The Sun. — London, England, 1861-08-24 00:00:00

CINQUE-PORTS" TO WIT. —IN 0. S. Cinque'kent of Lat. 50 N. Sirearch'y, by pilotage Astrogeogiaph of Dover's fl no . • • : : off. Gentlemen A circular—for an illegal fete-raeeting on the 28th, August'en A.D. 1861, as we of "the comber- B'heading day of Ihon Baptest"—was i ssu ed on the 13th instant, " Old Lammass-day," from the " Mandato office of the Grand Master of Malta's," D o wning-street, as of the 1802 Amiens Treaty; plea of rainisterial-comple-meat. The said illegal circular [ a s the proverb goes, "lice 0.0. G.-father Covrrnit (1712) like G.G.G.-child PA.L XERSTON (1861), as H. J. Temple—cites the surreptitious Charter of Bristol by Charles 11., for its " warning unto six, five, or four," comber (on's of Spanish Cabotage curvature a Latrinity-us., O'er the Sunk-port " Add-por tuna" expenditure of public money. The aforesaid being illegal as follows :-Ist, By Act 1 Edw. VI., cap. 2--re-enacted in 1832, Will. IV., cap. 92, sec. 4, as yet pending—entitled, The Submission of the Ckrgy and _Restraint of Appeals 25 Hen. VIII., cap 1 9— viz., Whereas divers titl e d noblemen and other spiritual persons have sent out their summons in their own names, as in the time of the usurped powers of the Bishop of Rome, contrary to the common law, touching writs in lay causes I of correction, de jure patronatus, and probates of testaments .—Be it enacted, that all such citations or other processes by advocates or other officers on behalf of the King's High ness, for validity•sake do bear the State endorsement, as well as the official secretary or substitute under the citor's name, and be placed attar the registered seal in public TEST of its authority. Thus "men of Kent," etc., as under Nature's subsyderal lathe epochs for P. L. audit accounts as well as those of the L'ond'on-wave by Sirencester seven hundreds (1-4 H. IV), over Wall-in-ford as of Bristol's constabulary of the Sea's fresh and salt water " Admiral's Court." 2dly. Whence, by 1 Fhilip and Mary, cap. 7, as aforesaid, "N o man shall exercise the office of Justice Conservator of the Water's Silver-oar or Indian-paddle, of the Pilotary Lode-manage ment Courts," etc., who shall "take upon himself" the power "to direct and serve his own precept:' Therefore I this negative-letter since by Act 1832 the Church Queen's etc. have ceased to be the head of the monetary (" by civil list"), Realm of England's Lay-presbyteral estate, and at your peril disobey. Signed this day, August 24, 1861, London, PETER BASQUE; England's Chief Income-tax freeman 01 1842, as the Criminal Law's Extradition Act, Constable of the Sea, bearing Ame rica's paddle of the Admiral's Court, late in Canterbury's Probate Court. C [TABLES H. ACRERLET, * J.P. Elected 29th August, 1825, by Admiral Hammond, Stuart de • Rothsay's, Secretary ; Marcus HiII—SANDTS, Presbyter. To all local treasury officers and mayors, taking prece dence by "Reform Act," as the Quarter Sessions of the Peace. Vide * " Maritime Register, 17th Aug., 1861, p. 1051." THEATM-ROYAL, IiAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. T HIS EVENING. the performances will commenao with THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. Miss M. Oliver. After which, a new Comedy, entitled MY LORD AND MY LADY ; or, It Might have been Worse. Mr. C. Math ew Mrs. s, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Buckstone , Mrs. Charles Mathews, Wilkins, &c Followed by HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. To conclude with a Ballet, BACCHUS AND ARIADNE, THE CHRISTENING. Miss Fanny Wright, the Leclereqs, Mr. Webster, &a Commence a' 7 EW THEATR E -ROYAL, ADELPHI.- I Sole Proprietor a M nd anager, Mr. B. Webster. 114th Night ot "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 Wooigar and Miss Kate Kelly. To conclude with:33R. GORILLA. Messrs. J. L. Toole P. Bedford, Billington ; Miss Kate Kelly, Miss E. rhorne. Doors open at halt put B—Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING will be performed the new and original comedy, entitled WOMAN; or, Love against the World. Characters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin, J. Robins, Mrs. Charles Young, Mrs. Weston, Miss Murray, and Miss Lydia Thomson. To conclude with the Farce of MAGIC TOYS. Valentine, Miss Lydia Thomson. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7 Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. CIANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Two Grand Selections from Operas, including UN BALLO IN MASCHERA, arranged and conducted by Mr. Jongh mans. Mr. Wood and his talented little Son. The extraor dinary comic duet, "The Nerves," by Harvey and French, Mr. Marshall in " The Excursion to Brighton," " Selina Sly," and "In the Park." And Miss Harriet Coveney Every Evening. Admission—Hall, Bd.; Stalls and Balcony, is. fIANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS AND k-) FINE ARTS GALLERY.—SAM COWELL, the Prince of Comic Vocalists, will make his First Appearance since his return to England on MONDAY, the 2d of September. Admission--Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, ls. 0 X F 0 R D, 6, OXFORD-STREET. The architectural beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and brilliancy of, lighting of this noble building, render it o ne of the sights of London. Open Every Evening. The pro gramme is varied, and includes Selections from "La Tra viata," "Un Ballo in Masehera," &c., (by a full company of principals, powerful band, and chorus). Solos by Miss Bryant on the Piano Forte, and by Mr. Russell on the Trombone. Old English Ballad, by Miss Green, -icotch 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. P. li'oster (in his " Life Sketches"), Sam Collins, Harvey, and French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. Randall. Hall, s i x pence ; Balcony and Stalls , one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. H E HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 4h. 9m.—Afternoon, 4h. 24m. To-noßnovr.-Morning, 4h. 39m.—Afternoon. 4h. 54m. THE WEATIIEP..—Strs OPVICII, AUGUST 24, 1661. THERMOMETER, IN TUB SHADE. 71—highest since noon yesterday. 54—lowest this morning and during the night. CS—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.1 5 . WlND—North -Westerly — fresh ; with cloudy weather. '*rte y i, % 41% , 01,, .4e 2 J ~-~,{ ^':,ice THE SUN. 1,0N1)0N, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1861 Interests of the most varied and of the most vital kind link England to her most distant colonies. Those interests, moreover, as time advances only increase and multiply—growing with the growth and strengthening with the strength of the whole empire. So that in proportion to the advance of our commercial enterprise, and to the steady con tinuance of emigration from the shores of the mother country to those of her enormous and scat tered dependencies, the ends of the earth are knit together more and more intimately, the world-wide frame of the British dominion is rendered more and more, strictly speaking, homogeneous. As to the mere force of the current of emigration—viewing that, alone—it has long since been accurately calculated in all its fluctuations. We are enabled to estimate with the utmost nicety the rate at which it " sets" towards this or that dependency. We knew the average extent of it during so many yeara, counting them by fives, by tens, by twenties. We know theprecise number to a man, to a woman, or to a child, in any given twelvemonth quitting England for Canada, for Australia, for New Zealand, for British Columbia. The records of the Board of Trade enable us to compare the extent of our imports and of our ex ports in connection with this possession, and with that, at our own variable whim and plea sure. And in aid of all these regular sources of increasing interest, of a reciprocation of mutual interest, binding together the entire fabric of our British Empire in both hemi iipheres, there comes occasionally—intermittently and quite -unexpectedly—some extraneous circum stance of an extraordinary cbaracter, bringing, now one colony now another more vividly than ever under the scrutiny of the old fatherland, under the 'lnv? of the mass of untravelled Englishmen, and in an _ "tees and peculiar manner under the consi deration the then more than ever responsible consideration of the Imperial Government. It was thus a few years back that attention was drawn in an uniisuea , manner to the status of our South African possessions at the Cape of Good the re f usal of the colonists there to Hrroe--n ow by re oei ve even a sir , gle shipload of our criminals (so great was the dread of Cape Town that it might de genei-ate pennanently into th e le ere capital of a penal by the sangui n ary settli mien —noW incidents of a deactly war wit h the barbarous natives of Kaffir landt. It was thu s more recently that t h e di scon . the Greek populati on o f the regard of the United t en t manifested by loni an Islands rivetl; ed Kin .gdom upon the character and bearin g oet Thus, moreover, theite 0 the British notectorate. THE SUN,' LONDON, SATURDAY tVEITIVNG, AUGUST 24, 1861 _ Precisely in this twofold manner has the national interest been awakened of late years in regard to one of the very remotest of all our colonies that noble archipelago in the South Seas constituting our veritable Antipodes. Our interest in the rise and progress of that far off co lony of ours in New Zealand has been enhanced of late, in fact, just by the simple combination of these ordinary and extraordinary circumstances. The con tinual recurrence there latterly of so many wretched little galling wars with the natives—has in one sense come to the aid of the colony of New Zealand, inasmuch as it has served to fix upon it more closely than ever the attention of the mother country. The allurements held out by the promoters of the Canterbury Settlement have failed— conspicuous and remarkable though many of them undoubtedly are—to awaken an interest in the fortunes of the colony at large, in any respect comparable to what has unques tionably resulted (however indirectly) in this way, from the variable tidings of War and Peace, coming to us now for some time past, mail after mail, from those antarctic regions—in effect, as we have said, from our very Antipodes. Englishmen living at home are quietly becoming vividly aware at length of the facts hitherto but obscurely known (and that moreover in a very fragmentry sense) in regard to the attrac tions of New Zealand as a field for immigration. And the more this general interest in New Zealand has latterly increased, the larger have become the opportunities for the gratification of the very natural curiosity awakened by it in inquiring minds among the masses of our home population. Books, maps, pamphlets, newspapers relating to New Zea land have begun of late to drop in upon us with greater frequency. It is not long since we took occasion to comment upon one of the most elabo rate works that has yet issued from the press in respect to this distant colony of Eng land in the southern hemisphere. We have this evening the opportunity of remarking, not as then, upon a single Book in reference to New Zealand, but simultaneously upon there very noticeable publications of a different kind relating to New Zealand namely, to a New Zealand Map,. New Zealand Pamphlet, and a New Zea land Newspaper. The Journal is a many-columned sixpenny daily paper published at Auckland, and called the New Zealander : and it is filled (even to :the advertisements) with singularly inte resting, and some of it, for emigrants, particularly valuable, local information. The map is an " Au thentic Map" (as it calls itself—and evidently with reason) of the Province of Auckland—a map " ex• pressly" reduced and engraved upon a moderate scale from the original maps of the Commissioners for Waste Lands; and it is published in this reduced form by the Messrs RIDGWAY and Sons, the authorised general agents to the Provincial Government. It is from the same establishment that we receive, ealrea already here alluded to. moreover, 'Phis the pub l i b c i a • o t eh 4 io ir n, extending almost to the length of a respectable volume, embracing within it, as it does, nearly be l theproductionso octavo pages, of appears, by its designation, to more than . 'a single !pamphleteer , its title being "Voices from Auckland." Yet, if it derives its origin from several sources, its aim is certainly one and complete in itself. The information it con veys to the reader —occasionally superficial and generalised where we should wish it to have entered more minutely into details, occasionally, on the other hand, entering too closely into particulars where we should have been con tented with something in the way of an epitome — the information this pamphlet conveys to the reader has, so far as we may pronounce an opinion upon it, every appearance throughout of the most reliable au thenticity. From map, from book, from brochure, from newspaper the untravelled Englishman may thus without quitting his easy-chair derive all the intel ligence about New Zealand that—with ulterior views—either with an eye to commerce, 07 with an eye to emigration—he may chance to be in quest of. If he care not, like the Johnsonian philospher, to take so wide a range of contemplation as that involved in asurvey "from China to Peru," he may at any rate by the combination of these various literary aids to his intellectual vision, as, by the combination of the different lenses in the construc tion of a telescope, scan without much difficulty the whole of that huge and distant colony of New ,nd. A colony so far removed from us that it is actually at our Antipodes—so considerable in its dimensions that it contains within it an area larger than that of the whole of the United Kingdom. From every quarter the assurance increases that the old teacher, Necessity, has only to make her appearance, and our vast cotton trade will be no longer dependent on American slavery. Three colonies of our own could, by vigorous application of judicious means, any one of them keep all the mills of Lancashire and Glasgow going. Jamaica could do it ; Queensland could do it ; India could do it—not to mention Egypt► the coast of Africa, and almost numberless other places. Of course we have a double interest in getting cotton from our own colonies. We cannot be indifferent to their pros perity. If Free-trade makes it as advantageous to export to, and bring raw produce from, one country as another, yet, as large exports and imports be tween us and any country enrich that country as well as ourselves, how can we but prefer that the country should be one over which our QUEEN reigns, and the welfare of whose inhabitants can be only second in our estimation to that of the dwellers in our Island home. We are, therefore, so selfish as to be gratified with the prospect of American cotton becoming very dear ; of its becoming so dear, as to move the right men, whom the necessities of the occasion are sure to call forth, to achieve the great work of perfecting the supply of Indian and Colonial cotton: We are not insensible to the hardships which must be first endured, and to the difficulties of the task. To put four millions of people on half-time, and, therefore, on half rations, is a frightful evil ; but the Irish potato rot was a still more frightful one; still, what a blessing has it proved to Ireland. A scant supply of cotton would not produce a tithe of the misery caused by the Irish famine, wi,ile it would result in much greater benefits. It would soon destroy negro slavery in America, and confer on four millions of people the first necessary for human improvement—personal liberty. It would elevate perhaps minims of wretched ryots to a state of comparative wealth and independence ; and it would both open up to Manchester an abundant market, and a field of supply to her looms, such as America can never become while she is a slave re public ; at the same time it would be a fresh bond of good will between India and England. We know not how Manchester and Liverpool feel at the sight ; custom so blunts our feelings ; but we cannot visit Lancashire and see the bales of cotton and the white fibre bursting forth, just as it came home, without an unpleasant recollection of the hideous wrong by which that cotton was grown, and picked, and cleaned. It seems redolent of slavery. It fills us with thoughts not merely of the driver, and the gang, and the lash, and the negro sale-block, and the separation of families, and the violation of the marriage-tie—but of the essentially evil institution, which, treating man as a saleable beast of the field, defaces in him the image of his maker, and forbids him to rise. We know Manchester will reply—" But why not see all this in a muslin gown ?" We rejoin, " Because the results of free labour are there the more con spicuous." We do not deny that the substantial evil is still there, although metamorphosed by the skill of freedom, but it is not the product of un mitigated wickedness. The cotton bale tells only of the lash. The muslin gown tells also, and tells more conspicuously, of the marvellous ingenuity and skill which can flourish in freedom only. Jamaica and Queensland have both their diffi culties in regard to the supply of labour, and the novelty of the business of cotton growing, at least on the large scale ; all this we cannot doubt would yield before the grand teacher Necessity—" De mand," as our men of commerce term the imperious Goddess. Be that as it may, in India there are no such difficulties. Labour seeks employment there and as was lately remarked in India itself, " You can teach us nothing we do not know about cotton growing." Assurance of a demand at a remunera tive price, means of transit, and an agency to see to the collecting and cleaning are all that is needed. Mr. BAILEY pointed out the other day that the cost of carriage was the only real obstacle to the use of immense quantities of cotton of the Indian qualities ; and that cost is almost entirely in curred in the country itself. This difficulty the Government is doing its utmost to lessen and re move ; it is thoroughly in earnest, and we have every hope that progress will be rapid in tem porary expedients till the canal and railway do for the Indian cotton districts what the Missis sippi and the Railway have done for slave-grown cotton. It is gratifying to see that reports are rapidly coming in to the Indian Government on the subject of the cotton trade, and equally so to notice the character of some of them. What can be more in teresting and hopeful than the simple facts respec ing Nagpore ? In that territory we read that there are already tho vast number of 281,214 acres, equal to 439 square miles, actually under cotton cultiva tion ! Truly, the people in Nagpore are not ap prentices to the business ; the soil, moreover, we are told, is so well adapted to the cultivation of cotton that there is room for indefinite extension. The supply, reports the Commissioner, might soon be made equal to the demand ; the only thing wanted is what Orientals especially, but perhaps agriculturists in most places would need, agents who should remove all difficulties but those of the culture of the plant. They want persons interested in procuring the cotton to see to the cleaning it in a manner adapted to the Manchester market, to pressing and packing it, and to the carriage. They want a man to do just what DIANCONI did for Irish travelling, and of which he gave us so interesting an account at the Dublin meeting. If Nagpore had but her BIANCONI, we should not be surprised if even this season he astonished Manchester with what he could send her thence. otel. Another commissioner tells us that the cotton in his district would answer well now for all the the coarse sorts of cloth, but would answer also for the finer sorts if gathered and cleaned with more care. The natives at present let the pods fall from the trees instead of gathering it from them ; it of course contracts much soil from the ground, which cannot be easily cleared off again from the delicate fibre. By proper eare in gathering the cotton from the tree, its value, the consumer says, would be enhanced 50 per cent. Tnis is the old story. Agri culturists in our own country have been taught to bring their corn, and their wool, and their other produce to market in the best trim by the demands of the agents of all kinds, from the merchant down wards, who act as middlemen, and who by the increased price they could give for a better prepared urticle, even of the same quality, taught our sons of the soil the importance of clean wool and well dressed grain crops; and who also undertook everything but the conveyance of the prcduce to the nearest market town. Now Lancashire has but to do the same. She must have thousands of persons competent to act as middlemen between the Indian cotton ryot, and the Liverpool ware house. Let these men go forth. There is a good eommission business for them. A first rate or } ganiser could probably soon make a fortune between the Indian cotton field and the Liverpool Cotton Market. A fuller telegram to-day from Vienna tells us of a piece of matchless effrolitery. The EMPEROR, in his Rescript, charges th) Hungarians with " in gratitude." And what , 4 , 0u1d the reader conceive to be the ground for this charge ? Why, that Hungary did not appreciate as she ought the " con- cessions of the 20th of October, by which the EM PEROR threw a veil of oblivion over the crime of the 14th of April, 1849, eomuitted against the dynasty and Pragmatic Sanctions—the abolition of the dynasty proclaimed by the Diet at Debreczin." Surely the Viennese Government must be de mented. Why was the Diet held at Debreczin in stead of at Pesth ? Simpl 7 because the Emperor of AUSTRIA had been guilty of treachery which nothing could excuse ; because he had doubly violated not only the Pragmatic Sanction, but all the laws which bind subjects to their sovereigns. Because, while they remained perfectly loyal, he prompted JELLACHICII to march upon them, at the same time publicly denouncing the barbarian for doing it. It was not till the Hungarians, de ceived and betrayed in every way, found them selves perfidiously attacked by no less than three armies, none of which he could legally bring unto their soil, that they rejected the dynasty. Never was rejection better deserved, never more legal, if there be any law between subjects and rulers. As well might a boy talk of his mag nanimity in forgetting his master's use of the birch, or a criminal of forgiving a judge for a sentence appropriate to his crime, as the Em peror of AUSTRIA speak of his magnanimity to the Hungarians in reference to 1849. It might or might not be politically expedient for Hungary to do what all Italy has done with universal applause so lately and with far less reason ; but assuredly the Emperor of AUSTRIA ought to blush to advert . to the darkest period of Austrian villany ! That he does so proves him unfit to be trusted. And then, when ho recollects how he got over that deposition—when he recollects that he had to get back his justly lost kingdom, as a present from the CZAR—When lie remembers that, fairly beaten himself by those whom ho illegally attacked, the Russians alone enabled him to per petrate the butcheries of Arad, and to satiate his revenge in the blood of Hungarian patriots, the date 1849 might well be one he might dread to recall. Imperial perfidy, treason, and bending the knee to NICHOLAS , are the Hapsburg memo ries of the year 1849. The Countess of Dunmore and Ladies Murray have left Carlton House-terrace, for Wilton House, near Salisbury, to pass a short tmo with Lady Herbert before departing for Scotland. The Earl of Wilton and Lady Alice Egerton have left Drakolm, Derbystire, where they have been stay ing with Sir Henry and Lady Sophia Des Veaux, for Drum mond Castle, Perthshire, oa a visit to Lord and Lady Wil loughby do Eresby. Their Highnesses the Princess Czernicheff and Princess Wladimir Bariat.nski arrived at Folkestone, from Paris, on Thursday afternoon, by the South-Eastern Rail way Company's passenger-boat Princess Helena, and pro ceeded immediately by special tidal train to London. Their highnesses have tale; up their residence at the Clarendon The Marquis of Exeter is shortly expected home from Germany. The marchioness and Lady Mary Cecil have arrived at Malvern Wells, from Burghley House, near Stamford. The Marchioness Conyogham left town yester du for Christchurch, llants, on a visit to her ladyship's sister, the Dowager Duchess of Richmond. The Countess of Desart has arrived in town from Ireland on her way to Scotland. Count d'Haussonville has arrived at the Claren don hotel from Paris. MV Lady Emily Hesketh arrived in Folkestone on Thursday, and took up her residence at Langhorne-gardens. TIIF. EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA.—The Frankfort Gazette say :—" A letter from Corfu confirms the last bul letins which have been issued with regard to the health of the Empress. The extraordinary climate of this island produced an instantaneous effect. The appetite of the Em press has returned, her respiration is easy and regular, and her cough has completely disappeared. In a word, none of the disquieting symptoms which occasioned her Majesty's departure remain." POST-OFFICE SAYINGS BANKS.—WC are enabled to state that the regulations for the management of these _ _ valuable institutions have been prepared and will shortly be published, and that 300 Post-offices will be opened for receipt of deposits on Monday, the 16th of September. A list of these offices will soon be made public. THE GREAT EASTERN.—The Great Eastern is still lying in the Nersey, and has been visited this week by nearly 30,000 persons without, so far as we can learn, the slightest hitch in the arrangements for the landing or em barkation. She will continue on view during the whole of next week, after which she will begin to take in cargo for her next trip, which will take place early in September. The directors, we understand, have been compelled, in con sequence of the demand for additional first-class berths, to fit up a number of nag state rooms. The report of the Ottoman Bank issued prepara tory to their meeting on Wednesday week states that the net profit in the past half-year was £20,104, and that the available balance on the present occasion is £25,690. It is proposed to add. £3,0 30 to the reserve, which will then amount to £71,196, and to declare a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, free of income-tax, leaving £1,891 to be carried forward. TIIE MALTA AND ALEXANDRIA ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The sEotions of cable to complete the line between this island sad Alexandria are expected from England before the en d of t he month. The Briti s h screw steamer Rangoon, w ith one po r ti on , was to leave on the 10th inst., and the Malacca, with another, was to follow shortly afterwards. The Berwick, screw steamer, is also looked for very soon from England. It appeared that Messrs. Glasse, Elliott, and Co. are about to try to under.- run and pick up the Corfu and Cagliari cables.—Malta Times. THE MANUFACTtRING MARKETS-MANCHESTER, Friday.—Cotton continues to gain in price, and spinners endeavour tA get a little more for their yarns, though not in proportion to the rise in cotton. In this, however, they succeed but partially. and the amount of business is very limited. The make's of Eastern cloths find rather more disposition to buy at [ld. per piece, say for shirtings, under the prices they reqtire ; and some business is effected at a compromise witl; the merchants. Other goods are steadily held at Tuesday's quotations, but there is very little doing. PAPAL ATROCITIES.—At Pont Landolfo, a village in the Neapolitan states, the Papal brigands received a small detachment of Italian troops with cheers and shouts of welcome, and then surrounded and massacred them to a man, with horrible tortures and mutilations. They tore out the eyes of the soldiers, and, it is said, by the express orders of an arehtishop, and under his very eyes, cut through the right aria of each Italian soldier at the wrist, "for having carried a sword against the Holy Father." This village was stormed by a few companies of Bersag lieri, and burned to the the ground; but all the women, old men, and children were spared by the troops. When the Bersaglieri entered the village to demand submission the rebels threw the mutilated limbs of the massacred sol diers from the windows. The judicial investigation at Baden into the case of Becker, the assassin of the King of Prussia, is now closed, and the documents relative to it have been sent to the public prosecutor of the circle of the Rhine at Bruchsal. It is not yet knawn whether that functionary will present an indictment against him both for high trea son and attempt at murder, bat it is believed that the lesser charge alone will be brought forward against him. Becker himself, however, i anxious to be tried for high treason, and he declares he would rather die on a scaffold than in prison. palities. empire. LAUNCH OF THE PEItIEUS AT PEMBROKE-YARD. —On Wednesday a handsomely modelled little steam screw sloop of war called the Perseus, pierced to carry 17 guns, was launched from the Royal Dockyard at Pembroke. The ceremony of naming was efficiently performed by Miss Paul, daughter of Commander Paul, of Devonport dockyard, who is here with a party of seamen to navigate the Perseus to that port, immediately after which (6 o'clock p.m.) the dog • shores being removed, she beautifully glided off into the waters(); the haven. Iler principal dimensiGnys are as follow 3 : Length between the perpendiculars, 135 feet ; length of keel for tonnage, 164 feet 01 inch ; breadth extreme, 33 feet 2 inches; breadth of keel for tonnage, 33 feet; breadth moulded, 32 feet 4 inches ; depth of hold, 17 feet 5 inches ; Luellen in tons, 950 5-91; engines, 200-horse power. In this instance, and for the first time, in order to the saving of expense, she will not be jury rigged for navigation to Devonport, but merely have her lower masts shipped with sails on them sufficient to keep her steady, and be towed round by steamers. Mr. Craddock, master shipwright, having been appointed to Portsmouth, will be relieved in a few days by Mr. Fiucham from Deptford; N , - CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 23. His Excellency Sir William e Codrington had an audience of the Sultan to-day. His reception was particularly complimentary. The Sultan afterwards detained Sir Henry Bulwer for a long private interview. A European Conference will be held at Con stantinople on the question of the Princi- It is likely that Riza Pasha will be appointed to a remote Pushalik. TURIN, AUG. 24: The statement made by several Italian news papers, that some Bourbon partisans had attempted a disembarkation on the 21st inst. at Ascoli, is without foundation. A large vessel, conveying them, sailed off without any attempt having been made to disembark, on account of the alarm having been immediately spread among the inhabitants. VIENNA, AUG. 23. ThG communication made to-day to both houses of the Reichsrath, in th© name of the Emperor, explains the difficulties created by the Hungarian Diet in insisting on the re-establishment of the laws of 1848, and the inadmissible form in which this demand was made. These laws encroach upon and prejudice the rights of the other nationalities of the Austrian The Emperor announces his intention of main taining the fundamental laws of the 20th October and 26th February last, because he considers the unity of the monarchy as the inviolable basis of tLe indivisible empire. His Majesty further declares that he will not withdraw the concessions which he has made to Hungary. " Should Hungary not take part in the General Council of the Empire, the resolutions adopted by the latter will nevertheless be binding upon the whole empire." The Emperor places his confidence in the new Hungarian Diet, and finally declares that instruc tions have been despatched to Hungary for the maintenance of order, in carrying out which, how ever, moderation will be used, unless the employ ment of rigorous measures be forced upon the Executive. NAPLES, AUG. 23 (Evening.) Advices received here to-day from Arce state that the brigands being pursued by the Royal troops entered Pontifical territory. The French troops were informed of their having crossed the frontier. The disbanded Neapolitan soldiers continue to surrender themselves to the Neapolitan autho rities. NAPLES, AUG. 23. Yesterday an attempt was made by some reae tionists to disembark at San Benedetto del Tronto, They were, however, repulsed. CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 22. His Excellency Sir William Codrington arrived here to-day. Orders have been despatched to the Pashas of Tunis, Tripoli, and Egypt to send officers to con gratulate the Sultan on his accession. The Prince of Servia has refused to send a deputation. Mehemet Djemel Bey has gone to Odessa to con gratulate the Czar. The Circassians have proclaimed a Republic. The Town of Peristi, near Gallipoli, has been half destroyed by fire. LISBON, MTG. 23. The King has gone to visit the Exhibition at Oporto. He has decorated the Marquis di Bella with the Order of Christ. The Cortes has confirmed the authorisation of the Government for opening the ports for the importation of foreign grain. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 23. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Alhambra arrived here this evening with the Peninsular mails. She brings 18 passengers, £754 in specie, and 11,000 packages of cargo. She ex perienced strong north-eastely winds. The Alhambra spoke the Euxino on the 14th, the steamer Montagu' on the 20th, and the barque Dreadnought on the 21st inst. LISBON, AUG. 17. The Government has authorised the admission of foreign grain into Portugal. It is expected that the Cortes Will grant the assistance sought by the steam company Uniao Mercantil, although great opposition continues against the measure. The nuptials of the Infanta Donna Antonio with the Prince of Hohenzollern are fixed for the 12th September. One of the royal palaces is being prepared for their reception. The Marquis di Bella, representative of the king dom of Italy, has arrived in Lisbon ; and will be received by the King in public audience to-day. The main clauses of the bill authorising tht. pur chase of the Southern Railway are under discussion in the Cortes. The weather continues excessively hot. Exchange on London at three months is quoted 53! ; on Paris, 530; on Amsterdam, 421; on Ham burg, 48 ; on Genoa, 528. 3 per Cent. Rentes, 481-; Coupons, 48; ; Deferred, 40. Lisbon Bank, 578; Oporto Mercantile Bank, 260 ; Commercial Bank, 252 milreis. SHANGHAI, JULY 4 (v ;a Malta). The friendly relations of the European Govern ments with Japan appear likely to be disturbed. The houses of the foreign merchants have been entered and robbed in open day. The Japanese Government is believed to sanc tion these proceedings. It is reported that the Governor of Kanagava had informed Mr. Aleock, who contemplated travel ing overland from Nagasaki b Jeddo, that he could give him no assurance of being unmolested on his journey. The imperial and rebel successes are alternate. A new insurrection has broken out near Pekin. CALCUTTA, JULY 22 (via Malta). The Calcutta journals have news asserting that five cities in Tartary and China have been made over to the Russians by the Emperor of China. The Noosrutshall (?) has been wrecked at Ked geree. Eight men are said to be missing. The Rev. James Long has been found guilty. Judgment deferred. Incessant rains have prevailed in the interior. CALCUTTA, JULY 29. (By Telegraph to Point de Galle.) The indigo prospects are bad. the gaze of Englishmen turned to the further- most extremity of our stupendous possessions in North America—attracted thither as it was, first of all by the discovery of gold fields upon the banks of Frazer River. Secondly, by the transference of the governing power yonder from the Hudson's Bay Company to the Crown—from which, as a matter of course, it had originally emanated, or rather, perhaps, it should be said more correctly, by which it had been origi nally delegated, for a stipulated period, to the re presentatives of that great trading association ! I Finally, the attention of England was attracted to that hitherto almost overlooked portion of her vast dominions by reason of the comprehensive scale upon which that new and noble colony of British \Columbia was organised throughout, from its Go vernor downwards to the least responsi ble of his I subordinates. _ Zeal , If any yet more striking instance were required of the unexpected manner in which the interest of the mother country in any one of her remote pos sessions is sometimes awakened with unusual inter'• sity—it would be sufficient to recall to mind the events which have latterly caused us all to turn with a profounder solicitude than was ever before awakened in that direction — towards the whole majestic and gigantic sweep of our Empire in Hindostan. That solicitude was first of all aroused by a terrible and, as it threatened at first to be, a wholly disastrous catastrophe—the outbreak of the Sepoy Rebellion in Bengal. From that evil, however, good came forth eventually. The necessity was at length recognised of putting an end to the monstrous anomaly of the double Govern ment. The result has been, as we know—the transference there also as in that other instance (already mentioned) witnessed upon the opposite shores of the Pacific, the direct transference of the governing power to the Crown from the possession of that effete and incompetent representative (in this wise) of the Crown, a Great Trading Association ! The Honourable the East India Company has, in consequence, ceased to hold its place among the rulers of the earth—as absolutely as the Hudson's Bay Company has ceased to govern that some time portion of their hunting ground now known as the colony of British Columbia. Her MA JESTY'S sceptre is wielded thenceforth directly, and no longer indirectly, over British Columbia and over Hindostan. The interest with which those remote portions of her dominion are regarded by England from that time by necessity becomes pro portionately increased and intensified. Our com mercial relations with , this colony and with that, as we have before remarked, all the while growing with our growth and strengthening with our strength, uninterruptedly. The tide of emigration sweeping steadily from our shores, meanwhile, with more or less advance in volume, and it might even be said in velocity, or at any rate in periodical fre quency—chiefly westwards and southwards. POLAND. (From a Correspondent.) WARSAW, AUG. 17. The people's fete of last Monday presented a great contrast to the Government fete of the Bth inst. The printed handbill, which had been distri buted in the streets on this occasion, was as fol- lows;— " Brothers, and Fellow-countrymen !—On the 12th August, 1569, King Sigismund Augustus, at Lublin, solemnly closed the day on which the union of Poland with Lithuania was completed, and sealed it by a free contract, exhorting both peoples to brotherly love. Let us then, brothers and fellow countrymen, celebrate that glorious anniversary of the fraternal union of our ancestors, and in our churches raise up to God ardent prayers that he may bind our torn fatherland in one whole, and unite us all in spirit. Let us all, with our priests, on this 12th of August acknowledge that we are brothers of the one family, of the white eagle and the armed knight (the Lithuanian arms). The celebration of this union between the two peoples should be solemn and quiet, and embrace the whole of old Poland. On this day only, a day so highly important in history, shall mourning be suspended." The Cracow Czas publishes a curious document, which is a ridiculous, and at the same time a melan choly, picture of the mean and petty tyranny of the Government. It should be explained, for the better understanding of this document, that both in Poland and in Russia civil employes always ap pear in private dress except on festive occasions, and that since the death of the Emperor Nicholas those who wish it wear moustaches. The following is the text of this despatch, ad dressed by the Lieutenant of the Kingdom to the chief directors of all the government departments : " Warsaw, July 30, 1861. No. 950. " I have been informed that in many places in the kingdom the effective employes, instead of as sisting the Government in preserving peace and order, act in direct opposition to it, and, sympathis inV with the insurrectionary designs of the inhabi tants, give them the example of disobedience to the arrangements made by the Government ; that a great number of them, chiefly young men, do not wear their official uniforms, but the Polish national dress, with broad belts, red handkerchiefs round their necks instead of stocks, attached with pins with a white eagle on them, Polish caps, and that they show themselves in this dress both in the street and in their offices ; also that some of them wear moustaches, imperials, and even beards. All this is done to express their to the Govern ment, and can no longer be allowed. I therefore request that you will give particular attention to the conduct of the officials under you, and take steps to prevent any of the above disorders in future. Should any official after the publication by you of your regulations in this respect venture to come to his office in any but the official dress, or have been seen in the street in a dress unsuitable to his position, he is to be dismissed the service as a warning to others, for he thereby shows that he does not deserve the confidence of the Govern ment, and disregards its regulations. It cannot tolerate insubordination from any quarter, and still less from its own officials, such conduct on their part tending to keeping up a disorderly spirit in the country. You will be good enough to acquaint me of your regulations on this point, and in future report to me any official who does not conform to them, or do anything to show ill will towards the Government, as also the names of those who in accordance with these instructions, will be dismissed the service. (Signed) " SUCHOZANET." Another edict of the Lieutenant of the Kingdom which has been lately issued is still more impor tant, as showing the result, of the promises of the Emperor. It gives almost unlimited powers to the military commandants in the various Polish dis tricts. Among other privileges, they are authorized to arrest, not only those who are accused of designs against the Government by sworn witnesses, but also those, the clergy included, of whose ill will to the Government they are morally convinces) ! The investigations is to be conducted on the spot, and its result reported to the Viceroy, who will try the accused by a military tribunal under military law. All this is, of course, in direct contradiction to the Polish criminal code and the promises of the Em peror and Marquis Wiolorolski that such code would be strictly followed. The consequence of the new system may be seen any evening at mid night on the road to the Vistula, by which pass, almost daily, postchaises guarded by gendarmes, with fresh victims for Siberia, or the Russian fortresses. ---- ATTE..IIPT ON GARIBALDI AT CAPI?ERA. The following letter, addressed by Garibaldi's aide de-camp, Vecchi (now residing with hlm at Caprera), to the Movimento, of Genoa, gives a cor rect account of the recent incidents on the island, o which repeated reference has been made in vari- ous journals:-- Last night there arrived here three dragoons ; they had heard that two men of suspicious appear ance had lauded in Caprera. The report appeared to us a mere absurdity ; they took leave of us and we went to supper. Stagneti and I walked up and down, smoking all the while, till 11 o'clock, and then we went to bed. About 3 o'clock in the morning I heard the dogs barking, and bounding out of the en closure. Soon after I fell asleep again. At 5 I got up and saw the gendarmes, who told me what had hap pened in the night. After we had gone to supper they patrolled about the reeks surrounding our little square, and then stretched themselves out at a short distance from each other. At three o'clock they heard some footsteps, and in the dark contrived to descry two men passing before them at the dis tance of a pistol shot. The corporal cried out " Who goes there ?" He was answered by a shot. Then the three dragoons ran after the men the corporal still shouting out, " Stop, in the King's name !" He was assailed with the foulest epithets. The dragoons fired again, and heard one of the rascals crying out " Madonna !" and then both ran off as fast as they could. On re thing the spot where the villains had just been, they found that the bullets had lodged in the rock, that there were three impressions of bloody hands on the granite, on the ground a small pool of blood ; further on other traces of blood on the road, a cotton hand kerchief all stained with blood, and a powder flask. When the Sardinians are wounded, it is their custom to cry out, " Gesu, Maria, Giuseppe 1" The gendarmes therefore concluded that the two meat were not bandits from the island of Sardinia, but foreign assassins. After the General had taken his vapour bath we informed him of what had happened. With his customary indifference he said that yesterday, whilst looking out at the window, before taking his walk with me, he had observed two men, un known to him, lambering across the rocks. He spoke with the dragoons, and tried to persuade them that the whole thing was a mistake, in order that they might not alarm the inhabitants of the neigh bouring island of Maddalena. Then he went with Carpeneto to look at a vineyard at some distance. But the dragoons, by the reports which they had made to the authorities, had alarmed the whole country. The story, as it passed from mouth to mouth, became, of course, more marvellous. The women were shouting front the windows that the general was killed, and all were rushing to the harbour and jumping into the boats. The women stopped at La Moneta ; I but all the persons of consequence in Maddalena (with the exception of the curate) —the gendarmes, the marina sharpshooters, the custom-house officers, in short, the citizens of all classes, even the children, landed in arms and came throng ing up to our little square at Caprera. was reminded of the esplanade of the palace of Caserta, when we had the honour to protect there the unity of our country. Some of the patrolling parties had taken the mountain road on the oppo site of the island. All seemed animated by a com mon thought, the resolution to protect the noblest of lives—the life so necessary for the welfare of Italy. Two government gun-brigs at the same time kept cruising round the islaud. One of them reports that it saw a boat set sail from Giglio, taking the direction of Cape Ferro. Orders have been sent to ascertain what persons may have landed there — nothing more. I wrote this merely that you may know the truth about what has happened. C. A. VECCIII. FRANCE. Under the head of " Latest Intelligence," La Patrie publishes the following : " His Majesty the Emperor is expected at Paris on Saturday, at 5 p.m., from Plombieres. His Highness the Prince Imperial and His Royal High ness Prince William of Baden have left the Camp of Chalons for St. Cloud. "Rear-Admiral Bonard has been ordered to pro ceed to Cochin China. The Forbin has been placed at his orders, to convey him from Suez to Saigon." Twelve bronzed lamp-posts, of a new pattern, have just been put up in the Place Vendome, and similar ones will successively replace all the iron posts in the principal thoroughfares. The munici pal authorities have just decided on erecting lamp posts, instead of the present bracket lamps, in all streets where the foot-pavement is two metres wide, and this measure has already been carried into execution in the Rue Drouot. BOURSE, Aug. 23.—There is no change to notice in the tone of the market. Threes, for the Account, are now at 68f 50c. Railways also quiet. The following are the last quotations : , It per per Cents ... 97 90 Credit Foncier 1245 Do end month.... 98 —1 Belgian:4l — 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 50 Roman Bank Shares 2915 -- , Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 735 Spanieh Threes 4B 50 Do. Account 737 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1405 .. 1407 50 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1016 25 .. 1018 75 G eneva 345 --.. 347 50 Southern 627 50 .. 628 75 Western Eastern .... Sardinian 365 .. 366 25 Austrian Lombard LORD PALMERSTON AND 711 E CINQUE PORTS VOLUArTEERS. Lord Palmerston has written to Major Harcourt, as senior officer of the Cinque Ports Volunteers, to the following effect : " I should very much like to see the several volun • teer corps of the Cinque Ports during my stay at Walmer, but I should be desirous of doing so in the manner most convenient to them; and as it might put them to some inconvenience to assemble together at any one place, I should be equally gra tified by being allowed to inspect each corps succes sively at its own headquarters, which, by previous arrangement, I could easily do. " Perhaps you will have the goodness to let me know, by a letter directed to Walmer Castle, what arrangement will be the most convenient to the several corps." COMFENSATIONS.—The finance accounts for 1859-60 showed that £130,000 had been paid in that year as compensations to the officers of the late Ecclesiastical and Prerogative Courts; but in the year 1860-61 the pay ment was only £120,000. 'Mewl accounts aro made up to the 31st of March, but not laid before Parliament until June, and in the series of last June the estimate of the charge for the current year is further reduced to £116,000. THE MURDER AT EVERLEIGIL—The prisoner John Stocker was on Wednesday evening remanded to Marlborough police-station to appear before the magistrates sitting there today (Sgturday), when.c3 it is probable that he will be again remanded till next Friday, the 30th im.t , then to be examined before the bench assembled in Petty Sessions at the Cro wn Inn, Everleigh. The decased, Ann Hill, was buried by order of the coroner, at 6 p.m , on Wed nesday, Mr. C. J. Monk , Mrs. "'think ; and the servants of their establishment attending the funeral. One of the medical witnesses positively swore that a dog-whip found in Stocker's possession was the instrument with which the strangulation WAS effected, THE COTTON TRADE IN INDIA. The following are reports to the Government on the subject of the cotton trade. That from the Com missioner of Nagpore and its annexes contains in formation of a most important nature. It will be observed that in the territory of Nagpore alone there are 281,214 acres or 439 square miles under cotton cultivation, and so admirably adapted is the soil for the purpose that the cultivation is capable of great extension. " If," states the Commissioner in his report, " the parties most interested in the cotton trade were to establish agencies in this part of the country, and introduce a proper system of press ing and packing, and create establishments for pro viding the requisite carriage, the supply would very soon equal any demand that might be made. With improved communication and increased facilities for transport, this province and the neighbouring dis-- tricts, north and south, would very soon produce any amount of cotton which could possibly be de sired." In Mr. Williams's letter, referred to in the correspondence, will be found much useful informa tion regarding the mode of preparing the soil and: of tending the plant. On the quality of the cottons in his own district—the Racepore—he writes thuG: —" It is a good, and strong coarse fibre, admirably adapted for all coarse cloths, and would answer for the finer textures if gathered with more care, In stead of picking the pods off the cotton-trees as they become ripe, the natives allow the cotton to ripen and fall to the ground, from which they gather it up. By this plan the cotton becomes very dirty, and it is found very difficult and troublesome to get the dirt from it again ; hence its uselessness at present for the finer fabrics of cloth. If proper care were taken to gather the cotton from the tree, its value would be enhanced 50 per cent." THE WEATHER. WEATHER EXPECTED TILL TO-MORROW OF. NEXT DAY. North Britain North-west, northerly, fresh. Ireland North-westerly, strong ; squally. East Coast South England North-westterly, moderate ; squally. METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS. 'Phis Day, I, etween 8 and B. E. M. I D. F. C. I. S. 9 a.m. . - - --- Aberdeen 29'64 55 51 I NW. 6 5 c. Leith Berwick , 29 . 79 57 52 W. 4' 5 c. F, Ardrossan i 29'96 57 64 N.N. E. 4 6 c. ?, Portr.. sh Shields ; 20'85 56 51 N.W. 6 1 b. ° Galway 30•31 61 58 W. 4 7 C. ‘ i Scarborough Liverpool Valentia Queen s town i 30 . 33 69 58 N. N.W. 5 3 c. *) ' Yarmouth ; 30'04 58 56 N.W. 6 1 b. 4 London 30'15 57 53 N.W. 3 3 b --", Cover 3o'll 63 58 W.N.W. 5 9 o. Portsmouth 30'21 60 58 N.W. 3 5 m. 1 Portland Plymouth 30'35 60 55 N.W. 3 5 m. 3 l'enzance EXPLANATION. - B. Barometer, corrected raid reduced to 32 deg at mean sea level ; each 10 feet of vertical rise causing. about 1-100th of an inch diminution, and each 1 0 deg above 32 deg causing nearly 3-100ths increase. E. Exposed thermometer in shade. M. Moistened bulb (for evaporation and dew-point). D. Direction of wind (true--• not magnetic). F. Force (1 to 12—estimated). C. Cloud (1 to 9). I. Initials :—b,, blue sky; c., clouds- (detached) ; f., fog. ; h., hail ; 1., lightning ; m., misty (hazy) ; 0 ./ overcast (dull) ; r., rain; s., snow • t., thunder. A letter repeated augments — thus, r.r., much rain. S. Sea disturb.. • nee (1 to 9). IBIS DAY'S SIIIPPINU. LONDON, Aug. 24.—Wind this day at hOon—Nort h ' Westerly ; rather fresh breeze, and firle weather, but cloudy. CARDIFF, Aug. 23.—Wind W.—Sailed—Cid, for Cal- cutta. FALMOUTH, Aug. 23.—Wind S.W,—Sailed—l 3 er muda, steamer, for Havannah. OPP COWES, Aug. 23.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Bo russia, steamer, from New York, and proceeded for Ham burg. PLYMOUTH, Aug. 22.—Wind Ma jesty's ship Meg/era, for Queenstown. STARCROSS, Aug. 23.—Wind W.—Arrived—Atalanta, from Quebec. BRIDGEWATER, Aug. 23.—Wind setta, from Quebec. (B ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SolmiemPTox, Satur(lay Morning. Arrived —Alliance, steamer, from Havre; Gipsy, iron 3 Llanelly ; Charlotte, from Guernsey; Atalanta, stearaorl from Jersey. (BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Arrived, Aug. 23. --Sir George Grey, from l'ape Tow Louisa, from Matan zas ; Sisters, from , n ; Crons tads • Nege" tiator, from Alryab ; Swan, from' Dantzic ; Qrispin, front Guernsey. Arrived, Aug. N.—Prince Alfred, from Charlotte Town; ... entts, from H am b urg • ' No, from Ilavunnah • Fadre° Minde, from. Montreal ; Vonkestorf ite'senhagen, frail Archangel; Geog o lf, from Archangel; Lily, from Queb ee j Agnes, from Quebec ; Fortuna, from Husum ; sag:ewer., front Calcutta ; St. George, from Guernsey. Sailed, Aug. 24.—Taurus, steamer, for 'Hamburg?, Hanover, steamer, for Calais; Ilollaud, steamer, for Os tend; Esk, steamer, for Guernsey. DEAL, Saturday Morning. , Passed—Hobe, of Weymouth, from the west, for Londo n, City of Quebec, from London, for Quebec ; Inea, from London, for Martinique; Edward and Elise, from London! for Montevideo ; Mazeppe, and M. A. Webb, from Lon. don, for Cardiff; Zeal, freru London, fur Cape C;oast Cas tle. Immaeulto, from Shields, for Naples ; MAlvern, from Sunderland, for Marseilles. CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING= DAY.---Yes 4 terday the admissions on payment were 3,824 ; ditto b, ftatim tickets, 494; total, 4,320. i,