The Sun. — London, England, 1861-07-27 00:00:00

EW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI, - 4 7. 7 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. _ _ Reprodnetion of the great drama of "The Dead Heart." THIS EVENING, the great Adelphi drama, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, Fisher, Billing ton, Eburne, Smith, Romer ; Miss Woolgar and Miss Kate Kelly. To conclude with (11th time) THE PRETTY HORSE BREAKER. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford; Miss K. Kelly, Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Thorne, Miss Laidlaw, and Mrs. Chatterley, Doors open at half past 6—Commence at Y. THEATRE.RO YAL, HAYMAAKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstcne. THIS EVENING, tbe performances will c o mme n c e with a new Ballet, BACCHUS AND ARIADNE. Miss Fanny Wright, the Leclercqs, Mr. Webster, &C. - Atter which, a new Comedy, entitled MY LORD AND MY LADY ; or, It Might have been Worse. Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Buckstone, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Wilkins, &c. Followed by COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles Mathews. To conclude with TURNING THE TABLES. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S TkiEATRE.- ' Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the new comic drama, entitled A HOMESTEAD STORY, Messrs. Ryder Shore, and Miss M. Harris. To be followed by AS YOU LIKE IT. Mary Provost ; Jaques, Mr. Phelps. " To conclude,with THE TWO POLTS. Rosalind, Miss CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Verdi's New Opera, UN BALLO IN MASCHERA, 'arranged and conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. Mr. Levy on the cornet-a-piston. Mr. Wood and his talented little Son, the best Negro Delineators of the day. The extraordinary comic duet, " The Nerves," by Messrs. Harvey and French, the most grotesque performance in London. Mrs. Lawrence and Mr. Marshall in several New Songs written expressly for him, including the " Excursion to Brighton." Admission, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, Is. RETURN of SAM COWELL to ENGLAND, who will -shortly appear at his old quarters, after an absence of five years. RE-DECORATION of this Magnificent HALL, executed by Mr. William Sanderson, of Lambeth, under the direction of Samuel Field, Esq., architect, is now completed. This popular Place of Amusement now surpasses its former randeur, and, with the FINE ARTS GALLERY and SPACIOUS PROMENADE, forms the MOST ELEGANT PUBLIC BUILDING in the WORLD. Considerable im provements have been made in the VENTILATION and LIGHTING. T H E 0 X FoR D, 8, OXFORD-STREET. This noble building being now completed, its architectural beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and brilliancy of lighting Tender it one of the sights of the metropolis. Open -Every Evening. The programme is varied, and includes Selections (by a full company of principals, powerful band, and chorus) from " Macbeth" and "Un Ballo in Maschera." both operas by Verdi, the composes of the day—The wonderful D Solos on the Cornet-a-Piston a the renowned LEVY—Scotch Duets by the Misses Stuart, and other vocal and instrumental music of the highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The Comic portion of the entertainment is supported by Mis s Green, Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey, and French (the Nerves), W. H. Wieland, E. Marshall, and W. Rdall. Admission, sixpense ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. LEIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TEN DAY. —Morning, sh. 14m.—Afternoon, sh. 29m. To-mouttow.-Morning, sh. 47m.—Afternoon, 6h. sm. THE WEATHER.--SUN OFFICE, - JULY 27, 1361. THEEMO=TER, IN THE BRA.DII. 70 —highest since noon yesterday. 52—lowest this morning and during the night. 67—this day at noon. BauomETER-29.80. WIND—W.-N. -Westerly ; with, dense clouds. A heavy storm of thunder, lightning, rain, hail, and sleet burst over London about ten o'clock this morning. Two o'CLocx.—M ind, S.-W. ; light, with sunshiny weather. O l Vjo Se • • ' ), ( - 41f.X:, I , :iv.E:" • • , 7; re , „ SUN ; , LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 21. 1861. THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1861. Two MILLIONS AND A HALF for iron ships, and plated wooden ships is the new demand of the Government. Not all of it this year. A quarter of a million is all we are asked to pay now, with, however, the certainty that the rest is to follow, as complete as if we laid the entire foundations of a house with estimates to that amount. All the work is to be commenced, which is to issue in the above enormous cost. We can only hope that if capital is to be so largely invested, in the way we have so often recommended, it will be saved from being sunk in the forts for which so little, and against which so much can be said. It will be too bad to make us pay for both together, even though one be paid for by loan. If we make ourselves strong enough in new ships, we need not squander our money on the shoals near Portsmouth Harbour. But why this sudden and hot haste for iron vessels and that after so long delay ? It is the old reason — France is again seriously ahead of us. We have but twelve iron ships built or building. France—Lord PALMERSTON tells us with precision—has six large iron-plated ships afloat ; ten begun, which, with or dinary diligence, may be afloat in eighteen months or two years at most; and eleven floating batteries, as they are termed, making twenty-seven in all. That is, this is the number she may have afloat with ease in two years. Is this to go on, it is asked—are we to be for ever provoking France to build against us ? " No," replies Lord PALMERSTON, " that, certainly, is not the case now. France has taken the lead. It is not our prepa rations which induce her to arm ; but it is her great preparations which render it indispensable that we should make corresponding preparations." Mr. LINDSAY, who, to do him justice, has spared no pains by personal investigations to ascertain the truth, while he leaves with Lord PALMERSTON the re sponsibility for his statements, yet asks for the de tails ; but at the same time, like his friend Mr. COB DEN, adds, that if the noble lord's statement be ac curate, which of course he ought to assume, he should not be content with two millions and a half, he should be prepared to rote double the sum. He strongly asserted, apparently with the anger of a deceived man, that " France had no right to those s hips." If she real l y had them, she could not be honest in her professions towardsEnglaud, and "it behoved us to know what she meant by }lnchon:: ments." In these last rem arks of Mr. LINDSAY we \ entirely concur. Nor can we accept Mr. Prro's remarks as an entire justification of France. It may be true that since 1858 France, steing that iron must triumph, has prudently avoided expenditure on wood. It may be true that our Admiralty Lords have been intolerably ob stinate, or supine, or wasteful, or all of these, in scouting iron just as they did steam, and then screws, in the navy, till the lazy 1 blunders had to be paid for by the country at an enormous cost. All this may be true. Yet, the fact remains that the French navy is in such a condition that France has no need whatever of this costly augmentation, unless she cherishes ambitious projects, against which we espe_ cially, and all Europe, too, must be on guard. Again, we believe the truth is undeniable, that when the income-tax collector calls, every EngliAman should remember that LOUIS NAPO LEON, and no one else, is answerable for that in tolerable infliction. Were he and his policy dead, the very next session the tax might be abolished. If he pursues his present course, he vc ill make, war at once, the cheapest policy. Even for th e las, hours of the Session we do not gru'!ge the time occupied by the debate on the sl ave , Trade last night. T -he speech of Mr. GIiEGOIt7, with his strong. American leanings, but above all, that of Lord P ALmE ,„ " lON, dealing cut even-handed justice to the three great culprits in this accursed tralD, wilt not b 3 without their weight in the capitals of Europe and of America. prance is repenting of the infamous REGts con tract, and we must not, perhaps, be too sever e therefore on bygones; bat still it ought not to pass without indignant rebuke, that, though ashamed at last of having invested French mer chants with powers which enable them to pur chase slaves in Africa, and to sell them to a nominal apprenticeship in their colonies, her go vernors were not so %shamed as to stop the vile traffic unconditionally. We have purchased the stoppage from them, by permitting them to hire our own Indian subjects, on the same conditions as our own planters do in the Mauritius. We only hope that means may be found as effectual as those employed there, to ensure the good treatment of the coolies. In the Mauritius all is quite satisfac tory. The natives of India have returned so much benefited by their service, that their report has made it popular. Indian labour is now readily procurable by our planters, because the conditions of the contract have been honourably kept. We hope it will be the same in French colonies. For two other offenders, Spain and America, little indeed can be said. Cuba is now the only mart for the slave trade. Spain has long beEn bound by treaty, and by the receipt of half a million of money to pat the trade down there. The treaty she laughs at ; she has pocketed the money ; remonstrances are met with promises to do her best in the business ; but her best is, that the trade flourishes, that her Captains General of the Island go out poor and come home rich, and that sugar is grown in Cuba as it used to be grown in Jamaica, by using up at a fearful rate the lives of the imported Africans. Spain, as Lord PALMERSTON says, begins to be a little ashamed —but the blush is scarce perceptible, and she goes on. Cuba is to her poor aristo cratic favourites what a Governor-Generalship of I n dia is to ours ; we mean, of course, excluding considerations of morality. The latter can have but little weight at Madrid. But even Spain would, we believe, be nearly helpless, but for America. The formally and still diplomatically, United States, are the great offenders—the great culprits in the Slave trade iniquity, as they are in the crime of slavery itself. They are so both directly and indirectly. Directly, for the ships which carry on the traffic nearly all sail from their ports ; and in directly, because she requires immunity of search for her flag, even though the circumstances may be very suspicious. Mr. GREGORY stated last night that out of ten slave vessels captured by the American vessels themselves, seven slavers were from New York ; out of 44 which arrived at one part of the African coast, thirty-one were American vessels. Lord LYONS, in writing to Lord JOHN RUSSELL in September, 1860, told him that in the previous eighteen months, eighty five vessels had sailed from American ports to be employed in the slave trade. With such hard facts before them, we should like to know what the American Government and people have to say for themselves. They refuse a reciprocal right of search in the case of suspicion of this odious kind of piracy. Their flag is, consequently, the one selected by all the sea brigands of Christendom ; by a little contrivance the ship is registered as an American one, and then our blustering hectoring transatlantic friends tell us.that it shall be a casus belli if we meddle with a criminal whom their own laws condemn. Nothing Lord PALMERSTON could propose would they accede to. It was suggested by him, once, that a British and American ship should hunt in couples for slavers ; the slaver when caught to be the prize of the American vessel, if found to be an American. This, however, his lordship observed, seemed too likely to accomplish its object, and was therefore declined. Mr. BUCHANAN never did, wittingly, any real mischief to the slave trade. He once found a few captured negroes a heavy expense to the Government—but- once, however ; a remedy was soon found for that. American cruisers went off somewhere for water when they saw a slaver. It is conduct like this which compels England to feel that it owes nothing to the cause of the Northern States. Partly from a most puerile and priggish pride about the right of search, a pride without excuse if England the older and stronger nation were not above submitting to it, they prostituted their flag to the Cuban slave trade. And further, they installed an Administration, a Senate, and a House of Represen tatives, under whom eighty five ships were sent forth in eighteen months as slavers ! Can England think much of the new-born zeal for freedom of such a people? We cannot excuse them on the ground of the predominance of pro-slavery men in the Legislature—since, while this was just the cause of the evil, it was a cause entirely within their power to remove. The Free States could at any time have returned a majority of Representatives pledged to suppress the slave trade under the American flag. It could have had, if it pleased, a President and a small majority of the Senate on the same side. With the Northern States, therefore, has lain the entire responsibility of upholding a traffic which is surely the most disgraceful ever known among civilised nations. We shall be but too thankful if Mr. LINCOLN reverses the policy of his predecessors, and if the American people awaken' from their moral stupoi. The compensation (!) to the extent of £lOO. awarded by Lord PALMERSTON to the " Poet CLOSE," because of the withdrawal of the pension of £5O per annum set apart for that Illustrious Obscure out of the £1,200 place admits de m ve it r e y year at the disposal of the Premier for the encouragement of A r t, Science, and Litera ture,of no justification. The Prime Minis ter, in a rmw • erlog Mr. STIRLING the other evening in the Ro use of Commons, when the hon. gentle man, whose name we havejust mentioned, the referred to that ridicul ous little incident,Prime Minister himself, it is only fair to say, attempted to utter in regard to it not one word of—what can be strictly called justification. 'Viscount PALMER STON endeavoured to extenuate the course pursued by him under t he circumstances, and nothing more. And those circumstances in themselves, it must b e allowed, were sufficiently vexatious and embarrass_ ing. A blunder, an egregious and preposterous blunder had been committed in the selection of this ludicrously inappropriate recipient pounds s twe r n lin ty ; fourth part of the twelve hundred sterling annually placed (for the purposes already specified) at the command of the First Lord of the Tr easur y . While judiciously awarding pensions to the rela tives of world-famous and delightful writers like ROBERT SOUTHEY, and LEIGH HUNT, and Mrs. JAMESON, and others known to fame in the world of polite literature, the Prime Minister had been de luded in a moment of carelessness, or we might say while labouring under some extraordinary hallucina tion, into the belief that a neglected poet, " a gem of purest ray serene," a flower hitherto " born to blush unseen," had suddenly been brought to light in the person of one " CLOSE." An in dividual arrogating to himself—if it ba in any way possible to employ a word so big in regard t ) a claim sc utterly absurd and prfpof... t .roux—arrogating to himself the title of " Post Laureate" to a certain African potentate entith d he King of BONDY, a personage closely allied d)ubtless with th - immortal prince renowned in the old Coml.; Song, under the euphonious designa. tion of Hokipokiwinkiwang F libbi i baski kang. To this amazing phenomenon the Poet Laureate of a woolly-headed savage, with a palace probably little better than a mud hut and a ward robe possibly extending no further than the pos session of the proverbial cocked-hat and pair of pumps of the caricaturist—to this self-educated genius who had won his way to the favour of his Nigger Majesty, Lord PALMERSTON had in an un lucky outburst of goodnatured pity awarded for the rest of his life the sum of £5O per annum out of the public money. CLOSE—" the poet CLosE" — w e now have it from the lips of Mr. STIRLING, speaking from his place in the House of Commons onwas originally bled a butcher,Tu Tuesday a but y y evening—" forsook that occupation to earl become a printer, which was more to his taste, as he seemed to have possessed a fatal facility for doggerel verse and ungrammatical prose." The origin of this aspirant to poetic honours was in itself, it must be allowed, in some respects auspi cious. SHAKSPERE'S father, besides carrying on the trade of a wool-carder in the little house in Henley-street, Stratford-upon-Avon, is said to have been at one time a butcher as well as a wool carder. There was a recollection, truly, with which to kindle the " poet CLosE's" ambition and with which to fire his capacious and resplendent imagina tion ! Besides, whatever may be said about SHAK SPERE'S father—it is at any rate a well-known fact that among the minor poets of England there was indubitably one who had originally shouldered the meat-tray as a butcher's boy : to wit KIRKE WHITE. This encouraging thought for " the poet CLOSE," being in itself as indisputable as that other kindred fact recorded in English History, the fact that in the person of Cardinal WOLSEY a butcher's son had risen to the Woolsack. The rest of the narrative of the rise (if it can be in any way, as the merest figure of speech, called a rise) of the poet CLOSE—shall we say to fame ?—at any rate to a literary pension from England's Prime Minister—the rest of this " ower true" tale, as recounted on Tuesday evening in the House of Commons by Mr. STIRLING, is really worth giving just in the very words of that hon. gentleman :—" For years," said Mr, STIRLING, " he (the Poet CLOSE) had carried on this species of manufacture, his productions being generally in the shape of handbills circulated through the post. Persons who sent back money to ' the poet' on receiving these papers were duly lauded in the next issue, and those who neglected or refused to send back money were made the subjects of his satires." Nay, Mr. STIRLING went on to say, " Some of these effusions were of such a nature that he (Mr. STIRLING) was greatly surprised how CLOSE had so long escaped the horsewhipping he had done so much to deserve. CLOSE was pro secuted for a libel in one of these in 1855, and the Attorney-General conducted the prosecution. The defence was, that praise or blame could have no effect from him, and that what he said against the lady could do no damage. The defence, however, did not stand good. The verdict was against CLOSE, damages £5O; and but for his poverty the damages would have been heavier. The plaintiff did not wish to press for the damages, and remitted them on condition that CLOSE should publish a retraction of the slander, and indulge in no more for the future. This CLOSE consented to do. He did publish a retraction, and was let off the damages; but on several subsequent occasions he referred to this trial as an occasion on which he had been heavily mulcted for telling the truth.'" Mr. STIRLING added very justly that " he thought that when it was found that CLosE did not deserve the pension, he ought not to have had the £lOO. The noble lord had told them that CLOSE was a self educated poet, belonging to the same category as BURNS, and then the Premier produced ' the memo rial' which he flourished over the box and sat down, as he generally did, amidst the cheers of the House." Now, that Lord PALMERSTON blundered originally in giving this particular pension of £5O per annum, he himself acknowledges. The acknowlegment is visible, indeed, in the very fact of the withdrawal 'of the pension itself. But grievously as Lord PALMERSTON blundered in the first instance in regard to the £5O (the very amount of the damages, coupled with the adverse verdict above mentioned, the verdict for libel !) the noble lord, we cannot but think, blundered yet more grievously afterwards in granting Mr. CLOSE—out of the public purse— £loo by way of " compensation." Compensation ! in the name of common-sense, for what ? Mr. Layard, who, it will be remembered, was for a short time Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in Lord John Russell's Governmemt, will succeed Lord Wodehouse in that office. Earl de Grey will resume the office of Under-Secretary for War, which he formerly filled with conspicuous success ; and Mr. T. G. Baring will re turn to the India-office as Under-Secretary of State. Mr. C. Stephenson, of the Treasury, now private secretary to Sir George Lewis at the Home-office, will act in a similar capacity at the War-office. Sir Maurice Berkeley's title is not to be Baron Berkeley. We believe he will be raised to the Peerage by the title of Baron Fitzhardinge. A process has been invented by Mr. William Longmaid for an improvement in the manufacture of iron and steel, which consists in the introduction during the operation of puddling of a small quantity of gold, which is diffused throughout the mass, and which is said to confer extraordinary advantages in increasing its ductility, strength, and durableness. If the results alleged should be substantiated by sufficient trials, there seems a proba bility that it will have an important influence on the manu facture of artillery, ships' plates, anchor cables, and all those portions of railway plant in which tenacity is most essential. ARGYLL Rooms.—This establishment closes this evening to enable the proprietor to re-decorate and improve this far-famed salon de dense. The rooms will re-open in August. BARON DE VIDIL.—A Paris letter in the Inde pendance of Brussels says f—" Some journals have an nounced that the name of Baron do Vidil has been struck out from the list of the Jockey Club; this statement is in correct. It is only for the 19th, and conformably to Art. 22 of the regulations, that a general meeting has been con voked, in order to decide whether there are any grounds for applying to a member of the club (13zr , n de Vidil) Art. 24 of the regulations, which says :--( In case of any inerious infraction of the regulations or of the laws of honour and good conduct, the committee is bound to conv. , lie a general meeting, which will decide whether there is good grounds for the exclusion of the member who shall have been guilty of it.' " THE BUILDERS' STRIKE.—A negotiation is now t t a h k e in ta g o p st lac in e for influential settlement tialenaploye of this rs,who, d d i e s s p i u ri t n e it g w an h some amioi of ble their return made views. In. th em Y es terd s a o y n w s' aited and masons' settlement, have opened communications with committee. upo ll s 0 m A. e deputationfrom emy l o t y h e i r s s c , o a m n m d i d t t i e s e . cussed the whole question in a very friendly way ; and on a very favourable report of the inter pernetsioent state of the negotiations it would be the initiative in conciliation , names of the firms thus taking Parliament, in the trade, and any decision premature to but they are of high standing 013. they come to will materially At a delegate meeting influence the rest of the em complaining of the a petition was pre of the building trade held last evening, military unf,rt t . p ired for presentation to Parr authorities of the War- effice furnishing' a artificers to the contractor for the Chelse S a up e ar ly ra ot k . up the places of the men w;ao had declined to work tou fill the hour system. While, however, there is some prospectnder ix! a settlement of the dispute in London, it has nately extended itself to the provinces. During last week a large number of the employers in Liverpool placarded the town with a notice, that on and after Sept. 2 they intended to enforce the systcnl of paying and hiring by the hour. On this announcement the operatives met and deter.nined on immediate resistance. On Monday last the whole of the plasterers, 214 in number, and the bricklayers employed by those firms who had signed the above notice, refused to re sume work until the notice was withdrawn. Should this net be done the strike, it is expected, wili become general. _ A PILLAR OF FIRE IN ENGLAND.—A " o • column, bearing the appearance of cloud or smoke, with a point tapering downwards, like a church steeple re versed," passed over Pinston on Saturday week, impelling some railway waggons, scorching trees, damaging roofs, and emptying the ponds over wilich it passed,—Liveridooi Courier. Ll 6 . T J' Itv 6. MADRID JULY 27. The powder magazine at Villa Feliche, Aragon, has been blown up. One hundred mills were burned down. Twenty workmen were killed or severely in jured. La Patrie announces the arrival at Paris Hof General Montauban, who had command of the French troops in China. La Patrie also publishes accounts from Vichy, according to which the Emperor is in the enjoyment of excellent health. His - Majesty has himself drawn up a plan for embellishing the town with a new boulevard, a park, and public gardens. TURIN, JULY 26. The official Gazette of to-day says :—" Two indi viduals, named respectively Groben and Austerlitz, have been arrested here on a charge of enlisting recruits for the Pontifical army. They had Papal and Austrian passports. Lists of men enrolled since 1860, and a quantity of Bourbon and Papal portraits and decorations, were also found on them. They were about to enter the Italian army in order to attempt, to corrupt the soldiers." FLORENCE, ICILY 26. A reactionary band has been formed at Tosca nella. Troops will be despatched from Leghorn in order to prevent them from crossing the frontiers. VIENNA, JULY 26. A stormy discussion on the question of the na tionalities took place to-day in the Lower House of the Reichsrath. All the members of the Right, with the exception of three, left the House, previously, however, re serving to themselves the right of expressing their views on a future occasion. firm. New York Central, 77 ; Erie, 27; Illinois, 681. Flour sc. and wheat 2e. dearer. The steamships Hibernia, Saxonia, City of Wash ington, and Asia have arrived out. QUEENSTOWN, JULY 26: The Royal Mail steamship Persia, from New York on the 17th inst., arrived here at 7 a.m. She brought 221 passengers, 1,100 dols., and a box of diamonds, value 6,000 dols., for Havre. She landed 108 sacks of mails and 20 passengers, and pro ceeded at 7.30 p.m. ; all well. STATE OF HUNGARY. (From the Correspondent of the Times.) FESTH, JULY 22. The Imperial rescript, which arrived last night from Vienna, has been read to-day to both Cham bers of the Hungarian Diet. The hour fixed was noon for the Deputies and 1 o'clock for the Mag nates, and in the former Chamber considerably be fore the appointed time there was a numerous attendance both of members and of the public. By the latter every available nook was made the most of, the reporters' gallery was invaded, and even through the large skylight faces were seen peeping. With little ventilation, in an almost African temperature, and in strong expectant excitement, the melting multitude waited, but noon struck, and the President, although in the House, did not take the chair. The reason of this unusual delay pre sently transpired. So unacceptable did the Re script appear to the - few who had had communi cation of it, that Count Apponyi had thought it right to telegraph to Vienna to know if that was indeed the final decision of the Emperor, and whe ther there was no chance, even at this more than eleventh hour, of a change in the Imperial mind. This last earnest and almost hopeless appeal shows how bad was the impression made by the document, and foreboded for it a most unfavourable reception by the Chambers and the nation. It was past half past 12 when President Shiezy took the chair. After the protocol of the last sitting had been read, one of the secretaries, M. Tanarky, commenced the , reading of the rescript, amid perfect silence and profound attention. It was long, filling eight large sheets of paper, and I to-day can give you but a very brief and imperfect notice of it. In two words, ' however, I may tell you that it seems to be considered worse even than the most gloomy anticipations had foreboded. Not only the Ultras but the most Con servative (in the sense of attachment to the dynasty) are disgusted at it, and the latter deplore that the Emperor should thus have thrown away the excel lent opportunity that presented itself of conciliating the Hungarian nation. But my time is short, and I must get to the rescript, reserving reflections for to-morrow. In that document, inter alia, it is posi tively denied that the union existing between Aus tria and Hungary is legally a merely personal one. During the last three centuries, it is said, there has been so much approximation that the personal union has become a real one. This is much the same as saying that during the struggle that has been long carried on. with varying success, between the central power at Vienna and the Hungarian nation, so much has been extorted and seized from the latter, so much stolen and so much abolished, that the former now con siders it possible to deny the existence of what re mains, Although in the Hungarian address it was most formally declared that under no circumstances would the nation send Deputies to the Vienna Reichsrath, on the plea that to do so would be equivalent to nullifying the constitutional laws that for eight centuries have existed, the rescript con tains a command that such Deputies should be sent, and warns the Diet to do all in its power to hasten their election. This passage cause(' a very strong sensation. With respect to the laws of 1848 the Em peror declares that, as those laws are in complete contradiction with the Imperial patents of the 20th of October, 1860, and the 26th of February, 1861 he not only cannot grant them, but that he most de cidedly will not. This violent announcement pro duced in the Chamber of Deputies an amount of emotion and stir which might have become almost uproar on the part of the more impetuous members of the Chamber had these not have been cautioned and quieted by cries of " Hear, hear !" from the majority. I must say that, considering all the circumstances of the case, the aggravating terms of the address, and the excitable temperament of this southern race, the demeanour of the Chamber was most commendable for its calmness and dig nity. The Emperor, the rescript continues, has called together the Hungarian Diet to the end that those obstacles which impede perfect harmony be tween nation and ruler may be removed in a legal way, and he requests that the Parliament will busy itself with the tranquil preparation of projects of law for the country, and that the nation will con sider it a duty to follow the example of its fore fathers. At tt is the Chamber laughed, and that was not surprising. The Emperor wishes obstacles removed; what those obstacles are has been fully pointed out in Deak's address, which the rescript so abruptly rejects. The union between Hungary and Transylvania is declared null. In connexion with this point the rescript refers to the various nationali ties of Hungary in a manner that seems to confirm the prevalent belief as to the basis or vantage ground from which Vienna proposes to work against Hungary. I find it a most positive article of faith amongthe Hungarians that Austria is again stirring up the different nationalities, with a view to estab lish her rule and power by favour of their animosi ties and dissensions. They discover confirmation of this opinion in a demand set forth in the rescript that the Diet should immediately busy itself with such measures as shall satisfy the different nation alities: Now, it is well known that the Diet will not do this so long as its numbers are incomplete, so long as there are kept aloof from its deliberations some 200 Deputies from Croatia and Transylvania, by whom it is here maintained they should be shared in. This refusal will be availed of, it is predicted, in case of the dissolution of the Diet (extremely likely to occur at no distant period—so far, at least, as we can as yet judge of the probable course of events in an early future) by the Vienna Govern ment, which will represent to the different nation alities that the Hungarians are in reality their enemies, and so will arouse ill-blood and produce hatreds and contests which it thinks will tend to keep down the Hungarians. I give 3 ou this as the opinion I hear very generally expressed here. As regards the question of the coronation, the inau gural diploma, the rescript says, will not be issued until the Diet shall have settled the above matters. The deficiencies mentioned in Deak's address, in the announcement of the abdication of the late Empe. ror, will positively not be supplied. The answer returned to Count Appony i's telegram to Vienna, aboxementioned, was that nothing c mid be changed in the rescript. The advanced party here seems well pleased at the conduct ot'the Impe rial Government, which justifies, they say, all their anticipations, and will unite all political parties and fractions in one common band of antagonism to Austria. They quote the " Quem deus cult per dere," and gird themselves to encounter hard times, pro bable persecution, and a severe struggle at a date which they do not believe remote. Although the chief display of feeling and centre of interest was of course in the Lower House, it was by no means uninteresting to observe how the rescript, so unequivocally condemned by the Deputies, would be received by the Magnates, and to their place of meeting, a temporary one in the Dorotheen Strasse, a portion of the spectators pro ceeded when the other Chamber broke up. The Magnates' Chamber is small, bat'not inconvenient, and today it was a world too wide for the scanty number of its members that attended. Count Apponyi, the President, was in the chair; near to him, on his left front, sat the Primate of Hungary, at a scarlet table, on a scarlet bench, with a scarlet skull-cap covering his tonsure, and a scarlet lining to his ample robe. Beside and behind this rev. gentleman sat sundry bishops and other high cleri cal dignitaries; opposite to him were some of the high aristocracy of Hungary and keepers of the Crown--Carolyi, Zichy, Ancirassy, Mailath, Bce. A great number of the Magnates are at their estates in the country, and it is looked upon as an indica tion of their dissatisfaction at the Vienna p o l ic y that they did not return for the present occabion. I do not think it is saying too much to say that in both houses the rescript has been received with contempt and disgust. Such, at least, was the im pression a careful observation of the mien and movements of both Deputies and Magnates made upon me. Bitter smiles greeted the most obnoxious passages of the document; murmurs (in the Lower Chamber), not loud, but deep, were frequent ; not a single elfin was at any time heard to brighten, in some small degree, the lowering cloud of discon tent. The rescript was received almost as if it had been a defiance, and the sabres of some of the Mag nates clanked ominously in their metal scabbards, as their wearers fretted and started with irritation and impatience at some of the most offensive pas sages of the Imperial mandate. It was announced that the rescript would be printed and distributed. Notice will be given when the Chambers are to meet again—probably in two or three days, at least the Deputies, who will then hold a private sitting, to be followed by a public one. Both the Deak-Eotvos party and the other have formed committees, since this morning's sit ting, to hold consultations between this and the next sitting. As yet I can give you no idea of the course likely to be pursued, and might only mislead you by hazarding conjectures. We shall shortly see how things shape themselves. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD CITY. The writ directing a new election for this city was received yesterday (Friday) morning by the Mayor (Alderman Sadler), and at 12 o'clock the customary proclamation was made on Carfax. The election will take place on Tuesday next at 12 o'clock, when there is no doubt that Mr. Cardwell will be returned without opposition. The right hon. gentleman has issued the following address:— " TO THE ELECTORS OF OXFORD. " Gentlemen,—l have accepted the office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and have consequently vacated the seat which I occupied by your favour in the House of Com mons. I venture to solicit a renewal of that trust. I be lieve that you have not been dissatisfied with the manner in which the interests of England and the cause of freedom in Europe have been sustained by the advisers of the Crown ; and I hope that in matters of domestic policy an adherence on my part to the principles which you have heretofore approved will ensure to me the continuance of your confidence and generous support.—l have the hrnour to be, gentlemen, your most obedient and most faithful servant, "EDWARD CARDWELL. " 74, Eaton-square, July 25." THE CANADIAN REINFORCEMENTS. QUEBEC, JULY 7. The Great Eastern arrived here to-day. As she swung round Point Levi, and appeared in full view of the town, it seemed to 10,000 spectators as though a slice of land had been miraculously detached from the shore, and was floating on the broad bosom of thA St. Lawrence. There was a large crop of ships in port, and the leviathan glided in and out among them with the ease and assurance of a tiny ferry boat. She never looked so vast upon the waters of New York Bay as she does here, whele every vessel is a foil to her superiority, and every object ashore throws her bulky proportions into wondrous relief. As she passed the transport Golden Fleece, the latter, itself an enormous ship, looked like a yacht in comparison. The Great Eastern has made the passage in eight days, and however great her failure in some respects, she has certainly made a successful voyage in the service to which she is now consigned. It is very probable that she will be retained by Government for the purpose of transporting troops to distant parts of the empire. Some 4,000 British soldiers, including two regiments of the Line, a regiment of Rifles, a battery of flying artillery, and half-a-dozen Armstrong guns, have been brought to this province within a week by the Great Eastern and the Golden Fleece. The move ment has, I see, excited comment in the United States, and English journals do not seem to under stand its object. The explanation offered by mili tary authorities here is not an unreasonable one. In the first place, they say that the reinforcements, excepting the artillery force, merely raise the garri son of Canada to its strength before the Crimean war. This is true. Again, it is urged that the troops are required to maintain the police of the Canadian frontiers during the existence of pend ing troubles. This is also true. In times past frontier duty was performed by a Provincial regi ment (the Canadian Rifles), but on the withdrawal of Line regiments for Crimean, and subsequently for Indian service, the Rifles were ordered to garrison Quebec and Montreal. By the new ar rangement they will merely return to their old oc cupation, and the regiments just arrived will gar rison the large towns.—New York Times. THIS DAY'S MARKETS. COVENT GARDEN. The supply of fruit is very moderate, of vegetables sea sonably extensive. On the whole, the demand may be considered steady, at the following rates : FRUIT. a. d. 5. d. a. d. a. d Pineapples, perlb 4 oto 6 0 Cherries, per lb. 0 4to 0 6 Colonial do., each 1 6to 2 0 Filberts, per lb .. 1 6to 2 0 Grapes,per lb 2 oto 5 0, Cobnuts, per lb 16to 2 0 Foreign do 2 oto 3 0 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0 arelons, each Peaches, perdoz 12 0;o20 6 i Figs, er doz . 2 oto 4 Nectarines, per dz 10 oto 15 01 Strawberries pun. 0 .6 to 1 6 Apples, per sieve 3 oto 6 0 1 Gooseberries hf sv 5 oto 6 0 Pears, per do .... 2 oto 6 01 Currants, per do. 6 oto 8 0 Oranges, per 100 6 oto 12 01Plums, per do. .. 0 oto 0 0 Lemons, per 120.. 4 oto 8 OlGreengages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0 Apricots, per doz 1 oto 3 0 I Raspberries, pr ptlo Bto 1 0 VEGETABLES. Greens, dz bunch 3 oto 3 6 Shallots, per lb 1 6to 0 0 Cabbages, pr doz. 0 9to 1 6, Horseradish, pbn 1 oto 2 0 Savoy do., pr do. 1 6to 1 9 Parsley, per ditto 0 2to 0 4 Cauliflowers, pdz 2 oto 6 0 Celery, per ditto 0 Bto 1 6 2 0 Brocoli, per bush. 1 2to 1 4 Beet, per doz. .. 1 6 o 0 0 to Potatoes, per ton 60 to 100 0 Parsnips , per do. 0 0 t t o o 2 1 New ditto, pr cwt. 5 oto 10 0 a Small i o s h salad, roo s .pp p sr . ep p dur n zoe , 041 80 0 3 to 0 61 0 2t t o 0 06 3 Peas, per 4 sieve 1 3to 1 9 m 6 Turnips, dz bunch 3 6to 6 6 Artichokes, Cucumbers Garrote, pr do. . . 4 0 t t o o 0 9 8 0 E Cabbage odt p l e ox t t'o score 1 -••• Garlic, per lb 6to 0 8 Radishes, dz hnds 0 Bto 0 10 Sorrel, per . s . leve o oto 0 0 Tomatoes,alnuts, p ofrloZ. 100 0 . 6 00 to 0 0 0 0 Spinach,hf sv 0 6to 1 0 Walnuts, Brus. sprouts,h.s 1 Bto 1 0 Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Onions, hf. sv 0 oto 0 0 I Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 0 New Do., dz bun 1 oto 1 9 I Rhubarb, per bun 0 4to 0 6 French beans, pun 0 oto 1 3 I Asparagus, pr do. 2 oto 4 0 Leeks, per bunch 0 oto 0 0 Seakale, per pun. 1 0 to 1 NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Turkeys, 5s Oct to 7s Od ; poults, 5s Od to 6s Od each ; geese, 4s Od to Gs Od ; goslings, 4s Od to Os Od ; ducklings, Is 6d to 2s 9d; rabbits, is Od to is 9d each; wild do., to is ld ; pigeons, Os 6d to 9d eac h ; l arge Surrey fowls, 6s Od to 12s Od; chickens, 3s 6d to 68 Od; barn-door fowls, 3s Od to 5s Od ; capons, 4s Od ; hares, 2s 6d to 3s Od ; grouse, is Od to 2s Gd each; pheasants, 3s 6d to 4s Gd ; ptarmigan, 28 Od to Os ; woodcocks, 2s 6d to 3s Od; snipes, I s 64 to 2s Od; teal, Os Od to is 6d ; wild ducks, 2s 6cl to 3s Od ; widgeons, is 6d to Os Od ; plovers, is Od to is Gd each ' • guinea fowls, 5s Od to 7 s Od ; roastin g pigs, 6s Od to 9s Od each; Ostend fresh butter, 11d to is 14; English, is Od to is 3d per lb ; English eggs, 8s Od to 8s 6d ; French d o ., 7s Od to 7s 6d per 120; leverets, Os 04 to Os Od each. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have received the following telegram:— " SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 27. " The Massilia, with the above mails, reached Marseilles at 7 o'clock this morning. " The mails were to leave for London at 10 a,m. " The Ceylon, with the heavy portion of the mails, was to leave Malta at noon, on the 24th, and may therefore be expected at Southampton about the 2d of August. " The Malta brought the mails to Suez, arriving there on the 10th. THE OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. " The Euxine (from Southampton, 12th) reached Malta on the 22d, at 6 a.m., and left for Alexandria at noon. The Vectis (from Marseilles, Vth) arrived at Malta on the 22d, at 7 p.m., and left at 11 p.m. for Alexandria." FRANCE. BOURSE, July 26.—Dulness in business and firmness in prices continuo to be the' leading features of the market, prices remaining firm at about the same quotations. Threes, for the Account, are now at 67f 70c. Railway Shares quiet. The following are the last quotations :- 4.1. per per Cents ... 97 40, Credit Fancier 1180 Do. end month.... Belgian 41 3 per Cents ...... 67 75 J Piedmontese Fives 7O 80 Do. end month.... 67 70 j Roman Bank Shares 2900 --l Austrian .. 73 Credit Mobilier 667 50 Spanith Threes.... Do. Account 668 75 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleszns 1387 60 .. 1386 25 Northern . New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 980 .. 981 25 Geneva.. 342 50 .. Southern 5BO .. 580 Western Eastern Sardinian 358 /5 .. 358 75 Austrian Lombard AMERICA. GRIIAT SUCCESS OF THE FEDERAL TROOPS. NEW YORK, JULY 16, EVENING, (Per Persia via Queenstown). General M'Clelland reports cfficially to the War Department that Colonel Pegram has surrendered with 600 Confederates, at Beverley, and that Gene ral Morris has pursued and routed a large body of Confederates at St. George. General Barnett, coin mandia g the Confederates, was killed. The Fede ral loss is reported as 13 'killed. The loss of the Confeder ates was 200 killed. Seven guns and 1,000 prisoners were captured. General M'Clelland's despatch concludes thus :—" Our success is com plete, and I firmly believe Secession is killed in Western Virginia." The New York Herald's Washington correspon dent states that the British consul at Charleston has forwarded to Lord Lyons documents concern ing the breaking of the Chesapeake blockade by private persons with the permission of the Federal Governsaent. Among the documents are passes signed by General Butler, permitting vessels to pass the blockade. The House of Representatives has passed a reso lution to the effect that if the Senate concurred Congress should adjourn on the 19th July. A re solution has been offered providing for a National Convention for the restoration of peace, but was lost by a vote of 92 to 61. Advices have been received from Havannah to the 10th inst. The privateer steamer Sumter had captured eight American ships laden with sugar on the tgouth side of Cuba. One was burnt, and the other seven were taken by prize crews into Cien fuegos. One report states that the Captain-Gene ral of Cuba has released them. Another report states that he has detained them, in order to refer the matter to Madrid. Havannah sugar market was active ; No. 12, 7to reals. (LATEST.) NEW YORK, JULY 17„ 1 P.M. The Federal army, under General Macdowall, is repot ted to number 55,000 men. He made an advance yesterday from Arlington Heights in the direction of Fairfax Court House. In Congress bills have been reported voting 3,000,000 dollars for a temporary increase of the navy for the more effick nt suppression of privateering. Mr, Sumner has presented a petition for the abolition of slavery, which proposes that slaveowners should be remune rated. from the United States Treasury. During the discussion on the bill Mr, Sumner approved the President's act. Mr. Breckenridge made a strong speech. declaring the acts of President Lincoln, especially' the sus pension of the Habeas Corpus, to be an ur,constitu tional usurpation of power. He said tile country was rushing with rapid strides from conErtitutional government to military despotism, yet so great on one side was the passion of the hour, and so as tonishing the stupid amazement of the of her, that these things were taken as natural and light. He referred to the refusal to adopt the Critter den com promise, and wished the country to know - that Con gress had deliberately refused a last effi or t to avert the horrors of internal strife and warfar COMMERCIAL INTELLIGEN 07 , E. NEW YORK, JULY 16 1 ,, 6 P.M. Money easy ; e-ehango and stoel :s_, steady. Bankers' bill s, 1061 to 107 ; New Yoi k Central, 77? - F ; Erie, 201-- ; Lib - lois, 671. Cotton fi rrnly held. Middling Upl an d , 16)-c. Flour firmer, and in moderate demand, prices 10c. higher. Wheat firm, and advancing. Corn heavy. Provisiions dull. Coffee firm, and advancing. Sugar and molasses quiet and unchanged. NEW YORK, JULY 17, AFTERS • 00N. Money euy. Exchange unaltered. S toe, ka very NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 2d; mutton, 3s Od to 4s 4d; lamb ; 4s 8d to 5s 6d ; veal, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; and pork, 3s 8d to 4s . Bd per Blbs. WIIITECHAPEL. Beef from 2s 10d to 4s 2cl; mutton, 3s Od to 4s 4d ; lamb, 4s 8d to 5s 6cl; veal, its 61 to 4s 6d; and pork, 3s 8d to 4s 8d per 81bs. by the carcase. BILLING SGATE. Salmon, Os 9d to is Od ; trout, Os 9d to Os; eels, 4d to 10d ; prawns, ssod to Os; pike, skate, sturgeon, and halibut, 6d pei lb. Turbots, 3s Od to 12s ; cod, 2s Od to lOs Od ; brills, is Od to 7s Od; doreys, is Od to 5s Od; mullets, Os 6d to 2s Od; lobsters, 6d to 2s Od ; crabs, 6clto 2s Od ; plaice and gurnets, 4d to is 6d each; soles, 3d to 2s Od per pair; common oysters, —s to —s ; natives, 40s to 44s per bushel ; whitings, 3s Od to 5s Od ; haddocks, 4s to 12s Od ; smelts, 2s Od ; flounders, is 6d to 2s 6d per dozen ; mackerel, 40s ; fresh herrings, 5s ; bloaters, 68 to Ss per 120 ; carp and tench, is Od to 3s per brace. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from Bid to 9d, of household do., Gid to 83 per 41b loaf, HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 2d to 3d ; 641 b to 721 b, 3d to 31d ; 721 b to 801 b, 31d to 4d ; 801 b to 881 b, 4d to 41d ; 881 b to 961 b, 41.1 to qd ; 961 b to 1011 b, Od to —d. Horse hides, 8s to 9s Od ; calf skins, light 2s Od to 3s Od ; do. full, Gs Od to Os Od ; polled sheep, Os Od to —s Od ; half-breds, Os Od to lOs 6d; Downs, Os Od to Os Od; lambs, 2s 8d to 4s 3d; shearlings, is 10d to 2s 4d. HAY MARKETS. SMITIIFIELD.—OId Mia:low hay, £2 Os to £5 5s Od ; new do., £2s Os to £4 Os ; old elov. do., L 3 lOs to £6 Os ; newlio., £3 lOs to £4 15s ; and straw, £1 105 to X 2 Os per load. Trade dull. 13 lOs to £6 Os Od • eirmisP, ULAN - D.—Old Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 5.. ; new do., £2 Os to £1 Os : old olover, £3 lOs to £6 Os ; new do., at our quo_.''£3 lOs to £4 15s; and straw, £1 103 to .+.2 Os per load. A slow trade. WHITECTIAPEL.-01(1 Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 5 3 od ; new do., £2 Os to £4 Os ; old ( iove. , , new do., £3 lOs ti £4 lss ; and straw, Li lOs to ..c2 o si n _ ., ! i 01.1. Both hay and straw moved off heavily, tations. COAL MAB.I, Anima of Coal per Ton al s. d. Tiolywell ......... l5 6 Carway and Dutleyn Malting 24 0 Do. Anth racit 021 6 Wylani.... l 5 6 Tanfield Moor Butes 13 3 StrakeesWest Hart leyl6 3 Edon Main ...13 3 Ships at market .E —JULY 26 the cic3e of the tenrket Walls:End. S. d Tiem_th Tall 19 0 South Kelloe... 19 6 HasweJi ..... 20 0 Russel's Hetton ..19 0 Trimdon Hartlepool —l9 9 Thorpe .. _lB 0 422 sold, 21. I AWE RIAL PA RLIAM EN T. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(THis DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock. SUPPLY. Tho report of supply agreed to at the morning sitting yesterday was brought up and agreed to. DRAINAGE OF LAND BILL. This bill, as amended, was considered and ordered for third reading. LOCOMOTIVE BILL. The Lords' amendments to this bill were considered and agreed to. METROPOLITAN POLICE DISTRICT RESERVES BILL. This bill was read a second time. NEWSPAPERS, &c. BILL. This bill went through committee. SUPPLY—THE NATIONAL GALLERY. On the bringing up of the report of supply agreed to at the evening sitting yesterday, Lord H. LENNOX and Mr. B. COCHRANE asked some questions as to the intentions of the Government relative t 0 the National gallery? • Mr. COWPER said that the latter gentleman had ne" cused the Government of acceding to incongruities in re" spect to the public buildings, a charge which he denie d ' Mr. Pennethorne had proposed a plan, which was Wid er the consideration of Government. The subject of the National Gallery had occupied the attention ° f successive Governments for twelve or fourteen years, and the great difficulty that presented itself was t he better adaptation of two sites for the reception of the national pictures. If there was only one site to be decided on, that difficulty would not exist. It had been suggested that portion of the yard of St. George's Barracks could b e con verted into a gallery for some of the pictures which would re quire no architectural decoration,and would cost only £25,000. The Government were not prepared to adopt any plans, and those under consideration were merely preliminary. He had no doubt this subject would be matured before the next estimates were presented to Parliament. The hon. member then proceeded to vindicate Mr. Turner, who had left so valuable a collection of pictures, from any imputations a s to pre .eminence of style, which h e th oug ht h a d b een i m plied by the noble lord (Lord H. Lenno x ). Some further conversation ensued, in the cou rs e o f which Lord H. LENNOX said there was a sketch book of some of the pictures of Mr. Turner that were open to the impute' tion alluded to, but it did not apply to the collection be queathed to the country. The subject then dropped. On the vote of £30,000 for the volunteer fcrce there was some discussion, but it was ultimately agreed to. The report was then received, and leave granted to bring in a bill founded on it. WAYS AND MEANS.-THE NEW MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS. On the bringing up of the report of ways and means, Mr. WHITE took that opportunity of condemning the conduct of the Government in the appointments of Sir R. Peel to the Chief Secretaryship for Ireland? and Mr. Layard the Foreign Secretaryship. He considared the former as a proof of reactionary policy, and if these recent appointments had taken place a month before the Government would have occupied the Opposition bent hee• He advised them to put their house in order, as their con" duct would have the effect of ruining them. Sir J. SHELLEY defended both appointments, and the subject dropped. The Windsor Suspended Canonries Bill was read a third time and passed. The Public Offices Site Bill went through committee. The Pensions British Force India Bill, as amended, was considered and ordered for third reading. The Edinburgh University Bill was read a third time and passed. The Revenue Department Account Bill was read a third time and passed. The Gunpowder, &c., Act Amendment Bill was read a third time and passed. The Episcopal and Capitular Estates Act Contifin' ance Bill was read a third time and passed. LOCAL GOVERNMENT SUPPLEMENTAL (No. 2) BILL. Mr. CLIVE moved for and obtained leave to bring ill a ' bill to confirm certain provisional orders under the Local Government Act (1858) relating to the districts of Ply mouth, Weston-super-Mare, and Llandidlo. PAROCHIAL OFFICERS BILL. Mr. VILLIERS obtained leave to bring in a bill to enable over seers in populous parishes to provide offices for the proper discharge of parochial business. Sir G. LEWIS obtained leave to bring in a bill to suspend the making of lists and ballots for the Militia of the United Kingdom. THE FRESCOES IN THE HOUSES OF PARLIA MENT. Mr. B. OSBORNE explained with reference td some statements he had previously made in reference to the free cod in the Houses of Parliament. He said the fresco of Cor delia was very much required and that King Lear was in a very shaky state. Those remarks had reference to :the next fresco, that of the Red Cross Knight. The face of Cordelia was in a perfect state, but the nose of Regan had fallen off. After some remarks from Mr. COWPER, the subject dropped. The house then adjourned at two o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY 26. BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY BILL. Moved—" Not to insist on the amendments made by this house relating to the office, powers, and duties of the Chief Judge of the Court of Bankruptcy, to which the Commons havo disagreed" (The Lord Chancellor). On question, " Whether to insist." Content, 80; not con tent, 46. CONTENT. DUKES. EARLS. LORDS. Beaufort Orkney Dinevor Cleveland Pomfret Egerton Marlborough Powis Gage (V. Gage) Northumberland Romney Grantley Rutland Shrewsbury Heytesbury MARQUISES. Stradbnke Kingadown Ailsa Tankerville Leconfield Bath Verulam. Monteagle of Bran- Exeter VISCOUNTS. don Normanby Dungannon Polwarth Salisbury Exmouth Raglan Winchester Hardinge Ravensworth EARLS. Lifford Redesd ale Amherst Melville Salt oun Bathurst Strathallan. Sheffi,eld (E. Shef- Beauchamp LORDS. field) Cardigan Abinger Silchester (E.Long' Carnarvon Bagot ford) Dartmouth Bateman Sondes De La Warr Berners Southampton Derby Boston Stewart of GarlfeB Devon Calthorpe ' (Earl Galloway) Doncaster (Duke of Chelmsford St. John of Bletso Buccleuch and Churston Tenterden Queensberry) Colchester Tredegar Hard wicke ,- Colville of Culross Tyrone (M. Water-. Lonsdale (Teller) ford) Malmesbury Congleton Walsingham Manvers Cranworth Wensleydale Mayo Delamero Wynford (Tel/ 4 er) Nelson Denman NOT CONTENT. Westbury, Lord VISCOUNTS. LORDS. (Lord Chancellor) Eversley H am il ton ( L or d DUKES. Falmouth Belhaven :and Somerset Sydney Stenton) Sutherland. Torringt on (T e ll er ) . Ll anover MARQUISES. BISHOPS. Manners Ailesbury Carlisle Methuen Bristol. London. Poltimore EARLS. - marl LORDS. Ponsonby .( Airlie Belper Bessborough) Caithness Camoys Portman Clarendon Carew Rivers Cowper Dartrey (Lord Rossie (Lord Kin- De Grey Cremorne) naird) Dude De Tabley Sandys Effingham Elgin (Earl Elgin Saye and Sele Granville and Kincardine) Stanley of Alderley Harrington Foley (Teller) Harrowby F ortescue (Vi scoun t Argyle) Minto Ebrington) Wodeh ouse St. Germans H arr i s Sundridge (Duke of PAIRS. AGAINST. Lyndhurst, Lord FOR edni,di G lEDE, T o iEua v icka. E Elore n tlai r t nr : At E N T . Craven, Earl Forester, Lord Bath and Wells, Bishop De Ros, Lord Dufierin, Lord Warwick, Earl Somers, Earl Howe, Earl Leeds, Duke Feversham, Lord Granard, Earl De Vesci, Viscount Clanricarde, Marquis Wilton, Earl Clinton, Lord Westmoreland, Earl Viscount Belmore, Earl Coventry, Earl Z F F erti Portsmouth,lki aeins, Portarlington Earl , Darnley, Earl Albemarle, Farnham, Lord Dunsandle, Lord Templemore, Lord A LC L Spencer, ia eb s i r .i Strafford, n n e n ix s ov t r d , () E r a d r l Hopetoun, Earl Clifden, Viscount Canterbury, Viscount Gardner, Lord Lucan, Earl Lansdowne, Marquis Midleton, Viscount Stratford Ce Redcliffe, Vise. Winchelsea, Earl Chesterfield, Earl G lenclg, Lord Shelburne, Earl tie,Nowcas Duke Cork, Eat E bury, Lord De Mauley, Lord A si I I 4E7 . k u l g ae l e r e l n t o s m c m :o e n o r e f r n o r s ' e dd , E ' a, A i a E E l e r a ,a la r rL r q l l o u r i as; --- A NOVEL HOSPITAL.—An institution of a novel charade': has just been completed on the sea-shore at Berck, Pas - de-Calais. Its object is to test the the value of sea" Lathing under tho most favourable circumstanc es 1 n the treatment of scrofulous and similar diseases. The partial successes attending the use of salt water baths in the cure of this class of diseases has encouraged L' dininistration de l' Assistance Publique de Paris to undertake the experiment. The new hospital is a one-story building, containing one hundred beds, and • is designed chiefly for the reception of children from oth hospitals in France, especially Paris. It is, we believe, t he only institution of the kind in the world,—.lifecho Magazine. justa r Prices great tr i d N liovveN Th e Rat, Ni Xorth _ eanad East '9512 r qinst, of A i CrybtE Per C Ler C N PR' ew bdia Ditty Dittl Ditt oasol Zlzhe 13 razili ehiliaa Ditt vitt - Squad 'New ( Itutzisit bitt Latins bat bitt Ditt Illitch abo lam hibi pric at t Agr will be et larg late 18,01 relap Go vc bery Briti to foi the p tain lin ue Ditt