The Sun. — London, England, 1861-05-15 00:00:00

EA TB. -ROYA L, HAYMARKET. 11 Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bac:Moue. THIS EVENING, the performances will (foramen.. mitt anew and original Comedy, entitled BLCK SHEEP. Mr. ,i,lekstone, tin Compton, Mr. Howe, fie;,; Mrs, Wilki ns , Mrs. Charles Young, Miss Lovell, &c. After which, ll be revived, with entirely new scenery and effects, and 11 the orirrinal music by the late Sir Henry Bishop, the melodrama of THE HILLER. AND HIS MEN. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S TAEATRE.— Lessee and Manazer, Mr. A. Harris. • THIS EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore, Meadows, Garden, and Miss C. Leelereg. Followed by FIA3ILET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Sup ported by Hermann Vezin, Ryder, Meadows, Sze. ; Misses Heath,klsworthy, and It. Leclereq. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPFIL— Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Reproduction of "The Colleen Bavrn. " The Adeiphi " Census " every liveninY. " ' THIS EVENING, 15th time of a new Farce, entitled A TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford. After which (180th time), THE COLLEEN SAWN. Mr. D. Boucicauit, D, r isher, Billinzton, Falconer, Stephenson, 'C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicanit, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billing,ton, and Mrs. Chatterley. To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS. Messrs. J. t,. Toole, Eburne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss Kate Kelly, Miss E. Thorne, and Mrs. Chatterley. . _ Doors open at half past 6—Commenoe at 7. CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. EVERY EVENING, A Grand SLlectlon from Verdi's new Opera, ITN BALLO IN MASCHERA, (First produced in England at this Establishment), With a Chorus of Forty Voices. Also, Verdi's IL COItSARO, never performed at any other Concerts. Solos on the Cornet-a-list on, by Mr. Levy. The Comic Department comprises the Brothers Conrad (in their new and inimitable entertainments), Mr. Wood and his talented lit , le Son, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Blanchard, Mr. Hol lingsworth, and Miss Rose Howard. Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGHMANS. T x E 0 X F ORD 8, OXFORD-STREYT. yr. 'l..Ev4, undoubtedly the best performer of the day on the Cornet-a -Piston — Grand Selecti ms (01 the most complete sca le) 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, Signo• Tivoli, and Mr. Henry Herbert, with full band and powerful and selected chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans.—The following Comic talent, Messrs. W. Randall, J. Blanchard, W. H. Wie land, Hollingsworth, E. Marshall, Harvey, and French. and the Brothers Conrad in their latest and best entertainment, every evening. Admission, Hall, sixpence ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TRIR DAY.—Morning, 55. 6m.—Afternoon. sh. 24m. To-m.O Ritow.-Morning. sh. 48m.—Afternoon. sh. 14m. TUB WEATHER.—Strs OPFICE, MAY 15, 1361. THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE. 65—highest since noon yesterday. 49—lowest this morning and during the night. 64—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.46. Wtim—North-Westerly—light ; with fine weather. I.j 4), c te I ~. . 4 ..,, .. 440, ,:,- ‘ k-,, -; ~,, ~. , :...._-,... .• -- - - 4, . , t,:,„.0 , r?.f4 ;---,::-, -' ST ••qs - 4. 441 ' , ' ' 1"1. • i 107' - ,f• ---- 1-W,%; ' , . i ... , . ..,,,,,, , - .1;1 , - „_.., THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY IS, 1861. The dreadful fact of a sanguinary Civil War having broken out between the Northern and Southern States of the Great American Republic has now been formally notified to Her Britannic MAJESTY'S subjects by a Royal Proclamation. This important document we yesterday transferred im mediately to our own columns from: those of the London Gazette of last evening. Our readers have consequently enjoyed the opportunity of weighing well the purport of every notable sentence in this proclamation since the date of its first appearance. The circumstance that the Proclamation here refer ring, in the first place, to the reality of these most lamentable Hostilities in America, and, in the next place, to the "vexed question" not unnaturally aris ing out of them, in regard to the Probabilities of Foreign Enlistment—the circumstance that this Royal Proclamation addressed to all her MAJESTY'S subjects, in the name of our beloved SOVEREIGN, is essentially a Proclamation of Neutrality—comes before the world, IN e cannot but think, as a happy pendant, and even, we might say, as a direct and logical corollary to the policy of non-intervention, latterly adopted in regard to the nations of Europe by the British Government. A s a Proclamation of Neutrality—it is a document almost, but not quite, unprecedented in the annals of our own empire—an empire peopled by one of the most warlike and conquering of all the races of Christen dom. It is a Proclamation of Neutrality, in point of fact, between the contending Northern an, Southern States of the American Republic•— kindred in its tone, bearing, and charac ter to that other proclamation of neutrality for merly issued by this country between Greece and Turkey, and that more recent, and in some respects, more memorable proclamation of neutrality in obedience to the sentiments enunciated in which we held aloof while the legions of France and of Austria were contending for the mastery upon the plains of Lombardy. These documents, in truth, are in themselves amongst the most signal evi dences the world has afforded to it of the beneficent growth of civilisation. They are indications of a course taken by us, directly contrary to that pur- sued in more barbarous times by our remote pro genitors. Of old the mere noise of battle acted upon the impetuous souls of men as the sound of the trumpet is described in " Job" to have acted upon the thews and sinews of the war horse. It is still the same to this day among all the savage races ; the mere fact of a conflict drags those who are not already engaged in it, by an apparently irresistible impulse, into an active participation in the struggle. One side or the other is chosen, upon the spur of the moment, with passionate impulsiveness. The clash of swords meeting —causes every other blade to spring from its scabbard. It has ever been thus in the elder and ruder days of chivalry —it is even thus still to this time among the yet surviving races of barbarians. Humanity is the visible and appreciable gainer in this matter in proportion to the wider and wider diffusion of the benignant and rational principles animating th e whole complex framew ork of modern civilisation. We have gradually come to recognise the simple t ru th o that, Because any other Powers ray be cont en di ng l amongst themselves to the life and to the death, it does not, ther e f ore f o llow by an inevitable neces sity that we, ourselves, must there upon perforce buckl e on our armour, for the pure lor e of fighting, and join, upon one side or the other, in the bloody strife of the - belligerents. Even we, the great fighting race of the Anglo Saxons, we who have carried our conquer:ng arms to the uttermost ends of the Earth, into remote regions that the ancient Romans, the lords in their day of the then Known World, never dreamt of-7even We the warlike descendants of the Briton and thevik in _ g have come to recognise the reasonableness, and not only the reasonableness but the dignity and honour,of hold ing aloof, strictly and scrupulously aloof, from san guinary struggles in which we are in no way, i n which we need never in any way, be directly or in directly implicated. Dictated though the policy of non-intervention or neutrality undoubtedly is alike by reason and religion, by common sense and Chris tianity—it is nevertheless in the history of the nations of the earth, as a recognised fact, a compa ratively recent innovation. Here, once more, in our own annals, through the conspicuous medium of a Royal Proclamation, the word at Inrge has signal testimony afforded to it that England is so s t rong and so just, in other words is so rational and so civilised, that she can not only avouch her neutrality in no am bignous terms, but, while doing so, can warn her own children in the most solemn accents from any participation whatsoever in the strife that is now desolating the North American continent, As spectators merely of that conflict upon the op posite shores of the Atlantic, we have already to endure a sufficiently bitter afflic tion. The belligerent forces there are so re cently and so closely of our own kith and kin, that they are still to us as our own fellow-country men. It is in the vivid appreciation of this that Her Britannic MAJESTY and her Government have found the incentive to the utterance of that earnest and impressive adjuration (so to speak) with which the Royal Proclamation, published in last night's Gazette, closes so very emphatically. Our Sovereign Lady therein, in three concluding para graphs of her Proclamation solemnly warns "all her l ov ing subjects,"and "all persons whatever entitled to her protection" against doing anything deroga tory of their duty as subjects of a neutral Sovereign. It is a prohibition, this warning, against entering into the military or maritime service of either of the contending parties—here, in last night's Pro clamation happily, and most adroitly, distinguished from each other as " the Government of the United States of America," and certain Southern States styl ing themselves" the Confederate States of America." It is a prohibition against maritime service espe cially of any kind whatever—that is against any subjects of the QUEEN serving as officers, sailors or marines on board any ship or vessel of war or tran sport in the service of either of the contending par ties, Or even on any privateer bearing letters of marque, of or from either the American United States, or the American Confederate States, Govern ment. After enumerating a great variety of other acts of complicity with the belligerents, or of direct participation in their struggles, acts, each and all, each separately and all collectively, hereby de clared to be illegal through this neutral trumpet call of the Royal Proclamation—the document ends with this explicit declaration—" And we do hereby declare that all our subjects and persons entitled to our protection, who may misconduct themselves in the premises, will do so at their peril and of their own wrong, and that they will in no wise obtain any protection from as against any liabilities or . penal consequences, but will on the contrary incur our high displeasure by such misconduct." Such is the suitable echo ringing from the " White Lodge" here in England, in answer to the war blast recently sounded from the " White House" in America. For our brethren across the Atlantic we can but breathe the old prayerful ejaculation, "May God defend the Right !" For ourselves we can hardly do better while closing these remarks, than reite rate that loyal cry of " God Save the Queen !" with which, according to ancient custom (in ap pearance so egotistically), these Royal Proclama tions all terminate. On Monday a debate began in the Oldest Con stitutionally governed country in Europe, which may be pregnant with the gravest consequences. The Diet, indeed, which is now assembled has been in abeyance for some dozen years, while Austrian tyranny has run riot in the land, but, though the summons which now convenes it may be of ques tionable authority, those members who think so, yet regard it as an opportunity of reassembling, and they have met, and are now in vigorous discussion on the best mode of asserting their undoubted rights. The opportunity is that of a reply to the Im perial Speech delivered by the Representative of the SOVEREIGN. The Moderate party, headed by a very able man, the Minister of Justice in 1848, M. PEAK, proposes the usual form of an " address " in reply. The Advanced Liberals, of whom the late CountTELEKI was the head, propose a memorial. In the statements and demands to be embodied in either, the two parties entirely agree. The debate turns on the form. But then this form involves the grave question of acknowledging, or the contrary, that FRANCIS JOSEPH is King of Hungary. One party allege that the abdication of FERDINAND V. does not include the Hungarian Crown ; an argument with which the stolen KOSSUTH note has rendered our readers familiar, it having been one made promi nent in the pleadings before Vice-Chancellor STUART. M.- D EAK, on the other hand, contends that the throne of Hungary is de facto vacant, and that FRANCIS lOSEPX is the claimant under the Pragmatic Sanction. To us there would seem to be a good deal to be said on either side; most certainly the Emperor of AUSTRIA has not fulfilled the legal conditions requisite to his claim to be re garded as the King of Hungary. He has neither secured the explicit abdication of the throne by the two prior claiinants, nor proffered himself to be crowned in the legal form at the right time. On the other hand, in the midst of so much informality, if he can be accepted as King de facto, awaiting his coronation, 31. DEAN may be right in thinking that the Hungarians will stand on equally good ground in dealing with him. He must then be crowned, must take the oaths, which are full and precise, and which guarantee the fundamental liberties of union. the summoning of the representatives of the annexed provinces], our fundamental laws recog nised, our Parliamentary Government and respon sible Ministry replaced, and all the remaining off shoots of the absolute system lopped off ; unless all these preliminary conditions are fulfilled, all fruit ful deliberation, all reconciliation, is impossible." It is obvious that with these views firmly held by the most moderate men in Hungary, Austria must either enter on the path of legality or on that of violence. The Unity of Hungary with the Archduchy—of the Great Kingdom of nearly fif teen millions of inhabitants (if we include Tran sylvania) with the petty Archduchy of about two millions, and including the kingdom of Bohemia, and numerous other small provinces and nation alities, of not more than about eighteen millions—is a mere theoretical figment, a paper scheme of Ger man Bureaucrats, utterly without foundation in historical fact or legal right. Will the EMPEROR and the Imperialists follow the Warsaw example, amd try what bullets and sabres can do ? Will they meet .the demands of the Diet, as legitimate as those of our parliaments under the STUARTS, by force ? A temporary triumph is possible enough ; The Russian and German tyrants are strong. The vile soldiery of one nationality in a composite Empire like that of Austria, can always be made to shed the blood of another nation ality, and the Hungarians are unarmed. BENEDEK is traitor enough to his native land to lead Italian and Tyrolese conscripts against her, and wide-spread horrors might be the result—the first result. A second might be that bitterly hated by so large a kingdom, the weakened empire would ill support a second shock which might soon be given her from the South and West. Her alternatives are to be the weakest of empires with the largest of armies, or to humble herself to the acknowledgment that Hungary is rightfully an independent and powerful kingdom. A question was asked last night in the House of Lords which assuredly would never have been heard there but for the present weakness of the United States Government—whether the cession of St. Domingo to Spain had received the sanction of the French and English Governments, and if so whe ther due precautions had been taken that slavery should not be introduced into the Island. Lord BROUGHAM, was, of course, the veteran in the Anti- Slave-Trade cause who put the question. In doing so he took occasion to say a word of pity for the master of the slave, who he said deserved it next to the slave himself, because the inheritor by no fault of his own of a vicious and criminal system, He had some fear that injury might even now be done by speaking too hardly of American slave holders. We might ourselves be disposed to share his lordship's commiseration for those whose inheri tance from their ancestors was a few dollars, much nearly worthless land, and a large stock of human cattle—did these unfortunates but feel their mis fortune. The fact, however, is that they glory in slaveholding ; that civilians hold it to be political perfection, and that clergymen proclaim it to be a Divine blessing to both master and slave. For such impenitence in shame and crime we must confess that pity seems to us entirely mis-directed. However, the great Slave Republic is now so weakened by its slave•holding aristocracy, that it is compelled to look on while Spain, which was to have been bought out of Cuba—and if it would not sell, to be driven out—re-appropriates its old share of St. Domingo. Mr. LINCOLN cannot help it, and certainly Mr. JEFFERSON DAvIS cannot— will England object ? Lord WODEHOUSE held that it was entirely the province of the Spanish Government to decide whether it would accept the cession. We gather from his remarks that the Spanish Government professes a kind of Savoy and Nice modesty on the sub ject ; that she will accept the- cession if the inhabitants of the island generally desire it. With three thousand Spanish troops there as the Returning Officers, an appeal may be made to universal suffrage and the ballot, in which case the result can be little doubtful. But, why are these troops wanted if the consent of the inhabitants is to be asked ?—the answer is that the Dominicans have already loudly complained that their Gover nors are traitors; that they do not wish for annex ation ; and there have even been disturbances, which, of course, the Spaniards, who want to give the same kind of liberty as the French bestow at Rome, suppress, in the interest of—" Order." The Spanish Government has, however, assured our Government that slavery shall not be intro duced into St. Domingo. A fact of which Lord WOODHOUSE was " glad" to be able to assure their lordships. We should hare shared his pleasure did not another fact occur to our recollection— that Spain had taken half a million of our money under an engagement to put down the slave trade in her dominions, while Cuba remains the great mart of that hellish traffic, baffling all the exer tions of our cruisers, and putting us to a heavy annual expense. Lord BROUGHAM thought it would be a favourable time to'call for the re payment of our money—would it not be better to notify Spain that we will not recognise, nay, that we would resist at all costs, her assuming the government, or protectorate even, of St. Domingo, unless she first puts a stop to the slave trade. Let her understand that her word is worthless, and let her bear the consequence. Lord WODEHOUSE thought it would be difficult for her to maintain slavery in one part of the island while the other part was free. But how long, under the annexa tion policy, would it be free ? The French part would soon follow the fate of the other part, and we should soon have but another Cuba. Our Government ought to have securities as well as promises. he nation. The vital struggle would seem to us, at a dis tance, to be on the contents of the address. Here .here . is no difference of opinion among all deserving he name of Hungarians. M. BEAK is an eminent urist and a moderate man, but, in common with all his countrymen, he stands on the legal rights of Hungary, and no one is more competent to state and maintain them. He affirms that the union between Hungary and Austria is a purely personal one ; that not a trace can be found of a " real" He remarks that had it been a real union, Hungary would never have been _ allowed to retain her constitution; the proofs The Countess Amherst had an assembly last of M. DEAR's proposition are ample and con- evening at the family residence in arenGros b ve e n n o a r-sau d are t . o an elusive. It w il l b e utterly impossible for thel,EmPE- AL BERT-GATE that ll splendid °" residence and its contents have . s ROE and hi s G ermans to meet the Hungarians in ar- permanently into the possession of the French nou gunient, especially if passed this the latter are disposed to make Government. The first object for which its doors are to be the best of a worthless prince. M. DEAR'S party thrown open will h bflet of a ch th aritab e l i e ,tr e i,r ai v a i n z g .,a sed grand s rs e f e a e n u cy are so. Th e demands with which the following quotation from M. D EAR 'S speech concludes may o f J un e. hbeazvaiaLfber the been fixe e d ne to take e place s thereat on the 6th and 7th be unpalateable but the conciliator enough in- YOUTHS' CLUB AND INSTITUTE.—On Monday , y troduction ought to be Worth something to the evenin g . the Bishop th of Lo t nd d onT h re t s h ided xc a e t ll t e h n e t e d l i u 's h tr f i e b r u h t e io y n s Germans in their false position :—" Neither power which nor greatness (said M. DEAR) is the object of Government. Power is only a means ; the object is the happiness of the people. If the prince, who l i r e ' : e h e a t s e a u n established eenneee in the A e d e elaide Gallery by the Rev. Henry White, chaplain of the Savoy. More than 203 lads, engaged in work t dur f in t g t e he day, have in th a e va p il a e s d t th y e e m ar - . selves s o f fe t the writing,ead v anaagreisthomehtic, drawing,su singing, English once considered the absolute system as the safest grammar, and Scripture history have been established, and instrument to secure that happiness, is convinced, ches, draughts, and other games are provided in the read ing. room. Yesterday evening Dr. Jelf, the Principal of by an experience of twelve years, that by that King's College, granted the use of King's College Hall for system the goal cannot be reached, and, acting the annual ceremony, and a very large number of gentle- men and ladies were present, as well as the boys and their under this conviction, has determined to adopt th e friend s . O n the pl a tf rm were the Bishop of London (who Constitutional system, and without flinching to presided) and Mrs. Tait, the Rev. Dr. Jelf, the Rev. Pro persevere in that course—if the prince wishes that fessor Plumptre, Sir Walter James, Bait, Revs. J. E. the with ere d roots of confidence an d trust shall Ke mpe, C. C• M Robins, J. Aldrich, H. White, T. Wode sho • house, Mr. Thomas Hughes, F. &c. Mr. White, who was w signs of lif e an d th row ou t ne w shoots, then much cheered, gave an interesting account of the h ina f ti L tute, he will treat our representations with the utmost doni s prz t r r e i s h s u a te n d d t i h ts pro . spects . , th and fe th w en we th rd e s ß e i f s k e in p dness to respect. Only, by the act of coronation does the each of the recipie n e p ts r : zes ll w is lordship gave an impressive K in g of Hungary become legally the King of Hun- address to in his happiest style, and warmly eulo gary. But the coronation has conditions precedent y well-deserved e Eise his (cal e l u in i e g forth a perfect s c t lordshipstorm woafs applausefoflowed required by the laws, whose previous complete fulfil- , by - Dr. Jelf (who mention g ed sin tli . at Mr. White had been one awe iS asolutely essential. Unless our constitutional of the most industrious of the King's College students), independence is re-establi s h e d unimpaired, the ter- Professor The eveningPluraptre,SirV4:ed most Walter James, Bart., and Th other e ritorial and political integrity of the law secured ; gentlemen.band def the 19 t h Middlesex, comp ose d of many pleasantly. wet:dem of unless u r Landtag is made complete Eby the institute, played the bishop hit) the hall. LATE t,T N.E TOULON, MA 15, The whole squadron stationed here has received orders to sail on the 20th inst., with all the steam transports. MILAN, MAY 15. The Perseveranza of to-day announces that a priest in the service of the reactionary party, and a bearer of compromising papers, has been arrested at the Roman frontier. TURIN, MAY 15. The Italia of to-day denies the reports of an ap proaching modification of the Ministry. VIENNA, MAY 15. The official Wiener Zeitung of to-day says : "If the inhabitants of those communes of Hun gary whose taxes are in arrears should still refuse to pay them, notwithstanding the requisition of the Special Commissioners, the communes will be militarily occupied until two-thirds of the arrears due be paid." MALTA, MAY 13, 745 P.M. The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, with the Empress of Austria on board, arrived here at 5 o'clock this afternoon, and was afterwards followed by "the Osborne. The health of her Majesty is much improved. It is doubtful whether she will land. The yachts leave to-morrow for Trieste. VIENNA, MAY 14. The Emperor received to-day the members of the Lower House of the Reichsratb, who presented to his Majesty the Address in reply to the speech from the throne. The Emperor, in his reply, said that it was his intention to retain not only the unity of the Empire, but also as much as possible the autonomy of the provinces. Letters received in Paris from Turin give a denial to the news published by the Patric that the king dom of the Two Sicilies was about to be militarily occupied, and state that the military forces in Naples will merely be increased. QUEBEC, MAY 4. In the Canadian Parliament a division on an amendment to the supply estimates resulted in favour of the Government by a majority of ten THESUN, LONDON ; WEDNESDAY tVENTNG; MAY 15, . 1861. votes. FRANCE. - PARIS, MAY 14. In to-day's sitting of the Senate the petition in favour of the occupation of Syria was discussed. The Marquis Larochejapelein, Cardinal Donnet, MM. Chapays and Montlaville, Baron Dupin, General Castelbajac, and Count Segur d'Aguesseau opposed, and M. Saulcy supported, the proposals of the committee to reject the petition by passing to the order of the day. At the request of M. Billault the discussion was adjourned till to-morrow. FRANCE. BOURSE, May 14.—The market has reacquired some little buoyancy, and stock in fair demand. Threes, for the Account, whicti opened at 69f 40c, are now at 69f 55e. Railway Shares also asked for, and prices generally improved. The following were the last quotations : ft per per Cents 96 25 Credit I oncier .... 992 50 Do, end mouth 96 25 i Belgian ... . . 98 75 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 60 Roman Bank Shares 2880 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 712 50 Spanish Threes 5O I Do. Account 715 —! Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1365 1367 50 Northern 990 —• .. 981 25 New ditto 9OO .. 900 Lyons and Mediterranean 937 50 .. 938 75 Geneva 420 .. 420 Southern 582 50 .. 58. 60 Western Eastern ...... Sardinian...... Austrian Lombard 505 .. 506 25 PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin of the 9th says :—" The deplorable police affair gives rise every d a y to new i incidents. The latest s, that Patzke, chief of the executive police of Berlin, who is accused of for gery and other offences, and who had taken to fl:ght, has been arrested at Ystadt, in Sweden, and is now being brought to this city in the custody of gendarmes. But what causes most sensation is, that notwithstanding an order of the Criminal Tribunal to M. Zedlitz, the President of Police, to place Patzke under surveillance, that functionary accorded him leave of absence from the 4th to the r re s 6th, and he took advantage of it to abscond. The fact of been given is proved by documents Tribunal has had published in h journal. It is stated that Greif, te offic i al the c hhaving the Lieutenant pa ssporthasof Police, b e been nd. " a whot e provided Patzke with a COUNT TELEKI. A letter from Pesth of the 10th says :—" The funeral of Count Teleki has just taken place in pre sence of an immense concourse of persons. It might indeed be said that all the inhabitants of the city were present. Three quarters of an hour were occupied to get the cortege clear of the Museum Square, from whence the procession started. Erom three o'clock in the afternoon all the shops were closed, and almost every house displayed a black flag. The two Chambers and the Municipality were present in a body. Everything passed off in the greatest order and without the slightest acci dent." 7HE EXPEDITIoN UP THE YANG-TSE EIANG. We hate been favoured with the following account of the expedition into the interior of China : "COUPER, AT KEWKIANG, MARCH 8. "We stayed a week in Nankin, called by the present occupants Tienking, or Heaven l y C ap it a l. We occupied the Palace that is being got up for Chungwang, who commanded the forces at Soochow last summer, The rebel chiefs put themselves to a great deal of trouble to make us as com fortable as they could, and showed great anxiety to cultivate our friendship. Fortunately for us, Muirhead, -hearing a steamer had arrived, returned, and remained with us,—an arrangement which tended greatly to our comfort with the rebels, and enabled us to obtain much more information than we could have done as 13 trangers. He had inter views with several of the Wangs. We spent a week in Nankin before the Admiral returned with the' ships ; and I will now give you as short as I can my general conclusions respecting the Taiping rebellion, leaving details to another opportunity. " They don't in any way encourage trade, except ing in fire-arms and gunpowder. These, as well as steamers, they are anxious to buy. They pre tended a willingness to facilitate trade, and even transit from Imperial territory through their own, but I am persuaded these soft speeches were merely to gain our goodwill. I tried to prove to them the folly of burning and destroying towns and villages, and stopping trade at its fountain-head, as without trade they never could prosper. They assented, but said it was difficult, and that their whole attention was now devoted to subduing the "hills and rivers," as they call it. After peace was established they would then look after trade, as well as schools and other peaceful institutions. The fact is they live on loot, and so long as they can loot they will neither work nor trade. "I found the internal condition of the rebels much better than I expected. They are extremely well dressed and well fed. The population of Nan kin, entirely official, no shops or anything uncon nected with the army or administration being ad mitted within the gates, I estimate at under 20,000. Of this number very few are soldiers; the greater part are captives and slaves from all parts of the country. These are the hewers of wood and drawers of water, and able-bodied men are looked to as valuable prizes. They are either pressed into the army or kept as Coolies in Nankin. They get no pay at all ; only their food. There is a wonder ful number of good-looking young women in the place, all exceedingly well-dressed in Soochow silks. These are also captives of war from Soo chow and other places ; and amusing advertise ments are met with on the subject of stray women. The city . of Nankin as well as the suburbs, the fine old tombs of the Ming Emperors, and the famous porcelain Pagoda are utterly destroyed. The walls are very high, 21 miles in circuit, but the once wide and well-paved streets are now merely roads leading through heaps of bricks. The palaces of the Wangs stand conspicuous among the ruins ; these are new, the old yamuns and temples and the whole Tartar city having been destroyed. A few houses line the roads here and there, but not in my opinion supplying accommodation for more than 20,000 people. " The Tienwang has a large palace. His atten dants are females, 300 in number, besides 68 wives allowed to his rank. He never is seen by any but the Kings, and his person is held sacred. He is by no means, however, a puppet, for it is he alone who keeps the movement together. There are 10 or 11 Kings in all, but only two or three in Nankin. Kanwang and Sewang are leading troops into Anwhuy. Chungwang is about Soochow, and there is one, they say, in Sechuen. The discipline is as good as that of the Imperialists, perhaps better, and the juniors have a dashing, rollicking manner that is rather taking. The Wangs that I have seen, on the contrary, have a drowsy, dissipated appearance, while their mountebank yellow dresses and tinsel crowns, with their theatrical efforts at dignity of de portment, render them quite ridiculous. Not one of these Kings can speak the Mandarin dialect, and none of them have had education above that of a Coolie, excepting Tienwang, who was two months with old Roberts, and Kanwang, who was under Dr. Legge, in Hongkong, for a time. They have linguists attached to them, who read and write for them. "Their armament is of the most contemptible kind, and the fact of their dominating over the Im perial troops merely demonstrates the utter and hopeless prostration of the Government. The rebels hold all the country round Nankin, It is scoured by their foraging parties. No Imperialist force comes above Kwachow. Nankin could be taken as easily as possible if the Imperialists had an atom of pluck. Nganking is also held by the rebels ; but they are so beleaguered by the besiegers that they are in great straits for food. We passed close under the walls of Nganking. The outer defences and the wall itself are in first-rate order. Fortunately they did not molest us. The wall was crowded with people as we passed. It must be more populous than Nankin ; and no women were to be seen. In fighting men it must be far stronger. The Impe rialists are also in great force. They are strongly intrenched in a semicircle round the city at an ave rage distance of at least two miles. The rebels have no fleet, while a well-armed Imperial fleet blockades the river about three miles below the city and another the same distance above it. The Im perialists also hold two fortified positions on the opposite side of the river. The rebels are therefore completely invested, and must either be starved out soon or make a sally as they did at Nankin last year. Meantime a large rebel army is advancing for the relief of the garrison, and the Imperialists are also advancing reinforcements to Anwhuy. A pitched battle is expected soon, the result of which will be interesting. " I have no hope of any good ever coming of this rebel movement. No decent Chinaman will have anything to do with it. They do nothing but burn, murder, and destroy; they hardly profess anything beyond that. They are detested by all the country people, and even those in the city who are not of " the brethren," hate them. They have held Nankin eight years, and there is not a symptom of rebuilding it. Trade and industry are prohibited ; their land taxes are three times heavier than those of the Imperialists ; they adopt no measures to-soothe and conciliate the people, nor do they act in any way as if they had a permanent interest in the soil. They don't care about the ordi nary slow and sure sources of revenue. They look to plunder, and plunder alone, for a subsistence ; and I must say I cannot see any elements of stabi lity about them, nor anything which can claim our sympathy. e The Admiral arrived with the fleet at Nankin on the 28th. Parkes made an arrangement with the rebels that our ships should pass up and down, also that native boats with foreigners on board, duly authorised, should pass. This was suggested to Parkes, as it seemed likely that trade would be done in this way at first. It was also suggested to him that one Europc an might suffice for a whole convoy, if provided with a proper port clearance, specifying the number of boats, &c. I have not spoken to Parkes on this subject since, as I don't know exactly how he has arranged this, but the principle has been adopted. " Hukau is beautifully situated at the entrance to the Poyang lake. It is nothing but a military posi tion, however ; there is no trade. The wall is quite new, and encloses a vacant space. An Imperial fleet is stationed here, and seems in very goc.d order. A few trading boats pass out and into the lake, but most of them are in Government employ. " Kewkiang, city and suburbs, is a mass of ruins. The rebels left it three years ago, but confidence has never been sufficiently restored to induce them to rebuild. There are, however, a number of good shops in the suburb, all quite new. One or two new yamuns have also been built. If the port is opened to foreigners trade will soon return. I be lieve green tea would be certain to come, notwith standing the influence of the rebels in Fychow. It will, however, take time to develope the resources of the port trade, traders having been entirely driven away by the troubles of the last eight years. A market will be found here for all our manufac tures, as well as sugar and other Southern produce, and Japanese articles. I saw samples of a good many things in the shops. could give you- a lot of quotations—so many cash per foot, but they would be useless, and more likely to mislead you than anything else. I saw American drills, gray and white shirtings, Turkey reds, white and co loured brocades, handkerchiefs, camlets, Spanish stripes, and long ells, and Japan seaweed. These things come by way of Shanghai through canals. There is only one local demand, and that of the most limited description. Rice is produced in this part of the country, as also very fine cotton. Coal is to be had at 8 dole. per ton. The mines are fur ther up the river, and we shall hear more about them hereafter. Wretched as this place is, it is the best we have yet seen on the river, and the only place where we have seen even a petty retail trade. "It is not decided which port is to be opened. I have just been talking to Parkes about it. Hukan is, no doubt, in a good position, but there is no level ground about it, not so much as at Foochow, and it has never been a place of importance for trade. Kewkiang will have to be resuscitated before it is of any use, and it would perhaps be as easy to establish ourselves at Milieu as at Kewkiang. But, still there must be something about Kew kiang not apparent to us that mikes it a more desirable part, otherwise the native trade would not have centered there as it did. Parkes sug- gested a third alternative; which I must °mho TURKEY. The arrival of the Commissioners from Beyrout i at Constantinople, is announced. _ They are to furnish to the representatives of the Great Powers all the explanations which the latter may desire on the elaborate work of the Commis sioners during their stay at Beyrout, which is to serve as the starting point and basis of the adminis trative reforms intended to be enforced immediately after the departure of the French troops. A letter from Munich of the 10th in the Augs burg Gazette says a family dinner which took place yesterday at the Wittelsback Palace, in honour of the Count de Trani, King Louis rose and proposed a toast to the health of the heroes of Gaeta, and afterwards to that of Count de Trani. To-day the Prince gave private audiences to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Apostolic Nuncio, and several high personages of the Royal family. The Prince is frequently seen in plain clothes walk ing in the streets." lifE WIMBLEDON PRIZE MEETING. (OFFICIAL.) Officeis commanding Volunteer Rifle Corps are earnestly requested to reply, - without delay, to the circular of the 13th of March, to enable the asso ciation to make the necessary preparations for the Wimbledon prize meeting. 1,280 circulars have been issued, to which cnly 187 replies have been received. The num b er o f i n te n ding competitors should be made known immediately ; their names will not be required until the 25th of .Tune. PRESIDENCY OF THE INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS. —A contest for,the presidency of the Roy al Institute of Architects is being carried on, the candidates being Mr. Tite, M.P., who represents what is called the classic school of architecture, and Mr. A. J. Beresford Hope, who repre sents the Gothic or medieaval school. never occurred to me—namely, the opening of some port in the Poyang Lake. Hughes is to be left with a gunboat, and Swain is going in her to make a survey of the Poyang Lake while the expedition is at Hankow. On our return Parkes will decide according to the information thus ac quired. The matter is very safe in Parkes's hands. He astonishes me by his talent for gaining in formation in a wonderfully short period, and he is not a man to shirk trouble. He came on board the Couper late at night for the purpose of tallang this matter over. " SATURDAY, MARCH 9. " I wrote some of the foregoing yesterday and some to-day. We left Kewkiang this morning, and shall do eighty miles to-day ; the best day's work we have done yet. We are now reduced to the Coromandel, the Couper, and the Snake, and a gunboat following as best she can. To-morrow (Sunday) we stop, Monday we expect to be at Hankow. The Atalanta was left at Hukau. The overland party have been turned over to us. The Couper will probably go on beyond Hankow with them, and we shall ' e left on shore there. The Snake is to remain at Hankow. The Admiral is to proceed up the river. _ _ The navigation of the river is remarkably easy. The charts have proved very correct. All difficulties are over when Kiangyin is reached ; in fact, the Langshan crossing may be said to termi nate the difficult navigation. There are six feet more water in the river now than when the last expedition was here, and a vessel drawing 20 feet of water could have accompanied us so far. Boats sail up against the stream in all parts of the river ; they cheat the tide by hugging the shore. The greatest strength of current we have experienced since we got above tidal influence is two to two and a-half knots per hour. We have gone very slow until the last two days—either towinglunboats or keeping company with vessels that did, and only travelling by daylight, and yet I shall have been just ten days under steam from Woosung to Han kow, and some of them broken days. That, there fore, T should consider the longest passage a steamer ought to make, barring stoppages. " We have seen more junks on the river to-day than all the time since we left. The rebel posses sions terminate at Nanking, and although evidences of former ravages of the rebels are everywhere visi ble, the aspect of the country perceptibly improves as you ascend. "I close this, as the Yang-tse is expected to take letters, and she may pass us any moment on her return." DEATH OF THE DUK.E 01 BED- FORD, E.G. The Duke of Bedford, who has for some months past been in declining health, expired yesterday afternoon at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, shortly after two o'clock. Lord John Russell, and Mr. F. H. Russell were summoned by telegraph at an early hour, and at rived at Woburn in time to be present at the Duke's death-bed. The late Right Hon. Francis, seventh Duke an d Earl of Bedford, Marquis of Tavistock, Baron Russell of Thornhaugh, and Baron Howland of Streatham, county of Surrey, in the peerage of England, was the eldest son of John, sixth Duke, by his first marriage with the Hon. Georgiana Elizabeth Byng, second daughter of George, Vis count Torrington. He was born May 13, 1788, and married August 8, 1808, Lady Anna Maria Stanhope, eldest daughter of Charles, third and late Earl of Harrington, by whom, who died in July, 1857, his Grace leaves issue an only son, William Marquis of Tavistock, now Duke of Bedford. The deceased peer was educated at Westminster School, whence he removed to Trinity College, Cambridge, to complete his studies. Before he graduated as M.A. in 1808 he had gone the tour of Europe, as customary in those days. On his return to Eng land he entered the House of Commons as M.P. for Bedfordshire, which county he represented in six consecutive Parliaments, until he was summoned, in December, 1832, to the House of Lords in his father's barony of Howland. The late Duke, during his public career in the Lower House, voted on all occasions with the Whig party, and, although an unfrequent speaker in the House of Peers, invariably supported the views and measures of the Whig Governments. On the death of his father, in October, 1839, he succeeded to the dukedom. In 1852 he was appointed Special Deputy-Warden of the Stannaries, and on the death of the late Earl de. Grey was made Lord-Lieutenant of 13edfordebirc. In 1R46 he was made a member of the Privy Council, and the year following a Knight of the Order of the Garter. On the death of Lord Macaulay he became High Steward of Cambridge. By his death the extensive estates belonging to the house of Russell in Bedfordshire, Devonshire, Herts, Cambridgeshire, and Middlesex, as well as the titular honours, devolve upon his only son, William, born in 1809. The present duke was M.P. for Tavistock from 1832 to 1841. THE GREAT SHIP COMPANY. Tho following circular from the Great Ship Company shows the critical state of the company's finances:— The Great Ship Company (Limited), 90, Cannon-street, London, Mey 10. Sir,—By the desire of the directors I appealed to the principal proprietors by a circular, dated the 1 23d April last, to raise the sum of £35,000 on de , bentures at six months date, bearing interest at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum. I regret in con • sequence of the response to that appeal having been so small, that I have again to address you. The directors now offer you an additional induce ment. The state or your affairs is critical. By immediate aid your property will be saved, with out it it will be sacrificed. The decision in the Court of Common Pleas in favour of Mr. Russell has thrown an additional liability on the company (including principal and costs) of about £21,000, to say nothing of the great loss sustained in pas sengers, owing to the uncertainty created in the minds f the public by the writ of execution. The directors have paid in cash £8,596 9s. 4d., and have given a mortgage to Mr. Russell for £11,340 (payable one month after the return of the ship to Liverpool), together with other mort gages and liens,amountieg in the whole to L 35,000. If the money is not raised within the stipulated time the ship will be sold by the mortgagees. By great exertions the directors overcame the difficul ties which occurred almost at the eleventh hour. The ship sailed on the promised day in perfect order and equipment. They have no doubt that the results of the voyage will increase the estima tion to which she is entitled, and that her value will thereby be augmented. They ask you now to contribute towards releasing her from her difficul ties. The security is unquestionable ; the pecuniary inducement offered is large, and they feel confident you will respond to their appeal. The directors pro pose to raise the above sum of £35,000 on deben tures at 12 months (in any amounts z,f not less than £lO each) bearing ten per cent. interest. A first mortgage will be given to two trustees ' with poli cies of insurance to cover the amount. There will be no other claim on the ship, and these debentures will stand prior to any future claim. The directors beg your immediate reply, stating the amount of debentures you will be willing to take, and for which purpose a form of application is annexed. I should add that the directors are precluded from accepting any offer for the employment of the ship in America or elsewhere until the present mort gagees are satisfied. The directors _have resolved upon calling a special general meeting of the pro prietors for Friday, the 31st inst. I enclose a copy of the advertisement convening the same ; but the directors think it due to the proprietors that they should have an opportunity of discussing affairs prior to the date when a meeting can be legally held. lam therefore desired to request the favour of your attendance at meetin g, at the a preliminary London Tavern, Bishopsg ate • stree t , on F next, the 17th inst., at one o'clock precisely.— I am , Sze. J. H. YATES, Secretary REMOVAL OF A TOMBSTONE BY ORDER OF THE Bisrcor OF RIPON. - A tombstone placed at the grave of the late W. Priestman, Esq., in the parish churchyard of Richmond has been forcibly removed. The stone consists of an ornamental cross, with a crown of thorns encircling the sacred monogram "1.R.5." The stem of the cross divides the front of the stone into two compartments, on the left side of which is the following inscription :—" Of your charity pray for the repose of the soul of William Priestman, who departed this life September 6, 1860, aged 62 years. R. I. P. Eternal rest give to him, 0 Lord." Running down the :Aim of the cross are the following words—" Miserere me Deus." We need scarcely remark that the interference has arisen in consequence of the pur gatorial doctrine implied in the inscription. After the stone had been up for about a week we are informed an order was . received from the Bishop of Ripon, addressed to the rector or his representative, that it should be at once removed. This having been notified to the family of Mr. Priestman, they declined to comply with bishop's orders. On the com munication of the refusal, the church authorities directed the immediate removal of the stone, which was carried out (N 3 Saturday 14fit i —Port clonfcki PERSECUTIONS 111 7 SPAIN. Last night a meeting was held in the Philhar monic Hall, Liverpool, to consider the question of the persecutions in Spain. The room was crowded. In the absence of Mr. T. B. Horsfall, M.P., through illness, Mr. Christopher Bushell, chairman of the Spanish Intolerance Committee, took the chair. Sir ROBERT PEEL, M.P., who was received with tumultuous applause, moved the first resolution, which was ; " That this meeting hopes that her Majesty will be gra ciously pleased to take such steps as her Majesty may deem most fitting, for bringing under the notice of the Queen of Spain the strong feeling pervading amongst a large num ber of her Majesty's subjects, in consequence of the mea sures now actively pursued in Spain against those who profess principles held by her Majesty, in common with millions of her Majesty's subjects." He said that about ten days ago he had the honour of addressing a meeting in London convened for this same purpose, at which were assembled more than 2,000 persons, and amongst them 25 or 30 members of Parliament. At that meeting, which was presided over by a man who stood conspicuous for the generous influence of his noble character, an expression of feeling was elicited which, he believed, had not been equalled in the metropolis. To the present meeting he attached even still more importance, because they had amongst them men who by their commercial enterprise had carried the name of England far over every sea ; and these men, by their knowledge and experience of other lands, had learned to cling still closer to their native country, and to value and admire still more highly the liberties it possessed. (Applause.) He was there that evening to plead for national rights and for liberty of conscience. He was there to plead, not the doctrines of a cold philosophy, but the great interests of society at large. He regretted very much to have read in a newspaper of that town that he, bigot as he was— (laughter)—had come to excite the bigotry of the people of Liverpool, against the Government of Spain. He dared the man who made use of that expression to come upon that platform, or any other platform, and repeat his statement. (Loud cheers.) He had been surprised, not only to see that statement made, but he had also been surprised to find it asserted, in the same paper, that we in this country had no religious liberty. Very possibly the gen tleman who made that assertion (Dr. Goss, Catholic bishop of Liverpool) remembered that he bore a title which he (Sir R. Peel) never had acknow ledged and never would acknowledge. (Applause.) He had now been in Parliament 11 years, and the first speech he had the honour to make in that assembly was against the assumption of ecclesiastical titles by Roman Catholics in this country. The Bishop of Liverpool—(" No, not Bishop," and hisses) —said he should never consider the Catholics free until they were allowed to carry the image of their crucified Redeemer through the streets without being branded for their religion. Now he (Sir Robert Peel) should like to know what law remained, since the passing of the Catholic Emancipation bill by his father—(cheers)--which " branded" any man for his religion. (Cheers.) The rev. gentle- • man went on to say that the Queen of this country had not the liberty which was accorded to the humblest of her subjects, because she could not change her religion without forfeiting her throne. Now he (Sir R. Peel) considered that this was an insult to the Majesty of England ; and if any per son had made that assertion in his presence it should not have gone unrefuted. (Applause.) The Pro testants in Spain were a very small section of the population ; but it must not therefore be supposed that they were unworthy of notice. In now bringing the cause of the Protestants of Spain before the pub lic they were strengthened by the fact that they united all shades of opinion. He thought he was right in saying he represented thousands, not only of Protestants, but also, he was happy to add, of Roman Catholics, who had read of these persecu tions with horror. (Applause.) He did not wish to say anything disrespectful of the Roman Catho lics, nor did he wish to say one single word against the individuals who now ruled the continent of Spain. It was the fundamental laws of that country which were most obnoxious. He considered that they had a right to speak in this country of civil and religious liberty. (Hear, hear.) They all k new what was meant by th osei words, and the name of Cromwell, the great founder of religious liberty in this country—(cheers)—would ever be held in grateful remembrance. If Cromwell and William 111. were right in considering themselves called upon to pro tect their fellow-Protestants all over the world, ought not they, in the nineteenth century, to stand by their co-religionists in other lands ? How were other countries acting with respect to religious toleration ? The other day he was speaking to the Belgian minister on the subject, and he had in formed him that in Belgium they not only allowed to every Protestant community the privilege of worshipping when and how they choose, but they endowed the ministers from the funds of the state. (Hear, hear.) In Austria also, religious toleration had been granted, though late ; and even the state of Monte Video, in South America, might serve as an example to Spain. According to the law of Spain, no person could be allowed to profess any other religion but that of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Chureh. He himself had been a witness to their intolerance. He was at Malaga when the cholera broke out, and amongst those who died was one of his own colleagues, the mem ber for Leicester. They were refused permission to follow him to the grave, and when they went to perform the last sad offices for him they found he had already been buried at the dead of night by order of the Spanish Government, without any service being read over the body. (Shame.) The hon. baronet read letters from D'Armale and other prisoners, now confined at Grenada, for reading the Bible ; and showed from these letters that they were not, as alleged by the Spanish Government, political agents seeking to stir up the people to rebellion. He contended that there was no fear of our becoming involved in a war with . Spain by taking the course suggested by the reso lution. It was the moral influence and prestige of England he desired to bring to bear upon the Spanish Government. He should rejoice if the echo of his voice could loosen one link of the pri soners' chains or alleviate one iota of their suffer ings. He believed that the expression of their opinion combined with that of London and other large towns, might excite the notice of the Spanish Government, and cause them to feel ashamed of the persecutions, which were an insult to the age in which we lived. He hoped that the report of their proceedings would not be confined to the town of Liverpool, important though that was, but would be spread far and wide • and that the movem en t wou ld b e taken up in gweden, in Germany, in France, and even in Spain itself. The right hon. gentleman, on resuming his seat, was loudly applauded. The Rev. HUGH STOWELL BROWN seeonded the resolution. He disclaimed any hostile feeling towards the Roman Catholics as a body, and ex pressed regret that there were no members of that church amongst them that evening. The motion was carried unanimously. The Rev. Dr. LGWE proposed a resolution of welcome to Sir R. Peel, which was carried with enthusiastic applause. Other speakers addressed the meeting, and the proceedings were closed about half-past ten o'clock. NATIONAL TEMPERANCE LEAGUE. • Last evening the annual meeting of this society was held at Exeter-hall, Samuel Gurney, Esq., M.P., in the chair. There were present in the hall some 200 members of the newly-formed Havelock Temperance Rifle Corps, w ith their band. The mee ting having been opened with prayer by the Rev. Mr. Acworth, Mr. W. T wee di e , one o f th e hon. secreta r i es , read th e annua l repor t , o f w hi c h the following is an abstract :—The committee were constantly receiving applications for help from new stations, and they had especi a l satis faction in rendering assistance to over 70 clergy men of the Ch urc h o f E ng l an d , w h o were now actively labouring to promote temperance in their parishes. The committee had in their employ ment six travelling agents, who had delivered 1,200 lectures and addresses during the year in different parts of England and Wales ; and they had also 'secured the gratuitous assistance of about 40 ministers and gentlemen, who had delivered 730 addresses, 550 of which had been given in London and neighbourhood. The committee had at present a missionary who devoted his entire time to the sailors of the port of London, and one was also labouring amongst the soldiers at Aldershott. Special meetings had been held in London, ad dressed by Mr. Gough, Mr. Cruikshank, Rev. Newman Hall, and other well-known gentlemen ; and a number of ministers in different parts of the m etropolis h a d s i gne d th e pl e d ge. Th e committee had aided in the formation of a " Ladies N a ti ona l A ssoc i a tion f or t h e pro motion of Temperance," and a lady of high social position h a d h e ld influential drawing -room meet ings o f l a di es i n many o f th e pr i nc i pal towns, which had p rove d highly successful. The expen diture for the year had been £2,654. The report concluded with an a ppeal for i ncrease d pecun i ary support. The Chairman having made a few obser vations, Mr. B. Scott, City Chamberlain, moved , which was seconded by the e e a n do e p v t . io l‘ n fr o . of the p w r e e rt o h r! and carried. The Rev. Kr. Bucke, Messrs. Payne, Cruikshanks, Bowley, and other gentlemen and clergymen, addressed the meeting, advocating the cause of total abstinence. [he meeting, which throughout was very enthusi astic, concluded bye, yote Q thAnkm to the chairman.