The Sun. — London, England, 1861-09-06 00:00:00

• THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY f?, NING, SEPTEW ER 6, 1861 ALFRED MELLON'S PROMENADE CONCERTS. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN, Band of nearly 100 Performers. Aidlle. PAREPA Every Evening. Commence at Eight. Promenade, One Shilling. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. friIEATRE-RONAL, HAYMARKET. Lemee, Mr. J. B. Barkstorae. THIS EVENING the Ballet, BACCHUS AND ARIADNE. Miss Fanny Wright, the Leelenge, Mr. Webster, &c. After which, a new Comedy, entitled THE SOFT SEX. Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. Bnckstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. E.Villiers, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Wilkins, &c. To conclude With USED UP. Mr. C. Mathews. Commence a' 7. R OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager-51r. Edmund Falconer. EVERY EVENING, at Eight o'clock, the new and suc cessful comedy, WOMAN; or, Love aga i ns t the World , Characters by Messrs. Walter A ddi s on, Herman Veen Miss Murray" J. Robins, Mrs. Charles Toun e' , Mrs. Weston , and Miss Lydia Thomson. Preceded by, each evening, the new and original farce entitled THE FETCHES; or, The Onconvanience of Single Life. Tim O'Reilly, Mr. Edmund Falconer ; Mary O'Brady, Miss Lydia Thompson. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7 Box-office open daily frona 11 till 5. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Selectimis from the followincr, Operas :—NORMA, TRO VATORE, TRAVIATA, MARTHA, UN BALLO IN MASCHERA. The Comic department comprises the Prince of Comic Vocalists, Mr. SAM COWELL, who will appear at Nine an d a , q uarter to Eleven o'clock—Mr. Marshall— Messrs. Ilarvey and French, "The Nerves "—Mr. Wood and his talented Son— and Miss Harriet Coveney. Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, ed.; Stalls and Balcony, ls. THOXF O R D, 6, OXFORD-STREET. EVERY EVENING. A Grand Selection from Verdi's new opera, " Simon Boc caneg,ra" (now produced for the first time in this country), by Miss Rlissell, Messrs. C. Greville, Tivoli, Greene, Morley, and Herbert ; also from Verdi's " Macbeth " by Madame Enderssohn and the entire Company. Full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Varied Comic entertain ments by Messrs. M. P. Foster, Sam Collins, Harvey and French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. Randall. Hall, sixpence; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. Bd. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. DAY.—Morning, 2h. 40m.—Afternoon, 2h. 58m. To-moßnovr.-Morning, 3h. 15m.—Afternoon, 3h. 36m. THE WEATHER.-Sux OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 6: 186]. THERMOICETICR 7 IN TIM SHADE. 73—highest since noon yesterday. 62—lowest this morning and during the night. 71—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.85. WlND—Westerly—light ; with dull, cloudy weather. 4_lk. \k . q . ‘..,,,,,--- ‘, sA, ' ' 4 '''''''' im otz., 4 ' ''' ' ' ''''',‘. Is . - ett7"..o l• Of 3 ~`~. i _~ THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 6, 1861. Mr, ROEBUCK is, for once, so exceedingly dull in taking a joke (but then it is true the joke is against himself!) or (still worse !) he is so excessively dis ingenuous that he reads, or affects to read, PuncA this week literally ! Never was there such an absurdity as this. Everybody has, of course, seen the comic cartoon in Punch this week, and heartily laughed at it. There is JOHN BULL, farmer fashion, in his top boots and his low crowned hat, with a swingeing cudgel trifled in one hand -gawking about the streets, with apparently nothing in the world to do—quite " a gentleman at large." We should say, perhaps, judging from the rotundity of his corporation, " at very 4arge." Without a notion -in his honest old' head about the risk there is, in these wicked times, of .a country gentleman's heels being dogged by those light heeled gentry the Dog stealers ! Sneaking round the corner with Farmer BULL'S favourite little watch-dog " Tear'em" tucked under one larcenous arm—comes upon tip toe—in the very act of bolting with his prey—one of these very dog-stealers. More recognisable,as he is,at once from the preternatural spindling of his shanks, than even from the Imperial crown upon his head —one sees at a glance that the dog-stealer, who is thus feloniously making off with Tear'em, is no • other than his Majesty the Austrian Emperor FRANCIS JOSEPH. Altogether it is a capital hit from Mr. PUNCH'S baton. A hit administered to the' right nail, exactly on the top of its head. As smart a rap, probably, as Mr. ROEBUCK has ever received over his knuckles since he was a little boy, in a skeleton suit, seated at his desk trying to make pothooks, or to cast up a very simple sum in addition upon his slate, and doing the one or the other very badly. About the funniest thing in the whole of this droll picture in Punch, being by the way the sweet complacency of countenance with which " Tear 'em" (usually, as we all know, rather cross-grained than otherwise) is 'allowing himself to be run away with by the Imperial Austrian Dogstealer ! But the delightfully absurd part of it all is—the preposterously dull or disingenuous way in which Mr. ROEBUCK takes it ! There is the usual Cutler's Feast at Sheffield yesterday. The Banquet takes place in the Cutler's Hall. The Master Cutler is in the chair—if not exactly to carve for the guests as might well become a Cutler, at any rate to preside over the proceedings. Earl MANNERS is there there are one or two other Lords —there is a right hon. gentleman—there are seve ral hon. gentlemen, including amongst them this last set, the hon. and learned gentleman the member for Sheffield. Now the recent sayings and doings of Mr. ROEBUCK in regard to Austria, in his newly chosen part as the champion of the Austrian EM PEROR, as the apologist of the Austrian Govern ment, have long since come to be pretty notorious throughout the country. We have commented upon them ourselves time and again, these last erratic vagaries indulged in by Mr. ROEBUCK in respect to the Government of Vienna and his Impe rial Majesty of Schoenbrnnn. As a matter of course when the cloth is drawn yesterday at the close of the Cutler's banquet down at Sheffield, matters political are talked of over the wine, as the custom always is upon these occa sions among those Sheffield blades (keen or blunt, as the case may be) in their character as free thinking, outspoken Englishmen. Equally, as a matter of course—under the circumstances—Mr. ROEBUCK'S Austrian leanings are touched upon by several of the speakers (Earl MANNERS among them), and are " touched up" into the bargain. Late in the evening—his only opportunity, his earliest opportunity—Mr. ROEBUCK riles in answer to the toast of " The health of the borough members" —rises to repudiate the charges directed against him. He is evidently very sore upon the subject indeed. He is excessively angry with the Press. :He is extremely indignant with Earl-MANNERS. But most galling of all—there is Punch. Sa—sa! a hit, a palpable hit. What says Mr. ROEBUCK about it Why, he actually goes the length, in his anger, of b e ing thus obtuse in regard to the joke of the carica turist, or, as we have said, thus disingenuous. " There I : u e , y w o a r s was a thing ,"he remarked — aha! e knuckles are evidently yet tingling h a thing in Punch bandied about that day, in whi c h the Emperor of AUSTRIA was represented as having run away with the dog Teafern ': but," asked Mr. ROEBUCK triumphantly (as if that were the point of the jest!), "had he run away with the dog ? WAS RE NOT HERE:' " Observe l—like an extremely dull man, one who can't for the life of him take a joke, or, when one is made, in any way rewgnise it—M r . ROEBUCK hereby gravely 1 assumes that Punch implies that he (Tear'em) has been run off with, literally, in the body ! And not" metaphorically and humorously, in the spirit, in all his hopes and predilections ! The force of dullness surely could not very well go further than that ! No—even Punch himself will of course admit the fact insisted on by Mr. ROEBUCK, the fact namely that, in his bodily form, Tear'em is still here in the midst of us, as large as life —or, if we are to be so extremely precise or so excessively i matter-of-fact in our language, let us say as small 1 as life. But—Tear'em's heart! How about that ? Why Mr. ROE BUCK is latterly never tired of telling us. It is as surely of late in Vienna, ha s Mr. BRIGGS'S heart at the present moment (wherever his fat frame may be supposed to be) is in the Highlands ! Wretched though it is at all times to expound a jest—or deli berately in cold blood to explain a pun—there is Punch's joke (at Mr. ROEBUCK'S expense) with the bloom taken off it, quite at Mr. ROEBUCK'S service. And we hereby proffer the joke—now that it is ex plained—to Mr. ROEBUCK, for the cool reconsidera tion and reapplication of it ! After Mr. ROEBUCK—with an obtuse affectation of wonder as to what all the people could possibly be laughing at!—had exclaimed thus last evening, "Was he not there" (at Sheffield)—instead of having been kidnapped and carried off bodily to Vienna ! After having made himself utterly ridiculous by this un toward exclamation, we must certainly admit at Duce that the hon. and learned gentleman forthwith put to all who were listening to him yesterday at Sheffield—puts now to all who will read him in the newspapers throughout England—a very pertinent 'question indeed. " And what," asked Mr. ROE BUCK, " What had the Emperor of AUSTRIA done to make him follow him away ?" What, in truth! We don't believe for one instant—as some have shamefully insinuated—that his Imperial Majesty has thrown anything in the shape of a sop to Tear'em, any more than we believe, in such a contingency, that he, Tear'em, would have gobbled it up. We know Tear'em better. We don't look upon him as in the least like Cerberus. He, at any rate, is not to be "hocussed" in that disgraceful way—like the disrepu table cur last mentioned, the Plutonian Watch-dog who (whatever he might have found " two heads" to have been) certainly did not—in the famous instance of the sop—find three heads to be " better than one." But—Mr. ROE➢UCK has his own explanation to give in answer to his inquiry about the Emperor of AUSTRIA. "Why," he exclaimed indignantly last night at Sheffield, "he (the Em peror of AUSTRIA) had only done what every Con stitutional Monarch would do—he had given his people constitutional Government." Mr. ROE BUCK really talks all this while as if this was the first time anyone had ever heard of an Emperor of Austria, or any other despotic ruler in Europe, vouchsafing to his subjects the form of a Consti tutional Government ! Why, in point of fact, this is about the stalest thing going, about the most threadbare policy that could be talked of, about the most thoroughly used up dodge that the crowned heads of Europe, particularly the Emperors of AUS TRIA, have ever resorted to. We are sick and tired of hearing of these bran-new constitutional Govern ments presented—with a flourish—to this nation and to that by its despotic Ruler and Lord Para mount. Whenever an Emperor or a King gets into difficulties—financial or otherwise—out comes one of these preposterous Constitutions. Whenever his Imperial or Royal Majesty finds himself strong enough once more to do without them—away goes the Constitution—with his High Mightiness's oath into the bargain—away it all goes into some name less lint» Ent. such broken pledges and discarded lumber, some nameless limbo presided over, we may presume, by the ghost of the Abbe &EYES, and provided with innumerable pigeon - holes. It would be difficult, we should say, to calculate how many of these wonderful boons in the shape of constitutional governments, were given to the Neapolitan people (with Royal Oaths enough to frighten all the Quakers in the land out of their senses merely to think of!) by his late Majesty King BOMBA, father and predecessor of his ex-Majesty King BOMBINA ! That, just by - the-way—as a mere case in point. But the Emperors of AUSTRIA have done their " little all" too in the same manner. . They have given constitution after constitution, or the offer of them at any rate, to this portion and to that portion of their motley dominions, until we are tired of count ing them up. And, forsooth, we are now to begin wondering with Mr. ROEBUCK—who must all this while, in Austria's regard, have been peacefully sleeping the sleep of Rip Van Winkle somewhere in Dreamland—we are now, forsooth, to begin wonder ing with Mr. ROEBUCK over the exceeding novelty and the Arcadian benignity of an Emperor of Aus • TRIA'S coming forward as the inaugurator of a constitutional form of Government. gthis is really and truly all that Mr. ROEBUCK has got just now to tell us-Lhe had better go back at once to the skittle ground of the giants and have another quiet snooze of it, like the Rip Van Winkle of Politics, as he is. If there be one practical question which is forced upon our attention just now by interest, by philan thropy, by patriotism, we might almost say by the voice of Providence itself—it is that of Cotton. The millions of English freemen, the millions of negro bondmen, the millions upon millions of our Indian fellow subjects, all bid us turn to account the righteous retribution which has visited the great slave cotton Republic. It is a political cotton rot; and if the remedy seems to lie more immediately in the hand of man than it did in the case of the Irish Potato rot, it may prove not to be really more so. Two sets of human beings, with their passions and wills bitterly set against each other, are little more amenable to reason than a physical disease on the tuber of a plant. Such, indeed, is the prospect of the protraction of the war ; and such the rooted conviction of both sides, that in preventing the export of cotton lies their strength, that we may expect that both will aim at the same object. The North believes that blockading the Southern ports and preventing its export of cotton will de prive their opponents of money; the South believes that England and France will be driven to break the blockade, and to recognise Southern independ ence, to secure the supply so indispensable to their manufacturing millions. If, indeed, the two powers refused to recognise the blockade, they could do it with diplomatic impunity, since it was America whe, about two years ago, proclaimed to the world the doctrine that no power could blockade its own ports ! We shall not, however, follow their example, and unless smugglers settle the question in their own way, diplomatists will leave the blockade where it is, and we shall be cut off from 85 per cent. of our usual cotton supply till American wrath cools, and American quarrels are settled. Nothing, therefore, could be more appropriate both to time and place, than Mr. BAZLEY'S paper read yesterday at Manchester. The magnitude of the cotton trade is only to be described by figures which, like those of astronomy, baffle all our powers to conceive them ; thus, it is computed that during the last 50 years upwards of twenty billion pounds weight of cotton from all sources have been consumed in Great Britain, and the value would be probably not less than £750,000,000 sterling, or might equal a sum of the amount of our National Debt, the chief supply having been obtained from the United States of America. Upon a fair computation the import of that material, which has so largely employed the capital and labour of this country, has yielded a profit of not less than £1,000,000,000 sterling to the people of the United Kingdom within that period. The wonder is that so large a supply of cotton could be procured from that one source, the United States; not less, as we have already observed, than eighty-five per cent. coming thence, while other countries furnished bat eight, and our own colonies but seven per cent. of the remainder. The importance of the cotton supply can there fore hardly be exaggerated. The labour expended on it is the only means by which a population equal to that of European Kingdoms purchases the ne2es saries and comforts of life. " With the growth of this industry," observed Mr. BAZLEY, " five millions of our population have become, directly and indi rectly, dependent upon it for their subsistence ; and the productiveness of their capital and labour, in eluding the raw material, was for the last year nearly £80,000,000 sterling. Of this large value £25,000,000 of cotton manufactures were absorbed in the consumption of the people of the United Kingdom, and there remained for exportation £55,000,000. The estimated capital engaged in its fixed and floating investments is £200,000,000. The people employed and connected with it exceed the population of the kingdom of Belgium, of Hol land, and of Portugal ; the national treasury receives from it an amazing sum in aid of the expenses of the State, and a commercial marine of un paralleled magnitude derives support from it. Surely Mr. BAZLEY and the Cotton Supply Association have the best right to reiterate their appeals to both the Government and the manufac turers of Lancashire to bestir themselves in the modes appropriate to each. Hitherto, by a strange infatuation, the Manchester Cotton Lords have been the slowest to act, and the Government with all its shortcomings has shown more zeal at this crisis than those who must close their mills unless they can procure cotton from other sources than America. These gentlemen hav9 a very comfor table belief in the all-coming-right principle; high prices and the smuggler, and above all—luck, will, they think, save them the trouble of looking out for themselves. The commissariat of their looms and spindles is, they fancy, no business of theirs Possibly the stern old teacher may yet give them a lessen. Of course, India is the grand hope of those who look to our own colonies. The quality of Indian cotton, Mr. BAILEY tells us, is even now such that it would do for 75 per cent, of our manufactures ; the labour too is there, and the land is there, if only we could get it; but the land grievance seems to be the great one. We have all that wa need in climate and labour, and we are, at last, improving our communications in India ; but, as Mr. BAILEY says, "it is a national reproach to us that we have permitted our own fields to be uncul tivated, and that our spinners and manufacturers have been driven by necessity to consume the pro duce of slavery. Lacking the means of communi cation and of irrigation, the resources of the East Indies remain in much the same dormant condition in which they have been for 2,000 years, but brighter prospects are opening in that great depen dency; railways are being constructed, canals formed, river navigation improved, and works of irrigation promoted. One great defect is, however, retained with perverse tenacity. The tenure of land is obstructive alike to the rights of individual owner ship and to its ejjective cultivation. Without doing the slightest wrong to the holders of any land, its equitable transfer might be sanctioned, and a landed proprietary as influential as in our own country might be established. Protection to life and the rights of property, with every other just adjunct of good government, will inevitably lead to prosperity." On this land question the Indian authorities seem very slow to act. Some years ago Mr. BAZLEY had waited on Lord STANLEY when he was Indian Secretary, with a deputation on the subject. His lordship sent out a very decided minute on the subject to the Indian Government, but to this moment it had not been acted on ! Tha grand allurement to capital, simplicity and secu rity of tenure, was still withheld. Nothing is more entirely in the power of Government than the sale of the vast extent of waste lands in India to public buyers, which was what Lord STANLEY ordered. Nothing would be more likely to issue in the creation of splendid cotton estates ; yet this one thing the perfunctory, or obstinate Indian Govern ment has net done—not done, even though ordered to do it as a measure of Imperial policy. It is very rarely that Americans hear their con duct fairly described in Liverpool and Manchester. Mr. BAILEY, however, speaks out and characterises the wrongs committed by the North on the South, and by the South on its negroes, and our own dis gracefully tame submission to American commercial injustice as they deserve. The following remarks of the hon. member are well worth reading ; we hope they will also be read from New York to New Orleans on the other side the water : " Of the commercial policy of the United States of America censure can hardly be too severe. In the Northern States protection has prevailed, and the people of the South have been compelled to pay ex travagant and monopolist prices for the maiufac• tures produced by their own agricultural labour, and which, in the form of cotton, has been received in this country free from every tax. The North has robbed the South by unjust exactions, end the South has robbed the negro, of liberty and life. Why tho British manufacturer has tamely submit ted to an import tax of 30 per cent. upon cotton goods entering the States of America, while the raw cotton, the growth of those States, has been re ceived here free from tax or impost, without making an ef f ort to procure supplies of his raw material from free labour, with the right to send free ex ports in exchange, can only be accounted for by the anxiety to possess an apparent immediate benefit at the cost of advantages more enduring, but which could only be regarded as of prospective or future possession. Partial and unjust government has at length reaped the fruit of convulsion, and for which unjust policy had sown the seed. The North has taxed for its own protection and advantage the people of the South and their industry, and the South has held in degradation , oppression, and slavery the labourers who have enriched their owners. Mutual wrongs have been committed, and hitherto no just object appears before the world as a cause of the lamentable struggle which is exhausting both of them ; but slavery is doomed. A protective system has been fostered in the North, founded very extensively upon the pirated inven tions of this country, and by the regency of which our manufacturers have been largely txcluded from the markets of the States. Even their very litera ture has been abstracted from the intellectual facul ties of those in their fatherland who have only their cultivated minds and soul-breathing thoughts for their inheritance." It is but too true that we deal with no power so grasping and ungenerous as the United States have been. Their whole commercial policy has been a model of commercial selfishness. L w -02.4 y A T TURIN. SEPT. 6. The Chevalier Joseph Launoy, Representative of Belgium at the Court of the Ring of Italy, is dead. PARIS, SEPT. • The illoniteur of to-day says :—" Several foreign journals make comments upon tho pamphlet ' The Emperor, Rome, and King of Italy,' which are void of all foundation, and to which the Government opposes a formal denial." THE MAGAZINES. the DuVin University Magazine. " Macaulay's Last Volume" is the first subject under consideration in this number, The article is written with ability, and w© meet with some true observations concerning that illustrious man who has passed away from us. Yet, on the other hand, in some passages there are strictures to which many readers will not subscribe. For in stance, even in praising the "Lays of Ancient Rome," it is said they are not the highest flights of ballad poetry; and again, when descanting on his style, it is observed,—" Never rising into the grand organ roll of numberless passages in Car lyle—seldom surprising you with hits of happy thought, expressed in the happiest words—never mastering all your senses with so fearful a piece of word painting as that which reveals all Paris hurrying under one mighty impulse to help on the great work begun in the Champ de Mars ; it still moves steadily on, at the same fair level, through a succession of bright and picturesque scenes, whose pervading trimness satisfies all but the most fastidious eye. His most ambitious work will continue for many a year to keep its firm hold on the popular admira tion ; but whether the New Zealander of some distant future will think of its author as he stops to gaze on the wreck of what once was London is a point we care not to discuss at this early date." These are opinions that will call forth an indignant protest / from the many readers who have dwelt with delight on the masterly sketches and the glowing eloquence of those brilliant works that will remain as a trophy of the excellence to which our writers can attain in expression and beauty, so long as the literature of England is read or its language spoken. "An Only Son" is continued, and consists principally of letters home from the young soldier. It is an interesting instalment, on the whole, and at the end of the last chapter we are informed that " Meanee was at hand," and therefore we may expect that in the next division we shall have some stirring scenes. "Peter Brown's Black Box" is a very lively sketch of adventures in Spain. It is written in a very animated strain, and is sure to please all who like amusing stories told in an attractive style. " A Buddhist Legend," is a strange anecdote of the Eastern lands, full of mys tery and marvel. " The Rivals of Kirshnapore" is concluded, and is an effective narrative on the whole. It certainly carries out in spirit the letter of its text." Is this " the generation of love, hot blood, hot thoughts, and hot deeds." " Primi tive French Industries ia another of those instruc tive and elaborate papers that ;put us au courant with the affairs of our continental brethren, which thus imparts to us really desirable knowledge in matters of which no one would willingly remain in ignorance. There are various other articles met with, namely, " Military Panics," which refers to the American achievements at Bull's Run. It is said, "another such panic as this will kill the Union ; for Americans more than any other people —not excepting the French writhe under ridicule. They would far rather aeknowlege the Confedera tion than fight and run away again." "Australian Life," "The Irish Census," &c,, complete the con tents of an interesting number. The New Monthly Magazine. A lengthened article reviews" the unhappy posi tion of " The Once United States," and takes into consideration their constitution, progress, and popu lation. Sir Nathaniel contributes a paper on John Sobieski, which at the present crisis of Polish his tory will be read with interest. The story of " East Lynne," which has for many mwiths occupied so prominent a place in the pages of this magazine, is this month brought to a conclusion. As we shall take another opportunity of criticising the work at length, we shall only say that most readers will have already anticipated the termination. Though the subject of the story is painful, yet the style of this author is always natural and attractive. The blank that will be left by the absence of "East Lynne" will, happily for novel readers, be supplied by a fresh story from the same indefatigable pen, entitled " The Shadow of Ashlydyat." W. C. Kent contributes another of his graphic and graceful sketches of our English poets at their country homes. Ho has chosen this month to represent "Thomson at Richmond" en joying his suburban home in a state of luxurious repose, befitting the author of the " Castle of Indo lence." " Granville de Vigne" is proceeded with in its accustomed strain, and if the men and women do not much resemble those we encounter in ordinary life, the record of their sayings and doings is never theless amusing. Little Alma Tressillian reappears upon the scene, and will probably figure as the heroine of De Vigne's second romance. Mr. An• dersson's interesting volume is the subject of an attractive paper on the Okavango River, drawn of course from the narrative of the first Englishman who has been so fortunate as to discover its real name and character. We have also a paper on Gloucestershire, containing some observations on prisons, and an entertaining account of , =l),,llj r , in Modern Times," which tells us many curious anecdotes respecting the most ridiculous of doc trines in the code of honour. Here is an account of a successful method of stopping the duelling mania : "The Duke of Brissac adopted a strange but successful device in putting down duelling in his regiment. He pre tended to countenance the proceeding, but requested that his officers, before fighting, which they did almost every day, would report the circumstance to him. They agreed to this joyfully. Next - day two made their appearance. The duke inquired the cause of quarrel. As usual, it was a mere matter of foolish contradiction. Certainly it is worth while fighting for such a matter,' observed the duke. And he gave them their conge. Next morning, at parade, the two officers were present. What I' said the duke ; the affair had no results, then ?" Excuse me, colonel,' said one, holding up his arm in a scarf. I received a sword wound.' Pooh ! a scratch. And a question of etiquette, too I You must fight it out.' So the officers ha,i to fight again, and one of them received a wound that kept him confined three weeks to his bed. In the interval, several others applied for permission to fight, but the duke would not grant it; they must wait, he said, till the first quarrel was settled. One day he met the wounded officer taking fresh air, and leaning on the arm of a friend. ' What he said, on foot again ? Capital ! To-morrow you can fight again, and let this affair be finished with.' The two officers met again, and both fell dead. The duke then summoned before him those who had requested permission to fight, and he said he would grant them their wish, but it must be to only two at a time, and in each case he was determined to see the quarrel settled as in the instance that had just occurred. The lesson had its effect. The duke received no more requests for permission to fight." The French seem to bear the discreditable palm of being the nation most addicted to this sport, and many valuable lives have paid the penalty of a mistaken idea of honour. In the days of the Empire duelling was frequent, notwithstanding Napoleon's openly expressed contempt for it—a sentiment worthy of him who dubbed the tomb of suicide, " the grave of a coward." The premature death of the gifted Armand Carrel gave, we are told, a check to the rage of duelling. The readers of the late Lord Strangford's poems will remember the beauti ful verses which he dedicates to the memory of the youthful journalist. Nicholas Michell gives us some pleasing verses on " An Evening at Hastings," and there ale other papers of varying merit. FRANCE. Under the head of "Latest Intelligence," La Patrie publishes the following :—" Advices from America state that the French steam frigate La Fondre, which was at Halifax, received, on the 18th of August, orders to proceed to Vera Cruz. This measure is attributed to the difficulties which have recently arisen and caused an interruption of rela tions between the French representative and the Mexican Confederation." BOURSE, Sept. s,—The market has been buoyant, and Stock having been in demand, a large amount of business has been transacted at improved quota tions. Threes, for the Account, are now at 69f 30c. Railway Shares also firm, and with an im provement on some of the lines. The following are the last quotations : ft per per Cents 99 Credit Fonder 1200 Do. end month.... Belgian 41 lOl 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 30 Roman Bank Shares 2920 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 772 50 Spanish Threes — Do. Account 775 Home Debt ...... 47 50 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto - Lyons and Mediterranean 1025 .. 1026 25 Geneva 350 .. 351 25 Southern .. 672 50 .. 673 75 Western Eastern .... 596 25 .. 697 50 Sardinian 362 50 .. 363 75 Austrian Lowbard AMERICA. (PER BAVARIA, via SOUTHAMPTON.) NEW YORK, AUG. 24. The Wheeling Convention has passed an ordi nance for the division of Virginia, and the establish ment of a new State, to be called Kanawha. The new passport system does not necessitate passports for travellers between Canada and the United States. The Confederate Congress has forbidden the overland exportation of sugar, rice, molasses, and syrups. The Confederate forces are reported to have retired to Centreville. It is reported that the Federal Government will no longer allow Kentucky to maintain a neutral position. The Mayor of Washington has refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Federal Government. The Dutch frigate Zeezerland has arrived at Annapolis. The New York Times states that rumours are current of dissensions among the Confederate leaders at Richmond on the State question. THE SHEFFIELD CUTLERS' FEAST. The annual festivity took place yesterday even ing, under the presidency of Mr. G, Wilkinson, master cutler; the number of gentlemen present being about 110. Among the principal guests were Earl Manvers, Lord Teynham, Lord Denman, Sir S. W. Ramsden, M.P ; the Right Hon. James Stuart Wortley ; Mr. Roebuck, M.P. ; Sir William Armstrong ; Mr. Collins, M.P. ; &c. After dinner, the loyal and patriotic toasts were given by the Master Cutler, and duly honoured.— Mr. M. Hunter jun., then gave " The Neighbour ing Nobility," coupling with the toast the name of Earl Manvers. (Cheers.) Earl Manvers, in re sponding, said, by common consent it was the practice to abstain from politics; yet he never read an account of the proceedings in that hall of which politics did not form the principa. part. He was not going to indulge in a panegyric of the Emperor of Austria— (cheers and latghter)—in the presence of Mr. Roe buck, his far more able advocate ; neither would he say anything in depreciation of the Emperor of France, which he was sure would not be well re ceived in this hall. (Cheers.) He would, however, venture to say that the very last card in the Em peror's hand wculd be a rupture with England. (Cheers.) Mr. T. Dunn proposed " The House of Lords." (Cheers.) The toast had a political connection, but was so broad that he should be under no n e cessity to refer to party politics. The liberties of the country had in many in stances upon the course taken by, the House of depended Lords. (Cheers.) Before the House a ttained their present power the wisdom to see that they could n and supported the liberties of the country. TleY bad still more decidedly taken that course in mora mo dern times, and the country owed Lords of e e C stand nnCommons hade aloe, the e , them a greatiebt of gratitude. (Cheers.) EN IAN responded. Various iou l : s p e lkers alluded to Mr. Roebuck's foreign politics, and '4r , H. Wilkinson, J.P., subsequently proposed the iealth of the borough members. Mr. RoEnrcx, in the course of his reply, said that the nob!' monarch of Austria had given to his various subycts a constitu tional government. Where there as ab solute g ov ernment before he had could u u t et r a, a get constitutionalndi. that he was censur e d. N ow, w h at he government. Fo r th a t h e pra i sed praising that ? Th ere was a t hi ng Punch bandiel a bout that day, in w hi c h t h e Em peror of Aultria is represented a s h av i ng run away ad Tear'em." (L aug ht er .) B ut h with the dog ? W asn 't h o t h ere h e w i t h run t do g y make him follow him aw a y ? Wh y, then—(laught,r)—and what had the Emperor of Austria done p he had done simply what every co ns tit u ti ona l monarch woull do. He had given his people a constitutional .iovernment. Well, but he was told that there were countries in the dominions of the Emperor of &stria that would not accept the offer that had been Made. This, he said, was exactly the difficulty of England in 1800 with respect to Ireland. The Tiines had turned roun d upo n him and said that the Emperor had not adopted the rule that was adopted when England appealed to Ireland. The Emperor of Austria had, i n deed, adopted no such thing. He said, " I am h3re ; there is nothing before me ; I have no const:tution to consider, and will give the best I can," And what did he give? He gave the exact counterpart of England. When he appealed to Hungary, he said, " Yon shall elect representatives to the Reichsrath."—After some interrultions, Mr. Roebuck continued : The Einpero! of Austria, when he gave that constitttion to his whole dominion, had not a constitution before him to consider ; and he (Mr. ltaebuck) would not at that time of the night gc into further discussion upon the matter. If tine were allowed, he would defend his position, and would not be abused as if he were a man devoid of all feeling of honour or humanity. r ihey wfre told, he said, that the present was a meeting where no politics were talked; but he had sat there and heard nothing talked of but politics from all the speakers. He would not, however, presume upon the patience of the company, especially as he upon the subject a great deal on a recent and from that ti me to t hi s h e h a d h ear d brazentohheacedassiponl roar of the Times against him, and also the whistle of the penny press; but there he was again, nevertheless, and he had that faith in his honest countrymen that when they saw a man fully impressed with the opinion that he was on the ' right path, they would not desert him.—Mr. S. Wortley, Sir J. W. Ramsden, and others also addressed the meeting. Bentley's Miscellany. " The Population and Trade in France," by Frederick Marshall, i 3 continued, and chapter six treats of the coal trade. Mr. Marshall enters into full detail on this subject as he has hitherto done on other subjects. This series of interesting papers, when completed, will form a valuable book of reference on French statistics. The Biographies of Madame de Krudener, who figured at the end of the last, and the beginning of the present century, and of Chevalier Bunsen are well written, 9nd many curious incidents in the lives of these in dividuals celebrated in such opposite spheres, " American Young Ladyism," by J. G. Kohl is an amusing sketch of the Ladies of America but we do not consider that :Mr. Khol has done justice to the transatlantic beauties. He purports to give a sketch of their character, but only fur nishes the dark side of the picture. There is no denying that the women in the United States do not hold the same social position that an English woman does, notwithstanding that they are held in such high consideration, and allowed priority in all things. It is not natural that a man can have the same respect for a wife who spends her life in a rocking chair at an hotel, as for ope who attends to her household duties. At the same time there are many points in the American character deserving of commendation. Dudley Costello furnishes us with unquestionably the best contribution we have yet had of " The Adventures of Lorn Loriot." Poor Smudge proves to be Lorn's best friend, and her character comes out in striking relief against the mercena!y and swindling individuals who surround her. Having found Lorn in the House of De tention, she goes to his late employer, Mr. Squirl, the pawnbroker, and seeks his aid; and he having promised his assistance, the following dialogue takes place I' m so glad," she said, " to hear you say so, Mr. Squirl ; for he's low, very low, I'm sure, at nobody dont' nothink for him, and all the time he's as hinnercent as thel babe unborn. I think it a great shame that pleecemen s words, and such as them, should be taken afore otherses, when it's what they're paid for to find the real bad 'uus out as goes about contrivin' and layin' traps for 'onest folks to fall into." Though somewhat circuitously expressed, Mr. Squirl saw that Smudge's thoughts pointed in the direction his own had taken, " You won't mind," he asked, " saying what yort know about this here Count to a lawyer, or in a court of justice, if necessary p" " Mind !" returned Smudge. " I shall only be g l ad to!" 4, I'll take you, then," said Mr. Squirl, 6' to a friend of mine—an attorney, who does a good deal of business in this line—and we'll be ready for 'ern when the oaeo owes oil • again. It will cost something, though, to pay him for his trouble." " How much ?" inquired Smudge. " A matter of five pound, perhaps." Smudge's countenance fell. Her worldly wealth was not a third of that sum, but had it been double the amount she would have freely given it. " Here's all I have got I" she said, taking out a steel purse, and emptying the contents on the counter. " He's welcome to this if he can get Lorn out of prison." Mr. Squirl was not often the slave of attendrissement, but there were moments in his life, and this was one of them, when he yielded to the melting mood. hough un acquainted with the Latin poet, he sometimes acknowledged that he was a man. " No, no, miss," said he, with real respect; " put up your money. We shan't have no call for that, anyhow. There's them as can afford it better." There was feeling in this speech, though, after all, no very great merit in the declaration, for Mr. Squirl was already on velvet, and well knew that anymoney he wanted would be forthcoming if required. Still it was something for a pawnbroker to restrain his hand from contact with coin ; something for such a pawnbroker as Mr. Squirl to pay even a modified tribute to generosity in the person of a penniless servant-girl. "Look after the shop, Cramp," said Mr. Squirl, putting on his hat. " Come, my dear, we've no time to lose." So saying, he offered Smudge his arm, and they went out together. Mr. Cramp never opened his lips till they had been gone at least five minutes, but stood in an attitude of deep re flection. At last he gave utterance to his thoughts in phrase brief but expressive : " Blest I" he said, " if she ain't a nice 'un I" 6' Ouida" furnishes, as usual, one of his high-life stories, entitled, "A Double-down Leaf in a Man's Life ;" and "The Constable of the Tower" (which we will notice hereafter at length) is concluded, and concludes the magazine. The Corniiill Magazine. Philip's independence of spirit is rendering him uncourteous and at times unbearable. He himself asks Pendennis, " As for me, haven't you remarked that since I have not a guinea in the world, I swagger and am a much greater swell than be fore?"—" And the truth is," adds his biographer, " that a Prince Royal could not have called for his glass with a more magnificent air than Mr. Philip, when he summoned the waiter and paid for his petit verre." Little Charlotte suffers, too, from the jealousy and arrogance of her lover. " Such sentiments as Mr. Philip felt strongly, he expressed with an uproar." We cannot say that Philip Firmin, with many good qualities to admire, improves upon acquaintance. The same remark might apply to the narrative of his adven tures. Pleasant as it is to hear Mr. Thackeray discourse, and full of truth (not always plea sant) as are his discourses, he suffers himself at times to fall into a rambling style, repeating himself, and recounting twice told tales. Like the king of old, too often he "fights all his battles o'er again, and thrice he slays the slain." Admiring Mr. Thackeray so genuinely as we do, we are the more disappointed when we see him thus frittering away his powers —powers so well qualified to charm, and instruct, and elevate. In the present instalment the writer turns away (as is his wont) from the current of his story to describe the character and difficulties of Madame Smolensk, the lady of the Boarding-house in Paris, where General Baynes and his fatally are staying. So well is this done that we almost pardon the digression; e.g., here is a picture of the hostess : THE LANDLADY IN DIFFICTJLTIES. " Philip said he respected and admired that wom an : and worthy of respect she was in her way. She painted her face and grinned at poverty. She laughed and rattled with care gnawing at her side. She had to coax the milk man out of his human kindness : to pour oil—his own oil—. upon the stormy epicier's soul : to melt the t u tt erman : to tap the wine merchant : to mollify the butcher : to i nven t new pretexts for the landlord : to reconcile the lady boarders, Mrs. General Baynes, let us say, and the Hon oura bl e M rs. Boldero, who were always quarrelling : to see that the din ner, when procured, was cooked properly; that Francois, to whom she owed ever so many months' wages, was not too rebellious or intoxicated ; that Auguste, also her creditor, had his glass clean and his lamps in order. And this work done and the hour of 6 o'clock arriving, she had to carve and be agreeable to her table ; not to hear the growls of the discontented (and at what table d'hote are there not grum blers ?) ; to have a word for everybody present ; a smile and, a laugh for Mrs. Bunch (with whom there had been very likely a dreadful row in the morning) ; a recce-Ai for the colonel ; a polite phrase for the general's lady ; and even a good word and compliment for sulky Auguste, who just be fore dinner-time had unfolded the napkin of mutiny about his wages. Was not this enough work for a woman to do ?" The second article, " Food —How to take it," is in teresting and judicious, although it requires, like its subject, to be taken cum grano sails. "Keeping Up Appearances" will not find favour with the lady readers of the Cornhill, as it advocates prudence versus sentiment, and echoes, in spirit, the cele brated dictum of Punch, "Advice to persons about to marry—Don't." Temple Bar. " The Seven Sons of Mammon" is continued, and this portion is very important, inasmuch as the most striking personage of the tale is now verging towards the crisis of her doom. Florence Armytage is doomed, and the hounds are on her track Meanwhile she, like many another victim, is desporting herself in her brief hour on the stage of life's meanest vanitieth and thus she will b e hued on to destruction. The designation of this woman is one of the cleverest sketches of this author, and exhibits considerable knowledge of the world. This magazine is celebrated for its fictions. "For Better for Worse" is finished. It is a pleasing tale, full of domestic sketches and replete with wise hints on social subjects. Many a Sir Philip now walking the earth may learn in these pages not to be ashamed of the partner he has chosen, but to stand by her against the observations of his family with the same daring he exhibited on his first choosing her for his wife, in her retirement and isolation. Ethel, too, has her c3unterparts in life, and these may take the lesson to heart, not to slight the affection they have prized too highly, but to be consistent through good and evil, for " Better" and for " Worse," as they thread the mazes of life's tangled labyrinth. " School Girls and Girls' Schools" is an instructive article that takes note of the various improvements that have taken place in the department of female education. "London Poems" is this month called "The River." It is well written, and contains some impressive truths. " The Corporal's Story" is a peculiar record of ad ventures that a man met with in his endeavours to form a second marriage. Mac Man's Magazine. This number commences with the first part of an essay by Dr. Felix Eberty on " Good and Evil," the exact object of which it is difficult to define. He enters into a consideration of the causes which influence different individuals as to what is right and what is wrong ; he has come to no conclusion as 3 et, but perhaps in the second part he will in form us by what means we are to determine the point without the aid of conscience. " Romsoe Church: A Legend from the Baltic," by Prince Fre derick of Schleswig-Holstein, will be found inte resting by the lovers of the marvellous and the horrible. The story appeared some years ago in the " Casket." Prince Frederick's account is more voluminous. Mr. Kingsley's tale of " Ravens hoe" is continued. Charles visits Lady Ascot and finds that Adelaide has eloped with Lord Welter ; he recounts the history of his own ruin, and then, unknown to the kind old lady, leaves the house and repairs to London, where he takes employment with a lieutenant in the army as groom. Lieutenant Hornby is a fine character as far as we can as yet judge of him. He discovers at once that Charles is a gentleman, and they become friends. Finding his groom seated on a wheelbarrow ruminating one day, he thus ad dressed him You mustn't sit and mope there, Horton," said the lieutenant ' • "it neve r d oes t o mo p e . I k now it i s inter nally hard to help it, and of course you can't associate with servants, and that sort of thing, at first ; but you will get used to it. If you think I don't know you are a gentleman, you are mistaken. I don't know who you are, and shall not try to find out, Pll lend you books or anything of that sort ; but you mustn't brood over it. I can't stand seeing my fellows wretched, more especially a fellow like you. If it had been to save his life, Charles couldn't say a m ord. He looked up at the lieutenant and nodded his head. The lieutenant understood him well enough, and said to himself, " Poor fellow I" So there arose between these two a feeling which light ened Charles's servitud e , and which before th e en d came h a d grown into a liking. Charles's vengeance was not for Hornby, for the injury did not come from him. His ven geance was reserved for another, and we shall see how he took it. Lady Ascot was furious at finding that her nephew had bolted, and endeavoured to trace him by the aid of the detective police, but failed in her object, for Mr. Scotlandyard, the eminent detective, only furnished her with thieves and scoundrels who answered to her description of Cha les. Her indig nation in reading his letters is highly amusing. Mary arrives at Lady Hainault's, and is very kindly received. Her ladyship is out, but Mary goes to the nursery to see the children. She meets Lord Hainault at the door, and takes it for a good sign that he goes to the nursery before leaving home, but she retires to rest in doubt as to her recep tion by Lady Hainault, with what cause the fol lowing extract will show : She left the nursery with a thankful heart; but, never theless, she cried herself to sleep. " I wonder, shell I like Lady Hainault; Charles used to. But she is very proud, I believe. I cannot remember much of her.—How those carriages growl and roll, alreost like the sea, and char old Ravenshoe." Then, after a time, she slept. There was a light in her eyes, not of dawn, which awoke her. A tall, handsome woman, in silk and jewels, who came and knelt beside her and kissed her, said that now her 01 home was broken up, she must make one there, and be a sister to her, and many other kind words of the same sort. It was Lady Hainault, the long Burton gill (as Madam Adelaide called her) come home from her last party; and in ouch kind keeping I think we may leave little Mary for the present. Gaps in the Sola r System "he 1, 47( o r B o de ; or, ._____ filled up," by Professor KeHard, is a sketch from recent astronomical history, showing how the law laid down by Bode formed the basis on which Adams and Leverrier founded their preliminary hypotheses. The following novel mode of making astronomical calculations is related by Leverrier A medical practitioner residing in the provinces of France had been addicted to astronomy from his infancy, and for twenty years had been ruminating on the law of Bode ; and, being led, by studying th a t l aw, to believe the possibility of th existence of a planet between Mercury and the sun, he had argued that, if there is such a planet, he must often cross the sun's disk. Accordingly, whenever his professional duties allowed him leisure during the day, he set himself on the watch. On the 26th of March, 1859, he observed the passage of the body he had been looking for. This cir cumstance is made known to Leverrier soon after the publi cation of the memoir referred to. He hastens down to the country, and marches up to the doctor's residence. The worthy man whose name is Lescarbault, submits to the astronomer's cross - examination. He demands the record of the obser vations, and it is found covered with grease and laudanum, performing the :part of marker in the Connaissance des 7cmps. He asks for the rough drafts of the calculations which have led M. Lescarbault to the conclusion that the planet's distance is half that of Mercury. " The rough drafts I" exclaims the doctor. " Paper is rather scarce with. us. lam a joiner as well as a doctor. I calculate in my workshop, and I write upon the boards; and, when I wish, to use them in new calculations, I plane off the old ones," If Mr. Buckle does not render his name immortal by his genius he stands a fair chance of it, front the attention paid to him by the critics. We have this month part the third of the editor's review of his work. A paper on " Serfdom in Russia," by Nicholas Rowe, gives a history of the Russian serf from the earliest time. " The- Restoration—a Fragment," is great nonsense; it has no plot, and is very unnatural. A review of Mr. Alexander Smith's former poems and his new one is the lut contribution. Bailey's Sporting Magazine. This number contains a portrait and a biogra phical sketch of the Earl of Portsmouth. The agricultural interest is attended to by the " Gen tleman in Black." No. VII. of " Wild Life" takes us to Australia, and the description of a kangaroo hunt is an improvement on some or the American. adventures. An article on the subject of " Arbi tration" reviews the case of Captain Rhodes v. the Earl of Cardigan. The case is already well known to our sporting readers. The best paper in the number is " The Wild Sports of Neilgherry Moun tains," in which an adventure with a wild elephant is well described. A summary of cricketing, " Our• Van," and general sporting information, are also furnished. THE M.P.'s SEP2'EMB ER SONG. Ain—" Pm Afloat." We are up! I'm adrift I What matters it where ? So I'm free from long speeches, late hours, and bad air ? I have pulled throuh the Session, a model Nis., Till they voted supply to its last s . D. I've sat on when all rational n* n h ad left town, Till the pavements were up, and the window -blinds down; I've seen all the bores on their hobbies astride ; Irish Members, for once, in one lobby divide I've heard Pam upon Arts ; I've heard Osborne on arms; And Roebuck expatiate on Austria's charms ; But even such wonders have palled upon me, And I'm thankful to think I am free, I am free! Ha! Ha I Ha! &c. I have watched the cool Whips, moving slyly about, To make it all snug for an easy Count Out, When some proser of fifty-bore -power got his night, And rose strong in papers, in wind, and in fight. I have seen the obedient retreat of the pack From the benches before him, and those at his back, Till the limit was reached, and the fatal demand For a " count" freed the House--a glad holiday band ! But that joy was still chequered ; we knew that the chain We flung off tho next morning would rivet again, But now every morn as it riseth for me, But confirms the glad news that I'm free—l am free I Ha! Ha! Ha! &o. Long vacations may brighten the lawyer's dim eyes; Cockney shopmen their sniff of the briny may prize ; Old Paterfamilias may rub off his cares In the pleasures of Margate, the calm of Broadstairs; The stout Alpine-club man, more lives than a cat May risk on the ice of Mont Blanc or Zermatt; The Yachtsman may boast of his craft, and his pride In cruisings on Solent, and landings at Ryde ; But of all to whom August brings liberty back, 'I here's none like the overworked Parliament hack. None can relish a roll out of harness like me When, the Session once up, I am free, I am free! Hal Ha! Hai &c. —Punch. ROYAL GREMORNE GARDBNS. These delightful gardens were unusually patro nised last evening, considering the lateness of the season. This was, in a great measure, owing to its having become known that the London Irish Volunteers had accepted an invitation given by Mr. Smith to spend an evening in the grounds. At about eight o'clock above 200 of this very efficient corps, under the command of Captain Tulley,and preceded by their excellent band, marched into the gardens from the King's-road, and were received by the assembled company with repeated cheers. The lawn was brilliantly lighted for the occasion, upon which the troops were drawn up and dismissed to enjoy as they pleased the varied amusements of the Gardens. One portion appeared to attract their particular attention, viz., that in the Marionette Theatre, which consists of a concert and entertain ment given by the Cremorne Musical Union, who are the daughters and sons, eight in number, of an army medical officer. In compli. ment to the name of the company the programme was selected from Irish compositions, the following pieces among others being received with considerable applause— " Savourneen Deelish," " Grammachree Molly," and " Limerick Races." The execution and taste of these talented juveniles appeared to give very great satisfaction, and will no doubt en sure the patronage they so much deserve. The evening wound up with the ascent of the Female Blondin, when the London Irish were marched away in regimental order, having evidently participated in, as well as increased, the pleasure of a very de-. lightful evening. The extensive domain of Cre morne is admirably adapted for such meetings ; and we only give utterance to a wish expressed by many of the visitors, that this may be the forerunner of many such. His Imperial Highness Prince Nicholas d'Olden bourg, after visiting most of the public institutions in Lon don, and the Great Eastern at Liverpool, has left Maurigy's Hotel for Biarritz. His Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio, the Italian Minister, is expected to return to London at the end of next week to resume his diplomatic duties. His Excellency Count Eugene Larisch has arrived at Maurigy's Hotel from Hesehenberg-Sterie. The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby have left the St. George's Hotel. The Earl and Countess of Yarborough and Lady Sophia Pelham arrived in town yesterday from the Isle Wight. Lord and Lady Aveland and the Hon. Misses Heathcoto have returned to Normanton Park for the win ter from a continental tour, The Lady Poltimore was safely delivered of a daughter, on Wednesday last, in Grosvenor-square, and, with the infant, is doing well. THE LORD WARDEN AT DOVER.—Yesterday Lord Palmerston attended the first meeting of the new Board of Harbour Commissioners, appointed under the Act of last session, by which the management of fiever Har bour undergoes considerable change. His lordship rode over from Walmer Castle, accompanied by Lady Palmer ston, the Hon. Mr. Cowper, M.P., and Mrs. Cowper, who remained at the Lord Warden Hotel while Lord Pal merston attended at the Harbour-house to preside over the meeting above referred t The new com mission consists of seven members, all of whom were present—viz., the Lord Warden, President ; Captain Noble, R.N., representing the Admiralty; Mr. S. M. Latham, the Board of Trade; Mr. Gordon Thompson, the South-Eastern Railway Company; Mr. G. F. Holroyd, the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company ; a nd the Mayor(mr. J. C. of Dover (Mr. o n J. behalf of theburgesses. Birmingham) and theD e puty Mayor The prin cipal business transacted was the appointment of officials, as follows :—Mr. James Stilwell, registrar ; Mr. Richard Irons, harbour-master; Mr. Richard Atherden, deputy har bour-master, Mr. Saunders (collector of Customs) was re appointed as the collector of dues ; and Mr. L. Stride as treasurer. Applications were sent in by Mr. R. Rees and Mr. Druce for the appointment of receiver of rents, sur veyor, and r es id en t eng i neer ; but the commissioner s post poned the election, and it appeared to be the g enera l im pression that it w ou ld be desirable to divide these offices. At the conclusion of the meeting the Lord War len rejoined Lady Palmerston and Mr. and Mrs. Cowper, and proceeded from the Lord Warden Hotel to the Admiralty Pier, for the purpose of inspecting the works already executed in connection with that undertaking and still in progress under Messrs. Lee and Son. His lordship was attended by Captain Tris . cott,. R.N., nr.aDvarlueseu,preersiiten6deennta; Walkerttheenfarleoeurs and M 'advantages of a national character em inMeerr, by whom em braced in this magnificent stmeture were fully explained. The more local operati..m in the inner harbour were after wards inspected Ly his lordship, who then returned to wahner. The usual salutes from the Castle were lisp( need with, at the express wish of the noble Premier both on his lordship's arrival and d e p ar t ure . ,