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Daily attendance at 15, Whitefriargate, Hull ; 10, Norfolk street, Sheffield ; 4, East-parace, Leeds ; and 14, St. Nicholas street, Szarbro'. •*• No connection with any one of the same name. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAL—Morning, 10h. 20m.—Afternoon, 10h. 55m, TO-Moußow.-Morning, llh. 28m.—Afternoon, llh. 58m, • v e. 1.. 474- : ttg LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1865. It often occurs that when people fancy every thing is going on quietly that all of a sudden some adverse event occurs. So it has with the present Government. Last night they sustained a defeat as Etter and complete as ever fell to the lot of public men. Seldom, indeed, has a Ministry encountered such a slur of the eve of a dissolution. The scan dals connected with the Lord Chancellor have been, indeed, their stumbling. block through the session, but they have been buoyed up with the hope, illu sory as it has turned out, and confident in the ex pectation that they would extricate themselves from the difficulty. It is a long lane that has no turn ing, and this has been proved in the over whelming censure which the House of Com mons last night passed upon Whig policy, with its trickery and deceit, its place-seeking and place-keeping propensities, deaf to the voice of rea son, the claims of honour, and the calls of justice. With respect to the affair of the Lord Chan cellor, we have hitherto abstained, from motives of delicacy, from making any remarks thereon ; but now that the decision of the House of Commons has set its seal upon his fate, we may comment upon it as a singular event, which has filled the mind of the nation at large with perplexity and dismay, and formed an era in Parliamentary history which will not soon be forgotten. Nothing that can be said against the conduct of the Chancellor in trans acting the duties of his high office with integ rity and scrupulosity as regards appointments will sound exaggerated after what was uttered in last night's debate. His lordship was exonerated from mere personal charges, but he was pronounced wanting in the highest requirements of his high position. The manner in which his defence was conducted, and the style in which the House re ceived these apologies were indeed most significant, and can leave but one impression upon the minds of the community. Such a scene has not been wit nessed in the House since the famous debate upon the Conspiracy Bill, but that was a matter which involved political subjects, not a question of per sonal fitness for holding an office of State. The friends and •well-wishers to the Chancellor must regret that he did not resign before things were brought to such a pass. It would have saved him the lasting stigma of a vote o f censure from the House, and have spared his colleagues the disgrace which has fallen upon them. If report speak true, and the noble and learned lord placed his resigna tion irt the handy oL the premier 50D20 time back, Lord PALMERSTON showed the inherent weakness of his cause by addressing himself to the abilities of the Chancellor last night. No one questioned them ; they are patent to the world. It was his conscientiousness that was on its trial. When the noble lord declared that whatever was the opinion of the house with regard to his tenure of office, the improvements which he had made " would render his name illustrious among those of the great re formers of the law in this country," he was very properly met with cries of " oh, oh," and " question !" In the high and responsible office of the Lord High Chancellor of England we want an upright judge, and a scrupulously conscientious dispenser of patronage, more than we require an able lawyer, or a skilled advocate. Lord WESTBURY was famous for his hastiness in hearing cases, and it is impossible to overrate the injustice which thus takes place. Doubtless his name was against him ; he thought himself above censure and beyond criticism. The world can never know the evils that are wrought by want of consideration in a judge, their extent and magnitude arc hidden away in the whirl of the busy scenes of life ; but all can appreciate the harm that arises from public offices of trust being bestowed upon unworthy persons, and then these persons being rewarded for their demerits by a pension. Mr. BOUVERIE made an excellent speech, in which he stigmatised the course of corruption that had gone on, and particularised the transactions be tween Mr. BETHELL and Mr. WELCH. " What honest or honourable man " he asked, with justice, could have reason to believe that his own character and services would obtain him office ? The hon. member appropriately quoted the lines of an English satirist, in a period of notorious corruption— " When men liko these, the patriot cries, To honours and employment rise, Take no favour, seek no place, For such employment is disgrace." Nothing could have expressed the mean ing of the affair better than these lines, and their quotation reflected great credit on Mr. BOUVERIE'S powers of discernment. The Attorney-General's speech was a decided failure; he was interrupted over and over again by , laughter and cries of " Oh, oh," which, of course, militated against his efforts and completely destroyed the effect of his oration. Of course it is not fair to give Lord WESTBURY the blame of all that has transpired of an unworthy nature during the searching investi gations that have taken place. No doubt he did not know of all that went on, but then he ought to have done so ; no doubt many unsuitable appointments were made by his predecessors, and some doubtful occurences took place ; but what he is accused of, and has been pronounced guilty by the House of Commons, is of " laxity of practice, and a want of caution with regard to the public interests, which are calculated to bring discredit on the ad ministration of his great office." The cheering, which was loud and prolonged, on the announce ment of the numbers, was renewed again and again at every opportunity, and unmistakably revealed the feelings of the House. Mr. DISRAELI displayed great judgment in op posing Lord PALMERSTON'S wish to aljourn the debate, " whether to the next Parliament or not, he could not say," and the result of the division fully justified his opinion. Now or never should be the motto in such cases ; if delays are interposed no one can tell the consequences that may ensue from them. There can be but one opinion as to the cause which the Chancellor and the Ministry must pursue. The time for political considerations has gone by, and as men of honour and con stitutional servants of the Crown, they can do neither more nor less than submit to the verdict of the House. That verdict will be ratified through the length and breadth of the land, and wherever the subjects of the QUEEN are scat tered in distant lands and across mighty oceans they will rejoice that the English Parliament, in its expiring hour, has rendered good service to the cause of honour and faith among public men. This Parliament has not done much to be proud of : it has missed opportunities and wasted time, but at its eleventh hour it has so far redeemed its character in vindicating the majesty of the law in England, and recording its opinion that the highest attainments do not suffice to the holding of a great office without a name and a reputation above the touch of scandal and beyond the shadow of reproach. With such an account of its last work the house may meet the country without fear, for its members have recog nised a truth ever dear to Englishmen, who have always beaded that their men were more Lord PALMERSTON did not show his usual I tonoured for their personaal attributes than their tact in refusing to accept it. It is one thing to political attainments or their official services. stand by a friend in trouble or a colleague unfairlr accused, and another to persist in opposition to the. declared sentiments and expressed wishes of the , House, and also of the country at large. The temper: of the members was unmistakeably show a last night, and the great excitement that prevailed most surely evinced the impatience with which the corrupt mode of Chancery dealings was regarded by the assembly. A solemn warning may be taken from the issue of the debate. Does it not show that the highest talents, and the most profound experience, the most brilliant achievements, and the finest opportunities are as nought unless they are sustained by character. When the French Monarch wrote back tidings of defeat and disaster, he was enabled to add that he preserved one thing, which took from losses and trials their sting and victory—his honour remained. In comparison with this priceless possession, how vain is the greatness of a man's belongings, how trifling the distinctions of fame, the allurements of wealth, and the enchantments of office. They may be all here to-day, and gone to-morrow, but it remains with a man himself if his character suffers. In a public and official sense the principle is the same, no mistakes can suffice to create a feeling of distrust, and inaliility to perform impor tant duties cannot expose an official to more than temporary abuse. But, when it is ascertained beyond the shadow of a doubt that the conduct of a man in the highest position under the Sovereign is open to grave suspicion, that cases of unfair and corrupt practices have been proved, which should have come under his cognisance if they did not, and for the consequences of which he is responsible, it is certain that but one course remains for the country to insist r - )on, but one line of action which the representatives of the people of England are bound in honour and honesty to take, and that is to censure strongly and decidedly the mode prac tised. It is an idle excuse for the partisans of Ministers to say that such things always take place, because this is a particular and notorious instance of patronage misapplied, and pensions perverted to improper uses. A pension is the sum which is be stowed upon a deserving individual, who is incapa citated from over work or illness from the continu ance of his duties. To smuggle over difficulties, to shirk defalcations, and to stifle inquiry, by insisting on resignations followed by pensions, is a course of proceeding, which can call for nothing but contempt, and must meet with the indignation of all upright persons, no matter to what class or station they belong. Mae speech-day at Wellington College is some :thing more than an ordinary school examination. •it has especial features of interest of its own. Founded in memory of England's most distinguished , General—fostered from the first by the kindly en couragement of royalty—it engages our sympathies by offering the advantages of a first-rate educa tion to those who, as Lord DERBY appropriately put it, have little other inheritance than the heroism 4:4 their fathers. England is always lavish enough ,of rewards to the general or the admiral and their immediate associates ; but we may very fairly question whether the minor heroes —those of the lesser ranks—who, at more personal risk and sacrifice, have faithfully served their country, are always compensated for their ser vices and their sufferings in the public cause. Her Majesty the QUEEN and her lamented Consort showed, therefore, their accustomed good sense and kindness in selecting this form for a memorial to the great Duke. The education of his children is always one of a man's first thoughts for his family, and the grievance of a father who cannot afford to give his sons the same advantages which he had himself is a very real one. To an intelligent man in the professional ranks who knows how to value a sound early education, it is one of the greatest hardships of straitened means to feel that colleges and public schools are hopelessly beyond his reach. He could never dream of leaving a competence behind him for each of his children out of scanty pay, but he knows that by giving his sons a good education he would be helping them to help themselves in after life, he would be giving them the best and most reliable legacy, and fitting them to attain, perhaps, fortune or distinction in their turn. Lord DERBY, always the kind and consistent friend of the college, remarked in reference to the great interest he had taken in its welfare from the first, that he happened to be in attendance upon the Queen in Scotland when the news of the Duke of WELLINGTON'S death reached her. One of the first thoughts of the QUEEN and PRINCE was in what measure they could best pay honour to the memory of the great man whom the country had lost, what form of memorial would have been most in accordance with his wishes, and would be most permanent. They both thought, and their opinion was cordially concurred in by Lord DERBY, that no memorial could be more congenial to the sympathies of the Duke than one which would afford to the orphans of officers in his own profession an education which it would be im possible for those with limited means otherwise to obtain, which should fit them for future usefulness in any station. This is the object of the School, and those who have believed it to be a purely military college have been under a mistake. It is designed, as was yesterday explained, to fit boys for going to Sandhurst, or to either of the univer sities, for entering the public service, or for any other position in life which the sons of English gen tlemen may aspire to fill. As a proof that it is ad mirably calculated to precede a course of university study, we may mention that Mr. EDWARDS, the head scholar, who yesterday gained Lord DERBY'S prize for French, has just gained a minor scholar ship at Cambridge, and is about to enrol himse among the members of Trinity College. A very practical testimony to the success of the school was given by Sir JOIIN PAKINGTON, who remarked that, for the last four years, one of his own sons had been an inmate of the college, and that he was convinced he had made more satisfactory progress than he would have done anywhere else. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON'S dictum may be safely accepted, since he has been a severe critic and a rigid censor, so that when he now ex- presses unqualified approval, we may fairly suppose that he finds little room for complaint. The sue- cess of the college has been as rapid as it is unmistakable. It has been open little more than six years, but the number of boys, which was then only 7G, has now increased to 252, while there are more than 50 candidates for the foundation waiting for admission, and also non-foundationers whom it is impossible at present to receive. So great is the demand that the governors have been compelled to erect new dormitories for 42 boys to meet it, and we hope its sphere of usefulness will extend still further. The presence of the Prince of WALES yesterday added to the interest of the proceedings, and showed that his Rcyal Highness intends to continue the encouragement and support which the institution always received from his lamented father. The PRINCE, in the course of his brief address, men tioned a gratifying fact, as encouraging to the members of the college as it is honourable to the nobleman with whose name it is connected. The Earl of DERBY has informed the Governors of his intention of devoting the profits of his " Homer" to the establishment of a prize, to be given annually as a reward to the foundationer who, dur- ing the last year of their stay, should have won the entire approbation of the head master for his indus- try and good conduct. The amount produced by the great and deserved success of the work will pro- duce £54 per annum, and the recipient is to be that foundationer who has most distinguished himself in industry, application, and good conduct. Lord DERBY, in gracefully disclaiming all merit for his liberality, observed that hg had thought that for talent and ability there were already prizes enough, but that more important and sterling qualities were not so often commended. Talents and ability, as he justly observed, are given to one and not to another, but the reward for application and good conduct is within the reach of every boy's ambition. Many of the foundationers, as the noble earl kindly and delicately reflected, suffered under the draw- backs of honourable poverty, and had little inheri- tance but honour, and to such the amount of his gift will on leaving the school be a most valuable assist ance. How gratifying for the son of a widow, whose narrow means are straitened by his education, to be able to contribute so large a sum, earned by his own exertions, to his mother's scanty store ! Lord DERBY is always anxious to inculcate in the young those high principles of duty and honour which no Less than his brilliant talents have so honour- ourably distinguished his own career; and while the conditions of his prize will sti mulate the young student to the cultivation of the qualities without which no success in after life can be permanent or reliable, the recollection of the origin of the gift will serve as a graceful and appropriate encouragement to those classic tastes which we hope will never be neglected in the public schools of England. The Right Rev. Dr. Manning, the new Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, has arrived with his suite at the Hotel des Berguss, Geneva, on his way to Rome. Business in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the last few days has remained rather dull. The operations in tea have been de ferred until the public sales, which commence this day, when about 40,518 packages will be offered. Sugars have been dull, butk,at steady prices ; while superior descriptions of coffee have been inquired for at full rates. In rice, fruit, and saltpetre there has been little or no change, while tallow com manded steady rates for both present and forward delivery. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE PERUVIAN. (Via Greencastle.) The following are the heads of the news brought by the Peruvian : NEW YORK, JUNE 24, MORNING. The blockades of all ports in the United States has been raised. The 25 per cent. restriction on cotton west a the Mississippi has been removed. Gold, 1421. NEW YORK, JUNE 24 (Evening: President Johnson has officially announced that the blockades of all United States' ports, including Galveston, has been raised, and they will be open to foreign commerce after July Ist. The City of London and the Germania will take $208,000 in specie. The City of Manchester has arrived out. NEW YORK, JUNE 24 (Evening). Money abundant. Gold, 1421. Exchange on London, 156 ; do. Paris, 3 621. Stocks dull. New York Centrals, 92; ; Illinois Centrals, 1221 ; Erie, 751 ; 5-20 U.S. Bonds, 1031. Cotton very firm • M. Upland, 41c. Flour declining. Wheat dull. Corn good inquiry. Provisions dull. Coffee steady. Sugar and molasses quiet. Petroleum dull : Crude, 35e. ; refined, 52c. NEW YORK, JUNE 24 (Afternoon). The City of Boston arrived here this afternoon, NEW YORK, JUNE 24 (Evening). The California steamer Golden Rule has been wrecked off Ronedor Reef. All hands were saved. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JUNE 23 (Evening). Money abundant. Gold, 1418. Stocks dull New York Centrals, 931 ; Erie, 75; ; 5-20 Bonds ; 1031. NEW YORK, JUNE 23, Evening. The message of the Governor to the Virginia Legislature urges the avoidance of all legislation calculated unnecessarily to irritate the people. He recommends fewer restrictions in the regulation of the white elective franchise. As neither himself nor the Legislature have the control of the negro suf frage, they will not deliberate on that question. The Government has ordered an additicnal re duction of the army by 50,000 men. Admiral Duront is dead. MEXICO. NEW YORK, JUNF, 23. Advices received here from San Francisco state that the agents of Juarez have placed a loaa of 10 million dollars on the San Francisco market, NEW ZEALAND. GRAVESEND, JULY 4. The Celeano, from Otago, has arrived here. She brings, 3,407 oz. of gold, 24 passengers, and a full cargo. FRANCE, BOURSE, July 3.—The market to-day opened flatly, but has since somewhat recovered. With the exception of French Three per Cents.—which have improved 12ie.—the principal securities show little change on the closing rates of Saturday. Mobilier Shares are done at 697 f. 75c., and Italian Five per Cents. at 66f. 80c. Italian Loans have slightly re covered—the Old being quoted at 45if., and the New at 320 f. In connection with the latter Stock, it may be well to mention that the first drawing of the prizes specified in the conditions of its emission takes place this day. The markets closed as fol lows : 41 per Cents 95 75 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 67 05 Do. end month 67 05 Credit Mollifier 706 25 Do. end month Bank Shares 3570 Credit Foncier 1235 Italian Loan 66 90 Do. end month 67 RAILY Ditto Threes 67 New Mexican Do. Bonds 305 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred Roman 73 WAYS. Cash. Acct. Orleans Northern lO7O ... 1060 Lyons and Mediterranean 845 ... 840 Southern 570 ... 572 50 Western 525 . 522 50 Eastern 515 ... 510 Sardinian Austrian Lombard 4Bl 25 ... 485 North of Spain . l7O ... 160 Saragossa 312 50 ... 315 Ditto to Barcelona l6O ... Her Von Bismarck and the Duke of Augustenburg: (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) BERLIN, July 2. The official Staatsanzeiger gives the following ac count of the interview between Herr Von Bismarck and the Duke of Augustenburg, to which the Prus sian Premier referred at one of the last sittings of the Chamber of Deputies : "We are enabled to give the following particu lars of the conversation which took place between the head of the King's Ministry and the Duke of Augustenburg upon the Ist June last year. They were written down immediately after the interview by the former at the desire of the King. " I had hoped to find the Prince of Augusten burg in a frame of mind calculated to accept thank fully our moderate demands, and met him in that sense when be visited me towards nine o'clock on the evening of the Ist. " ' I said we wished to come to an understanding with him in case we were able to render his claims generally recognised• Our main interest was Ger man, not dynastic : we wanted to obtain the greatest possible concessions from Denmark, we were willing to give him the benefit of our efforts upon conditions required by consideration for our own people, before which we could not come with empty hands, after a sanguinary campaign. 'He asked what these conditions were ? " ' I referred to the six points in the letter to the King, adding that they might perhaps be simplified. Naval establishments and fortifications might pos sibly be combined in the shape of a ship canal from Eckernforde to Brunshiittel with fortified entrances in both seas. It would be a technical military question whether Eckernforde (if fortified) could replace the expensive erection of another Federal fortress at Rendsburg. I had only to add-1. That, in case the intended establishments could not soon be brought into the position of Federal institutions, the Duke would declare himself ready to give up the entrances above alluded to of the canal to Prussia in the same way as the Bay of Jande, in which case we would come to an understanding with the Diet upon the general system of coast protection ; also the right of supervi sion over the canal, similarly to a State railway. 2. That a military convention, including a naval convention, should be concluded, so that the number of men to be yielded to the Prussian fleet should be deducted from the contingent of the land force. " The Duke raised difficulties upon every point. He was not clear about the extent of the right of supervision over the canal. He would hardly be able to defend cessions of territory to Prussia be fore the (Schleswig-Holstein) Diet. These must be at any rate of small extent and exactly defined,and acceptable boundaries of the Duchies mustbe secured in advance. He designated as such the line of the Gjermer Bay. " I expressed my surprise, as he had already been willing to cede Gluckstadt with an area correspond ing to the extent of the Hamburg jurisdiction. " The Duke denied all knowledge of any such plan, and was astonished at so large a cession ; the Hamburg jurisdiction included several square miles. He must also know whether at Eckernforde the tOWII WM included, or am uncultivated district.; what was its extent, exactly defined ; and its precise position. Any actual cessions he seemed to imagine of at most the extent of the Jande district. With regard to a military convention, he thought that concluded with Coburg went too far in many respects ; he would, therefore, for his part, prefer modifications in any convention of the cost. It would only be possible for him to come before the (Schleswig-Holstein) Diet, if he received all the Duchies, or at least with the frontier commencing at the Gjermer Bay, to the north of Apenrade, otherwise not. He could not accept disgraceful conditions. As such he characterised a more southern frontier than that stated ; to have to accept debts for war expenses and yet cede territory. It would be impossible for him to come before the Diet and the people with such a system. The Duke alluded, in conversation, to the advisability of trying to gain his heart rather than to bind him by stated condi tions. Were this done he would advocate Prussian pocily. I replied we thought we had alreadygainedhis heart. " ' He said that the Duchies had not summoned Prussia. The Diet would have effected the delibe ration of the Duchies without us more easily, and upon less burdensome conditions. He asked further, whether we had come to an understanding with Austria upon the expectations to be laid before him, and pointed out that this was requisite. " I negatived his first question, adding that we should adhere to our demands under all circum stances, and hoped to come to an understanding thereupon with Austria. " Evident indisposition existed to enter into any signed agreement binding upon the parties. The Duke would promise nothing he could not perform, and therefore give no assurances of whose confirmation by the Estates he did not feel certain. This latter, he said, must depend upon the extent of the Duchies ; much would be attained in case of ' their integrity, impossible to be achieved otherwise. A. feeling of readiness to be released by the vote of the Estates from engagments entered into was un mistakable. Ultimately the Duke stated that he would think over the matter at Dolzig, and consi dered this conversation as only intended for mutual enlightenment as to the agreement to be finally entered into. " I cannot avoid summing up the impression of our interview, which lasted three hours, as being that the Duke does not regard- us with feelings of thankfulness but as unwelcome creditors, to satisfy whom, at as little expense as possible, he is ready to seek the assistance of the Estates and of Austria. To my hint that our zeal in advancing his candida ture would in some degree depend upon his High ness's attitude towards us, the Duke replied that ho had no apprehension on that score, as the matter had already gone too far to be undone now." rHE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, 3 ULY 4, 1865. Speech-day at Wellington College. Yesterday the annual ceremony of distributing prizes to the most promising pupils of Wellington College was performed by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, in presence of a distinguished com pany. A special train of considerable length left Charing-cross station shortly before 10 o'clock, con veying, among others, hi t s Royal Highness, with the officers of his household, the Earl of Derby, &c. The train reached its destination shortly after half past 11 o'clock, and half-an-hour later all the visi tors had taken their places in the large dining hall of the college, appropriated on this occasion to the purposes of the display, and enlivened by the introduction here and there of natural flowers tastefully arranged. Among those present were —the Archbishop of York, Countess of Jersey, and Lady C. Villiers, Lady Charles Wellesley, Sir Andrew and Lady Buchanan, Sir W. M. Cope, Sir J. Pakington, Sir J. Heron Maxwell, Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, Sir A. Gordon- Cumming, Sir D. Cooper, [ion. and Rev. G. Tal bot, Lady Willshire, Hon. T. Ponsonby, Lady Franklin, &c. The Governors of the college in attendance were —The Bishop of Oxford, the Earl of Derby, Earl Stanhope, Lord Eversley, Lord Chelmsford, Mr. Walter, M.P., Mr. Walpole, M.P., and Mr. Cox. The proceedings, as far as the distribution of prizes was concerned, were of the ordinary type. Special mention, however, must be made of the melodious and touching prize poem, " Iphigenia," written and recited by Mr. Kay, which excelled the standard usually attained on such occasions. The acting of Mr. Cunynghame in the scenes from the " Merchant of Venice" was also regarded as a fea- tare worthy to be remembered. When the strictly formal business had been brought to a close by the singing of the National Anthem, in which the fresh young voices were heard to advantage, the com pany adjourned to a marquee out of doors, under which luncheon had been invitingly laid out. The refreshments were furnished from the hotel recently erected adjoining the college, and, like all the other arrangements of the day, were in admi rable taste. Before the company separated the health of " Her Majesty the Queen" was drunk with becoming loyalty. The CHAIRMAN next proposed " The Health o: his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales," accom panying the toast with expressions of gratitude to his Royal Highness for his presence that day, and for the kind favour and interest with which he had uniformly regarded the institution. His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, whose earnestness elicited corresponding enthusiasm on the part of his audience, said—My lords and gentlemen, I am deeply sensible of the manner in which Mr. Benson has proposed my health, and in which it has been received by the company assembled here to-day. I need hardly assure you that it is a source of sin cere gratification to me to find myself once more within the walls of Wellington College, taking part in the proceedings of " Speech Day," and distri buting prizes to the successful competitors. Allow me, Mr. Benson, to congratulate you, and through you the whole college, on the highly efficient state in which at present I find it. I feel con vinced that my young friends have not forgotten that it bears the name of one of the greatest soldiers England every knew. In the success of this insti tution Mr. Benson has already mentioned, and I need hardly remind you, that the Queen takes a strong interest ; a still greater interest was taken by my father, to whose exertions ,the college really owes its origin. I have now, my lords and gentlemen, a very pleasant task to perform, and that is to make an announcement which I hope will not be consi dered indiscreet on my part. At the last meeting of the Governors of Wellington College, Lord Derby intimated that it was his intention to devote the profits of his justly celebration translation of " Homer" to the production of a prize to be given annually as a reward to the foundationer who within the year of his leaving the college should conduct himself to the entire approbation of the Head master—be considered, in fact, the most industrious and well-conducted boy or young man in the school. I feel certain that this announcement will be re ceived with great pleasure. It will show you the in terest which the noble lord takes in this institution, and will be a stimulus to increased exertion on the part of those within its walls. I thank you, Mr. Benson, for proposing, and you, my lords and gen tlemen, for drinking, my health so cordially ; and I assure you it affords me great gratification when ever I can do anything to promote the welfare of Wellington College. His Royal Highness resumed his seat amid cor dial and sustained applause. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON, in proposing " the Health of the Governors, and Continued Prosperity to Wellington College," said that for the last four years a son of his had been an inmate of the Col lege, and the best proof he could give of his high opinion of the institution was that the boy would remain there till he went to Oxford. Experience con vinced him that his son had been safer, made more extensive and more satisfactory progress in Wel lington College than he would have done at any other public school in England. The Earl of DERBY, in acknowledging the toast with which his name had been coupled, and which had been drunk with much cordiality, said—May it please your Royal Highness, ladies, and gentlemen, as Vice-President of the Wellington College, it is my duty to take on myself any part of the functions of the President which he does not think fit to execute himself ; consequently, in obedience to his Royal Highness's commands, I rise for the purpose of re turning to those present the grateful thanks of the Governors for the honour which you have done them, and for the appreciation which you have manifested of the college over which we preside. I must say that from no quarter more gratifying or more satis factory to us could this toast proceed than from my my right hon. friend, because, as he says, he has had for some years a boy at the school—who has done credit, let me add, to the institution. It is the more satisfactory to us, because my right hon. friend has not been a careless observer of what was going on. I have known few persons who so carefully and rigidly criticised whatever he thought he might find amiss at 'Wellington College. I speak in the name of the Head Master, as well as of the Governors, when I say we are very much indebted to all those who, in a friendly spirit, point out anything that requires amendment in our system, in order that we may have the opportunity of rectifying it. And I think my right hon. friend will do us the justice to say that his presentations have always been attended to (Sir J. Pakington—Hear, hear) and that we do all in our power to meet the just requirements of those who honour us with their confidence by send ing their sons here. His Royal Highness has ad verted to the circumstances under which this school was founded, and they have been again alluded to by my right hon. friend. I have taken from the very first a deep interest in the prosperity of this founda tion--I say from the very first, because it did so happen that when the news arrived in Scotland of the lamented death of the Duke of Wellington, I was in attendance on her Majesty as a Minister of the Crown, and the subject was afterwards under the consideration of her Majesty, his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, and myself how best the debt could be discharged which the country owed to that great man, and what form of monument or memorial it would have been most gratifying to the feelings of the late duke, had he been living, to see erected in his name. It was felt at once by her Majesty and the Prince Consort, and in that feeling I cordially joined, that no memo-. rial to the Duke of Wellington could be more grati fying than to afford to the orphans of officers of that profession, of which he was so distinguished an or nament, an education such as it would be impossi ble for them with their own limited means to obtain, fitting them for future usefulness in whatever station of life to which they might afterwards be called on to labour. Let me add that a misapprehension has prevailed with regard to Wellington College—a mis apprehension that I believe has prevented some parents from sending their sons here. It is supposed that this is a military school; on that subject it is most important that there should be no misappre hension. Although the foundationers are all sons of deceased officers, yet the education given is a gene ral education, the best that can be given, not con fined exclusively to any particular branch, but cal culated to fit boys for going to Sandhurst, for pro ceeding to either of the universities, for entering into the service of the State—in point of fact, for every position of life to which the sons of English gentlemen can possibly be called. I may perhaps be permitted to congratulate the governors and the friends of the college generally on the very rapid in crease which it has made in public estimation and general usefulness. I can hardly realise to myself that it is not above nine years since her Majesty first attended on this spot, then a barren heath, and al most inaccessible, without a single building, or the slightest approach to a building, except the outer walls of this college; and that it is little more than six years since the buildings around us were com pleted, and the college opened for the education of boys. At the time I speak of we opened with the modest number of 70 boys, hoping that in the course of four or five years we might reach the number of 100. In January, 1859, the number was 76 ; in January, 1860, it had risen to 138; in January, 1861, the college contained 213 ; in January, 1862, there were 222 boys, which was as much as that time the college was capable of holding. In 1863 the very beautiful and highly ornamental College chapel was finished, and thereupon one of the dormitories, which up to that time had been appropriated, was restored to its original and proper purpose, enabling us to find room for 30 additional boys. In January, 1864, the school again was full, the numbers having risen to 252 boys, at which limit it has remained to the present time. Out of, lam sorry to say, very limited means, we have been compelled to undertake the building of a new dormitory to hold 42 more boys, and if I should have the honour of addressing this company this time next year, I feel confident that this dormitory will likewise be filled, and that we shall again have the full number that we can take within our walls. This rapid progress in six years from 76 boys to 252, and the fact that we have at this moment 50 or 60 candidates for the foundation, and a still greater number of non-foundationers, waiting for admission without ability upon our part to receive them, forms, I think, convincing proof which I can adduce that public confidence confirms the steps taken by the governors, and affirms tho distinguished merit of the head master of the college. I hardly know whether I ought to allude to a matter of which complimentary mention has been made— the gift which I had the great pleasure of offering to the college as the result of a publication for which I am responsible. It cost me nothing but the labour, a very gratifying employment, bestowed upon the work which has produced this result; the public have been kind enough to pay it—(laughter)—and I thought I could not more usefully devote this liber ality on the part of the public than towards promot- ing the interests of the foundationers of Wellington College. It occurred to me that as many of them came to the college under disadvantages as regards their early education, on account of their poverty— an honourable poverty, not a thing to be ashamed of —and with little inheritance other than the honour of their fathers' name, I could not do better than endeavour to hold out a stimulus encouraging them to make rapid, and not only rapid, but steady, pro gress in education from the period of their entering college. I found that, fortunately, the sum which I had to dispose of was sufficient to make a permanent investment producing, I think, £54 a year, and this I proposed should be given to that one of the foun dationers not being less than 16 years of age, who on leaving the school should within the year have most distinguished himself, not for talent, but for industry, application, and general good conduct. I felt that for mere talent and ability there were prizes and premiums enough here and elsewhere, but the more important and more sterling qualities of steady application, industry, and good conduct, were not so generally rewarded, or so much the objects of gene ral commendation. I thought there might be some- thing of novelty as well as advantage in holding forth a stimulus to general, steady, persevering good conduct, which, while talents and ability are given to one and not to another, would be within the reach of every boy who has the ambition to deserve it. (Applause.) Ladies and gentlemen, forgive me for alluding for a moment to a topic which I should not have mentioned had attention not been called to it by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. But the subject having been mentioned, I thought it desirable that I should fully explain— speaking in presence of some whose boys may be in the school, or who may be thinking of sending them here—what is the object and scope of that gift which it has been my happiness to be able to pre sent to the College. The noble earl, after some further observations, concluded by proposing " The health of Rev. Mr. Benson," who responded in ap- propriate terms, and the company, quitting the marquee, proceeded to the chapel, where a recital on the organ was given by Mr. Edmonds, organist and choir-master. Shortly before 4 o'clock the major portion of the guests returned to town by the special train. As it left the Wellington College Station the pupils and staff of the institution, who clustered thickly on the platform, raised hearty cheers for the occupants of the Royal carriage. MURDER BY A FARMER.—Denis Driscoll, a farmer belonging to Mohona, near Skibbereen, the other day fol lowed a man named Cornelius Brian, and with a scythe severed his head from his body. There aro numerous re ports as to the cause which led to the murder, but it is confidently believed that jealousy had a great deal to do with it. 61134 ,••=fo Tat HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, July 3. The Queen, with their Royal Highnesses Princesit Helena, Princess Louise, and Princess Beatrice went to Frogmore this morning. • His Royal Highness Prince Leopold, attended by Mr. Buff, arrived at the Castle from Greenwich Park. Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh Rose had the honour of an interview with her Majesty. -0- The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince of Wales, attended by Lord Alfred Hervey, Lieutenant-General Knollys, and Major Grey, went by railway yesterday to the Wellington College, and presided at the:ceremonial of" speech day," and distributed the prizes. The Princess of Wales took a carriage-drive, at tended by the Countess of Macclesfield. The Prince and Princess of Wales gave a dinner to the Queen of the Netherlands in the evening. The following were invited to meet her Majesty : —His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar and the Countess Dornberg, the Prince of Teck, tha Minister for the Netherlands, the Danish Minister, the Earl and Countess of Macclesfield, Earl and Countess Spencer, the Earl and Countess of Claren don, the Countess Cowley, Earl Russell, Vis countess Palmerston, Lord Harris, Lord Llanover, the Hon. R. H. Meade, Lieutenant-General Sir Fenwick Williams, Sir Andrew and Hon. Lady Buchanan, Sir Henry and Lady Howard, Count de Randwjk, M. de Weekherlin, Baroness de Pabst and Baroness de Dedem (in attendance on her Ma jesty the Queen of the Netherlands), Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald (equerry in waiting to the Duke of Cambridge), Lieutenant-General Knollys, and Major Grey. The band of the Coldstream Guards (conducted by Mr. A. F. Godfrey) was in attendance, and per formed a selection of music. The Queen of the Netherlands. Yesterday morning her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands, attended by Count Randwjk and the Baroness Pabst, and accompanied byLord Llanover, visited the Consumption Hospital at Brompton. Her Majesty was received at the hospital by the Marquis of Westminster and the chief officers of the establishment, and at the conclusion of the visit, which lasted for an hour and a half, her Majesty expressed her thanks for the opportunity of visiting the institution, and the gratification derived at wit nessing the admirable arrangements made for the comfort and care of the patients. Her Majesty returned to Claridge's Hotel to luncheon, and afterwards paid a visit to the Coun tess of Clarendon. On returning to the hotel her Majesty received visits from his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, his Exceilency the Russian ambassador and the Baroness Brunnow, the Duke of Wellington, the Duke and Duchess of Somerset, the Earl St. Maur, Lady Gwendoline St. Maur, and Lord Edward St. Maur. Later in the afternoon, attended by the ladies and gentlemen of her suite, and accompanied by Lord Llanover, her Majesty went to the House of Lords and listened to the debates from the Ladies' Gallery. Her Majesty remained for nearly two hours, and then returned to Claridge's Hotel. In the evening her Majesty dined with the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough House, two of the royal carriages having been sent for the con veyance of the Queen and her suite. Her Majesty afterwards honoured the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland with a visit at Stafford House, a select party having been invited on the occasion. On Saturday an early visit was paid to the Museum of Geology in Jermyn-street, where her Majesty was received by Sir Roderick Murchison and Professor Huxley, and was conducted through the building. Calls were made upon her Majesty yesterday at Claridge's Hotel by the Duchess of Inverness, the Duke of Richmond, the Duchess of San Arpin() Caracciola, the Duchess de Valambrosa, the Earl and Countess of Dunmore and Lady Alexandrina Murray, the Countess of Gifford, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, Lord and Lady Proby, Dowager Lady Clinton, Lady Howard, Sir George and Lady Grey, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the E xc h equer, M r. Hub bard A.AllisPs" Hon. Mrs. Hubb ar d, an d Mi ss Hub bard,Brudenell Bruce, Mr. Wodehouse, &c. Their Highnesses Prince and Princess Alexander DolgorouskY and suite have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from Paris• Their Royal Highnesses the Count and Countess of Paris honoured Lady Molesworth with their company at dinner last evening. The following were invited to meet theirroyal highnesses:—His Excellency tho Italian Minister , the Duchess of St. Albans and L a dy Di ana B eauclerk, the Marquis of Sligo, the Countess of Kinnoull, the Earl and Countess of Seafield, Lord liavensworth, Mr. and Lady Margaret Beaumont, Lord and Lady Carew, Sir Hume and Lady Hume Campbell, Admiral Sir Thomas and Lady Cochrane, Colonel Challoner, Mr. F. Courtenay, Mrs. Lane Fox, and the lady in waiting on their royal highnesses. The Countess Spencer will not have an evening party at Spencer House, St. James's, to-morrow, as an flounced. The Viscountess Lorton is on a visit at Kikonan, the beautiftl seat of Colonel Tenison. Lord and Lady de Mauley and the Hon. Miss Ponsonby have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley -square, for Langford House, Lechlade. Sir Charles Rushout, Bart., has left Thomas's Hotel, Borkeley-square, for Sezincot House, Moreton in tho Marsh. The Bank Returns. Tho Bankers' Magazine furnishes the returns of the cir culation of the private and joint-stock banks in England and Wales for the four months ending the 27th of May. These returns, combined with the circulation of the Scotch and Irish banks for the same period, and the average cir culation of the Bank of England for the four weeks ending the 24th of May (the nearest date furnished by their returns), will give the following results of the circulation of notes in the United Kingdom when compared with the previous month : April 29, Nay 27, 1865. I 1865. 'lncrease. !Decrease. Bank of England Private Banks Joint-stock Banks.. Total in Enoland. Scotland... Ireland United Kingdom. 21,051,570 21,251,518 3,040,531 3,000,546 2,895,91 t, 2,847,871 . 26,988,011 27,099,065 4,151,156 4,596,951 5,858,097 5,930,449 36,997,261! 37,627,36: , 199,978 111,954 445,795 72,352 630,101 30,93 5 48,0 39 And as compared with the month ending the 28th of May, 1864, the above returns show a decrease of £34,740 in the circulation of notes in England, and an increase of £168,652 in the circulation of the United Kingdom. On comparing tho above with the fixed issues of the several banks the following is the state of the circulation:— The English private banks are below their fi xe d issue £1,188,545 The English joint-stock banks are below their fixed issue 378,486 Total below fixed issue in England £1,567,031 The Scotch banks are above their fixed issue... 1,847,680 The Irish banks are below their fixed issue 424,015 The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eng land in both departments during the month ending the 27th of May was £14,966,314, being a decrease of £14,090 as compared with the previous month, and an increase of X 1,931,093 when compared with the same period last year. The following are the amounts of specie held by the Scotch and Irish banks during the month ending the 27th of May : Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks £2,495,198 Gold and silver held by the Irish banks 2,104,816 .£4,600,014 Being an increase of £157,948 as compared with the pre vious return, and an increase of £203,450 when compared with the corresponding period last year. The drawing of the numbers of the bonds to the amount of £250,000, for payment at par, of the Consolidated Peruvian Five per Cent. Loan took place yesterday. DEATH FROiI THE BITE OF AN ADDER.-011 Sunday, Mrs. Seddon, wife of an undertaker, residing in Compton-street, went with a party of friends for an ex cursion to Epping Forest, and whilst sitting on the grass was bitten by an adder, which must have been concealed near where she was seated, and which was killed by ono of the party. 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