too often met with in their passage. The home dairies no doubt want looking to ; and it will be well if the present evil produces the good of secur ing a better and more efficient system of inspection. It is not long since one of the local medical officers of health induced the authorities of his district to refuse licences of any kind to cowkeepers, urging 1 1 1 that the extension of the railway system gave such ample facilities for the early and rapid transit of milk from the suburban fields that the continua tion of town dairies was unnecessary as well as un desirable. The danger which now threatens,,the supply of milk and butter may perhaps stir up our district authorities to act with increased vigour, for there is no doubt that when animals are kept in an unhealthy manner the result is most pernicious to the general consumer. The Corporation of London have taken energetic steps towards checking the disease in the cattle markets of Islington and other places. At Islington, respecting which alarming rumours had been current, the English and foreign stock are carefully kept apart, the milch cows have another portion allotted to them, and the pens, lairs, and ropes have been saturated with chloride of lime. The Corporation has power to control the Islington Cattle Market, and they seem determined to use their power wisely. Fortunately, notwithstanding the fluctuations of the w ea th er , th e pu bli c h ea lth o f th e me t ropo li s h as decidedly i mprove d . The Registrar-General, whose records of late have been far from reassuring, last week gives us a return of 46 deaths below the esti mated average. Cholera has proved fatal in nine atetetnhicsasseesa,sonnot o;f l ie c i y e e n a t r t b o u t create e a n n o y u ( i g i h n e to a a e r s n s us that sanitary regulations must be strictly en forced, and that it is the bounde n duty of to see that they are properly- carried out in his im mediate vicinity. The Railway Companies have also a direct obligation laid upon them with regard to the cattle disease, and we trust they will not be remiss in dealing with a subject which threatens to become of great national importance. The execution of the sentence of death upon CHARLOTTE WINSOR has been respited in consequence of some technical flaw in the affair. The jury before whom the condemned woman was tried at the last Lent Assizes was discharged without a verdict. The Lord Chancellor, to whom the matter has been referred, has deemed it expedient that the Judges should be consulted, In order, thaeforo, to meet ~,~--, __ -?~- rHE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, 1865. this object it has been found necessary to delay the execution of the sentence until the end of next Michaelmas Term. No doubt it was impossible to prevent this delay, but it is to be regretted in many respects. Some people may take advantage of the time and opportunity thus afforded to get up a plea for mercy, and suggest that the criminal has been sufficiently punished. In cases of so monstrous a a nature as the crimes committed by CHARLOTTE WiNson, it is always advisable for the sentence to be carried out as soon as possible after it has once been passed, and thereby great confusion is prevented and a more salutary effect produced on the minds of those who are treading the same nefarious paths as the miscreant who has been de tected. Besides, the unfortunate individual who has been condemned to pay the forfeit of his life for his sins is placed in a cruel position if delays arc interposed and time lost in carrying out of the sentence. That he who gains time gains everything is a matter that is fully appreciated and recognised by all ; hope will dawn on the mind and expectation give place to despair. It is earnestly to be trusted that in this particular instance no effort will be made to induce the authorities to commute the sentence so justly recorded against the perpetrator of such atrocious crimes. No more barbarous, such fearful, trade could exist among the wildest savages than that which was followed by CHARLOTTE WINSOR in this civilised and Christian land. The best feelings of humanity are shocked and outraged daily by the occurrences that take place around us, but none more dreadful, and few of so aggravated a kind as the crimes of this woman, are recorded. She trafficked in vice, and took ad vantage of the most painful position in which young ignorant and inexperienced females could be placed to pursue her deadly course, and to effect her ruth less purpose. The true interests of society cannot be protected if such as she is permitted to go forth again among us, free and unfettered. It will be holding out a premium to crime which even the most mistaken philanthropist and the most absolute abolitionist of capital punishment has never yet attempted to do. Infanticide has always been one of the most difficult questions to deal with, and great inducements no doubt have existed to urge the most merciful interpre tation of the law in those cases where the offender has been more weak than wicked. How ever, if we consider that many hapless outcasts of society have been more sinned against than sinning, we cannot allow any extenuating plea to be urged for CHARLOTTE WINSOR, who has come out of her way to propose deeds of violence for which she had no temptation except the love of gain. No one supposes this to be an isolated case ; happily for the interests of humanity and the ends of justice, she has been arrested in her dark career, and exposed to the searching investigations of a court of jus tice. We must bear in mind, however, that many are scattered about the country who are engaged in the same fearful traffic, and it will never do to let them think that, if they are discovered, they will be able to escape on some plea or pretext. The cause of justice demands that the strongest possible measures be adopted to put down as effec tually as may be the perpetrators of crimes such as those of which CHARLOTTE WINSOR has been con victed, and for which she has received the extreme sentence of the law—in her case a very fitting retribution and most righteous doom. THE REVOLUTION IN ECUADOR. SEIZURE OF AN ENGLISH MAIL STEAMER BY THE PRESIDENT. We have received the foilowing details of the seizure of an English mail steamer by the President of Ecuador, already reported by telegraph : " PANA3IA, July 16. " Advices received here from Guayaquil, Ecuador, state that, on 25th June, when the English steamer Talca, belonging to the Pacific Steam Mail Com pany, was lying alongside the mole at that port, en gaged in her legitimate business of loading and discharging cargo, she was seized by the Govern ment authorities under a clause in international law, called Jus Augaria,' and laden with 400 troops, munitions of war, &c. The vessel was then taken command of by the President of the republic in per son, who proceeded down the river to a place called Jambil Creek, where the revolutionists were quar tered, and the Equatorian fleet, seized by them a few days previously, anchored. On sighting the fleet the Talca was directed towards them full speed, with the intention of sinking them. The first attack was on the Guaya, which she went into twice bow on, first cutting away her bow, and then cutting her amid ships to the water's edge, causing her to sink into five fathoms of water, within 25 minutes after she was struck. She then succeeded in capturing three other vessels, with several prisoners, and returned to Guayaquil on the 27th. The naval engagement between these vessels commenced about 8 a.m., on the 26th, and lasted about an hour, during which time considerable firing was carried on ; but the majority of the rebels, including their leader, suc ceeded in effecting their escape into the woods. The prisoners were brought to Guayaquil, and 20 of them instantly shot in the plaza. After this, Moreno started for Tumbees, where he expected to capture more victims, If he has been successful, they will sharea similar fate. After his return to Guayaquil, the President returned the steamer to the captain, who received it under protest, and got at the same time £20,000 for the three days' service of the vessel. The seizure is still an open question, having been referred to the manager of the company at Callao. The President holds that under some old law, spoken of by Vattel, he had a right to take the vessel ; and the British consul appeared to agree with him." LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) SPAIN. MADRID, AUG. 10. The father of the King of Spain being worse, the Court will soon return to Madrid, and the in tended interview between the Queen and the Em peror of the French will not take place. ITALY. ROME, AUG. 5 ( Via Marseilles). It has been decided to increase the strength of the Pontifical army, for which purpose a thousand men in foreign countries have already entered into an engagement to serve. THE BOMBAY MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 10. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Ceylon, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived here with 62 passengers, £6,035 in specie, and 100 packages of cargo. On the 4th inst. she spoke the barque Dinorah, of Shields, and on the Bth the French ship La Plata. GIBRALTAR, AUG. 5. The cholera has appeared here and at Valencia. A quarantine of five days has been imposed at Malaga, and of seven days at Tangiers and the Barbary ports, on vessels from Gibraltar. The Sultan of Morocco has re-imposed the pro hibitions on the importation of sulphur into Moorish ports. Tie is about to send an embassy to Paris. Exchanges unaltered. taken upon himself to bear, and about which the imperial decree was silent, the court had jurisdic tion, because that raised a separate question of pro perty. It has therefore referred the case for further argument before the Court of First Instance with a different set of judges. It will be a quaint result of this litigation if, as seems probable, the new Duke of Montmorency shall be prevented from bearing the arms of the ancient noble house of which, by the Emperor's will, he is now the representative. This check to his pretensions is a tremendous triumph for the Jockey Club and the Faubourg St. Germain. BOURSE, Aug. 9.—Two o'clock.—The Bourse is very flat owing to the absence of most speculators. Threes, for the Account, 67f. 90c. ;_ R Credit Mobi her Shares, 757 f. 50c. Lyons Railway Shares have advanced of 3f. 75c.—to 855 f. New City Bonds have also improved 2f. 50c.—to 462 f. 50c. ; Old City Bonds (1855-1860), 417 f. 50c. Discount ing Shares is still continued on a large scale. The demand to-day is for 33,000 Rentes Three per cent., 3,600 Credit Mobilier Shares, and 5,600 Spanish Northern Railway Shares. These latter Shares have gained sf.—to 202 f. 50c. Three o'clock.— The market continued inactive to the end. Spanish Northern have receded 3f. 75c. The last quotations are as follows : 4 per Cents 97 25 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 67 95 Do. end month 67 90 Credit Mobilier 757 50 Do. end month 756 25 Bank Shares 3570 Credit Foncier 1250 Italian Loan — -- Do. end month 65 - RAIL' Ditto Threes — Mexican Loan 47 Do. Bonds — Russian — Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred Roman — VAYS. Cash. Aca. 845 • 1063 75 • ... 852 50 ... 563 75 ... 542 50 ... 522 50 • Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Roman - ••• - - ... 403 75 - - 475 - - - 198 75 - - 315 - - - ... 217 50 AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE HANSA.. SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 10. The North German Lloyd steamship Hansa, from New York, on the 29th ult., has arrived here. She brings, 286 passengers for this, Havre, and Bremen, $3,000 and a general cargo for Bremen. Her news has been anticipated. ARRIVAL OF THE PENNSYLVANIA. QUEENSTOWN, AUGUST 10. The National Steam Navigation Company's ship Pennsylvania, from New York on the 29th ult., arrived here at 4.30 a.m., with 362 passengers. After landing 56 passengers, she proceeded for Liverpool at 4.40 a.m. Her news has been anticipated. (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) (Per City of Washington.) NEW YORK, July 29, Noon. Latest advices from the South disclose a rather unsatisfactory condition of affairs in that section. Previous accounts of the destitution and ruin of the regions wherein the principal scenes of the war were enacted are fully corroborated, and the inhabitants are said to be less favourably disposed towards the National authorities than has been represented. In the vicinity of large garrisons they are submis sive but morose ; while in regions not strongly guarded they are becoming somewhat defiant, and are by no means enthusiastic in their co-ope ration with the National authorities engaged in the work of reconstruction. The loyalty manifested does not appear to be of a very sincere character, thousands taking the oath of allegiance to secure to themselves the possession of their pro perty, making at the same time no secret of their sympathy with the rebellion and their regret at its failure. So far, however, as the action of the Federal military authorities is concerned, no special dissatisfaction is known to exist, and no serious abuses of power are chronicled. A despatch, dated Raleigh, N. C., July 24, to the Associated Press, states that fresh disclosures are being made of the designs of the rebel element against Union men and negroes, to be carried into effect when the national troops are withdrawn and the new State Govern ment goes into operation. The Raleigh Standard states that papers are springing up in different parts of the State, and " openly denouncing the National Government, and promulgating treason of so dan gerous a character that their immediate suppression would be justified." No obstacles, however, are presented by the people to the execution of the laws by the provisional state authorities, and Governor Holden is said to be far from unpopular, as he evinces a lively interest in the welfare of the inha bitants. Tennessee advices report frequent collisions be tween returned Federal and Confederate soldiers. In the vicinity of Knoxville several Confederate soldiers had been lynched. Governor Brownlow is reported to be exceedingly unpopular. He has re quested General Thomas to send troops into the various counties to preserve order at the approach ing elections. General Thomas has announced that if Hon. Emerson Etheridge, the senator recently arrested, has been guilty of uttering the language ascribed to him, he may be tried by court-martial. The General assures Governor Brownlow that the troops will fully sustain him in carrying out the policy of the General and State Governments. The fearful mortality among the freedmen con tinues, the military hospitals are full of them, and every exertion. is made to ameliorate their con dition. The military orders prohibiting their flock ing to large towns and miltary camps had quite a salutary effect. These orders have, however, all been countermanded by Secretary Stanton, and in future no special restrictions are to be imposed on the movements of negroes. Rumours of negro in surrections being imminent at several points in the South are in circulation. A report has reached Washington from the mouth of the Rio Grande which, if true, is of the most seri ous importance. The Federal forces had their picket line extending a long distance up the river on the Texas side, and were confronted on the Mexican bank by the pickets of the Imperial forces. A very unfriendly feeling existed, and it was feared that open hostilities might ensue. It was seported that the Federal commader, General Brown, had recently had an interview with Juarez, to whom he has pro mised military assistance, and that the Fourth Indiana Regiment had been ordered to cross the river, but General Steele, the commander of the de partment, had sent a despatch-boat up the river to counteract the order if possible. It was reported at Brownsville that General Kirby Smith and his entire party had been captured by Viesca, the Juarist Governor of Saltillo. The supply trains of 75 waggons, 900 rifles, and four pieces of artillery being taken by the Mexicans, and the party all paroled. General Smith was en route to join Maximilian. General Sherman, in his recent speech at Indian apolis, Indiana, declared that he would never accept civil office, and would never again draw his sword in anger. He disapproved of any further territorial aggrandizement on the part of the United States, contending that the country is large enough, and within its present limits will achieve a glorious future. In reply to interrogation on the negro question, General Sherman declared himself firmly opposed to any miscellaneous mingling of the races. It was the will of Providence that the white race should rule here. He would not withhold from the negroes their natural rights, but he was opposed to granting them the elective franchise. He advocated a speedy restoration of civil authority throughout the country. The General was received everywhere at the West with great enthusiasm. Several serious riots have occurred within the past few days, and a spirit of lawlessness seems to be alarmingly prevalent. A party of some 300 ruffians from Albany, last Thursday, landed from an excursion boat at the City of Hudson, and after killing two and severely beating a lz rge number of citizens, demolished several stores, and overpower ing the local authorities, finally escaped. Several of them have since been arrested. In Ciincord, N. HaMpshire, on the same day, - a party of about 200 returned soldiers demolished a store, whose proprie tor had some altercation with one of their number. They were finally dispersed by some citizen soldiery. THE ATLANTIC CABLE. Still no news regarding the condition of the Atlantic cable, if we except the significant fact that one of the highest authorities states that the tests which show the fault to be at 1,175 miles are en tirely fallacious ! Beyond this fresh doubt nothing is known, and the most eminent electricians are still of opinion that the mishap has occurred between 1,230 and 1,250 miles from shore, or about the distance at which the last signals from the Great Eastern became unintelligible. Since the fault was signalled the Great Eastern has been absent seven days. At an average rate of steaming seven miles per hour she would have accomplished about 1,170 miles on Wednesday evening, so that her return, if no accident has happened to her ma.: chincry, may be confidently looked for this morning. Only a brief telegram is expected from her, but even the briefest statement of facts will be a relief as compared with the endless conjectures, suggestions, and alarms which have lately filled the public mind as to the fate of the cable. We may add that the high rates of insurance quoted as being effected on the cable merely represents the offers made, for no business whatever is done, and, in fact, even the insurance on the Great Eastern herself has risen more than 2 per cent. since the accident. For the latter rise, however, there seems not the slightest justification, as, from first to last, the confidence of engineers and nautical men in the strength and sea going qualities of the great ship is as firm now as when she left Sheerness. The Hudson River Railroad Company is compli mented for its cleverness in recently killing a whole family —father, mother, and child, all at once, so that there was nobody left to bring an action for damages. NORTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. --A singular accident occurred on the Great North of England line, near the Sessay station, on Tuesday. A farmer's man was riding across the line, and found some difficulty in getting a gate opon, and an approaching train alarmed the h orse , which plunged into the ditch and unseated its rider, who fell on the lino and was run over. One leg was taken off. The man was living at night. FRANCE. PARIS, AUG. 10. The Emperor left Plombieres this morning, and went direct to the camp at Chalons. Official intelligence reached here from Vera Cruz states that, on the 14th July, the French retook Urnpau. On the 23d July, the chief of guerillas, Publita, was attacked by French cavalry, and killed, together with a large number of his band. Arteaga has been routed. It is stated that the malcontents are now completely repulsed in the South, and are incapacitated for a resumption of the campaign for a long time to come. Regrete, during his retreat, was deserted by half his soldiers. A grand dinner was given by the Minister of Public Instruction the day before yesterday, on the occasion of the distribution of prizes at the Sor bonne. In addition to the pupils who obtained the principal honours, there were present Mgr. Darboy, Archbishop of Paris, Savfet-Pacha, the Turkish Ambassador, Abd-el-Bader, and a great number of distinguished personages. In the evening there was a numerous reception. Count Walewski has returned to Paris from Kissingen. Baron de Malaret, Minister of France at Florence, has arrived in Paris on leave of absence. The General Correspondence of Vienna says : " The Austrian shipowners having on several occa sions expressed a desire to see, in the interests of com merce, the Austrian flag reappear in the waters of the Levant, the Emperor Francis Joseph has or dered, on the proposal of the Ministry of Marine, the sending of a squadron to the East. It will be commanded by Rear-Admiral Tegetthoff, who has received instructions to visit the archipelagoes of Turkey and Greece and the coasts of Syria and Egypt, as far as Alexandria. The Austrian lega tions at Constantinople and Athens have been charged to inform the Ottoman and Hellenic Go vernments of the arrival of the squadron." According to statistical returns there are in Berlin 12,000 cellars inhabited, in 6,300 of which different; trades are carried on. The thirteenth part of tho population, or 40,000 persons, inhabit those dens. Official statistics show that the annual consump tion of Bordeaux wine in the different countries of the Zollverein is 58,500,000 bottles, while the cus toms' returns prove that only 4,500,000 bottles are imported. The native manufacture therefore fur nishes the remaining 54,000,000 bottles. A telegraphic despatch from St. Nazaire states that the steamer France, belonging to the General Transatlantic Company, arrived there last night at ten o'clock. She left Vera Cruz on the 14th ult., Santiago on the 19th, and Martinique on the 26th. She brings 600,000 piastres as freight and 130 pas sengers. The formal recognition of Prince Alfred of Eng land as heir to the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg took place at the capital of that State on the 6th, being the 21st anniversary of his royal highness's birth day. The Vienna Gazette announces that the Empress of Austria is in very good health in consequence of her trial of the Kissengen waters, and that, accord ing to present arrangements, she is to be at Ischl on the 12th inst. The Courrier de Saigon of June 20 says :—" The native court has given judgment respecting the five Chinese junks captured on the coast. One only has been dismissed freely ; two have been set at liberty t after a confiscation of their guns, arms, and ammunition, and the two remaining have been declared lawful prizes and their crews thrown into prison ; it is not yet known what the Government will do with the latter. The transport La Creuse, Captain Lapierre, anchored in the roadstead of Saigon on June 11. This vessel left St. Nazaire on Feb. 26, and touched at the Cape Verd Islands, Simon's Bay (Cape of Good Hope), Reunion Island, and Singapore, ac complishing the passage in 104 days, including stoppages. The electoral operations for a deputy in the Aisne have given the following results :--Voters, 29,622 ; required majority, 14,812 ; M. Marsaux obtained 12,319 votes ; M. de Tillancourt, 5,807 ; M. de Montesquiou, 4,739 ; M. de Lostange, 1,417 ; M. Waddington, 3,923 ; M. Levesque, 920 ; lost votes, 67. As no candidate obtained the requisite majority another and definitive election will be proceeded to. The Court of Assizes of the Seine yesterday tried a cabinet maker named Lapierre, aged 28 on a charge of having, at Charonne, on the 24th May last, wil fully wounded a man named Daubanton with intent to murder. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner, a steady, industrious man, was married in 1849, and lived very happily with his wife until the latter became acquainted with Daubanton, who seduced her from her duties. The woman soon afterwards left her husband, under the pretext that shehad obtained work for some days as seamstressin a ladies' boarding-school, at too great a distance for her to return at night. The husband, how ever, having ascertained that this story was false, and that she was living with Daubanton at a low lodging-house in the Rue due Centre, went to see her, and heard from her own lips a confession of her infidelity. In his rage at this discovery he threatened to murder her if she did not immediately write to Daubanton giving him a rendezvous behind the church at Charonne. The husband lay in wait near the spot, and when Daubanton came, he rushed forward and stabbed him in the back with a chisel. The prisoner was immediately arrested and commit ted for trial. Daubanton, who had quite recovered from his wounds, gave evidence at the trial in a most cynical manner, and was severely reprimanded by the President for his shameful conduct throughout the whole affair. The Avocat-General having said that he had felt bound to institute the prosecution for the purpose of showing that no man had a right to do himself justice, but that he could not press for a conviction. the jury without hesitation at once ac quitted the prisoner. The Court of Appeal gave judgment to-day in the Montmorency case. It confirmed the judgment of the court below so far as that court declared itself without jurisdiction to examine the validity of the Emperor's decree conferring the title of Duke de Montmorency upon Count Adalbert de Talley rand Perigord. But-it was of opinion that as to the arms of Montmorency which the new duke has A New Reform Scheme. A dinner was given to Mr. E. Buller, the recently elected Liberal member for North Staffordshire, in honour of his election, at Stoke-on-Trent, on Tues day evening. About 60 of the leading Liberals of the district were present, and the company also in cluded Mr. T. M. Bass, M.P. for Derby, Mr. W. S. Allen, M.P. for Newcastle-under-Lyme, and Mr. A. Bass, M.P. for Stafford. In responding to the toast of the Lord-Lieutenant and county magis trates, Mr. M. T. Bass referred at some length to the question of Parliamentary Reform. The ques tion he said was full of interest and anxiety, and he was extremely anxious that all should have the power to make such an investigation and obtain such information as might enable Parliament to come to the highest and truest determination on this most important of all political questions. To show the effect which a £6 franchise would have, Mr. Bass said the present constituency or borough he represented included 25 per cent. of the labour ing population, and 50 per cent. of small shop keepers whose interests were identical with those of the working classes. The constituency numbered 2,456, and a £6 franchise would add 3,850 to these 2,456, making 6,300, and of the 3,850 added 3,600 would be working men, and only 184 of all other classes. That being so, they would perceive that the labouring classes would more than double all the other classes put together under a £5 franchise, and it must be a matter of considerable anxiety how such a state of things would work. (Hear.) It might be said that he had quoted but a single in stance, but in order to show that there were a great many cases of the same character, he would glance at the borough in which they were then assembled (Stoke). A£6 franchise in that borough would add 3,645 to the present time, or would nearly double the list. If, therefore, they made this addition, thoy would find that the working classes would comprise four-fifths of the constituency. (Hear.) If he thought the working classes were the best judges of their own interests, he would vote for universal suffrage to-morrow ; but, having had a large ex perience of them, having watched the course they had often taken, and the manner in which they had fallen into the hands of, and been misled by, men who had undertaken to lead them, he was not of opinion that the working classes were always the best judges of what was for their own benefit. (Applause.) Therefore it behoved them to care fully consider before they gave the working classes four-fifths of the representation of the country. Having said that much, he still desired to say that he was persuaded that they must give the working classes an increased share in the representation, and he thought so for many reasons ; not but what it might be true, as had been said by Mr. Lowe and Mr. Horsman, that we were not likely to improve the legislation of the country by making such an extension, for he thought that the present time the legislation of this country was conducted more with a general regard to the true interest of the whole country than any Government in any other coun try in the world. (Applause.) He was persuaded of that, and that they must run some risks in very largely extending the area of their representation. Yet when he found as he did that the working classes were entitled to a larger share in the govern ment of the country, he thought it would be a Con servative policy to make some extension of the suf frage. (Applause.) Dr. Temple had put forward a scheme of reform by which 140 members were to be taken from small boroughs and given to coun ties with a rating franchise like the municipal fran chise. But they must recollect that those 140 members were bound to vote against such a redis tribution of seats, and it would be hopeless to expect to carry such a scheme. But it occurred to him that it would be possible to adopt some such plan as this :—To take one member for each of the small boroughs and give them to the working classes, with a similar franchise, by which means they would havo 128 moiabovg for whom tho working classes would be able to vote, and who would represent those classes. (Hear.) It would bring within the pale of the constitution a vast multitude of peo ple and give them an interest in the government of the country which would increase their regard for the country, and would be a very useful mea sure. (Applause.) It had been objected to as militating between classes, but they had now dis tinct classes of voters, and he believed that they would in a measure amalgamate by all doing their best to return the men to Parliament most fitted to promote the prosperity of the country. At any rate if his plan was not practicable,. it might lead others to think, and so help the solution of this most interesting question. Mr. Buller's health was drunk with the greatest enthusiasm, and while re sponding the hon. gentleman was frequently ap plauded. STATE OF TRADE, CARDIFF, Aug. B.—The coal trade in all its branches may be said to be neither active nor de pressed, the principal merchants and colliery pro prietors doing a fair business ; but there is no press of orders. The Mediterranean markets are taking about the usual quantity of steam coal, and the French trade is getting more buoyant. Shipments to South American and West Indian stations show a slight increase as compared with several weeks past. Coasting buyers of house coal are preparing for the winter, and the moderate rate of freight has tended to give an impetus to the coasting trade with Ireland and the West of England. The local and inland sale has not improved. Increased firm ness is evinced in the iron trade, and a better feel ing prevails among the makers. There has been an accession of American orders since last week's re port, and there is a slight movement in the trade with the States. Transactions on Eastern account have again commenced, and there is every indica tion of a gradual revival in the trade with that quarter. Home requirements for certain descrip tions are larger. Rails are quoted £7 to £7 7s. 6d. at the works ; and bars, £7 to £7 ss. The ship building yards are in regular employ, and consider able activity prevails at the local foundries. LEICESTER, 9th.—There is an average amount of business doing in most branches of the hosiery trade. Manufacturers continue well employed in the ware houses, with orders on hand. Fancy and regular goods are still in request, and the market is healthy for the country districts. The operatives are well employed. Wools are quiet, at recent prices. Worsted yarns are firm, and spinners are fully em ployed. NOTTINGHAM, 9th.—The lace trade . continues without much change. Business in the home branch remains quiet, there being about an average amount doing. Cotton goods meet a moderate de mand, buyers holding off purchasing on account of their dearness. There are, however, a few small orders in the market for both plain and fancy goods. In the silk branch black laces are still in request, and are likely to remain so if the prevailing fashions continue. There is not much doing in silk mechlins or quillings. The hosiery trade is. brisk. Most branches are well engaged, and the operatives are fully employed. There are plenty of orders on hand, both for the home and shipping trade. The execution of the sentence of death passed upon Charlotte Winsor at the recent Devon Assizes, for the murder of an infant, has been respited until Monday, the 27th of November next. This course has become ne cessary in consequence of a grave doubt raised by very high judicial authority as to the legality of the discharge without a verdilt of the jury before whom the convict was tried at the last Lent Assizes for the same offence. This doubt has been communicated to the Lord Chancellor, who considers that it ought to be submitted to the Judges for their opinion. To effect this object the execution of the sentence has been stayed until the end of next Michaelmas Term. GENERAL SHERMAN AND HIS COMMISSARIAT.- General Sherman says :—" I always travelled with a copy of the ceneus in my saddle-bags. I could thus tell how many inhabitants, how many cultivated acres, how many head of cattle and horses, how many bushels of grain each county possessed in 1860, and so, approximately, how many there would be now, and how long it would subsist my army." r . .Xt 40airee - ant z &If Arrival of her Majesty at Antwerp. ANTWERP, Wednesday. Queen Victoria arrived here at seven o'clock this evening. Her Majesty, upon disembarking, was received with cheers by the English residents and a considerable number of the inhabitants of Antwerp, who had assembled on the quay. Ilex Majesty proceeded to the railway terminus, and left by train to Lacken. ,11.- The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince of Wales presided yesterday at a meeting of the Council of the Duchy of Cornwall, held at Ala Thorough House. There were present the Lord Portman, Lord Warden of the Stannaries ; Sir William John Alexander, Attorney-General; Col. the Hon. Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps, Receiver- General ; Lieut. General Knollys, Comptroller of the Household of his Royal Highness ; and Herbert Fisher, Esq., Keeper of the Privy Seal. Mr. Bateman, the Secretary, attended as Clerk of the Council. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marl borough House. The Prince and Princess of Wales went to the Haymarket Theatre in the evening, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Hardinge and Major Teesdale. Mr. Jabez Hughes (of Ryde) has had the honour of attending at Osborne Cottage, to take photo graphic likenesses of the Prince and Princess of Wales and the young Princess. Messrs. London and Ryder have had the honour of submitting to the inspection of the Prince of WTales their cups for the Royal Victoria Yacht Club Regatta—viz., the Commodore's Cup, the Broadwood Schooner Match Prize Cup, and the Leonara Goodwood Cup. Queen Emma at Chelsea Hospital. Yesterday our Royal and interesting visitor, the Queen of the Sandwich Islands, was present at a parade of the little red-coats of the Duke of York's School in connection with Chelsea Hospital. Queen Emma will, we understand, compensate herself for having arrived in London at a dull time of the year by staying long enough to see as much of our dull ness as will disclose to her the good that is some where in it ; and we, having welcomed a lioness at the wrong end of the leonine season, may hope to retain her for some time in silken strings. It is, at all events, arranged that Queen Emma will stay until the return of her Majesty the Queen of these Islands, and of certain other tracts of dry land, upon which the sun has a certain reputation of never setting ; and it is quite on the cards that, after a promised visit to Scotland, she may be again in London when London has come to itself. The public have yet to learn something of Queen Emma; and in the first place they will be agreeably inte rested to know what she is like. Already report has spoken of her pleasing person and manners. But report has already gone so far as to say that which is true, almost beyond the possibility of any • difference of opinion, namely, that the Queen of those sometimes savage isles in the Southern Sea is really one of the most unaffectedly dignified, as well as one of the most prepossessing young ladies whom one is fortunate enough to meet in any society of the civilised world. Her age is a point that has hardly yet been touched upon ; but there has been no need for the reticence which the polite ness of proverbial philosophy has prescribed on the general subject of a lady's age ; for when a lady's age happens to be a lady's youth, the difficulty dis appears. Queen Emma cannot be more than fivo or six and twenty, and she does not appear to be even that. Her fine oval face is expressive of the amiability and the intelligence which are indeed parts of her character. Her complexion is no darker than that of many a Spanish beauty, and is scarcely so dark as that of at least one-third of the popula tion of Portugal. She has very fine eyes, implying long eyelashes, of course ; regular brows, which move as she smiles or looks grave, so as to help essentially the pensive or the vivacious expression of her face ; a well formed mouth, which discloses two perfect rows of pearly teeth when she smiles ; and rich silky black hair, which she wears in the simple braided fashion that has been called, from pictorial associations, " the Madonna style." This was the lady who, plainly but handsomely attired in black silk, sat yesterday on the lawn in front of the Duke of York's School, a crimson carpet having been spread and a few chairs placed for her and her suite, or, rather, private friends. Accompanying Queen Emma was Lady Franklin, whom any assembly would have felt honoured in welcoming for her own sake ; and a tall, handsome lady, who, though of the same nation as the Queen, was darker by several tinges of tropical blood, filled the post of lady-in-waiting. This member of the little group, who was dressed very much in the same manner as her royal mistress and friend, is the wife of the Hawaian clergyman who has accom panied Queen Emma to this country, but who was not present yesterday. Colonel Yorke, the com mandant of the school, received the distinguished visitors, and there were among the company Miss Yorke, Sir Edward Lugard and two nieces, Sir John Wilson, the Honourable Mrs. Hope Johnstone, the Hon. Mrs. Abbott, Miss Hope of Pinkie, Major- General and Mrs. Hutt, Colonel and Mrs. Ran dolph, General Lewis, Dr. Balfour, Dr. and Mrs. M'Lachlan, and Mrs. Godfrey Turner. The Rev. Mr. Langmead, M.A., chaplain of the institution, Colonel Adams, the secretary and adjutant, Mr. M'Leod, the head-master, Dr. Harrison, the phy sician, and Paymaster Cousins, were also present, and were introduced in their several official capaci ties. The evolutions of the boys included, besides several manoeuvres which men could hardly have been expected to execute with more soldierlike pre cision, the ceremony of trooping colours and march ing past. Sword exercises and gymnastics fol lowed, and completely satisfied every spectator on the ground that perfection of physical train ing is among the advantages these scholars, the sous of soldiers, enjoy. The best juvenile band of mu sicians in England, beyond any possible comparison, is that which is attached to the school, and w hich reflects the highest credit on Mr. John Wilson, the bandmaster ; and if it be true, as was rumoured on the ground, that the little lad who plays the princi pal cornet-a-piston with so admirable a skill and taste is pretty forward in the second book of Euclid, he is not only a most musical mathematician, but a good example of the practical wisdom of cultivating the ratiocinative and the aesthetic faculties in earl,' combination. The programme of music yesterday included an original « Grand March," by an ama teur composer, Mr. Reynardson, the effect of which , as rendered by the spirited band of forty boys, Wan very striking. After the sight and the sounds on the lawn, Quell Emma, who repeatedly expressed her great delight with the proficiency of the lads in their drill, 0 01 them at their dinner in the hall, or rather halls, for the very little boys have one to themselves. Sh e again expressed much pleasure with the appearatc° and conduct of the lads, and with the domestic ar" rangements, superintended by the matron, Alr s ' Webb. The royal visitor, being engaged to take . luncheon with the Bishop of Oxford, then enter ed her carriage, and drove quietly away, thus stealing a march on the boys, who were preparing to giT e her a lusty farewell. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prince ° of Wales, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Harding°, Lana Murray, Major Teesdale, Coldnel Harding°, the II 14°11. Charles Carrington, and Major Knollys honoured the ay market Theatre with their presence last night. A LIFE-LIKE PORTRAIT OF GENERAL ROBERT LEE, the one great Captain produced by tu ° American War, has just been published by ges6ls i Saunders, Otley, and Co. It is the engraved presentinez, of a very noble countenance, and one that it is inipossibr y' to contemplate without our feeling aroused with in us sal sa meats of profound and most respectful sympathy fof worthy of our fullest admiration.