The Sun. — London, England, 1866-07-04 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.-11®rning, Gh. Om.—Afternoon, Ch. 22m. To-Alottitow.-Morning, Gh. 45m.—Afternoon, 7h. 15m. ROYAL DRAMATIC COLLEGE FETE and FANCY FAIR, at t'e CRYSTAL PALACE, on bA ► URD AY and AIONDAY, July 7th and 9th. For lull particulars see "Times," June 30th. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYM ARKET.- Sole Lessee and Maurger, Mr. Buckstone. THIS . EVENING. A ROMANTIC ATTACHMENT. Mr. W. Farren arra Miss Ada Cavendish. After which, DAVID GARRICK Messrs. Sothern, Buck stone, Chippendale, Rogers, Clark , Coe, Szc.; Mesdames Moore, Chippendale, Fifzwilliatn, &c. To be followed by LORD DUNDREARY MA.B.RIED AND DONE FOR Messrs. Sothern. Buckstone, Gordon, Braid, ; Ars Chippendale, Ass 11111. &c. Concluding with A KISS IN THE DANK. Comra,nce at Seven. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vinin , J. z-_,:IS3IMEIt, SE XSON.—Doors open at Half-past Seven, pert:in-mine,s commence at Eight o'cloA precisely. THIS .1-:VENING, a New and Original Drams, in Three Act,A, by Waits Phillips. Esq., entitled THE ti tIGUENOT CAPTAIN. Principal characters by Mr. Vining, Mr. Gea. Honey, Miss Neilson, Miss Augusta Thoaison, 3lrs. The Costumes have been designed by Mons. Mar elin, of tunsV rariSielllle, and the ce:ebrated deslgner of the cos ein La Iliche an Bois. The Vocal Music has been com posed by Mr. J. L. Hatton ; the Injdental and Dance Music by Mr. Charles Hall. And, to illustrate the grotesque Dances of the period, the services have been specially re tained of those celebrated Comic Dancers. Messrs. Flageolet, Clodoche, Comae, and Normande, from the Theatre Imperial du Chatelet, who created so great a furore in Paris by their performance in La Lanterue Magique. The Ballet will be under the direction of Mr. Milano ; and the entirely new t-cenery, illustrating - bits of 0:d Paris, has been painted by Mr. F. Lloyds. The Drama produced under the stage direc tion of Mr. Vining. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING. at 7 precisely, THE EAST FAMILY Messrs. Billington, J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, R. Phillips, Ashley, Eburne; Mrs. A. Mellon Miss Woolgar), bliss 11. Simms, Miss Furtado, Miss Smith, Miss Seaman, Miss God sall, and Mrs. H. Lewis. After which a Burlesque Opera, called HELENE ; or, TAken from the Greek. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, R. Phillips, Ashley, Eburne; Mrs. A. Mellon, Miss Furtado, Miss Seaman, Miss Godes'', &c. ROYAL STRAND TIIEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, THE LITTLE TREASURE. Alter which. will be produced the grand Easter Burlesque, PARIS ; or, wive Lernplere Mes-rs. Stoyle, 'I borne, James, Fenton : Mesdames A. Swanborough, Raynham, Simpson. Johnstone, Canoe, and Holt. To conclede with JACK'S DELIGHT. ADLE R'S WELLS THEATRE.- 1,7 Under the Management of Mr. W. 11. C. Nation. THIS EVENING, Wednesday, and during the week, an entirely new dramatic adaptation of Charles Dickens latest work `•Our Mutual Friend," entitled THE GOLDEN Dus - rmAs. Messrs. Swinbourne, Barrett, Belmore, Barsby, C. Warner, M'lntyre, Courtley, Holland ; Misses A. Dyas, F. G wynne, Ada Harland ; Mrs. Poynter and Mrs. Bishop. To conclude: with (29th Nioht) of sr. Brouqh's brilliant Burlesque of PA PI L LON ETTA. Misses L. Witlmore, Ada Harland, F. Gwynne, Hudspeth ; Mr. Belmore. Commence at Seven. Acting Manager, Mr. NYE CHART. THE "SUN" NEWSPA PER.- G. R. GLENIE, Sp o rting Library, 4, Connaught terrace, Edgware-road, is specially appointed AGbIN i to deliver the LATE EDITION of Tll SUN "at the earliest possible moment after leaving the press. ?le is able to deliver copies in Town, the Suburbs, and in many p tv arts of the Country at a comparatively early hour the same ening, say 40 miles by 9 o'clock. THE "SUN" N EWSPAPER.- G. R. 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It is perfectly well understood, however, that a considerable addition to the ranks of the Ministerial party in the House of Lords will be made very shortly by the Earl of DERBY, by vay of counterbalancing the 1 1 wholesale, and we will even say, unscrupulous promotion adventured upon in that way by the Whigs during their long tenure of office, but more particularly of late years. These two new Peers who are at once to be summoned to the House of Lords simultaneously with the instalment in power of the third DERBY Government, are (as every one very naturally expected would prove to be the case when the new Cabinet was first announced as in process of formation) the Right Hon. Sir EDWARD BULWER LYTTON, who goes to the Peers with the title of Lord LYTTON of Knebworth, and the Right Hon. Sir WILLIAM JOLLIFFE henceforth to be known by the name, style, and title of Lord HYLTON. The advancement of the latteris toberegarded, of course, as purely the reward, the well-earned recompense, of long good services done by him to his party, both when in office and v i h • en in Opposition. The elevation of Sir &LIVER LYTTON to the Peer age,abroad, on the other hand, will be recognised far and wide, not only in this country, but and in our most distant and scattered colonies, as not merely a tribute of honour paid by the Crown and the Country to a distinguished Statesman and a great Parliamentary Chief, but, far more than that, as a signal recognition of the genius of a great Author who has won for himself the highest distinc tion in almost every department of our Literature. The Peerage thus awarded by a Conservative Pre mier to Lord LYrrON in this way may be regarded a 3 comparable to that bestowed by a Whig Premier upon Lord 111ACAULAY. One regret the admirers of BULWEP will have, nevertheless—meaning the total mergence henceforth of the name he has hitherto been known by in English literature as Poet, as Novelist, as Dramatist, in the new title thus attached to his ancient name as Lord LYTToN of Knebworth. A casual reference, we observe, has been made, absurdly enough, by a contemporary, to what it speaks of as the " infirmities" of Sir BCLWER LYTTON, as furnish ing a reason for his removal to the House of Peers, if not actually incapacitating him from undertaking the toils of office aci the head Df one of our great de partments. The reference thus made is so far nothing less than ludicrous for inasmuch as these same hypothetical infirmities certainly have in no way incapacitated the right honourable baronet from very recently doing the most signal service to his party as an orator in the midst of the late important debates, any more than they have militated in any way against the success of his later achievements in authorship, or any more for that matter than, during the period of the last Derby Administration, they tended in any degree to lessen the vigour of his rule as an administrator while he was presiding over the , affairs of England's Sixty Colonies. Who the other new Peers are to be Who will shortly follow Lord LYrroN of Knebworth and Lord IlYuroN of Merstham, to the Upper house of Parliament, will speedily enough be announced. Those two at any rate have been already indicated, and will in due course, at the beginning of next week, take their seats in the House of Lords, as the first evidences of the fact of a fast-approaching and very considerable creation of Peers by the Conservative Government. Although we have no fresh news of encounters taking place, we are enabled to realise in a great degree the fearful extent of those engagements which have already taken place. The losses appear to have been tremendous. It is stated by the Prus sian accounts that the Austrians have had as many as 40,000 men disabled. The Prussians preserve a discreet silence concerning their own losses, which circumstance naturally leads us to conclude that they will bear no inspection. If they were to succeed in comparison with those of their opponents, why do they not put them down in triumph ? However, we are, un for'.unately, not able to doubt that the slaughter has been very great in all directions. It is also certain that the " pitched battle" now so imminent will be far more serious in its consequences, and swell the list of killed and wounded in a remarkable manner. The calm that now prevails is only the lull that precedes the storm, a storm that will indeed burst with terrific violence over the devoted heads of the combatants. We may give partial credence to the Berlin reports as to the immense loss among their enemies, but we attach no importance whatever to their sinister re marks as to the disaffection which prevails among the Austrian troops. They aver that their authority is the account rendered by Austrian officers who have been taken prisoners ; and this, an ingenious dodge enough in its way, may appear credible at first sight to the uninitiated ; but no reliance can be placed upon it. Is it likely that the Austrians would be so ill-advised as to expose any weakness of the kind to the enemy, provided it existed, which we question very much. No want of zeal has been discernible among their forces, and the mischances which they have met with have been chiefly owing to circumstances beyond their control. Time was lost in allowing the Prussians to advance so far, and another great drawback to the success of their efforts has been their inferiority of weapons. The Prussians have certainly shown great skill and foresight in their preparations for this war, and the famous " needle-gun," which they so vaunted, appears to have realised, if it has not ex ceeded, all the expectations formed of it. It seems that to this magic power the Prussians owe the great advantages that they have met with. Before the Austrians had had time to reply to the charges of the enemy the Prussians were enabled to fire three times. According to the accounts of the affair it seems that the numerical superiority of the Austrians availed them nothing in comparison with the decided losses they incurred in consequence of the superior prowess of their opponents. Tho conse quences have been serious, indeed, to the troops of the EMPEROR; and we are more fully able to ap preciate than ever the great disadvantages which have occurred from their not hastening to the as sistance of the Northern States of Germany. Had they at an earlier period withstood the efforts of the Prussians, in all probability by this time they would have been in a far better position, even if they had not actual:y gained their point. Why she should have been in such haste to hurry forward the war in Vienna, when they were so ill-matched with respect to weapons, seems indeed extraordinary, and can only be accounted for by the sort of in fatuation which at times possesses alike individuals and nations. The same means of improvement were open to the Imperial Government that were, available to the authorities in Berlin, and the dif ference seems to have been that one improved the opportunity and the other neglected it. It is gene rally the chief fault of the Austrians that they are too tardy, too slow, to enter upon the consideration of those matter which other nations think are of so much moment. Now that the two chief Powers are for the moment inert, it is natural that attention should be diverted from them to watch the course being pur sued by the other Governments of Europe. France, of course, is of the most importance, and so far as things have gone as yet there seems no reason to doubt the fulfilment of the plan originally proposed, of maintaining a strict neutrality. M. BONIFACE has written an article in the Constitutionnel, in which he seeks to show that there is no cause for disquietude in the public mind. The policy of the EMPEROR, he de clares, is the same, and adds, that although France had no cause to be associated with the passions of war, she cannot be indifferent to the results of a great struggle. The " double resolution" of the Government, as it is emphatically styled, is well known to all. While it seeks not the occasion of war, it will not admit the propriety of one of the belligerents following up its successes by securing those advantages which might " modify the state of Europe, and thus create fresh causes of disturb ances." Only in the event of grave circumstances occurring will the EMPEROR deem it advisable to in terfere. Whoever comes out of this contest as victor will, it is presumed, have sustained sufficient loss to dread recommencing the struggle with France, and therefore will be quite willing to avoid the establishment of those grievances which will offend the just "susceptibilities of France." So speaks the French politician, and no doubt he has confidence in his assertion but we question very much if, in the event of Prussia being victorious, she will condescend to care much for the wish es or to respect the scruples of France. In her most adverse moments she never seems to care much what is expected of her by those who seek to uphold the faith of treaties and wish to con form to the rule of nations • ani it is not likely that, flush e d with success, she will either hear or heed the c ounsels that ay be given to her. If, however, the Prussians should gain the day in Bohemia we shall not grudge them the chance of offending France, and, with the EMPEROR against her, she will not find it so easy to effect her pur pose and carry on her triumphs. The Fourth of July is an important day in the world's calendar, and it will be celebrated in many a distant country, and amid very varying sc enes. The Declaration of Independence lifts left its mark behind it, and great as were the capacities, and dauntless the energies of the men who governed America in that day, they would irobably have been not a little surprised could they have foreseen the position which their descendants would have achieved for themselves within the short space of a century. One hundred years ago how different were the prospects of the colonies ! They were pros perous, thriving communities, no doubt, of whom the farseeing statesman might foretel a gradual development of material wealth; but few, indeed, of the contemporaries of WASHINGTON and CHATHAM could have seen in their dreams of the future the great and powerful country which claims equality with the proudest monarchies of the Old World, whose hands stretch far and wide, whose population is reckoned by tens of millions, whose representatives are at every court, as their vessels, like those of_ Eng land herself, are on every sea. In mechanical and scientific inventions America is second to none, while in the more graceful paths of literature and poetry her children have abundantly proved their abilities. In politics she can boast of many a gifted and patriotic statesman, even though she has some times had to deplore the division of the patriotism and the gifts. In commerce she occupies a position t s important h o rou ghout t h t e h a t the habitable sh o c g k l o b f e e p r civil a r aly war s in wa s b felt usy factories of Lancashire and stimulating the languid energies of the Hiudoo ryot. A long career of un broken peace gave her time to develope, at past in part, the marvellous resources of her soil. She had proved herself strong enough to resist oppression, and Europe was too shaken by her own wars to have leisure to look across the Atlantic, in search of others. America had played her part in stimulating the French Revolution, and after the episode of 1812 she was left to grow in peace and thrive as only peaceful nations can do. But within the last few years she has shown us that we miscal culated her strength and her spirit. Setting aside the moral or political merits of the case, the courage, the resource, the indomitable spirit, and military capacity displayed on both sides during the American war would have reflected honour on the oldest and: most warlike nation in existence. In commerce, in war, in finance, in enterprise, in in vention, the Americans have shown the same spirit, never doubting and copying the example of other countries, but boldly and fearlessly striking out new paths for themselves, confident in their own capacity to pursue them successfully to the end. With such strong lights there must necessarily be shadows, and thoughtful Americans, while rejoicing over the past and the future of their country, must acknowledge the existence of some drawbacks to her character and her fortunes. VOLTAIRE says, in his life of CHARLES XII. of Sweden, that all his virtues were pushed to an extremity at which they became vices, and we see something of this in the American people. The indomitable courage and self-reliance with which WASHINGTON and his associates confronted the majesty of England, exercised without restraint or reason in the every day life of the world, becomes national assumption and intolerance. The spirit of commercial enterprise is pushed to an extreme of reckless speculation, which thinks the magni tude of a failure a matter of boast. The love of country and institutions becomes in its exaggerated form contempt of other nations and other modes of government, while the love of civil and religious liberty, to which America partly owes its origin, grows into such a Babel of voices that only the loudest, most into lerant and unscrupulous, have any chance of being heard. In endeavouring to guard against the evils which they saw in the existing systems of legislation, of religion, and of society in the Old World, American statesmen fell into the dangers of the opposite extreme, and, with an arrogant faction overriding the Congress, with proftrhorg thundering political anathemas from their pulpits, and society, in which the absence of rank and title leaves only the exclusive distinction to wealth and ostentation, Americans, if they are candid, must confess that all the mistakes and vices of the world are not the exclusive property of the eastern hemisphere. Nevertheless the Americans are a great people, and have shown in more than one notable instance the influence of their Anglo-Saxon origin. If they will address themselves in earnest to the removal, or at least the investigation, of these ob stacles to their national progress, if they will con sent to profit by the experience and the history of older and more tried nations, their course will not only be more rapid, but more solid. They are for unate in having at the head of affairs a statesman like ANDREW JOHNSON, impartial and upright in acknowledging the right, and firm in maintaining it; hot to be shaken from his course of constitu tional law and civil liberty by the clamour of faction or the intrigues of partisans ; one who has shown that he will hold his way through good and evil report alike, and that so long as he is entrusted with the guidance of the affairs of the Union, so long will he steer his course in the manner which he conscientiously believes best calculated to further its interests and to protect its liberties. His wise and conciliatory policy has already partially reconciled the disaffected South, . and has averted a breach with England. It speaks well for the decay of prejudice and intolerance in the States that the general feeling of the public supports him strongly. Under his influence the voices of those moderate and thoughtful men, who are best calcu lated to promote the good of the country, can make themselves heard, and the clamour which has too long been accepted as the expression of American opinion loses much of its effect. The Fourth of July, 1866, may well be a day of rejoicing, since the wounds inflicted by the war are beginning to heal, the ter rible cloud of slavery has rolled away, and before the people of the Western Republic there stretches a noble and promising future, on the sole condition that they will consent to remember their dangers as well as their blessings. Mr. GLADSTONE'S refusal to take part in a public Reform meeting was only what might have been anticipated, and his letter to Mr. POTTER, while couched in the most courteous terms, was suffi ciently decisive. The right hon. gentleman can certainly neither be accused nor suspected of indiffe rence to Reform. He has given proof enough of his sincerity, of his energy as a Reformer, and no further speech or address from him on the well worn subject could add to the effect of his previous words. ➢lr. GLADSTONE declares that he thinks it better to confine his efforts as an advocate of Reform to his place in Parliament and to his own constituency, not from any disposi tion to abandon the contest, but as a matter of public no less than of personal prudence. Mr. GLADSTONE can hardly say for himself what others can say for him, that it would be scarcely befitting his political position to put himself forward as a speaker at open-air meetings as a lion at Alessrs. POTTER and HARTwELL's assemblies. He may sympathise with their efforts, and share to_some extent their principles, but to be identified with any particular patty would neither enhance Mr. GLADSTONE'S reputation nor benefit the cause. He has never shrunk from declaring his views, and has maintained them in the face of all opposition, within and without the Cabinet, through the trial of an adverse majority. Ile has shown his readi ness to sacrifice his office for his convictions, and nothing he could do or say at a public meeting would enhance the impression, We hope that Mr. POTTER and his friends will take the hint and con duct their Reform agitation with as much modera tion and as much disinterested sincerity. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FRO3I OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Tuesday Evening. It appears from a St. Petersburg journal, received to-day in Paris, that Russia is engaged in its little game of war as well as many other leading Powers. The Czar has just obtained a great victory in the environs of Itzar over the Sultan of Bokhara. After having lost a thousand men, General Romanoffski attacked the camp of the Emir, who had an army of 45,000 men and a large quantity of artillery. The combat was a short one, but, according to the Russian papers, the results were magnificent. After having lost his thousand men the Emir abandoned his guns, his tents, his materiel, and his wounded, and took flight towards Djonzat, leaving his capital to the mercy of his conquerors, as well as the course of the Oxus, that great river which flows 1,300 miles from Serekol to the sea of Aral. La Liberte compares the policy of Russia to that of England, who, it says, "with wise slowness, but with constant success, adds province to province and kingdom to kingdom to her vast possessions." The Russian troops, after the conquest of Bokhara, which she cannot fail to achieve, will shortly find herself near the advanced posts of the English troops on the limits of the Empire of the Indies on the frontier of the Punjaub. It has long been foreseen that England and Russia must come into contact in Asia. Eng land is now more occupied with preservation than with augmentation. Russia, vanquished in the disastrous campaign of the Crimea, has always con tinued her expansive movement in Asia in the direction of the south, which brings her nearer to the British possessions ; but this does not, however, prevent her from throwing a covetous glance at Europe in the direction of the north-west. Whilst 15,000 soldiers are engaged in the repartition of a few provinces in the centre of Europe, Russia is employing hardly the 54th part of her army in con quering vast kingdoms and fertile countries washed by rivers 13,000 miles in length." The Moniteur, from its latest information, draws the conclusion that in a very short time there must be news of grave events in Bohemia. The Austrians, in concentrating themselves on Kcenigsgraatz, are followed very closely by the Prussians. The eva cuation of Jiciu was attended by a sanguinary com bat, and the loss of men in the series of engagements which has preceded the great battle expected to take place immediately has been very considerable. It is expected that Prague will be occupied by a de tachment of the army of Prince Frederick Charles. This would be an important result, as by this cir cumstance the communications between the Austrian and Bavarian army would be cut off. The Prussians at Prague would be masters not only of the railway line which reaches the Bodenbach towards Dresden, but also of that which by Pilsen and Ratisbon leads to Munich. The Austrians are strongly massed on each side of this territory, presenting a front on all sides in the radius of Josephstadt, and branching upon Kcenigsgraatz. The environs of these two strong places have been inundated, and it is even said that gunboats have been placed on the waters which defend the approach. The contest, there fore, which is foreseen will be between four armies, forming a total of 600,000 men. There is only the improbable case that the Austrians should volun tarily retreat before a battle which can delay them in transporting the scene of war more to the south. Should the Prussians be victorious, they will be able to reach Pardubitz, and form a junction on the line of Pardubitz at Prague, and thus occupy a very advantageous position. On the contrary, should Benedek be victorious, he could not only maintain himself in his positions at Kceuigsgraatz and Josephstadt, but drive the enemy from Bohemia. In the present situation of the Bavarian army, which Benedck expected would make a diver sion in his favour, he is quite isolated from Bohemia, and cannot influence the operations being carried on there. There is no important news yet of the operations of Prince de Hohenzollern towards the Duchy of Nassau, or of Prince Alexander of Hesse, who hitherto limits himself to the covering of Frankfort, rather than attempting to threaten the Prussian possessions. Nor is there anything im portant from Italy. Only a few skirmishes on the banks of the Mincio, and a few musket shots be tween Lombardy and the Tyrol. There is no reliable news respecting the Italian fleet in the Adriatic. It is composed of about 20 vessels, half of them iron-clad. The wet weather on Sunday spoiled the attrac tion of the second day's races at Porchefontaine, near Versailles. Ten horses were entered for the Prix a Relamer, 3,000 f., but only two ran, Nemesis and Esther. Nemesis won easily by three lengths. The winner was claimed by H. Jennings, for 425 f. The handicap (1,500 f.), Rabat Joie beat Ultima easily. Magny won the Poule de Hack (gentle mentphe and allowed only other riders) by a length and a half ; G oo d R ope second. The Steeple Chase, 1 00 f. entrance, was won rber o t il o s s e, win. who Caprice refused a w jump as horse which ran. byß Astrolabea An account is given of a curious and f ur i ous at tack oy tac b km r a o d b e b b e y d an its olnvelsitn and the took vicinity Avraniches. away two of its young ones. The old owl watched the boy home, and for four days hovered over the house. On the fifth day as the boy was going out of the farm the owl puunced upon him and tore out his left eye, and flew off with great rapidity. A Brussels paper mentions that M. Voider, a well-known man of science, has received a rich geo logical prize from Borneo. It is a mass of mineral which contains not only gold but diamonds. It also contains ruthenium, osmium, and sulphur. This is the first time that a mineral has been found com prising so many substances. It is also stated from Belgium that an epidemic now prevails in that coun try among poultry. An inhabitant of Eckeren found in the fields more than 200 dead swallows, and other birds, whose deaths are ascertained to have been caused by some epidemic disease. A scientific Paris paper, remarking upon the re cently-found volcanic island George the First in the Archipelago, says that history affords many similar instances of volcanic eruptions. In the year 237 before Jesus Christ a volcanic eruption separated Theresia from Thera. In the year 184 the island of Nicra, now called Palas - Kaimeni, burst open in the centre, and in 1427 it considerably extended it self. In 1573 the island of Mikro-Kaimeni was found, and from 1707 to 1709 it has not ceased up to these days from occasionally emitting sulphurous vapours. General Prim, who was said by some to have taken part in the late military insurrection at Ma drid, is, it appears, recruiting his health and strength by taking the waters at Vichy. The works at the Grand Opera are now proceed ing with great activity. The principal façade will be embellished with statu es o f Ci maro sa, Pergolese, Bach, and llaydn. In th e gran d ves tibule there will be four statues seat e d , represent i ng the four chiefs of the various sch oo l s of mus ic—Lulir, Ita lian ; Rameau, French ; Gluck, German ; Handel, English. There will also be seven gilt bronze busts, that of Mozart occupying the centre, viz., Rossini, Auber, Beethoven, M ozart, Sport i n i , M e ye r bcer, Ilalevy. Also two bu s t s of dramat i sts, S cr ib e an d Quinault. On the lat era l facades there w ill b e 24 busts of eminent musicians, with the dates of their births. The wet weather continues. It has rained very heavily at intervals throughout the day. A telegram has been read on Change to-day, announcing that the Prussian armies of the Elbe and the Oder had succeeded in effecting their long attempted junction. The fact has since been con firmed by an official telegram f rom Berlin. The following is th e result of the sailing and row ing matches at M ureaux-les-Meulan o f de Sailing Club and Rowing Cl u b. I n the sa ili ng ma t c h N ew York won the pri ze d es M ureaux, Bello Helene that of the Jugiers, an d the gran d pr i ze o f th e Emperor. Tambour B a t tant secon d . At th e row ing match, Franc Milton won the prize of the Regatta Society; Due Job, the prize of Verneiul ; Nip-Nip, the Meulan prize; Saphir, the prize of the Sangle ; and Peraeverance, the grand prize of the Emperor. Rouen races, whizh promise to be very brilliant this year, will take place on Sunday and Monday next, and those of Caen three weeks afterwards. A letter from Madrid states that the sanguinary executions continue in that capital in great num bers, in spite of the efforts of the English, French, and American Ambassadors to induce the Govern ment to stop this wanton and useless effusion of blood. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE WAR IN GERMANY. GITSCIIIN 7 July 3, 8 p.m. The Prussian army has gained another brilliant victory over the Austrians near Sadowa, one mile and a half south of Miletine. GITSCIIIN, July 4 (Morning). After the brilliant victory gained yesterday, the Prussians continued the pursuit of the Austrian army without delay. ANOTHER GREAT BATTLE IN BOHEMIA. HoßiTz, near Gitschin, July 3, 11 p.m. The Prussian army won a complete victory to day over the Austrian army near Konigsgratz, be tween the Elbe and Bristritz. The battle lasted eight hours. No estimate has yet been formed of the loss of the Austrians, or of the number of trophies captured. Twenty guns fell into the hands of the Prussians. All the eight Prussian army corps were engaged, and suffered great loss. BERLIN, July 4. The fresh victory of the Prussians yesterday in Bohemia was announced here this morning by salvos of artillery. (OFFICIAL DESPATCH.) HORITZ, near GITSCHIN, July 3. To-day the Prussian army gained a brilliant vic tory over the entire Austrian army, near Konigs gratz, after an obstinate contest. The losses upon both sides are considerable. The number of our trophies cannot yet be ascertained. The pursuit continues. BRESCIA, July 3. The cannonade of the Austrian gunboats against Desenzano has not caused any damage. The Austrians have constructed bridges of boats at Goito and Alonzambano, which are protected by earthworks. Austrian troops have appeared before Rocca d'Anto, and were fired upon by the fortress. Strong bodies of Austrians are reported before Peschiera and in the neighbourhood. FLORENCE, July 4. Baron Ricasoli has arrived here from the camp. BERLIN, July 4. Count Recke Wolmerstein has issued a notice to the public, announcing that an office for the enrol ment of volunteers has been opened at No. 17, Unter den Linden, in accordance with the authorisation granted him by the Minister of War, to form corps of volunteers. A committee has been appointed to superintend the enrolments, and has announced that the formation of the corps has already com menced, and that it is ready to receive contributions in money towards their equipment. SPAIN. MADRID, July 3 (Evening). The Epoca of to-day says : —" It is believed that in those capitals where Spain is represented lir Legations, the Spanish Consulates will be suppressed, and the consular duties performed by the Secretaries of Legation. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE HANSA. SOUTHAMPTON, July 4. The North German Lloyd's steamer Hansa, from New York on the 23d ult., has arrived. She brings 140 passengers for this port, Havre, and Bremen, $792,168 in specie for England, $102,000 for France, and $1.6,945 for Bremen. CHINA. (By overland telegraph from Galle.) SITANGIIAE, May 24. The reported murder of Consul Mcrrison is con tradicted. Choongan, in the tea districts, has been taken by the rebels. All the local authorities were put to death. It is feared that the export of tea will be affected if the place is not retaken. wenseng is reported to have gained an important victory in the neighbourhoon of Monkden. It is reported that Mr. Morrison, the English Consul at Chefoo, has been murdered while travel ling from Pekin to Hankow. The following are the names of the clipper ships engaged to take the first cargoes of tea from Foo chou :—Fiery Cross, Serica, Taeping, Arid, Tait sing, and Black Prince. HONGKONG, June 13. The llongkong Mint was formally opened by the Governor on the 7th inst. Mr. Macdonald, of her her Majesty's Legation in Japan, is dead. FRANCE. BOURSE, July 3.—Two o'clock.—The market continues to be occupied with the " settlement," which is taking place on improved quotations, and with a deport on nearly all classes of Securities, viz., 15c. on Italian Fives, 6f. on Credit Mobilier and Comptoir d'Escompte, 4f. on Credit Foncier, 2f. on Northern Railway Shares, lf. 50c: on Lyons, and 2f. 50c. on North of Spain. There is only 35c. of report on Austrian Shares, and 45c. on Lombard Shares. Threes, for the Account, have advanced 15c., viz., to 64f., and on Italian Fives 90c., to 41f. 20c. Credit Mobilier Shares have improved Bf. 75c., viz., to 466 f. 25c. ; Spanish Mobilier, 12f. 50c., to 232 f. 50c. ; Credit Foncier, 5f., to 1,160 f. ; and Comptoir d'Escompte, 5f., to 700 f. Better rates are also current in the Railway Department, Northern having advanced 7f. 50c., to 1,087 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 2f. 50c., to 805 f. ; Lyons, lf. 25c., to 795 f. ; and Austrian, If. 25c., to 300 f. An ad vance of is telegraphed on English Consols. The cours de compensation has been fixed as follows : Bank of France Shares 3,400 f., Credit Mobilier 460 f., Comptoir d'Escompte 700 f., Italian Fives 41f., Lyons 795 f., Northern 1,085 f., and Orleans 805 f. Three o clock. —The market has been buoyant towards the end, and Italian Fives have obtained a considerable advance. The last quotations were as follows : 4i4 per Cents 93 Do. end month 3 per Cents 61 25 Do. end month 63 85 Credit Mobilier 467 50 Do. end month 467 50 Credit Fon eier — Do. end month 1165 Bank Shares 3400 Italian Loan 4l 50 Do. end month 42 10 Mexican Loan Do. Bonds Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred rAYS. • • RAIL' For Account. Orleans Northern 1095 Lyons and Mediterranean 797 50 Southern 513 75 Western — Eastern Sardinian . — Austrian . ...... 50 Lombard 292 85 North of Spain Saragossa llO Ditto to Barcelona Lomala Mrs. S. C. Hall's New Irish Story. 4p.-__-____ Has any one seen it ? A little twopenny brochure, one of "Partridge's Illustrated Readings," a "Few Words to the Irish People," the charming authoress herself modestly calls it—a little, thoughtful, droll, persuasive, arresting, impressive story, entitled— and a capital title it is too—" God Save the Green!" Does any one remember that heart-stirring rebel song about " The Wearing of the Green," that Dion Boucicault used to sing nightly last season at the Princess's, in his delectable Irish drama " Arrah-na-Pogue"—The Wearing of the Green ! Those who do meaning those who ever once heard it—have in that one recollection the key to the title of Mrs. S. C. Ball's apropos tale entitled " God Save the Green !" So thoroughly apropos is it that it comes out in the very nick ! And the argument it enforces, it brings before us most en ticingly. The conversation that takes place on the Sunday after mass at Ballymount, between Mark Devereux, and Abey Corish, and Robert O'Sullivan, and the likes of them, is not only flavoured delightfully with the brogue, according to Mrs. Hall's wont, in so many of her famous narratives of Irish life and Irish manners, but to the delight of far more than little Tim Devereux only (that eager lover of all tales worth the telling) is thickly sown with her delightful anecdotes. Here, by way of instant illustration, is one, about TOM LAVERY AND HIS WIFE'S QUARREL ABOUT THE CHEST OF DRAWERS. " Oh, tell us that, granny darlint," exclaimed little Tim Devereux, still holding his grandfather's hand ; " I want a story so bad." " Well, Tim, here it is," said the old woman. " The chest of drawers will stand beautiful under the window,' said Toni Lavery. Under the window !' repeated his wife—as pretty a little woman as you'd see in a day's walk, but with a cruel tongue that would give nineteen to the dozen any day, and not think it a trouble— ' under the window,' she said again, Witt a scornful curl on her lip, it shall never go under the window while I have breath in my body; no, it shall stand forenent the window, whero it will be seen and admired ; under the window, indeed ! I wonder you don't say up the chimney !" It shall go under the window, Moyna Lavery ; it's too asy going I have been with you, intirely. You are never satisfied, full or fasting, and think all the world must curtsey to you ; it shall go under the window, and you'd better not dare hinder it !" It never shall,' said ; I'll pitch the window into the street first.' And I'd pitch you after it for company,' said Tom. On this Moyna raised a wirristhrue' that you'd hear from this to Bantry and Tom's loud voice had more noise than sense in it,—and Tom took the stick to his wife,—and she screamed murder, and at the lucky minute the door opened, and there, sure enough, stood Father Barry, and, as became a holy and good man, he asked them what they were at. and what they were after, and as Moyna had the nimblest tongue, she said ' her husband was that Omathaum that he would have the chest of drawers under the window, which she never would give into, never ! she'd lay her bones in the green churchyard first !" But where's the chest of drawers ?' said Father Barry—and may be the fool's look didn't come over both their faces : ' The chest of drawers,' said one ; Is it the chest of drawers', said the other ; oh, sorra a chest of drawers we have at all—yet.' So I was just thinking it's a good way to get our rights before we take on about them." But the drift of the argument enforced in this most entertaining little pamphlet—can't any one guess it ? Those who have the smallest difficulty in doing so may be helped to a right conclusion on the matter by a fragmentary extract or two from its pages—taken almost hap-hazard. Says one of the interlocutors—" If we studied a little, and looked to our rale interests, I think we'd make as pretty a shamrock as ever had leaves on St. Patrick's day. England, Ireland, and Scotland on the map make a very neat shamrock, only Ireland somehow has been badly cemented on to the other two, or the cement wasn't good." Says the same spokesman—who is James Roche, by the way, the broth of a boy who alters the insurrectionary watch-cry of God Save the Green into God Save the Queen and the Green. Says James —" There isn't one well-born Irishman in the whole throng of Fenians." To be plainer, however, we will group together, and number up while doing so, a few more of these fragmentary quotations from this patriotic talk among the peasants, as the talk is here narrated or reported in reprehension of Fenianism— First—" Uncle, do you mind the time when a bell, such as that which called us to Mass this morning, was never }IPA PA ringing from a c,hapci r. Secondly—" Don't you know that when you were a young man no Roman Catholic could be a judge? Well, there are eight of them among the judges now; and one, an Irishman and a Roman Catholic, is a judge in England, as much respected and honoured as any one among them all." Thirdly—" Don't you remember—it's not so long ago— when there wasn't a single Roman Catholic in any corpo ration in all Ireland ; well, nine out of ten are of our reli gion now, and four out of five of the Mayors are the same." Fourthly—" Was there ono Roman Catholic in it while we had a Parliament ? Not one! There are, maybe, forty in the Parliament that meets in London ; and have'nt we all road of the rows they used to have in that same College Green ? Members sent there by old remnants of old towns—that had no houses—to be bought and sold ?" Fifthly—" Uncle, what was your day's wages for a hard day's work when you were a young man, fortyyears ago?' , Just fi'pence then, and no more." " What would you get now ?" " Well, all the boys hereabouts get a shilling a day ; some more, none less." Sixthly—" Look about us now ; every house is white, the limewash does that. When I was a child we never saw such a thing, except maybe on the doctor's or the priest's; and the filthy pool at the door of the cabin—sel dom ye see it now ! And the pig, hasn't he got a place to himself— sure, that wasn't so when you were young." Soventhly—" Well, and how did ye work the land then?" " Troth, with our own four bones. I mind the time when there was but one plough in the Barony of Inish own." Eighthly—" And how about the eggs ; doesn't Molly get a shilling a dozen for them ?" " She does : more luck to her ; but that wasn't the way long ago; five for a penny wasn't bad marketing, and many's the pair of chickens I've sold for eightpence. Molly gets two shillings a couple for just the same." Ninthly—" Och ! never a pair of shoes had she at all at all; there was not a pair in the whole parish when I was a boy, except the gaugers, and the breed of them gaugers, the Lord be praised! is gone from the country. I'd like to hear what Peggy Deasy, honest woman, or Nelly Doran would say if we told 'em to go to market barefoot ! There isn't a girl in the Barony that hasn't a pair—for Sundays anyway !" Tenthly—" All the boys young and old have dacent coats to their backs now. 'T was another thing intirely in my young days. Even James Mulcahy— "Ah ! what's become of him ; the bocagh that used to bo showing his sores to the people, picking up a bit from door to door, and wearing clothes that ye would'nt touch with a pitchfork." Enough, however, when eve have said what we have said of and quoted what we have quoted from " God Save the Green, by Mrs. S. C. 11a11"--if we commend every true-hearted Irish man, woman, and child in the three kingdoms, who can spare the twopence to that end, to buy it, and read it, and learn it by heart, as a panacea against the virus of Fenianism. MARKETS.—This Day. MARK-LANE. Fresh up to our market, to-day, the arrivals of English wheat were but moderate. The demand for all descriptions ruled inactive, and to have forced sales factors would have been compelled to accept loss money. The market was moderately supplied with foreign wheat. The trade for all descriptions was in a most inactive state, at drooping prices. Floating cargoes of grain were in moderate request but at rather lower prices. Barley was in short supply : the trade ruled steady at late rates. Malt sold slowly at Monday's currency. Oats were in moderate supply, and the trade ruled quiet. Good and fine corn, however, was firm in price. Beans and peas were in short supply, and the trade was steady, at full prices. There was a fair de mand for flour on rather easier terms. SHIP ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English and S cotch 330 20 350 -- 390 Iri;h — Foreign 12,190 5,300 140 1,530 sks. bls. COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES AND PRICES OF GRAIN. For the week ending Juno ~ For the corresponding week 30, 1866. i last year. Qrs. Aver. Qrs. Aver. Wheat 48,260 —sls Od , Wheat 52,540-41s 6d Barley ..... .... 729-94 s Od i Barley 514-27s 6d Oats BOROUG 13. HOP. Tho plantation accounts aro more favourable. Tho hop trade is quiet, yet prices rule firm, WIIITECIIAPEL. Moderato supplies of meat are on sale at this market. The trade is steady at full prices. Per 81b. by the carcase. Beef 3s 6,1 to 5s Od Mutton ... 4s Od to Gs Od Veal 3s 10d to 4s 8d I Pork Lamb, (i dto7s IL Jr...-. i f donaot' eirtubt HER MAJESTY, WINDSOR CASTLE, July 3. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High nssses Princess Helena and Prince Leopold, drove out this morning. Her Royal. Highness Princess Louise, and her Graud-Ducal Highness the Princess of Leiningen, also went out driving. His Serene Highness and her Grand-Ducal High ness the Prince and Princess of Leiningen arrived at the Castle yesterday on a visit to her Majesty. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Christian of Schleswi,g-Holstein, at tended by the Hon. Eliot Yorke, Count Rantzau, and Major-General. F. Seymour, C. 8., arrived at the Castle at 20 minutes before two o'clock this afternoon from Buckingham Palace. Their Royal Highnesses were escorted to the Castle by a detachment of the Royal Horse Guards from the Great 'Western Railway Station. Her Majesty, with the Princesses and the Ladies and Gentlemen in 'Waiting, received Prince Chris tian at the entrance to the Castle. Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Bel gians arrived at the Castle, at ten minutes before five o'clock this afternoon, from London, attended by the Marchioness de Trazegnies Corroy, Countess d'Yve, Count de Lannoy, Count Vander Straten- Ponthoz, M. Jules Devaux, and M. Brewer. Lord Camoys, Lord in Waiting to the Queen, also attended their Majesties. Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses Princess. Helena and Princess Louise, and their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Christian, drove to the station of the Great Western Railway, in Windsor, and met their Majesties and accompanied them to the Castle, escorted by a detachment of the Royal Horse Guards. On arriving at the Castle their Majesties were received at the grand entrance by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, and were conducted to their apartments by the Queen. Lord Methuen and Lieutenant-Colonel W. 11. F. Cavendish have succeeded Viscount Torrington and Lieutenant-Colonel Kingscote as Lord and Groom in Waiting. Lieutenant-General Hon. C. Grey has succeeded Lord Alfred Paget as Equerry-in-Waiting to her Majesty. The Marriage of Princess Helena. Yesterday the festivities incidental to the ap proaching marriage of her Royal Highness Princess llelena with Prince Christian, of Schleswig hol stein, were commenced at Windsor. In the course of the morning it transpired that the Royal bride groom was expected to reach the Castle about half past 1 o'clock, and in consequence the inhabitants and visitors locked in crowds to the Great Western Terminus to see the Prince. About 10 minutes to the time at which Prince Christian was expected to arrive a guard of honour consisting of three ser geants and 100 rank and file of the 3d battalion Grenadier Guards, with the Queen's colours, and the band and drums and fifes of the regiment, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel C. Alexander, marched from the Sheet-street Barracks, and took up a position in the station yard, opposite the arrival platform, and on the east of the Royal waiting-room. An escot of 30 troopers of the Royal Horse Guards, commanded by Lieut. Stewart Aluirhead, entered the yard almost simultaneously with the Foot Guards, and took ground on the west of the private entrance. Precisely at 1 35 the train containing Prince Christian and the Duke of Edinburgh and suite ran into the station. The two princes at once left the train, and courteously returned the salutes of the throng upon the platform, among whom were many of the principal residents at Windsor, the guard of honour presenting arms, and the band playing urn 2i - ,4uunai Autlimu. Escorted by the Royal Horse Guards, Prince Christian and the Duke of Edin burgh drove through the crowd on their way to the Castle, the High-street and other thoroughfares being lined with people. Yesterday afternoon at ten minutes to 4 o'clock their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians left the Paddington station of the Great 'Western Railway for Windsor Castle, in order to attend the nuptials of Princess Helena and Prince Christian. The Royal party travelled in a state saloon attached to a special train, which was under the charge of Mr. Allen. At the Windsor station preparations had been made for the reception of the King and Queen. A guard of honour of 100 men of the 3d battalion of Grenadier Guards, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Alexander, with the band and colours of the regiment, was drawn up facing the Royal entrance, and flanked on each side by the Royal Horse Guards, commanded by Captain Ives, the Marquis of Worcester, and the Hon. E. Carrington. The platform of the station, its ap proaches, and the streets leading to the castle were crowded with spectators, the Queen, in fact, having expressed a wish that none should be excluded from the terminus. Shortly before the time appointed for the arrival of the special, the Duke of Edinburgh reached the station. A few minutes afterwards the Queen, with Princess Helena, Prince Christian, Princess Louise, and Princess Leiningen, attended by the Duchess of Roxburgh, &c., drove into the station yard, and remained in the saloon till the special train arrived at 4 35 p.m. Her Majesty, with Prince Alfred, Prince Chris tian, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and Princess Leiningen, then came out upon the platform, a portion of which had been reserved by Mr. Dawson, the station agent, for the use of the Royal family to meet the King and Queen of the Belgians when they alighted. Her Majesty was very affectionately saluted by the King and Queen, and after the various members of the Royal family had ended their congratulations the whole of the illustrious party moved towards the carriages, and as they did so were received by the guard of honour with pre sented arms, the band playing the Belgian national air. Her Majesty, with the King of the Belgians and the Queen of the Belgians and Princess Helena, occupied the first carriage, and in the second were Prince Christian, the Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Louise, and Princess Leiningen, the other equi pages containing the members of the Royal house hold and suite of the King and Queen of the Belgians. THE PREMATURE DEATH iS mentioned, in our obi tuary this evening, we grieve to note, of the charming• young daughter of one of our popular lady-nove lists—Mrs. Gordon Smythies— her only daughter, indeed, so that the loss sustained by that accom plished lady falls upon her with peculiar poignancy. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.--His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales honoured the performance at thea Royal Italian Opera with his presence last evening. THE THUNDERSTORM AT LoUTIL—A correspon dent says :—" Never - within the recollection of any person living at Louth have thunder and lightning appeared so fearful as on Saturday last in this locality. The flashes of lightning were vivid in the extreme, and succeeded each other instantaneously, and the peals of thunder were like the combined roar of several parks of artillery. These were accompanied by hail and rain iu torrents, by the former the whole of the windows in front of the residence of 0. Sharploy, Esq., of Kelstern, were broken. At Fotherby, near Louth, one beast was killed by the lightning. At. Baumber, near Horncastle, nino beasts were killed, and at Hutton ono man was killed and three others seriously in jured by the same agency.—Eastern Morning News. ILLNESS OF THE BISHOP OF HEREFORD.—The Bishop of Hereford (Dr. Hampden) is so seriously ill that he is unable to hold the series of confirmations which he announced for the present month. The duty will conse quently bo undertaken by the Bishop of Worcester, who will be assisted by the Bishop of Lichfield. FATAL ACCIDENT ON TIIE RIVER.-- : 011 Monday evening a young man named Walter Herring lost his :life at Lambeth-pier. The unfortunate man was in toxiwted, and in leaving the steam-boat by which ho wa a passonger, accidentally tripped his foot against the dummy, was no doubt stunned and fell into the water, im mediately sinking. A companion, named Rowland, im mediately sprang in after him, but his effort was unhappily unsweesdai, in s The] Con. prop to n: Reu Ver OW ii lfV( Ci 1) 1 ll;