The Sun. — London, England, 1861-08-19 00:00:00

CR Y AL PALACE.- FORESTERS' GREAT DAY —The GREAT AN NUAL FETE OF THE FORESTERS will take place TO MORROW (Tuesday), when the Palace and Grounds will be open from half-past eight o'clock in the morning till ten o clock in the evening for the admission of visitors. , 9Z a full display Last year 67.92 g person s attended this most Popular Festival. All the special attractions of former fetes will be provided on this o ccasion, tll inclU of the GREAT FOUNTAINS and ENTIRE SERIES o f WATERWORKS at Three o'clock, and a second display at Six o'clock, sSilitary Bands, Quadrille Bands for Dancing on the Green, and on the Great N or th Wing P latfor m. Grand Processions in the Grounds of mem bers in their regalia and decorations, With flags and banners, and preceded by band s of music, (lzc. Extra Entrances and Exits will be provided for visitors by road and by rail. Special Trains will run from all parts in England on This Day, and from London-bridge, Pimlico, and Intermediate Stations, as fast as required. To afford time for visitors leas ifig by degrees, gas standards will be erected in the naves a ndansets. Ad tr mission p , ONE SHILLING. ,IrEATRY,ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lesqee, Mr. J. B. Ettekstone. THIS EVENING, the rPrfornlanctem will oommenee with THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. Miss M. Oliver. After which, a new Comedy, entitled MY LORD AND MY LADY; or, It Might have been Worse. Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Buckstone, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Wilkins, &c. Followed by . HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. To conclude with a Ballet. BACCIIUS AND ARIADNE, THE CHRISTENING. Miss Fanny Wright, the Leelercqs 31r. Webster, .&c. Commence a' 7 E W THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL- Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. 110th Night of "The Dead Heart." THIS EVENING, the great A delphi drama. THE DEAD l [EA RT. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Took, Fisher, Billing ton, Eburne, Smith, Romer ; Miss Wooigar and Miss Kate Kelly., To conclude with (30th' time) THE PRETTY ITORSE BREAKER. Mr. J. L. Took., Mr. Paul Bedford; Miss K. Kelly, Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Thorne, Miss Laidlaw, and Mrs. Chatterley, _ On Wednesday next, Atig. 21, the Annual Benefit of Mr. Wm. Smith, Acting Manager, "The Flowers of the Forest," " The Woman Hater," and "Perfection." Doors open at halt past 6—Commence at 7. OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING will be produced a new aid original comedy, entitled WOMAN ; or, Love against the World. Characters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin, J. Robins, Mrs. Charles Young, Mrs. Weston, Miss Murray, and Miss Lydia Thomson. To conclude with the Farce of MAGIC TOYS. Valentine, Miss Lydia Thomson. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 to 5. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.—SAM COWELL, the Prince of Comic Vocalists, will make his First Appearance since his return to England on THURSDAY, the 29th August. Admission--Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, ls. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Two Grand Selections from Operas, including. UN BALLO IN 3IASCHERA, arranged and conducted by Mr. Jongh mans. Mr. Wocd and his talented little Son. The extraor dinary comic duet, " The Nerves," by Harvey and French, Mr. Marshall in " The Excursion to Brighton," "Selina Sly," and " In the Park." First appearance of Miss HARRIET COVENEY on MONDAY Evening. Admission—Hall, Bd.; Stalls and Balcony, Is. X F 0 R D, T " 6, OXFORD-STREET. The architectural beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and brilliancy of lighting of this noble buildi ng, ren d er i t one of the sights of London. Open Every Evening. The pro gramme is varied, and includes Selections from " La Tra ;iata," "Un Ballo in Maschera," (by a full company of principals, powerful band, and chorus). Solos by Miss Bryant en the Piano Forte, and by Mr. Russell on the Trombone. Old English Ballad, by Miss Green, Scotch Duets by the Misses Stuart, and other vocal and Instrumental music of the highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The Comio portion of the entertainment is supported by Messrs. M. P. Foster (in his " Life Sketches"), Sam Collins, Harvey, and French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. Randall. Hall, sixpenee ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tun DAY.—Morning, lh. sm. —Afternoon, lh. 30m. TO-Id ORR 0 w.-Morning, lh. 48m.—Afternoon. 2h. 10m. THE WEATHER.—Suw OFFICE, AUGUST 18, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE• 71—highest since noon yesterday. 57—lowest this morning and during the night. 70—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.03. WlND—South-Westerly —fresh ; with very fine harve3t weather. AUGUST 19. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 70—highest since noon yesterday. .57—lowest this morning and during the night.s 70—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.99. WlND—South-Westerly; fresh and squally, with fine sunshiny weather. HALF-PAST ONE.—Wind, W.-N.-W.—Overcast, with heavy clouds and squally—with a sprinkling of rain. t.. 7 P I,cce 4. • - / 4.- • NI 0 ••• 1 4 .4. 4 ` - ,`„, ' ,E!:O Cf THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1861. Lord STRATIADEN'S protest against the third reading of the Appropriation of Seats Bill appears opportunely enough with the result of the election in South Lancashire. The triumphant return of the Tory Candidate is a perfect justification of that protest of Lord STATLIEDEN. It is more than that. It is a glaring evidence of the folly of that wretched, little, peddling, bit-by-bit reform system in favour of which the Liberal party, as represented in the present Coalition, appear to have abandoned their endeavours to carry through any measure of a really reprehensive character. There, in effect, is proof pm ►itive of that folly—there, in the return at the hey al of the poll of Mr. CHARLES TURNER, the Co! iservative Candidate, now M.P. for South Lan cas hire. Our contemporary, the Observer, as the I.i . beral Sunday organ of the Government, ap- Pears somehow to have been startled by the news or. lir. TURNER'S success. Insomuch as to cry out In a sudden paroxysm of dismay—" It is no use mi'acing the matter; political power is gradually P"ing away from the Liberal party, and, unless some event calculated to wake the country to ac tion immediately takes place the narrow majority now wielded by the Government will soon dwindle down to nothing." Adding, moreover, 4; The only event of the kind that Can effect the object is a prompt dissolution of the present Parliament; because, by bringing the danger home to the business and bosoms' of all men, there would be more likelihood of a decisive reaction, w hi c h i s the only effectual remedy for the present atrophy of the Liberal party." Nay, even going so far a s t o exclaim in a series of almost hysterical ejaculation s —" The circumstance is critical ; the issue is vital ; the time is rapidly speeding; and in a little longer it will be too late." Winding everything, up with that exaggerated apostrophe so often—and we will endea vour to believe always so inappropriately quoted — the Miltonic words addressed by SATAN to the le gions of the damned ! Besides—even, in the present instance, waiving the origin of the apostrophe— I it must surely have been regarded, at the worst, in its present application, as a very monstrous exag geration. Supposing, that is to say, that what is now popularly spoken of as the Conservative Reaction to be as far spread throughout the constituencies as Lord DERBY'S most infatuated supporters could wish the world to believe—even then surely it were somewhat preposterous to address the Libe ral Reformers all over the country in these de spairing words of his Satanic Majesty's : "Awake, arise; or be for ever fallen I" Rather hard, that, upon the Liberal Party—to sup- Pose it can be so very easily swept aside ! Why, according to this view of the political situation, the cause referred to must indeed be in a most Ileketty condition, The South Lancashire 1-4'.lec t ion, viev,,d lugubriously, is in truth but the last 'bop to brim over the cup of bitterness for the Coalition, oi a i st straw to break the camel's back of the grand ~..arding. the actual position Government. Re tain:on of things between oppos i nj parties, it is cer j t, p i r e o iy vo f king, to say the least of it. That, we take unanswerable by any one. It comes inopport un Ministers at the close of the last session for t wo r r loss aosfons. Firstly— it follows bard: upon the many other seats, the chief amongst Which We particularised only a few- , even ings since. ~ Another and another" [of these. Conservative c andi dates] "still succeeds." Another and yet another Tory gets returned instead of a Liberal supporter of Lord PALMERSTON. South Lancashire, in fact, being merely an additional instance to be supple mented to the long list already known. Secondly, as a reason why this preference of the South Lan cashire constituents for Mr. TURNER, in lieu of the Liberal candidate, Mr. CHEETFIAM, is so very lamentable a baulk for the Government and its supporters—it ought to be borne in mind that this is the first fruit of the only bill affecting the popular representation introduced during the late session by one of the Cabinet Ministers in the name and on behalf of the present Govern ment. It was in the absence of any new Reform Bill whatever, good, bad, or indifferent, that the Appropriation of Seats Bill was regarded with auy (even the smallest) degree of com placency when originally laid upon the table of the House of Commons by the Right Hon. Baronet the Home Secretary, now the Secre• tary for War. The four seats, which had been so long left vacant by reason of the disfranchisement of St. Albans and Sudbury, were at length to be filled up. Before they could be filled up, however, it was necessary to create new constituencies for them. They had to bo appropriated, It was a Liberal Government that had at length determined upon securing their appropriation. The bill was introduced. We all remember with what results,-in the shape of debates and divisions. The bill brought before the House of Commons in one form—went up to the House of Lords in another, The formidable Opposition had moulded it by that time to their own liking. There had been—at any rate, for one of the four seats—a somewhat unseemly scramble. The upshot of the whole discussion being that the Four vacant seats were appropriated thus—One to South Lancashire —Otte to Birkenhead—the Two others to the West Riding of Yorkshire—that mammoth constituency henceforth being halved into the North and south Divisions. With half an eye—it was manifest that the Conservative Opposition, in so manag ing matters, had looked after their own interests right well. The Government had manifestly got little enough out of their measure ! In fact the absurdity of still hastening the bill in its new shape through Parliament appeared so manifest to the common sense of a dispassionate observer like Lord STRATHEDEN—heart and soul liberal as he is—that he protested against the third reading of the bill through the document given else where in our impression of this evening. A glance at Lord STRATHEDEN'S protest will show how, for no less than fourteen cogent reasons, he felt himself constrained thus formally to inscribe his name on the journals of the Lords as a dissentient. Without entering into a detailed re-examination of those fourteen good and sound reasons—it will be enough' while we publish the protest in its entirety, to point (as to Lord STRATHEDEN'S perfect justification in writing it) to the result of this very significant election in South Lancashire. The Conservatives having gained the day in South Lancashire—how will the struggle end in Birkenhead ? And how, eventually, will matters go whenever the double contest can take place upon the halving of the West Riding of Yorkshire ? Those are really becoming very serious subjects for con sideration. For jibe though some may, as at an empty phrase, at what is called the Conservative reaction, it is at any rate absolutely undeniable that seat after seat is being lost to the Liberal side of the House, and secured one by one to the Con servative Opposition. That Opposition is so for midable already, while the majority with which the Government entered office was originally so very small, and has since then so dreadfully dwindled away that the future certainly looks dark enough before the Coalition. It is amusing to observe that the chief organ of the Government affects this morning to be utterly bewildered as to the meaning of the Conservative Reaction. Can the Times really and seriously be in doubt about it ? Can there be any uncertainty in this way in the conscience of the Coalition, sup posing it be blessed or troubled with anything of the kind ? If so the elucidation of the mystery is easy enough. The Conservative Reaction, or what is so called for want of a better name, meaning in . a very few words—a Reaction, not so much For the Opposition as Against the Government—a reaction of sheer disgust against a quasi Reform Coalition that, so far as the interests of Reform have been affected by it since it assumed power, has proved itself to be " a mockery, a delusion, and a snare" —aa monstrous a sham, as flagrant an imposture as ever Mr. CARLYLE put lance in rest, took pen in hand, to destroy. We shall before long see whether the North is really in earnest. We have had volunteering enough, and enlisting enough, and talk and writing enough in all conscience, but now it will become a question of paying. The pocket test, and the test direct too, is to be applied to all the States north of the Potomac, the Ohio, and the Missouri, with some tags and fringes perhaps of semi-loyal States south of those rivers. Not only are tea, coffee, , sugar, spirits, and a host of other things to be taxed which were not taxed before ; not only are the MORRILL duties to be raised, not only is a man to pay for carrying his timekeeper in his pocket, according to its value as silver or gold, but he is to pay also a 3 per cent. income tax. The customs and excise taxes might be paid without knowing it, as our own are, and the needy man might, if he liked, economise a little by , abstinence. Not so, however, as Jonathan will soon find, with the income tax. Whether he be a bachelor or a man with a dozen young hopefuls, the eldest hardly yet out of school, he will find that he cannot escape the same income tax, His £5OO or his £l,OOO must pay the same one ex mouth h rd or s redintegration of the Union, t whether twenty has to be fed by it. We shall see how the farmers of the North-west, and all the other agriculturists of the North, like this. They, as well as the whole South, are severely taxed by the Morrill tariff, in the interest of Massachusetts cotton-spinner s and Pennsylvania iron-masters. We shall see whether they will be content to pay an income tax to save the Union, and a cotton and iron tax at the same time, to put money in the pockets of their own manufacturers, at the cost of the 1 1 ederal Revenue. One arrangement in the tax is reasonable, but has been urged without success at home. It com mences at incomes of Xl6O. That is held to be a moderate livelihood. Tile tax will, therefore, be paid only on the excess above that sum. In this way great numbers of the worst grumblers may escape. The sovereign mob will at all events go unscathed. Congress has passed one Act, it is said, with the reluctant assent of the President, which, were its principle carried out at all constructively, would emancipate almost the whole slave popu lation. The Act referred to is one for confiscating rebel property, and it contains a clause, that "whenever, during the present insurrection, any person held to service or labour shall be employed in military or naval service, entrenchments, &C., the person to whom such labour or service is due shall forfeit his claim to the same." The is, limita . two. of course, intended to be strictly adhered:to, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY FWENING, AUGUST 19, 1861. and only those slaves declared free who have been used against the Federal Government. If, how ever, the slaves can be informed of the Act, they will no doubt find out in great numbers that they have been employed in military service, and present themselves to the unwilling North as those to whose services, under the Act, their old masters have no • claim. Wcro the principle, however, carried out, the greater part of the slaves indi rectly contribute to maintain the war, besides being the primary cause of it. Mr. LINCOLN, how ever, is not an abolitionist. He is encumbered with half-loyal bo;der States. Kentucky has just voted to be loyal ; Maryland is divided as well as Missouri. He has doubtless an awkward game to play ; but it would be the cheapest thing he could do to purchase emancipation at a fair rate per head in the border States, and to confiscate, that is, declare the slaves free in all the rebel States. They have forfeited all claim that he should respect an institution for which they are up in arms against their Chief Magistrate. The privateers and the inefficiency of the blockade threaten to become a serious affair. Be sides those at New York, there are thirty captured privateers' men in prison in Philadelphia. Can they be dealt with as pirates ? General BEAURE GARD has informed the PRESIDENT that he shall treat his captives as the privateers' crews are treated, which will cool the contemptuous wrath of many a Northerner. The plea of their being pirates was successfully used by the Crusader, Fede ral gun-boat, in Cuba. The Sumpter privateer took six prize vessels into the port of Cienfuegos, and, leaving them there, sailed away. The captain of the Crusader saw the Governor, told him he regarded the Sumpter as a pirate, and should treat her as such if he found her, and then went off with the six vessels. France or England would not have harboured the prizes at all. If Spanish law enabled the Governor to do so, it was a neat little Yankee trick on the part of Captain CRAVEN. The Secession privateers are reported to be very active in the Gulf of Mexico ; and the coast of North Carolina, we are told, swarms with them. It appears too, that from Wilmington, North Caro lina, a Confederate privateer with two guns, the Mariner, had put to sea, and that British vessels came in daily and took out ship's stores without interference. From all these facts it appears that the watch kept on the coast is of the most inefficient kind. Indeed, it will be difficult for the American Courts to condemn any vessel for breaking such a blockade. By the last accounts M'CLELLAN was taking the proper step of requesting the newspapers nqt to publish any of his movements and pro ceedings which would give the South information of what he was doing. It is, however, a fact that the North has many more traitors in its ranks than the South, and that General BEAU REGARD has known the position and move ments of his rivals much better than they have known his. We are now told that the South suffered much more than the North in the late encounter, that their losses are heavier, and the officers who fell of a superior class. It was this which caused their inaction ; and M'CLELLAN has improved the delay to put all things on a better footing on his side. It was time. Men are coming in fast. The examination of the civilian officers before they are admitted to com mand, has stopped the creation of fancy regiments, but the men are fully aware that the rout at Bull's Run was chiefly due to the incompetence of the officers, and they are now:proportionally ready to serve. The lesson will not, we trust, be lost on our volunteers at home. We fear that our fancy ama teur officers are bur weak point. An officer's duty now is a science ; and men must be able to trust their leader for knowing what he is doing, and what ho ought to do. The Princess Kotschouby has arrived at Cla ridge's Hotel, from Paris. The Due de has arrived at the Bruns wick Hotel, Jermyn-street. The Earl and Countess of Devon and Lady Agnes Courtenay are passing the autumn at Newcastle, his lordship's residence in Ireland. Lord Courtenay left town some days since, to join the family circle. At the invitation of the Right Hon. F. Peel, M.P., about one thousand of the working classes of Bury will pay a visit to-day to the hon. gentleman at his seat, Hampton-in-Arden, near Coventry. EARL FORTESCUE.—The Western Times says : " We regret to have heard some rumours of an unsatisfac tory nature respecting the health of our noble lord-lieu tenant ; but, as usual, rumour outruns the fact, we are glad to say. His lordship, it is true, has had a slight re lapse, but so far from there being anything serious in the symptoms, we have authoriiy to state that the noble earl, the countess, and family, are expected at Castle Hill by the close of this present week." The Queen Dowager of Spain and their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier, with several friends and suite, visited the Crystal Palace on Saturday, and afterwards had a banquet a la Russe in the new rooms, south wing. FUNERAL OF THE BISHOP OF DURHAM.—The funeral of the Bishop of Durham took place at a quarter to 12 on Friday morning, at Bishop Auckland. The coffin was borne by the Bish4p's workmen. The pall bearers were the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Carlisle, and other eminent ecclesiastics. The service was read by the rector of the parish. The chief mourners were the late bishop's sons, the Rev. Mr. Cheese, the Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., brother to the bishop, and Sir G. C. Lewis, brother-in-law to the deceased. After the service the body was removed to a corner in the chapel, where a vault had been made to receive it. PRINCE ALFRED IN LIVERPOOL—On Saturday afternoon a telegram from Queenstown announced that his Royal Highness Frince Alfred was one of the passengers on board the Royal Mail steamship Arabia, which would arrive in Liverpool in the course of that evening. This intelli gence was immediately conveyed by Mr. Chas. M'lver to the Mayor; and, as the precise hour of the Arabia's arrival could not be calculated, his worship ordered apartments to be prepared for the Prince at the Adelphi Hotel. Expectation of the arrival of the Prince having been previously enter tained, a Royal saloon carriage was forwarded to Liverpool to await his arrival. The fact that the Arabia had passed Holyhead at 10 minutes past 4 in the afternoon having been ascertained, and Mr. M'lver having kindly placed the steam tender Satellite at the disposal of the Mayor, his wor ship, accompanied by Mr. David M'lver and Capt. Luck craft, R.N., left St. George's Pier about 8 o'clock, and pro ceeded seaward in search of the Arabia, which they fell in with a little beyond the bar. His Royal highness immediately went on board the Satellite, and, accompanied by the gentlemen already named, proceeded up the river to St. George's Pier, where they arrived about 25 minutes be fore 11 o'clock. Here a large concourse of ladies and gen tlemen were assembled to welcome him, and on his landing cheered him with great enthusiasm. His Royal Highness immediately on landing entered the Mayor's state carriage, and drove off to the Lime-street station of the London and North-Western Railway, where he entered the saloon car riage which was waiting for him, and started for London at a quarter past 11 o'clock. At the station considerable numbers were also assem bl e d t o mee t hi m an d w i tness hi s departure. an nTihrseray immense d ou h n im t 0 f l d ou ie d e l p y pe a i n n d tm w e i n th t bglenagt felten thusiasm, that he did not remain a day or two in Liverpool. llis Royal Highness, it is understood, is on a three months' leave of absence, and was naturally desirous of meeting his august relatives at the earliest possible moment. He ex pressed great satisfaction with the arrangements made for his reception, and also with the accommodation he had ex perienced on board the Arabia. Mr. AND MRS. GERMAN REED'S ENTERTAIN TENT.—The last evening representation this season, at the Royal Gallery of Illustration, 14, Regent-street, will take place, on Friday, August, 30, at eight o'clock, and the last morning performance on Saturday, August 31, at three. Mr. and Mrs. German Reed and Mr. John Parry, owing to the great success of the present entertainment, will not visit the provinces this autumn, but will resume their London season, on returning from a short continental tour in October. Novelties of an interesting character, in cluding several original ballads, will be introduced into " Our Card Basket, and " The Two Rival Composers." WHEAT FOR FRANCE.— S everal vessels have been loading with wheat for France during the past week in the Wisbech River, the reports received with regard to the French harvest inducing the conclusion that our neighbours Will this year have to mod to large importations of grain. JUDGES' SALARIES.—The " Finance accounts " show that there was paid last year from the Consolidated Fund £323,000 for salarie74 of judges, and £66,000 for pen sions to retired judges. In view of these figures the tax payer will be content that it was fully determined by Par liament not to add another £5,000 a-year to the account until it is seen whether the changes in the Bankruptcy Court will really require it. COMMERCIAL RELATIONS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND BELGIUM.—The following is a copy of a letter received by the Hull Chamber of Commerce—" Office of Com mittee of Privy Council for Trade.—Whitehall, August 14, 1861.—Sir,--With reference to my letter of the 16th ultimo, I ern directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to request that you will inform the council of the Chamber of Commerce of Kingston-upon-Hull that her Majesty's Government are in communication with the Belgian Government on the sub ject of the commercial relations between this country and Belgium. I am, sir, your obedient servant, T. H. FARRAR. —The Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, Kingston upon-Hull." 1 AMENDMENT OF THE CRIMINAL LAWS.—The several acts passed in the late session to consolidate and amend the criminal laws have just been printed. The acts will come into operation on the Ist of November. With regard to " accessories," it is provided that accessories before the fact may be tried and punished as principals, and they may be indicted as accessories, or as substantive felons. As to abettors in misdemeanours, they are to be tried, indicted, and punished as principal offenders. There are several new laws as to felonies; and one as to coinage, in which it is declared an offence to mark coin with letters, and also an offence to utter the same. LIFEBOAT SERVICES. PENMON, ANGLESEY, AUG. 16.—0 n Wednesday, about 7 p.m., a smack was ob served riding at anchor with a signal of distress flying, about a mile from this station. The wind was blowing strong at the time, with heavy rain. The lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution, stationed at this place, very soon arrived alongside the smack, she was found to have carried away her main -boom, and to have only one cable out, which the captain said he feared would give way every moment, and his vessel be driven on Puffin Island. At his request the lifeboat remained alongside until 11 o'clock p.m., when the weather having moderated the vessel for tunately got out of danger. She proved to be the smack Pink, of Chester, bound from that place to Dulas, with a cargo of coals. YORKSHIRE COAL MINES.—Mr. Morten, inspec for of coal mines, reports that above 8,500,000 tons of coals were drawn in Yorkshire last year, and happily the number of persons killed at the collieries was but 50, or one death for every 170,000 tons raised. This is the smallest actual number of deaths in any one of the last 10 years, although in that period the number of collieries has increased from 260 to about:4oo. Yorkshire contrasts very favourably with the average of the whole kingdom in regard to these accidents, but still the inspector has to report that nearly all the 14 deaths ascribed to explosive gas might have been prevented by locked safety lamps properly and fairly used, and that many of the other deaths were preventible and might have been avoided by the exercise of reasonable vigilance, com mon prudence, and ordinary skill. A GOOD INVESTMENT.—Among the payments made by the Hull corporation is an annuity of £76 to one Henry Saxoni, a foreigner, and of which annuity that in dividual has been in receipt for 56 years past. It appears that in the early part of this century the Hull corporation, in order to raise money, resorted to the system now in vogue in some public and Government offices, of granting annui • ties. Saxoni, who is now about 96 years of age, was a tight rope dancer, who came to this town and advanced to the corporation the sum of £BOO ; the consideration being that he was to receive for the rest of his life an annuity of £76 — being nearly 10 per cent. on the amount. Mr. Saxoni's longevity has enabled him to receive, by way of annuity, about five times the amount of principal advanced by him. —Hull Packet. THE CATTLE TRADE.—DONCASTER, Aug. 17. Our market to-day was but scantily supplied with stock, farmers being too busy with harvest to show. We had a moderate inquiry for milch cows at the rates of last Satur day. Other descriptions of stock were scarcely inquired for. Sheep met a fair sale; lambs ranging from 21s to 30s per head. Pigs sustained a reduction of 6d per head on small ones, strong ones and stores made about the same prices as were obtained this day sen'night. Nonwicir, Aug. 17.—There was a pretty good show of store cattle at to-day's market, but, the attendance from the country being again limited in consequence of the pressure of harvest, business was dull ; still former rates were about supported and an average clearance was effected. Fat beasts, 8s to Ss fid per 141 b. The sheep trade was in much the same state as that for beasts ; fat sheep, 8s to 8s 6d, and prime lots, 9s per 141 b. AURIFEROUS STEEL.—The excitement which has been created by Mr. William Lengmaid's process of manufacturing auriferous and platinised steel will naturally cause the details of the invention to be read with interest; we are glad, therefore, to be enabled to publish the com plete specification of the patent. Although the proposal to alloy iron and steel with gold and platinum is not claimed by Mr. Longmaid as new, his discovery is one which, upon its advantages being satisfactorily demonstrated, will secure him an enviable reputation both in the chemical and manu facturing worlds : it has been found that the addition of several pounds weight of gold or platinum to the ton of steel " failed in producing any beneficial results," but Mr. Longmaid has discovered that by adding instead of several pounds only a few ounces, or even a few dwts., of the pre-. cious metal to the ton of steel, the effect is marvellous, and a very excellent quality of metal is produced. Mr. Long maid is well known as an inventor, and it is to be hoped that in the production of good steel ho will be es successful as he has been in his other discoveries.— Mining Journal. AN ACTOR'S CLAIM FOR SALARY.—In the Sal ford County Court, last week, the case Rogerson v. Egan was heard. The plaintiff, who is an actor, sought to recover from the manager of the Queen's Theatre a week's salary, on the ground that he had not received a month's notice of dismissal, according to the rules of the theatre. The plaintiff put in his letter of engagement, by Which it ap peared that he was engaged to play " first old men," but not to object to other parts. It was proved that in June the plaintiff was " cast" for Tapwell in " A New Way to Pay Old Debts," which part he refused to play. The judge asked whether, in this case, he claimed Sir Giles Overreach as "first old man;" to which the plaintiff replied that Mara. was by right his part. His Honour said the case did not rest upon a question of par ts. For the defendant it was proved that the plaintiff received a month's notice, and that his salary had been paid during that time. Judgment was given for the defendant, the judge holding that a verbal notice before a witness was good in law. STRANGE QUARTERS AT MARGATE.—The town of Margate has been so densely packed with visitors during the last week or two that many who made no provision for obtaining accommodation before getting to the place have had to make the most curious shifts with regard to lodgings. Saturday nights pour in visitors by boat and railway by hundreds, and, almost every house being crammed with lodgers, the greatest difficulty is found in getting shelter. Many who would willingly pay any amount of money for accommodation of any sort are obliged to sleep in stables, in bathing machines, under shop-counters, and not unfre quently in the cornfields. A single room in the least eligible neighbourhood, whenever such a thing is to be let, cannot be obtained for less than from 255. to 30s. a week, while the amount demanded for accommodating a family in anything like a decent part of the town, or commanding a view of the sea, is enough to drive an economical Paterfamilias out of his senses. Such a season as the present has not been known for many years in Margate, and those who are de pendent upon the annual summer visitors are turning their chances to the best possible account. HORRIBLE CRUELTY BY A SCHOOLMASTER.—At the Tunstall Police-court, a few days ago, - William Bain bridge, an elderly man of respectable appearance, and the master of the Wesleyan day school, at Chesterton, was charged with committing a very serious and cowardly as sault on a little boy, under seven years of age, named Wm. Dutton, by boating him unmercifully with a cane. The appearance of the child's shoulders and back bore ample evidence of the severe treatment he had received from the defendant, being covered with livid bruises, as though the injuries had been inflicted with a poker instead of a cane. The child attended the school of which defendant was master, and on Monday morning went as usual, but when he came home at noon his back and shoulders were covered with great wheals and bruises, which showed even more then than when exhibited in court. Defendant, with an effrontery which was rather astonishing under the circumstances, said he had " personally no indictment against the child," and that he had corrected him as ho had done at the request of his mother. (This the mother emphatically - denied.) The de fendant also stated that he had been a schoolmaster since the year 1819, and for 30 years had been a schoolmaster at Cheeddleton, coming to Chesterton only in February last. Mr. Rose said this was one of the worst cases he had ever aealt with. The defendant had as nearly murdered the child as he dared, and if he (Mr. Rose) were sitting alone, he should certainly have sent him to six months' hard labour. As, however, his brother magistrates were of opinion that a lighter punishment would meet the case, he should commit him to prison with hard labour for two months.—Bientinghain Post. OLD IZAAC WALToN's theory that fishermen are generally harmless, honest men, applies to these times as well as to his own days. I have mixed often with them at fishing inns, and my experience has been that a fast man would be much out of his element in their society. The evenin,7, talk runs mostly ox gorge hooks, paternosters, hair lines, gut lines, and the like. Many a fish is killed over again, pending the enjoyment of solemn pipes, and occasionally in winti,r time a rubber at long whist for penny points, "with snu ff ed candles, a we ll swep t h ear th, and the rigour of th e game " (as Charles Lamb says), varies the evening's amu sement. Then there are good old stories of wonderful fish which have been caught in days gone by, and we never think of doubting the assertion of steady going, old-fashioned frequenters of the house, " that fifty years ago the water was the finest in England ," nor do wo question the wei g ht —quoted from memory—of a p ik e w hich was taken i n the Waterloo year by the narrator of the incident, who deplores the removal of an old weir where he landed his prizes —Once a Week, _ C L t., k N 11.4 V S. PARIS, Aua. 19. The Moniteur of this morning publishes the text of the convention between France and England for regulating the immigration of Indian labourers. NAPLES, Auo. 18. News has been received here that a band of brigands were surprised by some French troops in a house on the Pontifical frontier. One brigand was killed, and five taken prisoners The rest fled into Italian territory. NAPLES, Auct. 17. News from the province of Avellino states that the Reactionists had been everywhere beaten or were in flight. Twenty-nine priests and three monks have been arrested at Castellamare. At Sorrento, Riano, and Amalfi several reaction ary preachers have been arrested, among whom is the Vicar-General of Sorrento. AUG. 18. The Royal troops have surrounded and made pri soners the reactionary bands on the mountains near Cancello. The town of Cipriano was taken after a shor resistance. TURIN, AUG. 16. The Opinione of to-day says:— " General Cialdini is said to have reminded the Government that he had only provisionally accepted the Lieutenancy of Naples, that he would preserve the military command, and would accomplish his mission of purging the country of brigands, but that he could no longer occupy himself with the civil administration. " He now demands, therefore," adds the report " that a Lieutenant should be appointed in his stead. Another motive for this resolution is stated to be the disagreement which arose between General Cialdini and Signor Lanselli on the occasion of the demonstrations recently made against the Deputies. " General Cialdini will continue to exercise the functions of the Lieutenancy until a new Lieute nant shall have been provided by the Ministry." EVENING. The Official Gazette of to-day announces the rupture of the railway contract with M. Talabot, and says,— "The works will be proceeded with on account of the Government." The Minister of Public Works will go to Naples to-morrow. AUG. 18. The rumour of General Cialdini's resignation is unfounded. He will remain at his post until the accomplishment of his mission. Signori Cantelli and Blasio have resigned, but will remain in office until the Government has pro vided substitutes. EVENING. It is believed that Garibaldi will go to Naples on the 7th of September, the anniversary of the day on which he entered that city. The Government is preparing grand fetes for the occasion. ROME (via MARSEILLES), AUG. 14. The subscription to the Cavour monument con tinues, notwithstanding the efforts of the police to prevent it. CONSTANTINOPLE, Auo. 17, EVENING. Mehemet Kiprisli Pasha will be appointed either Governor of Bagdad or Commissioner of Anatolia: Fuad Pasha will be promoted to a rank equi valent to that of Grand Vizier. Mehemed Djemil Pasha will be Minister for Foreign Affairs. Active French intrigues are being carried on to effect the return of Riza Pasha to the Sersaskieriat. The Sultan continues to effect reforms. According to news received here to-day, the Russians have sustained another defeat from the Circassians. His Excellency Sir W. Codrington is expected here to-day. FRANCE. The portion of the railway from the city of Lux embourg to Troves, which forms part of the series of lines undertaken by the William-Luxembourg Com pany, intended to connect the hitherto isolated Grand Duchy with France, Prussia, Belgium, and Holland, was opened amid great public rejoicings on Wednesday. Prince Henry of the Netherlands presided, the Prussian authorities sending deputies to receive and reciprocate courtesies with him. The heat of the weather yesterday was intense. A kind of sirocco wind, laden with fine dust, and feeling like the blast from a furnace, blew through out the day, and parched everything with which it came in contact. After sunset it subsided into a pleasant breeze, and the temperature grew percep tibly cooler. At 2 p.m. the glass marked 25.6 Centigrade (781 Fahrenheit). The heat from which Paris has suffered during the last few days has been general throughout Europe. At Lyons, on Wednesday, the thermo meter marked 38 deg. Centigrade in the shade (100 4-10ths Fahrenheit). From Marseilles fatal eases of coup de soleil are reported. In Catalonia the wheat and other crops have been burnt up. At Malaga and Seville the heat has become insupport able, and no one can leave his house between 9 in the morning and 9 at night without danger. BOURSE, August 17.—The market has been in the same inactive state as yesterday, but with out any change in prices, for the Account Threes arc now at 68f 45c. Railway Shares quiet, but pretty firm. The following are the last quota tions : 41 per per Cents ... 97 80 Credit Foncier 1295 Do eud month.... 97 90 , Belgian 41 — 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 45 Roman Bank Shares 2900 —; Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 731 25 ' Spanish Threes 4Bb Do. Account 732 50 ~ Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1406 25 .. 1407 50 Northern New ditto — .. -- Lyons and Mediterranean 1021 25 .. 1022 50 Geneva 358 75 .. 360 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard RUSSIA. The following letter from St. Petersburg, of the 10th inst., gives some interesting particulars respect ing the proposed journey of the Imperial family to the southern provinces of the empire :—" The de parture of the members of the Imperial family has commenced. The Grand Duke Constantine quitted us the day before yesterday. He has gone to Nico laiev, and thence he will proceed to the Crimea to receive the Emperor and Empress. Her Majesty leaves on Wednesday next. The Emperor will leave four days later for Moscow, and thence proceed to the southern provinces, where ho will review the troops and particularly the cavalry of reserve. The troops are to be assembled for the review at Tchu - guiev on the 22d inst. Thence the Emperor will proceed to Nicolaiev to take a look at the naval establishment there, and thence he will go to Odessa. After a stay of two days in the capital of new Russia, the Emperor will embark for the Crimea. He is expected at Sebastopol on Sept. 1. The Court is to be installed again at the Palace of Tsarskoe-Selo on Nov. 1. The 20th is the anniversary of the death of the Empress Mother, and an office fur the d ea d accor di ng t o th e r i tes o f t h e Russi an Church will be performed over her tomb on that day. The Grand Duke Constantine, after having received the Emperor and Empress in the Crimea, will proceed to Stuttgard to meet the Duchess and take her to the islands of the Hyeres. Although the appointment of General Lambert to the go vernorship of the kingdom of Poland is not officially announced, it is nevertheless irrevocably decided. General Soukhozenett has asked for leave of absence for a year. General Milituno, who enjoys great favour at Court, is definitively appointed Minister of War. The appointment is very favourably le calved by the public. It is expected that Colonel Anitchkov, who has written a treatise on military stores, will be appointed to the superintendence of the Commissariat Department. It is further said that an inspector -general over the economical part of the War Department is to be named with very extensive powers. DEPARTURE OF THE KING OF SWEDEN. DOVER, SUNDAY. The King of Sweden and his brother, Prince Oscar, left this country on their return home yesterday. The distinguished personages did not travel by the same route. The King, accompa nied by his suite, and by Lord Harris, one of her Majesty's Lords in Waiting, came direct from London by the South-Eastern Railway ; but Prince Oscar, who holds the highest office in the Swedish marine, travelled by the London, Chatham, and Dover line, in order to make a short stay at Sheer ness for the purpose of inspecting its dockyard and the national laboratories it contains. His Majesty left th Bricklayers' Arms station by a special train of the South-Eastern Railway at a quarter past 4 o'clock, and arrived at Dover about a quarter past 6. being received at the railway termi nus by Brigadier General Garvock, the commandant of the garrison, and guards of honour of the 3d Buffs and 64th Regiment, Mr. S. M. Latham, the Swedish Vice-consul ; Captain Triscott, the naval naval superintendent of the port; the Hon. Captain Chetwynd, aide-de-camp to the commandant, &e. The platform was covered with crimson cloth, and his Majesty travelled in the state carriage of the company. The railway station was thronged with fashionables, but, thanks to the excellent arrange ments of the superintendent, Mr. E. T. Way, there was no crowding or inconvenience. Mr. C. W. Eborall, the general managt., Mr fi Tcolnn, nne of the directors, and Mr. J. P. Knight, the superin tendent of the line, travelled in the Royal train. Prince Oscar left the Victoria Station,Pimlico, by the of dinary 10 a.m. express-train, by which his Royal Highness was conveyed to Sheerness. After satisfying the object of his visit, the Prince pro ceeded on his journey at 2 40 p.m. by special train, under the charge of Mr. Browne, the superinten dent of the London, Chatham, and Dover line, and after a short stay at Canterbury, where his Royal Highness ascended the mound of the Dane John, to view the magnificent stretch of scenery it com mands, reached Dover at half-past four. Here car riages had been provided, and his Royal Highness on alighting from the train was driven to the Royal Ship Hotel, where he made a brief stay, and then walked on board the John Penn, Captain-Mat thews,. His Royal Highness was shortly after wards joined by • the King, and immediately his Majesty and suite were on board the steamer cast off and made for Calais. A Royal salute from the Castle batteries was fired on the arrival and departure of the Royal visitors. TILE QUEEN'S VISIT TO IRELAND. The London and North-Western Railway Com pany, with that liberality for which it is proverbial, have determined that so important an event as the visit of her Majesty the Queen to Ireland shall not be without some memento to mark so interesting an occasion, more especially as this company are to have the honour not only of conveying the Queen, the Prince Consort, and the Royal Family to Ire land, but also throughout their subsequent journey this season to Scotland. The directors, therefore, determined to construct, for the accommodation of her Majesty and Royal Consort, an entirely new State carriage, of chaste and elaborate design, the cost of which will be over £3,000. The design for this; magnificent specimen of railway carriage archi tecture has been in the main prepared by and carried out under the direction of Mr. Cawkwell, the gene ral manager, and Mr. H. P. Bruyeres, the general superintendent of the London and North-Western Railway. Externally, the State carriage, with the exception of its very tasteful and elaborate carving and decoration, does not much differ in shape from the newly-designed first-class carriages now in use on the line ; it is, however, larger in every way. Tae framework upon which the body of the carriage rests is constructed of solid oak, handsomely carved and highly polished, resting upon wheels of Mansell's patent; the centres are also composed of the strongest solid oak, the tires of which have been put on cold and hammered, as affording a greater amount of security than those manufactured under the ordinary process. The carriage-body has three floors, first that of the usual material, secondly a flooring of oak, and thirdly a flooring of cork, which has the effect of reducing vibration and of destroying or deadening to a great extent the noise of the wheels while travelling. At each corner of the solid oak frame or buffer plank are projecting shoulders, consisting of elaborately earved and gilded leaves. The body of the carriage has its panels painted of the beau tiful dark or Royal claret colour, bearing in the centre the Royal arms, and on the side panels the orders of the Garter, the Bath, and the Thistle, exquisitely painted, the upper portions of the body round the windows being delicately picked out in white and gold. The roofs, for there are two, are divided by a cornice composed of festoons of flowers carved and picked out upon a white ground, the projections of the roof, the upper one of which is circular, having their projecting edges elaborately gilt. The interval between the two roofs is also perforated for ventilation. The interior of the Royal saloon presents a coup dceil combining the most refined taste and elegance. The lining is of silver gray moire antique of the richest description, festooned and fluted, the same material covering the roof, divided into panels marked out by a rich cord of the same colour. From the apex of the roof descends a beautifully -constructed lamp of very elegant design,:encircled by a carving of satin wood, in which material the whole of the cavings are executed. At one end of the saloon is a sofa, covered with tl - e same material as the lining of the carriage, and two easy chairs are fixed on a revolv ing axis, so that, while they cannot be upset, they can be moved in any direction at the will of the party occupying them with the greatest ease. Above the cork floor already described in the first instance has been placed a thick drugget, and this is covered over by a rich velvet-pile carpet, the ground colour of the Royal purple, with a handsomely figured border, manufactured expressly for the saloon. At the other end is the retiring room, fitted with a cabinet, washhand-stand, and all the appliances of a boudoir, the carvings of the furniture being in unison with those of the carriage, and executed in satinwood, inlaid with tulipwood. An ealgant fixed table, of the same material, stands in the centre of the saloon, which, with the mirror, gives the interior the appearance of a very elegant little room. The necessary pockets for the deposit of books, papers, &c., are appropriately arranged ; but, in addition to this, there are appliances for converting this magnificent sitting-room into a sleeping apartment by means of a very clever con trivance. Beds are iestroduced, which can be re moved with the greates facility, and it is under stood they will be used by her Majesty and the Prince Consort during the journey on their return from Ireland to Scotland, thus avoiding the neces sity of staying a night at any hotel on the route. The whole carriage is believed to be the most elegant and complete that has ever been constructed, and, on tse designs being submitted to her Majesty, it is understood that she expressed her most cor dial approval of them. There will be two other Royal saloon carriages in the train, one for the Princesses, and the other for the younger male branches of the Royal family and their respective suites; and we understand that it is intended to have a trial trip of the train to morrow (Mon day). The arrangements are that on Tuesday the Royal train will be sent down from Euston-square to Gosport via the Sonth-Western Railway, there to await her Majesty and the Royal family, on their arrival at Osborne on the morning of 'Wednesday, the 21st; that the Royal party will then be brought up on to the North-Western line,and thence proceed to Holyhead, from which place her Majesty will embark on board the Royal yacht Vict or i a and Albert, and cross the St. G eor g e ' s Channel to Dub lin. The R o yal railway carriages will then return to London, and remain till about the 26th or 27 th, when they will again pr 6 ceecl to Holyh ea d , and take her Majesty and the Royal family and suite to Scotland. M . D a Chaillu, the distinguished African tra veller, is ( sa ys the Glasgow Ilerald) now enjoying the hos pitalities o f Lord Belhaven at WiBll4lV 1101180. TILE APPROPRIATION OF SE 4 TS (BUD- BURY AND ST ALBANS) ACT, The following is the - protest against the third reading of the bill for appropriating the vacant seats of Sudbury and St. Albans, entered on the journals of the House of Lords, by Lord Strath. eden, who had before moved to refer the bill to a select committee : Dissentient. First. Becausu the third reading took place out of the order in which the bill stood upon the notice paper, at a time when public business was not expected to come on, and not upon the motion of the Minister in whose name the bill stood, thus making it impossible for peers who wished to do so to take any part in this final stage. Second. Because a former stage, viz., the second read ing, had been virtually annulled, and moved pro forma only at an hour when by general admission it was not possible to go into debate; all consideration of the bill being thus reduced to the single stage of going into committee on the 29th of July. Third. Because a resolution of the house has frequently declared that at that period important measures cannot have the full deliberation which they merit. Fourth. Because a precedent has been thus formed fo r passing to the statute-book a measure of organic change► without the effective sanction of the House of Lords. And if such organic change as the public interest requirfa is now to be developed in a series of measures, and no, in cluded in a single scheme, the danger of such a precedent being often followed is apparent. Fifth Because while the bill has not had the effective sanction of the House of Lords, so neither has it tad that of either party in the Commons ; the Opposition and the Government in that House of Parliament having both de• clared in the course of the session that the vacant seats ought to be otherwise distributed than by tkis bill they are. Sixth. Because so long as those seats were vacant a nctorious defect in the Reform Act might eventually be remedied without increasing the members of the House of Commons ; the defect, in consequence of which, since 1833 distinguished public men, against the wishes of the country have been excluded from the Legislature ; and which arises from the want of corrective power in the State to return those whom the united body of the nation would have chosen, but who, from local circumstances, have not been chosen by any of the sections into which the country at a general election is divided. Seventh. Beause the existence of such a vice in the Reform Act is convincingly established by the fact that, since 1832, Sir William Molesworth, Lord Macaulay, Lord Carlisle, Sir Edward Lytton, Mr. Bright,:Mr. Cobden, Mr. Milner Gibson, and the late Mr. Bernal, amongst others, have, after general elections, been kept out of Parliament, while the public could not be said in any of these cases to have either caused or sanctioned the exclusion. Eighth. Because to form any system by which the casual deficiencies of a general election might be afterwards re mo red, accorditfg to the interest or voice of the community, the four vacant seats, if not essential, were desirable, as the space to build on ; while they are now appropriated in a manner whieh no necessity dictated, which meets no pop' lar demand, which takes away no public inconvenience, and bestows no kind of new advantage on the empire. Ninth. Because the defect to some remedy of which these seats might have been devoted leads to serious results beyond a palpable anomaly. An anomaly of this kind occurs what a State, however firm in its opinion that given individuals ought to serve it in its representative assembly, has no power to return them if they have been outvoted by a single local body at a general election. Tenth. Because before 1832 the States bad the power in question through a method it is not now desirable to call again into existence, the Opposition and the Government possessing at that time the means of bringing into Parlia ment, by the boroughs which each had at its disposal, distinguished men whom the general election bad ex cluded. It is only, therefore, necessary that an important end which was gained for many years by objectionable means should be now secured by means which are legiti• mate. Eleventh. Because whatever means are now resorted to to invest the State with this necessary power, the vacant seats having been appropriated, such means can only be applied by increasing the number of the House of Commove beyond a point which is generally felt to he excessive. In order, therefore, to remove one evil in our representative arrangements, it becomes essential in some degree to aggra• vete another, a dilemma into which States may be forced by various events, but which it is against the rules of policy to choose and to create by doubtful legislation. Twelfth. Because among the results of the evil which it has thus become more difficult to remedy, the State may bey and has been, in this manner deprived of official talent it requires, but which can only be exercised in conjunction with a seat in Parliament. Beyond this, until the country has the power, after a general election, of calling to its re presentative assembly these whom it deems erroneously ex cluded, public life must always be embraced with the risk of an unauthorised and arbitrary exile such as no other esrper invnlvarl ; it cannot, thorofore, be embraced by many whom the State would most desire to draw into its service. In effect it is confined to the few whose property or family insure a permanent connection with a county or a borough, and at every change in the Reform Act these few are likely to become fewer. Thirteenth. Because, apart from the public wrong, these vacant seats might have been devoted to removing a bill which increases the number of the county members by re ducing the number of the borough members, and forms con stituencies open to none but persons locally connected with them, in place of constituencies at which all public men might equally be candidates, appears retrograde in charac ter, and ought not to have been passed without a greater show of argument to vindicate it. Fourteenth. Because the gift of two seats to the West Riding of Yorkshire, not to come into use until a disso• lution, is an uncalled for sacrifice of the deliberative free dom which might have otherwise employed them, and is no present gain to the locality it favours. The right of Par liament to deal with those two seats is without beneft to any interest abandoned ; and neither precedent nor policy imposed upon the Legislature the duty of appropriating the four seats in one measure, becoming vacant, as they did, at different times and under different acts of Parlia ment. STRATHEDEN and CAMPBELL. THE IRISH HARVBSTTGENBRAL PROSPECTS (From the Dublin Evening Post.) Hitherto our reports have been favourable, and still We indulge strong hopes of a good harvest, notwithstanding the changeable weather and the vast quantity of rain fall ing at this critical period in the month of August. The telegraphic reports yesterday announced rail' in every part of Ireland but one—the fortunate exception, being Portrush, a watering place on the northern coast, near the Giant's Causeway, which has been rendered somewhat celebrated by a railway erected by Mr. Darga;n, by his own private enterprise, between that town and the thriving manufac turing town of Ballymena. Everywhere else, all day yes terday, there was a steady down-pour of rain, saturating lands before quite moist enough. But it is still more re markable that the telegraphic reports from Great Britain, with a single exception, mentioned the prevalence of fine summer weather throughout England and Scotland. The continuance of heavy rain yesterday had a depress ing effect upon all classes of people in this city, especially mercantile men, who have had experience of the serious injury that has resulted from short crops in 1859, and very deficient harvest in 1860. Many farmers have since been living and paying rents partly out of the profits of previous years. Traders and shopkeepers have suffered from a decrease of business and a falling off in profits ; and many of thorn are now cautious about laying in stocks for autumn or winter, until they ascertain the fate of the har vest, upon which so much depends for the recovery of trade and the restoration of confidence. We are assured that there is a fine and even an abundant harvest in America, from whence the United Kingdom has obtained considerable quantities of bread-stuffs in defi cient years ; but those supplies had to be paid for, and thus the exhausting process that takes away much of the wealth of the country has been continued. In some parts of Europe—certainly in France, which has often sent us supplies—there will be a somewhat deficient harvest ; and for some weeks there has been an active demand in the English market on French account. It is an encouraging feature that French purchasers ceased to press so m uc h a t Mark-lane thi s wee k ; an d th a t the " brilliant weather " yesterday, whilst there was a deluge here, caused " a de+ cline in old English wheat left over from Monday of 2s, tO 3s. per qr. upon the prices of last week." THE IRON TRADE.—The shipments of Scotch pig iron during the present year as comp are d With the corns. sponding period of 1860 exhibit the following results :- 1 861., 1860. Month ending Jan. 2 6 Tors. T0n5.31,519 • 32,454 Feb. 29;738 •• 25,278 )5 Mar c h 30 , 42,554 • 46,928 3) April 27 • •62,622 50,585 May 25 65,637 • 54,488 ), June 29 .. 73600 .. 52,925 July 27 .. 48,304 47,846 Week ending, Aug. 3.. 11,971 10,949 ), Aug. 10 10,237 12,871 These figures show a total export of 376,182 tons in the last 32 weeks, as against 334,324 tons in 1860, being an increase of 41,858 tons. The totals do not, of course, include the quantities which have gone into consumption in Scotland and through inland communications. The production hag been reduced during 1 he last 3ix months, the number of fur' naces in blast in Scotland having been only 119 in July as compared with 131 in January. The same dulness is ob servable in other parts of the country, the number of fur naces in blast in England having been 256 in July as com pareed with 276 in Januai y, and in Wales 129 as compared with 145 in January. Altogether 48 furnaces are thug shown to have been blown out ; and, assuming that a speed)" improvement does not take place, this year's make of pig iron will probably be from 300,000 to 400,000 tons less thsa in 1860, ME tor 20i of ] cla yet on I hay, 691 Eqt viz., also born advi to 9 hibi pric, Butt 3 per 3 per New 1444 ] .1.111 oil Co9Bl indif Exch Chili Dii Equo Alexi RIMS Dii Dii Turk Dii Dii Di Vene retur Osbo duke to re] eider St. I Dixo havii the I for t