The Sun. — London, England, 1867-06-07 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1867. It is to be regretted that a check has been put upon the festivities at Paris, or, at all events, that a gloom has been cast over them by the event of yesterday evening. As the Czatz and his two sons were returning from the review at the Bois de Bou logne, in a carriage, with the Emperor of the FRENCH, a. Pulish youth fired at the CZAR. Most fortunately the attempt was a failure, the only suf ferer being the assassin himself, for the pistol was overloaded and burst, the explosion carrying away the hand of the Pule. The greatest enthusiasm pre vailed when it was ascertained that the two Em perors had escaped injury, and the indignation of the crowd was most excessive, a desire being ex pressed to hang the culprit on the spot. While we rejoice at this so far satisfactory termination of this untoward affair, it may be inferred, with some justice, that there has not been much wisdom dis played by those who have attempted to arrange matters in Paris during the stay of the Imperial guests. Too mu,Al caution was shown upon the day of the EMPEROR'S arrival, and had he set off from the station in an open carriage, very likely he would have been in reality more safe than h Is since proved to be the case. ft was the more striking, because the Emperor NaroLEoN himself has never adopted the expedient of socking to avoid danger or the appearance of it, and very likely this over-scrupulosity for the safety of their visitor has defeated its own end in the long run. From time to time we have heard of the CZAR hav ing been made the object of abuse, and he was mobbed on the occasion of his appearing in public, but all this was trivial if annoying. It was no secret that there was no good feeling between the Parisians and the CZAR, or rather the policy of which he is the representative, for personally ho has shown himself the friend of progress and the ex ponent of advanced views to his people. Still that arguod nothing against his safety, and no doubt the Parisians themselves are more vexed at this un lucky contretemps of yesterday than any one else can possibly be. It must have been a great disappointment to them that their guest should have been exposed to injury, and indeed to death, while he was in a manner under their protection. Although it was not a native of France who made the cowardly assault, still it was vexatious that it should have been com mitted while the Czar, was in Paris. The well meaning Parisians must now doubly regret the exhibitions which have been made against the Est rEßoil on account of his treatment of the Poles, for it may have led indirectly to the act of yester day. It is always best, in large and small things, in serious as in trivial mattters, t.) keep to those rules of courtesy which custom upholds and good feeling sanctions. had these been strictly adhered to during this visit of the Autocrat to the French capital, the misguided individual whose act has just been chronicled might not have taken up wild ideas of the sympathy of the Frenoil, and mag nified notions of the wrongs of his country. Be sides being ill-timed, these manifestations were un fair, because the present Emperor has never shown himself to be exclusively devoted to tho main tenance of a representative system, and so far as the stringent laws of his empire allowed him he has been liberal, and in many instances merciful towards offenders. Another guest is at present sojourning in the capital of France, who is personally far more un popular than the Emperor ALEXANDER, and whose recent policy has been most inimical to the French ideas of nationality. It behoves all who have the honour of their country at heart, and all who rightly estimate the responsibility that devolves upon them, to keep on the alert that there may be no repetition of the outrage of yesterday. These illustrious individuals do not come to France to proclaim their own views or to challenge the justice of this or that line of action ; they came, upon the invitation of the French EM PEROR, to share the hospitality and witness the achievements of a people whose boast it is that they are the most polished among the nations of the earth. They must not find out that their entertainers have forgotten the substance for the shadow, and are con tent to let those who have claims upon the nation take their chance of result and inquiry, while ex travagant politicians and ignorant youths give vent to their real and affected 'indignation upon subjects that are not now before the public. The reception of King WILLIAM in Paris was a cold one, which circumstance need neither excite astonishment nor give rise to regret. It would be idle to assume the likelihood of the Prussian Monarch being a welcome guest in Paris, and if anything could have made him more unpopular, it would have been the presence of the statesman who accompanied him. At the present moment we should say that Count BISMARCK is the most unpopular man in France, and all the more so for the audacity with which he has acted in pretending to advance the cause of free dom. The French have too lively a sense of liberty, whether they enjoy it themselves or not, to be taken in by appearance, and they know that the Minister who now accompanies his Sovereign to France has done more harm to the cause of real freedom than any other man living. We see no reason for requesting that the reception of Wednesday was a cold one, not that it can be surmised for an in stant that those most affected by it will learn any thing profitable to themselves or pleasant to others, but there is no harm in the indication of a truth, and the condemnation of many errors. What we have most to do with now is that these illustrious visitors should leave Paris in safety, and that during their stay in the French capital they should be treated in a manner befitting their exalted position, and worthy of those who are the guests of France. We hope that the French themselves will recognise the true from the false in this instance, and not follow a vision until it leads them into the presence of a reality they will regret. This is not the time nor the place to express their opinions upon the character and nature of Russian or of Prussian policy, but it is an occasion which demands from them the exhibition of good taste and good feeling. 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The order relating to the Scots Fusiliers runs as follows—" Natives of England and Scotland only are to be enlisted, un less special permission be given to the contrary." The order for the Coldstream Guards is equally exclusive, though an attempt is given to account for the exclusion—" Owing to the impossibility of ob taining the requisite information respecting age and character, natives of England and Scotland only are to be enlisted." It is not very easy to see why there should be such insuperable difficulty in obtaining the necessary infor mation with respect to Irishmen. Scotchtnen are admissible, though it is quite possible they may be natives of the far Highlands or of some of the wild islands off the Scottish coast. It might be quite as difficult to obtain full particulars respecting a Welshman from the more remote or secluded parts of the principality, and yet we do not find any such wholesale objection taken to the natives of any other part of the United Kingdom. There can be no satisfactory reason given for such an exclusion on account of this supposed difficulty, because in many instances the character of an Irish man must be quite as easily traceable as that of an Englishman or Scotchman, and if it is not, there is a quite sufficient reason given for the individual ex clusion. The rule of the Grenadier Guards is even worse than those we have quoted, because it puts the exclusion on a point of religious difference, " natives of England and Scotland only are to be , enlisted. Should a man o ff er hi mself to be enlisted I who is a Roman Catholic, the sergeant will ask the permission of the regimental adjutant before he en lists him." It may be very well to recruit certain regimen's exclusively in certain localities, or to keep them entirely fur the men of one nation. In fact, competent authorities have pronounced this to be an excellent method for keeping np an esprit de corps, and fur preserving the reputation of the regiment. But then if this principle be acted on with regard to the most favoured regiments of the service, it should be fairly carried out, and there should, in common justice, be one regiment of the Guards principally, if not exclusively, composed of Irishmen. There can certainly be no objection raised on the score of their want of military spirit or capacity ; and, in fact., we find that during the Crimean war, w h en men were Wflicult to obtain, that Irishmen were admitted to some regiments, but that when the war i was over the old rules were a.ain followed, THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING-, JUNE 7, 1867. Fenia nism can afford no excuse, since it is of very recent date, and there could be no reason for apprehending greater disaffection in the regiments of the Guards than in any other. Mr. .11EP.BERT'S motion, which he subsequently withdraw, was to the effect that no order should exist :having for its object the exclusion of Irishmen from. -the Guards, and we are glad to find the general feel Ong of the House was strongly in his favour. Sir C. RUSSELL indeed defended the system in some meas are, declaring that it had been found "simple, econc api cal, and eminently successful." Several of the Irish members, as might have been ex pected, asserted that the very existence of such an order was an insult to the Irish nation, but other gentlemen more wisely based the demand for al'eration on the grounds of simple justice and common sense. General DUNNE said that if such an order were judicious in tine of peace it was un reasonable to expect that Irishmen were to be enlisted in time of war. Mr. BAGWELL did not see why there should not be a regiment of Irish guards as well as of English guards and Scotch guards. A very sensible suggestion, which will not, we hope, be overlooked by the authorities at the War-office. Lord ELcno, with his usual straightforwardness, frankly observed that if there were such regulations in existence respecting Scotchmen he should take it as a reproach, and that it must not be forgotten that the Guards were a corps d'elite into which Irishmen might naturally desire admission. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON, after endeavouring with due official special pleading to prove that there was no just cause for complaint, agreed to communicate with the officers of the three regiments of Guards, and express a hope that if there were anything in their recruiting rules which could be offensive orpainful to the Irish people it should be rescinded. This was considered sufficient by the House, and Mr. HERBERT withdrew his motion. We have no doubt that the right hon. baronet will do all that lies in his power, but considering that it is a matter which does not come directly under his control, and that the com manding officers of the Guards are not usually very amenable to advice from without, we should be glad if the matter were inquired into also in the Upper House, or that the Commander-in- Chief might be asked to examine into it. It is neither just nor politic to keep up useless limi tations, and any order or regulation which excludes a whole race, nation, or creed from any post of honour, cannot fail to produce a feeling of irritation and resentment which is far from desirable between English and Irish. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Thursday Evening. There was a Cabinet Council yesterday at the Tuileries, at which the Emperor presided. The Monitcur has the following announcement : "His Royal Highness the Grand Ducal Prince of Besse and her Royal highness Madame the Prin cess Louise of Hesse, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, had the honour of being received the day before yesterday by their Majesties the Emperor and Empress." The King of Prussia, on his arrival yesterday afternoon at the Northern Railway Station, was re ceived with much the same state and cordiality as the Emperor Alexander. The station was again appropriately fitted up, and the number of specta tors was enormous. The Emperor was accompanied by Prince Joachim Murat, General Fleury, grand equerry, and Vice-Admiral Julien de la Gravicre, aide-de-camp on duty. The two Sovereigns shook hands cordially on meeting, and immeliately drove off to the Tuileries amidst much cheering. A slight biographical sketch of the King of Prussia may not be unacceptable. Fredrick William I. was born on the 9 2(1 of March, 1797, and he has consequently attained his 70th year. He is the descendant of the House of Hohenzollern Brandebourg, the origin of which dates from Thassillon, who lived in the year 800. He is an old adversary of France, and was at the campaigns of 1813 and 1815 during the struggle against the first Napoleon. In 1818, in consequence of some political differences, he went to England, where he resided a considerable period. This is not the first time the King of Prussia has visited France since he succeeded to the throne upon the death of his brother, on the 2d of January, 1861. In the month of October of that year the King paid a visit to Napoleon 111. at his chateau at Compiegne, where he remained until the time ar rived for the fetes on the occasion of his coronation. The spectacle at the opera, in honour of the visit of the Emperor Alexander, was splendid in the ex treme. The Imperial box was fitted up with great taste and splendour. Among the illustrious per sonages present were the Czar, who had at his right the Emperor of the French, the Princess Royal of Prussia, the Grand Duke Heir of Russia, the Prin cess of Hesse, the Grand Duke Wladimir, the Princess Eugenie, the Duke de Leuchtenberg, and Prince Joachin Murat. To the left of the Czar were the Empress of the French, the Prince Royal of Prussia, the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, the Prince Louis of Hesse, the Princess Matilda, Prince Fredric of Hesse, Princess Lucien Murat, the Prince of Saxe Weimar, and Min-Bou-Taiou, the brother of the Emperor of Japan. The grand officers of state accompanied the Royal party. The Royal perso nages now i n Paris make the most of their ti me . The Emperor Alexander, who is a very early riser, goes out while many are in bed and visits successively all the public establish ments and curiosities of Paris. Sunday is named as the day for the grand fete at the Hotel de - Ville. The Soverigus will go to Cher bourg, it is said, in a day or two, to witness some interesting nautical evolutions. To-day they have been to a splendid review in the Bois de Boulogne, and the current of people on all the points in that direction was enormous. More than 60,000 troops were reviewed. There is not time to give an ac count of the spectacle to-day. The King and Queen of the Belgians left Paris rather suddenly, in consequence of the melancholy news received from Miramar respecting the Em press of Mexico, Charlotte, sister of the King. Her illness has much increased within a few days. ller reason is irrevocably lost, and her death seems imminent. This unfortunate Princess is 27. She was married on the 27th of July ) 1857, to the Arch duke Ferdinand Maximilian, brother of the Em peror of Austria, and now (or lately) Emperor of Mexico. For the same reason the proposed visit of the Emperor of Austria to Paris will probably be postponed. Dr. Nelaton, the most eminent surgeon of Paris, has been elected as a member of the Academy of Sciences (section of medicine and surgery), in the room of M. Jobert de Lamballe, who died about two months ago. M. Nelaton was born at Paris on the 17th of June, 1807. It will be recollected that he went to attend upon Garibaldi when he received his last wound in the leg. lie was a pupil of Dupnytren, of whom as many curious, though per haps unfounded, anecdotes are told as of our own Abernethy. One fact is certain, Dupuytren died a millionaire, a fate not reserved fur all medical men. He was called the butcher, in consequence of the entire indifference he exhibited while unfortunate patients were subjected to the most painful opera " Don't let my horses eat too much," said Dupnytren one day to his coachman. " They are liable to apoplexy like men, and they cannot so easily get the services of a doctor." Dr. Nelaton, although a pupil of Dupuytren, is said to be the opposite to him in his demeanour to his patients, and is kind and gentle to them, and sympathises with their pains. He uses a patient as Isaac Walton recommends the angler to use the worm and impale him as though you loved him. The superior Council of the Jury of the Exhibi tion have awarded a grand prize to the Emperor of Russia fur the ameliorations which have taken place in the breed of horses in that empire, in which the Emperor has personally taken great interest. some very fine Russian horses are exhibited, for which the prize was given. The prize in question is the greatest which can be awarded. There is a report that in consequence of numerous representations made to the Commission, the Exhi bition will continue open until the end of the year. The admission will be gratis on the Ist of July, the day on which the prizes will be awarded, and on the day of the Emperor's fete, the 15th of August. On two or three occasions some hostile demon strations, if they may be so considered, have been made against the Emperor of Russia. - When he visited the courts of justice there were cries of " Vivo la Pologne," which caused the Emperor to make a hasty retreat. On his way to the opera the same cry was repeated. The police interfered, and several arrests were made. One paper asserts that some police agents in plain clothes to deceive the public cried out that the persons arrested were rob bers. The cry was first raised by some members of the bar, but other barristers censured the demon stration. Though trifling in itself, this manifesta tion has excited a certain degree of uneasiness, not to say alarm. The Temps blames the conduct of the police, and asks what sedition there is in the the cry of " Long live Poland." Some of the stu dents who made manifestations at the Cluny Museum have been arrested. There has been an attempted murder, followed by suicide, in the Rue 29 Juliet, under the follow ing circumstances. An old man of nearly 70, who lived at No. 7 in that street, and enjoying a good fortune, was very assiduous in making improper offers to a young girl of 18 living in the same house. Every morning, at the time when the young girl went out to her work, the old gentleman was sure to be waiting at the door to renew his proposals. The young girl, whose conduct is very good, al ways repudiated them. He became so enraged at her refusal that on Tuesday morning he armed him self with a revolver, and on her again refusing he shot her in the neck. The wound is serious, but it is hoped that it will not prove mortal. Believing that he had killed the girl, the murderer turned round another barrel, and firing it into his head his death was instantaneous. Fervacques, belonging to Mr. Montgomery, the winner of the Great Prize on Sunday, was born in Normandy, like La Toucques and Gladiateur, the conquerors in so many races, a fact which seems to prove that the Norman breed of horses is now quite equal to the English. It is calculated that the amount of bets made was no less than 60 mil lions of francs. Such was the anxiety to obtain vehicles for the Bois de Boulogne even early in the morning that at a cafti on the Boulevards a break with two horses was put up by auction for the race, and the highest bidder paid a very large sum for the hire of it, 850 francs. It was for an American family. Tho number of vehicles at the races was horn 15,000 to 20,000, and the de file lasted not less than three honrs. It was a magical spectacle, such as has never been seen even in Paris. A great many accidents took place— some of them of rather a serious character. Death of the Archduchess Mathilde. Died at Vienna, in the eighteenth year of her age, Matilda Maria Adelgoada Aloxandrina, Archduchess of Austria, and daughter of the Archduke Albert. Thus will run the record of one of the saddest calamities which have darkened the annals of a house doomed, it would seem, to be visited by mis fortune. The story of the Princess's death is one which in itself is not unmatched in the records of many an English family. Not a fortnight ago the young Archduchess, who, if report be true, was gifted with more than the usual share of grace and beauty attaching to a race celebrated for their per sonal charms, was in perfect health and strength, eagerly looking forward, we may presume, to the festivities in which, as an Austrian Archduchess, she would take part when the Kaiser should be crowne 1 King of Hungary and Pesth. She was standing at a window of her father's palace in Vicuna, when sho appears to have trodden upon a lucifer match that hid-been - dropped on the floor, and then forgotten. The flame caught her dress, and iu a few minutes the poor girl was carried off to her bed burned, charred, and dying. At first there was great hope that youth and strength m i g ht enable her to survive the injuries she had sustained. But in spite of all the care that could be lavished on her, she never rallied from the shock, and yesterday morning, after a weary struggle between life and death, she expired. Even if the deceased lady had been the child of unknown parents in humble life, the story of her untimely end in the very bloom of youth would be one of those events which come home to every one of us. But what adds an especial sadness to the present case is that the lady whose death has thrown the Austrian family into mourn i n g seemed destined to occupy a promi altrtecl, she was se lected to rumours more promi nent and brilliant posit i on in the world that lay cor d allor l b e e s f s o r e her l According a uthoritatively lected as the bride of Prince Humbert of Savoy, as the futu re a nd first Queen of the kingdom of Italy. Almos t on the day when she lay dying, the second son of Victor Emmanuel was celebrating his marriage with the Duchess of Cisterna ; and, when we remember the character of the heir-apparent, it appears far from i m p ro b a bl e that this strange accident of fate should confer a Royal title upon the lady who has just been raised to the dignity of an Italian Princess. The bigots of the Ultramontane school will see in the sudden death of the Austrian Archduchess a fresh instance of the divine displeasure which, in their opinion, awaits the House that has set itself in opposition to the Holy See. Zealots, however, would do well to remember that the same visitation falls with far heavier weight on the orthodox and pious dynasty of Hapsburg than on the disobedient race of Savoy. It is to be re gretted that the feasts which celebrate the long-de ferred reconciliation between the Emperor and his Magyar subjects should be marred by the melan choly death we are called on to record. With his cousin dead, his sister-in-law's reason finally gone, his brother's fate still uncertain, Francis Joseph the Unlucky will enter with a sad heart on the rejoicings about to commence at Pesth ; and a superstitious people like that of Hungary will be prone to augur evil from so inauspicious an opening of the new regime. But the world will think less of the State ecnsiderations con nected with the misfortune, more of the fair young life, begun with so much of promise, and so sadly ended.—Teleg raph. Mr. Smith Child, of Stallington Hall, Stone, has given £BOO for the erection of a block of cottages for con valescents and incurables in connection with the North Staffordshire New Infirmary. THE TAILORS' STRIKE.—It having been reported to the Central Committee of the Tailors' Union that the masters whose shops have been struck against in London were getting a large quantity of their more pressing orders made up at Brighton, Mr. Druitt, the president, was xent to Brighton on Wednesday to inquire as to the truth of the report. He found it to be as stated, that the majority of the Brighton masters were making large numbers of garments for the London shops on strike. He at once called a meeting of the trade for Wednesday evening, and another meeting was held yesterday morn ing. A resolution was unanimously carried that no Lou don work should be executed in Brighton during the con tineance of the strike, and that all men then employed on London work should at once cease work. This resolution was at once acted upon, and yesterday afternoon '2OO men turned out. INTESTACY OF PERSONS OF SMALL MEANS.— The Lord Chancellor's bill allows the widow of an intes tate dying worth not more than £lOO, or one of his chil dren being of age, or, where none of the issue are of age, an uncle or auut or any of them, to make affidavit in the county court setting forth the value of the property, and obtain from the registrar a certified copy entitling the applicant to the receipt of any money duo to the estate, or the transfer of any share or the benefit of any interest in the funds of any soc i e t y ; an d pa yment to such person is to be valid, any next of kin or lawful re p resentative of the deceased to b e l e ft t o th e i r re medy against the person to whom the payment has thug been made. The checks against fraud aro these :—The affidavit is not to be made until a month after the death of the intestate, or two months if the registrar gas received notice of a will or in tention to administer; the registrar may require a refer ence to tome person known to him by reputation, or other wise, to establish the identity and relationship of the applicant; and if the registrar has reason to believe that the property of the deceased exceeds £lOO, he can ref use to take the affidavit, LATEST INTELLIGENCB. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE CZAR IN PARIS. PARIS, June 6 (Evening). A grand review took place to-day in the Bois de Boulogne. The Empress left the Tuileries for the review at one p.m. in an open carriage with the King of Prussia, the Crowr. Prince and Count von Bis marck following in a second vehicle. The Emperor also occupied an open carriage with the Czar and the two Russian princes. A great crowd filled the streets. The review was of a very brilliant character, and the crowd was immense. On the return, at the entranc: to the Bois de Boulogne, a young man, about 20 years of age, rushed at the imperial carriage as it drove past, and fired a pistol at the Czar. The pistol, being over loaded, burst, and the two Emperors escaped with out injury. PARIS, June 6, 10.30 p.m. As the Emperor Napoleon and the Czar were returning from the review held to-day in the Bois de Boulogne, a young Pole, apparently about 20 years old, entered the Bois, and fired a pistol at the Czar, who was in a carriage with his two sons and the Emperor of the French. The pistol being overloaded burst, and the hand of the assassin was carried away by the explosion. lie fell down crying, "Long live Poland !" Both Emperors escaped unhurt. The crowd wanted to hang the Pole on the spot, and the cheering became louder than ever. The journal Le Droit publishes the following details relative to the assassin :—" He was in the road, about 15 paces from th 3 Emperors, when he fired, but the pistol, being overloaded, burst and wounded him in the hand. He is a polish mechanic, and had bought on the previous day a double barrelled pistol. He appeared very excited. The motives of the attempt appear to be political passion and personal hatred to the Czar. It is believed that he has no accomplices." PARIS, June 7. The following is the official account of the attempted assassination of the Czar published in the 21Ioniteur of this morning : " Yesterday, while the review was being held in the Bois de Boulgone amid an immense and inde scribably enthusiastic crowd, an individual,who calls himself a Pole, fired a pistol at the carriage in which his Imperial Majesty with the Emperor of Russia and his two sons were seated. The ball struck the head of the horse of the groom in waiting, who was riding at the door of the carriage. " The weapon burst in the hand of the assassin, who was arrested by the crowd. The interference of the police was necessary to save him from the rage of the populace. No one was hurt. " The assassin declared his name to be Beregouski, and that he was a native of Volhynia." Some further details of the attempt upon the life of the Czar, at yesterday's review, have transpired. It appears that the front of the Emperor Napo leon's uniform was soiled by the explosion of the assassin's pistol. The Emperor immediately rose, apparently to point out the spot whence the shot had been fired. Cries of " Vive l'Empereur " were heard in all directions. In the course of the evening numbers of persons of all ranks left their names at the Tuileries and the Elysee. The Siecle, says that the assassin declares he has no accomplices, and did not confide his design to any one. All organs of the press unanimously condemn the attempt in strong terms. The Gazette de Tribunaux of to-day gives the following account of the attempted assassination of the Czar. At the time the Imperial carriage was passing near the rocks of the Cascade in the Bois de Boulogne, an assassin suddenly emerged from the crowd and fired a double-barrelled pistol. The Em peror's groom in waiting (Raimbaud) perceiving the movement, caused his horse to make a sudden bound, with the object of placing it between the assassin and the Sovereigns. The ball pierced the nostril of the groom's horse, and passed between the Emperors and the Grand Dukes, wounding a lady on the opposite side of the carriage. The distance between the groom's horse and the imperial carriage was so short that the blood from the wound in the horse's nostril spurted on to the uniforms of the Czar and Czarewitch. The ball did not leave the second barrel of the pistol which burst in the hands of the assassin. He was with difficulty rescued from the crowd, who cried out to put him to death, at the same time shouting ener getically, " Vive l'Empereur," " Vive le Czar." The two Sovereigns, whose calmness and presence of mind was not disturbed for one moment, gave orders for the cortege to proceed at a walking pace. The assassin was raised from the ground almost insensible, having the thumb of his left hand shat tered by the explosion of the pistol. He declared he arrived two days ago from Belgium to kill the Czar. BOURSE, June 6, Two o'clock.—There is an exceedingly thin attendance at the Bourse to-day, everybody who could possibly do so having migrated to the Bois do Boulogne to witness the grand re view in honour of the illustrious visitors to the French capital. Business is consequently at a standstill ; Three per Cents. are quoted at 70f. 45c., or 10c. higher, and Italian Fives at 52f. 34c., or 10e. lower. Credit Mobilier have improved 55., to 392 f. 50c. Paris Gas are at 1,597 f. 50c., an advance also of sf. Credit Foncier remained unvaried. There is no appreciable change in the quotations of railway shares. English Consols are telegraphed with a decline of 1. Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows : 41 per Cents — Do. end month 3 per Cents. — Do. end month 7O 50 Credit Mobilier Do. end month Credit Foncior — Du. end month 1186 25 BAIL' Bank Shares — Italian Loan — -- Do. end month 52 37 Mexican Loan l9 50 Do. Bonds 132 50 Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred 'LYS. For Account. Orleans Northern 1223 75 Lyons and Mediterranean ~ 910 Southern 578 75 Western — Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Roman, 405 - ~... 120 - HUNGARY. PESTH, June 6. The Emperor has signed the Inaugural Diploma. On the presentation of the members of the Hungarian Diet to the Emperor, he said, " What the King of Hungary and the Hungarian nation earnestly wish for must last." Representatives of all countries, with the excep. tion of the United States of North America, will be present at the Coronation. ITALY. FLORENCE, June 6. The second bureau of the Chamber of Deputies has appointed M. Ferraris as Commissioner to examine the Ecclesiastical Property Bill of Signor Ferrari, and directed him to propose a modification to the Goyernment Bill. The other bureaux will hold a sitting on this subject to-morrow. ROME, JUDO 6. A second consistory has been held by the Pope preparatory to the celebration of a solemn act of canonisation. The Journal di Rome denies that cholera has appeared in that city. SPAIN. MADRID, June 6. The Minister of State has declared that there is no truth in the statement published in the English paperx, asserting that, in consequence of the deci sion of the Council of State, the Spanish Govern ment had informed the English Cabinet that the legal proceedings relative to the Tornado had been declared null and void. The same Minister informed the Congress that the Government had received a despatch announc ing the capture of the Colombian steamer Cuyler. MADRID June 7. The Congress assembled this morning in extra ordinary sitting, and, after speeches from Marshal Narvaez, Senor Castro, and several deputies, passed a resolution expressing regret at the attempt against the lives of the CZAR and the Emperor of the FRENCH. - THE GREAT FRENCH EXHIBITION. (Prom the Times' Correspondent.) PARIS, Wednesday, June 5. I dare say you will not object to a digression. Permit me in this letter to put aside the subject of pictures, in order to make some notes on one or two other matters that seem to require more im mediate attention. And, first of all, let me speak of the Interna tional Society for the Succour of the Wounded in Battle. Little is known of it in England, and its exhibition here is so much out of the way that it runs a good chance of being overlooked. England, indeed, is peculiar in holding herself too much aloof from the society, whose operations, however, excite a very lively interest ou the Continent, and will, doubtless, awake similar interest in England when they are properly known. It was founded at Ge neva, in 1862, by a Swiss gentleman, M. Dunant. lie was very much affected after the battle of Sol ferino through seeing the enormous amount of suf fering produced by want of the most ordinary care. In Brescia alone there lay 32,000 wounded men. What medical staff could attend to all these ? The number of persons who die after a battle from mere want of attention—from hunger and thirst, from cold, from bleeding that might be pre vented—is incredible ; and M. Dunant formed the idea of an international society that would attend to the wounded in battles—that would raise and train a little army of volunteers, to hover about a battle-field and to take care of the fallen. In the year 1853 there was a conference at Geneva, at which delegates from nearly every nation in Europe took part. The deliberation of this con ference led to two suggestions, one of which has been deemed practicable, while the other has not yet attained to that dignity. It was suggested on tho one hand that in war the sick and wounded, and whatever is necessary for their treatment, including all the stores and equipment and officers of a field hospital, should be neutralised. It was suggested, on the other hand, that every - army in the field should accept the attentions of a little army of benevolent volunteers, who would set themselves the task of relieving the wounded ; and that these volunteers—properly accredited—should also be treated as neutral. The chief Governments of Europe decided that the first of these suggestions is practicable, and the other not ; and their decision was made manifest in the following year—namely, 1861—when there assembled at Geneva a congress of plenipotentiaries authorised on behalf of their several countries to form a treaty which would have the effect of neutralising all the wounded in battle, and all the persons and appliances necessary for their aid. This, which is known as the Convention of Geneva, was signed on the 24th of August, 1864, on behalf of all the European Governments except three—England, Austria, and Russia. England, however, signed it iu the follow ing February, Austria did not sign it till after the war with Prussia, and Russia is only now on the point of signing it. It is a great gain to have succeeded thus far ; but more still remains to be done, and the International Society are indefatigable in their efforts. They are to have conferences here in the end of August, to which all benevolent persons are invited, and at which it is proposed to discuss a number of ques tions relating to the best methods of mitigating the horrors of war. But the first and foremost object of the society is to establish the principle of intro ducing the aid of volunteers in a campaign to suc cour the wounded. Nearly all the military autho rities see only the objections to this proposal—the difficulties of furnishing them with rations, of keep ing them under military discipline, and of provid ing against the abuses to which the introduction of such a loosely formed and comparatively irres ponsible body of men within the lines of an army might lead. The supporters of the scheme, how ever, are enthusiastic and full of hope ; they de clare that the objections to it are only the objec tions of red tape, and they believe that very soon all the Governments of Europe will be glad to come round to their views and to accept their aid. In the mean time they work in other directions. They are themselves an international society, but they are anxious to see national societies established in con cert with them. In most of the European countries such national societies have been already started. There is one in Prussia, for example, warmly sup ported by the Court. There is one in France also similarly patronised. It is a private society composed very largely of civilians, but care is taken to have military men at the had of it ; and there is a branch society of the same constitution in each of the mili tary districts into which France is divided. All these national societies have their centre in the Interna tional Society, which in August next will bring them together into conference, and now has brought I them together into an exhibition. It is an exhibition, however, in Which England takes no part, for in England we have no special society whose business it is to consider the wants of the wounded in battle. Mr. Longmore, Deputy Inspector-General of the Medical Staff, in a lecture which he delivered last year before the United Service Institute, and which is published in the transactions of that body, strongly recommended the formation of such a society in our country, and no doubt before long we shall see it formed; but in the meantime, although we spend in round numbers two dozen millions a year to keep up our army and navy, our people hold on the even tenour of their way as if war will never come. Notwithstanding our prodi gious expenditure, the French and the Prussians seem to think a good deal more than we do of the probabilities of war and the miseries which attend it. You should hear of the shame with which the Prince of Prussia confesses that when his country went to fight the Danes in 1864 the ambulance waggons of the Prussian army were of the same construction as those used in the wars with Napo leon. But we have a still more painful story to tell, that when we went into the Crimean campatn we had no ambulance waggons in store ; that we had lost the pattern of them ; that the construction of those used in the Peninsular war had gone out of mind ; and that we had, beginning anew, to devise vehicles, which, unhappily, turned out to be very deficient. And if war were to break out to-mor row, we should find ourselves woefully backward in all that relates to the tending of the sick and wounded. Instantly we should hear of one set of people beginning to collect lint, of another set busy about other medical comforts, and all working together in a feeble, fragmentary way. Why should we not anticipate the reality and pre pare for war ? We who spend our £24,000,000 in the equipment of armies and navies may surely spend a few thousands and give some heed to the discovery of the best processes for mitigating the horrors of war. This is what an organiseed society ought to do—to collect information, to collect patterns, to collect stores, to train volunteers, and to cultivate relations with similar societies a ll over Europe. Universal Exhibitions h ave no t y e t succeeded i n establishing uni versa l peace ; b ut i t i s t o be hope d that this Universal E x hibiti on o f 1867 may "° something to miti g ate th e h orrors o f w ar. I 'lr a)? all Englishmen who are i n any way conn ected Wit h the army to make a point of visiting the Exhibition of the " Societe de ..;ecours aux Blesses I\lilitaires des Armees de Terre et de Mer." They will 11° . t leave it without being grea tly i n t eres t e d in it, a nd i `:, without feeling some re gre t th a t E n gland sho uld have nothing to do with it. Th e Exhibition will be formed in a series of tents near the great French lighthouse ; dnd, if this is not indication enoug h, then let the visitor look out for the neutral fl Ig• According to the new convention a surgeon the field of battle will now wear an armlet binding upon his sleeve a white bad ge mar k e d with 3 r ed cross ; and, so distinguish e d, h e b eco mes nentr ai % Also the ambulance that flies a white flag with a r ed cross on it becomes sacred. It is easy to fi n d this flag near the great red lighthouse. What th e i visitor will see under it I can on ly describe n general terms. Ile will see nearly everything to illustrate the best arrangements of an ambulance. In saying this, however, I should explain that I 115 e the word gg ambulance," as it is used all over the Continent, and not as it is used in England. Englishmen and foreigners very - soon find them" selves at loggerheads when they begin to talk of on ambulance ; they don't understand each other' What would people in England understand if trey should read in the Convention of Geneva that henceforth an ambulance is neutral, but that 311 hospital is not? We in England by an ambulance mean some sort of vehicle—perhaps a little car t ' perhaps a palanquin, perhaps the thing borne bY mules which the French call cacolet. All over t he Continent ambulance is the name for a field hospital, and not for any one article, such as. , vehicle belonging to it. When we find that acco rd ing to the new convention an amb u lance is neu tral, but a hospital is not, the distinction lies betwee n a hospital that moves about in the field and one that is fixed—probably in a town. What we in Eng land understand by an ambulance, that is, a vehicle id connected with the field hospital, the French wo uld call a voiture d'ambulance ; and if this I n ternatie n ie Society for the Succour of the Wounded in 13attl e thrive, as there is every appearance that it shall have to adapt our practice to that of tu Continent, and to speak of what we now cad 3n ambulance as an ambulance-cart. „4, 1 ,,,• • hurtyr ttv 4 i bg HER MAJESTY, dcc• BALMORAL, June °' The Queen, accompanied by Princess Lo uise rode out yesterday morning on ponies. • d by In the afternoon her Majesty, accompanie 0. Princess Christian, and attended by the Hon. Mr Gordon, drove to the Lynn of Dee. The Right llon. S. Walpole left the Castle. LITERATURE. 4. England's Hopes and Blessings. And Other Fig ° ' One vol., pp. 198. William Macintotb• the Anonymous Essays, printed and published, request of friends, essays limited both in charade and extent by the rules of a Private Essay he Soele i tl e4 ' and written on subjects only two or three of wilr) the author acknowledges to have been of his ( erli ; selection--all this; intimated clearly enough in ", Preface, would seem to give but small promise °f e n o , tertainment to the reader of a little volume so / 04%- a duced. Yet—stepping over that h a lf-barrier c '" f , f , Preface, as one might step lightly ov er the 4, door of a cottage-house-room, or over the 0 %, wicket gate of the cottage garden adjoining ---3 % one might readily enough here take heart of g rae d to enjoy a very pleasant time of it, indeed, bernof that interposing Preface, whether the contents the book bo likened either to the garden; to the house-room. The essays here collectedrrybe gether are charmingly written throughout. d. writer's manner is perfectly frank and unaffe ce ies The diction is lucid and flowing, and is, besiu g .. that, drawn from " the well of Englis h il re . °. defiled." The subjects descanted upon, 331...., over, are as varied as they well could be " Ambition " and " Selfishness," " Gray's Il leg i c e and "England's Hopes and Blessings," " Virtues " and " Beauties of Natural Seenerj',, " Kirke White" and " The Great NaP °le° b ll. e , Simple and unpretending though the volumette fore us is in itself, it is so true, and g enuine , L o wholesome of its kind, that it has far more tua'd, the mere negative merit of being blameless--re to however cursorily, it can hardly fail to impr ove ' chasten, and to elevate its readers' sentiments. BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, June co The following is the return of the Bank of Fr all r , for the week ending to-day, together with the C ° responding figures of the previous account May 30. e. fr. 0 182,500,00 DEBTOR. Juno 6. fr. c. ' ' Capital of the Bank., 182 500 000 Profits in addition to Reserve of the Bank capital (Art. 8, Law, Juno 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 1,044,776 01 and its branches circulation . 4 0 , 4 0 , 0 6 0,0 02 00_ 22,105 750 14 22,105,75° 14 Reserve in landed pro- ' perty Notes in ci • ' Banknotes to orderand ' ' '' ' ° ' ' receipts payable at C u r r e r u e t n creditor ccu un t s, sight Treasury account cur- c ia3 6 8 92,126,883 45 9 7 ,'6O Paris 309,201,286 36 30;2,g12,:5 Do. branch banks Dividends payable 732,670 75 01, 8 ' Discounts and sundry nRi 38 9 15 interests Rediscounted the last 50 ." six months Surplus of receipts not distributed Sundries — .ng ,3 4 ‘ 10,009,730 11 .....„„ °:212...--- Total - ' ^97 93/ ' CREDITOR. WY 30. 0 , a r li c i c a h l bills b a billsbanks k s over- di s - June 6. Cash in hand and in fr. C. f r ' ^0 76 Branch banks 860,753,289 94 8321 290,8 i 1 ,15 due CommercialC D o n c m . ou m b n i e . ted, not yet due 243,272,420 31 2 9 " , ,180 3 ".... A 800, 69 9 4 ' 210,377,368 2481'' ~., Advances on deposit of ~,.• 600 " bullion 48,753,100 —. 47,4'3'00 Do. branch banks 8,712 300 ,56 , Do. on French Public ' 0 Securities Do. by branch banks 7,674,10 0'' s ' i - ' 12 973 600 1-,,,..°,145'5'00 Do. on railway shares -, 700 and debentures - 37,02 ,, -0 •-•' 6 20 6 , 3 ' ) 1). branch banks 26 '256 639 - 845,- - Do. on Credit Foncier ' ' aOO --•• Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, fin , 00 ° 60 1857) 60,000,000 -- ,0,- 1.1 Government Stock re serve il 00 15° . 91 Routes Do ( * L ' , li l s v i : o j s l:l:l n b n e l i e l o 2 b , a 1 1 i 8 56 57 e s ) 1013:6,"090081001::7053007 ....1.9-1.1 !ef°lll7o3oo H the tel B a L n ,n d k ftitinrna laud o d f ' 100 000, ,-- Ex p p r e o n p s e e l s ty o b f ra ni nc a h n e a s g . e 8,360,977 -- 8 ' 421'420 9; 844 ,- Sundries meut 1,921,463 32 ~., 0,0 4 24,973,322 80 7‘;', n4l ....-------- ...„ ~,.„79 J 1 Total 1,733,272,646 89 1,7000, France. Certified by the Senator Governor of the Bant . 1 (Signe:"N '2.7l.____ ——- - - ----- ------ - . 4 1 , 5 00 S MR. CHARLES KEAN. —The health a gr o • u e ; o yea Kean has so far improved that he was able to b r to Buxton on Wednesday. h aaost h ard MISS BRADDON is, par excellence, 'the t, pat s ieg working novelist of these buy days, s a y s tb u ce, 034 Herald. She used to carry on several novels at is the we are not sure, even now, that " Birds of Pr e ?;_,, re acif only serial novel at present coming front her of vt di pen ; but when did the accomplished auto 0 1 . ~ oe Audley's Secret" publish at once a complete no.srucl„' is to do it now in a novel called "'inert to • ,q 22,444,069 72 23,8791 1 `"" •