The Sun. — London, England, 1861-07-17 00:00:00

BRITISH NATION LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION. Chief Offices, 291, Regent-street, W., London, 15th July,* 1861. Notice is hereby given, that a SECOND EXTRAORDI NARY GENERAL MEETING of the BRITIS NATION LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCLATION will be h H eld at the Chief Offices, 291, Regent-street, London, on WEDNES DAY, the 24th day of July instant, at One o'clock in the afternoon precisely, for the purpose of con fi rm _ ing or otherwise, the resolutions passed at the Extra ordinary General Meeting, of this Association, held on Saturday the 13th day of .July, 1861, for repealing, altering, or amending, certain Clauses in the Deed of Settlement, that is to say, Clauses 45, 222, 223, and otherelauses having reference to the purchase, transfer, and amalgamation of other Com panies ; and Clauses 5,6, 7, 207, 255, 292, and other Clauses, having reference to the Capital, with a view to the consolida tion of the shares of the association. By order of the Board of Directors, HENRY LAKE, Manager. HEA TR E-RO YAL, HAYMARKET. Lame, Mr. J. B. Backstone. 'VHS EVENING, the performances will common's with a new Ballet, BACCHUS AND ARIADNE. Miss Fanny Wright, the Leclereqs, Mr. Webster, &c. After which, a new Comedy, entitled MY LORD AND MY LADY; or, It Might have been Worse. Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Buckstone, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Wilkins, &c. Followed by TAKING BY STORM. Mr. C. Mathews. To conclude with THE SCAPEGOAT. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCE SS'S THEATRE.... Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harrth. THIS EVENING, the new comic drama, entitled A HOMESTEAD STORY, Messrs. Ryder Shoro, and Miss M. Ilarris. ----- Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Sup ported by Hermann Vezin, Ryder, Meadows, sc. ; Misses Beath, Rlsworthy, and R. Leclercq. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—For the Benefit of Signor and Madame GASSIER.—THURS DAY, July 18.—Mr. Fechter will perform the Ist and 2d acts of FIAMLET. After which, A CONCERT, in which Madame Gassier, Sig. Gassier, Sig. Delle Sedie, and Sig. Gardoni will wing. Concluding with DON GZESAR DE BAZAN. Don Caesar, Mr. Fechter. Tickets to be had at the Box-office. EW THEATRE-ROYAL , ADELPHI.-- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Reproduction of the great drama of "The Dead Heart." First week of "The Pretty Horsebreaker." THIS EVENING, and during the week, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. B. Webster, .7. L. Toole, Fisher, Billing ton, Eburne, Smith, Romer ; Miss Woolgar and Miss Kate Kelly. To conclude with (3d time) THE PRETTY HORSE BREAKER. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford; Miss K. Kelly, Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Thorne, Miss Laidlaw, and Mrs. CLatterley, Doors open at half past B—Commence at 7. nAYTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS J AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. EVERY EVENING, Two Grand Selections from ce l e b ra t e d Operas, including Verdi's new Opera, THE BAL MASQUE (first produce 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. Grey'lle, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, Mr. Bernard ; popular Solos on the Cornet-a-piston, by Mr. Levy (the first performer of the day); the Brothers Conrad (in an entirely original entertainment on the double rope, not to be seen elsewhere); continued success of Mr. Wood and his talented little Son. The Combo Department comprises the following favourites —Mr. Marshall, Mr. Hollingsworth ; the NERVES, b; M e ssrs. Harvey and Frenc h ; and Mrs. Lawrence. - Musical Director, Mr. JONGHMANS. T " This noble building being now completed, its architectural beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and brilliancy of lighting render it one of the sights of the metropolis. Open Every Evening. The programme is varied, an d 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—Scotch Duets by the Misses Stuart, and other vocal and instrumental music of the highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The Comic portion of the entertainment is supported by Miss Green, Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey, and French (the Nerves), W. H. Wieland, E. Marshall, and W. Randall. Admission, sixpence; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 105. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, Bh. 54m.—Afternoon, 9h. 30m. To-moßnow.-Morning, 10h. 14m.—Afternoon, 10h. 48m. THE WEATHER.-SUN 01710 E, JULY 17, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE MIMI. 74—highest since noon yesterday. 52—lowest this morning and during the night. 70—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.98. WlND—Westerly; light, with:fme sunshiny weather. We are to be tantalized to the last about the PRESIDENT'S Message. Until Mr. BUCHANAN'S last, when disruption began to loom ahead, a Pre sident's Message was rarely of more consequence than a message from his Prussian MAJESTY; but in that, and in Mr. LINCOLN'S first and last, we have all of course felt a deep interest. And now, first a vessel sails just a day too soon ; and next, the vessel sails on the day after—but, of all mishaps in the world, the telegraph wires between New York and Troy are burned, and we are again cheated of full particulars Such as we have corroborate the views we . expressed yesterday that the Americans would prefer Customs duties to direct taxation. We read of a heavy duty on coffee, sugar, and molasses. Tea, most convenient for taxa tion, is omitted, perhaps in deference to tradition, and tobacco is omitted also, probably to keep the peace with the smokers and—spitters. But we shall soon know more about it. A light direct taxation is recommended, a loan is to do the rest. It remains to be seen whether the Secretary of the Treasury's plan will be adopted. The PRESI DENT has asked for a good round sum-580,000,000. Of this he proposes to raise £32,000,000 by taxa tion, and £48,000,000 by loan, probably repayable - within a limited period. He will not find this too according to our experience, for the four hundred thousand men whom he demands. If he gets off with £2OO a man in such a war, we shall have to ask him to give our War-Office a lesson in economy. He is probably quite right in his leading concep tion. Now that the war has begun, the cheapest thing the North can do is to display an overwhelm ing force, though with a thousand miles of southern frontier, from Missouri to the /Want' to guard or to advance on, the number is not at all too large. We have just seen that he has work in the far west and on the Mississippi, as well as on the Bay of Chesapeake and at Washington. From the brief military announcements, th e Federalists appear to have the best of it. A minor division of the rebels has been routed in Western Virginia. For what purpose they had gone to that part of Virginia which has seceded from the State—whether for military reasons, or to punish the Western Virginians for seceding from the State to the Union—we do not yet know. It is satisfactory, however, to know, that they were routed. Large bodies of Federal troops continue to cross the Potomac. And as General M'CLELLAND, said to be one of their most energetic commanders, is coming up from the West, the rebels must either retreat or fight. As they have some strongly fortified positions and powerful batteries at Manassas Junction (of the Railroad), and at Fredericksburg, neither of them far from the Potomac and Washington, they may perhaps resist. Much, however, will depend on whether Generals APCLELLAND and BUTLER are in strength nfficient to threaten their communications from the West and East, respectively. . _ At Richmond itself, the capital of Virginia, where the rebel Government sits, the fortifi cations are now strong, several batteries having been constructed round the city. A letter from that city by a hearty Southerner, dated the 22d of June, says '—`` For some reason or another General SCOTT does not seem hasty in the carrying oat of his programme. Richmond was to have been taken about this time, but the delay of the Federal forces in marching upon it has rather strengthened the hands of the Confederate Government, and rendered its capital less liable to assault. War p r eparations go on here incessantly. Notwithstanding the slight con *fusion attendant upon the removal of the Govern. mint to Richmond, the great object of supplying, r equipping, and despatching troops to various points has proceeded with the utmost regularity. In and around this city is concentrated a force of fully 20,000 men ; while volunteers from the interior are continually arriving, who are despatched with as little delay as possible to the seat of war. Not withstanding the immense number of soldiers con tinually in the streets, and enjoying themselves in the bars of the hotels, the greatest order prevails. Indeed, I have not seen anything bordering upon a riot since my arrival ; and the only precaution taken by the military authorities is that of obliging places of refreshment to be closed at 10 o'clock p.m. All this does not look as if the rebel army intended to walk out as the Federalists walked in. These last accounts will, however, lead us to watch every arrival now with deep solicitude. Though nothing particular may occur soon, and General SCOTT may continue to preserve the Fabian policy, yet there are symptoms that more decisive action may be at hand. And, where so much depends on maintaining popular enthusiasm, it may be necessary to do something to sustain it. The rumours of proposals of compromise and peace have quite died away, and there will, to all appearances, be no settlement now, but one made sword in hand. The illustrious and venerable Prince ADAM CZARTORYSKI is no more. His Highness expired on Monday at his residence in Paris at the patriarchal age of 91. In the person of this aged Prince there has passed away one of the most i n t erest i ng his torical c haracters of an age now almost obliterated from living recollection. The span of this pro tracted life extended over the chief part of one entire century. Beginning on the fourteenth of January, 1770, it has terminated only on the fifteenth of July, 1861. Between these widely separated epochs what a multitude of astounding events had not this exiled Patrician witnessed ! Re volution upon revolution. The configuration of the various countries of Europe fluctuating like the coloured patterns seen through the tube of a kalei doscope. The dire crash at Paris in 1789 when the throne of the Bourbons fell in a ruin so overwhelming that it brought down with it the whole social fabric as well—prostrating in the dust the altars of GOD together with the shattered frag ments of the entire machinery of the political Government. Crash after crash afterwards like the reverberations of the same stupendous ruin resound ing over Europe, the Polish Exile perceived, in his time, as the years advanced. He saw as a contempo rary and not as an obscure contemporary—for he was Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs on the death of PAUL by assassination and the accession of ALEXANDER—he observed as a contemporary the whole wonderful career from beginning to end of that modern CESAR, SESOSTRIS, CHAIM E - MAGNE—the Great NAPOLEON. Born him self hardly five months after NAP 0 - LEON—Prince ADAM may literally be said to have observed the rise of that extraordinary being to power from its very commencement. Witness ing his fall in 1814 to Elba, and in 1815 to St. Helena. Remembering the first tidings of his death in 1821—and yet surviving him by as many as forty years afterwards, in point of fact more than a complete generation. It was not only that Prince ADAM CZARTORYSKI witnessed the whole of the great French Revolution, the whole of the Revolu tion, and, together with that, watched the whole marvellous career of the Child of the Revolution— this exiled Pole marked the passage likewise of all the subsequent Revolutions that have con vulsed the nations of Christendom, He witnessed the bouleversement of July in 1830, and that of February in 1848. He sur vived not only to witness the restoration of the Napoleonian Empire, but to live through nearly one entire decade of the reign of NAPOLEON 111. But most memorable to all, to Prince CZARTORYSKI— he took an active part himself, in his early youth, in the heroic struggle for the liberation of Poland, led on by the immortal Kosciumo—and he yet lived to witness, as a profoundly sympathising spectator, the triumphant vindication, under the leadership of GARIBALDI, of the kindred cause of Italian Inde pendence. The personal history of Prince ADAM CZARTO RYSKI reads moreover, in a great measure, like a romance. After the failure of KOSCIUSKO'S attempt to liberate Poland and the Poles from the thraldom of the Russian autocracy, after the final partition and definitive subjugation of the ancient Polish Kingdom in 1795, he and his brother weze sent as hostages by order of the Em press CATHARINE to the new Muscovite capital of St. Petersburg. There his chivalrous and noble character appears to have exercised a peculiar fas cination over the then Archduke afterwards the Czar, as BYRON dubbed him " the coxcomb Czar" ALEXANDER. Their fortunes were thenceforth knit together for a long while closely by the bonds of an intimate friendship. Inasmuch that, as already remarked incidentally, upon the young Emperor's sudden accession to the throne of his murdered father, the Polish Prince (his Friend) became Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs. His retirement from this difficult and to him exquisitely delicate and responsible post only took place, in fact, subsequently to the sign ing, in 1805, of the treaty between England and Russia—a treaty to which the Polish exile, in his character as Russian Minister, had to affix his signature. Withdrawn from office, he was yet closely connected with the court and staff of the Czar ALEXANDER—accompanying the Russian EMPEROR in 1805 through the brief but wonder fal campaign of Austerlitz. Subsequently, how ever, the friendly alliance that took place between NAPOLEON and ALEXANDER, consequent upon their meeting upon the raft at Tilsit, drove Prince ADAM for awhile altogether from public life. His return to it taking place in 1812, when the modern XERXES, with an army far more nume rous and resplendent than that of XERXES, ad vanced upon Russia to meet there at the very climax of victory, in the very plenitude of NAPOLEON'S power—a fate as disastrous and as overwhelming as that which befel the Persian C onqueror. Finally, in 1814, Prince CZARTORYSKI, still accom panying the Emperor ALEXANDER, entered Paris in the train of the Allies. The year afterwards, the year of Waterloo, he was nominated and installed as a Senator Palatine for the Polish Kingdom—still existing in name—as the ghost of its former self. After events are more immediately within recollection, and need not here consequently be enumerated. Enough if we recall to mind for one instant, in passing, the interesting historical fact that upon the occasion of the Polish Revolution of 1830—Prince ADAM CZARTORYSKI was appointed President of the Provisional Government. As such he convened the Diet to meet in that year on the 18th of December—being placed by the nation on the 30th of the following January at the Head of the National Government. That glorious daydream proved alas ! to be but a fugitive illusion. compelled to resign his post, as KOSSUTH had to do nearly twenty years afterwards in Hungary —as KOSSUTH then did, so likewise Prince ADAM (a score of years earlier) fought like a common soldier in the ranks during the last struggles of the discomfited Revolution. ,Escaping to Paris, he has ever since then resided --, 4 fa - - • . 'it:: ,-,..i: 4 "C' k • ' ,-'- ' l . Vit V \,.: ' . ~,,,,,. k- . 4444 , ‘. *,,1,„7-/-\,,- ~ •,' -,'"-- - - -- , - 12 "4 \ _-. 4 _4 ( ' ' ..• -,,.• ; • ;,, - ~„ .•‘. : , ,VITV Ilige. - ar v e4ft , --- -•.t, -' .' '4..., , ;. ,, .. v.....:,:-- ''', -: -"16:'7 ' . THE SUN. 1 LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1861. OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 17, 1861 there, cherishing to the last a confident expectation of Better Times for his Fatherland. When these happier days shall come, as come they will, for Poland—among the most devoted of her sons in her past century of tribulation there will ever be cherished in the national memory, with sentiments of affection and admiration, the venerable and honoured name of his Highness Prince ADAM CZARTORTSKI. Why is Austria so afraid of Englishmen—of respectable, recognised Englishmen, such as Mr. DUNLOP—in Hungary. No reasonable account was ever given of Mr. DUNLOP'S withdrawal from Pesth. Austria wished it—and she said, Lord JOHN RUSSELL tells us, that " it was not deemed desirable to give any encouragement to any dis affected parties in Hungary." Now, Mr. DUNLOP had been sent to Pesth by the English Embassy at Vienna, he was responsible for acting as became a member of the Embassy to Vienna, and it strikes us that Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S reply ought to have been a request for the evidence that Mr. DUNLOP had taken a part in the political struggles of Hun gary with the Austrian Government, which justified the Austrian demand. Our Government ought to be kept well informed of what is doing at Pesth ; and it is surely better that our ambassador at Vienna should be able to send home authentic intelligence, received through his responsible servant, than that he should derive his information from the irrespon sible persons, Hungarians and Germans, with whom he could converse in Vienna. Mr. DUNCOMBE revived last night the subject brought to notice by the recal of Mr. DUNLOP in the form of asking for the appointment of an Eng lish Consul at Pesth. Many Englishmen, it seems, are now resident there. We have also a consider able number employed as engineers in steamboats on the river. The city, too, of Buda-Pesth, for they stand in the same relation as Southwark and Lon don, or Manchester and Salford, contains 300,000 inhabitants, and is increasing every year. While, therefore, we have consuls at places at which there is really nothing for them to do, as at Jaffa, Mr. DUNCOMBE might well say that "why there should be a consul at Jaffa and not at Pesth he could not understand." We have consuls in a hundred insig nificant places Englishmen care little or nothing about, but at Buda-Pestb, where, both for com mercial and public reasons, they would like to have one, Lord JOHN RUSSELL "did not think this was the exact time for appointing one." Of course not. We all understand why it is not. Austria would like to keep every Englishman out of Hungary if she dare. She wants no specta tors there to tell the world the real state and sen timents of the people. That is the whole case, if Lord JOHN RUSSELL had dared to tell the true state of the matter last night. We own, too, that, like Mr. DUNCOMBE, we are mystified about the advice said to have been given by our Ambassa dor to reject the first Hungarian address, unless the Diet would recognise him in it as KING. It seems unaccountable how the story should have gained such credence in Paris and Turin, too, if, as Lord JOHN says, there is not a word of truth in it. We incline to thinking that the mystery is solved by the distinction of official and personal acts. Our ambassador, doubtless, has not said " a word" which Parliament will find in a Blue-book if it asks for one ; but we can all understand how our Goyernment could use willing instruments to com municate its own wishes informally; and how an ambassador who knew his master's mind could do it without committing himself or them. Diplomacy in certain cases is like bribery—that is, when it is the interest of all parties that none should blab It is known that in connection with the forth coming Exhibition of 1862, there will be temporary homes and haunts secured within the all-embracing compass of that new Palace of Art, and Science, and Industry, of manufactures, and of agricul ture for Painting as well as for Sculp ture: The omission of paintings altogether from the scheme of 1851 led, a few years afterwards, to the magnificent Exhibition of Pictures at Man chester. There is yet another hiatus still left in the outline of the new enterprise—of this enlarged enterprise for 1862—the project of an International Exhibition, comprising within its walls the crown ing glory of a noble picture-gallery. There is yet one conspicuous omission remaining still— but even that omission is to be made good by an independent effort which we are glad to 'know has been already commenced: There is a project in fact now afoot for securing " a display of music" during the period of the approaching Exhibition by means of an International Concert Room to be erected forthwith to this end at Kensington. The visitors to the Exhibition of 1862 will thereby have adequately brought before them another of the Fine Arts hitherto over looked, save as a merely occasional accessory to some of the ceremonials connected with the inau guration or the close of these same microcosmic Exhibitions. Let this projected Internationl Concert Room be but erected, as it is now actually proposed it shall be, at Kensington, and the public will be enabled for the first time to judge more vividly than ever as to the difference observable among the various contrasting styles of English and Con tinental music. The Concert Room which is thus about to be constructed according to the plans of its projectors will afford accommodation to an audience amounting to no less than 12,000, as well as comprising within it an orchestra of 500 perfor- We very heartily wish success to the mars. enterprize. THE REPRESENTATION OF LONDON.—Yesterday the political parties on both sides were engaged in active preparation for the coming election of a member for the City of London, in anticipation of Lord John Russell being summoned to the House of Peers, though down to last evening Lord John had issued no valedictory address to the constituency. In the course of the afternoon a number of influential electors, chiefly Conservatives, held a meeting at the London Tavern, with the view to concert measures for the return of the Lord Mayor, in the event of the right hon. gentleman allowing himself to be put in nomination. The meeting was presided over by Mr Hubbard, M.P., and among the gentlemen present were—Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., Mr. R. N. Fowler (the banker), Mr. Osgood Han• bury (banker), Mr. Alderman Rose, Mr. Coleridge Ken nard, Mr. Hrrtridge, and several other merchants and bankers. Before separating a requisition was prepared and signed by the gentlemen present, and by many more sub sequently. So far no gentleman has been put forward by INSURANCE s yesterday the Liberal p ar t y, nor has any one presented himself. The subject, ho wever, is under consideration by them. Fl c ß o E ta eCOMPANIES.—The issuedm P AN the IE S . particulars he fire of Insur ancethe in creased scale of terms they have deemed I necessary to adopt since their l osses at the wharfs at L ondo bridg In many cases the ne w c h arges are more than three il time e s . as high as those hitherto in use, the rate for each of the docks, for instance, having been raised from 3s. fid. to lOs , for waterside warehouses (specific insurances) from 3s. to 10s., and for general floating poliCies from 10s. 6d. to 355. per cent. These terms, however, are subject to reductions ranging from 30 to 50 per cent. in the event of certain re quirements being complied with for the improvement of risks, and which are modelled very much on those which in the year 1844 were rendered compulsory at Liverpool by Act of Parliament, and which are said to have caused that town, formerly one of the most dangerous, to become one of the most safe. London is understood to be the worst in the kingdom, and the companies assert that according to the experience of a leading office during the past eleven years, while the average of premiums on dock and warehouse policies has been ss. 6d. per cent. (from which about le. must be deducted for expenses), the average of losses has been 12s. Bd. per cent. The new tariff includes a scale of charges for floating policies, limited to two but not exceed ing four specified wharfs. There is also a new and in creased scale for ships in the port of London. The whole of the present rates are to apply to all new insurances from and including the 24th of June last, and to all existing policies for which the renewed notices had not been issued on that day. A LATEST NEWS. AMERICA. NEW YORK, JULY 5. (Per Anglo-Saxon, via Londonderry.) Congress met yesterday (4th inst.), Mr. Grow, of Pennsylvania, was elected Speaker. The President's Message was delivered to-day ; but full particulars have not been received here, owing to the wires between Troy and New York having been burned. A great fire has taken place at Nickerson's wharf, Boston. A salt warehouse, salt mills, tin (ten ?) vessels, 400 hhds. of molasses, a large quantity of marine stores, and 70 dwelling-houses were destroyed. The loss is estimated at 1,000,000 dols. QUEBEC, luLT 6. The elections at Montreal and Toronto have ter minated in favour of the Ministry. LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO FATHER POINT. NEU YORK, JULY 6 (Evening). The President's Message is strongly warlike. It calls on Congress for 400,000 men and 400,000,000 dols. The Secretary of the Treasury, in his report, recommends a heavy duty on coffee, sugar, and molasses ; a light direct taxation, and loans to the amount of 240,000,000 dols. A minor division cf the rebels have been routed in Western Virginia. Large bodies of Federal troops are still crossing the Potomac. A battle is imminent unless the rebels retreat. The Great Eastern arrived at New York to-day. LONDONDERRY, JULY 17. Among the passengers who arrived here to-day in the Canadian serer steamer Anglo-Saxon was Mr. Rose. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Exchange and stocks steady; Erie, 224 ; New York Central ) 73i; Illinois, 65k. Cotton advanc ing ; middling Upland, 151 c, ; sales to-diy 2,000 bales. Breadstuffs declining. Provisions. TURIN, JULY 17. The Official Gazette of to-day announces that the provinces of Avellino End Basilicata are tranquil, and that flying columrs have been despatched to the district of Marino. Count Fleury has been received by Baron Ricasoli. The King, who is nov absent, will most likely receive him on Saturday next. NAPLES, JUNE 16. General Cialdini has published an order of the day, in which he expresses hope of being able to re-establish tranquillity in tie Neapolitan provinces by purging them of the bsnds of assassins. He reckons on the co-operation of the army and the liberal and popular sections )f the country. Some persons who had excited the peasants near Naples to revolt have been arrested. The Governor of Catanzar) has demanded rein forcements. Many officers, formerly belonging to the Bourbon army, who had been acknowledged by the Italian Government, are gravely compromised. VIENNA, JULY 17, The Oat-Deutsche Post of to-day says : " Baron Vay, Chancellor for Hungary, has defi nitively tendered his resignation, which has been accepted by the Emperor." PARIS, JULY 17. A despatch has been received here, dated Con stantinople, the 16th inst., announcing that the Sultan had commuted a great number of punish ments, and that great economies had been effected in the War Budget. According to the same despatch, Aali Pasha had been appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Fuad Pasha, President of the Councils of Justice, and of the Tanzimah, for the elaboration of laws, for the administration of the Interior, and the re vision of judicial sentences. It is also stated that Saffeli Pasha had been dis missed. Marloum Bey had been appointed Minister of the Civil List in place of Hassib Pasha. Signor Durando and the Marquis de Lavalette had left Constantinople. TURIN, JULY 16. Count Fleury has arrived here. The Official Gazette of this evening announces the acceptance of Count San Martino's resignation by the King, and the appointment of General Cial dini as Lieutenant-General of Naples. VIENNA, JULY 16: Up to the present moment all that is known re specting the Conference between the Government and the Hungarian Deputation is, that the for mer demands that the Pragmatic Sanction should form the basis of the relations between Austria and Hungary ; that the Constitution contained in the Imperial decrees of February should be considered as unalterable ; and that Hungary should be urgently requested to send her representatives to the Council of the Empire as soon as possible. It was reported to-day in the Lower House that the Hungarian Ministers, Baron Vay and Count Szechen, had resigned. Both Ministers, are, how ever, still in office. BADEN-BADEN, JULY 16. The King of Prussia has passed a good night. The state of his Majesty both in regard to the local injury he has sustained and his general health is, under the circumstances, very satisfactory. The Crown Prince of Prussia arrived hero last night. BERLIN, JULY 16. The Kreuz Zeitung of this evening say : " The resignation of Baron Yon Schleinitz, Minis ter of Foreign Affairs, and the appointment of Count de Bernstorff as his successor, are expected in a few days." MADRID, JULY 16. The Queen received yesterday the Ambassadors of England and America, and afterwards left for Santander. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. Prince Adam Czartoriski died yesterday evening. The Emperor has addressed a letter to the King of Prussia on account of the attempted assassina tion of his Majesty. Count Si meon has lodged an appeal against the " judgment o f th e Court of Correctional Police. The Presse o f thi s evening says, Count Vimer cati will return to Turin tomorrow." BOURSE, July 16 . —The market has been firm, with a slight improvement in quotations ; business, however, remaining very limited in amount. For the Account, Threes are now at 67f ,70c. Rail way shares quiet, but firm. The following were the last quotations :- 4t per per Cents ... 97 50 , Credit Foncier lllB 75 Do end month.... 97 55 Belgian 4f 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 75 Roman Bank Shares 2860 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 665 I Spanish Threes 47 25 Do. Account 667 50) Home Debt .. 4l 25 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1375 1376 25 Northern . New ditto BB7 50 .. 886 25 Lyons and Mediterranean 965 .. 967 50 Geneva Southern 567 50 .. 568 75 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Low bard 503 75 .. 505 INDIA. By the arrival of the Overland Mail we have re ceived advices from Calcutta to June 8, and from Madras to June 15. The papers confirm the tele graphic messages as to the copious fall of rain throughout the North-Western Provinces. The showers had not been everywhere alike plentiful in the famine stricken districts ; but in Bengal they had been such as to give rise to the belief that the ordinary rainy season had set in three weeks before the usual time. Prices have fallen considerably in the North-West. Throughout the Punjaub, on the other hand, with the exception of the city of Delhi, the suffering has increased, and places hitherto free from it have been brought within its influence. This is owing to the fact that for the past few months the lower classes found occupation in cutting down the spring crop, and its abundance had a sensible influence on prices. But the poor no longer find employment, prices have risen. and the committee, which has shown the greatest energy and wisdom in dis pensing relief, estimate their expenditure up to the eud of September at £40,000, a sum which, with the share of the English subscriptions allotted to them up to Ist June, they will just be able to meet. Respecting Mr. Laing's departure the Hurkaru says :—" The Australian from Penang was an nounced this morning with Mr. Laing on board. Off the Gaspar Light at the Sandheads she be came unable to proceed on account of leaky boilers. Mr. Laing then hired the tug Powerful, which brought him, his son, Dr. Macnamara, and Captain Gordon, np to town this afternoon. He is still very ill, and leaves this for England by steamer to-morrow. The Australian .having proceeded into Saugor under steam, there stopped her leaks and came up to town under steam. She encountered such severe weather in the Bay that she was forced to lie to for three days." An uncontradicted rumour had been in circula tion for some time, that Sir William Denison had resigned the governorship of Madras. CHINA. The dates of our China intelligence are Hong Kong, May 29 ; Shanghai, May 18. There is very little news. Of Hankow, which was reported to have been taken by the rebels, the _North China Herald says Hankow has not fallen, as was believed. At Hankow trade seemed ready to start upon the slightest encouragement. Our consul, Mr. Gingell, has taken up his residence in the middle of the town. The foreign concession is at the eastern end of the city, with a good share of water frontage, having eight fathoms close to the bank. There is plenty of room for turning and good anchorage. The Attalante, from Hankow to Woo sung, was only 60 hours under steam ; she passed the Fire Dart 60 miles below Hankow on the 29th April ; Nganking still holds out. At Kiu-Kiang the foreign allotment was being measured out. The following is from the summary of the China Mail:—" The past fortnight has not been marked by any event having a political bearing, either in China or Japan. The news from the latter place is to the effect that our consul had made some further progress in coming to a liberal understanding with the Japanese Government, with regard chiefly to the adoption of a well defined course in tho future treatment of foreigners whom it may be necessary to arrest for any misdemeanour. The Government of the Tycoon has expressed its disapproval of the manner in which Mr. Moss was treated some months ago. So far this speaks well for our future dealings with the Japanese; and, as if to cement this return of friendly relations, Admiral Hope will shortly visit some of the ports in the Imperieuse, to which vessel he lately removed his flag. At Peking, matters, so far as we know, are in the same quiet state as they were a fortnight ago. A rumour, which has evidently been quite baseless, reached us some time ago, to the effect that Mr. Bruce had been insulted. As matters stand at present the story is improbable, and it is quite unconfirmed. Nothing further has been heard of the alleged re bellion in Mongolia, and it is open to doubt whether it has any existence. There are bands of robbers in various quarters, who having no pretension to the name of rebels, are yet often dignified by that title, thereby misleading many people in their estimate of the present state of the country. From Tien-tsin there is no particular news. The greatest confidence still prevails with regard to the future prosperity both of that port and of Chefoo. At. Shanghai there is at pre sent only one subject of interest, but it is all absorbing ; that subject is the Yang-tsze River. Its capabilities for navigation are now so com pletely determined, that no hesitation is felt on that score, and all the enterprise in China is gradu ally being represented in this great highway of commerce. A good many voyages have been made to Hankow, which is the highest point on the river, and all the vessels that have made that voyage have shown every readiness to repeat it. AUSTRALIA. We have received papers from Melbourne to May 25. The political news is unimportant. The Ministry was making slow progress both with the estimates and with general legislation. Respecting the gold fields we are informed : The yield of the precious metal continues steady, though considerably below the average of last year and of 1859. Up to the present time the quan tity of gold received by escort has been 727,281 ounces, to the value of £2,908,124, against 791,963 ounces, valued at £3,167,852 for the corresponding periods of last year. The shipments for the same period have amounted to 711,649 ounces, worth £2,846,596, against 822,942 ounces, valued at £3,291,768 for the same period of 1860. Large parcels of gold are being brought forward for ship ment in the Great Britain and Suffolk, both of which vessels are announced to sail in a few days. Reports from the mining districts continue fa-1 vourable. The reefs at Inglewood are said to be as satisfactory in their yields as ever. A new reef has been discovered between Amherst and Black smith's Gully, which has been called the Saturday Reef. From it two tons were crushed, yielding 11 oz. 10 dwt. The Deep Lead, in the Mountain Creek district, is increasing in favour. The pros pect of the district, as a whole, is becoming valu able, for quartz mining is becoming daily more encouraging. Mining affairs at Indigo have improved. The miners are now busily engaged in washing up, and from the more plentiful supply of water the prac tice of reworking abandoned claims is resorted to, and with very successful results. Wahgunyah is also more prosperous than it has been. A rush has taken place to a locality three miles from Redbank. The correspondent of a local jour nal gives the following account of it:—" It is with much pleasure that I am able to state that the pros pects of this district as a goldfield are daily im proving, and likely to improve for a lengthy period to come. On Thursday and Friday a considerable rush took place westward of the town, a distance of about three miles. The sinking is only twenty feet, and the yield 21 dwts. to two nailcans full of wash dirt. On Friday last there could not be, at the lowest estimate, less than 1,800 miners on the ground, including the usual attendance of shepherds, according to the magnitude of the rush. Every probability now exists that the whole flat—which stands between Redbank find the ranges which divide it from Navarre—will be torn up during the next twelve months; and no doubt with the 9 105 t satisfactory results, judging from all present indi cations. Another discovery has been made on the Avoca-I'9o, where at the depth of twentrfour feet stuff was obtained giving from i to 1 oz. to the load." Of the state of New Zealand we read :—" Since our last summary was written New Zealand affairs have assumed a new aspect. Then there was a general feeling that the war had been brought to a close, and that the rebels had been awed into terms of peace which it was thought would prove lasting. It would appear, however, that the anticipations of peace have been somewhat premature. The rebels have withdrawn their forces from Taranaki, but in the opinion of some it would seem only for the pur pose of renewing hostilities in other parts of the island. On General Pratt's departure there were good grounds for supposing that the war had been brought to a final issue, but it appears probable that something may be yet left for his successor, General Cameron, to do. William Kingi and his rebel fol lowers have retired from Taranaki, and further hos tilities in this quarter are at an end for the present but there are very threatening accounts from the north of the island, and it is generally supposed that the next scene of operations by the insurgent natives will be Auckland. The natives in the north have hitherto behaved peaceably, and have obtained large portions of the spoils without having to bear the brunt of the war. The troops are now congre gated in and about Auckland. The southern natives represented as anxious to accept the Governor's terms, but there is an opinion abroad that the rebels, with the cunning which is so characteristic of them, have no real peaceful intentions, and are only waiting to gather strength to resume hostilities in the northern parts of the island." We gather the following monetary and commer cial intelligence from the Melbourne Berald : " The money market is becoming easier, and instead of 8 and 10 per cent., that for some time past has been demanded by capitalists, a lower rate appears to be inevitable, in default of first-class securities presenting themselves. Town and suburban estates are far from being held in high estimation by per sons seeking to invest; although in good business situations rents have not experienced a reduction beyond 12 to 16 per cent. STATE OF HUNGARY. A letter from Pesth, dated July 12, says : These are moments of agitating suspense for the Hungarians. All eyes are turned to Vienna, and every hour will be counted until the new rescript arrives. Few expect it to be satisfactory, and yet some seem to court hope at the risk of cruel disap pointment. Besides telegraphic facilities, the ex press train now brings news from Vienna in little more than six hours, so that whatever transpires there is very quickly known here. As yet, all that has transpired amounts to very little. Long deli berations have taken place in the Council of Minis ters and in the .Hof-kanzlei. Tomorrow or Mon day, it is thought, the rescript may be here. On the latter day the Chamber of Deputies again meets, and interesting debates may be expected. I will take advantage of the momentary lull, and of the suspension of its sittings, briefly to sketch its ap pearance when assembled. • Until a special building shall have been erected, a project for which is now before the Chamber, the Hungarian deputies meet in a large room or hall of the Museum, a handsome building situate at one extremity of Pesth. The form of the apartment is an oblong parallelogram, and each end of it is occu pied by a specious gallery, now devoted to the ac commodation of the public. Along one of the longer sides, in which is the chief entrance, extends a third gallery, of little depth and admitting only of a single row of chairs, which are occupied by the reporters. Exactly opposite to the entrance is the President's chair, with places for the four secretaries on either side of him. Right and left of these are the desks of various minor officials of the Chamber, and in the body of the hall, facing the line thus formed, are rows of benches, divided by passages into four sections, on which sit the deputies. There is not too much space; there is very little room, with a tolerably full attendance, for gentlemen to 101 l about ; one sees at once that the installation is temporary—in fact a makeshift. Nearly an hour before the arrival of that fixed for business to commence (10 a.m.), the galleries begin to fill, and they are crowded by the time Vice-President Baron Podmanitzky takes the chair. A large proportion of their occupants (I am sketching from my recol lections of the sitting of 'Wednesday last) are ladies, and this, I am informed, is usually the case, for the Hungarian women are stanch patriots, and take the warmest interest in the politics and des tinies of their country. Their piquant style of beauty and graceful national costume render the galleries by no means the least interesting part of the house to a spectator, and one has difficulty in divesting himself of the idea that so bright and gay an assemblage must have come together rather to listen to a morning concert than to a grave de bate. While the junior secretary, CountKeglevich, reads the protocol of the previous sitting, one has time to study the aspect of the Chamber, and make out some of its principal members. Modern Legis lative Chambers generally present a most uninte resting external uniformity. North or South, in England and Germany, in Spain and in Italy, one sees the same crowd of black coats and round hats. In this respect the Hungarian Chamber differs from all other European assemblages of the kind. The national costume is here still almost universally ad hered to, and with good reason, for it is not only picturesque but in many respects very convenient. The well-known Hungarian hat, so far superior, both in comfort and appearance, to the chimneypots of Western Europe; the short embroidered tunic, the close-fitting Hussar pantaloon and light boot, of the style we used to call Hessians in England, are still worn here by five persons out of six, and I observed no other costume among the deputies. And as the Hungarians are, for the most part, a well-grown and well-made race, long in the leg and narrow in the flank, the garb becomes them well. Upon the whole, I have seldom seen a more strik ing-looking set of men brought together in one room than those I saw on Wednesday in the Hungarian Lower House. They looked what most of them are—bold, hardy, intelligent country gentlemen, whose resolution it would not be easy to daunt or turn aside. One perfectly understands, when studying the physiognomy of the Chamber, the self reliance and moral courage the Hungarians have shown in the course of their long struggle for their rights. One recognises a good sample of the nation which swept the Austrian white-jackets out of the country, and would assuredly have kept them out but for Muscovite interference. I have said that the great majority of the assembly consists of landed proprietors. There are also a few lawyers, and, I believe, two or three persons engaged in commerce ; also some military men, ex-officers of the Austrian army. There is no local divi sion of parties in the House—no Right, Left, and Centre, or Liberal and Conservative benches, al though most of the prominent members of the Deak party sit immediately on the right hand of the broad passage which intersects the hall from the en trance to the. President's chair, while the chiefs of the Beschluss party, as it is called (from its having advocated a resolution, instead of an address), are to be found in the corresponding section opposite to the President's left. On Wednesday, as already mentioned, the chair was occupied by the junior Vice-President, Baron Podmanitzky, a young man of a pleasing and intelligent countenance, and of the thorough Hungarian type. The President, Kalman Ghiczy, who had returned from Vienna the night before, sat on one of the deputies' benches, from which he rose to read his account of his mission to the Emperor. He is an elderly ma n, of grave aspect, of no particular political note, but dis tinguished as a jurist, and possessed :)f qual i t ies that were considered peculiarly to q ualif y h im for the post to which he was elected, and which he appears to fill in a manner to give general satis faction. On the end se at of the fo urth bench from the Presidential cha ir, and as n early as may be opposite to it, sits the author of the Add ress, the Imperial answer to whicl.is nowso anxiously expected— the Address in which Hun gary's cause is rg countenance, so lucidly stated and so ably argued. D eak is a man apparently with out s s o :i vstoute etic en e in Person, almost to corpulence, dark hai r , and a thick heavy moustae of a much lighter colour. He is the man of the day, and his popularity is great in Run guy. Many are the manifestations of admiration and approval his policy and talents have lately elicited from his countrymen. To-day's Pester Lloyd mentions several that have just occurred. One city sends him an address of thanks and confidence, couched in the most flattering terms, another elects him one of its citizens and honorary member of its council. He has been repeatedly requested to sit for his por trait, for, although the windows are full of litho graphs and engravings of him, none of them are considered to do him justice. He has always re fused until a few days ago, the Burgomaster of Pesth, in the name of a number of his fellow citizens, addressed to him the same petition, to which he has just acceded, on condition that all the profits that may accrue from the sale of the por trait and of its reproductions shall be applied to the benefit of the Orphan Asylum of Pesth. Not far from Deak, on the front bench, sits another well known and distinguished member of the Diet, a short dark man, of expressive countenance and re markably prepossessing address. This is Baron Eiitvos, who was Minister of Public Worship in 1848, and whose name Ty3u have so often read daring the present session. Near to him is LOny, ay, who was Under-Secretary of the Finance Department in '4B, and who is Finance Minister elect in the Hungarian Cabinet, which, if all goes well, is soon to be. Behind him sits Klauzal, who was Minister of Commerce in '4B, and next to him, Szalay, an excellent speaker, and the author of what is here considered the best "History of Hungary," as well as of some recent pamphlets on the rights of the Servians and Croatians, in their relations to Hungary. In the seat behind Deak is Emile Des sewffy, a member of the old Conservative party (conservative, of course, of Hungarian rights, and not in an Austrian-Government sense), and Presi dent of the Pesth Academy. Hard by sits a deputy over whose Hungarian costume is buckled a heavy sabre, which he wears in quality of Questor of the Chamber, charged with its police, having to main tain order, to receive strangers, to clear the gallery, if necessary, and similar duties. He has under his orders officials, who are not deputies, and also a sort of guard of young men (volunteers, who re ceive no pay), whose distinction is a scarf of the Hungarian tricolour (green, white, and red) worn over the national dress. I forgot to mention that a trophy of silken fla , fs of these colours, one of them bearing the arms of Hungary, is arranged upon the wall above the President's chair. The Questor is Paul Hajnik, who was Prefect of Police under the Hungarian Government of '4B, and who afterwards, for many years, was Kossuth's companion in exile. Away, more to the right, is Gabriel Kazinszy, con sidered the best orator in the Chamber, in a rheto rical sense, a man of glowing and figurative elo quence. All that I have named sit on the right, and, if I err not, all, with perhaps one or two ex ceptions, are firm supporters of the Deak policy. Passing over to the Left Centre, the first thing that strikes the eye is an empty seat, at the extremity of the third bench, the desk in front of which is draped with black cloth. There sat poor Ladislaus Teleki up to the very day when, ex cited, there can be scarcely a doubt, to the point of insanity by the pressure of the false position in which he found himself he committed the fearful act that his friends will never cease to deplore. I have been shown the house where he died, and have heard much of the grief and con sternation the sad event excited. The reports spread at the time that his death was other wise than by his own hand never obtained much credence, and have since so completely died away that it seems unnecessary here again full to contra dict them. Teleki's mantle, as leader of the besek luss party, has descended upon the joint shoulders of his brother-in-law Tisza, who is first Vice-Presi dent of the Chamber, and of Paul Ny, ary, or at least these two deputies divide the leadership of that party. Nyary is spoken of as a man of great intelligence, perhaps the most so of any who enter tain the same political views. Beniczky, a landed proprietor, is another distinguished member of the same party. Far back in this Left-Central section sits Horvath, who, it is thought probable, may on a future day be put forward by the Deak party as a candidate for the Presidency of the Chamber. Two journalists were pointed out to me sitting side by side—Tsengery, who has some reputation in the trunganan literary world, and Jokai, tt rather ap propriate name, seeing that its owner deals consi derably in jokes, in his capacity of editor of the Ustokos, or Comet newspaper, one of the two best satirical and jocose journals, of which no less than four are published here. M. Jokai is also a most prolific romance writer, and may he looked upon as the Dumas of Hungary. It is probable that things worthy of note have been overlooked in the above sketch, but I send it to you as a general view of the Hungarian Lower Chamber, as it presented itself to me on a single visit, paid during a brief sitting during which there were no proceedings of much interest, nor anything to show the bearing of the house under exciting cir cumstances. Everything seemed conducted with much order and decorum, and there was prompt obedience to the President's bell. Next week is likely to witness sittings of much greater length and more interesting character. THE .BRAZILIAN MAILS. LISBON, JULY 16. The steamer Beam, with the above mails, and 600,000 f. in specie, arrived here this morning. She left Rio Janeiro on the 25th ult. At Rio, exchange on London was quoted 25 ; on Paris, 380. Coffee, good first, 5,300 reis to 5,400 reis per ar roba. Total shipments since the departure of the last mail, 260,000 bags, 80,000 of which were for the Channel. Stock, 130,000 bags. Exchange on London, at Bahia, was quoted 26 to 26i. Sugars, 2,500 reis to 2,750 reis ; cottons, 8,000 reis to 9,000 reis per arroba. At Pernambuco, exchange on London, 251 to 251. Sugar—Whites, 2,200 reis to 2,300 reis ; browns, 2,700 reis to 2,800 reis per arroba. The Tyne, from Southampton, had arrived at Pernambuco, and proceeded on her voyage. THIS DAY'S MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. The supply of English wheat exhibited for sale in to day's market was very small. The trade, however, for both red ,and white qualities was in a sluggish state, yet no change took place in the quotations, compared with Monday. We were well supplied with foreign wheat. Generally speaking, the transactions were to meet actual wants, at previous currencies. In floating cargoes of grain only a moderate business was doing on former terms. Barley moved off slowly, and prices were barely sup ported. Good and fine malt quite maintained its value, but in ferior kinds were a dull sale. Fine fresh oats realised extreme rates. Low qualities, however, were in slow request, yet their value was main tained. The demand for both beans and peas was without ani mation. In prices, however, there is little change to report. The flour trade was steady, bat by no means active, at late rates. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. . Eng1i5h........ 510) i 300 — 1 440 Oats. Flour Irish. F0reign........ 15,180 720 i 100 ; . 8,930 20 sacks 7,920 brie. BOROUGH HOP. All kinds of hops are in very limited request, yet prices are supported. The plantation accounts are decidedly bet• ter, and the duty is now estimated at £lOO,OOO. WHITECHAPEL. The market is moderately supplied, and the trade rules inactive at the annexed rates : Beef from 2s 10d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s Od to 4 s 6 d ; lamb, 48 8d to 5 s 6d ; vea l , P s 10d to 4s 4d; and pork, 3s 10d to 4s 6d per 81bs. by the carcase. THE ENCOUNTER IN N OR THUMBERLAND-STREET. —The condition of Mr. Roberts last evening was very pre carious, but on inquiry at the hospital this morning, Mr. Short, one of the house surgeons, pronounced him to be very much better. 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