The Sun. — London, England, 1861-06-14 00:00:00

HEA TRE-R 0 YAL, 11 AYMARKET. 1.1 Lessee, Xt. J. B. Buckstone. T 1 IS EVENING, the nertornianoes will commence with the Comedy of THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Chas. Mathews, Buckstone, E. Villiers, - Rogers, &c. ; Mrs. Wilkins, Mrs. C. Mathews, and Miss E. Weekes. Followed by THE ADVENTURES OF A LOVE LETTER. Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews. And THE SUN AND THE WIND. Commence at 7. RO YA L PRINCES S'S THEATRE.- Leasee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris, THIS EVENING, TRUTH AND FICTION. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthewl,Widdicombe, Shore, Cathcart, Garden; Miss C. Leclercq, Miss R. Leclercq, and Miss M. Harris. Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Yachter. Sup ported by Hermann Vezin, Ryder, Meadows, &c. ; Misses Heath, Insworthy, and R. Leclercq. EW THRATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Reproduction of "The Colleen Bawn. " The Adelphi "Census " every Evening. THIS EVENING, the successful new Farce, entit TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford. After which (206th time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. D. Boucicault, D. fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, 'C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss Woolgrar, Mrs. BiMngton, and Mrs. chatterley. To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Eburne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss Kate Kelly, Miss E. 2horne, and Mrs. Chatterley. Doors open at halt past 6—Commence at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- THIS EVENING, the most successful Spectacle ever produced, MA.ZEPPA, with splendid scenery and stately effects. To be followed by the Rocky Mountain Wonders and SCENES in the CIRCLE. Concluding with the Panto mime Ballet entitled JOCKO, the Brazilian Ape. Reduced prices. Doors open at half-past 6. CANTERBURY - HALL CONCERTS AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. EVERY EVENING, Two Grand Selections from celebrated Operas, including Verdi's new Opera, THE BAL MASQUE 4first produced in England and only to be heard at this Establishment), with a Chorus of Forty Voices, and upon a scale unequalled at any other Concerts. Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Greville, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, Mr. Bernard; the popular Solos on the Cornet-a piston, by Mr. Levy (the first performer of' the day) ; the Brothers Conrad (in an entirely new and original entertain ment on the double rope, not to be seen elsewhere); con. tinned success of Mr. Wood and his talented little Son. The Comic Department comprises the following favourites —Mr. Marshall, Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. Blanchard, and numerous other artistes. Re-appearinCe at these Concerts of Mrs. Lawrence. Musical Director, Mr. JONGHMANS. T " O X FOR 6, OXFORD-STREET. Mr. LEVY, undoubtedly the best performer of the day on the Cornet-a-Piston—Grand Selecti , ms (on the most complete scale) from Dinorah, Martha, Stradella, dr.c., and other vocal and instrumental music, by Miss Russell, the Misses Stuart, and Miss Ernst, Messrs. Ckarles Greville, Fornari, Kimber ley, Bernard, Beaumont, Bervon, Huish, Signor Tivoli, and Hr. Henry Herbert, with full band and powerful and selected @horns, conducted by Mr, F. Jonghmans.—The following Comic talent, Messrs. W. Randall, J. Blanchard, W. H. Wie land, Hollingsworth, E. Marshall, Harvey, and French. and the Brothers Conrad In their latest an d best entertainment, every evening. Admission, Hall sixpce ;Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, , 10s. Cd. HIGH WA - TER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tg DAY. —Morning, sh. 37m.—Afternoon, sh. 58m. To-moußow.-Morning, 6h. 24m.—Afternoon, 6h. 50m. THS WEATHER.-Srx OFFICE, JUNE 14, 1861, THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 73—highest since noon yesterday.: 58—lowest this morning and during the night. 76—this day at noon. BARomETER-30.13; falling. Wirth—S.-Easterly—fresh ; with tine summer weather. - • Ntf t ' - !:-•1) try THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE, 14, 1861. It is gratifying to see that the intelligence of the Northern States is not wholly overborne by the anti-Southern fury of the hour. Our readers have seen that speakers and writers in the North, and even at Washington, have joined in denouncing England, with whom they must now associate France, because our Government acknowledges the Seceded States as belligerents. A course quite in accordance with all precedent, as certainly as it is in accordance with humanity. The object of such an acknowledgment simply being to spare us the cruelty of treating Southerners at sea, more especially with letters of marque, as haste: generic ILuinani. Both England and France stand per fectly neutral ; they forbid privateers with their prizes from entering the harbours of either country ; they prohibit their subjects from enlisting, and refuse to protect them from any consequences of doing so; but they decidedly refuse to treat the crews of Mr. JEFFERSON'S privateers as pirates, and this neutral, yet humane, policy it is which has called forth such denunciation in the North, and is spoken of as hostility on our part. One of the most respectable journals, how ever, in New York has thought it time to put down this unreasonable hot-blooded jar gon, and has done it in a style which must give a quietus to these foolish' talkers. The writer turns the tables so completely upon the wrongheads that he shews the opposite course could only be demanded of our Government, on the assumption that England might be umpire in the strife ! If she is required to condemn one side it implies that she is warranted in judging of the right and wrong of the quarrel. " If," he says," we were to insist upon her judging of the contest, we should admit her right of judging. If she has a right to decide on this as a question of principle, then we must consent to her deciding as she may judge fit, for we cannot insist that she shall form a judg raent only on condition of its being in our favour." Rather hard this for men to digest who took pains to let Lord LYONS know that his mediation could not be accepted before he had ever thought of the offer. He shows that Southern privateers could only be regarded as such or as pirates; that England could not regard the Southern movement as a mere riot or /local disturbance, and must therefore deal with both as belligerents. He further shows that acknowledging the South as belli gerents, in volves the more important point of acknowledging the right of blockade on the part of the Northern. In America this argument has great weight, Since it must be remembered the Americans, in th e case of the King of NAPLES, asserted the principl e t h at no power could blockade its own ports ! If, there fore, the Americans themselves do not regard the Sarah as ou t 'of their power—as belligerents to be vanquished--they could not, on their own principles blockade the Southern ports ! He further shows, that unless the Southern privateers are regarded as the ships of belligerents, the Washington Government must be held responsible for any insult or violence they But we need might offer to our flag. not particularise or comment further. commend the article itself to all our readers inte rested in tho s u bject; that is, we suppose, to nearly all of them. We have not for some time seen so much ealm good sense, and such just appreciation and conduct-in anything from the other side of the water. We trust it reflects -the influential mind of the North. We Another " Little War" we are now well rid of: namely, the . war in New Z.:Ai and. HAPIIRONA and NGATIAAVA, the rebel chiefs, having refused to give in even after the time allowed to them for calm reflection, between the 13th and 15th of Mai eh—hostilities appear to have once more, but happily for the last time, recommenced. A contest, it has been from first to last of the most unequal kind a contest, namely, between the half naked forces of barba rism and the disciplined trc•ops of a race foremost in the ranks of modern civilisation. Our only justification, in fact, at all, for taking part in this conflict is the simple ani g'iaring truth that we, at any rate, have not; been the a ggressors. The struggle was forced ppon the English Autll9, led A haul down the white flag from the Maori staff in token of the truce having come to an end, and send fluttering up to the staff-head the blood-red war flag. "In a few minutes," we read in the accounts just brought to us, "it (the blood-red war-flag) was lowered, and one solitary shot from the natives invited to the combat." JACKEY has by that time donned his war-paint, and strides forth to view no longer the peaceful JACKET, but ;ransformed, brandishing his war-spear, whooping his war-whoop, the terrible, or if not exactly ter. rible, the singularly picturesque KALINGAIIINGA But—confronting him—there are those two eight inch aud two ten-inch mortars, and, worst of all, hose three deadly Armstrongs. " Our fire was excellent"—we read with a shudder• ' and fearfully destructive." It continued :hrough all Saturday and through the Sunday fol- towing, up to five o'clock, the natives yielding then at last for good and all, and sending up the white flag once more in token of submission. Three hundred out of 1,500 men are destroyed, the Waikatos have retreated, WIREMU KINGI has withdrawn, and the terms laid down by his Excellency are finally accepted by HAPU• RONA. And so terminates this last of our "little wars"—woull that events might prove it to be, in truth, the last of them, and that, by thus sedu- lously guarding against their recurrence, we migh apply the crowning tribute of the national grati tude to the memory of the Great Duke of WEL. LINGTON. The wish expressed by Mr. ROEBUCK, in the debate on the Affirmation Bill of Sir JOHN TRE LAWNY, was a perfectly fair one. "Ire should like," he said, "to have the question, whether an oath was any guarantee for speaking the truth, fairly argued. Many a trustworthy man had been put aside because he conscientiously refused to take an oath; and one who took the oath, without the least intention of adhering to it, was allowed to give his evidence. That some modification of the present system was required was evident." Mr. ROEBUCK proceeded to argue some important aspects of the question in a very convincing man ner; of coarse, when a Home Seer his torical evidence, better things argument could be of little avail etary, of whom we might ex pect, from his acquaintance with the the legal and Conservativengs' they are; yet Mr. ROEBUCK w a He put the case of the person Wh a o preJudiee-u.footr answered.. laws of took the side of all things as ff , in spite of the unpleasantness of facing public reprobation, yet confessed to disbelief of a future state of rewards and punishments—he might have added, w h o, also, as in the recent caseat Rochdale, acknowledged it to the failure of justice in her own case; and compared it with that of the unbeliever wh w o it c h a o re u d t so little about truth as to profess belief having it, in which case the judge would have no alternative but to admit the evidence. The:truth speaker in this very likely case is rejected from the witness-box—the liar admitted. " Your rule of law," exclaimed Mr. ROEBUCK, " excludes the trustworthy man, and accepts one who is not trustworthy." This argument no one met, though it was of course easy for routine lawyers and rou tine legislators to vote it bad. But surely there must be some tolerably clear principle which should be our clue to escape from all the Windings and turnings of the legal laby rinth into which the' House was led on Wednesday. One clue, if honourable members could but clear their minds a little on the subject of religious liberty, might be sufficient. If we fairly followed out the principle that no man should suffer civil damage, or privation of any civil privilege, on account of his religious belief, this would conduct us to aright cities out in New Zealand by the lawless audacity o the native tribes or aborigines. And therefore, in reality, it became obvious from the com mencement, even to the more humane, that the most generous course that could by possibility be pursued, wax the right onward course leading us, in the most direct manner, to the termination of the hostilities begun by the Maories and the Waikatos. A last attempt, however, was made, it appears, by Governor BROWN at the eleventh hour to bring the rebels, if possible, to their senses, and to prevent the further effusion of blood. " For twelve months," wrote his Excel lency, addressing himself to HAPURONA and NGATIAWA, immediately prior to the close of the armistice ending on the 15th of March, " you have been carrying arms against her Majesty the QUEEN and the authority of the law. You have now laid down your arms, and expressed your desire for peace. Believing you to be sin cere, I have come from Auckland for the purpose of stating the terms upon which it will be granted, and upon which her MAJESTY'S gracious pardon and protection will be extended to you." General BROWN then enumerates the conditions in the manner following :—" 1. The investigation of the title and the survey of the land at Waitara to be continued and completed without inter ruption. 2. Every man to be permitted to state his claims without interference, and my de cision, or the decision of such persons as I shall ap point, to be conclusive. 3. All the land in possession of her MAJESTY'S forces belonging to those who have borne arms against her MAJESTY to be disposed of by me as I may think fit. 4. All guns belonging to the Government to be returned. 5. All plunder taken from the settlers to be forthwith restored. 6. The Ngatiawa who have borne arms against the Go vernment must submit to the QUEEN and to the authorities of the law, and not resort to force for the redress of wrongs, real or imaginary. 7. As I did not use force for the acquisition of land, but for the vindication of the law and for the protection of her MAJESTY'S native subjects in the exercise of their just rights, I shall divide the land which I have stated my intention to dispose of amongst its former owners, but I shall reserve the sites of the blockhouses and redoubts, and a small piece of land round each, for the public use, and shall exercise the right of making roads through the Waitara district." And his Excellency adds pointedly—still addressing himself to HAPURONA and NGATIAWA —" On your submission to these terms you will come under the protection of the law, and enjoy your property, both lands and goods, without molestation." All his pacific and conciliatory ad vances, however, prove ineffectual. The terms are not accepted—the 15th of March arrives— the stipulated period set apart for the time draws to a conclusion, and hostilities are recommenced. The result is exactly what alone could have been anticipated. Our English soldiers to the number of 370—men of the 57th and 65th Regiments—advance to the front and are there divided into working parties and coverers. The sap is resumed—the principal sap leading to Te-Arei. A branch sap from ore of the redoubts (No. 8) is carried onward to sweep the rifle pits excavated along the very verge of the valley. Before the morning of the 15th has well commenced, indeed it is only yet 7 a.m., there arrives from Waitara Captain MERCER, of the Royal Artillery, and sixty of his artillerymen, bringing with them THREE ARMSTRONG GUNS and two 8-inch and two 10-inch mortars! Unconscious of the awful import of all this, the insensate savages THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, *NE 14: 1861 To return, however, to the more appropriate ground of the secular journalist, we desire to point out the clue which ought, we think, to guide our legislators ; it has been furnished them indeed long ago, and like almost all other legal proposals of the same great thinker, it must be accepted sooner or later—the rule to let every witness give his evi dence, leaving it to a jury to estimate its value. The jury will rarely fail to do this easily enough under the guidance of an English bar and an English bench. The most lying and perjured witness on earth may be of material service. It generally requires extraordinary skill to concoct a self-consis tent lie, and probably did not a too lazy practice of relying on what is sworn to, interfere, the cases would be few indeed in which falsehood could be palmed off for truth in an English Court. It would be open to counsel to question witnesses on their religious belief so far as it affected their veracity —it would be open to them to adduce evidence that their avowed religious opinions were such as would, in the opinion of the jury, impeach their credibility. The folly lies in rejecting any evidence whatever on account merely of a person's character, instead of letting character and evidence go to the jury together. We do this now continually in the case of witnesses who have taken oaths. There should be one clear rule for all witnesses. Perhaps to conciliate the timid a little—those we mean who think speaking the truth entirely depen dent on the selfish fear of future punishment—it might be allowable to double the punishment in this world of persons who "affirmed" falsely, or who dis believed the existence of a God and of future punish ments. If we accept Mr. WALTER'S natural history of man and beasts, yet even the YAHOOS would be amenable to fear, and in prospect of heavy penal ties would refrain from saying " the thing which is not." Anything the advocates of swearing please, only let them not deprive us of evidence which we can turn at least to some account. _ Elsewhere in our columns this evening will be found a letter from Mr. W. H. BARBER. It is a statement of his case —very frankly put by himself—eminently worthy of consideration. It explains in the clearest manner possible, the way in which he received the £5,000 already paid over to him by her MAJESTY'S Government. That instalment, as we may at once call it, of the pecuniary compensation due to him from the Go vernment,was paid not so very long ago, as many may have been led to imagine. In effect, Mr. BARBER only received the money in 1859, then giv ing a receipt for it, as he tells us now, simply in acknowledgment of that amount. In the very next session, that is no further back than last year (1860) his claim for a final settlement was brought forward in the House of Commons by Sir FITZROY KELLY, Lord DERBY'S late Attorney-General. The validity of the claim in itself is as clear as anything of the kind could well be. Mr. BARBER is endeavouring— not to make money out of his misfortunes, but— simply to be reimbursed by the State to the extent of the money he himself has been actually com pelled to pay away, by reason of the State's unjust ti men n ea n o t cve we s n t have mandoub t condemnation and f ear f u l pun i s h men t o f hi m , while he hi mse lf was a ll t h e wh i le a perfect l y i but! not, T that hthea that a wsee Mr. cannotißAßßEß'S 8 fact, e do n e ota p e b n y s a h t e i o r n il w A i J I E I S I; evs G y et allowed Government. ernm e n b t y . the H o n o e u s e info o or f - Commons— au act of simple justice bei ng thereby o °ll o ll o sterlin g , l ast night no East th e r Indian x 4 ,00 0.1.: 11 111, involving a n advancehe n o e fwa T, duly passed through Committee in ithe Hous e o f Commons. Not, however, with ou t eliciting the avowal of many objections to it from those who (like Col. SYKES) find reason to distrust Mr. LAING's budget, and to condemn his e3timate of expenditure, as framed upon a scale marked by its extravagance, as well as from those who (like Sir HENRY WILLouGHBY) find it difficult not — to express grievous apprehension that great complications must arise from mixing up railway matters with the sufficiently complex and problematical subject of General Indian Finance. Upon the reasonableness of this last-mentioned class of objections we have already ourselveii I conclusion. The House already sees so far as to own that if a man have a religious scruple against taking an oath, he may be relieved from taking it. This scruple is indulged in both criminal and civil cases in regard to Quakers and certain specified sects, and, in regard to civil cases only, the judge may allow all persons who have a religious scruple against taking an oath to make an affir mation. A rather misty horizon this to limit the vision of our elite 658. Affirmation being sufficient precaution for truthfulness in one large class of cases, but not in the other half. Sectarianism is held equivalent to an oath in criminal cases, while accordance with the sectarian opinion on the part of a person who does not belong to the non-swearing sect, does not give his affirmation the value of an oath ; no, not even should he bear on his person the marks of violence which could be in flicted only by a weapon belonging to the villain who had attempted to mutilate and rob him! How can all this square with the ready professions of every member of sincere respect for religious liberty. The fact is, our legislators were mystified by the argument that by the present bill it was not proposed to meet religious scruples, but defect of religion. The Home Secretary rested the weight of his opposition to the bill on this argument. In . the cases in which relief is now given, he argued, in fact, that there was a surplus of belief—the ob jectors were too scrupulous—religious over much; a state of mind which has worked intolerable mis chiefs and cruelty in the world ; still excess of re ,ligious scruple, it is supposed, (especially with the penalties for perjury to keep it sober) might be trusted ; but who could trust the word of a man without any religious faculty—or whose religious sentiments, if so they can be called, evaporate into Atheism, or are attenuated into Pantheism ? The I'member for Berks, Mr. WALTER, reduces such per sons to the same category as Americans do their slaves—they want, he says, the distinguishing cha racteristic between the man and the brute. Ac cording to the oracle from the Dordona of Bearwood, it might be worthwhile for a commission of surgeons to examine the person of Mr. HOLYOAKE, and ascer tain whether in body as well as in mind they could not find in him an illustration of the development theory—whether Fleet-street would not furnish an example of progress from the Gorilla to the subdivision as we should now think it—BIMANA Cuv. We cannot stay—indeed, it is not our pro vince—to argue theologically or metaphysically but we would ask these objectors a question or two. Do they, or do they not believe in moral sentiments, instincts, or faculties—we care little about the term employed—or not; and do they believe in them as a part of human nature ? If they do, then we ask how can they be sure of those instincts being dead even in the heart of an avowed Atheist ? The truth is those sentiments are indestructible. They may be dormant in the mind of a Theist as well as of an Atheist ; but believers in a God and in the Bible must believe in the moral nature of man, and ought to trust it. commented. It is next to impossible not still to regard as a mistake the roundabout method now in vogue at Calcual, by which these imperial loans to Hindostan are reimbursed, through the operations of Indian railway enterprise. As to Mr. LAING'S Budget, on the other hand, upon which we have also remarked in these columns yet more at large than we had after wards occasion to remark upon this projected loan of £4,ooo,ooo—as to Mr. LAING'S very able and in some respects really masterly Budget, Sir CHARLES WOOD himself last evening " admitted that there were some discrepancies in it which it was quite impossible to reconcile with the informa tion before the house," Sir CHARLES adding that " he was more inclined to place reliance upon the official documents, signed by all the members of the council, than upon the speech itself." It is also especially deserving .of note that the right honourable baronet yesterday strongly declared "his general confidence in the present state of Indian finance, and stated that at that moment the balance in the exchequer was one million sterling more than Mr. LAING had estimated last February !" It is only, in fact, he tells us, because of the failure of several of the railway companies to make the pay ments expected of them (a nice prospect for us, Sir HENRY WILLOUGHBY will say, in making the loan !) that there is any necessity at all for this additional loan of £4,000,000. ON THE DEATH OF COUNT CAVOU.R. From Pisgah's summit "Moses" looked upon the Promised Land, Fit Leader for the Alpine race —that Brave and Freeborn Band ; But entrance was denied to Elm, although the object sure; Such is the will of Providence—regarding great "Cavour." While Mountain Passes wail with moans, and Piedmont's tears are shed, Fame's Sunshine, "Endless Memory," now glitters round his Head. Mount Cenis and St. Bernard, with their " Cloud• capt Towers" of Snow, Own " Statesman," more eternal still, to soar o'er them below. J. B. Vicarage, Deddington, Oxon, June 12. RETURN OF THE COURT TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT. —According to present arrangements it is understood that the Royal family will return to Osborne on Saturday, the 29th inst. Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam and family ar rived at Cowes for the summer on the 11th inst. Lord Colville's new yacht Volage met with an accident on Tuesday last while lying in Cowes roadstead, the New Steam Packet Company's vessel the Lord of the Isles having run into her, and carried away her jibboom, and did other damage ; the steamer was so seriously in jured that she had to return to Cowes and land her pas sengers to effect repairs ; it is expected that she will not be able to run in the passage again this week. The Queen has been graciously pleased to approve of the appointment of Caleb David Watson, Esq., of Liver pool, as Persian Vice-Consul. The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton entertained a select party at dinner last evening, at their mansion in Arlington-street. Later in the evening the duchess had an assembly, which was numerously attended. The Duke of Somerset, Captain C. Eden, C. 8., Capt. C. Frederick, Mr. Samuel Whitbread, M.P., Lords of the Admiralty, and Lord Clarence Paget, Secretary, left early yesterday morning for Shoeburyness, in order to be present at a trial of the Armstrong guns of extreme calibre. A marriage is arranged to take place between the Earl of Belmore and Miss Gladstone, daughter of Capt. Gladstone, R.N., and niece of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer. Capt. Egerton, of the Coldstream Guards, eldest son of Sir Philip de Malpas Grey-Egerton, is betrothed to the Hon. Henrietta Denison, eldest daughter of the late Lord Londesborough, and not to one of the daughters of the present peeress. The Earl of Selkirk has arrived at the Burling ton Hotel, from Scotland. JEWISH JUDGES.—It may be remembered that the Prussian Minister of Justice recently declared, by a rescript, that Jews would be admitted to judicial functions. A question now arises as to whether the Jew judges may sit on Saturdays. It is thought likely that the rabbis, who will have to decide, will answer in the affirmative. The Vocal Association will give their sixth and last subscription concert this season, at St. James's Hall, on Wednesday evening next, June 19th, in which they will be assisted by the following eminent artists :—Madlle. Whitty, Madlle. Koch, Signor Belletti, Signor Belart, Signor J. Gareia, and Herr Dalle Astes. Mr. Aptommas, the celebrated harpist, will also appear, after an absence of seven years. The choir of 200 voices will sing several of their most popular madrigals and part songs, under the di rection of M. Benedict. THE COWES AND NEWPORT RAILWAY. The Cowes terminus is nearly finished, and a number of men are employed pulling down the houses in that part of Cross-street over which the line is to run. It is expected to be opened for traffic in August. The Isle of Wight Races are fixed for Tuesday, the 6th NEW o fWES T MINSTERAugust. BRIDGE.—N ear l y the whole of the old bridge of Westminster has been removed, several of the remnants of the piers of the ancient structure having been struck away during the last few days. One side of the bridge has been for some weeks past opened to view, but the other side has been blocked up, owing to the necessity of retaining a portion of the old bridge for the convenience of foot passengers. This will be removed in the course of a few days, and the new bridge of Westminster will,be thrown open in all its integrity, EUPHONIOUS NAMES. —The following list of hard - to-be-pronounced names is added to the diplomatic directory by the arrival in France of the Siamese Em bassy : — Phayasiphiphat, first ambassador ; Pharanaivai, second ambassador; Phranaroug, third ambassador; Phoxai, son of the second ambassador, aged 12; Lernaudie, apostolic missionary interpreter to the Siamese Govern ment. Att iches — Louangimmontri, Naisapvixai, Louang xapsourin, Khounmahasit, Khounsombai, Munchakphichit, Naivat, Naiiem, Naisomboun, Khonnchonchentale, Suite —Naihout, Khouraxasombat, Munnarapakdi, Naiyou, Nainet, Monthanong, Naipia, Munchindarak, Munhan naroug, Naithim, Nainiem, Naidet, Mimphakdisatra, Naisoun. COTTON IN JAMAICA.—We understand that ad vices have just been received from their agent in Jamaica, by the Jamaica Cotton Company, enclosing the first pod of Sea Island cotton that has burst from a tree, planted in November last. The anxiety of the people to plant, and especially the small settlers, appears to be very great, and they are buying up seed in all directions. The agent of the company states that he has employed about one hundred men to clear and burn off land in order to form a new plantation ; and that he will undertake to get 1,000 acres planted without delay, and as to picking it, there will be no want of hands to get in any quantity that money can be found to plant. He has been paying ls. per square chain for cutting down the timber and bush and hoeing clean. The Jamaica papers speak with high approbation of the plan, and hope the company will proceed in the work with vigour, as one greatly required for the employment of hands not fit for sugar plantation. THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.—At the weekly meet ing of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board yesterday, some discussion took place relative to the progress of the works. It was stated that the time for completing the dock works at Birkenhead would have to be extended in conse quence of the inability of Mr. Hartley, the dock engineer to work the great float with only one entrance—viz., that by the Morpeth dock. It was eventually agreed that the docks should be worked with two entrances, the present and the new entrance to the Morpeth dock, until the great north entrance is completed. ICEBERGS.— The steamer New York, which arrived at New York on the 28th of May from Bremen, re ports nu havingmberof icebergs, s o ,n some th of the 9 6 th of themloo f May, in e elta high g 4 h 4,. long. 48, a It is understood that the select committee of share and bond holders of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, appointed in January last, are engaged in consider ing a second report, the con t en t s o f w hi c h wi ll b e of im portance in the present condition of the property. Gold remittances seem likely to continue from the Continent, and these, with the Australian and other arrivals, will probably more than supply all that may be required for America and the East. At present the London rate of discount is on the average twice as high as the Con toonlatiaifavnotsteyteltiwrafial rate. At Hamburg, Amsterdam, and Brussels 3 per cent. is the charge ; at Frankfort it is only lf, and at Paris it is 4f. The report of the South Australian Company, preparatory to their meeting on the 19th inst., states that, 350 i t. satisfactory t oar s a ta t nr yia3c;rfeduinn position. under drought,e h r e c heavy v cultivation Abv ae valuationt losseso affairs i s s u s 2 t o7 a fo in fB l s d t ho ineoi their acres—anmhp r e poa e pn a ey r r l t y yar p oe part increaseri ttnh the 31st of December showed a tot-1 of £153, 154, and the quan lsa;stwyheialre.the gross rental is £27,037, or £271 The land sales in th 1 months have amounttd to £5,014, leaving a profit of £2,722 on the inventory valuations. The net income has been £26,060, out of which the directors recommend the usual dividend of 7 per cent, per annum, which, 'with the year's iuterest pn dejnutwes, will hbsorb £25,817, LAIESL N E W S • THE BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY MORNING. The Moniteur of to-day publishes the usual monthly returns of the Bank of France, which shows the following results, as compared with the May account : INCREASE. Francs. Cash in hand Treasury balance Current accounts DECREASE. Bank-notes Bills discounted, not yet due 51 millions. Advances The Moniteur also says :—" Yesterday their Majesties attended a hunt in the Forest of Fon tainebleau, which lasted three hours." PESTH, JUNE 12 (Evening). The discussion on the paragraphs of the address proposed by M. Deak, the presentation of which to the Emperor had been agreed to in pr!neiple, was continued to-day in the Chamber of Deputies. M. Deak and the members of the Right left the house on the rejection of their proposal to insert certain words in the address in reference to the abdication of King Ferdinand. It is currently reported that M. Deak intends to withdraw his proposed address. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, JUNE 13, In to-day's sitting of the Federal Diet, Prussia proposed the formation of a coast division by Prussia and Hanover, and that those Powers should also form the reserve division. Prussia also communicated her views in refer. ence to the command•in-chief of the Federal army. TURIN, JUNE 13. The Chamber of Deputies has approved of the bill for a railway from Florence to Ancona. The new Ministry took the oath of allegiance to-day. MESSINA, JUNE 12, The French man-of-war Donawerth, with troops, has arrived here from Syria. She will sail again after having been supplied with provisions. The Corps Legislatif, in its sitting of to-day, agreed to the whole Budget by 242 against 5 votes. Although the recognition of the kingdom of Italy by France has not yet become a fait accompli, it may be considered as definitively resolved on. It will take place under certain reservations, so far as Rome is concerned, which for the present will not be the capital of Italy. This does not imply that on the day when it may suit a Pope to concede to the King of Italy the establishment of the seat of his government at Rome, Franee will oppose such an arrangement. The recognition of the Italian kingdom, and the reservations of the French Government, will pro bably be very soon known. FRANCE. BOURSE, June 13.—The market has been less buoyant, and prices show a slight retrograde move ment, as compared with those of yesterday. For the account, Threes, which opened at 68f 10c, are now at 67f 90c. Railways quiet, but firm. The following are the last quotations :- 4f per per Cents ... 96 50 Credit Fonder 987 50 Do end month.... 96 60 I Belgian 4+ 99 60 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 85 Roman Bank Shares 2900 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 697 50 I Spanish Threes soi Do. Account 697 50 I Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1357 50 .. 1360 Northern New ditto B9B 75 .. ' Lyons and Mediterranean 940 .. 941 25 Geneva 4lO .. 410 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard ITALY. The Turin Gazette publishes the following as the text of the telegraphic despatch addressed by Lord J. Russell to Sir J. Hudson on Count Cavour's death :—" The death of Cavour has produced a painful impression in the House of Lords. Due eulogiums have been paid to the memory of that eminent statesman. Express to Minghetti the profound and sincere regret of her Britannic Ma jesty's Government at the news of the irreparable loss which Italy has experienced." SYRIA. BEYROUT, JUNE 2. The Alacrity arrived here last night, and the Greyhound will sail for Malta to-morrow, leaving here the Hannibal, Renown, Mars, Melpomene, Amphion, and Alacrity ; but the French squadron makes a much greater show, for there are six French liners, several smaller ships, and two or three trans ports. The embarkation of the troops is going on ac tively, and I have no doubt that good faith will be kept with our Government. The French troops will be much missed ; they have been well behaved, have secured life and property, and kept money cir culating. They themselves are very glad to go. Some Maronite women made a demonstration last week before the French general, and will pos sibly miss some French friends. I do not think that any serious disturbance will follow the depar• ture of the French, but there are a number of law less ruffians about the country who may give trouble. Our fleet is not very healthy, but the maladies are not serious. FRENCH RECOGNITION OF 2.11 E KINGDOM - OF ITALY. On the subject of the probable recognition by France of the King of Italy, the following corre spondence addressed from Paris to the Universel of Brussels is not without interest : I think it useful to mention that Count Vimer cati, who 1 am convinced is destined to play an im portant part in the negotiations between France and Italy, must not be confounded with ordinary " secret agents." He is an agent officiously accre dited—the confidential medium of communication between the Emperor Napoleon and Victor Em manuel. I can gu aran t ee the entire exactitude of the following particulars of Count Vimercati's in terview with the Emperor at Fontainebleau. The Emperor, after expressing his deep regret at Count Cavour's death, said that Victor Emmanuel and Italy had lost in him an able and devoted servant, the man who best responded to the necessities of the situation, but that Europe had lost in him one of the strongest pillars of a liberal Conservative policy. His Majesty hoped that the new Cabinet would tread in the footsteps of the deceased. " I was obliged," added the Emperor, " as a Catholic Sovereign, to recall M. de Talleyrand when your army invaded the States of the Sovereign Pontiff: I could not do otherwise than protest against the infraction of the law of nations. But now that the grave closes upon Cavour, and that great dangers are to be feared for the Italian cause, you may assure the King of my sympathy, and tell him that our official relations shall very shortly renewed." A Vienna correspondent of the Independance Beige writes in strong confirmation of this account of the present Imperial policy. Advices from Venezuela state that Senor Tovar had resigned the Presdency into the hands of Congress, who had acceptel it, and that Dr. Pedro Gual, the Vice- President, became President in his place. A change of Ministry had also occurred, Dr. Angel Quintero being Secretary of the Interior, General Carlos SoublEtte of War and Marine, and Senor Pedro Hernandez Romero Secre tary of Finance. ..Che Secretariat of Foreign Affairs had not yet been filled up, These last changes seem t 9 I:l4Ye given satisfaction. THE INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. The Overland Mail brings us advises and papers from Calcutta to May 8; Madras, May 14; and Hong-Kong, May 1. _ _ In Calcutta the budget of Mr. Laing retained its popularity, and was regarded as an honest and prac ticable scheme, calculated to restore the national credit and to place financial operations on a firm and secure basis. An attempt on the part of Sir Bartle Frere, by an alteration in the Criminal Procedure Act, to make British residents subject to native magistrates, has caused a great amount of indignation among the Europeans, and a most determined opposition was being exhibited against the proposal. Sir William Denison returned to Madras from Calcutta on the 13th ult. So far as is yet known, the volunteering for the new regiments of the line, formed out of the local European Corps, has been almost universal. A gentleman has been appointed to report on the districts in Bengal which are capable of producing cotton. It is reported that the Madras Chamber of Com merce has applied to government for the services of a gentleman to visit the cotton districts. Ten thousand Shans have, it is reported, emi grated into British Burmah, where they have been allowed to settle. CHINA. There is very little news from China. The most important fact of the fortnight is perhaps that announced by telegraph, of the establishment of the British and French embassies in Pekin. The China Mail says : " The flags of both nations were hoisted in the capital on the 26th March. On the 26th March M. de Bourboulon, attended by an escort of gen dat mes and artillery, and accompanied by Count Kleescowsky and Baron de Meritans his Secretaries of Legation, entered Pekin, and took up his resi dence in the Tartar city, near that of the Russian ambassador. On the following day Mr. Bruce, attended by an escort of Sikh Cavalry and accompanied by Lieutenant-Colonel Neale, his secretary, and Messrs. St. Clair and Wynd ham, attaches of legation, entered the capital, and took up his residence in the neigh bourhood of the other ambassadors. These pro ceedings appeared to be quietly viewed by the populace, and there was every prospect of the foreign representatives meeting with a satisfactory reception. M. de Bourboulon's introduction to Prince. Kung was to take place on the following day ; Mr. Bruce had already been introduced to that dignitary. It has been resolved by the Chinese Government to open schools in Pekin for instruc tion in the English tongue, and it is proposed to send a few Chinese youths to England to acquire our language. By the last advices there is no mention made of the Emperor's return to the capital, although that event is believed to be close at hand. It ap pears that only a very few of the fine collection of books in the Imperial library of the Summer Palace have been saved by Mr. Wade. Fortunately for themselves, the Chinese have three or four duplicates of this collection; so that in burning the Summer Palace Library the loss has chiefly been our own." In Japan matters were going on quietly. From Tien-tsin there is no news of any impor tance. The forces stationed there were in good health, and enjoying the return of spring. The accounts from Shanghae have reference to the fluctuations of the Imperialist and rebel cause. The insurgents have recently made a move in the direction of Hangkowe, it is supposed with a view to take the various places we had marked out as ports. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. HONG-KONG.—The stagnation of business noticed in .our last as ruling in this colony continues without any amelioration, and without any immediate prospect of a better state of things. In the meantime stocks of all descriptions of home manufactures continue to accumulate, and it is extremely probable, unless we soon have an outlet for the same, we shall see forced sales and lower rates than are now current. SHANGHA.E.—Dates are to the 23d April. Business con tinues dull, and it was difficult to effect sales at anything like fair prices. Fears of the insurgents fill the mind of the trader, and restrict his operations to local waits. AUSTRALIA. By this arrival we receive intelligence from Mel bourne to April2s,. Sydney to April 24, from Ade laide to April 26. There was no change in the political situation at Melbourne. Parliament had been engaged during the month in discussing questions arising out of the estimates. The house had voted a sum of £79,000 for immigration for the current year. Ministers had assented to the second reading of the bill for the abolition of the duty on gold, but had stated that they would endeavour in committee to fix the amount of duty at ls. per once, leaving the reduc tion to commence in 1862. It was thought this proposition would be agreed to. Ministers had introduced a bill for the better administration of law on the gold fields. The bill to abolish state aid to religion was to come on in a day or two. Major-General Pratt had received the thanks of the house for his services in the New Zealand war. Of the gold fields the 3/elbourne _Herald writes : " The total amount of gold brought to town by escort during this year up to date has been 545,036 ounces, which at £4 per ounce would be worth £2,180,144, against 585,695 ounces for the corresponding period of last year, worth £2,342,780. The shipments for the same periods amounted to 601,138 ounces for 1861, valued at 2,404,552 against 571,288 ounces, valued at £2,285,158. During the past month the escorts have shown a slight falling off as com pared with last year, the numbers being 141,079 and 150,451 ounees s r h es o p w e e e d tiv a ely , while considerableduring ex t c h m excessthe, s e s: a th e e periodthere ha vi t n h g e beship ments been 169,107 ounces expected last month, instead of 124,849 ounces as in 1860. "There have been no new rushes of much importance dur ing the month, and with the exception of some floods, by which a considerable amount of damage was done, nething has occurred to interrupt the even tenor of life upon the gold fields. The accounts from Mountain Creek are very satisfactory, and the late supply of water has been taken advantage of to wash a considerable amount of stuff, much of which has turned out extremely rich. The event of the month, so far as the gold fields are concerned, has been the attention which has been paid to several new discoveries, having for their object the utilisation of " tailings," as quartz from which the gold has been partially extracted is termed by the gold miner. In our last summary we gave an account of Mr. Porter's patented process of abstracting gold from quartz by amalgamation, from which so much was then expected. Repeated trials of this process have since been made with more or less success, and one or two other processes have been brought into competition with it." Respecting commercial and monetary matters we read : There is little of stirring moment to report in commercial affairs during the past month. Trade has been quiet, and fluctuations have been few. There hare been no great changes in our money market during the last month. From Sydney we learn that the Upper House was still further altering the Land Bills, so that the Government will probably abandon them. An address had been voted in the Assembly for £50,000 for assisted immigration. At the meeting on April 24 of the Bank of New South Wales a dividend of 15 per cent. was an nounced. It was decided to open an establishmen . in New Zealand. The South Australian Parliament was opened on April 26. The Governor's speech is of a cheering character. He says : _ . __ _ I shall cause to be laid before you a despatch received from the Duke of Newcastle, stating that her Majesty will be advised to introduce a bill into the Imperial Parliament to give her Majesty power to annex to South Australia the tract of land lying between our western boundary and the eastern boundary of Western Australia; and also, at some future time, to extend this colony northward," The Adelaide corn market continued quiet, at former quotations ; the supplies being hardly equa to the demand. The cargo of sugar ex Stag, f r om Mauritius, rea li s ed good prices by auction. THE RHODODENDRONS IN KEW GARDENS.— During the month of Juno nothing can be more glorious than the fine show of rhododendrons, their soft tints ranging from Crimson to pink, and from the richest puce through every shade of lilac, to the purest snowiest white—their prodigality of blcssorn—the cloud-like roundness of their forms, fading and melting into each other in the artistic arrangement of their hues, is a lovely sight under the sun shine of a summer's day. Then there are mingling with them, here and there, orange and pink and white azalias— reminding us of Xenophon and mountains of Asia Minor. which he tells us are covered with these lovely plants, ii the hearts of which lurk poison. Honey, gathered from them in these regicals, it 18 eaid, utaito4 thooo who cat of it tad, This 1-7 MI etween 8 an , 9 a.m. Nairn Aberdeen Leith Berwick Ardrossan Portn,sh Shields . Galway .....,.. Searborough Liverpool., Queenstown.. 1 armouth--- London .... .. .over ......... 'ortinnouth 'ortland 'l.ymouth S. E. S. E. E. S. E. E. S. E. I enzanee Jersey ... E.S.E. S.E. CLOSE OF THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND. (From the Melbourne Argus of April 27.) During the truce, which commenced on the 13th and ended on the 15th of March, terms were offered to the native rebels by Governor Brown in the following address : " Ilapurona and Ngatiawa,—For 12 months you have been carrying arms against her Majesty tli p e Queen and the authority of the law. You have now laid down your arms, and expressed your desire for peace. Believing you to be sincere, I have come from Auckland for the purpose of stating the terms upon which it will be granted, and upon which her Majesty's gracious pardon and protection will be extended to you. They are as follows :-1. The investiga tion of the title and the surve3 of the land at Waitara to be continued and completed without interruption. 2. Every man to be permitted to state his claims without inter ference, and my decision, or the decision of such persons as I shall appoint, to be conclusive. 3. All the land in possession of her Majesty's forces belonging to those who have borne arms against her Majesty to be disposed of by me as I may think fit. 4. All guns belonging to the Go vernment to be returned. 5. All plunder taken from the settlers to be forthwith restord. 6. The Ngatiawa who have borne arms against the Government must submit to the Queen and to the authority of the law, and not resort didforce to n o f t o r useth e r f or e c d e r e for s s the e a wrongs, cqui r i e o a ornl of land,ima imaginary, yf; the 7 As Vi l_ dication of the law and for the protection of her Majesty's native subjects in the exercise of their just rights, I shall divide the land which I have stated my intention to dispose of among its former owners, but I shall reserbe the sites of the blockhouses and redoubts, and a small piece of land round each, for the public use, and shall exercise the right of making roads through the Waitara district. On your submission to these terms you will come under the protec tion of the law, and enjoy your property, both lands and goods, without molestation." Those terms were not accepted, and on the 15th. hostilities were renewed. On that morning 370 men of the 57th and 65th advanced to the front, and divided into working parties and coverers. The sap leading to Te-Arei was resumed, and. a branch sap carried from No. 8 redoubt to sweep the rifle pits on the verge of the valley. About 7 o'clock Captain Mercer arrived from. Waitara, with 60 of the Royal Artillery, three Armstrong guns, and two 8-inch and two 10-inch mortars. All our works went on without the slightest sign of opposition from the enemy until 11 o'clock, when th e w hi te flag was lowered from. the Maori staff, and replaced by a blood-r e d war flag. In a f ew m i nutes it was lowered, and one solit ar y s h ot from the natives in vited to th e com b at. Th e troops were not yet allowed to reply, and the Maories, after hoisting and lowering their war flag three times, opened fire in good earnest, and poured volleys from their pits. Our fire was excellent, and fearfully destructive. The firing continued throughout Saturday and Sun day, and up till 5 o'clock, when it ceased, and the natives yielded again, and this time finally, hoisting the white flag. The Waikatos retreated to their own country, owing to a loss of 300 out of 1,500 men, and Wiremu Kingi retired, though without accepting the terms offered. These results are announced in the following letter from th e Governor : " New Plymouth, April 9. " Sir,--In reference to the terms of submission offered by his Excellency the Governor to the insurgents of the Ngatiawa tribe at Waitara, a copy of which was enclosed to you on-the 4th inst., I have the honour to inform you that, as finally decided upon, they contained an additional sen tence to the following effect In conformity with the dee claration made on the 29th November, 1859, the right of those who may prove their title to any part of the piece of land at Waitara will be respected. " I have also to inform you that the terms laid down by his Excellency have been accepted by Hapurona and his followers. " Wiremu Kingi, after having declared that the Gover nor's words were clear, and endeavoured to induce his Ex cellency to make peiee first, and discuss the terms after wards, has finally left Waitara Waikato, with a small number of followers, without accepting the terms, from the benefit of which he will consequently be excluded, accord ing to a notification previously communicated to him. " I may further state that his Excellency the Governor has despatched messages to the Taranaki and Ngatiruanui tribes, informing them that if they desire peace they must immediately come forward, in which case he will be pre pared to state to them terms upon which he will accept their submission. " I have, &0., "F. A. WELD. " To his Honour the Superintendent of Taranaki." General Cameron arrived on the 30th at Waitara, and proceeded on to Auckland, Major-General Pratt left Waitara on the 3d of April, in her Majesty's ship Victoria, and arrived at Melbourne on the 12th inst. On his return to Melborne, to reassume the command of the forces in Australia, the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly resolved to present addresses to the Major-General, compli menting him for his gallant services in New Zea land. The address of the Assembly was presented on the 23d inst., in the chamber of the Assembly, the standing orders having been suspended for the purpose. The Speaker, Sir Francis Murphy, read the following address :-- "Major-General Pratt,—ln pursuance of the unanimous vote of this house, the pleasing duty devolves upon me of conveying to you the thanks of the house for your gallant services in New Zealand, and our congratulations upon your safe return to this colony. You have conducted to a successful issue the operations of a war of a peculiarly try ing and harassing nature, the difficulties of which, I am well assured, have been but ill-understood at a distance, and it is a proud satisfaction to your country to know that, under such circumstances, the reputation of the B r i t i s h arms has been sustain e d by you and the b rave men you commanded with a distinguished y and navy o f E ng l an d . valour a n d sp i r i t worthy of the historic ren own of the arm " I have t o request, Major-eneral, that will the thanks o f thi s House to the officers and soldiers convey of all alms, as well as to Commodore Seymour and the naval forces under his command engaged in this war, for their intrepe dity and zeal, and that you will assure them of the high sense this House entertains of their bravery and of its deep sympathy with the widows and children of those who have so gloriously fallen in the service of their country, " An unintentional omission has occurred in the proceed ings of the House, from our being unaware at the time that the colonial armed steamship Victoria had not been placed under the orders of Commander Seymour. It would ill be come me, on such an occasion as the present, to overlook the gallant volunteers of the Victoria, or for me to avoid the responsibility which I now assume in asking of you, Major- General, to present the thanks of this House to Commander Norman, and the officers and crew of the Victoria, for the nyo rimtt r a lasnt du ty, and conspicuous courage and ready energy which they have on all occasions so eminently displayed during this war, both by land and by sea." Major-General Pratt replied in the following terms Mr. Speaker—l beg to return you my most sincere thanks for the honour done me in your conveying to me the thanks of this House for my services in New Zealand, and its congratulations upon my return. Sir, at any time this would have been an honour most . highly prized by me, but under existing circumstances it 1 . 1 . 3 to me, at this moment, most acceptable, and the grati tion is much enhanced by my being permitted to return my thanks in person at the bar of this House, ur and " You have also delegated to me a most pleas i ng and I shall not fail to convey to Commodore entertains of the Royal Naval Brigade, and to Command.eser Se ymour earn the officers and the crew of her Majesty's vessel Victoria, and to the officers in the war in New Zealand, their bravery and good services the high sense which this honourable he widows and families and soldiers hou co of all of and of its deep sympathy with t Ith service o eir country during those who have fallen in the the war." THE WEATHER. METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS. . M. N w SA*. S. E. E. S. E. i 4 c' ' : E XYLANATION s -13. Barometer, corrected and reduced to 32 deg at unan sea level ; each 10 feet of vertical rise causing abeut 1-100th of an inch diminution, and each 10 leg above 32 deg causing nearly 3-100ths increase. E. Exposed thermometer in shade. M. Moistened bulb (for vaporation and, dew-point). D. Direction of wind' (true-- ot magnetic). F. Force (I to 12—estimated). C. Cloud Ito 9). I. Initials :—b , blue sky; c., clouds (detached) ; ~ fog. ; h,, hail ; 1., lightning ; m., misty (hazy) , 0., , vercast (dull) ; r., lain; s., snow; t., th un d er. A letter repeated augments—thus, r.r., much rein, S. Sea disturb. AtICO (1 to 9),