The Sun. — London, England, 1861-06-13 00:00:00

THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnekstone. PHIS EVEN i Ni-;, the nvrtorrsolnees Will commenee with the Comedy of THE OVERLAND ROUTE. "Messrs. Chas. Mathews, Buckstone, E. Villiers, Rogers, &c. ; Mrs. Wilkins, Mrs. C. Mathews, and Miss E. Weekes. Followed by TILE ADVENTURES OF A LOVE LETTER. Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews. And THE SUN AND THE WIND. Commence at 7. • ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATER—. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING. TRUTH AND FICTION. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews,Widdicombe, Shore, Cathcart, Garden; Miss C. Leelereq, Miss R. Leelercq, and Miss M. Harris. F o ll o wed by THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Messrs. Phelps, Vezin, Widdicombe, tire. iN EW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Reproduction of "The Colleen Bawn. " The Adelphi "Census " every Evenin , . THIS EVENING, the successful new Farce, entitled A TU RKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole. Mr. P. Bedford. Atter which (205th time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. D. Boncicault, D. fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, 'C..7. 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. 1,. Toole, Ebnrne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss Kate Kelly, Miss E. Thorne, and Mrs. Chatterley. Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. TO-NIGHT, Benefit of the Rocky Mountain Wonders. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- THIS EVENING, 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. CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS AND F.ME 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 gr. 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 " 6, OXFORD-STREET. I discriminately —among the least sanguine, as well as among the most sanguine, All alike look forward with confidence to the ultimate restoration to life of the Polish Kingdom, not merely with all her ancient glories revived, but with her new born liberties confirmed and multiplied. It is only a question as to when the hour shall strike which is to be the signal for her resurrection. Old though Prince ADAM CZARTOYSKI is, that vene rable and illustrious patriot may yet live to rejoice in it—may yet live to see resurgam erased from the national escutcheon of Poland, and replaced by resurrexi. Both the Federalists and the Secessionists are non-plussed with the peculiar property of the South. Mr. WALTER, the member for Berkshire, last night, said that capacity to take an .oath was the distinction between man and beast. We should be inclined to take another test just now in the States —namely, the capacity to distinguish the army which would give freedom from the one that fights for slavery. And judging by this criterion, a con siderable number of creatures held to be, like quadrupeds and feathered bipeds, mere pro perty by the Southerns, are proving themselves, according to PLATO'S definition, to be men—veri table men. They use their two legs to run off to the Federal army, not to escape work—for they ap pear to work zealously enough to erect works against those who supposed them to be mere pro perty—but to escape work under the lash. General BUTLER was puzzled at first. Though a Northern commander, yet from the training of Fugitive Slave Laws, and a long pro-slavery Government, he could not get rid of the notion that beings running away for personal freedom were really property, so he quite civilly sent the property back to the very men he was fighting against. Being, however, rebuked for this by his own State Government, he discovers that property so fond of freedom was "contraband of war." Re garding it as property, he was most certainly right. No property could serve the objects of his opponents so well as that which could throw up fortifications for them, leaving its masters, free from fatigue, to man the works. None could they so ill afford to lose as that, the want of which would compel them to do their own work, and lighten the toil of General BUTLER'S soldiers. Nor could the General more distress the enemy than by letting it be known that all negroes, to whatever part of Virginia he came, would be welcome to fall back into the rear of his troops, with the cer tainty of protection from their old masters. Eastern Virginia, where the slaves are as nume rous as the whites, would soon be deserted of half its population. But here arises the embarrassment of Northern complicity with slavery. The North has in its hands the power to terminate the strife in a very short time, but it wants the boldness. How miser able, in such a crisis, is the policy of even ABRA HAM LINCOLN. Just as at first he and Mr. SEWARD ignored the rebellion, so they now ignore the posi tion in which it places them in regard to Slavery. General BUTLER tells the Government what he has done. The Government replies, quite right. You will keep " such persons " as run away to you; keep an account of their earnings and the cost of their maintenance, and what we shall do with them finally must be subject for future consideration. That is—if their masters return to us we will re turn their slaves to them ! And what is the reason ? Because " we cannot recognise the rejection by any State of its federal obligations ; nor can we refuse the performance of the federal obligations resting on the Government." This seems like the blindness of infatuation; butin regard to the Union, the Republican party are infatuated. The Union is their God. Right and wrong, Slavery and Free dom, are nothing compared to the Union. They are as proudly determined on this subject as the South are on Slavery. We believe that, legally— that is, viewed by the light of the Federal Consti tution—the South is utterly wrong. Yet no one can deny that it has much common sense on its side when it says, " If the tempers of the Free and the Slave States do not admit of pleasant co-opera tion, then let them separate." The South does not care about a big Union--one big enough to bully every foreign Power with whom it has intercourse ; it is content to be, in the military sense, a small State. The North cannot brook this. It cannot endure the loss of half the territory of the Union, and a third of its population. Hence the object of the North is to get back the States again just as they are, as much Slave States as ever ; to receive slavery again, with all its abominations, into the bosom of the Union, to enforce fugitive slave laws, and to abolish personal liberty laws, that slavery may have full swing. Now this may be all well enough from the purely technical point of view—but it - is childish in 'evo lutions to base action on technicalities. America now wants a master mind to grasp the whole case. Plainly the existence of slavery is the curse both of the North and of the South. It is a hideous wrong and evil, and will give neither side any rest intil it is crushed out of being. The present crisis offers the opportunity, if LINCOLN and the F OR D 0 X Mr. LEVY, undoubtedly the best performer of the day on the Cornet-a-Piston—Grand Selecti•ms (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 Mr. Henry Herbert, with full band and powerful and selected chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans.—The following Comio talent, Messrs. W. Randall, J. Blanchard, W. IL 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 LAT.—MOTning, 4h. 53m.—Afternoon, sh. 16m TO-MORROW. -Morning, sh. 37m.—Afternoon, sh. 58m, THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, JUNE 13, NU THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 71 —highest since noon yesterday.: 55—lowest this morning and during the night. 72—this day at ROOll. BAROMETER-30.25. WIND—S.-Easterly—rather fresh; with fine warm sum. mer weather, but cloudy. A ~ ....?:f 0 , 1,4 4. -- -- - a- - - `' , ==rlr. l : -- •,,,--; 1,,: - '4F.a>?.' t..„ 7 . \--N 7 ,,,,,,,v ,, ,Tr Z: ---L.Ll,:____H l'7 . .. .., 1i . :',,?-.____ . 4 , c _____ 1 7,,i, . ~.. THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 188. Lord MACAULAY, in the posthumous volume (vo 5) of his great History of England, speaks of the Partition of Poland as the greatest political crime that has been perpetrated in Modern Europe. Nearly a century has elapsed—remembering the time, " the best part of a century," remember ing the crime, " the worst part of a century," has elapsed since the Partition of Poland was com pletely accomplished. As in the instance of some of those frightful decollations which horrified the world before the headsman's axe gave place to the resistless blade of the guillotine—it took three successive blows with protracted intervals between them, it took three successive blows from the Sword of Autocracy before the murdered King dom of Poland was effectually dismembered. Divided nominally only, however, after al' —that the world has long since recognised Insomuch that those who have all along sym pathised with the fate of Poland, with the lament able condition of the Polish people, may be said to have sustained the hopes of each other in regard to Poland, may be said to have kept alive hope even in the innermost hearts of the Poles themselves, by reverently applying to the future of the Polish Nationality the Holy Words— " She is not Dead—but Sleepeth 1" That is really and truly not so much the ardent hope, as the earnest conviction, of those who still believe, of those who have all along believed in the rehabilitation, of the Kingdom of Poland, in the actual and substantial realisation once more, in the sight of Christendom, of the apparently for ever vanished day-dream of Polish Independence. And it is because of this that we witness still these annual meetings of the Friends of Poland—friends clustered together under the title of a purely literary, but, in truth, a distinctly political association. Otherwise than for the belief cherished in the hearts of the members of that association in the veritable possibility of carry ing out the design they aspire to see in the end accomplished—otherwise than for their belief in this as well as their hope for it, their persistent enthusiasm in the cause would be almost ridiculous, would certainly be utterly incomprehensible. At the latest of these annual meetings, at the society's rooms in Duke street, St. James's, the Earl of HARROWBY, about the least sanguine, though assuredly not by any means the least zealous, among all the Friends of Poland enrolled upon the lists of the associa tion, avowed quite as firm a conviction on his own part, in the ultimate triumph of the cause, as had been expressed immediately before the noble lord rose, by -a that far more sanguine, though hardly in any respect more zea lous, advocate of the rights of Poland the Earl of HARTINGTON. Immediate good for Poland, the former nobleman declared quite frankly he did not look for—but eventual liberation assur edly he did! Referring to the actual state of things in that unhappy land, Lord HARROWBY well remarked, " Whilst Poland as a whole was deprived of its national independence and its na tional unity, the severed portions were to be kept up as a distinct nationality; but it is now clear that swell an arrangement, however successful, as it clearly has been, in keeping up the national Spirit, was preposterous, and therefore that the treaties require :alteration. Within the last few months it has been plainly shown that such alteration is needed, and also that however much the land of Poland may be divided Poland is at heart united. I maintain it was not possible at the Congress of Vienna to effect a different arrange tuent than was then entered into for Poland; but It certain does appear strange enough, as Mr. out ounr of ev il o ft en comes good. Possibly 'if that DISRAELI took occasion to remark last evening at cy had been reconstructed then into one political body — a political unity —we should the Freemasons' Hall, while presiding as Chairman not at the anniversary banquet of the Agricultural have seen that happy union of spirit which the last few months in Warsaw have called forth. Benevolent Institution, that the claims of " the most Should we h ave seen Protestants, Catholics, and ancient voc a ti on i n th e wor ld" should only so Jews all unit e d i n one common brotherhood of recently as last y ear (1860) h ave b een forma ll y recognised by the establishment of any such feeling as now in Poland ? Well, then, we may humane association. The reason for this, at the hope that if hereafter Poland should become first glance, apparently inexplicable oversight, the right hon. a great political unity, she will obtain greater and more secure politi ca l f reedom wards to e g z entlemal went on immediately aft er - than she Would otherwise have found." It is ex ac tl y thus, genuit. plain with no le ss l uc idit y t h an in we may assert, with y lie attrib u t e d th e cause of no pre- all the Fri en d s of Poland in., Tim effort in this -way having been hitherto Northerns knew but how to use it. One step as suredly ought to be to declare, that by warlike secession, all the States guilty of it had cancelled their claim on the Federal Government to tolerate the evil which they made the ground of disunion ; that wherever, therefore, the old Federation had to employ force to regain its right, there, slaves, the cause of the war, should be ipso facto free. That freedom, in fact, should follow the march of federal armies into any State, and the appearance of a blockading federal fleet off any coast—that be the results of the libera tion of the slaves what they might, those who made them a ground of secession must be answer able for them. Such a policy as this would enlist the goodwill of all Christian nations on the side of the North, and would, we fear, only put an end t' the war too soon —too soon, because the slave States would fear armies equipped with liberty for the slave, more than batteries of the best Armstrong guns, and they would give in to the Union before they had been compelled to give up slavery. A letter from New Orleans, publish from th e Ti mes, shows ho rlea wli n t s tl whicheto w be trustede the slaves are, even so far south ; it shows also that the South must be really more in want of fighting men than they profess to be, since they have actually kidnapped British residents, to make them, as FRANKLIN PIERCE might say, "involuntary" volunteers. ' adventured upon in this country to the simple and obvious circumstance of the farmer's complete isolation from the rest of the community. That isolation having been rendered of late years, so to speak, a matter of absolute im possibility henceforth, because of the more and more complicated intersection of the country by railroads. Hence the right hon. gentleman remarked that naturally enough the agricultural population had eventually awakened to a sense of the urgent neces sity there was for the holding out to each other of a helping hand in cases of great emergencies, arising out of unlooked-for and, in very many instances, wholly undeserved misfortune. "Intercourse," as IN2 r. DISRAELI well observed in reference to the mere reasonableness of this tardy awakening—" in tercourse not only produced knowledge, but some thing far better even than knowledge—sympathy." Hence, in effect, it is that this Agricultural Bene volent Institution, which was founded only as recently as last year, may be recognised as having sprung from the gradual development, and the wider and wider extension of the three great and beneficent systems of penny postage, of railways, and of electro-telegraphic communication. The far mer's horizon, formerly contracted within the circum ference of the parish bounderies—has expanded be yond the reach of all ordinary calculation. He no longer depends for his information in regard to the rest of the world upon the ignorant gossip at the tavern ordinary upon market-days, or upon the stale dribblets of information that might be spelt out by him, with extreme difficulty, at remote intervals) from the columns of the month-old local newspapers. Thanks to the railroads, to the telegrams, to the penny postage, and to the penny newspapers, said Mr. DISRAELI, the agricultural population were almost upon a par with the inhabitants of great cities, even with the population of the metropolis, in respect to the advantages arising out of what may be termed the combination. of rapidity and periodicity of intel ligence. Henceforth the farmer is not left to struggle on alone against all the various perils and uncertainties incident in a peculiar manner to his primeval occupation. The destructive storm, the barren harvest, the murrain, the mildew, and the rot—occasionally interfere sometimes disas trously with all his wisest forethought and all his most rational calculations. He need no longer contend against these alone, unaided, unknown, and consequently unsympathised with in his time of trial and solicitude. Supplemented as it were to the prudential system of insurance that has been growing up with such marvellous speed during the past half century, comes now in aid of those at least who may be put to the direst straights, the benefi cent assistance yielded through the agency of this Agricultural Benevolent Institution. Ths original idea out of which the association appears to have emerged, Mr. Alderman MECIEI seems to have had the honour and merit of suggesting. Two years only have yet elapsed since the scheme was first taken in hand with any visible hope of the project it involved being carried out in genuine earnest. Daring one year only has it been in actual opera tion. Yet is it even now, we rejoice to learn, an expanding and advancing enterprise. The anni versary banquet could hardly have been more of a success than it was yesterday. The eloquent advocacy of the claims of the institution by the right hon. chairman of the even ing, resulted in a generous and munificent series of subscriptions there and then handed over to the treasurer to swell the funds of the Association. Four thousand pounds sterling, it is pleasant to know in regard to this newborn Institution, had already been invested in its name before the banquet of yesterday. And already many farmers in distress, and many widows of other farmers de ceased, are (from the Funds of this Benevolent In stitution) at this very time in receipt of pensions of twenty pounds per annum—the recipients of these little pensions being thereby relieved from the anguish of absolute destitution. And this through the agency, it is at once consoling and encouraging to remember, of a benevolent society only the other day, as it were, called into existence! We must of course bow to the law of our own Lord Chancellor, all the other judges who heard the case uniting also in opinion with him. As a matter of fact, the Emperor of AUSTRIA has ob tained the aid of an English court of justice in preventing the preparation of a paper currency to supersede legally that which he now circulates illegally in Hungary. While, however, it is useless to impugn the Lord Chancellor's law, we must think that it is the old case of summum jus summa iiajurra. On the ground on which our First Judge in the land based his decision we must confess that in our non-technical judgment it seems somewhat a strain ing of the case for the strong against the weak — for our Ministers and the Emperor of AUSTRIA against an exiled patriot. Verily the stolen note has been used to some purpose! The thief and his numerous abettors have succeeded in their object. Suppose we admit that, the usurper of the Hun garian Crown having been recognised as de facto King of HUNGARY by our Government, our Courts were not at liberty to inquire whether he was really King or not; suppose they were not even at liberty to question his fraudulent issue of Vienna banknotes in Hungary, and illegally making them legal tender there ; admitting all this for argument's sake, we are yet at a loss to see how the plaintiff showed that KOSSUTH'S notes would injure the property of the Usurping but de facto, King. KossuTH asserts, and the form of the notes guarantees the truth of the assertion, that they were not to be used—indeed they would be useless—until the present state of things ceased, and the usurper had no longer any property in the currency which he now forces on Hungary. Such a state of things may be a dream or not, but only in the case of its becoming a reality could the notes of M. KOSSUTH be of any value. They purport, says Lord CAMPBELL, to be received by the State and a State offices. True, but the very statement is proof, that they contemplate another Government as represented by those offices, and one in which LOUIS KOSSUTH would have a right to sign these notes. Lord CAMPBELL seems to agree that had they been arms which were manufactured, as they might have been, for a lawful purpose, an in junction might have been refused—but to most persons it will seem a very lawful pur pose for a person to prepare for an event which he, however mistaken, believes to be certain, and to prepare, too, what it would be wrong and injurious to use unless that event should occur. We cannot see that the Lord Chancellor had befor e him one tittle of evidence to prove that the notes would or could be used i n any other case than the perfectly legitiinate one—that at some time hence the Hungarian Diet should accept these notes and de c l are them legal tender. Till that was done the notes could do no harm ; when that was done they would be a public benefit. England will be sorry that in her courts of equity, through legal refinements, a KOSSUTH loses his fair rights, while the original thief, the unknown policeman, Sir RICHARD MAYNE, our Foreign and Home Secretaries, the Emperor of AUSTRIA, in fact, and all his abettors, gain their object against exilei patriotism. NEW SOUTH WALES. PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY. The British Trident, belonging to Messrs. James Baines and Co., from Sydney March 14, with 3,300 bales of wool and a quantity of bides, tallow, &e., is gone up Channel. She has 22 saloon and 32 second cabin passel'. gers, of whom six landed here, viz., Dr. Slater, and Messrs. J. Weinholt, T. Weinholt, Schroter, Young, and Hunt. In the South Pacific the British Trident encoun tered unusual quantities of ice between long 172 and 95 W. Fields of packed ice prevailed, and about 1,500 bergs were observed. The weather was so dense and foggy that, although under easy sail, the proximity of the icebergs was only known by tha noise of the sea breaking on them. Cape Horn was rounded April 22, and the Equator crossed May 17. Captain Boyce (formerly of the Royal Charter), who commanded the British Trident, died at sea March 23d, when her chief officer, Mr. Lakey, took charge. The transport, War Spirit, of Bridgewater, Cap tain Lucas, from Kurrachee, with 298 invalid troops in medical charge of Dr. Goolet, has passed up Channel. The officers are—Captain Chichester, 81st; Lieut. Haines, 93d; Lieut. Fawcett, 7th ; and Ensign Humphrey, 94th. Nine men and one woman died on the passage. She sailed Feb. 25, and touched at the Cape April 13. ST. JAMES'S HALL. The production of Mr. Horsley's " Gideon," which was given here last night, must be viewed as an important feature in the musical history of the present season, and as a praiseworthy attempt to add another to the list of great compositions that will be repeated from year to year to an ever increasing circle of judicious admirers. "Gideon" is a work of great vigour, carefully elaborated, and based upon a deep study, and evidently a hearty admi ration of the best examples. The principal characters, so to speak, are—Gideon, the Hebrew Champion ; Ebed, a worshipper of Baal ; and Zillah, a Hebrew woman, who typifies the feminine virtues and goodness of the plot. The various morceaux allotted to Miss Stabbach, as Zillah, were sung with taste and foelitg. Madame Laura Baxter, also, was encored in " Oh, Israel, dear Israel," which is admi rably suited to her fine contralto voice ; and the manly voice and sound execution of Mr. Weiss were most effective in the passages allotted to Ebed, the worshipper of Baal. But the chief honours of the evening were reserved, nex to the composer himself, for Mr. Sims Reeves, for whom the music of Gideon was composed, and whose splendid acquire ments and fine natural qualities it is well calculated to dis play. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Mr. Germain Lavie, student of Christ Church, Oxford, to the vacant clerkship in the office of the Registrars of the Court of Chancery. ESSAYS AND REVIEWS.—Mr. George A. Denison, chairman of the committee, in a letter to a contemporary, says—" I observe a statement in some newspapers that the report of the Committee of Convocation on ' Essays and Reviews' is not ready. Will you allow me to say in your columns that there is no foundation for the statement, and that the report is in print in its complete state." THE MODLIN IN RUSSIA. It is almost over powering to wander about the huge works. Mile after mile one may explore stores and magazines and batteries—pass from ravelin to ravelin, from work to work, and one half of Medlin is not seen. There is something very Russian in this crowding of fort within fort. At tho Malakoff this fault—l think I may call it one—was apparent : traverse upon traverse, parapet upon parapet, defence crowning and crowding defence, till it seemed as though the labyrinth at Hampton Court had been thickened and petrified into a fortress—such was the Malakoff. On a large scale this de scription, to a certain extent, holds good for Medlin ; though on this more extended scale it is less remarkable, and the defects less appreciable ; there is no crowding certainly, for there is room for them all, but one within the other are col lected the works, and it seems to be the opinion of the Russians themselves that this great fortress has been some what overdone. They are very proud of it nevertheless ; and well they may be, for they feel sure that no strangers who visit it have ever seen its like.—Once a- leek. LIGHTING THE BRITISH MUSEUM BY NIGHT.— The evidence on this subject of Mr. Braidwood, superin tendent of the London Fire Engine Establishment, contained in his letter to Mr. Panizzi, has been printed by order of the House of Lords. Mr. Braidwood thinks the building might be lighted with candles or oil with comparative safety, but he seti himself iuflexiblyagainst gas in every form, but especially the sun-burners now so popular. Gas, by desiccating everything within its reach, so increases the in flammability of a building, and is attended with so much danger of explosion, even when all precautions are taken, that he thinks a building intended to last for ages, and con taining so much invaluable property as the British Museum should on no consideration be subjected to the risk of its introduction. Mr. Sydney Smirke, the architect to the trustees, in e a letter printed with that of Mr. Braidwood, expresses more mildly his doubts as to the expediency of introducing gas into the interior of the Museum. The trustees have accordingly resolved that "they would not be justified in allowing the collections of the Museum to be open at any hour which would require gas light." AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS. ---It is only due to Mr. Bentley, the well-known publisher, to contradict a report which has been circulated, which, if left unnoticed, might be prejudial to his interests. Not only have all Mr. Bent ley's engagements with authors been promptly fulfilled, but we are assured—and it is the best answer to the report to which we allude—that he is at all times ready to pay for any works which he may undertake in cash. Moreover, his announcements of the publication of such works as the "Memoirs of Guizot," "The Life of Cardinal Julian," the Memoirs of Dr. Marshall Hall," Sec., afford a proof that he is held in the literary world in that high esteem to which his liberality and enterprise fully entitle him.—Morning Post, June 12, 1861. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENT.—The Lord Chan cellor has presented the Rev. Henry Burgess, LL.D., Ph. D., Member of the Royal Society of Literature, to the vicarage of St. Andrew, %Vhittlesey, near Peterborough, vacant by the death of the Rev. E. Reynolds. The benefice is worth above £5OO per annum. Dr. Burgess is known to the learned and theological world by his translations from the Syriac language, —the first being two volumes of the " Metrical Hymns and Homilies" of St. Ephraim Syrus, with philological Notes, and Dissertations on the Syrian Metrical Church Literature; the second, a translation of the "Festal Letters" of St. Athanasius, long lost in the original Greek, but recovered recently in an ancient Syriac version, and edited by the Oxford Library of the Fathers by the Rev. H. G, Williams. THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS.—The flower show at these gardens took place yesterday. The weather being fine, there was anunusuellylarge concourse of visitors. Among them we noticed his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, the King of the Belgians, the Princess Alice and the Princess Helena, the Prince Louis of Hesse, the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, the Bishops of Win chester and Lincoln, the Duke and Duchess of Northum berland, the Duke of Alarlboroug,h, Lords Pomfret, Evers ley, Stafford, HeytGsbury, lgornington, and Londesborough, Ladies Torrington, Stafford, Howard, Eversley, Panmure, &c. There was a magnificent display of orchids and pelar goniums, azaleas, and Cape heaths. The follo w i n g prizes were awarded :—Extra Gold Medal—Mr. William May, for 1E stove and greenhouse plants; 2.1 r. Stone, for 20 exotic orchids. Large Gold Medal—Mr. B. Feed, for 16 stove and greenhouse plants; Mr. G. Baker, for 20 exotic orchids, Medium Gold Medals—Mr. R. Baxendine, for 16 stove and greenhouse plants; Messrs. J. and J. Fraser, nursery. men, Leyton, Essex, for 12 stove and greenhouse plants Mr. Green, for 10 stove and greenhouse plants ; Messrs. H Lane, nurserymen, Herts, for 10 roses in pots ; Mr. B. Peed, for 20 exotic orchids; Mr. Nutford, gardener to E. M'Morland, Haverstoek-hill. Gold Medals—Mr. 0. Rhodes nurseryman, Sydenham-park, Kent, for 12 stove and green house plants; Mr. H. Chi'roan, for 10 &Love and green• house plants ; Mr. Jackson, nurseryman, Kingston, Sur, rey, for 10 Cape heath; kr. B. Peed, for eight Cape heaths ; Mr. E. P. Francis, nurseryman, Hertford, for 10 roses inpots ; to Mr. Woolley, nurseryman, Clushunt, Herts, for 10 exotic orchids; Mr. Fage, for 12 exotic orchids; Mr. C. Turner, nurseryman, Slough, for 12 pelargo. _ _ mums; Mr. Nye, gardener Ito Dlr. E. Forster, Clewer . . Manor, Windsor, for 10 pelargoniums, ge Silver gilt Medals—Mr. W. C. Cutbush, nurseryrean, Herts, for 12 stove and greenhouse plants ; Page, for six stove and greenhou.s e plants ; Mr. 0. Rhodes, for 10 Cape heaths ; Mr. R. Bars.endine, for eight Cape heaths; Mr. Terrey, for six roses in pots; Mr. Turner, nurseryman, Slough, for six greenhouse azaleas; Mr. Baii. ney, nurseryman, Stratford, for ten exotic orchids ; Mr. , . Ronny, for six exotic orchids ; Messrs. Dobson and Son, nurserymen, Isleworth, for 12 pelargoniums; Mr. T. Bailee, for 10 pelargoniums Large Silver Medals—Mr. Tegg, for six stove and greenhouse plants; Mr. May, for six Cape heaths; Mr. May, for cix greenhouse azaleas; Mr. May, for six exotic orchids ; Mr. C. Turner, for six fancy pelar goniums; Mr. Wear, for six f. Lucy pelargoniums. IMMENSE CATCH OF WHITING WITH THE HOOK AND LINE. —The Wiltshire _Mirror mentions, that Dr. Tiordet and another gentleman who were fishing with Mr. Henry Cutler, boatman, of Bournemouth, with hook and line, during cue afternoon caught 240 whiting, besides bream and other fish. This is, we believe, the largest catch that has been made in so short .7, time by two persons. "The skull of Dick Turpin, under a glass shade, many years in the Morley family, of York," was one of the lots put up to auction at a sale of ( 4 genuine furniture" last Friday, in Churcn-street, Soho, The-lot sold for 148. elm §4eclo and all, L TU If% '44,‘ v S. TURIN, JUNE 12. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies Baron Iticasoli announced the formation of the new Ministry, and said that, in accepting so great a task, he and his colleagues had yielded to a sen timent of duty. After having dwelt on the immense loss sus tained by Italy in the death of Count Cavour, he continued, " No one has bent under this mis fortune, nor have we lost our faith in the des• tinies of Italy." He then explained that the policy of the new Cabinet will be a continuation of that of the one presided over by Count Cavour, who, he said, united boldness with prudence. The Minister maintained that Italy had a right to constitute herself as a united nation, and said ; " The basis of the new Ministry will be respect for the constitution, respect for the laws, and mainte nance of public order. The first care of the Government will be zealously to continue the armament of the country, and at the same time to develope the economical forces of Italy, and to establish the equilibrium of the revenue and expenditure." He concluded by expressing his full confidence in the support of Parliament, and in the good sense and patriotism of the Italians. Loud applause followed the words of the Minister. A similar communication was made in the Senate. In the Chamber of Deputies a bill was laid on the table for the construction of a naval and military arsenal at Spezzia. MADRID, JUNE 12. The Spanish squadron, lately stationed at Alge sira3, has sailed in the direction of Palma. Admiral Pinzon has left for Tangiers with two vessels. FRANCE. The Moniteur publishes the following:— The representatives of the Powers, assembled in Conference, concluded and signed, the day before yesterday, with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultan, the constitutive act of the new adminis tration of the Lebanon, as also a protocol, in which the diplomatic conditions of that agreement are inserted. " Divided into two Kaimakans by the arrangement cf 1845, the Government is replaced under the authority of one Governor, who will be chosen from the Christian sub jects of the Porte, and intist necessarily belong to the religion (rite) of the majority. Ile dignity of Mushir, or Marshal, will be conferred upon this Governor, who will receive his instructions from the Porte, and thus be in no manner subordinate whatsoever to the Pasha of Beyrout or of Dames, with whom, on the contrary, he stands equal. He will reside in the city of Deir-el•liamar, which, in 1845, had a Turkish garrison. Order will be maintained in the mountains by a native militia, and Turkish troops will not be allowed to enter unless requested to do so by the Go vernor. " Contrary to what was established under the former regime, the Governor of the Lebanon will be appointed for a term of three years, and during that time eannot be dis missed without an official investigation. " Two Medjlis, or Councils, will be instituted in the Le banon, the one judicial, the other administrative, in which all the populations which inhabit the mountains will be re presented equally, without distinction of religion. " Other enactments in the same spirit offer analogous guarantees to the various districts, leaving latitude to the Governor to exercise his judgment." BOURSE, June 12,—The market has been buoy ant, although business has not increased very ma terially. Threes, for the account, which opened at 67f 80c, are now at 68f. Railway shares rather higher. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents ... 96 35 Credit Foncier Do end month.... 96 55 Belgian 4/ 99 50 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B —; Roman Bank Shares 2890 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 703 75' Spanish Threes 5Ol Do. Account 705 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1360 .. 1362 50 Northern 992 50 .. 992 50 New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 947 50 .. 948 75 Geneva 4lO .. 408 75 Southern 575 .. 576 25 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. SOUTH-EASTERN. A special general meeting of the proprietors was held yesterday, at the Bridge-house Hotel, London bridge, Mr. 13yng in the chair, for the purpose of considering, and if so determined, of approving the bill now before Parliament, entituled " A bill (as amended in committee) for enabling the South- Eastern Railway Company to make an improved communication with the harbour at Folkestone, and for conferring further powers on that company wirh respect to steam vessels; and for enabling that company to make bye-laws for regulating the London and Greenwich Railway, and for amend ing some of the acts relating to the South-Eastern Railway Company with respect to the accounts to be kept by them ; and for other purposes." The CHAIRMAN said that the bill had passed the House of Commons, and only awaited formal sanction to pass the House of Lords. The heads of the bill having been read by the company's solicitor, a resolution of approval was proposed from the chair, and carried unanimously. An extraordinary general meeting was then held for the purpose of exercising, either in whole or in part, the powers conferred on the company by the South Eastern Railway (Capital Arrangements) Act, 1861, of subscribing towards the construction of the Charing-cross Railway. The CHAIRMAN said the total amount authorised to be raised by the new act was £672,000, of which .£Bo,soofmight be raised by loans. The amount he had mentioned did not include the cost of the Folkestone branch, but it included an additional sum of £350,000 authorised to be subscribed on account of the Charing-cross Railway. In conse quence of the state of the money market, the board proposed to limit the ex erc i se o f th e company' s powers at present as regarded the share capital to about one-third of the amount, or £241,500, and to raise £BO,OOO on debentures. That would be suf ficent for the present year. It was proposed that the new shares should be issued at five per cent., redeemable at par at any time after the expiration of ten years from the date of issue, the other con ditions being expressed in the resolution by which it was proposed to create the shares. The resolution for carrying out the object was passed unanimously. Mr. Rim, M.P.; a director, made some observa tions with regard to the prospects of the Charing cross Railway. He said, in effect, that while he believed that the line would pay a fair dividend he thought the management was not satisfactory, inasmuch as though the money and the credit with which the line was constructed were South Eastern money and credit, the South Eastern shareholders had no actual control. There were five directors who had little, if any, interest in the South Eastern line. He should decline to hold himself responsible in any degree for the management. The CHAIRMAN said he felt precluded from enter ing into that question, inasmuch as it was not regularly before the meeting. A SHAREHOLDER protested strongly against Mr. Rich's disclaimer of responsibility, especially as he was originally one of the strongest advocatesof the Charing cross scheme. Mr. G. SbIITII was sure Mr. Rich felt bound to do all in his power to protect the interests of the company. Mr. Rica replied that that was certainly the case. Mr. COLES CHILD, a director, said it would be impossible to alter the existing state of things until the Charing-cross Railway was complete; adding that he hoped it would then be amalga mated with the South-Eastern line. (Hear.) The meeting then separated. SUSPECTED MURDER. —At the Dudley Arms, Pad dington, last night an investigation took pine before Mr. G. S. Brent, the deputy-coroner for West Middlesex, into the circumstances attending the discovery of the corpse of an un known woman in that part of the Regent's Canal known as the Grand Junction, near No. 16 Wharf, Paddington. The body was that of a young woman of 24, supposed from her dress, which was clean and respectable, to have earned her living by labour. From a post mortenz examination by Dr. J. S. Beale, of Paddington-green, it appeirs that the de ceased had been ravished and shockingly mutilated before hor death by drowning. The body not being identified, the Deputy-Coroner adjourned the case, in the expectation that the publicity given t o th e f ac t s th roug h th e pres s will throw light upon it, AGEICULTUIIiIL BENEVOLENT INSTI TUTION. The second anniversary festival of the subscri bers to this excellent institution, the object of which is the relief of farmers, their widows, and orphans, was held last evening at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street,under the distinguished presidency of the Right Hon. Ben. Disraeli, M.P., who was su pp or t e d b y L or d Dynevor, r. R. Benyon, M.P., the Hen. Percy Wyndham, M P., Sir Joseph Paxton, M.P., Mr. Alderman Mechi (the founder of the charity), and Mr. Hudson, of Castleacre. Covers were laid for about 300 gentle men, and the company included many of the prin cipal agriculturists of the country, the proceedings being witnessed by a numerous array of the fair sex from the gallery. The grace from the " Laudi Spiritual? having been sung in capital style by Miss Ransford, Miss Poole, Mr. G. Perron, Mr. Naylor, Mr. Ransford, and Mr. Lawler, the usual loyal toasts were given, and drunk with all the honours. Mr. -WYNDHAM, M.P. proposed " Th e A rmy , Navy, and Vol unteers, and the health of Major Barker, M.P., and Lieutenant Scott." Major PARKER returned thanks on behalf of the army, and Lieutenant Scott for the Volunteers. Duet—" Love and War," Mr. G. Perren and Mr. Lawler. The CHAIRMAN then, in proposing " Prosperity to the Association," said that it certainly appeared to be very strange that, in a country in which no calling had not found in the sympathy of society some means to remedy its calamities and to alleviate its sorrows, the claims of the most ancient vocation in theworld,and which was still not the least honoured (hear)—should never have been recognised. (Cheers.) The vocation of the farmer had to a great extent separated him, not only from other classes of society, but even from his colleagues and confederates in the same pursuits. Twenty-five years ago a farmer lived upon the acres which he cultivated. The parish was his horizon, and it was only to the market day to which he was indebted for his society or to his knowledge of what was going on in the world. But within the last quarter of a century all that had changed, and that great revolution in the means of communication which was the feature of the present age, and which had so considerably affected the position of all classes in the commu nity, and had influenced that of the farmer—(hear, hear)—the railroad, that intersected his fields, the station that possibly was built upon the site of an ancient homestead, had extended the area of his observations and had place l at his com mand an extensive selection of markets. The penny postage had furnished him with the means of com municating almost with the facility of conversation his feelings and his views to every part of the coun try; and the farmer who 25 years ago dozed over the local news of a stale paper was now supplied by the penny newspaper with all the information and intelligence of the world. (Cheers.) Instead of the parish being the limited horizon of his experi ence, the farmer at the board of guardians was engaged and interested in the fortunes and condi tions of an expanded union. The whole country was covered with a network of agricultural as sociations, where the farmer was taught at the same time both to compete and to co-operate, and in a country where voluntary combinations for the public welfare were one of our proudest and justest boasts, if he were to fix on a combi nation which most contributed to the public wel fare he would appeal to a general exhibition of learned transactions which certainly had fixed the culminating glory of all voluntary associations— namely, the Royal Agricultural Society. (Cheers.) All those things had produced great changes, not only in the condition, but in the character of the British farmer. It had been said by a great autho rity that intercourse produced knowledge, but it produced something more precious than knowledge, and that was sympathy. When the farmers as a body had been thrown into familiar intercourse, it was impossible that they could remain long blind to that anomaly in their condition that in a class so numerous, so wealthy, and so intelligent, there was no effort made to sustain any of their members who had experienced misfortunes which no prudence could foresee, and no perseverance avert. (Cheers) The farmer was exposed to many of those calamities. There was the risk of barren harvests, of destruc tive storms, and the three plagues of mildew, mur rain, and rot; and it was not therefore surprising when great changes had been effeoted that the far mers had seen that the time had arrived when they ought to place themselves in the same position as other classes and conditions of life in making provi sion for the future, and the unavoidable misfortunes to which they in common with all other classes were subjected. The case of the farmer who was visited by calamity was very different from that of those engaged in towns and large cities. The farmer had to meet his calamities alone on those fields which he had perhaps formerly cul tivated in prosperity; but the persons in towns had at least the satisfaction, melancholy as it was, of suffering in company. It was presumptuous to tou..h upon the future, but when he considered the great amount of population, and that there were 30,000.000 of human beings in this country enjoy ing in vigour liberty or opinion as Englishmen — (hear, hear)—and when they considered that they possessed the largest amount of wealth of any country in the world, he felt assured that what ever might be the political revolutions or commer cial changes they would never seriously interfere with the condition or the prospects of this country, and that the British farmer and the British soil would be found equal to every occasion. It was no doubt in consequence of the change which had taken place in the condition of the British farmer that after due consideration and counsel this so ciety had been formed, This was stEl a young in stution, having been only two years in existence ; and it was an association which owed its origin to the energy of Mr. Alderman Mechi, to whom the highest honour was due and who had established claims to be considered as a public benefactor. (Hear, hear.) In the first year of its existence its efforts had not been slight. He would have been glad if the farmers had succeeded in raising edifices worthy of their order for the purpose of receiving those who had spent the best years of their lives in industry. (Cheers.) The right hon. gentleman concluded by making an eloquent appeal in favour of the institution, and resumed his seat amidst loud cheers. Irish ballad, Miss Poole. Lord DYNEVOR then, in complimentary terms, pro posed " The Health of Mr, Disraeli," and the toast was received and drunk with loud and protracted cheering, and briefly and appropriately acknow ledged by the right hon. gentleman. Mr. Alderman MECHI gave " The Agricultural Societies of England, Ireland, and Scotland, and the health of Mr. John Hudson, of Castleacre;" and Mr. HUDSON returned thanks. Sir JOSEPH PAXTON proposed "The Arts, Manu factures, and Commerce," and " The Health of Mr. James Howard," of Bedford; and Mr. HOWARD responded to the toast. M. R. DE LA TREHONNAIS next gave " The Exe cutive Council and Mr. Thomas Batson," the chair man ; and Mr. BATSON returned thanks. Mr. BENYON, M.P., proposed " The Stewards," and " The Health of Mr. John Clavden ;" and Mr. CLAYDEN responded to the toast. A bumper toast to " The Ladies" concluded the proceedings, and the company soon after broke up, the right hon. chairman being greeted on his depar ture with enthusiastic applause. The entertainment was conducted upon a munifi cent scale, and did the greatest credit to the cuisine of the Freemasons'. Mr. Toole officiated as toast master with his usual tact and ability. The subscriptions during the evening amounted to £1,500. SURREY MUSIC -HALL—Art inspection of the building yesterday has led to the conclusion that the walls may be made available for future purposes. All else is utter ruin. The stage and orchestra, where M. Jullien wielded his baton to a thousand performers, and the pro jecting balconies, the design of which Mr. Spurgeon has copied, to some extent, in his new chapel, are all a mass of rubbish. It is fortunate, however, that the fire was con • fined in the hall, as though in a furnace, and that a smaller building, connected by a short passage, has entirely escaped, thus enabling the lessees to carry on their entertainments, although not to the usual extent. Near £4OO had just been expended on decoration, and every preparation had been made for what is termed the season—which, at the best of times, is of a most precarious character, but under present circumstances scarcely anything can save them from loss. The greatest sympathy, however, has I.lready been expressed for the proprietors by the musical profession, and Prince George Galitzin, the Russian composer, has generously offered to undertake the organisation of a concert and al fresco entertainment for their sole benefit. The building is insured, and, it is believed, to the full amount. FATAL A CCI DEN T.—WA RIVICK, Tuesday .—A fatal accident occurred on the London and North-Western line this morning. An empty coal train was proceeding to Coventry, and when between Leamington and Kenilworth the bridge near Wooton gave way, dragging the tender and five coal trucks with it, falling through, snapping the wood of the bridge into fragments, and the iron tire rods into points like needles. The engineer and stoker were carried down with the engine and killed. The bodies of both were taken out after some considerable time had elapsed, especi ally that of the former as it was fixed fast between th e f ur nace and the tender. When taken eut the poor fellow was found to be frightfully scalded and burnt. It being aislion:lre line, all traffic is st o p pe d b e t we en Leamingt on and Coven y, but ay.) company can carry both passenger s and ood by another b ranc h l i ne t h roug h R ug b y t o and fro to Coy ventry and Lea m i ng t on . The remains o f th e bridge show to have been a remarkably rotten one, and the mrprise felt by all who witnessed it was that it had not falle n time before, inquest will he la el t bi g • 1012 g eyes LITERATURE. Lectures on Colonisation and Colonies. By Her man Merivaie, A. M. New edition. Longman. These lectures were d e li vere d b y Professor Mere vale before the University of Oxford during the veers 1839-40-41, at a time when little interest was taken in the welfare or advancement of our colonial possessions by the general public; and the Govern ment treated the subject with great indifference. Our penal colonies were looked upon as aconvenl conveni- ence to rid th e country of that portion of its crimi nal population who were not bad enough to hang, bat far too depraved to keep at home, It was from the conviction that great good would result to the mother country, as well as to her dependencies, by the development of our colonial resources, by stimu lating emigration that Professor Merivale under took the task of collecting the details of these lectures. Since the date of their delivery a sort of mania for emigration has taken plane, owing to the great increase of the population, the late famine in Ireland, and above all the discovery of gold in Australia and other places, so that what twenty years ago was new to most people is to-day known to nearly all; thus Mr. Merivale's lectures must have possessed far greater interest when, from his prcfessor's chair,he described the capabilities and resources of our various colonies to the attentive students than they can be expected to have for, those who fancy that they know all about colonies, emigra tion, and the world in general. But it is not a. superficial sketch of his subject that the author has taken ; he has evidently devoted much time in preparing these lectures, for not only d oes h e describe each o f our own colonies and enters into a history of their first occupation, and their forms of government, but he also examines those of other countries—in fact, he treats of colonies generally ; of course, however, devoting most attention to those of England. He describes at some length the Spanish colonies in the "West Indies, and. gives a statistical account of their condition in: respect to wealth and commerce. 'The vast rict l ee of some of the early Spanish and Portuguese settlers is almost beyond belief, and yet they never acquired any fortune, their habits were extravagant, their estates neglected, and although they could always command large sums of money the gambling-table and wild speculations en guiphed it all. Much attention has been paid to the results gained by the emancipation of the slaves in our West Indian possessions. It is main tained tl,,f when the slave trade was a l oolisht4l, owing to th, gradual but steady decrease of the negro population in the colonies, the proprietors of plantations would have bees unable to keep up the stock, and that a recourse to free labour would have been unavoidable. The . treatment of the aborigines by all nations seems to. have been alike cruel and unjust; and although we may cry out with indignation at the bPAbarities or Cortez and Pizarro, if we look a little:into the early history of Australia we shall find tliat the virtuous Angle-Saxon was not far behind them. Thanks to lead, poison, and alcohol, the old race has disap peared. . befo re th e w hi te man, and in fact our boast-. ed etvilisation is to the Australian aborigine proves a literal extermination. Much valuable information, both historical and statistical, is to be found in this volume, and although the lectures were addressed. to an audience some twenty years ago, they are no lesswortz.y of ca re f u l perusal. Copious notes and statistical tables aro appended to each chapter, showing the increase of various populations in succeeding yea rs , t ogether with the advance or retrogression of particular colonies in wealth and produce; and although from the fact of the work. being composed of a series of lectures, the various sub jects are not in as collected a form as one could wish, to constitute a book of reference, the full informa tion given in the contents of each chapter in a great measure overcomes this difficulty, while the same diversity greatly increases the interest of each in-. dividual lecture, N P °LEON-SARRE] lii-CAVOUR !II I Various hypothesis have been advanced—some of them by correspondents in our own journal-.. with the view of accounting for Count Cavour's death. The whole thing appears to us as plain as anything can be. Th e doctors did not cause his illness, but being ill, the doctors caused his death. They did this by their bleedings on six different oc casions in the course of a few days. But then comes the question, ‘. What caused the Count's illness ?" The question should be, not what, but who caused the illness of the late Prime Minister of Italy ? We have no doubt whatever on the point. The grave responsibility of an illness which terminated in death, rests on the head of Louis Napoleon, and on his head. alone. 'We do not say this on light grounds. It comes to us from a variety of quarters, entirely unconnected with each other, and those quarters in which the most correct infor mation ought to exist. We feel that we are justified in affirming that some time ago Louis Napoleon had made it a sine qua non with Count Cavour, acting as the responsible minister of Victor Em manuel, that in consideration of Imperialism doing certain things_ the evacuation of Rome by the French being among the number—the Island of Sardinia should be ceded to France. And not only, we are further assured, did Count Cavour, although. reluctantly, acquiesce in this, but he actually signed and sealed an elaborately drawn-up agreement, binding Victor Emmanuel to fulfil his engagements. It is further most confidently affirmed that a few weeks ago Louis Napoleon became most urgent for the fulfilment of the bond into which Count Cavour had entered, and that the knowledge of the storm of public indignation, not only in Italy but through out Europe, which such a cession of Sardinia to France would call forth, had such an effect on his mind, as to bring on that illness which, in the hands of his ignorant physician, so speedily ended in death. The responsibilit y , therefore, of the death of Count Cavour rests partly on Louis Napoleon, and partly on the Turin physicians—on the former in the first instance, and on the latter in the second. We have said that we speak from what we re gard as positive information on this point. It will be remembered, we have no doubt, by some of our readers, that as far back as three months ago we expressed, on more than one occasion, a strong conviction that Louis Napoleon had made the cession of the island of Sardinia, an indispensable condition to the evacuation of Rome by the French troops. The reluctance of Count Cavour to carry cut an agreement which he knew would bring down on his head the indignation of all Europe, would satisfactorily account for Louis Napoleon's refusing, down till the present hour, to either with draw his troops from Rome, or to recognise the Italian kingdom. As a proof of the confidence which we repose in the accuracy of our statement, that a treaty was actually signed by the late Count Cavour, ceding Sardinia to France, in return for certain services rendered to Victor Emmanuel by Louis Napoleon---we no less confidently affirm, that our Government are perfectly aware of the facts of the case, and that the matter will very speedily be. brought before Parliament. —Morning Advertuer. THIS DAY'S MARKETS. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKEL The supply of beasts on offer in to-day's market being on the increase, the demand for all breeds ruled heavy, at a de cline in the quotations, compared with Monday, of 2d per 81bs. We were fairly supplied with sheep, for which the inquiry was very inactive, at 2d p-r Sib s l ess money. The extreme value of th e best old Downs was 5s 4d per 8113 s. Lambs were very dull, and 4d to 8d per Sibs lower in price. In calves only a limited business was passing, at a d e cline of quite 2d per 81b s . Pi gs an d m i lch cows were offering 0n lower terms. Per Sib, to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. , Crse. &inf. beasts 3 6 3 10 Primecrs-wool do. 4 2 4 g Second quality do. 4 0 4 4 Pme. S'thdown d 0.4 10 5 2 Prime large oxen 4 6 4 8 Large erse. calves 3 10 4 Prime Scots, &c. 4 10 5 01 Prime small do 4 6 5 0 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 4 3 6 Large hogs 4 0 4 4 Second quality do. 3 8 4 0 Small Porkers •• •• 4 6 5 0 Lambs, Ss Od to 6s 4d. Suckling calves, 20s to 30s; and quarter-old sto re pigs, 21s to 295. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIG N SUPPLY. 8 1, 6 0 6 2 0 0 1 BBhecaests .......................... Beasts Sheep and lambs.... '420 1 Calves.... 280 Calves ..... . 300 i Pigs .............. ......... 1, 6 12 2 0 0 Pigs, MEAT MARKETS, TE AND LEADENIIALL. -- The supplies of NEwaA from 3s 4d to 4s 661 ; mutton, 3s 6d to 4s meat are seasonably good, and the trade is steady, as , lamb, 5s Od to 5s 8d ; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d ; pork, 4s 4d to 5s Od per Blba. by the carcase. SOUTHALL, June 12. There Was a fair supply of stock on offer in to-day's market, and trade ruled heavy, 5 s 2d ; lamb, 5s 6d tee 6s 2d ; veal, 4s 4d to as follows : Beef; 3s 6d to 4s 10d, mutton, 3s 4d to B fo d ll . ows :—Beef, 0 I to 4- 8d per Blbs to sink the offal. R°l ‘ lF°llr) ' T une 12 . —Trade somewhat heavy, at drooping . prices. Beef, from 3s 6d to 5s Od ; r...utton, 3s 10d to 5s 2d , lamb, 5s 3d to 6s 4d ; veal, 4s 0.1 to 4s 8d ; and pork, 43 Od to 4s 8d per 81bs; suckling calves, 16s to 19s ; quarter old store pigs, 228 to 29s each; and milch cows, £l5 4s gd ; pork, 4$ to Xl9 Os e ach, HAY MARKETS. s4fT THFIELD.—MwaIow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os Od ; clover do., £3 lOs to £5 18s ; and straw, £1 las to £2 Os per load. A heavy trade, CUMBERLAND. Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 O s ; clover, £3 lOs to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 l4s to £2 Os per load. A dull trade. WHITECHAPEL. Meadow hay, Os to £5 Oa Od ; clover, £3 108 to £6 Os Od ; and airaw, £1 10a to £2 Os per lead. A dun 0410'