The Sun. — London, England, 1861-05-30 00:00:00

HEATItE-ILON AL, IiAY MARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstone. THIS- EVENING, the pertorraanoes will commence with THE SUN AND THE WIND. And the original Comedy, entitled BLACK SHEEP. Mr. Buckstone, air. Compton, Mr. Howe, he. ; Mrs. Wilkins, Sirs. Charles young, bliss Lovell, j e c. Atter which. will be revived, with entirely new scenery an d effects, and a ll the original music by the ate Sir Henry Bishop, the melodrama C ofommence THE MILL 7. ER AND HIS MEN. at ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lowe and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, TRUTH AND FICTION. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews,Widdicombe, Shore, Cathcart, Garden; Miss C. Leclercq, Miss R. Leclercq, and Miss M. Harris. Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Feohter. Sup ported by Hermann Vezin, Ryder, Meadows, am ; Misses Beath, Elsworthy, and R. Leclercq. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL - Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Reproduction of "The Colleen Bawn. " The Adelphi "Census" every Evening. THIS EVENING, the successful new Farce, entitled A TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford. After which (193 d time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. D. Boucicault, D. risher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, H ome r, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Blllington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS. Messrs. J. Toole, Eburne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss Kate Kelly, Miss E. Chorne, and Mrs. Chatterley. Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. ,t sTLEY'S.—THIS EVENING.—A COM rLIMENTARY BENEF IT to Mr. HENRY M AGIVEoN, who met with the deplorable accident at the Alhambra. The following artistes have volunteered their services : —The Christy ear Minstrels, Messrs. Murray and Holland, the Brothers Berri, Thos. Handford, Mr. Young and his Dogs, the litrky Mountain Wonders, and a host of talent wil l a pp . In active preparation, JOCKO, the Brazilian Ape. CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera, UN BALLO IN ISASCHERA, (First produced in England at this Establishment), With a Chorus of Forty Voices. Also, Verdi's IL CORSARO, never performed at any other Concerts. Solos on the Cornet-a -piston, by Mr. Levy. The Comic Department comprises the Brothers Conrad (in their new and inimitable entertainments), Mr. Wood and his talented little Son, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Blanchard, Mr. Hol lingsworth, and Alias Hose Howard. Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGHMANS. T H X F 0 R D, 6, OXFOh,D-STREET. Mr. LEVY, undoubtedly the best performer of the day on the Cornet-a-Piston—Grand Selections (on the most complete scale) from Dinorah, Martha, Stradella, &a, and other vocal and instrumental music, by Miss Russell, the Misses Stuar t, and Miss Ernst, Messrs. Charles Greville, Fornari, Kimber ley, Bernard, Beaumont, Bervon, Hnish, Signor Tivoli, and Mr. Henry Herbert, with full band and powerful and selected chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans.—The following , Comic talent, Messrs. W. Randall, J. Blanchard, W. H. Wie land, Hollingsworth, E. Marshall, Harvey, and French, and the Brothers Conrad in their latest and best entertainment, every evening. Admission, Hall, sixpence ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAT.—Morning, 6h. 14m.—Afternoon, 6h. 39m. To-uoußow.-Morning, 7h. 5 -In.—Afternoon, 7h. 28m. THE WEATHER.--SUN OFFICE, MAY 30, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE suADa. 68—highest since noon yesterday. 55—lowost this morning and during the night. 69—this day at noon. Bs.uoirrrmn-30.0. WI-No—N.-Easterly—light and fine; with warm weather, .0? !, 66 - 4^l . ii) , , \'' .4 ''' -,,.:::' ....' 4 ' ✓` 'V..-n --, 4 .0,.... L. - 4,4 . # . 'hl F; ( I.?,:_wa: i•M A k , Li' . 11 0 ~:~ THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1881. Can it really be possible ! The Times of this morning certainly says it—and though the Times says it with incredulity, it, nevertheless—says it ! Our chief contemporary puts forward its statement thus explicitly and emphatically after a pretty long preamble, a preamble so lengthened, in fact, that it really appears as though the writer shrank from coming to the point—and no wonder !—the Times of this morning puts its damaging state ment—at last—thus pointedly : "It is with deep regret," observes our contemporary, " we hear it rumoured that terms have been made by which the support of the partisans of the Galway route has been secured. Any such arrangement, whatever its terms, and however its object may be veiled, would be in our opinion a most lamentable conces sion. It is said that the subsidy is to be continued for six months longer. If this be true, the meaning is that £36,000 is to be paid to a Private Company in order that a measure of Imperial policy may be carried through Parliament. We trust this is not so. We refuse to believe it. Better a thousand times be defeated by a narrow majority than in augurate once more in this country the reign of Parliamentary corruption. Let it once go forth that it is only by bribes out of the public purse that a Parliamentary majority can be held together, and the foundation has been laid for a reaction against our present Constitution far more serious than anything that any thing that has hitherto been contemplated !" Now, if this should absolutely turn out to be founded in truth ! If it should actually prove upon investigation to be a mere literal statement of facts ! If it should be found upon inquiry that a dirty little trick of this kind has been slyly resorted to, that a wretched sum of £36,000 is to be paid down upon the nail by the Treasury to insure the result, that the votes of the Irish members in to-night's division shall (thanks to this pitiful dole) not be wanting to her *MAJESTY'S Government, shall at any rate not swell to a sudden mnjority the formidable minority of the Opposition—Why, in that case, the Government might carry their point in to night's sitting, would without doubt gain their immediate object upon this division, anent the Paper Duties—but they would survive, as a Government, with a branded and blackened reputation ! It is wholly inconceivable, however, that a rumour so monstrous can be anything like an accurate shadowing forth of what has really happened at the instigation or with the complicity of Lord PALMERSTON. It is improbable in the highest degree, not so much because the notion of a compromise like the one hinted at is wholly inconsistent with the manly declaration given by the Premier in the House of Commons only the night before last—the declara tion to which we drew attention yesterday as having been given by Lord PALMERSTON, with c haracteristic frankness, in answer to The O'DoNoGFrUE —• it is not so much that that reply and this rumour do not in any way tally, as that the idea of a miserable job of this description is not in the least like what any. Than in the three kingdoms could look for at the hands of Lord PALMERSTON. How often do we not find reason when listening to Lord PALMERSTON in the House, when reading his answer to a deputation, when noting some official act or some Ministerial avowal emanat ing from himself directly as Prime Minister of often do we not a ll fi n d reason to England—how exclaim with a feeling of exultant pride in the man as the chivalrous type of an English statesman—" How like Lord PALMER wrox that is " Yet here, on the contrary, in this whispered intimation about a dirty compro mise with the Galway Packet Company, to buy over a few votes upon the eve of an important divi sion—surely, surely, nothing could well, by possi bility, be more unlike Lord PALMERSTON ! %%o cannot believe it, any more than can our chief morn ing contemporary. We will not believe it. Rather anything in regard to this night's division than that ! Rather would we see the proceeds of theie vexatious Paper Duties preserved to the revenue for another year—rather would We see the at majority of eighteen dwindle away tenuated into an absolute minority than that towards the close of his illustrious and patriotic career so foul a blot should be fixed in perpetuity upon Lord PAL MERSTON'S reputation. Besides—it could have no good result lastingly even as another of those flagrant Ministerial dodges, the first of which led to the formation of the present Coalition Goverment. It would render inevitable the speedy breaking up of a Cabinet that would thenceforth be nothing less than a scorn and an opprobrium to all iight minded Englishmen. ____ A long letter from a contemporary which we have transferred to our columns, has an interest very much like that of a communication from the interior of Africa, with the additional zest imparted by our old and present relation to the people from the midst of whom it is written. It has indeed been long getting to us. From the Northern States we have information direct up to the 18th, but from Montgomery, almost now as much out of the way of intercourse with Europe as Timbuctoo or Linyanti, we have only, and that by special good luck, information of what was doing up to the 4th of May. The writer tells us indeed " That his communications are cut off, and that to re-open them, he must get farther away from them." He could heat nothing of what was going on in the North, and even in the South he could not learn what was doing " out of eye-shot." We are glad, however, to obtain from him such knowledge as he has of the now isolated South. For one thing we know as facts what bad been merely rumours before. He has noticed the change of tone since it has been found that the North is vigorously arming. Reasons are now assigned for leaving alone Fort Pickens, although with the Tortugas and Key West it is the key of the Gulf of Mexico ; but it has been strongly reinforced from the North, and it is now asserted to be an advantage that it keeps so many Federal troops idle and ships occupied ! General BRAGG did not seem, however, to have perceived this advantage till the fort was too strong for him. As to Washington, the Capitol, and Faneuil Hall, all that was merely a joke, never seriously thought of ; not thought of, the writer seems to think, after their capture was impossible. Now the universal language is that they only ask to be let alone. They do not wish to meddle with the Northern States, and the latter have no need to meddle with them. If, however, the tone of the South, in regard to attack is very much moderated, all the zeal and fire once expended in that way is now centred in defence. All classes are described as determined to die rather than allow themselves to be subjugated. The ladies are even more enthusiastic than the men, and their fair hands are employed not only in scraping lint, but in the tougher work of making uniforms and sandbags. The men are doing their part organizing and drilling regiments, and erecting batteries on the banks of the Mississippi to command the passage of that great artery ; though at present the more important point would seem to be to get down its stream the vessels with supplies of food and contraband of war which are detained by the Northerns at Cairo. They fully expect after a short war, one of less than a year, to become a confederation of 15 States, and a power quite com petent to command the respect of foreign nations. It is not unnatural that cotton should be their chief reliance. This time it is to be used, not as it was against us when our men paid the penalty of attacking ramparts of cotton bags—they intend to give a lesson to our currency doctors. Bullion in our sense of the word is hardly known in the Southern States. They intend to make bullion of cotton. The Government is to buy it up, and to issue bonds to the amount of its value at a fair market price, and these bonds, which are to bear the attractive interest of ten per cent., are to be legal tender on the Southern States. The much talked of tax of oLe-eighth of a cent. per pound, export duty, is to raise the money for liquidating ulti mately these bonds, What the bonds will be worth if the cotton cannot be shipped—what it will be worth, if by a war protracted beyond the cotton season a vast supply for Europe has been stimulated elsewhere—they do not tell us. One of the most beneficial result to be hoped for from this quarrel, is that Jamaica and India may be stirred up to supply the deficiency created by the failure of American supplies, and that the free labour of our own colonies may thus enter permanently on the production of cotton in quantities sufficient for us. This is the most peaceful blow which. could be struck against Ame- rican slavery. One use of their cotton power they have great hope from. They propose to starve Low ell and glut Manchester. It is to be confiscation and death for all who send a bale of cotton to the Northern States; and thus Manchester is to be enabled to supply the Union while its own mills are thrown out of employment. How Man chester is to get their cotton, however, while the Niagara keeps guard at Charleston, and the Minne sota at the mouth of the Mississippi, they do not tell us. A few cargoes smuggled out would be of no use for our cotton mills. The cotton crop for this year is shipped, but if the war last through October, as it is almost certain to do, neither Manchester nor Lowell can benefit much by the next crop. Already, as the intelligence we have to publish a lish to-day shows, the blockade is no longer paper one. The Niagara is of rather more formidable material than that, and she is doing duty actively in the shape of sending away even English ships which would enter the port at Charleston. Ships were allowed 15 days to load and to leave, but none were permitted to enter. The Bay of Chesapeake is also closely blockaded, and the Minnesota is .proceeding to her destination in the Gulf. American trade will soon be confined to the Northern ports, and, with the present tariff, much cannot be expected there. We must leave the South, therefore, to its blockade and its consequences —among which will probably be compelling it to act northwards, and to come into collision with the Federal army. Pleasant and accessible watering places are one of the wants of London. We have, it may be said, already several, one a Leviathan in that way, a n d b y express train but an hour from London-bridge, an d others accessible both by river and rail. Still the more the better. The tastes as well as the wants of a population of three millions are so various, that we need not fear having too many varieties of that grand remedy for the sanitary ills of London life and business—the seaside. The Eastern Counties line already furnishes us with one of the liveliest sea-side scenes, so far as shipping is concerned, at Lowestoft and Yarmouth, with abundant accommo dation for visitors, and an air which, after the spring east winds have given way to the summer breezes, leaves nothing to be desired. But the Eastern Counties seem likely very soon to furnish even London with another delightful country watering-place. A small unopposed railway bill is quietly making its way through Parliament, to give us direct communication with a little vil lage on the coast, about 15 milts on the other side of Lynn, hardly known, except locally at preNent, THE SUN, LONDON, THITitSDAY EVENING, MAY ' 30, 1861, but which will, we venture to predict, not long after the railway is completed, become well-known enough to the numerous London families who wish for genuine and healthy sea-side pleasure. We refer to an extension of the East Anglian line from the Lynn terminus to HUNSTANION. The sea prospect here is peculiarly grand and attractive. It is looked upon from a beautiful and rather lofty cliff; northwards,there is the sublime sight of a vast ocean, on whose bosom not a single island lies to intercept the spectator's gaze to the North Pole, could human vision reach so far, or the form of our earth permit it; while, turning to the west and west by south, the dark line of the Lin• colnshire coast stretches along at the blue distance of thirty miles, a distance not too great for the perception of woods, houses, windmills, and the lofty tower of Boston occasionally, by the naked eye—always, in clear weather, by a glass of moderate powers. Shipping is no wanting. All which enters and leaves the large port of Lynn must pass in sight of the Hunstanton Lighthouse ; and many ships which do not enter the Wash are yet visible to the spectator. In this respect the little village is quite a contrast to our great attraction on the southern coast. Along the coast, on each side of it, there is a pleasing country. In the village itself is the old baronial residence of the L'ESTRANGE family, which is said have come over with WILLIAM the CONQUEROR. One individual of it, Sir ROGER L'EsTRANGE, is well known to English history for the part he took in the Civil Wars, as a Cavalier, in which he owed his life to the goodwill of CROM WELL. We, of the Fourth Estate, are bound to hold him in honour ; for though he accepted the office of Censor of the Press at the Restoration, he brought out himself a paper, called The Public Intelligencer, and has been said to be the father of the English newspaper press, for though news papers had existed before, he was the first to infuse into them life and vigour. He was a scholar and a writer of numerous political pamphlets. The ancient hall is occupied, and is still a very interest. ing specimen of the baronial style of building. The present representative of this ancient family takes, we understand, considerable interest in the project. He has built a large hotel at the terminus of ►he railway, and is leasing ground in its vicinity for building purposes ; several houses have indeed been already erected. From this spot the cliffs gradually rise to a con siderable height, till they reach their highest point where the lighthouse stands, whence they again gradually descend till they terminate in sand-hills. They are perhaps, if not the highest, yet amongst the most beautiful cliffs in England. The upper stratum is of a peculiarly solid white chalk, so strong that it hangs in vast table-like slabs over the softer rock which has crumbled away from below. This immediately subjacent stratum is of a bright red ochreous colour, contrasting strikingly with the pure white above and with the dark yellow and brown sandstone which composes the lower parts of the cliff. At the bottom lie, in wild con fusion, huge slabs of the hard chalk which winter has precipitated from the height above, while be tween this debris and the sea, there is a pleasant beach. The water retires at ebb to a considerable distance from the shore, affording infinite diversion to the younger portion of the community, by the opportunity of hunting out the tenants of the re maining water which in pools surrounds the rounded weed-covered sandstone rocks, which extend a con siderable way out from the shore, indicate the great gain which water has made, and is still making, at this point on the land. Of the commercial merits of the line it is not for us to speak. It is but a short time since Ave paid a brief visit to the beautiful spot we have imperfectly described, and we noticed that it will run on a per fect level all the way, and a great part of it through land of but little value. The cost ought to be very light. But, we confess, visitors, not shareholders, were in our thoughts, and to the latter we leave entirely the calculations which concern them. County visitors to the place will doubtless be numerous ; but we are much mistaken if London does not furnish a respectable quota. The distance is not great ; the scenery novel and attractive ; the fourteen miles ride along the coast from Lynn itself is pleasing. Under the patronage of Mr.L'ESTRANGE the accommodation is now agreeable and sufficient, and will doubtless be brought up to any demand made for it ; and, for the numerous families who for various reasons may prefer comparative quiet, where the young also IN ill find unusual sea-side entertainment, we do not know a pleasanter spot. It has already been notified in our columns tha a numerous and influential meeting had token place in the Rotunda at Dublin on Saturday last in reference to the cancelling, by the present Govern ment of the contract entered into with the Gal way Packet Company by the late Government — the Derby Government. The object of this meet ing was simply, as amended—" to consider what steps should be taken to prevent the withdrawal of the subsidy from the Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company for the conveyance of the American mails." The Lord Mayor presided over the proceedings as Chairman. Several speeches were delivered, among others, by Alderman REY NOLDS and by Mr. WHITEsIDE,M P. forEnniskillen. It is not so much to the speeches which were de livered, however, as to the resolutions that were passed on Saturday, that we are here anxious to direct the attention of our readers, however cur sorily. The resolution entrusted to Mr. WHITE SIDE'S advocacy, to begin with, ran, it will be ob served, then, in the manner following :—" That bearing in mind that the Galway subsidy was granted mainly owing to the geographical position of Ireland, and with a view to facilitate postal and mercantile commerce between the New and Old Worlds, we feel that to withdraw the subsidy on vague and insufficient grounds is a grievous and intolerable injury 'to the commercial interests of Great Britain and Ireland." The next resolution, supported by Mr. PARKER was expressed more briefly to the effect—" That the reasons put forth by the Postmaster-General, in his letter of the 15th instant, for cancelling the contract, are most unsatis factory and utterly inconsistent with the terms on which the subsidy was originally awarded." The third resolution, introduced to the meeting by the chairman subsidy o o r f ig t i h n e al A ly tlantic Company, being—" That a additional w reason for guaranteeing the commercial an omnaereial interests as of a lr d e e l s a i n re d, to by promote the direct and rapid communication with America t a o ny f ru a s e t t r aotne t t h b e a t par object cotf as G o a v n e n m w e e n m t u c s a t leu r e l a g t a e r a d in dication of positive hostility to the progress of this country." This last resolution is certainly cha racteristic of the land from which it emanates.. They can hardly ever, there, make up their mi n d s but that every act of the Imperial Government that does not exactly meet their own views, must neces sarily originate in some sinister design directly hostile to the interests of Ireland. As if we knew not perfectly well that what injures them necessarily injures ourselves. The last resolution, like the first, was of a somewhat lengthy and circumlocutory character. It remarked " That considering the fact of nearly two thousand per- sons, many of them being in humble circumstances, having invested money in the undertaking on the I faith of the Government grant being permanent, and which must be totally lost in the event of its 1 being withdrawn, coupled with the commercial disasters likely to result, any Government instru mental in inflicting so serious an injury is unworthy of the confidence of the country )r the support of its representatives." With this we conclude our passing reference to the Dublin meeting of last Saturday. The Government is understood to have thoroughly made up its mind to win ! And the knowledge of this determination on the part )f Ministers invari ably goes far towards influencing the result of a great division. Whatever course may be taken by the Irish members—alienated by the withdrawal of the subsidy to the Galway Packet Company, or reclaimed (according to. an incredible report) by the concession of £36,ooo—one fact appears to be tolerably certain, namely, tha; the Radical mem bers, or Independent Liberals, will vote to a man with the Government. “ THE OXFORD” MESIC HALL. West-end patrons of Epsom may wind up the day's festivities with advantage by paying a visit to this magnificent hall, where ihey will find much to delight the sight and enchart the ear. We are glad to hear that a judicious athocacy of the claims of the music-halls to a recognized and unfettered position amongst the entettainnents of the metro polis is likely to result in a satisfactory compromise between these new claimants upon popular favour on the one hand, and the theatrical interests on the other. The Oxford Music Hall, although the newest in the field, may be regarded as a most favourable type of the class of amusement to be found in these establishments. When at " The Oxford," a night or two ago, we heard two admirably represented operatic selec tions—the one from Verdi's " Macbeth," and the other from Meyerbeer's " Dlnorah." To hear one of such selections is worth the whole admission money. You get the creme de la creme of operas in this their compressed form. A person may be very far from ignorant of the beauties of Italian or German opera who has only heard it through the medium of the concert hall Especially would we make this remark on the " Dinorah" selection, which fully retains the aroma and rich warmth of colouring of the original. The pure and artistic solo singing of Miss Ernst and Mr. Greville as Dinorah and Hoel, is just what we should like to hear on our Engdsh operatic stage—and that is the best praise we can give it. The singing of Miss Russell, the prima donna assoluta (to borrow from the ope ratic vocabulary an apparently exaggerated but really deserved designation), is also rich in florid execution. The cloruses and band accompaniments are admirable, and reflect much credit upon the conductor, Mr. Janghmans. ' Turning from the concerted music we come upon a rich vein of comic singing. There is little Mr. Randall, who, on the night we were present, amongst other things, cast the ;horoscope of the " Derby" with perhaps as much prophetic knowledge, and with much less mys tery than more professional vaticinators. Perhaps he will predict the winner of the Oaks. Mr. Randall sings some new End capital songs—little pieces de circonstance—vita unction, just emphasis, and clear articulation—the latter quality being a desideratum too often neglected. He causes shouts of laughter by a song in which he depicts the eccentricities of the various nigger potentates — from the swarthy apostrophser of " Sally " to the sable hero of " The Strand' " The Young Man from the Country" is another song containing a ludicrous exposition of character. So clever a youth as Mr. Randall rakes him calla have come from no other county than York. It would throw a London detective into a delirium of admiration to see his splendid checkmating a; little schemes for destroying his peace of mind and emptying his pockets. In Miss Harley and Mr. Hollingsworth you will also find quaint, and in Mr. Blanchard and Mr. Wieland robust exponents of different styles of comic singing. It is rich in every variety of amusement, which ye have not space to describe, but in which the public may pleLcurably share. TENNTEL'S carton in Punch this week, "The Derby Obstruction," is certainly one of the most deliciously humorous caricatures we ever remember to have laughed at, even in our delightful London Charivari. Dizzy —as that most irritating and defiant of costermon;ers on his donkey tray- upon wheels—" Shan't pt out o'the way. I'd like to upset the lot o'yer.' Pam, on the box - seat of the Great Government-drag, cooly chewing his everlasting scrap o: straw, while interrupted in tooling his powerful team down the road. Glad stone, beside him—tie unveiled Prophet of Khoras san—his arms foldedacross his breast with an air of gentlemanly obstinacy. Little JOHN on the back seat—a sort of r Tiger Tim "of a Guard—for once not intent, apparently, on " upsetting the coach." But quiet though John the Guard may be—is there not right in front of the high mettled team that 'sexatious and alarming Dizzy may,—wilse "turn out" (caricature it thus ° extravagantly), may just " turri. out," prove to be literally the th o u g o hs possibly,t a m u s n o c n ah get prophetic as a Derby Obstruction, bringing to grief after all that gmnd drag of the Government. We understand that, under the late Duke of Bedford's will, Lord John Russell inherits the estates of the late Earl of Ludlow, in Ireland, worth £3,000 a year, and valued at £120,000. Lord Brougham has consented to preside at a public meeting which is to be held on Saturday, the Bth June, in St. James's Hall, for the promotion of self-sup porting boarding-schools for the lower and middle classes, in connection with St. Nicholas College, Shoreham. _ Although the official accounts received from India by the Government by the last mail are believed to have been especially satisfactory, it is still thought that Sir C. Wood will ask power to raise a new loan of £4,000,000, and that the application will be laid before Parliament early next week. _ _ ---- --- From the present quotation of India Bonds, and the fact that an advance has been found necessary in the rate on Exchequer-bills, it is surmised that an increase of their current interest to at least 41 per cent, must shortly be resolved upon. THE GALWAY CONTRACT.—Mr. Lanigan will this evening ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether the representations made to her Majesty's Government on be half of the Royal Atlantic Steam Navigation Company relative to a recent letter of the Postmaster-General in re ference to the Galway contract have been considered, and with what result. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT ON THE GLASGOW AND SOUTII-IVESTERN RAILWAY.—The train which was due at Carlisle at 7.25 p.m. last night did not arrive at the time stated, and a telegram was despatched to ascertain the cause of the delay. It was then found that the engine had run off the line into a field, the carriages following. The mail guard was killed on the spot, and a gentleman named Crowther, of Harrowby, near Carlisle, died on his way to Carlisle, from internal injuries. Several other passengers were severely injured. The cause of the accident has not been ascertained. THE GALWAY PACKET CONTRACT.—A return was made to Parliament yesterday of the substance of the reports of the Admiralty and Board of Trade surveyors on the steam ships employed by the Atlantic Royal Company in conveying the mails between Galway and America. Mr. J. Luke, the Admiralty surveyor, reports of the Pacific on the 9th of July last, that in his opinion the general strength of the vessel was not satisfactory for the transatlantic mail service, and that she could not justly be regarded as con stituting a fair compliance with the true spirit and meaning of the contract. The Parana was reported on the sth of August to be fit for temporary but not for permanent ser vice; and on the 3d of the present tnonth the speed attained by a trial on a previous day is reported insufficient to seem op a fulfilment of the stipulations of the contract. The Ad miralty surveyor's report on the Prince Albert in October last, and on the Adriatic last month, was satisfactory. An inspection of the Hibernia on the 6th of last month, after she had encountered a heavy gale on her passage from Southampton to Galway, indicated such a deficiency of strength (according to two surveyors) as to render her un seaworthy. On the let of April the report on the Columbia mentions several faults, but the surveyor considers the vessel fit to carry the mails for two or three voyages during the summer service. Several deficiencies were indicated by the Board of Trade surveyors last year in the Brazil and the Connaught ; but tho usual certificates were granted. After the Board of Trade survey of the Hibernia last month, her certificate was, on the recommendation, of two surveyors, cancelled. LATEST NEWS. NAPLES, MAY 29, EVENING. The brigands who attacked the city of Sora were commanded by Chiavone. .On being pursued by the Italian forces they re crossed the Roman frontier, after burning the village of Castelluccio. M. di San Martino has inaugurated his Govern ment with firmness. He has despatched orders to the provinces to suspend the execution of the bri gands who had been condemned. The trial of Duke Cajanello is drawing to a close. He is treated with great kindness. MADRID, MAY 30. The Correspoudencia Autografa of to-day says: " There is no fear of war with Morocco. The Government has decided not to undertake a war on a question of money." THORN, MAY 29. Yesterday and the previous day conflicts between ;he police and the people took place before the Carmelite church at Warsaw, occasioned by the brmer taking down the names of those who sang the national hymn. Gendarmes were despatched to the scene of the disturbances and re-established order. A proclamation, signed by the governor's deputy, has been posted up at the corners of the streets exhorting the people to keep the peace, otherwise, it says, severe measures will be taken. Gen. Merchelewicz, military governor at War saw, has been entrusted with the supreme control of the civil administration. - The health of Prince Gortschakoff has somewhat improved. It is said that he has received leave of absence for one year. It is also asserted that MM. Platanoff and Kar nicki have been relieved of their functions. The latter has left with his wife for his estate in Lithuania. ATHENS, MAY 29 Several officers of high rank and some subalterns have been arrested. The Ministers have been sum moned to meet in council. Domiciliary visits have taken place. The motives for this measure are un known. Public order prevails; but great uneasi ness exists among the people. FRANCE. PARIS,- WEDNESDAY. In to-day's sitting of the Corps Legislatif the bill for the modification of the import duties on pain, flour, and other alimentary commodities was agreed to by 228 against 12 votes. The members of the different academies of the Institut de France assembled to-day, and, by 96 against 50 votes, confirmed the choice of M. Thiers for the Emperor's prize of 20,000 f. for his " His tory of the Consulate aNd the Empire." According to telegrams received here to-day from Constantinople, the International Conference, in its third sitting, accepted the proposition of France that Syria should be governed by a single Christian chief. The Marquis de Lavalette, the French Ambassa dor at Constantinople, is expected in Paris at the and of June. AI, de Clercy has concluded his mission to Ber• lin, and the negotiations for the Treaty of Com merce will not be resumed between France and Prussia until the latter Power shall have come to an understanding on the bases of the treaty with the other German States who have an interest in The Emperor left Paris yesterday morning by a special train for Havre, it is said that one of the special objects of his journey is to judge for himself _ _ _ Cash. Account. Orleans 1353 75 .. 1355 Northern 986 25 .. 987 50 New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 927 50 .. 927 50 0 enevq 417 25 .. 418 75 Southern 570 .. 570 Western Eastern Sardinian 370 25 .. 377 50 Austrian Lombard , 495 .„ 493 75 whether the citadel of Havre, which the munici pality wants to have demolished, but whieli LLB military engineers think very important in a de fensive point of view, is to remain or not. His Majesty will return to Paris at 11 this morning. A person who has just returned to Paris from a tour in the south of France speaks of the large sums spent in fortifying the islands of Hyeres. There are four of these islands, lying near the en trance of the bay—namely, Porquerolles, Portgros, Bagneau, and Ile du Titan. On these islands the engineers have been busily occupied for some time. A sum of 750,000 f. is spent in putting Porquerolles and Portgros, which is the smallest of the four, in excellent condition, and completing its four forts, and 350,000 f. on other works, as if an attack were expected. The same person reports that there is a strong feeling of dissatisfaction in the South at the evacuation of Syria by the French troops, and cor responding ill-feeling to England, to whom the evacuation is attributed, it being of course lost sight of that when the French Government signed the Convention fixing the sth of June they meant to observe it. But this is not the only subject for dis satisfaction. In some places the feeling of the clergy on the Imperial policy in the Roman States is so strong that the Salvwn fac Domine is omitted to be chanted at the mass. My informant also speaks of the commercial distress prevailing in those parts, and of the alarm caused by the continued drought, which has already done much injury to the crops and to the vines. In several of the Southern de partments the clergy have been ordered by the bishops to offer up daily prayers for rain. Another instance of the liberality of the Govern ment. M. Dummeray, the publisher of the Due d'Aumale's pamphlet, in addition to his six months' imprisonment and 6,000 f, fine, is to be consigned to ruin. An order of the Prefect of Pollee has been sent him, withdrawing his licence, and ordering him immediately to close his establishment. M. Beau, the printer, has also been deprived of his licence. It is worth remarking, that this is the first instance of the application of such a rigorous measure. M. Billault, whom no on e can charge with over-tenderness for the press, never ventured upon such an arbitrary exer cite of power. It was reserved for M. de Persigny, that enthusiastic admirer of English liberty, to carry persecution to an extent unprecedented even under the Empire. The Patrie, however, assures its rea ders that the measure is strictly legal—" It has taken place in fulfilment of the 12th article of the law of October 21st, 1814, which provides that the license may be withdrawn from printers and book sellers after the correctional conviction, no- matter on what charge." It adds—" M. Beau had under gone five condemnations in the correctional courts, and M. Dummeray two." BOURSE, May 29.—The market has been rather firmer, and prices have slightly improved. Threes, for the Account, are now at 69f 20c. Railway Shares are quiet, but firm. The following were the last quotations : Lif per per Cents ... 96 Credit Fonder 985 Do end 96 25 I Belgian 4-1 — 3 per Cents ...... 69 251 Piedmontese Fives, 73 90 Do. end month.... 69 25' Itoman . 74 Bank Shares ...... I Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 701 25 ' Spanish Threes 0& Do. Account 702 5) Home Debt RAILWAYS. -- - A special meeting of the Eastern Counties Bail way Company is convened for the 13 th J une, to consider six bills now pending in Parliament, and referring to vari ous new lines. At this meeting the terms o f a rrangement agreed upon between the Eastern Counties, Norfolk, and Eastern Union Railways will be submitted for approval. PROBATE AND DIVORCE COURT, MAY 1.—.. Sean v. Phillimoro moved on the usual ail. davitof service, non-appearance, and no documents filed, to make the decree nisi for dissolution pronounced on the 21st of January last absolute--which was 111340 absolute acmdiDgly, THE BLO 7KAD PO A collection of official correspondence with the United States Government, respecting the blockade, has just been presented to Parliament by command. The practical information it contains is embodied in the following extract from a despatch from Lord Lyons to Admiral Milne, dated Washington, May 11 : " The general result of inquiries made by me or other foreign ministers here, as to the manner in which the blockade v% ill be conducted, appears to be— " 1. That the date of the commencement of the blockade in each locality will be fixed by the issue of a notice by the commanding officer of the squadron appointed to blockade it. It does not, however, appear to be intended that such notice shall be officially communicated to the governments of neutral nations, or to their representatives in this country. 4 , 2. That fifteen days from the beginning of the effective blockade will be allowed in every case for neutral vessels.already in port to put t'' sea. " 3. That until the fifteen days have expired, neutral vessels will be allowed to come out with or without cargoes, and whether their cargoes were shipped before or after the commencement of the blockade. " 4. That except in the last-mentioned particular the ordinary rules of blockade will be strictly en forced. " 5. The armed vessels of the neutral states will have the right to enter and depart from the blockaded ports. " I continue to be of opinion that, provided the blockade be effective, and be carried on in con formity with the law of nations, we have no other course, in the absence of positive instructions from her Majesty's Government, than to recognise it." THE HON. EDWARD EVERETT ON THE AMERICAN CRISIS. Mr. Edward Everett has lately delivered an address on the Union ' of which the following is the concluding portion : a' I was willing, while this ill•starred movement was confined to the states of the extreme South, and they abstained from further aggression, that they should go in peace. This course, I thought, would retain the border states, and bring back the seceders in a year of two, wearied and disgusted with their burdensome and perilous experiment. Such lun derstood to have been, in substance, the programme of the administration. But the South has willed it otherwise. She has struck a parricidal blow at the heart of the Union ; and to sustain her in this unnatural and unrighteous war is what my con science forbids. Neither will I remain silent and see this majestic framework of Government, the noblest political fabric ever reared by human wis dom, prostrated in the dust to gratify the disap pointed ambition of a few aspiring men (for that Mr. Vice-President Stephens bravely told his fel low citizens last November was the cause of a great part of our troubles'), and this under cover of a sophistical interpretation of the constitution, at war alike with common sense, with contemporary history, and the traditions of the Government ; unsupported by a single authority among the framers of the constitution, and emphatically de nounced by Mr. Madison, their leader and chief," A _RIFLE _RANGE FO it LONDON. A want that has long pressed hard upon the rifle volunteer companies of the metropolis, that of a per manent rifle practice ground, with adequate ranges and accommodation for the men, is now in a fair way to be supplied. A number of gentlemen con versant either with volunteer experience or with business, or with both, have associated themselves to form a joint-stock company, in order to procure a permanent practice ground easily accessible to every part of the metropolis, with an ample supply of butts at the various ranges, up to 1,000 yards, sufficient to accommodate all the metropolitan rifle corps. Amongst the names of the directors and honorary, directors are those of the Duke of Wel lington, Earl Grosvenor, M.P., Viscount Ranelagh, Major-General Lord Frederick Pilule+, C. 8., Lord Radstock, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. C. H. Lind say, Major-General the Hon. Sir J. Yorke Scarlett, K.C.8., Adjutant-General, William Dent, Esq., Tokenhouse-yard, and Thomas Hughes, Esq. A piece of land has been secured at Kensal-green, up wards of 1,100 yards in length, which will admit of butts of an aggregate breadth of more than 1,500 feet. Forty-six targets will be erected in the first instance • they will be so arranged as to allow the whole of them to be used with perfect safety at all the different ranges at the same time, the long range butt being 70 feet high. Thus 46 squads, or at least 500 men, may be prac tt.;..er PP , at whatever ranges they may de sire. The firing stations will be partially covered, so that the practice may go on without interruption in unfavourable weather. The electric self-regis tering target, adopted by government, will be used, by which the point struck by each shot is instan taneously recorded at the firing station, much time being thus saved, and all danger avoided. By thus rendering a staff of markers unnecessary this plan will relieve the company from a large annual outlay, which would otherwise be required. The Hamp stead Junction Railway Company, whose line is in connection with the North London on the one side and the South Western on the other, are now erect ing a passenger station immediately adjoining the rifle range, and have expressed their willingness to convey volunteers at very reduced fares. A railway is also in progress by which communication will be afforded to the Victoria station, Pimlico. Thus, railway communication will be available with the City, the West-end, and all the suburbs of London. The ground is distant three and a half miles from the Marble Arch. The Kensal-green and Harlesden omnibuses pass the entrance to the Range. It will be seen that the locality thus chosen will not only secure unrivalled means of access for all the metro politan rifle corps, but from the liberal arrangements made by the railway companies, will afford peculiar facilities to volunteers from every part of the king dom. Ample space will be provided for spectators of national, or any other prize contests. Dining and refreshment rooms, armouries, lavatories, &c, will be established on the ground, provided a sufficiently remunerative return can be obtained from corps requiring them. The price of the land is ex pected to be about £30,u00, but a competent surveyor will be engaged by the company to value it. As this land, owing to its proximity to London, must yearly increase in value, it will always form a valu able asset in the company's hands. The vendor has offered to take £5,000 in paid-up shares, and to let £lO,OOO remain on mortgage at £4 per cent. In addition to the armouries, &c., it is proposed to erect a large covered hall for drill, &c. This, however, will not be attempted unless a fair prospect of a re munerative return can be shown. The proposed capital of the company is £60,000, to be raised in 12,000 shares of £5 each. Ten shillings per share will be required at the time of making the applica tion and £1 per share on the allotment being made. The Duke of Cambridge and Lord Herbert have seen the plans, ad highly approve them. Major- General Hay has inspected and approved the ground. The Lonion and North-Western Railway traffic return shows this week an increase of £1,570, the Great Western a decrease of £2,235, the Great Northern a de crease of £2,606, the Lancashire and Yorkshire a decrease of £2,184, and thdLondon and South-Western a decrease of £2,348. The returns now in course of publication refer to Whitsun-week this year, as compared with the week previous to Whitsuntide last year. COMING HOME FROM THE DERBY.----A livery stable-keeper named Gerrard *as this morning charged with being drunk, and also damaging a hackney cab. The constable's reason for supposing the defendant drunk was because he drove into the cab. The cabowner wanted to charge £3 for the damage, but the magistrate fined Gerrard 10s. for being drunk, which he did not deny, and adjourned the case for a week, in order that some more equitable arrangement might be coma to with respect to the repairs. THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.—CONVIC TION or TILE BUILDER. —The case against Mr. Kell:, the builder of the Intern a ti ona l Exhibition of 1862 , at South K ens ington, for not giving two days' notice to the di s t r i c t surveyor before commencing the works, was resumed yes terday at the Hammersmith Police-court. The defendant said ho quite admitted a notice ought to have been given. Mr. Ingham inflicted the nominal penalty of Is., and 2s. costs. T HE GOLD DISCOVERIES IN NOVA SCOTIA.-- , - The llalifax papers received by the last Cunard steamer give few details concerning the gold discoveries in Nova Scotia, although the locality is only 30 miles distant from that port. The chief paragraph regarding them ie the fol lowing in the .11 - olffex Horning Chronicle :—" Every day's additional information from the Tangier gold fields fur nishes fresh assurances that the auriferous deposits in that district are of sufficient extent and richness to attract thi her the adventarous and enterprising. The gold is of the very finest quality, and, judging from the rude means hitherto employed to separate it from the rock in which it is embedded, may be profitably worked. We learn from a gentleman who arrivedyesterday that two men pro cured in three days from a shaft five feet square and about the same depth 75 dols. worth of gold, and this without a crushing machine, or. any of the usual appliances used in California and Australia. We also understand that the price of the lots has been reduced by the Governn ant from £l.O to £3, and that a p ortion of the proceeds is to be ap plied to drainage, and to making a road from the sea shore to the gold fields. A good many persons have lately er n'', luau ram arc ot4 tloir 'WlYi n . rived the diggings, .211ERICAN OF 7HE TREATY WITH CHINA. We should be ungrateful if we did not call atten- tion to the efforts - which are now being made to obtain the full fruition of our Chinese Treaties. We have been constantly urging the prompt opening of the new ports, and the exercise of our recently acquired right to go through the country upon commercial enterprise. We have been continually counselling expeditions up the Great River, in order to arrange for the safety of its transit, and to accustom the dwellers upon its bank to the sight of European ships of commerce and European traders. All thislhas now been done. Admiral Hope's expedition up to Hankow, 570 miles from the mouth of the river, has been as much, and perhaps rather more, a commercial than a naval enterprise. The object was not so much to force a passage through the heart of China as to conduct our traders up the country in a manner which should impress the Chinese with the belief that these mer chants are the subjects of a great and powerful na tion, under whose protection they trade, and whose good name they are bound to vindicate by fair deal ing. With Admiral Hope went many companies of merchants from the commercial ports. Some are now working their way across the eountry, intend ing to pass through Thibet, and to organise as they go a complete chain of commer cial communication between the interior of China and our possessions in India. Others confined their attention to the commercial capabili ties of the provinces through which the Great River rolls. A deputation from the Chamber of Com merce at Shanghai viewed with the eyes of practical commercial men the whole system of ' business" as it is transacted in the heart of the empire, and the result of the examination is now before us in a re- port, signed by Messrs. Hamilton, Michie, and Ballance, and addressed to the Chairman of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce. In a commercial point of view this is the most interesting and the most important document that has appeared in our age. In plain and unattrac tive language, and in columns of dry figures, it re veals the whole mystery of the workings of indus trial China. It is too technically commercial to yield its information to the general reader, and too long and statistical for the columns of a news- paper ; but it is a document - which our men of Commerce and our men of statecraft ought to study. 'What we have hitherto seen only in its results we now see in its causes. We see now whence came and whither went those exports and imports which for so many years came out and went in at Canton. In the very centre of " the Flowery Land," high up in the great cities, these English merchants came upon the cotton goods which had been imported at the far-away southern port of Canton, and had been divided into smaller pack ages in order that they might be carried on men's shoulders over the mountains which divide Canton from the central waters. They are able to compare the prices which these goods commanded in the interior with their cost at the seaports, and they calculate upon these data the amount of burdens Which they have undergone through their inland. transit. This calculation is probably fallacious ; for, as these goods are for the most part taken in barter, we cannot tell whether in these transactions they have been fairly estimated. We know that Rus sian cloths are sold at a profit in China, though at a price lower than they are made for in Russia ; but this is because they are bartered at a high pries against teas which are estimated at an unnaturally high price, so that the purchaser of the cloths can afford to sell them at a much lower real price than he nominally paid for them in tea. So it may have been with these cottons, and so we suspect it must have been. Again, these gentlemen found in this central part of China the emporium where the teas were collected for manipulating and packing for Canton. We have here come upon the hive itself whence we have for so long a time been through devious and dangerous paths getting our supplies of honey. All this tea is lying upon the tributary waters of a river which descends with a moderate current to our own ships lying at itsmouth, which as these gentlemen have shown, can be navigated without danger from flood or shoals for nine months of the year,and which during every month is ascended by the cumbrous native vessels. The valley of the Yang-tse is known to be one great coalfield. The rebels were long ago found to be copiously supplied with this mineral at Nankin, and the members of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce found the dis tillers of Woochow burning great quantities in the production of the raw spirit which the Chinese use. What may not this coal be worth to us, with such opportunities of access, and such facili ties for covering the river with our vessels. In the cautious and temperate language of the counting: house we do not expect to find great promises 0 1 future results, nor would it have been wise trade in these gentlemen to encourage our commercia l community to make hasty and indiscriminate adventures in these untried provinces. But they have stated enough to sho . w all th m a i t r we m for an entire rovnintion iT They found that at Henkow the d ea l ers were with h p c r prepare unanimous in saying that if Hankow were opened, the teas hitherto grown and prepared in the neigh.- , bourhood of the Tangting Lake would be sent there instead of to Canton. Kewkiang and the Poyang Lake, which it commands, the deputation hold in great commercial value. Into this lake, they sat , falls numerous navigable streams running through the rich black tea districts, and it is connected with canals which traverse the whole of the green tea districts. "It is, in short, the centre of a most extensive and important network of river and canal communication, brought to a very high state of perfection by the Chinese in more pros perous times." It scarcely requires a man educated to commercial operations to appreciate the importance of all this commerce being taken, from its old course, released from the necessity 0 ; traversing mountains on the backs of men, and placed at once on a broad waterway, whence it wisp descend without hindrance or extortion to the ships which are to bear it to Europe. It places us in el position to buy tea as cheap as the Chinese can grog it, and to Cell them cotton goods as cheap as lig ° can make them. The ordinary motives of human conduct have beell found to exercise their customary influence even ie the interior of China. Our merchants have been everywhere received with cordiality. Hopes of mutual gain make quick friendships. They say that the dealers were free in giving information, and were looking forward to a rapid extension of their trade in the coming season. These.men appear to have been allowed to express their sentiments in this matters for the Government had acted in good faith. 'l ll° Treaty of Tien-thin had been published, and Ingle: rial proclamations had declared that it was intended that its provisions should be observed. Nothing is now wanted but peace. With peace we migh t go right into the heart of China, and win her to civilisation and intimacy by the strongest passion she has—her love of gain. At this moment the doors stands wide open; our merchants are ready to enter it; the Chinese stand on the other side with outstretched hands ready to welcome them ; the Tar' tar Government looks on approvingly—so successfu l has been that policy which faction and fanatical folly united to execrate, But it is possible even not to shut that door again and to bar it close. It could be done by words of the Tartar Government, or hi acts of the rebels. The Tartar Government retain° its moral force ; the rebels have a ready means of reaching these cities with their predator' armies. If we make either of these parties out enemies, they can frustrate our objects. Yet we must have peace. We must have this great corn' mercial highway lighted, and paved, and policed* The whole world has an interest in keeping it open. How is this to be done ? Certainly not hi permanently lining the river with our gunboat Certainly not by undertaking to guarabtee the Imperial power throughout the length and breadth of China. It seems a hard thing that, although all civilized nations may lawfully unite to pull down a corsair Power, or to hunt out a sea robber , it is not thought consistent with precedent that mer e land robbers should be in a similar manner ditg' persed. We never had a greater risk at stake that that which is now put upon us by these Chineae rebels, who have seated themselves upon the great river up which we desire to go, and who are period'' cally plundering the cities with which we desire to trade. As far as the interests of humanity are con' cerned, no greater service could be rendered to the race of man than to rout out these Taiping rob' bers. This, however, for a hundred reasons, we, a! a nation, must not do. It is not our work. B 1" we are not therefore to suffer and do nothing. Thle is matter for diplomatic action. If Mr. Bruce should find that anything like a civilized Power ja to be made out of these Taipings—well ; if not, the Tartar Government has already had experience of the benefits to be derived from European supervision in the collection of their Customs, and it is not, per; haps, quite impossible that they might be inclined: to listen to European advice as to the means 0 ' restoring peace to China. The Tartars are keepini faith with us , an d it i s our interest that th e y should be strong.— Times. THE NATIONAL BANK.—The resolution adoptea at the special meeting of the National Bank, on Tuesdays was unanimously confirmed by the proprietors yesterday afternoon. On Friday Sir George Lewis will introduce a bill to place the employment of women, young person s, y o uths, and children in lace factories under the regulatio o of the Factories Acts. Dr. of N ew Broad-street, has hee l elected Abraham,ag overnor of Dulwich College for the parish of St; B o toiph, Bish o p s; ate, 'without opposition, in the place 91 Bout ramal, EN,