The Sun. — London, England, 1866-06-26 00:00:00

THE PRUSSIAN ARMY. (From the Tinzes' Military Correspondent.) GORLITZ 7 June 21. The Prussian dash into Saxony has been a great military_ success. It has given Prince Frederick Charles the advantage of being able to attack the Austrians as they issue with a narrow front from the passes of the mountains, instead of being obliged to fight them on their own terms in an open country, as would have been the case had they been allowed to occupy this kingdom. At the present moment the Prussian patrols and pickets are pushed close up to the Austrian frontier, the issue of the narrow defile which the Elbe cleaves in the Erz-Gebirge is secured, the Saxon army has retired into Bohemia, and without pulling a trigger the Prussian army has by the rapid action of its chief gained as great advantages as could have been looked for from a victorious battle in this part of the theatre of war. There is only one point in Saxony where Saxon troops are still found, and where the Saxon stan dard is still hoisted. The little fortress of Konig stein, situated on an isolated sandstone cliff on the left bank of the Elbe, about nine miles from the Austrian frontier, is still occupied by a Saxon gar rison. Inaccessible from the steepness of the rock on which it stands, and at a considerable distance from the surrounding heights, this fortress has never been reduced. From the hill of Lilienstein, which stands on the opposite side of the river, and has a command over the fortress of more than 150 feet, Napoleon attempted to bombard Konigstein, but his artillery was not heavy enough to send shot over the 3,000 yards which separate the summit of the two hills. With their rifled cannon the Prus sian artillery could now easily, from the hill of Lilienstein or from that of Paffenstein on the op posite side, engage the guns of the fort on equal terms, but it is doubtful whether the Prussian com mander will deem it worth while to drag artillery to the top of these steep hills in order to force the capitulation of the small garrison of 1,200 men, who, in the event of Saxony remaining in his possession, must fall into his hands, and, in case of his being obliged to retire, can add so little to the force of his enemies. It is more pro bable that Konigstein, guarded by its escarpments and impossibility of approach, will still be allowed to retain its reputation for impregnability. In most of the villages and hamlets of Saxony, certainly in all those which lie on roads leading to the frontier, Prussian soldiers are billeted; cavalry and artillery horses fill the farmsteadings of the border farmers, and field guns and artillery car riages are packed on many a village green. But the Saxons have no complaints to make, and, as far as can be judged from appearances, seem highly to ap prove the occupation of their country by the Prus sian army. The Saxon peasantry and the soldiers are on the most friendly terms, and a stranger who did not know the Prussian uniform, in passing through the villages, would suppose that the troops were quartered among the people of their own coun try. As soon as the Prussian vanguard crossed the frontier, Prince Frederick Charles issued a most stringent order, in which he insisted on the troops showing every respect for private property and for the comfort of the inhabitants. This order has been strictly observed both by officers and men, but not from fear of the military punishment which would be the consequence of its transgression. The kind hearted soldiers have brought with them none of those horrors which too often follow in the train of an army which occupies a strange country. On the contrary, were it not for the swords and bayonets of patrols which glitter in the sun along every road, the scene is one of perfect peace. In come places the men are helping the peasantry to carry the hay harvest, in others they may be seen working in the cottage gardens, and nearly always are spending money in the village shops ; the bare-legged coun try urchins get taken up for rides on the cavalry or artillery horses as they go to be watered, or are invited, half afraid, to peep into the muzzle of a rifled gun, and only when, with the contempt bred by familiarity, some too adventurous young ster tries to introduce a handful of cornflowers into the mouth of a piece of ordnance is he warned off the precinct of the battery by the reluctant sentry. The Hanoverian troops are reported to have been obliged to retreat to Gottingen, and to have failed in making good their passage to the Main. If this be true they are in a precarious position, for General Manteuffel has united with General von Falkenstein at the town of Hanover, and together they have marched on Ilildesheim. General von Beyer has cut off the communication to Frankfort, so that, pressed on both sides by superior forces, the liano verians seem to have little hope of escape. No news as yet of an Austrian advance in force. On the 18th a patrol crossed the frontier of Upper Silesia at Guau, a village about five miles east of Pless, and exchanged shots with a Prussian patrol ; OR the 19th an officer, escorted by a few Hussars, crossed the same frontier at Klingebeutel, and came into collision with a Prussian cavalry patrol. A very slight skirmish ensued, but without, so far as has been ascertained, any harm being done to either side. This is all that is certainly known of the Aus trian movements. How long Marshal Benedek's long silence is to endure, or -what it portends, time alone can show. Some think he is uniting the Bava rian and Saxon armies with his own, and intends to come down into Saxony in overwhelming force by the Upper Saale and Leipsic, while others adhere faithfully to the idea that Silesia is destined to see the first battle. It is reported in the papers here that Austria, Bavaria, and Wurtemberg have requested Baden to take up arms against Prussia, and have threatened in case of refusal to make a partition of the Grand Duchy. As the army of Baden musters only about 9,500 infantry, 1,800 cavalry, 1,500 gunners, with 38 field guns and 150 pioneers, a total field force of not quite 13,000 men, with a reserve of 2,800 in fantry, 400 cavalry, and 500 artillery and engineers, with 15 siege guns, or a total force of about 16,700 combatants, the presence of this unwilling ally in the field would hardly compensate to the southern league for the shock such a threat would give to the public mind of Europe. The names of the general officers who command the different corps d'armee are as follows :—The Ist Corps, levied and recruited in the province of Prus sia Proper, is under the command of General von Bonin; the 2d, or Pomeranian Corps, of Ge nera l von Schmit ; the 3d, or Brandenb u rg Corps, and the 4th, or Saxon, have no command at the present mo ment, and are considered to be under the immediate control of Prince Frederick Charles ; the sth, or Posen Corps, is under General von Steinmitz ; the 6th, or Silesian, under Von Mutius ; the 7th, or Westphalian, is in Hanover under General von Falkenstein ; the Bth, or Rhineland, is commanded by General Herwarth von Bittenfeld, who seems to be - called indiscriminately Herwarth or Bittenfeld. The great body of the cavalry is under Prince Albrecht, and the corps of the guard is commanded by Prince Auguste.of Wurtemberg. The destructive effects of war are as yet confined to railw ays, to telegraph wires, and bridges. Three fine bridges have already been sacrificed. The wooden bridge over the Elbe at Riesa was burnt by the Saxons the night before the Prussians entered their territory; the stone bridge of Meissen was blown up by the Saxon army on its retreat. In Upper Silesia the bridge of Alyelowitz has been blown up by the Austrians, and that of Oderberg is mined and ready to be fired. The army of Wurtemberg is reputed to be hasten ing towards the north, and the troops of Hesse- Cassel to have given up the hope of being joined by the Hanoverians, and to have retired to Frank. fort. No later news has been received from. Got tingen, so that the fate of the Hanoverian army i s at present unknown. The Prussian military authorities have taken care to make the inconveniences of the present state of affairs sit as lightly as possible on the inhabitants of the country in which their troops are quartered. Passenger traffic on the railways of Saxony is re sumed, except where the broken bridge of Riesa causes a gap which is not yet closed. Telegraphic messages are received at the bureau, and are cer tainly delivered in the neighbourhood ; whether hose to England. reach their destination as certainly is a matter of doubt, for the lines in Hanover are not supposed to be in workiug order. The patrols of Austrian troops wh . 1. have ap peared in Upper Silesia have not been f( Rowed up to the present time by any columns of invasion. The time which has elapsed since their a?rearance seems to augur that they were not the precursors of an attack ; it appears more probable that they were either sent forward purely to gain information, or that, as Austrian troops were being moved from the district about Cracow to the west, they made a feint, en passant, against Silesia, with the object of drawing the attention of the Prussian commanders from the real point of attack. Where this real point will be no one on this side of the frontier can know for certain. The issues of thepasses are well watched on this side, and beacons are established on every bill, and beside them sentries stand constantly ready to set them on fire and so flash from hilltop to hill top the news of the enemy's approach. These bea cons are made with straw wrapped thickly round tall poles and daubed plentifully with pitch ; beside each stands an improvised sentry-box, also of straw, which affords in the meantime shelter from the sun or rain to the sentinel, and which will also serve in case of necessity to add to the brightness of the flame of the beacon. The roads leading to the fron tier are constantly patrolled both by night and day; while vedettes and pickets are found on the rise of every knoll and the corner of every wood. _ _ _ The Prussians have not been careless witnesses of the great struggle in America. The organisation of the army shows that its administrators have eagerly noted all the results of modern science and advanced civilisation which the contest between the Federals and Confederates called into the service of war. Orders and reports are no longer conveyed tardily by aides-de-camp or orderlies ; they are flashed from corps to corps along the wires of the telegraph, for to each head-quarters a field telegraph division is attached, which as soon as head-quarters are established connects the temporary bureau of the chief of the staff with the nearest permanent telegraph station. We have this evening received intelligence that the harbour of Bremen has been occupied by the Prussian gunboats, but we have still no authentic news of the Hanoverian army. Prussia is about to raise 40,000 men in Holstein, and is said to have called for the contingents of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz. This, with the capture of the Hanoverian army, will place nearly all the fighting men of Northern Ger many in the Prusgian ranks. Either side has now done its best to enter with as strong an army as possible on the campaign, the issue of which must decide whether the supremacy in Germany is to belong to the Protestant and progressive North, or to the Catholic and Coti , ervative South. Royal Geographical Society. Yesterday evening the last meeting of the session of this society was held in Burlington House—the president, Sir Roderick Murchison, in the chair. A very interesting paper was read by Mr. BAKER, describing his researches in Abyssinia and his attempt to trace one of the chief affluents of the Nile to its source, some years before he explored the sources of the White Nile to the Albert Nyanza. Mr. Baker started from Kartoun in 1861, and endeavoured to trace the courses of the Utbarra river, which flows into the Nile about the 14th degree of north latitude. He stated that the White Nile, which takes its rise from the great equatorial lakes of Africa, is a turbid though continuous stream until it receives the waters of the Blue Nile, and that the increase in the quantity of water in those two rivers during the rainy season is not sufficient to account for the extent of the periodical overflow. It was with the uiew of ascer taining to what cause that overflow is to be attri buted that he undertook to explore the other princi pal affluent which flows into the Nile not far from Kartoun. In early spring, when he commenced his exploration, the bed of the river was quite dry, but its course could be traced by the mimosa trees grow ing on the banks, the intermediate space resembling the sandy desert on each side. In pursuing his course in a south-easterly direction towards Abys sinia he occasionally came to large deep pools or h►kes, one of which was a mile long, wherein all the animals that had lived in the river thronged, in cluding great numbers of crocodiles and hippopo tami. Mr. Baker gave an interesting account of the condition of those lakes, and of the animals and birds that resorted to them from distant quarters for drink, and of the plans adopted by the natives to kill them. After having progressed for several hundred miles along the banks of the dried up river, he was disturbed during the night of the 23d June by a great commotion in his encampment, and a loud noise was heard approaching, which was occa sioned by the rush of water. In a few hours the bed of the river was full, and a stream 20 feet deep and 500 yards broad flowed where there had been only a sandy hollow. The rainy season on the moun tains of Abyssinia had commenced, and the country which before was arid became suddenly covered with herbage. This continued until the end of September, when water began gradually to decrease. It is a curious fact that the natives are obliged to leave the country as soon as the water flows, on account of the swarms of flies that accompany it, and which destroy all the animals. These flies are about the size of a wasp, their bodies are striped, and their bite is so virulent that the animals they at tack are killed. Mr. Baker mentioned that millions of them settled on the body of a cameleopard he had shot and prevented him from skinning it. He penetrated to the mountains of Abyssinia, where the river took its rise,and found the country most beautiful, though an extensive tract of land was a wilderness in conse quence of the hostility of the tribes to each other. He stated that one of those tribes is distinct from Arabs and from Egyptians, being quite black, with woolly hair, and between them and the Arabs there exists a deadly hatred. Mr. Baker gave an amusing account of the manner in which he had been received by one of the chiefs, who sent a minstrel to receive him, accompanied by a man bearing a violin, on which he performed and sang an ode recounting many fabulous adventures that Mr. and Mrs. Baker had passed through, for which there was no foun dation. When Mr. Baker returned to the Nile, he observed that nearly at the same period of the year that the river he had traced became flooded the waters of the Blue Nile also increased ; and he in ferred that the principal cause of the periodical over flow of the Nile in Lower Egypt is the drainage of water from the mountains of Abyssinia during the rainy season, for many large streams from those ' mountains flow into the affluent Mr. Baker explored before it enters the Nile. Another highly interesting paper connected with Aby inia Was read, ( being a communication from Mr. Rassam, the ss letter from the gentleman app o i n t e d t o d e li ver a Queen to Th eo d ore, t h e Ki ng o f Abyssinia, for th e deliveryein captivity of i the English a n d o th er Europeans who were tvity th ere . The corn munication was addressed to Colon e l Pl ay f a i r, Bri tishby the King, Consul at Zanzib ar , and it desc r ib e d very m i nu tely the reception of Mr. Rassam w ho treated him with great attenti on and profuse m a pre sen t o f hospitality, lo,oo o andinsisted on making hi dollars. The King received him reclining on a couch within a silk tent, and when the letter from the Queen was presented to him, he received it with great respect, but as there was no inter preter present, it was merely laid on the couch. On the following morning Mr. Rassam was sent for again, and the King, after having expressed much desire to be on friendly terms with the Queen, consented to the liberation cf all the captives-18 in number. The cause of their being placed in ' captivity was afterwards read to them openly, and they admitted that they were to blame. The King seemed to be anxious to make it appear that he had had sufficie n t cause f or d eta i n i ng t h em pr i son ers. They were at th e d a t e o f t h e l etter i n A pr il l as t re siding near the b or d ers o f a lake, not far from the r oyal residen ce , and were well treated, though the means of leaving Mr. Rassam Was. Abyssinia had not been accorded. the . meantime treated w ith the same honour as the SBong some nts . himself, and on one occa sion a procession of came to honour him. Dr. BEKE m a d e soin remarks on the su bj ec t, i n which he mentioned that it was a project of the King of Abyssinia to direct the course of one of the affluents of the Nile to the Red Sea. Colonel PLAYFAIR stated that the communication was not intended to be read in public, for it was only a private letter to himself, which, however, he thought it would be interesting to make known to the Geographical Society. The PRESIDENT congratulated the Society on having had a very successful session, and adjourned the meeting to November next. Railway Intelligence. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held yesterday at the International Hotel, London bridge ; Mr. P. N. Laurie in the chair. Mr. Slight, the Secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting, The CHAIRMAN said he had two bills to submit for their approval. The first was for defining the un dertaking and railways of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company, and for defining and regulating their capital and mortgage debt and their powers of raising moneys, and for authorising them to make and maintain new lines of railway, and for other purposes. The present company was incorporated in 1846, and during the last 20 years they had obtained different Acts of Parliament, making altogether about 60 Acts ; and it was some times difficult to find the powers conftlrred on the company. The bill he had to submit would define in one Act the stock and borrowing powers of the company, the powers of voting, and other matters. The preamble alone occupied 25 pages. The various powers were consolidated in the bill, in which they had authority to issue 5 per cent. consolidated pre ference stock. They had at present 16 different stocks, including 7 per cent., 6 per cent., 5 per cent., and 4f per cent. preference stocks. They would have power to convert the different preference stocks into the 5 per cent. consolidated stock he had men tioned. So that any proprietor receiving £lOO a year from his holding in those stocks would be able to convert it into £2,000 of the 5 per cent. consoli dated stock, giving him exactly the same income. They had power to make a few short junction lines. One at Worthing by which they would be enabled to bring their friends direct to London over the Henfield anl Mid-Sussex branch. COL BARTTELOT, M.P., seconded the motion, ap proving the bill, and it was carried unanimously. ___ The CHAIRMAN said the next was a bill to enable the company to make new railways in substitution for portions of their St. Leonard's line, a new rail way at Hastings, and other works. It authorised about four miles of railway, and by means of an arrangement with the South-Eastern Company it would be unnecessary to make the new line between Hastings and St. Leonards. They would have the joint use of the existing line and a joint station at Hastings, which was so far satisfactory. A formal resolution approving the bill was unani mously adopted. The CHAIRMAN then alluded to the company's campaign in Parliament respecting the Lewis and Brighton Bill with disappointment and regret, but he said they were by no means disheartened, as they hoped to have justice done them in the House of Lords. A new principle seemed to be adopted in the Commons, of aiding competition between two ter minal points, as no intermediate or additional ac commodation was wanted between London and Brighton. The directors would do their best to de feat the decision in favour of that bill, which was founded purely on competition. There was, unfor tunately, no fixed or settled principle of legislation on railways. A principle upon which a bill seemed to be approved in one committee would be rejected in another. They opposed the Clapham and Ken nington Bill of the South-Eastern and London, Chat ham, and Dover on financial grounds, showing that the object of the line was opposition, and not for the purpose of meeting the requirements of the dis trict, and the bill was rejected. But the committee on the South-Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover (Lewes and Brighton) Bill would not allow the Brighton Company to tender evidence on any of the points which in another committee caused the rejection of the Clapham and Kennington Bill ; in forming them that if they did not tender evidence on these points it would have bo effect on the deci sion. This excluded what the directors considered was important evidence. As to the statement by the chairman of the South-Eastern Company, that the directors of the Brighton Company did not meet him in a conciliatory spirit, it was not exact. They felt that the projected line to Brighton was a hos tile line, and that it was their duty to oppose it. They would soon open a second line to Brighton, and if more accommodation was requisite they would soon after have a third line available for Brighton traffic. So the directors of the Brighton Company could not possibly admit that there was any neces sity for a competing line to Brighton, nor could they take any part in its construction. Neither the South-Eastern nor the Chatham and Dover Company had any right to go to Brighton. They could not possibly receive them in a conciliatory spirit on such a subject. The Fenians were not re ceived in a very conciliatory spirit in Canada, and it was not to be expected that the invasion of those companies could be received in a conciliatory spirit at Brighton. They were quite as ready as those companies could be to make arrangements for a lasting peace ; leaving it to be settled by arbitration with respect to places, such as Hastings and Dorking, to which they both ran trains. They had given notice to the Chatham Company, who were under a Parliamentary obligation to accommodate the Brighton Company's trains to Ludgate. With respect to the user of the Charing-cross and Can non-street stations the terms asked were of such an amount they could not be acceded to, but if left to settlement by arbitration, that would be a different thing. They fully anticipated that the Brighton Bill would be dealt with differently in the House of Lords. They had already undertaken to complete 55 miles of railway in East Sussex alone, at a cost of £1,400,000, and in addition to that the Brighton Company two years ago had considerably reduced the rates and fares on their lines. Supposing the present Brighton Bill lost, there would be access to Brighton from Kensington station, Victoria station, Pimlico, Ludgate-hill, and London-bridge, and also by means of the East London line from Broad Street, city, through the Thames Tunnel, to the Brighton line at New-cross. They would leave no effort unexhausted to promote the interests of the company, and no doubt they would be successful. The proceedings concluded with a -vote of thanks to the chairman. GREAT WESTERN. The adjourned Wharncliffe meeting of this com pany was held yesterday at the Paddington station; Mr. Gooch, M.P., in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said the only business left was the consideration of a bill for the amalgamation of the Vale of Neath Railway Company with the Great Western Railway Company. This bill had been fully discussed last year. He had merely to move a resolution approving it.. Mr. LANCASTER wished to know if it affected the Great Western Company. Mr. YOUNG (the solicitor) said the clauses pro vided for the amalgamation of the Vale of Neath Company with the Great Western. The priority of preference dividend of the Vale of Neath Com pany was protected, and the capital of that com pany was to be kept distinct from the capital of the Great Western Company. The bill also provided for the appropriation of the surplus lands of the Vale of Neath. The CHAIRMAN said the agreement was that the Vale of Neath Company should have 5.26 per cent. of the net receipts of the amalgamated companies. It was agree& that the Vale of Neath was not to receive less than £85,000 per annum. A resolution approving the bill was then unani mously carried, and a vote of thanks to the chair man concluded the proceedings. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 26, 1866. BEDFORD AND NORTHAMPTON. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held yesterday' at the offices, Westminster-chambers, Victoria-street--Mr. J. Howard in the chair. The Solicitor read the heads of a bill authorising the company to construct new lines of railway, to abandon portions of the authorised line, and to raise further moneys. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN a formal reso lution approving the bill was unanimously adopted NORTHERN OF CANADA. The gross receipts of this company's line (94 miles in length), from the Ist of January to the 26th of May, amounted to £39,662, and for the corre sponding period last year to £38,025, showing an increase of £1,637. ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN. The traffic receipts on this company's lines (507 miles in length), from the Ist of January to the 31st of May, amounted to £358,058, and for the corresponding period of 1865 to £293,219, showing an increase of £64,839. CENTRAL ARGENTINE. The first section of the Central Argentine, from the port of Rosario eo the Tortugas, in the province of Santa Fe, was opened for public traffic on Ist May last, and although the distance is only 70 miles, the railway will be found a great convenience, inasmuch as it saves passengers one night on the road, and the bullock-cartmen or public carriers in the provinces from being obliged to pass the Car caranal river with their unwieldy conveyances. The Carcaranal bridge is stated to be one of the best specimens of English workmanship in South Ame rica. On the occasion of the opening of Congress on the 6th ult., the Vice-President of the Republic, Dr. Don Marcos Pay, in his message to the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, remarked as follows : " The great expenses caused by the war have de prived the Government of expending in useful works such as roads and bridges, and limited it to the continuation and completion of works already commenced. The most important work in the country is the Central Argentine, the first sec tion of which, 70 miles to the river Tortugas, is complete and open to public traffic. Early in August the line will be finished to San Geronimo (Frayle Muerto), 120 miles from Rosa rio. The great activity of the contractors, Messrs. Brassey, Wythes, and Wheelwright, in pushing the works ahead deserves especial praise, and particu larly the untiring labours of Wheelwright, the con cessionnaire. Government has omitted no endea vour to fulfil its stipulations with the company, and I think it right to remark that Mr. Wheelwright fias commenced surveys for the continuation of the line from Cordova to the other province, a scheme of the greatest importance ;for this country and destined to work a revolution in the social and industrial resources of the Republic by facilitating transportation, and calling into great demand many of the Argentine products as yet comparatively speaking unknown." When the railway shall have been finished as far as the city of Cordova it will monopolis all the traffic, passengers as well as goods, between the extremi ties of the line, as also of the intermediate points. The line will not have competition from the carretas, or cargo cart, which the railways of Buenos Ayres have. It will take all the traffic of the interior for the coast and vice versa. The number of inhabitants on the line of the Central Argentine is admittedly less than on the Buenos Ayrean lines ; but in Cordova and the other provinces there is a population of more than 500,000, who will have need of the Central Argentine as passengers, trans port of merchandise, and produce. For several years to come the port of Rosario will be the only outlet to the coast for all the interior provinces, and when the line is open the entire distance to Cordova, 250 miles, the merchandise now sent from Chili and other ports on the Pacific will come by this rail way. Moreover, the lands contiguous to the Cen tral Argentine are being daily settled, which will cause much more traffic both in passengers, pro duce, and merchandise. It is confidently expected that when the line has been opened to public traffic in its whole length for one or two years it will not be required of the national Government to make any disbursement whatever on account of their guarantee of 7 per cent., but rather the effect of this great enterprise will be to lighten the na tional expenditure by economising the subventions tile Government at present pays to the provinces of Santa Fe and Cordova. RAILWAY BILLS. In Lord Redesdale's Committee, on Friday, the following bills were passed :—The Thorpe and Great Clacton, to raise £40,000 by shares and £13,300 by loan ; the London and North-Western and Cockermouth and Workington (Amalgama tion ; the Middlesborough Extension and Improve ment, to borrow £31,000 ; the London and North- Western and Whitehaven Junction (Transfer), and the Cannock Chase and Wolverhampton. In Room C the following bills were heard and adjourned :—The Edgware, Highgate, and London; the Midland (Settle to Carlisle ; and the Caledo nian (Greenock and Gourock Extension). In the Standing Orders Committee the following bills were passed :—Solway Junction (Capital), and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Cen tral Station and Lines). In Room B, House of Lords, yesterday, the fol lowing bills were passed :—The Shrewsbury and North Wales and Shrewsbury and Potteries Junc tion (Amalgamation) ; the Devon Valley and North British (Arrangements), to raise £20,000 by shares; the Great Northern and Western of Ireland, to raise £30,000 by shares and £lO,OOO by loan ; the North British (Camps, &e., Branches), to raise £73,000 by shares and £24,300 by loan; the Houn slow and Metropolitan ; the Redford and North ampton ; the Cambrian (New Works) ; and the Glasgow and South-Western (Additional Powers), to raise £217,000 by shares and £72,300 by loan. The following bills were adjourned :—The Lan cashire Union, the Wycombe and the North- Western and Charing-cross. In Lord Redesdale's Commitee, the London, Worcester, and South Wales Bill was passed. In Room C, the Midland (Settle to Carlisle), and the Caledonian (Greenock and Gourock Ex tensions), to raise £410,000 by shares and £136,600 by loans, were passed. In the Standing Orders Committee, the Upavon and Andover Bill was passed. In the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Commons the following bills were passed :—The Central Ireland, to enable the Waterford and Kilkenny and the Kilkenny Junction Companies to raise £llO,OOO by shares and £36,600 by loan, and the Sligo and Ba]laghaderreen, to raise £lO,OOO by shares and £3,330 by loan. The East India Irrigation and Canal, and the Madras Irrigation and Canal Bills were adjourned. In Group 17, the preamble of the Rhymney Bill to raise £90,000 by shares, and £30,000 by loan, was proved. SURREY HOP GARDENS.—The hop gardens at Farnham and adjacent districts have considerably im proved, and are now in healthy condition, and the process of " christening" took place yesterday—a ceremony observed on Midsummer-day, in ascertaining if the hopbine has topped the pole. Cy der and ale are given to labourers on this occasion, [ADVERTISEMENT.] -- Dyspepsia (indigestion), constipa tion, debility, consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach and Liver complaints in every stage, are only aggravated and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectly cur able by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been con sidered hopeless, such as—cough, asthma, also diarrheas, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheum•itism, gout, im purities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritAbility, sleepless ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in preg nancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains in the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few :—Cure No. 46,276. Mr James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and par tial deafness.—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of ex treme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings; low spirits, and nervous fancies. —Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, lord lieut. of aterford, of many years' dyspepsia. —No. 49,832. Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting—Maria Joly —cure No. 54,8:6. The Rev. James T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, of indigestion and torpid ity of the liver, which had resisted all medical treatment. — In tins, 11b, 2s 9d; 21b, .4f; fki ; 51b, lls ; 121 b, 22$ ; 241 b, 40s.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London ; also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King William-street ; likewise at Si, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopsg,ate street Within ; 83, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 830, Strand; 54, Upper Baker-street ; 1 03, John's-wood, London; and all t Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notting-hill; Close Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St. t Tot tenham - court-road respectablenha m grocers - co u r t - r o and ; a g e :, math—Beware of maims imitations. Agricultural Prospects. The week opened with a breezy day, and some smart showers at intervals. Wind W. Monday morning was wet, and it rained great part of the day, proving very unfavourable for haymaking. Wind S.W. Thermometer 57 degs., barometer 29.60 in., and still falling. Tuesday was a tolerably fine day, slight rain only falling at 3 p.m. Our advices from Lancashire on that day stated : " The weather has been changeable ; frequent hail showers, with a low temperature for midsummer, yet all the growing corn and root crops throughout West Lancashire are favourably reported of, though vegetation is more backward than usual, and a late harvest seems probable. The farmers speak less favourably to-day of potatoes, but of all other well." From the West Riding of Yorkshire it was remarked—" We have had almost :continuous rain since Sunday night, and it should now supply the springs. The late-growing grass will thus stand a chance of doing good, and all other crops have plenty of moisture." Another account says—" We have had two very wetcold day, and the growing crops cannot make much progress this very cold weather." From the East Riding it was observed : " Weather for the last few days has been cold and uncongenial, and a great quantity of rain has fallen already, more than is beneficial to the wheat plant, and a continuance of such would soon be detrimental, and endanger the coming crop." Fro.n Suffolk the same day it was stated—" Gloomy wet weather, with low tem pera,ure, does not favour the growing crops, which look backward and not promising." From another part of the same county our advicrs say—" We have had nice growing showers, and our crops are evi dently improving in appearance, although our pro mise is not first rate ; room for improvement." From Northumberland it was reported—" The weather was fine on. Thursday and Friday, but with those exceptions it has been damp and cold since our last, with showers of hail on Sunday. The wind has veered from E. to S.W. and N.W." Wednes day was a cloudy day, but with scarcely any rain until 5 p.m., when there was a slight fall for two hours. From the west coast of Scotland it was stated : " The weather is warm and dry." Thurs day was a warm sunny day, and most probably much hay would be put forward. and perhaps on to cock, being thus safer. Wind was L.S.W., to S.S.E. Thermometer 64 deg., barometer 29.95 inches, and falling. There was a smart thunder storm from 9 to 10 p.m., with very heavy rain. This appears to have extended from the south to the north coast of England at about the same time. On that day our advices run frem Hertfordshire,: —" Hay-cutting has now commenced generally : corn. is improving ; but wheat will not be a heavy crop." From Warwickshire it was said :—" We have had another week of showery and dull, but very growing weather, and the crops, especially of grass, have improved wonderfully." From Suffolk it was remarked :—" During the week we have had cold weather, with some rain, until yesterday To-day is again warm, but the appearance is still unsettled. As regards the crops, we do not hear much actual complaint, but there is a general feeling that of wheat we cannot expected a full quantity." Friday morning was threatening and cloudy, but cleared up, and turned out a very warm day, with the wind from N.W. From the West Riding of Yorkshire we hear, " We have had a very fine sun shiny day, the first we have had for three weeks." From Lincolnshire our advices say, " Rain has at last fallen, and now there is too much of it, for the land is too wet for working, and consequently tur nip sowing does not progress. The growing corn is wonderfully improved, and there will be a good prospect for harvest unless the fall of rain should be enormously great. There was never less in the farmers' hands than at the present moment ; so, if Germany prohibits the export of grain, there must be a very considerable advance in price on this side. Turnips promise badly, the fly being very destruc tive." From Devonshire : " Weather become bright and hot, and hay-making going on in earnest. The gtowing crops look healthy, but during the last week farmers say barley promises better crop than wheat, the latter not only being thin on the land, but ears small. A. fortnight of hot weather will enable us to speak more decidedly about weat." Saturday was fine and warm, mostly sunny, a prime hay day, and this work will go on satisfactorily wind N.N.E. to E. Last week we closed our markets by encourag ing the agriculturalist to look for immediate im provement in prices. This has taken place, and the prospects are more cheering than for a long time past, so that those who hold stocks may derive no little benefit from so favourable a change.—Mark lane Express. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The Ministerial announcement yesterday was two-fold. First, there was the formal state ment—little more than a repetition of what was said a week ago—that Lord Russell had tendered his re signation, that it had not been accepted, and that nothing could now be determined or said till he had seen her Majesty, which he hoped to do to-day at noon. This left open all the floating conjectures as to resignation, dissolution, modification, or what not. Another announcement has been made, not so formal, but yet important. We yesterday pre pared our readers for it, and might, indeed, have prepared them for it earlier, had we shared the general want of reserve which seems to have cha racterized this crisis. As every one now knows, there has been an attempt to provide for Govern ment that means of retreat which from first to last they professed to cut off from themselves, and proudly rejected when offered. Mr. Gladstone had burnt his ships and his bridges, and thrown aside all impediments. So when the check came he found himself without even the means of in trenching himself in the face of a foe. We as serted, and still assert, that the vote of yesterday week was not a vote upon confidence, and that it need not have been fatal either to the Ministry or to Reform. The Opposition most consistently maintained that upon a division in favour of a rateable franchise the figures would remain to be settled, and they ought to have been taken at their word. No doubt, there was the intention to delay and obstruct, and finally defeat, the measure if pos sible, but intention counts for nothing in these con troversies. At all events, there was the question whether, by Parliamentary rule, Government should be considered as having lost the confidence of the house, as well as all hope of carrying the bill. It was open to them to force a decision upon the new question which had arisen, whether they possessed the confidence of the house or not. The truth is that Mr. GLADSTONE has so frequently talked as if the fate of the Government, the Parliament, the Constitution, and the nation was trembling in the balance at each detail of the bill, that his words had lost a little of their effect ; and when he chose to say that the question between rateable value and estimated rental had a political import, inasmuch as it touched the numerical result of the bill, people dis regarded the threat, and went by their own common sense, knowing that it did not really determine the number to be enfranchised. Ministers, however, were not sufficiently calm to consult wisely for them selves and their bill, and nothing would satisfy them but to throw up their cards, and accept the position of injured individuals. Hence the announcement of last Tuesday. The delay, however, afforded time for the reflection and deliberation that ought to have come earlier, and that now could hardly fail to be too late. They and their friends, among them, at whose lead it boots not to say, arranged that Mr. Crawford, one of the members for the City, was yesterday to give notice of a motion, the terms of which were well weighed and approved, for an address to her Majesty, expressing full confidence in her Ministers and assent to the principles of the Reform Bill, but praying that, under the circum stances, the subject might be put off to another ses sion for further deliberation than was now possible, and pledging the house in that case to support a measure for the extension of the franchise, and for transferring it from small and decaying constituen cies to large and flourishing populations. We be lieve we may say that till yesterday afternoon this arrangement was accepted ; a majority of 40 or more was confidently reckoned on, and everybody was preparing his part in the new movement. But when the Cabinet separated, shortly before 4 o'clock yesterday, all this had been undone, and a Lord of the Treasury conveyed to Mr. Crawford a message declining his aid. It was too late for the operation, which was one that also required great delicacy of treatment. Ministers were under an engagement to do nothing of a political character till they made their decisions and their explanations, and they could therefore have nothing to say to a movement intended to rescue them from their difficulty. They were under the terms of an armistice, and that would have been broken by any movement con nected with them. Had any independent member, or anybody &sunning independence. for the occa sion, given notice of such a motion without concert with the Government, it might have been enter tained. But such tact would have been singularly out of character with the whole history of this bill. The upshot is that the scheme of a vote of confi dence is at an end. This is the week's work, and such is the result. A Government which has inces santly complained of delay has revenged a single night's debate upon a most important question, and one upon which they had themselves held different opinions, with a week—aye, more than a week—of absolute trance and suspended vitality. It is by the act and deed of Ministers that the debate has been adjourned from Monday, the 18th, to next Thurs day, the 28th, the. very first day on which the de bate could now by possibility be resumed. That makes it impossible to proceed with the bill, and this is a question upon which the announcement to be made this afternoon will be superfluous. On this point curiosity needs no satisfaction. On other points we have to hear something. Will Go vernment resign ? Will it dissolve ? Its own feel ings must have suggested before this that for such complete and gratuitous mismanagment there is only one atonement. Whatever comes of it, a Cabinet that has thrown away such a cause, such a.majority, such confidence, and such personal dignity into the bargain, ought to mark its sense of its error so strongly as to make all hope it is wiser now. If Lord Russell and Mr. Gladstone think they have done their part well, and that the fault is in the Opposition or the independent members, they must be incorrigible. Of course, nothing but a dissolution will satisfy some reformers. An appeal to the con stituencies, the opening of many thousand public houses for political discussion, and the prospect of some hundred thousand people being kept idle for a fortnight in July, afford a hope of that excitement which has so long refused to come. No spontaneous combustion, no latent heat, no subterranean fire, has been so long in showing itself. Reform is like the gunpowder treated by the new invention, and can not be induced to explode or become the least dan gerous. The several particles puff and fizz a little, but the mass smoulders or smokes, and goes out as soon as it is let alone. You may pile Reform moun tains high, apply burning faggots, throw in shells, and even introduce a few ounces of the real mate rial, but Mr. Bright's patent Reform will not go off, as anybody may see who will look in at the window of his terrible magazine. But a general election may do something, if only because nothing else will. No matter what harm it may do. Not only members of Parliament, but tradesmen, mer chants, employers of labour, and the very nume rous and respectable classes dependent on regular pursuits and steady industry, exclaim against it. From a hundred unsuspected quarters one hears the fervent prayer that there may not be a general election. It is quite as likely to lose votes for Re form as to gain any ; and we cannot suppose that English gentlemen will consent to swear to the de tails of a bill at the bidding of the most vociferous mob orator. Nor is there any case for a dissolu tion that can be justified into a constitutional pre cedent. There has been discussion, not over much there has been delay, for at least half of which Government is itself responsible. But the chief principles of the bill have not been rejected, and the question of confidence has not even been submitted to the House. There is, then, no cause for dissolution until Government may choose to obtain a case by challenging an adverse vote either on the bill or on themselves., HERALD.—The Ministerial announcement of yes terday confirmed the anticipatory rumour which had been in circulation for the greater part of last week. Having obtained the Royal permission to disclose what had passed between the Sovereign and her advisers, the chiefs of the Government informed Parliament that they had tendered their resigna tions ; that the Queen had hesitated, under exist ing circumstances, to accept them, and had thought consideration and consultation necessary ; that she had found it requisite to have a personal interview with her Ministers, and that she had accordingly left Balmoral yesterday afternoon, and had com manded their attendance at Windsor for one o'clock to-day. Such being the case, the two Houses were invited, and of course agreed, to adjourn till this evening, on the understanding that by that time some decision will have been reached. IVe cannot say that the result of the week's delay, such as it is, can be considered satisfactory. The plain truth is that during the adjournment proposed by Ministers on Tuesday last nothing whatever has been done ; all that ought to have been decided and effected in that time has been postponed till to-day, and for the first time during many years a Ministerial crisis has been prolonged by seven whole days of almost ab solute inaction. The delay which has taken place in so critical a state of things, both at home and abroad, is most unfortunate ; and though we are not disposed severely to censure the omission of the Ministers to give to their Mistress advice appro priate to the circumstances, we cannot but feel that it is most unhappy that the Queen should have no counsellor who can and will, at such a juncture, advise her with perfect freedom and frankness, and without regard to party interests or Parlia mentary tactics, as is best for the dignity of the Crown and the convenience of the public service. This want is the more apparent because it is but too plain that the present official advisers of the Crown fail in that unselfish and conscientious loyalty—that scrupulous care for the constitu tional position of the Sovereign, and determination to sacrifice thereto all party and personal conside rations, which is the first duty of English states men. Lord Melbourne displayed a similar defect of principle in 1839, and secured for himself a two years' prolongation of power at the expense of the royal dignity, and of that reputation for impartia lity which it is so essential that the Sovereign should maintain, and which during the rest of her reign, aided and guided by the tact and constitutional in stinct of the Prince Consort, her Majesty has so well upheld. The error of the " Bed-chamber plot" is, it would seem, regarded by Lord Russell and Mr. Gladstone not as a warning, but as a precedent. They are disposed to drag the n ame o f th e Q ueen into a political contest, and represent her as a par tisan, in order to make her well-earned popularity and the respect which Parliament and the nation are ever disposed to pay to her, available to bolster up their damaged reputation and reconstruct their shattered fortune. If they think, on reflection, that they can go on, they have prepared the way for the withdrawal of their resignations under shelter of the royal name. This is at once grossly disloyal and grossly unconstitutional. Ministers ought to make it their first object to maintain the recognised im personality of " the Crown" as regards party con flicts ; to preserve the habitual and established silence as to the personal actions and words of the Sovereign. The only royal words, will, or acts of which Parliament can be cognisant are those which are uttered, expressed, performed through the Ministry. If Ministers retain office, it is they who have advised the Queen to retain them, and if th ey have done wrong in retaining office, the censure fall on them, and on them alone. To attribute their conduct to the commands of the Queen is to violate the first rule of const i tut i onal govern ment ; itis to make themselves irresponsible and the Crown responsible. It is a course, moreover, as unfair to Parliament as to the Queen. For if a Minister comes down and says to the House of Commons, " I tendered my resignation, and her Majesty refused it," what follows ? One of his party rises to move a vote of confidence ; and the house is placed in this p os iti on t h at t h ose who re fuse tojoin in that vote put themselves in personal antagonism to the Sovereign ; and if the vote were rejected the House of Commons would almost in express terms have passed a censure on the Queen. Ministers have no right to do anything of the kind ; and we cannot but hope and believe that the rumour which suggests that they intend in this way to cover their resumption of office is unfounded. They have gone too far already in throwing upon the Queen's personal reluctance to part with them the responsi bility of the delay which has already occurred. No vote of confidence would assail the honour of the Ministry if they should resolve to break the solemn pledge they gave to stand or fall by their Reform 13i11. For that pledge was not given to the house or to the constituencies, but to those who are not represented in the house ; to those aspirants to the electoral franchise whose numbers and enthusiasm are so highly rated, whose wrongs are so keenly felt by Mr. Gladstone. Nor was the pledge given without reason. The non-electors might have been perfectly quiet and content if no promises had been made to them, considering how very low the quali fication already is, and how clearly the franchise is within the reach of any skilled artisan who is really anxious to possess and willing to strive for it. But in 1859 the Liberals made large promises ; they went so far as to turn out a Conservative Govern ment on the mere question of the borough franchise; they excited the expectations of the working class, they came into office expressly to carry a Reform Bill, and then they threw Reform overboard. Mr. Gladstone felt that it would not be safe to repeat the farce of 1860 ; it might be perfectly possible to shelve the question, but it would not do again to trifle with it. He was, we think, wrong to bring in a Reform Bill this year; but having de termined to bring it in, he was right to reassur those whom in 1860 he had helped to deceive and disappoint by promising to stand or fall with the bill of 1866. But having made that promise he must keep it. The faith of the non-electors, and of the country at large, in the honour of public men and in the sincerity of reforming statesmen, would be annihilated if a Liberal Ministry were to shelve a second Reform Bill, after a solemn pledge t o carry it or to resign. The rejection of a Radical Reform Bill by its avowed opponents provokes no distrust, no exasperation ; but its abandonment by its authors would create that utter unbelief in Parliament and in Parliamentary Liberalism among the working classes, of which Mr. Forster spoke as consulting a real public danger. What is, perhaps, more to the present purpose, that feeling would be fatal to the personal position and political career of Mr. Glad stone. He has broken with the old Liberal party, he has quarrelled irreparably with the Whig families, he has alienated the Liberalism of the educated and the rich—let him disappoint the Radicalism of Bir mingham, and break faith with the democratic ele ment of the manufacturing districts, and he will be left politically isolated, without a party and without a future. There is no reason whatever for hesitat ing to part with the present Ministry ; no reason, at least, that can be avowed in Parliament and ap proved before the country. They are pledged to resign ; they are dishonoured if they remain. They are not by any means superior, either in debating power or in administrative capacity, to the Conser vatives. Mr. Gladstone apart, the leading Conser vative statesmen are by common consent abler and more popular than those to whose places they would succeed. Nor have the present Ministers any longer a majority in the House of Commons—they have alienated, disgusted, and broken it up. There is but one respect in which they can be preferred to their rivals ; they have not a different foreign policy, but different sympathies and proclivities. If, then, they remain in office it will be supposed that they owe it to these sympathies ; that the constitutional usage of England has been set aside and a parlia mentary vote overruled in order that a Government agreeable to Prussia and to France might retain office at the present juncture—in order that the rulers of England may be men known to sympa thise with the wanton disturbers of the peace of Europe. Such a suspicion could not fail to produce the worst possible moral effect, and yet such a sus picion_ could not fail to arise if it were announced to-night that " the Queen had declined to accept the resignation of her Ministers." We are glad to believe that such an event is as improbable as it would certainly be disastrous. COUNTRY MARKETS. COLCHESTER-Jun 23. There was a small supply of wheat at market to-day, and the market was in a most excited state ; but few farmers would sell at all, and the business done was at 5s per qr advance. Beans, peas, and oats continue scarce, and quo tations are rather improved. Wheat, white 5Ss 63s ! Beans, Mazagan......408 41s red 518 t6s ' Middle and 5ma11..426 46s Barley ... Oats ..... —s s grey ...368 its GRANTHAM-JUNE 23. There was a meagre supply of wheat at market to-day, and prices 2s to 3s higher than last week. Other articles unaltered. Old white wheat, 5Gs to 635; old red, 53s to 58s; new white, 52s to 56s ; new red, 47s to 52s per 36 stone. Bar ley for malting, 36s to 42s per qr. ; grinding, 30s to 33s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 32s ; new, 25s to 30s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 48s to 51s ; new, 44s to 46s por 38 stone. Peas, 36s to 40s per 36 stone. CHELIISFO :D-JUNE 22. To-aay's market was thin] a sluggish demand. and best last week's prices. Spring c , Wheat, old white. sos 60s new 458 59s ly supplied with wheat, with samples brought 4s to 5s over ,oru firm. Peas, Partridge 36s 39s White .298 348 Baling ........378 418 Dun.... old red 4is 55s new. 44s 54s 8ar1ey..... . .25s 33s Chevalier -- 8 —8 ditto, new --s --1 Beans, Tick, old 40s new 35s 395 Harrow 1 icks 385 42s new. —Ws 405 Mazagan 34s 'am Grind.ng ?Ss 345 Malt sBs 60s Chevalier 6us 82i Oats ••• 2 s 26s NORTHAMPTON-Jun 23. New white wheat, 56s to 60s ; new red, 54s to 58s ; old white, 56s to 60s; old red, 54s to 58s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, —s to --s per qr. ; grinding, 30s to 35s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 34s ; new, 26sito 34s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 46s to 50s ; new, 42s to 45s per 38 stone. Peas, 36s to 40s per 36 stone. ABERDEEN—JUNE 22. Little doing in the market to-day, but prices for oats improved 6d. White wheat 40s Od to 45s Od} 621 b ?bushel. Red wheat 40s Od to 45s Od Potato oats 95s Od to 25s 6d} 40lb of bushel. Common oats 24s Od to 24s 6d Bere 30s Od to 31s Od N. / Barley 32s Od t o 32 s 6d) 531b11 bushel. Oatmeal 19s 6d to 20s Od ? boll of 280Ib Flour, fine 36s Od to 37s Od 3 sack of 2801 b. KIRKCALDY-JuNE 23. Small supplies of all kinds of grain. Wheat 2s to 39 and oats is per qr dearer. Barley mado tho prices of last week. Wheat. Batley. Oats First...— 508 Od ' 343 yid 30s 6d second 51s Od 1 36s 6,1 32s Od Turd s3s 0,1 3ss Od L3s Od COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. s. d. Walls End Haswell... 19 6 South Bello() Kelloe Wylam l7 0 Walls End Helton ... 19 6 Hastings Hartley l7 0 Tees Tunstall Helton •Lyons ... ... 17 0 Braddyell's Hetton.... 18 6 Ships at market, 31; sold, 30 Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton July 20. Ditto, via Marseilles July 0. Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet ...... July 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Ilelena July 22. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton July 3. Ditto, via Marseilles June 27. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton June 27. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton July 3 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. June 27. Ditto, via filarseilles .. July 7. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton July 3. Ditto, via Marseilles June 27. Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles July 7. Newfoundland Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet ... . —June 23 Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton • • Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..June 29. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ....July 11. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and Honduras) Cuba and Mexico June 23. Bahamas, via New York. June 25. Bermuda, via Halifax July 4. MUNIFICENT GIFT.—The nieces of the late Ad miral Meynell, M.P. for Lisburn, have presented to the National Lifeboat Institution the munificent sum of .£5 OO to defray the cost of a lifeboat. The boat, which is 32 feet long, and is named the Admiral Meynell, had its har bour trial yesterday, in the Regent's Canal Dock, Lime house. It is to be stationed at Ballywalter, county Down, and will leave for Belfast by steamer to-morrow morning, the Belfast Steam Shipping Company having kindly pro mised it a free conveyance. [ADVERTISEMSNT. I—Holloway's Pills for Indigestion, Stomach, and Liver Complaints.—Persons suffering front any derangement of the liver, stomach, or the organs of digestion should have recourse to Holloway's pills, as there is no medicine that acts on these particular complaints with such certain success. They strengthen the tone of the stomach, increase the app e tit e , pur if y th e bl oo d , and correct depraved secretions. In bowel complaints they re move their primary cause, and soon restore the patient to sound health. Nervous or sick headaches, and depression of spirits, may be speedily relieved by a course of these pills. They are composed of rare balsams, without the ad mixture of a grain of mercury, or any noxious substance/ and are as safe as they are efficacious. Births. CHILD—On tho 23d inst., at Oxford, the wife of Gilbert W. Child, Esq., M.D., of a son. GARDINER —On the 22d inst., at Highgate, the wife , °f Augustus Gardiner, Esq., of a daughter. SHARP—On the 22d inst., at the residence of her father , 31, Portland-place, the wife of Lieut.-Col. Jelf ShOP (late Scots Fusilier Guards), of a stillborn daughter. WILKINSON—On the 24th inst., at 19, South Audlestree4 Grosvenor-square, Mrs. G. G. Wilkinson, of a dau y- ghter' Marriages. STOTHERD—ROIRRTS—On the 23d inst., at Monkstov ril Church, Major-Gen. R. T. Stoth er d, Royal Engineers' to Cherry Herbert, daughter of the late Col. 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SILLS—On the 23d inst., at L eam i ng t on , Wm. Sills, re* , late of Hinckley, Leicestershire, aged 71. F. • -, TOWNSEND—On 20th inst at Brighton, Sydne to n Townsend, Esq., of 85,Cambridge.terrace, square. ales London : Printed and Published by NIL LIAM ANDREWS; of No. 112, Strand, Pallier. at Pn SUN 0fr1,30. No. 112. Strand, in the Precinct of; the Savoy, in the Counti Middlesex—Tuesday, June 26. 1800.