The Sun. — London, England, 1856-07-26 00:00:00

lIEn MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Last Night but Two of the Subscripti on. PICCOLO I• First Ni.;lit of Don Pasquale. Mme. ROSA.TI —LE CORSAIRE. This Evening ( 4 ATUR DAY, July 26), will be presented . Donlzetti's Opera, DON P .SQU ALE. Norina. Pi.icolomini (her first appearance in that character); Ernest), Signor C Llzo'ari ; Dr. Malatesta, Signor Belletti ; Don Pasquale, Signor Rossi. After which will be repeated the entirely new Ballet of LE COP.SAIRE. With now Scenery, Dresssis, and Decorations. Conrad, Sillier Ronzani; Seyd. M. Dauty ; Yussuff, M. Vonafra Birbanto. M. Vandris ; Clara ; Gul nare, Millie. Rosa ; Dilare, Mdlle. Lizereux; Medora, Madame .Rosati. The Opera will commence at Half-past Seven o'clock. Tancredi will be repeate I on lgonday for the Benefit and last appearance of Mdlle. Wagner. Applications for boxes, stalls. and tickets to be made at the Box-o!fiee of the Theatre, Colonnade, Haymarket. PigiTRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lesse,:. P. Smith. EN(Aigli OPERA. TilIA EVFNI•TG, EAMF.R ArtPr whleh A TULLT:IT rgtAttiE 44.111E0:T • Under ,he Management of Mr. Lineketons. gVFINTTN'G, TWELFTH NIGIT. After which THE Cl tPTIVEi• '!towel by MR PLUG U,•!IS To eon:lade with VIE PO4 f AS'S KNOCK. a.)YAL Or..Y APtC THEATRE. tome° and Aanaler, Ar. Alfred WigEUI. TITIS EVENING DELICATE. GROUND. After which, MEDEA. To conclude with A CONJUGAL LESSON. kt, PRI 'Ole, ‘3:4'S r!uitcßE, OX , PORD-STREET. Under the Vq , wrensent of Iff. CSAILES YEAS. EVP:NTLSq, Kush"; H ITH CHARMS. ,c`fter whicn, T.IE WE \TTEIt'S TALE. ROY U. CllßklsßE ADELPTII. ?milieux' and It/owl'', Mr. B. Webster. Directress. Madame Celeste. TILLS EVEN XNGI, LIKE AND UNLIKE. Followei by OUR GAL. After which, BOft'S TO GOOD LUCIIC. To ooncl ado with THE CU4TOVIS OF THE COUNTRY. • ASTLEr3 ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee Maaltar, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENP_ , IG, Revival of the great military spectacle, THE BATTLE OF THE ALMA, in honour of the return of the Guards. Warlike effects— the stage and ring combined—Mr. W. Cooke's stud of horses, bc. After which, The EQUESTRIAN PERFORMANCES in the ARENA, Oce., with other entertainments. To concluae with a _Melanie of High Art. Rot-office open ham Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director. Mr. tY. Cooke, Jun. HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY—Morn. 14 min. aft. B—Evening 49 min. aft. 8 Tn-lifonnow—liorn. 24 min. aft. 9—Evening 0 min. aft. 10 THE WEATHER—Sus Ornaz, JULY 26. THEBNIOXICTES, IN THI4 SEIADIL 73 --highest sines noon yesterday. M —lowest this morning and during the sight 71--this day at noon. BA3OIINTII-30•13. WIND, S.W.- Light, with very fine weather. ) , • ,•••• ffitl,ll, 'LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1856, The review of the session by the recognised Leader of her Majesty's Opposition was anxiously looked for by men of all classes and varieties of political opinion throughout the length and breadth of the land. Many important measures had been introduced : some of these were founded on recommendations from the Throne ; others of scarcely inferior interest had been brought forward by Ministers, but few, indeed, received the Legis lative sanction 1 " The massacre of the innocents" commenced at an earlier period, and was conducted with greater virulence than on almost any previous occasion. The contrast between " the sayings and doings" of the Government was, perhaps, more decided than in any former session j and there was no valid exeuse for this untoward state of affairs. The War had virtually terminated early in the session ; but all the bur dens and taxation incidental thereto still oppress the tax-paying community. They continue in full operation, without relaxation or modification. NO step was taken towards inquiring into the operation of the Bink Charter Act, or rendering the twelve months' notice that must be given before any great alterations in the relations be tween the quasi. NAtiontl B tnk and the commu• nity can be inaugurated. The financial and monetary measures being thus deliberately shelved—the War being terminated —there was surely ample time for carrying out the other mew:wire which the Government considered indispensable. But they followed the precedent established by the virtuous PENELOPE, and con trived to undo at one time what they were ap parently advancing with all their power at an other. No reasonable complaint could be preferred against the matters introduced ; and if the per formance had been at all in accordance with the promise held out the nation would have been well contented. But unfortunately one matter clashed with another. There was a laborious idlenesi—and, from aiming at too much, nothing was accomplished. This afforded an excel lent opportunity for attack. The Opposi tion unquestionably occupied the " vantage ground," but it was abandoned at the very CDITI mencement of the contest, and so perfect a mas ter of Parliamentary strategy as Lord PALMER,- STON readily availed himself of the mistake of his opponent. Mr. DISRAELI did not come forward as an assailant. He commenced by stating that he had no intention of preferring any indictment against those who ware mainly responsible for the management of affairs in the House." This at once divested the subject of its attraction. It was a courteous assault with blunted weapons. The buttons of the foils were well padded, so that no possible injury could be inflicted, and the subject at once lost its piquancy and interest. The Right Hon. Geatleman also framed plausible excuses for the shortcomings of _his political ad versaries. If ho inflicted serious wounds he also provided an universal medicine, showing that the failure in carrying beneficial measures into prac- j tical execution was mainly attributable to " the want of confide/I,e' of the House, or, in other words, to the obstructionslereatedi by the party of whom he himself was the re cognised leader.%There were many excellent propositions rejected or postpon e ]. i n no , nseq,uence of the Guerilla waritre inliotained by those who would not hazard a regular conflict on any great matter that could lead to a change of the Ministry. But although they would not venture on a pitched battle, they could raise formidable impediments. titmol +he failure in legislation, the vexatijrus delays iu watters on which the pahlio Riuct was earnestly interested ; but the THE S UN; LONDON, to the required depth have resulted iu prtiv. 1 Medi t'e rran ean levelA o f th e ing that the and Red Seas ar e tl. , e same, that ttie soil is free from rock and e as 7 I to excavale, and that the sands are of a suf 5 PJiently fixed character. Much difficulty was apprehended oy us at a distance, accustomed to 3 :cad of ttle ever-moving seas of sand, from this cause ; but the surveying party found the ruin a of old cities still uncovered, and even the vet? roarids heaped up a few years ago to prevent .. The entrance of air beneath the tents of • A e: xploring expedition, lying as fresh as if it ha,43. been the work but of a few days pre vious. In SOME' parts, also, the native shrubs of the, desert, in others the tendency of the excavated land to solidify, almost to the hardness of stone, ', co-operate in giving stability to the arid surface. It seems quite clear that the Egyptian navvy will have easy work, and that no unusual cost will be l incurred in preserving the depth of the proposed l canal. To the strictly nautical part of the question we shall not advert further than by remarking, gene rally, that the navigation of the Red Sea, and the voyage thence to and from India, is now eon d'ucted with a regularity which seems to dispel all d oubt on that score. Suez is also at present a p ore in regular use ; the anchorage and weather in , the roadstead, which is capable of holding 500 vessels, must be on the whole favourable, since he English corvette Zenobia has lain there in a ►art exposed to the weather, for the last three 'rears, with not the least shifting of her anchors, damage to her cables, or interruption of commu nication with the shore even for a single day. To carry the canal out fairly into about 30 feet 'water will require a jetty of nearly a mile in length. Stone for the purpose lies near at hand. The cost must, however, be considerable. But it is on the Mediterranean side that more serious difficulties have to be overcome. The facts seem now well established since her MAJESTY'S ship Tartarus has just returned from a surveying ex pedition at the very spot, and her soundings give the same result, precisely as those taken by the commission under the auspices of the Egyptian Government. They both report that the slope of the coast to deep water is generally the most gradual coiceivable. Along the greater par of the coast of the Gulf of Pelusiuni, 30 feet of water is only reached at some six miles from the shore, a fall of only 5 feet in a mile I Nor are there any perceptible tides to afford temporary daily remedy for this shallowness. At one point, however, opposite the Height of Taunis, on the west side of the gulf, the fall is less gradual ; the depth of thirty feet being there reached at the distance of a mile-and-a-half from the shore. Will any canal pay for a jetty of that length, the materials for the construction of which must be brought from quarries along the Syrian shore, or from the Islands of Cyprus, Rhodes, or Scar panto I The waves of the coast are of the gentlest character, but the Tartarus reports an uneasy ground-swell even in the calmest weather. On an impartial review, however, of all the physical difficulties of the scheme, as stated by different parties, the two costly jetties necessitated by the long channel which must be dredged through the shallow waters will prove the grand obstacle to be overcome, if indeed it can be overcome by any cost which a company would venture to incur. " New Facts and Figures relative to the Isthmus of Suez Canal. Edited by M. Ferdinand de Lesseps, Minister Plenipotentiary. With a Reply to the "Edin burgh Review," by M. Barthelemy St. Rilaire. London Effingham Wilson. shafts fell pointless on the Ministerial shield, or rebounded so as to damage to a much greater extent thoAc: by whom they were originally dis charged. He virtually exonerated M nisters, .in.l tramsferrPd the blame to his own party and his own followers ! The gist of his argument was to the etfeot—that Lord PA.LM•RSTON had exercised a conservative policy which led to the extinction of party, but that that policy ought to have been carried out by men professing Conservative principles ; and that, therefore, the DERBYITE skirmishers had prevented or retarded what would, if carried, have been very beneficial to the country. So far on matters of domestic interest ; but On Foreign Policy he was still more unsa• tisfactory. He alluded to the questions concerning Russia, Austria, and America ~pints on which the Ministry were 'even wore open to attack than on any others, and is which the strongest feelings of disgust and indignation were excited throughout the entire country. But in these respects he praised the Government ! ! He declared that they had acted in harmony with Conservative principles 1 Was it, then, a part of the Conservative policy, that all the sacrifices of men and money made during the continuance of the contest with Russia should be deliberately neutralised, and we should refrain from taking advantage of the opportunity so dearly purchased ? If so, we rejoice that we have not had a Conservative Government ! Was it part of the Conservative policy that the sanguine hopes " entertained by the sincere supporters of Liberal opinions" respecting an interference in Italy should be disappointed ? If so, we again exult in their absence from office Was it part of the Cantiervativo policy to submit to deliberate and intentional in sult from the PIERCE-MARCY Cabinet ? If so, a Derbyite Ministry would not have improved the position of the country! Mr. DISRAELI paid what he must have thought to be a high compli ment to the PALMERSTON Cabinet, in stating that "on subjects of internal interest and the great question of foreign policy they warp pursuing a course in harmony with Conservative policy and Conservative principles." The modern BALIAM thus blessed according to his lights the man he was engaged to curse. He gave what he con ceived to be the greatest praise in asserting that the barriers which prevented a thorough fusion between the parties ware completely broken down ! The entire debate was, there fore, " weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable," and its only effect will be to induce the people heartily to exclaim " A plague on both your housas." According to Hebrew and Christian theologi ans the world has served its inhabitants in its present form pretty well for 6,000 years or so. To be sure far more than five-sixths of that time its tenants knew but little of each other. Ame rica itself was unknown to the old world three centuries and a-half ago, and the further East practically unknown to Europe for nearly as long a time. It is indeed hardly possible to realise the change which has brought America as near as were the Northern and Southern parts of an island a century back, and made furthest Ind as accessible as America then was. The wandering tribes of the Eastern deserts still reckon distance by time, and we are fast returning to this primitive mode of measurement. How many among us could answer the question of the distance between Eng- land and America, India, or Australia, compared with those who could name in a minute how many days' voyage it was to them respectively. Steam and Lieutenant MAURY have done for the ocean what steam and theiron rail have done for the land. Indeed when the lieutenant's admirable oharts are camplete the sail will have regained much of its lost prestige for long commercial voyages, or rather, as the voyage of the Royal Charter seems to show, they will good-temperedly amalgamate their powers. Lieut. MAURY will guide the good ship to favour able winds, wherever winds blow, and the screw will propel her through the region of calms. But it is not enough to put the powers of our little planet to new uses, and to subjugate even the rapidity of the lightning to the cravings of human impatience. Not enough that we should converse across continents and seas, and propose to talk with friends even in Calcutta ; not enough that the screw and the sail should turn ♦oyages of months into voyages of weeks ; we must fair]) oat up the old earth itself where it is too old- fashioned or too ill-fashioned for our eagerness, or at least where it will not suit our purpose. The Isthmus of Panama has long been an eyesore to the world-niendexs. Over it we have gone by rail already, but that is nothing. Through it we niust go also. The Yankees have decreed it, and have dragged U 3 half way into a war in their zeal for a short cut to the Pacific; or, as they will have it, to bless the region of the ship canal thither with perpetual peace. Natuie seems, indeed, rather unwilling to subwir, her neck to the stroke. The old Isthmus has been surv?yed and re-surveyed ; was to be cut here and cut there, but it is still entire, and the two Ame ricas are still one body, and seem likely yet to remain so. It does not seem easy for our engi neering HENRY the Eighths to put or cut asunder, according to their taste, those whom Dame Nature has joined together. Some eighth HARRY in this line is, however, the want of the day, for another neck stands in the way of our desires, by uniting the old world's con tinents of Africa and Asia also. In ages long gone by, the attempt was indeed made to marry the separated seas, and to divorce the united conti nents ; but land still holds its owe, and the waters still surge in vain to meet each other, though only some sixtyorseventymiles of land in tervene, and though they have no other chance of in termingling except by rolling round a distance equal to half the circumference of the globe. Twenty five hundred years ago an Egyptian Monarch began a canal, and DARIUS, the Persian, we are told, completed it, but that was to be only a fluvial connection by the Nile. A Marine Canal is the desire of modern commerce, and has been the frequent project of modern Go vernments and men of science, but the vis inertia of unqualified desert and shallow coasts, has defied the schemes of science, by intimidating the possessors of capital. The WATTSES and the STEPHENSONS have been ready, but the BOLTONS have as yet been wanting. Perhaps in these days a company with the magic parenthesis---a parenthesis at the end of a sentence !—(‘, Limited ") may solve the diflicaliy. Will the company now in proc ess o f f orma ti on by M. FERDINAND DE LESSEPS do it ? We have looked with some care at those parts of his last pamphlet which relate to the physical practicabi lity of the scheme, and we certainly think there I is no difficulty which Mr. STEPHENSON or Mr. BaUNEL could not vanquish. Whether M. LEssErs and his literary coadjutor, M. BARTHELEMY ST. HILAIRE, do not under estimate the cost, and exaggerate the profits, is a question which must be well weighed when the previous one of prac ticability has been unequivocally decided. The land par t o f th e business should be, and probably is, matter of eas y calaula- Um. A %ireful external fauna' and boripgi RETURN OF TROOPS FROM THE CRIMEA. WAlt DEPARTMENT, Juice 26. The following vessels passed the Bosphorus on passage to England on the 22d, 24th, and 25th inst. :-- Urgent 450 men Army Works Corps. Albatross 100 men Laud Transport Corps. Simla D troop Royal Horde Artillery, and 75 men Ist Dragoon Guards. ASTLETS BATTLE OP THE ALMA. Mr. William Cooke has revived the memorable spec tacle of the "Battle of the Alma," chiefly for the pur pose of affording the brave Guards recently returned an opportunity of witnessing incontestibly the greatest mili tary spectacle ever pr)duced, and that gratuitously. A number of the men from each battalion visit the amphi theatre nightly, and it is highly entertaining to the general auditor to see the warriors of our country be holding upon the'stage their identical companions in the terrible fray, fighting the battle o'er again—to see the enthusiasm with which they bail their actual comrades ; and each well•known incident of the war is as pleasing as it is soul•stirring and exhilarating to the audience. Ole spectacle will shortly be withdrawn. In the mean `irne we advise •very patriotic heart to go and see tae untertainments at the amphitheatre, and we are confident they will afford every loyal breast unmingled satisfac tion. STRAND THEATRE. The entertainments of 'I uesday evening next are for - he benefit of Mr. Russell Grover, an accomplished and pular vocalist, who puts forward a highly-attractive !All of fare, embracing the names of several favourite -lagers and performers. The beneficia;re undertakes the parts of Thaddeus in Bale's chef d'oeuvre, "The Eohe wan Girl," and of Elvino in "La Sonnambula," to both f which he is calculated to renthr ample justice. The zlellenes of the programme, and the established repu tation of himself and his colleagues on the occasion, will doubtle‘s be the means of insuring a fashionable and crowded attendance. HEE MAJESTY'S THEATRE,—Ndic week will end one of the most brilliant seasons on record. On Monday, July 28, Madlle. Wagner appears for the last time, and leaves for Berlin en the following day. "Don Pas (pale " is to be repeated on Tuesday, the 29tb, and " La Figlia " and "La Traviata " on Thursday and Saturday, the last night of the season—in each of which Pioaolimini will appear. Three farewell nights bring up the rear. The ballet of the " Corsaire," with Rosati, continues its successful career. The farewell nights ended, Piccolimini leaves for the provinces, having been engaged with a powerful company by the direction. She then quite our shores to, fulfil her engagement in Parie, where she is expected as the star of the season. ROYAL INSPECTION AT ALDERSHOT.—It is ber Ma jetty's intention to inspect the troops at four o'clock in the afternoon. The Earl and Countess of Jersey entertained a (+elect circle at dinner, on Thursday evening, at the family mansion in Berkeley.square. The Countess, at a later period of the evening, received a brilliant party of the leading members of society at present remaining in wn. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce and Sir George Couper, arrived in London, yesterday morning, from her residence, Fr .gmore. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset and family are staying at Wimbledon Park. Lady Hermione Graham and her infant son are progressing favourably. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester leave town shortly to visit the noble duke's estates in the north of Ireland. The Duke of Rutland is, we are gratified to learn, better, and has within the last fortnight regained much of Lis lost strength. The Duke of Richmond has left town for Goodwood, Sussex. The Duchess of Buccleuch, accompanied by Lord William Thynne, arrived at Montague house yesterday, from Carlsbad, where the Duchess has made a six weeks' sojourn. Viscount and Viscountess SAmouth and the Hon. Miss Addington have left town for Great Malvern, Worcestershire. ELEVATION OF THE RIGHT HON. E. STRIITT, M.P. TO THE PEERAGE.—It is her Majesty's gracious inten• tion to elevate the Right Hon. El ward Strutt to the peerage by the title of Lord Kngston. MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS AT LIVERPOOL.—Portions of the 31 Buffs and 47th Regiments sailed yesterday (Friday) from Liverpool, for Kingstown, per the Prince Arthur screw-transport. THE ROYAL NORTHERN AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. We understand that a large number of entries have been made for the show of this society, to be held here on Thursday next. A -company of French comedians have just sailed from Havre for Rio Janeiro. The number of the whole troupe is not mentioned, but there were no less than nine actresses. Mazzini, it is said, has spent some days in Switzer land, and findin g It a li ans averse t o his p r ojects has just returned to Lundon. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams's benefit takes place this evening at the Adolph' Theatre. The public are generally grateful to those who give them a new sense ' tion, and snob .certaizly is. produced by the l'ethlig Of Um Remy Williams. • - SATURDAY EVEN. LATEST NEWS. VIENNA, THURSDAY EVENING. Advices from Athens of the 19th inst. state hat the Russo-Greek vohnteers have been dis armed and sent to their naive islands. ST. PETERSBURG, JULY 25. The Czar has appointed Vice-Admirals Schantz, Nitkoff, and Rouraiakoft commandants of the three divisions of the Rissian fleet, as now re- organised. TIE FUGUE, JULY 25. The Netherlands Government has prepared a project for the reductioL of the navigation dues on the Rhine, as collectql by the towns on that river. SPAIN. We have received the Madrid journals of the 20th, but they add but little to our previous in formation. Four companies of tr)ops had left Madrid on that day for Toledo, where the National Guard is to be reorganised. This reorganisation has already taken place at Guadala ara. The column com manded by Brigadier Olimnell had passed through that town on its way to Saragossa. General Dulce was to leave Madrid on the even:. ing of the 20th for Aragon, although he was still suffering from the contusion which he had received. It is calculated that 10,000 soldiers will be in a few days before Saragossa, It was thought at Madrid that no conflict would arise. The Queen accompanied by her con sort again visited the hospitals on the 19th, and distributed a considerable sum of money amongst the wounded. Her Majesty then drove through the Prado, where she was received with loud acclamations. The representatives of the principal Madrid journals had been invited to present themselves before the civil governor of the province. The latter expressed his desire to see the journals abstain from exaggerating events or propagating false intelligence, as thereby he would be compelled to decree repressive measures against the press. All the Madrid papers have appeared again, and none of their editors have experienced any vexa tious proceedings. " When (asks the Epoca) has such moderation been before witnessed in Spain I" The Gazette announces that, according to de spatches received, everything was tranquil at Avila on the 18th, at Corunua on the 16th, at Pontevedra on the 15th, at Orense on the 15th, at Castellon on the 17th, Cadiz on the 18th, at Circida Real on the 18th, at Huelva on the 15th, Malaga on the 16th, Seville on the 16th, Burgos on the 18th, and Gui pusooa on the 17th. The Epoca says :—" Marshal Espartero, it ap pears, applied two days ago for a passport for Lo grono. The Government immediately acquiesced in his wish, but at the same time made known to him the situation of La Rioja, leaving it to his own feelings what he ought to do under the cir cumstances in which the country is now placed. The Marshal, in consequence, decided that until tranquillity was perfectly restored throughout the whole country, he would remain in the capital, and immediately took an apartment in the Calle della Greda." The same journal says :—" The Marquis de Turgot, the French Ambassador, will leave next week for France. During his absence, the Count de Comminges Guitanz will be charged with the management of the affairs of the Em bassy." The French Journal de Madrid, of the 19th, contains the following :—" It has been already mentioned that the French Hospital of St. Louis had been, by order of the Ambassador, placed at the disposal of the wounded in that quarter. We have had occasion personally to convince ourselves of the zeal and intelligence with which the kind intentions of the Marquis de Turgot were carried into effect. Twenty-two of the wounded were received and attended to with the greatest solici tude by the Sisters of Charity, under the direction of the medical chief of the establishment. Out of the above number six died almost immediately after their admission, and the remaining sixteen are in a fair way of recovery. Several cases of amputation have been performed with perfect success. The majority of those wounded men belonged to the 7th Battalion of the National Guard." Accounts from the frontier yesterday spoke of the desertion of a battalion which had marched from Pampeluna against Saragossa. This news is confirmed. The battalion, which belongs to the regiment of Almanza, is said to have declared against O'Donnell at Soria. The Epoca, in its number of the 18th, announced that M. B. Iglesias, civil governor of Valencia, had been on the point of declaring against the O'Donnell Cabinet. The proclamation, however, published by that functionary at the first news of the changes of Ministry, proves that he had never for a moment hesitated as to the line of duty ho had to follow. The document is as follows : "Inhabitants of Valencia, I think it my duty to call your attention to your own interests, and to dispel all the illusions which the blind spirit of error might en gender among you. Order, Va!encians ! order at any price I If you attempt to disturb public tranquillity ; if, listening to perfidious sugges tions, you turn a deaf ear to my paternal coun sels, the most severe punishment will instantly conv;nce you that your authorities are determined to preserve order at any price, and that to attain that ob ject they will hesitate at the adoption of no means, however strong it may be. This is the firm resolution of your civil governor, " BERNARDO IGLESIAS." It may be added that Marshal O'Donnell well knew the sentiments of fidelity, of Don Bernardo Iglesias towards the Queen. A letter from S►ragossa estimates at more than a million of reals the value of the orops which have been burnt in the commune of Pina, on the banks of the Ebro, during the late disturbances. The accounts from Madrid state that the Spa nish government has decided on establishing a place 6f transportation for convicts. The point chosen is,St. Joseph, one of the Marianne or Lad rune Islands in the North Pacific Ocean. The in dividuals arrested for having formed part of the baud of Pucheta and those who had been released by him from the different prisons will be sent to Ferrol, to there await their embarkation for the new penal colony. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING " The Emperor," says a telegraphic despatch, dated Vesoul, yesterday, " arrived here at two o'clock and was received with the warmest accla mations by the inhabitants of the town and neigh bourhood, who had collecied in crowds in anticipa tion of the Imperial visit." "General Roguet, aide-de-camp to the Empe ror," says the Moniteur, " has just left for Mar seilles with a letter front his Majesty for Marshal E'elissier. The Emperor was desirous that his congratulations should be the first that the Marshal should receive on his setting his foot on the soil of France." " General de Martimprey," says the Courrier de Marseille, " head of the staff of the army of the East, who arrived in our port by the Indus, left immediately for Paris." The Courrier de Marseille, of the 23d, states that the 37th Regiment of the line, which had marched . for Montp e lli e r, did not, as was expected, stop in that place. It there received orders to continue its march to the Spanish frontier, where it will form part of the army of observation. A letter from Jerusalem, of the 7th, in the Univers, says —" The disturbances in Naplouse have been vastly exaggerated by the press in Europa. It is not exut, as has been stated by several papers, that more than 600 have been killed in various encounters between the rebels and the authorities. In the first fight eight men fell, whilst in a most serious action fought near Djaba 38 were killed. It is equally false that 200 villages have been pillaged and ruined." BOURSE, July 25.—The following were the last quutations fr. a. End of Month. per Cents.. 40 SOO ." 93 50 --f. —e. 3 per Cents 7O 50 70 70 New Loan 7O 55 Bank Shares 4,050 Roman B6 CrOdit Mobilier 1,482 50 &ustrian Belgian Five 5........ Spanish Threes 44. Piechnontese (5) . 9O 25 HOMO Debt RAILWAYS—YOB CLEM. fr. 0. ft. c Oritslill ........ ...... 1,392 60 Weste rn 960 Northern 1,065 50 Strioluurg Lyons ......... .......... 1,420 -- New Ditto Mediterranean..,.., 1,830 Grand Central 702 50 Lyons Geneva BOO Taste Cette 777 60 Austrian Corn. 863 75 AUSTRIIL VIENNA, JULY 22. It is related in well-informed Austrian circles that the Sardinian Cabinet has recently received a hint from France to avoid taking any step which could lead to a q uarrel with this Government, and information rece ived by the Augabwrg Gazette from itiParia oorreoponieut tads to map% .the tepo;ti n, JtJIGY _26, 1856. Before Count Walewski left for the baths of Hom burg, he, in the name of his imperial master, confiden- Aially informed Count Cavour that he would do well to change his system towards Austria, as the French Government was resolved not to lend ite coun tenance to any policy which could lead to dir.ttieo: antes in Italy and endanger the so recently restored peace of Europe. The Paris correspondent adds rht~t the Pritiali Cabinot was duly informed of what had been done by the French Government, Who had also intimated to the Sardinian Court that the Western Powers were resolved neither directly nor indirectly to countenance rotolutionary movements in Italy. According to ali tit ttifi; ry i e!rh €4 O - vernment has proposed to the British Cabithitit to recall the Mieiiters of the two Powers from Naples, and to leave simple Charges d'Affaires there for the rime being. Some impyttantie is Attached to the visit of the fien3(iitary Prince of Ttisdaq to this ( I,%nrt, but, he is such A very young man (he is 21 yearsof age) that; he eat( hardly haiie been en trtMect with a political mission. The rindc, ;hir ing his short sojourn here, has been out to the camp at Bisamberg, and there is some reason to believe that the Ministers and the Diplomatic Corps have not au opportunity of waiting on him until this morning. A.t all . events Count Buol, Count Leo nun, Baron de Bourqueney, andsome other statesmen and diplo matists, paid him visits of ceremony a couple of hours ago. In a few days the Tuscan Prince will leave for Bavaria, and in the autumn he will pro• bably accompany the Emperor to Lombardy, where there will be the usual grand military matoeuvreF. The Oest. Deutsche Post learns from Stuttgard that the Dowager Emperor of Russia has rain- I quished the idea of pas-iing the coming autumn and I winter in Italy. The day of her Majesty's depar ture from Wildbad was already fixed when she received letters from St. Petersburg which induced her to resolve to return, via Berlin,to that capital. The official paper also confirms information given you some days since relative to certain changes which were to be made in the Finance Department. Three chiefs of sections and five Ministerial Coun sellors have been pensioned, and four new chiefs of sections appointed. To-morrow the elArgy will again .be in their glory, as his Majesty will publicly place on the head of the Archbishop of Agram the cardinal' hat, which has been sent to him from Rome. Yesterday Prince Paul Esterhazy had his farewell audience of the Emperor, and to-morrow he will leave, with his brilliant suite, for Moscow. It is estimated that the outlay of the representative of Austria at the coronation of the Emperor Alexan der will be some 600,0001 (60,0001.) Before the Prince accepted the mission he distinctly stated that his expenses must be paid, and no one blames him for having done so, it being notcrious that he is not a rich man, although he is the largest landed proprietor in Austria. Baron Budber will no: come here as Russian Minister until after the coronation. It is related that Russia has made some concessions to Austrian subjects in respect to passports and the transport of goods across the frontier. TURKEY. According to news from Constantinople of the 18th, the fetes in honour of Marshal Pelissier were exceedingly brilliant. The evacuation of Turkey by the allied troops, which is rapidly taking plac& from day to day, contradicts the rumour of an occupation by 20,000 men of the French, and 10,000 of the English army. European commerce is full of activity ' • and the Turkish Government is about, to impose a duty on the productions of the country, and establish a new rate upon merchandise im ported. Two-thirds of the town of Thessalonica had been ' destroyed by fire. The Russians have occupied the Isle of Serpents, of which Turkey claims the possession by virtue of the treaty of peace. The Russians have refused to admit the English Commissioners into Kars, de claring that they would not surrender the fortress , until after the complete evacuation of Turkey b) the allies. A letter from Belgrade of the 16th, in the Augsburg Gazette, says :—"A battalion of Turkish troops, about 800 strong, arrived here yesterday, and after a short stay it is to be carried to Schutnla by the steamboats. These troops, which come from Bosnia, confirm to a certain extent the ru mour that a priest named Hulas had at, empted te get up an insurrectionary movement in the Her zegowina, but that it was suppressed." The Berlin Gazette contains a letter from St. Petersburg, which says:—" The programme drawn up by the Councillor Guerlenoff for the ceremonies of the coronation hai just been approved of by the Emperor Alexander. French, German, and Rus sian plays will be performed at Moscow, and there will be also an Italian opera. A French company obtained au authorisation to open a large bazaar for the sale of objects of art and luxury. A letter from Vienna, 21st, in the Frankfort Gazette, says :—" Baron de Habner, the Austrian ambassador in France, has just left for Venice and a tour in Italy. Prince de Hohenlohe, who has conceived a project of forming a company with shares for carrying on a trade in corn between Hungary and Germany, has entered into relations with the founders of the new Austrian Credit Mobilier Company for that purpose." Baron Nothomb, the Belgian ambassador at the , Court of Berlin, has been for some days so indis posed as to be unable to proceed to Brussels for the tes. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING The United States mail steamer Hermann, from New York for Bremen, with the German, French, and English mails, touched off Cowes this morn ing, .with about 150 passengers, 100,000do1s. in specie, and dates from New York to the 12th inst. The mail steamer Africa, from Liverpool, ar rived at New York on the 11th inst. In the Senate the bill for admitting Kansas into the Union as a slave-holding State was causing great excitement. The most intens3 excitement prevailed in the house during the discussion on a report to expel Brookes, which almost amounted to a pugilistic encounter. Intelligence from Kansas is interesting. The Territorial Legislature assembled on the 4th inst., and, when about proceeding to business, Colonel Sumner, accompanied by 200 dragoons, marched into the Representative Chamber, and, after an explanatory speech, ordered the members to dis perse, which they did. He then proceedel to the Senate Chamber, where a similar proceeding took place, with a like result. A Convention of free States men, embracing 800 delegates, all armed, met at Topeka on the 2d inst., and passed resolutions calling on their friends in Congress to withhold supplies or government aid until Kansas was admitted into the Union under the Topeka Constitution. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald says that a great deal of bad feeling was felt towards Fremont for the Presidency by a large number of prominent Republicans, and that a rumour prevailed in that city that several northern States would supersede his nomination by calling a new convention for the purpose ,of bringing for ward some other well-known man. A fearful tornado had visited Frankfort county, and had committed immense damage. Intelligence from Rio de Janeiro, to the 4th inst., reports the entire disappearance of all disease. Coffee was coming in slowly, but a more abundant supply was looked for from the interior shortly. Some British vessels had been chartered for the United States. " _ Havannah dateslb the 6th inst. state that yellow fever continued to prevail. The sugar market was active. The New York money-market was without any change worthy of note. Thesupply continued easy, and the demand somewhat increased. There was little doing in exchange, and the stock-market was dull. The sales of cotton on the 11th inst. em braced 1,500 bales, at full prices. Wheat was rather easier Sugars were firm,• and in good de mand. Freights were light and rather unsettled for grain to Liverpool. The steamer Lebanon, from Havre, arrived at. New York on the 12th inst. The Hermann, on the 24th, in lat. 49.21, long. 11'50, passed the American clipper-ship Superior, standing to the eastward ; and exchanged colours with the American ship Fidelia, standing to south ward and westward. TnE K.C.R's.—Sir William Denison, the Go-' vernor•General of New South Wales, and Rear-Admiral Charles Elliot, Governer of Trinidad, have just been vanced to, the dignity of Knights Commanders of the Bath. The' former gentleman is a son of the late J. Denison, Esq.,,many years M.P. for Nottinghamshire, and, consequently, brother of Archdeacon Denison, the late Bishop of Salisbury,' and John Evelyn Denison, Eiq. M.P. for Melton; He was born in 18(04, and served for some' years in the Royal Engineers. Be married a daughter of Admiral Sir Phipps llornby, K.C.8., uncle to the Earl of Derby. ' He held the post of Lieutenant Governor ' of Tasmania, or, as it was then called, Van . Diemen's Land, from 1846 to 1854, when he was advanced to his present position. Rear-Admiral Elliot is well known for his able services in China, where he acted as her ,Majesty's Plenipotentiary during the early part of the late war in those regions, a nd took in the gallant operations of her itilsjesty:s steamer Nemesis, they laider the comma of uvula* V? a. 141, on tke lout • • " '^ 9lR otkoris IN THE CRIMEA. ( Prom the ~‘iteeeital Correspondent of the Times.) The British army, relieved from the pressure of military duties; and warned Of their approaching departure, have la- , tentred,regiment by regiment, for many long weeks, to erect then:whale to the comrade whose remains will ho left, behind him by the 144 Finglisliman who quits this soil' .; and the works of this .naturd, •Which their hasty embarkation did I.:et permit them to complete, butte been undertaken by the feu,' skilled soldier-labourers now belonging ; to the fragments of a+tri - V: The Chersonese is covered with Isolated graves, with longer th.lilel-nrounds, and detached cemeteries from Balaklava to the vergt; ef, the roadstead of Sebastopol. Ra vine and plain—hill, and hollOW-= the roadside and secluded illey—for miles around, from the sett to the Tchernaya, pre- , eent th , . - tt4 ritark white stones, singly or in groups, stuck up right in tbe Afid soil, or just peering over the rank vegeti.^.. - tion which springs from b.ocath them. I have already described Cathcart's-hill Cemetery. The burial-grounds of the Light and Seecrnd Divisions have since ' attOirle snob dimensions that it would be impossible in a ucwsplpelr.kigive even an idea of their position, and of the monuments they contain. Without pretending t* offer a guide-book, or to notice the many sad memorials of our lossts stud sufferings in the Crimea, a brief supplementary notice of some of iiitl principal burial-grounds may not bo uninterest- ing. The French have talon but little pains with their graves. One large cemetery has been formed with great care and good taste dear the old Inkerman camp, but in general our allies have !lot enclosed their burial places. The Sardinians have erected a pedestal and obelisk of stone on the heights of Ba laklaVa, elese to their hospital, to the memory of their de parted comrades, and we have erected similar m onuments on the heights of Inkerman and on the plain of Balaklava to commemorate the sth of November and the 25th of October. These will endure for ages if they are permitted to remain untouched by man. At the Malakhoff there is nothing but a largo wooden cross at the head of a mound full of dead, with this inscription in white paint (sic) : " Unis pour la victoire, " Reuni par la mart " Du aoldat c'est le. gloire " Du brave c'est le sort." Outside the vineyard, at the English head-quarters, there is a small graveyard which contains but two monuments. One, 'ormed of a large horizontal slab of marble, marks the spot where lies the body of our excellent Adjutant-General, and in addition to some Russian inscriptions has the simple words —" To the memory of Major- General J. Bucknall Estemart, Adjutant-General of the British army, who died of cholera, June 24, 1855. *Born 1802." The next is a handsome cross Tv Om ineLuory of C..R. Cattier. Eao, , who axed of cho lera while serving on the stiff of Lord Raglan, July, 1855." The rest are all nameless.' In a small enclosure, separated from the natural meadow on the slopes of Inkerman, near the most southerly point of the Russian attack, are three monuments. The centre is a slab of fine white stone lying horizontally on two deep slabs of larger size, so that they form as it were a small flight of steps. It bears a cross at the head and the following inscrip tion " 41st Regiment. Sacred to the memory of Lieut.- Jolonel rpenter, Captain Richards, Lieut. Swaby, Lieut. Taylor, Lieut. Stirling, who fell at the Battle of Inkerman, November the sth, 1854 ; also of Assistant-Surgeon Lamont, who died on the sth of January, 1855." On the left of this is a horizontal monument of stone, in scribed—" Sacred to the memory of Sergeant-Major Spence, 41st Regiment; who was killed at the battle of Inkerman, on the sth of November, 1854, aged 28 years ;" and on the right is a smaller slab " Sacred to the memory of J, Lillies, pri vate, -41st Regiment, who was killed at the battle of Inker man." There are many other graves scattered up and down over the slope of the hill, and a large enclosure is devoted almost exclusively to the 30th Regiment. In leaving the Inkerman plateau, and proceeding down the Werionzew-road past the burial ground of the Light Division, you come on the rear of Gordon's battery. Here many a poor fellow has been brought to die, and then has found a resting-place near the scene of his last fight. Over one mound there is a stone; " Sacred to the memory of E. Churchill and W. Lattiman, killed 17th October, and of J. Radmore, killed 18th June, of H.M.S. Diamond." Farther on, behind the first parallel, there is a monument, " Sacred to the memory o' Serjeant R. M'Coy, H.M. 55th Regiment, who fell in the assault on the Quarries on the evening of the 7th Juue. Erected by his affectionate brother, John M'Coy, Colour- Serjeant, 49th Regiment." This is an affecting proof of bro therly love, but somewhat further'on two soldiers have given a still more conspicuous proof of the same feeling. In front of the third parallel, and just in rear of the Quarries, there is a very handsome stone slab, surrounded with a fine wall of cut stone. The slab is richly ornamented and carved, and bears the following inscription :—" Erected by William and James Weir, 47th Regiment, to the memory of their beloved brother Robert, who was killed in the trenches before Sebas topol on the 12th of July, 1855, aged 31, Also to Serjeant J. Keefe of the same regiment, who was killed at the same time and place.—' Blessed are the servants whom the Lord when he comes shall find watching.'—Luke 12." In a secluded ravine, once busy with frequent marches and resounding with the roar of cannon, thebursting of shells, and the turmoil of the neighbouring camps, lie all that was mor tal of those of the Naval Brigade who rest in the Crimea. The cemetery it enclosed by a wall, and is entered by a gateway, in good preservation. The first stone which strikes the eye is a handsome Vertical slab of marble, with a cross engraved, and the inscriptions, " Requiescat in pace. Sacred to the memory of Lieutenant E. H. Hughes D'Aeth, late First Lieu tenant of her Majesty's ship Sidon, who, after having served nine months on shore with the Naval Brigade, died of cholera August 7, 1835, aged 31 years. This stone is erected by the captain and officers of her Majesty's ship Sidon in testimony of their esteem and regard." The second grave is inscribed, " Sacred to the memory of J. Nichols, who was killed in ac tion on the Bth of September, 1855, aged 21. Unto the Lord I lift up my soul." The third is a simple memorial "To the memory of William Barry, killed 17th, 1855, Him that cometh unto me I will in nowise cast out' " No. 4. "To J. Pinhorn, late gunners' mite, her Majesty's ship Albion, May 6, 1855, age 32." No, 5. "In memory of W. Hubank, W. Jones, S. Smith, and S. Wallace, killed in action ; erected by the crew of her Majesty's ship Albion, in token of their re spect." No. 6. "In memory of William, her Majesty's ship Albion, killed in Greenhill Battery, April 9." No. 6. "To W. Haynes, her Majesty's ship Albion." No. 7. "To John Mullet, her Majesty's ship Leander," No. 8. "To C. Gas ton, her Majesty's ship Leander." No. 9. " To J. Tobin, died of wounds received in action." Beneath is this quaint in scription : " Pam anchored here below with many of the fleet, But once again we will set sail our Admiral Christ to meet." In the north-west angle of the enclosure are four graves with out stones. In the second row are 17 graves, of which eight are marked by headstones. In the third row there are 13 graves, two of which have slabs and inscriptions to the me mory of seamen, named Collis and Hughes. The third grave is distinguished by a fine slab—" To the memory of Lieutenant W. H. Douglas, R.N., her Majesty's ship Queen ; killed 11th April while serving in the battery with the Royal Naval Brigade at the, siege of Sebastopol." Next is a fine monument —" Sacred to the memory of Lieutenant S. Twyford, R.N., who was killed by the fire from the Rus sian trenches while serving with the Naval Brigade, April 9, 1855." At the foot there is a handsome slab, with a similar inscription iu Russian characters. In the same row (No. 5) there is a substantial and massy monument—" In memory of Henry John Spalding, R.N., mate of her Majesty's ship Lon eon, killed in the trenches before Sebastopol on the 21st of January, 1855," No, 6 is to "R. Gardner, her Majesty's ship London, killed April the 9th, 1855." In the fourth row there are 13 graves —No. 1 is to "J. Arnold, her Majesty's ship Leauder, killed on the Bth of June, 18 55 ." No. 2, t o " J. Pasccie, her. Majesty's ship Leander, killed on the 9th of June, 1855." No. 3, to G. Cass, her Majesty's ship Leander, killed in the storming party at the Rcdan on the 18th of June, 1855," No. sis a large and well-executed tomb, with inscriptions on the slabs in English and Russian. It is in scribed, "In memory of Lacon Ussher Hammett, comman der, It N ; of her Majesty's ship London, who was killed in the trenches before Sebastopol, August 17, 1855, while serv ing with the Naval Brigade and in command of its batteries of the right attack." Iu the sth row aro 13 graves. No. 1 is a small stone, " Sacred to the memory of Lieutenant T. 0. Kidd, killed in the action before Sebastopol, Juue 18, 1855, aged 24." No. 2is to "E. Collins, January 7, 1855," The other graves are nameless. On the 6th row there are 13 graves, of which only one is provided with any memorial, and this one is a large slab of wood already decaying and inscribed as follows :—" Sacred to the memory of the following seamen of her Majesty's ship Queen, serving in the Naval Brigade be fore Sebastopol—George Sullivan, B. Eames, R. Ladrick, W. Good, J. Morrows, J. Duggan, J. Davison, F. M. Collier, W. Soulsby, J. Trim, J. Bryant, N. Harvey, W. Jones, B. Taylor, H. Hill, W. M'Donald, F. Fiddy, J. Symons, H. J. Baziug, J. Corbally, J. Phillips, S. Welsh, J. Blewitt, J. Medlin, J. Coffin, Pat Mahoney, It. Johns, T. Lanabaan T. Clark, H. Chester, and F. Driver." In the seventh row are 14 graves. No. 1, a wooden slab, " Sacred to the memory of J. Price, J. Reed, W. Davidson, and E. Quinn, who fell in action in the execution of their duty on the 18th of June ; also, of J. Murphy, J. Ennis, and at Kearns, who fell in the storming party the same day, much lamented by their shipmates of H.M.S. Rodney," No. 2 is a large wooden slab—" Sacred to the memory of J. Glan ville, killed 9th of April, aged 28 ; S. Turner, killed in action April 11, aged 25; J. Woodford, killed in action 14th of April ; D. Logan, killed in action 6th of June ; J. Lane, W. Wheeler, R. Morris, J. Callinaue, J. Brooks,- J. Swift, T. Short, Fullerton P. Donoghue. This board is erected by the ship's company of H.M.S. Wasp, in token of respect to their d epar t e d shipmates." The grass grows green over these graves, and nunaborless wild flowers have sprung up in the rich mould of the ravine. The enclosure is but. a short way from the site of the camp of the Na , ; , arßriglidiS, but it is situ: ated ou the leit-hand side of the. -ravine as you descend to wards Sebastopol, whereas the sailors pitched their tents on the right-hand ride. By the, side of the goad from Balaklava, to the front there are two graveyards filled with slabs and with monuments in cut stone, one erected by the Army Works Corps too their own officers and men who died here; the other, the work of the same corps, in memory of the officers and men of the Land Transport Corps who fell by sickness in the Crimea. In the plain below the site of the Turkish camp, near head quarters, stands a solitvy grave. It is enclosed by a substan tial stone wall, and the head is marked by a handsome slab of oolito, or white sandstone, with an ornamental carving above an incised cross. !On the body of the stone is engraved— , Sa cred to the memory of Col. Balfour Ogilvy, who died July 12, 1855. This stone , was erected as a mark of respect by his bro ther officers:;'-. Stich isolated records are not uncommon. Poor firavelled with him to the East when he came out iu February, 1854, to seek service in the Turkish army under his frieild Colonel. Cannon, and I soon heard of his distill. guishing hinatelf at Silistria, and subsequently of his gallant behaviour at Eupatoria. While the Turkish army was lying inactively on the hills near Lord Raglan's quarters he sickened and died just at the very time that Omer Pasha had triumphed over the scruples and.objections of , the allied generals to the removal of his troops to Kutais. The burial-ground of the non-commissioned officers and men of the Brigide of Guards is enclosed by a substantial wall. It is entered by a handsome double gate, ingeniously constructed of wood, and iron hoops hammered out straight, and painted,;Whicli is hinged on two massive pillars of cut atone, with ornamental capitals, each surmounted by a can non ball. 'Ttatie are six rows of graves, each containing 30 or more bodies. Over each of these is a tombstone or a mound, fenced in by rows of white stones with the initials or sometimes the name , of him who lies below, marked on the mould by means of pebbles. Facing the gate, and close to it stands a large stone cross, erected en a series of four mas sive blocks of the, same material. On the west face of Um block supporting the cross aro thii words—" Cr ;nadiers, Coldstreams, Scots Fusilier Guards, A.D. 1855." On the opp )site face is the following inteription—" To the memory of the non-commissioned officers and men of the brigade of Guards who fell in the Crimea this cross was erected by their surviving comrades, A.D. 1856." There are but few nlQllU mental stones in this cemetery; one is a stone Cross, with the inscription, "Sacred to the memory of Lieutenant A. Hill, 22d Regiment, who died jun° 21, 1856. This stone was erected by his friends in the Crimea. " Another is "In memory of Serjednt-Major Rennie, 'l 4 3d Highlanders._ Erected by a friend.". A taiaa is Sacred t o the me mory of Serjeant Georatei Haman. greeted by a friend." ' A fourth is to " Quarterrnaetir J. WDMiald, 724 Regiment, who died. on the , 16th a ,Irtember, fronta gourd received the t"acket iteigte WA** ra Piz of Prtaigir• 06 4 • IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF LORDS—(This Day.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at a quarter pa.t 12 o'clock. The Earl :f DUNGANNON gave notice that early in the next session be should call atten ion to theinade qoate remuneration of the commanders of the mail ships between Holyhead and : Kingstown, and also that be should move for certain r )turns in connection with the 'lministration of the poor laws in Ireland. . THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL CONTRACT. The Earl of HARDWIC KE begged to call the atten tion.. of their lordships to the contract that had lately s een entered into by the Gn , fernment for the conveyance of the mails to Australia. He disapproved of the terms the contract, because ht. believed it would ultimately be fo :ind impossible that Cie voyage could be made is Vie -btu,: specified in the co ntracts, namely, 39 days fer the out ax -d voyage and 31; days for the homewa r d. Ac e speed at whi ch the steamers of th e co mp an y it cording to 3.1. were stated travel—g 4 knots an hour--: it would be impossible to accomplish the voyage withi n th e ti me specified.. I t 'as true that a penalty of 1001.. per day r the nott-performance ; of th e t erms o f was stipulated fu. might very safely engage as 'the profits to be d er i ve d f ro m the contract, but the c ora l )an Y to pay such a penalt. , ,v, the contract would bo enormous. The situation 'of the colonies was thus not much improved. As the Post master-General was not in his place he could not expect much information but As the house was not t o meet o n Monday, he thou ght to make these observe it,l n: g dutyeons. T )ERLEY said he was not Lord STANLEY of AL, .tnation on the poi n t, but in a position to give much info. he understood that the penalties ,for the e o n -p er f ormance of the voyage within the specified time would be strictly enforced, and that they mould be amply sufficient to insure the performance of the contrao:t. and the Govern ment bad the power to terminate the contract if its provisions were not fully carried out. STOKE POGIS HOSPITAL BILL. The Commons' amendments to the Stoke Pogie Sos• pital Bill were considered and agreed to. EVIDENCE IN FOREIGN SUITS BILL. The Commons' amendments to this bill were alsomm sidered and agreed to. THE BISHOPS OF LONDON AND DtritHAK RETIREMENT BILL; The Commons' amendments to this bill were also oon• idered and agreed to. The Commons' amendments to the Hay and Straw Bill, the Metropolis Local Management Bill, the Tim,- President of Committee of Council of Education Brill, and the Reformatory and Industrial Schools Bill %me also agreed to. THE CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIA TION) BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. THE NEW PEER. Lord REDESDALE said he understood that her Majesty bad graciously signified her intention ,of con ferring a peerage on the Hon. Edward Strutt, by the title of Lord Kingston. Now, as there was already a peer of that title, he thought some difficulty might arise by two peers sitting in that house by a similar title. The Marquis of LA.NSDOWNE said the new title was to be Lord Belper. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that even if it were true that the new peer was to bear the same title as another member of the house, there were various pre cedents for it. LEASES AND SALES OF SETTLED ESTATES BILL. The reasons of the Commons' Amendments to this bill were then considered. Lord REDESDALE raised an objection to the clangs re-inserted iu the bill which restrained Sir T. M. Wilson from building on Hampstead•heath. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved that this house do not insist in disagreeing to the Commons' amendments to this bill. After some discussion their lordships divided, when there appeared— For the Lord Chancellor's proposition l- O it 6 Majority 4 The Commons' amendments were then agreed to. Their lordships then adjourned until one o'clock on Tuesday next. HOUSE OF OOMMONS.--(This Day.) The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock. Several unopposed returns were ordered. LEASES AND SALES OF SETTLED ESTATES BILL. On consideration of the Lords' reasons for disagreeing to an amendment introduced into this bill in this house, preventing Sir T. M. Wilson from leasing Hampstead heath, Lord R. GROSVENOR, in the absence of the hod. member for Sheffield (Mr. Hadfield), moved that the house do insist on the amendment made in the bill by them on a former occasion being retained in the bill. The amendment was then agreed to without a divi sion, and a committee was appointed to confer with the Lords on the subject. SCOTTISH BISHOPS. Mr. GLADSTONE called the attention of the house to the recent announcement by her Majesty's Govern ment, of their intention to discontinue an allowance heretofore made to the bishops of the episcopal commu nion in Scotland, and to the legal disabilities not appli cable to the Ministers of any other religious denomina tion in this country to which the inid bishops and their clergy were subjected, in common with the episcopal clergy of the United States of America, and he moved for copies or extracts of any cor respondence relating to the subject. The Bishops of the Episcopal Commission in Scotland represented an historic clergy, and being free from all taint of suspicion in connection with the Stuarts, the descendants of the House of Hanover had treated them with much lenity and moderation. His late Majesty George IV, was is. strumental in procuring them a grant of 1200 i., payable every two years ; but it was afterwards commuted to 600/. a-year ; and it was now announced that this latter allowance was to be withdrawn. It bad never bees placed upon the estimates,. but paid on the authority of the Treasury. The right hon. gentleman then referred at some length to the unjust and absurd state of the law affecting the clergy of the Episcopal communion of Scot :and, and the Episcopal-Protestant Church of the United States of America, both of which sprung from the loins of the English Episcopal Church. They were both prop eluded by statute from engaging in the cure of souls, or holding benefices in the Church of England, a prohibi tion which extended to no other class of religionists, for Mahomedan, Hottentots, and the clergy and laity of every religious denomination might qualify thewselvet for discharging the most important sacred offices of the Church of England ; whilst those to whom he alluded could not do so. He hoped in another ses sion this absurdity in our laws would be rented ed, and that the amount hitla , rto granted would be continued during the lives of the present functionaries. Mr. A. BLACK said that though disagreeing with State grants for religious purposes, he supported the views of the right hon. gentleman in this instance. He considered these bishops resembled the Apostles more than any other bishops, viz., in their poverty.•(Laughter.) After some further discussion, Tne CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the Government had come with consiiierable reluctance to the decision of withdrawing this grant.. After referring to the origin of the grant, the right hon. gentleman said he could hold out no hopes of the grant being renewed. The return, after some further discussion, wasagreed to. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved that the house at its rising do adjourn tillTueeday neat. CAPTAIN FRASER. The Earl of DALKEITH caked the attention of the house to the case of Captain Fraser, late adjutant of the Ross-shire Rifles Militia, who had been deprived of his commission fur an alleged breach of military discipline without a court-martial. He moved for the copies of the correspondence. GENERAL BEATSON. Mr. ROEBUCK called the attention of the house' to what he called a mis-statement by Lord Paltweratoa and Mr. Peel during the debate on General Bentsen, that the charges were then hanging over his head, when in reality a letter had been written st that time, exonerat ing General Beatson of the charges alleged against him. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the papers referred to by the Earl of Dalkeith could not be granted on the motion of adjournment, but if he mentioned the subject again on Tuesday, the Under. Secretary for War would give an explanation of the . case. With regard to General Beatson, he must' also ask the bon. and learned member to renew his state ments on that day. The motion was then agreed to. CONSUL MATTHEIO. Mr. GLADSTONE explained that be had no inters• tion, in his speech on the debate on the American enlist meat question, to state anything disrespectful of this gentleman in any manner. He always looked upon him as a gentleman carrying out the instructions of his superiors, and that his statements were entitled to full credence. HOSPITALS (DUBLIN) BILL. The Lords' amendments to this bill were considered and agreed to. HAMPSTEAD HEATH The committee appointed to confer with the Home of Lords relative to the amendments on the Lessee end Sales of Settled Estates Bill, reported that their lord ships had agreed to the retention of the amendment which prohibits the leasing of Hampstead Heath. The house. djourned shortly before two o'clock. TESTIMONIAL TO THE LATE VICAR OF ST.MARTIIIII - Thursday last, nearly a hundred, gentlemen of the parish -of St. Martin's-iri-the-Fields} dined together at Blackwall—the present vicar, the R. W. G. Hurnphry, in the chair. A handsome tes timonial, consisting Of a silver salver, as well a a silver inkstand, were then presented to Mr. Mackenrii;al;9! mark of appreciation on thepart of the,parishiouert. Nrw Routs to Inrwati.—The Great Western and South Wales Railway Cornpsniet new route - t 6 thetrouth and east of Ireland , 3c: now completed, and-opens, On ttO 2d of. Auguat;:from Paddington , through; South Wald, to Milford, and thence, per steamer, to Waterford. Thit is.the second rettte to Irelapd established' 4 4 ..4 14 b Great Wasteit line, the other rending thnotigh Ire* 'and North Fales:llistriot C heywre 1 414' thefillt 11 1 4 Birlionhwi wad Holyhead ! 5