The Sun. — London, England, 1856-06-25 00:00:00

ITER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Madlle. PICCOLOMINI. TO-MORROW EVENING (Thursday), June 26, (a Sub scription Night, in lieu of Tuesday, August 5), will be re vived Donizetti's Opera, entitled LA FIGLIA DEL REGGIMENTO. Marie, Madlle. Piccolomini (her first appearance in that part); La Marchesa, Middle. Borgaro ; Tonio, Signor Calzolari ; Ortensio, Sig. Baillon ; and Sergente Sulpizio, Sig. Bolletti. Between the Acts a new Ballet Divertissement, by M. Paul Taglioni, entitled LA BOUQU ET lERE "La Manfrina"—Corps de Ballet. "Le jeu des Bouquets" —Maddle. Marie Taglioni (her last appearance but one) and M. Charles, accompanied by the Corps de Ballet. To conclude with a Ballot Divertissement. Pas de Quatro_ —3lesdlles. Katrino, Lisereux, Galby, and Pierron. "La Seguidilla"—Mdlle. Mario Taglioni (her last appearance but one) and M. Charles. Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre, Colonnade, Haymarket. THUTRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. ENGLISH OPERA. THIS EVENING will be produced DER FREISCHUTZ. After which, The Last Act of IL TROVATORE. To conclude with The Last Act of THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, MY WIFE'S DAUGHTER. Followed by ME LITTLE TREASURE. After which PEREA NENA and the Spanish Dancers will appear. To conclude with THE RIGHTS AND WRONGS OF WOMAN. ROYAL PRINCESS'S TEEEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Cuestas KZAN. Tars EVENING, A PRINCE FOR AN HOUR. After which, VIE WINTER'S TALE. ROYAL THEA.TRE ADELPHI. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, THE FLYING DUTCHMAN. Followed by A BOTTLE OF SMOKE. To cou lade with ITRGENF FRIVATE AFFAIRS. ROYAL OLYNIPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manazer, Mr. Alfred Wigan. TEM EVENING A FASCINATING DIDIVIDTJAL. After which, RETRIBU [ION. To conclude wall CATCHING A AVRIIIID. ROYAL SU:IRE Y THEATRE. Lessees. Messrs. Shepherd s.nd Cresvrick. TEM EVENING, IL BARBIEItE DI SIVIGLIA. To conclude with A BALLET DIVER tISSENIEII 11. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manaler, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING The Romantic Equestrian Spectacle, THE HORSE OF THE CAVERN, or the Mounted Brigands of the Abruzzi, with the novel feature of the Italian Bandits on horseback, the Neapolitan Dragoons, and Mr. W. Cooke's stud of trained horses. After which, The EQUESTRIAN SCENES of ART in the CIRCLE. with Desaral's celebrated performing Dogs and Monkeys, as exhibited before her Majesty. _ _ _ To conduce with THE FESTIVAL OF PEACE ; or Honour to the Brave. Box-office open frmi E;even till Four. Stav Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director. Mr. W. Cooke. Jun. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY—Morn. 51 min. aft. 6—Evening 18 min. aft. 7 TO-AORROW—Morn. 51 min. aft. 7—Evening 22 !Jain. aft. 8 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, JUNE 25. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 72—highest since noon yesterday. 61 —lowest this morning and during the night. 76 —this day at noon. BenoltntEna3o .26. WIND North-westerly. Light with fine sultry weather, indicating a thunder-storm. This is the hottest day yet. 4 . t : , ; 7 4 s , i 2N .14n4 LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1856. We have already had a very decided illustra tion of the manner in which Russia intends to carry out the engagements to which she bound herself by the Precious Treaty. She agreed to restore Kars to its former owner. The greater portion of the fortifications has already been de stroyed, so that it cannot without very consider able expenditure again form a powerful obstacle in the way of the Russians in any future war. It is not, however, very clear as yet whether this destruction has taken place previous to or since the publication of the Treaty. If it occurred while hostilities were pending, no objection can be made. The General charged with the conduct of the War had full authority to make any changes which he conceived to be for the benefit of the cause which he was bound to advance by all the means in his power, and whether he designed to defend or abandon it, in the face of an opposing enemy, he was the sole judge as to the measures to be taken to render it tenable for his own troops or comparatively useless to the enemy. Whatever has been done after the signature of the Treaty should, however, be regarded in a very different point of view. Then Kars was, to all intents and purposes, the property of the Otto man Empire. An ample equivalent had been paid for its surrender, and any wanton damage I inflicted from that time forth s h ou ld b e f u lly repaired at the expense of the party by whom it was inflicted. The CZAR, it is said, desires to maintain a character for straightforward integrity. If such be indeed his object, he will be more eager to offer, than the Allies to demand ample compensation. • But whatever doubts may exist as to the case of Kars, there can be none whatever respecting the fortresses of Reni and Ismail, which, under the express terms of the Treaty, were to be given up to Turkey. But it now appears that these fortifications have also been demolished—that the Engineer officers engaged in the duty have had no leas than 2,000 workmen under their orders, and that not only have the buildings been razed, but even the materials have been car ried off ! We are told that the very stones taken from the rampart's have been placed on board small craft for the purpose of being conveyed to Odessa. R could scarcely be supposed that the value of the article would compensate for the cost of carriage. But it might possess a factitious value in Russian eyes, as a stimulus to regain po,- session of what had once belonged to thems e l ves , and which they might look forward to on an early opportunity of regaining. We have he ar d of a sentimental suitor in Chancery who, on having a deeree pronounced against him, carried off th e materials • of the dwelling of which he had been deprived to a distant country, although the removal cost him at least four times as much as he could have obtained better articles for on the spot, where he contemplated the erection of a new residence. But he was speedily compelled to pay the full value of the dilapida tions, so that the rightful owner sustained no aotual loss. A similar course should be adopted with respect to Russia, which has thus deliberately violated the spirit of the contract into which she entered. It is not, however, the mere amount of damage large as it is—that is to be looked to. We see therein a powerful illustration of the spirit in which Russia deals with her former opponent. We see that the very first opportunity of establishing a quarrel has been eagerly seized on, and we cannot doubt that further progrese will be made in the same direction. Lord OLA- RENDON declared that the fortifications thus reck- lessly demolished ought to be, and doubtless would be, preserved. The very statement shows the nature of the wrong, and the propriety of ob:;aining ample redress. We fear, however, that in this, as in the American difficulty, we shall swallow our leek, and patiently submit to the wanton in sult and unjustifiable injury. We trust, however, that the matter may not be suffered to pass alto gether sub silentio, but that some independent member—if such a phenomenon can be found — may be induced to call attention to the deplorable fact, and to inquire what steps are to be taken by the Allied Governments—for it is a point in which France, and Austria, and Sardinia, aye, and even Prussia, are as greatly concerned as England and Turkey in consequence. As we have repeatedly pointed out, the patient submission to injuries only encouraged further and more serious aggressions, and if we wish to avoid repeated complications it can only be by causing ourselves to be respected by other na tions, and showing that we cannot be insulted with impunity. Si vis pacem, parts bellwn is a' time-honoured apophthegm. But it is equally essential that we should be prepared to resent insult, whenever and wheresoever offered. A quick sense of honour is perhaps the best secu rity which a nation can possess against being suf fered to drift into a formidable war. The golden rule in such cases is neither unnecessarily to give, i nor to submit to, any intentional offence. The policy and proceeding of America are likely for some time to come to be of great inte rest to England. The struggles of her domestic parties are chiefly conditioned by the position of the slavery question, which can never cease to attract attention here, and the Nicaragua diffi culty is yet to settle. The last important news is the nomination of Mr. BUCHANAN by the Cin cinnati Democratic Convention, (an assembly of delegates of that party from all the States of the Union), as its candidate for the coming presiden tial election. The Democratic party has of late been by far the most powerful in the States, it is a firm upholder of slavery, avows, as " a sacred principle to be applied with unbending rigidity," the MONROE doctrine,—that is, the extension of European Governments and influence from the Continent of America ; and declares that " under no circumstances can it surrender the preponde rance of the United States in the adjustment of all questions arising out of Central American matters." This is the party that has nominated Mr. BUCHANAN ; and excepting its firm assertion of popular rights, sure to be strongly enough maintained in America, there does not appear to be anything in its policy wbich commends itself much on this side of the Atlantic. Mr. BUCHANAN is well known here. He is a cool, adroit man, and was quite if not more than a match for our Government in all transactions with it. He, doubtless, really wished for peace, but in his last speech at the Mansion House his chief argument was a covert threat of what we should suffer by the war, and he would not acknowledge the insignificance of the subjects in dispute. He it was who received with jocularity Lord CLARENDON'S proposal of arbitration, re marking that we were "at war with the Emperor of Russia, the only power which America could consider impartial." He also denied that there was " anything to arbitrate about," meaning that their interpretation of the Treaty in dis pute was unquestionably the right one ; though we, feeling somewhat indifferent (ex cept as a point of national honour) which is right, must confess that our own Government appears to take the only correct view. It is not of promising augury that Mr. BUCHANAN should be so obstinately or unworthily blind as to refuse to see in the reciprocally misunderstood terms of a treaty a fit subject for arbitration. At the Ostend Conference of American diplomatists, also, Mr. BUCHANAN strongly asserted the right of America to take Cuba whether Spain were wil ling to sell it or not, as requisite to the proper ascendancy of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico! As to his leanings in regard to slavery, we observe that Senator WILSON, of Massachusetts, affirms " that no man in the Union will do the work of the slaveholder more faithfully, or bow lower to the slave power than JAMES BUCHANAN." Mr. BRECKENRIDGE, an ardent supporter of slavery—a son, we believe, of the Dr. BREMEN - RIDGE who gained unenviable notoriety at Glas gow by his defence of slavery—was coupled with him as Vice-President, yet more carefully to pro pitiate the South. In view of all the facts of the case, the Times now recommends to settle, if pos sible, the Central American difficulty with Mr. PIERCE, objectionable as his conduct has been, before his successor enters upon office. We fear the advice is wise. Plausible obstinacy, combined with cunning, is harder for honourable men to deal with than noisy bluster. It is worthy of special attention that Mr. BUCHANAN has adopted to the letter the Manifesto —"platform" the Americans call it—of the De mocratic party. His language is so strong that we are justified in considering it as expressing his views to the letter. Oar readers will have seen it in The San of the 10th, and if they passed it over will do well to turn to it again as the pro gramme for the domestic and foreign policy of JAMES BUCHANAN. He says of it, "I have been placed upon a platform which I heartily approve, and which can speak for me. Being the repre sentative of the great Democratic party, and not simply JAMES BUCHANAN, I mast square my con duct according to the platform of that party, and insert no new plank nor take one from it." This platform, to adopt Mr. BUCHANAN'S phra seology, consists of eleven planks, and the first six intended to support the home policy, the latter five the foreign policy of the party. These last were distinctly brought under notice of the Con vention by Mr. LOWE, of Missouri ; he was sup ported by the delegate from Delaware ; notwith standing this opposition, however, the resolutions were adopted in their entirety, and Mr. BUCHANAN pledged himself to them in the strong language to which we have already referred. Now these reso lutions assert—first, " free seas and progressive free trade throughout the world ;" secondly, that their political and commercial position " requires them to hold sacred the principles involved in the Mresnon doctrine"—that is, the right to exclude European Governments and their influence from ea lliArnerica ; thirdly, with regard to the Central Am erican question, that " under no circumstance s an they surrender their preponderance in the adjustment of all questions arising out of it ;' fifthly, they express sympathy with the attempts "to regenerate that po r ti on o f t h e cont i nent w hi ch covers a passage across th e I sthmus. " The re generation thus sympathised with being that now in process under the Holy buccaneer WALKER and his saintly filibusters. Lastly, they resolve that " every effort ought to be made by the incoming administration to insure an ascendancy in the Gulf of Mexico," which, being interpreted, means of course that Mr. BUCHANAN is ready, as he declared at Ostend the Americans ought, to take Cuba from Spain by fair means or foul. It is plain therefore that, both personally and i by the necessity of party policy, jr. BUCHANAN is pledged to a United States extension policy, from which lie will not and cannot flinch. He must be a diplomatic, if not a revolver and rifle " fillibuster ;" probably ho will practise the former, and wink more successfully than even PIERCE at the latter. It seems evident, there fore, that, in the event of his election, England must make up her mind to one of two things ; either to accept the notice to quit, and leave America, Cuba, and perhaps ultimately Jamaica included, to the " regenerating " virtues of WALKER. and his fellows, or to take henceforth a firm position, and not yield an iota more. It is clear that the insatiable spirit of slavery exten sion will endure no opposition till it has converted the free Republics of Central Ana:rica into mar kets for the infernal slave-breeding interest. Northward the resistance to extension of slave territory is gathering strength, and probably will soon become irresistible ; but the treachery and violence which absorbed Texas, and converted a free into a slave Republic, can easily accomplish the same result with the feeble Republics in question, and probably with Mexico also. We may add that of the first six resolutions of the " platform " one-half is directed against the religious and political exclusiveness of the Know- I nothings ; the other half to endorsing the latest successes of PIERCE and the more rabid slave holders against the Free States. They especially ratify the principles of the plausible Kansas Ne braska Act, by which the Missouri compromise was abrogated, the formation of slave states north of the parallel 39 deg. 30 min. permitted, and the way paved for the brutal proceedings of PIERCE and the Missouri slaveholders in Kansas at the present time. Our readers can now judge for themselves of the political merits of Mr. Paßeds probable successor. We say probable, because it is just possible, though not very likely, that the disgraceful attack on Mr. SUMNER, and the outrageous proceedings of the slavery Presi dent and his southerners, may unite parties in the north against the nominee of the Democratic Convention. It is touching, yet gratifying, to read the last Manifesto of the Poles, which appeared in The Sun of yesterday. Again they compose themselves to the attitude of patient hope in a righteous PROVIDENCE, and of patriotic rejection of the in sulting and ensnaring Amnesty offsred them by the new Russian EMPEROR. They feel deeply that they were passed over at the Treaty of Paris, and that semi-official Russian organs can speak of this as releasing their Master from all compacts in regard to Poland. They place, however, the Amnesty in its true light. Its only distinction from former snares of the same kind is that it does not require them to undergo a judicial trial, but it requires them to recant the errors of patriotism, and it places them, for three years, under the sur veillance of the ignorant and brutal police of Russia, before it gives them the poor civil rights to which a Russianised Pole may aspire. But the Amnesty does not, like many nobler modern amnesties, merely require of them the recognition of the existing Government—does not recall their brother patriots from Siberia—does not re-establish on their ancient footing the Uni versities of Warsaw and Vilna—does not provide opportunities for the inculcation of their national religion and teaching their national language— does not give any hope of an internal and more or less national Administration—and does not, above all, even advert to the restoration of the rights which were solemnly guaranteed the Poles by the Treaty of Vienna. On the contrary it does, or the EMPEROR'S speech does, refer to those rights as "day-dreams !" Even peaceful Russian CzAits cannot change their nature. They cannot become respecters of national rights. Born in ambition and shapen in cunning, selfish oblivion of the just claims of others, and comfortable appropriation of the fruits of crimes they might not like them selves to have committed, is the best that can be expected of them. The "mild EMPEROR" at Warsaw could not forbear from threatening the Polish gentlemen whom he had summoned to dance with him—from closing a compulsory fete with the warning that he could punish all who dreamed" of "happiness for Poland," except ruder the blessed rule of the ROMAN - OFF family. Saint ALEXANDER 11. is to be their chosen bene factor, or—Siberia and the knout for them. Pleasant music, certainly, for the finale of a ball ! However the unwashed, unkempt, untended, sprawling, pavement encumbering children of the very poor contrive to reach the age of puberty is, doubtless, to many a somewhat recondite pussle. Admitted a large annual mortality among them, the fact of a wonderful proportion emerging from the sea of dangers and troubles in which their infancy may be said to have been spent still remains. The children of the rich and well-to-do classes, notwithstanding every care and attention, supply victims to disease and accident in a far from satisfactory ratio, if the use of that word may be prinitted in such a connection. Ttiis ought not to be the case, judging by the light of science and the laws of analogy. Never theless, it is so, and who is able to account for it ? Is dame Circumstance after all a kinder stepmother to the infant poor than she has been reported ? Or are the advantages she holds out to the rich not duly appreciated or turned to proper account? Or does PROVIDENCE temper the wind to the shorn lamb—in other words, make up for human ne glect by supplementing defective care ? Who will undertake to tell Ili ? Whoever is in clined to do so may as well go further when he is about it, and tell us how it comes to pass that the mortality of London, comparatively speaking, so little exceeds that of many of our pr.win,“.l - ? If he can do the one he can do the other. Look at the position and condition of London. Rising from the foetid banks of a pol luted stream, rank with malaria, interlaced or in terwoven with miles and miles of streets, squares, and alleys, each with its peculiar garbage and select hotbe I for fevers, the searching and purifying winds of heaven might seem therein imp tent to discharge their office. We leave the stagnant marshes in the vicinity entirely out of count. Water such as the lovers of the grateful element, as its parkles cheerfully from the crystal fount, de light to quaff, there is none. The best we have is only to be had after miles on miles of meander ing by dusty roads, over sunken meadows, past brick kilns, smoking oppressive odours, and be neath a lazy length of vapid sunlight. For the rest, what does Mr. SIMON say of them ? This is ials description of the water supplied by one public company, and taken from the corrupted and cor rupting Thames. It is " not only brackish with the influence of each tide, but contaminated with the outscourings of the metropolis, swarming with infusorial life, and containing unmistakeable molecules of excrement !" Enough. Turn to the private pumps. What is said of the waters obtained from them ? " Generally throughout Loudon bad must be the condition of superficial well waters, everywhere filtering from a dangerous proximity to cesspools and sewers, everywhere loaded with nitrate of ammonia, everywhere con taining evidence that they represent the drainage ! of a great manure bed, and everywhere liable at any momect to contain excremental matter only imperfectly oxidised." That which is filtered through the innumerable graveyards of Loudon had better perhaps not be more than hinted at. Is it not wonderful, considering these things, that the population of the metropolis escape the ravages of pestilence to the extent they do— that lacking the great natural advantages which most of our provincial towns possess ready access for pure air, and an ample supply of pure water—the condition of London is as it is ? Not the less, however, is its condition deplorable. There cannot be the shadow of a doubt that be tween every census return hundreds of thousands of lives are sacrificed in London to sanitary ne glect. It is the very sense of the magnitude of the evils with which Londoners have to contend that has occasioned these remarks. None but a madman could find an argument in them against sanitary reform. Men of science have discovered laws in connection with the public health, with the imprint of Nature indelibly marked upon them, and experience more and more completely establishes the importance of the discovery. It is not enough that London should apparently be mercifully spared in comparison with other towns. The question is not one of default or otherwise on the part of the latter in the proper application of their advantages, though from default alone the heaviness of their mortality can be supposed to arise—it is one of self-interest and duty —whether all that science can effect shall or shall not be done towards relieving the population from the sources of danger to which they are hourly exposed, and thereby plat ing the metropolis in as satisfactory a sanitary condition as possible. The difference between drinking water of two different degrees of im purity has, we are told, in one district, been a mortality of three-and-a-half per cent. in excess among those who drank the worst. If such a difference is palpable between the effects of two waters, neither of them pure, what must be the difference between the effects of either and of drinking pure water ? And if, in connec tion with one particular, we find so palpable and unwarrantable a mortality, how the mind and heart should labour with the revolting conception to which a patient consideration of the entire cir cumstances of the case can alone give rise ! Sani tary reform should be the domestic watchword of the population ; now it is the badge of their disgrace. SPANISH BONDHOLDERS. We nae glad to learn that the long agitated question of the Spanish Certificates is now in course of satisfac tory settlement, an influential body of "Financiers" having made propositions to the Spanish Government for a pecuniary arrangement, which have been accepted. The first condition of the arrangement is the entire and absolute recognition of the certificates, and nego tiations have been opened between the " Financiers" and the bondholders, who had a private meeting to-day, at which the details were considered and finally con cluded. According to a telegraphic despatch which reached Paris yesterday, the health of the Queen of Spain is satisfactory. On account of M. de Morny not being able to leave for St. Petersburg, so early as was anticipated, M. Baudin will proceed to Russia as French Charge d'Aff%ires. The Western (Vienna-Salzburg) Railroad shares, which were to have been issuod on Monday last, make their appearance in Vienna on the 23d inst. The Com pany has pledged itself to Government to complete the line from Vienna to Linz within two years. The Austrians profess not to entertain any fear of an outbreak in Italy, but we learn that Marshal Rade'zsky and his generals have made the necessary preparations for effectua4maintaining t public ptace in all those parts of the Italian peninsula whieh are occupied by the Im perial trocp4. Toe publication of a pamphlet by Count de Monta lembert on the affairs of Italy is announced. This pam. pblet is said to have been written at the request of Cardinal Antnnell, who has supplied the Count with documents. The work will defend the existing state of singe. GRAND REVIEW ON SATURDAY NEER AT ALDER SHOT.—Her Majesty intends reviewing the troops en camped at Aldershot, on Saturday next, the 28th inst. (the anniversary of her coronation.) It is expected that fully 16,000 men will be under arms, including the Swiss and German Legion, several depot companies and regi ments of infantry of the line, the Kerry Militia, eight squadrons of cavalry, two field batteries of Royal Ar tillery, besides a few regiments that may arrive from the Crimea in the interim. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will command them. M. Nicolas de Kisseleff had the honour of an audience of the Grand Duke of Tuscany on the 17th to deliver his credentials as Minister Plenipotentiary of the Emperor of Russia to the court of Florence. THE SALE OH THE GREAT ROMAN CATHOLIC COLLEGE NEAR BATH.—Yesterday the Prior Park estate near Bath, lately occupied as the Great it - man Catholic College, was put up to sale at the Auction-mart. Sums were offered up to 27,750/., at which bidding there was a stop. The property was not sold. THE LATE FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION AT WHITTING TON.—The adjourned inquest on the body of Joseph Cooke, a collier, 31 year of age, who was killed by a boiler explosion, was held on Monday, at Whittington, before Mr. Busby, the coroner. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death. ROBBERY AT LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S.—Yesterday morning bills were circulated, that the drawing-room of Lord John Russell's residence, at Pembroke-lodge, Rich mond, had been entered by thieves, when a writing ease, work-box, gold seal and key, with some valuable papers, had been carried away. A reward is offered for the re• covery of the property. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT.—MANCHESTER, Tues day.- -Taere is more firmness of tone in the market to day, and an increased inquiry from buyers, resulting in somewhat enhanced rates being required for several de scriptions of yarns and goods, and prospectively, the ex pectation of a more remunerating trade. The Bourse Gazette of Berlin says :—"The commercial propositions of Prussia have been submitted to the con ferences of Eisenach. They consist of notable reductions in the tariffs of corn, rice, dried fruit, and iron ; and Prussia proposes that the favours accorded to maritime navi;ation shall also be conceded to fluvial communi cat.ons." Sc REW STEAM-SHIP G LASGOW AT GREENOIIK.--•-Th is vessel arrived here in ballast on Saturday night from Marscille6 having successfully concluded her engaze meats in the conveying of troops from the Crimea. W understand that she will be overhauled preparatory to taking her old station in the goods and na , senger trade between Glasgow and New York.-,'North British, Daily SPDRTING. —A number of persons assembled on Mon day in the Champs Elys6ei to witness a performance of the Count de Lancosme Breves on his English hunter John Ball. The Count had laid a wager to walk his horse backwards for a distance of the of a mile in 6 minutes. The Count started the animal nt a walk, and -pre,,h,t,at x its pace to a short trot. The horse won the wager easily, performing the distance in 5 min. and 37 seconds. Franc Picard won the Steeplechase at Pau. A PILGRIMAGE FROM THE GALLOWGATE TO THE GALLOWS.—We are told that three youths from the Gal lowgatte district went amissing about ten days ago, hav ing left home no one knew whither, to the great anxiety of their relatives. One of the youths, a.mere lad, has returned borne, and states that he had walked all the way from Glasgow to Stafford and back for the purpose of witnessing Palmer's execution ? Whether the devo tion of alit pilgrim to the gallows was repaid by a sight of the event we have not ascertained. The other two boys have not yet cast up, and the returned lad denies knowing anything of their movements.--rG/asgow THE ESTIMATES.—The Solect Committee have prepared the militia estimates for the current year. The number of men required for the disembodied militia is 18,083, and the charge is estimated at 228,9501 up to March 31,1857. The numbers last year were 11,9161, and the clarge 109,2001. The charge for raising and trailing the militia is 176,3501., the charge for retired all,wauces to officers 27,6001., the charge for local militia alutants 2,6001., and the charge of out-pen sioners of militia and local militia 22,4001. TERRIFII STEAM BOILER EXPLOSION AND Lose OF LIFE.-0a) of those sad accidents which entail not only loss of life but destruction of property—steam boiler explosions--took place at an early hour on Monday morning, It the Riversdale Iron-works, at Tunstall, near Manciester. It appears that shortly before four o'clock, any. immediately previous to the workmen re suming thee labour for the week, one of the boilers astounding cationall s.o ch a a n r d a . cte p r, ieces of the fragments were scat suddenly bust. The report of the explosion was of an and s pread the utmost const er . tered from heir original position in several directions to a.distanee f many hundred feet. The roof of the build. ing was detroyed in various parts. Three men were ki o ll u e n d d o e n d. Th t l .3spot and five or six others dangerously wounded. The damage done to the works is estimated at 2,0001. No cause can be assigned for the accident, as the hell' -maker and chief engineer had examined the boiler eortly before the catastrophe ; and it would seem that t are was no l ac k of water, as there was a large quanta around the ruins. Had the accident happened ; little later, when all the hands were col lected, the oneequences would have been dreadful, LATEST NEWS.I BERLIN, TUESDAY. The Prussian note on the Lluenberg affair, accompanied by an aide-memoire, has been for warded to Copenhagen. Count Esterhazy, the Austrian Envoy, died this morning of inflammation of the lungs. VIENNA, JUNE 23. Ali Pacha left to-day, on his return to Con stantinople. King Otho is to arrive here after to-morrow. Count Stakelberg has left for Marien bad, where the Prussian ambassador, Count Arnim, is also to go. The Thabor brings an account that General Jonkowski, the governor of the Crimea, has given notice that the merchandise which may remain at Kamiesh and at Balaklava will have to pay a regular customs duty ; the dealers have given up the idea of remaining in the Crimea, and are preparing to leave en, masse. The allies have surrounded the ground in the Crimea in which their dead have been interred with a strong pali sade. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. The Emperor, accompanied by the Grand Duke Regent of Baden, came to Paris yesterday morn ing and breakfasted at the Tuileries. The Montiteur publishes a decree promulgating a convention entered into on the 19th May last, between Fraxice and Saxony, for the reciprocal protection of literary and artistical property in the two countries. A letter from Paris, in the Emancipation of Brussels, says :—" The departure of Count de Morny for St. Petersburg is still adjourned. Be fore leaving for Russia, the President of the Corps Legiilatif will pass two or three weeks at Wiesbaden. This will give the Russian Go vernment time to fix its definitive choice on its ambassador to Paris. It is no longer Prince Dolgorouki who will occupy that post ; an un foreseen circumstance has opposed it • the prince was on the point of marrying a Russian lady of immense wealth, and he calculated on eclipsing all the other foreign ambassadors in Paris by means of this extraordinary fortune. This mar riage is, however, broken off; and Prince Dolgo rouki, fearing that he would be incapable of repre senting Russia with sufficient pomp, begged to be relieved from that honour. It is said that General Count de Strogonoff will be appointed in his place." THE BOURSE, June 24.—The following were the closing quotations : - - Cann. n.. e. End of Month. 4} per Cants C , 2 —f. —O. 3 per Cents 7l __ _ _ 71 5 Now Loan.. 71 10 Bauk Shares 4,050 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,570 Austrian Belgian Fiv Piedmontese(s) RAILWAYS-VOU CASII. r. c. fr. o. Orleans ........... ...... 1,370 - Western Q3S Northern. Lyons ....... —..—... 1,482 50 New Ditto Mediterranean 1,695 Grand Central Lyons Geneva 799 Taste Cette — Austrian C0rn....... 897 50 TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, June IG.—The Ottoman Bank a few days ago published its circular as a discount. bank. The unsettled state of the Ministry has thrown for the moment all projects of this kind, as well as railways /tee, into the background. Mr. Layard is still here. Lord Gough and General Bernard have arrived from the Crimea on their way home. Dr. M'Guffoy, the physician of the Embassy, died yesterday morning , after a few days' illness. He has been resident here for 40 years, and is uni versally regretted. RUSSIA. A letter just received from Vienna, says :—We have reliable intelligence relative to some in tended changes in the Russian diplomatic world. M. von Labanoff, the First Secretary of the Rus sian Embassy at Berlin, will come here with Baron Budberg, the future Minister at this Court. M. de Babaldine, the Counsellor of the Russian Embassy at Tienna, goes in the same capacity to Paris. Nothing is yet officially known of the appointment of Baron Brnuow to represent Russia at the Court of Prussia. AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna of the 19th, in the Bourse Gazette, says :—" In a conference lately held be tween Prince Gortschakoff and Count Buol, it was decided that a document should be drawn up in which should be enumerated in a distinct form the points on which Austria agrees with the Western Powers in the question cf the Principalities, as also those points on which she entertains different ideas. It would thererore appear that direct negotiations will be carried .on between the powers, in reference to the crganisa•.tion of the Principalities, before the deliberations of the commission commence, and that the result will f arm the basis of these deliberations." " Since 1855," says a Vienna letter in the Cologne Gazette, " our military budget has been the object of successive re ductions, amounting- to 21,000,000 florins. At fite same time there has been a con stant augmentution since 1852 of receipts arising from the ordinary taxes. That augmentation now amounts to not less than 34,000,000." The same letter says ;—" The protocols of the episcopal con ferences will not be published, but only the deci sions come to ; and even that publication will not take place until the Pope shall have sanctioned the decisions in question." The folloiing: is a summary of a copy of the concession of the Lombardo-Venetian Railroad Company :—Thi) grantees (founders) are—Prince Adolphus Schwarzenberg, Count Francis Zichy, and Baron Ansel= Rothschild, who represent the Credit Bank of Vienna ; the Duke of Galliera, the Duke of Melzi ' and Count d'Archin, who repre sent the Italian party ; Messrs. Rothschild, Blount, and Co., and Talabot, are for France ' • and Messrs. Rothschild, Laing, and Uzielli, for Eng land. There are 67 articles, and their sense is as follows :—The Austrian Government cedes to the above-mentioned gentlemen for the period of 90 years all the Lombardo-Venetian railroads and their appurtenances, with the sole exception of the line from Verona to the Tyrol. Tue transfer must be completed by December 31, 1856. (It is now going on.) The price to be paid for the cession of the various lines is 100 millions of lire (Bd. English). Within three months from the day on which the sanction of the Emperor was obtained to the concession, 20 millions of liro haves to 1,4 kind 50 millions in five successive years, at the rate of 10 millions yearly. The remaining 30 millions of lire to be paid out of the surplus of the net proceeds, if the super-dividend exceeds 7 per cent. During the whole period of 90 years the State guarantees a dividend of 5 per cent. after the deduction of all expenses and 2.10 per cent., as a sinking fund. Until 1861 the grantees have no income tax to pay. The shares are at 600 lire (200 florins, or 20L.), payable to the bearer. The company is at liberty to issue bonds, but their number and value will be fixed by Government. At and from the end of the year 1889, Government has a right to redeem the railroads by paying to the company a certain yearly revenue equal \ to the average not (annual) proceeds of the best of the last five years. SARDINIA. A letter from Genoa of the 20th in the Constilu tionnel, says :—" General Lamarmora, in resuming the Ministry of War, has consented that the depart ment of the Marine shall be annexed to it, and to this last-named branch of the service he has re solved on paying the most serious attention. The Chevalier Mass], who has been appointed to succeed Baron Tecco as resident Minister of Sardinia at the Porte, has left for Constantinople. Mr. James Fazy, President of the Council of Geneva, has arrived here for the affair of the junction of the Swiss railways with those of Piedmont, the principal trunk of which ends at this city. The canton of the Valais has also sent two commissioners on the same subject. Field-marshal Count Radetzky has, according to his usual cus tom, left Verona, to pass the summer months at the Imperial villa of Monza, near Milan. Ques tions connected with military strategy are, how ever, to a certain extent, connected with his move ments. In addition to the camp which has been established for the last few weeks at Barlassino, the Field Marshai has ordered four others to be formed, a circumstance which has never before taken place, except in the autumn after harvest. It is said that some bridges of boats are to be esta blished on the "Po, between the Lombardia tezri, tory and the fortified town of Piacenza, the Aus trian garrison of which has been increased." HOLLAND. A letter from the Hajue gives the following de tails on the subject of the Ministerial crisis which has taken place in Holland : " The droeniste or ultra-Protestant party domi nates in the governmental regions, and the ele ments which it has in the Van Hall Cabinet have succeeded in bringing about the expulsion of the moderate members. The following nominations are announced as likely to appear very shortly in the journals:—M. Ge vers Van Endegeest, President of the Second Chamber; will, it is said, obtain the portfolio of Foreign Affairs ; M. Simons, director of the Academy at Delft, becomes Minister of the Interior ; and M. Van der Brugghen, President of the Tribunal of First Instance of Nimeguen, is to be placed at the head of the department of Justice. The first of these gentlemen has always been op posed by the Roman Catholics, which shows that he must be a very firm Protestant, as they do not object to vote for tolerant candidates. The second in 1853 got petitions signed against the creation of Roman Catholic bishoprics, and has always shown a decided hostility to that religion. The third of the new Ministers is one of the most ardent of the Groeniste party. These gentlemen will replace re spectively M. Hall, M. Van Rheenen, and M. Donker Curtius. Many believe that this new ar rangement will not last long, and that the Roman Catholic deputies, united to the moderate Protes tants, will soon overthrow the Cabinet. Others, however, are of opinion that the new government will be le to stand its ground." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 18th, due yesterday, have arrived, as have also those of the 19th. The Gazette contradicts a report that had again been set on foot that M. Olozaga was about to be re moved from the embassy at Paris. The Duke de la Victoria was indisposed. The Diario says that the government has conferred the title of Marquis de la Habana on General Jose de la Concha, cap tain-general of the island. The Duchess de Mont pensier, says the Novedades, has entered the fifth month of her pregnancy, but no official announce ment of the fact has yet been made. A subscrip tion for the victims of the inundations in France had been opened at the French embassy. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY EVENING. By the Peninsular and Oriental steam-ship Tagus, Capt. Christian, with the Peninsular mails, we have dates from Gibraltar to June 15 ; Cadiz, 16 ; Lisbon, 19 ; Oporto, 20 ; and Vigo, 21. The Tagus brings 59 passengers, 2,2041. in specie, and a cargo consisting principally of oranges, lemons, eggs, and wine. During the homeward voyage the Tagus, on the 20th instant, off Oporto, signalled the steamer Queen, and off Cape Seleiro the mail steam-ship Madrid ; on tho 22d she passed the steam-transport Ripon, standing to the southward. The Tagus left the French steamer Fenix and Mr. Boschetti Shea's yacht Star of the Sea anchored at Lisbon on the 19th. The Hydaspes, with troops from Balaklava, coaled at Lisbon, and left on the 18th for Spit head. The Lisbon exchanges for three months are quoted by this packet at 549 to -1- on London ; Paris, 5 20 ; Amsterdam, 43, 1 4 - ; Hamburg, 49b ; and Genoa, 517. The supplies of both bills and money were limited. Stocks and shares had im proved after the Ministerial crisis, but the market was again dull when the packet left—say, Three per Cents., 43 to 43 ex div. Bank of Portugal shares, 500 to 505 milreis each ; and Oporto Bauk Shares, 18 to 20 per cent. prem. No change had taken place in political affairs at Lisbon. Several congratulatory addresses had been presented to the late Ministers. Exchange at Gibraltar was quoted—on London, 50/ ; Paris, sf. 38c. THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA. PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY MORNING. , The African Steam Navigation Company's mail packet Ethiope, Capt. W. H. Barnwell, arrived last night from the West Coast of Africa. Her dates are, homewards—Fernando Po, May 3d ; Cameroons, 4th •, Old Calabar, 6th ; Bonny, Bth ; Lagos, 12th ; Accra, 14th ; Cape Coast, 15th ; Liberia, 21st ; Sierra Leone, 26th ; Bathurst, 31st ; Goree, June 3d ; Teneriffe, 11th • and Madeira, 15th. She brings 2,360 ounces olgold dust and 354 casks of palm oil, &c. Among her passengers are the Hon. P. H. Roe, Acting Chief Justice at the Cape Coast ; and Mr. Carr, Chief Justice at Sierra Leone. Her Majesty's brig Childers sailed from Lagos on the 10th of May. The Scourge and Electra were at Cape Coast Castle on the 15th of May. _ The Philomel was to leave Sierra Leone for Eng land on the 25th of May ; the Hecate for Spithead on the 28th. The mail packet Gambier had left Liberia for the Leeward coast. The country round Bonny is quiet. Disputes continue between the King and the merchants at Lagos, where the prices for palm oil range high. The import duty has bean reduced at Accra, and the poll-tax is not yet levied. Trade had improved at Cape Coast Castle and at Liberia. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, June 25.—Wind this day at noon, N.W. ; light pleasant breeze and fine. PORTSMOUTH, June 21.—Wind W.S. W.—Arrived— Euphemns (s. tpt. 12), from Black Sea, and sailed for Woolwich. Sailed—H.M.S. Centaur, for the westward ; Lilly Dale (tpt. 17), Woolwich ; Britannia (s. tpt. 2), Plymouth ; Khersonese (s. tpt. 10), Cork. PLYMOUTH, June 24.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Ethi ope, from the coast of Africa ; H.M.S. Gorgon and Firth, Woolwich. 25. The brig Comet was on shore Lagos, coast of Africa, on the 12th May, a total wreck. FALMOUTH, June 21.—Wind N. N.W. —Arrived—Thor waldson and Viscaya, from Havana. OFF DOVER, June 21.—Elizabeth and Jacoba, from Banjoewangie, for Amsterdam; Emma, Singapore, for Copenhagen ; Plata, Surinam, for Amsterdam. COWES, June 24.—Wind W.S. W.—Arrived—Kisker, from New York, and sailed for Antwerp. CARDIFF, June 24.—Wind W.—Sailed—Ashley, for St. Thomas ; George Cuvier, Sierra Leone. ANTWERP, June 21. —The Anglica, from Galatz to England,.was on shore on the coast of Perestozzi (Rou melia), previous to the 11th June, and was making a little water. (PER ELEUTRIO TELEGRAPH.) PORTSMOUTH, Wednesday, 10.30 A.M. Arrived—The steam transport Brenda, from the East, with the sth Dragoon Guards, and a portion of the 10th Hussars. Spoke on the 18th, off Cape St. Vincent, the steam transport Harbinger ; and on the 19th, off the Bur liege, the steam transport Hydaspes. Livr.-ErooL, Wednesday Morning. Wind N.N.W. Arrived—Wm. Miles, from Calcutta; Robert Henry, Porto Rice ; Cornet, Reijuyada ; Young King, Quebec ; City of Morley, Casabianca • David Harrison, Bremen; Cherokee, Curagoa. Sailed—Grey Oak, for New York ; British Princess, Miramichi ; Rambler, Rotterdam ; Salesia, llavannah. QUEENSTOWN, June 23. Wind W.S.W. . _ Arrived.--;Hoop, from Galatz ; Blyth, Constantinople ; Antelope, Maza , * an ; Theti4, Galatz ; Richard Brown, Constantinople ;Angela, Philadelphia. (nY BIIBMARINN AND bRITISH TELEGRAMI GRAVIN END, Tiles:lay, 10.25 a.m. Wind W . .; ttdo three hours' ebb ; fino. Arrived, June 24.—Fortuna, from Randers ; Windham, Maestrund ; Limehousa, Rangoon ; Annette, Porto Rico. Arrived, Juno 25.—Robing Mitchell, from Calcutta; Fifeshire, Camoroona • Belgravia, transport, Malta ; Furet, Gravelines ; Anna, Rio Grande. Sailed Juno 24 —Matilde, for Trinidad; Avalanche, Bombay. Railed June 25.—Jacob Badger, for Port-Philip; Supe rior, Cadiz. DEAL, Wednesday, 9.30 a.m. Wind S.IV, ; moderate. Arrived and passed, 24th. —Racer, from Leghorn ; Scandia, Ha,vannah ; Thalia, Mauritius; Nanny and Emma, Galatz—all for London ; Victory, from Shieve, for Ly mington ; Plata, from Surinam ; Atalanta, Galatz ; Eli ez and Jacobs., _Bangowanio all for Ainstealam ; Emma, from Singapore for Copenhagen. Arrived and anchored, 24th—Margaret Connell, from Calingapatam for London; Hendrika, Newcastle, Naples; Guilia, Hartlepool, Genoa ; Union, London, Gibraltar ; Hurricane, London, Hong Kong. Report of barque Margaret Connell:—Feb. 12. Loft loading, to sail in 12 or ledays, the Trafalear and Thomas Dryden. April 24. Exchanged signals with ship Monsoon, from Manilla, 83 days out, in let. 21.15 S., long. 0.5 E. 25th, spoke the brig Elizabeth a n d J aco b a , f rom B a t av i a to Amsterdam, 63 days out, in lat. 19.57 S., long. 1.46 . W. 26th, signalled barque Vine, from Java to Amsterdam, 62 days out, let. 18.38 S., long. 35 W. 29th, passed St. Helena, the above vessels all at anchor, with several others, English and Dutch, in all 17, square rigged. May Ist, the Vine, in company, steering .more westward. 15th, spoke schooper.Water Lily, from Singapore, to London, out 78 days, long. 61.81 N., long. 21.38 W. 26th, signalised brigantine long. 36.5 from Alicante to Antigua, let. 22 N., 29th, signalised ship Trafalgar, lat. 28.52, n long. 633.81 V. June 16. Spoke Robinia, Mitchell, from Calcutta, for London, 130 d a y s o ut, i n let. 43.28 N., long. 19.20 V. ; the captain died about three months pre vious to the above. 13th, exchanged signals with the ship Sarah, from Glasgow, for New Jersey, iu let. 46.30 N., long. 11 W. 21st, passed the ship Henry Ware, of London, in lat. 48.36 N., long. 6.30 W. 10.10 A. M. Wind N.W. ; fine. Passed—Henry Gardner, from Moulmein; Prince Albert, Jamaica; Arlingnan, Mayguiz ; Jasco, Alexandria ; N e p. tune's Pride, North America; Temperance Star, Oporto; Sir George Anderson, Madras—all for London ; Cumber land Lass, Alexandria, for Hull. Passed, June 24—Her Majesty's steamer Merlin, from Sheerness, for westward; Eliza, -London, for Leghorn; Maria French, London, for Canaries. ichored—Gowrie, Licata, for Newcastle. -All the outward bound. PROPOSED SITE OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—My attention has bee n c a ll e d t o a letter in your paper of yesterday, signed by Mr. E. Bowring, secretary to the Royal Exhibition Commission of 1851, in ?Minh he says, "It is undeniable that the principle of re moving the Nation a l G a ll er y t o th e K en sington-gore site was affirmed by a m a j or ity o f s i x t o three, and not by ' the single vo i ce ' as spoken of by you." r. supportsby This statement M Bowring reference to a resolution which was moved by Mr. Mimes in an early stage of the proceedings of the National Gallery Com mittee of 1853, and which was to the effect that a para graph should be introduced into the report, recommend ing "That, consideri ng a ll th e circumstances of the case, the offer of a site at Kensington-gore, for the erection of a National Gallery of Art, made by the Royal Com missioners of the Exhibition of 1851, should be ac cepted." It is undoubtedly true, as stated by Mr. Bowring' that this resolution was carried by a majority of six to three ; but it is no less true, as st a t e d by you, the substantive resolution which was em b o di e d in the repo rt, and which determined the accept ance o f the site, w ag only carried by a majority of one. Up on this, and n ot upon the former resolution, the que s ti on must be cen se. dered to have finally and definitively t urn ed, for, if th e substantive resolution had not passed, the re post of th e committee would not have recommended the acceptan cs of the Kensington-gore sit e . Mr. Bowring further says, " A mo ti on by Lord Bic h° that against the site was negatived by a majority of seven to four." Mr. Bowring must, I think, have mistaken the O r ' port of my motion, which was made not against er sington-gore, but in favour of another site. The sion upon my motion cannot, therefore, be taken as a n y test of the feeling of the committee as regards the Go le site, for I, and those who supported me, might wits perfect consistency have voted for it upon the rejection of my resolution. It appears to me, then, having regard to all the pro' ceedings of the committee, that you are perfectly fled in having said, "That the ge n era l con clusion of the committee in favour of the Kensi ng t on - g ore site was In reality only arrived at by one voic e ." I I have ventured to offer these explanations, as it think, desirable that the public sho u ld c l ear ly understa nd the position in which the questio n o f th e ICensington gore stands, as far at least as regar d s th e d e cision of• th ! t committee of 1853, before my m o ti on come s on on F ri ' day next for an Addre ss t o h er M a j esty, praying bar O Majesty to be graciously pleased to issue a Royal m: Isrationas mission to determine the s it e o f th e new juste- Gallery, and to report on th e d es i ra bl eness o f combining with it the fine art and archae o l og i ca l co ll e ctions of the British Museum, in accorda n ce w ith th e • roorecommends.tion of the select committee on th e N a ti o nal Gallery in 1853."--I remain, sir, your obedient servant, St. James's-place, June 24. ELMO. THE IRON MINES OF EXMOOR• vow The recent discovery of iron ores in the uncultivated wilds of Exmoor Forest, Devonshire, is expected to pro duce a complete revolution in the i r o n trade. Already has the district around felt the advantages in a commer cial point of view, which an agricultural population, con tending against such adverse elements could not other wise have obtained. The district has been taken hy three of the largest iron companies in England, and th eir steam machinery and appliances, which aro in a forw ard state of completion, will, it is estimated, raise t roll ! 200,000 to 300,000 tons of iron or e ann ually. The most remarkable specimen of ore yet o btai n ed is the n evi pathos (white carbonate), which is used in the roachf ac. turo of steel, and for which English ma k ers have hithe rto le of this been chiefly dependent on Swed e n. A samp was dug from the moor, an d sen t t o th e Great Exhibi tion of 1851, by Mr. R. Smith, of th e G r ange, So utt molton, where its value was quickly ascer tained ; bu tta that period it was scarcely belie ve d th a t the lodes s ere rich enough to pay the cost o f wor ki ng . There are also found in great abundance the red and brown brernatites, pudding ores, and the clay-bends peculiar to th e districts of South Staffordshire and Wales. A samp le of ore has just been analysed by Messrs. Schnieder and Co., who have charge of one section of the Irlifi e° ' and found to contain 69.78 per cent. of metallic iron. The proprietors of the Ulverstone ironworks, Lan civ shire, have secured the principal share of the me" under a lease, and are rapidly sinking shafts by steam machinery to test the depth of the lodes. The r i e" maining sections are in the hands of two South Wal e° iron companies from the neighbourhood of AlertllYr Tydvil, viz., the Dowlais Company (late Sir JO" Guest's), and the Plymouth Company. The Ulverstone Company possess one half of the south moor, the DoW° lais about 2,000 acres on the west, and the other about half the latter quantity to the eastward. Ti l e impetus given to the employment of labour iu the neigh" bourhood, and the settlement of a large population on the spot, has caused the erection of a church, wh ich will be opened in August ; and it is not a little re markable that in digging the foundations a new lode of iron ore of rich quality and vast extent was feu°,_ d * The Ebbwr Vale Company are at present working the iron mines on Brendon-hills, Somerset, a little to th e east of Exmoor, and have obtained an act of Parlia ment for making a mineral railway to Watchet, which has been commenced. Two lines of railway, one from Exmoor to the sea coast and Lyninoutb, and the other to Porlock, have been surveyed, but which will ultimately be adopted is as yet a matter of Inv certainty. The Australian gold landed within the last week call' tinues to flow into the Bank. About 200,0001. is us' derstood to have been taken there yesterday, and the total proportion thus far purchased is estimated at about 550,0001. CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY.—Yeste r ' day the admissions on payment were 8,112; ditto by season tickets, 626 ; total visitors, 8,738. LATEST ARRIVALS AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE.--Th e first cochineal insects which have been seen alive lie this country will be found under the stair-case nearest to the picture gallery. On a shelf there are five garden pots, and in each pot a large, thick, green leaf, partially covered with a white powder, under which the livieg insects may be seen in various stages of growth. SOCIETY OF ARTS.—The anniversary dinner of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce took place yesterday at the Crystal Fly lace, under the presidency of Lord A s hburton, who w ore supported by the Rev. Dr. Booth, C o l. Sabine, Gen. o" . C. Pasley, Mr. D. Roberts, R.A., Mr. G. Moffatt, M.P', Mr. W. Ewart, M.P., Mr. T. Salt, Mr. C. W. Iloskyest Col. Sykes, Mr. J. Whitworth, Mr. J. P. Gassiot, J. W. Gilbert, Mr. J. Caird, and a large number of otheei gentlemen interested in the education and conan 3 er ni3 progress of the country. The toast of the evening, " Prosperity to the Society for th e Encouragemen t °f Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce," was proposed sn a n , eloquent address by the n o bl e c h a i rman , w ho desca nted at length on the advantages of affording a sound pract cal education to the artisan, manufacturer, and trades man, with the view of fitti n g th e m su it a bly, not onlY f°r their ordinary stations in life, but al s o for promoting their social happiness and advan c i ng our general aterean: tile prosperity. Dr. Booth, in respondin g , intimated th e the society was never in a better position e ither as r e : bards members or pecuniary resources ; a w hile its Pr ° d. gress was amply demonstrated by the success which ha ja attended the examinations recently instituted, pers ons humble walks of life—the draper's shopman, the in er chant's clerk, and the schoolmaster's assistant—haviit I competed and exhibited the satisfactory resu lts of a fusion of knowledge. The other speeches comprised thou of Mr. Ewart, Mr. Gassiot, C o l. Syk es , Sir C. Fox , k h n ': all of whom bore testimo n y to the benefits conferred ,Z, the society and the useful influence it has exercise d. company separated early in the evening. DEATH or GENERAL SIR J. WILSON, K.C.8.- - G en D e " Sir J. Wilson, K.C.8., Colonel of the 11th (North vonshire) Regiment of Foot, died on Monday rec rilivg at his town residence. The gall an t G ene ral bad se en tbe much active service from the spring of 1794 up o ,, ope e close of the war in 1815. Sir John served in the St Indies in 1796, and was present at the capture el lso Lucie, including the siege of Morne Fortun6e at the taking of St. Vincent, including the operatiee° against the forts in that island. In July followill he was made prisoner and carried into Guadeloup e. January, 1797, he was captured a ga i n in the Briti an Channel. In 1798 he was at the taking of Minorca. In 1800 he took part in the expedition against Cadiz, and in the following year proceeded with the army to EgYP o i and was present in the actions of the 13th and 21s $e March, and during the whole of that campaige% t he proceeded to the Peninsula in 1808, a n d fought a' i n battle of Vimiera, where he was severely wo unded. . January the succeeding y e a r b e j o i ne d the Lusi taul3 : Legion, and acted with that corps during an arduous P oi Hod of service in which he was repeatedly engag ed ,i v i l ao the enemy, being employed in covering Ciudid Iteur'D, and Almeida. He was attached to the Portuguese army in June, 1810, and during the subsequent operatieni against Marshal Soult, as well in the north of Portegaa as on the Eastern frontier, he comm an ded an adva nn u e , corps of Marshal Beresford's army. In April, 181 1 , in was appointed second in command to Gen. Silveira, r, the province of Tres os Mentes, and acted as such d u , ing a period of the operations against Puebla daySa ° l - 3 , brie, when the place was taken by that Genera/. September following he was appointed to the cousi n !, , of the advanced guard of Gen. Barcellar's corps d,cor, and employed on Marshal Massena's rear during hi e vasion of Portugal, being repeatedly engaged with t"" enemy. He took the field again in April, 1812, i n cozy; mend of the militia of the province of Minho, and op t engaged in active operations against Marshal ' Mar in " h ; on the frontiers of the Beira. At his own reques t "1 in June, 18 13 , joined the main army, and was appo inte to the command of the First Portugue s e Brigade of In. Se bas' fantry, with which he serv e d a t th e s i e g e of San tian, the passage of th e Bid assoa , an d t h e battle of th e Nivelle, and, on the 18th of November following , h ei/4 engaged with hi s b r i ga d e , h e was aga i n severe ly wound ed ' He received the gold medal for his services at the wounded' Fault and c a pt ure of San Sebastian, and the silver gee d , l4 and two clasps for Vimiera and Neville. He was for his services rewarded with the knighthood of tha t Order of St. Bento d'Avis, and made a IC ni g• b n Commander of the Tower and Sword, and was 1- f 1337 made a Knight Commander of the order n u the Bath. He for some years commanded the forces 1 . Ceylon, and in May, 1841, the colonelcy of of the ljt e Z Regiment of Foot was given to him by the Duke of I 'v lington. The General's commission bore date as follovso • —Ensign 26th of March, 1794 ; Lieut., 12th of Aug.', 1795 ; Captain, 18th of January, 1799 ; Major, 27th m, Colonel,Ma y, 18 4 0 t 2 h ; fL Juno, ieut. C 1 o B l l o 4 n e ; 22d, mai o r. o G f 0 nera December , 27th 12 / 1-8? Y", 1825 ; Licut.-General, 28th of June, 1838 ; and Gen ral, 20th of June, 1854. 1 1 10.1 co The Liv terday, w The sales speculatiol Bahia, 6 Per lb. 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