The Sun. — London, England, 1861-06-01 00:00:00

THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENiNC:-. the neriormances will commence with THE SUN AND THE WIND. And the original Comedy, entitled BLACK SHEEP. Mr. tincicstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, Ott. ; Mrs. Wilkins Mrs. Charles Young, Miss Lovell, &c. After which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery d effects, and all the original music by the late Sir Henry Ishop, the and of THE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Cemmence at 7. ROYAL PRINCE S S'S THEATRE,- Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, TRUTH AND FICTION. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Wlddicombe, Shore, Cathcart, Garden; Miss C. Leciereq, Miss R. Leclercq, and Miss M. Harris. Followed by DON CJESAR DE BAZAN. Mr. Fechter. To conclude with NURSEY CHICKWEED. JEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPFIL . Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Reproduction of "The Colleen Bawn. " The Adeiphi "Census " every Evening. THIS EVENING, the successful new Farce, entitled A TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole. Mr. P. Bedford. After which (195th time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. D. Boucicault, D. r isher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Eburne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss Kate Kelly, Miss E. Mune, and Mrs. Chatterley. - - Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- THIS EVENING, Grand Equestrian performances — The Great Excitement for the Race Week only—The Rocky Mountain Wonders on the Flying Tripez, the Ladder Feat. and their extraordinary acrobat performances -Concluding with the New Ballet, entitled " The Mill in an Uproar," sup ported by M. Lauri and a numerous Corps de Ballet. In active preparation, JOCKO, the Brazilian Ape. CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. EVERY EVENING. Two Grand Selections from celebrated Operas. including Verdi's new Opera. THE BAL MASQUE (first produced in England and only to be heard up at this Establishment), with a Chorus of Forty -Voices, and on a s ale unequalled at any other Concerts. Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Greville, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, Mr. Bernard ; the popular Solos on the Cornet-a piston, by mt . . Levy ; the first performer of the day); the Brothers Conrad (in an entirely new and original entertain ment on the double rope, not to be seen elsewhere); con tinued success of Mr. Wood and his talented little Son. The Comic Department comprises the following favourites • —Mr. Marshall , Mr. Holingsworth, Mr. Blanchard, and . numerous other artistes. Be-appearance at these Concerts of Mrs. Lawrence. Musical Director, Mr. JONGHMANS. THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET. Mr. LEVY, undoubtedly the best performer of the day on the Cornet-a-Piston—Grand Selections (on the most complete scale) from Dinorah, Martha, Stradella, ac., and other vocal and instrumental music, by Miss Russell, the Misses Stuart, and Miss Ernst, Messrs. Charles Greville, Fornari, Kimber ley, Bernard, Beaumont, Bervon, Huish, Signor Tivoli, and Mr. Henry Herbert, with full band and powerful and selected chorus, conducted by , Mr. F. Jonghmans.—The following Comic talent, Messrs. W. Randall, J. Blanchard, W. H. Wie land, Hollingsworth, E. Marshall, Harvey, and French, and the Brothers Conrad in their latest and best entertainment, every evening. Admission, Hall, sixpence ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DA.T.—Morning, 7h. 54m.—Afternoon, Bh. 26m. To-uomatow.-Morning, Bh. 58m.—Afternoon, 9h. 28m. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MAY 31, 1561. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 72—highest since noon yesterday. 52—lowest this morning and during the night. 66—this day at Boon. BAROMETER-30,04. Wrlcu—N.-Westerly—fine breeze, and sunshiny weather. ... 1 A* •, ,Gl . 7''' ' . '', , ,j_er.c.4,.k , ,,,, * .1: 4 •4.,,,- ~,, ,k,,,,,, , g_. -,- ..,-,T. , ...-:---,-,-, ~-.._,:-. . ,S,-, -, , , ,!) re 46,,, ' i; ! . -14 --- 7 , -; ,. .. P •p 2 Ni 0.. `,,Y?,.., --o-,),----',---,.._ THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1861. Last evening Sir JOHN PAKINGTON in the House of Commons made a most remarkable State ment. It had reference to the extraordinary pro ceedings of the French Government, in the rapid and systematic development of the imperial navy of France. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON'S statement was based upon no merely vague and idle rumours coming to him anonymously. His information, he informed the House frankly, he obtained directly and avowedly from Admiral ELLIOT, an officer, as he justly termed him, of high honour and character, and of considerable experience. Admiral ELLIOT, said Sir JOHN, had himself seen within the last fortnight the facts of which he forthwith deemed it to be his duty to apprise the ex-First Lord of the Admiralty. Before entering into these particulars, however, the latter, that is, Sir JOHN PAKINGTON, recalls to the recollection of the House the amaz ing assurances given not long since to the hon. member for Sunderland, by no less an autho rity than M. MICHEL CHEVALIER. These assurances, however, being quite upon a par with similar statements put forth before now by our English MICHEL CHEVALIER, meaning thereby, of course, the hon. member for Huddersfield. M. MICHEL CHEVALIER then wrote, it may be remem bered not long since to the hon. member for Sun derland, " You have a full statement of our navy— that we have only one iron-cased vessel, and that a full year must elapse before we have any more ; and yet, notwithstanding all this, you talk of France in vading England." Have we not heard just the same sort of story again and again before now from Mr. COBDEN, and his fellow-dreamers in the mild delusion of Peace-at-any-Price ? So often have we in truth that, remembering them, and reading the above we can only exclaim, in utter amazement at their own credulity—arcades ambo ! and so pass on from the consideration of Mr. COBDEN and M. CHEVALIER. Now what have the facts of the case since then proved in regard to the numbering up of the iron ships in the French Imperial Navy ? Why, as Sir JOHN PAKINGTON yesterday reminded the House of Commons, the noble lord the Secretary to the Admiralty had himself some time since told a very different tale from that wonderful little microscopic fib of M. MICHEL CHEVALIER. Lord CLARENCE PAGET then stated, " that the French navy was not what M. CHEVALIER represented it to be, but that the French Government had at that time six frigates covered in armour, either built or being built. La Gloire was one ; and he added that, ex clusive of the old batteries of the Russian war, they had either built, or were building, five iron cased gun-boats and four vessels of a formidable character, which he called floating batteries." Not e, one " only M. CHEVALIER, observe! But "six" iron-cased frigates , including La Gloire— I, fi ve ' , iron-cased gun-boats, and " four" vessels vaguely designated as of a formidable cha racter ! Even that shews assuredly a very notable difference. It is not " one"—but it threatens to be " legion." Y e t even this is not all. For yesterday, as we have intimated, Sir JOHN PAKINGTON goes down to the House of Com mons, primed by Admiral ELLIOT, and carrying with him, thus primed, the " latest intelligence." Intelligence, remember, not gained by Admiral ELLIOT simply upon hearsay—Admiral ELLIOT, 'Writing to Sir JOHN with the authority of an actual eye-witness. Empowered thus to speak with some degree of emphasis, Sir JOHN PAKING TON yesterday remarked, as the first instalment of this his latest reliable information, that "while there were two other frigates building at Toulon which Admiral ELLIOT had not visited, there were ten others, -which Admiral ELLIOT had seen build ing, every one of which would be larger than La Gloire, and every one of which also was intended to be an improvement upon that vessel !" " Ten of the new ships," said Sir JOHN, " would be like La Gloire, of wood plated with iron ; and two of them wholly of iron. Besides these 13 frigates, there were two ships which had been described by the noble lord as ships of a large size, and as carrying 52 guns each, instead of which they were really vessels of a most remarkable character. They were line• of-battle ships carrying two deck/3 of guns upon each side, of a tonnage exceeding ' 4,000 tons, and but little inferior to that of the Black Prince and Warrior. They were, however, pierced for 100 guns each. ?hey thus were of a strength never heard of before. Fifty-two of these guns, 26 oia each side, would be wholly covered with armour, and it was intended that the rest should be partially covered. These two ships were to be called the Solferino and the Magenta, and it was intended that they should be launched next month (this present month of June), upon the anni versaries of the battles whose names they respec tively bore. Such was the strength of the French armour-covered navy. They had these 15 ships; and the nine mentioned by the noble lord, namely, four formidable batteries and five gunboats—in all TWENTY-FOUR !" Not simply "one," M. MICHEL CHEVALIER ! But —only one short of a round quarter of a hundred ! A tolerably fair expansion, that, in so brief an interval. Certainly—noting this expansion—if M. CHEVALIER, like BOTTOM in the play, can "roar you like any sucking dove "-- his Imperial Majesty, upon the other hand, can, so to speak, coo in thunder ! L'empire c'est la paix. Yes—so much so—that the imperial army is kept up to the mark with its full war com plement, that the imperial navy is arming rapidly with twenty - four iron - cased ships of war, that Cherbourg has long since been com pleted, and that the frontiers of this peaceful empire are bristling with guns, that France herself, by sea and by land, is armed or arming cap-a-pie ! It matters little to England, however, so long as her administrators continue to do what they are now doing namely, in sea phrase, " keeping their weather-eye open," being, like the NAPIERS, " Ready, aye Ready," or in other words, semper paratus. If our Admiralty needs, like the old sea-horses of mythology, both the spur and the rein—it has a fair prospect of both now in due time from the judicious control of the Legisla ture. And meanwhile the nation, even in regard to the Admiralty, is not without its consolations. It has a true-blue tar in the noble lord the Admi ralty Secretary. And it has now for some time been actively engaged in carrying out, among other grand improvements in the Royal Navy of England, one we ourselves have so long advocated heart and soul in these columns—that is to say, it is wisely, turn by turn, casing in iron its old wooden war-ships, while, at the same time, new steel frigates are being constructed, one after another, with all the latest scientific improvements. Our Imperial ally may therefore persist, with all the energy he loves to manifest in this way, he may still persist in numbering up his terrible war ships of steel and iron. But there is one thing more he must contrive to accomplish beyond all that, if he ever dreams of conquering England—he must somehow contrive to man those formidable metal fleets with salt water Jacks like our British sailors ! Otherwise he is only pouring his treasures into deep water. For say what they may about the superiority of iron over wood—all the steel-clad frigates in the world will be but of small avail un less manned by hearts-of-oak ! The Galway Packet Company, as the " Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company" is more briefly termed in common discourse, may have much to say against the misfortunes of the sea, against fire and against ice, but it will surely be a difficult task for it to meet the series of sins of omission enumerated by the Postmaster-General. The questionable origin of the Company must clearly be left out of consideration. Whether Lord DERBY made a good or a bad, a political or a commercial bargain with Mr. LEVER and his associates, is a question which cannot now be raised ; in,deed, if raised, it - will be answered en tirely under the influence of party feeling. Lord DEBBY, at least, acted as the agent of the British public, and what our agent stipulated we are bound honourably to fulfil; and if failure to observe stipulations by the contracting company have been occasioned by accidents beyond human control., the public would not deny that it ought to act the part of a liberal, rather than a close-fisted bargain maker. Unless, however, the material statements of the Postmaster-General can be set aside, we do not see how, with any decent regard to their financial duties, the Government could do otherwise than it has done. Mr. GLADSTONE is, we have no doubt, but too willing, with the various items before him so likely to curtail his surplus, not unwilling to accept even £72,000 per annum, as an agreeable relief to the Exchequer, but if the statements made cannot be contradicted, he was not only authorised, he was bound to demand the discontinuance of the subsidy. When during eleven months since the contract came into force it can be said that " only two double voyages have been performed by vessels built for the purpose, as contemplated by the contract," when l Et starting in June last, instead of "a sufficient number of vessels," approved by the Government, being ready, they had but one, the Connaught, which failed to complete her first voyage—and even she, though she got through the second voyage, was burnt on the sixth; when the inter vening voyages had to be made with ships not equal to the requisitions of the contract ; when the heavy penalties incurred were remitted, and the indulgence of foregoing several voyages was conceded ; when a second agreement was entered into last January to recommence the ser vice with punctuality on the 26th of March, a fort night more being afterwards asked, and granted ; when the Company had been warned that failure under this agreement must incur the forfeiture of the subsidy ; when after all this the ships and voyages were with one exception failures ; when these and other facts are fairly considered, we do not see how any Government could incur the re sponsibility of not exercising its power on behalf of the public service. It may be, and is, a hard case for the share holders, but the hardship is one constantly occur ing in this country wh en men have trusted their Irishmen m us t money to incompetent Di rec t ors. beat the loss as we have to do. If they can s h ow that there has been wilful mism anagement, or that they have been duped by fraudulent represen tations, they may seek a legal remedy ; but the taxpayers of the country cannot make good the losses of Irish Directors more than of English Di rectors. A service from the nearest point in Ireland to the nearest in America is probably a commercial desideratum. We should be glad now of news only five days old from America ; but we must have the service, if we pay for it; and this is the con clusion of the whole matter. It must not be imagined that because on Tuesday evening the Thames Embankment Bill was thrown out upon the motion for its second reading, that therefore one of the old obtuse obstructions has again been raised to retard the progress of that scheme on its often-baulked endeavour to reach at last its practical starting point—the period that we now more confidently than ever believe must soon arrive for its formal and regular inauguration. The incident of Tuesday evening was simply the throwing overboard of another project, not of THE project for the construction of a Thames Era- THE SUN LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 1, 1861. bankment. That the Thames shall at length be embanked the House of Commons has now, some time since, positively decided. The Government is pledged to it. The City of London, so far as its active co-operation in the enterprise is concerned, regards the notion of this grand design with com placency. The people of London have made their minds up to it. The enterprise is already virtually, in truth, so far as the general consent can in any way ensure its eventual realisation, un fait accompli. There is the Royal Commission, moreover, ap pointed hy the SOVEREIGN, at the instance of her MAJESTY'S Government, to inquire into the whole, hitherto problematic, question of aThamea Embank ment ab initio—a commission still sitting periodi cally, and now about, very soon we believe, to issue the report of its proceedings. Until that report of the Royal Commission upon the subject of the Thames Embankment shall have been published, and laid before Parliament, it must be obvious to any- one that it is premature at this moment for Parliament to adventure upon legislation in this matter. Having waited so long, and having at length witnessed the appointment of this Commission of Inquiry, the first thing that now remains for the Lords and Commons to do in the matter is at any rate to wait until they can have the benefit of these careful, systematic, and com prehensive investigations. The bill thrown out on Tuesday was so little of a public measure, partook so much of the character of a private enterprise, that Mr. COWPER only described it literally when he said it was simply " a proposal of a railway company called the London, Chatham, and Dover Company, to take possession of that embankment and make a railway upon it." They proposed to get their capital by shares, partly by taking £400,000 out of the funds of the Metropolitan Board of Works, and the remainder from a vote of Parliament. Nay, as an indication of the charac ter of the Bill, in its aspect as an undertaking set on foot for the enrolment of a particular class of individuals, the right hon. gentleman instanced the clause upon which the last-mentiOned proposition was embodied, quoting it as quite a curiosity in its way, as follows :—" It shall be lawful for her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests to contribute, out of any money which Parliament may vote for the purpose, and to apply such sum of money as shall be sufficient to defray the expenses of compensation." In other words, as the Chief Commissioner of Public Works put it with toler able distinctness before the House, " The Govern ment was to buy the land, and give the company as much as they wanted for their railway—a most convenient mode of proceeding for the company ; but certainly the House and the Executive Govern ment ought to have something to say in the mat ter." It will be allowed, surely, that Mr. CowPER had good and valid reason for adding that " If this clause were allowed to be passed, it might afterwards be quoted against the House in a very injurious manner"—and for moving, in consequence, as an amendment, that the Bill be read " that day six months" instead of instanter. There was doubtless a great deal of truth, at the same time, in what was said by Mr. AYRTON immediately after this as to the advantage of combining in these public works private enterprise, or rather the enterprise of inde pendent companies, with the responsibility of a scheme carried out directly with Government aid and under Government superintendence. It was certainly a good case in point when the hon. gen tleman reminded the House that while Westminster Bridge, under Government superintendence, had, at an immense outlay for years past, been slowly in course of construction, Victoria Bridge had been built by a railway company at a cost of no more than £95,000, and within an interval of only one twelvemonth. Still, we want no railway company to be picking and choosing its own ground upon what must, at the best, turn out to be the somewhat re stricted breadth of these Thames Embankments. As Lord FERMOY justly remarked on Tues day, the question of a Thames Embankment is one of such considerable importance that it al most amounts to the character it does in one sense really and truly amount to the dignity of a national undertaking. The Government then must clearly see in the very first instance that the public shall get the lion's share of advantage in every way from whatever scheme of embankment may even tually be adopted under the advice of the Royal Commissioners. For the report of that commission we are now looking in eager expectation—all the more eagerly from the recollection that the session is already so far advanced. sriEz.lT " 4 '4 W SERASEVO, MAY 31. Omar Pasha arrived here to-day. TURIN, MAY 31, EVENING. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies several railway bills were laid on the table. The Committee appointed by the Chamber to examine the bill on the national armament pro posed by Garibaldi has unanimously agreed to the organization of 220 battalions of National Guards, to be composed of all men between 33 and 40 years of age. ROME, MAY 30. A Bourbon Committee, under a religious deno mination, has been formed here. It is presided over by Count Trapani. LISBON, MAY 27. The School of the Sisters of Charity at A; j uda has been burnt down. The fire is supposed to have been caused by accident. The Cortes have been employed in discussing the budget. Viscount d'Athoguia, formerly Minister for Foreign Affairs, is dead. The body of Baron Forrester, who was acci dentally drowned on the 13th inst,, has been recovered. The prospects of the coming vintage continue to be encouraging. Exchange on London, three months, is quoted 531 ; Paris, 529; Amsterdam, 421 ; Hamburg, 48 ; Genoa, 526; Rentes, 3 per cent., 47 ; Coupons, 471 ; Deferred, 391 ; Bank of Lisbon shares, 590 ; Commercial and Mercantile Banks of Oporto, 260 milreis. TURIN, MAY 31. Count Cavour was taken ill yesterday, and was thrice bled ; he is, however, better to-day. The official Gazette of to-day says :—" The King has withdrawn his exequator from the Consuls of Bavaria, Wurtemburg, and Mecklenburg. To-day the Military Convention agreed upon at Wurzburg by all the second-class and smaller Ger man States, with the exception of Baden, was com municated to the Federal Diet. Baden made a separate proposal to the effect that the supreme command of the Federal army should be given to the one or to the two Great Powers which should, in case of war, join it with their whole military forces. The Diet agreed to-day to the proposals of the Committee, in reference to a commercial code for Germany. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's steama Alhambra has arrived here, with the Peninsular mails, 34 passengers, and 1,170 packages of cargo, principally eggs, oranges, and potatoes. FRANCE. PARIS, SATURDAY, TUNE 1. The Moniteur publishes the Imperial decree which extends the Session of the Legislative Body to the 19th June inclusively. BOURSE, May 31,--There has been but a very limited amount of business doing, but prices show little change from the closing prices of yesterday. Threes for the Account are now at 69f 40c. The reponse de primes (option) was made at 69f 45c. Railway Shares quiet. The following were the last quotations :- 4i per per Cents ... 96 50 Credit Fancier 990 Do. end month.... 96 50 1 Belgian 4i.. 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 401 Roman Bank Shares . 2805 lAustrian Credit Mobilier.... 707 501 Spanish Threes 5O 25 Do. Account 7OB 75 , Home Debt .. RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1358 75 .. 1357 .55 Northern New ditto 892 50 .. Lyons and Mediterranean 930 .. 931 25 Geneva 415 .. 416 25 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lorobard 2HE CAP OF GOOF) HOPE. PLYMOU I H, FRIDAY NIGHT. The steamer Cell, with the mail from the Cape of Good Hope, arrived here this evening. She has been detained by contrary winds. She left Table Bay on the 25th ult., St. Helena on the 30th ult., and Ascension on the 4th inst. She brings 52 pas sengers. Trade at the Cape was not brisk, being depressed by the unfavourable intelligence of the prices of wool and wine in England. The prospects for the winter season were dull. At Natal affairs were improving, and much spe culation was going on. The mail steamer Cambrian arrived out on the 14th ult. In working her way into port she went on the rocks off Mouille Light, but got off the next morn ing without damage. The works of the railway were progressing rapidly. The line will be finished as far as Stellen bosch by the end of June. The building of the Sanatorium had been stopped. It was to be removed to Vancouver's Island. Dr. Livingstone, Bishop Mackenzie, and the Rev. Mr. Rowley had met, and gone up the Rowooma River in the Pioneer. The Parliament was to open on the 26th ultimo. Government measures would be introduced for pro moting irrigation in the colony, and for the publica tion of colonial bankers' accounts. It was thought likely that the separation question would be dis cussed more reasonably by the more thoughtful among its advocates, but that a statement was not probable this session. Kreli's threatenings, with his large muster of natives, were likely to end in smoke. As a counter demonstration the governor was concentrating a large force in the direction of Bashee. In the free state there had been plenty of rain. The pasturage was most luxuriant. Transvaal was disturbed by some of its unruly citizens. In Basutoland two of Moshesh's sons had had a quarrel about the wife of one of them. The husband was deliberately shot by the other. The volunteer movement was progressing. A grand review was about to be held. The labour market was dull. THE FREh CH TREATIES. The Moniteur of yesterday contains several Im perial decrees. An Imperial decree defers the closing of the Ses sion of the Legislative Body to the 19th of June. Another Imperial decree promulgates the Con vention concluded on the 6th of April, 1861, be tween France and Russia, for the reciprocal gua rantee of the property of works of art and literature. Another Imperial decree says : " Considering the Treaty of Commerce concluded with England on the 23d of January, 1860, and the supplementary conventions of the 12th of October and the 16th of November of the same year; " Considering the Treaty of Commerce concluded with Belgium on the Ist of May, 1860; " We save decreed and decree as follows " The ports of Dunkirk, Calais, Boulogne, Havre, Rouen, Nantes, and Bordeaux, and the Custom houses of Lille Tourcoing, Valenciennes, Roubaix, are open to the importation of cotton thread of No. 143 metrique and above, and long woollen thread, twist, or grilles!' Another decree enacts : " Considering the treaty concluded on the Ist of May, 1861, between France and Belgium, we have decreed and decree as follows : "Merchandise of Belgian origin and manufac ture inscribed in the treaty concluded on the Ist of May, 1861, between France and Belgium, imported otherwise than by land or by French or Belgian vessels, will be subject to— " 1. An additional duty of 25 centimes per 100 kilogrammes when such mercandise is enfranchised from all import dues, or when the duty is under 3f. per 100 kilogrammes. " 2. To the additional duties decreed by Article 7 of the law of the 28th of April, 1816, when such merchandise is subject to a duty of 3f. and above per 100 kilogrammes." Another decree says: " Considering the 4th article of the supplemen tary Convention concluded on the 16th of Novem ber, 1860, between France and England ; " Considering the 27th Article of the Treaty of Commerce concluded on May 1, 1861, between France and Belgium, we have decreed and decree : Simple or mixed tissues taxed at their value canner. u immortal c.xeept by the porn vr (3.1.10, nvulugue, and Havre, and by the Custom-houses of Lille and Valenciennes. The tissues in question must be for warded under seal (sous plomb), with a notice for the Paris Custom-house (acquit-a•caution), with alone will verify the merchandise and levy the import dues." Another decree enacts : " The terms of the Treaty of Commerce con cluded on the Ist of May, 1861, between France and Belgium, are applicable to England." THE FAREWELL OF MA Y. 'Tis the last bright day of beautiful May, And the face of Nature is beaming, With light and love from the blue above, With the tint of flowers where wild bees rove, And the gems of the brooklet, streaming. The rook on his way greets beautiful May With a farewell note of pleasure ; The lark is loud in the one white cloud, And the cuckoo chants as though he were proud Of his quaint, unchanging. measure. The beetles at play, thank beautiful May For the velvet floor where they gambol ; The dun deer slink with a yawn and a wink 'Neath the hawthorn's shade, or hurry to drink At the pool, with a lazy amble. The meek herds stray in beautiful May Where the richest grass is growing; Or drowsily stand on the rifted sand, Where the ripples just wash the osiered land, Too happy for feeding or lowing. Thou art passing away, most beautiful May, As still as a babe in its sleeping : May the lids of thine eyes, like the child's, arise To a Hope in the Future all kind and wise, To a season when God the harvest supplies, And gives to his creatures the reaping. T***Y. MALTA AND ALEXANDRIA TELEGRAPH CABLE.— Messrs. Glass, Elliott, and Company have received a telegram from Tripoli announcing the successful laying of the first section of the Malta and Alexandria telegraph cable between Malta, Tripoli, and Benghazi. The "POET CLOSE."—It is some satisfaction to the literary profession that Lord Parmerston has been suf ficiently moved by the representations which have been made to him respecting the " Poet Close," to cancel the warrant granting him a pension on the civil list. It was fortunate that the warrant had not yet received the Royal sign manual, and that the Minister had thus the opportu nity of doing away with what must have been an indelible reproach to the dignity of letters.—Critic. l w L m o e r l d , hasof the resigned Treasury his will seat In consequen ce o f th e d ec i s i on o f th e Govern mentwir on the Gal wa y con t ract, M r. B agwe ll , t h e mem b er A ne on thereforeat the T rheaayseurtyo b e board. ap. pointed from the representatives of Ireland. THE GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. —As the scene of this accident is not within the jurisdic tion of the coron er f or the county of will be held by th e E ngl i sh authorities. Cumberland, no inquest the whole of the trai n , consistinE o m lt appears that carriages and a goods van, went crashin g d own the embankment. were about 18 passengers in the t ra i n, and they were all There more or less seriously injured. One carriage, that inwt which Mr. Crowther received the injuries which ter m i nated in his death, was completely turned over and landed in the field on its top. The permanent way was torn up for about a hun dred yards, the only warning the passengers received being the train jolting on the sleepers for about a minute after it had left the metals. Workmen repaired the damage to the permanent way early on Thursday morning, and were engaged all day in getting the carriages and engine and tender up the embankment. SUICIDE. —On Thursday morning the body of an, elderly gentleman was discovered in a water-closet, at the Royal Botanical Gardens, near Kew, with his throat cut. It was supposed to have been there all night, and the body was nmoved to the Cumberland Arms public-house. A pocket handkerchief was found in the pockets, marked in the centre with the name of " John Davis." Yesterday morning it was reported that the body had not been owned, ITALY. The Gazetta Ufficiale di Regno, of May 29, pub lishes a letter in which the Chevalier Bertinatti, the resident Minister of the King's Government at Washington, announces to Mr. Seward, the Secre tary of State, the constitution of the Kingdom of Italy, and also the reply of that gentleman, in which he says that he is rejoiced to hear it, and that Mr. Marsh, recently named as American Minister in Sardinia, had been accredited to Victor Emmanuel 11., King of Italy. AUSTRIA. The Archduke Albert arrived at Trente on the 26th May, to inspect the works which are being executed in the citadel and the fortifications along the road to Rive. Tho next day the Prince left for Borgo, Valsunana, and Feltre. After inspect ing the fortifications in the latter place, he will go to Venetia. Treats is now the central point of the fortifications of the frontier, which are of vast :ex tent and extraordinary solidity. RUSSIA. A St. Petersburg letter of the 25th of May, says: —" The funeral of Prince Orloff took place yester day, at ten o'clock. The Emperor, the Grand Dukes, the Grand Duchess Maria-Nicolaevna, the Prince of Oldenburg, and Duke George of Meck lenburg, arrived at the residence of the deceased, on the Moika Quay. The regiment of Horse Guards, which Prince Orloff formerly commanded, and a brigade of artillery, lined the streets to the church of the Annunciation, where the de ceased was to be interred. The Emperor, in the uniform of the Guards, followed the hearse on horseback, accompanied by the Grand Dukes and all his military household. Next came the diplomatic corps and the great dignitaries of State, in carriages. Archbishop Isidore, the metropolitan, with several archbishops and a numerous body of clergy, preceded the hearse. According to estab lished usage, all the decorations of the deceased, Russian and foreign, were borne on crimson velvet cushions, by officers of the Guard, and placed round the catafalque in the church. The coffin was lowered into the vault immediately after the ser vice, Prince Nicholas Orloff, the deceased's son, arrived two days before the funeral. By an order of the day, dated yesterday, he was appointed aide de-camp-general to his Majesty, but will still retain his functions as Minister at Brussels." ACCIDENT ON THE CORNWALL RAILROAD.— PLYMOUTH, Friday.—This morning at half-past 4 o'clock an accident, unattended with loss of life, occurred on the Cornwall Railroad, about one mile west of Saltash. A goods train, special, consisting of 30 trucks, containing almost exclusively implements of husbandry for the Exhibition of the Bath and West of England Society at Truro, was pro ceeding down the line drawn by two engines, when the draw-bar of one of the trucks Lroke, and the draw-spring fell on the rails. The hinder trucks ran on the spring, and seven went off the line, and were, with their contents, more or less injured. The tail of the train consisted of a break-carriage with one goods truck behind. These re mained on the line, but four of the carriage wheels were off the line es line ery was v aluable. le the r a il s . S everal winnowing mac hi nes an d one h ay tur f() r A t l l a r f t ; e brought at two back tur ner are d amage d . None of the mac hi ner y i n t h e truc k s which to ran Plymouth. o'clock thi s a ft ernoon. ' A LUCKY INSP ECTOR.-- L or d P a l mers t on h as no minated the Re v . Al ex. Ronald Grant, M . A ., of Trinity College, Cambridg e , one of her Ma j esty ' s I nspectors of Schools, to the rectory o f Hi tc h am, S u ff o lk, ren d ere d vacan clear by the death of the Rev. Professor Heuslow, DI,A, Th 3 benefice is worth £l,lBO a year. HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF TILE CHEST. The 20th annual general meeting of the sub scribers to this most valuable institution wag' held on Thursday in the board-room of the hospital. Amongst those present were—Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. Thos. Asbburnham, C.B. ; Capt. the Hon. F. Maude, R.N. ; Sir Peter Van Notten Pole, Bart. ; Dr. R. Dickson, and Messrs. F. J. Augarde, R. C. L. Bevan, T. M. Bridges, C. Few, jun. ; Otho Hamilton, J. Howard, I'. P. Beckwith, P. Rose (hon. sec.), &o. In the absence of the Marquis of Westminster the Rev. Sir Henry Foulis, Bart., took the chair. The report, as read by Mr. Rose, stated that the number of in-patients admitted during the year had been 895, and that 180 had been in the house on the 31st of December, 1859. Of the 1,075 under treat ment 729 had been discharged greatly relieved, 158 had died, and 188 remained in the hospital. The applications for relief had been very numerous, and the committee remarked that the full number of beds (200) had been during the year continuously occupied, and there had been 231 applicants at one time waiting for admission, showing a large . increase on former years.' The out patients, who attended from . all parts of Lon don, Middlesex, Surrey, Bucks, Kent, Sussex, and other adjacent counties, had numbered during the past year 5,070, as against 4,647 and 3,971 in the preceding two years. The committee concluded by gratefully acknowledging their deep obligations to those friends whose valuable co-ope ration and generous assistance so much assist such an important work of public usefulness. The cash account showed the following result :—Annual subscriptions £4,129 45., donations £4,220 3s. 6d., incidental receipts £9O 16s. Bd., interest on deposits £llO hi., dividends £57 6s. 6d., charity sermons £468 125., legacies £2,224 35., rents of the hospital estates, &c,, £405185. 4d., and after payment of all charges a balance remains in hand of £7ll 19s. 6d. The Rose Fund, established from funds raised for a memorial picture of Mr. Rose, and applied at that gentleman's desire for the formation of a fund to be applied with such contributions as might be obtained in providing relief for the patients by clothes or otherwise on leaving the hospital, exhibited sub scriptions £32 17s. 6d., donations £3l 17s. 6d., divi dends £25 Bs. 2d., other sources £22 155., balance in hand £39 12s. ld., with cash distributed to the objects of the fund £lO2 155., and stock £BB9 4s. 3d. The report was adopted, and the Hon. Thomas Alexander Pakenha.m, Messrs. W. A. Mackinnon, jun., M.P., and T. Hue ham were chosen to fill the vacancies in the board of management. Cordial votes of thanks were passed to the committee, the medical offiers, &c., all of whom were re-elected, and the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. THIS DAY'S ASIIIT_PING. LONDON, Juno I.—Wind this day at noon, Westerly; strong breeze, and cloudy weather; a fall of rain in the night. CARDIFF, May 31.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Lord Risen dale, for Quebec. DEAL, May 31.—Wind N.N.E. —Arrived—Yorkshire, from the River, and sailed for New York; British Tar, from Savannah. BELFAST, May 31.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Brothers Norfolk, from New York. OFF DOVER, May 31.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Susan nah, from Hamburg for Singapore, with damage, having been in collision. Orr PORTSMOUTH, May 31.—Arrived —Victor ia, from Antigua. PLYMOUTH, May 21.—Wind screw steamer, from the Cape of Good Hope. (BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELE GRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Arrived, May 31—Eliza Mary, from New Orleans. Arrived, June I—Cora Linn, from Lisbon. DEAL, Saturday Morning. Passed, May 31—Nepun, from Portland Maine; Enos, from Alexandria ; Gulnare, from , Bermuda ; Petrel, from Grenada; Sophia of Liverpool, from the west—all for London. Passed, June I—Diva, Austrian barque, from New Or leans, for London; her Majesty's ship Flying Fish, from the west, for London; Etoile de la Ner, from London, for Algiers, THE .211 4CI iONALD ,4FFAIR. The followirg p , pers rk:lating t.l this affair wertyesterday laid before Parliament : (Translation.) (No. 1.) " BARON SCHLEINITZ TO COUNT BERNSTORTF. "Berlin, May 1. " It is with as great surprise as deep regret that I have learnt from the public papers the manner in which Lord Palmerston, on the 26th ultimo, replied in the Lower House to the interpellation addressed to him on the affair of Cap tain Macdonald. We could not expect that he would share the view taken by the Prussian Government of this matter, but wo might suppose that the First Minister of England, in the full knowledge of the state of the fact as laid down by us, would refrain from heaping ungrounded reproaches upon the Government and laws of Prussia. He himself has not been able to avoid the admission that the conduct of Prus sian authorities was in accordance with the laws of Prussia, And, in fact, the Prussian Court gave the mildest interpre tation allowed by the law to the conduct of Captain Mac donald, and only awarded a trifling pecuniary penalty against him. The signers of the offending protest were indeed sentenced by the magistrate, but they were free from punishment, because the supreme grace of the 12th of January last was accorded to them; and, lastly, the Prussian Government, which did everything within its competency to abridge the imprisonment of Captain Macdonald, ex pressed without reserve to the British Government its regret at the occurrence itself. With the notoriety of this affair, how a reproach can be made to the Prussian Government that it has omitted doing anything which it was incumbent upon it to do, as a great Power, and as a Government friendly t o England, that, moreover, is not shown in the speech of Lord Palmerston. " If this prominent statesman has remembered me in this affair, and, indeed, in a way for which personally I can only be grateful; if, as is the case, he appeals to my knowledge of the way and mode of thinking of the English people, I cannot, above all things, repress the observation that, during the sojourn of several years in England which I owed to my official position, nothing filled me with greater wonder than the sense of right and legality everywhere deeply rooted in the English people, which also shows itself in deference to the decisions of the magistrates. I cannot think that the English people will refuse this deference to the decision of a Prussian magistrate in a case:whore the question was to punish an Englishman for an offence against the laws of the country in which he was staying, and in which the English Crown jurists themselves admit that the proceed ing was in accordance with the laws of the country. " It appears to me that a trial of the subjects of one country by a magistrate of the other in the maintenance of its laws is not a matter which could disturb the relations to each other of two Governments whose closely amicable con nection lies in their mutual interest; but I cannot conceal from myself that reproaches of such a nature as Lord Pal merston has put forth, without grounds or justification, against the Government and laws of Prussia are well calcu lated to excite in the Prussian people an ill-feeling against a Government whose leaders have no hestitation in publicly designating the condition of Prussia as deplorable. " If an estrangement of the Governments of Prussia and England, which I could not but deplore in the highest de gree, should result from such ill-feeling, the Prussian Go vernment at least would be guiltless in the disturbance of the good understanding with England which it has always sincerely endeavoured to foster and promote. "I request your Excellency to read this despatch to Lord John Russell, and to give him a copy of the same. " SCHLEINITZ." (No. 2,) "LORD J. RUSSELL TO LORD A. LOFTUS. " Foreign. office, May 22, 1861. "My Lord,—l send your lordship herewith a copy of a despatch from Baron Schleinitz, which was put into my hand by Count Bernstorff, and which contains observations upon a speech made by Lord Palmerston in the House of Commons on the case of Captain Macdonald. _ _ " I have in the first place to remark that, as a general rule, it is inconvenient and objectionable that the Govern ment of one country should make matters which pass in debate in the Parliament of another country the subject of diplomatic representation and correspondence, but her Ma jesty's Government are willing to admit that there may be cases in which statements made or opinions expressed by a Minister of the Crown may, if it is thought advantageous to do so, be made exceptions to this general rule. Her Majesty's Government, therefore, de not complain of the step taken by Baron Schleinitz on the present occasion as objectionable in principle. " With respect to the contents of that despatch, I have to state that, as it consisted substantially of a reply to and an animadversion upon the speech of Lord Palmerston, it was natural that I should consult Lord Palmerston as to the manner in which that despatch should be dealt with ; and I have now to inform you that if Baron Schleinitz's despatch had contained merely a renewed record of the opinions of the Prussian Government on the Macdonald affair, and a state ment that those opinions had in no degree been changed by what was said in the House of Commons on the occasion in question, Lord Palmerston would not have considered it necessary to prolong by an answer a discussion which every well-wisher to a cordial good understanding between the ussian auu Brum, c.„,—...eoeuts must regret, and must be desirous of seeing brought to an end ; but, as Baron Schleinitz has chosen in one part of his despatch to accuse Lord Palmerston 'of heaping ungrounded reproaches on the Government and laws of Prussia,' and in an other part, of having put forth reproaches without grounds or justifi cation against the Government and laws of Prussia,' he deems it right to state that what he said on the occasion in question was said advisedly and upon full conviction ; that be deliberately abides by all that he then said ; and that he sees nothing in it either to be retracted or to be explained away ; and he is convinced that the opinions which lie then expressed are entirely shared by the great bulk of his fellow country men . " Those opinions, however, he would observe, were con fined to the conduct of the Prussian Government and of their subordinate officers; he said nothing that could justly give offence to the Prussian nation, wit L-regard to whom he only expressed a regret that they should be liable to Ittws which vest in subordinate and irresponsible agents powers and authority which, as in the case of Captain Macdonald, are capable of being used with cruelty and injustice without any overstepping of the strict limits of the law. ,4 You will read this despatch to Baron Schleinitz and give him a copy of it.—l am, &c., " J. RUSSELL." TILE LATE PRINCE GORTSCHAKOFF, Prince Michael Gortschakoff, formerly Comman der-in-Chief of the Russian Army of the South, was born in 1795. He was the second son of Prince Alexander, one of the Suwarrow's bravest Generals. The Prince entered th© Imperial army at an early age, but first came into notice as an officer of Ar tillery in the war with Turkey in 1828-29, during a part of which he was attached to the Staff of General Krassowski. Here he made his first ac quaintance with the fortifications of Silistria, des tined in after years to test the power of Russia to the utmost. Silistria fell, and Diebitsch, who had waited for the event, proceeded on his march to the Balkan. It was the duty of the corps to which Gortschakoff was attached to occupy the attention of the Ottoman army during the Marshall's ad vance. Gortschakoff was on the staff of the artil lery, and remained with Krassowki's army corps until the campaign against Poland, when he served for a short time as chief of the staff to General ahlen, at the same time commanding the collec tive artillery. Perhaps artillery has never per formed a more terrible part than in the battle of Ostolenka, where Gortschakoff had under his orders 70 guns. 'ren times the Poles rushed forward to drive the Russian Grenadiers into the Narew and storm the bridge, and every time Gortschakoff shattered their attacking columns with grape and canister shot. At Grochow he had, in the same campaign, previously rendered a similar service to his master; and at the last struggle for Polish in dependence—that of Warsaw, his guns played an important, though less decisive part. During the Polish campaign he had been promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general, and upon the disgrace of Count Soll he was placed on the general staff of the active army. In 1843 he became a General of Artillery, and in 1846 was named Military Gover nor of Warsaw. He accompanied the Russians upon that mission of intervention which terminated the struggle for Hungarian independence, but achieved no new distinction on that occasion. In 1852 Gortschakoff visited London to repre- sent the IRussian army at the funeral of th e Duke of Wellington, who had held the rank of a field-marshal in the Imperial service. In the summer of 1853, when the Emperor of Russia had resolved to take possession of the Danubian Principalities, Gortschakoff was appointed to the command of the army of occupation, at first num bering about 40,000 men, and arrived at Jassy on the Ist of July. The service was of the most or dinary kind until, in October, Omer Pasha sent him a polite note, inviting him to recross the Pruth, with the alternative of being attacked in his usurped position. The events which followed and the Crimean war are subjects of history into which we need not enter now. The recent events in Poland have again familiarised the Public with Prince Gortschakoff's name. Of his person, a Ger man gentleman, travelling in the Danubian Princi palities in 1854, said :—" The Prince has a tall, commanding figure, thin but strong. His head and the upper part of his body incline forwards, but this appears to be more from the effect of cus tom than old age, for though 63 years of age, he is hale and healthy. His eyes, which in his stooping position frequently shot over his spectacles, have a firm and scrutinizing look ; his voice is deep but not sonorous : and his whole appearance impressed I one with that decision and energy whieh peculiarly belong to a good military commander ," —Breskygr 1 Zeitung. FIVE ARTS, HISTORICAL EXHIBITION OF WATER-COLOUR PAINTINGS. We yesterday attended at the Private View of this very attractive and deeply interesting collection now open to public inspection in the Gallery of the Society of Arts, john-street, Adelphi. The collection is one of a somewhat unusual kind— being composed of drawings lent by numerous pro prietors, her most gracious Majesty heading the list of these munificent patrons of art—to the end that a fund, or at any rate, the nucleus of a fund may be collected for the building of a Female School of Art. The drawings are arranged upon the walls and screens of the apartment in which they are exhibited, chronologically. They serve to illustrate in a very delightful manner the growth of this exquisite art here in England during fully one century, coming down to our living art contemporaries. Conspicuous among the works contributed by the latter are three at least, that we would here, however briefly, enumerate. Yon der, in the place of honour, at the head of the room, is a noble specimen of Edward Corbould, painted by command of her Majesty, and of course the pro perty of the Sovereign. It represents the last scene in Meyerbeer's Grand Opera of the Prophete —the close of the gorgeous and daring career of the crowned Anabaptist! Poked away in a corner is Mr. Lewis's wonderful watercolour painting of the Arab Scribe, with the shadowy flitting by of the people out in the street seen through the sashes of the window screen. Between the two pictures already mentioned is a remarkable paint ing by Louis Haghe—some white-robed monks in the choir, chanting. Scarcely a contribution upon the walls, however, but deserves mention at the hands of the critic—certainly demands more or less of the visitor's attention. The catalogue will be found a great help in the course of this examina tion. And we would here direct public attention to the fact that the Exhibition will only remain open about a fortnight. PAIRS WV THE PAPER DUZIES. FOR. AGAINST. Sir De Lacy Evans.. with Sir Charles Burrell Sir Geo. Dashwood.. Mr. Long Sir Morton Peto Mr. Bond Sir A. Agnew . Captain Jolliff Mr. Marjoribanks Mr. Mure Mr. Heygate Mr. Mills (Totness) Sir R. Blakeley Colonel Pennant Mr, Lysley Mr. Butt Mr. Gore Langto n Mr. Ellis, sen — Sir Henry Leeks Mr. M. Dunne — Captain Bunbury Major Gavin ANALYSIS OF THE DIVISION; A few Irish members voted for the Government, 'viz. Sir J. D. Acton, Mr. W. P. Adams, Mr. Agar Ellis, Mr. J. Bagwell (a Lord of the Tref.sury), Mr. Beamish, Mr. Bellew, Viscountess Casticrose, Mr. J. Ennis, Mr. C. Fortescue, Mr. M'Cann, Mr. P. O'Brien, Capt. D. O'Con nell, and Mr. Pollard-Urquhart —thirteen in all. On the other hand, the minority includes, in addition to the names of the Irish Conservatives, those of twenty-two Irish Liberals, viz.: Mr. Blake, Sir G. Bowyer, Mr. Brady, Mr. Calcutt, Mr. Corbally, Lord Dunkellin, Mr. Esmonde, Col. French, Mr. Getty, Mr. J. Greene, Col. Greville, Mr. Hassard, Mr. H. Herbert, Mr. Lanigan, Mr. M'Evoy, Mr. P. M‘Mahon, Mr. Monsell, The O'Donoghue, Mr. Redmond, Mr. F.W. Russell, Mr. Stackpoole, and Mr. M. Sullivan. Three Conservatives voted for the Government, viz., Lord. A. Churchill, Mr. J. M. Gaskell, Sir E. B. Lytton. The reputed Liberals (English) voting against the Go• vernment were—Mr. J. M. Cobbett, Mr. Horsman, Sir R. • Peel, Sir J. Ramsden, Mr. C. R. M. Talbot. Lord Stanley, who held an official position in connection with the Association for the Repeal of the Taxes on Know ledge, voted last night against the Repeal of the Paper Duties. Mr. Adeane and Mr. Sergeant Pigott, who voted against the Government on the occasion of the proposed reduction of the tea duties, voted last night for Ministers. Mr. Andrew Steuart, member for Cambridge, voted with the minority. Mr. H.orsfall, respecting whose vote consi derable interest has been felt at Liverpool, voted, it will be seen, with Mr. Lever, against the Government. WILLS AND .B.E.QUEsTS. Thu will of the late Right Hon. Jane Baroness Audley, relict of the late Lord Audley, has only just been proved in the London Court. The grant, bearing date the 22d ultimo, was to her daughters, the Hon. Ladies Jane Elizabeth and Susan Tucket, who are nominated joint executrixes. This will contains simply one bequest, which is in favour of her ladyship's two above-mentioned daughters, to whom she leaves the whole of her disposable pro perty. It bears elate in 1854, and was attested by Commander J. A. Meade, RN., Dover, and J. Robson, Castle.street, Leicester-square, The family is of very ancient descent, passing over from Nor mandy with the Conqueror to this country, in which their ancestors early acquired distinction, and were elevated to high rank, even so far back as the reign of Ed ward lll.—The will of Herbert Cole ridge, Esq., of Chester place, Regent's -park, and of Stone - buildings,Lincoln's, inn, barrister-at -law, was proved in the London Court on the 25th ult. The executors nominated are John Duke Coleridge,Esq., barrister, King's Bench-walk, Temple, the testator's cousin; William Christopher Valentine, Esq., bar rister, of Stone-buildings, Lincoln's-inn ; and Mrs. Coleridge, the relict. The personal property was sworn under £7,000. This gentleman who was a relative of Mr. Justice Coleridge, was well known amongst his professional brethren. He has left his property, consisting both of realty and per sonalty, to his relict for life, and a legacy of £5OO for her immediate use. On the decease - of his relict the estate devolves to the testator's sister. The will, Which is of moderate dimensions, was exe cuted on the 9th of February, 1860, and Mr. Cole ridge died on the 23d of April last.—The will of Granville Edward Harcourt Vernon, Esq., of Eaton square, London, and Grove Hall, East Retford, Notts, was proved in the principal registry on the 17th of May, the executors being his relict, the Hon. Lady Selina Catherine Harcourt Vernon, and the testator's uncle, Egerton Vernon Harcourt, Esq. The personalty was sworn under £7,000, The will bears date September 26, 1857. Mr. Harcourt Ver non has left all his property, both real and per sonal, to his relict, Lady Selina, whom he mentions with much affection in his will. There are no other bequests contained in this document, which is exceedingly brief. The testator was the grandson of the late Right Rev. Vernon Harcourt, Arch bishop of York. He married, in 1854, Lady Selina, only daughter of the Earl of Clanwilliam, K.P. and has left no issue. He died at the ea r ly age Of 45. He appears, however, to have passed rt h i i e s n l t i o fe f p i r n i v a a c t t e i v s e e c p r e u t r a u r i y t s t , o h t a h v e i E n g ar hd t l of f h a St. German's, er p m p o a i n n ,s t: as well as to the Duke of Newcastle, who succes sively held the post of Chief Secretary for Ireland. He also served the offices of deputy-lieutenant for Notts and a magistrate for that county, and was a captain in the Clumber. troop of Sherwood Ranger* Yeomanry C avalry. —Illustrated London News. THE WEATHER. METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS. This Day, 1 etween 8 and B. B. M. D. F. C. I. S. 9 a.m. ---- Nairn 29/ _ 3 52 52 E. 3 9 r. 2 Aberdeen Leith.. lierwiek 2 9 .69 57 51 W. 2 o. 1 A rdrossan I 29'78 54 52 N. 3 9 5 o. 2 Por tr. sh ; 29'82 53 52 W. 4 4 r. 3 Shields 129'73 56 53 W.S.W. 4 5 b. 2 Galway r 29 . 99 57 55 W. 5 7 c. 4 Scarborough-! 2914 59 56 W.N.W. 3 7 0. 2 Liverpool Valentia. • 30'09 54 51 N.N.W. 4 6 c. 5 Queenstown 30'03 58 56 N.N.W. I 2 5 c. 2 Y arm outh London 29 86 58 54 W.S.W. 3 4 b. Lover 29'86 57 56 W.S. W. 3 5 o. 2 Portsmouth Portland Plymouth Penzance Je rsey •• • • ... EXPLANATION.—B. Barometer, corrected and reduced to 32 deg at mean sea level: each 10 feet of vertic.l ria. EXPLANATION.—B. Barometer, corrected and lured ,o 32 deg at mean sea level ; each 10 feet of vertical rise causing about 1-100th of an inch diminution, and each 10 deg above 32 deg causing nearly 3-100ths increase. E. Exposed thermometer in shads. M. Moistened bulb (for evaporation and dew-point). D. Direction of wind (true — not magnetic). F. Force (1 to 12— estimated). C. Cloud. c., cloud s (d e t ac h e d) ; t ( . l , t0 f0 9 g ) . . ; I h n a it i i l a : s 1., b li h b t l n u i e n s g k y; m. misty (hazy) ; “vercast (dull) ; r., rain; s., snow; t., thunder. A letter repeated augments—thus, r.r., much rain. S. Sea disturb ,nce (1 to 9). CURIOUS DTSCOVERY.—WhiIe digging the foun dationg for the new wing of the Leicester Imfirmary last week, the workmen discovered a number of human skulls and Wino, same distance below tho surface.