The Sun. — London, England, 1861-05-25 00:00:00

THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lesgee, Mr. J. B. Baokstone. THIS EVENING, the performances will eommenae with a new and original Comedy, entitled BLACK SHEEP. Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, &e. ; Mrs. Wilkins, Mrs. Charles Young, Miss Lovell, &c. . _ . . - - Alter which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery and effects, and all the original musio by the late Sir Henry Bllshop, the melodrama of HE MIL 7. LER AND HIS MEN. Commence at ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore, Meadows, Garden, and Miss C. Leclercq. Followed by RUY BLAS. Mr. Fechter. After which, a new comedietta, TRUTH AND FICTION. Messrs. F. Mattheirs,Widdicombe, Shore, Cathcart, Garden; Miss C. Leclercq, Miss R. Leclercq, and Miss M. Harris. N EW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- Solo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Iteprpdaction of "The Colleen Bawn. " The Adelphi "Census " every Evening. THIS EVENING, the successful new Farce, entitled A TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford. After which (189th time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. D. Rouoicault, D. e'isher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ' • Mrs. Boucicault, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, 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. Thorne, and Mrs. Chatterley. Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- THIS EVENING, Grand Equestrian performance by M. Boorne's Troupe—Davis Richards, Mr. and Mrs. Palmer, Atc.—Three Clowns—Three Original Rocky Mountain Won ders, comprising their wonderful performance on the Flying Tropez and Ladder Feat—M. Lauri's New Ballet Troupe. — Reduced Prices.—Commence at half-past 7. Box-office open daily. Private Boxes from 10s. lid. D a y Performance on aturday at 2 o'clock. CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. EVERY EVENING , A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera, UN BALLO IN MASCHERA, (First prodnced in England at this Establishment), With a Chorus of Forty Voices. Also, Verdi's IL COitSARO, never performed at any other Concerts. Solos on the Cornet-a-Liston, by Mr. Levy. The Comic Department comprises the Brothers Conrad (in their new and inimitable entertainments), Mr. Wood and his talented little Son, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Blanchard, Mr. Hol lingsworth, and Miss Rose Howard. Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGUMANS. T H E F 0 It D, 6, OXFORD-STREET. LEVY, undoubtedly the best performer of the day on ne Cornet-a-Piston—Grand Selections (on the most complete scale) from Dinorah, Martha, Stradella, &c., and other vocal and instrumental music, by Miss Russell, the Misses Stuart, and Miss Ernst, Messrs. Charles Greville, Fornari, Kimber ley, Bernard, Beaumont, Bervon, Huish, Signor Tivoli, and Mr. Henry Herbert, with full band and powerful and selected chorus, 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 and best entertainment, every evening. Admission, Hall, sixpence ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Taut DAY.—Morning, 2h. 14m.—Afternoon, 2h. 38m. To-mon.now.-Morning, 3h. Om.—Afternoon, 3h. 26m. THB WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, MAY 25, 1561. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 65—highest since noon yesterday. 49—lowest this morning and during the night. 66—this day at noon. BA.nounTzn-29.86. :WlND—Weuterly—moderate; with fine weather. e4P) ' • w 4 tri 1. - 0; ' Ve;' , _ , •• 4 - r , . ~ i s . ";2l4e e • nnott • t• - THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 25,:1851. Another Broadside against the Southerners ! And a Broadside, moreover, that flames out, as will be seen, most effectively. Fired off as it has been not simply by a Train but by the TRAIN, one is almost tempted to designate him at once a Train of Gunpowder. A lengthened and graphic report of Mr. TRAIN'S recent speech upon American affairs will be found transferred to another part of our impression of this evening, from the columns of our youthful con temporary, The London American. Reading Mr. TRAIN'S harangue, in The London merican, it is certainly another of those rare views, each of which is popularly known when recognized, as that of the right man in the right place. It is more than this even, for the two (at any rate in name) appear to be all but identical. We have already, long since, begun to look upon Mr. TRAIN as one of ourselves, as a genuine London American, as one who is virtually, if not literally, naturalized, here in Eng land, as one thoroughly and perfectly acclimated. Whenever he speaks, no matter where it is he speaks, or what it is he is talking about, he is wel comed with a sort of enthusiasm, he is listened to with unmistakeable eagerness. Why is this ? Why ?—simply because here is a young man gifted with the keenest common sense, and with a very lively imagination,who feels strongly,and speaks right out, and who is in every word and thought thoroughly in earnest. In the ringing force and the transpa rent clearness of his vocabulary, there is some thing of WILLIAM COBBETT—better known at one time on t'other side of the Herring pond as PETER PORCUPINE. Only that, with much of COBBETT'S vigour, and directness', and lucidity, our " London American " TRAIN, combines a liveliness of fancy and a warmth of sentiment in a great measure unknown to that grim old GRID IRON. Here, in fact, is a man who not only calls a spade a spade, without even a thought of indulging for an instant in anything like circumlocution, but who loves the very soil into which that patriot spade is dug, loves it to the extent almost of a profane extravagance. Throwing aside alto gether even one momentary thought of his own individual enterprise, in the presence of the dread calamity that has now descended upon his Fatherland—he could think and speak the other night at Islington of nothing else. It was, vast heaving ! there—with his tramroads. " I had rather talk about America," he says, . " than about street railways." And so he does talk about America— first of all putting it to his English hearers in re gard to American affairs as commented upon by him as an American-." If I touch upon them you will perhaps object to my language, my earnest way of calling plain things by their plain names. Will you," he asks, " let me speak what I think ?" Of course th e cry i s " Yes. " And he does speak out—right out--accordingly. He begins adroitly, however, by a little gentle and apposite reminder. He says,—" You love y our country, so do I mine; you rejoice to see the Char tist demonstration crushed in its infamy. y ou erect monuments to the heroes who stamped out the Indian rebellion ; and you shot down those on the Ballarat, when I was in Australia, when they broke the law of the nation." And then he asks—" How can you, therefore, sympathise with those blaek hearted .knaves [no mincing the matter there !] who would ruin a land blessed by God with natural and national attributes grande r than any known to man." that—of courss—a little allowable American exaggerating, one perhaps more than simply allowable under the circumstances. Let it pass, therefore. And let us come at once to the pith and marrow of this earnest-think ing American's well-timed and boldly-enunciated opinions in regard to the fratricidal war now carry. ing flame and sword through the fertile regions of that fair and noble land of republicans. Referring to an aspiration that had been recently uttered by another to the effect that the next mail might bring tidings of Peace—that, as Punch puts it, the news from the other side of the Atlantic might breath more and more of the Pacific —Mr. TRAIN almost cries out in au agony of indig nation, No ! "We are not quite ready," he says, "to shake hands—our feelings at the North have been too long outraged. We don't believe there is . THE SIIN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING; MAY 25, 1861. any fight in the South. The Southern chivalry will collapse into exile like an over-inflated balloon—and, instead of peace, I hope the next news will bring submission to the Federal Power, or that the hordes of the Pirates are burnt to the ground." There is an indication of a deprecatory character at this—followed, however, by ringing cheers, not from Americans recollect, but from Englishtneti! And Mr. TRAIN continues— " Never," he exclaims, "was known before such an outbreak of nationality." Another allowable, per. haps more than allowable, rapture of exaggeration —that we will pass like its predecessor. " The Hermit PETER and his Crusaders," he says, "and the rising of the Girondists . . . were nothing in comparison to the outburst of enthusiasm from the insulted North, who [here follows a truly transatlantic figure of speech] will pour down upon the pirate bands and traitor gangs and sweep them off like turning the waters of the Mississippi into the drains of New Orleans and purify the city, by cleansing the accumulated political stench of the party lately in office." Later in his speech Mr. TRAIN adjures his English audience—" Don't forget what I have told you about the issue of the contest —America must drop the comparison. It is no longer North and South, it is order against anarchy —patriots against parricides—Unionists against traitors. They must submit," he says, " or—be exterminated." Speaking of the desperation of their plight (the plight of the Southerners) at this moment, he breaks forth in words thus impassioned : —" They have sown the wind and must reap the whirlwind—with naval brigades forming—patriotic bands raising—merchantstontributing—bells ring ing Union—cannon roaring Union—fair girls wear ing next their bosom Union bows, woven with Union rosettes—and cheers going up to Heaven from the Union men of Union-square—with such action Ame rica fears no evil." And, in a yet more fervid strain, he thus continues—" The fisherman at Marble head drops his net and cries Union, to the rescue— the farmer on the Green Mountain hears it at the plough, and the Ohio boatman passes over to the hunter on the prairie, onward over a range of moun tain passes to the gold digger on the Sacramento, when up go the flags, as San Francisco cries Union along the line. General HOUSTON'S great heart is gladdened at the sound," he cries out, " and on he rushes with the red artillery. Fort Pickens booms a reply that reaches to the capitol, and cheers our old back-woodsman PRESIDENT, till the tears start as he hears the cry of Union now, and Union for ever. It has been our living senti ment, and by the blessing of GOD it shall be our dying sentiment—Union now and Union for ever." Almost what we call in an Irishman a bull, and in an Englishman a blunder—that about " our dying sentiment" being "Union for ever." But the heart from which those words of patriotism leap in tones so earnest, commands our heartiest sympathy for its enthusiasm. We bow before that enthusiasm. And while we recognise in the speaker one who is, body and soul, an American—we recognise in him also one who is, we may almost venture to say, a Compatriot. The severest condemnation of the Southern President's Address is its tone of "injured inno cence." In some of the continental states, houses of a character which, in this country, subject the landlords to a prosecution, are licensed by the Government, and their unfortunate inmates receive a regular license too. But we never heard of any Christian Government treating this domestic insti tution as a perfectly innocent thing, much less of its being exalted to a virtue, and represented as the perfection of civilised society. In Japan, indeed, as the Bishop of VICTORIA tells us, the TYCOON and the DAIMIOS deal with the "social evil" much in the fashion that Mr. DAvis does with slavery; they regard it as a social good, and think the wages of female shame as honourable a source of gain as any other. President DAVIS assumes, throughout his long address, that slavery is just as good an institution as representative government, trial by jury, or anything else which has been sup posed to belong to the most advanced stages of Christian society. In one passage Mr. DAVIS sets forth, with American eloquence, the blessings which the whites have conferred on the negroes by using them as property. The primeval one—that of increasing and multiplying—the negroes have enjoyed almost to the same extent as Australian sheep—they have increased, he says, from 600,000 at the date of the constitutional compact, we presume he means in 1787, to upwards of 4,000,000. While as to their moral and religious improvement, according to Mr. DAVIS'S account, those "brutal savages," under the mild teaching of the south, have become "docile, intelligent, and civilised agricultural labourers, supplied not only with bodily comforts, but with careful religious instruc tion." The marvels wrought by this gentle moral and Christian use of the "brutal savages" show that it is the system on - which the smiles of Heaven rest, for it has converted the South, of course for the benefit of the former savages, into a second Eden. " Under the super vision of a superior race, their labour has been so directed as not only to allow a gradual and marked amelioration of their own condition, but to convert hundreds of thousands of square miles of the wilderness into cultivated lands, covered with a prosperous people ; towns and cities have sprung into existence, and rapidly increased in wealth and population, under the social system of the South." The white populationhas also increased from a million and a-quarter to eight millions and I a-half between 1787 and 1860 I "and the productions of the South in cotton, rice, sugar, and tobacco, for the full development and continuance of which the labour of African slaves was and is indispensable, has swollen to an amount which forms nearly three-fourths of the exports of the whole United States, and become absolutely necessary to the wants of civilised man." Englishmen should see how a man of Mr. DAVIS'S intelligence can portray the blessings of Southern slavery. Either this is all done in sin cerity and belief in the truth of the picture, or it is a Consciously got-up representation to delude, were that possible, the Christian world. If the former, probably the history of Christian civilisa tion does not contain a more striking instance of the subversion of the moral instincts by a long course of crime. In earlier days they were not so entirely perverted. Slavery was felt to be, in itself, the evil and the wrong which Christianity has, throughout Europe, pronounced it to be; the plea was, " We inherit it, we do not defend it, but we must have time to get rid of it by gradual amelioration of the slave's condition." Now the South is mad with the North, because the lat ter retains the Christian view of slavery, while the former has sunk back to a Mahommedan or heathen . view of it. Th e S ou th now uses i ts poss e ss i o n o f the Christian's revelation, not to learn from it the sinfulness of slaVery, but convert the Redeemer himself into its patron. In looking at the eulogies of slavery we have quoted above from Mr. DAVIS'S pen, one might, however, be almost tempted to ask him what hinders the emancipation of these negroes ? If they have been rendered such d oc ile, intelligent, and civilised agricultural labourers," and are under such "careful religious instruction," what hinders them in a country of universal suffrage from being, not only emancipated , but entrusted with full civil rights ? Could more, if so much, be said for Northern labourers, and es pecially for a large part of the emigrant labourers from Europe ? Surely, the combination of "intel ligence and docility" under the " supervision of the Superior Race" must be as good political, as well as social and industrial, material as could be de sired ? Or, under all this declamation, does the plain fact lurk that all this boasted improvement of the negro has left him in the condition that his master cannoerely on his industry except as stimu lated by the lash, and that he deems him incom petent to take care of himself? Probably, to reflecting men, the worst feature of the Southern case is just this blind belief in the innocence of negro slavery, and this cool reasoning about slaves as property. For, singularly enough, in immediate connection with these grand descriptions of the intellectual and moral blessings bestowed by the whites on the negro, Mr. DAVIS passes with the utmost ease to speaking of him as property ! That is, the good the men of the South have done their slaves is summed up in this—" They are actually so far im proved that they are equal to well-trained dogs and horses—so improved that they really are fit to be bought and sold, and at a somewhat higher price in consequence of the improvement. They are now valuable property, which the wicked North is madly jeopardising. What can possess the North that they should do it. They do not endanger our other property. Our horses and oxen, our pigs and sheep, they take no steps to prevent our takieg them into the territories; they do not denounce stables, and sheepfolds, and sties as 'sinful institu tions,'—what craze can possess those Abolitionists and free-soilers that they shake the value thus of our vast, docile, intelligent, and civilised' pro perty." Such, without caricature, is the tone of this remarkable document in regard to slavery. It does not offer any apology to the Christian world for its existence; it has not a word to say on its behalf, because apparently there is no perception that it is needed. Indeed, the quarrel is represented as being chiefly one for State independence, although that independence is desired merely that it may be used to extend and strengthen the dominion of slaveholding. On the face of this long and very able document the strange fact is obvious, that not withstanding the universal verdict of the Christian world, notwithstanding all the circumstances of the dispute itself—Mr. DAVIS can write of slavery as an innocent thing and a blessing, and not seem aware that he is labouring under moral insanity. THE COUNT-OUT. -Th, the 34 members present when Le following were among i the house was counted at 4 o'clock yesterday : Edward Ball W. H. Barrow Thomas Bazley G. A. F. C. Bentinck W. B. Brand A. D. W. B. Cochrane Sir W. Dunbar E. C. Egerton John Ennis William E wart Charles Forster Colonel French Samuel Gregson Colonel Greville P. S. Humberston Wilfred Lawson John Harvey Lewis W. N. Massey William Mundy J. H. Phillips Sergeant Pigott David Pugh F. W. Russell Vincent Scully Captain Stacpoole Colonel Taylor R. Torrens W. Vansittart C. Villiers S. H. Walpole Sir Henry Willoughby WESTMINSTER JEW'S FREE SCHOOL, GREEK STREET, SOHo.—The anniversary of this progressing in- Wtation, conducted on similar principles to that of Bell lane, Spitalfields, was held on Wednesday evening, at Willis's-rooms, St. James's, presided over by Mr. Alder man Salomons, M.P., president of the school, supported by the Rev. Dr. Adler ; Mr. William Roupell, M.P., Professor Hart, R.A., Mr. Jacob Waley, M.A., Mr. Thos. Burt, M.A., Mr. N. Montefiore, Mr. D. Mocatta, Mr. L. Cohen, Mr. P. J. Salomons, Mr. Faudel, Mr. H. L. Keeling, vice president, and a numerous body of gentlemen both of Chilstian. and Jewish creed. Some eloquent speeches were made by the chairman, and others, and led to a pecuniary response of upwards of £6OO ; and the introduction of 200 children, girls and boys, who sang sweetly in chorus, and the charming sirarlicity, in the recital by two of them, of Hebrew and English odes, coupled with their neat, healthy, and happy appearances, elicited the warmest sympathies of the company. THE GALWAY PACKET CONTRACT.—In reply to a deputation from Galway, which waited on the Lord Lieutenant on Thursday in Dublin, to make representations against the abrogation of the Post-office contract with the Atlantic Mail Packet Company, his Excellency said :—I beg to assure you that I have not waited until now to ex press my sympathy with the views and wishes which you have laid before me. I should most sincerely regret the final disappoiLtment of the hopes which gave birth to the contract of the Government with the Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. It is only fair, however, while I perceive the force of many of the considerations set forth in your memorial, that I should mention that I have not been mado acquainted accurately or in detail with the arguments that are alleged on the other side of the question. I shall not fail to transmit your views for the earnest consideration of her Majesty's Government, and to entreat for them the most favourable reception which they can find it consistent with their duty to bestow. NEW NIGIIT SERVICE TO PARIS, &c.—The South laastern and the Northern of France Railway Companies have organised a new second or nightly service, to begin on the 31st inst., between London ands Paris, via Folkestone and Boulogne by the regular trains, in addition to the ex isting special ten-hour tidal service. This night service, occupying during the greater part of the month about 161 hours on the journey, and being first and second class, will be convenient for these who prefer the Folkestone and Boulogne route to the longer and more expensive route of the same companies by the night mail train via Calais, which is restricted to first-class passengers. An extension of the through ticket system of the South-Eastern Railway has just been brought into operation. In consequence of the opening of the Saltzburg Railway between Munich and Vienna, passengers can be booked through, via Paris o Vienna, and also as heretof6re, via Cologne. Through tickets are now for the first time issued to ➢lannheim, Carlsruhe, Saltzburg, Munich, Kustendje, and Constanti nople via Paris ; and to Baden-Baden and Heidelberg via Paris, as well as by the Cologne route, as formerly. The route to Constantinople, for which these tickets are avail able via the Danube and the Black Sea Railway, offers a re duced sea voyage of 24 hours. The through ticket system of the South-Eastern Railway and the continental rail ways in connection now embraces nearly every European capital. MILITARY RIOTING AT GREAT YARMOUTH.— , GREAT YARMOUTH, May 24.—This town has this week been the scene ,of some rather alarming disturbances be tween parties of the East Norfolk Militia and a detachment. of Royal Artillery at present stationed in the suburb of Southtown. The squabbling commenced on Saturday even ing, and increased in intensity every day till Tuesday evening, when for a short space a serious riot took place on the wide open space fronting the river, and between the bridge and the Town. hall. The artillerymen were over powered by numbers, and, after a sharp encounter, in which the militiamen resorted freely to the use of their belts—which weigh and are formidable weapons in the hands of excited men—were compelled to retreat across the bridge, two of them being so seriously wounded that they had to be placed in hospital. The dispute seems to have arisen from a very trumpery and discreditable cause. One of the militiamen had wooed a girl, but instead of favouring him with her comp any she transferred it to an artilleryman, in whose society the militiaman afterwards found her. Fired with jealousy, the militiaman struck the 'girl, and her companion espoused her cause, and told the jealous assailant that he ought to be ashamed of himself for attacking a woman in such a manner. The quarrel was soon made public and joined in by other men on both sides, and, as the drinking facilities with which the town abounds increased the exasperation, it soon as sumed formidable proportions. After the disturbance on Tuesday evening, which only lasted about a quarter of an hour, and was not attended with any destruction of property, energetic measures were adopted for preserving the peace. The bridge over the river by which the combatants commu nicated with each other was guarded on Wednesday and Thursday with pickets of artillerymen on one side, and militiamen with fixed bayonets on the other, and no artil lerymen were allowed to enter Yarmouth, while all the militamen were kept out of Southdown. These salutary measures proved completely successful, and on Wed nesday evening and Thursday evening the peace of the town was fully restored. The rioting on Tuesday night took place shcatly after 6, that comparatively early hoer having been selected as the artillerymen were ordered to be in barracks by 8. The magistrates met to consider the best. means of checking the disturbances, and a request was made to the militia authorities that their men should be deprived of their belts, but this could not be done without the sanc tion of the Horse Guards. The girl, the original cause of the outbreak, was on Thursday brought before the magis trates, and committed for two months in default of her be ing able to find sureties to keep the peace, Et.-iT NE WS. THE AMERICAN WAR. QUEENSTOWN, MAY 25. The Royal Mail steamship Arabia arrived hero at 4.15 a.m. She landed all letters except those for Liverpool, and proceeded at 4.45 a.m. All well. She brings 120 passengers, and 13,950 dols. for Havre. She left Boston on the 15th, and Halifax on the 17th instant. (BY TELEGRAPH TO HALIFAX.) NEW YORK, MAY 16. The remains of Washington have been removed from Mount Vernon by the Virginians. The Federal Government has notified to the foreign Powers that it will cease to hold intercourse with any foreign Power which recognises any com missioners from the rebel States. The report that Breckenridge is to command under Major Anderson is probably untrue. A proposition is before the Convention of Dele gates in Western Virginia to separate from the eastern part cf the State, and form a New Virginia. Over 40 counties are represented in the Convention. The Governors of Ohio and Pennsylvania have pledged their States to protect the Unionists in Western Virginia. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, MAY 16. The cltton-market is firm. Middling upland, 141. Flour dull. An active business doing in wheat for export ; good qualities are firm, but inferior declining. Corn unchanged. NEW ORLEANS, MAY 15. Sales of cotton to-day 1,500 bales. Middling, 111 to 14. TURIN, MAY 24. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies questions were put by several members respecting the approaching eelebratior of the national fete. Signor Minghetti, Minister of the Interior, re plied, and stated at the same time that the dis turbances at Milan had terminated. ROME, MAY 22 (via MARSEILLES.) Chisten, one of the military leaders of the re actionary movement, has returned to Rome. It is asserted that encyclical letters are being secretly circulated, with the object of exciting agitation among the clergy. ' The French police are on the alert to prevent the enlistment of brigands. PARIS, MAY 24. An official notice from the Prefect of Police has to-day been affixed to the doors of the Freemasons' lodges, according to which all meetings at the lodge of the Grand Orient are suspended, and the assembly adjourned until October next. The Pays of this evening says :—" The Sultan has been attacked by dyspepsia." NAPLES, MAY 23. M. di San Martino, the new Lieutenant of the King, has issued a circular, in which he intimates the intention of the Government to uphold legality above the movements of political parties. He instructs the functionaries b whom :the cir cular is addressed to listen to all complaints and diverse opinions, but not to entertain any accusa tion unless accompanied by proofs. In conclusion, he urges the strict execution of all orders trans mitted to them by the Government. MILAN, MAY 24. Tranquillity prevails in this city. The attitude of the troops, the National Guard, and the majority of the inhabitants is admirable. About 100 persons have been arrested. Porte to all the representatives of the foreign Powers at Constantinople by a circular of May 1. RUSSIA. The Word gives the following as a summary of Prince Gorfschakoff's despatch on the Syrian affair to Count de Kisseleff, which has been mentioned by telegraph:— "The document states that as the moment for the evacuation approaches, the Russian Government regards with apprehension the painful consequences it will probably produce ; that in the last con ferences it constantly objected to the evacuation, and that it declines the responsibility of conse quences which it was the first to foresee and to point out to Europe. That responsibility, it says, must necessarily fall on those who have persisted in demanding the cessation of the French occu pation. Accordingly, Ceunt de Kisseleff is re quested, by order of his Sovereign, to speak to this effect to his colleagues in the recent conferences, so as to leave no doubt in their minds as to the views of the Russian Government on the matter. The despatch at the same time refers to the nume rous petitions from foreign residents in Syria., ex pressing fears that the recall of the French troops will lead to grave events. The declaration made by the Russian Cabinet is of great importance, for it clearly shows that it is neither Russia nor France which abandons the unfortunate Christians of Syria to the cruelties of Mussulman fanaticism, which is ready to break out anew. This document moreover proves that no definitive regulation of the Syrian question has been adopted by the European com mission in that province." FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY. 7 BOURSE, May 24.—The market continues in animate, and prices are a shade lower. Threes, for the Account, arc now at 691 35c. Railway Shares also heavy. The following were the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents 95 10, Credit Foncier .... Do end month 96 25' Belgian 41- — 3 per Cents ,-, Do. end month 69 40 i , noman — Bank Shares 2890 I Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 705 2:5 I Spanish Threes — Do. Account 7lO Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern .. 985 987 50 Now ditto 897 50 .. 897 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 930 .. 932 50 Geneva.. .. 423 75 .. 423 75 Southern 573 75 .. 575 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard . TURKEY. Omer Pacha has addressed the following procla mation to the inhabitants of the Herzegovine The Sultan, our august:master, has deigned to place me at the head of his valiant army of Rou melia, and to charge me to preside over the com mission, met to inquire into your wants, and re dress your legitimate grievances. I come among you with the positive order of our august and magnani mous sovereign, to treat you with the indulgence and generosity for which he is remarkable. You have been misled, and have consequently been obliged for four years to endure many sufferings. The line of conduct which people, whose interest is to disturb your repose, have induced you to follow, would have drawn on you incalculable calamities, had not 11. I. M. shown you great commiseration. It is now for you to prove that you are his faith ful subjects, and worthy of his paternal kind ness. Come, then, with confidence to me. I bring you on the part of H.1.M., and I proclaim in his august name a full and complete pardon, with a re mission of your taxes, which are in arrear. I also promise you :-1. To confirm the choice which each village is authorised to'make of one or two 2nonhtars or mayors, according to its importance. 2. To nomi nate for each nahie two rodja-bachis, taken from among the natives who enjoy the confidence of their fellow citizens. 3. Absolute liberty, with the pri vilege of building churches like all the Christian sub jects of H.1.M., and of using bells. 4. Not any longer to permit the zabties to lodge in your houses, but to make them take up their residences in the places designated in each college for them. 5. To bring immediately into force the arrangements which have been adopted in concert with the deputation of the landowners and farmers of Bosnia, who were summoned to Constantinople to draw them up; 6.T0 permit the portion of the taxes due for each house to be levied, and handed over to the authorities by the mouhtars and the rodja bachis ; 7. To recommend to the Patriarchs to send you henceforth bishops of your nation, or who know and speak your language; 8. To facilitate to you the purchase of real property, You see, then, that our august master generously offers you not only forgetfulness for the past, but all that you can require to assure your future happiness and prosperity. Hasten to follow the friendly counsels which I once again address you : profit by them, and cease to keep up agitation, which may turn to your detriment. Spare the Imperial Government the immense pain and the sad necessity of treating you as rebels. Spare yourselves the disastrous con sequences of such treatment. " OMER PACIIA." This proclamation drawn up in the Turkish and Bosnian languages, has been communicated by the LITERATURE. Queensland, Australia. By John Dunmore Lang, D:D., A.M. Eth - vard Stanford. The convulsions in America, however much they are to be lamented, will ultimately prove of great advantage to the British colonies. Theoretically we are opposed to slavery, and we are expending large sums of money and sacrificing human life an nually to check the importation of negroes into America; but while the Southern States were able to furnish our cotton spinners with the raw material at as cheap a rate as they could expect to obtain it from any other quarter, humanity was quietly put on the shelf, and our Manchester capitalists were satisfied with the existing state of affairs, and did not care to speculate money in endeavouring to produce in our own colonies an article which they could obtain without trouble from our transatlantic slaveholding neighbours: The climate of the Southern States of America is well suited for the cultivation of cotton, but there are many countries which are possessed of equal advantages, although it has been the interest of certain individuals to ignore the fact. Some time ago an endeavour was made by certain parties to form a company for the purpose of cultivating cotton in Australia, but the Government o f N ew S ou th W a l es (the oldest and the least energetic of all the Australian colonies) refused all assistance, and the attempt fell to the ground. Now, however, our manufacturers are on the qui vine, the American supply is likely to be stopped, and they are anxious to find other markets. Queensland, Australia, is in every way suited for the production of cotton, and Dr. Lang's work is published at a most appropriate time. Having long resided in Australia, and traversed most of the ex plored regions, his opinions are worthy of atten tion. As in his previous writing, Dr. Lang goes heart and soul into his subject; his object being to show that Queensland presents a highly eligible field for emigration, and possesses every capability to be the future cotton field of Great Britain. Some very fine samples of cotton have been sent to Eng land as an earnest of what the colony can produce ; but we must bear in mind that the author gives us only one side of the question, or at least throws the weight of his argument on the favourable side. His topographic details are carefully written. The colony extends between the 30th and the 11th paral lels of south latitude, and from the sea to the 129th east longitude. The boundaries are not correctly fixed as yet, bat the above dimensions are pretty near the mark. There is little doubt that in a few years the squatters will extend their runs to the Gulf of Carpentaria, for those pioneers of civiliza tion, where the country presents any attractions, are sure to pave the way for agriculture and general colonisation. A considerable portion of the work is devoted to the history of the aborigines, whose habits and customs in various parts, the authorl has had opportunities of studying. The conversion and education of the natives is very desirable, but all the efforts that we make are in talk, not action. A short time ago, when the aborigines were nearly exterminated in Victoria, some pious individuals called meetings, and endeavoured to excite public sympathy in favour of the destitute and neglected aborigines; but this movement did not take place until there were next to none left. It is a painful, but, nevertheless, an established fact, that the mis sionaries do not take any pains with the inhabi tants of Australia; but few missionary posts have been established, and these have soon fallen into decay ; the alleged reason being the ignorance and inability of the natives to understand the Scrip tures ; but they all, more or less, believe in a future state, however indefinite. Are they worse than the Sandwich Islanders ? No, the fact is there are no native productions in which the aborigines can trade, no ivory or skins to encourage the ministers of Christianity to persevere in their pious labours. The day of poisoning and shooting down the blacks have passed away, and common sense and humanity is beginning to effect what coercion was unable to accomplish. Emigrants to Queensland must ex pect to be severely tried by the climate, and the tropical plagues, in the shape of flies and reptiles of all shapes and sizes ; but after a little time they will get used to them, and none need be discouraged by the desponding letters of " New Chums" on their first arrival. On this disagreeable subject the author observes a discreet silence. Dr. Lang has given a very fair account of the country, and to those of the labouring classes who desire permanent employment, Queensland offers a far better field than the other colonies, where, if wages are high, the individual who obtains eightl or nine months' work during the year may consider himself fortunate. Many squat ters have left Victoria where their runs are being curtailed, and the rent increased, for the extensive and fertile plains of the North, and there can be little doubt that b e f ore l ong Queensland will be come great, both from her pastoral and vegetable productions. The timber of Qaeensland will form a remunerative export, one of the most valuable samples of which is the Moreton Bay Pine (Araucaria Cunninghanii), An author informs us that it resembles in its character the swamp oak of New South Wales (the only wood in that colony, we believe, that will float), but grows to a much greater height, viz., from a hundred to a hundred and fifty feet. it resembles the Baltic or North Carolina pine, and appears to be of much more valuable quality than the Canadian timber. It is used for the same pur poses and is cut into boards for exportation. The Iron Bark, Red Cedar, Blue Gum, Box, and other Australian woods are to be found in great abun dance throughout the colony. The great drawback hitherto experienced to the exportation of Austra lian timber has been the expense of transportation. The introduction of rai ways will, however, over come this difficulty. And we trust, ere long, to be independent of foreign states for the requirements of our manufactures, and that our colonies, when their resources are fully developed, will be able to supply the home market and other nations with the products of their soil which hitherto we have been obliged to import. THE UNITED STATES • LEGATION.—The United States Legation is temporarily located at No. 7, Duke street, Portland-place. STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH VANCOUVER ISLAND.-By advices from Vancouver Island to the 23d March last, we learn, on unquestionable authority, that the mercantile community in that colony have become so angry at the frequent interruption of the communication with Europe and New York, in consequence of the American steamers running from San Francisco so irregularly, and particularly of their having established a low rate of fares to Portland, which enables the miners to pass into British Columbia by way of the Columbia River, instead of going in the first instance to Victoria as heretofore, that they held a public meeting at Victoria (the capital of Vancouver Island), when it was unanimously carried that a British steamer should at once be put on for the conveyance of the mails, passengers, and specie; and the Hudson Bay Com pany offered the Labouchere for the purpose, provided a subsidy of £5,000 a year was granted Subscription lists were at. once opened to raise a moiety of that sum ; the re mainder it was anticipated would be voted by the legisla ture, as the majority of members concurred in the necessity. There is but little doubt that the Hudson Bay Company's offer will be acceptcd,but as the Labouchere, the steamer employed in the fur trade, is ill calculated for the passen ger trade, a steam vessel will be purchased in England, and thus form the nucleus of a British steam-packet com pany in the North Pacific. What an opening this would be for the Cunard line, or for either of our great ship com panies; the Cunard Company, perhaps, would ul.imately derive the greatest advantage, and, by combining with the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, engross the whole of our trade on the Western Coast of America. Liverpool interests are paramount in the South Pacific, and why ohould it not bofio in the North ? MI?. TRAIN'S SPE E CH AT ISLINGTON (From the London American of Wednesday.) The magnificent hall recently erected at High bury Barn was built by the enterprising proprieto•, Senore Giovaneli, in seven weeks, and is one of the finest rooms of the kind in London. Some four or five hundred guests sat down to the grand inaugural banquet which we allude] to in our last, comprising editors, vestrymen, ant residents of Islington. Mr. APEvoy, M.P., wh) was to take the chair, wrote a note at the las:. moment that he was detained on the question d Irish Education in the House of Commons, ad some of the gentlemen connected with the Islington Vestry, who had given Mr. Train permission to in troduce his street railways in the parish, immeli ately proposed that Mr. Train should take the char. The audience insisted, and the banquet was pry. longed till midnight—a banquet of English, Irist, and Scotch, with an American chairman. The following eloquent remarks were made b: Mr. Train in response to the toast—" The Chair man." The frequent allusions to American affairs to night I presume have been made because my nationality is known, and you wish an American's opinion of American affairs. (Hear, hear.) But if I touch upon them you will perhaps object to my language, my earnest way of calling plain things by their plain names. (No.) Will you let me speak what I think ? (Yes.) Will you let me give you the actual sentiments of a man who loves his country only second to his God ? (Applause.) Then you shall have it, and that is expressed in pointed words under the flag on the outside of every Northern en velope—Death to Traitors. (Hear, hear.) You love your country, so do I mine; you rejoice to see the Chartist demonstration crushed in its infancy. (Hear, hear.) You erect monuments to the heroes who stansped out the Indian rebellion ; and you shot down those on the Ballarat, when I was in Australia, when they broke the law of the na tion. (Hear, bear.) How, then, can you sympa thise with those blackhearted knaves who would ruin a land blessed by God with natural and na tional attributes grander than any known to man ! Having been in England from the commencement of the insurrection, I have earnestly watched the opinion of the people. First there seemed general lament about what they termed fratricidal war — (hear, hear)—but on second thought the sympathy appeared to be like that of a successful merchant over the failure of his rival on the other side of the street. (Cheers and hear.) The next phase was a universal howl at the Morrill (all pronounced it highly immoral) Tariff. (Laughter.) The pocket was in a spasm ; and trade knows little sympathy. You forgot your half a century of Wilberforcian • ism, and patted the South cotton and slavery on the back—the Times leading off and encouraging the traitors. Then the South clapped an export duty on cotton. Again the tide ebbed, and the South was proved barbarian by the pirate chief, who dis gusted everybody with his privateering proclama tion. (Shame.) Then Lord John Russell declared war against the North (no, no) by acknowledging that the Southerners were belligerent, and did us—most humiliating to our pride—the dis tinguished honour—quoting Canning in 1825—0 f comparing us with the beggarly Turks. (Laughter.) Lord Palmerston lost no time in correcting the bad impression of the Foreign Secretary, and the Queen's Proclamation now comes most opportunely. (Hear, hear.) When a man has corns on his feet he is most irritable when his neighbour goes out of his way to tread upon them : so if England really wishes to unite the two parts, let her overhaul an American ship. (Hear.) The last speaker, Mr. Lawrence, was cheered when he hoped that the next mail would bring peace. (Hear.) We are not quite ready to shake hands—our feelings at the North have been too long outraged. We don't believe there is any fight in the South. The Southern chivalry will collapse into exile like an over-inflated balloon— (laughter)—and instead of peace I hope the next news will bring submission to the Federal Power, or that the hordes of the pirates are burnt to the ground. (No, and loud cheers.) Never was known before such an outburst of nationality. The Hermit Peter and his crusaders, and the rising of the Giron dists, so eloquently described by Lamartine,to whom I had the honour last year of introducing Senator Seward, our present energetic Premier, were nothing in comparison to the outburst of enthusiasm from the insulted North, who will pour down upon the pirate bands and traitor gangs and sweep them off like turning the waters of the Mississippi into the drains of New Orleans and purify the city, by cleansing the accumulated political stench of the party lately in office. (Hear.) Hull on the Lakes and Arnold on the Hudson, were true men compared to Stephens, Colt, Floyd, and their brother traitors, and Aaron Burr was a patriot alongside of the traitor leader Davis. (Applause.) We have a Go vernment at last—only eight weeks in office— yet 50,000 soldiers at Washington—Fort Pickens fortified—several regiments landed at Texas, and 20,000 volunteers at Cairo to stop every barrel of pork brought down the Ohio, and every bag of corn down the Mississippi. (Cheers.) Riflemen in Fort Maurice ; riflemen at Annapolis. Fifty steam trans ports and 200,0'10 men blockading every Southern port—(loud applause)—and all in a fortnight. Does that look like a weak Government ? Does that give you an idea of a dying nation ? No. Gentlemen, we have at last turned our ploughshares into weapons of defence, and the traitors, when they find cannon to the right of them—cannon to the left of them, cannon behind them, thundering the death-song of parricides, will cower into obscu rity at the mere sight of their own blood. (Hear, and applause.) The Cabinet is a unit. The Lew Ministers to foreign lands are arriving ; last night the Ambassador to England, now in London ; the son of one President—the grandson of another— himself the candidate for Vice-President—Charles Francis Adams—(cheers)—of Massachussetts, will represent America like a gentleman and a states man. A man of talent, a man of wealth, Mr. Adams will soon show your Ministry the good feeling that the United States (not disunited yet)—(hear, and cheers)--bears towards the land that gave them birth. Oar American Ministers have been living in attics and back parlours ever since Massachussetts' favourite son—Abbott Lawrance—returned so well the hospitality showered upon him ; and now we have another representative who will prove himself worthy of the State who at a few hours' notice sent those regiments who hewed their way over the dead bodies of the traitors at Baltimore to the protection of the Capitol. (Loud cheers.) The battle of Baltimore in the second Revo lution was only another edition of the battle of Washington on the unnivorsary of the first Revolution. (Loud cheers.) We have at last succeeded in sending abroad men of brains and position Ambassadors, Consuls, and Se cretaries—who are devoted to the Union—Dayton at Paris has arrived in time to displace the Minister who, I am told, presented the traitor Commissioners to the Emperor, and Clay at St. Petersburg, are entire men, and all the appointments are creditable to the nation. I know you will pardon me for not speaking of the street railways ; you get enough of them in the papers. I can only say that the opposi tion is as much exaggerated as my energies are overrated. ("No," and cheers.) All inventions are opposed, moral, mechanical, or political. I believed some philosopher should discover a shorter cut over a level road to a happier world, there are many theo logical fossils who will prove that it is not only de structive of propertyand dangerous to life, but highly detrimental to the best interests of the Church. (Laughter and oh.) I had rather talk about America than street railways. Don't forget what I have told you about the issue of the contest—America must drop the comparison. It is no longer North and South, it is order against anarchy—patriots against parricides—Unionists against traitors. (Cheers.) They must submit or be exterminated. The 7imes, of Bth May, discussing the debate on acknowledg ing the independence of the lonian Islands, says : " When the lonians have compelled several British armies to capitulate, starved out or burnt out several garrisons, and sent a dozen or two of our steam frigates to the bottom of the Mediterranean, we shall be I am glad pre pared to advise a recognition of their independence, at whatever cost to our pride." with words to your Thunderer has furnished me .. 20 millions of Union ex press the exact sentiment of Union men. It is not war alone ; for pestilence is in the (Cheers.) rice swamp—Missouri is with the negroes—in surrection sleeps with the slave, and gaunt famine will soon hold his dreary Court of Death. The chiefs will slink away like rats from a burning ship—already they are begging your ambassador for an armistice — (hear , hear)—but they refused the Crittenden compromise. They have sown the wind and must reap the whirlwind —with naval brigades forming—patriotic bands raising—merchants cen t ribu tin g—bells ringing Union —cannon roaring Union—fair girls wearing next their bosom Union bows—(cheers and laughter)—woven with Union rosettes—and cheers going up to Heaven from the Union men of Union Square—with such action America fears no evil. The fisherman at Marble - head drops his net and cries Union, to the rescue— the farmer on the Green Mountains hears it at the plough, and the Ohio boatman passes over to the ht ter on the prairie, onward over the range of moun tain passes to the gold digger on the Sacramento when up go the flags, as San Franc i sco cries Union along the line. (Uheers.) General Houston's great heart is gladdened at the sound, and on he rushes with the red ar tillery. Fort Pickens booms a reply that reaches to the capitol, and chests our old back veuodsman Preeident, till the tears start as he hears the cry of Union now, and Union for ever. It has been our living sentiment, and, by the blessing of God, it shall be our dying sentiment—Union now And Union for oer, (Loud chore.) And 14 me say to the patriot bands of my dear country, in the words of the poet manager of Punch, who wrote them rot the Volunteers of England— Step together all together! close, close together! Remember this is holy earth On which our measured footsteps tread, The living land which gave us birth, The dust of our immortal dead Step together I all together close, close together ! Each man true beside us; Close together ! fall together! Death can but divide us.—(Cheers.) Perchance the spirits of our sires Look down from yon bright stars above, And from those orbs of quenchless fires, Light in our hearts a patriot love. The wind shall bear across the sea The burden of our earnest song, Who, hearing, doubts, we will be free? They taunt us with our love of gold, Our hate of blood, our love of peace ; We would not sell what they have sold, For even life itself's increase. —(Loud cheers.) FISHERIES .PRESERVATION ASSOCIATIOIV: A general meeting of the members of the associa tion was held yesterday, at their offices in Regent street, to consider the report of the council upon the exportation of unseasonable salmon to France, End also to consider the Lord Advocate's Fisheries Bill. Lord Saltoun presided. The CHAIRMAN intimated that since the last general meeting the council had met frequently, and had made every inquiry in their power into the subject referred to them for investigation. They bad framed a report, the draft of which he would read, and which would show the necessity of im mediate and strong steps being taken to prevent the total extermination of the salmon and' trout fry in all the rivers of the United Ringdem- The report stated with regard to the export of foul salmon to France (by which Paris was meant, for it was there that 999-1000ths of it went), that the council had made diligent inquiry as to the extent of the export during the fence months, which though differing as to time in various parts of the United Kingdom, extended over 20 weeks of the year, and found that not less than from 4001 b. to 5001 b. w eight of salmon on the average was exported every week during those 20 weeks. As in the course of a few weeks or even days these fish would have deposited their spawn in their several rivers, and - as each fish would contain from 10,000 to 12,000 eggs, the loss to the fisheries and the public was enormous. It was the custom to transmit these fish in all kinds of packages, sometimes in ladies trunks, and sometimes in boxes and baskets with rabbits' feet protruding from them. There was consequently some difficulty in dealing with the question effec tually on this side. An excise duty on the export had been suggested, and ',as that no doubt would at once hamper this illicit trade, the council would not lose sight of the suggestion. But a more effectual remedy would be the prohibition of the sale of the fish in the Paris markets during the fence months; and as the French Government were actively engaged at the present moment in the development and improvement of their own river fisheries, there was reason to believe that if the matter were pro perly represented to them they would enact and enforce such a prohibition. The same machinery which collected the octroi duty on all provisions entering Paris might easily be made effective in preventing the introduction of salmon during the close season. The council concluded by recom mending that the suggestion of Mr. Martin T. Smith should be acted upon, viz., that a deputation should wait upon Lord John Russell, urging him to use the influence of the British Government with the French Emperor to induce him to establish a prohibitory law on the subject. The recommendation of the council was agreed to - unanimously. HORRIBLE CASE OF MURDER AT ST. TEMP'S, BRISTOL. BRISTOL, FRIDAY EVENING. This afternoon the densely-populated manufac turing district of St. Philip and Jacob, which forms the south-eastern boundary of this city, was thrown into a state of the greatest excitement in consequence of its becoming known that a little girl of between two and a-half arid three years old, had been deliberately murdered by her own mother. The names of both murderess and victim were the same, Martha 011iver, and they were the wife and child of a journeyman saddler and harness maker, named Henry 011iver, with whom they lived in an apartment at No. 4, John-street. The unhappy woman, who is 46 years of age, was before the per petration of the crime the mother of three children, and the fact of the murder was first brought under the notice of the police authorities by her own state ment. In the early part of this afternoon she pre sented herself at the central police-station, Bride well-street, where 6he encountered police-sergeant Windmill, and addressing his), said that she sur rendered herself to him as his prisoner. The con stable at first thought that she was jesting, bat upon his asking tier upon what charge she wished him to arrest her, she said, very earnestly, I have been and hung one of my little children." The officer, still dubious of her statement, asked what could have induced her to commit such an act as that, to which she replied that her husband had used her very badly, and by his cruelty had driven her to it. She stated this with apparent calmness, and the sergeant deemed it his duty to take her into the charge-room before the officer on duty. She there repeated her statement, telling where she lived, and saying she had hanged the child from one of the posts of her bed. She then tendered the key of her door, saying that if the officer could go and look he would find it as she had stated. The officer on duty, upon this, directed Police-sergeant Windmill to go to John-street, and he was telling him to make haste, as life might - not be quite extinct, when she said, "Oh, it is of no use. I have done it. I could not bear to see her suffer, and I pulled her by the heels." The sergeant lost no time in proceeding to the house, which is rented by a person named Mounting, 011iver being an under-tenant. He opened the door, and in looking into the room found that her horrible statement had been a true one, as the lifeless body of the poor child was sus pended from one of the bed-posts. The sergeant at once cut it down, and medical assistance was pre. cured, but it was of course wholly unavailing. The woman, who had been held in custody at the station-home during the time the officer was engaged in making the inquiries, was afterwards taken, for examination, before the magistrates, and was remanded by them for further inquiry. Infor mation has been conveyed to the coroner, J. B. Grindon, Esq., who will hold an inquest to-morrow. APPALLING SCENE ON A WINDER• MERE STEAM-ER. On Tuesday, in consequence of the large number of excursionists from Preston for Windermere and the cheap trains thither from other towns, Bowness was very much crowded, and the three steamers on the lake were loaded with passengers from the various landing-places, anxious to view the beauties of the locality and to enjoy the pleasure of a sail on the Queen of the Lakes. One of the steamers of the Windermere Steam Yacht Company, the Lady of the Lake, left the pier at Bowness for Ambleside, at a quarter-past 12 o'clock, with deck and cabin passengers, variously estimated at from 200 to 400, being considerably more than the legal number and more, apparently, than she was able to carry. Per. sons left behind on the pier were astounded to see her lurching and rolling on the water as though in a heavy sea as she passed away, the paddle w h ee ls being alternately lifted entirely out of the water: Before she had proceeded a mile on h er jo ur ney wa ter made its appearance in the cabin, to the sur prise of the passengers, and this surprise- was heightened to consternation, and even to terror with some, when they found th a t it increased in height. The cabin passengers rushed on deck in a state of the wildest alarm, the ladies shrieking for help, and the panic became indescribable when the cry that the vessel was sinking went through the dense mass of people on deck. The captain, having ascertained beyond doubt that the vessel had sprung a serious leak, ran her ashore on the Lancashire side of the lake, where the Hawksworth road approaches the water, and a little to the north of Curwen's Island. Here the confusion became worse confounded, some of the passengers leaping into the water and struggling to get ashore, to the imminent risk of their lives, and many received severe sprains and bruises. Two women were en tirely-immersed in the water, one of them being the daughter of Mr. Pearnley, of Luncestreet, Preston, who leapt inte the lake from sheer terror; happily, both were safely rescued. The majority, however, were got ashore, without either bruise or immersion. The passengers remained on the bank of the lake until the returning steamer from Amble. side—it having been signalled for by the steam whistle of the sinking vessel—came up and took them off for Boldness. The fright of thepassen gets was greatly increased by the suspicion that the boiler had burst. This arose from the extinc tion of the fire by the water, which rose rapidly after the leakage was discovered. The great volume of steam thus created caused the same feeling to be shared by perbons on beard the other vessels on the lake, who, when they saw the steamer run ashore, were convinced some serious accident had occurred. In L11:1; ILukruptcy ye.,4orday thena was a dividend sitting under the sc.:pa rat:: estate of Messrs. Davies and Traughton, bankers, of Shersditch. It was stated that the dividend will be 203 in the pound, with a considerable gwowl applicable to the joint estate,