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NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION.- C. F. HANCOCK, Jeweller and Silversmith to the Queen, 32, Bruton-street, Bond-street, having been selected by the C3mmittee to make the "BA : DGE " Associ to be on worn by the Members of the " National Rifle ati," by respectfully to inform them that it may be procured at his Establishment, or on the grounds at Wimbledon, in SILVER price 7s. 6d., and in GOLD ENAMELLED, price Three' Guineas. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAymARKET. Lessee, Llr, J. B. Baokstoze. TILTS: EVENING, the' pert ormAnnpq will com THE MIDDY ASHORE. Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. After which THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Chas. Mathews, Buckitone, E. Villiers, Rogers, Are. ; Mrs. Wilkins, Mrs. C. Mathews, and Miss K Weekes. - Followed by TAKING BY STORM. Mr. C. Mathews. And THE GALICIAN FETE. Commence at 7. 11 0 YA L PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-.• Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the new comic drama, entitled A HOMESTEAD STORY, Messrs. Ryder Shore, and Miss M. Harris. Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Pechter. Sup ported by Hermann Vezin, Ryder, Meadows, &o ; Misses Beath, klswortby, and R. Leclercq. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING (3d time) MR. GORILLA. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Billington ; Mies Kate Kelly, Miss E. Thorne. After which (222 d time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. D. Boucicauit, D. fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with the successful new Farce, entitled A TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford. Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. CIAYTERBURY - HALL CONCERTS AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. EVERY EVENING. • --- Two Grand Selections from celebrated Operas, including Verdi's new Opera. THE BAL MASQUE (first produced in England at this Establishment). with a Chorus of Forty Voices, and upon a scale unequalled at any other Concerts. Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Greville, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, Mr. Bernard ; popular Solos on the Cornet-a-piston. by air. Levy (the first performer of +he day); the Brothers Conrad (in an entirely original entertainment on the double r v o v p o e c:a n a o n t d t l c i Ll a f l i e e n er t i e sl l s i g e h7: l ) l ; continued success of Mr. The Comio Department comprises the followine favourites: —Mr. Marshall, Mr. Hollingsworth ; the NERVES, by Messrs. Harvey and French ; and Mrs. Lawrence. Musical Director, Mr. JONGHMANS. O X F O R D, 6, OXFORD-STREET. This nohle building being now completed, its architectur al beauty, elegance of ornamentation , and brilliancy of ligg milder 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 The Masch wonderfulday— the Cornet-a-Piston of 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 3fiss Green, Messrs. Sam Collins, B arvey, and French (the Nerves) Ball,Wieland, E. Marshall, and W. Randall. Admission,' sixpenee ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. T H E HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tsis DAY.—Morning, 9h. 58m.—Afternoon, 10h. 30m. To-moßßow.-Morning, 11h. Om.—Afternoon. 1112. 36m. THE WEATHER.—Scrx OFFICE, JUL' 3, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE BRAM 71—highest since noon yesterday. 55—lowest this morning and during the night. 67—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.0. WIND—W.-N.-Westerly ; fresh, with fine weather. -Ic ) rrr 1e , 4 AAt';lt ' • v t _ solc-f t‘ • • ""' .1 - ro I FP THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1881. The age in which Diplomacy has formally em blazoned upon its banner the mystic word— "NON-INTERVENTION" is hardly the age in which to look confidently, or even hopefully, for help being accorded to Poland by the British Government. Yet—if not Help (such is the argument, or rather the supplicative expostulation last evening of Mr. P.OPE HEN NESSY, and after him of Mr. MON CETON MILNES) —if not Help, at least Sympathy ! To this appeal the noble lord the Foreign Secretary, and after him the noble viscount the First Lord of the Trea sury, at once responded. Sympathy? cries Lord JOHN RUSSELL : Sympathy ? cries Lord PALMER STON—Yes; without doubt, by all means, cordially, earnestly, we accord to Poland and the Poles our Sympathy, the Sympathy, the heart felt Sympathy of Her Britannic MAJESTY'S Government ! But—to look for anything beyond that—to dream of anything more than verbal sympathy being vouchsafed—were nothing less than idle, absurd, preposterous. For, in one word, What, we should like to ask —we, the chief ad visers of the Crown —we, the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary—What, we should uncom monly like to ask in just one word, is the diplo matic characteristic of the age in which we live, if it be not the significant and, in fact, distinguish ing characteristic of—Non-Intervention? Behind that symbol of our policy we hide ourselves. Beyond mere fine-sounding expressions of sympathy we cannot go. We will consent to the production of certain papers, if you particularly wish to turn them over, but we tell you frankly that they are in themselves little better than mere waste-paper, and that the perusal of them will lead infallibly to little else than so much wilful waste of time. Still as you apparently do wish tohave these papers, to turn over the leaves of this corespondence, they are at your service, we con aent to their production. So that Mr. HENNESSY'S motion, after being dis cussed pro and con very entertainingly by himself atd by his accomplished seconder the hon. member for Pontefract and by the two noble lords repre senting the whole weight of her MA .JESTY'S Government—is agreed to. The young Irish malcontent can hug himself with a satisfac tory consciousness of having just for once succeeded. And Mr POPE HENNESSY can exult all the more, because, while gaining his object in extorting th e papers he asked for, from the reluctant grasp of the Administration—he has, at a momentous epoch in the history of Polish suffering, ventilated afresh the whole subject of Polish wrongs in the British House of Commons ; eliciting anew the opinions cherished at heart in regard to Poland and in regard to the Poles by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and by that noble lord's distinguished Chief, Viscount PALMERSTON. It is an old regret that expressed last evening by her MAJESTY'S Foreign Se cretary, when he remarked--" One might have thought that the first NAPOLEON, who disturbed so many countries, who gave away so many provinces and crowns, might have thought it an object of ambition worthy of his great powers and extended fame to restore the national existence of Poland." And we may rest perfectly well satisfied that it is not our regret alone that the Great NAPOLEON did not crown all his other wonderful achievements by the re-establishment of Polish independence ! It must have been his own regret too, especially, -.and most bitterly, in his island-prison of St. Helena. That achievement—it is notorious as an historical fact —he designed and medi tated. When settleg forth on his as tounding expedition into Russia the most gigantic ea:ploit ever adventured upon by an im perial conqueror, a leader of more men than XERXES, a Lord Paramount over more kings than SESOSTRIS — when setting forth upon his Russian Expedition, NAPOLEON the Great is known to have formally resolved upon re - establishing the Kingdom And the Nationality of Poland. Only— instead of making that (as it ought to have been) a preliminary to his campaign in Rus s i a, he set it aside (unhappily) as a sequel, as a r accomplish. supplerne:;tary exploit for afte ment. The Russian .campaign, as we all know, was completely and absolutely successful as a military achievement. Lord BROUGITA3I has emphatically designated it in this point of view the most triumphant of all the marvellous cam paigns of NAPOLEON. But successful, pre-eminently successful as a conquest, it failed absolutely in the very climax of victory by the visible interposition of the decrees of Providence. Then—when the legions of NAPOLEON were perishing by battalions under the blight of that wonderfully premature winter—then far more truly than afterwards (when NAPOLEON startled the Vienna Congress by his Return from Elba) fell to the dust the hopes of Poland, the hopes cherished so long and ardently by the Poles, the expectation of the re-establishment among the Powers of Europe of that buried but still living Nationality. Those hopes have since that time, it is true, reawakened, but feebly and fitfully at intervals. " Still," as the noble lord her MAJESTY'S Foreign Secretary remarked last evening in the House of Commons, " looking to a distant period, one cannot but think that for a people endowed with so much courage, and which has so long kept alive the holy flame of national existence, a time is reserved when she may recover her ancient glory, and take her place among the nations of Europe." GOD grant it! And in the meanwhile Poland has at least the mingled solace and (even in an age of non-intervention) encourage ment of the truthful and Heart-Born Sympathy accorded to her alike by the English People and the English Government. The new Italian Minister has spoken again, and with a frankness and boldness which seem more like the daring of GARIBALDI than the general caution of Count Cavouß. His language is such as would in very recent times have led Austria to demand explanations, and then cross the frontier, or, perhaps, to cross it without warning at all. Throughout his language is—We mean to have Rome, we mean to have Venetia ; the first by the most friendly negotiation with France, the second by force of arms, if nothing else will do. And— we do not mean to cede a foot of Italian soil. His text was as follows :—" We arm not only for the defence of the national territory such as it actually is, but also to complete it—to restore it to its natural and legitimate boundaries," The Minister had, it is true, to rouse the national feel ing to undertake the burden of heavy taxation and loans. It was his to call upon it to take shares in a national joint-stock company for the com pletion of the fabric of Italian unity, freedom, and self-government —a company of patriots, whose only dividends would consist of national honour and relief from the incubus of the foreigner. Eventually, indeed, the reward will be of a more material character, for Venice and Genoa testify what a self-governed Italy could do in the way of commerce ; and the agricultural desolations, due to the curse of foreign and priestly despotism, show what the soil of Italy might pour into the lap of Europe, after having filled that of her own sons, when once the grand causes of depression are removed. The land of wheat, of the olive, and the vine—the land of whose pro duce both VIRGIL and HORACE sung, will assuredly drive a splendid trade with England when she awakes to the consciousness that she can do what she will with her own. Sardinian trade, since its liberation by CAVOUR, is, indeed, a proof , of this; and the charms of profitable industry will soon stir up the husbandmen even of the more self indulgent South. Let the Bourbon brigands cease to pour forth from the territory yet held by the Vatican, and the hirelings of the banished tyrants be swept from soil, and we shall see such an im provement in the agricultural districts of the Two Sicilies as can be called forth only by the two great blessings of perfect freedom and perfect security to enjoy the fruits of one's labour. But Baron RICASOLI'S text has led us to thoughts which have often filled his own mind, but which, for the present, must give way to thoughts of more immediate urgency. " Defence" stands, of course, first, and he intimates immetiately, that only in one quarter has he need to think of that. " The Go vernment has (he said) the happiness to announce to Parliament that, with the exception of Austria, its friendly relations with the principal Powers of Europe are of the most satisfactory kind. The Italian cause enlists general sympathy, and can still count upon having allies." The other Powers were as friendly as needful, some of them cordial ; one only, and she because conscious of guilt towards Italy, must be watched as an enemy. But that Power is warned that, however much she may resent plain speaking. and however galling it may be to see the liberated land arming and equipping herself to unclench the hand which garottes Venetia, she must still remain quiet in her dens. She may enjoy for a time in her strongholds the grim satisfaction of trampling down one corner of Italy, but she is doomed also to look, without daring to prevent it, on the chastisement preparing for her. " Thanks," RICASOLI admits of no ambiguity. he says, "to the principle of non-intervention; our nationality will very soon be universally and solemnly acknowledged, as well as our incontes table right to complete our independence." Then, lest this :should suggest the fear of cession, he denies the possibility of it in the strongest terms. "We disdain such an idea. I say, once for ever, that I do not know of a foot of Italian soil which has to be ceded, that I should not wish to cede it, and absolutely will not cede it." Such is his reassuring language on that point ; while he firmly asserts that th e G overnment is sensible of the great task imp ose d upon it, and, by the help of GOD, will fulfil it. " The KING'S Government sees a national territory to defend and to recover. It sees Rome and Venice, and addresses them in words expressing the grief, wishes, hopes, and intentions of the nation." This seems t o l era bly specific, but to avoid the possibility of mistake, he indicates the way in which he expects to deal with each. As to Austria, he puts her on the rack e sa ofthe approaching future; the " o pp ortuni ty," he ys, " which time is preparing will open the way to Venice." But France is to be dealt with as a friend. The guarantees which France requires for the POPE'S spiritual independence and dignity are, we may hope, in the way of becoming satisfactory, for, in one respect, the case is urgent. Rome is a centre now of disturbance. " Rome, politically sepa rated from the rest of Italy, will continue to be the centre of intrigues and conspiracies, and a permanent menace to public order. For Italians, therefore, it is not only a right bat an inexorable necessity. But we do not wish to go to Rome aided by rash and inopportune insurrectionary movements, which might compromise the natio.aal work. We wish to go to Rome in accord with France, not destroy ing but building up, and at the same time open ing to the Church a way of reform by giving her that liberty and independence v. hich will invite her to regeneration —a task to be accomplished by that purity of religious sentiment and simplicity of manners—by that severity of discipline which in the primitive ages rendered her glorious and vene rated, and, by the frank and loyal abandonment of that power which is opposed to the great idea of her institution." We can hardly bl:ppose such language as we Lave with THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 3, quoted can have been employed without an under standingwith the Power which has now the keys of Rome. That Power, in one of its last utterances, severed boldly, in language, as RICASOLI has done, the temporal from the spiritual power of the POPE. RICASOLI adds that the severance, in fact, will be the instrument of a much-needed regenera tion. Italians, many of them, sincerely believe this. They believe in the Bishop of ROME, in the successor of ST. PETER, but, with too good reason, they detest the Papacy. They are, in truth, honestly of the same religion as that which their mothers taught. But education, while it leaves them Roman Catholics, will not allow them to be Papists. Their real desire is for a religious Bishop, not for an oppres sive, petty, yet pompous potentate, in whom to see any resemblance to the first Bishop, taxes too much their fancy and their faith. But what will be the bearing of the bold speech on the Hungarian crisis ? But yesterday we heard of the Emperor of AUSTRIA commencing his fierce contest with the country of whose Crown he is, as yet, only the usurper ; and whose Diet's address he dares to send back for amendment. Hungary and Italy are pairs in this contest with the com mon oppressor. By both he is cordially and justly hated; in both his dominion is co-extensive with the range of his cannon. In Venetia these cannon have a treaty right, though none whatever morally —but in Hungary every German foot-soldier, dra goon, and artilleryman, is a violation of the funda mental laws to which the Hapsburg dynasty is solemnly sworn. In Venetia, by technical right, Austria perpetrates a permanent outrage which " time and opportunity" will avenge. But, in Hun gary, it is all shameless, brazen-faced villany ; FRANCIS JOSEPH is there politically and morally on a level with the worst political criminals. He has stolen a Crown, and asks the brave and noble minded Hungarians to do homage to the avowed thief ! Their homage ought to be the present of a halter. Upon the very morrow of the sudden demise of the late Lord High Chancellor of England, we stated confidently in the columns of The Sun what would be the legal changes consequent upon that lamentable event. Subsequently a variety of rumours were afloat in other quarters to the effect that the vacant posts were to be filled up quite dif ferently. In several instances, indeed, merely con jectural statements rose into all the confidence of for mal, and even as one might call them, semi-official announcements. Mr. Justice HILL was to retire from the Bench on the plea of severe indisposition: Sir WILLIAM ATHERTON was to have his slighted feelings, as an ambitious lawyer, assuaged by his being advanced, or, in other words, honourably shelved through the convenient medium of his promotion (?) to a Puisne Judgeship. Mr. ROUNDELL PALMER was to have comfortably found for him a seat in the House of Commons as an in stant stepping-stone to the Attorney-Generalship. Mr. COLLIER was to be inducted into the second best place among the law officers of the Crown, the Solicitor-Generalship, left vacant by the advance ment to the Bench of Sir WILLIAM ATHERTON. Well, fully a week passed by and the semi-official organ of the Whigs announced tardily what we had already announced eight days earlier in these columns of The Sun. The result proving, in spite of all the intervening rumours to the contrary, that the legal changes consequent upon Lord CAMPBELL'S Death were exactly what we alone among all the journals had at the first moment intimated confidently they would be. Sir RICHARD BETHELL, now Lord WESTBURY, has in due course won his peerage, and with his peerage the Chancellorship. Sir WILLIAM ATHERTON has in due course been advanced from the Solicitor-Generalship—not to the Bench, where we are glad to know that Mr. Justice HILL yet has health sufficient to hold his own, but—to the Attor ney-Generalship. There still remains only the vacant post lately occupied by Sir WILLIAM ATHERTON, as Solicitor-General, to be filled up. That we, ourselves, as far back as on last Monday se'nnight, intimated would be the only dubious or proble matical part of all these legal changes and arrrangements. A better choice under present circumstances could hardly be made than that of Mr. COLLIER, as the new Solicitor- General. "First catch your hare," was the judi cious axiom of Mrs. GLASSE, or rather of Dr. HILL, who wrote the famous Cookery Boek under that nom-de-plume. The familiar recommendation happens, by the way, to be not altogether unworthy at this moment of application to Mr. Roux- DELL PALMER : whose abilities as a Lawyer and an Advocate undoubtedly qualify him for any promotion that might be decided upon in his re gard by Lord PALMERSTON —if only Mr. ROUN DELL PALMER were to this end previously enrolled again among the ranks of the national representa tives! First obtain your seat in the House of Com mons—and then look for the dropping into your silk gown of the " ripe pear" of the Solicitor- Generalship—nay, even, if the hour be but propiti ous for those ripe grapes that only look sour, the dignities, and emoluments, and privileges apper taining to the Attorney-Generalship! THE STEAM PLOUGH IN lIUNGARY. A German gentleman, of whom we have no knowledge whatever, and who apologises for being obliged to write in his own language, writes to our office from Presburg, in Hungary, to inform us that Fowler's Steam Plough was tried in the neighbour hood of Presburg, with great success, or at least applause. The trial lasted two days, and was wit nessed by thousands of people of all classes,—the highest agricultural authorities especially. A banquet followed, in which "England's Industry" was cordially toasted, and Herr Schulhof, who has the credit of having introduced the machine into Hungary, received due commendation. The writer mentions that Herr Schulhof will be in London in a few days, and seems very desirous that his country man should receive all the attention due to the person who can, he thinks, be of such service to English agricultural machine makers. He need not fear that Mr. Fowler will fail in such duties. The memorial on the subject of the China Mail service, which lies for signature at the London and China Telegraph-office, is to be presented to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Friday by a deputation consisting of Sir S. Donaldson and Messrs. Dent, Gibb, Gledstanes, Buchanan, M.P., Lewis, M.P., and others , who are to be introduced by Mr. G regson, M.P. Chairman of the East India and China Association. DISCOVERY OF collar have been displayed AR for A NthCe"" CROWN AND COLLAR.—The.—The rem a i ns o f an ancient we or two in the shop window of Messrs. William and Johne la shop Irish crown and z,nit seven nes, Bal linasloe. They are of pure gold, w e i g hi ng ii oun ces, and were found in a bcoougnntersarmean, lonzahod i sposed c noise v on the a of brink of the Shannon , by a them for a sum of mone y . From their shape and construc tion they must date from an earl y p eriod, at le ast as ea^r'v a the introduction of Christianit y into Ireland, and they s are, therefore, objects of rare interest to the antiquarian. The Messrs. Hynes, we understand, will present them to some thoroughly national institution.— Western Star. METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS AT STEPNEY. Yesterday a number of men were engaged in taking down houses at Stepney-green, adjoining the site where the elec tion of members for the borough of Finsbury takes place, and which were sold by auction a few days ago by Messrs. Pullen, Horne, and Co., by order of the Master and Fellows of Clare College, Cambridge, whose property it is. Among the hontes disposed of was what is called the "Old Farm-house Works," and which, it is stated, was formerly a country residence of King Henry VII. The whole of the buildings are to be removed, for the purpose of forming new streets,- lea.ding fr , in the Green westward, which it is expected will bring a large amount of income to the col lege, it being intended to erect houses suitable to the in dustrious and the working classes. LATE 3 rr.SEWS. CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (PER BOHEMIAN, via LONDONDERRY.) NEW YORK, JIINE 20. The outposts of the Federal army were extended four miles yesterday, and in this manner the troops will gradually move on Fairfax. Despatches from Washington say that the steamer Alliance had just returned from a cruise up the Potomac. She reports the capture of 11 Southern vessels which were endeavouring to supply the enemy with provisions. The Columbia District Court has given an opinion in the case of the English s2hooner Tropic Wind for violating the blockade of the Virginian ports. The Court held that such conduct entailed the forfeiture of the vessel and cargo, valued at 22,000 dole. It reserves its ultimate decision on the question of fact respecting the alleged relaxation of the strict law of blockade in favour of British vessels. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred has arrived at Niagara Falls. (LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO FATHER POINT.) NEW YORK, JUNE 22, EVENING. There is no news of importance. ' All is quiet in the vicinity of Washington, though a battle is considered imminent at Fairfax. Northern troops are reaching Washington at the rate of 5,000 a day. It is reported that Mr. Secretary Chase will pro pose a small income-tax. The steamers Fulton and Glasgow have sailed for Europe. QUEBEC, JUNE 22. The Canadian elections thus far are favourable to he Government. The weather is beneficial to the crops. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JUNE 22, EVENING. Money easy ; Exchange bankers' bills, 106 ; Stocks firm. New York Central, 731 ; Erie, 221; Illinois Central, 65a. Cotton generally firm. Messrs. Wright quote middling upland 141 c. ; other brokers 141 c. to 141 c. Breadstuffs dull and slightly lower. Wheat has declined 2c. to sc. Corn firm. Provisions dull, with a downward tendency. THE BRAZIL MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 3. The Royal mail steamship Oneida, with theaboTe mail, arrived off the Needles at 10.40 a.m. PARIS, JULY 3. Despatches received here from Turin and Mar seilles give a denial to the news published in the Paris papers yesterday evening concerning the breaking out of disturbances at Naples. The mail steamer left Naples on the 30th ult., on which day the city was tranquil. Reinforcements of troops were expected. PARIS, JULY 2. The Paris papers of this evening publish de spatches announcing that disturbances have taken place at Naples. The importance of the movement is not yet known. Count Arese yesterday presented his credentials to the Emperor. BERNE, JULY 2. The American Minister has presented to the Federal Council a letter from the United States Minister for Foreign Affairs expressing the hope that the Federal Council will not receive the envoys of the Southern State. VIENNA, JULY 2. The imperial rescript to the Hungarian Diet was read to-day in the Upper House of the Council of the Empire, and was received with great enthu- siasm. Count Clam Gallas proposed that the house should declare that it considered any violation of the im perial dignity and rights as an attack against the whole monarchy, and that the Government could not only reckon on the concurrence and devotion of the house, but also on the active co-operation of the whole empire. The proposal was received with cheers. The following are somewhat fuller details of what passed in the Chamber of Deputies at Vienna, on the 24 inst. It was by order of the Emperor that M. de Schmerling communicated the tenour of the Impe rial rescript relating to the Hungarian Diet. The Emperor, says the rescript, has learnt with regret the decisions of the Diet relative to his sovereign rights, as also the attacks against his incontestable and legitimate rights in his quality of hereditary King of Hungary. Nevertheless, the Emperor considers those discussions rather as the result of individual aberrations than the real expres sion of the sentiments of the Diet. But as those views have been expressed in the address the Emperor holds it his duty to decline receiving it, as wanting in respect to his person. His Majesty, nevertheless, being desirous of pronounc ing himself without reserve on the important questions contained in the address, has invited the Diet to draw it up in a form compatible with the dignity of the Crown and those hereditary rights which the Emperor will know how to defend against any attack. The Government hopes, said M. de Schmerling, that after this communication there will soon be a solution of this important question. CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 2. An Imperial Hatt was read yesterday, containing the programme of the Porte, and announcing a new reform policy. The local effect is excellent. Sweeping palace and other financial reforms continue to be effected. A commission has been appointerto investigate the accounts of Riza Pasha. The investiture of the Sultan will take place on the 4th inst. FRANCE• A Paris letter in the Semaphore of Marseilles contains the following particulars respecting the answer of the Pontifical Government to the com munication announcing the intention of France to recognise the Kingdom of Italy :—" Cardinal An tonetli has certainly replied by a diplomatic note to the communication made by France. The precise terms of the note have not been made public, but its substance, I can affirm, is altogether in the sense of resistance. The new kingdom of Italy does not exist for Cardinal Antonelli. He considers the present state of things as a trial which the Papacy will heroically endure; and, as regards the recognition made by the French Government, the Roman Court cannot understand such a determination on the part of Napoleon 111. To recognise the new kingdom is, in Cardinal Antonelli's opinion, to sanction all that has taken place—unlooked-for aggressions, in vasions of territory, revolutionary manoeuvres. all of which are the negation of right, and the subver sion of social order. However, the Sovereign-Pontiff, while he deplores the resolution taken by the French Government, still has full confidence in the Catholic 7 861. sentiments of Napoleon 111., and such being the case, is ready to second all measures calculated to restore peace, on condition that they do not en croach upon the sovereignty of the Pope, and that they leave all his rights entire. Such is the sub stance of Cardinal Antonelli's note. In concluding, the Minister of Pius IX. seems to affect a concilia tory disposition, but I have no hesitation in saying that the spirit of the circular is really resistance." BOURSE, July 2,—The market has been rather heavy, and prices show a slight decline on the closing rates of yesterday. For the Account, Threes are now at 67f 65c. Railway Shares are also heavy, and in some cases a trifle lower. The following were the last quotations :- 4t per per Cents ... 97 75 Credit Fonder 1025 Do end month.... I Belgian 4I lOO 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 60 Roman Bank Shares 2855 —; Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 690 Spanish Threes — Do. Account 691 25 ' Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1362 50 .. 1361 25 Northern New ditto 895 Lyons and Mediterranean 948 75 948 75 Geneva 395 Southern Western Eastern ...... , ... 570 Sardinian _— .. 670 - Austrian Lombard 490 .. 490 REPORT ON THE FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL CONDITION OF RUSSIA. A report on the financial and commercial condi tion of Russia, by Mr. Erskine, Her Majesty's Secretary of Legation at St. Petersburg, has just been printed. The Russian Government not having yet become aiive to the expediency of publishing an account of revenue and expenditure, the ma terials on that head are few, the latest statement pretending to precision, but which, after all, was without any authentic stamp, being that published by Baron de Reden for 1852. The opinion is that at the present day the expenditure is about £44,500,000, and the revenue about £40,000,000, showing a deficiency of £4,500,000 sterling. In 1858 the cost of the army alone was estimated at about £15,000,000. The most productive source of Russian revenue is the duty on spirits, amount ing to the astonishing sum of £19,000,000 per annum. This revenue is farmed out to the highest bidders, and is now in the hands of 216 per sons, who retail the spirit at about ls. 4d. per im perial quart. With regard to the public debt of Russia, a statement compiled by Mr. G. F. Kolb, which is said to be worthy of credit, places the total at £243,000,000, to which must be added the £8,000,000 loan contracted in August last with Messrs. Baring and Hope, thus raisin g the aggregate to £251,000,000, on which the annual interest and sinking fund amount to more than £9,000,000. This debt has accumulated steadily, and in most cases largely, during every year of the present cen tury, with the exception of the interval between 1824 and 1828. In the year 1859 the increase was £30,475,759. In addition to the funded debt the Government are liable for the note circulation, of over £100,000,000. The exports consist principally of grain, timber, hides, flax, tallow, hemp, iron, copper, wool, potash, bristles, and seeds. The im ports for consumption are mainly sugar, oil, coffee, cotton, cotton manufactures, and cotton yarn, s 00l and woollen manufactures, silk and silk manu factures, wine, dye-stuffs, fruit, machinery, and linens. In 1858 the specie exported was £4,600,000, against £1,000,000 imported. The following table exhibits roughly the value of• the foreign trade of Russia in the same year : Exports. Sweden £159,000 Norway 79,000 Prussia 2,380,000 Denmark ..... 480,000 Hanseatic Cities 420,000 Netherlands.. Belgium Great Britain 10,100,000 France 2,500,000 Portugal 60,000 Spain 3 0 ,000 Sardinia Tuscany Two Sicilies 2,000 Austria lonian Islands 9,000 Greece .. Turkey United Slates West Indies Other countries 136,000 Imports. .. 4321,000 .• 238,000 .. 3,320,000 110,000 • . .. 1,740,000 .. 1,260,000 .. _ 160,000 6 ,450 , 0110 • • - - 1'670' • • •• 000 .. 80,000 • • 390,000 • • 50,000 • • 30,000 • • 710,000 .. 1,300,000 .. 40,000 .. 70,000 1,060,000 • . 1,16J,000 - „ • • 70,000 .. 235,000 £21,164,000 £20,164,000 The above total of imports from Great Britain, ,E 6,450,000, greatly exceeds our own Board of Trade statement of the declared value of exports to Russia in that year, which was only £4,053,563 ; the dif ference, therefore, must be ascribed to the mode of valuation, coupled with the fact that the Russian figures include freifht and importers' profit. Of the Russian produce taken by Great Britain in 1859 the fohowing were the proportions : Grain £3,200,.000 ..... . Tallow Flax 1,550,000 ......•• ••• Linseed and henapseed 1,350,000 Hemp and yarn BOO,OOO Wool Bristles Of the different flags visiting.the Russian ports in 1858, 1,757 were British, 960 Russian, 9401 urkish, 685 Dutch, 628 Swedish, 529 Austrian, 494 Danish, and 2,948 other nations. As regards the Russian trade with China by the Kialakta frontier, the present report removes misconceptions which are rather widely entertained, Tea is almost the only article imported from that country, and, with the view of encouraging the exportation of Russian manufac tures in return by the Kiakhta route, the quantity of tea conveyed by sea is limited to one or two car goes annually. The consequence is that the price is so greatly enhanced as to keep down the consump tion of tea far below the natural demand, while the revenue is defrauded by large quantities being smuggled over the frontiers from the German ports. The town of Kiakhta, where this trade is carried on, is more than 3,500 miles from Moscow, and the tea regions are about the same distance from Kiakhta. Hence the internal couyeyance amounts to 7,000 miles, and raises the price of middling tea, duty paid, to about 6s, or 7s. the pound, or fully double that at which it could be obtained from England via Hamburg. The calculation is that the Russian public, under this system, pay annually upwards of £1,500,000 for the encouragement of an export trade in Russian manufactures valued in the official returns at less than £1,000,000. Mr. Erskine con cludes with some observations on the agriculture of Russia. Everything in this respect is very back ward, but Russia in Europe alone possesses about 275,000,000 acres of arable land under cultivation, which is half as much again as all the soil of P rance, Austria, and Prussia added together, and about 18 per cent. of this consists of the black soil, the pro ductive power of which up to the present time has been limited practically only by the difficulty of finding a market for the produce either at home or abroad. In abundant years a great mass of grain is wasted, while distant regions, owing to the want of means of communication, are afilicted with scarcity. It is impossible to estimate with certainty the proportion in which the produce of an average harvest exceeds the home demand, but the excess is far larger than the average amount of grai n exported. The total production of Russia is believed to be 200,000,000 quarters, while during the three years ending 1853 the mean annual export was only about 5,800,000 quarters. According to one authority the export of grain from Russia could, if necessary, be augmented tenfold if the foreign demand were suf fictently steady to induce the grower to improve his culture and ecotiomise his crops, and if means of internal communication were available. THE GREAT .F 1 RE IN TOOL EY• STREET. All hopes of finding Mr. Scott are now entirely ~o ne. Many opinions are entertained as to the precise manner in which he came by his death, but the one which seems to be most likely is that when he saw the wall falling he rushed through a door way into a warehouse beyond, which door was immediately blocked up by the fallen mass of bricks, and the warehouse itself was a short time later enveloped in flames. Some dozens of labourers were yesterday busily engaged in clearing away the fallen bricks, which they stack in square piles of immense size. A vast quantity of wool, hemp, jute, &c., has likewise been withdrawn from the different basements ; this likewise is stacked in solid piles many feet square. The steam floats still continue to play upon the scorching masses of brick, which in consequence throw off dense clouds of white smoke, unlike the dark vapour emitted from the vaults, in which tallow, bacon, &c,, is stored, and which, driving to leeward without rising, almost choke the passengers as they pass along. It is now 12 days since this disastrous fire broke out. TIIREE SOLDIERS DROWNED.—A most sad scene was witnessed at Scarborough on Sunday. Three men of theath Eegiment, no wat the castle, went to the Homs," a tugged and dangerous part of the castle rock, on the north side, to bathe. The place is full of quicksands, from which accidents have several times resulted, and the three all fell victims, their bodies being carried away by the tide. The sad event cast a general gloom over the town, the visitors and others assembling in great numbers as soon as the accident became known. IRELAND. DUBLIN, TUESDAY. The Prince of Wales arrived at the Castle at half past 3 o'clock yesterday, accompanied by the Lord- Lieutenant, in an -open carriage and four, with out riders. A squadron of Dragoons followed the Royal carriage. The guard of honour of the 19th Regi ment presented arms, and the band played the National Anthem as the Prince entered the Castle yard, which was crowded with spectators, who cheered in the warmest manner. For a considerable time previous to his arrival St. Patrick's-hall was densely crowded with the elite of Dublin society, the most distinguished representatives of its rank, fashion, and wealth, presenting a brilliant stectacle. Shortly before the arrival of his Royal Highness the Lord Mayor and the members of the Corpora tion, clothed in their rich and picturesque robes, and attended by all the insignia which mark the dignity of that ancient body, took place on the dais in front of the throne. The Prince entered the Hall, and was conducted by the Lord-Lieutenant to the throne. His Royal Highness was accompanied by General Bruce and Col. Koppel. The Lord-Lieutenant stood beside the Prince, to whom he presented the Lord Mayor, who read the following address : " To HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS ALBERT EDWARD, PRINCE OP WALES. " The Address of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Alder men, and Burgesses of Dublin. . "May it please your Royal Highness,—We, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the city of Dublin, beg to approach your Royal Highness on the occasion of your visit to Ireland, and to assure you that your presence affords to the people of Ireland the most sincere pleasure and gratification. " Recognizing.in the person of your Royal Highness the bright and early promise of the many exalted qualities and virtues which, while adding lustre to the Throne, have so endeared your Royal mother in the hearts of her devoted subjects in her vast empire, we trust that your visit to Ire land is but one of many which it may be your pleasure to make to this part of the United Kingdom. " We venture to express a hope that during your Royal Highness's stay in Ireland the vast material and industrial resources of our country may be observed by you; and that you may feel, when departing from our shores, that you have derived information and advantage from your stay among us. "We can state, on behalf of the citizens of Dublin, that they would have felt it a high privilege to welcome your Royal Highness in a more formal manner ; but understand ing that it is your wish to abstain as far as possible from public manifestations during your visit to Ireland on this occasion, we avail ourselves of this mode of giving expres sion to our feelings." His Royal Highness, in a clear and distinct voice, and with appropriate emphasis, then read the fol lowing gracious reply : "My Lord Mayor and Gentlemen,—l receive with most heartfelt pleasure the cordial address, which, emanating as it does from the Corporation and citizens of the Irish metro polis, I venture to regard as expressing sentiments enter tained by the country at large. Although, in compliance with my own wishes, public formalities were in a great measure dispensed with on the occasion of my landing, the enthusiastic welcome spontaneously tendered to me by the vast and important community which you represent was not only grateful to myself, but afforded the most unequi vocal evidence of their affectionate devotion to the Queen, my mother, and to ker family. That you should discern in me any promise of the virtues and exalted qualities which have so endeared her Majesty to her subjects is, I fear, due rather to 3 our generous partiality than to my own deserts. But you may be assured, at least, that I am profoundly sensible of their inestimable value, and that to learn to imi tate them is my earnest study and fondest desire. I come here, as I have visited other parts of the country, for the purpose of self-improvement, and specially on this occasion to profit by the great advantages which the plains of the Curragh present as a school for practical military instruc tion. My time will be chiefly occupied in this pursuit; but I am most anxious to acquire a more full acquaintance with the material and industrial resources of Ireland, and yield to no one in my sense of their importance and in earnest desire for their increase and development." His Royal Highness proceeds to the Curragh to day, where he is to remain some time studying the details of military science. ECCLESIASTICAL COM iISSION. If any portion of the reported proceedings of Parliament may by a license of speech be described as entertaining reading, it is the discussions on the Miscellaneous Estimates. The jumble and jostle of the oddest subjects prepares a succession of little surprises ; the speeches are so short and jerky, and the reporters, exercising a discretion too seldom em ployed, give only the best things said; and then, iu the freedom of an unpremeditated debate, what ex traordinary notions are let loose upon the House. The few words said in the House of Commons on Monday about the Ecclesiastical Commission—a body instituted to redress the glaring inequalities of Church endowments, and make the ecclesiastical property of the nation contribute more effectually to the object for which it is assigned—were called forth by a demand upon the public purse for the rent of its lodgings. Several members said the estate which the Commission administered ought to bear this charge ; whereupon Sir Cornewall Lewis and Lord John Russell, great constitutionalists and good churchmen, said the State ought to pay the money, because it had intervened for an object of its own, which had not been desired by the Church. What is the fact ? Parliament, in appointing this Commis sion, acts simply in the exercise of the trusteeship of Church property which it has held ever since the Papists were dispossessed. There is no dictation, no submission, no compromise. Parliament ex ercises its right, and the law is obeyed as a matter of course. That is, it is obeyed, so far as Parlia ment has taken securities for obedience—not an inch further—witness last year's amalgamation of the York Deanery. The following sums expended upon Bishops' palaces, under the authority of the Commission, demonstrates the profuseness of a body which comes to Parliament to pay the rent of its offices : EPISCOPAL RESIDENCES. SEES. _ COST. Ripon Lincoln Gloucester and Bristol Rochester Oxford Worcester 7,000 Exeter Hereford Llandaff ..... 9,954 Manchester Norwich Total Add to this the augmentation of the incomes of Archdeacons, which have created a direct charge of £5,270 per annum on the Common Fund of the Commission, and we shall get a notion of the causes which hinder the fulfilment of the intentions of Parliament. The reason why the work of the Com mission has not been done is plain ; it was intrusted to the very class who held that surplus wealth which Parliament desired to make available for the public good. We may add, that a sum of £3,750 will be asked for the Commission when the esti mates for " Miscellaneous, Special and Temporary Objects" come to be voted. The complaint of the expenditure required for putting the Wellington car once for all in a cellar out of sight, is one we cannot sympathise with. As a good riddance, it is cheap at the money. But the expenses for Public Works and Buildings with which the sum is mixed up, show an extravagance of habit far more alarming than any single impo sition can be. There must be either frightful job bery or frightful mismanagement, we suspect the latter, when £4,200 is slopped away between the National Gallery and Old Palace-yard in water for the public offices and for the fountains in Trafal gar-square ; when £4,770 is spent on an unoccu pied house at Kensington. consigned - to decay ; when a wretched den like St. James's Palace costs above £6,000 a-year in repairs. But these items shrink into insignificance when we approach that most sumptuous of institutions, the South Ken sington Museum. This grandly unfolding scheme, placed by the grace and condescension of the illus trious, far above vulgar criticism, we can only admire with distant awe. otf 10,0£000 for a little furniture, just a few v chai e o f a ables, attracted notice on Monday : but Mr. Cowper fears no scrutiny—the money has been spent under the strictest regulations and the greatest economy. The same assurance will of course be forthcoming when the vote of £33,000 on account of this same South Kensington Museum is brought forward among the estimates of the Science and Art De partment. But it is quit e unnecessary. The court suburb has got its toy, and it matters little that the public must go out of town to get a glimpse of the British pictures; that the National Gallery is still unbuilt, and that Turner's gifts have no home. The causes of the large amount of expenditure on the London Parks are most mysterious. A princely revenue, more I han £25,000, will be spent this year to keep up St. James's, the Green, and Hyde Parks. A walk is to be made near the Ser pentine, to cost £2,500. When the Chief Com missioner meditates a bit of mischief, the cost is conve niently found to be n ext to nothing, and there is sure to be an unexpended balance avail- , able to pay for it. The new Kensington hide, which ever) body is petitioning against, can be made :or a paltry five and twenty pounds, and be defrayed out of a vote of last year,—Daily I THE EUPH.RATES _ROUTE 20 INDIA. The following relates to the question of comma• nication with India via the Euphrates : " Sir,—As the chairman of the two companies which were formed fox' the establishment of steam and telegraphic communication with India by the Euphrates and the Persian Gulf, I have to thank you once more for your advocacy in to-day's impression of plans which are now generally ad mitted to be at once simple and easy of execution, and of incalculable importance both to England and India. By a communication addressed to me some time ago a company in Bombay were prepared to establish regular steam com munication between Bombay,Kurrachee, Buskire, and Bus sorah,if adequate encouragement had been extended to theta by Government. This,taken in conjunction with the spirited enterprise of the Messrs. Lynch to meet the requirements of the trade from Bagdad to Bussorah, at the head of the Persian Gulf, would bring India by steam communication within 600 miles of the Mediterranean, that being the dis tance from Bagdad via Jaber Castle, Aleppo, and Antioch to Seleucia. I have always considered that the navigation of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris ought to be made avail able pending the construction of the Euphrates railway from sea to sea. " According to the estimate of Sir John Macneill, a single line of z ailway, of good construction, from Seleucia to Ja►ber Castle, on the Euphrates, 150 miles in length, would cost £1,500,000. The few physical difficulties on the route are between Seleucia and Aleppo. The navigation, however, of the Euphrates is very inferior to that of the Tigris below Bagdad. " From Seleucia to Bagdad is 600 miles, and a single line would cost £4,000,000. From Seleucia to Bussorah, at thG head of the Persian Gulf, is 800 miles, and would cost £6,000,000. A railway from Bagdad to Seleucia, 600 miles in length, would at once give us a new and efficient alter•• native route to India far removed from the intrigues and interference of either our friends or enemies. " As to the telegraph, on the 25th of March last you were good enough to allow me to answer objections made to the establishment of telegraphic communication with India through Turkish Arabia. On that occasion I also ventured to suggest the continuance of the telegraph from Bagdad by a land line through Persia to Kurrachee. Since the above date Bagdad has continued, I believe, in uninterrupted telegraphic communication with England, and sufficiently favourable reports, it is stated, have been received from Colonel Kemball, Consul-General at Bagdad, on the state of the telegraph in Asia Minor and Turkish Arabia to jus tify the expectation of active measures being taken to carry the telegraph onwards to Kurrachee, and thus supply thee only link wanting in the chain of telegraphic communica, tion between England and India. '1 his can either be donLe by a subaqueous line from Bagdad by Kurnah, Bussoreii, and Bunder Abbas to Kurrachee, which possesses many advantages over other subaqueous lines from the numerous islets and promontories along the Persian Gulf, which would facilitate both the laying and maintenance of the cable ; or by a land line to Bunder Abbas through Persia, and thence along the coast of Mekran to Kurrachee, and less than £200,000 would, it is believed, complete this latter• line. " Those personally acquainted both with the Persian Gulf and the Euphrates and Tigris, as well as the region which intervenes between Bagdad and Kurrachee, prefer the proposed line through Persia, as it would be a land line throughout its whole length, communicating with the great cities of Kurmanshah, Hammadan, Korm (where it would send a branch to Teheran), Ispahan. Shiraz, and Lar. The climate is good, and the country generally fertile, except. along the Mekran coast. " The difficulties of constructing the line and keeping it in working order would be very similar to those met with in India and Turkey, which have been easily overcome. Persia offers greater facilities than either as regards climate, the Turkish line being subject to great cold in the winter and deep snow-drifts in the mountains, and the controlling power of the Government of the Shah, although not so great as that of the Government in India, is superior to that of the Sultan in his Asiatic dominions. " Along the Mekran coast the line would run near the beach, or from point to point of the coast, in short sub marine lengths, necessary. We know less of this part of the route than through Persia, but the coast is dotted its most of its little bays by fishing villages, and the line could be easily protected along the shore. " As stated in my former letter, the Government of the Shah will afford every facility, as they are naturally anxious' that the telegraph between England and India should pass through Persian territory. "Notwithstanding dire anticipations in high places, the hostile Arabs and Kurds, who were certain to commit depre dations on the wires, having hitherto proved a myth, we have the hope by a very little exertion on our part of receiv.- ing intelligence from our Eastern possessions without con tinning our dependence on the courtesy of the Czar. " I am, Sir, &c., " London, July 1." "W. P. ANDREW. SUICIDE OF A Cl'll 7 MERCHANT ON .HaMPSTEAD HEATH. An inquest was held yesterday, before Mr. Brent, deputy-coroner for West Middlesex, at the Royal Oak, Temple Fortune, Hampstead-heath, upon the body of the lat e Mr. Peter George, an extensive tea broker, of Fenchurch-street. Mr. Woollett, of Chelsea, identified the body of deceased. He last saw him alive on Saturday morning last speaking to a gentleman in Fenchurch street. shortly afterwards he received a telegraphic message from his nephew, which induced him to go to Hampstead, and make search for Mr. George all over the Heath, as well as to give information to , Inspector Webb, of the Heath-street Station. Wit ness continued the search till ten at night, and re sumed it again next morning, but without success. In the afternoon word was brought to him that the body of a gentleman had been found, and on his going up in a cab he identified it as that of Mr. George. _ _ In answer to the jury, witness said he had noticed a difference in the manner of Mr. George , for some time past. He knew of no cause for his committing the rash act. Charles Lucas, 142 S, deposed to fi n di ng the body of deceased under a hedge in a field, at Gol der's-green. He was lying on bis left side with his throat cut, and the field for some distance was saturated with blood. The body had evidently not been touched, as the gold watch and other property was found on deceased's person. Dr. Brown, of Heath -street, Hampstead, proved being called to see the body of deceased. He found him on his left side, as though asleep, with a razor by his side, covered in blood. His right hand was across his breast. The windpipe and principal arteries were separated, and death had resulted from excessive hemorrhage. Charles George stated that he was nephew to deceased, and clerk in his employ. He saw him at about eleven o'clock last Saturday at the office. He left at that time, and about two a cabman brought a note, which he found to contain the following:-- " Dear Charles,—My body will be found on Hampstead-heath. Dearest, take care of your aunt; she has never been aware of my untoward affairs. " YOUR UNCLE." In reply to questions from the jury, he said be had seen a great change lately in his uncle. He had latterly become very nervous, and unable to attend to business. On Saturday morning he seemed very absent and wandering. Another clerk in deceased's office corroborated the last witness, and added that on Saturday morn ing ho placed two cheques before witness, one for £4OO and one for £lOO, and asked him to add them u w p a . str A ue that fterh four and done it,oene make deceas fi ed ve.. asked_h7 if it Dr. Johnson, of Eaton-place South, said he had known deceased for about 14 years, and had noticed a great change in his manner lately ; and at the very time the above letter was received himself and, Mrs. George were in consultation as to what course would be best to adopt with regard to his future. After the coroner had summed up, The jury returned a verdict, " That deceased de stroyed himself whilst labouring under a fit o f tem' poraryinsanity." WOLVERHAMPTON ELECTION. CLOSE OF THE POLL. Weguelin .. Griffiths .. Hill . . •• •• , 1 363 .• •• 772 •• •• 665 CHELSEA NEW BRIDGE.—A parliamentary return just issued states that between March 31, 1860, and Sep tember 30, of the same year, the tolls collected on Chelsea New Bridg e amounted to £2,923 10s. Bd. The expenses o f collection w ere £2 57 ss. sd. ; raid the repairs and mainte nance £3Bl 78. 7d. From September 30, 1860, t. , March 30, 1861, the tolls collected were £1,015 ss. 61d. ; the ex penses were £252 7s. 12d , and the repairs, &c., £433 7s. 10d. The land disposed of since March 31, 1860, consists of throe quarters of an acre at the east end of Battersea-Park a nd Prince of Wales's-read, let to Mr. John Downey, as yearly tenant from Midsummer, 1860. RAILWAY COMMITTEES.—Yesterday, after hear ing the reply of Mr. Rodwell, Q.C., for the promoters, the committee, of which Mr. Cobbett is the chairman, threw out the North Somerset Railway Bill, adding that the committee were of opinion that some such fontinuation of the Radstock branch as had obtained the sanction of Par liament should be made. The case of the Edinburgh and Perth Railway was opened in Mr. Adair's committee, and that of the opposition of the Great Western Railway i n the South Wales Railway committee. The following bills were passed in the committee of ways and means :—Blane Valley, Devon Valley, Glasgow and Milugavie, Hammer smith, Paddington, and City Junction. Lord Llanover's committee proceeded with the consideration of the Dut,lll - Bill, and the hills of the Londonderry and Lough Scilly Railway. Kirkcudbright Railway, and other bil* were passed in Lord Redesdale's committee.