The Sun. — London, England, 1861-08-10 00:00:00

WELLINGTON, we are told, once said that he had often blundered even in the Peninsula cam paign and got into scrapes, but somehow his MEN always contrived to get him out of them. Neither General SCOTT, nor his representative on the field of battle, M‘DowELL, were so happy. Their men got them into scrapes rather than out of them. If we may include the subordinate officers with the men, for the officers seemed the greater cowards of the two, it was the army which failed the General rather than the General the army. We have now an account of the Battle of Bull's Run—the Vir ginians will surely rechristen it, Yankees' Run— from a pen which Englishmen can rely on ; and it corroborates all our unworthiest suspicions, such as we hardly liked to utter before, respecting the Northerns. One of the worst facts of all we take to be the perfect nonchalance with which the officers talk openly about their being so well " whipped." We confess we had on this point pictured to ourselves gentlemen smarting with unendurable indignation under the stigma of a most discreditable defeat, and ready to reorganise, to lead their regiments with despera tion, and, ready as we have so often read of morti fied or desponding heroes "to plunge into the thickest of the fight, and to retrieve by a glorious soldier's death the dishonour which they could not survive." On the contrary we have it on ind-isputa ble authority, that the desponding mein of the corn non soldiers, was more becoming than that of their officers—" who are crowding the hotels and talking of their whipping with complacency and without shame." In tracing back the calamity to its origin, as "to the House that Jack built"—we come to Yankee pride and love of sensation. Some astonishing feat of " whipping the Southerncrs " was wanted to satisfy the States who had massed together a large, but raw and ill-disciplined, army on the line of the Potomac. Their cla mour and conceit moved the President, the President urged General SCOTT, General SCOTT commanded M'DowELL—and so, both SCOTT and M‘Doweee, in their own minds opposed to the movement, and quite aware of their army's defi ciencies, prepare to do the bidding of the Sovereign Yankees. Now, though the movement itself was a bit of a " scrape," yet our English informant who had all the plans of the advance explained to him by APDOWELL himself, after the battle, acknow ledges that to his poor judgment, as he modestly expresses himself, " they were judicious and clear." His columns, however , made the scrape worse by be ing too slow and too late in t hei r movements, th oug h they had ample time allowed them ; the consequence being th at instead of turning the enemy's left fl an k as he Lutcnded, they advanced to meet him' and General. JOHNSTON had time to get away from PATTERSON'S home-sick regiments at Harper's Fcrry, and augment BEALMEGARD'S strength largely. But 111cDowELL's men and officers, having thus got him into a worse scrape than that of advancing at all before the time, were not like our Iron Duke's raw recruits in the Peninsula, always ready to get him out of it. They made matters ten times worse by their want of pluck. After all we have heard from the New York papers, Mr. RUSSELL says, justly enough, that we must rely a little on "cha racter" for the truth of the following astounding statement 1—" There was not a bayonet charge made by the Federalist infantry during the day there was not a charge of any kind made by the Con federate cavalry upon any regiment of the enemy until the latter broke. There was not a hand-to hand encounter between any regiments. There was not a singe " battery charged" or taken by the Federalists. 'There were no masked batteries in Play by the former. There was no annihilation of reb el horse by Zovares, Fire, or other. A vol ley fired by one battalion emptied three saddles among a b ody or horse who appeared at some dis tance, and the ins, entry which performed the execu tion than retired. There were no desperate struggles except by those w h o wantvd to get away. The whole matter in plain Z - nglesh amounts to this The Federalists advanced slo w l y , b ut stead i ly, under the fire of thei r artille ry , dr i ving the enemy, who rarely' showed. oat of cover, in li ne before them,. and g raduallyforc e d them , back on the right and catitre for a mile and a h a lf towards Manassas. As : the enetr fell back they used 11-1-LEATRE•ROYAL, HAYMARK.ET. Les4ce, Mr. J. B. Blackstone. TAIS EVENING, the performances will commence with anew Ballet, BACCIIUS AND ARIADNE. Miss Fanny Wright, the Leclercqs, Mr. Webster, &O. After which, a new Comedy, entitled MY LORD AND MY LADY ; or, It Might have been Worse. Mr. C. Mathew s Mr. Andrews, Mr. Buckstone, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Wilkins, &c. Followed by OF AGE TO-MORROW. Mies m. Oliver, To conclude with TURNING THE TABLES. Commence at 7. ROYAL R INCE S S'S THEATRE.-- Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the new comic drama, entitled A HOMESTEAD STORY, Messrs. Ryder Shore, and Miss N. Harris. Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Sup ported by Hermann Vezin, Ryder, Meadows, dm. ; Misses Beath, Elsworthy, and R. Leclercq. EW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. "1".1. Reproduction of the great drama of "The Dead Heart." THIS EVENING, the great Adelphi drama, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, Fisher, Billing ton, Eburne, Smith, Romer ; Miss Woolgar and Miss Kate Kelly. To conclude with (23d time) THE PRETTY HORSE BREAKER. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford; Miss K. Kelly, Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Thome, Miss Laidlaw, and Mrs. Chatterley, Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. r ANT ERBURY HALL, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Verdi's New Opera, UN BALLO IN MASCHERA, arranged and conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. Mr. Levy on the cornet-a-piston. Mr. Wood and his talented little Son, the best Negro Delineators of the day. The extraordinary comic duet, "The Nerves," by Messrs. Harvey and French, the most grotesque performance in London. Mrs. Lawrence and Mr. Marshall in several New Songs written expressly for him, including the "Excursion to Brighton." Admission, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, is. RETURN of SAM COWELL to ENGLAND, who will shortly appear at his old quarters, after an absence of five years. RE-DECORATION of this Maznificent HALL, executed by Mr. William Sanderson, of Lambeth, under the direction of Samuel Field, Esq., architect, is now completed. This popular Place of Amusement now surpasses its former grandeur, and, with the FINE ARTS GALLERY and SPACIOUS PROMENADE, forms the MOST ELEGANT PUBLIC BUILDING in the WORLD. Considerable im provements have been made in the VENTILATION and LIGHTING. H E F 0 R D, 6, OXFORD-STREET. The architectural beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and brilliancy of lighting of this noble building, render it one of the sights of London. Open Every Evening. The pro gramme is varied, and includes Selections from " La Tra viat 4," "Un Ballo in Maschera," ,tc., (by a full company of principals, powerful band, and chorus). Solos by Miss Bryant en the Piano Forte, and by Mr. Russell on the Trombone. Old English Ballad, by Miss Green, scotch Duets by the Misses Stuart, and other vocal and instrumental music of the highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The Comic_ . portion of the entertainment is supported by Messrs. m Foster (in his " Life Sketches"), Sam Collins , and French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. Banda _ sixpence ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. private Boxes, 10s. ed. ._ HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS Day.—Morning, 4h. 20m.—Afternoon, 4h. 42m. To-mottuo-w.-Morning, 4h. 58m.—Afternoon, 6h. 20m. THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, AUGUST 10, 1861. TILEILMOMETEIt, IN THE SHAM. 73 —highest since noon yesterday. 61—lowest this morning and during the night. 75—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.18. WlND—Westerly—fresh ; with fine harvest weather. tYpA ti _ d z i g ",t. THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1861. their artillery also, and there was a good deal of pounding at long ranges with light field guns, and some heavier rifled ordnance, the line on both sides being rarely within 500 yards of each other," We believe Mr. RUSSELL'S statements—we believe them not only on account of his undoubted veracity, but from the necessity he must feel himself under to publish to all Europe only what could be verified when he thus pledges his character for it, and from the general aspect of the exaggerated ac counts which the American papers manufactured, or taken from the lips of fugitives who gave utter ance to their terrified imaginations, have not to their knowledge. It was, in fact, along balls fight through- ' out. Now the Federalists received a volley of musketry from those who took good care they should not first come too near—they fall back ; they advance again and deliver a volley, and now the Con federates fall back ; and so forth throughout the day; reminding one of the curious cavalry fighting de scribed by XENOPHON in which the combatants rode up to each other almost within bow-shot, and there sat all day on their horses contented with archery practice which did not empty a single saddle. The Germans, Scotch, and Irish are unanimously reported to have done their part most bravely of all. Indeed, Yan keeism seems to have regarded it as a cool business affair entirely; so much so, that the three months' term of service of one regiment having expired that day, it was quite content to leave its artillery to be taken by the enemy, and to march straight off home. We do not wonder, however, that the better class of Americans feel a little for their national reputa tion. What will England and France think of i t 9 ,, is the question asked, we are told, again and again. Well it may be! What can we think of it ? We can only modestly say, that it is not our way of doing things. We did not adopt that style of fight ing at the Alma and at Inkerman, nor the French and Sardinians at Magenta and Solferino ; nor GARIBALDI anywhere. Fort Sumter fighting, Bull's Run fighting, will become standard expres sions for that kind of fighting which consists in caring for a whole skin more than for a victory. We are bound, however, to confess that there seems to be a family likeness between the combatants ; the South as well as the North showed a due respect for bullets and cannon-balls, though the general ship of the South was the better. Moreover, so prudent was the South, that it did not know when it had beaten—very natural, when we remember the distance at which it fought the beaten foe. Indeed it seems clear, even from Mr. RUSSELL'S nar rative, that had it made a prompt forward move, and used the cavalry it is reputed to have, as it ought, it might have taken a large portion of the Northerners prisoners, and even have presented its regiments in front of Washington. As it is its advanced pickets are within six miles of Alexandria, ten of Washington itself. In one respect most of us must modify our views looking at the total result. Two things especially strike the reader, the absence of that increased bitterness on the part of the North which had been expected as a matter of course; and the absence of anything like strong patristic feeling on the part of the soldiers. If Fort Sumter created such a stir in the North, it was presumed that Bull's Run would bring down the North on the South almost like the floods of Northern barbarians which deso lated the Roman Empire. But, if anything, the reverse takes place. All who can shirk the conflict seem inclined to do so. The men of a volunteer regiment marched off, leaving their guns on the ground the very morning of the battle, because their three months' term of service was up, and the Pennsylvanians showed the same spirit. While, as we saw yes terday, at Harper's Ferry General PATTERSON was hampered, and, perhaps, has, lost the place again, because nineteen of his volunteer regiments had determined to leave for home, their term of service having expired. The truth is, the North has no cry worth fighting for. We almost begin to hope that a big Slavery Union will not be found stimulus enough to bring the North to a hand-to-hand con flict with the South. What LINCOLN is now fight ing for, Europe certainly does not regard as worth the blood of many citizens ; and it seems as if the Yankees themselves had somewhat of the same feeling. Let the battle be to wipe out the foul stain of slavery from the flag of the Republic, and Europe would applaud—and all the worth of the Union would stand forth as patriots. If the French EMPEROR is allowing 1861 to pass away without either provoking diplomatic contro versy, or throwing down the gage of battle again in defiance to one of the European Sovereignties— his Imperial Majesty is at any rate keeping atten tion in his regard upon the alert, by coming into personal communication with one or another of his brother potentates. A crowned BERNADOTTE is now his guest at the Tuileries. There he has already entertained, among other august per sonages,7the Reigning British SOVEREIGN. He has received a visit there before now from the young King of PORTUGAL. He has shaken hands upon the frontiers of the two countries with his MAJESTY of Belgium. If he has not yet greeted as a guest in his capital either of the Czars of Russia who have been his contemporaries, either NICHOLAS I. Or ALEXANDER 11., NAPOLEON 111. has at least had the satisfaction of so doing by the brother of the present autocrat, the Arch-Duke CONSTANTINE. More than simply greeting in his palaces the representative of the oldest dynasty in Christen dom , King VICTOR EMMANUEL, the French Emperor has enabled that Re Galantuomo to add first of all Lombardy to his Sardinian territories, and eventually has left the path open before him, so that without the aid of France, rather, it should be said, in spite of the manifest wishes and aspirations of France, he should absorb the bulk of the great Italian peninsula i n t o his dominio ns , an d t o come f or th before the world by a grande r titl e th an was ever dreamt of by his ambitiou s f at h er, CHARLES A LB ERT as—King of Italy ! If NAPOLEON 111. has succeeded so far in Elbowing his way in—parvenu, as he has acknowledged himself to be—among the crowned heads of Europe, he has nevertheless once or twice had to submit to rather glaring indignities. At Baden he might swagger it as he pleased among the German t princelings—but previously don't w how haughtily he was denied admittanceeall recollect to he sanctum sanctoruin, where the creme de la creme of the claimants of the Right Divine met in solemn conclave, unembarrassed by the presence of a BONAP ART E ? He had his revenge afterwards, however, by meeting face to face the young Kaiser, FRANCIS JOSEP El, at that little green table at Villafranca, across which the two Emperors, the Conquered and the Conqueror, talked over the conse quences of Solferino upon the morrow of Solferino— FRANCIS JOSEPH pulling the flowe - :s to pieces like some bashful young maiden at a ball—Louis NAPO LEON coolly smoking his little paper cigaretto. His Imperial MAJESTY is again endeavouring to treat, and be treated, enfatnille, in this way. by the European Sovereigns. There is the Swedish Monarch, a s we have said, now his guest:at the Tuileries. Aparvenu, like himself, it is true, but still a reigning Sovereign. A BERNADOTTO and 4 REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE.—It has been officially notified that the nomination of candidates for the newly-created seat for South Lancashire is to take place on Wednesday morning, at 10 o'clock, at Newton-in- Mackerfield. The polling, it is understo4 will be on the following Saturday. THE LATE DUKE OF BEDFORD.—The will and two codicils of his Grace the Duke of Bedford, K.G., were proved in Her Majesty's Court of Probate on the 31st of July, by the executors, his son, the present Duke of Bed ford ; Lord Foley, Mr. Charles Romilly, and Mr. George Russell. The personalty was sworn under £600,000. The will extends over 530 folios, and it and the codicils I bear date May 7, 1861, and are all attested by the same witnesses, being the Rev. S. F. Cumberlege, incumbent of Woburn, and Mr. R. du Cane, of Gray's-inn. His Grace's son, the present Duke, in addition to the family estates, has bequeathed to him by hig late father all the property not otherwise disposed of by will, and is appointed residuary legatee. With a view to increase the rent-roll of the family estates the late Duke has further directed that the yearly sum of £5,000 is to be set apart to accumulate for the period of 21 years. His Grace has devised to his brother, Earl Russell, for life, the Irish estates left to the testator by the late Earl Ludlow, which, on the Earl's decease, are to descend to Earl Russell's eldest son and his issue, but subject to annuities to the Earl's daughters. His Grace has also bequeathed to Earl Russell a life interest in £15,000 with power of disposition to his children; and to the Coun tess Russell is left a legacy of £1,000; and there are be quests to all the other members of his Grace's family. The late duke has most munificently considered every person employed by him throughout his large establishment by granting handsome annuities and liberal legacies. There is also a legacy of £l,OOO given to the Bedford General In firmary. Plush - ated London Am. s.. BARON FITZHARDINGE.—It will have been seen by our Parliamentary report of the 7th inst. that the title conferred upon Admiral Sir Maurice Frederick Fitzhar dinge Berkeley, of Berkeley Castle, is that of " Baron Fitz hardinge, of the city and county of the city of Bristol." A more appropriate title could scarcely have been selected, for the first of his ancestors who set foot in England was Har dinge, son of the King of Denmark, who came to England with William the Conqueror. Hardinge lived in Bristol, and the walls of his house still stand in "Baldwin-street," which was so named by Ilardinge after the Conqueror's brother, Baldwin, Earl of Flanders. In the reign of King Stephen, Robert Fitzhardinge, the son of Har dinge, began to build the monastery of St. Augustine, which is now Bristol Cathedral. He completed it in the reign of King Henry 11. Over the cathedral gate there is this inscription :—"DominusHenricus Secundus et Robertus filius Hardingi, filii Regis Dacire primi Fundatores hujus Monasterii extiterunt." To this Robert Fitzhardinge King Henry 11. afterwards granted Berkeley Castle by Royal charter, and Maurice, his son, was first of the race who assumed the name of "Berkeley." Robert Fitzhardinge was buried in Bristol Cathedral, where his tomb still re mains. It bears this inscription :—" The monument of Robert Fitzhardinge, Lord of Berkeley, descended from the Kings of Denmark, and Eva, his wife, by whom he had five sons and two daughters ; Maurice, his eldest son, was the first of this family that took the name of Berkeley. ThisßobertFitzhardinge laid the foundation of this church and monastery of St. Augustine in the year 1140, the fifth of King Stephen, dedicated and endowed it in 1148. He died in the year 1170, in the 17th of King Henry 11. This monument was repaired A.D. 1742. From the said Robert Fitzhardinge, Lord of Berkeley, Augustus, the present Earl (1742), is the two-and-twentieth in descent." PUBLIC TESTIMONIALS AND STATUES.—The num ber of public statues and testimonials, either proposed or in progress at the present moment, to the memory of public men recently deceased is more remarkable than at any other period. Among those in progress tc commemorate the ser vices of distinguished statesmen may be mentioned one to th on o e a nte m hae eu, e m aluanu o yar r tyaaht memorialos ic f dae L eotrf Cambridge asegtf.e Melbourne er: oaauunli tsitc;literary raavi anotherrnoy u r m i .n marble, r t Aobi institute u e t , t cht militaryoe a b nlu e ate s erectedta Lordt statueue t asotndEatrrlopDhaylhthoutshiee D at uk C e a o lc f u l t v ta: llin a g s t t o a n tu , ettwoeLlvoordfeEetlphhicnh in bronze, will shortly surmount the Wellington ue column, erected a and d f for t h h o e u p o u u r r p e o f s e Sirat Liverpool, Hope Grant, and are st aptr proposed s t e o d have lock v ethe- places where they wore born. Statues to the eminent en gineers Robert Stephenson and IsanTh ar d B rune l are being executed by Baron I`,larochetti, to be placed opposite Palace yard. Another statue, in addition to the one at the Euston station, is about to be erected to George Stephenson at Newcastle, and one is talked of to the late Mr. J. Locke. Sir Charles Barry, the architect of the Houses of Parlia ment is to have an etNgy in Westminster Abbey. An archi tects' travelling fund is to be established in honour of the late Mr. Pugin. In the religious world two commemora tive monuments have just been in au g urated to Dr. Iv,,atts and James Montgomery, and another is to be dedicated to Bunyan. Sir Hugh Myddleton, the projector of the wealthy New River Company, and who is sa id to have died in penury, is to have a drinking fountain erected to his memory at Islington. Dr. Baily, the late physician to the Court, is also to have a statue. Among the most recently proposed testimonials, apart from statues, are those to the night lion, Milner Gibson and Ur, Draidwood. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING. AUGUST 10, 1861. BONAPARTE—they harmonize well together as such. But if the French SOVEREIGN meets his brother monarch claiming the world's homage as NAPOLEON the Third—the Swedish Sovereign is there, parvenu though he is, BERNADOTTE though he is, descendant but a generation or two back of an obscure advocate of one of the provinces of France, as his Majesty CHARLES the lifteenth ! Not satisfied, however, with the friendly intercourse established between the Court of the Tuileries and the Courts of so many of the European monarchies, the French Em PEROR is still striving'apparentlfto bring. himself into direct personal communication with the other reigning sovereigns. He holds out a hand in one direction to King WILLIAM, in another to Queen ISABELLA. It is significant that both his Prussian and her Spanish Majesty evince a coy reluctance to respond to these proffers of more intimate friendship. After the most confident intimations have gone the rounds of the newspapers all over Europe to the effect that the King of Prussia is about to become the guest of the French Emperor at the camp at Chalons —it tarns out that this semi-official state ment is nothing less, after ail, than a deliberate mis-statement. All the courtesy that the King of PRUSSIA can vouchsafe is a holograph letter addressed to his Imperial Majesty of FRANCE, in excuse of course, or explanation, and as a prelimi nary, it is stated, to an interview that is to take place between the two Sovereigns—not at Paris, not at the Camp of Chalons, but—somewhere on the frontier of France about the sixth day of October ! As to the Queen of SPAIN, the response made by her to the friendly -advances coming to her from the direction of the Tuileries, appears to have been even more uncomplimentary. It is pretty confidently asserted that Queen ISA BELLA has no ambition whatever to obtain the privilege of an interview with the Impe rial MACHIAVELLI, somewhere or another at the foot of the Pyrenees. All these courtly advances made by the reigning French EMPEROR to the surrounding European Sovereigns, and all these particularly discourteous replies made thereto, and therefore by the latter, being—as we cannot but think—singularly significant ! The advances savour somewhat of the parvenu, the rejections or evasions of those advances, of the suspicion with which that parvenu is still (nay, if possible, more intensely than ever) regarded. It tells a tale, that persistent suspicion. It speaks of the tortuous policy of which it is the comment and of which it is the repudiation. It is the natural result of the revival of an empire, in regard to which its reviver announced upon the eve of its inauguration, " C'est la paix"—following up that solemn declara tion by War upon War. It is the sequence, the inevi table sequence to a campaign, opened as the Italian campaign was opened—in regard to which, see the Milan proclamation! And closing as the Italian cam paign closed—for which see the record of the impe rial tete-a-tete at Villafranca. It is the consequence, this persistent suspicion, of the emancipation of Lombardy by the glorious sword of France, for a paltry "consideration "—that is, in return for the cession of Nice and Savoy to the dis interested Liberator! It is a necessary ac companiment this ineradicable suspicion —a necessary and wholly unavoidable accompaniment, of these yet reiterated and sinister rumours as to the intended evacuation of Rome at last by the French army, in return for, or rather simultaneously with, the yet further cession of the magnificent Island of Sardinia, the cynosure of the whole Mediterranean. TILE PRESS IN AUSTRIA. The Independance publishes the following obser vations on the new bill on the press in Austria : "We have never had, as our readers know, any great confidence in the liberalism of M. de Schmer ling ; but in spite of all our distrust never could we have expected to see issue from his hands a mea sure similar to that which he has prepared on the press. It is not the example of countries in which liberty is established that he has followed; it is not in England, or in Belgium, or in Prussia that he has gone to seek for the model of the legislation he proposes for the Austrian press; it is Spain which has supplied the plan. He has not even confined himself to torrowing the greater part of the vigor ous stipulations in use, but has exaggerated the severity of them, and adopted enactments which ex perience has caused to be abandoned in France. His bill is, in fact, a clever combination of preventive measures and penalties, in which the cases of com plicity are multiplied with extraordinary art. It is on the one hand based on the right which it re serves to the Government of withdrawing their licenses from printers, and on the other on the sus pensions and suppressions which the journals incur by the simple fact of one or two condemnations. Lastly, by the elasticity of its definitions, and the extension it gives to certain categories of offences, it realises in a large measure the execrable theory of moral complicity. The Austrian Liberal party, which expected everything from M. de Schmerling, must be bitterly disappointed ; and still more so will be the journalists—they are, it is true, very few—who have given almost unreserved support to that Minister on the strength of his liberal fro- MR. E. T. SMITH AND THE PAVILION PROPERTY. —A Brighton contemporary says :—" Mr. E. T. smith, having failed in his negotiation for the northern buidings of the Brighton Pavilion, has, we perceive, purchasd Cre morne Gardens. Some will be inclined to regard it almost a pity that ho could not have had the Pavilion holdings. He was pi epared to give a'2330 a-ycar, and to lay ou; £l,OOO on them, so as to convert them into a grand concert hall and floral promenade. The rent was not large ; tut addi tional attractions would have been offered to visibrs, who are (a fact which our local authorities too often forget) our staple commodity, ' the means whereby we live,' aid ought to be consulted in every way."—Era. The O'Conor Don, M.P., has (we learn horn the Roscommon Messenger) purchased, by private contract, the estates of Mr. O'Beirne in that county and in Sligo for the sum of £24,000. This additional purchase ranks The O'Conor Don among the largest landowners in the county. THE SOUTHERN PRIVATEER SAVANNAH.—In the United States' Circuit Court, on the 23d ult., the officers and crew of the Confederate privateer Savannah, recently captured by a Federal cruiser, were remanded on the charge of piracy until October next. THE CAMBRIDGE MURDER.—PiIson and Carter, the men charged with being concerned in the murder of Harvey Rumbelowe, were discharged yesterday, on the ground that the legal evidence was not sufficient to insure a conviction from a jury. Seven hundred men, of whom twenty-four are divers, are now daily at work at Alderney. About 500 feet of the west breakwater will be brought above highvater this summer. The outer end of this breakwater will be nearly a mile from the shore. It has been deciiid to erect another breakwater, 1,000 feet in length, to shelter the anchorage from easterly winds. STEAM SHIPBUILDING ON THE CLIDE.--The shipbuilding firms continue for the most part well employed Messrs. Napier have nearly completed the China, de fine screw which they have in hand for the Cunard company ; and Messrs. Caird, of Greenock, have in a still more for-. ward state a screw of 3,000 tons burden, which they have been building for the Bremen and New York line. The same firm is also engaged on a screw of 2,000 tom for a Cadiz company; this vessel will be fitted with engines of 500-horse power. Messrs. Scott, of Cartsdyke, are building three passenger steamers, of 500 or 600 tons each, for the Mediterranean. Messrs. Hutcheson have turned out I deck saloon passenger steamer, built expressly for the Caledonian Canal traffic. Messrs. Laurence Hill and Co., of Port Glasgow, have launched a screw 185 ft. long, 25ft. broad, and 15ft. deep; she is now being fitted with engines of 120-horse power. Mr. J. G. Laurie, of Whiteinch, has launched a screw of 520 tons (named the Andalusia) for the Spanish trade: At the London Works, Renfrew, and at other establishments, other steemers are also in an advanced state of construction. r • 10 S r XI NEW 4.2 L3L'el k, PARIS, AUG. 10. The Illonzteur of to-day announces that the Emperor has bestowed the military medal on the King of Sweden and Prince Oscar. PESTH, AUG. 9, Evening. Deputations from the magistrates and the elec tors have to-day congratulated M. Deak on his late conduct. M. Deak refused a serenade which they offered him. The reply of the Diet to the Imperial rescript will be despatched on Monday to Vienna. A dissolution of the Diet is expected. The Moderate party and the party of action are now united. BERNE, AUG. 9. The Italian Government has informed the Federal Council that the decision in reference to the expul sion from Naples of the Swiss soldiers formerly belonging to the Swiss regiments, in the service of Francis IL, has been cancelled. The note of the Italian Government regrets, how ever, that the Swiss Government had caused the publication of the despatches of M. Tourte, Swiss Minister at Turin, on this subject. PESTH, AUG. 9. The Upper House of the Hungarian Diet will not hold a sitting until Monday next. Many deputies, expecting a dissolution of the Diet, are already preparing for departure. PARIS, AUG. 9. The Patrie of this evening says :—" Reports are current that the Prince of Montenegro had de manded that the Porte should recognise his inde pendence and the right of inheritance in his family. He also demanded the concession of a port on the Adriatic sea, and a fresh settlement of the frontiers. According to the same reports, the Porte had re fused to accede to these demands, and had declared that it would recommence hostilities. The review in the Champ de Mars to-day was a brilliant affair. The weather was fine and the heat very great. THE CHARGE OF FORGERY AGAINST " DR." GRIFFITII JONES.—An application, which stood over from a former day, was made yesterday to Lord Chief Justice Cockburn at Chambers, by Mr. Lewis, jun., to admit to bail Dr. Griffith Jones, who stands committed for trial on the charge of forging the will of Mrs. Sophia Bellis under circumstances which will be fresh in the recollection of our readers. It was urged that the defendant could not pro perly prepare his defence unless the course asked were acceded to. The application was opposed by Mr. Hardinge Gifford, on behalf of the Crown, on the ground that if de fendant were admitted to bail he would not surrender; that he was endeavouring to escape when arrested, and that he attempted to bribe the official who arrested him. The Lord Chief Justice said he could not get over the attempt to bribe the officer, and on that ground, with other circumstances in the case, he could not grant the application. It was only a short time to the sessions, and under the able assistance of Messrs. Lewis he would no doubt be prepared with his defence. The application was accordingly refused. EXTRAORDINARY SCENE AT A POLICE COURT.— The usual fortnightly petty sessions at Spittlegate Police court, near Grantham, was to have been held on Friday last, when the following gentlemen were present :—C.- Tumor, Esq., the Revs. C. B, Otiey, G. Osborne, and R. Cartwright, and G. Nevile, W. Ostler, and J. Hardy, Esqs. The Hon. and Rev. Ralph William Lionel Tollemache, Rector of South W itham, also took his seat on the bench. Before the commencement of the business, the senior magistrate, Mr. Tumor, said it was his duty to state that unless a gentleman on the bench amply apolo gised for the abusive language he had used towards the county magistrates, they had decided not to sit with him in the administration of justice. Some little time was taken up, and no apology having been offered, Mr. Tumor intimated that it was his painful duty to say the i esolution would be carried into effect. Their worships, with the ex ception of Mr. Tollemache, then left the police-court, so that there could be no mistake who was the gentleman alluded to. After a short pause, Mr. Tollemache put on his hat, and as he could not act, he left the room ; in other words followed the example previously set him. Complain ants, defendants, witnesses, and hearers were left, some with wry faces exclaiming they ought to be paid for the loss of time, and others with levity insisting the scene was as good as any play. The hearing of the majority of the cases was postponed for a fortnight. One or two important cases requiring immediate attention were ultimately disposed of by Mr. Nevile and Mr. Hardy in the course of the day.— Stamford Mercury. THE Moors.—On the whole extensive moors in the Highlands of Perthshire, the prospects of srortsmen for the ensuing 12th of August are highly encouraging. On the shooting grounds belonging to the Earl of Mans field, the Duke of Athole, Sir W. D. Stewart, of Murthly, Mr. Butter, of Faskally, and others, grouse aro abundant, and the early hatched broods are strong and wild, and scarcely a diseased bird among young or old has been seen this season. Owing to the cold, heavy rains which have prevailed for the last four weeks, the late-hatched coveys appear weak) , ; but with more propitious weather they would soon improve. On the Glenlyon, Glengarry, Glen tummel, Glenbruar, and, in fact, on the long range of hills all the way north to Inverness-shire and west to Argyle shire, grouse and all kinds of game are numerous, and on some of the moors where grouse were scarce last year they appear to be Well stocked this year. On the extensive shooting preserves belonging to the Marquis of Bread.. albane, which are considered the best nursery for game in Scotland, grouse, blackcock, snipe, pheasants, wild ducks, hares, &c., have not been so rife or in better condition for many years. It seems that several proprietors of shooting have allowed the heather to get too old on their estates, which no doubt afforded sufficient cover for the grouse, but for want of food the birds have been compelled to seek shelter elsewhere. His Royal Highness the Maha rajah Dhuleep Singh and party have arrived at their shoot ing quarters at Auchlyn Killen, and the moors in that dis trict never gave promise of better sport than this season. The accounts from the Forests of Blair Athole and the Black Mount represent the deer and young fawns as being numerous and in fine condition.—Perthshire Courier. AWKWARDNESS.—Not that real awkwardness is tolerable long, but here women have a permanent advan tage over men. Not only does timidity in them naturally find more graceful expression, but they can generally find something legitimate to do with their hands—same little occupation with the needle, the shuttle, or the fan—to mitigate the pains of embarrassment from which men's hands have no safer refuge than the pocket—most other expedients proving a worse, and often mischievous alterna tive. And if hands aro a difficulty to the shy man, what can we say of legs, which, we presume, women need never think of, as an incunabrance, at all ? Where is he to put them? flow is he to keep them in order, so that they shall not betray the perplexity of his soul ? What an in finite variety of bad tricks, with these particular mem bers, does not the demon of sheepishness suggest to its victim in the hour of trial ! What postures! What oscil lations I Who does not remem b er that curate immortal iced in Shirl e y, who, in the critical moment of courtship, contrived with his own hands to tie his legs so firmly to gether with his pocket handkerchief, that he could not set himself at liberty when retreat from the scene of discom fiture became essential ?—" On Manners," in Blackwood': Edinburgh Magazine. THE WEST AFRICAN MAILS. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 10. The Royal Mail steamship Ethiope, with the above mails, arrived here this morning. Her dates are—Old Calabar, June 29th; Came roons, July Ist; Fernando Po, 2d; Bonny, 6th; Brass, 7th ; Nun, 7th; Benin, Bth ; Lagos, 10th ; Accra, 12th ; Cape Coast Castle, 14th; Cape Palmas, 17th ; Sierra Leone, 21st ; Bathurst, 25th ; Teneriffe, 31st ; Madeira, Aug. 2. The Ethiope brings 2,500 02. of gold dust. In the attack on Porto Novo the English lost one man killed and five wounded. The palm oil trade on the coast was brisk. The natives said that the season for oil had been the best ever known. Her Majesty's ship Prometheus had captured three slavers, one of which was the Spanish ship Jacintha; her Majesty's ship Wrangler also captured the American bark Ardennes, with 495 slaves on board. The South Coast was very unhealthy, and the Europeans were dying fast. The slave trade was brisk, but legal trade was dull. THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have received the following telegram:— " The Vectis, with the above mails, left Malta on the 7th, at 6 p.m., for Marseilles. " The Euxine, with the heavy portion of the mails, left Malta on the 7th, at 8 p.m., and may therefore be expected at Southampton about the 16th instant. " The China, from Bombay, reached Suez on the 3d. THE OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. " The Delta, from Southampton 27th July, reached Malta on the sth at 7 a.m.; left midnight for Alexandria. " The Massilia, from Marseilles the sth, reached Malta on the 7th, at 9 p.m. ; left on the Bth, at 4 a.m. for Alexandria." FRANCE. BOURSE, August 9.—Sales for realisation have again produced a slight retrograde movement, Threes, for the Account, being now at 68f 25c, with, however, but a limited amount of business doing. Railways dull, and some of the lines lower. The following are the last quotations : 4} per per Cents — Do end month 98 I 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 25 Bank Shares 2890 Credit Mobilier - Do. Account 7OO Credit Fancier 1245 Belgian 41 — Piedmontese Fives 72 25 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes 47 75 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Orleans Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean Geneva Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard Account. .. 1413 7b .. 978 76 - - .. 900 - - - ~ . 1017 50 - -- .. 345 -- - - .. 618 75 - - . „ 627 60 - - .. 495 - - - .. 526 25 BANK OF FRANCE.—The following is the account for the month ending Thursday, August 8 : ASSETS. F. C. 89,842,637 46 .. 304,987,991 --- 2,641,133 65 Cash and ingots .. .- Cash at the branch-banks .. Bills due to be paid to-day.. Bills becoming due in Paris, of which 66,373,749 f. 29c. are from the branch banks .. 258,581,278 9 Bills in the branch-banks 289,330,117 Advances on coin and ingots .. .. 39,921,231 34 Do. in the branch. banks 7,073,900 Do. on French securities 19,525,700 Do. in the branch-banks .. .. 11,521,200 - Do. on railway shares and bonds .. 35,770,800 Do. in the , ,branch-banks 21,284,850 Do. on Cr4dit Foncier Bonds .. 603,700 Do, in the branch-banks • . • • 197,200 Do. to State by treaty, 1848 .. • • 30,000,000 Rentes of the reserve-fund 12,980,750 14 Rentes, disposable funds 54,514,797 58 Rentes immobilised (law of June, 1857) .. 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank .. 4,000,000 Real property of branch-banks .. 6,004,645 Expenses of administration .. • • 507,758 76 Sundries 21 ,877,722 89 1,309,167,415 91 LIABILITIES. Capital •• .. • • • • • • 91,2.50,000 New Capital .. .. • • • . 91,250,000 Reserve-fund .. • . • . 12,980,750 14 New Reserve • • • • • • • • 9,125,000 Reserve-immobiliere .. • • • • • • 4,000,000 Profits to be added to Capital (Art. 8 of law June 9, 1857) .. • • • 2,316,503 57 Notes to bearer in circulation in Paris and the branch-banks .. • _ 757,923,475 Do. to order (Post-bills) 4919177 7 Bills payable at sight 6 , 990 , 913. Ace. cur. of Treasury Creditor 136,000,005 87 Various accounts current .. 150,532,567 79 Do. branch-banks 29,654,157 Dividends to be paid • • • • 2,412,087 75 Arrears of values deposited .. 2,890,524 68 Discount, interest, and expenses .. 4,807,796 47 Re-discounts of the last half-year 1,936,567 58 Sundries • • • • 1,177,889 99 1,309,167,415 91 HUNGARY. A letter from Pesth, of August 4, says :—" I have just learnt that the person named Turitz, who, as I inforrued you, was arrested in consequence of the resemblance of his name to that of General Turr, was shot yesterday in the fortress of Komorn. It is not known of what crime he was found guilty, but people are indignant at the way in which he has been condemned and executed in three days, and without any publication of the judgment. The coraitat of Gran has sent an address to the Emperor The Official Gazette of Turin publishes some im portant laws voted by the Italian Parliament and promulgated by the King. They are :-1. A law authorising the expenditure of 227,000 f. for im provements in the port of Rimini. 2. Another ap plying 1,750,000 f. to the purchase of rolling-stock for the railways worked by the State. 3. Do. for applying 2,700,000 f. in the erection of the Genoa railway terminus at Turin:: 4. Do. intro ducing the metrical system of weights and measures throughout Italy. The names used are the same as those employed in France. Standard weights and measures are to be kept in every district town. The quintale-metrico (hundred weight) is fixed at 100 kilogrammes, and the ton at 1,000 kilogrammes. 5. A law fixing an annual sum of 100,000 f. to be applied to prizes for rifle exercise. The .Nord of Brussels says :—" The rupture of negotiations for pacification between Omer Pasha and the insurgents has revived at Vienna the appre hensions to which the precarious situation of the Slave-Turkish provinces had given birth. Austria foresees a possible check to the Turkish arms, and she fears the supportwhich the two neighbouring princi palities, Servia and Montenegro, appear disposed to openly give to the insurrection, which might lead her own Slavonian provinces into the movement. The Austrian Government is therefore prepared to act if required in case of a Servian or Montenegrin intervention in Bosnia." THIS DABS MARKETS. COVENT GARDEN. The supply of fruit is very small, of vegetables toler ably extensive. On the whole, the demand may be considered steady, at the following rates : FRUIT. S. d. s. d. s. d. s. d Pine apples, perlb 3 0 to 6 0 Cherries, per lb. 0 3 to 1 0 Colonial do., each 1 0 to 3 0 Filberts, per lb .. 1 6 to 2 0 Grapes,per lb 2 0 to 5 01 Cobnuts, per lb 1 6 to 2 0 Foreign do 2 0 to 3 01 Almonds, per bus 0 0 to 0 0 Melons, each Peaches, per doz 12 0 to 21 0 Figs, per doz 2 0 to 4 Nectarines, per dz 10 0 to 15 0 Strawberries pun 0 6 to 1 6 Apples, per A sievel 6 to 3 0 Gooseberries if sv 5 0 to 6 0 Pears, per do .... 2 0 to 6 0 Currants, per do. 5 0 to 8 0 Oranges, per 100 6 0 to 12 0 Plums, per do. Lemons, per 120.. 4 0 to 8 OlGreengages, pr do. 0 0 to 0 0 Apricots, per doz 1 0 to 3 01Raspberries,pr ptlo 6 to 1 0 VEGETABLES. Greens, dz bunch 3 0 to 3 6 Shallots, per lb Cabbages, pr doz. 0 9 to 1 6 , Horseradish, p bn 1 6 to 2 0 Savoy do., pr bh. 0 2 to 0 4 Parsley, per ditto 0 2 to 0 0 Cauliflowers, p dz 1 0 to 3 0! Celery, per ditto 0 8 to 1 0 Arocoli, per bush. 1 2 to 1 4 Beet, per doz. Potatoes, per ton 70 to 100 0 Parsnips, per do. 0 0 to 0 0 New ditto, pr ewt. 0 0 to 0 0 Small salad, p. pn, 0 2 to 0 3 Peas, per A sieve 1 3 So 2 0 Mushrooms,p pun 1 3 to 1 6 Turnips, dz bunch 3 0 to 4 0 Artichokes, pr dz 3 0 to 6 0 Carrots, pr d 0.... 6 6 to 7 6 Cabbage lett,score 0 8 to 1 3 Cucumbers 0 3 to 1 0 Endive, per score 2 6 to 4 Garlic, per lb Sorrel, per sieve 0 0 to 0 0 Tomatoes, doz... 6 0 to 0 0 Spinaah, hf. -sv 0 6 to 1 0 Walnuts, per 100 0 0 to 0 0 Brus. sprouts, h. s 1 6 to 1 0 Chillies, per ditto 0 0 to 0 0 Onions, hf. sv 0 0 to 0 0 Capsicums, per do 0 0 to 0 0 New Do., dz bun 1 0 to 1 6 ' Rhubarb, per bun 0 4 to 0 9 French beans, h, s. 1 6 to 2 0 Asparagus, pr do. 2 0 to 4 0 Leeks, per bunch 0 0 to 0 0 Seakale, per pun. 1 0 to 1 6 Henry Montagu Villiers was the fifth son of the Hon. George Villiers, brother of the late Earl of Clarendon. His grandmother was the eldest daughter of Lady Jane Hyde (Countess of Essex), the last representative of the old Clarendon family , and ayounger son of Lord Jersey marrying her was, in her honour, created successively Baron Hyde and Earl of Clarenc.on. Of the lady's grandchildren. there now survive, Lord Clarendon ; Mr. Charles Villiers,who took a prominent part in the free-trade controversy, and is at this moment President of the Poor Law Board; and Lady Theresa Lewis, who is well known both as an authoress and as the wife of one of our foremost statesmen. Mr. Montagu Villiers was born in London on the 4th of January, 1813. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and took his degree in 1834. Shortly afterwards he was ordained by Dr. Sumner, now Archbishop of Canterbury, and commenced his work as a curate in Lancashire. At this time, however, we infer from a passage in one of his lectures that he did not regard himself as in any true sense worthy of his high calling. In a lecture to the Christian young men of London he says, " One of my earliest and dearest friends in the ministry—one who was faithful to me before Iwo myself in the faith—one whose memory, now that he is entered into his rest, is most dear to me, was a linendraper's apprentice before we were fellow curates together in Lancashire." The great ques tion which the chief admirers of Bishop Villiers will wish to have answered—namely, when did he come to be "in the faith ?"—it is not in our power to solve. We can only deal with the external facts of his life, and tell that in 1837 he was admitted into Priest's orders ; that in the same year he was appointed to the living of Kenilworth ; that in 1841 he was translated to the metropolitan rectory of St. George's, Bloomsbury ; and that in 1847 he was made a Canon of St. Paul's. It was as rector of St. George's that he made hie reputation. He dis played great ability and an untiring zeal in the management of his parish, though in cordially acknowledging the great good which he effected we must take into account the good which he left undone. Mr. Villiers was the lowest of Low Churchmen, and his style of preaching was not cal culated to attract men of education. He laid him - self out for a different class. He preached to the poor. Like most Low Churchmen, he understood the Divine precept too literally, and preached too uniformly to the poor in intellect as well as to the poor in spirit and the poor in pocket. Yet, as we cannot expect everything from a man, let us dwell rather on what he did than upon what he could not do. If his creed was narrow in one direction it was wide in another. If he hated High Church doc trines, if ho shrank from the shadow of Roman Catholic practices, if he told young men to avoid theatres as an "unmixed evil," and to look well to their steps in the ballroom,—if by that plainness of preaching which some call " gospel simplicity," and others, using a more slriptural phrase, " the foolish ness of preaching," he failed to win over men of cultivation, yet on the other hand he worked vigor ously with the Dissenters; there were Dissenters in his vestry who eagerly supported him ; he turned the City mission to account, and with men of every sect and stamp who belong to the so-called Evan gelical order he had the most ample sympathy. No minister in London was more popular than Mr. Villiers when in 1856 he was appointed by Lord Palmerston to the Bishopric of Carlisle. It was a step to a still higher promotion, for only last year he was translated to the see of Durham. He proved himself not less energetic in a diocese than he had been in a parish, and there seemed to be before him long years of useful work. Durham is the diocese, of all others in the country, in which the increase of population has lately been greatest, and in which the spiritual provision has been most deficient. Great things were expected from the energy and tact of Dr. Villiers, and the Evangelical party regarded with particular interest the man who filled so princely a chair and undertook so vast a work. His first conspicuous act in his new sphere of labour certainly disappointed his admirers, though his premature death will now be considered, if not to justify, yet to excuse it; for he has died by no means a rich man, and leaves a widow, three daughters besides Mrs. Cheese, and two sons. How ever incautiously he may have acted on the occa sion to which we refer, he never lost the esteem of those who knew him best; and the strong interest which vast numbers of people, Dissenters as well as Churchmen, have taken in his last illness is the most eloquent of all comments upon his life and character. Not only in his diocese but Dissenters of the country, in all the large towns, D every denomination have combined with Church men to offer up prayers for his recovery. Seldom are ecclesiastical dignitaries the object of such affectionate solicitude ; seldom is their departure felt so universally as a great public loss. d wtthh°ae:2lc'htha THE BRAIDWOOD TEsnmoNIAL.--Yesterday, at 3 o'clock, a meeting of the committee for managing the the hmeru. lateßead thete oa M eitohes Mr. James adaye J nsdr, a ddavr m eroi ,wict e nieeh s agidviy Bi secretary,teeo aha r r int a eh fund now being raised for a testimonial the memory of wasr. fund h I e t l d wna a os t w t ha announced e m M ou a Mansion house— tseid to e companies jteoanwralcy, was stated X s committeee rumonameetothfnegx roths oha nitt wereFishmongers' get eh sittingfirers widow Company e insurancedo a or nwp d ao andn ya: family of the deceased, and that his personal estate bad been sworn as under th e va l ue o f £5,000. A very gene ral opinion was expressed by the Ni hole committee that the knowledge of those circumstances had materially operated to check the public subscriptions to the memorial fund) which had in consequence been comparatively abortive. 11 - .. conversation ensued as to the a ppropriation of the fund _ in hand, in the course of which several members of the committee expressed themselves to the effect that, as through the bounty of the fire offices, and from the private fortune of the deceased himself, hi s widow and family were placed above the reach of dependence, thede. greater part, if not the whole of it, might properly be r voted to the comfort of his aged sisters, for whose welfa he always felt the deepest concern. The question sto o d over for consideration eventually at a future meeting) O the committee adjourned. to complain of the forced collection of the taxes, and of the excesses committed by the soldiers. In some places the collectors are made use of to ascer tain the political opinions of the inhabitants. Dis turbances have broken out at Szerenes. Those who choose to pay into the comitat treasury are threat ened with imprisonment. There is talk of a recon ciliation which has been recently effected between Kossuth and the members of the Diet who had long resisted his anti-dynastic projects. This is very significant, for Kossuth is the most irreconcileable enemy of the House of Hapsburg." --- AUSTRIA. A communication from Vienna of the sth, in the Journal de Frankfort, says : " Before the temporary breaking up of the Chamber of Deputies, the Ministers gave an as surance that nothing decisive as regards Hungary would be done during their absence. The Tcheqne deputies hastened to proceed to Prague to endea vour to calm the popular excitement in that quar ter. The news of the demonstrations against the Jews, which are generally regarded in Bohemia as the precursors of attacks against property, pro duced a very strong impression on these deputies. The Government is decided on repressing any agitation with energy, and particularly on vigour ously opposing the religious tendency of the movement." The last accounts direct from Prague state that no further disturbances have taken place. Calm and reflection were said to have gained strength in the minds of the population, and that there is no longer any reason to fear fresh excesses. SAXONY. At the closing sitting of the Second Chamber of Saxony on the 6th, Baron de Beust said : " Gentlemen,—The period at which the present Diet assembled was more agitated than at the time of the preceding session ; it has led to many exigencies and many pretensions. To reject them all would have been rashness and blindness ; to have satisfied them all without distinction would have evinced weakness and want of foresight. The Government and the Chambers may congratulate themselves on having steered a middle course between those two faults. In consequence of the agitation of the period, liberty of speech in the tribune has manifested itself with much less re serve. Ido not regret that circumstance, for the Government has been able to enlighten itself on many points, and on the other hand I am persuaded that the country has learnt, by judging of the Go vernment, and of its acts, to distinguish between what is true, and what is founded on misguided opinions. Whatever may be the difference in our views and our political convictions, we may, in separating, shake each other cordially by the hand." A communication from Turin says :—" A sin gular affair is exciting attention. Last year, when the King entered the kingdom of Naples, he issued a decree of amnesty to the soldiers who had joined the Garibaldian army. This decree was communicated to Garibaldi, but was not registered, and consequently not executed. Garibaldi has just exhumed it, and has had it pub lished in the journals. This has caused some sen sation, although a subsequent decree, but of a less extensive character, had regularised the state of things. The Ministry affirms that the incident is owing to a misunderstanding, and to papers having been mislaid. Tile statement so made is probably correct enough, but no one will believe it." NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Turkeys, 4s Od to 7s Od ; poults, 5s Od to Gs Od each ; geese, 4s 6d to 7s Od ; goslings, 4s 6d to 7s Od ; ducklings 2s Od to 3s Od ; rabbits, is Od to 2s Od each ; wild do., 6d to is Od ; pigeons, Os Gd to 10d each ; large Surrey fowls, 5s Od to lOs Od ; chickens, 4s Od to 7s Od; barn-door fowls, 3s Od to 6s Od ; capons, 4s Od ; hares, 2s 6d to 3s Od ; grouse, is Gd to 2s Gd each; pheasants, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; ptarmigan, 2s Od to Os ; woodcocks, 2s 6d to 3s Od; snipes, is 6d to 2s Od; teal, Os Od to is Gd ; wild ducks, 2s 6d to 3s Od ; widgeons, is Gd to Os Od ; plovers, is Od to is 6d each ; guinea fowls, 5s Od to 7s Od ; roasting pigs, 5s Od to 8s Od each; Ostend fresh butter, 10d to is Od; English, Os lld to is 3d per lb ; English eggs, 8s Od to lOs Od ; French do., 7s Od to 8s Od per 120 ; leverets, Os Od to Os Od each. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s Od ; mutton, 3s Od to 4s 8d ; lamb, 4s 4d to 5s Od; veal, 3s 6d to 4s 4d ; and pork, 3s 10d to 5s Od per Blbs. WHITECHAPEL. Beef from 2s 10d to 4s Od ; mutton, 3s Od to 4s 8d ; lamb, 4s 4d to 5s Od ; veal, ; - is 6d to 4s 4d ; and pork, 3s 10d to 5s Od per Blbs. by the carcase. BILLING SGATE. Salmon, is Od to is 3d ; trout, Os 9d to Os ; eels, 4d to 10d ; prawns, 5s Od to Os; pike, skate, sturgeon, and halibut, Gd pet lb. Turbots, 5s Od to 15s ; cod, 2s Od to 4s Od ; brills, is Od to Os Od ; doreys, is Od to 5s Od ; mullets, Os 6d to is 6d ; lobsters, is to 4s Od ; crabs, is to 3s Od ; plaice and gurnets, 4d to is 6d each ; soles, 3d to 2s 6d per pair ; common oysters, lOs to 20s ; natives, 42s to 44s per bushel ; whitings. 3s Od to Gs Od ; haddocks, 4s to 12s Od ; smelts, 2s 6d ; flounders, is Od to 2s Od per dozen ; mackerel, 50s ; fresh herrings, 8s ; bloaters, 68 to 8s per 120 ; carp and tench, Is Od to 3s per brace. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 81d to 9d, of household do., 61d to 8d per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 3d to 31d ; 641 b to 721 b, 31d to 31d ; 721 b to 801 b, 31d to 4d ; 801 b to 881 b, 4d to 41d ; 881 b to 961 b, 41d to 44d ; 961 b to 1041 b, qd to .sd. Horse hides, 8s to 9s Od ; calf skins, light 2s Od to 3s 6d ; do. full, 6s Od to Os Od ; polled sheep, Os Od to —s Od ; half-breds, 9s Od to lOs 6d; Downs, Os Od to Os Od; lambs, 2s 8d to 4s 4d; shearlings, 2s 2d to 2s 10d. HAY MARKETS. SMITHPIELD.—OId Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os Od ; new do., £2s Os to £4 Os ; old clover do., £3 lOs to £6 N ; new do., £3 lOs to £5 Os; and straw, £1 108 to £2 N per lead. Trade dull. 0:1 lN t o £2 0 £2 8 hay, O to s x pers Os load. oti; C UMBERLA ND.—OId Mea dow h ay, 42 Os to £.5 53 ; new do., X 2 Os to L 4 Os : ol d ciover, a lOs to a Os ; new do., £3 lOs to L 5 Os; a n O d 1 d s t A r l a e w a 1 , Trade heavy. WHITECRAP EL.— new do., £2 Os to £4 Os ; old clove r , £ 3 .) er, lOs to £6 Os Od; new do., £3 10s to a Os i and straw , load. slow trade, I£ l 108 to £1 18s per TILE BISHOP OF DURHAM The Right Rev. H. Montagu Villiers, who died yesterday at Auckland Castle, deserves more than a passing notice at our hands. He was a remarkable man, and historians will doubtless refer to him often hereafter as a good specimen of the Palmerston Bishop. It has been Lord Palmerston's fortune to appoint an unusual number of men to the high places of the Church, and, for the most part, those whom he has selected have been less celebrated for their intellectual cultivation than for their practical piety, their success as parish ministers, and their sympathy with Protestant Dissen ters. Montagu Villiers was a man of this stamp, with the addition, however—which we must not underrate—that he was of noble birth. There may be no particular merit in it, yet people are not unmoved when they see a man who might be enjoying the pleasures of fashionable life giving himself up with the most perfect devotion to the religious, and when they see the brother of an Earl, whose despatches are hurrying over Europe, and read eagerly over all the world, toiling resolutely in the dirty back streets of a London parish, making friends with poor cobblers, trying to comfort sick cabmen, and luring ragged children to school. Rector of St. George's, Bloomsbury, the Rev. H. Montagu Villiers made himself a great name, and this not merely as an earnest preacher, but, what is far more difficult , as for 15 years the hard-working, much-trudging pastor of a parish that numbered about 17,000 souls. Spite of a recent occurrence which gave rise to much criticism, it may safely be said that few men have entered the Church with more disinterested views, or have toiled in it with more self-denying energy. He had a genial, easy nature, and his hard work seemed to have agreed with him won derfully. His portly figure and rubicund coun tenance presented the very picture of health and Episcopal comfort. As he entered the house of Lords with the pale and careworn Lord Clarendon, people said it was easy to see which brother served the Church, and which the State. Thirteen years the junior of that brother, he breaks down in all the fullness of his powers at the age of 48, and in his death reminds us who have lately heard so much of the fatal effects of overwork that there are other diseases not less fatal, though they are more easily avoided.