The Sun. — London, England, 1865-06-26 00:00:00

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(;LA >S, whl.ch has given such entire satis faction during the recent liace , , will be found invaluable on this occasion. For general tcvne.y a nda isndomplscap e ete. Se it is also quite periect. trice with ,se complete carriage fre.e to any part of the kingdom on receipt of pcst office order, payable to Wm. Callaghan, 23A, New L'ond street, corner of Cunduit-street. THE NEW DERBY RACE GLASS, p: ice s, s., with Sling Case complete. Will show distinctly the entire rac, from " the start '' to the "coining 1 , 3 . guaranteed the cheapest and bet glass (a ne model) ev. r offered to the pubh r. :Lent carriage tree to any part of zi.e Kingdom. Yost-office erdcrs payable to WILL CALLAGHAN, Optician, 23A, New Eond-stree , , W. (vorntr 11 Conduit-street). THEATR E-R OYA L, • HAYMARKET. Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, MY WIFE'S MOTHER. Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, Gordon, &c. ; Mesdames Snowden, 11111 'W ight, After which, BROTHER SAM. Messrs. Sothern, Buck tor.e, Co.npton, &c. ; Mesdames Snowdon, Moore, &c. To conclude with NO SONG NO SUPPER. Compton, Chippendale,:loarren, &c. ; Mesdames Moore, 'Wright, het Icy, To commence at 7. NEV THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL zioIe eroort.tor 40 , 1 Alltemzvr. IS. ebster. THIS EVENING, THE AREA BELLE. Mr. J. T Toole and Mrs. A. Mellon. After which, THE HEN AND CHICKENS. M rs . Stir in.r, Miss H. Simms; Messrs. R. Phillips, Billington, Stei,lienson, and Eburne. Followed by ONE TOUCH OF NATURE. Mr. Benjamin WL bster ; Miss IL Simms. To conclude with THE STEEPLECHASE; or, In the Pigskin. Mesas. J. L. Tools, Paul Bedford ; Miss K. Kelly. Commence at 7. E hi lt A oz N al tjA A l de i le v i Et T i l T leat p r r e e ) 1111111;e3; t i-j o announce ri'4:°L vious to h 1 provincial tour-1 lIIIRSDAY next. MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, &c. An entirely New and Original Drama (first time), entitled TH ROUGH FIRE AND WATER. 3lessv. J. L. 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Ministers are showing an extraordinary eagerness to get to the country and send their friends there, and in order to effect their purpose they are resorting to strange expedients,:and employing divers tactics, which surprise all who observe them. The white bait dinner, which has long been considered an esta blished custom, is this year to be abandoned, for no practical reason that any one can see, and altogether the arrangements in official quarters are more pecu liar than promising. None of the Ministers have as yet issued their addresses, and some surprise has been expressed at Lord PALMERSTON'S reticence. The truth is, that if better things could be said we should see more alertness to come forward ; but what have these champions of Reform and zealous upholders of our character and influence abroad to say for themselves? When the Conservatives were so unscrupulously and unceremoniously hurried from office in 1859 the public were sedulously informed that there were two important reasons why the present Government should be installed in office, and these were that Reform should be vigorously dealt with, and that our foreign policy should be more skilfully administered. - Whatever the most zealous supporter andmost adroit apologist for Ministers may say on these subjects, re form has been abandoned, and as for foreign affairs, this country has seldom if ever been in a more dis graceful position. As for the pretext that was skil fully put forward that the late Government had too much leaning to Austria, what has become of the present one ? have not political faith, national honour, and public feeling been trampled down, in order to secure to the German Powers their utmost desires and fullest realisation of unlawful schemes. While, if we look to what has taken place beyond the Atlantic, may we not affirm that great injury has been done to the cause of humanity by the supine course that our Ministers have taken in some cases, and the partial and prejudiced manner in which they have acted in others. Even now the end is not seen, for by their refusal to protest against the savage and virulent demeanour of the Federals, they may be losing a chance of preventing a great crime being perpetrated, and tacitly agree ing to a cruel wrong and injustice. The constituencies had better not suffer them :,;elves to be deceived by the specious pleas that nia y be put in at the approachin g elections, Laic take time to consider how badly the promises have been kept that were mad e so prolifically at the last general election, and what misuse has been made, of the opportunities that have since presented themselves by those then so clamorous for offi ce and so captious and critical concerning the short comings, real and imaginary, of their opponents. Among those whose position may be envied is Sir J. PAKINGTON. The right hon. baronet has sat for Droitwich for upwards of a quarter of a century, ani there is no chance of his re-election being opposed. his address is simple and straightforward, which is eminently characteristic, and accords well with all that is known of his career, politically and officially. Sir Jou observes that the principles which have guided his public life —" essentially Conservative as regards the main institutions of the country, essentially reformatory wherever practical improvement can be *isely effected—remain un changed." It may fairly be ques . tioned if the right hon. baronet is not in reality a better Reformer than more pretentious and fair seeming ones ; he has the merit of consistency, and he is not led away by the speeches of demagogues and the shuffling expedients of the day. The greatest im provements are not those which are either effected in haste or delayed as long as possible, and then agreed to at the eleventh hour, through sheer necessity. Sir E. B. LYTTON has come forward with spirit, and both in his address and speech showed no re luctance to enter on the contest at the election, or backwardness in applying himself to the onerous duties that will await the new Parliament. It would be well if more among the candidates would display that fair estimate of their opponents, and that desire to maintain good-will that distinguished the speech of the right hon. baronet on Saturday. Bitterness of feeling and party spirit carried to ex cess are quite out of character in the present day— the intelligence of the ago has pronounced against them, and it is to be hoped that, so far as possible, all such unseemly exhibitions may be avoided in the approaching elections. Mr. BAINES has issued his address to the electors of Leeds, and speaks out boldly and decidedly in support of his views. The advice which is tendered by this energetic Reformer is wise and sound, and many time-servers and prejudiced politicians will do well to pay heed to it. Mr. BAINES winds up his remarks with this impressive passage—" The object of every friend of his country should be to admit, not in a grudging spirit, but with a hearty welcome, the educated, provident, and industrious portion of the working class to the franchise, and thus to bind them heart and soul to the maintenance of the laws and Constitu tion." At the time of the Reform Bill being passed many regretted that they had not listened earlier to the words of warning which had been given to them by the present observers and far-seeing judges. It appears probable that there will be a sharp contest for Oxford University, and both Mr. Gladstone and his opponent are on the alert. Notwithstanding much that finds disfavour in his acts and speeches, many will regret if the University is no longer represented by one so bril liant as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and it is appropriate that Oxford should send to Parliament so distinguished a scholar. Sir FITZROY KELLY'S address is a very smart one, and tells some home truths that those in office will not much relish. It cannot be but that the common sense of the community must be awakened to the shortcomings of our present Cabinet, and the one potent spell of being a supporter of Lord PALMERSTON will lose its charm and influence. Sir F. KELLY denounces, in appropriate language, the policy of Earl RUSSELL in deluding weak nations with the hope of support and then leaving them to the mercy of their foes. Ministers are very much mistaken if they think that the retrospect of their foreign policy will not be most damaging to them on the hustings, while their truckling conduct in domestic affairs will cover with shame and reproach. At this time of the year speculations as to the prospects of the harvest begin to be rife. The matter is so important to all classes of the commu nity, and depends so much upon causes entirely beyond our control, that there is good reason for anxiety and watchfulness. Englishmen generally find plenty to say about the weather all the year round, and what our insular awkwardness and re serve would do without the assistance of the meteo rological changes to help us over the difficulties of a first introduction, a casual meeting, or the enforced companionship of a journey, it is difficult to imagine. But if the alternate frost and thaw of the winter and the varying sun and rain of the spring serve to occupy our idle moments, when the year moves on to summer time the matter grows really interesting, and town and country alike look at the midsummer skies with watchful eagerness. A few years back we had a thoroughly wet summer, a summer whose damp and gloomy days were but too well remem bered in the scarcity of the winter. Then again, in 1863, we had a glowing season, which filled our barns and granaries, and gladdened the hearts of the poor. Last year was a singular specimen of the variations of the English climate. It was dry, so dry that the evaporation of the rain in falling a few feet made a perceptible difference to the meteo rologist, and yet so cold that the average summer heat was not reached. The dryness produced a sensible effect upon the turnip crop, which was of a very inferior quality. The combined dry ness and dullness of the year was, however, more seriously felt in its effect on the hay harvest, and the deficiency in this and the turnips made cattle provender so dear and scarce that the price of meat rose to a terrible height. It is therefore no small satisfaction to find the prospects of the haymakers as yet very good. They have no lack of sunshine to complain of, and the rain for which they have begun to sigh is apparently at hand. Haymaking in Wales has already become general, and the crops give hopes of being far superior to those of last year. In some parts of South Wales the wheat is in full ear, and the barley and oats are thriving. In other parts of the country, too, there are favourable indications, and we may reasonably hope for a fair harvest— that great boon to the working millions. With the present high price of lodging, which is more likely to augment than to diminish, the price of bread— always important to the poor—grows doubly in con sideration. There is, therefore, ground for thankful ness in the prospects of the year ; and we hope that a few seasonable showers will speedily . remove the only present cause for anxiety. The annual dinner of the Social Science Associa tion, which took place on Saturday evening, pos sessed some features of interest. It was rather a celebration on behalf of the Society for the Amend ment of the Law, which is now incorporated with the larger Association, than a mere general assem bly, and the presence of Lord BROUGHAM, the great law reformer, and the venerable president of both Societies, gave it especial importance. The noble lord, in giving the toast of the evening, "The Prosperity of the United Societies," took occasion to remark upon the important law reforms which had been carried this session. The concentration of the law courts was a measure which the veteran president himself advocated many years back ; but., like other reforms, it has taken many long years to effect. Another measure which Lord BROUGHAM warmly approved of was the extension of equitable jurisdiction to county courts, without which the constitution of those courts was lamentably de ficient. Sir FITZROY KELLY, in speaking on the same subject, remarked upon the great services which Lord BROUGHAM himself had rendered in the good cause. Thirty years ago he made a speech advocating certain reforms in the law, which at the time met with strenuous opposi tion.e influential greater w y part w e o r f e t o other i r n r flu he I p le pos j ed udg to es those and reforms in tote, yet a ft er t h e lapse of many years the changes recommended by Lord BROUGUAM in 1828 became law, One of the principles which he the 1. advocated is now universally admitted—the per nission for the principal parties to a suit to give evidtmce respecting it. Lord BROUGHAM and Sir F. KELLY . are both anxious to extend this principle s till further, and to admit it in criminal as well as in civic cases. But as Sir FITZROY KELLY reminded his hearers, it is difficult to estimate the immense obstacles int the way of the reformer, whether social or legal. Interested opposition is always strong and persevering, while there are num bers of cautious or indolent men who dislike change and. innovation of every kind. There are some minds: with whom as a late poet finely says— " Oppression has grown sacred in its venerable wrong," and men who have occupied an official po sition for a. good many years are apt to grow fet tered by the prejudices inseparable from their posi tion. Red- - tapism unconsciously influences them, and the dislike which they feel to every proposed change arises quite as much from a reluc tance to interfere with the established order of things as from any real or apparent danger in the change itself. This renders it very difficult for the law reformer to proceed, since, as Sir F. KELLY pointed out, any such reform was usually referred to the judges for their opinion, and the judges as a body were almost always averse to a change in the administration of justice. In the way of social and political reforms, too, there are often very embarrassing obstacles to surmount, and rapid progress cannot always be looked for; still steady and unflinching perseverance will usually carry all before it. We are glad to find Lord BROUGHAM supporting his old reputation as a poli tician by boldly advocating the extension of the franchise, especially in the direction of the skilled artisans. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) SPAIN. MADRID, June 23. Marshal O'Donnell delivered the following address yesterday in the Congress : Gentlemen Deputies,—• Called by the will of her Majesty to occupy this position, I believe it to be my first duty to state my political programme to the national representation. The first thing done by the Government, gentle men, is to hoist this flag. The Ministry belong to the Liberal Union, but are conciliatory, and desire to see around them Liberals attached to the country and its institutions. The Ministry not only desire that this may take place, with all the detached fractions of the Liberal Union, but will accept with pleasure the support of all the individuals of these Chambers who may wish to array themselves under the banner of their party. The Ministry have no idea of exclusiveness. The programme of the Government, gentlemen, is already determined. The Government have re solved to settle all questions arising in this house in accordance with the proposals they have made from these benches. There are three serious questions to be settled with regard to home policy. The first is the ques tion of the press. The Government declare that they withdraw from the other legislative body the two bills brought forward by the former Cabinet. They consider that the present press law satisfies all necessities, being accompanied by the establish ment of the jury, which ought to be the tribunal of the press. The Government have decided to act as follows : common offences, under which category are those committed against the fundamental bases of Spanish society, may be and will be tried by the ordinary tribunals. As regards special offences of the press, the Government believe that the jury will be sufficient to repress them as well as to protect their liberty of writing. I now come to the question of the electoral law. The present law, gentlemen, not only in the opinion of him who has the honour to address you, but in the opinion of all, has unfortunately fallen into complete discredit. This is a matter upon which all parties agree. The Government hold the same opinion ; and wishing to render the legal contest open to all parties, to enable them to come here and advocate their doctrines in entire liberty, and de siring also that that those obtaining the majority of votes in the country should be those to represent it, the Government will immediately request authorisa tion to bring forward a bill adopting the principle of large electoral circumscriptions—the elections taking place by provinces and the qualification being reduced one-half. In this bill also the Government have endeavoured to combine all they consider necessary, and every possible precaution in order to avoid abuses of power, and to render the elections really free, so that all the electors may give their votes without being exposed to any sort of constraint. Relative to the question of ecclesiastical liquida tion, the Government believe that great resources still exist in the country to carry out all the public works and other means of development of which Spain stands in need. These measures consist in ecclesiastical liquidation. The Government have resolved to effect this liquidation with the greatest activity, in order to carry out the compact concluded between the civil and ecclesiastical powers. In foreign questions the Government will endea vour to preserve the good relations now existing between Spain and the other nations of the world, doing everything upon all occasions to maintain the dignity and independence of the Spanish nation. A grave question, gentlemen, to which I must call your attention is that of Italy. The Government consider that the time has now come to take a de cided course in this question. They believe that without prejudicing the interests of Catholicism, a resolution can be taken consonant with the ideas and interests of Spain, considered as an European and constitutionally governed nation. Finally, with regard to the interesting question of public order, the Congress is aware that the Mi nistry have come to power under grave and difficult circumstances. It is not I who say this, you have heard it from the lips of those who sat in these benches, and the same idea has been expressed in the preamble of the bills recently brought forward by the preceding Cabinet. Nevertheless the Go vernment assure the Congress that they fear no thing for public order, that they believe they have the means of maintaining it, and that to uphold the law they will employ no other means than the law. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 26, 1865. FRANCE, BOURSE, June 24.—Although the rates of the chief Securities have experienced no material modi fication, the markets to-day have shown less activity than has prevailed during the past two or three days. Threes, for Account, have slightly receded, and are now quoted at 66fr. 42ic. Mexican New Loan has also been done on somewhat lower terms —the present rate being 331 fr. 25c. Italian Five per Cents. are unchanged at 66fr. 80c. The depres sion which existed during the earlier hours has continued to the close, and in many instances prices show a further reduction. The following were the last quotations:— 4- per Cents 95 50 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. Do. end month 66 35 Credit Mobilier Do. end month 725 Bank Shares 3600 Credit Foncier 1255 Italian Loan 6O 80 Do. end month 6O 70 Ditto Threes New Mexican Do.'Bonds 330 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt - Deferred Roman RAIL' Orleans - AYS. Cash. Acct. 821 25 ... 818 75 Northern lO7O ... 1068 75 Lyons and Mediterranean B3B 75 ... 837 50 Southern 575 578 75 Western Eastern Sardinian . Austrian Lombard 522 50 ... 525 - 503 50 ... 505 - 307 50 ... - - 415 - ... 413 75 430 25 ... 487 50 North of Spain l7B 75 ... 182 50 Saragossa PittO to Barcelona. LITERATURE. Charles Dickens's Serial Story, Our Mutual Friend. By Charles Dickens. No, XIV. C&pman and Hall. . Since the first appearance thirty years ago of our Great Humorist, the Greatest of all our Humorists, then a very young man —since his first memorable appearance as the author of what, all things considered, we must still regard as the most humorous book he has ever written, the im mortal " Pickwick," his audiences, work after work, have been perpetually increasing in number. Each successive book he has produced since then has had a wider and a wider circulation. He has mentioned this pretty frankly, indeed, once or twice, in his later prefaces. And, that the fact should have been so is only precisely what might reasonably enough have been predicted. The circulation of a new serial story by Charles Dickens is a thing quite apart and exceptional. There is no sort of parallel to it in the annals of light literature. Coupled with the rare originality of his own genius, he was himself the originator of the system of the shilling monthly serial illustrated. Since the first issue in that form of " The Pickwick Club," he has proved, himself to be, in the mere circulation of his books, beyond the reach of competition. Story after story— and he has written now altogether some thirteen or fourteen elaborate works of fiction—has proved as distinctly beyond its predecessors in the extent of its circulation, as the enlarging rings in the grain of the trunk of a growing oak, or as the expanding circles upon the surface of water that has been moved by the dropping of a pebble into it. Apart from this customary advance beyond any one among its re markable predecessors, the current serial story now in its fourteenth number, " Our Mutual Friend," to wit, has secured to itself a peculiar, and we be lieve an unprecedented evidence of its author's increasing popularity beyond the limits of the language in which he writes beyond the boundary line of our own empire whether insular or colonial. "Our Mutual Friend" appearing, now, long before its completion, in a serial form, translated into French, as the feuilleton of a Paris newspaper ! L'Ami Common appearing in this way, at uncer tain intervals, chapter by chapter, at the bottom of the front page of our Parisian contemporary L'Opinion Nationale. The translator—who acts in that capacity " avec autorisation de l'auteur"—is Madame Henriette Loreau, a lady who, it should be said, is doing her part, alto gether, as an idiomatic interpreter, very cre ditably. This is a fresh, and, we believe, an un exampled, certainly in any case, a very signal attestation of the firm hold acquired, even, so to speak, through the gauntlet of a trans lation--the sensitive and vigorous bold acquired by our author upon his new world of readers over yonder in France. The fourteenth number of " Our Mutual Friend"—in the original—the present number, that is, for this month of June, is chiefly re markable, by reason of the very noticeable advance made within its four chapters in the general develop ment of the plot. After reading it, much of the be wildering haze and mist hitherto enveloping the plot, seems to be so far clearing away, that while we re cognise more distinctly than ever, the complication and elaboration and manifold intricacies of its machinery, we nevertheless apprehend with more accuracy than has been in any way possible to us hitherto, the relative bearing, so to speak, upon one another, of its constituent parts. "In the Dark" is the sig nificant title of a chapter relating to us, as Dickens alone could so relate it, a conversation held at midnight in the London Streets, between the in furiated and malignant rival of Eugene Wrayburn, the Schoolmaster, Bradley Headstone, and that Honest Man who earns his living by the sweat of his brow, one of the most original of our author's creations, Rogue Riderhood. His indignant way of explaining himself to Bradley when the latter is bewildered for the moment by Riderhood's talk about "'_'other Governor" can anything in its way, be more whimsically ridiculous ? " Why, look here," hooking his proposition on his left hand fingers with . the forefinger of his right, " There's two Governor's, ain't there ? One and one, two—Lawyer Lightwood, my first finger, he's one, ain't he ? Well ; might you be acquainted with my middle finger, the Tether ?" His indignation afterwards, when avowing his in tention " to have the law of a busted b'low-bridge steamer which drownded of him"—declaring " I " ain't agoing to be drownded and not paid for it !" —is equally comic. Bradley looking at him, while he talks thus, as if he were claiming to a Ghost— and, doubtless, not the less intently when Mr. Rider " I mean to be paid for t h h o e o dcer o a w s ns th a e ll b ist y aY easmeig, r n took !" The apparently trivial and quite casual circumstance of this same Mr. Riderhood stumbling thus across the pathway of Bradley Headstone, gives promise of the knitting together of two threads of the narrative hitherto wholly apart from one another. And the same might be remarked in reference to the incident closing the last of the four chapters in this new number—a very important chapter, so far as relates to the plot of the story, a chapter whimsically entitled " Mr. Wegg prepares a Grindstone for Mr. Boffin's nose"—the said Boffin " that foxey old grasper and griper," as the literary man ords with aw o at very a t h e the gratefully dubs him, being brought close of that chapter, in other end of this current number of w there t od en leg "Our Mutual Friend," face to face with the carissima sposa of Alfred Lammle, or as we may surely call her, if only on the strength of her pearl powder, the fair Sophronia. Boffin's being secreted by Venus, odi lebehind the smile of the rosuddenly surprised by the approach of that odiously selfish old rascal Wegg, c ,whenvery hurriedly, they are is one of the most laughable incidents in the whole number—" Get your head well behind his smile, Mr. Boffin, and you'll be comfortable there ; you'll find plenty of room behind his smile. He's a little dusty, but he's Very ---e you in tone. Are you right, Sir ?" The rascality of that old vagabond Wegg is brought out more than ever with strong relief to the vivid apprehension and appreciation at last, even of his benefactor, the Golden Dustman. Out of this circumstance alone we begin to have glimmerings of what it may all come to—though the miserly demonstrations of the once open-handed, open-hearted Boffin still remain—to say the least of them —problematical ! Intermediately between these chapters, the first and the last in this four teenth number of " Our Mutual Friend," there are other two not yet particularised—chapters each of these wonderfully elaborated in the humour of the dialogue— in fact, hardly do we know in which of the. two the more effectively. One is entitled 4 , Meaning Mischief,"—What Hamlet, the Dane, calls Miching Malecho—the other taking as its heading, the old proverb, " Give a dog a bad name and hang him !" The former relates, with inimit able whimsicality in every minute touch of it, a confabulation between Sophronia and Alfred Lammle (betwitching creatures ! prospective claimants surely for the Flitch of Dunmow !) fol lowed up by an equally amusing interview between Alfred and that other delightful innocent, Fledgeby The upshot of this being the most delectable of non - sequiturs a new illustration of the biter bit. As to the pennultimate chapter in the number, it tends more vividly than ever to realise to us the double-dealing of that whiskerless mouser--the smooth-cheeked and close fisted principal of Pubsey and Co., usurers and bill discounters, and takers-in generally. Mr. Fledgeby, revealing more plainly than ever, his rare powers of most despicable dissimulation indiscriminately upon every one who approaches him, whether it be a person as conventionally innocent, as poor little Twemlow, a keen-witted atom such as the Doll's Dressmaker, or such ruddled old black-sheep of society as the gentle-minded Lammle and his unsophisticated Sophrouia. Altogether, while we are thus getting deeper and deeper into the labyrinth of the plot, we begin to catch glimpses here and there of that central goal, or heart of the maze, towards which we are now only too rapidly approaching. THERE WILL 13E NO MINISTERIAL WHITEBAIT DINNER at Greenwich this year, says the 06server, in con sequence of the probable absence of many members of the Government in the Lower House, the business of the ses sion in the HOUSE, of commons being virtually over. .. MARKETS--This Day. MARK-LANE. The wheat trade in the county markets held on Satur day was firm, and previous quotations were well supported. For barley, oats, beans, and peas, the supplies of which on sale were limited, the market was steady, at extreme rates. There was a fair demand for flour, at late prices. On the continent, the wheat trade is somewhat firmer, and all descriptions of spring corn support previous quota tions. At New York, both wheat and flour are in limited request, on European account. Up to our market last week the arrivals of English grain, Lice., were very small. The imports from abroad were limited—they consisted of 4,945 quarters of wheat, 13,690 barley, 14,203 oats, 1,725 beans, 283 peas, 7,599 linseed, 5,957 oilseed, 10 maize, 106 sundry seeds, and 670 sacks of flour. The arrivals of English wheat fresh up to our market to-day were very moderate both from Essex and Kent, but the condition of the produce was good. The limited re ceipts last week both of English and foreign produce, as well as the small number of Irish samples on the stands this morning, induced factors to hold all qualities at an advance in price, as compared with Monday last, of 2s. per quarter. Sales, in consequence, progressed slowly. Nevertheless, a fair clearance of the supply was effected at an improvement in value from this day sc'nnight of ls. per quarter. There was a moderate supply of foreign wheat on the stands. Holders and importers, both of American and continental produce, were very firm in their demands, and although the market was by no means active, prices, as regards good and fine qualities, were is. per quarter higher than on Monday last. About an average supply of oats was on the stands. There was a good demand for all descriptions, and an improvement of ls. per quarter took place in prices, as compared with Monday last. Floating cargoes of grain were in fair average request, and the quotations had an upward tendency. The supply of English barley on sale was small, of foreign moderate. The trade was firm, and good and find qualities sold readily at ls. advance. Only a moderato business was transacted in malt at late rates. CURRENCY PER IMP. MEASLRE Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, 1863, per qr 39s to 434 Ditto, 1861 Ditto, white, 1863 43s 48s Ditto, 1864 Norfolk and Lincoln, red, 1864 Ditto, 1863 Talavera, 1864 Rye— Barley—Grinding 238 26s Malting Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk 64s 61s Brown Kingstown and Ware 54. fla Chevalier Oats —Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding l9s 238 Potato Youghal and Cork, black lB5 235 Cork, white 195 23s Scotch, Feeding l7s 225 Beans—Tick Pigeons, Peas—Grey. .. 13s 36s Maple White ... 375 4)s Boilers 375 4/s Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b Sutrolk 2Bs 30s Stockton and N0rf01k........ 265 284 American, per barrel 255 26s METROPOLITAN CATTLE. There was a large supply of foreign stock here, to-day, in fair condition. Sales, consequently, progressed slowly, on lower terms. Some of the German sheep sold as low 225. each. The arrivals of beasts fresh up from our own grazing districts wore on the increase, and of improved quality. Those from Ireland and Scotland were limited. All breeds met a dull inquiry, at a decline in the quotations compared with Monday last of 2d. per 81bs. A few very superior Scots and crosses sold at 55., but the general top figure was 4s. 10d. per 81bs. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire we received 1,200 Scots, &c. ; from Lincolnshire and Leices tershire 1,000 short-horns; from other parts of England, 150 various breeds; from Scotland, 225 Scots, &c. ; and from Ireland, 70 oxen and heifers. With English sheep we were tolerably well supplied, and there was a decided improvement in the general quality. The demand for all breeds was heavy, at 2d. per 81bs. less money. Prime Downs and half-breds sold at ss. 8d to ss. 10d.—in some instances at 6s. per 81bs. There was a fair average number of lambs in the pens ; whilst the lamb trade was heavy, at barely late rates—viz. from 6s. to 7s. 6d. per 81bs. The show of calves was good, and the demand for them was very inactive, at 2d. per 81bs. less money. Prices ranged from 4s. to ss. per 81bs. Pigs moved off heavily, on lower terms. Per 81b to sink the offal. s ds d Crse. & int beasts... 3 6 3 10 Second quality do ..4 0 4 4 Prime large oxen ..4 6 4 5 Prime Scuts, &c.... 4 10 5 0 Crse. and int. stieep.4 0 4 6 :7econd quality do ..1 IS 5 0 6 cl s d Pme ers-wool sheep 5 4 5 6 Prime a'thclown 50.5 8 5 10 La ge mares calves. 4 0 4 6 Prone small 8 5 Large hugs —3 8 4 2 Small porkers. 4 4 4 6 Lambs....6s Od to 6d. Su-kling cafes, 193 to 228 ; and quarter-old store pigs, LO, o 26s each. 'lead of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. Beasts 5,180 I Beasts 2 3BO Ccws .. Cows Sheep and lambs 31, 2 1:0 Sheep and lambs Calves 4:7 Ca yes Pigs 370 Pigs 2O The total imports of foreign stock into London, last week, amounted to 17,919 head. In the corresponding week in 1864, we received 11,956 ; in 1863, 10,440 ; in 1862, 12,719 ; in 1861, 6,921 ; and in 1860, 7,755 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEER. Beasts. Antwerp Boulogne 3lO ... Bremen B7 139 Calais ... Cadiz ". ". ". Dordt. Aarhuus ". Gothamburg Hamburg Harlingen 326 ... 1408 ... ... 107 ... 274 Oporto Ostend 63 ... 10 ... 44 ... Rotterdam 1513 ... 5016 ...1837 ... 940 214 Copenhagen Dunkirk Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs 7 12 ... ... 23 ... 30 Total; 2587 —10,485 ... 1902 ...1147 ...1798 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1864 1863 1862 A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market on Monday, June 27, 1864, and this day, Monday, June 26, 1865. Per Blbs. to sink the offal. Jime 27, Juno 26, 1864. 1865. Coarse and inferior beasts 3 sto 3 8 3 6t03 10 Second quality do. Prime large oxen 4 4 4 8 4 6 4 8 Primo Scots, &c. Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality do. Prime coarse-woolled do. Prime Southdown do 5 0 5 2 6 0 7 6 Lambs - 4 6 Large coarse calves 4048 4 8 5 0 Prime small do. Large hogs Neat small porkers 4 2 4 6 4 4 4 8 Beasts 4,580 4,290 Sheep 26,890 18,050 Calves Pigs SUPPLIES ON SALE, Juno 29, 1863.—Beasts, 4,330 — sheep and lambs, 24,340—calves, 399—pigs, 310. June 30, 1862—Beasts, 3,B2o—sheep and lambs, 21,180 —calves, 237—pigs, 475. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supply of town and country-killed meat on sale has somewhat increased, and the trade is quieter, at our quota- tious. edict Inferior mutton 4 2 4 8 Middling mutton 4 10 5 4 Prime do 5 6 5 10 Veal 3 10 4 8 Small pork. 4 8 5 u I to 7s Od. Per 81b by the carcase. ad ad Inferior beef 3 4 3 6 Middling do. 3 8 3 10 Prime large do 4 0 4 2 Prime small do 4 4 4 6 Large pork 3 8 4 6 Lamb, 6s 0 BOROUGH HOP. The supply of hops on sale is very moderate. The trade for all qualities rules firm, and both English and foreign produce commands the rates current on Monday last. The accounts from the Plantations continue favour able. There was no import into London last week. Mid and East Kent ..... 100 s to 190 s per cwt. Weald of Kent Sussex Yearlings lOO5 to 130 s der hops —s to —s American 0 BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. For the time of year largo supplies of old potatoes are on sale. Good and Prime qualities are in fair demand, and prices rule firm, but inferior samples are a dull inquiry. The quotations range from 60s. to 120 s. per ton. Now po tatoes aro in moderate supply, and the demand for them rules steady. Jersey descriptions are selling at 6s to 10s, and foreign at 6s to 8s per cwt. Last week's imports were 210 baskets from Boulogne, 457 boxes from Marseilles, 117 baskets from Dunkirk, 45 baskets from Caen, 3,280 from Rotterdam, 123 boxes from Lisbon, and 49 tons from Jersey. Per to i. Yorkshire Regents ... Flukes Rocks . .. 60s to 75s Scotch Regents .. . 6 s to 100 s Rocks Dunbar Regents. Foreign sto —s tralia, 13,701 New Zealand, 2,439 Swan River, and 21,985 from the Cape of Good Hope. At the opening sales, prices —owing to the large quantity of produce in the market— declined from id to lid per lb ; but the reductions in the Bank rate of discount, and the Cape operations of French and Belgian buyers, caused more firmness subsequently to prevail, whilst an almost general improvement took place in the quotations. During the last ten days of the sales, all good and fine wools sold at the full prices current at the close of sales, and faulty wools, as compared with the same period, at a reduction in value of id to ld per lb. The transactions of Continental buyers were large, nearly one-half of the quantity of wool offered having been taken by French and Belgian houses. The following prices were realised during the progress of the sales :—Australia— Fleeces—ls 1d to 2s 3d ; lambs', is ld. to 1s 10d ; scoured and handwashed, Is ld to 2s Gd ; unwashed, 7d to ls. Port Philip—Fleeces—ls 3d to 2s 4d ; lambs', is ld to 2s 3d; scoured and handwashed, is 2d to 2s 7d; unwashed, 7d to is 2d. Van Diemen's Land—Fleeces-1s 4d to 2s 2d ; lambs', 1s 3d to 2s . ld ; scoured, is 4d to 1 s 10d ; un washed, 7d to is. South Australia—Fleeces—ls 3d to 1s 10d; lambs', is 3d to is 10d. Current prices of English wool per lb. s d d Fle,ees South Down hoggets ..1 8 1 54 Half -bred do 1 11 2 01 Kent fleeces lO 2 0 south Down ewes and wethersl 8 1 9 Leice.ster do 1 10 1 104 Sorts Clothing 1 0 111 Combing 1 5 2 0 61111 e rt rmar, HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, June 2 % The Queen walked and drove in the gr°llllo yesterday, accompanied by her Royal Princess Louise. Her Royal Highness Princess Helena rode in the Home Park. This morning her Majesty and the royal Will(); went to Frogmore House, and afterwards valke and drove in the grounds of the Castle. o f f The Judge Advocate-General had an audi el4 the Queen. JUNE 25. The Queen, their Royal Highnesses Pri nce d Helena, Princess Louise, Princess Beatri t he Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, an', . 0 ladies and gentlemen in waiting, attended 01 service this morning in the private chapel. j , o r The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of 1Y 111 "" officiated. Her Majesty took a carriage drive Yes terd3 s ) ; afternoon, accompanied by her Royal Highn'io Prince Helena; the Duchess of Roxburghe wa attendance. Earl Russell arrived at the Castle, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the rcl family. e General Tom Thumb, with his party, 113 d d tb a ; honour of appearing at Windsor Castle yes ter . s - e , before their Royal Highnesses Princess Lonthe Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, a nd ladies and gentlemen of the household. The Prince of Wales. ica The Prince and Princess of Wales, accomP an , by the Duke and Duchess of Brabant, took 3 C' ir riage drive on Saturday. In the evening the Prince of Wales honour ed th : Duke and Duchess of Manchester with his coull'al3' at dinner at their residence in Stanhope-street. nei The Prince of Wales, with Lieutenant - C °lo o Keppel in waiting, attended Divine service at Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday morning J, The communion service was read by the Be v D. C. Radon, the Rev. Thomas llelmore, and thell° and Rev. A. F. Phipps. Anthem, " This is the record of John." Gi bb°°' Solo, Mr. Benson. Mr. Cooper presided at the organ. B el ' The sermon was preached by the Hon. an d A. F. Phipps, from Romans, chap. xv., V. 13' The Duke and Duchess of Manchester le t re honoured by the company of his Royal High l°ss si- Prince of Wales at dinn er , on S a t ur d a y l a st, at their reAss dence in Stanhope-street, Park-lane. A select Per t Yipt, invited to meet his royal highness. Later in the °lre- the duchess had an evening party. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wal°° honour the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Eo lle4liii ° , and Mrs. Gladstone with his company on liVe cilles(l evening. Her Royal Highness the Duke and her Dix v e Highness the Duchess of Brabant are expected to lefiti. town to-day for Windsor Castle on a visit to ber bißll It is now fixed that the illustrious duko and duchess leave for Brussels on Thursday next. A jil The Earl Fortescue is, we are informed' improving health. re' The Archbishop of York and Mrs. Thom son it ceived a select party at dinner on Saturday evening their residence in Portman-square. fQra The Archbishop of Armagh and Mrs. 13ereof°0 had a dinner party o n S a tu r day evening at their rola° in Princess-gardens. +..e. li 0 0 Viscountess Palmerstone has a dancing p a- ,7 , e 1 Thursday next at Cambridge House, at which big Ia Highness the Prince of Wales has been graciously plea to signify his intention to be present. Signori Pezze and Andreoli's Martine° Musicale. . _ 0 Signor Andreoli has long been one of our be° tts pianists, and Signor Pezze possesses marve ll° skill in dealing with the somewhat unwieldly ,„ loncello, so that the announcement of their j °ill s concert, given at the Marchioness of Downshirev house in Belgrave-square, was sufficient to dr i l' e together a very select and brilliant audience. l a , performances, which were not too long, wer e 3 ' mirably given, the chief success being, perbaP°'by sonata for the piano and violoncello, compos ed t , Andreoli himself, and played by the two conce'ilo givers. Being apparently afraid of tedituDl players divided it into two parts ; but had it be e twice the length, it would have been wil lil3 , g ce s listened to. Signor Andreoli gave his "D - 0 3 Caracteristiques" with great spirit and effeA 3 o f Signor Pezze in his solo showed what "Ori el T° aa expression his instrument was capable of. •'•-, 3 00 to the attractions of the instrumental part 0 . ts, concert, Mr. Aptommas, one of our best h areis i o played some Irish melodies with great ability fact, the only fault was that they were too sh e re , For the vocal department there was -Aldine. r : le y, belli, Mdlle. Kruls, Signori Gardoni, Mr. St l / 701 t Bettini, and Ferranti, all excellent in their d ise " , i • ' styles. The Matinee passed off mos t suceess oo and the audience separated quite delightec" the entertainment provided. WOOL. The public sales of colonial wool were brought to a close on Saturday. The catalogues contained 159,42 G bales, con sisting of 68,305 bales from Port Philip, 22,846 Sydney and Queensland, 4,351 Van Diemen's Land, 25,779 South Aus- LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN RE JOHN HICKS. This bankrupt described himself as a dealer in horses of Shadwell, but he is better known as a pugilist. To-day was appointed for the order of discharge. Amongst the creditors are " Mr. James Mace," £33 6s. Bd. Mr. Aldridge asked the bankrupt why ho had not filed his accounts. Bankrupt—l have been all round the country, to Bristo: and elsewhere. His Honour—That is no reason why you should not file your accounts. Bankrupt—l went upon business to see if I could not get a fight on. His Honour—l don't understand him. Bankrupt—l wanted to fight some one. Mr. Aldridge—The bankrupt is a pugilist, and he wanted to fight for money. His Honour (to the bankrupt)—That is a very bad ex cuse, and the case must be adjourned ; meanwhile, I should advise you to look out for a more creditable occupation. POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. WIFE BEATING.—Thomas Yates, a tailor, living at 6, Lancashire-court, Now Bond-street, was charged before Mr. Elliott with assaulting his wife Elizabeth Yates. The complainant said that about 4 o'clock yesterday morning the prisoner, who had gone to bed drunk—as he had been in the habit of doing for about five weeks—began beating her with a sleeve board till her body was black and blue from the bruises. lie also struck her a severe blow in the mouth. Tie constantly beat her, and was nearly always drunk. She was obliged to give him into custody. Police-constable, 36 C, proved going to No. 6, Lan cashire-court, and finding the complainant's mouth bleed ing. She said her husband, the prisoner, had assaulted her with the sleeve board because she would not get him some beer. The prisoner said his wife struck him first, but the wife denied this, stating that she was asleep when first struck. Mr. Elliott fined the prisoner 40s. or 20 days' imprison ment. SEEDS. In most agricultural seeds sales progress slowly. In prices, however, no change has taken place. East India linseed and rapeseed change hands freely, at enhanced rates. Cakes are in improved request, and the quotations have an upward tendency. l'urnlp,ls'hite,p.bus.2oB to 22s Swede —8 —s Hustard, Brown —s —s White. Tares, Spring — s —e New winter, bush 9s lOs Canary, per quarter 41s 50s Rye grass Clover, Red Eng., et —s —s White —s -a Foreign Red —s s White —s —s Trefoil ..... s Carraway 33s 33s Coriander 22s 245 liempseed, per qr 4os 433 Linseed, Eng.sowing 70s 72s Crushing Baltic - —s —s Odessa -8 -8 Linseed Cake, p ton —s —s English £lO Os £lolss Foreign £9los £IIO Rape Cakes,p ton £5 Os £slos Rapeseed, new,pr qr 78s 80s TALLOW. The tallow trade is firm to-day, and prices show an advance of is per cwt, as compared with Monday last. P.Y.C. is quoted at 41s 6d per cwt. on the spot, and 42s 6cll to 42s 9d for October to December delivery. Rough fat, 2s lid per 81bs. Town tallow, 40s 6d net cash. Particulars. Stock this nay.... trice of Y.C. Delivery last week l Ditto from June 11 Arrivals last week Ditto from June 1 Moe of Town .... 1851. 188; 56.188 35.319 53e6a t 0,17501 it -60 d —s ol 1,038 1,146 4.853 6,298 1,952 358 4,998 2,512 52s Od ils 3d 1863. 35.812 43501 to a Oct 1864. C 4 3 Mt 41891 So —s Cd 737 I 1,199 2,972 3,603 119 872 2,t4G 2,193 43a Od He 6d 180. 30.850 11116 d to —8 Oct 1, 0 30 4,174 2'4 2,517 431 Od THAMES. NOVEL APPLICATION FOR A PROTECTING ORDER.—Mrs. Elizabeth Rhinish, a very respectable woman, dwelling at No. 6, Lower Chapman-street, St. George-in-the-East, applied to Mr. Paget under the Matrimonial Causes and Divorce Act for an order to protect her goods, money, and chattels from her husband. The applicant stated that she was married to her second husband on the 19th of March, 1850, and that two years afterwards she separated from him by mutual consent, and ho went abroad. He promised to send for her if ho was successful in his pursuits. Ho did not send for her, and she was left with four children to maintain. She had never seen or heard of her husband since. Mr. Paget—The law presumes that if a woman hears or sees nothing of her husband for seven years that the wife may conclude he is dead, and that the wife would not be liable to punishment if she married again. Mrs. Rhinish did not wish to enter into the matrimonial compact a third time. (A laugh.) She was insured in tho Sun Fire-office, and was informed that she could not re cover a farthing if she lost her goods by fire. Mr. Paget—Who told you that ? Mrs. Rhinish—The people at the Sun Fire-office. Mr. Paget—Your husband did not desert you ? Mrs. Ithinish—No, we separated by mutual consent. Mr. Paget did not think he could grant a protecting order in this case. lie was disposed to interfere for the ap plicant if ho could, but the law did not give him the power. The applicant was not deserted by her husband. The law was passed for the protection of property acquired by married women by their own industry after they had been deserted, without fault on their part, by their husbands. In this case there was no desertion, but a separation by mutual consent. Mrs. Rhinish—l am told I could get nothing if a fire was to break out on my premises. Mr. Paget said that was a question for another court, on which ho would give no opinion. He asked how long the applicant had been insured, and in what office. Mrs. Rhinish—For 25 years in the Sun office. Mr. Paget did not think there was any practical risk in the applicant continuing her insurance. The Sun was an old established, respectable office, and dealt liberally with insurers. He would advise Mrs. Rhinish to make an appli cation to the directors of the Sun Fire-office to insure as a widow. She would be quite justified in such a step, and then all risk would be avoided. He merely threw this out• as a suggestion, and did not mean to say that the Sun Fire-office would be compelled to insure the applicant's property, but he believed it was most likely that would be done. Mrs. Rhinish thanked the magistrate and retired. Quarrel in the French Chamber. A Paris letter in the Trance Cezztrale gives the fol lowing account of an extra Parliamentary incident which recently caused some little excitement among the deputies—" After one of the late speeches deli vered by M. Jules Favre on the affairs of Mexico several deputies were conversing with animation in the lobby of the Legislative Body, and in the centre of the group might be heard M. Henri Didier, de puty of the Ariege. 'An end should be put,' he cried, ' to that canaille of an Opposition.' M. Beth mont, who was standing near, approached M. Didier and said, You have just, sir, called the Opposition canaille; I must observe that belonging to it I take the word to myself, for you saw me very well and spoke loud enough to bo heard by every one.' M. Didier replied, You can take it as you please.' Very well,' said M. Bethmont, have the kindness to request two of your friends to come to the sixth bureau, where they will find two of mine.' A few minutes later M. Henon and the Marquis de Saint-Hermine, seconds of M. Beth mont, were discussing the affair with two of their colleagues designated by M. Didier. The friends of this last did not hesitate to acknowledge that he was in the wrong, and represented to him that his conduct and language had been so contrary to par liamentary propriety t that they could not take his part. They persuaded him to withdraw the offen sive expression, adding that if he did not do so lie would be disavowed by the entire majority. In consequence, M. Didier presented himself in the bureau where 111. Bethmont was awaiting the result of the interview, and made an apology which M. Bethmont and his colleagues of the Opposition con sidered as a sufficient reparation. The above de tails are strictly authentic." ADELPHI THEATRE, On Saturday evening on the occasion of benefit Miss Bateman appeared for the first in London as Pauline in the " Lady of Lycn s s 46 41 character (of course excepting Leah) better wi to her powers than any she has yet perfo rn no the metropolis. Miss Bateman's realisation a ie . character of Pauline, however, although she has 00 quently sustained it in America, presen ted he r very marked difference of style from that of predecessors. It was scarcely to be expecte d , ni a, it should, for Pauline is no psychological oil: At which the artist, attempting to represent her' .- c o, liberty to solve after what fashion she Nor can this be urged in depreciation 0 f er ii character. It is, to our thinking, a 1/1- 00 rather than a defect in a dramatic Pers e/3 4 , that its motive and meaning should be 0 ° ci i parent as not to be susceptible of a variety of cordant interpretations. That the heroine of S " aojf Bulwer Lytton's fascinating play is not liable t 0 fee t such objection may be fairly inferred from th e , t he that there the same views have been taken 0f giro part by the various eminent actresses wh ° appeared in it from timo to time. In ilnP ar opa therefore, to a familiar ideal all the fresh nes° variety of interest which refinement of mann er h ' ie of fervour and brilliancy of expression are caP a w no ld conferring, Miss Bateman achieved all that c ," O to reasonably be expected, and made good her tito' the applause which was plenteously bestowed 'tbo her. In all the more celebrated passages ° o pt play she was especially effective. Her 'O ho a il! denunciation of Beauseant, her eloquent aPs'bet to the sanctity of a husband's house, and ,,,lier ° , impassioned acting in the last scene, "ao Pauline proclaims the triumph of love 0f tl l° 3 pride, told sensibly upon the sympathies °tioo, audience and elicited enthusiastic ae clara 9 tho The fall of the curtain was accompanied re' loudest demonstrations of a desire for the la loudest oa appearance. Miss Bateman was accordinglY led in triumph by Mr. Benjamin Webster, who' 113.0 Of allowed her to receive the renewed c ornPlhu e . l3 ,, the the house, paused to address the audien ce 1- -)(oa following words :—" Ladies and gentlerneo, o e(' must be assured I am proud of having i" tr° a u jo o to a British public the talented artiste w ho h cr ied' quitted this stage—not for a lengthened Ali3S After a professional tour in the provinces, iioa. Bateman will return to the Adelphi next lerviit Her heart is full of thanks, and, did custom 1 3 J a lady to address you under these circurnstitar:' ore am sure she would express her gratit ude in e 77 gracefully than I can hope to do on her behall;3eo The winter season terminates on Saturdal oa ne o with Mr. Benjamin Webster's annual be c p. , which occasion Miss Bateman will repeat the hood bon' ratter; but the recess will only be of a le" ...ce oa duration, as the summer season will cotaineA'svos, the Monday following, when Mr. John Ei• i,5 f i r st an American comedian of repute, w ill make appearance before a metropolitan audience. Tin quota Bank expect the er divide Thi of the The broug Th( gross section Penn: tion t( Th( in a f 1 bona ficatic pire it a the mem( the sa origin but in them Augu neous. 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