The Sun. — London, England, 1861-08-28 00:00:00

T HEATRE. RO YAL, IiAY MARKET. Ligpiee, Mr. J. B. Ituokstotie. THIS EVENING, the performances will o ommenee with THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. Miss M. Oliver. After which, a new Comedy, entitled MY LORD AND MY LADY ; or, It Might have been Worse. Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Buokatone, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Wilkins, dr.c. Followed by COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles Mathews. ' To conclude with a Ballet, BACCHUS AND ARIADNE. THE CHRISTENING. Miss Fanny Wright, the Lecleroqs, Mr. Webster, drc. Commence a' 7. NEW THEATRE -ROYAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manazer. Mr. B. Webster. The Annual Benefit of Mr. J. L. Toole. ! THIS EVENING, THE HOP PICKERS. Supported by Messrs. D. Fisher, J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Billington, Miss Wooigar, Miss Kate Kelly, &c. After which. ONE TOUCH OF NATURE. Mr. Benj. Webster and Miss 11. Simms. Followed by THE MIDNIGHT SPECTRE. Messrs. J. L. Toole and Paul Bedford. To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr. Toole and Miss K. Kelly. Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE . Manager—ilr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, and during the week, the new and suc cessful comedy, WOMAN; or, Love against the World. Characters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin, J. Robins, Mrs. Charles Young, Mrs. Weston, Miss Murray„ and Mies Lydia Thomson. To conclude with, each evening, a new and original farce entitled THE FETCHES ; or, The Onconvanience of Single Life. Tim O'Reilly, Mr. Edmund Falconer; Mary O'Brady, Miss Lydia Thompson. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past G, to commence at 7 Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. C ANTERBURY HA LL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Two Grand Selections from Operas, including UN BALLO IN MASCHERA, arranged and conducted by Mr. Jongh mans. Mr. Wood and his talented little Son. The extraor dinary comic duet, "The Nerves," by Harvey and French, Mr. Marshall in " The Excursion to Brighton," " Selina Sly," and" In the Park." And Miss Harriet Coveney Every Evening. Admission—Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, Is, CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS AND , . FINE ARTS GALLERY.—SAM COWELL, the Prince of Comic Vocalists, will make his First Appearance since his return to England on MONDAY, the 2d of September. Admission—Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, Is. T H E O X F OR D 6, OXFORD-STREET. • Open Every Evening. Selections from "La Traviats," "Un Ballo in Maschera," &c., by Miss Russell, Messrs. C. Greville, Worley, Tivoli, and H. Herbert, with full band and chorus. Other vocal and instrumental music of the highest order, and varied attractive entertainments. The Comic portion by Messrs. M. P. Foster (in his " Life Sketches"), Sam Collins, Harvey, and French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. Randall. Hall, sixpence ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, ios. 'id. A grand selection from Verdi's new opera, " Simon Boccanegra,'' produced o n th e most complete !wile, with additional principals, and aug mented band and chorus. will be presented (for the first time in England) on MONDAY next, arranged and conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 6h. 16m.—Afternoon, 6h. 36m. To-mosnow.-Moming, 6h. 59m.—Afternoon, 7h. 26m. THE WEATHER.—Stm OFFICE, AIIGUS T 28, IS6I. THEEMOME7'ER, IN THE SHADE. 73 —highest since noon yesterday. 57—lowest this morning and during the night. 72—this day at noon. BenomwrEn-30.08 ; falling. WlND—Southerly—light ; with fine weather. sk4f,„ A L -3 . 4 e , Arr 'i. • 6,, t 4 • r C .1 i 1 4:01r _ - THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1881 The Emperor , of AIISTRTA'S Message to the Reichsrath is now before us in full ; a contempo rary's correspondent who witnessed its indignant reception at the National Club or Casino in Pesth characterises it very briefly :—" .Nearly every lime (tie says) is a lie." Pretty well that of an Imperial document ; he declares, however, " that a falser or more treacherous document could hardly have been devised." . And he looks at it as a " provocation which will put to the proof all the predetermined patience and forbearance of the Hungarians." The Vienna Reichsrath was of course subservient enough, though even there a voice or two was lifted up to point out the wrong done to Hungary; the majority, however,wcro very well content that their decisions, in the absence of nearly half the members who should compose the assembly, were to be law for the whole empire—Hungary, Croatia, and Transyl vania included. The Hungarians, however, will see to that. Enforced, the Imperial edicts registered by the Imperial Reichsrath may be ; obeyed, in Hungary they never will be. The conceit of the Germans will be met by the freeborn spirit of the high-souled Hungarians ; and though taxes may be trampled out of freemen, they will not be paid by them. We shall probably before long have some com petent Hungarian comment on this audacious document; meantime, even we, here in England can perceive etearly that _touch of it is what the correspondent referred to says—" Nearly every line a lie." A lie told too to an authority which the Hungarians refuse to acknowledge, and told. audaciously in the face of Euror e. Let us notice a few of the more obvious Imperial lies. Tho very first paragraph is a web and tissue of lies —with one exception—" the profound grief of his MAJESTY," Th e " ancient institutions" of Hun gary are not " r e - established"—the Diet being dis solved for insisting on their establishment; and the attempt being made to enforce on Hungary a per fectly new institution soalch annihilates all the glory and value of the ancient ones.. The country is not in an " intolerable condition," except as the foreign, that is, Austrian troops, m a k e many a Hun garian's life almost intolerable. The country is able to get out of its difficulties, such, as they are, by " its own efforts," Indeed it only demand s to be allowed to 'ise its own efforts, and that the Imperial efforts which cause all the difficulties, should be withdrawn. There is no " lamentable mistrust" no mistrust at all except of Austria, and lamentable will it be for the Hungarians, if they should cease to mise trust her. ." Confidence in the administration of justice" is not " shaken . :" but there can be no• confidence in Austrian injustice. " Anarchy" there is none. The order is as perfect as it was in the Italian Duchies. The only anarchy, in the literal• and etymological sense of the word, is that of the , Austrian civil and military interlopers in the country, who, by order from Vienna, overturn law ful rule in the country, and substitute for it Imperial lawlessness. The "protestations against the decrees of the Government" do not " enervate the moral strength of the pleople ; on the contrary, they aid in, bracing them to a national quiet heroism which makes them the admiration of all Europe, save the Vienna Canaarilla ; and we believe that even t hose_ selfi s h t yran t s are compelled in their inmost heart s to admire the nation which all their politi cal and military torturinee s cannot induce t o sur render theirforefather's bequests and their children's rightful inheritance. Thus ranch of the first paragraph • and there is not one probably on which . ' which every Hungarian could not comment in simil ar style. What more irritating than the second pora g „ ph. It is based on "pardon ing " the Hungarians for abolishing the dynasty in 1849. , The Hungarians will retort ; the dynasty needs our pardon for t h e u nexamp l ed treachery which compelled us. t o he it; and for the worse treachery and treason, if worse be possible, w hi c h , a f ter 7e had routed Wistizsz GRATZ, called in the R ussian ar ms t o overwhelm us by numbers, The pan graph speaks of our being " brought back to our (It ity by force of arms" —y e „ , the Hungarian will bii.terly reply :when your arms could not force us back beneath the rule of THE `SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENINU, AUGUST 28, 1861. traitor Kings, by force of Russian arms, not of yours, we were forced to submit to your illegal in flictions. We have done nothing as " duty," since 1849. Further on the document says :—" His MAJESTY has restored the Constitution of Hungary, its rights and its municipal institutions. His MAJESTY has done so under the reserve of one single condition." He adds : " The national autonomy and deve lopment of Hungary are not in any manner whatsoever infringed upon by this reserva tion, for the constitutional deliberations in common only bear upon questions relating to military duties, political economy, and the finances of the empire, while all other ques tions come under the authority of the Hungarian Diet." We know of nothing in history which sur passes the cool, lying audacity of these smooth sounding sentences. First, the bare fact of making any " reserrve" at all, except as a matter of com pact and treaty with the Hangarians, gives a lie to the first sentence. The Constitution is not re stored if any part is annulled not by constitutional means but by the arbitrary Let of the monarch. It might be a judicious alteraticn, but the principle of picking and choosing at the liscretion of royalty is a principle which every Englishman knows to be utterly incompatible with constitutional Govern ment. But when we look, next, at what is reserved, it is almost enough to make even an English school boy laugh when the EMPEROR talks of restoring the ancient Constitution. Tie one reserve is the right of voting the taxes for the kingdom of Hun gary ! It is to surrender to an assembly, of which its representatives would form but a fourth part, and which is the mere creation of yesterday's Imperial whim, its right to vote the national taxes. Think of our House of Commons being told by her MAJESTY that she wished to make certain Imperial changes. That Canada, Australia, India, and then all the lesser colonies, were to send deputies to an Imperial Council, that these deputies would be four to one more numerous than those sent by Great Britain; but, n'importe, the old Parliament was left all its old privileges, with one reserve—merely that of voting the Imperial taxes and soldiers—that these, of course, would be transferred to the Imperial Council. This is really no caricature of the plausible, but really treasonable, paragraph to which we now advert. But we will not just now weary our readers with further comments. The substantial ques tion is, has the Emperor of AUSTRIA the right to give a really new constitution to Hungary; and especially to give her one which destroys her independent position, and reduces her to an Austrian province. This is the whole point in dis pute. The Hungarians say, we are willing to be your kingdom of Hungary,—your province of Hun gary we will never be. By force of arms you may treat us as aprovince ; but by the force of our wills we will never be provincials. You may,if you please,wh en you have legally convened our Diet, lay your pro posals before us—if agreeable to the nation we will entertain them, if for its good we will accept them ; but, no change shall be made in our relations to the rest of the Austrian Empire by Imperial diplomas, it shall result only from the free action of the country throug its representatives. Perhaps we may yet return to this precious nocument, and notice a few more of its shameless lies and arbitrary assumptions. It will have one good effeet. It will confirm the union of all parties in Hungary in opposition to the Imperial and German attack on its liberties. One of the pleasantest episodes of last session was consequent upon the Prime Minister's accep tance of the Lord Wardenship of the Cinque Ports. Everybody knew at the time that it was, to all intents and purposes, a purely honorary appoint ment. It brought no emolument with it. About the only personal advantage of any kind, beyond the fact of its being a sort of public tribute to a man of eminence, insured to its recipient upon its accep tance by him, is the circumstance that it places at his command a very delightful sea-side residence— to wit, Waimer Castle. That individual benefit, accompanying the nomination of any one to be the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Stanneries, being enjoyable only, of course, to the full after the Parliamentary campaign should have come to a close. It was noticeable, however, almost im mediately upon the termination of the session, that when the Lords and Commons generally were scat tering hither and thither upon their continental ex cursions—up the Rhine, away to the far East, to the heathery solitudes of Scotland (for a while to be solitudes no more), to the chalets cf Switzerland and elsewhere, as the whim of the moment chanced to prompt—the noble Viscount, the Premier, availed himself of the earliest oppor tunity of luxuriating in the possession of the only substantial reward accompanying that otherwise merely nominal recompense to a great and honoured subject of the Crown—the Lord War denship of the Cinque Ports of England. It might be purely figurative to think of himself in any way as really Warden of Dover, Hastings, Rye, Romney, Hythe, Sandwich, and Winchelsea. But—however this might be—until his career should be ended Lord PALMERSTON had the satisfaction of knowing that he was really and truly the owner, the lord and master of. Walmer Castle. And so, as a matter of course, away at once to Walmer Castle went the thisnew o o n r at month Wo of r A d e u n g , u s i t n . one If b o u f t for th the h e early r l n y o vel day t y s o o f f the thing, it was more alluring t o hi m d ou b t l ess than an interval of repose in the old familiar home scenes at Broadlands. was session, re c When the appointment was first announced, ei t v li re e d a s s im a p s le ortf in o owever, during fact t ie pleasantry i n the House p r m ac a t t i i c ° a n l j o o f ke ti o l e r political of Commons. The Prime Minister—i n the very height of the session—had to appoal to his con stituents down at Tiverton. TV by ? Because he had been appointed, by the Sovereign, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports Members even laughed when the writ was moved for. It sounded like a bit of fun poked at them unexpectedly—(notwithstanding the ex planation accompanying it) almost without why or wherefore. There was the Treasury Bench left for a time without its chief occupant upon it. The great Government play was still to go on, for an in terval, with the part of HAMLET really left out, for once, by particular desi r e. Vi scount P ALMERSTON might still be First Lord of the Tri3asury, First Minister of the Crown, First Fiddle in the Cabinet Orchestra, First anything you pleu,se--but he had no longer any right to cross the thres hold of the British House of Commons, much less to take his seat, among his colleagues and subordinates in the Administration, upon the Front Beme h on the right hand of Mr. SPEAKER. That is— —he had no right whatever of that kind—until ,the electors of Tiverton could again be appealed to, . until their decision in his regard as " a fit and pro, per person," and so forth, could again be known. S 0 that Lord P ALMERSTON, Prime Mi n i ster though h e was, head of the G overnment though he was, ac tually Lord W arden of the Cinque Ports ! thout Oa he was — nay, it should be remembered, just precisely because he was Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports of England—had to quit London in the midst of the Session; to journey down to the borough of Tiverton, that had so often sent him up to Par liament ; to appeal to them again as a candidate for their suffrages, as it happened as the one only candidate for their suffrages—and to amuse all England by having a tussle, there and then, with a certain redoubtable, hard-headed, uncompromising local Butcher. The veteran Premier proved himself upon the occasion, as everyone might have confi dently anticipated could only be the case, one too many for the Butcher—giving his bluff anta gonist more than one heavy back-throw, and this, moreover, with the coolest nonchalant air in the world committing his Radical Friend, with the blue gingham frock and the steel appen dage, to be solaced in his discomfiture by that true Homerie burst of " inextinguishable laughter" that was soon echoing far and wide through all England. That was the agreeable little episode we have referred to, as having marked the accept ance by Lord PALMERSTON, during the course of last session, of the purely honorary post of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, After the session is closed—the new Lord Warden hastens down to his picturesque residence of Walmer Castle down upon the south coast. To-day—his lordship is duly and formally installed in his new post. It is interesting to remember at the moment of Viscount PALMERSTON'S installation in this old-fashioned, almost obsolete office, that as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports of England, he adds another illustrious name to a long list, a list emblazoned with names not less illustrious than those of Lord CAMDEN, of Mr. PITT, of Viscount CASTLEREAGH, afterwards second Marquis of LoN DONDERRY, of the great Marquis of WELLESLEY, and of his yet greater younger brother, ARTHUR Duke of WELLINGTON. The last Lord Warden, the one who succeeded the Great Duke, was in con sequence of his broken health and foreshortened life but for a very brief while Lord Warden—meaning the late lamented Earl ofDALHOUSIE, We will hope from the vigorous vitality still happily visible in the bodily frame, and equally recognisable also in the intellectual activity of our veteran Premier, that the term of his Lord Wardenship may be far longer than that of his immediate predecessor in the office, that it may rather emulate that of his predecessor—facile princeps among the Soldiers, as Lord PALMERSTON has shown himself to be facile prsnceps among the Administrators of the Age. Lord BROUGHAM recently spoke at Dublin in terms of sincere respect and of well-merited praise upon the subject of the past labours of Mr. M. D. HILL, the Recorder of Birmingham. Upon his past labours, that is, as a practical philanthropist. Those commendations, falling as they did from the lips of one, himself so venerable by his age, and so illustrious by his acts, must of themselves have come to Mr. HILL as an ample reward for all he had either done or attempted to do. Possibly they fell upon his hearing at the time they were uttered. At any rate, if they did not, they must have come to his knowledge immediately afterwards. For as the fact proves to be, the Recorder of Bir mingham chanced about that time to be in Dublin ; whether to recruit his broken health by change of scene, or to attend the Social Science meetings, by way of distracting his attention from his sufferings we know not. There at Dublin he has of late been however. And thence it is that he has recently written in apology for his non-attendance at a meeting lately holden at Newton-Heath, a letter through which the work ing classes of England learn in a few plain words what it is that a philosophic and benevolent observer like Mr. M. I). HILL thinks about this comparatively modern but rapidly developing enterprize of cooperation. The last part of this interesting document we cannot resist the temptation of repeating here, for the simple purpose of emphasising it, by repeating it. " Some members of the working classes," writes Mr. lIILL, " have hastily and erroneously assumed that I am an opponent of cooperation, and that I think unfavourably and contemptuously of them selves and their fellows. To such opinions mine are diametrically opposed. My belief has over been that the working classes were capable of rising to a high standard of moral and intellectual eminence, and that it was the bounden duty of all whom the accidents of life had placed in a higher social position than their neighbour to do their first to aid and encourage the latter in their progress. My share in this good work has been but small, I know ; but it has been commensurate with my abilities and opportunities." He then adds this little auto biographic glimpse of himself. "At twelve years of age," he writes, " I began to teach in the Sunday schools of my native town, and from that time to the present—more than half a century —I do not think I am chargeable with having neglected any means afforded to me of furthering this great object. One truth, however, experience has forced upon me. It is, that all which the higher classes can do is as nothing to what you can do for yourselves. And further, that the interposition of those who, to use the language of the world, are above you is not always unattended with mischief, however well it is meant. Hence it is that I look with intense interest on the pro gress and results of co-operation. Co-operators are self•sustained in the strictest meaning of the term. All responsibility rests upon themselves. They aro encumbered with no assistance, and they are neither led nor misled by any guidance but their own." These words are well worthy of being taken to heart by the working men of England, coming to them as they do from a friend of theirs as earnest as MATHEW DAVENPORT HILL, Recorder of Birmingham. Par- , ticularly, corning to them, as Mr. HILL'S advice does, at an epoch in the development of the prin ciples of co-operation among the working classes, when it is being applied at length to manufactures, instead of being restricted, as hitherto, to the busi ness of co-operative stores. Her Majesty spent several hours yesterday on the magnificent Lakes of Killarney, which, from the large flotilla of boats which followed in the wake of the Royal barge, must have presented a scene of remarkable gaiety and animation. The Queen and Royal party bade farewell to Lord Castlerosse in the evening, and proceeded to Muck ross Abbey, the seat of Mr. Henry Herbert. Her Highness the Princess de Piombino and suite have arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Paris. Married yesterday, at St. George's, Hanover. square, Stanlake Ricketts Batson, Esq., of Horseheath, Cambridgeshire, 0 Gertrude, eldest daughter of the Right Hon. Henry and Lady Harriet Curry. The marriage was strictly private, in consequence of the recent death of the Dbwager Countess of Belmore. P 11,INCE ALFRED.—AUIOIIg other on Tits afloat respecting the Prince's recent trip to Liverpool on board the Arabia is one to the following effect :—His Royal Highness was so exceedingly taciturn and distant to the passengers generally, dining by himself when the others were on deck, and enjoying a smoke in the most out-of•the way retreats, that a Yankee asked Major Cowell the rea son of such conduct. lie was gravely informed that " the Prince was acting under special instructions from the Bri tish Embassy at Washington." Subsequently Major Cowell inquired of the Yankee touching the American matters, but was informed by him in reply, that he must excuse him saying anything, as " the United States' Go vernment had particularly requested him to be reserved on such topics." Major Cowell could not appreciate the to vioque,—Liverpool L E:S T NEW 6. PARIS, AUG. 28. The Moniteur of to-day contains a report from the Minister of Marine to the Emperor on the in sufficiency of the number of officers in the Imperia cial posts many young men who had served as officers in the Garibaldian volunteers are now incor porated with their lank in the mobilised National Guard, and render good service to the country." navy. The Minister proposes to the Emperor to increase the number of officers within the current year by 10 captains of men-of-war, 20 captains of frigates, 50 lieutenants, and 25 midshipmen. The Minister adds, that this increase will not be sufficient, and declares his conviction that a similar increase will have to be made next year. The Emperor approves the proposition of the Minister. TURIN, AUG. 28. The Opinione of to-day again circulates the report that General Della Bovere will take the portfolio of War, and that General Brignone will replace him in the Lieutenancy of Sicily. VIENNA, AUG. 27. In to-day's sitting of the Upper House of the Reichsrath Count Leo Thun and AL Palaki blamed the address, in reply to the communication of the Government, for the disregard it shows to the de mands of Hungary. The majority of the members, however, pronounced themselves in favour of the unity of the empire. AGRAM, AUG. 27. A proposition was submitted to the Crktian Diet to-day, to the effect that it should protest against that part of the communication made in th► n ame of the Emperor to the Reichsrath, which dec ar ed the latter competent to pass resolutions witch should be binding on the provinces not represented therein as a violation of the Pragmatic Sanction. CRACOW, AUG. 27. A protest of the Bishop of Podlachie against the abuses of the military authorities and the deporta tion of several priests, has been published. BRESLAU, AUG. 27. Troops were not employed to prevent the great popular demonstration which was made at Kowno to celebrate the anniversary of the union of the Polish provinces, but since the demonstration the Governor of Lithuania has taken energetic measures. A military commission has been appointed, and several hundred persons have been arrested, amongst whom are several women. Several s have been de ported. RAGUSA, AUG. 27. Omar Pasha has signed an armistice for ten days with the insurgents of Montenegro. BERNE, luG. 27. The Federal Council is now negotiating with the Belgian Government for the conclusion 6 a treaty of commerce with every prospect of snows. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY MORNING. The Royal mail steamer Athens arrived fare this morning with the above mail. She brings 54 pas sengers, including Messrs. Cawood, Mundr, and Kemp, members of the Legislative Council, t cargo of copper ore, wool, ivory, ostrich feather:, two small parcels of specie, and sundries. The Athens left the Cape of Good Hope on the 22d of July, St. Helena on the 31st, and Ascension on the 4th of August. At the Cape the appointment of Sir George Grey to the Governorship of New Zealand was considered very judicious, but his removal was generally re gretted. Anxiety was felt for the immediate ap pointment of a successor, as the lengthened want of a Governor was seriously embarrassing for the ordi nary business of the Administration. After a long and warm debate in the House of Assembly, the separation question wa3 rejected by 22 against 15 votes. The Separation League would continue the agita tion, and had threatened to carry the case before the Queen. It was expected that a Federation scheme would be proposed next session as a compromise. The estimates Lad been passed without material reduction, and the loan of £200,000 had been agreed to. The island of Ichaboe had been formerly annexed to Cape Colony. A cry for reform had arisen in the Dutch Re formed Church, the members of which demanded the popular election of the churchwardens and the clergy. A vote has been passed in the Legislative Coun cil for the annexation to Cape Colony of the whole of independent Kaffraria, a tract of about 20,000 square miles of fertile, well-watered land. The present system of immigration would be likely to continue for a few more years. The extension of the railway from Wellington to Malmesbury was contemplated, as well as the extension of the telegraph from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth and Graham's Town. Business continued dull. FRANCE. BOURSE, Aug. 27.—Two o'clock.—There has been a great degree of buoyancy apparent in the market, and stock having been in considerable de mand, prices have generally improved. Threes, for the Account, are now at 68f. 90c. There has been also a good business doing in Railway Shares at improved quotations. Three o'clock.—The following are the last quo tations : 41 per per Cents ... 98 50; Credit Fancier 1250 Do end month.... 98 50 J Belgian 4 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 95! Homan Bank Shares — —. Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 763 75 I Spanish Threes — Do. Account 765 J Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1420 .. 1422 50 Northern 985 .. 986 25 New, ditto . 905 -- 905 -- Lyons and Mediterranean 1028 75 .. 1030 Geneva 350 Son tliken Western Eastern - Sardinian Austrian Loirbard HUNGARY. The Hungarian journals are exclusively occupied with the dissolution of the Diet. Most of them in dulge in retrospective complaints, and sinister fore bodings. There appears a kind of painful resigna tion at the bottom of these manifestations. The Pesti .A r raplo calls the dissolution " a second capitu lation of Vilagos." The Sajto admits that the crisis has had the issue which was foreseen from the very first, hut that the unanimity with which the Diet has voted all the grave resolutions sub mitted to it will be a glorious fact in the annals of Hungary. The 1 1 / a rmar. Orzag is convinced that a new Diet will adopt precisely the same course as the one just dissolved. The Pesti Hirnock is the only journal that gives utterance to recriminations against the late Diet. A communication from Naples of the 21st says : General Cialclini appears more and more favourably disposed towards the Gariballian ele ment. A great number of Garibaldi's partisans, who hail been systematically rejected by preceding Administrations, have obtained assistance and an, AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE NORWEGIAN. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY. The Montreal Ocean Mail Steamship Company's screw steamer Norwegian, Captain M'Master, which sailed from Quebec on the 17th inst., arrived in the Mersey at 2 20 this afternoon. A telegraphic summary of her news has already appeared. The New York Herald of the 15th says : " It appears that the number of men under General Lyon, at Davis Creek, Missouri, has been greatly exaggerated. Instead of 8,000 men being in the action, there were only 5,500, the Home Guard, numbering over 2,000, having remained in Springfield, and were not in the field at all There is very little doubt that the rebels numbered some 23,000. It seems the attack was made in two eolumns by Generals Lyon and Sturgess, General Siegel leading a flanking force of about 1,000 men and four guns on the south of the enemy's camp. The fight raged from sunrise until lor 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The rebels, in overwhelming force, charged Captain Totton's battery three distinct times, but were repulsed with great slaughter. Gen. Lyon was wounded in the leg at an early hour during the battle, and had his horse shot. The colonel of one of the Kansas regiments having . been killed, the men called upon Gen. Lyon to lead them. He immediately threw himself in front of them, and while cheering the men on to the charge, received a bullet in the left breast, and fell from his horse. He was asked if he was hurt, and he re plied, No, not much;' but in a few minutes he expired without a struggle. He was a gallant soldier, and died bravely, as a soldier should, in front of his men. " Judging from the official reports of the battle, it is not to be regarded as a defeat of the Union army, nor is it so regarded in Washington, but, on the contrary, in the light of a masterly retreat from a position which was found to be very dangerous and exposed, and impossible to be held by a small force in the face of. an overwhelming superior one. It is evident, moreover, that the rebels suffered terribly— lost all their tents and waggons, and were driven back so far that the Union troops actually occupied their encampment for several hours after the engagement was ended. Gen. Siegel made his retreat to Springfield and Rolla in admir able order, losing nothing but three guns, which were dis abled in the action by the horses being killed, and which he spiked before abandoning them. The retreat was rendered necessary from the belief that the rebel forces were about to 'le reinforced by General Hardee, with a body of 12,000 to 4,000 men, who was advancing on Pilot Knob ; and thus the &tiger of being cut off from Rolla, the terminus of the rairoad communication with St. Louis, became imminent. Geteral Siegel felt confident that he could have held Springfield only for this information; and he seems to be born( out in this opinion by the fact that no pursuit was attem)ted. General Siegel will probably fall back to Le banon, and there await reinforcements. " Th. loss of the Union army is variously estimated at from 15C to 300 killed, and several hundred wounded ; while the rebel lass is put down at over 2,000. There is some doubt as to the death of Generals M'Culloch, and Price, while, unhappily, no doubt whatever hangs over the fate of the gallant General Lyon, whose body was brought back to Springfield. " Major-General Fremont has deemed it necessary to establish martial law in St. Louis, and to arrest the Presi dent of the board of police commissioners, John A. Brownlee. Major M'Kinstry has been appointed provost martial." The Springfield correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat furnishes a detailed account of the battle ; but all the main facts agree with the description given by the New York journals. The Washington Evening Star has a despatch denying that General M'Culloch was killed at the battle of Mis souri. A special Washington despatch to the Tribune says it is understood that Secretary Seward intends informing Lord Lyons immediately that British subjects are engaged in furnishing aid to the Confederates, in direct violation of the Queen's proclamation. The 79th New York Highland Regiment were in a state of insubordination at Washington, in consequence of per mission being refused them to go home and see their families and elect officers to fill the vacancies. The regi ment was marched to the Navy Yard under an escort of cavalry, and 40 or 50 of the most active leaders were ar rested. It was reported that 62 of the mutineers would be sent to the Tortugas, to work out their three years on the fortification. The New York Tribune says :—" The most reliable infor mation concerning the Disunionists is, that they are slowly moving their forces to the line of the Potomac in force. It is certainly in their programme to enter Maryland, and en courage and support the revolutionary spirit in that State, with ultimate designs on Washington. Thorn o”e supposed to oe batteries on Lae r ()comae pzo.u.Lea oy them; and the steamer Pawnee has left Washington on a reconnoitring expedition. It is believed that 10 of the ringleaders in the recent mutiny of the New York 79th Regiment will be sen tenced to be shot. Sixty-six of the mutineers of the 2d Maine Regiment are on the Powhattan. The Grand Jury at New York had "presented" the fol lowing journals of that city :—The Journal of Commerce, Daily News, Day Book, Freeman's Journal, and Brooklyn Eagle for expressing sympathy with the "rebels," and asked the advice of the Court in the matter. The Grand Jury would be glad to learn that those newspapers' con duct subjects them to indictment and condign punishment. The Canadian news is quite unimportant. The weather was cool. It is reported that the army worm has eppeared in the extreme western portion of the province, and has begun to do mischief. THE ARREST ON BOARD THE AFRICA. The New York Herald of the 15th inst. gives the following account of the arrest of Mr. Muir on board the Africa— Considerable excitement was created in and about the city yesterday afternoon, occasioned by the report that the British Consul of Charleston had been arrested on board the steamer Africa, and that upon his person were found important documents and despatches from the Southern Confederacy to the rebel Commissioners in England. It appears, however, that the party arrested was not the British Consul, but the bearer of despatches from the British Consul at Charleston, Mr. Robert Bunch. His name is Robert Muir, and he formerly held the above position in one of the Southern cities, but at present he denies being a British Consul, and declares himself a resi dent of South Carolina ; also that he is only bearer of de spatches from Mr. Robert Bunch, consul at Charleston, to Lord John Russell. He also stated that he had about 200 letters with him from parties in the South, to be forwarded to various parts of England, France, and Germany. When the officer made known to Mr. Muir that he was a prisoner, and must accompany him to New York, Muir seemed taken aback, but soon remarked that he would not go ; that he was on board a British vessel, that he was a British subject, and claimed the protection of the British flag. The arrest was the means of causing quite a stir among those on board, and Captain Shannon of the Africa, com ing up, Muir appealed to him for protection. At first Capt. Shannon was disposed to interfere with the officers, but upon their showing their authority to make the arrest he gave way, and remarked that he could not interfere. Mr. Muir asked the captain if he would detain the steamer for a couple of hours, as he believed he would be immediately discharged on reaching the United States Marshal's office. The captain replied that it would be impossible for him to detain his vessel one minute after time, and that he would be compelled to remain behind. Ho was accordingly taken ashore in charge of Sergeant Young and officer Farley, and placed in a carriage. De tective Eustace, then proceeded to search for his baggage, which was soon found, and which consisted of one trunk, a hatbox, and carpet bag. Before leaving he stated to the Jersey City officer that he was not a bearer of despatches; that ho was a resident of Charleston, where at present his family resides ; and that he was on his way to Europe to get his son, who is there, with a view of bringing him on to Charleston. THE UNITED STATES LOAN. The New York IleraW says :—" We have pleasure in stating that, after several days' debate, the banks of the cities of Now York, Philadelphia, and Boston have at length agreed with the Secretary of the Treasury for the money required by the Government. The committee met this morning (August 14), and, after some discussion, agreed to report in favour of the purchase by the banks cf 50,000,000 dols of 7 3-10 per cent. treasury notes, the bank retaining the privilege of subscribing for another 50,000,000 dols on the 10th of October, and 50,000,000 dols en the 15th of December, provided always that the secre tary issued no other treasury notes or bonds during the above interval. A strenuous effort had been made by the Bank of Commerce to secure permission for the secretary t.) issue demand notes; but a majority of the members of the committee, led by gentlemen whose hostility to the whole negotiation was marked, voted down the proposal." REMOVAL OF THE BARON DE VIDIL FROM NEW GATE.—Yesterday, in the forenoon, according to the prison arrangements, the Baron de Vidil was removed from New gate to the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields Prison, where he will undergo the term of imprisonment imposed upon him by Mr. Justice Blackburn, namely, 12 months' hard labour. He was removed in the usual way in the pri son van with other prisoners sentenced to a similar terra of imprisonment, and we understand that no deviation from the usual course of prison treatment• will be made in his case. M. Alfred de Vidil, the son of the baron, who was dotnrnitt,!d to prison for a month for contempt of court, in flifasing to give evidence for the prosecution at the trial, is at the present time in Newgate, and will remain there until the term of imprisonment has expired. His case is merely One of confinement, and no labour is imposed upon Lira, LORD PALMERS2ON AND 21:IE CINQUE PORT'S. In anticipation of the ceremony which takes place at Dover this day, a slight sketch of the past and present institutions of these ports may not prove devoid of interest. The peculiar organisation of the maritime towns scattered along the coast of Kent and Sussex, be tween the North Foreland and Beachy Head—the part of our seaboard in closest proximity to the Continent—originated, as is well known, in very remote times, and was dictated by the most obvi ous exigencies of national defence. Some learned antiquaries have traced its establishment to the ob scure era when our shores were first exposed to the fierce incursions of roving Vikings, Danes, and other Norsemen. From "Domesday Book" it ap pears that in the days of Edward the Confessor the haven towns of Dover, Sandwich, and Romney, in consideration of their services to the State by sea, enjoyed exemption from all manner of impositions and burdens to which other places were then sub ject. In that ancient record no mention is made either of Hastings or of Hythe ; but there is evi dence in the local archives that those two ports were early invested with the same special privileges and immunities as the other three. In Henry lll.'s reign Winchelsea and Rye, situate between Romney and Hastings, were incorporated as principals and equals with the first five ports; but, notwithstand ing this increase in the number, the original Nor man designation of the entire association as " the Cinque Ports" was retained, and still survives to this day. To each of these seven municipalities, except Winchelsea, were attached several subordi nate and more or less dependent towns—some in land, others on the coast, and situated at distances varying from 3 to 50 miles from the principal port of which they were called tho "Emile" or membem The entire organisation now comprises 16 corpora tions and 12 unincorporated members. The rigbts of the Cinque Ports are expressly ratified by Magna Charta, and special charters were also granted them by successive Sovereigns down from Edward I. to Charles 11. Although particular ports may be of earlier date than the Norman invasion, the general framework of their institutions plainly emanated from the mas terly policy of the Conqueror for securing his com munications with the continent, and rivetting his hold over his newly-acquired dominions. Long be fore embarking on his great enterprise his keen eye had detected the weak as well as the strong points on our south-eastern coast, and the surrender into his hands of Dover Castle—a fortress from very early times looked upon, by reason of its natural and artificial advantages, as "the eerie lecke and keye of the whole realme of England"—was one of the stipulations of the famous oath which he ex torted from the unfortunate Harold. Severing the maritime towns which constituted the grand out works of his conquest from the two counties to which they belonged, Duke William erected them into a kind of Palatine jurisdiction, under a garelien, or warden, who had the seat of his administration at Dover Castle, and wielded over the entire dis trict the combined civil, military, and naval autho rity. The principal service performed by the ports in return for the extensive liberties and immuni ties they enjoyed at a period when the rest of the country groaned under an iron despotism was the fitting out and manning of ships for the transport of the King's armies and the defence of his coasts. The frequent wars waged in France by our Princes of the Norman, Plantagenet, and Lancaster lines caused heavy demands to be made upon the jurats and barons (appellations equivalent to aldermen and freemen in other towns) of the Cinque Ports. The custom was for the Crown to issue its sum mons to the different ports once a year if necessary, calling upon them to furnish their quota of seamen and vessels, and to maintain them at their own ex pense for the space of 15 days. If their services were required beyond that period, the additional cost of wages and pay was defrayed by the State. By the terms cf the charter of Edward I. 57 ships in all had to be equipped for the King every time he crossed the sea, each vessel to have 21 men and one garcion on board. To this array Dover contri buted 21 vliiho. Caly A.A.ttaa..". t ,...:.. wise sending contingents proportionate to their re sources. Therefore, while the aggregate number of the ships was 57, the total force of seamen was 1,187 and 57 garcions. It would be a grave error to suppose that the services of this fleet were con fined to the Mere conveyance of our kings and their armies beyond sea. They fought repeated battles with the enemy, their deeds being always daring, often brilliant, and, if the truth must be told, some times a little piratical. When the French expedi tion led by the Dauphin invaded the kingdom during the civil troubles of King John's reign, the stout Hubert de Burgh, then Captain and Constable of Dover Castle, speedily armed 40 ships, and by their aid inflicted a heavy discomfiture on double that number of Frenchmen. Some seventy years later the fleet of the ports, 100 strong, defeated in mid Channel, and almost wholly destroyed, a French squadron of 200 sail. In the reign of Henry IV., again, they surprised and captured 120 French mer chantmen. In 1588 the five ports fitted out six ships• of larger build, with a corresponding number of pinnaces, to be employed against the Spanish Armada, and the mariners of these vessels, being of course well acquainted with the flats and banks of the Channel, were enabled to allure some of the enemy's huge galleons to certain destruction. For these and similar achievements our Sove reigns lavished franchises and honours upon the Cinque Ports. Their representatives in Parliament, w who were very numerous, went by th e d es i gna ti on of barons, and they still claim by ancient right the distinction of bearing the canopy over the head of our monarchs at their coronation. The Cinque Ports have from a variety of causes long lost their ancient pre eminence. The silent operations of nature and the ravages of time have combined with the reforming hand of the Legisla ture to rob them of their former greatness and splen dour. The sea has in the lapse of ages receded from its ancient landmarks in their vicinity, and the havens of Rye, Romney, Sandwich, and others of the associated towns are now either wholly left high and dry inshore, or are only accessible to the smallest craft. The establishment of a permanent National Navy, begun in the reign of Henry VII., gradually superseded the services rendered by the ports, and on the disuse of that service there remained no longer any pretence for continuing their anomalous and exceptional privileges. Like many other in teresting relics of the past which have served their day and generation, the fleets of the ports, the in fant germ of our modern navy, have had to give place to a new and better order of things, and to succumb to the great law of progress. What a con trast between the tiny craft of the Plantagenets, with their crews of 21 men and one garcion mid the colossal three-deckers or the iron-cased Warrior of Queen Victoria ! The office of Lord Warden, like everything else pertaining to the ports, has been so much shorn of its original power and dignity as to be now but a faint shadow of its former self. Though in great measure but a thing of history and tradition, a cer, tain prestige still clings to a position once held by men so illustrious as Hubert de Burgh and a Prince Edward (afterwards Edward I.) in ancient times, and by Mr. Pitt and the late _Duke of Wellington in modern times. On the lamented death of the last occupant of the post, the Marquis of Dalhousie, there was, indeed, some probability of its being allowed entirely to lapse. But Dover and the rest of the associated ports bestirred themselves to avert such a catastrophe, and in answer to their petition her Majesty was graciously pleased to appoint Lord Palmerston to the vacancy. The selection of a statesman so renowned and so popular could not fail to rouse the enthusiasm of the ports, and a uni versal desire prevails to accord their new chief a fitting welcome. There are no emoluments now attached to the office, the only advantage, other than honorary, in cident to it being the right to Walmer Castle as a marine residence. The Lord Warden is also Ad miral of the Cinque Ports and Constable and Gover nor of Dover Castle, the centre of his jurisdiction and autaority. His functions, indeed, were till lately analogous to but more extensive than those of a Lord Lieutenant of a county and a sheriff corn- bined. Being returning officer for all the ports, down to the Revolution of 1688 he claimed the right of nominating one, and sometimes both, of the members elected to Parliament by each. This usur pation was struck at by an early Act of William and Mary, which in the end s however, only resulted in handing over to the Treasury the illegitimate influence previously exercised by the Lord Wardens. Schedules A and B of the Reform Act of 1832 cut down the representation of the ports within limits commensurate with their. Altered fortunes and posi tion. The Municipal Corporations Act of 1835 worked a further revolution in their municipal in stitutions, abolishing their power to try capital offences, and generally assimilating their organisa tion to that adopted for the other boroughs of the kingdom. Perhaps the most important exemption which still survives to the portsmen is their free dom from liability to serve in the Militia. The Supreme Court of the Ports, called the Court of Shepway, over which the Lord Warden presides, took cognisance of treason, sedition, the counter feiting of the King's coin or seal, and the conceal ment of treasure found, besides hearing appeals from the minor tribunals. Here, too, the Lord Wardens used to be formally installed, but this Court has been so long obsolete that even its site is now not positively known. It is believed that it was held at a place called Shepway-cross, some where between Hythe and Westenhanger, and that the installation took place there as early as the reign of Henry 11. in 1693, when Lord Sydney was Lord Warden, the ceremony was performed at Bredenstone-hill, near Dover. The latter precedent is to be followed on the present occasion as closely as circumstances will permit. Until within the last ten years the Lord War dens had the custody of insolvent debtors, for whom there was a prison within the wall s o f D over C ast l e. I An Admiralty jurisdiction still remains to him, although of very attenuated proportions. In eon• a. nexton with this jurisdiction a Court of Lodema nage (a name derived from the old English word " lodeman," leadman or steerer) existed during the wardenship of the Duke of Wellington, for the licensing and regulation of channel pilots. In this, as, indeed, in all his other duties, the great Duke took an active interest ; but a recent Act transfer ring the Cinque Ports pilot to the supervision of the Trinity House relieves his successor of all such labours. Indeed, but for the fact that Lord Warden is still the head of all the Volunteer corps of the poets, it would be difficult to discover what real or substat ; tial functions are left to the occupant of an office as old, if not older, than the Norman Conquest. Lord Palmerston will to-day enter upon his military duties, on which occasion he is to review the Artil lery and Rifle Volunteers on the Castle Parade ground. Great preparations have been made by the towns people of Dover to do honour to their new Lord Warden. Triumphal arches have been erected along the route by which the procession will pass to the installation, and the day is to be observed as a gene ral holiday. The town is already crowded with visitors and strangers, who look forward with as much eagerness as the regular inhabitants to the coming festivities. The Lord Warden enters with his characteristic geniality into the spirit of his new functions, and, though he has as yet had but the scantiest oppor tunities of making the acquaintance of the portsmen, he has already become immensely popular. If he had held the office for many years, he could hardly be a greater favourite. His suavity and bonhom mie have won all hearts. The other day Dover races were held, when his lordship, to the agreeable surprise of everybody, rode over from Walmer to the racecourse, and seemed to take great interest in the sport, even acting as umpire in the determi, nation of the disputes that occurred between the competitors in the running. Dover regatta came off to-day in the presence of a vast concourse of spectators. The weather was magnificent, and the different matches were spirited and well-contested, especially one between four. oared galleys for the Lord Warden's prize. There was some expectation that Lord Palmerston would again h °nom. the town ,, r.onl.---:41. bu 6 business prevented his leaving town. The people of the ancient town and port are just now in an unwonted state of pleasurable excitement, and in the midst of a perfect round os festivities. SEARCH FOR TIDINGS OF THE EX PLORING .EXPEDMON IN AUSTRALIA. The public of Victoria have naturally become anxious as to the fate of the expedition under Mr. Burke, attended by camels and a camel-driver, into the interior of the continent. The Exploration Committee have been desirous to secure the services of Mr. Alfred William Howitt, whose able manage. ment of an expedition two or three years ago from Adelaide to the new pastoral lands discovered by Mr. Stuart beyond Lake Torrens, to ascertain the practicability of conveying cattle and sheep by that route, and his since successful opening up a fine mountainous district in Gippsland, including gold field, now profitably working, have given the colony the highest confidence in his eli.4 - .lrgy and re liability. The following extracts from the Mel bourne Argus give us the particulars regarding this party of inquiry : Argus, June 22.—Mr. Heales, the minister, stated last night that the Exploration Committee htid, on behalf of the Government, arranged that a party, under Mr. Alfred Howitt, should leave Melbourne in a day or two for the purpose of getting information as to the progress and whereabouts of the exploring party. The hon. member added that the Governmen was also prepared, if necessary, to send the Victoria round the coast to the Gulf of Carpen taria, to render whatever assistance might be possible. The Argus, of June 24, adds these particulars :—• On Wednesday next Mr. A. Howitt's small party wiu set out for Cooper's Creek, on their mission in connection with the exploring expedition. The party will number four members only. Mr. Howitt, Mr. Aitkin, who accompanied Mr. Howitt in his prospecting examination of Gippsland, and is a valuable addition to the party, Mr, Walsh, sur veyor, and Mr. Vinning, who has had large experience both in Australia and India, in travel, and in the management of horses. Mr. Hewitt first proceeds to the Darling, and will complete his preparations at Menindie. He takes with him 16 horses and supplies, and from Menindie will pro ceed to Cooper's Creek. From that point his movements will be determined by circumstances. If he does not find Mr. 'Wright there, he will probably discover some instruc tions upon which he can act, or some member's of Mr. Wright's small command in possession of the intentions of that officer, and of the route taken by and probable position of Mr. Burke's main party. Mr. Howitt takes with hint six carrier pigeons, given him by Mr. Christie, of the rail way department, whose liberality in this matter is highly commendable. It will, of course, be very difficult to carry these pigeons so long a journey, th e grea t er por tion of which must be made by the party on hor se b ac k ; but Mr. Howitt will give every care to the bird s , an d if he succeeds in carrying them to Cooper's Creek, w ill d e spatch them from time to time with news of th e p ar ty. By this means the public anxiety may be set at rest a t a very much earlier date than otherwise would be possible. We trust the party will be entirely successful. Though small, it is comp ose d ofcapa o b w lem t en, and will be ably and in telli g e ntly led by Mr. Howitt. In the Argus of June 25 appears the latest infor mation on this very interesting subject : " A meeting of the Exploration Committee of the Royal Society was held yesterday, Sir W. F. Stawell in the chair, when despatches for Mr. Burke were prepared, and direc tions for the guidance of Mr. Howitt were framed. Mr. llowitt and his party leave on Wednesday afternoon (June 26), and will proceed by coach to Swan-hill (on the Murray), the intention being not to take charge of any stores until they reach the Darling. We are requested to state that letters for Mr. Burke and the members of his party will be taken charge of by Mr. Howitt if left at the hall of the Royal Society before 1 p.m. on Wednesday." We learn from a private source that Mr. Howitt speaks in the highest terms of the liberality of the Exploration Committee in theirpreparations for this expedition, having given him carte blanche for the selection of his companions, and for everything which he might deem requisite for the success of the enterprise. GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.—The seventy-third half.yearly meeting of the General Steam Navigation Company was held yesterday, at their offices, 71, Lombard-street ; John Wilkin, Esq., in the chair. The report of the directors and the statement of the accounts for the half-year ending the 30th June last were unani mously received and adopted, and the usual dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum was declared. The thanks of the proprietors were voted to the chairman and directors for their continued zealous services in the management of the company's affairs, and the meeting separated. a Ti( col rti3• 4 , " (