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As yet nothing has been officially communicated to the Courts of Berlin, Vienna, and Florence. It is men tioned by the Patrie that several fresh military mea sures have been adopted by Prussia, so that it is naturally inferred in some quarters that she means to c ommence operations in the Duchies, rely ing upon the neutrality of Hanover being preserved. Very likely some such ruse is in contemplation, for great efforts have lately been made by Prussia to secure the neutrality of Han over, and, of course, some double intender existed. Those who are deluded into the notion that the Berlin Government will consent to waive the exe cution of their schemes until after the Congress has been expressed will find themselves ver y much mistaken. One naturally turns from the su rm i ses respecting the Congress to the consideration of the plans which relate to the war now so imminent. The treaty between Prussia and Italy is a very prominent feature of the affair, and, indeed, since its formation matters have assumed a far mo r e complicated form, and present more difficulties in the way of adjustment. Among the most important points are found that it is ar ranged, in case of Austria attacking either of these Powers, that the other would consider such a step as a causis belli, and would jointly act against the aggressors, while peace could not be made by either side without the consent of the other. If, on the contrary, the provocations of Prussia induce Austria to declare war, Italy i s t o join the contest a 3 the ally of Prussia. Besides thi s, these contract ing parties are not to make alliances with othe r na tions except by mutual consent. As thi s i s very ea sily to be understood on the part of Italy, when w e consider the animus of her feelin gs en to wards Austria ; hut why should Prussia thus comport herself towards her old all y? No wonder that Austria appears unwilling to join the Congress, when she can thus discern the antag o _ nistic spirit which animates the chief party in the discussion. It is reported from Paris that Austria will not agree to a Congress, and if this continues to be the case we do not see how England, France, and Vienna, can with any propriety come forward in the affair. If they do, the coitiequencea will be as they have often been before, that Pr ussia will get the best of it, and such a result can hardly dio.nit c y on of du th ce e to the interests of Europe and the c, p cul ar a ti t e io s n con it cern is ed. mAenmtioonngedothetrhrautmothuers ienffocrirts bpeeinacge ; d t i h re e ct Q ed uee t n o of certain royal la.dhiernsenatreof promote the establis Dowager of PRUSSIA, the mother of the Emperor o f AUSTRIA, and the Q ueen Dowa g er of SAXONY, are making efforts to bring about the retirement of Count BIS3IARCX, Count MENSDORFF, and Baron B E usT, in order to facilitate the interests of peace. No doubt the accomplishment . of such designs would be very conducive to the end in view, but we do not think that they stand much chance of suc cess in their undertaking, for the parties in question are too firmly fixed in their places for the present. We should have more hope of any satisfactory re sult from the Congress if Prussia did not seem so anxious about it. The fact is that Herr Von BISMARCK has gone too far in his ventures of late, and therefore he thinks he can retrieve his position by skilful diplomacy. Surely, however, the assem bled representatives will not again be taken in by the shallow schemes and insincere professions of this wily statesman, nor allow themselves to be again so deluded as to let the Prussian Government carry on its designing plans unchecked. In order to show that the Congress is accepted by Prussia, the departure of the PRINCE ROYAL and Prince FREDERICK CHARLES for the army has been post poned. The Federal Diet have put off until next Wednesday their proposals respecting the armaments of Austria, Pruisia, and Saxony. No doubt by that time, it is supposed that something definite will have been decided one way or the other. It is of the less importance that the matter should have been postponed, because Prussia is not at all likely to pay much attention to anything that is said or done at the meeting, and will either shuffle out of the in_ quiry, or else return a scornful answer to the ques tions put by the representatives at the Diet. It is almost ludicrous to notice the efforts made in so many different directions to promote the cause of peace, but they will be of no avail unless the chief offender be brought to book. The French Am bassador at Munich is using his earnest endea r yours to persuade the Bavarian Government to maintain a " strict neutrality" in the impending war. It is quite impossible to depend upon any of these efforts, however ably they are made, and how ever cleverly they are planned, because in the event of hostilities commencing the course of events may urge things on in an unforeseen direction, and force those to commit themselves and join in the conflict who really did not intend to do so at the outset. The Opinione of Florence states that Austria has declined to entertain any proposal for the cession of Venetia. This is not at all surprising intelli gence, because many difficulties lie in the way of the accomplishment of such a scheme, but not withstanding it is very much to be re gretted that the Imperial Government do not better understand their position, and consult their true interests ; not only must their perversity and prejudice be deplored for the sake of Venetia itseif, and for the injuries they inflicted on the interests of Austria, but also because by this union a most decided check would be interposed to Prussian diplomacy, and a counter stratagem employed to circumvent the deep design of Berlin Statesmen planning their late treaty with Italy. Another strong argument which induces Prussia to agree to the proposed Congress is that she cannot succeed in raising a loan. This is a proper reward for the dark doings of the Government in offending the Parliament, and setting at defiance the wishes of the representatives. This outrageous conduct is now coming home to them with—s vengeance, and Lite piopect of -their discomfiture affords a salutary lesson to the other continental governments, of which it is to be hoped they will take warning, and not, in their turn, go beyond the limits defined by the Constitution in their struggles to obtain supremacy. It is said that England and Russia have declared to Austria that, if she refuse to take part in the Congress, the responsibility of all that afterwards occurs will rest with her. No one is justified in putting faith in any undertaking that is begun in such a contrary spirit. The fact is that too much time was lost before any men tion was made of this Congress, and hence it is now extremely doubtful if it can take plaee at all. A rumour was prevalent in the Bourse on Saturday to the effect that a misunderstanding had arisen between England and France on the Vene tian question, but it is without foundation. In all this fracas and confusion we have only to remember that it is the fault of our Government for their conduct respecting Denmark two years ago. A little firmness would have prevented the Prus sians from crossing the Eider, and preserved the Duchies to Denmark; but the incertitude that pre vailed has been the cause of all the subsequent evils in Germany. The arrival of the Africa from New York, on May 10th, does not give us very important intelli gence, though it is evident that the Radicals at least have not relaxed their efforts to obtain political supremacy. A resolution has been passed in Con gress instructing the Judiciary Committee to report a bill prohibiting the admission as a State of any Territory wherein the franchise is denied on account of colour, declaring such denial to be unconstitu tional. Now, it is manifest that no such prohibition forms part of the Constitution of the States, seeing that even now the suffrage is restricted to the whites. The Abolitionists, having gained so so unexpected an advantage, are not satisfied with it, but are arguing on behalf of the political equality of the negroes as if it were eman cipation itself they were fighting for. It is one thing to put the black man on civil equality with the white, to admit his evidence in a court of law, to protect his property, and guarantee his liberty of h l a a c t t i i n o g n , for a n d q others uit another t e inthe hands o putof excitable, power of legi ignorant,s and untrained men. Because a very large portion of the community who are willing to remove the stigma of slavery from their country are doubtful as to the propriety of admitting the negro to an absolute equality denied to intelligent and educated foreigners the abolitionists are furi ous, and act as if the grievances of which y c omplain were as real and onerous i n their na t u re as the evils attendant on slavery. Part of this feeling, no doubt, originates in a ki n d cf political fanaticism, but it has probably more direct and interested motives in a good many cases. the leaders of the Radical party v The PRESIDENT, indeed, did not scruple to t personalocharge aims, and has boldly asserted morearethiannreaolnitcye that the proposed friends of the negro seeking their own ends by their philanthropic labours. The black man has in fact been one of the taken Principal subjects of the division which has place between the PRESIDENT and his quondam supporters, their fervent affection ttohweiarrdsvehtehme negro being o ni be o i s n i g in exact proportion to b w y hit e es xp . erielarc.e jr°alithsesr°latnhinbky towards the Southern stihteworeyll in to be hi 0s au p i o d li ed . tical treatmeut of the negro, although lie fully THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MAY EVENING 21, 1866 recognii ;es his right to the protection and care of the State. He thinks too that if it is worth while t 9 - wage a costly and deadly war to preserve - the union it is as well to profit by the vic tory whet I won ; and that it is useless to maintain a nominal junction of the whole system—social, po litical, an d commercial,—is to be thoroughly disor ganised. The common sense of the people is no doubt with him, but his office is no sine cure notwithstanding. The Radicals are strong enough to do mischief in Congress even though they no longer adequately represent the people out of doors. The extremes to which the party have. gone during this session have no doubt disgusted .moderate and sensible men of all parties, but their progress is not arrested by that conviction. The power is in their hands for the time, and they will use it. Mr. JOHNSON, when he boldly re sisted their schemes, and threw down, as it were, his glove against them, carried the popular sympa thies with him, and his first veto was so warmly sup ported, followed up as it was bythe open attack upon the policy of the Radical leaders, that the opposite party were for the moment paralysed. They were forced to pause, but they did not modify their in tentions. The second struggle between them and the PRESIDENT resulted in their triumph, and the Civil Rights Bill was forced through the House in spite of the second veto. They have now proceeded still further—all on the same road, however ; that road which, little as they see it, tends inevitably to the destruction of the American union, the downfall of American prosperity, and the overthrow of American power as at present constituted. The re port of the Reconstruction Committee advised mere mischievous and comprehensive changes in the constitution ; and it was known that not only Mr. JoincsoN, but that nearly the whole of the Cabinet were stronly opposed to it. It was thought, in New York itself, that the House of Representatives would reject the amend ment proposed, since a number of the Republican members had declared themselves against it. On this, as on previous occasions, however, the ultra Radicals have proved too strong for the men of moderate councils, and the latest news tells us that on May 10th the House of Representatives adopted the amendment of the Reconstruction Committee by 128 to 57 votes. This will pro bably be the occasion of a fresh struggle between the contending powers. The PRESIDENT is not a man to be easily baffled; he will not be cowed or threatened into abandoning his convictions. If strong language and frantic opposition could shake him, he would have been moved from his course before now. If personal aggrandisement were his motive, he would be more eager to conciliate opponents and rally a party round him. If personal fear influenced him he might be startled by the remembrance of his predecessor's fate. It has been abundantly proved, however, that ANDREW JOHNSON is swayed by no such motives. Faults and weaknesses he has no doubt, mistakes of policy and errors of judgment he may commit ; but his whole public career be longs to a different level than the manoeuvring, in triguing, selfish, intolerant, and faction-loving sphere of the Radical leaders. It is their failure to influence their opponent by any of the usual methods --their knowledge of his inflexibility, his boldness, and his decision, which so greatly incense the prime movers of the attack upon the South under the guise of love for the negro. To the PRESIDENT himself they are, as might be expected, bitterly hos tile, and they manifest their feeling very plainly by their continual efforts to thwart and annoy him, as well by deeper laid schemes to contract his authority and influence if possible. The Africa brings us the news that a bill has been intro duced in the Senate providing that the PRESIDENT shall not have power to remove any officer appointed by consent of the Senate, excepting members of the Cabinet. The new elec tions will probably reverse the positions of parties in the House of Representatives, but until the change has time to take effect, which will not be for a considerable time from this, they have, unfortunately, not only the will, but the power, to do a good deal of mischief. The President loses no opportunity of refuting their statements, and has lately reminded a Methodist deputation that the representations made of the state of feeling in the Southern States are partial and unfair. Individual Cases are selected and spoken of as samples instead of exceptions. It is no thanks to the Radical party disaffection is not rampant through the Southern States ; it is solely due to the efforts and policy of the PRESIDENT himself, and the just confidence which the Southern people feel that he will do his best to secure fair and impartial legislation for the whole mixed and various com munity. It is difficult to foresee what will be the issue of the struggle, but it can only be regretted by all who are sincerely desirous for the welfare and prosperity of the great Western Republic. Their form of government is assuredly on its trial, and the spectacle is not without instruction to older States. The tyranny of the many, it has often been said, is more dangerous than the despotism of one ; possibly because it is so easily disguised under specious professions of enlightened and philanthropic principles. It is from this tyranny, not open but concealed and insidious, that the United States have long suffered, and the great crisis in the na tional history has brought out the inherent weak nesses of the system in the most glaring light. There is something wrong in the Constitution, which permits a body of men to override all others, and there is a lack of those harmonising influences which in our own country reconcile opposing inte rests and smooth the progress of public affairs. It is against the factious and noisy dogmatism of parties like the extreme Radicals that Americans have really to be on their guard. It is such bodies that endanger their wellbeing, which alternately make their liberty of press, and speech, and action degenerate into license, and invest a Republican Assembly with the arbitrary character of a Council of Ten. It is well, at least, that the head of the State is fully sensible of the danger, and in the ar duous and responsible struggle he is maintaining he carries with him the sympathies of this country. PROSPECTS OF COII3IEMORATION.—There is no truth in the report that the Prince and Princess of Wales intend to visit us this year ; but in spite of this dis appointment we doubt not that the Commemoration will be as gay as ever. The annual ball will be held iu a room built expressly for the purpose at the Clarendon Hotel. The Christ Church ball will also be held in the same place. As far as we have at present heard, the arrangements for the week will be as follows :—Saturday, June 9—Theatri cals by St. John's College in the Music Room. Amateur Musical Society's concert in the Corn Exchange. Sunday, June 10—Show Sunday. Last Bampton Lecture by Mr. Liddon. Monday, June 11 —Flower show in Worcester Gardens. Mr. Leslie's concert iu the theatre. Procession of boats. Freemasons' ball. Tueslay, June 12—Masonic fete—Orpheus Glee Club. Christ Church ball. Wednes day, June 13—Enccenia in the theatre. University ball. Thurday, June 14—Exeter College ball. New College ball Thursday will of course be mainly devoted to picnics down the river as usual.—Oxford Undergraduate's Journal. NOVEL DEED DEPOSITORY.—An extraordinary circumstance has transpired with reference to the Thomas Newly, stonemason, who diedfrom accident. Af ter deceased was taken to the hospital his clothes were examined. Feeling something in one of the sleeves of the coat, the person who was examining it ripped open the lining and discovered a number of deeds relating to pro perty. Upon inquiry it was found that the deceased, al though only an operative stonemason, was worth property to the pzigwat £6 7 oo,—.A r tqa3i7c Paily &ova, CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Sunday Evening. There was a Cabinet Council on Friday, at which the Empress and the members of the Privy Council were present, and also a Cabinet Council yesterday, at which the Emperor presided. I have reason to rely upon the statement made to me in an official quarter that the chief subject of discussion yester day related to the order and the exact points to be submitted to the proposed Congress. After all, the information of The Sun apon this subject has turned out to be perfectly correct, as well as the comments of those Paris papers which I noticed. A letter from Florence, in the illoniteur, gives some explanations relative to corps of Volunteers to be commanded by Garibaldi, which diminish the importance of that step, and take from it the aggre sive character which has been attributed to it. The letter says that " the enrolment has not the revolu tionary character of the spontaneous enrolment con nected with the expedition of 1860. If the precautions and reserve of the decree, and the conditions of the engagements be considered; if it be corroborated that General Garibaldi, appointed by the decree to the command of the National Volunteers, belonged up to the day of his retirement to the regular army, it will be acknowledged that in fact the enrolment of Volunteers amounts to little else than the creation of a regular supplemental corps, to be distinguished from the other corps only for its having been called into service by another mode than the annual levy of contingents, and by there being more re straint in regard to the time of its duration. Thus the hopes of peace are still not seriously disturbed, and the reports in regard to the Congress are still more favourably received by the public. At all events the field is open for diplomatic arrangements, although there is no doubt that if the Venetia ques tion do not receive a speedy, amicable solution, Italy will be irresistibly hurried into tha chances of war." According to another account from Florence, the King of Italy, who was to have left the palace on the 15th for the head-quarters of the army, was still there, and another favourable augury is drawn from this celay in the King's departure. The Siecle from its own information, and that of the Independance &lye, a well-informed Brussels paper, says that the French Government has not given up the idea of European arbitration with a programme limited to three points—Venetia, Schleswig Holstein. and German Reform. This programme was formally proposed to the English Governinent by the French Ambassador, the Prince de la Tour D'Auvergue, on the 9th of this month, and probably on tle same day an identical com munication was mach by Baron Talleyrand to the Cabinet of St. Petersburg. The trial of Aspe for the murder and mutilation of the woman at Tculouse is not concluded. Yes terday a singular incident took place. The jury all visited the wins shop where the murder was committed. An interesting discussion has taken place in the Legislative Body on the important subject of local government and centralisation. In the course of it the Count de la Tour said it was the Revolution which struck the last blow at our system of pro vincial liberty which vas almost destroyed in the reign of Louis XIV. The Revolutionists, wishing to triumph at any price over the resistance of the provinces, the private rights of cities and corpora tions were abolished. All private liberty was de stroyed, even that of adoring Jesus Christ. After the Reign of Terror conscience recovered its rights, but provincial and local privileges were not entirely restored. Tie Emperor promulgated de crees of the 25th Match, 1852 and 13th April 1863, which gave certain ministerial powers to the Pre fects. Wishing seriously to give local rights and privileges to the department and the commune, the Government organisei a plan giving considerable extension to the powers of elective councils. This was the origin of the bill now before the Chamber for the improvement of local government, and its principle was such as to deserve a favourable re ception. Colonel Giuseppe Pace, who was one of Gari baldi's chief officers in the Sicily expedition, has died at Naples. Col. Pace distinguished himself by his powerful exertions to repress brigandage in the Calabrias, his native province, which he twice re presented in the Italian Parliament. It is reported that M. 8., the treasurer of the Sous Comptoir of the railways, a man of 60, has decamped with a sum of three millions, obtained by means of forged documents from the Comptoir d'Escompte of Paris (the official discount office). The fraud, it is said, will 'not in any way compro mise the original establishment. Paris, with all its gaiety, is after all the most religious capital of Europe—at least if a true esti mate may be formed from the large proportion of inhabitants who attend public worship. To-day (Whitsunday) is one of the great religious fetes of the year, and I have had an opportunity of observ ing eeltoreokpoinlittahne mortnhinagt until froi n m t h i e d _ e d a a r y l y s e h v o e u r r a oof of the 'clock churches have been immensely crowded. The beau ful weather and some village fetes in the vicinity of Paris tended almost to vacate Paris in the course of the day, but be it remarked that the pleasure-seek ing population attended to their religious duties first. Whatever may he the religious observances of Sunday in London, I will venture to say from occular proof that more Parisians than Londoners went to church to-day —aye, and that this vast class of Roman Catholics here were at least as " re ligiously and devoutly disposed" as the congrega tions of London. M. Berlioz has been appointed conservator of the instrumental museum of the Imperial Conservatory of Music, in the room of M. Clapisson. A sale of musical instruments, forming the private col lection of the late M. Clapisson, has been con founded by some of the papers with the sale of the museum. That museum is intact. It includes some of the most curious and valuable musical in struments in the world. Some are of the date of 1612. One instrument of the style of Louis XIII. has a painting on the panel by Teniers. The ap pointment is honorary, no pay being attached to it, and M. Berlioz has accepted it from a pure love of art. The Institute have granted a pension to M. Clapisson's widow, and she is allowed to continue to occupy her apartment there the same as in the time of her deceased husband. One of the Paris tribunals has granted a decree of separation to a husband whose wife absented her self from home for 23 days, and who, on her return home at one o'clock in the morning, refused to give an account of where she had been. A French pro verb says that " The absent are always in the wrong." Mr. DISRAELI is said to be one of the kindliest of mankind, but, sagaciously remarks the Spectator, the man who skotchod Rigby must have a trace in him of the true attorney. According- to this ingenious mode of argument, what a rascal at heart Shakspere must have been, judging from his delineation of lago and Jachimo ! What a sneak must be Mr. Dickens, estimating his character from his account of Uriah 'Jeep ! What a snob was Mr. Thackeray, when viewed through the remembrance of Jeatues ! What a consummate hypocrite Moller°, regarded in the light cast back upon himself by his portraiture of Tartuffe ! A CHILD KILLED BY A GAME COCK.-011 Satur day Mr. Humphrey held an inquest at Old Ford as to the death of Charles Winter, aged three years. It ap peared that on Tuesday week the child was standing at its parents' door, 32, Palm-street, when a ferocious game cock, belonging to a neighbour named Monk, which had been frequently known to attack other children, flew up at him, and putting one claw on his head and the other on his shoulder pecked at its face, which streamed down with blood. The child was taken in doors, and a doctor was sent for. Tho medical evidence proved that deceased died from effusion of serum on the brain caused by a shock to the system, arising from the attack and pecks of the game cock, as well as from fright. The owner of the cock treated the matter very cavalierly, and thought his furious bird of more importance than the lives of children. The coroner hinted that the parents could take proceedings in another court for the loss they had sus'ained, and the jury returned a verdict--" That deceased died from effusion on the brain, caused by being attacked and pecked by a cer tain game cock." THE PROPOSED CHANNEL TUNNEL.—The question of a tunnel under the Channel has again surged up. The Propagateur of Lille mentions that freak surveys have been commenced, and that huts have been erected ou the Camyn dyke between• Calais awl Sangatte to contain the effects and inAitruaeuta of engineers. LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRA3I.) THE WAR CRISIS. FLORENCE, MAY 21. Italy and Prussia, in reply to the preliminary overtures, have expressed their willingness to take part in a Congress. Austria has not given her answer. Signor Scialoja, Minister of Finance, has now definitely withdrawn his resignation. HUNGARY. PESTII, MAY 21. An official denial has been given to the rumour of a fresh conscription being intended in Hungary. The town of Pesth has voted another address of confidence to M. Deak. Similar addressss have been presented to him from other towns of Hungary. THE BRAZILS. RIO DE JANEIRO, APRIL 24. Advices have been received from the Passo de la Patria to the 9th inst. The fleet bad commenced operations against the fortifications on the right bank of the Parana, and the ironclads had done ex cellent service, though one, the Tamandare, had the misfortune to receive a shell through one of her port holes, which, bursting inside the cupola, killed and wounded 34 officers and men ; all the officers of the ship, except the surgeon, who was below, were wounded, and of these only two are now alive, both sub-lieutenants. In the other ships the casualties were insignificant. The armour of the ironclads have resisted splendidly the pounding of the long 68's at 500 and 600 yards distance. The Paraguay ans had constructed floating batteries, which are only 18 inches out of water, very strong, and mounting each a long 68-pounder. Of these four were destroyed and one taken, since when no others have shown up. The Brazilians have taken posses sion of an island within 600 yards of Fort Stapirri, and whence the fort can be bombarded. This island is now called Carvalho, and on it a battery of 12-pound rifled field-pieces has been erected. The passage of the army was expected to take place on the 11th, and a steamer is daily expected with news. On the 9th the Minister of Finance presented to the Chamber of Deputies his project relative to the Bank of Brazil, of which an abstract was sent by the last mail. It gave rise to a good deal of dis cussion, from which it has become apparent that great abuses have been committed. Not only all the capital, but also the greater part of the issue of the Bank, has been employed in bills which cannot be paid when they become due and are continually renewed at maturity ; these bills represent the agriculture of the country ; the acceptors of the bills pay interest at the rate of 12 to 18 per cent. per annum,whereas the bank charges of the difference being divided between the receivers of produce and the private bankers, one of the latter is said to have endorsed these bills for upwards of £3,000,000. The Ministerial deputies for the province of Bahia have also brought forward a project for the con struction of tramroads, to be connected with the railway of that province. FRANCE. BOURSE, May 19, Two o'clock.—Discounts of rather important sums continue to be demanded. To-day the list comprises the following, viz. :- 94,5001 r. Three per Cent. Rentes ; 30,000 Italian Fives ; 1,050 Credit Mobilier Shares ; 600 Comp tour d'Escompte, &c. The market is very inactive, with generally lower quotations—a certain amount of uneasiness pervading all departments. Threes, for the Account, have receded 35c.—to 63fr. 60c. Credit Mobilier Shares have fallen to 515 fr—a loss of 15fr. Credit Foncier Shares have declined 17fr. 50c., the quotation I,loofr. ; and Comptoir d'Escompte are lfr. 25c. lower—at 670 fr. The pressure continues in Italian Fives, the cause no doubt being the definite adoption by the Chamber of Deputies of the bill imposing a tax of 8 percent. on the Rente. To-day they have again receded 80c., viz., to 37fr. 90c. Railway Shares are also generally dealt in ou lower terms. Northern Shares have declined sfr ; Lyons, lfr. 25c. ; Lombard, Ur. ; and Austrian 6fr. 25c. Paris Gas Shares are unvaried at 1,392 fr. 50c. From London Consols are telegraphed with a fall of I. Three o'clock.-- Quotations have further receded, the market closing as follows : 41 per Cents 93 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. Do. end month 63 30 Credit Mobilier 517 50 Do. end month ~ 513 75 Credit Foncier — Do. end month — Bank Shares 3400 Italian Loan 37 40 Do. end month 37 70 Mexican Loan 33 Do. Bonds 235 Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred - WAYS. For Account. Orleans 790 Northern 1047 50 Lyons and Mediterranean...., 785 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian 525 Lombard 286 25 North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona — Roman — Arrival of the Cape Mail. (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) PLYMOUTH, Saturday. The Union Company's Cape Royal Mail steam ship Saxon, Capt. E. Baynton, arrived here to-day, from Table Bay, April 17, 4 p.m. ; St. Helena, 25, 4 p.m. ; and Ascension, 28, 9 p.m. She brings with the usual mails 97 passengers, and the following cargo :—Specie, £625 ; bullion, £370 ; 726 bales wool ; 105 bales sheep and goat skins ; 851 raw hides ; 992 bags copper ore ; 89 tusks ivory ; 1 case rhinoceros horns; 2 bags shells, 62 boxes fruit, 38 cases ostrich feathers, 2 casks aloes, 2 bundles wild beast skins, 4 packages copper, 14 bales buchu leaves, 17 casks wine, and several packages sun dries. . Among the Saxon's passengers are Mr. Galway, Attorney-General for Natal, and Mrs. Galway; Dr. Mann, F.R.A.S., and Mrs. Mann, from Natal ; Major Miller, 67th Regiment ; Capt. Macdonald, sth Fusiliers, 2d battalion. The Saxon experienced moderate SE trades to St. Helena and Ascension, and fresh NE winds from 3 North of the Equator. The news from Natal is, so far as ecclesiastical matters are concerned, more unsatisfactory than ever. There was nothing but wars and strifes, and wrangling on every side. There were appeals to the courts, and interdicts, and orders in reply to them right and left. The bishop had got the dean interdicted from holding service in the cathedral on Good Friday morning. The dean on Easter Tues day, at an excited meeting for the election of churchwardens, became more excited than any one else there, and suddenly dissolved the assembly, which would not be dissolved in obedience to him, and the meeting went on amid disreputable uproar and con fusion ; half the members voted and the other half refused to have anything to do with the business. An address had been got up to the metropolitan asking him to cease meddling or interfering with the diocese at all. A counter address had been got up to the dean expressing fullest sympathy and promising energetic aid in his procoedings. A telegram, for warded from Pietermaritzburg, just as the steamer was leaving, stated that the quarrel had at length resolved itself into a very literal contest about the keys. The court had ordered possession of the cathedral to Bishop Colenso, and having further enjoined the dean to deliver up the baptismal regis try. The Colensonian party took possession by for cibly opening the church doors, wrenching off the diaconal locks, and substituting episcopal ones of their own. The other side then returned the com pliment" by wrenching off these new locks, and thus the wrangle was proceeding. The paper war be tween Dr. Colons() and the dean was also maintained in the local press. The Rev. Mr. Fredoux, a mis sionary, son-in-law of the Rev. Mr. Moffat, senior, had met with a sudden and tragic death in the far interior. A trader named Nelson had committed a crime for which lie was a fugitive from justice, and followed the track of Mr. Fredoux, who was on a pastoral journey to Morokwain. Mr. Fredoux had instructions sent him to arrest Nelson, and to com pel his return to Motito, to receive judgment for his crime. When called upon to surrender Nelson at first tried the effect of an apology ; but finding that of no avail he shut himself up in his waggon, threatening to shoot any one who should come near him. Mr. Fredoux approached the, waggon to re monstrate . with him, and point out the hopelessness of resistance, when, to the horror of such spectators as escaped, waggon and bystanders were blown into the air and six blackened corpses, including that of Mr. Fredoux and Nelson, were stretched on the ground. There were 1751 b. of gunpowder in Nel son's waggon, and this he had fired. A deputation from the wine farmers had waited upon his Excellency the Governor, with a petition to her Majesty, praying for such an alteration in the .wine duties as would admit Cape wines to the Lon don market; his Excellency, however, produced a despatch addressed to himself, in reply to the re solutions adopted iu the House of Assembly on the subject, and from the wording of the despatch it was gathered that the wine farmers must cease to expect any relief from the Government in the matter of duties. The war between the Free State and the Basutos had been finally closed by a treaty signed by Moshesh, the paramount chief of the Basutos, on April 3. The terms of the treaty were very favour able to the Free State, who thereby acquired a large accession of very valuable territory. The Saxon landed her mails here, and proceeded this afternoon to Southampton. Her mails are forwarded by this evening's mail train. On the evening of April 15 a destructive fire broke out in Cape Town, by which a large quantity of property was destroyed. The fire commenced in Longmarket-street, at the shop of Mr. Johnson, chemist and druggist, and extended to the premises of Messrs. Shaw and Stuttaford, drapers, and to the bonded warehouses of Messrs. W. Dickson and Co. Paris Gossip. Reports are again prevalent of a change in the Ministry. M. Persigny is to replace M. de la Valetta as Minister of the Interior; General Fleury to succeed Marshal Bandon as Minister of War. It is also said that M. Fould, Minister of Finance, will retire, but his successor is not yet named. Two splendid bloodhounds arrived a short time ago at the Jardin d'Acclimatation. All Paris is running to see these splendid animals. The "Life of Julius Caesar," it is well known, has for many years occupied the Emperor's serious attention. Its most eloquent chapters were written in the gardens of St. Cloud and Vichy. His Majesty made several journeys, accompanied by General Fav6, to one of the most cele brated spots of the Gallic campaign. The Emperor was also assisted by several distinguished officers. M. Alfred Maury, of the Royal Institution, worked every day with the Emperor in the literary part of the book. Upon one occasion this gentleman found His Majesty pale, and with tears flowing from his eyes. " !my dear M. Maury," said Napoleon 111., "we cannot work to-day." The Due do Morney had died a few hours previously. A special edition of this work was printed for distribution among the Emperor's friends, every copy of which was signed " Napoleon." Whit Monday. The facilities afforded by road, rail, and river, were amply availed of this day by the hundreds of thousands who desire, at this period of the year, to exchange for a few hours the crowded thoroughfare and the bustle of the metropolis for the invigorating- sea-side breeze, or the tranquil beauties of Sylvan scenery. The different termini of the London and Brigh ton Railway, particulaarly at the London-bridge station, were crowded at an early hour, and the number of visitors to the celebrated " watering place" probably exceeded that of any Whitsuntide anni versary of late years. The trains to Greenwich were filled, and we can easily conceive how the park exhibitet l its usual features, how many groups were engaged in the pastime of "Kissing in the Ring," or performing the feat, by no means one without peril, of running down the " hill," which, in some of its disasters, draws a blush to many a fair cheek. The number of visitors to Windsor was very large, and Hampton Court must also have received a very considerable influx of visitors, to which the " treats" af forded by charity and ragged schools largely contributed, a pleasing feature in our civilisation. The limit of some of the holiday folks' excursions was very restricted, indeed, not extending beyond the neighbour hood of Peckham, Rye, and Nunhead, which latter place, notwithstanding its sombre attribute of a cemetery, was dotted with festive and picnician groups. At nearly all the stations which came under our observation there was a large increase in what might be called the piscatory element, and indicated by the gear and tackle of disciples of Izaak Walton, which boded no good to the " finny tribe." Hampton Court must have received a large accession to its admiring number of visitors, judging by the demands that were made for tickets at the Waterloo and Vauxhall stations, and from which it was evident that this spot, associated alike with history and rural loveliness, has lost nothing of its popularity with Londoners. THE MECCA PILGRIMS.—From information re ceived by the Board of Health of Alexandria it appears that the sanitary condition of Mecca has not this year been at all affected by the arrival of pilgrims in that city, and that a party of devotees were about to return to Suez on the 7th inst., perfectly free from cholera. The pilgrims were subjected to examination upon their em barkation at Djeddah, and up to the present time their general state of health has been completely satisfactory. There are, therefore, grounds for hoping that the Mecca pilgrimage may be performed in 1866 under more satisfac tory conditions than has been the case in former years. AN EDIFICE UNDER THE SEA.—He N‘ as in a large cave. Over his head was a roofing not unlike the inside of a vast skull, which might have been imagined to have been recently dissected. The dripping ribs of the striated indentations of the roof seemed to imitate the branching fibres and fagged satures of the bony cranium. A stony ceiling and a watery floor. The rippled waters between the four walls of the cave were like wavy paving tiles. The grotto was shut in on all sides. Not a window, not even an air -hole, visible. No breach in the wall, no crack in the roof. The light came from below, and through the water—a strange, sombre light. Gilliatt, the pupils of whose eyes had contracted during his explorations of the dusky corridor, could distinguish everything about him in the pale glimmer. He was familiar, from having often visited them, with the caves of Plemont in Jersey, the Creux Maill6 at Guernsey, the Boutiques at Sark; but none of these marvellous caverns could compare with the subterranean and submarine chamber into which he had made his way. Under the water at his feet he could see a sort of drowned arch. This arch, a natural ogive, fashioned by the waves, was glittering between its two dark and profound supports. It was by this submerged porch that the daylight entered into the cavern from the open sea. A strange light shooting upwards from a gulf. The glimmer spread out beneath the waters like a large fan, and was reflected on the rocks. Its direct rays, di vided into long, broad shafts appeared in strong relief against the darkness below, and, becoming brighter or more dull from one rock to another, looked as if seen here and there through plates of glass. There was light in that cave it is true ; but it was the light that was unearthly. The beholder might have dreamed that he had descended in some other planet. The glimmer was an enigma, like the glaucous light from the eye-pupil of a Sphinx. The whole cave represented the interior of a death's head of enormous proportions, and of a strange splendour. The vault was the hollow of the brain, the arch the mouth ; the sockets of the eyes were wanting. The cavern, alter nately swallowing and rendering up the flux and reflux through its mouth wide open to the full noonday with out, seemed to drink in the light and vomit forth bitter ness ; a type of some beings intelligent and evil. The light, in traversing this inlet through the vitreous medium of the sea-water, became green, like a ray of starlight from Aldebaran. The water, filled with the moist light, ap peared• like a liquid emerald. A tint of aquamarina of marvellous delicacy spread a soft hue throughout the cavern. The roof, with its cerebral lobes, and its rampant ramifications, like the fibres of nerves, gave out a tender reflection of chrysoprase. The ripples reflected on the roof were falling in order and dissolving again incessantly, and enlarging and contracting their glittering scales in a mysterious and mazy dance. They gave the beholder an impression of something weird and spectral : he wondered what prey secured, or what expectation about to be realised, moving with a joyous thrill this magnificent net work of living fire. From the projections of the vault, and the angles of the rock, hung lengths of delicate fibrous plants, bathing their roots probably through the granite in some upper pool of water, and distilling from their silky ends, one drop after the other, a drop of water like a pearl. These drops fell into the water now and then with a gentle splash. The effect of the scene was singular. Nothing more beautiful could be imagined ; nothing more mournful could anywhere be found. It was a wondrous palace, in wbieh death sat smiling and oontont.—Toilers of the sece, by Victor Hugo. calla Oro In HER MAJESTY• WINDSOR CASTLE, May 19. The Queen walked in the grounds yesterday afternoon, and drove this morning, accompanied 11 her Royal Highness Princess Helena. Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice also walke d and drove. Her Majesty held a Council to-day at 1 o'clock, at which were present Earl Granville, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson' Mr. Helps was Clerk of the Council. The Earl of Caithness and Colonel the Hon. A• Liddell were the Lord and Groom in Waiting. Lord Charles Fitzroy has succeeded Lord Alfred Paget as Equerry in Waiting. Mr. Joseph Wyon has been honoured by her Royal Highness Princess Helena with sittings for a meda l ' Mr. Robert Dowling has had the honour of sub milting to her Majesty portraits of their royal high nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, painted by him for the Tasmanian Government. MAY 20. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, at tended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole and the Hon. Flora Macdonald. Princess Helena, attended by Miss Bowater, we out driving, and Princess Louise and Princess Bea' trice also drove out in a carriage-and-four. The Queen, Princess Helena, Prince Leopold, and, the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, atten ded Divine service this morning in the Private Chapel. The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor officiated, and administered the Sacrament of t he Holy Communion. The French Ambassador and the Earl and Coup' tess of Clarendon arrived at the Castle yesterdalj and had the honour of dining with the Queen 311 Royal family. Miss Bowater also arrived at the Castle. ye ster. The Hon. Mary Lascelles left the Castle day. The Prince and Princess of Wales rode out O'l horseback on Saturday afternoon. The Prince of Wales presided at the annual dill; ner of the 10th Hussars at Willis's Rooms the evening. The Prince and Princess of Wales with the o°l3. Mrs. A. Hardinge and Major Teesdale in W r ai tip c g t ' attended Divine service at the Chapel Roya l James's yesterday morning. The Communion Service was read by the --- 11.1* the Sub-Dean and the Rev. J. V. Povah. Anthem, " Come Holy Ghost"—Attwood , 01113 by Master Coward, Messrs. Francis, Montem Sw itli and Bradbury. Mr. Goss presided at the organ. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. - Sub-Almoner, from Acts, chap. 2, verses 3-4. r At the Council held by the Queen at Winds% Castle on Saturday her Majesty's consent was e% to the marriage of her Royal Highness the Pr inceP e Mary of Cambridge to his Royal Highness th Prince of Teck. The Earl and Countess of Derby have left their residence in St. James's-square to pass the holidays W i t Col. the Hon. Wellin g t on P. an d L a dy E m ma Talbot, a their residence in the neighbourhood of Harrow. The Earl and Countess Granville left Brut°ll- street on Saturday for Walmer Castle, Kent. The Earl and Countess De Grey left their resl' deuce Carlton-gardens on Saturday for Nocton Park' he family seat in Lincolnshire. The Earl Percy left Northumberland House °n Saturday for Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, to tali° t 6 command of the county militia. The Countess Percy gone to Albury Park, Surrey. The Earl and Countess Grey left Carlton-ho use i terrace on Saturday for Howick Castle, Northutnbellaa for the holidays. The Earl of Powis left his town residence ,(f,, Saturday for Shrewsbury, to do duty with the South 6t° r Yeomanry Cavalry, of which regiment he is colonel. vo The Earl and Countess of Malmesbury 113 d, been placed in mourning by the death of Miss Dashig° ° 5 which occurred on Saturday last : the' d ecea sed lady d er sister of Jane second Countess of Malme s b ur y, and llloe of the present earl. Lord Stanley, M.P., left town on Saturday' f° ! Knowsley Park, Lancashire, for the Parliaments* * 11°1.1- days. Lady Emily Foley has arrived at the Clarend°ll Hotel for the season. The Countess of Newburgh received at dinned'at her residence i n Wilt on - crescen t, on S a turday eve ljin o - : the Duke and D uc h ess o f Ri c h mon d, E ar l and LadY ,o stance Grosvenor, Lord and Lady Henry Scott, 11 , °12. al and Lady K a th ar i ne C o k e , Vi scount St. Asaph, uen6l. Peel, and Mr. William Peel. tbe The new title of Lord Wodehouse, say s t be Sunday Gazette, is to be the Earl of Kimberley, from name of his lordship's seat in Norfolk. a of n The first volu me o f a Hi n d os tanee translati° - Shaksper e has been issued at Bombay. Clu b pf Prince Alfred has joined the Royal Navy e nd 1765, and presented to its charity 25 guineas.—'4 4r ' Navy Gazette. t ot THE EUROPEAN WAR OF 1859.—At the o f tN c h r ae i p s E i o s lue i ro t oli w eni i l b a na l d conflict interesting significant to r 1859. speech eca l t the chrOnn i T e rot Januaryothe — Cor The s tique. February I.—Publication of a brochure Napoleon 111. and Italy, recommended by the • 31 : 1 1% ; 03 0 7 February 23.—D e p ar t ure o f L ord Cow l ey for "ig-earril charged with a mission from England and Franc°• t ort''' off: 7.—Note of th e M on it eur, b o th fi rm an d co 00 0" of March 23.—The Moniteur states that on the pr oposi ll s ° 4 l Russia a Congress composed of the five great Fo i ' f t ,,litl ° be convened to a dj us t all points connected with t he T : p/ 1 ' question. April B.—Bellicose order of the day of tr is i l eo peror Francis Joseph. April 20.—The Monitor r ib ro de the bases adopted by the five great Powers for Wu- 0.1 0 liberations. April 22.—The Moniteur annoullre t Austria alone refuses to adhere. April 25.--P r)ec Ald law with reference to a French loan of .£2Q,000,00 o. b. or 3.—Proclamation of the Emperor of the Fr °°e „,t 6 i3 l l flouncing a declaration of war. May 12.---The is established of the neutrality of Prussia and -'.,. l3r ' s 2 3 ' June 4.—Battle of Magenta ; rumours of peace. leeggiet —Battle of Solferino. July 7.—Despatch of Vt i ose S announcing a suspension of arms. July 1 1 -•"',1 1 10$ ° Villafranca. The subscription offered for the Fr ° "; o d t o of £20.000,000 by 690,190 subscribers aln °llD .E 100,382,391. rec l On FATAL ACCIDENT.—A very sad affair occu r th Friday evening last, which resulted in the de!,i of the Hon. Gerald Stanhope, fifth son of the present 9:doott Harrington, of Elvaston Castle, Derbyshire. ItaPPer,;ool' on Friday afternoon the Earl of Harrington left 0' Castle on horsebackfor Derby, and was accompamf °d on (1 13° of his daughters (Lady Caroline Stanhope) and hiss -0114, Hon. Gerald Stanhope), also on horseback. Afte r OP° aIP some time in Derby they returned towards EivaswT er ff) on passing Osmaston Park (about a mile out of• • 1 ' Th° the deceased's horse began kickin g , and threw Earl at once dismounted, and pi c k e d hi s son lin v i ;,,sas s h', i tti os him in a cart that was passing at the time, by whic h , sr;stool conveyed to the residence of M r . H o llis, surgeon, .0i,i05 a mile further on the wa y t owar d s El va ston. re :f fie ) Mr. Hollis's the deceased ( w ho was only 12 9°Bll Rollie *", ,'*" was able to get out of the cart and walk into 11r. Nn P house, and the latter took him to the castle in 1115 '°clocic, 00 vate carriage, and remained with him until 10 0 00 to oX t Friday evening. At midnight a change for the w ° , 0g place, and Mr. Hollis was again fetched, and, h elie t v'' r S. /v i ; the deceased was in a dying state, at once sen t ' ° . , t ioalg Fear; surgeon, Derby, in consultation, and that g 0 13 ',. 511! ,, arrived at the castle at 2 o'clock on Saturday in° rlal , r 6 er ra poor youth, however, had become unconscious, ' 3° o f c ic, th lied, and died on Saturday afternoon. The ca ll i _ s ii e b t r i g!, was concussion of the brain, but there was no n os D elo' ture of a blood-vessel in the head, as for some h° his death he was insensible. that tll° It was stated on Saturday afternoon corpora' directors of the New Zealand Banki n g „ ci op° Lion had held a meeting, and had deterniiT i be re ct . ' a temporary suspension. On FridaY it 1 ' 1 : a l o es membered we announced that their accePv owin g t° been returned by their London agents _ to c. some irregularity. The following is '',_„ lo circular issued to the holders of returned ,_lllO circular New Zealand Banking Corporation IdaY court, Old Broad-street, Loudon, rs to direct° oce " Gentlemen,—l am instructed by the jous to 10 4 , Corporation( 1866: form you that they are using their best 0 1 - 40 . 1 . , co stao; o esatiSfactory arrangements with regard to to o ' ou to bo l r ing acceptances which they have every tea s ,,, ec torS will be carried out, and in the meantime the i r woc y o ° J o with confidence on your forbearance for e s tate fr o° A balance-sheet is being made out, but I inaY t we ed the account before the board to-day the 1 1500 _ r ot , Oec retan liabilities by over .£80,000,.,-2aßcl amiyy4lourxiessobedlient o °' —.O „ -,