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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEN _ ----- - LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1866, Mr. BUXTON has rendered the Jamaica faction more ridiculous than ever by his advocacy ; but, perhaps, it is as well that he should again have broached the subject, because it has afforded an opportunity to some speakers of eminence to pro test against his extraordinary opinion. The preju dices which the members of this committee have shown are indeed excessive, and make one wonder how men who have the facts of the case before them, and are well versed in public questions, can be so mistaken and perverse. Whatever effect might have been produced by their representations, had they kept within the bounds of moderation, has been entirely done away with by the perversity which they have shown, and we can only wonder at their ignorance and deplore their infatuation. There is much to cen sure in such a course as that which they have pursued, and while they are seeking to redress the wrongs of the negro they are falling into errors of their own, and do not see how much more inex cusable it is for them to make deliberate charges against men who have done their duty, or what they believed to be such, under most trying circum stances, than for those whom they assail to have over stepped the limits of prudence when surrounded by perils of all sorts. Mr. ADDERLEY did great service to the cause of fair play, when he pointed out the incompleteness of Mr. B uxToN's statements. He suppressed all mention of the praise bestowed upon Mr. EYRE. The hon. member for Surrey asked them to endorse the censure bestowed upon the Governor, but to omit all mention of the praise. A very impressive passage in Mr. ADDERLEY'S speech was that in which he referred to the mis taken view taken by Mr. BtaToli of the nature of the outbreak. He said, " There was much fear, but little danger, six months after the event, and a geed many thousand miles from the spot he might think it a trifling affair, but he wondered if he would have taken the same view if he had had charge of the Government of Jamaica at the time." Mr. ADDERLEY was quite equal to the occasion, and, further on, pointed out the incon sistency of hon. gentlemen on the Opposition side, who received in silence his declaration that, in the event of an outbreak, it was the duty of the gover nor of a colony to hold the colony in security, but greeted with cheers his mention of a second duty required of him, namely, to temper his measures with moderation and mercy. " They were all for mercy to those who attacked public order, but they were blind to the difficulties of those who had to maintain it." This is a correct exemplification of matters, and distinctly shows how unfair the so called advocates of impartiality can be, and how, in their declamations about the want of mercy in others, they completely overlook the fact that they are themselves deficient in the first principles of justice. We know that there are some men who will not be convinced, and the Jamaica Committee seem essentially to belong to the class who would heed not, though one rose from the dead, or else we might expect that Mr, ADDLRLEY'g calm and deliberate language would have some effect upon them. He told them that there was danger of another out break in Jamaica, and that application had been made by the authorities for the means of further defence against any rioters. This is just what might have been expected frem the mistaken manner in which this matter has been carried on, and the undue clamour that has been raised about it. The agitators of Exeter Hall have held out a premium to cut-throats and rioters all over the world ; and so far from furthering the cause of humanity, they have done incalculable injury to it through their specious representations and one-sided declarations. Mr. BAILLIE COCHRANE'S speech is really quite a, relief after the exaggerations of some and the mis statements of others. He declared that the public opinion against Mr. EYRE, of whom so much had been made, had been to a great extent manufactured, and that those who denounced him seemed entirely to over look the " peculiar position" in which he had been placed. He also alluded to the horrors committed by the rioters, which were denied by those who made the statements against the coloured authori ties. Afterquoting some passages from the addresses received by the late Governor, in which reference was made to the spirited manner in which he acted, he truly declared that " it was almost ungenerous of the late Government to have superseded Governor EYRE during the inquiry." It was indeed most un worthy conduct for English Ministers to have pur sued, and nothing can justify it. Mr. MILL'S speech was most extreme, and he only succeeded in showing how a man may profess great liberalism and practise intoleration to a con siderable extent. Notwithstanding Sir. ADDERLEY'S declaration that those so virtuously indignant about the conduct of the authorities had forgotten that everything was done under martial law, he went on to say that a " judicial tribunal" was the only one competent to pronounce a final judgment. The hon. member went so far as to compare the occur rences in Jamaica with the massacre of St. Bartho lomew and the September massacres in France. It is indeed surprising how people can deceive themselves as they do when they take up an extreme view of the question. It is of no use for public men to make such inordinate professions of toleration and declaim so much about justice, and then to show themselves so manifestly inconsistent and unfair. As Mr. COCHRANE truly put it, he was surprised at not hearing from hon. gentlemen oppo site a single word of sympathy for the unfortunate persons who were the first victims of the outbreak. It is this sort of conduct that has disgraced and lowered the so-called liberalism of many, and made them a byeword and a reproach in many instances, because people say it is all clap-trap and taken up for a purpose. Mr. DISRAELI put the case in its true light before the House, and showed the fallacies of the assertion made that in accepting the first resolution of the hon. member for Surrey they were pledging them selves for further action. He said if Governor EYRE is to be brought to justice in Parliament, it must be by process of impeachment, but the resolu tion could never be the foundation of an impeach ment, " because it was based throughout on the assumption that everything which was done was legal." The expression that this House deplores the excessive punishments which followed the sup pression of the disturbances, of course, im plies that those acts were legal, because the use of the term " punishment is an acknowledgment that it was the result of a legal act." It is well that the right hon. gentleman should have thus clearly stated the facts of the case, because so much misre presentation has already been made on this subject that it is important for all to be as straightforward as possible. Under the circumstances we think that the House has adopted the wisest course, and now we would ask, in the name of common sense, fair play, and consistency, what more is re quired to be done in this Jamaica affair? After the speeches of Sir R. PALMER, the Attorney- General, and Mr. GURNEY, with others, who followed them, nothing is left to be said on the question. If Mr. BUXTON, and those who think like him, persist in carrying their projects into effect, they must take the consequences upon themselves ; but we warn them that they will end by forfeiting the esteem and respect of all independent persons to whichever side of politics they belong, while we protest against the name of Liberalism being per verted to suit the prejudices of those who act in direct opposition to its spirit and violate its principles. We trust that the days when nothing was so cer tain to empty the benches of the House of Com mons as an Indian debate may be numbered with the things of the past. There is a widespread and growing conviction that it is impossible for the statesmen and legislators of this country adequately to discharge their duties towards our vast eastern empire without something more than mere surface information to guide them. We cannot, indeed, expect much discussion on Indian affairs this ses sion, but we hope that the advent of a new Secre tary to the Presidency of the Indian office will bring Indian politics and Indian interests more into the arena of every-day thought and debate, leaving on one side that veil of mystery and reticence which has so long perplexed and repelled the inquirer. The people of this country know so little of the inhabi tants of their great dependency that it is difficult for them to form an opinion on many questions of great social, political, and religious importance ; and this ignorance, and the indifference which it springs from, have been fostered by the traditional policy of the India -office. Lord CRANBORNE'S first speech on Indian affairs, since the assumption of his duties, gives some grounds for hoping that he will not share the dislike to the criticism of the public or the inter ference of Parliament, common to most of his pre decessors. He invited discussion on the finances of India, and we may therefore reasonably hope that he will be ready to facilitate discussion on topics o f broader and more general interest. On Monday Mr. ° put a question relative to the p roposed transfeTrWoAf Y the capital of British India to the Secre tary of State, which elicited the fact that no sanction had been given to any such alteration, and that the Government of India had not az s lieLdAlvEN fo ß rit. CE l a t n is d no secret, however, that Sir j a w nx h i e o n us si f r o c r i s u uc E h u a s a h d a j t u o o r r s d t m ra o n st sf o e f r, h a is nd co t airleALvlFerYmc, Wow), was as resolutely oppos ed to it. We hope that Lord CRANBORNE, who will come to the consi deration of the question unprejudiced, will give his attention to the matter, and ask why it should be indispensable that so many of our Anglo-Indian officials—men of intelligence, experience, enterprise and character, whom neither country can lightly spare, should imperil their lives and injure their healths year after year by an enforced residence in a most unhealthy situation. Life on the hills is wholesome and enjoyable ; life in Calcutta daring several months of every year is oppressive and dan gerous to Europeans. Is it then fair or reasonable to compel men either to neglect their duties or to injure their healthy? Why should not the seat of Government be removed to Simla, and the offi cials whom it will be necessary to maintain in Calcutta relieved periodically. On board ship the company is divided into three watches, so that each hM two -thirde . teat for one-third's watching, and thus two-flirds of the year spent in a healthy cli mate might well neutralise the evil effects of an ill-drain ,ed and ill-watered city in an unhealthy situatio n. We have lost so many eminent public servants in that fatal city that England has a right selfishly to demand that no more lives should be needlessly sacrificed. The relations between this country and her In dian& Empire have been often rashly or erroneously staiced. It is therefore satisfactory to find the qu.estion so ably and thoroughly dealt with as it i 4 in the current number of the Quarterly Review.* In an article headed " The Value of India to England," The writer contradicts indignantly the opinion shared in many quarters that India is rather a source of weakness than of strength to us, and that if we could dissever the connection without discredit we should gain rather than lose by being quit of her. He is able to quote the opinion of no less an authority than DE TocQuE VILLE in support of his argument, though DE Toc- QUEVILLE did not, unhappily, live to see the rapid development of Indian resources within the last few years, nor to complete the work on India under British rule, which he long had under con templation. The writer in the Quarterly justly re minds those who would argue from the successful self-government of some of our most important colonies that India should be left to its own re sources, that the cases are by means parallel. India is not a colony peopled by sturdy, thriving Anglo- Saxons, who have been accustomed all their lives to the forms of constitutional government. If .de prived of our direct legislation it would have no responsible government of its own, but would either fall into a state of anarchy and confusion, or be come the certain prey of some other powerful nation. In either case, as our author points out, the trade with England would be destroyed ; and to estimate the full force of this we must remember that the commerce of England with India at the present time is greater than that which we have with any other nation in the world, including even the United States. Our disruption with America has not, indeed, diminished the trade between us, but can any one compare the Indians of to-day with the Americans of the days of WASHINGTON in their capacity for self-government ? We can hardly sup pose so. But how, then, do those malcontents who wouldbreak off our legislative connection with India suppose that the commerce of the countries can re main unbroken ? The importance of preserving India as a substantive part of an empire is very great in another aspect. The capabilities of the Indian soil and climate are so vast and varied that it is difficult to put a limit to the nature of its productions. In case of the sudden failure of any our usual sources of supply, or of our rupture with the foreign powers which pro vide us with raw material, India could come to our assistance, as she has already supplied the place of Russian hemp with her fibres, and of American cotton with her native staple. The inferior quality of Indian cotton was due not to the soil but to the attendant circumstances. The cultivation was new, and ignorance, fraud, and many another obstacle, interfered with its full suc cess. As a slight indication of the capacity of India as a cotton-growing country, we may cite the fact that in 1860 India sent us only 206 million pounds of cotton, while in 1864 she sent us 506 millions, and this although cotton cultivation has long been quite at a discount in India. Referring to this view of the question, the writer in the Quarterly says :—" The future resources of India are quite incalculable. We have already seen her replacing with her produce the hemp and linseed of Russia and the cotton of America. She is rapidly preparing to substi tute her tea for that of China. Should England ever be cut off from her usual sources of supply of sugar, coffee, silk, wool, or iron in a few years, India would make good the deficit. Even now India supplies a fair proportion of these articles, and Indian labour produces a large proportion of the supply from our colonies. So long as England and India are allied, England is independent of the rest of the world." As for the importance of India as a market for our exports it can hardly be overrated. The report of Col. BAIRD SMITH, written some four years since, tells us that all classes near to easy lines of communication in the North-West Provinces are large consumers of English cloths, and gives his dictum that it is merely a question of time and in ternal improvements of roads and rivers, when the whole community shall become the customers of Manchester. In those districts which had direct water communication with Calcutta, Col. BAIRD SMITH found half the population already clothed in Manchester fabrics. This may give us some idea of the importance of extending the means of commu nication both by land and water throughout the whole of India, and had the work been pushed on as vigorously ten years ago as it is now we should have still greater reason to marvel at the growth of Indian trade and commerce. Another means by which India contributes to the revenues of this country are the direct payments made to Englishmen for service in that country. The salaries of military and civil officers amount annually to a very large sum total, while there are in addition hosts of enterprising men engaged throughout the country, and drawing the income which they often remit to England for the use of their families from that part of our dominions What a loss morally as well as materially it would bo to a populous and enterprising people if India were taken from us. It is a field which offers pro fitable and honourable employment to thousands who could scarcely find room for their energies at home, and who are there enriching the empire by their services, while they are conferring the greatest benefits upon India itself. It is a union without parallel in the history of the world. Let us then consult alike our duty and our interest in maintain ing it in all its vigour. " " The Value of India to England." Art. VII. The Quarterly Review, July, 1866. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales will honour the Archbishop of York with a visit to Bishopthorpe Palace, York, on the 9th inst., for a few days. A select party are invited to meet their Royal Highnesses. r THE NEW SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA has reparation to the Indian having been unjustly treated esolved to adopt the measures which were about to be laid before Parliament by his predecessor for making officers who were reported as various ways by the re construction of the Indian Army. As we have . before intimated, the grievance of those who complain that their seniority claims were improperly conse quence of the more rapid promotio giv s e e n t t asid h e in now to have the option of entering the corpswithoutotecorps are preliminary test, taking their place relatively with th any pre sent officers as if they had entered the corps at the time e its formation. The recommendations as regards the Me l' fying time for the emjoyment of colonel's allowance ar a l: to be carried out. But we believe we may announce stilla eae greater boon. We have more than once held up what is known as the Bonus Grievance as the most substantial of which the Indian officers have to complain. But up to the present that claim has been disallowed, on the ground that the practice, the cessation of which caused in various them so much loss, was " illegal. " We under stand that Lord Cranborne is disposed to take a more liberal and enlightened view of this portion of the case. He bears in mind that, however illegal the practice may have boon, the Government of India sanctioned it and guaranteed its continuance. He thinks that faith should be kept with the officers who, up to the present, are out Of pocket, by their having confided in the formal promises of the Governor-General of India in Council, and an equit able measure of compensation, we have every reason to think, will be speedily prepared and promulgated. —Army and t'Y Gazette. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Tuesday Evening. The Moniteur, never remarkable for the celerity with which it announces facts in its official part, to day has the following :—" Vichy, July 29.—The Emperor has to-day received the letter in which her Majesty Queen Victoria notifies to his Imperial Majesty the marriage of her daughter, Madame the Princess Helena Augusta Victoria, with the Prince Frederic Christian Charles Auguste de Schleswig- Holstein-Sonderbourg-Augustenbourg. Also the letter which H.R.H. the Grand Duke of Oldenbourg has written to his Majesty to announce the decease of his cousin, Madame the Princess Catherine Frederique Pauline, Duchess of Oldenbourg." The Empress and the Prince Imperial still re main at St. Cloud, and yesterday her Majesty pre sided at a Cabinet Council as the representative of his Majesty. The Marquis de la Valette, the Minis ter of the Interior, has left Paris for Vichy to at tend the Emperor, but most of the other Ministers still remain in town to be in consultation in regard to events which may arise. In these stirring times of war news may come at any moment requiring immediate consideration. The Prince and Princess Christian of Augusten bourg, after a short stay at the British Embassy, have left Paris with the intention of visiting several of the French provinces. Their first visit was to Lyons. The news received by the French Government from Mexico to the 29th of June is rather in teresting. At the moment of the departure of the mail Marshal Bazaine was informed that the Mexican brigade, commanded by General Oldera, 1,600 strong, having left Matamoras to escort a convoy of merchandise to Monterey, had been sur prised and attacked by Escobedo with 4,000 men on the 16th June at Berrendo. The convoy was overpowered, and the Mexican troops, partly de stroyed, left 500 men in the bands of the enemy. General Mejia had only 500 Mexican troops and Urban militia to defend Matamoras. All was ready for an energetic resistance, when the inhabitants, alarmed at the insufficiency of the means of de fence, determined to capitulate. No details had arrived respecting the reduction of the place, but it was known that General Mejia obtained for his small garrison an honourable capitulation, and the most favourable conditions for the population of Matamoras. De General had landed with his troops at Vera Cruz. Michoacan was still infested with guerillas. A detachment of the Austrian legion was attacked on the 12th of June at Tehuatlan by 400 disaffected in a strong position, but after a com bat of several hours they were dislodged with con siderable loss. The bulletin of the Illoniteur states that, accord ing to the news from Nikolsbourg of the 29th July, the King of Prussia was on that day to inspect his army on the Marchfeld, and the next day Welfers dorf Ladendorf, and afterwards Martgraf-Neusidcl. The headquarters were to be at Nikolsbourg until the return of the King, who would then visit Ber lin, passing by Prague and Breslau. His Majesty intended to open the Prussian Chambers at Berlin on the sth August. The navigation of the Rhine, suspended by late events, has been resumed. Letters from Rome state that a certain degree of anxiety begins to prevail in that city in consequence of an announcement recalling to recollection that the day fixed for the avacuation of Rome by the French troops was the 14th of September, and that it was intended to carry out the arrangement with exactitude. The question was under consideration whether his Holiness would continue to reside at the Vatican, or whether he would transfer his spiritual administration elsewhere. The Debat of Vienna, in the course of an article respecting the probable changes in Germany, says : "Austria emerges from the Confederation. The north of Germany will be constituted under the direction of Prussia. Austria does not oppose the union of the Southern States of Germany under the direction of Bavaria. But it appears to us that this stipula tion does not sufficiently regulate the position of Austria in regard to the German States of the South. The question of the reorganisation of Ger many will be probably submitted to a Congress of the Powers of Europe, as the treaties of Vienna will give the Powers the opportunity of intervening in the affair." The Caen Races on Sunday were well attended, and the general results prove that they are increas ing in estimation. The special prize (4th class) of 2,000 f. was won by P uebla , Reveille Matin 2d. The eP and mares principal prize (3d class) of 3,000!., for entire horses of three-year-olds and upwards, was won by Le Mandarin ; Arc-en-Ciel 2d, Gaulois 3d ; 250 f. to the second horse. The Prix la Societe (3,000 f.) was won by Montmirail ; Coloquinte 2d, Juliette 3d. _ _ The 12,000 f. prize of the Town of Caen (handi cap), 4,000 f., given by the town, and B,ooof. by the Society, was won by Canotiere, Verite 2d, Mer cedes 3d, Affidavit 4th. 59 horses ran. The prize of the Society for the encouragement and improvement of the breed of horses in France (4,000 f.) was won by Said, La Favorite second. The Conseil General Prize of 2,500 f. was won by Collet-Monte, there being no competitors. The Emperor attended mass in the new church of Vichy on Sunday. He was received by M. Dreux Breze, Bishop of Moulins, who made an appropriate address to his Majesty on the occasion. His Majesty, in answer, said—" I am always anxious to come to the foot of the altar to pray God to give me the inspirations to guide me in order to insure the good of religion and the great interests which Pro vidence has placed in my hands." There is a decided change to-day from summer to winter. It was cold and cheerless in the morning, and there has been much rain during the day. The Parisian Club—the Sport Nautique (le la Seine, represented by the men of the Perseverance, won all the first prizes with one, two, and four rowers at the Calais Regatta on Sunday, and was second in the matches against the English (of Dover), and the Regatta Societies of Dunbercire, Calais, and Boulogne. The Journal des Debats, in a review of the state of Europe, says that universal suffrage is about to enter upon the scene, it being the intention to give the population of Venetia the opportunity of decid ing upon their own fate and to choose the ir nationality. SANITARY MATTERS AT THE EAST END.—Yester day, Mr. Humphreys, coroner, held an inquiry at the Black Bull tavern, Chilton-street, Brick-lane, touching the death of Jas. Holdham, aged nine. Tho deceased was one of fire children of a labourer, earning 14s. a week, 4s. of which was paid for the rent of two rooms in Chilton street. On Wenesday the boy fell ill, and his father went at noon next d a y t o M r . H aycoc k, surgeon, belie vin g him to be the parish d oc t or . M r . H a ycock, althoug h no lon g er parish surgeon, ki n dly v i s it e d th e boy, gav e him medicine, and directed th e f a th er t o app ly a t the Bethnal - g reen work house for a medical order. It being after 11 a.m., it was 7 o'clock before the applicant received an order. He took it at once to Mr. Massingham, the parish surgeon, telling him that the case was urgent. Mr. Massingham, after some demur, said that if he could ho would call that evening, but he did not call till Friday at half-past 3 o'clock. The de ceased had been dead eight hours. Witnesses described the place where deceased's parents lived as being most un healthy. The water poured into the cellar floor and re mained stagnant, producing such a stench that the people were unwilling to go in, and generally begged water from neighbours. The same cellar was used as a dust-hole, and the dust was cleaned out about three times in 18 months Mr. Waring, the landlord, refused to give a water butt, be cause it would be " too expensive." Complaints were made at the Town-hall three months ago of the state of the place. Mr. G. Haycock said that the deceased died from typhoid fever. On the premises in question the drains were en trapped, and the place bad not been whitewashed for years Nos. 30, 34, and 36, Chilton-street were in a similar con dition. This state of things of course lowered vitality, and rendered recovery from disease very difficult. The coronet remarked upon the great danger to public health frum the neg l ect disclosed, now the cholera had com menced its rav ages. Th e j ur y, a fter consulting together returned the foll ow i ng spec i a l ver dict, " That the deceased died from typh o id f ever, from na t u ral causes, but accele rated by the a b sence of san i tary ar rangements ; that the parish doct or ought to have attended t he deceased at once when he received the order; that gre at blame attached to the parish authorities for allowing premises to remain in the same filthy condition after complaint had been made to them ; that greater facilities should be given to obtain medical orders, the times, li m it e d as at present, being pre judicial to th e poor ; and that thin verdict be forwarded to the I'oor-law Board:, NG, AUGUST 1, 1866, LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ITALY. MILAN, July 31. Prince Napoleon set out this morning for Lyons, whence he will proceed to Vichy. FLORENCE, July 31, Evening. The Florence journals announce the arrival in the capital of a deputation from Trente, instructed to present to the President of the Council of Ministers an address, signed by the communal representatives of that province, soliciting the annexation of the Trente province to Italy. FLORENCE, July 31. The Italie confirms the intelligence that the nego tiations for peace will be conducted at Prague, and believes that peace will be signed before the 15th August. PADUA, August 1. The King arrived here this morning, and was met by the Bishop of Padua, the civil authorities, and large crowds of the inhabitants, who greeted his Majesty with loud and enthusiastic cheering. The chief headquarters of the Italian army have been transferred from Rovigo to this city. THE PEACE PRELIMINARIES. VIENNA, July 29. The official Austrian Gazette contains the fol lowing notice : " The peace preliminaries with Prussia have been settled. They guarantee the integrity of the territory of Austria. while they produce noteworthy ohaogos in Germany, for they put an end tot,the Germanic Confederation. This now replaced by a North German Confederation, with Prussia at its head, and by a Southern Confederation, whose composition is not yet clearly defined. " Austria pays Prussia a war indemnity of forty million florins, from which will be de ducted fifteen millions as representing the indemnity allotted to Austria for her part of the costs she incnrred during the war in the Duchies, 20 millions will have to be defrayed immediately, while the remaining 5 millions will represent the expenses of the maintenance of the Prussian army upon our territory. " Pending the duration of the armistice a line of demarcation will be drawn, behind which the Prus sian army will take up its position. This line passes by Eger, Pilsen, Tabor, Neuhaus, Znaim, Napa gede, and Oderberg. " Peace negotiations with Italy have also been opened at Nikolsburg, between Count Degenfeld and General Govone, but they are not yet con cluded. The preliminaries of peace between Prussia and the minor German States have also not yet been signed, but the presence of Herr von der Pfordten at head-quarters gives room to hope for a pacific result. " The rapid progress of the negotiations between Prussia and Austria is eminently due to the ami cable and energetic intervention of the Emperor of the French. " It is hardly possible that the dissolution of the Germanic Confederation, which may be considered as irrevocably determined, will exercise an injurious influence upon the position of Austria. We may say even that reasons are not wanting to draw from accomplished facts a happy augury for her interior political development. The ties which attached Austria to the Confederation, imposed upon the Empire numerous and difficult duties, and gave it in exchang very few rights of real value. " The history of this union, now more than half a century old, affords no instance of Austria having derived from it any essential advantage. During this period Austria has always been obliged to rely upon her own strength, and support her wars with her own means. The relations which have united Germany and Austria for so many ages will not cease to exist, in so far as they are based upon real interests. Ancient rights may fall into disuse and cease to exist. If the connection between Germany and Austria were only founded on old parch ments, it might as well be destroyed, but if it is a necessity, if Germany feels that she has need of Austria, this connexion will re-establish it self of its own accord. Every nation arrives the °oiler at recognising the conditions of its exist tence if they are not thrust upon it. If, there fore, at a more or less distant period, Germany seeks union with Austria, the only arrangement that can be concluded must be one according the same advantages to both parties, and which would not be at variance with the anterior political orga nisation of Austria." HUNGARY. PESTH, July 31. Conferences between the most important mem bers of the different political parties are constantly taking place at the seat of Herr Deak at Szentlaszlo. Archbishop Haynald has been summoned to Vienna. The re-establishment of the Hungarian Constitu tion of 1848 is still adjourned, as a Federal union between Austria and Hungary will be first pro posed to the Hungarians by Austria. The Emperor left yesterday for Vienna, But is expected to return the day after to-morrow. SPAIN, MADRID, July 31. The Minister of the Interior has addressed a cir cular to the civil governors of the provinces, re questing them to destroy all the labours and oppose any manifestation of the Democratic party. AMERICA. (BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) The following telegraph was received by Reuter's Telegram Company (Limited) on August 1, at 11.30 a.m., from Mr. A. Glass : NEW YORK (This Day), August 1. Mr. Harlan, the Secretary of the Interior, has resigned ; Mr. Browning of Illinois has been ap pointed his successor. Grant has been created a full General, and Sherman a Lieutenant-General. The Scotia arrived here on the night of Monday, the 23d July, the Peruvian at Quebec on the 28th July, and the Palmyra at New York on the 31st July. OUTWARD CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. MALTA, July 30. The Tanjore from Southampton, July 20, arrived on the 29th, at 1 a.m., and left at 8 p.m. for Alex andria. The Nyanza, from Marseilles, 28th, arrived to day at 4 p.m., and left at 10 p.m. for Alexandria. QUARANTINE AT MALTA. MALTA, July 31. A quarantine of 15 days is now again imposed upon arrivals from all British ports. The public health here is satisfactory. FRANCE. PARIS, Aug. 1. The Moniteur of this morning publishes a letter from the Emperor to the Minister of State, pointing out the basis of a decree relative to the formation of a fund for the benefit of those incapacitated from labour. SUEZ, July 29. The Menageries Imperiales steamer Donnai ar rived here to-day with the India, China, and Japan mails. She brings 98 passengers, 850 bales of silk, and 2,053 other packages. PARIS, July 31.—Two o'clock.—A slight amelio ration has taken place in moat quotations after the reponse des primes (option), which has been settled on the following Securities, viz., at 68f. 90c. for Three per Cents., at 51f. 30c. for Italian Fives, and at 655 f. for Credit Mobilier Shares. Threes are now quoted at 68f. 95c. for the Account, or 10c. higher than yesterday's close. Credit Mobilier Shares, after reaching 660 f., are now doing at 656 f. 25c., an advance of lf. 25c. On the other hand, Italian Fives, though having an advance on the option price, are dealt in with a loss of 20c. on yes terday, viz., 51f. 65c. No variation in Credit Foncier and Comptoir d'Escompte Shares. In the Railway Department Lyons advanced If. 25c., Northern 2f. 50c., and Austrian If. 25c. Mexican Bonds are doing at 188 f. 75c. to 190 f. English Consols are telegraphed with a fall of by the first telegram, but this loss is afterwards recovered by the second. Three o'clock.—Just before the close a quick up ward movement declared itself, and quotations, especially on Three per Cents., have closed on the following higher quotations : 41 per Cents 97 50 Bank Shares 3560 Do. and month — Italian Loan 5l 50 3 per Cents. 69 10 Do. end month 5l 90 Do. end month 69 20 Mexican Loan 33 Credit Mobilier ... 657 50 Do. Bonds l9O Do. end month ... 660 Spanish Threes Credit Foncier — Home Debt Do. end month 1300 Deferred - RAILWAYS. For Account. Orleans Northern 1125 Lyons and Mediterranean 862 50 Southern 528 75 Western Eastern Sardinian , Austrian Lombard.. North of Spain 352 50 383 75 Saragossa - Ditto to Barcelona Roman 122 50 THE ATLANTIC CABLE. The following telegram was received by Reuter's Telegram Company (Limited), at 2 p.m., August 1, from Mr. R. A. Glass, managing director of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Com pany (Limited) : VALENTIA, August 1. The President's reply to the Queen's message left Washington at 11.30 a.m. on the 30th and tele graphed from Newfoundland at 3 .51 p.m. yester day, consisting of 405 letters, making 81 words, at a speed of 7.36 words per minute, sent by Weedon,. Newfoundland, received by Edgar George, Valentia. Message delivered to her Majesty at Osborne at 5 p.m. Canning telegraphs that H.M.S. Terrible and s.s. Albany leaves to-day to pick up the cable of 1865. The President's Reply to the Queen. The President of the United States has replied as follows to the message from her Majesty, which we published on Monday : " From Andrew Johnson, the Executive Mansion, Washington, to her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. " JULY 30, 11.30 a.m. " The President of the United States acknow ledges with profound gratification the receipt of her Majesty's despatch, and cordially reciprocates the hope that the cable that now unites the eastern and western hemispheres may serve to strengthen and perpetuate peace and amity between the Govern ment of England and the Republic of the United States." The following telegram has been forwarded by the Earl of Carnarvon to Viscount Monck, Ottawa, Canada : " I am commanded by the Queen to convey to the Governor-General of her North American Pro vinces her Majesty's congratulations on the com pleticrn of the Atlantic telegraph, and the strength ening thereby the unity of the British empire. " Her Majesty includes her ancient colony of Newfoundland in these congratulations to all her faithful subjects. " July 26, 1866." " CARNARVON. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.---This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. STABBING THROUGH ALLEGED JEALOUSY.—Thos. Mans field, a labourer, was charged before Mr. Knox with stab bing a man named Williams in Silver-street, Golden square. The case was originally before Mr. Knox a few days ago, when the evidence of police-constable Pride, 92 C, showed that he was called to a house in Silver-street, and told that a man had been stabbed by another. He saw Williams, who told him that the prisoner had stabbed him in the abdomen, and on taking the prisoner into custody he said, " I'll kill the -." He afterwards took the wounded man to the Middlesex Hospital. Sergeant Smith, 1 C, now handed Mr. Knox a certificate signed by the house surgeon of the Middlesex Hospital, to the effect that Williams was still unable to attend, and Mr. Knox further remanded him. I lit appears that the injury was caused in a quarrel be tween the two men in consequence of Mansfield's wife leaving him and forming a connection with the other man. ANNOYING A JUDGE.—AIico Herbert, a good-looking young female, was charged with disorderly conduct and assault. It appears that the defendant went to the Judge and Jury Society, Leicester-square, the previous night, and tried to force her way in. The porter to Mr. 11. G. Brooks, the proprietor, refused to l©t her go in, and she then struck the porter in the face. Mr. Brooks then went to the assistance of his servant, and the defendant tried to strike him, but only succeeded in knocking off his hat. Mr. Brooks, therefore, gave her into custody. , Mr. Brooks said ho was sorry to appear so often at the court, but he was compelled tt: do so, in consequence of the annoyances to which ho had been subject of late, as the result might possibly be that he miglitlose his refresh ment license. Ho admitted no lads nor females to his place, and he wished to keep it respectably conducted, but it was well known to the police that he had been similarly annoyed several times of late. He did not wish to press the case harshly towards the defendant. Mr. Knox said he would order the defendant to find one surety in £5 to keep the peaco towards Mr. Brooks, and he had no doubt he would be perfectly satisfied with that: at the same time he would caution the defendant not to annoy him again. Mr. Brooks—his "lordship"—expressed himself with some amount of dignity satisfied with the decision. MARKETS.--This Day. - - MARK-LANE. The quantity of wheat on sale in our market to-day from Essex and Kent was very moderate. Very few buyers were in attendance, and the transactions, conse quently, were by no means extensive. Factors, however, were firm in their demands, and all qualities were held a an advance of is to 2s per qr. There was a fair amount of foreign wheat on the stands, the trade for wheat ruled firm, and importers demanded from is to 2s per qr more money. Floating cargoes of grain changed hands to a limited extent, at about last week's quotations. Moderate supplies of barley were on sale. The demand was quiet, on former terms. Malt moved off slowly, at late rates. Large supplies of oats were on sale, chiefly foreign pro duce. Most qualities were in moderate request, at Mon day's quotations. Beans and peas commanded but little attention. The prices realised were about equal to Monday. A moderate business was passing in flour, on former terms. BRIP ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English and Scotch 760 10 540 250 Irish Foreign 6,860 2,500 - 26,890 30 sks. 570 his. COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES AND PRICES OP GRAIN. For the week ending July For the corresponding week 28, 1866. last year. Qrs. Aver. Qrs. Aver. Wheat 33,138-52s Od Wheat 63,828-42s 10d Barley 441-33s 10d! Barley 684-28s 6d Oats LITERATURE. Lionel Merval. A Novel: 3 vols. George Rout- ledge and Sons. " Lionel Merval" is evidently a first work, and as such it is full of promise, and indicates future ex cellence on the part of its author. The story is In teresting, and some of the characters are well por trayed, and with a vigour and originality not often to be met with in the first essay of ayoung author. That the work is a first essay is unmistakeably evidenced by an exaggeration of the style, and an over-profu sion of epithets in the descriptions. These faults are on the right side, and have sometimes been visible in the earlier writings of authors who have afterwards become conspicuous for their polished and harmo nious diction. The author of "Lionel Merval," with out literally fulfilling Boileau's stern advice to the poetic aspirant— T "ingt foil sur le metier remettez l'ourrage, Polissez souvent et soucent eitacez, must prune the over luxuriance of his flowers of speech, and he will run little risk of falling into over simplicity. Lionel Merval, the hero of this tale, is the eldest son of Sir Lionel Merval, and the heir to his large estates. Side by side with the manor of Merval is another large domain belong ing to a younger branch of the same family, and commonly designated Church-Merval, as to its pro prietor belongs the church patronage of the family. The two kindred families had lived long in great har mony. But the same divine creature that brought mis chief into the vale of Eden brought it also into the vale of Merton, although it was not this time her fault. An only daughter was born to the spiritual house of Merval, and ill due time had to be given in marriage. The same old gen tleman, now at the Castle, then in the flush of youth, had thought this a favourable period for uniting the two houses, and their respective honours and estates. The heiress of Church-Merval, as it was often called, was very fair, and the manor, with its old Norman church tower, its mea dows, moors, and woods, was almost—perhaps old Lionel Merval then thought, and may think still, 8 5 he looks grimly into the past—as lovely. Loveliness to the miud seems to resemble what is loveliness to the outward eye—it depends on the medium through which the object is seen. There is also the same pigmentum nigrum for the absorption of superfluous light. Old Lionel, for instance, might have been then utterly dazzled by the beauty of his far-removed cousin, Mary Mortal ; but the rich, brown land acted like the dark fluid of the eye—it absorbed the excessive light, so that he could dis tinctly see that it would be a wise thing to marry her. Poor Mary might possibly have been a happier woman if she had taken what is now a strange unshapen piece of humanity, like a huge hard basaltic boulder, rolled in cold ice, with its edges unhewn and unpolished, from unknown wintry regions, into the lovely vale of Merton. Perhaps she might have struck in time to the core of this lump, sa d have made it plastic in her hands as clay. One wrong turn to the right or to the left in the first mists of life may earr9 the wanderer sofa: astray that he can never reach his hem° on that day. Woman may too often be the slave of man; but the fine issues of heroic life may also often depend en the toss of that little head, which may be more decisive of fate than the great shaking head of Burleigh. Yes, it must be confessed that Mary, the heiress, tossed her head at the heir of the Castle, and the two manors refused any other chemical affinities. How this happened, whether from the too easy assumption of the lover, or from the superior attractions of the Rev. Augustus Merval, her present spouse, who took the maiden, the manor, and the name in one swoop, perhaps she alone might be able to tell, Per' haps even she could not at this moment remember. I\ T ° matter; life is too short for digging up the ruins of old feelings. Let them lie in the soil, and become, like the green graves, the cradles of daisies and cowslips. Henceforth the line of separation between the two families was as plain as the boundary of the two estates. Augustus had no blame in this quarrel. What he d i ,, a was done in open, honourable warfare. It was not his fe w ' that he was bland, polished, and of insinuating manners-- or that he was of good family in a distant county--or that he was the duly licensed curate of the parish about the time that Mary Merval was budding into life—or that preached the most affecting and elegant discourses—or that he was poor himself, and loved the poor, at least was often , in their houses—or that, in short, he seemed desig ned by nature to complete the traditional union between Church and State that had so long existed in the hapPi valley. It has just been said that one wrong turn in the alis at the outset of life may disturb the whole future course. In like manner, it seems, one good slice of sunshine 0 the right time may also fix that luminary in your path for ever. Many full-grown men, at that witching time c 4 life, are apt to mistake moonshine for the pure sunshine) and thus run after the false light into the Slough of Despond. But the Reverend Augustus knew that th e manor of Merval was not of the lunar sort, and Ural having turned the corner of the Hill of Difficulty, he Pus hed - on joyously to his golden city. Fortune always seem e d to stop her wheel for this Augustus as for Augustus til° great Roman Emperor. The aged incumbent died dt. - ing the honeymoon, and Church and State were made ori: —that is, the Reverend Augustus Merval, who had just taken that name in honour of the heiress, had the further honour of presenting himself to the rectory, as the fittest person to minister to the souls in that neighbourb ooe It is true, the opinion on this point was not un animou s ,: Indeed there was one gentleman, already menti oned, who threatened to tear the new rector from the family pulpit, even if he were preaching like Paul or Apollos. But Augustus, like his namesake, had great skill in deali 4 with foes of that kind, and was as clement a conquer or. A victor can afford to be generous—even though his pros trate foe should disdain to sue for mercy, and should say'as the captive king said to his conqueror, " I expect Ye ti , do to me what I would have done to you, had I conquer ed ' Thus, at any rate, Augustus became, like the Busmen Czar, both pope and emperor in one corporation sole. .. 1 . 0 Fortune continued to smile upon Augustus. P a was made a justice of the quorum, and he attendeii the quarter sessions and convocations. He held ~ h A kinds of rural dignities, and we are even told W" t happy humour that " an archdeaconry might allies be seen coming to him through the air !" The el 1 3: racter and career of Augustus, with his ambitiel and his avarice, his parental affection and hispareo cruelty, his apparent courtesy to his heiress wi fe ' e and his real assertion of his conjugal supremacYl 3l. o by far the best drawn and most original in the tbro . ch volumes. Those peculiarities of temperament wil i of are happily described to us at the commenceule ut the tale are very cleverly exemplified before the & a ir l elusion. Again, in the new generation love b rill : 0 sorrow to the rival houses of Merval. Like Rei ll t and Juliet, Lionel, the son of the discarded bar one ts and Miranda, the daughter of the favoured Augu st a set at defiance parental enmities and ili t ta i diets. Very troublous is the course of this f lt , o ll affection, and the conclusion of the love story is of a mournful pathos. We will not betray the P; t1 :, titular results of the denouement, as the story is s;i, ciently interesting to reward the trouble of Pe ril 0 As another specimen of the author's style, w. -- tra earnest and original, although marred by ex cb gance, let us take the following passage, in W ll/ Lionel Merval is the speaker. BEAUTY IS GOODNESS. triaLl eSt These plain women are always said to have the a le hearts and the sweetest tempers. It may be so, but I P o o, another theory. I don't believe in beauty withou t a 6 0 I believe the good makes much of the beautiful --36 00 Greeks thought, when they called both by one wor d ' t ies; monsters, Agrippina and Messalina , could not be bea u v e their faces were only masks f or wh a t was all foulness lit math, and their mask s were cons t an tly crac ki n g or s ado ting, so as to be seen th roug h. Th e G r eek, who ie9i everything beautiful, gave beautiful faces to th e and even to the relentless Fates. So, Milton make s so ca face most beautiful. The Italian poets, and the r O l Ol l4 writers, delight to wrap the wicked woman in Wc ni oe tll beauty. But in real life, the evil passions that pl a y be 31i.e must soon change the loveliness of Eve, or Helen, ° r io ta anda—l mean Miranda of the Tempest, of course l ore hideous ugliness ; to take that mask off would befroei tearing the skin from the bones, or the velvet gra' se ti these mountains. The face is the soul's index, if Y e . t eei only mark it properly. Look at Titian's portraits, Ar;ciftf" not exactly as you read of them in Machiavelli or Gi ll 11a dini ? No man or woman can long play the W r i: a sY. without the colour and the line coming through t be o f thi The beasts are no hocrites. Compare the fa ce ~,e all y tiger with the innocent lamb—the eagle's ruthles ire?. sharp nose with the mildness of the dove. '-"..-faeoti flowers show their innocence or their gu ilt iu th e " ante Look at the dark deadly nightshade that the mailik s j ii ha ° beside those ruins and the viscid purple-veined aeci and the fetid hellebore, offering . its winter b10550nt..52,,,.00,7, the bright, blue, frank-eyed speedwell, or forget "' oa t/ the meek violets bending to the earth, and the_ e ye v white water-lilies, spreading their purity the oclA Heaven itself. f ° he As a companion and a contrast to the sweets d, t . Merval is her sprightly and charming frie N li ya to: clever and imperious Clara Ludwell. The sOlll which this fair lady, like another Portia, lai d ; the law and sets the world to rights, is tu di fferee." right lively and pleasant manner. Very ~.e oa ei! is the portraiture of Clement Merval, the d, tia.° whose extravagant melancholy is deseribea, 3/ervalA most extravagant exaggeration. Clemenv_,... o . to when in the midst of dreamy abstraction bei t ' t t' be e t intents and purposes a sleep-walkerovit heu er roo cuse of being asleep ! With all thes . e . it f ig judgment which we have not though t _ vi doic u t to overlouk, " Lionel Merval" is full of the, , , , it w ill j " , h of ability and originality ; and while the reader on its own account, it promise° the future excellence of its author. WHITEOHAPEL. Very moderate supplies of meat are on sale. The trade is dull, as follows : Per 81b. by the carcase. Beef 3s 6d to 5s Od I Mutton ... Ss 8d t o 5 s 8d Veal 4s Od to 5s Od Pork ...... 4s Od to 5s Od Lamb, Gs Od to 7s Od. BOROUGH HOP. The hop trade is quiet, and inferior parcels may be had for rather loss money. The value of fino produce is well supported. The official liquidators of 0 verend, Gurney, and Co., have given notice that they intend to make a call of £lO per share on all the contributories of the company on Monday, the 20th inst.