The Sun. — London, England, 1861-06-11 00:00:00

OXF 0 R 6, OXFORD-STREET. Mr. Lmvv, undoubtedly the best performer of the day on the Cornet-a-Piston —Grand Selections (on the most complete scale) from Dinorah, Martha, Stradella, ito., and other vocal and instrumental music, by Miss Russell, the Misses Stuart, and Miss Ernst, Messrs. Charles Greville, Fornari, Kimber ley, Bernard, Beaumont, Bervon, Huish, Signor Tivoli, and Mr. Henry Herbert, with full band and powerful and selected chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans.—The following Combo talent, Messrs. W. R an d a ll, 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 DAY.—Morning, 3h. 36m.—Afternoon, 3h. 56m. To-monnow.-Morning, 4h. 16m.—Afternoon. 4h. 34m. THE WEATHER..—SUN OFFICE, JUNE 11, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SEEADB. 64—highest since noon yesterday. 51—lowest this morning and during the night, 69—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.10. Wirrn — South-Westerly—light ; with fine warm weather. The bolder and the more cautious men in America each send us their own interpretation of the inten tions of the Washington Cabinet, neither knowing them more than we do, and perhaps hardly so well able, amid the excitement and rumours which sur round them, to judge so calmly as we can. One pre dicts a speedy forward movement on Richmond, the rebel centre, from Ohio and Western Virginia on one side, and Fort Monroe and Alexandria, or James River, on the other ; thus Richmond, the capital, is to be captured, Virginia compelled to rejoin the Confederacy, and all the South is humbly to follow " the old dominion." Compromise is then again to resume its sway, and Free States and Slave States are to be happily united by the bonds of Fugitive Slave Laws and moderate extension of slavery. We are sorry to believe that one part of this political prophecy is likely to be true enough— that the Northern States are as willing as ever to be glarc-hunting States, and to uphold slavery, if the South would but give them back the glory and prestige of Union. More exact investigation, however, finds no facts at variance with the other programme, which reserves the main operations till late autumn. " The Southrons" have, if we trust the best accounts we can find, 10,000 men at Harper's Ferry ; 12,000 at Fredericksberg, near to Washington ; 10,000 at Richmond; and 8,000 at Norfolk. In front of each of these the Federalists are probably more nume rous, though at Harper's Ferry the rebels were for tifying heights on the Northern side of the River Potomac. Perhaps the advance of the large bodies from Pennsylvania on the North, and from Ohio on the West, which latter could soon cut them off from Richmond, may paralyse the energy of the rebels at Harper's Ferry. It looks like designs on Richmond that 5,000 soldiers have been landed at Acquid Creek, which commands a railway from that place on the Potomac to Richmond. It is plain, however, that the Federalists were not ripe for a great movement forward at any of these three inineipal points when the last accounts left. Some of the incidents of the war are amusing. General BUTLER seems to have improved on his policy of delivering up slaves ; he now retains them as " contraband of war." He tells complaining officers who come to reclaim their "property" under the Fugitive Slave Law, that if they will swear fide lity to the Union and fight on the right side, they shall have their property again ; as the matter stands, he has employed the" property" in w orking at the Federal fortifications. One . communica tion suggests to us that there must be a peculiar aptitude in the British race for that kind of military mismanagement whi c h the Crimea has immortalized ; what could be more thoroughly Crimean than this " All is not upon velvet in our land service. Com plaints are common, and not at all unfounded. The Pennsylvania troops appear to be the worst treated of all. They sleep in light blankets, are clothed with rotten garments; and are fed witli stinking meat. Their blankets are only 90 ounces below the proper weight, being only 22 ounces when they should be 112. Even model Massa chusetts has made some blunders. One of her regiments that sailed from Boston found that all its blankets had been placed beneath all the rest of the cargo, and there was no getting at them until the steamship should have a chance to discharge her freight. Enormous amounts of stores were sent from Boston to Washington for the use of our troops, and the packages were as guiltless of all direction as if they had been a lot of contract coffins ; and they were, when I last heard of them, lying unopened." The Southern Privateers have, it seems, done some effective service. Several valuable Northern ships and cargoes have been captured, though the Northerns have taken about fifty in return, a great part of which are Vir ginian, and laden with tpbac( o. England comes in for unmeasured wrath for conceding belligerent rights to the Southern Privateers, and for citing as precedents the case of Greek privateers against the Turks. We are to re ceive, however, the punishment due to our humane neutrality. Congress meets on the 4th of July; it was supposed that that masterpiece of stupid folly, the MORRILL Tariff, would then have been modi- fed; but a very intelligent writer at Boston wares T HEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buokstone. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with the Comedy of THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Chas. Mathews, Buckstone, E. Villiers, Rogers, dze. ; Mrs. Wilkins, Mrs. C. Mathews, and Miss E. Weekes. Followed by THE ADVENTURES OF A LOVE LETTER. Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews. • And THE SUN AND THE WIND. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, TRUTH AND FICTION. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews,Wlddlcombe, Shore, Cathcart, Garden; Mies C. Leclercq, Miss R. Leclercq, and Miss M. Harris. Followed by THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Messrs. Phelps, Vezin, Widdicombe, ttc. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- 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 (203 d time), THE COLLEEN HAWN. Mr. D. Bonoicault, D. fisher, Billington, Falooner, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boncicault, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, 141burne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss Kate Kelly, Miss E. (home, and Mrs. Chatterley. Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7, ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Tills EVENIN 4 4, the most successful Spectacle ever produced, MAZEPPA, with splendid scenery and stately effects. To be followed by the Rocky Mountain Wonders and SCENES in the CIRCLE. Concluding with the Panto mime Ballet entitled JOCKO, the Brazilian Ape. Reduced prices. Doors open at half-past 6. On Thursday, June 13th, Benefit of the Rocky Mountain Wonders. CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. EVERY EVENING, Two Grand Selections from celebrated Operas, including Verdi's new Opera, THE BAL MASQUE (first produced in England and only to be heard at this Establishment), with a Chorus of Forty Voices, and upon a scale unequalled at any other Concerts. Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Greville, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, Mr. Bernard ; the popular Solos on the Cornet-a piston, by Mr. Levy (the first performer of . the day); the Brothers Conrad (in an entirely new and original entertain ment on the double rope, not to be seen elsewhere); Con tinued success of Mr. Wood and his talented little Son. The Comic Department comprises the following favourites —Mr. Marshall, Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. Blanchard, and numerous other artistes. Re-appearance at these Concerts of Mrs. Lawrence. Musical Director, Mr. JONGHMANS. T H E .: 311 1<• 4. 11 p '.11:_,,, cr,' "?...!22 ,, L' 4 • , • 40 • • .7 • - •V tv . • IP. 4 Ali . if • 400 . " - ' lTnko ,•, 7' • •; • -• (.7 r " * THE SUN. LOAIDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 186 ference to the care of a Select Committee—there to be examined under the microscope, and touched up with the scalpel. It had to undergo the usual parliamentary ordeal upon those occasions, the frightful and perilous political ordeal of dis- section during life. From this mangling in the Select Committee it emerged at last as we know, in a manner raw and bleeding. And in this condition it passed through Committee in the Lords yesterday. So that it only requires now to go through the final stage of its third reading, there in the House of Peers, beforo it is sent beck to the House of Commons for the consideration in that Lower House of the slashing amend ments adventured upon in the House of Peers. It will then be seen how far the Attorney-General can recognise these changes as Amendments. Sir RICHARD BETHELL may even when he comes to look upon his maimed and amputated offspring, feel disposed to put it alto- gether out of existence—as a promising measure, reduced by these cruel means to an abortive attemp at the commencement merely of a great legal re. formation of the laws relating to Bankruptcy and In solvency. Dropping all similitude, however—we do earnestly trust that, so far as this may be in any Way practicable, the Attorney-General will swallow his own very natural chagrin at the sweeping changes introduced into his measure daring its passage through the House of Lords, consenting to regard it still simply and exclusively as an instalment, as a beginning, as a preparation for future, and wiser, and bolder legislation upon the laws both of Bankruptcy and Insolvency. S then—the House of C ommons, while in com mitteeo last evening on the and Appropriati on o f S eats (Sudbur y Albans) Bill, d ec i ded, by an immense majority, St, that there shall be no member for Chelsea and yiKaeynsaisn Government defeat ? garded in any gtou! Is this to be re- Judging from the vociferous cheers of the Oppo sition when the numbers were announced, one would be led to imagine it w as s: in the estima tion of the Opposition. But then the l a t ter have so often exulted in the same previous labours of the session —particularly upon Wednesdays--with nothing coming of it all ex cepting, perhaps, worry, vexation, and obstruction. Nay, it cannot yet be forgotten how the serried phalanx of the Conservative Opposition had at length got themselves so drilled into the habit of cheering when the numbers of a division were announced that they actually raised a sort of derisive shout when a clear majority of eighteen, in an immense house, was declared, upon a certain memorable occasion, to have secured the triumph of the cause of the Government. Hence -the cheers of yester day, when the order in which the tellers advanced to the table showed how that division had gone— may be passed by as of comparatively small account, as the token of what might be termed a party demonstration. The division of last night, recollect, was a divi sion upon the amendment on Clause 3, in the Appropriation of Seats Bill already particularised. That clause went modestly enough, as most people on the Mini s t er i al side of the House imagined, to the assignment to Chelsea and Ken- as that " financial and military business will be the only things that - can properly command the atten tion of Congress, as the repeal of the MORRILL Tariff will not, I think, be so much as seriously proposed, in view of the hostile attitude, as it is supposed to be, of England to the Union. Had matters taken a different turn in England—that is to say, had the English Government treated the ' Secessionists as they deserve to be treated—there would have been prompt sentence of death passed upon the new tariff, and it would have been but a serpent strangled in its cradle. But, as things are, we shall wait and see who are to be our friends and who our foes, and then alter our tariff to meet the altered state of our relations. The subject will, from present appearances, go over to the regular session of Congress in December." All we can say is that England is conscious of no hostility, rather, exactly the contrary, provoking as that disgraceful tariff well might be. But certain as the tariff is both to defraud the American exchequer, and to tax very heavily the Americans themselves, the punishment of England reminds us only of a pro verbial revenge supposed to be taken on the face by excision of its most prominent feature. been trans The Bank ru pt cy Bill—h av i ng brmed almost out of all knowledge has, in its mangled condition, passed through Committee in the Lords, and is consequently so far farther advanced on its pro gress towards the date of its enrolment on the statute-book. However changed and modified, however diminished and deteriorated —we have at least in its regard this consolation ! Namely, that even at the best the measure as originally sub mitted to the House of Commons by the Attorney- General was only a partial improvement, was never once championed by him as a proposition that could be regarded either as definitive or as sufficiently comprehensive. Compared with the Bankruptcy Bill previou s ly l a id upon t h e ta b le of the House of Commons during the previous session by Sir RICHARD BETHELL—the Bill of 1861, this Bill which, in its shrunken and distorted shape, passed through Committee in the Lords last evening, was little better than the precursor of some later enactment, or it might more probably prove in the end of many later and better enactments. It was, in point of fact, introduced to the consideration of Parliament by the Attorney General as no more than a commencement. An important and remark able commencement, if you will—but still no more than a commencement. It was submitted to the House of Commons by Sir RICHARD BETHELL as the beginning of an improved system of legislation in regard to the laws relating to Bankruptcy and Insolvency, with a view to their eventually complete and perfected (so far as anything of this kind can be perfected) consolidation. The Attorney-General never affected to regard his measure as conclusive. He acknowledged when bringing it forward for the first time very early in the session, he then frankly enough acknowledged that he could not, for his own part, do otherwise than look back wistfully to that more elaborate and comprehensive measure of his which had died the death but a few months previously in the midst of the ruth less slaughter the political baitue known at West minster as the Massacre of the Innocents. He hoped—(he now intimated almost in so many words)—he hoped to do more during the present Session by simply aspiring to do less (in the matter of these reforms of the Bankruptcy Laws), than he had, as the event proved, rashly attempted in the Session immediately preceding. And it was upon this understanding that the Bill was to be regarded merely in the light of a prudential and judicious commencement, that the House of Com mons passed it on with so much amiable facility through all its various stages—modifying it scarcely in the least as it went—sending it, almost in the same shape as when it originally appeared from the hands of the Attorney-General, on to the Upper House of Parliament. There it is that tlio Bill has in every way come to grief. It was first threatened with serious alterations by its trans- THE SUN,' 1 r LONDON,' TUESDAY' tVENING, JUNE 11, 1861. the enfranchisement of Chelsea and Kensington ! Announcing, at the same time, that, in the event of Ministers being unable to realize their intentions in that way, he should ponsider the ground cleared before him for his own reserved proposition— namely for the enfranchisement of the London University. Things begin to look more propitious indeed for that proposition. Of course there are plenty of other rival propositions on the cards as well, almost as many as, if not more than, the number of horses running for the last Derby. But the political odds now show (now, 1. e., that " Chelsea and Kensington" has been scratched)-- that the " London University" heads the list as Favourite. Some outsider, not yet thought of as a winner, may yet win, it is true, after the fashion of Kettledrum. But the Dundee of the hour is certainly as yet the London University. On Thursday the winning or losing of the coveted prize will be decided, so far as the awarding of the seat itself is concerned. But—supposing the University of London really to be endowed with the electoral franchise for the returning of one re- presentative—the contest will then and there be localised as in each of the other localities empowered ,o send a member to the House of Commons—the contest will then and there be localised into a struggle between the supporters of the rival candidates of Liberalism and Conservatism. Remembering which simple matter-of-fact conse- quenee o' the coming award—supposing it to be announced on Monday next as in favour of the Uni- versity of London—the Conservative party, we can not but remember this also, with a qualm, would enter upon that contest having in their favour the prestige of having cleared the way before Sir J. GRAHAM, so that he had the opportunity (which he could never have otherwise possessed) of securing to the University of London the boon of its enfranchisement. Mr. S. ESTCOTJRT has not lost much time in pre senting all concerned with the draft of a Bill on Church Rates ; a bill from which he augured such good results that he called on Sir JOHN TRELAW NY to postpone the third reading of his bill for a fortnight, that the Church-rate-paying world might have a sight of it. Well, what have we ? First, an owners' rate, for the repair of the fabric and its appurtenances, payable by the tenants, to be de ducted from rent. Secondly, an occupiers' rate to be paid by all who are members of the Church vestry. The members of vestry are defined to be all, briefly, who do not exempt themselves by hand , ing in a notice that they decline to be members of the vestry. This vote is to be made for any pur poses pertaining to the worship which the vestry may think good. The assessment is to be that of the poor-rate, and the mode of enforcing it the same. It seems to us to require little political sagacity to predict that these proposals will fall through. With all their professed zeal for the Church, the owners in great numbers will not relish being made the actual payers of the rate. Indeed, a large part of them will tell their tenants, could such a proposal be carried, that they paid the rate before, and if they refuse to do it now, why, it will come to a quarrel, or they will add it to the rent. The dis senting owners of property, if not so numerous, are yet numerous, and for them there is no exemption from contributing to a fabric rate, when the fabric is one, perhaps, which, if they are hot nonconfor mists, they would rather treat as CROMWELL'S t troopers did in their time. Ch urc h men w h o are Owners will not lik e th e p l an, an d owners who are not Chur c hmen occupiers' e v r e a , t goode reason r c to weh protest. avc, Then n fact, the exploded ticketing ein system ; though w do Mr. EST COURT the justice to acknowledgee w it is in it s mildest form; but the thatll objections will al ways be valid against marking off the people by law into sectarian sections. Why, too, the Dissenter may ask, am I to be at the trouble of doing what I may easily forget, and so make myself unwillingly liable ? Why am Ito be held liable unless I pro test annually, any more than the Churchman is to be held liable for my worship unless he protest prior to my collection day ? Indeed, wh J y, on this question is he to have a prima facie claim on all parishioners while I am, not to have the sam e ? The Bill does not get rid of the old sore. It is a felt injustice that the Churchman should have power to tax his neighbour by law at all. How can the Church landlord, or the Church blacksmith, look the Dissenting landlord or the Dissenting blacksmith in the face, and tell him that his religion is so much the better of the two that the law with all its mighty penalties must uphold the of C and leave the other to shift for itself. The Methodist knight of the anvil would contend that joRN sington of one of the Foun vacant seats left at the disposal of the Legislature by reason of the bribery and corruption proved years ago against the notorious boroughs of St. Albans and Sud bury, followed also years ago by their ignominious disfranchisement. Against this proposition rose the amendment, which triumphed so remarkably last evening, when a clear majority of 103 in a House numbering altogether (Tellers, Speaker, and Chairman of Committee all included) 453-275 voting distinctly for the amendment and 172 against it. So that a general taboo has been pronounced in the House of Commons after due de liberation—a formal taboo, at any rate for the time being, against the formation into a borough of the populous, wealthy, and in very many respects it is not extravagant to say, important and en lightened suburbs of Chelsea and Kensington. No matter that the estimated rental of those parishes showed a total of £657,830. No matter that according to the last census the inhabitants of Chelsea number as many as 63,000, while the inhabitants of Kensington number no less than 70,000 —showing a total population for the two parishes of 133,000. No matter that the sum contri buted by that population to the general and local taxation is shown to have attained an aggregate 1 1 of £1,000,000. All the arguments advanced by Sir GEORGE LEWIS and his supporters utterly failed in convincing the Committee of the advisa bility of according a member to those important parishes of Chelsea and Kensington. The Opposition haughtily swept aside any argument in favour of this suggested appropriation of one, of merely one of the FOUR vacant seats now in course of distribu tion. And a hope consequently dawns at last upon the University of London that that seat of learning shall henceforth, in its turn, yield a seat in the House of Commons to some chosen representative. The right hon. baronet the member for Carlisle acted fairly enough, we cannot but think, in the course pursued by him between the conflicting claims held forth—for that one vacant seat by Chel sea and Kensington on the one hand, and on the other by the University of London. Between these two suggested constituencies, though one of them (the latter) was put down to be suggested—(suppos ing the opportunity should offer) by himself—be tween the two, Sir JAMES GRAHAM almost avowed that he stood as bewildered, let us say, as Captain MACHEATH himself between the rival charms of POLLY PEACHUM and Lucy LOCKIT. With a perference in his own mind for the latter, that is for the University of London, the right hon. baronet yet voted with Government for A magnificent enterprize has now been adven. tured upon, in the chartering of the Great Eastern as a troop ship, by her MAJESTY'S Government. So that this leviathan of the deep after all will assume to itself a position, will be enabled to dis charge duties,„Rf wa ltipal importance. It is a matter of regret that poor BMX:ILL could not huva lived to see the day when his masterpiece should thus have been stamped by the timbre of approval of her Britannic MAJESTY'S Government. It is by reason of the doubtful, if not in some re spects alarming, state of things in America, along the Southern boundary line of our own possessions, that the Great Eastern is to be at length chartered thus for the conveyance to the coast of Canada forthwith of three entire regiments ! But that the dimensions of the Great Eastern are now familiar to the general multitude, the mere mentioning of that simple fact would read very much like an ex travagance. A vessel capable of carrying across the Atlantic in one voyage three whole regiments of infantry, one would, but a very few years since, have expected to read of only in the pages of some aquatic Baron MUNCHAUSEN. As it is, recollect that it is the Great Eastern [by the way, now, a really preposterous misnomer under the circumstances !] re collecting that it is The Great Eastern that is an nounced as about to carry at one passage across the Ocean Three Regiments and a corresponding force of Artillery, bag and baggage, horses and all the requi site materials —wonderful though this account is in itself, it is yet one marked on the very face of it by its perfect credibility. We cannot bat rejoice at this intelligence for very many reasons—for the sake of the national interests, here at home, and yonder in Canada—for the sake of the long dubious fortunes of the Great Eastern herself—for the com fort of our troops while upon their sea-voyaging— - - and even, we will say, for the honour of the Government that has decided upon entering on this novel adventure. Accounts from British Columbia mention a great rush to some new gold discoveries at a place called the Carriboo region, on the Fraser River. Considerable amounts of gold had arrived thence at Victoria. On Saturday a small party of the 3d Cheshire Rifles (Captain Chambers, Wallasey) went to the shore between the Red Noses and Leasowe, for the purpose of ball practice, the rifles used being the long Enfield. Mr. Richard Cooper, landlord of the Ship Inn, was engaged to mark, and his son George, a boy about nine years of ago, was employed to carry a danger signal flag. During the firing the poor boy was shot dead. FALL FRO3I A HEIGHT OF 250 FEET.—The .24 7- o(therit Ensign my's " A most from instant death, though attended with serious results, took place at Freswick on Saturday. Donald Mowat, fisherman, aged twenty-nine, went to the rockhead to shift a horse that was grazing, and from some cause yet unexplained, fell over the rock, and was precipitated a distance of from 250 to 300 feet. Soule hours thereafter his mother was surprised at his absence, and looking in the direction where he had gone, found he he had disappeared. Alarmed, she ran to the locality, in company with the family dog, which led the anxious mother to the exact spot where he had fallen, and looking over the cliff she observed him lying at the bottom of the precipice, quite motionless. The rock being inaccessible a boat was speedily manned, with the view of taking home, as was believed, the mangled body of the unfortunate man. lie was found, however, alive, but speechless, and strange to say, no marks were found on any part of his body except his legs. On being taken home Dr. Stobbie, from lieics, was sent for, and promptly attended, and has hopes of the poor man's recovery. On examining the locality where Mowat fell it was found that he had first struck on a grass knoll, a distance of about 60 feet from the top of the rock, after which he must have fallen a height of about 200 feet. Should Mowat recover, his escape will be one of the moat extraordinary ever re corded. SUSPECTED POISONING NEAR, LEEK.—Thomas Gould, a man of rather weak intellect, resided at Shaw cross, near Leek, in a house adjoinin; that of his brother in-law, Charles Milward. Gould was in the receipt of 10s. a-week under his father's will ; but for some time he had been allowed to go in a condition so filthy as to attract the attention of his neighbours. 11r. Heaton, of Leek, by direction of a magistrate, went on Friday to in quire into the case, but on his arrival he found that Gould had died on the previous thy. No intimation of this fact had been given to the police, and on Saturday the corpse was interred without their knowledge, and contrary to the wishes of a brother of the deceased residing at Hartington. The suddenness of the death, and the rapidity with which it was followed by the interment, excited suspicion, and the body was exhumed.-31r. Heaton had made a post mqrtem examination of the body, and re ported that there were traces of disease such as might alone have accounted for death, but that he found much irrita tion in the stomach and intestines, which, in his opinion, was the proximate cause. He could not, however, arrive at a positive conclusion without an analysis of the parts so affected. The inquiry was consequently adjourned, and the contents of the stomach have been forwarded to Mr. Lomax, of Stafford, for analysis. In the house of Milward a paper has been discovered containing arsenic.— Stafordskire Advertiser. ACCIDENT TO THE MARQUIS OF DONEGAL.—On Saturday evening, about 6 o'clock, the Marquis of Donegal was at the head of his regiment, the Royal Irish Volun teers, as they were marching out of the square at Somerset house for the Saturday afternoon drill. Upon turning into the Strand his lordship's charger slipped and went down on its side, unseating its rider and throwing him violently on the pavement. He soon recovered himself, however, and declining the assistance of the crowd by whom he was im mediately surrounded, he remounted, and was again at the head of his regiment, beforo the rear-guard was aware of the accident. CORRY V CREMORNE.—This case is appointed for hearing in Dublin to-day. The petitioner, Mrs. Mary Steuart Corry, widow of the late Thomas Charles Steuart Corry, of Rockcorry Castle, county of Monaghan, prefers a claim for dower again s t L or d C remorne out of certain lands sold to the respondent by her husband in the year 1831. A very large amount of money i s i nvolved in this case, which is of great interest, as being the supposed key to another action—of ejectment on the title, which is pending, brought against Lord Cremorne by Dr. T. C. S. Corry, of Victoria street, Belfast, and which involves a sum of upwards of £lOO,OOO inesne rents, in addition to the possession of the estates in the county of Monaghan. For the first trial, to-day, there have been retained the following eminent counsel:—For the petitioner, Messrs. Whiteside, Q.C., Berkeley, Q.C., Brady, Q.C., and James Thompson; for the respondent, the Solicitor-General, Sergeant Sullivan, Messrs. Brewster, Q.C., and Tudor. REV. MR. SPURGEON._A certain elderly minis ter fro m t h e country called upon Mr. Spurgeon and con gratulated him upon his success, but said it was a pity he advi ce , w b icla Mr. S. seldom receives with indulged i n eccentriciti es , an d so on—in short, gave him t some fath er l y patience. On this occasion he took threepence from his pocket and said : "Dr. B---, the other day I was so an noyed by an organ -grinder that I gave the man threepence to go away. Now, will you take the same sum, or shall I make it sixpence 2" The doctor immediately brought his lecture to a conclusion, and now relat , :s the story with great glee, WESLEY'S Hymn-book did ten times more for the people's souls than the prayer-book, and that the circuit preacher warmed his heart, while the clergy man froze it. And the two landlords, in politer language, would differ equally about the religious and social advantages of the worship they preferred. In fact, house religious liberty, and much more , equality, are utterly inconsiste n t w ith p owers o f taxing conferred on one section of religionists and not on another. Mr. ESTCOURT'S whole plan, however, flies in the face of Mr. BERES FORD HOPE'S resolution, carried by the Church institution this day week. It was then and there agreed that worship and fabric should not be separated in the rate, and the " rural deans" were referred to as the judges in the matter. But the truth is no law is needed if churchmen desire merely to bring themselves under legal obli gation to pay a Church-rate proportioned to their poor -rate. It is the simplest thing in the world. Any lawyer's head clerk would do it for them in a few:minutes. He would get a half-crown stamp, and draw up an agreement between the Churchwardens and all who signed the agreement that they bound themselves to raise the sum required, iri the pro portion of their poor-rate assessment. Let, there. fore, those who want coercion put themselves volun tarily under it—but let them not assume that all the parishioners deserve coercion if they do not take the trouble, or forget, to protest against Church rate handcuffs. altered. ELATEST NE WS. PARIS, JUNE 10, There is every reason to believe that the death of Count Cavour will. hasten the recognition of the new kingdom of Italy on the part of France. PARIS, JUNE 11. The Moniteur of do-day publishes the following official declaration : "The Emperor, considering the peaceful relations existing between France and the United States, is determined to maintain a strict neutrality in the conflict between the Government of the Union and the States which pretend to form a separate con federation." The Moniteur also publishes several articles specifying the measures of neutrality which French subjects are to observe. TURIN, JUNE 10, The new Ministry has not yet been constituted. A report is current that Baron Ricasoli will assume the Presidency and the portfolio for Foreign Af fairs, and Signor Menabrea of the Marine. It is said that Signors Fanti, Cassinis, and Natoli will quit the Ministry, and that the other Ministers will remain in office. General Desparviere will, it is asserted, accept the portfolio for War, Signor Lissouri that of Jus tice, and Signor Sella that of Agriculture. The municipality of Florence will erect a mauso leum to Count Cavour at Santa Croce. PARIS, JUNE 10. A telegram dated Constantinople, yesterday, has been received here, announcing that the Interna tional Conference, in its sitting of Friday last, re solved that the Governor of the Lebanon should be appointed for three years, and that he could not be dismissed without a previous understanding between the Porte and the Great Powers. At the end of the three years the Porte is to come to a fresh understanding with the Powers respect ing the government of the Lebanon. The Conference also unanimously resolved that the Governor of the Lebanon might be chosen without distinction from among the Christian sub jects of the Sultan in any province of the empire. The same telegram asserts that this settlement of the question is a definitive one. PARIS, JUNE 10, The Gazette de France of to-day publishes a tele gram stating that in the recent fight between the Turks and the insurgents in the Herzegovina the former were defeated. Dervish Pacha was march ing with 4,000 men against the insurgents, by whom his vanguard had been beaten. His troops were discouraged. The Begs or sub-governors of the provinces had refused to recognise the concessions made to the Christians by Omer Pacha's proclamation, as being in opposition to the dogmas of the Koran. PARIS, JUNE 10, The discussion on the budget for the Ministry of the Interior was continued to-day in the Corps Legislatiff. M. 011ivier, opposition member, refuted the as sertion made by M. Keller in the previous sitting. M. Baroche likewise replied to NI. Keller, in the name of the government. M. Darimon explained his amendment in favour of the suppression of the laws for general security, which was, however, rejected. The budgets for the Ministries of the Interior and Finance were then adopted. THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 11. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Ellora, Captain Joy, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 23 passengers. The Mohawk sailed from Malta for Corfu on the Ist inst. The St. Jean d'Acre and Cockatrice sailed from Gibraltar for Tangiers on the sth inst. Muley Abbas had addressed a letter to Spain praying for an extension of the time for paying the indemnity, and explaining the circumstances which placed it out of the power of the Sultan to make the stipulated payment in May. Mogador will, it is said, be given to Spain as a material guarantee. 'At Gibraltar exchange on London was quoted 501 for 90 days' sight ; on Paris, 529; on Genoa, 530; on Madrid, eight days, par: Freights un- THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY, JUNE 11. The African mail steamer Cleopatra has arrived. Her dates are —Benin, 24th April ; Fernando Po, 29th ; Cameroons, Ist May ; Old Calabar, 4th; Brass River, 7th ; Nun River, 7th ; Bonny, 7th ; Lagos, 10th ; Accra, 12th : Cape Coast, 14th; Palmas, 16th; Sierra Leone, 21st ; Bathurst, 25th; Teneriffe, 31st; Madeira, 2d June. She brings 2,195 ounces of gold dust, £2,500 in specie, 47 passengers, and a full cargo of palm oil, ivory, &c. The United States steamer Saratoga had cap tured, near Congo River, the vessel Nightingale, from Liverpool (England), with 960 slaves on board, and ready to carry 1,600 in all. Trade was brisk at Fernando Po. Thero was a decrease in the exports of palm oil at Bonny, Prices were high. The Liverpool ship Arabian was ldst, with cargo, off Nun River, on the 19th of April. The Niger expedition was at the mouth of the Nun River, and was to proceed in July. Trade at Lagos was dull. War was being carried on between the King and tho British. Portonova had been bombarded and was captured on the 26th of April. The British war steamer Torch captured a slave schooner on the 10th of May at Debreeka. FRANCE. BOURSE, June 10,—The market remains inani mate, but prices have been maintained at the clos ing:rates of Saturday. Threes, for the Account, are now at 67f 60c. Railway shares quiet, and quotations firm. The following are the last quota tions : 4f per per Cents 96 35, Do end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 60 Bank Shares 2895 --1 Credit Mobilier 691 25 I Do. Account 693 501 Credit Fonder Belgian 4i — Piedmontese Fives 73 50 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes — Home Debt .. 4B 50 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1353 75 .. 1353 75 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean Geneva.. Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian LOW bard 890 7.5 . 888 75 932 50 .. 935 - 407 50 .. 408 75 571 25 .. 571 75 520 - 521 25 576 25 .. 576 25 577 50 .. - - 505 50 .. 507 50 492 - .. 493 75 Mr. D. A. Lange, the English representative of the Suez Canal Company, sailed in the last Peninsular and Oriental steamer for Alexandria, with a view to examine the actual condition of that project, and to report faith fully the material and political results thus far observable It is not certain, however, that Mr. Lange will be permitted to learn more than i s conven i en t, an d a t the same time he is perhaps likely to be biassed by the influence of a long per sonal friendship ter N, de LeSsePs, AMERICA. On the 28th a Federal force of 2,500 men from Fort Monroe had made their way up Hampton Roads, and entrenched themselves at New Point, which is about six miles from Hampton. This body commands the mouth of the James river, which is the water route to Richmond. At the same time a large body of Ohio troops entered the western part of the State took possession of the North-Western Virginian Railroad, arid moved in the direction of Grafton. Three columns have thus entered Virginia, and, con verging toward the centre of the State, they will shortly have the rebel forces separated from each other, and completely at their command. On the 28th nothing of special importance occur red. Outposts, however, were being extended fur ther into Virginia, and additional regiments were to be thrown into Virginia that night. A large demonstration took place in New York during the passage through the city of the body of Col. Elsworth. He lay in state for some hours in the City Hall. The 0 - earn transp:u•t Philadelphia arrived at New York on the zoth inging Lieut. Slemmer, who had been relieved from the command of Fort Pickens. It is stated that the secessionists had relinquished all idea of an attack on Fort Pickens at present. Colonel Fremont has been raised to the rank of major -general. Two of the Firemen Zouaves are sentenced to be shot at Washington for desertion. The Federal Government have accepted six ad ditional regiments from Indiana. The New York Herald Washington correspon dent writes that the Federal Government have given orders for building 30 to 40 gunboats. The War Department had instructed a commis sion of highly respectable gentlemen to examine the telegraphic dispatches (recently seized by the Go vernment), under the strict injunction of secrecy, and after having selected those of a treasonable character to reseal and return those relating to mere business transactions. All the despatches seized would be sent to Washington to be examined. The New York limes says :-- "It is the determination of the Government to crush out the rebellion before the coming 4th of July. Simultaneous attacks will be made on Norfolk, itichmond, Harper's:Ferry, and Pensacola, and a flotilla will be sent down the Mississipi. Loyal citizens will be protected, but traitors will be hanged, and their property confiscated.. The steam frigate Minnesota has been ordered to Charleston. The 7th regiment is to re turn to New York in a few days." It was stated that Lord Lyons had written to the British consul at Pensacola, recognising the blockade in the name of the British Government, and warn ing English vessels of its effect. No movement in dicative of hostilities had occurred at present. The Border State Convention met at Frankfor' Kentucky, on the 27th ult. A resolution had been adopted for the appointment of a committee to con sider the subject for which the convention was called, and also Mr. Crittenden's original amend ments proposed in the Senate of the United States, with such amendments as will secure the slave states just and equal rights under the constitution. The Confederate Congress at Montgomery ad journed on the night of the 21st ult. to meet at Richmond on the 20th of July. The Tariff Bill was passed with unimportant amendments. A com mittee was appointed to make arrangements for the transfer of the military department to Richmond. The St. _Louis Democrat, of the 24th ult., says:— "Reports from Jefferson City of that date state that the Missouri troops, organised under the requisition of Governor Jackson, have refused to disband according to the terms of agreement between General Harney and General Price. It is alleged that great dissatisfaction is expressed by the secessionists at the arrangements alluded to. The same paper states that consid era bl e exc it emen t prevails at Jeffer son City, in consequence of the discovery of an attempt to poison the Federal troops by putting arsenicin the flour from which their bread is made. It appears that a union man is baker to the troops, and a secessionist, in order to effect his destruction, had made an arrangement with a ne gress to poison the bread. She informed against him, and spies were placed so as to overhear the conversation between him and the woman, when he was arrested and piaeed - i; gaol. A proposition was made to hang him, but it was overruled." Francis Monroe, recently a clerk in the State Department, had been arrested by military autho rity, and placed in gaol to await examination. Overland advices from San Francisco are to the 11th ultimo. Trade was fairly active, and prices steady, with a hardening tendency, but without noticeable change. The rate of insurance on trea sure bound east had been raised to 10 per cent. Both Houses of the Legislature had passed resolu tions pledging the fealty of the State to the general Government, and its readiness to comply with any requisition for aid in suppressing the insurrection. Union meetings were being held almost nightly i n all the principal towns and cities. Speeches and resolutions are invariably in favour of a vigor ou , war policy. Efforts were being made to organi se a company of volunteers in San Francisco, to ten der th e i r se rvice to the Gove rnment. A similar organisation was being made at Sacramento, LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. The Royal Mail steamship Europa, Captain Anderson, which left Boston on the 29th ult., and Halifax on the 31st, arrived in the Mersey at noon to-day. A telegraphic summary of her advices has already been published. The steamship Etna arrived at New. York on the 27th with files of papers to the 15th inst., extracts from which, including the Queen's proclamation, were copied into the evening papers, and the news eagerly read by the people,there being great anxiety as to the course that will be pursued by the Euro pean Powers in the present American crisis. The press generally interpret the proclamation as a quasi recognition of the Southern Confederacy, and the New York Times states that England had more right to recognise the Hungarian nation during the revo lution of 1848 and 1849 than the present Southern Confederacy, and concludes a long article by stating that centuries of kind relations will never wipe from American memories the recollection of that crisis of supreme danger to the very existence of liberty and law in America in which the English people had nothing to offer but fears for their cot ton supply and sympathy with American slave holders. The New J'ork herald of the 28th thus describes the position of affairs at the seat of war in Vir ginia ; -- " The Federal troops now lining the heights of the Poto mac on the Virginia side are actively engaged in throwing up earthworks and fortifying their position. A reconnais sance made yesterday from Alexandria, in the direction of Fairfax Court-house, resulted in the discovery of a body of secessionist cavalry, drawn up in line. Two of their picket guard were captured and sent to Washington. They con firm the report that a force of 700 rebel infantry had ad vanced within a few miles of Alexandria on the 25th. These were no doubt the troops who attacked the pickets of the 12th and 7th regiments, which gave rise to the rumour of a groat battle going on in that direction. "A mail agent of the Government who has been employed in the South for some months past returned to Washington yesterday, and reports that he had an interview with Jeffer son Davis a few days ago, whom he represents to be in very low spirits. He states furthermore that the Southern army is in a wretched and discontented condition, and quite de moralised. This statement would appear to be confirmed by the fact that numerous desertions take place every day in the vicinity of ashington ; secessionists surrendering themselves to our pickets with apparent gratification. "Affairs at Fort Monroe remain unchanged. General Butler made a reconnaissance, from his camp at Hampton, of the peninsula lying between the York and James Rivers, satisfying himself that a good many rebel troops were scat tered in that quarter. There are now fully 6,000 men in Fort Monroe, but General Butler is of opinion that no hos • tile move ought to be made until there are at least 15,000 troops concentrated there. This will be accomplished, it is expected, within a few days, when an attack will probably be made simultaneously on Norfolk and Sewall's Point. The rumour of the capture of the latter post is premature. " The rebel forces at llarper's Ferry are actively occupied throwing out men on the Maryland Heights. Intelligence received yesterday confirms the report that there are 10,000 men at Richmond under General Lee, and 12,000 at Frede ricksburg under General Ruggles. Mr. Davis and General Beauregard were, expected at Richmond on the 27th, " Manassa Gap Junction appears to be an important point of concentration for the rebel forces. They are pouring in there rapidly from Richmond, and are fortifying the place strongly with earthworks, fearing, it is said, an attack from the Federal troops at Alexandria in their advance on Har per's Ferry by that road. It has been ascertained that there are over 5,000 troops now at the Manassas Gap Junction; and a fight in that quarter on an early day is not impro bable." THE PROPOSED CHURCH-BATE CO2FLPROMISE. " As I am sure that you and I shall be equally desirous of making known to others interested in this question tho result of a communication publicly announced in the house, I propose to scud a copy of this letter and paper to each, member as soon as you shall have intimated to me whether you intend to move the third reading of your bill on Wed nesday, the 19th. " I shall be obliged, therefore, if you can let me have your answer not later than the evening of Tuesday no.v.t,— I am, &c., (Signed) "T. SOTHERON ESTCOURT', "To Sir John Trelawny, Bart,, M.P." , Abstract of a bill to abolish the jurisdiction of ecclesiastical courts in respect of church-rates, and to alter and amend the law relating to church-rates. 1. Jurisdiction of ecclesiastical courts in regard to the. • validity and enforcement of church -rates to be transferred to the same tribunal as the poor-rate. 2. Each ecclesiastical district to be a separate parish for the purposes of this act. No rate to be collected in any dis trict, except for the church or chapel of such district, 3. Churchwardens to be empowered and required once iu their year of office to publish on the church door for three successive Sundays, and after publication to levy and col lect an owner's church-rate, not exceeding one penny in ,the pound, upon all property in respect of which the occupier has been assessed to a church-rate within the last five years, such rate to be solely applied to the following pur poses, viz. : Repair of church, church clock, bells, belfry, and maintenance of the churchyard. Providing of books required for registers, and for per formance of Divine worship, according to law. Insurance of all the above against fire. Payment of fees due by law. This rate to be payable by tenants, and deducted from rent due to the landlord. 4. Church vestry, as hereinafter defined, to have power to levy an occupier's church-rate for any purpose connected with Divine worship. Such rate to be collected only from occupiers who are members of the church vestry. 5. Tho church vestry to consist solely of owners who have been rated as aforesaid, and of all occupiers wbo shall during the preceding twelvemonth have paid any church rate, or, being ratepayers, have contributed to any subscrip tion in lieu or in aid thereof, and who shall not decline to be members of such church vestry, by delivering to tho churchwardens before Easter in each year, a notice in the form set forth in the schedule. 6. Church vestry to have under its control the audit of churchwardens' accounts; furniture and fittings of the church ; salary of officers ; appropriation of scats, and all expenditure incurred for the benefit of the congregation. 7. Small Tenements Acts to be applicable to occupiers' rates under this act. 8. All rates under this act to be assessed according to the Poor-rate. 9. After this act comes into operation, no church-race to be assessed or levied except in accordance with the pro visions of it. 10. Saving where money is due on security of rates. li. Saving provisions of local acts. 12. This act to come into operation on Easter-day, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. SCHEDULE. Form of Notice. To the Churchwardens of Parish. T, A. B. give you notice that I decline to be a member of ;hisparistt tot th. ycai (Signed) Date, THE TAEPINGS 1N CHINA. The correspondence which has been laid before Parliament respecting the opening of the Yang-tse kiang river to foreign trade gives a deplorable ac count of the Taeping movement or rebellion, and seems fully to justify Vice-Admiral Sir J. Hope in writing, as he does, that he can regard it in no other light than that of an organised band of robbers. Their policy is, after plundering such towns as they can cap ture, to convert those they hold into mere garrison; excluding the general population not essential to their wants, and to destroy those which they do not retain possession in order to render them useless to the Imperial Government. Mr. Parkes says in an account of his visit to Hwang-chow, which is 50 miles from Hank ow , on the 22d March, appearanceosh snc u ot s fh e a s 4no g , a u o toftoooe fortnight t n b i y g h t the e before it ~ that the city was entirely d eserted by the people, it W e o h n e t n a i h n e e w d a a s they the re hadbe rebels was now thatall fled. o f a mob. The general there n eonp d eurl t h e aa I t I H v e a n w g a , was whointroduced to .ih e dh i t m h the e If Taeping a s charged n ce, t o relieven g- Ngankin g , W hi c h forces. Mr. Parkes w s a u s gg b e e s s t i e e d g e t d ha b t y he th s e ho l u m ld pe n ri o a t l move upon Hankow, which he had some idea of doing, as it was one of the ports at which we were established, and would seriously interfere with our commerce, and in this he readily acquiesced. On the 24th March Mr. Parkes was at Nganking, Ns here he found the rebels had destroyed all but the few ;streets necessary to give shelter to their garrison. He reached Woo-hoo a few days afterwards, and reports that the site of its extensive suburbs can now only be traced by brick heaps, and the same may almost be said of the city itself : it has been known as one of the principal emporia on the Yang-tse. Taeping, a place of some note, 20 miles from this, presents a like scene—" the city is obliterated." The lately flourish ing port of Soo-chow is quite destroyed, and miles of country round it will soon be covered with jungle. The party who visited it flushed teal in the city moat where a year ago it was barely possible to find a passage, from the immense number of boats. The banks of the Grand Canal, along which is a broad. roads are literally white with human bones ; human remains lie about in all directions, but the water is supposed to cover a still larger number of victim s- The fugitives, however, are now returning to the villages around Nankin, and they will 500 n his: despatch unless again disturbed. Sir J. Hetr, i n only course course to be to endeavour to obtain the recognition r consular despatch of the 6th April, says he consider the Only by both parties of the neutrality places of 1 3 0 f security ports, which would then become and . capitalists in which the Chinese merchants could take refuge, as at which the ingenuity could could devise mod e e b s ro brought there in defi ance of the country could b e Shangha i ; and their This seems the more feasible ance of every obstacle. that Shanghai and Soo-chow, in a singular way between possession of the rebels;it ap pears the latter in . having friends from the circumstance trade has been conducted parties, and for a heavy con both the contending __ are allowed to trade unmo ideration their boats s pears that there is a society among The improbable that f ear o f g i ving provo cation to such a large body has so me we i ght withlualragr system large number signals an d passwords and it of nearly 5,000. men Tested, have tto t a h r e e g is not the Imperial officers. THE HON. MRS. YEL VERTON.---ne demand for t, martyrs to Circumstance," Mrs. Yelverton's narrative of her life in the Cri mea, was so great that every copy at the various railways was sold off within a few hours, and as fresh supplies reached them were as speedily disposed of. Four thousand were sold at once, and the demand goes on increasing. This remarkable book contains Mrs. Yelver ton's life in tho Crimea as a Sister of Charity. The reader will easily recognise in Sister Thierna Mrs. Yelverton her- The pictures of the East and of convent life are very Tho following letter from Mr. Sotheron Esteourt to Sir J. Trelawny, together with his promised scheme of compro mise, has been published in the form of a Parliamentary paper : „ "51, Eaton-place, Juno 7, HO. "Dear Sir,—.ln accordance with niy engagement given. to you in the house on Monday, I now enclose, for y e ur consideration, an abstract of a bill which I should be pre pared to lay upon the table, in case your bill should 1 withdrawn. "You will observe that it contains the principle recon t mended by the Lords' committee, and proposed in the amendment of Mr. Cross, of personal exemption from tl to rate payable by occupiers, through the machint try of a Church vestry, consisting of members of the congrogation., This rate, therefore, is in its character purely volt intary, resting on the payment of contributions during the provious twelvemonth, and subject to a withdrawal at will, wit bout assigning any reason. "It also contains a new scheme for providing l!er the fabric and necessaries of worship, by a rate chargeal on owners to the extent of one penny in the pound but it exempts from the operation of this clause all parisha where no rate has been levied for the last five, years. "I am unable to give you any assurance of the amount of support which this bill would be likely to receive fret a my own political friends or from members on your side. " I can only say that I should present it with cortfidencey as being, in my opinion, a fair and satisfactory compromise between principles which cannot be adjusted without some sacrifice on both sides, and which cannot be mainta•jned in their strictness without risk of perpetual contention. " At the same time I understand that Mr. CroY; and those gentlemen who have been engaged lately with hi'm in preparing a bill, hold themselves bound to bring in their own scheme, in fulfilment of their expressed intention,, if the ground were cleared ; but I must add that I do ,not think their plan so likely to lead to a practical result as that which I now enclose. vivid MURDER DURING A DRUNKEN QUARREL—Yes terday a dissipated fellow named Lyons was charged before the Liverpool magistrates with the murder of Catherine Flaherty, a dissolute woman, with whom he had quarrelled in a public-house at the corner of Clement-street. The deceased was severely kicked about the head, face, and stomach, and died two hour after the violence hid been inflicted. Lyons was afterwards captured in a pigstye in one of the lowest puts of the town, The case was remanded until Wednesday,