The Sun. — London, England, 1855-08-25 00:00:00

_ --F Of 1 or weLV len it, oa t : I sugg ei n ...„e• 3 d co, a 0 ties • the P ~t obOtt NOf l3ll. g 1 1 1 3 5 ,b• o f bo o t e nee9 , o via nt rt wig ti j ) 3 0 jot, gas i " t o ne tll r w oo, tt ul9 ,47 t ti C 1 10,0/ ...0 310 1 ( 1 "7, 0 0 1 1 w e i - beeo, 1,0 , Af eul et. o fro`iging of 01 30' 0 6 i r t ,stlV C ,j 3 d e o his • a tie. I ,, ct ri- top ar rivi L e • er of :eri st el ;;; Iptuf th ly °l2 ®NT.] y ItKET AND C°3"l-813:CIA .L INTELLIGENCE. _` CITY, Two O'CLOCK. ~e.l.!leicel atee:tdti°ly4, Ma•cket at Liverpool yesterday "wit .bout much alteration in prices. t'te sales were v .!stimated at 7,000 bales. Fair Ands at 6/d . , s , Mobile at 61d., and Orleans at ,it i. P e r ' ll . The 3 sales of the week amounted to .:40 bales. The Railway Share Market wllB , t dull, ci os i nn . , 5 ' without feature. ~, Priucipall y, ot t i rade i n Mai ichester is again rather quieter, however, to the reduced supply av'reeertain pall iptions of goods for which sellers tiean°vr asking s :uhanced rates. The India quali- T h _ o f Mule twist, for ins 4 zance, are very scarce. lot:Greek houses are do;ing a large business in c loth e ß kini ! e of Printing cloths and in the finer T tti re ; * At a meeting of the Blackburn manufac ilittir!en Tuesday it was resolved to continue the per -q4lied producti,on of 40 instead of 60 hours tta ry wee k for a shr,rt period longer. Had a con tl4fint,asure bee' a determined upon, it is expected he b aurie s anita ble for the Indian market would opp.-eefte chea•per, and buyers are a little dis- l'hclted at the resolution. b slli ere wa6 again a reduction in the amount of leek held by the Bank of England during the fail ‘ . to s atur „ ay tr. last, but whether this was as it I Z I e wholly to exports or to home requirements, of th ru aPs not so easy to determine. At this season % ea. : Year it is usual for harvest labours to give e n fer metallic the empl o y men t c f a l arger sum i n No: i c urrency, wages requiring minute subdi tile 14 As to money generally, although dearer, N„ cai to the cre dit o f pr i va t e d epos it ors t sept i tr ger, and this we attribute to the lodg oppi. Tn ade with the capit a li s t s w h o rece i ve d itho leati nna for the recent fo r ei gn l oans , an d oft ti luivally keep an accoun t a t th e B an k toe, 3 ! la ncl, as w e ll as at some pr i vate b an k . The it . ' llna were increased. as well as the loans, and 8 1 , , ofof thrr°oable there may be a farther development bliblil,nlovement in the next return. Whether' t ooi ti 7n imports will equalise the shipments re hektt,'° be seen. Compared with the previous l ' ith,,,,:teoic.rtniagtei,::re as follows : £20,277.140 1 t beer . tiiiiot ease 216 290 16,116,978 I kat . D egrease 158,317 D ecease 3,369 751 1 134bii 9.091 i e enosits 6.407.739 Oth,„,increase 140.849 ' li eposits 4,et. Increas e 645,962 aY and other Bills Goy creas e 8.928 ~, isn.,.tneat Securities 12,810, 1 .64 v , 4ne re - s ,_ 48,540 PS ecurit iV s •• 14,943, 006 ktot eB Incr eas e 7 0'3.314 nc employ e d 9,2'29.550 the Increase 72,705 °lth4lnount of business done yesterday in Bills Sli o ," ; a 4 _ n gb upon the principal Contin meal cities ,NSt lima and the rates were not rionerally so I . . 1 'caris, 90 days, was 25 32A to ?,7; AraAter titlia't*el Ili to 11 18 ; Hamburg, 13 74 to 8 ; and Ai,: t . l 33 to 36. forit dhoti ition to the Lord Mayor, advocating the 4 , of Jesab.,, a committee to watxili over measures '111144 for the preservation of the Thames from t Pa rat:.-- i3 , bein g extensively signed in the city, ‘tclohi, 'Y 143 the public meet'ing convened by his i Th, ' ll . tu direct,llsn3tOts of the preci ons metals from Lon ail : e 21,665 ~'l u g the week ending last Thursday, A -11 nees of silmr and 7,710 ounces of ILttil)!snterld; ars rates. ' ° llt -1811 Stocks ba•ve been vary quiet at i e Net 3 'Consols have been 91i to Ilor 0 per .421 eats. 01 7 Cents. 921 i, and the Reduced .1,• -.t to 92. Bank Stock has been firm itk b s s, to , - . ,•1. Bills at 2d. interest ~ 't b e 216. rava_iequer ` 1 ! 2 en a . to 15s. premium, and India Bonds 'N 64 ° 30 s. runium. East India Stock has at 23 3. P tOrPhi ,D. Swedish The 0 ° : Securities are quite neglected. r 7tp t i_ se . rip 1 ,1141 A. tit ' . hav( a been marked 89 and 90. The ift 21 premium. Nothing has 44 ts 5" l c tin , ' 6 4 .ha per Cents. Peruvi in 4i per 1 ' ye been 82k, and Venezuela 31. Dutch 11, Qen t , '4% f i; 3 ' oring 96k. it i l tS. ° „"bag are the nominal prices of foreign 7i kit'kzrezia,la Deferred Bonds, 6i to , i t to T III I : 24 to 2ii ; Peruvian, 84 to 82i ; h t °ll - p ren Per Cents,, 58 to 53i. ; Portuguese 1 :1, ) - er Cents., 43 to 45 ; Russian Five 41 -., 100 to 102 ; ditto Four-and-a -' tlq Cent '9l • Spanish New Deferred, 4it tts b o,2 9 ; ditto,'B9 to * 37 to 38 ; ~ -rt Three per Cents., 4 b nleates. 41 to 44 ; ditto Passive, 41 to 4g. 6' 4 the Railway Shares have been heavy, .. . 14:111,4,_ paucity of business. Great Western are i, " : 4 14 13r evious rates, North Western jto i k, All, L ., Midland and South Eastern are . down . .: 1 11" a is...kC)reign Shares are mostly a fraction in li e a . s3- buy ers , octal (lint St k Bank Shares are steady, and Si‘ " I (111 . e -re w Steam firm. Peninsular Steam e n at ti t rather fuller rates. 41 r h , i k4 k ti, - kINI>4 r a ffic Hie,, DA Y .a.T ON E 1 t' .; . ( Pro,. , Omi ti .'cl t it„ , . 1, tt, l 4 i;4. lie s t h ,, 44 .int, e ' liccd 1121111it188... IN 'k r ~, on•eIle Annuities 42i ttl,, Neit,ent. Annuities ?it:t44,l ... .. ................................. ~ tA ~,i l ! klni.o 4,,,,81t,,ekriAr •,(,)00 k t : ll 4 t . t ar Account 216 'econnt 6th September... tloo l et Rill s , ' 21 2d. i i 2d. ktloa ......... 1440411 ................................... . ...... oti,rt: dud • ...... - . ............. t.. „,,, ilittr s 1858, 3i per Cent.... ...• Mt FUNDS AT ONE O'CLO '' lti t , 4o t „Mg, 44 per Cent — itii‘h ;to'Lle Account 824 N t . t0 184,4 14 :, 6 per cent _ t `haZ NI : Clip, 4 per Cent. l!il ito la l h oti ent , tS i t ei t ° l ' th e 8 8 e 4- 0 :1 Per Cent. _ 1 Cl;.„,, (1 "".. "' Wit 3l eh,- above oiterthle in ',moon 4 413,7°. 24 per Cent. 12 Gull . Cent. Certificates ...... 96. NI bit kila TWO O'CLOCK. to • 15 12 for .. ... c;;;;; . t ..................... 9 9 1 1 1 40,b, 4 ./:), SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) A ih. C ' , ol' l %...„',"tZ• 25 —WincT this t noon, S.S.W.; t, F gbrAezd'and fine clear weather. \ l ki,„ ( s+ ),Atig• 24. Wi n d W.S.W. — Anived — Wash" Ir b licf; tl C.r ig , r °n l New York, awl left for Bremen. r nh Aug. 23.—Windmoderate.—Arri . ved Oh 1 4 Maro' m The Annechiena from Thrall to 7, 11 1; t Put ' in here yesterday,some damaFe t+,1 1 4 Choked ; she has been surveyed, and will Tte,' i orr a ll ' i ge• 21. \ - 1( ind S.W.—Arrived—Express, A 'eone; Uniteil States, Havana ; Minna, 00, i`gl3A,be,,---Charles Challoner, for Quebe. a rqk (', for iS. '4‘lebee, New Quay. Sailed—All the wind 4t ilt ° l- 11, Aug . F 24 Wind S.W. —Arived —Wil fro 711 urf ax ; Hobert Small, Balaklava, (e 4l. t . (PEE ELECTRIC' TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday Morning. t( ti at er 'eN , ; aY (4.), from St. Thomas ; Despatch ' erland lymouth ; Atalanta and Othello, Paham Atalanta (s.), 4ed (lati"rer and - KT _ .). for Jersey ; Alliance (a.), Havre ; dip l ''ePtuaug, Sundswall. it hl r t s iv e ) ( r•W, LIVERPOOL, Saturday Morning. 4 41 4ii:q: ..., 11- ie i Si n b t tl a c P to oli . s L fom Baltimore ; Eliza' eth Hol. ti ts ' k).. biter Petrel, Old Calabar.. anal ' , Kuntz, for Nykiobing ; T . ;lean . ora, Lqg Op 4 4 , thei ear e, r ,rianaburg ; John Hunter and Vittorioso, o f m _k-onsta,,tinople. uoh7 l ri ver '''atYn, from Poole, with pipeclay, in heat. , N .b .Yesterday, got atla,4art the Adrinna, from _ 4 ") at anch or , ann sunk ; craw saved 4 tt !th,O.t. QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 23. gBab Kt, ti.:,f i rom St. John's, N Harriet, Ra. Liu 'Aswan ; Glenca p .1 ale, B Salunica. ()IT 4 , 1 1)13 on SRVIISH TELEGRAPR.I ILisp load.' to e five AVESEN. Saturday, 10.14 A.M. Au ' 24 2 . boars' fl D cod ; fine. Or l i (s ), from Constantinople ; qch:jeii i A a. Elitle, Aartuus ; Eskdale, Port a ti lc i u ll t e t g a o ; nd S a t : ; tt',4. La 7,"" (s.), :B;l'at—ariiPT),,apf:e(iiumiulTe4CrehaelrfbroounirgC; to °ll . t h 4, ti s - la't th e et . d t :Aao !.‘ number eitners on the Rhone carried 111 4 4 4 1 °4° Pain ofot large packages, containing ly ath er. , th e 1 , 1 _ r ,gaiters and rcd trousers from pi yea f. r shipment to Sebastopol. `l . 4 , Yed Annonay and Paris are now , ',1443 44 : 4113 13 camp skins, which are to be E M THIS GAY 4 RAILWA.YB. stAxlmAxs. Moon- Prices yeast I 25 7 8 -- tai 1.3 •6i 16 4 4 7i 91 - 93 63 63 11 13 8 - 10 •• 3 2 d 14 - 15 11j - 73 - 75 54 - 56 9 - 9 18 - 20 ••• "" 71 - 73 89 - 90 69 - 71 127 Y , 9 LO5 - 107 561 56 73 - 16 6i -• 7so 64 - 74) 83 - 83,1 7 7i 9" 99 95 95 I $d 1 85 - 54 - 2 74 846 7i - 711 41 - 43 15 10 - 50 - 52 29 . 31 • 74i 7 - 6 36_ 126 - 13 486 496 47 49 id 6i 64 64 61 d ; az -27 - 29 q:l7 - 10 9 44 46 in 14. 62 63 31 -- 32 4 - 3 2d par 38 - 40 ••• 5 --• 21 23 3 -- 4 21 - 23 5-- 7 3 2d par ip tinslP GO dorm this day. 251 i 41 1* 111 I 89i 71 70 128 7i 56 1 ii 49 5 71 70i h roe:en.,,,. 'a mbg. Vottng ~nd Basta. •Tnn• .;, seifast 2k Hallyme. ;firming. Wob rb ;tour ~y ~ , Clues' gietiltire Janet . ('heat;. & KirF eso and 4.12 it, 114.1 fit.l).o 10 61 Z 2 0•••--- ll "va &Tyn3origin. £25 (issd,at £4 iristol and Exeter. latodonian m Oalmarthen and Ca. Idigan ....... i. Chester Is Eiolyheaf. 11 ( fork and Bandon ill lark, Black, & Pas i 6 Cornwall ieT Junction su.din&BelfastJunc 611 Dundee Perthdan teen Junction di Do. N - *V K) Fast A~ Alian al Eastern Counties..... 10 Eastern Union, A Stock . B Stoofr fl Do., New A.. 'asi Lancashire 50 I al dinburg•h& Glaagnv ill F,dinb. and Peebles PO F,din. Prtl, & Dur 4.3,1 9 'orth ,t Clyde Jn Xll Furness 611 Do. Extension filasgow &S. West:::::: :,treat Northern !Ma ,1 vrauch.Sjie.k LineL•~ 611 Do, Shares, No, 1 2s, Man. & (?c:. Midland , o. Birinug, & filer}:• Half Shares & Nivrpt-Aberg. & Hrf • , ewry & Enniski.ll, 11 Wewry WarreupoiT `Ett trM 25 al I'%•, 1 :4 2 I ti 2,: 10 I ~?,1 't. Ii 6 1 *1 ‘I al A. 11 L 5 1: 50 St. • .11 (i Do., A. Stock...., 0 i)o., B. Stock...l f3rt. Sth. &West.(lre,) j(4reat. Western )0, Do. Stour Val, Rail Gua. Stk al Irish South-Eastern Il Tff.inttastor & CarUFA , V Do., Thirds 7 Do. Now Thirds Lisn cash. and York PI D,., st. Riding Pn. 61] LivCrsby.&Southrt 61) London & Blauk wal' 'lO :on& Firigilt & S.Cst. IC ',on& and N. Westn. 6 ;!o. Fifths 54 )0.10/. C ~ )o. Eighths... 00 .00don and S. Westri 1)o., £SD . 8 Do. £4O ►ll Unaptlrry&Coleraui Li] Livindrry & Eunisk, . li e 3 bud Rostrevor. o lorfolk Northn.Cortnties Tit IC+ Britirth 11 North Devon, No • 11 1 io.. No. 2 _ 411 so., A Deferred al , B Onarant e X; N. Eastern—Berwi , . !O Do. do. Extension 13 i D.N.E. Purel 6 . 1 Do. Leeds W Do. York North London Do. New £10.... ti s. strn., Flaw stead, and C :ity Ju • Vortl. Staffordshit North Western .) N. &S. Westrn. Jun , . Nnneaton o I.nd Leicester.. -t ti '0 1 sl 10 al it ! 1.;) St. rAI t(,' a 4 4 _ • so a 1 1.! oxford, WoreestAr,k Wolverhampton 8 l'orternontb 4 Central .. Scottish Midland ,:nropshire Union ~ ....anti , Devon • SO atl. Eastern .11 :zone, Wales vrksh. di Riv. hr tl 20 11 10 1, ;?.5 a 1 St. lo ..q1) St, 101 ~i i.' I K ! 20 .. I Do 4 4=ta , ne,wolt kWok Stockton gt Darli ;I ; Taff Vale.. Do. £lO 'rarer. Do. Prof., No. Thames Haven wllri Rnillytv, tTlverstone & Lanes. .11 \hue all iWatertl. St Kilkenny 411 waterford&Limer. all West Cornwall 5 West End of London And Crystal Palace all IWest London. an iwirabledn & Crori on FO REIGN• - 10 - 2 - 1 li - 1. lip 38} 12 -13 244 -24 i 2i - 84 6 -- 18 • 19 65 67 95A .- 963 5 - 5 5. - - iP -I° 34 - 3i 24 - 3i 231 241 100 102 115 118 115 t2O 108 10 2 9 114 - 116 di i . —8: 19/ - 20}p 14 2 p 7 9 2 - 3 51 5i 36i -26 i In 12i --• 9 -- 48trl 18 - 50 51 52 2.7 23 20 - 21 9 i - 9i - 2ip 4i 12i --. 13 PI ia4 : 1.9 ti.kNKti 94 - 95 66 68 d 4p -- 7 16 17 L 9 20id -- d 40 ... ..• ••• .. --' • • 35 : 36 42 - 4 3 52 - 53 • s• ••• 39A 40) 4 73 74 8 9 wma ;AI Autwers, , , , ott 4 iseigian Fastn. Juno. 10 .Rezi ers to Gra, sa.asso Rombay,Raroda,at • • Coutral 611 Demerara flute) IThenish...,..., 11 Eastern of Franco ... C 0 0. 'Jew gast. Indian, g. 5 p. 0 no, Ely..onsio: 00. 4i p. c. Bde., pay . '57, convertible_ 1 ilo. do., '59, do,. CM. of CanarlaAis Eon. Wit. f.riwrenee Itlantic do. . ...... 70 , o. flea. of Deber.. into Stk. till 'l3. Comp p. c., do Gt. Central of Frau (t I tietiat) guar. 5 per cent. 1 1),,. vew 5 per cent 2 "o. Extensions. . 611 Do. d 0... 3 ;real Luxembour Constituted Share d] Do. Obligations . Gt. Western of Canasi Shares . .1 , Do. 11(18., payable'V with option till '55. 01 Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. '6O ,11 Ds., do., '73, without option dl Hamilton & Toront ill Do. 8 per cent. 4 Lake Const. & Baslo 11 i Lucca Pistojasp. prof (► Lyons and Genova 4 Lyons d; Mediterran ►ll ‘Twiras Do. New Maria Antonia Do. do. New d 1 Namur & Liege :wit' , nterest) .I 1 Do. (ex interest)... .11 Northern of France ,11 D0.20/.Slis.lateChar , eroi and Erqueline guar. 3il p. c. & red. at 2211. dur. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854 Do. 201. 3 p. c Bds (finy.B.&Ams.Shs Lik NorwegianTrunkPre' 6 Paris and Lyons , ill ntto Bonds 611 Paris and Orleans._ di Paris and Rouen... .5 &Cherbrg, Pollen and Havre .11 loyal Danish ..... 3 Itqyal Swed ish All laambre and Mouse:., Do. 54 p. cent. Prel 2s Southern of Frame 6 St. .ndrevi's and, I Quebec. (A) r 22. West Flanders I Do 54 per e. Prof,,, 8 leVestern of France_ S Wept. of Switzerland Il Wt .:shade Zealand OlN'r-S" E . .„, 11 'ritish Colonial Ilan'« and Loan Company qitial: N. American ti • 7hartd. Bank of Asia 4 .'hrtd. Ftrk. of India, &nstralia, & 10 City ... ..lommercital of Lord. `'ttgli,h Scottish A.u.stralian Chart.. 01 T.onct. Chart. Bk. o. 5 Ditto New • London and County London Joint Stock !(I bond. & WeFtminstt il. ;f National Provincia of England [0 Do. Now '2 qatioual of Ireland. di NIONV South Wales.... 01 mental Bank or Corporation........ -rovincial of Irelath L I i fro. New ('loyal Australn.Bkg • %_4•2ld Imp Co Australia 71: 'Tlll:naf Australia. Z . , 1)0. New 60 Voion of Ulan (AN 5 18 17 20 1s 1 , 20 20 1.1 I_oo €: 100 35 I 71 (X I I% 5 ' 5 a 20 4 1 al tO4 tl too LOO 1 al LOP I a' 100 I al AP too 4: 20 1 20 1 1 1341 111 to 141 10 41 10 1 11 1 .11 :20 I I.J IA) a, zo 20 I 1' THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 25 1855 7 , ;. IIER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO PARIS. kind greeted the arrival of the august guests. As soon as the National Anthem had ceased, the Imperial quadrille was formed. The Emperor danced with the Queen, having Prince Albert and the Princess Mathilde for tie-a via ; Prince Napoleon danced with Lady Cowley, Prince Adalbert, of Bavaria, standing opposite. The Victoria quadrille, composed expressly by Strauss for the occasion, was played. Her Majesty danced. The Imperial party then resumed their seats, and after a Pause another quadrille was formed, M. He.ussman and several of their Majesty's suites taking part in it. After wards a waltz was played. During the interval the Emperor signified some command to Marshal Valliant, the Minister of War, and the latter went to the spot where stood some Arab chiefs and brought one of them over to where the Queen was seated. The Emperor pre sented the bronzed son of the desert to the Queen, and the Arab bending down embraced her knees, after the custom of his country, that is placed his hand on them at each side. The Queen seemed much amused at the .act. Their Majesties then went round the rooms. Then returning through the Galeria des Fetes, the whole party descended to the Court Louis XIV., and entering their carriages amidst tremendous acclamations from the crowd, drove off at a quarter-past eleven. To name all the distinguished parsons at this grand entertainment would be to give a list of all the Ministers, corps diplomatique, and all the persons distinguished in Paris, for rank, wealth, or talent. One of the names which, however, was most frequently in every one's mouth was that of General Canrobert, who was present and attracted the greatest attention. PARIS, THURSDAY NIGHT. According to arrangements the Queen remained at St. Cloud this morning, and Prince Albert came alone to Paris to visit the Univk real Exhibition. Hls Royal Highness was expected at half-past ten, but he reached the pa'ace about a quarter of an hour sooner. The Prince and his suite came in an open ewriage. His Royal Highness, who wore the ribbon of the Garter, and appeared in ex client health and spirits, commenced his examination of the terracotta awl other objects exposed iii the great passage leading to the transept. He then turned to the left to the court occu pied by the glass and crystal of C ichy, Baccarat, and St. Louis. The next court which his Royal Highness en tered contained work-boxes, necessaries, built furniture, &c. The next court, which is that of the " Arts Indus triels," was inspected wi h much interest by the Prince —whilst in this court his Royal Highness was joined by the Prince Napoleon. Tne Prince then descended an alley, and entered by the back the square devoted to the Imperial Printing-office. His Highness examined with interest the different productions of that establishment. His Royal Highness next passed into the silversmith's court, atter which, proceeding into the porcelain court, his Royal Highness noticed several objects in biscuit, and then entering the Transept examined the trophy of porcelain. After a passing glance at the zinc of the Vieille lilontagne Company, the Prince entered the square of bronzes, and made critical remarks on several objects. His Royal Highness then proceeded direct to the staircase which leads to the Swiss Exhibition. Then passing through the Swiss Exhibition, the Prince pro ceeded to descend the long gallery by the wall. Ar rived at the salon and boudoir of the Empress, the Prince entered it, and expressed the highest admiration of the splendour and exquisite taste with which it is de corated. The Prince next examined the contents of the adjacent staircase, and proceeded to ascend the gallery, which is chiefly occupied by specimens of French jewellery. Arrived nearly at the top of the gallery, iihe Prince, turning aside, proceeded to the great staircase, and de scending it went across the transept to the pourtour of the Panorama. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. ( From the Times of this day.) There are performers of such modest pretensions that even if we do not think their cause very hopeful, on the other hand we could never have the heart to discourage them. Of these the most inoffensive, and with the most claims, at least, to a respectful neutrality, are those gentlemen who take up the wholesome and con venient view of business. The Early Closing Asso ciation, the demand for a weekly holyday or half holyday, and Mr. Brotherton's twelve o'clock motion are movements too quiet and reasonable to be called agitations. Certainly there is an immense amount of unnecessary wear and tear in all business, pub lic or private. Everybody works too hard—either always or at times ; and the occasional recreation of tsavelling 3,000 miles in a month may afford excitement, but no rest either for body or mind. So we are disposed to feel very good natured towards a proposal by an ex cellent young nobleman to time the Parliamentary ses sion with some little regard to comfort and health. Lord Stanley gives the best possible reasons for begin ning the session in the middle of November, confining the Christmas recess between December 15 and January 15, thus gaining two good months by the usual time for opening the session at the beginning of February, and for deducting these two months from the present end of the session—that is, fixing the prorogation at the middle of June. He proposes, in feet, that we should continue to g,ve seven months a year to public business, that we shoui.l stick close to it, end take it at a time when Na ture shuts up, instead of that when she comes out with all her charm. Such a proposal is a good one, and we can only soy we wish Lord Stanley was in a position to give it effect. Nothing can be more miserable, not to say scandalous, than the fag-end of a Parliamentary seeeion,—houses made with difficulty by the use of " the whip ;" the smallest possible divisions on im portant questions ; great meastne s floored for want of ',umbers aed impetus to carry them, and jobs of all kinds smug sled through Houses too thin, too ',artisan. too idle, or too corrupt, to care about them. With half the business of the session still to be dene, members be gin to pair off on the plea of illness or engagements, and set eff to the country, only learning from the newspa pers the success of bad no-aeuree, the failure of good ones, and a general shipwreck of public business—all through the ettempt to keep Parliament sitting through out the Dog Days to the beginning of September Of course, we ourselves are only too much interested in the success of such a proposal. Nobody can doubt which way our opinion lies We have deprecated a hundred times that waste of Parliamentary time in the earlier months of the session which throws all its real business to the end. The sight of spring flowers, of the hay harvest, the glorious midsummer days, and the equally enjoyable midsummer nights, appeal to us as they do to other mortals, and anything that Parliament can do, or is likely to do, in the six weeks or two months after midsummer, compensates very poorly for the loss of Nature in her palmiest hours. But then comes that painful question which has damped the zeal of reformers from the beginning of the world—how is it to be done ! The proposition is one to set laws to a body that itself sets the laws ; to prescribe measures to that which defies ad measures, except the merest rules of business. There is nothing so uncontrollable as the House of Commons. Every member of that House may speak ten times a night, and as long as he likes. Every member may declaim for hours on a trifle, . or say the same thing over and over again ; and if he does not care for a thin audience, a good deal of interruption, and a very short reprrt in the newspapers, there is no other check to his garrulity. For the first half of the session the house will always think questions of confidence and other party diQcuQsions much more important than legislation, so the first half will always be so employed, leaving the actual lawmaking to the summer months. The house works in summer becau,e it has been idle, desultory, talkative, and quarrelsome in the winter IN ud spring. In the fable, the grasshopper came to the ant on the cold winter's day and asked for some food. The provident ant asked the grasshopper what it had done in the spring and summer, and the ' answer was, that it had danced and sung. "You may go on, then, singing to your own dancing," said the ant. The House of Commons dwindles into a jaded old hack, dragging on a wretched existence from day to day, sim , ply because it has misspent its time and opportunities in the earlier part of its career. About the beginning of June it usually wakes to the conscioneneee of an ill spent life, and then sets about to make up for lost time with fiaetic and generally unsuccessful energy. That is the body which Lord Stanley proposes to reform ; he would teach it so to number its days as to apply its heart to wisdom in winter or spring—at the beginning ef the session, instead of the end. As it is. the House or Commons does what most bad or idle men would do, if they had tho power ; it prolongs its natural life a couple of months to supply the omissions of its youth. To come to the point, at what time and in what form would Lord Stanley apply the remedy! It is of no use to wait fer June, because then all the work of the session is still to be done, and it must be done at all events, ever, if the members die for it. We cae only suppose, there f re, that Lord Stanley would draw up a number of standing orders with a view to stifling usele-s speeches end securing the free pes-age of bide through the house. Douhtle-s limitations might be made to the power of introducing new measures late in the ses sion, and to the proposal of amendments, and to other causes of interruption. Speeches, except on oxtraordi nary occasions, and except in the exposition of a, measure might be limited to a reasonable time. Abstractedly there is no reason why the house should not take its seven months when it pleases—begin them in November as well as in February. and end them in June as easily as in August. But suppose the session to he begun as Lord Stanley advises, and suppose a month's holvday at Christmas, a week at Easter, and none at Whitsuntide ; June comes, with the usual result a great deal to be done ; important measures in committee, or not yet in committee ; numerous promises still unfulfilled ; supplies still to be voted ; a budget still to be reconsidered ; a Church-rate Bill, No. 2, an Education Bill (No. 3), on the list of notices ; some revelation just made affecting the character of a Minister ; some negotiations in pro gress- -in a word, everything as it usually is about the let of June. What will Lord Stanley do We very much fear that the only result of his intended kindness would be to lengthen the session at the beginning as well as the end ; and to take away our winter as well as our summer. If be can really send us all into the country on the 18th of June he will have achieved another Wa terloo-day, and will deserve to be Prime Minister ; but we doubt whether even a Prime Minister will be able to get the House of Commons forward enough for so timely a prorogation. The Prince did not enter the Panorama, but turned direct to the transept. Thus far his visit has been al most exclusively devoted to the French part of the Ex hibition, and his Royal Highness destined the remainder for foreign countries. He began with England. Pass ing through the court containing locks, and Birmingham and Wolverhampton goods, his Royal Highness de scended by the alley to the Manchester court, which he crossed rapidly. The Prince then ascended the stair. case, and noticed on a landing a splendid table of New South Wales woods, and exhibited by the comtni,sion nominated by the colony. This table his Royal High ness said he would purchase. The Austrian productions on the top of the stairs were next visited, and the Prince passed through the Exhibition of Turkey, and then entered that of Tuscany. Here Prince Napoleon, being en gaged elsewhere, took leave of his Royal Highness. The Prince next visited the collections of the Pontificial States and Sardinia. Returning by the gallery next the Transept, the Prince proceeded to the exhibition of the East Indies, and examined it with great interest. The Prime afteru ards examined Hunt and Roskell's case of silversmiths' productions, &c. ; Handcock's diamonds were next examined by his Royal Highness. After a glance at Leuchar's and De In Rue's productions, the Prince went to the section occupied by English printing. The Prince having now completed his 'lamination of the English part of the Exhibition, proceeded into that of Belgium, then into that of Austria ; and then into that of Prussia. The Bavarian, Wurternberg, an-1 S3XOII collections, and those of certain of the smaller Gere'an States were next visited by the Prince ; and he then proceedel into Sweden and Norway, then passing through the Netherlat:de, the PI incer-acht-d Switzerland. his R.'yal Highness afterwards cescended the stairca-e, and crossed the transept to the large courts of Prussia. The Prince after war is vi-ited the Austrian Courts. With this, the visit to the Exhibition terminated (it was half-past one o'clock), and the Prince was conveyed in one of the Imperial catriAges to the Tuileries. A number of people were in the palace during the visit of the Prince, but though they manifested the most intense curiosity to see his Royal Highness, there was no confusion. The Queen and the Emperor arrived at the Tuileries from St. Cloud at halt-past two ; their Majesties were in an open carriage, arid were accompanied by the Princess Royal. The Royal vehicle was escorted by cuirassiers. As the Queen passed, loud shouts of " Vive la Reine !" were raised, and her Majesty graciously ac knowledged them. The Queen and Emperor, having been joined by Prince Albert, afterwards proceeded to the Museum of the Louvre. The Imperial party dined at the Tuileries, and at nearly ten o'clock set off for the ball at the Hotel de Ville. The exterior of the building presented a scene of the most striking character, whilst below the windows were displayed shields of crimson velvet, having the cipher of the Queen and that of the Emperor interlaced. From the summit of the centre tower floated the broad stan- dards of England and France, whilst below,_in front of the statue of henry IV., was erected a wide tent adorned with blue draperies, to receive the principal guests. The whole front was splendidly illuminated by jets of gas. Eight gigantic pyramidal stands, placer.: two by two, presented a luxuriant mass of coloured lamps, most harmoniously blended, whilst opposite, at the extre mity of the wide space which stretches out in front of the building, were placed an equal number, similarly disposed. Two grand entrances bad been prepared to the general suite of rooms thrown open. From the ves tibule, at which the Queen was to alight, a wide stair case, the walls of which were hid from sight hy ever greens and a profusion of the richest flowers, led up to the State apartments, but leaving the Court Louis XIV. first to be traversed. This court, which not many months back was open to every wind, has now been p ermtarnaenr?folyrined i covered to a in, h au adri t)i waswor wondrous the usb beauty. The sion The chief ornament was a staircase placed exactly under the central lustre, and erected expressly for the occasion. Right opposite the grand staircase, from toe centre of the room, sprang with indescribable lightness a wide flight of steps, which at about six feet from the ground separated to the right and left, to wind upwards by a curve of the most graceful sv;e p to a wide landing at,ove. Flowers ent,:ined their branches and tendrils round the gilt rings of the staircase, the balustrade of which was covered with crimson sad gold. At each side below, at the spot horn which the balustrade took its starting point, stood, on a lofty pedestal, a bronze fernab) figure, nearly of ; one an Egyptian, and the other a Greek, bearing high in air a cluster of lamps to sui,, those so profusely lavished around. Tee stair case, was composed of a wide landing at about five feet from the ground, from which steps struck off to the sight and left to the rooms above, round a grotto in which stood two statues, one of France on the right, and the other 'of England on the left, leaning on each other to imp' f Force, and bear ing between them an olive branch to represent Union. At the sides were two Naiades in a, reclining posture, representing the Seine and the Thames, and each holding an urn from which gushed forth a copious stream of sparkling water into a wide Munk . in, filling the grotto which was placed below. At the point where the staircase reached the mason work of the building above, one of the windows of the Council Chamber had been transformed into a doorway, hung with crimson velvet embroidered in gold. In the Council Chamber a bust of Queen Victoria was placed, in the midst of flowers, over the fireplace of the right, and one of Prince Albert on the left. _ _ Beyond stood the grand ball-room where the Queen was to appear to the eight thousand guests who hal re ceived invitations. The place of honour was exactly opposite the wide entrance from the Salle des Cariatides, and over the place assigned for her Majesty and the rest of her party, stretched a magnificent line of hangings of crimson velvet looped up with torsados of gold of the most gorgeous character, and the centre point terminat ing in a royal crown of immense size. Six chairs of state, crimson satin and gold, were ranged below await ing the imperial and royal guests. The anxiety to bs present early exceeded anything ever seen at these celebrated balls, as carriages had ar rived even before the bull ling was open to receive the guests, and at nine o'clock the crowd was dense in the vicinity of the spot at which chairs of state bad been ar ranged. About that time between forty and fifty ladies, the wives or relatives of the members of the Municipal Commission, assembled in Court Louis XIV., each wear ing on her left shoulder green and red ribbons, with a crown embroidered on the part near the rosette, to show that they were to be coesidered ma in waiting on the Queen during the evening. Some time after the members of the commission, all dressed in white knee-inexpressibles and silk stockings, took up their place in two lines from the grand entrance to receive her Majesty. About ten o'clock the shouts of the multitude in the distance announced that the Imperial cortege had left the Tuileries and was advancing. The party advanced in ten state carriages of the most gorgeous description, and the whole of the distance down the Rue de Rivoli was brilliantly illuminated. The cheers at the outside of the Hotel de Ville when the Queen ar rived were deafening. Her Majesty,the Emperor, and Prince Albert were in the first carriage, and were escorted by a party of the Cent Gerdes. Her Majesty on alighting was at once led forward by the Emperor, and was received at the entrance by M. Haussinann and iag p ni the principal members of the Mu nici pa l Commissio n. l e d s e e r n t s e et withd a n rel The Imperial party then ascend ed the staircase, and at t fi li c e en landing u , thous stones to the Queen ; another was also pre- I sented by Mine. Haussmann to the Princess Ma thilde, who accompanied - he p art y , Prince Napo leon having preceded them. Her Majesty then ascended the staircase, and the moment after entered the Galerie des Fetes, leaning on the Emperor's arm, the Prin cess Mathilde following with Prince Albert. Strauss's band then played • 4 God Save the Queen !" with won derful effect, the august guests taking their places in the chairs of State, and their suites lining the sides of the open space already spoken of. The Queen sat at the left of the Emperor, and Prince Albert being on her left, and then Prince Napoleon. On the right of the Emperor was seated the Princess Mathilde, and then Prince Adalbert of Bavaria. The Empress was not present. The Queen wore a white satin dress, with five lace flounces, and with a profusion of geraniums sprink led over it with great taste• Her Majesty bad on a splendid diadem of diamond', with necklace, bracelets, ear-rings, and other ornaments, to match, and wore also the broad ribbon of the Garter. The Emperor, who was dressed in the uniform of a general officer in the French service, also wore the ribbon of the garter. Prince Albert wore the uniform of a Field-Marshal of the Eng lish army, with the grand cordon of the Legion of Honour. M. Hanssmann stood a little at the right of tho party. No oheoP !nig deraoastratio" of azy (Front the Times of this day.) In the discussions upon the theory of fortification which the memorable operations before Sebastopol have naturally suggested, it has been assumed as a probable deduction that the employment of earthworks, with an abundant supply of guns, would restore the resources of the defence as compared with those of the attack ; or, in other words, that fortified places in general would no longer be reducible with the same amount of certainty as before. This conclusion we consider a fallacy, and the subject is of such interest, not only at the present con- juncture, but as an abstract question of military science, that we once more bring it under the notice of our readers. _ _ To prove that earthworks and guns will accomplish what is stated above, it should be shown that such re sources will, in the ordinary course of things, be less at the command of the besiegers than the besieged. Nei ther of these instruments represents any new invention. Earthworks have always been known and esteemed in fortification, and gunpowder serves one side as well as the other. The objection to earthworks, as we have be fore stated, is, that owing to the want of tenacity in the material, they cannot be made to present a perpendicu lar front to the enemy, but must be constructed at such a slope as will admit of asoent without ladders. This condition has not been changed at Sebastopol, nor have the Russians thrown up their works at any extraordi nary angle ; their strength has consisted solely in the prodigious number of guns which they were enabled to mount, and in the multitudes of men at hand to serve them. Sir John Burgoyne has explicitly stated that the plan pursued by the Russians was " the plan which had been pursued for hundreds of years—namely, making ordinary fieldworks of earth along the surface of the ground ;" and he added, that the efficiency of these works arose from the fact that they had a great army and 300 or 400 pieces of cannon behind them. In this view of the case we entirely coincide, and the question, therefore, between the relative means of the attack and the defence becomes limited to the point of artillery alone. 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On the contrary, vast as were the re sources of that fortress, they must, as far as we can un derstand, have been exhausted long ago had it not been for fresh supplies. Of guns there was perhaps, owing to the accession of the artillery of the fleet, a sufficient stock, hut of stores and munitions we know that con voys have repeatedly been brought up, and that the force in our front bus been constantly renewed. Here lii s the true secret of the defence. It is not simply in earth works, or even in earthworks with abundance of guns, but in a position communicating with the resources of a whole empire. This much, however, must at the same time be anmitted, that only by the use of earthworks a distinguished from other works of the kind could the Russians have constructed their defences, or repaired their damages so rapidly. _ _ Mr. Fergusson's theory of fortification is certainly complete in itself. He proposes to build circular forts of earth, and to mount them with so many guns that the fire of the fort upon any given point must be superior to that which can be brought against it. He assumes, in short, that the fire of the defence can be secured in an ascendancy over the fire of the attack. Now, this may or may not be feasible, but it has certainly not been accomplished at Sebastopol. There the fire of the be siegers is undoubtedly superior to that of the besieged, though not, as yet, so much as to enable them to subdue sufficiently the artillery of the defence. It is not by this or by any other novel theory of fortification that Sebas topol has been defended, but by the unexampled supply of resources at the command of the defenders. The truth is, that all the maxims and deductions of military science fail of application to operations so pecu liar as those conducted in the Crimea. Hitherto, the number of guns which it was thought practicable or ne• cessary to bring against a fortified place was compara- tively small, 207 pieces of artillery of all descriptions, mortars and howitzers included, being the largest com putation, we believe, ever made for such a purpose. The Austrian equipment for a siege train reckons 178 ; the Prussian, 142 ; the French, at Antwerp, had 144. On the whole, it has been concluded that 100 pieces of heavy artillery would be as many as could be brought into battery against a fortress in a hostile country, and i it is, in fact, upon this assumption that the superiority of Mr. Fergusson's fort depends, inasmuch as these 100 guns could be answered by more than twice as many. But the Allies at Sebastopol have not only a much greater number than this, but the pieces themselves are of a larger calibre than is usual in battering trains. Again, garrisons are usually of 3,000, 5,000, 10,000, or perhaps 15.000 men-30,000 being a very large garrison indeed. But what has been the number of the Russians in the Crimea! We own ourselves somewhat at a loss to discover any facts which may be regarded as establishing new laws iu the science of fortifications generally. Earthworks have, no doubt, been employed, more largely and effectually than formerly, but they have not been built upon the new principle or yielded any new results. That 300 or 400 pieces of cannon, supported by a large army, should produce a greater effect than a far smaller number, sup ported only by a limited and exhaustible garrison, is eel tainly nothing extraordinary. The strength of granite in resisting shot seems to be still uncertain, for the ex periments at Bomarsund and Sebastopol appear in op posit:on to each other ; and there was no trial of it , strength at Sweaborg, where the shells thrown by the mor tar-boats passed clear over the batteries. We do not, then, see that anything has occurred to affect the general con clusions respecting the attack and defence of fortified places. If earthworks are employed instead of masonry, they must either be mounted with a most powerful force o" artill , ry. or they will be liable to be carried by storm. If the artillery is so increased, so must be the garrison, and so must be the clsualties, and how are the resauree of the place to support such exhaustion ? So long as the operations of a siege presume the first condition of a siege —viz., that the garrison shall be confined to the resources actually contained in the place at the period of investment—so long must the means of the attack be superior to those of the defence, unless some species of rampart can be discovered which gunpowder cannot de stroy, and which the assailants cannot surmount. This discovery has not, in our opinion, been made in any form of earthworks. Abundance of guns is, of course, a most valuable condition, but abundance will be of little use unless it implies relative superiority, and, if this is implied, the secret of the defence will lie in the cannon, and nut in the ramparts on which they are mounted. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) COVENT GARDEN. Very large supplies of fruit and vegetables were on sale to-day, and an extensive business was transacted, as follows Faurr.—Pine apples, English, 3s to 6s per lb; colonial do., is to 3s each ; hot-house grapes, is 6d to 4s Od per lb ; foreign ditto, Od to Os Od ; melons, is Od to 5s each; pcaches, 8s Od to 15s ; nectarines, 5s Od to 12s per dozen ; apples, 3s Od to 6s Od per half sieve ; pears, 3s Od to 6s per half sieve ; Orleans plums and green gages is 6d to 3s per punnet ; apricots, 2s to 4s per doz. ; common plums, 3s 0 to 4s per half sieve ; cherries, 2d to 6d per pound; lemons, 4s to 8s Od per 100 ; oranges, 8s to lls per 100; fil berts, Os per 100 lbs ; cobnuts, Os to Os ; almonds, Us to Os pet lb. ; walnuts, Gd to is per 100 ; figs, 3s Oil to Gs Od per doz ; strawberries, 2d to Gd per pottle ; goose berries, 1s 63 to 2s Ud per half sieve ; currants, 3503 to 4s Od per half seive ; raspberries, 2d to Gd per pottle. V EGETABLES. —White cabbages, 6d to is 3d per dozen; red ditto, 2s to 5s Od per dozen ; French beans, is 6 to 2s Gd per half sieve ; brocoli, 03 per bund. ; potatoes, 45s to 90s per ton ; vegetable marrow, Gd to is per doz. ; peas, 4s to 4s 6d per bushel ; broad beans, is Od to is 9d per hall sieve ; turnips, 2d to td per bunch ; carrots, 3d to bd per bunch ; cucumbers, Os Id to Os 9d each ; garlic, 8d to Os 8d per pound ; spinach, is Od to 2s 6d per sieve ; old onions, Os Od to Os Od per bushel ; new ditto, 1.1 to 4d per bunch; leeks, 23 to 3,1 per bunch ; shallots, 4d to 6d : horse-raddish, 2s Od to 4s OA per bundle ; parsley, 21 to 3d per bunch ; celery, is Od to is 63 per Punch ; endive, is ;:id to 2s 3d per score ; beet, is 6(1 to 2s per doz. ; parsnips, Os Gd +43 is 03 per dozen ' • small salad, 23 to 31 per punnet ; mushrooms, is to is Gd per pottle ; artichokes, 4s to tis per doz. ; cabbage lettuces 93 to is per score ; sorrel, 6d to Is per half sieve ; radishes 6(.1 to is per dozen hands ; tomatoes, is Od to 2s. 6d per half sieve; chillies, is to is Gd per 100; Brussels sprouts, is Od to 2s 03 per half sieve ; capsicums, is to 2s dozen.; walnuts pickling, Gd to is per 100; cauliflowers, 3s to 6s per doz. NEWGATE AND LEADENHA LL. Turkeys, Os Od to Os Od ' • Goslings, 5s 6(1 to 6s 6(1 each; Ducks, 2s 6d to 38 0 3 ; tame Rabbits, Os Od to Os Od; wild do., is to 1s 6d each ; Pigeons, 6(1 to 93 each ; loge Surrey Fowls, Os Od to Os Od ; middling, 2s 03 to 3s od • Chickens, is 9d to 2s 3 d ; Capons, 3 s 6(1 to 4s 6:1; Hares 3s 03 to 4s Grouse, is 6.1 to 2s !:3 each ; Guinea Fowls, 2s tid to 38 Od each. Ostend fresh butter, Ils to 12. s 6(1, and English lls tid to 14s 0(1 per dozen lbs. English Eggs, tis Od to 9s Od ; French ditto, 58 0.1 to 7s 0 per 120. NEWPORT. Beef from 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 8 ; lamb, 4s 8d to 5s 8d ; veal, 3s 10d to is 8d ; pork, 3a 10d to 4s 6d per 81bs. WHITECHAPEL. Beef, 3s 6d to 4s 8d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s Sd ; lamb, 4s 8d to 5s 8d ; vea,l, 4s Od to 4s 8d ; perk, 3s 8d to 4s 6d per 81bs. by the carcase. BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 2s Gd to 203 ; Brills, 2s 6d to 68 each; Salmon, is 3d to is Gd per lb ; Cod Fish, is to 5s Od each ; Soles, 3d to is Gd per pair; Eels, 8d to is 01 per lb; Lobsters, is to 4s Od ; Crabs, 6d to 2s 6d ; Whitings, 3s Od to 12s per doz. ; Common Oysters, 12s to 20s ; Natives, 50s to —s per bsh ; Mackerel, 60s to —s per 100 ; Smelts, is 6d to Os per doz. ; Skate, 6d to Od per lb; Shrimps, is Gd to 2s 6d per gallon; Bloaters, is Od to 2s Od per doz. ; Fresh Herrings, Gs Od to Os per 100. ; Scotch do., 6d; Sprats, 8s Od to Os Od per bushel ; Doreys, 2s Od to lOs each ; Haddocks, 5s to 12s per doz. ; Pike 6d ; Sturgeon, fid per lb ; Prawns, 5s Od to 63; Mullets, 6d to is 6d ; Plaice, 4d to is each ; Halibut, 6d per lb ; Flounders, is to is Gd per dozen. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 10d to 10id ; of household ditto, Bid to 9)..td per 4 lb loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. -- - Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 3id to 3id ; 641 b to 721 h, 3id to 3id ; 721 b to 801 b, 4d to 44d ; 801 b to 881 b, 44d to 4,;(1; 881 b to 961 b, 40 to 4d ; 961 b to 1041 b, Od to Od ; 104 t. 3 1121 b Od to Od ; upwards, Od to Od ; Horse hides, 5s 5d to Os Od ; calf skins, light, 2s Od to 3s Od ; ditto, full 6s Od to 6s 6d ; Polled Sheep, 2s 4d to 3s Od ; Kents ' Os Od to Os Od ; Half-breds, Os Od to Os Od j Downs, is 8d to 23 4d ; Lambs, 2s 4d to 3s 8d ; Shearlings, is 4d to 1 s 11 d. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD. — OId meadow hay, 41 5s to 61153 ; new ditto, 51 Os to 61 Gs; old etov.r, , 51 Os to 6/ 15s ; new ditto, 4110 s to 6/ 103 ; and straw, 11 4slod to 11 Os Od per load. A moderate supply and a sluggish demand. CIIMBERLAND. — OId meadow hay, 41 108 to 61 17s ; new ditto, 51 Os to 6/ lls ; old cloves, 5/ Os to 61 153 ; and new ditto, 41 10s to 61 Gs ; and straw, 1/ 5s to 1/ 108 per loan. Supply limited, and trade tolerably firm. WHITECHAPEL.—OId meadow hay, 4' 103 to 61154; new ditto, 51 Os to 61 108; old cloy , 41 108 to 71 Os ; new ditto, 41 5s to 61 Gs; and' straw, 11 4s to 11 94 per load. Both hay and straw moved off slowly. WRECK OF A. GOVERNMENT EMIGRANT Smr.—Aus tralian advises mention that the ship Nashwauk, while on her voyage from Liverpool to Adelaide, S.A., with Government emigrants, was wrecked on the coast near the latter port. MAIDSTON CAVALRY DEPOT.—On Wednesday last Mademoiselle Isabelle, a French lady who has effected a revolution in the system of riding and horsebreak. at iog v in the Government cavalry schools of Fra nce seri d the Maidstone depot. A general order had b een issu ed by Lord Hardinge, desiring that every atteenee anotio u n " obedience should be shown her, and under la ;oteru at the of this she oommenced demonstrating trained horses were placed at her disp os al as school. Two young horses, twohLretu;ite, struction it would as she has yet proceeded with her a in ce r ;li n t i 1?]. initiatory t i tao to e r ff y e c a t ' s i ind Ada i h t i i ( e ) 1 1 a 1 appear that her plan is to af fi x ihorse'si bp: l :k r a 'slo k t i fw t a i o d r b and then, the horse's areoi break,affixed froma at different w hich p r h o aciegehdtss2iettr:: itnhseo break; eac to the usual bridoon rein and she, w i t h a° thisw ve h t i n p e , oa m bt : a : : w e t s hin t i h eth e h R ae lir same r n a a l 1 . I head, beingp go through i „ a an' at once ways practised in our service with a mounted man. She neadcahfeterwraerde mounts him on a trained horse and many portions of the t w h a e y n , a t instructs him how to achieve the same result. There is methoda recruit ; exercise wine . ilt:lthacebresin the Eng lish schools have hitherto not been thought proper for a man to do until he has, been for some time under training. another difference in It is thought there will be no difference in the end be tween her method and that now in practice, but the re sult will be arrived at by a different and, perhaps, shorter method. She is pronounced " clever" by many of the old soldiers of this depot, and she, on the other hand, is understood to have highly • it Disidstone. Praised the method pursued 30 20 1 1 11.28 St. 20 St. 15 9t) :!A In st. SL. LOUX ' all 100 0 St. 4t.1 -4) St. 12 122 . ! 10 6 I.f 127 [2 St St. 1.6. 5 St. all all all all A oo oo (X) 00 00 00 571 92 3 8 71 Pm S,~I il2/~ LITERATURE. Esquisse sur le Canada : Considers song le point de vue economiste. Par J. C. Tache. Paris : Hec tor Bossange et File. A little volume of nearly two hundred pages, possessing something beyond the merely mechani cal merit of a clever compilation. Its author, one of the members of the Canadian Parliament, has been officially delegated to Paris as one of the Com missioners from Canada to the Universal RaWsi• tion. He has judiciously imagined that a book like the one now under consideration might appea r rather appropriately at this moment in anticipation. of the elaborate "catalogue raisonne" about to be published, setting forth the productions comprised in the Canadian section of the great palace of in dustry in the Elysian Fields ! This sketch, or outline of Canada, comes before us, we would observe, at once in a manner somewhat authorita tive, being issued from the press at the expense of the province of which it is avowedly descriptive, for the purpose of gratuitous distribution. As affording a comprehensive bird's-eye view of Canada throughout its whole vast dimensions, the work cannot but be regarded with a peculiar and almost grateful satisfaction. For hitherto it has been &fie. cult to obtain any adequate insight into the condi tion of that central part of the North American Continent, except after having entered upon a variety of extended and laborious researches. De scriptions of Canada, there have been heretofore of course in abundance. But those descriptions hare, for the most part, been either too minute in de tail, and therefore voluminous, or too curt and succinct, and therefore superficial. For example, as M. Tache has himself intimated is his " Envoi" —there have been works relating to this subject, bearing now upon the history, now upon the com merce, now upon the social and political condition of the Canadians —publications, however, too fre wently of a character so comprehensiveof their kind as to be beyond the reading capacity of the genera lity in this age of railway and electro-telegraphic com munication. Another series of works immediately' illustrative of the state of Canada and of tho con dition of the Canadians has, according to the honest exception made to them by our author, bewildered by their complicated masses of facts and figures every one but those capable of laying claim by right to the merit of profound statisticians. Instead of thus aiming so high as altogether to overshoot the desired mark, namely, the acquisition of some mo derate share of popularity among contemporary observers, the compiler of the little volume under notice has herein simply endeavoured to afford the reader, in the pleasantest manner imaginable, a rapidly-acquired notion of the chief points relating to the province of Canada, examining the subject; chiefly if not exclusively under certain economical considerations. Accordingly as the readers of this " Outline,' therefore, may be more or less men of letters, or men of science, politicians, or political economists, they may individually experience a cer tain amount of disappointment in the course of its examination. The literary investigator may re gret that the book does not contain more parti culars in relation to Canadian literature—the tou rist may lament that there is so little comparatively in reference to the picturesque—the natural phi losopher may wish that the volume comprised ad ditional particulars of a scientific character—the political economist may sigh for something more in the way of statistics. M. Tache confesses as much in his preliminary review of his own labours ; but all there rea lers together, if not each one amongst them individually, can scarcely fail, he hopes (and Elopes, too, we cannot but think, not wholly with out reason) to derive from the general survey taken by our author same rational amount at least both of instruction and entertainment. This could scarcely fail to be the case with a book compiled by a man of M. Tache's intelligence, in allusion to a country extending over 40,000 leagues super ficially, embracing within its circumference 2,000,000 inhabitants, and productive annually of wealth equivalent to 500,000,000 francs—a pro vince extending in one direction to the western ex tremities of Lake Erie and Lake Huron, in an other to the shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in another to the northern limits of the United States and of the State of New Brunswick, and in another to the southern boundaries of the vast track of land known as the Hudson's Bay Territory. The Sketch cf Canada furnished by M. Tache portrays the province now geographically, now historically, now geologically, now meteorologically, now in re ference to its natural productions, now in relation to its manufactures—delineating subsequently its various means of communication by high-road and water-course, by canal and railway, afterwards pre senting to view a compact but sufficient outline of the Civil and Political Institutions of the Canadians. Nothing of importance has been overlooked. Every salient point has been scrupulously particularised. The " opuscule" penned by M. J. C. Tache, con stitutei indeed, the veritable epitome of the prin cipal characteristics of that noble province of which the author is at once the exponent and the repre sentative. His " Esquisse,' in other words, is the history in little of both Canada and the Cana dians. The War : from the Landing at Gallipoli to the eath of Lord Aaglan. By W. H. Russell, the Times correspondent. Routledge and Co. Unquestionably, and beyond all doubt, the most picturesque and brilliant description of " The War," from the period of its commencement down to a time almost immediately contemporary. Besides which—what is of still greater importance than either brill.ancy or picturesqueness —the nar ration among all the 'various accounts of the great contest between the Allies and Russia, which is, perhaps, the most reliable and trustworthy. Not but that several records of both the recent and the present campaign, gi ven t o th e wor ld e l sew h ere than originally in the columns of the Times, are entitled to no trivial amount of popular considera tion. For example, the serial accounts furnished by their regular correspondents to others among our morning contemporaries, to the Post and Herald, the Daily .ews and the Morning Chronicle, have been distinguished variously by the merits of promptness and exactitude. Beyond which, espe cial mention ought, in like manner, to be made of the chapters delineative of the events transpiring before Sebastopol, chapters which have for some considerable time past adorned from month to month the familiar and honoured pages of Black wood's Magazine, Ebony's contributes being no other, we conjecture, than Captain (now Brevet- Major) Hawley, of the Engineers, already favour ably known to the readers of Maga as the spark ling writer of the story entitled " Lady Lee's Widowhood." The universally admitted supe riority of the account of " The War," furnished in periodical despatches to the Times, by our con temporary's distinguished " Special Correspon dent," W. H. Russell, deprives of the mere ap pearance of invidiousness the preference accorded. to his narrative of the campaigns of 1854 and 1855, in the Crimea, as its right, absolutely and. indisputably. The compact edition of these cele brated despatches from the East, printed collec tively iu a volume of some five hundred pages octavo, and issued to the world from the estab lishment of Messrs. Routledge, is announced upon the title-page as published "By Permission." Its sale in this new shape will, of course, as might .be expected, be something almost fabulous from its magnitude. Nevertheless, whatever that sale map be, it can scarcely be more, in any even t, than • commensurate with the excellence of the work m vigorous and thoroughly hoaest narrative of occu r __ cos rences of the very first importance—o_cc e the midst of the smoke of the battle-held pencil.l y English the sequel of which are still being sketehtdhel same 0 (311 in his luminous and uncompromising men are too largely indebted to DT s• not to accord ' capacity as the Times Corresp . °nreference to "The ' to this volume of his letters In and even, let ua War," a welcome the most cordial, unaffectedly ear nest and unexagge , say, the most . _ .is his due from all those ratedly enthusiastic. It tainted by the Main of in , whose natures are not E I gratitude. THE t h a t the Marquis of Clan r i car d e will be POST MASTER-GENBRAL is now coil. t h e n ew _ REPRESEN TATION OF MAIDSTONR.—A, J. Beresferd Hope , Esq., who formerly r e p resented the borough, has addres sed the electors on th e C onservative interest. dently stated that a t C R YSTAL PALACE.—SHILLING DAY. AUGUST 24. A.dinissions on payment, 5,783 ; ditto by season tiekete , 5 84.—Total, 6,367. days, so much so that if LAND TRANSPORT COR P service has been The recruiting for this it b o l r s o is — n k tin w tw it e h t i o n go th o e n rate the corps • past a suofhewe will be complete in a few weeks. It is generally preferred by the young and stalwart to the military sph ere of action. DEAL. —On Friday last, a boy named Spain got be. yond his depth, and had a narrow escape from drowning. A soldier, belonging to the 44th depot, hearing a scream, and seeing the condition of the boy, plunged into the sea and kept him on the surface of the water until a beat I Was launched from the beach and rescued the lad and his gallant preserver.--Kentish Observer. DIAL, Friday Evening.—The electric light was exhi bited in this town to-night, preparatory to lighting the town generally with it. It was perfectly successful, awl gave great satisfaction to the inhabitants ; it proved a great boon. It has a most transcendent and vivid ap pearance, and is a vast improvement upon the previously poverty-stricken gaslights. Another most excellent portrait model of the distin guished officers of the French army has just been nom pleted and placed in the museum of Madame Tussaud's Exhibition. It represents General Canrobert, in the uniform of a French General, and is said to be a most excellent likeness of that gallant officer, and is certainly one of the beat executed and life-like in this 1414 tecestin establistzs at. 100 WU 1.00 20 20 50 20 25 5 i i 13 96 51 118 i