The Sun. — London, England, 1861-06-24 00:00:00

T R Y AY uI ET. Lessee, fir. 3. B. Iltioltstone. lA' EV EN I G. the performanocs will culi.Anm2e With THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE. After which THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Chas. Mathews. linckstone, E. Villiers. Rogers, &c.; Mrs. Wilki n s, Mrs. C. Mathews, and Miss E. NiCeekes. Followed by PATTER VERSUS CLATTER. And THE GAI.ICIAN FETE. Commence at 7. SNIS;SA. Harris. THEATRE.— E er i . e ~ , e eP and .1- llt _ 3 l si r „ C . L ., ~.i_P 0 Y A l Tti IS EVENING, TRUTH AND FICTION. Supported by bledsrs. F. Matthews,Widdicombe, Shore, Cathcart, Garden; Mims C. I.eclercq, Miss R. Leclercq, and Miss M. Harris. Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Sup ported by Hermann V,zin, Ryder, Meadows, &c. ; Misses xi can, Elsworthy, and R. Leclercq. EW THEATRE-ROYAL. ADELPHI.— ...LN sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Reproduction of "The Colleen Bawn. " The Adelphi "Census" every Eveninz. THIS EVENING, the successful new Farce, entitled A TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Took. Mr. P. Bedford. After which (214th time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. D. Boucieault, D. eisher,llinzton, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. „ . To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, T.IIE CENSUS. Messrs. J. c,. Toole, Eburne, Romer, C. J. Smith; Miss Kate Kelly, Miss E. i'hornc, and Mrs. Chatterley. Doors open at halt past 6--Commence at 7. PAINTTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. EVERY EVENINti. Two Grand Selections from celebrated Onerss. including Verdi's new Opera. THE hAL MASQUE (first produced in England at this Establishment), with a Chorus of Forty Voices, and upon a scale unequalled at any other Concerts. Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Greville, 111 . r. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, Mr. Bernard; popular Solos on the Cornet-s -piston, by Mr. Levy (the first performer of the day); the Brothers Conrad (in an entirely original entertainment on the double r opt., not to be seen elsewhere); continued success of Mr. Wood and his talented little Son. The Comic Department comprises the following. favourites: —Mr. Marshall, Mr. Hollingsworth ; the NERVES, by 31,ssrs. Harvey and French ; and Mrs. Lawrence. Musical Director, Mr. JONGIIMANS. T H E 0 )Ly 0 R D, 6, OXFORD-STREET. Thi4 noble building being now completed, its architectural teauty, elegance of ornamentation, and brilliancy of lighting render it one of the sights of the metropolis. Open Every Evening. The programme is varied, and includes Selections (by a full company of principals. powerful band, and chorus) from "Macbeth" and "Un Ballo in Maschera." both operas by Verdi, the composer of the day—The wonderful Solos on the Cornet-a-Piston of the renowned LEVY—Scoteh Duets by the Misses Stuart, and other vocal and instrumental music of the highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The Comic portion of the entertainment is supported by MISS Green, Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey, and French (the Nerves), W. 11. Wieland, E. Marshall, and W. Randall. Admission, sixpence; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. PriVate Boxes, 10s. Gd. HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, 2h. 56m.—Afternoon, 3h. 20m To-uoaa.ow.-Morning,, 3h. 45m.—Afternoon, 4h. 4m, THE WEATHER. --SUN OPPICE, JUNE 23, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 75 —highest since noon yesterday.' 57—lowest this morning and during the night. 63—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.83. WlND—South • Westerly ; light, with dull weather. Some rain, thunder, and lightning. About noon rain still heavier. JUNE 24. THERMOMETER, IN TIIE SHADE. 73—highest since noon yesterday. 58 —lowest this morning and during the night. 71 —this day at noon. BARomETnn-29.88. WlND—Westerly; light, with fine weather, and ligh rolling clouds. ~1 • V, 1 44' K , % 4 14,4 1 ; 7 \ 410 •z • t „ 4 00:;;;,', , L `+ ~-~; i~ 7,~ ~~~ r 'f~.. ~ __ J~ ~~ THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1861. The melancholy death of JOHN, first Baron CAMPBELL, the Lord High Chancellor of Eng land, will excite but one feeling throughout the country—that of profound regret for himself, and towards the members of the noble and learned lord's family, of most respectful commiseration. The disappearance from amongst us of this emi nent statesman and jarisconsult, legislator and administrator, has been so abrupt, so startling in its suddenness, that it is more than usually diffi cult at once to realise the reality of his depar ture. Attending the Cabinet Council on Satur day afternoon; at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury—entertaining a dinner party of eighteen at his own residence on Satur day night—within a few hours afterwards Lord CAMPBELL is found seated in his own bedroom, with blood oozing from his mouth—Dead. Dying, as he did, immediately after the exercise of his public duties, the noble and learned lord may be said, with perfect accuracy, to have died in har ness. To his inanimate remains the nation will not, of course, fail to award the mournful honours of a solemn and public interment. The Lord High Chancellor of England, expiring while in the exercise of that supreme responsibility, while keeper of the Great Seal and Guardian of Her MAJESTY'S conscience, demands, as it were, by right, by a sort of imperative necessity, some such evidence of respect from the people, from the Parliament, from the SOVEREIGN herself, and it:is almost needless to add, in a very peculiar way, from the deceased peer's colleagues in the councils of her MAJESTY'S Government. A funeral at Westminster Abbey, therefore, is certain to attest now, in a few days, the national estimation of the distinguished Lord Chancellor who has been with such appalling abruptness snatched from amongst us. Lord - CAMPBELL was one of those eminent men of whom the nation is—not un naturally or unreasonably, and in the noblest sense of the word —proudest. A cadet, it is true, of the great ducal house of ARGYLL, a member in fact of that grand Clan of the CAmPBELLs, owning an almost loyal allegiance to their fair-haired chieftain the M'CALLUM MonE—JoHN CAMPBELL, after wards Sir JOHN CAMPBELL, eventually Ist Baron CAMPBELL and England's Lord High Chancellor, was son of the Rev. Dr. GEORGE CAMPBELL, who was during upwards of half a century consecutively minister of Cupar. The deceased Chancellor w as consequently—was essentially—what is called a self made-man., He was one of those British "Worthies who with Heaven's good help have carved their way to distinction. The members of our own laborious and responsible profession, the members of what is not inappositely or (considering the influence indubitably exercised by public jaurnalistn) extravagantly designated the Fourth Estate—more especially the Parliamentary and legal reporters, and together with them the theatrical critics upon the daily newspapers, will ever remember with interest that the future Lord (thief Justice of England, the future Lord Chan cellor of England, the future Historian of the Eng lish Lord Chief Justices and Lord Chancellors, laboured in the early part of his career in those particular capacities as a publicist ! That he toiled, in Met, at intervals, by day and by night, as a reporter, now in " the stalls of one of our The:art:ll-Royal, now at the short-hand writer's table in the law courts, now in one of those mysta sous bases confronting the throne in the Loids , immediately over the Speaker's Chair in the e ' - 'num (ma, the boxes of the Great National " Whis l'erinc 7 Gallery," known to fame as The Gallery ! Withi it the first decade of this century Lord CamP BELL, then plain JOHN CAMPBELL, was engaged thus off an d on (while yet a junior barrister) as a re porter upon the staff of the If orning Chronicle. The f. tet that he was thus enrolled upon the staff of that journal is as distinctly marked down in the annals c ,f ts palmy days, as th e ot h er notable circum stance that in the fourth decade of this century anothei • ramous writer, CHARLE S D ICKENS, the Cir Pat t r o elist, NVEIS first occupied upon the London newspapers in reporting and eventually in penning comic essays, thb memorable " Sketches by Boz," for the columns of the _Evening Chronicle. Else where in our impression of this evening will be found a carefully detailed narrative of the rise to fame and fortune, to titles and hon ours of the eminent Lawyer and Author snatched from life so suddenly but yesterday, Annalist of the of our Chancellors, Occupant himself of the woolsack —the - glories of which it is especially worthy of note, his pen has been chiefly instrumental in com memorating ! Peace to his manes—honour to his memory. A Great Citizen has passed abruptly from the midst of us. We have nothing left now to do in his regard, but—laying well to heart, of course, the impressive lesson of his Life and, let us add also, of his Death—to cherish all that is more worthy of being guarded in his memory, and to consign his dead body with due honour to the tomb in that great National Wallhalla—the old Abbey down at Westminster. Sir RICHARD BETHELL everyone at last looks to as Lord CAMPBELL'S successor on the Woolsack. The promotion is his, so to speak, by right—as Attorney-General. It is his, if for no other reason (and in Sir RICHARD BETHELL'S instance there are many reasons), if for no other reason, we say—in compensation for his many past disappointments. The Great Seal has more than once before this dangled all but within reach of the pre sent First Law Officer of the Crown. His eminence in his profession is a fact long since recognised as notorious and indisput able. Almost—we had said, and we surely m i g ht without much hesitation say—his pre-emi nence ! For Sir RICHARD BETHELL, as a lawyer, h a s a reputation second to no one among the crowd of his own contemporaries. To pass over Sir RICHARD BETHELL, in fact, again, would be little else than a personal slight and a public in dignity. Convenient it might be, as a temporary stopgap, to induce Lord CRANWORTH to resume his post as Lord Chancellor. But the public at large will hardly rest satisfied if the Attorney-General be not at length raised simultaneously to the two dignities he has by this time well earned—a Peer age and the Chancellorship. Sir WILLIAM ATHERTON, the present Solicitor-General, will, in that eventuality, be promoted (also by right) to the Attorney-Generalship. And then—who will occupy Sir WILLIAM'S vacated position as her MAJESTY'S Solicitor-General ? That, in point of fact, is the sole remaining question, the sole result of all these changes left still, to this moment, in any way problematical. The choice has recently been narrowed by the regretted erasure of one con spicuous name from the list of the candidates. Still, among the lawyers upon the Liberal side of the House enough are still left —and to spare—to enable the First Lord of the Treasury to make a judicious selection. May the consideration of the public advantage alone guide Lord PALMERSTON in the delicate task of making that selection of our new Solicitor-General ! CONVOCATION—It is a big-sounding word, and time was when the thing itself might be somewhat answering to the word. If it ever were so, it was when, as representing the clergy, it was convened to tax itself. The patriarch of the English Church, however, ST. HARRY VIII., prudently took all the power over Convocation into his own hand ; in due time its self-taxing powers vanished, and it has, ever since been an assembly for conversation merely —a kind of ecclesiastical soiree. But power is dear to many men, to none more so than to ecclesiastics, and hence of late years, as our readers well know, the Convocationists, for they are a party in the Church, have tried hard to talk a little more, and a little more every year ; have appointed committees to sit when Convocation was prorogued, have passed all kinds of empty resolutions, and in fact verbi)ied so much that they have appeared to some as if doing business." " Where there's so much smoke there must be fire," say beholden, and where there are so many words there must be some deeds would seem to be as natural an inference. Nothing of the sort, however ; it is all literally, vox et preterea niltil. They got the QUEEN'S license to try their hands on so petty a mat ter as doctoring a Canon ; they have trimmed up the 29th to the exigencies of clergy who cannot find Godfathers and Godmothers for all the chil dren they desire to baptise ; registration of births having been fatal to the old solicitude of great numbers for a State Church Baptism. The Methodist parson does it as well, without wanting godfathers or godmothers either; the parents might be willing to stand as godfathers to their own offspring, but the 29th Canon forbids it—so even the Bishop of OXFORD is forward to tamper with a Canon ! If he cannot get non-parental godfathers and baptism, too, let us, he says, have the baptism, so he gets Royal Licence to amend the Canon, and he does it—and now, after all is done, the highest legal authorities whom they consult, tell them it is all useless. The alteration is illegal !—and it will not release the offending clergyman from legal consequences for his act. What the clergy intend to do with their new and illegal Canon we know not. It seems as hard to reform Canons as to reform the llouse of Commons. Next, at the instigation of Archdeacon DENISON, the Convocation proposes to sit as a High Court of Heresy, and it seems to have pronounced itself com petent. It is an odd sort of court, to be sure, for that purpose. It consists of an Upper House of all the Bishops —a Lower House of 22 deans, 53 arch deacons, 24 canons, and 44 proctors of the inferior clergy —we are not learned enough to know whether the new bishoprics have added any members to the Lower Rouse. It is a body representing little that of, unless it be, with very f ew exce pti ons' all we t kw h n e o e rcchet , all the fussy ecclesiastics, and all the clerical immobility, and " old fogieism," of the day. Quite like a windfall the famous Seven Essays and Reviews have dropped among these loquacious priests. They first ap rointed a committee to scarify the book, and the to y drag out all the tares of fals e doctrine, that might be burned in the furnace of Convocational wrath. With heart and good-will the committee went to work, and soon produced a report full of selected heresies enough toshocklatiese the lllbelieversin the Prayer-book and the Bible. chair man, Archdeacon DENISON, he of Tr Upperactar House,iannoto- noto riety, proposed to send up to the. with the information that the Lower House found in them " sufficient grounds for proceeding to Synodical Judyment on the book." And on this proposal about 40 of the 143 clergy debated for two whole days ; an intimation from the Upper House that they would he in a few hours relieved from their Convocational labours for a long time, having induced them to pack their speeches into a small compass on the second day and to come to voting. Forty, save one, voted, and of these thirty-one affirmed the proposal of Archdeacon DENISON, and eight opposed it. Thus virtua ly affirming that Convocation could act as a Synod, and could act judicially. This conclusion, as we have seen, was not reached without considerable debate. The minority was strong in common-sense ; though no match for the rest in votes. Of coarse, the book which had so frightened all the Bishops themselves, was universally condemned—none ventured to de fend, or to excuse. One speaker had the audacity to mention the seemingly unwelcome fact that there were "some good things in the book"—but it seemed impossible to find adjectives enough in the language to consign it to ecclesiastical and to literary per dition. It was at once " heretical and pernicious," " illogical and silly"—" most perilous"---" unwise" —full of" German infidelity," " to be viewed with the greatest dread," " a reconstruction of Christianity," and one of the speakers having read it, we suppose at " longed to got h ome an d b urn it." And guage which was a ll b u t un i vers al, a friends,such u ehr was by no means confined to those who desired to make Convocation a Court of Heresy, it was largely used by those who opposed such a step, being ap parently a necessary protest to save themselves from accusation of favouring such " wicked errors." It should be mentioned that the amendments almost equalled the number of the minority—they were directed not to apologising for the book ; but to the avoidance of Synodical action and judgment. It was argued that such a step could not be legally taken without the QUEEN'S licence, and this cer- tainly seems highly probable. Of course, however, the convocationists would not be stopped in their pro ceedings by weak, unmanly fear of human law. That objection overleaped, others came forwjrd, some of which seemed to trench on the dignity of the august assembly ; it was even said that the Essayists were just the men not to care a straw for the judg ment of Convocation ; also that the young men at the Universities would all be eager to read what Convocation judged bad ! Nititur in vetitum. Also that they were now advertising the book, and would do so yet more by a formal judgment. The moral competency of the tribunal was arraigned ; it was said that the heresy. hunting committee who had made the report were all of one theological party ; that the greater part of the members of Convocation had already openly accused the book on which they now proposed to sit as judges ; that they could not have the authors and evidence before them; and that to proceed, as proposed, would at best liken the Convocation to a House of Com mons, proceeding by the now obsolete law of attain der. Englishmen, it was said, resented above all things unfair proceedings against even those whom they believed to be guilty; and hence an unfair trial and judgment would, by awakening public sympathy, only do the Essayists good. Perhaps as formidab:e au objection as they had to meet arose from the action of one of the members of Convocation itself. The Bishop of SALIssITRY had commenced proceedings in an ecclesiastical court against one of the Essayists, and it was unanswerably maintained that on the prin ciples of English law no man ought to be tried before two tribunals for one offence; also that by delivering a hostile judgment they would unfairly prejudice the case of the defendants, who were yet to undergo their trial. We might perhaps inquire whether the defendants, if Convocation proceeded illegally, would not have fair ground of action for damages against it, if they lost their cause in the Ecclesiastical Court. So debated and so :ended its work, the Lower House of Convocation ; doctors, and proctors, deans, canons, and archdeacons—a snug little theological party somewhat under forty. There can be but one opinion on the relation of the whole proceeding to its objects. One object was, as some present plainly intimated—for priests of one theological party to denounce another. The High Church especially, aided by the Evangelicals, to cry down the Broad Church. That object they have at tained—only, what cares the Broad Church for it P The Convocation was distinctly told, for instance, that Professor JOWETT was already a great favourite with the young men of Oxford, and 1 - e would now be a still greater favourite. If another object was to discredit the Essays, nothing, in England, could they do more sure to gain attention to them. Every successive denunciation has been immediately followed by an edition or two. This last will doubt less call forth yet another. The truth is one good book—of seven Counter Essays—as ably written as the obnoxious seven—a candid book, appreciating the true and good in them, and fairly exhibiting and refuting the bad and false, would be worth twenty synodical condemnations, in regard to nulli fying any possible mischief. The Anti-Essayists have but to employ equal talent and equal candour on their Counter Essays, and theirs would be in turn the popular book of the day. The Federalists have had an important success and a somewhat bloody repulse. They have com pelled the enemy to abandon Harper's Ferry, not, however, till they had burned and destroyed the Government property there. The Federal troops evidently succeeded in their intention of so threatening the communications of their opponents that the latter should be driven from their posi tion without fighting. It is said to be a strong military fort ; but with what was destroyed when the Federal troops left it, and what is now destroyed, the place as an arsenal can be of little value. The Federal honour is, however, so far retrieved. Btigadier-General PIERCE was not so successful. He attacked the enemy's position nine miles from Fort Monroe, but he lost, we are told, his presence of mind ; two of his regiments fired on one another, and, after sustaining a galling fire for an hour from the Confederate batteries, he - was compelled to re tire, with a loss, so far as yet known, of thirty killed and ono hundred wounded. The num ber of his runaway slaves, however— " con- traband of war" have increased to seven hundred, and he is waiting reinforcements. Still, this sad bloodshed, which is perhaps the first that has occurred in a fair military conflict, shows the North that it will not be entirely child's play to occupy Virginia. The Secessionists are now said to have abandoned the whole line of the Potomac, and to be concentrating their strength at Manassas Gap Railway. They intend at this position to cover Richmond, the capital, on which General SCOTT has, it is said, determined speedily to ad- Nance. An important item in the news just arrived is the attempt of the Governor of Missouri to raise 30,000 men to defend the State against the Fede ralists. The General of the, latter is in pursuit of him, since he has abandoned his State capital, and is co ncentrating w h a t f orces h e h as f ur th er W est . Missouri has such a comparatively small proportion of slaves that the 'Union feeling is as strong there as it is in Kentucky, and probably a short time will decide the course now of th ose two important border States. The result of the news seems to be that west of Washington the North is triumphant, with a serious crisis impending in the further West ; while in the East, or the B a y of Ch esapeake, the bloody repulse will probably do far more to arouse the North than to embolden the South. The frightfully destructive character of this new Fire of London must be attributed in some measure we cannot but think to the lamented death of Mr. BRAIDWOOD early on Saturday evening, that is al most immediately after the Fire's commencement. We are led almost.irresistibly tc this conclusion with out implying thereby any invidious condemnation THE' SUN,' LONDO,7I, MONDAY E'VENENG, JUNE 24, 1861. of the very able subordinates of the late Chief In- spector of the London Fire Brigades, lieutenants of his as we may call them, upon whom abruptly fell, at the moment of his calamitous death by accident, a divided responsibility. It is to the circumstance of the responsibility becoming thus divided so soon as Mr. Inspector BRAIDWOOD had fallen a victim to his own heroic and humane exertions—it is to that one lamentable and, as it happened, un avoidable confusion, consequent upon this deplor able casualty, that we are constrained to attribute the fearful havoc caused by the continued growth and expansion of the late catastrophe. At an emerg, , eney so imminent, the first essential is, quite manifestly, one presiding and dominant authority. That authority was recognisable in the person of Mr. BRAIDWOOD up to the moment of his destruction. The command became scattered directly he had fallen dead under the crashing and smoking ruins of the wall of the warehouse directly under which, with his back to st at the time of the accident, Mr. BRAIDWOOD was standing, dealing out nips of brandy to his exhausted Firemen, heartening them to the continuance of their efforts to extinguish the conflagration. The Chief Inspector's death fell in truth as disastrously among the ranks of the fire men as the sudden death of a Commander-in-Chief might do at the commencement of some great pitched battle—all the more disastrously, seeing that this Commander-in-Chief's disappearance bad apparently not been adequately provided for, in somuch that the authority previously united in his own hands became abruptly distributed in equal proportions, as it were, among his Generals of Brigade or Sub-Inspectors. We can only rejoice now that, so far at any rate, a mastery seems at length to have been gained over those terrible flames which appear, for a long while, to have threatened some of the most densely-peopled quar ters of the metropolis with an apparently all but in evitable destruction. When the calculations come to be made with a little more accuracy, we are greatly in hopes that the loss of property, as at present Computed, may prove to have been ♦ery consi derably exaggerated. Making every allowance, however, for the mere chance of any such exag geration, the calamity of this new " Fire of London" is manifestly one of terrible magnitude. Remembering BRAIDWOOD'S death while nobly in discharge of his heroic duties on Saturday even ing—remembering the dreadful conflagration that has desolated that portion of the metropolis, a con flagration still in parts burning fiercely, and here and there even threateningly—remember ing the daring efforts recently made and yet to this moment being continued by our brave Firemen, who will read 'without emotion that im passioned tribute to " The Firemen of the Land," reprinted by us in another part of our impression of this evening, from the Poems of ELIZA COOK —one of the most exquisite lyrics ever penned by the People's Poetess. THE FIRE3IEN OF TILE LAND. FRom ELIZA COOK'S POEMS. (Now publishing by Routledge and Co.) England, thou are justly proud Of thy men so tried and brave ; Well thy voice may boast aloud Of our Boatmen on the wave. Gallant fellows : well they grace British song and Hero story ; They will take a foremost place When Valour counts her troops of glory. But our cities long have shown Those that match the Sailor baud ; Courage nobly claims her own In the Firemen of the Land. Give them Honour, give them Fame, A Health to hands that fight the Flame. When the red sheet winds and whirls In the c•,il of frightful death ; When the banner'd smoke unfurls, And the hot walls drink our breath ; When the far-off crowd appears Choking in the demon glare, And some helpless form uproars In that furnace of despair ; " Save, oh, save 1 " the people cry, But who plucks the human brand ? Who will do the deed or die ? "1' is a Fireman of the Land. Thcn give them Honour, give them Fame, A Health to hands that fight the Flame. They who march to battle-field, With the bullet and the sword ; They who go to take or yield Life upon tho crimson sward; They who measure blade to blade ; They who offer shot for shot, With a heart that's no'er afraid, With a courage free from blot; • Let such spirits ever live Foremost in a nation's band, But as noble rank we'll give To the Firemen of the Land. Then yield them F.onour, give them Fame, And chink to hands that fight the Flame. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. On Saturday evening Byron's tragedy of "Wer ner" was produced here, the leading parts being filled as follows :—Werner, Mr. Phelps ; Ulric, Mr. Edmund Phelps ; and Josephine, Miss Atkinson. Mr. Phelps follows the reading of Macready pretty closely, but with almost more intensity of passion. His acting was as true to nature and as impressive as that of his great prototype, but it had not the finish of that accomplished artist. Mr. Edmund Phelps has greatly improved since his first appear ance on the stage about twelvemonths ago. The tragedy, on Saturday evening, was followed by a new comic drama, in one act, entitled " A Homestead Story." This slight affair, in which there are only three characters, is an adaptation from Scribe's comay of " Genevieve," recently produced by the French company at the St. James's Theatre. Mr. Ryder played with sterling feeling. Mr. J. G. Shore was tie rustic lover, and Miss Maria Harris made the hersine as interesting as possible. Th e little drama was received with great favour. ST. JANES'S THEATRE. The variety and excellence of the repertoire from which French artists have to draw have been con spicuously illustratcd by the company now acting at this little theatre. " Les Pattes do Mouche" is now being acted, the principal parts being sustained by M. Paul Devatx anti Mdlle. Theric, and it would be difficult to speak too highly of the perfect finish and masterly delineation of character which pervade their entiro performance. On Saturday night both artistes were warmly applauded, and celled upon the stage after the close of the seconel act and at the fall of the curtain. The piece is anneunced for repetition during the next week ; and ve have no doubt to that portion of the public which can appreciate a French play, it will prove a great attraction. BONE-Y Eva !The other evening, as a worthy Divine and a bread-thinking Doctor were discus sing about the " Essays and Reviews," s ome doubts were raised whether Eve was formed from " a bone," whena poefcal lady remarked—" Well, if Eve were sc formed, it must have been from the Bone of Contention !" CABINET CO:INCIL.—A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday, at the official residence of tho First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the ,juke of Argyll, Sir George C. Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, ho Right lion. Thomas Milner Gibson, Sir George Grey, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the RiLr'lt Hon. E. Card well. Captain John Ventur Fletcher (1841) is now the senior of his rank on tie Active List ; but, as tie is not qualified by his service for hti flag, he will, on the next vacancy in the Flag List, bA placed amongst the reserve of Rear-Admirals. The sc ru e will be the case with Captain Talavera Vernon Ansoll unless in the meantime he be permitted to serve the vt 3 short time ho still requires for the necessary daily and 10 cy Gazette. [LAT EST NEWS. .....- 1,,, ...... - --. MESSINA, JUNE 23. One hundred and twenty Bourbonians having disembarked near Syracuse, were surrounded by Italinn troops and arrested. 23 of them were shot. Tranquillity now prevails. PARIS, SATURDAY. The Paris papers of this evening deny the report of the death of the Sultan which has been current in Paris. The Duke de Gre.mmont,French Ambassador, has delayed his departure from Rome. MILAN, SATURDAY. The Perseveran:a of to-day says :—" We learn from a reliable source that on the 20th instant, in view of the approaching death of the Pope, apart ments were prepared at Verona for the Austrian cardinals and SanfedistF, who would fly from Rome on the death of Pius IX., and would elect a new Pope." PARIS, JUNE 23. Dispatches have been received here to-day from Constantinople, dated the 22d instant, announcing that Daoud Effendi was, on that day, invested as Governor of the Lebanon, with the rank of Mudir and full powers. He will proceed immediately to his post. PESTH, JUNE 22. The agitation in Hungary is increasing. Thirty thousand men' are concentrated near Perth, PESTH, SATURDAY EVENING. The Lower House of the Hungarian Diet has resolved that the address shall be presented to the Emperor by the President of the Lower House and a member of the Upper House. BRESLAU, JUNE 22. The Schleaische Zeitung of to-day publishes news from Warsaw stating that the laws in connection with the reforms recently published had in no way given satisfaction. The privilege granted to the Council of State and the Municipal Councils were found to be so insig nificant that their proceedings promised no results. The dissatisfaction of the people were increasing, and the aspect of affairs in general was most gloomy. M. Abramowics had returned to Warsaw . MADRID, JUNE 22. The correspondencia Autografa of to-day says : —" The Spanish Government finds the proposi tions acceptable which have been submitted to it as a solution of the Moorish question, and is indul gent to Morocco on account of the present state of things in that country, and of the good intentions of the Moors, especially of Muley Abbas." INDIA AND CHINA. SHANGHAE (via Malta), MAY 4. Hankow has been taken by the rebels. At Tien-tsin trade is beginning to prosper. CALCUTTA (via Malta), MAY 22. A panic, arising from opium speculations, pre vails in the Bazaar. MALTA, Saturday, June 22, 9 p.m. The Behar, with the mails from Bombay, broke her main shaft in the Red Sea on the 11th inst. The Bengal, with the Calcutta and China mails, reached Suez on the 18th inst. The Vectis, with the mails ex-Bengal, arrived at Malta at seven p.m. on Saturday, and was to leave for Marseilles at ten p.m. The Behar was in sight at Suez on the 19th. The transmission of this telegram from Malta to London was effected in fifteen hours. THE OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. The Delta, from Southampton on the 12th June, reached Malta on the 21st, at 8 a.m., and left at 7 p.m. for Alexandria. The Massilia, from Marseilles on the 20th, reached Malta on the 22d, at 8 p.m., and was to leave at midnight for Alexandria. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 24. Tier Majesty's steamer Plumper arrived at Spit head early this morning from. Vancouver's, where she has been employed on surveying duties. PLYMOUTH, MONDAY, 10 A.M. The ship Jessie Boyle, 897 tons register, Captain Charles Rawle, from Quebec, arrived this morning. She has made the voyage out and home in the unprecedented short space of two months and four days. She left Liverpool April 19, arrived at Quebec May 11, took in 1,000 loads of red and yellow pine timber, deals, hardwood, &c., and left June 1, The Jessie Boyle, which sailed the same day as the Canadian, came south of Newfoundland by Cape Ray. The steamer attempted the northern passage and was unfortunately lost in the ice near the Straits of Belle Isle, June 4. FRANCE. BOURSE, June 22.---The market has lost some of its firmness, and the business done has been at a decline on the closing rates of yesterday. Threes, for the account, are now at 67f. 70c. Railway Shares heavy. The following are the last quotations:- 41 per per Cents ... 96 50, Credit Fonder lOO5 Do end month.... 96 G 5 Belgian 4/ lOO 3 per Cents ...... 67 ;V) Piedmontese Fives 73 40 Do. end month.... 67 70 Roman Bank Shares ...... 2930 —; Austrian Credit Mobilier.. • . 692 30 Spanish Threes..., 50 50 Do. Account 693 75 ' Rome D e bt .. 43 5 0 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1360 .. 1362 50 Northern New ditto 893 25 .. Lyons and Mediterranean 945 .. 946 25 Geneva 4Ol 25 .. 402 50 Southern Western 'Eastern Sardinian 373 75 .. 375 Austrian Lombard ITALY. The .111oviinento of Genoa announces that. Baron Ricasoli will proceed to Vichy to meet the Emperor Napoleon. "The object of this journey," it says, "is to give the first Minister of the King of Italy an opportunity of becoming more perfectly acquainted with the views of the Emperor of the French, and of thus establishing a complete accord between the Cabinets of Paris and Turin, as was the case during Count Cavour's Ministry." " We learn by our private correspondence," says the Constitutionnel, " that General Delta Rovere has refused the portfolio of the Ministry of War. The Minister ad Mierilit will therefore hold it till the end of the session, when it is thought General de La Marmara will replace him." A letter from Turin of the 18th says :—" Public opinion receives with great favour the news of the recognition of Italy by France, especially since it has become known that, though the latter makes reserves, she does not impose conditions. Tho same letter says :—" Garibaldi is decidedly not to return to this city, but intends to remain quietly at Caprera. lie has never been ill since he went back to his island, and at this moment his health is excellent. Ido not know why the report of his being ill was spread; but since the death of Count Cavour unfounded rumours of numerous re markable personages of Europe having died or fallen ill have been put into circulation." THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. __ --a- QUEENSTOIV.N, JUNE 23, EVENING. The Royal Mail Company's steam ship America, from Boston on the 12th and Halifax on the 14th inst., arrived here at 1 p.m. to-day, with 101 pas sengers. She landed all mails except those for Liverpool and Scotland, and proceeded at 1.15 p.m. all well. NEW YORK, JUNE 11, EVENING. (Per America, via Boston and Queenstown.) Very extensive movements of Federal troops are taking place towards Harper's Ferry. Three thousand Federal troops left Fort Monroe on Sunday night to attack the Confederate position nine miles distant. In the darkness two Federal regiments fired on each other with fatal affect. At daybreak the Federals advanced, but were re pulsed by masked batteries of heavy rifled cannon. Brigadier General Pierce, commanding the Federal forces, is said to have lost presence of mind, and the Federals, after having been exposed for one hour to a galling fire, retired to Fort Munroe. General Butler estimates the loss of the Federal troops at 30 killed and 100 wounded. The Federal Government has chartered the steamer Vanderbilt, which is now loading with ammunition, it is rumoured, for Fort Pickens. (LATEST BY TELEGRAPH VIA HALIFAX.) NEW YORK, JUNE 13. General Butler reports the Federal losses at Great Bethel at 14 killed and 45 wounded. General M'Chelland's forces are rapidly moving towards Harper's Ferry from the west. NO Secessionists have been routed at Romney, Va., by an Indiana regiment. Troops are advancing from the eastward by three routes on Harper's Ferry. GALWAY, JUNE 23. The Atlantic Royal Mail Company's steam ship Prince Albert, from New York on the 11th and St. John's on the 16th inst., has arrived here with 27 cabin and 100 steerage passengers, the Canadian mails, and a heavy cargo. The Adriatic arrived at St. John's in five days and two hours from Galway. NEW YORK, JUNE 15. (Per Prince Albert, by telegraph to St: John's and via Galway). Harper's Ferry has been evacuated by the Con federates in great haste. They attempted to destroy the railway bridge, but failed. All the Government property has been burned. The Confederates have abandoned the - whole line of the Potomac, with the intention of concentrating their forces at Manasses Junction. The report that General Butler had captured the Confederate batteries at Great Bethel has proved untrue. General Butler requires more men before undertaking offensive operations. Ten regiments have been ordered to reinforce him at Fort Munroe. The Governor of Missouri had issued a procla mation calling for 50,000 State troops to resist the Federal usurpation ; he and the State officers have abandoned Jefferson city and burnt the railway bridges west of that point, with the idea of con centrating their forces at Arnow Rock. General Lyon, with a large body of Federal forces, followed them in close pursuit. At the election of a member to Congress in Maryland the Union party triumphed. The Virginia Convention at Wheeling has passed an ordinance vacating the State offices and pro viding a Provisional Government. Eastern Tennessee has given 10,000 votes against secession. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JUNE 15. Stocks steady. Erie, 23 ; Illinois, 662- ; New York Central, 73. Exchange on London, 1051. Cotton firmer; middling Upland 14 to 141 e. Flour de clining. Wheat firm. Corn nominal. Provisions dull. NEW GRENADA. BATTLE BEFORE BOGOTA-REPULSE OF THE LIBERALS. Extract from the Colonial Standard and Jamaica Dispatch, Kingston, May 21 and 22 : " Bogota, April 27. " General Mosquera had established himself with his army on the height of Santa Barbara, well pro tected by entrenchments. Our army presented itself on the opposite valley on the 22d inst. After a day's rest the troops began their movements on the morning of the 24th, taking a northerly direc tion, and they took possession of the heights which commanded the enemy's position. " On the 25th, in the morning, the advanced troops were repulsed, and we then formed one line of battle on the north and west of the enemy. Our artillery was posted on the height which commanded the western portion of the enemy's camp. After a long cannonade our infantry began the attack,which ought to have been done simultaneously on the two flanks of the enemy's position ; but through some cause or other, either our right attack was precipitate or the left was retarded ; the first, charging the diffe eent positions taken by the enemy beyond the re trenchments, repulsed them, compelling them to enter their works; but, not being properly sup ported, the enemy reinforced, and, led in person by Lopez and Gonzales, our troops were compelled to retire, losing their first position. " This attack was sustained principally by the 7th Cipaquiras, who suffered severely ; but, notwith standing this, supported by the Ist of the line and the cavalry of Banea, they again returned heroic ally on the enemy, and pursued them back to their entrenchments. In the meantime Mosquera, with other portions of his troops, fell on our artillery which cannonaded the esplanade, and he himself, at the head of a portion of infantry and cavalry, endeavoured to outflank us: In the movement ho was supported by Mendose, G. Menez Victoria, and the best portion of his army. " But the 4th and the artillery defended our flank, while our cavalry charged the enemy in front with such impetuosity that some of them, detained by the entrenchments, dismounted in order to carry them, and pursued the enemy beyond them. Mos quera lost his horse under him, and would have been taken prisoner but that he was met by Mr. Simon Arboleda, who gave him his horse, Arboleda himself remaining in our hands. " From this time the enemy, severely handled, did not attempt to leave their entrenchments, but they continued their cheers and noise much like the savage Guezabara of the Indians during the wars of conquest. The night approaching there was nothing but some firing of artillery, and we retired to the positions occupied the day before. "This statement gives us but a slight idea of the bloody action. As far as the conduct of the troops and those who led them is concerned, it is enough to show the list of casualties, where we shall find that some of the principal officers have either been killed or severe ly wounded — such as Diego, Guttierez, L ee , Di a na, and Moreno , all wounded. " The troops have all satisfactorily performed their duty, and many names are mentioned with great praise; but I am afraid to mention any one lest I should mention others not less deserving. "Our troops are full of enthusiasm, and no one doubts that the rebel army will soon be destroyed. " There is nothing poitive with regard to the losses on either side, because up to yesterday even ing the wounded were being taken in and the dead buried. Notwithstanding this it i s sa id th a t the enemy lost Generals Limenez, Gonzalez, and other officers of distinction ; General Mondose is severely wounded ; Victoria in the same state ; that their deaths amounted to more than 100; that the pri soners already taken amount to 150, among them Simon Arboleda and Luca Estrada. The missing are also supposed to be in great numbers, 30 hav ing presented themselves yesterday in our camp. , " On our side it is calculated the deaths amount to 60, more or less; among them some brave officers. The wounded do not number 100. We had some missing, principally amongst the 7th, but yester day more than 30 returned to the camp with their arms. " Mosquera remains with little or no supplies for his army, and our troops can prevent him getting any relief. His army does not amount to 2,000 men, which can be easily seen by the extent of his lines. " I do not know whether the Government plan is to attack or starve him out of his entrenchments ; both these steps have their inconvenience, but there is no question about our ultimate triumph. " I am told to-day in the Savannah that 400 men who were in Meza, had left for Boyoca, and it was believed that they were intended to reinforce Mos quera. The cavalry now in the Savannah are observing them, and at the head- quarters they are aware of the movements of those troops, so that they will not be able to carry their design into effect ; it may perhaps be politic to allow them to join Mosquera. This will augment his difficulties and induce him to leave his present position and accept battle, in which case his destructiOn is sure. Of Santoz Guttierez there is no news whatever, but if he attempts to support Mosquera we have the means of preventing this being carried out. Our situation is thus far very satisfactory, and we can not doubt of the triumph of legitimacy. It is, however, necessary, that in this movement our exertions should be redoubled, and that we should do everything to facilitate the Government and afford the army all the assistance they may require." THE LOSS OJ THE MAIL SLEAIIER CANADIAN. On Saturday we announced briefly the total loss of the Canadian Royal Mail screw steamer. We have received the following particulars of the wreck from Messrs. Allan Brothers, the Liverpool agents of the Montreal Ocean Steam Navigation Com pany : The Canadian was lost about noon on the 4th inst., about five miles off Belle Isle. The weather at the time was thick, and a shed sea on. The ship was going " dead slow" when she struck a large piece of sunken ice, the top of which was flush with the water, and which appears to have ripped up the bottom to a large extent. For some time the fore compartment of the vessel was kept perfectly free, until the water had come up over the main deck, hav ing forced up the hatches, and then flowed through into the hold, and filled it. When the Captain (Graham) found that his ship was so seriously damaged he turned her head to "the westward, and steamed full speed towards the land. At this juncture, land was 11 miles ahead. When Captain Graham found that the ship was settling fast, he stopped the engines and got the boats ready as fast as possible, the passengers all the time remaining cool and collected, with the exception of some of the ladies, who were in a state of much anxiety and, grief. Everything being ready, the passengers and crew got into the boats, all of which were lowered safely, with one sad exception. One of the boats, fitted with Clifford's patent lowering apparatus, capsized when being let loose from the davits, and all on board perished. There was plenty of accommodation in the boats for all on board ; and to show that every thing was done in the least possible time—con sidering that the vessel sank in about half an hour after she struck—we may state that a portion of the mails were saved. The boats were afterwards picked up by three French fishing vessels which were in the immediate neighbourhood, and conveyed to Quirpon Bay. Captain Graham then chartered the largest of these vessels to be put in proper con dition to carry the ship-wrecked people to St. John' i s, Newfoundland, for which place they sailed on the Bth instant. In order that news might reach England as soon as possible of the loss of the Canadian, Captain Graham caused two officers, first and fourth, to be left behind, with one of the life boats to intercept the North Briton, in order that she would follow the barque to St. John's, for the purpose of bringing the crew and passengers home. The officers and seamen sailed up to Point Amour, in the Straits of Belle Isle, and succeeded in boarding the North Briton. The latter attempted to force her way down to St. John's, but owing to dense fogs and impenetrable ice she was compelled to abandon these attempts, and steer away for England, after a detention of 70 hours. It was expected that the barque would reach St. John's in time to telegraph to Montreal for the Hibernian, leaving Quebec on the 15th June, to call at St. John's, and pick the survivors up. As no correct list of the Canadian's passengers has come to hand, Messrs. Allan Brothers are unable to state positively who and how many were drowned, but from all that can be learned, it is probable 23 of the passengers and 10 of the crew perished. The value of the Canadian was about £60,000, and at the time of her foundering she had a full cargo, which may be valued at from £15,000 to £20,000. We have received the following communication from the chief officer of the Canadian. It is im portant, as it bears upon the point of the propriety of passing through the Straits of Belle Isle at this season : "Liverpool, 22d June, 1861. " Sir,—An impression having gone abroad that the late steamer Canadian was coming home by the Straits of Belle Isle at an unusually early period of the year, and that the loss of the ship is attributed to her having taken that passage, I beg to inforra you that the Straits are frequently clear of ice bf the end of April, and generally by the middle of May. It has also been stated that the navi gation is intricate and dangerous ; but the captains of all steamers trading to Canada consider it much safer than the route south of Newfoundland, which is proved by the fact that no accident has ever happened to a steamer in the Straits of Belle Isle. The acci dent to the Canadian happened after the steamer had got safely out of the Straits into the Atlantic, and the same thing was quite as likely to have occurred had she come south, as it is well known that at pre sent large quantities of ice aro collected to . the eastward of Newfoundland, extending south into the track of steamers coming from New York, several of which have been amongst it. The Hibernian passed outwards safely through the Straits three days earlier than the Canadian came through, and this year the steamers have been ten d a y s l ater i n attempting the pass age than in former years.--I s , ALEX. KELLY, am, ire., Chief officer of the late 5.5. Canadian." THE APPROACHING ROYAL MARRIAGE.—His Grand Ducal Highness Prince Louis of Hesse, the Royal bridegroom elect of our Princess Alice, has commanded Mr. Frederick Augustus Lewis, the writer of some published lines on the approaching auspicious event, to be honoured with the following notification 7—" Buckingham Palace, June 3, 1861.—Sir,---I am commanded by his Royal High' ness Prince Louis of Hesse to acknowledge the receipt Of your letter of the 3d May, and to convey to you his Royal Highness's best thanks for the poem you have forwarded. I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, Baron WESTE RIVELLER.—Court Circulai WILLS AND BEQUESTS.—The will of Lady De' Lacy Evans was administered to in the London court on the 11th inst. by Lieutenant-General Sir De Lacy Evans, G.C.8., D.C.L., M.P., her husband. There was no ow tutor nominated in the will, only by inference. The will bears date September, 1860, and her ladyship died at, her residence, Bryanstone-square, on the Bth April last. The personal property was sworn under £6,000. Iler ladyship' 4 maiden name was Josetto Arbuthnot, daughter of Colonel Arbuthnot, and married, first, Mr. P. Hughes, and in 1834 married, secondly, Colonal Evans, now Lieutenant - General Sir De Lacy Evans. Lady Evans, possessing pro perty in her own right, has by her will bequeathed the whole thereof to Sir De Lacy for his life, and upon his de cease it will devolve upon her ladyship's son, Mr. Philip Alexander Hughes, who has been in the receipt of an an nuity, which, however, ceased on her demise, ho being am ply provided for, added to which he is ultimately to re chive the reversionary interest above mentioned.—lllus -17'00 London Arms,