The Sun. — London, England, 1856-06-02 00:00:00

ASCOT RACES. —By the London and South - Western, and Staines and Wokingham RailWirt to the Ascot Station, within 400 yards of the Grand Stand. ARRANGEMENT Or TRAINS FOE ASCOT Ricss, 10TH, 11TH, 12T11, AND 13TH JUNE. On TUESDAY the 10th, and THURSDAYiI the 12th June, , wl run from London toA sco t seated, covered , and open carriages from 7.45 tilla.m. These trains will return from Ascot to Londonfrom 8.15 to 9.15 p.m. Fares there and Back, 7s. 6d. The holders of these tickets cannot leave London (Waterloo Sta tion) after 8.45 a.m., ner return from Ascot before 8.15 p.m. Special Trains on TWISDAY and THURSDAY will run from London to Ascot from 9.30 a.m. till 12.30 p.m., and from Ascot to London from 5.15 till 8.0 p.m. Fares there and Back, at either way—First class, 12s. 6d. ; second class, 105. Sufficient first class accommodation cannot be guaranteed by every train. The Ordinary Down Trains from London to Twickenham and dayssoret, and from London 9.o Hounslow nd to , will suspended on these between the hours of a.m. a 12.45 be p.m. inclusive; the ordinary up trains to London from these stations will also be sus pended, bat trains will be run at intervals uncertain. On WEDNESDAY, the I 1 th, and FRIDAY the 13th June, special trains will run from London to Ascot from 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. ; and from Ascot to London from 4.30 to 9 p.m. Fares there and back :-Ist Class, 10s.; 2d Class, 7s. Double Journey Tickets, at the above-mentioned Fares, cant be obtained, on and after Monday the 9th June, at Messrs. Tattersall's, Hyde-park-corner; and at the Universal Office, Regent-circus; Ss ran two-Necks, Gresham-street; Spread Eagle, Gracechurch-street 53. King William-street, City; Bolt-in-Tun, Fleet-street; Green Man and Still, Oxford-street; George and Blue Boar, Holborn; Golden Cross, Charing-cross ; Blossoms Inn. Lawrence-lane, Cheapside ;or No. 93, High-street, Borough. By Order. Waterloo•bridge Station, 31st May, 1556. L ONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. OPENING OF THE STAINE 4 AND WOKINGHAM RAILWAY BETWEEN STAINES AND ASCOT. On WEDNESDIY, Jane 4, the STAINES and WOKINGTIAM RAILWAY will be OPENED for PASSENGER TRAFFIC be tween. STAINES, EGIIAM, SUNNINGDALE, and ASCO r STA TIONS. On and after which date, Trains will run as follows, till further notice:— DOWN TZAINIP. Leave Waterloo Sta tion, London .. • • Arrive Staines •• • Leave Staines „ Egham „ Sunnlngdale. Arrive Ascot.. • • • • or TRAINS. Leave Ascot ..•• Sunningdale „ Egham •• • • Arrive Staines .. • • Leave Staines • • .. Arrive Waterloo-1 station, London Clas4 Class Class 1,2,3.1&2 &2. a.m. 7.45 8.54 8.59 9. 5 9.23 9.29 Cla3s 1 & 24 a.m. 8.10 8.16 8.35 8.41 8.45 a.m. 10.45 11.30 11.35 11.41 11.59 12. 5 p.m. 2.35 3.34 3 37 3.43 4. 0 4. 5 Class & 2. p.m. 4.40 5.18 5.23 5.29 5.47 5.53 Week Days. Class l & 2 a.m. 10. 5 10.11 10.30 10.36 10.40 11.25 Class 1,2,3 p.m. 2. 5 2.11 2.30 2.36 2.42 Class I & 2. Class & 2 P m. 4.15 4.20 4.37 4.43 4.47 p.m. 7.45 8.40 8.45 8.51 9. 9 I 9.15 Class t & 2 p.m. 4. 5 8.10 8.28 8.34 8.42 a.m. p.m. 9.30 3. 0 13.26 3.48 10.30 3.62 10.36 3.58 10.54 4.16 11. 0 4.22 Sundays. Class 1,2,3 a.m. 8.15 8.21 8.40 8.46 8.49 Class l & 2 p.m. 1.35 1.41 2. 0 2. 6 2. 9 N.E.—During the Ascot Race Days, these Tri seded by another arrangement, of which notice wi •ains will be super ill be given. FARES Single Journey. Between let Cl. 2d Cl. 3d Cl. London and Egham.... 4s. (Id. 2s. 9d. Is. 9d. „ Sunningdale As. 6d. 3s. 24. 2s. 34. .. Double Journey ht Cl. 2d Cl. Gs. Od. 41. 3d. 73 3d. 53. 2d Ascot .... ss. Od. 3s. 6d. 23. sd. .. Bs. Od. ss. 831 Fares between intermediate stations in proportion. The Rates for season Tickets may be learned on inquiry at any of the stations. OPENING TO WOKINGIIS %I AND READING. It is expected that the Railway will be opened, for passenger tratlic, throughout to Wokingham and Reading, on Tuesday, 1 July next. By order, ARCHD. SCOTT, Traffic Manager. Waterloo-bridge Station, May 31, 1856. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. ALBERTINI—BAUCARDE —ALBONI. THIS EVENING (Monday), June 2 (a Subscription Night in lieu of Tuesday, August 12), will be produced (first time at this theatre) Verdi's Opera, IL TROVATORE. Leonora, Madame Albertini (her first appearance); Azu cena, Madame Alboni ; Manrico, Signor Baucarde (his first appearance); Ferranti°, Signor Bouehe (his first appearance) ; and Il Conte di Luna, Signor Beneventano. To conclude with the Ballet Divertissement, LES QUATRE SAISONS ; Madame Bellon, Mdlles. Katrine, Boschetti, Lisereux, Pi3rron, and M. Vandris. To-morrow Evening (Tuesday), June 3, will be performed a favourite Opera. After which a new Ballet Divertissement, in which Madlle. Marie Taglioni and M. Charles will appear. Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre, Colonnade, Haymarket. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee. Mr. E. 1. Smith. ENGLISH OPERA. THIS EVENING will be produced MIICIIIEVOUS ANNIE. After which, IL TIIOVATORE. To conclude with THE YANKEE HOUSEKEEPER. TTIEA.TRE ROYAL, lIXYMA.RKET. Under the Management of Mr. Bataltstone. TIIIA EVENING, TUE EVIL GENIUS. Followed by THE BMUS AND WRONGS OF WOMAN. To conclude with TFIY: POSTMAN'S KNOCK. PRIgCESS'i THEATRE, OX'ORD-STREET. Under the Minwernent of %Tr. CRAELEE KEAN. Tar; EVPINTWO, THE VICTO% VANQUISaED. After which, WINTER'S TALE. Principal characters by Sir. and Ars. C. Kean. ROYAL THEA.TRE ADELPIII. Proprietor and Manager. Mr. R. Webster. Directress, Madame Celeste. THE GREEN' BUSHES. Followed by A BOTTLE OF SMOKE. ROYAL OLYIIPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Mana;er. Ir. Alfred Wigan. TFII3 EVE.NINI3 Will be perfbrmed THE JEALOUS WIFE. After Which, THE WANDERING MINSTREL. To conclude with STAY AT HOME. ROYAL SUIREY MENTHE. Lessees, Mews. Shepherd and Creswick. THIS EVENING, OTHELLO. To conclude with THE FLOATING BEACON. ASTLEI"S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manafr.er, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING, P Romantic Equestrian and hizlily successful Spectacle, THE OF THE CAVERN, or the Mounted Brigands of the After which, admired novel Revolving Athletre, and the EQUESTRIAN eT in the ARENA. Te conclude with new Drame de Circonstance, called, THE FESTIVAL OF FACE; or Honour to the Brave. Box-oftlce open frmn E'even al Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, Jun. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TRH! DAY—Morn. 50 min. aft. 12—Evening 17 min. aft. I T m-MOBROw—Morn. 40 min. aft. I—Evening 4 mi n . a ft . 2 THE WEATHER—SUN OF-FICE, JUNE 1. THERMOUETER, IN THE SHADE. 54 -highest since noon yesterday. 52 -lowest this morning and during the night. 57—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29'74 —7B ; rising. WIND, W. to W.N.W. Light, with dull cloudy weather. Heavy rain in the night. THREE O'CLOCK AFTERNOON. —Fine sunshiny weather. Wind, W.N.W. JUNE 2. 62 —highest since noon yesterday. 52—lowest this morning and during the night. 69 —this day at noon. B AROMXTRB-29.85. WIND, S.W.—Light, with fine summer weather. i, ,,) a .,,,, ; Le•4, , ,,.. . C --- :2-'...i. , •; - , - ., , ...c, • LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1856. Ices l&2. p.m. G. 30 7.33 7.38 7.41 8. 2 8. 8 Class l & 2 p.m. 7. 0 7. 6 7.24 7 30 7.34 Another element of disturbance has been intro duced into the complicated account between th e rival branches of the Anglo-Saxon race. As if the Central American and Enlistment questions were not quite sufficient to maintain the excite ment from which the Government at Washing ton hopes to gain political capital at the forth coming Presidential election, M essrs . pn :R eE ) MARCY, and GUSHING have flung down another apple of discord, by means whereof they hope to gain a few more votes from the " Hannibal Ohollops," and other striking specimens of the raw material of Yankeedow—the men " half-horse, half•alligator"_..who chuckle as they chew, respect ing the necessity of " taming the British Lion," and expectorate their bile against the Britisher 3 and tobacco juice with a lavish profuseness very unpleasing to the unfortunate bystanders. We wholly acquit the groat body of the American people from any participation in time dis• gusting proceedings. They are, as we have already stated, nothing but electioneering tricks., attempted for the most degrading aid uel fish purposes, but still they are of such a charm -ter as to endanger the friendship and cor diality that ought to be maintained between inemb ers of the same great family—men using the ss tme language, and having blood derived from tone common stock, circulating through their veins. The present step is one that cannot be de fended. It is simply the recognitien by the Cabinet of Washington, of the " Walker" piratical invasion of Nicaragua—and the " filibustering martial law thereby established, as a de facto Government with which they will enter into friendly relations. They profess to be peculiarly sensitive as to any interference with the complete neutrality of the States, and yet they not merely sanction but lend the most powerful aid to a gang of buccaneers, enlisted in their own territories, in violation of the law, for which they are so solicitous. The specious pretext under which they attempt to justify this monstrous precedent is, that they " recognise all Governments without question as to their source or organisation, or the means by which the governing powers attain their power, provided there be a Government, de facto, ac cepted by the people of this country." The acceptance by the people is a point on which very slender evidence will be received and acted on. It is a matter of profound indifference whether " a successful revolution has been aided by foreign intervention or not," or, in other words, whether the change has been effected by the people of the country, or by a party of buc caneers, organised within their own territories, who, if they failed, should be garotted, but, if they held their ground for a short time, might be recognised, sustained, and supported by the government of the United States. Never before was a doctrine in every respect so atrocious formally promulgated by a powerful Government. It encourages robbery of the worst description. It is the practical profession of— " The good old rule, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can." General PIERCE in his Message shows that he is fully aware of the illegal source from whence this power which he recognises as a Government de facto is derived. While declaring that he has never failed sternly to use all the authority vested in him to repress unlawful enterprises, for divers good reasons duly stated and set forth, he adds that in Nicaragua, "in their struggles and troubles, neither being strong enough to overcome the other, one of the parties invited the assistance of a small body of citizens of the United States, whose presence apparently put an end to the struggle, and restored quiet by placing at the head of the Government a distinguished individual, as its provisional president." Was there ever such a flimsy pretext, such a flagrant disregard of every principle of right and justice, so decided an encouragement to the worst speci3s of piracy ? WALKER and his marauding gang were reduced to the last extremity. They could not possibly have maintained their position without the direct aid of the United States Go vernment, and that will be afforded. The sharp end of the wedge has been introduced, and if the filibustering parties, who will now be encouraged to try their hands in the new "spec.," be not sufficient to sustain the original aggressors, there will be the direct interference of the Government at Washington, and direct hostilities with Guate mala and Costa Rica. It would be playing the game of PIERCE and MiRCY to adopt the measures which we would be fully justified in taking. Whatever the Rowdy journals may assert, bullying is not an English attribute ; nor do we desire to resort to threats that will not, in case of need, be followed up to the extreme point. We prefer to leave the matter to the good sense of the people themselves, satisfied that they will inflict the heaviest censure on those who have so grossly abused the power ' entrusted to their hands. The holiday and the fireworks are over. Go vernment has given us its peace, and amused us, and still more our nursemaids and our children, by its skill in pyrotechny. We are bound to confess that time was kept on this occasion, and the only complaint was that of Colonel Tul,well, of the " want of ingenuity ;" the four parks, for an hour and a half, poured forth flights of rockets, tourbillons, &c., but group was so like to group that the monotony of the splendour at last be came wearisome. The interest even of children flagged, and they wearily exclaimed, after a few discharges, "Oh ! that is just like the others." Yes, it was a brilliant monotony. But what else was the peace itself ? Looking back at, the mo dern series of such events, however varied their hues, however splendid some of the victories which led to them, one characteristic has per vaded them all—they have been like the wars which preceded them, affairs of Crowns, not or Peoples ; compacts of despots, making each the best bargain they could for themselves ; and generally, as in this case, however guilty a despot, his fellows' sympathy with the order was tco strong to admit of his receiving his deserts. Ele was a despot, "he must not be humiliated." Millions of once free people might groan for their rights beneath his hoof, but they must not even be named, lest one of the accursed brotherhood should feel " humiliated." The peace fireworks have hardly vanished, be fore the mournful yet manly cry of Poland reminds the Allies of their infamy. The memo rial of the Poles to Count WALEWSKI appears in the very papers which describe the Government rejoicings, and it is a document which the histo rian will most certainly consider in connection with the protocols and articles of the Plenipoten tiaries. Its demands are so moderate, and its lan guage so restrained, that its testimony to the moral cowardice and consequent injustice of the Plenipo tentiaries is unanswerable. It is addressed to a noble man, bearing a Polish name, who was, virtually, the representative of a conqueror, who might have died in Franco instead of a prisoner on the rock of St. Helena, had he but fulfilled his promises to Poland. How probable that, if NAPOLEON 111. had consulted European justice instead of the sup- Posed interests of his infant, he too might have gained a position, from which revolution could net h ave displaced him, and have associated with a Napoleonic dynasty the memory of deliverance oppre sse d. for the Believin g , 8 , we have done, from the com mencement of the War, that au attack on Russian tyranny in Poland was the true flank march for the salvation of Turkey and of all Europe, we also frequently urged that the least the Conaresi of Paris could do was to demand for the Poles what they were guaranteed by the Treaty of Vienna, but what NlcsoLes deprived them o f in 1831, with a fiendish savagery and glee, which made all Europe shudder—and, to its la4ting shame, shudder at in silence. The miquityl, wa , completed by handing over the free republic of Cracow to Austria in 1846. Now, what' the Poles_ 4 . 6 k is merely the constitutiop, territory,. Week days. Sundays. !Class Class 11,2,3. 1802. THE SUN, LONDON, MON DAY EVENING, J UNE 2. 1856, and rights, guaranteed them by the Treaty of Vienna. They enumerate them as follows : Art. 1. The Poles, subjects of Austria, Russia, and Prussia respectively, will have a representa °ion and a national institution ! Art. 6. The City of Cracow, with its territory, is declared for ever a free city, independent, and strictly neutral ! Art. 9. The courts of Russia, Austria, and Prussia bind themselves to respect, and cause to be respected, at all times, the neutrality of the free city of Cracow and its territory, No armed force shall be introduced into it under any pre text whatever ! ! ! According to the Treaty of Vienna Poland is a Kingdom, distinct from Russia, with its own Go vernment, laws, and army, and the entrance of a Russian army is illegal. In the whole affair of the Peace there is nothing therefore more igno minious to England than this evasion of responsi bility for Poland. Their own fifth basis of peace gave them a right to bring the subject forward. Me permanent interests of Europe confessedly demanded it. Justice to the Poles, whose rights were placed in a worse position if neglected on such a European occasioa, required that they should have a record, if only in protocols, which could be abused readily enough in the wrong of Belgium. The deserts, however, of men who longed far more than Sardinia to fight the great battle of European liberty, but were not permitted in time, ought surely to have been considered. It is hardly possible to conceive stronger pleas than those presented by the Poles. The solemn Treaty of Vienna, never yet abrogated, by which Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, and France are what they are, and to which England and Russia were actual parties ;—the impossibility without an in dependent Poland, of lasting security for Turkey, Austria, or Prussia ;—the injustice of blotting out from the map of Europe the name of a Chris tian kingdom of 20,000,000 of people, when so many other races, and Mahommedan Turkey itself, have been taken under its protec tion ; the forwardness of the Poles everywhere to aid the Allies against their oppressors, and, we may add, the lives and treasure which would have been saved had their aid been accepted ;—the deep interest always felt by the people both of England and France in Polish emancipation ; these and other facts which might be mentioned, constitute such a petition of right in the face of all Europe as ought even now to obtain attention. A. series of facts which will for ever brand the peace of Paris with the stigma of injustice, and short-sighted timidity ; for Russia could not have fought in Poland. ALEXANDER, however, is awake. His first journey is to Warsaw; his first address the mingled cajolery and threats for which Russia is so well known. All sort of despot blessings will be showered ou the Poles—only let them seek their happiness in amalgamation with their gentle oppressors, not in the national independence, without which, to be happy is to be base. Such is the paternal advice 'of a CZAR to his manacled slaves. MINISTERIAL ENTERTAINMENTS. The customary full dress banquets, in honour of her Majesty's birthday (with one exception postponed from Thursday last), took place on Saturday evening. The mansions of the seve ral Ministers were illuminated, and after dinner, at each of the banquets, the health of her Majesty was pro posed by the host, and responded to with much enthu siasm by the guests. The Countess of Exmouth has left the Pavillion Ho tel for town on her return from the conti nen t. The Duke and Duchess de Fitzjames, accompanied by a numeral s suite, have left the same Intel. General and Mrs. Robinson are sojourning at th • Pavillion Hotel in Folkestone. DEATH OF GENERAL J. F. BIRCH, C.B.—We have to record the death of General J. F. Birch, of the Royal Engineers, who died on Thursday last. The gallant general had been in the army above 60 years, and had seen much service. AMERICAN MAILS.—The British and North American Royal Mail-steamer Arabia, Captain Stone, sailed from Liverpool for New York about 5 o'clock on Saturday afternoon with the mails and 114 passengers. AUSTRALIA.- PLYMOUTH, Sunday Evening.—H.M. sloop, Fantome, Commander Gennys, 118 days from Melbourne, passed up the Channel off this port this af ternoon. She brings 4,000 ounces of gold. Lieutenant Holler, 40th Regiment, who took passage in her, landed at Plymouth. The letters from the Continent express anxiety regard ing the effect of the weather on the crops. The con tinued floods in France threaten damage to the wheat, and from Milan a considerable rise in silk is reported to day by telegraph, also in consequence of prolonged rain. NEW RUSSIAN LOAN.—The amount of the new Rus -ian Loan, we are informed, is for either 15,000,0001. or 20,000,0001. sterling, ina 4 per cent. stock redeemable by a sinking fund of 1 per cent., by the hypothecation of cn , tims duties. Only a small portion (about 5,000,0002.) will, it is expected, be offered in the London market. We regret to state that a heavy affliction has fallen upon the Earl Jerinyn, by the sudden and premature demise of his accomplished daughter, the Lady Elizabeth Hervey. We believe that fever of a malignant character was the fatal disease which has struck down this la mented young lady. The advices from Paris received on Saturday after noon state that great excitement prevailed on the Bourse yesterday, in consequence of the failure of M. Place, one of the directors of the Credit Mobilier, with engagements to the extent of 18,000,0001., or 720,0001. sterling. IRISH SPIRITS.—In 1855, 6,228,856 gallons of proof spirits were entered for home consumption in Ireland, against 8,410,734 gallons in 1854, and 8,130,362 in 1853. There were, in 1855, 2,214 detections of offences against the excise laws, 597 prosecutions, and 464 con victions, the result of which wa sthe immuring in gaols of 246 persons. SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 31.—At a meeting of the town council, held to-day. Mr. Richard Andrews was elected Mayor of this town in the place of Mr. Sampson Payne, deceased. This is the fourth time this gentleman has received the civic honours of this ancient port, his known liberality and great anxiety for the welfare and prosperity of Southampton having gained for him the esteem of a large number of its inhabitants. ARTISTS' BENEVOLENT FUND.—The anniversary din ner of this institution took -place on Saturday at the Freemasons' Hotel, Great Queen-street; the Right floc. the Earl of Carn%rvon in the chair. After dinner the Secretary read a list of subscriptions, including a dona tion of 100 guineas from her Majesty, of 101. from the Duke of Sutherland, 101. from Sir John Swinborne, and numerous ethers, making together a total of 4121. 10s. THE EFFECTS OF PALMER'S CONVICTION.—The Leeds Intelligeneer says :—lnformation was received in Wakefield, on Thursday, that a person named Fisher, coachman to Colonel Smyth, M.P. for York, has com mitted suicide in consequence of having lost a large suns of money betted on the probable acquittal of Palmer. He has left a wife and four children, who are living in this town. FOREIGN SHIPPING. —The sums paid last year under the act 59 George 111., chap. 54, for the difference of rates and charges due to corporations, companies, or individuals for foreign vessels admitted by treaty of reciprocity or otherwise into the United Kingdom, at the same rates of charge as British vessels, amounted to 40,3001., making, together with the amounts paid up to the 31st of December, 1854, a grand total of 981,6301. BAZAAR IN REGENT'S-PARK.--A bazaar on a some what extensive scale is appointed to take place to-mor row (Tuesday) in the grounds of the Toxopholite Society, Regent's-park, on behalf of the Hospital for Consump tion at Brampton. A mammoth tent has been pitched, to accommodate 10,000 persons, and from the objects pre sented to the charity for sale, and the number of aristo cratical ladies who have consented to preside at stalls, an interesting affair is anticipated. THE GREAT SHIP.—The Eastern Steam Navigation Company are issuing tickets to the public to view the monster ship which is now being built at Millwall, by the firm of Scott Russell and Co. These tickets, which may be obtained at the offices of the company, under certain regulations, admit visitors between the hours of a quarter to one and a quarter to two o'clock, p.m., daily, during the first five days in the week, and on Sa turdays between three and five o'clock p.m. The West London Union have called the attention of the City Commissioners of Sewers to the unhealthy and over-crowded state of Plumtree-court, near the foot of Holborn hill, and much surprise has been called forth at the existence of such a state of things in the City as disclosed by Dr. Letheby ; but there are many such spots in the metropolis, and their locality can at once be , ascertained by inquiry at the great hospitals from what places their patients with fever and other contagious diseases come. —Building News. PRESENTATION TO SIR CHARLES NAPIER, K.C.13. Robert Adams, Esq., Provost of Falkirk, accompanied by Alexander Macfarline, Esq., of Thornhill, banker there, and R. W. Kinnaird, Esq., of the Falkirk Iron works, on Thursday last, waited on Sir Charles Napier, and presented him with a handsome piece of plate —a salver. Sir Charles said he had much pleasure in ac cepting o f t hi s g i ft from hi s f r i en d s i n th e pl ace o f hi s birth. The gentlemen afterwards dined with the gallant Admiral, SEDDONS ORIENTAL PAINTINGS. Everybody at all alive to the progress of mo dern art in London is perfectly well acquainted by this time with Mr. Holman Hunt's extraordi nary picture of " The Scapegoat," No. 398 in the current Royal Academy Catalogue. Everybody who has seen it [and who has not ?) retains a lively sense of that " glory of colour" which shines forth " chiefest" among its more remarkable attri- butes—apple-green, pink, white, yellow, vermil lion—of which Mr. Ruskin observes very truth fully that it " lights the room far away, just as Turner's used to do " (" Notes, &c., ii. 1856, p. 31)—aud of which same " glory of colour" there lives a long while afterwards a brilliant image upon, so to speak, the retina of the beholder's imagination. Everybody who has seen " The Scapegoat" remembers this. Knows the history of the manner of its production. Is aware that it was all painted from Life and from Nature. That that Goat is the effigy of an actual living , creature—so actual and so living that hence posi tively the failure of the portrait as a specimen of hair-painting and hoof -painting—the artist finding it "impossible to get the animal to stand still for a moment in an attitude indicating utter weari ness." Everybody who at all cares for such things is conscious by this time, moreover, that those salt-encrusted shallows in the foreground are the salt-encrusted shallows of the Dead Sea, that those mountains beyond are the veritable mountains of Edom, and that shallows and moun tains alike were painted by Mr. Holman Hunt on the spot, within sight of the objects themselves, at a place called Oosdoom. There the authoritative Oxford Graduate himself has told us in his own eloquent fashion—The young English painter encamped upon the actual shore of the fatal waters ; set up his easel upon their margin hard by the opening of his little tent ; " pursued his work with pa tience through months of solitude ; and painted, crag by crag, the purple mountains of Moab, and, grain by grain, the pale ashes of Gomorrah." To enhance the strangeness of all which as constitut ing an incident in the annals of the development of modern art, this same young English artist having arrived in Palestine with a view to the accomplishment of this very singular undertaking "with the cloud of Eastern war gathering to the north of him, and involving for most men, accord ing to their adventurous er timid temper, either an interest which would at once have attracted them to its immediate field, or a terror which would have driven them from work in its threat ening neighbourhood, he pursues calmly his origi nal purpose : and while the hills of the Crimea were white with tents of war, and the fiercest passions of the nations of Europe burned in high funereal flames over their innumerable dead, one peaceful English tent was pitched beside a ship less sea ; and the whole strength of an English heart spent in painting a weary goat dying upon its salt sand." (Notes, &c., ii., 1856, p. 27.) We have here quoted at length a very striking portion of the earnest tribute offered by Mr. John Ruskin to the industry of Mr. Holman Hunt, to his patience, to his ardour, to his genius, to his skill—as they have been all more or less mani fested of late in his recent search in the Holy Lands after the True at least, if not (at any rate to the popular apprehension) in any marked or successful manner, after the Beautiful. We have done so under the apparently incongruous heading of " Seddon's Oriental Paintings"—because Mr. Holman Hunt was preceded in his singular and remarkable journey with his brushes and pigments, his easel and pal lette, into the region of the Holy Places, by another young English artist, one who was so far Mr. Hunt's pioneer in Palestine, as he became afterwards, we believe, his companion, and as he may ultimately prove (as Mr. Hunt himself might not disdain to regard him) a rival as well as a contemporary. Mr. Thomas Seddon, as we have already intimated, arrived in the Holy Land before Mr. Holman Hunt touched its shores in his eccentric expedition to paint the famous picture of " The Scapegoat" at Oosdootn. Mr. Seddon returned from Palestine later than Mr. Hunt-- bringing with him as evidence of his extraordinary industry during the interval of his toil and travel, of his labours of love and - of his journeyings of enthusiasm, not one painting alone, but several of a really remarkable character. Evidence these pictures afford, moreover, be it said at once, not simply of his industry, but with this very laud able quality of others yet more noteworthy and entitled to more extended and elevated admiration —evidence, we mean, for example, of the keenest observation of nature, of the most reverent sense of the sanctity of the awful localities depicted, of the liveliest appreciation of the beautiful whether on the earth or in the heavens, to say nothing of the artistic aptitude displayed by Mr. Seddon as a colourist of very rare accomplishment. Several of his oriental pictures, now on " private view " in Conduit-street (No. 52), we have recently had the gratification of examining —works of art im portant enough though probably not numerous enough to have been catalogued with some degree of particularity. Unassisted by the mechanical aid of a printed list --a list which possesses at least this advantage, that it gives to each picture in a collection the benefit, so to express it, of " a local habitation and a name," admitting of the possi bility of explicit reference our recollec tion of the oriental paintings of Mr. Sed don admits only of a reference to them not so much in detail as in generality. One ex quisite view there is—looking towards Jerusalem —a view enabling the spectator to gaze (without seeing it) across the hidden pool of Siloam—a picture with a pomegranate tree in flower, bloom ing in the foreground, and under its shadows the sparsely sprinkled grass blades shooting up in summer time from the loose soil, blossoming out here and there into the strongest varieties of the wild thistle. Another and a smaller picture, one simply portraying the figure of a loaded camel in the wilderness, attended by its driver—reminds one when gazing at it (high praise we take this to be) of J. F. L3WIS, the distinguished President of the Old Society of Water Colourists. It is ob servable by the way that Mr. Seddon has this great merit, in common with the more eminent among , our rising pre-Raphaelites, that he is no conven tionalist. If he sees, as he does see (and as every body else sees, but hardly anybody else ventures to show that ho sees) shadows of " blue" instead of the everlasting shadows of " brown"—he ho nestly paints blue shadows, and not the old, blun dering, bungling, untruthful brown shadows. If he sees a bright green colour in the sky—he paints it bright green—as Turner used to do, as Hunt has just done in the variegated sheen on the Moab mountains. And how Mr. Seddon—who no less, in his way, than Mr. Holman Hunt, or M r. Everett Miller's, can think for himself, and see for himself, and not through tho old distorting loopholes of conventionality—how Mr. Seddon can paint, let his nobler picture of " The Sphinx" tell, and his yet nobler pain ting:of "The Py ram id s, " as they loom before the eyes of the traveller at sundown, with an aureole of glory shooting in great beams up into the heavens, and a wondrous twilight settling down over the Nile-flooded shal lows of Egypt—works of art these two last men tioned--that would have gladdened the heart, and revived the memory, and rejoiced the imagination of poor Elliot Warburton. A RUN OF SALMON.—Th!: , John o'Groat J ourna l says.: — Owing to the heavy rams which we have had for the last few days, which afforded the salmon an oppor tunity of making for the sea, a number of spectators were attracted to the river by some boys purshing the fish through the water in hundreds. The scene was truly Pleasant, the fish being so large and numerous. Never have there been seen, within the recollectio n o f any of the fisher men connecte d w ith the river, such a number of fish. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—Letters and papers from the Cape of Good Hope to the Bth of April have came to hand, but they do not contain any political news of interest. Mr. Solomon carried a motion in the House of Assembly that a committee be appointed to consider the best means for promoting immigration, in accordance with the suggestions made by his Excellency the Governor in his speech on the opening of Parlia- ment. The bill for preventing the spread of infectious or contagious diseases, introduced by Government, has been promptly considered, and there is every evidence that the members are fully aware of the importance of such a measure. LATEST NEWS. PARIS, MONDAY, JUNE 2, 8 A.M. The Emperor left Paris yesterday evening for Lyons, to preside in person at the distribution of aid to the sufferers by the inundations in the south. He arrived at Dijon at 8 o'clock. He left this morning at 7 o'clock for Lyons. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. The Universal Agricultural Exhibition was opened to-day to the public. The number of visitors was very great. The weather was very fine. WARSAW, MAY 30. An amnesty is officially announced, giving per missions for all political exiles to return. They will be reinstated in their civil righte. BERLIN, MAY 30. The Emperor Alexander is about to visit Riga, and on the 10th of June will hold a grand mili- tary review. FRANCE. PARIS, Sunday Evening.—There is no longer any doubt about his Majesty visiting Algeria. Unless some unexpected events should occur the Emperor will probably leave France by the end of June. The necessary arrangements for the voyage are already organised, and the objects de service are already on their way to Laghonat. A favourable change has taken place in the weather. The greater part of yesterday was wet, and the afternoon was as cold as in the month of February. This day is fine ; the sun is warm, and a smart breeze is rapidly drying up the ground. Several times the sky was covered with heavy masses of cloud, and we expected the re-commence ment of the deluge. We are most agreeably dis appointed ; the thick masses are reduced to fleecy patches, and the sky presents a favourable appear ance. A week's hot sun will do an immensity of good. The following telegraphic despatch has been re ceived : " MADRID, May 31.—The bidding for the conversion of 200 millions of reals of the Floating Debt into Three per Cent Stock touk place to-day. The Government had fixed a minimum of 40. The bidders offered 41 and a few centimes. The tenders exceeded the sum of 200 millions demanded by the Government." _ _ .. . The BOURSE, May 31.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. is. End of Month. 4} per Cents 94 3 per Cents 74 90 7 k 95 New Loan 74 90 Bank Shares 4,150 2 Roman . 90 Credit Mobili.w 1,900 Austrian Belgian Five — Spanish Threes 44 -V; Nedmontese(s). 93 75 Home Debt 43 RAILWAYS-NOR CASE. ft. c. fr. 0. Orleans 1,457 Western MO - Northern 1,160 Strasburg Lyons ....... 1,54.5 New Ditto Nfediterranean 1,760 Grand Central Lyons Geneva — Testa — Cette BO2 50 Austrian C0rn....... 937 50 RUSSIA. The official Gazette of Posen contains a telegra phic despatch received from Warsaw, stating that, at a ball held in that city, at which the Polish no bility were present, the Emperor of Russia an nounced that he had signed a general amnesty, which was to extend to all the Polish refugees and emigrants. The names of a few noted individuals are excluded from the benefit of this Imperial act. An Imperial ukase places the educational esta blishments of Russia under the Emperor's special superintendence. Ganeral Ney was to have embarked at St. Peters burg on the 21st by the steamer for Stettin. The Emperor before he left for St. Petersburg sent to General Ney the cordon of the order of Ste. Anne. The Corriere Italiane of Vienna contains the following rather extraordinary piece of intelligence from St. Petersburg :—" A large body of troops are now on their march towards the countries washed by the Indus and the Ganges. Arrange ments lately entered into at St. Petersburg leave no doubt on the subject. The Russian Govern ment is, moreover, endeavouring to turn to ac count the experience acquired during the late war, and has it in contemplation to introduce material reforms i n the military administration of the country. The army is to be completely re-organised. There will be eight special armies, each composed of eight corps cl'armee. Regiments in time of peace are to have dye battalions of from 500 to 1,000 men each, and eight in war. The riflemen will be considerably increased in number, the heavy cavalry will be disbanded. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, May, 31.—Sir William Williams, of Kars, is to dine at the King's table to-day. The Emperor of Russia and all about him treat the General with the greatest distinction, as is also the case with all the military here. The Prince of Prussia seeing him a few days back, while viewing the interior of a church at Potsdam, manoeuvred so as to come round by one of the side aisles and meet the General face to face, introduced himself to him, shook him by the hand, and entered kindly into conversation with him. BERLIN, May 28.—Last week a storm disturbed the usual calm which distinguished the sittings of the little chamber of Meiningen representatives. The Ministry brought forward a message calling on the house to give its assent to the publication of the , federal law for the " prevention and punishment of abuses of the press." To this the committee de murred, saying that it saw no reason for hurry in the matter, in small states, wh en grea t powers lik e Prussia and Austria had hitherto abstained from adopting, or at all events from publishing, this re strictive law. Thereupon the Minister replied by denouncing the pretext for refusal to be "hamisch" (knavish or malicious). Upon this a dozen mem bers rose, and demanded that the minister should be forthwith called to order, and retractation of the offensive expression ; but in lieu of submitting, the offender declared that ministers were no ways sub servient to the chamber, and 6 the house deter rained to appeal to the sovereign. The quarrel was settled, however, next day, by a queer compromise; the minister retracted, and the house assented to the measure. Stutgard journals announce that the King of Wurtemburg has sent a considerable number of fine red deer from his preserves-as a present to the Emperor Napoleon, for the purpose of improving the breed in the imperial forests. The liberal side of the second chamber has lost one of its most efficient members, by the resigna tion of M. Reichensperger, a counsellor of the Co logne Appeal Court. AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna of the 27th, in the Consti tutionnel, says :—" The Emperor and Empress will return here in a few days from the Chateau of Luxembourg. The Empress, who is in the enjoy ment of excellent health, expects to be confined about the middle of June. The Empress Eugenie has on several occasions shown her interest to wards the Empress of Austria, by making in quiries about her health from the Archduke Maxi milian, and also from Baron de Hubner and Vis count de Sarre, who acts ad interim for the Baron de Bourqueney. Baron de Bruck has returned sud denly from Trieste, having been recalled in conse quence of some negotiations which have been going on for some time between the Northern Railway, the nobility of Hungary, and the Credit Mobilier having taken a turn contrary to his wishes. M. de Bruck has decided that the Credit Mobilier should, not take part in the amalgamation. Tho treaty between the two parties will be signed in a feW days. The accounts from Hungary and the Banat are very favourable as regards the state of the crops. The weather is fine, and there is every prospect from present appearances of an abundant harvest." SPAIN. A Madrid letter of the 27th says :—" The com mittee charged to investigate the conduct of the ex-Queen Christina is about to present its report ; it will leave to the Cortes themselves to decide whether or not her Majesty shall be impeached. 1 - it different towns of Aragon some important per sonages have been arrested on the charge of having been concerned in Carlist conspiracies. The ex- King Regent of Portugal arrived at Tangiers on the 20th, and was received with great honour." The Gazette of the 25th confirms the announce ment made by one of the journals, that the mar. riage of Donna Amalia and Prince Adalbert of Bavaria will most likely take place about the middle of next month. A letter says—" Several Cabinet Councils have been held to decide defini tively what shall be done with respect to M ex i co. There is every reaaoni to believe that vraz will be declared against that republic, if it should not give satisfaction, by retracting what it has done with regard to the Spanish convention. It is re ported that a new regulation of the debt is intended, but nothing either on that question or on the one relative to English coupons has been decided." MADRID, MAY 29.—A naval force, consisting of two ships of the line, three frigates, two corvettes, and four steam-boats, is destined to proceed to the Gulf of Mexico. ROME. The Giornale di Roma of the 24th announces that an exhibition of woollen fabrics and raw silks, produced in the Papal States, is to take place at Rome in September next. The specimens are to be sent in before the end of August. Gold and silver medals are to be awarded to the successful con?petitors. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, MAY 23. The Bombay mail of the 28th of April arrived at Suez on the 15th inst., and some intelligence from India was forwarded to England by a French steamer on the 17th. The Calcutta mail arrived at Suez on the 20th, and the Ava leaves to-day on her return voyage to England with the India and China mails. The steamer Hindostan, which brought the mail from Calcutta, got on shore about 60 miles from Suez, and was floated again after eight hours, by throwing overboard 150 tons of coals. Fortunately, she grounded on a sandbank and received no damage ; but if the accident had not happened just where it did sho would have met a coral reef and suffered considerably. Said Pasha has expressed his intention of viv rously pushing the works of the railway in the desert between Cairo and Suez after the termina tion of the present fasting month of Ramadan, so that the line may be completed in the course of next year. His Highness has also given orders for the digging of a navigable canal, about 22 miles long, across the lower part of the Delta, be tween the towns of Senaenhond and Fouah, which will be of vast advantage to the country, and will bring into cultivation large tracts of land hitherto abandoned. Said Pasha, with all his faults, does occasionally evince good intentions for the benefit of the country; but his Highness does himself great injury by wish ing to do everything himself, and by not having about him proper servants and ministers to whom he could confidently intrust part of the several duties devolving upon the government of an im portant country. It is notorious that an extensive system of smuggling is now being carried on in this port, principally by Greeks. All Egyptian produce ought to pay on shipment an ad valorem export duty of 12 per cent., but many shippers succeed in evading this duty, and thus not only defraud the revenues of the country, but drive honest mer chants out of the field by being enabled to deliver their goods in England at a lower price. With proper Custom-house officers, appointed perma nently, and induced to take an interest in the honest performance of their duties, the smugglers might easily be put down. All good Mahomedans are now fasting, but the - Viceroy does not conform to this—one of the principal tenets of the religion he professes to follow. Great festivities and a grand review of all the Egyptian troops are to take place next month in commemoration of Said Pasha's advent to the pashalic of Egypt. The Nile being just now particularly low, the water in the canal has not risen to the extent ex pected, so that but little produce can be brought, and trade is dull. Vessels get very low freights. The railway between Alexandria and Suez being a branch of the Government administration, the present company is the first of the kind in Egypt which has been formed under the direct patronage of its ruler, with an European administration and a mixed body of European and native shareholders, for the important purpose of developing the re sources of the country. The Mahinoudieli Canal has just been deepened, and among other duties devolving upon the new company will be the keeping up of a sufficient sup ply of water for navigation and the irrigation of the adjacent lands by means of steam pumps, to be placed at its junction with the Nile. The company has further iu view to open the canal to the sea by a lock for the passage of lighters, so as to expedite the loading of ships very considerably. The formation of this company, under the auspices of the Viceroy, is a step in the right direction, and it is to be hoped that it will be the precursor of further internal improvements. Exchange on L'ndon has again risen to 100 piastres per £ sterling. ODESSA., May 18.—At present vessels arriving at Odessa are not obliged to keep quarantine, although its abolition has not been made known officially. General Lochner, who constructed the fortifications at Ismail and Iteni, is now employed in blowing them up. There are 200 vessels in the road, but no corn for export. THE F3ENCII GOVERNMENT AND THE BELGIAN PRESS. The Paris correspoident of the Times (Second Edition), in his letter, dated yesterday, says : "The difference between the French and Belgian Governments, which has led to a certain degree of estrangement between them, is, I am told, in a fair way of settlement ; or, rather, is already settled as far as the Cabinets are concerned. The latter has engaged to bring in a bill to render more stringent the provisions of the law on the press. The great difficulty was in the Chamber, but the Belgian Government, it appears, makes sure of having a majority to pass the measure. It can do no more ; but what will be the consequence if its hopes of a majority are disappointed? The question was ar unfortunate one to touch at all." AUSTRIAN CIRCULAR. The Frankfort Journal publishes the following as the subitance of an Austrian circular, addressed by Count Buol to Austrian diplomatic agents abroad. It is a reply to Count Cavour's memoran dum of the 16th of April : Like the Sardinian Plenipotentiaries, Count Duel starts from the principle that reforms in Italy are much needed, but, as to the means of those reforms, comes to conclusions diametrically opposed to Sardinian policy. While the memorandum of the 16th of April seeks the causes of the state of affairs in Italy in the measures which Austria and the Italian S overeigns, who have called in that power to their aid, have recourse to to put down revolutionary excitement in Italy, the Austrian circular despatch considers such a state of things as the immediate consequence of a secret and wide-spread propaganda which continues to act in Italy. Sardinia, the only Italian State, according to Count Cavour, capable of opposing a firm harrier to the revolutionary spirit, is designated in Count Buol's note as the focus of this propaganda. The Vienna Cabinet hurls back at that of Turin the accusations brought by the Sardinian Plenipotentiaris against Austria and the Italian States above mentioned. The circular observes that it is just possible that Sar dinia is working the revolutionary spirit with a view to her own territorial aggrandisement. It also points out that the barrier opposed to a revo lutionary movement is not erected by Piedmont, but that it is based on the Austrian system and on foreign occupation, and attributes the bitterness of Piedmont agaitist Austria and the above-cited Italian States solely to the obstacles which this barrier opposes to the pro jects which Austria attributes to Sardinia. THE AUSTRIANS IN 111OLDO-WALLA- CILIA. It is hardly possible to allow the order of the day of the Emperor of Austria, addressed to the army of occupation in Moldo-Wallachia, to pass without one or two observations. It is not true that that occupation has furnished the troops with "an opportunity for giving proofs of constancy and self-denial." The Austrian soldiers have not had to endure any privations, and, though the country had suffered from a preceding occupation, the Austrian soldiers and officers were much more exacting than the Russians, and were treated with excessive care and furnished with an abundance which pressed heavily on the wretched inhabitants, The Austrian army did not encounter " difficulties or obstacles of all kinds." It did not enter the Provinces till after the departure of the Rossia,ns and there was al ways a distance of 30 leagues maintained between the two armies. It never even occupied a strategic position, and it had no sort of difficulty or obstacle to overcome; but, en revanche, it threw many difficulties and obstacles in the march of the Turks on the Pruth. The Austrian troops did not exhibit their valour much to their advan tage as soldiers, and they (lid not maintain in the most satisfactory manner the military spirit which is charac teristic of them. They committed many shocking outrages, and they pillaged and assassinated wherever they were in garrison. The journals , the Presse, the Revue de Paris, the Revue des Deux Atondes, were replete with their misdeeds. The conduct of the Austrian troops during the occupation was on many occasions most deplorable ; it was such as caused the Russians to be regretted by the unfortunate inhabitants ; and this last act, namely, the order of the day of the Emperor Francis Joseph, is an outrage en truth, and it adds insult to the manifold injuries of IVloldo-Wal fachians have been the victirus.-2'inies P 9is 001, C81)0 n t. THE PUBLIC) HEALTH ACT.—A bill has been brought in by the Government to amend the Public Health Act of 1848 by extending its provisions. It repeals the pro viso limiting the duration of the General Board of Health, which is authorised to inspect districts and to report to Parliament the result of all its inquiries. Provision is also made for the adoption of Public Health Acts by town-councils, the constitution of local boards of health, a 44 the powerm t o . be conferred on them. LA INTELLIGENCE.—(This ay.) COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Sittings at Westminster, before Mr. Baron Alderson and a Common Jury.) MAINE V. BRAITHWAITE -A 2IARRIED INFANT , This was an action for the recovery of 231. 1 25 . 6cl ' for goods sold and delivered. Th e d e f en dant plead e ' , that at the time of the sale he was an infant, being under 21 years of age—to which the plaintiff replied that th e goods supplied were necessaries, consisting of household furniture. The plaintiff is an upholsterer, and in th e course of last year he was waited on by the defendant' who introduced him to his wife, and said be was desirous of furnishing his house. He at the same time said 18 i was a minor, but would be in th e rece ipt of 20 01, n a few months, and took plaintiff to his solicitor, W ho confirmed his statement. The defendant's mother ale ° sanctioned the supplying of the articles by plaintiff to the defendant. Mr. Lush, who appeared for the plaintiff, said that this case presented one of the anomalies so often found in our laws, that a person under age might W ell / marry, but not contract debts except for necessaries. Mr. B Iron Alderson—Married people must hav e II bed to lie on. (Laughter.) His 1 irdship on read ll4 over the list of articles noticed a "100 table," a nd io" (juiced if it was necessary a man should have a 10, table to play at 100 I He also noticed a " shaving brush', and asked if it was a necessary article for an infa nt • (Laughter.) The plaintiff stated that the 100 table was a very usef ul and necessary article, and that its name did not " ces .; sarily imply its uses. As regarded the shaving brush I was a necessary article, for the infant had as much ° " cut off" as any man he had ever seen. (Laughte r ' ) The action being undefended the jury returned a 'l er ; diet for the plaintiff for 231. 12s. 6d., the anl °llll claimed. QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before Mr. Justice Wightman and a Common DE SIMONE V. PICCIVILLO. This was an action brought by the plaintiff to reen/ tr damages of the defendant for an alleged breach of on tract. The plaintiff and defendant are both Italians The latter formerly kept a cafe and restaurants i° city, and being in want of an Italian cook, he we nt a l b May last to Naples, and entered into an agreemen t the plaintiff for the term of three years, a t 15 ducats pe r month, the defendant binding himself to pay the pla int !, 100 ducats and pay his expenses back to Naples's case of any breach of the agreement on his part. plaintiff accordingly came to thi s coun t ry , an d rona ille n with the defendant as his co o k un til D ecem ber, vi be a the defendant's premises were burnt down, and be ba s no further employment for the plaintiff, at the 83/13 1 , time refusing to make him any c om p ensa tion. I P, P n i t cation was made to the Italian co nsu l, and the defe o°- paid the plaintiff 1/. Ss., and lodged in the hands o f th. consul 11/. for the plaintiff's expenses back to Ita l y' which occasion he signed a receipt for th e m oney, 111 0 it was alleged was an entire settlement of the between them. The whole of the witnesses being foreigners, at a ,: suggestion of the learned jud ge th e case was referred ii`o a gentleman of the bar to settl e th e po i n t betwee° t plaintiff and defendant. ESTABLISHMENT OF A LINE OF CANADIAN MAIL PACKETS. dor The Government of Canada h as es t a blished, 1111 er , contract, a line of mail packets t o run b e tween li! f ; r . pool and Quebec during the summer, and between pool and Portland durin g th e w i n t er . A packet " x - t sail from Liverpool on Wednesd a y, th e 4th of June ne o; and thenceforward, on every a lt erna t e wean s; be during the period that the River St. Lawrence open, and once a month when the navigation Of t'" Lawrence hall be closed. ketgo Mails will be made up for conveyance by these Vi c 0 and such correspondence will be forwarded by ther cl t , o may be specially address e d " By C ana di an Mail Pac k° The postage upon letters thus sent will be-- , F,,r a letter not exceedin g -1 oz. in weight, 6 ' For a letter exceeding 1, 1 , oz. and not ex ceeding 1 oz lg• and so on, according to the scale for charging 11116 ,:r letters ; and such letters may be p a id i n a dvance or d warned unpaid, at the option of the seller. Upon books, the usual rate of postage— 61 For a packet not exceeding half.a pound in weight.," For a packet exceeding half•a-pound a n d not exceed' ing one pound ........ and so on, will be chargeable. Newspapers will be liable to a postage of one P e each. t / Books and Newspapers, as w e ll as l e tt ers i n tends ej be sent by these Vessels, must be especially a ddre o "By Canadian Marl Packet." By command of the Postmaster-General, ROWLAND HILL, Secretarf . General Post Office, June 2, 1856. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—{This Day.) LONDON, June 2.—Wind this day at noon, S. -gi hi pleasant breeze and fine clear weather. -scr Al. s ' PLYMOUTH, June 1. —Wind S.W.—Arrived.- -"," gal Salamanca, from the Coast of Africa ; George, from Sheerness, and left for the Crimea ; 110 Pearl, from Portsmouth, for the Pacific ; Helenaw, , O, Janeiro ; Germanica (s. tpt.), Portsmouth. Sailed - ' Str. Vesuvius. 'fee PORTSMOUTH, June 1.- Wind W.S.W.—its Andes (a. tpt.), from Scutari ; Colomb o (s. tpt.), Ap ; Sailed.—Germanica (steam tpt.), for Queenow to o Imperieuse, for a crui se w ith a di v i s ion of t he despatch vessels; H.M.S. Eurotus and Seahoree, fo r Black Sea. CARDlFF. — Sailed—Riderkirk, for Singapore. OFF DUNGENESS —Euphrates, for Ceylon. , 0, 0 I. RAMSGATE, May 29.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—" from London, for Jamaica, with damage. tbe GREENOCK, May 29.—The Prin cess Royal (s.), ° An t., rocks at Point Logg an , an d w ith a ll h er compartul except one, full of water. nor SWANSEA, May 29.--Wind E.—Arrived—Bella P° from Coquimbo. fre 4 DEAL, May 30.—Wind N.E., fresh—Arrived— ",o lni (ship, from Calcutta , Jamaica. The ) schooner Jane and l Mary, of Falmouth, from C ar s to for Marseilles, was wrecked near Cape Spartel prey for the 6th May. The Gazelle, of Scilly, from Card i ff Messina, whi c h was stranded' 17 miles from TanF n ja. the 31 April, has been abandoned, condemned, and (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Wi rniti r o g il 6 t Arrived.—Eling, from Sunderland; New Prlt e h e ttal Scilly ; Mary Cole, Carnarvon ; Alarm and 1 316 ' Calcutta ; Louis Napoleon. Sailed—James, for Sunderland. ,a 301 , Spoke, May 21, the barque Royal William ; 5°,7, 0 4 25, the brig Choice, outward bound, by the Eta' . brigantine Naiade, arrived off the Isle of Wight. . o g, LIVERPOOL, Monday lifor l3l Wind N. W. 13 01er Arrived—Lydia, from Bonny ; Pickwiok, 181111; 4 . ro io, Antigua; Lady Westroore:and, New Orleans; Cal ii° l‘ll ll Ship Island; Tonawanda, Philadelphia ; City of Bit ar iop and Arctic, New York ; Washburn, Marseillem; .„Utet Barcelona; Emilia and Pepita, Santander; Sir " w i e lg; Raleigh, Jamaica; Thomas, St. John's, New B/ 1113 ,, s Metropolitan screw-steamer, Barlitta ; Leonor, Sailed —Speed, for Cuba • Romance, Alexandria Derr Freden, Havre ; Agenora, Quebec;i Milan, screvr.stell Genoa ; Spera Ciudad, Bolivar. QUERNSTOWS, Diet' Wind S.E. c oo' Arrived—Elizabeth Wood, from Buenos Ayreo,;„oroP line, Alexandretta ; Eliza Car o li ne , C a ll ao ; GA."- Corfu. (BY SUBMARINI AND BRITISH TELIGRAPO , GRAVESEND, Monday, 9. 42 2 1 ' 6 , Wind N. ; tide four hours' flood ; weather yell, u ,giesth Arrived, June I—Alert, from Villa Nnova ; -b- I `, T " 0 0" Buenos Ayres; Sir Richard Jackson, Callao ; ' Part Adelaide Sutlej, Calcutta. tro . ! Arrived, June 2—Torres. from Moreton-bay; A-„A - 1 3 „ ta bo , Winifred, and Columbine, Calcutta ; Euphrates, C o lo ur Thomas Snook, Cape Coast Castle A . DEL, Monday, 9. 3 0 g " Wind S.S.E., light airs. fer Anchored, Ist —Taymouth Castle, from Lonclo v ' Sydney. Passed—Mystery, from Corfu, for London. vied' All the Generals who held commands in the i.- - h er montese Contingent are to be invested with UM' rank on their return. Gen. Cialdini has been a lt appointed aide de-camp to the King ; Gen. Du r ,, s , - Commander of the First Division of the Expecll t 'fs Corps, is to assume the military Government of u " —° eo and Gen. Fanti, Commander of a brigade in the Crito is to be Governor of ChaEnbery. re , From Rome we learn that Cardinal Antonelli W l46 ' paring a reply to the memorandum of Count C a vour J he to the speech of Lord Palmerston, which the .Pop e The caused to be inserted in the Giornale di Roinci . , r of Cardinal was collecting fo r the gin— purpose a n ,b O lO administrative and statistical documents, and the is to be forwarded to Paris by Cardinal Patrizi. DISASTER AT SEA.—PLYMOUTH Sunday Eve h o l j r vijea The mackerel b oa t Liberty, of Penzance, which at at Plymouth this afternoon, reports that on Fri d i t Y t ' o nt 5 in the m orn i ng , w h en t h e Li zar d b ore W.S.W, ui - The 30 miles, she saw a bark go down head foremost. 0.10 Liberty was two miles to windward. The herd oil about 600 to ns , and had her head eastwardly , lin ue :boat canvas, the main royal being set. Another fishing had been crni.ing• round for two hours befor e the ftt'ber dent, and in all probability saved the crew. T 97° ° boats bore away for Vie spot immediately. Too tlemen, having undergone the necessary exam" oa t for the diploma were admitted members of the colleg_t, the meeting of the court of examiners on the 30th ic s _ o „ —Messrs. John Warren, Gloucester-place, Pc rt - r fr a e square ; Easlam Davis, Shelton, Staffordsh Frederick George Constant, South-street, Th, u f r o pt . square ; Charles Field, Goldsborough, Welchpoolf dip East fo gomery,hire ; Worsley Poulett Harris, Hon. Company's service ; Thomas Pemberton Simpson, 4( - 1 -' 3 o h, ner-square, Liverpool ; David Clipson Wray, 3 ' C auzbridgeghire ; _sad Limy Ormervd, Bristol. 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