The Sun. — London, England, 1865-07-06 00:00:00

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ALEXANDER (late BROOKS), Newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendish- itreet, Oxlord-street. *** No connection with any one of the same name. 'WINSLOW HALL, Winslow, Bucks, having been recently opened and fitted with requisites for the care and comfort of the INSANE, the proprietor, Dr. BOISKAGON, announces that he has transterrect his Estab lishment from Birmingham to the above desirable residence, easily accessible, and distant from London about an hour and a-halt by the London and North-Western hne, and fifty minutes from Oxford. Attached to the mansion, situated on a sandy soil, and commanding an extensive and pleasing prospect, are garden, meadow, plantation, and recreation grounds. For terms and forma of adatiosioil address the proprietor. 6 : 4: 0 4 ' 5: 1°1 ); 4623 k HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tine DAT.—Alorning, h. m.—Afternoon, 121 t. 25m To-Monnow.-Morning, 12h. 50m.—Afternoon, lh. 12m. LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1865. The Lord Chancellor last night made a statement to the House of Lords, which was very well re ceived, and which was indeed distinguished for moderation and temperance. Under the peculiarly trying circumstances of the case it is to be ques tioned if he could have done better, and it is so far a satisfaction that one in his high position has retired with dignity and decorum. Out of respect to their lordships he deemed it his duty to appear before them and announce that he had tendered to Her MAJESTY his resignation, which had been accepted. He also said that the step which he then took he should have taken some months back had he followed the dictates of his own judg ment, and acted on his own views. It is greatly to be regretted that the noble and learned lord did not act according to his own wishes on this subject ; it would have spared much annoyance, and avoided the chief scandal of the affair. Indeed it would have been better if the Lord Chancellor had insisted on resigning, for he was the best judge, and his voice should have been all-powerful in a matter which so directly concerned himself, and occasioned him so much annoyance and anxiety. In this pas sage the noble and learned lord gave utterance to an expression of opinion which did him credit, and cor responded with the usual idea entertained of his skill and discernment. "My lords, I believe that the holder of the Great Seal ought never to be in the position of an accused person, and such, unfortuately, being the case, for my own part, I felt it due to the great office that I hold that I should retire from it, and meet any accusation in the character of a pri vate person." Lord PALMERSTON persisted in refusing to accept the oft-proffered resignation of the noble and learned lord, and his efforts have met with a decided failure at last. Lord WESTBURY stated this in order that the public might not think he had a clinging to office, and much less that he had not been actuated "by any baser or more unworthy motive." The Chancellor also exhibited his good sense by abstaining from making any comment upon the decision of the House of Commons, except to express a hope that, in course of time, a more favourable opinion might be entertained of his conduct when calmer thoughts prevailed. It would have been quite useless and only marred the effect produced by the calm tone in which this speech was made. In recurring to the events which marked his tenure of office, the Lord Chancellor was enabled to con gratulate himself, and with great justice, for the measures which he had been instrumental in pass ing. These, he was able to predict from his know ledge and experience, would be of great benefit to the country. " With these measures I hope my name will be associated," said the noble and learned lord, and there certainly seems no reason to doubt that such will be the case. Lord WESTBURY has laboured zealously in the cause of Law Reform, and his services in that respect entitle him to the gratitude of the community. The great scheme of the formation of a digest of the whole law which he has been unable to inaugurate he bequeaths, already prepared, into the hands of his successor. This is a great trophy for the retiring Chancellor to refer to, and as neither the Parlia ment nor the public of this country are prone to forget merits because demerits exist, there is no fear that the tribute which is justly his due will be withheld from Lord WESTBURY when his career is analysed and his doings referred to here after. In some respects this reflection makes the matter better, and in others worse. For the satis faction of his friends and family, it may be well that a renown attaches to his name ; but also it is a subject of regret that such high attainments should not have been accompanied by more discre tion, and that one who so ably filled a high office should not have displayed more moderation. Also, that one intrusted with so much responsibility should not have exhibited more scrupulous regard to propriety in the filling up of appointments and the awarding of pensions. These reflections will fill the minds of many who to-day witness the noble and learned lord in his high position for the last time. The experience of a general election does not generally tend to raise our estimate of the standard of political morality. Promises that are never in tended to be kept, pledges that are framed with a view to subsequent evasion, are plentifully supplied on the part of the electors, setting aside those darker features of corruption and intimidation which disgrace both constituents and candidates. Every one is trying to defeat his rival, to eclipse his neighbour, and the nearest approach to the political excitement of former days is to be found in the tur moil of a general election. In honourable exception to the general aspect of the political horizon at this moment is the conduct of part of the electors for Westminster, and of the candidate they have chosen to represent them. The large metropolitan boroughs are not usually very fortunate in their selection of members, and it is not often that they succeed in getting anything more than respectable mediocrity to represent them. But in this instance they have a prospective member who is doubly remark able, being distinguished alike for his great literary and philosophical reputation, and for the singular elevation and purity of his political code. Unlike many high-minded theorists, who either preserve their superiority by a total seclusion from the world of active life, or else find it melt very rapidly away in immediate contact with stern realities, Mr. MILL carries his principles rigidly into practice. The faults and deficiencies of our elec tion system have necessarily occupied much of his attention as a writer on political economy and the science of government, and he has not failed to censure the false and mistaken method of canvass ing which has gained ground amongst us. The errors and evils of election times have called forth his criticism and his denunciations, and accordingly when he was called upon himself to mix in the struggle every one was curious to see how he would himself conduct the warfare. There are, un doubtedly, difficulties attending Mr. MILL'S theory as there are in the application of all high-minded and uncompromising principles to ordinary routine, but it is refreshing, in the midst of so much parti zanship and manoeuvring, to meet with such a case, if it be exceptional. Mr. MILL pre-supposes not only that all candidates are to be as honourable and disinterested as himself, but that all electors should be not only superior to corruption, but have some political knowledge. They must decide who can best represent their interests and call on him to come forward, but it is not always that they have either the capacity of judging for themselves or that they have so good a means of forming an estimate as Mr. MILL has given them in his works. Still the prin ciple thus laid down is undoubtedly sound, and must not be scoffed at as the dreaming theories of a visionary or a recluse, but it must be accepted as the dictum of one of the clearest and most logical THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 6, 1865. minds of our time, a man of practice and not of theory, who has spent his days in the office and not in the study, and who, as he himself says, has for 35 years of his life spent every day in the actual busi ness of government. With an independeLce quite consistent with his character, but rare among Par liamentary sapients, Mr. MILL declared tothe elec tors last evening that he had no personal object to serve by entering Parliament, and however much he might value the honour of their choice hP would not become a candidate if he was to solicit their votes, for he considered the whole system of soliciting votes a mistake. It is from no contempt for the position, no disregard of its opportunities for exertion that Mr. MILL speaks thus, for he declared his conviction that "To be selected by a large body of his fellow-countrymen as the representative of what was highest in their minds of their consciences, of their understandings, of their sincere convictions, and of their patriotic feelings, was one of the highest honours that it was possible for a citizen of a free country to receive." The independent and straight forward manner in which Mr. MILL has acted re specting his electioneering canvas is the best pledge which the electors can receive that such promises as he gives will be faithfully kept—that they need fear no petty tricks, no party devices, but that if as, we hope, will be the case, they select him as their re presentative he will honestly and conscientiously fulfil to the best of his ability, his duty to them, to himself, and to the country. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. PARIS, JULY 6. M. Drouyn de Lhuys, Earl Cowley, and the Dutch and Belgian Ministers yesterday exchanged the ratifications of the sugar convention, concluded on the Bth November, 1865, which will come into operation on the Ist August. PARIS, JULY G. According to news received here from Constan tinople, the rumour that the Porte will contract a new loan with the Socikd Gen6ral6 is unfounded. The Porte bad only under consideration an advance of 600,000 Turkish pounds, on the cession of a portion of the tithes. MARSEILLES, JULY 6. Abd-el-Kader has arrived here. Letters received from Constantinople to the 28th ult. state that the Sultan had been ill of cerebral congestion, but was then out of danger. The Pacha of Egypt had been received with great honours. It was asserted that the Porte had conferred upon him the government and possession of the African coast of the Red Sea. BOURSE, July s.—The various markets for stocks and shares have again shown symptoms of activity to-day, and although the quotations of the principal securities show no sensible modification, the rates current yesterday have been generally well main tained. i Threes, for the Account, have held firmly at 67f. 5c., and Mobilier shares at 697 f. 50c. Italian Fire per Cents. remain unchanged at 67f. 30c., and Mexican Loan (Old) is now done at 45k. The markets have continued to improve to the close, the following being the last quotations : 41 per Cents 96 i 5 . end month Ditto Thr0e5.,,,,,,,. 68 New Mexican Do. Bonds 305 Russian — Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred Roman 3 per Cents. 67 121 Do. end month 67 2U Credit Mobilier Do. end month Bank Shares 3570 Credit Fonder 1270 Italian Loan 67 25 Do. end month 67 37 'IYB. Cash. Acct. Orleans Northern lO6B 75 ... 10G7 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 843 75 ... 840 Southern 573 75 ... 578 75 Western 526 25 527 50 Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard 485 ... 485 North of Spain 157 50 ... 155 Saragossa 312 50 ... 310 Ditto to Barcelona PRUSSIA. BERLIN, July 2. Much decision and assurance is constantly dis played by this Government in the question of the Duchies. Not a word is heard of compliance with the propositions and advice of Austria to proceed to a speedy constitution of the new State. The state ment is made from various quarters in Govern mental circles that as Prussia is resolved, if re quisite, to run the risk of the most serious active obstacles, she will assuredly not permit herself to be dislodged from her important position by mere word-fence, or renounce the opportunity of fortify ing that position. The Kreuz Zeitung party con tinues to declare that the Government will steadily combat the succession of the Prince of Augusten burg to the Duchies, and will offer the most deter mined opposition to the constitution of Schleswig- Holstein as a totally independent minor State. The policy of the Government unmistakeably favours the reproduction of the annexation idea. The notion is now said to predominate in influential quarters of buying out the other claimants by com pensation grants, and of entering into a treaty with Austria as to an indemnification to be agreed upon. The prospect of uniting the Duchies to Prussia by way of personal union is believed to be entertained. Not unimportant testimony to the existence and the extent of such ideas is afforded by the fact that an annexation programme upon the compensation prin ciple has been openly drawn up by the Conservative party in the Chamber of Deputies, and that the great majority cf the Upper House has promised the Government, for very similar motives, its urgent support in carrying out the demands of Feb. 22. It has been pointed out by persons concerned that the Conservative party certainly would not have made so marked an advance in this direction, had it not been certain of finding assistance in corresponding intentions of the Government. The Government upon its part reckons upon the feeling of the country to be able to carry out its policy. An ardent wish, undoubtedly, exists among the great portion of the Prussian people to extract as much profit for their own country as possible from the Duchies question. Herr von BISMARK does not fear the Chamber of Deputies as a serious obstacle to his plans. If the settlement of the Schleswig-Holstein question in the Prussian sense were made the chief battle-cry at the elections, the popular voice would probably express itself with an overwhelming majority for the energetic prose cution of the Government's claims. The threat put forward by semi-official organs that Prussia would not consent to the convocation of the Schleswig-Holstein representatives so long as the Prince of Augustenburg remains in the Duchies is certainly said to express Herr von Bis mark's views, but it is not yet decisively clear whether the Cabinet will continue to maintain this as a preliminary demand. Matters at any rate still bear the appearance of a speedy settlement of the points of difference between Prussia and Austria not being likely. The recent ministerial changes in Vienna have aroused fresh hopes of mutual approach of the two Powers, and it is now reported that the King will have an inter view with the Emperor Francis Joseph upon his journey to Gastein. LITERATURE, Frost and Fire. Two Vols. Edmonston and Douglas. These very imposing and even alarming volumes may rank with the curiosities of literature and the marvels of science. The title-page is pictorial and allegorical, and is, we aro told, an index to the con tents of the work. We cannot depict the fad-simile of the title-page--we can only transcribe its pen and-ink description. "On the title-page," says the preface, " the word Frost is written over snow, and above the top of Hecla ; the word Fire under steam in Stoker, and under the sea. The book at tempts to prove that both of these natural forms, which were copied from nature in Iceland—the cold, conical, snow-clad pile built above a hot crater, raised high in cold air ; and the conical pit, from which steam casts boiling water along rays—are tool-marks of natural engines, which shape the earth's crust, and are moved by Frost and Fire ; by cold above and by heat underground. The atmosphere and the ocean aboveground, solids, fluids, and gases under it, are the engines meant ; sedi mentary and igneous rocks are the chips and cinder heaps; mountain forms the tool-marks of these engines ; and the ultimate course of their move ments must be the will of Him who made them all. The aim of this book is to show that where light shines there also force radiates, and there forms re sult from movements caused by ray-force or by light." No pains have been spared in the getting up of these very handsome volumes, which are profusely adorned with illustrations of the various natural marvels, to which the work re lates. From a beautiful glimpse of the midnight sun, as seen from Tromso, June 12, 1852, to an accurate fac-simile of some scattered drops of ink, the illustrations are as diversified and extraordinary as they are interesting and instructive. Epoch Men, and the Results of their Lives. By Samuel Neil, author of " Shakspere, a Biography." 1 Vol. Pp. 312. Nimmo. Charlemagne, Ilildebrand, Roger Bacon, Dante, Chaucer, Copernicus, Lord Clive, and James Watt, are the men of mark selected by Mr. Neil for the subjects of his very interesting sketches. He has purposely selected his heroes from various times and countries, and from different ranks and pursuits, to exhibit " the power of persistent purpose in the world, and prove that there is ample scope in human life for the display of individual effort and energy." A still higher and more important lesson the author in another place deduces from his examples, where, in summing up the character of a hero, he truly observes, " the honest performance of duty is the noblest heroism, the truest manliness. In the mighty strife of time we have each—kings, thinkers, artizans, merchants—to bear our part. If it be well and honestly done, whatsoever be the form thereof, it is sacred and noble." The Men selected for these biographies are especially selected as men who left an impress on their own and future generations, " Footprints on the sands of time," which will not be easily obliterated. People, Places, and Things. By the Author of " Lost Sir Massingbred." One vol., pp. 213. S. 0. Becton. This is just the work for a present, with its gilt edges, elegant binding, and diversified and very interesting contents. When we say that many of the stories which it contains have appeared in House hold Words and Chambers's Journal, it will be a sufficient guarantee of the excellence of the contents. Sketches of various " People," adven tures at various " Places," and descriptions of dif ferent " Things" comprise the subject matter of this very amusing little volume. Pages in Waiting. By Edmund Yates. 1 Vol. Pp. 332. Maxwell and Co. These Pages have hitherto, says an introduc tory note, " been in waiting in Temple Bar. They have now for the first time an oppor tunity of making their bow collectively to the public." Pretty Pages, and bearing in their hands an ample store of entertainment, they will willingly be retained in the service of the general reader to minister to his hours of leisure, to accompany him on a railroad journey, or to attend his steps while loitering by the sea-side. Among the most im portant matters thus presented to our notice are " My Convict Experiences," evidently the results of a practical investigation of the places described. The lighter articles consist of tales and sketches, and reflections for the most part of an amusing and en tertaining description, all written in that bright and animated style which characterises the various pro ductions of the brilliant author of " Broken to Harness." Studies, New and Old, of Ethical and Social Subjects. By Francis Power Cobbe. One vol., pp. 446. Trubner and Co. Many of these papers, " The Morals of Litera ture," " The Philosophy of the Poor-laws," " The Rights of Man and the Claims of Brutes," and others, have appeared in Fraser's Magazine. They are well written, and interesting, but the expres sion of the author's religious opinions, as evidenced in the first article, " Christian Ethics and the Ethics of Christ," will be enough to arrest the sympathy of many readers. Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal. 1 vol., pp. 334. New edition. The Discovery of a North-West Passage. Edited by Captain Sherard Osborne, C.B. 1 vol., pp. 358. Fourth edition. Blackwood and Sons. The publishers have done wisely in issuing these interesting and valuable works in a more condensed and popular form, by which means they will be more easily attainable by the general reader. The " Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal" narrates the experiences of eighteen months in the Polar regions in search of Sir John Franklin's expedition in 1850-51, to which is added an interesting account of the career, last voyage, and fate of Sir John Franklin. This volume is very appropriately dedi cated in feeling terms to Lady Franklin. The companion work gives the full particulars of the voyage of discovery of H.,11. S. Investigator during the years 1850-54, taken from the logs and journals of Captain R. INl'Clure. As We have already no ticed this work on its first appearance, we may briefly now commend this new issue of the fourth edition. Essays on Social Subjects from the Saturday Review. Second Series. 1 Vol., pp. 312. Blackwood and Sons. A second series of the spirited and striking articles on men and matters, which delight the readers of the Saturday Review, will, no doubt, meet with the same success as that obtained by the first series pub lished some little time back. This new volume con tains articles on " Cheerfulness," and " Meanness," on " Small Economies," and " Clever Children," on " Remorse," and " Refinement," on " Flattery," and " Letters," on " Commonsense," and "Vanity," and other matters equally dissimilar and equally at tractive, all written in that brilliant, emphatic style which has contributed not a little to the success of our weekly contemporary. East and West. By Stefanos Xenos, author (in Greek) of " The Devil in Turkey," &c. 1 vol., pp. 303. Trubner. This volume contains a diplomatic history of the annexation of the lonian Islands to the kingdom of Greece, with a translation of the despatches ex changed between the Greek Government and its plenipotentiary at London, and a collection of 'the principal treaties, conventions, and protocols con cerning the lonian Islands and Greece concluded between 1797 and 1864. As a book of reference it possesses an especial value to the politician and historical student, and its interest is enhanced by its particular exposition of the sentiments of the Greeks as described by one of themselves. Modern Scepticism; viewed in relation to Modern Science. By J. B. Young, late Professor of Mathematics at Belfast College. 1 vol. pp. 229. Saunders and Utley. The author tells us that he undertook this work solely in the interests of truth, and believing that he might have to abandon some incidental portions of his preconceieved belief. In the result he has been happily disappointed. He finds (as he might have anticipated) that truth being one, the teachings of Scripture, and the teachings of nature are perfectly compatible with each other. " Reve lation," he says, " neither invokes human science to confirm its truths, nor does it challenge human science to disturb them. It does not stoop to notice science, being independent of its puny help." The result of this author's investigations may, perhaps, be valuable to some " forlorn" and well-nigh ship wrecked brother, who " seeing, may," perchance, " take heart again." Events of the Month; a Magazine of News, Literature, Science, and General Information, 1864. 1 Vol., pp. 624. J. and C. Mozley. This magazine, being now issued in a collected form, gives an epitome, not so much of the " Events of the Month," as of The Events of The Year, 1864. The first event particularised being the lamented death of Lord Elgin, and the latest the sinking of the Flo rida. As fictitious tales and other descriptions of magazine literature form the principal contents of the volume, it can hardly be recognised as an avail able Register of Events. Shooting Simplified ; a Concise Treatment on Guns and Shooting. Second Edition, revised and re-written. By J. Dalziel Dougall, author of " Scottish Field Sports." 1 vol. Al. 274. Hardwicke. The fildt edition of this little book met with so much success that its re-issue was immediately de manded. The author, however, purposely deferred the publication of the second edition, in order to be enabled to give the results of the pending investiga tion of the subject of breech-loading, to which he devotes a chapter of his new book. The Cruise of the Frolic. A Story for Yacht- Loving People, with illustrations, by W. H. G. Kingston. 1 vol., pp. 395. Sampson Low. Those readers who are acquainted with Mr. Kingston's animated narratives and vivid descrip tions may imagine the attractive character of this Cruise in the Frolic, enlivened as it is with startling vicissitudes and ludicrous adventures. Perpetual Investment and Building Society ANNUAL MEETING. The Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Shareholders in this Society was held last evening at Radley's Hotel, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars ; John Gover, Esq., chairman of the board of directors, presided. The following report was read by Mr. Tressidder, the secretary : The directors, at the termination of the fourteenth year, have great satisfaction in reporting to the shareholders that the business of the past has been its satisfactory as that of any preceding year. One thousand nine hundred and forty-six new shares have been issued. The sum of £43,986 9s. 3d. has been received, of which £19,502 14s. was invested in realised shares, and the remainder in subscription shares. The sum of £28,984 2s. 9d., with the accumulation of interest and profits, has been repaid to shareholders upon shares matured or withdrawn. The subscription shares have had placed to their credit the interest due thereon, the amount being £2,896 Os. 9d. The holders of realised shares have either been paid interest half-yearly at the fixed rate of 41 par cent. per annum, or an equivalent amount has been placed to their credit. The total amount of interest so paid and apportioned is £3,734 Bs. 2d. The total amount now invested with the society upon shares, including interest and profits, is £183,764 165.4 d. The directors have extended the facilities for the withdrawal of investments, so as to enable any sum not exceeding £lOO to be withdrawn at one week's notice, and sums above £lOO at one month's notice, interest being paid up to the expira tion of notice. "In conformity with the society's rules, the valuation of the liabilities and assets has been made, the results of which will be found in the balance sheet. The directors have apportioned 5 per cent. of the surplus profits of the year to the reserve fund, increasing it to £1,568 19s. 9d., which amount is invested in Consols. They have also ap portioned amongst the holders of subscription shares the sum of £3,396 4s. 11d., being equivalent to a bonus of 6 per cent. This bonus has been carried to the credit of the respective accounts, which, for the past year, will be equal to raising the interest on shares taken for 5 and 7i years, to 10 por cent., and on shares of 121 years to 101 per cont. "The sum of £13,446 3s. 9d. has been deposited with the society. The balance now remaining to the credit of de positors is £24,071 9s. 5d., including interest that has been allowed to accumulate. " The sum of £42,029 ss. 6d. has been advanced upon the mortgage of freehold, copyhold, and leasehold securi ties, and the sum of £5,635 10s. Od. has been lent to share holders upon the security of their shares, making the total advances of the year £17,661 15s. Gd. The sum of £13,617 lls. Pd. hen been received for interest upon loans. The sum of £34,963 9s. ld. has been repaid off loans and the balance of principal and interest duo to the society is £184,670 4s. 6d. The deeds and other securities have been examined by the auditors, and reported upon by them in their certificate appended to the balance sheet. " The directors have to report the receipt of £5OO from the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, as compensation, &c., upon their taking possession of one por tion of the offices of the society, which amount has been reserved to meet the expenses attendant upon the removal of the society's offices, which may shortly become neces sary. " The directors, with deep regret, report the decease of their colleague, Mr. Francis Cuthbertson, who, from the commencement of the society, discharged the onerous duties of a trustee and director with much credit to him self, and greatly aided the progress of the institution. In recording the decease of Mr. Cuthbertson, the following resolution was passed, and a copy forwarded to his bereaved family :---‘ Resolved—That the board in record ing the lamented decease of their esteemed colleague, Mr. Francis Cuthbertson, desire to express their appreciation of the services rendered by him as one of the earliest directors in the society, and would tender to the members of his bereaved family, their sincere expression of sym pathy in the heavy loss sustained by them.' " The CHAIRMAN said it was very satisfactory when a society like that justified the anticipations of its founders and supporters, when they had performed all they had promised, and when up to that moment they had never lost their reputation. (Hear.) They read of certain con siderable assurance offices which started with promises of success, but many of those had failed. Many which had not failed altogether failed partially—that was, they had not accomplished that which they had originally promised. It was possible that some persons might have been misled by too sanguine expectations. What were the reflec tions of the directors who had formed a company with judgment and secured its success by skilful management ? It was easier to start a new society than it was to anticipate its future prospects. If there were mistakes at the commencement, and they failed to realise the larger expectations, much injury was done. Many men who never invested in a company before had invested in the Perpetual Investment and Building Society, and the success of the society had fully realised the expectations entertained. That society was formed by gentlemen of experience, who encouraged a moderate ex penditure, and it had been worked vigorously. The suc cess of the past year had been equal to the success of former years. A look at the figures would show how that was borne out. They had a reserve fund accruing of,. considerable amount—Xl,s7B. The interest the society paid this year was 10 per cent., and that was fortified after a faithful calculation of all liabilities and assets. Ten per cent. was the fair and natural working of the society. Its liabilities had boon reduced enough, and its assets had not been too much increased. He regretted to announce the death of Mr. C uthbers on, one of the directors. A more gentlemanly, conscientious, and honest man, was not to be met with. He was very useful to the society. In his place they had elected Mr. G. S. Freeman, of Camberwell, who would be a great acquisition to the society. The results of the last year might be taken as an index to their future progress. If they confirmed the same policy and the same manage ment the society would continue to be prosperous. The directors would do their duty at all times, and would take care that their business was conducted with prudence and safety. Ho trusted the shareholders would also give their support and assistance, and then its prosperity, like its name, would be perpetual. (Hear, hear.) He begged to move the adoption of the report. Mr. MILLER seconded the motion, which was unani mously adopted. Mr. G. S. Freeman was then unanimously elected a director of the society in the place of the late Mr. Cuthbertson. Votes of thanks having been awarded to the chairman and directors for their efficient services during the past year, Mr. CAVE proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Tre€ Bider their energetic secretary, whose presence that evening, although only partially restored health, was, he felt certain, a source of pleasure to every person in the room. Mr. MILLER said it was with unalloyed pleasure he seconded the motion. Mr. TExSSIDER, in returning thanks, said the expression of approbation and confidence in him by the meeting wa s highly gratifying. It had been a source of pleasure to him to have been connected with the society for 14 years, and he rejoiced most heartily at the progress the society had made, and the satisfactory position it now occupied. A vote of thanks to the chairman for presiding over the meeting terminated the proceedings. THE IRISH CONSTITUENCIES.—Major Palliser has arrived in Dungarvan. He was assaulted by a woman of the town, and his men were " impounded" in a house. No canvassing was attempted. The O'Donoghue has issued his address for Tralee, and Colonel Herbert and Lord Castlerosse for county Kerry. Mr. Longfield, M.P., and Mr. E. Sullivan, the solicitor-general, have canvassed the electors of Mallc w. Sir H. W. Barron has arrived in Waterford and commenced his canvass. The other candi dates are Mr. Blake, the present member, and Mr. Dela hunty. The Lord Mayor has also been requested to come forward for Waterford. It is rumoured the Attorney- General will pffer Cart 0111 HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, July 5. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High nesses Princess Helena and Princess Louise, drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty, with Princess Beatrice, went to Frogmore this morning. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena and Princess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Bar rington, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, Lieutenant- General Sir 11. Bentinck, and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge, went to London and visited the Exhibi tion of the Royal Academy. His Royal Highness Prince Leopold also went to London, attended by Mr. Buff. Their Royal Highnesses the Princo and Princess of Wales took a carriage drive. KIDDERMINSTER. The borough of Kidderminster has a new candi date in the person of Mr. Albert Grant, who is prepared to contest the seat against Colonel White. Mr. Grant professes Liberal-Conservative principles, and in his address states at length his views on the important topics of the day. His financial and com mercial abilities have been tested in his capacity as managing director of a successful company, and his general talents fully entitle him to a seat in the House of Commons. A. Medical Tribute to The Hammam, 76, JEEMYN-STREET, ST. JAMES'S. " And, 0 if there be an Elysium on Earth— It is this ! It is this ! "—Moore's Lulla Itooke. [From the newly-published number (July, 1865) of The Journal of Mental Science (Churchill and Sons), we extract the following fragments selected by us from an admirable paper upon the Turkish Bath, evidently penned by a professional contri butor, as he is dispassionate and enlightened.—ED. Stet.] The introduction of the Turkish bath into England has unquestionably been one of the greatest events of this cen tury. As Admiral Rous says, " A new era has arisen." We need some modern Agrippa to second the efforts of Mr. Urquhart, and stud the town with these peerless temples of health and comfort. It is no easy matter, however, to make a practical assault upon the hereditary beliefs of a self satisfied people, by proposing to them an institution which has only found a permanent home among a nation which Englishmen despise, at whose effeminacy they shrug their shoulders, and whose religious creed they regard with ab horrence. It is curious that the application of caloric to the human system by moans of the hot-air bath was neither used by the Romans nor the Turks as an agencyin the treatment of disease. It was simply a luxury, felt to be a necessity of being, and so universally resorted to that sickness was comparatively unknown. If its effect' was in any way cu rative, that effect was produced unconsciously. "For the first time now, and in consequence of what has been done in England, the bath is dealt with in Turkey as a medical agent, as appears by a series of articles which has appeared in the Turkise Medical Gazette." And this is probably due to the circumstance that the bath is gradually falling into disuse among the subjects of the Sultan. The bath ceasing to be a national custom, disease isbecoming more a national visitation. It is worthy of observation, as indicating how clearly the use of heat has been an instinct, that the hot-air bath is not known in regions where the temperature is so high as not to make it necessary. In other words, the ordinary atmospheric condition is a perpetual hot-air bath in the torrid zone, and the skin is exposed to the healthy influ ence of light and heat. The common belief that the Turkish bath is of Eastern origin is, like most popular be liefs, a fallacy. It was introduced into Arabia from Greece, and Mahomet strove to put it down as effeminate and im pure. lie coupled it (says Mr. Urquhart) with the grave yard, saying, "In these two I have no part." But in Wes tern countries, where the body has been artificially covered up, the bath appears to have been almost universally a primmval institution: " The whole of the north of Europe possesses it in one shape or another. The Red Indians of America have it ; the Swedes have it ; the Russians have it ; the Fins have it ; the Tartars, the Persians have it ; the Celtic races pos sess the remnants of it in the Irish sweating houses ; the Gothic races originally had it too. But when you come down to the South it is no longer to be found." The use of the bath, however, died out among the na tions of the West. Greece now knows it not ; when the Romans began to decline they too lost it, although Agrippa alone had built more than one hundred and fifty bath houses iu the capital, and there was once no Roman camp without abundant provision for the daily bathing of the soldiers in garrison. Mr. Urquhart is of opinion that the bath is now dying out in Turkey, where it has been pre served in sloppy impurity until the present day. Shall it find a permanent home, under more improved conditions, in a soagirt island where the Romans themselves have left so many monuments of their greatness, where the climate is as variable (though not more so) as that of Turkey, where the inhabitants are prone alike to the diseases of luxurious indolence and grinding poverty ? Now let us inquire what are the great purposes to which the bath is subservient, and what are likely to be its•effects when permanently established and generally utilised amongst us. In the first place, the bath, properly understood, and used with the precaution arising from its being understood, is one of the best preservatives against disease. It antici pates evil. " Comme agent ptiventif, je ne crois pas qu aucun attire puisse tsgaler le bain turc judicieusement dirige." And in this crowding, pressing, business-like age of ours, when men will not find time for exercise, save at uncertain periods ; when day by day are accumulated from excessive good living the poisons which afterwards mani fest themselves in dyspepsia and gout, it is hardly possible to over estimate the value of a process by which alone man is taught the true "dignity of the skin." Look at the shoals of "City men" who pour into London every morn ing by rail and omnibus and steamer, and leave again in the evening, utterly worn by the fatigues of the day. What is their daily round ? Out of bed early, of necessity, though tired and sleepy ; a cold sponge-bath—capital in its way, but not a true bath ; meat breakfast—rush to rail or omnibus—whirl up . to Babylon; letters to write, busi ness of various kinds to transact. Between ono and two o'clock a sensation of exhaustion, met by a hot lunch—in many cases a real and heavy dinner, with ale and stout, two or three glasses of sherry, and then again to business. At five or six o'clock there is a great exodus. Back again to their country residences go our mercantile community ; many arms are opened to embrace the well-fed citizens, and many choice dishes (a second dinner) tempt them to an indulgence of a most prejudicial kind. Perhaps on a Saturday our younger friends get a row on the river or a game at cricket—the elder ones a stroll with their wives and children. Our citizens grow fat and flourishing, but they are laying up for themselves the seeds of disease. There has been no real outlet ; there has been no real eli mination from a system unduly plied with stimulants and with food. If some discreet person suggests a Turkish bath, the answer may be, " Oh ! I've no time ;" or, "Baths don't suit me-1 get enough taken out of me in the City ;" or, "I'm afraid of catching cold ;" or, "I'm subject to rushes of blood to the head ;" or, " Disease of the heart is in my family ;" and excuses of a similar nature. Now set aside your prejudices and give the bath a fair trial. If not a new man after the first, you shall at least be so after your second and third. Your skin will be brought into action in a manner which will astound you ; and those who have analysed the sweat of first bathers will tell you how much more charged it is with impurity than that which exudes from the pores of a well-educated dermal surface. Your body will be " ventilated" for the first time in life ; its millions of pores shall stand with open doors and oxygenate all your frame ; and when the pro cess has been completed by shampooing and the cold plunge, you will experience what D'Ohssou happily phrases thus :—" Un calmo et un bien-titre difficiles it exprimer— une sorte de regeneration, dont to charms est encore aug mente par des boissons restaurantos, et surtout par un cafe exquis." We have much pleasure in announcing that Mr. James Caird will succeed the late Mr. Wingrove Cooke as Commissioner of Enclosures. This appointment of course vacates Mr. Caird's seat in Parliament. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, accompanied by the Dean of Westminster and Lady Augusta Stanley, and attended by his Gentlemen-in-Waiting, visited the French and I'leeaish Gallery, 120, yeetorday. Mdlle. Adelina Patti's Concert. One of the most delightful concerts of the season was that given yesterday in St. James's Hall by Diddle. Ade lina. Patti. On the operatic stage the admirers of Patti's versatile genius, her marvellous finish and fluency, and her wondrous vocal gifts, are equal in numbers to her auditory ; it was yesterday her fortune to achieve an equally brilliant triumph in the concert-room. As a whole, the rich and lengthy programme (with its many inevitable encores) was fully carried out. As to Patti herself, she was in splendid voice and spirits, and surprised by her willing compliance with every encore, and her grace ful variation of style in songs by Italian, French, and English composers, with a sprinkling of Scotch ballads. Her first air was Gounod's "Ave Maria." Then came Bellini's charming polacca from " I Puritani, "Son vergin vezzosa," which was given with grace and sparkling ani mation. In the second part, Mdllo. Patti's noxt success was in a playful French composition by La Baronno Willy do Rothschild, the words by Arsene d'Houssaye, "Si vous n'avez rien h mo dire." Yet another encore, when the smiling singer gave " Home, sweet home," with truth, pathos, and simplicity. Towards the conclusion of the programme, the ever-ready beneficiare also sang "La ci darem," with Gmziani ; and the Scotch ballad, "Within a mile of Edinboro' town," and when the well-pleased audi ence would not part with their favourite, she supplemented it appropriately with " Comin' thro' the rye." Mario, Ronconi, Gragdani, Wachtel, and all the stars of the Royal Italian Opera took part in the concert, which was an immense success. EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESS.—THE :CELEBRATED WHEELER AND WILSON SEWING-MACHINE COMPANT are exhibiting at the Dublin Exhibition their 200,000 th Sew ing -machine. The same has been most beautifully and elaborately got up. A letter from St. Petersburg says:—" Almost the whole of the diplomatic body is now away. The English ambassador, the Ministers of Prussia,Saxony, Por tugal, Denmark, and Hanover have for the moment quitted their posts ; others aro making excursions in the country. The most curious voyage is certainly that about to be un dertaken by the Baron de Talleyrand-Perigord, the French ambassador; he is going to the north of European Russia, tracking his way along the lakes and rivers towards the White Sea ; on those coasts a steamer, sent from Archangel, will carry him to the Solovetzy Convent, on the island of that name, at the entry of the Gulf of Onega, and which played a part during the late war. From this convent the baron will proceed to Archangel, and afterwards by land to Petersburg. He thinks he may accomplish this journey of sxplprAtim in three 9r four weeks. The Prince and Princess of Wales. Their Royal Highness the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince Albert Victor and the infant prince, arrived at the Castle last evening, on a visit to her Majesty, attended by the Countess of Macclesfield and Major Grey. _ _ Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales took a carriage drive. The Queen held a Council to-day. Present—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Earl Granville, Earl de Grey and Ripon, and the Earl of Clarendon. Lord Granville and Lord Clarendon had audiences of the Queen. Mr. Helps was clerk of the Council. At the Council the usual order was made for the prorogation of Parliament. Viscountess Jocelyn has succeeded the Duchess of Roxburghe as Lady in Waiting. The Earl of Caithness and Lieut.-Gen. Sir 11. Bentinck have succeeded Lord Talbot de Malahide and Major-Gen. F. Seymour, C. 8., as Lord and Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. The Queen of the Netherlands. Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands, accompanied by Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, the Countess Cowley, and Earl Cadogan, and attended by Count Randanyck, Baron Treckerlin, the Baroness de Pabst, and the Baroness de Dedem visited the Crystal Palace yesterday, and inspected the fine arts courts and other parts of the building. Her Majesty and his royal highness and party after wards partook of luncheon in one of the new private dining-rooms, whence they witnessed the display of fountains. Her Majesty and suite loft the palace at four o'clock. On returning her Majesty visited the House of Lords, and closely inspected the beautiful building. Her Majesty honoured the establishment of Mr. Hancock, of Bruton-street, Bond-street, with a visit on Tuesday, and was graciously pleased to favour him with her commands. It is anticipated that his Royal Highness the Prince of Orange will arrive in London to-morrow. The Emperor of the French has received a letter from the Grand Duke of Baden announcing that the Grand Duchess has been happily delivered of a son, who has re ceived the names of Louis William Charles Frederick Berthold. ARRIVAL OF TIIE DUKE DE MONTPENSIER. SOUTHAMPTON, Wednosday.—The Spanish war frigate Concession, 40 guns, from Cadiz, arrived in the river this afternoon. She brings the Duke de Montpensier and family, who come to England on a visit to Claremont. The Cholera at Alexandria. ALEXANDRIA, Juno 27. The deaths from cholera in this city on the 26th instant were 193 ; on the 25th, 183 ; on the 24th, 95 ; on the 23d, 125 ; on the 22d, 145 ; on the 21st, 159—total for the six days 900. Fifty-five Euro peans fell victims to the epidemic on the 21st and 22d inst. A circular has been addressed to the heads of fLII the religious communities, enjoining upon them strict fulfilment of the following regulations :- Ist. Adults are to be buried at a depth of at least six feet. 2d. Children are to be interred at a depth of at least three feet. The disembarkation of new fruit at Alexandria has been strictly prohibited. A similar prohibition has also been issued against the importation of fruit from the interior, and the sale of the same in the public markets of the city. It is believed that the rising of the Nile, which is expected to reach Alexandria during the first fortnight in July, will have considerable effect in purifying the atmosphere by covering with its waters the marshes and insalubrious plains now exhaling miasma under the heat of the sun. Lord Derby and the Catholics. Dr. Bakewell, of llanley, a Roman Catholic sup porter of Mr. Beresford Hope, having communi cated to Lord Derby the indignation felt by his co-religionists at the offensive expressions used by the noble lord in the recent debate on the Roman Catholic Oaths Bill, his lordship has forwarded tho following explanation : " St. Jamos's-squaro, July 4, 1865. " Sir,—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 2d inst. Absence from town during the whole of yesterday plevented my replying to it by return of post. I should be very sorry that any vote or speech of mile should prejudice the interests of a Conservative candidate at the approaching elections ; but I should be still more so if any expression used by me should give just cause of offence to any of my fellow-countrymen. Nothing, un doubtedly, was further from my thoughts on the occa sion to which you refer. As to the vote itself, I should have been most happy, as I distinctly stated, to relieve the Roman Catholics from the obligation of disclaiming prin ciples the imputation of which they feel to be offensive to 'them, and from the disclaimers of which Protestants have (very recently) been relieved ; but I could not con sent hastily, and without knowing the feelings of Pro testants generally, to abrogate an oath which was intro duced, and on the proposition of the highest Roman Catholic authorities, as a safeguard to the Established Church. The Government refuse to separate the two, and allow the first to be repealed without the repeal of the other also; and I therefore feel that I had no alternative but to give what I admitted was a reluctant vote against the second reading of the bill. "As to the particular expression to which you refer as having given umbrage, any one who will do me the favour of looking at my speech will see that if there were any thing offensive in the expression I am not responsible for it, but that I referred to it as having been a phrase which I characterised as being more forcible than elegant,' or some such expression, introduced by Mr. Kennedy, amera ber of Parliament recently returned for an Irish county, and mainly by the influence of the Roman Catholic clergy, and who clung so perseveringly to the expression that when, replied to as having spoken of unlocking the lips of mem bers,' he interrupted by saying, ' The words I used were— unmuzzle the senators.' Quoting his words, I followed up his metaphor. I certainly, however, should not have dona so had I imagined that it would be capable of an offensive interpretation ; and I should greatly regret to find that it had wounded the feelings of any class of my fellow-subjects. "You are at liberty to make any use you think fit of this letter.—l am, sir, yours, &c., " DERBY. "R. H. Bakewell, Esq., M.D." ROBBERY OF £l,BOO BY A COMMERCIAL TRAVEL LER.—James Stevenson, a commercial traveller, who absconded in April last from Edinburgh, whero he was employed by Messrs. Richardson and Co., drysalters, was apprehended recently in Toronto, Canada, by Mr. W. M'Dowell, one of the Edinburgh detective force, and yes terday arrived at Liverpool by the Peruvian, in MtDowell's custody. Stevenson had embezzled the moneys of his employers to the extent of £l,BOO. M'Dowell, it appears, had an arduous chase after his man. When apprehended Stevenson was engaged as a ploughman. He had spent all the money. The captor and his prisoner left Liverpool yes day 'afternoon for Edinburgh. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—At Rahway, New Jersey, on the evening of the 15th of June, as three young ladies and a gentleman, returning from a pic-nic party, alighted from their carriage, the last lady's crinoline got entangled with the steps of the carriage, and the horses taking fright dashed off at a furious speed, the lady's head and shoulders dragging upon the ground. The horses ran a great distance, and when they were stopped the young lady's remains were in a frightfully mutilated state. THE ABYSSINIAN PRISONERS. —A letter from Djeddah, iu the Pays, states that Captain Cameron has just been freed from chains, and will shortly recover his liberty, Messrs. Stern and Rosenthal, however, were still in prison and in chains. There was market to-day fully equal to active at hit( good. Dover sheep were request at fr moderate. changed han was heavy. Crse. inf. be Btcond q ua lit Prime large o . Prime Scots, Crse. and inf. tzecond qualit: Suckling Ca to 2 s each. BerlAttil ec. Ws . Sheep and lac Calves Pigs NEWOATE are moderat4 Beef, from 3:: 5s 6d to 6s bs Od per 811 01.7THALL, quirt', and tb from 3s 6d t , to 7s 2d ; v( per 81b to six ROMFOILD, in price ; ott 5s Od; mutt( 48 Od to 5s 0 calves, 17s t mileli cows, SMITIIFIEI Clover, .£5 0: load. A she C UMBERLJ £5 5s to £7 Supply limit WHITECIL £5 lOs to of Trade stead• New Inca( new Clover, gut O: COld e the A pa time iai e yk t nl iv ye i e t ns y tt t 3 per cen ever, spoke bankers' si authorities money wil There iv The E report sta credit o f directors viz., £4,81 per share, 1 0 per cen which it iF. the burin, £1,686, tc is passed t on transac The rep states that been redo mature co the s p o t , that it N 5 asphaltun land at Works. 1: meeting t At a n Dank Coi th e bank London I The la to this da Great Wes North Wes S outh -We; Brighton Midland South Eas Great Nor Laneashiri Bristol anc North E as Maneheste Great East T he re, ing perio( character crea se of on the Sc of £1,86; South -Et of £2,95 £3,084 ; the Nort Sheffield, Great E The bi bills on England cutta 17, Bombay before, 1 10id. on rats at an above 23 The d Corapan at the ra prospect An ad declared (Limited At the Reuter's 67 f. 30c The n but sect tained. 90f for duced a India 5 Very Stock N to 4n being fi 141 is stead 88 } ; Cents., POrt Ug 1856-6: Arne] alterati Erie SI Bush i liodera depr ess Shem e] wick) Great Easter: - The of imp( Ban] inactiv, Charte have in and N, Subs the pr 50,000 Tgr l , X aian Iron, Winds Longo ] British Total