The Sun. — London, England, 1861-07-05 00:00:00

NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION.— C. F. HANCOCK, Jeweller and Silversmith to the QueLn, 3), Bruton-stree t , Bond-street, having been selected by the C)mmittee to make the "BADGE" to be worn by the Members ot the " National Rifle Association," begs respectfully to inform them that it may be procured at his Establishment, or on the grounds at Wimbledon, in SILVER, price 7s. lid., and in GOLD ENAMELLED, price Three Guineas. TLIEA TRE.B.OYAL, HAYMARKET. L e sAee., Mr. J. B. Bttotstone. TTITS EVENIN(4, the perforrannops will sorarnsnee with THE MIDDY ASHORE. Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. After which THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Chas. Mathews, Bitckstone, E. Villiers, Rogers, /to. ; Mrs. Wilkins, Mrs. C. Mathews, and Miss E. Weekes. Followed by TAKING BY STORM. Mr. C. Mathews. And THE GALICIAN FETE. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the new comic drama, entitled HOMESTEAD STORY, Messrs. Ryder Shoro, and Miss M. Harris. Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Sup ported by Hermann Vezin, Ryder, Meadows, dm ; Misses Beath, Elsworthy, and R. Leclercq. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. ItiTHIS EVENING MR. GORILLA. Messrs. J. G. Toole, P. Bedford. Billington ; Miss Kate Kelly, Miss E. Thorne. After which (224th time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. D. Boucleault. D. risuer, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. 'C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard. Ward ; Mrs. Boncicault, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with the successful new Farce, entitled A TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole. Mr. P. Bedford. Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. CANTRD Y -H ARTS GALLERY.ALL COCERTS AND N EVERY EVENING, Two Grand Selections from celebrated Ope ras . includin g Verdi's new O. THE BAL MASQUE (first produced in England at this Establishment). with a Chorus of Forty Voices, and upon a scale unequalled at any other Concerts. Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Greville, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, Mr. Bernard ; popular Solos on the Cornet-a-piston, by sir. Levy (the first performer of the day) ; the Brothers Conrad (in an entirely original entertainment on the double rope, not to be seen elsewhere); continued success of Mr. Wood and his talented little Son. The Comic Department comprises the following favourites: —Mr. Marshall, Mr. Hollingsworth; the NERVES, by Messrs. Harvey and French ; and Mrs. Lawrence. Musical Director, Mr. JONGHMANS. 0 X F O R D, 8, OXFORD-STREET. This noble building being now completed, its architectural beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and brilliancy of lighting render it one of the sights of the metropolis. Open Every Evenicp;. The prozramme is varied, and includes Selections (by a full company of principals, powertul band, and chorus) from " Macbeth" and "Un Ballo in Maschera." both Solo operas by Verdi, the composer of the day—The wonderful son the Cornet-a-Piston of the renowned LEVY—Scotch Duets by the Misses Stuart, and other vocal and instrumental music of the highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The Comic portion of the entertainment is supported by Miss Green, Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey, and French (the Nerves), W. H. Wieland, E. Marshall, and W. Randall. Admission, Hall, sixpense ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private sr Boxes, 108. Bd. T H E HIGa WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tam DAY.—Morning,, h. m.—Afternoon, 12h. 6m. To-aonao - vr.-Morning, 12h. 35m.—Afternoon, 1211.55 m. THE WEATHER.—SUN Olpica, JULY 5, 1861. THERMOMBTER, IN THB SHADE. 67—highest since noon yesterday. 53—lowest this morning and during the night. 67—this day at noon. BA ROM rrtn-29.39. WlND—South-Westerly; fresh, with variable weather rain and sunshine, with heavy clouds. ~~~ ~C~r ,• `ll~~ 4- 9 ?, - V I , i, - • • . o ~ ~~i ' . • it r -- ~- THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1861. Galway is looking up—the " Atlantic Royal Mail Steamship Adriatic" has made the voyage in five days from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Gal way. We are not indeed quite sure whether the wires are restored and that we have the full benefit of the rapid passage, but it shows what can be done. The latest news reaches to the 28th. It consists chiefly of details for which we refer to the telegrams. Gunboats on the Potomac and the rebels appear to have frequent skir mishes, and other small engagements unimportant to the general result have taken place. The Federal Government has recognised the new Provisional Government of Virginia, which or ganised itself on account of the treason of the old Government to retain Virginia in the Union. The war in Virginia is now, therefore, against only the Eastern part, and the Federal forces under General M'LELLAND aro cooperating actively with the Western Virgi nians. In the Border States the Union cause is gaining strength rapidly. Maryland has had her elections for Congress, and the Union men, after all, have a large majority. In Missouri the Unionists were numerous also, and General LYON has met promptly, and thus far successfully, the attempt of the traitor Governor to raise a large army. Probably the remainder of the Kansas Ruffians will, however, fight fiercely there. At present, indeed, in fierce skirmishing and guerilla fighting, the re bele have had the best of it, but in regard to the i nain movements they are percepti bly retreating av the Northerns advance. The 4th of Juiy had, as we anticipated, its com memoration here as well as in America, though some doubt appears to have been entertained as to the propriety o f holding it in so sad a year of the States' history . The view taken, however, was quite right—that for Americans abroad to have been silent this year would have been to " send the chill of death to their brethren at home, and bt, n'xt door to treason." The tone of the meeting was all we could wish. The chairman, the eloquent Dr. PATTON, of New York (an able letter from whom recently appeared in The Sun), prayed at the commencement of the breakfast for the extinction of slavery, and stated well and tersely the principles essential to liberty which Ihad been: violated by the North. Two English Dissenting clergymen, one of them the Hon. and Rev. BAPTIST NOEL, spoke well also at the meeting, and. the effect of the whole will be good on the feeling between this country and America. We A.re pleased to observe that in many quarters the absurd misunderstanding of English views and feelings is giving place to juster notions, rind we quite expect that, ere Ling, it will be , owned that our Government could not have acted more justly, humanely, and wisely. !Wonders will certainly never cease—who would have believed in a LEVER, powerful enough to lift the Austrian Empire itself out of all its difficulties ? Yet such is the announcement. In our youthful studies on the mechanical powers we learned some lines as aids to memory which we have found so ustful, that we think we remember them even now —and thus thcy ran— " Of lever r rowers the different kinds are three, The first it steelyards and in scales we see; The best, a second, is the Miller's lift, Where poN zer and fulcrum to each end you shift; But in the third, the worst of all, my friend, You find ¢l Le weight and fulcrum at each end." A fourth kind having, however, been found out we must ventu re an add i t i on to the o ld di st i c h es — and it may run thu.3 " Still of a fourth the Austrian Court can tell, That lever' s name is LizvEß—JanN ORRELT.." Our readers ma y perhaps remember that they have heard of it bei'ore. Its stupendous powers were tried in connect ion with a certain Galway Company, which, indeed, ammo to grief, n o t h owever throug h any deficiency in the machinery, but through the base Whig Savanacbs, who, however, nearly cam e to Grief themselves for their atrocious demand that an Irish C om p Any should fulfil its cont ract. Our readers may wish to know a little a b out the application of this potent agency to Austria. For two shillings and sixpence, by applying to Mr. E. STANFORD, Charing Cross, they may know as much as we do. For that sum they may purchase a pam- phlet whose title reads thus—" Austria, her position and prospects—by JOHN ORRELL LEVER, M.P." It must be of use to nearly all Englishmen, for its first chapter is headed " Erroneous Impressions Respecting the Government and People of the Austrian Empire ;" and we need not say how much we owe to those who undertake kindly to efface erroneous impressions. We have looked through the chapter, however, and we cannot discover what 3 impressions" are erroneous. We are told, indeed that " our usually keen and far-seeing merchants and manufacturers, who hunt up buyers in every part of the world, seem to have been totally blind to the capabilities of this near neighbour, and to the advantages to be derived from the extensive use of the productions and commodities which she possesses in. such quantities." But we were not aware before that blindness was an "srnprestion." We are told in like manner of "misconceptions , " but not what they are; and of profound" igno rance," but ignorance of what, is not mentioned. We have indeed a rehearsal of the productions of Austria, including the kingdom of Hungary, and of its capabilities for indefinite increase of these productions, but we were most certainly not igno rant of all this. Our conception, however, was that the tyranny and sluggishness combined of the Austrian Government was the chief reason why the Empire was so miserably unproductive with every natural facility for becoming the reverse, and the pamphlet does not show this to be a " miscon ception," indeed it almost directly justifies it. The writer says :—" Hitherto Austria has not made the best of her opportunities for advancement and pro sperity. Her people have not derived from the various elements of wealth, civilisation, and power, with which the Empire abounds, the results they are capable of producing, They have buried their treasure instead of using it, and to this many of the inconveniences from which they have long suffered must be attributed." Just so. We have only understood Austriabut too well. Further on he remarks—" We shall find that no modern State has advanced so slowly as Austria I" True again. True as the Gospel, against which the HAPSBURGS fought so long under Jesuit leadership, But the fifth chapter tells us that Austria is now a penitent, and amending her ways. " She has undergone a great change." Our author is as smitten as Mr. ROEBUCK was, with the paper Con stitutions shown him at Vienna. Here are the fruits of Austrian penitence— " The diploma of the 20th of Oct., followed as the natural result of the investigations and deliberations of the Reichs rath. Taxation, the making of laws, and all questions of imperial policy are placed under the control of the imperial Legislature, whilst to the provincial diets the regulation of subjects that relate exclusively to the provinces are en trusted. Thus Constitutional Government, on a broad and liberal basis, is established. This is not a mere juggling with freedom, not the shadow without the substance, not a solemn mockery, but a real reform; and the manner in which it bas been received by the people of Austria proves that its advantages are clearly appreciated. Keeping in view the imperative necessity of preserving the unity of the empire, the Government have laboured zealously at the good work of restoration. They have not suffered them selves to be deluded by senseless cries for changes that lead to revolution, but have endeavoured to obtain practical re sults from a thoroughly sound and practical reform." On this we have only to remark that this diploma was, in regard to the Kingdom of Hun gary, whatever it might be in reference to the other nationalities, as arbitrary, illegal, and revo lutionary an act as any for which our STUARTS brought on themselves decapitation or exile. In regard to that kingdom—that is, in regard to the most important part of the domains over which FRANCIS JOSEPH has a hereditary title of sove reignty—the diploma was "a mere juggling with freedom," " shadow without substance," " a solemn mockery," instead of "real reform." It attempted to create "a Unity of the Empire" in the case of Hungary as flagrantly illegal and insolent as the incorporation of Poland by Russia—indeed, more so. Instead of the Hungarian being guilty of " senseless cries for changes that lead to revolu tion," it is precisely the authors of the diploma of the 20th of October who are amenable to that charge. By an arbitrary stroke of his pen, the revolutionary tyrant and his abettors coolly and complacently think they are authorised to subvert a real national constitution which has lasted a thou sand years, and to offer as a substitute the paper thing of yesterday, which Messrs. ROEBUCK and LEVER could put in their pockets. We are told of the people's interest in the Royal . family, and the sympathy and feeling evinced for the young QUEEN. Why, yes; we in England felt for the poor young female; we lent her our Royal yacht ; and we may suppose the Viennese would show more sympathy than stran gers ; but when we read that " the Emperor of AUSTRIA is regarded as the father of his people," we should like to know of which of his peoples ? Is he so regarded at Presburg, Pesth, and Arad ? Is he so regarded at Hermanstadt, or even at Agram? Have even the Tyrolese shown themselves quite satisfied with his paternal tenderness ? or did our author pass through Venetia, and find the inhabi tants but too happy in the kindness which sent them the gentle BENEDEK, and a couple of hun dred thousand soldiers, to ward off the liberty for which they so ungratefully sigh ? It is time, however, that we should just mention the main object of the pamphlet. The writer has found in regard to Austria what ARCHIMEDES dis covered for the world. He has a standing-place and a fulcrum. English capital, English alliance with Austria gives him a footing, and the fulcrum Is, what the reader wou ld o f c o ur se expect from the writer, a Line Steam-packet company—This time " A of Steamships from Trieste to England !! The writer fears that Austrian Financiers may want boldness, but he tells them that by " Liberal sub ' sales (of course) they ought to encourage the for mati• n of steamshiplines and telegraph companies," and, he should have added—to be very particular in respect to paying the subsidy, but not meanly exacting in regard to the fulfilment of the terms of the contract. Such of our readers as may wish to take shares in an Austrian Steamship C ompany we must refer to the pamphlet itself. For ourselves w e would rather throw our money into the Adriatic at once, than into an Austrian company. A State which the writer shows to be utterly insolvent ; a State which cannot bring itself to renounce its despotic determination to make constitutions in, of abiding by those which age and treaties have consecrated; a State which aims to crush Hungarian liberties on one side, and Italian liber ties on the other; a State which ignores both con ditions of commercial and industrial science—free trade and freedom—such a State we would not trust with a single sovereign. Let her make her self trustworthy first. Alarming accounts come to us this forenoon by telegram from St. Petersburg. They evidence a very critical condition of affairs, both financial and commercial, in the Russian autocracy. According to the Borsen Zeitung of yesterday— " The proprietors of the principal mining esta blishments and cotton mills are greatly embar rassed. Sugar-houses ask for subsidies amount ing to several millions of roubles. The great manufacturers are beginning to close their works; THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 5, 9 'B6l. the largest distilleiies and many industrial establish ments are either sinking or have already suspended business; several companies arc winding up their affairs; shareholders in large concerns are dis- posing of the best shares at a loss of 50 per cent." Certainly enough and to spare, here, of mer cantile and financial sources of embarrassment to the Muscovite Government. To say nothing of the political sources of embarrassment accompanying all this dire confusion in the commercial world in the western provinces of that vast empire, the countries peopled by the Poles ! Close upon the heels of this last Polish agitation come these threatenings of bankruptcy, of diminished labour, of withdrawn wage s,with portents of yet more dreadful evils in the future, evils absolutely certain to supervene upon these troublous times, in the shape of scarcity and disease, it may even be in the end of famine and pestilence! All this, of course—unless, unless there be contrived some timely interposition either of the Government, roused for once from its dispotic in difference, or—of Divine Providence ! It is not an ordinary foreshadowing of peril to the Russian community this intimation of the Borsen Zeitung of yesterday. That intimation—announcing to the world not so much rumours only as actual events that have already taken place, or that are taking place—is, without any extravagance of phrase, one in truth of the most alarming character. Mining establishments—cotton mills—sugar houses —manufactories—industrial enterprises of various kinds, are all thus spoken of as grievously embar rassed ; as asking eagerly, despairingly, for enor mous subsidies, " subsidies amounting to several millions of roubles ;" as closing their works ; as suspending business ; as visibly sinking or even winding up their affairs with a panic-stricken pre cipitation. " Several Companies," it will have been remarked, the Borsen Zeftung speaks of as coming to an end prematurely as Companies : the " share holders" in certain " large concerns" [a very free translation, doubtless for the benefit of the telegraph officials, from the original phrase in the St. Peters burg journal]—the shareholders in certain "large concerns" there being in effect so panic-stricken individually that " they are disposing of the best shares at a loss of 60 per cent.," or (we sup pose) thereabouts. At any rate, whether with sufficient cause or not, the mercantile com munity at the other extremity of Europe is quite manifestly at this moment full of anxious foreboding and trepidation. And, mean while, the Russian autocracy, stricken thus with financial confusion and mercantile embarrassment within, is being eaten into by a political gangrene at one of its extremities. Much, in fact, as the same direful combination is revealing to us, has long been revealing to us the Austrian despotism in extremis. Fiscal and financial confusion, a con fusion that is ever becoming "worse and worse confounded," may of course be spoken of with perfect accuracy as the normal condition, as the chronic anguish of the Austrian Exchequer. But, in addition to that, in itself most perilous affliction, the KAISER'S Government has of late had the Hungarian gangrene festering and enlarging at one of its extremities. Whatever the sequel of this present crisis may be among the mercantile classes in Russia—there unquestion ably is that crisis fully upon them, and that more over, as a melancholy coincidence would have it, simultaneously with the pressure of the present weighty Polish anxiety upon the Imperial Govern ment. The Emperor ALEXANDER 11. appears to have fallen, indeed, upon evil days—and that, moreover, at a juncture the most deplorably unexpected. For it will be yet remembered, it is not probable, in fact, that it will be very soon forgotten—that it was but upon the very morrow of the Emancipation of the Serfs throughout the Russian Empire that the streets of Warsaw were dyed red with the blood of its unarmed Polish citizens, men, women, and chil dren, cruelly slaughtered without the smallest pro vocation by the soldiers of GORTSCHAKOFF. ALEX ANDER may yet extricate himself from the "slough of despond" into which his councils have been latterly sinking—but these latest tidings from the metropolis of his vast Empire indicate rather ominously that the urgency for some attempt at least at this extrication are rapidly becoming, in truth, very imminent. Testimonials have long since become so popular that by an inevitable reaction they are latterly becoming unpopular. There are occasions, how ever, when public feeling can find no happier expression than in the getting up of yet another Testimonial. There is one movement of the kind now on foot that we ourselves do most certainly regard with very great sympathy, and one that we are anxious to promote at once by the earnestness and cordiality of our advocacy of it. We mean the one which was commenced only yesterday down at the Mansion House, when, under the presidency of the Lord Mayor, a goodly gathering of the citizens of London assembled there to inaugurate what we trust will soon be known far and wide, and long remembered when completed as The BRAIDWOOD Testimonial. The origin of this generous effort on the part of the public to commemorate the merits of a good and zealous public servant was fully expressed in the long-winded resolution (the lstlresolution)—pro posed yesterday by Mr. TIiE, M.P. for Bath, and Architect of the Royal Exchange, and seconded by Dr. CUMMING, the popular Scotch preacher, one of whose congregation the eminent public servant, deceased, had been during several years past. This resolution, inti mating plainly but dully, through a rather tedious flux of words, " That it is the opinion of this meet ing that tho high character, and long and useful services of the late James Braidwood, C.E., the founder and superintendent of the London Fire Brigade, taken in connection with the painful circumstances under which he lost his life in the gallant discharge of his duties at the great fire of the 22d June last, [and further sup ported by the consideration that the community at large may be justly said to have shared for many y su ea g r atin s es inth g e advantages arising from the devotion o f his talents and services to the single purpose of and promoting the means of adding both to the security of life and property], render it expedient and proper that the profound regret manifested by all classes at his loss should find ex pression by means of a public subscription, to be applied to the benefit and advancement of his children and sisters." The passage which we have marked off with brackets in this one comprehensive but otherwise adm ira b l e r esolution, we cannnot but think might have been left out with advantage. And we think this and avow this to be our thought the more readily, because the opinion expressed in the passage thus indicated is in itself so entirely superfluous. The truth it enunciates is so per fectly well kLown, is so literally notorious. Of it reason, good and valid reason t o bear Mr. we might say indeed — cela va sans dire! We B al it l h A a l v D e . WOOD'S name in our grateful remembrance—Wc, the 2,998,000 (according to the new census) or (to speak in round numbers) the 3,000,000 inhabitants of London and Westelfuget' have ample reason, We repeat, to do so. And it ;s. Pecans() of this, that we count confidently upon the Tar.. completion upon a munificent scale of the " good work" of raising among all elasses funds for the completion of the BRAIDWOOD Testimonial. Perishing as Mr. BRAIDWOOD did, bravely in the discharge of his duties, he should have this Testi monial, for he deserved it. TIE ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—At a meeting of the Ethnological Society on Tuesday last, owing to a gross personal at tack on me by an individual present, apparently one of those who have for a month past inces santly persecuted me by casting doubt upon my veracity, I deeply regret that, in a moment of great irritation, I was guilty of conduct most unbecoming, which is peculiarly contrary to the usages of society, and which I was never before guilty of. I hope, therefore, you will allow me, through the columns of your widely-circulated paper, to express my deep and sincere apology for what occurred. I have also felt myself bound to apologise to the members of the Ethnological Society through their President.—l remain, sir, your obedient servant, 129, Mount-street. T. B. CHAILLU. REMOVAL OF THE COURT TO OSBORNE.—Yes terday afternoon her Majesty, his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, and the royal family, accompanied by the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia (Princess Royal), attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, arrived by special train on the South-Western line at the Royal Clarence-yard, Uosport, en route for Osborne. Her Majesty and the royal party immediately embarked on board the royal screw yacht Fairy, Capt. the Hon. J. Denman, and left for Osborne, under the usual loyal demonstrations from the men-of-war and batteries of the fortifications. As the Fairy steamed out of the harbour at 5 30 p.m. a strong southerly gale was blowing, and as she crossed Spithead she rolled heavily, and storm trysails were set to steady her. The gale had been blowing, accompanied by incessant rain, from 11 a.m., and one of Negretti and Zambra's sea-coast barometers had fallen to 29 35. Shortly after her Majesty had crossed to Osborne the rain ceased, and the wind, veering round to west, became more moderate. _ _ VISIT OF lIER MAJESTY TO IRELAND.—We under stand it is the intention of her Majesty the Queen to visit Ireland towards the latter end of August. Her Majesty will remain four or five days at the Viceregal Lodge, in the Phoenix-park, and will probably visit the camp at the Cur ragh of Kildare ; thence she will make an excursion to the Lakes of Killarney. Her Majesty's visit being of a private character, as was the case in 1853, no public receptions or ceremonies are contemplated. HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY.—•To-morrow, being the day appointed for the celebration of the forty-second birthday of her Most Gracious Majesty, business will be wholly suspended at the Customs, the Excise, the various docks and bonded warehouses, the Bank, the Admiralty, Horse Guards, Ordnance-office, and Somerset-house, and partially at the Post-office. An inspection of the House hold Brigade of infantry will take place at 10 o'clock, on the Parade in James's-park, by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. According to advises from all parts of France, it appears certain that the harvest this year will be three weeks earlier than last year. THE LOSS OF LIFE AT THE GREAT FlRE.—There is believed to be too much truth in the rumour of a large loss of life having taken place during the calamitous fire at Cotton's-wharf, on the night of Saturday and the morning of Sunday week, as since then numerous applications have been made (the majority of them by females who have lost their husbands) at the police stations in the district of Southwark Police-court, for their missing relatives. Some bodies have been found in the river, and a description of the dress of the persons found has been posted at the doors of the police stations, which has led to their being discovered by their friends. A few days ago the body of a well-dressed man was found near St. Saviour's Church. He had on a black frock coat, a silk vest, &c. He was about 5 ft. 5 in. high, and about 50 years of age. The bodies lie at the dead house of St. Saviours Church. THE WAKEFIELD PROSECUTIONS FOR BRIBERY. —We are informed that, at the forthcoming assizes at York (which will open on the 9th inst.). indictments for misdemeanour will be preferred by the Crown against Mr. Mr. John Dodgson Charlesworth, the late Conservative candidate for Wakefield, and Archibald Crowther, one of Mr. Charlesworth's supporters. It is understood that Mr. John Barff Charlesworth, the cousin of the candidate, and who was put upon his trial at the last assizes, will not be again indicted; but Mr. J. L. Fernandes, now suffering imprisonment for contempt of court, will be brought up by habeas corpus, to give evidence against the candidate. The causes will be heard before lir. Baron Martin, and probably in the second week of th 3 commission. The counsel for the prosecution are the Attorney-General, Mr. Overend, Q.C., Mr. Monk, Q.C., Mr. Cleasby, Q.C., and Mr. West. —Manchester Guardian. DURHAM ELECTION.—The writ was received in Durham on Wednesday morning, and was proclaimed at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. As three clear days must inter vene between the proclamation of the writ and the election, the nomination will consequently not take place until Mon day. Sir W. Atherton is not expected to arrive in Durham until Friday, and will probably address the electors on that evening. Strenuous efforts are being made by one or two individuals to get up an opposition to the return of Sir W. Atherton, but they are not countenanced in their endeavours by any considerable section of the conservative party. They have given it out that they are in correspondence with Lord Loughborough, a son of Lord Rosslyn, to allow himself to be put in nomination. A requisition is said to have been sent round, but it has failed to receive the sanction of any influential members of the party, who have declined to com mit themselves to any such ill-considered proceeding. The matter is therefore likely to fall to the ground.—Newcastle Chronicle. REPRESENTATION OF RTCHMOND.—Mr. Roun dell Palmer, Q.C., who has been appointed to the office of Soli citor-General, will, it is understood, become a candidate for the representation of Richmond, Yorkshire, which is vacant by the resignation of Mr. Henry Rich. The borough is a very small one, having less than 250 registered electors, and a contest is unknown there. A writ for an election in the borough was ordered last night, and by Tuesday or Wed nesday next the new Solicitor-General will in all probabi lity have taken his seat as member for Richmond. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.—A meeting of this institution was held yesterday, at its house, John-street, Adelphi—Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., in the chair. Mr. Lewis, the secretary, read the minutes of the pretrious meeting. A reward of £l2 was voted to the crew of the institution's lifeboat stationed at Arklow, on the Irish coast, for putting off with the view of rendering assist ance to a ship which was seen on the 12th ult. in distress on Arklow Bank, which is nine miles off the land. Before the lifeboat reached the bank the ship had got off and proceeded on her voyage. Rewards amounting to £ll 17s. were also voted to pay the expenses of the society's lifeboats stationed at Carmarthen Bay and North Dundrum Bay, for going off with the intention of succouring vessels in distress, which, however, did not ultimately require the service of the life boats. The silver medal of the institution was voted to Mr. Henry Puxley, of Dunboy Castle, for swimming off, and afterwards saving at considerable risk of life, by means of a small boat, four persons who bad been capsized from their boats during stormy weather off Berehaven, on the coast of Cork, on the 7th ult. A reward of £2 was also voted to two fishermen for saving three persons whose boat had capsized and sunk near Carrickfergus during a gale of wind on the night of the 15th ult. The three men were found clinging to the boat's mast, which was only a foot above the water. It was reported at the meeting that the institu tion had during the past month sent a new lifeboat and transporting carriage to Campbeltown, on the west coast of Scotland, and that Lady Murray, widow of the late Lord Justice Murray, had defrayed the whole cost of the estab lishment, being nearly £5OO, in memory of his lordship. The institution had also lifeboats and transporting carriages nearly ready to be sent to St. Ive's, Cornwall; Aberystwith and Llanddywyn,in Wales ; Scarborough, and Tynemouth. A new lifeboat was ordered to be built for Kirkcudbright, the expense of which, together with a transporting carriage, had been presented by a benevolent gentleman resident in Manchester. Lord Selkirk had liberally promised to build a house for them. The institution also decided on receiving :the Guernsey lifeboat station into con nexion with it', and on completely renovating the establish ment. A new lifeboat and transporting carriage for Jersey were also ordered to be built, the expense of which was to be defrayed by the States of that island. It was reported that the Spanith Government had recently ordered Messrs. Forrest, of Limehouse, to build six powerful lifeboats on the plan of the institution, to be stationed on dangerous points of the Spanish coast. It was stated that some friends of the society at Ipswich were making arrangem , nts with tho ministers of all denominations in that town to preach sermons in their several places of worship on a given Sunday in aid of the important and national objects of the Lifeboat Institution. It was also reported that the late Mr. Thornvs Fisher Remington, of Uplyme, Devon, had left a legacy of £lOO, free of duty, to the Lyme Regis branch of the institution. Payments amounting to £6OO having been made for various lifeboat establishments, the proceedings closed. THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL AND THE BIG DRUM. —Some few years ago the big drummer of an irre gular native regiment was taken ill upon the line of march, and it became necessary either to abandon the big drum, or to find some unusual means for its conveyance. The latter alternative was adopted, Here was one of those innumerable contingencies which, not having been provided for by a general order, could only be settled (as it was, after some twelve months' correspondence) by the appearance of a paragraph in general orders, announcing that " The Right Honourable the Governor General of India in Council had been pleased to sanction the payment of three annas (fourpence halfpenny) for the conveyance of 4 big 411 . 1111 from Deyrab t o itajpore," L h TT. r rip TO ILA i f Li • - PARIS, JULY 5. The Moniteur of to-day announces that the sub scription to the 300,000 bonds, repayable in 30 years, will be opened at the Bank of France on the th, and is to be closed on the 16th inst. The bonds will be issued at 440 f. each, bearing an annual interest of 20f., and redeemable at 500 f. The amount realised is to be applied to the construction of railways. The Dioniteur also says :—" The Emperor has arrived at Vichy, and has been warmly received." PARIS, JULY 4. The Emperor has left for Vichy. The Patrie of this evening says : "France is about to increase the garrison of the frontier towns of the Patrimony of St. Peter." TURIN, JULY 4. The Neapolitan Railways Bill was passed in the Chamber of Deputies to-day by 215 against 19 votes. FRANKFORT, JULY 4. In to-day's sitting of the Federal Diet Baden pro posed that the resolutions adopted by the Federal Diet in 1852 and 1860, in reference to Electoral Hesse, should not be considered as an obstacle to the re•establishment of the Constitution of 1831 in that electorate. The representative of Electoral Hesse reserved his reply to this proposal. ST. PETERSBURG, JULY 4. The Borsen Zeitung of to-day, in an article on the consequences of the present financial and com mercial crisis in Russia, says :—" The proprietors of the principal mining establishments and cotton mills are greatly embarrassed. Sugar houses ask for subsidies amounting to several millions of roubles. The great manufacturers are beginning to close their works. The largest distilleries and many industrial establishments are either sinking or have already suspended business. Several com panies are winding up their affairs. Shareholders in large concerns are di3posing of the best shares at a loss of 50 per cent." MADRID, JULY 4, EVENING. The insurrection is entirely confined to Loja and the troops now surround the town. The in• surgents are shouting " The Republic for ever !' " Death to the Pope!" SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 5. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Sultan, Captain Christian, with the heavy portion of the Bombay mails, has arrived here. She brings 88 passengers, £2OO in specie, pearls value 38,000 rupees, and 2,790 packages of cargo, including 1,448 bales of raw silk, value £140,000. She left Gibraltar on the 29th ult. Freights and exchanges at Gibraltar were unaltered. FRANCE. BOURSE, July 4.—The market has somewhat re covered from its former state of lethargy, and a fair amount of business has been transacted at an im provement on the !potations of yesterday. For the Account, Threes are now at 67f 85c. Rail way Shares also more buoyant. The following were the last quotations : ft per per Cents ... 98 Credit Foncier Do end month.... I Belgian 41 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 90 Roman Bank Shares 2845 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 695 , Spanish Threes 49 50 Do. Account 697 601 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1370 1370 Northern New ditto 9OO .. 900 Lyons and Mediterranean 965 .. 966 25 Geneva 390 390 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian 370 370 Austrian Loirbard - AMERICA. GALWAY, JULY 4. The Atlantic Royal Mail steamship Adriatic, from New York on the 25th, and St. John's on the 29th ult., has arrived here. She has made the pas sage from the latter port in five days. She brings 60 cabin and 240 steerage passengers. (BY TELEGRAPH TO ST. JOHN'S.) NEW YORK, JUNE 27. General Banks has arrested the Marshal of Balti more on a charge of treason, and has appointed a Provost-Marshal for the city. The British ship America, bound to Charleston with contraband of war, has been captured and brought to Philadelphia. Judge Sprague, of the District Court of Boston, in his charge to the jury, said that if any citizen had written to Mr. Gregory, member of the British Parliament, for the purpose of defining the mea sures of the United States Government, he would be held liable to a heavy fine and imprisonment. Several minor engagements have taken place between the Federal gunboats and the rebels on shore. A vessel just arrived reports having been chased by privateers. The British ship Forfarshire bas been captured in the Gulf of Mexico by Federal ships. The Federal Government has recognised the new Provisional Government of Virginia. The forces under the command of General M'Lelland are rapidly concentrating in Virginia from the West. He has made no compact not to occupy the soil of Kentucky. The Kangaroo has arrived at New York, and the Europa at Boston. (LATEST.) JUNE 28. An engagement has taken place at Mathias Point, on the Potomac. The rebels fired on a small party from the gunboats, killing two men and wounding several others. An immense quantity of ammuni tion had been found on the premises of the Marshal of Baltimore. The American Eagle, from London, has arrived. The Europa sailed from Boston for Europe on the 26th inst. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JUNE 27. Stock lower; Illinois Central, 66; New York Central, 701,. Cotton firmer; middling upland, 14e. Flour and wheat lower. Corn firmer. JUNE 28. Flour and wheat declining. Corn steady. Pro visions dull. THE GREAT FIRE IN TOOLEY-STREET.--The fire is far from being extinguished, and about noon yesterday, a fresh outbreak took place in one of the vaults nearest the northern extremity, which had hitherto escaped. This de partment contained some thousand bales of bacon and tierces of lard, as well as a great number of hogsheads of salted beef. Several explosions also occurred about noon, no doubt caused from the ignition of saltpetre and casks of tallow. An opening has been made under the Customs' department, next to the Grapes Tavern, and immense quan tities of pickled beef and pork are being taken out, and tons weight of liquid tallow and oil are being skimmed by means of large ladles off the surface of the sewage water, as it is forced by the same element from the Thames, and the stand pipes supplied by the Southwark Company. The two powerful steam floats are still obliged to be kept at work, and are throwing, one, six tons of water per minute, and the other, four tons in the same time. The result of all this is hardly perceptible beyond the fact that it drives the oil and tallow into the sewers. The inside walls are in such a dangerous state that they axe expected hourly to fall. THE 3IEDITERRANEAN. MALTA, JUNE. 29. On Monday rext Admiral Martin, the Com mander-in-Chief, will shift his flag from her Majes ty's ship Liffey to her Majesty's ship Neptune, and will proceed to sea for a cruise, it is understood, round Sicily. He will be accompanied by her Majesty's ship Liffey, and the next mail will be conveyed to him by her Majesty's ship Assurance. Captain Aynsley, of the latter, will proceed to Tschia on a month's sick leave, and the Hon. Capt. Hobart, of the Hibernia, will for the time command the Assurance. Her Majesty's ship Weser continues in the hands of the dockyard authorities. The crew of the Grey hound is bulked on board the Hibernia, while the Greyhound is in the dockyard; Her Majesty's ship Terrible returned on the 25th from the Dardanelles, having transferred the Per sian Ambassador and suite to her Majesty's ship Banshee. On the voyage up the Terrible stopped one day at Athens. The ambassador visited the king and the ruins. He was so pleased with the Terrible that he telegraphed from Athens to Con stantinople to be permitted to proceed to that city in her, but his application could not be attended to. Admiral Martin has succeeded in creating in the crews of the various ships such a spirit of competi tion, that they now need no encouragement from their officers to use their utmost efforts to beat other ships. The result is that each crew now performs its various duties in a seaman-like manner in a mar vellously short time. The spirit of competition rose to such a pitch that the admiral, with great judg ment, cooled it down. Songs in slang language were composed and sung on board several ships, showing to their own particular satisfaction that the crews were the finest and best disciplined afloat. Most of the ships are distinguished by some soubriquet, such as the " Flying Vic.," for the Victor Emmanuel whom the sailors have by some extraordinary reasoning mixed up with Queen Victoria; and in compliment to her Majesty, al though a deal from real truth the Victor Emmanuel is considered the fasteet vessel on the station, and wears a cock at her mast head. Her crew lately gave grievous offence to the other crews by her ship's company appearing on the esplanade at Corfu, at the exercise of great guns, with " roses" in their bosom. Why this gave offence is unexplained, but a dozen songs were out next day upon the sub ject. However ridiculous this may appear, it has had the effect of making our ships in the Mediter ranean the smallest in the world. Her Majesty's ship Terrible is to proceed in a few days to the coast of Syria, with provisions for the ships there, There is a report in the Malta papers that the Governor, Sir G. Le Marchant, was about to go on leave. There is no truth in the report ; he has no intention of leaving Malta at present. LORD PALMERSI ON AT ,UARROW. Yesterday was the annual speech day at Harrow School, and the attractions were greatly enhanced by the presence of Viscount Palmerston, who had kindly consented to lay the foundation-stone of the Vaughan Library, commemorative of the Master ship of the Rev. Dr. Vaughan, who •so long pre sided as Head Master of that classical seminary. The Rev. H. BUTLER, in introducing Lord Pal merston, briefly expressed, on behalf of the school, his thanks to that nobleman for attending on that occasion. The day, he said, was an interesting one to all connected with Harrow, for the town as well as for the school. Dr. Vaughan had left behind him a name which is greatly honoured as well as loved,.and he felt persuaded that no act could have better chimed in with the feeling of the town, as well as of the school, than the fact of Lord Palmer ston coming down to lay the stone of that building which was to bear Dr. Vaughan's honoured name. (Hear, hear.) The stone having been adjusted, Lord PALMERSTON said,—Mr. Butler and gentle men, I can assure you it affords me very great and sincere pleasure to have been allowed to have the honour of laying the first stone of the building which is about to be erected in honour of Dr. Vaughan. Dr. Vaughan well deserves every hon our which Harrow men can tender to him. (Hear, hear.) He raised the school to a great degree of prosperity, and I am happy to say that your pre sent worthy and distinguished head master has maintained it at that high standard, and has even increased the prosperity in which he found it when he succeeded. (Hear, hear.) The memorial of Dr. Vaughan has, I think, been well determined upon. You will all remember, especially the younger portion of those whom I am addressing, that when the contest arose as to who should bear the arms of Achilles, one of the candidates said his ground of claim was that it was through his means that Achilles had been won to the Grecian army. Well, gentlemen, it is right and just that as Dr. Vaughan inspired Harrow boys with a love of learning, so the Har row boys and the Harrow men should in return lay the foundatiuu of a building in 'which that lu w, learning may be gratified, and in which that love of learning may be increased by drinking deep at the fountains of knowledge. (Hear.) It is admitted by all that the career of those who instruct and form the youth of this country is one eminently deserv ing the respect and esteem of their fellow country men ; for the strength of a nation consists not so much in the numbers of the people as in the cha racter of the men. (Hear, hear.) Just as I may be allowed to say, without any disparagement to any fair listener—that the chief treasures of a nation consist not merely in the hearts of the women, but in their qualities. (Hear, hear.) We ought to pay due respect to those who form the character of the rising generation, who teach them obedience and discipline, who instruct them that self-control is better than indulgence; who tell them that labour is to be preferred to pleasure ; who tell them that exertion is better than idleness, and that whereas amusements may be compared with the southern breezes which, though pleasant to be enjoyed, yet pass away and leave no trace behind them ; that honourable exertion, on the contrary, may be com pared to the fertilising shower, which, though it may, as you all know at the present moment — (laughter)—not be agreeable to those who are ex pos( d to it, yet nevertheless leaves, by enriching and improving the soil on which it falls, solid marks behind—substantial and solid marks by the ample and abundant harvest which it helps to ereate. Well, gentlemen, I will not detain you by a long harangue at the present unfavourable moment, but I must, as a Harrow man, be permitted to say that Harrow has held is place in public estimation and public service by furnishing men distinguished the most in all the careers which they may have chosen for their future life. (Hear.) We have named the most distinguished in arms. We are proud of one name—the name of a poet, the most eminent in the present century—Lord Byron, who here imbibed the first elements of that classical attainment which afterwards led to his high reputation and fame. (Hear, hear.) We may boast—l speak now as a Harrow boy. (Laughter.) We may boast, that in the present century four Harrow boys have attained the post which I have now the honour to hold— (cheers)—and I trust there are many Harrow boys —many other four Harrow boys—who are destined to become men like these to whom I allude. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, a school like this not only tends Jto inculcate on the minds and to impress on the disposition of young men those habits of thought, those habits of life and action, which are so essen tial to their wellbeing in their future life, but it is here that they become ground and fully acquainted with those authors of antiquity, with the poets, the writers, and the historians of Greece and Rome, whose works are not only models for composition and for style, but, being full of the noblest senti ments and loftiest ideas, exhibit to all times and to all nations examples of public spirit, of devoted patriotism, and of all the virtues and qualities which can adorn mankind, to be imitated and followed by all who study their works—(hear, hear)—and though I am aware that the modern system of education has usefully added to the studies and attainments which are not only useful but necessary for the performance of active life ; yet I trust that the deep study and perfect acquaintance with those classics which I have mentioned will continue ever to form the solid and substantial foundation of the education of an English gentleman. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, thanking you and Mr. Butler for the kindness you have done me to take part in this in teresting ceremony, I shall conclude by wishing prosperity to Harrow, and I can only say that under Mr. Butler's influence, that prosperity is sure to continue to prevail. (Cheers.) After a few artistic flourishes with the mallet, Lord Palmerston declared the stone duly laid, and thus ends the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of Dr. Vaughan's library. A glass bottle, containing gold and silver coins of her Majesty's reign, was placed in a cavity of the stone. On the conclusion of the proceedings, three cheers were given for Lord Palmerston, the band playing " God save the Queen!' PREDICTIONS OF THE WEATHER FOR JULY, 1861.—Fair summer weather prevails during the first Week, with some electric action about the 2d day; warm, but se h e a f y k - , windy. The second week witnesses many chan&ss, w ith some thunder showers an d hail en the 9th, 11th , and 13th 18et more settled T tt he d le fourth ; good w days. The third week fairer on the and m making weather, except except on the 22d, whe n hail, storms p reva il , promises fair and hot summer weather. Ills 28th a little unsettled, but the weather fine in general. A very fine month for the crops on the whole.—Record of the 4, s tr a .iy etor a ogical 4Peiety, DEATH OF MRS. ELIZABET.d BARRETT BROWNING. The death of Mrs. Browning, announced yesterday in a letter from Turin, will be felt as a deep loss not only by a wide circle of attached friends but a host of sympathising readers of her tate and noble poetry. She was, beyond all doubt, a born poet. It is not enough to say that—regard being had merely to the artistic qualities of her works— it would be difficult to name more than a few of her sex who has equalled or even approached her ; it is perhaps higher praise to affirm, as it may be safely affirmed, that she had in larger measure than usually belongs to poets of either sex, the strong and noble inst nets towards freedom and humanity, the deep compassion for suffering, and the burn ing hatred of cruelty and wrong, that transform what is else I a mere intellectual accomplishment into a source of power to the best efforts and aspirations of society. Such poems as her " Cry of the Children," and Tom Hood's " Song of the Shirt," can scarcely be overvalued for their power to stir a nation's heart and clear its eyes from the slowly gathering film of apathetic routine. The following description of Mrs. Browning is taken from " Men of the Time" : A reference to the various works which have given lustre to the name of this lady can scarcely be better introduced than by a slight sketch of her personal characteristics and history as afforded in the " Literary Recollections" of Miss Mitford. "My first acquaintance," writes this authoress in 1852, "with Elizabeth Barrett commenced fifteen years ago, and she was then certainly one of the most interesting persons I had ever seen. Of a slight, delicate figure, with a shower of dark curls falling on either side of a most expres sive face—large, tender eyes, fringed with dark lashes—a smile like a sunbeam, and such a look of youthfulness, that I had some difficulty in persuading a friend, in whose carriage we went to Chiswick, that the translatress of the Prometheus' of JEschylus, the author of the Essay on. Mind,' was, in technical language, ' out.' During my stay in town we met frequently, and after my return to the country we corresponded very regularly; her letters being just what letters cught to be—her own talk put upon paper. The next year was a painful one to herself and all who loved her ; she broke a blood-vessel in the lungs. If there had_ been consumption in the family, that disease would have supervened; but, happily, she escaped this fatal English malady. The vessel, however, refused to heal; and after attending her for a year at her father's house in Wimpole street, Dr. Chambers, on the approach of winter, ordered her to a milder climate. Her eldest brother—a brother in heart and talent worthy of such a sister—together with. other affectionate relatives, accompanied her to Torquay ; and there occurred that fatal event which saddened her bloom of youth, and gave a deeper hue of thought and feel ing, especially devotional feeling, to her poetry. Nearly a year had passed, and the invalid, still attended by her com panions, had derived much benefit from the mild sea breezes of Devonshire. One fine summer morning her favourite brother, together with two other fine young men, his friends, embarked on board a small sailing vessel for a trip for a few hours. Excellent sailors all, and familiar with the coast, they sent back the boatmen, and undertook there selves the management of the little craft. Danger was not dreamt of by any one—indeed, after the catastrophe no one could divine the cause ; but in a few minutes after their embarkation, and in sight of their very windows, and just as they were crossing the bar, the boat went down, and all who were in her perished. Even the bodies were never found. This tragedy nearly killed Miss Barrett; she was utterly prostrated by the horror and grief, and a natural but most unjust feeling, that she had been in some sort the cause of this great misery. It was not until the following year that she could be removed in an invalid carriage, and by journeys of twenty miles a-day, to her afflicted family and her London home. On her return began the life which she continued for so many years—confined to one large and commodious, but darkened chamber, to which only her own family and a few devoted friends were admitted. Reading, meanwhile, almost every book worth reading, in almost every language; stadying with ever-fresh delight the great classic authors in the original; and giving herself heart and soul to that poetry of which she seem©d born to be the priestess." We learn from the source whence the, above remarks are derived that Miss Barrett's vocation displayed itself very early in life; that she wrote largely at ten years old, and well at fifteen. Her first important essay in authorship was a translation of the " Prometheus" of YEschylus, published anonymously in 1833; her own maturer judgment pronounced this attempt a failure, and it was, therefore, replaced in the collected edition of her works by an entirely new version. Five years later ap peared " The Seraphim,"--a poem holding, as it were, an. intermediate position between an ancient Greek tragedy and a Christian mystery, the idea of which had suggested itself during the progress of her labours on the "Prome theus Bound." With it were associated some miscellaneous poems, a portion of vchich had already appeared in the pages of periodicals, where they had won (in spite of some obscu rity of manner and expression) high appreciation for their poetic beauty and earnest tone of feeling. Though chiefly known to the multitude by these productions, Miss Barrett also wrote many admirable and erudite prose articles on the Greek Christian poets and other subjects, which were con sidered to afford evidence of unusually keen insight, and extended intellectual attainments. After a long continu ance of that secluded life which has been referred to in the words of her intimate friend, a gradual improvement took place in her state of health; and the beauties and pleasures of the rrnm mod been debarred for years, once more became accessible to her. Several years ago she became the wife of Robert Browning, the poet, and immediately after her marriage accompanied him to Pisa. They subsequently removed to Florence, which has continued to be their permanent home, although occa sional visits to England have afforded opportunity to Mrs. Browning's friends of rejoicing with her in the possession of a lovely boy, and a renewed measure of health and strength. The publication in 1850 of her collected poems, in two volumes, gave a great impetus to her reputation, and obtained very general acknowledgment of her title to rank, in many points of view, as the first female poet of the age. A small number of unpublished poems appeared in this edition, and among them was " Lady Geraldine's Court ship," which was cited as one of her happiest inspira tions. An inspiration it might indeed be called, inasmuch as it was written in twelve hours, having been required at the last moment to complete the uniformity of her volumes, and composed in haste to save the packet which was to convey the proof-sheets to America. In 1851 appeared "Casa Guidi Windows," a poem, the theme of which was the repeated struggle for liberty which she had opportunities of witnessing from the windows of the Casa Guidi, her own Florentine residence. Although critics have not failed to do full justice to the generous im pulse, fine imagination, and social and political wisdom of this production, the fantastic and rugged forms in which the ideas are frequently clothed would be likely to render it only partially acceptable. It is probably by such poems as the "Poet's Vow," " Catharina to Camoens," "Bertha in the Lane," " Cowper's Grave," and a host of others which throng upon the memory, that Mrs. Browning will touch. the hearts of her readers most closely, and it will be from them, therefore, that she will derive her most enduring re nown. In 1856 Mrs. Browning published " Aurora Leigh." Since " Aurora Leigh" the only published work of Mrs. Browning's, we believe, is a small volume which appeared - last year, entitled " Poems before Congress," and which was briefly noticed in our columns at the time. One or two little pieces of hers have still more recently adorned the pages of the Cornhill Magazine. In her later poems curious and loving students of her verse fancied they could detect some unconscious reflection—very pleasant to see—of her gifted husband's thought and style. It is less doubtful that her love of Italy and her desire for its freedom and indepen dence were intensified by its well-known passionate strength of sympathy for that country and that cause. It takes away something from the pain which those who love and, honour her memory must feel at her loss to remember that she lived to witness the regeneration, and breathed her last on the enfranchised scil, of the nation whose redemption had been one of the strongest aspirations of her noble heart. C OUNT CAvouß.--Some time before his death it was understood that Count Cavour manifested the strongest desire to promote all those i m p rovemen ts of the means of internal and coast communication throughout the Kingdom of Italy which appear essential to its rapid conso lidation. A system for a complete postal and passenger steam service in the Mediterranean was among the prin cipal of these objects, and negotiations for its establish ment on a sound and influential basis had been some time in progress. His successor, it now appears, has adopted this wise policy with equal warmth, and a concession has been definitively granted to an English company, who are to perform the following services, which are to have the advantage of bei ng f ree from all being police allowedand and landing. pl aces , th us avoiding for the first time on the M e di terranean the use pas to passport erect re gul wharves ations, the company likewise of small boats for landing goods and passengers : " Three weekly voyages between Genoa and Naples ; two wee kly voyages between Genoa and Palermo, one of them calling at Leghorn; on e weekly voyage between Genoa and Messina, calling at Leghorn; two voyages per month be tween Genoa and T un i s, touching Leghorn, Tortoli, and Cagliari ; four v oyages per mo n th b e t ween G enoa an d Cag liari, two calling at Terranova, and two calling at Tortoli ; two voyages per m ont h b etween Leghorn and Cagliari, touch ing at 'Terranov a ; two voyages per month between Cagliari and Naples ; four voyages per month between Genoa and Porto Torres, touching Caprara four times every month and Maddalena twice per month; four voyages per month between Leghorn and Porto Torres, touching Bastia and. Maddalena ; eight voyages per month between Leghorn and the Isle of Elba, extending twice every month to Pianosa, the island of Giglio, S. Stefano, and Piombino." OCEAN TELEGRAPHS.—The number of sub marine cables that have been laid in shallow water is 31, their total length being upwards of 3,000 miles ; the deep sea lines, 14 in number, total length 8,290 miles. Of these latter the Atlantic, 2,203 miles, is entirely lost; the Red Sea and India, of 3,499 miles, only two sections are in work ing condition ; and the Sardinia anri Corfu, 700 miles, is not available from some unascertained cause. Of the shallow water cables, that from Singapore to Batavia, of 5.50 miles, is also defective. Thus, out of 11,361 miles laid, little more than 3,000 miles are in, working order,—Mechanics'