The Sun. — London, England, 1861-06-06 00:00:00

TILE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA: (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA. MONTGOMERY, MAY 6. Although I have written two letters since my arrival at Charleston, I have not been able to give an account of many things which have come under my notice, and which appeared to be noteworthy ; and now that I am fairly on my travels once more it seems only too probable that I shall be obliged to pass them over altogether. The roaring fire of the revolution is fast sweeping over the prairie, and one must fly before it or burn. I am obliged to see all that can be seen of the South at once, and then, armed with such safeguards as I can procure, to make an effort to recover my communications. Bridges broken, rails torn up, telegraphs pulled down—l am quite in the air, and air charged with powder and fire. One of the most extraordinary books in the world could be made out of the cuttings and parings of the newspapers which have been pub lished within the last few days. The judgments, statements, asseverations of the press everywhere necessarily hasty, ill-sifted, and off-hand, do not aspire to even an ephemeral existence here. They are of use if they serve the purpose of the moment, and of the little boys who commence their childhood in deceit and continue to adolescence in iniquity by giving vocal utterance to the " sensation" headings of the journals they retail so sharply and curtly. Talk of the superstition of the Middle Ages, or of the credibility of the more advanced periods of rural life; laugh at the Haly Coat of Treves, or groan over the Lady of Salette ; deplore the faith in wink ing pictures, or in a communique of the Illoniteur ; moralise on the superstition which discovers more in the liquefaction of the ichor of St. Gennaro than a chemical trick, but if you desire to understand how far faith can see and trust among the people who consider themselves the most civilised and in telligent in the world, you will study the American journals and read the telegrams which appear in them. One day the 7th New York Regiment is destroyed for the edification of the South, and is cut up into such small pieces that none of it is ever seen afterwards. The next day it marches into Washington or Annapolis all the better for the pro cess. Another, in order to encourage the North, it is said that hecatombs of dead were carried out of Fort Moultrie packed up for easy travelling in boxes. Again, to irritate both, it is credibly stated that Lord Lyons is going to interfere, or that an Anglo- French fleet is coming to watch the ports, and so on through a wild play of fancy, inexact in line as though the batteries were charged with the aurora borealis or summer lightning, instead of the respec table, steady, manageable offspring of acid and metal, to whose staid deportment we are accustomed at a moderate price for entrance. As usual in such periods, the contending parties accuse each other of inveterate falsehood, perfidy, oppression, and local tyranny and persecution. " Madness rules the hour," It was only a day ago I took up a local jour nal of considerable influence, in which were two paragraphs that struck me as being inexpressibly absurd. In the first it was stated that a gentleman who had expressed strong Southern sentiments in a New York hotel had been mobbed and thrown into the street, and the writer indulged in some fit ting reflections on the horrible persecution which pre vailed in New York, and on the atrocity of such tyrannical mob-lawlessness in a civilised community. In another column there was a pleasant little narra tive how citizens of Opelika, in Georgia, had waited on a certain person, who was "suspected" of enter taining Northern views, and had deported him on a rustic conveyance known as a rail, which was con sidered by the journalist a very creditable exercise of public spirit. Nay, more ; in a naive paragraph relative to an attempt to burn the huge hotel of Willard, at Washington, in which some hundreds of people were residing, the paper, to account satisfac torily for the attempt, and to assign some intelli gible and laudable motive for it, adds, that he sup poses it was intended :to burn out the "Border ruffians" who were lodging there—a reproduction of the excuse of our Anglo-Irish Lord, who apologised for setting fire to a cathedral on the ground that he imagined the Bishop was inside. The exultation of the South when the flag of the United States was lowered at Sumter has been anoweroa by a. shout of indignation and a battle cry from the North, and the excitement at Charleston has produced a reflex action there, the energy of which cannot be de scribed. The apathy which struck me at New York when I landed has been succeeded by a violent popular enthusiasm, before which all Laodicean policy has melted into fervent activity. The truth must be that the New York population did not be lieve in the strength and unanimity of the South, and that they thought the Union safe, or did not care about it. I can put down the names of gentlemen who expressed the strongest opinions that the Go vernment of the United States had no power to coerce the South, and who have since put down their names and their money to support the Govern ment in the attempt to recover the forts which have been taken. As to the change of opinion in other quarters, which has been effected so rapidly and miraculously that it has the ludicrous air of a vulgar juggler's trick at a fair, the public regard it so little that it would be unbecoming to waste a word abort it. I expressed a belief in my first letter, written a few days after my arrival, that the South would never go back into the Union. The North thinks that it can coerce the South, and I am not prepared to say they are right or wrong ; but I am convinced that the South can only be forced back by such a conquest as that which laid Poland prostrate at the feet of Russia. It may be that such a conquest can be made by the North, but success must destroy the Union as it has been constituted in times past. A strong Government must be the logical conse quence of victory, and the triumph of the South will be attended by a similar result, for which, in deed, many Southerners are very well disposed. To the people of the Confederate States there would be no terror in such an issue, for it appears to me they are pining for a strong Government exc ee di ng ly. The North m us t accept it, whether they like it or not. Neither party, if such a term can be applied to the rest of the United States and to those States which disclaim the authority of the Federal Go vernment, was prepared for the aggressive or resist ing powersof the other. Already the Confederate States perceive that they cannot carry all before them with a rush, while the North have learnt that they must put forth all their strength to make good a tithe of their lately uttered threats. But the Montgomery Government are now, they say, an xious to gain time, and to prepare a regular army. The North, distracted by apprehensions of vast dis turbance in its complicated relations, is clamouring for instant action and speedy consummation. The counsels of the moderate men, as they were called, have been utterly overruled. I am now, however, dealing with South Carolina, which has been the Eons et origo of the Secession doctrines and their development into the full life of the Conferate States. The whole founda tion on which South Carolina rests is cotton and a certain amount of rice, or rather she bases her whole fabric on the necessity which exists in Europe for those products of her soil, believ ing and asserting, as she does, that England and France can not and will not do without them. Cotton ss ithout a market is so much flocculent matter encumbering the ground. Rice without demand for it is unsaleable grain in store and on the field. Cotton at 10 cents. a pound is boundless prosperity, empire, and superiority, and rice or grain need no longer be regarded. In the matter of slave labour South Carolina argues pretty much in this way :—England and France require our pro ducts. In order to meet their wants we must cul tivate our soil. There is only one way of doing so. The whiteman cannot live on our land at certain seasons of the year ; he cannot work in the manner required by the crops. He must, therefore, employ a race suited to the labour, o and that is a race which will only w or k when it is bliged to do so. That race was imported fro . n . 3 1 ce Africa sto r under ti the sanction of the Taw, by ou r British colony, and it h as be'enwfostered by us, so that its increase here has been as great as that of the most flourishing preaple in the world. In other places where its lab( iur was not P r oductive or imperatively essentie that race has been made free, sometimes with disastrous consequences to itself and to industry. But we will not make it free. We cannot do so. We hold that slavery is essential to our existence as producers of what Europe requires ; nay more, we maintain it is in the abstract right in principle ; and some of us go so far as to maintain that the only proper form of society, according to the law of God and the exigencies of man, is that which has slavery as its basis. As to the slave, he is happier far in his state of servitude, more civilized and religious, than he is or could be if free or in his native Africa. I have already endeavoured to describe the por tion of the State through which I travelled, and the aspect of Charlestown, and I will now proceed, at the risk of making this letter longer than it should be, to make a few observations on matters which struck me during my visit to one or two of the planters of the many who were kind enough to give me invitations to their residences in the State. Early one fine morning I started in a coasting steamer to visit a plantation in the Pedee and Maccamaw district, in the island coast of the State, north of Charleston. The only source of uneasi ness in the minds of the party arose from the report that the United States squadron was coming to block ade the port, which would have cut off our line of retreat and compelled us to make a long detour and a somewhat difficult journey by landing, seeing that the roads are mere sand tracks, as the immense number of rivers and creeks offers some excuse for not improving the means of land communication. Passing Sumter, on which men are busily engaged, under the Confederate flag, in making good damages and mounting guns, we put out a few miles to sea, and with the low sandy shore, dotted with soldiers, and guard-houses, and clumps of trees, on our left, in a few hours pass the Santee river and enter an estuary into which the Peedee and Maccamaw rivers run a few miles fii i rther to the north-west. The arid, barren, pine -covered sandhills which form the shores of this estuary are guarded by rude batteries mounted with heavy guns and manned by the State troops, some of whom we can see strolling along the beach, or, with arms glancing in the sunlight, pacing up and down on their posts. On the left hand side there are said to be plantations, the sites of which are marked by belts of trees, and after we bad proceeded a few miles from the sea the steamer ran alongside a jetty and a pier, which was crowded by men in uniform waiting for the news and for supplies of creature comforts. Ladies were canter ing along the fine hard beach, and some gigs and taxcarts fully laden rolled along very much as one sees them at Scarborough. The soldiers on the pier were all gentlemen of the county. Some, dressed in gray tunics and yellow facings, in high felt hats and plumes and jack boots, would have done no discredit in face, figure, and bearing to the gayest cavaliers who ever thundered at the heels of Prince Rupert. Their horses, full of Caro linan fire and mettle, stood picketed under the trees along the margin of the beach. Among these men who had been doing the duty of common troopers in patrolling the seacoast were gentlemen possessed of large estates and princely fortunes; and one who stood among them was pointed out to me as captain of a company for whose uses his liberality provided unbounded daily libations of champagne and the best luxuries which trench ingenuity can safely imprison in those well-known caskets with which Crimean warriors were not un acquainted at the close of the campaign. They were eager for news, which was shouted out to them by their friends in the steamer, and one was struck by the intimate personal cordiality and familiar acquaintance which existed among them. Three heavy guns, mounted in an earthwork defended by palisades, covered the beach and the landing-place, and the garrison was to have been reinforced by a regiment from Charleston, which, however, had not got in readiness to go up on our steamer, owing to some little difficulties between the volunteers, their officers, and the Quartermaster• General's de partment. I mention these particulars to give an idea of the state of defence in which South Carolina holds itself, for, unless Georgetown, which lies at the head of this inlet, could be considered an object of attack, one seeks in vain for any reason to induce an enemy to make his appearance in this direction. A march on Charleston by land would 1, 0 au °Dor"' tion of extreme difficulty, through a series of sand hills, alternating with marshes, water-courses, rivers, and flooded ricefields. As to Georgetown, which we have now reached, nothing can be said by way of description more descriptive than the remark of its inhabitants, that it was a finished town 100 years ago. It is a dosy, sleepy, sandy, lifeless, strag gling village, with wooden houses drawn up in right lines on the margins of great, straight, grass grown pathways, lined with trees, and known to the natives as streets. As the Nana approaches the tumbledown wharf two or three citizens advance from the shade of shaky sheds to welcome us, and a few country vehicles and light phaetons are drawn forth from the same shelter to receive the passengers, while the negro boys and girls who have been playing upon the bales of cotton and barrels of rice which represent the trade of the place on the wharf, take up commanding positions for the better ob servation of our proceedings. One or two small yachts and coasting schooners are moored by the banks of the broad full stream, the waters of which we had previously crossed in our journey from the dismal swamp. There is an air of quaint simplicity and old-fashioned quiet about George town, refreshingly antagonistic to the bustle and tumult of most American cities, and one can, with out much stretch of imagination, fancy the old loyal burghers in cocked hats, smallswords, and long square-cut sober suits, stalking solemnly down its streets, rejoicing :in the progress of the city which recalled the name of the King and the old country, or hastening down to the river's side to hear the tidings brought from home by the Bristol barque that has just entered in the stream. Instead thereof, however, there are tall, spare forms of eager citizens bowed over their newspapers in the shade before the bar-room, or the shuffling negro delighting in the sunshine and kicking up the dust in the centre of the road as he goes on his errand. While waiting for our vehicle we enjoyed the hos pitality of one of our friends, who took us into :an old-fashioned angular wooden mansion more than a century old, still sound in every timber and testi ' fying, in its quaint wainscotings and the rigid framework of door and window, to the durability of its cypress timbers and the preservative cha racter of the atmosphere. In early days it was the crack ho use o f the old settlement, and the resi dence of the founder of the female branch of the family of our host, who now only makes it his halting-place when passing to and fro between Charleston and his plantation, leaving it the year round in charge of an old serv ant . and her grand child. R ose t rees and flo werin g shrubs in front, before the porch a n d filled w en the ng and the establishment gave One a good idea of a London merchant's retreat about Chelsea a hun dred and fifty years ago. At length we were ready for our journey, and, mounted in two light covered vehicles, proceeded along the sandy track which, after a while, led us t i o le a ne* cut, deep in the bosom of the wo o d s , where sas only broken by the cry of a woodpecker, the boom of a crane, or the sharp challenge of the jay. For miles we passed through the shades of this forest, meeting only two or three vehicles con taining female planterdom on little excursions of pleasure or business, who smiled their welcome as we passed. Not more than twice in a drive of two hours did we come upon any settlement, or get a view of any white man's plantation, and then it was only when we had emerged from the wood and got out upon the broad brown plains where bunds and water-dykes and machinery for regulat ing the flooding of the land indicated the scenes of labour. These settlements consisted of rows of some ten or twelve quadrangular wooden sheds supported upon bricks, so as to allow the air, the children, and the chickens to play beneath ; some times with brickwork chimneys at the side, occa sionally with ruder contrivances of mud and wood work to serve the same purpose. Arrived at a deep chocolate-coloured stream, called Black River, full of fish and alligators, Ise find a flat large enough to accommodate vehicles auct p Ats engers, and p ro p e ll e d b y two THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JITNE 6, 1861 negroes pulling upon a stretched rope, in the manner usual in the ferryboats in Switzerland, ready for our reception. Another drive through a more open country, and we reach a fine grove of pine and olive oak, which melts away into a shrub bery, guarded by a rustic gateway, passing through which we are brought by a sudden turn into the planter's house, buried in trees which dispute with the green sward, and with wild flower-beds every yard of the space which lies between the hall door and the waters of the Pedee ; and in a few minutes, as we gaze over the expanse of fields, just tinged with green by the first life of the early rice crops, marked by the deep water-cuts, and bounded by a fringe of unceasing forest, the chimneys of the steamer we had left at Georgetown gliding, as it were, through the fields, indicate the existence of another navigable river still beyond. Leav ing with regret the verandah which commanded so enchanting a foreground of flowers, rare shrub • bery, and bearded live oaks, with each grace ful sylvan outline distinctly pencilled upon the waters of the river, we enter the house and are re minded by its low-browed, old-fashioned rooms of the country houses yet to be found in parts of Ire land, or on the Scottish border, with additions made by the luxury and love of foreign travel of more than one gEneration of educated Southern planters. Paintings from Italy illustrate the walls in juxtaposition with interesting portraits of early Colonial Governors and their lovely woman kind, limned with no uncertain hand, and full of the vigour of touch and naturalness of drapery of which Copley has left us too few exemplars, and one portrait of Benjamin West claims for itself such honour as his own pencil can give. An excellent library filled with collections of French and English classics, and with those ponderous editions of Vol taire, Rousseau, the " Memoires pour Servir," books of travel and history such as delighted our fore fathers in the last century, and many works of American and general history afford ample occupa tion for a rainy day. But, alas I these, and all things good which else the house affords can be enjoyed but for a brief season. Just as nature has expanded every charm, developed every grace, and clothed the scene with all the beauty of opened flower, of ripening grain, and of mature vegetation, on the wings of the wind the poisoned breath comes borne to the home of the white man, and he must fly before it or perish. The books lie unopened on their shelves, the flower blooms and dies unheeded, and, pity 'tis 'tis true, the old Madeira garnered 'neath the roof settles down for a fresh lease of life, and sets about its solitary task of acquiring a finer flavour for the infrequent lips of its banished master and his welcome visitors. This is the story, at least, that we hear on all sides, and such is the tale re peated to us beneath the porch when the fall moon enhances, while softening, the loveliness of the scene, and the rich melody of hundreds of mocking birds fills the grove. Within these hospitable doors Horace might ban quet better than he did with Nasidienus, and drink such wine as can be only found among the descen dants of an ancestry who, improvident enough in all else, learnt the wisdom of bottling up choice old Bual and Sercial ere the demon of oldiumhad dried up their generous sources for ever. To these must be added excellent bread, ingenious varieties of the palette, compounded now of rice and now of Indian meal, delicious butter and fruits,. all good of their kind. What more is needed for one who agrees with Mr. Disraeli in thinking bread and wine man's two first luxuries and his best ? And is there anything better rising up from the bottom of the social bowl ? My black friends who attend on me are grave as Mussulman Khitmutgars. They are attired in liveries, sind wear white cravats and Berlin gloves. At night, when we retire, off they go to their outer darkness in the small settlement of negrohood, which is separated from our house by a wooden palisado. Their fidelity is undoubted. The house breathes an air of security. The doors and win dows are unlocked. There is but one gun, a fow ling-piece, on the premises. No planter hereabouts has any dread of his slaves. But I have seen within the short time I have been in this part of the world several dreadful accounts of murder and violence, in which masters suffered at the hands of their slaves. There is something suspicions in the oeuGaimmos2.4. ...rwsr " afraid of our slaves." The curfew and the night patrol in the streets, the prisons and watch-houses, and the police regulations prove that strict super vision, at all events, is needed and necessary, My host is a kind man and a good master. If slaves are happy anywhere they should be so with him. These people are fed by their master. They have upwards of half-a-pound per diem of fat pork, and corn in abundance. They rear poultry, and sell their chickens and eggs to the house. They are clothed by their master. He keeps them in sick ness as in health. Now and then there are gifts of tobacco and molasses to the deserving. There was little labour going on in the fields, for the rice has been just exerting itself to get its head above water. These fields yield plentifully ; for the waters of the river are fat, and they are let in whenever the planter requires it by means of flood gates and small canals through which the flats can carry their loads of grain to the river for loading the steamers. HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (From the .Regzstrar-General's Weekly Return.) The weekly return of the Registrar-General states that the mortality of London has now con , siderably fallen, under the influence of approaching summer. The weekly deaths which had ranged, for a long period, almost invariably above 1,200, declined in the week that ended last Saturday to 1,069. The average number as obtained from the returns of corresponding weeks of ten years 1851-60 and corrected for increase of population, is 1,118 ; and the deaths exhibited in the present return are therefore less by 49 than they would have been if the average rate of mortality had prevailed. There was only,one death from small-pox, besides one from varicella. Twenty children, chiefly infants, died of measles, 5 of which cases were in the sub district of St. Margaret, Westminster. There were 29 from scarlatina, and 18 from diphtheria. Not withstanding the improvement of the weather, the mortality from whooping-cough continues high. It was fatal to 94 children in the week, 6 of whom died in the Ratcliff and Limehouse sub-distriets four in the Leather-market, Bermondsey ; eight in Lambeth ; three in Rotherhithe. There were five deaths from scarlatina in the Waterloo-road sub-district, second part. Ten fatal cases of croup are recorded; eight of syphilis. Two widows died at the respective ages of 94 and 95 years; and a market gardener at 5, Troy-town, Camberwell, died of chronic bronchitis, at the age of 99 years. A child died of porrigo larvalis ; two of eczema. A man, aged 36 years, died of trismus opoisthotonos. A lad, aged 16 years, was fatally burnt by an ex plosion of naphtha. 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The following is from a letter, dated Valetta, May 31:—" The movements of her Majesty's men-of-war during the week have been limited to the arrival of the gunboat Boxer, Lieut.-Commander Cleveland, on the 27th, from Marsala, to replenish her provi sions;the steam storeshipSupply,Master-Commander Balliston, on the 28th, from England and Gibral tar with stores ; and the gunboatWeser,Comman der A. Johnstone, on the 29th, from Corfu, and to the departure of the surveying steamer Medina, Capt. Spratt, C. 8., and the corvette Scourge, Commander W. G. Jones, on the 27th, for Tripoli, to assist in laying the electric cable between Malta and that place. On Saturday, the 25th inst., the merchant steamer Malacca, having on board the cable, put out of port for St. George's Creek, in the Bay of Marsascirocco, on the south-east coast of Malta. On the 27th the shore end was safely landed and secured, and the Malacca, having been joined by the two vessels just mentioned, started for her des tination, paying out cable as she proceeded, the Medina leading the way. On the night of the 29th a telegraphic message was received here through the cable, announcing that it had been safely landed at Tripoli and telegraphic communi cation established with Malta. The same despatch intimated that the Malacca was to leave for Ben gazi on the following day, the 30th. The weather has been most favourable, and in consequence a considerably less quantity of cable has, I believe, been used than was anticipated. The successful manner in which this difficult operation has been performed reflects great credit on all who have taken part in it. The name of Capt. Spratt, how ever, deserves prominent mention. I may here notice that the telegraph with England is giving more satisfaction than it did some time ago. Mes sages are now sent and received in a few hours. I regret to have to announce the death of Commander Edward K. H. Hallett, R.N., which took place on the 27th inst. Commander Hallett was on half pay, and was promoted in 1841 to the rank, he held at the time of his demise. He commanded the boats of the Bellerophon at Djebail and Sidon, and was in that ship at the capture of St. Jean d'Acre in 1840. Possessed of a private fortune, he took up his residence 21 years ago in this island, and suc ceeded in gaining the esteem of a large circle of friends. He leaves a widow and four children." The Osborne paddle yacht, arrived at P orts mouth yesterday, on her return from the Mediter ranean trip, in attendance upon the Empress of Austria. The Osborne sailed from Malta on the 24th of May, Gibraltar on the 30th of May, and Lisbon on the Ist inst. Orders have been received at Portsmouth to make the necessary preparations for the alteration and conversion of the Royal Alfred, 91, screw two decker, building there, into an iron-plated frigate. This vessel, one of the improved line-of-battle ships, is well up in frame. The ships Genghis Khan, Conflict, and Boanerges have been taken up for the conveyance of the 2d battalion of the 11th Regiment from Portsmouth to the Cape of Good Hope. The result of the series of trials with her H.M.S. Duncan, which have just been concluded, is to prove that, whatever advantage may have been gained by the three-bladed propeller over two-bladed propel ler is more than counterbalanced by the impossibi lity of raising the screw when the ship might be at sea under canvass, and the frequent necessity its use would impose of docking the ship. The screw steam gunvessel Steady,4, Commander Grant, at Devonport, is destined for North America. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Commander E. Hardinge to the Dragon, commissioned; Commander W. H. Fenwick to the Daedalus, commissioned; Comman der 0. W. Dalyell, to the Coast Guard, vice Rich ; Henry Lanchester and John Etherington, acting second-class assist-engineers, to the Renown ; Fred. Hellett, acting second-class assist-engineer, to the Fisgard, as supernumerary ; Richard Hobson, act ing second-elass assist-engineer, to the Asia, as supernumerary. TIE ARMY. A_ .tea .c:.otvd LU Lue reorganisation or the Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms has been issued from the Horse Guards by command of the Duke of Cambridge. Under the new regulations the pur chase of commissions is to cease, compensation to existing interests being made from the reserve fund by the Secretary of State for War. No officer who may be appointed to the corps henceforth will be allowed to sell his commission. Candidates for ap• pointment to the corps must be officers of the army, not under the rank of captain, with 20 years full pay service. If on full pay they must, previous to appointment, be placed on half-pay, if entitled to it by the provisions of the Royal warrant. Captains on retired full pay are to be eligible, also captains having superior brevet rank. Candidates are not to be above 50 years of age, nor under five feet six inches in height. Officers who have sold out of the army are ineligible. Any officer who may possess the above qualifications, and is desirous of being a candidate for appointment to the corps must address his application to the military secretary. It has been resolved to carry out some experi mental firing with the monster wrought-iron Hors fall gun, mounted near Southsea Castle, Portsmouth. To accomplish this purpose a large party of Royal Artillery are engaged in preparations to remove the gun to a more suitable site for the intended experi ments than the one it stands on at present. An order has been received at Chatham from the War Department, announcing that the Secretary of State for War has decided on separating Graves end from the Medway district until the batteries and other works of defence now in course of erec tion at Coalhouse Point and Shornmeade are com pleted. In accordance with these instructions Capt. W. S.Stace has been appointed commanding Royal Engineer pro tern. To expedite the progress of the new fortifications he has received instructions to correspond direct with the War-office. A circular memorandum has been forwarded from the Horse Guards to Chatham and the other garrison towns inviting mechanics at present serv ing in the line to volunteer to the Royal Engineers. The class of workmen required are carpenters, smiths, masons, bricklayers, and plumbers, of good character and fair education. By direction of the Duke of Cambridge, Captain H. Schaw, of the Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham, has proceeded to Portsiaouth to take the necessary steps for laying down a telegraph line be tween Portsmouth and Gosport, which the Govern ment has decided on establishing, to facilitate the works connected with the construction of the pro posed defences. The next examination of candidates for admission to the Royal Military College Sandhurst, is to com mence on the lith inst., before Gen. Knollys, the vice-president, and members of the Council of Mili tary Education, at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. The examination will extend to the 22d inst. The candidates for appointment to the Commis sariat come up for examination before the Council of Military Education, at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, on the 17th inst. and two following days. The examination of candidates to the Royal Mili tary Academy, Woolwich, to be held before the Council of Military Education, is to commence on the Ist proximo, and will continue daily (Sundays excepted) up to Thursday, the 18th. For a short period, at the close of the late finan cial year, and pending a decision of the finances for 1861-2, the operations in the Rifled Armstrong Ord nance Department at - Woolwich, under the superin tendence of Mr. Anderson, were restricted solely to completing the work already in hand, and, as no new orders were received, a number of forgemen and others, to the number of 250, were discharged from the establishment. The factories have again as sumed their former activity, and are now turning pounders nd l e n rs out a large number of the heavy kind of naval guns---viz., 100-pounders, upwards of 200 of w hich have already p asse d proo f an d a re now rea l y f or use. a 10- addition ti proved onte t a h t e t e h h e e b v u e tt n o ll n in.b r e 'Tuesday five y ve 0 and five yesterday; and of the smaller kinds for the army 20 25. pounders are turned out weekly. Mr. Whit worth, who has partially recovered from his late severe indisposition, yesterday visited Woolwich Arsenal, and entered into arrangements for an offi cial trial of his guns ; four 80-pounders are now in the arsenal for that purpose, two of which were manufactured by himself, and two in the royal gun factories at Woolwich. The latter are now in course of being sighted, after having satisfactorily passed the Government proof. The following batteries of the Royal Artillery have marched from head-quarters, Woolwich, pass ing through Kingston and Chertsey, Epsom, Ewell, and Guildford, to Aldershott—namely, Captain Paget's B battery, Royal Horse, and Major Penn's, No. 4, 4th Brigade, on Monday; and the mounted portion of Capt. Leslie's battery, No. 6, of the 4th Brigade, and Capt. Saunders's I battery, A equipment, Royal Horse Artillery, left Woolwich yesterday, and are now on the march also for Aldershott. Major-General S. R. Wesley, Deputy Adjutant • General of the corps of Royal Marines, yesterday made his annual inspection of the Woolwich divi sion. SPEECH OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA Those who can divert from the American crisis any of their attention to the Continent will not fail to recognize that, amid the lull of enforced peace, a strange restlessness prevails. It is not merely that Italy and Austria stand on opposite side of a stream, ready for the struggle which they know must one day come ; or that the Pope every time he quits his palace looks out on quiet, determined faces, in which he can read his doom. A fear of change perplexes Monarchs even in regions where no word is uttered against the Throne, and where foreign enemies are kept at a distance by armies, and fortresses, and powerful alliances, and the pa triotism of a generous people. The condition of Germany, though it may not attract attention now, is full of materials for future history. Many years will hardly pass before it is proved how much the nation has been affected by the events which have so changed its neighbours. Up to the present time it must be admitted that government in Germany has received little benefit from the examples or warnings of 1848 or 1859. To all outward appear ance, the rulers have been obstinate and the people indifferent beyond what could have been expected in a country where it is fashionable for Princes to be philosophers and students revolutionists. But we have the very best hopes in spite of this seem ing apathy. It is as much a proof of independent thought to resist the captivating example of foreign revolu tions as to rebel against the monotony of traditional servitude. Germany has within the last two years beheld a spectacle which has agitated her pro foundly, but which has not betrayed her into any rash act of opposition or imitation. Italy, a coun try divided and misgoverned for petty objects, something like the Fatherland, has found a bold Sovereign to put himself at the head of those who have for years been yearning after unity and inde pendence. A people never credited in later times with the possession of energetic qualities, and con signed by the narrow judgment of the world to the destiny of providing musicians and artists for Europe, has shown that in courage, activity, fore sight, self-control, and all the virtues which make nations great, it need not fear the rivalry of any in Europe. The example of the Italian revolution has affected Germany in a singular manner. First of all the feeling was simply one of antipathy. The Italians were attacking a German Sovereign with the help of a Power which had one day been, and was likely to be again, the great enemy of Germany. The bitterness of the Courts against Victor Em manuel and his plotting Minister was equalled by that of even the best informed and most equable politicians of the middle class. But ani mosity soon became tempered with admiration, and the Italian, from being an unprincipled and co wardly rebel, was soon a brave and dangerous enemy, whom it was necessary to guard against and to thwart, but who could not be denied the possession of many good qualities. The success of Garibaldi excited the imagination of all classes, who could not but compare the brilliant adventurer with the Legiti mist poltroons he had to deal with. Of late some thing not only of appreciation but of sympathy has prevailed in regard to regenerated Italy. Of this feeling the success of M. von Vincke's motion was a proof, the Prussian Government being on this occasion compelled to express an unwilling appro bation of Italian liberty. What the next steps may be is concealed in the future. The success of Italy —the union under one head of a country long, and to all appearance hopelessly, divided—the elevation to the rank of a sixth great Power of a bundle of little priestridden monarchies, has already deeply sunk into the minds of the German people. " Granted that the Italians are enemies," say the Liberals ; " it is right to learn even from an enemy. eau do all she has done, why may not Ger many do still more ? If 26 millions in one country can form a Power which no State can disregard, how high will be the destiny of 40 millions among the most educated, and, as their colonies in America show, the most energetic on the globe ?" In short, the dream of the most intelligent and sanguine Ger mans is not to thwart but to rival the Italians. The lesson taught by the success of the latter is that their northern neighbours should go and do likewise. The Germans see their fatherland exposed to military monarchies on the east and west, and their most cherished provinces lying open to the invader when ever a pretext for war shall offer itself or be made. Not federal fortresses, or federal armies, or comman ders elected by a federation will be of much avail when that evil day shall come. While Italy has been teaching them one lesson, the republic of the United States has taught them another. The fable of the fagots has been acted before their eyes. The little slender sticks—the States of Italy —are bound now tightly into a bundle which few would attempt to break, while the huge logs of the Transatlantic fabric are weak, because there is nothing to keep them together. What, in these circumstances, might not be done by an able Sovereign at Berlin ? Germany is long ing and striving after unity in her own timid manner, debating, like Hamlet, every eventuality, and conjuring up all the difficulties which stand between the hope and its satisfacti on . A strong wish and a weak will are the best opportunity for a leader. Such a Prince as Frederick the Great might make himself master of Germany before half of its eight-and-thirty Sovereigns bad recovered presence of mind enough to protest. With Napoleon sup posed to be looking with fixed eyes upon the Rhine, a bold King of Prussia might mediatize his neigh bours wholesale, amid approbation from every side, and even from his own conscience. All that Ger many wants is that the Prussian Court should rise to the level of its mission, and turn its primacy into a really controlling power. But how does Berlin understand its opportunities? Let the histories which have been lately narrated in these columns answer. The energies which might win the leadership of Germany are devoted either to exciting sedition in one of the provinces of a neighbouring State, or to the enforcement of minute regulations in every walk of Prussian life. While they can meddle, Prussian functionaries care not to command. When even the mere cessation from mischievous interference would attract the goodwill of Germany, they cannot refrain from worrying, and prying, and ' scolding as they have done for the last fifty years. But these are not the worst signs. Unhappily, there is among the governing body, and particularly those connected with the army, an intolerance and vindictiveness which could not have been exceeded under the worst of those despotisms which have just passed away in Italy. The duel between Gen. Manteuffel and M. Twesten is a proof of this feel ing, and the affair, coming so soon after the Patzke and Zedlitz exposures, has naturally caused much curiosity and indignation. We have nothing to say personally against Gen. Man teuffel, who seems to have fought fairly enough, and who, if the Kreuz Zeitung is to be believed, did not send the challenge. But that he, as the Chief of the Military Cabinet, should call upon the author of a pamphlet to apolo gise because the latter bad criticised his military skill and acquirements, shows the spirit of Prussian administration even in the present day; and we can hardly imagine that a duel was not understood by M. Twesten to be the only alternative should he decline to retract his statements. The parties met, and M. Twesten was wounded in the arm. Gen. Manteuffel, on returning to B er li n, h ad an an interview with the King, and since that time continues to transact business as usual, though it is officially announced that be is to be brought to a court-martial. Such affairs as these, coming one after the other, are enough to chill any sym pathy which Germany generally might learn to feel for Prussian superintendence. The State which has it in its power to be the nucleus of Germany is occupied with petty foreign quarrels, police squab bles, railway outrages, and military duels, when it should be studying to give the great nation of which it forms part the benefits of unity at home, and a position in Europe which the most powerful would be bound to respect. How much of this arises from the personal character of the King it is difficult and invidious to say. It may, however, be observed that his Majesty is more suited to superintend the details of administration than to guide the helm of general policy. The Prussian Sovereigns have had something of a family likeness, but it is strange that the qualities which raised them to celebrity in the last century either do not exist, or have taken a less emi nen t an d use f u l form i n our own time. The late King was, like Frederiek the Great, am bitious of Ge r m an supremacy, an d addicted to lite rary diversi ons but he let the German Empire slip AVM his hands, andoeither learning nor planophy _ . _ could save him from a kind of obstinate and un reasoning mysticism. The present King is some what like that hero of Carlyle, Frederick the Great's father, in his devotion to the more minute of his kingly duties. He would make a very fair head of a Department, or rather a General of Division, for his tastes are essentially military. Yet he will not, like another equally enthusiastic soldier, surrender the cares of government to a Cavour, or shape his course by a wise Minister's counsels. On the contrary, King Frederick Wil liam will govern as well as reign in person ; and, unhappily, his notion of government is to trouble himself about everything, small and great, in the civil administration of the kingdom, in the same spirit as he arranges every matter of military or ganization. A Sovereign who is the first clerk and the first drill sergeant in his kingdom must have a brain of crystal and a body of iron if he can under stand and attend to the larger question of foreign policy. We cannot wonder, therefore, that with all the honesty, industry, and good will of the King, Prussia does not assume that high place in Germany which is her due and to which a shrewder Prince would bring her ; nor do we see the least reason to change this opinion after reading the telegraphic summary of that mysterious speech with which King Frederick William has just closed the Session of the Prussian Diet.—Times. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CHELMSFORD RACES. -WEDNESDAY. The Great Baddow Stakes of 10 sovs each, h ft., with 50 added, for two-yr olds; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b; winners extra; allowances for maidens, &c. Half a mile. 1 [23 subs. Mr. Alexander's Farfala, 7st 131 b (E. Sharp) 1 Mr. Fisher's Lord Burleigh, Bst 111 b (inc 41b extra) (D. Hughek) 2 Lord Stamford's Missfire, Bst llb (Edwards) 3 Mr. Bland's John o'Gaunt, Bst 41b (Fordham) 4 Betting -6 to 4on Farfala, 2to 1 agst Lord Burleigh, 6 to 1 agst John o'Gaunt. After settling into places, Lord Burleigh took a slight lead, attended closely by the favourite to the bend, where Missfire drew nearer, and the three came up the straight close together, Farfala getting her head in front a few strides fr,m home, and winning cleverly by half a length ; Missfire was a bad third ; and John o' Gaunt last all the way. The Welter Cup, value 50 sovs, the rest in specie, by sub scription of 10 sovs each, h ft, and 3 only if declared ; winners extra ; gentlemen riders, professionals, 61b extra. One mile and a half. 12 subs., four of whom pay 3 sovs each. Mr. S. Jacobs' The Don, 4 yrs, lOst (inc : 61b extra) _ _ S. Roerss Mr. Searle's Lu c k now , 4 yrs, 9st 81b (inc( 61b extra) 1 . Searle) 2 Mr. W. Bevill' s P arape t, 3 yrs, 9 st (G (Owner) 3 Betting -6 to 4 agst Parapet, 2to 1 agst The Don, sto 2 agst Lucknow. Lucknow made play till half way up the distance, when the Don came away and won after a good race by a neck; a bad third, The County Members' Plate (Handicap), of 50 sous, for all ages ; winners extra. Half a mile. Mr. Rayner's Amy Robsart, 3 yrs, Est 121 b (Grimshaw) 1 Mr. Fleming's Clio, 4 yrs, Bst llb Mr. Flutter's Hambledon Lass, 2 yrs, 65t.... (J. Daley) 3 The following also ran :—lnfanta, Speculation, lon filly, and Peneus. Betting-5 to 2 agst Hambledon Lass-3 to 1 agst Amy Robsart-7 to 2 agst Infanta-7 to 1 agst the Rhedycina filly. Speculation, after three false starts, jumped off slightly in front, and led for a few strides, when the favourite, with Clio and Amy Robsart, passed him, and the three came onnearly abreast. At the half distance, Clio and Amy both passed Hambledon Lass, and a good race resulted in Amy Robsart winning cleverly on the post by a head ; three parts of a length separating the second and third. The Rhedycina filly was fourth, Infanta fifth, Speculation sixth, and Peneus last. The Chelmsford Handicap of 10 sovs. each, h. ft. 2ft. to the fund, with 100 added; winners extra; the second to save his stake. Two miles, 43 subs., 23 of whom pay 2 sovs ft. Mr. Greville's Amy, by Kingston, 3 yrs, sst .9113 (Midgley) 1 Mr. B. Land's Yorkshire Grey, aged, Bst 71b (Gammage) 2 Mr. Godding's Miss Lancashire, 3 yrs, 7st 51b (Perry) 6 Betting—Even on Amy-2 to 1 agst Miss Lancashire -5 to 2 agst Yorkshire Grey. Amy made play with a good lead, followed by the Grey until they passed the windmill, where Miss Lancashire took second place. At the bottom turn Amy took a wide sweep, and Miss Lancashire in at, empting to come through fell, Amy maintaining her advantage to the end, and win ning in a canter by twenty lengths. Miss Lane tshire was found to be severely injured, but Perry escaped unhurt. The Galleywood Stakes of 3 sous each, with 30 added ; optional selling weights. Three quarters of a mile. Mr. Rayner's St. Bernard, by Windhound, 2 yrs, sst 91b (car. sst 111 b) (430) (J. Daley) 1 Mr. James's Cupid, 2 y rs , s s t 91b (£3o) (Midgley) 2 Mr. G. Brown's Mermaid, 3 yrs, 7st m it g.: 1 0 1 ) 3 Mr. Flutte r ' s G argrave, 5 yrs, 9st llb (L 50 )) (Withington) 4 Betting—Even on St. Bernard-3 to 1 each agst Cupid and Mermaid. Gargrave led for a few strides but was passed by the other three, Cupid taking the command till half way up the straight, when he was passed by the favourite, the last named winning cleverly by a length and a half; three lengths between the second and third ; Gargrave was a bad fourth. The winner was sold for 55 guineas to Mr. Fuller. BEVERLEY RACES.—WEDNESDAY. The Kingston-upon-Hull Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 25 added; two-yr-olds, sst 121 b; three, 7st 121 b; four, 9st ; five, 9st 51b; six and aged, 9st 71b; m and g allowed 31b. Three-quarters of a mile. Mr. Thomas's Adventurer (Doyle) 1 Mr. Day's Flotilla . Mr. Cappe's Corona (Foster) 3 The following also ran :—Rapparee, Cotherstone filly, Donne Canne, Royal Oak Day, and He' lenus. Betting : 5 to 2 agst Hellenus, 4 to 1 each agst Corona and Adventurer, and 6to 1 agst any other. Won by four lengths, a head separating the second and third. The Bishop Burton Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 100 added, for two-year-olds; colts, Sat 71b; fillies and geldings, Bst 31b. T.Y.C. Mr. Hawke's The Marquis (Custance) 1 Mr. Gordon's Johnny Armstrong (Snowden) 2 Mr. Scott's Trust (Oram) 3 The following also ran :—Zetland, Rose of Raby, Sceur de Charite. Betting.—Even on Marquis, and 4 to 1 agst any other, Won by a length and a half; bad third. The Londesborough Handicap of 3 sovs. each, with 30 added, for all ages. T.Y.C. (4 furlongs 1051 yards). Lord Derby's Caricature c, 2 yrs, 6st 71b (Doyle) 1 Mr. Harland's Lancelin, 3 yrs, 7st 61b.... (J . S nowden) 2 Mr. Over's Teedingto n f, 4 yrs, Bst 71bj (Osborne) 3 Mr. Osborne's Dubious, 3 y rs , 7 st 7 1 b ...... (Challoner) 4 Betting-6 to 4 agst Dubious, 3to 1 agst Caricature colt, and 4 to 1 agst Lancelin. Won by two lengths; and half a length separated the second and third horses. The winner was sold for 36 guineas. The Beverley Cup of 100 sovs in specie, added to a handicap stakes of 10 sovs each. One mile and a half. Mr. Whittaker's Desmond, 4 yrs, Bst 31b (Challoner) 1 Mr. Wright's Slingsby, 4 yrs, Bst (Custance) 2 Mr. Price's Biddy Nutts, 3 yrs, 7st 11b The following also mu :—Flash-in-the-Pan, Cambondo, Caliban, and Sacerdos. Betting-3 to 1 agst Desmond, 7to 2 agst Slingsby, and 4 to 1 each agst Cambondo, Sacerdos, and Flash-in-the-Pan. Won by two lengths; the same distance separating the second and third. The Driffield Stakes (selling) of 5 sous each, with 20 added. T.Y.C. Mr. Jackson's Miss Pennell Mr. Thompson's Prusack (Mr. Thompson) 2 Captain Crow Ragged Man and Comet also ran. Betting -2 to 1 each agst Miss Pennell and Prusack, and 4to 1 agst any other. Won by a neck. The second and third were separated by half a length. The winner was bought in for 49 guineas. The Grimston Plate of 50 sovs in specie, added to a handi cap stakes of 5 sovs each, for all ages. One mile. Mr. Leyburne's Peggy Taft, 6 yrs, 7st ........ (Nob le) 1 Mr. Cappe's C orona , 4 yrs , B st 711 ........... • . (F " 6er) 2 Mr. Jones's Ch ar i ng C ross, 3 yrs, 6 s t 21b .. - • • (Buck) 3 The following also ran :—Hellenus, Millionaire, Weasel, Brownie, and Tresillian. Betting-3 to 1 each agst Charing Cross and Tresillian, 4 to 1 agst Millionaire, and 6to 1 agst any other. Won by two lcugths, and the same distance between the second and third. BETTING AT MANCHESTER-WEDNESDAY. The little doing on future events was confined to the Ascot Gold Cup, for which Thormanby was supported at any advance upon 5 to 4. St. Albans has not a very healthy appearance here, but after some little manoeuvring an offer to take 10 to 1 was responded to by being laid, and 100 to 10 was afterwards offered. Some small amounts were put on Dulcibella, Royalieu, and Aurelian at the prices quoted ; and 9 to 2 was taken about Royalieu and Aurelian coupled. CLOSING PRICES. ASCOT CUP. 13 to 10 agst Thormanby (taken) 7to 1 agst Dulcibella (taken) Bto 1 agst Royalieu (taken) 10 to 1 agst Aurelian (taken) 10 to 1 agst St. Albans (taken and offered) HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE- MENTS. May 31, Monastery, out of all his engagements (sold to go to Italy). June 1, at 9 a.m.—The Wizard, out of his Ascot engage ments. June 1, at 9 a.m.—Minster, out of the Great Newton handicap. _ June 1, at 11.50 a.m.—M.A. and Ashford, out of the Ascot Biennia'. Am) 3, at 9 st,ual—Philoutol, out of the Chelmsford lecaPs Juno 3, at 9 a.m.—Principal, out of the Committee We* at Chelmsford. June 3, at 1.30 p.m.—Brava, out of the Great BaddoW Stakes at Chelmsford. June 3, at 2.45 p.m.—Seven Dials, out of the Worces tershire Stakes. June 3, at 3.40 pm.—Telurno out of Ascot engagements• June 4, at 9 a.m.—All Mr. W. I'Anson's horses out of their Beverley engagements. 1 - June 4, at 12.25 p.m.—Old Englishman and Coleman , out of the Londesborough Produce Stakes, Beverley. June 4, at 5,15 p.m.—Flitch, out of Royal Hunt Cup 9 Ascot. :E NORTHUMBERLAND kTE. Yrs st lb Doefoot Garrison Beauty Gardener Prudence Jim.... 4 6 2 Starbeck Peggy Taft Vancouver Viscountßrignall 3 6 0 Wombat 3 5 1 2 Joey Jones Johnnie Bright 3 5 i . , Rapparee 'HE ASCOT STAKES. Yrs st lb Professor Bandsman 3 6 0 Rapture .. 3 6 0 Knightsbridge .... 3 6 0 Juno .. 3 5 13 c by Wild Dayrell, out of Intimida tion Jackall .... Prince Imperial Volition 3 5 7 Weatherproof COUNTRY MARKETS. NEWARK-JUNE :5. Scarcely an average supply of wheat at market to-day, the trade in which was inactive, and prices unaltered. Oats scarce, and met an easy sale. Barley in small supply, but inactive, at late rates. Beans were at extreme prices, with a steady demand. Peas scarce. White wheat, new, 65s to 70s Barley, grinding.. 30s t0'350 Red do. 6os to 65s Oats, old, .. 3os to 34s Old white 6ss to 70s New do 25s to 29s Red do. 50s to 60s Beans. 56s to 600 Barley, malting.... 38s to 44s Beans, new.. 40s to 480 Peas, ....40s to 50s. HULL-JUNE 4. A moderate supply of wheat to-day, which was in slow demand, at is per qr cheaper than last Tuesday's prices. Barley met a fair sale at is under former currencies. Oats in less demand at 6d to is lower. Linseed oil has further improved 5s per ton. Wheat.... Old white.... per qr ... 65s Od to 68s Od Old red 7) New white .. „ New red _.... " DantzicLKonb , &c. old white 63 s Od t o 68 s Od Dutch, Belgian, and French. 60s Od to 62s Od Baltic and Hamburg, red 6ls Od to 62 s Od St. Petersburg and Riga, ld s2s Od to 55s 0d Barley.... English malting 3Bs Od to 44s Od Grinding 32s Od to 36s Od Seal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 3Bs Od to 40s Od Grinding 32s Od to 34s Od Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per st Os 14d to 141 d Friesland and Dutch osl4 1d to 03153 Swedish and Danish oBl4d to 08141 d Beans ....English, old, per qr ' New pigeon 44s Od to 45s Od New tick. 43s Od to 44s Od Egyptian 3Bs Od to 408 Od Peas Foreign breakers . s4s Od to 56s Od Grinding Tares ....Spring Indian Corn Linseed, feeding crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) £9:ls 0 to £lO 0 0 Foreign 9 5 oto 10 0 0 Rape cakes Bones 616 oto 6 0 0 COAL MARK (Prices of Coal per Ton at .ET—JUNE!S. the olose of the market s. d. Tanfield Moor 12 6 Tanfield Moor Butes l2 6 Halbeath Steam 14 6 Wylam Lambert's West Hart ley l5 3 Holywell ..15 9 Walker Primrose 12 3 Howard's West Hart ley 15 6 Buddle's West Hartleyls 9 Carr' s Original Hartleyls 9 Carway and Duffryn Malting 24 0 A, d• West Hartley ... 15 9 Hastings Hartley ....15 6 Walls End. Cassop l6 Hartlepool.... ..17 0 ?, Brsddyll's Hutton 17 3 Harton 16 0 Hetton lB 0 Hedley l6 0 South Hutton 18 0 Heugh Hall 16 6 Thorpe l6 6 Tees. 17 9 Russer s Hetton 17 - . 5 South Hartlepool 16 9 Keno() Tunstall Thornley Trimdo n H ar tl epoo l ..17 - 5 ; sold, 50. Do. Anthracite..2l 6 Eden Main ..16 6 Grey's West Hartley-15 0 CBraat,s gehead.west k Hartl a e r y tii: :116 0 4 6 Shinelitre l5 6 Ships at market, THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) .. ••••• June 18.', Do. (via Marseilles) June 12. Brazil and Cape Verds .. Overdue. Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &o. Cuba and Mexico .. June 28. Canada, &c. (via L'derry) .. June 5., Cape of Good Hope, &c. .. July 2. China, Penang, and Singapore (via' S'ampton) June 18. Do (via Marseilles) June 12. Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. June 10. India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) June 18. Do. (via Marseilles) June 12. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. .. June 10. Do. (via Marseilles) .. Overdue. Lisbon .. .. June 11. Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. June 10. Do. (via Marseilles) .. Overdue. Vigo, and Oporto .. .. June 11. United States, California, &c. .. June 6. Western Coast of Atrica, Madeira, Teneriffe June 10. West Indies and Pacific, Carthagena, Cuba, &o. June 13. ROBBING THE DIRECTOR OF THE CONSERVATOIRE OF MUM; ST. PETERSBURG.—Jane Smith, a prostitute was charged, at the Marlborough-street Police-cour yesterday, with stealing from the person of M. 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Cure 48,314—Miss Eliza beth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liverpool: a cure of ten years dyspepsia, and all the horrors of nervous irritability. Avoid Pills and Medicines : they invariably aggravate and perpetuate diseases ; their annoyance, disappointment, and expense may be avoided by using Du Barry's Food which, at a few pence per day, saves 5C times its cost in other remedies, removing effectually, without purging i constipation, indigestion (dyspepsia) nervous , bil ious an d liver complaints and all their consequences. Certificate No. 36,418. We find it the safest remedy. Andrew Ure, MD., F.R.S., Dr Harvey, Dr. Wurzer, Dr. Shorland, Dr. Campell. Let invalids avoid the fearful dangers of spu rious and injurious imitations offered under a variety of false pretences. 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BENTINCK.—On the 4th inst., at 48, Charles-street, Ber keley-square, Mrs. George Cavendish Bentinek, of a daughter. LOWNDES.—On the 21 inst., at Braunston, Northampton shire, the wife of Lieut.-Col. Lowndes, of a daughter. RAITT.—On the sth inst., at 15, Tichfield-terrace, Re gent's-park, the wife of A. C. H . R a i tt, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. EYRE—MILFORD —On the 4th inst., at Ingatestone, Thos. J. Eyre, Esq., of Uppe r court, co.Kilkenny, Ireland, to the Lady Milford. TAYLOR—CORYTON._On the 4th inst., at Saint Mary's, Woolwich, G. Kepple Taylor, Esq., Captain R.A., to Adela, youngest daughter of General Coryton. DEATHS. CLEAVER.—On the 3d inst., at Brixton, Henry Cleaver, Esq., aged 73. HALLETT.—On the 27th ult., at his residence, Malta, Ed ward Knatchbull Hughes Hallett, R Esq„ Commander .N , aged 53. OMACKENZIE.—On the 31st ult., at East Mop, near Inver ness, Jane, wife of Murdo Mackenzie, Esq. MACADAM.—On the Ist inst., at Belfast, James Macadam, Esq., F. G. S. SAUNDERS.—On the sth inst., Mr. John C. Saunders, of 258, Oxford. street, aged 61. WHITE.—On the 3d inst., at Grasmere, Mary Euphemiat wife of S;r Thomas Woolaston. White, Bart., of Walling' wells, Notts. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TnE Sun Office, No. 112,Strand , in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex Tburedity, June 6, 061. ACCEPTANCES FOR T Yrs st lb Underhand. Wildman ..... Dilkoosh Predictor Volatile 5 7 0 Danae Makeless filly Syringe Desmond Rosomond 4 6 11 Russley 3 6 8 East Stanley 3 6 8 Upperhand .. York Minster ACCEPTANCES FOR Yrs st lb Moorcock Pretendant Optimist Horror Frederick Predictor Dilkoosh Danae East Stanley 3 6 10 Paul Clifford 3 6 7 Calpe 3 6 6 Conscript