The Sun. — London, England, 1861-06-19 00:00:00

rfiIIEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lea.tee, Mr. J. 13. Baokstone. 71,13 EVEN) NG. the mew-mimics will commence w i t h the Comedy of THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Chas. Mathews, Ruckstone, E. Villiers, Rogers, &a. ; Mrs. Wilkins, Mrs. C. Mathews, and Miss E. Weekes. Followed by THE ADVENTURES OF A LOVE LETTER. Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews. And THE GALICIAN FETE. commenoe at 7. RO YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, TRUTH AND FICTION. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthewn,Widdicombe, Shore, Cathcart, Garden; Miss C. Leclercq, Miss It. Leclereq, and Miss M. Harris. Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Sup ported by Hermann Vezin, Ryder, Meadows, dm.; Misses Heath, Elsworthy, and R. Leclercq. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Reproduction of "The Colleen Bawn." The Adeiphi "Census" every Evening. THIS EVENING, the successful new Farce, entitled A TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole. Mr. P. Bedford. After which (210th time). THE COLLEEN SAWN. Mr. D. Boucicault, D. N'isher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. 'C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, TILE CENSUS. Messrs. J. 1,. Toole, Ebnrne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss Kate Kelly, Miss E. acme, and Mrs. Chatterley. Doors open at halt past 6—Commence at 7. ANrERBURY-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 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 ; popular Solos on the Cornet-a-piston, by Mr. Levy (the first performer of the day); the Brothers Conrad (in an entirely original entertainment on the double rope, not to be seen elsewhere); continued success of Mr. Wood and his talented little Son. The Comic Department comprises the following favourites: —Mr. Marshall, Mr. Hollingsworth the NERVES, by Messrs. Harvey and French ; and Mrs . Lawrence. Musical Director, Mr. JONGHMANS. T H E 6, OXFORD-STREET. Mr. L E vy, undoubtedly the best performer of the day on the Cornet-a -Piston—Grand Selections (on the most complete scale) from Dinorah, Martha, Stradella, &C., 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 Er. Henry Herbert, with full band and powerful and selected thorns, conducted by Mr. F. Jonglimans.—The following Comic talent, Messrs. W. Randall, J. Blanchard, W. H. Wie land, Hollingsworth, E. Marshall, Harvey, and French, and the Brothers Conrad in their latest and best entertainment , every evening. Admission, Hall, sixpence; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. od. SIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS g, 10h. 28m.—Afternoon, 11h. sm. To-moßßow.-Itorning, 11h. 36m.—Afternoon, b. ta. THB WEATHER...-Brx 01710 E, JUNE 19, 1861. THEILIKOIKETER, IN THE SHADE. 72 —highest since noon yesterday.: 56—Lowest this morning and during the night. 71—thig day at noon. BAnomrrzu-30.09. WIND —Northerly—light; with fine weather, but dull. What will the South do with its cotton ? It has passed the most stringent enactments to prohibit itself from profiting by all it may grow this season ; for this seems to us here to be the necessary effect of its recent decree. If no cotton may be exported but through the Southern States, under the penalty of confiscation of the goods and a fine of 5,000 dollars, how are the Southerners to get money at all, while food itself will be also rather scarce. They are, indeed, providing against absolute star vation by sowing more Indian corn than usual, but they will be rather short of animal food—of pork especially—which, as well as corn, came down to them from the North-west. If, however, pruden tial fear may save them from starvation, how are they to move their troops, how even to enlist and maintain them without money ? And if they prevent the sale of their own cotton, where in the world is the money to come from ? It is easy to see the drift of this prohibi tion. It is intended to deprive Massachusetts manufactories of their raw material, and also to prevent Northern merchants from making a profit on the exportation of their produce to Europe. By river and rail the cotton of next season might easily get to the North, and if it did not thus evade the expert duty, it would yet " comfort, aid, and abet" the Northerners, but keeping up their trade. These legislators seem to have overlooked the fact that they will be vastly the greater losers. The North will lose but the profits on traffic and manufacture, the South will lose the entire value of its produce. The blockading squad rons will assuredly be on the watch to capture every shipload of cotton which may venture to quit any Southern port, and Massachu setts will perhaps be supplied by prize cargoes. It seems to be forgotten that cotton is useless where it is grown, except for sale. In the early days of Virginia tobacco was used as money, but it was because the article then was sure of easy conversion into gold; cotton, if convertible, could of course be used in the same way, but what will be the value of a whol e season ' s crop s t owe d awa y i n th e ware houses of New Orleans. For a time warehouse wa rrants perhaps might pass as money,—for large sums. But as the season went on, as India and other places supplied the wants of Manchester and of Lowell too, the accummulated stocks, even when peace returned, would be of much lessened value. When the holders of the warrants came to present them, they would find them but a kind of assignats, and must be content to fi n d them selves mulcted perhaps of half their money. What, besides, is to become of their g ran d t ax which was to pay the interest of the loans they have attempted to raise, and have, we supp ose, partly obtained ? The cotton export duty was pledged f or the payment of interest, and, eventually, o f prin cipal too. had they provided for the payment of this duty as it left each State by railroad or river steamboat, they might have gained something by their tax; but if the Northern fleets will not per mit them to ship it through Southern ports, and they themselves will allow it egress by no other means, we do not see how the cotton export duty can bring them in a cent. It is not from any cruel indifference to Lanea sbire that we express the hope that the South will succeed in its attempt to keep its cotton. Man chester has an impression that the smuggler will obey her behests and supply her wants. When one party is beggared if he cannot sell, and the other enriched if he can buy and get his goods away, it 18 supposed to be a law, that interest will laugh at c ustom houses. But cotton is a bulky article. Jewellery, silk, tobacco, spirits, most manufactured goods, represent great value in a small sPaee—and when very high duties were added, the facility, as well as the temptation, was very great. The sight of loads of cotton at Liverpool and Manchest( r is enough to teach us that the article was not :made for smuggling. If, therefore, 'the prohibition to sell across the frontier prove effi ctive, and the ports are efficiently blockaded, Manchester will be driven to India, and to our othi T colonies. She will be obliged to see to th e growth and carriage of the cotton herself, and to take suith as she can get. It would take at least two years to quite alter the source of supply ; the first year 'would doubtless be a trying makeshift; but the second would be very different. The means of cleaning an d k ee ping cle an th e cotton. in India, would by that time have been provided, when it Vas seen how well it paid, and roads and railroads would be pushed forward during the season with renewed vigour. « America's failure would be India's opportunity." The " Essays and Reviews" are to have yet another, and then another, advertisement. Convo cation has now taken them in hand. It assembled " for business" yesterday, and after having trans acted a little " business," the Lower House took up with the Essays. The Bishops' business was to decide whether the Church was not to have one hymn-book, just as it had one Prayer-book ; but we certainly think their judgment wiser than their regrets. They were very sorry that, there being some 300 hymnbooks in use, and publishers, and authors, and clergymen, and congregations having all their favourite books, it would create too much if the present liberty were interfered with. The decision that no such attempt should be made was, therefore, very prudent. But, for our part, we cannot comprehend why all the ministers and worshippers concerned should not have their pre ferences indulged in sacred as well as in secular poetry. Not that we would abuse that word by applying it to the doggerel which is to be found in many hymn-books, or to the venerable perform ances of STERNHOLD and llorlaNs ; but if there be clergymen and congregations who like pious dog. gerel, why should Bishops interfere in such a matter of mere taste. The Upper House finished off day's work by disagreeing with the Lower in its regard to the emendation of an old canon. On the Lower House the great work of the day devolved. Its "business" was to hear the report of a committee appointed early this year to read, mark, and report on the famous Seven Essays, and to decide whether they furnished sufficient grounds for "proceeding to a synodical judgment on the book," The report is that such grounds do exist, and we are promised, for to-morrow, the treat of a full discussion of the subject. The well-known Archdea con DENISON was the Chairman of the committee, and he had done his duty with at least commend able diligence. Five principal heads of accusation, with double as many subordinate heads, and a long appendix of quotations, show that the Arehdeacon undertook a labour of love. He knows what it is to be hunted as a sacramental heretic, and he now enjoys the pleasure of doubling on the too liberal heretics, and successful enough he has been, at least till the other side is heard. An amusing little discussion followed as to the mode of procedure. The Archdeacon was for decisive proceedings, and moved—" That in the opinion of this house there are sufficient grounds for proceeding to synodical judgment upon the book entitled ' Essays and Reviews,' and that the above resolution be commu nicated to the Upper House, together with a copy of the report of the committee." Another follo wed with an amendment to send the report to the Upper House, and promise attention to any advice of their spiritual superiors. An Archdeacon, whose name was a guarantee for something pleasant and soothing, a Mr. HONEY, proposed to move as an amendment, " That it is not expedient under any circumstances to revive the power of synodical judgment as re gards authors or books." Others wished to com mence at once the worrying of the heretical seven ; the Dean of ELY, of course, counselled moderation, he deprecated very much the condemnation of a book, by "extracts from which in other cases the most lamentable results had followed. Casting his eye cursorily over the report, he could at once see some conclusions to which he thought it would be most deplorable if they committed themselves, and to which they would be committed if they adopted the report—conclusions which appeared to him false and very unfair to form from the book. He thought it would be con sistent neither with propriety nor with the dignity of the house if, after having the report placed in their hands this morning, they professed to be pre pared to enter at once upon its consideration." An other GAllALlEL—Archdeacon MooßE—gave them wise advice ; he believed that the book was dying away day by day out of public estimation, and he thought that everything they did to keep it under public notice was mischievous ; and he might with propriety have quoted the words of the great Jewish doctor, at whose feet an apostle him self had sat. Canon WORDSWORTH contended that, on grounds of Christian charity, the authors should have an opportunity of defending themselves. Some of them no doubt had come to the knowledge that their arguments were sophistical, and that their new light, so to speak, was only ancient dark ness. All ended, however, with a resolution "that the Upper House should be informed of the presen tation of the report, accompanied by a request that the Lower House should proceed to its considera tion," which the Lower House is to do tc-morrow. Another Tuesday's sitting lost by a count-out As if there were nothing to do in Parliament. Or as if yesterday were the middle of March, rather than the eve of Midsummer. Public business cer tainly begins to accumulate rather alarmingly upon the hands of our legislators. Those who love a political battue at the end of a session have a tolerably fair prospect before them of not being disappointed. The Massacre of the Innocents threatens in fact to require its accomplishment in 1861 wholesale. Otherwise that mere massacre must carry us on far beyond the grouse shooting. The Committee appointed to sit early in this unfortunate session must assuredly be allowed by this time to have been recognised as signally and ignominiously abortive —that Committee,out of whose deliberations was to have emerged some wonderfully efficacious device for expediting public business and economis ing public time. Never was there a more flagrant or a more ludicrous anti-climax than that which has — since the presentation of the report of that Committee —marked the much-talking, and the often-di v idi ng, 4nd the little-doing of the rlemmpaerrliaalblLe,egitisvilaitiuir% The session of 1860 wa s remembered, as the session w t i utterly fruitless be re co ll ec t e d 11 of protracted and for the mostp part discussions. The sessio n of 1861 as one unredeemed in its character even by that questionable peculiarity. It lacks the merit even appertaining to a session that has contrived to con tribute a series of interesting debates to Hansard. The time of the Legislature has been this yea r rather fribled and pottered away t in ar i o d u le m t e a n lk tatn. than io wasted upon futile but eloquent Not one speech of note has been delivered in the Lords or in the Commons since the Houses met in February. And as to the " doings " of the Legislature, we know only too painfully how those dwindle upon exami n ation to something only just barely short of nonentity. At the meeting of Parliament there was a tacit understanding upon all sides that but little would be done before the close of the session. But even the least san ;uine as to the character of the dawning session scarcely went so far in their lugubrious anticipa tions as to expect that scarcely anything at all would be attempted, and that even that infinitesi mal modicum of work when adventured upon with half a heart, certainly from first to last without what the sailors call " a will," would be frittered away, and tossed aside, and forgotten in the eareless affectation of an effort at its accom plishment. Of all which the Coalition Government and the Tory Opposition may divide the glory pretty equally among themselves. Not but what the Ministry must bear (by reason of their official posi tion) the brunt of the blame accompanying the visible evidences of responsibility. Yet, while the members of the Government must perforce be held, first of all, blameworthy because -of the vapid and fruitless character of the present session of Parliament, the Opposition must cer tainly net be allowed to pass by free from all reprehension. The Opposition, in point of fact, is invested with a responsibility only second to that appertaining to the members of the Govern ment. It is the duty of the Oppo sition, in common parlance, to keep the Cabinet up to the mark in the way of practical legislation by the exercise of one moiety of its func tions as an Opposition. The other moiety alone, however, has almost exclusively been called into play since the members of the Lords and Commons came together in February. The repressive, and not the incentive, powers of the Opposition having been directed of late to the regulation of the labours of Parliament. Insomuch that the Innocents have many of them been coolly murdered in detail all through the session, by way, we suppose, of getting the hands of our legislators well Kin" betimes to the work of the now fast coming autumnal massacre. A double barrelled literary rifle has recently fired off two " paper bullets"—rolled into one in the very act of discharge—as a sort of feu de joie in honour of the Volunteers. An excellent little treatise, in other words, has recently been published by the Messrs. Longmans, a brochure* entitled " The Volunteer in the Field," written conjointly by Captain PALLISER, of the Eighty-second Regiment, and Captain NANGLE, of the Royal Artillery. In the course of their argu ment those " brothers-in-arms," our fraternal pam phleteers, throw out some admirable suggestions. While paying a well-merited tribute (a tribute all the more valuable coming as it does, in their in stance, from skilled military critics) to the magni ficent movement of the Rifle Volunteers. Several of these suggestions appear to us, as sympathisers in the cause represented by our Volunteer Riflemen, so really and practically excellent in themselves that we are desirous cf directing attention to the pages in which they originally make their appear ance. The Volunteer Movement has by this time as sumed to itself such an aspect at once of perma nence and of magnitude, that it becomes a source of patriotic solicitude to ensure it in every possible way the largest amount of advantages that can be insured to it—without militating against the inte grity of its distinguishing character as a VOLUN TEER Movement. When General PEEL insisted some time back that all our warlike forces indiscriminately are essentially, every man jack of them (not a jot less than the members of our various Rifle Corps) " Volun teers"—the right hon. ex-Minister of War applied the phrase to Army and Navy half literally, half figuratively. Volunteers, without doubt, both our blue jackets and our red coats, are without a drill as contradistinguished from those foreign navies which are still manned by pressed men, and from those continental armies which are raised to this day through the terrible agency of the inexorable conscription. But Volunteers in the same sense in which our riflemen are Volunteers, neither the crews of her MAJESTY'S ships nor the contingents of her MAJESTY'S regiments can for a single moment affect to be. Receiving pay as they do from the QUEEN'S Government, they cannot obviously assume to them selves, in the fullest meaning of the phrase, the character peculiarly belonging to the members of our numerous rifle corps, the character expressed in their own distinctive title as Volunteers, as the Volunteers ! The latter, in fact, have hitherto been entirely—self supporting. They have hereto fore received no further aids from the Government than—theirrecognition in the first place as the new born National Guard of England, and in the next the presentation, to each man, of his rifle ! But very recently—with a view simply to secure to the National Movement here referred to that character of permanence which we must all desire to see attached to it for the sake of the old Fatherland the Question has been raised in the House of Commons whether—with out running any risk of destroying its cha racter as a volunteered and self-supporting addition to the defences of the country—this now consider able body of Volunteer Riflemen might not be more securely kept together and sustained in its general organisation by the according to it of some supple mentary assistance from the Imperial Government. The result we all know—the result of the late tem perate discussion of this `really delicate and some what momentous question in the popular branch of the Legislature. Our Volunteers the Commons de cided—most wisely, most judiciously—must receive at no time in any shape, as pay, one bronze farthing, one doit, or stiver from the national Exchequer. It was felt instinctively by every one that the dis- tinctive character of our Volunteers would at once evaporate and vanish so soon as payment in hard coin for service should pass into the hands of our Riflemen from her MAJESTY'S Treasury. Rifles they may still receive, as they have already re ceived, with dignity—materiel of one kind or an other they may yet accept from the Government without in any respect derogatory from their cha racter as Volunteers or diminishing their sense of independence. But Pay—Never ! In fact every one sees the matter distinctly in this light. The house has so decided—in accordance with that unanimous recognition. And there an end. There an end at least to the question as to hcw far the State can advance to the aid of the Volunteers practically without destroying or in truth injuring in any imaginable way their character as Volunteers. There yet remain, however, still to be thought of, and to be answered, a great variety of questions as to the manner in which the Rifle Corps now existing in the United Kingdom can secure to them selves a permanent position in the land, how far they may be enabled to secure this to themselves by the mere form and manner of their internal or ganisation. It is with a view to aid them in the thatdiscussion Capts. o f p t A h L e L s e l really aE R andN important AN GLu haveconsider ationsto gether appeared before the Riflemen of England in their p d o a u m b p l h e le t e e h e a r r s a . confronting th e V o l unteei eter as military critics and as Foremost among t h e diff icu l t i es Riflemen in England there it one so frequently a source o f annoyance, and of costly annoyance, as it may be termed into the bargain, necessitating as it does unnecessary waste of both time and money—a vexation indeed so no torious among Riflemen that it scarcely requires to be particularised. Allusion is made here of course to the " une xpected calls," to the "extraordina r y calls" to which the members of our Rifle Corps all over the country are perpetually being sub jected—calls always so " unexpect ed, " and often, in truth, so " extraordinary." " IVe are of opinion"—say our pamphleteers (pp. 12 , 13 ) " We are of opinion that an effectual remedy for this evil may be found in the substitution of ore yearly concentration of the Volunteer Corps who " The Volunteer in the Field." By Captain E. Pal liser, 82d Regiment, and Captain Nangle, Royal Artil lery, Biro., pp, 50, Longman and Company, 1861. *,,.,; 3 : 9e .. t' e , r . .... ir•ai 0 ' btu \ )l r ' - .' , .. - i, •'' - - -.....„ THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1881. 0 XFORD, THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 19, 1861. have been ' passed' as competent in drill, &c., by their inspectors, for military evolutions, on a grand scale, in the place of the many smaller meetings now in fashion and that such concentration should be carried out on the same principle, and in a similar manner with the great annual manoeuvres practised in the Prussian and Austrian armies." Having thrown out this suggestion, the writers remark a little further on :—" We will now proceed to review the conditions under which such a con centration as we have proposed may be most suc cessfully carried into effect; and, in doing so, shall take into consideration the fitness of certain loca lities for the encampment or evolution of large bodies of men. Now, in the first place, it is mani fest that the spot to be chosen must be one where there is a good supply of water, with easy inter communication for the conveyance of stores, ammu nition, &c. through the different parts 'of the en campment ; while further, it would be greatly to the advantage of;the force about to be concentrated that two considerable lines of railway, at least, should be convergent near the place of encamp ment ; that it should be at no great distance from London, and within a reasonable distance of one of the camps already established, so that a portion of the RegularArmyand the Volunteers might be able,once in each year, to perform their manoeuvres together." And hereupon they come at last to what may be regarded as the kernal of the little nut-to-crack here tossed by the writers as a literary bonne bouche to every rifleman in the kingdom. They point out the very site of the proposed encampment. They observe (pp. 14,15)—" Bear ing all the points above mentioned in mind, and with a careful consideration of the questions involved in our scheme, we have come to the con clusion that the fittest site which can be selected for such a concentration of the Volunteer forces, is one which extends along the north side of the old London and Southampton high-road, with its centre adjoining the Royal Military College, and the Blackwater Station of the Reading and Reigate Railroad, with its left resting on the Chobham ridges, and its right on the Yateley and Hertford Bridge Flats. This position is distant about five miles from Sunningdale, a village on the London and Southampton road, near which is also a station of the Wokingham and Staines Railroad, and three miles from Farnborough, the principal station for Al dershot of the main line from London to Southamp ton." The remain der of the pamphlet is in furtherance of this project of " The Volunteers in the Field," — and, as such, it will be found lucidly and ingeniously explanatory. The reader's appreciation of the scheme being yet further facilitated by the fact of there being prefixed to the letterpress of the pamphlet an excellent frontispiece " sketch of the country between Sandhurst and Aldershot"—the site of the proposed Volunteer Encampment. CURIOSITIES OF THE CENSUS. The Registrar-General estimates the number of English emigrants from the United Kingdom in the ten years be tween 1851 and 1861 at 640,210, and returns the number of registered births over registered deaths in the same pe riod at 2,260,576.,This would leave an increase of 1,620,366, but the actual augmentation enumerated on the sth of April was 2,134,116, showing that 513,780 births must have passed unregistered in the ten years. It appears that the population of London is nearly equal to that of the 20 lead ing provincial towns, having a population of 70,000 and upwards—Belton, Birmingham, Bradford, Brighton, Bris tol, Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nor wich, Nottingham, Oldham, Portsmouth, Preston, Salford, Sheffield, Stoke-upon-Trent, Sunderland, and Wolver hampton—all put together, the metropolis having 2,803,034 inhabitants, and the great provincial centres 2,963,945. The population of the latter is, however, increasing more rapidly than that of the metropolis, the augmentation hav ing been 440,798 in London, as compared with 591,058 in the provincial towns—so that Cobbett's " great wen" is not, as some assume, absorbing all the power of the State. With regard to 43 secondary towns, the population of which ranges between 20,000 and 50,000, an advance has been made from 1,414,093 in 1851, to 1,653,386 in 1861 showing an augmentation of 239,293 ; and 107 still smaller towns, including, as in the case of their larger brethren, the additions made to many of them for Parliamentary purposes, having a population of from 5,000 to 20,000, had in 1851 951,038, and in 1861 997,389 inhabitants, showing an augmentation of 43,3.51. The metropolitan district, consequently, increased in population at the rate of 18 per cent. ; the great centres of manufacturing indus try at the rate of 24 per cent. ; the second-class towns at the rate of 17 per cent. ; and the little boroughs at the rate of 4 per cent. In 14 still smaller townships, having less than 5,000 inhabitants each, the population remained all but stationary, being 52,108 in 1851, and 52,559 in 1861; so that the lower one gets in the scale, the more stagnant one finds the tide of human life. The excess of the fair sex in England amounts to the alarmingly large total of 544,021 ; but th s disproportion between the sexes is not universal, the rougher section of humanity being in a majority in Derby shire, Durham, Essex, Herefordshire, Kent, Hampshire, Staffordshire, and Westmoreland. In Middlesex there are 165,389, and in Lancashire 86,100 more women than men, and the agricultural counties also reflect the continuous drain of emigration upon their adult male population. THE COURT.—Her Majesty and his Royal High ness the Prince Consort, accompanied by the Princess Alice and the youthful members of the Royal Family leave Buckingham Palace on the 4th proximo, according to pre sent arrangements, for Osborne, for the season. The Countess of Derby has an assembly to-night, to meet their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and Princess Mary of Cambridge. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary honeured the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton by their company at dinner on Monday evening, at Hamilton House, Arlington-street. The King of the Belgians and the Count de Flandres and the noblemen and gontlemen in their retinue close their visit to the Queen on the Ist of next month, when his Majesty and his son depart for Ostend, on their way to Brussels. Her Royal Highness the Duchess d'Aumale was prematurely confined on Monday last, at Orleans House, Twickenham, of a daughter. We are happy to say that since the unfortunate occurrence her Royal Highness has been progressing as favourably as could be desired. Thirteen reasons for protesting against the Cus toms and Inland Revenue Bill have been inserted in the journals of the House of Lords, signed by the following peers :—Monteagle of Brandon, Harrington, Rutland, Mayo, Normanby, Grinstead, Carnarvon, Wynford, Clan carty, and Lucan. On an early day Mr. Collins will move for leave to introduce a bill to take away one of the members from the city of Gloucester, and give one to the county of Middlesex. THE CROPS IN FRANCE.—The weather in France is as favourable as it could be for the crops. The hay har. vest has commenced ; beetroots promise well. Colza plants are ripening under excellent conditions, and the wheat is fast filling. The journals of the departments of the south and centre represent that the rains of the last few days have done great good to the crops. All sorts of vegetables and the second growth of grass have in particular benefited. As to the vines, they are stated to be fine, wherever they have escaped injury from frost. LATEST NE \'V - ,1. , PARIS, JUNE 19. The 11[oniteur of this morning announces that the session of the Corps Legislatif is prolonged until the 27th inst. In yesterday's sitting of the Corps Legislatif, the new Law on the Press was discussed. M. Jules Favre demanded the suppression of the administrative regime of the press, and the re-esta blishment of the law of 1819. M, Billaua, Minister without Portfolio, refuted the arguments of M. Favre, and the Government Bill was adopted. News has been received here from Beyrout to the 7th inst., stating that Fuad Pasha was proceeding through the Druse districts, and engaging the in habitants to preserve tranquillity. The destruction which the Druses had committed was confined to the demolition of th© roofs of the houses in a village. TOULON, JUNE 19. Admiral Chappart has arrived here in order to form a new naval division. PESTH, JUNE 17. The discussion on the address was continued to day in the Upper House. The Primate of Hungary, in his speech, laid stress on the necessity for a reconciliation between Hungary and the Emperor, and for a revision of the laws of 1848. All the members oho spoke were in favour of sending an address to the Emperor in the form proposed by M. Deak in the Lower House. PRAGUE, JUNE 19. The Emperor has promised to grant an amnesty to those persons committed for political crimes in Bohemia who should request his Majesty's pardon. MADRID, JUNE 19. Spain will preserve a strict neutrality in the civil war in America. The Bank of Madrid has afforded assistance to several mercantile houses whose affairs were em- barrassed. THORN, TUESDAY. It is stated that a courier arrived yesterday at 'arsaw, bearer of the Imperial decrees granting reforms to Poland. These reforms are said to make satisfactory concessions to the country. Their pub lication is expected very shortly. BERNE, TUESDAY. The English Minister has protested before the Federal Council against the assertion of France that the opposition offered by England to the an nexation of Savoy and Nice was the principal reason why France had not ceded the neutral terri tory of Savoy to Switzerland. OUTWARD INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. The Indus, from Southampton on the 4th inst., reached Malta on the 14th at one a.m., and lefc at ten a.m. for Alexandria. The Valetta, from Marseilles on the 12th inst., reached Malta on the 14th at three p.m., and was to leave at eight p.m. for Alexandria. [The above message was over three days in tran sit from Malta to London.] FRANCE. La Patrie has the following:— " The steam corvette Catinat, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Reynaud, in command of the naval division of the Antilles, of the Gulf of Mexico, and of the ccasts of North America, sailed from Brest on the 17th for La Martinique. The steam frigate Foudre left on the Bth for the same destination. The steam corvettes Prony and Lavoisier will sail on the 25th. Rear-Admiral Reynaud, as soon as he assumes his command, will sail with his division, and visit New York, Charleston, and other ports of the Atlantic. The St. Louis steam line-of-battle ship anchored in the Toulon roads on the 18th, coming from Beyrout with troops on board." BOURSE, June 18,—The market is almost com pletely stationary, at the quotations of the previous day, which, from the absence of business, can only be considered nominal. Threes are now at 68f. Railway shares quiet, but firm. The following are the last quotations :- 4i per per Cents 96 75 Do end month 96 95 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 85 Bank Shares 2985 Credit Mobilier 7OO Do. Account 702 50 Credit Fancier lOO5 Belgian 41.. 99 50 Piedmontese Fives. 73 70 Roman . 72 50 Austrian Spanith Threes 5O 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1360 .. 1361 25 Northern New ditto 895 — Lyons and Mediterranean 943 75 945. Geneva 405 .. 405 Southern 575 .. 577 50 Western Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian Loir bard . 495 .. 496 25 IRELAND. DUBLIN, TUESDAY. The trial of the prisoners in the fraudulent burial case, which commenced on Saturday, was concluded yesterday in the Commission Court. Serjeant Sul livan stated the case to the jury on the part of the Crown. The gist of it is that in a cause entitled " Foote v. M‘Gregor," a sum of £5OO was lodged in the Court of Chancery in London. This sum Maria Higgins had power to dispose of by will, provided she died without issue. A will was propounded by the prisoners, Charles Higgins and Henry William Devereux. It was proved to be drawn up in the handwriting of the latter, and on the 21st of August, 1858, he applied for administration to the Court of Probate in Ireland. Uitimately letters of administration were granted by the Court of Probate in England, and on the 25th of March, 1859, the sum of £5OO was paid. These proceedings were taken on the allegation that Maria Higgins was dead. Her " mortal remains" were supposed to be "waked" in a house in Bishop street, she being at the same time alive and well, and residing in the city at Haddington-road-terrace. A coffin was obtained with an inscription on the lid, setting forth the name and age of the lady. There was a funeral, with a hearse and two mourning coaches, and the remains were interred with all due solem• nity in the Roman Catholic cemetery at Glasnevin. The bereaved widower had crape on his hat, and otherwise mourned in an exemplary manner. But the secret was disclosed, and the police inspector found nothing in the coffin but a bag of sand and some loose clay. Devereux said, in his defence, that he was drawn into the fraud by the others ; BOULOGNE.—The South-Eastern Railway direc- that he got only £l4 for his share in the transac ,ors have organised an excursion to this favourite resort, tion ; that Higgins mad his wife were in a state of which will not necessitate an hour's absence from business. starvation, and if the money had not been got they Leaving London-bridge next Saturday at half-past six in must have gone into the workhouse. The judge, the evening the excurtionists arrive at Boulogne at ten h o we v er , said that it did not matter one jot who minutes before midnight; return from Boulogne at ten was the prime mover in the busi ness . Th e j ury, o'clock on the following evening:and arrive, in London at after an absence of half an hour, f oun d b ot h t h e half-past four on Monday morning—doubtless quite fresh prisoners guilty on all the counts. I n pass i ng sen- tepee Mr. Justice Hayes said,— and ready for hard work. The novelty of the excursion will most probably attract a goodly number as the cost is "You, Charles Higgins, are a person of a rank in life marvellously low. No passports are required, and a permit higher than that of the persons wh om we are accustomed to find at the bar, and you, Henry Devereux, are a parson paper is provided without charge. of equal position in life; and, besides that, you are a mem- DEATH . FROM THE EXCESSIVE HEAT.—An inquest her of a profession, or far advancin g towardsi that pro was taken on Monday afternoon by Mr, J. Humphreys, the fession —an honourable profession— a profession which, e iti f to l retain that f o r f oru tha i position of its members, challenges the confidence, r l o i f u e v s o sio i n ts which t , if it coroner, at the London Hospital, on the, body of Jane confi- Eckley, aged 68 years, who lately resided at No. 1, Turner- denscoec,ies3h—oualdp street, Commercial-road, East. It appeared from the evi• watched. You have serve i ra u p y art ca o r f your u 3 time to h a o n n d . deuce that the deceased complained of the excessive heat on ourable profession of a solicitor; you have acquired know- Friday night last, and left home to take a walk, and, while ledge for the discharge of its duties honourably, and I re passing to say t that that knowledge, which was bestowed on passing the King's Arms public-house, she complained of y c : n u e. foT lb l .e ia te t p c u au rpre, you have perverted to a very different a severe pain in the head • She became insensible, and was placed in a cab, but on her arrival at the hospital life was that you were engaged e n; l a doubt whateverperpetration bath o t l t i . a o of i y ci o i n e d knew found to be exti nct. The resident medica l o ffi cer sa id th at rage ous , an d un l aw f u l consp i racy to defraud. When per tw had made a Post mortem examination of the body, and sons in your r an k an d p os iti on i n lif e are b roug ht by their had kin extensive congestion of the brain and extravasa d own misconduct bef ore us , it i s no t m y i n t en ti on t o let you escape unpunished, when justice has laid its hands on you. tion. The doceased had died fro an attack of m . 6 through the heat of the weather. Verdict, ' D i ed by the imprisoned for the space of two years." yaiWion of God." Higgins said, "I am satisfied, my Lord, if I am pffAi'ack e z uT icAL Socirry oF GREAT BRITAIN. protected i n my r i g ht s after Wards." The Court —The f o ll ow i ng geL.4l.men yesterday passed the ;najo r ordered the prisoners to be removed, and Mrs, . F iats :—James Bartlett, Higgins, who occ u pi e d a seat beside the dock near extunination as pharm aceut i cal ch i -34 ..;nrrig. . her husband, bursting into tears, was taken 91 . 1 i ill g Bath; Thomas H. Buz zar d, Spilsb"- y ; William LI,. Much Welaloek i Frederick L. 14 ^"-' Laurens, Jersey. . fitill;lng 16 ki4 ie. COUNT CAVOUR'S LAST DESPATCH. It was some time ago announced that the Italian Government had withdrawn its exequatur from the consulates in Italy of Bavaria, Wurtemburg, and Mecklenburg. The following despatch contain the explanation of this proceeding, and is additionally interesting, as being probably the last diplomatic document penned by the great statesman :-- TURIN, May 29. M. le Comte,—The King's minister to the Germanic Diet lately had occasion to address, by order of his Majesty's Government, certain letters and legal documents relating to private interests to the ministers of Bavaria, Wurtem burg, and Mecklenburg, accredited to Frankfort, with a request that they would be good enough to transmit them into their respective States. The envoys of these powers refused to accedo to the re quest of the Count de Barra'. and hastened to return to him the documents in question, alleging as a reason of their refusal the fact that the envelope containing them bore the seal of the Legation of his Majesty the King of Italy—a title which, in the case of our representatives abroad, is the only possible one, since it is prescribed to them by a law which has received the sanction of the constitutional authorities of their country. The Bavarian Minister did not even choose to open the communication which was ad dressed to him ; and, instead of stating his reasons by letter and in a polite way, he confined himself to saying, through his secretary, to his Majesty's Minister, that he knew of no Legation of Italy at Frankfort. On their part, the Envoys of Wurtemburg and Mecklenburg, al though they conveyed their negative answer in a more proper form, nevertheless arranged the same reasons as their colleague of Bavaria. That act, which could not in any way have been foreseen from the nature of the com munication which gave rise to it, has necessarily caused us reasonable and painful surprise. The King's Government, you are informed, M. le Comte, has scrupulously abstained from taking any step with re gard to the German powers, which might seem to oblige them to recognise the kingdom of Italy ; still less would it attempt to obtain their recognition in a surreptitious man ner. On the contrary, while it attaches a high value to their friendship, and confides in their loyalty and their wisdom, it has, declared that it left them absolute judges of the moment at which they might feel themselves able to recognise the new title of the King, and to recognise it is the only way suitable to their dignity and to ours— that is to say, openly and officially. This line of deference and reserve we had kept, and were disposed still to keep, especially towards the Governments in question, and to wards Bavaria even more particularly, in order to show them that we make full allowance both for their political position and for their family relationships. But though we do not in the least claim to impose on them any decision whatever, we cannot suffer them to re spond to a moderation by a proceeding in which one looks in vain for any regard for propriety. This proceeding, moreover, is so mach the less justifiable, since Austria her self, who had not only clearly signified that she would not recognise the new kingdom, but had formally pro. tested against all the changes which had taken place in Italy since the peace of Villafranca, had, in order not to disturb individual and commercial relations between the two countries, taken the initiative in permitting her agents to viser the passports and other documents issuing from our chancellories, even though they should bear the title of King of Italy. Accordingly, being unable to remain in different to acts which are injurious and which affect the dignity of the Crown, the King, my august sovereign, has taken the resolution to withdraw the erequatur of the con sular agents of Bavaria, Wurtemburg, and Mecklenburg, in Italy. I think it my duty to bring this decision to the know ledge of your Excellency, because it appears from informa‘ tien you were good enough to give me on another occasion, that your Excellency has been authorised to undertake the official protection of the subjects of the Powers forming part of the Germanic Confederation whenever, from any cause whatever, they should have no diplomatic or consu lar agent in Italy. In asking you, M. le Comte, to be so good as to inform your Government, I am happy to believe that the cabinet of Berlin will form a proper estimate of the conduct of the states which I have mentioned, and of the step which their proceedings have forced me to take.---I have, &c. C. DI CAVOUR. THE ;BENCH COMMERCIAL TREATY. The report of the Customs Commissioners for the past year has just been issued. It commences with a history of the French Commercial Treaty, and shows the results so far as it came into operation in 1860. These were very small on the French side but large on our side, the importation of French clocks having risen 24 per cent., of watches 50 per cent., of leather gloves 15 per cent., of silk manu factures 17 per cent., and of shawle, &c., of woollen manufacture, 300 per cent. Of wine the increase in the imports from all countries was 50 per cent., while the increase of consumption was little more than 1 per cent. This, however, is attri buted to the fact of the retail dealers delaying their purchases until the full reduction of duty on the Ist of January last. Already the tendency of French and German wines to supplant those of Spain, Portugal, and the Colonies has been strikingly developed, the consumption of Spanish wines having risen only 3 per cent. in the face of an increased import of 40 per cent., while that of Port has actually decreased 13 per cent., and of colonial qualities 46 per cent., an increase being at same time shown of 61 per cent. in French and 77 per cent. in German wines. The depression of the silk trade in Coventry during the year is alleged to have been caused, not by the French Treaty, but by the change of fashion, which led to an almost entire discontinuance of ribands as a trimming. The general result of the fiscal changes of the year has been the reduction of the number of articles liable to duty from 428 to 142. The value of the exports of British and Irish produce in 1860 was £135,842,817, showing an increase of 4 per cent. even over the extraordinary total of the preceding year, and our best foreign customers were the United States, the Hanseatic Towns, France, and Brazil. The exports of foreign and colonial merchandise have also increased in similar proportion, the total being £29,827,836 against £25,203,163 in 1859, showing that this country well supports her position as an entrepot through which the wants of the rest of the world are supplied. The computed real value of the imports of the year was 210,648,643, showing an increase of 17 per cent. over 1859. These included £44,000,000 from America, £6,000,000 of which represents grain, and £30,000,000 cotton, out of a total value of the latte r article from all the world of less than £36,000,000. Of the 14 principal articles of importation four showed a tdecreose and 10 an increase. The decrease was in unrefined sugar, hemp, raw silk, and spirits. The increase was i n co ff ee, grain, cotton, flax, provisions, tea, timb er , t o b acco, wool ' and wine. As regards the co nsumpt i on of foreiea; articles of food and luxurysth a t of cocoa shows b a n augmentation of 1 per cent., coffee 3 per cent., corn 39 p'r cent., flour 53 per cent., currants 33 per cent., spirits 11 per cent., refined sugar 6 per cent., tea 6 per cent., and tobacco 1 per cent., the only articles of general use which exhibit a decrease being raisins and unrefined sugar, in consequence in both cases of advanced prices, Notwithstand ing these favourable returns, the total gross receipt of Customs duties has fallen from £25,065,066 to £23,165,764, showing a deficiency of £1,899,302, owing almost entirely to the reduction of duties, the loss on wine alone amounting to £808,506. The only towns of sufficient commercial importance that have claimed the advantages of the Act for inland bonding during the year have been Bradford, Leeds, and Halifax. As regards smuggling, the general tone of the reports from the officers at the outports gives no great increase or decrease. The extension of the practice of authorising the county constabu lary in certain of the maritime counties to act as revenue officers continues to work satisfactorily, and a large seizure of 1,9811 b. of unmanufactured to bacco, a waggon, and two horses, was made by the Hants constabulary in June last, the guilty party being convicted and sentenced to 12 months' im prisonment. The report of the medical inspector of the health of the establishment is very satisfactory, but its favourable character is partly due to the superannuation of many old officers in consequence of the alterations lately made. The reduction i n the expense of the Cu s t o m s service as the result of the changes of 1860 is £82,870, but from this must be deducted the pensions and compensations neces sitated by those changes. Many cases of hardship remain still to be provided for, and the commis sioners appeal to the Treasury - with regard to them. On such matters, in a country like this, there ought to be no possibility of complaints of shabbi ness or want of good faith.—Tirnes' city Article. "ESSAYS AND RETIEws."--We are requested to state, for the information of members of the Lower House of Covocation, that the deb ite upon the Report of the Cammittee on "Essays and Reviews" will be taken to morrow morning, the 20th inst. SOLDIERS' DAUGHTERS' H O ME. —The annual meeting and festival of this institution took place yesterday at the Home, High-street, Hampstead. The chair was taken by the Rev. G. R. Glen Chaplain-General of the Forces. The secretary, Mr. Marsh, then read the report, from which it appeared that the number of inmates wea 170, and that no deaths had occurred during the year; also that the edu ca ti ona l progress bad mot with th e approbation of the Rev. C . F . C oo k , one o f her Majesty's I nspectors of Schools. General Sir Hope Grant moved the adoption of the report, which was seconded by the Bishop of 89aor Ind Man, who in the course of his speech enloc,; the exer tions of Major the lion. 11, L. of the in s tit u ti o n. P . :wys Kea, the f oun d e r r ... " and a ‘7 , - ,1 - ne motion was carri e d unan i mous l y, ~,t s of thanks to the chairman closed the proceed ings, FIFTH REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF CUSTOMS. The Commissioners of Customs are perfectly justified in assuming that their fifth report, which has just been published, embraces the commercial transactions of a most remarkable period. In the pages of this document we get an absolute reflection of Mr. Gladstone's budget. Here there can be no delusion, misapprehension, or dispute. From the regions of speculation and estimate we pass to those of reality and fact. We learn, as far as such matters can be expressed by arithmetic, exactly what we have lost and what we have gained. We see the whole of the sacrifice made in the way of duties and the whole of the advantage derived in the way of imports and exports. If our information, indeed, still remains in any respect imperfect, it is only be cause time enough has not yet elapsed for the deve lopment of results. As far as our recent commercial legislation has become entirely operative we know the exact truth of the case. Up to the date of the French Treaty the most important manufacture: of this kingdom were ex cluded from France, either actually by direct prohi bition, or virtually by extravagantly high duties. The object of the Con vention was to provide for the admission of these commodities into France, and for, the corresponding reception of French produce in this country. Especially was it sought to establish a free interchange of staples—of coal and iron, for instance, against French wine, and in this spirit the Treaty was framed. Without further preface, there fore, we subjoin, in the words of the commissioners, the results actually ascertained up to the close of the last year : " Of the general effect of the Treaty as regards our trade with France, it is impossible as yet to speak with any cl , egr ee of certainty. The only portion of the new French 'Tariff that is as yet in operation, is that decided upon by the first Supplementary Convenfion, and relating to metals, minerals, and machinery, and metal manufactures. A very large contract for iron water-pipes was taken up at Glasgow for the French Government in the course of the autumn, and the returns of our exports to France up to the end of the year 1860, as compared with 1859, give us an increase in hardware of 49 per cent. ;in pig -non of A per cent ; in bar and bolt iron of 6 per cent. ; in copper of 8 per cent. ; and in lead of 35 per cent. " On our side, where the execution has so promptly fol lowed the Treaty, we find, on looking at our account of goods imported from France, that the importation of clocks has risen 24 per cent. ; of watches 50 per cent. ; of leather gloves 15 per cent. ; silk manufactures 17 per cent. ; shawls, scarfs, and handkerchiefs of woollen manufacture 300 per cent. Of wine and spirits we shall speak hereafter, when we present to your lordships, in the usual way, a compari son of the returns of goods imported in 1860 and 18.59. "We may here, however, mention that the depression. a the 'silk trade, and the consequent distress among the Coventry riband weavers during the last year, has been erroneously attributed to the operation of the Treaty. It cannot be denied that the importation of ribands has in creased in the year to the extent of about 10 per cent. ; but the whole of that incre ase was i n the last month, December, and up to that time the importations had positively fallen off. The distress in Coventry was at its worst at a muck earlier period of the year, and is, in reality, to be attributed to the alteration in the fashion of female attire that took place last year, and the almost entire discontinuance of the use of ribands as a trimming. The effects of this change were as much felt in France as in England, and the work people of St. Etienne suffered as much as those of Coventry. The great depression of the silk trade also in America caused the return of large stocks of goods manufactured for that market to England, thus glutting the markets here and stopping production for a certain time." From these general statements we proceed to the particular statistics reserved by the Commissioners for special analysis—viz., those of the wine trade :--- "But the increase most deserving of special notice is that which has taken place in wine. This was, no doubt, to be expected both from the reduction of duty we have above alluded to, from ss. 6d. per gallon and 5 per cent. to 35., in pursuance of the terms of the Treaty with France, and from the prospect the trade had before them through out the year of the still further reductions that have now come into force. The returns for the last six years of the importation of wine are as follows :- 1855 1856 1857 27 10,336,845 1858 1859 1860 These figures ar e cer t a i n l y impressive, h i nt they become still more so when closely examined. It will be seen that the imports of wine gradually in creased from 1855 to 1857, and that in 1858 they suddenly experienced an enormous reduction, due to the grape disease and the failure of the vintage. From this decline they rallied considerably in 1859, until at length they rose to an unprecedented height under the stimulus of the new tariff. Of course, it would be unfair to contrast 1860 with 1858, but if we take 10,000,000 gallons as an aver age return, it will be seen that 25 per cent. has been gained even upon this standard in the year just past, and that increase the commissioners re gard as the true measure of the effects of the treaty. These imports, however, have not come from France alone. Portugal, Spain, Germany, and Madeira have also responded to our invitation, and largely augmented their contributions to our stores. The following figures, showing the exports from each of these countries to our ports in the two years of 1859 and 1860, will give the leading points of the case at a glance : 1859. 1860. Gallons. G allons. PortugalFrnce ...... ain 1,010,888 Sp 3,629325 Holland (for Germany) 194, , 5,325,943203 Madeira The Commissioners naturally anticipate some surprise at the last item, seeing that the vineyards of Madeira have been almost wholly destroyed, but they explain the statement by observing that the wines of Teneriffe are first transported to Madeira, then manipulated by the skilled manufacturers of that island, and finally exported to this country as the genuine growth of the old fields. Even yet, however, the curiosities of these statistics are unex hausted. The truth is that, though we have im ported all these extraordinary supplies of wine, we have not consumed them, and the Commissioners are compelled to observe that the practical" advan tage" of the Treaty in bringing wholesome wines to , English tables has not yet been felt to such an ex tent as might have been anticipated. The con sumption of Spanish wines—i, e. sherries, has risen only 3 per cent., with a rise in imports of 40 per cent., while the consumption of port, with increased. a p d e v r a c n e e n e t d . a t A a l t r o a g t e e tl ( 3. ) fe 50 w p ehrerea cent.,s imports of the art i c l e, has actually decreased 13 icmanpsoarmtaptitoiana has increased at a rate of 1 per cent. only, or a little over. Nevertheless, although this discrepancy is remarkable, we consider the general results deci sive as to the success of this part of the Treaty. Light wholesome wines of a character little known in this country have unquestionably been brought into use. The actual consumption of French wines, for instance, has risen 61 per cent., and that of the German wines imported through Holland 77 per cent. There is another point, too, which merits notice. By the equalization of foreign and colonial duties our dependencies lost the pro tection which they had long enjoyed, and the con sequence has been that colonial wines, and those alone of all descriptions of such produce, are im ported in smaller quantities than before. There can be only one inference from this fact—viz., that free trade enables us to get better wines than formerly. With the choice between the foreign and colonial article the consumer prefers the former. As for the rest of the enigma, it is explained by the remark that, with a further reduction of duty in prospect, the trade held back their stocks, instead of pouring them into the market, so that consumption ceased for the moment to keep pace with importation. We have confi ne d our o b servat i ons to this parti cular branch of' the subject, as th e most i mme diately interesting, b u t th ere i s anot h er material an direct importan ce w hi c h mus t not b e left unnoticed. these advantages, wh e th er actual or pros pective, the way of tr a de, w ere acqu i red on l y by a, or sacrifice of in that of the Cus of revenue ; and th e ascertained a mount sacrifice is now r e t urne d at £1,899,30 2 , that being the differen ce b etween the gross yield toms duties in 1859 an d i n i 1860. Theres only one article unaff ec t e d b y t h e t re aty which is ac countable • for any p ar t o f t hi s l oss , and that is sugar, S ugar and mol asses h ave b e en imported in less quantities than before, but the decline is not absolutely j rnen portant, and is ascribed to accidental causes, Alt the rest of the decrease is due to reduction of duties with wine. deliberately - made, an h ow principally to ou r d ealings E ven here, wever, there is Pal agreeable symptom of elasticity and compensation, for,whereas the decrease of duty was 50 per cent., the actual loss of revenue is but 41 per cent. Such is the actual state of the case, in so far as it can be certified at the present time. We think it must be considered satisfactory in every point o f view , and if the ulti mate purposes of th e Treaty should be realised in the stron6 , and enduring amity created by identifi cation of interests, both co • wil • l untrieshave reason to rejoice over the legislation of 1860.— Times. MR. S ,PURGEON AT THE LAKES.—Mr. Spurgean is at present Staying at the Derwentwater Hotel, at the foot of the lake, where he has been sent by his doctors for quiet ; but though he walked into the Baptist Chapel, at Keswick, on Sunday morning, as quietly as any other stranger, he was presently sought out in the corner where ho had en sconced himself, and, at the request of the minister, made a .nost admirable address and eloquent prayer. Nor could he escape preaching again in the evening, the dale's people —as if some bird in the air had carried the news—stream ing in from all parts, so that the little chapel \vas soon filled to overflowing. Mr. Spurgeon mentioned that although ho had come down for rest c.nd quiet, he had been so much gratified by the liberality of the incumbent of St. John's, in Keswick, who had invited him to attend his weekly prayermeeting at the lecture-ro om, th at he intended, after the evening service, to go and assist thero.—lenda Mcrocryl