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TJ-Alouttow.-31orning,110h. 50:u.—Afternoon, 111. 30m. poiA•vti . Ihdo.s.dr,"". LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1866. Those who wish to peruse a specimen of self sufficiency and arrogance will do well to pay par ticular attention to the speech that the King of PRUSSIA delivered at the opening of the Prussian Chambers yesterday. Of course every one ex pected that there would be a great deal of gratifica tion expressed at the recent events that have taken place in the Prussian campaign, but only those initiated with the secrets of the Berlin Cabinet could have thought that there would be quite such an exhibition of effrontery. All that has occurred during the last few years suddenly assumes a coleur de rose, and all the follies, shortcomings, and offences of his Government are henceforth to be looked upon as successes, and regarded with homage. It is an ingenious dodge on his part to make the most of his situation, and to take advan tage of the eclat which just now surrounds the Prussian arms ; but when we look upon his words and analyse them, we cannot but see the superficial character of his congratulations. If there is one thing more than another which is reprehensible in this address, it is the very unbecoming manner in which constant reference is made to the blessings that Providence has vouchsafed to Prussia. It is quite irreverent to talk after this fashion, and as for the meaning of it desp o il ers of States, and tyrants, and oppressors all over the world have quite as much right to declare that it is by the favour of Heaven that they have gained their cherished objects as King WILLIAM can have for asserting that it is by the direct interposi tion of Providence that ho has outraged the laws of nations and indulged in every selfish and grasping motive that suggested itself to him. It is difficult, however, to feel much regret for the Prussians notwithstanding their position, because they have brought upon themselves the loss of freedom, and the domestic oppression to which they will be sub ject when the KING has brought his glorious war to a termination by his honourable peace. They were willing and delighted even that the Danes should be despoiled, and now they rejoice at the subversion of Austrian authority and the overthrow of the , finances of the Minor States. This feeling will grow upon them until they are restrained by no scruples of Conscience and no considerations of justice. The KING has already taken the first step of the way he means to tread, and has actually requested the Deputies to grant an indemnity to his Government, for which application will be duly made, for having carried on the ad ministration without a law regulating th e B udget. It was further intimated by the KING that speed would be necessary for this purpose in order th a t they might the better enter into the new regulations that would be rendered necessary in consequence of the frontiers of the State being extended, and the " establishment of a united Federal army under the leadership of Prussia." This last passage sounds very significant, and confirms the impres sions that some have already entertained as to the sinister intentions of Prussia in monopolising power and possessions to herself. It is really absurd to notice the manner in which the KING confesses things in his desire to make it appear that he is organising a grand scheme of national regeneration, and in his determination that there shall be no doubt as to the partYrussia is to play in it. Thus we see that, with- out delay, bills will be laid before the Diet required for the convocation of a popular represen tation of the Federal State. How inconsis tent it seems that the Prussian Legislature should thus arrange the affair of the other States, and then insult them by declaring that they are free and independent. With the Diet of Berlin to settle their laws, and the Prussian generals to control their armies, we shall certainly have a great deal to applaud and admire in the independence of those small States which have been the theme of so many discussions, and given rise to so many conflicting i opinions during the last few years. No doubt it might have been a very good thing for some change to have taken place in the con dition of these States, but we deny that it will be a change for the better for them to be put under the military dominion of Prussia. They would have her more likely to prosper as they were previously, and they could have made any alteration that the force of circumstances demanded afterwards in a more opportune fashion. As it is, when this sad page in their history is written, it will be far more true to say that they have come to Prussia as part of the spoils of war, than to assert that they are come together in a great organisation, under the superintendence of that Power. The very manner in which the matter is spoken of shows what kind of a transaction it is that is now taking place. Prussia has already declared that she must take the initiative in this work of the new Confederation, and the very fact of her having had to draw the sword to enforce its being carried out clearly demonstrates that it is an affair of force, and not a work of sentiment or of sympathy, politically or otherwise. The KING and his Ministers only show their ignorance in declaim ing about the national development of Germany taking place under their auspices. Peoples and States can never flourish under the rule of tyranny, and it is idle to say that they can. It will be for Herr BISMARCK to give the word of command, and all the arrangements and plans that tho inha bitants of these annexed provinces may form will go to the winds ; and whenever the authorities of Berlin seek to make a fresh war of encroachment the devoted places must contribute of their citizens to swell the ranks of the aggressive forces. It is a delusion and a mockery to call the accomplishment of such designs the achievement of a great work of national regeneration, and time will surely prove it to be such. All we can say is that if the members of the Legislature pass the Act of Indemnity to the Government for their illegally carrying on the Administration they will be committing a grave political blunder and undoing the work of their predecessors. No doubt they will allow themselves to be carried away by the excitement and enthusiasm of the time, but not the less will their conduct be unwise and the course upon which they enter a dangerous one. King WILLIAM and his subordinates are now regarded as conquering heroes, but they will soon appear in their old guise, and re-enact the parts in which they were such adepts of constitutional uprooters and sworn opponents to all freedom of action or language. The public will certainly be disposed to agree with the concluding sentence of Sir JOIIN PAKINGTON'S speech on Saturday, in answer to Mr. SEELY'S at tack upon Admiralty extravagance. " The whole system of our dockyard establishments" does cer tainly require to " be carefully and jealously watched." Unfortunately, whatever differences there may be as to minor details, however com pletely some charges may be rebutted and others explained away or the offence mitigated, there always remains a heavy accumulation of matter for inquiry and complaint. The vices are no doubt those of the system, but they are perpetuated by esprit de corps existing among all the officials and employes on both sides. " There seemed to be a rule," said Mr. SEELY on Saturday, " perhaps, to some extent a good one, for the heads of Depart ments to leave matters to their subordinates, who tried as far as they could to make out a good case, and nearly all the Departments joined together in defending each other, while past and expectant, as well as present officials, but too often combined in trying to put down an independent member." It is very probable that Mr. SEELY may fail in substan tiating some of his charges, but there is no doubt that the expenditure in the various Departments of the Admiralty is excessive. The repairs, of which Mr. SEELY complains so much, seem now to be accepted as a regular part of shipbuilding. A ship is altered and repaired before she has gone a single voyage, and in many instances, when the vessels are not new, the repairs are more costly than the original construction. Mr. SEELY gave instances of this. " The Niger, Highflyer, and Sparrowhawk cost, in the shape offrepairs, £190,000, whereas the cost when new would only have been £140,027." The original building is often much too costly when compared with the outlay in private yards, and Mr. SEELY was probably not far wrong when he maintained that the Admiralty were doing work at nearly double its worth. " The Irresistible was built at a cost, adding percentage, of £183,970, whereas the cost ought really to have been £109,186, showing an excess cost of £74,784. The Victoria, again, cost £329,858, whereas the amount expended on her should only have been £191,191, showing an excess cost of £138,657." The extravagances to which he had called the attention of the House amounted, said Mr. SEELY, to upwards of a million of pounds. It is only fair to the Admiralty officials, past and present, to add that some of the member for Lincoln's charges were disproved, and many of the particular items in his bill of indictment were contradicted owing to errors in transcribing the figures. Thus the charge of £66 for repairing a cutter, which, newly-built and fitted, would have cost but £3O, was really for repairing three cutters. Again, the state ment that 83 boats were repaired at a cost of £5,685 was inaccurate, the figures of two different lines having been conected through an inadvertence in copying. The sum of £5,6 85 stood for 282, not for 83 boats, as stated by Mr. SEELY. Nevertheless, these explanations, though g p et a h r e t r icula r r eass i u te r m e s in question, did not a sa tisfactory as to the lto the house. They accepted, of course, Sir JOHN PAKINGTON'S explanation unreservedly, but the general feeling was expressed by Mr. AYRTON, who declared his belief that if his hon. friend, Mr. SEELY, remained in the House of Commons for the rest of his life he would never exhaust the abuses of the Admiralty, and that the whole system of Admiralty accounts was one of mystification. Mr. CORRY said that he had always believed there was great room for improvement in the management of the dockyards, but he did not, think that things were quite so bad as they were represented. The reason he gave for this belief was amusing. " A few years ago," he said, " the late Secretary to the Admiralty discovered that between £4,000,000 and £5,000,000 of the public money had been wasted by the Admiralty, but when he got into office h e was never able to su b s t an ti a t e this statement." Mr. CORRY . appears to have overlooked the possibility of the inaction complained of being clue not to want of ability, but lack of in clination. Office is apt to throw a wonderful spell over the most energetic Reformer, and it is nothing new to find eloquent denunciations in opposition succeeded by consenting silence in place. The point of view from which such matters are regarded exercises a potent influence over the inquirer, and, when once he is shown into the magic circle the esprit de corps, of which Mr. SEELY com plains, makes him ready and willing not only to de fend his friends and associaties, but to fight the battles of his predecessors and smooth the way for those who come after him, though they may be his enemies. But there is another aspect of the case which is even more unsatisfactory. No doubt iu every public department more money is spent than is strictly necessary, and although this reflection is unpleasant to the taxpayer, still there are few expenses more cheerfully borne by an Englishman than those necessary for the maintenance of an efficient navy. The House of Commons yearly votes enormous Estimates, and the members are never called to account by their constituents for their votes in this respect. But how is the work done? On Saturday evening, before the discussion on the dockyards, Mr. GRAVES asked the First Lord of the Admiralty the names of the ships at present available in the reserve for immediate ser vice. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON did not give the names, but significantly said that if he did so the list would be a very short one. The right hon. baronet's words on this occasion deserve especial notice. " I regret to state I find the reserves by no means in a satisfactory condition, or indeed in such a state as I had a right to find them—so much so that the Admiralty have great difficulty in finding relief for the ships that return from foreign service." This is satisfactory certainly after the annual outlay. How is it that we have so few ships in reserve ? What have the Admiralty been about during the last few years, when the aspect of affairs has certainly not been especially pacific? Sir JOHN PAKINGTON has not shown himself at all disposed to censure his prede cessors, or to hold up their shortcomings to criticism. We must, therefore, conclude the case to be really a very bad case, and we can only hope that he will speedily inaugurate a better system. If we have barely enough ships to relieve our foreign stations, what should we do in the event of a war with any two allied Powers ? Our commerce would not need less protection than it does now, but more, and we should find ourselves asking with good reason what the Admiralty had been doing with the public money. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Sunday Evening. The Moniteur announces that, according to its correspondence from Berlin, the negotiations for peace with the Southern States of Germany will commence in that capital immediately. The Minis ters of Foreign Affairs of Bavaria, Wurtembourg, the Grand Duchy of Baden, and the Grand Duchy of Hesse Darmstadt are about to meet in that capital. The Prussian troops are beginning to evacuate Lower Austria in order to repair to the line of demarcation fixed by the armistice. The Memorial Diplomatique, which may be con sidered as the authorised representative of the Vienna Cabinet, states that the cession of Venetia will in clude the territory of the ancient Lombardo-Vene tian kingdom, possessed by Austria in pursuance of the Treaty of Zurich. The preliminaries of peace signed at Nikolsburg, July 26, between Austria and Prussia, maintain the integrity of the Austrian Empire, Venetia excepted. The fact mentioned in my letter of Friday of the occupation by Prussian troops of the towns of Heidelberg and Mannheim in the Grand Duchy of Baden and of Wurtzbourg and Nuremberg in the kingdom of Bavaria, the Moniteur says, " produced some astonishment." The reason to which it is to be attributed is that each of these States of the South of Germany having negotiated separately at Nikolsbourg for an armistice and a suspension of arms, the orders to stop hostilities could only be transmitted successively by the Prussian military authorities to the commanders of the troops in the field. It is stated that the Grand Duchy of Baden has declared that from this time it withdraws from the Germanic Confederation, the last representatives of which are still sitting at Augsburg. A private despatch also announces, says the Illoniteur, that the Ministers of the different Powers, who had followed the Diet when it abandoned Frankfort to repair to Augsburg, have quitted the latter city. The announcement is made that the Universal Exhibition of the Fine Arts will open on the Ist of April, 1867, and close on the 31st of October of the same year, at the Palace of the Champ de Mars. The exhibition of the works of living artists will take place from the 15th of April to the sth of June, 1867, at the Palace of the Champs Elysees. At the former exhibition works executed by French artists since the Ist of January, 1866, and which did not form part of the exhibition of that year, will be admissible. Such works must be sent to the Palace de l'lndustrie, in the Champs Elysees, before tho 15th October next. The number is not limited. All the works destined for the Universal Exhibition of the Fine Arts will be submitted to the examination of a jury. The Imperial Commission has made arrange ments respecting the catalogue of the Great Exhi bition. It will be in 12 numbers, but each part may be had separately. Thus visitors will have the facility of purchasing at a moderate price such por tion as may relate to products in which they are most interested. The Government of Bade; which has notified its secession from the Grand Duchy of the Germanic Confederation, has taken the direct command of the fortress of Rastadt, which heretofore depended on the Federal power. There was a Council of Ministers yesterday at St. Cloud, at which the Empress presided. Shortly after the Council the Imperial Prince, accompanied by General Fleury, left Paris to join the Emperor at Vichy. The Prince was received with very great enthusiasm. The Government has suppressed the newspaper called the Courrier du Dimanche. The Minister of the Interior, in his report to the Emperor justify ing this step, quotes a very dangerous and virulent article, in which France is represented as despoiled, overthrown, and rendered more brute-like every day. The Minister also states that the Courrier du Dimanche had previously received eight warnings, two suspensions, and ono legal condemnation for writing as a b it o i n n ya g er h lye at mm re ais d ne a ,h ficondvrocu in o s ntempt against the Govern ment. Th e measure w i ll be applauded by every France.effentlt is this style not o of freedom rit ing of the press when the press circulates documents tending to humiliate the country and insult the Government. As the Minister of the Interior justly says, " Such language constitutes a systematic mis representation of men and things." M. Villemain, the Secretary of the French Academy, has for some time been indisposed, and will not be able to preside at the usual distribution of prizes which is to take place to-morrow. M. Drouyn de l'Lhuys, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who has been with the Emperor at Vichy for the last few days, has consented to perform the interest ing ceremony, and will return to Paris expressly for the purpose. The death is announced of Madame Thouvenel, wife of the former Minister for Foreign Affairs. Madame Thouvenel has been ill for some months. She had not attained her 40th year. The Droit, albeit not a journal devoted to cookery and the palate, gives, under the head of " Improvised Cookery," the following :—A young man, who had no doubt paid visits to several wine shops, rushed into an egg and butter establishment in the Rue de la Ferronnerie, and, under the im pulse of a fantastic idea, threw himself auto a basket THE SUN, LONDON, 1140NPAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1866. containing some two or three hundred eggs, saying " That is my way of making an omelette, look after the stove to cook them." A policeman was sent for, and the inventor of cookery upon a new system, after having undergone some essential purification from the eggs, was consigned to the care of the police. They will probably impose rather a dis agreeable joke upon the meddler with eggs. . _ Business on Saturday at the Bourse may be said to have been almost suspended. The tendency of prices was rather towards decline. The calm was no doubt preparatory to the coming liquidation storm to-morrow (Monday), which is likely to be of unprecedented difficulty and violence. The last arrangement presenting similar obstacles was in 1848, when mutual concessions and arrangements were made. The differences then were not of an exceedingly serious amount. Those to be arranged to-morrow, however, exceed the value of a million. Prince Napoleon Jerome has returned to his country seat at Mendon, near Paris. The Constitutionnel says :—" If the Correspon dence Generale of Vienna is to be believed, the negotiations for peace will commence in a few days at Prague." This is in conformity with the announce ment in the Moniteur. The Atlantic Telegraph. The following answer has been returned by the Governor-General of Canada to the message trans mitted by Lord Carnarvon in the name of her Majesty : " VISCOUNT MONCK TO THE EARL OF CARNARVON. " CABLE.—Your message of July 28 received. Present my humble duty to the Queen, and assure her Majesty that her Majesty's gratification at the additional strength which the completion of the Atlantic Telegraph will give to the unity of her empire is shared by all her subjects in British North America. " Ottawa, August 1. " MONCK." An exchange of courtesies has just passed between the Mayor of Vancouver's Island and the Lord Mayor, by telegraph, the one trying to embody in his message the feeling of the colony, and the other that of the mother country. The first message was received at the Mansion-house on Friday night, and . was in these terms : " Franklyn, Mayor, Vancouver, July 31, to Lord Mayor, London. " The infant colony Vancouver, 8,000 miles distant, sends telegraphic cordial greetings to Mother England." To this the Mayor of London, taking up the vein and reciprocating the sentiments of his far distant correspondent, replied by telegraph as follows " To the Mayor of Vancouver's "Mother England acknowledges the cordial greeting of her infant son Vancouver. May peace, good will, and una nimity unite and prospor our h a ppy f am ily." _ _ _ It will be observed that three days were occupied in the transmission of the message between Van couver's Island and this country. It would be car ried across the Continent of America to Newfound land—how far by telegraph does not appear. Seven hours, or thereabouts, would be spent in conveying it by steamer from the American coast to New foundland, a distance of 70 miles ; from 12 to 14 hours thence by the Atlantic Cable to Valentia, and thence to London about an hour more, making three days and nights, or 72 hours. Altogether it must have travelled, taking the whole route, at the rate of upwards of 111 miles an hour, but in the 70 miles from the American shore to Newfoundland it would only be conveyed at the rate of 10 miles an hour. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—l send for your perusal, and for publication, if you think fit, a copy of a letter from Mr. Lati mer Clark, C.E., containing some interesting infor mation relating to his tests and observations of the insulation and working of the cable. Mr. Latimer Clark is the engineer on behalf of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, for testing the work of the contractors.—l am, sir, yours truly, GEORGE SAWARD, Secretary and General Superintendent. Atlantic Telegraph Company, 12, St. Helen's-place, Bishopsgate-street Within, E.C., Aug. 4. " Valentin, July 30. "My dear Sir,—Herewith I have the pleasure to forward you a certificate of the completion of the 1866 cable, which is similar in every respect to the ono which, after consul tation, has been given to the Anglo-American Telegraph Company. " The cable, as you have doubtless already heard, is in a most satisfactory electrical condition, and with the appa ratus now used gives fully six words per minute. With improved apparatus it will give much more, and by the use of codes I expect fully thrice that speed will be obtained. The present signals are strong and excellent. "Before leaving Sheerness the insulation of the cable was 713 million Siemens units per knot. This steadily in creased as the cable was paid out, and is now as high as 2,300 million units per knot. This increase is due partly to temperature and partly to pressure, and I will shortly calculate the influence of these combined causes, and give you the insulation of this cable and the Persian Gulf cable at a uniform temperature and pressure for comparison "It is to bo regretted that the Newfoundland line is not in an efficient state, as that would have added greatly to the eclat of the opening. Wo have one and all formed the most sanguine opinions as to the permanence and security of the lino, as well as concerning the probability of repairing the 1863 cable, which we quite expect to see put to work again shortly. "It is almost unnecessary for me to congratulate you on the success of this part of the work, and the wonderful prospects of pecuniary success which the first day's work has opened out to us.—Believe me, &c., Telegraph • " Mr. G. Sward, Scooenrleptyy,.,,Atlant‘i`cLATlMEß CLARK. MR. ALFRED ME L LON'S CONCERTS.—The operatic performances having terminated, Mr. A. Mellon begins his summer concerts, to which the public have now been for some years accustomed, at Covent-garden this evening. THE LAST NUMBER OF THE " OWL" for the pre sent season appeared on Wednesday, and was mainly com posed of prose and poetical trifles concerning Mr. Edmond Beaks. It is generally understood that Mr. Baillie Coch rane is ono of the most energetic contributors and gatherers of intelligence for this fashionable sheet. MR. GEORGE VIRTUE, of the well-known publish ing firm, and for many years an active member of the Society of Antiquaries, we regret to announce as recently deceased. THE " SPURGEON JEST BOOK.," announced some time since, has been reproduced in New York, under the title of "Five Hundred and Ninety-five Pulpit Pun gencies." We have reason to believe that the Poor Law Board have decided upon appointing an additional inspec tor for the metropolitan district. It is intended that the new officer should be a medical man, and the choice of Mr. Hardy has fallen upon Dr. Markham, consulting phy sician of St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington,who attracted the attention of the Government by the valuable assistance he afforded in connection with the recent inquiry into the medical arrangements of the military and naval services. Mr. W. Corbett, at present inspector in the manufacturing districts, will be transferred to London, and associated with Dr. Markham in his important duties. Dr. Smith will be Mr. Corbett's successor in Lancashire, and Mr. Farnall will probably be selected to succeed Dr. Smith at New York. FATAL ACCIDENT IN WINDSOR PARK.-011 Sa turday evening, about eight o'clock, Mr. Oliver, of Windsor, accompanied by Mr. Foakes, Mrs. Foakes, and the two children, were d r i v i ng i n Windsor -park, the party occupyingwh h crowned a waggonette. b -hill, equestrian s t they ria cam statue e down o George Snow the horses commenced kicki n g, and finally ran away, leav ing the carriage road for the park. Mr. Foakes, becoming alarmed, sprang from the carriage, and in doing so was thrown backwards on to the ground, with which his head came in violent contact. ID was killed on the spot, the dreadful occurrence being witnessed by his distracted wife and children. The body of Mr. Foakes, who was 36 years of ago, was removed from the park to Mr. Oliver's residence, in Trinity-place, Windsor, to await an inquest. FATAL GUN ACClDENT.—Yesterday afternoon a young man, named Thomas Lockwood, employed at the Leeds Post-office, was at a beerliouse kept by a per son named Dennis Spinks, in York-street, Leeds, and took up a gun which was lying on a table in the sitting-room. Mrs. Spinks was preparing to go out with some friends, who were waiting for her in a cab at the door, when Lockwood said, " Let's see you look sharp," and then took up the gun, as he has since said, raised the ham mer, and the gun, which was loaded, went off and shot Mrs. Spinks dead. The shot from the weapon entered her head and literally blew her brains out. It appears that Lockwood was not aware that the gnu was charged, and there is no gr oun d to suppose that he h a d any ma li ce against the deceased. The poor woman, who was about 26 years of age, has left three or four children. Lock wood a at once gave hi mse lf i nto cus t o d y, an d h e i s de tained in prison till the coroner'4 inquest he LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. PARIS, Aug. 6. France takes no part in the negotiations for an armistice opened between Austria and Italy at Cor mons. These negotiations are completely foreign to the preliminaries of peace which will be negotiated after the conclusion of an armistice with the con currence of France probably at Paris. VIENNA, Aug. 5 (Evening). The suspension of hostilities between Italy and Austria having been prolonged in order to allow negotiations for an armistice to proceed, the nego tiations have commenced at Cormons, in Istria. General Mooring is the Austrian plenipotentiary. Should the negotiations not lead to a result by the 10th inst., the renewal of hostilities is not impro bable. To-day Baron Brenner takes his departure for Prague, in order to negotiate with Baron Werther a definitive treaty of peace between Austria and Prussia. BERLIN, Aug. 6. The King of Prussia will shortly proceed to Carls bad, where the treaty of peace between Austria and Prussia will probably be signed. Prussia has positively declined the proposition of Russia for a congress of the signitary Powers of the treaties of Vienna. PORT-AU-PRINCE. LIVERPOOL, Aug. 6. The steamer Mexican, from Port-au-Prince on the 18th July, has arrived here. The rebellion had broken out afresh and part of Gonaives had been destroyed by fire by the rebels. Fears were entertained at Port-au-Prince lest the rebels should fire that place, as threats had been used to that effect. The rebels are said to be in great force near Port-au-prince. A MERICA. (BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) __ __ NEW YORK, Aug. 3. Martial law has ceased at New Orleans. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (Evening). Gold, 1481. Exchange on London, 159. Illi nois, 123} ; Erie, 68 ; Five-Twenty United States Bonds, 1081. Cotton : Middling Upland, 37c. NEW YORK, Aug. 2 (Evening). Gold, 148. Exchange on London, 1582 ; Illi nois, 1231 ; Erie, 684 ; Five-twenty United States Bonds, 1081. Cotton : Middling Upland, 36k. London advices of the 31st ult. have been received here. FRANCE. PARIS, August 4.—Two o'clock.—The market opened heavily under the unfavourable influence of a very difficult liquidation. Scarcely any business was transacted, and quotations are little more than normal. Three o'clock. The market has closed as fol- lows : 4-/ per Cents 97 75 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 69 10 Do. end month 69 25 Credit Mobilier Do. end month Credit Foncier 1310 Do. end month — Bank Shares 3550 Italian Loan 52 10 Do. end month 52 25 Mexican Loan 26 Do. Bonds 175 Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred - 'AYS. . . ..._... ___. For Account. Orleans Northern 1127 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 867 50 Southern 527 50 Western 557 50 Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard 387 50 North of Spain lOO Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona — &man A Delicious Bit of Banter, Referring to a leader in the Times of this day week the Saturday Review remarks as follows : " We all of us lose a great deal of enjoyment by the gradual wearing out of our capacity for wonder. There are few times in our lives when we can come to the brow of the hill without knowing it, and catch the full extent of the prospect in the first unprepared glance. Generally speaking, we have been seeing it bit by bit all the way up, and when we get to the top the complete impression seems unsatisfactory, be cause it is only the aggregate of all the partial im pressions. which we. have been taking in during our ascent. In the same way, inventions would be much more imposing if success in them did not so often come tentatively, by slow degrees, and after many failures. We talk of the wonders of steam and the revolution it has effected in tra velling, but our appreciation of the change is trifling compared with what it would have been if we could have jumped in one day from the old stage coach to the Limited Irish Mail. Would it not have been almost worth while to have gone into a monastery, or hired an uninhabited island, 20 or 30 years ago, just for the excitement of coming out of our seclu sion in 1866, and realising all at once the changes that have happened during the interval ? It would be wasting time, however, to speculate whether the gain would be worth the sacrifice, because there is now living on earth a man who has evidently made the experiment, and who must therefore be in the best possible position to determine whether it is a paying one. The Times of last M on d ay con t a i ne d a leading article which was beyond dispute the production of a writer who had only heard of the electric telegraph. IVhether his retirement from the world for the whole time during which this in vention has been in operation was voluntary or en forced, whether it is attributable to his own desire to feel the sense of surprise iu its fullest perfection, or to the foresight of an editor anxious to have such a subject as the success of the Atlantic cable handled after the most telling fashion, we have no means of knowing. If it is to the latter cause that the article in question is due, the whole arrangement does the highest credit to the manner in which the Times is conducted. To catch a promising writer, and keep him locked up for twenty years or so in order to secure a really fresh article at the end of that time, is a trifle. But to feel conscious of pos sessing such a treasure somewhere about the office, and to resist the temptation of bringing him out on either of the two previous occasions when the laying of the cable was under discussion, does cer tainly argue an admirable proficiency in editorial self-control. There is a real pleasure in the acknow ledgment that the effort has met with all the success which it deserved. The article of Monday is just what might have been expected from so arduous a course of preparation. Public curiosity may busy itself with speculations as to where the writer has been all this time, but at any rate it is quite clear that he has not been living in the society of his fellow-men. The great wonder of the age has re vealed itself to a virgin mind. Ho has never de graded science to every-day uses, nor made elec tricity minister to his commonplace wants. To him the telegraph has "unveiled her awful face" for the first time in the very moment of her supreme triumph. We are happy to be able to add that " the dauntless child" has " stretched forth his little arms," and written a leader. We have much pleasure in announcing that the Lord Justiceship of Appeal in Ireland. will bo offered to Mr. Brewster. THE CHOLERA AT ST. PETERSBURGH.—Since the beginning of the epidemic at St. Petersburgh (26th June), up to the 31st of July last, 7,191 cases occurred, 2,194 of which were fatal ; 2,856 persons have been cured, and 2,141 were in course of treatment on the same day, 31st of July. Ou the 28th of last month the Emperor Alexander 11. visited the hospitals of St. Petersburgh and comforted the patients affected with cholera by words and deeds. On Wednesday last the Metropolitan of St. Potorsburgh celebrated a Te Deum at the Vladimir Church on accov.ut of the decroso el the plague. LITERATURE. j . Dictionary of Recent and Living Painters and Engravers. By Henry Ottley. One vol. Pp. 184. Henry G. Bolin. Strictly speaking this valuable publication is no more than an expansion of "Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers," revised, enlarged, and continued fourteen years ago, by Mr. George Stanley, and now, as far as possible, perfected and completed by Mr. Henry Ottley, aided and assisted materially in his editorial labours by Mr. Henry Bohn, the publisher. So materially has Mr. Bohn participated in the toil of compiling this new edition of Stanley's Bryan's Dictionary, that he himself has contributed with his own hand (each of his aricles being distinguished by his initials H. G. B.) no less than seventy biographic notices to the collection— and, among those seventy, notices of James Sant, Lumb Stocks, and John Tenniel. "As far as pos sible," we have said, the work in its new form hasbeen " perfected and completed"—several names, some among them of real importance, having been still unavoidably omitted, because of the over modest reluctance of their possessors to furnish any par ticulars whatever in regard to themselves or their artistic achievements. Dictionary-fashion, of.course, the work is alphabetically arranged. It comprises within it—in spite of the tantalizing reluctance but just now alluded to—a really surprising amount of curious and for the most part entertain ing information, information nowhere else that we are aware of thus readily procurable Another and more important work, completing the publisher's notion of the book as it ought to be, is announced by Mr. Bohn as in preparation. The present volume, he tells us in his preliminary notice, must only be regarded as an instalment of his intention, adding that it will " with all convenient speed be followed by another, supplying whatever may be found deficient." Even as it is, however, the com pilation is really remarkable. Its value will, never theless, be very conspicuously enhanced when, as is projected in regard to the future issue of the work, there shall be interspersed among the biographies " more of the mercantile element," upon the plan set forth in " Bohn's Bibliographer's Manual," namely, by the notification of the auction prices of the prin cipal pictures specified. All due acknowledgment is honourably made ',by Mr. Ottley, of the various sources from which he has derived much of the in formation here compacted together, among other such sources thus announced, being a little anony mous book, published in 1858, under the title of "Our Living Painters," the Biographie Universelle and the Nouvelle Biographic Generalle," Sandby's " History of the Royal Academy," the " Art Jour nal" and the " Gentleman's Magazine," "Men of the Time," and a few other lesser but kindred publications. However much the work may Ain admit of further expansion, we cannot, even as it is, do otherwise than accord our earnest welcome to Mr. Bohn's latest issue, of what we must be per mitted to call Ottley's, Stanley's, Bryan's t, Dic tionary of Recent and Living Painters and Engravers." 7'l e Bentley Ballads. New Edition. One Vol. ; pp. 469. Richard Bentley. Immediately after that most delectable repertory of ryhthmical and rhyming fun, known to all true lovers of a laugh in this and the immediately pre ceding generation as " The Ingoldsby Legends," come, beyond all doubt, " The Bentley Ballads." Edition after edition, since the time when these ballads were first collected together, has been making its appearance—one following the other in rapid succession. And here is the latest issue—the last and best, because the largest and the completest. It comprises within it all the choicest ballads, songs, and poems contributed to Bentley's Miscellany. As for the rollicking drollery, the radiant wit, the side-shaking humour and the frolicsome vivacity of the writers, who is there that knows the book in the least but will acknowledge all that with a sort of enthusiasm born from many a grateful and delightful remembrance of such ini mitable writers the very names are in them selves a complete justification (if that were needed) of our eulogium such matchless wags as Father Prout, as Sam Lover, as George Colman, as Tom Moore, as Dr. Maginn, as Albert Smith, as George Canning, as Haynes Bayley, as Heinrich Heine, as Tom Ingoldsby, and (to name no more out of the long catalogue of con tributors to the collection) last, not least, with a twirl of his shillelagh, and a sparkle in his eye, and a " cut" like old Fezziwig's (so deftly giving it, that he seems to " wink with his legs" like his great proto type each time he bounds on to the scene to give us one of his hilarious staves with variations)—last, not least, we say, among them all, " The Irish Whisky Drinker !" As for Father Prout's tidbits of classicality and comicality combined, who that has once stumbled across them can ever lose the recollection of them or the relish for them ? In stance merely his version of the refrain to " The Sabine Farmer's Serenade"— Semel tantum die I Only say Eris nostra Lalag6 ; You'll be Mrs. Branagan ; Ne recuses sic Don't say nay I Dulcis Julia Callag6. Charming Judy Callaghan. Scattered among the miscellaneous contents of the volume are such world-famous touches of true poetry as " The Voices of the Night," " The Vil lage Blacksmith," and " The Rainy Day," of Pro fessor Longfellow —as Robert Southey's Unfinished Lines on his Library, or as Thomas Ingoldsby's last song of all, "As I lay a-thykynge!" Alto gether " The Bentley Ballads " form a quite un rivalled collection of Ballads, Songs, and Poems, set to the music of their words by Poets, Songwriters, and Ballad-mongers as delightful as ever before sang of Love and War, of Frolic and of Drinking. Gilderoy : a Scottish Tradition. By Robert S. Fittis. One vol. pp. 353. George Routledge and Sons. The dedication of his book to James Grant, author of the " Romance of War " and of so many other al most equally famous romances, as a tribute prof fered to him by an unknown admirer of his genius and of his true old Scottish spirit, will of itself afford a notion •of the purpose held before him by Mr. Fittis in the composition of these pages—namely, the vivifying (if only by one spark) through that same true old Scottish spirit, of another good old Scottish tradition, the tradition of Gilderoy. It is the " Handsome Gilderoy" of the old Scotch ballad, in effect, who is the central figure, the main attraction, the hero of this story. And it is to the honour of Robert Fittis that he has done for the reputation of " the earlier scion of the Gregalich," as ho himself aptly calls him, what the great author of " Waver ley" did so many years ago for the reputation of Rob Roy Macgregor—that is to say, he has en hanced it, and enhanced it, too, by the simple pro cess of its celebration, TILE HANDY VOLUME SHAKSPERE (Bradbury and Evans) we are glad to see still flourishes : the second issue of it, comprising within it the whole of the Merry Wives of Windsor, of .31vasure for Mea sure,:and of Midsummer Night's Dream—fifteen acts in all, and purchaseable for a shilling! It still ap pears to us, this serial publication of Shakspere, a very paragon of excellence in the way of cheapness and of beauty, of compactness and of portability, as a traveller's edition, suitable for either pocket or knapsack, of England's, the world's greatest poet, dramatist, and philosopher. The Earl and Countess of Dudley left town on Saturday for Whitley Court, Worcestershire, where they intend to pass a kw weeks before going to Scotland. Viscount and Viscountess Sydney have returned to their seat, Frognal, in Kent, from visiting the Countess Cowper, at Wrest Park, Beds• _ _ Sir Robert and Lady Buxton have left Farrance's Hotel for Shadwoll Lodge, Norfolk. " THE PRESS" and " ST. JAMES'S CHRONICLE" appeared on Saturday amalgamated—the younger taking precedence of the elder journal, though adopting tho latter's No. and size, while removing front its own offices in the Strand to those of the St. Jwncs's Chronicle in Henrietta street, Covent-garden. " THE Tuna"' COEIIESPONDENCE FROM THE PRUSSIAN ARMY is written by Captain Hosier, of the Guardia. The ,lfoniteur de l'Arna3 did him the honour of translating his account for its pages, and it is said that the King of Prussia is so pleased with the chronicler of his glory that he intends to decorate him, HER MAJESTY. ______ , g ,_ _ OSBORNE, Saturday. The Queen went out yesterday afternoon with Princess Louise, and walked in the grounds this morning with her royal highness. Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice went out this morning also. The Judge Advocate-General had an audience of her Majesty yesterday. Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley and Captain the Hon. Francis and Lady Louisa Egerton arrived at Osborne yesterday, and had the honour of dinilig with the Queen and the royal family. The Hon. Horatia Stopford has arrived as Maid of Honour. S U NDAT.. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon with Princess Louise; and Prince Leopold walked in th e grounds. . His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh ar rived yesterday, attended by the Hon. Eliot Yorke• Their Royal Highnesscs the Prince and Princes s of Wales dined with her Majesty in the evening. Divine service was performed at Osborne this morning before the Queen and their Royal gigh nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice. The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting were present. The Rev. Robinson Duckworth, M.A., officiated. The Right Hon. Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer arrived yesterday afternoon, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. Sir Thomas Pasley and Capt. the Hon. Francis and Lady Louisa Egerton have left Osborne. . --1114 E`C f _ : 't t ltvenbr , oft if 444,44 The Ministerill Whitebait Dinner. On Saturday the members of the Governmen t had their whitebait dinner before the close of th e Parliamentary session. Her Majesty's Dlinistero dined at Mr. Quartermaine's, the Ship, at Green" with. Covers were laid for upwards of 40. Th e Ministerial party embarked from the steps of the Houses of Parliament on board a Citizen steamboat, commanded by Captain J. B. Burney, Commodore of the company's fleet of boats, and were down 3t Greenwich in about 50 minutes. Among the noble men and gentlemen present were—the Earl of Der* the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Duke of Bucking' ham, the Duke of Montrose, the Duke of Marl borough, the Earl of Belmore, the Earl of Bradford, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Earl of Longford, the Earl of Devon, the Earl Cadogan, Viscount HOP' arden, Viscount Cranborne, Viscount Royston, Lord Stanley, the Lord Chancellor, Lord John Manners, Lord Claud Hamilton, Lord Naas, Lord Burghley, Lord Colville, Lord Bagot, the Righ t Hon. General Peel, Right Hon. Sir J. Pakington , the Right Hon. Sir S. Northcote, Right Hon. e• B. Adderley, Right Hon. S. Cave, Right Hon. IT' T. L. Corry, Right Hon. G. Hardy, Right Hon. if• R. Mowbray, Right Hon. S. H. Walpole, Hon. Cr• Noel, Sir G. Montgomery, Sir J. D. Hay, Sir IL Cairns, Sir W. Bovill, Mr. C. Ducane, Mr. R. Earle, Mr. E. C. Egerton, Mr. G. W. Hunt, the Solicitor-General for Ireland, Mr. J. C. Walsh, Ad" miral Seymour, and Colonel Taylor. OPENING OF THE PRUSSIAN C LIAMBERS. SPEECH OF THE KING. BERLIN, Aug. 5• The opening of the Prussian Chambers by th e King in person took place at noon to-day. T he following is the full text of his Majesty's speech " Illustrious, noble, and loyal Gentlemen of both Houses of the Diet,— " Now that I see assembled around me the repre" sentatives of the country, my heart impels me t° express first of all from this place my own and la people's thanks for God's gracious goodness, whic li , has assisted Prussia, amidst heavy but successf ul sacrifices, not only in averting from our frontiers the dangers of hostile attack, but in enabling t he army of the country, by a rapid career of victory, to add fresh laurels to its inherited fame and W smooth the course for the national development f Germ any. " Accompanied by the visible blessing of God' the part of the nation capable of bearing ar 133 1 enthusiastically obeyed the summons to the sac ro struggle for the independence of the Fatherlan d ; Our heroic army, supported by few but faithful alliess, advanced from success to success, from vi e ; tory to victory, in the east as in the west. gu e precious blood has been shed ; the country mourns the loss of many brave men, who died the death of the hero in the flush of triumph, until our standards waved along a line extending from the Carpathians to the Rhine. It will be for the Govern' ment and the representatives of thepeople, in unite d co-operation, to bring to maturity the fruit that must be gathered from this sanguinary seed, to pr e " vent its having been scattered in vain. Loyal Gentlemen of both Houses of the Diet(' My Government is able to look with satisfaction on the financial position of the State. Careful foresigh t and conscientious economy have placed it in a Posh tion to overcome the great financial diffieult le l which have resulted as a natural consequence fro the circumstances of the present time. Altliong" material outlay has been imposed upon the Treas u l during recent years by the war with Denmark/ has been found possible to meet the expenses hithe rto 1 i incurred in the present war from the State reven ue and the existing balances, without imposing a ll , ' other other burden upon the country than that of furni a ' d ing the supplies in kind for war purposes it is bell e t to provide by law. I hope the more assuredly t h3 f the means required for the successful termination e the war and for the payment of the supplies in k ind ' whilemaintaining order and security in the finance' will be readily granted by you. t 4 An agreement with the representatives of tha t country as to the settlement of the budget haa rr il i ° o been able to be effected in the last few years. -I - State outlay incurred during this period is ther e fore destitute of that legal basis which, as I a g al , acknowledge, the budget can alone receive tbron.g; the law, which Article 99 of the Constitution ord aul is annually to be agreed upon between my Govern ment and the two houses of the Diet. Althougl ir % Government has nevertheless carried on the budg' o for several years without thi s l ega l basis, this P ci only been done after conscientious examination, 311 , 0 in the conviction, in accordance with duty, that, 'tit conduct of a settled administration, the fulfilin e a of legal obligations towards public creditors 3lj officials, and the maintenance of the army an the State establishments were ques tions vital to the existence of the State, and that the course adop t itie° therefore, became one of those inevitable nee eas which, in the interest of the country, a Gove olll cannot and must not hesitate to adopt. that " 1 trust that recent events will in so far COu t bute to effect the indispensable understanding ttlirail., an indemnity for having carried on the Adnlini s iic. .. tion without a law regulating the budget-4P tion for which will be made to the represent ativ r tbo will readily be granted to my Government, an d hitherto existing conflict be therewith fin ally 3 it the more securely brought to a conclusion, as Fate Ea3r.. be expected that the political position of the f th e land will admit an extension of the front iers 0 al State, and the establishment of a united Fe cier o f army under the leadership of Prussia, the costs pi -ode which will be borne in equal proportions by t-111 bers of the Confederation. The bills require in re P or e sentation re thisrespect for the convocation of a popular before sentation of the Federal States will be laid the Diet without delay. e ntire 1' 11 3 ; " Gentlemen—You feel with me—the therland feels—the high importance of the 1 011/ pr e o .. that brings me once more among you. 1\133"."-- ait vidence bless Prussia as graciously inu t has visibly blessed the immediate past. lure " f Gsoti grant it !" I,otl t l j e The Earl and Countess of Derby have t villa formerly belonging to the late Sir Henry Web6tef Roehampton, in order that the noble earl way, in urgencY of public buinw, bo in tilt) vicinity of NO'