The Sun. — London, England, 1856-07-05 00:00:00

'REVIEW of the BRIGADE 'of GUARDS, the HIGHLA.NPETIS, and other CRIMEAN TROOPS, at ALDERSHOT, by laer Majesty, on NOYi.,'DAY, NEXT, 7th July, 1856. A SPECIAL TRAIN, with First-class Passengers only', will leave the Waterloo-bridge Station for FARNBOROUGH, at 12 noon, returning at 6 p.m. The 11 a.m. Express Train from Wa'erloo Station will also stop at Farnborough on that day. • By order. Waterloo-bridge Station, sth July, 1856. H ER, MAJESTY'S THEATRE. • Madlle. JOHANNA WAGNER. THIS EVENING (Saturday, July 5), will be performed tallith's Opera I CAPULETTI ED I MONTECCHI. Romeo, Maxine, Johanna Wagner ; Juliet, Madlle Jenny Baur ' • Tebaldo, Signor Reichardt ; Lorenzo, Signor Bouche ; and Capellio, Signor Beneventano. To conclude with a Divertissement entitled LA MANOLA, Ma lame A Bellon, Mesdlles. Katrina Rosa, Lliereux, Clara, and Pierrou, M. Venefra an d M. Vandris. In which will be introduced a Orand Pas de Deux by Mdile, Katrine and Di. Moutplaisir. On Tuesday next,, an entirely new Ballet, Le Corsaire. hectors, Madame Rosati; Conrad, Signor Ronzani (his first api?earance), Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre, Colonnade, Haymarket. TiIICATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. V. Smith ENGLISH OPERA. THIS EVENING will be prodaced ESMERALDA. To cou.lude with THE FAIRY'S HAUNT. THEATRE ROYAL, FIAN3fARRET. Under the Management of Mr. Blackstone. TUTS EVENING, THE EVIL GENIUS. After which PEREA NEN A and the Spanish Dancers will appear i a new Ballet, called THE CAPTIVES. Followed by MR HUGHES AT 1-103,1 E. To conclude with TILE POSTMAN'S KNOCK. ROYAL PRINCEA:r3 THEATRE, OX: 0 0RD-STREET. Umlir the Management of Mr. CHABLIS KEAN, THI3 EVENING, A PRIN::F. FOR AN HOUR. After which, TtlF. WINTER'S TALE. ROYAL THEATRE ADELPIII. Proprietor an l Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Dlreetresg, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, LIKE AND UNLIKE. After which, THE CUSTOUS OF THE COUNTRY. Followed by THE IRISH LION. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Loses awl Manner, Mr. Alfre4 Wigan. Tars EVENING DELICATE GROUND After which, RICTRI BUTTON. To conclude with A CONJUGAL LESSON. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Mana:,er, Mr.'Wm. Cooke. THIS FI'VENIWI, The Romantic Equestrian gpectacte, THE. HORSE OF THE C %VERN, or the M muted llrtgands of the Abruzzi, introducing Mr. W. Cooke's wonderfully trained horses. After which, A select variety of S - lENE 4 in the CIRCLE. The laughable exhibition of Deaarai's troupe of Dogs ant Monkeys. The extraor dinary performance of the Dermal Brothers. Ta continue with THE FESTIVAL OF PEACE ; or Honour to the Brave. 'flax-office open frf‘n Rev n till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestri Director, Mr. Coke, jun. MGR WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY—Morn. 4 ; min. aft. 3—Evening 6 min. aft. 4 Til-Ntoartow—Morn. 26 rain. aft. 4—Evening 43 911 n. aft. 4 TEM WEATHER—SUN Onnoz, JULY 5. TH It3IOIIXTER, IN TS& SHAD& 71 —hi g hest since noon yesterday. 58 -lowest this morning and during the night. 68 —this day at noon. BanomrrEE-30.09. WIND, N.Wl—Light and variable, with cloudy weather, FF"/ A, 4 - 45 ;') - §Urt - 4 LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1856. The regulations for the public entry of the Guards into London, and subsequent review in Ifydepark,.bave been duly published, although, as we yesterday stated, the day for the cerentiony has not as yet been appointed. WE shall rejoice at any distinction that can be conferred on our Crimean heroes. And never were soldiers of any race or time more worthy of a brilliant ovation than those who, under so many serious disadvan tageq, carried the war into the enemy's country, and not merely sustained, but exalted the previous reputation of the British name. If England is not a military nation, it is not for want of un flinching courage or invincible prowess on the part of her soldiers. They are " ready, aye ready " for the field ; and they have come forth from every conflict with untarnished escutcheons. But " brave men lived before AGAMEMNON." There were others who performed their arduous duties in the Crimea as well as the Guards. • We utter not a. word in their disparagement. But surely they . shpuld not mouopolise ‘ 4/1 the honours of the day. The Highland Brigade; the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, the gallant 331 (the old Wel lingtons), and many other distinguished Regi ments—not forgetting the Sea's Greys, Inniskel lings, and all those who shared in the fearful charge at Balaklava, or maintained " the thin red line at Inkern3an"—carried their banners as boldly forward, or as stubbornly maintainedeontestedposi lions as any men the world ever sasy t , The Guards behaved nobly—but they had many competitors who deserved to share the rewards and honours bestowed by a grateful country ; and we fear that the exclusion -from . - the proceedings of:the day will not be hailed with approbation by the People. The Guards are looked on as the •aristocratic branch of the service. H.R H. honours the Grenadiers by. accepting 3,0001. per annum, des. tined to reward the extraordinary services of old and very meritorious officers, for acting as their Colonel. The Fusilier Guards have also a R.H. at their head—the . officers are promoted more ra pidly than in the line.; each Ensign ranks as a Lieutenant, a Lieutenant as Captain, and Cap tains as Lieutenant-Colonels, hopping two steps at each stage of the progress. The commissions command a proportionate price, and none but the nobly connected and the very wealthy can venture to aspire to places amongst them. But it is not for money or rank that the nation cares in honouring those who have rendered effi cient services. The Crimean medal will glitter as brightly on the stalwart breast of a " bonny Itighlauder " although there were fewer officers who had " handles to their names." The 23d, who shnwed themselves worthy of fighting under the " victor of Cressy and Poictiers," and those who bore . on their standard the crest and motto of "the Iron Duke," need not flinch from any compel son that may; be instituted. It is then to be hoped that, if practicable, some others of the" Criinean heroes may be associated with the Guards, and participate in the honours of the r dv. Surely some arrangement may be wade to avert, ere it be too late, the exclusive character of the proceeding, and to prevent the shaft from rankling in bosoms that should have the gratification derived from their return home, without alloy or diminution. Yesterday evening a new writ was moved for the Borough of Caine, in the room of the Earl of SHELBURNE, who has accepted the important situa tion of Stoward of her MAJESTY'S Manor of Northsteiad. It is needless to say that there were other arrangements made before this inte resting step has been taken. It is more than hinted that the Noble Earl has been virtually ap pointed Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and that lie will be forthwith elevated to the Upper Houie by his present title, which will, of course, eventually merge in the higher one of Marquis, whenever the veteran Whig Statesman shall be removed from this transitory world. But there is something even more interesting than any Ministerial or Peerage alteration. It is said that the Hero of Kars, Sir WILLIAM FENWICK WILLIAMS, iS to be the successor of the Noble Earl in the representation, and that his valuable services will now be rendered available in the popular branch of the Legislature. We need not say how gladly we shall hail his acces sion to the vacant seat ; but we must confess that we should have greatly preferred his entering the House as the unfettered re presentative of a free and independent constituency, rather than as the nominee of any Peer, even of one so distinguished as the most noble patron of Caine. It is unfortunately but too notorious that any one possessing the sup port and influence of the noble Marquis—who, as was formerly said, we believe, by a Duke of MARL BOROUGH, in reference to Woods took, might, if he pleased, return his black footman, pro vided he did not come within the Alien laws —is certain of success. The same might almost be said of the Marquis of LANSDOWNE and of Calne. It is well to find that a power in every respect so indefensible should be so well exercised, and we might almost be reconciled to rotten boroughs, if assured that such would always be the case. But however, high ,the character of the nominee, he must lose prestige, from the simple fact that he is universally known to be " a nominee." With a proper measure of Reform, Sir Wrutam FENW/CK WILLIAMS would require no aristocratic crutch to enable him to hobble into a House the door s whereof should be thrown wide for his reception ; and even his return can not greatly protract the existence of an anomaly so thoroughly antagonistic to the feelings and principles of Englishmen as the return of a Member to the popular branch of the Legislature on the nomination of one who, under the Constitu tional theory, is precluded from taking any part in the election. The American difficulty ought to be a very easy one to settle. Great Britain has nothing unrea sonable to ask, nor the United States anything which ought to be of consequence to them which they have not got already. Neither country ought :o trouble themselves further than the bond fide object of the CLAYTON- BULWER Treaty, which was to guarantee the neutrality of any passag2 by rail- way or ship canal which might be constructed be tween the two oceans. Should that passage be ultimately a canal completing the communication through the Lake de Nicaragua, the provision that England should not have any military occu- pation in the protectorate of the Mosquito coasi would fully attain that end ; since Ruatan is ai far too 'great a distance to be any hindrance wha ever to the freedom of the transit across the Isth mus. Indeed it no more interferes with it than our possession of Jamaica. Now we believe both Costa Rica on one side, and Nicaragua on the other 4irri a right to Fort St. Juan, or Grey town, as it was named by the Whig Ministry— not to 'l l l ndicate the mingling of doubtful claims, but in honour of the British Minister who first gave to it, when much needed, British protection. As this town lies at the entrance of the fluvial, canal, br lake transit, and as England lays no claim too more than looking to the security of its subjects who may settle in this kind of no-man's town, the obvious course appears to be to consti tute it, with a sufficient suburban territory fur any fuiure contingencies, a self-governed free port, like Halmburg, for instance declaring it by treaty incapable of annexation to either of the neigh bourini; states, or to any other power whatever. All commercial powers might be asked to sign this Beaty afterwards—though if England and Anaerida did so other nations would be of no prac tical consequence. If America be unwilling to do this, it will be plain that she contemplates ulterior objecti, and that the pirate WALKER is but an emissary from Washington to seize Nicaragua first, acid to take possession of Greytown as be longint- to it. The power which is unwilling that a ton at the entrance of the canal should be a frbeeport must contemplate covert, and finally open, mastery of that passage. Nor ought Ruatan to be any serious difficulty. Out cif all the petty quibbles about it, one plain fact emerges that British settlers found it tenant less, made it a home, cultivated the land, built a town on it, obtained a British Government for it, and Live now a perfect little republic there, well ordered and thriving, .enjoying the utmost. civil and religious liberty. The United States can have no business in the world there. What a pretty hubbub would be raised in Washington if Yankees had colonised an island in the same style, and been acknowledged , by his Majesty the PRE SIDENT of the Union ! It is amusing to think of the vcicabulary of abuse which would be opened on the encroaching and rapacious Britishers ; we may properly enough in regard to Ruatan ask the Americans to do as they would be done unto. Would they consent either to hand their fellow. countrymen over to England, or to place them under the power of the half-civilised state of Honduras? We believe nothing on earth would induce them to part with the island at all, and, small'as it is, we believe it would be tithis peril that any Englisli Minister placed it under the dominion of any other power. He might be allowed to engage not to use it for military pur poses, to constitute the people themselves judges of the relation in which they - would stand to England, Honduras, or the. States, to grant them an indep en d ence of this kind under the guarantee that no power should interfere with their inde pendence while they choose to retain it but further than this no Mims* loauntda will ll with usingner e lasting r a i t n e d i t ta eo t i o m n p u a l t s 0 1 r to y Minister could venture Insue.bordEinn: tion of some thousands of honest settlers to the imperious demands of any power. Ruatan was not gained by the rifle and revolvers of slave holders, but by the honest industry and enter prise of British subjects. If Honduras be Lord of the Manor, let an honourable con sideration be arranged, but ejection or serfdom are not to be thought of. And then what of the Mosquitos? Again we may ask Americans what would they do ? We know pretty well it is true the fate of Indians iu their hands. They are moved about just as suits the falicy of the Government, but would they renounce a protectorate over the most uncivilised tribe amongst them at the bidding of Great Britain ? Would not the "insulted sovereignty" of the States be rung in our ears in every despatch, and if a President were again a candidate at the time would it not be the most popular "plank of his platform" that he would fight the old conntry for ever rather than surrender the In dians, to wh om th e h onour o f the States WAS pledged. W e ll , E ngland, we imagine, would be . , LONDON, SATURDAY EVENII4I4 JULY 8, lege, TFIE g _ quite satisfied if Mr. PIERCE will point out any method by which the poor Mosquitos shall be protected against destruction by civilisation. The territory is most certainly of no worth whatever to us, but an honourable adherence to engage. ments of centuries old, and maintained constantly to the present day, is of the highest importance. Especially would it be degrading for a Protector to withdraw at the bidding of any power. It would imply that he had lost the power to pro tect. We are told by the Conservative Leader in the Lower House that America has a policy, and that we are to let herFillibuster and intrigne as she pleases. So be it. We have more tropical territory than we need, and on our dependencies in North America and Australia we look upon with a tho roughly parental eye, and shall feel no unwilling ness when they wish it to deem them of full political age. America, on the contrary, covets new territories and States, and she is quite wel come to them. We only do not choose to tole rate the policy of Ostend—that of taking—Cuba for instance—without asking leave, where others have had a long and settled priority. It would also give us no small satisfaction if she would cease to spread with her territorial aggressions the infernal nuisance of slavery. A little time, however, will show whether thel powers and the inclinations of DALLAS are suffi cient to bring these three matters to a speedy and amicable conclusion. Lord PALMERSTON did not tell us the actual extent of the powers conferred upon Mr. DALLAS, and we must confess always to some fears in dealing with such exacting politi cians as Yankees have hitherto proved themselves. A colony like India, numbering about six times ;he population of the three kingdoms, abou ,wenty-eight times the aggregate population of al other British possessions, in a word, embracing about one-seventh of the entire human family, would seem, son a prima facie view of the matter, to be worth looking after on commercial as well as moral grounds. The welfare of a population so vast, it must be admitted, ought to be .a subject of the deepest impezial consideration, and none the less so because of the immense advantages to the home population and the vast accession to the dignity and stability of the Empire that may, and should, in the nature of things, be derived from them. It is inconceivable that a population like this should be found of which no .good account can be rendered. Submitting the calony to a more minute in spection, what do we find ? Broad plains and fertile valleys, uncultivated or ill cultivated. Priceless mineral treasures, waiting vainly hitherto for exhumation ; iron and coal with which we have moved the world, sleeping in useless luxu riance in the womb of earth. Energies that might serve to lay the foundations of a mighty empire running to waste. Commerce stagnant, enter prise slumbering, poverty entrenched everywhere —a more and more hated occupant. Who can look on India thus uncultivated and thus neglected, without reverting homeward and turning over in his mind what opportunity is offered to the " mo ther country." Along you mountain plateau we may imagine him exclaiming "may be grown tea to an extent and of a quality to make us indepen dent of the produce of China. From those wide_ spread, districts may be raised cotton, in an abun dance which would prevent the hearts of our manufacturers and their palefaced weavers from • I quaking with fear at the thought of hostilities with ,America. Here ratty be obtained silk suffi cient for the supply of the most luxurious want. From hese fertile_ plains may be derived abun dance of food for our hungry poor, and in them another safeguard against famine may be esta blished. In that ill-clad and impoverished popu lation, 'willing and able as it is to work, may be countless customers in embryo. All that is wanted is justqce to the people on either hand, opportu nity to redeem themselves." To this end, first and' foremost, the laying of railways in India is needed. , Of slue these are in an Imperial point of t the, schemes of the Emperor ALEXANDER re:ient moment be the indication. Com- Ily railways are essential to the rity of India. Without them there can be ope for the future •of that great country. isting means of communication are, in down what view 1 at the mercL prospe! little The el Lain, wretchedly bad, and a century elapse before good highways and water ; ceased to be the exception. The might oourso xtent of the country, and its need of contolidation, indeed, will admit of nothing short if a perfect railway system. That a corn mencepoent has been made, and that, so far, the work is in good hands, are undoUbtedly sources of satlfaction. But the greatness of the promise held 9nt by India, to say nothing of its claiins, calls for a more speedy development than we see any reliable prospect of. Many, curselves among the mimber, are gratified to gather from the most recent intelligence, that the Seinde Railway Com pany have received permission to survey the Pun jaub, from Moultan to Lab:ire and Arriritser, for the construction of a railway to connect Central Asia, V]e Punjaub, and the northernmost provinces with Karrachee—a most .desirable Proceeding. But what is this, and what - are the - achievements of other companies, to what remains to, be done ?; The broad face of India is but dotted at the outskirts with railway lines, and 14yond its hundred and fifty or more millions are.people more numerous waiting, unconsciously it may be, but not the less certainly, to. contri bute to the vast swell of commercial prosperity which l may be brought within the lifetime of a single i generation to our shores. No encourage ment (within the bounds of.reason would seem too great ,or the promotion of the Rail in India and the means of rapid communication with this country. vast It gs not improbable that the prorogation of. Parlia ment twill take place on Thursday, the 24th inst. Thq Ministerial whitebait. dinner is. fixed for this day futrtnight, the 19th. 'net CzAr's Coronation will take place ou the 21st Auguft or the 7th September. Sir f William Fenwick Williams, of Kars, is the candi date fin' Caine. BECLOT TESTIMONIAL.—The Committee of the Bellot Testirtionial Fund has closed its labours. The subecrip thn, i.vith interest, amounted to 2,2811. 17s. Bd. TLytt following are the meetings of t h e Literar y and, Scientific Societies next week :—Monday, Entomologi cal, Si " Tuesday, Zoological, 9. Wednesday,. Literary Fund,. 8. Saturday, Royal Botanic, . . VW) following artistes are engaged to be present in Mosei)w at the coronation fetes :—MM. Lablache, Bettini, Davide, Tagliafico, Debassini, and Mari4ii ; Mmes. Bozio, Moray, Demeric, and Lotti. Thi, Second Chamber of Hanover, in its sitting of the Ist, noted alreost.unanimously against a grant allowed . by tine First Cha m b er towar d s t h e es t a blishment of a diplomatic missio n i n R uss i a. T r llaje aßEsyvti7the ; Queen °l. T Gnt.ennedß s pg A to : shott on Monday nex t, f or t h e purpose o f rev i e wing, in p l .,me .A. e L d D7lo .l T d . e 7 He. the afternoon, the regiments of the Guards and of the line which have lately returned from the Crimea. There is about to be a vacancy in the representation of Caine. Lord Shelburne - who has accepted the Chil tern Hundreds, i s t o b e called to the House of Lords. It is also understood that his lordship is to be appointed Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. LONDON AND GREEN WICH R AILWA Y.—At the hal f yearly meeting of the shareholders in this company to be held on Wednesday next it mill be proposed todeclare a dividend of ss. 2d. per share (clear of income tax) on the old or unprivileged shares. A letter frocaltaine states that the Emperor of Aus tria is expected at Rome for the inauguration of the I column of the Immaculate Conception. The ceremony is to take place on the Bth of September, being the fes tival of the Virgin. A.ROHDEACON DlNisoN's proneetinigs in this case will commence in the Gu Idhall, Bath, on Tues: lay, the 22d inst. Dr. Robert Phillimore, M.P., will ‘ppear for the archdeacon, and it is understood that he will at the outset of the inquiry submit to the court that the Archbishop of Canterbury, the promoter of the suit, has not complied with those preliminary regulations which entitle him to proceed. MANSLAUGHTER. —Yesterday, Mr. Brent, deputy•co roner, held an inquest at the Silver Cup, Cromer-street,, on the body of Martha Connell, _aged 35, wife of Wm.' Connell; a brass founder, re3iding at 37, Ray•street, Clerkenwell. _ From the evidence it, appeared that Con nell had good reason to suspect his wife's fidelity, On. Wednesday he-secreted himself; and saw his wife:admit into her room a man named Tregurtha. 'What followed confirmed his worst suspicions ; and, infuriated, be rushed uppn aspen, whom the wife attempted to pro tect. The husband then seized a fi ower•pot, which he hurled at the bead'of his faithless wife, felling - her to the ground. The injuries were so severe thatshe was obliged to be conveyed to the Royal Free Hospital, where she died of tetanus on the following day. The jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter" against W. Connell, who was at once conveyed to Newgate on the coroner's warrant. LATEST NEWS. TRIESTE, JULY 4. Letters from Constantinople of the 28th ult., say that the Sultan will give a banquet to Mar- steal Pelissier. Yemen is in a state of insurrection. It is said ihat the Porte has called on the Pacha of't iypt to find troops to accompany the new governot to Yemen. It is also nitiloured that Sefer Paaha, heredi- tary Prince of Circassia, refuses to return to Con stantinOple. It is affirmed in Paris that explanations have been derandea by the Frenclt Government of the'tlabinee,of Munich respectiniv the marriage of Prince Ada'hart with the Infanta of Spain, and the succession,to the throne of Greece. FRANCE. - PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. The Mini Stet of Marine has sent orders to the naval authorities at Toulon to give their discharge immediately' to all the sailors who have accom plished their four years' service. The lifonitcur states that the Senate will meet on Saturday to consider;- with other business , the report on the project of the senates-consi;ltion concerning the regency of the empire. The Se nate will also take into consideration the law for adjusting the general budget of expenses and re ceipts for the financial period . 0f1857. A Paris letter in the Independance Beige says : " Count de Merny will leave on Sunday for Wild bad, where he hopes to restore his health. He will find there the Empress Dowager of Russia and a portion of the Court. The activity displayed by the ambassador extraordinary in preparing for his departure proves thefalsity of therumours respect ing a coolness between the diplomatic relations of Russia and France. . If the new Russian ambassa dor h 4 not yet : arrived in Paris, nor has as yet been named, q it is in: consequence of personal questions entirely independent of political reasons." BOURSE, July 4.—The following were the last quotations : • - Cash. ,tt. a. 1i per Cents 93 75 3 per Cents 7l 80 •New Loan 7l 70 'End of Month. -f. -e. 72 5 Bank Shares 4,100 Roman Credit &obilier 1,580 Austrian Belgian Fives. .. .. 9Sl Spanish Threes — ' Piedmouteae (5). 9l Home Debt 39 - ' RAILWAYB7-7011 CABE. 'tr. cs. 0r1ean5;................'1,417 5 - Western 965 Northern ... .1 4 103_ 75 Strasburg - Lyons . — New Ditto ... 880 -- htediterranean 1767 50 Grand Central - Lyons Geneva 810 -- Toste' Cette :772 50 Austrian Com. 877 50 to indium thc;twogeiitlenien to retain their port folios, but they are determined to resign and only hold office until their successors shall be appointed. It is said that the new Minister of the Interior has already, dismissed two of the King's commissioners in the pr4inces who'were nominated by the Tuar becke administration and maintained by that of MM. Van Hall and Van Reenen." A letter from Galatz of June 29, in the Corriere Italian°, says :—" Prince Ghika arrived hero this evening, and was well received. The party in favour of the union of the Principalities presented an address to him thanking him for his efforts in that sense. He will remain here only two days." The A gram Gazette has the following of the 20th from Podgoritza, in Albania :—"A Turkish mosque was blown up here last week by means of a mine sunk secretly under it. , The Turks accuse the Christians of having excited the Albanian moun taineers to commit the act, in order to avenge the destruction of the Church of St. George, and, in consequence, all the heads of Greek commune of Podgoritza have been arrested and sent to Scutari." A letter from St. Petersburg of June 23, in the _Mats, says New officers continue to be no minated in tho militia, and, an order of the day, dated the 22d, announces a considerable number of appointments. At Saratow, the flags of the militia were not belessed till the end of last month. It therefore appears certain that the disbanding of the militia in _ the more diStant governments will not take lace for some time yet. The King and Queen 'of Prussia arrived at Dresden at midday on the 30th ult.:, and after ward continued their journey to Pillnitz, where the Saxon court "is now residing Prince Gort schakog., IVlinister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, who had arrived from Vienna, was to leave on the Ist for St. Petersburg. It has bean already mentioned that a conflict had broken.out in Bavaria between the two Legis lative Chambers on the subject of the budget. The sitting of the 28th ult. was passed by both aissem blies in attempting to effect an arrangement. This was successful with respect to the secondary matter of the budget, but on the question of the war de partnient both'assemblies persisted in their former resolutions. The president of the Chamber of Deputies, in making known the result of the diffe• rent decisions;alded that the vote which must be adopfe4- was that - of the second chamber, in conse quence of the figure which it granted being less elevated. The session was closed on the 30th ult. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. RUSSIA. An Imperial ukase, dated June 25th, empowers the Minister of Finance to issue two new series of Treasury notes, to the amount of 6,000,000 of sil ver roubles. They are destined, according to .the , terms of the ukase, to take the place of two series of notes issued, in 1848, and which must now be paid off. They are to bear interest from July Ist. The Marine Journa/ mentions that a number of gun-boats have been lately launched, with perfect success, in the presence of the Grand Duke Con stantine and other Imperial Princes ; and various reviews of these small craft have since been held. An Imperial ukase orders that the owners of all boats Shall be required to prevent any private persons who may hire their craft from taking any soundings in the sailing channel along the coast in the Government of St. Peters burg and in ••the arms of the Neva. The - Grand-Duke Constantine has ordered that the musketoons, which—have hitherto been used in the navy as boarding weapons, shall be re placed by rifle fire-arms such as used by the Dragoons, and the latter have already been d,istri bated to the different crews. The official lista of the shipping in Finland , show the present amount -of craft still afloat, together with the extent of the losses that province has sus : . tained during, the war. There remain still 295 trading vessels? with an aggregate tonnage of 21,668 lasts, and there were 89 vessels captured during the war, with a tonnage of 9,514 last. The state of the growing crops is described as very satisfactory in all the governments ; in Cherson a'one thept,fteeins to ; he a plague of locust's, but measures ate already being taken to extirpate tbeuri his mentioned in Russian correspondence, that an Englishman and a Frenchman are at present in St. 'Petersburg - actively promoting the views of capitaliits of their respective nationS, in the-prose cution Of ,the various plans for railways, that the Government have so much at heart in carrying out. GREECE. The French squadron at Athens paid due ho nour to . King . ..oth° on his departure from the Pirmus, and also to the Queen, on her return from accompanying the King. Wo find the following relating to this, subject in a letter from Athens, 26th June, in the Nouvelliste of Marseilles : " The day after the King left, the Ministers of War and Justice, undertaking a mission foreign to their func tions and which properly belonged to an aide-de camp of the royal househcrld, or the Minister of Foreign Affairs, went to the Ffench admiral's vessel, to thank him in the Queen's name, for his conduct the day before. The admiral-flatly refused to receive them, for he has never had any political 'relations with the ministers who succeeded MM. Mavrocordato and Kalergis, being un willing thit, by indirect means and without his previous consent, the Ministers should succeed in opening rela tions with him by a mere mancanvre. This refusal becoming known made a profound - impression on the public. Sotne..days after the admiral gave agrand mili tary fete near the Pirmus, consisting of a sham fight representing the battle of Lily, in which the Moors were represented by French and English sailors in Arab dresses, and who went through their task admirably. An immense crowd witnessed the fete, but not a Greek officer or soldier was present, the Minister of War hav ing forbidden them to attend." The same letter goes on to say that the editors of the Minerva, who had been arrested for writ ing strongly in favour of the services rendered by France and England; have been thrown into the convicts' prison and that the journal has ceased to appear. ' There is, consequently, no journal at present ; defending the Western policy, and the public mind is left exposed to the influence of the mischievous calumnies of the Government press, which spares no pains to excite ill-feeling against everything French or English. The letter in the Nouvelliste further says : "Brigandage spreads from day to day, and threatens to overrun the whole country. It can hardly have escaped the penetration of the French and English Go vernments that,, in spite of the troops said to be sent after them, not a single robber is ever caught. In the Peloponesus not fewer than 60 persons have heen lately stript of everything by "the robbers, without en• countering any impediment or hindrance from the troops." -- PARMA. The Augsburg Gazette: contains a letter from Parma of the 24th ult. which gives the following version of the difference between the Ducal Go vernment and the Austrian military authorities:— " Arr Austrian brigade has 'arrived by. forced marches from Milaj and - is about to take up a posi tion on the Po; The reakea,use of this - measure is the following : In Consequence of the late attempts aat assassination,•it may.be remembered that a num ber of arrests were effected, and that the prisoners.. were removed, partly to Mantua and partly to Parma'The affair was investigated by officers ap pointed b y „the, Austrian gen era l, an d proof was soon obtained 4hat,.ainon'gst, the persons accused, upwards pf a score were either guilty of murder preVioffily . ;"or had'been implicated in such crimes. But just as the ceurtAnartial of Parma was on the point of coining to a decisiou on the matter, a note from.-:the Ducal Government, altogether extraor dinirtboth for its tone and its form, declared the court-Martial incoinpetent to deal with the case, and sent ;the prisoners to tried; by the ordinary tribunals, where their disguised protectors already ha,d.!devised means of saving them. Gen. Crenne villa made ,the strongest representations on the subject, but the Duchess persisted in her decision. It is not yet kuiSwn whether the Austrian troops will await„ at the ',frontier the ulterior orders of the Emperor, or whether they are intended to make a demonstration in support of General Crenneville's authority.", HOLLAND. A letter from. the Hague a the Ist, in the Moniteur; says members of the Ministry destii4d to replaCe MM. Van Hall, Van Reenen, and Donker Curtis, enter on the exercise of their functions:. to-day: The Xing not being at the Hague,, MM. - Ge'yers Van Endegeest, Simons, and Van dea Itrugghen, went to Taco to take the cus tomary oath before his Majesty. No successors have yet been appointed to Admiral Smit Vander Broeke and M. Mutaaerts, Ministers of Marine'and Roman Catholic Worship. Efforts kayo been made CAUTION'----NARROW ESCAPE OF A 'MOTHER AND THREE CHILDREN.—On Saturday last Mrs. Thomas. residing at 15, Raphael street, together , with her three children,, partook of some currant tart, when alrhost immediately after they were attacked with vomiting and excruciating pains in the stomach and 'bowels; accompanied with liarrhcea, their sufferings continued for some hours, but providentially they all recovered. Mrs. Thomas, feeling - satisfied that they had been poisoiled, took the remainder of the tart to Mr. Barnes, of Knightsbridge, for exami: nation. That gentleman, upon submitting the remains of the tart to a chemical analysis, soon found.that it con tained both arsenic and copper;,the presence of which was accounted for from the fact that the green colour in the ornaments which had been employed to decorate the tart, 'consisted of amanita of capper (Scheele's green), a most virulent poison. It is astonishing that, notwith standing the publicity given from time to time to similar cases, poisonous Coloured ornaments should continue to be used to decorate the food which we eat. THE MAIM—SOUTHAMPTON, July 4.—The Penin sular and Oriental Company's steam-ship .Euxine, Cap tain A. Kellock, sailed this afternoon . with the India, China, and Mediterranean mails, 56 passengers—among whom are Captain Wilton, Majors Hamilton and Friend, Dr. Mazkinpon, &a.—and a full general cargo. The Euxine has, also on freight the largest amount of specie ever shipped by the Peninsular and Oriental Company on board either of their East India steam-ships, and is divided as follows :—For India, 776 boxes, eon , taining 205,8091. ; the Straits, 490 boxes; containing 118,265/. ; China, 1,789 boxes, 4'57,487/. ;- and Alex t andria, 9 boxes, with 31,4301., making a total _of 3,984 boxes, value, 812,9911. The Indus, Captain Brooks, with the heavy portion of the India, China, and Meiliterrane4n mails, is hourly expected. The Tagus, Captain Christian, sails on the 7th inst. with the mails for Vigo, Oporto, Cadiz, Lisbon, and Gibraltar. The Royal Mail steamer Tamar, Captain Bevis, is pre paring to convey the Brazilian and River Plate mails on the 9th inst. ACCIDENTS AND DISASTERS IN FRANCE.—One of the most considerable manufacturing establishments of the deaartment of the Somme, the large paper mill of St. Sulpice-les-Doullens, belonging to an English firm, was on Tuesday destroyed by fire. The precise amount of loss has not yet been ascertained, but the insurances amount to 212,090 f. L'lmpartial of Valenciennes de scribes the following accident : —" Towards five o'clock in the Morning of Monday last, -two working miners employed in the Moulin coal mine, situated between Auzin an i Beuvrages, were about to fire a train in a new galiery, when an explosion of fire damp took place, and suffssatect them. . The pestilential odour of the gas forced the wollsnien who were employed at distan't parts of the mine to escape into the open air. It was three in the afternoon before they could recover the dead, bodies of their two comrades. The violence of the ex, plosion was such that several large beams of wood were broken into pieces, whilst large stones were hurled to a distance of several metre?. THREE IVIIssiNG SHIPS.—A notice has been posted at Lloyd's, referring to three ships, which had for a long time.been missing. and which there is too much reason to believe have foundered, and every soul belonging to them perished. The ship Adams (formerly the Stanley Cacique), commanded by Capt. Fitzsimons, sailed from Bombay on the Ist of last December, with a rich cargo, . for Lendon, and has not since been heard of. She be longed to Mews. Adams and Co., of Glasgow, and is described - in Lloyd's Register of Shipping as 867 tons, and built in the United States in 1844. She was classed A. 1 for eight years, and was partly rebuilt in 1854. Her crew numbered in all nearly 30 people. The next unfortunate missing ship is the City of Montreal, a floe Glasgow built vessel, 812 tons register, formed of iron, commanded by Capt. Guthrie. She sailed from Liver pool on the 2d April last for Quebec, and was spoken with on the 24th of the same month, in lat. 45, lon. 47, since which not the least tidings have been heard of her. She is supposed to have gone down ; her crew, 4a. in number, perishing in her. The other ship is the Marcus Monte, Capt. Rickeles. She sailed from Liverpool on the 6thasf March for Konigsberg, and has not since been heard of. THE IMPERIAL HOTEL ComPANY.—The annexed re lates to the present position of the above company':— "Imperial Hotel Company, 6, Whitehall, July 4.—Sir —The remarks in your City Article' of this day io ie gard to the Jmperial Hotel Company, stating that. it is not clear whether the. project is in abeyance or is aban done3, lead me to send you this communication. On the 9th of May the Committee addressed a letter to the office of Woods and Ferests, asking for information as to the terms on which Government would be willing to dispose to them of the Crown lands situate in Trafalgar-square which this company seeks to acquire. This-letter has been referred to the Treasury, and no answer has been received. in regard to the site of the National Gallery and buildings behind it, the barracks and the workhouse, the Conirnittee, of course, can take no further steps un til they are, in receipt of a reply from Government. From What has lately passed in,Parliatnent the bill for the new 'site for the National Gallery having been withdrawn for this session, it.isnot,probable that any reply will be sent for some time to come. Meanwhile, if this site in Tra falgar-square cannot - be obtained, another equally eligi ble is in contemplation. So that, Sir, you will see the project is not completely abandoned. I am, Sir, yours faithfully, A. DAVIDSON, Secretary." MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A *LADY.—A. most brutal -assault was committed on Thursday last. It appeals that -Provost and Mrs. Barr have resided for some time back at Lyleston House, near Cardross, and within three miles of Helensburgb, the Provost became Contractor for a railway at present in course of forma: thin in the neighbourhood. On the evening of.Thura daY last Mrs. Barr proceeded along the public -road towards Helensburgh to meet her husband, • who was coming from Greenock ; and when only about 500 yards from the gate of the mansion, she was set upon by a ruffian with intent to rob her. She was knocked down, and three very severe wounds inflicted upon her head with an iron rod, and her arm was also severely hurt in attempting to defend her head. Happily her cries attracted the attention of one of her own house servants, who.happened to be accidentally in the neigh bourhood at the time, and of a man near at hand ; and they appeared in sight just as the villain had his arm' uplifted for another blow. On perceising them be in stantly leaped the wall and ran across the country. He' was ultimately arrested, and next morning:was- conveyed to Lylestou House, and at once identified by. Mrs. Barr as the person who had assaulted her. He is a native of the sister isle. On a medical examination being wads, it was found that the lady's skull was not injured, but she stil 1 lies in a precarious state.—Ayr Advertiser. MISS NIGHTINGALE.—Yesterday afternoon a numer ously attended, meeting of noblemen and gentlemen was held at St. George's Hospital, Hyde-park, for the pur pose of adopting means to evince their admiration of Miss Nightingale in connection with her conduct in the East. The Duke of Cambridge presided, and was sup ported by the Marquis of Westminster, Lord Powis, Lord Martvers, tol! Chelsea, Lord Lilford, Admiral the Hon. E. Knox, Col. the Hon. C. Lowther, Sir Benjamin Brodie, and many other members of the nobility. His Royal Highness, in opening the proceedings, alluded to the heroism - Miss Nightingale had displayed, not only in sacrificing every personal and domestic comfort by proceeding to the Crimea, but also in her conduct to wards every one, who came under her notice in the. hospi tals. High and low, rich and poor, received the same kind attention at her hands. She was loved by'all— friends and foes, English, French, Turks, and Russians —and her , name would long be held up to the admira tion of the civilised globe. (Hear, hear.) Viscount Chel sea then moved the following resolUtion :—" That. Miss Nightingale be elected an honorary governor of St. George's Hospital, in testimony of the respectful admira tion felt by the-supporters of this charity, for her , self denial and disinterestedness, and the devoted heroism which has induced her, at the sacrifice of every personal and domestic comfort, to undertake that mission in the cause of suffering humanity, which her courage and p?r severance bate rendered so eminently successful, and* which demand the grateful acknowledgment of every philanthropic heart. " The Marquis of Westminster se conded the resolution, which was carried by acclamation. A vote of thanks to the Duke of Cambridge closed the proceedings. A GRAPPLE WITH A BußGLAß.—Yesterday morning, at the early h.oor of two o'clock, the inhabitants of Rath bone-place, Oxford-st ree t, were a la rme d by cr i es in a man's voice of " Murder," "Police," till the person who had been giving utterance to them seemed to stop from exhaustion. of alarm, it Was as cer t a i ne d t h a t in the first floor of Upon inquiries being made as to the cause No. 14, which is in the oemipation of Mr. Edgecombe, bootmaker, resides a French watch and click maker named Volaugd e and he, about ,the hour above named, was ideeping in the back room, when he was aroused by a rustling noise in the front apartment. Upon getting up, which he did instantly, after striking ' a light he pro ceeded to the room, and discovered a man just in the act of pulling out a 'drawer, which had been forcibly opened, and which contained several watches and s chains, and trinkets of great value. He at once, placing his night lamp on the table, seized the bhrglar, who closed' with him, and a desperate struggle ensued, ending'in 141: Vo lauge being nearly stripped of his night dress, and even tually. thrown to the extreme' end of the room ; and beforehe could recover himself the burglar threw up one of the windows and leaped into the street. Alighting on his feet, he made off. A few minutes afterwards five policemen (who had not been earlier at hand when wanted) made their app ear ance statement of M. V o l aug 6 , started' and, on hearing the off in different direc tions, with the view o f e ff ec ti n g the capture of the des perado, who ' !however, as may be anticipated, had during this time made a safe retreat. From the flurry and ex citement at the time M. Volauge was unable to describe the man. The burglar could not have obtained an en -1 trance otherwise than by means of skeleton keys. GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY OF CANADA. We have received files of papers from the Cape to the Ist ofMay. On Tuesday, April 29, the following resolutions werej,,approved by the Cape Assembly in a com mittee of the whole house " 7L. Tnat immigration from Europe to this colony, at the present time, under the auspices'of Government, is both expedient and necessary. "2, That "thee chief objects to be secured under the immigration scheme should be twofold, viz., to provido a supply of labour, and add to the general population of the .colony. " 3 That the classes - of immigrants to be , in troducid shoudd embrace—first, agricultural la bourers; of all descriptions,' shepherds, and me chanice ; and secondly, such other immigrants as will promote, the filling up of the country, both in the wnstern and eastern divisions. "4. That provision should be made in the first instance under proper limitations, to enable per sons s o to do to semi for any particular parties whom they may wish to introduce ; but that such Persons . shall enter into an engagement with Go vernme nt - ,;,that the parties so introduced by them shall, froth day of arrival, be at their cost and re sponsibility. "5. That a vessel should be simultaneously de- Spatched - to Table and Algoa Bays, and that ar rangements should be made for application for these imna'.igrants being received previously to their arrival, m lel for their distribution through the dif ferent divisions of the colony as soon, after their arrival as in ossible. "6. Tha.t special Government agents should be appointed a"t Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, for the purpose- of carrying out the distribution of the immigrants at these points, and that these agents should put' themselves in communication with the Divisional Councils or Local Immigration Committees, ,with a view of arranging to supply the labour which may be required in their divisions. " 7. That tile agency to be employed in recruit ing immigrants for- this colony should consist of persons depuikld from 'the colony, who are ac quainted with its wants, or of persons resident in the mother co tt ntry, but likewise acquainted with the character fwd. capabilities of the colony. " 8. That iii,:portion of the expenditure for im migration shoudcl be applied to the defraying of ca pe:lva...on board , any ship-or ships, beyond the ex penses of each immici '' rant, excepting such charges as may necess,trily be incurred in providing a superintending .stargeon. " 9. That in Is roviding means for this scheme of immigration, the credit of the country should be employed, throu:g h the issue of debentures, bearing a certain rate o f interest, and these debentures should be redeeifte d, after a certain time to be fixed in the Act which: ishall provide-for their issue. "10 Tbapench its should be invited in London for these debentures, t_o die - extent; in the whole, of 200,000/. ; that they should bear, interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, but that the Go vernment should 134 ) restricted to the issue of de bentures to the anic tint of 50,0001., and no more, during the current, year ; and the Government should not issue Iwo , further debentures until au thorised so to .do ,by , a vote of both Houses of Parliament. "11. That the Gtov-ernment should be requested to iutroduCe a bill on. the basis of these resolutions, and containing such other provisions as may be necessary for carrying Out this scheme of immi gration.: The 'Cape Timm Vail says :-- "The discussion oo:upied some time, and there was considerable dif Terence of opinion, but chiefly, as it appeared to us,. 0.'4 to the method of pr6curing or inducing Europ ettn labourers and others to prefer Smith •Afric to other fields of emigra tion. No one doubts. that an increase of popula tion from Europe would be beneficial to the Cate; And, within oertaiu limits as to time, bene ficial in proportion to the number of such immi grants. The commilttee divided cm the resolutions as they stand above y and the ayes were 22, noes 14 ; majority 8. Tt.e question will again be dis= cussed in the hour' e either when the report is brought up or when the bill is introduced and pro posed to be read a second time. It will also, no doubt, be amply dim mussed in the Council, so that the public need not fear that so important a mea sure will be rashly 0- ither adopted or rejected. We shall return to-this t object: very soon." : VACANCIES, AP,i POINT,VENTS, AND PRO MOTIONS IN TILE CIVIL SEEiVICE. The Admiralty :—M W. Kenn& has been promoted to be acting first class: clerk in the Accountant-General's department, Sonaersei c-1 touse ; Mr. W. Hooper and Mr. S. C. Dilkliti'have'been p 1 romoted to be acting second class clerks ,in the Accoun tan it-General's department. General p os t_bifiee J. ( art tat has -been appointed postmaster of Campbeltown, in tbe room-of Miss Lothian, resigned. Customs :—Mr: o, of Leith, has been appointed a clerk of the fourth etas v in the East and West Docks, in exchange with Mr. It.. H. Renton ; Mr. A. G. Mallett has been appointed pri on ipal coast officer at Penryn, Fal mouth ; Mr. It ff.l4 utton, clerk of the fourth class at the East and West Inc L irs Docks, has been appointed ninth clerk.si Leith, in exchai with Mr. Rollo. Coast-guard : —Mr. G. T. S. Winthn)p has been appointed to command the Shorehitm station, v IMr. Edlin, previously removed; Commander E. Hardy b tat been appointed inspecting com mander of coast guard. , Scotland :—Mr. G. Webster has been appointed commi Vitt ry clerk of Forfarshiro. Ire land :—Mr. j. E. O'Fen ^at l has been appointed clerk of the Crown forlongford, its the room of E. Gale, appointed Crown solicitor of Caws: 3 a ad Longford; Mr. G. W. Cullen, sub -inspector of constat iuli try at Muryborough, has been appointed sub-inspector -at Callan, in -the room of Mr. J. C. Brown, who has f, =changed and removed to Mary borough ; Mr. C. D. Af Way; draftsman, has been promo: ed to the office of second c Jerk of works, Board of Works, Dublin, in the room of ...Air. J. H. Owen, advanced to the post of architect to tb e board; the office of draftsman has been - -rendered vamp t by the promotion of Mr. Astley. Canada:=Mr: J. 51 - .. ewun has been appointed sheriff of the comity of Essex, iirt the- place of Mr. W. D. Baby Mr. J. Harland, of Guelph, has been appointed a surveyor in her Mojesty's Ci astonrs. New Brunswick :—Mr. R. D. Wilmot has been appointed provincial secretary ; Mr .J. H Gray has bee'a appoi rated attorney-general ;Mr. J. C. Allen has bean appainted solicitor-general; Mr. F. M.Thelim has ,beeya B,pi sainted - postmaster-general,—Ciyil Service Gaserte., FAIRLOP FE! ..m. —.Yesterday. morning, at au early. hour, the east end . of London presented a busy and animated appearaece consequence of the immense number of persons pass" 'mg im their way to the celebr. tted annual festival, Fai rlop Fair, in - Hainault Forest, RYsex. The members of the Waterrnen'i Aiseciation and the Block makerre.Sq. ciety preCeeded in their gaily-rigged'. vessels, which were 3 each drawn . by. six .horses, accompanied by outriders a .nd postillionadressed in scarlet liveri'es. Each party had . their brass band, and every kind O. vehicle §eemed tq . have been called into requisition for the oc-' casion. 1 ithe • extreme fineness of the weather i3o doubt induced nany additional thousands of persons: to pro vp6cl te i ti'vi'anCient place which was formerly p atrouisecl by lt,eyal tji. The shopkeepers along the who' A 3 line of route,, frt.nt Whitechapel Church to anw and t Stratford,;bad 'Jinir lontwes gaily decerated with banners, tiag.s, and various .devices, and preparations .were also .m.ade for a general Ulna ,ination and an u nusua l di sp l ay o f fi rew ,orks, on 'the +retry en of the company from the fair. The bt bats, with their merry occupants, leached the Mile-end.-load shi)rtly: ; heft ire ten o'clock. - ' A large body of : pollee- -were in atte.ndaa 'ce from . the H, K; and V divisions to . ' pre serve o rclei (From the Times' City A ri . cte ) The following letter from a shareholder of the • • Gran? Trunk Railway of Canada gives a concise but, perhaps, a too unqualified history of the gene ral course. of that undertaking, and of the position in which the subscribers may conceive themselves to be placed if the measure of relief, as it is - called, which has been entertained in the Canadian -L7gis lature should be sanctioned and accepted by the -. • London ..Board of Directors. At the same time it • is necessary to mention that there is little expecta tion of this course being adopted.- The London Board, it is believed, have not yet had the new ". arrangement formally proposed to them, but when; ever it is brought under consideration the decision will doubtless be regulated with a strict view to the interests of their constituents, although they would, of course, be glad to promote any unobjec tionable ••• suggestion that might be calculated to ope- • rate beneficially for the contractors. The magui- • " tude of the line, which was projected to extend a . distance of 1,112 miles, and to involve an outlay of 9,500,0001., causes great importance to be at tached. to every question in relation to it : - - " Sir,—The letter from Mr. Napier, in your city " - atticle of to-day's paper, reminds me that I am one of that helpless class, a railway shareholder. Under what circumstances, as a prudent man, I became one the fol lowing is my justification. In 1853 the prospectus of the Grand Trunk Rail .vay of. Canada' was brought under my notice. Warned by the past, _I of course looked chiefly as to who were the people Under; w - hore authority it was to be cradled and brought up, and what their proposals. Behold the following as directors in London:— " Thomas Baring, E-3q., M.P., G. C. Glyn, E-'q., M.P., agents of the province and directors on behalf of the Canada Government ; Alderman W. Thompson, M.P., Robert M'Calmont, Esq., Henry W. Blake, E. 41., K. D. Hodgson, Esq. and 12 directors in Canada, six of whom held the chief Government offices, with Mr. W. Chapman, of Leadenhall-street, as secretary. " The prospectus showed that the railway would be 1,112 'miles, in which was included a lease of the Atlan- - tic and at. Lawrence Railway, of 148 miles, at a rental, f 60,0001. per annum, and the capital required was„ 9,500,0001. sterling, in which was included the construe= tion of the Victoria-bridge over the St. Lawrence, under' the 3,34l.intendence of Robert Stephenson, Esq., as engineer. "In the said capital of 9,500,0001. was a fusion of two railways, on which had been laid out 1,416,0001.; wlech was to ,be reckoned as capital ; and, there w,as re- o il - • served for allotment in Canada 837,600/. ; , total, 2,253,600/., The remaining capital of 7,246,000/. , was . created as - follows :—One-balf in shares, one-fourth in .1 1 .: debentures of company, and one-fourth in bonds of the Canada Government, as a first mortgage on the railway. Or this 7,246,000/. one-half was to be allotted to the English public, an d other half was agreed to be taken at par by the contractors, Messrs. Peto, Brassey, Bette, and Jackson, in part payment of their contracts. " Interest at 6 per cent. was to be paid in London until the entire works were completed ; and a summary of probable revenue w,as detailed, showing a aet profit, of 11i per cent. on the share capital. " In this prospectus the attention of the Eaglish pubs lie is prominently drawn by the promoters to the large amoutit of Canadian capital invested ; also great strew was laid on the certainly very important fact that the eminent English firm of Messrs. Pew, Brassey, Betts, and Co. had undertaken six-sevenths of the whole of the new works ; the directors thereLy being enabled 'actu ally to define the cost of the railway -Ify the contracts made, so that there could, be no apprehensiet of the capital being insufficient ; and, further, the public are again assured that the directors, by their contracts, hive secured the delivery of the whole of the railway fully equipped and complete in every respect. "It was also stated that the receipts from the 390 miles opened in 1853, from Montreal and Quebec to Portland, would at once realise sufficient to pay the rental of 60,0001. per annum; and also pay all the interest on the debentures and bonds. " Well,, Sir, on .consi , lering the above, knowing , the progre” that the growing colony of Canada was mak ing, and knowing also that in the names of the London directors, I had a combination of strict integrity, high honour, and excellent judgment, I tbought.l cauld ant be far wrong in embarking my modicum of money in this investment. "I confess I did not rely on the 11; per cent. paraded —but I thought I was sale for the 6 per cent., and also considered it was not a bad scheme .for Canada, where the rate of interest, ranged at 10 per cent. "The whole of the English capital was allotted, and the shares c a me out at a premium. - "For the next two years, 1854-5, sundry reports and annual meetings took place, in all which the cads are reported as well paid and the works prosecuted by the contractors with energy and vigour, the Hon. George Pemberton congratulating the shareholders on their financial position and the progress of their magni ficent railway. True it is that a modest intimation is , given of a loss of 298,0001. by a want of judgment as to the Portland section ; and, what was worse, the sharee holders were informed that the 837,600/. of capital re.' served for parties in Canada was in no part taken by the ungrateful people. However, to remedy this, the direc-, tors had obtained an additional issue from thel Canada' Goveinrnent of 900,0001. bonds, thus by so much reduc• ing the share capital and creating in an inverse ratio a preference charge. To this—not expecting perfection, in a railway direction, but, no doubt, relying On some deigree of judgment in the London' directors—the share holders appear to have silently submitted. "Thus matters stood at the beginning of this year, the shareholders not having - a hint even of any financial embarrasment of the company, when your columni die' closed the first act of the drama by giving- a report of a mceting- of-a portion of the shareholders to take steps - to remedy the finances of the company, and the Hon. Ws Napier was deputed to Canada. Who these sharehold• were, what adannit of shares they represented, and in what shape the company's finanees were wrong,•hava never appeared. Your columns of to-day have disclosed the cioncluding act of this tragedy. Amid a state of . affairs in Canada which to my mind conveys a vety painful impression of the low state of public feeling and political morality in that colony Mr. Napier bait thought proper to negotiate a . proposal which, let it be disguised as it may, is neither more nor less than the complete destruction of the , 3,000,0001. of share capital ; and for what is shrouded in a mystery. The board 4 0 directors in London amid all this are as silent math' grave ; for two years there was no paucity of circulate, for the last twelve months not a word as to all this. Can Mr. Baring or Messrs. Glyn and M`Calmont be aware of what is doing or of the, responsibility attaching to them ? If the difficulty be with the contractors, why are we not told the truth ? And if so, and they find it inconvenient to fulfil their engagements, is 'that all reason that my property should be confiscated to save there from loss ! I may use strong language, but here stands the naked proposition. I on' barked in a share capital of 5,144,0001., and prefer . ence debenture capital of 4 356,0001. ; total, 9,500,00 01 . By the proposed scheme of confiscation the share capital is reduced to 3,006 000/., and the preference capital ill' creased to 7,256,0001. ; tetal, 10,262,00011. And of the .2,000,0001, of new bonds created 700,00/. is to be ap' plied to railways which no man has had the effrontery to say will pay even their working expenses. If fo r case be soalesperate that either the contractors or the shareholders must be - destroyed, why the shareholders We have performed all our engagements ; but so help' less are the shareholders by the transactions occurring in Canada that I now appeal for your aid (ever given to the innocent sufferer) to rouse the London directors to the discharge of the duties they owe to the shareholders , who have reposed with so much confidence in names.—l am, sir, " A SHAREHOLDER. " London, July 1." GRAND FATE AND GALA DAY AT NEWTON-ABBOTT. A grand fete and gala day came off yesterday, the 41b July inst., on the grounds of the South Devon Cricket Club and Highweek Archery Society, - in aid of the Teignmoutb, Dawlisb, and Newton Infirmary. Owing to the fineness of the day many hundreds of persons were on the grounds shortly after the gates were throw/ 3 open, a great portion of whom were supplied with tear at 6d per head, many benevolent persons of the tow° having supplied tea-tables gratuitously. Fruit, cakeet and flowers were also sold on the ground, which had been contributed by the neighbouring gentry, the proceeds el which were handed over to the above institution. The South Devon Railway Locomotive Brass Band, under, the direction of Mr. Workman, la as in attendance, and gave their services gratuitously. Dancing on the greet' sward was kept up with groat spirit until dark, and eac h returned to "their hoes highly pleased with the day hones . amusement. ' The protest of the Duke of Montpensier against tho decree of the grant of 600,000 f. to the heirs of the Prig' cesses of Orleans has been received in Paris. The .Opinione of Turin, of .the 2d inst., aunounce e that the Russian General Totleben intended shortly to visit Italy and the Sardinian capital. 4 General Rose has arrived at Vienna cn his way t ° England. The Opinione of TUrin, in noticing a letter froin Pari6 stating that rumours were , current there of a; great re" volutionny movement being in preparation at Genoa, 'and of violent excitement existing in Piedmont, says o iese rumours are too absurb to deserve /linty tion." The Governrneat of the Two Sicilies has sent a replf to the . note of the Queen of England recommending tb° hang to ru'e with more humanity. - The clite!s of the Fusionist party are greatly didactie fled at the letter of the Count of Paris to M. Roger (d° Nord). • The Austrian commissaries sent from Milan to MOO in ()Her to judge some 70 political prisoners, have , up this time sentenced 11 of theme to 20 years' , hard-labou r ' Among them is a Piedmontese subject, from Sericii named Giovanni Calzolari, who will probably be claime d by his Government. The Iridependance Beige of the 8d say?:-" Mr. Said O'Brien, with his son, has passed through Brussels his way to his native land,:.from•whiohihe has now bee!, -exiled. eight years. Several of his friends acoompaniw him to Antwerp, where he embarked this morning 013 board the Baron Osy for Ldndon." • Telegraphic advice from Riga yesterday mention tbi! a the convention confir m ing the c o n ce ssion of Abe Rt nd Dusaburg Railway.'has been signed by the It's„i Exchange Committee, .; arid approved ' by the Super io r Committee and the Civil' Governor, The eentragt therefore, fornnklly .cOmpleted. ~~<,~- mo The I With mc Were wi 8 .000 be lation. antly, Accor further the part th e i r g, periodic clip o f , curnstan ing price 2f. 35,. 2f. 50c. 41 . 750. per kilo The q grain m. of the rc account val ence demand with fac ranch i while oi 60. up are firn buying The ending cacti Monet& the R 4 3,2 18,41 rally of Active 1 11io Beat E. Publi. Rothe"' r Seven Govel Other ~No~~ Tlinl Prompt amount tion tk day it 1 The, th e por last t do Rui z bable and alt taken a the st; Turkey eventu Nolte a la gene market been, a by th OE asked f withou that if obtain( Th© Turkic reactio the v not s throug adjust. Thurs( and as prices peoted for by been Augur 96} i* Bills a The mover to the to 1( COVE) TI 4.05 113; cents Co ~i,`.' I Bu t prat p. Lon, COTI! PR] Bra: Rus